NASA Scientists: Alien life Likely exists

Alien life likely exists, we just may not have been looking in the right forms. That announcement was made Thursday by NASA.

Scientists say they have always thought phosphorous was found in every living thing, but for the last two years they have been studying near Yosemite National Park. They found a type of bacteria that thrives by replacing phosphorous with the toxic chemical arsenic. We still don’t know what might make a habitable environment on another planet or a satellite of another planet . We have to increasingly broaden our perspective, Pam Conrad of NASA said.

Scientists say this is a huge development and will change the way we look for life. It could even mean new missions to Titan, the largest moon of Saturn which is known for having traces of arsenic.

Nicki Minaj Right Thru Me Video

Nicki Minaj Right Thru Me Video, Nicki Minaj is fighting with her man in a music video for her new single “Right Thru Me”. The female rapper explodes with rage when he accuses her of making big drama. As everything gets tense, he threatens to leave but Minaj begs him to stay. From lashing one another with harsh words, now they make it up by touching each other sensually.

The music video is directed by Diane Martel and features model Willy Monfret playing Minaj’s love interest. “The concept of the video is boy-and-girl relationship drama, you know, all of the intimate stuff as well as the fighting as well as the self-reflecting type stuff,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “It’s basically just a love story told from the perspective of a very hard girl who doesn’t want to give in but she has to.”

Minaj is expected to include “Right Thru Me” in her debut album “Pink Friday” which is due November 22 in the United States. “The song to me is very, very personal. I haven’t spoken about an authentic relationship since I’ve come out, so this is my first time where I’m speaking about something very, very authentic that everyone in the world can relate to,” she stated.

Academic properties for participants at 12th Mumbai Film Festival

The 12th Mumbai Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image is set to offer great Academic properties to the participants:

A master class in Direction and another on performance in films from the director’s perspective by Jane Campion, one on direction and another one on performance from the perspective of director
Round Table by Oliver Stone with Indian filmmakers
A panel discussion “Emerging Directors’ moderated by Sooni Taraporvala with
Nandita Das, Kiran Rao, Anusha Rizvi, and others as panelists

Seminar on Japanese Cinema moderated by Aruna Vasudev
Daily open forum conducted by Indian Independent Filmmakers Worldwide
Daily press conferences and interviews .

Rahman reworks on Common Wealth Games Anthem

Rahman’s much awaited theme song for the CWG – ‘Jiyo Utho Badho Jeeto’ – when released was showered with criticism from every quarter whatsoever. Even the CWG committee didn’t spare it. Rahman was then asked to be rework on the track. The good news is that the tweaking and layering has been done.

When asked by the committee to rework on the song, Mehboob who penned the words for the anthem, took the criticism to heart. He went all out to defend his work as he exclaimed that it was an anthem and not some Bollywood song. He also made a point in telling everyone that Rahman’s songs take time to catch on. Mehboob and Rahman worked on the anthem for almost six months before its first release.

To give the anthem a fresher perspective, Rahman has now added layers to it along with some folk instruments making it more peppy, short and tight. This time on, a music video will also be released featuring some of the famed Indian sports stars showcasing the achievements of India as a country.

Hope the new version of the song does the trick.

Tech, media executives debate free vs. paid

ASPEN: Top technology and media executives wrapped up a three-day conference here during which they grappled with — and left unresolved — the question of whether readers will pay for news online.

Firmly in the paid camp in the “paid vs. free” debate was News Corp.”s head of digital operations Jon Miller who said charging online readers is a notion that has been “accepted at a variety of levels.”

“It”s more about how it gets done,” Miller told participants in the Fortune Brainstorm Tech event which ended on Saturday in this Colorado ski resort.

With newspapers and magazines facing competition from free content on the
Web and declining circulation and print advertising revenue, Rupert Murdoch”s News Corp. has been leading the charge to get newspaper readers to pay online.

The Wall Street Journal, a News Corp. title, is currently the only major US newspaper to charge readers for full access to its website and one of the few to buck the trend of eroding circulation.

Another News Corp. paper, Britain”s The Times, erected a pay wall around its website at the beginning of July and Murdoch has said he will eventually do the same at all of the newspapers in his vast stable.

Miller said charging readers is “an idea whose time has come,” but others disagreed including Jimmy Pitaro, Yahoo!”s vice president for media.

“We firmly believe that free is the future,” said Pitaro, whose Yahoo! News is one of the most popular news destinations on the Web.

“The feeling is that when other people are charging they”re kind of driving people to free alternatives,” the Yahoo! executive said.

Pitaro said there were some publications with very strong brands or niche audiences that could get away with charging and cited The Wall Street Journal, which Miller said has attracted more than one million digital subscribers.

Brian Sugar, founder and chief executive of Sugar Inc., which operates a series of sites geared towards women including PopSugar.com and ShopStyle.com, said he had no plans to charge and invited his rivals to do so.

“We love paid… for our competitors,” he said.

“We believe Conde Nast, Time, People, In Style, Glamour — all of them should charge because we”re going to maintain our content as free,” he said.

