ASEAN +3 Raise Funds Reserves Crisis
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Overcome the crisis, Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva (middle) together with the ASEAN +3 finance ministers, including Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati (far right), on the sidelines of the meeting in Phuket, Thailand, yesterday. ASEAN +3 plan to establish an emergency reserve fund of USD120 billion.Phuket (Sindo) - Nations of the Southeast Asia with China, Japan and South Korea (ASEAN +3) agreed the increase to the emergency reserve fund to be USD120 billion from the previous USD80 billion.
Increased funding as a form of anticipation of the possibility of ASEAN +3 financial crisis spread globally. The ASEAN +3 finance ministers said, the preparation of the fund aims to ensure regional stability and encourage confidence in the market.
"This agreement will be the finalization of the next annual meeting, May future, which will be held in Bali, Indonesia," the official statement of the ASEAN +3 finance ministers after a meeting in Phuket, Thailand, yesterday.
After the economic crisis of 1997-1998, ASEAN with China, Japan and South Korea, agreed scheme established bilateral exchange of currencies (currency swaps) in order to strengthen foreign exchange reserves in each country. This step is known as the Chiang Mai Initiative. ASEAN +3 want to improve the bilateral agreement of a multilateral.
Initially, ASEAN +3 plan establish multilateral funds worth USD80 billion. However, since the end of several years ago to create a discourse of possibility that the addition of funds to be USD120 billion.
The ministers who attended the meeting in Phuket yesterday came from Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam. Japanese Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano can not attend, was represented only ministries of finance secretary.
Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, said emergency reserve fund will function as a buffer countries in the ASEAN +3 crisis. During a visit to Indonesia last week, Abhisit said, the ASEAN countries that depend on export fears of protectionist countries of export.
"I hope the meeting of ASEAN countries will discuss the proposal at a meeting next sunday so we are ready to face this crisis. We will not be tempted to take advantage of all protectionist, "he added. Secretary to the Minister of Finance Thailand Suparut Kawatkul said, his side will see the increased detail emergency reserve fund.
"I hope there will be progress before the meeting formulated the ASEAN +3 finance ministers in Bali in May on the future," he said. Thailand's Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij states, meeting in Phuket will give a strong signal to the world that ASEAN is committed in a slowing economy.
"The finance ministers in all countries need to find a way to give a fundamental and effective solution as a step that is not the condition is stabilized," he said. ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan said, long discussion on the regional area will find a way to help as a result of the worst global economic crisis that befall Asia.
"This is one of the mechanism. Although will not replace the role of the International Monetary Fund (International Monetary Fund / IMF), it will be an alternative in Asia, "Surin said.
"This will make the most significant support from ASEAN," he said. Surin added, the initial meeting was held yesterday morning local time considered as something positive because all the representatives of finance ministries of the ASEAN agreed principles increase the emergency reserve fund proposed. According to him, ASEAN countries will contribute 20% of the total funding that is agreed.
Meanwhile, three other countries, namely China, Japan and South Korea, will provide 80% of the total contribution of USD120 billion. Meanwhile, South Korea Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-Hyun says the global financial crisis this time and require strong cooperation in ASEAN.
He believes, multilateral meeting this time was the main example in the business collaboration between the countries. "Unfortunately our country is currently faced with major challenges due to weakening global economy and financial turbulensi," said Jeung-Hyun.
G-20 meeting Degree
The leaders of countries G-20 also hold a meeting yesterday to discuss efforts to overcome the global financial crisis. After the meeting, they stated that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) funds must have at least USD500 billion expansion to anticipate the impact of global financial crisis in the future.
"We decided that the international financial institutions must have the funds of which allows them not only can handle the crisis, but also able to prevent the crisis," said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the meeting G-20 leaders in Berlin, Germany, yesterday.
He added that the occurrence of economic crisis in eastern Europe could threaten Western Europe. This is shown with so many problems need IMF support. German chancellor Angela Merkel said the G-20 leaders agreed to support the proposal to redouble the availability of IMF funds.
"IMF should be in a position to help its members are flexible and fast if they have difficulties," the statement together with the sound of G-20.Pada meeting in Berlin yesterday, G-20 leaders also agreed the need for rules in the global financial market system.
Previous IMF has several times got a warning from the leaders of developed countries in order to increase capacity to help members, especially during the economic crisis. Years ago Gordon Brown was doing road show to Gulf countries and urge that the oil-rich countries are willing to contribute to the IMF. However, until now, Japan's new willingness of the IMF to provide funds worth USD100 billion. (AFP / Rtr / Yanto kusdiantono)
Oil prices fall below US$126 despite drop in US crude stocks
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The U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said delays in unloading oil tankers along the Gulf Coast had led to the 8.8 million-barrel drop in crude oil inventories for the week ended May 23, and that explanation helped to lessen the impact of its report. Analysts surveyed by Platts had expected a gain of 750,000 barrels, and usually such a discrepancy would send prices soaring.
"The impact of it was lost," said David Moore, commodity strategist with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney. "Their explanation for the decline of the crude inventories really countered the impact of the actual number."
Traders instead focused on gains in the U.S. dollar, analysts said, which hit a three-month high against the yen overnight and held near 105.50 in Asia currency trading in Tokyo. And late in the day, the euro continued to sink against the dollar, dropping belowUS$1.55.
Investors who buy commodities such as oil as a hedge against inflation when the dollar is falling tend to sell when the greenback strengthens. Also, a stronger dollar makes oil more expensive to investors dealing in foreign currencies.
Late afternoon in Singapore, light, sweet crude for July delivery was down US$1.19 at US$125.43 a barrel in electronic trade on the New York Mercantile Exchange.(***)
Source: The Jakarta Post
Skin Face Much Tight with Peppermint Rubber
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The hobby of chewing gum is not useless. Summary chew increase blood circulation so that oxygen is sent to the brain more and more, so more fresh thinking, and concentration of the strong. In addition, the jaw movements during chewing gum can stimulate facial muscles that create the effect facial skin becomes more taut. That, chewing gum to give a sense rileks, reduces stress, and the saturation. That is just a few of the benefits obtained with the chewing gum. A line of other benefits are:
Channel digested post-restore operation. A study involving 158 patients, who made St Mary's Hospital, London, said, those who chew gum after undergoing intestinal surgery, digestive function of the channel more quickly return to normal. In clinical testing, a group of patients who chew gum 5-45 minutes three times a day after surgery compared with patients who did not chew gum. The result, patients who chew gum would remove the waste gas or wind average 0.66 times than not chew approximately 1.10 times gas. As known, the channel functions normally digested by the post-operation dispose wind. In other words, those who chew gum more quickly recover and no longer need to stay in the hospital.
