This article originally appeared in the November 1996 FDA Consumer. The version below is from a reprint of the original article and contains revisions made in June 1998 and June 2000.
-- asr:FDA article more reliable info
The key to effective, long-term treatment of asthma is finding the drugs and dosage plan most effective in dealing with or preventing acute episodes. But effective treatment depends as well on the patient and the care-giver knowing what the various anti-asthma drugs do, when and in what amount each drug should be used, when a change in symptoms or in the response to a particular drug requires a call or visit to the physician, and when to get emergency help. Physicians who specialize in treating asthmatics go over these points in detail as part of an overall treatment plan designed and, as necessary, adjusted to meet the needs of each individual patient.
A cure for asthma is judged by experts to be still a far-off possibility. But the majority of asthma sufferers can lead essentially normal, symptom-free lives by understanding and sticking to a well-planned strategy to keep clear of asthma triggers and to use the right drugs in the right way.
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Treating Asthma: Personalized Medicine
Are you getting care that's right for your body, your age, and your background?
"Every person who has been diagnosed with asthma needs a treatment plan that's custom-tailored to his or her specific needs," says allergist Jonathan A. Bernstein, MD, associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
"If you're just using a bronchodilator -- a rescue medicine -- you're not dealing with the real disease," Bernstein tells WebMD. "You're not treating the underlying inflammation in the airways."
"Many people -- and some doctors -- still don't realize that asthma is a chronic disease," he says. "It's still there even when you're feeling well."
In fact, the inflammation in the airways can worsen without causing any symptoms -- only lung function tests may detect it, says Bernstein. Even if you do have worsening symptoms, the changes may happen so slowly that you don't notice it.
Studies bear this out. In 2005, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation released the results of a poll of 4,500 adults in the U.S. The majority -- 88% of people with asthma -- said that their condition was "under control." But doctors would disagree. Of the patients polled, 50% said that asthma made them stop exercising, and 48% said that it woke them at night. If your asthma is "under control," you should not be having these problems.
"I explain to my patients that asthma is really more like diabetes or hypertension," says Blaiss, who is also clinical professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. "We can't cure it, but we can control it with the right daily medication."
Treatment Plan:
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Keep track of any asthma attacks and any potential triggers that you are aware of. And also write down how often you're having attacks during the night or while exercising. If you have nighttime symptoms more than twice a month you may need a change in your treatment.
Also, monitor how often you use your inhalers. If you're using your quick relief inhalers more than two days per week, you may need different medication.
While you must get enough medication to control your symptoms, don't assume that more is better. Every medicine you add increases the risk of interactions and side effects.
"A lot of people wind up on five different medicines over time," says Windom. "They may have their symptoms under control, but two or three of those medicines may not really be doing anything." So he says that, together with your doctor, you need to make sure you are not taking any unnecessary medicines.
"Once you and your doctor agree on a treatment plan, you need to stick to it," says Bernstein. He also says that people need to be careful to practice environmental control at home -- like keeping pets out of the bedroom, wrapping the mattress and box spring in vinyl to keep out dust mites, and using a dehumidifier. You shouldn't expect your doctor to resolve your asthma entirely through prescription medications.
Finally, don't give up.
"Like other chronic illnesses, dealing with asthma can be exhausting," says Windom. It's easy to get discouraged, especially if treatment hasn't been helping.
But don't surrender to your symptoms. If your asthma treatment hasn't been working, maybe it just needs to be adjusted or changed. You might find that a good partnership with your doctor and a personalized treatment plan could make all the difference.
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Myths, facts, and statistics about asthma
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Before we present the typical symptoms of asthma, we should dispel some common myths about this condition. This is best achieved by conducting a short true or false quiz.
T or F Asthma is "all in the mind."
T or F You will "grow out of it."
T or F Asthma can be cured, so it is not serious and nobody dies from it.
T or F You are likely to develop asthma if someone in your family has it.
T or F You can "catch" asthma from someone else who has it.
T or F Moving to a different location, such as the desert, can cure asthma.
T or F People with asthma should not exercise.
T or F Asthma does not require medical treatment.
T or F Medications used to treat asthma are habit-forming.
T or F Someone with asthma can provoke episodes anytime they want in order to get attention.
Here are the answers:
F - Asthma is not a psychological condition. However, emotional triggers can cause flare-ups.
F - You cannot outgrow asthma. In about 50% of children with asthma, the condition may become inactive in the teenage years. The symptoms, however, may reoccur at any time in adulthood.
F - There is no cure for asthma, but the disease can be controlled in most patients with good medical care. The condition should be taken seriously, since uncontrolled asthma may result in emergency hospitalization and possible death.
T - You have a 6% chance of having asthma if neither parent has the condition; a 30% chance if one parent has it; and a 70% chance if both parents have it.
F - Asthma is not contagious.
F - A new environment may temporarily improve asthma symptoms, but it will not cure asthma. After a few years in the new location, many people become sensitized to the new environment and the asthma symptoms return with the same or even greater intensity than before.
F - Swimming is an optimal exercise for those with asthma. On the other hand, exercising in dry, cold air may be a trigger for asthma in some people.
F - Asthma is best controlled by having an asthma management plan designed by your doctor that includes the medications used for quick relief and those used as controllers.
F - Asthma medications are not addictive.
F - Asthma attacks cannot be faked.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
2007 IAS Topper, Revu Muthyala Raju
Inspirational: 2007 IAS Topper, Revu Muthyala Raju
Other IAS toppers
Posted by Pradeep Sadanapalli | May 21, 2008
Muthyala Raju Revu, a farmer’s son who topped the civil services examination, says his sole desire is to serve people in rural areas that lack even basic transportation and medical facilities which led to the death of his sister and others.
Hailing from a remote island village in Andhra Pradesh’s coastal district of Krishna, the 27-year-old made the state proud by emerging all India topper among 474 candidates found eligible in Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) examination, the results of which were declared Monday.
Actual Word-to-Word Interview Of Muthyala Raju. Click to read.
Death of his sister and six friends in his remote Chinnagollapalem village that lacked basic transportation and medical facilities motivated him to take up the civil services examination so as to be able to do something for his people.
‘My sister and others died because they could not get medical attention in time as my village has no transportation facility and is cut off by Godavari and Krishna rivers. The only way of reaching the village is by small boats,’ said Revu.
‘I am from a coastal village which lacks basic facilities like transport, education and health services. There are some more villages in our country like our village. I wanted to be a part in developing these villages as an IAS officer.’
Revu wants to take up Indian Administrative Service (IAS) job as an Andhra Pradesh cadre officer as he feels that he could better serve the villages like Chinnagollapalem by being a civil servant.
‘There are hundreds of villagers which lack transportation and other basic amenities and I want to serve them,’ said Revu.
The desire to top forced him to appear for the examination for the third time. He had secured 223rd rank in the second attempt in year 2006 and joined as IPS probationer from Rajasthan cadre.
Revu’s father Narasimha Murthy is a farmer and his two elder brothers are also into agriculture. They belong to a caste among Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
A bright student right from his school days, he passed 10th standard from the government school close to his village. Despite all odds, Revu joined a polytechnic college in the same region.
Despite all odds, Revu joined a polytechnic college in the same region then entered B.Tech warangal.
He secured first rank in ECET-1998, did B. Tech from National Institute of Technology, Warangal. Revu secured third place in GATE-2002 and did Masters in Engineering (ME) in Signal Processing from Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore. He secured first rank in the Indian Engineering Services-2003 and took up a job as a railway engineer.
‘There is nothing which a man can’t achieve. You have to believe in yourself, be positive and prepare to achieve the goal,’ Revu said sharing the secret of his success.
Interview given by IAS 2007 1st ranker MUTHYALA RAJU…word by word
Interview took place on 17th april in New Delhi for 35 mins
Raju: May I come in Sir?
Chairman: Yes, please.
Raju: Good morning, Sir. Good morning, Madam. Good morning, Sirs.
Chairman: You are Mr…
Raju: (Still in standing position), Matyalaraju Revu Sir.
(Chairman is writing something. Other members are keenly watching the candidate.)
Member 2: Please take your seat.
Raju: Thank you, sir.
Chairman: Mr. Revu, You did B.Tech from REC Warangal, ME from IISc, Bangalore. But why did you do diploma?
Raju: Sir, After completion of my 10th class, based on my financial background, my father joined me in polytechnic. After completion of polytechnic, we do get jobs. Also, since I will get scholarship, the amount of money spent on me is less.
Chairman: That means you will get job after diploma.
