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Why India Is "Geek Nation"
India is already known as one of the world's IT powerhouses. Angela Saini, author of the new book, Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World, believes the country is also becoming one of the world's hubs for innovation and scientific ingenuity.
Over the past few years, BRIC (Brazil-Russia-India-China) has become a buzzy acronym for technology- and finance-watchers. India is already known for call centers, IT development, and expatriate coders. The country is also home to one of the world's fastest-growing middle classes. Angela Saini, the British author of the new Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over The World, believes that India is also becoming an innovation center to be reckoned with, and a world leader in tech.
Fast Company recently spoke with Saini about India's tech industry, the growth of Indian startups, and what the future holds for Indian innovators. Geek Nation is being released in the U.S. on May 1.
FAST COMPANY: Why do you consider India to be a "Geek Nation"?
ANGELA SAINI: I grew up in London, and it's difficult to grow up in this city and not notice that every school has at least one geeky Indian kid. I was the geeky Indian kid in my class. My dad is a geek, many of my cousins are geeks, and more generally, India is famous for producing doctors, university professors, and engineers who work all over the world. India itself is not a world leader in science and technology yet but it does have a culture that strongly favors these things, above anything else. So Geek Nation was my journey to figure out why, and also where that ambition is taking it.
I have to admit, as a science journalist, I started out with a big measure of skepticism—I mean, India has a weak scientific publication record compared to the U.S. and Europe—but the trajectory it's on is just incredible. I think the rest of the world underestimates just what hundreds of thousands of committed young scientists and engineers can achieve. Then again, President Obama gets it. If you look at his speeches on science and education, he often mentions the growth of India as one reason that the U.S. needs to stay competitive.
The subtitle of my book is a bit bombastic, but the contents are more balanced. I look at scientific research and technologies that are having a big effect on ordinary people's lives—the good as well as the bad—and the ambitious projects that the government hopes will help secure India's future superpower status. At the end of the day, I'm just a journalist. I'm not trying to argue a point, but rather to take an honest picture of a country through my geeky lens.
What was the most surprising thing you uncovered while researching your book?
There wasn't a day in my research that I wasn't surprised by something. I traveled the length of India, north to south, and met such fascinating characters. What impressed me most is that so many Indian researchers have such a social aspect to their work. They want to help India's poor and vulnerable, as well as to do good science.
One interviewee, Sujatha Narayanan, was a tuberculosis researcher I met in Chennai. A few years ago, when she didn't have enough healthy volunteers for her work, she started running tests on herself. One day she found some TB bacteria in a tube that had been in her throat, which meant she may have accidentally infected herself. She had to undertake a grueling drug treatment for months, which she believes triggered her diabetes. She put her life on the line for her work, but it has not diminished her passion or her commitment to science.
What role are ethnic Indian immigrants/returnees from the West playing in India's tech industry? Are they a major factor?
The success of India's tech industry has encouraged a lot of young engineers and scientists who left the country, in the big brain drain, to return. And they're playing a big part in shaping the future of the industry. Not only are they bringing their expertise and experience, but they are also bringing the culture of places like Silicon Valley. In Bangalore these days there are meetups and cool conferences for young techies and designers, just like you get in San Francisco. There's this buzz about the big cities, which is making them an exciting environment to be in. But it's not just in IT—I met scientists in all kinds of fields who had chosen to come back to India because they felt the opportunities were improving and that they could make a difference to the country.
Can you explain why you compared India's current situation to Japan in the early 1970s?
When you read academic studies about the attitudes that people had toward Japan's technology industry in its early days, it's very similar to what people have been saying about India recently—that scientists and engineers are hardworking and educated, but not particularly creative or original. In Japan's case of course that all changed, giving rise to a truly powerful scientific nation. I think similar stirrings are happening in India now. There are shoots of creativity all over the country, particularly in areas like biotechnology, life sciences, and computing. I don't want to forecast what might happen, because I don't think anyone can know for sure, but India does at least have the ambition and willpower to want to be the next scientific superpower.
