A new species of Limbless Amphibian has been discovered in Brazil (Amazons last year.
Ithas been christened ‘Penis Snake’
How ever it does not look to me either but a mix of both.
Year: 2012
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Starvation Diet is Healthy? Indian Diet.
Idli, Dosa. The question of normal Diet is yet to be decided beyond dispute.
Dietary requirements vary depending on Countries,Culture,Sex,Work patterns,Individual needs and climate.
Blind imitation of Diets recommended by the West is no solution to India.
I hold the view that out ancestors have tried by trial and error the present system of Food habits.
In India we have various food patterns in various States and I feel that it the best.
For instance South India being hotter than North one needs immediate release of energy by Carbohydrates, that is Rice.
In North you need more of protein to withstand the extremes of Cold and heat.
You take more of Wheat.
I have personally experienced the effects of the food system recommended to us by our ancestors for each region and I can vouch that it is the best than anything else.
I also have tried the Diet prescribed by the Sastras for Mahalaya Paksha for the entire 15 Days.
I found my Mind to be calm, Unperturbed and body light.
I was feeling very fine Health-wise.
It is a simple Diet.
For Lunch around 1230 pm , you take food which excludes certain vegetables like Potato, Tomatoes,Garlic,Onion,
You use more of Moong dal.
You take a light snack of 2-3 Idlis,or Dosas or Rice Upma or Fluffed Rice(Aval) and Fruits at night.
That’s all.
No Breakfast no munching in between.
Hindus do we have a fasting day once in Fifteen Days,Ekadasi, on the 11th Day of the axing and waning Moon.
On the next Day Dwadesi, one is expected to take diet in stages with a Gooseberry Chutney in Curds and Rice with fresh Greens (Agathi Keerai)
Now I came across a news item that Starvation Diet may actually be good.
Story:
Pinned to my mother Shirley’s fridge on yellowing, curled paper is a handwritten copy of a two-week crash diet. It has been there since 1979, the year she decided she wanted to shed a stone in a fortnight. Its survival is testament to the faith she holds in it.
Among other tortures while on the diet, she allows herself no more than half a grapefruit and a slice of dry toast with black coffee each morning. Lunch is a few cold cuts of meat and a side of vegetables, and dinner is similar. On a typical day this will amount to about 650 calories.
Now 78, you would have thought she’d have deserted this gruelling regime and allowed herself to go into diet retirement.
But like so many women of her generation, she believes the occasional fortnight of eating little is key to a svelte figure and good health.
Such extreme slimming plans have drifted out of fashion in the past few decades. Crash diets are supposed to slow your metabolism down, leading to more weight gain when you stop.
These days, the mantra recited by the medical profession is steady weight loss rather than starvation. And being curvy – a la Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks – is in vogue.
Science reporter Michael Mosley speaks to scientists who have discovered that periods of eating very little or nothing may be the key to controlling chemicals produced by the body linked to the development of disease and the ageing process. This backs up recent studies on animals fed very low-calorie diets which found the thinnest (without being medically underweight or malnourished) are the healthiest and live the longest.
The key, say researchers at the University of Southern California’s Longevity Institute, is the hormone Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1). Mosley explains: ‘IGF-1 and other growth factors keep our cells constantly active. It’s like driving with your foot on the accelerator pedal, which is fine when your body is shiny and new, but keep doing this all the time and it will break down.’
According to Professor Valter Longo, director of the Longevity Institute, one way to take the foot off the accelerator, and reduce IGF-1 levels dramatically – as well as cholesterol, and blood pressure – is by fasting.
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16,000 Traffic Violations a Day, Bangalore, We are Proud
Bangalore has the dubious distinction of the Top City in Traffic violations with 16, 000 people violating traffic rules.
In June 2012, Bangalore “with a two-wheeler population of 28.8 lakh, saw 10.35 lakh riders being slapped with fines till June-end. Drivers of light motor vehicles, including cars and autorickshaws, are second only to two-wheeler riders. Nearly 7.75 lakh of them had violated one rule or the other.”
Well Bangalore now along with IT has become Chaotic Traffic Symbol of India.
The city was not meant to handle heavy vehicular traffic.
In addition mismanagement adds to the confusion.
Normally it is the policemen who create Traffic jams.
If you want to verify this, next tome to find a Traffic Jam, you shall find a Policemen in the middle.
The moment he disappears traffic flows instinctively.
You may also notice the side lanes near an elevated over pass are with pot holes.
New subways are always flooded with sewage water.
And where else can you see the Signal counter showing 220 seconds!
You need not go into a Shop for purchase.
A look at Malleswaram will tell you how!
Grin and Bear it.
Mallewaram 8 Cross 
Malleswarm 8 Cross. M.G.Road is not to be left behind.
