one Saturday

One Saturday morning when I woke up early at 11.56 am I thought should I sleep

a bit more and make it past 12 so that I could set a land mark for me to cross it,

next time. But my devil inner heart didn’t let me lie on bed and my brain dispatch

the leave order to move out and have a look on others in my building which is a

kind of hostel consisting employed and students of different fields and

backgrounds. We are a complete crowd of 19 from different backgrounds like

Management, engineering, telecom, politics, loafers, unemployed grads and legal

consultant. I can say this place is a complete data ware house only needed to be

mining.

When I went and make a round I found only 7 people were there in the building

and busy. I came back and sat and asked my brain which was still suffering from a

recession crash of ideas inspired by the current market situation. Then I buy back

my shares and put my thoughts into action and dialled to my girl friend. Girls are

always a good medium of time waste unless you have Madonna as your girl

friend.

As a creative stupid I always think sleeping may increase the level of creativity

innovating new ideas to explore the thoughts into reality as I am portraying my

thoughts in words, thanks to Microsoft for MS office which is reducing my pen and

paper work otherwise I would have gone for a different work rather than putting

my thoughts in to the digital interface. Not necessarily I want to tell that as a lazy

guy I choose to lie on bed for few more time within which my brain could function

and assign me some task other than offering some food to my hunger.

Then suddenly my hands touched something, ahh..don’t get it other ways, it is not

any biological human instrument but a book written by one of the great man of

my country Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, who does not need any introduction. Being a

visionary, a scientist, an innovator and lot to his credit I admire him and

sometimes read him when my laziness wants to get rid of my body. The book was

IGNITED MINDS (( Unleashing the power within India )) it was chapter no 3, the

topic was “Visionary Teachers and Scientist” where he was telling that it is more

important to find out the real intellectual minds from our school age. And

suddenly I got inspiration for my article (( Education beyond syllabus )) which I am

writing because I felt there are a lot more lies in the corners of India what we can

really identify seeing the results of students in examination.

There was an example of Srinivasa Ramanuja who only lived for 33 years ( 1887-

1920 ) had no practical formal education or means of living yet he was incredibly a

great talent to Indian Mathematics what is known for its greatness to the world.

The matter of fact, I still remember the kid of standard 2 who taught me to write

from different angles on the blackboard that could solve the purpose of teaching

them, lines and its utility.

The movie 3 idiots was the first to leave a great impact on people’s mind but

before that several attempts being taken by many a people but failed to execute

them. Problem is “courage to lead” it to reality what they had thought off in a

different way and bit input of society & circumstances also add essence.

The question arises that who want to be an Idiot in its own way of defining self

when we have only one life to live (( unless you have seen Raaz Pichhle janam ka

)) one life to experiments our strengths and one life to live with our passion.

Our education system does not allow us to explore, Race is the only way to reach

at the top. Class by class, exam by exam and the numbers just make a long list. In

the entire process we forget that in standard 4th I had an innovation of picking

sticks and arrange them into an architectural brilliance, my friend told me how to

spin the ball and how different angles of holding pen can result a good

handwriting but finally these innovations of different talent turns into careers

forced by their parents and ended up with a sales profile or something else which

is poles apart from his real talent.

To understand in what I am good at cost so much time and value that you cannot

come back to your real strength and finally decide to stick with whatever hell you

are now. Cause it takes so much guts and courage to excel your soul from a sold

body.

To be continued –

Education beyond Syllabus

Subhendu Biswal

www.subhendubiswal.in

Copenhagen 2009 Climate Conference in Copenhagen 6. - 18. December 2009

In 2012 the Kyoto Protocol to prevent climate changes and global warming runs out. To keep the process on the line there is an urgent need for a new climate protocol. At the conference in Copenhagen 2009 the parties of the UNFCCC meet for the last time on government level before the climate agreement need to be renewed.

Climate friendly city car in front of the Bella Center

Therefore the Climate Conference in Copenhagen is essential for the worlds climate and the Danish government and UNFCCC is putting hard effort in making the meeting in Copenhagen a success ending up with a Copenhagen Protocol to prevent global warming and climate changes.

