Autosport

DANICA SUE PATRICK

Danica Sue Patrick is an American auto racing driver, model and advertising spokeswoman. She is the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel racing her win in the 2008 Indy Japan 300 is the only women's victory in an IndyCar Series race and her third place in the 2009 Indianapolis 500 the highest finish ever there by a woman. She competed in the series from 2005 to 2011. In 2012 she competed in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and occasionally in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. For the 2013 season, Patrick drives the No.10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet SS for StewartHaas Racing in the Sprint Cup Series, and a limited Nationwide Series schedule for Turner Motorsports. In 2013, she became the first female NASCAR driver to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pole, turning in the fastest qualifying lap since 1990 in qualifying for the Daytona 500.

Patrick started in kart racing and later raced Formula Ford in the United Kingdom before returning to the United States and moving up to IndyCars. She was named the Rookie of the Year for both the 2005 Indianapolis 500 and the 2005 IndyCar Series season. She holds the IRL record for most consecutive races running at the finish: as of October 2, 2011, she had completed 50 consecutive in the running (besting the record by 18). During her time in IndyCar, Patrick drove for Rahal Letterman Racing from 2005–2006, and Andretti Autosport from 2007 to 2011.

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Car No.	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Points	Position
1998	Formula Vauxhall Winter Series
1999	British Formula Vauxhall Championship							31	9th
2000	British Formula Ford Championship	Andy Welch Racing		14	0	0	0	3	19th
	Formula Ford Festival	Haywood Racing	89	1	0	0	0	N/A	2nd
	European Formula Ford Championship	Haywood Racing
2001	British Formula Ford Championship	Haywood Racing			0	0	0	10	25th
2002	Barber Dodge Pro Series	Team Rahal	89	5	0	0	0	35	13th
2003	American Le Mans Series GTS class	Veloqx Prodrive Racing	80	1	0	0	0	10	23rd
	Toyota Atlantic Championship	Team Rahal	24	12	0	0	0	109	6th
2004	Toyota Atlantic Championship	Team Rahal	24	12	0	1	1	269	3rd

* IndyCar Series Race 18 was abandoned due to the death of Dan Wheldon after 13 laps.

** Season in progress

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2005	Panoz	Honda	4	4	Rahal Letterman
2006	Panoz	Honda	10	8	Rahal Letterman
2007	Dallara	Honda	8	8	Andretti Green Racing
2008	Dallara	Honda	5	22	Andretti Green Racing
2009	Dallara	Honda	10	3	Andretti Green Racing
2010	Dallara	Honda	23	6	Andretti Autosport
2011	Dallara	Honda	25	10	Andretti Autosport

Japan building World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm

GOODBYE NUCLEAR !!!

It's goodbye nuclear, hello renewables as Japan prepares to build the world's largest offshore wind farm this July.

By 2020, the plan is to build a total of 143 wind turbines on platforms 16 kilometres off the coast of Fukushima, home to the stricken Daiichi nuclear reactor that hit the headlines in March 2011 when it was damaged by an earthquake and tsunami.

The wind farm, which will generate 1 gigawatt of power once completed, is part of a national plan to increase renewable energy resources following the post-tsunami shutdown of the nation's 54 nuclear reactors. Only two have since come back online.

The project is part of Fukushima's plan to become completely energy self-sufficient by 2040, using renewable sources alone. The prefecture is also set to build the country's biggest solar park.

The wind farm will surpass the 504 megawatts generated by the 140 turbines at the Greater Gabbard farm off the coast of Suffolk, UK – currently the world's largest farm. This accolade will soon pass to the London Array in the Thames Estuary, where 175 turbines will produce 630 megawatts of power when it comes online later this year. The Fukushima farm will beat this, too.

Massive construction

The first stage of the Fukushima project will be the construction of a 2-megawatt turbine, a substation and undersea cable installation. The turbine will stand 200 metres high. If successful, further turbines will be built subject to the availability of funding.

To get around the cost of anchoring the turbines to the sea bed, they will be built on buoyant steel frames which will be stabilised with ballast and anchored to the 200-metre-deep continental shelf that surrounds the Japanese coast via mooring lines.

Once the farm is running at full power, the intention is that it will supply electricity to the powerful grid which Fukushima's two nuclear power plants were connected to, reducing transmission costs.

Project manager Takeshi Ishihara of the University of Tokyo insists that the area's seismic activity won't be an issue for the turbines. His team have carried out computer simulations and water tank test to verify the safety of the turbines not just in the event of an earthquake or tsunami but also in other extreme conditions such as typhoons. "All extreme conditions have been taken into consideration in the design," he says.

