The third possibility counseling
Recruitment of teachers in primary schools 72 825 trainees completed the second phase of counseling on Tuesday. According to experts, the majority of general category seats in districts with the highest positions are filled. Tet low scores on the hands of those who decide to embark desolation is being considered.
State Council of Educational Research and Training after the second counseling of Dayton is preparing to seek details of vacancies. The third stage will then consider counseling program.
Recruitment of trainee teachers has been launched on the orders of the Supreme Court. 72 825 have applied for positions closer to 69 million. The first merit of having more women in a bid to reduce the general art class art class 119 and 127 men had normal.
The first phase of counseling of the candidates were called by name. It arrived only seven per cent. The other candidates throwing so called merit in counseling.
Learn how many posts where?
In the second stage, the least merit of women's art in general category and male art 107 Kushinagar Sitapur and Lakhimpur general category was 117. At this stage, candidates were called 10 times. In districts with the highest rank being executed so much counseling.
According to experts, in more general terms districts and most of the reserved category seats are filled. More merit in the third stage hopefuls low point of falling into the hands of those who might despair.
Districts with the highest rank
1200-1200 Pilibhit and Chandauli, Sonbhadra 1250, Bareilly, Sultanpur 1400-1400, Allahabad, Jaunpur 1500-1500, Badaun 1600, Mirzapur 1650, 1700 Balrampur, Siddharth 2000, Gazipur 2400, Maharajganj, Azamgarh 2500-2500, 2800 Shahjahanpur, Hardoi 3000, Kushinagar, 3600-3600 Bahraich, Gonda and Lakhimpur to Sitapur in 4000 and 6000-6000 terms.
After verification of certificates of appointment
However, according to Secretary of Basic Education HL Gupta, recruitment of trainee teachers in primary schools after the completion of the counseling process to tet after verification of certificates will be issued appointment letter.
Basic education secretary said that people who wish to get the job fraud will be caught easily. The application for recruitment came to 69 million. So many applicants had to apply from 35 to 40 districts.
To enroll in two stages so far have been counseled, after which applicants may be asked to wait for now is going to end.
Counselling for recruitment occurred twice. However, they panicked released on the second merit. The teacher recruitment advertisement for the recruitment process in November 2011 but were released after posting constantly delayed due to decide on getting counseling is being considered now.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
72 825 Teacher Recruitment: Desperate to be the low point
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Paving the way 7000 Lekhpal recruitment
20 November will interview
Accountant Recruitment Rules amend the State Cabinet interviews of 20 numbers have increased from 10 numbers. With the close of the 7000 vacant posts of accountants cleared the way.
Accountant currently ranked 90th in the state for recruitment written test and interview for the provision of number 10. Over the past year the Department of Revenue to increase the number of interviews was raised in the proceedings.
The state cabinet on Tuesday 80 numbers written test and interview of 20 numbers has ratified the proposal. According to the decision, now common in multiple-choice written test, Hindi, Mathematics, General Knowledge and 20-20 numbers associated with the development of rural society and Questions.
20 numbers will be interviewed. The first question related to mathematics came to number 30. 20 numbers have been reduced and it has been added in the interview.
He does not necessarily allow
Manual proposal to amend the state budget is approved by the Cabinet.
According to the Cabinet decision is a project cost of Rs five crore, then head of the department will prepare project estimates. The approval of the competent authority will then issue financial sanction. Neither the prior approval of the finance minister nor the chief minister.On projects of over Rs 15 crore to the approval of the chief financial sanctions may be issued.
Congress mired in praise and criticism of Modi
Unturned passion pursued in Congress
Congress Lok Sabha election campaign strategy perverted elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and despite a head direction is not to be taken. Prime Minister Narendra Modi strategy of BJP and Congress leaders hit out at different scales, and is lost to the disputed statements.
Congress broke with two notes of a chord is proven unturned.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mega show in the United States Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the Prime Minister visited the United States is a good sign. He made the tour so things can actually be better for the country. He added, "I fully agree with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Nestling on terror is wrong. There can be no compromise on terror. "Modi's U.S. tour has also praised Congress leader Shashi Tharoor.
Many Congress leaders uncomfortable praising Modi
Actually it is natural that the diplomatic and international relations of Pakistan Congress is adopting a positive attitude towards the Modi government. But the way the Congress leader praises Modi are tied to the bridge, many leaders in Congress are uncomfortable with him.
Interestingly, Singhvi's statement that the Congress media department chairman and party secretary general Ajay Maken tweeted information through Modi's entourage. Maken said that Modi attacks in the United States is being raised too much.
Maken alleged that Modi CEOs were too much on the table. All companies are already investing in India. There was not any new company.
Indo-US relationship to new heights
Conversation on important issues
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday in their first summit meeting of the two countries' relations to a new height committed to carry on. The two leaders, economic, defense, trade, investment and dialogue on issues of terrorism.
Referring to both share concerns about terrorism and civil nuclear deal and agreed to eliminate the bottlenecks.
On the issue of food security, he once again made clear India's stance in the WTO. He said India Trade Facilitation Agreement supports but also to understand India's concerns on the global business stage.
'Tue occurred on the Earth summit'
Modi said at a joint press conference a few days before the US-India Summit was held on Tue summit is now available on earth. The Prime Minister said the two countries discussed their innate economic priorities. He invited American investors, saying that India's policy and process changes, which do business here and will be easy. India's rapid economic development. There will be no shortage of opportunities.
Therefore be beneficial to invest in India. The two countries agreed to enhance defense cooperation and ten years ahead.
At Obama during their conversation Modi American manufacturing companies invited to invest in the Indian defense industry. In the Asia-Pacific region between the two leaders touched upon the issue of peace.
Tumble on the challenges of terrorism
Defense and trade issues between the two leaders WTO, climate change, global terrorism and Afghanistan were also discussed on the issue. Both countries expressed their intention to continue to help Afghanistan and more to the point-of Coordination.
In South and West Asia between Modi and Obama also discussed the challenges of terrorism. The two countries also intend to strengthen cooperation on counter-terrorism expressed Intelligence. Modi said India WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement supports and favors. But other countries of the world have to understand India's concerns relating to food safety.
