noreply@blogger.com (deccan)Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:56:13 -0700Blogger http://www.blogger.com15125http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/en-usnonoreply@blogger.comhttp://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/10/bangalore-train-times.htmlbangalorebangalore to indiabangalore traintrain timingnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:43:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-3891279820068327236<span style="font-style:italic;">TRAIN TRAIN NAME ARRIVAL DEPARTURE <br /> NO HRS HRS</span><br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">BENGALURU TO AHMEDABAD</span><br />6506 Gandhidham Exp Source (Sat) 21:50<br />6502 Ahmedabad Exp Source (Sun) 13:30<br />6508 Jodhpur Exp Source (Mon, Wed) 21:50<br />6210 Ajmer Exp 21:25 (Tue, Thu) 21:50<br />6532 Garib Nawaz Exp (From Yesvantpur) Source (Fri) 17:00<br /><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">BENGALURU TO CHENNAI<br /></span>2509 Guwahati Exp Source (Wed, Thu, Fri) 23:30<br />2658 Chennai Mail Source (Daily) 22:45<br />5227 Muzaffarpur Exp (From Yesvantpur) Source (Wed) 23:55<br />2692 Chennai Exp Source (Sun) 23:00<br />6221 Chennai Exp 23:30 (Daily) 23:45<br />2295 Sanghamitra Exp Source (Except Fri) 9:00<br />7314 Ubl Chennai Exp (From Yesvantpur) 5:00 (Sat) 5:15<br /><br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">BENGALURU TO NEW DELHI</span><br />2627 Karnataka Exp Source (Daily) 19:20<br />2629 Sampark Kranti (YPR to Nizamuddin) Source (Tue, Thu) 13:30<br />2647 Kongu Exp (To H. Nizamuddin) 23:00 (Sun) 23:15<br />2649 Sampark Kranti (YPR to Nizamuddin) Source (Except Tue, Thu) 22:20<br /><br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">BENGALURU TO SALEM</span><br />2648 Kongu Exp 1:10 (Wed) 1:30<br />1013 Coimbatore Exp 21:55 (Daily) 22:15<br />2677 Ernakulam Exp Source (Daily) 6:15<br />2684 Ernakulam Sf Exp Source (Mon, Thu) 17:15<br />6321 Trivandrum Exp Source (Thu) 18:50<br />6526 Kanyakumari Exp Source (Daily) 21:45<br />6527 Ypr Cannanore Exp (From Yesvantpur) Source (Mon, Wed, Sat 20:00<br />6732 Tuticorin Exp 21:05 (Daily) 21:20<br /><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">BENGALURU TO MYSORE<br />236 Mysore Passenger Source (Daily) 23:55<br />6222 Mysore Exp 4:10 (Daily) 5:00</span><br />6231 Mysore Exp 6:05 (Daily) 6:25<br />6731 Mysore Exp 6:40 (Daily) 7:00<br />214 Mysore Pass 7:10 (Daily) 7:30<br /><br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">BENGALURU TO MANGALORE</span><br />6517 Mangalore Express (From Yesvantpur) Source (Daily) 20:35<br />6517 Mangalore Express 20:50 (Daily) 20:55<br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">BENGALURU TO MUMBAI</span><br />1014 Lokmanya TT Express 15:05 (Daily) 5:25<br />1018 Chalukya Express (From Yesvantpur) Source (Daily except Thu) 6:30<br />6530 Udyan Express Source (Daily) 20:10<br />6534 YPR Jodhpur Express Source (Sun) 17:00<br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">BENGALURU TO SECUNDERABAD</span><br />790 Kacheguda Exp Source(Sat)Dep 18:00<br />7086 Sec’bad Exp Source(Daily) Dep 17:00<br />7085 B’lore Exp Source(Daily) Arr 07:150http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/creating-successful-niche-marketing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:14:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-8549272018891252973What is niche marketing? How do you create a successful niche marketing campaign? As most Internet Marketers look for that perfect niche or market to create a profitable campaign, the most important step before you launch is RESEARCH! It’s not about the niche; it’s about how well the marketer understands the niche that he or she is targeting. Research is the single most important aspect of finding a starving audience to sell to. If you don’t do the research it’s like throwing darts with a blindfold on. You are just guessing! There are 100,000’s of niches in the market place and you would think more marketers would be successful in their campaigns. But, they fail to do some basic research and fail to ask these questions:<br /><br />Who is your audience?<br />What are they looking for?<br />How can you help them?<br />What can you offer them?<br />Why would they listen to you?<br /><br />These are questions that need answers before you even start a campaign! The most important aspect of earning money online is knowing your audience and how to research what they want.<br /><br />There are a lot of ways you can research customer habits online like why they buy; when do they buy and what do they buy. You can do all the research and if you are a newer Internet marketer, it’s going to take you some 300 plus hours to do it right! Wouldn’t it be great to have everything done for you? There are many products in the market that proclaim to being able to this just that.