Update - June 27, 2010:

Saina Nehwal of India wins the Djarum Indonesian open 2010 badminton tournament. She beat Sayaka Sato of Japan in a 3-game thriller 21-19 13-21 21-11.

With this victory, Saina completes an incredible hat trick of titles in the last 3 weeks. She started with winning the Indian Open Grandprix, followed it up with winning LiNing Singapore Open and now wins the Indonesian Open Super Series. Bring on the Chinese, Saina is waiting…

Saina holds the flag at the presentation ceremony -

Saina with Indian flag after winning Indoesia Open 2010 super series

Saina took an early lead in the first game but Sayaka came back sharply to level at 17 each. But Sayaka made some unforced errors and Saina took the first game. In the second game, Sayaka demonstrated why she was a force to reckon with by pulling off some powerful smashes to take the second game. In the third game, Saina again took an early lead and kept playing a combination of rallies and smart net game and with some unforced errors from Sayaka; it was a well deserved victory for Saina Nehwal - her 3rd back to back title in the last 3 weeks. Following is the statistics about the game from tournamentsoftware.com -

Match Statistics Indonesia Open Super Series Womens Final

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Top seed Saina Nehwal of India has reached the finals of Djarum Indoesian Open 2010. She beat 4th seed Eriko HIROSE from Japan 21-9 21-10 in just 27 minutes.

She will be meeting Sayaka Sato in the finals tomorrow. If Saina wins the final, this will be her 3rd back to back tournament wins.

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1. LI-NING SINGAPORE OPEN SUPER SERIES 2010
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Jai Guru

Details of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS) satellite center in J.P.Nagar, Bangalore:

Timings: Every Sunday 6 to 7pm, starting from June 20th 2010
Address: B-404, Magnolia
Brigade Millennium apartment complex
J.P.Nagar 7th phase
Bangalore-78

Landmark: This is next to puttenahalli lake. Brigade millennium is a pretty well known landmark in J.P.Nagar.

Its about 1.5 kms from Bannerghatta road, about 3-4kms from B.T.M layout

Parking: Vehicles may be parked on the roads adjoining the
apartment complex

215C, 215H - buses that ply to 7th phase from Jayanagar area

Contact Person: Sri Ajay Madan
Phone numbers 98805 97188 (Cell)
2696 2044, 659 77 104 (Residence Land Lines)

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Find below the results from the Singapore Open Super Series 2010 badminton tournament.

Update: 20th June 2010

wow!!!! Saina Nehwal wins the Singapore open super series 2010. She beats Tzu Ying TAI 21-18 21-15 in the finals that lasted 33 minutes.

Update: 19th June 2010

Saina Nehwal of India reaches the finals of the Singapore open series 2010. She beat 4th seed Lan LU 8-21 21-17 21-8 in a match that lasted just under 50 minutes.

Kashyap of India loses to 7th Seed Sony KUNCORO. Kashyap gave Sony a very tough fight before going down 19-21, 20-22. Kashyap and Sony were going neck to neck in both games, and Sony scored the crucial points to win both games. Dont lose heart Kashyap, you have done a great job in this tournament and will do even better in future tournaments.

4th seed Boonsak Ponsana beats 2nd seed Peter Gade in a 3-game thriller. Scores - 20-22 21-17 21-16. The match lasted an hour and 8 minutes.

Biggest update of 18th June is that top seed Chong Wei Lee has lost to the 7th seed Sony KUNCORO of Indonesia. The scores: 7-21 21-19 21-15

India’s top seed Saina Nehwal moves ahead to semi finals by defeating China’s Xuerui LI. Scores - 21-17 21-14.

Other Indian players Arvind Bhat, Jwala/Diju, Jwala/Ashwini lose in their quarter final games. Kashyap beat Arvind Bhat to reach the semis.

Here is how Saina Nehwal reached Semis -

Round1:
Saina beat Mew Choo WONG 21-8 21-5. Game lasted 22mins. Mew had given Saina a tough time in their previous match in Chennai open finals a week ago, which Saina ultimately won.

Round2:
Saina beat Ella DIEHL 21-13 23-21

Round3 (Quarter Finals):
Saina beat Xuerui LI 21-17 21-14

Kashyap caused the biggest upset by beating world no. 6 Tien Minh NGUYEN to on his way to reach semis. He won in direct games 23-21, 21-18.

