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The seventh accused involved in a fierce encounter with the police in Pitampura here in the early hours of January 19 has been arrested by the Crime Branch. One of the accused was killed and another injured in the retaliatory firing by the police.
The accused has been identified as Hasrat (21), a resident of neighbouring Ghaziabad. The incident took place around 2 a.m. on January 19 when eight members of the gang were fleeing in a mini-truck laden with stolen cattle.
When police teams chased them, the criminals opened fire injuring a policeman and damaging three police vehicles. The vehicle was, however, brought to a halt in Pitampura after its rear tyres were punctured in the police firing. While one of the alleged gang members, Yakub, succumbed to a gunshot injury in the face, four others were arrested at the spot. Three members of the gang -- Tasleem, Hasrat and Asif -- had then managed to escape.
Tasleem was arrested a day after the encounter. While raids were being mounted to track down the other two, the police received a tip-off that Hasrat had been spotted in North-East Delhi. Subsequently he was arrested near the Seelampur metro station on Wednesday. A country-made firearm was also purportedly seized from him. The police have obtained his two days' custody for questioning.
"Accused Hasrat is the youngest among six siblings. Owing to poor financial condition, he could not pursue his studies. He worked as a casual labourer. He came in contact with criminal elements, following which he was found allegedly involved in two cases under the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances Act. He had joined the cattle-lifting gang about six months ago," said a police officer.


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International Journal of Emerging Trends & Technology in Computer Science (IJETTCS) is an online Journal in English published bimonthly for scientists, Engineers and Research Scholars involved in computer science, Information Technology and its applications to publish high quality and refereed papers. Papers reporting original research and innovative applications from all parts of the world are welcome. Papers for publication in the IJETTCS are selected through rigid peer review to ensure originality, timeliness, relevance and readability. The aim of IJETTCS is to publish peer reviewed research and review articles in rapidly developing field of computer science engineering and technology. This journal is an online journal having full access to the research and review paper. The journal also seeks clearly written survey and review articles from experts in the field, to promote intuitive understanding of the state-of-the-art and application trends. The journal aims to cover the latest outstanding developments in the field of Computer Science and engineering Technology.
International Journal of Emerging Trends & Technology in Computer Science (IJETTCS) Web Site: www.ijettcs.org Email: email@example.com, email@example.com Volume 1, Issue 2, July – August 2012 ISSN 2278-6856 Acquisition of Iris Images, Iris Localization, Normalization, and Quality Enhancement for Personal Identification B.Sabarigiri1, T.Karthikeyan2 1 Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science, PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, India 2 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, India Abstract: Iris based biometric personal identification and Section 2 deals with image processing steps that include Verification methods have gained much interest with an Iris Localization that comprises of Pupil, Iris Boundary increasing emphasis on security. The proposed approach Detection, Eyelash, and Eyelid Boundary Detection. comprises of acquisition of Iris images, Iris Localization, Normalization and Quality Enhancement. Algorithms like Circular Hough transform, Canny Edge Detection, Gabor filters, Homogeneous rubber sheet model, and Daubechies wavelets methods were used based on the requirements of the Iris Pre-Processing (IIP) Module. Accurate templates are the key to Iris recognition system. Artifacts Removal and Pre- Processing will help to produce accurate matching patterns. Our proposed work produced 99.14% accuracy in edge detection, which gives reliable solution to the segmentation and Quality Enhancement. Keywords: Iris Segmentation, Quality Enhancement, Circular Hough transform, Canny Edge Detection, Gabor filters, Homogeneous Rubber Sheet Model, Daubechies wavelets, IIP 1. INTRODUCTION Traditional methods for personal identification are based on what a person possesses (a physical key, ID card, etc.) or what a person knows (a secret password, etc). These methods have some problems, key may be lost, ID cards may be forged, and passwords may be forgotten. In recent years, bio metric personal identification is receiving growing interests from both academia and industry [1]. There are two types of biometric features: physiological (e.g. Iris, face, fingerprint) and behavioral (e.g. voice and hand writing) Figure 1: Proposed Block Diagram for Iris Image Usually an iris image impossibly contains artifacts, Such Processing (IIP) Module as Pupil, eyelid, eyelash, etc. The artifacts may change After that Iris Normalization and Iris Image Quality and make the texture distort. It must eliminate the above Enhancement Finally, the conclusion and experimental said factors to the iris recognition through the image pre- results