Teeth cleaning dirt. Chewing gum on a regular basis can help lift the dirt and clean the remaining teeth. Chew sugar-free chewing gum can also protect teeth from damage. In addition, the chewing gum can replace the polish teeth after eating due to chew gum while the mouth will produce saliva that can neutralize acid and prevent rotten teeth in the top 40%.
Reduce drowsiness. Chewing activity will reinforce the circulation of blood to the brain so useful to improve the performance associated with the concentration, vigilance, and attention. So, when you're driving and feel sleepy, it's chewing gum because it can reduce the feeling of drowsiness at the same time increase the concentration.
Increase the recall. In fact, according to research conducted at the University of Northumbria and the Cognitive Research Unit (Reading) in the UK, the ability to remember the words can be increased to 35 percent. Its scientific explanation, chewing increases the heart that lead to tap more oxygen and nutrients are pumped to the brain. In the end, this process will stimulate the brain associated with higher recall.
Reduce the tension. As already mentioned before, chewing gum can reduce the tension. Chewing gum is also provided to a U.S. soldier on duty, since World War I until now. The athlete is also always seen chewing gum during practice or competes.
Streamline. How is this possible? Maybe. According to research conducted at Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK, those who chew gum after meals will consume fewer calories during a meal the next day. In addition, a chewing gum containing only 5-10 calories, and chew it for one hour can burn 10 calories.
However, not only means that the chewing gum with the auto body become slim. The food and sports remain successful diet is the key to you
Reject Pension Tax
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Dublin - More than 120 thousand demonstrators pack the main road Dublin, Ireland, yesterday (22 / 2). They express the heart cry of the victim as the economic crisis and injustice the government policy. Demonstration of a sense of the biggest protests throughout the history of the Republic of Ireland.Demonstrationist be gazed at the most is the government policy set the tax on retirement around 350 thousand public sector workers. They are made victims of the disaster on the economic crisis that occurred.
All angry''because everyone knows that we (workers) not guilty. The elite businessmen who destroy our economy and therefore must be responsible,''agonized David Begg, Secretary General of Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu)-demo-leaders such as Daily Mail reported. (ape / ami)
Endangered Tiger Kills 2 Loggers in West Indonesia
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – A Sumatran tiger mauled two illegal loggers to death in western Indonesia, bringing to five the number of people killed by the critically endangered cats in less than a month, a conservationist said Sunday.
The tiger attacked a 50-year-old man and his 18-year-old son early Saturday while they slept next to a pile of stolen wood in a protected forest on Sumatra island, about 375 miles (600 kilometers) west of Jakarta, said Didy Wurdjanto of the state conservation agency.
Three people were killed in two separate attacks in late January in the same area. Park rangers last week trapped an adult tigress believed responsible for those deaths and it was being relocated.
The Sumatran tiger is the world's most critically endangered tiger subspecies. Only about 250 are left in the wild, the Forestry Ministry said, compared to about 1,000 in the 1970s.
The tigers' diminishing population is blamed largely on poaching and the destruction of their forest habitat for palm oil and wood pulp plantations.
In some cases the animals roam into villages or plantations in search of food, setting the stage for a conflict with humans.
In the latest attack, however, the animal had not strayed from its habitat so there will be no effort to catch and relocate it, Wurdjanto said. "This time it was the loggers' fault," he said.
About 40 people were killed by tigers on Sumatra in 2000-2004, according to the state conservation agency, which said the trend has continued since then. New figures are to be released in April.
Clinton ends Visit with Charm Offensive
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Down to earth: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (above) visits USAID-funded maternal health and childcare and sanitation facilities in the impoverished neighborhood of Petojo, Central Jakarta, on Thursday. JP/J.ADIGUNADown to earth: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (above) visits USAID-funded maternal health and childcare and sanitation facilities in the impoverished neighborhood of Petojo, Central Jakarta, on Thursday. JP/J.ADIGUNAUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looked to waste no time during her tightly arranged visit to Indonesia, which wound up Thursday.
Her mission to put a new face on US foreign policy, one that was friendlier and willing to be a “better listener” than ever, has seemingly been accomplished.
The new US secretary of state did everything from holding serious talks with Indonesian leaders, to sharing her fancy for classical music in front of a local TV audience.
After meeting with Indonesia Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, visiting the ASEAN Secretariat and having dinner with civil society figures on Wednesday, Clinton appeared on a local TV show, paid a courtesy call on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and visited a slum area in Jakarta on Thursday before departing to South Korea later in the afternoon.
On Thursday morning, Clinton, her face wreathed in smiles, appeared in music program Dahsyat on local broadcaster RCTI, in which the relaxed former first lady shared with the audience her love of classical music.
Down to earth: Earlier in the day, Clinton appears on popular youth show Dahsyat (Awesome) on local TV station RCTI, hosted by presenter Isyana Bagoes Oka (second left) and model and film star Luna Maya (left). (RCTI.TV)Down to earth: Earlier in the day, Clinton appears on popular youth show Dahsyat (Awesome) on local TV station RCTI, hosted by presenter Isyana Bagoes Oka (second left) and model and film star Luna Maya (left). (RCTI.TV)“I like listening to classical music while working. It's soothing... My husband usually listens to jazz and rock and roll,” Clinton said when model-cum-presenter Luna Maya asked her about her favorite music.
Clinton also said she enjoyed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones when she was younger.
However, she turned down a request to sing, saying, “The problem is people will leave when I sing.”
The TV show also presented famous local singers Melly Goeslaw and Agnes Monica, who asked for a photograph with Clinton.
RCTI corporate secretary Gilang Iskandar told newsportal okezone.com that Clinton enjoyed the talk about music so much that she forgot the interview should have lasted for only 10 minutes instead of 20.
Gilang said RCTI had worked hard to secure Clinton’s approval to appear on the TV show.
During the meeting with President Yudhoyono, Clinton reiterated Washington's willingness to build a “comprehensive partnership” with Indonesia, while praising the latter’s “leading roles” in a number of environmental issues.
She also said predominantly Muslim Indonesia could serve as a model of how Islam, democracy, modernization and the fulfillment of women’s rights could all grow in harmony, according to presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal.
