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Transit + Technology: Revitalizing Public Transportation for Smarter Communities
The evolution of technology has dramatically changed almost every facet of our lives, from the way we shop and communicate to how we travel and run our cities. The smallest startups to the largest governments are transforming the way we communicate information, track data and monitor our operations to not only drive efficiency, but also to provide better services and products.
Technology can do the same for transportation: shaping the quality of how we commute and move around our communities to boost passenger usability and confidence. By enabling customers to travel around Melbourne quickly, safely and efficiently, we can build a more sustainable, better operating community.
Yarra Trams, the operating name for KDR Victoria (a partnership between public transit company Keolis and Australia's oldest rail company, Downer), has been serving the citizens of Melbourne for over 100 years. Continuing our commitment to a more sustainable Melbourne, we've been working with IBM to use technology to improve day-to-day tram operations and overall passenger experience.
As the world's largest operating tram network, we are responsible for 492 trams, operating on 29 different routes on 250 kilometers of double track. Here are a few areas where we are using technology to evolve our century-old business into a new global model of smarter transportation:
Accurate Scheduling
Much of our tram network shares the same streets and roadways with Melbourne's motor vehicles and pedestrians. In fact, 80 percent of our tracks share road space with other vehicles. With a population of more than four million people, shared roadways come with a host of potential disruptions: from traffic to construction to detours caused by special events and weather.
Despite the fact that these situations can form quickly and are outside of our direct control, passengers expect our trams to be on time. To make sure trams are in the right place at the right moment, we've equipped them with data-collecting sensors. From the oldest tram–clocking in at over 70 years old–to the newest, each tram feeds real-time information about its location to the Yarra Trams Operations Center. From this center, we have an accurate view of what exactly is happening on all of our routes and with each of our trams, allowing us to rearrange schedules, dispatch additional trams and keep customers informed of potential delays and the best alternate routes via tramTRACKER®—our real-time data analytics and mobile app allowing us to communicate directly with passengers via smartphone, our website, display screens at major stops and screens at shopping centres and sporting complexes.
Sensors collect data from some of our 91,000 pieces of infrastructure: trams, inlaid tracks, overhead power wires, power substations and passenger platforms. Using data analytics, employees in different parts of the business, such as infrastructure (track and overhead power wires) and rolling stock (trams), examine each significant data point, searching for patterns and unusual activity.
Take hugely complex and high profile events, such as the Australian Open tennis tournament held here in Melbourne. For the duration of the competition, we use the information streaming in from around our network to determine where heavy passenger traffic will occur and allocate our trams accordingly, as well as alerting passengers about service changes via tramTRACKER®.
Though our network has generated this data for over a century, the fact that we can now capture it–and listen to it–is enormously valuable. In October 2013, our service delivery was at 99.23 percent and tram punctuality was at 84.00 percent, exceeding our respective targets of 98 and 77 percent, respectively. Punctuality had its best September since KDR Victoria took over the franchise in 2009, following from our best ever July and August results.
Sensors, analytics and asset management help keep our trams on schedule, meaning not only that our passengers feel more confident in choosing to travel by tram, but they also arrive to work on time, increasing productivity in Melbourne itself.
Predictive Maintenance
Keeping a 100-year-old system running smoothly is not an easy task. Our trams' vast range in ages means each tram has various maintenance needs, with overlapping and conflicting schedules. Though this means careful planning is required to meet the challenging maintenance schedule, it doesn't change the fact that we need to know where, when, why and if a problem has occurred or will occur. Most importantly, if there is a problem, we need to be able to respond rapidly.
A stalled tram is quite different from a broken down car; though other motorists can simply swerve around a stopped vehicle, we have to stay on the tracks, and there are sometimes nine routes sharing a single stretch of track. Not to mention the tremendous downtime and money it can cost to fix a major malfunction, which are made more frustrating when easily avoided by earlier detection.
We're better preventing such system delays through sensors and asset management software, analyzing equipment data to figure out where and when maintenance is required. Centralizing and aggregating this information allows us to analyze patterns, identify potential issues, alert appropriate personnel and dispatch a work crew to make the necessary repair before the disruption happens.
To put it more tangibly, let's look at how we respond to a potential wheel wear.
An automated wheel measurement machine detects the condition of tram wheels as the tram drives over a sensor embedded next to the tracks. The rolling stock maintenance team uses the data to determine which wheels need attention and then create a work order. Because the maintenance crew receives the work order on a mobile device, they also log information about the repair on this same device, enabling comparisons to previous repair logs and allowing for scheduled preventative maintenance.
The ability to predict repairs, versus simply reacting to them, means a fleet can run at its intended capacity, is repaired and serviced during off-peak hours and has a minimal chance of breakdowns when a city's workforce needs to commute.
As with any transit system, these preventative measures don't mean that external forces won't cause problems. Melbourne has an annual rainfall of more than 24 inches, and it's very common for streets and tram tracks to flood. Thanks to our data analysis, we can now identify which areas are particularly prone to flooding, and our crews can now take extra precautions when the forecast calls for rain.
What if tracks flood anyway? Our sensors and Operations Center quickly alert crews via mobile, who in turn can make quick decisions and respond to the flood and work to avoid service delays.
Enabling a Mobile Workforce
What's equally as important to optimal maintenance and reduced downtime is real-time information from each of our workers in the field.
However, communicating with each worker over more than 250 kilometers of double track is no easy task. To make this easier, we've equipped each worker with a mobile device to remotely access work orders and receive up-to-date information on track and tram functionality. Through the devices, workers on any part of our network can access crucial data on equipment status, failure locations, traffic delays and bad weather—as well as alerting other employees of these types of situations in their areas.
Once one project is finished, engineers can log onto the system via their mobile device and document how long the repair took, as well as sharing additional mobile work orders to reduce response time to the next project. This is a far superior process to using printed documents from the office, which then need to be updated by returning to the office after the job is complete.
Customer Engagement
In addition to improving service reliability, analytics, mobile and asset management technologies are helping us update passengers when scheduling issues occur. Our mobile app, tramTRACKER®, analyzes real-time information collected from equipment data points to identify tram arrival times and display this information to passengers. It receives more than one million hits per day from passengers wanting to know when their tram is coming.
