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Mumbai Map
Written by Proffesor Gupta
Welcome to your online guide to Mumbai, Bombay India. Mumbai has a massive population cropped up against the sea and offers a tourist a interesting view into India's thriving economic pwoer house. It may the most diverse of Indian cities because people come from north and south India to join in the sangam of wealth and also in a sea of poor.
The Good: Aromantic big city with plenty to do and see all all at a very reasonable price. Mumbai is a tasty foodie city with perhaps the best and most diverse eats in India. It is also a good walking city with large boulevards and sea views to keep you occupied.
The Bad: Touts can be very irritating around Colaba. Pollution. Accommodations are more expensive.
The Ugly: Security is minimal. The resent terrorist bomb of the Taj makes this area feel unsafe.
Accommodations in Colaba
Cheapest: Salvation Army with dorms also the India Guesthouse has dorms. This may suit foreigners because it all foreigners there.
Around 1000-1200Rs, Gulf Hotel is big place it may suit your needs for a day or two. Prossiers is also a good choice.
Things to do in Mumbai
1. Wander around Colaba area shopping or eating!
2. Visa Elephanta Island world heritage site.
3. Do the walking tour of Churchgate and the Fort area.
4. Join a Bollywood film crew for a day as a movie set extra.
5. Visit the Haj Ali mosque on the other end of Mumbai.
Getting to and going from Mumbai
Mumbai is connect to various places by flight.
By train the usually routes are to Goa, Aurangabad (Ajanta caves), Pune, or into Gujarat. Varanasi is about 20+ hours away as is Delhi.
|New Delhi - Paharganj - Main Bazar - Arakashan Rd
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Rice fungi have a 'partner in crime'
Fungi blamed for a serious rice disease are in fact not the sole culprits, according to findings that have implications for protecting both a major crop and human health.
The Rhizopus fungi, which live in soil, were thought to produce a toxin that kills the roots of rice plants, causing a disease called 'seedling blight'. The deadly disease costs rice farmers millions of dollars each year in lost harvests.
But research published today (6 October) in Nature says the poison — rhizoxin — comes not from the fungi but from bacteria living inside them.
Laila Partida-Martinez and Christian Hertweck of the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology, Germany, discovered this after realising that the fungi did not have the right genes to produce the toxin.
The researchers found bacteria living inside the fungi. They then proved that the bacteria produce rhizoxin, which breaks down the rice roots and allows the fungus to digest the dead root.
"In principle, it could be possible to control the disease by applying antibacterial — rather than antifungal — agents to protect rice seedlings," Hertweck told SciDev.Net.
Rhizoxin can stop root cells from multiplying. In the same way, it can also stop the growth of some human cancer cells, and is being studied as a potential cancer treatment.
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Discussion in 'Photography Beginners' Forum' started by silviamai, Sep 21, 2010.
Hi everyone, i am taking this picture for my boss ...what do i need to fix in this picture?
Why don't you start off by explaining what you think is wrong with it.
There's some sensor dust on his face area.
I thought he was just African american. Did you use flash?
Depends on what the photo is for... It's a fine snapshot of your boss at work, I guess.
If this is supposed to be published somewhere or framed, there's plenty you could do to make it better, aside from just starting over from scratch. Go back and do it again, but this time clear the desk of that giant computer monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Make it look clean and classy. The harsh light on the right side of distracting, and so is the various clutter surrounding him. Especially the colorful small stuff just to the right of him. My eye is also drawn to the red framed art behind him. Basically the entire right side of the image can go then, I guess.
Read these two links twice each:
Your boss is HOT!
What do you want the final pic to look like?
lol at editing his face out on paint.. anyone who is anyone can just erase that paint and get the face back lol
haha~ please dont get the face back..i will lost my job.
1st. i think its a little messy..i think the monitor looks weird, and the sun, and the picture on the top right is kinda weird..
2nd. its gonna be print on a brochure of our company.
Take him outside and reshoot.
