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#1 Freedom Jam 2005
Registration for the FREEDOM JAM ON Aug 14 OPEN NOW. CLICK TO REGISTER.
#2 National Puzzle Championship
We are happy to inform you that the 2005 National Puzzle Championship will be held on Sunday 28 August 2005. You'll find more details about the NPC at http://npc.quixy.in. NPC 2005 is back. Please forward it the people whose do you think are interested in puzzles.
Regards, Rajesh
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Please note that this year prior qualification will be required as the number of participants will be strictly limited. Top scorers from previous championships qualify by default, while others can use the NPC Qualification Test on 20-21 August 2005 to secure their chance to participate in the NPC. Participants will have 30 hours to work on a set of puzzles. For more details about the qualification test, see http://npc.quixy.in/qt/.
Note also that a new registration system is under development, which should open on 8 August 2005. However, you can already express your interest by recording your e-mail address using the form on the QID registration page (http://qid.quixy.in). This may not be the most appealing way to handle this, but our priority was to get the news out as soon as possible. We still hope you appreciate the efforts we put into assembling a competitive national team for the forthcoming World Puzzle Championship in Hungary (8-13 October). We would like to involve many more people in puzzling and we therefore organize a National Puzzle Week from Monday 29 August till Sunday 4 September 2005. We would like you to invite as many people as possible to participate. The NPW is not a competition as such, but more an opportunity for people to try different types of puzzles at various levels. The NPW offers seven challenges with accompanying tutorials to make sure that everyone can get started. The first challenge and tutorial is now available for download. For more information about NPW, see http://npw.quixy.in.
Help to spread the news. If each of you forwards this message to one or more friends, we should be able to reach thousands of potential participants. The number of people who are dedicated enough to prepare for the NPC may be limited, but no one should have an excuse to not at least try to solve one of the NPW puzzles !
Kind regards, Team India
#3 Prasthutha: 2nd August, India's Emergence as a Global Power : It'sDrives and Consequences," a talk by Mr. S. Gurumurthy
Prasthutha - Relevant Thoughts for Responsible People, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Invites you for a lecture on "India's Emergence as a Global Power : It's Drives and Consequences" By Sri. S Gurumurthy (Columnist, The Indian Express)
Venue : Satish Dawan(CSIC) Auditorium Date : Tuesday, 2nd August 2005 Time : 4.00 p.m. (Please note the unususal timing) Tea : 3.45 p.m.
E-mail: prasthu@tejas.serc.iisc.ernet.in Web: http://tejas.serc.iisc.ernet.in/~prasthu/
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After centuries of colonial rule and a faulty education system, that was continued even after independence, which left India high and dry in economy, values and self pride, the progress made by India towards becoming a global power after about 58 years of independence is not an ordinary one, especially keeping in mind that we had to cope up with a host of stumbling block immediately after independence. More recently, after the fall of Soviet Union and the decline of socialism, capitalism took over the world trade, aggressively pushing for globalisation^E
On another note, ever since Pokhran blasts were conducted, India has vastly improved its political status at the global level. This can be seen by the approach of various nations towards India in the recent past. Various experts are of the opinion that India is a major emerging economy.
In the present unipolar world, what policies should India adopt?
What are the forces that are driving India's rise: is it the human resources, technological advances^E or is it the strength of our civilization?
Is emergence as a global power all about economy?
How will our neighbors react to India emerging as a global power?
How will the other existing powers react?
Listen to Sri. S Gurumurthy to learn about the above questions and more at the Satish Dhawan Auditorium (CSIC) on 2nd August.
About the speaker:
Sri. S Gurumurthy is the founder and trustee of 'Center for Policy Studies', Chennai, India. He is also the all India co-convener of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch. Sri. Gurumurthy was an economic advisor to the last NDA government. A leading Chartered Accountant by profession, Mr. S. Gurumurthy is a consultant to several top business groups in India. He has been the chief advisor to Mr. Ramnath Goenka, founder of Indian Express group. He is also widely acclaimed for investigative journalism; he was instrumental in the uncovering of the 'Bofors' scam.
Regards
Prasthutha
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Kootagal, Jalamangala, Janapada Loka & Kanva Reservoir.
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Thoda Peeche Mudkar Dekhe...
"When gulli-danda and kanche (marbles) were more
popular than cricket ...
When we always had friends to play aais-paais (I Spy),
chhepan-chhepai and pitthoo anytime ...
When we desperately waited for 'yeh jo hai jindagi'..