Highest salary increase in India
Economy back on track to return to India in 2015, the wages between signals is expected to grow 10.8 percent. Although the average salary of employees in the Asia Pacific region may be seven per cent.
Towers Watson has said in a report. Towers Watson Asia-Pacific Salary Budget Planning 2014-15, according to the report, 11 per cent of the total increment with Pakistan, Bangladesh and Vietnam will lead to the Morc, while India is fourth with 10.8 per cent increment.
The report states that wages will grow in the area, but equal to the rise in inflation would mean that the wage increase will be less in the coming year. Towers Watson Data Services Practice Leader, Asia Pacific Rakyan possible that the low unemployment rate and GDP growth in the region due to economic growth in Asia Pacific in 2015 we are projected to grow.
How much salary which thrive in the area?
This will further increase the pressure Rakyan inflation and real wage growth will be affected. Because in Indian real wage growth would be only one-third of the total increase in their salaries.
Production Workers from India to the Executive Director salaries of all employees will increase more than in the previous year. Sector-based analysis shows that the entire region, including India, Sector Pharmaceutical sector will be the highest increment.
Pharmaceutical sector in Vietnam in increments of 12 per cent to 11.5 per cent in India and 8.9 per cent in China. India's financial sector wage growth in 2015 is expected to be up 10 per cent in 2015.
It will be the same as last year in the high-tech sector wage increase in 2015, 10.5 per cent more than in the previous year can be. The survey covers more than 300 companies of various sectors of the industry.
The rob-octopus
When an octopus needs to make a quick escape, it propels itself through the water at speeds of up to 25mph (40km/h).Inspired by these super fast, underwater movements, researchers from Greece have developed a robotic version of the tentacled creature.
Complete with webbed arms and a streamlined head, the robotic octopus travels at half its 14-inch (360mm) body length every second.
The robotic octopus was developed by the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas in Greece. Early experiments used thin, silicon arms to propel the robot through water, but the team has since added ‘webs’ (pictured) to increase speed. It now travels at half its 14-inch (360mm) body length per secondIt was developed by the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (Forth) in Greece.
Early experiments used thinner, silicon arms to propel the robot through water, but the team has since added ‘webs’ between these arms to increase speed.
The eight-armed robot was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.The research was led by Dimitris Tsakiris was a finalist for two different best paper awards at the conference in Chicago earlier this month.
According to the team’s tests, the robotic octopus swims at just over 3.9 inches (10cm) per second when fitted with silicon arms only.
However, adding webs between these arms increases the speed to 7 inches (18cm) – or half its body length - per second.In addition, the robot’s efficiency - the ratio of the energy exerted compared to the resulting speed – is improved with the webs.
A video of the robot reveals these speed differences, and shows the robot octopus crawling through the water in a tank.
It also shows the robotic octopus carrying a ball, swimming in the sea, and being followed by small fish.As a result, the researchers claim the robot could be used to monitor fish numbers and underwater environment, in a more discreet way.
‘The eight-arm robot is inspired by the morphology and outstanding locomotor capabilities of the octopus,’ explained the researchers in their paper.‘Underwater experiments demonstrate a novel mode of underwater propulsion by combining various patterns of sculling movements of the arms and web, and the efficiency of the swimmer, especially with the addition of the web, in terms of the attained velocities, the generated propulsive forces and the cost of transport.’
The paper is named 'Multi-arm Robotic Swimming With Octopus-Inspired Compliant Web'.
Saturday, September 27, 2014
One of the reasons black holes are so bizarre is that they pit two fundamental theories of the universe against each other. Namely, Einstein’s theory of gravity predicts the formation of black holes. But a fundamental law of quantum theory states that no information from the universe can ever disappear. Efforts to combine these two theories proved problematic, and has become known as the black hole information paradox - how can matter permanently disappear in a black hole as predicted? Professor Mersini-Houghton’s new theory does manage to mathematically combine the two fundamental theories, but with unwanted effects for people expecting black holes to exist. ‘Physicists have been trying to merge these two theories - Einstein’s theory of gravity and quantum mechanics - for decades, but this scenario brings these two theories together, into harmony,’ said Professor Mersini-Houghton. ‘And that’s a big deal.’
When a huge star many times the mass of the sun comes to the end of its life it collapses in on itself and forms a singularity - creating a black hole where gravity is so strong that not even light itself can escape.At least, that’s what we thought.
A scientist has sensationally said that it is impossible for black holes to exist - and she even has mathematical proof to back up her claims.If true, her research could force physicists to scrap their theories of how the universe began.
The research was conducted by Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the College of Arts and Scientists.She claims that as a star dies, it releases a type of radiation known as Hawking radiation - predicted by Professor Stephen Hawking.
However in this process, Professor Mersini-Houghton believes the star also sheds mass, so much so that it no longer has the density to become a black hole.Before the black hole can form, she said, the dying star swells and explodes.
The singularity as predicted never forms, and neither does the event horizon - the boundary of the black hole where not even light can escape.‘I’m still not over the shock,’ said Professor Mersini-Houghton.
‘We’ve been studying this problem for a more than 50 years and this solution gives us a lot to think about.’Experimental evidence may one day provide physical proof as to whether or not black holes exist in the universe. But for now, Mersini-Houghton says the mathematics are conclusive.
What’s more, the research could apparently even call into question the veracity of the Big Bang theory.
Most physicists think the universe originated from a singularity that began expanding with the Big Bang about 13.8 billion years ago.If it is impossible for singularities to exist, however, as partially predicted by Professor Mersini-Houghton, then that theory would also be brought into question.
One of the reasons black holes are so bizarre is that they pit two fundamental theories of the universe against each other.
Namely, Einstein’s theory of gravity predicts the formation of black holes. But a fundamental law of quantum theory states that no information from the universe can ever disappear.
Efforts to combine these two theories proved problematic, and has become known as the black hole information paradox - how can matter permanently disappear in a black hole as predicted?
Professor Mersini-Houghton’s new theory does manage to mathematically combine the two fundamental theories, but with unwanted effects for people expecting black holes to exist.
