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Perched superior in the Andes, 2,600 meters preceding sea level, Bogota is the greatest and busiest borough in Colombia, edging towards 8 million ethnic group. Its the nucleus of Colombias economy, bailiwick and profession industries, and the obverse of a land which has struggled for peace and security for galore eld.
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He aforesaid 'Over the ancient 80 age we have been edifice cities for cars so much more than than for population. If one and only family had as noticeably public area as cars, maximum cities in the world would become wonderful.'
He likewise believed that by conveyance make-up soul to Bogotas inferior communities, he was bridging the gap linking the wealthy, who could expend to take countryside vacations, and the poor, by providing them near improved recreational areas that would give them location to relax, sweat and devote example beside family, influential to a happier state and well again lifestyle for all.
One of the maximum far-famed initiatives he undertook was the growth of a massive meet people of cycleways all all over the city, freehanded commuters a safer, healthier and environmentally intimate alternative to peripatetic to slog by car.
Fittingly, the overhang was for the most part funded by an grow in taxes on gas. The thinking was, that those flush satisfactory to settle on to traverse by car or else of by bike, could decide on to impairment the tramp in tax as well. Revenue was besides lifted by going up in the public eye elbow room fees.
Restrictions were besides settled on the hours linking which inhabitants could actuation cars finished the streets of the city, forcing inhabitants to journeying bikes, pace or catch public moving during blossoming hr periods. The sought after feeling was achieved near a running down of just about 40% of cars during these work time.
Today there is more than 300kms of ciclorutas in Bogota, the supreme common web in any urban of the worldwide. The use of bicycles in Botoga has up by 900% and the amount of collection accidents has likewise ablated dramatically.
But Penalosas pains did not end in that. In February 2000, Penalosas oldest 'car pardon day' was command. No cars were allowed to propulsion anywhere in the full town linking 6:30 am until 7:30pm. Despite the day occurring on a Thursday, no through disruptions were reported, and a number of local retail businesses even reportable a reaction widen in gross sales.
The day was declared a natural event and a overt vote was held, decisive that an annual car complimentary day both February would be unionised. Further to this, it was arranged that by 2015, dynamic concerning antemeridian and daytime summit work time would be disqualified nudeness during weekdays.
Public agreement of the mean was specified that now, both Sunday in Bogota is besides a car on the loose day, allowing residents to go back and forth by hopper blades and bikes anywhere in the municipality lacking the vulnerability of cars to claim near.
Along beside the markdown of of our own vehicle use, Penalosa besides fixed on an updated masses shipping system, and the perfection of Bogotas Transmilenio grouping was begun. Car lanes on up to streets and blood vessel roads were rescued for a make friends of utmost rush buses in staunch lanes.
Since the orifice of the scheme in postponed 2000, the roaming instance of the norm commuter victimization the complex was attenuated by 32%, gas emissions were slashed by 40% and the amount of accidents in areas wherever the association operates diminished by 90%.
There were critics, of course, but the bulk of Bogotanos nourished these projects. They are now enjoying the benefits of exercise, shorter road present time to and from work and shrivelled moving expenditure. Family welfare groups are besides supportive, due to the percentage increase on families spending clip together rollerblading and biking about the urban center.
Today, Penalosa is hailed as a trailblazer. He is accredited by tons Colombians as ever-changing the obverse of their res publica but the international civic has also recognized his manual labour. In 2000, he received the prestigious Stockholm Challenge Award in acceptance of his Car Free Day jut out over.
The donate was planned to adjudge those who innovator mechanical developments to amend element of life span and donate plausible models for others to go for the interest of global improvement, be it environmentally or socially.
After his residence as Mayor of Bogota he was welcome to speak up on lieu of the worldwide Energy Foundation. Today he is a student at the New York University wherever he is verbal creation a stamp album on Urban Development.
When Penalosa's occupancy ended in 2001, his solicit votes did not. As economically as following status issues academically, he now industrial plant as a consultant for developing global cities. His projects in Bogota have get the focus of research and be taught by other than cities about the globe, as a epitome for regional fostering projects in places together with Mexico City, Delhi, Lima, Panama City, Jakarta and Guangzhou.
But mayhap the greatest try Penalosa ready-made was his rally that perfect municipality initiation comes first of all finished a changeover of noesis. That by attractive performance and exploring smaller quantity accepted approaches, transmute for the larger is come-at-able and low-priced.
As he said, Public span is for living, doing business, kissing, and musical performance. Its effectiveness can't be measured next to economic science or mathematics; it must be fabric near the life-force.

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Atlanta 30, Tampa Bay 28
TAMPA, Florida (Ticker) -- After nearly digging out of a huge
hole, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers could not avoid having their
playoff hopes buried for good.
Brad Johnson fell just shy of engineering a huge fourth-quarter
comeback as the Buccaneers were eliminated from playoff
contention with a 30-28 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.
Needing to win their final two games and receive help to make
the playoffs, the defending Super Bowl champion Buccaneers (7-8)
trailed 30-7 after three quarters before nearly coming all the
way back.
"I am very proud of our football team (and) the character they
showed in the last 15 minutes of the game," Bucs coach Jon
Gruden said.
Pro Bowl defensive tackle Warren Sapp accepted the fact that the
Bucs would not be in the postseason.
"You look at it early in the year and looked at some of the
teams that hadn't made it, and you kind of laughed at it. It's a
reality now," he said.
Johnson, who was intercepted four times in the first half, threw
three touchdown passes in the fourth quarter. His final one,
an 11-yard connection with Jameel Cook with 27 seconds
remaining, pulled the Bucs within 30-28.
But on the ensuing two-point conversion attempt, Johnson came
under a ferocious blitz and had his pass batted down at the line
of scrimmage.
"It's unbelievable the way the guys fought, and I think that's
why we were Super Bowl champions last year. Unfortunately, we
came close and just couldn't get it done," Johnson said.
Earlier this season, the Bucs were on the wrong end of a huge
comeback when they squandered a 21-point lead with under five
minutes remaining in a 38-35 overtime loss to Indianapolis.
The latest loss capped a disappointing home season for the Bucs,
who went just 3-5 at Raymond James Stadium. Four of those
losses came by three points or fewer.
It marked the second time in a week that Atlanta had gotten the
better of Tampa Bay. On Monday, the Falcons hired former Bucs
general manager Rich McKay for the same job.
Michael Vick passed for two touchdowns for the Falcons (4-11),
who came into the contest tied for the NFL's worst record.
"We came down here last year and played them in a big one and
they blew us out," said Vick, who completed 8-of-15 passes for
119 yards. "So for for us to come down here and knock them out
of playoff contention was big for us."
Johnson began the Bucs' comeback bid with a three-yard touchdown
pass to Charles Lee with 11:27 remaining. He found Keenan
McCardell with a 76-yard TD pass, pulling the Bucs within 30-22.
After the Bucs recovered an onside kick, Johnson led seven-play,
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Published: 04 April, 2017
The Light signs as first leisure anchor for intu Broadmarsh redevelopment
The operator has committed to a 32,000-sq ft, nine-screen cinema on a 25-year lease, and will be positioned alongside other leisure units and restaurants, creating a new leisure hub in the south of the city.
The redevelopment of intu Broadmarsh will complement the existing retail and leisure offering at intu Victoria Centre as well as the wider city. intu has worked with Nottingham City Council to align with their vision and to ensure that the development works in collaboration with the rest of the city, improving access and connectivity throughout.
