The British rank bizarre celebrity baby names

Complaining about unusual celebrity names started but has spread across the pond to our friends in Britain. This British poll lists the most bizarre names for celeb babies.

Many celebrity baby names are bizarre, but one name has to take home the honor of being the most bizarre of all time. Family Active, Britain’s interactive baby channel, asked their viewers to rank the most bizarre celebrity baby names of all time. Over a 1000 people cast their votes and Frank Zappa’s daughter’s name ‘Moon Unit’ took home the honor. Or should we say dishonor. YeahBaby.com lists the 20 top vote getters, which were a smattering of British and U.S. celebs.

1. Moon Unit – This peculiar baby girl name comes to us thanks to Frank and Gail Zappa. If the Zappa’s were looking for publicity with this name, they have certainly received more than their fair share. Fifi Trixibelle – The first name Fifi is bad, but paired with Trixibelle makes it even worse. Paula Yates and Bob Geldof should have known better.
2. Satchel – This name was chosen by Mia Farrow and Woody Allen for their one biological son. It doesn’t seem so odd to those baby namers in the states, as one of baseball’s best pitchers of all time was named Satchel.
3. Apple – Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin chose the name Apple for their little girl and the world will never be the same. Yikes.
4. Daisy Boo – Jamie Oliver, also known as The Naked Chef, and his wife Julia should stick to cooking. These two names together leave much to be desired.
5. Rumer – This girl name chosen by Demi Moore and Bruce Willis makes waves in Britain as well, and for good reason.
6. Peaches – Another Paula Yates and Bob Geldof ‘favorite’. What names would they have ended up with had they had 10 or 12 kids!
7. River – This baby boy name for Arlyn and John Phoenix was chosen as bizarre by the Brits, but don’t tell that to the gaggle of girls that fell in love with this young actor. They loved the name.
8. Rocco – Rocco? Yucko. Madonna and Guy Ritchie need more than 9 months to come up with this name.
9. Nell Marmalade – (Helen Baxendale and David Eliot)
10. Maddox – Angelina Jolie chose this name for her adopted son. We love it.
11. Tiger Lily Heavenly Hirani – Once Paula Yates divorced Bob Geldof, she married Michael Hutchence and the baby naming madness continued with this name. Perhaps Paula was the driving force behind these unusual baby names
12. Dweezil – This brother of Moon Unit Zappa makes the list. Another award for parents Frank and Gail Zappa.
13. Brooklyn – Britain’s celebrity royalty, Victoria and David Beckham, draw jeers for this name. We give them cheers.
14. Eugenie – Real British Royalty are not immune from a little snubbing. Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew make the list with this old time baby name.
15. Zowie – Comes to us from celeb parents Angie and David Bowie. Its bad enough alone, but is even worse when combined to create Zowie Bowie.
16. Rolan – 1970’s rockers Gloria Jones and Marc Bolan combine to create an offspring named Rolan Bolan. This collaboration only ranks high on this chart!
17. Phoenix Chi – British Spice Girl Mel C and her dancer husband Jimmy Gulzar make the list with Phoenix. We mildly disagree, but at least it doesn’t rank high on the list.
18. Coco – Courtney Cox and David Arquette have one kid and it makes this list of celebrity baby naming insanity.
19. Romeo – A second entry by Victoria and David Beckham, but this one is more worthy of the ‘honor’ than the other entry Brooklyn.

Entropy fix

Let the symbol “a” represent the wave speed. “a” is defined by the derivative

of the flux “f” with respect to the conserved variable “u”, So, for the Burgers

equation, since f = u x u /2, a = u.

At a shock, the characteristics converge and at an expansion, characteristics

diverge. We can use this fact to separate shock and expansion in 1-D and enforce

the entropy fix only for the expansion, without spoiling the shock. Otherwise,

since entropy fix is nothing but dissipation addition, the exact shock capturing

property of Roe scheme will be spoilt.

Let j and j+1 represent the left and right centroids of the cell interface at j+1/2.

Case 1 : If a(j) > 0 and a(j+1) < 0, then it is a shock.

