text: Comments (135) + Add comment Comments (135) Featured « 1 2 » Pillsbury1 + 1220d ago I think the majority of the service will be to stream classic ps1 and ps2 games on tablets and mobiles. For now Sony will start small with streaming it's hit classics on major platforms like android and maybe vita. I can see when the ps4 comes out this will play a much larger role on the system. #31 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply ElementX + 1220d ago Everybody is so excited about this but nobody has any clue how good it will be. Just look at OnLive, once worth over $1B and sold for less than $5m. So you want to take your gaming mobile on a tablet? Most coffee shops have crappy internet speeds. 4G? Sure, if you want to shell out a lot of money for a decent data package every month. Home internet services may go ahead and create bandwidth caps. I really don't see why everybody says this is megaton. #32 Agree(3) | Disagree(3) | Report | Reply gamingGod123 1220d ago | Spam knifefight + 1220d ago Hold onto your butts... o_o #33 Agree(2) | Disagree(1) | Report | Reply EliteDave93 + 1220d ago People will still need to have one hell of a internet in order to use it. And i know for a fact that not alot of people have that good internet ( including myself ) #34 Agree(3) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Braid + 1220d ago I called it: backwards compatibility. It looks like we'll be able to play PS3 games on our next generation Sony consoles through the cloud-based streaming service. This way there won't be any compatibility chip included in the PS4's hardware, which is a relief in terms of production cost, and they'll most liklely sell subscriptions to those who'd like to use the service, from which they'll make profit. Yep, seems just like that from the looks of it. #35 Agree(0) | Disagree(4) | Report | Reply Plagasx + 1220d ago Onlive isn't doing so well.... #36 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Bowzabub + 1220d ago My 20meg pipe is ready and willing. Thanks Sony. #37 Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply AmeliaFergunson22 1220d ago | Spam whoyouwit04 + 1220d ago you sony fans are just like Mitt Romney, you will say anything to make it look like sony is making a wining descision. you all stayed dogging xbox for having games on pc but praise sony when they do the same can say hypocrite. Never mind the fact that true sony makes a profit, But the bottom lins is if you have a pc you have absolute no reason to own a ps3 period, twist it all you want. Then you report me for trolling for sateing what is fact, I tell ya you sony fans are something else. #39 (Edited 1220d ago ) | Agree(2) | Disagree(6) | Report | Reply ATi_Elite + 1220d ago Your comment is kinda right and YES the Sony fanboys will Rage Rape you of Bubbles just for being kinda sorta right! P.S. so can I now flash two middle fingers (Stone Cold Steve Austin style) to all those who said i would NEVER EVER be able to play Killzone 2/3 on my PC! cause besides the Russian PS3 Emulator it looks like Gaikai will also allow KZ2/3 to be played on my PC as well. #39.1 Agree(2) | Disagree(3) | Report | Reply shenpo_shin + 1218d ago you WILL pay sony tho either u like it or not not microsoft no nothing....just sony so i think u can take back that middle fingers of yours and put it right back to your @ss kkthxbb #39.1.1 Agree(0) | Disagree(1) | Report IWentBrokeForGaming + 1220d ago Most people (including myself) want to own the physical copy of something... BUT in this day and age with Apple products being such a phenomenon (not with me though), it's obvious downloading music/videos to Ipods/Ipads/Iphones is not a problem to a big population! There is a market for it, and although Im bummed about it... it's obviously got a market for DL only stuff and there's plenty of appealing products that are enticing the public to indulge in DLing! #40 Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply izumo_lee + 1220d ago Love them or hate them i do not care, but gamers should at least appreciate the direction that Sony is trying to take the game industry at present & possibly the future. They are the only ones taking risks to improve the industry by offering numerous possibilities that may or may not succeed, even in the financial difficulties they are currently in. Cloud gaming may not be standard now but imagine 5 years from now or maybe even less if thing go according to plan. Every new tech takes time to become mainstream & Sony's purchase of Gaikai is them looking toward the future & growing there brand to as many devices as possible. I can not wait to see what Sony & Gaikai are planning but i believe it will be glorious for us gamers. #41 Agree(5) | Disagree(2) | Report | Reply ElementX + 1220d ago Sony isn't trying to take the industry any direction. OnLine already tried and failed and Sony is just copying the idea #41.1 Agree(1) | Disagree(8) | Report | Reply izumo_lee + 1220d ago I think the problem with Onlive is they tried to be more than what they are. Onlive tried to be a platform for games rather than what they should have been and that is a service. That is why i think Onlive failed. Sony on the other hand is using Gaikai as a service for their platforms & other Playstation mobile devices. They are using the tech that Gaikai has to expand their brand to more than just Playstation fans. #41.1.1 