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What? Of course it's a battle being depicted. Over six billion people died before the first frame, and the last frame shows entire worlds at stake in a contest of galactic proportions. Sounds like a battle to me. And it's got map content - in several places. Worlds of map content.
All these are from Flickr, under Creative Commons attribution licenses that permit remix (alteration), or in the case of the blue marble views, are public domain NASA photos.
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Blue marble, NASA
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Floating, credit to Little Sadie
Bag of marbles, credit to just.Luc - Luc De Leeuw
more blue marble views - NASA
handful of glow, credit to Vampress Remenyke
Monochromatic marbles, credit to koocbor - Rob
Giant marble, credit to photojenni - Jenni Douglas
Shooter, credit to jagrap - Robert Patton
Very cool concept.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
I think this already has my vote based on the concept alone!
I love the concept, but I am unconvinced that I can consider it a map. ;-)
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Ghoraja Juun, my largely stagnated campaign setting.
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Yes, a bit better. Put the "You're on Eliot" line between the last 2 pics, that would make the last image more clearly his battle plan.


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text: Nation�s Triathlon September 13, 2009I had a good omen on my way down to DC for bike racking� I heard a new song that I really like on the radio and it worked � I had a great event and got a PR by 20 minutes over last year. I heard the same song on my way home� it was doubly satisfying. Hey if it helps - it is good by me.I had to make 3 separate trips into DC for this one event due to conflicts with my daughters� game schedules. Early Friday for packet pickup/required meeting; late Saturday for bike racking and a great pre-race pasta party with tri-friends up in Potomac; and then of course very early race day. Getting into DC is not an easy task � getting out seems even harder!!! Dealing with the logistics of the The Nation�s Triathlon does take extra time but I thought it was worth it. A race in DC does have some benefits: I enjoyed walking in the dark to the transition area early on race morning - I passed by the Lincoln Memorial and it was so impressive seeing the statue all brightly lit up. The contrast with the darkness was awesome. Then on my way back after the race I looked over and saw all the American flags flying around the Washington Monument. NICE! They made a lot of improvements to this race from last year�like moving the finish close to transition but the atmosphere of the race was definitely different. I was wondering if the Nation�s tri might be growing too quickly.Since we didn�t have a MMTC tent it was very hard to find other club members in the huge, crowded swim waiting area � I think there were supposed to be 19. (Although, I am not sure where they would have placed our club tent � I didn�t see any). I did catch up with Mark Yost and hung out with him until �brunch� when our waves were finally lining up - which was cool since I met him last year at this event. Also ran into Deb Taylor and Jeanine Murphy-Morris. I actually was in Jeanine�s wave so I was near her at the start of the swim, the middle of the bike ride and at the run out. (I had met her last year at Nation�s tri too) After today, I appreciate our local Columbia race and other supported tent events so much more; it really adds a lot to an event having a place to hang out and meet up with other club members. (Can�t wait to volunteer at the E-man tent next year)Swim: 37:53The water felt nice and cool. Sighting during the first half was easy� just shoot for the arches of the Memorial Bridge. Sighting after the turn around was impossible due to the glare of the sun. I just followed swimmers� caps until I was right in the vicinity of the finish line dock. I was totally surrounded by white caps by the time I was at the bridge� those 50 and above men in the next wave were quick! It is interesting what you think about while on the swim. I realized that my next triathlon was going to be Lake Placid. Oh my! I better enjoy this Olympic distance while I could. My last years swim was a few seconds quicker and I thought this swim seemed longer� but that doesn�t mean anything.Bike: 1:24:36I did six minutes faster than last year� but I had a hybrid bike last year so I certainly hoped so! There were tons of people on the road for the bike portion so I spent a lot of time passing folks on the left. But that is nicer than being all alone like I was at Eagleman! The ride is pretty flat � perfect for aero bars and fantastic with no traffic to deal with. Two weeks ago I rode the route with friends and the traffic was crazy � so it is best to just wait for race day! I think the ride is the most fun part of this race � but some of the roads were rougher than last year.Run 1:00:52This is where I made most of my time up from last year. Last year was brutally hot � today�s weather was near perfect. I stayed to the left for most of this run. I find that I am too influenced by the pace of what ever group I am running near & I wanted to run my own race. It helped. My favorite part is always the end � It is the only time I feel like I run fast. I passed lots of folks in front of me in the last few hundred yards. I wanted to make it a 60 minute run. Close enough! They called my name out and that was cool.After the race I met up with friends from the pasta dinner and for the second year in a row Jeanine and I saw Mark Yost get his award for his age group. This time around we were NOT surprised!I didn�t feel like my race was over. Getting out of DC was crazy � too many things were going on Sunday afternoon and I hit a lot of closed sections. 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The video features FC Barcelona's first team players in the promotional campaign for USAP's first match in Barcelona
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2. In March 2010 a $500 loan was taken out to assist him. This one was from another bank. In June 2010 another $500 was taken out to assist him in bringing his daughter down to visit for the summer. I asked him point blank in from of the loan rep "If we break up how do I know that you are going to pay this loan off?" He stated in front of her "No matter what happens I will pay the loan. I know it's my responsibility. I have spoken to this loan rep and she remembers this conversation very well.
