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Hurley wants an Indian wedding and Arun's child (Go
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London:
Hollywood beauty Elizabeth Hurley who recently visited
India to celebrate her lover Arun Nayar's 40th birthday, revealed
that she would like to marry him in the traditional Indian
style. According to The Sun, The actress who already has a
son from her previous marriage also reportedly confessed that
she plans to have Nayar's baby. "I'm very fond of children
and would like to have one more. I don't think I'll be able
to handle more than two," the 'Bewitched' actress was quoted
as saying. "I would like to get married in India because of
its rich traditions, colour and the fun people have. I love
the pomp and colour associated with Indian weddings. I recently
attended Arun's father's marriage in Bombay and we had a great
time. I loved getting dressed up so many times in a row,"
she added.
Household
chores, or 'Routinetics' better than gym workouts (Go
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Sydney:
For all those people wanting to stay fit and firm, yet
not finding the time to sweat it out at the gym, this may
as well be music to their ears. According to the Sydney Morning
Herald, fitness experts in Britain are apparently urging people
to do more routine household chores like dusting, vacuuming
or even putting away the shopping, saying, that these activities
are better than going to the gym. The exercise created by
a medical insurance company PruHealth, and christened 'Routinetics'
by medical experts has been described as a "physical exertion
as part of the daily routine to help maintain health and fitness".
The company has also as part of its drive to make 'Routinetics'
more popular introduced a guide with the help of fitness experts
including Tim Noakes, a member of the International Olympic
Committee's Science Academy, and a British television presenter
Tania Bryer demonstrating how people can incorporate light
exercise into their lives by cleaning, shopping and even commuting.
Some of the exercises include using tin cans as weights to
improve muscle tone and taking the stairs two at a time and
carrying shopping in the supermarket using a basket rather
than a trolley. The experiment it seems has already become
a huge success with a lot of people. "My hectic schedule means
it's not always possible to make time for exercise sessions.
Routinetics is ideal because it offers practical solutions
for people who want to incorporate simple exercises into their
normal day," the paper quoted Tania as saying.
Golden
Globes 'no' to 'Passion' and 'Fahrenheit' (Go
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Washington:
Although Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" and Michael
Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 were the most- discussed films of
2004, and earned their fair share of applauses as well as
criticisms, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HPCA)
doesn't feel the two to be worthy enough for the 62nd annual
Golden Globe awards. According to eonline, Gibson's epic dealing
with the last 12 hours of Christ's life has been nominated
in the foreign language category despite the fact that Aramaic
and Latin, the two languages in which bulk of the film's dialogue
has been conducted are not living languages. As a result,
despite being nominated in the category for best direction
and best script, the film has not been nominated in the best
drama category, as it only reserved for English-language films.
On the other hand Michael Moore's Fahrenheit, an indictment
of President George W. Bush's actions after the September
11 WTC twin tower attacks has been ruled out of contention
as HPCA does not give awards to documentaries. HFPA officials
are however sticking by their rules saying that HPCA bylaws
prohibit taking either 'Passion' of 'Fahrenheit' into contention
because of technicalities. "Yes, we know Aramaic is not a
spoken language and, yes, we know the film doesn't have a
country of origin. But our bylaws state that when a film is
in a language that is preponderantly non- English, it's a
foreign-language film. We looked at our bylaws, and we looked
at the movie, and the match is there," HPCA president Lorenzo
Soria was quoted as saying. "As for Fahrenheit, we felt it
would be unfair to tell other documentarians 'Fahrenheit qualified,
and yours didn't'. We followed our rules and it did not qualify.
It would be unfair to make an exception," she added.
'Godfather
II' voted the best movie sequel ever (Go
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London:
A new poll conducted by the website movies.com has found
that 'Godfather II,' which was released in 1974 and starred
actor Robert De Niro in the lead role, is considered the best
movie sequel of all times. The poll, which saw the Star Wars
sequel 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' being voted in
the second place and last year's hit 'The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers' in the third, revealed that sci-fi and superhero
flicks rules as far as sequels are concerned after movies
like 'Aliens,' 'X-Men 2' and 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day'
also made it to the list, reports Female First.
