Recently Google had included annotations features in YouTube. It is a cool feature to express the context in the video...
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
World population day
World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987, approximately the date on which the world's population reached five billion people.
The world population on the 21th anniversary of Five Billion Day, July 11, 2008, was estimated to have been 6,681,418,341 (as of now when i write this entry - from here)
Today UN calls all countries for more family planning. In a report marking World Population Day, the UN estimates that the number of people on the planet will grow from 6.7bn to 9.2bn by the year 2050. That means greater demand for food, water and fuel. Such growth is unsustainable, the UN says, as climate change degrades arable land and reduces water supplies.
The hard truth is, the UN adds, the world does not even want so many new people. More than 200 million women, many in the developing world, do not have access to contraceptives.
Where are we going? How are we going to manage this??
Images from http://www.worldometers.info/population/
The world population on the 21th anniversary of Five Billion Day, July 11, 2008, was estimated to have been 6,681,418,341 (as of now when i write this entry - from here)
Today UN calls all countries for more family planning. In a report marking World Population Day, the UN estimates that the number of people on the planet will grow from 6.7bn to 9.2bn by the year 2050. That means greater demand for food, water and fuel. Such growth is unsustainable, the UN says, as climate change degrades arable land and reduces water supplies.
The hard truth is, the UN adds, the world does not even want so many new people. More than 200 million women, many in the developing world, do not have access to contraceptives.
Where are we going? How are we going to manage this??
Images from http://www.worldometers.info/population/
Google's new iGoogle - Experimental features
Today when i was using iGoogle, suddenly the presentation format got changed. I was wondering.. Then I came to know that Google is experimenting with several new features on iGoogle. Some of the features..
Left navigation
With the navigation now available on the left-hand side of the page, you can get to all your gadgets with one click. The left navigation contains a list of all your gadgets and tabs.
Canvas view gadgets
Sometimes you want to focus on a single gadget on iGoogle. Now canvas views or full page views are available for some of our most popular gadgets. You can get to the canvas view of a gadget by doing the following:
* Click its title in the left navigation.
* Click the Maximize button in the gadget titlebar.
Chat on iGoogle
Now you can chat with all your friends in iGoogle without having to download any extra software. If your friends are signed into Gmail, Google Talk, or an experimental iGoogle homepage at the same time as you, you'll see their screennames listed on the left navigation.
Check out here for more information...
HealthMap - Global disease alert map
Recently I came across this nice site called http://healthmap.org/en. It seems to be good. It gets disease alerts from different news services and present them on the world map. You can zoom into see the alerts in a particular location.
This is really helpful, when you plan for your vacation you can check the possible disease alerts in that place
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Unofficial Google Command line interface
Goosh.org hosted a command line interface to Google! It is like unix shell like interface. Using this you can access most of the google services (search for web, image, map (places), video, news, feeds, site specific searches and translate etc). It is pretty cool!! "help" or "ls" command gives the list of features supported. And you can clean up your webpage using clear command!! nice to see see all these without any advertisement.
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Bangalore EPIC Special Campaign 2008
Bangalore EPIC Special Compaign 2008 - For issue of elector photo identity card.
7th July to 31st August!!
- This campaign will enable every elector to get an EPIC.
- EPIC Campaign schedule in designated locations will be announced by the District Election Officers and Electoral Registration Officers
- The Electors whose names are already in the Electoral Roll, but EPIC not yet issued should appear for photograph in the designated locations for issue of EPIC.
- For inclusion of name in the Electoral Roll and for issue of Photo Identity Card fill up Form-6, submit the completed form to the concerned Electoral Registration Officer/ Assistant Electoral Registration Officer under acknowledgment.
- If EPIC is already issued and there is correction in the Electoral Roll and EPIC, fill up Form-8 and submit the completed form to the concerned Electoral Registration Officer / Assistant Electoral Registration Officer under acknowledgment.
Forms can be downloaded from www.ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in
Check here for contact numbers of ERO (Electoral Registration Officers). You can call them to get the schedule in your area.
http://stg1.kar.nic.in/eci/ERO_BUD.pdf
http://stg1.kar.nic.in/eci/ERO_BBMP.pdf
UPDATE on 21st July 2008:
Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPICs) will be distributed in the following areas between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm. Looks like this schedule is for the next three days till 23rd July. For details, call 41757550.
KR Puram: Government model school; RR Nagar: St Clariton school; Mahalakshmi Layout: BBMP engineering ward office; Malleswaram: Chandrodaya english school; Hebbal: Little Angel Public School; Pulakeshi Nagar: Alphonse high school; Sarvagna Nagar: Maruthi Vidyalaya; CV Raman Nagar: Government model Tamil primary school; Shivajinagar: Islamiya-Madarasa-e-Niswan high school; Shanthinagar: Shanthi Nikethan nursery and primary school; Gandhinagar: Mahila Vidyalaya; Rajajinagar: BBMP engineering ward office; Govindaraja Nagar: Standard English nursery and primary school; Vijayanagar: Corporation ward office; Chamarajpet: Corporation Nursery School; Chickpet: City Central library; Basavanagudi: Corporation ward office; Padmanabhnagar: Webster middle and high school; BTM Layout: Francis institute of primary school; Jayanagar: VET High School; Bommannahalli: GHPS, Rotary Nagar.
