Soma Purana

It was interesting to find out soma towns/villages called Soma. Soma in Gambia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma,_the_Gambia Soma in Japan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dma,_Fukushima The Swahili word “Soma” means “to learn”

This is not about Facebook or Twitter but about social networks at a higher level which always have existed. The following lecture is quite interesting. http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/math/videos/12821-social-networks-that-balance-themselves-by-steven-strogatz

NY Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/science/space/16planet.html Watch some videos http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=111428821 http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/kepler-16b-new-planet-2-suns-nasa-video-2838028.html

Strogatz is an eminent mathematician and professor at Cornell. Watch his beautiful talk at http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_strogatz_on_sync.html Read on his outstanding blogs at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/steven-strogatz/

I forgot to mention I was the lone juror referred to the article.

Since I remembered my jury date around 9/11/2001, I though I would share an article that appeared in Trentonian (Trenton daily newspaper) on 9/17/2001 under the title "Standing Alone." I am posting the full article below. " Like a scene straight out of the movie, Twelve Angry Men one juror stood alone in his verdict during the trial of accused Ewing wife-stabber Gregory DeLozier. But unlike the film, the man failed to sway the other 11 jurors to agree with him and instead frustrated them to the point where they would reconsider sitting on another panel. Advertisement "He was completely deadlocked from the start. We tried for three and a half days to show him our argument, but there was no helping it. I don't even know if he knew what his position was in the end," said one juror, still annoyed days later. The jury of seven women and five men deliberated for almost 20 hours over three days before Superior Court Judge Ir...

What I was involved in on 9/11/2001 is clearly etched in my mind. I was a jury in a month-long trial in an attempted murder case. We had concluded the trial and closing statements were scheduled on the morning of 9/11/2001. All the 12 jurors including me were waiting in the jury room having no clue that the two planes had struck the WTC. The judge Ira Kreizman invited us to the court room around 10am and told us a very unfortunate incident had happened and gave us some details that he knew. He told us if we are too perturbed we could go home and continue on the following day. We jurors went back to jury room and discussed what we should do. We decided that we could not fall victim to the terrorists plan to halt America and went back to the court room and told the judge we intend to continue and serve our duty. The closing statements took up the rest of the morning and we started our deliberations after lunch. We continued deliberations on the following days....

I found a very good map of Munganahalli at http://wikimapia.org/#lat=13.5876984&lon=78.1765223&z=16&l=0&m=b . You can zoom to find both our (old) farm and our (old) house in Mungahalli.