Yudhoyono, in return, asked the US to play a bigger role in resolving the Palestine-Israel conflict and to take the lead in global environmental issues.
The President called his meeting with Clinton a “wonderful” and “productive” meeting.
Also present at the 45-minute talk were Acting Coordinating Minister for the Economy Sri Mulyani, Coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie, State Secretary Hatta Rajasa and Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi.
Through Clinton, the President renewed his invitation to US President Barack Obama to come to Indonesia on the sidelines of the upcoming APEC meeting in Singapore.
Obama has said he would visit a major Muslim nation, in a move aimed at reconciling the US and the Islamic world.
After bidding farewell to Yudho-yono and before stepping into a waiting car, Clinton greeted enthusiastic journalists lined up nearby and shook hands with the lucky ones, leaving others disappointed.
She then paid a visit to Petojo Utara, a residential area in Central Jakarta, where USAID has built a public toilet equipped with a waste treatment facility.
Clinton walked on foot to reach the toilet, during which dozens of neighborhood school students, who had been watching, waved at her. She waved back at them.
However, Clinton missed the chance to have a taste of fried bananas and fried tempe prepared by local housewives.
She stayed only around 15 minutes in Petojo before heading to the airport.
During a press conference at the neighborhood state junior high school SMPN 38, Clinton said she had planned this brief visit as part of her people-to-people approach to diplomacy.
“Through this kind of interaction, I can find out what the public feels and can encourage them to better their quality of life,” she said.
Due to her tight schedule, Clinton failed to attend a cooking demonstration that local housewives had organized.
Obama now focusing on health care, cutting deficit
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WASHINGTON - After focusing his first month on the economic mess he inherited, President Barack Obama now starts rolling out his own far-reaching agenda with a summit on fiscal policy, his first speech to Congress and the unveiling of his budget for 2010.
This coming week will mark a turning point from what Obama felt compelled to do, to what he wants to do. It also may test how much spending, change and ambition the American people and their elected officials can stomach in a short time.
On Monday, Obama will try to snap Washington's collective mind-set back to fiscal restraint, just days after signing a record-breaking spending plan to stimulate the moribund economy. His afternoon-long "fiscal responsibility summit" at the White House is bound to set off sparks.
Come Thursday, he will send Congress highlights of his budget request. One administration official says it will disclose that Obama plans to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term, mostly by scaling back Iraq war spending, raising taxes on the wealthiest and streamlining government.
Liberals worry that renewed attention to long-term deficits will stall their progressive agenda, which they don't feel should suffer because of transgressions by banks, mortgage lenders and automakers. Some worry that Social Security is being unfairly lumped with Medicare's more serious financial problems, and they are determined to squelch any hints of curbing benefits in the retirement program.
Conservatives worry congressional Democrats will live up to their reputation as free-spenders who ignore calls for restraint, sending the already soaring deficit into the stratosphere.
The debate resonates, albeit less publicly, in the White House, too.
The heart of Obama's economic team - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers - are deficit-wary economists. They are now central to the tug-of-war in the administration and Congress over Obama's grand vision and his team's fiscal pragmatism.
Perhaps a bigger question is how much energy and credulity are left in a political world rocked by stunningly expensive plans to shore up Wall Street, the housing industry and auto manufacturers.
"If you are going to the country with hundreds of billions (of dollars) of fiscal stimulus, and hundreds of billions of financial-sector rescue, and now more for mortgages and more for the auto industry, it becomes very difficult for them to say, 'And now for my real agenda: Health care expansion for hundreds of billions of dollars," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the bipartisan fiscal watchdog group Concord Coalition.
"At that point the political system just chokes up," he said.
Obama is pressing on with at least two other high-profile events this week. He will describe many of his plans before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night. On Thursday, he presents his 2010 budget highlights.
Ken Baer, a spokesman for the White House Office of Budget and Management, defended the series of initiatives.
"When the house is on fire," he said, "you can't say 'I want to take a long coffee break.'"
Discussions of health care policy will be prominent all week even though Obama has yet to announce a replacement for Tom Daschle, his first choice for health secretary. The former Senate majority leader withdrew after disclosure of income tax problems.
Obama campaigned on promises to reduce health care costs, rein in prescription drug prices, modernize medical record-keeping and improve medical treatment and efficiency.
The newly enacted $787 billion stimulus bill includes $19 billion to convert medical records to electronic forms, and $1.1 billion for research comparing which treatments work best for a particular disease.
The "comparative effectiveness" bid has stirred opposition from some Republicans and medical professionals who say it could lead to government rationing of health care.
The drug manufacturing industry is battling Obama's plan to let the government negotiate lower prescription drug prices for Medicare. The entire medical industry is warily watching his efforts to lower overall health care costs.
That effort is directly tied to the main subject of Monday's summit: addressing the long-term fiscal health of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the nation's increasingly expensive entitlement programs. Obama has said Medicare and Medicaid cannot be fixed without curbing the costs of all U.S. medical care, for the rich, poor, old and young.
Liberal economists embrace the point. They reject the notion that the country faces a crisis in Social Security and Medicare because of an aging baby boom generation.
In congressional testimony last year, Peter Orszag, now Obama's budget director, said the demographic changes facing Social Security and the fate of then-President George W. Bush's tax cuts "pale by comparison over the long term with the impact and challenges of containing growth in the cost of federal health insurance programs."
Perhaps complicating his efforts, Obama has pledged a more honest budget process, which immediately will make the 10-year deficit look about $2.6 trillion larger than it would have otherwise. For instance, he is dropping the pretense that the government will receive huge revenues from the Alternative Minimum Tax, which everyone in Washington knows will be suspended.
"For many years, we've used tricks and gimmicks to mask the size of our irresponsibility," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday.
Facing such eye-popping deficit numbers and the massive federal spending already gushing from the stimulus and bailout bills, people may need to catch their breath and survey Obama's plans with a cooler, calmer gaze.
"A certain passage of time is going to be necessary now before the political climate catches up with the economic environment," said James Galbraith, an economist at the University of Texas at Austin. "We just made what seems to many people to be a very large investment in reviving the economy."
Nonetheless, he said, the stimulus package probably will be too small to deal with the economy's rapid decline.
"If that's the case," Galbraith said, "there will be time to move larger measures that require more imagination and more initiative."
