www.BPODigest.com i-Vortal

Power Of Collaboration - Funds Raised Through This Site Doubled

Sulekha.com, a major Indian Portal based in USA, is working with AID, an organization committed to the development of India. Currently AID and RSS are the most actively involved organizations coordinating the relief efforts at ground-zero in India.

Association for India's Development, Inc. (AID) is a voluntary non-profit organization committed to promoting sustainable, equitable and just development in India, by working with grassroots organizations and movements in India. AID supports and initiates efforts in various interconnected spheres such as education, livelihoods, natural resources, health, women's empowerment and social justice.

Sulekha has come up with an innovative program to raise funds for tsunami relief http://www.sulekha.com/aidtsunami/.

Sulekha has created a large matching fund (see above for latest amount) with generous donations from its members, well-wishers and corporate clients/partners worldwide (see complete donor list below). This fund will match dollar-for-dollar all contributions made through Sulekha to AID on this site.

I have contributed $2,573.00 which was raised from this site towards the Sulekhas Matching Fund. This $2,500.00 has helped to raise another $2,500.00 through individual donors at Sulekha. I have donated another $150.00 to RedCross Disaster Relief Fund.

Hey Google: Help Me Donate My Adsense Revenue to Help Tsunami Relief

Via: greg huges - dot - net

I have an idea, and a burning need to do something more to help those in need. I’ll email Google with this request, but I’m going to post it here, and encourage you to do the same thing on your site.

UPDATE: Google AdSense Support responded to this idea, and it’s at least possible!

I want all my AdSense revenue pending at the end of the year to go to help relief efforts in South Asia where the earthquakes and tsunamis have caused such devastation. If you use AdSense, I want you to pledge to do the same thing.

I think Google should make this an easy option for anyone with an AdSense account, and that they should do it in time for all of us to make our donations now, before the end of the year. It would be so easy for me to give that money to those in need, and Google can help many others do the same thing. Put a simple checkbox on the AdSense admin site that lets me choose to donate my AdSense funds. Do it for everyone.

Are you willing to donate your AdSense revenues? Comment here. Or post it on your blog or web site. Email Google and make it happen.

Scott Hanselman gave me this idea when he said he was thinking about donating his AdSense revenues. I had been thinking the same thing. Scott’s a good, kind person and I am willing to bet there are thousands more like him out there that would like to be able to do the same thing.

Hey Google people - call me if I can help make this happen. Seriously. I have lots of time right now, as well as a little AdSense revenue to share. So, I hope you’ll help me help someone else. Anyone else who wants to help can call me, too. Make my phone ring.

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me... I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me." -- Matthew 25:35,36,40 (NIV)

Update – Several bloggers have already posted and signed on to pledge their earnings to recovery efforts. I'll donate mine whether Google makes it easy to do through them or not - but it would be awfully cool if they can make it possible. Making it easy for people will mean more people will participate.

Also – Turns out there’s no better way to mark one year of blogging at greghughes.net than doing something to help others. Just realized it was one year of blogging here on the 27th… People, please contact Google and ask them to make this happen, and then post a link on your blog, and if you use adsense, I encourage you to join us in donating!

Why don't we ask the President to forgo his inaugurtion and donate the $40MM or so to the relief effort. We can have a moment of silence instead.

If we all post that on our blogs, then perhaps the idea will gain critical mass.

Thanks

Posted by Matt.

BBC Interview on NPR Today

Today morning BBC tech news correspondent called me up to interview about the bloggers contribution to Tsunami relief. Excerpts will be aired today on 'The World' program of NPR (National Public Radio http://www.kera.org/radio/default.lasso). The aired times are 2:00PM and 9:00PM Central times on 29th December 2004. You can listen to the radio online.

It happened, Bloggers voices are over the National Public Radio.

http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com founders
Rohit Gupta of http://www.worldchanging.com/rohit_bio.html
Dina Mehta of http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/
and contributor Me of http://www.deeshaa.net, http://www.bpodigest.com/, http://www.mbadream.com, our interviews are broadcasted on National Public Radio.

You can listen to rebroadcast at 9:00PM Central, 10:00PM Eastern, 7:00PM California Time on 29th Dec 2004 and 8:30 AM Indian Standard time on 30th Dec 2004, using this link.

Via TheWorld.orgInternet journals -- or weblogs -- have become popular outlets for internet-users....and they've often been a place of refuge for people in times of crisis. The World's Clark Boyd reports on how survivors of Asia's tsunamis are using weblogs to help deal with the aftermath of the disaster.

Listen to the audio transcript here: http://www.theworld.org/content/12293.wma

Hi,
Really ur doing a gr8 job.I will let all my friends know ur contribution and will ask them to take their part.
Hari

Posted by Hari Reddy.

Hi Ramdhan - your efforts are mentioned on a BBC News article published today at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4135687.stm

Well done for all your efforts - and keep up the good work.

I donated throught my employers employee matching fund and also government tax-relief on gift-aid procedure - turning my own $500 into over $1200 !! Many of my friends at work have done the same.

Posted by Jag.

680 in GMAT - Soooo Happyyy - What A Day, its a blast!

Today is such a wonderul day for me. To start with I got 680 in GMAT, its a huuugeee score for me. Got full marks in math and verbal ate my score, anyways, I am very happy. I want to thank lot of people who helped me to get this score, first my parents who always encouraged me to push limits, next my numerous friends who always encouraged me all the while, gave me books, did rekhi for me, gave lot of inspiration and were there all the while for me, next my gurus who gave me knowledge to march ahead in life, finally my blogging habbit which helped me immensely in increasing my knowledge scope. I am in a very ecstatic mood now. I will try to post a detailed post later.

Next, I got a book writing idea, yeah, I am going to do it using my pet java, well book is not on java, but a book using java code, it will be exciting to see it come out. Hopefully will be done in a few weeks.

Then, I am very glad that lot of people are responding to the online donation program. I did not expect this kind of response, I started it to pool money from friends, then opened it up for public, I am overwhelmed that lot of people are donating directly, it gives me an immence pleasure that I am doing my best using my knowledge of technology in this tough times to help the unfortunate victims of tsunami.

Finally, here is a big news, a BBC radio technology correspondent mailed me that he would like to interview me tomorrow about the use of technology in raising funds and probably the role of bloggers. It is just a completely pleasant surprise. I hope he will call me tomorrow, you never know until it happens.

Anyways, goodnight, signing off for today, after a wonderful wonderful day of my life.

Way to go buddy. Congratulations and keep it up.
You gonna do something big ... I'm sure.

Posted by Prateek.

HI Ramdhan,

After a long gap ,, Iam little free with my project as work is completed and we are in support, I opened your blog. I was very happy that you got a good score in GMAT.

congrats..

Kiran

Posted by Kiran.

Hey Prateek,

Tere muh mein ghee aur b. shakkar.

Hi Kiran,

Thanks for the wishes. How is it going dude? So, is the project work office related or your new marriage related ;-)

Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.

Ram,
Great news about the GMAT. WTG. You have very good potential. Good thing also on the Tsunami donation proceedings. I like the society & community work that you are/always doing & my best wishes in all of your endeavors.
-Sreeni

Posted by Sreeni.

Sreeni,

u r the guru dude, u r the one who helped me settle down and u r a great inspiration for my social commitment. Thanks for the wishes.

Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.

Tsunami - How you can help? Check These links.

