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Delhi Metro chief Sridharan hospitalised after complaining of chest pain
File photo of Delhi Metro chief E. Sreedharan.
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Managing Director E Sreedharan was admitted to a local hospital this morning after he complained of uneasiness while waiting at the Delhi airport to board a flight to Kolkata.
DMRC sources told NetIndian that Mr Sreedharan, 77, was rushed to the Apollo Hospital here, where his condition was said to be stable.
Later, the hospital said Mr Sreedharan was admitted there after he complained of severe chest pain.
"He was immediately investigated and is currently being actively managed for his ailment in the Coronary Intensive Care. A multidisciplinary team of doctors is monitoring his progress," a statement from the hospital added.
Delhi Metro chief E Sreedharan hospitalised after complaining of uneasiness
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Managing Director E Sreedharan was admitted to a local hospital after he complained of uneasiness while waiting at the Delhi airport to board a flight to Kolkata.
Lt Gen Bikram Singh is new GOC-in-C of Eastern Command
Lt Gen Bikram Singh today assumed charge as the General Officer Commanding –In-Chief of the Eastern Command in Kolkata, suceeding Gen V K Singh, who has become the Chief of the Army Staff.
An alumnus of the National Defence Academy (NDA), he was commissioned into the Sikh Light Infantry Regiment in 1972. He is a post-graduate from the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. He has done Higher Command Course at Mhow and US Army War College, Pennsylvania, United States.
An official press release said Lt Gen Bikram Singh has, in 38 years of active service, held a number of important Command and Staff appointments. He commanded an Infantry Battalion in the North East and along the Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir. He was the Corps Commander of the prestigious 15 Corps in his last command tenure.
Lt Gen Bikram Singh has served in three UN Peace Keeping Missions. In his last UN assignment, he was the Deputy Force Commander and GOC of a Multinational Division in Africa, comprising officers and troops of 48 nationalities. He has been awarded the Uttam Yudha Seva Medal (UYSM), Ati Vishisth Seva Medal (AVSM), Sena Medal and Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) for his meritorious service so far.
He has also held some important staff appointments at Army Headquarters, which include two tenures each in the Directorate General of Military Operations and the Directorate General of Perspective Planning. Before taking over as GOC-in-C, Eastern Command, he was the Director of General of Staff Duties at IHQ of Ministry of Defence (Army).
Besides holding two Master's degrees from India, he also has a Master's in Strategic Defence Studies from the US.
Air Marshal Raha is Senior Air Staff Officer, Western Air Command
Air Marshal Arup Raha took over as the Senior Air Staff Officer at Western Air Command, New Delhi today.
An alumnus of the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakvasla, he was commissioned into the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force on December 14, 1974.
Air Marshal Raha has approximately 3400 hours of flying to his credit. A Fighter Combat Leader and an experienced Flying Instructor, he is an alumnus of the prestigious Tri-Services Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) and National Defence College (NDC).
He has held various important field and staff appointments besides serving as a Directing Staff at Flying Instructors School (FIS), Tambaram and Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment (TACDE), Gwalior.
He has also functioned as an Inspector in the Directorate of Air Staff Inspection (DASI), at Air Head Quarters, Military and Air Attaché in Embassy of India, Kiev, Ukraine and Deputy Commandant at Air Force Academy, Hyderabad.
He has commanded a MiG-29 Squadron and two frontline bases in the Western Air Command and is the Commodore Commandant of 47 Squadron, a Mig- 29 Squadron known as the "Black Archers".
Prior to the present appointment, he was Commanding the Advance Head Quarters, Western Air Command, Chandimandir.
For his distinguished service, Air Marshal Raha was awarded the Vayu Sena Medal in 1995 and Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 2009, an official press release added.
Sanjiv Handa takes over as Member Mechanical, Railway Board
Sanjiv Handa takes over as Member (Mechanical), Railway Board, in New Delhi on March 31, 2010.
Mr Sanjiv Handa, who was the General Manager of the East Central Railway, took over as Member Mechanical, Railway Board and ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India here today.
He has succeeded Mr Praveen Kumar, who superannuated from the post yesterday, an official press release said.
A Special Class Railways Apprenctice Officer of the 1969 Batch, Mr Handa joined the Indian Railways Service of Mechanical Engineering on January 19, 1974.
Before becoming General Manager of the East Central Railway on November 19 last year, Mr Handa held various keypositions in the Railway Board, South Eastern, South East Central, Southern and South Western Railways. He also worked as Additional Member (Mechanical Engineering) in Railway Board.
During his tenure as Divisional Railway Manager, Kharagpur, the Route Relay Interlocking system at Howrah station was upgraded. The prolonged non-interlocking working forced suspension of virtually all trains into Howrah for some days through Eastern Railway. However, Mr Handa ensured that train services from South Eastern Railway did not cease. Overnight an alternate was created at Santraganchi with no disruption to any of the long distance trains.
As Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME), South East Central Railway he introduced 25 tonne operation for the first time on Indian Railways. Initial manufacture of Box 'N'HL wagons which have become the mainstay of Indian Railways began in Golden Rock Workshop while he was CME, Southern Railway.
Goods trains through the steepest Ghat section of Indian Railways, the Castle Rock-Quelem section, were earlier running only after breakup of loads to distribute 8 WDG3 required for each train. Mr Handa started using 5 WDG4 instead and confined them to the front and rear only. Load split was therefore avoided and overnight the line capacity was doubled.
Features like opposite dynamic brakes were exploited for the first time on Indian Railways and even today the South Western Railway is the only Railway on Indian Railways to do so. Again South Western Railway became the first Railway to introduce distributed power system on locomotives allowing the traffic department to avoid engine and break van reversal at terminals. All these strategies radically improved the efficiency of operation.
Gen V K Singh takes over as Chief of the Army Staff
General Vijay Kumar Singh took over as the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army here on Wednesday, succeeding General Deepak Kapoor who has superannuated.
General V.K. Singh takes over the charge as new Chief of Army Staff from General Deepak Kapoor, in New Delhi on March 31, 2010.
General Vijay Kumar Singh took over as the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army here today, succeeding General Deepak Kapoor who has superannuated.
The change over of the baton was solemnised in a brief ceremony in the Army Chief's office.
Gen Singh is a third generation officer of the Rajput Regiment. An alumnus of the Birla Public School, Pilani and the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakvasla, Pune, he was commissioned in 2 Rajput and later commanded the same batallion with distinction.
An official press release said Gen Singh had participated in the Bangladesh War of 1971 and Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka, where he was awarded the Yudh Seva Medal. He has vast operational experience in Counter Insurgency Operations, Line of Control and High Altitude Area environment.
According to the release, he has had an illustrious career with outstanding performance in all courses of instruction. A graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington with a competitive vacancy, he has also excelled on a number of professional courses abroad. He is also a graduate of US Army Rangers Course of US Army War College.
The release said the General has wide ranging experience of various high profile command, staff and instructional appointments. He commanded his battalion in an active LC environment and Brigade in an operationally sensitive area.
General V.K. Singh, the new Chief of Army Staff with the General Deepak Kapoor, in New Delhi on March 31, 2010.
While in command of a Counter Insurgency Force in Jammu & Kashmir, he was awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal for his distinguished service as General Officer Commanding.
The General Officer commanded the prestigious Strike Corps in Western Sector before taking over the reins of the Eastern Command. He has been an instructor at Infantry School twice and Chief Instructor at JLW (Commando Wing). He has also served as an Instructor at the IMTRAT headquarters.
He was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal by the President in recognition of his exceptional and distinguished services on eve of Republic Day 2009.
