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One aspect of love, Kenshin reflected, was the ability to restrain yourself and stay out of something you would really much rather be involved in. Would rather take over completely in order to spare your lover the less pleasant effects of the situation.
It had very little to do with faith in Sano's combat prowess; Kenshin wasn't sure whether or not he believed Sano could win this fight, but certainty either way would not have changed his behavior. It had very little to do with the fact that Kenshin would be over this railing with sword drawn the moment Sano's life seemed in legitimate danger; he would do that for anyone. What he might not do for anyone was let it get to that point.
He probably would not have stood by watching Kaoru, for instance, battle a stronger opponent. Assigned her the task of dealing with a particular enemy while he faced some other threat, perhaps; been aware that she was elsewhere fighting and quietly worried, certainly. But stood still observing? Actually watched her fight someone he wasn't certain she could defeat? Probably not. Allowing Sano this chance without protest or interference was a mark of respect he might not even be capable of showing just anyone.
And even in this case it was difficult as hell.
The huge monk was obviously a world ahead of Sano in mastery of the interesting two-hit move they called Futae no Kiwami, and his ki was every bit as ragingly angry as Sano's. The latter's superior agility would only get him so far. More promising — to Kenshin, who believed in the influence of attitude in combat — was the fact that when faced with the corruption and misery of the world, one of them had chosen destruction while the other (with some encouragement) had chosen life. But even this could not be entirely reassuring.
Then a hard voice to his left called down in the direction of the combatants, "Do you want me to take your place?"
Kenshin glanced over, very startled. He certainly hadn't forgotten Saitou was there… but in his concern for Sano, Saitou had blurred into a vague, comforting essence of strength and solidity.
Yes, comforting. Why bother denying it?
"Shut the hell up!" Evidently Sano didn't find him comforting.
Startling as it had been, the suggestion did not surprise him. Kenshin had suspected — strongly suspected — and now he knew; it was the elbow that gave Saitou away, really. The offer could just as easily have been exactly what it seemed — a condescending jab at Sano's abilities — but Saitou's elbow rested in his other hand as if needing support, and the hand seemed clenched tighter than was strictly necessary. One arm lay close across his body as if he wanted to project his subtly defensive stance at Sano, the other raised a cigarette to his lips. Kenshin had noticed that Saitou normally took no more than a drag or two on any cigarette before tossing it away. This one was steadily shortening, almost as if he didn't notice himself smoking it.
Then there was the fact that Saitou had voiced concern even before Kenshin could. No, there could be no question now.
Did Kenshin resent this sudden apparent worry where none had been present before? Did he consider telling Saitou to mind his own business? Did he look down at Sano with new jealousy in his gaze, unsure whether he envied more the circumstance of being the object of Saitou's concern or the one feeling it for Sano?
No. He knew any or all of these could have been his reaction, but the only thing he could do was appreciate Saitou's attitude even as he felt the same. In fact, Saitou's presence rendered a little less painful the unendurable thoughts of what if? that hovered just beyond the bright areas of his mind. It didn't matter what each of them was to Sano; the fact that they stood here side by side, both with his well-being in mind, made all the difference.
"Sano!" he called out, feeling minutely better about things all of a sudden and wishing to share that, if possible, with his lover. "Even in kenjutsu, a man with two swords is not necessarily stronger than one with only one! I am sure you can find a way to win!"
Though not as fierce as the one he'd directed at Saitou a moment before, Sano's reply to this encouragement was definitely a scowl. Realizing belatedly that his words, though kindly meant, might seem to imply a surety of the monk's superior abilities, Kenshin felt a little sheepish, and was actually rather glad to busy himself in a brief, meaningless exchange with Yumi about the suitability of cheering Sano on.
He was watching avidly the next moment, though, when Sano landed a hit. Both the spectators were, Kenshin thought, interested in the effects of Sano's new move on a human body — Kenshin probably with a good deal more speculative horror than Saitou — and they both, he knew, were shocked at the result. Though it seemed feasible to cancel out the energy of the blow, the precision with which the opposing force would need to be directed to avoid damage to self would demand an incredible level of mastery. To see Sano's opponent displaying such expertise could only dishearten.
Despite Sano's swift retreat from striking distance, the monk's big fist grazed his stomach. Kenshin clutched hard at the railing as Sano staggered a step back and coughed up a handful of blood. At his side, Saitou shifted.
"Retreat," the monk said darkly. "I'll let you go this time." It sounded more like an order than an offer, and it seemed to upset Yumi quite a bit. She and the monk argued the point for a few moments before Sano broke in with a glib and rather insulting comment on Anji's self-proclaimed authority over life and death.
Though Kenshin focused primarily on the debate that would undoubtedly return to blows any moment, he couldn't help noticing Saitou's increasing tension. The wolf now had his free hand in his pocket, and had started another cigarette. Noting Kenshin's attention he murmured, "I meant it when I offered to take his place. He's not going to get through this with that attitude."
Kenshin might have been inclined to agree with the statement had Sano not at that moment been voicing sentiments both convincing and familiar: a combination of what he'd told Kenshin bitterly when they'd first met and his more enlightened later thoughts on the state of the country, culminating in the defiant and utterly self-assured declaration, "I absolutely won't lose to you!"
Letting out a deep breath, Kenshin turned a slight smile on Saitou, whose face now barely even concealed the worry he felt at the recommencing fight. "Sano said that to me when he and I first fought," he remarked quietly. "'I absolutely won't lose…' But this time it means a lot more."
For a long, dark moment Saitou stared at Kenshin, brows drawing together and some kind of struggle going on behind his eyes. Saitou, Kenshin was fairly sure, had a hard time feeling faith in anyone besides himself; how lonely that must be. But he was also a very strong man, just as capable of changing himself for the better as he was of changing the world. Finally he too let out his concerned breath, his face relaxing and smoothing slightly as it turned back to watch the action below. He didn't say anything, but Kenshin knew he'd decided to take the reassurance seriously.
Now to see how long they could endure in silence.
With his body aching from head to toe, the halls they walked were a claustrophobic nightmare. Why the pain should make such a difference Sano wasn't sure — nor could he guess why, under such circumstances, he should want to draw closer to his companions as they walked rather than further away.
He flexed his hand and let out an involuntary sound of pain. Trying to avoid worries about the long-term ramifications of this damage — worries that, even in the midst of this very present turmoil and the need for concentration, would continue nagging at him — Sano stretched and contracted his fingers again, forcing himself to adjust to the unpleasant sensation. He wasn't out of the action yet; he needed his fist to function.
Saitou at his side kept looking at him. For a moment Sano avoided his eyes, not really wanting to endure any more derisive comments than he already had, but eventually the fleeting (and, admittedly, somewhat irrational) thought that this might be his last chance to look into Saitou's eyes overcame his reluctance. And the pensive, serious expression he found there, far different from the irritating disdain he'd expected, could not but surprise him.