Via : The Acron

What is a reasonable contribution?

India:
Emergency Numbers - Tsunami Help Blog: http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/
Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund, by bank transfer, or by credit card
Blogger Ramdhan Kotamaraja is collecting donations online

India together has a page detailing how you can help.
Mike Ghouse's http://www.mikeghouse.net/ accepting donations

Indian Association Of North Texas http://www.iant.org/ is accepting donations.
Asian Media World Wide - Radio Suno http://www.radiosuno.com is instrumental in spreading the message and they are contributing a part of their New Year Event's profits.
Vibha Initiatives: http://www.vibha.org/emergencydonation, http://www.vibha.org/emergencyrelief

Sri Lanka: Reliefweb (United Nations office)

Malaysia: Bloggers have set up a fund for those affected in the Malaysian state of Penang

Red Cross: Accepts donations online

Others:Vichaar’s list of relief agencies; On The Command Post; At A Voyage to Arcturus (via Tim Blair).

WorldChanging Responds

You can copy/paste these links on your blog or website. And if you know of ways to help government/NGOs carrying out relief work, please leave details in the comment section.

Hi, I have linked to this post of yours from my blog, i hope you wouldn't mind. thanks!

Posted by vallabhi.

I have linked your page from my site...

Posted by Jitendra Chaudhary.

Hi Vallabhi & Jitendra,

Thank you for linking up and please encourage everybody to donate and help in every possible way where ever they can.

Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.

Our support and prayers for the victims of Tsunami.
thank you
From Dr.Latchman Hardowar,
www.hindudevotion.com

Posted by Dr. Latchman Hardowar.

As an immediate response to this disaster, the Singapore Red Cross will be sending S$150,000 to Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and India (through the IFRC). To this there is the obvious concern of organizations (which raise funds for charity) being entitled to keep a certain percentage of the funds raised...

I don’t know about the percentage that Red Cross keeps for itself, but I know about WorldVision; and they can be trusted. Our family sponsors kid in Orissa & Gujarat; and based on the reports and pictures we get back, I seriously doubt if WorldVision keeps much to itself.

Getting back to the Tsunami relief effort.. In the past WorldVision has distributed Family Survival Kits to the flood victims in China, to the victims of Hurricane Ivan; and several other crisis situations. Each kit contains blankets, water purification tablets, cooking supplies and hygiene products. Other critically needed items, such as food & medicine, are also included depending on the situation.

Each of these kits costs US$100. Given the situation in countries like the Maldives & Sri Lanka (it must be noted that Sri Lanka has no natural lakes, thus implying that fresh water is a precious commodity), such kits would help immensely.

I’d hate to be sounding like a sale/spokesperson for WorldVision, but I urge you to really consider sponsoring a few of these kits. You can do so at
http://www.worldvision.org/worldvision/eappeal.nsf/egiftrelief_ivan?open

Posted by nirmalya.

In Singapore there are people who want to donate and cortribute in kind to India but have no means to make sure that the aid actually reaches the victims. The Indian High Commission, Air India and Indian Airlines have refused to take donations in the form of clothes, food or other kind. The Indian High Commission has stated that it is only interested in cash contributions and the two airlines have refused to carry donations on their multiple daily flights to Chennai from SIngapore.
The attitude of the Indian Hicom and the 2 airlines is regrettable in a time like this when establishments like Sri Lankan Airlines and the Sri Lankan embassy have been so pro-active in coming to the aid of its people.
It is indeed a sad day that when these organisations refuse to help their own people when foreigners are trying to send aid to those very people in a time of need.

Posted by Jazz.

Please visit: http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com which has an exhaustive info about tsunami relief organizations and there are organizations from singapore as well. Hope that helps you.

Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.

Thanks,

i have pasted the links on my blog http://indopakpeace27.blogspot.com/

Posted by Peace.

Hi Peace,

Keep the message spreading, encourage people to come together and reachout to everybody in need.

Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.

Jazz, actually there are many ways Indians in Singapore can help. You have a look at http://www.nirmalya.net/blog/archives/2004/12/helping_tsunami_victims.html

Posted by nirmalya.

Pls tell me and my country pple, Who and where should we ask whether have the aids reaches the victims' hands? Do we ask the India Gov or Singapore Gov? All the aids that donated by Singaporeans are distributed out by the India side not Singapore or Singaporeans. And what makes you so sure that Singaporeans have no means? If they've no means, they'll not donate food, clothes and money. Sad to say if the victims does not receive anything from our country. Something is wrong over there. Not the kind ppl who have donated and work so hard to pack the aids days and nights. Pls take care.

Posted by Jaslyn.

Here is a page on how to help from Singapore:
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/tsunamirelief/

Aid to India is still getting to India by other avenues. In fact some need help packing supplies tomorrow (Sun 2 Jan 2005). Check the page.

Posted by Otterman.

List Of Donors For Tsunami Relief Fund

Thank you for your overwhelming support. Please pass on the message, we will try to raise as much as possible. There is a huge need of resources for the aftermath reconstruction.

Please donate using the Visa/Master Button in the left side bar.

If you like to be anynymous, please send me a note.

1. $150.00 - Dasari Anand Babu
2. $121.00 - Chikarambotla Raghavendra
3. $101.00 - Hardowar Latchman www.hindudevotion.com
4. $100.00 - Thummaluru Anitha Kumar
5. $100.00 - Kumar Pankaj http://pnarula.com/
6. $100.00 - Potti Srinivasan
7. $100.00 - Anonymous
8. $100.00 - Descorps Waltraud
9. $100.00 - Nellore Sridhar
10. $100.00 - Mohammed Kaleem
11. $100.00 - Devanapalyam Lokesh
12. $100.00 - Bollmeier Philippe
13. $100.00 - Steven G Carroll
14. $60.00 - Gilla Raj
15. $50.00 - Srichinta Pallavi
16. $50.00 - Bedi Jaideep
17. $50.00 - Jagatap Manoj
18. $50.00 - Vasa Mohan
19. $50.00 - Kaisare Niket
20. $50.00 - Anil Yadala
21. $50.00 - Kaniganti Madhavi Latha
22. $50.00 - Ravoola Vinay, Gaddam Yashwanth, Lakshmi Kanthan Sai Prasad, Subramanian Ram, Kanduri Sanjeeva
23. $50.00 - Falstrom Amy
24. $50.00 - Bandaru Ravindra
25. $50.00 - GENNACO MICHAEL
26. $30.00 - Katamaraja Krishna
27. $25.00 - Bolleboina Swapna
28. $25.00 - Kothiyal Vinay Kumar
29. $25.00 - Malla Poorna
30. $25.00 - Kandarp Sanghavi
31. $25.00 - Valluru Ramesh
32. $25.00 - Challagulla Venkata
33. $25.00 - iamabrokekid.com
34. $25.00 - Anonymous
35. $25.00 - Muller John
36. $20.00 - Narayanan Sudarshan
37. $20.00 - Mogatadakala Kishore
38. $20.00 - Sunderesh Ravi
39. $20.00 - Anonymous
40. $20.00 - Anonymous
41. $20.00 - Mears Natalie
42. $20.00 - Das Biswajit http://rebel_in_me.rediffblogs.com/
43. $20.00 - Visikamalla Rajeshwar
44. $20.00 - Pushpagiri Raghunath
45. $20.00 - Guity Saghafi
46. $15.00 - BATRA GAUTAM
47. $15.00 - Ravi Prasad Nanjundappa Avati
48. $15.00 - Seelig Eric
49. $11.00 - Pasham Narsimha
50. $10.00 - Pai Nagesh
51. $10.00 - Korecherla Sapna
52. $10.00 - Friedersdorf Conor
53. $10.00 - Patil Sachin
54. $10.00 - Reddy Prasanth
55. $10.00 - Murty Vidya Sagar
56. $10.00 - Arora Atul
57. $10.00 - Anynymous

Total amount raised: $2573.00

Thank you very much for your donation.

