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With £6m raised in as many years, the Centre for the Children's Book, in Newcastle, is on course for a 2005 opening.
Builders will shortly be appointed to transform a seven-storey Victorian mill into the country's first cultural centre for children's literature.
Now £750,000 has to be raised to fit and equip the Grade II listed building, plus a further £500,000 for maintaining a growing archive of manuscripts and illustrations and for a programme of events.
Existing funding includes £1.5m that was used to purchase and design the seven-storey building and adjacent warehouse in the Ouseburn Valley area of Newcastle and £4.5m which will be spent on its reconstruction and refurbishment.
Mary Briggs, the centre's chief executive, said: "The Centre for the Children's Book has reached a watershed.
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"We've raised £6m in six years for a building, which will be the UK's first dedicated visitor attraction for children's literature and since 1998 we have reached over 75,000 children and families with our exhibitions and events.
"We are now looking forward to the next stage in our journey which will reach millions of children and create a permanent national resource placing children, young people and their books at the heart of our national literary culture."
Mark Robinson, director of arts and development for Arts Council England, North East, said: "The Centre for the Children's Book will enthuse children and adults alike with the magic of books and be an embodiment of the imagination of writers, illustrators and publishers.
"It is therefore a fitting place to launch this important strategy."
Victor Watson, chairman of the centre, added: "Children in the South-East will benefit from the centre in precisely the same way as children in the North-East who are interested in ballet benefit from the Royal Ballet in Covent Garden.
"Other aspects of our culture have their recognised centres, but there has never been a cultural base for children's literature."

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It is hard to believe that both of these paintings were created by the same artist. At left, Picasso's The Old Fisherman, displays amazing detail and depth of knowledge about the human figure. At right, Three Musicians, presents amazing contrast and is so simple that it almost seems like anyone could have painted it without any training at all, and yet it is the more well-known of the two. I have often wondered why that is.
Believe it or not, there is a strong tie in here with web analytics. The reason that the second image is more powerful is not because of its surface appearance; it is the depth of knowledge of the artist behind it.
Recently one of our largest media clients asked the Adobe consulting team to help them identify four to five key user market segments using predictive analytics and the data captured by SiteCatalyst. This was an extremely challenging task considering the client has over 80 million unique visitors to their site each month, each with unique behavior and content affinities across many individual visits. It was our task to characterize each individual user, and then find a way to group these users into useful and actionable segments that could be used by the client's marketing team to hone their efforts.
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Nolan Recruits Actress Jessica Chastain for His 'Interstellar' Voyage
by Alex Billington
May 2, 2013
Source: Deadline
Briefly: This project is certainly coming together fast! News has broken on the latest member of the cast of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, his next sci-fi project already scheduled for a November 2014 release. So far, Nolan has cast Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway as the first two leads, now he has signed Zero Dark Thirty/The Help Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain. Deadline says that Chastain is in talks to "play the third lead" in the film, which is said to "depict a heroic interstellar voyage to the farthest borders of our scientific understanding." Everything about this sounds like it will be the pinnacle of the new era of sci-fi movies we're entering, and the cast so far is starting to indicate that will be the case. Chastain has worked for Terrence Malick and Kathryn Bigelow before, and seems careful about the roles she takes on.
Update: Deadline also reveals that Michael Caine has officially boarded the project. This isn't surprising since Caine has been in all of Nolan's films since Batman Begins in 2005. Plus, last summer Caine revealed that he was already in Nolan's next project. Though at the time he said it was an original idea. Technically, that's still true, though this film isn't so much Nolan's idea as his brother Jonathan's. Still, last summer Caine said, "I've been in everything he's done since he's been in Hollywood. We're each others' good luck charms. I always say to him, 'I'm not your good luck charm, you are mine!'" There you go, he's onboard, too.
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To examine the effect of melatonin given to rats simultaneously with fructose on initial and fully developed metabolic syndrome, male Wistar rats had free access to chow and 5% or 10% fructose drinking solution for 8 weeks. As compared to controls, systolic blood pressure augmented significantly under both treatments whereas excessive body weight was seen in rats receiving the 10% fructose only. Rats drinking 5% fructose showed a greater tolerance to a glucose load while rats having access to a 10% fructose drinking solution exhibited the expected impaired glucose tolerance found in the metabolic syndrome. Circulating triglyceride and low density lipoproteins-cholesterol (LDL-c) concentration augmented significantly in rats showing a fully developed metabolic syndrome only, while high blood cholesterol levels were found at both stages examined. Melatonin (25 μg/mL drinking solution) counteracted the changes in body weight and systolic blood pressure found in rats administered with fructose. Melatonin decreased the abnormal hyperglycemia seen after a glucose load in 10% fructose-treated rats but it did not modify the greater tolerance to glucose observed in animals drinking 5% fructose. Melatonin also counteracted the changes in plasma LDL-c, triglyceride and cholesterol levels and decreased plasma uric acid levels. The results underline a possible therapeutical role of melatonin in the metabolic syndrome, both at initial and established phases.
The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of metabolic abnormalities including, among others, abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, atherogenic dyslipidemia, increased blood pressure (BP) and a pro-inflammatory state [
The metabolic syndrome is characterized by the presence of at least three of the following parameters: waist circumference >102 cm in males and >88 cm in females, triglycerides >150 mg/dL plasma, high density lipoproteins (HDL) <40 mg/dL plasma, BP > 130/85 mm Hg and fasting glucose >110 mg/dL [
A causal role of dietary components has been postulated in the metabolic syndrome and fructose intake may play a major role in its etiology [
High fructose intake has been commonly modeled in rats [
Among several substances with the capacity to curtail fructose-induced metabolic syndrome, melatonin has received attention because of its very low or absent toxicity that turns it potentially appropriate for human use. In high-fat/high sucrose-fed rats giving an intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of 4 mg/kg body weight melatonin every morning for 8 weeks, starting after 20 weeks of feeding, weight gain inhibition occurred together with improved insulin sensitivity [
In a recent study, the melatonin activity on the metabolic syndrome induced by a diet containing 60% fructose was examined [
The objective of the present study was to examine further the effect of melatonin given in the drinking solution simultaneously with fructose at two different stages of the induced metabolic syndrome: an initial stage, in which changes in BP and circulating lipids coexist with an augmented glucose tolerance and at the stage of the established metabolic syndrome, when insulin resistance and dyslipidemia fully develop. To attain this either a 5% or a 10% fructose drinking solution was given for 8 weeks.
