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The Ro-Pax Ferry operates between Ferry Wharf (Bhaucha Dhakka) in Mumbai and Mandwa Jetty in Raigad seven days a week throughout the year. Access to popular Konkan destinations like Alibaug, Kihim, Kashid, Murud has never been so easy.
Up to 500 passengers upto 145 vehicles can be accommodated in a single ride. Passengers can travel with vehicles and without. And all types of vehicles - cars, buses, motorbikes and cycles are accepted. Pets are accepted - they have a separate area for your furry friends on-board.
Alibaug is renowned for its spectacular beaches. However, this cozy little seaside town offers much more, especially during the monsoon season. From towering hills and lush green forests to ancient forts and dazzling restaurants, Alibaug welcomes every traveler to a host of otherworldly adventures.
Bhaucha Dhakka, also called Ferry Wharf, is the port on the Mumbai side from where the car ferry will ply. The Ro-Ro terminal is around a kilometre from the southern end of the Eastern Freeway. There is an air-conditioned waiting room at Bhaucha Dhakka for guests to seat themselves until it’s time for boarding. On the Alibaug side, the Ro-Ro car ferry will dock at Mandwa, where other regular ferries currently dock. The main town of Alibaug is about 20km from here.
Cochin Carnival is an entertainment event held every year in the last week of December at Fort Kochi in the city of Kochi, Kerala. This event is held mostly during the last two weeks of December and finally ends on 1 January.
Kochi Fort is the center of all the activities that take place at the time of the Cochin Carnival. It is promoted by the district tourism promotion council.
Fort Kochi, Fort Cochin in English, Cochim de Baixo ("Lower Kochi") in Cochin Portuguese creole, is a neighbourhood of Cochin (Kochi) city in Kerala, India. Fort Kochi takes its name from the Fort Manuel of Cochin, the first European fort on Indian soil, controlled by the Portuguese East Indies. This is part of a handful of water-bound islands and islets toward the south-west of the mainland Kochi, and collectively known as Old Cochin or West Cochin. Adjacent to this is the locality of Mattancherry. In 1967, these three municipalities along with a few adjoining areas, were amalgamated to form the Kochi Municipal Corporation.
Fort Kochi is rich in heritage and culture, and is a prominent tourist destination for both domestic and international travellers- being ranked as ninth among the top 25 in National Geographic’s Top Tourist Destinations To Explore In 2020
Sarakki lake is a lake in the southern part of Bengaluru, India, in the suburb of the J. P. Nagar. It is one of the largest lakes in Bangalore and located on Puttenahalli main road. Sarakki is a portmanteau of the native Kannada language words, Saavira Hakki, which translates to "a thousand birds".
Sarakki lake conjointly referred to as Jaraganahalli lake, is found within the southern part of Bangalore, within the residential area of the J.P. Nagar.
The lake formerly covered an area of 84 acres (34 ha), 34 acres (14 ha) of which had been encroached by private builders and other establishments as of 2013. According to a survey conducted by the tehsildar of Bangalore South, 135 encroachments were made into the lake area, following which the High Court of Karnataka, in the case filed by the People's Campaign for Right to water, ordered for clearing the encroached area in August 2014. A 10-day eviction drive began in April 2015 after having issued notices to encroachers. The land reclaimed put estimates at ₹2,000 crore (US$250 million).
In 2012, the Sarakki Lake Improvement Trust (SLAIT) was formed to make efforts towards reviving the lake.
Camara was born in Berlin to a Nigerian father and a German mother. In May 2003, at two and a half years of age, Akim was given violin lessons by instructor Birgit Thiele at the Marzahn-Hellersdorf School of Music.Akim was at this point still in diapers and could not yet speak correctly, like any toddler, but he could remember parts of music heard and the names of all orchestral instruments. Moved by his memory and natural "ear for music", Akim's teacher began instructing the toddler twice a week in 45 minute sessions.Akim participated enthusiastically and, due in part to his memory, the toddler was learning fast. After six months of this fairly light training regimen, Akim had his debut performance in December 2003 at the age of three in a Christmas concert "Schneeflöckchen, Weissröckchen" put on by the Marzahn-Hellersdorf School of Music.
Birgit Thiele and the music school principal, Gudrun Mueller, told André Rieu, through the celebrity Dutch violinist's website, about Akim's prodigious talent. Rieu responded swiftly. He sent a camera crew to Berlin to film Akim on the violin. What he saw astounded him. He hastily took action and invited the parents and grandmother of the boy to his studio in Maastricht, Netherlands along with Akim. Three-year-old Akim's performance at the studio was apparently so impressive that it left all of the orchestra members in astonishment and disbelief.
Within two weeks, in July 2004, Akim was performing with Rieu in concert at Kerkrade's Parkstad Limburg Stadion filled to near max capacity with an audience of 18,000 people on a toddler-size violin and wearing a tiny custom-made concert tuxedo and dress shoes. After amusing the crowd with a "water trick" toddler Akim then performed Ferdinand Kuchler's violin concertino in G, opus 11 followed by a brief encore performance. Akim exited stage right after two massive standing ovations and roaring cheers.
Following the success of Akim's performance he had to be essentially hidden from the public eye as many German television stations began pursuing him for appearances. Rieu took Akim under his wing, paying for his musical lessons on both violin and piano and overseeing his instruction (both musical and otherwise) so that Akim will remain "a nice boy"and not become "an insufferable child prodigy" as Rieu fears would be a possibility without his influence.
Credit goes to Andre Rieu
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The video shows the choir performing "A Million Dreams" from "The Greatest Showman" amid clips of some of the resources United Way of Northern Utah provides and how young students might benefit from them.
One Voice Children's Choir (originally known as the 2002 Winter Olympic Children's Choir and Studio A Children's Choir) is an American children's choir in Utah.