When chitrahaar, vikram-baitaal, dada daadi ki
kahaniyaan were so fulfilling ...
When there was just one tv in every five houses and
When bisleris were not sold in the trains and we were
worrying if papas will get back into the train in time
or not when they were getting down at stations to fill
up the water bottle ...
When we were going to bed by 9.00pm sharp except for
the 'yeh jo hai jindagi' day ...
When Holis & Diwalis meant mostly hand-made pakwaans and
sweets and moms seeking our help while preparing them...
When Maths teachers were not worried of our mummys and
papas while slapping/beating us ...
When we were exchanging comics and stamps and
chacha-chaudaris and billus were our heroes ...
When we were in nanihaals every summer and loved
flying kites and plucking and eating unripe mangoes
and leechis ...
When one movie every Sunday evening on television was
more than asked for and 'ek do teen chaar' and
'Rajni' inspired us ...
When 50 paisa meant at least 10 toffees ...
When left over pages of the last years notebooks were
used for rough work or even fair work ...
When 'chelpark' and 'natraaj' were encouraged against
'reynolds and family' ...
When the first rain meant getting drenched and playing
in water and mud and making 'kaagaj ki kashtis' ...
When there were no phones to tell friends that we will
be at their homes at six in the evening ...
When our parents always had 15 paise blue colored
'antardesis' and 5 paise machli wale stamps at home...
When we remembered tens of jokes and were not finding
'ice-cream and papa' type jokes foolish enough to stop
us from laughing ...
When we were not seeing patakhes on Diwalis and
gulaals on Holis as air and noise polluting or
allergic agents ...
the list can be endless ...
on the serious note I would like to summarise with ...
When we were using our hearts more than our brains,
even for scientifically brainy activities like
'thinking' and 'deciding' ...
When we were crying and laughing more often, more
openly and more sincerily ...
When we were enjoying our present more than worrying
about our future ...
When being emotional was not synonymous to being weak...
When sharing worries and happinesses didnt mean
getting vulnerable to the listener ...
When blacks and whites were the favourite colors
instead of greys ...
When journeys also were important and not just the
destinations ...
When life was a passenger's sleeper giving enough time
and opportunity to enjoy the sceneries from its open
and transparent glass windows instead of some
superfast's second ac with its curtained, closed and
dark windows ...
I really miss .. do u? "
Whole Lotta Surfin' Goin On!
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"Evam Indrajit" at Rangashankara on 24th July
This July at Rangashankara Come to see yourself on stage!
After performing to full houses at Chennai & PRITHVI Theatre, Mumbai, Chennai's oldest and youngest theatre groups come to Bangalore with a classic story - told evam style!
Madras Players and evam present "evam Indrajit" -your life in three acts-
On 24th July 2005
at 7.30 pm at Rangashankara, Bangalore
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT VENUE
Call 9381047850 for details or visit www.evam.in
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While evam indrajit on one hand traces the story of four friends and their trials and travails from when they are 18 to when they are 35 living in urban middle class India, on the other hand it also traces the struggle of a writer who wants to put into write a play about these four friends. Through the story of these friends the play projects all the prevalent attitudes, vague feelings and undefined frustrations gnawing the hearts of the educated urban middle class. Whether to be a part of the crowd or to single out and voice one's opinion? Are our thoughts our own? Or do they just mirror those of countless others? Are some people special and unique or are they just smaller chapters in the larger scheme of things?
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For Reviews check out:
www.evam.in
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/06/10/stories/2005061002210400.htm
http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/05/30/stories/2005053000290100.htm
http://www.hindu.com/lf/2005/06/06/stories/2005060610760200.htm
www.evamentertainment.blogspot.com
On our alumni group, in response to this:
#.# "avinash wrote: Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of parliament (MP)
TOTAL expense for a MP per year : 32,00,000 For 534 MPs, the expense for 5 years : 8,54,40,00,000 (nearly 855 cores) And they are elected by THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, by the largest democratic process in the world, not intruded into the parliament on their own or by any qualification. This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and price hike on our regular commodities....... Think o! f the great democracy we have............."
This neat deliberation from a senior alumnus:
#.# "Are we all not alike ? Why single out politician only. There are large number of govt. servants who take so much money as their salary without doing duties assigned to them. There are Industrialists who take money from govt., from public banks for some project , take tax benefits also but still so many times such projects never see face of the day. All come from revenue generated by govt, from people of India. Industrial houses open schools and academic Institutions and other Institutions and for this they get costly land at cheap rate because they give illusion that this is for betterment of large section of society but later these Institutions become shops to earn money for them.
