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Amazing Fantasy Garden - Get Lost in it
2008-05-26 15:07:00
Bruno Torf is an artist that creates beautiful works of fantasy art in his sculpture garden. This garden resides in Marysville, Victoria hidden away in a magical rainforest setting.Originally from South America, Bruno moved his family to Marysville in 1995. He originally started his career as a sign writer, but gradually made the transition to being a fulltime artist. He wanted a place to exhibit his artwork, so he opened Bruno's Art and Sculpture Garden .He travels around the world quite frequently, studying different styles of art. This is definitely apparent in his garden sculptures. He decided to create the sculpture garden so that he could run it as a permanent attraction. The garden began with a little over 15 life-size terracotta sculptures and now has over 115 on display. Combined with his oil paintings, sketches and small sculptures, there are now over 300 works of art on display at Bruno's Art and Sculpture Garden.I would love to go to this garden to see these sculptures....
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Dolphin birth: Amazing photos
2008-05-23 05:17:00
A dolphin born in an aquarium in the Netherlands is to be named by the public.As these amazing photos show his mother Finagain gave birth in her pool in the Harderwijk Dolfinarium on the 22nd May.Finagain, a common bottlenose dolphin, was herself born in captivity to Notchfin and Guy in 1992.Her pregnancy lasted twelve months, and the as-yet unnamed calf is around 3ft long at birth, already fully capable of swimming. Unlike human babies dolphin calves are born ?breech?, i.e. tail first.It will live with its mother until it is six. Male dolphins become sexually mature around age nine to thirteen.The Dolfinarium is home to sixteen dolphins and six harbour porpoise. As well as hosting dolphin displays it acts as a rehabilitation centre, taking in beached or injured cetaceans and preparing them for life back in the wild.It was first opened in 1965 by Frits den Herder and his brother Coen. During its chequered history the park went bankrupt after an ill-advised expansion into other Europ...
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Arundel's amazing carpet of flowers open to the public
2008-05-23 05:12:00
MORE THAN 100 years of tradition, a sacred moment in time and around 1,500 flowers are on display in Arundel Cathedral from today (Tuesday, May 20).A 90ft carpet of flowers has been painstakingly designed, organised and laid along the aisle of the cathedral, to celebrate the festival of the Corpus Christi.The procession of the Blessed Sacrament will make its way from the cathedral, to the courtyard of Arundel Castle, on Thursday (May 22) before moving back to the cathedral, and its colourful carpet.This year's design is to mark the 150th anniversary of Saint Bernadette's apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes.Mary Bagg, a parishioner who has been helping to organise the carpet of flowers for more than 30 years, said: "Our Lady taught Bernadette to use a rosary, so that is our theme."A massive rosary, fashioned from cream, gold, pink, red and purple chrysanthemums, adorns the aisle, and 100s of visitors are expected.Ancient traditionIt is an ancient tradition to lay flowers in t...
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Francis Bacon triptych breaks record at NYC auction
2008-05-16 18:23:00
This undated photo released by Sotheby's shows the three panels of Francis Bacon 's "Triptych , 1976" which broke a record for contemporary art auctions Wednesday May 14, 2008 , selling for $86,281,000 after three bidders vied for it. It also set an auction record for the British artist.A three-panel masterpiece by Francis Bacon broke a record for contemporary art auctions Wednesday, selling for more than $86 million after three bidders vied for it, a spokeswoman for the auction house said.The $86,281,000 price for "Triptych, 1976" also set an auction record for the British artist, Sotheby's spokeswoman Lauren Gioia said.She said the sale also broke auction records for work by pop artist Robert Rauschenberg, who died Monday at 82. His 1963 painting "Overdrive" sold for some $14.6 million, Gioia said.Both buyers were anonymous, and the prices included the auction house's commission, known as a buyer's premium.The bidding for "Triptych, 1976" rocketed past an estimate of $70 millio...
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One mom, 17 kids, plus one on the way
2008-05-11 18:01:00
It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman -- she's pregnant with her 18th child.Michelle Duggar is surrounded by her children and husband Jim Bob, after the birth of her 17th child in 2007.Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins."We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing.The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children -- whose names start with the letter J -- are home-schooled.Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores -- or "jurisdictions" -- are assigned to each child. One episode of the new sho...
