Blast Victims

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday night drove straight to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital from the airport on his return to New Delhi from Dhaka and met those injured in the bomb blast outside the Delhi High Court that killed 11 people and left at least 76 wounded.
He wished speedy recovery to all the injured in the blast and made inquiries from doctors about their condition. Nearly 50 of the injured are in the RML hospital.
Sources said that the prime minister stayed at the hospital for nearly half-an-hour. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad briefed him about the arrangements made to provide medical attention to the injured.
Earlier, in his interaction with journalists on board special aircraft on his way back from Dhaka, the prime minister said there were 'some leads' to the blast but it was too early to say which group was behind the bombing.
He said there were 'weaknesses' in the security system that needed to be plugged.

Double Revenues

Global electronics major Hitachi said it aims to double its revenues from India and is keen to acquire other firms to expand its market share.
It also plans to re-position its India operations with an independent management.
'Mergers and acquisitions would play a key role in rapid expansion of the company's market share,' the company said in a statement.
According to the company, it expects to grow its revenue from current Rs.5,400 crore to Rs.12,000 crore in the coming years.
'In the coming few years, we expect to increase revenues of Hitachi India to around Rs.12,000 crore (Yen 200 billion) as compared to Rs.5,400 crore (Yen 90 billion) for the last fiscal,' said Ichiro Iino, managing director, Hitachi India.
Last fiscal, Hitachi's consolidated global revenues were Rs.5,60,000 crore of which India contributed merely 1 percent.
The statement further said that the company's India operations have been re-positioned with an independent management.
'India, which was a part of Hitachi Asia, has been re-positioned as an independent management area and Hitachi India,' the statement added.
India will be the only fifth stand-alone Hitachi company after China, Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas, to have an independent management outside of Japan.

Very Demanding Game Badminton

Badminton is one of the most well known games in the world. However, it is not well known that, at a competitive level, badminton demands many qualities from the shuttler: speed, strength, agility, stamina, skills, accuracy, smartness, mental power and team work.

Badminton is one of the most well known games in the world. However, it is not well known that, at a competitive level, badminton demands many qualities from the shuttler: speed, strength, agility, stamina, skills, accuracy, smartness, mental power and team work.
The badminton shuttle has been clocked at excess of 180mph. To strike the shuttle at that speed requires enormous skill and power (power = strength * speed), gathering the strength of many muscles in the human body to choreograph a thundering smash. At the other end, returning the smash requires quick response and agility. A slight misjudgement will result in losing the point.
A badminton game can last up to 2 hours where most of the time the players are sprinting from corner to corner in the court while hitting the shuttle with amazing speed and accuracy. Such is the result of many years of rigorous and torturous training.
Great techniques and physical fitness alone is not enough to win a badminton game, a successful player must play smart. Using quick thinking to adapt his/her play to the opponents tactics and weaknesses. Using varying speed and position and deceptive plays to earn a edge over the opponent. In the court, the players are left to their own, help is not available from anyone. The player must maintain high concentration and will power, the game hasn't ended if the scoreboard doesn't say 15.
While single games demand great stamina from the player, double games demand team work and cooperation between the two players. In a doubles game, in addition to thundering attacks and swift defense, one often see quick drives attempting to penetrate and dissolve the coordinating opponent. Any miscommunication between the players may result in gap in the defense.

Hosting Of Web Site

After you have a graphic designer and programmer create
your web site, you will need a web site hosting company. In
order to make an informed decision about what web hosting
company to employ, you must have a general idea of what web
hosting is.

