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Eligibility Criteria for GATE Exams – GATE 2014, GATE 2013
Most of the students from India might have interest in finding that what is the…
The Graduate Aptitude Test of Engineering (GATE) is a premier entrance examination conducted by a consortium of the 7 elite Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) and the prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for admission into post graduate/ doctoral programmes in various engineering and higher science disciplines in Central Technical Universities. Most of these seats are placed in the premier IITs and the NITs (National Institute of Technology), while few other institutions specifically dedicated to certain disciplines like the Centre for Nanotechnology Research also admits GATE-qualified students.
The students qualified under GATE are also eligible for various Government sponsored academic fellowships and technical projects. While the GATE exam is largely taken by the graduates of engineering, the students belonging to the core science disciplines who have done their Masters programme in their corresponding streams are also eligible to appear in the GATE. GATE qualification is also prescribed by many private technical/ engineering institutes for gaining admission into the post-graduation programmes. Indeed, GATE is rated as one of the keystone exam for filtering credible candidates into the higher education stream.
The GATE is usually held in the month of end January or early February every year. Thousands of graduates appear for this GATE examination and it is well known that the GATE exam attracts some of the brightest students and thus holds a high level of competition. Also well-known is the fact that cracking the GATE exam is a no mean task and requires considerable preparations along with some deft exam strategies to pass through. Obviously, preparations cannot be done at the fag end of the exam schedule and a serious student might have already started preparations into the GATE.
The GATE score of a candidate reflects a relative performance level in a particular subject in the exam. The score is used for admissions to post-graduate programs (eg. M.E., M.Tech, direct Ph.D.) in Indian institutes of higher education with financial assistance provided by MHRD and other Government agencies. The score may also be used by Public and Private Sector Undertakings for employment screening purposes.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) jointly administer the conduct of GATE. The operations related to GATE in each of the 8 zones are managed by a Zonal GATE Office at IISc. or IITs. The Organizing Institute (OI) is responsible for the end-to-end process and coordination amongst the administering Institutes. The Organizing Institute for GATE 2014 is IIT Kharagpur.

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So here I am putting together the first version of the zero rover chassis. My 3d printer was down for a couple months but tomorrow I should receive the new heater to get back to printing so I can make the brackets to mount up the stepper motors.
One challenge of going with a drive system that is against the mainstream grain is the controller requirements. First off to answer any questions ahead of time about h bridges.... yes a single h bridge can power a stepper but there are benefits to using a specialized controller. When you apply more voltage than the rated voltage of the stepper is will move faster between steps and raise the torque However the obvious will happen as well. THEY GET HOT. So you can use a h bridge to power a stepper but there is probably not a current limiting feature to protect the motors from drawing too much current. A DRV8825 is a chip made by Texas Instruments and rated for up to 2.5 amps according to their website but one it was packaged with a breakout board the current limitation is 2.2 amps per coil. That's 4.4 amps total. A heatsink is recommended so here I will show the breakout board with 8mm X 8mm glued in place.
Since I have 6 wheel drive on this chassis then I will need 6 chips to power 12 coils for all the chassis movements. The boards do not come with pins so next I carefully solder up headers while they were held steady in a breadboard.
Cool, What type of glue are you using to attach that Heatsink? Just curious; did you choose a glue by considering it's ability to transfer heat and holding ability under high heat conditions? I imagine that would be very important. I've wanted to do this a number of times so it would be great to know what you used and how you chose it.
Texas Instruments drv8825 stepper driver soldering: http://youtu.be/0yebxwV3tQgTypically you would solder these pins with the chip facing down and then a heatsink on the other side but I need to have access to the potentiometer that adjusts the current limiting circuit. I will set these later to the current rating of the motor to prevent over heating in the future.
Glue , I specifically used epoxy and thermal compound mixed about 2 parts epoxy to one part thermal. In the future I just recommend using silver powder or aluminum power mixed with the epoxy. It takes very little to attach the heatsink. The old saying " a drop will do ya" is too much lol. You just smear a super thin layer across the top and press the heatsink down to further squish it out.I chose this just based on availability. It is typically what you use between heatsinks and mosfets or transistors and their heatsinks. There are very pricy compounds that are marginally better and that is useful when your trying to dissipate 100 to 120 watts or more of heat from a cpu but these are much lower heat. These should create under 5 watts of heat , 10 watts if I really turn up the voltage.
Stepper motors to power the zero rover projectThis NEMA 17-size hybrid bipolar stepping motor has a 1.8° step angle (200 steps/revolution). Each phase draws 1.7 A at 2.8 V, allowing for a holding torque of 3.7 kg-cm (51 oz-in).
I have 5mm d shaft to 12 mm hex adapters coming that make it easy to connect a rc style wheel to the stepper motors. Designing things this way means modular wheel options and easy changes from on road or off road tires. This adapter keeps the wheel from stripping or slipping around the shaft because it has a set screw to lock it in place. The adapters are brass and commonly used in small robots , rc cars and trucks among other things.Here is the initial wheel I'm using for scale reasons and I will cost this into 6 duplicates from urethane then spray on a rubber coating. In the future I will print some completely custom wheel options for better fitment and such but this works for now.


