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Emma-O's Insight was a Order of Peaceful Repose technique which taught how to detect the presence of ghosts (yorei or goryo, but not gaki). [1]
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Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 10, 2014
By literally looking below the surface and digging up the dirt, Cornell researchers have discovered that a burgeoning deer population forever alters the progression of a forest's natural future by creating environmental havoc in the soil and disrupting the soil's natural seed banks.
The study, "Deer Browsing Delays Succession by Altering Aboveground Vegetation and Belowground Seed Banks," was published online in PLOS ONE.
"Deer are slowing down forest succession or natural establishment. In fact, the deer are preventing forests from establishing," says Anurag Agrawal, Cornell professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, a co-author on the paper.
Deer typically prefer to eat native, woody plants and rebuff invasive species. The study showed that when deer consume native plants, the non-native species are left to flourish, dropping seed in the soil.
As forests normally mature, their grasses give way to herbs and shrubs, and then new trees eventually take root. Expanding deer populations in the Northeast, however, stall forest development and promote the growth of thorny thickets of buckthorn, viburnum and multiflora rose bushes. If deer leave the forests alone, such trees as cottonwood, locust and sumac can sprout and grow unimpeded.
The researchers found that the impacts of deer grazing on vegetation were severe and resulted in bare soil and reduced plant biomass, less recruitment of woody species and relatively fewer native species. And the deer's negative impact on seed banks resulted in significantly decreased overall species richness and relatively more short-lived species of both annual and biennial plants.
Co-author Antonio DiTommaso, Cornell associate professor of weed ecology and management, and research technician Scott Morris gathered soil cores - from both within and outside of fenced "deer exclosures" - and germinated the seed. They found the soil cores from outside of the exclosures contained many more seeds from non-native species.
Deer select forests for their trees but in doing so disrupt forest system growth trajectories, concludes the study.
"It's obvious that the deer are affecting the above-ground species, but it's like an iceberg. There are major effects below the soil surface. We are seeing a divergence of seeds contained within the soil from what should be there," says DiTommaso. "We are not seeing the seeds of woody plants. Instead, we're seeing an escalation of non-native seed and the virtual elimination of woody plant seeds."
The multiyear study was conducted on Cornell land near Freese Road in Ithaca, where the deer density is about 39 animals per square kilometer - about 10 times greater than it was before European settlement in the late 1700s.
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Made of leather, grommets, and waxed cotton cord, the Balance Ball is a new solution to the popular plastic fitness ball. Bridging the gap between home accessory and gym accessory, it can be used as both furniture and exercise aid.
The Waveform Record Holder is a purposeful solution to displaying and accessing vinyl records in play or heavy rotation.
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A simple leotard featuring two buttons created for Julia Crockett's movement piece "Behavior in Three Directions".
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The Rocky Top Wine TrailThe wine trail is located in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains and it is comprised of five wineries and a local distillery - Doc Collier Moonshine! The Rocky Top Wine Trail offers over 70 unique wines to try, which makes it a great option for those looking to make a day (or two) of wine tasting! The trail is 100% free to do. You simply start at any of the following wineries/distilleries where you can pick up a passport and then present your passport at each location to receive a stamp. Once you have visited three locations you will receive a free gift, and if you finish the trail and visit all six locations you will receive another free gift! Pro Tip: Don't plan to do them all in one day, make it a few days of adventure! Stop and enjoy lunch in between and take your time sampling the many different options available at each location. Free wine tastings are offered at every location and free tours of the wine cellars and tank rooms are given from 12-5pm at Mountain Valley Winery, Sugarland Cellars, and Hillside Winery. Each separately owned winery has its own unique style and feel, but every one of them has friendly staff eager to help you explore the world of wine! All five wineries are open 7 days a week and are closed only on Christmas Day. Our Latest Blog Posts
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Some Hollywood celebrities don't use the social networks. Let Kim Kardashian or Gigi Hadid 24/7 can't live without media, but there are five stars, who have no accounts in social media.
Brad Pitt and Daniel Redcliff prefer to stay off the social media and don't understand how it's possible to share with the fans with every detail of the life. In other words, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter don't attract these five celebrities:
1.Daniel Radcliffe
The "Harry Potter" superstar refuses to use Facebook and Twitter, he told Sky News. Radcliffe said telling fans on social media"your moment to moment" activities isn't for him. Radcliffe said he wants to keep his private life out of the spotlight.
2. Brad Pitt
Another star, Brad Pitt said that social networks "beyond what we understand," and his wife is fully sharing his opinion. As parents, Jolie and Pitt are monitoring what their children are doing on the Internet but do not use social media at all.
3. George Clooney
Hollywood star is not only handsome, George Clooney is quite an oldschool guy. The 55-year-old actor doesn't use Twitter, and his wife Amal, too. According to the Clooney's words, the actor sees no need to be in touch with his fans all the time, from dusk till dawn. Clooney told this in one of his interview for Variety.
4. Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake has expressed his distaste regarding using the social media for getting more and more attention to the public person. He said that he fears using social media even though his fans would love him to do so. As Gyllenhaal said: "To me, this is a product of us all havingsmartphones and beingconsumed by that — we're looking down. No one is looking up."
5. Jennifer Lawrence
The actress stated clear and loud: "I will never get Twitter," and she's keeping her promise. That's why all those accounts with Lawrence name are fake, can you imagine? "The idea of Twitter is so unthinkable to me," the "Hunger Games" star added.


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Kruger's boyfriend Grobes films the action with a tiny pocket camera. He didn't expect much quality, but when things heat up you just have to use whatever you can to capture the action. Turns out the tiny cam records crystal clear HD video so this orgy is now a bonus update on Tim Tales.


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This is a bit of a 'Chicken and the Egg' situation.
To summarise, some of our users have stated that they would like more training on the computer systems, as they do not believe they are utilising the full potential of the systems (well I'm sure that is true, but then who IS utilising the full potential...).
That is fine as we do have a guy who does internal training on all the various software packages that we run in the firm, and whenever we have a major rollout or new member of staff they get trained accordingly.
However, we then ask the question "What would you like training on..." to which the users draw a blank.
Our point is that you cannot possibly train someone on EVERYTHING (which is what some of them have requested) as it would take a long time and mostly be irrelevant (imagine for example training someone in the FULL capabilities of Word 2007, I cannot imagine most people need to know more than 20% of what it does!).
So we keep coming to a standoff where we say we can't train them unless they can tell us what they want to be trained on, but they say they can't tell us what they want to be trained on if they don't know what the systems can do.
We'd like to set up a training request form or training survey but we're struggling slightly over what it could contain to actually be useful. Has anyone set up something similar?
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Aug 13, 2010 at 9:47 UTC
Sounds like a training Wiki is in order. It's the only reasonable way I can think of to have training resources on everything.
Then a user can get a basic grasp of things on there own, and actually know what they want more training on.
Aug 13, 2010 at 9:48 UTC
Beginner classes
Intermediate classes
Advanced classes
The manager decides who needs to go to which one - for some, only the beginner is needed, others need more advanced training.