Raju: Yes Sir, I got a private job. Company is Cain energy limited.
Chairman: Then, why did you join B.Tech?
Raju: Sir, After completion of my diploma, I wrote ECET and I got state 1st rank. So I convinced my father that I will join REC which is a premier Engineering institute in our state.
Chairman: Then, you joined ME because your father insisted on that?
Raju: No Sir, It is based on my project guide suggestion. Sir, infact there are two streams to enter into B.Tech. One through EAMCET after Intermediate and other is through ECET. After ECET…
Chairman: What question I have asked?
Raju: Sorry Sir, you have asked me why I joined ME after B.Tech.
Chairman: OK. Then stick on to the question.
Raju: Sir, I am explaining it.
Chairman: Be specific.
Raju: OK sir, during my final year I got all India rank 3 in Gate. My guide on knowing this result suggested me to join IISc. He further told that this is the golden opportunity for me. ԉf you miss it you will not get it again! ՠ he told sir. Then, I informed about my career option as civil services. He then convinced me by saying that I can write civil services after M.E. also.
Chairman: That means you are preparing for civil services while you are in IISc?
Raju: I beg to differ with you sir. I started my preparation only after completion of M.E.
Chairman: You have written that you joined Railways in September 2004. That is of which exam?
Raju: Sir, This is based on IES-2003.
Chairman: That means you are in IISc.
Raju: Sir, I completed my second semester at that time.
Chairman: That means you have prepared for IES in IISc.
Raju: Sir, I have given IES in my own background i.e., Electrical Engineering. Hence I need not prepare much for this exam. I just gave the exam.
Chairman: For how many years you are in Railways?
Raju: Sir, I joined Railways on September 2004. Then I took leave for 1 year, i.e., leave on loss of pay.
Chairman: What did you do in that year?
Raju: Sir, I have prepared for this exam.
Chairman: How many months you are in Railways?
Raju: Sir, roughly 5 months.
Chairman: That means you are in Railways till February.
Raju: Sir, I am in Railways till the result of civil services exam 2005 was out. I was given leave for interview preparation in March.
Chairman: Then what did you do after the declaration of the result?
Raju: Sir, Once the result of out, I came to know that I will get IPS. So, I convinced my director for leave to appear civil services again. My director gave me leave.
Chairman: When did you join IPS?
Raju: Sir, I joined IPS on December 18, 2006.
Chairman: Which part of training you missed?
Raju: Sir, I missed foundation training in Mussorie. At SVPNPA, training started on December 18, 2006. So, I haven մ missed any training at Hyderabad.
Chairman: How many days you have taken leave for interview?
Raju: Sir, 4 days.
Member 2: How was your IPS training?
Raju: Sir, training is good and we are enjoying every aspect of training.
Member 2: What are you learning in training?
Raju: Sir, our training is divided into two parts. Indoor and outdoor. In indoor, we have subjects like police in modern India, criminology and law subjects like IE Act, CrPC, IPC and other subjects.
Member 2: You are in IPS for 4 months. So I can ask some questions.
Raju: Yes, sir.
Member 2: Do you aware that the confession admitted to police is not allowed as witness. Why?
Raju: Yes sir. Confession admitted to police is not allowed as witness. Since there is always a possibility of getting the confession in the way the police like, law doesn մ allow it.
Member 2: What is Res gestae?
Raju: Sir, All the circumstances leading to the same transaction are allowable as evidence.
Member 2: You are on the line. Could you explain more?
Raju: (after 2-3 seconds), If some people wanted to commit dacoity and in the process if they theft a vehicle, eventhough theft of vehicle is not connected with dacoity but it is admissible as it forms the circumstance leading to dacoity.
Member 2: Could you tell me the section which deals with Res gestae?
Raju: Sorry sir, I could not remember the exact section.
Member 2: Then how sections you were taught in IE Act?
Raju: Sir, In our academy our sirs are not teaching according to sections. They are teaching the sections which are more useful for the police at first.
Member 2: Do you aware of RTI?
Raju: Yes. Sir. It is Right to Information Act.
Member 2: What are the provisions in RTI?
Raju: Sir, According to provisions of RTI, every government department has to nominate one officer as information commissioner to give information about duties, responsibilities and functions of various officers working in those departments…
Member 2: Then what is the benefit to common man?
Raju: Sir, Common man can know the functions, duties & responsibilities of various officers. They can know the status of their applications. This also increases transparency and accountability of officers. Hence reduces corruption.
Member 2: How can you say that people will get required information?
Raju: Sir, There is a provision in RTI that any one who refuses to give information or delays 30 days for giving information, they are liable for cut in salary.
Member 2: How much salary cut?
Raju: Sir, I think it is 250 Rs./ day.
Member 2: It is not cut from salary. It is separately cut.
Raju: Thank you Sir.
Member 2: Can you tell me what is the maximum limit?
Raju: Sorry sir, I don’t know.
Chairman: Your hobbies are meditation, motivating others and Indian Mythology. Don մ you think that all are inward looking?
Raju: Sir, Whenever possible I play cricket in addition my hobbies, which is a team game.
Member 2: Tell me which countries will reach final in the present world cup?
Raju: Sir, I think Australia and Srilanka.
Member 2: Already two countries reached semifinals i.e., Sri Lanka & Newzealand. What do you think about other two?
Raju: Sir, I beg to differ with you. Actually three countries i.e., Srilanka, New Zealand and Australia reached semifinals. 4th team depends on the outcome of the today ճ match between England & South Africa.
Member 2: Do you know about fly ash?
Raju: Sir, Thermal power stations produce fly ash while generating electrical power.
Member 2: Which state is using it more? Definitely it is not Haryana, My own state.
Raju: Sorry Sir, I don մ know.
Member 3 : (X-A) (X-B) has highest X power of 2. Do you agree?
Raju: Yes, Sir.
Member 3: (X-A) (X-B) (X-C) has highest X power…
Raju: 3, Sir.
Member 3: Then, tell me. What is the answer for (X-A) (X-B)…. (X-Z).
Raju: (after 3-4 seconds), It must be Zero. Sir, because of the presence of the term (X-X).
Member 3: Whom do you think a greatest mathematician of all times?
Raju: Sir, Srinivasa Ramanujan, because even though he lived for only 33 years, he contributed more to mathematics in the areas like Numerical methods, Solution of algebraic equations, number theory like prime numbers etc.
Member 3: Can you tell me the formula for prime numbers?
Raju: Sir, exactly I don մ know but recently IIT, Kanpur professor along with his students wrote a software program which gives whether a number is prime or not within less time.
Member 3: You are an electrical engineer. Tell me where prime numbers are used?
Raju: Sir, they are used in coding.
Member 3: I am asking a question in your engineering only. Tell me how prime numbers are used in coding?
Raju: Sir, exactly I don մ know. But to the best of my knowledge, if the code length is prime, decoding and encoding are easy.
Member 3: You are on the line, but not exact answer.
Member 1: Your hobbies are meditation, motivating others and Indian Mythology. What you do in motivation?
Raju: Madam, many of classmates and Juniors came to me for clearing their doubts in subjects as I am the toper of my class. I usually listen to their problems regarding their understanding of concepts as many have problems either in one or many subjects. I tell them that every subject is easy if knew the concepts clear and we should like the subject what we are studying…
Madam: Do your response same for all?
Raju: Madam, I usually spend more time with those who are very much lagging. I take classes to clear their doubts.
Madam: Then do you call it motivation or strategic learning?
Raju: Madam, strategic learning may be the correct term.
Madam: What is the difference between these two?
Raju: Madam, motivation is a general term which includes not only academic motivation but also others like psychological, etc., Madam, I don մ know exactly the meaning of strategic learning.
Madam: Which books you read in Indian Mythology?
Raju: Madam, I read Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Madam: Since your hobbies are motivating others and Indian Mythology, tell me how Krishna motivated Arjuna?
Raju: Madam, When Arjuna refused to fight with friends, teachers, Krishna told him that it is the duty of the king to protect Dharma and fight wars for protecting it. We should not move away from our duty. Since soul is immortal and of which is born, death is certain, of which death happened, birth is certain. Hence you should not think that you are committing crime. Also he motivated him by saying that we should do our work only. We should not think about the results of our actions. Otherwise, attachment to the results will occur which is a major reason for unhappiness.
Madam: Do you practise it?
Raju: Madam, It is very difficult to practise.
Madam: Why?
Raju: Madam, for example, if we are about to play a cricket match, we will think about the winning of the match which is actually the result of the playing that match.
