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Governments need a better understanding of the flexibility and security of open source software.
Recently, I visited a country that is considering a new law regarding government software purchases. To paraphrase the law, it requires that free and open source software be purchased for government uses unless no free and open source solution exists. If a proprietary solution is chosen, the solution must be justified. I happened to arrive on the day the subcommittee was considering this law, and they invited me to give my input.
I mentioned some of the common arguments in favor of FOSS. I told them that although private companies can make the case for short-term expediency through proprietary solutions, governments must consider additional criteria. A government handles public money, and therefore must take the long-term view. Governments need to consider the effect on their country if the software becomes unavailable some time in the future. What happens if the company goes out of business or simply stops producing a product? Does the government have the source code for the solution in escrow? If so, can the government find the programmers familiar enough with that software to change it to meet the government's needs? Who pays the cost of upgrading that proprietary software – which could include new hardware – and migration? What happens if an economic embargo is imposed by the country of the company producing the software? Can the government continue to get the software support necessary to keep their software working?
If the software is open source, the government can continue to use, update, and customize the program regardless of what happens to the company or person who originally wrote the software. In fact, in many cases, the government might not have to do anything at all because a community project will spring up to maintain the program.
Governments need to understand the flexibility and security that FOSS offers. Having ownership and control of the software they use allows governments to change the software to meet their requirements, rather than having to change requirements to meet the needs of the software.
The legislators told me that their country was small and they would not be able to find all the programmers necessary to write all the software they need. I pointed out that if they align with the FOSS community, they can join forces with others to develop the software every government needs, yet still reserve the right to change portions critical to their own needs.
The legislators argued that there should not be a law mandating FOSS. I pointed out that the only thing their law was doing was mandating that the choice of software be justifiable. Justification is something that should always be required in government.
Several legislators argued that the law might reduce the technological solutions that they might choose. I argued that this was not an issue of technology, but of business practices, and that technological goodness as a part the solution had not been compromised by this proposed law – in fact, it had been strengthened by requiring the justification.
Some legislators mentioned that proprietary software generated revenue for their people. Channels sold the software, installed the software, integrated the software, educated and certified others in how to use the software. "All of these things," I said, "can be done with free and open source software, to an even greater degree." Because the source code is available, it is much more possible for value-added resellers to change and integrate the various pieces of software into a better solution than it is to "warp" two non-changeable pieces to work with each other.
Finally, they mentioned that, in most cases, the software royalties were less than 25 percent of the costs, and therefore "were insignificant." As a taxpayer, I found this interesting. What consumer would not look hard at a 25 percent reduction in costs? And particularly if that 25 percent is probably going to leave their country in royalty charges to a company in a foreign land?
I pointed out that, by using FOSS, they could either save this 25 percent or use the savings to pay a local programmer to tailor the software to their needs – a local programmer who would buy local food, live in local housing, and pay local taxes.
After listening to my arguments, the legislators loosened up a bit. I could see that it was not their own arguments they were using, but those that were supplied to them by vendors of proprietary software. With that, I left the legislators to vote on their new law. I hope they choose the right path.
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This is the first time on one of these forums but I\\\´m kinda stumped and would like to spend little money as poss. O.k here is the problem. . . . .I can start the bike just fine. There is no missing or sputtering .. .. . .runs fine but after about 5 min the engine just dies and it wont restart. I think it has something to do with the spark unit. Can someone please give me some insite
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Public to View Maritime Security Technology Oct. 20-21 at Long Beach Convention Center
LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — With a floor filled with the hottest in maritime security technology open to the public free of charge and a high-level conference featuring scores of public- and private-sector leaders, the Maritime Security Expo is slated to return Oct. 20-21 to the Long Beach Convention Center.
From high-tech devices and specially equipped surveillance vessels to leading-edge weaponry and diver and canine units, the Eight Annual Maritime Security Expo exhibit hall is to be brimming with the latest tools used to protect world ports and shipping lanes. The hall is to be open to the public at no charge Tuesday, Oct. 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Wednesday, Oct. 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A two-day conference schedule features discussions on such topics as the federal Transportation Worker Identification Credential, piracy, smuggling, cybersecurity, and gathering and sharing of intelligence. Speakers at opening sessions Tuesday are to include Richard D. Steinke, Port of Long Beach executive director, and Vice Admiral Robert Papp, U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area commander, while Tuesday's afternoon speakers are to include Matthew Bettenhausen, California Emergency Management Agency acting secretary. Wednesday's program is scheduled to open with an address from John Porcari, U.S. Department of Transportation deputy secretary.