<br /><br />There is a product that stands out as it provides all the research for you and much more. NicheQ .com provides you with in-dept industry research and expertise. They research and analyze the hottest industries and niches gathering facts that will enable you to create a successful campaign. Here’s what they provide:<br /><br />A New Niche each month to unlock and promote<br /><br />The Niche Report: a research report on the industry your promoting which includes stat’s, trends, target audience, spending habits and the best affiliate program available<br /><br />Niche Keyword List: Niche specific keywords provided<br /><br />300 Article Concepts: keyword article marketing concepts that are relevant to the industry<br /><br />7 Niche E-mails: for your e-mail follow-up marketing campaign<br /><br />25 Niche PLR Articles: we all know generating articles can take a lot of research and time. Here it’s all provided for you to use<br /><br />3 Niche PLR Guides: to use as Bonus give-ways for signing up<br /><br />If you were to compile all of this research, it would take you weeks just to research one niche. CHECK OUT NICHEQ.COM TODAY AND RECEIVE YOUR ‘FREE” GUIDE: “NICHE HUNTING STRATEGIES THAT WORK”.0http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/custom-site-builder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:13:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-7760277277731277715How would you like a place to go for custom website design with free web hosting? You don’t even need to know anything about HTML. That’s right, Site Rubix is a website development tool that the web illiterate can use and the pro’s will love.<br /><br />If your looking for a simple method of creating a website, your going to love Site Rubix. This is for anyone who builds or would like to build your own website. If your starting your own business, whether it is Internet marketing or pet supplies, now you can easily create a site and have a place where you can manage your media and update your pages. Site Rubix could be your way of becoming a custom site developer, I’m sure there’s a huge market for this service. Just Google it and see how many potential customers are looking for custom site builders.<br /><br />Here are some of the amazing features and benefit' s that are offered with Site Rubix:<br /><br />Unlimited Sites<br />Supports Unlimited Domains<br />Media Management (Screenshots, Images, Video’s)<br />Drag and Drop Functions<br />Personalized Site Media, and Current Events Dashboard<br />Built-in FTP Program For Easy File Transfer To A Web Server<br />Affiliate Program with Wealthy Affiliate<br />Video and Text Help Tutorials<br />Template Swapping<br />Web Hosting is FREE<br />Simple Page Layout Insertion<br />Wysiwyg Text Editing<br />Easy Squeeze Page Creation (Great For E-mail Campaigns)<br />Easily Export Entire Sites To Your Desktop<br />Create Professional Looking Sites<br />Create Huge Sites Quickly<br />NO HTML<br />Increase Efficiency<br />No More Outsourcing<br />Create Sites That are Optimized For Search Engine’s<br />Save $1,000’s On The Cost<br />Start Your Own Web Design Business<br /><br />IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE MOST EFFICIENT AND EASY TO USE WEBSITE BUILDER AVAILABLE CHECK IT OUT AND RECEIVE YOUR FREE E-BOOK ON “7 STEPS TO WEBSITE PROFITS” AND VIDEO0http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-is-article-marketing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:12:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-4135418201158848395What is article marketing and how does it relate to Internet marketing and search engine optimization?<br /><br />We have discussed ways to generate traffic to your blog site by using different “free” methods such as: social bookmarking, social networking, article directories and RSS feeds. Probably the most important revenue source you can use to create a viable online business is the use of Article Marketing. This is a free technique to drive traffic to your blog site and to the merchant websites they are affiliated with. This method is best to use to obtain free search listings with the search engines, Google, Yahoo and other search engines.<br /><br />The process is fairly simple and at the same time creates another revenue stream as sites like Squidoo.com and Hubpages.com will pay you for the quality content. By submitting an article on subject matter that your interested in to these directories you are adopting their search engine ranking. This means you can get listed on the first page of the results in a matter of days. If you tried to optimize your own site, it could take months to be ranked by Google or others. FREE TRAFFIC = FREE ADVERTISING= NO OVERHEAD.