Tendulkar ruled out of Asia Cup

Sachin Tendulkar was on Thursday ruled out from the upcoming tri-series to be played in Bangaldesh and the subsequent Asia Cup as the master batsman has not recovered fully from his groin injury.

Tendulkar, who had missed the first seven matches of the Indian Premier League owing to the injury, has been declared unfit by Mumbai Indians physiotherapist Nitin Patel for the June 8-14 tri-series, also involving Pakistan.

"Tendulkar is not available for the tri-series as well as the Asia Cup on the advice of Mumbai Indians physiotherapist Nitin Patel. He has not recovered sufficiently from the groin injury," BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah told reporters here.

Tendulkar will also skip the Asia Cup, which will be held in Pakistan from June 24 to July 6, he said. The batsman sustained the injury during the CB Series in Australia, which India won.

Kahn takes final bow from football :(

gendary German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn took his final bow from competitive football before a capacity 1.20 lakh crowd at Yuva Bharati Krirangan as Bayern Munich decimated Mohun Bagan 3-0 in a friendly in Kolkata on Tuesday.

Kahn, who turns 40 next month, handed over the gloves to youngster Michael Rensing in the 55th minute of the match and took a seat in the reserve bench as the entire stadium stood up to give a sentimental farewell to one of the best goalkeepers of contemporary football, thousands of miles away from his home.

"It is a very special moment for me. Thank you for the great night," the golden ball winner of the 2002 World Cup said during the half time break as he was showered with gifts by match organiser Bengal Peerless, Mohun Bagan and the Indian Footbal Association.

After having a measure of their opponents in the first few minutes, Bayern established midfield control with medio Mark Van Bommel and Ze Roberto dictating terms on their rivals.

The fancied outfit shot into the lead in the 18th minute thorough a freak goal.

Schlaudraff cut into the box, looking dangerous, and a desperate Anand Vasan tried to thwart him with a close tackle, but only managed a deflection back to the German, who shot home.

Bayern doubled the lead 19 minutes later from a set piece. Ze Roberto let loose a curling left-footed free kick which foxed the wall and entered the net to the left of Bagan goalie Sangram Mukherjee who seemed to be totally clueless.

The insurance goal came in the 52nd minute when Schlaudraff finished off a measured pass from Christian Lell.

Bayern held sway, and could have returned home with a bigger margin but for Sangram, who brought off a couple of good saves.

In the 22nd minute, Sangram thwarted a Schlaudraff effort, and 10 minutes later flung himself in the air to punch out from harms way a thumping Roberto shot.

The second half saw Bagan trying to carry out raids into the rival territory, but the Bayern defence gave little away.

The closest Bagan came to making a dent in the scoreline was when Lal Kamal Bhowmick's 80th minute long ranger grazed the upright and went away.

But the second half would be remembered more for the rough play and frayed tempers among the players of the both sides.

Things turned ugly in the 82nd minute when Branco Cardozo, who substituted Lalampuiya in the 64th minute, brought down Brazilian defender Breno with a tackle from behind.

The Brazilian under-20 captain lost his cool, and immediately got up to kick the Bagan player, and the two soon came to blows. The other players rushed in, and the referee managed to separate the two after much effort.

The match was halted for a short while as the officials of both sides came to the ground and brought the situation under control after both the offenders were given marching orders.

Alcohol abuse leads to emotional violence

There are increasing reports of violence and death in families as a result of alcohol abuse. Recently a child was reportedly killed because the parents were in the midst of a drunken brawl.


Many like Divya (name changed to protect identity) say alcohol brings physical violence but perhaps what’s even worse is the emotional violence.


Divya's alcoholic husband is sober for seven years now but she will never forget the emotional trauma and fear.


“There was always an anger and fear in the house. We were always worried about whether he will be able to reach home, whether he will bang his car on the way and what will happen when he reaches home,” Divya says.


Divya, who was heading a multinational company, didn’t walk out of the marriage. For her it was a disease the family was battling with.


"If the person had tuberculosis or cancer, you wouldn’t look at him as a person who’s done something wrong. The only thing with alcohol is that several ugly physical manifestations come across because of it,” she says.


Social scientists say domestic violence is rampant in families that have alcoholics. In most cases though alcohol itself is not the real reason for the violence.


"There is already a power relationship within the way family in India is structured. Drinking is not the cause of violence. It can probably provide an excuse as people feel less inhibited when they are drunk," sociologist S S Jodhka explains.


But the biggest victims of alcohol abuse are the children.


Fourteen-year-old, Jaikishan is the only breadwinner for his family. He sells the wastes of a vegetable market for a living. Jaikishan hesitates in accepting that his parents are alcoholics who sit at home because they are too drunk to work.