With the app, a passenger can pull up arrival times of the next three trams that will pass through their nearest stop, helping to avoid missing the next tram or finish their coffee knowing when the next tram is coming. The effect of disruptions is managed via passenger information officers based at the Operations Centre, who can broadcast specific information to tramTRACKER. That information equips passengers with the knowledge to make informed, quick decisions to get to work or home on schedule.
What's Next?
Incorporating technology into our infrastructure has successfully evolved our model of smarter transportation, but the implementation of sensors, analytics and asset management technology is just the start. With the recent introduction of our new E-Class trams, we are introducing additional sensors and using WiFi to download maintenance and passenger counting data and uploading onboard passenger information at tram depots, taking passenger communication, efficiency, predictive maintenance and punctuality to even greater levels.
Whether it's mobile apps or the analysis of millions of data points, we are always searching for new and unique ways to provide a more intelligent and efficient tram network for Melbourne. The technology we've implemented with the help of IBM is just one step in our journey, and we look forward to exploring new ways to apply technology for generations to come.
With 25 years of ICT experience, Neil Roberts' strong program and project management skills have helped to transform vision into reality in business environments including engineering, logistics, banking/finance and risk management.
Neil successfully managed the complex transition of all ICT systems to the new franchise and has applied his experience to significantly improve the ICT systems that maintain, operate and enhance the passenger experience and the operational effectiveness of Melbourne's iconic tram network.
Neil Roberts is the Director of ICT at Yarra Trams


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Like any good newscast, the Newscast theme is versatile. 4 built-in stunning skins (and 3 variations of the front page) allow the user to specify light, dark, minimal, or modern, because every story has to be told a certain way. Magazines are a visual medium, and because of that, your choice of display is pivotal to the success of your creation.
Equally well suited to a news style blog, Newscast's multiple page templates and skins combine functionality with style. 3 Slideshow options – Accordian, Crossfade, and Newsitem – further increases the adaptability of the theme. Equal parts eye catching and minimal, Newscast artfully blends the best of several worlds into one competent WordPress theme.
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You should look at the current list of the web service providers before selecting the company that will offer you the internet services. A service provider company that claims to have achieved in the past should be very comfortable in communicating and producing a list of their current clients. In fact, such lists should be displayed on their websites for all the visitors to see. You should avoid seeking the services of a company that does not show the list of their customers either displaying their performance on the internet page of the customers. Check out this website at
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Friday, January 7, 2011
Prices, Fares, Toll Fees and Statism
The Central Lesson Here: Government is Bad
Food prices – Government prevents the supply of food from abroad by its imposition of tariffs on commodities such as rice, wheat and sugar. The logic of the state is that without the high prices created by the imposition of tariffs, local producers would go unemployed. Yet Noynoy Aquino is going to sign an executive order removing the tariff on wheat in order to reduce flour prices by P20.00 per bag. It seems that the government is very arbitrary as to its trade policies, not wanting to put too much of a shock on the consuming public.
The uncertainty created by land reform affect the prices of food as landowners become hesitant to invest funds to make their operations more efficient. Land reform thrusts the peasant farmer into an entrepreneurial position where he may not be suited for. There are many reports of the distributed land being sold back to the landowner because of bad debt-management and necessary technical know-how. The point is that land reform lowers output and contributes to high food prices.
Lastly, there is the nefarious National Food Authority, which, under the same logic of protectionism, buys commodities from the agricultural sector only to be brought to waste because of corruption and incompetence.
Transportation (tolls, fares) – Higher fuel prices are the cause. What's the cause of higher fuel prices? Yes, government. Military interventionism in the Middle East and a global oil cartel OPEC results in the underproduction of oil, or manipulates oil supply making it nearly impossible for entrepreneurs to anticipate.
Abolish Regulations on Public Vehicles – there should be no regulations, coerced standardization, and licensing of public vehicles. Without regulations, price competition will ensue and different services catering to different needs will emerge in the market. Some individuals may choose lower quality or older vehicles because of the lower fare charged. Some may want the safest ride they can get no matter how high the fare. Under a free market, both the consumer and the servicemen choose the 'right' fare with proper consideration to the scarcity of the factors of production. If the problem is that fares are too high, then servicemen will be encouraged to innovate in cost-cutting in order to satisfy the need for lower fares. Government can only be detrimental to this entrepreneurial process. Legalize free choice in transport.
Privatize the Roads and Mass Transit – No more Build-Operate-Transfer Projects. No more public-private partnerships. Separate all transportation infrastructure development from government. The majority of the population does not make use of the road system as much as large statist corporations. Government roads shift the cost of transport from corporations to the taxpayer. Government mass transit had to be created in order to allay the dissatisfied majority. Privatization and denationalization of all transportation infrastructures would radically change it into something more suitable to the average consumer, with much less sprawl and congestion. This would require abolishing agencies such as the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), and Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
Money Supply – The main cause of rising prices for almost everything is the central bank which preposterously makes the claim of controlling inflation. The central bank, which holds a legal monopoly in money printing, is the root of the problem.
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Your Personality Profile is designed to help you understand yourself through astrology. It is meant to give you deeper insight into yourself and your personality.
Astrology is an excellent tool to explain the ways in which your mind and emotions interact with one another. It works on deeper levels than simple surface physical realities, and helps you understand yourself in a new way. The planets do not cause anything, nor do they determine our behavior. Planets represent different energies that operate within us. They are symbolic of different parts of our psyches, with unique impulses and drives associated with each planet. Because they travel in predictable orbits around the Sun, and therefore have a fixed relationship in time, planetary cycles can be applied to Earthly events, not as causes but as correlation.
The positions of the planets at the time of your birth are a kind of map to your psyche. These positions are all energy potential, and it is possible for them to manifest either positively or negatively, depending on your environment and, most importantly, the choices you make. These choices have little to do with the positions of the planets, and everything to do with personal consciousness and will power. As the old saying goes, it is a wise person who rules the stars, and a fool who is ruled by them. Use this report wisely.
