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( August 15, 2014, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Today, August 15th, India and Pakistan marks their 68th anniversary of independence from Britain yet there is for the vast majority no freedom from poverty. According to the Global Hunger Index for 2013, India ranks 63, out of the 78 worst countries in terms of hunger. Pakistan 57th and Bangladesh 58th.
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The Food and Agricultural Organisation indicate that 17% of the Indian population is undernourished to lead a productive life. In fact, India alone accounts for 25% of undernourished people of the world, more than in entire Sub-Saharan Africa. Child malnutrition is even worse. One in every three malnourished children of the world lives in India. According to Unicef, 47% of Indian children are underweight, 46% below the age of three are too small for their age and nearly 50% of all childhood deaths could be attributed to malnutrition.
This, despite, farm outputs in India in recent years have been setting new records. It has gone up from 208 million tonnes (mt) in 2005-06 to an estimated 263 mt in 2013-14. Even accounting for population growth during this period, the country would need probably around 225 to 230 mt to feed its people. Thus, food production is not a real issue to reduce India's hunger problem. India is producing enough food to feed its people.
40% of total production is lost by waste. India wastes more food than China. It is estimated that each year around 21 mt of wheat, equivalent to the entire production of Australia, rots or is eaten by insects because of inappropriate storage and inadequate management practices of the government-run Food Corporation of India. The FCI was set up primarily to facilitate price support systems, distribution of food grains over the country and maintain buffer stocks. Mismanagement, poor oversight and rampant corruption have made this institution a part of the problem rather than a solution.
For perishable food, the major reasons for wastage have been the absence of modern supply chains that can efficiently take the food grown by farmers to consumers, lack of cold storages and refrigerated trucks, poor transportation facilities, erratic electricity supply. The Indian Institute of Management in Kolkata has estimated that cold storage facilities are available only for about 10% perishable food products. The country needs cold storage facilities for another 370 mt of perishable products.
In contrast to the low priority of food production, India has emerged as the world's largest arms buyer in recent years, but hopes to reverse this by strengthening its domestic defense industry. The United States was India's largest arms supplier in recent years, dislodging Russia as New Delhi's principal source of weapons. India bought arms worth nearly $5.5 billion from the United States in the last three years, surpassing purchases from Russia worth about $4 billion during the same period. The government last week raised foreign investment in the defense sector from 26 percent to 49 percent, hoping to woo foreign arms manufacturers.


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Maria Sharapova has beaten rival Ana Ivanovic 6-0, 6-4 to make the final of the WTA premier mandatory China Open in Beijing. In the final she will meet Petra Kvitova who survived a three set clash with Sam Stosur 6-3, 5-7, 6-2.
It was a classic tale of revenge for Sharapova. The last time she played Ana Ivanovic in a premier mandatory event was in Cincinnati back in August. Again, that match took place in the semi-finals, but that time Ivanovic saved match points as she fought to victory.
This match was an altogether different affair. Sharapova took the first set 6-0 and then broke immediately at the start of the second set to take a commanding set and a break lead. Ivanovic fought back, though, broke for 1-1 and then stayed with Sharapova to 4-4. It was then that Sharapova reasserted herself as she broke for 5-4.
Ivanovic would not go away though and embroiled Sharapova into a ten minute final game as she attempted to upset Sharapova for the third time this season after wins in Rome and Cincinnati. However, Sharapova held tough and got the win.
In the final, Sharapova will face Kvitova. The Czech is back in form this Asian swing after her Wimbledon mini slump. Fans feared the world No. 3 might experience a slump of the kind she experienced after her Wimbledon win in 2011, but Kvitova did not disappoint this season as she took the Premier title in Wuhan last week after something of a letdown in this season's U.S Open Series. Her good form has continued into this week. as has her fighting spirit, as she followed up her three set win over Roberta Vinci in the quarters with a tough victory against Stosur.
The Sharapova-Kvitova clash will be the 7th meeting between the two in a head to head led 5-2 by the Russian. Kvitova, though, has the biggest win in their rivalry- the 2011 Wimbledon final victory, giving her a 1-0 lead in finals between the two. Finals are where Kvitova brings her A game- she is 7-0 in her biggest finals which includes 2 grand slams, 1 Year End Championships (YEC) title (Istanbul 2011) and 4 Premier titles. That stat may play into her favor as Sharapova has lost many a big final and is prone to nerves when things get tight. And while few players are able to win when playing badly in big matches as Sharapova is, if Kvitova comes out swinging and on her game, the match could be over quickly for the Russian.