You wrote about jugaad—the power of improvising to solve problems—in a recent article. How do you think that has influenced India's tech industry?
I didn't write about jugaad in my book. But yeah, I wrote an article about it recently, because it is such a fascinating phenomenon. Jugaad is a very broad-brush word, meaning something like getting things done by hook or by crook. So for example, in rural areas, people will throw together tractor engines and bits of wood to make trucks, and in the urban slums, people will recycle old newspapers and rework appliances to make new ones. It's really driven by poverty, but it has inspired some Indian companies to look at frugal, mass innovation for India's domestic market—for example, the TATA Nano car. But I don't think it's had a big impact on India's mainstream technology industry, which is focused on creating high-quality products and services that can sell overseas.
What do you see as the strong points and weak points of India's tech industry?
India's tech industry is great at business innovation. India's outsourcing model for IT work has been incredibly successful and, on the back of this, it's managed to build a profitable industry that is globally competitive. But it's less good at genuine technological innovation. India simply hasn't yet produced a company of the caliber of IBM or Microsoft. But that isn't to say it will never do it. It certainly wants to, but I have a feeling it may come from the younger generation, which is more free in its thinking and creative.
This interview has been condensed and edited for length and readability.
Geek Nation was released this past March in the United Kingdom and is currently awaiting U.S. release.
[Image: Angela Saini]
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The comment on the passion of Sujatha Narayanan, undermines the credibility of the piece as it simply highlights bad laboratory practice and not much else. A science journalist should surely objectively recognize this.
Until India is willing to make a significant investment in High Performance Computing, they will lag the rest of the world in scientific development. As of the June 2011 Top 500 list: http://top500.org/stats/list/3..., India only had 2 systems that made the list - on par with Denmark, Singapore, and Belgium. A true commitment to science and technology will be reflected in a commitment of resources to develop this crucial scientific infrastructure.
Angela Saini has also shown oracular insight in classifying India's upsurge on the scientific front as a Geek Nation. But what is not yet known is that the very origin of India's Vedic heritage is more scientific than the progress in science today. The theoretical strength of Vedic science lies in its derivation from axiomatic basics which is unique. The lead to extracting energy directly from space is given in its treatise Sankhya forming the core of the Bhagavadgita. Very soon a complete book on its extraordinary contents with an associated technology that would raise living standards to ideal levels is about to be published. See the basics in
The west thinks that India is full of geeks, because the Indian jocks dont get visas - they arent needed.
Trade associations (like NASSCOM) may want to have an ombudsman to objectively go into the complaints (like the ones by "donkarr").
It's great to see such optimism, but I think articles like this one are highlighting the exceptions and not the rule. I quit my day job and started my company several years back and I've encountered headache after headache. Finding competent staff has been very difficult, the Startup scene is nascent, and vendors that do a complete job and that go the extra mile are extremely rare. It feels as though everyone is all about shortcuts and making a fast buck. For the sake of the country I wish my experience was an anomaly, but I hear similar stories from others. I'm now seriously pondering shifting my firm out of the country - visa regulations be damned! :). I guess if you're an IT or multinational giant - India's a great way to save money for all your mundane processing jobs, but for innovation? Forget it!
"Geek Nation" is India's desitny.
India will improve because of her geeks. To speed up the process, Indian govenment can do the following.
1) Have major Internet backbone spanning four metros and minor backbone spanning state capitals.
2) Geekdom is corrently confined to English in India. Really, really, raally force support of Indian languages on PCs and mobiles. PCs never invaded Indian homes because of the language problem and India may get shut out of smartphone revolution partially bacause of the language problem.
I agree with the author and I think that India will improve with 2x speed and 2x force (overall 4x inprovement) compared to what the author is thinking because India's geekdom is not confined to men. In India you find as many women geeks as there are men geeks. As an example, except for Civil Engineering, you will find many engineeing colleges having almost 50%, or sometimes even more than 50%, women to men ratio.