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report WiiLovePS360 + 1220d ago If Sony are to stream their entire PS1/2/3 catalogue of games to PC then what reason is there to buy a Playstation console? I can't see it happening for that fact alone. I think it will be used for demos along with replacing the "Cross Buy" initiative - you buy a PHYSICAL copy of a game and have it in your PS3 that is connected to the internet, and you can then stream that game to a Vita/PC. This way Sony get around any of the "Cross Buy" situations where someone buys a physical PS3 copy, gets a Vita copy for free, and sells it to someone else. You're only getting the 1 game, but playable on 2 consoles as long as it is physically in your PS3. As for iOS/Android devices, I don't see any way that PS1/2/3/Vita games could work. Touch devices simply do not have the screen space nor the usability to play console games - how would you aim down the sights and shoot while ducking in Call of Duty for example on a touch screen that is 4" in size? that requires the use of 2 analogue sticks, 2 shoulder buttons, and another face button. How is that possible with just your 2 thumbs on a touch screen? I'm eagerly anticipating their announcement as I love all things technology related, but I am not getting my hopes up like a lot on here seem to be. Control issues aside, internet speeds are not up to scratch in the majority of the world or even households where it is available to make streaming games usage widespread. I personally couldn't even use Gaikai in my country as it wasn't available, and even if it was my internet isnt capable of streaming HD video with the less than 150ms lag that is needed for input response times in games. Looking forward to it, but not holding my breath on it being anything "groundbreaking". #42 Agree(1) | Disagree(2) | Report | Reply DERKADER + 1220d ago Am I the only person that doesn't wan't their games compressed then streamed over the internet. It's cool for demo purposes and possibly mobile devises but this is not how I wan't to play my games at home. #43 (Edited 1220d ago ) | Agree(3) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply MultiConsoleGamer + 1220d ago I've said it before and I'll say it again... PS3 is the PS4 #44 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply taquito + 1220d ago LAG and LATENCY are not "next gen " by any means, sony is looking to go the cheap route, cloud gaming is, and will be for the next 3-5 years, TRASH! It is in its infancy, and is not even on par with pc gaming from 6 years ago, sure, it is able to delivery slightly better than console graphics, but at the cost of latency and lag. ....and if you think you are going to play ps3 games on ps4, if there ever is one, and they will be free, hmmmm .....I own some rental property on the moon I'd like to sell you :) #45 (Edited 1220d ago ) | Agree(2) | Disagree(4) | Report | Reply BlaqMagiq24 + 1220d ago I wonder how this wll turn out in the end. However you can't deny the effort Sony is putting out with this. I hope it goes well for them. #46 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply shivvy24 + 1220d ago NOW THATS A KILLER APP #47 Agree(1) | Disagree(1) | Report | Reply Bowzabub + 1220d ago A couple of points people are forgetting. 1: What is stopping Sony from including a digital copy(license) with physical media? It is the norm now Is it not? 2: Almost every cloud based service has an option to download. Have a nice day! Thank you Sony. #48 (Edited 1220d ago ) | Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply fourthpersonview + 1220d ago ... and this is when Sony exclusivity dies. #49 Agree(0) | Disagree(2) | Report | Reply ninjahunter + 1220d ago So this means ile be able to play Sony games on my PC? AWWWWWWW YEAAAAAAAAAAAaa #50 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Xer0_SiN + 1220d ago sony just infected itself into the internets with this pipe bomb. sony = skynet >=) #51 Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply TheKayle + 1220d ago so no more exclusives? or just time exclusives or gaikai will be just on ps? coz on their new site if u read Q&A the last question..samsung is now a partner...so uhm.... anyway here in italy we dont have any bandwith cap and i think still isnt the time for cloud gaming ..maybe in 5/8 years this would be a win win situation for MS ....having ps games on windows 8 and still their exclusives for xbox hardware..... I think this could be for sony the beginning of the end of the fight to the high end hardware war against microsoft with this news...and im not happy at all ...... #52 (Edited 1220d ago ) | Agree(0) | Disagree(3) | Report | Reply Karum + 1220d ago Definitely an exciting service and I can't wait to see where this type of Technology and service goes in the future, particularly what Playstation does with it. In the here and now though it doesn't grab me too much simply because I worry about performance and by that I mean how dependent this is on an internet connection and that connection performing at top level throughout. My internet connection is absolutely superb about 99% of the time but there's just so many other factors between the user and the server streaming the game. Not to mention people's connection speeds being an issue in certain places or people's data caps. In future that stuff won't be a problem for most but in the here and now it very well is an