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Thai bourse to resume trading on Monday – SET chief

May 24, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Thailand’s stock exchange will resume full-day trading sessions on Monday, the bourse said in a statement. “Our trading system and those of our members are ready to resume operations,” Stock Exchange of Thailand President Patareeya Benjapolchai said. The exchange was closed on Thursday and Friday following the worst riots in Bangkok’s modern history.

(Reporting by Nopporn Wong-Anan; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

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CCI says tax feedback negative

May 6, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) says it is too early to tell what impact the Federal Government’s new super profits tax will have on Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

A 40 per cent tax on the abnormally high profits of resource companies was recommended as part of the Henry Tax Review.

The chamber’s Kalgoorlie-Boulder CEO, Hugh Gallagher, says it cannot yet confirm if concerns about the super pit’s premature closure are realistic.

But Mr Gallagher says the feedback he has received from local businesses about the new tax has been mostly negative.

“Unfortunately I haven’t had much positive comment about the review at all as yet,” he said.

“That’s coming from very small businesses, to medium-sized and to the larger ones.

“I think we’re all waiting for more detail but our gut reaction is we don’t like what we see.”

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Symonds to debut for Surrey in June

April 20, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Sydney, Apr 19 (ANI): All rounder Andrew Symonds has said that he is looking forward to joining the English county side Surrey to play Twenty20 and leaving Australia behind.

The troubled all-rounder, who lost his Cricket Australia contract following several alcohol-related indiscretions, is due to make his Surrey debut against Gloucestershire at the Brit Oval on June 8.

“It is fair to say that I had a tough couple of years trying to find a place in what was a changing environment (in Australia”s international teams) and I am much happier away from that scene,” he told the Sunday Mirror.

“I will always believe in playing my cricket hard but also believe in leaving it on the field. I have been described as all sorts of things by different people, it’s amazing how well people think they know you. My friends and family give me all the important feedback I need.”

Symonds added that he believed he had “mellowed in some respects”. I have learned you can win games of cricket without hitting every ball for six,” he said.

“I do enjoy Twenty20 though – if it’s there to hit, it just has to go! I have always been an aggressive cricketer, I grew up watching Viv Richards and admired the way he went about it,” The Sydney Morning Herald quoted him, as saying.

“I think all forms of the game have become more athletic and more aggressive. I always had a short attention span as well so as the game gets shorter it just seems to suit me better,” Symonds added. (ANI)

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Symonds to debut for Surrey in June

April 19, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Sydney, Apr 19 (ANI): All rounder Andrew Symonds has said that he is looking forward to joining the English county side Surrey to play Twenty20 and leaving Australia behind.

The troubled all-rounder, who lost his Cricket Australia contract following several alcohol-related indiscretions, is due to make his Surrey debut against Gloucestershire at the Brit Oval on June 8.

Symonds added that he believed he had “mellowed in some respects”. I have learned you can win games of cricket without hitting every ball for six,” he said.

Irrigators urged to attend Berri forum

April 8, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Irrigators are being encouraged to attend a meeting in Berri this afternoon to discuss water issues, including the basin plan and the water buyback program.

Representatives from the federal and state water departments, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Centrelink, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will be there.

Tony Slatyer from the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts says it is a great opportunity for people to ask questions.

“The purpose of these sessions is to provide us an opportunity to set out the details of just how the Commonwealth’s policies and programs in water are working and how people can access those programs and also to provide us a chance to get feedback from the local community about the issues of importance to them,” he said.

The meeting is being held at the Berri Resort Hotel and begins at 2:30pm (ACST).

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Food fight looms over rival shows

March 30, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Channel Ten is reportedly considering legal action against Seven for allegedly turning its My Kitchen Rules into a copycat of the ratings hit MasterChef Australia.

According to The Australian newspaper, network executives were “horrified” to find My Kitchen Rules had ripped-off MasterChef’s set, style of interview with the contestants and phrases used by the judges.