Air Marshal Karnik to take over as DG (Inspection and Safety)
Air Marshal Ajay Shriniwas Karnik will take over as Director General (Inspection and Safety) at Air Headquarters here tomorrow, an official press release said.
An alumnus of National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakvasla, he was commissioned into the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force (IAF) in June, 1972.
Air Marshal Karnik has flown over 3000 hours on fighter aircraft like MiG-21 Bis and MiG-29. A fighter combat leader and a qualified flying instructor, he is also an alumnus of Air War College, University of United States Air Force (USAF), Montgomery, United States.
Having trained in the erstwhile Soviet Union on MiG-29, he went on to command a prestigious MiG-29 Squadron. He has also commanded important operational Air Force bases in the Western Desert Sector and the Western Coastal Region of India.
Air Marshal Karnik has vast experience in operational flying, training, Command and Staff appointments, having served as Head of Training Team (Air) and Senior Instructor at the premier tri-services Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington, and Air Officer Commanding, Maritime Air Operations, Mumbai. He has also served as Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) Eastern Air Command (EAC), Shillong.
He has been awarded the Ati Vishist Seva Medal and Vayu Sena Medal by the President of India for his distinguished service of very high order.
Air Marshal Karnik is presently Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) at Western Air Command.
Carl-Peter Forster appointed MD of Tata Motors
Mumbai, March 30, 2010
Automobile major Tata Motors today said its Board of Directors had appointed Mr Carl-Peter Forster as Managing Director and Group CEO of the company with effect from April 1.
A press release from the company said the decision, taken by the Board at its meeting today, was in continuation of the announcement on February 15 of the appointment of Mr Forster as the Group CEO, with overall responsibility for Tata Motors' operations globally, including Jaguar Land Rover.
Mr. Forster, 55, has 24 years of international experience in the automobile industry. Most recently he was the head of General Motors, Europe, where he looked after Opel/Vauxhall, Saab and the European activities of Chevrolet.
Before joining General Motors in 2001, Mr. Forster had 13 years of experience in BMW where he held various positions including that of Managing Director of BMW South Africa and was also on the Managing Board of BMW responsible for manufacturing.
Swami Nithyananda resigns as head of his ashram
Bangalore, March 30, 2010
File photo of Swami Nithyananda
Swami Nithyananda, who allegedly figured in a sleazy video clip aired by a South Indian television channel some weeks ago, today said he was resigning as the head of the Dhyanapeetam ashram near here and all the trusts associated with it.
"I have decided to live a life of spiritual seclusion, for some indefinite time, to which the acharyas have agreed in principle," he said in a statement posted on Dhyanapeetam's website.
He said he had, in view of the developments in the last three weeks following the media reports about him, met some of the leading Hindu acharyas at Hardwar.
He said he had briefed them about "what is fact and what is fiction" and candidly discussed what had happened. He said he had sought their spiritual and moral support, guidance and their views on the future course for Dhyanapeetam. "I had also undertaken that I would act entirely in accordance with their counsel," he said.
"In view of this, and to enable the Dhyanapeetam to function with such amended agenda as may be necessary, I am resigning as the head of the Dhyanapeetam and from all the trusts associated with it. A board of trustees consisting from sadhakas of the Dhyanapeetam, who are non-controversial, will henceforth manage the Dhyanapeetam. I have also requested the Acharyas to help the newly constituted trust reorient the activities of the Dhyanapeetam increasingly to undertake spiritually oriented service activities and to guide the trustees. I have also directed the new trustees of Dhyanapeetam to seek the counsel and go by the advice of the Acharyas," Swami Nithyananda said.
"I sincerely thank all those who I had the good fortune of being associated with and guiding in the last decade and more. I request all of them to pursue the Sadhana they had been initiated into, for, the Sadhana is more important than the Initiator. The recent media reports do not in any way affect the validity or the success of one's Sadhana. Whenever, if required I will return and talk about all that had happened as an independent witness to my conduct with a clean heart and pure soul, and also in a less prejudiced atmosphere," he added.
Justice Reddi takes over as Chairman, Law Commission
Mr Justice P.V.Reddi, a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, has taken over as Chairman, 19th Law Commission of India here today.
He was, before the present assignment, Chairperson, Authority for Advance Rulings, an official press release added.
Justice V Gopalagowda appointed CJ of Orissa High Court
Justice V.Gopalagowda
The President has appointed Mr Justice Venkategowda Gopalagowda, a Judge of the Karnataka High Court, as the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court.
An official press release said here today that the appointment would be with effect from the date he assumed charge of his office.
Mr Justice Gopalagowda, 58, enrolled as advocate on November 14, 1975 and practised in the Karnataka High Court for several years before he was appointed as an Additional Judge in June, 1997 and as a permanent Judge in June, 1999.
A separate announcement said the President had, in consultation with the Chief Justice of India, transferred Mr Justice Ishrat Masroor Quddusi, Judge of the Orissa High Court, as a Judge of the Chhattisgarh High Court.
He has been directed to assume charge of his office in the Chhattisgarh High Court on or before April, 5, 2010, the release added.
Karan Singh recalls his French Connection
Dr Karan Singh President ICCR being presented a certificate by the Cannes City Council in front of Hotel Martinez where he was born.
Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) President Karan Singh spoke here last night about his not-so-well-known French connection and a sentimental journey he had made to the Mediterranean town of Cannes, famous for its annual film festivals, last month.
"By a curious concatenation of circumstances I was born in the Hotel Martinez, one of the leading establishments on the Cote d' azur way back in 1931, well before the Second World War broke out," Dr Karan Singh, the only son of then Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, said.
He was speaking at a function hosted by the Ambassador of France at the French Embassy to bring the curtains down on the Bonjour India Festival, a festival of France in India.
Dr Karan Singh, a former Union Minister and now a senior Congress leader, explained that his father was representing the Indian princes at the Round Table Conference in London in 1930.
"As I was already in my mother's womb, he decided that they would all go to the salubrious climate of Cannes," he said.
"He had taken the entire third floor of the then newly constructed hotel Martinez located on the sea front, and it was in the Suite 318-319-320 that I was born," he said.
Dr Karan Singh said that, during his visit last month for the UNESCO Executive Council, he had one day free and had decided to take a brief private trip to Cannes, where he spent a night in the room where he was born. He said he had done this once earlier with his wife half a century ago, but felt that another sentimental journey was indicated.
"My mother was a village girl from Kangra, and I kept thinking how she must have felt being suddenly transported into not only in an alien family but in alien country. The hotel is still flourishing, and they were astonished that someone was actually born inside their hotel and returned for a visit almost eight decades later. In fact, the Cannes City Council gave me a special certificate and the local press ran the story in a big way," he said.
"I suppose the place of one's birth has something to do not only with past life karma, but also must have some effect upon the present life," he said.
"I was brought back to India when I was six weeks old, but the knowledge that I was born in Cannes is indelibly imprinted in my mind because this had to be mentioned in all my school certificates, passports and other official documents. Expecting to be born among the mountains, I found that in fact I was born on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Perhaps this fact subconsciously helped me to develop a global consciousness long before the actual process of globalization took place," he said.
He said that, because of this, he found himself at home wherever in this world he might travel.
"My late wife and I travelled incessantly to all continents(except the Arctic once) for half a century, visiting places as diverse and far-flung as Macchu-Picchu in Peru and Angkor Vat in Cambodia; Bariloche in Argentina and Hamilton Island in Australia. In fact, I have been literally a born traveller because I started my travels even as I was in my mother's womb," he added.
Dr Karan Singh is due to return to France to inaugurate the reciprocal Festival of India in France, titled "Namaste France" in Paris on April 14.
During the Festival of France in India, the Embassy of France and Cultures France presented the richness and diversity of the cultural links between the two countries.