issue. Though I suspect Sony sees these issues too (only a fool wouldn't) and very much sees this as a service that will evolve over time and the real benefits of it will only truly be seen in the years to come. #53 Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Tzuno + 1219d ago Welcome to digital distribution only where what you buy you don't physically own. #54 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Mkai28 + 1219d ago I can see it know, Sony's gaikai service down for matienance. So from time to time we would have to wait to play the games we purchased. Still, it's interesting! #54.1 Agree(0) | Disagree(1) | Report | Reply rickyjb23 + 1215d ago there is also a gt5 screen on there about page #55 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply « 1 2 » Add comment You need to be registered to add comments. Register here or login Username Password Remember Rules & guidelines Login


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|Iowa Politics Roundup: Nearly 150 State Laws Take Effect
|Commentary/Politics - Iowa Politics
|Written by Lynn Campbell
|Friday, 02 July 2010 12:09
All children under 18 riding in a car must be buckled up in a seat belt even when in the back seat; texting while driving will no longer be allowed; and more than 200 traffic fines will increase under three of the approximately 144 state laws that took effect Thursday, the first day of 2011 fiscal year.
Nearly three-fourths of the 196 bills approved by the 2010 legislature had a July 1 enactment date. Here's a closer look at some of the changes.
Seat-belt requirement: The law now requires all children under 18 to wear a seat belt or safety seat in a motor vehicle, even when in the back seat. The legislation didn't survive on its own but saw final passage as part of the transportation budget bill. Responsibility is placed on the violator rather than the driver if the person is 14 or older.
Ban on texting while driving: Iowa joins 28 other states with a ban on texting while driving. Adult drivers are restricted from reading, writing, and sending text messages. Teens with an instruction permit, restricted license, or intermediate license are banned from all use of cell phones and other electronic devices while driving. The bill includes exceptions for global positioning systems and for trucking and transit companies that use digital dispatch systems, as well as for public-safety and health-care professionals. The law took effect Thursday but allows a one-year education period during which violators will be given warnings. After that, violators will be guilty of a simple misdemeanor and could be fined $30. Penalties are harsher if an accident occurs and causes serious injury or death.
Traffic fines: More than 200 Iowa traffic fines increased Thursday, aimed at raising an additional $9.7 million for the state, of which the judicial branch is expected to receive about $5.3 million. The fine for all speeding tickets will increase, and some of them will double. Fines are also increased for operating while intoxicated, open container, failure to obey a traffic-control device, failure to maintain control, driving on the wrong side of a two-lane highway, defective windshield wipers, failure to wear a seat belt, window tinting, and other traffic violations. See a list of the increases at RCReader.com/y/fines.
Health care: Iowa's 2010 health-care-reform bill, which creates an online clearinghouse of information on public and private health-care options and allows IowaCare members to go to hospitals closer to home, took effect Thursday. Democrats touted that they "made it easier for rural residents to access health care and for rural hospitals to be paid for the care they provide." But this year's legislation was watered down from its original intent. Senate File 2356 initially would have created an IowaCare Plus program, which would have provided Iowans who have income between 200 percent and 300 percent of the federal poverty level with health-care-premium assistance. A separate law clarifies that Iowa-regulated insurance plans will provide coverage of services and drugs for Iowans participating in cancer clinical trials.
School nutrition standards: Nutritional standards for K-12 were approved during the 2008 legislative session but didn't take effect until Thursday. New rules restrict how much sugar, fat, and salt can be in school vending machines and school cafeteria items. The cardiovascular-exercise part of the law took effect a year ago, requiring 30 minutes of physical activity each day for kids through fifth grade and 120 minutes of physical activity each week for kids in grades six through 12.
No guns for domestic abusers: State law now prohibits a person who has been convicted of domestic abuse or who is subject to a permanent civil protective order from possessing firearms, other offensive weapons, or ammunition. Attorney General Tom Miller was a key backer of the legislation. Since 1995, guns have been involved in 114 of the 205 domestic-abuse murders in the state. "This bill gives her a chance," said Laurie Schipper, executive director of the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence. "A chance to flee, a chance to survive her attack, a chance to fight back. A chance to live." It's been federal law to forbid domestic abusers from having firearms since 1995, but there are not enough federal agents for enforcement.