On the Net:
White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/
NASA Delays Space Shuttle Launch a Fourth Time
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AFP/Getty Images/File – NASA workers watch as the space shuttle Discovery is moved to the launch site at the Kennedy Space Center … Slideshow:Space ShuttleCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA delayed the launch of space shuttle Discovery for a fourth time on Friday amid valve concerns, and managers are uncertain when the flight will take place.
Following a 13-hour meeting at Kennedy Space Center, shuttle managers decided against launching next week. The launch had been targeted for no sooner than Feb. 27; no new date was set.
Officials said they believe they have a realistic shot at launching Discovery to the international space station before mid-March. After that, the shuttle would have to get in line behind a Russian Soyuz launch with a new space station crew, and the next opportunity for Discovery would be after April 6.
NASA originally hoped to send Discovery to the space station, with one final set of solar wings, on Feb. 12. But extra tests were ordered for the valves that control the flow of hydrogen gas into the external fuel tank during liftoff. One of those valves broke during the last shuttle launch in November.
Shuttle program manager John Shannon said "we were really, really close" to approving the launch. But some of the test data were not available until late in the week and did not allow for full scrutiny, and a few small mistakes were found in the data.
"There was just a sense of unease that we did not quite have the rigor that we typically expect for a question like this," Shannon told reporters late Friday night. "It's a very complicated problem."
He said more tests will likely be needed.
NASA wants to make sure if another valve breaks, Discovery and its seven-man crew will be safe. Officials said they're still not certain why the valve cracked on the last flight.
The three valves are located in the shuttle engine compartment and route gaseous hydrogen into the fuel tank to keep it pressurized properly.
Only nine space shuttle flights remain.
On the Net:
NASA: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov
5 Healthy Habits That May be Missed
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There are some bad habits that we must be changed to make the body healthier. For example, implementing a healthy eating pattern, adequate rest and exercise. But there were some good things that can be missed. You definitely want to know if customs is good, and what the reason.
Skip breakfast. Nutrition experts say that breakfast is important to provide energy for you all day long. Breakfast is also enough to make you not pitch spur to eat as much as possible in the afternoon. "Skip breakfast as a strategy to reduce body weight that is wrong, cause you to over-eat later," said David Katz, MD, an associate professor of Department of Public Health at Yale School of Public Health.Keep in mind also that what is eaten is more important than any eat. An often person also take the wrong breakfast menu, like fried rice, Padang, rice or other fatty foods, containing coconut milk, and was great. Breakfast like this only makes us sleepy. "Wait until you feel hungry, and take something nutritious," Katz said.
Check the condition of their own breasts every month. This is recommended by experts and midwifery womb to see if there is deviation, such as a lump in the breast. According to Christy Russell, MD, Head of Breast Cancer Advisory Group of the American Cancer Society, we need not do it often. Some of the clinical trial showed that women who perform breast self-exam (BSE) wouldn’t recover from breast cancer if they find a lump than those do not. "If a lump is large enough so that you can feel, the tumor is growing than if only be found through mammography early, which will reduce your opportunities to survive," he said.
BSE also increase the likelihood of a wrong: a clinical trial found that women who do BSE are two-fold increase the level of the biopsy does not do. You better start schedule mammogram each year enter the age of 40 years. Meanwhile, women who inherit the breast cancer genes or family in the first level with the disease are advised to get started between the ages of 25 and 30 years. However, it is true, is also good to check yourself because you do more with your own breasts so that they can catch if the changes occur.
Consume multivitamin every day. If you are implementing a healthy eating pattern, it is better not to scrimp too much to buy multivitamin. There is no evidence that multivitamin to help (or destroy) our health, so according to the National Institutes of Health. But if you're not eating properly, is a mistake if you rely on the vitamin ago to meet the nutritional needs of the main. The vitamins do not provide benefits such as faster as you get from healthy foods that contain vitamins, minerals, fiber, and so forth. When you consume has become habit, how can you stop it.
Survive in the home if the air outside the cold or rain. Outside when the rain or cold winds blow faster, or in the still wet hair after shampoo, you will not make flu, unless you are in place for days. If you feel cold to tremble, please go to the house to warm. Trembling is a sign that your body experiencing stress because your body temperature down, which cause you to easily infected virus. Conversely, if you persist in a humid room is also not healthy. Open the windows, clean the air and let it go.
Do not eat after 19:00 o'clock. This prescription diet recommended many people. According to Tara Gidus, RD, spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, the metabolism flagging at night is just myth. Secret of the decrease in body weight you are not consumed one-pint ice cream after eating many calories in a day. Gidus suggested partake with a 100-150 calorie snack, such as apple or handful almond, to keep your blood sugar stable throughout the night. That way you will not be awakened in a state of very hungry.
Giant Snake Kalimantan Length 33 Meters
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At this time, showing an aerial photo of Malaysia make a scene. A giant snake swimming in Baleh River, Sibu, Serawak, the north entrance region of Kalimantan Malaysia.A giant snake images seen swimming in a river surrounded by tropical forest peat moss. Black snake was very big, almost meets the river, located in the midst of a dense swamp forest. Noise left in the water right. Say, the image is taken from a helicopter, 11 February 2009 ago.
Photo of a debate that is knowledgeable in Malaysia at this time. Kalimantan indeed have a giant hose. However, during this, the big snake that is found a new kind sanca society or python or serpent called Kalimantan field, a dozen meters in length.
However, snakes that are visible in the image and the wide circulation on the internet, including Youtube, far longer than most and the findings during this python. Estimated length of 100 feet or approximately 33 meters.
Picture taken by team members of the floods and then published by the Messenger of Sarawak, a local newspaper, last week. New Straits Times in Kuala Lumpur, also load the image which is then released by The Telegraph, UK.
There are also images that do not believe it and thought that engineering alone. This is because the image is too great serpent is. True or not, the image that people have created around Serawak, particularly Sibu, fear. The river was a transportation intravenously for this community.
Based on legends that live in the local community, the trust of the Anaconda in the area called Nabau. According to belief, Nabau is a snake with a 80 meter long with a dragon head and seven nostril. Villagers who live in the Borneo river Baleh trust these mystical creatures. In addition, people often see the hose in the area was large.
Now, the question, if the photo is genuine, whether the snake that looks like it python or Anaconda? Up to now it has not been found in the Anaconda Kalimantan, except in the movie Anaconda: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid is a demand.