In direct contrast, Saitou's words were no surprise whatsoever: "If you're hurt, you're only going to get in the way. You should leave now." What Sano did not anticipate, however, was the way they were spoken. Sure, it sounded like Saitou's usual jerk-face attitude, but something about the suggestion was… off… somehow.
For a few moments just a minute ago, after Anji's news, Sano had been stupidly determined to turn back. Sense had returned, but the burning cold fear in his heart for their friends at the Aoiya had not disappeared. Was Saitou subtly trying to convince him to give in to that? Well, no, that didn't make much sense; what would Saitou care about their friends at the Aoiya? If it had been anyone else, Sano might have thought there was some concern for his concern… but this was Saitou; he would no more care that Sano cared than care in his own right. Right? Sano was probably just imagining things anyway. He'd spent far too much time lately trying to solve puzzles in the light of Saitou's uncanny eyes.
But perhaps Saitou simply didn't want him to get hurt. Because of Kenshin, that is, of course; that would make sense. Saitou knew — better than any other third party, probably — the effect it would have on Kenshin if anything serious happened to Sano. The latter couldn't help recalling the way his two companions had stood together looking down at him as he fought Anji… neither seeming any more or less worried about him than the other… and Saitou's offer to take his place…
Yes, that was undoubtedly the answer: Saitou was simply looking out for Kenshin, who was, after all, the government's specific answer to this Shishio situation. That was Saitou, all right: just doing his job; nothing personal about it.
Sano found himself making another little pained noise. He'd been flexing his hand throughout these reflections, and didn't think it was getting any better for it.
Saitou snorted, evidently accepting this non-verbal answer for the dismissal of his suggestion that it was. "This is what you get for ignoring what I told you and neglecting your defense," he said.
Sano made a face at him. Disinclined to repeat the responses he'd already given to the admonition, however, he merely said, "Hey, fuck you."
"Here and now? I wonder what Shishio's thoughts on that would be." Though Saitou's murmur was carrying, evidently meant to be heard by the two people walking down the hall in front of them, Sano chose to interpret it at being directed toward Yumi alone. She didn't seem to have much of a sense of humor, and her huffy, stiff-shouldered response was pretty funny… a good deal more than the thought of the remark having been aimed at Kenshin and what that might mean.
"Could only make his day better," Sano replied with a shrug and a grin… and realized even as he said it that, while there was nothing wrong with levity in general, these particular words were probably not the wisest. They could only bother Kenshin and bring to mind things neither of them were supposed to be thinking about at the moment. Honestly, he was a little shocked he'd even said such a thing to Saitou. Hell, he was shocked Saitou had said what he had to him.
He couldn't help being surprised as well at how amiable that brief exchange had been. Perhaps Saitou was surprised too, for he raised a brow and gave Sano a lopsided smile. It was a strange look, holding something more than skepticism and amusement, and it gave Sano the strangest feeling. There was something of finality in Saitou's eyes all of a sudden… finality and acceptance. Seeing that expression, Sano almost expected the man at any moment to say goodbye and just disappear.
Earlier on in this venture, Sano would have been glad of the disappearance and told Saitou to skip the goodbye. Now… Well, it would probably get in the way of all that waiting he'd resolved to do if he thought about what he would prefer now. Break his concentration on the tasks at hand, complicate things with Kenshin, and all that.
But after the oddly friendly moment of banter and those looks, and in this current silence that (according to Sano's earlier, admittedly irrational fear) might be his last chance, it was difficult as hell not to think about this sort of thing.
Kenshin glanced back at them just then, the very nonexistence of his expression expressive. He looked like a man holding his breath, reminding his companions that the air would slowly poison them if taken in. There was no trace of what Sano knew he must be feeling, the worry and confusion and god knew what else… only the determination to finish what he'd started, to complete the accepted task. Not even the awareness that their friends at the Aoiya were in worse danger, perhaps, than anyone here in the fortress — a fact that, quite frankly, Sano was trying his best simply to ignore, though it lingered under everything else he did or said or thought as a live current of potentially detrimental concern… not even that showed in Kenshin's face.
Sano smiled faintly at his lover, then stared at his back when Kenshin turned away again. Kenshin was so strong… strong in ways Sano had never thought about — never been aware of, really — until recently, until Kenshin himself had made him recognize them. Sano admired and loved Kenshin as much for teaching him these things he might not otherwise have learned as for bearing that strength in himself. And observing Saitou's fixed, serious stare in the same direction as his own, Sano couldn't help thinking…
No. No. He could help thinking that, because he wasn't supposed to be thinking about anything but this situation here and now at the fortress. Sano might not be as strong as Kenshin was in many ways, but he'd be damned if he let him down here and now by getting distracted and jeopardizing the endeavor. He returned his attention very pointedly to the continual, painful flexing of his hand.
"We've arrived," Yumi announced at last, drawing to a halt in front of another pair of doors in a particularly dark stretch of corridor. "Inside is your second opponent. Once you enter this room, you won't be allowed to turn ba–"
"Enough," Kenshin interrupted her, somewhat fiercely, and, to Sano's surprise, kicked the doors down. They clattered to the floor a few feet into the room beyond.
The latter, as dim as this length of hallway, was decorated with stylized eyes on floor and wall and ceiling. In the solid circular center of one of these a man, blindfolded and bearing a large-headed spear and a shield, wore more of the same symbol on his clothing and sandals. He didn't sit; he crouched, evidently ready to spring into action at any moment. Piecing together certain things Misao and Chou had said, Sano identified this as Mouken no Usui.
"One… two… three…" the man counted. He raised a hand and pointed at the people in the doorway, skipping Yumi but indicating the rest of them one by one with a precision that made Sano a little uncomfortable. Was the guy blind or wasn't he? Surely he couldn't see through the damn blindfold in any case…! "Anji couldn't even get rid of one of you?" Usui put a hand thoughtfully to his smiling face. "Well… that's fine, that's fine."
"We don't have time for your bravado," Kenshin replied in an even harsher tone than his previous. Glancing at him, startled, Sano noticed he was already prepared to draw and fight. "Will you step aside and let us pass? Decide quickly."
Sano struggled to fight off a deep, cold shiver. He knew that voice. It was Kenshin's first-step-down-Battousai-path voice. Perhaps the news of the planned Aoiya massacre was affecting him more than Sano had thought; or perhaps Kenshin, in steeling himself for the eventual encounter with Shishio, was inadvertently (inadvertently, Sano hoped to god inadvertently) pushing himself into Battousai territory.
"Kenshin–" he began uncertainly, but cut off in surprise as Kenshin's forward momentum brought him into sudden, unexpected contact with Saitou's abruptly outstretched arm. Kenshin stumbled back a step, staring at Saitou just as Sano was.