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For most Hall of Famers, the enshrinement speech has no real impact on a player's legacy. Few completely blow their final moments in the sun (or, as the case may be, debacle it). Every once in a while, a failed broadcasting career becomes partially resurrected with a memorable performance. (See Michael Irvin and, possibly, Emmitt Smith.)
On Saturday night, Cardinals assistant coach Russ Grimm moved back to the A list for any and all head-coaching vacancies.
Largely forgotten since missing out on the Steelers' job three years in a haze of ambiguity and/or the Rooney Rule, Grimm used his speech as an open audition for his ability to communicate to a team, a fan base, and a media corps.
And he nailed it.
Confirming our belief in this regard is the fact that the transcript of Grimm's words, as prepared by the fine folks at ProFootballhof.com and distributed in the press box in Canton, contains no catch phrases, pearls of wisdom, or memorable passages. Great communicators communicate any content great; they can make you want to run through a wall without ever asking. It's a quality that oozes through the speaker's presence, demeanor, and delivery.
Grimm made his case on Saturday night. Surely, he's smart enough to know that it was his only chance to speak directly to an audience consisting of the entire football-watching world, including most if not all owners, team presidents, and/or General Managers.
And, again, he nailed it. He nailed it so well that we're prepared to predict that, if there's football in 2011, Grimm will be coaching one of the league's 32 teams.


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Realmente seus bichões estão saindo prá fora!!!Faunas lindas espalhadas nesta flora de pedra...Vendo seu trabalho agora, realmente há uma presença muito marcante entre a cultura maia e nossa brasilidade urbana...Inspirações em Qetzalcolt e nos hieroglifos maias. Que viva México! Que viva Brasil! Saudações Fefe!!! Beijo grande! George Sander
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Creative Design Lab: Wearable technology week 3
Last week, I did a lot of ideas generation, and used various creative methods to expand on my ideas. I then conducted lots of research into types of technology, specifically in terms of fabric, sensors and detection. This week, I started to create my prototype based on this.
It consists of a vest and an app with an interface as detailed below.
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Made from a special fabric that contains an active cooling agent, which reacts with the wearer's own sweat to lower their body temperature. It also has fibres woven into the fabric that can be switched on if the wearer becomes too cold, and heats up the body until an optimum temperature has been reached. This combination works to keep the body temperature constant, and help the infant to sleep through the night.
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The vest has stainless steel yarns woven into the fabric itself that monitors the infants heart rate, respiration rate and skin temperature, and uses integrated Bluetooth to send that information to the app. The monitoring of vital signs can relieve parent's anxiety, and lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
There are also sensors in the poppers at the bottom of the vest. They can detect if the child is wet, which can help during the potty training phase, and to alert parents to any leaks.
An important part of this vest is its ability to go through the washing machine/tumble drier and without any parts being removed, for easy cleaning. This is because it has all the elements woven into the fabric itself.
The application will be in the app store, available to download for free to the user's smartphone or tablet. It connects to the vest using bluetooth and offers a simple visual display of the three main elements included in this design. It would set off an alarm if the device detects that human intervention is needed, and this would be reflected in the display.
I wanted to keep the design really simple, as it would mainly be used at night while the parent is only semi-awake and often drowsy. I also decided not to put the numerical value of the heart rate/temperate as it cold be confusing and some users wouldn't know what the ideal is.
To present how this would function, I made a paper prototype of this app.
This is a good representation of how the app would set off a warning for one or any combination of the elements.


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gnarpony is the mind of Portland OR based photographer, Jordan Brown. Since 2011, Jordan, aka gnarpony, has portrayed a style leading natural emotion through a warp of nontraditional overlays.
From music festivals along the west coast to the brilliant lands of SE Asia, an ever- growing search for inspiration has brought life to the idea that is gnarpony.
His photographs have grown into a subtle blend of true lighting, bold color contrasts, and intriguing angles of approach. All welcoming the imagination to a wonderful world of surrealistic normalities. Enjoying the fortune of not sitting still, gnarpony is set to live this life on the move & photograph it for other's eyes to see.


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We have returned home today after an extremely enjoyable New Year camping trip, entering a FREEZING cold house which bears more than a passing resemblance to a derelict squat. This is partly due to the assortment of camping detritus which is currently littering the hallway, and partly due to the residue of the family Christmas celebrations last week.
With an uncharacteristic burst of energy, I've attacked several areas and cleaned and tidied with a vengeance. As a result I am now feeling extremely tired but quietly satisfied with my efforts.
Yet more clearing and sorting is in prospect over the next week, as I am determined to start 2010 as I mean to go on, and this involves creating a proper computer work space for myself in the study/office, and reinstating a 'projects area' in the smallest spare bedroom.
I wholeheartedly subscribe to the 'fresh start' aspect of New Year, but loathe and detest the notion of having to make 'resolutions' which in my experience are almost always doomed to disaster even as they are being made.
Yes, of course I would like to lose weight and get fit. I would also like to win the lottery, write a best-selling novel and find the cottage of my dreams with a view of the sea.
However, purely 'resolving' to do any (or all) of those things just won't cut the mustard. Aside from winning the lottery, all of the rest require time, effort and single-minded dedication.
Actually, on reflection, winning the lottery is the only thing I can never do, as I don't ever buy tickets, and as we all know, I've got to be in it to win it.
So I am going to be pragmatic and concentrate on one aim this year. I'm not going to call it a resolution as that would certainly damn it to failure at the outset.
I have an other-wordly premonition that achieving my aim is entirely possible, and may even bring about other life-enhancing changes in its wake. Preparations are already well in hand and over the past few months I have been gradually assembling information and advice, making plans and generally laying the foundations.
Can you guess what it is yet..
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Sunday, 3 January 2010
To Hell with Resolutions........
Posted by Sandra Morris at Sunday, January 03, 2010
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I think I might know. Are you going ahead with your book project? I hope so. You have a wonderful way with words and a ginormous amount of knowledge to pass on.
- 4 January 2010 at 04:14
- Irene said...