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I'm an oil painter living in Eugene, Oregon. It's gorgeous here, but it rains a LOT - which perfectly suits my passion for indoor painting. I love my cosy home-studio and the endless possibilities I find to paint there - from eggs to floral bouquets or my morning cup of coffee. I always paint from life. The only photos I use in my work are the ones you see on this blog!
I was born in Ohio in 1979, and received a BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art in 2001. My major was Illustration, and while I loved the challenge of conceptual and narrative art, I found myself spending most of my time painting. At the time, my secret dream was to become a portraitist.
After a summer abroad in Israel, I painted my first serious still lives as a reflection upon the precious souvenirs from my journey.
I got married in my mid-twenties, and shortly thereafter we decided to move to Oregon. It was a big change, and a great one. Once we were settled, I knew it was time to begin making art again. And then I found Daily Painting.
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Wyoming has numerous places with stunning views complete with several magnificent sites to behold all within our wide open range.
Experiencing Wyoming's outdoors means fresh air, bluebird days and starry nights — the perfect backdrop for the ideal Wyoming getaway. Nature awaits at places like Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Devils Tower National Monument, Bighorn National Forest and more.
With so many amazing things to do and places to go, it's hard to cram it into just a few days. Roaming through one of Wyoming's majectic state forests or driving along one of the spectacular scenic byways are just a few of the ways you can begin to explore Wyoming's natural lands.


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Plane-based (2-D) camera calibration is becoming a hot research topic in recent years because of its flexibility. However, at least four image points are needed in every view to denote the coplanar feature in the 2-D camera calibration. Can we do the camera calibration by using the calibration object that only has three points? Some 1-D camera calibration techniques use the setup of three collinear points with known distances, but it is a kind of special conditions of calibration object setup. How about the general setup—three noncollinear points? We propose a new camera calibration algorithm based on the calibration objects with three noncollinear points. Experiments with simulated data and real images are carried out to verify the theoretical correctness and numerical robustness of our results. Because the objects with three noncollinear points have special properties in camera calibration, they are midway between 1-D and 2-D calibration objects. Our method is actually a new kind of camera calibration algorithm.
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Marc Marquez is doing everything right! He was even more impressive today than in the first races, cruising with caution during the first part of the race and attacking everybody to get to the podium. Still and paradoxically, MotoGP once again seems easier to master than Moto2 - Marquez seemed to have more trouble adapting and fighting for victories with the wet while in Moto2!!!


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I stumbled out of Hellboy II: The Golden Army feeling as if my imagination had eaten too much. In terms of sheer spectacle and visual invention, Hellboy II is an absolute knockout, frames stuffed with bizarre creatures and mystic runes and arcane weaponry and wondrous design. And yet, Hellboy II has more than a little heart to it; it's scrappy and self-aware, and never out of touch with what it is. Adapting Mike Mignola's post-superhero retro-styled comic series Hellboy for the second time, writer-director Guillermo del Toro corrects some of the mistakes of the first Hellboy, makes a few mistakes of its own, picks itself up, keeps going. And, on the way, knocks the back of your eyeballs for a loop. As our British friends say, Hellboy II: The Golden Army does what it says on the tin: It is a sequel about a character named Hellboy (Ron Perlman), and yes, an army of golden warrior-robots is involved, the mystical weapon of mass destruction that the elf-prince Nuada (Luke Goss) hopes to seize control of so as to wage war against humanity ... I know I'm getting ahead of myself. Then again, so does Hellboy II, right from the jump, and it doesn't slow down. And it's exactly that giddy, goofy momentum that keeps Hellboy II moving. You get the epic war at the dawn of time between man and the mystic world shown with stop-motion as your prologue; later, you get a drunken sing-a-long to the strains of Barry Manilow. You get a big-finish fight scene that feels like a big-finish fight scene, but you also get a Three Stooges sequence played out with paranormal powers. Did you see the first Hellboy? Yeah, well, this is like that one, but better. And Universal (which bought the rights to the franchise from Sony) is making a leap of faith that everyone who brought a ticket to Hellboy or saw it on cable will want to see a second installment on the big screen.
If you want to see Hellboy II -- and again, I'd wager that if you haven't seen Hellboy, you're not reading this -- you'll enjoy it, and you should see it on the big screen. There are moments here that stun and amaze, like when our hero Hellboy (played with the right combination of manly presence, tough-guy machismo and self-deprecating humor by Ron Perlman) leads his team of paranormal trouble-shooters to a secret under-place called the troll market, hidden beneath the shadows of many worlds and located under the Brooklyn Bridge. The troll market may be the most dizzying overdose of fantastic place-setting since Luke and Obi-Wan cruised into Mos Eisley and walked into the cantina.