Madam: One last question. What kind of training our team got during our last year world cup?
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Madam: Sorry, It is not last year world cup but it is 2003 world cup. The team was given psychological training.
Raju: Yes, Madam
Member 4: You studied your B.Tech. from REC Warangal and M.E. from IISc Bangalore. Do you proud of your institutions like IISc?
Raju: Sir, I am proud that I have studied in a great institution like IISc, which according UNESCO survey conducted in 1997 was in 18th place among world universities. Recently a Chinese university conducted a survey in which IISc was placed at around 250th position.
Member 4: Do you think that 250th position is a good position?
Raju: Sir, even though it is not a good position, the position depended on the parameters they have taken into consideration like no. of nobel laureates present, no. of research papers presented, etc.
Member 4: Who are nobel laureate present in IISc?
Raju: Sir, now there is no nobel laureate in IISc. Earlier Sir C.V.Raman worked in IISc. Now, there are two internationally reputed professors working there.
Member 4: Last year government proposed to stop B.Tech entry into IITs. Do you support that?
Raju: Sir, I support it. Sir, due to hectic schedule, the professors of IITs are not able to concentrate much on research. Once the B.Tech entry is stopped, they will get more time for research and quality of research will increase.
Member 4: Don մ you think the quality of B.Tech students will reduce as IITs are known for better professors?
Raju: Sir, those students who are earlier eligible for entry into IITs, they will join NITs. Since they are the core students I don մ think the quality will reduce. But the professors in other institutes should get sufficient training to reach the level of IIT professors.
Member 4: You agree to that proposal. But the government has withdrawn the proposal due to very good argument against it. Can you tell me?
Raju: Sorry sir, I don մ know.
Member 4: What do you think is responsible for reduction in research?
Raju: Sir, IISc is not able to retain those students who completed M.E. and other courses there. One reason is brain drain, Sir. Second one is that research is not attractive in India, Sir. For example, in our batch out of 230 students who completed M.E. only 2 joined for Ph.D. in IISc. At the end of our M.E. we got campus placements. The minimum salary is around 6 lakhs/ annum. It is attracting most of us. Those who are really interested in research, they are going abroad as they will get more money and research is attractive there. Here, a Ph.D. student gets 12,000 - 15,000 Rs per month. Also material considerations have risen these days, sir. We have to include some compulsory courses in morale & ethics to stop this.
Member 4: Instead of choosing job or research, why did you choose services as career option?
Raju: Sir, The incident that took place in my village in November 2000, when I am in 3rd year of B.Tech, has changed my career options. Nearby Engineering college students came to our village for picnic as our village has excellent beach. 7 of them drowned in the Bay of Bengal and all of them has taken sand into their lungs in addition to water. Since our village is an island, there are no transportation, medical & meagre educational facilities, it took 2 hours to reach nearest town which is 16 Km away from my village. By that time, 6 out 7 were died, Sir.
Chairman: You are telling about an incident in your village. In that case who will respond first?
Raju: (3-4 seconds silence)
Chairman: Whether it is Block development officer, Doctor, or Police.
Raju: Sir, It is the police to respond first.
Chairman: Then, you are in IPS. Why did you come?
Raju: Sir, even for police it took 2 hours to reach that place as there is not enough transportation facilities.
Chairman: Thank you.
Raju: Thank you, Sir. Thank you, Madam. Thank you, Sirs.
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Other IAS toppers
Posted by Pradeep Sadanapalli | May 21, 2008
Muthyala Raju Revu, a farmer’s son who topped the civil services examination, says his sole desire is to serve people in rural areas that lack even basic transportation and medical facilities which led to the death of his sister and others.
Hailing from a remote island village in Andhra Pradesh’s coastal district of Krishna, the 27-year-old made the state proud by emerging all India topper among 474 candidates found eligible in Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) examination, the results of which were declared Monday.
Actual Word-to-Word Interview Of Muthyala Raju. Click to read.
Death of his sister and six friends in his remote Chinnagollapalem village that lacked basic transportation and medical facilities motivated him to take up the civil services examination so as to be able to do something for his people.
‘My sister and others died because they could not get medical attention in time as my village has no transportation facility and is cut off by Godavari and Krishna rivers. The only way of reaching the village is by small boats,’ said Revu.
‘I am from a coastal village which lacks basic facilities like transport, education and health services. There are some more villages in our country like our village. I wanted to be a part in developing these villages as an IAS officer.’
Revu wants to take up Indian Administrative Service (IAS) job as an Andhra Pradesh cadre officer as he feels that he could better serve the villages like Chinnagollapalem by being a civil servant.
‘There are hundreds of villagers which lack transportation and other basic amenities and I want to serve them,’ said Revu.
The desire to top forced him to appear for the examination for the third time. He had secured 223rd rank in the second attempt in year 2006 and joined as IPS probationer from Rajasthan cadre.
Revu’s father Narasimha Murthy is a farmer and his two elder brothers are also into agriculture. They belong to a caste among Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
A bright student right from his school days, he passed 10th standard from the government school close to his village. Despite all odds, Revu joined a polytechnic college in the same region.
Despite all odds, Revu joined a polytechnic college in the same region then entered B.Tech warangal.
He secured first rank in ECET-1998, did B. Tech from National Institute of Technology, Warangal. Revu secured third place in GATE-2002 and did Masters in Engineering (ME) in Signal Processing from Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore. He secured first rank in the Indian Engineering Services-2003 and took up a job as a railway engineer.
‘There is nothing which a man can’t achieve. You have to believe in yourself, be positive and prepare to achieve the goal,’ Revu said sharing the secret of his success.
Interview given by IAS 2007 1st ranker MUTHYALA RAJU…word by word
Interview took place on 17th april in New Delhi for 35 mins
Raju: May I come in Sir?
Chairman: Yes, please.
Raju: Good morning, Sir. Good morning, Madam. Good morning, Sirs.
Chairman: You are Mr…
Raju: (Still in standing position), Matyalaraju Revu Sir.
(Chairman is writing something. Other members are keenly watching the candidate.)
Member 2: Please take your seat.
Raju: Thank you, sir.
Chairman: Mr. Revu, You did B.Tech from REC Warangal, ME from IISc, Bangalore. But why did you do diploma?
Raju: Sir, After completion of my 10th class, based on my financial background, my father joined me in polytechnic. After completion of polytechnic, we do get jobs. Also, since I will get scholarship, the amount of money spent on me is less.
Chairman: That means you will get job after diploma.
Raju: Yes Sir, I got a private job. Company is Cain energy limited.
Chairman: Then, why did you join B.Tech?
Raju: Sir, After completion of my diploma, I wrote ECET and I got state 1st rank. So I convinced my father that I will join REC which is a premier Engineering institute in our state.
Chairman: Then, you joined ME because your father insisted on that?
Raju: No Sir, It is based on my project guide suggestion. Sir, infact there are two streams to enter into B.Tech. One through EAMCET after Intermediate and other is through ECET. After ECET…
Chairman: What question I have asked?
Raju: Sorry Sir, you have asked me why I joined ME after B.Tech.
Chairman: OK. Then stick on to the question.
Raju: Sir, I am explaining it.
Chairman: Be specific.
Raju: OK sir, during my final year I got all India rank 3 in Gate. My guide on knowing this result suggested me to join IISc. He further told that this is the golden opportunity for me. ԉf you miss it you will not get it again! ՠ he told sir. Then, I informed about my career option as civil services. He then convinced me by saying that I can write civil services after M.E. also.
Chairman: That means you are preparing for civil services while you are in IISc?
Raju: I beg to differ with you sir. I started my preparation only after completion of M.E.
Chairman: You have written that you joined Railways in September 2004. That is of which exam?
Raju: Sir, This is based on IES-2003.
Chairman: That means you are in IISc.
Raju: Sir, I completed my second semester at that time.
Chairman: That means you have prepared for IES in IISc.
Raju: Sir, I have given IES in my own background i.e., Electrical Engineering. Hence I need not prepare much for this exam. I just gave the exam.
Chairman: For how many years you are in Railways?
Raju: Sir, I joined Railways on September 2004. Then I took leave for 1 year, i.e., leave on loss of pay.
Chairman: What did you do in that year?
Raju: Sir, I have prepared for this exam.
Chairman: How many months you are in Railways?
Raju: Sir, roughly 5 months.
Chairman: That means you are in Railways till February.
Raju: Sir, I am in Railways till the result of civil services exam 2005 was out. I was given leave for interview preparation in March.
Chairman: Then what did you do after the declaration of the result?
