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About RCM Business

RCM Business has been set up by Fashion Suitings Pvt. Ltd., Bhilwara (Rajasthan) belonging to the reputed Chhabra Group, engaged in textile business since 1977. The group has entered into it's own production in 1986 and at present it's annual capacity is 3 crore meter. Thus it stands among top five in india in suiting manufacturing.

In August 2000 RCM Business started at very small scale. Gradually it developed from every aspect and now it stand as biggest multi level marketing company with more than 60 lacs distributors, more than 70 depots, more than 5000 pickup centers and more than 300 products. Company not only expanded its product range and distribution center but also have given priority to upgrade technology and make complete system online. For the purpose of high quality education, company has given emphasis on quality literature and education system.

Now in every corner of country RCM meetings and seminars are organized. Quality education material are also available in the form of CDs, cassettes and books. To update distributors with current information monthly RCM Times is also published. RCM Business has made remarkable progress and has grown up in multi dimensions.

Good quality products and best services to consumer constitute the company's objectives. This clearly demonstrates that the group is genuinely concerned and dedicated to the overall progress of distributors and shall be bringing out more quality products to enhance their business volume.

Marketing Plan

The best part of this concept is that you do not have to do anything different from what you have been doing till now. All you are required to do is to purchase RCM Products(Business Kit) and get your registration through internet. And from then onwards, use RCM Products, because :-

1. You are getting best quality at reasonable price.
2. No chance of duplicate goods.
3. It also provide a source of income.

After using the product and feeling satisfied with quality and concept you can share your views with your friends and relatives. This way they will also start using the products and so on. Thus the company does not require any advertisement or middlemen for selling its products. The amount saved will be distributed between you and the people who associate to the company because of you. Day by day as your group will expand your income will also increase.

Company distributes upto 30% Performance bonus, upto 6% royalty and on qualification, upto 4% technical bonus and upto 1% leadership bonus on total *Business Volume.

Business Volume is the actual value on which all the calculations for commision is done. It may be equal or less than M.R.P.

There are four ways to get Income in RCM Business:

1. Purchases for self requirement.
2. Purchases by your down liners.
3. Retailing by you or your down liners.
4. Business kit purchased by new distributors.

The Events and Seminars are organized in order to increase the awareness about RCM Business in new distributors. These programs are very helpful for the new people who want to understand what the business is about and also for the existing distributors to get ideas for development of their business.

Established leaders of the business are the main people visiting these programs, with their experience and knowledge they educate people attending these programs.

These programs are full of positive energy and are a perfect place to share views and discuss problems.

After all, it is not without vision that seminar and events are known as the backbone of a company who directly deal with distributors.

HOW TO JOIN

It’s very easy to join RCM by purchasing anyone of the Textile Kits: -

Option 1.  NM Kit – Rs. 1500/-
                  3 T/L (Length 1.20 Mtr.), 3 Shirt Pcs. (Length 2.25 Mtr.)

Option 2.  SL Kit – Rs. 1320/-
                  2 S/L (Length 3.00 Mtr.)

Option 3.  Safari Kit – Rs. 1410/-
                  3 - Safari Length (Length 2.5 Mtr.)    

Option 4.  Shahi Libas Kit Rs. 1470/-
                  One premium quality Suit Length (Length 3.00 Mtr.)

Option 5.  Open choice Kit Rs. 300/-
                  (Tools) To join from this kit it is mandatory to make textile product purchase of  worth 1500 B.V.

Option 6.   Premium S.L. Kit Rs. 1580/-
                   2 premium quality suit length (Length 3.00 Mtr.)

Option 7.  NLM Kit Rs. 1620/-
                  3 T/L  (Length 1.30),  3 Shirt Pcs. (length 2.5)

1.         After selection of kit and paying the specified amount you get scratch ID card along with joining kit. ID card contains distributor number and password, which can be seen on scratching. This password is authenticated validation and required to keep safely. Use of this password will be treated as authorized signature in future.
2.         You can apply for online joining on company's website www.rcmbusiness.com by using above password for distributorship with acceptance of abiding rules and regulations. Be careful in feeding the sponsor number and address. After acceptance of application you become a distributor.