The record length of the snake at this time the Anaconda (eunectes) from Amazone. Anaconda is the boa family. The length of the new Anaconda is found 50 feet, but scientists believe that Anaconda is 80 feet long, and even 100 feet from the snake's skin findings by British scientists an expedition in 1992. Anaconda in the family, according to the site environment Mongabay, the largest green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus). Length reaches 43 meters.
Python snake palimg Asia is the second long. Scientists call this Asiatic Reticulated Python (python reticulatus). Python is found in the length of the Kalimantan area 33 feet long, and is a world record sanca terpanjang at this time. Scientists long believed python can reach 50 feet or about 15 meters.
The difference, Anaconda more slender and expert swimmers. While python more fat and only like humidity, not in the water. Anaconda bite its prey to death before the swallow, while the python use power pack with its prey until the bones were destroyed or did not move again, and then go flat.
Early February, scientists find fossil snake with a weight approximately the same as a small car. Snakes that can be estimated with the size of the animal to eat beef. Along the 45 foot monster called Titanoboa very large and living with eating crocodiles and giant turtles. Weight reached 1.25 tons. He always seemed around the forests of tropical South America 60 years ago. (yan / various sources)
Adult Education Articles
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Articles on adult education for adult learners, teachers, and other educators. "Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults. This is often done in the workplace, or through 'extension' or 'continuing education' courses at secondary schools, or at a College or University. The practice is also often referred to as 'Training and Development'. It has also been referred to as andragogy (to distinguish it from pedagogy)." Source: Wikipedia
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Adult learners are qualitatively different than younger learners. You certainly can “teach an old dog new tricks” by understanding the cognitive and social characteristics of adult learners. Using the right instructional strategies to maximize the learning advantages and address the learning challenges of adult learners can make all the difference in their success. Adult Learner Cognitive Characteristics 1. Generally speaking, most adult learners share the following characteristics:
2: Adult Learning Disabilities
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3: It Is Never To Late To Learn
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5: Reasons Why You Should Learn a Foreign Language
During the modern age, with globalization at its height, knowing one or two secondary languages has become more than a simple feat of high class and intelligence but also a strict requirement in many occasions. Whether it’s for professional, social or personal reasons, learning at least one foreign language is a must for anyone that wants to keep his or her head up high in today’s society. Let’s take a focused look on 5 of the main reasons that should turn you towards learning a foreign language
6: Online education and the challenge of motivation
by Timothy D. Arnold Getting an online education is both a very thrilling proposition and a challenging one as well. It is quite exciting to learn through a very new and non-traditional form of education and it offers a set of new challenges that would compel individuals to really immerse themselves in what they are doing. Unfortunately, even with an educational format as new as online education, the same old problems that plague students would usually crop up. The most common difficulty
7: Financial Aid Options For Adults Who Want To Continue Their Education
By Gary Stuart Approximately 90 million adults in the United States are now enrolled in some kind of training or educational program. Four out of every ten college students are over twenty-five years of age. Another 800,000 take the General Educational Development (GED) test every year to earn high school diplomas. Adult education and re-training is a big trend! Some of the pressure to get more education is coming from a job market that demands up-to-date skills, especially in technology.
8: Facing Your Fears as an Adult Returning to School
Inter Edge Out Milan in Tense Derby
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By Mark Meadows
MILAN, Feb 15 (Reuters) - A controversial Adriano goal helped Serie A leaders Inter Milan to a 2-1 victory over AC Milan on Sunday which all but ended the Rossoneri’s title hopes.
Champions Inter now have an 11-point advantage over third-placed Milan with 14 games to go and lead Juventus by nine after Claudio Ranieri’s side drew 1-1 at home to Sampdoria.
Adriano broke the deadlock at an electric San Siro on 28 minutes when he diverted in Maicon’s cross, but replays showed the Brazil striker had used his arm.
Midfielder Dejan Stankovic extended the lead on 42 minutes when he rifled in after Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s knockdown.
The Serb had earlier been denied six metres out by a stunning last-ditch tackle by Massimo Ambrosini.
Alexandre Pato pulled one back 20 minutes from time when he tapped in Marek Jankulovski’s cross and Milan then piled on the pressure with substitute Filippo Inzaghi being flagged offside when he thought he had grabbed an equaliser.
CONSTANTLY ISOLATED
Milan, who won the season’s earlier derby 1-0, had much of the play in the first half but striker Pato was constantly isolated on his own up front with Kaka missing through injury.
Inter are bidding for their fourth straight scudetto and first under coach Jose Mourinho while Milan will have to pull off a miracle to snatch their first league title since 2004.
Media reports have said Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti, Serie A’s longest serving manager having been appointed in 2001, could be sacked if they fail to win the league this term.
It was a sorry night for 40-year-old Paolo Maldini in his last derby before retiring while on-loan David Beckham, who still hopes to stay at Milan despite Los Angeles Galaxy demanding he return, did little and was substituted.
Juventus hit the woodwork three times against Sampdoria but had to be content with a draw. Giampaolo Pazzini put Samp ahead on 10 minutes after Antonio Cassano, constantly linked with a move to Juve, sent his strike partner clear with a superb through ball.
Amauri’s brave diving header midway through the second half levelled the scores after a teasing cross from substitute Sebastian Giovinco.
Cassano’s deflected cross struck the post for Samp.
Former Juve striker Adrian Mutu completed a hat-trick with the last kick to send Fiorentina up to fourth with a 3-3 draw at Genoa, who had led 3-0 but played with 10 men for an hour.
AS Roma’s good run ended with a 3-0 defeat at Atalanta, who beat Inter 3-1 in Bergamo last month.
Roma, second last season before having a terrible start to the current campaign, had surged up the table after going undefeated in seven.
It is what it is at Daytona
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – This is what the Daytona 500 is all about – surprises.
Remember Derrike Cope’s win in 1990? Ward Burton in 2002? Ryan Newman last year?
You don’t have to be a big name to win NASCAR’s biggest race, which is more of a crapshoot than anything. Heck, it took Dale Earnhardt 20 tries to win the 500 and in his day no one was better at Daytona than him.
Matt Kenseth’s win Sunday in the 51st running of the Great American Race is as surprising as any of them, partly because he led only one green-flag lap – the last one – and partly because that last one was Lap 152 of what was supposed to be a 200-lap event.
As it turned out, rain was the push Kenseth needed to win at Daytona. Had it come 30 seconds earlier, Elliott Sadler, out of job a month ago and ready to go to court to save it, would have won. Or had it come 30 seconds later, Kevin Harvick, who’s made a habit of winning races at Daytona late, might have overtaken Kenseth.