Pretty amazing how most of the comments bring forth the problems facing India with very little optimism. I think the beauty of India is that everything is in the open ; everybody knows that large sections are impoverished and that challenges are immense. The nation is young and is growing up, things will be better and are changing. Although I positively don't adhere to the term "geek" , I cant fault with the authors optimism. What is the point to life without some escapism.
My generation is the first who have the luxury to take risks and start-up, we will get things done.I grew up in a small town and about to finish my grad school in cambridge at MIT; I cant wait to go back home in a few months to start up and be part of something wickedly awesome.
By all means, countries to not have to send their citizens into outer space to belong to the league the author seems to long for..... Some nations that Mrs. Saini mentions as exemplary actually never did this nor will they.... Walking for long in the footprints of others, no matter if on the surface of the moon or the earth, is not necessarily the best idea for countries to cross any threshold....
Superpower status??? The author is hallucinating! India is one of the poorest countries in the world where 60% of the population has been ignored into oblivion. India's population density is far greater than China and the majority of its population does not have access to electricity, sanitation, clean drinking water and healthcare. With a population that will exceed 1.5 billion by 2030, I fear that it is heading towards an implosion.
Pardon me for my ignorance, can someone name a few Indian scientific start ups?
Reading all these comments, I am surprised to see how bias and stereotype the Western population is. I don't say we don't have problems at home, but who don't have problems? In the times of recession, India is one of the strongest economy. Whoever said that the infrastructure of India is bad, he is right. But because we have efficient workfoce a moderate change in the condition improves the productive capacity of economy significantly. Thanks to British empire, and because India's population crisis, India is one of the largest English Speaking population in the World. Following are some of the Innovative and Scientific startups credited to India, and you are probably living and sleeping on it:
@Aizad, the "0" you used when you wrote 2030 was invented by an Indian Mathematician way back in 3rd century. Cheers
Notion Ink (makes tablets), Voicetap, Bharat Electronics....google it
I might agree with authors view about the younger generation doing it for India. But, as I see the state of scientific development, or research in India there is absolutely no scope in near future for any new inventions happening. India so far, has been following the west in innovation. Everything is so commercialized, including health care, I see very few if at all any geeks. People are more into technology for the money and good life it buys, its not real passion. Innovation can never happen without passion.
Moreover, the culture is not of risk taking, especially average Indians, who form the major chunk of average customers. Also, there is no infrastructure, government support for innovation. All major inventions, especially in US like Internet, computers, have happened with government funded and supported defense labs or military bases. If India would ever become a "technology super power" that will be an outlier of an outlier.
I'm sorry, this is the problem with journalism, they don't see or experience the real life as it happens daily, its just an opinion based on few selective interviews or discussions.
I lost over $200,000.00 to an Indian programing company Sigmainfosolutions. What I got was never useable. They act like the nicest people, but why not, if they were not nice how could they swindle me out of my money, Now I am trying another country to do my programming. During my exploration for a good programmer, I would hear the same thing over and over. India does not have the ability to do a good job. I would expect that some Indian firms are first class, but let the buyer beware. The project was agreed at $45,000,00. After some time they Froze the work and demanded another $50,000.00 and promised that would be all, no more costs. When we launched the auction site failed miserably. I was instructed to hire a Guru to give them advice of how to fixt the problem. This cost $ 3200.00 The India Times says it best. These are coders, sitting in a small cubicle, not real programmers.
Beware !!!!!!
I appreciate the author's optimism about India's potential as a tech innovator. One crucial requirement for the success of tech innovation is to be able to find early-adopter customers willing to take the risk on new technologies. Customers in countries like India and China are usually not willing to try new technologies. The other aspect of innovation success is a culture that respects and appreciates risk-taking. In India (and I mean physically-located in India) the culture and society value the safety and stability of employment in established big companies. India, by virtue of its size, commitment to education and history of scientific discovery, has a large number of intelligent people. However, the obstacles to tech innovation are structural (including geographic location) and societal and cultural.