‘Physicists have been trying to merge these two theories - Einstein’s theory of gravity and quantum mechanics - for decades, but this scenario brings these two theories together, into harmony,’ said Professor Mersini-Houghton.‘And that’s a big deal.’
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Cara Delevingne develops 'deep friendship' with her new wifey Nicki Minaj
She already counts a host of sexy stars as her close friends.
And now it seems Cara Delevingne can count raunchy rapper, Nicki Minaj, as her new ‘wifey’ after the pair have struck up a close bond.
The starlets enjoyed time together backstage at Jay Z and Beyonce’s On The Run tour gig in Paris, where Nicki made a surprise appearance to perform the Flawless remix alongside Bey.
The pair soon shared snaps of themselves hanging out together on Instagram which saw the Anaconda hitmaker pursing her nude lips as Cara stood behind her while laughing in the moment.
It has been revealed that the pair have been keeping in contact ever since as a source told The Sun’s Tom Thorogood: ‘Cara has developed a new and deep friendship with Nicki.
‘The pair have been talking almost every night since they met in Paris. Nicki has been giving her advice on everything from music to relationships.
The source added: ‘Cara has played Nicki music that she’s been working on to get feedback.’
The model has previously admitted that she ’plays for more than one team’ and recently enjoyed an on-off relationship with Fast and Furious actress, Michelle Rodirguez.
Cara is also close to pop star Rihanna, is constantly pictured with her pals Joudran Dunn, Suki Waterhouse and Selena Gomez as well as previously being joined to the hip with her ‘wifey’ Rita Ora.
Nicki, 31, has been linked to her fellow Young Money Cash Money label mates Lil Wayne and Drake but is thought to be in a relationship with her her friend and Pink Firday Productions CEO Safaree Samuels.
The 31-year-old rapper is currently in New York where she met up none other than pop icon Madonna.
My trip to New York isn't the same unless I bump into the Queen. #BitchItsMadonna,' she said with an Instagram snap of the two.
In the image, Nicki is sporting a Chanel trucker hat, as Madonna is clad in a brimmed grey hat and furry outerwear.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Architects hope to build £790,000 multi-storey habitats above and below water in cities
With green spaces being replaced by building sites and large-scale developments around the world, architects are constantly looking for ways to replace them.
One such concept, devised by a team Dutch-based architects, uses towering structures built with layers of green space in which flora and fauna could live.Called the Sea Tree, the structures would have space for birds and animals to live above ground, and would be bedded under the sea for fish and coral to inhabit.
‘Urbanisation and climate change put a lot of pressure on available space for nature in city centres,’ explained Waterstudio.‘New initiatives for adding extra park zones to a city are rare.
'Yet these kind of additional habitats for birds, bees, bats and other small animals could bring a lot of positive green effects to the environment of a city.’
The structures would not accessible by man, and would be built using offshore technology and resources, similar to how oil storage towers are built and powered out at sea.
The idea is that large oil companies would donate a Sea Tree, and the trees could be built on rivers, seas, lakes and harbours.
The height and depth of the Sea Tree could also be adjusted depending on where it was placed.
To hold it in place, Waterstudio claims Sea Trees would be moored to the sea bed with a cable system.
Under the water, the Sea Tree would provide a habitat for small water creatures or, if the climate allowed for it, artificial coral reefs.As well as providing a home for nature, the green structures could help reduce CO2 emissions produced by cities and towns.
‘The beauty of the design is that it provides a solution, and at the same time does not cost expensive space on land.‘While the effect of the species living in the Sea Tree will affect a zone of several miles around the moored location.‘For as we know, this floating tower will be the first floating object 100 per cent built and designed for flora and fauna.’
The firm said inspiration came from a project in Holland where ecologists asked them to provide habitats for animals which couldn’t be disturbed by people.The cost for the Sea Tree design is estimated at €1 million (£786,100), and this would depend on water depth, mooring facilities and transport from construction site to the chosen city.
Further cost differences would depend on the preferred flora and fauna.
Waterstudio said it is in the process of finalising the location of the trees, and discussing costs with oil companies. Once these are complete, they will start construction.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Did gravity set Earth's plates in motion?
The Earth's outermost shell is constantly moving, dragging continents apart and pushing them together.But exactly what caused this colossal movement three billion years ago has been a mystery.
Now, researchers in Australia believe they have the answer: the motion, they claim, started because of gravity.
This animation shows an early buoyant continent slowly spreading toward the still plate (blue). After 45 million years, a short-lived area develops, where the plate goes under. This allows the continent to surge toward the ocean, leading to the detachment of a continental block and triggering modern-day plate tectonics
Scientists at Sydney University suggest that whole continents flattened out under their own weight, and this eventually became a self-sustaining process.
The team has created computer models to explain how layered rocks can appear on a young, hot Earth, even without modern plate tectonics.
There are eight major tectonic plates that move above the Earth's mantle at rates up to 150 millimetres every year.
The process involves plates being dragged into the mantle at certain points and moving away from each other at others, in what has been dubbed 'the conveyor belt'.
When plates smash together, they make mountains, and when they spread apart, molten rock comes to the surface and makes new crust.
The movement depends on the relationship between density of rocks and temperature.
For instance, at mid-oceanic ridges, rocks are hot and their density is low, making them buoyant or more able to float.
As they move away from those ridges they cool down and their density increases until, where they become denser than the underlying hot mantle, they sink and are 'dragged' under.
But three to four billion years ago, the Earth's interior was hotter, volcanic activity was more prominent and tectonic plates did not become cold and dense enough to spontaneously sink.
'So the driving engine for plate tectonics didn't exist,' explained Associate Professor Patrice Rey, from the University of Sydney's School of Geosciences.
'Instead, thick and buoyant early continents erupted in the middle of immobile plates.'Our modelling shows that these early continents could have placed major stress on the surrounding plates.
'Because they were buoyant they spread horizontally, forcing adjacent plates to be pushed under at their edges.'
'This spreading of the early continents could have produced intermittent episodes of plate tectonics until, as the Earth's interior cooled and its crust and plate mantle became heavier.