Chow consumption (g/rat/day) was similar for controls (16 ± 1), 5% fructose-fed rats (14 ± 1) and 10% fructose-fed rats (17 ± 2). Water consumption (ml/rat/day) was 25 ± 4 (controls), 36 ± 4 (5% fructose) and 41 ± 5 (10% fructose) (
As compared to controls, body weight augmented significantly in rats drinking the 10% fructose solution while systolic BP augmented significantly in both groups of fructose-overloaded rats. Rats drinking the 10% fructose solution showed significant increases in circulating low density lipoproteins (LDL)-c, cholesterol and triglyceride levels as compared to controls while only circulating cholesterol increased significantly in rats receiving 5% fructose. Blood levels of HDL-c, creatinine, urea and uric acid were indistinguishable from controls after fructose overload (
The efficacy of the concomitant administration of melatonin to overcome the metabolic changes brought about by a 5% fructose drinking solution is depicted in
As shown in
A high fructose (50%–60%) solid diet in male rats induces metabolic alterations similar to those found in metabolic syndrome, including insulin resistance and hypertension [
We took advantage of this approach to define two stages of the metabolic syndrome caused by fructose, by giving for 8 weeks either a 5% or a 10% fructose solution (in which fructose accounted for 21%–27% and 48%–57% of total caloric intake, respectively [
As compared to controls, systolic BP augmented significantly in both experimental groups whereas significant body weight changes were seen in rats receiving the 10% fructose solution only. Blood cholesterol levels augmented significantly in both groups of animals while circulating triglyceride and LDL-c concentration augmented significantly in rats receiving 10% fructose only. Hence, two different stages of a metabolic syndrome brought about by fructose could be defined: an initial stage, in which changes in BP and circulating lipids coexist with an augmented glucose tolerance, and an established stage, when a decreased glucose tolerance and circulating lipid changes were fully developed.
A number of studies indicate that melatonin has the ability to reduce type 2 diabetes and liver steatosis [
Long-term administration of melatonin improves lipid metabolism in type 2 diabetic rats through amelioration of insulin resistance [
Collectively, the present and previous results indicate that the administration of melatonin effectively counteracts some of the disrupting effects seen in diet-induced obesity in rats, in particular, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia and overweight. It should be noted that there is a critical need for studies on melatonin effects on the metabolic syndrome phenotype in primates, since all animal studies demonstrating effects of melatonin on metabolism have been conducted in nocturnal species.
In accordance with previous observations [
Melatonin, while counteracting the changes in plasma LDL-c, triglyceride and cholesterol, decreased plasma uric acid levels. This last effect can be of potential therapeutic value in view that hyperuricemia has a pathogenic role in metabolic syndrome, possibly due to its ability to inhibit endothelial function [
There is considerable evidence that circadian misalignment is associated with increased risk of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease [
Since melatonin has a short half life (less than 30 min) a number of melatonin agonists with a longer duration of action have been developed. Concerning their potential to be used therapeutically in the metabolic syndrome, ramelteon (Rozerem®, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Kyoto, Japan) attenuated age-associated hypertension and weight gain in spontaneously hypertensive rats [
Male Wistar rats (60 days of age) were kept under standard conditions of controlled light (12:12 h light/dark schedule; lights on at 08:00 h) and temperature (22 ± 2 °C). Three experiments were performed.
In experiment 1, groups of 8 rats had free access for 8 weeks to chow and one of the following drinking solutions: (i) a 5% fructose solution (in which fructose accounted for 21%–27% of caloric intake [
In experiment 2, rats were randomly divided into four groups (
Chow and water consumption were measured weekly. Caloric intake for fructose-fed rats was calculated as sum of calories ingested as food on the basis of 2.9 kcal per gram of chow consumed and on that each ingested gram of fructose corresponds to 4.0 kcal.
The daily melatonin dosage used was 1.9–3.2 mg/kg. The human equivalence dose, calculated by using the body surface area normalization method [
Systolic BP was measured by using a manometer-tachometer (Rat Tail NIBP System; ADInstruments Pty Ltd., Sydney, Australia) employing an inflatable tail-cuff connected to a MLT844 Physiological Pressure Transducer (ADInstruments) and PowerLab data acquisition unit (ADInstruments). Rats were placed in a plastic holder mounted on a thermostatically controlled warm plate that was maintained at 35 °C during measurements. An average value from three BP readings (that differed by no more than 2 mm Hg) was determined for each animal after they became acclimated to the environment. All BP measurements were made between 09:00 and 12:00 h.
A glucose tolerance test was performed at 09:00 h after a 2-h fast. Rats were anesthetized, and following the collection of an unchallenged sample (time 0), a glucose solution of 2 g/kg body weight was administered i.p. During the test, blood was collected from the saphenous vein at 30, 60 and 120 min after glucose administration to measure glucose concentration.
The rats were then eutanized by decapitation under conditions of minimal stress. All experiments were conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS). Trunk blood was collected and plasma samples were obtained by centrifugation of blood at 1500×
Glycemia was measured using the Accu-Check Compact kit (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN, USA). The plasma lipid profile was determined by measuring the content of triglycerides, total cholesterol, HDL-c and LDL-c using commercially available reagent kits as per the manufacturer's instructions (BioSystems S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina). Creatinine, urea and uric acid were measured by standard enzymatic procedures (BioSystems S.A.).