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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
The bus is stopped in the middle of the tunnel. We have started wonderin if somethin is wrong.
"Maybe the bus is dead," I says.
"The bus is not dead," says Giblets. "It is insolent and stupid and smelly and bad."
"It is a bad bus," I says.
"It is a very bad bus," says Giblets.
"It very poorly represents the Platonic ideal of Bus," I says.
"Why didnt we take the plane, the plane is far superior to the bus," says Giblets.
"Because we are poor," I says. "We are a poor Fafnir and Giblets and are consigned to the bus."
"There are children on this bus," says Giblets.
"Screaming children," I says.
"Giblets hates children," says Giblets.
"I fear children," I says, "because of their sharp sharp teeth."
"Children are just like adults," says Giblets, "Only smaller and more stupid and smelly and bad."
"Why didnt we take the train, the train is far superior to the bus," says Giblets.
"We will live with bus-regret for all our lives," I says, and it is true.
The bus is still stopped in the middle of a tunnel. Everyone figures somethin is probably wrong.
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Apprenticeships 'should last a year', report says
Apprenticeships in England should last for at least a year and genuinely train someone in a new role, a key report for the government says.
The Richard Review says the definition of apprenticeship has been "stretched too far" and needs to be rethought.
It warns that too often the traditional relationship between the employer and the person being trained has been lost.
The government welcomed the report and said it would respond in due course.
There has been a rapid increase in the number of apprenticeships in England in recent years, with successive governments urging young people to consider them instead of university.
But there are concerns about quality, with some as short as three months.
Entrepreneur Doug Richard was asked by Business Secretary Vince Cable and Education Secretary Michael Gove to consider the future of apprenticeships in England.
'Paperwork gymnastics'
In his review, Mr Richard says "apprenticeships or the notion of them are popular", but that this has led to many things being called apprenticeships which, in fact, are not.
"Simply enough, not all instances of training on a job are apprenticeships," he says.
They "require a new job role, a role that is new to the individual and requires them to learn a substantial amount before they can do that job effectively," he said.
As a consequence, he says, the nation risks losing sight of the core features of what makes apprenticeships work.
And he suggests they should last for at least a year, adding that those "measured in weeks or months", can still "fall short".
He adds that while the knowledge required for a job could be covered in a shorter period of time, it took time for "the individual to transform from an apprentice to a skilled worker".
This comes after numerous complaints that some agencies and businesses have been offering low grade apprenticeships that only last for a few weeks or even months, in exchange for cheap labour and government funding.
He is clear that training to improve the skills of someone who has been in their job for some time or someone who is not yet ready to start work should not be called an apprenticeship.
He warns that that the relationship between the employer and the trainee is being lost, as schemes have become government-led training initiatives, shaped by training professionals, rather than employers.
He calls for a new set of qualifications which set out what a person should be able to do and know at the end of their training.
But they must also offer a set of skills broad enough for other jobs.
'Driving seat'
He said these new qualifications should be redefined by employers who should set the standard, rather than ministers.
They should be free of the "bureaucratic box ticking assessment" and "micro-level" prescription that he says is a feature of current vocational qualifications.
"It is complicated and off-putting to an employer to have to undertake paperwork gymnastics to pigeonhole their system into a redefined set of curricular approaches," he adds.
He calls for the apprentice's accomplishments to be robustly tested and validated, and says they must include high quality attainments in maths and English for those who have not got GCSEs in the subjects before they start.
And he argues that apprenticeships must be "well regarded" if they are not to be viewed as a lower status alternative to university.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said the review echoed the government's current thinking on putting employers in the driving seat of training programmes.
"His recommendations will help us to build on the current successes.. and tailor a programme which is sustainable, high-quality and meets the changing needs of our economy in the decades to come."
Education Secretary Michael Gove said it is vital that the qualifications and assessment involved in every apprenticeship are rigorous, trusted, and give employers confidence in the ability of their apprentices.
The shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna called for a Tech Bacc to support the value of vocational education: "High quality apprenticeships can give young people a crucial ladder to a successful career... but apprenticeships have to mean quality and Labour has repeatedly warned ministers that it can't mean re-labelling short courses or in-work training as apprenticeships to boost numbers."
Association of Teachers and Lecturers general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said she agreed with the report's assertion that "apprenticeships should deliver a valued, high-kudos route for young people, which is as equally respected as the academic route".
"It is concerning however that the phrase 'light touch' is mentioned several times throughout the report. Any mention of 'light touch', particularly in regard to the approval of training organisations that provide good-quality training relevant for the sector, should be treated with caution."


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There's no family in this world that's absolutely perfect, and even if there was wouldn't they be devastatingly boring? My dad grew up in a family with 11 brothers and sisters and my mom grew up with 6. This leaves me with more cousins than I know what to do with. Most must see these numbers as pure chaos, but I've grown to learn this just makes things more interesting.