'Plate tectonics became a self-sustaining process which has never ceased and has shaped the face of our modern planet.'
Shimmering green aurora, a total eclipse and an exploding star
From clouds dancing across the Milky Way to a stunning solar eclipse over Kenya, the annual competition showcasing the mysterious depths of our universe has revealed some incredible images.
West Midlands-based photographer James Woodend beat over a thousand amateur and professional photographers from around the world to win the title of Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014.
As well as securing the £1,500 ($2,440) top prize, his image takes pride of place in the exhibition of winning photographs opening today at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
The judges were mesmerised by Woodend's shot portraying a vivid green aurora dancing across the Icelandic night sky and reflected symmetrically in the glacial Jökulsarlon lagoon of Vatnajökull National Park.
Competition judge and Royal Observatory Public Astronomer, Dr Marek Kukula said: 'I love the combination of whites and blue in the glacier with the chilly green of the aurora in this wonderfully icy picture.
'We've had some amazing aurora pictures in the competition over the last six years, but this is the first time a photo of the Northern Lights has actually won the Astronomy Photographer of the Year prize.
'We were all completely in awe of the colours and symmetry of James' shot.'
Highly commended images in the other categories and special prizes include a breathtaking view of the Earth taken from the brink of space, with the help of a high altitude balloon launched from Boulder, Colorado by Patrick Cullis.
Another image shows the snaking swirls of super-heated gas on the boiling surface of the sun captured by Alexandra Hart.
Judges were also impressive by a figure silhouetted against the backdrop of a Kenyan savannah skyline and a rarely seen hybrid solar eclipse, taken by Eugen Kamenew from Germany.
A stark yet opulent portrayal of the rock formations of the Wairarapa district in New Zealand, contrasting with the dusty clouds dancing across the Milky Way photographed by Chris Murphy won Sir Patrick Moore prize for Best Newcomer.
The entrants in the Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year category impressed the judges again this year, with 15 year old twins Shishir and Shashank Dholakia from the US being crowned winners.
Their image showed the Horsehead Nebula standing out against the red glow of the background emission nebula, 1500 light-years from Earth.
'This year two things stood out for me while judging: the record-breaking number of 2,500 entries from a truly global community of astrophotographers, and the staggering quality of the images,' said BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Editor Chris Bramley, who is a judge for the competition, said of this year's contest.
'It was regularly hard to believe that many were taken from the surface of the Earth and not a space telescope orbiting our planet.'
Astronomy Photographer of the Year is run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich and BBC Sky at Night Magazine. Now in its sixth year, the competition received a record number of over 2500 entries from 51 countries.
The best of these exceptional photographs are showcased in a free exhibition in the Royal Observatory's Astronomy Centre which is open to the public from 18 September 2014 until 22 February 2015.
Fancy a holiday on the International Space Station?
Boeing's proposal to develop a so-called space taxi for NASA astronauts includes a seat for paying tourists to fly to the International Space Station, it has been revealed.
The $4.2 billion, five-year contract allows Boeing to sell rides to tourists, Boeing Commercial Crew Program Manager John Mulholland told Reuters, although a price has not yet been set,
Although the exact price has not been set, Boeing said that the price would be competitive with what the Russian space agency now charges to fly tourists to the orbital outpost - around $50m.
'Part of our proposal into NASA would be flying a Space Adventures spaceflight participant up to the ISS,' Mulholland said, referring to a Virginia-based space tourism company that brokers travel aboard Russian Soyuz capsules.
Now that Boeing has won a share of NASA's space taxi contract, 'we hope ... to start working with the ISS program to make it happen,' he said. 'We think it would be important to help spur this industry.'
Space Adventures is scheduled in January to begin training British singer Sarah Brightman for a 10-day visit to the station, a trip costing $52 million, according to Tom Shelley, president of Space Adventures.
Brightman is slated to become the eighth paying passenger to travel to the station, a $100 billion research complex that flies about 260 miles (418 km) above Earth.Boeing's first test launch of the taxi is not expected until 2017.
But Boeing faces competition from rival Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, which also won a NASA contract and says it can develop the taxi for nearly 40 percent less than Boeing.
SpaceX already plans to offer trips to tourists, but did not immediately respond to questions about whether it would fly tourists on its NASA missions.
The NASA contracts awarded on Tuesday to Boeing and SpaceX cover design, building, testing their spaceship and up to six missions to fly astronauts to the station, a pace of roughly two per year.
California-based SpaceX, owned and operated by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, says it can create and fly the taxi for $2.6 billion, compared to Boeing's $4.2 billion bid.'I think it's a vital next step in SpaceX's progress,' Musk said in an interview on FOX Business Network.
The taxi project appears to be well within Boeing's core space capabilities, which suggests it will not have trouble meeting its cost and schedule targets, analysts said. Separately, Boeing and Lockheed announced on Wednesday that United Launch Alliance would invest heavily in a new rocket engine being developed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and his private company space company Blue Origin.
The agreement is aimed at freeing the United States from its dependency on Russian-made engines for rockets for launches and is expected to have little effect on the space taxi.
Meanwhile, SpaceX has been aggressively exploiting the price advantage of its American-made rocket to try to break ULA's monopoly on launching the U.S. military's satellites. A lawsuit contesting the Air Force's last contract with ULA is pending in a U.S. court.
The company also has been successfully wooing commercial satellite launches, a business estimated to be worth $2.4 billion a year, a 2014 Satellite Industry Association study shows.
So far, the company's Falcon 9 rockets have flown 12 times, all successfully. ULA's Atlas 5, which is mostly used by the U.S. military, made its 49th successful flight late on Tuesday.
Humans could live in 'space cities'
Humans are now spread across all corners of the globe, but what’s the next step?
According to Dr Al Globus, a Nasa contractor and space settlement expert, he says the next logical move is to colonise Earth orbit.
And, he says barring any major national disasters, we could soon have huge habitats floating around the planet by the end of the century.
Dr Globus is a contract scientist at Nasa Ames research centre and over the years has worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, the ISS, the Space Shuttle and much more.