After verifying normality of distribution of data, the statistical analysis of the results was performed by a one-way or a two-way factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by Bonferroni's multiple comparison, Dunnett's or Student's
Although understanding of the melatonin's action in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome is yet inconclusive, studies so far points out that melatonin through its chronobiotic, immunomodulatory, antioxidant and antiapoptotic actions can exert beneficial effects on the metabolic syndrome phenotype. The present study in fructose-treated rats with an initial or fully developed metabolic syndrome underlines a possible therapeutical role of melatonin in the metabolic syndrome, both at initial and established phases. The results support the concept that melatonin can be a useful add-on therapy to curtail insulin resistance, dyslipidemia and overweight in obese individuals [
This research was supported by grants from the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, Argentina (PICT 2007-01045) and the Universidad de Buenos Aires (M048 and 060).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Glucose tolerance test in rats that had free access to chow and a drinking solution containing 5% fructose (upper panel) or 10% fructose (lower panel) for 8 weeks. Controls received tap water. Glucose (2 g/kg body weight) was administered i.p. Shown are the means ± SEM (
Body weight, systolic BP and glycemia after the administration of glucose (2 g/kg body weight i.p.) to rats that had free access to chow and drinking solutions containing 0.015% ethanol (control), 0.015% ethanol plus 5% fructose, 5% fructose plus 25 μg/mL melatonin or 25 μg/mL of melatonin for 8 weeks. Controls received tap water. Shown are the means ± SEM (
Plasma levels of LDL-c, HDL-c, cholesterol, triglycerides, creatinine, urea and uric acid in rats that had free access to chow and drinking solutions containing 0.015% ethanol (control), 0.015% ethanol plus 5% fructose, 5% fructose plus 25 μg/mL of melatonin or 25 μg/mL of melatonin for 8 weeks. Controls received tap water. Shown are the means ± SEM (
Glucose tolerance test in rats that had free access to chow and drinking solutions containing 0.015% ethanol (control), 0.015% ethanol plus 10% fructose, 10% fructose plus 25 μg/mL of melatonin or 25 μg/mL of melatonin for 8 weeks. Controls received tap water. A glucose solution of 2 g/kg body weight was administered i.p. Shown are the means ± SEM (
Body weight, systolic BP and plasma levels of several analytes in rats receiving a 5% or a 10% fructose overload for 8 weeks.
|5% Fructose
|10% Fructose
|Initial body weight (g)
|273 ± 15
|267 ± 9
|269 ± 11
|Final body weight (g)
|354 ± 13
|339 ± 11
|409 ± 19
|Systolic BP (mmHg)
|108 ± 4
|124 ± 5 *
|129 ± 5 *
|LDL-c (mg/dL)
|37 ± 5
|45 ± 4
|54 ± 4 *
|HDL-c (mg/dL)
|53 ± 2
|52 ± 1
|54 ± 4
|Cholesterol (mg/dL)
|68 ± 4
|84 ± 4 *
|88 ± 6 *
|Triglycerides (mg/dL)
|95 ± 6
|112 ± 11
|233 ± 19 *
|Creatinine (mg/dL)
|1.1 ± 0.1
|1.2 ± 0.2
|1.1 ± 0.1
|Urea (mg/dL)
|44 ± 5
|49 ± 6
|39 ± 3
|Uric acid (mg/dL)
|1.8 ± 0.2
|1.7 ± 0.2
|1.6 ± 0.3
Shown are the means ± SEM (
Effect of melatonin on body weight, systolic BP and plasma levels of several analytes in rats with a fully developed metabolic syndrome (10% fructose drinking solution for 8 weeks).
|10% Fructose
|10% Fructose + Melatonin
|Initial body weight (g)
|265 ± 22
|284 ± 19
|273 ± 16
|269 ± 26
|Final body weight (g)
|351 ± 30
|479 ± 36
|370 ± 32
|371 ± 30
|Systolic BP (mmHg)
|102 ± 8
|129 ± 6
|103 ± 4
|100 ± 8
|LDL-c (mg/dL)
|39 ± 4
|59 ± 6
|19 ± 3
|22 ± 4
|HDL-c (mg/dL)
|54 ± 7
|55 ± 8
|62 ± 6
|58 ± 5
|Cholesterol (mg/dL)
|65 ± 6
|88 ± 4
|67 ± 5
|71 ± 4
|Triglycerides (mg/dL)
|175 ± 23
|302 ± 26
|215 ± 19
|164 ± 13
|Creatinine (mg/dL)
|1.1 ± 0.1
|1.2 ± 0.2
|1.1 ± 0.1
|1.3 ± 0.1
|Urea (mg/dL)
|44 ± 5
|40 ± 6
|38 ± 3
|42 ± 4
|Uric acid (mg/dL)
|1.7 ± 0.1
|1.9 ± 0.2
|1.2 ± 0.1
|1.1 ± 0.1
For experimental details see Methods. Shown are the means ± SEM (


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Tyson Chandler is a bitch.
And I knew Hendo was having a bad year so far, but I didn't realize he was shooting only 20-some percent coming into this game.
Hendo looks almost spastic at times, I don't understand it.
Cats started strong, Kemba is playing well.
Lots of fouls called on the Cats so far.
Yeah, I'm seeing a huge discrepancy in the calls so far.
Taylor just drained a nice 3.
Nice lob from Kemba to Taylor!
Zeller has 3 fouls, McRoberts 2 and still in the first quarter, and that's not counting other Cats players with fouls.
The amount of offensive fouls is crazy.
End of 1st:
Bobcats 31
Knicks 28
Carmelo hit a long 3 at the buzzer to cut the lead in half.
These foul calls are total bullshit.
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The federal government should abandon its pledge for a surplus and take the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to raise more debt at historically low interest rates, former RBA board member
Rather than cutting spending, the government should use the large purchases by foreigners of Australian government debt to fund a Keynesian public spending program to drive growth, he told the Australian Business Economists conference in Sydney on Wednesday.
The Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to cut rates to a 2009-low of 3 per cent on Tuesday drove the dollar higher to $US1.05 yesterday.
"Using monetary policy to deal with the problems we face, I feel, is not the solution," Professor McKibbin said. "Particularly when you consider the key effect of monetary policy on stimulating the economy is ... you depreciate the exchange rate, but if you have this big portfolio shift going on, you destroy that channel. If you destroy that channel, the idea that you do a fiscal consolidation and then back in the loss of output by cutting interest rates is not the right strategy.
"The thing to do is to actually extend the fiscal consolidation and bring on a lot of infrastructure spending, financed by long-term bonds that foreigners are willing to throw money at us for, and use that to actually manage the demand-side of the economy," he said.
The Australian Business Economists' annual survey showed most economists believe the federal government will not achieve a surplus this financial year.
"The government's growth forecasts that the budget rests on are seen to be optimistic," the committee of 19 economists said.
"The impact of missing the surplus by the promised deadline is considered to be a political downside rather than an economic downside, provided the miss is not so significant that it shakes the medium-term strategy."
The economists predicted a slowdown in economic growth in 2013, forecasting median gross domestic product growth would fall to 2.8 per cent in 2013.
Gross domestic product figures released yesterday showed the Australian economy grew at a rate of 3.1 per cent on a yearly basis in the September quarter.
Quentin Grafton, chief economist at the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics, said at yesterday's conference that Australia's commodity price boom had peaked in 2011, though the current investment phase was likely to last until about 2017-18.
Kapstream Capital managing director Kumar Palghat said the RBA was one of the most active central banks in the world but may have done better over the last three to four years by leaving rates alone.
"In 2008-2009 the RBA got to 3 per cent but they were only there for about six months, and they started normalising interest rates. Maybe in hindsight the consequences of real higher rates ...was that [they] caused the exchange rate to go up quite a bit," Mr Palghat said.
"Yesterday the RBA cut interest rates back to 3 per cent, so really the RBA has moved 13 times to end up at the same level that they were in 2009. In hindsight you could argue they would have been better off making no change."
Mr Palghat predicted the US Federal Reserve would keep its interest rates at ultra-low levels near zero until 2017-18, maintaining upward pressure on the Australian dollar.


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That Time I Told Ryan Tedder His Music Changed My Life....
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No big deal they call we say 'Thank you for calling... blah blah blah" and put them right through... but when Ryan Tedder called in I had to take the opportunity to tell him how much his music has meant to me!
Specifically the song "Feel Again" & how it came out at the most perfect time in my life. I needed to hear those lyrics.. and I NEEDED that song in my life at that time!
Moments like this make me so happy!
The reason I even got into radio was because of music and lyrics..
I've been inspired by lyrics my entire life... and the fact now that I'm able to express to these artists how much they have impacted my life is truly a blessing.
This was a **PINCH ME** moment for sure!
Dear Ryan Tedder.. you are everything that is amazing.. and MORE!


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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Based on the graphic novels of Hideyuki Kikuchi, this beautifully drawn anime film melds spaghetti Western style with the gothic settings and flashy violence of 1960s Italian horror flicks to tell the story of a girl kidnapped by a vampire. Determined to get his daughter back, the kidnap victim's wealthy father hires D -- the half-breed spawn of a human mother and vampire father -- to retrieve her. But what if she doesn't want to be brought home?


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Japan and the United States have agreed to cancel plans for Tokyo to provide $3.29 billion in loans for the transfer of U.S. Marines in Okinawa Prefecture to Guam, Japanese sources said Friday.
The decision was confirmed at Thursday's bilateral meeting of high-level foreign affairs and defense officials on the review of the 2006 roadmap for realigning U.S. forces in Japan, the sources said.
Japan was slated to extend the loans to help finance construction of housing for families of the marines to be moved to the U.S. territory from Okinawa.
But the U.S. decided to keep the Marine Corps command in Okinawa intact, making the new housing on Guam unnecessary. This will reduce Japan's share of the relocation costs to $2.8 billion, which will be used to build other Guam facilities, the sources said.
Tokyo and Washington also agreed on a Self-Defense Forces deployment to Tinian, one of the U.S.-administered Northern Mariana Islands, to participate in joint drills, the sources said.
Japan will shoulder part of the costs if improving U.S. military facilities on Tinian. The spending will be included in the $2.8 billion to be earmarked for the transfer of marines to Guam, they said.
Noda in favor with U.S.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is viewed more favorably by Washington than his two predecessors and could better help the U.S. cope with China's rise if he survives domestic challenges, according to The Washington Post.
The administration of President Barack Obama appreciates that "Noda has moved the U.S.-Japan alliance back to the center of Japanese strategy after his predecessors flirted with 'balancing' between China and the United States," the Post said in an editorial ahead of Noda's visit from April 29.
"U.S. officials are impatient with Japan's leadership merry-go-round and its perceived inability to deliver on promises," the paper said, adding, "There is some ambivalence in Washington about how long a lifeline to throw."
Noda's predecessors were Naoto Kan and Yukio Hatoyama. "After two relatively flamboyant but utterly clueless premiers, Noda's solidity is welcome," it said.
Noting that Noda's consensus building approach represents a return to a traditional Japanese leadership style, the paper said that if Noda overcomes domestic challenges, he could better help the United States cope with a rising China and that "he might even set an example for leaders in other democracies."


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Problem on illegal drugs-A A +A
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
TUBURAN town Mayor Jun Diamante deserves praise and should be emulated by the other local government officials for enforcing laws, particularly those against illegal drugs, without fear or favor.
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The mayor's cousin, Lyndon Diamante-Sanchez, 48, was arrested by the town's Municipal Anti-illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group (Maidsotg) through a search warrant issued by the court and upon orders of the mayor.