I could go on forever naming the things that irritate me about my extended family like the way every activity turns into a competition, how I have to look after my little cousins, how cramped the kitchen becomes at family gatherings, or how much I hate the potatoes my aunt makes, but what would take even longer is how many aspects of a big family I cherish. There isn't anything I would trade for stories my uncle tells us, the hours of ping-pong and charades we've played, or the hugs my grandpa gives, or the outrageous stories I've heard after my aunts have had a few drinks.
I've never known anything but a huge family and once I hit middle school and saw how my friend's family's worked I questioned my own. I was invited to my friend's family Christmas dinner. I was beyond excited to go and eat dinner with a new family to share stories and laugh for hours around the table. When I arrived, I naively expected to open the door and sneak through the crowds of people to find my friend, but to my suprise as the door opened there wasn't anyone. I walked down the hallway to the kitchen, and found two family's sitting there. I went over to my friend, leaned over to her hear and whispered, "Where is everyone?"
"This is it" she replied. That's when I first realized my family was far from normal.
It wasn't until about a year ago, on our family trip to Lake Powell that I discovered that through the individual quirks my family has, we are great as a whole. For an entire week, fifteen of us Dunns shared one boat where we slept, ate, and spent the whole day together. It was night time and the entire sky was lit up but the thousands of stars that hovering above us. A lantern sat in the center of the table where mosquitoes swarmed to fatefully get a glimpse of the light. My Dad and my brother were disputing some intellectual topic, while my mom and my aunts were laughing so loud no other conversations were audible. My cousin played the guitar while my uncle was destroying my cousin in thumb-war contest. And as I sat back and watched, it was in that moment I came to the realization that the perfect family isn't actually perfect. In fact, they could be nowhere near perfect, but in their own strange way they come together and make it work. I believe through a family's imperfection, they become more perfect.
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I Am Alive, Alan Wake & Warp Aim For Next Month?
An accidentally-released Xbox Live video has confirmed that Alan Wake: American Nightmare, I Am Alive, Warp and Nexuiz will headline this year's XBLA House Party promotion, which typically showcases some of the best games the service has to offer. They tend to kick off in mid-February (2011's event started on the 16th), so it seems that we won't have too long to wait. Since the video is now out of the bag, we can expect a speedy press release to follow. [via Joystiq]
Apart from I Am Alive, which has been taunting us for far too long, we're mainly excited about Warp. Trapdoor are building a sensational puzzler, and I'd highly recommend checking out our hands-on preview for more details.


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Thrill Rides
Let loose! Speed through!
Racy, racy - that moment in time when the two roller coasters meet in the air. While Nessie goes around in a loop, the Racing Roland speeds right through the centre. A roller coaster rendezvous!
And then a peek into tomorrow's world: Intergalactic stop-and-go at the Space Scooter. Forget butterflies in the stomach; it's more like centipedes crawling around...
...or rather like centipedes dancing Rock 'n' Roll.


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The Sunshine State is home to some of the best gated communities in the country and there is a reason for that. First of all, its proximity to world-class beaches is a definite plus. If you have always dreamt about spending your days after retirement on the beach soaking up the sun, then Florida is the place for you. You can enjoy the beach all-year long without having to travel miles and miles to enjoy the surf and the sea.
Apart from the amenities that will come with the house, living in Florida's gated communities' give you access to other perks such as an 18-hole golf course. Living in these gated communities gives you the chance to join clubs which will allow you free use of the golf course and some of its services. Enjoying a good round of golf every day if it suits your lifestyle is just another advantage of purchasing a home within the gated communities in Florida.
People looking for luxury homes will find them within the gates of these communities. Houses built to give homeowners a great view of the ocean are easy to find here. With the close proximity to the beach, you'll be rewarded with eth soothing sound of the waves crashing in the beach at night making for a peaceful night setting.
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Veterinary research
Two recent reviews by Mathie & Clausen investigated the evidence in veterinary homeopathy1,2. The first review looked at the evidence from randomised placebo-controlled trials and found weak evidence that homeopathy treatment is different from placebo (p = 0.01 for N=15 trials and p = 0.02 for the N=2 most reliable trials)1. The second review looked at the evidence from randomised trials controlled by other means than placebo (e.g. usual care) and found the quality of the trials in this category to be too low to provide any meaningful answer2.
Prevention of diarrhoea in piglets
One of the high-quality placebo controlled trials identified by Mathie & Clausen was carried out by Wageningen University in the Netherlands.3
In this triple-blinded RCT, 52 pregnant sows were treated with either Coli 30K (a homeopathic medicine made from E. coli bacteria) or placebo. The sows gave birth to 525 piglets and those in the group treated with Coli 30K had 6 times less diarrhoea than the piglets in the placebo group. This result was statistically significant (p < 0.0001) meaning that it is extremely unlikely to be a false positive result due to chance alone
The particular technique used, where the medicine used is made from the same substance which causes the disease being treated, is a sub-type of homeopathy called 'isopathy'.