were proposed. processing. Mat lab tool used for its image manipulation and Pre- 2. ACQUISITION OF IRIS IMAGES processing. In this paper Section 1 deals with Acquisition The Iris recognition has been an essential research area for of Iris images and Iris image manipulation, Segmentation personal identification due to its high accuracy and the and Edge Detection. encouragement of both the government and private entities to replace traditional security systems, which suffer Volume 1, Issue 2 July-August 2012 Page 271 International Journal of Emerging Trends & Technology in Computer Science (IJETTCS) Web Site: www.ijettcs.org Email: email@example.com, email@example.com Volume 1, Issue 2, July – August 2012 ISSN 2278-6856 noticeable margin of error. Forty healthy volunteers (25 interest from the input image containing an eye. The IIP males and 15 females) IRIS images were collected. Module contains three major tasks. (i) Iris Localization Extraction of the IRIS image is more complicated, since (ii) Iris Normalization (iii) Iris Image Enhancement. IRIS is small in size and dark in Color. The IRIS patterns are differentiated by several characteristics including 3.1 Iris Localization ligaments, furrows, ridges, crypts, rings, corona, freckles, The Iris Localization Unit Contains Three Sections (i) and a Zigzag collarette. Stability is one of the key Pupil Detection and Iris Boundary Detection (ii) Eyelid advantages of IRIS recognition and it is suitable for one - Detection and (iii) Eyelash Detection many identification. Veri Eye Standard SDK used to extract IRIS Patterns in the Effective Manner. The image 3.1.1 Pupil Detection and Iris Boundary Detection size is 328×356 with 500 dpi and stored in the JPEG file Both the inner boundary and the outer boundary of a format. Each volunteer right eye image was collected and typical iris can be taken as circles. But the two circles are eight impressions on each have been made for IRIS usually not concentric. Compared with other part of the recognition. We took some efforts to control image quality eye, the pupil is much darker. The eyelids and eyelashes on eye pictures, and as well as appropriate settings such as normally occlude the upper and lower arts of the iris lighting and distance to camera were adjusted [2]. region. Sometimes, specular reflections can occur within 2.1 Iris Image Manipulation the iris region corrupting the iris pattern. So we required to detect the above said artifacts, then only which will The images captured by camera have RGB color iris help to produce accurate matching patterns image. We transformed the images from RGB to gray (Templates)[3]. level and from eight-bit to double precision thus Hough Trans form is a standard computer algorithm that facilitating the manipulation of the images in subsequent can be used to determine the parameters of simple steps. geometric objects, Such as lines and circles in an image. The circular Hough Transform can be employed to 2.2 Iris Segmentation and Edge Detection deduce the radius and center coordinates of the pupil and Image can be viewed as depicting a scene composed of iris regions. different regions, objects etc. Then Image segmentation is An automatic segmentation algorithm based on the the process of decomposing the image into these regions Circular Hough Transform is employed by wildes et al[4], and objects by associating or labeling each pixel with the Kong and Zhang[5]. Firstly, an edge map is generated by object that it corresponds to. Hence, segmentation sub calculating the first derivatives of intensity values in an divides an image into its constituent regions or objects. eye image and then thresholding the result. From the Before move in to the IIP Module we require to reduce the edge map, votes are cast in Hough space for the noise of the image using Gaussian Smoothing. It is parameters of circles passing through each edge point. replacing each pixel by the average of the neighboring These parameters are the center co-ordinates XC and YC, pixel values. Mathematically, 2-D Gaussian Function is and the radius r, which are able to define any circle written as according to define any circle according to the equation XC2+ YC2 = r2. 1 x ( n 1) x 2 y 2 A maximum point in Hough space will correspond to the g ( x, y ) e (1) 2 2 2 2 radius and center coordinates of the circle best defined by The Gaussian outputs a 'weighted average' of each the edge points Wiles et al [4] and Kong and Zhang [5] also make use of the parabolic Hough transform to detect pixel's neighborhood, with the average weight more the eyelids, approximating the upper and lower eyelids towards the value of the central pixels. This is in contrast with parabolic arcs, which are represented as to the mean filter's uniformly weighted average. Because of this, this, a Gaussian provides gentler smoothing and (-(x-hj)sin j+(y-kj)cos j)2=aj((x-hj)cos j+(y-kj) sin preserves edges better than a similarly sized mean filter. (2) Edge Detection refers to the process of identifying and Where aj controls the curvature, (hj,kj) is the peak of locating sharp discontinuities in an image. Variables parabola and j is the angle of rotation relative to the x- involved in the selection of an edge detection operator axis. includes Edge orientation, Noise Environment, Edge In performing the preceding edge detection step, Wiles et structure, There are many ways to perform edge detection al. bias the derivatives in the horizontal direction for They may be grouped in to two categories.