Raju: Sir, Once the result of out, I came to know that I will get IPS. So, I convinced my director for leave to appear civil services again. My director gave me leave.
Chairman: When did you join IPS?
Raju: Sir, I joined IPS on December 18, 2006.
Chairman: Which part of training you missed?
Raju: Sir, I missed foundation training in Mussorie. At SVPNPA, training started on December 18, 2006. So, I haven մ missed any training at Hyderabad.
Chairman: How many days you have taken leave for interview?
Raju: Sir, 4 days.
Member 2: How was your IPS training?
Raju: Sir, training is good and we are enjoying every aspect of training.
Member 2: What are you learning in training?
Raju: Sir, our training is divided into two parts. Indoor and outdoor. In indoor, we have subjects like police in modern India, criminology and law subjects like IE Act, CrPC, IPC and other subjects.
Member 2: You are in IPS for 4 months. So I can ask some questions.
Raju: Yes, sir.
Member 2: Do you aware that the confession admitted to police is not allowed as witness. Why?
Raju: Yes sir. Confession admitted to police is not allowed as witness. Since there is always a possibility of getting the confession in the way the police like, law doesn մ allow it.
Member 2: What is Res gestae?
Raju: Sir, All the circumstances leading to the same transaction are allowable as evidence.
Member 2: You are on the line. Could you explain more?
Raju: (after 2-3 seconds), If some people wanted to commit dacoity and in the process if they theft a vehicle, eventhough theft of vehicle is not connected with dacoity but it is admissible as it forms the circumstance leading to dacoity.
Member 2: Could you tell me the section which deals with Res gestae?
Raju: Sorry sir, I could not remember the exact section.
Member 2: Then how sections you were taught in IE Act?
Raju: Sir, In our academy our sirs are not teaching according to sections. They are teaching the sections which are more useful for the police at first.
Member 2: Do you aware of RTI?
Raju: Yes. Sir. It is Right to Information Act.
Member 2: What are the provisions in RTI?
Raju: Sir, According to provisions of RTI, every government department has to nominate one officer as information commissioner to give information about duties, responsibilities and functions of various officers working in those departments…
Member 2: Then what is the benefit to common man?
Raju: Sir, Common man can know the functions, duties & responsibilities of various officers. They can know the status of their applications. This also increases transparency and accountability of officers. Hence reduces corruption.
Member 2: How can you say that people will get required information?
Raju: Sir, There is a provision in RTI that any one who refuses to give information or delays 30 days for giving information, they are liable for cut in salary.
Member 2: How much salary cut?
Raju: Sir, I think it is 250 Rs./ day.
Member 2: It is not cut from salary. It is separately cut.
Raju: Thank you Sir.
Member 2: Can you tell me what is the maximum limit?
Raju: Sorry sir, I don’t know.
Chairman: Your hobbies are meditation, motivating others and Indian Mythology. Don մ you think that all are inward looking?
Raju: Sir, Whenever possible I play cricket in addition my hobbies, which is a team game.
Member 2: Tell me which countries will reach final in the present world cup?
Raju: Sir, I think Australia and Srilanka.
Member 2: Already two countries reached semifinals i.e., Sri Lanka & Newzealand. What do you think about other two?
Raju: Sir, I beg to differ with you. Actually three countries i.e., Srilanka, New Zealand and Australia reached semifinals. 4th team depends on the outcome of the today ճ match between England & South Africa.
Member 2: Do you know about fly ash?
Raju: Sir, Thermal power stations produce fly ash while generating electrical power.
Member 2: Which state is using it more? Definitely it is not Haryana, My own state.
Raju: Sorry Sir, I don մ know.
Member 3 : (X-A) (X-B) has highest X power of 2. Do you agree?
Raju: Yes, Sir.
Member 3: (X-A) (X-B) (X-C) has highest X power…
Raju: 3, Sir.
Member 3: Then, tell me. What is the answer for (X-A) (X-B)…. (X-Z).
Raju: (after 3-4 seconds), It must be Zero. Sir, because of the presence of the term (X-X).
Member 3: Whom do you think a greatest mathematician of all times?
Raju: Sir, Srinivasa Ramanujan, because even though he lived for only 33 years, he contributed more to mathematics in the areas like Numerical methods, Solution of algebraic equations, number theory like prime numbers etc.
Member 3: Can you tell me the formula for prime numbers?
Raju: Sir, exactly I don մ know but recently IIT, Kanpur professor along with his students wrote a software program which gives whether a number is prime or not within less time.
Member 3: You are an electrical engineer. Tell me where prime numbers are used?
Raju: Sir, they are used in coding.
Member 3: I am asking a question in your engineering only. Tell me how prime numbers are used in coding?
Raju: Sir, exactly I don մ know. But to the best of my knowledge, if the code length is prime, decoding and encoding are easy.
Member 3: You are on the line, but not exact answer.
Member 1: Your hobbies are meditation, motivating others and Indian Mythology. What you do in motivation?
Raju: Madam, many of classmates and Juniors came to me for clearing their doubts in subjects as I am the toper of my class. I usually listen to their problems regarding their understanding of concepts as many have problems either in one or many subjects. I tell them that every subject is easy if knew the concepts clear and we should like the subject what we are studying…
Madam: Do your response same for all?
Raju: Madam, I usually spend more time with those who are very much lagging. I take classes to clear their doubts.
Madam: Then do you call it motivation or strategic learning?
Raju: Madam, strategic learning may be the correct term.
Madam: What is the difference between these two?
Raju: Madam, motivation is a general term which includes not only academic motivation but also others like psychological, etc., Madam, I don մ know exactly the meaning of strategic learning.
Madam: Which books you read in Indian Mythology?
Raju: Madam, I read Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Madam: Since your hobbies are motivating others and Indian Mythology, tell me how Krishna motivated Arjuna?
Raju: Madam, When Arjuna refused to fight with friends, teachers, Krishna told him that it is the duty of the king to protect Dharma and fight wars for protecting it. We should not move away from our duty. Since soul is immortal and of which is born, death is certain, of which death happened, birth is certain. Hence you should not think that you are committing crime. Also he motivated him by saying that we should do our work only. We should not think about the results of our actions. Otherwise, attachment to the results will occur which is a major reason for unhappiness.
Madam: Do you practise it?
Raju: Madam, It is very difficult to practise.
Madam: Why?
Raju: Madam, for example, if we are about to play a cricket match, we will think about the winning of the match which is actually the result of the playing that match.
Madam: One last question. What kind of training our team got during our last year world cup?
Raju: Madam, exactly I am not able to recollect it. But it is like ҷe can do it this time Ӽ /span>
Madam: Sorry, It is not last year world cup but it is 2003 world cup. The team was given psychological training.
Raju: Yes, Madam
Member 4: You studied your B.Tech. from REC Warangal and M.E. from IISc Bangalore. Do you proud of your institutions like IISc?
Raju: Sir, I am proud that I have studied in a great institution like IISc, which according UNESCO survey conducted in 1997 was in 18th place among world universities. Recently a Chinese university conducted a survey in which IISc was placed at around 250th position.
Member 4: Do you think that 250th position is a good position?
Raju: Sir, even though it is not a good position, the position depended on the parameters they have taken into consideration like no. of nobel laureates present, no. of research papers presented, etc.
Member 4: Who are nobel laureate present in IISc?
Raju: Sir, now there is no nobel laureate in IISc. Earlier Sir C.V.Raman worked in IISc. Now, there are two internationally reputed professors working there.
Member 4: Last year government proposed to stop B.Tech entry into IITs. Do you support that?
Raju: Sir, I support it. Sir, due to hectic schedule, the professors of IITs are not able to concentrate much on research. Once the B.Tech entry is stopped, they will get more time for research and quality of research will increase.
Member 4: Don մ you think the quality of B.Tech students will reduce as IITs are known for better professors?
Raju: Sir, those students who are earlier eligible for entry into IITs, they will join NITs. Since they are the core students I don մ think the quality will reduce. But the professors in other institutes should get sufficient training to reach the level of IIT professors.
Member 4: You agree to that proposal. But the government has withdrawn the proposal due to very good argument against it. Can you tell me?
Raju: Sorry sir, I don մ know.
Member 4: What do you think is responsible for reduction in research?