As the only existing way of preventing this disease in livestock is by using antibiotics, this study should be repeated to confirm its findings, as it may provide an effective way to help reduce overuse of antibiotics.
Recent research: Amelioration of pain and distress in tail-ringed lambs using homeopathy
It should be noted that not all 'veterinary' homeopathy research and treatment is actually carried out by vets; some of it is carried out by farmers such as David Eyles who use homeopathy with their own livestock. Below he describes his research on reducing pain and distress in lambs:4
View David Eyles presentation at the HRI Barcelona 2013 conference.
- Mathie RT, Clausen J. Veterinary homeopathy: meta-analysis of randomised placebo-controlled trials. Homeopathy, 2015; 104(1):3-8 | Full text
- Mathie RT, Clausen J. Veterinary homeopathy: Systematic review of medical conditions studied by randomised trials controlled by other than placebo. BMC Vet Res, 2015; 11(1):236 |Full text
- Camerlink I, Ellinger L, Bakker EJ, Lantinga EA. Homeopathy as replacement to antibiotics in the case of Escherichia coli diarrhoea in neonatal piglets. Homeopathy, 2010; 99: 57–62 | PubMed
- Eyles D. Amelioration of pain and distress in tail-ringing lambs using homeopathy. Homeopathy, 2014; 103(1): 68 | Abstract


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|Jonah Bloom, executive editor of Advertising Age.
Lost faith
It's a sad but familiar marketing tale. A-B is just one of a host of marketing powers that seem to have lost faith in their brand-building ability, preferring to pile it high and keep it cheap. In the obsessive quest for share, even the biggest names -- Miller, Kraft, General Mills and Coke -- have become so addicted to low prices that some of their great brands are now little more than commodities.
Now, with their core products maxed out in the mass market, they have to strain every muscle to get incremental sales. Worse still, their margins have been squeezed by these low-pricing policies -- some imposed by Wal-Mart -- making it tougher to find funds to invest in the innovation and brand-building needed to reverse the commoditization trend.
Investing in quality
They are in a deep, steep hole, and it would be foolish to suggest there's an easy route out. It will require real guts for these marketers to take the vital steps: reconstructing their core brands to add value for the consumer and reflecting those efforts in higher prices (even at the expense of share); and investing big bucks in higher quality, pricier products, (even if it means taking money from core products).
To steel their nerves, or force their hands, perhaps they should visit a Starbucks. The coffee giant is, boringly, often celebrated for its customer-centricity, but it takes guts, as well as a good customer experience, to charge $3.59 for a large latte.
The new quality seekers
Even more significantly for mass marketers, Starbucks' success speaks to the existence of millions of people willing to pay higher prices for a better product married to a better story. Starbucks has 33 million regulars, like me, who are not only willing to spend several dollars on a dose of caffeine, but also shell out $6.75 (before tax and soda) on a Chipotle Grill burrito, $12 on a vodka-based cocktail, or $150 on a pair of jeans. Millions of affluent consumers who seek quality not quantity -- they already feel they have too much stuff -- and will pay a premium for it.
Last year three guys from Accenture wrote a paper for The Harvard Business Review called "Selling to the Moneyed Masses." "A funny thing happened to income while marketers weren't looking," they said, "its distribution curve changed dramatically." Their fresh look at the stats found that the old landscape (most people clustered around the average income figure) has given way to a market in which tens of millions of households earn $65,000 to $180,000 -- well above the average. They say this creates new rules for mass marketers: out with avoiding the middle-market, in with new positions "above the best of the conventional offerings, below ultra-premium solutions."
Reaching the Starbucks masses
Of course there are marketers who are ahead of the curve. Last month in this space I talked about Lacoste's decision to sell its polo shirts at $79, not retailers' preferred price of $49; and there are a host of other pricing success stories, most notably the oft-quoted tale of Apple. But few of the traditional mass marketers have worked out how to reach the Starbucks masses.
The authors of "Moneyed Masses" single out P&G as the exception to that rule, with its Whitestrips, Spin Brush and Swiffer leading a charge to new price planes: "All launched billion-dollar industries in stagnant categories ... all have price-point multiples higher than their competitors." Therein lies the model for those with the guts to go to the drawing board: Rethink the category, and price like you rethought the category. "Parity" prices are not the answer.