Traffic Chaos at M.G.Road, Bangalore. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-03/bangalore/33019427_1_traffic-rules-violations-traffic-challans
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http://www.trafficnetwork.in/index.php/en/
- Protest by auto drivers throws traffic out of gear (thehindu.com)
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Is This Friendship?
Friendship Day. A couple of years back, when I was living in Chennai, ,one day, I was asked by my son why I was not even calling my friend for 41 years at Bangalore either through the net or by telephone.
I replied to him that I did not know and it did not simply strike me to call him!
Then, a couple of years later we moved to Bangalore where my friend lives.
I called him and we met and my son was also present.
My son asked my friend the same question he asked me as to why my friend did not contact me .
My friend replied that it did not strike him!
Later we went on talking.
My son asked in between the conversation that we were talking as though we had left the last night’s discussion and continued the discussion though we had met in person some years back.
Well that sums up our friendship.
We do not need to call each other daily and chat.
Nor do we celebrate Friendship day.
Our relationship is as natural as the flow of River.
Other curious factor in our Friendship is that he can not speak my mother tongue fluently nor can I his.
We manage with English and with our limited Knowledge of each other’s language.
Professionally he is a business man and I, a management professional.
I met him as the brother of my Dealer, way back in 1971 and initially we were reluctant to speak with each other.
Till to-day neither of us know when we started getting close.
Meanwhile his brother through him I met my friend , remains at the state of my former dealer and commands my respect and nothing more though he is a very nice and knowledgeable man.
We share things which we can not share with none, that includes family.
There are many instances where he came to my help unasked for.
He gave me a hand written note on the eve of my 60th Birth day declaring that I had made him laugh, advised him in times of crisis and shared things with him and given him things !
Yesterday was his 60th birth day and I attended it and I was treated more than a member of his family.
I do not know what to call this?
Friendship,Affection,Love?
By normal standard definitions of the above, we do not chat or express our friendship overtly.
If it is affection , one constantly seeks reassurances .
If Love it has its Highs and Lows.
Ours is neither.
I wanted to write on our friendship after attending his function.
This morning I came to know of Friendship Day.
What better Day to write, the Day I came to know of it?
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NDTV Sues Nielsen over TV Programme Rating,Manipulation.
English: NDTV 24×7 logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) 
Image via CrunchBase Lesser men like you and I have been, though hearing the sound bites from Statistic honchos(Statistics normally conceals more than it reveals like a Bikini), have this question nagging at the back of our minds.
How come these guys , for a country as big as India, seem to rate viewer ship with lots of Data, calling prime time,Super Time, Super A etc, with none of us knowing how they do it?
Though they said that thy have some gadget ifs fixed at households and that it reveals details of Channels you have surfed with time.
But to the best of my knowledge ,I have never seen a Gadget in any of the homes nor have I know of any one knowing this much detail, the least!
If these surveys are extensive, well.. it is the best kept Secret!
Imagine Television Channels and Advertisers investing Crores of Rupees for Prime Time on such findings.
Well, all good things must end one day.
NDTV a News Channel in India has filed a case against Nielsen who say the th maters of this sort of thing, accusing them of that their System of Rating is out dated.
It transpires that for a country of the size of India with….
“Television in India is a huge industry which has thousands of programmes in many languages. The small screen has produced numerous celebrities, some even attaining national fame. TV soaps are extremely popular. Approximately half of all Indian households own a television.[1] As of 2010, the country has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are over 515 channels of which 150 arepay channels.[2] According to Pioneer Investcorp, the Indian cable industry is worth
270 billion (US$4.89 billion) and is the third largest in the world aftertelevision in the People’s Republic of China and television in the United States. The number of TV homes in India grew from 120 million in 2007 to 148 million in 2011. Cable reaches 94 million homes with 88 million analog connections and 6 million digital ones, while DTH has commanded 41 million subscribers.[3]“has a sampling of 8160 boxes, with 50-60 boxes per Target Group!
The flip-side of it is that when there was a Fire accident in Maharashtra Secretariat, Mantralaya, the Rating showed that there was no viewer ship(Zero viewer ship) from the age group ’25 Years Male’ in Mumbai where the fire was raging!
Another issue raised by NDTV is that the Nielsen people manipulated the rating by tampering the Boxes(at last there were some boxes!)
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“On April 3, 2012, a meeting was held between the representatives of NDTV, namely, Rahul Sood, Sidharth Barhate and Anand Mohan Jha, and two field staff employees of TAM (one provided his first name, while the other did not disclose his name) at Ramada Plaza Hotel, Juhu, Mumbai. The TAM employees revealed that they were employed in Mumbai to look after, and collect data from, TAM meters.