Jaikishan's elder sister does most of the household work. She carries the burden of her alcoholic parents.


Two years back a man in a drunken state shouted talaq three times and divorced his wife — just one of the several cases that showcased the collapse of family but cases such as these perhaps give us hope that there are fighters who believe that alcohol addiction will not hamper personal relationships.

Home monitors urged for all high blood pressure patients

(AP) -- Everyone with high blood pressure -- 72 million Americans -- should own a home monitor and do regular pressure checks, the American Heart Association and other groups urged Thursday in an unprecedented endorsement of a medical device for consumers.


Blood pressure eadings of 140 over 90 are considered high at the doctor's office; 135 over 85 if taken at home.

High blood pressure is a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes and death. Having it checked a few times a year in a doctor's office or at the drugstore is not enough to keep tabs on it, and regular home monitoring is more accurate, the new advice says.

Closer checks would let doctors fine-tune the many medicines used to control high blood pressure, just as diabetics adjust their insulin levels by regularly monitoring blood sugar. Only a third of people with high blood pressure now have it under control.

"We need new approaches. Our current approach is simply not working," said Dr. David Goff, a preventive medicine specialist at Wake Forest University and a member of the panel that wrote the advice.

Outside experts strongly agreed. But some said the case would be more compelling if those pushing the monitors had no industry ties. For example, a leading device maker pays more than $300,000 a year to co-sponsor the heart association's blood pressure Web site. The company played no role in the new advice, the association said.

"This is not as clean a recommendation as it could be" because of the industry ties, said Dr. Sidney Wolfe of the consumer group Public Citizen. Still, home monitors are "an excellent idea," Wolfe said.

Tips for monitoring
Buy an automated monitor with an upper-arm cuff, not a wrist or finger device. Cost is $50 to $100.


Take two or three readings at a time, one minute apart, while sitting.


Readings should be taken at the same time each day for a week.


Bring the device to your next doctor visit to compare readings.

Source: Associated Press
They cost $50 to $100 on the Internet and at pharmacies. Insurance usually doesn't pay, though the heart groups say it should.

The heart association, the American Society of Hypertension and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses' Association all urged home monitoring in a statement published online Thursday in the journal Hypertension, the medical term for high blood pressure.

The condition occurs when blood pulses too forcefully through vessels, which can damage the heart, kidneys and other organs. It is more common as people age, and it leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

Readings of 140 over 90 are considered high at the doctor's office; 135 over 85 if taken at home. Pressure often goes up with the "white coat" effect, nervousness when seeing a doctor. Readings also vary throughout the day.

"So often we rely on a single measurement in the office, and it's so arbitrary," said Dr. Allen Taylor of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a prominent researcher not involved in the new advice.

Many types of medicines can help control high blood pressure, and often more than one is needed. Finding the right dose or combo is tricky.

Home monitors can help by giving a better picture of pressure variations and the response to a drug. Sometimes, less medication is needed because doctors discover that pressure was artificially high when someone was in the office, Goff said. That spares people the cost and side effects of unnecessary treatment.

Often, though, the opposite is true: People need more or different drugs.

Home monitors are especially important for the elderly, pregnant women, diabetics and people with kidney disease, the panel said. Automated arm-cuff devices are recommended; wrist and finger ones are notoriously inaccurate. People should take their devices with them to their doctor's office and have measurements compared to make sure the machine isn't off.

Experts suggest taking two or three readings at a time, one minute apart, while sitting with the arm supported. Readings should be taken at the same time each day, such as morning and evening, for a week.

Twelve readings are recommended for doctors to make treatment decisions, and this can be repeated as often as a doctor feels necessary, depending on how stable the condition is.

Taking readings at home also may nudge people to cut risks: use less salt, exercise more, lose weight and limit alcohol.

"It's a great idea," said Dr. Joseph Drozda of St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Chesterfield, Missouri. He is a high blood pressure expert for the American College of Cardiology. "If you're graphically seeing where your blood pressure is all the time, it keeps it real to you," especially if you're not having symptoms, he said.

Health Library
MayoClinic.com: Hypertension
However, there is scant proof that home monitoring will cut heart attacks, strokes or deaths more than periodic office checkups do. Studies suggest that home monitors can improve blood pressure control, and that a 2-point drop in the reading results in a 4 percent drop in heart disease death rates, Goff said.

Many blood pressure drugs have been approved without evidence they lower deaths, said Dr. William White, a blood pressure specialist at the University of Connecticut and a reviewer of the new advice.