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The Maritime Security Expo, titled "Weathering the Perfect Storm: Faltering Economies, Piracy, Climate Change and Maritime Security Regulations," is anticipated to draw more than 800 attendees from throughout the world. It is being co-hosted by the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles and presented in association with U.S. Maritime Administration, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, California Maritime Academy, Propeller Club of Los Angeles-Long Beach, Foreign Trade Association of Southern California and others.
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Recreative writing: English literature at a level.
As we commence on the second year of the 'new' A Levels in Literature it is an appropriate time to reflect on their impact on teaching and learning in the classroom. The key differences (there is nothing 'new' under the sun) are: fewer modules, more texts, more coursework, texts in translation, critical and thematic approaches and 'recreative' (dread word) options.
There is no doubt that the new courses have necessitated a stark adjustment in teaching practice. The increase in the amount of texts to be studied has demanded that we no longer 'go through' the text, which has got to be a good thing. Some specifications suggest that we give some texts a 'light touch' and there is much scope for unpacking what exactly this means in teaching terms. Students have to do more independent learning--i.e. independent reading--which is all to the good apart from the fact that many come to A Level with very little skill in this area. The transition from GCSE to A Level remains a huge issue. We can only wait and see what the new GCSEs do to improve the situation. This, coupled with the fact that students may be asked to produce coursework in the first term of AS Level, makes the whole process particularly daunting. However I suspect that this is more daunting for the teacher than the student. This year I found AS groups impressively eager to step up to the mark. I, on the other hand, found myself supervising 120 pieces of Literature coursework and a little overwhelmed.
The biggest thrill however, for me, was the enthusiasm with which students--certainly not all, but a significant number--embraced the opportunity to tackle the recreative approach to text. I do wish someone would expunge the word, it is both unhelpful and inaccurate, but nevertheless it is the welcome return of the creative response to text.
Students have been starved of any outlet for creative writing ambitions in Literature assessment since Curriculum 2000. It was not surprising then that about a third of my charges this year jumped at the chance to express their engagement with text in a creative mode. Although I encouraged all students to have a go at recreative pieces, those that chose to submit them for coursework were ultimately self selecting. I was genuinely surprised, and not a little relieved, to find that those who were unable or unwilling to pursue their creativity didn't. There were no instances of unsuccessful work or of students so attached to their creative outpourings that they didn't recognise the need for editing and development. I was particularly pleased with those that transformed drama texts into poetry. This proved a very fruitful exercise and the close relationship between the two genres was explored very productively.
Here are some extracts from students' recreative responses to A Streetcar Named Desire. This proved a very popular text for this option, far more students tackled Williams in this way than chose to tackle Shakespeare. They enjoyed playing with his style of stage directions and found the character of Blanche, particularly her state of mind, quite compelling. It was also fascinating to watch them experimenting with the American idiom and how obvious it became when they hadn't got it quite right.
Here a student tackles stage directions full on, imagining a scene where the minor but pivotal character, Shaw, discovers the truth about Blanche that he is later to share with Stanley:
Shaw leaves the reception room and starts down the long, pink lit path of rooms, stopping briefly by number eight to light another cigarette. As he travels down the path, the light of the flamingo casts a formidable shadow across the wall of doors--accentuating his already prominent height and air of authority. Before reaching the door of number twelve, he rattles the keys in his hand and places the cigarette in his mouth. As he does so, the door beside him, number thirteen, begins to open. As Blanche emerges, a moth flickers by, unsuspectingly trailing into a spider's web. At first, the moth struggles desperately, its efforts only exacerbating the situation as its wings tangle further. Finally, as the spider emerges, the moth becomes subdued and motionless suggesting that it has accepted its tragic fate.
Blanche (dreamily) Why, hello there, stranger.
Shaw Oh--Hullo, Miss Dubois is it?