“We look at our content as a marketing vehicle to grow our audience.”

News Corp.”s Miller also said tablet computers such as Apple”s iPad offered great opportunities for the news industry to develop paid applications.

The iPad and other tablet computers being developed offer “very media rich experiences that I think do allow a re-set, perhaps a do-over for the media industry, a chance to get it right,” Miller said.

Sugar dismissed a belief in applications as a potential saviour for a traditional news industry he said was grasping at straws.

“For content publishers I think like every eight to 12 months there”s the new shiny object you can go to (advertising) agencies with, and I think apps for content companies are currently that,” Sugar said.

“They need something to hang their hat on and the hat is apps,” he said.

Trip Adler, co-founder and chief executive of Scribd, the social publishing and reading website, said charging for content might be possible “if there was a better payment infrastructure on the Web.”

“The current payment systems that work really well on the Web such as iTunes or the Kindle ecosystem have users” credit card numbers, a lot of user
loyalty and it”s really easy to make a purchase,” he said.

“If there was one pan-ecosystem for the entire Web and you could purchase any piece of content for say 25 cents, that I think would dramatically ncrease
sales on many of these websites,” he said.

Yahoo!”s Pitaro said he didn”t believe it would make much of a difference.

“Ease of payment is one component but from my perspective it doesn”t matter how easy it is to pay if your competition is free,” he said.

SHC dismisses plea against Zardari’s eligibility

KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) dismissed a constitutional petition regarding the eligibility of President Asif Ali Zardari on the plea that he wields immunity constitutionally, Geo News reported Wednesday.

A two-member SHC bench including Chief Justice Sarman Jalal Usmani and Justice Zahid heard the petition filed by Maulvi Iqbal Hyder.

The SHC said nobody can be declared as ineligible on the basis of pending cases and that the presidential election cannot be challenged in any court.

The petition pleaded the court to declare President Zardari as ineligible as the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) has lapsed leading Zardari’s election to go null and void.

Maulvi Iqbal said in his petition that the NRO was in effect when the nomination papers were filed; accordingly, the approval or rejection of the papers was not challenged; but, now the court has restored all the cases to October 5 position.

Therefore, all the nomination papers should be re-scrutinized in this perspective that no NRO exists today.

However, the court clarified to the petitioner the presidential election cannot be challenged in any court under Article-41(6) of the Constitution.

But, the petitioner responded that the Article is applicable on the post-election situation and he has raised the point of Zardari’s eligibility in pre-election position.

The court turned down his viewpoint and dismissed his petition.

Talking to media later on, Maulvi Iqbal Hyder said he would challenge this order in the apex court.

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Destabilization of democracy will not allowed: President Zardari

Islamabad, Pakistan:- The delegation of JUI, led by Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman met President Asif Ali Zardari.

President Zardari said on this occasion that nobody will be allowed to destabilize democracy. Country’s political and peace situation was also discussed in the meeting held at the Presidency. Zardari also said that PPP has always been a step ahead regarding democracy and will continue to do so. NRO was not presented in the parliament, keeping in mind the perspective of the allies, he added.

Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman said that JUI is an ally of the government and all the promises made by the government, will be fulfilled. A committee had been formed to solve the matters between both the parties and Dr. Baba Awan will be its convener. During the meeting, views were also exchanged upon the Waziristan operation and the internally displaced persons.

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Destabilization of democracy will not allowed: President Zardari was first posted on November 5, 2009 at 8:13 am.

Ahmadinejad urges US Obama to see Iran as a friend

Ahmadinejad urges US Obama to see Iran as a friend, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged President Barack Obama to see Iran as a potential friend instead of a threat ahead of addresses both leaders will give to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday.

The Iranian leader also said in an interview Tuesday that he expects “free and open” discussion of nuclear issues at a meeting next week with six world powers, but stressed that his country would not negotiate on its own nuclear plans.

He sought to open a wider nuclear dialogue with the West, and said the onus should be on the United States and other major nuclear powers to give up their weapons and to expand opportunities for all countries to make peaceful use of nuclear power.

Speaking to reporters and editors just hours after arriving in the United States, Ahmadinejad said he will seek a quick resolution to the case of three American hikers jailed in Iran.

He dismissed last week’s U.S. shift away from a planned long-range missile shield in Europe, meant to guard against an Iranian strike, as “a respectful way of buying out” Russian objections.

“I heard Mr. Obama saying the next threat is Iran. Iran is an opportunity for everyone,” Ahmadinejad said.

The Iranian leader said Obama is not the first U.S. president to believe Iran is a threat and said the president should read up on history “to see what the fate is of viewing these problems from this perspective.”

“Historically, whoever made friends with Iran saw a lot of opportunities,” Ahmadinejad said.

He reiterated explicitly that Iran is not building nuclear weapons.

“I hope that Mr. Obama will move in the direction of change,” Ahmadinejad said. At another point he said, “The sources of insecurity around the world need to be discussed.”

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Ahmadinejad urges US Obama to see Iran as a friend was first posted on September 23, 2009 at 4:24 pm.
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