Strange but true. 19 year old Jennifer, changed her name to CutoutDissection.com, as she wanted to do something to protest animal dissections in schools. You may call her crazy, mad or psychotic but you must admit she is unique. Here is the article from the website of The Hindu newspaper.
ASHEVILLE: You can call her CutoutDissection.com, Cutout for short, but just don’t call her Jennifer.
The former Jennifer Thornburg — whose driver’s licence now reads Dissection.com, Cutout — wanted to do something to protest animal dissections in schools.
The 19-year-old’s new name is also the Web address for an anti-dissection page of the site for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, where she is interning.
The Asheville High School graduate who is working in Virginia said she began opposing dissections in middle school after a class assignment to cut up a chicken wing made her uncomfortable. She helped create a policy at her high school that allows students who object to dissections to complete an alternative assignment. — AP
There are many instances which can be mentioned about people changing their name to something extraordinary. For example, Geoff Richardson changed his full name to “Of The Above None” and stood as an independent for the seat of Gilmore at the 2007 Australian federal election. His name appeared as “NONE, Of the Above” on the ballot (checked in Wikipedia).
So are they crazy or are they a step above us? Well it depends on each individual’s perception.
I would say they have guts trying to be different from the others for a cause. Kudos to Jennifer aka CutoutDissection.com.
Here is my take on the two big Ramzan releases of 2008.
Mayabazar was directed by Thomas Sebastian, scripted by T.A. Razzak and starred Mammootty, Kalabhavan Mani and Sheela. Let me get to the point. Mayabazar disappoints. The comedy trio of Salim Kumar, Suraj Venjarumoodu and Bijukuttan couldn’t raise much laughter apart from a few scenes. I find it really hard to believe the involvement of T.A. Razzak in scripting such a childish screenplay. All through the movie you keep searching for what the director is trying to convey and in the end you come out of the hall with no answer. Music by Rahul Raj is average. I find it hard to understand why an actor like Mammootty chose to dance even when everyone knows he can’t. Mayabazar is a huge letdown and I don’t know what the producers and the cast saw in the script to go ahead and make this movie.
Kurukshetra was directed and scripted by Major Ravi and starred Mohanlal, Biju Menon, Siddique. I went to see this movie with a lot of expectations. The side track of Cochin Haneefa and Suraj Venjarumoodu is unnecessary and adds nothing to the story. There are a lot of inconsistencies in the movie. Mohanlal asks for 10 minutes of firing during night and is seen running up the hill during daytime. Mohanlal looks terribly out of shape as an army officer. I have never heard of a 1-on-1 fight (with hands) in a war which is why I can’t digest the final fight. Major Ravi seems confused what he wants to show in the movie – the plight of a family when the army man dies or the real battle front. I won’t say the movie has been badly filmed. It is just the elements which are bad. The hills and surroundings of Kargil have been beautifully filmed. Screenplay fails to bind you to the movie. In Keerthichakra, you rooted by Major Mahadevan and his boys to win because they won your hearts but in Kurukshetra, that doesn’t happen. In a nutshell, Kurukshetra disappoints and how. Kurukshetra is a mix of army life at war front along with cinema heroism mixed with brutal scenes of violence.
Ratings
Mayabazar – 3/10
Kurukshetra – 4/10
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan and introducing Anushka Sharma
Written & Directed by: Aditya Chopra
Produced by: Yash Chopra & Aditya Chopra
Film Overview: Aditya Chopra’s third directorial venture after eight years, “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi” starring Shah Rukh Khan, will remind audiences of the magic touch that has made “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” the longest running motion picture in Indian cinema history. Indeed the jodi of Adi and SRK will once again be a treat for film audiences and the romantic confection of “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi” looks set to capture hearts across the globe all over again.
Source – Yash Raj Films
Well! This is one question that has been haunting me over the past week. I was busy pouring over my record work and notes preparing myself for the practical exams of my 4th sem.
What led me to think about this is the type of questions which we got.
First up for me was the Logic System Design Lab. 6 of us were standing in queue to take our question paper. It so happened that my friend who was standing before me moved out of the line to take his IC Pin-out diagram or something and thus I moved to his place and he moved behind me. I got an easy question to design an Astable Multivibrator (which was supposed to be picked by my friend) and my friend got a difficult question. I got the output on first try whereas he got only a partial output.
Same happened with Data Structures Programming Lab. Though everyone in a batch gets the same question, the degree of difficulty of the question for each batch was different. We got to implement Priority Queue (in a little twisted question) whereas some batches got direct questions like implementing ‘Merge Sort’ and ‘Quick Sort’.
Though I got full outputs on these labs, why am I complaining?
Last sem, in C Programming Lab, we got a difficult question to read and manipulate data from files. The question was indirect that it even confused the external examiner who in turn confused me. One batch got a question to input a number, find if it is even or odd, prime or composite and its factorial (+1 stuff). I passed but with low marks which affected my GPA badly.
So this leads to my question. Does the question one receives depend on his luck and there by does his performance also depends on his luck? If so, how can one judge a person’s programming ability with questions of varying difficulty?
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