Bangalore Urban
Yelahanka: GLPS, Kodigetrumalapura; MEC High School, Yelahanka New Town, Govt Urdu Model School, GHPS Kachohalli and Sondekoppa. Byatarayanapura: Govt Urdu Primary School, Bellahalli; Tanisandra: St Philomina English School; Doddabommasandra: GKVK Hostel. Yeshwantpur: GLPS, Ganapathi Halli; Nammura GHPS Thigalarapalya New Building; Nammura GHPS, Byadarahalli; GLPS, Pattanagere, Jnanabhodini higher primary school, Dubasipalya, Kengeri Education Society, Junior college, Kengeri, GHPS, Huluvenahalli. Dasarahalli: Sri Gururaghavendra Kannada lower primary school and parents society, Rajagopala Nagar.
Bangalore South: GHPS, Chandra Nagar, Kumaraswami Layout 2nd Stage; GHPS, Vittasandra; Dayananda boys and girls high school, Vaishnavi Layout; Uttarahalli, GKPS, Subhash Nagar; Government lower primary school, Thirupalya; Rammanohar Lohia law college, Gottigere; Modern school, Konanakunte.
Anekal: Government higher primary school, Huskur; government higher primary school, Chandapura; government higher primary school, Kithiganahalli; government new model primary schhol, government higher primary school, Arenuru; government primary school, Dommasandra; government higher primary school, Iggalur; government lower primary school, Maranayakanahalli.
7th July to 31st August!!
- This campaign will enable every elector to get an EPIC.
- EPIC Campaign schedule in designated locations will be announced by the District Election Officers and Electoral Registration Officers
- The Electors whose names are already in the Electoral Roll, but EPIC not yet issued should appear for photograph in the designated locations for issue of EPIC.
- For inclusion of name in the Electoral Roll and for issue of Photo Identity Card fill up Form-6, submit the completed form to the concerned Electoral Registration Officer/ Assistant Electoral Registration Officer under acknowledgment.
- If EPIC is already issued and there is correction in the Electoral Roll and EPIC, fill up Form-8 and submit the completed form to the concerned Electoral Registration Officer / Assistant Electoral Registration Officer under acknowledgment.
Forms can be downloaded from www.ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in
Check here for contact numbers of ERO (Electoral Registration Officers). You can call them to get the schedule in your area.
http://stg1.kar.nic.in/eci/ERO_BUD.pdf
http://stg1.kar.nic.in/eci/ERO_BBMP.pdf
UPDATE on 21st July 2008:
Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPICs) will be distributed in the following areas between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm. Looks like this schedule is for the next three days till 23rd July. For details, call 41757550.
KR Puram: Government model school; RR Nagar: St Clariton school; Mahalakshmi Layout: BBMP engineering ward office; Malleswaram: Chandrodaya english school; Hebbal: Little Angel Public School; Pulakeshi Nagar: Alphonse high school; Sarvagna Nagar: Maruthi Vidyalaya; CV Raman Nagar: Government model Tamil primary school; Shivajinagar: Islamiya-Madarasa-e-Niswan high school; Shanthinagar: Shanthi Nikethan nursery and primary school; Gandhinagar: Mahila Vidyalaya; Rajajinagar: BBMP engineering ward office; Govindaraja Nagar: Standard English nursery and primary school; Vijayanagar: Corporation ward office; Chamarajpet: Corporation Nursery School; Chickpet: City Central library; Basavanagudi: Corporation ward office; Padmanabhnagar: Webster middle and high school; BTM Layout: Francis institute of primary school; Jayanagar: VET High School; Bommannahalli: GHPS, Rotary Nagar.
Bangalore Urban
Yelahanka: GLPS, Kodigetrumalapura; MEC High School, Yelahanka New Town, Govt Urdu Model School, GHPS Kachohalli and Sondekoppa. Byatarayanapura: Govt Urdu Primary School, Bellahalli; Tanisandra: St Philomina English School; Doddabommasandra: GKVK Hostel. Yeshwantpur: GLPS, Ganapathi Halli; Nammura GHPS Thigalarapalya New Building; Nammura GHPS, Byadarahalli; GLPS, Pattanagere, Jnanabhodini higher primary school, Dubasipalya, Kengeri Education Society, Junior college, Kengeri, GHPS, Huluvenahalli. Dasarahalli: Sri Gururaghavendra Kannada lower primary school and parents society, Rajagopala Nagar.