I would love to find a way to incent those who left the US to come back to the US ;)


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I have an XML file which was created by me by serializing out a Document object and specifying an OutputFormat of "UTF-8". I did this using Xerces.
It has french in it and upon using the TextPad editor to look at the file, it looks right. If I use the binary view mode of TextPad, I can see the accented french chars E8, E9 and EA. The header in the XML, when serialized out of the Document object it came from as "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>".
So my assumption is the XML file is correctly UTF-8. But is it? Should the accented chars be represented as 00 E8, 00 E9 and 00 EA as defined by the UTF-8 spec for all code points above 7F?
So the baffling aspect of this comes in when I try and read this file in. I use this code ...
byte [] bytes = FileUtil.getBytesFromFile(new File(filename)); String encodedXMLString = new String(bytes, "UTF-8"); System.out.println(encodedXMLString); public static byte [] getBytesFromFile(File file) throws IOException { InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file); long length = file.length(); if (length > Integer.MAX_VALUE) { // File is too large } // Create the byte array to hold the data byte[] bytes = new byte[(int)length]; // Read in the bytes int offset = 0; int numRead = 0; while (offset < bytes.length && (numRead = inputStream.read(bytes, offset, bytes.length-offset)) >= 0) { offset += numRead; } // Ensure all the bytes have been read in if (offset < bytes.length) { throw new IOException("Could not completely read file "+file.getName()); } // Close the input stream and return bytes inputStream.close(); return bytes; }
or alternately in this way ...
String encodedXMLString = FileUtil.readFileIntoString(filename); System.out.println(encodedXMLString); public static String readFileIntoString(String filePath) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException { StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(); try { BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(filePath), "UTF-8")); String str; while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(str); sb.append("\n"); } in.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return sb.toString(); }
Well, in either case, all I get in the Eclipse console is text with a bunch of question marks where the accented french chars should be.
I am baffled as to WHY I can't get UTF-8 to successfully round trip.
For completeness I give the XML serialization code below ...
public String toString(Node node) throws Exception { try { if (node != null) { OutputFormat outputFormat = new OutputFormat(); outputFormat.setOmitXMLDeclaration(false); //We do want the version declaration outputFormat.setIndent(2); // yes to indenting // Sets the encoding for this output method. If no encoding was specified, the default is always "UTF-8". // Make sure the encoding is compatible with the one used by the Writer. outputFormat.setEncoding("UTF-8"); StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(); // open a string writer // serialize the document into that string ... XMLSerializer serializer_string = new XMLSerializer(stringWriter, outputFormat); if (node.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE) { serializer_string.serialize((Document)node); // serialize the XML to a string } else { serializer_string.serialize((Element)node); // serialize the XML to a string } String XML = new String(stringWriter.toString()); stringWriter.close(); // close the StringWriter object return XML; } else { return null; } } catch (IOException ex) { throw new Exception(ex.getLocalizedMessage()); } }
I seem to have considered UTF-8 encoding all through the code, but for some reason ... it doesn't work.
Many thanks to anyone who can shed light on what I am doing wrong.
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has the correct encoding specified. But I looked all through your code and I couldn't find where you wrote your XML to a file. Declaring the encoding in your serializer is all very well but if you follow up by writing its output in some other encoding then you have shot yourself in the foot.
When I'm processing XML I prefer to give the parser the input in bytes and let the serializer write bytes to the target. That way they can handle the encoding themselves, which they do properly.
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Feb 13, 2007 14:04:00
Wow! That was it. The XML
coming out of the parser was correct but when I was writing it to a file, the encoding got whacked.
I put this in ...
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(filename); Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(out, "UTF-8");
... to write the file and now have UTF-8 output that is correct and can be correctly read in.