Raju: Sir, IISc is not able to retain those students who completed M.E. and other courses there. One reason is brain drain, Sir. Second one is that research is not attractive in India, Sir. For example, in our batch out of 230 students who completed M.E. only 2 joined for Ph.D. in IISc. At the end of our M.E. we got campus placements. The minimum salary is around 6 lakhs/ annum. It is attracting most of us. Those who are really interested in research, they are going abroad as they will get more money and research is attractive there. Here, a Ph.D. student gets 12,000 - 15,000 Rs per month. Also material considerations have risen these days, sir. We have to include some compulsory courses in morale & ethics to stop this.
Member 4: Instead of choosing job or research, why did you choose services as career option?
Raju: Sir, The incident that took place in my village in November 2000, when I am in 3rd year of B.Tech, has changed my career options. Nearby Engineering college students came to our village for picnic as our village has excellent beach. 7 of them drowned in the Bay of Bengal and all of them has taken sand into their lungs in addition to water. Since our village is an island, there are no transportation, medical & meagre educational facilities, it took 2 hours to reach nearest town which is 16 Km away from my village. By that time, 6 out 7 were died, Sir.
Chairman: You are telling about an incident in your village. In that case who will respond first?
Raju: (3-4 seconds silence)
Chairman: Whether it is Block development officer, Doctor, or Police.
Raju: Sir, It is the police to respond first.
Chairman: Then, you are in IPS. Why did you come?
Raju: Sir, even for police it took 2 hours to reach that place as there is not enough transportation facilities.
Chairman: Thank you.
Raju: Thank you, Sir. Thank you, Madam. Thank you, Sirs.
SOURCES:
OneStopIAS
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Taxes for NRI
Indian Taxes
U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Abroad - Filing Requirements
Who Qualifies for the Exclusions and the Deduction?
If you meet certain requirements, you may qualify for the foreign earned income and foreign housing exclusions and the foreign housing deduction.
If you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien of the United States and you live abroad, you are taxed on your worldwide income. However, you may qualify to exclude from income up to $85,700 of your foreign earnings. In addition, you can exclude or deduct certain foreign housing amounts. See Foreign Earned Income Exclusion and Foreign Housing Exclusion and Deduction, later.
You may also be entitled to exclude from income the value of meals and lodging provided to you by your employer. See Exclusion of Meals and Lodging, later.
Requirements
To claim the foreign earned income exclusion, the foreign housing exclusion, or the foreign housing deduction, you must meet all three of the following requirements.
Your tax home must be in a foreign country.
You must have foreign earned income.
You must be either:
A U.S. citizen who is a bona fide resident of a foreign country or countries for an uninterrupted period that includes an entire tax year,
Example Part of the year:
You are a U.S. citizen, a bona fide resident of Canada, and working as a mining engineer. Your salary is $76,800 per year. You also receive a $6,000 cost of living allowance, and a $6,000 education allowance. Your employment contract did not indicate that you were entitled to these allowances only while outside the United States. Your total income is $88,800. You work a 5-day week, Monday through Friday. After subtracting your vacation, you have a total of 240 workdays in the year. You worked in the United States during the year for 6 weeks (30 workdays). The following shows how to figure the part of your income that is for work done in Canada during the year.
Number of days worked in Canada during the year (210) × Total income ($88,800) = $77,700
Number of days of work during the year for which payment was made (240)
Your foreign source earned income is $77,700.
U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Abroad - Filing Requirements
Who Qualifies for the Exclusions and the Deduction?
If you meet certain requirements, you may qualify for the foreign earned income and foreign housing exclusions and the foreign housing deduction.
If you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien of the United States and you live abroad, you are taxed on your worldwide income. However, you may qualify to exclude from income up to $85,700 of your foreign earnings. In addition, you can exclude or deduct certain foreign housing amounts. See Foreign Earned Income Exclusion and Foreign Housing Exclusion and Deduction, later.
You may also be entitled to exclude from income the value of meals and lodging provided to you by your employer. See Exclusion of Meals and Lodging, later.
Requirements
To claim the foreign earned income exclusion, the foreign housing exclusion, or the foreign housing deduction, you must meet all three of the following requirements.
Your tax home must be in a foreign country.
You must have foreign earned income.
You must be either:
A U.S. citizen who is a bona fide resident of a foreign country or countries for an uninterrupted period that includes an entire tax year,
Example Part of the year:
You are a U.S. citizen, a bona fide resident of Canada, and working as a mining engineer. Your salary is $76,800 per year. You also receive a $6,000 cost of living allowance, and a $6,000 education allowance. Your employment contract did not indicate that you were entitled to these allowances only while outside the United States. Your total income is $88,800. You work a 5-day week, Monday through Friday. After subtracting your vacation, you have a total of 240 workdays in the year. You worked in the United States during the year for 6 weeks (30 workdays). The following shows how to figure the part of your income that is for work done in Canada during the year.
Number of days worked in Canada during the year (210) × Total income ($88,800) = $77,700
Number of days of work during the year for which payment was made (240)
Your foreign source earned income is $77,700.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Child sponser
Child Sponsors provide the majority of the funds raised by World Vision. Supporters in 18 countries sponsor close to 2,25, 000 children and through them their families and communities in close to 127 projects around India.More than 40,000 Indians support over 30 projects around the country.
Reputable World class Org doing work in indian chapter
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Monday, May 26, 2008
High School
Freshman Year: Understanding How Grade Point Averages Work
At the end of the first semester, grades are reported and report cards are sent home. Here's the way it works at a typical high school: Students get quarter grades and semester grades. Quarter grades are tabulated and sent home, but it's the semester grades that count. Once you get a semester grade on your record, it stays on your transcript. Semester grades are used to calculate your GPA and determine the credits you earn. These are also the grades that colleges will see when they look at your transcript.
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Freshman Year: 9 th grade
Sophomore Year: 10 th grade
Junior Year: 11 th grade
Senior Year: 12 th grade
Freshman Year: Setting Your Priorities and Managing Your Time:
As a high-school freshman, you'll find that your academic and extracurricular obligations are considerably greater than they were in eighth grade. High school doesn't ask you to do the impossible—you'll have to wait for college for that—but it also doesn't make it easy to catch up when you slack off. When you enter high school, the world starts treating you as a grownup.
Time Management
The secret to managing a busy schedule is carefully budgeting your time.
Think about it: There are 168 hours in a week. You probably sleep 55 to 65 hours a week. You're in school 30 to 35 hours a week. That leaves you with approximately 75 hours a week to play around with. That sounds like a lot, huh?
_______________________
Setting Goals for High School
Make Sure Some of Your Goals are Short-Term
Imagine making the following three goals as a freshman:
A. I want to have a 3.5 cumulative GPA by the end of high school.
B. I want to be admitted to a selective college on the west coast.
C. I want to be an engineer after college.
Sophomore Year: Time to Narrow Down Your Extracurricular Activities:
Hopefully in 9th grade you got a chance to sample some of the cool activities that your high school offers.Maybe you didn't stick with all of them, but at least you tried them out. Now that you're in 10th Grade (Sophomore).
College admissions officers have certain things they're going to look for as far as your extracurriculars go. But we'll get to that in a minute. First, here's the game plan we suggest for sophomores:
* Join or remain in organizations that interest you or that you enjoy.
* Quit organizations that waste your time or that you hate.
* Focus on organizations that allow you to develop, give you responsibility, and offer leadership potential.
Consider choosing activities based on potential careers or majors:
If you are strongly interested in a particular career or major, then consider activities, jobs, or community service opportunities that allow you to explore that field. That way, if you later decide that you want to pursue the career or major, you'll have some background in it already. The opposite situation is also valuable. If the activity, job, or service project makes you realize that you're not interested at all in that field, then it's a good lesson to learn while you're still in high school.
____________________________________
Preparing for the Barrage: Junior Year
So your high school is having a college fair, you're getting letters in the mail from schools you haven't even heard of, and it seems everyone wants to know what your plans are for the future. "But I'm only a junior!" you say.
Most schools hope that students will have an interest in their institutions by the summer between their junior and senior year of high school. This is a time when most high school students are thinking about college, even if they weren't a few months earlier. It is also a time when students will have an opportunity to explore colleges. Through mailings and high school visits, schools invite students to attend open houses or schedule private visits during the summer.
The Numbers Game
Test scores, GPAs, class rank, ratios, rentention rates, tuition: numbers, numbers, numbers!
_____________________________
Taking the Mystery Out of Majors
What is a major?
In many ways, a major is like a contract between you, the student, and the school you attend. By declaring a major, you the student agree to perform certain work, (i.e. classes) in exchange for a college degree. In looser terms, a major is simply an organized collection of classes, either revolving around a subject (e.g. mathematics), theme (e.g. peace studies), or professional field (e.g. Pre-Med, Pre-Law, Engineering, etc.)