Hi Ramdhan gaaru,

GOOD JOB... Hope we reach them on time.

Regards,

Posted by Pallavi Srichinta.

Keep up the good work.

I believe you will collect more money if you posted your plans of ensuring that money reaches its deserved recipients. Dont just post after-the-fact information, but also before-the-fact details of how you plan to go about allocating the money you receive.

Posted by Kandarp Sanghavi.

Hello Sanghavi,

Thank you for the encouragement. I am trying to mobilize friends here in Dallas to collect more funds and we will cordinate with various organizations here like Indian Association of North Texas, Prime Minister Relief Fund, etc and channel the funds for the right purpose.

I will post all the developments from time to time.

Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.

you are doing a great job :)

Posted by mukund narasimhan.

Hope this reaches the needful on time. Thank you for this initiative.

Posted by Sachin Patil.

Lets try to spread this message as widely as we can to help our brothers and sisters in need.

Posted by GAUTAM BATRA.

Hi Mukund, Thanks for the suport.

Hi Sachin, We will do the needful to reach out and make sure the funds will be channeled properly.

Hi Gautam,
Please spread the word, let everybody contribute in what every way they can. Here is a link - How You Can Help?, which helps in finding more reource to donate.

Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.

Hope the funds will reach the people seeking help.

Posted by Mohan Vasa.

Great gesture. I have linked it to my blog. Hope the needy get some relief. A shocking incident.

Posted by Biswajit.

Hi Biswajit,

Thank you for linking up and thanks for the donation. Please spread the word and encourage everybody to donate whatever they can and whereever they can.

Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.

Hope this can be a very little help. All the best
Walla (Paris)

Posted by Waltraud Descorps.

How can i trust this site ? any guarantis the the money is use for the tsunamis victims or any trusted organization is behide this fund??

Posted by merav.

Hi Merav,

I am raising this fund with the help of friends. This idea, when I was discussing with a friend of mine, Dasari Anand Babu, about raising funds from all our friends and their friends across USA and then channel the whole amount. Fortunately, my blogging friends started linking it up and the message started spreading, people started donating using this service and I am glad that we become able to become Instrumental in raising some funds to reachout to the victims.

It is voluntary for you to use the service that is available in this site. You can use numerous organizations that are out there which accept donations. You can find an exhaustive list of information about the ways of donation at http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/. Please do the needful through a channel which you feel good about.

The most important thing is getting the people of the world together and raising as much money as possible to help the victims of this disaster in every possible way.

I am going to post the information about the funds from time to time and which organization the funds are channeled to. It is my basic responsibility. Regarding affiliation to organizations, I have previously worked with varios organizations like CRY, Vibha, Salvation Army etc. As of now this fund is not officially related to any organization, we will channel the fund through the appropriate organizations once we raise some more money.

Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.

Hello Guys,
You all are doing a great job. I'll try to let all of my friends know about this and do my best to get as much money as possible.

Thanks
PN

Posted by Narsimha Pasham.

Hello ramdhan ji,
you r doing a great job man. Keep up the good work and make sure that the money goes to the needy people out there.

Thanks

Posted by Indian.

Dear Ramdhan, I heard your interview on NPR.....How wonderful that you are doing this.
Thank you for providing a direct way to help the people suffering in this disaster.....
Peace to you and Namaste, Amy

Posted by Amy Falstrom.

Hi Ramdhan Anna,
It was nice that you taking up this fund raising, and I really admire you for that. I will try to get some more.

JAI HIND.

-Ravi.

Posted by Ravindra Bandaru.

Hi Amy,

I really appreciate your contribution. People like you are great motivation for us to do more work.

Hi Ravi,

I appreciate your determination, please do eveything that is needed to reach out.

Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.

Appreciate you making it so easy to donate. Passed your site onto evryone in my address book. Steve Carroll

Posted by Steven G Carroll.

We are trying to create a database of relief efforts that have actually reached various locations in India.

Please do give the details from your efforts so that this information can be updated. The information can also be entered at the corkboard on the url mentioned here.

Thanks for your efforts.

Posted by N. Rathnasree.

