The IPL Trophy, which has a player in gold leafing, holding a bat adjacent to a map of the country with the names of the IPL teams engraved in it and symbolised by eight rubies, was crafted by 14 artisans, said chief designer Mona
ThinkGeek is selling a really cool Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt with a graphic that produces an glowing animation showing the signal strength of local wi-fi networks.
* Glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength.
* Shows signal strength for 802.11b or 802.11g
Image via WikipediaChennai Super Kings romped into the final of the Indian Premier League, thrashing Kings XI Punjab by nine wickets in the second semi-final.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's team advanced to Sunday's summit clash with the Rajasthan Royals after a determined and disciplined effort saw them past Kings XI with some ease.
Image via WikipediaCheck out the cool animation of Phoenix Lander Arrives at Mars here
Came to know about this airport transfer service...it would be good for bangalore people...
Here is what they say...
We are starting a Airport Transfer Service for Bangalore. Since the New airport is far from the city and we feel that Airport Transfers will become very expensive for the Passengers and there will be a definite problem to commute to and from the New Airport. We are introducing our service to make airport Transfers less expensive and still provide the required luxury while taking customers to and from the airport. We will pick up the customers from the Airlift pickup points and drop them to the airport and vice versa bring them to the city from the airport.
Unique features of the Airlift Vehicle
· Airlift will be 6 seat air conditioned Toyota Innova. Individual Bucket seats for all 5 passengers.
· Airlift will have a LCD screen on each passenger seat for personalized entertainment system, these screens will show 5 channels with different contents.
· Airlift has ample overhead covered and secured luggage space.
· Airlift will be Wi-Fi enabled for passengers to browse the internet on the screens and as well as with their laptops.
· Airlift will be driven by our Auto Pilots who will be in uniform and well trained to communicate and present themselves to the customers.
· Airlift will also be tracked by GPS system to ensure efficient on time services and tracking every vehicle to make sure of complete security of passengers.
Airlift is being designed to provide complete comfort and help the passenger to use their commuting time productively.
Pricing: We feel that the Normal City Cab from or to the Airport will cost about 750/- to 1000/- one way. Our service has been priced at Rs. 300/- one way and moreover Return journey for to and from the airport will be Rs. 450/- per person. That is nearly 70% saving on the Airport Transfers vis-à-vis a regular City Cab.
How to avail the service:
Book Tickets online on our website www.airliftonline.com through Credit or Debit Card.
Pickup the Prepaid Coupons in any of the Retail Stores and call 9845047788 to make a booking or use the same on www.airliftonline.com
Support:
SMS AIRLIFT to 54545. Our support team will get in touch with you ASAP.
Call our 24/7 call center number 98450 47788 .
Logon to our website www.airliftonline.com for any queries
Image via WikipediaI came across a clinical assistant product - MedTab. It is a thin client and can be used to view the EMR/EHR records of a patient. I was surprised to see that this device/gadget is washable.
I read the following from their website. It is good.
Several scientific journals (sited below) have reported on incidents of infectious organisms being isolated from computer keyboards used in patient care areas. Other articles have connected contaminated computer keyboards to infected patients. Some medical professionals recommend disinfecting keyboards daily, when visibly soiled, or when leaving an ICU room. The MedTab can help reduce patient infections by minimizing the need to share computers, and by eliminating the keyboard (which may be seldom disinfected). The MedTab has no open holes, ports or cracks for organisms to hide. It is easy to wipe clean and disinfect.
Quick Facts about Healthcare Acquired Infections
There are more than two million healthcare acquired infections each year that result in more than 90,000 deaths. (Journal of Epidemiology and Centers for Disease Control and Infections)
In Pennsylvania alone, healthcare acquired infections in 2004 cost the health system more than two billion dollars. (Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council)
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, April, 2006
Bacterial Contamination of Keyboards: Efficacy and Functional Impact of Disinfectants. Rutala WA, White MS, Gergen MF, Weber DJ
"Computers are ubiquitous in the healthcare setting and have been shown to be contaminated with potentially pathogenic microorganisms."
"Therefore, we agree with other investigators who have recommended that routine disinfection be performed on computer keyboards that are used in patient care areas. Computers in these areas should be disinfected daily and when visibly soiled."
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Sep.-Oct. 2002
Basic Microbiologic and Infection Control Information to Reduce the Potential Transmission of Pathogens to Patients via Computer Hardware. Alice N. Neely, PhD and Dean F. Sittig, PhD
"Recent articles have indicated that computer hardware, just as other medical equipment, may act as a reservoir for microorganisms and contribute to the transfer of pathogens to patients.."
"Therefore, anyone (such as a staff member) or anything (such as a portable computer) that contacts anything in the patient�s room should be considered to be contaminated and needs to be disinfected before leaving the (ICU) room."
American Journal of Infection Control, 2000
Computer Keyboards and Faucet Handles as Reservoirs of Nosocomial Pathogens in the Intensive Care Unit. Bures S, Fishbain JT, Uyehara CFT, et al.