Blanche Yes, but you may address me as Blanche. I always love an unfamiliar face, there's so much to absorb. See, a stranger can hold no predisposition or prejudice against another so one can present oneself in a desirable light without the concerns of the past. I've always felt safe in the eyes of a stranger.
Shaw (having taken a thoughtful drag on his cigarette) That is only true, Dubois, if both strangers are unheard of.
Blanche I suppose you've heard all manner of prejudice against me then Mr--
Shaw Shaw. And, yes, I've heard some talk of you.
Here another student takes another minor character, the Tamale Vendor, and envisages the events of the play from their point of view:
Of course, he wasn't a docile character; he made sure his voice could be discerned above the melodic confusion of tinny jazz and laughter, advertising his not-so-lucrative business:
"Red Hot! Re-e-ed Ho-ts!"
Not an interruption, but a punctuation, he liked to think. For what would Elysian Fields be without the old Tamale Vendor to offer tasty pseudo-Mexican treats to those who would much rather just be on their way?
A young sailor boy, red around the ears, strode past him. The nervous creature was asking after the Four Deuces, gingerly addressing two women who sat nestled on a staircase like fat geese. The vendor saw them often, those women, and understood the leaner of the two--whose name was something like Emily ... Eunice, perhaps--lived in one of the more aged buildings nearby. A structure so old it seemed to almost bend double, its lacklustre paintwork crackled and flaked, betraying the long hardships that the fortress had already faced.
"Re-e-e-ed Ho-ots! Red Hot!"
There was the man who lived downstairs, Stanley Kowalski, a rough man, carved solely from hard stone and testosterone, and who sometimes graced the Vendor with a purchase.
He was yelling to his wife--a pretty thing with a more reserved nature--something about bowling, although the Vendor could not hear clearly above the overlapping of voices and music. So it was bowling tonight, not poker.
A challenging option attempted by several students was to give voice to Blanche's inner state of mind. Here the light and dark imagery is used to great effect to evoke the sinister and overwhelming state of disjointed paranoia:
I am her past. I am becoming her present. I will be her future.
I stalk her mind, searching, hunting, devouring memories, terrible memories that I know she has.
I am part of her soul. I have control of the ghost. The ghost of the light. The love. The boy. Ha! Poor little Blanche, grieving over her lost love ... that's what people think, believing all her sad sob stories. No-one gives me any credit! I make her think; think about the cruel and harsh words she spoke to him. She made him die! And she will be punished. She says she loves him 'It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been in half a shadow. If she felt this way, why would she have hurt him like that? Why?
She created me, she did this to herself. Her foolish actions making me alive, draining the life out of her. She deserves it. She doesn't understand what it's like for me. In the dark, unacknowledged, uncared for. It was her decision to find me! Her way to get all the attention she wants. She craves it. Needs it. So much that she makes monstrous things. Me. I pounce at her in the vision of light. I replay 'the headlight of the locomotive' tearing her apart. Lights are everywhere, she can't escape. Escape that night , she is trapped, as the truth ' glares into the room'. She crumbles, crumbles under my grasp. The brightness tears away her guard, her safety and she is left alone, alone and remembering.
All these extracts clearly demonstrate engagement with and understanding of the text as well of a keen awareness of different interpretations. More importantly they reveal a sympathy for the language of the text that is rarely achieved by AS students in their critical essays. Although some find it tricky to make this language awareness explicit in their commentaries, their understanding of their own intentions gives them confidence in their ownership of the text.
In encouraging students to tackle the recreative option it is always a good idea to provide them with examples of the genre. Whilst they may not have time to read The Wide Sargasso Sea (re. Jane Eyre), they may be familiar with Bridget Jones's Diary (re. Pride and Prejudice) or Clueless (re. Emma). For concrete examples that can be easily and quickly exploited in class, poetry provides a wealth of options. Many AS students will have come across Carol Ann Duffy's 'Havisham' or 'Salome'. For those who know
Macbeth, show them U.A Fanthorpe's wonderful 'What, in our house?' Answering Back is a very useful anthology of 'living poets replying to the poetry of the past', edited by Carol Ann Duffy.
If you're looking for short, fun exercises to get the recreative ideas flowing here are two that work for me:
Rewrite the text as a Haiku. This 'encapusulates' the core ideas of the text or the impression it has had on the reader. It's also a great way of adding a bit of humour into the proceedings.