<br /><br />If your looking for a zero cost Internet business then Article Marketing is the way to go. Remember, search engines rank on popularity and generally a new website or blog is not popular with the search engines. Now, if your write an article to a “popular web site” such as Squido.com your article will live on their domain and inherit the popularity of that entire site. This will give your article a head start. With article marketing you are leveraging the strength of these large sites: Enzine Articles, Squidoo and U.S Freeads.com, to get top natural listings for your articles.<br /><br />In order to learn exactly how to find the right keyword to use in article marketing and achieve a top ranking in search engines and how to create profitable article marketing campaigns, check out these sources:<br /><br />Wealthy Affiliate University provides training and tutorials on how to create profitable article campaigns and how to submit to an article directory.<br /><br />One Week Marketing Action Plan is an e-course that walks you through the prep work of preparing an article for site submission.<br /><br />Writing articles about new affiliate programs or brand new product releases is a great way to get listed fast with in search engines. Commission Junction.com, Linkshare.com and Clickbank.com send out notifications of new products quite regularly and you can take advantage of these by writing an article about the new products or services offered. In order to do this, you will have to be an active affiliate of those networks. Your articles should range between 300-500 words in length providing adequate information on the topic.<br /><br />Once your article is complete here is a list of top article submission directories to use:<br /><br />Enzine Articles.com<br />Squidoo.com<br />U.S. Freeads.com<br />Hubpages.com<br />Go Articles.com<br />Wet Paint.com<br />Article Dashboard.com<br />Article City.com<br />Easy Articles.com<br /><br />If your going to submit your article to 2 or more of these sites, be sure to change the wording so that they maintain their uniqueness.0http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/blogging-for-money.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:12:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-434059092971148638As we've been discussing, with the down turn of our economy and unemployment on the rise, there are many opportunities for people like you and me to make money on the internet. How? you ask. We'll, why not get paid for doing something you like doing and probably do every day and night, blogging! There are many online company's who are looking for bloggers to just provide an overview of advertiser's web sites and the products and services they are promoting. As you know, the purpose of my review site is to inform my fellow bloggers of such opportunities, and to ensure that these operations are not the get rich quick type promotions. After reviewing several online Blog Advertising services I found one that stands out as a credible opportunity to earn money through blogging on your own web site, Blogsvertise.com. It's a very simple setup, where all you do is to register with Blogsvertise.com and they provide you the resources to earn money blogging. After your approved, you'll receive assignments (by email) to review and blog about various industry sites, your web experience and their products and services they provide. You are not obligated to recommend the products, as many of the other advertising services require. You simply write about the advertiser web site and link the site in your blog. This obviously creates excitement and traffic for the advertiser, in reality, your client. You are paid, based on the quality of your blog and the experience level you bring to the industry. What better way to get paid for doing something you really enjoy! So, I highly recommend checking out this opportunity at Blogsvertise.com. I think you'll definitely enjoy the opportunity they offer!0http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/make-money-from-blogging.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:11:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-6209163632725909990Many novice bloggers are unaware that you can make some major money from blogging. There are people making $1,000 a month or even weekly blogging. These are considered professional bloggers who monetize their sites, subscribe to blogging jobs, promote products and services by internet networks or even their own products. So this qualifies as a legitimate job on the internet.<br /><br />Monetizing your blog can be simply having Google approve your site for advertising AdSense ads. Every visitor who goes to your site may click on one of the ads which creates revenue for you, the host. As discussed below, I've been able to track down 5 advertising service sites who hire you to blog for their clients web sites. The pay is any where between $5 -$25 per article, depending on quality and your experience and the age of your blog site. The 5 sites are:<br /><br /> * PAYPERPOST.com<br /> * BLOGSVERTISE.com<br /> * BLOGTOPROFIT.com<br /> * CREAMAID.com<br /> * BLOGITIVE.com<br /><br />I just signed up for Blogsvertise and am waiting for my first assignment. PayPerPost.com requires your blog to be in existence for at least 60 days. BlogToProfit and Blogitive.com are next on the agenda.