The group was founded by Masa Fukuda in 2001 after he composed the song "It Just Takes Love" for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. He asked students to help make a commemorative CD for the Olympics. Some of the students also were "children of light" performers for the Olympics, whom he volunteered to help train. After the Olympics, 25 students wanted to continue singing together, and Fukuda formed the choir as a nonprofit organization to continue working with them.
One Voice is led by director Fukuda and has 140 members ages 4–17. Every year, the choir performs around 50 to 70 times. The group meets year-round for once-a-week practices. They perform a vast selection of music such as pop music, gospel music, classical music, Broadway musical songs, and patriotic songs.
In 2003, the choir sang the Christmas song "Innocence of Youth" and won the John Lennon International Music Award after singing in a competition for Yoko Ono. In 2014, One Voice received national attention for their rendition of the Disney song "Let It Go", starring Lexi Walker and Alex Boyé. Their video received 1 million views in one day, 18 million in 10 days, and over 60 million by July 2015. They were invited to compete in the ninth season of America's Got Talent in 2014 and reached the quarterfinals.
This had a simple lesson. Don't ever use the word hate because it has a permanence that is hard to change. A little girl has an award winning, beautiful sister. The little girl gets "good try" medals and is sort of mousey. Well, then she vents in her diary and the consequences are severe.
Hair Love is a 2019 American animated short film written and directed by Matthew A. Cherry and co-produced with Karen Rupert Toliver. It follows the story of a man who must do his daughter's hair for the first time, and it features Issa Rae as a voice of the mother. The film was produced after a 2017 Kickstarter campaign, and it was also released as a children's book in May 2019 with illustrations by Vashti Harrison. Hair Love won Best Animated Short Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Seven-year-old Zuri attempts to style her thick, kinky hair while watching an instructional video narrated by her mother (Issa Rae). Her father, Stephen, attempts to help her and, after much effort, styles her hair. They enter a hospital room where her mother is wearing a scarf and sitting in a wheelchair. Her mother removes her scarf to reveal that her head is completely bald, the result of chemotherapy for cancer. The family members hug each other and return home together.
According to Pixar's website, the first four birds actually have names and individual characteristics. From left to right they are: Chipper, Bully, Snob and Neurotic. Look closely and you'll see them act out their personalities
A small blue bird lands on a telephone wire and makes itself comfortable, only to have a second small bird land next to it. The two birds quickly start to squabble as others land on the wire and join in. They are interrupted when a large, gangly, awkward looking bird sitting on top of the pole honks to them. Soon, the small birds start mocking the large one by puffing up their feathers to resemble his plumage and imitating his honk.
They then slide farther out along the wire and chatter suspiciously among themselves, ignoring the large bird's attempts to befriend them until he settles in the middle of all of them out on the wire. However, his weight causes the wire to sag almost to the ground and all the small birds slide down toward him.
As the large bird keeps trying to make friends, the small ones get annoyed and try to push him off the wire. One of them pecks him, which causes him to lose his balance and flop over to hang upside down by his feet. The two nearest to the center start pecking at his toes, egged on by the rest of the crowd. One of the other birds suddenly panics, realizing how low the wire is and tries to stop the pecking.
The others understand and stop too late; when the large bird's last toe slides off, the wire snaps upward and flings all the small birds out of sight like a slingshot. The large bird is so close to the ground that he's unaffected by the whole thing, but is accompanied by a shower of feathers from the small birds.
One of them falls to the ground, having lost all its feathers and the large bird laughs and offers it a leaf to cover itself. The others soon tumble down as well, without feathers, and hide behind the large bird as he laughs even harder. A white splatter with the words, "The end", on it against a black screen, marks the end of this film.
The short film involves a hungry baby sandpiper learning to overcome her fear of water. The inspiration came from less than a mile away from Pixar Studios in Emeryville, California, where Barillaro, a veteran Pixar animator, would run alongside the shore and notice birds by the thousands fleeing from the water but returning between waves to eat.
A flock of sandpiper hunt for food at a seashore, rushing to peck at the sand when the wave recedes and taking flight when it comes in. One baby (named Piper) is motivated by her mom to be part of the flock and get meals. However, she fails to pull away in time and is soaking wet through the incoming surf. The incident leaves Piper terrified of the water; she refuses to depart the nest but soon notices a team of hermit crabs digging into the sand to find deeper food and keep from being buffeted with the aid of the tide. By copying their behavior, Piper starts offevolved to see the beauty of the underwater world and becomes knowledgeable at discovering meals for the flock.
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America's Got Talent Quarter Finalists! Utah Best of State Winner 2014 - 2019!
One Voice is led by director Fukuda and has 140 members ages 4–17. Every year, the choir performs around 50 to 70 times. The group meets year-round for once-a-week practices. They perform a vast selection of music such as pop music, gospel music, classical music, Broadway musical songs, and patriotic songs.
In 2003, the choir sang the Christmas song "Innocence of Youth" and won the John Lennon International Music Award after singing in a competition for Yoko Ono. In 2014, One Voice received national attention for their rendition of the Disney song "Let It Go", starring Lexi Walker and Alex Boyé. Their video received 1 million views in one day, 18 million in 10 days, and over 60 million by July 2015. They were invited to compete in the ninth season of America's Got Talent in 2014 and reached the quarterfinals.
They provide children the opportunity to cultivate an appreciation for music and share their talents while delivering a positive message to the world.
For weeks, Rober watched as his neighbourhood squirrels — which he named Rick, Marty, Frank and Phat Gus — attempted to navigate the course, making their way through his labyrinth to reach the bird feeder.
YouTuber and budding quarantine bird enthusiast Mark Rober failed in his quest to find a bird feeder capable of stopping squirrels from breaking into the bird seed.
So he created an ingenious eight-part "American Ninja Warrior"-style obstacle course for squirrels to protect his bird feeder instead. And filmed his efforts in a now-viral video.
The squirrel aerobatic proficiency on display proved to Rober, a former NASA and Apple engineer, that these common tree-scaling rodents can fly in uncommon ways.