But, to del Toro's credit, you also get a sense of the people in that place, too. The tour of the troll market sequence not only follows evil Prince Nuada's trail as he seeks the crown that will control the golden army, but also as Hellboy and his girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair) talk about how they have to talk. (Hellboy knows she's upset, but can't figure out why; Liz, a pyrokinetic paranormal investigator, Hellboy's girlfriend and team-mate, has some big news. ) At the same time, fish-man-walking Abe Sapien (Doug Jones) is tailing a mysterious blonde -- who happens to be the sister of Prince Nuada, Princess Nuala (Anna Walton), who's fleeing with the final part of the shattered crown her brother will need to make whole before he can raise the golden army against man's plague. ...
Poppycock? Yes, and well-played. Hellboy II's got flesh-eating fairies, gods and monsters, crypto-fascist kung-fu elves and clockwork killing machines lit with eldritch fire; it knocks off cop shows and Victorian adventure tales and John Woo's Hard Boiled and gets in jokes like the news anchor who asks, inspired by Liz and Hellboy's relationship, "Inter-species marriage -- is it a threat to traditional marriage?" It has a cool new supporting character, the disembodied busy-body bureaucrat Johann Kraus (voiced by Seth McFarlane in mock-Teutonic tones out of Danny Kaye or Mel Brooks), who is as much a supporting character as he is cool and new.
The plotline and transitions are still a little lumpy, but less so than last time; the bad guys and their plan are far better defined, and drive the film far more firmly than Hellboy's faceless bland baddies. And del Toro and his effects team bring the freaky in every possible way; it has demon-on-robot fist-fight action and ravenous little scurrying terrors that go for your bones, first; it's got winged messengers of death and a verdant, violent earth elemental rising above the streets of Brooklyn. But even with that sensory overload and tumbling avalanche of ideas, you can't say that del Toro doesn't try, sincerely, to give you plot and character connections to string into a lifeline to get through the storm, or provide a little blinking moment of bizarre fun or style to light the way.
Is Hellboy II all sound and fury, signifying nothing, or, worse, nerdiness? Quite possibly, but it's got the heart that the slick Wanted lacks, the brute you can root for that The Incredible Hulk didn't quite give us, and more geeky slapdash fun than the shiny-fast Iron Man and a better mix of effective story and special effects than Speed Racer -- and if Hellboy II signifies nothing, well, at least there's a hell of a lot of it. Like all sequels, Hellboy II's a bit overstuffed, but I can't also say what you would lose; the fat provides a lot of the flavor. And I never felt transported to another world or invested in the characters past their four-color surfaces, even as del Toro's sights and wonders put me in a lookitthat! state of nerd-vana. And the finale sets up places to go for the series, even if it doesn't conclusively make us crave that; as much as del Toro's the only man for that hypothetical job, I'd rather see him making his own films, which is part of why I'm so unenthused by the prospect of his version of The Hobbit. I don't know if I need a Hellboy III, but Hellboy II feels like a summertime comic-book movie that doesn't want, or need, to be a blockbuster movie and instead simply and sincerely succeeds as a great matinee.
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The House of Representatives, the lower legislative house of the Philippines, has approved a bill seeking to protect the rights of internally displaced people in the country. The proposed Rights of Internally Displaced Persons Act of 2012 defines the state policy with regards to the provision of assistance and protection to people displaced by "armed conflict, generalised violence, violations of human rights, aggressive implementation of development projects and other man-made disasters" during all phases of displacement. As such the bill does not cover internal displacement caused by natural disasters.
Among the salient features of the bill are the criminalisation of arbitrary displacement, the provision of monetary compensation for lost or damaged property or for the death of family members, and the designation of the Philippines Commission on Human Rights (CHR) as the government's focal point for IDPs. The bill has now been filed at the Senate, for review by the Senate Justice and Human Rights Committee. Once both the House and the Senate agree on a common bill, it can be forwarded to the President who has then the power to sign it into law. However, earlier legislative attempts to strengthen IDP protection have failed to progress after being passed by the lower house.


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Are hospitals making us sick?
BY Sharon Labi Freelance Journalist
Five to ten percent of people who are hospitalised will pick up an infection, and some can be life threatening.
The last thing you want when you go into hospital is to get sicker. But infections are the most common complication of surgery in Australia, costing the health system millions of dollars, not to mention the pain and suffering of the patients who pick up the offending bugs. Some won't need any medication, others will need antibiotics and find themselves in hospital for longer and some will die.
In December, the Productivity Commission reported an estimated 180,000 cases of hospital-acquired infections in Australia each year, occupying almost two million bed days. But the commission's report also acknowledged that Australia lacks a robust system for data collection and some experts believe the figures grossly underestimate the problem.
