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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Cool Trip to kodai in october

I had to attend a function at kodaikanal last thursday. The trip was really enjoyable as i went their with my parents and brother's family. Climate was cold and the people said that it was raining daily for the past 42 days. It was cloudy on that day but we enjoyed the weather. The town was fully covered with fog. It was beautiful to see the sunlight peeping through fog. My mind was with full of pleasure and happiness. I stayed there for 2 days and had fun.

Greenish bed put in the middle of the town was covered with a white blanket.

If anyone get a chance to visit kodaikanal in winter dont miss it. Climate will be horrible but the sceneries will make ur mind relax and happy.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Millennium Development Goals

The MDGs contain 8 Goals:
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortalityGoal
5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
src:http://www.undp.org.in/

In the Tenth Five Year Plan the Planning Commission has outlined India’s human development goals and targets for the next five to 10 years. Most of these are related to and are more ambitious than the Millennium Development Goals.

MONITORABLE TARGETS FOR THE TENTH PLAN AND BEYOND1

Reduction of poverty ratio by 5 percentage points by 2007 and by 15 percentage points by 2012;

Providing gainful and high-quality employment at least to the addition to the labour force over the Tenth Plan period;

All children in school by 2003; all children to complete 5 years of schooling by 2007;

Reduction in gender gaps in literacy and wage rates by at least 50 per cent by 2007;

Reduction in the decadal rate of population growth between 2001 and 2011 to 16.2 per cent;

Increase in Literacy Rates to 75 per cent within the Tenth Plan period (2002-3 to 2006-7);

Reduction of Infant mortality rate (IMR) to 45 per 1000 live births by 2007 and to 28 by 2012;

Reduction of Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) to 2 per 1000 live births by 2007 and to 1 by 2012;

Increase in forest and tree cover to 25 per cent by 2007 and 33 per cent by 2012;

All villages to have sustained access to potable drinking water within the Plan period;

Cleaning of all major polluted rivers by 2007 and other notified stretches by 2012.

HIV/AIDS targets within the Tenth Plan period:2

80% coverage of high risk groups through targeted interventions;

90% coverage of schools and colleges through education programmes;

80% awareness among the general population in rural areas;

reducing transmission through blood to less than 1%;

establishing of at least one voluntary testing and counselling centre in every district;

scaling up of prevention of mother-to-child transmission activities up to the district level;

achieving zero level increase of HIV /AIDS prevalue by 2007)

Malaria targets within the Tenth Plan period:3

ABER (Annual Blood Examination Rate) over10 per cent

API (Annual Parasite Incidence) 1.3 or less

25% reduction in morbidity and mortality due to malaria by 2007 and 50% by 2010 (NHP 2002)

Hope these plans will come true in future.

1) Tenth Five Year Plan, Planning Commission, Government of India, Vol.1, Chapter 1, page 6
2) Tenth Five Year Plan, Planning Commission, Government of India, Vol. 2, Chapter. 2.8, page. 117.
3) Tenth Five Year Plan, Planning Commission, Government of India, Vol. 2, Chapter. 2.8, page. 108.

Src:http://www.undp.org.in/ihdg.htm

eBusiness Gateway

eBusiness Gateway is a nice blog by Bernie Vincent. He has given helpful information in various things. Dont miss to read his blog.

http://www.ebusiness-gateway.co.uk/weblog/blogger.html

COMPARISON OF NEW ORLEANS AND MUMBAI

HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING COMPARISONS:-

I couldnt' stop making this comparison..

inches of rain in new orleans due to hurricane katrina... 18

inches of rain in mumbai (July 27th).... 37.1

population of new orleans... 484,674

population of mumbai.... 12,622,500

deaths in new orleans within 48 hours of katrina...100

deaths in mumbai within 48hours of rain.. 37.

number of people to be evacuated in new orleans... entire city???..wohh

number of people evacuated in mumbai...10,000

Cases of shooting and violence in new orleans...Countless

Cases of shooting and violence in mumbai.. NONE

Time taken for US army to reach new orleans... 48hours

Time taken for Indian army and navy to reach mumbai...12hours

status 48hours later...new orleans is still waiting for relief, armyand electricty

status 48hours later..mumbai is back on its feet and is business is as usual

USA...world's most developed nation

India...JUST A DEVELOPING NATION..

oopss...did i get the last fact wrong???