Dead Dad. Not what a boy needs while he's away at university.
Black white black white black. All this fuss for a hanky! Why not ask the girl?
Best Words, Best Order
Generate a random group of numbers by asking the class for their birth dates. Next open the set text on any page. Each student should then identify the first word on the left hand page as word number 1. They then count the number of words to the first of the random numbers and write that word down. Repeat again until you have a word for every number in the group. Students should now all have, say, 20 words from the text. They then have to make this into a poem without adding any words. The results can be strangely reflective of the text and really get students engaging with the language, even if some lines read 'the, the, it'.
As with all new courses, it will take us time to fully get to grips with the demands and details of the new AS and A2s. I am glad that students have to read more and I am glad they have to compare more. What I am most glad about is that they now have the chance to get credit for their creative writing talents. It is an option much missed and I, for one, welcome its return. As for the term recreative, I suppose I'll have to get used to it as it is what currently describes one of the most profitable and entertaining ways of engaging with text. For anyone who managed to plough through Richardson's Pamela at university, remember it was worth it just to read Fielding's brilliant Shamela.
Jane Bluett
With many thanks to the following students of Bilborough College, Nottingham for extracts of their work: Aleister Adamson, Ella Bailey and Hannah Skidmore.
NB: Don't forget that NATE publishes a study guide for teachers and pupils on A Streetcar Named Desire, in its Critical Reading series.
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TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines—Those in the performing arts are doing their part to help ease the burdens of Supertyphoon "Yolanda" victims.
Various artist groups in Leyte came up with an activity dubbed "Panhiuli ngan Pagbabago," a water ritual for healing and recovery, staged last Friday at the University of the Philippines-Tacloban Botanical Garden by Cancabato Bay.
UP-Tacloban professor and National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Commissioner Joycie Dorado Alegre, one of the event's initiators, said it was held to help not only the living but also those who perished in the Nov. 8 superstorm that claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people in Eastern Visayas, almost half of them from this city.
Participants chanted and sang as they placed boiled eggs, cigarettes, candies and tuba (coconut wine) on a balsa raft and pushed it off onto Cancabato Bay as an offering to the spirits.
As the raft floated away, the chanting and singing stopped to usher in a moment of silence.
"We (did) this ritual so we can be healed. We are reconnecting with the spirits as part of our healing process… of our people and the community," explained Alegre in a phone interview on Saturday.
Alegre said the ritual, aimed at easing the emotional and spiritual burdens of both the living and the dead, relived an old tradition centered on appeasing or paying homage to the spirits of the water, considering that it was a very strong typhoon that killed the thousands of people.
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She said the offering was taken from the "tamoy," an age-old water ritual of Leyteños, particularly of fisherfolk from Carigara who offer food to the spirits for good weather, protection and a good catch.
Yolanda did not only "damage the physical but the spiritual world in addition to the spirits around us," Alegre said.
The ritual, she added, will hopefully "heal all the elements of life and not just the people."
She said the ritual was also meant to help the still "unsettled spirits," especially the missing or the unburied, to finally find their "home," just like the living who survived Yolanda's onslaught.
The activity was initiated by the NCCA, Leyte-Samar Heritage Society, UP-Tacloban Campus, Museo Pambata and Citizen's Network for Psycho-social Response.
In Manila, meanwhile, Badjao women who were displaced by the September siege of Zamboanga City performed traditional music using the agong and the kumintang as part of an interfaith ritual to signify closure to last year's tragedies.
The "Araw ng Paghilom at Pagbangon: Isang Pahingalay," day of healing and recovery, held on Saturday at the Museo Pambata in Rizal Park signaled the rehabilitation phase to the negative aspects brought by the four elements: Fire (Zamboanga siege), Earth (Bohol and Cebu earthquake), Wind and Water (Supertyphoon Yolanda in the Visayas).
Prayer for survivors, helpers
"This is a memorial of sorts for the people who passed away and a prayer for those who survived and those who helped," Leo Emmanuel Castro of Sanghabi told the Inquirer.
Sanghabi (one weave) is a nonprofit organization that focuses on the appreciation of Philippine cultural diversity through the use of indigenous musical instruments.