I was kidding , pretty sure there's no way to do that, and I think a more interesting angle and taken at a different time of day when light isn't pouring into the office is a good idea.
Ask him to button the top button, clear off the desk and background flat surfaces and shoot straight on?
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Where's Spot Lift The Flap Puzzle
It's dinner time but where is Spot?
Kids will love piecing this puzzle together to discover where their favourite little dog is hiding.
Based on the incredibly popular Spot books by Eric Hill, this fun Lift-the-flap Puzzle takes kids through a wonderful story as we search for Spot all over the house.
The colour-coded puzzle pieces make it easy for kids to assemble the story in the right order and the chunky pieces are just the right size for small hands.Read more
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Kids will have great fun lifting the flaps to see if they can find the elusive Spot.
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text: As mentioned below - the debian arm java situation is currently not good. We would very much welcome any java types who could help us fix and/or understand the problems in various java packages. Do please spend a bit of time this weekend if you can on #debian-arm or #debian-bugs or pick a bug and have a prod. This page is used to coordinate notes on problems. That has a few java issues: http://wiki.debian.org/ArmBuilddWatch More can be deduced from this list: http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/architecture.php?a=arm&priority=out-of-date thanx ----- Forwarded message from Riku Voipio <firstname.lastname@example.com> ----- From: Riku Voipio <firstname.lastname@example.com> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 00:58:32 +0300 To: email@example.com Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: debian-arm bug squashing party 13.10-15.10.2006 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 List-Id: <debian-arm.lists.debian.org> Hi, Despite all the insanity going over voting in Debian, we are still committed on Etch release in december. Currently the arm port has trouble keeping up[1] with the rest of ports. We have a list of packages failing to build on arm[2], mostly at the maybe-failed section. Most of the issues are not arm-specific, or might just be temporary problems because some build-dep hasn't compiled yet. But we have lots of real issues waiting for fixing as well. Therefor, we have decided to gather 13.10.2006-15.10.2006 on #debian-arm at irc.debian.org, ie the next weekend. This is at the same time as the munchen BSP[3], so you migh consider hanging out at #debian-bugs and following the normal BSP guidelines[4], to avoid overlapping bugfixing efforts. Don't let the guidelines and Debian jargon scare you - we'll help you getting started. Even arm hardware is no longer strictly necessary[5]. Other issues: Arm debian-installer port is maintained by Martin Michlmayr, who would appreceate help in that area. The java situation on Arm is a mess. The most prominent bug 390966 [6] seems to be just worked around by gcj maintainers, but the real cause and if it affects other tools is not known.. [1] http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph2-week.png [2] http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/architecture.php?a=arm [3] http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/Munich200610 [4] http://wiki.debian.org/BSP [5] http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php [6] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390966 ----- End forwarded message ----- Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://wookware.org/


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Ask a Law Question, Get an Answer ASAP!
basically i worked for my former employer from 2008- 2008, my former desk boss got investigated by fsa for expenses misuse, they got banned by fsa from working in the uk in the finacial services, during the fsa investigation although few people got questioned by them , i was never called by anyone to give any statement as i was the desk junior.
Now though looks like the police unit for economic crimes are investigting them, the letter states that they are investigating my former employer with the focus being on my ex desk boss, so he wants to talk to me as a matter of priority...
when i called him yesterday to see what it was about or if i was under investigation, he said no as I was "small fish in the food chain", and he just wants to talk to me about the time i worked there as they had few dots they were trying to put together (whatever that might mean),
I basically dont want to go in there blind and end up incriminating myself somehow, and if there is a way for me to ask for more info from them as to what exactly it is that im required to do for them?
please see below the exact wording from the letter:
Dr Mr Sagonjeva,
My name is Steward Walker and im a detective Constable that works for Economic Crime Directorate unit; one of my current investigations involves the company formerly known as TFS with the focus of investigation being on three brokers. (xxx, xxx ,xxx),
As one of the members of the Cash Equities team at the time that the three individuals we working at TFS, I would like to speak to you about your time at the company as a matter of a priority .
