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SINGH: ENDORSE "JAN" LOKPAL. Update on April 8 2011Great news -- the government has agreed to draft the Jan Lokpal bill with full participation of civil society, and Anna Hazare has agreed to suspend his fast!

SINGH: ENDORSE "JAN" LOKPAL

It's a huge victory -- but the key now is to keep building the pressure to ensure that a strong bill is drafted and then passed into law. Sign the petition now and spread the word! Campaign launched on April 7 2011 Right now, Anna Hazare, a 73-year-old Gandhian, sits fasting in the burning sun, and he will stay until death -- unless the government agrees to consider a powerful law that could rid Indian politics of the scourge of corruption. This “Modern Mahatma” is taking the utmost act of courage and determination to push through a bill that would give an independent body the power to punish corruption -- even in the Prime Minister’s office.

Across the country a movement has exploded, driving a media storm of pressure that’s engulfing Singh. Create a new Fiddle - jsFiddle - Online Editor for the Web (JavaScript, MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, Glow and Dojo, HTML, CSS) GRE. HTML is the new HTML5. In 2009 we announced that the HTML5 specification at the WHATWG was progressing to Last Call.

HTML is the new HTML5

The plan at the time was to finish the specification this year and publish a snapshot of "HTML5" in 2012. However, shortly after that we realised that the demand for new features in HTML remained high, and so we would have to continue maintaining HTML and adding features to it before we could call "HTML5" complete, and as a result we moved to a new development model, where the technology is not versioned and instead we just have a living document that defines the technology as it evolves.

As there is still interest in publishing a snapshot of HTML5, the W3C is still working on that (in conjunction with the WHATWG). Because the specification is now a living document, we are today announcing two changes: If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask them in the comments or on IRC. Bits: Angry Birds Strategy. ETS GRE Preparation Materials. Lenna 97: A Complete Story of Lenna. Introduction Engineers, researchers, and students who are familiar with image processing or compression has most likely used the picture of "Lenna" or "Lena" in their experiments or project assignments, as the Lenna picture is one of the most widely used standard test images.

Lenna 97: A Complete Story of Lenna

Today, the use of Lenna image has been recognized as one of the most important events in the history of electronic imaging. However, very few people have seen the original picture and know the complete story of Lenna. Here is the materials about Lenna I have recently found on the Internet, which includes the recent picture of Lenna in May 1997. Who is "Lenna" or "Lena"? Top 24 Grammatical Terms That We Should Have Learned in School - Common Terms in Grammar. Img3.imageshack.us/img3/7631/taxe.swf. The 10 Best Game Engines of This Generation. Webster's Dictionary defines a 'game engine' as 'the word you've entered isn't in the dictionary,' but if it were to define it, it would probably explain that a game engine is used as the overall architecture to develop and run a game – it gives developers tools to create the disparate elements of a videogame and then pull them together to create a functioning whole.

The 10 Best Game Engines of This Generation

From the renderer to the physics system, sound architecture, scripting, AI and networking, game engines either natively power every aspect of a game, or they allow other specialised middleware to slot into the game's framework. In any case, game engines are the workhorses of modern videogame development. As you'd expect, there are plenty of engines out there, from very well-known names like Quake and Unreal, that developers and publishers can license at considerable expense, through to in-house proprietary engines created by studios specifically for their own titles. RAGE Engine RAGE's strengths are many. CryENGINE. Episodes Archive - pyconindia - blip.tv. Manichaeism. Manichaeism taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness.

Manichaeism

Through an ongoing process which takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light whence it came. Its beliefs were based on local Mesopotamian gnostic and religious movements.[5] Manichaeism was quickly successful and spread far through the Aramaic-Syriac speaking regions.[6] It thrived between the third and seventh centuries, and at its height was one of the most widespread religions in the world.

Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far east as China and as far west as the Roman Empire.[7] It was briefly the main rival to Christianity in the competition to replace classical paganism. An adherent of Manichaeism is called, especially in older sources,[9] a Manichee, or more recently Manichaean. History[edit] Life of Mani[edit] Influences[edit] General[edit]