Case 2 : If a(j) < 0 and a(j+1) > 0, then it is an expansion fan.

Enforce entropy fix only at the expansion.

The entropy fix is nothing but the quadratic variation of dissipation with respect to

the wave speed, instead of a linear variation as in Roe scheme. In Roe scheme, as

the wave speed goes to zero, the dissipation also goes to zero and this leads to

central differencing. That is why it gives a problem at zeor wave speeds (sonic

points). Harten’s correction keeps non-zero dissipation at zero wave speeds.

I will post about the roe’s method in the next few days.

The matlab module is as follows.

lamda is delt/delx

THIS IS FOR 1D BURGER’S EQUATION

if u(i-1,j-1)~=u(i-1,j)
a1=0.5*(u(i-1,j)+u(i-1,j-1));
else
a1=u(i-1,j-1);
end
if u(i-1,j)~=u(i-1,j+1) %to define the wave velocity flux
a2=0.5*(u(i-1,j+1)+u(i-1,j));
else
a2=u(i-1,j);
end

s2=0.5*(u(i-1,j+1)-u(i-1,j));%defining the free parameter
s1=0.5*(u(i-1,j)-u(i-1,j+1));
if(a1<s1 && a1>-s1) %defining the local value for u.
e1=((a1*a1+s1*s1)/(2*s1));
else
if (a1>0)
e1=a1;
else
e1=-a1;
end
end

if (a2<s2 && a2>-s2)
e2=((a2*a2+s2*s2)/(2*s2));

else

if (a2>0)
e2=a2;
else
e2=-a2;
end

end

u(i,j)=u(i-1,j)-lamda*0.25*(u(i-1,j+1)*u(i-1,j+1)-u(i-1,j-1)*u(i-1,j-1))+

lamda*0.5*(e2*(u(i-1,j+1)-u(i-1,j))-e1*(u(i-1,j)-u(i-1,j-1)));

Dirichlet boundary conditions

It is otherwise called the periodic boundry conditions.

The idea behind periodic BCs is that whatever goes out comes in. For a domain [-1,1] periodic B.C. simply means that you set u(1,t) = u(0,t) for all t. This means that u(1,t) which comes from the update formula (in your case, say Lax-Fredrich scheme) must be assigned to u(0,t) which cannot be updated otherwise (You can see that every point execpt the leftmost is updated using the Lax-Fredrich formula or for that matter any first or second order explicit schemes). Of course to start with, we have the initial conditions from the general solution given by u(1,0)=u(-1,0)=0. Also, note that LF method is the most dissipative of all schemes (it is only first order) and therefore the dissipation will reflect as a loss in amplitude. And you have many higher order methods to deal with other problems……

MICROSOFT CRAZY FACTS

MAGIC #1

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the
computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something pretty
cool…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t
answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE ” CON ” FOLDER

MAGIC #2
For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

is it just a really weird bug? ?

MAGIC #3
This is something pretty cool and neat…and unbelievable… At
Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why
this happened!

It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself…

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

and then press ENTER then see the magic…………………….

……

CONTRIBUTED BY MY GOOD FRIEND TUSHAR

HOMER HICKAM

Homer H. Hickam, Jr. was born on February 19, 1943, the second son of Homer and Elsie Hickam, and was raised in Coalwood, West Virginia. He graduated from Big Creek High School in 1960 and from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) in 1964 with a BS degree in Industrial Engineering. A U.S. Army veteran, Mr. Hickam served as a First Lieutenant in the Fourth Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1967-1968 where he won the Army Commendation and Bronze Star medals. He served six years on active duty, leaving the service with the rank of Captain.

Hickam has been a writer since 1969 after his return from Vietnam. At first, he mostly wrote about his scuba diving adventures for a variety of different magazines. Then, after diving on many of the wrecks involved, he branched off into writing about the battle against the U-boats along the American east coast during World War II. This resulted in his first book, Torpedo Junction (1989), a military history best-seller published in 1989 by the Naval Institute Press.