Another contentious issue is the facility's impact on the fishing industry, which has already been rocked by the nuclear accident. Ishihara insists it is possible to turn the farm into a "marine pasture" that would attract fish. While there was some objections to the project by local people, Ishihara says is confident he has won them round. "This is hard work, but will be resolved this month," he says. "This project is important – I think it is impossible to use nuclear power in Fukushima again."

Did you Knw???: Airports

Did you Knw???: Airports: Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport-Mumbai/Bombay(BOM) The Old Entry currently being used.  We are talking about the Shri C...

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Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport-Mumbai/Bombay(BOM)

The Old Entry currently being used.

 We are talking about the Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport .Superb construction activities  and changes are being made at the airport site.The new building which is being under construction and which is gonna transform INDIA.

Mumbai the city of dreams and the financial capital of India generating half of India's foreign trade with over 20 million people living here it is the Densest City on the Planet. It is located on the western coast of INDIA.The city of Mumbai lies on an Island which just 3 Quarter the size of New York city with more resident than entire State of New York.
It is said tht in 5 years of time it will be goin to surpass China's GDP but India's Infrastructure is crumbling with only 40% of homes having running Water,most of its roads are unpaved and ASIA'S oldest Railway carrying 3 times its capacity.An important catalyst for Mumbai's 195 Billion Dollars resurgents is also in the worst shape.

The New Terminal would be like this(Top View)

Of their 650 daily flights only half of them arrive on time meaning that the city's only airport is in desparate need of an upgrade.It is one of the most complicated Infrastructure project in INDIA'S History by building  a Brand New Airport.Designed by SOM Architects a revolutionary 4 Million Square Foot Terminal topped by the one of the largest roofs in the world.It is designed to handle a 100 more flight a day nearly doubling its capacity to 45 Million travellers each year all built at the same spot of the country's 2nd busiest airport.Its single terminal is one of the largest in the world which maximizes the space with roof unlike any before.
The design of all major airports whether its JFK,Shanghai,etc share one common element they all have an enormous roof under which you check in,goes through security and go to ur gate.Now how u hold tht roof up whether D through columns or huge arches is tht which makes one airport different from another.
In Mumbai the roof which is 17acres in size which means the columns are no ordinary columns the column is known as Mega column.This terminal roof is covered by a skin like thermal plastic membrane spanning more than 10 city blocks to hold up all of 50000 tonnes of it without compromising the space below.

Engineers created 135 foot tall Mega Columns. The single column takes around 3.5 months to complete.
The architects created openness inside the terminal by limiting the no of columns.Typically a roof this large will require 60 mega columns 1 evry 100 ft. instead they added flaired steel caps called  pods to top of each of the mega columns spanning 105 ft out from the centre in either direction.The pods transfer loads laterally and then down each mega column allowing engineers to remove 30 mega columns and create more open space for passengers.

New terminal Building 

Mumbai's ageing airport was build 70 years ago once isolated 23 miles from downtown today its an island in sea of people surrounded with over half a million people residing in the city largest slums called Azad Nagar.
Currently handing a fifth of all the India's air traffic architects have to double the capacity with ideally adding 2nd runway 2 accomodate 36,000 more flight each year not an option with a population of size of MIAMI living around the airport and the biggest constraints of all is the area for building is just 1200 acres whereas Kuala Lumpur has 30000 acres to handle the same capacity of travellers.
So,instead of making 2nd terminal the architects created one innovated structure tht maximizes every inch of space.Most airports are long and stretch upto 1 mile limited to 2100 ft Mumbai's new airport will have 31 gates so architects pinch the terminal on 3 sides creating an extra 700 ft of surface area for more gates this allows them to handle more additional 100 flights each day.For the people to see the all planes they designed an all the glass terminal tht requires workers to build a 1 million sq.ft glass fissard which is the largest ever built near an active runway.Outside the engine sound is about 140db which is louder than a Rock Concert so to minimize sound inside architects added a 2nd layer of glass inside creating a 1/2 ince gap between the panes.This reduces noise to 40db just louder than a whisper.

World class Construction

The New Shri Chhtrapati Shivaji Airport is gonna be the Elite airport in the world.This airport is under construction which is costing a radical 2 Billion USD which will handle over 36,000 more flight a year.
12,000 workers are working to erect this massive terminal with one of the largest roof's ever made held by one of the most complexial structure ever conceived and all this happening near the active runway which is currently being used without cancelling a single flight.It is the most innovated Airport ever built
With the highest % of 1st time fliers in the world leaving Mumbai's Airport it is an big event for the family so for evry 1 person travelling an complete family of around 15 people comes to drop/ say goodbye.
Unable to expand beyond the existing airport's 1800 acres footprints architects designed it and expanded upwards designing a revolutionary membrane roof 190 ft above the ground that creates a Cathedral like 45000 sq.ft departure space by using an incredible structure.Pods are 55 ft tall steel support structure which stretch out laterally to create 24 individual arches.Now by linking all the 30 Maker columns into 1 interconnected steel frame loads can be transferred out and then down to the columns allowing engineers to hold up the entire 15000 tonne roof without compromising open space for the passengers below.
Each POD is an massive 275 tonne structure 14 times heavier than the maximum capacity of the tower crane.