For all the latest scores and results, visit - http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=5E200010-1C05-4868-931C-95ED80F5F4BB&d=20100618

Watch one of Jwala/Ashwini’s match here at Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLn5l_YSKa4

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Results of the Indian Grand Prix tournament that happened b/w June 8th to June13th at Chennai.

Womens Singles

Saina Nehwal overcame an initial setback of losing the first game to comfortably win the next 2 games against Malaysia’s Mew Choo Wong to win the Womens singles title. The scores - 20-22, 21-14, 21-12.

Saina admitted that she was nervous during the first game. But she changed strategy to play an attacking game (her natural game) in the next two games against Mew, whose energy levels was dipping starting from the 2nd game. Saina’s stamina and the attacking game made all the difference.

Mens Singles

Yunus Alamsyah lifted the men’s title by defeating Guru Sai Dutt, who was playing his first international finals. The scores - 21-13, 21-18.

Yunus was the discovery of this tournament. He doesnt have an attacking game; but is very good at playing the defensive game and has opponents making mistakes. The best thing about Alamsyah is his creativity at the net, and his wristy dribbles send the opponents in the wrong direction. The effectiveness of his game is evident from the fact that he defeated top seeded Chetan Anand, Arvind Bhat other than Guru Sai Dutt.

Men’s doubles

Rupesh Kumar and Sonave Thomas lost to the Malaysian pair of Mohd Fairuzizuan and Mohd Zarki. The malaysian pair was far superior to the indian pair. The indian pair played a lovely 2nd game which was close but the malaysian pair kept their nerves to win it. The scores - 21-12, 22-20.

Mixed doubles

The top seeded pair of Diju Valiyanti/Jwala Gutta won the mixed doubles title defeating Chayut Triachart/Lei Yao of Singapore. The scores - 23-21, 20-22, 21-7.

Women’s doubles:

The Indian pair of Ashwini Ponnappa/Jwala Gutta lost to singapore pair of Lei Yao/Shinta Mulia Sari. The scores 21-11, 19-21, 21-15.

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Are you unable to download the guidance letter from the VFS website? After scheduling appointment, When you click on the ‘guidance sheet’ link, do you get a ‘page cannot be displayed’ error?

Check out the following link for the solution -

http://golumolu.in/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=14

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It was a lovely morning on 23rd May 2010, the day of the Sunfeast Marathon 2010. There was furious activity around the stadium right from 6am in the morning. The races were scheduled to start from 06:30am in the morning.

All kinds of people participated in the races - Professional runners, people with disabilities, corporates, representatives from various NGOs, general public participating in the 10K and the Majja Run(5.7Km). In the Majja Run, there was also a competition for best dressed runners. A lot of people turned up in interesting costumes, most of them with a message. Messages included support for Cancer, Alzheimer type of diseases to other initiatives like ‘Go Green’ and give way to ambulance etc. Finally it was Enable India, an NGO for enabling people with disabilities, that walked away with the top honors for best costume/theme.

Did you know -
Sunfeast World 10K Bangalore is an IAAF Gold Label Road Race event. It is one of only three 10K races in the world which have been give the Gold Label status by IAAF.

A few interesting moments captured shown below -

Practice run for Professional runners

marathon2010 practice run for professional runners

10K Race kick-off for general public

marathon2010 general public 10K race kick off

Interesting costumes by different participants

marathon2010 interesting costumes

marathon2010 interesting costumes 2

NGO Enable India team

The team won the best costume award at the races.

marathon2010 Enable India full team celebrating

And the winners are -

10K (Men)

1. Titus Mbieshei (Kenya) 27:54
2. Moses Kipsiro (Uganda) 28:08
3. Feyisa Lelisa (Kenya) 28:23
4. Deriba Merga (Ethiopia) 28:32
5. Edwin Kipkorir (Kenya) 28:35

10K (Women)
1. Yimer Wude of Ethiopia 31:58
2. Aselefech Mergia of Ethiopia 32:00
3. Grace Momanyi (Kenya) 32:05
4. Koren Yal (Ethiopia) 32:17
5. Aberu Kebede (Ethiopia) 32:21

Sunil Kumar and Preethi Rao won the top honors for men & womens category for India.

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Tennis elbow - ouch. The pain is not so much physical, but more psychological. The pain is in not being able to play the way you want to play and how much you want to play. It forces you to be away from your favorite game and thats the worst part.