Sharapova and Kvitova will not only be playing for the title, however. The WTA ranking of No. 2 is also up for grabs. Simona Halep, who currently sits in the second spot, will vacate that spot after the event, and either Sharapova or Kvitova will take it along with the China Open title. And with Serena Williams laid up with a left knee injury, and losing her China Open victory points from last season, and in danger of losing her YEC defending champion points, the world No.1 spot could soon be up for grabs for either woman. With a lot to play for, the China Open women's final 2014 between Sharapova and Kvitova promises to be a tense and exciting affair which no WTA fan will want to miss.
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Tighe O'Connor completed four years at Limerick School of Art before going on to study colour theory under Professor Weber, former head of Rutgers Fine Art Faculty in New Jersey, USA. He then qualified with a B.A in Fine Art at Middlesex University, London. In 2000, he took an M.A. in Fine Art at Central St Martin's.
His art belongs very much within the Romantic tradition, exploring as it does a transcendent space that has fascinated artists for centuries. He inflects the kind of space and sensibility of a William Blake with shadowy shapes that inhabit an ambiguous realm, neither wholly spiritual nor completely material. His artistic interests are focused on translating our more profound experiences of self into colour and form, imbuing them with emotional depth and substance. The work is abstract, pursuing the edge of the perceptual, a space that surpasses what might be found in the actual world and exploring boundaries between form and the amorphic; nevertheless, in his paintings, faint apparitions loom through the ether suggestively; divine forms hang mysteriously or leap in a bath of colour. These objects are possibly eggs, spores, bodies or cells, all tenuously primal elements and all somehow co-extensive with each other. Sometimes the experience of looking at O'Connor's paintings invokes a joyous sensuality in the viewer with their concentration on colour; sometimes the images impose terrible visions upon us. In Losing my soul/Saving my soul,
O'Connor suggests an oceanic but strangely optimistic space in which a titanic struggle emerges between the self and unknown forces that threaten to engulf it. With his rich sense of colour and ungrounded shapes, we are put in mind of the paintings of Symbolist artists at the end of the nineteenth c
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His work in neon continues the relationship to colour we find in the paintings, all the time suggesting meaning rather than prescribing it In his abstract neon, Pi, O Connor creates a piece of lyrical, soft geometry that resists the hard edged or rigid in its morphology. Two lines meander, looping between each other in harmony and casting a halo of light on the floor. Most significantly, the circular neon is suspended in a luminous field of coloured light, establishing a dialogue with the floating forms in his paintings.
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Liberal World Orders (Proceedings of the British Academy 190)By: Trine Flockhart (editor), Tim Dunne (editor)Hardback
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DescriptionLiberal World Order is seen by many as either a fading international order in response to declining American hegemony, or as a failing international order riddled with internal tensions and contradictions. Either way, liberal world order is assumed to be in crisis. The contributors to Liberal World Orders do not reject the argument that liberal order is in crisis. Instead they contend that the crisis is primarily one of authority. This has been compounded by the relative lack of historical context supplied by liberal theorists of 'the international'. By not looking further than the 20th century, the field has ignored moments when similar tensions and contradictions have been evident. The authors question the way in which the debate about liberalism has been conducted. Against the theoreticians it is proposed that liberalism has suffered from being too closely tied to the quest for scientific authenticity, resulting in a theoretical perspective with little or no commitment to political values and political vision. By reformulating the classical liberalism of Kant, Paine, and Mill into neo-liberalism, liberalism lost its critical and normative potential. Against the policy-makers it is proposed that the practices of liberal ordering are resilient enough to prove durable despite the relative decline in the power and authority of liberal states. Just as cooperative practices between states predated liberalism, aspects of world order today which evolved during the high point of liberal internationalism may succeed in outliving liberalism.
About AuthorTim Dunne is at University of Queensland. Trine Flockhart is at Danish Institute for International Studies.
ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Liberal Internationalism ; 2. Resilient Liberal International Practices ; 3. Liberal Imaginations: Transformative Logics of Liberal Order ; 4. Grand Days, Dark Palaces: The Contradictions of Liberal Ordering ; 5. Liberal World Orders, Reciprocal and Hierarchic ; 6. 'The fear of universal monarchy': Balance of Power as an Ordering Practice of Liberty ; 7. Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in Eurocentric Liberal International Theory ; 8. Liberal Quotidian Practices of World Ordering ; 9. Theoretical Foundations of Liberal Order ; 10. Democracy Promotion as a Practice of Liberal World Order ; 11. States of Empire: Liberal Ordering and Imperial Relations ; 12. Internationalism and Interventionism ; 13. Liberal International Order
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Well that's more like it! After getting a bit wobbly to start the year, the S&P 500 has sorted itself out and set a new record. The index closed at 1848.38 in New York, which just beat out the close on December 31st, 2013 at 1848.36. That's not an emphatic new high. But it's a start, right?
