Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Twister Film Critique



Hello, my name is Barney Stevenson. I study weather for 15 years and I have a lot of experience in Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Typhoons. Many cities and villages got attacked by a huge deadly possibly tornado. My mission is to locate a tornado and observe it from inside, its quite dangerous but that's why I love my job. As you know from my series in Discovery Channel "Danger" is my middle name.

Two weeks ago I was a witness to an F five tornado, it was humongous, unfortunately I wasn't able to join the squad and go inside the amazingly destructive weapon of nature. My car was broken down from the last ride in to a tornado. F four though, my car couldn't stand the F four so we would need a miracle to survive the power of the F five.

The director of the movie has done a great job, even though some of the parts weren't real. Its a fact... you cant stand in the middle of the tornado, especially if its an F five and stay on the ground. In the movie two people stayed under some wooden bridge and they survived. An F five can tare apart houses and buildings and cant brake a tiny bridge?

The real science in the movie was the weather and maybe the machine that they wanted to scan the tornado. Even though it was kind of weird, it looked fail because I never saw something like that in a TV show, they never talked something about that.


Thursday, March 5, 2009

Asian Religion

All adult Muslims are required to offer Salat prayers five times daily. Most mosques will organise a time of prayer for each of the daily timeslots.

In addition to holding the daily prayers, mosques hold weekly jumu'ah services as an adaptation of Sabbath, which replace the midday prayer on Fridays

Monday, March 2, 2009

The Cholistan Desert















The Cholistan Desert is also known as the Rohi Desert. It is situated in the Punjab region of Pakistan and is the largest desert on the Indian continent.

The word Cholistan comes from ‘Chol’ which means desert in Turkish, but it could also come from 'Cholna' which means moving.

About 2.5 million people live in Cholistan who are nomads and travel around the desert, looking for water and herding and trading camels. The people live a very simple life and are very religious. They still keep their primitive customs and traditions and place great value in music and singing. They have a very strong culture with many romantic legends dating back to ancient times. The women and men both wear baggy, embroidered and colourful clothes. They have fabulous desert festivals where you can see camels dancing and wearing even more colourful clothes than the people. People still live in houses made of mud and straw just as they did 200 years ago.

The Cholistan people make interesting handicrafts such as wall hangings, bed covers, carpets and blankets with bright colours and beautiful patterns with geometric designs.

The desert expands over to Sindh and into India. The dry bed of the Hakra River runs through the area. When it dried up so did most of life there. Wildlife is scarce. Wild cat, jackal, wolf, squirrel, field rat, over 200 types of insects and as many as sixty varieties of snakes are found here.

The desert also has an Annual Jeep Rally, known as Annual Cholistan Jeep Rally.

It lies at an altitude of 400 ft. above sea level and covers an area of 23,500 sq. m. Temperatures range from 8º C in winter to 34º C in summer. There is very little rainfall in the area averaging about 3 - 5 inches annually. During the wet season the people built shallow reservoirs to catch the rainwater so that they could survive. Cholistan is changing because a canal system has been introduced.



Places of interest include the Derawar Fort where the tombs of the ex-rulers of Bahawalpur and their families are situated, and Shrines of Channan Pir.