What is Web Site Hosting?
After you have a graphic designer and programmer create
your web site, you will need a web site hosting company. In
order to make an informed decision about what web hosting
company to employ, you must have a general idea of what web
hosting is.
Hosting a web site basically means there is a computer that
stores the files on a server that is connected to the
Internet.
There are companies that exclusively offer only web hosting
services. You can also find what is known as a VAR, or an
Added Value Reseller. A VAR will often give you an entire
package, including designing your web site, advertising it,
and doing the bookkeeping. The benefit of using a company
that offers all these services in addition to also hosting
your web site is that they tend to be smaller companies and
offer a more personal approach. A smaller company will be
more likely to stay in close touch with their clients, to
monitor the sites, and to update the sites periodically.
Whether you go through your web designer for web hosting or
directly to a large web hosting company, there are a number
of factors to consider before choosing a web hosting
company. Of course, you want a company with an outstanding
record of service and reasonable prices. However, price
should not be the deciding factor. Look for a record of
speedy connectivity and reliability. If your web site does
not come up on a viewer's computer fast, or if the server
is always down, your bargain will quickly turn into a
nightmare!
A large, commercial web hosting company will usually offer
more services and greater reliability than smaller, local
Internet providers will. Large web hosting companies store
your files on a major Web server. This server is connected
directly to the Internet through multiple main feeds. The
room in which the server is housed has strong security
devices and safeguards, and the room itself is usually
staffed around the clock.
The bigger the server, the better the back up plans in the
event that there is a problem, such as a power outage.
While it is true that all servers, big and small, have
instant power backup units attached, a larger server will
have a back up unit that can handle an extended power
outage. The large web hosting company also has a server
with multiple feeds, which means that if one connection
fails, another connection immediately kicks in.
Additionally, larger web hosting companies with larger
servers back up your data every single night. This assures
you that your files are protected from power outages, loss,
and file corruption. If you've ever experienced a file
corruption, you will immediately appreciate how valuable
this safeguard is!
Of course, in order for your marketing campaign to be a
success, you must have an excellent web site first. This
means that it must be designed beautifully and dynamically,
and it must function smoothly. You must monitor your
customer needs and motivation frequently, and adjust your
web site accordingly. You must strive for high search
engine positions and good link popularity. And you must
figure out how to drive targeted quality traffic to your
web site.
Of course, once this quality traffic arrives at your site,
they need to view a clear, quality version of your web
pages. That's where a good, reliable web hosting company
comes into play. No matter how brilliant and beautiful your
web site is, if it comes up on the viewer's screen blurry
or difficult to see in any way, you will lose customers.
It is essential to find a web hosting company that monitors
their servers regularly and has the capability to fix any
problems rapidly. That's why you must make sure that your
web hosting company offers excellent quality service and
connectivity. Add to that a good track record of customer
service, extra services such as regular reports, and a good
price.
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Love Vs Marriage

Love is holding hands in the street.
Marriage is holding arguments in the street.
Love is cuddling on a sofa.
Marriage is deciding on a sofa.

Love is holding hands in the street.
Marriage is holding arguments in the street.
Love is cuddling on a sofa.
Marriage is deciding on a sofa.
Love is talking about having children.
Marriage is talking about getting away from children.
Love is going to bed early.
Marriage is going to sleep early.
Love is a romantic drive.
Marriage is a tarmac drive.
Love is losing your appetite.
Marriage is losing your figure.
Love is sweet nothing in the ear.
Marriage is sweet nothing in the bank.
Love is a flickering flame.
Marriage is a flickering television.
Love is 1 drink and 2 straws.
Marriage is "Don't you think you've had enough!".
In short, Love is blind,
Marriage is an eye opener!!!