The Arrivals and Departure of New Airport.

The Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport is the only airport not connected by major highway.So to reach the airport fast the engineers built a 6 lane elevated highway above the city is connected to main highway stretching over 2 miles so car can reach the airport in just 20 mins.This Highway is unique because it is just built on a single column which is built to save space below and covers 90 ft area for 6 vehicles to pass.
With 45 Million annual passengers and 750 flights each day laying the infrastructure for a modernizing city tht will change the face of INDIA

This world class airport is being constructed by GVK Infrastructure.

Which is the largest airport in the world?

King Fahd International Airport

King Fahd International Airport, Saudi Arabia 301 square miles which is nearly 10 times bigger than Manhattan.

Top 10 Gold Holding Countries of 2012

United States

Gold holdings: 8,133.5 tonnes

Percentage of total foreign reserves: 76.6%

Consumer demand in Q2 2012 for Jewelry: 19.8 tonnes

Consumer demand for total bar and coin invest in Q2 2012: 14.4 tonnes

Germany

Gold holdings: 3,395.5 tonnes

Percentage of total foreign reserves: 73.9%

Consumer demand for total bar and coin invest in Q2 2012: 34.2 tonnes

IMF

According to the International Monetary Fund, it holds a relatively large amount of gold among its assets, not only for reasons of financial soundness, but also to meet unforeseen contingencies.

Gold holdings: 2,814.0

Italy

Gold holdings: 2,451.8 tonnes

Percentage of total foreign reserves: 73.2%

Consumer demand in Q2 2012 for Jewelry: 4.8 tonnes

France

Gold holdings: 2,435.4 tonnes

Percentage of total foreign reserves: 73.2%

Consumer demand for total bar and coin invest in Q2 2012: 0.6 tonnes

China

Gold holdings: 1,054.1 tonnes

Percentage of total foreign reserves: 1.8%

Consumer demand in Q2 2012 for Jewelry: 93.8 tonnes

Consumer demand for total bar and coin invest in Q2 2012: 51.1 tonnes

Switzerland

Gold holdings: 1,040.1 tonnes

Percentage of total foreign reserves: 11.7%

Consumer demand for total bar and coin invest in Q2 2012: 17.3 tonnes

Russia

Gold holdings: 934.5 tonnes

Percentage of total foreign reserves: 10.1%

Consumer demand in Q2 2012 for Jewelry: 18.6 tonnes

Japan

Gold holdings: 765.2 tonnes

Percentage of total foreign reserves: 3.4%

Consumer demand in Q2 2012 for Jewelry: 3.8 tonnes

Consumer demand for total bar and coin invest in Q2 2012: 5.1 tonnes

Netherlands

Gold holdings: 612.5 tonnes

Percentage of total foreign reserves: 61.1%

India

Gold holdings: 557.7 tonnes

Percentage of total foreign reserves: 10.6%

Consumer demand in Q2 2012 for Jewelry: 124.8 tonnes

Consumer demand for total bar and coin invest in Q2 2012: 56.5 tonnes

How British East India Company Governed India? Part-6

British East India Company Governing India

When justice to India has been proclaimed and acted on as the basis of our future government, we may direct our thoughts to the relation in which we stand to our idolatrous fellow-subjects, and to the responsibilities of our position in reference to their religion. Our policy in this particular will probably, before long, undergo some modification. The task of governing India has hitherto been relegated to as clique of superannuated and often effete officials, with no views beyond the interests and exigencies of the hour. Nor has the legislature bestowed more than a passing thought on Indian affairs, because the public itself evinced a profound indifference to the subject. All this has now passed away, we believe, for ever, and the most fearful shock that the sensibilities of a nation ever received has recalled it to a sense of its duty. The religious question seems to have been more generally dwelt on than others, and the government will have at least to reconsider its policy on this momentous subject. A higher tone will be required to be taken both as regards Christianity and the popular superstitions. The degree of government interference will be a problem to solve of great difficulty and delicacy. It cannot, in this age, follow the example of Spain, and all modern theories of government are opposed to direct religious action by the state. It will be difficult to resist the popular demand for a government interposition, but it will be more perilous to yield to it. No government can, in the nineteenth century, undertake the propagation of  religious truth without departing from its first principles; nor can the legislature, of this country at least, invest any religious body with an exclusive commission for the conversion of the heathen. A general support and encouragement of missionary enterprise appears to be all that can be reasonably expected from it. State assistance may, perhaps, be afforded to every religious denomination supporting a missionary establishment; more, we think, cannot be demanded. A strong sense of public duty and responsibility will probably show itself in a vast augmentation of the means of missionary labour, to bear, we trust, at no distant day, abundant fruit.

