Sanjaya Malakar, the American Idol on the run?

Sanjay Malakar, the Indian origin American Idol, is nowwhere to be found when his home-town wants to honor him. The Federal Way city council has discussed what his ties are to the city and whether to honour him, but it can’t get any clue where Malakar is. The local mall wants to throw Malakar a reception. It’s offering a $100 gift certificate for information leading to his whereabouts.

Just how much he belongs to the city is a matter of debate. The lanky singer, who melted hearts and spilled tears among young Idol watchers, often tells interviewers he’s from Seattle, but that’s not unusual for a national audience that wouldn’t know Federal Way.
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Dreams Demystfied

DreamsDreams have been a mystery to us since Adam first breathed life. The stuff of legends, myth and fairy tale, dreams have always fascinated mankind. If you too have wondered about what dreams are all about, read on …

Dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being. Your brain mind and spirit, while at rest “review” and analyze in it’s own way long term, short term and spirit memory. It kicks around emotions, thoughts, ideas, actions and interactions of the short term memory. It has in it’s background the trends of your life and philosophy to influence it. Your mind is also processing spiritual data, your beliefs, whether or not you violated them, your information gained through psychic intuition (we ALL have this to a certain degree) and of course, any communication from God.
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Performancing re-launches pMetrics

I just got an email that Performancing is re-launching pMetrics.

Performancing is pleased to announce the re-release of our pMetrics site analytics package for blogs. In its current state, pMetrics is a simple, clean, “chock-full-of-features” stats program, specifically targeted for blogs. You can get started with pMetrics here (just a few lines of javascript):
http://pmetrics.performancing.com

After several false starts and many “vendor” delays, we’ve now put in place a scalable server infrastructure to provide a stable pMetrics site analytics solution for the wider blogging community. Use and enjoy.

With throats unslaked

WaterIt is a grim reality that millions of Indians queue up every day at public taps for one of life’s most precious commodities – Water.

Severe water shortages have already led to a growing number of conflicts across the country. Sewage and wastewater from rapidly growing cities and effluents from industries have turned many rivers, including major ones, into fetid sewers. Estimates reveal that by 2020, India’s demand for water will exceed all sources of supply. Not withstanding the catastrophic consequences of indiscriminate pumping of groundwater, government actions, including the provision of free power, have exacerbated rather than addressed the problem. Right here in Bangalore, with water scarcity hitting new levels each summer in the city, adopting sustainable methods of water management becomes crucial for future growth of the city.
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From the Cradle to the Grave

Female Child Beggars“Lakshmi already had a daughter, so when she gave birth to a second girl, she killed her. For the three days of her second child’s short life, Lakshmi admits, she refused to nurse her. To silence the infant’s famished cries, the impoverished village woman squeezed the milky sap from an oleander shrub, mixed it with castor oil, and forced the poisonous potion down the newborn’s throat. The baby bled from the nose, then died soon afterward. Female neighbours buried her in a small hole near Lakshmi’s square thatched hut of sun-baked mud. They sympathized with Lakshmi, and in the same circumstances, some would probably have done what she did.”
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Virginia Tech shootout kills 33 including an Indian Professor

It all started when the Shooter shot its first 2 victims on Monday inside a dormitory. Hours later, the gunman stormed through another campus building and killed 30 people, leaving bodies throughout the building before shooting himself in the head. Another 30 are reported wounded. The killer is a 23 year old Korean Cho Seung-Hui, an undergraduate English Major who was on the Campus. America termed this as the most murderous campus massacre.
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NASA paid $26.6 million to families of Columbia astronauts

Indian-American Kalpana Chawla was among those astronauts aboard the Columbia Space Shuttle, who were killed when the shuttle broke up as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on February 1, 2003. Today, it was officially announced that NASA paid $26.6 million to the families of the seven astronauts of that fateful Space Flight. This settlement was kept secret for more than two and a half year.

In brief written responses to questions, NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said little about the settlements, citing family privacy. He said the money came from the agency’s budget via a 2004 Congressional appropriation. “The Columbia astronauts were our friends and co-workers,” Beutel wrote. “Our concern always has been with the crew’s families and we didn’t announce details of the settlement in an effort to protect the personal privacy of the Columbia families.”
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