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Platypus mystery solved
2008-05-08 12:40:00
The world's first platypus twin puggles born in captivity are shown at Taronga Zoo in Sydney in 2003. The task of laying bare the platypus genome of 2.2 billion base pairs spread across 18,500 genes has taken several years, but will do far more than satisfy the curiosity of just biologists, say the researchers.Arguably the oddest beast in Nature's menagerie, the platypus looks as if were assembled from spare parts left over after the animal kingdom was otherwise complete.Now scientists know why. According to a study released Wednesday, the egg-laying critter is a genetic potpourri -- part bird, part reptile and part lactating mammal.The task of laying bare the platypus genome of 2.2 billion base pairs spread across 18,500 genes has taken several years, but will do far more than satisfy the curiosity of just biologists, say the researchers."The platypus genome is extremely important, because it is the missing link in our understanding of how we and other mammals first evolved," exp...
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Mayor Bloomberg, go see this amazing lady
2008-05-01 16:27:00
Make it right, Mr. Mayor .Take a moment this week to extend New York's best wishes to an uncommonly spirited woman left paralyzed in the crossfire between a cop and three gunmen 74 years ago, but who has yet to receive so much as a syllable of sympathy or a penny of support from her city.The most innocent of bystanders, Leonora Tomasulo was shot on her 16th birthday. The bullet remains lodged against her spine as she comes to her 90th this week."It's still in me," Tomasulo reported from her wheelchair yesterday.She seems incapable of self-pity. Bitterness only edges into her voice when she describes what the city did for her in the aftermath."Nothing."Tomasulo turned 16 on that May day in 1934 and she was returning home with a strawberries and cream birthday cake she had bought with a dollar one of her sisters gave her.She was starting onto Cherry St. when she heard gunfire. She saw Police Officer Arthur Rasmusen go down in front of her, fatally wounded, his gun blazing at a trio o...
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What's in a username?
2008-04-29 06:17:00
Your e-mail address 'can reveal your personality'Think twice before you pick an email address -- it can reveal your personality.Researchers at the University of Leipzig in Germany have carried out a study and found that an email address may speak volumes about the character of the person who created the unique online identification.According to lead researcher Mitja Back, even the thinnest slice of communication via the world wide web - the mere e-mail address -- contains valid information about the personality of its owner.In their study, the researchers asked a panel of 100 students to guess the personalities of 600 young adults simply by looking at their e-mail addresses.The panel's guesses agreed mostly with a personality survey the teenagers had completed when it came to qualities like openness, conscientiousness and narcissism, and diverged most on the trait of extroversion.Addresses that gave away personality often contained full stops, numbers or a name that was obviously...
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Jewellery store unveils golden Mickey Mouse
2008-04-25 06:14:00
For the ultimate treasure hunt, a Japanese jewellery store unveiled a golden Mickey Mouse on Wednesday in Tokyo.The Ginza Tanaka jewellery store has joined forces with the well-known Walt Disney brand to promote an online game in which one lucky player can win the golden treasure.The game comes with a film on DVD starring Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage.Ginza Tanaka - a long established jewellers in Japan - assigned ten of its craftsmen and spent three months creating the Mickey Mouse statuette, using one kilogram (35.3 ounces) of pure gold.Its estimated value, if placed on sale, would be more than 30-thousand US dollars.The President of Ginza Tanaka, Noboru Takata called the golden Mickey Mouse as ''priceless''.''We need to be a company that sells dreams and bring happiness to people,'' he said.The 120 millimetre tall Mickey Mouse is now on display at Ginza Tanaka stores. The treasure hunt starts on Thursday.Source: NDTV
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Greatest rail journey: London to Dhaka via Delhi in 23 days
2008-04-22 19:47:00
In what would be the world's greatest rail journey, a new rail link, to be opened later this year, will enable one to undertake a 23-day journey by train from London to Dhaka via New Delhi .The 7000-mile Trans-Asia railway network will follow one of the old Silk Roads through Istanbul, Tehran, Lahore and Delhi. The world's "greatest railway journey" will be longer than the Trans-Siberian railway, which spans 5772 miles, reported the Times Online.India has already earmarked 90 million pounds to extend its vast rail network towards its border with Burma. From there just 218 miles of missing track stands in the way of an overland rail journey from London to Singapore.Under a UN-sponsored scheme, Pakistan and Iran will link up their lines in the coming months to join the sub-continent's track to that of Europe for the first time. The UN said the link would open up new trade routes within Asia and give the former Soviet republics of central Asia rail access to Iran's strategic seaport...
