Clint Eastwood The Man With No Name

Clint Eastwood The Man With No Name

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930, and he is an American film actor, director, producer, composer, and politician. He was first prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide (1959–1965). He begun to fame by playing the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns such as A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films such as Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool. These roles in the movides have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Even most of the acting styles and body gestures where imitated by other actors. The some of the most liked Clint Eastwood styles are the way he smokes the cigars, the shooting style and so on.

Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor for the work he made in the films Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. These films in particular, as well as others including Play Misty for Me, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Escape from Alcatraz, Tightrope, Pale Rider, Heartbreak Ridge, In the Line of Fire, The Bridges of Madison County, and Gran Torino, have all received commercial success and critical acclaim. 

Eastwood has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as Mystic River and Letters from Iwo Jima, he received Academy Award nominations, and Changeling. He has received considerable critical praise in France, including for several films which were not well received in the United States, and he has been awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal, and in 2007 the Légion d'honneur medal. In 2000, he was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.

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Jackie Chan The Kung Fu Master

Jackie Chan The Kung Fu Master

Jackie Chan is one of my favorite actor, he was born in Hong Kong on April 7th, 1954. He childhood name is Chan Kong-sang. Jackie learned kung fu from his childhood, and he took a job as the head cook at the American embassy in Australia when he was seven years old. Jackie learned martial arts, acrobatics, singing, and acting in school, where the school was meant to prepare boys for a life in the Peking Opera. Chinese opera is very different from any other kind of opera, since it includes singing, tumbling, and acrobatics as well as martial arts skills and acting. It was a very harsh and difficult life but Jackie had nowhere else to go, so he stayed.

Jackie made his acting debut at age eight in the Cantonese movie "Seven Little Valiant Fighters: Big and Little Wong Tin Bar." He later teamed with other opera students in a performance group called "The Seven Little Fortunes." Jackie worked as a stuntman and an extra in the Hong Kong film industry. Jackie was extraordinarily athletic and inventive, so he gained a reputation for being fearless in Hong Kong film industry and he was in demand too. He worked in a restaurant and on a construction site, and there he got the name "Jackie". A worker named Jack had trouble pronouncing "Kong-sang" and started calling Jackie "little Jack." That soon became “Jackie” and the name stuck.

Willie Chan worked in the Hong Kong movie industry and he was looking for someone to star in a new movie being made by Lo Wei, a famous Hong Kong producer/director. Willie had seen Jackie at work as a stuntman and had been impressed. Soon Jackie was on his way back to Hong Kong to star in "New Fist of Fury". Willie Chan took control over Jackie's career, but the movies that Jackie made for Lo Wei were not very successful.  Even Jackie Chan acted in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon as a side artist. Latter on that Jackie brought humor to martial arts movies; his first success was "Snake in Eagle's Shadow", that was followed by "Drunken Master" (another blockbuster) and Jackie's first ever directing job, "Fearless Hyena." All were big hits.

After a series of lukewarm receptions in the U.S., he returned to make Rumble in the Bronx, the movie that introduced Jackie to American audiences and secured him a place in their hearts (and their box office). Rumble was followed by the Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon series which put Jackie on the Hollywood  List. In recent years, Jackie's focus has shifted and he is trying new genres of film – fantasy, drama, romance – and is spending more and more time on his charity work. He takes his work as Ambassador for UNICEF/UNAIDS very seriously and spends all his spare time working tirelessly for children, the elderly, and those in need.

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Rotate a Recorded Video with Windows Live Movie Maker/You Tube

Rotate a Recorded Video with Windows Live Movie Maker/You Tube

Recently, I captured a video with my cell phone and played it  on my computer that time I noticed the video is rotated 90 degrees. Then I found the solution that the video can be rotated to 90 degrees and output of the video can be saved as a WMV file with Windows Live Movie Maker/Youtube.

Steps to follow in Windows Live Movie Maker:

1. Click on Add videos and photos on the Home tab, or drag and drop the video into the blank area on the right side of the application to add the video files to Windows Movie Maker.
2. Click on the Rotate right 90° or Rotate left 90° to rotate the video to your wish. Now the video is oriented properly.
3. Click the Movie Maker tab just to the left of the Home tab, and select the output settings to save and convert the video to WMV format. 
4. Click save to browse for a location to save the video and rename the output file.
5. A notification message is displayed when the file is complete.

Note: The above mentioned steps are for Windows 7 installed with Windows Live Movie Maker, if not installed the same will be available in the Windows Live suite that is available as a separate, free download for Windows 7 and Vista.

Steps to follow in Youtube:

1. Upload the video in the Youtube website.
2. Click the video manager in the user name icon.
3. Select the video you want to edit, and click Enhancement in the Edit drop-down menu.
4. Click Rotate Left or Rotate Right icon to rotate the video.
5. Click Save to save the edited video.

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The Sacred Ganga

The Sacred Ganga

River Ganga/Ganges, most sacred river by Hindus, starts at the snout of the Gangotri Glacier and the source of the Bhagirathi river. A river Ganga is 2525 kilometers long and it has been the lifeline of the entire stretch of the Ganga-Yamuna plains, with over 300 million dependents today, why is Ganga considered so sacred? What is the secret behind its water? The waters of Ganga by nature cleanses itself and even a single dip in the waters of the holy river cleanses away the sins of a person.


In India, the last rites of most of the Hindus are performed along the shores of Ganga, and thousands of human bodies are consigned to the holy Ganga river. During festival days millions of Hindus take bath in the river day. But stil there is no sign of contagious diseases spreading from person to person due to contact through the river water. 

Antibacterial Nature

A British physician tested the water of Ganga that bacterium Vibrio Cholerae which causes the deadly Cholera disease dies within three hours when placed in the waters of Ganga. 

Anti-putrefication

Another British physician noticed that the waters of Ganga when taken even from the dirtiest mouths remained fresh throughout the long journey.

Purifying dead

A French microbiologist was amazed of seeing that a few feet below the bodies of persons floating in the Ganga who had died of dysentery and cholera, where one would expect millions of germs, there were no germs at all!


Hindus had for thousands of years rightly believed that Ganga purifies the dead bodies, which is why probably the bodies of even those who died of infectious diseases were offered to this river for purification!

Recent Research

An Indian environmental engineer/professor of hydrology has spent a life time studying the amazing properties of Ganges. 


Finally he found that the remarkable self cleansing ability of Ganges is that Ganges water can able to reduce its biochemical oxygen demand levels much faster than other rivers! He says that the self-purifying quality of this river leads to oxygen levels that are 25 times higher than any other river in the world. The Ganges cleanses up suspended wastes 15 to 20 times faster when compared to other rivers!


It is observed that the water from the upper reaches of Ganga did not host mosquito breeding, and also prevented mosquito breeding in any water it was added to!


The major factors which give Ganges its unique ability are:

• An unknown factor called the Mystery Factor that gives the river ganga an unusual ability to retain dissolved oxygen from the atmosphere! and bacteriophage. 
• The high levels of oxygen in the waters of Ganga gives it the unique ability to remain fresh over a prolonged period of time. 

In other words, the water of river Ganga can be an alternative for using antibiotics to treat bacterial diseases! Ancient Indians who used the water of rivers like Ganga never required any antibiotics, for the very water they used was anti-bacterial in nature! This type of Bacteriophage Therapy has been suggested by many researchers, but rarely tried/tested or practised in the health industry.


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