DNA evidence has linked an air conditioning repairman to the stabbing deaths of three women, including a former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, police said Friday.

Michael Gargiulo, 32, of Santa Monica has been in custody since July for a separate knife attack and could face murder charges as soon as next week, police said.

Santa Monica police Lt. Darrell Lowe said DNA collected from a crime scene last spring helped link Gargiulo to the stabbing deaths of women from Los Angeles, suburban Chicago and Monterey Park.

One of the cases involves 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin, Kutcher's former girlfriend, who was found dead in February 2001 in her Hollywood Hills home.

Kutcher, who starred in the television series "That '70s Show" and is married to actress Demi Moore, told police he went to pick up the fashion student-model for a post-Grammy Awards party, but she did not answer the door. He checked a back window and spotted what he thought were red wine stains on the carpet and then left. Her body was discovered the next day by a friend

Catch the full story on The Associated Press website

Soon to be released Block Buster movie "King" which stars living legend "Nagarjuna" and south sensation "Trisha"  has been the king in Web trends too with webbies flocking to see the first trailer at the newly launced webiste for the film.  You can watch the trailer at www.nagtheking.com

At a press meet held at Taj Deccan, Nagarjuna  says "King will be a super hit movie with lots of entertainment, fights , dances and every ingredients mixed for all the sections of audience. I enjoyed a lot when doing the scenes…I used to get laugh when sreenu..Was telling the scene…And same with Sreenu when I was acting those. All the movies that I enjoyed while shooting became block busters and this movie also falls in the same category.

Recommendation of 6th CPC which have not been accepted by Government

• Liberal "Severance Package" for those employees who want to leave service without pension with more than 15, but less than 20 Years of Service

• Recommendation related to Holiday policy that there should be only three closed holidays for Government Employees.

• Flexi-hours for Women Employees and flexi-weeks for employees with disabilities.

Read more on Investment Guru Blog

Imagine the craziness among the central government employee to get hold of the release of Sixth Pay Commission notification from the Government. The Release is expected to provide clarity on the exact benefit received by employees at various pay scales. The Press Information Bureau website (pib.nic.in) is flooded with extraordinary traffic and no one is able to access the website. Come back to the Trend Guru blog to get the details of the release once the webiste comes back to order.

The Republican presidential nominee has kept his selection a closely guarded secret, and it's anything but certain who'll he will pick. McCain is slated to announce his running mate at noon Eastern time in Dayton, Ohio, just hours after the end of the Democratic convention.

McCain, R-Ariz., hopes to turn the media focus away from Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama and generate momentum heading into the GOP convention that starts Monday in St. Paul, Minn.  There's a chance the convention could be postponed, however, if Tropical Storm Gustav turns into a hurricane and strikes the Gulf Coast.                                                                  Earlier Friday, NBC and other media outlets reported that Pawlenty and Romney were out of the running. One news report said Palin left Alaska on an early-morning flight en route to Dayton, but other reports were contradictory. Palin, 44, is a reform-minded governor in Alaska who's challenged the party's old guard, attacked pork-barrel spending and taken a keen interest in energy and environmental issues. A former Miss Alaska runnerup, Palin hold a degree in journalism and has five children, including one with Down Syndrome.

If Palin is selected, it could indicate a strategy on McCain's part to siphon off women voters disaffected by Sen. Hillary Clinton's loss in the Democratic primaries to Obama, D-Ill.

Until McCain makes his pick, however, Romney, Pawlenty and others cannot be ruled out. Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, also claimed he would not be Obama's choice several days before his selection.

