Super Mario Galaxy, an innovative intergalactic quest.

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Super Mario Galaxy' is truly out of this world

Even with his world turned upside down, Mario somehow seems to shine.
Gaming's most recognizable face heads for the final frontier in the mesmerizing Super Mario Galaxy, an innovative intergalactic quest.

The plot kicks off with - surprise - the abduction of Princess Peach by Mario nemesis Bowser. In order to catch Bowser, Mario must collect a series of stars in various galaxies to traverse the universe in search of the princess.

Each galaxy is represented by planets Mario must conquer before he can advance. Upon completing a specific task on each planet, a launch star appears to blast you toward your next destination.

Planets are not as much worlds as they are quirky masses Mario romps around every which gravity-defying way imaginable, even running upside down underneath planets. Levels boast unique, fun themes including one based on a golf course and another on a beehive, in which Mario dons a bee suit.

Galaxy is moderately difficult. Most players of any age can enjoy. Coins are scattered generously throughout galaxies so you can replenish life easily.

Visually, this is perhaps the most stunning Mario title to date. The first time watching Mario soar through space was breathtaking. Each planet sports vibrant, colorful landscapes.

Part of the Mario franchise's appeal is the simplicity of its controls, which continues on the Wii. The nunchuk moves Mario, while the A button executes his signature jump. Shaking the remote sends Mario into a dizzying spin toward enemies.

As you advance, you'll not only collect coins and power-ups, but Star Bits, chunks of stars Mario can use to fire at opponents or feed other stars for rewards. Pointing to nearby Star Bits immediately adds them to your collection.

After a long absence, Super Mario brings back a two-player mode in the form of Co-Star mode. While one player controls Mario, the other can grab a remote to snag Star Bits, freeze opponents or help Mario execute huge jumps. It's a good avenue for non-experienced gamers and parents to join in on the action, but I don't see many experienced gamers finding an interest.

Nintendo's star has always shone brightly through his 20-plus years in gaming, and Super Mario Galaxy is another reminder of its brilliant luster.

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Mario tough to resist on Wii

Mario returns to his slimmer self for his Wii debut in Super Paper Mario, a light-hearted adventure filled with more depth than the two-dimension surface suggests. At first glance, Super Paper Mario appears like your standard side-scroller. Clever gameplay, however, mixed with RPG elements create yet another engaging journey for Nintendo's gaming icon.

Gaming rivals team up

Mario the plumber and Sonic the Hedgehog, rivals in the video game world for two decades, will team up for the first time in a game based on the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, due in stores this holiday season for Nintendo's Wii console and DS handheld system (prices not yet set), will also include other popular characters such as Luigi and Yoshi (from Nintendo's Mario games), as well as Knuckles and Tails (from the Sonic games), all competing in such summer Olympic events as running, swimming and table tennis.

Review: Wii's online offerings score The Nintendo GameCube might have been my sons' pride and joy for four years, but it was relegated to the kids' small television and not once did it earn a connection to our main family room TV.

Wii helps Nintendo year-end profits soar

Booming year-end sales of the wand-wielding Wii game console sent profit at Nintendo soaring 43% for the nine months ended December, the Japanese manufacturer of Pokemon and Super Mario games said Thursday.

'Pac-Man' is going digital
The latest game of the '70s and '80s to get digital is Pac-Man, which on Wednesday goes on Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade, which lets users digitally download and own the games. His arrival online shows how video gamemakers are following in the steps of record labels and movie studios by making past hits available online.

Classic video games make a comeback

Vintage consoles are plentiful on Internet auction sites. An annual "Classic Gaming Expo" convention is growing, moving to larger quarters this year. And companies are trying to cash in with repackaged editions of classics including the space fighter Defender and the pill-munching Pac-Man. .

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Space Sensors Reveal Air Pollution

Space Sensors Reveal Air Pollution Sources

Air pollution is becoming one of the biggest dangers for the future of the planet, causing premature deaths of humans and damaging flora and fauna. With their vantage point from space, satellites are the only way to carry out effective global measurements of air-polluting emissions and their transboundary movement.
Scientists and researchers from around the world gathered at ESRIN, ESA's Earth Observation Centre in Frascati, Italy, recently to discuss the contribution of satellite data in monitoring nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere and to present the latest results of their ongoing atmospheric research that includes identifying hotspots, analysing trends and monitoring the effectiveness of mitigation efforts.

All of the satellite data used by the participants was acquired through the TEMIS project, part of ESA's Data User Programme (DUP). The TEMIS Internet-based service offers near-real time data products, long-term data sets and forecasts from various satellite instruments related to tropospheric trace gas concentrations, aerosol and Ultra Violet radiation.

Emissions of gaseous pollutants have increased in India over the past two decades. According to Dr Sachin Ghude of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), rapid industrialisation, urbanisation and traffic growth are most likely responsible for the increase. Because of varying consumption patterns and growth rates, the distribution of emissions vary widely across India. In order to mitigate the causes of pollution, policy makers need to know the hardest hit regions.

Using nitrogen dioxide (NO2) data acquired from 1996 to 2006 by the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) instrument aboard ESA's ERS-2 satellite and the Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument aboard ESA's Envisat, Ghude was able to identify the major NO2 hotspots, quantify the trend over major industrial zones and identify the largest contributing regions.

"Nitrous oxide emissions over India is growing at an annual rate of 5.5 percent/year and the location of emission hot spots correlates well with the location of mega thermal power plants, mega cities, urban and industrial regions," Ghude said. "Data from the 11-year time series of GOME and SCIAMACHY provide valuable information to improve estimates of nitrogen dioxide emissions as well as to identify the source regions and to study the regional ozone chemistry in light of seasonal meteorology."

