The Dutch showed tremendous form in the qualifiers of FIFA World Cup 2010 that saw them run away with all the eight matches they played.
Despite their obvious flair,
Particle Beams Once Again Accelerated in Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Particle beams are once again zooming around the worlds most powerful particle acceleratorthe Large Hadron Colliderlocated at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.
On Nov. 20 at 4pm EST, a clockwise circulating beam was established in the LHCs 17-mile ring.
After more than one year of repairs, the LHC is now back on track to create high-energy particle collisions that may yield extraordinary insights into the nature of the physical universe.
The LHC is a machine unprecedented in size, in complexity, and in the scope of the international collaboration that has built it over the last 15 years, said Dennis Kovar, U.S. Department of Energy Associate Director of Science for High Energy Physics.
I congratulate the scientists and engineers that have worked to get the LHC back up and running, and look forward to the discoveries to come.
American scientists have played an important role in the construction of the LHC. About 150 scientists, engineers and technicians from three DOE national laboratoriesBrookhaven Lab, Fermilab and Berkeley Labbuilt critical accelerator components.
They are joined by colleagues from DOEs SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin in ongoing LHC accelerator R&D. The work has been supported by the DOE Office of Science.
Circulating beams are a major milestone on the way to the ultimate goal: data from high-energy particle collisions in each of the LHCs four major particle detectors.
Over the next few months, scientists will create collisions between two beams of protons.
These very first LHC collisions will take place at the relatively low energy of 900 GeV. They will then raise the beam energy, aiming for collisions at the world-record energy of 7 TeV in early 2010. With these high-energy collisions, the hunt for discoveries at the LHC will begin.
“It’s great to see beam circulating in the LHC again,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer.
“We’ve still got some way to go before physics can begin, but with this milestone we’re well on the way.”
In all, an estimated 10,000 people from 60 countries have helped design and build the LHC accelerator and its four massive particle detectors, including more than 1,700 scientists, engineers, students and technicians from 97 U.S. universities and laboratories in 32 states and Puerto Rico supported by the DOE Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.
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About Fermilab
Fermilab is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science national laboratory, operated under contract by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC. The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science is the nation’s single-largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences.
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About CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world’s leading laboratory for particle physics.
It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.&/
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Global IT Networks India exceeds expectations
Global IT Networks has successfully completed its first quarter bagging major clients in India and exceeded in performance expectations.
— Global IT Networks Ltd, UK based company that has recently started their Indian operation exceeds the initial expectations and has generated sales revenue of Rs 2 Cr. Global IT Networks, (India Operation) attributes its success to taking calculated efforts in acquiring key accounts from major European countries like Netherlands, Germany and the US as well. Global IT Networks started its operations in Pune (Oxford of East) in the May 2009 and has already crossed Rs 2 Cr in sales revenue. Pune today is fast emerging as an InfoTech hub, and making its presence felt to biggies like Bangalore and Mumbai to emerge as one of the top contenders for the ‘Silicon Valley of India’. Pune is also home to well known IT giants like Wipro, Infosys, Satyam, Tata Technologies, TCS, Kanbay, Veritas, Cognizant, PCS and Tech Mahindra’s British Telecom.
Global IT Networks founded in 2002 in UK with a mission of supplying quality hardware of Cisco, Juniper, and Nortel to IT and Telecom companies. As a part their global expansion, GIN has started its operation in India and Russia. By creating a talent pool from India, as a next step they are planning to offer various services like Remote infrastructure management, Annual Maintenance contracts, Data center design consultancy etc. GIN has Cisco certified resources with extensive experience in designing, installations and implementing complex solutions. Global IT Networks has proven track record of supplying quality hardware of around 1400 customers from UK and other European region.
According to Serge (Director -UK), “I am amazed by the resourcefulness, integrity and dynamism shown by our Indian team. We already have base of around 1400 customers from UK and other European countries. As a next action plan, we are going to utilize talent pool from India to serve those customers. Till date our major business was selling all kinds of networking equipments, but now we have also decided to enter into other services offering. We have decided to keep target around Rs 25 Cr and confident that we will achieve it. We are successful in getting very good partners for the same.”
