Tibet is a plateau region in Asia

Tibet is a plateau region in Asia

Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north of the Himalayas. It is home to the indigenous Tibetan people, and to some other ethnic groups such as Monpas and Lhobas, and is inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people. Tibet is the highest region on earth, with an average elevation of 4,900 metres (16,000 ft). It is sometimes referred to as the roof of the world.

During Tibet's history, it has existed as a region of separate sovereign areas, a single independent entity and as a vassal under Chinese suzerainty or sovereignty. Tibet was first unified under King Songtsän Gampo in the 7th century. At various times from the 1640s until the 1950s, a government nominally headed by the Dalai Lamas, a line of spiritual political leaders, ruled a large portion of the Tibetan region. During some of this period, the Tibetan administration was subordinate to the Qing Dynasty.

In the chaos in China following the Xinhai Revolution in 1913, the 13th Dalai Lama expelled Qing's representatives and troops from what is now the Tibet Autonomous Region and governed it autonomously.Neither the new Republic of China, nor any other foreign state or the United Nations recognized this as legal Tibetan independence.In 1950, the People's Republic of China, emerging victoriously from the Chinese Civil War, quelled the 14th Dalai Lama's army and successfully negotiated for an acknowledgment of Chinese sovereignty. Since what constitutes Tibet is a matter of much debate (see map, right), neither its size nor population are simple matters of fact, due to various entities claiming differing areas as part of "Tibet"

Cutest Bunnies - Make You Love

Cutest Bunnies - Make You Love

People and Places - Amazing Imagery

People and Places - Amazing Imagery


Travel, Portrait and Advertising photographer Jasper James has some great pictures in his portfolio. Especially this People and Places series, where the final visual is a juxtaposition of his subject's silhouette and a aerial view of Beijing.

Busy Philipps At Some Event

Busy Philipps At Some Event

Samsung Eternity II A597 and Flight II A927 announced for AT&T

People at the US have never been short of options when it comes of buying mobile phones. These market owners never let them down. Samsung mobiles  is the second largest conglomerate in the world and have been pioneer in providing the US consumers with some quality handsets. This time from the house of Samsung comes not one but two appealing and attractive handsets for the users to enjoy.

One of them is the Samsung Eternity™ II, a full touchscreen device featuring AT&T Mobile TV, and the other one is the Samsung Flight™ II, a full touchscreen device with horizontal, slide out QWERTY keyboard. AT&T*and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) together are bringing forth these hearty creations.
Samsung Eternity II A597:

The Samsung Eternity II is a complete entertainment hub with a full 3.0 inch touchscreen, truly remarkable for watching AT&T Mobile TV, or rather surfing the web, and also for updating of social networking sites. This device shall feature three scrolling home screens and drag-and-drop widgets which actually will enable the customers to fully customize their user experience. Users will also be entitled to access and enjoy enhanced social networking with services such as AT&T Social Net which will rather incorporate most of the popular social networking sites like Facebook®, Twitter and Myspace™ into one application and for quick and easy access.

Another interesting and new feature which is incorporated into the Samsung Intensity II is the PicDial(R), which is actually an exciting feature which shall make your phone’s address book socially aware, allowing users to see full screen Facebook and MySpace profile pictures and also status messages of contacts on their mobile phone during every call made.

Additional features of Samsung Eternity II include:

- Mobile Email

- SMS, MMS, Video Messaging and Instant Messaging

- Full HTML browser

- Smart Gestures

- Pre-loaded and Downloadable apps through AT&T AppCenter

- Enhanced GPS Functionality, such as Fitness Tracking

- AT&T Music

- AT&T Address Book

- AT&T Navigator (separate subscription required)

- Bluetooth v2.1+ EDR

- AT&T Video Share and Mobile Video

- Music Player with Mobile Music and Videos

- 2.0 Megapixel camera & camcorder

- Expandable Memory up to 32GB


Samsung Flight II A927:

Samsung Flight II is a feature-rich messaging phone and comes with a touchscreen with a full, horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard, ideal for sending text messages, instant messages, e-mail or updating your social networking site. This device possesses three customizable menu screens and drag-and-drop widgets which allow users ample room for customization and quick access to their most used apps. With the provision for a 2 MP camera with camcorder and expandable memory up to 16GB, the device provides a full HTML web browser, tri-band 3G connectivity and quad-band GSM technology.