Aug 13, 2010 at 10:03 UTC
Well more and more our outfit is getting more proactive about it (doing training classes before a major app or hcnage came out). Before, it came out, and they pretty much figured things out on theri own (and considering a fair number of my users need instructions on how to walk around a tree, that's not a good thing).
We end up doing PPTs, webEx sessions, and so on.
Aug 13, 2010 at 10:10 UTC
Find out how training centers are organizing their classes. Check out what they are teaching their students. Some training centers post what they teach online. Here is an example for MS Word level 1.
Aug 13, 2010 at 10:46 UTC
You actually train your users?
Doesn't that make them feel all superior and make them that much more dangerous?
Aug 13, 2010 at 10:46 UTC
Put away the ponies and rainbows.
They don't get a ground up course in computer science on the company dime.
Teach them the processes they need to know for company purposes.
If management wants to implement new processes, or you change the existing infrastructure, then you teach those changes.
They already know how to do their job, right?
The ones who don't want to learn can't be taught.
The ones who do, can't be stopped.
Aug 14, 2010 at 9:34 UTC
When I started my current job there was one training session that lasted about 30 minutes at the beginning of the year. During that time I had to cram in computer reminders and train on any summer software changes. From there on they were on their own. Now we have taken a more proactive approach and we're still fine tuning it. For example, we just installed some SMARTBoards and 3M SCP systems in classrooms. After the install I loaded the software on the teacher computer and gave them an online walk-through resource offered to us by the company. I told them before I gave them training they had to watch the walk-through and play with it for 30 days. During that time they picked up on most of the basics and asked either the training staff (fellow teachers) or myself a few questions. After that time period we could then go into integrating it into daily lessons, etc.
Aug 23, 2010 at 3:53 UTC
Sounds like a training Wiki is in order. It's the only reasonable way I can think of to have training resources on everything.
Then a user can get a basic grasp of things on there own, and actually know what they want more training on.
Now that I like the sound of. We already have a fair amount of end user documentation, but a lot of it is tied up in a lengthy 'Office Manual' pdf which is too cumbersome to actually find what you are looking for most of the time.
I think I'll look at centralising all of this information for the end user in Wiki format.
Some other good suggestions here also, thanks for the input everyone.
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why do people want to create a flamewar between surfers and bodyboarders?
Jul 25, 2009, 04:52 PM #3
- Why do you drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?
- How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie-pop?
- Why do people not like diareah?
- How many chucks can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
I think that pretty much sums up the stupid questions of the day.....
big vic nailed it !
why not, you can do a ton more tricks on a bodyboard as well as flips and what not while surfing theres not too much of a variety...
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) secretary Sanjay Patel was at pains yesterday to explain to the media that Rahul Dravid's forthcoming interactive sessions with Team India batsmen ahead of their five-Test battle against England does not mean he is a batting consultant.
Probably, Dravid, who is now a television commentator, may not have been able to spend an extended period of time with the team. It could also be that the Board was not overly keen to rope in a consultant for the tour. Whatever be the case, Dravid agreeing to spend time with the batsmen is a good thing for the team considering how successful he has been in England.
Fine track record
Apart from scoring 1,376 runs in 13 Tests there (including six centuries), Dravid has led India to a rare series win in 2007. And his 148 against Nasser Hussain's men in the 2002 Leeds Test must be rated as one of the finest Indian innings overseas.
Lessons from The Wall
Dravid would be most invaluable when it comes to helping the batters get into good position to cope with the swing that the England bowlers will generate in their conditions. This is where a sound technique comes in. The former batsman had plenty of it; India's current batsmen have to show more of it.
Need of local experts
While the Dhoni-Fletcher combine has made a start where encouraging an outside view is concerned, the captain and coach should also be open to having local experts to accompany the team.
This newspaper repeats what it has recommended before: "The Indian team need inputs from a man, apart from the chief coach, who has latest information on pitches and opposition players."
Hopefully, at the end of five Tests in England, India's cricket bosses can say that they did their best to improve on the 0-4 shellacking in 2011.


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2 tablespoons chromatic oil;
2 prevailing conditions onions;
2 milieu leeks;
2 cloves garlic;
6 epic aged tomatoes;
1 teaspoon solanaceous vegetable purée;
1 bay leaf;
1 twig warm thyme;
½ spoon saffron;
salt and freshly-ground black pepper;
1 cup albescent wine;
2 teaspoons pastis;
sauce rouille (see formula downwards)
Start by preparing the vegetables. Peel and cut the onions. Slice the leeks. Peel and twist the alliaceous plant. Chop the tomatoes (skins, stalks and all).
In a large, heavy-bottomed dish container sudor the onions, leeks and allium sativum in the chromatic oil until softened and insubstantially browned.
Add the roughly chopped tomatoes, the solanaceous vegetable purée, the bay leaf, the branch of thyme and the glass of light inebriant. Stir cured both.
Add the pieces of fish.
Cook all together, stirring frequently, until the fish begins to change intensity.
Add the saffron, and satisfactory marine to purely top the aquatic vertebrate.
Bring to the boil. Skim off any impurities that get up to the side.
Simmer for 15-20 transactions.
Transfer the tabular array of the pan to a hay business (you'll probably have to do this in two or more stages) and superstar it all up in cooperation. Then go past the whole lot through with a too large argentiferous sieve, imperative down recovered on the fish and vegetational scrap to quote top spirit.
Return to the pan, add the two teaspoons of pastis and reheat.
Serve highly hot beside the old-fashioned embellishments of lightly-toasted French bread, grated Gruyere food and sauce rouille (see direction below).
Spread the slices of toasted baked goods with the rouille, overlay near grated dairy product and add to the soup, enterprising the bread down the on the surface of the bisque to change intensity and hold your attention all the flavours.
Sauce Rouille:
The orthodox relation to fish stew and soupe de poisons, this fiery, rust-coloured flavourer has a plurality of versions and variations. Some relatives add potatoes; more than a few add breadcrumbs; some add saffron; many add pounded red fish or rascasse livers!
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This recipe is adequate for roughly speaking 8 servings of soupe de poisons.
3 zoftig cloves garlic;
3 half-size dried red chilli peppers;
1 egg yolk;
1 undersized potato, stark naked and cooked;
1 teaspoon French mustard;
150ml chromatic oil;
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Peel the alliaceous plant. Remove the seeds from the chilli peppers, and cut of meat them (the peppers, not the seeds!)
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Add the hard-baked potato, the crucifer and the chili peppers. Pound all these both until urbane. Stir the egg nutrient in asymptomatic. Start count the oil, descend by drop, as if production mayo.
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Edgar Bronfman Jr, the music mogul heir to the Seagram whisky fortune, deals in trophy assets the way other people swap knick-knacks on eBay. Mies van der Rohe's Seagram building, Picassos, Rothkos, huge chunks of the family's business – Bronfman has traded them all. In the process of moving his family back from London, he is selling his $28m Manhattan townhouse, once owned by the Muppets' creator Jim Henson, and looking for another. It's the third piece of prime property he's sold in less than two years.