While explaining their strategic growth plan in depth, Indian operation Director Umesh Kulkarni proudly mentioned that team work is the key to our success. Other team members including Pravin, Sanket, and Vinayak helped a lot in generating leads and converting leads into clients. The visits by Serge and Paul from UK always proved beneficial and motivating to our Indian team members. Their inputs help a lot in achieving the desired results in such a small time span. Next quarter apart from generating sales revenue, our major target is developing business processes for smooth and streamlined operations.
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Seed Industry Program 2009 Goes International in a Big Way
— The seed industry executive development program organized by the Center for Executive Education, Sathguru Management Consultants and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, was held from 26 to 30 October, 2009 at the The Marriott in Hyderabad, India.
The primary focus of the program was to enhance the participants’ ability to develop strategic solutions to augment business through a deeper understanding of research management, technology access through licensing, regulatory compliance, market access factors and business restructuring. Participants representing government bodies, academic and research institutions, and seed companies from India and abroad were addressed by distinguished faculty from both academia and industry.
This year’s program was marked by increased participation from abroad as roughly a third from countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas made their way to city of Hyderabad to learn and also share their expertise on the various aspects of the seed industry with their peers in India. The nations represented were Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, Japan, Denmark, Netherlands, Tajikistan, Zimbabwe the US and the UK. Beginning with an inspiring presentation by Ronnie Coffman Director, International Programs at CALS, Cornell University in which he emphasized the importance of plant breeding in the improvement of human productivity and the maintenance of global competitiveness, the four day program provided participants with an intensive exposure to the various aspects related to the seed industry including:
- Detailed case discussions on product development such as the Ring Spot Resistant Papaya, Fruit and Shoot Borer Resistant Brinjal, Rust Resistant Wheat and Seedless Fruits
- Global trends and challenges in the seed sector, socio-economics of organic seed production and technology developments in the area of high yielding, disease resistant and durable seeds
- Aspects in technology management such as licensing, patent and non-patent protection of intellectual assets and technology access
- Perspectives on gaining strategic technology leadership, effective valuation principles and metrics for the seed industry, regulatory trends and principles for evaluating small food and feed crops Increased participation from other countries and a good mix of representation from public and private sectors ensured greater depth in post presentation discussions as participants were able to share their myriad experiences and insights on various topics and thereby greatly increase individual awareness of the immense potential for growth in the industry.
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India More Prosperous Than China, Finds Legatum Prosperity Index
Demonstrates very high levels of social capital, but overall ranking brought down by low levels of education, internal security and health
— The third edition of the Legatum Prosperity Index, published today, ranks 104 countries (covering 90% of the world’s population), based on a definition of prosperity that combines economic growth together with measures of happiness and quality of life.
According to this year’s Legatum Prosperity Index, India ranks 45th in the world, slightly behind emerging giant Brazil (41st) but well ahead of China (75th). Although outperformed by China on several economic indicators, India’s superior overall ranking is achieved through its performance in the critical non-economic factors such as personal freedom which encompasses freedom of speech and religion, national tolerance for immigrants and ethnic and racial minorities and for which India ranks 47th globally compared to China’s 91st place. India also ranks highly on measures of social capital, reflected in the percentage of citizens who volunteer, give to charity, help strangers, and who feel they can rely on family and friends. In this area, India ranks fifth in the world, ahead of the US, the UK and Finland.
“India is a classic example of a country whose prosperity stems largely from its social capital and quality of life rather than its performance on the purely economic measures. Although China outperforms India on several economic indicators, India is 30 places higher in the final rankings because of China’s poor levels of personal freedom and democracy,” said Dr. William Inboden, Senior Vice President of the Legatum Institute. “However, there are some areas of concern for India, particularly in the quality of healthcare and education for which India ranks 88th and 86th respectively,” concluded Dr. Inboden.
India’s low global ranking on health indicators results from a number of factors: severe underinvestment in medical facilities resulting in poor standards of healthcare; low levels of improved sanitation facilities; undernourishment affecting 20% of Indian citizens; a low average health adjusted life expectancy of 53 years; and a high number of citizens reporting that they suffer from health problems.