I too have the "start as you mean to go on" bug at the moment as well but we'll just see how long it lasts! I do enjoy reading your posts and hope you manage to get on with your future "master plan".
- 4 January 2010 at 11:13
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Disclaimer: The rule I am about to explain has not always been the rule—it is, however, the current, generally accepted way to handle which vs. that.
Which and that both introduce dependent clauses (that is, a group of words that on its own does not create a complete sentence).
Which introduces clauses that are unnecessary to complete the main idea of the sentence, but rather add on more information; these are always set off with a comma and followed by a comma if necessary:
She ate an apple, which was red.
That introduces clauses that contain necessary information to fully convey the main idea of the sentence and are not set off by commas:
She spent the money that her grandmother gave her on balloons and candy.
Which = nonessential, use commas
That = essential, no commas
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April 14, 2011
Ohio state legislators make their case for death penalty abolition
As detailed in this local article, which is headlined "2 Democrats seek end to Ohio death penalty; Racial, geographic inequities cited as strikes against it," Ohio's relative success with the machinery of death is not stopping a few legislators from making the case for turning off the machine. Here are the specifics:
Less than 24 hours after Ohio's third execution of the year, two lawmakers argued yesterday that capital punishment should be abolished to save money and remedy racial and geographic disparities about who is executed and who isn't.
Democratic state Reps. Ted Celeste of Grandview Heights and Nickie Antonio of Lakewood, sponsors of House Bill 160, testified before the Ohio House Criminal Justice Committee that a 2007 American Bar Association study found that people who killed a white person in Ohio were nearly four times as likely to get a death sentence as offenders whose victims were black. Further, although Ohio's black population is about 12.5 percent, 55 percent of those on Death Row are black. "One wrongful conviction, and someone is put to death for something they didn't do," Celeste said. "How do you live with that?"
The hearing was held the day after Clarence Carter, 49, of Hamilton County, was lethally injected for murdering Johnny Allen in 1988 when both men were incarcerated in the Hamilton County jail annex. It was the third execution of 2011 and 44th since 1999.
The abolishment proposal quickly ran into a buzz saw of Republican opposition. "I'm really concerned about all this discussion of race," said Rep. Danny Bubp of West Union, a former judge. "It offends me to say that a prosecutor ... is going to do things differently because of race."
Rep. Bill Coley, R-West Chester, likewise rejected the argument that there are flaws and inequities in how the death penalty works in Ohio. "I think sometimes there's evil people, and we need to eradicate them from the face of the Earth," he said.
In the past two years, Ohio has been second only to Texas in the number of executions. The state is on pace for a modern record 10 executions this year after putting eight men to death in 2010.
Geography is also an issue, the bill sponsors said. Although 60 Ohio counties have no one on Death Row, five -- Cuyahoga, Hamilton, Franklin, Lucas and Summit -- account for 56percent of all death sentences.
In terms of cost savings, Celeste and Antonio said a study in Maryland concluded that a life-without-parole sentence costs taxpayers about $1.1 million compared with an average $3 million to pursue a death-penalty case. They estimated, based on Maryland's figures, that Ohio has spent $590 million in pursuing death penalty cases in the past three decades.
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On an historic night of high drama that bore witness to the end of Fedor Emelianenko's remarkable 10 year undefeated reign at the very top of the sport of mixed martial arts, it's Strikeforce and M-1 Global who may have lost the most.
Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker had in fact predicted before the fight that just such a result may take place, warning reporter's not to take Werdum lightly.
Whether he genuinely believed it or was just voicing his paranoia is hard to say. You certainly couldn't blame him if it was the latter as things seemed to be going a little too smoothly heading into this fight.
Strikeforce champ Alistair Overeem was back in the fold and calling for a fight with the Russian, while M-1 Global finally seemed willing to discuss the possibility of such a fight taking place. It was set to be the biggest fight in the history of the promotion and perhaps be the perfect platform for a foray into the pay-per-view market.
That's where Werdum stepped in, and sixty nine seconds after the bell sounded sent Strikeforce's best laid plans straight into the trash-can.
They are now left promoting a Werdum Vs Overeem title fight which is not pay-per-view worthy, and CBS will also be bidding a hasty retreat from any talk of a third outing on network television for the promotion.
It's not the end of the world for the promotion. Fedor still has one fight left on his contract and there will be a lot of interest in seeing whether he can get back on track again, particularly amongst the hardcore fan-base.
So much of Fedor's success has been built around his unbeaten record though, and with that mystique now gone it will now be a tougher task to market the enigmatic fighter to a casual audience.
It's a tough break for Strikeforce who have always been short of genuine star power. Former UFC fighter Dan Henderson had been brought in to help in that regard but he didn't perform well in the cage or in the ratings, while Gina Carano is currently embarking on a film career and has given no indication of having a desire to return to the cage.
Meanwhile M-1 Global will also be licking their wounds after this result. They have essentially built their company around Fedor and his unparalleled record so this is a particularly crushing blow for them.
They've used his success to leverage themselves into co-promotional deals and demand vast sums of money from those who wish to acquire his services, but though he's still a superstar of the sport, there's no doubt that Fedor's value, and as a result M-1 Global's, has dropped significantly overnight.
Their handling of Fedor and strong-arm negotiation tactics has won them few fans in recent years and their decision to put all their eggs into one basket may well now come back to haunt them.


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Willie Howard is a freelance writer and licensed boat captain. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com
Below is former Post reporter Willie Howard covering the City of Lake Worth election beat in 2009. Use this link and see if you can spot former Mayor Jeff Clemens, now State Senator Clemens.
|By the way, Mr. Howard must be just as mystified as everyone else the Post is not reporting anything at all about the Blueway Trail project.
Anyhow, below are two excerpts from The Coastal Star datelined May 3rd. To read the entire story by Mr. Howard, which includes news about this year's Lake Worth Lagoon Fishing Challenge, the STAR tournament, upcoming events, and the "Tip of the month" use this link. Without further ado:
Anglers fishing around the islands of the central lagoon can catch snook, mangrove snapper, barracuda, sheepshead and small bait fish along with the occasional redfish and spotted sea trout.