More than 100 events in 18 cities were held during the three-month-long festival featuring 250 artistes, musicians, researchers and entrepreneurs from France.
Mani Shankar Aiyar, Javed Akhtar, B Jayashree nominated to RS
Mani Shankar Aiyer
Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, well-known lyricist Javed Akhtar, development economist and educationist Bhalchandra Mungekar, Kannada actress B Jayashree and scholar and music exponent Ram Dayal Munda were today nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
An official press release said the President had nominated them to fill the vacancies caused due to the retirement of nominated members.
Mr Aiyar, 69, is a former career diplomat who left the Indian Foreign Service to join politics in the 1989 after having served under then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi while in the Government.
Educated at Doon School, Dehradun, St Stephen's College, Delhi and Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, Mr Aiyar was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1991 and then in 1999 and 2004. He served as Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Panchayati Raj from May 2004 to January 2006.
Later, Petroleum was taken away from him and he was given charge of Youth Affairs & Sports as well as Development of North-Eastern Region. In April 2008, Youth Affairs and Sports was taken away from him.
Apart from four books, Mr Aiyar is a columnist and a regular contributor to various newspapers and magazines in India and abroad. He was conferred the "Outstanding Parliamentarian Award" for 2006 by the President.
Mr Munda is a former Vice-Chancellor of Ranchi University. In 2007, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and he was chosen for the Padma Shri this year for his contribution to the field of arts.
Dr Mungekar is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mumbai and served as a Member of the Planning Commission from 2004 to 2009. He is the President and Chairman of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He has served as a Member of the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices.
Professor Bhalchandra Mungekar
Ms Jayashree is the grand-daughtr of Gubbi Veeranna, the architect of the well-known Gubbi Company and is recognised as one of Karnataka's best theatre artistes. She has directed and acted in several players under the banner of "Spandana", a group where she served as Creative Director. She has won several awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1997.
Mr Akhtar, 65, is a well-known Urdu poet, lyricist and scriptwriter and was part of the script-writing duo Salim-Javed in the late 1970s and 1980s. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2007. He has won several awards, including the National Award five times.
Deepak Vohra is next Ambassador to Poland
Mr Deepak Vohra, Ambassador of India to Sudan, has been appointed as the country's next Ambassador to Poland.
An official press release from the Ministry of External Affairs said Mr Vohra was expected to take up his new assignment shortly.
B S Meena appointed Secretary, Heavy Industries
Mr B S Meena, at present Special Secretary and Financial Adviser in the Ministry of Steel, has been appointed as the Secretary, Department of Heavy Industries, in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
Mr Meena, an officer of the 1975 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Maharashtra cadre, will succeed Mr Satyanarayana Dash, who will retire from service on March 31.
An official press release said the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) had also approved the appointment of Mr Jamini Kumar Sharma as Member Secretary of the Tariff Commission under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Mr Sharma, an officer of the 1975 batch of the IAS (Madhya Pradesh cadre), will succeed Mr Raghubir Singh, a retired Indian Accounts & Audit Service (IA&AS) officer, and will have the rank and pay of Secretary, the release added.
Arif Khan, Indian envoy to Italy, passes away
Indian Ambassador to Italy Arif S Khan passed away in Rome in the early hours of today after a brief illness, official sources said.
He was 58. He is survived by his wife Farida and two sons.
According to sources in the Ministry of External Affairs, Mr Khan was undergoing treatment for cancer for some time.
Mr Khan, a Secretary-rank officer, had served in key positions, including as Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs and later as the first head of the Public Diplomacy Division that was was set up a few years ago to help domestic audiences understand diplomacy and foreign policy better.
An officer of the 1975 batch of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Mr Khan also served in the Indian missions in Paris and New York.
Mohan Lal, Resul Pookutty conferred D. Litt. degrees
Thiruvananthapuram, March 16, 2010
File picture of Mohan Lal.
Well-known Malayalam actor Mohan Lal and Oscar Award-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty were today awarded honorary D. Litt. degrees by the Sri Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit at Kaladi in Kerala.
The degrees were conferred on them by Kerala Governor R S Gavai, who is the Chancellor of the University, at a special convocation.
Eminent Sanskrit scholar M. Harihara Puthra Sarma, popularly known as M H Sastrikal, was also awarded the honorary degree in absentia. His son, Madhavan, accepted the honour on his behalf.
The Syndicate of the University had in September last year recommended the award of the honorary degrees to the three persons for their meritorious contributions to their respective field.
Former AP Deputy CM Konera Ranga Rao passes away
Fomer Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Koneru Ranga Rao died in Hyderabad today after a brief illness.
Mr Rao, 75, was admitted to a hospital in Hyderabad about ten days ago for treatment of respiratory problems. He breathed his last around 1700 hours today, sources said.
He is survived by two sons and two daughters. His wife had predeceased him. His funeral will be held tomorrow at his native village Gudavalli in Krishna district.
Mr Rao served as Deputy Chief Minister during the regime of Chief Minister K Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy during 1989-94.
Union Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy condoled Mr Rao's death, saying Andhra Pradesh had lost a senior political leader.
"As a leader from Dalit community, he was a model of simplicity and sincerity. His dedication is evident from the simple fact that he lived in the 'basti' he was born into, in spite of the fact that he came to occupy big public offices. The best tribute we can pay to him is to follow his example of commitment and modesty," he said.
Mukesh Ambani richest Indian, ranked 4th in world: Forbes
File photo of Mukesh Ambani.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani has retained his position as the richest Indian with a net worth of $ 29 billion in the Forbes Billionaires list published today.
Ambani is one of two Indians in the top 10 of the list that has a new richest man at the top: Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, who has beaten Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to take the first spot. Gates is at number two and Buffet is in the third place.
The Reliance chief has jumped three places to fourth this year from last year's seventh rank. He is followed at number five by steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal with a net worth of $ 28.5 billion.
Ambani has been ranked the richest Indian for the second straight year. According to the magazine, his net worth has increased by $ 9.5 billion in the last one year.
Mukesh Ambani's estranged younger brother Anil Ambani has slipped two ranks to finish in the 36th spot. The younger Ambani's net worth has increased by $ 3.6 billion to $ 13.7 billion.
Wipro Chairman Azim Premji, who has a net worth of $ 17 billion, vastly improved his ranking from 83 last year to 28 this time, adding $ 11.3 billion during the period. He figures in the list as the third richest Indian, followed by Anil Ambani in the fourth place.
Brothers Shashi and Ravi Ruia of the Essar Group improved rankings from the 86th to the 40th spot with a net worth of $ 13 billion.
Forbes estimated Slim's fortune at $ 53.5 billion, Microsoft chief Gates' at $ 53 billion and investor Buffet's fortune at $ 47 billion.
"Most of the richest people on the planet have seen their fortunes soar in the past year," the magazine said.
This year, the world's billionaires had an average net worth of $3.5 billion, up $500 million in 12 months, the magazine said.
"The world has 1,011 10-figure titans, up from 793 a year ago but still shy of the record 1,125 in 2008. Of those billionaires on last year's list, only 12% saw their fortunes decline," it said in the report.
"U.S. billionaires still dominate the ranks--but their grip is slipping. Americans account for 40% of the world's billionaires, down from 45% a year ago. The U.S. commands 38% of the collective $3.6 trillion net worth of the world's richest, down from 44% a year ago," it said.
Of the 97 new members of the list, only 16% are from the U.S. By contrast, Asia made big gains. The region added 104 moguls and now has just 14 fewer than Europe, thanks to several large public offerings and swelling stock markets, the magazine said.