Martin Breeden, development director at intu said: "This is another important step forward for the transformation of intu Broadmarsh where detailed design work, tendering and enabling work is busily going on behind the scenes before the planned start of the main works towards the end of this year."


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We're through what seems like the slowest-moving half in the history of the NFL, with the Ravens leading the Jets 27-17.
Here are a handful of quick-hit notes on the first 30 minutes of play:
* Despite absolutely dominating the Jets for the better part the half, the Ravens only lead by 10. The Ravens look faster, they look tougher, and they look better, especially when the Jets' offense has been on the field. The Baltimore defense has made their opposition look like a Pop Warner team. Still, Rex Ryan and his guys are still very much in this.
* I don't think I've ever seen a coach call a timeout specifically to yell at the officials. Rex, you're so innovative.
* The Ravens' defense has more touchdowns today (two) than the Jets' offense (zero). New York has turned the ball over twice and has only four first downs. I can't stress enough how poorly that group has played, which is due in large part to the way Terrell Suggs, Haloti Ngata, Ray Lewis and company have brought it tonight.
* Baltimore has 163 total yards so far tonight. 134 of them have come through the air. Could Cam Cameron's pass-happy tendencies be here to stay?
* Joe Flacco's first half stat line: 8-of-27 (29 percent) for 142 yards, no touchdowns and an interception. Woof.
* Flacco's counterpart, Mark Sanchez, is getting crushed consistently, and you have to wonder how many of these hits he can take. The Jets' quarterback is getting thrown to the turf seemingly every time he's dropped back to pass, and has absorbed crunching blows from Lewis and Ngata
* Special teams has been the one facet of the game in which the Ravens have not looked sharp. LaQuan Williams fumbled the opening kickoff of the game (Baltimore recovered), Jets running back Joe McKnight put up the longest play ever allowed by the Ravens on a first quarter 107-yard kickoff return, and Prescott Burgess was called for holding on a kickoff. Special teams coordinator Jerry Rosburg has a long week of coaching ahead of him.


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PayPal-Reservierungen für das Jahr 2016. Zwei Häuser: Hauptferienhaus und Gästehaus. Das Hotel liegt einen Block von der Ferry Dock auf dem See. Private Rock Beach. Erstaunliche Aussicht auf den Sonnenuntergang. Gemeinschafts-Dock ideal für einen Sprung in den See. Startseite Ferienhaus verfügt über Küche, zwei Schlafzimmer, ein Badezimmer und großes Familienzimmer mit herrlichem Blick auf den See. Kleines Häuschen enthält Schlafzimmer und WC. Terrasse mit Blick auf das Wasser mit Gas-Grill und Essen im Freien. Private Zufahrt mit Parkplatz für zwei Autos mit einem Carport.
Einen Block zu Fuß zur Innenstadt von La Pointe. Downtown La Pointe bietet Restaurants, Lebensmittelgeschäfte, Bäcker, Einkaufsmöglichkeiten, Kunstgalerie, Tennisplätze, Spielplatz, Museum, Minigolf, Wassersportverleih, Fahrrad- und Mopedverleih, Toms und mehr. Es ist ein kurzer Spaziergang zum Joani Beach mit öffentlichen Strand, Dock-und Spielplatz, zum Pub, dem Yachthafen und dem Golfplatz. Sehr geeignet für zwei Paare Urlaub zusammen, Familien oder Großfamilien.
All the essentials of a vacation cottage. The bedrooms and bathroom in the main house were a little tight, but the unbelievable views of Lake Superior were well worth any minor inconvenience. The property was exactly as listed and very easy to find. It was perfect to be right near downtown, so we could walk to get our morning coffee or grab a beer in the evening.
The house was clean and well-maintained. The owner's relatives live right next door and were very gracious in welcoming us to the island. They even came out on the shared dock when we were admiring the sunset and offered to take our picture for us.
I would definitely recommend this property. As a native Michigander, the long weekend was perfectly reminiscent of my childhood summers in Northern Michigan. The dock was perfect for lying on, and the lake was perfect for showering in. Note that there is no cable for the TV, which I liked because it made for more time to play cards and enjoy each other's company.
My group was on the island for a wedding, so we did not experience a lot of extras, but I would recommend the Beach Club for an excellent bloody mary, Tom's Burned Down Cafe for great ambiance and cheap beer, and Mission Hill Coffee House for great lattes. If you're interested in cliff jumping, head over to the Big Bay State Park. You're not really supposed to jump into Lake Superior from the cliffs, but the locals can point you in the right direction. The jump isn't too high and climbing back out is fairly easy.
We very much enjoyed our stay at Ferry View. It was very pleasant, very clean, very comfortable. We spent a lot of time just gazing at the lake. We visited the parks, the LaPoint library, and the amazing boats at the marina. The town itself is very small, but has grocery stores and a few restaurants. We took the ferry back to Bayfield to visit the book store and to window shop. The folks next door, John and Becky (Maureen's family) are congenial and helpful. We hope to visit again.
Thank you to everyone for making this happen, we enjoyed the stay!
Can't say enough about the location of the house. About 15 ft from the water. The beach is all sand and the large dock is very long. There is a small beach near by but this is just as good. The living room is full of wrap around Windows to view and listen to the waves. The next door neighbor is John who is the caretaker of the property and was so very friendly and accomadating to our requests. He shared some interesting history on the island. We had a woman's weekend together and only 2 of us had to share a queen size bed In a remodeled garage behind the main house. Perfect accomadations!
Thank you Maureen for making this one of our top memory making destinations!
We loved staying at Ferry View Cottages July 2016. The view of the lake from the glass enclosed sitting room is spectacular. We were there during a storm and the waves were lapping at the windows. The cottages are very well appointed and spotless and Maureen was responsive and check in easy. We have stayed at a half dozen places on the island and this will be our first choice from here on. Love the dock and walkability factor.
Great place to stay and well maintained ! We will rent it again soon.
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High Season
1 Jul 2017 - 4 Sep 2017
3 Nächte Mindestaufenthalt
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ab382 €
2.291 €
Late Season
5 Sep 2017 - 31 Okt 2017
2 Nächte Mindestaufenthalt
716 €
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After help coaching a youth camp on Tuesday afternoon, Kelley and fellow Central teammate Chinook Anderson took turns leaping over 5-foot-11 teammate Robert Johnson. Moments before, he and Anderson were doing back flips from a standup position. Add in the fact Kelley has blazing speed, it's easy to see why so many college coaches covet him.
Last season, he amassed over 700 yards receiving and seven touchdowns as Mike Baker's top target. Eastern Michigan was the first school to offer him. Since, he has added a few more including a handful from the Pac-10.
"Latest offer I got today (Tuesday) was from Washington State," said Kelley, who has also received offers from Arizona State, Idaho, Cal Poly, and Oregon State this spring. Idaho, Cal Poly, and Oregon State are written offers, he says.
Kelley currently favors the Beavers and Mustangs. "Cal Poly is very good academically and so is Oregon State and I like the way they play out there," he added.
But he would like to hear from certain Pac-10 program.
"I definitely want to hear from the Oregon Ducks," said Kelley.
Arizona, Miami, and Washington are a few more that have shown heavy interest this spring. "I'm having conversations with the Miami Hurricanes," added Kelley. "Washington, we've been talking a lot. They said they're definitely interested in me and want me to camp up there."