In 1998, Delacorte Press published Hickam’s second book, Rocket Boys: A Memoir, the story of his life in the little town of Coalwood, West Virginia. It became an instant classic. Rocket Boys has since been translated into eight languages and also released as an abridged audio book and electronic book. Among it’s many honors, it was selected by the New York Times as one of its “Great Books of 1998″ and was an alternate “Book-of-the-Month” selection for both the Literary Guild and Doubleday book clubs. Rocket Boys was also nominated by the National Book Critics Circle as Best Biography of 1998. In February, 1999, Universal Studios released its critically-acclaimed film October Sky, based on Rocket Boys (The title October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys). Delacorte subsequently released a mass market paperback of Rocket Boys, re-titled October Sky. October Sky reached the New York Times # 1 position on their best-seller list.

Mr. Hickam’s first fiction novel was Back to the Moon (1999) which was also simultaneously released as a hardcover, audio book, and eBook. It has also been translated into Chinese.

The Coalwood Way (2000), a memoir of Homer’s hometown he calls “not a sequel but an equal,” was published by Delacorte Press and is available in abridged audio, eBook, large print and Japanese. It was an alternate “Book-of-the-Month” selection for Doubleday book club. His third Coalwood memoir, a true sequel, was published in October 2001. It is titled Sky of Stone (2001). Sky of Stone is presently under development as a television movie. His final book about Coalwood was published in 2002, a self help/inspirational tome titled We Are Not Afraid: Strength and Courage from the Town That Inspired the #1 Bestseller and Award-Winning Movie October Sky.

His latest work is the novel Red Helmet (2008) published by Thomas Nelson. He is also the author of a popular series of novels that feature Josh Thurlow, a Coast Guard officer during World War II. The series began with The Keeper’s Son (2003), then continued with The Ambassador’s Son (2005) and The Far Reaches (2007).

While working on his writing career, Mr. Hickam was employed as an engineer for the U.S. Army Missile Command from 1971 to 1981 assigned to Huntsville, Alabama, and Germany. He began employment with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1981 as an aerospace engineer. During his NASA career, Mr. Hickam worked in spacecraft design and crew training. His specialties at NASA included training astronauts on science payloads, and extravehicular activities (EVA). He also trained astronaut crews for many Spacelab and Space Shuttle missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope deployment mission, the first two Hubble repair missions, Spacelab-J (the first Japanese astronauts), and the Solar Max repair mission. Prior to his retirement in 1998, Mr. Hickam was the Payload Training Manager for the International Space Station Program.

In 1984, Mr. Hickam was presented with Alabama’s Distinguished Service Award for heroism shown during a rescue effort of the crew and passengers of a sunken paddleboat in the Tennessee River. Because of this award, Mr. Hickam was honored in 1996 by the United States Olympic Committee to carry the Olympic Torch through Huntsville, Alabama, on its way to Atlanta.

In 1999, the governor of the state of West Virginia issued a proclamation in honor of Mr. Hickam for his support of his home state and his distinguished career as both an engineer and author and declared an annual “Rocket Boys Day.”

For recreation, Mr. Hickam still loves to SCUBA dive. He also jogs nearly every day. A new avocation is amateur paleontology. He works with Dr. Jack Horner in Montana every summer. Most of all, however, he loves to write.

Mr. Hickam is married to Linda Terry Hickam, an artist and his first editor and assistant. They love their cats and share their time between homes in Alabama and the Virgin Islands.

SOURCE:HOMER HICKAM OFFICIAL WEB SITE

NASRI TO ARSENAL

French international Samir Nasri is expected to complete his 12.5 million Pound move to English club Arsenal on Wednesday.

The 20-year-old midfielder will travel to London to undergo a medical and agree personal terms, according to the French daily L’Equippe.

The Algerian-descended playmaker only recently signed a new contract designed to keep him at Stade Velodrome until 2012, but it has since emerged the deal includes a release clause set at around 12 million Pounds.

Nasri is expected to replace the unsettled Aleksandr Hleb, who has received strong interest from Inter Milan and has recently been linked with Barcelona.