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Check these sites

It is really useful to the software professionals.

http://exforsys.com/

The geekinterview.com is really useful for the job seekers.

http://geekinterview.com/

Friday, August 12, 2005

Interesting Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is a branch of science and engineering devoted to the design and production of extremely small electronic devices and circuits built from individual atoms and molecules. Manufactured products are made from atoms. The properties of those products depend on how those atoms are arranged. If we rearrange the atoms in coal we can make diamond. If we rearrange the atoms in sand (and add a few other trace elements) we can make computer chips. If we rearrange the atoms in dirt, water and air we can make potatoes. These trends we will have to develop a new manufacturing technology which will let us inexpensively build computer systems with mole quantities of logic elements that are molecular in both size and precision and are interconnected in complex and highly idiosyncratic patterns. Nanotechnology will let us do this. There are two more concepts commonly associated with nanotechnology:
Positional assembly.
Massive parallelism.
Positional assembly is a form to get the right molecular parts at the right place. Massive parallelism is a form to keep the costs down

Drexler's assembler follows the von Neumann kinematic architecture, but is specialized for dealing with systems made of atoms. The essential components in Drexler's assembler are shown in figure. The emphasis here (in contrast to von Neumann's proposal) is on small size. The computer and constructor both shrink to the molecular scale, while the constructor takes on additional detail consistent with the desire to manipulate molecular structures with atomic precision. The molecular constructor has two major subsystems: (1) a positional capability and (2) the tip chemistry.

Even including system overhead (power, connections, etc). the volume per element should still be less than 100 cubic nanometers. Operating continuously at a gigahertz such a computer would use less than 10^-9 watts.

Medical Applications:

Killing Cancer cells:

Given such molecular tools, we could design a small device able to identify and kill cancer cells. The device would have a small computer, several binding sites to determine the concentration of specific molecules, and a supply of some poison which could be selectively released and was able to kill a cell identified as cancerous.

Providing oxygen:

A second application would be to provide metabolic support in the event of impaired circulation. Poor blood flow, caused by a variety of conditions, can result in serious tissue damage. A major cause of tissue damage is inadequate oxygen. A simple method of improving the levels of available oxygen despite reduced blood flow would be to provide an "artificial red blood cell."

Artificial Mitochondria:

While providing oxygen to healthy tissue should maintain metabolism, tissues already suffering from ischemic injury (tissue injury caused by loss of blood flow) might no longer be able to properly metabolize oxygen. In particular, the mitochondria will, at some point, fail. Increased oxygen levels in the presence of nonfunctional or partially functional mitochondria will be ineffective in restoring the tissue. However, more direct metabolic support could be provided. The direct release of ATP, coupled with selective release or absorption of critical metabolites, should be effective in restoring cellular function even when mitochondrial function had been compromised.

The abilities discussed here might well take years or decades to develop.

sources:

1.http://www.zyvex.com/nano/

2.http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/nanotechAndMedicine.html

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Hydrogen Engine

BMW's Hydrogen engine which uses liquid hydrogen as fuel. BMW’s mission over the past decade as it has pursued hydrogen cars and the performance to go with them.These hydrogen vehicles have improved over the years, making the most of renewable hydrogen fuel in their internal combustion powerplants.

A distinction achieved at the high-speed Miramas Proving Grounds in France, BMW’s 285 horsepower H2R hydrogen car was propelled to 100 km/h in about 6 seconds, setting records in the flying-start kilometer; standing-start 1/2 kilometer, kilometer, and 10 kilometers; flying-start mile; and standing start 1/8 mile, 1/4 mile, mile, and 10 miles.

The vehicles powered by non polluting fuel(hydrogen) will rule the future roads.

src:http://www.greencar.com/index.cfm?content=features22

Know about Michael Porter

Michael .E.Porter is one of the management gurus who is working as a professor in the Bishop William Lawrence University. The researches of Michael porter are focused on competitive strategy, international competitiveness, the relationship between competition and society, and the relationship between competitiveness and the natural environment. He is the author for 16 books and 75 articles including the books “Competitive Strategy”(1980); “Competitive Advantage”(1985); “The Competitive Advantage of Nations”(1990); “On Competition”(1998).[1]
[1] http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/michael_porter