Kelley also plans to camp at Cal, Cal Poly and Oregon State. He said he might camp at Arizona and Arizona State as well. His team camps at Fresno State in June.
As far as making a decision, he wants to take his time. "I'm going to do some more researched and make my decision later," said Kelley.
Academically, he reports a 3.0 core GPA. "I'm trying to raise it to a 3.5 by my senior year," said Kelley. "The first time I took the SAT, I got a 1390. I'm going to retake in the fall."
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Green light for Waratah Coal mine development
Waratah Coal says it will proceed with the development of Australia's biggest thermal coal mine in Queensland's central-west.
The group has entered into a memorandum of understanding with one of China's leading industrial companies to develop the project.
It involves six coal mines at Alpha in the state's central-west.
The venture will include a 490 kilometre railway line and a two-berth export terminal at Abbot Point near Bowen.
Waratah Coal says work on the thermal coal project will start in the first half of next year, if the State Government's approvals process can be finalised in time.
Chairman Clive Palmer says it will create thousands of jobs.
"I'm not doing this out of love," he said.
"I am doing it with a high sense of responsibility for the state, and if there's an opportunity there where we can create jobs for people we should be taking it up."
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This study used eye-tracking to examine how 20-month old toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (N=28), typical development (TD) (N=34), and non-autistic developmental delays (DD) (N=16) monitored the activities occurring in a context of an adult-child play interaction. Toddlers with ASD, in comparison to control groups, showed less attention to the activities of others and focused more on background objects (e.g. toys). In addition, while all groups spent the same time overall looking at people, toddlers with ASD looked less at people's heads and more at their bodies. In ASD, these patterns were associated with cognitive deficits and greater autism severity. These results suggest that the monitoring of the social activities of others is disrupted early in the developmental progression of autism, limiting future avenues for observational learning.
Social and communicative difficulties, stereotyped behaviors, and restricted interests lie at the core of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). As our understanding of autism has increased, however, so too has our appreciation of its heterogeneity (Happé et al., 2006; Szatmari, 1999; Trikalinos et al., 2005). Some have argued that, in order to understand the complex genetic and epigenetic relationships in ASD, it is necessary to consider autism not as a reflection of singular deviations in specific functional cognitive or social modules, but as the emergent and recurrent property of atypical preferences, percepts, learning, and experience (Jones and Klin, 2009; Karmiloff-Smith, 2007; Klin et al., 2003; Johnson et al., 2005). In this study we examine how toddlers with ASD perceive and monitor people engaged in a shared activity. This simple act of activity monitoring is an expression not only of a person's experience-dependent understanding of the scene, but also provides access to new experiences as actions unfold. Thus activity monitoring may be related to both cause and consequence of atypical social and cognitive development in individuals with ASD.
In typical development, the ability to understand intentional and goal directed actions of others arises early in infancy (e.g. Baldwin et al., 2001; Biro and Leslie, 2007; Falck-Ytter et al., 2006; Woodward, 1998, 1999; for reviews see Aschersleben, 2006; Tomasello et al., 2005). However, less attention has been paid towards the relative salience of actions as compared to other salient constructs in ecological contexts. Amongst the exceptions is the work of Bahrick and colleagues (2000; 2008) who showed that when 5 ½ month old infants are presented with videos of people performing everyday tasks, such as brushing their teeth, actions are prioritized for memory over both the identities of the people and the objects those people employ. Furthermore, it is only when the presentation time of the scenes is extended, or the infants are older, that memory for faces and actions is achieved simultaneously (Bahrick and Newell, 2008). These results imply that when the attentional resources are constrained, even faces, one of the most privileged socially-relevant objects (Cohen Kadosh and Johnson, 2007; Farah et al., 1998; Haan et al., 2002; Halit et al., 2003; Hershler and Hochstein, 2005; Valenza et al., 1996), ultimately lose to actions.
Attention to the actions and activities of others is also a critical component of the learning and development of cognitive and social skills. For example, attention to others and their actions facilitates learning about affordances (Gibson, 1988; Huang and Charman, 2005; Loveland, 1991; Meltzoff, 1995), is a requisite for imitation and emulation (Abravanel et al., 1976; Carpenter, 2006; Heyes, 2001; Meltzoff and Moore, 1977; Tomasello, 1996; Want and Harris, 2002), and is crucial to the development of higher-level cognitive skills such as joint attention, social play, and the comprehension of intentions, goals, and motivations (Bakeman and Adamson, 1984; Carpenter et al., 1998; Moore and Dunham, 1995). The fact that skills such as affordance learning, imitation, and joint attention emerge in a regular fashion (e.g. see Carpenter et al., 1998; Trevarthen & Aitken, 2001), together with their relationships with later development of language and theory of mind skills (e.g. see Charman et al., 2000), argue for mutual interdependencies and suggest that common requirements, such as activity monitoring, may evolve together with the skills themselves.
Many of the skills outlined above have been found to be impaired in autism spectrum disorders. Children with ASD have been shown to use objects in an atypical manner, for example by spinning coins, shaking toy cars, or using a sock as a container (Bruckner and Yoder, 2007; Ozonoff et al., 2007). These unusual object manipulations may indicate self-stimulatory or regulatory behavior (Turner, 1997, 1999; Whitman, 2004); however, as noted by Loveland (1991), such behaviors might also indicate that they have not discovered the culturally appropriate affordances of objects via typical observation of adults and peers. In this case, attending to the behaviors of others would be a requisite to learning about those socially agreed upon conventions. Studies have also found deficits in imitation in ASD (Charman et al., 1997; Colombi et al., 2009; Rogers, Hepburn, Stackhouse, & Wehner, 2003; Vivanti, Nadig, Ozonoff, & Rogers, 2008; for reviews see Williams, Whiten, & Singh, 2004; Rogers & Williams, 2006). For example, Vivanti and colleagues (2008) showed that high-functioning children with autism were less precise in imitation than controls. Furthermore, greater attention to actions in children with autism corresponded to better imitation of certain types of gestures. Through eye-tracking, the authors were able to differentiate between attention to the actor, background, and the act itself, bringing into focus the possibility that a seemingly similar overall engagement in an experimental task may be comprised of very different internal patterns of selective attention. Finally, systematic deficits observed in joint attention suggest that reduced attention to the attentional focus of others may be a particularly striking characteristic of ASD (Bono et al., 2004; Bruinsma et al., 2004; Charman, 2003; Charman et al., 1997; Dawson et al., 2004; Hecke et al., 2007; Leekam et al., 2000; Leekam and Ramsden, 2006; Mundy and Vaughan, 2002; Mundy et al., 1990; Sullivan et al., 2007). Taken as a whole, these studies suggest that activity monitoring, a component of all these skills, may be affected by the developmental progression of the autistic syndrome.
In this study we examine to what extent toddlers with ASD attend to the activities of others as compared to chronologically matched typically developing (TD) toddlers and chronologically and mental-age matched toddlers with developmental delays (DD). Traditionally, in studies of phenomena such as joint attention and imitation, the child is explicitly included as an active participant in the ongoing social exchange. By contrast, in this study, we examine the gaze response of children to the activities of others during natural viewing. Also in contrast to other studies, there is no attempt to actively engage the child's attention socially at the onset of the experiment (e.g. through infant-directed motherese or direct gaze), there are no predefined instructions to the subjects, and the study is conducted via presentation of a naturalistic play interaction. The study targets toddlers at 20 months of age, the earliest age at which a stable diagnosis of ASD can be obtained (Chawarska et al., 2007), employing an ecologically valid paradigm in terms of what children may naturally encounter at any age.