Gunner boss Arsene Wenger has maintained that big players will be sought ahead of big names and the bid to Nasri’s inclusion in the squad is a reiteration of that thought.

After the medical, Nasri will be taken on a tour of the Emirates Stadium. He will then fly back to Clairefontaine where the France national team is stationed for their pre-Euro 2008 training camp.

SOURCE:ESPNSTAR.com

The Bizzare most hair loss treatment

Shakespeare, all mighty literature bard, in nearly all his works used hair loss to portray aging persons, fallen kings, fools or even villains, but never a virile yang person. From that point of view it is interesting o know that Shakespeare himself was presented as being bold, which is seen on his numerous portraits.

Since from ancient times abundant hair equals youth, energy, strength, potency, dignity etc. it’s no wonder that man (and some woman as well) are in constant pursue for miraculous heir remedy from the oldest times, but even today some of the lotions and remedies that are offered on the market show no more success then those used in, say, ancient Egypt.

This can be largely contributed to marketing strategies that are used in hair treatment business of today. They present colorful brochures and advertisements which promise gain of instant sex appeal, gorgeous woman by ton, and better car or job position together with recurrence of lost hair. And yes even today’s more educated, modern man fall for those false promises stressed out by suffering hair loss which constantly reminds them of passing of their youth. Some man even become quite artistic with their remaining hair, growing it longer where possible and parting it sideways close to their ears in vain hope of covering up gaps, which is a ridiculous technique that just mirrors their desperation.

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Therefore it is no wonder that man of yesterday often tried and sometimes dedicatedly used some really dubious and often funny remedy recipes in hope of recovering what nature itself has so cruelly deprived them of, considered by some one of most coveted possessions, hair on their bold heads.

Here are some examples of those miraculous cures and ointments so you, dear reader, can choose your favorite. One that amuses me most comes at the end of the list.

Read and enjoy

- One of 18-Th and 19-Th century favorites was hair growth treatment that involved every night massaging in to your scalp mixture made mainly of rancid rhino fat, mixed with grounded rosemary by the virgin’s hand.

- In America in the 18-th century tough, hardened but non the less bold cowboys lined up to spend their hard earned cash on worthless “Snake Oil”, which actually was any bizarre concoction sold by so called trawling Doctors’. Here is one such original recipe, which actually was imported from the old world:
Mix carefully
”Peach Tree if the kernels be bruised and boiled in vinegar until they become thick and applied to the head until hair starts growing upon bold places or where it is too tin.”

- Or, if you had really strong stomach you could try this medieval English recipe, it was said that it worked wonders:
”Combine boar’s grease, ashes of burnt bees, ashes of southern-wood, juice of white lily root, oil of sweet almonds and musk into an ointment. Rub in to the scalp on daily bases.”

- In Roman times popular method for concealing boldness was to actually pain curls, and as for ‘curing’ boldness they concocted a lotion made from boiled snakes, which was probably very origin of the term ‘’snake oil”.

- Old Greece’s most famous physician, Hippocrates, who was himself suffering from a hair loss, devised specific remedy mixing together opium, flower essences, wine and pigeon droppings.

- Physicians in ancient Egypt had their own ways for treating baldness using potions mixtures created from hedgehog bristles and human fingernails steeped in crocodile, hippo or lion fat.

- But from the ancient times throughout Middle Ages there was one omnipotent miraculous cure for everything from bad luck or plague to boldness. This one is most certainly my favorite. It was small amount of powder obtained from grounded unicorn’s horn. Oh, yes they had unicorns horn at their disposal at those times, if they had enough money to pay for such a rare wonder that is, since it cost sometimes equaled that of entire County. Now that was a present suited for kings, and guess what, some of them had a whole horn, usually mounted in gold and jewels safely stored in their treasury. Since some of those treasuries survived at to this day and age horns where finally given for examination and then the most well kept trading secret of probably all times was discovered. Those long twisted horns really belonged to an animal but, alas, not to the mythological and magical unicorn. Those were narwhal horns, and narwhals are species of see mammals still living in cold waters of Arctic circle. And they weren’t actually horns either, but prolonged teeth. For ages native fisherman from polar areas were hunting narwhals and selling their hornlike tooth to skillful Asian merchants who trawled with them back home reselling them in Asia and Europe as unicorn’s horn gaining tremendous profit. They actually worked magic, not in curing boldness or anything else for that matter, but for bringing riches to cunning salesmen.