But it's another set of assets that Bronfman has on the market that is attracting the most attention – Warner Music, the home to Led Zeppelin, Bruno Mars and Plan B. Given the parlous state of the music industry in recent years, when Goldman Sachs was appointed to look at Warner's options back in January, the big question was would anyone care at all? Now a colourful set of contenders are cutting up rough as they line up bids for all or part of the firm.
There's Len Blavatnik, a Russian-born oil magnate turned media player; Ron Burkle, the politically connected supermarket mogul dubbed the "Billionaire Party Boy" by the New York Post; music rivals Sony, and maybe Universal; and a whole host of financial players. And hovering in the wings is the man who killed the music industry, Sean Parker, who co-founded Napster, the downloading service that kick-started the digital revolution, before first joining and then quitting Facebook. A casual observer might surmise that the music industry is hot again. A look at the numbers suggests otherwise.
Warner was Bronfman's comeback deal after his 2000 merger of Universal and Vivendi went disastrously wrong. Backed by Thomas H Lee Partners and others, Bronfman paid $2.5bn for Warner Music in 2003 when the music industry was already struggling. It's got a whole lot worse since. If Bronfman does decide to sell, he will only make a profit thanks to a successful IPO in 2005. He and his investors made their money back then; subsequently the shares, listing at $17, peaked at $30 in 2006, but are now worth less than $6.
Part of the problem is that nobody, not even Bronfman, really knows what is going on. Rumours and counter-rumours are circulating. No one talks on the record. Bronfman had wanted to sell his publishing assets and then bid for EMI, say some well-placed industry sources: a marriage between the two smallest of the sector's major companies has been on and off for the better part of a decade, and Bronfman sees a future where music firms make their money in "360" deals – owning rights to everything from merchandise to tour tickets and digital sales. He believes he could turn EMI's troubled recorded music division around. Scott Sperling, the co-president of Thomas H Lee, is said to have disagreed and pushed for the whole company to go on the block.
The sale has not been made any easier by EMI. Its disastrous takeover by Guy Hands's private equity firm Terra Firma ended in court and control by the deal's largest backer, Citigroup. The bank has begun tentatively talking to potential bidders about selling all or part of the business. EMI arguably has better publishing assets, Warner is stronger and certainly better run in recorded music. The two music firms could argue, and have argued, about who has the stronger assets. In the end it's like asking who do you like better, EMI's Beatles or Warner's Led Zeppelin? The end price is likely to be much the same for either firm.
There are probably so many permutations to this fugue that even Bach, let alone Bronfman, couldn't resolve them. Sadly the same holds true for the entire music industry. Both Warner and EMI have outstanding publishing assets, collecting royalties from a catalogue of the world's best-loved music. Music publishing is a steady, low-risk business that generates lots of cash – just the sort of thing private equity types love. But recorded music, the breaking of new acts and the selling of their work, remains a business in crisis. As Hands will tell you, it will take more than money to change that record.
Glenn Peoples, a senior editorial analyst at the music industry bible Billboard, says he has been surprised by the level of interest. "Publishing I understand, but recorded music? I wonder what the attraction is. The digital age has been great for consumers but it's been catastrophic for music companies, and the bottom isn't in sight. You are probably looking at another decade before anyone comes up with a solution."
In 2000, when the industry and the CD market were at their peak, the total number of music buyers in the US was close to 160 million. Over the course of the past decade that number has fallen to below 130 million. Worse still, the average US music consumer now spends $43 a year buying it, down from $60 in 2000.
Apple's iTunes solved one problem for the music industry, offering a legal alternative to Napster and other free download services. But it presented a new one. Instead of selling CDs at $12 a pop, the industry now sells singles at 99c. "We have moved from a dollars business to a pennies business, sometimes a fractions of a penny business," says one music executive. In this environment only the big survive, he argues. The same holds true for stars.
Lady Gaga can cut a deal to promote Polaroid, Justin Bieber can make 3D movies and shill for Proactiv spot cream, but the cash they make from recorded music will not rival the cash Madonna or Michael Jackson made from selling CDs. Lesser stars have little to prop them up, says Peoples. It's a sad song that is playing across the industry. Warner's revenues fell 13% between 2004 and 2010, EMI's fell an estimated 22%. Cushioned by a big company like Sony or Universal's Vivendi, the leading majors can wait it out, hoping digital dollars will emerge. EMI has already lost its independence. Warner may be the better-run company, but its prospects of keeping running for long don't look healthy.
However, developments over in California could offer a glimpse of salvation. Marissa Mayer, Google's hotshot vice-president of consumer products, is pushing the search firm to focus on music. She recently interviewed Lady Gaga, for example, for its Musicians@Google series. Google now sees music as a crucial battleground in its fight with Apple in an increasingly mobile world.
Its service is likely to provide an alternative to the iTunes model – offering subscriptions, making all of a consumer's music available anywhere on any device, and moving away from Apple's death by singles sales approach.
Google's entry will shake up a market Apple has so far defined, and coincides with a second wave of music services coming online from Spotify and others catering to a smart phone, iPad and tablet PC customer base that's expected to reach nearly 1.5 billion by 2015. Maybe, just maybe, there is a way the music industry could make some money out of all the music that will get played on those devices.
That future seems a long way off to Peoples, however. "At the moment all the music companies are leaky ships bailing water," he argues. Although they may be getting better at bailing, he adds, the leaks are far from plugged. Still, as bids for Warner start to take shape, Bronfman must be encouraged that someone is crying "land ahoy!"


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US stock indexes ended the trading session near the previous close levels. Growth is constrained by a weak labor market statistics in the country. Thus, the number of homes sold on the secondary market in January was 4.83 million against the expected 5.03 million. Investors expect today's speech of Janet Yellen in the Senate (15:00 GMT). The course of trading today may also be affected by the data on the index of consumer confidence in the US (15:00 GMT) and the index of house prices in the country (14:00 GMT). Our medium-term outlook remains positive and we expect that further dynamics of trading will depend on the applications of the Fed chairman and the publication of data on GDP growth in the US on Friday.
The main European stock indexes show moderate growth after news on continued funding of Greece for 4 months in exchange for which the country must conduct reforms. Today was published statistics on the GDP growth in Germany, which was 0.7%, in line with expectations, as well as the consumer price index in January in the euro area, which declined by 0.6%, which also coincided with forecasts of analysts. Investors expect the speech of the ECB President Mario Draghi (14:00 GMT). Dynamics of trading in the near future will depend on the statements of the Fed on monetary policy, as well as on the future effectiveness of the program of quantitative easing in the Eurozone. We maintain a positive medium-term outlook for the markets of the region.
Markets in the Asia-Pacific region show a gradual increase. The Chinese market today was still closed because of celebrating of the New Year. At the same time, it is worth noting that the decline of the yen against the US dollar once again supported the investors. Japanese traders are waiting for the publication of a large block of statistics on the economy of Japan on Friday. Australian investors expect monetary easing from the Reserve Bank of Australia at the deterioration of inflation expectations in New Zealand, in relation of which analysts expect a similar process in Australia. We maintain a positive medium-term outlook for the markets of the region.