Restoration islands near the Lake Avenue Bridge include the Snook Islands project, [emphasis added] completed in 2005 (and later expanded); the two Grassy Flats islands on the east side of the lagoon near the Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course; Bryant Park Wetlands islands south of the bridge near Lake Worth's Bryant Park; and the Jewel Cove project southeast of the bridge across from Lake Worth Beach.
To date, the county has overseen 49 environmental restoration projects in the Lake Worth Lagoon, the 20-mile-long estuary that stretches from Ocean Ridge to North Palm Beach.
and. . .
Creating a place for paddling, fishing and nature observation is a side benefit of the restoration work. The Snook Islands Natural Area features a boardwalk and gazebo overlooking the mangrove islands, educational kiosks, day-use boat docks, a fishing pier and a kayak launch on the northwest side of the Lake Avenue Bridge.
and. . .
Least terns nest on the Grassy Flats islands.
That's significant because least terns had never been found nesting on the ground in Palm Beach County until the Grassy Flats islands were completed in 2015. Previously, the threatened terns nested on the flat roofs of department stores and warehouses, where the nests were not likely to be disturbed.
Ten pairs of least terns nested on the beach at Grassy Flats in 2015; another 31 pairs nested there last year. Because of bird nesting, paddlers and other boaters are not allowed to stop and walk around on the restoration islands.
Thank You for the wonderful news about our little City!
Do you remember former Post reporter Willie Howard? If not, learn more below about the history of Post beat reporters here in the little City of Lake Worth. If you're new to the City of Lake Worth you may have learned by now elections in this City can be very entertaining. However, it's nothing compared to years like 2008 and 2009. For example, what happened to former mayor René Varela:
"No Dolphin Dealer Mayor for Lake Worth". Please note: This is not a joke. An actual protest outside the Lake Worth Playhouse.
|Remember Lona O'Connor who first reported about The Cottages of Lake Worth? Beat reporter Chris Persaud who won several prestigious journalism awards? Learn more using this link.


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Ask any wedding planner and they will tell you that the wedding table centerpiece is one of the key elements of a wedding venue decoration. Surprisingly, it is also one of the elements most difficult to decide upon! It does not have to just decorate the wedding guests' tables and match the wedding theme. It needs to also create a welcoming ambiance and bring people together around the table.
Balance and originality – this is the unbeatable combination and key to having a most attractive wedding table centerpiece! Balance is all about the right decorative items arranged in the right esthetic way, and the right size of the entire composition. Here, however, we are going to talk about originality.
In most cases, the centerpieces on the wedding tables are vases with flowers. Beautiful as this option may be, it unfortunately lacks much originality and often totally disregards balance. What we are offering to your attention in this article are 10 all natural wedding centerpiece ideas of highly original concept and achieved perfect balance.
1. Out of the woods: A plate of natural tree bark offering the mystical beauty of the woods through a fine composition of green moss, antlers, twigs and gold-painted deer figurines. It is a beautiful wedding table centerpiece but also a great conversation piece, bringing people together in charming rustic ambiance.
2. Farm to table: An original composition featuring a rich Cornucopia of fresh farm products like Swiss chard, cherries, artichokes, radishes, squash and lettuce, dipped in the aromas of fragrant herbs and wildflowers. Edible, too!
3. Fresh & Green: A stunningly beautiful in its simplicity wedding table centerpiece composition of a modest transparent glass vase filled with freshness and beauty – green apples topped by a small bouquet of tender white flowers. Less is more!
4. Rustic charm: A beautiful DIY centerpiece featuring a handcrafted wooden flower box filled with fresh low-grow meadow plants.
5. Wild memories: A wedding centerpiece composition built entirely of all natural items like stones arranged in cairns, tree leaves, and decorated tree slabs – all being 'souvenirs' from the wedding couple's hiking adventures.
6. Glitter glam: An original DIY centerpiece, featuring natural feathers with their tips covered in sparkling glitter of various colors, and beautifully arranged standing upright on a long wooden block.
7. When life gives you lemons… : Make yourself a beautiful wedding table centerpiece! A transparent glass ball vase is filled with slices of juicy fresh lemon. To sweeten things up, the composition is topped with fragrant roses.
8. Nature in miniature: Stylish décor item composed of terrariums built in tall glass vases and featuring bonsai-size cactuses. The glass composition beautifully reflects the sparkling light of a few white candles placed around.
9. Aloha kâua!: Translates from Hawaiian as: "Greetings! Let there be friendship and love between us!" In the spirit of the beautiful Hawaiian welcoming tradition, here is a charming wedding table centerpiece built as a garland of fresh exotic flowers, winding along the table. The composition is styled up with small fruits and fragrant tea lights.
10. Prickly beauty: A beach wedding table centerpiece, featuring tender prickly flowers arranged in a colorful bouquet in a pineapple 'vase'. For a softening effect, the bouquet includes a couple of peonies and tulips.


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Africa is experiencing a perfect storm of young people, maturing education systems & business start ups, and growing mobile phone services and use. Disrupt Africa highlights the most potential startups to watch in 2017 and listed among them is Instabug.
Launched in 2012, Egypt's Instabug isn't exactly new to the scene. However, 2016 saw the startup up its game, come out of a four-year beta phase, and make some serious waves. Instabug allows users to offer feedback from within
apps to report bugs and issues with the product.
Tunisia's RoamSmart's solutions launched in 2012 aim to assist mobile operators to manage their roaming businesses more efficiently; helping operators to optimise workflows and monetise existing roaming sources through an automated data reporting and analysis platform.
Kenyan career development startup Fuzu only launched in late 2015 provides a one-stop career development platform, which aims to allow users to learn new skills and find jobs regardless of their levels of education. The platform provides career counselling, learning solutions and information about open positions and industry updates, providing support and guidance at different stages of user's career.