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Earth Day 2008: Birthday of the Greenness
2008-04-21 19:49:00
An estimated 1 billion people are scheduled to take part in Earth Day festivities and events across the globe, including numerous and varied activities in the Seacoast region.Though officially on Tuesday, Earth Day already was celebrated at Coastal Ridge Elementary School in York, Maine, where students created a compost for school lunch and learned valuable lessons about waste and waste disposal for the students and school administrators.While major national rallies will take place in locations like the Mall in Washington, D.C., Portsmouth High School will hold a student-created Earth Day celebration designed to educate the community about the environment.Since its start in 1970, Earth Day has also come to represent an unofficial day of environmental accounting ? about how far we've come and how far we need to go. What makes Earth Day 2008 as intriguing as any preceding it is that it comes in a vital election year that coincides with greater environmental awareness and more calls f...
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Highest Ever 1st Innings Score in 20 Twenty - 222/3
2008-04-18 19:12:00
McCullum takes Kolkata Knight Riders to 222 for 3Brendon McCullum hit a blazing 73-ball unbeaten knock of 158 to guide Kolkata Knight Riders to a massive 222 against Bangalore Royal Challengers in the lung opener of the Indian Premier League here on Friday.McCullum went berserk right from the word go as he hit Zaheer Khan for 18 runs in the second over of the innings after being put in to bat by hosts skipper Rahul Dravid at Chinnaswamy stadium.The Kiwi player then hit a towering long-off six off Ashley Noffke to bring up the 50 for Knight Riders in just four overs.The wicket-keeper batsman was difficult to contain as he showed no mercy and hit all the bowlers all around the park.McCullum's scintillating innings was studded with 13 sixes and 10 boundaries.Zaheer Khan drew the first blood for the hosts when he had Kolkata skipper Sourav Ganguly (10) caught by South African Jaques Kallis in the slip cordon.But only after Ganguly and McCullum had put on 61 runs for the first wicket to...
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Singapore Flyer - World's Largest Observation Wheel Opens
2008-04-16 15:45:00
The "Singapore Flyer ", the country's newest observation wheel, opened on Tuesday and is set to rival the London Eye.The Singapore Flyer stands at around 165 meters tall, and bills itself as the world's largest giant observation wheel. The London Eye is slightly lower, at around 135 meters. The Singapore Flyer boasts of around 28-capsules each capable of carrying 28 people.Officials say the wheel is completely different from the London Eye which is built on a three-dimensional structure. Passengers can expect pay 22 US dollars for a 30-minute ride on the new wheel.Source: CCTV
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Motorola's hunt for a miracle worker
2008-04-15 19:22:00
The wireless giant's handset business needs a genius to turn itself around.ERO WANTED: No. 3 player in hot market needs thick-skinned CEO for a salvage and rescue job.Okay, so that's not quite the ad that wireless giant Motorola is running these days at it searches for a new chief for its mobile phone business - but it might as well be. Broken, leaderless and bleeding red ink, Motorola's handset unit is about to be spun off so the rest of the company can prosper.It's been a rough tumble for the Schaumburg, Ill. wireless titan that 10 years ago sat atop the cell phone industry. Each week seems to bring new lows in the stock and a yawning absence of new products to pin hopes on. Just how low the phone maker has fallen was apparent recently when a leading Indian appliance manufacturer signaled its interest in buying the division.Last month, Motorola (MOT, Fortune 500) set out to find a new CEO for its mobile phone business after Greg Brown was named head of the entire company. Whil...