The Climate Conference will take place in the Bella Center. The conference centre is placed not far from Copenhagen and near the Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup.

Governmental representatives from 170 countries are expected to be in Copenhagen in the days of the conference accompanied by other governmental representatives, NGO's, journalists and others. In total 8000 people are expected to Copenhagen in the days of the climate meeting.

Minister for Climate and Energy, Connie Hedegaard. Photo: Jakob Dall

The host of the meeting in Copenhagen is the government of Denmark represented by Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister of Climate and Energy and Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. The official sekretariat is placed in connection to The Prime Ministers Office in Copenhagen. Originally the hosting of the climate conference was initiated by the former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Photo: Hung Tien Vu

The Danish Government has decided that not only the subject of the conference should be focused on the climate but also the conference itself. Among other initiatives the organizers work on mounting af windmill near the Bella Center to produce climate friendly electricity for the conference.

The conference in Copenhagen is the 15th conference of parties (COP15) in the Framework Convention on Climate Change. The recent meeting in United Nations Climate Change Conferences was held in December 2007 in Bali.

Danish Prime Minister

Lars Løkke Rasmussen

The secretary for the climate conferences is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC - based in the German city Bonn.

An important part of the scientific background for the political decisions taken on the conferences is made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The IPCC is Established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change. IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In 2007 the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Price).

The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is organized in cooperation between the Ministry of Climate and Energy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister's Office.

The adress of the secretariat for the Climate Conference is:

COP15

The Climate Secretariat

The Prime Minister's Office

Christiansborg

Prins Jørgens Gård 11

1218 København K

Denmark

Tel (+45) 33 92 33 00, Fax (+45) 33 11 16 65

The Official secretariat of the 15th Climate Conference in Copenhagen.

Copenhagen Climate Network

Ehlersvej 11

2900 Hellerup

Denmark

Tel (+45) 39 48 18 10, Fax (+45) 39 48 18 01

A Danish network that will underpin the Copenhagen Climate Summit, thus making the 2009 UN climate summit a success for the benefit of sustainable climate policy. The network will use the period before, under and after the Copenhagen Climate Summit to establish networks among businesses, individuals and organisations supporting a climate policy focusing on the environment.

Copenhagen Climate Council

c/ Mandag Morgen

Valkendorsgade 13

Box 1127

1009 Copenhagen K

Tel (+45) 33 93 93 23, Fax (+45) 33 14 13 94

An initiative founded in May 2007 by a group of business leaders and scientists with the aim of helping make the case for a new global climate treaty that will come into force when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol comes to an end in 2012.

Value of a Tree

Trees have long been valued as an asset and humans have benefited from their co-existence with trees for as long as they have been on this planet. For thousands of years timber has been second to none as a building material and has provided shelter to people from ancient times right up to the present day. Needless to say, the edible fruit of countless trees has been of immense value in providing nutrients and sustenance to people since the dawn of time. But these are just the obvious benefits provided by our leafy wooded partners on this fragile planet of ours.

Ecologists are telling us with increasing urgency that we need to preserve what is left of our forests for the sake of our planet. In fact many people consider that global warming is the greatest threat to our planet in history. Mankind is responsible for the emission of vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which has resulted in the so called greenhouse effect, but people need to realise that one of the best ways of storing carbon and preventing it from going up into the atmosphere is to maintain our forests.

Tree expert, Dr. Greg Moore, from the University of Melbourne, in Australia, explains that a large tree may weigh about a hundred tonnes, half of which is above ground and half of which is below ground. About 80% of the tree is water, and the remaining 20% is made up of various chemicals, including 10 tonnes of carbon. If this tree dies, then that carbon in released into the atmosphere, where it combines with oxygen and forms carbon dioxide. A tree can store carbon for four or five hundred years.

There are other, perhaps not so well known benefits of trees, both in an urban and rural landscape. In times of flood, vegetation growing on a river will slow the rate at which the water flows, meaning that less damage will occur downstream. If the trees are lost to the riverbank then the flow of water increases and more destruction will occur downstream.