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The attorney representing a group of Super Bowl ticket-holders in a lawsuit against the NFL panned the league for its latest offer of compensation.
Attorney Michael Avenatti said the NFL is still offering too little to fans whose Super Bowl experience was negatively affected by NFL seating mistakes in Sunday's game.
On Thursday, the NFL offered face-value refunds or a ticket to a future Super Bowl to about 2,000 people whose admission to Super Bowl XLV was delayed by the installation of temporary seating areas.
"Remarkably, the NFL and (Dallas Cowboys owner) Jerry Jones still refuse to do the right thing," Avenatti said. "As they know, most fans paid five to nine times the face value of their ticket. And, in many cases, the NFL even made money on these purchases through the NFL Ticket Exchange. The bottom line is that the face value 'offers' do not adequately compensate most fans for what they paid for their ticket.
"Resolving this is not complicated. The NFL and Jones should immediately refund every affected fan the entire price they paid for their ticket, plus all related expenses for traveling to the Super Bowl. At a minimum, the fans should also receive quality tickets to another Super Bowl of their choice."
NFL executive VP for business operations Eric Grubman acknowledged on Thursday that the league had wronged the fans.
"Those 2,000 seat-holders came to the stadium with a dream and we put them through the ringer before they got to their seats," Grubman told CNBC.
"We realize how much angst we caused them."
Avenatti filed a suit this week seeking $5 million in damages on behalf of ticket-holders.
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Places Covered : Delhi – Leh – Khardung La – Nubra Valley – Panamic – Leh
This tour covers monasteries and villages of all the three possible direction of Ladakh; Indus Valley at Leh – Manali Highway, Sham Valley at Leh – Srinagar Highway and Nubra Valley on the worlds Highest Motorable road towards Siachan glacier, once famous for the Silk Route Trade. During the visits you often walk from half n hour to two hours in the villages to see and observe local village lifestyle and interact will them.
Ladakh is very photogenic and has been favorites of many famous photographers and artist. The thin air, the blue sky and the barren Rocky Mountains with multi-colored rocks does all; you just have to do the clicks. We recommend you to take lots of films and batteries for this tour and a panoramic camera is an added tool.
Leh: Hemis, Thiksey, Shey
Nubra Valley: Highest Motorable Road In The World
Panamic-Leh: Ladakhi Village
Alchi: Monastery Of Lamayuru
Best Time to Travel: May to September (July And August Will Be Monsoon Season)
Places Cover:- Delhi – Pushkar – Devigarh – Udaipur (Departure)
Udaipur About this sound pronunciation also known as the City of Lakes, is a city, a Municipal Corporation and the administrative headquarters of the Udaipur district in the state of Rajasthan in western India.
Udaipur is the historic capital of the kingdom of Mewar in the former Rajputana Agency. The Guhils (Sisodia) clan ruled the Mewar and its capital was shifted from Chittorgarh to Udaipur after founding city of Udaipur by Maharana Uday Singh. The Mewar province became part of Rajasthan after India became independent.
Ajmer: Brahma Temple, Camel Ride.
Udaipur: Eklingji Temple, Jagdish Temple, Pichola Lake, Saheliyon Ki Bari
Duration: 14 nights/15 days
Places to Visit: Mumbai – Nagpur – Kanha – Bandhavgarh – Khajuhrao – Jhansi – Agra –Delhi
Tiger safari is one of the main attractions for the wildlife lovers all over the World. India has a significant number of this wonderful animal. You would be wondered to know that some of the best species of tigers like the famous Bengal tiger could only be seen in the Indian subcontinent. If you wish to enjoy the real tiger safari then India's National Parks have some of the best Bengal tiger habitats in the world. Ranthambore, Kanha, Bandhavgarh, Corbett, Kaziranga and Sariska can provide you the best opportunity to see tigers in the wild. In this program let us visit some of these game reserves.
Mumbai: Prince of Wales Museum, The Gateway of India, King George V and Queen Mary Chowpatty Beaches Mani Bhawan & Hanging Gardens.
Kanha: Kanha National Park
Bandhavgarh: Bandhavgarh National Park
Khajuraho: Eastern Group Of Temples
Ocrhha: Museum And Hindu Temples.
Agra: Taj Mahal, Agra Fort
Delhi: Old City Chandni Chowk, Jama Masjid, President House, Qutab Minar, Humanyun'S Tomb.
Best Time to Travel: October Till June
Rajasthan is one of the 26 states that, along with seven union territories, forms the republic of India. Located in the north-west, it shares its borders with Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat, and an international border with Pakistan. The 3,42,274 sq km of its topography comprises 22 former princely states that merged at the time of Indian independence. Temperatures here can be sub-zero in the winters, though at 12°C as average, and with days filled with sunshine, this is the best time for visitors to travel within the state. Summers, not surprisingly, are hot and dry, and though the fierce luh winds have now ceased as a result of the large-scale plantation, the temperature hovers in the vicinity of 45°C during the day.
Delhi: Old City Chandni Chowk, Jama Masjid, President House, Qutab Minar, Humanyun'S Tomb.
Nawalgarh: Old Havelis Shikhawati Region,
Bikaner: Junagarh Fort, Bhandasar Jain Temple / Bhanda Shah Jain Temple
Jaisalmer: Jaisalmer Fort, Patwaon ki Haveli
Jodhpur: Mehrangarh Fort, Jaswant Thade
Ranakpur: Temple Chaumuk,
Udaipur: Eklingji Temple, Jagdish Temple, Pichola Lake, Saheliyon Ki Bari,
Pushkar: Bhrama Temple, Pushkar Lake
Jaipur: Amber Fort, City Palace The Palace of Winds Jantar Mantar.
Karauli: Krishna Temple Karauli, Aarti Ceremony
Agra: Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri.
Best Time To Visit: October To April
Places Covered: Delhi -Bhubaneshwar– Konark – Puri-Gopalpur- Belgarh – Rayagada– Jeypore– Chitrakote – Jagdalpur–Narayanpur – Kanker – Raipur
Tribals of Orissa are still untouched by the civilization , the tribals of Orissa and Bastar are still forest dwellers and live in harmony with their natural surroundings. Their life is dependent on forest produce. Each tribe has its own customs , tradition and costumes which separate them from other tribal. HuttiyaKondha ,DongriaKondhs, Bhumias, Bondas, Sana Paroja, Mari, Muria, Maria etc are the famous tribes there. On days of weekly market , they come to market to exchange their forest harvest and local brew for items of daily need. These markets are best place to see them in best of their costumes.
Bhubaneshwar: Odissi dance
Puri: Sun Temple
Gopalpur: famouse sea beach in Bay of Bengal.
Rayagada: HuttiyaKondha Tribal Villages
Best Time To Travel:October – April
Rajasthan known as "the land of kings" is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It comprises most of the area of the large, inhospitableThar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, which parallels the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with Pakistanto the west. The Desert Festival is a three-day extravaganza of colour, music and festivity, held at the golden city of Jaisalmer.