However great may have been the anomalies and shortcomings of the imperial government of India, the affairs of no country were ever administered by a more able class of public servants than those selected for ministerial offices in the East. The local administration of India has been distinguished by an amount of ability of which this nation may well be proud. Let us do justice, too, in the hour of its inevitable dissolution, to the merits and services even of the East India Company. If it perpetrated great crimes it performed great actions. It governed India with energy, and generally with success. It sent into the East, as the representatives of its power and the instruments of its will, some of the most extraordinary men that ever took upon themselves the direction of public affairs or wielded the terrible energies of war, and the circumstances by which they were surrounded often developed the characters of these men into heroic proportions. Whether their actions were always regulated by the principles of street justice, may be unhappily questioned. The vigour of their policy, and possibly the necessities of their position, have undoubtedly, even of late years, tempted them to the commission or approval of acts both shocking to humanity and derogatory to a Christian people. We must here quote from a speech but recently delivered by Sir John Pakington at a provincial public meeting:"After the victory should have been gained, let them bear in mind that their own hands were not clean; India had not been governed as it ought. It was only yesterday that he had submitted to the astonished eyes of a large party in a country house official proof that in collecting the revenues of India there had been practised in the name of England—he would not say by the authority, but, he feared, not without the knowledge of Englishment—there had been practised tortures little less horrible than those which we now deplore."In conclusion, we have only to make a few remarks on the recent revolt in our great Indian Empire. It appears to be now accepted as a fact that it was the result of a vast Mahomedan conspiracy long organised, and having for its object the re-establishment of its ancient dominion. The Brah-minical element in Indian society combined with the Mahomedan for one common purpose, namely, the extermination of the British race. The rapid progress which European civilisation has made of late has been viewed by the Brahmin, indeed, with more alarm than by the Mahomedan. The one may have been actuated by ambition, but the other was impelled by the instinct of self-preservation.His traditional faith had received several severe shocks, some of its oldest customs had been authoritatively suppressed, and the diffusion of secular knowledge, and improvised education, and an active press threatened to undermine the very basis of the religious edifice. Both races probably viewed the extension and consolidation of British power with dismay. The fears of both for the future must naturally have been great. The progress of railways and the mysterious electric wire aroused undefined apprehensions, and it must have appeared that the alien race had, indeed, resolved to establish itself permanently in the land. A conspiracy at such a crisis, among such a people, and for a common object, cannot be considered an unnatural, if it was an unexpected, event. Advantage was taken of a period of supposed weakness of the British government to bring it to maturity. The well-known spirit of insubordination existing in the Bengal army was an excellent instrument for revolt, and an unintentional shock given to its religious prejudices afforded the wished-for opportunity. Such we conceive to be the rationale of the Indian rebellion.

The great minister who personifies the good sense and practical earnestness, not less than the spirit, of the British people, will not, we are confident, neglect the great opportunity which now offers itself for remodelling the Indian government. He may accomplish that for which other statesmen, less favoured by circumstances, have toiled and striven in vain. Immortalised in European history, he may now earn an imperishable name in the future annals of India as the statesman who first conferred on that long-neglected country the blessing of a stable and uniform government. This great act of justice and policy will throw all his former services and diplomatic triumphs into the shade, and light up the evening of his life with all the "sunset glories" of a prolonged and brilliant career. His countrymen have unbounded confidence in his firmness and virtue, and he may rely upon their sympathy and support. He may rest assured that this great convulsion has been fraught with much instruction, and that it has taught many lessons which they are not likely to forget. It has taught us the necessity of a radical change in our whole system of government, and the propriety of an immediate assertion, throughout India, of the sovereignty of the British Crown. It has taught us the fatuity and wickedness of our former indifference to the interests of the vast territories committed to our care, and may it teach us, in the words of that great man to whose capacious mind the affairs of British India were almost as intimately present as those of his own country or parish, that "it is not a predilection for mean, sordid, home-bred cares that will aver the consequences of a false estimation of our interest, or prevent the dilapidation into which a great empire must fall by mean reparations upon mighty ruins!"