During the vice presidential selection process, campaigns often use feints and misdirection to stoke interest in a candidate's selection....Read the full breaking news on Market Watch

The best thing about Rock On is that it's not about the music. So even if you've never ever been to a concert or harbored fantasies of being a rock star, you are immediately swept into this story of four friends and their rock band called Magic.
Rock On is about their relationships, their unfulfilled dreams and their gnawing grief that life has passed them by. The music is a metaphor.
Follow your bliss, writer-director Abhishek Kapoor tells us in a film that is sometimes derivative and often predictable but also so engaging and exhilarating that by the climactic concert you are blinking back tears and pumping your fist in the air.
What connects here are the details. Abhishek sets up his characters with a few deft strokes. So, Farhan Akhtar is Adi, former lead singer and current investment banker who mouths lines like: Your wealth is in safe hands, Jai Shri Krishna.

Arjun Rampal is Jo, former lead guitarist, now mostly unemployed and so haunted by his past that he seems hollow. Purab Kholi is KD, once a kick-ass drummer and now sober Gujarati boy in pinstripes, selling jewelry. And Luke Kenny is Rob, the keyboard player, who now grits his teeth and creates music with Anu Mallik. Each one seethes with a quiet frustration, desperately aware that he has compromised with life. Adi's wife, hoping to bring some cheer into her husband's mechanical existence, brings the friends together again. Rock On suffers from a Dil Chahta Hai hangover - here too friends are driven apart and then reunited.  Read More

Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Prachi Desai, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli

Director: Abhishek Kapoor

Producer: Farhan Akhtar/Suraj Jagan

Music: Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy

Source :

NDTV Movies

Chamku begins with scenes of bucolic bliss in Bihar. A farmer and his family are scampering in the swaying fields. It's so pretty that you know it's doomed.  Sure enough, before you know it, the father is shot dead and the son gravely wounded. He is rescued by a Naxalite leader, who reads Pushkin and plans operation with equal dexterity. The leader christens the little boy Chamku and rears him to be a killer, played by Bobby Deol.  When the leader is killed, an intelligent agency officer makes a deal with Chamku: he now becomes a state sponsored assassin.

Until this point, Chamku is ferociously effective. Director Kabir Kaushik who earlier made the gritty eastern UP-police drama Seher, orchestrates the tragedy with an unflinching eye. He has a feel for the rhythms and textures of the badlands. But the film starts faltering when the action moves to Mumbai.

Suddenly we see Chamku staring moodily at the sea wearing designer goggles, leather pants and a spiffy jacket. He also falls in love with a school teacher who channeling Sushmita Sen from Main Hoon Na, dresses exclusively in chiffon saris and sexy blouses.
Of course Chamku now wants to quit the killing fields but the only exit available is death.

Like in Seher, Kaushik is trying to create a damning portrait of the system. Everyone, from the minister to Chamku, is a pawn in this vast network of money and power. Bobby Deol as a Naxalite requires serious suspension of disbelief but with impassive eyes and grim mouth, he strives hard to make it convincing. But both Kaushik and Deol are hobbled by the screenplay. The plot movement is jerky, the characters are half-baked and the pace is slowed down by unnecessary songs, including an inexplicable item number.
Beyond a point, the incessant violence becomes predictable and tiresome. Chamku had the potential to be an insightful movie about a brutal system but the film manages to be only intermittently engaging. This is strictly average fare.

Source : NDTV Movies

Kalpana Morparia has decided to end her 33-year-old association with ICICI Bank, the country’s second largest lender, and is set to join JP Morgan. In a statement this evening, ICICI Bank said Morparia, who was the group’s vice-chair for insurance, securities and asset management and the chief strategy and communications officer, is leaving to pursue other opportunities. A news agency said Morparia will head JP Morgan’s India operations.

“I will miss ICICI Bank. It is a part of me and I have worked here for 33 years. But we must move on,” Morparia told Business Standard.

She added: “The times are not really that challenging, on the contrary, they are very exciting.” JP Morgan could not be reached for comment.

In 1975, Morparia started her career in the legal department of ICICI, the erstwhile development finance institution, and rose to become a director on the company’s board in 2001. She continued as a wholetime director till the last year and was the bank’s joint managing director.