<br /><br />You can become an affiliate marketer and promote 1,000's of products and services for Internet marketing sites. Most are free to join to become an affiliate giving you the ability to market their products on your blog site and if you sell their product you earn a commission which could range from 10% up to 90%, depending on the product. The most recognized affiliate marketing site is Wealthy Affiliate.com. They provide training, mentoring and support to get you started for a legitimate online job. I highly recommend checking Wealthy Affiliates site and learn more before starting your online business. A complete review can be seen here on my next post which compares other affiliate marketing sites as well. Another good reference source is an e-book called Blogging To The Bank. This e-book provides a detailed analysis on how to take your blog from a personal diary to a money making site.0http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-is-internet-marketing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:11:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-3830386021318435106CAN YOU MAKE MONEY ON THE INERNET? DO YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY ON THE INTERNET? LET ME SHOW YOU HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON THE INTERNET!<br /><br />This would be a catchy title, don’t you think, something that would probably rank very high in the search engine model, obviously. Everyone wants to make money on the Internet as evidenced by the number of Google searches for “make money on the Internet’ returns on their search results, millions and millions. If you want to get a good understanding of what it takes to have a job on the net you should read a view sources that outline the daily do’s and don’ts in the internet world of business. The three top sellers on the market that I’ve read are : “One Week Marketing Action Plan ”, “Who Loves Money" and “Beating Adwords”. These e-book’s which are downloadable into your computer, are written by leading Internet marketers who actually do have legitimate jobs creating income streams through Internet marketing.<br /><br />In your search for a legitimate job on the net, you must first understand that most online jobs involve Internet marketing. So what is Internet marketing? Simply put, it’s matching the needs of a consumer to the products and services provided by a company online or offline. An affiliate marketer typically provides matching these needs. They create a medium to drive the consumer traffic to the company’s merchant web site, thus creating sales for the merchant which in turns pay a commission to the affiliate marketer. Those commissions range between 10% to 75%, depending on the product.<br /><br />Although this is a brief overview of internet marketing, the purpose is to introduce you to our future discussions over the next few days, which will include more on affiliate marketing, niche marketing, blog marketing, auction marketing and article marketing. These are all tools relevant to pursuing a legitimate job on the Internet and are taught at Wealthy Affiliate University. If you haven’t visited this web site, I encourage you to do so as it will provide you with insight as to how you can make money on the Internet.0http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-is-affiliate-marketing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:10:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-5474910553904078040As we discussed yesterday, affiliate marketing is really a subtopic of Internet marketing. Rather than owning a product or service to promote, you become the advertiser responsible for driving customers to the merchant’s web site. By doing so, you as the affiliate will earn a commission on any thing you sell. The benefit of being an affiliate is that you do not carry any inventory to support your promotions. That’s the merchant’s responsibility. For an affiliate, they are always looking for that niche product that customers must have. So where do you find that product? There are affiliate directories that have list of companies offering commissions for selling their products or services. Some of the affiliate networks that offer these products are Clickbank, Commission Junction, Share a Sale, Linkshare and Performics.<br /><br />A great program that teaches you how to use different techniques as an affiliate marketer is "The Bum Marketing Course” which is offered on Clickbank.com. What the course shows you is how to create promotions to drive traffic to the merchant’s web site and hopefully purchasing the product. When purchased your assigned affiliate link is credited, thus you receive a commission. Now commissions can run any where between 10%to75%, depending on the product. Even the high-ticket products sold through Amazon and EBay offer commissions if you are an affiliate with those companies.