Most Famouse Colleges In India

1 . R. K. College of Systems & Management
We have campuses in New Delhi and Firozabad (U.P.). With due university affiliations, R. K. Colleges offers a choice of exciting and academically stimulating courses. We feel pride in offering various self-designed courses for executives, housewives and for General IT awareness. RKCSM is backed by its competent and co-operative staff and strong infrastructure including: Latest air-Conditioned Computer Labs having number of computer terminals with 24 hour power backup & latest softwares; Spacious, Airy classrooms; Well stacked library with subscription to a number of magazines and journals; Electronic/ Audio Visual Teaching aids; Unlimited machine hours to all the students, internet Access.
2 . Christ College
Christ College was selected for the Best Campus Award by the Bangalore Urban Art Commission for four consecutive years, 1996 through 2000. Well maintained gardens and buildings, air-conditioned Seminar Halls, Panel Room, Conference Hall, Assembly Hall, Terrace Garden, Auditorium, Health Club, Kiosk and all the requirements of an institute of higher learning are the unique features of our college. Our college has the rare distinction of being the first college in Karnataka to be accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), an independent Council under UGC. In the colleges in Bangalore all administrative works of the college are computerized. The four computer labs are equipped with the latest Intel microprocessor based computers.
3 . Flash Frame Visuals Academy of Film & Television
The Flash Frame Visuals Academy was founded on the ideology that ‘hands on practical training’ combined with best industry practices is more productive than years of theoretical study for filmmakers. This educational model allows students to accomplish more in less time.
We believe that a filmmaker should have an extensive and expert level knowledge in all the dimensions of film making, from being a director to capturing it as a cinematographer, assembling the visuals in an edit room and adding sound to it.
4 . Indian Board of Alternative Medicine (Department of Distance and Continuing Education)
Indian Board of Alternative Medicines (Department of Distance and Continuing Education) is a Government registered institution, internationally recognized and the largest organization of Alternative Medicines in India. The Board is duly incorporated under Act XXVI of 1961 of Government of West Bengal, based on the Central Government of India Act XXI of 1860 and the Literary & Scientific Institutions Act, 1854.
The Board is also internationally affiliated with the IAEWP - An Affiliate of the United Nations, ECOSOC, UNICEF and UNESCO.
I.B.A.M. is the only organization in India to be recognized by and affiliated to the United Nations University for Peace (an international inter-governmental university established UN Resolution No. 35/55/5/XII/80) and duly recognized by the Government of India which is a signatory to the international agreement for the establishment of the University for Peace and Charter of the University for Peace of the UN.
5 . Acharya's Bangalore Business School
Acharya's Bangalore Business School (ABBS) is located off Magadi Road in Bangalore in south-east Karnataka. We provide a wide variety of programs in the fields of Life Sciences, Allied Health Sciences and Management. ABBS anchors exceptional education, supreme culture and mentoring young minds to brilliant talents in their respective fields.
At ABBS, the curriculum structure is based up on the practical inputs and creative features; inspiring the student's thought process in capturing the concepts in the right sense and enable them to draw logical conclusions.
Acharya's Bangalore Business School has been affiliated to Bangalore University and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, and recognized by AICTE, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi and the Government of Karnataka. Our faculty comes from premier educational institutions in India and prestigious universities from abroad.
Life sciences demand a significant magnitude of practical expertise to accomplish careers on the global platform. There has been a demand for paramedical professionals as the health care industry progresses towards treatment specifications.
6 . Asian Academy of Culinary Art
Asian Academy Of Culinary Art (AACA) in New Delhi is a global cookery academy under the guidance and leadership of a 5 star hotel executive chef and professional team with international exposure. We are conveniently located above Khidmat Bar & Restaurant in the Kalkaji District in South Delhi. We provide comprehensive training in culinary technologies with many different methods of teaching in kitchens, under the guidance of world class chefs. We provide the highest level of culinary instruction through a world class program.
AACA focuses its academic programs to the future needs of the culinary industry, through unique, up to date and industry relevant programs. Each diploma holder from AACA leaves with the skills to launch an exciting career, not only in the worlds leading hotels, restaurants or resorts, but also as food writers, instructors and more.
AACA honours its commitments through an expanding international way of teaching, learning and research conducted in conjunction with the development of different products and services. The AACA also works with industry and other training divisions. Courses are taught by professional chefs and experienced faculty members.
7 . Aat Media College
Access Atlantech (AAT) is one of the leaders in integrated media education in India, and was established with the motive to bring in a unique, world-class educational system to cater to the needs of the Indian Media and Entertainment Industry. We have a number of locations throughout the country including New Delhi in Delhi, Chennai in Tamil Nadu, Mumbai in Maharashtra, Bangalore in Karnataka, Kochi, Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala and Dibrugarh in Upper Assam. We are also based in London (UK).
AAT furthered its interest in the industry by establishing a pan - India presence for all its programmes by partnering some of the world’s biggest names in education such as SAE, IGNOU, Dibrugarh University, Digidesign and more.
Today, AAT stands for an educational experience hallmarked by academic rigor in a curriculum interwoven with current industry requirement and research, beyond-the-classroom interaction and unparalleled student services in true AAT tradition of excellence. AAT will focus on key functional areas of education, knowledge bank building, content from and for education and content generation for consumers.