You could almost sense the relief on Wall Street. 'The market wasn't ready to crack,' says equity sales trader Michael Antonelli. 'Clients have remained steadfast in their equities.'
They've what? Remained steadfast in their equities? Is that the same as, say, remaining steadfast in your belief that the moon is made of cheese? The decision to buy or sell a given stock shouldn't have much to do with belief. It should have a lot to do with price and value. But this is a market where to get ahead, you stop asking questions and start believing.
Here in Australia, the S&P ASX/200 is still down 2% year-to-date, although it was up yesterday. The index itself has been a laggard (compared to the US and Japan) ever since topping out in 2007. It's still down over 22% from its all-time high. And active fund managers are feeling bold enough to proclaim the virtues of stock selection over passive indexing.
'The average Australian equity fund manager outperformed the share market by 18% in 2013,' reports Salley Patten in today's Australian Financial Review. The average Aussie fund was up 23.2% in the twelve months to December 31st, 2013, before fees. By comparison, the S&P ASX/300 was up 19.7%.
The way the figures are quoted is a bit misleading. It makes it sound like if the index was up 19.7%, and the average Aussie fund was up 37.7%. That's not the case, of course. And if you include fees, the 'outperformance' of actively managed equity funds might not look as impressive.
Besides, the index was handicapped by the inclusion of Newcrest (ASX:NCM) and BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP). Newcrest fell by nearly 70% last year. And BHP, which makes up 10% of the S&P/ASX 200, was basically flat. If you didn't own gold or the miners last year and stuck with the banks, and called that 'active management', you would also have outperformed the index.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A telescope equipped to photograph the sun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A heliograph, with a camera attached, used to photograph the Sun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A photographic telescope designed for making photo-graphs of the sun, particularly at a transit of Venus or at a solar eclipse. There are several forms of the instrument, differing widely in construction.
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A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
With the telescope, micrometer, heliostat, and spectroscope came desire for more complex instruments, resulting in the invention of the photoheliograph, invoking the aid of photography to make permanent the results of these exciting researches.
A four-inch equatorial stands on a half round bastion, at the west end of the bridge, and a photoheliograph at the east end of the old wall, over the barracks of the gendarmes.
Photographs of the sun have been taken with the photoheliograph on 182 days.
Huggins studied the chemistry of the stars by means of the spectroscope, and when Warren De la Rue set up a photoheliograph at
But astronomical photography really owes its beginning to De la Rue, who used the collodion process for the moon in 1853, and constructed the Kew photoheliograph in 1857, from which date these instruments have been multiplied, and have given us an accurate record of the sun's surface.
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This August, cyclists are invited to push pedals for peace in the second ?Peace cycle? from London to Israel. The ride is an international protest for the rights of the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.
On the 6th of August, campaigners from all over the world will depart from London for Jerusalem where they will arrive in September, having embarked upon an epic journey through Europe topped off with a tour of Israel and the West Bank. Along the way cyclists will meet with politicians and the public to raise awareness of the 38 years of subjugation that the Palestinians have suffered under military occupation, and call for justice and peace in Israel and Palestine.
Laura Abraham, the organizer, described the situation in 2004, when the last trip took place: ?An ambulance carrying a girl, who had a cut to her head, was being made to wait for three hours at an Israeli checkpoint. It seemed like the Israeli soldiers where constantly trying to make life hard for the Palestinians, in a hope that life would become so difficult, so humiliating, that they would be forced to leave. Each village was like a small prison, cut off from the next?at Kalkilia (a Palestinian settlement), fencings and walls encircle the town. You must abandon your vehicle and climb through the rubble placed their by Israeli soldiers.? Laura stresses that: ?we are not anti-Israeli. We are anti-Israeli policy, which is recognised as illegal. There are several groups of Israeli?s who do wonderful work; for instance a group of rabbis who help the Palestinians pick their olive crops each year.? She states that ?we don?t pretend we can change the world. But we hope to make a difference?.
Cyclists should register soon, as places are limited. Application forms are available from www.thepeacecycle.org (Note: This site was unavailable at the time of writing)
The ride aims to make clear to the world that lasting peace can only be achieved by an end to injustice, and a recognition of the rights of every human being to live a liberated life, free from fear of repression, eviction or violence.
Each cyclist is asked to raise their own sponsorship, to cover the costs of the journey, which average out at about ?50 a day; this accounts for accommodation, support vehicles etc. Any money left over will be donated to the rebuilding of the Freedom Sietta, a refugee camp established by an Israeli woman but destroyed by the Israeli army in an act of wanton destruction typical of the situation that the Peace Cycle aims to alleviate.