"It's good that you're angry," Saitou explained, his eyes never moving from the still figure of Usui, "but don't waste it on him." His tone was utterly flat as he continued, "Go on and leave this one to me."
"Saitou…" Kenshin's voice was a great relief, for it had returned to normal; and the expression he gave Saitou, as he touched briefly the spot where the officer's fist had met his face, was all Kenshin. Silently Sano sighed. Was it all right to feel grateful to Saitou for this? Kenshin could undoubtedly have taken care of it himself, but the fact remained that the wolf had deliberately pulled him back from those first steps.
"Go," ordered Saitou, and suddenly the import of his previous statement struck Sano. Go? Leave him here to fight alone? Move on to whatever came next without him? Just like that?
Sano opened his mouth, but found himself devoid of words.
Kenshin nodded. "Excuse us," he said to Yumi, and took off at that improbable speed of his toward the far doors.
"Hey, wait!" the woman protested. "You can't just–"
Deeming it best to bring her along, given the likelihood of their getting lost without her, Sano hefted Yumi up into his arms as he moved to follow Kenshin. "You're coming too!"
Through the door Kenshin had flung open, carrying the struggling, loudly protesting Yumi, Sano had time for nothing more than the briefest glance back. And he couldn't even deny to himself the painful clenching of his heart as he took in the lean, tense, motionless figure in blue that they were leaving behind perhaps never to see again.
The room stank of blood, but Saitou did not rush to leave it; unnecessary haste would only set him back at this point. He was quick about treating his injuries, though… It probably would have been better to bandage his legs under his pants, but, squeamish as he wasn't, the thought of removing the garment in the presence of the pinned and blindly staring half body on the wall was unpalatable to him.
"Could only make his day better," he seemed to hear in Sagara's tones, and he smirked faintly to himself. He still couldn't quite believe they'd said those things to each other.
After retrieving his sword with some difficulty from aforementioned corpse, he finally left the room. As he lit a cigarette outside, covering up the last traces of the bloody scent, he spent several moments staring down the corridor to the right. Based on what he'd heard earlier, he believed his companions had gone that way. Unfortunately, based on what he remembered, he needed to go the other way. To be sure, he traded his cigarette case for the map in his pocket.
It would be a struggle to concentrate on the information he needed to collect when he wanted so badly to follow Himura and Sagara. Supposedly only Seta Soujirou remained to be defeated before Shishio himself, but, even assuming he believed those really were the only dangers left to face, he wasn't terribly happy letting the others face them alone. He knew part of this was his usual, deeply-ingrained disinclination to delegate difficult tasks; he was always surer of things he did himself. He knew what the rest of it was too — he could finally even admit it to himself — but it was no good thinking about that right now.
He headed down the hallway to the left. Careless haste was still to be avoided, but he could hope to wrap up this part of his task quickly and rejoin the others before too long. And if either of them had been seriously hurt during this separation…
He took a long drag on his cigarette. He needed to visit three areas of the fortress before he could do what he really wanted to do, so, though it was difficult as hell, he pushed Himura and Sagara from his mind (as far as that was possible) and moved, purposeful and silent, toward his first duty.
That things went smoothly was not, he thought, in this instance, a bad sign. The complex was practically uninhabited — emptied, perhaps, toward the unsuspecting Aoiya — and those that remained were too distracted by the presence of Himura to notice Saitou. So it was with relative ease he found what he sought — none of which could occupy his mind anywhere near as thoroughly as the emptiness he was enforcing in place of what he didn't need to be worrying about at the moment.
On the way to the last and largest office-like room he intended to inspect, a door stood ajar. A glance at his map confirmed it led to a library, but even half a hallway away Saitou could tell that its recent purpose had been something very different. Moving even more stealthily than before, he stepped inside to have a look.
The two rooms he'd seen in which the prearranged battles had taken place had been specifically suited for that purpose, tasteless personalized decorations aside. This chamber, with its narrow, shelf-walled lanes, was not suited for the purpose, so presumably this battle had not been prearranged. Saitou had been wondering all along, in the back of his head, about the location of almost the only unknown factor in this great equation; therefore, the presence in the dark chaos inside the doors of one Shinomori Aoshi was not terribly shocking. Nor was the fact that Himura had been able to defeat him.
It was one hell of a relief, though.
Judging by Shinomori's state and that he was just getting to his feet and moving as if to leave the room, Saitou judged that it couldn't have been too long since the end of this bout. The Okashira actually moved two steps forward before observing Saitou's presence; Saitou wished very much he could have seen the battle that had left him in this condition.
During the few moments before Shinomori noticed his presence, Saitou debated whether or not to speak to him. Time was nothing could spend extravagantly, but he was so pleased to see Himura had won this battle that he actually felt rather positive toward Shinomori at the moment. Additionally, the Oniwaban's presence in the fortress had surely contributed to the general distraction of which Saitou had been able to take such convenient advantage… and the man might even have a further use against Shishio, assuming Himura had managed to convince him of the error of his ways. Since Himura could probably convince Enma of the error of his ways, Saitou was assuming.
So, when Shinomori signaled by a barely visible start that he was finally aware of Saitou's presence, looking up from the wreckage of slashed books and shattered shelves he attempted to navigate, Saitou greeted him. "I see you got your ass kicked again."
"Saitou Hajime." Shinomori didn't seem terribly pleased to see him, but it was a little hard to tell.
"Hm?" Saitou lit a fresh cigarette. "You should know me as Fujita Gorou."
"That Seta boy told me you were here," Shinomori replied shortly.
"Sou ka," said Saitou even more shortly, smirking at the other man.
"You've been taking your time." Shinomori seemed somehow even less pleased now than before. "Battousai's long gone."
Saitou nodded. "Everything's going according to plan." Now he essentially had confirmation in Shinomori's own words of Himura's victory, he could get back to work in relative contentment. The Okashira was fading as an object of any interest, but he might still be useful. So Saitou pulled his map again from his pocket and flicked it at the other man.
Shinomori caught the paper and snapped it open with a hand that was evidently regaining its vigor. As his eyes took in the fine lines representing the rooms and passages surrounding them, he managed by some means or other to appear almost astonished with no visible change of expression.
Saitou turned to leave with another satisfied smirk. "Your intelligence network is effective," he answered Shinomori's surprise, "but the government's system is the best in the country. It's one of the reasons I work for them." He gestured briefly. "I don't need that now; it will lead you to Shishio, if you're interested."
"So you're using Battousai as a decoy." The Okashira's flat statement made him pause.
"Something like that." It certainly had been the plan all along; it was still the plan… it was just that Himura had become so much more since that encounter in the Kamiya Dojo. This was nothing he felt like explaining to Shinomori Aoshi, though. "This battle will decide the future Japan," he forced himself to go on. "Nothing can come before that." And he was not so much expressing the opinion as trying to convince himself he actually believed it. He'd known this would happen; he could only hope, now, that he really was as strong as he'd told himself he was.