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Clocking in at three hours and nineteen minutes, this show broke a lot of rules, and frustrated many a taper. The monstrous second set and extended encore clocked in around 2:18, which proved to be a problem for any taper rolling 2 hour tapes. In fact, the bands masters in The Archives are cut and do not exist in any contiguous form. Luckily there are some interleaved multitrack tapes which can be spliced together in the future. But for now, Ive dusted off my own DAT masters (somehow the taping gods were with me that night and I ran a 3 hour tape for the second set). The sprawling AC/DC Bag to open Set Two, Treys shenanigans during the Harpua, the blistering Izabella, breaking the curfew with Guyute so the band could play two New Years Eve shows, and the half hour encore throw-down featuring the Sally reprise out of Black-Eyed Katy into a ridiculous Frankenstein. Thank goodness for 3 hour tapes!
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So, on September twenty-fifth (yes, last month) an amateur treasure hunter (what this constitutes I do not know - maybe an old guy with a metal detector and a shovel like you find on the beach?) discovered an absolutely enormous horde of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver artefacts as he was rummaging through a farmer's field (doubtful the farmer gave him permission). This discovery has sent archaeologists, historians, curators and Medievalists alike abuzz the world over. Amongst the treasures found we have: a really pretty helmet crest with a frieze of wild animals running along the side; enamel studded sword fittings; a checkerboard piece with gold and garnet inlays (I wouldn't mind having a set of those!); and a gold band with a Latin biblical inscription that calls on God to drive away the bearer's enemies. Nifty! This cash of lovely artefacts was discovered in what was Mercia, one of the five major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and are thought to date between 675 and 725.
The fellow who found the cache says that it was "more fun that winning the lottery." Oh, I bet it was! "I was going to bed and in my sleep I was seeing gold items," he said after notifying the authorities after five days of searching this farmer's field.
Over eleven pounds of gold was found, which included weaponry, crosses, and a giant cross that may have been carried into battle, five long golden snakes, and a strip of gold with a crudely written and horribly misspelled Latin Biblical inscription ("Rise up, O Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed and those who hate thee be driven from thy face" - Book of Numbers).
The treasure hunter and his farmer "friend" are up for seven figures of cash once the artefacts are sold to museums, apparently. Not bad as there could be as many as 1,500 items in the treasure horde.
One expert has gone so far as to liken this discovery to the discovery of King Tut's tomb. Interestingly enough, the giant processional/battle cross was folded before being buried.
In case you don't know (!!!) who the Anglo-Saxons were, they were a group of Germanic tribes who invaded England when the Romans left it, they made really, really pretty gold ornaments, and their language, Old English, is the great-great-great grandfather (or some such thing) of our beloved Modern English.
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It's often said gardeners are ahead of the curve on climate change. I agree, but I'd like to put the theory to the test. Please email me with your observations of how global warming is affecting your garden.
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Greenhouse gases have boosted temperatures in this century. As a result, many animal species have experienced changes in breeding seasons and migration patterns. As climate change accelerates, it may trigger waves of species extinctions and invasions. Some species may disappear while others may migrate north to take their place.
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Deciduous trees and shrubs don't suffer winter burn or its sister affliction, sunscald, because they drop their leaves in the fall, replacing them the following spring. But climate change messes things up for them, too. Let's say your star magnolia decides, based on the temperature and not the calendar, that it's time to flower. A magnolia flowers early, even before it opens its leaf buds. It runs the risk of losing those early blooms to a late-winter freeze.
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The CEP describes a troubling Catch 22: "With an increase in weeds, insects, and pathogens comes an increase in pesticides and fungicides. This in turn causes groundwater contamination and non-point source pollution from runoff."
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s/o the smoking post
i think it's their choice.
I'm pregnant and drink caffeine and feel guilty about it. But only because i'm not a regular caffeine drinker.
I would definitely not recommend caffeine in large quantities to a pregnant woman.
I don't care, because I have some caffeine most days, myself. It helps with headaches. I keep it to one cup of coffee or two cups of tea, max.
I personally avoid caffeine while I'm pregnant. Although id be lying if I said I didnt have a coffee once every great while :)
I wouldn't judge, since i was a little girl I have always gotten migraines. When I was pregnant my Dr told me a coke or a coffee would be safer then taking any other pain killers (obviously). I don't drink soda but the coffee did help!


