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Querrey leaves Fish floundering in Queen’s final

June 14, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

(Reuters) – Sam Querrey joined a prestigious group of American winners of the Queens’s Club grasscourt title on Sunday when he boomed down 15 aces to leave best buddy Mardy Fish floundering on center court.

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Querrey, the seventh seed, came through a hard-hitting contest 7-6 7-5 to claim his third title of a productive year and earmark him as a dark horse for the Wimbledon championships which start on June 21.

The towering 22-year-old seized his chance to win the title after the draw was shredded by a cull of all the top seeds including world number one Rafael Nadal, four-times champion Andy Roddick and last year’s winner Andy Murray.

As well as Roddick, the gigantic trophy which must be one of the largest in tennis, has also been lifted by Pete Sampras, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and Todd Martin.

All of those players, most notably Sampras, McEnroe and Connors, also enjoyed incredible highs at Wimbledon but whether or not Querrey can also make a big impact at the only grand slam played on grass is open to question.

But it has certainly not done his confidence any harm on a surface he admits once left him clueless.

“It’s an honor to win the trophy,” Querrey told reporters. “All the greatest players in the world are on this trophy. It’s nice to be added to that list with them.

“I’m definitely playing great on the grass, and now I’ve got a week to practice and re-group. Then I’m looking forward to Wimbledon next Monday.

ALL-AMERICAN FINAL

It was not quite the finale that had been expected but Querrey and Fish made sure the first all-American final here since 1994 was an interesting spectacle for the center court crowd.

Fish threatened an early break before the rhythm of the match settled down to a procession of big-serving and heavy baseline hitting. Neither man made many forays to the net.

Querrey dominated the first set tiebreak, winning it 7-3, but Fish did finally break serve in the fifth game of the second set when his opponent blazed a forehand long.

A deciding set looked on the cards before two shocking backhands by Fish when he served at 5-4 in the second set allowed Querrey to break back.

Fish wavered again at 5-6 to hand Querrey victory and his first title on grass.

“I just really wanted to focus on my service games the whole week, which I did a great job of,” Querrey, who plans to buy Fish a consolation dinner on Sunday, said. “I think I only lost serve maybe like three times this week.”

(Editing by Pritha Sarkar and Alison Wildey)

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Wipro Infotech forays into data centre, cloud computing space

May 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Bangalore: Wipro is all set to offer cloud computing services with Wipro Infotech announcing the launch of its Enterprise Data Centres on Tuesday.

The cloud computing services will offer IT infrastructure and specific business applications as a service. These services will cover the entire IT infrastructure, including compute, storage and backup, network and disaster recovery, in addition to applications that address specific business needs of customers. Wipro Infotech’s new initiative which complements the existing IT service offerings provides end-to-end data centre lifecycle management services to enterprise customers.

The first data centre at Mysore is completely sold out while the commissioning of the data centre in Greater Noida is currently underway and is likely to be launched soon. The third data centre at Pune

is being commissioned to accommodate more customers. Commenting on the launch, Anand Sankaran, senior vice-president and business head, India and Middle East, Wipro, said, “Wipro has been addressing the IT needs of customers for over two decades now. To complete our portfolio of offerings, we felt the need to offer best-in-class data centres, as well, which resulted in the launch of Wipro Enterprise Data Centre (WEDC). Enterprise customers today are seeking services beyond simple hosting and co-location, and this is a very strategic move by us and positions us uniquely to cater to the lifecycle needs of enterprises as a single face.”

These Tier III WEDCs provide a platform to offer complete Data Centre Lifecycle Management Service to customers.

IT infrastructure and applications that are deployed at WEDC will be managed from Wipro’s state-of-the-art Global Service Management Centre (GSMC) in Mysore. This service will enable enterprise customers maintain their strategic focus while improving their operational efficiencies.

Further, in keeping with its commitment to ecological sustainability, Wipro has deployed green technologies at each of these centres to help both customers and Wipro reap the benefits of energy efficiency and savings.

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Neanderthals were intelligent and fearless Hunters, not dimwits

May 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 15 (ANI): A new analysis has indicated that Neanderthals, which are generally considered as the ‘stupid’ cousins of modern humans, were sophisticated, intelligent, and fearless hunters, capable of capturing the most impressive animals.

Although it is now clear that Neanderthals were hunters and not scavengers, their exact hunting methods are still something of a mystery.

Dutch researcher Gerrit Dusseldorp investigated just how sophisticated the Neanderthals’ hunting methods really were.

He analyzed their daily forays for food to gain insights into their complex behavior.

His analysis of two archaeological sites revealed that Neanderthals in warm forested areas preferred to hunt solitary game but that in colder, less forested areas they preferred to hunt the more difficult to capture herding animals.

The Neanderthals were not easily intimated by their game. Rhinoceroses, bisons and even predators such as the brown bear were all on their menu.

Dusseldorp established that just as for modern humans, the environment and the availability of food determined the choice of prey and the hunting method adopted.