Based on the extant literature, we hypothesize that that toddlers with ASD will spend less time attending to the actors of the scene and the area of shared activity. Instead, we expect they will spend more time looking at toys and objects in the background. Finally, given hypothesized relationships between social functioning and visual scanning patterns in ASD (Anderson et al., 2006; Jones et al., 2008; Klin et al., 2002; Speer et al., 2007; Chawarska and Shic, 2009), we expect that deviations from prototypical scanning behavior will correlate with measures of social deficits and impaired cognitive functioning in toddlers with ASD.
To examine if the groups included into the study differed in their overall level of attention, we compared the toddlers on the total time spent looking at the movie. There were no between group differences: on average, toddlers with ASD viewed the scene for 23.5 s (SD = 5.6), the DD group for 24.6 s (SD = 5.1), and the TD group for 26.2 s (SD = 5.0) (p>.13 for all pairwise group comparisons).
To examine overall differences in scanning patterns between groups, a between-group ANOVA was performed on the proportion of time spent looking at each ROI (Table 2). This analysis indicated group differences for Activity and Background but not for People (Figure 2). Planned contrasts showed that toddlers with ASD attended less to the Activity area and more to Background areas than DD or TD controls.
We also considered a more fine-grained examination of looking at People. A between-group ANOVA followed by planned contrasts showed that although the overall level of attention to People was not different between groups, when looking at People, the ASD group attended more to Body areas and less to the Head of characters as compared to TD toddlers. We also compared whether the proportion of attention to the People region varied by person identity. However, no between-group differences were observed in attention towards the Adult or the Child in the scene.
To better understand the relationships between activity monitoring and clinical features of toddlers with ASD, we examined correlations between dependent measures obtained via eye-tracking and measures of social disability (ADOS-G) and cognitive performance (MSEL) (Table 3). Greater difficulties with Social Affect were associated with increased attention to the Background and decreased attention to the Activity, Heads, and the scene as a whole (decreased total time looking at the scene). Lower levels of both verbal and nonverbal mental age (VMA and NVMA, respectively) were associated with increased attention to People and decreased attention to the Activity. A multiple regression on attention to the Activity and People was conducted to disentangle the effects of Social Affect and NVMA and indicated that for attention to the Activity both Social Affect (β=-.39, p<.05) and NVMA (β =.54, p<.001) contributed, but that attention towards People was primarily driven by NVMA (β=-.58, p<.01) as compared to Social Affect (β=.03). An examination of correlations in the DD group indicated that attention towards the Activity was likewise modulated by NVMA (r=.53, p<.05) but not VMA (r=.21) or Social Affect (r=-.10); attention towards People was modulated by NVMA (r=-.60, p<. 05).
While a vast majority of studies of social perception in young children with autism have focused on attention to faces and facial cues, our study examined the ability of these children to attend to the shared activities of others. This is important because attending to what others do is the critical first step in understanding what they do: a deficit at this stage limits further learning, potentially reducing the relevance of others' activities to the observer and consequently depressing the salience of those activities in the future. The results show that 20 month-old toddlers with ASD attend less to the activities of others than typically developing or developmentally delayed toddlers, diverting their attention to elements of the background. This phenomenon appears to be specific to toddlers with ASD, as matched for CA and MA toddlers with developmental delays showed patters of attention similar to that observed in typically developing toddlers.
While in toddlers with ASD spent a similar amount of time looking at People as their comparison groups, a closer examination of the constituents of People-looking suggest that, similarly as in the Klin et al. (2002) study, toddlers with ASD attended more to Bodies and less to Heads. Diminished looking at Heads was also linked to increased difficulties in social-communicative function in ASD, suggesting that while overall attention to People as a whole was not different between groups, specific internal patterns of scanning the characters of the scene were predictive of social function. Of particular interest is whether looking at Heads could be further decomposed into looking at Eyes versus looking at Mouths. Previous work has suggested that toddlers with ASD attend more to mouths than eyes in comparison to control groups when viewing dynamic videos of actresses emulating dyadic interactions (Jones et al., 2008; though see Merin et al., 2007 and Young et al., 2009 for additional perspectives). In the current study, eye-looking versus mouth-looking was not a hypothesis and the face region was fairly small (approximately 1.5 × 2.5 visual degrees), and thus the breakdown of eye versus mouth was not attempted. Given the fundamental importance of internal face scanning strategies to the processing and recognition of faces (Chawarska and Shic, 2009), however, future studies will be conducted with this analysis in mind. Nonetheless, the overall lack of differences between groups in looking at People highlights the complex and often subtle interactions between different competitors for visual attention. It is possible that, in the absence of the activity in the scene, between-group differences for looking at People would be more pronounced, as would specific differences in looking at Head and Body regions.
Several, not necessarily exclusive, hypotheses could be advanced to explain decreased activity monitoring in toddlers with ASD. First, this deficit might be associated with atypical processing of perceptual aspects of the scene such as contrast and motion. A number of studies in older individuals suggest that low-level perception may be altered in ASD including enhanced sensitivity to spatial contrast (Bertone et al., 2005; McCleery et al., 2007; Sanchez-Marin and Padilla-Medina, 2008; Shic et al., 2007; though see Koh et al., 2010; for reviews see Mottron et al., 2006; Simmons et al., 2009). In this context, the decreased attention to activities may be secondary to increased preference for objects with certain perceptual characteristics within the scene (e.g. see Sasson, Turner-Brown, Holtzclaw, Lam, & Bodfish, 2008; Zwaigenbaum et al., 2005). Moreover, decreased sensitivity to and/or preference for biological motion has been documented both in toddlers (Klin et al., 2009) and older individuals with ASD (Bertone et al., 2003; Blake et al., 2003; Milne et al., 2002; Shic et al., 2007). A deficit in this area could help to explain the unequal distribution between groups to background elements as compared to activity area. This type of deficit could be detrimental to the child's development on several levels. Cues derived from biological motion are essential for regulating attention in early development. In fact, studies of typical development suggest that parents often demonstrate actions to infants and toddlers using exaggerated motions termed "motionese" (Brand et al., 2002; Brand and Shallcross, 2008). An early limited sensitivity to such biological kinetic cues could make it more difficult to process this didactic form of scaffolding and communication. The effects of atypical salience of certain features of the visual field could be further compounded by difficulties in executive functioning in ASD. Executive control functions are subserved by a distributed neural system (Newman et al., 2003; for a review, see Collette et al., 2006) which appear to be atypically activated and functionally underconnected in ASD (e.g. see Just et al., 2007; Kana et al., 2007; Shafritz et al., 2008). Deficits in this area may be at least partially responsible for inability to inhibit the draw of highly perceptually salient but irrelevant to a task at hand elements of the visual scene.
