U.S. News Media Group and HP Release 100 Best Colleges and Universities
Thursday, August 20, 2009
- New interactive application helps prospective students evaluate schools -
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News Media Group and HP today unveiled the U.S. News 100 Best Colleges and Universities interactive guide, available today at http://www.hp.com/usnews. The interactive application, which complements the release of the 2010 edition of America's Best Colleges, helps students and families search and evaluate schools through the Best Colleges rankings.
HP and Adobe collaborated with U.S. News on a web-based application that is free for anyone to use to explore America's Best Colleges without leaving home. While the application works on any PC, it is optimized for the family of HP TouchSmart desktop and notebook PCs. By either dragging a cursor across a traditional PC or using a finger to control a TouchSmart PC, people can look at the U.S. News college rankings or narrow schools under consideration by enrollment size, cost, acceptance rate, and student-to-faculty ratios.
U.S. News's new application allows users to navigate the locations of each of the top colleges as pinpoints across America. Touching an image on screen will bring up a profile with related fast facts about the college and U.S. News content, including photos and videos such as first-hand interviews with students about their experience attending a particular college. With the HP TouchSmart touch-screen interface, information about the world's highest-rated colleges is at the user's fingertips.
"We are excited to partner with HP on such a unique application," said Bill Holiber, President of U.S. News Media Group. "We're continually looking for innovative ways to enhance our exclusive content, and with this application, we can provide a better user experience and increase audience engagement." U.S. News Editor Brian Kelly added, "HP's state-of-the-art technology helps make our rankings a more useful and interactive experience."
"From first-time users to the constantly connected, the HP TouchSmart brings America's best colleges to their fingertips with the touch-enabled U.S. News application," says Satjiv S. Chahil, senior vice president, worldwide marketing, Personal Systems Group, HP. "With just a touch, tap or swipe motion, customers can explore the nation's best schools without leaving home."
To download the application and put information about the world's top educational institutions at your fingertips, visit http://www.hp.com/usnews. To learn more about the innovative HP TouchSmart portfolio of PCs, visit www.hp.com/touchsmart .
Media Contacts: Liz Putze, U.S.News & World Report, eputze@usnews.com
HP Media Contact: Marlene Somsak, HP Personal Systems Group, marlene.somsak@hp.com or 408.873.5125
About HP
HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com/.
About the U.S. News Media Group
The U.S. News Media Group is a multi-platform digital publisher of news and analysis, which includes the monthly U.S. News & World Report magazine, the digital-only U.S. News Weekly magazine, HP, and www.rankingsandreviews.com. Focusing on Health, Money & Business, Education, and Public Service/Opinion, the U.S. News Media Group has earned a reputation as the leading provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life of its readers. The U.S. News Media Group's signature franchises include its News You Can Use(R) brand of journalism and its "America's Best" series of consumer guides that include rankings of colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, health plans, and more.
SOURCE U.S. News Media Group
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Nate Quick died
Famous radio personality Nate Quick died yesterday according to some reports at 10 pm. From here we send our condolences to his family. We know that he died surrounded by friends and family.
Nate Quick put his soul in what he did and he will always be remembered for that. Charlotte has lost a great radio man today. Many people online comment that he was a great man, which makes Nate Quick’s death even sadder.
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kandhaswamy / mallana set 's to fire
Cast: Vikram, Shriya, Raghuvaran, Vivek, Santhanam, Vinod Raj, Y G Mahendran, Arun Mathavan, Vinayak, Alex, Indrajith Direction: Susi Ganesan Production: Kalaipuli S Thanu Music: Devi Sri Prasad Banner: V Creations
The much awaited Tamil First ever super hero movie Kandasamy is being released worldwide in 900 theatres on 21st August.
Starring Vikram and Shreya in the lead cast, Susi Ganesan has dedicatedly made his magnum work a visual treat and in colorful style. Kalaipuli S Thanu has the produced the film without any budget constraints which is evident in the grandeur sets and picturesque locales.
Shreya looks sizzling hot than ever and the man of difference Vikram is treading the path of universal hero in donning different getups for his every venture.