If the circumstances allowed it, Neanderthals lived in large groups and even the most attractive and difficult to catch prey were within their reach.

Although herding animals are difficult to surprise and isolate, many such game lived on the open steppes.

This large supply attracted large groups of Neanderthals.

That the Neanderthals were capable of hunting down such elusive game demonstrates that they had good coordination skills and could communicate well with each other.

Each prey has a specific cost-benefit scenario.

For example, game that are more difficult to catch yield more calories and have a more usable, thick fleece.

Dusseldorp used these data to examine the Neanderthal’s preferences. He also analyzed the prey of hyenas in the same manner.

Hyenas were important competitors of Neanderthals as they had a similar dietary pattern.

Dusseldorp demonstrated that Neanderthals, thanks to their intelligence, even surpassed hyenas at capturing the strongest game.

All things being considered, the Neanderthals were skilled and highly intelligent hunters. So, the idea that Neanderthals were brute musclemen can be dismissed. (ANI)

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Famed ‘Love Guru’ of Patna heralds his election manifesto

April 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Patna, Apr 10 (ANI): Matuk Nath Chaudhary, a Hindi lecturer of Patna University in Bihar, reportedly under suspension, deviated from his romantic pursuits to float a forum of his favourite choice named ‘Prem Party’.

Thus Chaudhary and his admirers have resolved to make forays into the arena of politics by contesting in the electoral battle to the Lok Sabha.

And aptly, Chaudhary who carved out an unerasable name for himself as ‘Love Guru’ for his romantic episodes with Julie one of his students two years ago released the party’s election manifesto.

Incidentally, Prem Party’s nominee will contest the parliamentary elections from Patna Saheb constituency, but as an independent candidate.

“Today in political parties, if one doesn’t move ahead then he either quits the party or indulges in criminal acts to fulfill his wishes. Such kinds of selfishness, corruption and hatred are present in today’s politics. I am against such politics and hence I have launched this ‘Prem Party’ in cause of the society and live upto the expectations,” said Chaudhary.

Though Chaudhary has formed ‘Prem Party’, which is yet to be recognized by the Election Commission of India, he will contest Lok Sabha elections independently.

His manifesto also pledges new ‘love parks’ where couples can woo and coo alongwith one’s heartthrob under the tree shade.

Chaudhary is hopeful that he would attract the maximum number votes of youngsters with the belief he has a sea of admirers, particularly among the younger generation and other romantically inclined persons.

“The main thing is for one to progress but the youth is going astray on the issues of love. Parties focussing on development are good but not the ones which play politics on the issue of love which the youth needs to understand,” said Rupesh Kumar, a student and an activist of Prem Party.

Chaudhary will have to fight the polls against certain bigwigs from the tinsel world like Shatrughan Sinha representing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shekhar Suman, who is contesting as a candidate of Congress party from the Patna Saheb constituency.

With a wink and twinkle in his eyes, Chaudhary will have to convince his voters that he is in no way immoral since his opponents are from Bollywood equally famous for ‘casting couch’ episodes as good or worse as his affairs with Julie. y Ajay Kumar (ANI)

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There are no born leaders or followers when it comes to fish

January 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Jan 30 (ANI): The words ‘born leader’ have no place in the marine world, for a new study has found that if a shy fish is paired with a very bold individual, the latter ‘inspires’ the former into becoming a very faithful follower.

According to the research of stickleback fish, followers bring out the best in their leaders, and leaders elicit better following skills in their minions.

The study has been published online in the Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.

By randomly pairing fish of varying degrees of “boldness,” the researchers showed that each member of a pair adopts the role of leader or follower. More importantly, they found, the behavior of each member of the pair is strongly influenced by its partner.

” Our study shows that the process by which leaders and followers emerge is a dynamic one,” said Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge.

“Individuals aren’t simply born leaders or followers, but their role in a pair-and, we could speculate, in a larger group-is the result of social feedback where everyone plays a role,” the expert added.

In many animal groups, certain individuals consistently appear at the forefront of coordinated movements, the researchers explained. But exactly how those leaders are chosen has been poorly understood.

In the new study, the researchers studied the behaviors of individual stickleback fish to establish their willingness to leave the cover of some weeds to enter “riskier” waters in search of food, an indication of how bold or shy they tend to be.

Those fish were then randomly paired with one another to see which of the two would emerge as the natural leader.

When paired, both the bolder and the shyer of the two fish made more food-gathering trips together and stayed out for longer periods of time. Most of the time, those forays were initiated by whichever of the two fish had independently been shown to behave more boldly.

The findings show that leadership arises from individual differences in the way that fish respond to their partner’s movements, they report, a phenomenon they refer to as social feedback.

“If a shy individual is paired with a very bold individual, the latter ‘inspires’ the former into becoming a very faithful follower,” Manica said.

“Conversely, a very shy individual seems to bring out the leadership of the bolder companion, which becomes a much stronger leader than if it was paired with a less shy companion,” the expert added. (ANI)

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