Climate Change

Solution for Public rest rooms

At last Indian women can take a breath for their long lasting problem of finding rest rooms in public places, "Travel John" a small firm has introduced a portable product to solve urinary issue in public places. whether this product holds good for western nations or not but this one will be the best match for Indian women who wear Indian costumes, the details of the product are given below

Standard Features:
• Revolutionary "bag within a bag design"
• Non-toxic,odorless,spill proof gel. It instantly gels after absorption of liquid thus making it leak-proof! • No closure needed
• Waste disposal safe, simply throw away
• Small and light weight
• Reusable until it is full
• LIQSORB® super absorbent polymer pouch included
• Volume indicator included
• Unisex plastic collar for easy handling
• FOR GENERAL MERCHANDIZING
• Dimensions (Each Bag) Unfolded: 5" x 11" Folded: 2" x 2" x 5"
• Volume(Max):28 oz.(800 c.c)
• Weight: 1.5 oz.before use
• Color: White or Blue
• FOR JUVENILE/CHILDREN
• Dimensions (Each Bag) Unfolded: 5" x 9" Folded: 2" x 2" x 5"
• Volume(Max):20 oz.(800 c.c)
• Weight: 1.5 oz.before use
• Color: White or Blue

Need JAVA experts immediately

Required skills: We need the candidates matching with the following criteria based on our client requirement.

1.Sound technical knowledge - Java, J2EE - servlets, JSP, Struts , Java Script,Oracle - SQL, Unix/Linux, Eclipse IDE, Toad,Weblogic Server.

2.Experience should be 3.5 years and above

3.Should have work experience in complex Enterprise Applications (Portal applications) with big team environment.

4.Should have experience in Onsite-Offshore delivery model.

5.Should have US client interaction skills.

6.Should have Good communication skill, Quickly understand the functional requirements and client business.

7.Should do tasks independently and deliver the solution immediately on time.

8.Should quickly adopt with work environment (large enterprise environment) and quickly pickup the internal environment processes.

9.Should quickly understand the task details and business functionality.

10.Should correlate with the team members of the big enterprise environment.

EXP:- 3.5 to 5 yrs of experience

Location:- Chennai

Should be able to join us in 7 Days

Buzz 140 - One day Unconference on Twitter

Buzz 140 - One day Unconference on Twitter is organized by "The Knowledge Foundation" on Sunday the 21st June 2009 9 a.m. - 5 p.m in the premises of Photon Infotech Private Ltd.

No. 2/102, Photon Towers, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Karapakkam,Chennai,India

The main object of the unconference is to analyze the Twitter apps as such and all its pro and cons. The agenda or topic that will be covered is as below

• How can we enhance Twitter awareness?
• Twitter History and Timeline
• Features of Twitter - usefulness and the way it is changing our lives
• Twitter applications and the business around them
• How should Enterprises leverage twitter?
• Famous tweets!
• Dos and Donts of tweeting
• Twitter wishlist
• Perils and the dark side of Twitter
• Life before and after Twitter
• Beyond Twitter - what are we looking at?
• Is Twitter just a fad?
• Twitter projects
• Twitter in other languages
• Twitter on the Hand Held - Pain & Pleasure
• Twitter Connect - Unravel the nuances
• Importance of having Corporate policy guidelines for Social media behavior
• Twitter as a Social media Lead channel for Corporate Sales
• Twitter and Real Time Search - Where are we heading to?
• Open discussion, and next twitter camp, what we can do from here on...
• Tech Quiz - for the quizzomaniac tweeps

It is a 1 day event organized to share knowledge, so no entry fee. If it interests you register yourself here

H1N1 Flu Helpline – India

The ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India has taken up various initiatives to tackle the H1N1 Flu in the country. As one of the step the ministry has opened a country wide Help line number 011 - 23921401 specially focused to help H1N1 flu victims and to avoid spreading to others.

So "If you have traveled from a country that has been affected by the H1N1 flu and show symptoms live Fever, Cough, Sneezing, Sore Throat or Difficulty in Breathing call the outbreak monitoring cell, National Institute of Communicable Diseases on the number 011...

