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 Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain differ on most of the issues and the divide continues when it comes to the world of pop culture Entertainment weekly asked both candidates where they stood on important issues like favorite TV show best super hero and favorite onscreen Commander In Chief and when it comes to masked heroes of justice Obama prefers the web slinging Spiderman while McCain is partial to the cave-dwelling Batman EW reported as for their iPods they both have a varied musical palate and my staff teases me about how eclectic my tastes are.

I have got Frank Sinatra, I have got Sheryl Crow I have got John Coltrane I have got Bob Dylan. There’s Javanese flute music African dance music a lot of R&B Obama told the mag. McCain on the other hand, admits to having a little disco on his MP3 player. Yes I have to give a straight-talk answer he said when asked if he listened to disco super group ABBA. I am also a Roy Orbison fan and a Linda Ronstadt fan. But I like Usher, too. When it comes time to sit on the couch and catch up on their DVRs, the candidates differ yet again. Obama prefers shows he grew up watching like MASH and The Dick Van Dyke Show. While McCain prefers edgier TV like Curb Your Enthusiasm Dexter & the wire when it comes time to sit on the couch and catch up on their DVR the candidates differ yet again. Obama prefers shows he grew up watching like MASH & the Dick Van Dyke Show. While McCain prefers edgier TV like Curb Your Enthusiasm Dexter and The Wire and one area where the candidates shared some common ground was the first movie they saw in the theater with both senators seeing heartfelt animals films. One of the first was Born Free. I think I may have teared up at the end when they release the lioness Elsa. I couldn’t have been more than four or (5) Obama said it was tears and critters for McCain too whose first movie was Bambi. when his mother was killed. Oh yeah I cried McCain admitted & possibly the most important question asked of the candidates was about the job they are both running for. So who was their favorite fictional President. Jeff Bridges in The Contender Obama told the mag.

He was charming and essentially an honorable person but there was a rogue about him again McCain skewed more modern preferring Dennis Haysbert in 24 and he is fabulous. He is a guy who makes tough decisions he takes charge he is ready to sacrifice his interest on behalf of the interest of the country he told EW. My least favorite is the one on 24 that got stabbed by his x-wife.

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I am listening a word fate or luck since childhood even i also use this word in my life. I believe what ever i achieve in my life is my luck while what does not goes in my favour is my fate but some times i think the luck or fate have to be develop by a person by himself. Some peoples may not agree with my belief. I have come across to another word tarrot. The tarot is a set of cards featuring 21 trump cards, the fool, and an extra face card per suit, in addition to the usual suit (face and pip) cards found in ordinary playing cards. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games.

Tarot reading is used in detirmining your personality too.  Charmaines has made web site http://www.tarotathome.com. This site offer you three sets of reading

(1) Past Present and Future Reading; this is a brief reading on what is happening in your life.

(2) Hearts Desire Tarot Reading; Looking for love, it might be at your door step.    

(1) The Celtic Cross Tarot Reading; this is a complete indepth reading.

This site works very simply from a shuffeled deck of 74 cards, you are asked to select a certain number of cards. Do not put too much thought into the selection process. Do not alter the selection once it has been made. On your selection, tarot specialist Charmaines will do a reading which will be unique to you only. 

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The whole world is full of adventours and one cannot discover all the places in his or her short life but atleast have choice to witness the natural scenes around the world. I would like to suggest few places where one can really enjoy the holidays.

The  Caribbean vacations have a diverse range of attractions. The many tropical islands all offer something unique, such as the many historical and cultural areas in Cuba, the beautiful beaches and Rastafarian cultural spots in Jamaica, and the incredible scuba diving in Aruba and the Bahamas.

Magens Bay: This is one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Its soaring white-sand arcs give the bay a heart-like shape, entrancing honeymooners and holidaymakers alike.

Charlotte Amelie: Charlotte Amelie, the capital of the US Virgin Islands, is the most visited port in the Caribbean, and hence host to an incredible array of luxury liners. The harbour’s natural beauty is a little marred by the thriving commercialism of the area, but the plethora of sight-seeing and shopping opportunities make up for it. This is the vital focus for your trip to St Thomas.

Stingray City: Stingray City is a natural wonder and the Cayman Islands’ most popular tourist attraction. Out to sea in North Sound is a natural shallow channel of water where stingrays come to feed. Although they have a vicious sting in their tail (literally) the fish are non-aggressive and friendly to humans. Stingray City is the only place in the world where you can swim with them in a totally natural environment.

Beaches of Montego Bay: Montego Bay has drawn tourists to its sandy beaches for decades. Jamaica’s second largest city and the capital of St James province, Mo’Bay, as its affectionately known, offers a vast array of hotels, from basic to ultra-luxurious, an international airport and a wealth of historical attractions.

Rose Hall Great House: Rose Hall Great House is a classic 18th-century sugar plantation mansion built on the shores of Montego Bay in 1780. Today, after years of neglect, the house has been renovated to remind visitors of Jamaica’s colonial past and it is now rented out for official functions and parties in the lavishly restored interiors and glorious tropical gardens.