Credit Goes to #Mark Rober at https://m.youtube.com/user/onemeeeliondollars
For the full video : visit the link below :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZFjoX2cGg
A great animated short story about opportunity and helping each other.
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. Brian Tracy
Sharing brings with it inherent joy and happiness within us and also to the person with whom we have shared. To share is to spread joy
According to a study titled “A boost of positive affect: The perks of sharing positive experiences” published in 2012 in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationship, those who share their positive experiences increase their positive affect, happiness, and life satisfaction. The study found out that that positive affect, happiness, and life satisfaction reach a peak only when participants share their positive experiences. The research further determined other benefits of sharing a positive experience, such as making it easier to remember, the opportunity to learn new positive implications of our news from another’s perspective, and the extra joy we feel when making another person happy through our good news.
A great animated short story about opportunity and helping each other.
Joy Story: Animated Short Film by Passion Pictures
Joy and Heron is the tale of the lovable small dog (Joy) and a pesky Heron. Out on a fishing trip, Joy tries not to rock his master’s boat while defending it from the worm-stealing bird. However, after spotting the heron is only trying to feed its hungry and fussy chicks, Joy comes around gives away the whole pot of worms. And in the spirit of Chinese New Year, the heron then reciprocates the gesture of kindness.
The film was directed by Passion’s directors Kyra & Constantin, internationally loved for their madcap ‘Rollin’ Wild’ films, and commissioned by 180 China to coincide with 2018’s Year of the Dog.
Kyra and Constantin have crafted a beautiful story for Chinese retailer JD.com. Kyra and Constantin developed the existing character of Joy, the brand’s logo, into an adorable tale of a dog, a heron and a can of worms.
If someone bought a Ferrari and getting it delivered to his house, they can expect a delivery truck, carrying a special Ferrari box, to show up on their doorstep. In the case of this Ferrari 458 buyer, the shipment was recorded and we got to witness just how intricate the Ferrari shipping container really is.
At Santa's place, Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant is seen sitting on a couch next to FC Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi. The two are playing a game of FIFA 16 against a pair of Santa's reindeer. The two athletes begin scoring on the reindeer, only to have the reindeer ask if they can play extra matches to determine a victor. After several more scores from the duo and the reindeer asking for extended matches, Kobe asks Santa if the reindeer have something else to do. Santa shrugs kindly in response.
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Turkish Airlines commercial featuring Lionel Messi and Kobe Bryant named ad of the decade in celebration of YouTube's 10 years
YouTube has named the 2013 commercial from Turkish Airlines the advert of the decade.
The advert features Lionel Messi and Kobe Bryant battling for the best selfie and was voted for by fans to celebrate ten years of YouTube.
The work of Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Starcom, the advert combined the world's love for selfies and sports personalities and hit 25 million views in the first three days.
In the video, the footballer and basketball player catch flights to a number of countries around the world and attempt to one-up each other with the best snap.
Bryant gets a selfie with the Great Wall of China and a lion, who licks him on the cheek, while Messi gets one scuba diving and trekking through a jungle with a monkey.
Far from being a place of deep silence, the underwater world is abuzz with the sound of fish sweet-talking the opposite sex, warning others of danger, giving directions, and general background chatter.
Predators may even hunt out prey by intercepting fish talk, researcher Shahriman Ghazali of Auckland University said.
"All fish can hear but not all can make sound -- pops and other sounds made by vibrating their swim bladder, a muscle they can contract," he said.
Decoding these sounds could give us an insight into secret lives of this voracious invasive species – and help us keep tabs on its spread.
Many fish produce sounds to communicate with each other as low-pitched noises travel far underwater. “It’s a dominant mode of communication,” says Alex Bogdanoff at North Carolina State University.
Rock balancing can be a performance art, a spectacle, or a devotion, depending upon the interpretation by its audience. Essentially, it involves placing some combination of rock or stone in arrangements which require patience and sensitivity to generate, and which appear to be physically impossible while actually being only highly improbable. The rock balancer may work for free or for pay, as an individual or in a group, and their intents and the audiences' interpretations may vary given the situation or the venue.
Rock balancing has also been described as a type of problem solving, and some artists consider it as a skill in awareness. Some work has been described as a magic trick for the mind. As with other forms of independent public art, some installations may be created in remote areas where there may be little or no audience. A cairn, used to mark trails, is also a collection of stacked rocks, but these are typically more durable.
Styles
# Rock Stacking – rocks laid flat upon each other to great height.
# Classic balance – each rock balanced inline.
# Counterbalance – lower rocks depend on the weight of upper rocks to maintain balance.
# Arch – rocks form a structure that spans a space. Similar to the architecture of ancient stone bridges.
# Free style – a combination of two or more of the above.
Vodafone India has developed this new age digital experiences for its 210 plus million customers in year 2018. Vodafone has always been ‘Happy to Help’ but with its digital transformation initiatives, Vodafone has brought back the ZooZoos in a Ninja avatar and communicated about “Happy to Help… IN A CLICK”.
Siddharth Banerjee - Executive Vice President - Marketing, Vodafone India said:
“As technology drives the changing customer behaviour and expectations, we at Vodafone have driven our digital transformation initiatives hard and also evolved our Happy to Help philosophy for the 2018 Digital Customer to "Happy to Help... IN A CLICK". Further, in keeping with the topicality of our campaign break, we are bringing back our much loved ZooZoos in a brand-new Ninja avatar... they are quick, agile and efficient... much like our service experience, enabled by the digital transformation initiatives at Vodafone India.”
Simple script. Simple execution. Simple messaging. Simple promise. Simple delivery
Enjoy this stunning time-lapse video of beautiful flowers blooming which makes our heart firmly believe in nature's beauty.