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I will be making a trip to Las Vegas to see some vendors in a couple of weeks and am thinking about taking an ultra-lite station with me to work the FM birds the first day while I am out there. The best day I can hope to work the birds will be 4/28. Satscape indicates the following passes will be available - SO-50 [+] 28 APR 2008 09:42:48 337 26 (AZ 046) AO-51 [+] 28 APR 2008 09:49:28 001 30 (AZ 293) SO-50 [+] 28 APR 2008 11:23:29 322 43 (AZ 249) AO-27 [+] 28 APR 2008 15:21:09 155 59 (AZ 073) AO-27 [+] 28 APR 2008 17:02:11 210 15 (AZ 269) AO-51 [+] 28 APR 2008 19:22:53 143 36 (AZ 066) AO-51 [+] 28 APR 2008 21:02:02 197 25 (AZ 269) The times listed are in CDT, I didnt get the conversion made for PDT when I ran these calculations. I am planning on taking 2 handhelds - one for uplink and one for downlink so I can run full duplex. Planning on using 1/4 wave 2 mtr mag mount and 5/8 wave 70cm mag mount for antennas. I used DM25 as a beginning reference for the pass calcs. Will be within 2 to 3 hours of Las Vegas and North during most of the passes. I havent flown with ham gear since before 9/11. Anything I need to know to be prepared to deal with TSA ? I plan on putting the mag antennas in the check-in luggage and will put the handhelds in a Pelican case that will have some recording gear I will be using to record some interviews for a radio show that I do. No promises that I will get to appear on any or all of the passes but I will do my best. Thanks, Ron KA4KYI _______________________________________________ Sent via firstname.lastname@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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Achieving and maintaining a homogenous blend of different ingredients, is critical in many businesses. Blending with an intermediate bulk container (IBC) from Matcon IBC offers several advantages in that the IBC batch goes direct to the next stage of the process without the blend being disturbed.
Many blended materials suffer easily from 'segregation' of the different constituents during movement. Finer ingredients migrate to the bottom and tend to settle while larger ingredients roll or bounce along on top.
This can take place when a blended material is vibrated, for example during transport. It can also happen when material is 'poured' or drained out of storage.
Several companies overcome segregation concerns by capturing the blend constituents within a granule, but granulation is not possible or desirable in many cases. More and more pharmaceutical companies rely on direct compression of blended materials, where product uniformity is critical.
The answer lies in IBC blending followed by mass flow discharge.
IBC blending offers several advantages, but on the subject of segregation, the critical feature is that the batch IBC goes direct to the next stage of the process without the blend being disturbed.
The next challenge is to discharge the IBC contents without allowing segregation to occur - this requires 'mass flow'. Mass flow means that all of the mass of a dry blend moves uniformally out of the container. In an automated system this is only possible with a properly designed gravity flow system.
The Matcon cone valve provides guaranteed mass flow and eliminates segregation at the point of discharge. The action of the cone valve is to repeatedly lift gently into the product, then lower and seal, allowing relatively small 'pulses' of product to be gravity fed to process below. As the material 'falls', all blended constituents discharge at the same rate and mass flow results.
Matcon IBC 'in-bin-blending' followed by 'cone valve discharge' is an ideal way to beat segregation.


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Tens of thousands of British Columbians are saving energy and money because of their participation in the LiveSmart BC: Efficiency Incentive Program. And even better they are also lowering their carbon footprint!
You can join your neighbours across B.C. who are saving money and reducing energy use by accessing these incentives.
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Choose your contractor wisely. House Smart Home Improvements have years of experience and can help you with multiple home energy-saving renovations such as replacement energy-smart windows, doors, insulation, furnaces and heat pumps.
They also provide initial Free In-home Consultations.
During your Free In-Home Consultation with House Smart Home Improvements, one of our experienced professionals can help you decide what renovations would best upgrade your home while staying inside your budget. He / She will also put you in touch with a Certified Energy Advisor.
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The energy advisor will submit your application giving you access to applicable LiveSmart BC incentives. Your home will also receive an upgraded EnerGuide for Houses rating. Expect a cheque in the mail!
There are specific requirements that must be met in order to be eligible for incentives. Please read about the eligible improvements carefully. If you are unclear on requirements, contact House Smart Home Improvements before purchasing or installing any equipment.
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Coamo, Puerto Rico
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|Coamo, Puerto Rico
|Nickname(s): "La Villa de San Blás de Illescas", "Los Maratonistas", "La Villa Añeja", "Ciudad de las Aguas Termales"
|Anthem: "Allá muy cerca del pueblo"
Location of Coamo in Puerto Rico
|Coordinates: 18°04′48″N 66°21′29″W / 18.08000°N 66.35806°WCoordinates: 18°04′48″N 66°21′29″W / 18.08000°N 66.35806°W
|United States
|Puerto Rico
|• Mayor
|Hon Juan Carlos García Padilla (PPD)
|• Senatorial dist.
|• Representative dist.
|• Total
|78.05 sq mi (202.15 km2)
|• Land
|78.04 sq mi (202.13 km2)
|• Water
|7 sq mi (0,017 km2)
|486 ft (148 m)
|Population (2010)
|• Total
|• Density
|520/sq mi (200/km2)
|Time zone
|Zip code
Coamo (Spanish pronunciation: [koˈamo]) is a municipality founded 1579 in the south-central region of Puerto Rico (U.S.), located north of Santa Isabel; south of Orocovis and Barranquitas; east of Villalba and Juana Díaz; and west of Aibonito and Salinas. Coamo is spread over 10 wards and Coamo Pueblo – the downtown area and the administrative center of the city. It is both a principal city of the Coamo Micropolitan Statistical Area and the Ponce-Yauco-Coamo Combined Statistical Area.