Small Colleges: the Benefits
SAT ACT GMAT GRE
http://www.princetonreview.com/college/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=221&TYPE=LOBBY
At the end of the first semester, grades are reported and report cards are sent home. Here's the way it works at a typical high school: Students get quarter grades and semester grades. Quarter grades are tabulated and sent home, but it's the semester grades that count. Once you get a semester grade on your record, it stays on your transcript. Semester grades are used to calculate your GPA and determine the credits you earn. These are also the grades that colleges will see when they look at your transcript.
________________________
Freshman Year: 9 th grade
Sophomore Year: 10 th grade
Junior Year: 11 th grade
Senior Year: 12 th grade
Freshman Year: Setting Your Priorities and Managing Your Time:
As a high-school freshman, you'll find that your academic and extracurricular obligations are considerably greater than they were in eighth grade. High school doesn't ask you to do the impossible—you'll have to wait for college for that—but it also doesn't make it easy to catch up when you slack off. When you enter high school, the world starts treating you as a grownup.
Time Management
The secret to managing a busy schedule is carefully budgeting your time.
Think about it: There are 168 hours in a week. You probably sleep 55 to 65 hours a week. You're in school 30 to 35 hours a week. That leaves you with approximately 75 hours a week to play around with. That sounds like a lot, huh?
_______________________
Setting Goals for High School
Make Sure Some of Your Goals are Short-Term
Imagine making the following three goals as a freshman:
A. I want to have a 3.5 cumulative GPA by the end of high school.
B. I want to be admitted to a selective college on the west coast.
C. I want to be an engineer after college.
Sophomore Year: Time to Narrow Down Your Extracurricular Activities:
Hopefully in 9th grade you got a chance to sample some of the cool activities that your high school offers.Maybe you didn't stick with all of them, but at least you tried them out. Now that you're in 10th Grade (Sophomore).
College admissions officers have certain things they're going to look for as far as your extracurriculars go. But we'll get to that in a minute. First, here's the game plan we suggest for sophomores:
* Join or remain in organizations that interest you or that you enjoy.
* Quit organizations that waste your time or that you hate.
* Focus on organizations that allow you to develop, give you responsibility, and offer leadership potential.
Consider choosing activities based on potential careers or majors:
If you are strongly interested in a particular career or major, then consider activities, jobs, or community service opportunities that allow you to explore that field. That way, if you later decide that you want to pursue the career or major, you'll have some background in it already. The opposite situation is also valuable. If the activity, job, or service project makes you realize that you're not interested at all in that field, then it's a good lesson to learn while you're still in high school.
____________________________________
Preparing for the Barrage: Junior Year
So your high school is having a college fair, you're getting letters in the mail from schools you haven't even heard of, and it seems everyone wants to know what your plans are for the future. "But I'm only a junior!" you say.
Most schools hope that students will have an interest in their institutions by the summer between their junior and senior year of high school. This is a time when most high school students are thinking about college, even if they weren't a few months earlier. It is also a time when students will have an opportunity to explore colleges. Through mailings and high school visits, schools invite students to attend open houses or schedule private visits during the summer.
The Numbers Game
Test scores, GPAs, class rank, ratios, rentention rates, tuition: numbers, numbers, numbers!
_____________________________
Taking the Mystery Out of Majors
What is a major?
In many ways, a major is like a contract between you, the student, and the school you attend. By declaring a major, you the student agree to perform certain work, (i.e. classes) in exchange for a college degree. In looser terms, a major is simply an organized collection of classes, either revolving around a subject (e.g. mathematics), theme (e.g. peace studies), or professional field (e.g. Pre-Med, Pre-Law, Engineering, etc.)
Small Colleges: the Benefits
SAT ACT GMAT GRE
http://www.princetonreview.com/college/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=221&TYPE=LOBBY
How College Admission Works
UC 10 Campuses
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/welcome.html
- Recent neighborhood parents said fee+all expenses around $25k/year in these UCs which are Public universities ( It seems good private universities costs around $50k/year like USC university of southern California LA )
With the help of Duke University director of undergraduate admissions Christoph Guttentag, we will use Duke University in Durham, N.C., as a real-world example of how college admission works in America.
Duke uses these mailing lists as a recruitment tool, according to Guttentag. It definitely has an effect -- about 25 percent of the undergraduates accepted at Duke each year come from these defined lists.
Competition in the College Application Process--Myth vs. Fact
Colleges want to see that students have tried to challenge themselves by taking the toughest courses their high school has to offer. This means that you're better off pulling a B in an advanced or honors course, than pulling an A in a regular course. Colleges need to determine how well you can perform in college-level or advanced classes. If you don't take any, admissions officers won't have enough information to go on.
Your SAT's are obviously important, but not as important as the high school transcript. Not even perfect SAT scores will get you admitted to a highly selective college if your transcript is weak. Your classes are your number one priority. If you can remember this, you're way ahead of the game.
Math and science are important in this process. If you've got your eye on one of the top schools in the country, plan on taking four years of math and four years of science. Even if you plan on becoming a playwright, an art historian, or a fiction writer, keep taking math and science. This will strengthen your application and give you an edge up in the competition.
There's an ever-growing number of senior class presidents applying to college, along with editor's-in-chief, and club founders. Do yourselves a BIG favor and keep the focus on your classes. Colleges want to see students who get involved, and they like students who can commit to their involvements over the course of a several years, but most importantly, they like to see students who do well in their classes. Don't get over-involved if it means you don't have enough time to study. Two or three activities that you've been consistently involved in, is just fine. Being class president won't get you admitted to your first choice school if your transcript is weak.
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/welcome.html
- Recent neighborhood parents said fee+all expenses around $25k/year in these UCs which are Public universities ( It seems good private universities costs around $50k/year like USC university of southern California LA )
With the help of Duke University director of undergraduate admissions Christoph Guttentag, we will use Duke University in Durham, N.C., as a real-world example of how college admission works in America.
Duke uses these mailing lists as a recruitment tool, according to Guttentag. It definitely has an effect -- about 25 percent of the undergraduates accepted at Duke each year come from these defined lists.
Competition in the College Application Process--Myth vs. Fact
Colleges want to see that students have tried to challenge themselves by taking the toughest courses their high school has to offer. This means that you're better off pulling a B in an advanced or honors course, than pulling an A in a regular course. Colleges need to determine how well you can perform in college-level or advanced classes. If you don't take any, admissions officers won't have enough information to go on.
Your SAT's are obviously important, but not as important as the high school transcript. Not even perfect SAT scores will get you admitted to a highly selective college if your transcript is weak. Your classes are your number one priority. If you can remember this, you're way ahead of the game.
Math and science are important in this process. If you've got your eye on one of the top schools in the country, plan on taking four years of math and four years of science. Even if you plan on becoming a playwright, an art historian, or a fiction writer, keep taking math and science. This will strengthen your application and give you an edge up in the competition.
There's an ever-growing number of senior class presidents applying to college, along with editor's-in-chief, and club founders. Do yourselves a BIG favor and keep the focus on your classes. Colleges want to see students who get involved, and they like students who can commit to their involvements over the course of a several years, but most importantly, they like to see students who do well in their classes. Don't get over-involved if it means you don't have enough time to study. Two or three activities that you've been consistently involved in, is just fine. Being class president won't get you admitted to your first choice school if your transcript is weak.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Complex Event Processing (CEP)
Esper: Event Stream Processing and Correlation
Esper is an Event Stream Processing (ESP) and event correlation engine (CEP, Complex Event Processing). Targeted to real-time Event Driven Architectures (EDA), Esper is capable of triggering custom actions written as Plain Old Java Objects (POJO) when event conditions occur among event streams. It is designed for high-volume event correlation where millions of events coming in would make it impossible to store them all to later query them using classical database architecture. A tailored Event Query Language (EQL) allows expressing rich event conditions, correlation, possibly spanning time windows, thus minimizing the development effort required to set up a system that can react to complex situations.
Esper is a lightweight kernel written in Java which is fully embeddable into any Java process, JEE application server or Java-based Enterprise Service Bus/span>. It enables rapid development of applications that process large volumes of incoming messages or events.
asr: main take is Events (existing software components )can be Java Beans, java.util.Map, or XML documents .
