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Sukumar Remembers His Dear Friend Prasad, Pens An Emotional Post

Director Sukumar recently got emotional, as his longtime friend and manager Prasad suddenly passed away due to heart attack last month. His sudden demise literally broke Sukumar and he still hasn't recovered from the shock. Sadly, due to the lockdown, he




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Cabinet Secy chairs a meeting with Chief, Health Secretaries of all states/UTs to review COVID-19 preparations

He requested state governments to cooperate with railways in running of more Shramik special trains.




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Composing community in late medieval music: self-reference, pedagogy, and practice / Jane D. Hatter

Lewis Library - ML172.H4 2019




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Music and the moderni, 1300-1350: the ars nova in theory and practice / Karen Desmond

Lewis Library - ML172.D47 2018




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Liszt's representation of instrumental sounds on the piano: colors in black and white / Hyun Joo Kim

Lewis Library - ML410.L7 K54 2019




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Allusion as narrative premise in Brahms's instrumental music / Jacquelyn E.C. Sholes

Lewis Library - ML410.B8 S42 2018




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Data-based methods for materials design and discovery: basic ideas and general methods / Ghanshyam Pilania, Prasanna V. Balachandran, James E. Gubernatis, Turab Lookman

Online Resource




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Fundamentals of nanoparticles: classifications, synthesis methods, properties and characterization / edited by Ahmed Barhoum, Abdel Salam Hamdy Makhlouf

Hayden Library - TA418.9.N35 F87 2018




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An accurate free energy estimator: based on MM/PBSA combined with interaction entropy for protein–ligand binding affinity

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10638C, Paper
Kaifang Huang, Song Luo, Yalong Cong, Susu Zhong, John Z. H. Zhang, Lili Duan
Modifying the energy term and considering the entropic contribution by IE method significantly improve the accuracy of predicted binding free energy in MM/PBSA method.
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Materials engineering, processing, and device application of hydrogel nanocomposites

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01456G, Minireview
Gi Doo Cha, Wang Hee Lee, Chanhyuk Lim, Moon Kee Choi, Dae-Hyeong Kim
The integration of patterning technologies and functional hydrogel nanocomposites enables their advanced device applications such as sensors, actuators, energy devices, and tissue engineering scaffolds.
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Promote all school students next year or use internal assessment mechanism: Kapil Sibal

With uncertainty looming over the 2020-2021 academic session of schools in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, former Human Resource Development Mini




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Ongoing first quarter is challenging, says SBI Card CEO Hardayal Prasad

Expect ‘business as usual’ scenario returning from October; current operations at 60 per cent of pre-Covid levels




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Covid-19 demands an adaptive response, says ICICI Pru Life Insurance

On digital drive to boost staff productivity; taking steps for their safety too




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SBI to launch pre-approved personal kits for its employees

State Bank of India (SBI) on Sunday said it is planning to introduce a pre-approved personal loan offering through its digital banking solution YONO.T



  • Money & Banking

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India needs ‘whole-of-govt approach’ to confront strategic uncertainties: Army Chief

The time has come for India to adopt a “whole-of-government approach” in decisively confronting the “strategic uncertainties” looming on its horizon a




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India’s coal production to clock record 700 million tonnes in FY21: Coal Secretary

Coal Secretary Anil Jain said FY20 coal production was lower than the target of 660 million tonnes because of flooding of a key coal mine.




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Coronavirus: 28 states, UTs ban smokeless tobacco products, spitting

Over 25 states and union territories, including Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Delhi, have banned the use of smokeless tobacco produc




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Lower crude oil price: Oil Ministry forms panel to review production sharing contracts

Production from PSCs now stands around 30% share of domestic oil, 20% of natural gas




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HDFC AMC Q4 net profit down 9% on lower income

HDFC Asset Management Company has reported nine per cent fall in March quarter net profit at ₹250 crore against ₹276 crore in the same period last ye




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Vizag mishap: NDMA prescribes one week trial-run for all industries

Expert committee evaluating safety of deserted villages




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Dishwashers, refrigerators, trimmers, large screen TVs becoming preferred appliances

Many companies, including Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Whirlpool of India and BSH Home appliances, in the country are getting enquiries from people confined in their homes about such products.