Donate For Tsunami Relief Fund

A deadly tsunami has hit South Asia. See the news details @ google. It has killed over 10000 people across 7 countries. India is one of the hardest hit country with current death toll standing at arround 3200 a couple of hours ago, now standing at arround 4000 and numbers seems to be increasing hour by hour. We are tring to raise relief fund and please donate generously and do your best. I am collecting the donations through PayPal-Account. This is the best way I could find to collect donations as of now. I will report the donations collected from time to time and will publish the details of how the fund is chanelled. I have stopped collecting funds from my site. Please visit http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com and http://www.tsunamihelp.info for info about other donation programs and tsunami efforts. Click here for the list of donors. Please Donate To Tsunami Relief Fund using the Visa/Master Donate Button in the TOP-LEFT corner. What is a reasonable donation? If you have questions please feel free to leave a comment below or mail me at 'ram.dhan at gmail dot com or leave a comment below. Please forward this link http://www.ramdhanyk.com/movabletype/archives/thoughtprocess/001336.html to everybody you know help to raise money. To Find Out Other Ways To Help click here Other Bloggers Links: Conversations With Dina WorldChanging Varnam Picture Gallery from AP More Pictures >> Via Vallabhi: What is a Tsunami? Tsu-namis like those that wrea-ked havoc on Sunday, are massive waves usually caused by earthquakes deep under the ocean floor and can travel vast distances. Born of strong seismic shocks, tsunamis can reach huge heights and speeds, picking up strength as they cross the ocean — often with disastrous results thousands of kilometre from their origin. Despite their strength, they can be barely noticeable out at sea. “If you are on a boat, you might not even feel a tsunami,” said Wong Wing-tak, senior scientific officer at the Hong Kong Obser-vatory. “It becomes powerful only when it is near the shore and reaches shallow water, which then can push waves over 10 times higher than the sea level.” While they can also be caused by landslides, volcanic eruptions, the most common cause is an undersea earthquake, especially in areas such as the Pacific where there is significant movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates. “Tidal waves are not a common phenomenon as usually only an earthquake that’s over 7.7 on the Richter scale is capable of causing tidal waves,” Wong said. “Tsunamis travel outward in all directions from the epicentre of an earthquake and can savagely attack coastlines,” he said. “It can easily roll people out to the sea, it causes flooding, devastates property damage.” “The speed of tsunami is linked to the depth of the water. It can travel at several hundred kilometre per hour,” he said. In 1960, a huge tidal wave travelling at 750 kmph smashed into Japan, having been caused by a series of quakes in Chile on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Hundreds were left dead. In September 1992, a tsunami destroyed the homes of some 13 million people on the Nicaraguan coast. Two months later, villagers in Bali in Indonesia were swept by a series of giant waves that left thousands dead. On July 17 1998 two quakes that measured seven on the Richter scale caused waves of 10-metre high that ravaged a 30-km stretch of the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. Seven villages were destroyed, and the official death toll was 2,123. Alert to the destructive capacity of tsunamis, a tsunami alert centre in Hawaii collects information about possible tidal waves. Smaller tidal waves can also be caused by weather phenomenon, notably extreme thermal changes which can lead to depressions that cause strong winds. Tsunami is a Japanese word with the English translation, “harbour wave”. In the past, tsunamis were sometimes referred to as “tidal waves” by the general public, and as “seismic sea waves” by the scientific community. How do tsunamis differ from other waves? Tsunamis are unlike wind-generated waves on a lake or at a beach. They are characterised as shallow-water waves, with long periods and wave lengths. The wind-generated swell at a beach spawned by a storm in the sea and rolling in, one wave after another, might have a period of about 10 seconds and a wave length of 150 m. A tsunami can have a wavelength in excess of 100 km and period of one hour. As a result of their long wave lengths, tsunamis behave as shallow-water waves. A wave becomes a shallow-water wave when the ratio between the water depth and its wave length gets very small. In the Pacific Ocean, where the typical water depth is about 4000m, a tsunami travels at about 200 m/s, or over 700 km/hr. Because the rate at which a wave loses its energy is the reverse of its wave length, tsunamis not only propagate at high speeds, they can also travel great, transoceanic distances and have power of nuclear bombs. Source:Deccan Chronicle on the web MICHAEL DOBBS tells how Tsunami gave a silent surprise Disaster struck with no warning out of a faultlessly clear blue sky. I was taking my morning swim around the island that my businessman-brother Geoffrey bought on a whim a decade ago and turned into a tropical paradise just 200 yards from one of the world’s most beautiful beaches on the Sri Lankan mainland. I was a quarter way around the island when I heard my brother shouting at me, ‘‘Come back! Come back! There’s something strange happening with the sea.’’ He was swimming behind me, but closer to the shore. I couldn’t understand what the fuss was about. All seemed peaceful. There was barely a ripple in the sea. Then I noticed that the water around me was rising, climbing up the rock walls of the island with astonishing speed. The vast circle of golden sand around Welligama Bay was disappearing rapidly, and the water had reached the level of the coastal road fringed with palm trees. As I swam to shore, my mind was momentarily befuddled by two conflicting impressions: the idyllic blue sky and the rapidly rising waters. In less than a minute, the water level had risen at least 15 feet — but the sea itself remained calm, barely a wave in sight. Within minutes, the beach and the area behind it had become an inland sea, rushing over the road and pouring into the flimsy houses on the other side. The speed with which it all happened seemed like a scene from the Bible, a natural phenomenon unlike anything I had experienced before. As the waters rose at an incredible rate, I half expected to catch sight of Noah’s Ark. Instead of the Ark, I grabbed hold of a wooden catamaran that the local people used as a fishing boat. My brother jumped on the boat, next to me. We bobbed up and down on the catamaran, as the water rushed past us into the village beyond the road. After a few minutes, the water stopped rising, and I felt it was safe to swim to the shore. What I didn’t realise was that the floodwaters would recede as dramatically as they had risen. All of a sudden, I found myself being swept out to sea with startling speed. Although I am a fairly strong swimmer, I was unable to withstand the current. The fishing boats around me had been torn from their moorings and were furiously bobbing up and down. For the first time, I felt afraid, powerless to prevent myself from being swept out to sea. I swam in the direction of one of the loose catamarans, grabbed hold of the hull, and pulled myself to safety. My weight must have slowed the boat down and soon I was stranded on the sand. As the water rushed out of the bay, I scrambled onto the main road. Screams and yells were coming from the houses behind the road, many of which were still half full of water, trapping the inhabitants inside. Villagers were walking dazed along the road, unable to comprehend what had taken place. I was worried about my wife who had been on the beach at the time I went for my swim. I eventually found her walking along the road, dazed and happy to be alive. She had been trying to wade back to our island, when the water had carried her across the road and into someone’s backyard. At one point she was underwater, struggling for breath. She finally grabbed a piece of rope and climbed onto a tree, while the waters raged beneath her. Our children were still asleep when the tidal wave struck this morning at 9:15 am. They woke up to find the bay practically drained of water and their parents walking back across the narrow channel to safety. The waves have been raging around the island for the rest of the day — alternatively rising and receding. It took us many hours to realise the scale of the disaster of which we had witnessed a tiny part. The road from Welligama to Galle is cut in many places. There are reports of hundreds, perhaps thousands of people missing and drowned in southern Sri Lanka. The coastal road is littered with carcasses of boats and dead dogs. Even a few dead sharks have been washed up on the road. Helicopters are flying overhead and loudspeaker vans are warning local residents to leave low-lying areas for fear of more tidal waves. My brother’s little island — called Tapbrobane after the ancient name of Sri Lanka — is largely intact, although a piece of our gate ended up on the seashore half a mile away. His house rests on a rock 60 feet above the level of the sea, which rose a maximum of 20 feet. We have no water, and no electricity and are practically cut off from the rest of Sri Lanka. It is impossible to buy food; we are existing on cold ham and turkey sandwiches, leftovers from last night’s Christmas Dinner. The holiday that we planned and dreamed about for many months is in ruins. We feel fortunate — fortunate to be alive. Source : Indian Express Kanyakumari Collaborates While we face a tough time ahead, I am glad that some WorldChanging stories can be reported, even in the face of the tsunami tragedy. The picture is taken from the southernmost tip of India, where until today there were hundreds of tourists trapped at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, off the coast of Kanyakumari district. In an amazing display of humanitarian collaboration and bravery, the local fishermen saved roughly 500 of the 600 trapped people, while the role of relief agencies was severely limited by the breakdown of communications and bad weather. Even as I write this, most local media can only offer conflicting figures. A majority of the deceased from the mainland were local fishermen who had gone out in the sea, to net their nightly catch. Throughout the day and night, and the following day, small boats and catamarans, perhaps too small to brave the violent sea, were plying up and down the strait that divides the island from the Indian mainland. While the Indian Air Force kept dropping food and medical supplies, it is the fishermen who've kept the Kanyakumari death toll (524) as low as it is. Most of the saved were not locals, but tourists, including a Supreme Court judge. There were no riots or cases of civic indiscipline reported in that district, nor in any other part of India, during the rescue efforts. Thankfully, the Indian media has taken due note of the effort. Also, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India, has offered extensive aid to Sri Lanka, and at least four Indian Navy ships have already carried medicines, food and water to Galle, one of the most affected areas in Sri Lanka. One of my media friends is a TV show host, and is writing live accounts of the frenzy on our community blog while rushing around in search of loved ones. We are also setting up a database of helplines and donation funds, more on that soon.

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Hi Ram,
Thanks for initiating. Lets do it..Hope all our NRI friends are kind enough to support the affected... Lets do something to "SWADESH"..

-Anand

Posted by Anand.

Hi Anand,

Sure, lets try to raise money and send it over. The disaster is really devastating, lets do all we can to rasie fund.

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav Kotamaraja.

Hi! It´s really a pathetic situation for all those who lost their lives. I am trying to raise funds from all of my friends in Bochum, Germany. I hope that every NRI contributes some amount towards the Relief Fund. May God bless all of us.

