Bloggers in India are meeting to day,11 November 2012, at Bangalore at 530 pm-1030 PM.
The event is conducted jointly by IndiBlogger and Nokia.
Attendees are 284 at the latest count.
Indiblogger.
It’s going to be an epic evening of blogging and apptasting at Bangalore! Register quick and mark your calenders, because you’re not going to want to miss this one!
The Hosts
Vikas Khanna
New York based, Michelin Starred, Celebrity Chef!
Rajiv Makhni
Popular TV anchor, one of India’s leading technology analysts, gadget guru!
Note: This event is for approved IndiBloggers only.
But I am surprised at the interaction of the Attendees, the warmth with which they communicate with each other and the seemingly painstaking arrangements made by the organizers change my mind.
May this continue.
I am quite new to this Community.
Some observations.
Most prominent of the Community seems to be youngsters and they seem to have a thing or two to express which is quite interesting.
I have visited many of the sites and find them to be original,Tech savvy and quietly different, without being brash.
I interacted with a few of them on telephone, the warmth is spontaneous and refreshing.
Let me hear these people and report.
May be some of my readers are also in this Community.
Would you please contact me by mail/at this site/venue?
While rest of the world,especially Bangalore is piling up uncleared Garbage ,Sweden which is the beat Recycling nation is planning to import Garbage from Norway.
Why not from Bangalore?
This would help our poor politicians to make some money!
Swedish Recycling.
Sweden, a recycling-happy land where a quarter of a million homes are powered by the incineration of waste, is facing a unique dilemma: The nation has run out of much-needed fuel.
Sweden, birthplace of the Smörgåsbord, Eric Northman, and the world’s preferredsolar-powered purveyor of flat-pack home furnishings, is in a bit of a pickle: the squeaky clean Scandinavian nation of more than 9.5 million has run out of garbage. The landfills have been tapped dry; the rubbish reserves depleted. And although this may seem like a positive — even enviable — predicament for a country to be facing, Sweden has been forced to import trash from neighboring countries, namely Norway. Yep, Sweden is so trash-strapped that officials are shipping it in — 80,000 tons of refuse annually, to be exact — from elsewhere.
You see, Swedes are big on recycling. So big in fact that only 4 percent of all waste generated in the country is landfilled.
Good for them! However, the population’s remarkably pertinacious recycling habits are also a bit of a problem given that the country relies on waste to heat and to provide electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes through a longstandingwaste-to-energy incineration program. So with citizens simply not generating enough burnable waste to power the incinerators, the country has been forced to look elsewhere for fuel. Says Catarina Ostlund, a senior advisor for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: “We have more capacity than the production of waste in Sweden and that is usable for incineration.”
Public Radio International has the whole story (hat tip to Ariel Schwartz atCo.Exist), a story that may seem implausible in a country like garbage-bloated America where overflowing landfills are anything but scarce.
As mentioned, the solution — a short-term one, according to Ostlund — has been to import (well, kind of import) waste from Norway. It’s kind of a great deal for the Swedes: Norway pays Sweden to take its excess waste, Sweden burns it for heat and electricity, and the ashes remaining from the incineration process, filled with highly polluting dioxins, are returned back to Norway and land filled.
We have been seeing, over the years, children attaining Puberty early.
Experts warn that it would hit the Age of Six.
Reason -Junk Food
Junk Food.
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I have posted quite a number of blogs on the evils of Junk Food.
I have tried the Junk Food only once.
I was uncomfortable for a few Days.
To those who would attribute this to my age, I would like to state that I had it Abu Dhabi McDonald, when I was 38.
Read On.
The onset of puberty has fallen by more than five years in girls and experts believe junk food is to be blamed for this ‘ticking time-bomb‘.
Some girls are only six or seven when they have to cope with their first period and a recent US study has found that boys are also hitting physical maturity up to two years earlier than in the past, The Sun reported.
Scientists have also found that the average age for the onset of puberty in girls in 1860 was 16.6 years.
By 1920 it was 14.6, in 1950, 13.1, in 1980, 12.5 and in 2010 it had dropped to 10.5.