But as it happened, rain, which cupped the Daytona area like a crescent moon most of the afternoon and into the evening, came just after Kenseth passed Sadler and before Harvick could make a run for the lead.
And that’s how Kenseth became your 2009 Daytona 500 champion.
“I was a little nervous because it was Elliott and then Reed [Sorenson] and [AJ] Allmendinger and all the teammates lined up there,” explained Kenseth, who didn’t win a race last season, “and I was able to get outside Elliott a little bit, and our car was honestly a fair amount quicker than his and I was able to get a run on him and get by him.”
Lame?
Some will say so, but as they say, that’s racin’.
Weather is always a factor when you’re competing outdoors. And though NASCAR could have held off a little longer than the 16 minutes it did between the time the rain came and the time the race was called, it did the right thing. The rain continued to fall long after the weather-induced checkered flag flew and NASCAR certainly didn’t want to crown the champion of its biggest race in the wee hours of the morning (like it did in the July race a few years ago).
So call it what you will, but it is what it is.
In the end, this race will be remembered for two things: weather and the nine-car pileup sparked by Dale Earnhardt Jr. that took out the most dominant car and driver in the race, Kyle Busch.
That one came on Lap 125. To that point, Busch had led 88 laps.
Afterward, Busch was none too pleased with Earnhardt, who had spent most of his day rallying from self-induced pit-road mishaps.
“I think we were the best car,” Busch said. “It’s unfortunate that a guy that’s messed up his whole day on pit road and screwed up, that he has to make our day worse.”
In his defense, Junior blamed it on Brian Vickers, who appeared to block Earnhardt just before Junior tagged Vickers’ bumper, sparking the melee.
Regardless of fault, that wreck opened up an already wide-open field. Out of contention were Busch, Denny Hamlin, Jamie McMurray and Carl Edwards – all front runners.
What was left was a bunch of non-factors who suddenly found themselves as contenders. If there is a bitter pill to swallow, this is it. Yes, Kenseth, who did run near the front for much of the race, won, but his victory has a “musical chairs” feeling to it. He just happened to be the guy standing in front of the empty seat when the music stopped.
It’s not the most exhilarating way to kick off a season, especially not the so-called Super Bowl of racing, but again, it is what it is.
So how do you celebrate a boring ending?
“Oh man, I’m going to paint the town plaid,” Kenseth said.
Ancelotti optimistic about Beckham
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“We’ve still got 20 days to close the deal. Galaxy has forced the situation, but there’s time before March 9,” Ancelotti told the ANSA news agency Saturday. “My wish is that he can play in other derbies.”
On Friday, the Galaxy said Milan had failed to meet the MLS deadline to make an improved second bid for Beckham, who has stated he wants to remain in Italy when his three-month loan period ends on March 9.
The coach also denied for a second time that he would be taking the vacant Chelsea manager’s job when caretaker coach Guus Hiddink steps down at the end of the season.
“For me there is zero possibility of this being my last derby against Inter,” he said. “The rumors about my future have troubled me. I’ve still got a year and a half left before I have to renew my contract, so there’s time. It’s not a priority.”
Congress Approve Economic Stimulus package Obama
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TEMPO Interactive, Washington: Senate and House of Representatives United States agree economic package U.S. $ 787 billion. This stimulus package was President Barack Obama to restore the country's flagging economy.
Approval in two rooms with the Congress to vote on Friday (13 / 2) towards the middle of the night or Saturday (14 / 2) in Indonesia. Nearly all members of the Republic Party and Democratic Party members all support this package.
Polling in the House of Representatives, all members of the Republic of party - 176 people - refused. Seven Democrats also rejected. However, this package passes because there are 246 others who support the vote.
After the House approved, the package was brought to the Senate. There, similar to its occurrence. Although here, the three members of the Senate of the Republic of voice support so that support to 60 against 38. Two independent Senator also supports this package.
This agreement makes Obama sign to stay on Monday (16 / 2) and the budget could be disbursed.
According to the Republic, because they reject the package is different from that in campaign by Obama. Republic leaders in the House of Representatives, John A. Boehner, said that when the process started, this package is made to create new employment opportunities. But, in it, "Only contain expenditure, expenditures, and spending more."
It is cutting its own taxes, labor-intensive projects, education, health, energy, and technology. The amount is smaller than that originally proposed by Democrats.
According to the Congress Budget Office, more than 74 percent of the budget will be in kucurkan in 18 months so that will not immediately appear successfu.
Giggs still going as Man United wing wizard agrees one-year extension to 2010
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The deal commits the 35-year-old winger to the Old Trafford club until June next year.
Giggs, who made his first team debut for the club nearly 18 years ago, said: 'I feel fit and I'm enjoying my football more than ever.'
He added on his club's official website: 'This is an exciting young team and the spirit is great in the dressing room.
'I want to be a part of that and achieve even more success.'
Giggs scored the only goal in Sunday's Barclays Premier League win at West Ham and manager Sir Alex Ferguson paid tribute to his professionalism.
'Ryan is a true professional of the game,' Ferguson said. 'His lifestyle, the way he looks after himself, his desire to always want to win is a credit to him and also an inspiration to any young kid who wants to become a footballer.
'He is like a young boy in the way that he plays and, although he wants to play every game, he understands that by using his experience when it matters is a benefit to him and the team.
'It would be easy for him to be complacent after all he has achieved but he isn't and that speaks volumes of why the club wanted to extend his services and use that experience.'
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Wide boys: Ronaldo (right) congratulates Giggs after his winner at West Ham
Google Will Close Business Radio
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Companies, which make the expansion to the market in 2006 with the purchase DMarc Broadcasting Inc., are seeking buyers for a software program to set up ads on the radio. Google will discontinue the sale of radio ads on 31 May and will focus on streaming audio, according to any posts in the blog today.
Step shows that the failure of Google to strengthen its dominance in Internet advertising to offline media. Months ago the company wanted to close the business that sells ad space in newspapers.
Google spent U.S. $ 102 million in cash for DMarc and agree to pay U.S. $ 1.14 billion in installments depending on performance.
"They try to penetrate the media that really old and institutions," said Sameet Sinha, an analyst from JMP Securities LLC in San Francisco.
The growth of radio advertising has been stopped in the last three years. Ad revenue rose 0.4 percent in 2006, and down 2.3 percent in 2007, according to Mark Fratrik, an analyst from Bia Financial Network in Chantilly, Virginia.