Mans of us, technocrats will be taking salary in govt. sector without doing much. Dont we fall under same category as politicians?
Engineering colleges, Medical colleges dont utilize money from tax payers? Are teachers at these colleges indulged in giving quality education with full devotion for which these Institutions were established? Are we as students seriusly study at these Institutions where everything is subsidised and people of India pay tax to run such Institutions?
Ideally it was decided that rural India lack medical facility and fresh medical gradute should work atleast two years at PHC in rural area. Who is ready?
If govt. decides that no fresh graduate engineer will be be allowed to go abroad without paying 5 lac Rs, how much of us will happliy be accepting such policy?
How many software engineers were happy and agree with Wipro chief Premji when he offered his opinion last year that govt. should take more tax from people working in software field because comparatively they are earning more and in lieu software Industries should be given more relaxation in taxes.
A B.Tech.+ MBA gets job in MNC which is establishing a soft drink manufacturing unit in a village in India and our BTMBA fellow has to do everything. Plant is installed. One litre of soft drink concentrate demands 20 litres of simple water and for this Co dril the earth and takes out potable water. In one year , there is shortage of water in surrounding and farmers cry foul. What will co do and what will that BTMBA do? Co was supposed to recycle water but instead they used fresh potable water in the manufacturing of soft drink. Every thing was done by Indian manager because he was only interested in his fat salary. He was certainly knowing what was happening and villagers were ignorant. Laws are there to protect natural resources but who cares. Every law can be manipulated with money. Same MNC cant dare to do same in west but here they have managers who can do anything. Who is culprit ? Even if we know these facts we will be doing job in same Co and will seek promotion etc by removing hurdles coming on the way of Co's production. We will allure villagers, we may give bribe to their leaders so that they dont make noise. Because first we have to establish ourselves, then our family and later Country and society comes. and everybody is doing same then why complains are there? Few nations demands organs of animals and sometimes precious animals are killed who are becoming extinct and who is killing them for sake of money- we Indians. We kill rare animals also. Virtaully we kill anything and everything and sell that to foreigners. If foreigners( including NRIs) need human organs then we have some Indian merchants available for this. If some big pharma MNC wants to do direct human testing for their yet unregistered medicine , we have merchants in the form of doctors who will give those unregistered medicines as sample to ignorant patient and poor patient is happy that he got medicine freely.
These are the realities. We see coruption in every field of life around us and we ignore that and sometimes we are also part of corruption. we are corrupt so we dont worry while selecting corrupt politicians. Politicians are not coming from moon. They are our relatives. When seed is bad then crop cant be good its simple fact. Nobody wants tension in life. Who will welcome a Bhagat Singh or Gandhi in their own family? Because they are bound to create tension in your life first before they keep eye outside of home. Corruption does not bother us. Just one or two day before, advice was given on this forum that harcourtian should send photo copy of his passport, letter of authority aalong with some money if he wants smooth delivery of degree. we may take it lightly and in humour but then everybody is doing this. If politician is also doing same then whom to blame? We are so big nation with huge population that if we all start spiting in a well then it will be filled with our saliva after sometime. Its good to write such mails and forwarding it to counless Indians. We Indians, atleast those who have Computer and Internet facility, have been doing daily such sweet activities where someone send some facts which make us emotionally honest for some time and we forward it to several others. Be it mail about martyrs of Kargil or some facts about ancient India. Some are so generous that now a days we all get mails with title " dont ignore this mail". They are always belonging to some wish mail, devoted to some deity or some god person. Mails dont end with good wishes only there is always a threat also that if you dont do this you will get curse. This is sheer emotional blackmailing but we all are spreading this disease all around. Hopefully everybody thinks that ok whats harm if I forward it atleast I wont be harmed by curse. Nobody sends it to get good wish but to spare him from curse because he is not allowed to break the chain. Its not easy to get elected. Politicians allure us and we give them vote. Its hard work on their part. We may not needing a particular person in parliament and he is not going to make any difference but we select him for several other reasons. He may belong to our cast, he may belong to our region. he may be friend or relative of our known fellow or simply he may be having some favour to us in some of our work ( which can be morally illegal at times). Did not lower middle class Indians buy vacuum cleaners 15 years ago when very few were having carpet at home, let alone wall to wall carpet. Co, inserted the fact in our mind that its status symbol to keep vacuum cleaner so people bought it later it was kept back in to the box again because there was no use of it. Co's marketing people allured us and we selected option to buy vacuum cleaner. Same way politicians allure us and we select them though their job is just opposite to vacuum cleaner. They spread dirt but we all are also contributing in this dirt spreading fashion in some way or other.