Processes that would normally appear subtle and slow to the human eye, e.g. the motion of the sun and stars in the sky or the growth of a plant, become very pronounced. Time-lapse is the extreme version of the cinematography technique of undercranking. Stop motion animation is a comparable technique; a subject that does not actually move, such as a puppet, can repeatedly be moved manually by a small distance and photographed. Then the photographs can be played back as a film at a speed that shows the subject appearing to move.
Credits : to the team of Project Streedhan
In order to raise awareness about anaemia, and motivate women to focus on their health, Project Streedhan has been launched by DSM (a global major specializing in nutrition and sustainable living).
The powerful images are beautifully brought together by a foot tapping rustic background score, urging women to invest in nourishing their body with iron rich food.
Iron is an essential mineral. "The major reason we need it is that it helps to transport oxygen throughout the body," says Paul Thomas, EdD, RD, a scientific consultant to the National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements.
Iron and anaemia
Iron is a mineral that works with other substances to create haemoglobin, the compound that carries oxygen in the blood. Women and men metabolise iron from food at roughly the same rate. However, while men need around 8 mg of iron in their daily diet, women need up to 18 mg (or 27 mg if pregnant).
Women need more iron than men to make up for the amount of iron they lose in their menstrual period. Around 1 mg of iron is lost for every day of bleeding.
Iron deficiency is the most common nutrient deficiency in women. Insufficient iron can lead to anaemia. Common symptoms of anaemia include tiredness and breathlessness. Iron is especially important during pregnancy.
Hermes Pardini Laboratories, Ogilvy Brazil and Lobo, teamed up to battle one of the world’s most powerful forces: children’s fear of taking vaccine shots.
The strategy chosen against such seemingly unbeatable challenge was to create an immersive fantasy world in which the child becomes a hero, and the vaccine shot a shield that helps the child defend the realm against an enemy invasion.
This experience could only be created with VR technology, and all it takes is a headset and smartphone for the child to become so enthralled by the fantastic environment and the engaging story that he completely forgets about the shot, and the crying and screaming gives way to excitement and awe.
VR Vaccines intended to provoke a direct response from the target: change your mindset about the childhood vaccination fears. The whole idea behind the campaign was to show through a VR experience the possibilities to transform crying reactions into entertaining moments. At the same time as the vaccine’s application happens, the kid is watching an engaging adventure on VR Glasses. So, for every key step of vaccination, they deliver a special moment that will make the child feel stronger.Due to this, Hermes Pardini became alive as a brand by improving children's health directly, engaging its target audience as kids and parents.
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As part of her humanitarian work in Rwanda, Meghan visited the Kabeza Borehole. It was built by World Vision in 2013, and continues to bring clean water to 1000 people from nearby communities.
“I think there’s a misconception that access to clean water is just about clean drinking water; which, of course, it is. But it’s so much more than that. Access to clean water in a community keeps young girls in school, because they aren't walking hours each day to source water for their families,” Meghan said.
As a World Vision Global Ambassador, Meghan showed a keen sense of responsibility to use any platform or influence she might have to better the world for others.
We always remember the face of Meghan Markle, full of compassion and empathy when she was looking at children fetching unclean water. Since her visit to Rwanda in 2016, her contribution and similar contributions from other people like her, helped World Vision Rwanda to get funds to support more than 57,500 people with clean water. We hope to be able to reach every child where we work with clean water by 2024.
- Nicaise Ugabinema, Coordinator for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at World Vision Rwanda
Frank Muhwezi, East Regional Manager at World Vision Rwanda, said: “I thank Ms Markle for her big heart and generosity. Vulnerable children in Rwanda now have access to clean water both in their homes and at schools. Thanks to this amazing work, more girls have stayed in school, and we’ve seen huge improvement.
Conceptualised by Innocean Worldwide, this film takes a trip down memory lane of an army major. It opens at the induction ceremony, where the newly admitted officers ask the major about his first posting. The major tells them it was at Kargil and then narrates the story of how a man helped him get there on time after the engine of his train broke down.
The story is about a man who gave up his own job interview and drove the army officer to Kargil because he believed that his duty was to make sure that he serves those who serve the country.
Arjun Modayil, executive director, Innocean Worldwide India, said, “The film is actually a testament of Hyundai’s spirit of serving its consumers, partnering them, enabling them in their life’s journey. With this film, we are definitely keeping the emotional momentum going for brand Hyundai. With the ‘Duty’ film we are definitely touching a newer set of emotions of patriotic pride for the selflessly serving men in the uniform.”
Talent knows no boundaries, and like a wave, overcomes all barriers. Follow your heart :)
In 2015, Meghan reflected on this chapter of her life while giving a speech as a UN Women ambassador at the UN Women conference in New York. “It was at that moment that I realized that the magnitude of my actions. At the age of 11, I had created my small level of impact by standing up for equality,” she said at the time.
The young Markle said:
“I don’t think it’s right for kids to grow up thinking these things that just mom does everything,” 11-year-old Meghan says in a clip that aired on Inside Edition this week following her engagement news. “It’s always, ‘mom does this,’ and ‘mom does that.’” Eventually, her letters paid off: Procter & Gamble later changed the commercial to say that “People all over America” were fighting greasy pots and pans.
“It is said that girls with dreams become women with vision. May we empower each other to carry out such vision — because it isn’t enough to simply talk about equality. One must believe it. And it isn’t enough to simply believe in it. One must work at it. Let us work at it. Together. Starting now.”
She continued, “In doing this, we remind girls that their small voices are in fact not small at all, and that they can affect change. In doing this, we remind women that their involvement matters; that they need to become active in their communities, in their local governments, as well as at the highest parliamentary positions.”
In potentially the most memorable line of her speech, Markle confidently proposed, “Women need a seat at the table. They need an invitation to be seated there, and in some cases, where this isn’t available, well then, you know what? Then they need to create their own table.”
Markle is well aware of her ability to make a difference through her platform of fame.