Meanwhile, preliminary figures show a decline 8.5 percent in 2008, and Fratrik reduction estimate of 10 percent this year.
Shares of Google, based in Mountain View, California, rose U.S. $ 5.01 or 1.4 percent, to U.S. $ 363.05 in New York at 4 pm in Nasdaq Stock Market, Thursday.Baby-faced boy Alfie Patten is father at 13
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BOY dad Alfie Patten yesterday admitted he does not know how much nappies cost — but said: “I think it’s a lot.”
The baby father ... Alfie Patten with little Maisie
Lee Thompson
Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.
He told how he and Chantelle, 15, decided against an abortion after discovering she was pregnant.
The shy lad, whose voice has not yet broken, said: “I thought it would be good to have a baby.
“I didn’t think about how we would afford it. I don’t really get pocket money. My dad sometimes gives me £10.”
Little family ... Alfie, Chantelle and baby Maisie
Lee Thompson
Alfie, who is just 4ft tall, added: “When my mum found out, I thought I was going to get in trouble. We wanted to have the baby but were worried how people would react.
“I didn’t know what it would be like to be a dad. I will be good, though, and care for it.”
Alfie's story, broken exclusively by The Sun today has sparked a huge political storm with Tory leader David Cameron saying: "When I saw these pictures this morning, I just thought how worrying that in Britain today children are having children.
"I hope that somehow these children grow up into responsible parents but the truth is parenthood is just not something they should be thinking about right now."
Secret
PM Gordon Brown refused to comment directly on the story but said it was important that the Government did all it could to prevent teenage pregnancies.
Alfie’s dad Dennis yesterday told how the lad does not really understand the enormity of his situation — but seemed desperate to be a devoted and responsible father.
He wanted to be the first to hold Maisie after the hospital birth. He tenderly kisses the baby and gives her a bottle.
And Dennis, 45, said: “He could have shrugged his shoulders and sat at home on his Playstation. But he has been at the hospital every day.”
Maisie was conceived after Chantelle and Alfie — just 12 at the time — had a single night of unprotected sex.
They found out about the baby when Chantelle was 12 weeks pregnant.
But they kept it a secret until six weeks later when Chantelle’s mum Penny, 38, became suspicious about her weight gain and confronted her.
Devoted ... Alfie holds and cuddles Maisie
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After that Alfie’s family told only those closest to them for fear he would be “demonised” at school.
Chantelle gave birth to Maisie on Monday night after a five-hour labour at Eastbourne Hospital, East Sussex.
Last night she told The Sun: “I’m tired after the birth. I was nervous after going into labour but otherwise I was quite excited.”
Chantelle told how she discovered she was expecting after going to her GP with “really bad” stomach pains. She said: “Me and Alfie went. The doctor asked me whether we had sex. I said yes and he said I should do a pregnancy test. He did the test and said I was pregnant. I started crying and didn’t know what to do.
“He said I should tell my mum but I was too scared.
“We didn’t think we would need help from our parents. You don’t really think about that when you find out you are pregnant. You just think your parents will kill you.”
But Penny figured out what was going on after buying Chantelle a T-shirt which revealed her swelling tum.
Chantelle admitted she and Alfie — who are both being supported by their parents — would be accused of being grossly irresponsible. She said: “We know we made a mistake but I wouldn’t change it now. We will be good loving parents.
“I have started a church course and I am going to do work experience helping other young mums.
“I’ll be a great mum and Alfie will be a great dad.”
Caring ... Alfie bottle feeds his little daughter
Lee Thompson
Chantelle and Maisie were released from hospital yesterday. They are living with Penny, Chantelle’s jobless dad Steve, 43, and her five brothers in a rented council house in Eastbourne. The family live on benefits. Alfie, who lives on an estate across town with mum Nicola, 43, spends most of his time at the Steadmans’ house.
He is allowed to stay overnight and even has a school uniform there so he can go straight to his classes in the morning.
Alfie’s dad, who is separated from Nicola, believes the lad is scared deep down.
He said: “Everyone is telling him things and it’s going round in his head. It hasn’t really dawned on him. He hasn’t got a clue of what the baby means and can’t explain how he feels. All he knows is mum and dad will help.
“When you mention money his eyes look away. And she is reliant on her mum and dad. It’s crazy. They have no idea what lies ahead.”
Dennis, who works for a vehicle recovery firm, described Alfie as “a typical 13-year-old boy”.
He said: “He loves computer games, boxing and Manchester United.” Dennis, who has fathered nine kids, told how he was “gobsmacked” when he discovered Alfie was to be a dad, too.
He said: “When I spoke to him he started crying. He said it was the first time he’d had sex, that he didn’t know what he was doing and of the complications that could come.
“I will talk to him again and it will be the birds and the bees talk. Some may say it’s too late but he needs to understand so there is not another baby.”
Lovely
Chantelle’s mum said: “I told her it was lovely to have the baby but I wish it was in different circumstances. We have five children already so it’s a big financial responsibility. But we are a family and will pull together and get through.
“She’s my daughter. I love her and she will want for nothing.”
Last night Michaela Aston, of the anti-abortion Christian charity LIFE, said: “We commend these teenagers for their courage in bringing their child into the world.
“At the same time this is symptomatic of the over-sexualisation of our youngsters and shows the policy of value-free sex education just isn’t working.”
Today Sussex Police and the local council's children services said they have investigated the case and pledged continued support for the young parents.
Britain’s youngest known father is Sean Stewart. He became a dad at 12 when the girl next door, 15-year-old Emma Webster, gave birth in Sharnbrook, Bedford, in 1998. They split six months later.
HILLARY APPROACH STRENGTHS ASIA
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The visit is a step approach to the forces in Asia in the global economic crisis, climate change, and nuclear weapons. Then, with its elected Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, and China, reflecting long-term search strategy to confront changes in the dynamics of political, economic, and military strength.
Preceding, Condoleezza Rice, the working visit to Europe and the Middle East. For Michael Green, former Asia adviser at the George W Bush, Hillary step to focus on the challenges and opportunities in Asia is the right policy. Believe, said Green, a crisis at this time ranging in global financial markets, the Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran.
"But, historians will judge this government and that our generation has the power and switch attention from the West to the east. Article them, shining its China and India and the growing self-confidence and social and political changes in countries such as Indonesia, Japan, and Korea, "he said.