"Then what about your match?" Shinomori wondered next. "The grudge between you and Battousai from the Bakumatsu? If he dies here, what will you do?"
Saitou wasn't certain whether Shinomori was trying to reiterate the efficacy of his network by showing how much he knew, or if he was aware that these questions would be bothersome and was just lashing out since Saitou had caught him in such a vulnerable position. Either way, Saitou considered remarking cryptically that the Okashira's information was outdated, and leaving it at that… but the thought of Himura dying here — the thought of losing what he'd only just allowed himself to admit he cherished — was too disturbing for him to answer quite so facetiously, even if Shinomori didn't understand.
"Then whoever lives wins," he said flatly. Under normal circumstances, it would be true, which made it a good response. But he was less pleased with Shinomori upon leaving the room than when he'd entered it.
Everything he needed to know was not readily available here in the fortress, but he hadn't really expected it to be. He'd still learned enough to justify the trip, and after the office near the library felt it was all he was likely to. Which meant he was free to rejoin the others and, hopefully, see the end of this drama.
A large space that had appeared on the map to be an arena of some sort lay outside these dark corridors in a valley that cut right through the underground fortress; Shishio having already displayed an eye for showmanship, Saitou believed the battle against him would take place there. Picturing the route he must take to reach it required no particular effort of memory, since, under the assumption that Himura and Sagara were or would soon be there, his eyes had inevitably traced it every time they'd fallen to the map; he could probably walk it without looking.
Anticipation and concern tensed his body further with every step he took along aforementioned path, until finally he turned the last corner. Daylight flooded this corridor… more of a room, really, where the hallway opened out into an atrium of sorts before a giant set of riveted metal doors that stood open. But while the real, natural light of the sun served as a pleasant reminder of the world outside this dreary fortress and the events taking place therein, the fresh air that should have accompanied it from the valley or gorge beyond the doors was tainted by a hot, acrid smell he didn't quite recognize at first.
Uncertain though he was at what he might find beyond them, he took the fact that the doors were open at all as a confirmation of his guess about the final battle's location. He had only to step through and learn what was going on. Now for the end; now to hope his other duties, which it would have been impossible for him to shirk and which he was yet inclined to curse as he thought about the amount of time he'd spent away from Himura and Sagara, hadn't delayed him too long.


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Reasoning (High Level) for SBI PO Exam. Reasoning for SBI PO 2014 Exam. Reasoning Ability Questions for SBI Exam. Reasoning Practice Set 1 consist 15 questions with answers.
Directions (1-5) Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below :
An institute XYZ provides scholarship to its employees for higher studies in the United States of America. Following are conditions for awarding scholar- ship to the employees. The candidate must :
(i) not be more than 30 years of age as on April 1, 2006.
(ii) have secured more than 70 per cent marks in Post-graduation and 75 per cent marks in – Graduation.
(iii) have at least two years work experience in the XYZ institute.
(iv) be ready to sign bond of two years with the company.
(v) have got A or A + rating for his/her works in the last two years.
However, in case of a candidate who fulfills all other criteria EXCEPT
(a) (ii) above but has secured minimum 60 per cent marks in Graduation and Post-Graduation and he/she has got Ph.D. may be referred to the Director.
(b) (v) above but has work experience of three years with rating B +, A or A + may be referred to the Chairman.
(c) (vi) above but he/she has to leave the institute and he is ready to pay Z 50,000, may be referred to the President.
Based on these criteria and information provided below, decide the course of action in each case. You are not to assume anything. The cases are given to you as on April 1, 2006. If the data provided are not adequate to decide the given course of action, your answer will be "data inadequate'.
1. Deepali Mirza is working in XYZ institute for the last two and half years. Her performance is good and has secured rating A +. She has secured 70 per cent and 75 per cent marks in Graduation and Post-Graduation respectively. She is Post' Graduate from Mathematics. She is ready to sign the bond of two years. Her date of birth is 31.03.1997. She has also done Ph.D.
(1) Data inadequate
(2) Refer to the Director
(3) Refer to the President
(4) Refer to the Chairman
(5) Not to be selected
2. Ajit D' Souza is a Post-Graduate in Physics with 75 per cent marks and passed Graduation with 77 per cent marks. He is working in the institute since 2002 and has always got A ratings on performance. He was 25 year old at the time of joining the institute. He is keen to seek job in the United States of America.
(1) Refer to the Chairman
(2) Refer to the President
(3) Data inadequate
(4) Not to be selected
(5) To be selected.
3. Rajendra, Bhave is a post-graduate in Psychology. He had secured 72% marks at post-graduation and 78% marks at graduation. He is working in XYZ institute for more than two years and his performance ratings are A + and A respectively in the last two years. He is not keen to sign the bond but does not mind paying Z 50,000/- if required to leave. His date of birth is 14.8.1976.
(1) To be selected
(2) Refer to the Chairman
(3). Refer to the Director
(4) Refer to the President
(5) Not to be selected
4. Harish Chheda has a bright academic career throughout. He has done post-graduation with 65% marks and has submitted Ph.D. thesis. His date of birth is 27.9.1979. He is working for last three years in the XYZ institute and has always got A ratings on performance. He is ready to pay ? 50,004 in case if required to leave.
(1) To be selected
(2) Refer to the President
(3) Refer to the Director
(4) Data inadequate
(5) Not to be selected
5. 28 years old Tarique Anwar is a post-graduate in Chemistry and has registered for Ph. D. He scored 80% and 78% marks at graduation and post- graduation respectively. He is working in the XYZ institute since 2001. His performance ratings in the last three years are B +, A + and A respectively. He is ready to sign two years' bond with the institute.
(1) To be selected
(2) Refer to the President
(3) Refer to the Chairman
(4) Data inadequate
(5) Not to be selected
Direction (6-10) Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given bellow it:
There are seven friends – B, S, R, M, G, Y and K, each of them as pries to become something. Each . of them likes different colours viz . Blue, Yellow, Green, Violet, Maroon, Black and Red not necessarily in the same order. Each of them wants become Lawyer, Doctor, Engineer, Actor, Pilot, Army Chief and Cricketer not necessarily in the same order. G likes violet colour and wants to become a Doctor. R like yellow colour and wants to become a Cricketer. K does not like black colour and does not want to become an Engineer. The person who likes maroon colour, wants to become an Actor while the person who wants to be Pilot, likes blue colour. B likes red colour but Y does not like green or black colour and he does not want to become an Actor. M wants to became a Lawyer. S does not want to become an Engineer or an Army Chief.