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Located at 655 Academy Court. (970) 686-2582.
Hours: 4:30 a.m.- 9 p.m., Monday-Thursday; 4:30 a.m.-8 p.m., Friday; and 7 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday.
At the Windsor Health Club, being called the Cheers of Windsor gyms has become more than just a joke, according to its staff and customers.
The line made famous by the TV show where everyone knows your name has become a reality, according to gym owner Anne LOrange. Furthermore, she said the gym has been able to cultivate a family atmosphere where theyre always glad you came.
If youve been in here at least three times, well know your name, LOrange said. ... Its meant to be a gym for everyone.
The gym, which has been in its current location for about 10 years, has been owned by LOrange and her husband Eric LOrange since 2008.
The gym prides itself on having something for everyone and offers 42 classes per week, along with a weight room, cardio area and child care.
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A 52-year-old Jacksonville man was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for stalking his neighbor.
Charles Riggs was convicted last week on a charge of aggravated stalking. Prosecutors said he stalked his neighbor for three weeks in March.
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The Gifts and Faults will also, when we get around to listing them in one of the big data dump lists later (along with the skills and equipment and such) be of a decent strength. A character may only have two or four of these, total, so they should speak to the character, and not be something mild, useless, or worse, boring. Some of them will have tactical or combat effects, to be sure, but we want to help inspire when we can.
So without further ado, Gifts and Faults 101:
Gifts and Faults are two broader traits that a character can have. Their names are pretty big hints as to what they do. A Gift, like Night Vision, or Absolute Direction, are certainly a positive for a character. A gift is a trait that usually doesnt' have a default. It is something that, well, you either "got it" or you don't. In the description of the gift will be the blatant "rules" effect, like "sees in the dark" or "+1 to Navigate" but they also can help you define your character and give the person running the game a better idea of who your character is, and they may find more ways you can apply your Gift than just the "textbook" definition.
Faults are the flip side of the coin. They work. mechanically, or rules-wise, very much like Gifts, but usually to a characters detriment. Clumsy, or greedy, or sensitive to light would all make a characters life harder in different ways. They have their "rules" effect, that will get in the way of the character, challenging them with themselves. It also rounds out your character, making it mre real, and gives the person running the game another way to involve your character.
Gifts and Faults have one other useful function. They can be used to fill in the spaces missed by attributes and online order levitra skills. Gifts can give characters unique and interesting abilities (in some cases, Magic!) thats makes the character more than the sum of the skill list. Faults can be taken, as needed, during character creation, to add more than the normal number of Gifts or skills, and let the character's accounting balance out.
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And Paul, I'd agree that Fudge Characters, overall, can be described with more words and not less, so tweaking that would certainly work. I'll see how it fits into this project as I go along.
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"I view gold as currency, I was not interested in it as currency until quantitative easing," said Paulson in 2010. Paulson also explained why any talk of gold being a bubble is preposterous right now. Paulson's key point is that gold ownership is incredibly low.
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Alienware M18X R2 gets processor options and SSD
Further leaks have surfaced about the Alienware M18X R2, with more information on the new notebook from the computer builder. Details from Dell-Lab this time cover processor, hard drive, and RAM options, along with a commentary on the screen quality.
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The included screen said to be a glossy 18.4-inch Full HD White LED LCD, with comments about it not being an RGB-LED and an admission the company will not be competing with the new iPad's 2048x1536 display.


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West Seattle Crime Watch: Fairmount Springs attack arrestJuly 1, 2011 at 1:53 pm | In Crime, Fairmount Springs, West Seattle news, West Seattle police | 4 Comments
Just got word from Southwest Precinct that there has been an arrest in connection with the May 8th attack that left a Fairmount Springs woman badly hurt. The case raised so much concern, there was a special neighborhood meeting about it a few days later, with precinct commander Capt. Steve Paulsen and City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen in attendance (here's our coverage). Precinct operations Lt. Pierre Davis tells WSB an arrest was made just before 5 pm yesterday: "Our detectives did a fantastic job with this case. The arrest warrant was served on the suspect without incident." We are working to get more details about the arrest, the suspect, and the circumstances of the case, which were all something of a mystery back in May.
