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India 2.0 by Mick Brown - Part one - Telegraph. A t Mysore, we turned off the main road, passing for a mile or two through tranquil countryside, until suddenly arriving at the campus. Another heavily guarded gate. Another laminated pass. Each year Infosys recruits between 15,000 and 18,000 new employees from engineering courses at universities around India. They are selected not on the basis of their technological skills – a given – but on their analytical ability, language skills, and what the company’s head of training, Srikantan Moorthy, calls ‘their learnability’. Opened in 2005 at a cost of $450 million, at 350 acres the Infosys Global Education Centre is the largest corporate campus in the world.

The campus is a bravura statement of corporate ambition. Here, new employees are trained in data-processing systems, software applications, project management and business analysis. Infosys invests $150-200 million in training each year – about $7,000 per employee, or ‘Infosysian’, as they are known. Job security was very important. Summer X Games 2013 Foz Do Iguaçu, Brazil. ASPEN, Colo. -- The room was hopping.

Summer X Games 2013 Foz Do Iguaçu, Brazil

Seemingly everywhere you looked, X Games athletes were eating, laughing and enjoying a few minutes out of the spotlight. Some played video games. Others received a massage. Projects in South Africa. Gap Year South Africa offers 3 week, 5 week, 3 month and 5 month project options in Cape Town, South Africa.

Projects in South Africa

Our volunteer projects include Community Development, Hillsong Africa Foundation, Ultimate Ocean Adventure and Surfing Projects. Please note the Ultimate Ocean Adventure Project is only offered as a 5 week, 3 month or 5 month projects due to the length of time required to complete the specialised activities involved in this specific project. Community work with children in Goa, India. Community work with children in Goa, India Plenty of people flock to Goa for the beaches, sea, sand and laid back way of life but there is another side to Goa that many do not see.

Community work with children in Goa, India

These are the slum areas of Goa where many people live and who try and scrape a living together. There are many migrant workers who have flocked here to find work but now find that they are in a difficult situation without childcare for their children, as a result many children are left to fend for themselves out on the streets all day. We work with a number of projects that aim to give the children somewhere safe for the day and provide a good basic education, meals, care and attention. Ambue Ari Gap Year Wild Animal Sanctuary Project, Bolivia - Quest Overseas. Information Technology (IT) Revolution in India. The electronic media has ushered in a revolution - the Information Technology (IT) revolution.

Information Technology (IT) Revolution in India

It has shrunk the world to such an extent that it could be called a 'global village'. No achievement of science has brought about such a transformation as IT. It has opened up an infinite number of new avenues in the fields of health care, education, entertainment, communication, commerce and agriculture. Information Technology is an integrated technology which integrates computer, magnetic storage media, television, telecommunications, industries and various software systems to operate all such things.

Lawnbott Robot Mower – RobotShop. Aboutmyplanet. How Do Olympians Keep Getting Better? - Despite arguments that humans are reaching the limits of athletic potential, world records continue to fall. - More people in more places now have access to more sports for longer periods of time. - When one athlete breaks a time barrier, the notion of what's possible expands for the next generation.

How Do Olympians Keep Getting Better?

In the first week of competition at this year's Olympic Games, nine world records fell in the swimming pool, including 17-year old Missy Franklin's new standard in the 200-meter backstroke and Rebeccas Soni's personal best in the 200 breaststroke, even though many of the previous records were set by swimmers wearing now-banned extra-buoyant suits. Chinese weightlifter Zhou Lulu beat Russian rival Tatiana Kashirina with a combined total of 333 kilograms (734 pounds) in a two-part event, after Kashirina became the first woman ever to snatch more than 150 kilograms (331 pounds). NEWS: Olympic Doping Scandal Over Chinese Swimmer Grows. C.N.KALLIPOLIS - Natació Sincronitzada - Synchronized Swimming - Barcelona, Catalunya (Spain) Objetivo 2012 - 28/04/10, Objetivo 2012. Ona Carbonell. Nuestra protagonista de este mes es Ona Carbonell Ballestero.

Ona Carbonell.

Esta deportista de 22 años compagina su puesto en el top mundial de la natación sincronizada con la carrera de diseño y con su pasión por lo artístico.En la entrevista nos explica como alguien que dedica 10 horas diarias a entrenar y tiene multitud de viajes puede a su vez desarrollar una carrera formativa y pensar en sus inquietudes profesionales futuras. Actualmente, está preparando su cita olímpica en Londres donde ella y todo el equipo tienen grandes aspiraciones. Pregunta: ¿Con qué edad empezaste y por qué la natación sincronizada? Ona: Comencé a los 10 años; antes hacía gimnasia rítmica pero no me acababa de convencer ya que una de mis pasiones era el agua.

Descubrí que con la natación sincronizada podría unir el agua con lo artístico y así comencé en el club natació Kallipolis. Recovered Entrevista digital con Ona Carbonell en EL PAÍS. Ona Carbonell: "El carácter español nos hace competir con rusas y chinas" Las chicas de la 'sincro'. London 2012 Olympics: David Rudisha is the star of Games, says Seb Coe. By Jonathan McEvoy Published: 20:13 GMT, 10 August 2012 | Updated: 20:53 GMT, 10 August 2012.

London 2012 Olympics: David Rudisha is the star of Games, says Seb Coe

Young, barefoot and fiercely competitive: Kenya's future athletes. In 1996, on a warm September evening in Rieti, Italy, a 20-year-old Kenyan called Daniel Komen ran one of the most incredible races in athletics history, slicing over four seconds off the world record in the 3000m.

Young, barefoot and fiercely competitive: Kenya's future athletes

World record leaves us wondering, how low can David Rudisha go in 800? - David Epstein. David Rudisha has lost only one 800-meter race since deciding to run from the front of the pack.

World record leaves us wondering, how low can David Rudisha go in 800? - David Epstein

Simon Bruty/SI LONDON -- This was the beginning of the season, months before he would run an 800-meters world record 1:40.91 in the Olympic final -- without a pacesetter -- in a performance that managed the impossible: it made Usain Bolt's 200-meter gold the second most memorable performance of the night. Running the show. Middle man ...

Running the show

How To Coach Olympians Without Ever Breaking a Sweat. 'The secret is that you think there's a secret' At the heart of Iten sits St Patrick's high school. Set up in 1961 by Irish Patrician Brothers, it is in many ways a typical Kenyan secondary school. In other ways, though, it is a quite remarkable school. Along one wall in the large, dimly lit dining room, beyond the rows of long benches and tables, is the school's wall of fame. It's full of framed photographs of runners. Search for Your Favorite Animals.

Student Blogs. Reserva y Vuela. Round the world flights. This article is a travel topic Rather than buying separate flights from one destination to another, a flexible and sometimes cheaper way of international travel is via Round the world (RTW) tickets. A round the world ticket is a plane ticket allowing you to fly around the world, usually over a period of up to a year and with between three and twenty stops at different airports. TripPlanner powered by AirTreks: Plan and Price your Custom Around the World or Multi Stop International Airfare.

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Self-cleaning cotton nanoparticle coating invented. Microsoft’s automated Future Home, what can go wrong? Most folks love to try out new apps, yet what if those location-aware apps were not for your phone but instead for your home? Houseof2027.jpg 2.000×1.273 píxeles. Home of the Future - the Perera family after the experience. Your High Tech Home In 2020.

Inside the house of the future. Sustainable cities. Le Mag Surf. Social enterprise in India makes steady progress. Davos 2013: new vision for agriculture is old news for farmers. World’s young farmers strive for recognition. I’ve seen the future in India, and Britain can share the spoils.