The second set of hypotheses draws upon a potential association between activity monitoring and the ability to understand various aspects of the scene under consideration. According to the moderate discrepancy hypothesis (McCall and McGhee, 1977) children will attend to those aspects of the environment that are only slightly outside their ability to comprehend, i.e. a child will preferentially attend to stimuli which are neither too simple, given his or her capabilities, nor too complex. The decreased attention to activities exhibited by toddlers with ASD with greater cognitive deficits and the similarity of these associations with toddlers with DD suggests that the salience of the shared activity might indeed be affected by the ability of the individuals with ASD to comprehend the significance of this type of interaction. However, it is unlikely that cognitive level of functioning alone would explain the phenomenon, as toddlers with ASD monitor the activity of others less frequently than MA- and CA- matched toddlers with developmental delays. As the primary characteristic differentiating ASD and DD groups is the level of autism symptomatology, most likely the activity monitoring in ASD is gated by social functioning, i.e. attending to the activities of others is a reflection of the salience assigned towards social aspects of a visual scene. This view is supported by the inverse relationship found between social deficits and the overall amount of time spent looking at the scene: the toddlers who exhibit the greatest degree of social deficits also look least at the scene as a whole, and, when they do, look least at the activity. Furthermore, those ASD toddlers who were excluded from analysis due to poor attention to the task were more impaired socially than the included toddlers, suggesting that the effects observed might represent the "tip of the iceberg" in relationship to the most severely impaired toddlers with ASD.
Finally, the observed deficit might be a manifestation of disturbed social development early in infancy. By 18 months of age TD infants show reliable coordinated joint attention with caregivers and accurate decoding of the target of gaze (Bakeman and Adamson, 1984; Butterworth and Jarrett, 1991; Carpenter et al., 1998). It is possible that in TD toddlers this sensitivity to the attentional focus of others bolsters the saliency of the shared activity area and, by contrast, limited joint attention skills result in toddlers with ASD having a limited appreciation for the significance of the shared focus of others. In typical development, age-related changes in joint attention behavior are supported by neurodevelopmental mechanisms that evolve throughout infancy (e.g. see Hoehl et al., 2008; Mundy et al., 2000, 2003; Striano et al., 2006; for reviews see Grossmann and Johnson, 2007; Hari and Kujala, 2009; Itier and Batty, 2009; Nummenmaa and Calder, 2009). By contrast, in individuals with ASD, brain activity in response to gaze appears abnormal or delayed (e.g. see Grice et al., 2005; Kylliäinen and Hietanen, 2006; Senju et al., 2005; for a review see Senju and Johnson, 2009). Thus, it is plausible that a combination of atypical neural activation by social stimuli coupled with the altered development of perceptual and cognitive sensitivity to actions leads to widespread depression of a network involved in processing, understanding, and attributing relevance to the activities of others. Though our study was not designed to directly disambiguate amongst these possibilities, future modifications of our paradigm, in conjunction with neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques, will help clarify the contributors to our observed trends.
The current study has several limitations. First, the developmentally delayed group is small relative to the other two groups, limiting the statistical power of comparisons between DD and ASD groups. Second, the stimulus shown represents only a subset of possible shared activities, and further studies will need to consider the specific impact of particular content and context on the scanning patterns of toddlers. Third, the relationship of our results to eventual outcome is not yet known, and this information will be crucial in placing activity monitoring into the larger ecology of eye-tracking work on infants and toddlers with ASD.
This study demonstrates that prototypic attention towards shared activities is disrupted in ASD by 20 months of age. Though likely a reflection of an ongoing atypical developmental process, it is important to realize that this disruption, at an age where rapid development and skill acquisition is occurring in TD toddlers, may critically impact the content of their social experiences, specifically, and learning via observation, in general. A simple scene, such as a play activity between two individuals, necessarily entails a complex dynamic of turn-taking, synchronized verbal and non-verbal communication, and shared attention. To a typically developing infant, these ebbs and flows of the social milieu are fundamental, and, one might argue, instinctual—for the next step after a period of observing others play, after the rules have been comprehended, and the actors understood, is to join in on the exchange. This cycle of passive observation and active participation builds a foundation by which later social skills may be acquired, assembled, comprehended, and interpreted. The cycle also builds a common history, a point of unification by which the attention of typically developing toddlers may be directed. By comparison, it appears that toddlers with ASD are not engaged with activities to the same extent; they thus are limited in their exposure to this common experience, and this may impact the later scaffolding of their social development. It is an open question to what extent this atypical trajectory can be changed; however, enhancing attention early in development not only to other people but also to their activities may open new avenues for intervening and fostering the development of key cognitive and social skills.
Three groups of 20-month old toddlers (N=78) were recruited for this study: toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (N = 28), typically developing (TD) toddlers (N = 34), and toddlers displaying developmental delays (DD) but who did not meet criteria for ASD (N=16) (Table 1). Classification of developmental status was determined by clinicians on the basis of a review of medical and developmental history, diagnostic tests (Autism Diagnostic Observation schedule – Generic (ADOS-G) Module 1) (Lord et al., 2002), and developmental tests (Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL)) (Mullen, 1995). Previous work in a similar setting and age range has shown the stability of the broadly-defined diagnosis of ASD to be excellent (Chawarska et al., 2007, 2009). The ASD group was comprised of 20 toddlers diagnosed with autistic disorder and 8 toddlers diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder - not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). The DD group included subjects who presented with global delays or language impairments based on clinical judgment and performance profiles on the same battery of tests as used in the ASD sample. Four subjects in the DD group were siblings of children previously diagnosed with ASD who exhibited language delays but no ASD features; their inclusion did not alter the significance of any of the reported findings. The status of TD toddlers was confirmed by direct observation of play and interaction skills, assessment of nonverbal cognitive skills, and medical and developmental history. None of the TD toddlers had a history of ASD in 1st or 2nd degree relatives. All toddlers in the study were born after 32 weeks gestation, suffered no major prenatal or perinatal insults, had no known visual or auditory abnormalities, and had no history of medical conditions associated with autism (e.g. tuberous sclerosis or fragile × syndrome) or any other identified genetic disorder.
All three groups were matched on chronological age (see Table 1 for sample characterization). ASD and DD groups were also matched on nonverbal and verbal mental age (NVMA and VMA, respectively) and developmental quotient (NVDQ and VDQ); as expected, the TD group had higher verbal and nonverbal skills. The ASD group exhibited greater deficits than the DD group on the ADOS-G in both Social Affect and Stereotyped and Repetitive Behaviors domains.
An additional 20 subjects were tested but not included in this study. One child's data (ASD: n=1) was not recorded due to technical problems. The remaining 19 toddlers were excluded due to non-optimal arousal state (upset or falling asleep; ASD: n=2, DD: n=2, TD: n=2), inattention (ASD: n=5, TD: n=3), or a high activity level resulting in failed calibration (ASD: n=1, DD: n=1, TD: n=3). Toddlers with ASD excluded for reasons other than technical problems (n=8), as compared to included toddlers with ASD (n=28), exhibited more severe autism symptoms (excluded group's ADOS total: M=21.9, SD=4.1; included: M=17.4, SD=5.6; t (34) = 2.1, p < .05) but did not differ in terms of mental age.
Gaze patterns were recorded with a SMI iView X™ RED dark-pupil 60Hz eye-tracking system (Sensomotoric Instruments, 2005). Data were processed using custom software written in MATLAB™ (MathWorks, 2009), which provided standard processing of eye-tracking data including blink detection, outlier detection, eye-tracking calibration and recalibration, measurements of experimental error, and region-of-interest analysis (Duchowski, 2003; Shic, 2008). Statistical analyses were accomplished through software written in Perl (ActiveState, 2009), SPSS (SPSS, Inc., 2006), and R (R Development Core Team, 2009).