<br /><br />This sounds good but now we need to figure out how to drive traffic to these merchants’ web sites, and we’ll discuss those strategies on our next post. So after that you should be able to figure out how to start your own Internet business, which will be legitimate.0http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/methods-to-create-new-blog-traffic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:10:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-2834446724590532353As we discussed in our last post we identified what affiliate marketing is, and how your blog site can be used to drive traffic to a merchant web site to create sales. But the key question was: How do we create traffic to our blog and direct that traffic to the merchant site? The affiliate link assigned to you by the merchant will take care of the traffic to their site. The main objective is to figure out how do we create the front load traffic to our blog?<br /><br />As many of us have relatively new blogs (less than 60 days old) without a lot of rich and relevant content, there are several methods if used properly that can create almost instant traffic to your blog site:<br /><br /> 1. Utilization of Article Directories allows you to write enticing articles to off site directories. Submit your articles promoting a merchants product to article directories is a good way to get back links to your site. It's also a great way to get traffic. Try using sites like Squidoo.com or Enzine Articles.com as they have their readership who may be looking for the topic your blog is focusing on. If you write a compelling article, people will visit your blog.<br /> 2. Utilize RSS Feeds: be sure to submit your blogs' RSS Feed to the most popular web feed services. This will create web traffic for your blog by focusing on the low competition keywords in your title and content. Some of the post popular feed site are Search 4 Rss.com, Feedage.com and Feedsubmitter.com.<br /> 3. Utilize Social Bookmarking as these services allow you to promote your blog site based on tag's (keywords) and a short content description of what the site is trying to appeal to. People see your description and will want to visit your site. The top services are Blog Catalog.com, Stumbleupon.com, MyBlogLog.com, Technorati.com and Del.icio.us.com.<br /> 4. Utilize Social Networking sites such as Facebook.com, Twitter.com, MySpace.com, Google Groups.com and Mylot.com. When you build your profile in these sites you are connecting with people, creating partnerships which will afford you the opportunity to promote your blog and products. <br /><br /><br />There are a couple of resources that link these methods together and are recommended for anyone who is starting a internet marketing online business.<br /><br />Small Business Traffic Secrets is a new E-Book course that teaches small business owners how to create additional web site traffic.<br /><br />Super Affiliate Hand Book is a E-Book written by know super affiliate Rosalind Gardner and discusses how to start your own affiliate marketing business and includes subjects and tips on how to increase your blogs' web traffic.0http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/blogs-vs-websites.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:09:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-8492874499747886929What are the differences between blogs and websites?<br /><br />So far we've discussed or learned what affiliate directories are and how they can help your affiliate links. We've also discussed ways to get traffic to these links. Many internet marketers use different landing pages to get traffic to their affiliate links. The two most popular mediums are websites and blogs which both do the same thing, create traffic for your links.<br /><br />Do you understand now what the differences are between the two? Websites can be surely advantageous to you as they involve web design and will give you a professional look. They also can be expensive, if you don't do your home work. There is a cost for web hosting and domain maintenance and general up keep of the site. However, we have found an affiliate program that offers free hosting and website design and building. Site Rubix is offered through a membership program at Wealthy Affiliates.com and provides a total tutorial of how to build a website for free. It was develop in order to make website development easier, efficient and easy to use without having to know HMTL, template design or even menu structure. Take a look now at<br />Site Rubix.