Experience Haiti : The perfect island for those who want to really interact with a foreign culture. Voodoo is exotic and strangely beautiful, especially in many of its non-sacrificial rituals, while tourist crowds are almost non-existent.
Caribbean Shopping :Caribbean Shopping is definitely a must for those on vacation. Shopping in the Caribbean can be the hightlight of the trip with the wide variety of goods offered at the market. Jewelry is one of the staples of shopping in the Caribbean and can be found at quite a bargain.

Cayman islands: Whether you’re a first-time diver anxious to experience the sport, a new diver looking for the perfect spot to complete your check-out dives or an old salt returning for yet another glide along the walls. you’ll find the Cayman Islands vacation rentals to be the ideal setting in which to explore the underwater realm.

If you are looking to plan your trip to above destination then do consider http://www.goin2travel.com. They can plan your vactaions in a beautiful way. Either it is Bahamas vacation rentals or carribean cruise, the site can help the tourists to pick plenty of packages. The above travel spots are jut for reference if you want to explore more then consider going2travel.com prior your journey. 

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Search engines dump data in their records through crawlers and when any search is being requested the data is shown from those records. In the case of pictures or videos normally the picture meta description is taken in record and if any search is requested the meta description matches are shown.

Some reseraches are being carried on to produce the search data on voice or speech recognition. In this scenario the speech will be converted to text and then the normal search procedure will be carried out. This technology will really help in getting better search results of video clips and files. This technology does not precisely convert speech to text, but very accurately find specified keywords in text (like common tags, words from comments, words from description etc).

Vidsearchlive.net is an internet Video Search Engine that scans YouTube, MySpace, MetaCafe, Veoh & Yahoo all from one location.Website also learns they type of videos you are looking for and quickly displays similar videos that maybe of interest to you. In future vidserachlive  may develop the above technology to perform better in serach results.

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Happy new year from apnaavenue.com. We warmly wish to all our readers a prosperous future. Many countries will have countdown parties, firework, music and dances while beside these celebrations there will be prayers too. The best prayer which we can say here at apnaavenue is peace in the world. If there is a peace then these celebrations can give more joy to  us.

We really have to think about what we did in the past year, if there were mistakes then we should not repeat them on the other hand if there were some achievements  then have to look forward for more. This world is becoming really challenging for an individual to groups. In what ever capacity you are working face these challenges boldly to make a contribution to your society.

Atlast we would like to show our sympathies for Pakistani peoples. year 2007 was really challenging for them. Pakistan was facing terrorism, poverty, dictatorship and at last their  important figure Benazir Bhutto in politics also died in year 2007. In the same year this cricket loving nation lost the world cup in a humiliating way and then a 20 - 2o cricket final loss to India. Pakistan peoples should learn from past and should not repeat the mistakes because repeated mistakes are real sins. We wish a very happy year 2008 for Pakistani peoples and hopefully this nation will come out with bright colors in year 2008.

Now we come to India. What a 2007 year was for India. tremendous achievements for this nation. The booming economy was a major milestone which India had in year 2007. A lot to do for this nation in coming years. India should concentrate on eliminating poverty from its territories which is a big challenge and we hope this can be done in an effective way in year 2008.

We wish once again Happy new year to the rest of the world too.

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The dhak dhak girl of Bollywood is proud of her comeback movie ‘Aaja Nachle’ and isn’t afraid of failures. She confesses that her latest movie is woman-centric, and there is no hero in it, but contests the remark that she is the movie’s hero. However, in the same breath she admits, “I’m the female protagonist”. When told that the movie was written keeping her profile in view she quips, “The thought made my legs shake and (believe it) not because I was dancing”. Initially, she was hesitant to say yes to film director Aditya Chopra as she wondered if the viewers would like to watch her. Since he looked at her very strangely and said, “Don’t worry about that” she heaved a sigh of relief. What’s the theme of her movie? She gives her mind and says, “Every time I visit Mumbai I find it more westernized. However, I wish them to imbibe the best of foreign influences but without losing our culture? In the US, we see families more Indian than in India”, she continues with a heavy heart, perhaps. Is the movie trying to give this message? Yes, ‘Aaja Nachle’ addresses this question. But, without preaching

How could she manage to dance so well in the movie? Was she practicing in the US? She says that she had no time to spare for dance in the US as she was first carrying and later caring for her children. So, she was afraid of disappointing her fans as she had not come on the screen since her ‘Devdas’. But, the response from the media as well as the viewers has been quite encouraging, she adds. Then, how did she dance non-stop in ‘Aaja Nachle’? The ever-smiling actress is amused and says, “It just comes naturally to me. Besides, ‘Aaja Nachle’ I had to warn my fan-cum-choreographer Vaibhavi not to feel nervous of me and do her job.” How come she turned social to dance with her co-stars in this movie? “All my co-stars comprising Vinay Pathak, Kunal Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma and Irrfan Khan - are wonderful actors. I had watched a bit of their work. Soon, we were laughing and having a ball.”