6. Who does want to become an Army Chief ?
(1) Y (2) K (3) B (4) Data inadequate (5) none of these
7. The person who wants to become a Lawyer likes which colour ?
(1) Red (2) Green (3) Blue (4) Data inadequate (5) None of these
8. Y wants to become a/an :
(1) Army Cheif (2) Actor (3) Engineer (4) Pilot (5) None of these
9. Who does like maroon colour ?
(1) S (2) Y (3) K (4) Data inadequate (5) None of these
10. Which of the following combinations of preson — colour —profession is correct ?
(1) M—Blue—Lawyer
(2) B—Red—Cricketer
(3) Y—Blue—Pilot
(4) &–Green—Actor
(5) K—Maroon — Actor
Directions (11-15) : Below is given a passage followed by several possible inferences which can be drawn from, the facts stated in the passage. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.
Mark answer (1): if the inference is "definitely true" i.e,, 'it properly follows from the statement of facts given.
Mark answer (2): if the inference is "probably true" though not "definitely true" in the light of the facts given.
Mark answer (3): if the data are inadequate i.e. from the facts given you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true or false.
Mark answer (4): if the inference is "probably false" though not "definitely false" in the light of the facts given.
Mark answer (5): if the inference is "definitely false" i.e., it cannot, possibly be drawn from the facts given or it contradicts the given facts.
With the purpose of upliftment of Gonda district in Uttar Pradesh, a new formula was evolved for practical success in several fields, such as, irrigation, animal husbandry, dairy' farming, moral uplift and creation of financial resources. Small farms were clustered for irrigation by one diesel pump which could irrigate about 20 acres of land. Youth were prompted to take loans from the banks for purchase of engine pumps to be supplied to the farmers on rent. This formula worked so well that the' villages in Gonda district were saturated with irrigation facilities. Cattle rearing was liked with multiple cropping.
Most of the targets fixed for different, areas were achieved, which was an unusual phenomenon. This could be possible only because of right motivation, participation and initiative of the people. Imagination and creativity combined together helped in finding out workable solutions to the problems of the community.
11. There was no problem and complaint of people residing in entire Gonda district, before the beginning of the Project.
12. Purchasing of engine pumps by individual farmers may be beyond their affordable limits.
13. Earlier farming was not basically one of the professions of people,in Gonda district.
14. By using the same formula upliftment of any other district, is possible.
15. There are very few people who can motivate 'others in the, right direction.
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People today are all burdened by the pressure of society and by the hectic nature of the modern world. Where everything is rapidly moving with giant strides, humans have to adjust themselves according to it.
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In 2003 he is found dead in his pawnshop, with mysterious symbols surrounding his body, yet another victim to "The Monstrum".


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No posts for a while, as work suddenly got very busy (Overtime! Huzzah!). Speaking of work (Segues, still not my forte), a friend on Facebook asked me recently to recount how I became an investigator, given my background. I'm sure this isn't exactly what he had in mind…
How far back can you trace the decisions that brought you to where you are today? Can you clearly identify the tipping point after which your life began to build momentum that, while perhaps not making the outcome certain, without which your current situation would be far less likely?
The life I'm living now I can attribute to a single decision in the 5th grade that I made solely on the basis that it would get me out of class for an hour three afternoons a week. I think of myself in all the time before that as a marble rolling around on a plateau. On that day in the 5th grade the marble rolled to a particular crack in the flat tabletop and began to roll down a particular canyon.
I had all the standard little kid aspirations; Astronaut, Soldier, Garbage Man… and up until the age of 10 I had worked toward all these goals equally and in pretty much the same fashion. That is to say, I ran around a lot, climbed on stuff and got dirty with little thought for the next two hours much less the next day or year. Up until that point I was just as likely to become an insurance salesman or fix air conditioners for a living as become an astronaut. That is until Mrs. King handed out a mimeographed notice one day not long after the beginning of my 5th grade year at Dwight D. Eisenhower elementary school.
We were being given the option to be in the 5th Grade Band. The notice was a list of instruments we could choose from. The band practiced three afternoons a week for about an hour and played in two concerts a year. There in my hand was a golden ticket (Well, actually a white and purple ticket) that would get me out of the classroom for three hours a week. I leapt at the chance! I went directly home and told my mother I wanted to join the band and that I would be playing the drums and mom said "No."
Mom didn't say "No you can't be in the band," she said "You're not playing the drums." Now I don't want to get the drummers out there all het up and thinking bad things about my mom because she's a really nice lady and makes a mean chicken casserole, but I can tell you her two very clearly defined objections and you're not going to like one of them.
1) Noise level. Mom was under the (Mistaken) impression that me learning to play the drums was going to be loud. Perhaps if I'd eventually shown enough talent to continue past learning the snare drum in 5th grade band she'd have had reason to be concerned. A full-on drum set isn't subtle. But they don't send ten-year olds home with a drum set, or even a snare drum… they send them home with a pair of drum sticks and possibly a rubber practice pad. I am positive that learning the drums would have been much quieter than the instrument I did settle on, at least for the first year or so.
2) Talent. Mom was under the (Also mistaken) impression that playing the drums didn't take as much talent as playing a "Real" instrument. (Seriously, if I find out about any of you giving my mom grief I'm gonna be REALLY hacked off. Let it go). Not that I'd displayed tons of innate musical ability up until this point, despite the fact that I did already own an instrument at the time (My father gave me a guitar when I was five for no apparent reason. Somehow over the next 36 years I never found the time to ask him why), but Mom was convinced that drumming was beneath my abilities.
So I settled on the saxophone and for the life of me I can't remember why. I can't recall looking at the form and saying "Wow! The saxophone looks cool!" or anything like that. I've always thought the trumpet was pretty cool actually, and can't think why I didn't pick that, but there you have it. At one time I was a professional actor. I am married to a wonderful woman I love more than my own life. I am an investigator for a private detective agency out in the Wild Wild West. All of these things are because in the 5th grade I decided to play the saxophone in the band so I could get out of class three days a week.
Perhaps further explanation is necessary.
I joined the band. To support my bourgeoning music career my grandparents gave me my own saxophone for Christmas on the condition that I learn to play "Moon River" for them at some point in the future.
I got pretty good at playing the saxophone.
I got really good at playing the saxophone.
I played in the band for the next few years and at the urging of my middle school band director entered competitions where I always came away with top rankings. Then it came time to go to high school. My parents were concerned about the education I would get at our local high school and were particularly anxious about the level of attention paid to the arts given the emphasis locally on sports. A public performing arts high school had opened downtown only a few years before and I auditioned. I was accepted. After a summer at a camp at the local university for talented musicians I would be attending a performing arts high school majoring in instrumental music! I went there to see a performance of South Pacific. The program director wanted me to see the band performing and this was the end of the school's season.
I was completely enraptured. Not with the band, they were in the orchestra pit and out of view, who cared about them? The actors! The actors on stage! I wanted to do THAT!