ADDED SATURDAY MORNING: Inquiries with police and prosecutors on Friday afternoon didn't yield much, but overnight we did get a bit of extra information from SW Precinct Lt. Alan Williams, who says the information he could access shows that the suspect (whose name we still don't know, so we can't check his/her status through the jail register, and there are way too many people booked for assault/burglary type charges for anyone to stand out as the likely arrestee) "was located in the 1000 block of 4th (Avenue) South and taken into custody without incident." Because of government closures for the Monday holiday, we don't expect to be able to get more information before Tuesday.
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Comment by CandrewB — 2:41 pm July 1, 2011 #
Yeah!!!! Just had a long talk with her this am and she is doing as well as can be expected considering what she went thru. Slowly but surely, mentally and and physically recovering. Catching up on reading back copies of New York Times and gardening. She sends to all who were concerned about her great appreciation and love for our community.
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Hooray!! Good work SPD! Be very interesting to find out a little more about who did this horrible attack.
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SPD says it was a neighbor:
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Cross between Miley and Jordan.
I'm generally not attracted to women with aftermarket tits, but I believe in her case I'd make an exception! There's a look in her eyes that says, "I really liked fucking you. Let's do it some more."
Is she famous or does she just wanna be?
There is lots of work there….
Amy Stepford
The lights are on, but there's nobody home.
TOWIE girl made good
She has 'I am working as a stripper to pay for my Masters in Psychology' vibe. (That joke will mean more to guys familiar with Canadian striptease establishments.)
I bet her skin is so stretched around her bags of silicone for having them done THAT big. I mean, she has a banging body but come on there is NO naturalness about this. Seems like she went to the Mcdonald's Clinic of plastic surgery. "I'll have a #1 and please supersize it." Having boobs down that big is only good for 1 thing, a good titty f'ing. But imagine her as a 60 year old woman having those tits later on. Ridiculous.


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ATHENS, Ala. (AP) - Alabama state troopers say an SUV filled with eight Kentucky high school seniors was attempting to pass a tractor-trailer when the vehicle ran off the edge of the road and overturned, killing one passenger and injuring everyone else aboard.
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She and the others aboard were seniors at Notre Dame Academy in Park Hills.
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- Beth F said...
What a great website. I've heard of Gooseberry Patch before and I've even seen their cookbooks but -- silly me -- I haven't ever bought one or cooked from one. The recipes look tasty and easy for a busy household.
- September 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM
- Joy Weese Moll said...
Gooseberry Patch is so much fun. I love the way the express each season in such a homey and comforting way.
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I'm fond of GP too.
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I have never heard of them...although their cookbooks look familiar and I wonder if I own one..
off to check out the web site.
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I've bought a number of GP products over the years; there's something so appealing and homey about their things :)
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Thanks for reminding me about Gooseberry Patch - I don't have any of their cookbooks, but I used to get the catalog, and would dog-ear pages of kitchen accessories that caught my eye.
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I adore Gooseberry Patch books too! They are so homey and comforting!
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Gooseberry Patch is a great website. Thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention. I will have to explore it in more depth, especially the recipes.
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I don't think I have come across this company before, though the company logo does seem familiar. It's possible a friend has sent me some of their recipes.
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John started in advertising as a junior Art Director at Benton and Bowles, London in 1965.
In 1967 he joined the Cramer Saatchi consultancy which became Saatchi & Saatchi in 1970, where he was a founding shareholder. One year later he was appointed Deputy Creative Director. John left in 1973 to co-found TBWA, London as Creative Director. The agency was the first to be voted Campaign Agency of the Year in 1980.