Experts fear this could lead to an increase in young girls getting pregnant.
Puberty is the process of body changes from the first signs of adolescence to full adult development.
It is brought about by a series of chemical signals, which are sent from the brain to the pituitary gland in the head, then from the pituitary to the sex glands, the ovaries in girls and the testicles in boys.
These in turn make the sex hormones – oestrogen in girls and testosterone in boys, which cause the physical changes of puberty.
Normal puberty takes from four to five years in both sexes but it starts earlier in girls than in boys.
Marcia Herman-Giddens, from the University of North Carolina where the latest research was carried out, claims obesity may well to be blame as it alters the body’s hormones- with some starting to show the first signs of maturity as young as six.
The average age for white and Hispanic boys is ten, while it is nine for black boys.
Tam Fry, honorary chairman of the UK’s Child Growth Foundation, has described this as a “ticking timebomb” for today’s society.
‘Moun’mohan Singh, when he deems fit to speak ,excepting to give a clean certificate to 2 G sam Raja, drops gems.
On the wastage of Food during Wedding he declared it as “national shame”.
(Statistics towards the end of the post)
Laudable, wouldn’t you think ,coming from a concerned Prime Minister?
Look at this!
“The UPA government spent over Rs 28 lakh on a bash to celebrate its third anniversary. The Rs 7,700-a-head dinner comes at a time when the government has announced austerity measures. Incidentally, the UPA-2 had stipulated that Rs 28 per day is sufficient to keep a person out of poverty…
The dinner, hosted on May 22 at 7, Race Course Road, was attended by 375 guests, includingLok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members of Parliament, leaders of political parties, members of the Congress Working Committee and media persons. Hosted by PM Manmohan Singh, prominent on the guest list were Congress president Sonia Gandhi, senior leaders from the BJP, Samajwadi Party and Left parties.
Poser, Manmohan Singh.
According to information accessed through RTI filed by Hisar-based applicant Ramesh Verma, the Prime Minister’s Office ( PMO) spent Rs 28,95,503 for the event. Of this, Rs 11.34 lakh was the catering charge, Rs 14.42 lakh was spent on tentage, Rs 2.92 lakh on electricity and Rs 24,444 on flowers.
The menu included jhinga kasundi, gosht burrah kebab, fish malabari, chicken chettinad, baghare baingan, dum aloo kashmiri, beans gajar matar, keoti dal, biryani and a bread basket.’….
The RTI response also said 603 invitation cards were issued and 375 guests attended the evening soiree. While the food and tent charges were paid through the hospitality grant of the ministry of external affairs, the tab for electricity and flower arrangements was picked up by CPWD.
This is not the sole example of the UPA government’s lavish spending. The Planning Commission was recently in the headlines for spending Rs 35 lakh on a toilet while a recent RTI plea by activist S C Agrawal revealed that Union ministers had spent 12 times more on their travel than the preceding year, running up a bill of over Rs 678 crore in tour expenses.”
I am reminded of an old Tamil Film song’ Ethanai Kaalanthaan Emaatruvaar indha Naatile’
(For how long will these people cheat in this Country?)
Statistics on wastage of food during Weddings in India.
‘A survey shows that annually, Bangalore alone wastes 943 tonnes of quality food during weddings. “This is enough to feed 2.6 crore people a normal Indian meal,” a study by a team of 10 professors from the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bangalore, has concluded. The team, under the guidance of UAS vice-chancellor K Narayana Gowda, surveyed 75 of Bangalore’s 531 marriage halls over a period of six months.
“About 84,960 marriages are held at 531 kalyana mantapas (marriage halls) in Bangalore every year. About 943 tonnes of high-calorie quality food is wasted in these halls annually. At an average cost of Rs 40 per meal, the total food wastage in the city is estimated at Rs 339 crore,” the study said.
On an average, 1,000 people attend a wedding where two meals are served – lunch at the wedding and dinner for reception, besides breakfast.
“About 10-20 items are served at a wedding ceremony. The maximum items served include 100 grams each of soup and juice, followed by 50 grams each of puri and pulao,” the survey stated. It also concluded that rice and cereals were on top, making for 35% of the wastage.
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