(1) Gradient detecting the eyelids, and in the vertical direction for (2) Laplacian. detecting the outer circular boundary of the iris. The motivation for this is that the eyelids are usually 3. IRIS IMAGE PROCESSING horizontally aligned, and also the eyelid edge map will In the Iris image processing (IIP) module we using some corrupt the circular iris boundary edge map if using all image processing algorithms to demarcate the region of gradient data. Taking only the vertical gradients for locating the iris boundary will reduce influence of the Volume 1, Issue 2 July-August 2012 Page 272 International Journal of Emerging Trends & Technology in Computer Science (IJETTCS) Web Site: www.ijettcs.org Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com Volume 1, Issue 2, July – August 2012 ISSN 2278-6856 eyelids when performing Circular Hough Transform, and To detect lower eyelid, the steps are repeated with lower not all of the edge pixels defining the circle are required IRIS boundary area. for successful localization. Not only does this make circle localization more accurate, it also makes it more efficient, 3.1.3 Eyelash Detection since there are less edge points to cast votes in the Hough Gabor filter and variance of intensity approaches are Space[6]. proposed for eyelash detection. The eyelashes are categorized into separable eyelashes and multiple eyelashes. Separable eyelashes are detected using 1D Gabor filters. A low output value is obtained from the convolution of the separable eyelashes with the Gabor filter. For multiple eyelashes, the variance of intensity is very small. If the variance of intensity in a window is smaller than a Figure 2: (a)An eye image (b) Corresponding Edge map threshold, the center of the window is considered as the (c)Edge map with only horizontal Gradients (d) Edge eyelashes. map with only Vertical Gradients We can use Active Contour model has been used to localize Iris. The contour is defined as a set of n vertices connected as a simple closed curve. The movement of the contour is caused by internal and external forces acting on the vertices. The internal forces Expand the contour into a perfect circle. Figure 3: Pupil Detection Figure 4: Eyelash and Eyelid Detection The external forces push the contour inward. The average 3.2 Iris Normalization radius and center of the contour obtained are the Iris may be captured in different size with varying parameters of the Iris boundary. The discrete circular imaging distance. Due to illumination variations the active contour search for the Iris boundary is affected by radial size of the pupil may change accordingly. The the specular reflections from cornea. Therefore, image resulting deformation of the Iris texture will affect the preprocessing algorithm is required remove the specular performance of subsequent feature extraction and reflections matching stages. Therefore, the Iris region needs to be normalized to compensate for these variations. 3.1.2 Eyelid Detection The homogeneous rubber sheet model algorithm remaps Texture segmentation is adopted to detect upper and each pixel in the localized Iris region from the Cartesian lower eyelids in [7].The energy of high spectrum at each coordinates to polar co ordinate to polar co ordinates [9], region is computed to segment the eyelashes. The region [10]. The non-concentric polar representation is with high frequency is considered as the eyelashes area. normalized to a fixed size rectangular block. The The information of the pupil position is used in upper homogenous rubber sheet model accounts for pupil eyelashes are fit with a parabolic arc. The parabolic arc dilation, imaging distance and non-concentric pupil shows the position of the upper eyelid. For eyelid displacement. This algorithm does not compensate for the detection, the histogram of the original image is used. rotation variance. The lower eyelid area is segmented to compute the edge point of the lower eyelid. The lower eyelid is fit with the Table 1: Accuracy of Iris Boundaries Detection edge points. In [8], the daubechies wavelets methods is used to decompose the original image in to four bands, Method Accuracy(%) HH,HL,LH and LL. Canny edge detection is applied to Hanho sung[11] 98.55 the LH image. To minimize the influence of eyelashes, Xiaofu[12] 97.67 canny edge detector is tuned to horizontal direction. The Cui.et.al[13] 97.35 Canny Edge Detection Algorithm runs in 5 steps:(1) Md slim[14] 90 Smoothing(2) Finding Gradients (3) Non maximum Mojtaba Najafi [15] 98.64 suppression (4) Double thresholding (5) Edge tracking by hysteresis. Proposed System 99.14 The edge points that are close to each other are connected to detect the upper eyelid. The longest connected edge 3.3 Image Enhancement that fits with a parabolic arc is taken as the upper eyelid. 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Territorial Defense in Parking Lots: Retaliation Against Waiting Drivers
Article first published online: 31 JUL 2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1997.tb00661.x
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Ruback, R. B. and Juieng, D. (1997), Territorial Defense in Parking Lots: Retaliation Against Waiting Drivers. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27: 821–834. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1997.tb00661.x
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Oh, and one other thing: Beggars are back, and this time, they come in threes.