Professor Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases specialist at the Australian National University, says five to 10 per cent of people who enter a hospital acquire an infection that they didn't have before they were admitted, and many are preventable. Preventable infections "Five per cent is a conservative figure, and if you consider that there are six million hospital admissions per year in Australia, that's a lot of people," he says.
"The only good news, depending on your perspective, is that most of these infections are relatively minor, such as a urinary tract or a superficial wound infection. The problem is there are quite a few infections that can be life-threatening if they enter the bloodstream." According to Professor Collignon's figures, at least 300,000 Australians - and up to 600,000 - pick up an infection in hospital each year. Health authorities were so concerned about the rate of hospital-acquired infections in this country that they introduced a hand hygiene initiative last year that is already having remarkable results.
Professor Lindsay Grayson, director of infectious diseases and microbiology at Austin Health in Victoria, is the director of Hand Hygiene Australia. Studies published in the Medical Journal Of Australia found a 50 per cent reduction in rates of potentially deadly golden staph or the bacteria-resistant MRSA after hand hygiene programs were introduced by Austin Health. "We would prefer [that there is] alcohol rub at the foot of every hospital bed, except in kids' or geriatric wards, where people might be confused, or at the entrance of every single room," Professor Grayson says. "It should be at arm's reach of the patient, and it's very important that the patient sees the healthcare worker using the alcohol rub before they are treated."
Professor Grayson says hand hygiene requires a cultural change by healthcare workers and participation by patients, where possible, to remind nurses and doctors to clean their hands. "Hand hygiene is, on all objective evidence, the single most effective infection control initiative undertaken in the last 30 years in Australia," Professor Grayson says. "The starting of the program and the cultural change is time consuming and requires particular focus, but the maintenance costs are equivalent to two-thirds of a Big Mac per admission." He says that even with start-up costs of between $1.2 million and $2 million, it's a small price to pay to halve the risk of golden staph in your bloodstream.
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At Austin Health, for $100 spent on hand hygiene, the hospital has saved between $200 and $300 on treating infections, Professor Grayson says. Professor Collignon agrees that a commonsense approach to hand hygiene is essential to cutting infection rates. "But if you're lucky, hand washing is done 50 per cent of the time, even if people are being observed," he says. "People need to accept that their hands are the instruments where these germs get transmitted, and we can do something about it.
Professor John Turnidge, director of microbiology and infectious diseases at SA Pathology in Adelaide and author of a recent study in The Medical Journal Of Australia, says authorities have become so focused on the resistant strain of staph that they have forgotten about the sensitive strain that responds to antibiotics, but still places a huge burden on the health system. Another bacteria Professor Turnidge says is also a growing problem is E. coli.
"The implications are that a patient will need aggressive antibiotic treatment and extra time in hospital. Sometimes they'll need surgical intervention to remove the infected device, and some patients will die," Professor Turnidge says. "The 20 per cent mortality rate is consistent with what we're seeing in other parts of the world." Even if healthcare professionals improved their hand hygiene and people were screened as they came into hospitals for resistant strains, management protocols were improved and surgery lists were better managed, hospitals would still have major infection problems, Professor Turnidge says.
Hand hygiene is a major component of infection. Other issues include the overuse of intravenous catheters that are often left in too long and can lead to infection. Inadequate staffing, a lack of hospital beds and moving patients from bed to bed also play a role in spreading bugs.Many believe publishing data on hospital infection rates and improving transparency will help change behaviour more quickly.
Health experts also want to empower patients and their families to ensure that they are not touched by a healthcare professional without seeing them wash their hands with soap and water or an alcohol rub. But they haven't worked out the best way to do that without being confronting or making the patient feel even more vulnerable. For their part, patients need to keep their hands clean to stop spreading infection from one part of their body to another.
Dr Marilyn Cruickshank, of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, says Australia lacks a system of measuring the number of infections in hospitals and that is something she is trying to address. The commission, which oversees the hand hygiene initiative, found hospital-acquired infections were a "major and growing issue in quality and safety of health care ... requiring urgent national consideration and action". "We would like to see a decrease of 30 per cent in the number of infections over the next three years as a result of the hand-hygiene program and new infection control guidelines that will be released by the National Health and Medical Research Council," Dr Cruickshank says.
Alcohol rub is quick and easy to use and more effective than having to find a basin and soap, she adds.Infections, many of them preventable, are spread from patient to patient via healthcare workers, the patients themselves and visitors. "If you're sharing a room, visitors get to know the patients in the beds next door. Don't touch their bedside; you don't know who might have an infection. Use common sense," Dr Cruickshank says.
The implications of acquiring an infection in hospital are huge, not just for the health system, but for the individual who may be struck down, inconvenienced or up for further surgery. And the impact often extends to the individual's personal life by preventing them from getting back to work or back home to care for family members.