DELHI: Qutub Minar, Lotus Temple, India Gate
AGRA: Agra fort, Taj Mahal
JAIPUR: Amber Fort, City Palace, Jantar Mantar
MANDAWA: Cenotaphs, Step wells, Painted Havelis
BIKANER: Junagarh Fort, Bhandaser Jain Temple
JAISALMER: Beaches, Napier Museum, Sri Padmanabha Temple, Kuthiramalika Museum and Padmanabhaswamy Temple.
JODHPUR: Mehrangarh Fort, Jaswant Thada
Spread over more than 340 sq. km of wet land , Kaziranga park is the place where one of the last creatures of the pre-historic age, the Rhinoceros, lives. Kaziranga park also attracts large numbers of migratory as well as resident birds.
Places Covered: Guwahati- Manas- Kaziranga – Kolkata
Guwahati : Visit, Kamakhya Temple,Umandanda Island and Kalakshetrra
Manas : Traditional Tribal Dance ( Bodo Tribe). Elephant Safari
Kaziranga : Elephant Safari / Jeep Safari
Kolkata: Cruise on the Hubli River
Best Time To Travel: October – March
Itinerary:-Kolkata – Bagdogra- Kurseong – Darjeeling- Kalimpong – Pemayangtse – Gangtok – Kolkata
Sikkim is a land of rich and varied scenic beauty, magnificent mountains, eternal snows, dark forests, green fertile valleys, raging torrents and calm, placid lakes. Her magnificent variety of flora and fauna are the naturalist's dream; the steep variations in elevation and rainfall give rise to a glorious multitude of species within a comparatively limited area. The scenic grandeur of mighty snow-capped peaks, the highest of which is the 28,162 feet – the mighty Kanchenjunga.
"Abode of the Gods" – is the right phrase for this beautiful state.
Kurseong: Ambootia Tea Factory, Shiv Mandir,
Darjeeling: Tiger Hill, Ghoom Monastery, 'Toy Train' Botanical Garden, Observatory Hill, Dhirdham Temple, Zoological Park.
Kalimpong: Durpin Dara Monastery,Tibetan Buddhism. Colourful Bazar.
Pemayangtse: Tashiding Monastery, Pine Forested Yaksum, Dhubdi Monastery.
Gangtok: Tashi View Point, Mt.Kanchenjunga, Do-Drul Chorten And Monastery, Institute Of Tibetology.
Kolkata: Victoria Memorial,Eden Garden, Hooghly River.
Best Time of Travel: October to May
Delhi – Gangtok – Lachung – Rumtek – Bagdogra – Delhi
Sikkim is home to around 5,000 species of flowering plants, 515 rare orchids, 60 primula species, 36 rhododendron species, 11 oak varieties, 23 bamboo varieties, 16 conifer species, 362 types of ferns and ferns allies, 8 tree ferns, and over 424 medicinal plants. A variant of the Poinsettia, locally known as "Christmas Flower", can be found in abundance in the mountainous state. The orchid Dendrobium nobile is the official flower of Sikkim, while the rhododendron is the state tree.
Gangtok:- Tashi View Point
Lachung:- Yumthang ,Flower watching
Rumtek:- Rumtek Monastery
Best Time Travel:- April – May (As per the flower show)
Duration of the Flower Show – 7 days
Sonepur Mela is one of the Asia's largest cattle fair. It is held on Kartik Poornima (the full moon day) in the month of November in Sonepur, Bihar, on the confluence of river Ganges and Gandak. It is also known as Harihar Kshetra Mela and it attracts visitors from all over Asia. Till date, it is the biggest cattle fair of Asia and stretches on from fifteen days to one month.
Destinations: Delhi-Patna-Darbhanga-Madhubani-Muzzafarpur-Sonpur-Patna–Delhi
Delhi: Old Delhi sight seen
Darbhanga: visit villages
Madhubani: MADHUBANI Paintings
Sonpur: Sonepur Festival
Best Time: – January-February
The history of the South Indian spices can be traced back to 7,000 years. It is a chequered history of lands, discovered or destroyed, kingdoms built or brought down wars won or lost, treaties signed or flouted, favors sought or offered. Even today, South Indian spices hold the same spell. In Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, the cultivation of paprika and a chili variety with high color value and low pungency is increased. Within the past one decade, the international trade in spices has grown by leaps and bound
Itinerary:- Cochin – Munnar – Periyar – Allepey – Kovalam
Sprawling mansions set in lovely locales-exotic islands, luxuriant game reserves… on hillsides, by beaches, backwaters…. That is what Kerala is all about it.
Cochin: Jewish Synagogue, Kathakali
Munnar: Tea Garden Estate
Periyar: Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary,
Allepey: Houseboat
Kovalam: Beaches Of Kerala
Best Time to Visit: October Till March


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Published: Tuesday 4th October 2016
The Institute for Health & Ageing (IHA) is pleased to present talks from colleagues and collaborators working across a range of disciplines relative to the pursuit of healthy and active ageing.
IHA's Dr Anthony Barnett is presenting the October instalment of the Live Long Live Well colloquium series and will be speaking about 'Objective measurement of physical activity in older adults'.
Topic: Although physical activity is a well-established contributor to healthy ageing, the majority of older adults do not meet the current physical activity recommendations for health. To increase levels of participation, it is important to study and understand modifiable determinants of physical activity. One important contributor to this understanding is accurate measurement of physical activity. This presentation will discuss methods of objective measurement of physical activity with specific reference to older adult populations.
When: 2 to 3pm (AEST), Wednesday 5 October
Where: Room 6.02, Level 6, 215 Spring Street Melbourne
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Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still?
The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037 - three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistan - have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth-century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The astronauts, crash-landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge...and the power that lies within.
Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting.
©2005 Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter; (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
"An exciting tale full of high-tech physics, military tactics and larger-than-life characters in the first of two novels related to the bestselling senior author's Space Odyssey series." (Publishers Weekly)
"Definitely worth listening to"
A nice combination of science fiction and history. As ususal with Clarke's books, he does not develop a compelling central character but the other factors more than make up for it.
"Yawn. Interesting idea but slow!"
Action? Suspense? Be nice to see more of that!!
I'm a life long sci-fi fan, but this is old school and it shows. It did put me to sleep fast,tho!
"Great series - vast scope"
Wonderful combination of the two author's ideas and visions
Viewing history through modern eyes - as if you had to live through it - the challenge was to make the ending believable
Look to more jointly authored books
"Reads like a history lesson"
I learned something about history but wasn't entertained at all. I forced myself to finish listening even though nothing more than mildly interesting ever happened. The narration by John Lee however was done very well.
"Waste of time and $"
I can't believe the publisher would print this fluff. It starts slow and gets worse. Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great in conflict for nothing. Wish I could return it. Or better yet go back in time and switch the keys on ACC's type writer. Gibberish wolud eb betetr tahn tish capr.
"Good Premise - Weak Execution"
Time's Eye is based on a fascinating premise -- time discontinuities that force people and places from different eras into the same location -- that soon gets sidetracked by annoying characters and a meandering plot that never resolves itself.
Historical figures, man-apes, and futuristic astronauts duke it out for supreme control over the new world while floating "eyes" record it all.