Porter in his five force model he says that the five forces rivalry, threat of substitutes, buyer power, supplier power, barriers to entry influences the industry. Rivalry intensity among the firms is influenced by the characteristics such as more number of firms, slow market growth, high fixed costs, high storage costs, low switching costs etc. The products demand is affected when the price of substitute product changes. The high buying power makes the buyer to set the product prize and vice versa. If the supplier is powerful then the supplier fixes the prize of the product and vice versa. Entry of new firms in the market creates a threat to the existing firms.[3] The three strategies Cost Leadership, Differentiation, and focus can control the five forces.[4] The Value chain model has both primary activities and support activities of a company. The primary activity consists of Firm infrastructure, Human resource management, technology development; procurement and the support activities are inbound logistics, Operations, Outbound logistics, Marketing and sales, and service. Good implementation of these two activities makes the company successful.[5]
[3] http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/porter.shtml
[4] http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/generic.shtml
[5] http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/methods_porter_value_chain.html

Porter’s five forces model is a good strategy for a firm in competitive market and this model will be even stronger if Porter has considered the innovative ideas and the research development that have done in the previous years. The value chain model by Porter is useful for the firms to frame their management infrastructure and to enhance their way of management by various activities.

Hope this information will be useful to the readers to know about one of the top 50 management gurus.

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Rocket Launch

Two kids from south India in 1983 launched their first rocket in the classroom but unfortunately failed. The two kids were punished. The story is really interesting if you read the following passages.

The two kids are Prem and Kiruba who are close friends studied in a school. They were more playful and creative from their childhood. One Monday morning they both were in the classroom. The teacher was taking the class. The entire classroom was silent. These two kids discussed and decided to make a paper rocket and to launch towards the roof of the classroom. They both built the rocket successfully and the rocket was ready to launch. They launched the rocket towards the classroom roof but unfortunately the rocket hit the teachers face. The two kids were caught and punished by the teacher. They were made to stand over the bench for the whole day. The creative kids were punished I don’t know why?

Now the two kids are grownup. Prem (I) has become a Business Consultant and living in UK. Kiruba (my friend) is working as a Technical Consultant and living in Seattle. Visit his blog which is really interesting.http://kirubakaran.blogspot.com

Still the parents of both the kids and other people wonder why such creative kids were punished.

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

The City Where I Live

I am living in Aberdeen , Scotland. This is one of the important and very old city's in UK. The city has other names such as "Granite city and Oil Capital of Europe". There are many oil companies in Aberdeen which supplies oil to UK and most parts of Europe. There are more than ten Castles in and around Aberdeen. There are two universities, University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University and some colleges. University of Aberdeen is the 3rd oldest university in uk. Aberdeen's population is of 212,125, Aberdeen is a thriving, cosmopolitan port in the North-east of Scotland. There are nearly 10 museums which are really informative to all the ages of people. The climate of Aberdeen is cold in winter and somewhat warmer in summer. The above picture is the night view of Aberdeen city centre.

The above picture shows the view of the beach and the entry place for the ships into the port.

The above picture shows the daytime view of city centre

The above picture taken in a sunny evening.

During the month of december, january,february and march there will be heavy snowfall in aberdeen which is enjoyable for the youths and kids, not for the old people since the roads platforms become slippery. The above picture taken during christmas.

The people who visit Aberdeen shop in the malls namely, Bon Accord centre, St.Nicholas shopping centre, Trinity shopping centre, Aberdeen market, etc. The above street(Union Street) is one of the major and crowded street's in Aberdeen where shopping is done.

Hope you would have enjoyed the virtual city tour of aberdeen.

Trip to The Royal Familes holiday home in scotland

Myself and my friend at Balmoral Castle in Scotland which is a holiday home for the Royal family. This place was really nice and beautiful.

This is the part of the big garden in the Balmoral castle which looks beautiful. You will enjoy it when you visit the place.

The statue in the above picture is of Prince Albert. This statue was kept after the death of Prince Albert in his memory.

The picture shows a place called Loch Muick loch means Lake Muick . Queen Victoria used to go for boating here. Also the Royal family go trekking on the mountains around this lake. There are more than 6000 deers in this forest which you can see easily.

The above picture shows the front view of the castle where the Royal family spend their holiday in scotland.

Hope you enjoyed reading this post which gives some information about the place where I live.