They stated they were willing to manipulate TAM ratings in Mumbai. They showed their identity cards and represented themselves as TAM employees. They also showed TAM manuals to the representatives of NDTV and explained how the meters operate, and the number of meters /areas that they looked after. They were also aware of NDTV’s ratings. They had been in touch with NDTV representative as mentioned above, therefore, during the meeting they insisted upon NDTV’s permission to activate the system at the earliest so that NDTV could see prompt results of high TRPs as promised by these persons. They claimed to have effected manipulations in the past for other channels and were willing provide the same “services” for “any” channel that was ready to pay the demanded consideration (bribe). They were confident that they could triple channel ratings of NDTV in Mumbai over a period of two to three weeks in the required target group. They stated they had direct access to homes and visited those homes periodically (at least 3 to 4 times a week) and were in a position to easily influence what the households watched/viewed. They said by paying a bribe of $250 to $500 per household per month, the TAM households could be made to watch only those channels which they insisted upon…”
Very Nice.
What is NBA doing except advertising in TV channels by way of scroll mesaages’If you have a complaint blah, blah?
May be it is not the channels that are to be complained against.
It was the complaint of the Channels.
So they keep quiet.
Let’s see how far this joke goes.
As for as I am concerned it will be show as usual and all the guys will co-exist .
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ndtv-sues-nielsen-over-tam-rating-manipulation/276822-44-124.html
Broadcaster New Delhi Television Ltd is seeking more than a billion dollars in damages from The Nielsen Co. and its affiliates, claiming the global research firm fudged viewership data.
NDTV filed a case against The Nielsen Co. in a New York court for “manipulating television viewership data in favour of channels that were willing to offer bribes to its officials,” according to a news report filed by The Hollywood Reporter late last week.
NDTV is seeking “compensatory and punitive damages” from the Nielsen group, Kantar group, TAM Media Research Pvt. Ltd and a host of Nielsen directors including its global chief executive David Calhoun for causing financial loss and loss of reputation and brand value by releasing incorrect viewership data, according to the petition, a copy of which is available withMint.
TAM is a joint venture between Nielsen and Kantar (the market research arm of London-based advertising and public relations firm WPP Plc) in India and was launched in 1998 to provide television viewership data.
“Low ratings for NDTV news channels have also led to public claims by other news channels of being the number 1 (one) channel,” the broadcaster said in its petition. “This loss of hard-earned reputation and goodwill along with the damage to the profitability of NDTV as a result of low advertising revenues has in turn severely damaged the brand value of NDTV.”
The broadcaster is demanding $810 million (Rs.4,520 crore) for fraud and $580 million for negligence, in addition to other claims, according to the petition.
It’s claiming the damages for “loss of advertising revenues, increased carriage costs, loss of reputation, loss of goodwill, loss of stock value, and loss of other revenues,” the petition added.
A TAM Media spokesperson declined to make a statement, saying the company “doesn’t comment on any litigation.” NDTV officials said they could not comment as the matter is in court.
According to the petition, after NDTV exposed rampant corruption and security breaches in TAM data to top officials of the Nielsen group and Kantar, it requested them to stop releasing data until the issues were resolved. But despite promises of remedial measures, the companies did not take corrective action and continued to publish “data corrupted by lack of security and lack of adequate sample size,” it said.
Both NDTV and the News Broadcasters Association had requested TAM to increase the sample size to 30,000 and strengthen security measures.
TAM’s website states that it “has the largest sample in the world comprising 36,000 individuals from across 165 cities and towns covering 8,150 TV homes from class I towns (all towns and cities with a population of more than 100,000) and semi-rural towns (less than 100,000 population) from the state of Maharashtra.”
http://www.livemint.com/2012/07/31150447/NDTV-sues-Nielsen-over-ratings.html?h=B
The TAM system consists of boxes which are installed in a few homes, which then give data on channels watched, their periodicity, etc — all of which are key inputs for advertisers, which is the lifeblood of TV news channels, especially since they get only one fifth of the subscription revenue they are entitled to from cable operators.
Industry sources cite numerous instances to point out the gross misrepresentation of the TAM system. The latest instance is this year’s Week 25 TAM viewership data of Mumbai showing “zero viewership” among young males who come from an affluent background.
In technical jargon, this segment would be called “male 25 years plus age group (analog) for target group AB” for June 21, the day the Maharashtra Mantralaya caught fire. ” It is impossible that this could happen, given the huge audience interest in the story which was followed through the day as lead. Yet the TAM data showed that no one from the city in the Males 25+ AB audience among the analogue homes had tuned into any of the English news channels. This is clearly an indicator of the kind of homes where TAM meters are installed and gross misrepresentation of English news channel viewers in the TAM panel,” a broadcaster said. Industry heads also say that there is no third party audit in the measurement system.
Sources explained that in any news channel, even after thousands of interviews in a small city for an exit poll, the final results are different and that too for a considered decision where the future of a nation is being decided. “For a decision of which channel to watch we can well imagine how just 50-60 boxes per target group per city are telling you what your consumers are watching,” a media head said. The NDTV plaint too makes the point that the small sample size meant that “bribing and manipulating only a select number of homes” could cause significant change in data.
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