Ed Thomas bill: This law allows law enforcement to be notified when a suspect with a serious mental impairment is released from the hospital. It was named after Ed Thomas, the nationally known football coach who was killed by Mark Becker a day after Becker was released from a Waterloo hospital's psychiatric ward. Police who had taken Becker there weren't notified of his release. Becker was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of the Aplington-Parkersburg coach in the school's weight room. Members of the Thomas family, who went to the Capitol earlier this year to testify in favor of the legislation, were at the Iowa Hall of Pride when the bill was signed into law. Aaron Thomas said his late father, a high-school government teacher, would be proud.
Veterans and Military Families: A package of laws was approved this year for veterans, including one that requires employers in the state to provide veterans a holiday for Veterans Day. Another requires state-regulated insurance companies to cover mental-health and substance-abuse treatment for veterans who are employed. The provision only applies to businesses with more than 50 employees. Yet another law allows unemployment benefits for an individual who left employment because of the relocation of a spouse due to a military assignment in another area. Benefits would be paid out of the Unemployment Trust Fund.
Tax credits: For many tax credits that were capped or repealed by the legislature this year, the effective date was Thursday. Senate File 2380 repeals the Venture Capital Fund, the Value Added Ag Products investment tax credit, and the Economic Development Revolving Loan Program. It suspends the Film Tax Credit Program until July 1, 2013. It reduces the supplemental Research Activities Credit for companies that make more than $20 million per year, and increases the credit for companies making less than $20 million per year. It also reduces the cap on five tax-credit programs, and cuts several tax-credit programs by 10 percent.
School Cuts Spur Property-Tax Increases
The nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency (LSA) confirmed this week that Iowans on average will see a property-tax increase because of cuts in state aid to schools.
According to LSA, school-district general-fund levies for Fiscal Year 2011 increased $133.3 million (8.8 percent) from Fiscal Year 2010. School-district cash-reserve levies increased $104.2 million (54 percent), likely due to state aid reductions in fiscal years 2009 and 2010 and anticipation of a state-aid shortfall for Fiscal Year 2011.
State Government Ends Fiscal Year with Surplus
The Iowa Department of Management estimated Thursday that the state general fund will have an ending balance of approximately $275 million for FY 2010, which is $175 million more than originally projected.
Department of Management figures are more conservative than a revenue estimate of $365 million released Thursday by the Legislative Services Agency. The books for Fiscal Year 2010, which ended Wednesday, won't officially close until the end of September.
A monthly revenue memo released Thursday by the Legislative Services Agency showed that the $5.5 billion in total net receipts the state collected in Fiscal Year 2010 is a decrease of $234.7 million (4.1 percent) from Fiscal Year 2009.
Personal-income tax was down $94.8 million (2.8 percent), the sales and use tax was down $34.4 million (1.5 percent), the corporate tax was down $27.2 million (6.5 percent), tax refunds had a negative $6.9-million impact on revenues, and school-infrastructure sales/use tax refunds had a negative $17.8-million impact.
Reynolds Narrowly Wins Lieutenant Governor Nomination Over Vander Plaats
Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats came close to becoming gubernatorial nominee Terry Branstad's running mate at the state GOP convention last weekend in Des Moines, but Branstad's pick of state Senator Kim Reynolds narrowly won approval from delegates to be on the Republican ticket.
Reynolds received 749 votes (55.6 percent), while Vander Plaats received 579 votes (44 percent). Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Rod Roberts was also nominated but declined to participate, instead endorsing a Branstad/Reynolds ticket.
"I understand what happened on June 8, and I fully understand and respect Governor Branstad's ability to recommend to you who his lieutenant governor should be, and I respect that," Vander Plaats said in brief remarks to delegates in accepting the nomination. "But ladies and gentlemen, it would be disingenuous of me to go around the state and champion what I believe are our constitutional ideas of 'of the people, by the people, for the people' and then ignore the voice of the people."
Vander Plaats said the reason he got into the gubernatorial race was to unite the Republican Party. However, he has yet to endorse Branstad or rule out a third-party run for the governor's office.
In his first public comments since the primary election, Vander Plaats also said during an appearance on the Steve Deace show on WHO radio that he's considering running as an independent candidate for governor in November.
