Friday, February 27, 2009

TOWARDS BETTER HEALTH - Be Wary of Fad Diets!

Dear All,

 

BE WARY OF FAD DIETS

 

If you're looking to help kick start your weight loss program, it's important to carefully research a diet plan before you commit to one.

The American Academy of Family Physicians have listed the warning signs of an unhealthy fad diet:

  • A diet that promises very fast weight loss -- anything more than a pound or two per week (half to one kg per week).
  • A diet that promises weight loss without changing diet habits or engaging in an exercise program.
  • A diet that is promoted by "scientific" testimonials and pictures of "before" and "after" success stories.
  • A diet that involves expensive seminars, medications, or pre-made meals.
  • A diet that focuses on very few acceptable foods, and doesn't focus on a healthy, balanced diet.
  • A diet that points to simple explanations drawn from confusing research.


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Friday, February 20, 2009

BOTS'09 - Programming Challenge

Hello everyone,

The wait is finally over!

The problem statement of BOTS: AI programming challenge event of
Troika'09 - The annual technical fest organised by IEEE, Delhi College
of Engineering (DCE) has been released.

Register yourself for the event and download the Problem Statement
from: www.troika.dcetech.com

The competition requires you to program your code to play a game
against an opponent code according to the rules defined.

Hope you have fun participating.

Organisers,
BOTS'09

 



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Good Morning........ Nice Quotes

Behera, Ramakanta

Hi friend,

Good Morning...

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Life is tough It can be hard
But when it gets unbearable Don't let down your guard.

Although bad things Happen to us all
It's important to remember To learn from each fall.

Life is tough But you are tougher
And just remember It could be rougher.

Remember to cherish The good things in life
They help you get by In times of strife.

Don't underestimate The worth of a friend
Because without them Our hearts would not mend.

Always be true To everyone you meet
If you act fake You have suffered defeat.

Always be yourself No matter what people say
It's a lot easier To form lasting friendships this way.

It's important to say What is only sincere
Words from the heart Are the best kind to hear.

Don't worry about mistakes From way back when
And never wonder What might have been.

Never look back The past is gone
Only memories remain To look upon.

Learn to forgive But never forget
Put things behind you And never regret.

Always look forward Keep moving ahead
So you can be proud of The life you led.

But don't look too far Or move too fast
Make the most of each day It could be your last.

Don't let others Get you down
Show them a smile When they want a frown.

Give people respect No matter how mean they can be
The fact that they hurt you They may not always see.

Allow yourself to grieve It's okay to cry
Remember life goes on And the tears will dry.

Enjoy your life Have fun and go crazy
Just don't sit around And always be lazy.

Try your best In all that you do
Believe in yourself And others will too.

Believe in God He's always there
To help us learn That life's not fair.

Because life's not a game To win or lose
It is a gift To love if we choose



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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Great Paintings - Mother

By: Ritesh Saxena



The Trick To Overcoming Test Anxiety - Your Most Frequently Asked Questions Answered

By Danielle Spencer

It is normal for students to feel anxious in test situations. However, when test anxiety affects the test performance it has become a big problem and needs to be addressed as soon as possible. This article will explain what test anxiety is, what causes test anxiety, the common symptoms of test anxiety, an online questionnaire to find out if you suffer from test anxiety, plus simple ways to overcoming test anxiety.

What Is Test Anxiety?

Test anxiety refers to all situations in which a student’s educational skills are being tested - this includes simple informal questions in school or college and extends to formal testing. What Causes Test Anxiety? The causes of test anxiety are lack of preparation on the student’s part before the test, having poor time management skills, having poor study habits, worrying too much on your past exam performance, or worrying too much on the negative consequences if you do badly on a certain test.

What Are The Symptoms Of Test Anxiety?

The symptoms of test anxiety are but are not limited to:

Headaches, nausea, diarrhea, excessive sweating, light headedness, feeling short of breath and a rapid heart rate. Emotionally test anxiety symptoms are excessive feelings of depression, anger, discomfort and disappointment. Cognitive test anxiety symptoms include racing thoughts, going blank and having difficulty concentrating.

Where Can I Find Out If I Have Test Anxiety?

There is a free online test anxiety questionnaire at: http://www.psych.uncc.edu/pagoolka/Testanxiety.html

Are There Any Techniques That Will Help Me Combat Test Anxiety? For the better part, there are several techniques that can help control your test anxiety symptoms like following proper breathing techniques, studying for the exam and preparing well for the exam and also by not arriving too early for the exam so that you find your mind distracted and not focused on the exam at hand.