Additional features of Samsung Flight II include:

- Enhanced social networking with PicDial™, Star Tweets and WHERE®

- Mobile Email

- MS, MMS, Video Messaging and Instant Messaging

- Full HTML browser

- Pre-loaded and Downloadable apps through AT&T AppCenter

- AT&T Music

- AT&T Address Book

- AT&T Navigator (separate subscription required)

- Bluetooth v2.1+ EDR

- AT&T Video Share and Mobile Video

- Expandable memory up to 16GB

Luxurious Bridge Concept - Dubai

Luxurious Bridge Concept - Dubai


This bridge will be a mile long and 670-feet high at its highest point. It will have a whooping 12 lanes of traffic with a metro line running down the center. It is expected to be able to carry over 4000 hours vehicles per hour and will cost a measely 817 million dollars

Easy Yoga Moves for Beginners: Basic Poses

Easy Yoga Moves for Beginners: Basic Poses

America’s taken to yoga like never before. Yoga has become the hottest thing today. There are countless people who have benefited from yoga. No wonder everyone right from Hollywood celebrities to judges, senators everyone has taken to yoga. The very principle of yoga is to look at the body inside out. It aims to create a union between the mind, body and soul. It aims to give a holistic view of the problems in the body. There are many who have claimed to have gained peace with oneself after practicing yoga.

However, it can be a daunting task for those looking to begin practice yoga. The funny names given to the different poses (or asana as they are called) help you to stretch and tone muscles while relaxing the mind and the body. With yoga, you tune your body to come out of the fight or flight response and respond by relaxing.

Easy Yoga Moves for Beginners

However this is not an easy task, especially when the mind, body and soul are trained to respond either by fight or flight. Yoga is more of surrender than struggle. For those learning the basics, here are a few moves for you to go through. Mind you these are just a brief description of the different moves and they should always be performed under the guidance of a yoga guru (master).

Basic yoga for beginners can be classified under different groups based on convenience. For those looking for relaxation, you could try the

    * Shava Asana (also called as the corpse position) – This pose, relaxes the mind and body. To perform this asana you need to lie in a supine position and keep both the legs apart from each other, similar to a corpse. This asana is very good t rejuvenate your mind.
    * Bal Asana (also called as child’s pose) – This asana derives its source from the way a child sleeps -carefree. It is ideal to take rest and relax your body.
    * Yoga Nidra (or conscious deep sleep) – This is an asana where you get to enjoy the benefits of deep sleep even when your mind is operating. It is extremely rejuvenating and manages to awaken your subconscious mind.

Yoga postures for meditation:

    * Padma Asana (Lotus Pose) – In this pose, the body takes the shape of a lotus, and is the ideal pose for meditation. However this could be a little difficult to beginners, and for those who are inflexible. But with practice, it is quite easy and effective.
    * Vajra Asana (or diamond pose) – Vajra also means thunderbolt in Sanskrit and effective practice of this asana is believed to make the body stronger and harder like the thunderbolt.
    * Sukh Asana (also called easy pose)-As the name says, such asana is mean to be comfortable and is the best pose that can be easily done by everybody.

Among asana’s that are practiced by standing are Kona Asana, Trikona asana and Tada asana.

Remember whatever the asana that you perform, they’re to be performed at least 3 hours after your meals. One or two hours before sunrise are the best time to perform yoga. These poses should be performed on the hard floor, with a yoga mat or rug for support.