The stimulus used in this study was a 30-second video of a female adult and a male toddler playing with an inset puzzle (Figure 1). The scene was extracted from an unscripted observational video and thus included natural referencing (e.g. the adult pointing to a slot on the puzzle) and vocalizations (e.g., the adult saying "Good!"). Toys were strewn about in the background; furniture, walls, and the doors were clearly evident. The displayed video was 800 × 600 pixels in size and displayed at a screen resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels, occupying an area 24.5 × 18.4 visual degrees at the center of a 24" wide-screen LCD presentation monitor when viewed from a distance of 75 cm. Sound for the video was emitted via a stereo sound bar attached to the monitor. The experimental task was programmed and displayed using the software Presentation® (Neurobehavioral Systems, 2006).
Toddlers were seated in a car seat in a dark and soundproof room 75 cm in front of a 24" widescreen LCD monitor positioned so that their eyes were aligned with the center of the monitor. Except for the monitor and eye-tracking cameras, the room was covered in dark cloth, thus providing little or no visual distractions to the toddlers. The toddlers's parent sat 6 feet behind the child and the experimenter operating the experiment and eye-tracker was separated from the child by a curtain.
Experiments began with the presentation of children's videos to help put the toddlers at ease and to provide an opportunity for optimization of data acquisition by the eye-tracker. This was followed by a 5-point eye-tracking calibration procedure with targets consisting of small animated figures (radius 1 visual degree) presented together with contingent sound. Subsequent to calibration, the target activity monitoring video was presented for 30s.
Standard region-of-interest (ROI) analysis techniques were adapted for the analysis of gaze patterns (Figure 1). The ROIs examined in the primary analysis were Background areas (toys and room elements of the scene such as walls, furniture, and the floor), People (the adult and child), and the Activity area (the focus of shared attention by the adult and child). In a secondary analysis, attention towards People was further decomposed into attention towards the Head and Body as well as the Child and Adult. Regions were overdrawn by 0.5 visual degrees in order to compensate for calibration drift. The video stimulus was designed such that no major movements of ROIs occurred. However, to accommodate the relatively minor motions that did occur (e.g. movements of hands while arranging puzzle pieces, head turns towards a person to respond to or initiate a verbal exchange), ROIs were adjusted every second.
. In the primary analysis, we considered patterns of scanning over the entire scene. Dependent variables in this analysis were the total time spent looking at the scene and the percentage of total time spent looking at specific ROIs (Activity, Background, and People). In a secondary analysis, we considered patterns of scanning specific to looking at People. Dependent variables in this analysis were the time spent looking at Head and Body areas as well as the Child and the Adult as a percentage of time spent looking at People. Hypotheses regarding between-group differences were tested using an analysis of variance approach with a Holm-Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons (Aickin and Gensler, 1996; Hochberg, 1988; Holm, 1979). Relationships between scanning patterns and cognitive and social functioning were tested using Pearson product-moment correlation analysis.
The study was supported by NIMH grant T32 MH18268 (to FS), P50 MH 081756 (Autism Centers of Excellence) project 2 (PI: KC), NICHD P01 HD 003008 Project 1 (PI: KC), Autism Speaks and the NAAR foundation (to KC), and the National Science Foundation CDI award #0835767 (PIs: KC & BS). We would like to thank Suzanne Macari for her insights regarding the subjects and details of this work; Warren Jones for his help in initial conceptualization of experiments from which this project grew; Amanda Mossman and Tina Goldsmith for their contribution to subject characterization; Marika Coffman, Mairin Melvedt, Jessica Reed, Brittany Butler, Rebecca Doggett, Paula Ogston, and Joslin Latz for obtaining data of the highest quality; Lindsey Szauter for her assistance in analysis; and the children and families, without whom this study and others would not be possible.
A preliminary version of this study was presented at the 8th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) in Chicago, Illinois, USA, May, 2009.
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LAUSD Survey on iPad Rollout
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Only a minority of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers strongly favors proceeding with the $1 billion iPad program, it was reported today.
In an effort to determine how the iPad rollout is going and how to improve it, a Board of Education member and employee unions conducted surveys of teachers and administrators, the Los Angeles Times reported. Their anonymous responses: Just 36 percent of teachers strongly favored continuing the effort; 90 percent of administrators felt the same.
Few question the goal of supplying and properly using up-to-date technology. Schools Superintendent John Deasy has pushed hard for the tablets, calling it a civil rights imperative to give all students access to technology used by the more affluent.
But problems plagued the project from the start. When the first group of campuses received the tablets this fall, more than 300 students at three high schools almost immediately removed security filters so they could freely browse the Internet. All of the students at these schools had to surrender the tablets.
Questions also quickly arose about whether parents are responsible if the devices are lost or stolen. The price of the tablets - $768 apiece - and the curriculum licensing fees also became issues.
The Board of Education held a special meeting to discuss these and other issues and ultimately slowed the rollout, which began at 47 campuses. The plan now is to add 38 schools by the end of the academic year, and then finish the distribution, after an evaluation, within the next three years, The Times reported.
Robert J. Moreau, a computer animation teacher who struggled for grants to set up a lab, would have been expected to be among the first to applaud the program. But he's not, The Times reported.
``It's outrageous, appalling, that we are buying these toys when we don't have adequate personnel to clean, to supervise," the Roosevelt High School instructor told the newspaper. ``Classrooms are overcrowded, and my room has not been swept or mopped in years except by me and the students.... It would be great if the basics were met. I can't get past that."


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Common name: Acampe orchid, Maravasha (Marathi), Taliyamaravada (Malayalam)
Botanical name: Acampe praemorsaĀĀĀ Family: Orchidaceae (orchid family)
Acampe is a genus of seven orchid species distributed from tropical Africa to India, eastwards to China and southwards to Malaya, Indonesia, the Philippines and New Guinea. The name Acampe was derived from the Greek word akampas, meaning "rigid", referring to the little, brittle, inflexible flowers. These species produce slowgrowing, mediumsized vines that form very large vegetative masses in nature. They are noted for their thick, leathery, distichous leaves. They produce fragrant small to mediumsized yellow flowers, barred with brown stripes, in a few to manyflowered racemose inflorescence. The brittle sepals and petals look alike. The earshaped, fringed, white labellum (lip) is saccate (sacshaped) or has a spur, and has red markings at its base. The fleshy column is short and has two waxy pollinia. Due to their large size and small flowers, they are rarely cultivated. Acampe praemorsa is native to India and Srilanka.
Air yam
Common name: Aerial yam, Air potato, Air yam, Bitter yam, Cheeky yam, Potato yam, Wild yam,Ā Zimikand (Hindi), Kukuralu
(Bengali), Pannu pilangu (Tamil), Kadukaranda (Marathi)
Botanical name: Dioscorea bulbiferaĀĀĀ Family: Dioscoreaceae (yam family)
Air yam is found in both Africa and Asia with slight differences between those found in the two places. It is a large vine 20 ft or more
in length. It produces tubers; however the bulbils which grow at the base of its leaves are the more important food product. They are about
the size of potatoes (hence the name air potato) weighing from 0.5 to 2 kg. Some varieties can be eaten raw while some require soaking or
boiling for detoxification before eating. It is not grown much commercially since the flavor of other yams is preferred by most people.
However it is popular in home vegetable gardens because it produces a crop after only 4 months of growth and continues for the life of the
vine, as long as two years. Also the bulbils are easy to harvest and cook. Male flowers on pendent inflorescence, from bracteate (rarely
leafy) stems, up to 50 (even 100) cm long; whitish or pinkish; female flowers on pendent axillary inflorescences.