"...MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) causing clinical infection in two of the ICU patients was identical to the MRSA isolated from the keyboards, thereby establishing a direct connection between the infected patients and the computers."
Clinical Infectious Disease, November 1999
Computer Keyboards as Reservoirs for Acinetobacter baumannii in a Burn Hospital. Neely AN, Maley MP, Warden GD..
"...findings strongly suggest a link between contaminated computer keyboards and colonization in this group of patients."
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, June 1998
Swabbing Computers in Search of Nosocomial Bacteria. Isaacs D, Daley A, Dalton D, et al
"...Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas, both of which are capable of causing serious infections in burn patients, were found on the computer terminals."
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I read this news in NDTV. Following the use of bi-cycles in various terror attacks across the country, more recently in Jaipur, the Agra police has banned parking of cycles near the Taj Mahal.
I don't know how this will help to control the terror attacks. Instead of looking at the permanent solution, they are going for the short term useless solution. In other words, whenever a problem occurs they jump in and do something and affect the people. They have to look out for the solution proactively.
Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils, 1st Semi-Final, Friday
Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai
Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings, 2nd Semi-Final, Saturday
Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai
Chennai Super Kings beat Deccan Chargers by seven wickets to book a semi-final berth in the Indian Premier League.
By ANI
New Delhi, May 27 (ANI): A cess or surcharge on income tax and corporate tax may be the next option with the Central Government to bail out oil firms reeling under high global oil prices.
Earlier, a proposal by the Petroleum Ministry to raise petrol price by Rs 10 a litre, diesel by Rs 5 per litre and that of LPG by Rs 50 per had not gone down well with the UPA Government.
The new proposal comes after Finance Minister P Chidambaram's reluctance to slash duties on crude oil and petroleum products unless alternate source of revenues were identified.
Petroleum Minister Murli Deora met Chidambaram today but could not convince him of the urgency to cut import and excise duties to avoid the Rs 2,00,000 crore revenue loss expected on petrol, diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene this fiscal.
BPCL and HPCL can buy crude oil only till July while Indian Oil can afford imports till September. The three firms face huge liquidity crisis as they fail to recover full value of the products sold.
"We don't want to see scarcity of petroleum products particularly kerosene and LPG," Deora said. "Oil companies are in a precarious state and we need urgently find solutions." He informed that some proposals were discussed but "nothing has been agreed."
Sources said a cess or surcharge on income and corporate tax similar to one levied after the Kargil war, may be on the cards to balance the cut in customs duty on crude oil to zero from 5 per cent and an excise duty cut on petrol and diesel. (ANI)
The Bharatiya Janata Party ministry led by B.S. Yediyurappa is likely to be sworn in Wednesday, party sources said Sunday.
The election process has to be completed by Wednesday May 28 according to the schedule drawn up by the election commission.
Yediyurappa will be formally elected leader of the BJP legislature party Monday. He and other state leaders will leave for Delhi for talks with party central leaders after staking claim to form the government.
All top BJP leaders like L.K. Advani, Sushma Swaraj, and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi who had campaigned vigorously and Arun Jaitely, in charge of party affairs in Karnataka and many others are likely to witness the swearing in ceremony.
In November last year when Yediyurappa was sworn in as chief minister all these leaders as well as chief ministers of other BJP-ruled states were present.
On Sunday evening state leaders met at Yediyurappa’s residence to discuss ministry formation and steps to be taken for stability of the government as it will have only a slender majority of four or five seats in the 225-member (including one nominated member) house.
BJP has won 110 seats, Congress 80, JD-S 28 and the remaining six have been taken by independent candidates.
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The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is inching towards becoming the single largest party in Karnataka. BJP is closely followed by the Congress. JD(S)-touted as the kingmaker party-is trailing.
According to the latest results/reports, the BJP has won 4 seats and is leading in 102. The Congress has won 1 seat and is ahead in 68 seats and the JD(S) in 41. According to the early election results tends, the BJP is ahead of the Congress in Central Karnataka, coastal Karnataka and Bangalore.
For the latest Karnataka Elections result you can log on to here to get the results and trends
Image via WikipediaBangalore: The newly launched Bengaluru International Airport said it handled 341 air traffic movements, including 172 arrivals and 159 departures on Saturday. This was a phenomenal achievement given that it was the inaugural day of the launch of commercial operations.
"It was business as usual on Day 1. Though a weekend, we have been well prepared to handle the heavy traffic from the new airport. The air traffic control guided about 100 aircraft in landing and take off during the first 24 hours of commencing the operations," a spokesperson of the airport operator, Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) said.
The Rs 2,500-crore airport at Devanahalli, located about 40 km from Bangalore, launched operations in the early hours of Saturday, thanks to a Election Commission imposed moratorium on operations in place because of the ongoing State elections in Karnataka. India's flag carrier, Air India, had the privilege to fly out the first aircraft - to Singapore - 15 minutes past Friday midnight (00.15 IST).