Unlike in the Middle East and Europe, which experienced a decline after the image of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.Karena, the analyst points out that in Asia it's President Barack Obama to get the U.S. position that the inheritance of a strong Bush.
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs which states that Hillary came to Asia, where U.S. forces use the software through the economy, diplomacy, culture, more influential than the strength of the military.
"Plan a visit Hillary shows Obama want government to strengthen the various challenges in that region," said Thomas Wright, the Chicago Council. Green leaders also estimate that U.S. diplomats will focus on the problem of global financial crisis and combat climate change.
In addition, Hillary will bring back the six negotiating countries (U.S., Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea) nuclear disarmament in Pyongyang. "Hillary choose Japan in the first visit to Asia to finish the fur he has a random-random," said Green.
Section, when Hillary campaigning grabs a chair with the U.S. presidency said that relations with China should be given priority compared to other. U.S. officials revealed, Hillary would be a visit to Asia with Todd Stern, a special delegation to climate change, and Christopher Hill, U.S. Ambassador candidates in Iraq.
In Tokyo, Japan's international relations expert, says Nicholas Szechenyi, Hillary will discuss the problem with the global crisis of leadership is Sakura. Possibility, Hillary will be to coordinate the various views and opinions about their position before the G20 at the upcoming April in London.
It seems that in the visit, Japan will provide important opinions about the two citizens that North Korea be stolen during the Cold War. In addition, with regard to nuclear North Korea will also be discussed in more detail the trigger international tensions.
Szechenyi said, Hillary would be in Pyongyang to discuss the visit to South Korea. Hillary chose India as the first country in Southeast Asia in the visit. Southeast Asia specialist James points out, Hillary will lay the basis for the transformation of relationships and partner of the same strategy with the Islamic countries in the world. (AFP / h éva m)
The Picture Theory of Evolution
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The picture theory of evolution, Charles Darwin, is installed in Sydney's Botany Park Royal, to commemorate the birth 200 years (12 / 2). Photo: AFP / Greg Wood
Culture and Student Life at IIT
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All the IITs are known for their technical and cultural events. The different technical events in IITs across the country include Cognizance held at IIT Roorkee, Shaastra held at IIT Chennai, Techkriti held at IIT Kanpur, Kshitij held at IIT Kharagpur, Techfest held at IIT Bombay, Tryst held at IIT Delhi, and Techniche held at IIT Guwahati. These technical fests last for around three to four days and are mostly held between February and March. Of the various technical events held across different IITs Shaastra has earned a name for being the first ever event, managed by students, that incorporates a formal Quality Management System. Kshitij, on the other hand, is known for the maximum number of participants and huge sums of money offered as prizes.
IITs all over the country also host famous cultural events. The different cultural events across different IITs include Thomso held at IIT Roorkee, Mood Indigo held at IIT Mumbai, Spring Fest held at IIT Kharagpur, Saarang held at IIT Chennai, Antaragni held at IIT Kanpur, Alcheringa held at IIT Guwahati, and Rendezvous held at IIT Delhi. The annual fest too lasts for three to four days and hosts a whole lot of entertaining and engaging events.
Added to the technical and cultural events, IIT Mumbai and IIT Kharagpur host some really different and unique festivals. Performing Arts Festival is a unique feature of IIT Mumbai and includes activities and events such as drama, music, fine arts, literature, dance, and debates. All these activities are held at the Open Air Theater in IIT Mumbai’s main campus. On the other hand, IIT Kharagpur hosts the unique festival called Illumination. Celebrated on the eve of Diwali, the festival of lights, the highlight of this festival is the competition between different halls for the prize. As a part of the competition, halls plant vertical columns of bamboo (chatais) on which they place earthen lamps (diyas) that eventually form outlines of people or things that depict a place or an event.
IITs also hold inter-IIT sports called the Annual Inter-IIT Sports Meet. The prestigious award is a running shield that is presented to the IIT that wins the meet. The winning IIT is decided, based on the total number of points that each IIT earns for all the events. The events held at the Annual Inter-IIT Sports Meet include athletics, badminton, cricket, football, basketball, volleyball, water polo, hockey, squash, swimming, lawn tennis, weightlifting, and table tennis.
This culture and student life across different IITs is really interesting and amazing to experience. This is surely one of the reasons why individuals want to be a part of the brand name, IIT.
By: Aabha Mehta
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KONI Unveils National Training Camp for SEA Games 2009
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Niken Prathivi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The National Sports Council (KONI) announced Thursday a decentralized training camp for preparations for the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Laos in December.
The camp will include 284 athletes from 20 sports, but the national archery, badminton, cycling, soccer, tennis and weight lifting federations have yet to submit their athletes' names "due to technical and administrative reasons".
KONI chairwoman Rita Subowo said the trainees were medalists at the last SEA Games in Thailand in 2007 and had good medal prospects, not just in Laos but at the following Games Jakarta will host in 2011.
The camp unveiling followed an unprecedented move last November by the State Ministry for Youth Affairs and Sports to organize a training program with a view to enhancing Indonesia's medal prospects in 2011. The Top-tier Athletic Program (TAP) features 238 athletes from 20 sports.
While the two might overlap in practice, Rita said she hoped the TAP could ease the burden in preparing athletes for multi-event showcases like the SEA Games.
"With five multi-sports events this year alone, we are glad about the PAL and hopeful it will help. Together we can train and maintain our athletes to enhance their performance at those events," she said during the inauguration ceremony of the training camp in Jakarta.
The decentralized training camp will be held in North Sumatra (water polo, wushu taulo), Riau (golf, sepak takraw, weight lifting), South Sumatra (billiards, soccer), Jakarta (badminton, track-and-field, tennis, table tennis, fin swimming), West Java (cycling, volleyball), East Java (archery, diving, swimming), East Kalimantan (shooting, karate, tae kwon do, wushu shanshou, judo, pencak silat, wrestling) and Maluku (boxing).
This year, KONI plans to participate in five multi-events. The nearest event is the 1st Asian Martial Arts Games in Bangkok from Apr. 25 to May, where Indonesia will send 39 athletes.
Training camp chief for Asian Martial Arts, Madju Daryanto Hutapea, said the 39-athlete quota would not be dominated by KONI's training camp. "The chance is open to TAP athletes. We will scrutinize athletes for both programs a month before the event," he said.
He said a qualified TAP athlete must follow a training program set by KONI.