Every body wants big package and we expect our MPs MLAs to work with small amount of money because in our eyes they are not doing anything.
Atleast educated like technocrats may ask and discuss in relatively defined manner. Who is doing something for country? Are we doing ? Average Indian is honest ? Are we honest ?"
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Harcourtians Network: A Milestone Reached (1000 members)!
From: Anurag Jain
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:36 PM
To: HBTI (E-mail)
New members in last 7 days: 6
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Total Polls organized: 7 (4 closed, 3 still open)
| From: Anurag Jain <> Date: Mon May 3, 2004 8:12 am Subject: We are 500! | anuragkjain  Send IM  Send Email |
| Dear all: Its been almost a year now that we started (May 16th, 2003) this egroup and today we have reached a "mini-milestone" with the 500th member coming on-board! The distinction of being the 500th member goes to Aadamvir Singh, who according to his details, is currently doing a PhD in Paint Technology. To update you more on the group, there are another 85 pending members (who have expressed intention to subscribe but not sent in their details yet!). Further, over the time, some people have left the group, out of whom some re-joined, others didn't. So the current strength of 500 doesn't really reflect the actual number of people who have been a part of this alumni network so far. Lets hope that the next 500 are reached in a shorter span of time! Best wishes, Moderators |
1) A LESSON FOR ALL EMPLOYEES WHO WORK WITH RUDE CUSTOMERS!!!
"Indeed, an award should go to the Virgin Airlines gate attendant in Sydney some months ago for being customer focused, while making her point, when confronted with a passenger who probably deserved to fly as cargo.
A crowded Virgin flight was cancelled after Virgin's 767s had been withdrawn from service. A single attendant was re-booking a Long line of inconvenienced travellers. Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket down on the counter and said, I HAVE to be on this flight and it HAS to be NOW". The attendant replied, "I'm sorry sir. I'll be happy to try to help you, but I've got to help these people first, and I'm sure we'll be able to work something out." The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?" Without hesitating, the attendant smiled and grabbed her public address microphone:
May I have your attention please, may I have your attention please," she began - her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal. We have a passenger here at Gate14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his identity, please come to Gate 14."
With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared at the Virgin attendant, gritted his teeth and said, "****@@!!!!!! You!"
Without flinching, she smiled and said, "I'm sorry, sir, but you'll have to get in line for that too."
2) A few buzzing-to-the-hilt phrases/words from here:
Situated pedagogy 'I think that this means that how you teach depends a bit on where you teach. ' (From Dr Catherine Scott)
Time Poor 'This from,Gardening Australia magazine, June 2005, "People these days are time poor..." The article was referring to selling your house and recommended that the garden was immaculate, for the potential purchaser's satisfaction.
Geo immobilised ' This morning on ABC 702, during a discussion about nuclear energy, a Greens MP (Ian Cohen?) used the term "Geo Immobilised" when describing the disposal of nuclear waste. What I think he meant to say was they bury it!' [from Murray Whitlocke-Jones] Does anyone have another interpretation? Email us if you do.
Time budget: 'As in "Sorry I over extended my time budget this morning, it was my wifes birthday". No, he was late!
Thoughtshower: 'Brainstorming is itself bad enough (and was apparently banned by the BBC because it was deemed offensive to those suffering from epilepsy), but 'Thoughtshower' is abominable. This site also explains a variant of brainstorming, in 'blamestorming' (where colleagues publicly denounce one another).
Opinionnaire ' I just received an email from the university I am studying at with an attached "opinionnaire". A new word to me, but I presume that this is some kind of questionnaire that is seeking my opinions - undoubtedly an exciting new form of stakeholder consultation!' [from Ben Lawson]
Upward bullying 'Staff picking on managers' [from Alasdair Baird]
Performance Manage Out 'Not happy with an employee? You don't sack, can, dismiss or fire them. You "performance manage them out of the enterprise".' [From Jamie Wodetzki]
Interlock 'A favourite word among project mangers at IBM is "interlock", which I think means "talk to" or "coordinate with". As in: "I will interlock with my wife to see if I can come to dinner tomorrow night"'. [From Arne Lindquist]
Unpack As in: "We need to unpack the issue". I think this comes from an old computer term where a number would be stored in packed format internally and would have to be unpacked to be humanly readable.[From Arne Lindquist]
Visual integrity ' As in: visual integrity of the river landscape. Does this mean - if it looks like a river it must be a river? Or maybe it implies you should be able to trust how it looks? I'm still working this one out! [From Reb]rex$U
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Pics of Jul 16, 2005 Cessan-340 (N888HB) Crash, Jakkur, Bangalore
Cessan-340 (N888HB) Crash 2005, Jakkur, Bangalore - The Hindu Jul 17,05
Cessan-340 (N888HB) crash 2005, Bangalore - Telegraph India Jul 18, '05
/. crowd is just too humorours.