Tanzania's Jamii is our next tip from East Africa. Launched in January 2015, Jamii offers a mobile micro-health insurance product for the low income and informal sector. The startup has built a mobile policy management platform that performs all the administration activities of an insurer, and allows users to access cheap insurance via USSD. All the startups indicate that Africa is on its way to major global innovations and transformations. Read More


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Advisory: Multiple location bar spoofing vulnerabilities
CVE 2010-2751: SSL spoofing with history.back() and history.forward()
Announced: July 20, 2010
Reporter: Jordi Chancel
Impact: Moderate
Products: Firefox, SeaMonkey
Fixed in: Firefox 3.5.11 – Firefox 3.6.7 – SeaMonkey 2.0.6
Security researcher Jordi Chancel reported that
the location bar could be spoofed to look like a secure page when the
current document was served via plaintext. The vulnerability is
triggered by a server by first redirecting a request for a plaintext
resource to another resource behind a valid SSL/TLS certificate. A
second request made to the original plaintext resource which is
responded to not with a redirect but with JavaScript
history.back() and
will result in the plaintext resource being displayed with
valid SSL/TLS badging in the location bar.
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–Security Researcher Jordi Chancel


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When it comes to creating new products, services, business
models and the like or developing existing ones as well as problem
solving, we need to generate ideas and think about possible
solutions. However, we are often getting stuck when trying to come
up with something new and innovative as humans naturally try to
think in a logical way. More creative ways of thinking may help to
generate ideas we would not have conceived when sticking to our
usual thinking patterns. There are hundreds of creative thinking
techniques out there that require a rather lateral way of thinking.
If they are applied in the right manner, they provide efficient
support to problem solving as well as idea generation and
Before delving into the differences between vertical and lateral thinking as well as several creative thinking techniques, let me start with some interesting thoughts on creativity of Isaac Asimov, a well-known American Science Fiction author and professor of biochemistry at the Boston University.


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There should be no question that the responsibility for Scotland's agricultural policy should remain anywhere else other than with the Scottish Parliament – that was the clear message to farmers from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon yesterday.
Speaking at NFU Scotland's national conference in Glasgow she said: "Anything else would not be grabbing powers from Europe but grabbing powers from the Scottish Parliament and – that would be unacceptable."
Power should not be sucked away to the centre at WestminsterNicola Sturgeon
However, Sturgeon made it clear that such an approach did not preclude some areas being covered by a UK-wide framework, arguing that the fundamental point was that the decision should be made north of the Border.
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"Even in an independent Scotland there would be areas where a UK-wide framework would make sense but the decision should be taken by the Scottish Parliament, not imposed – power should not be sucked away to the centre at Westminster."
And, reflecting a theme running through the conference, she added: "I suspect we're in for a bit of a battle about some of this in the months ahead.
"It is really important to the industry, not just to the government, to make sure that the very distinctive needs of Scottish agriculture are not lost in a UK-wide approach."
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Sturgeon said that getting a "clear and unequivocal" statement that this power would remain would allow things to advance but stated that the UK government kept muddying the waters around the issue.
Backing up this line, rural economy secretary Fergus Ewing said that Westminster was now "derelict in its duty" in respect to providing clarity on the issue and providing a firm indication on the share of the future support budget which would come to Scotland.
Sturgeon also announced that the Scottish Government was set to conduct a wide-ranging review of its greening policy, overseen by the chairman of the country's independent regulatory review group, Professor Russel Griggs.
She said that the review would be much broader than simply looking at the current greening measures and would represent a fundamental re-examining of how greening policies could be taken forward while ensuring not only environmental benefits but also to ensure a profitable and sustainable future for agricultural businesses.
A number of changes to the current greening scheme were, however, also revealed. Under the proposals hedges will be able to count as a separate type of ecological focus area (EFA), agro forestry supported under the Forestry Grant scheme and located in temporary grass will count as EFA and the period during which maintenance of field drains was prohibited on EFA fallow would be shortened.
NFUS head of policy Jonnie Hall welcomed the news as a step in the right direction and said the union would work with officials on implementing the changes while seeking "further valuable improvements" to the scheme.
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Riding your bike to the Folk Art Market
The fastest and easiest way to get to the Folk Art Market is via bicycle. Bike Santa Fe will be providing valet bike parking for volunteers and attendees. We will be located on Camino Lejo just south of the main entrance. Cyclists should come into the Market from the south side of Camino Lejo, as the north side will be reserved for busses. From the downtown area, we recommend taking Don Gaspar to San Mateo, then left on San Mateo, which becomes Camino Lejo and will take the rider to the Bike Valet. From the RailRunner, take Alta Vista east from the South Capital Station, left on Galisteo, right on Malaga, right on Don Gaspar, left on San Mateo. From the south side, take the Arroyo Chamiso Trail to the Rail Trail, right on 2nd Street, which becomes San Mateo, which becomes Camino Lejo and brings you to the Market. From the southeast side of town, take Old Santa Fe Trail to East Zia, then right of Fort Union, which comes out on Corralles near Camino Lejo.


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The Rig Veda – A historical perspective
Most Indians, particularly Hindus, grow up learning that the Rig Veda is an ancient scripture that forms the foundation of the Hindu religion. Now, this is not entirely true.
The Rig Veda is a collection of over a 1000 hymns that praise Vedic Gods or invoke them as we would today through prayer. The primary Vedic Gods are Indra, Agni, Varuna, Asvins, Surya, Yama, etc. They were powerful Gods of that time, especially Indra, who is not only revered but feared as well. In Rig Veda 6.031.02, Suhotra Bhadravaja states:
Through fear of thee, O Indra, all the regions of earth, though naught may move them, shake and tremble.
All that is firm is frightened at thy coming, -the earth, the heaven, the mountain, and the forest.
But even the all powerful Indra is reduced to caricature in later times. Post Vedic mythology is full of tales where Indra is always at the feet of Vishnu seeking help and protection from his enemies, the Asuras. The fate of the other Vedic Gods is best left untold. With the Gods abandoned, so were the hymns that were sung in their praise or to invoke their goodwill.
Did nothing survive from the Rig Veda then and why does it continue to be an exalted book of scripture even today?
The ethos did.