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Associate Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, an expert in epidemiology and infectious disease control at the University of New South Wales, says immuno-suppressed patients, anyone with their skin breached by a cannula or from surgery, and the elderly, are at greater risk of infection. While suggesting that visitors don't sit on a patient's bed would be "neurotic in the extreme", patients need to mindful to wash their own hands, and should wear slippers or shoes in and out of bed, she says.
Patients can help themselves by helping the healthcare worker to remember their hand hygiene, and environmental cleaning could do with big improvements. "We've found that once you develop a whole new hospital, it can be contaminated with MRSA within six months, probably because of a lack of hand hygiene and cleaners not doing their job," McLaws says. "Environmental cleaning is part of the problem and part of the solution. The time and effort in monetary terms of improving hand hygiene and environmental cleaning is nothing compared to the cost of additional bed days, antibiotics and additional surgery."
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The Didinium/Paramecium relationship is a classic study in predator prey relations. Many students of protozoa have seen Didinium spear its prey using trichites, explosive threads that not only paralyze the prey, stopping its ciliary beat, but also secure it for engulfment. Didinium then expands its mouth and swallows the Paramecium. I had filmed this act several times without clearly showing how the actual engulfment of the prey (often larger than the predator) is achieved. Staining Paramecium with congo red allowed clear visualization of Didinium's "squeeze bulb" ingestion process. This observation is from The Biology of Protists DVD.
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Jennifer Hudson joins 'Smash'
Jennifer Hudson is joining Season 2 of Smash! For a multi-episode arc… She'll be playing Veronica, a Broadway star.
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Sacramento auto shop damaged in fire | News
SACRAMENTO - A fire damaged a longstanding auto repair center near the Arden area of Sacramento on Monday morning.
Spokesperson Rashawn Fulcher of the Sacramento Metro Fire Department reported that firefighters responded to a call of a fire at Chet & Cliff's Garage at 2025 Fulton Ave. around 2 a.m. and found flames and smoke billowing from the roof.
Firefighters immediately searched the garage and found nobody inside before beginning containment and ventilation efforts.
Thirty-four firefighters in total cooperated in the effort, minimizing the amount of structural damage and extinguishing the fire before it spread to neighboring businesses, said Fulcher .
According to firefighters on scene, Arson investigators called to the building determined the fire started in the shop's business office, but did not specifically state how the fire began.
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A liquid ring vacuum pump has a shaft mounted impeller positioned eccentrically to the centerline of a round pump body. The centrifugal action of the rotating impeller forces the service liquid out towards the periphery of the pump body forming the liquid ring.
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As the impeller rotates, the impeller blade immersion in the liquid ring increases reducing the volume between the liquid ring and the root of the impeller blade. The result is the compression of the gas mixture until it reaches the discharge port, located in the intermediate plate. The gas mixture exits through the discharge port.
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The vision or dream of PEG is that energy becomes a tool for sustainable and equitable development for all citizens. To realize this vision, PEG works on a Public Interest Paradigm of Energy for Development. Much of the conventional energy sector discourse focuses on financial viability and economic growth while neglecting institutions, governance, equity and sustainability. This situation is further exacerbated by the distortions caused by the influence of powerful vested interests and neglect of inter-sectoral linkages.
In order to realize its vision of energy becoming a tool for sustainable and equitable development for all, we strive towards the following broad goals:
The word 'Prayas' means 'focused effort'. Prayas is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation based in Pune, India working to protect and promote the public interest.
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Girish Sant Memorial Fellowships are awarded to encourage young researchers to imbibe his values and approach of high quality analysis, commitment to social equity and emphasis on policy impacts. Applications are invited from interested candidates to avail of fellowships to be awarded in 2016. Applications are invited from interested candidates to avail of fellowships up to June 3, 2016. Details of the fellowship
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ESMI provides evidence based feedback about the actual electricity supply quality - voltage and interruptions - experienced by consumers, through advanced data loggers deployed in urban and rural areas across the country. Visit ESMI portal at watchyourpower.org.
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Speaking at a tourism meet, FM Arun Jaitley, taking note of law and order problem, said, "One small incident of rape in Delhi was enough to cost of million dollars in terms of lower number of tourists. We have national responsibility and God has given us everything which tourists wants to see, we just have to catalyse that process and make sure of that we take right step."
Arun Jaitley was referring to the horrific December 16 Delhi gangrape in a moving bus that shocked the country and the world and led to months of unrest on the streets of the city.
The words created a backlash, with many expressing outrage at the insensitivity shown by the Finance Minister of India.
Later, at the event, advocating low tax regime, Arun Jaitley said if higher taxes are levied on the tourism industry, then there will be less tourists and lesser revenue collection.
"If tourism industry, state governments and the centre are loaded with higher taxes then we will have less tourists and lesser collection," he said at a Tourism Ministers conference here.
Hinting at the existing higher taxation on tourism sector, Arun Jaitley said, "Today, wealthy Indians are finding it cheaper to get their children married in Thailand than in Indian hotels. It's a hard reality."