If you suffer from test anxiety then it's important that you understand the condition so that you can treat your test anxiety symptoms accordingly and have your tests marked according to your effort, not your stress level on the day. 

 



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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

ABCD..

By: Suchi Gupta

A for apple.
B for bada apple.
C for chhota apple.
D for dusra apple.
E for ek aur apple.
F for fokat ka apple.
G for gol apple.
H for hazar apple
I for itney saarey apple?
J for jaao nahi khaani hai apple
K for kaise nahi khaayengey apple
L for lena padhega tumko apple
M for mujhe nahi chahiye itne apple
N for naa nahi kehtey kyunkey yeh hai apple
O for Oh to tumne khaa daale yeh saare apple
P for peth bhar khaao apple
Q for qismat mein nahi hoti hai sabke, yeh apple
R for roz agar khaao tum apple
S for sehetmand rahoge khaaogey agar tum apple
T for tumko nahi milengey itney achey apple
U for udhaar kii nahi hai yeh apple
V for very tasty hai yeh apple
W for waste na karo time aur khaalo jaldi se apple
X for X'mas mei bhii Hai! khana padenge apple
Y for yun na chehra phero dekhkey apple
Z for zaraasa aur khaalo apple.



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Monday, February 16, 2009

Career: Excellent training cum placement in clinical research.....!

From: alpa@sysplexindia.com <employer@timesjobs.com>
Date: Feb 11, 2009 2:08 PM
Subject: Excellent training cum placement in clinical research.....!


Dear Canditate,

We are glad to introduce ourselves as a premier clinical Research and
training center based in Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and New Delhi. We are
shortlisting the candidates for providing excellent training and
opportunities in Clinical Research, a multibillion $ industry with
major investments for research finding its way into India.

About the company.

Sysplex Bio-clinical solutions (www.sysplexindia.com) having its
presence felt in the clinical research training for more than 6 years
and technology centers all over India. Sysplex have designed learning
management system that can be used by the individual or research
organizations such as Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Companies, Contract Research Organizations & Academic Institutions.
The quality and content of the course methodology is at par with the
standards set by the research centers across the world.

Courses Offered :
Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Research.
Postgraduate diploma in clinical Trial Management.
Postgraduate diploma in clinical Data Management.
Postgraduate diploma in clinical research specialization in Business
Development.
Postgraduate diploma in clinical research specialization in Quality
Assurance & Audit.

Please walk-in along with your Resume for suitable Assessement to
below mentioned Address

Contact Person : ALPA
Tel : 080-65395911/12

Thanks & Regards,
ALPA

Sysplex Bio & Clinical Solutions
# 12/1, plain street, infantry road cross
Bangalore-560001
Ph no: 080-65395911/12
Landmark: Opposite to Meenaxi Apartments, Near THE HINDU office.

Yahoo Job Openings (For Experienced)

Hi All,
 
 Yahoo Jobs Openings (Experienced)
 
 
 
DO NOT SEND RESUME TO ME.
 
 


Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them now.

Job : Yahoo! Bangalore openings


From: ritas@yahoo-inc.com
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:52:04 -0800
Subject: Yahoo! Bangalore

Greetings!

 

If you are looking for a change kindly revert with the updated resume of yours or it would be great if you also refer some candidates for the requirements in Yahoo! Bangalore.

We have quite few openings for 7+  to 18 years experience candidates here. If you could tell me exactly what technologies you are working on I could send you the appropriate JD. At this point of time we have openings for the following

1)       Java/J2EE/UNIX

2)       C++/UNIX

3)       White box testing ( Total experience of 6 years at least 2 yrs in white box)

4)       VC++/Win32/MFC

5)       PHP / Javascript OR CSS OR AJAX / HTML OR DHTML / COM or DCOM

 

Kindly reply you are not interested if you are not looking for a job change.

 

 

It would be great & helpful if you could also circulate this mail among your friends for references.

 

Thank you for your time and consideration.

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Rita Shetty

Talent Acquisition

Yahoo! Bangalore

Phone: +91 9902500441

Email id: ritas@yahoo-inc.com

P please do not print this e-mail unless you really need to.



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Friday, February 13, 2009

Health : Towards Better Health - Pulse rate clue to heart attacks!