But a few decades ago his interest was piqued by the possibility of space settlements, leading to him setting up Nasa's annual Space Settlement Contest, which challenges students to come up with designs for space colonies.
Now he’s a major proponent for living in space, and believes that it won’t be long before people are visiting cities in Earth orbit as readily as they travel from London to New York.
‘Whether [space settlements] will happen or not is really hard to say. Whether it can happen, absolutely,’ Dr Globus tells .
‘If we as a people decide to do it, we can do it. We have the scientific capability, financial capability, there is simply no question we can do it.
‘If no major disaster strikes in the next few centuries, I would be astounded if we didn’t do it.’
He explains how our technological know-how it only going to increase barring an enormous catastrophe like a nuclear war.‘We could have the first space settlement in decades, certainly less than a century.
Dr Globus is a proponent of orbiting colonies, while he adds that others like SpaceX CEO Elon Musk are envisaging a future where humans live on Mars.
As to the actual purpose of a space settlement Dr Globus says it could be just like a town or city on Earth while also providing a way for humans to expand and survive off Earth.
It would be ‘a place to live, raise your kids, where your friends and family have Thanksgiving dinner and celebrate Christmas, and visit Earth on vacation,’ explains Dr Globus.‘It’s the same purpose as any town or settlement or city has.
‘The way species get endangered and wiped out is by being dependent on a limited environment.
‘Humanity started in East Africa and now live on literally every continent - even Antarctica - albeit for a small time.
‘We live in snow, jungle, deserts, savannahas, forests; we have spread out about as far as we can spread out, and the next step is to move to space.’
But what would that first space settlement look like? Many designs rely upon a central cylinder around which is a rotating habitat.
In the rotating section the force of rotation provides artificial gravity for the inhabitants, letting the move around like they would on Earth.‘That means your children will grow up with strong muscles,’ explains Dr Globus, so even if they spend a prolonged time in space they could still travel to Earth and cope with its gravity. At the centre of the structure though there would be zero-gravity, as there would be no rotation here.
This, explains Dr Globus, could be used for recreation or even to film movies.
Elsewhere on the station would be agriculture, while the outer hull would need to be partially covered in solar cells. ‘If you have to ask [how much it would cost], you can’t afford it,’ he jokes.
He adds: ‘There is one circumstance we could easily afford it, and that’s if the people of Earth decided to stop killing each other and spend all that time and money on space settlements.’
However starting to build a space settlement now is not a good idea, he says, as technology and infrastructure are not yet sufficient.
He says we need to progress through several hoops before settling in space can become a viable option.
One of these is space tourism. Several private companies such as Boeing and SpaceX are busy building manned spacecraft, while others like Bigelow Aerospace are planning to build ‘space hotels’ in orbit.
These orbiting habitats, while much smaller than the large space settlements envisaged by Dr Globus, would allow people to pay for trips to space.
Dr Globus even says these could be used to raise money by hosting what he calls a ‘Space Olympics’ in orbit.
.By sending the world’s top athletes to space and having the compete, people would tune in to watch them compete in a variety of micro-gravity sports.‘You could get Usain Bolt, a soccer star, a basketball star and so on,’ he says.
‘It would be a level playing field because no one knows how to do sports in microgravity. So that would totally be entertaining.’
The timeline for all this is of course up for debate, but Dr Globus is confident it will happen sooner or later.
‘In two or three decades we might have a couple of small hotels [in orbit], and people moving in on a regular basis,’ he says.
‘Then at some point somebody will notice if you are old and infirm you might like to live on a space hotel, because you wouldn’t be subjected to a 1G hotel and you wouldn’t need a walker or wheelchair.‘I can foresee someone building a retirement home in low gravity; after a couple of years you won’t be able to come back, but if you’re facing 15 years of sitting in a wheelchair you might not want to do that anyway.‘And once that step is done, people living in space permanently, then it’s not a big step to build a space settlement in orbit.
‘All that is on a time scale measured in decades, or in the worst case centuries.’
And living in space doesn’t need to stop there. Once a large, floating colony has been built, Dr Globus explains that other locations in the solar system can be explored.
Perhaps, using asteroids for additional material, a space settlement could be placed around the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos.
‘I can imagine within a few centuries that the first settlement will be co-orbiting an asteroid,’ says Dr Globus.‘To really settle the solar system will take millennia, maybe longer.’And once that goal has achieved, Dr Globus says there is not much to stop us expanding into the rest of galaxy.
‘Imagine you have been living on orbital space settlements for 10,000 years,’ he says.‘In your settlement there might be 100,000 people or even millions.‘If people decided to go to Alpha Centauri, even thought it may take a century to get there, it doesn’t matter, because you’ve been living in this settlement for thousands of years anyway.
‘In terms of living situations, does it really matter if you circle Earth or Alpha Centauri? Not really.’
Terrified of spiders?
Spiders can be scary enough when they’re visible, but a new species spotted in Mexico is able to hide itself by creating its own camouflage.
The guerilla spider has been named Paratropis tuxtlesis and is capable of perfectly covering its body with dust and soil collected from wherever it happens to be hiding.
The thin coating means the spider blends in with its surroundings, keeping it safe from predators, as well as making it easier to pounce on unsuspecting prey.
Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) hailed the discovery of the spider that's capable of vanishing from view as 'a sensation'.
They said the arachnid was a member of the Paratropididae family, of which nine species are now known to exist in South America and Central America.
The camouflaging spider was discovered in the natural protected area of Los Tuxtlas, in the south-eastern Mexican state of Veracruz.
It is distinguished from other species because it has rough skin, like scales, that are used by the animal to attract floor particles which in turn give it perfect camouflage,’ said the university.
‘In order to make sure its vision is not obstructed by its camouflage of dirt, the spider has eyes that are raised up higher than usual so that it can see over the covering.’
The university said they first identified immature spiders of the new type in 2010, and then found adults, which are typically around four inches long, a year later.
But, the discovery has only just been published in medical journal ZooKeys.
Professor Oscar Federico Francke, who led the university's research team, said the name Paratropis tuxtlensis came from the geographical location where the spiders were discovered.