"by Lord Dimwit Flathead (668521) on Sunday July 17, @06:41AM (#13085942)
Hello, I am sending this into the future from 1908! How are you? I hope things are well in the 21st century! Anyway, I just wanted to say "hi". I'll let you get back to maintaining your underwater habitat and defending the Earth against the Martian aggressors now."
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NASSCOM Quality Summit 2005
Note: NASSCOM reserves right to change the conference program, sessions, subjects, speakers without any notice. Who should attend CTOs, CIOs, CKOs, IT Directors, Engineering Directors, Senior Technical Management, Programme Directors/Managers, Project Managers, Project Leaders, Quality Heads & Executives, Quality Assurance & Quality Control Practitioners System Architects, Heads of Delivery, Analysts, Designers, Planners, Testing Managers, Technical Authors, Consultants in Systems and Software Engineering, Software Developers & Engineers, Software Testing Practitioners / Organisations, IT, Project Management Academics researching and working in the field of Systems and Software Engineering. ·
Registration Fee: Rs. 7,500 (Note: Maximum 30 delegates per each tutorial on first come first 2. NASSCOM Quality Summit 2005 Seminar: 24 - 25 August 2005 Non-Member - Rs. 10,000 Group Discount: Three or more delegates 10% discount (Only for Seminar on 24 - 25 August 2005)
E-mail your registration form to Quality2005@nasscom.in
Venue and Hotel Details The venue for NASSCOM QUALITY SUMMIT 2005, International Conference is: The Ball Room Hotel The Taj 23, Please request for details at Quality2005@nasscom.in and a NASSCOM team member will get in touch with you, or visit www.nasscom.in | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28th July 2005: TiE - ISB Connect 2005
Kamshet, India - Monsoon News
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Bangalore Management Association (BMA) is organizing a seminar on World Class Institutions: Creation and Management on July 16th, 2005. For details and registrations click on images below.
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NASSCOM HR SUMMIT 2005, 19th - 20th July '05, Chennai
NASSCOM HR SUMMIT 2005
"Capability Building and Talent Management"
Venue: Le Royal Meridien, Chennai
NASSCOM annual HR Summit 2005 is a unique platform bringing together HR professionals from IT-ITES sector and India academic community on one platform. The event will facilitate individual and group interactions, discussions, brainstorming sessions with thought leaders, influencers, and industry experts. The conference will focus on evolving importance of HR in today’s business environment, global best practices in Human Resource management and development, skill building, talent management, and the next steps in facilitating a strong industry-academia partnership.
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Human Resource practices for a global organization and strategies for India
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Talent Management and Providing Customer Value
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Talent Development: The Challenges for the IT Industry
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Corporate Best Practice: Process Consulting and Competency – new dimensions and roles
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Performance and Talent Management along with People Care with Compliance to Quality Benchmarks
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Salary/Compensation and Rewards: International Trends and Strategy for India
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Creating a corporate culture that fosters organization success, individual growth, and ethical action Leadership in a Global Economy
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Introducing Skills and Competence Management @ Engineering
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Innovative Recruitment Strategies - Balancing Business Objectives with Market Pressures and Building industry – academia partnerships: Challenges and Strategies for creating a world class talent pool
Who Should Attend
- CEOs from IT-ITES sector
- Senior HR/Technical & Research professionals from industry
- Training and Industry-Academia alliance heads from industry
- Knowledge Management executives
- Consultants offering technical and linguistic training
- Senior faculty, Head of Departments, Vice Chancellors of higher educational institutions offering technical and other professional courses
Please find attached the registration form.
| Registration Fee | Regular | Group Discount |
| NASSCOM Members | Rs 5,000 | 10% |
| Non-members | Rs 7,000 | 10% |
| For further information please email to events@nasscom.org or log on to http://www.nasscom.org/eventdetails.asp?id=292 |
Okay, cant hold it in any more. Have uploaded the Air Deccan TV commercials. The pack includes the brand new Old Man and Sky film! The two 'old' commercials include one with the hands (Simplifly) and the other one with a piggybank.