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ISL, I-League await domestic revision after AIFF approves reduction of foreigners




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‘Virgil van Dijk is the best centre-back in Premier League history’: Vincent Kompany




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EB-Quess contract row: East Bengal players to approach AIFF through players’ body




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Union Minister Babul Supriyo booked by Kolkata police for sharing fake picture on Twitter

Supriyo has shared the picture on May 8, claiming that if Sinha and Banerjee are together then it "raises many questions".




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TN: Private bus carrying stranded citizens of Kerala collides with water tanker on Karur-Salem highway, 25 injured

It is said to be the first road accident in Karur district after the lockdown was announced.











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Black Light Express by Phillip Reeve


From my recent review of Black Light Express for Locus:


Philip Reeve’s absolutely incredible world building again takes center stage in Black Light Express, the sequel to Railhead. The second book picks up soon after the events that brought Railhead to a stunning close, with former thief and unwitting catalyst Zen Starling having fled the Network Empire along with Nova, his android girlfriend. Meanwhile, completely against her will, Threnrody Noon, the Paris Hilton of the empire-controlling Noon family, has assumed the position of Empress. She is only a pawn of more powerful interests however and virtually trapped in the palace attending a haze of pointless engagements while her former fiance, Kobi, is on the other side of the galaxy about to be forced into a corporate approved marriage with someone he has never met. Basically, the fallout from Railhead is reverberating across all the lives of the major characters while, unknown to them, it’s about to get a lot lot worse. 

What Black Light Express (and the first book, Railhead), offers readers is sentient trains, a vapid rich girl who decides she doesn't want to be a pawn anymore, political machinations, alien technology, aliens, dinosaur-descended aliens, human-android romance, the fact that the human-android romance is the best kind of romance, more stupid rich people, the satisfaction of rich people losing because they are stupid, a protagonist who is smart and scrappy and more than willing to walk on the wrong side of the law because playing by the rules gets you only so far (and those rich jerks are the ones who wrote the rules in the first place).

Oh - and a train is killed and that is far more upsetting than you would think. 

As I wrote in my review, I'm really surprised that these books are not more well known. They  are excellent SF (which is not too common in the YA literary world) as well as being excellent political mirrors for much of modern society. Check them out!




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Otevřeno pro jednoho hosta. Pandemie inspirovala vznik svérázných restaurací

Celosvětová pandemie koronaviru, kvůli které nejspíš zkrachují tisíce restaurací, inspirovala koncept švédské restaurace Bord For En (Stůl pro jednoho). Podnik bude servírovat tříchodové menu vždy jen pro jediného hosta. Stolovat se bude venku na louce, s výhledem do zeleně, uvedla ve své reportáži stanice CNN. Restaurace se otevře 10. května a bude v provozu jen přes léto.



  • Ekonomika - Zahraniční

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Hospodářská komora kritizuje Prahu: Už tu nechceme trdla a matrjošky

Historické centrum Prahy je kvůli vládním opatřením liduprázdné. Skomírají malé provozovny, jen občas je k vidění stánek s trdelníky. Hospodářská komora Prahy 1 se proto obává o osud místních podnikatelů.



  • Ekonomika - Domácí





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Former Rockford Peaches pitcher Mary Pratt dies

Mary Pratt, who played for the Rockford Peaches and Kenosha Comets in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, has died




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NHL execs express mixed feelings over proposal to hold draft early

There are mixed feelings among executives about the idea, ranging from frustration to begrudging acceptance.





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Preventing loneliness and social isolation for older people (cards)



  • Toolkits
  • evidence-informed practice
  • Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS)






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Preserving the history of social work: Golden Bridge