I had attended a couple of live theatre performances. There had been a school trip to see a production of Comedy of Errors and our 6th grade music teacher had taught us the libretto of the opera Tales of Hoffman before taking us to see it. But this, this was a performance by high school kids! These were people my age! This was something I could do!
I started school that fall in the concert band and took private lessons from a professor at a nearby university. I played alto saxophone but they didn't need an alto saxophone so I was handed a baritone saxophone. I also signed myself up for an elective class in the American Musical Theatre which had a touring performance group. Shortly I was going with the group to other schools to perform for other students. It was all over. Within another year I had changed my major to theatre. My mother had always been concerned that I would starve being a musician and urged me to have another career to fall back on. Acting wasn't on the short list of things she had in mind.
Of course there are multiple factors at play in everyone's life. We get a nudge here, a shove there… that marble barreling down the canyon takes a funny bounce…
I finished up high school as one of a handful of very well regarded actors in the program and was all set to go to a very prestigious arts program when things took a very funny bounce indeed. I had been accepted into the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. I had a full free ride. My girlfriend had been accepted there as well. Things were ticking along quite nicely in fact. Then it all went somewhat pear-shaped.
SMU's football program got the "Death Penalty" for paying players. As a result of this the school's admissions program came under intense scrutiny and independent auditors were called in to vet prospective students receiving scholarships. I had achieved a nearly perfect SAT score in math by filling in half of the test at random. When placed next to the D's in physics and math and the F's in chemistry on my transcript the test scores painted a picture (In the auditor's view) of a wildly intelligent but lazy kid not working up to his potential. I was told to take two math and science classes at a local community college, pass them both, and then re-submit my application to be considered for the fall. I would be cruising into August not knowing where I would be going to college.
I started opening the mail I'd been getting from another university. Turned out they were offering less in the way of scholarships, but they had a very well-respected program and they didn't care that I couldn't add. I would have to take on a good deal of student loan debt and work lots and lots an lots of workstudy hours, but I'd be off to school in the fall. I took it. Ended up meeting my wife there.
So while the immediate cause of the change in schools was a football scandal that had nothing to do with me, my path into the performing arts still goes back to that afternoon in Mrs. King's class.
Moving on…
Through high school and college and after I worked at various children's theatres, outdoor dramas (Large scale outdoor history plays popular in the South and Midwest), and theme parks. I did voice-overs, local commercials, and industrial films. My wife and I lived in the Midwest near our families and I was a working actor, but I wasn't making a living at it. We decided that we'd make a run at New York, feeling we'd regret it later if we didn't give it a shot.
Before moving I wrote a postcard to a friend I'd worked with a few years before. He called to offer some advice on the move. I asked what he was up to and he said "You wouldn't believe me if I told you." Turns out he worked for a detective agency as a "Spotter" looking for counterfeit fashion items in Chinatown. They hired actors exclusively for this position, as most actors are literate, can memorize quickly, are able to change their appearance, and now and again go away for a few months at a time when they get a job.
The minute I got to New York I started pestering these people for a job. After about a year of day gigs as a lighting technician and actually acting from time to time I went to work as a spotter. Two years later I was made a full-time investigator. It paid more than I was making as an actor and was steady work.
Later the company imploded. I went back to acting for a while and then we decided that seven years was long enough and that I needed to leave New York before I killed someone (Likely a cabbie) or had a stroke (While beating a cabbie to death). I pursued a number of possibilities, but it was my experience as an investigator that won the day and we moved to the Wild Wild West.
And here we are. Along the way I've tried to be other things. I fought hard for several years to be a New York City firefighter. In the long, quiet watches of the night I sometimes fear I will lie on my deathbed regretting not becoming a blacksmith. But at the end of the day, here I am. I'm 43 years old. I've been married for 19 years. I've worked in the PI business for the last fifteen years because I needed a day job when I was trying to make it as an actor in NYC. I was a professional actor because I'd spent years training throughout high school and college where, by the by, I met the incredible woman who would become my wife. I'd studied acting after seeing a show at a performing arts school where I'd been accepted as a musician. I'd made it as a musician because of the support I'd received from my family and the excellent training from my teachers and band directors along the way, starting with Mr. Sloan in the Eisenhower Elementary School 5th grade band… that I joined so I could get out of class when I was 10 years old.
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Title: Chimes of a Cracked Southern BelleAuthor: Susan Reinhardt
Genre: Women's Fiction/Humor
Publication Date: June 23, 2013
Event organized by: Literati Author Services
Dee, a 38-year-old heroine to root for, sets out on a path winding with loveable kooks, wanting to prove there is a great life on the other side of tragedy and a crazed ex behind bars who continues to mail threatening letters from prison. Her new adventure begins two years after the crime spree that nearly stopped her heart and left her flat-lining. She packs up her two young kids and settles in her parents' South Carolina hometown where she deals with a delightful, but over-the-top mama who pretends her grown daughters are virgins.
Dee finds new purpose for herself and her children, discovering joy in places she never expected it: in a nursing home where she tends to the likes of 104-year-old Annie Sue who still drives and has a hankering for cold draft beer. Offering heaps of comic relief, Dee's Aunt Weepie lives to crash funerals just to get the covered-dish meals after the gravesides, no matter she has no idea who's in the coffins. Her antics lead her to making a daring decision that could change Dee's life forever.
As Dee begins a journey toward recovery and becoming a registered nurse, a dark secret resurfaces, one that if handled right, could be her ticket to allowing herself to love again.
Six Fun Facts about character
1. The main character Prudy Jeter, changes her name to Dee Millings, her maiden name and "Dee" a cuter form of Prudy.
2. She's 38, quite fetching and not one of those gorgeous size 6's. In fact, her butt is on the wide side, and her kooky mother likes to tell her to either work at the Estee Lauder counter or become a Lane Bryant model.
3. She's survived a near-murder at the hands of her former husband and is starting a new life, trying to raise two small kids and become a nurse.
4. Her job is in a nursing home, where one of the main characters is the fun and adorable Annie Sue, a 104-year-old spitfire not willing to give up her driver's license. She says if they take it away, she'll finally start drinking. Wait and see what happens.
5. She decides to Google her first love, the man of her high school dreams who took her virginity on the country club golf course. They "parred" every hole over that long, hot summer.
6. Her mother has other ideas and hates her ex, because she can't get over the fact his tinkled on her lawn while singing drunken Christmas Carols. Will this romance work? Or will the mother's choice of suitors prevail?
Susan Reinhardt, a well-known, award-winning columnist is author of six books along with many anthologies.
Her bestselling book of humor, "Not Tonight Honey, Wait 'Til I'm a Size 6," is now in its 7th printing. This was followed by "Don't Sleep with a Bubba," A Book of the Year winner, and "Dishing with the Kitchen Virgin," a best-selling collection of hilarious culinary disasters with a dash of PG-13 humor and a smidgeon of sex. All were published by Kensington in New York City.