‘If you do not look carefully, you can lift a stone up and look and not see that the spider is there,’ continued Professor Francke.
‘In fact you can often only see them when they move which may well be why they escaped notice so long.’
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Breast feeding in public 'still frowned upon'
Mothers are made to feel 'marginalised and ashamed' when they breastfeed in public, according to an international study.
Researchers also found that many new mothers are put off breastfeeding by negative comments from health workers.
Mothers reported being stared at or tutted at and felt as if they were seen as 'hippies' or 'weirdos'. Others said they wanted to breastfeed after 12 months but feared public disapproval.
Negative emotions are also common for new mothers trying to breastfeed in hospital soon after giving birth due to staff actions and comments, the study found.
Other findings included:
* mothers fear if they breastfeed in public they may be seen as 'hippies, weirdoes or naturalists' while others reported being stared at, frowned at and tutted at
* new mothers in hospital wanting help with feeding were asked to 'stop buzzing' and some were told their baby was 'too lazy' or 'too eager'
* others felt distressed by midwives objectifying and handling their breasts in front of their partners
* experiences of shame over baby feeding mean the process can be seen as 'effectively a disease or analagous to one'
* a family history of breastfeeding encouraged women to do the same but negative family comments put women off
* women breastfeeding children of 12 months or older felt 'uncomfortable' due to being seen as 'not normal'.
Dr Gill Thomson, of the Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, led the study, which also involved researchers in Germany and Sweden.
The research, published online in Maternal & Child Nutrition, involved interviews and focus groups with 63 women from a range of backgrounds in two primary care trust areas in North West England.
Two thirds of the women were breastfeeding at the time they were interviewed but the duration of breastfeeding varied from a few days to more than 12 months and only a small minority said they breastfed in public.
Breastfeeding is known to have important health benefits for mothers and babies.
According to the NHS, breastfed babies have less chance of diarrhoea and vomiting, fewer chest and ear infections and less chance of becoming obese, while women who breastfeed have a lower risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
But only 46 per cent of UK mothers exclusively breastfeed their child at one week old compared to 83 per cent in Sweden, the authors state.
At six months, less than one per cent of UK mothers are still exclusively breastfeeding compared to 11 per cent in Sweden.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months of a child's life – and continuing to provide breast milk until a child is two or beyond.
The authors wrote: 'The findings of this paper highlight how breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding women may experience judgement and condemnation in interactions with health professionals as well as within community contexts, leading to feelings of failure, inadequacy and isolation.'
They added that the findings 'emphasise how breastfeeding women feel equally marginalised and shamed [as non-breastfeeding women], as expressed in their social and clinical encounters and fears about breastfeeding in public spaces.
'As poor care and negative emotions are experienced by women irrespective of their infant feeding methods, these insights highlight how breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding women require targeted needs-led support throughout the perinatal period.'
Many of the women felt 'out of control' due to poor information about feeding choices or lack of support.
New infant feeding groups that put breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding women together could help provide better support, the authors argued.
The research was part of an evaluation of the UNICEF Community Baby Friendly Implementation project, which accredits maternity and community facilities that adopt internationally recognised standards of best practice.
Janet Fyle, professional policy advisor at the Royal College of Midwives, said: 'At the end of the antenatal period the health service dumps women and sends them home with very little support, even though they've been told that breastfeeding is best.
'A lot of women are crying out for help and that's one of the reasons they give up breastfeeding.
'There's a shortage of midwives and if they have to prioritise they will prioritise the women in labour, not the ones who have already given birth.'
She said 'outward signs' from society that breastfeeding in public is not welcomed were also a problem.
'If you go to a major store in the UK they put the breastfeeding area in a toilet. Even in an NHS trust a woman has been asked to stop breastfeeding.'
Dwarf galaxy’s 'giant dark heart'
Nestled in the heart of a dwarf galaxy 54 million light years from Earth is a black hole so big it makes up 15% of the star cluster’s total mass.
The supermassive black hole, discovered at the centre of galaxy M60-UCD1, is said to have a mass equivalent to 21 million suns.
By comparison, the galaxy is 500 times smaller than the Milky Way, which itself has a black hole at its heart with a mass of just four million suns.
The finding suggests that huge black holes may be more common than previously thought, and other ultracompact dwarf galaxies are likely to also contain similar supermassive black holes.
A black hole is a region where matter has become so densely squeezed that not even light can escape its gravitational pull.
Scientists believe M60-UCD1 may be the remnant of a larger galaxy that had its outer regions torn away after approaching too close to the monster-sized M60 galaxy, which it now orbits.
A similar story could be behind the formation of other dwarf galaxies, which may also harbour super-massive black holes.
'We don’t know of any other way you could make a black hole so big in an object this small,' said lead scientist Dr Anil Seth, from the University of Utah.
'There are a lot of similar ultra-compact dwarf galaxies, and together they may contain as many super-massive black holes as there are at the centres of normal galaxies.’
Astronomers used the Gemini North eight-metre telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to investigate M60-UCD1.
The dwarf galaxy orbits M60, a colossal galaxy containing a 4.5 billion solar mass black hole. M60-UCD1 is about 54 million light years from Earth, but just 22,000 light years from the centre of M60.
Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies are less than a few hundred light years across compared with the Milky Way’s 100,000 light years.
'[The finding] is pretty amazing, given that the Milky Way is 500 times larger and more than 1,000 times heavier than the dwarf galaxy M60-UCD1,' Dr Seth said.
'We believe this once was a very big galaxy with maybe 10 billion stars in it, but then it passed very close to the center of an even larger galaxy, M60, and in that process all the stars and dark matter in the outer part of the galaxy got torn away and became part of M60.'
Dr Seth added, however, that the dwarf galaxy M60-UCD1 may be doomed, although he cannot say when because its orbit around M60 isn't known.M60 is among the largest galaxies in what astronomers refer to as 'the local universe.'
'Eventually, [M60-UCD1] may merge with the centre of M60, which has a monster black hole in it, with 4.5 billion solar masses - more than 1,000 times bigger than the supermassive black hole in our galaxy.