Tour operators are demanding reduction in various taxes for long particularly exemption of service tax on packaged tours as the payment is made in forex.
Jaitley said the present government at the centre believes that "we are low taxation government not high taxation. If you leave more money at the hands of tax payers he would spend more. The economy expands more. If you levy lower taxes then products will be cheaper their saleability increases."
Seeking lower room rates and deduction in airfare, the Union Minister said, "This principle applies to airlines and hotels also. If our airline is going to be costlier, if hotels are going to be costlier in comparison to the rest of the world, our volume will never increase. Costly rooms rates means less tourists. Less tourists means lower revenue for the government. Higher taxation on tourism means less tourism. which means lower earning."
Highlighting the importance of tourism industry, he said "if India is to grow and Indian economy is to grow then tourism is certainly one of the low hanging fruits which is achievable."
Dubbing the tourism sector as one


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The High Ground Drifters have made a name for themselves as one of the only bluegrass bands in a jazz town. The six-year-old outfit developed out of a shared love of bluegrass music among the band's five members—Paul Williams, John Noble, Jeff Bagwell, Grant Ligon, and Greg Nichols—all residents of Mid-City.
"We met like bluegrass bands meet, sitting on someone's porch one night pickin'," guitarist Grant Ligon says. "We figured out that we all liked to play bluegrass, and we were the only people we knew that played bluegrass, so we decided we had to start a band."
After six years, one album, and a positive 2009 write-up in Rolling Stone stemming from an early gig at that year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the original five members are just hitting their stride.
"It's really a cool honor that Voodoo has gotten us to play, because they don't ever book bluegrass bands," Ligon says. "I think it's going to be us and the McCourys, and they're our idols."
But don't expect a string of twangy, country fried classics when the High Ground Drifters take the stage on Friday, October 28.
"We try to really honor the bluegrass tradition of taking music as a form and making it your own," Ligon says. "In our set at Voodoo, we're going to do some Jethro Tull, and some Pink Floyd, and some Fats Domino. We've got some oddities in the set that we work on for months and then we bring them out. I think the audience always enjoys them."
High Ground Drifters play Friday, October 28 at 1:15 p.m. on the Preservation Hall Stage.


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My car seems to run "cool", only heats up to 190 when stopped. Blows warm air but never hot. Brought the car to mechanic and they said it's the water pump. It would be a $1300 fix. Does that sound right? Would my car be over heating if that we're the case?
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- Thursday November 29th, 2012 :: 03:08 p.m. EST
Additional charges for driver involved Thanksgiving Day Accident
Police Officers with the Fayetteville Police Department have filed additional charges for the driver involved in the wreck at the intersection of Bragg Boulevard and Swain Street on November 22, 2012. Jeremy Banaka (23 years old) has been charged with Felony: Serious Injury by Motor Vehicle. This recent charge is in addition to the DWI he was charged with on November 22, 2012. Banaka was given a 5 thousand dollar unsecured bond for the recent felony charge.
Lavardis Whitman, who was struck by Banaka's vehicle, is still in critical condition at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.
Jeremy Banaka, 23 years old
100 block of Waterway Dr, Fayetteville NC
Charged with Felony: Serious Injury by Motor Vehicle
$5,000 unsecured bond
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Traffic Fatality (11/22/2012)
On November 22, 2012 at 12:27 am Fayetteville Police responded to the area of Bragg Boulevard and Swain Street reference to a traffic collision. Preliminary investigation indicates that a 1994 Chevrolet Cavalier was disabled and being pushed from Swain Street onto Bragg Boulevard to get it out of the roadway by the driver, Lavardis Whitman (22 years of age), of the 5500 block of Jackson Street, Hope Mills, NC and the passenger, Terekus Rogers (30 years of age), of the 3500 block of Torbay Drive, Fayetteville, NC. As the Chevrolet Cavalier entered Bragg Boulevard Mr. Whitman and the Cavalier was struck by a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer driven by Jeremy Banaka (23 years old) of the 100 block of Waterway Drive, Spring Lake, NC. Mr. Whitman was transported to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center with life threatening injuries. Next of kin has been notified for Mr. Whitman. Mr. Rogers received non-life threatening injuries. Mr. Banaka was arrested and charged with DWI. The investigation is ongoing and more charges could follow.
Fayetteville, NC Police Department
467 Hay St
Fayetteville, NC 28301
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I'm starting to debate if I need to rip up my man card or not. I've turned into the biggest sap on the planet.
Prime example: I just finished watching the movie Oblivion with Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman. Now if you don't want to know about the film I'd quite reading as there will be a few spoilers obviously, or this would be the shortest, most vague post ever.