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Ten Longest Bridges In World - Amazing
2008-04-13 07:19:00
Ten Longest Bridges In World Here is a list of the then longest bridges in the world with pictures and descriptions. Those beautiful photos are showing to us that there are no borders and everything is reachable.10. Seven Mile BridgeThe Seven Mile Bridge, in the Florida Keys, runs over a channel between the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Strait, connecting Key Vaca (the location of the city if Marathon, Florida) in the Middle Keys to Little Duck Key in the Lower Keys. Among the longest bridges in existence when it was built, it is one of the many bridges on US 1 in the Keys, where the road is called the Overseas Highway.9. San Mateo-Hayward BridgeThe San Mateo-Hayward Bridge (commonly called San Mateo Bridge) is a bridge crossing California's San Francisco Bay in the United states, linking the San Francisco Peninsula with the East Bay. More specifically, the bridge's western end is in Foster City, the most recent urban addition to the eastern edge of San mateo. The eastern end of...
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World's Largest Photo Album - Amazing
2008-04-09 07:38:00
World's largest album: Japanese photographer Hitomi Toyama stands by her world?s largest album ? measuring 4m X 3m, weighing 1000 kilograms ? in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday. The album titled ?Women of Vietnam? has secured a place in the Guinness Book of World Records and it includes more than 53 photos taken by Toyama.
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MEET TINY JYOTI, THE SMALLEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
2008-04-07 12:18:00
She stands just 1ft 11in tall and the average two-year-old would tower over her. But Jyoti Amge is no toddler - she is 14 years old.This remarkable teenager, who weighs just 11 lb, is the smallest girl in the world.Her tiny size - she's just nine inches taller than this page - means that Jyoti has to have her fashionable clothes and jewellery made for her.The youngster - who has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia and will never grow any taller - is too small to use a normal-sized knife and fork so she eats off special plates... and sleeps in a tiny, custombuilt bed.Even bathing is done on a miniature scale.She uses specially-made steps to help her get in the bath and a small bucket and jug to wash herself.But, astonishingly, she goes to a regular school, where her fellow pupils treat their tiny classmate as one of themselves as she she sits at her mini-desk and chair.And Jyoti, who like any teenager loves listening to pop music and watching DVDs, is far from unhappy about her...
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"Mother" the life of our life - Happy Mother's Day
2008-04-05 21:18:00
Mother's day is soon arriving on the 11th of May. Make your mother feel the most important person of your life.Mother's Day which is celebrated every year on the second Sunday of May is an occasion when you express your affection and respect for your mother. It is the time which you can give your mother to pamper herself with all good things that she has been looking for. In Hindu mythology also we have seen that mother has been given place of god, because she is capable of handling all bad situations and keep you safe and secured. In the US, Woodrow Wilson declared Mother's Day as a national holiday and reserved the second Sunday in the month of May to honor them. Mother's day is the day when you can give at least some portion of love and affection to her which she has been giving you through out these years. What makes a perfect mother's day gift? What if you give your mother one day good break with a complete rest like she gets time to pamper herself by soaking ...
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Day of practical joking - 1st April Fool's Day
2008-04-01 06:42:00
Experts shed light on origins of April Fools' DayFor an average person, April Fools' Day might be a date to play pranks, but for some experts the day has more to it than just the fun element.April Fools' Day is believed to be several hundred years old. However, experts say that its origins are still shrouded in mystery.According to the most popular theory, France changed its calendar in the 1500s so that the New Year would begin in January to match the Roman calendar instead of the start of spring in late March or early April.However word of the change traveled slowly, and many people in rural areas continued to celebrate the New Year in the spring.These country dwellers became known as 'April fools'.Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes in San Diego, Californiaoese, who has studied the holiday's origin, however, disagrees with this interpretation."[The French] theory is completely wrong, because the day that the French celebrated the beginning of the year legally was Ea...

Madonna talks about Britney, divorce rumors
2008-03-30 12:30:00
Madonna on Britney : 'Let's go save her'Madonna wants the media to leave Britney Spears alone. "They need to step off," she told the "Yo on E!" satellite radio show. "For real ... Let's go save her."Madonna, 49, said her daughter, Lourdes, 11, feels the same way."She knows Britney, (but) she doesn't really watch TV or read gossip stuff," the pop star said in the interview. "I think she sort of gets the drift of what's going on, and I think she feels very protective of Britney."Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie have a son, Rocco, 7, and are raising a Malawian boy they want to adopt."He's the life of the party," she said of David, who she brought home from Africa in 2006. "He loves music, he's an amazing dancer. ... He's a character."She said caring for David is no different from her raising her biological children: "I thought it was gonna be, but it feels the same to tell you the truth."As for speculation that her marriage is on the rocks, Madonna said: "It is ridiculous. ... I...