Posted by Sandeep.

Hi Sandeep,

If you have website set up a paypal account and ask your friends to donate through that, so that you don't have to commute arround to do that.

If you don't have one and want to set up one, Please create a paypal account and give me the link, I will create a page for you to raise funds in Germany.

Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.

Hi Ramdhan:

Got to know about this from the jntukids yahoo group. Glad to know that somebody is rasing funds.

All the best in your efforts.

Sagar

Posted by Vidya Sagar Murty.

Hi Sagar,
a mail from u to jntu kids will have a good response. Will be really great if u can send a mail to the group.

-Anand

Posted by Anand.

Good morning sir,
Iam suma from e-mug technologies (p) ltd Hyderabad,Ameerpet. from accounts department,i would liketo say thatwe are intrested to donate our one day salaries of our employees,so please mail me the details that chq should be in the faavour of which name and where shall we courier the chq i mean address.so kindly give me the details sir.

Waiting for your reply

Thanks
Regards
Suma
Accounts Department
E-Mug technologies (p) Ltd
F#611,AnnapurnaBlock
Aditya Enclave
Ameerpet
Hyderabad
Ph:040-23744750/040-55637183
suma@emugtech.com

Posted by suma.

Hi Suma,
Thanks for your initiation in your company. Actually
through www.Ramdhanyk.com we are raising funds from across the world. We have created pay pal account for that. For that u need
to use Credit card. What ever we are collecting via Ramdhanyk.com we
are trying to get the matching funds from a local company and we will chanalise the funds Via some organisations.

Here are some organisations list u can send the checks . click the link bellow.

http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/dec/29tsunami.htm

Donations could be made by cheque or draft in the name of the Prime
Minister's National Relief Fund and sent to the Prime Minister's
Office, South Block, New Delhi-110001.

Cheque/DD to: Prime Minister's National Relief Fund
Address: Prime Minister's Office, South Block, New Delhi-110001.

The nationalised banks will not charge any commission on preparation
of draft in favour of PMNRF.

Contributions could also be sent through money orders with no
commission chargeable, the spokesman said adding that the
contributions to PMNRF have been notified for 100% deduction from
taxable income under section 80 (G) of the Income Tax Act.

People who want to help may send bank drafts/cheques in the name
Indian Red Cross Society, New Delhi. One may also deposit cash or
relief material at the Delhi office.

The society is accepting everything except perishable items and used clothes.

Address:
Indian Red Cross Society,
1, Red Cross Road,
New Delhi - 110001
Phone: (011) 23716441, 23716234

Let us know if u need any help in sending funds . We sincerly
appreciate your effort in helping the needed people.

-Anand

Posted by Anand.

DPS Sex Clip - A Wake Up Call For Parents To Talk To Their Chindren

‘‘A moment of daring which a lifetime of prudence cannot retract.’’ Watch out for those moments of daring, when your good sense shuts down. If you seize the moment and go with the flow, it will be too late. A lifetime of prudence and penance cannot retract it. The damage will have been done.

Read the article @ A mother sends a text message to her child: Save your tomorrows, for your sake and for all our sakes

i wanna se that horny girl on my bad!

Posted by harsh.

how can we do sex in a car. Are you done sex in a car send me some helpful tipes to do sex in a car. also sex on back in a asshole.

Posted by henny.

how can we do sex in a car. Are you done sex in a car send me some helpful tipes to do sex in a car. also sex on back in a asshole.

Posted by henny.

I WANNA SEE THAT SEXY GIRL ON MY BED

Posted by ROHIT.

GO - Chinese Game that Computers Cannot Crack

Via: Emergic Economist.com | Go

It is a simple parlour game where two opponents, comfortably seated and often equipped with nothing more than folding paper fans and cigarettes, take turns placing little stones, some black, some white, on a flat wooden grid. Simple regarding rules and gear, that is, yet so challenging that in this mind-game, unlike chess, and despite the long-standing offer of a $1.6m reward for a winning program, no computer has yet been able to outwit a clever ten-year-old.

The game known in English as go—Igo in Japanese, Weiqi in Chinese, Baduk in Korean—is not just more difficult and subtle than chess. It may also be the world's oldest surviving game of pure mental skill. Devised in China at least 2,500 years ago, it had stirred enough interest by the time of the Han dynasty (206BC-220AD) to inspire poets, philosophers and strategic theorists. One of these strategists, Huan Tan (who died in 56AD), advises in his work “Xin Lun”, or “New Treatise”, that the best approach in the game is to “spread your pieces widely so as to encircle the opponent.” Second best is to attack and choke off enemy formations. The worst strategy is to cling to a defence of your own territory—a warning that would have benefited, say, the designers of France's 1930s Maginot line.

Need to check with my chinese coleagues and try to learn this. Chess was always too complicated to, but this seems to be a game that I can start learning and playing.

Balu ABCDEFG - My Current Fav. Tunes

My latest music Gig: RAAGA - Balu ABCDEFG - Telugu Movie Songs. The songs are too good, enjoying some real cool telugu kind of my kind of music. Seems like Pavan Kalyan finally has come to his senses after his devastating experiements as director. I hope he did not meddle in direction of this movie. Can't wait to see the movie though.

It is an absolute family entertainer. Pavan has a great acting potential, this movie has reiterated it once more. The music is very cool. The first half is romantic with a punch of action to the latter. Pavan's steps in the songs are incredible.

PAVAN WAS HANDSOME. Mani sharma did a good job with the misic

Posted by Prakash.

The Sweetest Thing In The World

Friendship

Grass As Canvas

Artist statment from Paradise Now Exhibition:

We are exploring the capacity of grass to record complex photographic images through the production of chlorophyll. The equivalent of the tonal range in a black-and-white photograph is produced in the yellow and green shades of living grass. Although these organic "photographs" are exhibited in a fresh state for a short time, excessive light or lack of it eventually corrupts the visibility of the image.
Read more @ Source:Ackroyd and Harvey: Genetics and Culture

Study with Stanford: Toward a literacy of cooperation

Welcome to HUM 202: Toward a literacy of cooperation - Toward a Literacy of Cooperation

Stanford students and anyone anywhere interested in learning about the emerging interdisciplinary study of cooperation is welcome to participate in this group blog.

This group blog is the online extension of the classes held at Stanford University (every Wednesday, January 5-March 16, Wallenberg Hall, Room 127, 4:15-5:45 PST). The lectures and class discussions will be streamed and archived in audio and video and available for podcast. This blogspace is for registered students and interested others to discuss the weekly reading in personal blogs and in comments to the stories posted by instructors. A wiki enables registered participants to add their notes and to contribute to class discussions remotely. Read More

Ramayana Comic Book Online

Read Ramayana Comic online @ Valmiki's Ramayana

hi,
honestly i've never gone thru online ramayan's comic...but since i adore comics n love the ramayan epic, i wud hav luved it if u cud send em to my inbox everyday...(om_vidu@hotmail.com)
thnx in anticipation
vidu

Posted by vidushi.

The like to Ramayan Comic does seems to working. Please fix it. I would love watch it and show it to my kids.

Posted by Ajay.

Swadesh -- LeapFrog -- Deesheaa

Yesterday night I saw Swadesh. I have read various reviews of the movie which ranged from acerbic to outright discrediting the movie. But finally I found a review which resonated with my perspective, here it is from GoldScriptFilms

Three years back, I was sent by this paper to cover a small village called Arnala, a few minutes’ boat-ride across the backwaters off Virar.