The ride is a strenuous one, and young children are unlikely to be able to cope, although all support is appreciated in the early stages of the ride, where a rally will see the cyclists off from London.
A training weekend occurs in April, informing the cyclists of the protocol to observe when on the ride, which passes through an area of military occupation and political tension.
The founder of the Peace Cycle, Laura Abraham, can be contacted by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone on 07941056616.


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Research Letters in Physical Chemistry
Volume 2007, Article ID 17378, 5 pages
Surface Adsorption and Replacement of Acid-Oxidized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) Chains
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, School of Engineering and UDRI, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-0240, USA
Received 9 June 2007; Accepted 7 September 2007
Academic Editor: Hans Bettermann
Copyright © 2007 Wei Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) was used to investigate the adsorption of acid-oxidized single-walled carbon nanotubes (Ox-SWNTs) and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone), PVP. It was found for the first time that Ox-SWNTs adsorbed onto the QCM electrode can be effectively replaced by PVP chains in an aqueous solution. This replacement process was also investigated by atomic force miscroscopic (AFM) imaging, which shows good agreement with the QCM measurements. This study provides powerful tools for fundamental investigation of polymer-nanotube interactions and for controlled design/fabrication of functional polymer-nanotube surfaces for potential applications.


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LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - London-focussed estate agents Foxtons said its core earnings and revenue fell in 2017 in line with market expectations due to a slump in sales and that this year would remain challenging for the business.
The firm said 2017 revenue will fall around 12 percent to 117 million pounds ($167 million) and adjusted core earnings will drop 40 percent to roughly 15 million pounds. It will also take a one-off 2 million pound charge as it manages its cost base.
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Foxtons, which had been a symbol of the British capital's property boom, saw its profits more than halve in 2016 and had said in as early as 2014 that the once runaway real estate market was cooling.
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text: What the 'Largest Gathering in History' Leaves Behind Lots of garbage, unsurprisingly By Kate Seamons, Newser Staff Posted Apr 26, 2013 12:22 PM CDT 45 comments Comments Shoes and other belonging discarded by Hindu devotees are seen strewn across the ground at 'Sangam', the confluence of Hindu holy rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati. (AP Photo /Rajesh Kumar Singh) (Newser) – One would have to imagine that the aftermath of what has been described as the "largest human gathering in history" wouldn't be pretty. The Wall Street Journal today confirms that is indeed the case. It presents photos taken three weeks after the end of the 55-day Kumbh Mela, which the paper notes was supposed to be eco-friendly this time around (pilgrims were urged to take their trash with them or, at the very least, put it in a can). But with more than 80 million Hindus descending on Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, for the religious festival, it's little surprise that 56 tons of trash was produced daily, and not all of it was taken care of so neatly; as the Journal reports, plastic bags and bottles, and even human waste, linger. And it's not just what you'd typically consider garbage: As Time reported, the pilgrims who entered the Ganges stripped off "sweaters, pants, saris, skirts, T-shirts, scarves, sandals, and whatever other garments stood in their way between this mortal coil and a little salvation." Those soggy clothes are abandoned as well. Click to see photos. (Read more Kumbh Mela stories.) My Take on This Story Report a story error Show results without voting | 19% Hilarious 5% Intriguing 52% Depressing 1% Brilliant 5% Scary 18% Ridiculous


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The ebt Finals last weekend in the Polish town of Stare Jablonki have witnessed a premiere. For the first time, goal line technology has been used during a major European beach handball tournament.
Two high-speed cameras were installed firmly under the horizontal bar of each goal, assessing whether the ball has fully crossed the line or not.
"This has been a new step to make beach handball more attractive and fair. It's an important step to make beach handball as ready as possible for the Olympic Games," said Ole Jorstad, chairman of the EHF Beach Handball Commission.
The system has been provided by French company 'Vision Sport', who has also been responsible for goal line technology at the EHF's FINAL4 and EURO events at which goal line technology has been in use for a number of years.
And similar to indoor handball, it is only the referee who decides whether he wants to make use of the system or not.
"Referees take decisions in a split second; the fact that the goal line in beach handball is imaginary, and not actually visible on the sand, makes – sometimes – things even more difficult," says Jorstad.
"The new technology promises to remove the slightest of any human bias. It is only the goal line referee that decides when to use the system, after calling for a time out and asking for a video review on a monitor placed just behind the technical table.
"The remarks from the system's application during the ebt Finals at Stare Jablonki have been extremely positive, and goal line technology shall be used at the upcoming under-18 Beach EURO in Ulcinj, Montenegro," concludes Jorstad.