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Step inside the amazing world of shoes
2008-03-29 05:06:00
Shoes, only worn out of a necessity until recently, have in recent decades become a major fashion sector. Footwear that appeals to different tastes and suits different occasions is part of every major fashion show.Whether heeled or flat, sporty or classic, shoes are important for the care of your feet and are a key factor in posture and image.Undoubtedly, it is shoes that influence the way a person looks and walks. Until a decade ago people in Turkey had on average just two pairs of shoes. Now this figure has reached a half-dozen. Shoes underwent transformation not only in terms of the numbers owned but also in terms of color and style, just as has been the case with clothes. The choices of people who for years used to wear only black and brown shoes underwent radical change with fashion's touch. Shoes designed in different ways are available in various colors every season.When one is talking about fashion, Camel Active, Dr. Martens, Fly London, Softinos, Land Rover, ModoNovo and E...
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'Dead' man talking - Man declared dead feels 'pretty good'
2008-03-25 19:52:00
Four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant, Zach Dunlap says he feels "pretty good."Dunlap was pronounced dead Nov. 19 at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas, after he was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident. His family approved having his organs harvested.As family members were paying their last respects, he moved his foot and hand. He reacted to a pocketknife scraped across his foot and to pressure applied under a fingernail. After 48 days in the hospital, he was allowed to return home, where he continues to work on his recovery.On Monday, he and his family were in New York, appearing on NBC's "Today.""I feel pretty good. but it's just hard ... just ain't got the patience," Dunlap told NBC.Dunlap, 21, of Frederick, said he has no recollection of the crash."I remember a little bit that was about an hour before the accident happened. But then about six hours before that, I remember," he said...
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The Airbus A380 super-jumbo Makes First Commercial Flight to Heathrow, Lond
2008-03-19 14:35:00
Airbus SAS's A380 superjumbo made its first commercial landing in London today, making Heathrow airport the third location to be served by the plane.The Singapore Airlines Ltd. flight arrived in the U.K. capital at about 2:50 p.m. The A380's first customer has been flying two of the 471-seat planes between the southeast Asian city-state and Sydney since October and added the London route after taking delivery of a third.Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, will be the biggest A380 hub, according to Toulouse, France-based Airbus, with an estimated 90 of the double-decker aircraft operating regularly there by 2020. Other Heathrow carriers with A380s on order include Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., Emirates and British Airways Plc, the biggest user of the airport."The A380 is an important aircraft for Heathrow," airport owner BAA Ltd. said in a statement. "Its extra capacity will allow us to make efficient use of our two busy runways. It will enable traffic growth without a correspondi...
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E-mails join cigarette, coffee runs as office 'timewasters'
2008-03-15 17:49:00
E-mails have joined the cigarette and the humble coffee runs as the latest threat to workplace productivity.Researchers have carried out a study and found that e-mails have gone from being a useful office tool to a curse that actually takes up huge amounts of work time, The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday.According to the researchers, the average employee now spends an estimated 90 minutes to two hours a day wading through hundreds of messages, much of which is basically spam and junk mail.The study by the Radicati Group has found that worldwide email traffic has hit 196 billion messages a day. It is predicted to reach 374 billion per day by 2011."Employees're now so deluged with messages that emails have become a broken business tool in urgent need of fixing. There's been no innovation to separate the junk letters from the real ones," Jason Preston of the Parnassus Group, a social media consultancy, was quoted as saying.A related study by another research firm Telewest Busines...
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Meet Aditya, World's Smallest Bodybuilder!
2008-03-11 19:02:00
At just 2ft 9in, Indian muscleman Adiya "Romeo" Dev is the world's smallest bodybuilder.Pint-sized Romeo is well-known in his hometown of Phagwara, India - for his ability to lift 1.5kg dumbbells - despite his overall 9kg body weight. Every day, crowds flock to the local gym to the see the mini-muscleman in training.Unlike many dwarfs, Romeo is well proportioned, with a head circumference of 15in and a chest measurement of 20in.Romeo said: "I've been training as a bodybuilder for the last two years and by now I think I must be the strongest dwarf in the world.