In her present role, which she assumed in May 2007, Morparia was to head the group’s holding company that has not taken off so far. The holding company was to have the asset management company and the insurance ventures under its ambit, but it first ran into trouble with the Foreign Investment Promotion Board and subsequently with the central bank.

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama will deliver the biggest speech of his life tonight, as he makes history by accepting the Democratic Party's nomination to become the first African American candidate for president on a major party ticket. 45 years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. declared, "I Have a Dream," Obama will be the focus of an audience of 75,000 in Denver and millions around the world.
The Illinois Senator will cap his party's 4-day convention, a gathering that stressed unity, change, and hope for the future - all key tenants of Obama's campaign. There was some concern at the convention regarding the lingering divisions in the Democratic Party following the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the primary by Barack Obama. However, the New York Senator made her support for Obama clear, erasing much of the tension Tuesday.
Wednesday evening, with the help of a plea from his former rival, Barack Obama officially clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.
Former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., took to the floor of the Democratic National Convention and offered a motion to nominate Obama by acclamation, ending a traditional roll call of states that started earlier in the afternoon.
"With eyes firmly fixed on the future, in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory, with faith in our party and our country, lets declare together with one voice, right here, right now that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president," Clinton said.

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Canada's Pacific coast west of Vancouver Island early Thursday, said the U.S. Geological Survey.
The epicenter of the quake was located to be about 95 miles west-southwest of Port Hardy, and about 293 miles west-northwest of Vancouver, at a depth of 6.2 miles, the agency said.
Canadian authorities said that the quake struck too far off land to cause any damages or causalities, and added that it was the latest in a series of 15 coastal tremors since Monday.
"These earthquakes are too far offshore to be felt on land and too small to generate a tsunami," Natural Resources Canada said.

Source : RTT News

Internet giant Google today launched its new web tool Google Map Maker in India, which was conceived and developed by the Indian engineering team.

Google Map Maker allows users to add or edit features, such as roads, businesses, parks, schools, apartment buildings and localities among others. Users can also add detailed information about these locations and this user- created geographical content is updated and made visible immediately to all other users.

Commenting on the launch Lalitesh Katragadda,  Software Engineer and Creator of Google Map Maker said, “Google Map Maker solves an inherent need especially for countries such as ours where maps data is sparse. This product embodies our passion to empower people everywhere, to share knowledge of the places they know best by creating maps.”

Other than India, Google Map Maker is available in 57 countries in Asia, the Island Nations, and the Caribbean.

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Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, who became an international celeb following her success in the UK-based reality show Big Brother, has revealed that she plans to marry her year-long boyfriend Raj Kundra in another year and a half.
Asked to comment on her relationship and whether marriage is on the cards, Shilpa told The LondonNews , "I normally don't talk about my personal life, but his name is Raj Kundra. We met a year ago."
"For the next 18 months, I've got my hands full with work, so I can't really think of marriage yet but, after that, I definitely want it to culminate in marriage. And, of course, I'm dying to have a family - at least two children," she said.
Shilpa, who will be seen in a two-minute sequence in the 22nd James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace said she will wrap up the Hollywood assignment and other projects she has on hand before getting married.
She will be seen portraying an Indian woman in the Hollywood film starring Daniel Craig and Mathieu Amalric directed by Marc Forster.
At present, Shilpa is also hosting Bigg Boss , the Indian version of Big Brother .

Raj Kundra Biography :

He is he CEO of London based UK Tradecorp. His first venture on Bollywood would be under the aegis of Velocity Entertainments.

And this sight must have been widened when Shilpa Shetty came into his life. He was once quoted as saying, “”The success of films like Bend It Like Beckham and Monsoon Wedding is a clear indicator that this genre of films has left a deep impact.”

27-year old Kundra, a self made millionaire, left his studies very early and at 21 years of age started a fashion company called RK Collections Ltd, which imported luxury clothing to fashion houses in London including Christian Dior, Joseph & Escada.