Bangalore South: GHPS, Chandra Nagar, Kumaraswami Layout 2nd Stage; GHPS, Vittasandra; Dayananda boys and girls high school, Vaishnavi Layout; Uttarahalli, GKPS, Subhash Nagar; Government lower primary school, Thirupalya; Rammanohar Lohia law college, Gottigere; Modern school, Konanakunte.
Anekal: Government higher primary school, Huskur; government higher primary school, Chandapura; government higher primary school, Kithiganahalli; government new model primary schhol, government higher primary school, Arenuru; government primary school, Dommasandra; government higher primary school, Iggalur; government lower primary school, Maranayakanahalli.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Deccan Skylimo: Helicopter shuttle service launched in bangalore
Image via WikipediaDeccan Aviation on Tuesday launched its helicopter shuttle service between the new international airport here and select destinations in the city. The new service "Deccan Skylimo" opening on Wednesday will have a bell 206 jet ranger helicopter, the company said in a release here.Deccan Skylimo will begin operations from BIAL to Electronic City, Whitefield and HAL airport in Bangalore. The charter service offerred convenient timings and regular frequency, it said adding the first service will start at 0630 hours and the last drop to BIAL will be at 1800 hours daily.
The fare for these helicopter charters is in the range of Rs. 4800 to Rs. 5800 per person per trip.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Women Harassment: How to register complaint?
The Complaints and Counseling Cell of the commission processes all the complaints whether received orally, written or suo moto under Section 10 of the NCW Act.
The complaints received relate to domestic violence, harassment, dowry, torture, desertion, bigamy, rape, refusal to register FIR, cruelty by husband, deprivation, gender discrimination and sexual harassment at work place.
The complaints are dealt with as below :-
* Investigations by the police are expedited and monitored.
* The matters are brought to the notice of various state authorities to facilitate action.
* Family disputes are resolved or compromised through counseling.
* As per the 1997 Supreme Court Judgment on Sexual Harassment at Workplace, ( Vishakha Vs. State of Rajasthan ) every employer is required to provide for effective complaints procedures and remedies including award of compensation to women victims. In sexual harassment complaints, the concerned organisation is urged to expedite cases and the disposal is monitored.
* For serious crimes, the Commission constitutes an Inquiry Committee which makes spot enquiries, examines witnesses, collects evidence and submits
the report with recommendations. The implementation of the report is monitored by the NCW.
The Commission has powers to summon the accused, witnesses and records to facilitate inquiry.
The State Commissions, the NGOs and other experts are involved in these efforts.
Cases falling under following categories are ordinarily not entertained by the Commission.
* Complaints illegible or vague, anonymous or pseudonymous; or
* The Complaint relates to civil dispute between the parties such as contractual rights obligations and the like;
* The Complaint relates to service matters not involving any deprivation of women's rights;
* The Complaint relates to labour/industrial disputes not involving any deprivation of womens rights:
* Matter is sub judice before a Court/Tribunal;
* The Commission shall not inquire into any matter which is pending before a State Commission or any other Commission duly constituted under any law for the time being in force.
* Matter already decided by the Commission
Visit http://ncw.nic.in/ncwcomplaint1/complaintentry.asp to file the complaint.
The complaints received relate to domestic violence, harassment, dowry, torture, desertion, bigamy, rape, refusal to register FIR, cruelty by husband, deprivation, gender discrimination and sexual harassment at work place.
The complaints are dealt with as below :-
* Investigations by the police are expedited and monitored.
* The matters are brought to the notice of various state authorities to facilitate action.
* Family disputes are resolved or compromised through counseling.
* As per the 1997 Supreme Court Judgment on Sexual Harassment at Workplace, ( Vishakha Vs. State of Rajasthan ) every employer is required to provide for effective complaints procedures and remedies including award of compensation to women victims. In sexual harassment complaints, the concerned organisation is urged to expedite cases and the disposal is monitored.
* For serious crimes, the Commission constitutes an Inquiry Committee which makes spot enquiries, examines witnesses, collects evidence and submits
the report with recommendations. The implementation of the report is monitored by the NCW.
The Commission has powers to summon the accused, witnesses and records to facilitate inquiry.
The State Commissions, the NGOs and other experts are involved in these efforts.
Cases falling under following categories are ordinarily not entertained by the Commission.
* Complaints illegible or vague, anonymous or pseudonymous; or
* The Complaint relates to civil dispute between the parties such as contractual rights obligations and the like;
* The Complaint relates to service matters not involving any deprivation of women's rights;
* The Complaint relates to labour/industrial disputes not involving any deprivation of womens rights:
* Matter is sub judice before a Court/Tribunal;
* The Commission shall not inquire into any matter which is pending before a State Commission or any other Commission duly constituted under any law for the time being in force.
* Matter already decided by the Commission
Visit http://ncw.nic.in/ncwcomplaint1/complaintentry.asp to file the complaint.
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