- Listeners are actions you want to take once those events happens
- This mean this can be applied to existing java based application, so main benefit is with out writing a special application for real-time intelligence gathering you can use this out of box solution
- See below Examples which comes with ready to test application with Download
Introduction to event streams and complex events
Information is critical to make wise decisions. This is true in real life but also in computing, and especially critical in several areas, such as finance, fraud detection, business intelligence or battlefield operation. Information flows in from different sources in the form of messages or events, giving a hint on the state at a given time such as stock price. That said, looking at those discrete events is most of the time meaningless. A trader needs to look at the stock trend over a period, possibly combined with other information to make the best deal at the right time.
While discrete events when looked one by one might be meaningless, event streams--that is an infinite set of events--considered over a sliding window and further correlated, are highly meaningful, and reacting to them with the minimal latency is critical for effective action and competitive advantage.
Introduction to Esper
Relational databases or message-based systems such as JMS make it really hard to deal with temporal data and real-time queries. Indeed, databases require explicit querying to return meaningful data and are not suited to push data as it changes. JMS systems are stateless and require the developer to implement the temporal and aggregation logic himself. By contrast, the Esper engine provides a higher abstraction and intelligence and can be thought of as a database turned upside-down: instead of storing the data and running queries against stored data, Esper allows applications to store queries and run the data through. Response from the Esper engine is real-time when conditions occur that match user defined queries. The execution model is thus continuous rather than only when a query is submitted.
Such concepts are a key foundation of EDA, and have been under active research in more than the last 10 years. Awareness of the importance of such systems in real-world architectures has started to emerge only recently.
Events as JavaBeans
Esper is able to handle events as JavaBeans, arbitrary java classes, java.util.Map, or XML documents. In this case study we assume we decided to use the JavaBeans representation for simplicity. Each self-service terminal publishes any of the six events kind below.
Additional Examples
Transaction Case Study
Solution Patterns
Past Presentation Material
Performance key figures
Esper exceeds over 500 000 event/s on a dual CPU 2GHz Intel based hardware, with engine latency below 3 microseconds average (below 10us with more than 99% predictability) on a VWAP benchmark with 1000 statements registered in the system - this tops at 70 Mbit/s at 85% CPU usage. Esper also demonstrates linear scalability from 100 000 to 500 000 event/s on this hardware, with consistent results accross different statements.
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Introduction to Complex Event Processing (CEP)
Event processing has been at the heart of any computing system for more then a decade. A common challenge across industries is to be able to extract actionable intelligence from disparate event sources in the most real-time possible way.
Introduction to Esper
Esper is an open-source CEP engine written entirely in Java and fully embeddable into any Java process - custom, JEE, ESB, BPM, etc. It recently has reached version 2.0, is backed by EsperTech under a professional open source / dual license business model, and triggers a growing interest in the Java and .Net community as well with NEsper, its full .Net/C# implementation.
Esper:Event Stream Intelligence: Continuous Event Processing for the Right Time Enterprise
Esper is an Event Stream Processing (ESP) and event correlation engine (CEP, Complex Event Processing). Targeted to real-time Event Driven Architectures (EDA), Esper is capable of triggering custom actions written as Plain Old Java Objects (POJO) when event conditions occur among event streams. It is designed for high-volume event correlation where millions of events coming in would make it impossible to store them all to later query them using classical database architecture. A tailored Event Query Language (EQL) allows expressing rich event conditions, correlation, possibly spanning time windows, thus minimizing the development effort required to set up a system that can react to complex situations.
Esper is a lightweight kernel written in Java which is fully embeddable into any Java process, JEE application server or Java-based Enterprise Service Bus/span>. It enables rapid development of applications that process large volumes of incoming messages or events.
asr: main take is Events (existing software components )can be Java Beans, java.util.Map, or XML documents .
- Listeners are actions you want to take once those events happens
- This mean this can be applied to existing java based application, so main benefit is with out writing a special application for real-time intelligence gathering you can use this out of box solution
- See below Examples which comes with ready to test application with Download
Introduction to event streams and complex events
Information is critical to make wise decisions. This is true in real life but also in computing, and especially critical in several areas, such as finance, fraud detection, business intelligence or battlefield operation. Information flows in from different sources in the form of messages or events, giving a hint on the state at a given time such as stock price. That said, looking at those discrete events is most of the time meaningless. A trader needs to look at the stock trend over a period, possibly combined with other information to make the best deal at the right time.
While discrete events when looked one by one might be meaningless, event streams--that is an infinite set of events--considered over a sliding window and further correlated, are highly meaningful, and reacting to them with the minimal latency is critical for effective action and competitive advantage.
Introduction to Esper
Relational databases or message-based systems such as JMS make it really hard to deal with temporal data and real-time queries. Indeed, databases require explicit querying to return meaningful data and are not suited to push data as it changes. JMS systems are stateless and require the developer to implement the temporal and aggregation logic himself. By contrast, the Esper engine provides a higher abstraction and intelligence and can be thought of as a database turned upside-down: instead of storing the data and running queries against stored data, Esper allows applications to store queries and run the data through. Response from the Esper engine is real-time when conditions occur that match user defined queries. The execution model is thus continuous rather than only when a query is submitted.
Such concepts are a key foundation of EDA, and have been under active research in more than the last 10 years. Awareness of the importance of such systems in real-world architectures has started to emerge only recently.
Events as JavaBeans
Esper is able to handle events as JavaBeans, arbitrary java classes, java.util.Map, or XML documents. In this case study we assume we decided to use the JavaBeans representation for simplicity. Each self-service terminal publishes any of the six events kind below.
Additional Examples
Transaction Case Study
Solution Patterns
Past Presentation Material
Performance key figures
Esper exceeds over 500 000 event/s on a dual CPU 2GHz Intel based hardware, with engine latency below 3 microseconds average (below 10us with more than 99% predictability) on a VWAP benchmark with 1000 statements registered in the system - this tops at 70 Mbit/s at 85% CPU usage. Esper also demonstrates linear scalability from 100 000 to 500 000 event/s on this hardware, with consistent results accross different statements.
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Introduction to Complex Event Processing (CEP)
Event processing has been at the heart of any computing system for more then a decade. A common challenge across industries is to be able to extract actionable intelligence from disparate event sources in the most real-time possible way.
Introduction to Esper
Esper is an open-source CEP engine written entirely in Java and fully embeddable into any Java process - custom, JEE, ESB, BPM, etc. It recently has reached version 2.0, is backed by EsperTech under a professional open source / dual license business model, and triggers a growing interest in the Java and .Net community as well with NEsper, its full .Net/C# implementation.
Esper:Event Stream Intelligence: Continuous Event Processing for the Right Time Enterprise
Friday, May 23, 2008
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
The Four Agreements are very simple, but very profound. To embrace and live each of the Four Agreements is to find yourself experiencing personal freedom--possibly as never before. The Four Agreements are:
Be Impeccable With Your Words
Don't Take Anything Personally
Don't Make Assumptions
Always Do Your Best
From the cover of the book:
Be Impeccable With Your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Don't Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
Don't Make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
Always Do Your Best: Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.
Be Impeccable With Your Words
Don't Take Anything Personally
Don't Make Assumptions
Always Do Your Best
From the cover of the book:
Be Impeccable With Your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Don't Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
Don't Make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
Always Do Your Best: Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
An Oracle of Oil Predicts $200-a-Barrel Crude
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on May 16 raised its outlook to $141 a barrel for the second-half of the year.
An analyst at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Murti has become the talk of the oil market by issuing one sensational forecast after another. A few years ago, rivals scoffed when he predicted oil would breach $100 a barrel. Few are laughing now. Oil shattered yet another record on Tuesday, touching $129.60 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gas at $4 a gallon is arriving just in time for those long summer drives.
Mr. Murti, 39, argues that the world’s seemingly unquenchable thirst for oil means prices will keep rising from here and stay above $100 into 2011. Others disagree, arguing that prices could abruptly tumble if speculators in the market rush for the exits. But the grim calculus of Mr. Murti’s prediction, issued in March and reconfirmed two weeks ago, is enough to give anyone pause: in an America of $200 oil, gasoline could cost more than $6 a gallon.
That would be fine with Mr. Murti, who owns not one but two hybrid cars. “I’m actually fairly anti-oil,” says Mr. Murti, who grew up in New Jersey. “One of the biggest challenges our country faces is our addiction to oil.”
Mr. Murti is hardly alone in predicting higher oil prices. Boone Pickens, the oilman turned corporate raider, said Tuesday that crude would hit $150 this year. But many analysts are no longer so sure where oil is going, at least in the short term. Some say prices will fall as low as $70 a barrel by year-end, according to Thomson Financial.