The UK Tradecorp Ltd. is a thriving multi-million pounds export company based in London, which deals mainly with electrical goods and has made inroads in to worldwide markets.

 

 

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32 year old Dede lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children, trying to care for them. Dede, a former fisherman, has an extraordinary skin condition: he has root like structures growing out of his body - branches that can grow up to 5cm a year and which protrude from his hands and feet, and welts covering his whole body.

He is known locally as ‘Tree Man’ and his condition has baffled local doctors for 20 years. In an attempt to earn a living to support his family, he is part of a circus troupe, displaying his Tree Man limbs along with others afflicted with skin deformities in ‘freak’ shows.

Dr Anthony Gaspari, a world expert in skin conditions from the University of Maryland travels to Indonesia to attempt to diagnosis Dede’s mysterious condition. He takes skin samples for biopsies back in the USA. What will he discover?

We go on an intimate journey with the extraordinary Dede,

as he tries to eek out a living in a circus troupe to support his family, and as he is given medical help by Dr Gaspari. The identification and possible cure of his condition, could change his whole life. 

Half way across the world, in Romania, farmer Ion Toader is discovered to have a similar extraordinary ‘Tree Man’ condition, with growths all over his hands. He has not been able to drive a tractor for five years. A Romanian surgeon offers to give him an operation to remove his growths.

Will it be successful, and how will it change Ion’s life?

Source : Discovery Channel

Kevin Duckworth, 44, a two-time NBA All-Star who starred on Western Conference Championship teams in Portland in 1990 and 1992, passed away Monday evening in Gleneden Beach, Oregon.  A member of the Trail Blazers from 1986-93, the 7-footer - affectionately known to Trail Blazers fans simply as "Duck" - also played for San Antonio, Washington, Milwaukee and the Los Angeles Clippers during his 11-year NBA career.
"Today is an extremely sad day for the Trail Blazers family," Trail Blazers President Larry Miller said. "Kevin will be remembered by fans as one of the most popular and recognizable players to ever wear the Blazers uniform, but to people who knew him, he'll be remembered as one of the warmest and biggest-hearted."

Duckworth remained in the Portland area after his playing career ended, where he was an avid fisherman & outdoorsman, and a skilled carpenter. He was on the Oregon Coast representing the Trail Blazers as a Heritage Ambassador on the team's 19-city Statewide Summer Tour. The cause of his death is unknown, and will be determined by a Lincoln County Medical Examiner. A second-round draft pick of the San Antonio Spurs out of Eastern Illinois University in 1986, Duckworth was only 14 games into his NBA career when he was acquired by the Trail Blazers from San Antonio in exchange for Walter Berry.

One season later, the 7-foot center was thrust into the spotlight because of injuries to Steve Johnson and Sam Bowie. Duckworth responded by averaging 15.8 points and 7.4 rebounds per game, establishing himself as a pivot presence instrumental in Portland’s emergence as one of the NBA's dominant teams. Duckworth remains the 10th leading scorer (7,188) and rebounder (3,327) in Trail Blazers history, compiling averages of 13.6 points and 6.3 rebounds in 527 games with Portland. During his tenure, Trail Blazers teams compiled a record of 356-193 (.648). In 684 career NBA games, Duckworth scored 8,085 points (11.8 ppg), grabbed 3,945 rebounds (5.8 rpg) and shot 46.8 percent from the field.

“This is a devastating loss,” said Traci Rose, Trail Blazers Vice President of Community Relations. “To this day, Duck is adored throughout this state and remains a brother to his teammates and to Trail Blazers staff. We will forever miss our beloved 00.” 

Dave Freeman, co-author of the travel guide 100 Things to Do Before You Die, has died at age 47 after hitting his head in a fall at his home, according to the Associated Press. Freeman died Aug. 17 after the fall at his Venice home, his father, Roy Freeman, told the Los Angeles Times on Monday.