Ten is now considering its legal options, the paper said.

But chef Gary Mehigan, who is currently filming the new series of MasterChef, says he regards imitation as flattery.

“When you find something amazing, you want to recreate it and there’s no better flattery,” he said.

“It’s just that when George [Calombaris] and I are standing up there, instead of saying ‘please step away from your benches’ – because now they’re using it on MKR – we’ve got to come up with something else.”

MasterChef is a different show to MKR, says Mehigan.

“Our show is different – the emotion and competitive nature of the contestants and the feedback,” he said.

“MKR [is] not a bad show, it’s a good show. But when you watch some of the bitchiness between contestants, between states, I just went, ‘what’s all that about?’. I don’t want to see that anymore.

“I think preserving our kind of humility is quite important,” he added.

Mehigan says this year’s MasterChef competition will be a cut above last year’s.

“It won’t depart form the last series but it’ll be a progression, with better cooks and bigger challenges,” he said.

- AAP

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ACCC seeks iron ore joint venture feedback

March 27, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The competition watchdog has called for submissions about whether the proposed iron ore joint venture between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto is anti-competitive.

The companies say the joint venture will save them $10 billion a year.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is investigating whether the joint venture would have the ability to withhold supply from iron ore markets.

The watchdog has also questioned whether the joint venture could coordinate supply decisions with the world’s biggest producer, Vale.

Submissions to the ACCC must be lodged by early April, with its findings due to be released by the end of the month.

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Quirindi considers 40kph speed limit

March 24, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The Liverpool Plains Shire Council will this week consider introducing 40 kilometre speed zones on Quirindi’s main streets.

The proposed zones on George and Station streets are intended to complement recent landscaping and traffic calming works by council.

The draft plans have already been on public display and feedback will be presented at tomorrow’s council meeting.

Works director Greg Tory says some transport companies are opposed to the plan, claiming it will make it harder to travel through town.

“I wouldn’t like to pre-empt anything. We did only receive five responses from the community over 28 day exhibition period and it will be a matter for council to determine the validity or merits of those submissions,” he said.

“We’re presenting a report on those to council on Wednesday night, giving council the opportunity to determine if they’d like to proceed.”

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Feedback sought on Karratha city plan

March 19, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A plan to develop Karratha into a major regional city of 50,000 people is now available for public comment.

The draft Karratha Revitalisation Plan includes a master blueprint to redevelop the town centre with cafes, restaurants and an entertainment precinct.

Lands Minister Brendon Grylls says the vision is for a modern and vibrant city, which will maintain its unique Pilbara character.

The Government says it aims to create more jobs in the region and encourage fly-in, fly-out workers to become permanent residents.

A copy of the draft plan can be seen on the Shire of Roebourne’s website or at the council chambers.

Public comments must be lodged by April 21.

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Golf club plans swing into action

March 12, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The Horsham Golf Club is hoping to restore its place as one of Victoria’s best regional golf courses, with plans for a new course.

The club hopes to redevelop the course, including a 557 metre 13th hole, in the next 10 to 15 years.

President Brian Thomas says several holes need to be moved because of the danger of wayward golf balls, after trees were burnt down during Black Saturday.

“There’s many things we can do in the short-term to start implementing that would be low cost, items such as revegetation … realigning fairways … building some tees at a low cost,” he said.

Members have two weeks to submit feedback on the plans.

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Cabinet approves signing, ratification of BIMST Convention

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sep 10(ANI): A Union Cabinet meeting on Thursday discussed topics, including the revamping of the National Rural Health Mission and approval for the signing and ratification of the BIMST (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand) Convention.

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said: “This convention will provide strong legal basis for cooperation among the law enforcement agencies of the BIMST member states. It will give a much needed thrust to the enforcement agencies of the BIMST member states which are Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand.”

The proposal will be signed during the forthcoming BIMST Ministerial Conference.