Sanchez was arrested Friday night during a search in his house in Tuburan. Taken during the search were illegal drugs valued at P30,000. The operation was by virtue of the search warrant issued by Toledo City Regional Trial Court Judge Hermes Montero.
Mayor Diamante told me over the phone that he has to do it to show to his constituents, as well as to the province and the entire nation, that nobody is untouchable in his town.
Tuburan Police Chief William Homoc said Sanchez is a level three drug pusher. Found at Sanchez's house were a medium pack and 17 small packs of shabu and some drug paraphernalia.
Homoc noted that Mayor Diamante had warned Sanchez to stop his illegal drugs trade long before he was subjected to the search and then arrested for possession of the illegal drugs.
The proliferation of illegal drugs (shabu) in the municipalities is one of the big challenges that local government officials have to face. Illegal drugs, particularly shabu, have reached the rural areas in alarming speed.
Some town officials in Cebu are even suspected of coddling drug lords. This story is unverified, but a highly placed source said that a Cebu town mayor won in the last elections because of the support he got from a drug lord in his town.
Narco-politics is now a fact in our country but nobody, including our Philippine National Police (PNP), could crack it.
This is also true for the men in uniform. Reports that some policemen are protecting illegal drug dealers have hogged the headlines. This after a drug dealer's ledger was recovered and showed that cops are on the take.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Drugs Agency (PDEA), the local version of the United States' DEA, should not only concentrate on big time drug dealers but should also conduct surveillance work on narco-politicos.
The illegal drugs trade is flourishing even with the stiff penalties imposed under Republic Act No. 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs act of 2002 that repealed RA 6425.
I don't suppose Mayor Diamante did it solely for media mileage or so he would be labeled as the Duterte of Tuburan. Mayor Diamante is his own man. I know him to be self-made and upright. Keep it up, Mayor!
The issue raised by transport drivers, particularly those of PUJs, against the Mandaue City Government--that it has not provided for a PUJ loading and unloading area--is valid. However, their demand for the city council to pass a resolution opposing the new and stiffer penalties for traffic violations is misplaced.
If the transport drivers feel they were singled out (which is not true since the new penalty applies to all drivers of motor vehicles), they should file a petition with the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court questioning the legality of the measure.
Going into transport strike is not the solution. Neither could the transport drivers cow or blackmail the government so it would not implement the stiffer penalties for traffic violations.
It is about time higher fines for traffic violations should be imposed so that drivers, particularly those of public utilities, would start obeying traffic laws, rules and regulations.
And, you know why public utility drivers are strongly opposing the higher fines for traffic violations? Because every day and everywhere, this minority brazenly violates simple traffic laws, rules and regulations.
When there is traffic congestion on the road, believe me, the problem is caused by undisciplined and unruly drivers. And if you mind them, they growl at you.
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on August 07, 2014.
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"The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker," MAC's Val Garland said, explaining the inspiration behind a Mary Katrantzou collection that juxtaposed different British trades and institutions.
"The Mary Katranztou woman is very pure, very statuesque and very proud so it's all about a beautiful skin," she continued.
This meant a matt rosebud lip, a soft blush of natural color drawn diagonally across the cheeks and a muddy silver wash over the eyes.
Hair by Anthony Turner for L'Oréal Professional took its cue from the model Maria Carla Boscono.
"She always looks really effortless and never over the top," he said. Models' tresses were prepped with Pli, parted in the center and then set to with one-inch curling tongs to achieve a neat "mermaid" wave which was brushed out before going back with the barrel of the iron to render the waves more defined. Curl separation was achieved with lashings of Mythic Oil.


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Were there decent instructions in the package? - They will usually give you a good jump off point for measuring CG location on the wing - this is a general guidline --- pushers can be a bit funny
Your subtrims is a menu in your tx - elevato is what you will want to add some +/- to not in large increments mind you.-- test, then re-test as well as checking CG
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Nissan Repair Questions? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
Hi there!You should start by removing the front hubs and cleaning them.Typically the grease gets so stiff inside and they can't engage properly.Hope this helps!
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The Network World recently published a story describing the results of an independent security product testing lab, where they've discovered (surprise, surprise) that adding security features to Cisco routers "presents a tremendous bottleneck" and "can turn a 60G router into a 5G one or even a 100M bit/sec device".
The test results haven't been published yet; I've got all the quotes from the NW story, so they might be the result of an ambitious middleware.
We don't need "independent experts" for that. Anyone who has ever configured VPNs in a high-speed environment can tell you how to kill the performance. The basics are always the same: make sure the dedicated silicon can't handle the job, so the packets have to be passed to the CPU. Here are a few ideas:
- Configure GRE over IPSec and make sure you don't tweak the MTU on the GRE tunnel. This will result in IP fragmentation and the receiving router will have to process every fragment in process switching path. A sure killer for any box, not just the 6500/7600.
- Make sure you configure features for which you have no hardware accelerator installed in the high-end boxes and watch the performance fall (at least) 100x.
- Even if you've managed to install an accelerator, configure the network in a way that effectively disables the hardware. For example, configure multiple GRE tunnels terminating on the same loopback interface
- Design your test so that all the traffic has to pass through a bottleneck. FWSM with its 3-5GBps throughput is an ideal candidate.
What these tests prove to me is that someone who doesn't understand what he's doing can destroy the performance of almost any device … but we don't need independent tests to prove that. Am I missing something? Please let me know.


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How to delete voice messages in Unity
I am newby in Unity and I need to delete all voice messages stored in one suscriber voice mail in my net.
I use unity 4.0.
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That Text on the IP Phone itself will not be deleted until you do one of two things;
1. Assign a new Directory Number to the Phone and update/reset
2. Program a new Voicemail Box for this Directory Number, go through Enrollment / setup, receive and then delete a new message.
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Coach Phil Jackson has seen enough. He revealed Tuesday he has asked Ron Artest to stop shooting 3-pointers from the corners for the immediate future.
