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New York, India

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Hunana Doddi , a small village in the Mandya  district near Bangalore From The Hindu A day after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, U.S., some youngsters held a condolence meeting in the village. Later, they renamed the village as ‘New York’, according to the residents. Mind you, its not a bed of roses over there The village, which has nearly 1,000 residents, however, lacks infrastructure. Roads, drinking water, toilets, power supply, streetlights, drainage system, anganwadi centre and a community hall are among the demands of the residents.

Hurricane Sandy Power Outage - Visualized

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The power of Visualization - used for Good (and never for #Evil) Foursquare Tweets (via Eric Fischer) and  New York Magazine (Picture Telling a Thousand Words Edition) and @puzza007 (view From Williamsburg directly across from 14th street. On the left you can see the W'burg bridge w/ no lights precisely half-way across. Everthing south of (to the left of) the power-plant at 14th street is dark)