'When that happens, the black hole we found in M60-UCD1 will merge with that monster black hole.'
The study – conducted by Dr Seth and 13 other astronomers – was funded by the National Science Foundation in the U.S., the German Research Foundation and the Gemini Observatory partnership, which includes the NSF and scientific agencies in Canada, Chile, Australia, Brazil and Argentina.
Ultracompact dwarf galaxies are among the densest star systems in the universe.
M60-UCD1 is the most massive of these systems now known, with a total of 140 million solar masses.
Astronomers have debated whether these dwarf galaxies are the stripped centers or nuclei of larger galaxies that were ripped away during collisions with other galaxies, or whether they formed like globular clusters - groups of perhaps 100,000 stars, all born together.
There are about 200 globular clusters in our Milky Way, and some galaxies have thousands, Dr Seth continued.The astronomers estimated the mass of the dwarf galaxy's supermassive black hole by measuring the speed and motion of stars in orbit around it.
They found that the galaxy contains more mass than would be expected by the amount of starlight it emits.
The stars at the centre of M60-UCD1 move at about 230,000 mph – faster than stars would be expected to move without the black hole.
An alternate theory is that M60-UCD1 doesn't have a supermassive black hole, but instead is populated by a lot of massive, dim stars.
But Seth said the research team's observations with the Gemini North telescope, and analysis of archival photos by the Hubble Space Telescope, revealed that mass was concentrated in the galaxy's centre, indicating the presence of a supermassive black hole.
The astronomers studied M60-UCD1 because they had published a paper last year showing the galaxy was an X-ray source and was extremely dense.
The X-ray emissions suggest gas is being sucked into the black hole at a rate typical of supermassive black holes in much larger galaxies.
The new research is published in the journal Nature.
The death of a King
Richard III was surrounded by soldiers and hacked to death after losing his helmet in battle, analysis of his remains suggests.
Medical scanners were used to establish that the king suffered 11 injuries from enemy soldiers at Bosworth Field in 1485.
The 32-year-old died after two blows to the back of his head – one from a sword and the other from a halberd, a medieval axe-like weapon.
As nine of the injuries were to his skull, researchers at Leicester University suggest he had lost his heavy helmet.
The two other injuries may have been inflicted after his armour was torn from his body.
Wounds to his buttocks probably came as his bloodied corpse was paraded around the battle ground, they suggest.
The medical evidence establishes the most detailed account of Richard III’s death ever attempted and is published today in the Lancet medical journal.
Study author Professor Sarah Hainsworth said there was evidence of a ‘sustained attack’ by several assailants.
She added: ‘What we have to remember is that medieval battles were bloody and brutal.
'They had to make sure people really were dead – and then they put the body on display so everybody would know it was true.’
'The absence of defensive wounds to the king’s arms and hands indicates that he was still armoured – while his face was left relatively untouched in order to confirm his identity afterwards, she said.
The monarch’s remains have been studied since his skeleton was found under a car park in Leicester in 2012. He was the last English monarch to die in battle, perishing in the final campaign of the Wars of the Roses between the Houses of Lancaster and York.
Evidence suggests he was not the hunchback depicted by Shakespeare and others. Experts now know he had a slightly curved spine that would not have affected his prowess in battle.
He probably did not walk with a limp and was probably a fair and just ruler – not the tyrant and child murderer of lore.
However the new findings suggest that Shakespeare at least gave an accurate account of Richard III’s death.
Evidence that he died without his helmet supports accounts that he had lost his horse in a swamp – immortalised in the Bard’s famous ‘My kingdom for a horse!’ line.
The head injuries are consistent with some near-contemporary accounts of the battle, the researchers said in findings published in The Lancet medical journal on Wednesday.
'The wounds to the skull suggest that he was not wearing a helmet, and the absence of defensive wounds on his arms and hands indicate that he was otherwise still armoured at the time of his death,' said Sarah Hainsworth, a professor of materials engineering at Leicester University, who co-led the study.
The remains of King Richard III were found by archaeologists under a municipal car park in the central English city of Leicester in 2012 and subsequently identified by experts from the city's university.
A court ruled in May this year that the king should be reburied near to where he was slain in battle, dashing the hopes of descendants who had wanted his remains to be taken back to his northern English stronghold of York.
According to historical record, the monarch was killed in battle on Bosworth Field, near Leicester, on Aug. 22, 1485, and those accounts suggest Richard was forced to abandon his horse after it became stuck in a mire and was then killed fighting.
His death was the culmination of the Wars of the Roses, a bloody 30-year power struggle between Richard's House of York and the rival House of Lancaster.
Hainsworth's team used whole body computerised tomography (CT) scans and micro-CT imaging to analyse trauma to the bones and determine which of Richard's wounds might have proved fatal.
They also analysed tool marks on bone to identify the medieval weapons potentially responsible for his injuries.
According to Guy Rutty, a pathologist on the research team, 'the most likely injuries to have caused the king's death are the two to the inferior aspect of the skull -- a large sharp force trauma possibly from a sword or staff weapon, such as a halberd or bill, and a penetrating injury from the tip of an edged weapon.'
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Government Jobs in Defense
Ministry of Defence (MoD) for recruitment to various vacancies in the clerk's release. These positions were invited applications from Indian citizens for recruitment.
12th to fill positions advertised qualification or equivalent qualification of a recognized Board / University to be obtained, has been determined.
In addition applicants 30 words per minute in Hindi on the computer or in English must have knowledge of typing 35 words per minute. Candidates who apply for these positions 18 to 27 year age limit has been fixed.
As per rules reserved category will be given relaxation in upper age limit. These positions calculated for age October 31, 2014 will be from.
Selection process and pay
Selection of applicants for advertised positions will be through written test. Candidates to be successful in the written test will be called for test type on the computer.
In both phases the chance to interview the candidates will be successful. Applicants will be selected according to merit. For advertised positions Rs 5200-20200 (Grade Pay Rs 1900) have been prescribed pay scale.
Application fee of Rs 50 as postal order to determine the general category candidates must submit through the process. Reserved category / PH / Ex-employees must not submit any application fee. Candidates can fill the application form offline mode only.