Artest was shooting a woeful 12 for 40 overall (30 percent), including an abysmal 3 for 23 from 3-point range (13 percent), going into Game 5 at Staples Center. Neither shooting percentage was acceptable, as far as Jackson was concerned.
"At some point you have to stop," he said. "You have to give it up."
Misses on 3-pointers from the corners have been especially problematic for the Lakers and have led to fast breaks for the Oklahoma City Thunder during the first four games of the best-of-7 series.
Artest can't run down court fast enough to stop a layup.
"We've asked Ron to limit his 3-pointers from the corners," Jackson explained. "Those haven't gone down.
"There are high run-out possibilities on those. He's got an issue on that. I know he'll probably take one (in Game 5)."
Sure enough, Artest swished a three from the left corner in the first quarter. The Lakers were well aware of Artest's shortcomings on 3 s before they signed him as a free agent last summer.
The Lakers were determined to let Artest take as many three's as he wished when he played last season for the Houston Rockets.
"He has some 3-point capabilities," Jackson said, referring to Artest's 34.4 percent shooting on three's for his career. "But they haven't blossomed in this series."
Sixth for sixth man
As expected, Jamal Crawford of the Atlanta Hawks won the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year Award in voting by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. Lamar Odom of the Lakers finished sixth, which also wasn't surprising.
Odom played all 82 regular-season games for the first time in his 11-season NBA career and started 38 times. He averaged 10.8 points and 9.8 rebounds in 31.5 minutes, the lowest scoring average of his career. In the first four playoff games, Odom's averages dipped even more. He went into Game 5 averaging only 7.8 points and 6.5 rebounds in 24 minutes.
Rockets revisited
Given an opportunity to compare and contrast, Jackson declined when asked if the Lakers' first-round playoff series against the Thunder bore any resemblance to last spring's seven-game struggle against the Houston Rockets in the second round.
The Lakers went into each Game 5 tied at two wins apiece. The Lakers won Game 5 against the Rockets, stumbled in Game 6 in Houston and then took the decisive Game 7 at Staples Center en route to winning the NBA title.
"They're all different," Jackson said. "They all have their own personalities. There's nothing you can carry from them that will help us in this particular series. It's a different team, different personnel. It's a young team.
"Houston was relatively young last year. It's a young team. We have to go about our business in a way we've carried games before. We haven't done well on the road. We showed that in these last two games. We have not played well on the road. Now we have to take our home-court advantage and use it."
Mbenga update
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I chose a different approach for this Kanon 2006 review, so instead of mentioning all the ups and down in a unique circle, I preferred to go through a quick journey throughout the whole series. It made it a lot easier even for me, to make my final assesments. I hereby decided to travel through the arcs, and so my analysis is divided between the various parts, delivering there praises and criticisms. All the following contents, naturally, are in my humble opinion.
As all of you already know, on 2002, Toei made the first attempt in animating Kanon. I watched that anime (3-4 years ago), without prior knowing what "Kanon" was, yes at that time it was famous already but I didn't know what it was about.
The Toei version left me quite cold. Not that it was a bad anime, on the contrary it had a lot of powerful scenes, but the fault probably was that those scene seemed pasted one after another, and at the end, too many questions raised and remained unsolved.
That's why, when Kyoto Animation announced its Kanon's remake, I wasn't particularly excited. Nor the fact that Suzumiya Haruhi aired in the middle raised my interest. Kanon was a remake of an anime I probably wouldn't have ranked even in my top 50.
Kanon 2006 started airing, and my approach was still cold. "A chance, just because it's KyoAni", I said myself.
With the first few episodes, my enthuxiasm certainly didn't increase. What I could immediately see, was how better the character were drawn in regard of the 2002 version. I simply loved Nayuki's new look, Yuuichi looked more mature than his "ancestor" (this will be very important for the story) and the same feeling of being better went for the other characters, from Ayu to Kaori, from Mai to Shiori.
At a point, Makoto was introducted. Quite a funny burden in her first appearences to say the truth, but another new thing of this Kanon was the presence of the comedy. I have to say, a brilliant yet very humorous comedy. Delivering a fantastic episode 6, with some of the most entertaining scenes of the whole autumn anime season (
"The variations of the uguu"
). It was an anticipation that Kanon 2006 had ended its gestuation phase and it was definitely started.
From now on, I'll dismiss my 2002's watcher clothes (it was just to state what my point of view was) and I'll talk about 2006 only, without comparisons.
And so, one of the girls suddenly began to be under the spotlights.
"Love is something eternal ... The aspect may change but not the essence."
(Vincent Van Gogh)
Makoto's arc aka the most emotional of KyoAni's Kanon. It feels like a lot of efforts were put here, for a 4 episodes long run. Some might say that they were too much, but I don't particularly agree on the matter. The pace was just fine.
The girl being a fox spirit was hinted slowly but quite well, and the whole process of her "illness" was dealt in the right way. Being a lover of animals, I got really commoted by the whole part of the flashback when they showed Makoto's true nature, and all that followed. An unbelievably powerful closure episode for this arc gave to most of the attendance teary eyes.
But at the same time it probably sown false expectations about the future of the series. Makoto's story was sad and depressing, but also tragic, even if withouth catharsis.
Great job from Makoto's voice actress, Iizuka Mayumi. Her "auu" won't be forgotten anytime soon.
The animation was on really high levels for the most of the time, the plot development got a bit arrested instead, since basically Yuuichi did spend time only with Makoto and/or Mishio.
A good point though, was raised with the underline of the concept of "family", near the end of Makoto's vital power.
"Promise me you'll never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."
(Winnie the Pooh)
After a superb "intermezzo" episode, the focus moved on the mysterious girl, Mai. Which is in my opinion, the arc with better single animations of the whole series (meaning particular outstandingly animated scenes. Some others were a bit less on the top).