Above: At least you can still throw coins to make them stop bothering you
Aside from a new story and a new city, Revelations brings several big additions to the gameplay, the biggest being the hookblade. Far from simply being a way to shoehorn ziplines into the game, the hookblade gives players a little more control and agency over Ezio's actions, making climbing and swinging across Constantinople's skyline just a little more fun in the process. With the hookblade equipped, Ezio can grab ledges that are just out of reach, launch himself up the sides of buildings and swing across gaps by hooking onto hanging lamp-like objects (which, when grabbed normally, still let him swing in 90-degree arcs).
Ezio can also use it to tumble right past any guards in his path, or – by tapping a button at just the right moment – throw them to the ground (or off rooftops, which is much more entertaining). The hookblade's also good for yanking scaffoldings down onto pursuing guards and, and as you might expect, it makes fighting with Ezio's hidden blades about 50 percent more gruesome.
Another big addition: Bombs. Using ingredients found everywhere (most frequently in chests placed across the city), Ezio can craft a pretty wide assortment of explosives by combining different shells, gunpowder strengths and payloads. Each can accomplish a different goal, whether it's simply killing a bunch of guards at once, luring them away from a spot they're protecting or causing panic with an explosion of animal blood.
Above: There's so much new weaponry, ranged attacks are now mapped to a second button, and weapons are selected from two separate wheel menus
Whether you'll actually ever use all of those bombs is another matter. Most of the guards in Revelations are just as easy to kill as in any other Creed game; as before, they'll surround you and attack one at a time, and you can either hack away at one until he forgets to block and dies, or simply wait for them to strike and either disarm them, or kill them in one hit with a counter.
Like in previous games, combat can be immensely fun (and it's flashier than ever here), but its simplicity means that A) there's little practical benefit to buying new weapons, since anything you wield can kill in one hit, and B) there's little incentive to use any bomb other than a lethal grenade or a smoke bomb, unless mandated by the mission. The rest demand a certain level of patience; you have to want to mess with your enemies, and mustering that level of interest is difficult when killing them is so much easier and faster.
That doesn't hold true when you meet the Janissaries, however. The elite slave-soldiers of the Ottoman army, the Janissaries are faster, more devious and much tougher than any other enemy in the core series. Taking one down requires at least three "killing" blows, and they have an annoying tendency during combat to step just out of sword range and shoot you with pistols. They're bastards in a fight (although they're relatively easy to beat once you understand their patterns), but it's kind of a nice change to see an Assassin's Creed enemy that's actually formidable enough to make avoiding them a serious consideration.
Like Brotherhood, Revelations pads out its relatively short narrative with plenty of side missions, although these are both less numerous and a little more closely integrated with the storyline than before. The centerpiece this time is your brotherhood of recruitable Assassins, which (as in Brotherhood) can be signaled to help you during a fight, and can be sent off on various errands abroad (which brings you money, nets them experience points and can eventually open foreign cities up for Assassin conquest).
As you slowly conquer Constantinople by taking back Assassin Dens (analogous to Brotherhood's Borgia Towers), you'll earn the right to recruit up to 12 Assassin helpers, who now come with short introductory quests. Where in Brotherhood you just had to rescue them from angry guards, you might now have to beat a prospective recruit in a race, or catch one as they're picking pockets, or rescue one's wife and daughter from a Templar madman.