Branstad and Reynolds did not directly address the final push for Vander Plaats to be a part of the Republican ticket, but Branstad, in his speech at the state Republican convention, asked for the party to come together.
"Election campaigns are about choices, and we have some excellent candidates that ran," Branstad said. "And I know some people are disappointed that their choice didn't win the nomination. But in the end we are all Republicans; we need to come together because the future of this state is at stake."
U.S. Representative Steve King (R-Kiron) also also urged party unity during his remarks at the convention: "When you have infighting in the family, you've got to resolve those issues and move forward and pull together as a family, and I'm here to ask us all to do that."
Republican Party of Iowa Chair Matt Strawn said all the campaigns knew that anyone nominated from the floor would be considered in good faith, and added that he felt it was important to let delegates have their say and not try to do anything from the chair to disrupt that.
"That's part of the healing process," Strawn said. "I think if you didn't have that, more delegates would feel that they didn't have their say, and that would make it even more difficult to heal any of those wounds that are still open after the primary."
Branstad, Culver Campaigns Continue Trading Attacks
The campaign of Governor Chet Culver on Wednesday levied abuse-of-power charges at former Governor Terry Branstad, with the Culver campaign saying it has compiled more than 400 pages of evidence to support its claim.
Culver Campaign Manager Donn Stanley said a search of Branstad's files at the state archives shows that Branstad and his staff used the governor's office and its official letterhead for political fundraising; used state resources to conduct opposition research and recruit candidates for office; and used state resources to help run other Republican political campaigns.
Stanley stressed that legal action is not the goal of bringing the documents to light, and that this is something that will be decided in the court of public opinion.
"To be clear, we're not advocating that someone be charged with something from 25, 26 years ago," said Stanley, who took a leave from the attorney general's office to manage Culver's campaign. "I'm a lawyer and prosecutor; I understand the standards of evidence. I think we're looking at this from an ethical standpoint."
Republican Party of Iowa Executive Director Jim Anderson called Culver's abuse-of-power charges against Branstad an "attempt to distract from his own dismal record as governor. The Culver campaign's attempt to pass thank-you notes off as scandal is a desperate distraction from Culver's own failures as governor. Just today, media reports confirmed what Republicans forecasted last year: Governor Culver's budget mismanagement raised Iowans' property taxes by $136 million. Iowans don't want to hear childish attacks from their governor. They want to hear how this state can get back on track, and Terry Branstad is the only candidate providing those much-needed solutions."
The allegations from the Culver campaign come after the Branstad campaign released a new TV ad called "Rally," which focused on perceived scandals in Culver's office and said that electing Branstad would be a return to "scandal-free government."
Unemployment-Extension and Wall Street Bills Clear U.S. House; Votes Unclear in U.S. Senate
The U.S. House on Thursday passed an extension of federal unemployment-insurance benefits for those who have been out of work for long stretches, placing the issue again before the U.S. Senate as Congress left for a week-long break for the Independence Day holiday.
The U.S. Senate rejected the extension Wednesday night by one vote. One Democrat, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, voted against the extension bill. Two Republican senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, voted for the extension.
"The families of these long-term unemployed are hanging by a thread," said U.S. Senator Harkin (D-Iowa). "Their savings are exhausted, and unemployment benefits are the lifeline that helps them pay the rent and put food on the table. I have heard from Iowans who are struggling with unemployment, and their stories are heartbreaking. These are people trying their hardest, doing everything they can to find work, but the jobs just aren't there. While these families suffer, a short-term extension of unemployment insurance is being needlessly -- I would even say cruelly -- obstructed by Senate Republicans."
But U.S. Representative Tom Latham (R-Iowa) said concern about adding $33.9 billion to the federal deficit is the reason the U.S. House on Tuesday initially rejected a bill that would have extended weekly unemployment benefits to those who have been out of work for more than half a year and have already collected the standard six months of benefits.
"I voted against the bill not because I'm unsympathetic to Americans who are struggling with long-term unemployment but because we must get a handle on spending and debt in order to create jobs and jump-start a long-term recovery," Latham said. "Instead of adding to the deficit, we should reach back and find ineffective and wasteful spending under the failed trillion-dollar stimulus bill to pay for extended unemployment benefits."
Meanwhile, Iowa congressmen voted 3-2 along party lines Wednesday for a sweeping 2,000-page Wall Street regulation bill approved by the full U.S. House on a 237-192 vote; the bill now moves to the Senate, where it's unclear whether there are enough votes to pass it.