Pulse rate clue to heart attacks

 

A latest research has indicated that by simply measuring a woman's resting pulse rate, one can predict how likely she is to suffer a heart attack. The study was done on postmenopausal women who had no history of heart problems. They found that those with the highest heart rates were significantly more likely to suffer a heart attack than the women with the lowest rates.

Women with the fastest resting heart rates of more than 76 beats per minute were 1.6 times as likely to suffer a coronary event compared with those with the lowest resting heart rates below 62 beats per minute.

 

 



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CSC : Referral Drive For ERAP - DW/BI

 

 

By: Suchi Gupta [mailto:sgupta73@csc.com]

 

 

LOCATION:  Chennai

AREAS: DW/BI

Here is an opportunity to include your friends in the next recruitment drive! Only short listed candidates will be called for an interview. Please refer all your friends who are currently based at the mentioned location only. Refer the CVs asap!!

 

 

EXPERIENCE, CHARACTERISTICS & KEY SELECTION CRITERIA:

- Educational/ Professional Qualifications (Preferable): BE/ BTech/ MCA/ MBA
- Good Communication Skills

 


Microstrategy - Developer:
 
The individual should be a good communicator and should have firm concepts of large data warehouse implementations and have thorough understanding of business intelligence from tool installation, administration, development, and delivery phases.  The ideal candidate will also be able to grasp complex business concepts and be able to interpret and communicate them to the offshore team.  The person will be asked to execute business and report requirements.
 
Requirements:
 
      2-5 years BI development playing a key role in delivery.
      2+ years working with complex development projects.
 
Experience with:
 
 - Microstrategy 8 and above
- Teradata
- Writing SQL (a must)
- OLAP tools and concepts such as Essbase
- Know dashboard constructs and have a visual sense
- Data Mining techniques and concepts
- Strong understanding of Behavior and Transactional analytics


Informatica Developer:

The candidate with min 3+ years of experience in ETL Development work using Informatica , Oracle and Teradata databases. Should have scripting knowledge and very good in SQL. Should have worked in large and complex data-warehousing environments. Must have client interfacing experience and should have good communication skills.



 

Please Refer CVs To :hnagarajan3@csc.com




 

 





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Thursday, February 12, 2009

JOB: Opening in Delphi india, 0-2 yrs exp

 

By: Sirmagdum, Amit Kumar [mailto:amitkumar.sirmagdum@delphi.com]

 

Hi,

 

  We have openings for 0-2 yrs in Embedded system...

 

 He/she should be B.E. (EEE, ELN.....) with 65% marks and without any backlog

 

exp in Matllab will be added advantage.

 

Thanks and Regards,

        Amit



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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

RealTruth : URGENT: Help Needed to Save Life of JITM, 8th SEM Student

It is true not fake.... Anyone can come forward and help.

--- On Tue, 10/2/09, arun pandey <arkpan25@gmail.com> wrote:
Date: Tuesday, 10 February, 2009, 8:47 PM

Dear Folks,

Sub: Urgent help Needed for Ailing JITM, Final Yr Student [ Fwd to one and all JITM Alumni in Contact ]
One of our current JITM, EEE final students (2009 passing) Rajesh Sharma, has been diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia.. It is one of those rare human disorders when the blood formation in the body is negligible or almost zero. He is presently admitted in AIIMS, Delhi where the doctors have suggested a bone marrow transplant to cure him.
The transplant costs in India are in the range of 11 Lakhs, 
which is too much for a middle class family; the college/ students are raising funds to help the family.
ASTONISHING BUT TRUE !!: The 400-students in the college have contributed 500/- each --> 2Lakh !!
Its surprising to note that the contribution from the 1000+ strong working ALUMNI
have NOT EVEN Reached 50K !!
...what do we infer from this??

The maths:
1000 working JITM Alumnni X contributing 1100/- each =
11 Lakhs
(Thats not an impossible target; assuming 50% response we can still make a big difference.)
Current Status: Currently he is under observation &  undergoing a battery of tests and his relatives are being
tested for a bone marrow tissue match.
The operation is to be scheduled (earlier planned around 15th Feb) as soon as the required Funds are available &
the platelet count (Blood clotting components in Blood) of the patient improves- currently its 12,000 (normal 120,000-350,000).


Ladies & Gentlemen Please rise to the occasion and try to help out in whatever way you can....after all its.....
....." its Good to be important but more important to be good".