The plot takes off with a bang as characters from different times in history find themselves together in the new world. The plot then wanders aimlessy through deserts, wars, discussions of morality, and bids for power played out with real warriors and a female astronaut. Suddenly, the plot comes to an improbably conclusion when all the science of string theory is pushed aside and replaced by a mother's hopes and dreams to return home to her daugher.
Although this book is the first installment in the trilogy, it isn't plausible enough to follow through with the rest of the series. Skip it and read the Space Odyssey series instead.
"Bubble gum for the mind."
The story reads like an extended version of the Star Trek Original Series episode "The Savage Curtain." The Earth has been broken up into numerous "time fragments," each stuck sometime in our past. The fun begins when people and animals cross over between fragments, including some of history's most notable warriors. The narration is superior, and it actually "lifts" the story up when it begins to drag in the middle. I enjoyed this audiobook.
"Excellent series, though narrator not so good"
The premise is excellent, as would be expected from Clarke. The fact that unlike Clarke's classics, this was written in much more rencent times, he includes a slew of current scientific ideas that will tickle the imaginations of hard sci-fi fans. I was disappointed, however, by the reader. He does not seem capable of varying his voice enough to create separate voices for each character. He instead tries to rely upon his poor foreign accents, assigning a horrendously stereotypical regional or foreign accent to each character. Some of them are so aweful (like his hideous attempts at US regional accents) that it really detracted from the wonderful writing of the book. I guess I've been spoiled by Lloyd James (amazingly talented narrator of a number of superb Heinlein books available here -- check them out!!).
Lorna Redhawk
"Now this is science fiction at it's best!"
Unbelievably great book and good listening! I was swept up and away into the visual patchwork quilt of many times merged together and it felt very believable! I highly recommend anything Clarke has ever written. His view of the human race as a whole, almost as an organism, comes through crystal clear. He tends to be a bit off on the individuality, but not because of any lack of depth, I think it's because he simply "sees" a bigger picture.
"Excellent Listen!"
This is an excellent SciFi novel. Very well written, imaginative and very believable. The reader is one of the best!
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Oct 11, 2010 Audrey tries to be more spontaneous in the bedroom with Jeff. Meanwhile, Russell invites Timmy to join him on a business trip to distract him from his fear of flying.
Episode 503
Oct 4, 2010 Upset that he'll have to purchase a new rug after Audrey gives their old one to Adam and Jenn, Jeff tries to sabotage the gift by telling Adam about all the "fun" that he and Audrey had on it.
Episode 502
The Bank
Sep 27, 2010 Jeff brags to Adam about a strategy he refers to as "the bank," a list of mistakes that Audrey has made, which he uses to diffuse her anger when he messes up. Meanwhile, Russell sends a suggestive e-mail to a co-worker with whom Timmy is infatuated.
Episode 501
Sep 20, 2010 Jeff and Audrey discover surprising news about their surrogate.
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Rules of Engagement follows two couples and a single guy as they navigate the jungles of dating, engagement and marriage.
Genre: Comedy
Network: CBS
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Original Air Date: Feb 5, 2007


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L'affaire Gadkari
How the BJP chief got caught in the crosshairs
BJP president Nitin Gadkari, it is said, has a "twice-born" link over the leadership of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Since the party's inception in 1980, he's the first president of the rss's political wing who's also a Maharashtrian Brahmin. The portly, embattled politician and Purti Group boss from Nagpur is, both literally and metaphorically, "family" for the whole-timers at the Sangh headquarters. Same caste, clan, community, city, ideology. Which is why the RSS top leadership is defending their boy every step of the way, even taking on powerful leaders in the BJP in the process. As a BJP insider quips, "The local boy from Nagpur has kept up a regular supply of kachoris and mithais to the bachelor old-timers in the Sangh. Gadkari is like a son to some of them."
The RSS, founded by K.B. Hedgewar on Vijayadashami day in 1925, predates the BJP by some 55 years. The Sangh expanded and grew in organisational depth under the leadership of M.S. Golwalkar (1940-'73). Both Hedgewar and Golwalkar were Maharashtrian Brahmins. In the RSS, the sarsanghchalak is all supreme, often holding office for decades. Of the seven sarsanghchalaks so far, six have come from Brahmin families, and five of them have been Maharashtrian Brahmins. Outside the formal structure of the RSS stands Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, never part of the organisation but who played a most significant part in shaping the Hindu right ideology. Predictably, he too was a Maharashtrian Brahmin.
The current sarsanghchalak, Mohan Rao Bhagwat, took over in 2009 after two consecutive chiefs who were not Maharashtrian Brahmins (Rajendra Singh, a Thakur from Uttar Pradesh, held the reins from 1993-2000—right after the leadership of Balasaheb Deoras who led the Sangh for 20 years and promoted social engineering for political growth—and K.S. Sudarshan (2000-09), a Kannadiga Brahmin who many say has been the most lightweight of the Sangh chiefs). In Bhagwat's ascendancy, the Maharashtrian Brahmin has returned to the top of the parivar's pyramid. Naturally, members of the organisation deny this: RSS akhil Bharatiya sah-sampark pramukh Arun Kumar explains it away, saying "the RSS was founded in Maharashtra. Work started there, especially from Nagpur. People from the state went to work in other states. So naturally our first generation faces were dominated by those from the state. Some of them might be from the Brahmin community but it was never in our mind to give prominence to a particular caste. We still choose our leaders on the basis of their work and performance."
Be that as it may, the fact is that the Maharashtrian Brahmin reigns supreme in the backwaters of the Sangh. And the tale of this community in the parivar has interesting subplots. The No. 2 in the Sangh today is Suresh 'Bhaiyyaji' Joshi, again a Maharashtrian Brahmin as is Sanjay Joshi, the former BJP organisation secretary who was trapped in a sex scandal in 2005 (and who president Gadkari tried to rehabilitate in the party). So is M.G. Vaidya, former RSS spokesperson and ideologue.
Consider the caste dynamic in the recent past and it certainly shows that it impacts inter-personal relations today. In May this year, an attempt was made to rehabilitate Sanjay Joshi. But Gujarat CM Narendra Modi put his foot down, not even attending the Mumbai national executive of the BJP till Joshi had left the venue. As a BJP leader says, "These are things we don't talk about publicly but Modi has consistently put the Brahmins in their place." To add insult to injury is the fact that Modi is an OBC, belonging to the Ghanchi community in Gujarat which would be equivalent to the Telis of north India. In other words, Sanjay Joshi, Bhagwat, Gadkari, all twice-borns from Maharashtra, have had to succumb to the will of an OBC!
So it's no surprise that the Brahmins are seeing a grand design against them. Perhaps why M.G. Vaidya, unable to keep his suspicions to himself, went public with his charge. He wrote in a blog last week that he detected the hand of Modi behind the charges against Gadkari being played out. Sources say Modi was furious and called up the entire BJP top leadership to instruct them to show absolutely no ambiguity in distancing the party from the statement. It is said that himself being a product of the RSS, Modi knows how the Brahmin network operates, is impatient with them and sees them as a hindrance in his path.
