The PlayStation 2 is Sony's second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. Its development was announced in March 1999, and it was first released in Japan on March 4, 2000, in North America on October 26, 2000 and in Europe on November 24, 2000.
The PS2 is part of the sixth generation era, and has become the fastest selling and arguably the most dominant home console of video game history, with over 115 million units shipped worldwide by December 2006.
Only a few million people had obtained consoles by the end of 2000 due to manufacturing delays. The PlayStation 2 was so popular after its release that it was difficult to find units on retailer shelves. Another popular option was purchasing the console online through auction websites.
Many analysts predicted a close 3-way matchup between the PS2 and competitors Microsoft's Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube (which was the cheapest of the three consoles and had an open market of games). However, the release of several blockbuster games during the 2001 holiday season pushed the PS2 in order to maintain momentum and hold off its rivals.
Games
The brand strength has led to strong third-party support for the system. Although the launch titles for the Playstation2 were unimpressive in 2000, the Christmas season of 2001 saw the release of several best-selling and critically acclaimed games. These games helped the PS2 maintain and extend its lead in the video game console market, despite increased competition from the launches of the Microsoft Xbox and GameCube. In several cases, Sony made exclusivity deals with publishers in order to pre-empt its competitors. read more…..
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Top 10 Children’s Museum
Children's museums are institutions that provide fun informal learning experiences for children. Traditional art and natural history museums typically have a hands-off policy regarding exhibits. Exhibits are designed to be viewed from a distance, and are considered to be too valuable for physical contact with the visitor.
Children's museums, on the other hand, feature interactive exhibits that are designed to be manipulated by children. The theory behind such exhibits is that, especially in early childhood, activity can be as educational as instruction. Most children's museums are nonprofit organizations, and many are run by volunteers or by very small professional staffs. Over a hundred children's museums have been founded since 1990.
The Association of Children's Museums, or ACM, is the trade association for children's museums, representing museums in 21 countries. The largest children's museum in the US is The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Many museums that are members of ACM offer reciprocal memberships, allowing members of one museum to visit all the 299 others for free.
Founded in 1899, the Brooklyn museum was the first museum in the world to cater specifically to children. It was originally a part of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1823.
1. Brooklyn Children's Museum - Brooklyn, NY
2. The Center for Puppetry Arts - Atlanta
3. Chicago Children's Museum
4. Children's Discovery Museum - California.
5. Children's Museum of Houston - Texas
6. Children's Museum of Indianapolis
7. Exploratorium - San Francisco
8. Liberty Science Center Jersey City, N.J.
9. Please Touch Museum Philadelphia,
10. Science Museum of Minnesota
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Children's museums, on the other hand, feature interactive exhibits that are designed to be manipulated by children. The theory behind such exhibits is that, especially in early childhood, activity can be as educational as instruction. Most children's museums are nonprofit organizations, and many are run by volunteers or by very small professional staffs. Over a hundred children's museums have been founded since 1990.
The Association of Children's Museums, or ACM, is the trade association for children's museums, representing museums in 21 countries. The largest children's museum in the US is The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Many museums that are members of ACM offer reciprocal memberships, allowing members of one museum to visit all the 299 others for free.
Founded in 1899, the Brooklyn museum was the first museum in the world to cater specifically to children. It was originally a part of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1823.
1. Brooklyn Children's Museum - Brooklyn, NY
2. The Center for Puppetry Arts - Atlanta
3. Chicago Children's Museum
4. Children's Discovery Museum - California.
5. Children's Museum of Houston - Texas
6. Children's Museum of Indianapolis
7. Exploratorium - San Francisco
8. Liberty Science Center Jersey City, N.J.
9. Please Touch Museum Philadelphia,
10. Science Museum of Minnesota
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Friday, May 11, 2007
TV show: Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives (Days or DOOL) is an American soap opera. It debuted on November 8, 1965, and can still be viewed weekdays on NBC. Originally, the show revolved solely around the Horton family, and has since expanded to tell the stories of other families, such as the Black, Brady, Carver, Deveraux, DiMera, Kiriakis, Lockhart and Johnson clans. The series is set in the fictional town of Salem.
However, this first golden period for NBC daytime proved to be short-lived, as Days' ratings began to decline in 1977. Much of the decline was due to ABC's expansion of its popular soap "All My Children" to a full hour, the last half of which overlapped with the first half of Days.
In recent months, the show's producers have begun to focus more on the past, as they've shifted focus back onto Jack and Jennifer as well as restocking the Horton family tree by way of SORAS. Abby was rapidly aged to a teenager. Abby (Ashley Benson)'s best friend Chelsea Benson (Mandy Musgrave, then Rachel Melvin), lost her parents in a car accident and was taken in by Patrick and Billie. She was later revealed to be Bo and Billie's presumed-dead daughter, Georgia Brady. read more.......
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However, this first golden period for NBC daytime proved to be short-lived, as Days' ratings began to decline in 1977. Much of the decline was due to ABC's expansion of its popular soap "All My Children" to a full hour, the last half of which overlapped with the first half of Days.
In recent months, the show's producers have begun to focus more on the past, as they've shifted focus back onto Jack and Jennifer as well as restocking the Horton family tree by way of SORAS. Abby was rapidly aged to a teenager. Abby (Ashley Benson)'s best friend Chelsea Benson (Mandy Musgrave, then Rachel Melvin), lost her parents in a car accident and was taken in by Patrick and Billie. She was later revealed to be Bo and Billie's presumed-dead daughter, Georgia Brady. read more.......