Democratic U.S. Representatives Leonard Boswell, Bruce Braley, and Dave Loebsack voted in favor of the bill, while Republican U.S. Representatives Steve King and Tom Latham voted against it.
"After reckless Wall Street speculators devastated our economy and wiped out retirement funds on Main Street, I'm proud to have taken this important vote to pass the strongest financial reforms since the 1930s," Braley said.
AARP Iowa on Wednesday was among those that applauded House passage of financial-reform legislation, which it said brings consumer and investor protections one step closer to becoming a reality for Americans who have been hurt by the recent financial crisis.
This weekly summary comes from IowaPolitics.com, an online government and politics news service. Reporter Andrew Duffelmeyer and other correspondents contributed to this report.
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Sultan battery is a town, with all amenities. The major attraction are the mutanga wild life sanctorium and the edakkal caves.the curva deeps are situated arround 40 kilometers away. but the edakkal caves is 7 kilometers away and the mutanga national park is under 10 kilometers from sultan batteryMore » « Less
Food, sight-seeing and shopping: edakkal caves, mutanga national park
Activities & things to do: trekking
Travel tips, How to reach, travel warnings etc: travel road ways, the nearest rail access point is calicut and the nearest airport is calicut international airport
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- Karthikeyan Radhakrishnan
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- Posted Apr 3, 2013
Excellent place, nice claimate and many place to seeMore » « Less
Food, sight-seeing and shopping: All type sea-foods are excellent in every where.
Activities & things to do: boat riding is excellent in the dam which is near to kalppatta
Travel tips, How to reach, travel warnings etc: From chennia I reach through Ooty to Sulthan Battrey
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- Posted Jan 25, 2013
The places near to sultan battery is worth visiting. kerala's nature & its beauty can be seen in wayanad. the Banasura Dam is really a breath taking view, which makes one feel WOW!!! the sochipura falls is fab can enjoy well playing under the falls. edkals caves is a must for all the ppl who enjoy trekking. Many other place together made Wayanad trip a adventurous oneMore » « Less
Food, sight-seeing and shopping: Food was ok. we could not find any such restaurants as worth it. all were enough to make as stay alive der... eddkal caves, sochipura falls, banasura dama, pukat lake, view point, are few gud places for a must visit.
Shopping places weren't attractive
Activities & things to do: Trekking & waterfalls
Travel tips, How to reach, travel warnings etc: Package tour
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- Ashish Pallod
- Lives in Pune
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- Posted Dec 31, 2012
Sulthan Battery is a town in waynad district of kerala. Though historical place, people go there to explore surrounding forest, water bodies and peaks.More » « Less
Food, sight-seeing and shopping: S Battery has many good restaurants offering north Indian, south Indian food. It has hotels and resorts to stay at all price points. One can shop there local produce like spices, herbs, scented oils, perfumes and wooden items etc.
Activities & things to do: One can go to Chembra peak for trekking, Bandipur and Waynad wild life sanctuary for wild life sightings, tea estates nearby, banasura sagar dam, pakkoti lake, lakkidi top near the ghat for beautiful valley view.
Travel tips, How to reach, travel warnings etc: Sultan battery is easily accessible by road from Calicut and Mysore. Calicut and Mysore are well connected with the country by road, air and train.
Ooty is just 90 km away from Sultan Battery.
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- Posted Aug 4, 2012
The whole region is picturesque. Just get out of your room and start walking and you are surrounded by hills, kairali houses, spiral roadsMore » « Less
A perfect place to lose your worries, get dissolved in the nature.
Food, sight-seeing and shopping: We visited edakkal caves, Kanthanpara waterfalls, Lakkidi, Pookot Lake in a day and Wayanad wildlife sanctuary and the Chembra peak on another!
Stayed at KTDC�s Pepper Grove which is decent in location, ambience and doesn�t burn a hole in your pocket ;-)
The food is good. We guys don't do shopping on adventure trips. ;-)
Activities & things to do: The Chembra peak is beautiful, the trek passing through tea estates is not very hard, the views take your breath away!
The Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Muthanga Range was a thriller!
We were not expecting to see much fauna as we visited in June end. But in an hours open jeep safari, we spotted two huge herds of deers, a peacock, a wild boar, langoors, 4-6 wild elephants, one of which blocked our way (at around 30 mtrs) and didn't seem to get off the road making us turn back and go the way we came in.
We also saw pug marks of tiger on our run back.