Incidentally, there is an old history to these inner parivar caste tensions. In the '90s, as part of its social engineering experiment, the BJP made real efforts to promote two OBC leaders, Kalyan Singh and Uma Bharati. Both emerged as strong OBC advocates of the Ram mandir movement that was a counter to the emergence of the lower castes post-Mandal. Both, however, fell out with the top leadership and at various times even accused the BJP of being managed by upper castes. Uma attacked Pramod Mahajan, Arun Jaitley, Atal Behari Vajpayee (all Brahmins) and later even L.K. Advani. Kalyan had an public falling out with Vajpayee, openly calling him a symbol of Brahminical domination. Ironically, it was said in those days that Vajpayee endured even while taking on the Sangh because he was the "superior Brahmin", master of the art of ambiguity. Similarly, it was also said that Advani could not become PM "because he was a Sindhi and not a Brahmin like Vajpayee".
Add to the tale of Brahmins and Maharashtrian Brahmins the subplots orchestrated by the Tamil Brahmins. K. Govindacharya was once the architect of the BJP's social engineering project, but then fell out with Vajpayee and landed out of politics. S. Gurumurthy, the chartered accountant (in whose house in Chennai Govindacharya lived), has been the brain behind so many political manoeuvres. He is currently assisting the men from Maharashtra in giving a clean chit to Gadkari. But they may all find that the power hierarchy has temporarily shifted, that a Gujju OBC is stealing their thunder. But they must keep their faith, manoeuvre and pull strings to still be in charge of the affairs of their universe.
By Saba Naqvi with Panini Anand
#39 Just Joking
Have a look at www.gandhitopia.org/profiles/blogs/could-gandhi-be-saved-rss
I am not a fan of the RSS because they are a bit too conservative and stuck in the last century but this 'The RSS killed Gandhi' line of thinking is a bit much.
//...RSS as such were not responsible for the murder of Mahatma Gandhi, meaning thereby that one could not name the organization as such as being responsible for that most diabolical crime, the murder of the apostle of peace. It has not been proved that they (the accused) were members of the RSS...
—Kapur Commission Report//
The RSS was acquitted after being put on trial.
AB Vajpayee is also an ex-RSS worker.Even the Marxists didn't mind Vajpayee.
Dr.Ambedkar was happy and surprised to see no untouchability being practised in the RSS quarters.
And I know people who were helped by the RSS when no one else & esp the government weren't willing to help.And the RSS didn't ask these poor people to convert to Hinduism either!!
The R. S. S. is perceived to be atheistic, apparently. They do worship Mother India, so does everyone. I meant to say, they are Hindu's, orthodox, and they are not an organisation which the Congress finds incredible. I respect them, for what they represent to themselves, and to what they want to represent to their nation. They are decidedly atheist, perhaps, unusual in a city where their community is known to be devout followers of a deity. I relate to everyone, in perception. We do know, that a certain person was the cause of Mahatma Gandhi's death, and what is deeply wounding is, I cannot fathom, why the R. S. S. is communal, while the people who caused the death of Rajiv Gandhi, they might not be identified by a certain organisation, and the same are seen as being worthy of understanding and compassion. Indeed they are, and in Pune, where the family of Nathuram Godse live, it seems, they are not happy. It would have been more appropriate, for the mentioned family to have also felt like the killers of Rajiv Gandhi felt, before their execution. The question is, what does the govt. represent? The B. J. P. is not the R. S. S. People are saying that the Congress is anti-India, or the ministers are taking decisions which people object to vehemently. And, if Rajiv Gandhi's killers were pardoned, why could Kasab not be sent back to Pakistan? It is extremely reasonable, because Kasab would be in his nation, and it is believing in what is bad, to say that his people would look at him with more or less understanding than Indian's, if he were to return to India, rather than Pakistan.
>>there has to be "a certain level of literacy to understand the ideology of Marxism and socialism"
why not add property ownership also as a requirement for being the responsible citizen?
Oops, communists just hug each other and money falls out of the book-shelves.
What is on Bardhan's reading list?
Das Capital and Communist Manifesto
Gulag Archipelago
Gulag: A History
Let me check with Soviets. They are voting for illiteracy. They can always point to the menu for ordering the their Big Mac.
I was & am very Weak In the study of History. Can't name any NON-BRAHMAN Prime Ministers that the SECULAR Progressive Congress has Given to the Country other than MMSingh, nor Any Non-Brahman Party President. There must have been many. Afterall Congress is Secular & Progressive. Somebody please enlighten me.
Saba Naqvi aur Caste-obsession ? Dont ever answer it with a "Kabhi nahi". Lets take a step back and see what our enlightened souls aka commies have to say about caste. Heres what AB Bardhan told in an interview to Ms.Saba
What of the fact that while obc and SC representation has increased in all parties post-Mandal, in the Communist parties the number of Brahmins has increased! Bardhan argues that this is because there has to be "a certain level of literacy to understand the ideology of Marxism and socialism"
>>USA would have turned Iran into a rubble too.
Agreed. even though it is entirely a different topic.
BTW let's see if changing the composition of the electorate in Gujarat helps the Congress.
They and their friends in the media are trying every little trick in the book.
Does Modi worry you so much that you feel the need to resort to 'divide the hindu castes & rule' strategy??
Why are most lefties upper caste(Hindus or Muslims)??
Landlord feudal chieftain muslims and Hindus, to be specific.
The real problem is that Modi, an OBC, is proudly right of centre.
That is not how it is supposed to be, as per the lefties, is it ?That doesn't make sense in the Indian leftists worldview, does it? These people(OBCs) are supposed to be 'victims' & hence should ideally be supportive of lefties who are the saviours of these victims.
From changing the borders of 60 out of 180 constituencies in Gujarat, to silly attempted,prolonged witch hunts, to ultimately divide and rule.
The visceral hate directed towards this one individual is amazing!!


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3. Mortality decline over time
I start with an analysis of death trends over time for single years of age partitioned into ten-year age groups. Because the age structures of the male and female populations are different I need to account for such differences analyzing death rates over such broad age categories. This can be accomplished by using the following intensity regression model [Note 1].
In this model, estimates of the AGE effect will correspond to the standard age-specific schedule of death rates, and the interaction term will produce estimates of the relative trends in death rates, separately for males and females. The later is closely related to trends in age-standardized mortality rates except for the fact that we don't need to select a standard population because it is estimated indirectly by regression procedure. The estimation procedure uses a maximum likelihood method known in statistical literature [i.e. Kleinbaum et al. 1998] as the Poisson regression model. Note that all independent variables (YEAR, AGE, SEX) are factors, that is, one parameter is estimated for each factor level. All necessary constraints are also taken into account in order to provide model identifiability.
First, to capture the general pattern in mortality decline I fitted Model (1) to all ages. The female population in the year 1921 was selected as a reference group, which means that the AGE effect is close to the female death rates observed in that year. This estimated schedule of death rates, shown in Figure 1a, appears similar to those of other countries: a high peak of infant mortality, a bump of mortality in the 20s and then an exponential increase until the highest ages. The attentive reader will also have noticed "steps" of death rates at ages 40, 50, 60, 65, 70, and 80 - these are due to age heaping at these ages.