Finland and Pakistan both welcomed their first billionaires. For the first time China (including Hong Kong) has the most billionaires outside the U.S. with 89.
Russia has 62 billionaires, 28 of them returnees who had fallen off last year's list amid a meltdown in commodities. Eleven countries have at least double the number of billionaires they had a year ago, including China, India, Turkey and South Korea.
According to the report, the number of Indian billionaires more than doubled from 24 earlier to 50 now. Their cumulative wealth went up by $ 118.9 billion to about $ 227.9 billion, it said.
The list also includes a college dropout from Gujarat, Shahid Balwa, who is in the 937th position with a net worth of $ 1 billion. He is in the real estate businessman.
Indians in the top 100 of the list are: Savitri Jindal (44, $12.2 billion), K P Singh (74, $ 9 billion), Kumar Mangalam Birla (86, $ 7.9 billion) and Sunil Mittal (87, $ 7.8 billion).
Other Indians in the list include Anil Agarwal (113, $ 6.4 billion), Pallonji Mistry (129, $ 5.8 billion), Adi Godrej & family (148, $ 5.2 billion), Gautam Adani (167, $ 4.8 billion), Dilip Shanghvi (173, $ 4.6 billion) and Shiv Nadar (201, $ 4.2 billion).
Shoma Chaudhury, Monalisa Changkija win Chameli Devi Jain Award
Ms Shoma Chaudhury, Executive Director of Tehelka, the Delhi-based magazine, and Ms Monalisa Changkija, Editor of the Nagaland Page, Dimapur, have been chosen joint winners of the 2009 Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Outstanding Woman Mediaperson.
This was announced here today by the Media Foundation, which said the award would be presented at a function here on March 17.
The jury that decided the winners consisted of columnist and author Madhu Jain, former Information and Broadcasting Secretary Bhaskar Ghose and Prof Dipankar Gupta, Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
The presentation of the awards will be followed by a panel discussion on "The Influence of Public Relations on Journalism" with Mr Vinod Mehta, Editor, Outlook, Mr Pankaj Pachauri, Editor, NDTV-India, and Mr Dilip Cherian of Perfect Relations as the panelists. Journalist Paranjoy Guha-Thakurta will be the moderator of the discussion.
Justice Chelameswar transferred as Chief Justice of Kerala High Court
Chief Justice Jasti Chelameswar, B.Sc., B.L.
The President has transferred Mr Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court, as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court.
An official press release said Mr Justice Chelameswar had been directed to assume charge of his new office on or before March 17.
Mr Justice Chelameswar, 57, has a degree in Physics from the Loyoola College in Madras and then graduated in Law from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, in 1976.
After practising as an advocate for several years, he was appointed as Additional Advocate General in October, 1995. He was elevated as Additional Judge of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh in June, 1997 and as Judge in May, 1999. He became Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court on May 3, 2007.
A separate announcement said the President had appointed Mr Justice Sambhaji Shiwaji Shinde, Mr Justice Ashok Pitamber Bhangale, Mr Justice Anand Vasant Nirgude and Mr Justice Rajiv Yadunath Ganoo, Additional Judges, to be Judges of the Bombay High Court, in that order of seniority.
The President has also appointed Mr Sanjay Vijaykumar Gangapurwala as an Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court for a period of two years.
Mr Akhilesh Chandra, Mr Gopal Prasad and Mr Mungeshwar Sahoo have been appointed as Additional Judges of the Patna High Court, in that order of seniority, for a period of two years.
Similarly, the President has appointed Mr Benedict Victor Pinto, Mr Bijoor Manohar, Mr K.Govindarajulu, and Mr Hosahalli Sheshadri Kempanna as Additional Judges of the Karnataka High Court, in that order of seniority, for a period of two years.
The appointments will be with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices, the release added.
Jitendra Nath Misra named Ambassador to Laos
Dr Jitendra Nath Misra, currently Consul General of India in Ho Chi Minh City, has been appointed as the country's next Ambassador to Laos.
An official statement from the Ministry of External Affairs said Dr Misra, who will succeed Mr Suresh Kumar Goel, was expected to take up his assignment shortly.
Veteran Jana Sangh leader Nanaji Deshmukh passes away
File photo of Nanaji Deshmukh.
Veteran Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Nanaji Deshmukh, who was a respected party ideologue and had a long association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), passed away at the Sadguru Seva Sangh hospital at Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh this evening. He was 93.
Deshmukh, who had been keeping unwell for some time, had complained of chest pain this morning after he was taken to the hospital, where he breathed his last.
He was one of the rare Indian politicans who withdrew from active politics on attaining the age of 60, after which he devoted the rest of his life to constructive work. The present-day Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is the successor organisation to the Jana Sangh, was formed after he had already quit the political scene.
Former Prime Minister and BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee said that, in Deshmukh's death, the country had lost a dedicated social worker and a senior political leader.
He said he had worked with Deshmukh in the Jana Sangh and found he had the rare ability to remain calm in the midst of opposition and adverse circumstances. He said Deshmukh was never afraid of challenges and had a magnetic personality which won the loyalty of all those who came to know him.
Mr Vajpayee said Deshmukh had also been associated with Jayaprakash Narayan's movement and had gone underground to campaign against the Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
BJP leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani said the death of Deshmukh was a great loss for the Sangh Parivar. He said Deshmukh would always be remembered for his practice of value-based politics.
BJP President Nitin Gadkari described Deshmukh as one of the early architects of the Jana Sangh who stood for true value-based politics. He said India had lost one of her greatest sons
"When the younger generation experiences a dearth of ideals, the life and mission of Nanaji serves as a living embodiment of sacrifice and dedication. His work for rural resurgence firstly at Gonda and later at Chitrakoot is the testimony of his unflinching commitment to the cause," he said.
Born on October 11, 1916 in Kadoli in the Parbhani district of Maharashtra, Deshmukh was deeply inspired by Lokmanya Tilak and was one of those who joined the RSS after the death of Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, with whom he had come into contact in his early life. The RSS sent him to Uttar pradesh as a "pracharak".
Later, he was associated with journals launched by the RSS in 1947, but after Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, when the organisation was banned, the work had to move underground.
When the ban was lifted and the Jana Sangh was launched as a political party, Nanaji became its General Secretary in Uttar Pradesh. He went on to be associated with the Bhoodan movement of Vinobha Bhave and Jayaprakash Narayan's Total Revolution.
Deshmukh was one of the main architects of the Janata Party, of which the Jana Sangh was a part, and he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Balrampur constituency in Uttar Pradesh. But he declined a ministerial berth offered by then Prime Minister Morarji Desai and in fact announced his retirement from politics soon after.
He remained associated with the Deendayal Research Institute that he himself had established in 1969. He also set up the Chitarkoot Gramodya Vishwavidyalaya in Chitrakoot. In 1999, he was nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
Rajan Bharti Mittal takes over as President of FICCI
Bharti Enterprises Vice-Chairman and Managing Director Rajan Bharti Mittal today took over as the President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) at the conclusion of its 82nd Annual General Meeting here.
Mr. Mittal, 50, has held several key positions in various industry associations in the past. He is a member of the Managing Committee and Standing Committees of PHDCCI. He is also a Member of the Council of Management of All India Management Association as welll as a Member of the Executive Committee of International Chambers of Commerce – India Chapter.
In FICCI, he was Chairman of the Retail Committee in 2007, Chairman of Infrastructure Committee in 2006, Chairman of Telecom Committee in 2001, 2002 and 2003 and Chairman of Telecom & IT Committee in 2004 & 2005.
He was also the President of Association of Basic Telecom Operators (now known as Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India - AUSPI) during the period 1999-2000.