The Citizens Network for Psychosocial Response spearheaded simultaneous rituals held in Tacloban, Cebu, Bohol, Davao and Zamboanga cities.
The ritual was based on the concept of pahingalay or to take a rest with God, Castro said.
Interfaith prayers were said by Christian, Catholic, Muslim, Badjao and Buddhist groups.
The Pause Muna Peace Muna of the Brahma Kumaris also gave presentations with a song from Timmy Cruz and poetry reading by Vim Nadera with dance accompaniment by students of the Philippine High School for the Arts.
One of the key elements of the pahingalay was the use of the tambara, a platform of the Bagobo on which to place offerings during the ritual, Castro explained.
"We use the tambara to focus the thoughts and intentions of the participants of the pahingalay," he said.
The participants then proceeded to Manila Bay for the symbolic offering.—With a report from Erika Sauler
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The conflict pitting ethnic Rakhine Buddhists against stateless Rohingya Muslims in coastal Rakhine state marks some of the worst sectarian unrest recorded in Myanmar in years. President Thein Sein has declared an emergency and warned that the spiraling violence could threaten the democratic reforms tentatively taking shape in Myanmar after half a century of military rule.
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"Smoke is billowing from many directions and we are scared," said Ma Thein, an ethnic Rakhine resident in Sittwe, where dark smoke from numerous fires covered the skyline into the late afternoon. "The government should send in more security forces to protect both communities."
Truckloads of security forces have been deployed in Sittwe for days, and much of the port city was reported calm, including its main road. But homes were burning in three or four districts that have yet to be pacified.
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Bangladesh has turned back about 500 Rohingyas trying to escape by boat. Mohammad Jainul Bari, a Bangladeshi government administrator in a district bordering Myanmar, said the Rohingyas had crammed into 11 wooden vessels over the past three days. Bari gave no reason for turning them back, but said authorities had orders not to allow them into the country.
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Myanmar's government regards the Rohingyas as illegal migrants from Bangladesh and has rendered them stateless by denying them citizenship. Although some are recent settlers, many have lived in Myanmar for generations and rights groups say they suffer severe discrimination.
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With their playoff seeding locked in place, the Bengals have the option of taking it easy with some of their players in the final regular-season game.
They've done it before, and it hasn't turned out so well.
The Bengals (9-6) haven't won a playoff game since 1990, going 0-3 in the postseason under coach Marvin Lewis. He wouldn't talk in any detail Monday about his plans for their concluding game against Baltimore at Paul Brown Stadium, other than to say he's learned from those playoff losses.
In 2009, Cincinnati had clinched the AFC North title before the final game on the road against the Jets. He rested starters during a 37-0 loss to New York. One week later, the Jets came to Cincinnati and won 24-14.
The starters were rested, but their momentum was gone.
''How'd that work out for us?'' Lewis said on Monday. ''I don't really have any beat-up guys. So, the only thing that is at stake is you go out and play to win the game every time we go. That's important.''
A 13-10 victory in Pittsburgh on Sunday clinched the final AFC wild-card spot. Baltimore (10-5) won the AFC North later in the day by beating the Giants.
The Bengals are locked in as the sixth seed, so they'll be on the road for every game in the playoffs. Their destination will be decided by how the final weekend plays out.
The Patriots currently are the No. 3 seed, which would put the Bengals in line for a first-round game at New England. If the Ravens beat the Bengals on Sunday and New England loses at home to Miami, Baltimore would move into the third seed and host Cincinnati in the first round.
There's also a chance the Bengals could open at Houston - where they lost 31-10 in a first-round game last season - or at Denver. The Broncos beat the Bengals 31-23 at Paul Brown Stadium on Nov. 4.
There are so many possibilities that the Bengals aren't paying much attention. Lewis is trying to get them focused on something else this week: evening up things with the rival that made them look bad at the start of the season.
The Bengals opened in Baltimore on Monday night and lost 44-13, one of the worst season-opening drubbings in franchise history.
''We didn't kick the season off very good, and now we get to finish it at home,'' Lewis said. ''We don't know who we will play (in the playoffs) or where. We just have to take it on ourselves. More in focus, though, is the Baltimore Ravens. They are a good team that just won our division and a team that beat the snot out of us in the first game.''