Key Findings from the 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index
- Finland tops the Index, followed by Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark; the United States is 9th and the United Kingdom is 13th.
- India ranks 92nd globally in the ratio of girls-to-boys in education (91:100).
- There are approximately 40 students per teacher in primary education which ranks India low globally on this measure.
- India has the highest level of casualties from political violence of all countries in the Index.
- India requires only 11 start-up procedures in order to register a new business, which resulted in over 20,000 new businesses registrations in 2007.
- There are only two personal computers per 100 people in India ranking the country below the global average on this variable.
The Index identified nine key factors that drive economic growth and personal wellbeing, which are foundations of prosperity. Each of these nine factors is represented in a sub-index and a country’s final Prosperity Index ranking is generated by averaging its scores across all nine sub-indexes, equally weighted. More information on the Prosperity Index, including full country rankings, background on data and methodology, and profiles of each country can be found at www.prosperity.com.
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About the Legatum Institute
The Legatum Institute is an independent policy, advocacy and advisory organisation. The Institute’s mission is to research and promote the principles that drive the creation of global prosperity and the expansion of human liberty and wellbeing.
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The Institute is part of the Legatum Group, a private global investment organization focused on investing in the international capital markets and the promotion of sustainable development.
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About the Legatum Prosperity Index
The 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index is based on statistical analysis of more than 40 years of data for more than 100 countries worldwide, produced and supervised by the Legatum Institute, with input from the research consultancy Oxford Analytica and a panel of respected academic advisors in the fields of economics, history, development, sociology, and political science.
2009 Legatum Prosperity Index Rankings
BEST
ASIA
1.
Finland
16.
Japan
2.
Switzerland
18.
Hong Kong
3.
Sweden
23.
Singapore
4.
Denmark
24.
Taiwan
5.
Norway
26.
South Korea
6.
Australia
39.
Malaysia
7.
Canada
44.
Thailand
8.
Netherlands
45.
India
9.
United States
50.
Mongolia
10.
New Zealand
55.
Philippines
11.
Ireland
58.
Sri Lanka
12.
United Kingdom
61.
Indonesia
13.
Belgium
75.
China
14.
Germany
87.
Bangladesh
15.
Austria
90.
Nepal
16.
Japan
93.
Cambodia
17.
France
99.
Pakistan
18.
Hong Kong
19.
Spain
20.
Slovenia
BOTTOM
95. Kenya
96. Algeria
97. Tanzania
98. Nigeria
99. Pakistan
100. Cameroon
101. Central African Republic
102. Yemen
103. Sudan
104. Zimbabwe
How the Index is constructed
The Prosperity Index accounts for 90 percent of the world’s population, using a combination of objective data and subjective responses to surveys. This data comprises 79 different variables, and each is then distilled into one of the nine different sub-indexes identified as a foundation of prosperity. A country’s performance in each sub-index is given a score, and the overall Prosperity Index rankings are produced by averaging the equally-weighted scores of the 9 sub-indexes for each country. Those countries that perform well across each sub-index score highest in the overall rankings.
The nine foundations of prosperity that define successful nations are:
- Economic Fundamentals – a growing, sound economy that provides opportunities for wealth creation
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation – an environment friendly to new enterprises and the commercialisation of new ideas
- Education – an accessible, high-quality educational system that fosters human development
- Democratic Institutions – transparent and accountable governing institutions that promote economic growth
- Governance – an honest and effective government that preserves order and encourages productive citizenship
- Health – the physical well-being of the populace
- Personal Freedom – the degree to which individuals can choose the course of their lives
- Security – a safe environment in which people can pursue opportunity
- Social Capital – trustworthiness in relationships and strong communities
India’s Performance Across all Nine Sub-Indexes
Economic Fundamentals: 43
Entrepreneurship and Innovation: 55
Democratic Institutions: 36
Education: 86
Health: 88
Safety and Security: 87
Governance: 41
Personal Freedom: 47
Social Capital: 5
Overall Ranking: 45
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