How British East India Company Governed India? Part-5

British East India Company Governing India

It is on the constitution and functions of this celebrated department of Spanish administration that we wish to briefly remark, as affording an example of the policy of a nation placed in circumstances somewhat analogous to our own. It was composed of the most eminent statesmen of the Spanish nation, well acquainted with the colonies, eminent for the purity of their characters, and illustrious for their public services. These men, celebrated even in the age of great characters, were selected by their sovereign to assist him in arduous task of ruling his distant empire, and in them was vested the supreme government of all the Spanish dominions in America. The jurisdiction of the council extended to every department—ecclesiastical, civil, military, and commercial. All the laws and ordinances relative to the government and police of the colonies originated there, and required the approval of two-thirds of the members before they were issued in the name of the king. To it every person employed was made responsible, and every plan originated or suggested by the viceroys fro improvising the administration or police of their governments was submitted to its decision. "From the first institution of the Council of the Indies," says Robertson, "it has been the constant habit of the Catholic monarchs to maintain its authority and to make such additions from time to time, both to its power and splendour, as might render it formidable to all their subjects in the New World. Whatever degree of public order and virtue still remains in that country, where so many circumstances conspire to relax the former and to corrupt the latter, may be ascribed in a great measure to the wise regulations and vigilant inspection of this respectable tribunal."

A presiding and regulating council such as this, but constituted in the way that we have suggested, is, we conceive, the description of government adapted for our great East Indian dependency. The statesman to whom the great powers for ruling India are delegated must necessarily be supreme and irresponsible in India, his policy receiving only its general direction from the great council at Whitehall, and he should be aided by a local council appointed by the Crown. We believe it to be generally felt that the governor-general, while he might enter into wars entailing the expenditure of millions, has been restricted from initiating any public improvements costing more than 5000l. a year. All works requiring a larger outlay have been referred to the home authorities. A governor-general and his council sitting at a Calcutta must be far better judges of the immediate economical requirements of India than a body of gentlemen, however able, whether sitting in Leadenhall-street or Whitehall. An apprehension of future censure from the home council would, we need not add, be one of the worst of errors, and could result only in confusion.

Not the least remarkable of the many astonishing characteristics of the recent revolt has been the complete secrecy in which its origin and organisation are shrouded. The government, notwithstanding the tens of thousands of intelligent and educated natives in its pay and employment, and, without doubt, more or less cognisant of the gigantic conspiracy for the extinction of the British rule and race, never received from any official the slightest intimation of the approaching danger. The history of the world cannot furnish another instance of such complete and wide-spread treachery. A complete reorganisation of the police, revenue, and native judicial establishments would appear to be inevitable. No native can, we fear, for a long period, be trusted even in subordinate offices. Great reforms are called for in the general administration of justice throughout India. The multiplication of tedious written forms and the oppression of stamps are evils of great magnitude, and require speedy redress. A commission is now engaged in the labour of reforming the civil code, and much may be expected from it; therefore we entertain strong hopes of improvements in this direction. Brevity of process, rapidity of decision, and a restricted right of appeal, are the objects to be aimed at in this as in all other legal reforms.

Next in importance to the necessity of providing a competent council for the transaction of Indian business is the great question of the Indian debt. Now this debt represents the sums of money which have been spent for the two purposes of carrying on the Indian trade during the time that the Company was a commercial association, and of conquering the country. For the former of these objects we have spent a sum redeemable at twelve millions sterling, representing the capital of an extinct company, of which the imperial government has thought proper to guarantee the interest and provide for the repayment. The interest of this debt is charged upon the revenues and raised by the taxation of India. The people of India, therefore, are paying interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum upon a capital which the government has, with the grossest injustice, fixed as an incumbrance upon their country. The government of England has, moreover, charged upon the natives of India a debt of fifty millions sterling, incurred not in wars of defence but in wars of aggrandisement, and undertaken for carrying out its imperial policy. What can be said for the paternal character of the British government while such a blot as this remains conspicuous to the world? How do such acts differ in principle from the very worst proconsular exactions of the Roman Empire? We capitalise the money that we have spent in extending our empire, and to secure interest upon this we impose taxes upon India, which are remitted to England, and we send out collectors and an army to gather in these taxes for the relief of British finance. Until we have removed from ourselves the reproach of such injustice let us cease to proclaim our anxiety for the christianisation of India. Our hands are not clean; our conscience is not clear. Every rupee raised in India should, after providing the ordinary expenses of government, be expended for the benefit of India. We may then without hypocrisy, and in self-denying earnestness, address ourselves to the task of enlightening and converting the population which we rule.