With a particular glance at the dance sequence, truly and simply spectacular. The shadows of the story got unveiled little by little and another tragic ending seems to approach before our protagonist is able to avoid it (honestly, I think that scene in particular could have been executed a bit better, since we don't even have time to realize that Mai has attempted sucide, that Yuuici has already "saved" her). That's a point for the theory that KyoAni's Kanon is not first-time watchers friendly.
If compared to Makoto's arc this one is much different for many reasons. First (and this will count for all the other upcoming stories) there has been much time to get a character and his/her indepths inside us, second: not only Mai's story is brought ahead – excepting – the very end, but also that of the other girls. Third and most important, this arc hasn't one protagonist but two.
"Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest"
(William Shakespeare)
Here it is, the one who probably is the most dramatic heroine of the story. The scene when she was assaulted by a demon made my heart skip a bit. Though, what really steals the spotlight, it's when Sayuri tells about her past and her background story about the poor Kazuya.
KyoAni dedicated a good amount of time to it, with amazing results. It's useless to exaggerate with superlatives, but that part was probably , along with the Makoto ending, the most sad of the series. I kept wondering why her laugh ("ahaha") was so dry, and the explanation made me shiver.
Said of the animations, this arc was slightly better than Makoto's in convenient regard of the whole story. One of the best scenes is the one where Mai lets go out her rage and destroys all of the surroundings with her sword, very impactful. The whole flashbacks puzzle worked well too.
I'm not totally fond of the ending here, a bit abrupt (as the pacing of Mai's past story. It seemed all too much standalone, like: "ok, this is the way this went, so what?". I've to put a small minus for this part.)
Thanks to Tamura Yukari, one of the most versatile seiyuus we have, for Mai, and to Kawakami Tomoko for voicing all the pains of such an unfortunate character as Sayuri.
After having conveniently set Mai's healing power out (an acceptable idea executed with questionable manner. Too direct), it's time for the story to move ahead.
"In the end, it doesn't matter how many breaths you take, but how many moments took your breath away."
Despite Shiori being my favourite Kanon 2006's character, this is not my favourite arc. I feel to say it is the one arc with the best animations on the whole (from the beginning to the end). As far as I'm concerned, I doubt I have ever seen something that good as the river animation on the beginning of episode 17, that sequence alone seemed to be screaming "Hey! This is art!" from every point of view.
While this arc could seem totally Shiori-centered, that is not true, as we have a key bond.
"The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is."
(Ralph Emerson)
In all honesty, I don't share the reasonings who brought Kaori to alienate her sister, but I can understand what her feelings might have been.
Back to Shiori, she's wonderful. Beautiful and classy, with some unforgettable quotes ("I don't like people who say such things!") and a flawless, admirable behaviour. I mean, she's facing death everyday. Yuuichi is particular good here in enlighten Shiori's weights, and the birthday party is a colorful feast for the eyes. It's good to see Kaori redeeming too.
A major flaw of this arc though, it's the ending, which is abrupt and cruel at the same time. Also, a 3 episodes span didn't seem allright to me. I'd given at least one episode more, so to have care of making spend to the two a bit more time together and to give a less rushed cut to the story.
If the writers thought that for Shiori's arc 3 episodes would suffice, I think they were wrong. I think this objectively, as Shiori is the girl who has had less time among the main protagonists (bringing her back in episode 24 won't make up for this).
Kudos here go to Satou Akemi (Shiori) and Kawasumi Ayako (Kaori).
As for the remaining girls in this part of the story, it's to note down a certain reaction of Ayu to a "simple" cold of Akiko. As for Nayuki, well, whichever of her long sad expressions tells long about her feelings.
When thinking to Kanon, and to these characters, it's difficult to separate them. I consider this arc as one and unique, I'd say going from episode 19 to 23. (with episode 24 being sort of a "standalone", a wrap-up of all events).
Along with the last episode, the 19th must have been the most discussed one. After a seemingly normal encounter near the end of the episode... suddenly something epic occurs.
It's to say that yes, the kiss between Ayu and Yuuichi felt rushed and coming out of nowhere. Another point for the unfriendliness of Kanon 2006. I for one, felt that a bit unexpected.
In defence of the show, I can say that the number of hints placed previously is countless, through flashbacks and everyday happenings. Certainly, nothing really romantic seemed to be popping out.
I can understand from when the kiss came from, but again, something seemed to be missing, because half of the episode was dedicated to Nayuki, and only the last part to Ayu.
Standing ovation, however, for the kiss scene execution, the camera movements, the clody sky at the sunset, the details. It makes for an unforgettable moment.
The following narration, up to dramatic Ayu's farewell, is very well built, and quite redeeming for the previous "flaw". The final revelation has yet to come, but the climax brought to the screen has a big impact already.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
If they ask me, "who's your favourite Kanon character?" probably I'm going to say Shiori. But if they change the question to "who's the one you admire the most" my answer would be different.
Nayuki suffered the pains of an unrequited love for years. She always kept a determined temper and tried to show no weakness. In the second part of the show, she has really become a silently shining star to my eyes (I have to say that Mariko Kouda as her seiyuu has a consistent part in this bunch of merits, and she would win an ideal "best Kanon seiyuu" prize from me, if there was one). Now it's time for her story to reach the peak.
The trigger is a tragic event that I deem as a badly executed scene by KyoAni's part. I have already explained this in long terms in the episode 21 discussion thread, but in two, I didn't like the accident's depiction, since I have preferred more subtleness.
At this point, Nayuki's strenght collapses. If there's a pillar in her life, outside Yuuichi, it's her mother. Withouth Akiko, Nayuki's world would probably mean nearly nothing.
The anime portrayed this situation just perfectly, in a depressing yet unstoppable run of events with a common key: pain and sorrow.
Yuuichi himself is lost because other than Ayu (and partially Nayuki) there's something other missing: a part of his memory. When he realizes, there's the most noticeable interpretation of Sugita Tomokazu for the character: in episode 22, when Yuuichi remembers what really happened to Ayu, the "uh!" he breathlessly shouts while quickly waking up is worthy one million praises.