Incidentally, Madhuri’s comeback has prompted Boney Kapoor to encourage his wife Sridevi to follow in the footsteps of Madhuri, her one time rival in the industry. When Boney asked has confirmed Sridevi’s comeback soon. Boney, however, doesn’t find Madhuri as rival to his wife. After all, his brother Anil Kapoor has done his best movies with Madhuri and was known as the hit pair of that time. Interestingly, another Kapoor Ranbir son of Rishi Kapoor who began career with his recently released ‘Saawariyaan’ has said that he been a fan of Madhuri since he was aged six. He considers Madhuri as his idol. Ranbir is too excited with the comeback of Madhuri on the screen.

Another great news for Madhuri’s fans is that she is going to sign another movie under the banner of Yashraj Films. She has already seen the script and very soon though early next year she might start shooting of the new movie. But, Madhuri has made it very clear that she would shoot only during her children’s vacation.

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French newspapers on Monday splashed photos of President Nicolas Sarkozy with singer and former supermodel Carla Bruni, fuelling speculation of romance just two months after the president’s divorce.

Sarkozy, 53, and Bruni, 38, were snapped together at the Disneyland theme park near Paris on Saturday. They made little apparent attempt to hide the fact that they were there together, though none of the photos showed them any closer than shoulder-to-shoulder.

The Elysee Palace would not comment to AFP on the pictures. But L’Express magazine editor Christophe Barbier told French television that Bruni — whose past boyfriends include rock stars Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton — had confirmed to him that she was romantically involved with Sarkozy.

“We must now wait and see how far the president will go in presenting Carla Bruni officially” as his companion, Barbier told LCI television.

“Carla Bruni and Sarkozy are out in the open,” wrote the popular Le Parisien newspaper on its front page that featured one of the photos of the couple.

Even the right wing newspaper Le Figaro ran a photograph of Bruni under the headline “Carla Bruni, the president’s companion”.

Le Figaro said “the presence of Sarkozy and Carla Bruni in such a public place suggests that they do not intend to specifically hide themselves.”

The leftwing Liberation wrote that the couple had brought their “fairy tale” romance to Disneyland.

L’Express said about 10 photographers were present at the park to take the pictures and that the couple seemed “very much at ease” with the attention paid to them.

Bruni, who was born in Italy, was the heiress to a tyre manufacturing fortune. She was a top fashion model before turning to pop music. She was married to philosophy professor, Raphael Enthoven, and the couple had one daughter.

Sarkozy, 53, has two sons from his first marriage and one son from his 11-year marriage to Cecilia, which ended in a much publicised divorce in October.

Three French magazines are to publish photos of the Disneyland outing this week, according to the website of L’Express magazine.

The photos are to be published this week in Closer, Paris Match and Point de Vue, which wrote “Carla Bruni: the president’s queen of hearts.”

French politicians declined to be drawn into the whirlwind of commentary on the the president’s new friend. Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande, who has just gone through a highly public separation from leftwing presidential candidate Segolene Royale, said the couple had a right to privacy.

“It’s their life. Either they decided to come out as a couple in public, and I think it’s probably the case, or they have a right to have their privacy protected,” said Hollande.

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Miss China won Miss World 2007 in Sanya, China, yesterday, much to the delight of a partisan audience. Miss Angola came second and Miss Mexico third at the beauty pageant, held on the southern holiday island of Hainan.

At Sanya a tourist resort boasting palm trees that overshadow sugar-white beaches has been eked out and largely separated from the more traditional and less affluent urban areas where the local population lives.

Two billion people in 200 countries were expected to tune in to watch the show, which saw Miss China take the crown ahead of 106 of the world’s most beautiful and talented women. The 57th edition of the contest was held on World AIDS Day as organisers wanted the annual showcase of gloss and glitz, seen by critics as a sexist throwback, to help increase awareness of the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Hometown fans were cheering on Miss China — Zhang Zi Lin, a 23-year-old secretary from Beijing — hoping she could live up to her billing as one of the pre-contest favourites and bring home the crown and she sure did. But Ada Aimee De La Cruz of the Dominican Republic was also hotly tipped by British bookmakers as the biggest threat among the 106 contestants. To underline their commitment to AIDS awareness, organisers had invited former South African president Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter Maki to serve on the panel of judges.

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Om shatiom is another milestone of Shah Rukh Khan. farah Khan is the writer director of this movie. Before this movie was released it becomes a street talk. Peoples began talking about the story and especially the role of Shah Rukh Khan. Deepika Padukone is another major role in this movie. She is the daughter of former badminton champion Prakash Pakodune. She was born in Denmark at eleven months old she moved to Mangalore when her family returned to India.

This film focuses on Om (Shah Rukh Khan) who grows up in the seventies. This is the time when he meets Shanti (Dipika Padukone ), the love of his life but shortly thereafter suffers an untimely demise.
Om is immediately reincarnated and the story flash forwards to the present day.

Recreating the golden era of Hindi cinema is not an easy task but Farah Khan manages to do that with so much skill and precision. A whole lot of yesteryear actors are made fun of though in a very sporting way. Manoj Kumar, Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna, etc are some who might feel nostalgic while watching the film. Also, there are quite a few jokes that you may not easily pick up if you aren’t paying attention.

watch this movie and enjoy it.

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