The top ten sequels of all time were: 1. Godfather II 2. Star
Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 3. Lord of the Rings: The two
towers 4. Aliens 5. X-Men 2 6. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
7. Toy Story 8. Batman Returns 9. Back to the Future Part
II 10. Dawn of the Dead
New
debris of Titanic found (Go
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Sydney:
How the ship that could never sink, the Titanic, sank
just two days after starting its maiden journey has been intriguing
scientists since years, and now a new chunk of the Titanic
as well a new theory by a team of researchers could shed some
more light on what happened on the fateful night of April
14, 1912. The RMS Titanic, the only company that has been
given the right to salvage the debris of the ship, has found
a new piece of the Titanic's hull deep in the North Atlantic.
The 30-metre chunk of the ship's hull has been found on a
recently discovered, 3 kilometres wide debris field. The debris
field also included several decks, levels and portholes of
the hull as well as smaller objects like an intact champagne
bottle and a Cantrell & Cochrane soft drink bottle from Ireland,
ABC Online reported Discovery News as saying. An electric
milk scalder that was most probably used at the restaurant's
buffet and a crystal decanter, pieces of Turkish bath tiles,
parts of beds and possible leather luggage fragments were
also found as part of the debris of the ship that sank three
hours after hitting an iceberg. According to researchers at
the RMS Titanic, the new finding of the hull proves that the
Titanic did not break into two pieces before sinking, as was
previously believed, instead it broke into several parts.
Meanwhile, another researcher at the Ohio State University
has suggested that the ship sank because of a coal fire in
its storage house. He says that workers may have heightened
the speed at which coal was removed from its storage bunker
in order to try to increase the rate of draw-down of the coal
pile to put out a smoldering fire. An increase in the amount
of coal fuelling the ship's steam- engine boiler would have
raised the amount of steam, which in turn could have led to
a sudden, faster cruising speed, which made the ship go out
of control and hit an iceberg. According to him this is a
possibility because at that time coal fires were very common
in ships and very difficult to control and a fire had been
reported onboard the ship before it sank. "It's very speculative,
this [coal storage fire] was a chronic problem. If the fire
is there you know it's there and it's very difficult to get
it out," the report quoted him as saying.
Dracula's
castle set to become a holiday home (Go
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London:
A ruined 16th century Scottish castle believed to have
inspired novelist Bram Stoker write his epic Dracula based
on the real life exploits of Transylvanian tyrant Prince Vlad
IV is all set to be redeveloped as a holiday home. According
to the Telegraph, the Slains Castle built on a precipice overlooking
the Cruden Bay in north east Scotland is all set to Redeveloped
as a tourist hot spot despite claims that redevelopment will
affect the tourism in the area As per legend the castle, once
home to the Earl of Errol, was sold in 1916 by the impoverished
20th laird in order to settle death duties. Derelict since
the 1920s, it has been a tourist hotspot for several decades
because of its so-called association with the Dracula story.
Locals are however not at all pleased with any redevelopment
as any such move, according to them will rob the place of
its charm. Though they have happily agreed for the restoration
of the castle to its original form, they have vehemently opposed
the plans to attach 35 holiday apartments inside it terming
any such move would be equivalent to "driving a stake" through
its historical charm.
Scarlett
Johansson fancies Ralf Little (Go
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London:
Teenaged star Scarlett Johansson has reportedly revealed
that she fancies comedian Ralf Little. According to the Daily
Star, the 'Lost in Translation' star is quite enamoured by
the witty actor. "I have seen many pictures of him. I have
to say I was quite taken with him and I was told he is very,
very funny," the actress was quoted as saying. "But then I
heard he began to train as a doctor and that was it. I knew
I had to get to know him," she added.
Get
rid of your migraine with a blink of your eye (Go
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Washington:
Popping a pill is no solution for migraine. According
to a study conducted by Trinity Western University One Eye
Integration treatment, normally reserved for post-traumatic
stress disorder, which involves manipulating a patient's field
of vision, headache symptoms can be reduced by up to 70 per
cent, or be prevented altogether. For two weeks, Lefebvre
employed a modified form of the One Eye Integration (OEI)
therapy on 16 headache sufferers. The treatment controls the
amount of light entering parts of the brain through the eyes
by alternately covering each eye in a switch like method.
"The effects of this treatment are robust," Lefebvre, a former
migraine sufferer and mental health clinician for the Ministry
of Children and Family Development in Prince Rupert was quoted
as saying. "If we understand migraines as lateralized or one-sided
head pain then it's only logical to shift the sufferer's attention
exclusively to the side that doesn't hurt," Lefebvre was quoted
as saying. OEI therapy is based on the understanding that
each eye stimulates different parts of the brain which elicits
different reactions. By focusing on different parts of the
brain we can have different responses.
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