More than five decades after Indian independence, just about 150 kms from the gleaming glass walls of Nariman Point, the excited, dancing denizens of this tiny hamlet had for the first time seen a little, lit lightbulb in their huts and by-lanes that morning of 2001.

It is this callous, happily overlooked contradictions of human lives that finds a fulcrum in Gowariker’s second film. (After Lagaan, and now Swades, I submit, it’s time to bury his actual first three flicks — Pehla Nasha, Izzat Ki Roti and Baazi — to repressed public memory).

A leading NASA space engineer Mohan Bhargava (Khan) on one end is involved in launching a sophisticated satellite that detects rain-zones with utmost accuracy.

On the other end, the village in Uttar Pradesh that he visits for a few days still relies on a faux-expert who looks up to the sky, says it’s clear, that it won’t rain for two days, and all nod in unison.

The true ‘blue-suede-shoes’ NRI returns to ‘swades’ to take back his surrogate mom (Kishori Ballal — absolutely adorable) he’d neglected for years in pursuit of professional ambitions.

She lives in a village, 200 kms away from Delhi. With a young, urban-educated firebrand social worker/school-teacher (Joshi — a meticulously treated character).

And among dirty denizens who live almost literally in dark ages — all prisoners of a panchayat’s phony dictums and their own unquestioned value systems.

The mostly unconcerned yuppie Mohan finally meets his moment of truth courtesy a famished, former weaver who cannot turn to farming because of rigid rules of casteist segregation.

And his moments of personal triumph concern how, with about a 100 people, he builds a mini-dam that makes the village self sufficient to produce its own electricity. That he does this in a few days appears questionable.

Also, stand warned: Since we’re too used to ‘munch’ movies than watch them, to some, portions of this picture may seem preachy, or the plot placidly paced. But any short cuts on that front, it’s easy to tell, would’ve trivialised the picture’s premise and substance.

The prime one of which, that I loved most, is how we, as a nation that still lives in the villages, project our failures to vague, satisfying notions of ‘parampara’, ‘sanskar’ or how we’re a “great nation” after all. I felt a quick recall to the popular street retort to Rajiv Gandhi’s buzzwords in the 80s – “Na Roti, Na Kapda, Na Makaan, Lekin Mera Bharat Mahaan!”

Certainly, Gowariker’s village — given its home-architecture; absence of law and order chaos; unsure accents… — doesn’t seem to belong to UP to me at least.

But the painstaking detailing when the plot gets laid out, the conviction to contain rhetoric, and to ensure that no individual element of the film (cinematography, dialogues…) divert attention from its core is absolutely marvelous.

As for the lead protagonist Khan (brilliant), let’s just say, in an entire career that spans a string of no-brainer, schmaltzy cinema hot off the shelves of Bollywood’s money-making masala stores, this is the by far, the most significant film he’s done yet.

You feel for this fable (M S Satya, Gowariker). You feel for its infectious idealism. And if you noticed I haven’t mentioned Lagaan yet, well, it compares well. Almost a sequel in spirit.

For this is another inspiring account of what self-empowered underdogs can accomplish through sheer zeal and phenomenal focus.

I cannot think of a better film for the longest that deserved a stronger recommendation for both touring cinemas of India’s villages, and plush multiplexes of Mumbai or Manhattan.

Finally, an honest, fine example of an unfortunately debunked, bastardised term called ‘crossover’.

Well, you must wondering what is the connection with Deeshaa. Before addressing that point, I want to point you towards one more article that I have posted : 'LeapFrogging' - Leapfrogging and why it Matters - Emerging Technology in the New Developing World.

Examples of leapfrogging other than with mobile phones abound. A few, pulled from the WorldChanging archives, include:

Solar power for rural communities in Pakistan.

The "Hospital of the Future" in Thailand

World's Greenest Building, as voted by the US Green Building Council, in Hyderabad, India

Free broadband and Linux machines in Brazil:

"Barefoot Solar Engineers" -- rural women trained to install and repair solar power systems in India:

Swadesh movie depicts the example of the opportunity that is available to developed nations to LeapFrog using the technology. In this scenario, I can't help remembering Sam Pitroda, the author of communication revolution in India. Excerpt of a writeup by Arifa Khan of Wharton on Sam.

Stories abound of entrepreneurs who were compelled to achieve and in the process amassed wealth and glory. But Sam’s story is different. While the best brains of the world were busy solving problems of the rich, Sam espoused a mission for the masses of a developing country that would not count for much in the world economy.

Sam dreamt a dream of fixing one of the many problems that plagued India. The 1980s were the years when the migration of educated young people from India to developed countries mirrored more than career aspirations. It also reflected a willingness to leave behind family ties to join a world of modern communication. Sam focused on India’s problem – an infrastructure of 2 million telephones for a population of 750 million was woefully inadequate – and he resolved that “he was going to fix India’s problem.”

For a year, Sam Pitroda sought an appointment with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. On being granted an appointment for 10 minutes (the time-keepers thought neither he nor the prime minister needed more), he declined to meet until he was given nothing less than an hour. After what became a famous hour-long meeting, Mrs. Gandhi observed, “This guy is possessed. He wants to do it. I don’t know what, but he will do it.”

The prime minister required a year to be convinced that Sam’s was indeed a selfless motive. When Mr. Pitroda was asked to quote his terms, he responded with a budget of 36 million rupees and 36 months to show his work, and an annual salary of 1 rupee for the next decade. Thus was conceived the Center for Development of Telecommunications that would eventually lay the foundation to make India the software hub that it is today.

India also needed to develop its own hardware, and Sam Pitroda declared, "We will build our own.” Soon he had assembled 300 young technicians to assemble a parallel processor from scratch with a budget of 30 billion rupees in 3 years. Thus also began a computer revolution in India.

Sam’s secret of success was selfless sacrifice. When your mission is to make a difference to the world rather than make a personal gain, you can draw courage from outside as everyone seeks to help you achieve that mission. Sam also believed that working from the top down was essential for a country like India with its 400 million illiterate citizens.

Like Sam, the best brains of India need to be inspired to give selflessly to their country. Every key player in India’s independence movement was a foreign educated barrister, and now every foreign-experienced hi-tech Indian migrant needs to think of coming back to aid the country’s economic movement.

I had the previlege of meeting Sam Pitroda in 2003, TIE Annual Seminar at Dallas. In the seminars Q&A section, a question was asked

Question: Sam, What needs to be done to improve electricy situation in India to create a phenomenon just like what you did in communications.

Sam: Give me a person who is young, highly energetic, has a superb acadamic track record, has few patents in the field of electricity, has a will to sacrifice his/her life for the betterment of the society and I will give you an electric revolution.

I have been thinking for a while, what do Deeshaa Network members stand for. We are a group of people who has atleast some of the qualities what Sam asked for. We want to make a difference and make Swadesh to LeapFrog into a new era. I would like to know what you people think about Deeshaa Network, its members, what kind of role Deeshaa network and its members should play.

i like actress of this movie so please send her photo

Posted by shivtesh.

she is ................

Posted by satyam.

she is ................

Posted by satyam.

i really liked this movie.india really need a mohan bhargav today.

Posted by shailesh.