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Franchise: | Assassin's Creed |
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Concerns were raised about the system Medicare uses to determine annual changes to physician fees--the sustainable growth rate (SGR) system--when it reduced physician fees by almost 5 percent in 2002. Subsequent administrative and legislative actions modified or overrode the SGR system to avert fee declines in 2003, 2004, and 2005. However, projected fee reductions for 2006 to 2012 have raised new concerns about the SGR system. Policymakers question the appropriateness of the SGR system for updating physician fees and its effect on physicians' continued participation in the Medicare program if fees are permitted to decline. At the same time, there are concerns about the impact of increased spending on the long-term fiscal sustainability of Medicare. GAO was asked to discuss the SGR system. Specifically, this statement addresses the following: (1) how the SGR system is designed to moderate the growth in spending for physician services, (2) why physician fees are projected to decline under the SGR system, and (3) options for revising or replacing the SGR system and their implications for physician fee updates and Medicare spending. This statement is based on GAO's most recent report on the SGR system, Medicare Physician Payments: Concerns about Spending Target System Prompt Interest in Considering Reforms (GAO-05-85).
To moderate Medicare spending for physician services, the SGR system sets spending targets and adjusts physician fees based on the extent to which actual spending aligns with specified targets. If growth in the number of services provided to each beneficiary--referred to as volume--and in the average complexity and costliness of services--referred to as intensity--is high enough, spending will exceed the SGR target. While the SGR system allows for some volume and intensity spending growth, this allowance is limited. If such growth exceeds the average growth in the national economy, as measured by the gross domestic product per capita, fee updates are set lower than inflation in the cost of operating a medical practice. A large gap between spending and the target may result in fee reductions. There are two principal reasons why physician fees are projected to decline under the SGR system beginning in 2006. One problem is that projected volume and intensity spending growth exceeds the SGR allowance for such growth. Second, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) increased the update for 2004 and 2005--thus increasing spending--but did not raise the spending targets for those years. The SGR system, which is designed to keep spending in line with its targets, must reduce fees beginning in 2006 to offset excess spending attributable to both volume and intensity growth and the MMA provision. In general, proposals to reform Medicare's method for updating physician fees would either (1) eliminate spending targets and establish new considerations for the annual fee updates or (2) retain spending targets, but modify certain aspects of the current system. The first approach emphasizes stable and positive fee updates, while the second approach automatically applies financial brakes whenever spending for physician services exceeds predefined spending targets. Either approach could be complemented by focused efforts to moderate volume and intensity growth directly. As policymakers consider options for updating physician fees, it is important to be mindful of the serious financial challenges facing Medicare and the need to design policies that help ensure the long-term sustainability and affordability of the program.
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Celtique Energie has put in a planning application for a site near Fernhurst, West Sussex, in the South Downs National Park, to drill a temporary vertical well to test for oil and gas and potentially drill a horizontal well extending out from it.
But South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA) officers last night recommended that the planning application – which does not seek permission for fracking – should be refused when the national park's planning committee meets next week.
A report by planning officials said that "the applicant has failed to demonstrate exceptional circumstances exist for such exploration and appraisal to take place within the protected landscape and that it is in the public interest to do so".
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A bid by the energy company to explore for oil and gas near Wisborough Green, a conservation area in West Sussex, just outside the South Downs National Park, was also turned down by the county council's planning committee in July.
Trevor Beattie, chief executive for the SDNPA, said: "Any proposal for major development in a National Park must demonstrate that exceptional circumstances exist for the development to go ahead and that it is in the public interest for the development to occur.
"Key assessments are whether there is a proven need for this development in this location or whether oil/ gas exploration could take place elsewhere. The report speaks for itself.
"It is for the members of the SDNPA planning committee to consider the report, evidence, the relevant policies and material considerations and make a decision on this important application."
In a statement Celtique said: "As part of our application we have submitted a comprehensive environmental statement that assesses the potential environmental impacts associated with Celtique's operations, including landscape, transport and noise, and describes in detail the steps we would take to mitigate them.
"We are confident in the robustness of our application and hope that the planning committee of the South Downs National Park Authority shares this view when they meet to decide on the application next week."
The company added that it recognised the importance of the South Downs National Park, and said the exploration well was a temporary structure which would have modest impact on the local area for a short time, but could disclose whether oil or gas reserves existed in that location that could contribute to the UK's energy mix.