Travel tips, How to reach, travel warnings etc: WAYANAD WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, MUTHANGA RANGE.
Do hire a guide. You will not even notice animals without his awesome sense of sight and experience.
Do not take drizzles lightly!
No one from our helpful staff at Pepper Grove, The Base office at Chembra and our guide (who could not speak a word in hindi/english :-)) warned or stopped us from going to the peak despite of the continuous light showers.
Trusting their experience, we started the trek but the rains started pouring so heavily that we could not reach the top and had to turn back and descent to the camp after the guide received a warning of Wild elephants and heavy rainfall which could trigger soil slides - from base office.
We were trapped midway and had to sit resting against a rock for shelter, for more than an hour drenched in stormy downpour, afraid of wild elephants, soil slipping from below our feet!!!
If weather is good, Do Not Miss this one. !
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Wilmington | The Wilmington area and the counties that comprise it continue to show dramatic decreases in their unemployment rates compared with last year, according to statistics released Tuesday by the N.C. Division of Employment Security.
Wilmington also saw gains in employment, adding 4,300 jobs since May 2013.
The jobless rate for metro Wilmington was 6.6 percent in May compared with 8.4 percent in May 2013. The area's jobless rate matched the state's.
For New Hanover County, the rate stood at 6.3 percent in May, down from 8 percent a year earlier. In Pender County, the rate dropped to 7.2 percent from 9 percent in May 2013; Brunswick's rate fell to 6.8 percent from 8.8 percent a year earlier.
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CHARLOTTE | Gas prices for the July Fourth weekend were forecast to be the highest since 2008, according to AAA Carolinas.
North Carolina's gas prices are 16 cents higher than last year, in part because of the unrest in Iraq, AAA Carolinas said in a news release.
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Wilmington | Contracts to buy homes jumped in May, and the increase encompassed every region of the country, the National Association of Realtors reported Monday. Locally, the good news spilled over into June.
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In Chinese, we call a person " light-bulb " (电灯泡)when he/she is interrupting another couple's date.
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Now that I am aware that Chinese people refer to date interrupters as light bulbs, I am going to wonder the supermarket with a box of lightbulbs and throw them at the couples I see while yelling LIGHTBULB!
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lol the one in the middle is what I do to my friends dates XD
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Shots on goal has quickly made the transition from a custom-league statistic to a standard-league category in a few short years. Although many have long advocated for the stat to be used with regularity, this is essentially the first season of fantasy hockey when you would be hard-pressed to find a league that doesn't include it. But it's not always the headline players who rack up this statistic, much like power-play goals (or points) and average time on ice. You can find surprises and acquire ...
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Martha Williamson has always worked outside the Hollywood mainstream.
The Denver native is part of network television history while standing proudly apart from it. Her spiritually uplifting "Touched by an Angel" was a hit on CBS for nine seasons but was always out of step with the shooting, maiming, exploding, killing trends in prime time.
Now, after an absence of 10 years, Williamson returns to TV with a new series in a different venue: cable.
The values remain the same.
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered" premieres on the Hallmark Channel as a movie Oct. 12 at 7 p.m., and is expected to become a series (the network has requested three more scripts). This marks Hallmark's third scripted series.
The story concerns a crew of four postal detectives in the dead-letter office. Their mission is to deliver letters and packages from the past, letters and packages that save lives, solve crimes, reunite old loves, and change futures, arriving late but, "miraculously on time, when they are needed most."
Imagine an old-fashioned guy whose workplace is suddenly invaded by a thoroughly modern young woman. He is all about letter-writing and the written word; she lives on the Internet.
There's a possibility of romance between the leading characters, Oliver and Shane, played by Eric Mabius ("Ugly Betty") and Kristin Booth ("The Kennedys").
Williamson insists the thrust is not a knock on technophiles, but she does worry about people losing themselves in the digital world.
"They may kill me for saying this," Williamson said, "but it's an old-fashioned romance that celebrates the written word and the thoughtfully composed letter we don't send anymore."
The story is set in Denver, but shot in Vancouver. Williamson wrote much of the script in a cabin near Nederland that's been in the family since 1942.
"I wanted to go back and write it around my family. Denver's still my family. I grew up a block away from Washington Park on South Gilpin Street. (She's a South High grad). A great deal of the story takes place in Wash Park."
Williamson included a few "winks" to hometown viewers, notably in newscasts within the drama, when a heat wave forces Nederland to cancel their planned festivities. (Puzzled out-of-towners are directed to the Nederland Chamber of Commerce explanation of Frozen Dead Guy Day.)