Labor Department's Proposed PERM Regulations

Much awaited PERM, computerized processing of green cards, is going live this new year and you can find infomation about it @ Labor Department's Proposed PERM Regulations, Law Offices of Carl Shusterman, http://shusterman.com

History of Naxalbari

With inputs from T Sunil Reddy in Hyderabad and Binay Kumar Singh in Varanasi, The Times of India has an interesting article about The Rising: Naxalbari to now

1967 : Peasants' uprising at Naxalbari in Darjeeling. Many cadres and leaders from communist party state units support struggle. All India Coordination Committee of Revolutionaries (AICCR) set up.

1970 : First CPI (ML) congress is held in Calcutta. Charu Majumdar elected party general secretary. Revolutionary Writers Association (RWA) formed in Andhra Pradesh.

1972 : Majumdar arrested in Calcutta. Dies in lock-up.

1980 : People's War Group formed in AP. Later, CPI (ML) Red Flag is formed.

1986 : Bihar bans PWG and MCC. CPI (ML) organises a national women's convention in Calcutta.

AP bans PWG 1995 : A six-member CPI (ML) group is formed in Bihar Assembly. N T Ramarao relaxes ban on PWG for three months.

1996 : Five members of ASDC make it to Assam assembly; another member elected to Lok Sabha.

1999 : CPI (ML) Party Unity merges with PWG. Naxals kill MP transport minister to avenge the death of three top PWG leaders in police encounter.

2000 : PWG kills AP minister Madhava Reddy; blows up an MP police vehicle killing 23 cops.

2001 : Naxalite groups all over South Asia form a Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia (CCOMPOSA).

October 2003 : PWG attempt on AP CM Chandrababu Naidu

May 2003 : Chandrababu Naidu loses elections. Congress government calls for talks with Naxal groups

September 2004 : PWG and Maoist Communist Centre merge to form CPI (Maoist)

October 15 : AP government begins talks with CPI (Maoists)

December 16 : Ceasefire agreement between AP govt and Naxals lapses

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Aiming For a Top B-School ?

You think, you got great credentials and a perfect 800 score, well you might still not get a seat in those IVY-Leage B-Schools. Read on.......

More than 500 students from India applied to Wharton Business School last year. Very few actually got admission.

The story is similar for other well-known schools like Wharton Business School, Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, Kellog, INSEAD and London Business School among others.

The number of students from India applying to top 5 business schools is increasing every year.

Most of them have a 700+ GMAT and good work experience and more importantly, they have been the best at whatever they have done in life.

Those that get in, have something exceptional to show in their backgrounds. Some thing off the track, something that they did which was not normal in the circumstances that they were in.

No, we are not trying to discourage you, what we are asking you to do is to make a realistic assessment and then decide. There is no point in spending money in application fee if your profile does not match the requirements of the school.

Most of the students who come to us for counselling want to go to the top schools. It is really difficult to convince them that despite their high scores, they may not get admission in the top-5 schools.

We know of a student who had a perfect score in GMAT (800) and had 8 years of work experience in top finance organisations. He was rejected by Harvard, Columbia, GSB Chicago and Columbia because he had already done an MBA before from India.

Students applying to top schools from India include top IAS officers, MBA students from IIMs, students from IITs armed with a few years of work experience and many such people.

If the above did not put you off, may be you could get in. But if it did make you uncomfortable, you could look at other schools in the US - they may not be ranked in the Top - 10 or 20, but they do offer good career prospects and job opportunities after course completion.

Remember, US is the land of opportunities, and is known to have a system that can churn out the talented from every where. So, even if you do not apply to the very best schools, you can still make it big by doing well in your course and out performing others at work.

It is important to apply to schools that match your profile rather than get swayed by the rankings.

Read the whole discussion @TestMagic Forum - Indian MBA wannabe's - read this

way too many people trying to break into the regular MBA track . better to find another stream of education .

Posted by kripal.

This is Rajender Gurram from Chennai.
Now i am working in Tata Consultancy Services.
I did my BE IT in Vasavi College Of Engineering in Hyderabad (Andhra pradesh,INDIA).
I have 75% score in my BE.
I am planing for my MBA.I want to do my MBA from any of TOP 30 MBA Schools.
What is the minimum EXP is needed.
Which are all the universities are suitable with my bio data.
Please provide this information.

Posted by G.Rajender Reddy.

This is Rajender Gurram from Chennai.
Now i am working in Tata Consultancy Services.
I did my BE IT in Vasavi College Of Engineering in Hyderabad (Andhra pradesh,INDIA).
I have 75% score in my BE.
I am planing for my MBA.I want to do my MBA from any of TOP 30 MBA Schools.
What is the minimum EXP is needed.
Which are all the universities are suitable with my bio data.
Please provide this information.

Posted by G.Rajender Reddy.

Impress Your Boss??

A butcher watching over his shop is really surprised when he sees a dog coming inside the shop. He shoos him away. But later, the dog is back again. So, he goes over to the dog and notices it has a note in its
mouth.He takes the note and it reads "Can I have 12 sausages and a leg of lamb, please".

The dog has money in its mouth, as well. The butcher looks inside and, lo and behold, there is a ten dollar note there. So he takes the money and puts the sausages and lamb in a bag, placing it in the dog's mouth.
The butcher is so impressed, and since it's about closing time, he decides to shut the shop and follow the dog. So off he goes. The dog is walking down the street, when it comes to a level crossing, the dog
puts down the bag, jumps up and presses the button. Then it waits patiently, bag in mouth, for the lights to turn. They do, and it walks across the road, with the butcher following him all the way.

The dog then comes to a bus stop, and starts looking at the timetable. The butcher is in awe as the dog stops a bus by pulling its left leg up and gets in it. The butcher follows the dog into the bus. The dog then
shows a ticket which is tied to its belt to the bus conductor.

The butcher is nearly fainting at this sight, so are the other passengers in the bus. The dog then sits near the driver's seat looking outside waiting for the bus stop to come. As soon as the stop is in
sight, the dog stands and wags its tail to inform the conductor. Then, without waiting for the bus to stop completely, it jumps out of the bus and runs to a house very close to the stop. It opens the big iron gate
and rushes inside towards the door. As it approaches the wooden door, the dog suddenly changes its mind and heads towards the garden. It goes to the window, and beats its head against it several times, walks back, jumps off, and waits at the door.

The butcher watches as a big guy opens the door, and starts abusing the dog, kicking him and punching him, and swearing at him.

The butcher surprised with this, runs up, and stops the guy. "What in heaven's name are you doing? The dog is a genius. He could be in TV, for the life of me!"

To which the guy responds: "You call this clever?This is the second time this week that this stupid dog's forgotten his key."

Moral of the story ......

You may continue to exceed onlookers' expectations but shall always fall short of the bosses' expectations. How true and how sad!!!

good

Posted by maksud.

typos in all ur posts :)

Posted by tng.

The top 1,000 things to know

Seth's Blog has a post aboutThe top 1,000 things to know

So what are they? What are the one thousand teachable things that every third grader ought to start learning so she'll know them all before before she graduates from high school?

Here are twenty to get us started.

