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My little son is participating in an International Kids Contest. Please click on the following link and vote for my son. You will find 5 stars. click on the 5th star. No registration is required. Also give your comments.I shall remain highly obliged. If you wish, you may vote everyday once. They will accept the vote exactly after 24 hrs.

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Thanks,

Bhaskar

Dear Friends

My little son is participating in an International Kids Contest. Please click on the following link and vote for my son. You will find 5 stars. click on the 5th star. No registration is required. Also give your comments.I shall remain highly obliged. If you wish, you may vote everyday once. They will accept the vote exactly after 24 hrs.

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Bhaskar

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Perhaps it is a tribute to the allure of the Age of Empires III game and the skill of the developers that an expansion pack that improves multiple aspects of the game would come across as merely good. True, the expansion pack adds new characters and a whole new story line, and also expands your home city options while increasing both the skill needed to win and the strategies and planning available to improve gameplay. Again, I'm gushing about the options here, but it is more of the same great stuff from the Age...well, I think we can call it an empire.

Nathaniel Black arrives in the new world representing (and looking to expand) the Black family fortune, curiously labeled as an Iroquois hero. You wonder why that might be, until you learn that he has powers that your previous heroes did not initially possess. Mr. Black can summon Iroquois fighters from his home city. He can even coax them from "old world" barracks and stables. Better yet, in the wilderness, once your village has come of age, Mr. Black can conjure a small band of warriors seemingly out of nowhere. Handy.

What follows in the story line is what you would expect: villagers to rescue, towns to defend, a grudge to settle, and a series of complex assignments that will re-engage the Age of Empires III fan.

Included in the expansion pack is a full set of military attributes for three tribes: Aztec, Iroquois and Sioux. As these groups can show up as friends or foes depending on the scenario and in the random maps, it helps to know some of their more unusual weapons. Among my favorite is the Iroquois mantlet; essentially, it is two guys behind a sandwich board made of thick branches. In practice, it is frustratingly hard to kill and not nearly as innocuous as it sounds.

More important attributes for your own village come with the expansion pack. Your alliances with the native people yield advancements in your abilities to harvest the natural resources, especially wood and wild food sources. Also, some advancements allow you to spontaneously generate needed resources for a period of time. If you are a "store, then conquer" kind of player, these can be used to your advantage early in the game. "Nick of time" players who immediately set out to build a conquering army might find these useful during a large attack.

Another major development in The War Chiefs is the introduction of the Fire Pit. Don't tell Hale or Danforth, but it's not only Tituba dancing around the fire. Teach your villagers the dances, much like you would encourage them to work at the mill or to harvest sheep, and you will be rewarded with military powers such as increased attack strength, or with additional soldiers.

In advanced ages, the addition of immigration, spies, and other advancements are of dubious value. Except in rare cases, I have found that if you are advanced to the fifth age, you do not need the advanced housing capabilities to hold more than you have built houses for. Additionally, the spies are fairly powerful tools, allowing you to see the whole board, especially if you are pitted against a nation prone to large scale attacks. But again, by the fifth age, usually your defenses are up to the challenges. Each of these additions enhances the intrigue and improves the replayability of The War Chiefs.

I would have liked for Destineer Studios to figure out a way to defeat the dock and exposé during gameplay. The interruptions can quickly annoy the player and sap the game of its natural momentum. Additionally, I am not sure of their success with the relatively high price point. I wonder what their own research (and research in similar software types) shows about the price point for what are essentially upgrades-albeit upgrades that require a lot of manpower and certainly need to be paid for.

Iguazú Falls is undoubtedly the most visited place in Misiones and one of the most imposing natural attractions in Argentina, and why not in South America. Together with Nahuel Huapi National Park in Patagonia, it is one of the most frequented tourist sites.
In guarani language, the term "Iguazú" means "great waters". It was discovered in 1541 by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and established in 1984 as Natural World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Iguazú river is born in Paraná state in Brazil, and after crossing 1,200 km. on a plateau where it receives several affluents, it reaches a fault forming a crack in the interleaved layers of sandstone and basalt where the river runs.