The manner in which a puja (religious ritual) is performed in Hindu homes and temples is an astonishing continuum over several thousands of years. The Gods may have changed, but the manner in which they are propitiated has remained the same. Infact, the details of how to perform a puja or sacrifice form the basis of yet another Veda – the Yajur Veda, which probably is the first Standard Operating Procedure manual produced by mankind. The fire-cult and soma-cult owe their origins to pre-Vedic times and the former continues to be the centre-piece of every Hindu religious ceremony.
The Rig Veda hymns were composed by a family of seers, or Rishis (plural) as they were referred to in later times. The members of these families spread several generations and so did their compositions. (Refer to Composers of the Rig Veda for details). Many of these families established their own schools of religious and social practices which have over time gotten interwoven in the fabric of Hindu and Indian society. In that sense, the Rishis and their schools did form the bedrock of Hindu religion and much of Indian society, but not so much the literal content of the Rig Veda as is widely believed.
If you expect to find spiritual content in the Rig Veda, surprisingly, you will be a tad disappointed. That came much later in time, and peaked in the form of the Upanishads. The Upanishads emerged from a major churning during the Vedic ages, both through significant evolution and in large part even rejection of the Vedic principles.
So who were the Vedic people anyway? Let us start with the composers of the hymns. As mentioned above, they were families of seers, perhaps ten in number. The hymns were not composed at any one given point in time or during one decade, generation or century, but over several hundreds of years. Descendants within the family, preserved traditions and cultivated practices common to them all. However, they also chiseled away at their specific nuances, which with time amplified into major differences and were often causes of battles amongst them or was amongst their ruling patrons. The legendary differences and conflict between Rishi Visvamitra and Rishi Vasistha is but one example.
These seers were extremely powerful and rulers of the day were constantly counseled by them. Thus the seers of the Rig Veda were able to fashion the code of conduct and living of those times as well as shape history itself. These families are collectively referred to as Brahmins.
Contrary to the clichéd image that we have today of Brahmins as pious and meek, the members of these families were anything but docile. The major families such as the Bharadvajas and Brghus often interchanged roles between rulers and seers/priests/rishis. Several rulers forsake their janapadhas (kingdoms) and chose to become seers, while many seers ended up as rulers through adoption or surrogacy (practice of Niyoga). Those familiar with Indian mythology will recall Durvasa and Parashurama. Both distinguished members of the Atri and Brghu family respectively.
This leads to an interesting pointer – there were no clear demarcation between the ruling and priestly classes. Infact the (abhorrent) practice of the varna system (four fold stratification on Hindu society) is non-existent in the Rig Veda. Yes, there is constant mention of the word Dasa, but not Sudra or Vaisya. The context and purpose of the term Dasa is hotly debated amongst academia, and there is sufficient ground to suggest it did not mean Sudra as we understand today. Also the term Sudra and Vaisya are each mentioned just once in the entire Rig Veda and that too in Book 10, a book composed much later in time.
Now, back to the seer families – they were known to go to great lengths to protect their "wealth", here wealth was measured in terms of the number of cows that one owned. Verse after verse extols their mighty Gods to protect their wealth from their foes. That is not all, they were also known to want more of the wealth and on occasion may have usurped wealth that belonged to their foes.
Their foes were tribes outside of their common ancestry – such as the Dasas and Panis. Their foes were also rival tribes with common ancestry. The rival tribes were named after those who ruled at that time and these rulers patronized one of these seer families.
The Rig Veda repeatedly mentions five tribes that somehow can be construed as the protagonists of the book. Known as the descendants of Nahusa, the tribes are named after the sons of his son Yayati. They are: Yadu, Turvasa, Anu, Druhyu and Puru.
At various points in time, the 10 seer families were patronized by rulers belonging to the Puru tribe. Over time powerful descendants of Puru formed their own dynasties and spread over much of Northern India. First there were the Bharatas (from the legendary Bharata, hence Bharatvarsh, i.e. India), who then splintered into Kurus and Panchalas, the Kurus splinters leading all the way to the Kauravas and Pandavas of the Mahabharat. In any case, regardless of the dynasties, they patronized one of the 10 priestly families.
The Rig Veda then, is a book by the 10 families, for the 10 families and contains accounts of these 10 families and their interactions with those that they came in contact with. And by association, it is the book of the Bharatas, the Kurus and the Panchalas.
It is NOT a book of the religious and social practices or the history of all of the people and tribes that undoubtedly co-habited the lands between the Indus river to the West, the Ganges river in the East, the Narmada river and Vindhya mountains in the South, the grand Himalayas in the North and the once grand river Saraswati that was the center of the Rig Vedic people.
As one reads the Rig Veda, it becomes apparent that it is primarily a book of hymns and prayers, written or better still composed by the seer families. But interspersed amongst these hymns are nuggets that tell us about their lives and times.
A careful reader will realize that the Rig Veda is about these people and the tribes that they were a part of. Their likes and dislikes. Their customs and traditions and their preference to those who agreed with them and their dislike for those that did not. Their battles and wars for wealth, water, survival and power.
To exalt the book as divine and then deride it would be patently unfair – it has been done in some quarters. It is an account of the trials and tribulations of a people just like you and me. A people who inhabited the land that is India in the days that the Saraswati was a mighty river and then just as the river was forgotten as it dried in the sands of a desert, they too were in the sands of time.


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elespee eloheem, also known as Sasquatch or gorilla hands, is purportedly an ape-like creature with origins in Newark, New Jersey; now inhabiting forests and swamps in the gulf coast, Mississippi delta region; specifically New Orleans.
Both the scientific community and popular culture as a whole consider him to be ether a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax, or a ghost of the golden age of hip hop, rather than a real creature. Scientific consensus does not support the posited existence of megafauna cryptids such as elespee, because climate and food supply issues would make such purported creatures' survival in reported habitats unlikely.
Nevertheless, elespee eloheem is one of the more famous examples of a cryptid within cryptozoology and an enduring legend; and can often be spotted in and around the New Orleans area on many summer nights. A small minority of accredited scientists profess the view that evidence collected of alleged elespee encounters warrants evaluation and testing. Until that time, judgments must be made upon the documented evidence that can already be readily accessed.


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Select a format for the calender in the Birthdays widget.