Therefore embrace your boldness and stay proud or go for a hair transplant-as it is only certain way that you will see hair beck on your head. Of course you can always try some of the recipes stated above.

ARSENAL

hi this my first post abt my fav football club.

OK, end of another disappointing season.. not that much as theo has made a good progress….. It pains to see that that flamster has left us after an incredible season… but all these happens…. u got to keep moving on…. and we do have song, gilbi(hopefully), denilson and diaby….. so we dont need a replacement….. and also good prospects like lansbury(made him a world class player in FM08), randall, vela, wilshere etc…..

So future s not that bleak. But if helb leaves it would be a big blow for us….. he s one player who really turned on this year. He was the only player in arsenal starting lin up who could take on defenders and dribble them out…… hopefully vela and theo can do that……..

And taking abt the future, we are being linked with every second attacking player and defender… surprised that not many goalkeepers are linked…. I have been an admirer of wenger’s tranfer policy…. Short and sweet… I remember last year when henry left, we were being linked with al strikers and he got dudu….. even the wildest of gossipers wouldn have guessed that.. he was tobe a great signing….. but……. i feel like crying for him… and this time hopefully rumours are true and we end up getting one of diego or nasri…. but who knows wenger might get an albanian kid and convert him to a world class player…. last year we had a good rep in the premier league team of the year….. but stillwe din win anything…… so for some instant results we need quality.. its been 3 years now……

Lookin into the last season there were 3 very crucial moments,

1)making walcott and denilson play in the indoor friendly game and losing them in the subsiquent matches.(wigan we lacked pace and walcot would have defnitly helped.)

2)Adebyor failing to pass the ball to bendtner against birmingam.

3)Almunia punching the ball out rather than allowing it to go out against liv that led to their first goal.

Other than this we hardly got a fair draw in refreeing decisions and back up players getting injured in the wrong times….To some extent, wenger’s improper rotation policy….. actually but for a good back up winger our squad was not that thin.

But future s bright…. and hope we get a good center back and a left winger…. my choice would be ashley young and wheater from the BPL…… and Zapata and nasri…… i would be happy if we get any two of these four…..and i pray wenger plays song in the def midio role…. Song and fab can emulate flam fab, viera-petit, viera-gilbi combinations…….

till then bye……

Hostel

Guys n gals if u think that i am goin to write about the horror film that shares the same name….. sorry u are mistaken….. i am out here to write abt one of the best hostels that i lived….. rather living as of now….. if some of my friends think its the nitt hostel, sorry u must be crazy……

I am talking abt the I2IT, campus pune. oh whant an hostel…….24 hrs internet, 24hrs hot water, 24 hrs attached canteen and i am lucky enough to have an iitian as my room mate….

and there is a lift in the hostel!!!!!!!!!!!(thank god, i am in the fourth floor.)

hey last but not least its a co-ed hostel…. has a good enough % of girls… (not non-males as in nitt )

bye for now.

MATLAB CODE FOR Runge kutta 4th order

function u = RK4(h,tf,x1,y1)
%to solve the ode for radiation using rk fourth order
I=tf/h;
fh = @ (x , y) (-2.2067)*(10^-12)*(y^4-(81*10^8));
u = y1;
for i = 1:I
k1=h*fh(x1+(i-1)*h,u);

k2=h*fh(x1+(i-1)*h+(h/2),u+(k1/2));

k3=h*fh(x1+(i-1)*h+(h/2),u+(k2/2));

k4=h*fh(x1+(i-1)*h + h,u + k3);

u= u + (1/6*(k1 + 2*(k2 + k3) + k4));

end
u
end