8 . International Institute of Culinary Arts, New Delhi

International Institute of Culinary Arts (IICA) is located in the heart of prestigious South Delhi in the heritage site of Hauz Khas. We offer a wide variety of culinary arts programs and short term chef courses to meet the requirement of all levels of chefs or established professionals. We welcome all students who have potential of learning and perfecting culinary art. In addition to education, we are a single window service provider for all areas concerning food and beverages business.
IICA has been established in partnership with Llandrillo College, Wales, UK and Humber College, Toronto, Canada in response to meet the growing demand for professional chefs within the hospitality and catering industry worldwide.
International Institute of Culinary Arts is a unit of Datta Hospitality Management Support Services (DHMSS) and has been founded by Virender S Datta, a leading hotelier and renowned chef. The institute boasts of international standards and is accredited by global partners including Indian Culinary Forum (ICF).
We are committed to producing a well-qualified and highly effective, mobile and dedicated work force to answer the industry’s needs globally.

Cryogenic Cooking

Liquid nitrogen can transform oil, berries and even hamburgers
Since man’s discovery of fire, cooking has been mainly a process of subjecting food to high temperatures that chemically alter its color, taste and texture. But the invention of cryogenic technology has handed chefs an exciting new tool—liquid nitrogen—for transforming food in fun and surprising ways. In our culinary research laboratory, we use this ultra­-cold liquid to cryopoach oils, cryoshatter cheese, cryopowder herbs and cryograte meat. It is great for making instant ice cream and perfectly cooked hamburgers.
For many years the coldest substance chefs had ready access to was dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide), which sublimates directly to CO2 gas at –109 degrees Fahrenheit. Although dry ice has some interesting culinary uses, its solid form limits its utility. Nitrogen boils at a far colder temperature: –321 degrees F, about as many degrees below zero as hot fryer oil is above zero. And because nitrogen melts before it vaporizes, unlike carbon dioxide, it is relatively easy to store as a liquid and pour over food or into a bowl. Because its viscosity is about one-fifth that of water and it has relatively low surface tension, liquid nitrogen flows rapidly into nooks and crannies in foods, such as hamburger patties, that have rough or irregular surfaces. The cooks at our lab use it to make fantastic burgers that are first slow-cooked to medium rare, then dunked briefly in liquid nitrogen to freeze a thin layer of the exterior and, finally, deep-fried. The deep-frying creates a perfect brown crust and thaws the frozen layer but does not overcook the interior.
Liquid nitrogen also makes hard freezing fast and convenient. Spanish chef Quique Dacosta uses it to solidify Parmesan foam, which he then dusts with powdered, flash-frozen mushrooms to make faux truffles. The stuff also makes quick work of disassembling blackberries into individual drupelets and shattering dollops of oil into tiny shards that thaw in minutes.
Speed is crucial for freezing foods without damaging their texture. In general, the faster the freezing process, the smaller the ice crystals and the less they disrupt the cellular structure of the food. Since the 1970s chefs have used liquid nitrogen to make supersmooth ice cream. More recently, chefs have started using it to flash-freeze delicate foods such as foie gras. Because liquid nitrogen is a relatively new addition to the kitchen, many other applications of this versatile fluid still await discovery.