The Bengals finish at home against the Ravens for the second straight season. Last year, Baltimore came to town and clinched its first division title since 2006 with a 24-16 victory. The Bengals got a wild card when the Jets and Broncos also lost their final games.
It's only the second time in franchise history the Bengals are going to the playoffs in back-to-back seasons. They also did it in 1981 - when they reached their first Super Bowl - and in the strike-shortened 1982 season.
The win at Pittsburgh on Sunday had special significance. Cincinnati hadn't beaten the Ravens or Steelers in the last two seasons, going 0-6 against its biggest rivals.
''That's a huge win for us because people were doubting us,'' defensive tackle Domata Peko said on Monday.
Even though the Bengals can't improve their playoff position, they can add to their momentum. Last season, dropped three of their last five games, then lost to Houston in the first round.
The win in Pittsburgh was Cincinnati's sixth in the last seven games. Although the offense has struggled lately, the defense has held opponents to 13 or fewer points six times during that seven-game stretch.
''In December last year, we were kind of (leveled) off a little bit,'' Peko said. ''This year we started slower, but now we're starting to take off. Those are the teams that are dangerous.''
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CHENNAI: As part of its efforts to introduce "Heli-tourism" in a big way, the Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) has decided to collaborate with Pawan Hans Helicopters to introduce regular helicopter services between Madurai and Rameswaram and Madurai and Coimbatore.
Giving details of the new initiative after holding the first review meeting of "Heli-Tourism" at the TTDC office, the State Tourism Minister, N. Suresh Rajan, told The-Hindu that in the first phase, it has been agreed to launch 5-seater helicopter services between Madurai and Rameswaram and Madurai and Coimbatore from the first week of October.
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The introduction of helicopter services would provide a fillip to the tourism industry in the State and help attract more overseas tourists by providing convenient links to the major carriers operating out of Madurai.
Second phase
In the second phase, plans are afoot to link Madurai with Kodaikanal and Coimbatore with Udhagamandalam and start operations from Chennai. Detailed plans have also been chalked out with another Thiruvananthapuram-based operator to operate flights to Kanyakumari and to Palani.
The TTDC would enlist the support of the major air carriers operating out of Madurai to ensure that their services provided convenient connections to the proposed heli-tourism flights.
The Tamil Nadu Government would go all out to secure the necessary clearances from the Central Government, especially the Civil Aviation, the Union Home, the Union Environmental and the Union Tourism Ministries before October.
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The Minister said depending upon the success of the helicopter services, the helicopter operator had agreed to augment the seating capacity of the services.
"The Tamil Nadu Government through its tourism and TTDC would provide all logistic help to Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited (PHHL), a Government of India Enterprise."
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The Minister said while the estimated cost for an hour's flying had been quoted as Rs.50,000, the tentative tariff to cover the 45-minute journey between Madurai and Rameswaram per passenger would be Rs.7,506 and for the 35-minute journey to connect Madurai and Kodaikanal would be Rs.5,838.
The PHHL Deputy General Manager (Marketing), Sanjay Kumar, said the company wanted the State Tourism Department to include helicopter services in the tour packages offered by the TTDC, arrange for ticketing and handling services of passengers, besides expediting construction of new helipads at Kodaikanal and Rameswaram and securing permission to use the Madurai airport to commence operations from there.
The first meeting was attended by the State Tourism and Culture Secretary Incharge, T.S. Sridhar, the Information Technology Secretary, C. Chandramouli, Additional Secretary Public Department, Kumar Jayanth, the Director of Tourism and Managing Director of TTDC, M. Rajaram, and two Members of Parilament, Mr. PMohan (Madurai) and Mr. A.V.Bellarmin (Nagercoil).


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Pocket Watch - McBean, Melbourne, circa 1875 Reg. No: ST 017703
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- Gents pocket watch, white metal open case, J. McBean, Melbourne, no 3558, mid 19th century.
The watch belonged to David Askew, architect and civil engineer of 'Deepdene', Burke Road, Balwyn, an eastern Melbourne suburb. Askew was a principal of the architectural firm Twentyman and Askew. He subsequently gave the watch to his son, John Askew, engineer, whose name is inscribed on the case.