An advertising agency executive, Freeman co-wrote the 1999 book subtitled Travel Events You Just Can’t Miss with Neil Teplica.

Freeman’s relatives said he visited about half the places on his list before he died. The book’s recommendations ranged from attending the Academy Awards to taking a voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti.

The book's recommendations ranged from the obvious — attending the Academy Awards and running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain — to the more obscure — taking a voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti and "land diving" on the Island of Vanuatu, which Freeman once called "the original bungee jumping."

It included goofy graphics with each entry, indicating that some activities were "down and dirty," and others "grandma friendly."

The success of "100 Things" inspired dozens of like-minded books, with titles such as "100 Things Project Managers Should Do Before They Die" and "100 Things Cowboys Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die."

Freeman graduated from the University of Southern California in 1983, briefly working for an ad agency in Newport Beach before moving to New York to work for Grey Advertising.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Freeman watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center from his apartment just blocks away. He moved back to Southern California to be closer to his family.

Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi on Tuesday launched his political party Praja Rajyam (People's Rule) and said social justice would be its goal. "It will be a democratic and secular party. It will be people's party, born from the hearts of people. It will be a party for backward classes, farmers, workers, women and youth," he said, addressing thousands gathered for the launch in Tirupati.

"The party will work for development, modernisation and industrial revolution. Its goal will be santosh and ananda (contentment and happiness) of Andhra Pradesh," he said amid loud cheers from an estimated million people gathered from across Andhra Pradesh.

Tirupathi crowded with Chiru Fans

The temple town is teeming with huge crowds, including a large number of physically challenged and women fans of the actor. Slogans of 'Jai Chiranjeeva' rent the air as the thousands of fans stepped off at the railway station and bus stops. Hotels, lodges, guest houses and function halls have been booked as well.

The railways have operated 18 special trains while state-owned Road Transport Corporation is running 1,500 buses. Thousands of private vehicles are also ferrying Chiranjeevi's fans from different parts of the state. The majority of the people have come from coastal Andhra as the actor hails from the region.

The town is decked up with huge cutouts of the actor and banners hailing his entry into politics. Hoardings showing the actor in different moods have been erected on every road.

Chiru, who turned 53 last Friday, has bid adieu to his three-decade film career and has decided to dedicate his life to serve the poor and the needy. It is in this context that he decided to launch the party on Aug 26, the birth anniversary of Mother Teresa.

Chiru's party is expected to emerge as a major political force in the state. His fans see him as the next chief minister and feel he would emerge as powerful as matinee idol NT Rama Rao, who changed the course of Andhra politics by coming to power within nine months after launching the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 1982.

 

The cast for Season 7 of "Dancing with the Stars" was announced this morning on ABC's "Good Morning" with a few surprises. Mainly, reality TV celebutante Kim Kardashian -- who had been rumored for days to be on the show -- actually suffered an injury (she cut her foot on Sunday night, but it was not severe enough to keep her out of the competition.)

"I will be able to dance," she proclaimed! Whew, wouldn't want to disappoint the male viewership.

Here is the list:

Kim Kardashian, reality TV star

Cloris Leachman, Oscar-winning actress

Maurice Greene, Olympic sprinter,

Lance Bass, former N' Sync star

Rocco DiSpirito, TV chef

Warren Sapp, NFL star

Misty May-Treanor, Olympic beach volleyballer

Toni Braxton, Grammy award-winning R&B star

Cody Linley, that cute kid from "Hannah Montana" show

Ted McGinley, veteran actor (who I hated on "Happy Days")

Brooke Burke, actress/TV personality

Jeffrey Ross, celebrity roaster and comedian

Susan Lucci, "All My Children" star

"Dancing with the Stars" premieres at 8 p.m. Sept. 22 on ABC-TV, followed by a performance show on Sept. 23 and the first results show on Sept. 24.

Grammy-Nominated songwriter Kara DioGuardi has joined American Idol as a fourth judge.  She will sit alongside Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson at the judges' table and use her background as an award-winning songwriter and producer to praise or critique the wannabe hopefuls throughout the competition.  The eighth season of American Idol premieres January 2009 on FOX.