In this article, I will not talk about the medical aspects of the tennis elbow issue. There are several articles on the web that have a lot of details about the cure etc. I want to talk about my experience of buying a badminton racket that provided me great relief from Tennis elbow problem and had several other benefits. Read on….

The question is - what kind of badminton racket should someone choose who has the Tennis elbow problem? I read another article on the web that explained the science behind using a light racket Vs a heavier one and its impact on injuries. It compared the racket to a sledge hammer. If you swing the hammer with its head on top, there is going to be a lot of power or impact but will affect your arm & shoulder. Reverse it; in the sense hold the head of the hammer and swing the handle and the feeling is different.

The same analogy is used for the rackets being heavy on the head Vs the handle. Companies like Yonex, HEAD, Wilson, Ashaway have head-lite racket series. These rackets are light on the head and slightly heavier on the handle. Such rackets are ideal for people with shoulder injuries or Tennis elbow.

I did a lot of research and finally bought Yonex Nanoseries 4500 for myself. Nanoseries is the head lite series of Yonex. Had carbonex 7000DF before this. WHAT A RELIEF after I played my first few games with this new racket. The stress on the elbow has reduced to a great extent. Given the racket is overall light (80g only), the speed of swinging has increased and hence I am able to react faster to picking up shots or hitting back clears. Smashes are quite good because of speed of swing. The best part is that it has improved my backhand shots which typically is a weak point for many players.

Wow. what a racket. Thoroughly satisfied with it. The specs for the racket is given below -

Flexibility Medium
Composition (Frame) Graphite
Composition (Shaft) H.M. Graphite, FULLERENE
Weight / Grip Size 3U (85.0-89.9 g) / G3, 4, 5
Color Blue

References / Other interesting articles related to this blog -

About Tennis elbow/injuries
http://golumolu.in/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=9

http://badminton-racket.blogspot.com/2008/07/badminton-rackets-and-injuries.html

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BBMP has launched a website where one can check if their name is in the voters list. Check out the link provided below. It is fast and works without any issues. You need not fill up all the fields; though filling up all of them will give you a quicker match.

http://www.bbmpelections.info/bbmpele/kescUIsearchVoters.aspx

Other than the name, you can also get ward number, part number, polling booth details etc.

Lets vote!

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In recent months, there has been an increasing media attention on social networking sites; and how this impacts business, compliance, security and so on. Some staggering statistics (which I reference later in this article) have been thrown in to demonstrate the crazy adoption rates of the social media.

Social media, it appears, is here to stay and companies are now understanding that it’s not about blocking access now, but realizing that controlling and enabling access is the way forward.. It would sound naive to assume leadership teams in companies haven’t yet begun this process, some still block access, others are engaging with vendors that help manage and control the use of social media, and some are just giving it some more time. So in this post, I don’t focus too much on the statistics or impact of social media but look at the next steps for companies who understand the need to manage social media.

There are several aspects for CIOs/Head of IT departments to consider while evaluating policies for social media as well as for evaluating solutions to manage social media usage in the network.

Compliance Considerations

FINRA in their recent webinar indicated that companies will not be given a compliance grace period because Social Media technology is new and evolving. FINRA has asked companies to not allow usage of Social Media if they cannot supervise it or the social media site does not support archival. Bottom line - Companies must retain, archive and retrieve to be compliant.

If you are in a regulated industry, such as the financial services sector, you need to consider tools that either allow you to block access to unsanctioned social media and/or invest in a solution that allows you to monitor, archive and review content posted through social media.

Read the full article here - http://blog.facetime.com/2010/02/social-media-impacts-business.html

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The consistency with which attacks are happening in Australia against Indians and Indian symbols is very alarming. It started with a few racial attacks; a lot of noise being made in the media; things die down a bit; and in the last few days the attacks have resumed and with renewed vigor. More people attacked, and the list now includes religious places also. There was a gurudwara that was set on fire today.

Where is all this headed to? Will we continue to see S.M.Krishna condemning the attacks, Australian government saying there is no proof to indicate the attacks were racially motivated; while the attacks keep happening?

The BJP government is right in demanding PM’s personal intervention in this issue. We have given sufficient time for the Australian government to act and control these attacks. And Bal Thackeray’s statement that Indians should not play Australians in cricket seems right. How can we play with a country where our brothers are being attacked; our religious places targeted? We similarly need to step up the protests in various different ways.

Enough is enough. We need to make more noise and take concrete steps instead of just making diplomatic statements.

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