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Tooting is a district in South London, England in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is 5 miles (8 km) south south-west of Charing Cross. Tooting is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.[1]
Tooting has been settled since pre-Saxon times. The name is of Anglo-Saxon origin but the meaning is disputed. It could mean the people of Tota, in which context Tota may have been a local Anglo-Saxon chieftain.[2] Alternatively it could be derived from an old meaning of the verb to tout, to look out. There may have been a watchtower here on the road to London and hence the people of the look-out post.[2]
The Romans built a road, which was later named Stane Street by the English, from London (Londinium) to Chichester (Noviomagus Regnorum), and which passed through Tooting. Tooting High Street is built on this road. In Saxon times, Tooting and Streatham (then Toting-cum-Stretham) was given to the Abbey of Chertsey. Later, Suene (Sweyn), believed to be a Viking, may have been given all or part of the land. In 933, King Athelstan of England is thought to have confirmed lands including Totinge (Tooting) to Chertsey Abbey.[3]
Tooting appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Totinges: Lower Tooting was held from Chertsey Abbey by Haimo the Sheriff (of Kent) when its assets were 1 church, 2½ ploughlands of land and 5 acres (20,000 m2) of meadow. Its people were called to render £4 per year to their overlords. Later in the Norman period, it came into the possession of the De Gravenel family, after whom it was named Tooting Graveney. Until minor changes in the 19th century it consisted of 2 square kilometres (0.77 sq mi).[4]
Upper Tooting, or Tooting Bec (for centuries administered as part of Streatham), appears as a manor held by the Abbey of Hellouin Bec, in Normandy, thus acquiring the "Bec" in its name. Its domesday assets were 5 hides. It had 5½ ploughlands and so was assessed as rendering £7.[5]
As with many of South London's suburbs, Tooting developed during the late Victorian period.[6] Some development occurred in the Edwardian era but another large spurt in growth happened during the 1920s and '30s.
- 1902: Tooting Library opened as a one-storey structure. A second storey was added in 1906.[7] In 2013 the library was rebuilt.[citation needed]
- 1906: Tooting Bec Lido opened.[8]
- 1930: St Benedict's Hospital established by the London County Council
- 1954: St George's Hospital begins to relocate to Tooting from Hyde Park Corner, taking over the old Grove Fever and Fountain Hospitals.[9]
- 2003: Redevelopment of St George's Hospital buildings completed.
The Member of Parliament for Tooting is Sadiq Khan (Labour Party), first elected at the 2005 General Election to represent the parliamentary constituency of Tooting.[10]
Tooting is positioned on the Northern line—with stations at the top and the bottom of the hill that slopes down the High Street, Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway. Tooting is also served by an overground service at Tooting railway station providing a direct link south to Sutton via Wimbledon, and north to Farringdon, St Pancras and on to Luton.
It also has several bus links, with routes to and from Central London, Croydon, Sutton and Kingston amongst others.[11]
Tooting Broadway tube station is currently being considered by TfL as a stop on the future Crossrail 2 development. In addition to relieving congestion on the Northern Line, this would provide Tooting with a rapid and direct connection to major London stations such as Clapham Junction, Victoria, Tottenham Court Road and Euston.[12]
Nearest railway stations[edit]
- Tooting railway station
- Mitcham Eastfields railway station
- Balham railway station
- Haydons Road railway station
Open spaces[edit]
A large open area, popularly known as the Tooting Commons, lies at the northern end of Tooting. Historically this was two separate open spaces: Tooting Graveney Common (formerly part of Tooting Graveney parish), and Tooting Bec Common (formerly part of Streatham parish). The commons are home to Tooting Bec Lido, which is 90 metres long and 30 metres wide.
Tooting shares a football club with nearby Mitcham: Tooting & Mitcham United F.C.
A greyhound racing track, the 'Wimbledon Stadium', is narrowly in Tooting on Plough Lane. AFC Wimbledon have possible plans to develop their new stadium there.
Tooting has two indoor markets, with numbers of permanent stalls. The entrances of both are situated on the same street, Tooting High Street, only a few metres apart. They both have many types of outlets, but one, Tooting Market, is predominately Asian. The larger, The Broadway Market, is one of the largest of London's indoor markets, having more than a hundred stalls. and has been active for more than a century. The markets tend to be very animated on Saturdays, but are both open all the weekdays, except on public holidays.
