Rains add wings to Kerala’s charm – NDTV.com – News on Rains add wings to Kerala’s charm
Rains add wings to Kerala’s charm – NDTV.com – News on Rains add wings to Kerala’s charm: “Thursday, June 29, 2006 (Thiruvananthpuram):
We travel to rain-swept Kerala, God’s own country and a land of Ayurveda that has a very special connection with the rain.
Kerala, where a wind called mausim turns moist and torpedoes throughout India into the Great Indian monsoon.
As a nation readies to cup it’s palms, the Kerala seas are in full throttle much like the mini Malayalee world cup match by its shores.
For the young, it’s footsie time in more ways than one. Neat footwork, also the spirit of the season, as practitioners of ancient martial art Kalaripayattu begin another season of training during the monsoon.
Even for the old, it’s time to renew. The rains, a part of Ayurvedic healing in Kerala, where infections once treated will heal for the whole year, are now adding wings to the touristy Keralan charm.
They say, watch it from your spa or from the most inundated quarters of the western ghats or pine away from the ramparts of a fort, from the very spot that Mani Ratnam used in movie Bombay for a love song.
It is filmi tourism but in the land of Parshuram, it never rains, it pours myth, songs, stories and these are just some of the ways, these seaside folk share”
IBNLive : Rajdeep Sardesai’s Blog
IBNLive : Rajdeep Sardesai’s Blog: “
Southern Discomfort
Tuesday , March 28, 2006
Think about it.. more than 60 per cent of the english speaking audience for television news channels is south of the Vindhyas (atleast thats what the television audience meter ratings tell us). Yet, more than 75 per cent of the news reporting on television is confined to the metros of Mumbai and Delhi according to a survey conducted by a research group. Its a dichotomy that is embarassing.
Why is the south so poorly covered on the news channels? Several explanations have been offered. The easy one is that the ‘tyranny of distance’ works against the south. If news channels are headquartered in Delhi, then its so much easier to reflect the concerns of Defence Colony than it is of any suburb of Chennai or Bangalore. Since most news channels have large bureaus in Delhi or Mumbai, the two cities do get disproportionate news coverage. So much easier to pack off a reporter to a location in Delhi thats just a few kilometres away from office than find out whats happening in some city in the south. What happens in the Delhi high court invariably makes the news, what happens in Thiruvanathapuram’s court rarely makes the news. A viewer recently wrote in to suggest that the only time we cover interior Tamil Nadu is when its struck by a tsunami”
‘The making of Sunil Bharti Mittal’ – Sify.com
‘The making of Sunil Bharti Mittal’ – Sify.com: “he making of Sunil Bharti Mittal’
Wednesday, 29 March , 2006, 17:28
Bangalore: Sunil Bharti Mittal may have made big bucks out of the mobile telephony revolution but the man says it was a saga of struggle, fight and the ‘mother of all battles.’
When he began his entrepreneurial venture in 1985,he was ‘ignored’ and ‘laughed at’ thereafter before the ‘fight’ erupted in the telecom sector leading to what he calls mother of all battles’ from which he came out ‘fairly successfully,’ he said.
Sharing his thoughts in his convocation address at the Indian Institute Management Bangalore, the Chairman and Group Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises said: ‘I am a new age entrepreneur. I believe I represent the changing face of India.’ |Budget & your investments: View Infograph|
‘When I came out of college in 1976, I was told by all my friends and people generally older and guiding me in my hometown in Ludhiana that the pole-positions…the grand-stand positions have already been taken up by those who mattered.’
There were large business houses, and the public sector had a huge grip, he recalled. For a young, struggling entrepreneur with very little capital who has just come out of college, the space was indeed very limited, he said.
‘But somehow the heart was not”
The Complete Bushisms By Jacob Weisberg
The Complete Bushisms By Jacob Weisberg: “The Complete Bushisms
Updated frequently.
By Jacob Weisberg
Updated Sunday, March 26, 2006, at 6:41 AM ET
‘If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate.’—Washington D.C., March 21, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 9:29.