Countries that have been affected by the H1n1 Influenza A virus are Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China,Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus , Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, EI Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Republic of Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovokia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam (as per WHO update 5th June 2009).

The government of India also advises people to defer non essential travel to the affected countries, the list of affected countries is being constantly updated on www.who.int and www.mohfw.nic.in

"Stop the infection be the Hero" help to stop spreading H1N1 by conveying the message at the right time to the right people.

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Courtesy "Stanford News Service"

Adopted Police Stations!!!!!!!!!!!

Police Men/Women has been the only professionals working in real odd times, they are the ones who care about the security of public. Whether it is a cyclone, storm or hot sun we can see police professional out there on the road to do their duty and safeguard us.

Hats off to their service to the society except for the few areas like corruption & other things hope they will rectify themselves soon. Since it is a hard profession their stress level is really high because of unscheduled work and their responsibility to respond to all the issues happening in the society.

To take care of these most respected professionals a unique intitiative has been taken by Tamil Nadu police, in which 39 police stations in Chennai will be adpoted by Doctors from both Government and private hospitals to take care of the police men/women and their families Health.

As a trial run this scheme will be implemented in these 39 police stations alone. Based on the outcome the scheme will be extended to other cities of the sate. As part of this scheme doctors will go and visit the police men/women in the respective police stations to create awareness about Health and the diagnosis will be done on various Health illness.

The idea of doctors visiting the police station is a nice move, which creates a close relationship between the police professionals and doctors.

After completing the service to the police people the same will be extended to their family members.

Awesome effort by Tamil Nadu polie department, Lets hope this will serve the needs of the police professionals.

Transgenders Helpline - +91 044 2599 0505

TamilNadu AIDS initiative (TAI) and Voluntary Health Services (VHS) joined together for a nobel cause od creating employment for cross genders. The initiative seems to be unique because they are not talking about creating awareness and propagating the same old message of complaining about transgenders, rather this initiative aims at giving them an opportunity showing a path to lead their life in a most respectable way.

The initiative is not only for Transgenders but for the whole society to create a change, hope this service will extend to other part of the nation, so for now all of us can avail the service in Chennai, to know more details reach the transgenders helpline +91 044 2599 0505

Portrait sketches On Demand

Happiest Moment for Art4all..

A friend of mine interested to get his kid photo in an art form. He contacted us to check the possibility, as his main concern was about cost. To respect his wish, our professional artist Portraited the kids picture amazingly.

We delivered it to them on kids birthday, the family members were surprised to see the sketch. This year birthday remained a memorable for them.

Even it excited us, which gave spirit to provide as one of our service,apart from selling,renting arts.

P.S: Please feel free to reach us vino832004@gmail.com or +91 98417 41234.

The first Pit Stop

After we launch our website, I was into doing a pilot to check the doctors pulse in real, I mean testing their real time interest towards a web based service.

To my surprise with out any feature in website doctors registered with us this proved us again the concept is really good and we can create a change.

But here come the shock to give a stop to our work flow, those 2 techies and myself were working in the same company, my CEO appointed one of team member as the head of Indian operation because of which he got really busy and not able to concentrate in this project as Job is is bread winner the another techie a young chap got frustrated and he too not able to make a decision on this.

I am almost back to day one, still i don't want to leave the project as such some how i felt i will be making it, in another month the company were i worked went to real bad situation and my CEO gave me a option to find a new job in 3 months of time, but i quit in a week and jumped into this project without a single rupee in hand, though i was bit confused i felt this is the right time to take a decision either Entrepreneurial or Job role my mind went to my passion and Im into the project completely.

Its really a pain to be without any income and also not able to proceed much ahead in the project, so to develop the project i need money which i don't have, so the next step is to look for investors to approach them need a proper business plan with more details.

I started working on that whats unique i did in my Business plan

Inida in the Oscars

Slum dog Millianaire though a not a true Indian movie considering the team of DannyBayle and others has bagged 8 Oscars in Kotak theatre, Los angles.