And when a dead-letter detective's job is in jeopardy, Williamson sneaks in another favorite local reference: "I could end up selling stamps in Pueblo, Meeker or East Tincup." (Williamson's father was acquainted with radio legend Pete Smythe, who created the fictional Old West town in his imagination.)
While Williamson champions upbeat content, her other goal is to bring strong production values, quality, "and the challenging issues we addressed on 'Touched by an Angel' and 'Promised Land' to a Hallmark audience."
For a writer-producer working outside the typical network wheelhouse, the boom in streaming services like Netflix and Hulu now offering original programming is "very tempting," she allowed. "I would love to be part of that. Being able to choose your entertainment without having to fight through stuff you don't want to see is particularly important to parents." Case in point: her daughter accidentally stumbled onto a Quentin Tarantino film while trying to find a movie about horses.
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Since "Touched," Williamson has written and performed a one-woman show and contributed a blog to beliefnet.com, which included her in a list of "The 12 Most Powerful Christians in Hollywood," right up there with Kristin Chenoweth, Mel Gibson and Phil Anschutz.
With cutting-edge adult dramas winning awards on cable networks, and low-cost reality shows proliferating on the broadcast networks, Williamson said, "I realized I needed to go to Hallmark. My brand and their brand seemed destined for each other."
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The Terror of Barbarism and the Return to History: Between the Text and the Performance of Murder by Hanoch Levin
Brenner, Rachel Feldhay, Hebrew Studies Journal
When terror is displaced by forclusion in the theatre ... and then re-presented, it appears not as representation (because it cannot be represented), but as hallucination, as some unnameable thing that returns ... like a Jacobean apparition.
In the institutionalized theatre ... the terror of non-being is ultimately crystallized as the threat of terrorism--an objectification of terror in the ideology of the violent image. (1)
This essay argues that the two versions of the play, namely, the written text and its mise-en-scene do not communicate an identical message: to a large extent, the production resists the nihilistic world picture projected in the text. The play argues that the compulsive destructiveness of the Israeli occupier vitiates the occupied, drawing them into endless cycles of mutually inflicted suffering. While trying to remain as faithful as possible to the play, the conceptualization of the theatrical event was bound to take into consideration the Israeli spectators' political and emotional mindset vis-a-vis the occupation. The production thus treads a thin line between the play's dark vision of Israel irrevocably sliding into savagery and a humanistic-liberal perspective which attenuates the message by seeking a balanced representation of the conflict.
The following statement appears mid-way in Murder, an exceptional play by the renowned Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin, which deals with the terror of murder as the signature of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories:
"Why." We are long past the question "why." The question "why" shouldn't be asked. The question "why" belongs to other times (142/106). (2)
The dismissal of the question "why" signals the elimination of the need to understand and to explain social behavior, since the situation of occupation brings forth senseless victimization and meaningless suffering which defy the telos of humanity's moral progression. The end of moral historical narrative signifies the end of language as a mode of meaningful communication. Language which has lost its potency to investigate reasons for decisions and motives for behavior can no longer engage human beings in a truthful interaction. What replaces language grounded in "why" is, as we shall see, the language of interminable and unaccounted for savage violence which exposes the terror of human nature. No longer mediated by the humanist values of moral accountability, equality, and human fellowship, the terror erupts in uncontrollable hatred and aggression toward the oppressed, powerless other. The compulsive destructiveness of the occupier vitiates the occupied, drawing them into endless cycles of mutually inflicted suffering.
This essay argues that the two versions of the play, namely, its written text and its mise-en-scene, do not convey an identical message; to a large extent, the production resists the nihilistic world picture projected in the text. Since Murder is a play with a very strong, even radical, social message, the staging was ineluctably affected, and, one might claim, determined, by the mind-set of the targeted audience. While trying to remain as faithful as possible to the message of the play, the conceptualization of the theatrical event was bound to take into consideration the Israeli spectator and his or her attitude toward the occupation. As the director was well aware, the performance of the play presented a particularly sensitive issue in the painful reality of Israel's continuing need to cope with the problem of occupation and the recurring incidents of Palestinian terrorism.
I examine the meeting of the performance of Murder and the audience in the second part of the essay. At this point, I would only like to indicate the general direction of my discussion. The production of Murder, including the pre-performance devices and the performance itself, seems to maintain an extent of deliberate ambiguity with regards to the canonical version of the play. …