Coamo is a small town nestled in a valley about 10 miles (16 km) east of Ponce (about 30 minutes by car). It was named "San Blas Illescas de Coamo" by its first settlers. San Blas was the Catholic saint who remains the town's patron. Illescas is the Spanish town where the town founders originated (nowadays in Toledo province, Castile-La Mancha, Spain).
There are several theories regarding the origin of the word "Coamo". Some think it comes from an indigenous word that means "valley" but it is also plausible that Coamo derives its name from Coamex (or Coamey), who was a celebrated local cacique (or "chieftain" in the Taino language). Archeological digs near the region have produced some of the best examples of the island's pre-Columbian cultural artifacts.
Coamo has a series of natural hot springs, Los Baños de Coamo. The Battle of Coamo was a decisive battle of the Spanish–American War (1898).
Founded on July 15, 1579, Coamo is the third-oldest settlement of the island's post-Columbian period (after San Juan in the north and San Germán in the west). By 1582, there were twenty families living in Coamo, in the same area where the Tainos had had their village of Guayama. Coamo officially became a town in 1616, and was given the title of "Villa" by Spanish Royal Decree in 1778.
Coamo was the administrative center that encompassed most of the southern half of the island during the early colonial period. As the agricultural and sugar industries grew and became the mainstays of the colony's economy, the province would eventually subdivide into several distinct municipalities, and the administrative center of the region would later shift west to the coastal town of Ponce.
Coamo is the home of a series of natural hot springs, Los Baños de Coamo, which have attracted visitors since before the Spaniards landed. These springs were once rumored to have been Juan Ponce de León's legendary "fountain of youth". In the early nineteenth century, a system of pools of varying depths, sizes and temperatures was constructed at the site of these springs to serve as a spa for the colonials. During the North American invasion in the Spanish–American War (1898), this site was the scene of one of the decisive battles of that conflict (the Battle of Coamo). The American troops took possession of the island, and the spa was subsequently abandoned. Though the site lay in ruins for most of the twentieth century, it continued to be a landmark to the Coameños, who would often go to bathe in its healing thermal waters. The pools remain, but the old buildings which once hosted the island's affluent and colonial soldiers are gone, except for the remains of one central wall structure which has been preserved and incorporated into a fountain courtyard on the grounds of a popular tourist hotel and rest stop which has replaced the ancient Spanish ruins.
Notable people[edit]
- Lely Burgos, Olympic athlete,
- Bobby Capo,
- Felipe Rivera Ortiz, artist, painter/professor - Winner of a Lorenzo il Magnifico Award (silver medal) / X Florence Biennale, Italy
- Margarita Nolasco, senator and Vice-President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
- Antonio García Padilla, former President of the University of Puerto Rico
- Jose Garriga Pico, former senator
- Willie Rosario
- Alejandro García Padilla, Governor of Puerto Rico
- Jose "Willie" Rodriguez Dejesus Escalante, musician
Coamo is an agricultural center where mangoes, corn, guanabanas, tamarindo, quenepas, avocados, oranges and plantains are grown, and where poultry and cattle are raised.
Coamo is a trading center for machinery, aircraft radio components, and clothing.
Landmarks and places of interest[edit]
- Los Baños de Coamo (Coamo Thermal Baths) – near the Santa Isabel border
- Historic Museum (Pico Pomar Residence)
- Church San Blas de Illescas of Coamo, construction on the church began in 1661 and is one of the oldest parish on the island.
Festivals and events[edit]
Coamo hosts several annual events:
- Patron Festivities - February
- San Blas Half-Marathon - February
- Flower Carnival - May
- Yuca (cassava) Carnival - August
- Juey (crab) Carnival - October
- Bomba & Plena Festival - November
Coamo is famous for being the host of the San Blas Half-Marathon, a yearly world-class professional marathon that attracts the best competitive runners in the world. It was inaugurated in 1963 by Delta Phi Delta Fraternity in honor to the founder of the town. World-class international and local runners compete in a 13.1094-mile (21.0975 km) half-marathon. It is Puerto Rico's biggest race, and the crowds are always large.
The Maratonistas de Coamo (from the BSN) is the only professional team which the town hosts. The team has played in Coamo with mixed success since joining the league in 1985.
|Race - Coamo, Puerto Rico - 2000 Census[2]
|% of Total
|Black/African American
|American Indian and Alaska Native
|Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
|Some other race
|Two or more races
All municipalities in Puerto Rico are administered by a mayor, elected every four years. The current mayor of Coamo is Juan Carlos García Padilla, of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD). He was elected at the 2000 general elections.
The city belongs to the Puerto Rico Senatorial district VI, which is represented by two Senators. In 2012, Miguel Pereira Castillo and Angel M. Rodríguez were elected as District Senators.[3]
The flag of Coamo derives its colors from the coat of arms. Its colors are red, yellow, and black.