On behalf of the alumni association of JITM & the final yr studs, i request you to come forward and extend a quick helping hand in this
regard.
Keeping up with the prevalent good culture & moral spirit, Lets make sure the alumni be available to help out when ever such grave
situations arise:

All contributions can be directed to any of the below mentioned A/c: 
  • Rajeev Ranjan (8th sem, +919861480590)  - A/C No: 406902010592040 (Union Bank, Paralakhemundi Branch, IFSC - UBIN0540692)
  • Kaushal Ku Arya (8th sem, +919861666767) - A/C No: 011305041189 (SBI, Paralakhemundi Branch, IFSC - SBIN0000151)
  • Mukesh Kumar (8th sem, +919861816196)

# Note1: These A/c are in core banking & online transfers can be done.

# Note2: Once you transfer the amount. Please send me a confirmation mail with amount, transferred to a/c details to: help.rajesh. jitm@gmail. com / arkpan25@gmail.com  .This will help keep a track on the total and to confirm you the receipt of the amount in the account.

For complete details & Reports see: www.jitm.ac. in   (Rajesh Sharma). Looking forward to your quick response. Plz fwd the mail to all JITM Alumni in contact.

Regards
Arun Pandey || 0 99 49 59 59 59 || JITM, 2k-2k4, CSE

'The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray'
- Mother Teressa


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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Go, Kiss the World

By: Suchi Gupta


I was the last child of a small-time government servant, in a family
of five brothers. My earliest memory of my father is as that of a
District Employment Officer in Koraput, Orissa. It was and remains as
back of beyond as you can imagine. There was no electricity; no
primary school nearby and water did not flow out of a tap. As a
result, I did not go to school until the age of eight; I was
home-schooled. My father used to get transferred every year. The
family belongings fit into the back of a jeep - so the family moved
from place to place and, without any trouble, my Mother would set up
an establishment and get us going. Raised by a widow who had come as a
refugee from the then East Bengal, she was a matriculate when she
married my Father. My parents set the foundation of my life and the
value system which makes me what I am today and largely defines what
success means to me today.

As District Employment Officer, my father was given a jeep by the
government. There was no garage in the Office, so the jeep was parked
in our house. My father refused to use it to commute to the office. He
told us that the jeep is an expensive resource given by the government
- he reiterated to us that it was not 'his jeep' but the government's
jeep. Insisting that he would use it only to tour the interiors, he
would walk to his office on normal days. He also made sure that we
never sat in the government jeep - we could sit in it only when it was
stationary. That was our early childhood lesson in governance - a
lesson that corporate managers learn the hard way, some never do.

The driver of the jeep was treated with respect due to any other
member of my Father's office. As small children, we were taught not to
call him by his name. We had to use the suffix 'dada' whenever we were
to refer to him in public or private. When I grew up to own a car and
a driver by the name of Raju was appointed - I repeated the lesson to
my two small daughters. They have, as a result, grown up to call Raju,
'Raju Uncle' - very different from many of their friends who refer to
their family drivers as 'my driver'. When I hear that term from a
school- or college-going person, I cringe. To me, the lesson was
significant - you treat small people with more respect than how you
treat big people. It is more important to respect your subordinates
than your superiors.

Our day used to start with the family huddling around my Mother's
chulha - an earthen fire place she would build at each place of
posting where she would cook for the family. There was no gas, nor
electrical stoves. The morning routine started with tea. As the brew
was served, Father would ask us to read aloud the editorial page of
The Statesman's 'muffosil' edition - delivered one day late. We did
not understand much of what we were reading. But the ritual was meant
for us to know that the world was larger than Koraput district and the
English I speak today, despite having studied in an Oriya medium
school, has to do with that routine. After reading the newspaper
aloud, we were told to fold it neatly. Father taught us a simple
lesson. He used to say, "You should leave your newspaper and your
toilet, the way you expect to find it". That lesson was about showing
consideration to others. Business begins and ends with that simple
precept.

Being small children, we were always enamored with advertisements in
the newspaper for transistor radios - we did not have one. We saw
other people having radios in their homes and each time there was an
advertisement of Philips, Murphy or Bush radios, we would ask Father
when we could get one. Each time, my Father would reply that we did
not need one because he already had five radios - alluding to his five
sons. We also did not have a house of our own and would occasionally
ask Father as to when, like others, we would live in our own house. He
would give a similar reply, "We do not need a house of our own. I
already own five houses". His replies did not gladden our hearts in
that instant. Nonetheless, we learnt that it is important not to
measure personal success and sense of well being through material
possessions.