The city's old HAL airport, located in the city, simultaneously closed operations.
"The first 18 hours of day one operations have been satisfactory in comparison to other such transitions the world over. Teething problems apart, the operational take-off has been smooth. The glitches will be tackled within a week," BIAL said in a statement later.
Source: domain-b.com
Most of them won't care about the No U Turn signal in the bilekahalli signal in Bannerghatta Road. Look at this photo. How two wheelers and an auto trying to take left on a busy traffic. You can see this any day any time in this place..Ofcourse this is one example....you can see many such place...
Reliance bought a convention hall (kalyana mandapam) located in Arekere signal, bannerghatta road and converted it to a mall. It is ready to open in few days. It will be a threat to the other players in this area - FoodDays, .more (fabmall), nilgiris and Food World.
First FoodNet was running their business nicely in this area and when fabmall was started it took good business. But when foodworld started their branch, FoodNet and .more (fabmall) lost their business.
Hope this competition will give benefit to the consumers!
Last week, ELCIA (Electronics City Industries' Association) started to help the people commute from Bannerghatta Road to Electronics City. They've arranged some securities to manage the traffic in many junctions from Bannerghatta Road to Electronics City.
Tonight around 7:30pm, I noticed that they are doing a great job! They are not allowing the heavy vehicles to take this village road from Bannerghatta Road.
Thanks to ELCIA!!
Route from Electronics City - Bannerghatta Road - Kanakpura Road
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I've captured this GPS log few months back...
I was thinking that we don't have a platform to promote startups and know about startups. Thought of building a company like TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Recently came to know about this event in bangalore and registered for this event. Waiting to connect to people and know more about the startups.
startup city
May 24, 2008 Nimhans Convention Center, Bangalore.
Check here for more information.
Every year, around 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. 500,000,000,000. Five hundred followed by nine zeros. That's a lot of bags. So many that over one million bags are being used every minute and they're damaging our environment.
Plastic bags are difficult and costly to recycle and most end up on landfill sites where they take around 300 years to photo degrade. They break down into tiny toxic particles that contaminate the soil and waterways and enter the food chain when animals accidentally ingest them.
Our planet is becoming increasingly contaminated by our unnecessary use of plastic bags.
Each one of us contributes to the problem, Let’s now be willing to be part of the solution to it.
Two Simple Ways You Can Do That
1. Use Reusable Shopping Bags – Jute, Cloth …
2. Reuse A Plastic Bag – Take back that bag to the vendor, next time you visit; or else collect and return at regular intervals.
Our simple acts today, can make a BIG difference tomorrow !
Oops...I did it..
Today morning we reached our polling station by 7am. We were redirected to other polling station. Just few people were standing in the queue. Overall it took less than 10 minutes to log my vote including waiting in the queue! The polling officer didn't check my identity card?? 
Image via WikipediaNews reports have tallied more than 22,000 dead with another 41,000 missing due to the Cyclone Nargis.
You can support disaster relief if Myanmar at this link. In this page, you can donate to UNICEF or Direct Relief International.
For more information about this google initiative check
here
you can check out this link to track the path of cyclone Nargis.
An institute in bangalore, India performs any kind of heart surgery, free of cost.
Sri Sathya Sai Institute Higher medical Sciences, E.P.I.P. Area, Whitefield, Bangalore - 560 066, Karnataka, India.
Telephone: +91-80-28411500
Fax: +91-80-28411502
Email: adminblr at sssihms.org.in.
They perform free heart surgery for any patient, irrespective of financial status and age. Please pass this information on – it may save some lives.
You can contact Vijay from this hospital at 9845313431.
In Mexico, the country's leading UFO expert claimed that a sensational sightings of a flying human above the skies of Mexico captured on video could be genuine. The mysterious woman-like figure wearing a cape , initially described as a witch or wizard, was caught on camera in 2006 as it hovered above mountains in Nuevo Leon city.
But now Mexico's leading UFO expert Anna Luisa Cid said that the sightings was genuine after carrying out her own investigations. The sighting had been corroborated by 40 witnesses and had been captured on fim by the Nuevo Leon UFO club.
The drop-box facility for processing electoral photo identity cards (EPIC) has been withdrawn with immediate effect. The Election Commission made the announcement on Wednesday, barely 10 days away from the first phase of elections.
EPICs are not mandatory for voting. It is enough if the head of the family shows one of the several identity documents to the polling officials. “Even if one document is produced, the entire family will be allowed to vote.’’
Voters can call up 155212 to find out the location of their booths and other details. The line will be activated soon.
If you don’t have EPIC card, use one of the following;
Passport, driving licence, PAN card, government or public sector undertaking identity card, nationalized banks or post office passbook, Kissan passbook, education institution identity cards issued before October 1 2007, property register, ration card with photo, caste certificate, pension papers, freedom fighters identity card, gun license, handicapped certificate, ex-serviceman identity card, Sandhya Suraksha card, NREGA card or Yeshaswini card.