Her recent books include participating in the Malaprop's Book Store bestseller, "Naked Came the Leaf Peeper," in which a dozen of Western North Carolina's most well-known authors went wild with a serial novel, each taking a turn with his or her own chapter. The book was highly praised by Charles Frazier, author of "Cold Mountain," along with "Eat Pray Love's" Elizabeth Gilbert.
In November, 2012, she and co-author and editor DC Stanfa released "Fifty Shades of Funny: Hook-ups, Break-ups, and Crack-ups," featuring some of the most famous authors and bloggers around, including their own tales of romantic misadventure and blunders.
Soon, she will release her biggest project to date: Her first novel, 10 years in the making titled, "Chimes from a Cracked Southern Belle.
In addition to writing, she's a stand-up comedian, public speaker, public servant, taxi driver to her teen daughter, debit card to her 20-year-old son, and a borderline candidate to appear on "The Hoarders" Buried Alive!" if you saw her bedroom/office and the amount of books and stacked papers.
She is mother of two: daughter Lindsey, 14, and son Niles, 20. They are her true loves and the very reason she BEGS her husband (second hubby) for Botox at least once a year.
Reinhardt is involved in many charities, including child and animal welfare groups and is a community volunteer.
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June, for so many, is the month for graduations. The area we live in, however, with very few exceptions holds graduation in May. Perhaps because it's getting just too hot in June. Early morning and late evening are the only times around here to walk the dog or work in the garden; the rest of the day one hunkers down in whatever cool, shady, or air-conditioned area one can find.
Not so in Cambridge. Graduation is held in June, on the lawn with thousands in attendance, and the reading of the names of the graduates takes a full two hours or more. Family members bring newspapers and books; at least one knitter was in attendance. I confess that we brought a sackful of snacks and a cooler with ice and water. Not to mention the knitting bag. We were fortunate to be able to sit underneath a very shady tree, and a good breeze off the Charles river also helped. It's a marvelous thing to finally see a child (now very much an adult) finally make it all the way through school and get the long-sought-after doctoral degree (and a really impressive medieval gown, to boot). Plus it's the rare occasion that sees all five brothers and sisters together.
I'm taking a "creative day" today. No serious pursuits, just whatever I feel drawn to do. Michael has moved back home for the next six weeks as he does a local summer internship. Still no job interview scheduled; part of the reason for a creative day in order to keep my mind on other things than interviews.
Happy Father's Day to all dads and granddads in your life!


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Convergence XV took place on July 17-20, 2009 in Long Beach, CA, aboard the Queen Mary.
Convergence 15 Long Beach official website
The Bids
Long Beach, CA WINNER
Axel's completely original Omaha bid[1] Omaha, NE
The Voting
|1st Round Votes
|2nd Round Votes
|Boo's Pants
|Long Beach, CA
|Omaha, NE
|Seattle, WA
Note: second round votes omit ones where second round was the same option as first round, and for which first round was Boo's Pants.
The Committee
Eilis - Captain
Eveofdstruction - Captain
Spacekadt - Captain
Carrie Monster - DJs/Swag
Trystan L. Bass - Fashion Show
Madelyn - Volunteer Coordinator/Catherder
Jason - AV and all-around Man Friday
Scar - Shore Guide Coordinator
sloot - Token Canadian and all-around Man Friday
Duane - Lifeboat
Others Not Officially On Committee But Who Were Invaluable In Their Help
The Drama
The vendor coordinator quit four days before the event, and captain Laura endured two surgeries (one a week before C15, the other two days before), a pulmonary embolism, a wheelchair, and frequent needles. Laura came to C15 straight from the hospital. Is this a first?
The Party
The Band
The DJs
- Carrie Monster
- ianNothing
- Voodoo
- Scar
- Keith
- Satori
- Wookie
- dj d r o w n (aka Madelyn)
- Shannon Stewart
The Official Events
Bon Voyage Party and Speakeasy
Moonlight Promenade Fashion Show
Queen's Emporium Vendors Bazaar
Marooned!! Beach Party and BBQ
Exclusive Late-Night Queen Mary Ghosts and Legends Tour
The End of Prohibition Formal Dinner/Dance
afterparties in Steerage!!
The Unofficial Events
CorpGoth dinner
alt.gothic.fashion clothing swap
The Photos
Official Program etc archived on User:Siobhan's website.
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New Venezuelan Telecom Law Strikes a Blairesque Balance
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Did British Prime Minister Tony Blair call up Venezuela?
The South American country has a new telecommunications law that rings more of Third Way policies than the pro-Cuba rhetoric often associated with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Description of 1283 HERMITAGE AVENUE, CLEARWATER, FL 33764
Great 2 bedroom/2 bath/2 car garage home ready for you to add your own personal touches. Home needs some updating and priced to sell. Great location just off main road for easy commuting. Area beaches are within 30 minutes, 2 airports within 1 hour. Restaurants and shopping are all nearby. 2nd bath is in garage. Seller motivated, bring offers. Great rental or investment.
Directions to 1283 HERMITAGE AVENUE, CLEARWATER, FL 33764
Gulf to bay to south on 19, stay on frontage road, turn west into Tropic Hills subdivision, right on Burma then right on Brentwood and then right on Hermitage and home will be on the right.
Features of 1283 HERMITAGE AVENUE, CLEARWATER, FL 33764
- Elementary school: Belcher Elementary-PN
- High school: Clearwater High-PN
- Cooktop
- Oven
- Refrigerator
- Ceiling fan(s)
- Central air
- Central heat
- Attached garage
- Garage spaces: 2
- Deck
- Patio
- Porch
- Stucco exterior
- Lot acreage is: 0.16
- Subdivision: TROPIC HILLS
- Cable television available
- Carpet
- Ceramic tile flooring
- Tile flooring
- Vinyl flooring
- Window coverings
- Tile roof
- Slab Foundation
- Property style: ranch
- Total square feet: 906.00
- Tax year: 2017


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CHARLESTON, INC., a Nebraska Corporation, Plaintiff,v.DERRICK PFEIL, Defendant. CHARLESTON, INC., a Nebraska Corporation, Plaintiff,v.DANIEL PFEIL, Defendant.