Flowers in ancient literature
Ashok (Saraca indica)Ā Sita Ashok
Ashok' is a Sanskrit word meaning without grief or that which gives no grief. Ashoka, a herald of spring, has scarlet or crimson bunches of flowers in early March. It is said to flower upon being touched by a beautiful woman's feet. In the Ramayana, Sita spent her sorrowful days under an Ashoka tree in Ravana's garden after being abducted by him.
Parijat (Nyctanthes arbortristis)Ā HarSingar
ĀAccording to mythology, Parijata is a heavenly tree brought to earth by lord Krishna. A quarrel over it ensued between Satyabhama and Rukmini, Krishna's wives. But Krishna planted the tree in Satyabhama's courtyard in a way that when the tree flowered, the flowers fell in Rukmini's courtyard.
Lord Vishnu's heavenly throne is placed under a flowering Parijata tree, and Hanuman lives under its shade.
Another romantic story woven around the tree is about princess Parijata who fell in love with the sun. When he deserted her she committed suicide and a tree sprung from the ashes. Unable to stand the sight of the lover who left her, the tree flowers only at night and sheds them like teardrops before the sun rises.
Kadamb (Neolamarckia cadamba)Ā Kadamb
ĀKadamba trees and flowers are also a universal favourite among the Gods. Krishna loved to sport in Kadamba forests, and the Mother Goddess Durga resides in a Kadamba forest (Kadamba vana vasini).
KamalĀ (Nelumbo nucifera)Ā Lotus
The (red) lotus has pride of place in Indian literature. The national floweris another universal favourite of the Gods, and its beauty is often used in in similes for the beauty of heros/heroines: "face as beautiful as a blooming lotus" or "eyes shaped like lotus petals". A woman's beauty may be compared to that of a pond full of blooming lotuses (Nalini, padmini) or her slender frame to that of a lotus stem. A famous couplet ascribed to Kalidasa describes a woman's face as a miracle of flower blooming within a flower: her beautiful eyes are like dark blue lotuses blooming in the pink lotus of her face!Ā
The goddess Lakshmi sits on a red Lotus, and Sarasvati, on a white one. The Lotus is associated with Lord Brahma, who was created sitting on a lotus arising from the navel of Lord Vishnu. The lotus has esoteric and sacred significance in spirituality. The Mother Goddess (Devi) is called Kamalamba or "Lotus Mother": she resides in a thousandpetalled lotus said to be located in the Sahasrara Chakra in the head. Raising the serpent power kundalini to this place leads to Realization, which is the aim of the practitioners of "Sri Vidya Upasana". Lotus symbols are central in yantra patterns, and form part of many designs of decoration in more secular contexts. The lotus blooms at day and closes at night: so the sun is referred to as the "Friend of the Lotus".
Karnikar(Pterospermum acerifolium)Ā Kanak Champa
This goldenhued flower has a beautiful tassellike form which makes it look very ornamental. It has an intense fragrance, perceptible even from a great distance while it is on the tree. The fragrance starts fading the moment it is plucked. The golden pendant flowers of the Karnikara adorn the ears of Sri Krishna in the Bhagavatam (karnayoh karnikaram).
Vakul (Mimusops elengi)Ā Maulsari
A very small, yellowish and fragrant flower used for garlands and other ornaments. The milkmaids of Vrindavan are allured by Krishna playing his flute under a Bakula tree on the banks of the Yamuna. This tree is said to blossoms when sprinkled with nectar from the mouth of lovely women.
Malati (Aganosma dichotoma)Ā Malati
Malati is a vine with very fragrant white jasminelike flowers. This flowers is frequently confused with jasmine. Ancient Hindu mythological stories are full of references to Malati flowers, as in the braids of women, or in overhanging bowers under which lovers meet. Malati flowers routinely drop from the hair of women!
Madhavi LataĀ (Hiptage benghalensis)Ā Madhavi
In stories of Krishna, Madhavilata is found every where in Vrindavan, and creates a wonderful atmosphere with its fragrance and the threecolored flowers:"This forest has Atimuktatrees, therefore the chariot makers resort to it (chariots are made of the wood), the makers of Madhavigarlands like it (Atimukta means Madhavi flower) and those who desire liberation come here (to Vrindavana; (Atimukta means completely liberated).
Ketaki (Pandanus odoratissimus )Ā Kewda
A fragrant flower used in making perfume and aromatic oil, Ketaki is not used in worship: it is supposedly cursed by Lord Shiva for bearing false witness of Lord Brahma. According to a Puranic legend, Vishnu and Brahma were arguing hotly as to which of them was supreme. Lord Shiva interceded, appearing amidst them in the form of aĀ huge pillar of light. The contestants decided that the question would be settled by the one who first found the limit of this awesome cosmic pillar. Vishnu set off towards its base but was unable to find it and admitted defeat. Whereas Brahma on his journey upwards came across ketaki flower floating down slowly. Inquiring from the flower from where she had come from, ketaki replied that she had been placed at the top of the pillar of light. Unable to find the uppermost limits Brahma decided to take the flower back to Vishnu to bear witness that he had reached the top of the pillar. This infuriated Shiva. Brahma was punished for lying and the creator was banned from being worshipped. Similarly, ketaki was also cursed that she would never again be used in worship of Shiva. Thus, ketaki is debarred forever from being offered in worship.
Neel KamalĀ (Nymphaea nouchali/stellata)Ā Blue Waterlily
The dark complexion of Krishna is compared to that of Neelkamal. For this reason, the Blue Waterlily is also called Krishna Kamal.
In the 'Ramayana', as it goes, Rama went to 'Lanka' to rescue his abducted wife, Sita, from the grip of Ravana, the king of the Demons in Lanka. Before starting for his battle with Ravana, Rama wanted the blessings of Devi Durga . He came to know that the Goddess would be pleased only if she is worshipped with one hundred 'NeelKamal' or blue lotuses. Rama, after travelling the whole world, could gather only ninety nine of them. He finally decided to offer one of his eyes, which resembled blue lotuses. Durga, being pleased with the devotion of Rama, appeared before him and blessed him.


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Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/Issues/Volume06/Issue01
|Volume 6, Issue 1 • Winter 2013 • About the Newsletter
This issue also marks a change from the past. Since this publication was founded in 2007, it had the simple name, The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter. Starting with this issue, it has been rechristened The Center Line and given a new masthead. The newsletter will continue as before, and we would still encourage interested USRD project members to contribute content or suggestions for each upcoming issue.
Wikidata Q&A
Editor: Rschen7754
Wikidata's goal is to be a data repository for all Wikimedia Foundation sites.
In short, this site will hold data that is used on different language Wikipedias; it will be like Commons for data.
There's two phases so far: Phase 1 is enabling interwiki links to be handled through Wikidata, allowing for a central repository and more efficient handling of them. Phase 2 will allow for infobox data to come from Wikidata, which would affect us greatly.
We create an item for each article, and indicate the wikis that have an article for this item. However, the interwiki linking is not yet live. It will go live to the Hungarian Wikipedia on January 14; the English Wikipedia is fourth in line.
We are still finishing Phase 1 setup for our articles. As of this writing, we have 24 states that still need items created to enable Phase 1 when it goes live on the English Wikipedia. Phase 2 has yet to be built on the site.
We now have a task force at d:WD:USRD to coordinate our efforts and to discuss how phases 1 and 2 will be implemented for road articles.