Improvement Through Collaboration

In recent issues of Composites Technology, industry consultant Andre Cocquyt (GRPguru.com, Brunswick, Maine) talked about the importance of education and training to the future of the composites industry (see the titles under "Editor's Picks," at right). He is correct. In fact, it’s unlikely that composites materials will achieve widespread adoption without a viable education and training infrastructure. The questions are: What will the infrastructure look like? and How will we ensure that it provides useful education?
Cocquyt noted the proliferation of new training programs dedicated to the composites industry. These programs reflect the need for a trained workforce, but they’re often created in a vacuum, serving the requirements of one company, region or market. Other programs reinvent the wheel.
The American Composites Manufacturers Assn. (ACMA) believes that composites education will advance more quickly if the industry moves toward consistent, standardized curricula for basic and advanced training, developed through best practices and industry collaboration. That was and still is the goal of ACMA’s Composites Certification Training (CCT) program and its other education programs.
The purpose of the CCT standardized curricula is to establish the baseline skills required for composites industry employees to perform their jobs. It should support best practices endorsed by the industry at large. In the case of composites technicians specifically, it should promote skills that lead to the manufacture of high-quality products.
Companies of all sizes rely on the CCT program, but smaller companies are especially dependent on the program to provide new employees with an introduction to composites and basic training. Without an independent curricula based on best practices, employee training would depend on the quality of whatever education happened to be available, which could have a narrow focus.
The composites industry can’t afford to leave employee training to chance. Whenever a company employs unskilled workers who produce low-quality products, it affects the entire industry’s ability to compete with established materials. It only takes a few horror stories before end-users question the entire industry.
The increasing amount of composites imports from other countries, without skilled and educated labor in the U.S., further underscores the need for the U.S. composites industry to continue to raise the bar on its employee training. Global competition is here, and quality is one area in which the industry must maintain its leadership status. Programs like CCT — developed by a collective industry voice — provide a mechanism to do this.
When the industry invests in standardized education and training, it develops a skilled workforce that consistently produces high-quality products. Not only does this help address competition from overseas or south of the border, but it also reassures end-users that composites are the material of choice over more traditional materials.
What should be taught?
The availability of federal and state grant money is one reason for the sudden increase in new composites education programs, as Cocquyt pointed out. Another reason is that the composites industry is diverse, and companies often seek custom-tailored training for employees. Yet all composites industry workers benefit from having certain fundamental knowledge, including the history of composites, basic terminology, standard manufacturing processes, material properties and plant safety.
For universal curricula to exist, representatives from across the industry have to jointly decide what specific information to include in each of these areas. As far as we know, the CCT program is the only composites education model that relies on input from the industry at large. ACMA members collaborate to identify best practices, which ensure that the education is useful across companies, regions and markets.
ACMA agrees with Cocquyt’s assertion that curricula for basic composites training have been adequately addressed. The process of updating CCT curricula always will be ongoing, but the model for updating basic education and gaining industrywide support is established and effective.
Furthermore, CCT has laid the foundation for developing subsequent training curricula to gain industry-wide support. ACMA members regularly review not only the content of the programs but also the ways in which they’re administered. The result is an ongoing industry effort to improve the CCT program at every level. For example, ACMA recently published a new CCT program — the Vacuum Infusion Program — and is working on Light RTM and Repair and Inspection programs as well. Recently, ACMA also updated the first CCT program on Open Molding.
Beyond education about new processes and technology, ACMA recognizes that hands-on training is a critical component of a composites technician’s education. Additionally, there is a need for more advanced training than what is currently found in CCT. The industry has come a long way since CCT was introduced more than 10 years ago. ACMA’s strategic plan calls for a look at how both of these needs should be addressed. In the meantime, ACMA offers specialized and more advanced education through other means, including demonstrations at its COMPOSITES trade show and regional workshops, articles in Composites Manufacturing magazine as well as niche-market events and online training through webinars.
Because the CCT program is modular, ACMA can decide at any time to add new and advanced curricula, as is being done through continual program updates and new program additions. The modular program also means that others — such as technical schools and academia — can use the program and add to it to meet the needs of the companies in their geographic area. In fact, ACMA already has partnered with 10 schools, allowing them to use the CCT program as the basis for their composites education. This provides consistency across a broad geographic area and enables ACMA to gather valuable feedback on the need for developing additional training.
In all of these cases, the process by which educational topics are prioritized is collaborative. This ensures that the programs fit industrywide needs and impart best practices. Both projects began because there was consensus among members that a need existed for standardized education in these areas.
Time will tell what other programs ACMA generates or how ACMA addresses the need for more advanced composites education, but one thing is certain: The collaborative process facilitated through ACMA results in training programs that reflect industry needs and will be accepted by the industry. This is the only way to produce standardized training that will be universally recognized, and it will raise the consistency of the products produced by our industry, allowing U.S. companies to successfully compete on a global level.