Trees also perform valuable functions in an urban environment. Dr. Moore explains that mature trees reduce wind speed which results in a reduction in the amount of stress on buildings. They also help to control pollution by acting as filters, but perhaps the most surprising finding is that trees can actually help to prolong the life of roads and other asphalt surfaces in urban areas. It is recognized that root systems of large trees can damage asphalt and concrete, but it is not so well known that the shade from large trees actually prolongs by three or four times the life of materials such as asphalt. This shade also helps to prolong the life of paintwork on our homes.

Dr. Moore believes that it is essential to ascribe a monetary value to trees. He explains that people believe that we can simply replace them if they die, but maintenance is much better value because we have invested huge amounts of money in the trees over hundreds of years.

It seems that no matter from what perspective you are looking, trees are an increasingly valuable asset not only to us as individuals, but to the human race.

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalaam's Speech in Hyderabad

Why is the media here so negative?

Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse acknowledge them--- Why?

We are the first in milk production.

We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.

We are the second largest producer of wheat.

We are the second largest producer of rice.

Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit.

There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.

I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Why are we so NEGATIVE?

Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture,when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her, you and I will have to build this developed India . You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.

Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.

Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is yours.

YOU say that our government is inefficient.

YOU say that our laws are too old.

YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.

YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke,

The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.

YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.

YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?

Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name - YOURS. Give him a face - YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores.... YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 250) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road ) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity... In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU?

YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai .

YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah .

YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds ( Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.'

YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop,'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.'

YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand .

Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo ? Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston ??? We are still talking of the same YOU.

YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India ?

Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay , Mr. Tinaikar , had a point to make. 'Rich people's dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,' he said. 'And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure in his bowels? In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan . Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.

We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin.

We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.

We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity. This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public. When it comes to burning social issues like those related towomen, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse?

'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system? What does a system consist of ? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU.

When it comes to us actually making a posit ive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr.Clean to come along work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away. Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England .. When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a greatdeal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too.... I am echoing J. F. Kennedy 's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians.....

'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA

AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA

WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'

Lets do what India needs from us.

Forward this mail to each Indian for a change instead of sending Jokes or junk mails.

Thank you,

Dr. Abdul Kalaam

Techie builds air-car! Refuses commercialization

Techie builds air-car! Refuses commercialization
By siliconindia news bureau
Tuesday,24 November 2009, 07:34 hrs Comment(81)Print
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Bangalore: Kanak Gogoi, a 12th passed entrepreneur from Guwahati, has over a dozen innovations, from gravity-operated bicycle to a car which can run on air. But he regrets the government's negligence towards scientific innovations, and refuses to commercialize any of his creations.

Gogoi said, "Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offered to build a fully furnished lab for me in Guwahati. The Chief Minister had granted me about 1.6 acres of land in 2007, but the file is still lying untouched at the local administrative office."


Talking about slow moving files, another of Gogoi's invention is the speed breaker that can generate electricity simply when vehicles pass over it. Gogoi explains that a ramp under the speed breaker would absorb the static energy produced by the sheer mass of the vehicle and convert it into kinetic energy. This is, in turn, transferred into electricity and stored in a battery cell. A vehicle weighing one tonne can create electricity equivalent to one kilowatt.

When Gogoi started the journey, he had two options; pay up his children's school fees or spend the money for his scientific innovations. He opted for the latter. In the past 13 years, he has spent Rs.1.5 crore (Rs.15 million) of his own money to satisfy his scientific and engineering curiosities, but steadfastly refuses to commercialize any of them and blames the government for not promoting scientific innovations, although only a few years ago he was making a hand-to-mouth existence.

Felicitated by the President of India last week for his achievements, 47-year old Gogoi is a celebrity in Guwahati's scientific and engineering circles. He has developed his penchant for creating extraordinary things from ordinary materials used for day-to-day activities during his younger days.

"However, I have never received a single rupee in profit for any of my work and I will never venture to commercialize them on my own. But if anybody is willing, he is free to make use of my innovations for the greater good of the society," Gogoi told PTI.