In a May 2016 interview with AOL Build, she explained how she uses her position of power for good:
“If you have this kind of job and you have an opportunity to have a profile where people are listening to what you’re saying, I really truly think you need to be saying something that’s valuable. So, yes, you can talk about, “Where did Rachel get that pencil skirt?” Fine, sure. We can have that conversation, but I’d also like to talk about women’s rights or my work with UN Women or with World Vision or humanitarian trips or just really bolstering self esteem that has nothing to do with the external.”
The ‘Be My Guest’ campaign is aimed at attracting more tourists from India, a key source market for Dubai’s tourism industry.
The first video with the actor was launched in December 2016, and has received 45 million views and 65 million engagements across multiple social media channels, Dubai Media Office reported. The film was also one of YouTube’s top 10 most viewed videos worldwide in December.
Commenting on the association with Khan, Issam Kazim, CEO, Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DCTCM), says, "Shah Rukh Khan truly represents the beautiful relationship that Dubai and India share. In line with our vision of hosting 20 million visitors per year by 2020, our tourism efforts are increasing every year, with a major emphasis on the Indian market."
Sharing his experience of working on the film, Prakash Varma, (in a Facebook video) says, "For any director it's always exciting to think something new. There's a lot of pressure to create something simple, yet memorable. It's all about the edit, the music... I am very happy with the stuff that we've got."
Karan Shishir Amin, head - digital creative, Cheil, says, "Dubai is known to be a shopper's paradise with the annual duty free sale being the highlight. This campaign presents the city as offering great adventure sports and food while taking it beyond being just a shopping destination."
According to Amin, Shah Rukh Khan as brand ambassador, adds a "premium and exotic touch" to the campaign. "His presence and sudden appearances among the people of Dubai brings an element of surprise and intrigue to the film," he adds while pointing out that the film does look a bit staged.
The first #BeMyGuest video, which was released in December 2016, won the Grand Prix prize at the International Tourism Film Festival in Latvia.
Shah Rukh Khan, Kabir Khan collaborate for Dubai tourism commercial sequel in May 2018:Superstar Shah Rukh Khan has collaborated with director Kabir Khan to shoot the sequel of #BeMyGuest, a promotional film produced by Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing.
This is the second film that Shah Rukh is shooting for to promote tourism in Dubai.
"I have always aspired to work with Shah Rukh, the charisma he brings to every shot is admirable, while Dubai has been one of my favourite cities to visit. In these films, we have done our best to capture the essence of Dubai, from its stunning locations to its welcoming hospitality," Kabir Khan said in a statement.
"I think it is really nice. I really enjoyed making it and happy we are making another one. I am not an advocate for Dubai because I have done Dubai Tourism films... I genuinely like being in Dubai, I think it's a really wonderful place, it's a fantastic city… It has everything for everyone," Shah Rukh said in a statement.
The first part features Shah Rukh showcasing Dubai's many attractions, that he considers his home away from home.
In another video, Khan helps out a family reunion that culminates in celebrating the marriage anniversary of the parents. Scenes are shot around the city with the Dubai Opera sign, Dubai Fountain and Downtown Dubai making an appearance. As well as fireworks around the Burj Khalifa.
Back in January 2015, leading up to the sporting event of the year in the United States, Swedish car brand Volvo did something bold on Twitter. Something daring. Something unheard of.
Super Bowl is one of the most expensive TV commercial real estates in the world and the most expensive advertising day of the year in the United States. Every year, major car brands spend millions of dollars on visibility during the commercial breaks of the big game. In 2015; Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, Nissan, Fiat, Toyota, and Kia spent around 60 million USD combined on advertising their latest models during the Super Bowl.
Volvo themselves did not book any airtime at all during the big game. Instead, the marketing team at Volvo and their ad agency Grey, New York, formulated a plan to sweep in, intercept other car brands’ advertising and steal the viewers’ attention. This has since been called ‘The greatest interception ever’.
Volvo gave people a chance to win a car for their loved ones. All they had to do was tweet #VolvoContest followed by the name of a loved one every time they saw another car commercial on television.
They went viral on social media almost instantly, shifting people’s focus from their television screens to social media. A television commercial’s footprint is short lived. But with up to 2000 tweets per minute every time other commercials aired, Volvo ruled social media and automobile marketing for the duration of the game.
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While a well-known and respected brand globally, Volvo was suffering from low awareness in the U.S., one of its largest markets. Though it could not make the financial commitment of a television spot during the Super Bowl, it needed an idea that would allow it to be part of the discussion of the biggest advertising day of the year. They brought forward a campaign that hijacked Volvo's competitors’ ads, and used Twitter to show American consumers what really matters to Volvo.
Because Volvo’s focus has been and remains on the people who drive its vehicles, instead of spending money on a Super Bowl spot they would use those resources to put their cars in the hands of those who deserve them. Rather than a standard giveaway, however, Volvo leveraged Twitter to allow consumers to nominate others to win instead of themselves. By tweeting during competitors’ ads using #VolvoContest, users could win a brand new XC60 for someone who inspires and motivates them.
Launch videos were seeded in online video and through their owned social channels -- CRM channels messaged brand loyalists to engage with and share their program -- PR generated buzz around the initiative, including an integration with the Jimmy Kimmel Live show --All communications drove to a mobile optimized landing page experience keeping consumer updated on when to participate.
In 4 hours, Volvo received 50,000 tweets with the program hashtag (the most of any automotive brand), and trended both nationally and globally -- With over 80 pieces of coverage, the program received nearly 200MM earned media impressions.
The final days of Alexander the Great offer a moral lesson for each one of us.
Alexander, while returning home after conquering many kingdoms fell mortally ill in Babylon. While lying on his deathbed in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, he realized the worthlessness of his vast hoard of gold, silver, and jewels, accumulated through his conquests with his sharp sword and his mighty army.
He longed to reach home. He wanted to have a last look of his mother’s face before departing from this mortal world. But, he knew that his sinking health would not let him reach his distant homeland.
