Zhang Ruifang is 100 years old.Last year a horn began growing on her forehead

Zhang Ruifang is 100 years old.Last year a horn began growing on her forehead.
It doesnt cause any pain,
but looks very strange.

HOW SAFE BRAND NEW TATA NANO CARS ( INDIA)

3 pm: Satish Sawant, an insurance agent, collected his brand new Nano from a showroom in Prabhadevi, and headed home, dreaming of showing off his first car to his family at LIC Colony, Mulund (W).
3.45 pm: The car burst into flames at Eastern Express Highway. Sawant jumped to safety.
Sawant had spent Rs 2.4 lakh on the silver Nano (MH03 AW 913), which he had got fitted with an A/C and a power steering.
As Sawant cannot drive, the Concorde Motors showroom provided him with a driver to take him home safely.
There was not much afternoon traffic on the Eastern Express Highway, it being a Sunday afternoon. Sawant managed to cross Bhandup in less than 40 minutes. Around 3.45 pm, he reached Navghar Signal on the Eastern Express Highway. Suddenly, a motorcycle overtook him, signalling him to look behind.
As he turned to see what the biker was pointing at, he was alarmed to see the rear of the car in flames.
Sawant and the driver leapt out of the burning car. In no time, the car was engulfed in flames. Even a tree on the side of the highway was singed.
A shaken Sawant said, "I have no idea what happened. A motorcycle rider overtook me and told me that the vehicle was on fire. The engine was behind me and I did not realise that the car was on fire," said Sawant.
A fire tender rushed to the scene and doused the fire. The Navghar police (Mulund E) have registered a case yesterday evening.

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7 common 3-D TV questions

KIM KOMANDO SAYS :
You saw Avatar and Alice in Wonderland come to life in 3-D at the theater. Soon, you'll be able to enjoy a high-quality 3-D experience at home.
But be forewarned: This is an evolving technology. Your equipment could be obsolete sooner than you expect.

Manufacturers are starting to roll out 3-D televisions and Blu-ray Disc players. However, we are very early in this game. There are no quality 3-D broadcasts, although ESPN plans them in June. On DVD, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is due out soon. That's it for selection.


TECH TIPS: Ask Kim

When I say quality, I'm talking about 3-D Blu-ray technology. This was used in Avatar and Alice in Wonderland. But home users will have better glasses. So home technology will be as good as — or even better than — the theater experience.

Some home 3-D is available today through current equipment. For that, you wear colored glasses. It's a passive system, and it's second-rate.

Personally, I wouldn't jump into 3-D today. But some people just can't wait. So, learn the basics, at least. Store clerks may not understand the technology differences.

Here's what you need for an active, 3-D Blu-ray setup.

Can I use my current TV?

Um, no. You'll have to buy a new 3-D television. In fact, if you bought a 3-D-ready TV in recent years, you're not ready. You'll still need a Mitsubishi 3-DC-1000 converter box. The technology has evolved. The converter boxes run about $100.

Panasonic and Samsung are selling 3-D TVs today that work without converters. They also show 2-D (today's current standard) television. No glasses are required for 2-D.

Expect to pay about 15% more for 3-D over a comparable 2-D television.

Do I need to wear glasses?

Yes. Without glasses, the picture will look blurred. The TVs rapidly alternate two images — one for each eye.

Shutters within the glasses open and close in synchronization with the television. This is the "active" part of 3-D. The alternating images create the illusion of depth.

The glasses work wirelessly and require batteries. Glasses should be matched to the television brand. (Theaters use passive, colored glasses, not shutters. Colored glasses are much, much cheaper, though not as effective.)

Do I need a new Blu-ray player?

With one exception, current Blu-ray players can't handle active 3-D content. However, 3-D players can display 2-D (standard) discs. (Are these movies now or what?) So, you'll only need one player.

The exception will be the Sony PlayStation 3. Its firmware will be updated in June. Then, it will play active 3-D.

Other manufacturers could release firmware updates for current Blu-ray players. However, none have announced such plans.

What else will I need?

Cables. The high-definition standard cable is HDMI. There are several versions; any will work in most cases. However, 3-D includes much more data, and requires HDMI 1.4 cables.

If you're using an audio-video receiver, you may need one with 3-D pass-through capabilities. Some older receivers could work, although synchronizing video and audio can be a problem.

Cable and satellite customers will probably need new set-top boxes for 3-D broadcasts.

Is 3-D equipment expensive?

You'll pay an extra $500 or so for the TV and Blu-ray player. HDMI 3-D pass-through receivers start around $300.

You'll need glasses for everyone in the family. They're $100 to $150 per pair. Manufacturers may include glasses with 3-D TVs.