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Charleston, Inc. is in the business of selling HVAC and
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1 Stepan Zemtsov, Vyacheslav Baburin INNOVATION POTENTIAL OF REGIONS IN NOTHERN EURASIA Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of geography Department of economic and social geography of Russia
2 Object – innovation potential of Russian regions as a set of conditions, which positively affect an ability to generate and diffuse new technologies Hypothesis – Innovation potential is concentrated in the largest agglomerations, and Russian Northern regions have lower innovation potential than other regions (opposite to Pilyasovs idea of creativity index) Purpose – to identify regions with the highest potential, where publiс support of innovation activities would be the most effective Structure 1.Assessment of innovation potential 2.Assessment of innovativeness (ability to be first in absorption of innovation) 3.Assessment of regional innovation clusters potential Hypothesis, purpose, structure
3 Figure 1. Russian Northern Territory. Regions on the scheme from the west to the east: 1 – Murmansk oblast, 2 – Karelia Republic, 3 – Arkhangelsk oblast, 4 – Nenetsky autonomous district, 5 – Komy Republic, 6 – Perm oblast, 7 – Khanty-Mansiyskiy autonomous district, 8 – Yamalo-Nenetskiy autonomous district, 9 – Tyumen, 10 – Tomsk oblast, 11 – Altay Republic, 12 – Krasnoyarsk kray, 13 – Tyva Republic, 14 – Irkutsk oblast, 15 – Buryatia Republic, 16 – Yakutia Republic, 17 – Zabaykalskiy kray, 18 – Amurskaya oblast, 19 – Khabarovsk oblast, 20 – Primorskiy kray, 21 – Magadan oblast, 22 – Sakhalin oblast, 23 – Chukotka autonomous district, 24 – Kamchatka kray.
4 Structure I. Theoretical background II. Generation of innovation (assessment of innovation potential) III. Diffusion of innovation (assessment of innovativeness) IV. Regional innovation clusters (assessment of potential and territorial priorities) V. Conclusion
5 I.2. Cartogram of concentration in innovation activity
6 I.3. Assessment of innovation potential. Criticism of other approaches Too many indicators (more than 15: HSE, NAIRIT, Bortnik, etc.) – hard to compose, hard to understand the purpose and results, results can be averaged Some indicators are not correlated (Pilyasov, Zubarevich, HSE, etc.) - results can be averaged Some indicators are highly correlated (Pilyasov, NAIRIT) – results have a bias No diffusion stage No inner structure of regions Doubtful results of leadership: Chechnya, Mordovya, Magadan, etc. 6
7 I.4. Methodology 1.38 indicators of innovation potential and activity, based on expert interviews, existing literature and indices 2. Indicators were divided using conceptual model: Conditions of social economic space (SESP: economic geographical position) Development factors of territorial socio-economic system (SES), according to spheres of social life (economic, political, social, cultural) Instruments of regional innovation system (RIS), according to stages of innovation cycle (education – science – applied science –production – consumption) 3. Factor, correlation and normal distribution analysis to select proxy indicators
8 Socio-economic space 1.1. Economic-geographical position (capital, agglomeration, coastal area) 1.2. Population density 1.3. Percentage of urban citizens (urbanization ) 1.4. Percentage of population in cities with more than 200 th. people Territorial socio- economic system Technological sphere 2.1. Percentage of ICT expenditure in GDP 2.2. Computers per capita 2.3. Computers with Internet per capita 2.4. Percentage of organizations with web-site 2.5. Percentage of organizations with special programs Economic sphere 3. GDP per capita Social sphere 4.1. Percentage of people with high education 4.2. Migration per capita 4.3. Percentage of foreign migrants Cultural sphere 5.1. Percentage of households, where members are of different ethnic group Informational sphere 6.1. Percentage of Internet users Regional innovation system Education 7.1. Number of university students per capita Science 8.1. Number of scientists per capita 8.2. Number of registered patents per 1000 employees Transfer (RnD) 9.1. Percentage of employees in R & D sector in total employment 9.2. Percentage of RnD expenditure in GDP 9.3. Percentage of RnD organizations Production Percentage of technological innovations expenditure in GDP Number of new technologies per 1000 employees Percentage of innovation active organizations Innovative production percentage in total production Consumption Service access to information via the Internet, GB per year per urban citizen The number of registered mobile subscriber terminals per capita
9 I.6. Index of innovation potential The first factor (Index of absorption): urbanization (%), computers with Internet access per 100 employees, GDP per capita, percentage of multinational families (%), percentage of Internet-users (%), and mobile phones per capita. The second factor (Index of innovation potential): SESP: economic-geographical position (points) TSES: percentage of residents in cities with population more than 200 thousand people (%) percentage of people with a higher education in the population (%) RIS: number of university students per 10 thousand people percentage of employees in R & D sector in total employment (%) number of registered patents per 1000 employees percentage of organizations with a website (%)
10 I.7. Integral innovation potential 1.The highest 2.High 3.High-middle 4.Low-middle 5.Low 6.Periphery
11 I.8. Assessment of development potential of regional innovation systems 1.The highest 2.High 3.Middle 4.Low 5.Periphery
12 II.1. Spatial diffusion of innovation Mobile phones usage, or subscriptions (active SIM cards per 100 people) per capita
13 II.2. Clusters by diffusion of innovation. Cluster analysis and comparison with Rogers model
14 II.3. Bass model (Bass, 1969) Population of N max individuals can be divided on two categories: innovators (those with a constant propensity to purchase, a) imitators (those whose propensity to purchase is influenced by the amount of previous adopters, b) The model can be rewritten from original differential form in terms of its discrete analogue (quadratic equation – parabola) N(t+1) – N(t) = a*N max + (b*N max – a) *N(t) – b*N(t) 2 = A 1 + A 2 *N(t) + A 3 * N(t) 2 + e(t) where a = A 1 /N max, b = – A 3* N max, N max = (–A 2 ±(A 2 2 –4*A 1 *A 3 ))/2*A 3 )
15 II.4. Index of innovativeness (a) 1.Innovators 2.Early adopters 3.Early majority 4.Late majority 5.Early laggards 6.Late Laggards
16 II.5. Priorities for regional innovation policy
17 III.1. Regional innovation clusters in Environmental management 130 organizations: two universities – forecasting centres and 12 universities – members of the network, interacting with outside universities (12 organizations), research organizations (42) and entities (62). The market is about 6,2 trillion rubles (140 billion euro) from 2012 to 2020.
18 III.2. Regional and interregional innovation clusters in Environmental management
19 Conclusion Innovation potential of Russian regions can be described by core-periphery model: the largest cities are the centres for generation and diffusion of innovation on the northern and southern peripheries. The largest innovation centres in Northern Territories are Tomsk, Perm and Khabarovsk After the collapse of the Soviet Union the innovation space was divided into a number of isolated and poorly connected centres, concentration increased, and "lifeless" periphery was formed. These negative processes have not been overcome, despite the economic achievements of the 2000s. Less than 10 per cent of patents (2010) was generated in the Northern regions Most of the Northern regions have the low rate of diffusion, except coastal and borderlands (Murmansk oblast, Khabarovsk, Primorsky and Kamchatka kray). At the initial phase, most regions have similar level of saturation (parameter a), but further absorption stops due to the low population density. More than 30% of Environmental management organizations were located in the northern regions. Interregional clusters (Tyumen, Perm and Siberian (Tomsk)) were identified. The regions are actively included in network with universities and science centres, serving as the field for experiments and main consumers of new technologies.
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