On the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Soni said: “The mission (National Rural Health Mission) now seeks to provide universal access to affordable and quality healthcare which is accountable and at the same time responsive to the needs of the people.”

She said the Government would launch an annual health survey in some states to provide feedback on the impact of schemes underthe NRHM on health indicators like Maternal Mortality Rates and Total Fertility Rates.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in collaboration with the Registrar General of India, Ministry of Home Affairs will be conducting the survey and would compute the statistics, she added. (ANI)

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Gecko’s tail has a mind of its own

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 9 (ANI): A new study has found that the gecko tail literally has a mind of its own, as it exhibits not only rhythmic but also complex movements, including flips, jumps and lunges, after it is shed.

Anthony Russell of the University of Calgary (U of C) and Tim Higham of Clemson University in South Carolina carried out the study.

Geckos and other lizards have long been known for their incredible ability to shed their tails as a decoy for predators, but little is known about the movements and what controls the tail once it separates from the lizard’s body.

Although one previous study has looked at movement of the tail after it is severed, no study up to this point has quantified movement patterns of the tail by examining the relationship between such patterns and muscular activity.

“What we’ve discovered is that the tail does not simply oscillate in a repetitive fashion, but has an intricate repertoire of varied and highly complex movements, including acrobatic flips up to three centimetres in height,” said Russell, a biological sciences professor at the U of C.

“An intriguing, and as yet unanswered, question is what is the source of the stimulus is that initiates complex movements in the shed tails of leopard geckos,” said Higham.

“The most plausible explanation is that the tail relies on sensory feedback from the environment. Sensors on its surface may tell it to jump, pivot or travel in a certain direction,” he added.

The ability of an animal, or part of an animal, to move without the active control of higher centres in the brain is well known, but this generally occurs as a result of traumatic physical injury.

Tails of lizards are shed under the animal’s own control.

Because of this, the behaviour of the shed part has adaptive evolutionary importance and its actions are programmed to assist in the owner’s survival.

The movements are coordinated by the part of the spinal cord that is housed in the tail.

The isolated tail serves as a vehicle for studying the ways that nerves and muscles act together to generate controlled but complex outputs in the absence of the influence of the brain.

The new study shows that the signals responsible for movements of the shed tail begin at the very far end of the tail, indicating that there is a control centre located there that is likely overridden by higher centres until the tail is shed, at which point its potential is realized. (ANI)

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Govt. to implement NREGA in a way to benefit drought-hit areas

August 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Aug 26 (ANI): To ensure effective implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, political parties across the board have agreed today to join hands with the government.

This will help in mitigating the impact of the drought in several parts of the country.

Talking to reporters in New Delhi after an all party meeting, Rural Development Minister Dr. C P Joshi said that there was a consensus on the issue and the programme will be implemented in such a way so that the drought hit areas are benefited.

He elaborated that works like digging of wells and other development works will be taken up in the draught hit areas.

Dr. Joshi noted that the focus of discussions remained the extension of benefits of this historical programme to target beneficiaries.

The meeting focused on the strategy to make NREGA more effective and transparent. Representatives of national parties participated in the meeting.

The Rural Development Minister has made it clear that the feedback and the suggestions from the political leaders will be taken into consideration to make implementation of the scheme more beneficial for the targeted sections.

The Ministry of Rural Development held an all-party meeting on NREGA today. Both the government and the national political parties were of the view that though NREGA has made a huge impact in the rural areas, there is still considerable scope for improvement in its implementation at different levels.

The representatives of the political parties lauded the Minister Of Rural Development for his initiative in political consultation.

Dr. Joshi assured that this would be a continuous process and requested the representatives to hold detailed discussions internally in their parties so that this dialogue becomes broad based.

The meeting is a part of the national dialogue initiated by the Ministry Of Rural Development to ensure the implementation of NREGA in a transparent, accountable and responsive manner so that he benefits reach out to the needy and the poor in the rural areas. (ANI)

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Your computers may soon be having ‘rich interaction’ with you as a partner

August 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, August 20 (ANI): A computer similar to the Hal 9000 system in the movie ’2010′, which claims enjoying working with human beings and having stimulating relationships with them, may soon be created, thanks to a new research project.