Coat of arms[edit]
The top left and the lower right have a red background with a gold Episcopal hat each. These parts of the coat of arms represent the old seat of San Blas de Illescas. The horse and the bull represent the cattle wealth of the population. The gold color that serves as background in contrast with the black color, recalls the yellowish reddish tone of the fields of Coamo during the droughts. The heavy border of the coat of arms contains the following figures: two flames; three bell towers with gold bells outlined in red; two red crosses with arms ending in three petals; and a circle with a surface divided by horizontal blue and silver-plated stripes.
See also[edit]
- ^ http://welcome.topuertorico.org/maps/coamo.pdf
- ^ Ethnicity 2000 census
- ^ Elecciones Generales 2012: Escrutinio General Archived December 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. on CEEPUR
- Historia de Coamo, "La Villa Añeja", Ramon Rivera Bermúdez, 1980.


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MARABELLA, Trinidad (AP) — Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner made a televised address in Trinidad on Wednesday night, saying he will prove a link between soccer's governing body and his nation's elections in 2010.
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Thierry Henry has told Sky Sports News, which was broadcast on the morning of the 18th March, that he loves the comments that Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino made after his side were knocked out of the Europa League by Borussia Dortmund last night.
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New York, March 28 (IANS) Fortune magazine has listed Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy among the 12 "greatest entrepreneurs of our time" with Apple's late chief Steve Jobs, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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"The outsourcer" Murthy, who has been ranked tenth, "proved that India could compete with the world by taking on the software development work that had long been the province of the West," the US magazine said.
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"It is all about sacrifice today, fulfilment tomorrow," Murthy, 65, who is now chairman emeritus, is quoted as saying. "It is all about sacrifice, hard work, lots of frustration, being away from your family, in the hope that someday you will get adequate returns from that."
- Renowned banker K.V. Kamath new Infosys chairman (Night Lead) - May 01, 2011
- Bill Gates wishes Murthy as he retires from Infosys - Aug 20, 2011
- Co-founder Narayana Murthy bids adieu to Infosys - Aug 19, 2011
- US varsity honours Narayana Murthy - May 16, 2012
- Two IITians among 400 richest Americans - Sep 22, 2011
- Banker Kamath to succeed Narayana Murthy at Infosys (Roundup) - May 01, 2011
- Infosys' Murthy wants budget to turbo-charge economy - Feb 27, 2012
- Government should be proactive in reducing unemployment: Narayana Murthy - Aug 03, 2012
- I am hopeful about Infosys Kolkata project: Narayan Murthy - Aug 03, 2012
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If you are a parent with kids in school, the holidays may be one of the only times that you can actually get away to travel. Luckily, the Walt Disney World resort offers a number of fun holiday events that are perfect for families. Whether you are traveling near Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas, you'll find a variety of fun events and other special touches that will make your vacation extra memorable.
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If you are traveling anytime in the fall before Halloween, Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party (MNSSHP) is a lot of fun. Featuring a special parade, trick or treating, characters in Halloween costumes, and a Halloween-themed fireworks show, MNSSHP is definitely worth doing at least once. It's a separate ticketed event, and traditionally, the parks are less crowded than during the days. So, you'll also get the chance to ride some of the more popular attractions with less of a wait.
Keep in mind, however, that this is an evening event. If your children are young and go to bed early, it's probably not worth spending the extra money. We waited until our kids were a little older before decided to take them to the evening events.
You can find information about Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party here.
This is actually the first year in a while that we aren't traveling to Walt Disney World over Thanksgiving. There aren't any separate Thanksgiving events, but many of the restaurants on property do offer a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner.
Depending on when you end your Thanksgiving vacation, you may also get to experience some of the Christmas decor and events.
Christmas is such a wonderful time to visit Walt Disney World. Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party (MVMCP) is a separate ticketed evening event that includes a special holiday parade, a fireworks show, and snow falling down on Main Street. Like Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, the Magic Kingdom does tend to be less crowded, so you can usually experience the attractions with shorter lines. However, it is an evening event, so it's probably not a good idea to pay extra if your kids are little and go to bed early.
You can also enjoy gorgeous holiday decor throughout the parks and resorts. At the Beach Club, a large merry-go-round is built right in the hotel lobby! Other decor highlights include the display at the Contemporary and the gingerbread house at the Grand Floridian.
Another fun event for the holidays is the Candlelight Processional at Epcot. This is a very popular event, and I recommend booking one of the special dining experiences that includes priority entrance to the show. Otherwise, you'll have to line up early, wasting precious time in the park. It's a beautiful show featuring a celebrity narrator, an orchestra, and a choir of singers. Younger children may not fully appreciate it, but my kids loved it when they were 9 and 11.
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Four months ago, Dell quietly consolidated its engineering efforts in the OptiPlex and Dimension PC areas to look at technologies that are driving the industry. The company's peripheral, platform and software groups are looking into storage, LCDs, chip sets and graphics, according to Dell spokesman John Thompson.
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The announcement was sent out Thursday for Chodosh, who currently serves as the dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.
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The Elizabeth, N.Y. native received his bachelor's from Wesleyan University and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.