Before you click on the download link, please keep in mind that it will expire in 7 days and will be available for a limited number of downloads, and I wont upload it again. So, please click only if you really wanna see the commercial. Download it here (another link). (32,478 KB or 31.7 MB)
Some promotional banners for the Old Man and the Sky near Delhi Airport:
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# John Walton, son of the legendary Sam Walton, died recently in a small-plane crash. Its just too ironic considering the way his dad built his retail empire: Walton Sr. used to fly over a town in his small plane for deciding on the best Walmart store location! Sam would say: "There's another good reason I don't like jets. You can't get down low enough to really tell what's going on, the way I could in my little planes."
# While we are at the subject of aviation, DGCA has reduced the number of hours requirement for a CPL from 250 to 200! "Solo hours reduced to 100 hrs instead of 150 and X-country to 20 hrs instead of 25. great news IT IS!!! But they have not revised the requirements for IR... which means that the 50hrs of X-ctry.. and 40hrs instruments stay in place... and even the 150 hrs of solo stays untouched... (refer Schedule II.. Section "O")... hopefully they'll amend that as well... cause if they dont then it becomes a very tight game with little margins... imagine this.. 150 hrs of solo+ 20 hrs of intruments(considering we do 20 on sim)+ 10 hrs night+ 10 hrs checks+ 10 hrs dual X-ctry+ 10 hrs pre solo=210 hrs... and thats with considering everything goes the way I put it... little deviation and u add hrs... and i am not considering the possibility of fitting in the multi engine requiments in this.. otherwise the breathing room is even smaller... Lets keep our fingers crossed..." Mabe its driven by the acute shortage of pilots in the booming Indian aviation industry? Maybe not. DGCA wouldn't say. Anyways, details here.
# But then, do we really need any flying hours requirement? This guy obviously doesn't think so. All of 14-years age, driving a van he allegedly stole from his grandmother, he arrived at the airport, found a a Cessna 152 unlocked with the key inside, started it up, and found himself airborne! But, of course, the Unexpected Proved Inevitable. I guess flying training is needed after all!
# Now, on a tangent, did you know that Norway has a Minister of Modernization: Morten Andreas Meyer? Looks like Norway is not alone!
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Eurotrip, though just another teen movie, has a few good soundbites.
# While goin to Europe
Scott: Hey, thanks for coming with me. I know you had that internship at the law firm this summer.
Cooper: Oh, forget about the law firm. And don't thank me, I should be thanking you. This trip is a once in a life-time opportunity for me to broaden my sexual horizons.
Scott: What are you talking about?
Cooper: I'm talking about crazy European sex.
Scott: Ah.
Cooper: "You know America was founded by prudes. Prudes who left Europe, because they hated all the kinky, steamy European sex that was going on. And now I, uh, Cooper Harris, will return to the land of my perverted forefathers and claim my birthright, which is a series of erotic and sexually challenging adventures."
Scotty: "You've really thaught a lot about this, haven't you?"
Cooper: "It's my passion."
# While coming back from Europe
Cooper: This sucks, I didn't hook up with one European chick while I was here, Europe is officially the worst country in the world.
# Of course I find the slur on India disgusting
Scotty: "We're going to be couriers?"
Cooper: "It's the best way to get a cheap flight. All we have to do is carry their packages and then drop them off when we get there. My cousin did it when he went to India."
Scotty: "Yeah?"
Cooper: "Yeah. Of course, he, uh, ended up using a public restroom in New Delhi and, uh, the had to cut off his leg. You know. But he got there cheap."
# An American's World ver1
Scott: [after being told they can get a flight to London] Anything else?
Cooper: England is the size of the Eastwood Mall. We can walk to Berlin from there.
Scott: Cooper, London is an island.
Cooper: OK, swim, whatever. We'll take it.
# An American's World ver2
Coop? Cooper, we're going to Paris.
I know. Cecil told me.
Mieke's in Berlin. We're not going to Berlin.
What are we gonna do? We need a plan.
See what I'm talking about? This is predictable Scotty talking.
Relax. Paris is practically a suburb of Berlin. It's a nothing commute.
That's why France and Germany have always been allies.