What content is available?

About 20 3-D titles will be released in 2010. The Shrek series will be available later this year. Avatar may be available by year's end. Titanic isn't due out in 3-D until 2012.

ESPN 3D launches in June. In its first year, it will air at least 85 events. Sony, Discover and IMAX will launch a dedicated channel next year.

Some manufacturers say their players can convert 2-D movies to 3-D. Samsung, Sony and Toshiba make this claim. The quality of the conversion remains to be seen.

What else should I know?

People with stereo blindness will not be able to see 3-D. Content will appear in 2-D. They may experience eye fatigue and headaches.

Stereo blindness is relatively uncommon. If you've never watched a 3-D movie, watch a demonstration in a store. Find out if you have stereo blindness before buying.

Kim Komando hosts the nation's largest talk radio show about computers and the Internet. To get the podcast or find the station nearest you, visit www.komando.com/listen. To subscribe to Kim's free e-mail newsletters, sign up at www.komando.com/newsletters. Contact her at gnstech@gannett.com.

martini is certainly more than a drink

Can you imagine James Bond asking for a chocolate butterscotch martini? Or an apple martini, lemon drop martini or prickly pear martini?
Unlikely for the suave superspy.
A martini is certainly more than a drink. It's long been an embodiment of style and sophistication — and it's popular again. It's often served with this sort of unorthodox twist.
Putting a drink in a long-stemmed V-shaped glass does not make it a martini. A martini is this: gin and dry vermouth. And maybe an olive or two. Or a twist of lemon peel. It is ice cold and crystal clear, never green or pink. I don't begrudge anyone a chocolate-flavored vodka drink. Just don't call it a martini.

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A martini from Washington, D.C.'s Bombay Club.
The Perfect Martini
Bonny Wolf's Recipe
I like a martini with about a 4 to 1/2 ratio of gin to vermouth. I love the sharp juniper flavor of gin. Martini maven Bernard DeVoto wrote that the perfect ratio was 3.7 to one.
4 ounces London dry gin
1/2 ounce French vermouth
2-3 large green olives
Pour gin and vermouth into a shaker filled with ice. Shake for one minute, then strain into a V-shaped cocktail glass. Garnish with olives on a martini pick.

History
There are several stories about where the martini got its name. They include the claims that it was named for Martini & Rossi vermouth or for the Martini & Henry rifle used by the British army in the late 1800s (both had a strong kick).
I like the story that in 1874, a miner plopped a bag of gold nuggets down on a bar in Martinez, Calif., and asked the bartender to make him something special. The bartender mixed up what he called a Martinez cocktail. The city has put up a brass plaque identifying itself as the birthplace of the martini.

Shaken Or Stirred?
This is a raging controversy among martini drinkers. James Bond insisted on shaken, not stirred. Stirring, he said, bruises the gin. British writer W. Somerset Maugham, on the other hand, said, "Martinis should always be stirred, not shaken, so that the molecules lie sensuously on top of one another."
The Martini, by Barnaby Conrad III, in which many of these facts were found, is a delightful, illustrated history of the martini.
The martini is an icon. H.L. Mencken called it "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet."
Recipes for the martini appear as early as an 1882 bartender's manual, although in addition to gin and vermouth, that concoction called for sweet syrup. Over the years, the martini got drier and drier. Martinis were popular in Prohibition speak-easies, probably because it was easier to make gin in a bathtub than whisky.
Ever after, the martini was the height of urbanity.
"The martini is a city dweller, a metropolitan," the American writer Bernard DeVoto wrote. "It is not to be drunk beside a mountain stream or anywhere else in the wilds."
Think Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and art deco furnishings in wood-paneled bars. The martini was the drink to accompany witty repartee at the Algonquin roundtable. What Fred Astaire — in white tie and tails — drank just before he took Ginger Rogers to the dance floor.
A martini defined cool and modern. The 1950s jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond said he wanted the sound of a dry martini.
The TV show Mad Men is set around the same time Desmond composed the Dave Brubeck Quartet's hit "Take Five." Mad Men is careful with period details and gets the martini-style cool just right. Many of the characters drink martinis at bars, cocktail parties or when they get off the train from Manhattan.
Mad Men also shows the downside of the three-martini lunch: car crashes, failed marriages, lost jobs.
The martini's star faded in the late 1960s and '70s with opposition to expense account dining, health food stores gaining on liquor stores and the popularity of other mind-altering substances.
Classic cocktails made a comeback in the 1980s, but things began to run amok. Frou-frou-tinis featured flavored vodka or fruit purees. Even bacon bits have become common in raucous bars with loud music.
Which is all wrong for the drink that writer E.B. White called the elixir of quietude

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