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Have you seen the movie ‘Million Dollar Baby’? It is about a determined woman’s attempt to establish herself as a boxer with the guidance of a hardened trainer. It won 4 Oscars, another 45 wins and 28 nominations all over the world. Hillary Swank as Maggie displayed determination, valour, energy, arrogance, fear and youthfulness. That was boxing and reel life. Here it is tennis and real life. Yes, this article is about the Indian tennis player Sania Mirza whose achievements are commendable. Read the rest of this entry »

Genre: Drama; Country: Iran; Language: Greek, Persian, Turkish; Runtime: 105 min
Also Known As: Border Café in English
Trivia: Selected as Iran’s submission in the Best Foreign Film category for the 2006 Oscars
Directed by: Kambuzia Partovi

Story of an Iranian widow’s struggle to exercise the fundamental right of living with freedom the life of her choice. Reyhan with her two children, how she fights the male dominated society is the heart of the story.

Nasser the brother of her deceased husband wishes to marry Reyhan. Taking Iran’s tradition as the main weapon and with the support of his family, applies pressure on her to be his wife. Reyhan chooses to decline the marriage offer softly but stubbornly without much of a hue and cry. Read the rest of this entry »

This is to share my travel checklist with you. Hope this will be useful to all travelers.

Documents

• Personal Identification Card (preferably issued by government with photograph), visiting card, driving license
• Accommodation plan and alternate risk plan documents
• Passport, Visa
• Transportation(Air / Train / Bus) tickets, accommodation / resort / hotel reservations
• Addresses, and phone numbers of where you’ll be staying, local enquiry and emergency phone numbers in a separate sheet to keep in pocket Read the rest of this entry »

Following is a ranked list of the top 50 best English movie I have seen. A huge collection of movie is available at the website http://www.imdb.com/ . It is the largest free online movie database in the world. You can search and view film summary, cast, review and more.

Rank Title Year Director
1 Life Is Beautiful (1997 Roberto Benigni )
2 The Godfather (1972 Francis Ford Coppola )
3 The English Patient (1996 Anthony Minghella )
4 Million Dollar Baby (2004 Clint Eastwood)
5 The Bicycle Thief (1949 Vittorio De Sica )
6 The Sound Of Music (1965 Robert Wise )
7 Schindler’s List (1993 Steven Spielberg
8 Goodfellas (1990 Martin Scorsese )
9 The Godfather: Part II (1974 Francis Ford Coppola )
10 The Shawshank Redemption (1994 Frank Darabont )
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Introduction:This article gives a solution for the question, “How to fix the iPod problem ‘Do Not Disconnect’ message is not going away and Apple iPod is not responding / hanged / frozen?”
Problem description: Whenever the Apple iPod displays “Do Not Disconnect” message, the disconnect should be done only after proper ‘Eject’. Sometimes even after doing proper ‘Eject’, the message may not go away and the Apple iPod may have frozen / hanged too, that is not responding to user inputs. Read the rest of this entry »

This is not a review about the cinema Hotel Rwanda, it is about Paul Rusesabagina (Oskar Schindler of Rwanda) and also about how a cinema can influence and bring changes.

The world needed a Schindler’s List from Steven Speilberg to know about the german industrialist Oskar Schindler and the way he saved as many as 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust. Similarly, Hotel Rwanda is about one hotel assistant manager Paul Rusesabagina, who later became a hero by sheltering approximately 1200 Tutsis and moderate Hutus from being slaughtered by the Interahamwe militia.
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Sudoku is a logic-based placement puzzle or also we can designate it as an classical assignment problem. The object is to fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3×3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid and the unfilled cells has to be filled.
For more information on Sudoku, visit the website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku

Following is a java program (source code) to solve the Sudoku puzzle. I need your comments to improve the efficiency of the algorithm. Source code is free for use, any body can dowload and use it for any purpose free of cost and no licence issues. Test it yourself for the correctness of the program.
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This is to introduce you about the FTP plugin fireFTP for the free web browser Firefox. It is a free cross-platform FTP client. It provides easy access to FTP servers. Advantage is

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