* Eurotrip's Cooper's fascination with Europe for 'crazy sex' reminds me of Colin of Love Actually, whose ideas are just the same for America!:
Colin: American girls would seriously dig me with my cute British accent.
Colin: I am Colin. God of Sex. I'm just on the wrong continent, that's all.
Colin: Watch out America, here comes Colin Frissell!
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Sometime back I had come across this funny comment at /. Just too funny!
"Dear Professor Millington,
Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me an assistant professor position in your department.
This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field of candidates it is impossible for me to accept all refusals.
Despite Whitson's outstanding qualifications and previous experience in rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at this time. Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor in your department this August. I look forward to seeing you then.
Best of luck in rejecting future applicants."
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I was just going through my blog stats and referrals when I discovered a hit from RS' blog called Mosakutti (whatever that word means). Crusining through her page, I couldn't find any reference to my blog. So, looked at the source code and discovered that the link to my blog was in the comments section of this post. Now the funny part starts. There's a comment that says:
"At 8:16 PM, July 07, 2005, Anurag Jain said…
Cliched examples, barely makes a cliched point"
Now I was left wondering when the heck did I make this comment! Turned out somebody else is using my name and linking to my blog as if I was the one commenting! Maan! Two things: a) How stupid is that! and b) who on earth would want to pretend to be me! Heck, I dont wanna be me sometimes!! I am really flattered. I am. I mean somebody actually wants to be me. Maan! Get a life (or at the very least get an idenitity)!
But seriously, we need some ID system on the Internet. Check out the brand new/hot-off-the-oven system OpenID (started by LiveJournal founder. An example of ditributed identity check here. Read more details here on /.) Sometime, too much democracy is not good! Ask Uncle Sam, and he'd tell you how he is trying to 'promote' a 'restrained-democracy' in various parts of the world. What's that? Oh well, never mind..
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In light of the recent move to ban all live bands and live entertainment in Bangalore, following is Carlton's (of 'Trump It' event management company) take on it. And I am sure that this is the reaction of pretty much the whole 'Bangalore Music Scene'.
"the eternal opus mantra : we will, we will rock u
the new cops mantra : we will, we will #$%* u
for the past year opus has supported live acts ... from music to dance to theatre ... from classical to opera to jazz to rock to country to hiphop and rnb to heavy mental (grammy nominee jana stanfield), with performers both desi and firang gushing about the space, the hospitality and the vibe.
It's really baffling how a place like this could be clubbed in the same bracket as places that provide 'live entertainment' / dance bars ... and would require the same license. I am not even going to get into how ridiculous the 11.30 lights-out rule is. But equating all live entertainment is simply bizarre .
oh ... and thats not all ... getting up and shaking a leg too, is a criminal offence ... or one that needs another additional set of permissions. I'm sure they have overseen the need to procure licenses to have matresses and candlelight.. cos surely that abets immoral conduct ... or ban chocolates, for being an aphrodisiac
why can't people live and let 'live' ?? The colour in the green garden city certainly must mean envy, cos there is really no other explanation.
really sorry to all those who wondered why Dee didnt perform last week... we asked her and the band not to ... we couldnt risk rocking, white skinned, scantily clad foreigner, in front of 200 drooling men (and women) sing 'private dancer', now, could we??
we hope sense and sanity will be restored soon and the monsoon winds blow this over to Gulbarga (even they dont deserve this) in the next couple of days/weeks. till then (and till they can find laws to curb these other simple pleasures) we will make do with the food, booze, music (yes, yes, recorded... for the record), play some games (though stuff like 'taboo' is really asking for trouble)
one more big thank you for the music and supporting the live music movement!!
cheers
carlton "
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Now, this is what I call a treasure of information. I had earlier posted about Two Quick Bangalore Getaways: Tippagondanahalli & Kalya Caves, Magadi. Srinidhi, who writes travelogues for Deccan Herald happened to visit that post and was not too happy that I had not taken cognizance of his neat article on T G Halli and Kalya Caves in Deccan Hearld. Thus began our interaction, which led to his sharing with me all the weekend getaways travelogues on he has written.
[Update Dec 04, '05: Most of these places are within 100 km radius from Bangalore.