Experts disagree over the supply of oil, the demand for it and whether recent speculation in the commodities markets has artificially raised prices. As an energy analyst at Citigroup, Tim Evans, reportedly put it, trading commodities these days is like “sticking your hand in a blender.”
Whatever the case, oil analysts like Mr. Murti have suddenly taken on the aura that enveloped technology analysts in the 1990s.
“It’s become a very fashionable area to write about,” said Kevin Norrish, a commodity analyst at Barclays Capital, which began predicting high oil prices around the same time as Goldman. “And to try to get attention from people, people are coming out with all sorts of numbers.”
This was not always the case. In the 1990s, oil research was a sleepy area at banks. Many analysts assumed oil prices would hover near $15 to $20 a barrel forever. If prices rose much above those levels, they figured, consumers would start conserving, suppliers would raise production, or both, causing prices to decline.
But around the turn of the century, oil company after oil company started missing predicted production. Mr. Murti, who covers oil companies like ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy, decided to study the oil spikes of the 1970s.
Since starting his career at Petrie Parkman & Company, a Denver-based investment firm acquired by Merrill Lynch in 2006, he had been conservative in his calls on oil. But by 2004, he concluded the world was headed for a long supply shock that would push prices through the roof. That summer, as oil traded for about $40 a barrel, Mr. Murti coined what has become his signature phrase: super spike.
The following March, he drew attention by predicting prices would soar to $105, sending shock waves through the market. Angry investors questioned whether Goldman’s own oil traders benefited from the prediction. At Goldman’s annual meeting, Henry M. Paulson Jr., then the bank’s chief executive and now Treasury secretary, found himself defending Mr. Murti.
“Our traders were as surprised as everyone else was,” Mr. Paulson reportedly said. “Our research department is totally independent. Our trading departments have no say about this.”
Over time, Mr. Murti was proved right again. Oil crossed $100 in February. Mr. Murti’s forecasts now feed into many of Goldman’s economic and corporate forecasts, affecting research of companies like Ford and Procter & Gamble. His research is distributed widely among investors.
“Even if you disagree with their views, the problem is that Goldman does carry so much credibility,” said Nauman Barakat, senior vice president for global energy futures at Macquarie Futures USA. “There are a lot of traders who are going to buy based on their reports.”
His sudden fame unsettles Mr. Murti. He rarely grants interviews, citing concerns about privacy, and he declined to be photographed for this article. He is not the bank’s only gas prognosticator: Jeffrey R. Currie predicts oil prices out of London.
Mr. Murti, for his part, discounts suggestions that his reports affect market prices. “Whenever an analyst upgrades a stock or downgrades a stock, sometimes you get a reaction that day, but beyond a day, fundamentals win out,” he said.
Mr. Murti falls into the camp of oil analysts who believe that supply is likely to remain tight because of geopolitical factors. These analysts predict higher prices because production is declining in non-OPEC countries like Britain, Norway and Mexico.
The analysts who predict lower prices say there are supplies of oil that the bullish analysts are missing. “This year will be a year in which supply will be put into the market by stealth by OPEC and by countries we call black-hole countries,” said Edward L. Morse, chief energy economist at Lehman Brothers. China is one example, he said.
But while oil and gas prices have been rising for a while now, Americans have only just begun to reduce gasoline consumption, so their efforts to conserve have not dragged down oil prices.
“The fact that the U.S. gasoline demand can be down and that the U.S. gasoline consumer is no longer driving world oil prices is a monumental event,” Mr. Murti says. He spends most of his time talking to money managers and analysts, many of whom keep asking him if oil prices will stay high if speculators abandon the market, and says he applauds investors for driving up oil prices, since that will spur investment in alternative sources of energy.
High prices, he says, “send a message to consumers that you should try your best to buy fuel-efficient cars or otherwise conserve on energy.” Washington should create tax incentives to encourage people to buy hybrid cars and develop more nuclear energy, he said.
Of course, if lawmakers heed his advice, oil analysts like him might one day be a thing of the past. That’s fine with Mr. Murti.
“The greatest thing in the world would be if in 15 years we no longer needed oil analysts,” he says.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Google GWT
Compiere: Switching from Swing to GWT
- see the Dashboard they have ( even on java Swing ) in the screen demos, we need to this kind of dash board access to all parts of our 'consumer feedback ' application .
- Since Comapiere choose this GWT over any other means this GWT must be suited very good for 'Enterprise applications' delivering over web.
- This massive ERP & CRM application on browser is great testimony for GWT seems (asr)
- watch video the designers says they get only META data of screen elements and they render every thing using JS in browser, interesting.
- this info may be available in the book below which is endorsed by 'GWT' creator google engineer
Ext GWT: Rich Internet Application Framework for GWT
Ext GWT is a Java library for building rich internet applications with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). It includes:
# High performance, customizable UI widgets
# Full theming support with standard CSS
# Well designed, consistent and fully documented source code
# Native GWT solution with no external JavaScript or 3rd party libraries
- good UI compoents to view -- you can see source java code at the bottom of the panel for all components
- Top 5 GWT Libraries
- GWT resources
- Book review
It seems GWT fights with Falsh in some sense, if you app is like Compaiere sure GWT wins .., for more consumer applications Flash ( Adobe Flex ) may work
I feel that Flex and GWT are the key players for web development with Java backends in the area of RIA.
http://code.google.com/p/gwt-ext/
-There are a lot of similarities in what GWT and Flex deliver from a functionality stand point however the right technology depends on the application being build. There is a lot to discuss regarding the differences and sweetspots of GWT over Flex and vice-versa.
-For now I'll just mention that GWT really does a good job optimizing the size of the application JS and making sure that the web application is loaded in the most efficient way over the wire with smart caching etc. This is great for Internet based applications
- These impressive lines might help sell JSF to management, but when it comes down to actually developing a rich application, JSF doesn't event come close to providing the richness and interactivity that other frameworks in this category can deliver. Additionally the productivity level using, say , GWT is far more than using JSF
Google Web Toolkit Applications
“Ryan clearly understands the GWT value proposition and how GWT integrates into a diverse web technology stack–and not just in a theoretical way. With the popularity of gpokr.com and kdice.com, Ryan can speak with the authority of concrete success.”
–Bruce Johnson, creator of Google Web Toolkit
- And this book is recent (not 2 years old )just 12/2007
- see the Dashboard they have ( even on java Swing ) in the screen demos, we need to this kind of dash board access to all parts of our 'consumer feedback ' application .
- Since Comapiere choose this GWT over any other means this GWT must be suited very good for 'Enterprise applications' delivering over web.
- This massive ERP & CRM application on browser is great testimony for GWT seems (asr)
- watch video the designers says they get only META data of screen elements and they render every thing using JS in browser, interesting.
- this info may be available in the book below which is endorsed by 'GWT' creator google engineer
Ext GWT: Rich Internet Application Framework for GWT
Ext GWT is a Java library for building rich internet applications with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). It includes:
# High performance, customizable UI widgets
# Full theming support with standard CSS
# Well designed, consistent and fully documented source code
# Native GWT solution with no external JavaScript or 3rd party libraries
- good UI compoents to view -- you can see source java code at the bottom of the panel for all components
- Top 5 GWT Libraries
- GWT resources
- Book review
It seems GWT fights with Falsh in some sense, if you app is like Compaiere sure GWT wins .., for more consumer applications Flash ( Adobe Flex ) may work
I feel that Flex and GWT are the key players for web development with Java backends in the area of RIA.
http://code.google.com/p/gwt-ext/
-There are a lot of similarities in what GWT and Flex deliver from a functionality stand point however the right technology depends on the application being build. There is a lot to discuss regarding the differences and sweetspots of GWT over Flex and vice-versa.
-For now I'll just mention that GWT really does a good job optimizing the size of the application JS and making sure that the web application is loaded in the most efficient way over the wire with smart caching etc. This is great for Internet based applications
- These impressive lines might help sell JSF to management, but when it comes down to actually developing a rich application, JSF doesn't event come close to providing the richness and interactivity that other frameworks in this category can deliver. Additionally the productivity level using, say , GWT is far more than using JSF
Google Web Toolkit Applications
“Ryan clearly understands the GWT value proposition and how GWT integrates into a diverse web technology stack–and not just in a theoretical way. With the popularity of gpokr.com and kdice.com, Ryan can speak with the authority of concrete success.”
–Bruce Johnson, creator of Google Web Toolkit
- And this book is recent (not 2 years old )just 12/2007
Monday, May 12, 2008
Metrics stats
India Services Exports to Hit $310 billion and Surpass Merchandise Exports by 2012
- This site has every metric
- This site has every metric
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