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Bill Cole, Competitive Sales Specialist,Information Management, IBM
I love computer hardware. You know, walk in the data center and hear all those fans whining, lights flashing, disks spinning. Home and mother. My domain. I can explain how each and every one of them is used – except for a few in the racks over there. You can almost feel the electricity flowing through the transistors. In a big computer room, you can't hear yourself think – or anybody talking. So there's some benefit to all that hardware.
Go back to the desk and someone needs a new environment. Hmmm. All my servers are busy, that's what my spreadsheet says. Well, not so much busy as dedicated to some application. Maybe two servers per application. Or more. Plus the disk space. Oh, and they need this new environment when? Tomorrow? It'll take that long just to pull all the resources together. Installing all the software will take another few days. And my staff is all booked. Situation normal. And the CEO is waiting because this is mission critical. This is why you never stopped communing with the silicon even as a manager. Go ahead and jump in!! Super Geek to the keyboard!
Is that scenario anything you've encountered? It happens every day. And it's happening more often. Your data center is sized for what you know will be needed, plus a bit for expansion. But you can't support a whole new application in Production in a few hours. You don't have the compute resources of the disk space or the network bandwidth.
Alternate scenario: You need to expand Production but just for a month. I mean you need to add Christmas-shopping scale to the environment. Buy more hardware? In your dreams. Rent it? No way. Just finding a place to put the stuff in the data center will be a major victory. And then you have to test it! Or you could hope it works as expected and doesn't take you off the air for a day or two, what my wife calls a resume-generating event.
What's a data center manager to do? Enter the cloud. We are definitely in the era of the virtualized workload. (I love the concept of workloads, not just applications or servers.) There's a number floating around that says more than 70% of all workloads are virtualized. Those virtualized environments are just perfect for the cloud. The same study tells us that the normal utilization for physical servers is less than 20%. Talk about wasting resources.
Isn't this a DB2 blog? Yup. We know DB2 runs extremely well in the cloud. We do a great deal of our product testing using our internal cloud environments, not just dedicated servers. That's pretty cool, not to mention being a tremendous example and endorsement of the cloud concept.
As it turns out, IBM has the tools to guide you through the whole cloud process from concept to configuration, migration and running those workloads. We have some products, too, that might be of some help. I wrote about patterns last time and discussed how they can speed your deployment process, taking minutes instead of hours. PureApplications and the PureData products offer you the quickest road to your internal cloud. Of course, you can use your existing hardware to start building that same cloud and use your existing licenses. What changes is the way you think about the mapping of servers to applications and workloads.
If you've got Power systems and AIX, then you've got LPARs so you're good to go with virtualization and the cloud. Designate an existing server as the basis of your internal (private) cloud. Start adding servers and workloads to expand it and then start connecting to other clouds establishing your hybrid deployments. And you can use a public cloud for those times when you need some temporary power to support expanded workloads or to build a home for that more than immediate need.
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Since we're talking about DB2, let's consider DBaaS, database as a service. Hmm. Interesting, eh? Build a system for housing your database systems. Make it easy to provision and manage your database needs. We'll talk about this next time. Great concept for making your users happy sooner…..
Finally, distinguishing between the types of clouds can be a bit tricky. Private, public, or hybrid. Want an easy to remember them? Use this dating analogy, if you like. Private = my place. Public = your place. Hybrid = connecting rooms. Well, that's my suggestion for what it's worth. If you make up your own variation, let me know.
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Cleveland Heights police have a history of concealing crimes from their taxpayers and others. A 2011 Plain Dealer investigation revealed Cleveland Heights police had labeled sex crimes as "departmental information" or "miscellaneous reports." The distinction allowed the city to report 26 sex crimes between 2008 and 2010. But the newspaper investigation revealed the city actually had 88 cases reported during that time.
They're also well rehearsed in the practice of ignoring and stonewalling media. Doug Brown outlines the elaborate lengths Robertson and Co. went to undermine the investigation of Christina Gaston's death, and later our reporting, in Scene's Cleveland Museum of Art story last month. Doug's section about the Cleveland Heights' Police stunning ineptitude, appears on page two.
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When Jemaine joins Bret in the chorus of their Marvin Gaye-esque "What is wrong with the world today?" Flight of the Conchords once again achieves their specific and loopy state of comic euphoria. Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie are perfect as the understated core of the show. The show itself is minimalist in its approach, from the tight camera angles to the small cast of regulars and even fewer extras that show up episode to episode. This mix of quietly zany (two words that usually don't go together) comedy and far more outwardly silly musical numbers lead to Conchords being something unique and specific right out of the gate.
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2013 was another good year for dance music. In narrowing down this list, I focused on songs that capture the genres and artists of the zeitgeist…at least as it appears from my weird indie hole in the wall. Thus, there is no Miley Cyrus here, but I was more likely to include Lorde than a comparable remix that felt out of time. Despite such considerations, I think this list has more retro remixes than any previous year. Could it be that 2013's producers were daydreaming of the sexual revolution? I'm just gonna assume its so. tell me more


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Major oil services provider Wood Group PSN is to cut the rates it pays UK-based onshore contractors by 10%, it has been announced.
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