Among his innovations are a solar hybrid car, whose 320 watt battery is charged by solar panels and is powered by a 100cc engine. Another car that Gogoi made from integration of motorcycle and Maruti 800 engines, runs on air energy powered by a hand glider and can reach a maximum speed of 120 km per hour.

Gogoi, however, has not bothered to apply for intellectual property rights (IPR) for any of his innovations, although they have cost Rs.1.5 crore of his own money. "When anybody talks about things like IPR or patents, it is generally assumed that the person must be a Ph.D or DLitt. Who will think of an undergraduate as a genuine and worthy innovator? Besides, paperwork of the kind that is required for patent filing has always been an anathema for me," said Gogoi.

In fact it is the National Innovation Foundation, headed by noted scientist Raghunath A Mashelkar that applied for a patent on Gogoi's behalf for his gravity operated cycle, which converts gravitational force released by pedaling of the cycle into kinetic energy.

World Economy

Economy of the World
During 2003 unless otherwise stated

Population(August 24, 2009):	6,779,704,945
GDP (PPP):	US$70.65 trillion (2008 est.)
GDP (Currency):	$54.62 trillion (2008 est.)
GDP/capita (PPP):	$9,774
GDP/capita (Currency):	$7,178
Annual growth of per capita GDP (PPP):	5.1% (tty*), 2.1% (1950-2003)
People Paid Below $2 per day:	3.25 billion (~50%)
Millionaires(US$):	~9 million i.e. ~0.15% (2006)
Billionaires(US$):	793 (2009) , 1125 (2008)
Unemployment:	30% combined unemployment and underemployment in many non-industrialized countries. Developed countries typically 4-12% unemployment.

KrAtiV tHiNkinG

Creative Thinking-

There are 5 stages in creative thinking process-

* The Quick-Fire Mind Map Burst

* First Reconstruction and Revision

* Incubation

* Second Reconstruction and Revision

* The Final Stage

The Quick- Fire Mind Map Burst – Begin by drawing a stimulating central image that represents the generic topic of interest. Your image should be placed in the centre of a large blank page, and from it should radiate every idea that comes into your mind on that subject. For about 20 minutes you should let the ideas flow as fast as possible. Having to work at speed unchains your brain from habitual thinking patterns, and encourages new ideas. Many of these new ideas may at first seem absurd, however do not disregard these ideas as they often hold the keys to new perspectives and breaking old habits.

First Reconstruction and Revision – Have a short break, allowing your brain to rest and begin to integrate the ideas generated so far. Then make a new Mind Map, in which you identify the major branches, categorizing, building up hierarchies and finding new associations between your preliminary ideas. It may become noticeable that similar or identical concepts are present in several different places of your Mind Map. These should not be dismissed as unnecessary repetitions as they are fundamentally “different” in that they are attached to different branches. These peripheral repetitions reflect the underlying importance of ideas which are buried deep with your store of knowledge but which actually influence every aspect of your thinking. Following your brain’s flow, the Mind Map explores your current thought in this new centre to replace the old. In due course this new centre will itself be placed by a new and more advanced concept. The Mind Map therefore aids reflects intellectual exploration and growth.

Incubation-Sudden creative realisations often come when the brain is relaxed such as sleeping, day dreaming and running. This is because such states of mind allow the radiant thinking process to spread to the farthest reaches of the brain, increasing the probability of mental breakthroughs.

Second Reconstruction and Revision- After incubation your brain will have a fresh perception on your first and second Mind Maps, so it will be useful to do another quick fire Mind Map burst. During this reconstruction stage you will need to consider all the information gathered and integrated in stages 1, 2 and 3 in orders to make a comprehensive final Mind Map.

The Final Stage- You now need to search for the solution, decision, or realization which was your original creative goal. This often involves linking elements in your Mind Map, leading to major new insights and breakthroughs.

With the introduction of computer based Mind Mapping in the last couple of years, Mind Mapping has become even easier. Mind Mapping software such as Tony Buzan’s iMindMap utilizes the true principles of Mind Mapping and duplicate the non-linear thinking process of the brain, creating an explosion in creativity, innovation and knowledge sharing. Computer based Mind Mapping can be just as effective as traditional Mind Mapping as a creative thinking tool, if not more!