The completely filled application 'Additional Director General, NCC Directorate Piacacpi & C, Central House, 5th Floor, Sector-9-A, Chandigarh -160 009' to send.
Once the application deadline of October 17, 2014 is. For application forms and other necessary information and instructions http://mod.nic.in/ candidate log on the website of the Ministry of Defence.
An opportunity to become teacher
Haryana School Education Project Council (HSSPP) to fill vacancies in government schools release. These positions are invited applications from Indian citizens for appointment. The total number of posts has been fixed in 1193.
In these posts, 189 posts of vocal music, instrumental tabla 322 posts, 339 posts of Dance, Drama and Art & Craft of 330 positions, including 13 positions. Qualifications to fill these positions has been fixed 12th.
Applicants related posts as well as diploma / degree is required. Applicants Hindi / Sanskrit is the tenth pass with the topic. 18 to 42 year age limit for these posts has been fixed. The maximum age limit for reserved category as per rules have been relaxed.
The selection process of applicants and Scale
The positions of all candidates who apply will be selected through written test and interview. The written test will be held in two phases. The written test will be taken as objective.
The first stage in the Hindi, general knowledge, reasoning ability, child development and psychology and English-related questions are asked. In the second stage of written test will be asked multiple-choice questions related to the topic.
Candidates who pass the written test will be called for interview. The final selection on the basis of marks obtained in written test and interview will be. Written Exam October 19, 2014 will be in Panchkula. Applicants for these positions will be Rs 10,000 per month.
Please apply before September 26
These positions can be through online application only. The application will be rejected by any other means.
For advertised positions for general category candidates and Rs 500 for reserved category candidates has been fixed application fee of Rs 250.
Reserved to the State of Haryana will be reserved category. The application fee must be submitted via invoice. The last date for applying online September 26, 2014 has been fixed.
The last date for application submission September 30, 2014 is. And other necessary information and instructions for online application relating to the candidate http://www.hsspp.in/
Direct recruitment in Railways 10th, Get the Job
Here you can easily find a job
10th in North Central Railway release has been close to hiring technicians. Scouts and Guide quota to fill the post of fiat under the ITI diploma holder candidates have been invited. 13 posts in total unreserved posts are advertised. Six posts for OBC, SC for four posts, two posts are reserved for ST.
Minimum age limit for candidates applying under the age of 15 years and maximum age limit should be less than 24 years. Age calculating July 1, 2014 will be. According to the rules in the age limit of reserved category candidates are exempted.
Spring training of selected candidates for these positions rail factory, Sithuli, will be held in Gwalior. During the training the selected candidates for the scholarship will be Rs 2100.
Without the written exam and interview selection
Fitter positions in any written test or interview for selection will not be conducted. The selection of candidates for these positions Anktalika based on academic merit Least 10 V or equivalent will be prepared. On the basis of this list will be inviting applicants for training.
Under this process, candidates who have already completed the training are also eligible to apply. Candidates applying for this post application form on the website by typing in a certain format, "Chief Workshop Manager, Rail Spring factory, Sithuli Rekrutment section (Prsnel Branch) North Central Railway, Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh)," the letter box on 11 October , 2014 reprint.
For more information on application http://www.ncr.indianrailways.gov.in/uploads/files/1410523756224-App%20mech%20_English_.pdf
common myth associated with fat loss
Grow fat on the stomach or constantly increasing weight, reducing the demand for them if you are aware of your work.
Diet and exercise for weight loss usually we make some changes in your routine.
Yes, many things that are associated with weight loss in reality just may be your confusion.
Based on individual research Learn about the common myth about fat loss that you are nothing more than illusions.
The long cardio exercises effective
Arguably weight loss and cardio exercise to burn fats is beneficial. But if you're willing to wager that by exercising this kind of hours you will lose weight quickly then you are wrong.
According to the Times of India published Sod advantages over an hour of cardio exercise can deal full damage instead.
Experts believe that cardio workout requires that you have a session in a while and take a break in between. In the small hours and stringent op weight loss may be more beneficial than cardio workout.
Will be obese by eating potatoes and rice
If you are looking for weight loss potatoes, rice intake completely avoid things like the carbohydrate-rich, it is not necessarily your fat loss.
They balance the body's energy intake is also essential to maintain. They would be better without the cream, butter or oil or yogurt with boiled औp bike, the body needs carbohydrates to get the same amount.
Similarly, the way all the nutrients required in the diet, carbohydrates are also essential. You can assume these are part of a balanced diet. The excess fats and lack of physical activity increases.
Fats will decrease by eating only fruit at breakfast
Absolutely wrong. Intake of fruit at breakfast is beneficial but only to reduce their intake of healthy fats is not.
Fruits are a good source of fiber and vitamins but not carbohydrates. The morning breakfast, eating only fruit and your body will not have enough energy throughout the day than you'll Diet.
So instead of having weight loss may increase. Better measures that you take morning heavy breakfast and light lunch.
Roared at the Directorate of Education English, Sanskrit, Urdu tet candidate: September 19 gave warning of siege again
English, Sanskrit and Urdu candidates tet answer is patience. Directorate of Education on Tuesday against government's defiant policy demonstrated by candidates from across the state expressed their outrage.
While expressing displeasure at recruitment ads get accused of messing up your neglect, and future. Candidates false assurances from government ministers and officials awarding the suspended matter, which will not tolerate for long. Failing to take appropriate action as soon as possible candidates for the Directorate of Education on September 19 again announced to perform fiery siege.
Amit Yadav said that leadership is a severe shortage of teachers in the state language. Despite this, the government is taking appropriate steps. Prior to secondary schools tet English, Sanskrit and Urdu examination was made.
Candidates who have passed 60 thousand, 21 thousand recruitment merit of the proposal made on the ad are not out yet. Basic Education Minister assured Ramgovind Chaudhary was admitted in August, but still no action was taken. Vikas Chandra Yadav, Praveen, Upendra Tiwari, Neeraj, Sunil, Jayaprakash, VP Singh, Alok spoke.