Oregon State University researchers are pioneering the concept of “rich interaction” that can pave the way for computers that do want to communicate with, learn from and get to know humans better as persons.

The idea behind this “meaningful” interaction is one of the latest advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, in which a computer doesn’t just try to learn from its own experiences, it listens to the user, tries to combine what it “hears” with its internal reasoning, and changes its program as a result.

When ordinary users spot the machine’s errors they should be able to step in, and explain directly to the machine the logic it should be using.

“There are limits to what the computer can do just by its own observations and efforts to learn from experiences. It needs to understand not just what it did right or wrong, but why. And for that, it has to continue interacting with human beings and make constant changes in its own programming, based on their feedback,” said Margaret Burnett, an associate professor of computer science at OSU.

According to the researchers, for a computer to be of optimal help to its user, it has to customize itself to the end user and get more personal.

“We all have fairly specific life experiences, personal preferences, ways of doing things, different types of jobs. For machine learning to reach its potential the computer and the user have to interact with each other in a fairly meaningful way, the computer really needs to get to know your situations and understand why it made a mistake, so that it can try not to make the same mistake again,” Burnett said.

The researchers say that a major part of this challenge is to create interactive systems that are easy enough to operate without one needing a computer programmer’s qualification, which they believe may be possible.

Another challenge before the researchers is to ensure that the learning in such systems happens to be a two-way street, as a stubborn human user may insist that the computer “learn” something that is incorrect.

Having recently received a 1million-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation for their research, the OSU researchers now believe that the era of humans as passive observers in the field of artificial intelligence may be coming to a close.

“In the future we believe the computer should be like your partner. You help teach it, it gets to know you, you learn from each other, and it becomes more useful,” Burnett said. (ANI)

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Evidence points towards methane seeping from Arctic sea bed

August 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, August 19 (ANI): A team of scientists has said that they have evidence that the powerful greenhouse gas methane is escaping from the Arctic sea bed.

According to a report by BBC News, researchers said this could be evidence of a predicted positive feedback effect of climate change.

As temperatures rise, the sea bed grows warmer and frozen water crystals in the sediment break down, allowing methane trapped inside them to escape.

The research team found that more than 250 plumes of methane bubbles are rising from the sea bed off Norway.

The joint British and German research team detected the bubbles using a type of sonar normally used to search for shoals of fish.

Once detected, the bubbles were sampled and tested for methane at a range of depths.

The team said that the methane was rising from an area of sea bed off West Spitsbergen, from depths between 150 and 400m.

The gas is normally trapped as “methane hydrate” in sediment under the ocean floor.

“Methane hydrate” is an ice-like substance composed of water and methane which is stable under conditions of high pressure and low temperature.

As temperatures rise, the hydrate breaks down. So, this new evidence shows that methane is stable at water depths greater than 400m off Spitsbergen.

However data collected over 30 years shows it was then stable at water depths as shallow as 360m.

Temperature records show that this area of the ocean has warmed by 1 degree Celsius during the same period.

According to the research team, this is the first time that this loss of stability associated with temperature rise has been observed during the current geological period.

Professor Tim Minshull of the National Oceanography Centre at Southampton told BBC News, “We already knew there was some methane hydrate in the ocean off Spitsbergen and that’s an area where climate change is happening rather faster than just about anywhere else in the world.” ethane gas rises from the sea bed in plumes of bubbles, with most of it dissolving before reaching the surface.

So far, scientists haven’t detected methane breaking the ocean surface, but they don’t rule out the possibility.

“There’s been an idea for a long time that if the oceans warm, methane might be released from hydrate beneath the sea floor and generate a positive greenhouse effect,” said Minshull. (ANI)

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