In 1982, John left to start Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Four years later, in 1986, BBH was voted Campaign magazine's Agency of the Year and won the title again in 1993, 2003, 2004 and 2005.
John was awarded the D&AD President's Award for outstanding achievement in the advertising industry. In May 2005, the International Clio Awards awarded John with the Life Time Achievement award for his outstanding achievement in the industry. In 2007, John received a knighthood in the Queen's birthday honours. John has also been appointed to the New York's One Club Hall of Fame and in 2008 was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame.
In 2011, John launched his first book, "Hegarty on Advertising" to critical acclaim. In the same year he was the first person to be awarded Cannes Lion of St Mark award for his outstanding contribution to creativity.
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Nigel's background is in Account Management following a brief and
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He founded BBH in London in 1982 with John Bartle and John Hegarty.
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In 2006 and 2007, Campaign magazine voted Nigel top CEO in the industry. In 2006 he received the President's Award from the BTAA. Nigel pioneered the micro network concept, with BBH servicing global clients from just six offices.
Nigel has overseen the development of the next generation of BBH management. Key members of the global leadership team joined as graduate trainees or young account managers. The average length of service in the BBH global management team is 15 years. Nigel believes in combining management stability with constant restlessness.
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The Jackson 2: Common crooks
In the end, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. proved to be nothing more than a crook — another in a long line of common Chicago crooks who have used their power and position not for public service but for self-service. The same goes for Sandi Jackson, his wife and former Chicago alderwoman.
Mr. Jackson, a Democrat of Illinois who gave up his House seat in November after 17 years, has agreed to plead guilty to one federal count of conspiracy. He spent about $750,000 in campaign money for personal gain. That included a $43,350 gold-plated Rolex watch. He also spent more than $9,500 on children's furniture. And he was really big into furs and Michael Jackson and Bruce Lee memorabilia.
Mrs. Jackson, who resigned her public post last month, has agreed to plead guilty to one federal count of filing false joint federal income tax returns from 2006 to 2011. She could — and should — be sentenced to the count's maximum penalty of three years in prison.
Jesse Jr. faces up to five years in the slammer, has to surrender his ill-gotten goods and pay back the three-quarters of a million dollars that he five-fingered from people he snookered into donating to his campaign. He'll likely be stripped of his congressional pension, valued at $45,000. The feds could — and again should — fine these Windy City crooks an additional combined half-million bucks.
Jesse Jackson Jr. invariably is referred to in liberal media circles, still, as one of the nation's leading black politicians devoted to black causes. And that won't change as long as the blind continue to praise the crooked.
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I feel that 2011 was a bit of a let down when it came to new releases, so this was a hard list to compile since I am
picky about my music, but here we go....
Dude! Everyone here has been fapping over 2011 but I totally agree with you, I think last year was better and next year will likely be better. Not that this was a shit year, but a lot of great bands were dormant this year as far as releasing new material. I can be very picky about my music too.
Also, it's nice to see somebody showing some love for Hate for a change, but Erebos actually came out last November. Still, great list so far!
10.01 Sonata Arctica
11.03 King Diamond
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Six years after he stopped playing for the LA Dodgers, Major League Baseball slugger Adrian Beltre is finally getting around to putting his Bradbury, CA estate on the market. Beltre's California home is listed for $19.8 million. Beltre spent the past season with the Boston Red Sox and prior to that, he played for the Seattle Mariners (2005-2009).
Beltre's 4-acre+ property has all of the adult toys a professional athlete would be expected to have, including a basketball court, tennis court, infinity pool — it even has a small golf course with a couple of holes, a putting green, and sand traps. But the key amenity for this slugger is the batting cage so he can keep working to improve his lifetime .275 batting average.
The modern, Mediterranean-style property is within a 24-hour guard-gated development in Bradbury Estates and features an entryway with 35-feet custom-painted ceilings, inlaid marble floors, crystal chandelier, and a dual staircase. It has 16,600 sq ft of living space and three beds and two bathrooms.
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