Bharti Enterprises has interests in telecommunications, financial services, retail, manufacturing, realty and agri-business. Bharti Airtel, a group company, is Asia's leading integrated telecom services provider with operations in India and Sri Lanka.
An alumnus of the Harvard Business School, Mr Mittal is actively involved in overseeing the activities of the group at the corporate level and in many of its new business ventures.
Prabhat Singh joins GAIL (India) as Director (Marketing)
The public sector gas distribution major GAIL (India) Limited today said Mr Prabhat Singh had taken over as Director (Marketing) of the company.
Mr Singh has a degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and around 29 years of experience in the hydrocarbons industry.
Before taking up his current assignment, he headed the Upstream Business Development and the Strategy Divisions in British Gas since April 2006.
During his earlier stint in GAIL, he headed its Exploration and Production Department as General Manager. He made a major contribution in the execution of world's longest exclusive LPG pipeline project from Jamnagar to Loni.
He was also instrumental in ushering in of the "Open Access Common Carrier Principle" in India which brought in a paradigm shift and contributed manifold in transitioning the pipeline transportation industry of the country into the matured industry that it is today.
Before joining GAIL (India) Limited and serving the company for almost 20 years, Mr Singh had also served public sector consultancy firm Engineers India Limited (EIL) and power major NTPC Limited.


Why is the 'e' sometimes pronounced at the end of words?
Cette mission est classée "très secret défense".
Other words that he says are: ombre, France. Sometimes the 'e' has got a more "swallowed" sound: taupe, grabuge, personne.
This also got me thinking about a song Douce France of Charles Trenet where 'e' is sometimes pronounced at the end of words: douce, France, enfance, village.
Since the song is from the '40s and the action of the series takes place in the '60s, I wonder if that is the "old style" of pronunciation? Or is there any other reason for that?
Unlike English that added ⟨e⟩ at the end of some words to indicate the previous vowel was long (O.E. mus, mys to modern mouse, mice), a graphical ⟨e⟩ in French always correlates with a vowel that used to be pronounced.
Because the loss of word-final /ə/ was relatively recent, and didn't affect all dialects (nor all dialects in the same way), you can still find many modern speakers that will pronounce those /ə/, either all or most of the time (this is particularly frequent in the Southern half of France) or sporadically, especially in elevated registers or when reading aloud.
In songs and poetry, those /ə/ can get pronounced or skipped as fits the metric, and for older compositions because they date from a period where they'd almost always been pronounced. For example, there's a nursery rhyme that's still taught in kindergarten that starts by repeating "Frère Jacques" in 4 syllables, even here in Belgium when those vowels would be systematically skipped in normal speech. You're right that this would be more common in the past, but songs can break the rules.
There's also a few words, usually not used at the end of sentences, whose final /ə/ has stabilised, and is now often or always pronounced at the end of a sentence: the object pronoun -le in imperatives, ce in locutions like "sur ce" and "et ce", and prepositions and particles like "est-ce que", "parce que", "jusque" or "entre".
In careful speech, word-final consonant clusters are reinforced by a /ə/ when followed by a consonant: double consonne, "piste cyclable". In casual speech, the cluster often get simplified instead (doub' consonne, pis' cyclable). In France French, this can extend to words that didn't etymologically end with a vowel like "ours blanc" prounonced "ours[ə] blanc".
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Borough Manager Greg Sahd and Karen Seidenstricker cut the ribbon at Black Olive Family Diner this morning.
Black Olive Family Diner at 1506 Lancaster Avenue held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning, where more than two dozen people gathered. Owner Fatih Sivri, who goes by the nickname "Mike," announced that he had signed a 20-year lease on the building. Borough Manager Greg Sahd was on hand to help with the celebration.
"It's a great opportunity. We're so grateful that you chose our borough," Sahd said.
Mike said he was warned not to open the restaurant at this location, because people told him the place was "jinxed," but, defying superstition, he did so anyway. He said he was surprised by the immediate response on opening day, when 20 people came into the restaurant right away. Now that the business is taking off, he is planning to bring his wife here so they can live in the area.
The building previously housed Salsa's and Emerson's, among other establishments.
Mike Sivri thanked everyone for their support.
Kathleen Hohenadel, executive director of the Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce, Columbia Borough Manager Greg Sahd, and Black Olive owner Fatih "Mike" Sivri led the celebration.
Greg Sahd offered words of support.
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Q: Oracle 11g INDEX_SS Hint Given a table with columns A, B, and C of type CHAR(15) and an unique index
If I have a query with a WHERE clause specifying A and C, oracle's optimizer chooses to do an index range scan. But if I know that the cardinality of B is low, should I hint oracle to use an index skip scan? Will a skip scan be more performant skipping a non-leading column (in this case, B) than a range scan? Will the skip scan skip both A and B in the index or will it just skip B?

A: In general, the optimizer is much better at figuring out whether a range scan would be more efficient than a skip scan (or vice versa).  If the optimizer is making the wrong choice, the problem almost always comes down to the human not providing the optimizer with the proper information in the form of accurate statistics on the table and on the indexes (including things like histograms on columns that contain skewed data).
For any given query, the only way to know with certainty which of two plans is more efficient is to try it out with your data on your hardware with your query.  You can try adding the hint to force the plan to change and you can then measure which approach is actually more efficient.  If the plan the optimizer is choosing isn't the most efficient, I would tend to suspect that the root cause is that some aspect of the statistics are not correct but that is something that you'd need to look at a 10053 trace to get to the bottom of in most cases.  Rarely, there are cases where the optimizer is wrong because the optimizer isn't able to take into account some aspect of the data (for example, until recently, it was unable to deal with situations where the data in multiple columns was not independent such as a car table with make, model, and year columns where knowing one value constrained the set of valid values in the other columns).

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Germaine Rumovi (* 17. März 1903 in Iglau; † 24. Oktober 1967) war eine österreichische Schauspielerin.

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Germaine Rumovi studierte Schauspiel bei Armin Seydelmann an der Wiener Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst. Ihr erstes Engagement erhielt sie in Pilsen. Danach spielte sie in Bielitz und Reichenberg. In der Spielzeit 1926/27 war sie als "jugendliche Heroine und jugendliche Salondame" Ensemblemitglied des Stadttheaters Klagenfurt. Anschließend wurde sie nach Mährisch-Ostrau und Linz sowie von der Österreichischen Länderbühne verpflichtet. Es folgte ein Engagement am Schauspielhaus in Graz, von wo aus Rumovi 1952 ans Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck verpflichtet wurde, dessen Ensemblemitglied sie bis zu ihrer Pensionierung blieb. 1956 spielte sie eine Nebenrolle in der Heimatfilmkomödie Pulverschnee nach Übersee. Hinzu kam ihre Tätigkeit als Sprecherin in mehreren Hörspielen. Germaine Rumovi lebte zuletzt im Hilde-Wagener-Heim in Baden. Sie starb nach einer schweren Operation.

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 Germaine Rumovi (Nachruf). In: Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch. 77. Jahrgang 1969 – Spielzeit 1968/1969. Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Angehörigen, Hamburg 1969, S. 119

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Put Your Own Oxygen Mask on First: The Importance of Self-Care
By Patricia Kobela, Regional Director of Sales, Chartwell Hotels, and member of HSMAI's Sales Advisory Board
We've all heard it from flight attendants hundreds of times: In case of an emergency, make sure your own oxygen mask is secured before helping others. But the lesson is applicable to many scenarios in life, such as working through a pandemic, like we've been doing for the past nine months. In order to take care of your team, you have to take care of yourself.