<br /><br />Using blogs can be an excellent alternative to websites as they are generally free and easily quick to set up. They basically can achieve the same results as websites: can be monetized, add money pages and can be search engine optimized which affords you more traffic. There are several sites that offer free blogs, but the two most popular because of their simplicity are WordPress.com and Blogger.com. However, don't limit yourself to these choices as there are several free sites available, just do some shopping around and choose what best fits your needs. As you become more versed in your internet knowledge managing multiple blog sites is not unheard of. Although a lot of work is involved to maintain these sites, they give you the availability to create multiple landing pages very quickly, thus providing more revenue streams.<br /><br />As you gain more knowledge in the online business community, you could use both blogs and websites as a basis of a sound internet business. Ultimately, increasing your ability to create even more revenue streams. But starting off, generally using blogs appear to be the simplest and most efficient way to begin your internet journey.0http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/nuts-and-bolts-of-record-run.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:08:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-6617045500507026081With each of his recordbreaking runs, Usain Bolt is inching closer to athletic immortality. Forgive the cynicism; if the Jamaican ends his career without a doping slur, he would have cemented his place in the history of track events as the person who expanded the boundaries of human capabilities.Many super-human running stars<br />including a certain black American who made the 1936 Berlin Olympics his own have graced the track. But Bolt appears to be the real deal for the ease with which he<br />singes records. The athletic world hasn’t seen a more compelling package of efficiency and entertainment. Michael Johnson used to run and break records with predictable regularity but the American himself is in awe of the Jamaican for whom raising the bar in style has become a habit. Bolt has brought fun to thesprint after Ben Johnson’s pharmaceutical effort in the 1988 Seoul Olympics had taken it away from<br />the foundation of all sporting disciplines. Bolt started off as a 200m specialist. Only when he broke the 100m world record on May 31 last year, did the Jamaican’s name make it to the probable list of Beijing winners in the short sprint. The Bird’s Nest, the iconic athletic stadium in the Chinese capital, belonged to Bolt on August 16, 2008, as he set a record of 9.69 seconds on his way to gold in the 100m. In a rare coincidence,the fun-loving Jamaican has obliterated his record on the same date<br />(August 16) a year later at Berlin. The progression of the 100m record over the years presents an interesting study. When Jesse Owens stopped the clock at 10.3<br />seconds for a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics, few would have envisaged that it would take another 32 years for someone to go under 10 seconds. American Jim Hines<br />recorded the first electronic sub-10 100m (9.95 seconds) in Mexico on September 14, 1968. Until Bolt’s majestic run in Berlin on Sunday, the 100m record was never bettered by 11 hundredths of a second. Bolt’s 6’5” frame doesn’t make him the best of starters. Even on Sunday, he was only the sixth fastest off the blocks. Among the eventual top three, Asafa Powell had the best start with a reaction time of 0.134 seconds, followed by Gay at 0.144. Bolt’s was 0.146. Reaction time is the speed with which one reacts to the starting gun. Anything less than 0.1 second is a false start. Bolt was slow only at the blocks; in every 20m he was on top.<br />According to the biome chanical analysis released by the IAAF, the Jamaican had solved his starting problem by covering the first 20m in 2.89 seconds, slightly ahead of Trinidad’s Richard Thompson who incidentally had the best reaction time of 0.119 seconds. From the 20- 40m mark, Bolt pulled clear in his inimitable style to register his fastest for the 60-80m section at 1.61 seconds. In just 33 royal strides, the Jamaican covered the 100m in 9.58 seconds with the tailwind measuring<br />0.2 metres/second.<br /><br /><br />TIMINGS<br />0-20m: 2.89s; 20-40:<br />1.75s; 40-60: 1.67s; 60-80:<br />1.61s; 80-100: 1.66s.<br />REACTION TIMES<br />Bolt: 0.146s; Gay: 0.144s;<br />Powell: 0.134s; Bailey:<br />0.129s; Thompson:<br />0.119s; Chambers: 0.123s;<br />Burns: 0.165s; Patton:<br />0.149s.