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BANGALORE: In Premjit Lall's death, India has lost an illustrious player, who was a gentleman to the core and who took keen interest in helping fellow players during his prime, said Krishna Bhupathi, coach and father of Mahesh Bhupathi, and who was also a contemporary of Premjit Lall.
Bhupathi Sr., in a chat with The Hindu said: "My association with Premjit goes back 45 years. He was one player, who was loved by one and all and we are bound to miss him a lot."
Mr. Bhupathi said, "Premjit's endearing quality was his tendency to help fellow players. I remember the days, when he used to put his own money to get us entries in international tournaments.
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NEW YORK The deaths of a mother and four children in a torched New York City apartment were being investigated Thursday as a possible murder-suicide committed by one of the children, a troubled teenager with a history of setting fires, police said.
Two young girls whose badly burned bodies were found in a front room of the apartment had their throats slit, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said. The girls' bodies were found along with that of their mother in the second-floor Staten island apartment. The youngest child - a 2-year-old boy whose throat wasn't slashed - was found alive and died later at a hospital.
The body of an older brother, 14-year-old C.J. Jones, was found slumped over a bed in a back bedroom, his throat also slit, Browne said. A straight razor was discovered underneath his body.
Police were investigating the possibility that the teen may have killed his mother and siblings - ages 2 to 10 - and killed himself, Browne said.
Browne said the boy recently had been kicked out of a public pool for setting a fire there and that neighbors described him lighting paper on fire in front his apartment building in recent days.
"We believe the fire was intentionally set and our investigation is continuing," Fire Department spokesman Steve Ritea said.
Neighbor Raquel Fagone said she had seen C.J. lighting scraps of paper in front of the building a few months ago. "I told him not to do that, and he put them out," Fagone said.
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"It sounded like a little child running, upset, in distress, upset, screaming, running around," she said. Then, she said, "I heard a bang and a kind of kaboom."
But friends of the family said they couldn't reconcile authorities' statements with the kindhearted teenager they had known.
"C.J. was the most loving and caring person in the world," said Shaquawna Meaders, 25, who lived down the street and was at the family's apartment the night before the deaths. "I can't see him doing any kind of harm to them."
Meaders described C.J. as a skinny child, adding: "His mother would have been able to fight him off."
Earlier Thursday, fire officials had said the blaze started in the Staten Island apartment that Leisa Jones shared with her kids and quickly moved through the two-story building's attic space and roof. The tenants in the other three apartments got out safely.
Nicholas Cotton, who lived in the other second-floor apartment with his girlfriend, Shannon Barback, said they were awakened by banging. He went to the window and saw people outside yelling, "Fire!"
He didn't see anything until he opened his bathroom door and saw flames shooting through the wall from Jones' apartment.
The 32-year-old Jones attended a beauty school during the day, neighbors said. Her other children were identified as 2-year-old Jermaine, 7-year-old Melonie, 10-year-old Brittney.
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MANILA, Philippines — Malabon residents and motorists frequenting roads in the city should expect rerouting measures when work returns to normal in the city on Monday (April 1).
This, as the Malabon City government announced the start of the rehabilitation of the Lambingan Bridge along Gov. W. Pascual Avenue in Barangay (village) Concepcion, Malabon on Monday.
The city government has announced four alternate routes to be taken by vehicles to avoid the road closures near the bridge.
For light vehicles going to Concepcion and Hulong Duhat from Potrero via Gov. W. Pascual Avenue, turn left to Sanciangco, right to P. Aquino-Rizal Avenue, and then right to Gen. Luna.
For heavy vehicles going to Concepcion and Hulong Duhat from Potrero via Gov. W. Pascual Avenue, turn right to M.H. Del Pilar and go straight to Panghulo and Dampalit.
Meanwhile, vehicles going to Potrero from Hulong Duhat should go straight to C. Arellano, right to Sacristia, left to F. Sevilla, left to Rizal Avenue-P. Aquino, and left to Sanciangco.
Finally, for vehicles going to Tinajeros from the Manapat and Bayan areas should take Rizal Avenue-P. Aquino, and turn left to Sanciangco.
The local government has yet to announce when the rehabilitation of the bridge is expected to be finished.
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