Because of the near-real time aspect of the TEMIS service, Yuxuan Wang, lecturer and research assistant at Harvard University, was able to obtain accurate measurements of the air quality over China during a traffic restriction using data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) instrument on NASA's Aura satellite.

Between 4 and 6 November 2006, 30 percent - or 800 000 - of Beijing's 2.82 million private vehicles were taken off the streets to facilitate organisation for the China-African summit and to perform a trial for the 2008 Olympic Games.

By comparing the satellite observations with ground measurements and a global chemical transport model, Wang and her colleagues learned that the model did not capture the full amount of decrease in NO2 over Beijing during the summit.

"Because the satellites witnessed this event, we could draw a quantitative analysis of how much reduction happened by using this independent dataset. We saw a 40 percent reduction in nitrogen dioxide emissions," Wang said.

"TEMIS offers near real time data, allowing me to see daily measurements over Beijing with about a 2-hour time lag. When our group knows about traffic restrictions, we just go to the TEMIS website, download the data from that day and see whether there is a reduction in emissions picked up by satellites," she continued. "TEMIS, which allows very easy and open data access, is a big contribution of ESA to the whole community, not only for the European users but across the world, especially for places without in situ measurements."

Simon Hales, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Otaga in New Zealand, is using satellite data from TEMIS to look at seasonal patterns of heart disease in New Zealand for the National Heart Foundation and to assess the global burden of disease related to air pollution.

"The big advantage of using satellite data from the point of view of public health is that it gives us spatially extensive coverage that we do not get any other way," he explained. "Because newer instruments like SCIAMACHY and OMI are able to approximate some of the vertical profiles of NO2, you have a better idea of what people are actually being exposed to on the ground."

By using NO2 satellite data and relating it to surface observations, Hales hopes to develop a model of the surface exposure levels, determine what the exposure levels mean in terms of public health implications and work out what the policy implications are for changing emission-releasing practices, such as reducing transport from motor vehicles.

The service providers are currently planning to expand the existing TEMIS service to monitor the transboundary and hemispheric movement of air pollution.

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For spies, 'Lust' isn't everything : Movie Lust -Caution,

Not just to embody but to act the throes of passion, with every inch of flesh exposed - that's what first-time movie actress Tang Wei does to the hilt, and way beyond the hilt, in Lust, Caution, Ang Lee's otherwise ponderous tale of intrigue in Japanese-controlled Shanghai during the Second World War.

Tang Wei brings a terrible and awe-inspiring purity to an impure character: the key performer in a patriotic theater cell that becomes an assassination unit for the Chinese Resistance. At its best, the film presents a nightmare case of a performer getting lost in her role. The target of her seduction, a married collaborator and secret service chief played by Tony Leung, takes charge of their sexual relationship in a repulsive rape.

But Tang Wei holds you, first with her character's willingness to eroticize anything, even rape, for the sake of her cause, and then with her reluctant but real lust. As this dangerous liaison expands, her bed becomes an arena for extreme variations on conquest, fear, desire, even love.
For about a quarter of an hour of this unendurably long movie, she and Leung stir up an amorous whirlpool. In the film's one minute of verbal brilliance, she pleads for help from her Resistance boss:

"He not only gets inside me, but he worms his way into my heart," she says with a bloodcurdling urgency. "I take him in like a slave. I play my part loyally, so I too can get inside him. And every time he hurts me until I bleed and scream ... before he feels alive. In the dark, only he knows it's all true. That's why I can torture him until he can't take it any longer, and I will keep going until I can't go anymore."

The rest of the film is so ceremonious and dull, it's as if Lee emerged from these sessions similarly spent. Expanding on Eileen Chang's 48-page short story of the same name, Lee wants to craft a variation on Hitchcock's great Notorious - an NC-17, morally ambiguous version in which there is no substitute for Cary Grant, and Ingrid Bergman's shady lady actually falls in love with Claude Rains' Nazi.

But Lee, always a plodder, lets the tension shrivel and the ardor go slack. His big ideas, like staging a horrendously clumsy fight to the death to reveal the horror of all violence, are old and lame - though to be fair, moviegoers have such short memories that they hailed David Cronenberg for similar would-be feats in Eastern Promises. (They all derive from a scene in Hitchcock's otherwise atrocious Torn Curtain.) Lee ultimately tenderizes and sentimentalizes the central relationship with a tender song. And he fails to make the political goals of the woman's cadre cogent and compelling - a disaster for a story in which, as Chang's translator, Julia Lovell, notes, "irrational emotional reality" wins out over "tidy political abstraction." In Lee's Lust, Caution, that's a Pyrrhic victory.

I'M OUT OF MEMORY !!!

NEW technology is making us forgetful, a survey has found.

The under-30s, who rely on phones, BlackBerrys and ipods to store information are the worst.

Only one in three could name four telephone numbers of friends before they had to look it up.

And a worrying five per cent of under 30s could not even remember their home address. But the over 50s did the best - recalling six numbers.

M Steven , expert in neuropsychology, said: "People are relying on technology for their memory. But the less you use your memory the poorer it becomes."

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Confidence ON God

From our long research we get a very simple thing

Tthe thing is confidence.

Confidence and attraction comes from Faith.

Be faithful and faith ON God

.........................................will a happy world...............

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Lets Constract The World Happy

We want Happy World.
We want Happiness for All ,
We love Us.
We Respect Human beings.
We Evaluate the Human Expectations.
We are greed free.
We are thursty for knowledge.
We belive the help of Allah.

May Allah bless us HAPPY.