He called his generals and said, "I will depart from this world soon, I have three wishes, please carry them out without fail."
With tears flowing down their cheeks, the generals agreed to abide by their king's last wishes.
1) "My first desire is that", said Alexander, "My physicians alone must" carry my coffin."
2) After a pause, he continued, "Secondly, I desire that when my coffin is being carried to the grave, the path leading to the graveyard be strewn with gold, silver and precious stones which I have collected in my treasury".
3) "My third and last wish is that both my hands be kept dangling out of my coffin".
The people who had gathered there wondered at the king's strange wishes.
One of his generals who was surprised by these unusual requests asked Alexander to explain.
Here is what Alexander the Great had to say:
1. I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that, in the face of death, even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal
2. I want the road to be covered with my treasure so that everybody sees that material wealth acquired on earth, stays on earth
3. I want my hands to swing in the wind, so that people understand that we come to this world empty handed and we leave this world empty handed after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted, and that is TIME.
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“Bury my body, do not build any monument, keep my hands outside so that the world knows the person who won the world had nothing in his hands when dying“. – Last words of Alexander the Great.
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LESSONS TO LEARN :
Remember, your Health is in your own hands, look after it. Wealth is only meaningful if you can share and also enjoy while you are still alive, kicking & healthy. What you do for yourself, dies with you. But what you do for others will live for ever.
The song featured in the meme is “Dame Tu Cosita” by El Chombo.
Meaning of music title Dame Tu Cosita is ‘Give it to me’.
"Dame Tu Cosita" is a song from El Chombo, originally from a 1997 mixtape titled "Cuentos De La Cripta 2". The video with the alien was created by the ArtNoux facebook page and subsequently used for a dance challenge musical.ly created.
Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna), a medium-sized hummingbird native to the west coast of North America, was named after Anna Masséna, Duchess of Rivoli. In the early 20th century, Anna's hummingbirds bred only in northern Baja California and southern California. The transplanting of exotic ornamental plants in residential areas throughout the Pacific coast and inland deserts provided expanded nectar and nesting sites, allowing the species to expand its breeding range.
Anna's hummingbird is 3.9 to 4.3 in (9.9 to 10.9 cm) long. It has an iridescent bronze-green back, a pale grey chest and belly, and green flanks. Its bill is long, straight, and slender. The adult male has an iridescent crimson-red derived from magenta to a reddish-pink crown and gorget, which can look dull brown or gray without direct sunlight and a dark, slightly forked tail. Females also have iridescent red gorgets, though they are usually smaller and less brilliant than the males'. Anna's is the only North American hummingbird species with a red crown. Females and juvenile males have a dull green crown, a grey throat with or without some red iridescence, a grey chest and belly, and a dark, rounded tail with white tips on the outer feathers.
Anna's hummingbirds can shake their bodies 55 times per second to shed rain while in flight, or in dry weather, to remove pollen or dirt from feathers. Each twist lasts four-hundredths of a second and applies 34 times the force of gravity on the bird's head.
The drone prototype is the work of Latvian specialists Aerones and they are putting their invention through its paces, with up to four snowboarders being dragged across the ice at a time.
“It seems to be a successful test,” says Janis Putrams, 35, wearing a broad grin, not least because as Aerones CEO he is in charge of the enormous remote control unit used to steer the drone’s flight.
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“We started thinking about it two years ago. It was a sort of Friday afternoon idea and we just wondered if it would be possible,” Putrams told AFP.
They first built a small four-propeller drone before using it to test out droneboarding about a year ago.
“But the idea was always to build something big, to see how much power it could have. Luckily in Latvia we have both great engineers and great winters, so it’s ideal for droneboarding,” says the soft-spoken engineer.
In theory the top speed is around 150 kilometres per hour (94 miles per hour), but piloting becomes difficult at that velocity, so today droneboarders have to make do with speeds of around 60 kph.
Even though flight times are still restricted to around 10 minutes using on-board batteries, a drone weighing 55 kilogrammes (121 pounds) is able to lift up to 145 kilogrammes.
While the winter sports potential of the drones is considerable, the real motivation for developing them is rooted in that lifting power, says Putrams.
Having cost 35,000 euros ($37,000) to build, Aerones is now looking to partner with companies and organisations working in firefighting as well as search and rescue to take the project to its next stage.
“It’s not just for droneboarding. We could use it to lift someone from the roof of a burning building, or a hose could be sprayed on parts of a fire that would be inaccessible to ladders,” says Putrams.
“If there was a connected power supply instead of batteries, the flight times would be limitless,” he says.
While he’s optimistic about the future of his business, Putrams acknowledges that “there will need to be a lot of certification before we see large numbers of these drones operating commercially, to make sure only safe drones are used.”
Putrams says his company isn't just interested in drones for sports. Aerones' biggest goal, he says, is to use them for firefighting and human rescue. The company has figured out a way to have a drone pick up a hose and point it toward a burning building, reaching areas too high for a ladder. A power cable can be added so the drone is not limited by time or batteries, Putrams says.
And because of the lifting power of the drones, Putrams says they could be used to rescue people trapped on a roof or on an icy lake.
In 1899, the Bombay Tramway Company applied to the municipality to operate electric trams. In 1904, the British Electric Traction Company applied for a license to supply electricity to the city with the Brush Electrical Engineering Company its agent. It received the Bombay electric license on 31 July 1905, signed by Bombay Tramways Company, the Bombay Municipality and the Brush Electrical Company. In 1905, the Bombay Electric Supply and Tramway Company (BEST) was formed. BEST received a monopoly on electric supply and an electric tram service in the city, and bought the Bombay Tramway Company's assets for ₹9,850,000. Two years later, the first electric tram debuted in the city. Later that year, a 4,300 kilowatts (5,800 hp) steam power generator was commissioned at Wari Bunder. In 1916 a power purchase from Tata Power (a private company) began, and by 1925 all power generation was outsourced from Tata. To ease rush-hour traffic, double-decker trams were introduced in September 1920.