<br />Progress chart0http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/girl-interrupted.htmlbangalorebrigade roadcityfemale smokersm g roadsmokersulsoornoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:57:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-6952099600863054194Female smokers in the city feel that they are discriminated against by onlookers, while male smokers get <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>away scot free<br /><br /><br />Smoking kills, and no one knows it better than a smoker. The warning is loud and clear on every packet of ciggies. Yet a whole host of people, fromwell-meaning acquaintances to complete strangers, seem to consider it their moral duty to tell a<br />woman to quit smoking. Health risks, patriotic rants and even the whole culture bhasha is doled out to the minority of female smokers while men continue to light up<br />unhindered. So why is this attitude reserved only for women? Girls who smoke are discriminated against, states Rakhi, a college student. “In my class, there are guys as well as girls who smoke. But it’s us girls who are in the lecturer’s bad books. He’s always saying things like, ‘We know what you all do outside.’ It’s so unfair because we are not breaking any rules here and our smoking habits have nothing to<br />with him or the college.” Others are subjected to worse. A young software professional recalls, “Just the other day, my friend and I were smoking an open space when this guy walked up to us. At first we thought he was asking for directions<br />because he started with, ‘Excuse me. I have just come back from the US’ but then he<br />went on to say, ‘I saw ladies doing all these things in America but why are you Indian girls smoking? You are the ones bringing India down!’We walked away<br />but he kept shouting curses at backs. And this, while there were guys smoking all around us.” Sometimes women take it upon themselves to lecture female<br />smokers. As student Goutami us, “Recently this lady approached me and started<br />telling me that it’s not ‘appropriate’ for a girl to smoke. Then she went on<br />and on about how I won’t be able to have babies!” Ironically, even some cigarette<br />shop owners look askance at female customers. “I always prefer to buy cigarettes on MG Road or Brigade Road because in Ulsoor where I live, people<br />keep staring and passing comments,” adds Goutami. But the worst critics are<br />male smokers who have an objection to women doing the<br />same, says Chetan Dash, a young professional. “These are the chauvinists.<br />They smoke, so they know why people smoke. Yet they refuse to accept women smokers.<br />I have female friends who smoke so I know what they go through. A lot of them were closet smokers for a long time,” he tells us. “Nobody bats an eyelid at a guy<br />smoking. It’s a bad habit but it has come to be accepted. But my female friends have faced many humiliating situations where their character has been questioned by<br />the likes of auto drivers, just because they smoke.” Seriously, smoke knows no gender,so why all this discrimination.Let’s leave it up to ourwomen to choose.1http://bangaloredc.blogspot.com/2009/08/flu-hospitals-slow-to-gear-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (deccan)Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:04:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996035116029531430.post-4830159856566765101On a day on<br />which Swine Flu claimed<br />its first victim in the city,<br />26-year-old school teacher<br />Roopa, hospitals seemed<br />to be finally gearing up,<br />albeit still slowly, to fight<br />the pandemic, even as the<br />single government hospital<br />that has been doing the job<br />until now, the Rajiv Gandhi<br />Institute of Chest Diseases<br />(RGICD), is proving<br />to be woefully inadequately<br />equipped to deal with<br />the rising number of<br />infected people.<br />Relatives of Ghena<br />Abdul Kharim, a 35-yearold<br />Yemenese woman who<br />landed in the city two days<br />ago, shifted her from<br />RGICD to St. John’s Hospital<br />after they found that<br />the former did not have<br />facilities to treat critical<br />patients.<br />RGICD has put up 10 flu<br />screening counters and 18<br />beds in an unventilated<br />isolation ward, but does<br />not have an intensive care<br />unit (ICU).<br />Fortunately, though, at<br />least a dozen of the 36<br />other hospitals, including<br />private specialty ones,<br />identified by the government<br />for Swine Flu treatment,<br />are making their<br />own arrangements to<br />obtain test kits — the government<br />is not providing<br />the kits — and reserving<br />beds and isolation wards,<br />although they too are not<br />ready yet to take in critical<br />patients into their ICUs.<br />St. John’s Hospital, for<br />instance, began taking<br />throat swabs for testing on<br />Wednesday and is already<br />treating two critical cases,<br />although only one of them<br />is confirmed to be of<br />Swine Flu. It has reserved<br />three beds each for<br />children and adults affected<br />by H1N1, but none in<br />the ICU yet.<br />“We cannot reserve beds<br />for Swine Flu patients in<br />the ICU and deny the facilities<br />to other critical<br />patients,” the hospital’s<br />chief of medical services<br />Dr George D’Souza of St.<br />John’s Hospital explained.0