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Karaoke
Karaoke pronounced [karaoke]; listen is a form of entertainment in which an amateur singer or singers sing along with recorded music on microphone. The music is typically of a well-known song in which the voice of the original singer is absent or reduced in volume. Lyrics are usually also displayed, sometimes including color changes synchronized with the music, on music video to guide the sing-along.
What is thought of as karaoke today was popularized by the Japanese singer Daisuke Inoue in Kobe, Japan in 1970. After becoming popular in Japan, karaoke first spread to East and Southeast Asia during the 1980s and subsequently to other parts of the world.
It has been common to provide musical entertainment at a dinner or a party in Japan, as in the rest of the world, for a long time. This tradition appeared in the earliest Japanese mythology. For a long time, singing and dancing remained one of the few adult entertainments in rural areas. Noh was initially played at a tea party and guests were welcomed to join in for a cheer or a shout of praise. Dancing and singing was also a part of a samurai's education. It was expected that every samurai have a dance or a song they could perform. During the Taisho period, Utagoe Kissa, (literally song coffee shop), became popular and customers sung to a live performance of a music band. read more….
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What is thought of as karaoke today was popularized by the Japanese singer Daisuke Inoue in Kobe, Japan in 1970. After becoming popular in Japan, karaoke first spread to East and Southeast Asia during the 1980s and subsequently to other parts of the world.
It has been common to provide musical entertainment at a dinner or a party in Japan, as in the rest of the world, for a long time. This tradition appeared in the earliest Japanese mythology. For a long time, singing and dancing remained one of the few adult entertainments in rural areas. Noh was initially played at a tea party and guests were welcomed to join in for a cheer or a shout of praise. Dancing and singing was also a part of a samurai's education. It was expected that every samurai have a dance or a song they could perform. During the Taisho period, Utagoe Kissa, (literally song coffee shop), became popular and customers sung to a live performance of a music band. read more….
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Sunday, May 6, 2007
Paris Hilton gets 45 days in jail
Paris Hilton is one of the most photographed women in the world well known for her participation in The Simple Life reality series and also for 1 Night in Paris, a homemade sex video of her with then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, which leaked onto the Internet in late 2003.
Hilton is again in light, a judge sentenced a shocked and tearful Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail on Friday, ruling that the celebrity hotel heiress violated her probation for an earlier alcohol-related traffic offense.
Los Angeles superior court judge Michael Sauer sternly rejected Hilton’s story that she did not knowingly disobey the law by driving while her license was suspended and ordered the 26-year-old socialite to report to a county detention facility on June 5, or face 90 days in jail.
Hilton wept and her mother, Kathy, yelled at the prosecutor, “You’re pathetic,” as the packed courtroom cleared.
The stunning decision capped a two-hour hearing in which prosecutors argued that Hilton was thumbing her nose at the court and seeking to be placed above the law, while defense lawyers said she was being singled out for harsh treatment because of her celebrity status. Taking the witness stand in her own defense, the star of the reality TV show ‘The Simple Life’ testified that she was unaware her driving privileges had been completely suspended at the time police stopped her and impounded her car on February 27.
Hilton said she had relied on information conveyed to her by her publicist, Elliot Mintz, who she said told her that she was permitted to drive for work-related reasons after the first 30 days of her license suspension late last November.
But the judge said he disbelieved Hilton, declaring that the “smoking gun” in the case was a notice she had received from a police officer, and had signed, during an earlier traffic stop in January.
He said Hilton had “completely ignored” that notice, which she had carried in her glove box for weeks, and another license suspension notice sent to her office address by the department of motor vehicles that Hilton said she never saw.
“In my opinion, there’s not doubt that she knew that her license had been suspended,” the judge said. “She doesn’t look at her mail, her personal assistant never goes through it either. ... I think she just wanted to disregard everything that was said and continued to drive no matter what.” In a final statement before she was sentenced Hilton denied that she sought to flout the law. But the judge was unmoved.
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Hilton is again in light, a judge sentenced a shocked and tearful Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail on Friday, ruling that the celebrity hotel heiress violated her probation for an earlier alcohol-related traffic offense.
Los Angeles superior court judge Michael Sauer sternly rejected Hilton’s story that she did not knowingly disobey the law by driving while her license was suspended and ordered the 26-year-old socialite to report to a county detention facility on June 5, or face 90 days in jail.
Hilton wept and her mother, Kathy, yelled at the prosecutor, “You’re pathetic,” as the packed courtroom cleared.
The stunning decision capped a two-hour hearing in which prosecutors argued that Hilton was thumbing her nose at the court and seeking to be placed above the law, while defense lawyers said she was being singled out for harsh treatment because of her celebrity status. Taking the witness stand in her own defense, the star of the reality TV show ‘The Simple Life’ testified that she was unaware her driving privileges had been completely suspended at the time police stopped her and impounded her car on February 27.
Hilton said she had relied on information conveyed to her by her publicist, Elliot Mintz, who she said told her that she was permitted to drive for work-related reasons after the first 30 days of her license suspension late last November.
But the judge said he disbelieved Hilton, declaring that the “smoking gun” in the case was a notice she had received from a police officer, and had signed, during an earlier traffic stop in January.
He said Hilton had “completely ignored” that notice, which she had carried in her glove box for weeks, and another license suspension notice sent to her office address by the department of motor vehicles that Hilton said she never saw.
“In my opinion, there’s not doubt that she knew that her license had been suspended,” the judge said. “She doesn’t look at her mail, her personal assistant never goes through it either. ... I think she just wanted to disregard everything that was said and continued to drive no matter what.” In a final statement before she was sentenced Hilton denied that she sought to flout the law. But the judge was unmoved.
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