1. How to type.
2. How to speak in front of a group.
3. How to write clear prose that other people actually want to read.
4. How to manage a project.
5. The most important lessons from American history.
6. What the world's religions have in common.
7. Evolution.
8. Formal logic.
9. The 15,000 most common English words.
10. Conversational Spanish.
11. How to handle big changes, with grace.
12. How to run a small business.
13. Basic chemistry.
14. Not arithmetic, but algebra.
15. A little geometry, a little calculus.
16. The most important lessons from ten other world cultures and their history.
17. Speed reading with comprehension.
18. How to sell.
19. Pick one: how to paint, write a poem, compose a song or juggle really well.
20. Understanding the biographies of 500 important historical figures and 200 fictional ones.

Well, its necessary for me too, unfortunately I don't see to have atleast 1/2 of them as of now.

Good Reasoning Why a Politician Should Get An MBA

Ari Chester of Wharton 2006 writes an article about the value of MBA @ Wharton Journal

The conclusioin of the article rhythms with my philosopy, to be a very good politician I need to get an MBA from a top Management School. And people look at me like I am crazy. B'cos most of the people think that Law is a better route for politics, but in my opinion more than creating laws having the ability to create wealth for the society is more important to become a productive politician and an MBA will help to arm yourself with necessary skills.

Well, now read on the article that is rated the best.

That business school develops the "leaders of tomorrow" is one of the more painful clichés that adulterates the MBA experience. A successful manager is not synonymous with a visionary leader. Leaders don't sit around assessing their twelve leadership traits. But what do I know? After all, in the recent LTA (Learning Team Assessment), I received a 3.57 out of 5 for my VI (Vision and Inspiration), compared to the school-wide average of 3.86 and cohort average of 3.98.

But I no longer aspire to be a visionary. I had enough visions during my late teenage years. In Wharton's leadership class, my vision statement prophesized, "By the age of fifty, I will retire to the Caribbean, drink exorbitantly expensive wine with my excessively beautiful wife, and take early morning walks through lush gardens." Of course, this prophecy is potentially compromised by my score of 3.33 for IT (Integrity and Trust), which is low relative to the 4.18 class average. One of my teammates observed, "While I view Ari as trustworthy, I know that he plays the game following a different moral compass." True enough, though too bad I have been lax in following my own scruples: "When you are above praise and blame, when your heart flows broad and full like a river, a blessing and danger to those living near- There is the origin of your virtue" (Nietzsche). Here at Wharton, my heart has not been flowing like the raging rapids of a torrential river. It's more like I've been living in a fish bowl.

Nevertheless, my Wharton experience has measured on a logarithmic scale. Would law school have been the same?

We are all familiar with the perennial debate about the merits of a law degree versus an MBA. In rationalizing my personal choice, my application essays to Wharton argued, "I see an MBA as something more than the acquisition of quantitative skills. In conceiving of the ideal Republic, Socrates insists that until the philosophers are kings, or the kings are philosophers, the perfect nation-state will not be feasible. In today's context, the successful business manager best represents the philosopher, who ideally possesses a broad background that enables him or her to apply theoretical frameworks to diverse, real-world situations."

Was I serious? A vital framework to grasp the state of modern society is that presented by Gendron in Technology and the Human Condition (1977). Human history can be broadly understood as having three general phases of technological innovation: Agrarian, Industrial, and Postindustrial (which I refer to as Cybernetic). Agrarian technology enhanced the finesse of human limbs, such as wheels, plows, or knives improving upon the legs, arms, and hands. Then came the Industrial Revolution, starting with the steam engine and culminating with nuclear power. Industrial technologies magnify human muscle power, and they enabled the emergence of transportation and communication networks, as well as the metropolis and mass production. Finally, the most recent and current phase is the Cybernetic (Postindustrial), which started in the early 50s, galvanized humanity in the 80s/90s, and continues to transform the human experience. As an exponential augmentation of human cognitive function, cybernetic technology, or the computer, has become intrinsic to the infrastructure of developed civilization.

In this context we can appreciate the contemporary value of an MBA. Humans live in a highly complex society, unlike anything conceivable even three decades ago. From extending our limbs, to magnifying our muscle power, we have now exponentially enhanced the capacity of the human intellect. In today's world, therefore, our decision-makers face an overwhelming abundance of data. The leader, or manager, must develop a framework that coherently explains our complex, cybernetic world in a way that enables productive activity. An MBA education, with its broad curriculum, practical application, global approach, and quantitative underpinning, cultivates the ability to develop frameworks that allow for the intelligible aggregation and analysis of these myriads of data. Such frameworks constitute the basis for substantive strategic insight and decision-making.

There are dozens of other contrasts between an MBA and other graduate school programs. Having worked for a few years and then having been subject to a rigorous screening process, MBAs tend to be highly accomplished, intense individuals. The public critique of an MBA degree as not necessarily cultivating "good managers" is moot. We are unequivocally the most promising, pre-screened pool of potential managers relative to any other identifiable demographic group. Here lies the hint as to how to improve the quality of the Wharton MBA: Be sure the new admissions director can live up to the legacy of Rose Martinelli. Hire another opera singer.

For it is the experiential element of an MBA, more so than its academic component, that accounts for its value. Our social culture, our Walnut Walk, our Halloween party, our orgiastic trips to Vegas and Puerto Rico-in short, the friendship between diverse, dynamic, Type 'A' individuals-uniquely characterizes the MBA experience at Wharton and (to a lesser extent) other elite business schools.

Anyway, I am tired of hearing discussions about the "value of an MBA." Our experience cannot be quantified. It can barely be described to those living outside our fish bowl. Personally, I came to Wharton to develop as an artist, to deepen my understanding of life, and to pick up undergraduates. Only the latter remains unimplemented. And despite my mediocre VI score (Vision and Inspiration), I feel the universe coursing through my blood, and the voice of nature stirs my spirit. But I shouldn't be telling you that, because that's sort of crazy. As for the value of an MBA, our education could best be described as "Applied Philosophy." In today's complex world, only three things are certain: Death, taxes, and that until MBAs become politicians, or until politicians get MBAs-or at least hire us-then the perfect society will not materialize.

Ram:

That was a good one. I also agree with your contention that a good politician is the one who can create wealth and make a difference to society.

I am sure your MBA will help you in that process.

Suhit

Posted by Suhit Anantula.

Ohh Yeah, u bet, I am so excited that finally I found a rational connection between why a politician should get an MBA. I somehow had this feeling, but no idea how to connect them and finally here we go, its here, doors opening for for future cabinet minister of India :-)

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav Kotamaraja.

The real reason to Invade Iraq

How to Get Admission in IIM

I got this in a e-mail, so could be urban legend.

This actually happened in an IIM Ahmedabad Interview... Courtesy Prof. Madhukar Shukla, XLRI Jamshedpur: got this from an IIMB prof: This is a real episode which happened during the interview rounds of IIM for the class of 2004. Interviewer said I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind! The candidate thought for a while and said, My choice is one really difficult question. Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! said the interviewer, here is your question: What comes first, Day or Night? The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depended on the correctness of the answer to that one question. He thought for a while and said, It's DAY sir! How? the interviewer asked. Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question! He was selected for IIM!

Moral : Technical Skill is the mastery of complexity, while Creativity is the mastery of simplicity .

MBA my dream

Posted by khawar.

it was nice

Posted by abdul Danish.

MBA is definately a dream for me, but more than that it is my ambition of life.I can't imagine my future without this

Posted by Medha Sharma.

give me the qualifications for iims

Posted by aditya.

two type of minds,sitting in a single rooom.its a matter of luck

Posted by kunal karan.