On a recent call, members of HSMAI's Sales Advisory Board (SAB) discussed how they take care of themselves while trying to help their teams as well. Here are takeaways from our discussion:
We are all struggling right now, which means it's extra-important to be kind to yourself and make sure you are in a good place. SAB members shared the many ways that they are practicing self-care.
"In order to be a great leader and display positive leadership, you've got to lead yourself," one SAB member said. "That ability to recognize and control your emotions is the most valuable skill that a person could have. If you recognize you're about to go the other way and reel yourself in, that's important."
"You've got to fill your own cup before you can give to others," another member said. "Checking in with myself first helps me to be a better leader."
Another SAB member added: "I look to see what I can do first thing in the morning to make myself feel accomplished on a personal and professional level, and then I do it."
Another member said that seeing her team succeed and celebrate personal wins reminds her that she doesn't always have to be the person solving everyone's problems. And, as we are working from home and getting on multiple video calls every day, fatigue sets in for everyone. You need to relax your eyes and your brain. "We have to get out for 10 minutes and walk the dog," one member said. "It's okay to clear your head for a few minutes when that's what you need. The other day I got a call when I was walking my dog, and it turned out to be a vendor that I could talk to and not have to put up a front that we were in an office."
Another member added: "Now that I'm home all day long, I respect and understand more what my wife went through for 14 years as a stay-at-home mom. It's tough, and you've got to be willing to change yourself in order to get a work-life balance that works for you."
TAKING CARE OF OTHERS
After you've taken care of yourself, then it's time to take care of others, whether they're teammates or customers. As one SAB member said, sometimes salespeople ask customers how they are doing only because it's a societal norm — but people can tell when someone truly cares about their wellbeing. "People can see through it when you're not paying attention," the member said. "Your personality may not have had to have been empathetic, but it's time for all of us to try to be better at it. You need to be able to see yourself, that you are actually showing empathy."
Another member added: "It's important from a sales standpoint to keep the relationships going. We're not talking to them about business right now because they don't have any, so what I think our salespeople out there need to do is just have a good relationship with our clients and show them empathy and come up with good things to talk to them about."
Sales leaders need to have empathy not just for clients but also for their teams, who may be struggling. "Companies that can show empathy is key," one member said. "I've noticed the ones that make sure they're giving employees the time they need, and not assuming that just because you're working out of your house, you're available to work 10 hours a day."
Another SAB member said that it's important to show compassion when team members are demoralized about losing business. "We had a huge cancellation in November," the member said, "and we had to tell them that it's not their fault, because people take it as such a personal responsibility, even though there's nothing they can do about it. We have to stay positive and say that it's okay if you're not hitting your goal."
WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
While our experiences may be different, we're all going through similar things right now, which can help us relate to each other in a different way, SAB members said. "We're all coming out of this with a survivor complex," one member said. "Whether it's on the hotel side or the customer side, it's been traumatic for a lot of people and their businesses."
Another member added that sharing a medical issue he discovered due to the pandemic has helped him bond with his team more closely, because it turns out that many of them were going through similar health issues. "I'm glad I spoke about it," the member said. "It's things like this that wind up making the biggest impact. On our employee surveys, the biggest thing mentioned was open discussions like this."
Another member said that he has found that getting his team together each week to discuss whatever they want has been very helpful. "At one point, I said that we didn't have to have the meeting every week if it was too much," the member said. "But they all said, 'No, this is my safe place that I can talk to my peers that are experiencing the same thing I am.' Letting people share with each other in the same situation helps tremendously. We have to help each other."
Even though we're all in the same scenario, not everyone wants or needs the same things to cope, which is why it's important to understand who you are working with and what they need. One SAB member said that, as an example, while they tried to make everyone feel included on a Zoom lunch hour, one person thought it was a waste of time to sit and watch people eat. "I thought it was interesting to see that they wanted to make sure she didn't feel detached, but she felt like her time was precious and she wasn't able to balance it the way she wants," the member said. "We have to recognize the difference in people and what motivates them, as well as what's different about their own situations. Support people in the way that they want to be supported."
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Arctocephalus forsteri
Suborder: Pinnipedia
Family: Otariidae
Subfamily: Arctocephalinae
Genus: Arctocephalus
Species: A. forsteri
Lesson, 1828
Distribution of the New Zealand fur seal
Arctocephalus forsteri, the New Zealand fur seal or southern fur seal, is a species of fur seal found around the south coast of Australia, the coast of the South Island of New Zealand, and some of the small islands to the south and east of there.[1] Male-only colonies are also located on the Cook Strait coast of the North Island near Wellington and vagrants are found as far north as New Caledonia.[citation needed] The English name New Zealand fur seal is used by English speakers in New Zealand (kekeno is used in the Māori language), and southern fur seal by English speakers in Australia.[citation needed] Although the two populations show some genetic differences, their morphologies are very similar, and thus they remain classed as a single species.[1]
Although the seals look docile, they can move surprisingly quickly and it is advisable never to approach a female with young or get between a seal and the water, cutting off its escape route to the sea.
2 Behavioral characteristics
2.1 Diving
2.2 Communication
2.4 Parenting
3 Diet
4 Predators
5 Human impact
5.1 Legislative protection
Physical characteristics[edit]
Males have been reported as large as 250 kg; their average weight is about 126 kg.[1][2] Males can be 2 meters long. Females are between 30–50 kg on average, and can be as long as 1.5 meters. Pups are 3.3-3.9 kg on average, and between 40 and 55 cm long. At 290 days old males are about 14.1 kg, and females are about 12.6 kg.[1] They have external ears and hind flippers that rotate forward, which visibly distinguish them from other seals.[3] They have a pointy nose with long pale whiskers.[3] The fur seals are covered by two layers of fur. The coat is grey-brown on their back, and lighter on their belly.[3] Some have white tips on longer upper hairs, which can give them a silver-like appearance.[3]
Behavioral characteristics[edit]
Diving[edit]
New Zealand fur seals "porpoise" out of the water when traveling quickly at sea.[1] They can dive deeper and longer than any other fur seal.[3] Females can dive for about 9 minutes and to a depth of about 312 meters, and can dive deeper and longer in autumn and winter. Males can dive for about 15 minutes to a depth of about 380 meters.[1] On average New Zealand fur seals only dive for 1–2 minutes.[3] When they dive for food they dive deeper during the day but shallower at night, because during the day their prey typically migrates to deeper depths and migrates back up during the night.[3]
Communication[edit]
Males vocalize through a bark or whimper, either a gluttural threat, a low-intensity threat, a full threat, or a submissive call. Females growl and also have a high-pitched pup attraction wail call.[1]
Female New Zealand fur seals mature between 4 and 6 years old, and males mature between 8 and 10 years old.[1] These seals are polygynous.[1][3] Males obtain and guard territory in late October before females arrive.[1] Often females only mate once a year, and this usually occurs eight days postpartum for about 13 minutes on average. Females have a delayed implantation of the fertilized egg, so that implantation on the uterine wall does not occur for 3 months.[3] Gestation occurs for 9 months[3] Females are more aggressive near the time of birth, and do not like to be approached right after birth.[2] Female New Zealand fur seals will continue to reproduce until their death which is on average between 14 and 17 years of age.[3]
Parenting[edit]
Pups are born between November and January.[1] Females stay close to the birth site for up to ten days. Pups are fairly mature at birth, and within 60 minutes they start suckling for about 7 minutes. Eventually the suckling can exceed 33 minutes.[2] Suckling can occur for about 300 days. Pups start to eat solid food just before weaning.[3] Pups are eventually weaned around September, and they disperse.[2][3]