A legend says that a big snake called "Boi" lived in the river. To calm its ferocity, aborigines sacrificed a woman every year as an offering. But once a brave guarani aborigin kidnapped the woman and saved her from the traditional rite escaping through the river. Boi burst in anger, bent its body and split the river forming the cataracts separating the man and the woman.

The name Iguazu comes from the Guarani or Tupi words y (water) and guasú (big). Legend has it that a god planned to marry a beautiful aborigine named Naipí, who fled with her mortal lover Tarobá in a canoe. In rage, the god sliced the river creating the waterfalls, condemning the lovers to an eternal fall. The first European to find the falls was the Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541, after whom one of the falls in the Argentine side is named. The falls were rediscovered by Boselli at the end of the nineteenth century, and one of the Argentinian falls is named after him.

The waterfall system consists of about 270 falls along 2.7 kilometres (1.67 miles) of the Iguazu River. Some of the individual falls are up to 82 metres (269 feet) in height, though the majority are about 64 metres (210 feet).

The water falling over Iguazu in peak flow has a surface area of about 400,000 square metres (1.3 million square feet) whilst Victoria in peak flow has a surface area of over 550,000 square metres (1.8 million square feet). By comparison, Niagara has a surface area of under 183,000 square metres (600,000 square feet). Victoria's annual peak flow is also greater than Iguazu's annual peak-9.1 million litres per second versus 6.5 million-though in times of extreme flood the two have recorded very similar maximum water discharge (well in excess of 12 million litres per second). Niagara's annual peak flow is about 2.8 million litres per second, although an all-time peak of 6.8 million has been recorded. Iguazu and Victoria fluctuate more greatly in their flow rate. Mist rises between 30 and 150 metres (100 and 500 feet) from Iguazu's Garganta do Diabo, and over 300 metres (1,000 feet) above Victoria (sometimes over 600 metres).

Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta on 2nd May 1921. His father, Sukumar Ray was an eminent poet and writer in the history of Bengali literature. In 1940, after receiving his degree in science and economics from Calcutta University he attended Tagore's Viswa-Bharati University. His first movie Pather Panchali (1955) won several International Awards and set Ray as a world-****director.
Was voted the 25th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
In 1967, he wrote a script for a movie entitled "The Alien". Columbia Pictures were in talks to produce this movie. Peter Sellers and Marlon Brando were rumored to play the leading parts. However Ray was surprised to find that the script he had co-written had already been copyrighted and the fee appropriated. Marlon Brando dropped out of the project and though an attempt was made to bring James Coburn in his place, Ray was dissilusioned and had enough of Hollywood machinations and returned to Calcutta. Columbia was interested in reviving the project in the 70s and 80s but nothing came of it. When E.T. was released in 1982, many saw striking similarities in the movie to Ray's earlier script. Ray believed that Spielberg's movie "would not have been possible without my script of The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies." Spielberg denied this by telling "I was a kid in High School when this Script was Circulating in Hollywood".
Great Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa and Ray were acquainted with each other. Kurosawa said of Ray's work, "To have not seen the films of Ray is to have lived in the world without ever having seen the moon and the sun"
The Legion of Honor is the most prestigious award in France and presented to those having exhibited outstanding lifetime achievement in their chosen field of work. Instead of inviting him over to France for the ceremony, the then president Mitterand personally went to Ray's doorstep in Calcutta to present him with the honor.
Another huge fan of Ray's work was John Huston.
He was a physically enormous man (about 6' 5" and well over 200 pounds), having stood nearly a foot taller than the average Indian of his generation.
Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1961
Was a fan of the Tintin comics and even had some shots of some of the books in his movies.
He died on April 23, 1992.