I have attached at the bottom of the letter all my contact details ; however if you require further confirmation of who i am the main switchboard will supply those details.
Just received an email from the detective
please read below:
Morning Agim,
Thank you for sending me this. As I said on the phone, I am investigating three members of the Cash Equity desk from TFS and I appreciate that you were a very junior person at the time, which is actually why I wanted to speak to you as I need to find out a little bit about Rob BAILEY and Les SHACKLESFORD and your day to day activities around the general admin.


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Cooking lessons for kids : Cooking pork tenderloins.
Cooking Lessons For Kids
I gave a cooking lesson to some young friends - 9, 11, and 12. We made French toast in the morning (no photos - I fail!) and homemade raviloli/tortellini in the afternoon, with home made sauce. I bough the wrappers for the pasta, but they made the fillings, and learned lots! It was all VERY yummy!Baked Chicken Fingers (with 4 dipping sauces)
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ) I recommend this cookbook. The food is yummy and fun for kids. "Big Snacks, Little Meals, After School, Dinnertime, Anytime." ~ Rose Dunnington
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Understanding the Nature of negative reviews
and the uses and abuse of travel sites.
When irate guests pounce:
Should hotels have a blacklist?
By Kitty Bean Yancey, USA TODAY
Ben Buckley recalls the night he was working at a hotel front desk when an irate guest "demanded that I climb into the restaurant dumpster to dig for scraps of meat for her dog. She was upset that her partner had told the waitress to take away the dinner plates ... and when she came back from the bathroom she was enraged that her plate was gone, and with it the scraps of meat she was going to save for her dog."
The woman yelled and slammed her fist on the counter when he refused, says Buckley, now a night auditor at a New Hampshire hotel. "I told her that if she did not leave the desk, then I would call the police. She gave me the serial-killer stare and skulked off."
Hotel staffers routinely take abuse. Guests scream at front-desk clerks when a reservation has gone astray or the upgrade they demand isn't available. They collar the general manager to wheedle extras or rudely try to get the bill reduced. They party so hard that those in nearby rooms can't sleep till cops are called.
In fact, many a hotel staffer has had to call police to deal with an unruly guest. Actor Russell Crowe was led out of Manhattan's The Mercer hotel in handcuffs in June 2005 after throwing a malfunctioning phone at a staffer in a wee-hours fit of pique. Crowe pleaded guilty but avoided jail time.
What to do?
Buckley and his friend Christopher Rodney, who also has worked as a front-desk staffer and currently programs custom accounting systems for hotels, favor the creation of a national database of abusive guests.
Unlike the government's no-fly list of suspected terrorists, the "reference database would be voluntary and would not have any enforceable powers, merely an advisory role," Buckley says. Hotels would be alerted to difficult guests and could decide whether or not to deal with them. The idea would be to protect hotel employees and guests from scammers, screamers, abusers, mean drunks and the like.
Rodney, who lives in Nashua, N.H., and has worked at a number of New England hotels, can recall many incidents where guests tried to bully him or threaten to get him thrown off the job. He'll never forget the woman who called down at 2:30 a.m. because her room hadn't been made up. "She had left the 'do not disturb' sign on her door. We keep track of these," he says.
"She started yelling about how that was none of her concern. ... A few moments later, her son came down telling me about how he knows all these rich and powerful people in California, and how he was going to make sure I never got a job again. He said, 'I will own your life.' "
'Playing the whole scam'
Tim Davis, a hotel vet who now works for a 1,000-room property in the Orlando area, has horror stories, too.
He recalls one Christmas when a mother who was checking out asked to have "$100 off her bill or something" because there weren't enough towels or soap in the room.
She got that. Then, Davis says, she came back to say a housekeeper had ignored a do-not-disturb sign and came into her room. "She piled on and demanded a free night, so I went to my boss and said, 'I don't know about this.' He said, 'Go ahead and give it to her.' She was yelling and crying and playing the whole scam."