Government houses seldom came with fences. Mother and I collected
twigs and built a small fence. After lunch, my Mother would never
sleep. She would take her kitchen utensils and with those she and I
would dig the rocky, white ant infested surrounding. We planted
flowering bushes. The white ants destroyed them. My mother brought ash
from her chulha and mixed it in the earth and we planted the seedlings
all over again. This time, they bloomed. At that time, my father's
transfer order came. A few neighbors told my mother why she was taking
so much pain to beautify a government house, why she was planting
seeds that would only benefit the next occupant. My mother replied
that it did not matter to her that she would not see the flowers in
full bloom. She said, "I have to create a bloom in a desert and
whenever I am given a new place, I must leave it more beautiful than
what I had inherited". That was my first lesson in success. It is not
about what you create for yourself, it is what you leave behind that
defines success.

My mother began developing a cataract in her eyes when I was very
small. At that time, the eldest among my brothers got a teaching job
at the University in Bhubaneswar and had to prepare for the civil
services examination. So, it was decided that my Mother would move to
cook for him and, as her appendage, I had to move too. For the first
time in my life, I saw electricity in homes and water coming out of a
tap. It was around 1965 and the country was going to war with
Pakistan. My mother was having problems reading and in any case, being
Bengali, she did not know the Oriya script. So, in addition to my
daily chores, my job was to read her the local newspaper - end to end.
That created in me a sense of connectedness with a larger world. I
began taking interest in many different things. While reading out news
about the war, I felt that I was fighting the war myself. She and I
discussed the daily news and built a bond with the larger universe. In
it, we became part of a larger reality. Till date, I measure my
success in terms of that sense of larger connectedness.

Meanwhile, the war raged and India was fighting on both fronts. Lal
Bahadur Shastri, the then Prime Minster, coined the term "Jai Jawan,
Jai Kishan" and galvanized the nation in to patriotic fervor. Other
than reading out the newspaper to my mother, I had no clue about how I
could be part of the action. So, after reading her the newspaper,
every day I would land up near the University's water tank, which
served the community. I would spend hours under it, imagining that
there could be spies who would come to poison the water and I had to
watch for them. I would daydream about catching one and how the next
day, I would be featured in the newspaper. Unfortunately for me, the
spies at war ignored the sleepy town of Bhubaneswar and I never got a
chance to catch one in action. Yet, that act unlocked my imagination.
Imagination is everything. If we can imagine a future, we can create
it, if we can create that future, others will live in it. That is the
essence of success.

Over the next few years, my mother's eyesight dimmed but in me she
created a larger vision, a vision with which I continue to see the
world and, I sense, through my eyes, she was seeing too. As the next
few years unfolded, her vision deteriorated and she was operated for
cataract. I remember, when she returned after her operation and she
saw my face clearly for the first time, she was astonished. She said,
"Oh my God, I did not know you were so fair". I remain mighty pleased
with that adulation even till date. Within weeks of getting her sight
back, she developed a corneal ulcer and, overnight, became blind in
both eyes.

That was 1969. She died in 2002. In all those 32 years of living with
blindness, she never complained about her fate even once. Curious to
know what she saw with blind eyes, I asked her once if she sees
darkness. She replied, "No, I do not see darkness. I only see light
even with my eyes closed". Until she was eighty years of age, she did
her morning yoga everyday, swept her own room and washed her own
clothes. To me, success is about the sense of independence; it is
about not seeing the world but seeing the light.

Over the many intervening years, I grew up, studied, joined the
industry and began to carve my life's own journey. I began my life as
a clerk in a government office, went on to become a Management Trainee
with the DCM group and eventually found my life's calling with the IT
industry when fourth generation computers came to India in 1981. Life
took me places - I worked with outstanding people, challenging
assignments and traveled all over the world. In 1992, while I was
posted in the US, I learnt that my father, living a retired life with
my eldest brother, had suffered a third degree burn injury and was
admitted in the Safderjung Hospital in Delhi. I flew back to attend to
him - he remained for a few days in critical stage, bandaged from neck
to toe. The Safderjung Hospital is a cockroach infested, dirty,
inhuman place. The overworked, under-resourced sisters in the burn
ward are both victims and perpetrators of dehumanized life at its
worst. One morning, while attending to my Father, I realized that the
blood bottle was empty and fearing that air would go into his vein, I
asked the attending nurse to change it. She bluntly told me to do it
myself. In that horrible theater of death, I was in pain and
frustration and anger. Finally when she relented and came, my Father
opened his eyes and murmured to her, "Why have you not gone home yet?"
Here was a man on his deathbed but more concerned about the overworked
nurse than his own state. I was stunned at his stoic self. There I
learnt that there is no limit to how concerned you can be for another
human being and what is the limit of inclusion you can create. My
father died the next day.