]Take it from me, these are the places you wont hear much about anywhere else! So, go ahead, knock yourself out. Have a blast every weekend, go rock with the rocks (on the rocks)! Just remember, you read it here first! :)
# Devanahalli
# Kundana
# Achchalu
# Kalya
# Mahimapura
# Magadi
# Nijigal
# Igglur
# Garakahalli
# Kootagal
# Kanva Dam (aka Kanwa Reservoir)
# Jalamangala
# Aladahalli
# Thattekere
# Singarajapura
# Koongal
# Belugumba
# Dillinkote
# Hikkallappana Betta
# Thippagondanahalli (or T G Halli)
# Kudur
# Narayanagiri
# Vanakallu
# Gopalaswamy Betta
# Lepakshi
# Betta Halasur
# Avathi
# Beeravara
# Bevooru
# Swarnamukhi Falls
# Talavadi
Thanks Srini! You Da Maan!!
(PS: Some links are currently not working. Trying to get the backup for that.) 9 comments
How technology, especially communications tech, is changing our daily lives is an interesting topic. My opinion: Mostly it is alienating people from the rich texture of social life. In the article below from today's Sunday Times of India, I am quoted on the same issue. My good friends Adarsh N and Smitha Bhaskar appear too. Click for bigger version. (Web links: Text version; Graphics Page)
4th July: Fly Bombay-->Bangalore for 1061 Rs!
Air Deccan is running a special fare of 1060 (PSF included!) one way for Bombay --> Bangalore on 4th July (tomorrow) only! So, use this deep-discount fare if you have any such travel plans on that day!
There are two daily Air Deccan flights from Bombay to Bangalore:
DN-605 11:30 13:00
DN-664 16:05 17:35
Hurry and hit www.airdeccan.net or call 080-39008888 for making a booking!
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Watch out for the new Air Deccan's TV commercial which will go on air from 7th July 2005.
It's a commercial that will help Air Deccan bond with their customers at an emotional level and further strengthen it's position as an airline that helps the 'common man' fly. Like Air Deccan's all efforts, the TV commercial is unique and so is the promotional plan for the launch. It is the longest commercial in the history of Indian advertising (150 seconds duration). True to AD's philosophy of low cost, the launch plan is as innovative.
Dates of airing:7th,8th,9th,10th July.
Time of airing:
6:30pm: MTV
7:40pm: Star News, Sab TV
8:15pm: SET Max
8:30pm: National Geographic
10:40pm: Star One
11:05pm: AXN
If you miss The Old Man and the Sky on these dates, watch the film during 17th-30th July on leading TV channels, and also grab a chance to win Air Deccan tickets.
(Update Jul 07, '05:
#Read about the ad at IndianTelevision.
# Coverage at AgencyFAQs.
# Watch the ad and enter the contest at Indiatimes AirDeccan microsite.
# The launch Plan:
* In the initial phase the TVC will be put on 5 niche channels at a fixed time for 4 days and on the same day also put on indiatimes.com. As a pre-launch action, it will be positioned as a premier of a film.
* It will be put as a Air Deccan website too.
* To further the interest of the customer Air Deccan will run a promotion where in they'd give 250 return tickets to the fathers (sons participating in the promotion to gift their father Air Deccan ticket)
* The contest forms would be put up at Air Deccan counters and handed over to the passengers along with the boarding card for the next one month. The passenger can either send the form by postal mail or e-mail or hand over to the staff at the counter.)
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# From /.
Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.
Guildenstern: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.
# From /., regarding Amazon's habit of patenting any-and-every thing.
I'm about to patent "doing ... things with er, stuff".
# From /., someone's gone Nazi on geeks' grammar/spelling!
The Great European Dream The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish. In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k." Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f." This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a dterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v." During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou," and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
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New Album by The Unseen Guest
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Anurag,
Our album release in the UK and Ireland is on July 4th. Please pass this along to all your friends who would be interested in our music! Enjoy! (www.unseenguest.com)
Amith
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July 8: A session with young filmmakers
| Premiere screening of Documentaries, short films, music video and animation works by SAE students. | "Film making is the ultimate art form and its application is a life long journey" CROSSWORD and Cordially invites you to A session with young film makers A new generation of upcoming filmmakers who want to combine classical background knowledge with cutting edge digital technology in both production and editing/compositing. The movie magic has charmed people the world over and continues to do so, irrespective of all kinds of technologies making inroads into our lives. Movies have been the most influential art form of the 20th century. Everyday dreams are made, dreams are shattered. There are millions in the pursuit of this dream. Some looking for stardom. Many just to be part of the tinsel world. In Date: Time: Venue: Crossword Book Store, Residency road, RSVP: Ms. Madhu – 25582411 – 14 SAE- 2346-6530, 2346-6529 |