Later, her two grown children (staying on separate floors) came down, one by one, with identical complaints. And the manager on duty directed him to give them what they wanted, Davis says.
That particular hotel chain "taught the management there was no such thing as bad guests," Davis says. "I said, 'Why should we give them anything if they're scamming the system?' "
Other hotel staffers say they're under pressure to keep guests happy, that managers fear complaints — especially ones that go to the corporate offices of the hotel chain and then have to be investigated.
Hotel companies have been known to "send out ultimatums that they need to minimize the number of complaints that go to the corporate office," Davis says. "So, many GMs (general managers) or managers will go overkill on compensation and then not be able to utilize a blacklist to keep the guest from scamming the next hotel, or even their own hotel."
Hotel policies on difficult guests currently are a patchwork.
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts has a system in which a former guest who has caused serious trouble or has skipped out on a bill is red-flagged when trying to book again via its global reservation system.
Such guests will be directed to a customer service rep "to discuss the issue," says Fairmont public-relations manager Mike Taylor. The number of people red-flagged "is very limited," he says. "It's for someone who has caused a major incident. We want to ensure a positive stay experience for all our guests."
Hilton Hotels, whose brands also include Hampton Inns and Doubletree, doesn't maintain a company-wide or brand-wide "do not rent" list, says Hilton spokeswoman Kendra Walker. "Hotels handle issues on a case-by-case basis."
At the InterContinental Hotels Group, whose properties include Holiday Inns and Staybridge Suites, "we don't have a corporate policy regarding keeping a list (of misbehaving guests)," says chain spokeswoman Francie Schulwolf. "We leave it up to the individual hotels."
The A-list favorite Hotel Bel-Air outside Beverly Hills does not have a list, says spokeswoman Erin Flannery. "They're in the service industry and they don't want to do that to their guests."
As for the idea of a do-not-rent list that could be shared among hotel chains — forget it, says Joe McInerney, president of the American Hotel & Lodging Association. "There couldn't be a national list because of liability" for lawsuits and other challenges, he says.
The idea could be "a potential disaster," agrees traveler Kent Sharrar of Ewa Beach, Hawaii. "Consider this scenario ... irate guest, indifferent, insolent desk clerk. Something goes horribly wrong, and the insolent clerk in question is unwilling to be of assistance."
The traveler loses it, and then, Sharrar says, "This hapless guest is now on the blacklist. ... Being a bellicose jerk is not illegal."
Globe trotter Cliff Pryor, a lifeguard and scuba instructor who lives in Houston, thinks travelers should take a good, long look at their behavior.
Politeness works wonders
"No business wants to blacklist customers. But there are customers that simply are not worth the time, money and hassle to deal with. Figure out what it is you are doing to create problems for yourself."
As a frequent traveler, "I understand the demands that all the worker bees have put on them," Pryor says. "Sure, there are slackers, but most people are good and want to do the best work they can.
"You will be surprised how much more attention you get from the person across the counter when you smile and genuinely try to make their job easier."
He once got to a Honolulu hotel late after a delayed flight to find that his room had been given away. Instead of pitching a fit, he "smiled big and said, 'Hey, it's late and we are all tired. How can I make your job easier to rectify this?' "
The front-desk agent smiled back, called the manager, and soon Pryor was ensconced in a suite at a hotel up the street.
Despite his bad experiences, Rodney says few hotel customers cause problems. And "the vast majority of people who complain are doing so to get something they want and not because the employee actually did something wrong."
Hotel guests have a right to complain, he adds. "And they should if they're not getting services they should be getting."
The idea of a blacklist is "about people who are abusive, people who are trying to get things they're not entitled to," Rodney emphasizes.
Buckley has thought long and hard about how a database of abusive guests would work, and realizes there are issues concerning the idea. "But I still think there should be one," he says, because hotel staffers take too much grief from bad guests.
"The only way things change," he says, "is when you start to do something about it."