To give a quick recap for those of you reading and not knowing what the movie was about. When you're introduced to Cruise's character, all you are told is he's a guy that works on these drones that patrol what is left of a destroyed Earth. The opening of the film gives a narration of what happened and gives some shots of landmarks and other things, very Planet of the Apes-ish or any post apocalyptic film. They all follow the same equation to give views that one quick thrill. Through the process of the film you learn everything Cruise thought he knew, and told us, was a lie. He keeps having these dreams, but feel like memories, and he keeps dreaming about this girl and he doesn't know why. Then suddenly *gasp* he finds the girl he was dreaming about and saves her *dramatic shock* and she ends up being his wife *say wha?!* You eventually learn that he (Cruise) is actually one of thousands of clones, yada yada yada, you know how it is it Scientology. Morgan Freeman gets to wear cool sunglasses, sport a nice white goatee, smoke a cigar and be all Morgan Freeman badass. You know, how he does. We also have the Kingslayer, Jaime Lannister himself stopping by to help Morgan Freeman, and from the looks of him, its right after Catelyn Stark releases him, so of course I was look for Brienne half this movie. Guess she got insinerated by one of the drones, I don't know.
So the resolution of the movie: Cruise's character makes the whole noble sacrifice to save the human race just like Uncle Eddie did in ID4, but also in the process saves his wife (there's a whole switch-a-roo), who he had just met and learned who she was, because he had his memory erased, cause he's a clone, but still has fragments of memories, you know, same old formula. So the movie ends with a narration from Cruise, and its been 3 years since he save the earth from HAL 9000's evil sister. We see his wife, with a small girl, obviously her and Cruise's character's daughter. Well just knowing this part I get sappy, but then they show another of the clones, who you are to assume also has these memory fragments so he recognizes his wife. The little girl points and asks her mommy who the man is, who is obviously her father (or a clone of her father. Honestly this film's clone crap is more convoluted than the Clone Saga from the Spider-Man comics) When the little girl asks who the man is, and then they show Cruise, who has a look of acknowledgement to his eyes, I seriously freaking teared up! I kid you not!!
And for all those asking, no I do not have a vagina, and yes I have checked. The last 2 minutes of a sci-fi film, admittedly not a bad sci-fi film, regardless of my description, made me tear up like a woman watching The Notebook. Obviously I need to go outside and chop some wood or go kill an animal or something just to compensate.
And to simplify the film more and compare it to the aforementioned Spider-Man Clone Saga: Peter Parker was an astronaut who was captured and cloned by Hal 9000's evil sister. We follow Ben Riley throughout the film as he learns the truth about everything, realizing his entire existence is a lie, and we end the film with Kaine finding the wife and child of Peter Parker.
The actual film looks stunning though, even if the story is a bit "eh" at times.


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Soft skills and business development:
Dr. K. Kuhathasan CEO: Cenlead
"My organisation is able to win institutional customers and influence
people in business, largely because of the interpersonal intelligence
and professional diplomacy of my people" said Managing Director and CEO
of Premium International Prasantha Kularatna.
"Premium International has a history of only ten years. But within
these ten years, we have penetrated the market and we are the market
leaders today. Our success is entirely due to the interpersonal
intelligence and professional diplomacy of our people", said Kularatna.
People with a higher degree of interpersonal relations
attract new customers to their organisation
Director, Elsuma Ltd. Capstran Lambert said, "One of the deepest
desires of human beings is the desire to be appreciated. The feeling of
being unwanted is hurtful".
"Sincere appreciation is one of the greatest gifts one can give to
another person. It makes a person feel important. The desire to feel
important is one of the greatest cravings in most human beings. It can
be a great motivator". "The biggest problem today is not stress, but the
feeling of being unwanted".
These comments highlight the importance and significance of
Interpersonal intelligence in business development.
Always winners
Professionals with a higher degree of interpersonal relations shine
well in an organisation. They understand, interact, and relate well with
others. Others, in turn, will usually consider them 'dependable'
responsible' and 'personable'. They perform well in teams and interact
successfully with customers. They are always winners! They always win
business deals!
Professionals with excellent interpersonal relations:
* Are able to interact well with people, are team players, are
responsible and dependable, have good social skills and move well with
* Can cope with work demands, effectively 'size up' and deal with
problem situations, are generally flexible, realistic, effective in
understanding these problem situations and competent at solving them.
* Can deal with stress, generally clam, rarely impulsive, and work
well under pressure.
* Enjoy work, have an optimistic, cheerful hopeful outlook and create
a healthy positive motivational work environment.
Personal Code
Be friendly and cheerful. Be positive in your interactions. Look for
the brighter side of everything, and don't unnecessarily burden others
with your problems or negative outlook:
Speak less than you listen. Remember that you have two ears and one
mouth and use them accordingly. Ask questions and listen.
Maintain a calm manner, remember that the way you say something is
more significant than what you say.
Keep an open mind and avoid defensiveness. Practise disagreeing
without being disagreeable. Seek mutual understanding, not a "victory"
based on arguments and conflict.
Maintain a balance between constructive criticism and praise. When
giving guidance, be sure it is constructive. Watch for opportunities to
give sincere praise and give it.