"We don't have direct evidence that it will reduce heart attacks and strokes but we have reason to believe that it will," said heart association president Dr. Daniel Jones, dean of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.

Industry ties also should not make the public doubt the advice, Jones said. A leading home monitor maker -- Omron Healthcare Inc. of Deerfield, Illinois. -- is one of three sponsors of the association's high blood pressure Web site (the two others are drug makers).

Omron's $300,000 to $400,000 a year payment is a fraction of the association's $800 million in revenue, and companies have no role in the content of the Web site or any advice, Jones said.

Device makers also help sponsor projects and meetings of the hypertension society. The head of the panel urging home monitors, Dr. Thomas Pickering of Columbia University, is a paid speaker for Omron, and his university has had research grants from Omron and another device maker, Microlife

Tragedy At China

China's Premier Wen Jiabao Saturday gave U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon a dramatic look at damage caused by the massive quake that hit Sichuan province earlier this month as the death toll from the catastrophe jumped past 60,000.


A woman hugs a picture of her daughter, who died with other students at a school in Wufu, China, on May 12.

more photos » A strong aftershock shook the town of Yingxiu, a small town near the epicenter of May 12's 7.9 magnitude quake, as Wen and Ban toured the area.

"The world will not forget," Ban told Wen, who appealed the U.N. chief to help raise international aid for the region.

China's central government announced Saturday that the death toll had risen to 60,560 with another 26,221 people missing and 353,290 injured.

Nearly every building in Yingxiu was destroyed and no residents remain there. About half of the town's 18,000 residents are either dead or missing and most survivors left on foot, leaving behind a ghost town.

Wen predicted that a return to "normal" life in the area would take about three months, adding that the lack of infectious disease outbreaks despite harsh living conditions for survivors had lessened the scope of the disaster.

The central government estimates that 45 million people, mostly in the Sichuan province, were affected by the massive earthquake and that five million were left homeless.

China put out an urgent call for tents and medical supplies to help victims of the earthquake.

Despite the passage of 12 days since the quake, searchers are still hoping to find people alive under collapsed structures.

A government official said Saturday that a rescue operation was under way for 24 coal miners believed trapped in three mines in the quake zone. The government said at least 176 coal miners were killed and 254 were missing in the 316 coal mines affected by quake.

Fat'' OO'' GENES

If you are overweight, you can blame it on your 'fat' gene.


British scientists have identified a specific 'fat' gene called FTO that makes people, especially people of Indian origin more prone to obesity, diabetes and heart attack.


This also explains why some people easily put on weight while others with similar lifestyles remain slim.


“Those people who have this gene, given the same diet will develop more obesity than the people who do not have this gene,” explained Dr Anoop Mishra, a senior consultant in internal medicine.


The FTO gene comes in two varieties.




Sixteen per cent of people have two copies of the high-risk variant gene: 50 per cent have one high-risk and one low-risk variant, and 34 per cent of people have two low-risk variants


Those with two high-risk copies have a 70 per cent greater chance of obesity than those with two low-risk copies. They even weigh three kg more, on an average.


Those with one high-risk copy have a 30 per cent greater risk of obesity. They weigh an average of 1.2 kg more


However, it is not the fat gene alone that makes people obese – lifestyle is also a factor.


“The number of fat cells remain the same but that makes it all the more important for us to be extra careful about our diet and exercise, because the type of food that you eat will increase the size of fat cells,” explained nutritionist Dr Ritika Samaddar.


The good news is that the FTO gene might help design drugs that would help obese people control their weight.


Even though these findings are in a nascent stage, they're a source of great hope and excitement, both for the researchers as well as for people suffering from obesity.

Cannes 2008:Angelina Jolie stars in Pair

Cannes 2008 is off to a sluggish start, this time with "Blindness" from Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles. (His previous features are "City of God" and the English-language screen version of John Le Carre's "The Constant Gardener.") Adapted from the Jose Saramago novel, "Blindness" stars Julianne Moore as the wife of a doctor, played by Mark Ruffalo. In an unspecified city most of the populace has been struck blind by a mysterious plague. Faster than you can say "Camus," the desperate quarantined citizens turn on each other, and their abandoned mental hospital turns into a battleground. Gael Garcia Bernal is the venal ward boss who trades sexual favors for food"Blindness" seemed to me to be a case of a miscast director. The extravagantly skillful Meirelles suffocates the story, which sits ponderously on the screen, with a grunge parade of artfully composed and manipulated images: milky-white "blindness" light, elegant dissolves depicting inelegant decay and misery. He and his cinematographer have a lot of wonderful camera subjects at their disposal, but the actors cannot make this material work on screen.