The interaction term of the fit (YEAR*SEX) is plotted in Figure 1b on the logarithmic scale. Every point on this graph can be interpreted as a ratio of the standard mortality schedule (Figure 1a) to a mortality schedule observed in a particular year and population. For example, the estimate for the male population in 1921 (first point on the blue curve) is 1.09, which means that male mortality in 1921 was on average 9% higher than female mortality in the same year. If we look at the last points reached by both curves in 1997, for females the estimate is 0.25 and for males 0.40. Thus, the level of female mortality in 1997 is about 25% and that of male mortality in 1997 is about 40% of the female mortality level in 1921.
As can be seen in Figure 1b, until the mid-1930s the excess of male mortality is rather small and the rate of decline is comparable to that of the female population. From this time onwards, female mortality started to decline faster than male mortality, the level of which nearly stagnated in the mid-1950s. Such differences in mortality trends led to the emergence of a gap between male and female death rates, which peaked in the mid-1970s. In later years the decline in female mortality slowed, however, while male death rates decreased at a higher rate. In most recent years the death rates for males and females are converging, thereby reducing the gap which had emerged before.
It would be an oversimplification to expect that Model (1) will fit the entire data set well, but it conveniently summarizes the sex differentials in mortality decline over time in one graph - much the same as it is summarized by life expectancy at birth. An analysis of goodness of fit, which is not included here, shows that the model, indeed, does not fit the data very well [Note 2], but nevertheless the results are included in the report because they are helpful for revealing the general trends.
The trends in individual age groups can be quite different from the average shown in Figure 1. To explore the dynamics of death rates more closely I fitted Model (1) separately for 10-year age groups and plotted the interaction term in a similar fashion in Figure 2. The AGE effects are not shown in this figure since AGE has been used only as a control variable.
We can see that the most striking reductions in mortality occurred in infancy (age 0) and childhood (1-9 years of age), where death rates declined markedly and remarkably uniformly for both sexes, thus making the sex differential in mortality at these ages very small at the end of the 1990s. For females, the estimate in 1997 at age 0 is about 0.04 which means that the death rate at this age fell by a factor of 25 since 1920. In the most recent year death rates continued to decline at a similar rate as before, even though they had already reached exceptionally low levels until 1990.
Trends at young and young adult ages (10-19, 20-29, 30-39, and 40-49 years of age) show a pattern quite different from that found in other age groups. Until the mid-1950s death rates fell extremely rapidly both for males and females, but then they stagnated to a large extent and even increased for males at ages close to 20 in the 1970s and at ages 30-39 in the 1990s. Starting with the year 1980 the mortality decline for males and females accelerated again and death rates resumed their decline at a rate comparable with that before 1950. Another interesting feature of these graphs is that female mortality exceeded male mortality in the 1930s (Figures 2d and 2e). This excess of female mortality is not found on any of the other graphs. Males suffer from higher mortality throughout the whole period and age range analyzed.
At ages 50-59 and 60-69 female mortality declined more or less at a constant rate over the whole period of observation. This is indicated by almost linear downward trends in the female death rates (Figures 2g and 2h). In the male population at the same ages, trends in death rates have been quite different. Until 1970 virtually no changes in male mortality are to be observed. The death rates stayed at an almost constant level. It was only after 1970 that they started to decline. The rate of decline, however, was higher than the rate of decline observed in the female population during the period 1970-1997. This has led to a convergence of the levels of male and female death rates in the most recent years.
At older ages (Figure 2i and 2j) death rates decline more or less uniformly for both sexes. The level of mortality was almost the same for males and females in the 1920s, but due to the higher rate of mortality decline in the female population, the curves diverged over time. At the end of the 1970s mortality decline in the male population at ages 70-79 accelerated appreciably and the gap between the sexes was reduced in this age group.
In summary, the analysis conducted here demonstrates usefulness of the proposed statistical model for exploring age-specific mortality trends. It also helps to reveal details in the trends and get a deeper understanding of mortality developments. By using more rigid models aiming at capturing general trends in age-specific mortality, however, some important details can be lost. For example, the recent application of the Lee-Carter model [Lee and Carter 1992] by Tuljapurkar to mortality data for G7 countries led to the conclusion that "In every country over this period [Note 3], mortality at each age has declined exponentially at a roughly constant rate" [Tuljapurkar et al. 2000]. If this would be the case the curves shown in Figure 2 would be well approximated by a linear function for the years 1950 onwards. However, it is obvious that the pattern of mortality decline is much more complicated, especially for males. At ages 50-70, for example, it is clear that male death rates remained on a constant level until the late 1970s and only then started to decline. It seems to be the case that the Lee-Carter model summarizes information in matrix of death rates in some important ways but it doesn't provide a good fit to the data.
Sex differentials in survival in the Canadian population, 1921-1997: A descriptive analysis with focus on age-specific structure
Kirill Andreev
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Quick GuideCommon Causes of Foot Pain
What causes foot pain?
Foot pain may be caused by many different diseases, deformities, biomechanical conditions, improper footwear, or injuries.
Infectious disease, viruses, fungi, and bacteria can cause foot pain. Plantar warts on the bottom of the foot are caused by a virus and can cause irritation and pain. Athlete's foot, which is caused by a fungus, can lead to foot irritation and pain. A common cause of foot pain is an ingrown toenail. Ingrown toenails occur when the edges of the nail grow through or into the skin, resulting in pain and often leading to infection.
Many systemic diseases such as diabetes, lupus, gout, and rheumatoid arthritis can cause foot pain. Rheumatoid arthritis can cause painful inflammation in the joints of the foot.
Deformities, such as tarsal coalitions, calcaneal varus, calcaneal valgus, bunions, claw toes, mallet toes, hammertoes, and bone spurs, are common causes of foot pain.
Biomechanical abnormalities from muscle and tendon tightness or laxity, flatfeet, or high arched feet often lead to muscle imbalances, deformities and foot pain.
Trauma from an acute injury or from accumulative repetitive injury are very common causes of foot pain as well. Injuries to the skin and internal structures may also be caused by small repetitive traumas or pressures. Microtrauma injuries can be caused by running on uneven surfaces or surfaces that are too hard or too soft, or by wearing shoes that have poor force-absorption qualities, are not activity specific, or fit incorrectly.
Wearing shoes that are too tight or high heels can cause pain in the forefoot. Shoes that are tied too tightly can cause pain and bruising on the top of the foot. Improper, non-sport specific shoes for running or cycling can lead to foot pain with activities. Poorly fitting shoes in the short term can cause blisters, bruising, and be a source of athlete's foot. The long-term effects of poorly fitting shoes may be bunions, corns, calluses, irritation of nerves and joints, and misalignment of the toes. Morton's neuroma caused by thickening of tissue around a nerve between the toes can cause toe numbness and pain and may also be aggravated by poorly fitting shoes as can many foot deformities such as hammertoes, mallet toes, and bunions.
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