Diet[edit]
Their diet includes cephalopods, fish, and birds.[1] Stomach contents have been analyzed and shown to include anchovy, barracuda, flounder, hagfish, lamprey, red cod, school shark, and many other species.[4] There are different factors that affect their diet, such as season, sex, breeding, surrounding colony, oceanography, and climatic patterns.[4]
New Zealand fur seals' known predators are killer whales, sharks, male New Zealand sea lions, and possibly leopard seals.[1] New Zealand sea lions are also known to target pups as their prey.[5]
Human impact[edit]
These seals were widely hunted from shortly after the European discovery of New Zealand until the late 19th century. The population of the New Zealand seal fell to levels under 10% of the original numbers. Today trawls and fisheries are one of the main sources of death in New Zealand fur seals. They cause entanglement and drowning.[1] It has been estimated by the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society that over 10000 seals could have drowned in nets between 1989 and 1998.[2] They are also known to be shot by commercial and recreational fishermen, because they sometimes interfere with fishing gear. How often these shootings occur is unknown, but the conflict between the seals and commercial fisheries is expected to increase.[6] On August 21 2014, two decomposing animals were found beheaded near Louth Bay in South Australia. The circumstances of their deaths were considered suspicious and an investigation followed their discovery.[7]
Legislative protection[edit]
New Zealand fur seals received protection by the creation of a 16 million hectare Marine Park located on the eastern side of Macquarie island in 2000. The Tasmanian government has also extended to Macquarie Island Nature Reserve by 3 nautical miles surrounding the island.[6] In New Zealand, the species is protected by the Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1978, which works to conserve marine animal species.[1] In Australian Commonwealth waters, Arctocephalus forsteri is protected under the Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999 under which it is listed as a protected marine species.[8]
NSW Vulnerable Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 (New South Wales)[8]
SA Marine mammal National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 (South Australia)[9]
TAS Rare Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 (Tasmania)[8]
WA Other protected fauna Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 (Western Australia)[8]
New Zealand fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri, South Island, New Zealand
New Zealand fur seal coming ashore below Taiaroa Head, near Dunedin
New Zealand fur seal cubs at Palliser Bay
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^ a b c d e Harcourt, R.G., (2001). "Advances in New Zealand mammalogy 1990-2000: Pinnipeds". Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand, Downloaded October 6, 2011
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Department of Conservation. "New Zealand fur seal/kekeno" Found October 6, 2011
^ a b Boren, L. (2010) "Diet of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri): a summary", Downloaded October 6, 2011
^ Bradshaw, C.J.A., Lalas, C., & McConkey, S. (1998). "New Zealand sea lion predation on New Zealand fur seals". New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. Downloaded October 6, 2011
^ a b MarineBio.org (2011). "New Zealand Fur Seals, Arctocephalus forsteri at MarineBio.org" Found October 6, 2011
^ "Headless fur seals found on beach in SA treated as suspicious". ABC. 2014-08-25. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
^ a b c d "Arctocephalus forsteri". Species profile and threats database. Australian Government - Department of the Environment. 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
^ National Parks & Wildlife Act 1972. Government of South Australia. 2014.
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Basic oils can be purchased from hair cantinas or from grocery stores. These oils incorporate Basil oil, Rosemary oil, Arnica oil, Sage oil, Bay oil, and Jojoba oil. You can make your own special hair tonic from these oils. Blend 4 to 5 drops from every one of these oils and you has your own home made hair development cure. To apply the oils, basically rub the oil staring you in the face and run your hands through your hair. Then again, you can utilize a hair brush to enable you to spread the oil all the more equitably. Ensure that the oil is spread equally all through the head. Back rub for no less than 3 minutes.
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Q: Performant recording of performance (profiling) data We have a fairly busy distributed cloud based system that we want to introduce basic profiling into.  Firstly we'd like to monitor web page render times and DB calls - we use EF and SQLServer.
The question is what is the best (performant & easy) way to record this information? My first thought is to store it in a DB, but would this cause a performance issue when a single page render may require multiple DB calls and hence, multiple inserts into the performance table.
Would it be better to store this information in memory only, or perhaps store in memory short term then batch persist to a DB later? Or is some other approach recommended?

A: If you simply send INSERT statements to the database without block-waiting to receive values of identity columns, it should be fairly lightweight for the web server.
If the database table does not have any keys, (or only a clustered key,) it should be fairly lightweight on the server, too.
This would certainly be the easiest approach, and would not take much to implement it and give it a try, so I would recommend that you check whether it covers your needs before trying anything else.


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Chettinad cuisine is famous for its use of a variety of spices used in preparing mainly non-vegetarian food. The dishes are hot and pungent with fresh ground masalas. They also use a variety of sun dried meats and salted vegetables, reflecting the dry environment of the region. The meat is restricted to fish, prawn, crab, chicken and lamb. Chettiars do not eat beef and pork.
Most of the dishes are eaten with rice and rice based accompaniments such as dosais, appams, idiyappams, adais and idlis.
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In a Kadai Add Olive Oil and when it is hot add the cloves, fennel seeds, cumin seeds, cinnamon stick, cardamom, bay leaf one by one and fry for 1 minute in medium heat. Don't let it become black.
Add the onion and saute till transparent. Add the ginger garlic paste. Add the tomatoes when the raw smell of ginger garlic goes off and saute till the tomatoes are mushy.
Add the chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder and salt. Add the chicken pieces now and mix it well.
Cover and cook the chicken. Chicken leaves the water and mostly that water would be enough for the chicken to cook. If you feel, chicken is not cooked properly, just add 1 cup of water.
Cook the chicken until the oil oozes out. Add the crushed pepper powder now. Mix it well. If the spice is less add 1 Tsp more of pepper powder. Cook for another 5 Minutes and switch off. Garnish with Coriander leaves.
Serve the Hot Hot Spicy Dry Pepper Chicken Chettinad with steamed rice or rotis.


The lives of doctors and nurses may soon get easier, thanks to an idea by students at the University of Melbourne, which aims to turn an ordinary smartphone into a medicinal instrument.
Four students have created a new stethoscope that can plug directly into a smartphone, analysing the breathing sounds and patterns put out by the patient. The concept is said to be 4,000 time cheaper than any other commercial stethoscope solutions currently available.
"Sadly, the experience for many parents is that by the time a child is seen by a doctor, it's often too late; our solution aims to put a stop to this," said Mr Hon Weng Chong, one of the students who created the digital stethoscope.
The digital stethoscope was the winning entry in Microsoft's "Imagine Cup", a competition that encourages students to come up with technological answers to problems in the world.
As the winner for Australia, the four students will now take their digital stethoscope to the worldwide finals being held in Sydney in July, competing against projects from more than 100 countries.


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ELAINE WILKES: WELL-TH PLANNER ELAINE@ELAINEWILKES.COM
Pre-Event Questionnaire
Nature's Secret Messages1
CBD Interested?
Praise from Kids for Elaine's Health Presentations
Since kids are very frank, here's what students (ages 9-14) have said about Elaine's speeches taken from evaluation forms. We can't make this stuff up!
Kids Say the Darndest Things!
A few answers of what kids (ages 9- 14) said about Elaine's teachings from questions on evaluation forms.
(We can't make this stuff up!!!)
What did you like about the class today?
"Was able to shatter misconceptions" (From a ten year old)
"I did no work."
"It was fun."
"You were very happy, hands on, fun to be around"
"You spoke very clearly."
"I liked how we learned a lot."
"We learned about cool things not to eat and what to eat."
That it taught me how to have a healthier life."
"The talk."
"everything"
"We talked about nutrition and stuff like that."
"I learned how to take care of myself for the future."
"It was funny. Cool. Many examples."
"That you seemed really energetic and that you showed us a better way to eat."
"It was interesting and it helped me to see what we can eat and drink."