Coming off "Children of Men," "Blindness" marks the second post-apocalyptic landscape Moore has visited lately. As this allegory grinds on, you may find yourself focusing on matters unrelated to blindness, metaphorical or literal, such as the way Moore sounds exactly like Hillary Clinton on certain line readings.






A far richer experience, Israeli director Ari Folman's animated drama "Waltz with Bashir" made up for the arch inertia of the opening-night selection. It follows an Israeli Army veteran's inquiry regarding his own past, and his repressed memories of the early 1980s Lebanon War.

The collaborators work in a style of animation resembling the rotoscoping efforts of Richard Linklater ("Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly"), though none of the fluid, insinuating frames was actually rotoscoped. They were handmade, and you can tell: The look is deliberately flat in the graphic novel vein, but it doesn't have the robotic slickness that can devolve into pure mannerism. More crucially Folman's story has a lot to say about how a miserable conflict haunts those who wage it. Near the end Folman leaves animation behind for a few startling seconds, and the leap into low-def video news footage of a grieving Palestinian woman is shrewdly judged.




Some things are best shown with the least amount of emotional and visual distance possible.

And check out this trailer for "Three Monkeys," receiving its first Cannes press screening Thursday. (The official premiere comes Friday.) It's the latest film from the Turkish writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, whose previous film, "Climates," was an extraordinary relationship story and a reminder that the cinema still has a few artists devoted to its calling.

I mean, it'll be fun to see "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" this weekend. Not to mention "Kung Fu Panda." But if "Three Monkeys" is half as intriguing as Ceylan's trailer looks....

Child Labout : A crime

I dont believe all are blessed in this world.You know one thing.Whatever step may be taken by govt., still child labour continue.Especialy in poor developing countries like India child labour is said to be most concerned crime.

Why child labour?? i have been thinking for long time why there is child labour? wh all of the parents not able to board their ward in their school.The reaon may be politicians.But the real reason is poverty!! Governments change on every occasion.In every election campaign every politician says "I will give rice,i will give tv".. but no one is ready to say i will give free education.. May be because "If everyone studied then no one wil vote for the politicians.. ha ha ha ha".Anyways child labour makes the poor poorer in knowledge.Because of the child labour we lose many einsteins,newtons and great minds without knowing.The limits defined till now could be broken only by Knowledge.Knowledge is light in dark life!!!

Tragedy of Stripped Woman At Nandigram

Oh no!! Is it India? Is this a place where Gandhi lived? Where Indira Gandhi ruled? Stupid politicians will do anything for money.Now this is too much.A woman has been stripped for refusal of participating in CPM rally.These barbarians forgot the culture of India.I did not mention all of politicians.But there are some who are good.Now My question is what are Indian Politicians upto?? They have only one thing in their minds.MONEY.Everything is next to it.Even Power is next to money.They will do anything for it.Who will be responsible for that woman who was stripped forcefully and made to run naked all over the public.This is third mass incident this year after most publicized raping of a foreigner.Woman rights are spoken for a long time.But the direction in development is moving in the opposite direction.

Dumb Dumber Dumbest People!!! Hollywood Celebrities

A Man can be measured dumb with an IQ.But here a new method handled for celebrities of america to estimate who is the most dumber,dumbest.The reasons taken into account were delinquent behavior,Poor movie decisions and bad taste in men.First Name made my eyebrows to shake and my eyes to laugh!! Its Lindsay Lohan.She was enough fit to be chosen as Dumbest person in hollywood.But i dint expect it to be her.Next is Kim Kardashian and at third is Spencer Pratt.As I said earlier it has been reported the list was purely based on the poor life choices of the people.These people often come to limelight and also turned on often.
The list was compiled by Entertainment Weekly magazine, reports the New York Daily News.

The Dumbers with their ranks:



1. Lindsay Lohan, actress

2. Kim Kardashian, model/actress

3. Spencer Pratt, reality show star

4. Jeff Kwatinetz, manager of company the Firm

5. Shia LaBeouf - the 21 year-old "Transformers" star

6. Heidi Montag, reality television star

7. Jessica Simpson, singer

8. Kiefer Sutherland, actor

9. Tori Spelling, former teen actress/daughter of a media mogul

10. Rumer Willis, daughter of two famous people

11. Nick Hogan, son of pro wrestler

12. Courtney Love, rock singer

13. J.R. Rotem, music producer

14. Britney Spears, pop star

15. Brad Garrett, comedian

16. Ken Paves, celebrity hairdresser

17. Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress

18. Brad Womack, star of 'The Bachelor'

19. Michael Jackson, singer

20. Cash Warren, Jessica Alba's boyfriend

21. Audrina Patridge, "The Hills" star

22. Wilmer Valderamma, actor

23. Vanessa Minnillo, former VJ

24. Mel Gibson, actor

25. Michael Richards, comedian

26. Brandon Davis, a socialite

27. Isiah Washington, actor

28. Charlie Sheen, actor

29. Denise Richards, actress

30. Alec Baldwin, actor

31. Chad Michael Murray, actor

32. Steve-O, a daredevil performer

33. Nicole Richie, American celebutante

34. Janice Dickinson, former supermodel

35. Adrienne Curry, reality star

36. Anne Heche, actress

37. Bai Ling, Chinese-born American actress

38. Kevin Federline, Britney's ex-hubby, singer

39. Shar Jackson, American television and film actress and rapper/singer

40. Scott Baio, American actor

41. Dustin Diamond, actor, musician, and stand-up comedian

42. Tila Tequila, actress and singer

43. Russell Crowe, actor

44. Kristin Cavallari, actress

45. Nick Carter, Backstreet Boy

46. Vanessa Hudgens, Disney star

47. Michelle Rodriguez, The Fast And The Furious actress

48. David Hasselhoff, Baywatch hunk

49. Joe Francis, Girls Gone Wild creator

50. Tom Sizemore, actor (ANI)

Surya -Six Packed For Varnam Ayiram

Come on man!! Thats my heroo..Cool guy.Now responsible to give yet another hit 'Varnam Ayiram'.Gautam Menon who gave the supreme hit 'Kaaka kaaka' before five years now ready to rock again.Both these Big Dealers of Tamil film industry have planned to plant a new bomb.For this film surya following SRK put up lots of muscle to him.he is trying to give best out of him.Considering tamil industry he is first one to give such an effort after the grea Kamal HAASAN. WOW!!! He is the best.i believe 'Varnam Ayiram' will help Gautam to regain his old position lost by 'Pachaikili muthucharam'.All the best guys.

PayperPost Rocks Bloggers

Hey Cheer Up Bloggers Here is PayperPost!!! Is it not nice to earn online?? Ya it is!!But How?? Even Writing your own thinkings make you money.Even surveys for the product used makes you money>but how do you make it is little buit tricky.

Whom will approach.Man!! There should be some one who hears you who wants you who like your blog and thinking.If you are best at commenting use it.So all for what i have said there is Payperpost. Now what is Payperpost!!! Name itself says it dude!!You are paid for every own comment.I love commenting the products!! But Only if i used it and my comment should be valid so i think it should help others not to deceive someone.Payperpost just helps you.It acts as a intermediate anywhere and everywhere to connect the people who needs real useful comments and who really want to comment them.There you find many.But payperpost leads them all BOSS!!! Payperpost is guarateed no place for cheatings.I believe you would make use it.Cheers!!!!

Omega-3 fatty acids

Omega-3 fatty acids, a type of polyunsaturated fat-What can it Do?? Its quite interesting to see it.

Its found in cereal,eggs, waffles, margarine spreads, milk, and even orange juice . As for now many are unaware of these acids and thus not aware of how much to consume.Various researches over omega Acids identified numerous benefits from consuming omega-3 fatty acids:
Depression Reduction,Improving inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, reducing blood pressure and also increasing good cholesterol.
The supplementation must be under doctor's supervision.


Natural things containing omega-3s include flaxseed,fish (salmon, tuna, white fish), walnuts, broccoli and pinto beans.

Cruise vacations

Cruise Vacation Center strives to provide clients with a cruise specifically planned to their tastes, always providing extraordinary personal service and the lowest prices.

A cruise specialist is happy to spend time with you to ensure that you find the cruise that meets your needs and expectations. When you call Cruise Vacation Center you will work with a professional cruise specialist that will give you the best service every time.

Cruise Vacation Center is fully accredited, licensed, bonded and insured. We are members of Cruise Line International Association (CLIA) and Vacation.com - a national organization specializing in cruise travel.Royal Caribbean

Bookmark this site for the most up-to-date information and listings on everything to do with cruise.

If you’re an experienced cruiser,Princess Cruises you already know the routine. You don’t need the type of attention someone who is booking his/her first cruise vacation might need. That makes Cruise Vacation Center the perfect place to find and book your vacations.Book your cruise vacation yourself via our site for the ultimate in convenience. Plus the Cruise Vacation Center name is one of the most Norwegian Cruise Lines reliable and respected in the vacation industry. You can rest assured your vacation will be handled with care. Providing unequaled attention to detail and superior customer service are how we became one of the top cruise companies in the country.