Keep others informed in a positive way. Share insights into potential
challenges and opportunities - but avoid promises. When you do make
commitments, be dependable.
Avoid gossip, negative comments about others, and spreading rumours.
Don't support or participate in unconstructive gossiping sessions behind
the back of others.
Be sensitive and considerate regarding the limitations, feelings and
anxieties of others.
Hold others in high esteem. Appreciate others as human beings with
personal feelings, including their need for self-esteem and recognition.
Discover your interpersonal intelligence
Interpersonal intelligence is defined as a "personal code of
organisational behaviour". Below is a list of 42 statements to discover
your interpersonal intelligence. Answer them "Yes" or "No".
I am always a patient listener than an eager speaker.
I am always positive rather than negative.
I am always enthusiastic rather than disheatning.
I am confident, adventurous and willing to take risks.
I am always ready to appreciate others.
I am always quick to admit my own mistakes.
I always motivate myself and others.
Criticism must be made in absolute privacy.
I like to have lots of variety in what I do.
I enjoy talking to people at social gatherings.
I have a systematic way of doing most things.
Preface criticism with a kind word or compliment.
I am a practical-minded sort of person.
I always begin my conversation in a friendly way.
I seldom suffer from feelings of stress.
It's better to get a job done than aim for perfection.
I like coming up with new ideas.
I am happy to make speeches in public.
I never indulge in gossip.
Criticise in a friendly manner.
I am cool-headed when under pressure.
I always give credit for what others have done.
Everybody feels that he is the most important person.
I enjoy socialising with large groups of people.
If I say will do something, I always do it.
People describe me as having good common sense.
Everybody craves for approval and recognition.
I'm good at getting people to do things.
I always get keyed up before important events.
I don't leave job's unfinished.
I am always cool, calm and confident.
I find it easy to put myself in someone else's position.
I'm a down-to-earth sort of person.
I take a relaxed view about most things.
I always get results from my team.
I never leave things to the last minute.
People often comment on how patient, I am.
I am always encouraging rather than obstructive.
I am always friendly rather than hostile.
I am always up-beat rather than gloomy.
I am always constructive rather than destructive.
I always act with confidence and determination.
If you have scored more than 35 "Yes", responses, congratulations:
You are gifted with excellent interpersonal intelligence. You can get
things done! You will be very influential! You will shine!.
You have a bright professional future and a shining career path! Good
luck for an excellent professional future.
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San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals firm Otonomy was up today in early trading, after pricing 6.25 million shares of its common stock at $16.00 per share last night. The company was trading around $17.52 today after its debut on the NASDAQ Global Market as OTIC. The company raised $100M in the IPO. The company priced at the high end of its initial estimated IPO range, which was $14.00 to $16.00 per share. The company is developing treatments for disorders of the inner ear. Otonomy was backed by Avalon Ventures, OrbiMed, Novo A/S, TPG Biotechnology Partners, Domain Associates, and Rivervest Venture Partners.
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Inmate, 88, to be tried in alleged assault on guardPhoto by Eric Francis
Public defender Jordana Levine helps John Simon to the defense table Thursday at White River Junction criminal court.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION An 88-year-old inmate accused of assaulting a guard during a scuffle at the Springfield jail has been found competent to stand trial.
John Simon, of Peacham, who is serving a sentence for repeatedly violating restraining orders, has difficulty hearing but is able to assist in his own defense, according to a psychiatrists report reviewed by the court.
Judge Karen Carroll ruled that the misdemeanor case of simple assault on a correctional officer can proceed to a trial in June.
Simon is accused of attacking Officer Michael Williams in his cell Feb. 7, 2013.
Simon is serving a sentence of 11 to 60 months. A conviction in the latest case could add up to two years.
He pleaded not guilty to the assault charge last year after Williams was taken to Springfield Hospital with scratches to his face, forehead and neck.
Williams said in his report that hed tried to remove some small paper cups that Simon wasnt allowed to have in his cell.
Simon yelled an expletive, the officer wrote, and scratched the left side of my face, drawing blood, and pulling off my glasses.
Williams added, He was flailing with both arms. To stop the assault I grabbed his hair with my right hand and put him in a headlock ... face down on the end of his bunk.
Williams said Simon pulled the handset of his portable radio off his shoulder and the fight was broadcast on the prisons radio system.
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Mathematics and Science Partnerships (MSP)
The United States Department of Education
This webpage describes the purpose of the US Department of Education's Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP), a program intended to increase the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science by enhancing the content knowledge and teaching skills of classroom teachers. Partnerships between high-need school districts and the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty in institutions of higher education are at the core of these improvement efforts. Other partners may include state education agencies, public charter schools or other public schools, businesses, and nonprofit or for-profit organizations concerned with mathematics and science education. The Math and Science Partnerships program is a formula grant program to the states, with the size of individual state awards based on student population and poverty rates.
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