The Indian credit for oscars has been given by our own AR rahman and Resul ponukutty for best Music and Sound Mixing respectively.

Rahman also bags the award for the song "Ja hoo" being the first Indian to get 2 Oscarsm hope this breaks the ice remained so long for Indian Technicains in cine filed.

The other awards for SDM Adapted screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Directing and Best film.

Lets hope for more complete Indian Oscars soon, for sure not a 17 year gap this time....

10 Lessons for Marketers from Barack Obama

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10 Lessons for Marketers from Barack Obama

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My Next Idea - What i did on this

Days/weeks/months passed by in my search for the new idea. One fine day still I am not sure how i got the spark, may be because of my bad experiences in our society.

Yes i got my new idea to create a online solution for the complete health care industry, when i shared with my close friends everyone appreciated on the idea, but i foresee a major problem to take the first step I am not a Health care professional nor a techie.

Does this stop me???

Some how my inner heart says proceed with the project, so before jumping into it i thought of doing a market research "learning experience from my earlier mistake" prepared a 10 point questionnaire posted in this blog and got filled by more than 100 users.

By the time I complete the survey i have shifted to another start up IT firm as a HR, because of hectic work schedule project work got struck. almost 6 months gone not able to do anything on the project except for my browsing.

Here comes the recession to slow slow down my work in office and opportunity for me to start the project again, in two months i was almost 100% idle in my office so diverted my concentration in the project, this time i want to analyze how health care professionals particularly doctors react to my idea.

To my surprise i got 100% clearance from both people and by doctors, this gave me more confidence then i discussed with 2 techies and thus gave birth to www.doctorsandmedicines.com awesome starting from no where was able to launch the website. So whats next?????

Need web designers / Flash and Zend Framework experts

Hi Viewers,

This is S Vinoth Kumar from Chennai, Myself and my team is working on a WEB2.0 portal targeting the Health care industry.

We are a team of professionals who are working on this project to create a change in the Health care industry.

I started this project lonely a year back with idea formulation, now we are a team with few developers and few doctors.

All of us work in various organizations and meanwhile work on this project as we don't have any funding, persons who are supporting me now will be paid once I get funding from venture capitalists or after successful implementation.

To enhance my site visually I am looking for good flash or website designer who can support me towards this project.

You can visit our website www.doctorsandmedicines.com

To speed up our development process we need few more people to work on the the following areas

- Web site designer
- Flash developer
- PHP zend framework experts

If this interests you please feel free to mail me vino832004@gmail.com

Regards
S Vinoth Kumar
Founder
DoctorsandMedicines.com
9841741234

Inexperience

Though i was into business in the early stage of my career, nothing went well as per our plan. Because of my in experience, i diversified into another business to recover the running cost with a investment more than the current business.

The mistake is not because of the diversification but its because of the getting into another business without analyzing the industry. I got into new business with trust in my friend, but trust and sentiments wont work in business that's the lesson i learn't in this venture.

Though we were running out of cast flow, the operations was pretty good and we are almost completed a year in both the projects and cash flow was really bad because of pending payment from clients.

Add to this worry started getting pressure from my family on the financial part because since its my own business i was taking 50% of my previous salary. Because of cash flow problem nothing was in right direction from my partners, we were not able to end up in a common ground for further improvement and my salary part. It was getting dirty day by day as few of my partners were not professionals.

Finally i requested for 100000 as a final thing because i know where the business is heading and what can i do or the betterment of the same, bu ti felt a drastic change in the behavior of my partners they lost confidence in me.

I felt I am heading in the wrong direction and decided to quit from this venture and came out giving my equities back, but my hungry to be a entrepreneur was burning like fire within me. I have no other option because i got to earn my bread and butter and got to payback the loans which i borrowed to start this venture.

Then i joined in a recruitment firm again, there i learned a lot and should give more credits to my delivery manager there for giving more freedom to me, i had enough time in this assignment which fueled my hunger to look for more ideas to start my new venture.

Did i got the new idea what my next thing????