Importance Of Science In The World

A term whose Latin equivalent, scientia, means ‘‘knowledge’’. It was used in a similarly broad fashion in English until the seventeenth century, often in complementary partnership with ‘‘conscience’’, which usually referred to a more intuitive or passionate sense of knowing. It was also used more narrowly to refer to an academic discipline or a body of skills, being virtually synonymous in the latter sense with one of the meanings of art.
The principal items of the Medieval university curriculum—the quadrivium (logic, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy) and the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, and music)—were sometimes lumped together as the ‘‘seven sciences’’, as in Stephen Hawes’ allegorical Passetyme of Pleasure; or, the Historie of Graunde Amoure and La Belle Pucel, Containing the Knowledge of the Seven Sciences and the Course of Man’s Life in This Worlde (written 1506; printed 1509), but as the ‘‘New Learning’’ made further progress in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it became increasingly common to draw distinctions between ‘‘arts’’ and ‘‘sciences’’, resulting in a gradual restriction of the latter term to disciplines requiring theoretical understanding. Andrew Maunsell’s pioneering Catalogue of English Printed Bookes (1595) employed a tripartite fundamental division of the New Learning. The first (and much the largest) category was that of ‘‘Divinitie’’; the second contained two subdivisions, ‘‘Arithmetick, Geometrie, Astronomie, Astrologie, Musick, The Art of Warre and Navigation’’ being lumped together as Mathematicall, while Physick and Surgery were combined in their own subcategory; the third section—which was never completed—lumped ‘‘Gramer, Logick, Rethorick, Lawe, Historie, Poetrie, Policie, etc.’’ under the general heading Humanity. This taxonomic scheme is still echoed in modern university organisation, in the slightly blurred distinction between theology, theoretical and applied sciences, and ‘‘the humanities’’.
From the early eighteenth century onwards, the distinctive meaning of ‘‘science’’ became more sharply refined, referring to a body of observations subject to theoretical organisation; this became the word’s modern meaning, displacing ‘‘natural philosophy’’ to become the key element in a parcel of terms that also included the modern meaning of ‘‘empirical’’ investigation and ‘‘experimental’’ proof. Mark Akenside’s ‘‘Hymn to Science’’ (1739) retains a broader meaning of the term, but is aware in so doing that the meaning is old-fashioned and requires a certain exercise of poetic licence. It was not until the early nineteenth century, however, that such phrases as ‘‘the scientific method’’ and ‘‘scientific truth’’ entered common currency, and retrospective reference to a ‘‘scientific revolution’’ within the New Learning, led by such heroes as Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, became commonplace. William Whewell’s summaries of the history and philosophy of science in 1837–1840 cemented the modern notion of what science is—or what sciences are—within the English language.
The original synonymy of science and knowledge is retained in the positivist view that only the contents of science constitute authentic knowledge of the world, all other claims being metaphysical, and hence bogus. Such a view is, however, controversial, often cited as evidence of the kind of arrogance that licenses use of the term ‘‘scientism’’. Attempts by the logical positivists and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus (1921) to rule all statements that are incapable of scientific justification devoid of meaning caused considerable resentment, and were soon overtaken by more generous and more flexible theories of meaning. The idea persisted that there is some kind of supplementary or ‘‘higher’’ truth of which scientific truth is only a component; the Notion is very often given literary expression, assisted by a widespread belief among litterateurs that great literature is itself a component of that higher knowledge. The most obvious literary reflection of the history of the term ‘‘science’’ is the emergence and proliferation of the genres of ‘‘scientific romance’’ and ‘‘science fiction’’, whose dominance by speculative futuristic fiction emphasises the notion of science as a dynamic force determining the evolution of human thought and—via its technological spin-off—practical endeavour. It is this notion, rather than any mere acquaintance with sophisticated theory, that was responsible for the growth in the twentieth century of a ‘‘culture of science’’ distinguishable, in C. P. Snow’s sense, from the culture of literature and the arts. Even litterateurs who would not endorse the proposition that literature is a component of higher knowledge tend to be preoccupied with its heritage, thus tending to a nostalgic conservatism that is at odds with the transformative tendencies of science and technology. (Even those aspects of science that are ‘‘finished’’—in the sense that the relevant laws are fully elucidated— are usually regarded by scientists as instruments of future practical endeavour rather than precious items of conservation.)