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Research Reveals Many UK Financial Services Firms Are Struggling To Deliver Single Customer View Regulation

Research Reveals Many UK Financial Services Firms Are Struggling To Deliver Single Customer View Regulation

Jul 23 2010 | comment(s)

RCVS: Concerned About Panorama Allegations And Will Investigate

RCVS: Concerned About Panorama Allegations And Will Investigate

Jul 23 2010 | comment(s)

What? No lightsaber? Darth Vader robs a bank

What? No lightsaber? Darth Vader robs a bank

Jul 23 2010 | comment(s)

Since I know you are all too cheap to pay for Newsday and this article is behind their pay firewall, I will sum it up for you - Darth Vader apparently missed his flight to San Diego for the Comic Convention and decided to rob a bank in Setauket instead.

Really, that doesn't need anything else to be funny.



The camouflage pants are a nice extra humorous touch, though.   H/T and photo Gothamist

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The "Mays" of Notre Dame

Jul 23 2010 | comment(s)

Goldsmiths of Paris, in May offered trees to Mary in 
the city of Eieffel tower as is written on an inscription kept in Notre Dame reminds me of Indian tradition , Japanese tradition role of plants in many religious ceremonies acorss the world.





































UK nanny loves herself to death (subject matter NSFW)

UK nanny loves herself to death (subject matter NSFW)

Jul 23 2010 | comment(s)

British nanny Nicola Paginton, age 30, suffered a sudden heart arrhythmia, likely caused by "her activity before death", says the coroners report.  

A heart attack at such a young age?   What was that activity?  I am not writing it here but you can go read about it. 



I guess all British nannies look like this?  It explains why American men are not allowed to have them.
Amateur Photographer Masters the Snapshot of a Firefly

Amateur Photographer Masters the Snapshot of a Firefly

Jul 23 2010 | comment(s)


from Terry Priest Firefly Photography

Fireflies have been flashing into a broader public awareness lately, well beyond those simple childhood summer evening memories of running through the yard capturing these little creatures into temporary glass prisons.
Wolfram|Alpha brings Powerful Computation to Everyone

Wolfram|Alpha brings Powerful Computation to Everyone

Jul 23 2010 | comment(s)

Stephen Wolfram has spent his life to date -- and will likely continue to do so -- developing amazing new computational technologies to empower scientists and academics to more efficiently and effectively compute their way through their research, and even help them to make a few discoveries along the way.







A Third Of UK Graduates Plan To Go It Alone In Business

A Third Of UK Graduates Plan To Go It Alone In Business

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

Don't screw with Random House

Don't screw with Random House

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

See if you can follow along as an Old Media giant goes after a new competitor.

The Wylie Agency, that of literary agent Andrew Wylie, has said it will publish Kindle versions (that's Amazon) of backlist titles by authors like Ralph Ellison and John Updike.   

Random House says they will kick Wylie's teeth in, legally.   Nope, says Wylie, the authors (or estates) control digital rights to works produced before e-books like Kindle existed.
Genetic Testing Companies Busted By Undercover Patients - But Which?

Genetic Testing Companies Busted By Undercover Patients - But Which?

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

It was bound to happen.  Something which should be used for good can also be used for malice.   Allison Aubrey, writing on NPR, discusses the results of an undercover investigation by the GAO which says patients are getting blatantly ridiculous advice.

One guys says he can repair DNA damage.  One says their supplements can cure all kinds of diseases.  Sheesh.
Get 'em while they're hot - Eyjafjallajökull volcano stamp made from volcanic ash

Get 'em while they're hot - Eyjafjallajökull volcano stamp made from volcanic ash

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

The Iceland Post Office has given the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano its own stamp.  Acccording to the World Stamp News 
Arctic Ice July - Update #4

Arctic Ice July - Update #4

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

Arctic Ice July - Update #4



Once again my focus is on Nares Strait.  This time I want to show how glaciers can be affected indirectly by sea ice.

There are two major glaciers in the Nares Strait - Petermann and Humboldt.  Both are primed for calving.
Sex Makes You Smarter- Can 'Virtual Sex' Do The Same?

Sex Makes You Smarter- Can 'Virtual Sex' Do The Same?

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

It has been known for quite some time that exercise promotes neurogenesis, but now a study by Leuner, Glasper, and Gould, published by PLoS ONE this month, claims that the most intimate form of exercise - sexual activity - can produce the same effects.  And better yet- having multiple, repeated sexual experiences results in a greater positive effect than a single experience alone. Added bonus: it reduces anxiety as well.  I love that kind of data!
Out Of Tragedy - Illumination

Out Of Tragedy - Illumination

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

On my way home last night, motoring the red Jeep down Ohio Rt 53, out in the middle of nowhere, only a bunch of farm fields, oncoming traffic and darkness, I saw a bright flash of light in my left eye. I realized, with a familiar guilty pleasure that a death, and an opportunity to observe bizarre evidence of an incredible natural phenomenon had occurred.



A Firefly had crashed into the proverbial windshield on the freeway. My proverbial windshield.

Lost And Found: L2FU Recovers 100% Of Clinical Trial Patients For Recent Pivotal Study

Lost And Found: L2FU Recovers 100% Of Clinical Trial Patients For Recent Pivotal Study

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

CSI Is The Venue For ISE North America Awards In 2010

CSI Is The Venue For ISE North America Awards In 2010

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

Barcelona has biodiesel selling on petrol pumps - cheap

Barcelona has biodiesel selling on petrol pumps - cheap

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

I was very happy to see Bio-diesel being sold (and cheaper) -at regular outlets, what we call petrol pumps in India. And cheaper than normal diesel.

That made me particularly happy because Spain played a leading role in developing biofuel, starting in 1970s and 80s. Professor Ayerbe from Spain was a leading proponent of petroplants, whom I had the chance to meet at a 1982 EU conference in Berlin and later in his lab near Madrid . The dream has come true. I hope it will also meet the desired goals of environmental protection also and green house gas mitigation. Germany also has regular outlets of biodiesl.
If Barcelona road could have trees on them Jaipur had it 3 centuries ago but not now .

If Barcelona road could have trees on them Jaipur had it 3 centuries ago but not now .

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

Roads of city centre in Barcelona or leading to it are having trees on both the sides. A feature that Maharaja of Jaipur laid down when he founded Jaipur. You can still see some trees on some roads of Jaipur within the walled city. However when I saw this on the roads of Barcelona I felt pity that our city of Jaipur could be as beutiful as Barcelona roads are but alas trees are not favourites of Jaipurites though JMC and JDA spend much money and built beutiful gardens out side the walled city but walled city could also have trees on the pattern of Barcelona of Spain.
Roads of Barcelona are full of trees:
Ashfall On Katla

Ashfall On Katla

Jul 22 2010 | comment(s)

Ashfall On Katla


Unless you have been vacationing on the far side of the moon, you will have seen lots of pictures of the recent Eyjafjallajökull eruption.


Location map, courtesy Wikimedia Commons

On July 12 there was a break in the clouds over Iceland making it possible to see the area of the volcano.  I have been waiting for a better picture, but according to Murphy's law the cloud will only disperse fully once I have lost patience with waiting and posted the Jul 12 image.