It was a nice touch by KyoAni to put the real Sawatari Makoto, and the ending of episode 23 is also heartwarming, great work of the flashbacks and finally Yuuichi and Nayuki can reunite, in another epically animated and rendered scene.
Basically all the pieces of puzzle are together now, a small percentage is left with just one episode to go. The longer awaited Kanon finale will also become the longer discussed, since certainly the key of lecture provided was... surprising ?
When the world says, << Give up >> , Hope whispers: << Try it one more time >>
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A direct approach is chosen to show the solution of the problems: skip and show them all resolved.
It was hazarded, yes. But I for one, liked it. Because it wasn't easy to put together all of the pieces for Kanon, but it was done well and withouth blatant plotholes. Somehow, they managed to untie all the bonds and answer to all the questions. It wasn't easy, in an episode time.
Remarkable things: Shiori outburst (finally, poor thing), Mai helpfulness and Nayuki's strenght through resignation. The continuosly hinted "miracle (kiseki)" was the only explanation one could provide, and it worked. If I put myself on that point of view, I can accept everything, even Shiori's healing.
Qualm: not showing Ayu's awakening from coma was not nice. It would have been a magnific anime moment.
The sequence when Ayu walks through the seasons is simply delightful, and feels like KyoAni put there its last effort in terms of great animation quality. Horie Yui's voice then, here, always and forever, sublime.
Finally, goose pimples for fox-Makoto apparition at the very end. Wih this, all of the girls were basically gathered together, and all is well that ends well.
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
(Andy Warhol)
Yuuichi, my sir, you did very well in this series. Heh, oughta give to Caesar what is Caesar's.
Having shown my point of views on the whole coverage of the series, it is much easier for me now to explain in a few words my thoughts.
First of all, let me say that I don't care about whatever resolution the screenwiters may have chosen. They were all believable paths, so I'd have been ok with any of them. Certainly, I felt really bad for Nayuki near the end, so I'd have hoped for her share of happiness.
It didn't happen, but it's ok. It makes sense that Yuuichi ended with Ayu, as it would have made sense if he ended with Shiori, or Mai, or even Sayuri.
So my opinion won't really be changed from this or that happening. Also because romance is not what Kanon is mainly made of.
As abundantly explained, the storyline has some weak points, costing some points in my judgement.
For a dramatic series, it may be anti-climatic to see all finishing well, and probably this choice has detract something to Kanon 2006 in terms of unforgivability: it's a common thought that you'll remember more a tragic epilogue rather than a positive one. At the end, we may count 2 dead peoples (Makoto and Kazuya – Sayuri's brother - , but I'm tempted not to count Makoto as really dead, since she's always wandering around, either in spiritual form, either in her animal form).
This aspect can really divide people's opinions.
As for me, I like drama but I also like fairy tales with their magic when they occur. I'm a dreamer. A dream is the key of Kanon 2006. It's not difficult if I can sort it all out saying that I liked the ending in its whole.
I think I've really said all that I had to say. Oh, and I chose a friday to say it: for one reason: it's the first "Kanon-less" friday. Just wanted to make it "
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All in all, I don't think this series would be deserving a ten. It is plenty of merits, really. It's near to be a masterpiece, really. But for a reason or another, there's something missing. I don't know if 26 episodes could have solved the deal (by adding the point I mentioned as probably lacking), but as a matter of things, I can call this series "excellent", without going further.
With a brief summing up of all the ratings I've given around the way, I ended up giving:
Overall Rating: 94%
But all considered, I have to round down that total, and so my final rating for Kanon 2006, as it will appear in this poll, is a solid
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David Blum's book came out in hardcover on October 1, a week before the Memogate fiasco began. If this account is true, Rather certainly does not look like Mr. Consistent, berating the brass and threatening to leak over the lack of promos and then later confessing he always knew it was a loser.


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Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend – I mean Great Commercials and All You Can Eat Appetizer Sunday is this weekend! 😉 Yeah, you know what I' talking about.
Let's talk Hummus, and please forgive the pic with the lack of color. Maybe some colored chips or some red bell pepper would spice things up a bit.
This recipe is from Art Smith's cookbook Kitchen Life, which is an awesome cookbook. It's full of so many helpful tips from grocery shopping to staples you should always have on hand in your pantry. If you need some motivation in the kitchen, you would love it.
This recipe for hummus is so great because it substitutes peanut butter for tahini paste (ground sesame seeds), which is normally in most hummus recipes. So it saves you a trip to the specialty market. Who doesn't have peanut butter on hand?!
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- 1 - 15oz. Can Garbanzo Beans (Chick Peas) - drained with liquid reserved
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The 28-year-old hip-hop star - real name Reminisce Smith - married rapper Papoose in jail shortly after she was convicted of assault, weapons possession and attempted coercion for shooting Makeda Barnes Joseph in the abdomen during a fracas in July, 2007. She has been dogged by persistent rumors of an affair after a video surfaced online last year allegedly showing Minaj declaring they had a relationship.
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Important Dates:
- The written exam of ISRO Scientist Engineer SC(CSE,ECE,ME) : 12th May 2013( New Revised Date)
- The call letters for the written test to the short-listed candidates will be sent only by e-mail during second/third week of April 2013.
How to download ISRO 2013 admit card for BE001, BE002, BE003 Post (Scientist Engineer SC) :
Step 1 : Go to the website : http://www.isro.org/scripts/job.aspx
Step 2 : Download link of ISRO May 2013 admit card is coming soon…(second/third week of April).
Step 3 : Enter your registration no. and date of birth to download admit card.
Step 4 : Download and print ISRO 2013 admit card.
Check ISRO 2013 Application Status of Scientist Engineer CSE , ME , Electronics : Click Here
Official ISRO 2013 Notification : http://www.isac.gov.in/CentralBE/advt.jsp