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WWE and facts

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The Rock is a name synonymous with professional wrestling, especially World Wrestling Entertainment, the biggest wrestling company in the World. Both his father and his grandfather were professional wrestlers and he followed in their footsteps. His career in the WWE began in 1996. During his first run from 1996 to 2004, he became one of the most popular wrestlers of all time. He was one of the main attractions of the WWE during their most successful period in the late 1990’s. His good looks, chiseled body, natural charisma landed him a role in the 2002 Hollywood blockbuster, The Scorpion King.Soon Hollywood beckoned and after his WWE contract ran out, he went on to became a successful movie star. He made some appearances in WWE from time to time but they were non-wrestling roles.

Seven years later he made his comeback to WWE in 2011. Much to the delight of the fans, he began wrestling again. He began competing against the current top stars like John Cena and CM Punk. At the ‘Royal Rumble” 2012 event, he won the WWE championship after almost 10 years by defeating Punk. He also took part in the next big event the ‘Elimination chamber” . He was then scheduled to defend his championship against John Cena in the year’s biggest event, Wrestlemania 29. However his appearances on WWE programming are irregular due to his movie commitments. Although WWE fans were happy to see him back, his sporadic appearances angered many who felt that a part-timer like him should not be holding the companies top championship.

All of the WWE’s monthly big events are Pay-per-View events. WWE has recently released the buy rates for both Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber events. Royal Rumble 2012 had 498,000 buys which is significantly more than last year when the figure was 443,000. Elimination Chamber had 210,000 buys whereas last year it was 178,000. It is clear that WWE has tasted financial success by having the Rock participate in its events. It is quite understandable that the company would want to carry this momentum until Wrestlemania which is their grandest event. The WWE needs Wrestlemania to be a huge financial success because it puts all its resources in it.

Some fans have been vocal about The Rock’s performance in the ring. According to them, he is not as good as he is used to be. A section of the fan feels he is simply occupying the top spot which should belong to a full time wrestler who can perform better. But what these fans do not understand is that WWE is a business and it is driven by financial gains. There may be wrestlers who are much better than Rock, but they are not bigger stars who will attract the fans, something which the Rock will do. By putting the Rock and John Cena against each other, the WWE is cashing in two huge stars to bring in the profits. The Rock has mainstream popularity because of his movie career and WWE wants to use it to grow their business. If the fans are coming to watch it then WWE has made the right decision.

Politics

Will Rahul Gandhi be the next PM?

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As the 2014 Lok Sava elections are coming closer, the debate about who will be the next prime minister is heating up. Though in the volatile Indian politics anything can happen, it is now more or less accepted that Rahul Gandhi, Vice president of the Indian National Congress and representative of the famous Gandhi family is one of the forerunners for the top job.

Since Rahul is now a leader of the ruling party, becoming PM may seem easy for him. But the reality cannot be further than this. In the last few years, The UPA government in its second term has come under heavy fire from both the opposition parties as well as its own allies because of several issues that can greatly impact the general public as well. The biggest ally the Trinamool Congress withdrew support from the government on the issue of price rise of LPG and petroleum products. Other Alliance parties like DMK, also criticized this decision. Add to that several scams like 2G spectrum scam; Coal block allotment scam has really put the congress led government under pressure. Many Political leaders are claiming that the departure of the congress party from power is only a matter of time.

Yet, the congress seems hopeful because the opposition parties are divided amongst themselves. In this situation the congress may play its trump card by projecting Rahul Gandhi as its prime ministerial candidate. On the surface level, he looks perfect for the job. Though he is in his 40’s, he is young compared to the general standards of Indian politics. He is educated, soft spoken, has a rather clean image and last but not the least he is good-looking. Politics in India has mostly revolved around individuals. If the congress can create a proper hype surrounding him using its vast resources then it may survive another elections.

Not that, Rahul’s projection is something new. In the last Lok Sava (parliamentary) elections, he was tipped by some quarters as the new prime minister. But the majority of the party and Rahul himself played down those speculations. Rahul expressed the desire to work for the party rather than the government and was made an All India General Secretary in 2007. He was also given charge of the youth and students wing of the party.

Even though he has full backing of his party, notorious for its factionalism, his road to the chair of prime minister will not be smooth. His rather short political career has not been successful. He was involved with the state elections of Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat and his party performed poorly in both. Although the Congress recently came to power in the state of Karnataka, it was more due to local issues rather than his charisma. On the other hand he is up against veteran politicians especially the probable opposition candidate Narendra Modi.