He was a man whose success was defined by his principles, his
frugality, his universalism and his sense of inclusion. Above all, he
taught me that success is your ability to rise above your discomfort,
whatever may be your current state. You can, if you want, raise your
consciousness above your immediate surroundings. Success is not about
building material comforts - the transistor that he never could buy or
the house that he never owned. His success was about the legacy he
left, the mimetic continuity of his ideals that grew beyond the
smallness of a ill-paid, unrecognized government servant's world.

My father was a fervent believer in the British Raj. He sincerely
doubted the capability of the post-independence Indian political
parties to govern the country. To him, the lowering of the Union Jack
was a sad event. My Mother was the exact opposite. When Subhash Bose
quit the Indian National Congress and came to Dacca, my mother, then a
schoolgirl, garlanded him. She learnt to spin khadi and joined an
underground movement that trained her in using daggers and swords.
Consequently, our household saw diversity in the political outlook of
the two. On major issues concerning the world, the Old Man and the Old
Lady had differing opinions. In them, we learnt the power of
disagreements, of dialogue and the essence of living with diversity in
thinking. Success is not about the ability to create a definitive
dogmatic end state; it is about the unfolding of thought processes, of
dialogue and continuum.

Two years back, at the age of eighty-two, Mother had a paralytic
stroke and was lying in a government hospital in Bhubaneswar. I flew
down from the US where I was serving my second stint, to see her. I
spent two weeks with her in the hospital as she remained in a
paralytic state. She was neither getting better nor moving on.
Eventually I had to return to work. While leaving her behind, I kissed
her face. In that paralytic state and a garbled voice, she said, "Why
are you kissing me, go kiss the world." Her river was nearing its
journey, at the confluence of life and death, this woman who came to
India as a refugee, raised by a widowed Mother, no more educated than
high school, married to an anonymous government servant whose last
salary was Rupees Three Hundred, robbed of her eyesight by fate and
crowned by adversity - was telling me to go and kiss the world!

Success to me is about Vision. It is the ability to rise above the
immediacy of pain. It is about imagination. It is about sensitivity to
small people. It is about building inclusion. It is about
connectedness to a larger world existence. It is about personal
tenacity. It is about giving back more to life than you take out of
it. It is about creating extra-ordinary success with ordinary lives.



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Computer : .Net Micro Framework available for Embedded software

 

 

By: Saxena, Ritesh

 


D ont know how much it will be useful.. FYI...   

Am not sure if you came across this already by Microsoft has released a .Net Micro framework fit for loading on devices running embedded software !!

The .NET Micro Framework is a bootable runtime module that requires only 300 KB of memory but provides a full managed execution environment. The module can run on top of an underlying operating system or can run natively on a device.

According to Microsoft, a typical .NET Micro Framework device has a 32-bit processor with no external memory management unit and as little as 64K of random-access memory (RAM). Examples of .NET Micro Framework devices under development are consumer medical devices, industrial automation devices, consumer electronics, and devices that operate in your car.

 

For more information, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/netmf/default.mspx

 

 



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How the Questions You Ask Yourself Lead You Towards Success of Failure (PART II)

 

by: Jayanti Jain

Author of the English book "How to Get Super Success" and Hindi best-seller "Utho, Jago, Lakshya Ki Prapti Tak Ruko Nahin !" from Hind Pocket Books, New Delhi

There is an appropriate old saying. He who asks questions cannot avoid answers. Once an empowering question of getting success is raised in your mind, half the work is done. Now your mind will be focused to the question and your brain will give the answers.

Questions immediately change what we are focusing on and therefore how we feel.

You give conscious attention only to a few things but subconsciously your mind gives attention to all things. So the brain spends a good deal of its time trying to accord priority to various events and conditions, it gives instructions to pay attention more or less to many avoidable and undesirable matters.