Well, we do now! See commons:COM:USRD, m:USRD, and wikisource:WS:USRD.
USRD Cup returns
After a two year absence, the USRD Cup is returning! If you're not familiar with it, the USRD Cup is a contest similar to WP:CUP, but points are only awarded for contributing to and improving USRD articles. Editing areas that earn points are divided into four categories: class improvement, article recognition (GAN, ACR, FAC, etc.), media (pictures, maps, shields, KMLs), and project participation (reviewing articles). Special bonuses will be awarded for performing certain tasks.
If you would like to participate, please sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Cup. Three rounds are planned, but this may be shortened to two rounds. Regardless, the first round starts on February 1.
Project looks ahead to new year
As USRD heads into a new year, it is a good time to reflect at what has happened over the past year and plan for the upcoming year. In 2012, the project saw the achievement of several goals. Among these was the reduction of the stub count, with a total of 100 stubs lost. In addition, the junction lists in all GA and better articles have been converted to the {{jctint}} templates. However, we were unable to destub all the Interstate and U.S. Route articles; work on that goal will continue this year. As of January 6, 45 stubs remain among the Interstate and U.S. Route articles. The project also has other goals set for 2013. One of the goals is to lower the relative WikiWork of the entire project to 4.400. In addition, the project is aiming to have 25 states completely destubbed by the end of the year, with 11 states destubbed so far.
Assessment roundup
This is a list of the top ten states as of January 17, 2012.
The top ten states are largely the same, but Iowa has moved ahead of Arizona and Oklahoma has bumped out Minnesota. For the first time ever, all of the states in the top ten have a relative WikiWork under 4.000. For complete stats updated almost daily, check out WP:USRD/A/S. Now here is the project as a whole.
Since the last issue, we have added five featured articles—M-553 (Michigan highway), H-58 (Michigan county highway), Interstate 80 in Iowa, Interstate 696, and California State Route 56—and 26 new good articles were promoted. For the first time ever, the number of C-Class articles has surpassed the number of stubs!
Project news
Task force reports
All California junction lists are now on the RJL templates. In addition to this, a drive is underway to get all San Diego County highway articles to FA. California State Route 56 is now a FA, California State Route 52 is now at FAC, and California State Route 67 is at ACR, with more on the way. —Rschen7754
Florida's articles are slowly improving since the discovery of FDOT's straight line diagrams. At the very least, junction lists and lengths in general can now be cited to three decimal places.—Fredddie
Pennsylvania Turnpike became a GA in October; that article will be going to ACR. In addition, the state gained three new GA's in December. —Dough4872
Selected articles
Interstate 470 (I-470) is a 10.63-mile-long (17.11 km) loop of Interstate 70 bypassing the city of Wheeling, West Virginia. The western terminus of the freeway is at an interchange with I-70 near Blaine, Ohio. The highway uses the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge to cross the Ohio River. Its eastern terminus is at I-70 near Wheeling Park. Construction began in 1975 in the two states but due to a chronic lack of funding, construction in Ohio was stalled between 1976 and 1981. By 1983, both states had completed construction on the freeway. (more...)
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U.S. Route 220 in Lamar Township, Pennsylvania approaching Interstate 80.
State Route 40 (SR 40) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Georgia. The highway runs 30.46 miles (49.02 km) from U.S. Route 1 (US 1), US 23, and US 301 in Folkston east to Church Street in St. Marys. SR 40 is the primary east–west highway of eastern Charlton and southern Camden counties. SR 40 was assigned to the Folkston–St. Marys highway in the early 1920s. The highway was first improved in the mid-1920s and paved by the early 1940s. The highway was extensively relocated between Folkston and Kingsland in the mid-1960s. SR 40 was expanded to four lanes, much of it divided highway, east of Kingsland in the 1980s. (more...)
Interstate 470 (I-470) is a 16.72-mile (26.91 km) loop of the Interstate Highway System that serves to link southeast Kansas City to Independence via Lee's Summit in Jackson County, Missouri. The western terminus of the freeway is at the Grandview Triangle interchange while the northern terminus is an cloverleaf interchange with I-70. Plans for a southern freeway were first published in 1955, and the first portions of I-470 were completed in 1970. By 1983 the entire freeway was open to traffic. (more...)
The upper reaches of New York State Route 431 viewed from the summit of Whiteface Mountain near Wilmington, New York, on September 16, 2011.
State Route 57 (SR 57), also known as the Orange Freeway, is a north–south state highway in the Greater Los Angeles Area of California. It connects the interchange of Interstate 5 (I-5) and SR 22 near downtown Orange, locally known as the Orange Crush, to the Glendora Curve interchange with I-210 and SR 210 in Glendora. A predecessor to this road ran through Brea Canyon by the early 20th century and was added to the state highway system. The freeway was built in stages during the 1950s, one of which included the Brea Canyon Freeway; SR 57 was designated as part of the 1964 state highway renumbering. The final portion of the present-day Orange Freeway was not completed until the early 1970s. The latest piece of SR 57 to be added was formerly part of I-210, after SR 210 was extended to San Bernardino in 1998. An unconstructed extension from Santa Ana south to Huntington Beach remains in the legal definition of Route 57, and has been studied most recently as a toll road above the Santa Ana River. (more...)
State Route 102 within Acadia National Park in Maine.
New York State Route 311 (NY 311) is a state highway located entirely within Putnam County, New York. The highway begins at NY 52 in Lake Carmel and has a northern terminus at NY 22 just south of the Dutchess County line. Part of modern-day Route 311 was originally the Philipstown Turnpike, a road built in 1815. Another section was constructed in the early 1900s, from near the modern-day intersection of Route 311 and Route 164 to the Village of Patterson. In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, the segment of former NY 39 east of West Patterson was renumbered to NY 311. and later a segment of NY 52 became part of an extended NY 311. (more...)
The Rays Hill Tunnel along the Pennsylvania Turnpike at night in 1942
Interstate 696 (I-696) is an east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in the US state of Michigan. The highway is also known as the Walter P. Reuther Freeway, named for the prominent auto industry union head in 1971. I-696 is a bypass route, detouring around the city of Detroit through the city's northern suburbs. It connects I-96 and I-275 at its western terminus in Novi and runs through suburbs before merging into I-94 at St. Clair Shores. Planning for the freeway started in the 1950s, and construction started on the first segment in 1961. The western third of the freeway opened in 1963, and the eastern third was completed in January 1979. The central segment was the subject of much controversy during the 1960s and 1970s. Various municipalities along this stretch argued over the routing of the freeway and various groups used federal environmental regulations to force changes to the freeway. These concessions delayed the completion of I-696 until December 15, 1989. (more...)
Hoar frost along Lake Street in Cherokee, Iowa.
From the editors
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The Golden Compass:
Before this movie there was the book, by Philip Pullman and published by KNOPF. This was an excellent book and It was part of a trilogy, the other 2 books are, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.Looking at the movies previews I saw scenes that sounded alot like the scenes described in the 2nd and 3rd book, so maybe the title is from the first book but the movie is of all 3 movies. I would recommend this book, but, if the movie is coming out why the heck would you want to read the book!
Nintendo Wii "Pyramid":
I just wanted to say that nintendo is kind of working "upside-down". PS3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii all target audiences in a pyramid like manner. The ps3 and 360's top of the pyramid is the Hard Core Gamer. Then the Wii's top of the pyramid is the casual gamer. Suddenly, I understand why there are old ladies on the Wii's advertisements.
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