Then Rahul will also have to deal with regional powerhouses like Nitish Kumar, Mamata Banerjee, Mulayam Singh Yadav who can make or break a government at the center. In many ways it is not just a test for his party but on personal level it is an acid test for the young politician Rahul Gandhi. At this point, we cannot but wait as this great Indian political drama progresses.

Blogging

WordPress, the stepping stone for blogging

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Certain series of tutorial deals by which one can begin his or her own blog through blogging software is known as Word Press. It is free software for blogging which one can install in to a website for writing blogs. Moreover one can also manage his or her own blog by utilizing it. It is usually for installing in an easy way and utilizing it. The tutorials provide great assistance for installation of Word Press blog by modifying, customizing or configuring it. It is also search engine friendly.

Requirements

There are many prerequisites before utilizing the Word Press as the blogging software:

  • The web host should never be inserted in the advertisements ion the web pages. However it is not an official need for the running of Word Press blogs.  A person can run in to many problems with the usage of the Word Press blog while the host is embedding advertisements in to pages. These pages are however displayed on the web site. The tests of certain free web hosts offering MySQL and PHP access indicate the inserted advertisements. However these engage with the forms made by the Word Press script. The result which is got is that one will be unable to edit or post any entries of blog.
  • The web host must permit one for at least one MySQL database. The Word Press however stores the blog entries and data in a special file named database. This permits fast and easy retrieval. Checking the web host with the package offers any MySQL databases.  When one hosts an account along with the ISP supplies then free results are achieved with dial up or broadband services. It is however better in accessing MySQL for getting a commercial host.
  • The web host may support the execution of the Web scripts. Generally PHP is an accepted programming language and most of the Word Press is written by this language. Hence, for running the Word Press, the web host must support it. However not every but most of the commercial web hosts support PHP. There are greater chances of not running Word Press, if the site is hosted by one’s ISP and also does not supports PHP.

Inserting advertisements in a personalized web page does not lead to any problems, if done properly. Without any one’s intervention, advertisements get automatically inserted in to one’s web page. These are mostly done by the free web hosts. These advertisements are uploaded in the parts of the page which engage with the script of Word Press. Although the Word Press script performs the roles of editing and posting. One should also note down one thing that the free web hosts utilize the advertisements for recovering the price of running at one’s website. Most of the free web hosts tend to finish after a short span of time. The reason behind this is that these web hosts do not have any viable revenue model. Instructions should be followed properly while installing Word Press.

Blogging

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BLOGS

Blogging has become a very specialized frame of communication. Beside email and social networking, blogging has found a steady place for itself. Blog is contraction of web log. It is completely an information based site that is published on World Wide Web. Blogging can be used for detailed discussion on a serious topic as well as entertaining too. Anyone can write his or her own blog or blog for a product, commodity or services. Many write stories in blog. Many write autobiography in blog.

Blogging has a place or opportunity to make the leave with his valuable comments. Comments make the blog interactive. Blogging has shaped the interesting frame of communication all over the world. It has taken the communication and sharing beyond boundaries or in the bigger cyber space.

Initially blog was a personal operational sharing system. One blog belongs to one author. Except he there is no one who can write a single word in the content section. Sometimes a small group can get hold of blog. But that was just like common user concept. In the year of 2009, cyber space or blogging system gets to know about MAB or multi author blog. Suppose there is a registered site of blogging. There are categories divided about the blog subjects. Let us take any criteria under consideration. We will find thousands of blogs written by multiple numbers of people those who have idea about that subject. Even if we have a good enough knowledge on that we can write a blog there.

Initially a detailed knowledge about HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) was needed to publish content in internet. The development of content management system had given the blogging a new age and brought it in the hand of common. Without any knowledge of cliché technicality and language coding anyone can upload any content in the internet blogging in the simple textual format. This has gained popularity in the heart of common.

Blogging can be considered as a form of social networking. Bloggers do not only post blog content but also have a good watch on the comments given by the readers. If they have any question, the blogger tries to answer it at his or her level best. The target group he or she is writing if they have any question regarding or against the blog, the blogger must clarify and bound to answer them. Many blogging sites do not allow people to comment. But most the blogging sites do. This is a platform where the bloggers try to build and develop relation with the readers and other bloggers.

Blogs are basically text based though there are different forms of blogs. There are art related blog called art blog. There are blogs contain every information with photographs, a photographs based blog, called photo blog. Likewise there are blogs based on video called video blogs or vlogs. Music related and based blogs are very popular called MP3 blogs. There is another interesting thing, a blog based on audio, any kind of audio called Podcast.

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