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Having attended SXSW in 2013, I was asked for some tips by a couple of people making the trip this year. Some of the advice is aimed at filmmakers / multi-platform creators whose work is in the program, whereas the rest could apply to anyone attending, but I thought I'd put it out there so anyone can make the most of it.
Planning / Self-Promotion
This section is primarily aimed at filmmakers, or anyone who wants to get networking / business opportunities out of attending.
– Go to http://schedule.sxsw.com/
– Once you sign in to the SXSW website you can fill out a profile and message people to contact them. You can search by where they are attending from, or for keywords (company names etc). It's a good way to plan some of your meetings in advance.
– Go to http://mentor.sxsw.com/ and read all of the mentor bios, then set up mentor sessions with the people you want to meet. I think you can pre-register for up to 2 sessions per badge, but if you have additional people you want to see, go to the venue in the morning and see if there are any cancellations or gaps. The volunteers will often let you do more if there are spaces.
– You can look at who is speaking at all of the sessions at this link (http://schedule.sxsw.com/?
– Hang out in the filmmaker lounge to meet and network with other filmmakers.
– Take small giveaways relating to your film/app that you can hand out to people you meet (and help them remember you). We took Wastelander Panda badges, but even something like postcards of the film poster with your screening times printed on them are great.
– Take business cards! Last year you could order free cards as a delegate through moo.com. They were branded with their name and SXSW, but a lot of people had them, and you could customise them with images from your film and your own text (e.g. contact details or screening times) to hand out – which saves paying for printing! I think you had to log in to the SXSW website and select the offer to get them – then you can either pay for postage or pick them up for free once you get to Austin.
– There are a lot of spaces (glad-wrapped posts) for taping posters, especially around the Convention Center. If you want to get attention, print up some A3 (or larger) posters. There are a LOT, so if it doesn't go against the vibe of your film (or even if it does) I'd recommend something that stands out (e.g. black on fluoro). Again, don't forget your screening/session times. Tip: have enough to potentially do it a second time if people cover yours up with theirs.
Food / Drinks / Entertainment
– There is a Mexican place (Micheladas) across the street from the Convention Center that does frozen margaritas and you get free corn chips and salsa if you order drinks. They also do Mexican meals. They have a courtyard and a rooftop and it's a nice way to escape the madness for a little bit.
– You NEED to eat the following things:
* Barbecue. We ate at IronWorks near the Convention Center, which has a display of people who have eaten there, including both Obama and Bush, but there are plenty of options and everyone has their favourites. Moose Knuckle pub is also good for a quick introduction to BBQ (in a soft taco) between conference sessions, rather than the longer experience at an actual BBQ restaurant.
* Beef Brisket (fits into the above category)
* Queso (essentially a cheese dip, but sooooo good). Different everywhere you go, but all versions are great.
– If you walk down 6th Street and look through the windows of bars, you'll find the one with long tables covered in sawdust with puck-like things on the tables. Go in and play this game – even if you don't know the rules, it's a great way to meet people who do. (Networking!)
– Go to the opening night and closing night parties and anything with free food and drink. Go to the tents giving out free drinks. Walk around the Convention Center or 6th Street and make the most of all the free food being handed out by sponsors. You can avoid paying for most of your meals if you want/need to.
– Eat at the food trucks.
Practical Tips
– Arrive a day early if you can to catch up on sleep, register, figure out where wall the venues, get a sim card and plan further (now that you know how everything relates).
– Go to Wholefoods. It's the first ever Wholefoods store that existed, and is a pretty amazing supermarket experience if you've never seen one before.
– If you're from overseas and want/need a local sim card, the ONLY place we could find to get them (after going to 3 other phone stores) was AT&T, directly across the road from Wholefoods. Make sure you take an unlocked phone. This was also the place where we made our first few friends (amongst all of the international attendees who also needed sim cards).
– Popular film screenings (especially with big name actors/directors) have huge lineups – get there early.
– Wear comfortable shoes and don't carry too much stuff around all day. If you're staying outside the main downtown area, don't expect to go back to your hotel between leaving in the morning and whenever you get home at night.
– Downtown and all of the official venues are really easy to get between, either walking, on the free shuttles or in the Chevrolet taxis (through the Catch a Chevy promotion).
– Cross the river to South Congress for shopping in the more quirky stores (plus an entire store of cowboy boots).
– Get lots of free t-shirts to give to people back home. Everyone gives away random stuff in the street.
– There is free wifi in most of the SXSW venues, Wholefoods and a lot of cafes.
– Have a drink on the balcony at TGI Fridays (in the Radisson) at sunset to see all of the bats fly out from under the bridge.


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Zone Startups India To Launch Slew Of Products Next Year
MUMBAI: Startup accelerator Zone Startups India will launch two new accelerator programmes in digital inclusion, smart cities and Internet of Things space (IoT), early next year.
"We are going to launch two accelerator programmes in digital inclusion and smart cities and internet of things areas starting early next year," Ajay Ramasubramaniam, director of Zone Startups India told reporters here.
The programmes will be for a duration of six months and have about 6-8 participants each, he added.
"These are areas where a lot of action is expected, and there are many startups innovating in this sector," he added.
The programmes will receive operational funding from the Department of Science and Technology.
Zone Startups is a joint venture company between Toronto-based Ryerson Futures, and BSE Institute, a subsidiary of BSE India.
Ramasubramaniam said, besides running its own accelerator programme, it manages other accellerator programmes like Barclays Rise, Axis Bank's Thought Factory, as well as other corporate innovation programmes, which help it in being self-sustainable.
The accelerator also runs the Next BIG Idea programme along with the government of Ontario, Canada, to help Indian startups with potential to set up operations and scale in North America.
"This is the fourth year of the programme, and so far we have soft-landed over 17 startups in North America," he said.
Six Indian startups who have won the contest this year, will spend two weeks at Ryerson University's incubator, DMZ.
Google, HDFC BankBSE -1.47 pct and TCSBSE -0.89 pct are the industry partners for the Next BIG Idea contest.
This year, Zone Startups conducted roadshows across 12 cities for the Next BIG Idea contest and got 389 applications, Ramasubramaniam said.
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