At that time, Bombay (present Mumbai) was the first Indian city to have double-decker public transport. The electric tram service couldn’t handle the city’s growing population and was eventually phased out, but not before connecting the southern and central neighbourhoods of the city. At 10p.m. on 31 March 1964, the last tram left Bori Bunder for Dadar.
The trams met travellers' needs until the betterment of the city's train network, and the service closed on 31 March 1964.
Aerones is the first worldwide company to provide firefighting solutions in dense areas with Drone. It can quickly reach great heights and endure heat in close distance.
On October 28, 2016, Latvian heavy-duty drone manufacturer Aerones Ltd., together with the fire and rescue team from Aizkraukle, conducted an experiment the world had never seen before. In this experiment, the “Aerones” drone was tested to fight possible fire accidents. The results proved that it is able to reach heights exceeding those of firefighter truck ladders, while the drone also has the capability to operate in hard to reach and dangerous spots.
Currently the drones weigh 55 kg with a length and width of 3 m. With 145 kg of lifting power they can work up to 30 minutes depending on weather conditions. It takes 15 minutes to change batteries, while a full charge can be reached in approximately 90 minutes. New tests addressing the possibility of supplying the drones with power through special cables are planned in the near future.
The company is in progress to obtain a patent for the use of their drone to extinguish fires at very great heights. It is estimated that by using its drone, heights of 300 to 400 meters will be accessible for firefighting.
The drone is fitted with a water hose from a fire truck, and is controlled by a pilot on the ground remotely.
The drone is still in development – it can only stay in flight for 30 minutes after a 90-minute battery charge – but the company hopes to use the machine for real-life operations soon.
The Mercedes "Beauty is Nothing Without Brains" ad was developed at Scholz & Friends, Berlin, by creative director Timm Weber and art director Sebastian Kaufmann.
I am sure most people would not find this ad funny at all.
“My hope is that this campaign will help initiate conversations within families and encourage support for raising happy, healthy children,” said Ann Mukherjee, Global Chief Marketing Officer for SC Johnson.
Set in a joint family setup, the story takes place around a dining table where the family has gathered for a meal. We can see that the male child of the family is upset about something and pushes his plate of food away without having eaten it. The mother tries to get the boy to eat his food one more time. When he responds by pushing the plate away a second time, she simply takes the plate away. This gives rise to a discussion around the table and we find out that the boy has stolen Rs 10 from his mother’s purse for which he was scolded. The discussion invariably turns to how the mother was too tough on the boy and how she shouldn’t have made a big issue out of it.
With everyone against the mother, the head of the family comes to her support, saying she has done the right thing. The film ends with a call to rally against tough moms and the message that ‘it’s good to be tough’.
Television commercials and cinema has often romanticized parenthood which puts too much pressure on mothers to prove themselves as great moms. Social media is no different, with everyone trying to project only the most flawless picture of their lives, carefully editing out anything that reflects the stress, doubts or the overwhelming guilt. The picture is glaringly incomplete.
The missing piece is the image of a mum that emerges when she has to be more of a parent than a friend to her child. She knows that her job is not to do what is easy, but to do what she feels is best for her child, even if it means making tough decision at times. The minute this less than perfect image comes to the fore, she meets with resistance, unfortunately mostly from those closest to her.
Not surprisingly, the most challenging and stressful task for a mum often is battling the judgment and criticism from her immediate family – her husband, in-laws and parents. The happy decisions are everybody’s but the tough ones are usually hers alone.
While it is universally acknowledged that being a mother is the toughest job in the world, we forget to recognize what makes it so! Momspresso in partnership with SC Johnson’s All Out has embarked upon a survey to understand the environment of a mother’s struggle while raising children. The survey places a special focus on the reasons, implications and support for a mother taking a tough decision for her child. Through the survey results, both in qualitative and quantitative terms, Momspresso wants to reassure every mother that she is not alone in the isolation she feels when judged for her tough decisions by her immediate family.
#StandByToughMoms shows solidarity for the incredible community of mothers who often take tough decisions, while thinking about the best for their child.
The top three areas where mothers did not find support for their tough decisions were:
#1- Not giving into the unreasonable demands of the kids – most of this was to do with restricting screen or device time.
#2 - Being strict & stern with the kids – with respect to discipline, behavioral issues and following a routine.
#3 - Focusing on the child’s nutrition – large part of the concern was to do with kids remaining thin and lanky and also about not allowing junk food despite the child’s fussing.
Source: To read further and know more, please check below link :
momspresso.com/parenting/article/96-mothers-feel-tough-decisions-are-integral-to-parenting-reveals-standbytoughmoms-survey-report
With an aim to break the conventional perception of the roles of men and women, Ashok Leyland invited five little girls to their manufacturing facility in Pantnagar in Uttarakhand. Their experiences and observations are captured in this Video. The video begins with these girls entering the massive facility and looking around in complete awe. Ashok Leyland showed the little girls the work women do in their factory – constructing machines, assembling parts, repairing tools.
On International Women's Day, Ashok Leyland's MD Mr Vinod K Dasari explains how gender diversity is important for the ever-growing automobile industry.
From a young age boys and girls are conditioned to behave according to the ‘gender roles’. As the ad clearly portrays, even young girls believe that only strong men can build trucks and buses. The words the little girls use to describe men are ‘strong’, ‘powerful’ and ‘tall’. When asked if only men can build these machines, the girls seemed confused and do not reply. Ashok Leyland breaks the stereotype by showing the little girls that women too can build big machines. Their ad #BreakThePerception acts as a role model on how women should be portrayed in ads in the future.
Let us leave behind what we are taught, instead teach everyone that there is nothing women cannot do. Happy Women's Day.
When a father first lays eyes on his little girl, he loves her more than anything on this earth and when a daughter grows older, her father is the first man she will love and she is the last person her father will have trouble letting go of.