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World's Slimmest Digital SLR Camera from Olympus
2008-03-11 16:48:00
Olympus has unveiled what it claims is the world’s thinnest, smallest digital SLR – the E-420.Due in May, the 10 megapixel E-420 weighs 380 grams for the body and is only 53mm in depth. Width is 129.5 mm, while height is 91 mm.The E-420 comes with a live view sensor, 2.7-inch screen and can take photos up to ISO1600. It also features ‘shadow adjust’ technology to deal with high contrast situations, face detection and also has buttons coloured to be visible to colour blind people.Retail price has yet to be confirmed.Despite the lack of an industry-wide trend to shrink their DSLR’s, Olympus Imaging Australia professional photography manager Lucas Tan said the company had taken the decision to slim down their consumer-focused models after conducting market research.“We had a good look at the market some years ago, as to where the consumer digital market would go, and we realised that a lot of consumer digital camera users were actually upgrading into digital SLR-type camera...
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"One-Man-Army" Sachin Tendulkar inspire India to series triumph
2008-03-04 15:35:00
Tendulkar and Praveen inspire India to series triumphIndia 9 for 258 (Tendulkar 91, Bracken 3-31, Clarke 3-52) beat Australia 249 (Hopes 61, Hayden 55, Praveen 4-46) by 9 runs.In the final installment of its 29-year existence, a series that has become a part of Australia's summer culture came to a climactic end with a fitting humdinger at the Gabba.Twenty three years after India's last significant limited-overs title in Australia, Sachin Tendulkar helped script another memorable chapter with an innings of skill and determination. There was to be no repeat of his twin centuries against Australia in 1998, but his 91 set up a total which, backed by Praveen Kumar's subtle-swinging accuracy, proved nine runs too much for Australia.In a game that ebbed and flowed wonderfully, James Hopes took Australia agonisingly close to victory with his maiden fifty after Praveen returned from an 11-run 45th over to snap a threatening eight-wicket stand. Back when Australia dominated this tournament...
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"Little Master" Sachin Tenduldar draws first blood in Australia
2008-03-02 12:39:00
Sachin Tendulkar's first limited overs century on Australia n soil has underpinned India 's comfortable six-wicket victory in the first of the Commonwealth Bank Series finals at the SCG.The master batsman crafted an unbeaten 117, reaching the boundary 10 times, as India easily overhauled Australia's 8-239. It gives the tourists a 1-0 lead over Australia in the best-of-three finals.The hosts must now win in Brisbane on Tuesday to send the series to a decider.Tendulkar was struck on the shoulder by a Brett Lee beam ball on 98 before two singles took him to three figures.The veteran batsman punched the air in delight as the capacity crowd rose to its feet to acknowledge Tendulkar's breakthrough ton in his 39th one-day appearance in Australia.The very next ball Rohit Sharma's magnificent knock came to an end on 66 when his off stump was rocked back by James Hopes (2-42)Skipper MS Dhoni (15 not out) joined Tendulkar and saw India home with more than four overs to spare.It was the 123-...
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100-mpg car by "G"
2008-02-29 10:21:00
Google said Tuesday it is getting in on the development of electric vehicles, awarding $1 million in grants and inviting applicants to bid for another $10 million in funding to develop plug-in hybrid electric vehicles capable of getting 70 to 100 miles per gallon.The project, called the RechargeIT initiative and run from Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, aims to further the development of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles - cars or trucks that have both a gasoline engine and advanced batteries that recharge by plugging into the nation's electric grid."Since most Americans drive less than 35 miles per day, you easily could drive mostly on electricity with the gas tank as a safety net," Dan Reicher, director of Climate and Energy Initiatives for Google.org, wrote on the organization's Web site. "In preliminary results from our test fleet, on average the plug-in hybrid gas mileage was 30-plus mpg higher than that of the regular hybrids."The project also aims to develop vehicle-...

Driving Nightmares versus Beauty
2008-02-28 15:52:00
Is this done just for the view...?Driving over then under the water...And if this guy meets another bus going the other way...?Up , up, up and away...A couple more pics of the same bridge... Another way t o elevate travelers in a short distance...I've heard of wiggly roads before but this one takes the cake...! Actually, it looks like fun!Night View
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