If you are sad, it is because your mind focuses on all bad things and delete all good things. Conversely, when you feel good, it is because you remember only good things and delete bad things.

Questions are the laser of human consciousness. They penetrate into your mind and determine what you feel and how you act.

How Negative Questions
Harmed My Mother

Our life experience is based on what we focus on, and negative questions create a negative vision about life.

My mother Chunni used to ask herself always negative questions.

She usually used to ask the following questions to herself.

Why I have bad luck and who made it so ?

Bad luck is an imaginary concept. Nobody knows who made your luck. So there is no use asking such questions. She should ask:

What should I do to change my bad luck?

I never get happiness and who is responsible for it?

Happiness is the result of the attitude. Attitude is developed by you and not by others. So there is no use asking such questions. Instead, she should ask:

What should I do now to achieve happiness?

Nobody listened to me. Why do they not listen to me?

When nobody listens to you, you may not be knowing the art of talking. Secondly, you cannot change people . You have to change yourself. So she should ask:

What should I talk which should appeal to others?

Why can’t I get anything?

It is a relative concept. Everybody does not get all the desired things. Find out current realities. And she should ask:

What is that which I get now which will make me satisfied?

My life is passing. Nobody bothers about me everything, everybody is against me. Everybody is selfish. Now what am I to do ?

It is a fact. Everybody’s life is passing. Some one lives for one hour and someone around 100 years. Does nobody bother about her? Some friends, relatives or even pets may bother about her. Is everybody against her? It can never happen.

It is a complex question based on some generalisations. All generalisations lead to confusion. So avoid generalisations.

Instead of this complex question she should ask :

What should I do for others?

Many persons have deceived me. I will see to them. How to show them what I am?

There is need to forgive others. Revenge is not a positive way of life. Positive revenge is to get success. Instead of this question she should ask :

How to forgive enemy? What must I learn from these deceits?

Why am I a Woman?

You are in no way in the picture to think of this question. Becoming a woman was not in your hands. There are other unseen forces which are responsible for your being a woman. So there is no use asking such questions.

Only a woman can bring life. One wise man already said “No man can be equal to woman.”

Instead she should ask:

Could any man give as much love and care as I have given to my children?

The answers to these questions were disempowering. So, she could not change her life. She never accepted that she was responsible for her miserable life. She always blamed others. Thus, she lived a miserable life. Instead of that she should ask empowering questions. That would have changed her whole attitude.

 



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CSC : Referral Drive for C++ Leads

 

By: Suchi Gupta [mailto:sgupta73@csc.com]

 

LOCATION: Chennai

AREAS: C++ / Unix    

Here is an opportunity to include your friends in the next recruitment drive! Only short listed candidates will be called for an interview. Please refer all your friends who are currently based at the mentioned location OR interested to relocate to the location for a Long-term assignment. Refer the CVs asap!!  


EXPERIENCE, CHARACTERISTICS & KEY SELECTION CRITERIA:

- Educational/ Professional Qualifications (Essential): BE/ BTech/ MCA/ Msc
- Good Communication Skills
- Excellent Professional & Academic Record


C++ - Leads  
 
EXP: 5 - 9 Years
Work Location: CHENNAI


The Candidates should possess the following Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience developing software,
  • Strong & extensive exposure to C++ Programming and application development
  • Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying advanced object-oriented design and development principles
  • Experience developing data-driven applications using an industry standard RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, etc.), including strong data architecture and SQL development skills
  • Experience in Unix based development environment (Unix, Shell, Perl, Python)
  • Thorough understanding of internet technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, SMTP, etc.)
  • Experience applying software design patterns
  • Experience with unit testing (preferably utilizing Test Driven Development) and tools
  • Strong understanding of industry best practices such as software refactoring
  • Self-starter / demonstrated ability to initiate and drive continuous improvement
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong debugging and problem resolution skills
  • Experience using industry standard software development tools (IDE / Version Control / Continuous Integration)
  • Good leader and team player
  • Expertise in online payments and related domains is a plus


Responsibilities:

  • Perform high quality software analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance for the client's core technology platform
  • Be able to self-organize and work effectively within a small team with minimal supervision
  • Bring a broad skill set utilizing disparate technologies and best practices to the team
  • Be highly adaptable and able to quickly ramp-up on emerging technologies, industry practices and processes


 

PLEASE REFER ALL CVs TO:

MBabuji@csc.com

 



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