Notable people[edit]
- Robin Davis, Commissioning engineer
- Stephen K Amos, Comedian
- Michael Angelis, Actor
- Darren Bent, Professional footballer
- Dave Clement, Professional footballer
- George Cole, Actor
- Girlschool, Band
- Milton Jones, Comedian
- Lowkey (Born Kareem Dennis), Musician, poet, playwright, political activist
- Jay Tabb, Professional footballer
- Tony Meo, Professional snooker player
- Paul Merton, Comedian
- Clinton Morrison Professional footballer
- New Musik, Band
- Gino Rea, Motorcycle racer
- Leroy Rosenior, Professional football
- Bas Savage, Professional footballer
- Tony Selby, Actor
- Snakefinger, Musician
- Richard Strange, Musician
- UK Subs, Band
- Henning Wehn, Comedian
- Jimmy White, Professional snooker player
- Matt Willis, Musician
- Ramona Marquez, Actress
- Molly Richardson, Entertainer
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The 1949 Ealing Studios film Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Alec Guinness, references Tooting Bec as where one of the characters is living. The 1962–67 BBC comedy series Hugh & I was set in the fictional Lobelia Avenue in Tooting.[13]
The 1977–80 BBC comedy series Citizen Smith was set in Tooting and popularised the cry "Freedom for Tooting!". Leading character in the series Wolfie Smith (played by Robert Lindsay) was the founder of a fictional revolutionary socialist political organisation, the Tooting Popular Front. He unsuccessfully contested the fictional Tooting North constituency as a parliamentary candidate at a by-election, gaining six votes.
The Kitchens of Distinction (who formed in the area) recorded "On Tooting Broadway Station" on their 1992 album The Death of Cool.
In 2005, a 28 km diameter crater on Mars was named after Tooting.[14] A geologic map of Tooting Crater is under preparation, and will be published by the U.S. Geological Survey in the United States.
Scottish singer-songwriter Sandi Thom found fame after she webcast 21 performances from her basement flat in Tooting between February and March 2006. Her track "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)" reached number 1 on the UK charts on 2 June 2006.
Tooting Bec appears in the book The Meaning of Liff, defined as the situation in which a driver sounds his or her horn at a car in front, only to discover that the car in front is parked.
The phrase "Ting Tong from Tooting" is associated with the character Ting Tong from the UK comedy sketch show Little Britain.
Tooting was the setting for the eponymous 2013 British-Tamil crime drama Gangs of Tooting Broadway.[15]
- ^ Mayor of London (February 2008). "London Plan (Consolidated with Alterations since 2004)". Greater London Authority.
- ^ a b Morden, William Edward (1923). The History of Tooting-Graveney: Surrey. ISBN 1-142-75150-3.
- ^ Anglo-Saxon Charters
- ^ Samuel Lewis (editor) (1848). "Tonbridge - Topsham". A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ "Surrey Domesday Book".
- ^ "The history of the borough - Listed buildings and borough history - Wandsworth Council".
- ^ http://ww3.wandsworth.gov.uk/news/pressreleasedetail.asp?id=1942
- ^ "Tooting Bec Lido". Time Out London.
- ^ "History of St George's".
- ^ "Rt Hon Sadiq Khan MP". UK Parliament.
- ^ "Tfl Guide to Buses from Tooting Broadway". Transport for London.
- ^ "Crossrail 2". Transport for London.
- ^ "Television Heaven: Reviews".
- ^ "Mars Geology: Tooting Crater".
- ^ http://www.tootingbroadwayfilm.com/
External links[edit]
- Tooting Community & News Website
- Tooting Community Website
- Tooting's Best Comedy Night
- Tooting Art - Artists Studios Open to the Public


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OBAMA: We now know that the number of Americans who've signed up for private insurance in the marketplaces has grown to 8 million people - 8 million people. Thirty-five percent of people who enrolled through the federal marketplace are under the age of 35.
KEITH: That 8 million signups figure greatly exceeds just about every estimate for what to expect in the first year. Add to that 3 million young people who were able to stay on their parents' plans, and another 3 million low-income Americans who enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program; and, President Obama said, now you're talking about real numbers.
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KEITH: Republicans say they want to both repeal and replace the health care law, though they haven't yet coalesced behind a replacement plan. Then, just as it seemed Obama was ready to move onto the next question, he paused and went back to something he said frustrates him: the 24 states - mostly red states - that haven't expanded Medicaid to cover more low-income adults, as called for in the Affordable Care Act.
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