A child always is close to both his parents. However, let us all face it; there is one relation or bond that is a little stronger than the other. Usually, the daughters are close to their fathers more than they are with mothers just like how sons are close to mothers. Let us focus on why and how daughters are so close to their fathers. This is one relation that doesn’t really need any explanations or reasons. It is beautiful just the way it is.
Artist's Tender Illustrations Show The Kind Of Father She Wishes She'd Had:
Artist Snezhana Soosh , illustrator , captures that special , amazing feeling in her artwork of the gentle, loving and uniqe bond between father and daughter. She is a young painter who drew beautiful watercolor paintings to illustrate love in the most exquisite way.
Ukrainian artist Snezhana Soosh believes father-daughter relationships can be truly magical. That's the inspiration behind her series of illustrations that depict the bond between a dad and his little girl.
From playing board games and puppet theatre to chasing the monsters away at bedtime, each illustrated scene is incredibly sweet.
She said "I always wanted to have a tender and loving relationship with my own father, but he didn't know how to show his love so most of the time was distant and cold," Soosh told The Huffington Post. "I was observing other fathers with their daughters and so loved each tender moment they had together. I think I drew what I lacked and very much wanted -- to feel loved and protected by my big papa."
The artist applied the image of the father to her real relationship with her 9-year-old son Frol, whom she homeschools. Thus, they spend a lot of time together doing many of the activities depicted in the father-daughter series.
"Frol is the world to me," the mom said, adding, "He is the first one to see my illustrations and give his opinion on them." She also noted that she wants the images to help her son "grow to be a good man" and "understand what it's like to be one."
Soosh also hopes her images reach other parents, particularly dads. "I hope fathers will see how important they are in their kids' lives and feel appreciated and inspired to show their love and affection," she told HuffPost. "I also want to say that real strength shows itself through love and tenderness."
In her own words: I have but very modest skill in actual drawing, yet, i believe, i was gifted (and cursed) with the talent of observation (if there is such, i think, i have it). Things which go unnoticed by some people, seem ordinary, not important or too small to pay attention to, they catch my eye and touch the strings of my soul like nothing else. Then i sit down and sketch them and when it seems like i was able to get emotions and feelings, those little glimpses of kindness, sadness or love, down on paper, I feel great joy and need to share it.
ZooZoos are advertisement characters promoted by Vodafone India.
ZooZoos are white creatures with ballooned bodies and egg heads who are used to promote various value added services of Vodafone. These characters are played by human actors in body suits. The ads were created by Ogilvy & Mather, the agency handling Vodafone advertisements.
The Zoozoos are small-bodied, thin women covered in layers of white fabric. Each facial expression is made of rubber and pasted on the actors to cut down on the time and cost for shoot. The effect was achieved by a variety of methods including choosing the right material for the body suits to ensure that there were no wrinkles when the characters moved, shooting the footage at lower framerates and keeping backgrounds simple in terms of details and the use of a neutral tone of grey. The sets were made larger than life to make the characters look small as the producers could not take children as the schedule of shooting was odd.
The Zoozoos were split in two parts - the body and the head. The body was made using a special material stuffed with foam in some places (notably around the stomach) while the head was created using a harder material called Perspex.
PUBLIC RESPONSE: The ads were a hit among the Indian audience. This can be gauged from the huge fan following on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter ans so on. The ads were also viewed by thousands of people on YouTube.
Vodafone received the first People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) 2009 Glitterbox Award, for replacing the Pug with more humane alternatives in their ads.
ZooZoos are advertisement characters promoted by Vodafone India.
ZooZoos are white creatures with ballooned bodies and egg heads who are used to promote various value added services of Vodafone. These characters are played by human actors in body suits. The ads were created by Ogilvy & Mather, the agency handling Vodafone advertisements.
The Zoozoos are small-bodied, thin women covered in layers of white fabric. Each facial expression is made of rubber and pasted on the actors to cut down on the time and cost for shoot. The effect was achieved by a variety of methods including choosing the right material for the body suits to ensure that there were no wrinkles when the characters moved, shooting the footage at lower framerates and keeping backgrounds simple in terms of details and the use of a neutral tone of grey. The sets were made larger than life to make the characters look small as the producers could not take children as the schedule of shooting was odd.
The Zoozoos were split in two parts - the body and the head. The body was made using a special material stuffed with foam in some places (notably around the stomach) while the head was created using a harder material called Perspex.
PUBLIC RESPONSE: The ads were a hit among the Indian audience. This can be gauged from the huge fan following on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter ans so on. The ads were also viewed by thousands of people on YouTube.
Vodafone received the first People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) 2009 Glitterbox Award, for replacing the Pug with more humane alternatives in their ads.
ZooZoos are advertisement characters promoted by Vodafone India.
ZooZoos are white creatures with ballooned bodies and egg heads who are used to promote various value added services of Vodafone. These characters are played by human actors in body suits. The ads were created by Ogilvy & Mather, the agency handling Vodafone advertisements.
The Zoozoos are small-bodied, thin women covered in layers of white fabric. Each facial expression is made of rubber and pasted on the actors to cut down on the time and cost for shoot. The effect was achieved by a variety of methods including choosing the right material for the body suits to ensure that there were no wrinkles when the characters moved, shooting the footage at lower framerates and keeping backgrounds simple in terms of details and the use of a neutral tone of grey. The sets were made larger than life to make the characters look small as the producers could not take children as the schedule of shooting was odd.
The Zoozoos were split in two parts - the body and the head. The body was made using a special material stuffed with foam in some places (notably around the stomach) while the head was created using a harder material called Perspex.
PUBLIC RESPONSE: The ads were a hit among the Indian audience. This can be gauged from the huge fan following on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter ans so on. The ads were also viewed by thousands of people on YouTube.
Vodafone received the first People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) 2009 Glitterbox Award, for replacing the Pug with more humane alternatives in their ads.