"We are turning the heat up on Idol this year and are thrilled to welcome Kara to the judges' table," said creator and executive producer Simon Fuller.  "She is a smart, sassy lady, and one of America's most successful songwriters.  We know she will bring a new level of energy and excitement to the show."

"We had originally intended for American Idol to have four judges," said executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz. "We've seen from our international series that having a fourth judge creates a dynamic that benefits both the contestants and the viewers."

Mike Darnell, President, alternative Programming of FOX, added, "For the past seven seasons, Paula has had to endure the experience of being the only woman at the judges' table.  She's been as an island of consideration and gentle criticism between Randy and Simon, offering her invaluable expertise as a performer and No. 1 artist to the thousands who have competed on American Idol.  With Kara by her side, Paula finally has some back-up and now there is going to be a lot more 'girl power' on the show."

One of the industry's most sought after songwriters and producers, DioGuardi's songs have appeared on more than 100 million records.  Her songs have been recorded by Grammy award-winning artists including Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Santana and Pink.  Scores of major recording artists including Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, Pussycat Dolls, Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, Natasha Bedingfield, Jewel, Ashley Tisdale, Katharine McPhee, Taylor Hicks, Bo Bice, Clay Aiken, Ashlee Simpson, Hilary Duff, Jessica Simpson, Kylie Minogue, Enrique Iglesias, Nick Lachey and Marc Anthony have also released DioGuardi's songs.

Over the last four years, she has been awarded 10 BMI Pop Awards for having written the most performed songs on radio.  From her catalog of several hundred songs, over 264 have been released on major labels worldwide; and over 165 have appeared on multi-platinum selling albums.  DioGuardi co-owns Arthous Entertainment, where she develops and mentors fellow hit writers, producers and artists.

Source: The Associated Press

 

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Rajeev [Sudeep], a successful construction engineer, with a loving wife and two children, is an atheist to the core. He scowls at people who believe in the dark forces, till one day when an evil is let loose in his happy home, which threatens to destroy his family and shake up the very foundations of his convictions and beliefs.

Howard Hughes Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (24 December 1905 – 5 April 1976) was an American aviator, industrialist, film producer/director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained fame in the late 1920s as a maverick film producer, making big budget and often controversial films like Hell's Angels, Scarface, and The Outlaw. As an aviator, Hughes set multiple world air-speed records (for which he won many awards, including the Congressional Gold Medal), built the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 "Spruce Goose" aircraft, and acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines. Despite his contributions to aeronautics and his other professional achievements, Hughes is perhaps most widely remembered for his highly-publicized descent into madness in later life. Nonetheless, Hughes' legacy is still visible through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and he remains one of the most influential aviators in American history.

Read full biography of Howard Hughes at Famous Texans Website
Source : Wikipedia

Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues.

Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first
Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.BarackObama.com. Spread the
word!

Obama announced the pick on his Web site with a photo of the two men and an appeal for donations. A text message went out shortly afterward that said, "Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee."



Biden, 65, has twice sought the White House, and is a Catholic with blue-collar roots, a generally liberal voting record and a reputation as a long-winded orator.



Across more than 30 years in the Senate, he has served at various times not only as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee but also as head of the Judiciary Committee, with its jurisdiction over anti-crime legislation, Supreme Court nominees and Constitutional issues.
In selecting Biden, Obama passed over several other potential running mates, none more prominent than former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, his tenacious rival in dozens of primaries and caucuses. Read the complete story on Huffington Post.





Joe Biden: Profile


Joseph Biden, the 65-year-old Delaware senator has, by all accounts, a superlative resumé.
Biden's leadership of the foreign relations committee is expected to benefit Democrats during a presidential race that could be decided as much by Iran, Iraq and Russia as by the US.
His son is scheduled for a deployment to Iraq this year, and he has a palpable affection for Barack Obama.
Biden, first elected at the age of 30, is a demonstrably skilled debater. Washington has produced few sparkling wits, but he is one of them.