‘No question that the enemy has tried to spread sectarian violence. They use violence as a tool to do that.’—Washington, D.C., March 22, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 6:36.
‘And so I’m for medical liability at the federal level.’—Discussing his support of medical liability reform, Washington, D.C., March 10, 2006
‘After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.’—(On the bombing of the Golden Mosque of Samarra in Iraq) March 13, 2006, Washington, D.C.
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 7:39.
‘I think it’s really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to—the beauty of playing baseball.’—Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 8:31.
‘And I want those wh”
The Dilbert Blog
The Dilbert Blog: “Sleep
Before we begin, allow me to introduce my newest term: BOCTAOE^100. That means But Of Course There Are Obvious Exceptions – to the hundredth power.
On with it…
Researchers keep saying that women need more sleep than men. If I were to make a list of all the things researchers are saying today, and then I predicted which ones they will later recant, that would be high on the list.
I’m always suspicious when research supports some stereotype or another. But if it’s true, it raises interesting questions that you will only see here because I have given up on my goal of becoming President of Harvard.
First, I assume the researchers measure “needs sleep” by how well people perform on brain-related tests after different periods of snoozing. So here’s the question: Do women GET the extra sleep they need, on average?
If they do, that means women have one hour less per day then men to accomplish whatever they want to accomplish. All other things being equal, you’d expect men to accomplish more, because an extra hour is a lot. BOCTAOE^100. Unless women are more efficient. I haven’t seen the studies on that.
If women do NOT get more sleep than men, on average, then according to the research, women would perform worse on brain-related tests. So all other things being equal”
Official Google Blog: Spring is the season for love (and data)
Official Google Blog: Spring is the season for love (and data): “Spring is the season for love (and data)
3/21/2006 06:20:00 AM
Posted by AC Narendran & Katie Jacobs Stanton, Google Finance team
Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote, ‘In the Spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.’ In the spring at Google, a geek’s fancy turns to thoughts of … charts and data. So to mark this vernal equinox, we introduce to you Google Finance.
It all started as a small project led by a few engineers in Bangalore and later joined by more engineers and finance enthusiasts in Mountain View and New York . We have different backgrounds, work in different time zones, and, at the start of this project, had never met in person. But we shared the same goal: to improve the search experience for financial information. We hope Google Finance lives up to that aim by offering a fresh perspective on company-related searches. To begin with, you no longer have to remember a ticker or mutual fund symbol. Just search for a company or mutual fund by name and you’ll quickly see all the relevant information.
But perhaps Google Finance’s most important innovations take place after you’ve found the company in question. You’ll find interactive charts that enable you to zoom through different time periods, headlines mapped right on the charts and are based”
Clinical Cases and Images – Blog: Clinical Skills Videos. A Summary of Free Online Resources
Clinical Cases and Images – Blog: Clinical Skills Videos. A Summary of Free Online Resources: “Clinical Skills Videos. A Summary of Free Online Resources
Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant by the University of Florida College of Medicine
You can watch the videos online or download them to your hard drive.
Physical Exam/Interviewing Modules & Videos by the University of Virginia
The website features streaming videos in QuickTime format.
The UCLA Physical Exam Project
Standard physical exam videos plus tutorials on how to perform a pelvic exam, Pap smear and GC/Chlamydia cultures. Videos cannot be downloaded.
Connecticut Tutorials Physical Examination by the UConn Health Center
Similar to the websites above.
Clinical Skills Online by the St. George’s University of London
Videos can also be seen on Palm or Windows Mobile (Pocket PC).
Common Currency Videos by the Dalhousie University
Videos teach procedure skills, called ‘common currency’: peripheral venous access, arterial blood gas sampling, phlebotomy/venous blood sampling, and urinary catheterization. More to be added soon.
There are more useful links for online medical education at the Clinical Skills Education Center of the Queen’s University, Belfast. Our website ClinicalCases.org is also listed there.
Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain”