Versatile actor Vikram has become very popular among the Telugu audiences with his film Aparichitudu. After a long gap, Vikram is playing hero, in a Tamil film Kandhasamy which has been simultaneously made in Telugu under the title Mallanna, with Shreya in the female lead.
In the process, he manages to conduct raid on a millionaire (Ashish Vidyarthi) and finds black money. But, the millionaire’s daughter Subbalakshmi (Shriya) vows to take revenge against Mallanna and teases him in the name of love. Mallanna too plays the drama. Due to certain lapses in the plans, Mallanna gets caught by the police and he is forced to accept that he as been playing the drama. But, the police official who arrests him is a puppet in the hands of the millionaire, whom Mallanna raided. So that millionaire puts a proposal that he will not reveal the secret to any one on a condition that Mallanna would share 50 per cent of what all he robs from anyone.
Mallanna accepts the proposal and wants the millionaire to send him to Mexico on a fake passport so that he could collect the money of on another millionaire there and ask him to give his bank account number in Mexico so that he could deposit the entire money there. As per the plan Mallanna collects money and deposits the money in the millionaire’s account there. Later, he asks Subbalakshmi to check the deposit in their account and inform her dad. After Subbalakshmi opens the online account and reveals to her father that the money has been deposited, Mallanna cracks that password and transfers the entire money back into his account.
Finally, that millionaire tries to take a revenge against Mallanna by giving the tape where he had recorded Mallanna's confession. However, Krishna Rao, who knew Mallanna's activities destroys the evidence. Finally, Mallanna, raids another big shot called AP Pedda Manishi and brings out the black money he stored in his bus. However, the police again arrests Mallanna for robbing the economic offenders. There is no evidence that Mallanna helped the people in the form of money. At the same time, the people who lost the money do not lodge any complaint about the theft. So, the court relieves him as there is no proof of his misdeeds, though it is clear that he admitted the fact on his own.
PERFORMANCE:
As far as performance is concerned, Vikram has given his best performance in his usual manner. The speciality is that he sports different get-ups for the movie which includes a woman’s attire. He sports a character which has 12 different attires. He is quite shrewd in changing his body language to suit the changed get-up and make the audiences spell-bound. Especially the attire as a cock is very attractive. He is good at the songs and also in action scenes. The director of the film has moulded his character well as an officer who, deals with economic offences. His chemistry with the heroine is good as well Vikram has taken the character like a challenge and as emoted well in every frame. Shreya, who plays heroine in this film does not show any inhibition to expose her glamour. Moreover, the 'size zero’ bug has bitten her a lot and she sports a lean look all through the film. She has sizzled in all the songs with excellent dancing skills. At the same time, the heavy dose of exposing, the kissing scenes and romantic scenes with the hero might prevent the family audiences to the theatres. Superstar Krishna has played another important role in this movie and he has done justice to his character. All the others including Ashish Vidyarthi, Prabhu, YG Mahendran and Mukhesh Tiwari have also done well. Brahmanandam’s comedy is average.
TECHNICAL:
Music takes the cake among all the other technicians in this movie. Almost all the songs have become very popular and the audio has been a chartbuster for the past several weeks. Devisri Prasad has given fantastic tunes to most of the songs. Moreover, he has made Vikram render the songs on his own and the experiment has worked out well. Camera work by Ekambaram is okay, while Sahiti has penned the dialogues and lyrics. Though the lyrics are good to listen, they fail to sync with the lip movement. Thota Tharani’s seniority can be witnessed in the sets erected for the songs and for some scenes. Susi Ganeshan, the director of the film, needs to be complimented for penning a good story. However, he has failed as a director after the interval bang. The common audiences cannot understand the calculations and actions of the hero in the second half. Even there are no mass elements to talk about in the second half.
REMARKS:
It is very common that a film which has evoked lot of hype during its making would either be a big hit or a flop. For Mallanna, the second half has proved to be a curse as the audiences feel bored after the interval bang. It has taken almost two years to complete the film and there are high expectations about the movie. However, the film has proved to be a dud ultimately with the entire second half testing the patience of the audiences. You can watch the film if you are a hardcore fan of Vikram, or to see the glamour and romantic dances of Shreya. The production values of V Creations are adequate.
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