"The teacher was pretty nice."
"You got to miss regular class."
"I learned what is good for me and what is bad for me."
"What I liked about today is that I know what soda does to you."
"I liked how you show the class how much sugar is in Coke."
"Everything. This lesson was cool."
"It was funny and all the facts were good to know."
"learning about healthy foods"
"learning about what's in the food I eat"
"I liked the idea of how someone took time to come and tell us what to eat."
"When you were talking about the color in foods."
"You told us how to read labels."
"It was fun and interesting."
"Everything was cool."
What did you NOT like about the class today?
"I didn't like what I found out about cereal."
"When you passed the lard around."
"we ran out of time."
"Learning the food I like is bad."
"nothing"
"I liked everything there wasn't anything I don't like."
"That she said soda has a lot of sugar."
"...that the things I liked to drink, I don't want to eat anymore
because I learned how it's not healthy."
"...that some of the foods I eat are bad for me."
"too short."
"I like everything."
"Seeing the gross things."
"having to leave"
"I loved it"
"I didn't like when you said missing breakfast is bad."
"It was too short. I wish we could have had more time."
"The teacher was fun."
"like everything."
"There was nothing I didn't like."
"I didn't dislike anything because all the facts she said were true."
"I can't drink a lot of soda."
"Knowing how much fat is in a cheese burger."
"I loved it all."
"Nothing. It was cool."
Did you get any benefit out of the class? If so, what?
"Yes my life is going to be better now."
"...how to take care of myself."
"Yes now I know what could drain my energy and make me weaker."
"Yeah, eating breakfast is healthier than skipping it.
I learned more about how to take care about myself."
"Yes, now I know what to eat and not to eat."
"Yeah I did I now know what sugar does to you."
"Yeah. How water can make you better."
"to eat less junk food"
"Yes, that I have to stay healthy."
"Yes how to lose weight and have a colorful plate."
"Interesting things."
"To exercise."
"Yes I did, everything"
Yes I did, I now know that don't eat a lot of bad stuff."
"Yes, I learned that if you can't read labels don't eat it or drink the item."
"You need to drink a lot of water."
"Yes, I don't drink much soda but Im not going to drink it more."
"Yes to eat healthy."
"I learn about the difference between healthy foods and junk foods
and why I have getting adicting to fat food."
What would you like to see more of in the future?
"I would like to see me skinny later in the future."
"Better nutrition in human beings."
"That I drink less soda."
"Billions of people getting healthy."
"Interesting things like today."
Feel free to leave any other comments.
"Thanks for coming to tell us how much water we need and thanks for your time."
"You were a great speaker."
"This class was very informative."
"Thanks for coming."
"Your kool."
"You did a good job."
"You were awesome."
What teachers say . . .
"You are amazing! You answered all of the students questions. It was great to get their ideas before you started. The pictures and visual aids were very helpful. You are great. I loved the way you talked to the girls individually afterwards."
-Heidi Morris, School Director, Renaissance School, Palos Verdes, CA
Thank you for speaking to my classes about nutrition and healthy food choices. You gave some great suggestions. Your talk was very informative and helpful for teens since, as you know, good nutrition is a hard sell to that age group.
-Judy Cooper, Teacher, Venice High School, CA
"Wide range of topics covered, very friendly, informative, relevant. Great and very informative."
-Casey Bradford, Renaissance School, Palos Verdes, CA


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CD: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
A sombrely reflective, darkly amusing album from the man with the iron voice
by Howard MaleWednesday, 13 February 2013
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: continuing to explore new sonic and lyrical terrain
With BBC Four currently mourning the passing of the LP, it's encouraging that some artists still like to confine themselves to the format's time limitations and its implicit requirement that the songs etched into its silky surface should be connected by some kind of theme or mood.
Nick Cave is one such artist, never more so that with this suite of nine darkly warm numbers that have been nurtured by him and his long-standing and (here anyway) remarkably restrained band. The Bad Seeds have always understood that the needs of the song outweigh the needs of individual musicians to do their thang, so you'll find no obligatory solos here, or even the obvious presence of each band member on the material. Take "Wide Open Eyes." It blooms from a fidgeting muted guitar loop which never sits comfortably with the song's stately progress, creating a subtle tension. And it's all about textures and washes rather than discrete instrumentation.
Some of these pieces feel more like prose poems set to music than songs, with Cave's voice and words as the gleaming, slippery focus. Curiously enough, at the beginning of "Finishing Jubilee Street" Cave sounds uncannily like John Cale (compare and contrast with "A Dream" from Lou Reed and John Cale's Songs for Drella). And Reed too feels like a big influence, as Brighton's most lugubrious resident tries to mythologise his adopted home much as Reed mythologises New York.
It's a tough call to turn Brighton's prosaic stick-of-rock reality into heart-of-darkness territory but Cave pulls it off by favouring a more expressionist, fantastical approach over Reed's wry reportage style. These lyrics are by turn melancholic, menacing and mischievous (I can see those scarily alluring mermaids out there, sunning themselves on rocks). The result is the band's most subtly compelling and elegiac album since 2001's No More Shall We Part . And yes it is available on vinyl.
Watch the video for "Jubilee Street"
It's a tough call to turn Brighton's prosaic stick-of-rock reality into heart of darkness territory but Cave pulls it off
Push the Sky Away on Amazon
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Antique Tiger I challenge you to give us a minimalist photo.
I accept your challenge. Sad thing is, I had to Google the challenge to get some ideas. I guess that is the reason this challenge is good, it's something I would think of doing.
It is something I don't see very often from you. It isn't anywhere near as tough as the one you gave Iggy. That was really challenging.
Iggy accepted the challenge (but I did give him an out by doing 3 of the 5).
"Minimalist photography draws inspiration from the concept of minimalism in art – a style of art that was used by many 20th century artists. Artistically speaking, minimalism depends on high simplicity and involves using a minimal amount of compositional components such as shape, color, and line.
The goal of minimalist art, or photography, is to convey a concept – or an idea – provoke an emotional response, or provide a unique visual experience. Compositional elements must be kept to a minimum, and the ones that are left should be essential for conveying the overall idea, or symbolism, of the photo.
As with any photographic style, minimalist photography has its own set of challenges – mostly due to the fact that minimalism is based on simplicity, and it can be a challenge to eliminate all but the most necessary elements of a composition, and focus only on a limited number of objects and elements when creating a composition. Minimalism forces you to view the world differently, and will challenge you to look beyond the obvious for hidden photographic opportunities."
The scene was here with the super cloudy sky, foggy background, but I don't feel like i captured what I saw.
Samples I have seen on the net are more than just a single item on a solid background. There are scenic images.
I am just not sure if the busy foreground takes away from the "minimalism".
Sounds like a "re-challenge" going on.
Yes, I think it is the foreground that it is the problem. If that had been a blurred long exposure of water in the foreground it would have been closer.
If that had been a blurred long exposure of water in the foreground it would have been closer.
I had actually planned on doing a long exposure of this bridge over the Mississippi River, but noticed this scene as I drove up (this bridge is in the middle of no where).
I just don't want to do the normal shot of a brick wall with a sign or something on it. I am trying to shoot outside the box.
I am trying to shoot outside the box.
As an aside, in cropping this I noticed a small spot just above the 2nd pylon. Could be dust on the sensor?
I spent 1/2 the day looking for a shot on minimalism. I could do the normal "shoes hanging from a wire", "weed growing in a crack", etc.
I went with this door handle of a 1941 Chevy truck.
Well done - I hope you found the challenge, well...... challenging and perhaps also useful?
ha ha - Good to see there are 2 people in the building that are nonconformists.


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