His long history in Washington also risks undermining Obama's message of "change".
Biden, who dropped out of the presidential race in Iowa in January, is of Irish Catholic heritage but is in favour of abortion rights, a key issue in US elections. He originally voted to authorise the war in Iraq, but has since become a persistent critic of the Bush administration's policies there.
Born into a working class family in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 20 1942, Biden is not a household name but was arguably the most well-known of those being considered for the vice presidency by Obama.



Biden married Neilia Hunter in 1966, and the couple had three children. His wife and 13-month-old daughter. Naomi. died in a car accident in December 1972, shortly after he was first elected to the Senate.



His two sons, Joseph R Biden III and Robert Hunter, were seriously injured, but Biden was persuaded not to resign to look after them and was sworn into office from their bedside. Both made full recoveries.



In 1977, he married Jill Tracy Jacobs, with whom he has a daughter, Ashley. Biden is currently serving his sixth term as a member of the Democratic Party. He has served for the sixth-longest period among current senators, and is Delaware's longest-serving senato.


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Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution--and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of the French Revolution, sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. Paine paid the price for his principles: he was outlawed in Britain, narrowly escaped execution in France, and was vilified as an atheist and a Jacobin on his return to America.

Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.

The new edition of "Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings" which is available on Google books and is published by Oxford University press contains the complete texts of both Rights of Man and Common Sense, as well as six other powerfully political writings--American Crisis I, American Crisis XIII, Agrarian Justice, Letter to Jefferson, Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation, and Dissertation on the First Principles of Government--all of which illustrate why Paine's ideas still resonate in the modern welfare states of today.
For can read the Preview of Thomas Paine's Common Sense on Google Books.

Plot of "Common Sense"

Paine begins by proposing to his readers that they have the right to question the King of England because his policies affect their lives. Paine emphasizes that people should question ideas even if they have been long accepted as true, and that the concerns of the colonies will prove to be universal concerns as they involve oppression and liberty, tyranny and freedom. He concludes by establishing that his interests have not been compromised by any political party but are only focused on a reasonable argument.

Read Common Sense (1776)
Introduction to the Third Edition
Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution
Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
Of the Present Ability of America: with some Miscellaneous Reflections
Appendix to the Third Edition
The Full Work on One Page

Works of Thomas Paine
• Common Sense (1776)
• The Crisis (1776-77)
• The Rights of Man (1791-92)
• Age of Reason (1794, 1796)

Texas rep. chef Edwards confirms to CNN that Barack Obama's presedential campaign has vetted him for the No. 2 spot on the Democratic Presidential ticket. Edwards also told CNN Obama has not spoken to him in recent days about his VP choice.

An experimental aircraft crashed into a house shortly after takeoff Friday, killing the pilot and two people inside the home, authorities said.

The pilot of the home-built plane radioed that he was in trouble shortly after taking off from the North Las Vegas Airport, said Ian Gregor, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman in Hawthorne, Calif.
"He said he was unable to gain altitude and was going down," Gregor said.
Firefighters quickly doused an intense fire in the single-family home in a neighborhood southeast of a main runway at the airport.
The pilot and one resident of the house died in the 6:28 a.m. crash, and another person in the house died after being taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas, said a deputy fire chief, Kevin Brame.
The names of the dead were not immediately released.
Gregor characterized the rear-propeller Velocity 173 RG aircraft as "experimental," and said it can be built from a kit. FAA records showed the aircraft was certified for flight in 2002, he said, and was owned by a Las Vegas resident. The name of the owner was not released.
Gregor said FAA and National Transportation Safety Board investigators were traveling to North Las Vegas to investigate the crash.
North Las Vegas Airport is the second-busiest airport in Nevada after McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, according to the airport's Web site. It's a busy hub for small planes and jets, and serves as a base for sightseeing flights to the Grand Canyon and other attractions.
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