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Meet Srikanth Srinivasan…America”s Top Indian Judge !!!

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Sri Srinivasan (extreme right) with Gursharan Kaur, his mother Saroja Srinivasan, PM's daughter Upinder Kaur and Srinivasan's sister Srija Srinivasan
Image: Sri Srinivasan (extreme right) with Gursharan Kaur, his mother Saroja Srinivasan, PM’s daughter Upinder Kaur and Srinivasan’s sister Srija Srinivasan

Surrounded by luminaries, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s family, and with his hand placed on the Bhagwad Gita, Srikanth Srinivasan was formally sworn in as judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Aziz Haniffa reports from Washington, DC.

At 5 pm on Thursday (EST), with his hand placed on the Bhagwad Gita held by his mother Saroja Srinivasan, Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan, 46, was formally sworn in as the new federal judge in the United States Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, the second most powerful court in the US after the Supreme Court, by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor at the Ceremonial Courtroom on the E Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse.

The Senate had unanimously confirmed Srinivasan in May, making him the first South Asian American circuit court judge in the history of the immigrant experience.

Sri Srinivasan takes oath with his hand placed on Bhagwad Gita beside his mother Saroja Srinivasan

 

NextThe investiture ceremony saw over 500 guests in attendance, including legal luminaries, senior Obama administration officials and family and friends of the Srinivasans like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s wife Gursharan Kaur and her daughters Amrit Singh, a human rights lawyer, and Upinder Singh, a professor and author — so much so that an overflow room had to be opened.

It was a testament to the great respect, admiration and popularity of Srinivasan, who is already being talked of as a potential Supreme Court nominee the next time a vacancy arises in America’s highest court.

Just before administering the oath, O’Connor, for whom Srinivasan had clerked for years, said, “What a treat this is for all of us.” She predicted he would “be a superb judge on the Court of Appeals and our nation will be enriched.”

Chief Judge Merrick B Garland, who was presiding over the ceremony, then called on “the stars of the show” Srinivasan’s 11-year-old twins Maya and Vikram to assist in the wrapping of the robe on their dad to sustained applause.

In his initial remarks, Srinivasan gave a taste of his signature humour, saying he was humbled by the “honored and distinguished guests and some of my somewhat less honourable friends from my earlier years.”

 

He recalled, “The last time I gave a speech to an audience wearing a robe was at my high school graduation where I was the commencement speaker, and the president said my speech was a rap. It seemed like a very fine idea at the time. I want this occasion to be truly memorable, but not that memorable. Besides I had a really hard time thinking of an appropriate rhyme for the word investiture.”

To laughter, he said, “Candidly, but somewhat curiously, pedicure came to mind.”

He said he quickly dropped that thought: “Rest assured, there will be no more rhyming today.”

Then getting serious, Srinivasan said, “The overriding sensation that I feel today in a sense is of how incredibly fortunate I’ve been so far — and I can’t emphasise that more.”

“This kind of occasion happens and this opportunity came along, thanks to the decision my parents made a long, long time ago,” he said, recalling how his father “came from the humblest of humble beginnings from India.”

He said, “The journey that took him from there to this country and took us all to this occasion is virtually inconceivable. He and my mom, brought me and Srija and Srinija at a very early age in search of the classic immigrant dream — in pursuit of opportunity and happiness… I’d like to think that those aspirations have been, very much been realised.”

He added, “My dad grew to love this country because of the possibilities it gave us and this country loved us immensely back. There is no more sterling confirmation of that than this occasion today — what this occasion signifies and the warmth and kindness in this room.”

Srinivasan thanked all the speakers for their “incredibly touching remarks,” and their “enduring friendship.” All of them had spoken of his brilliant legal acumen and professionalism and laced their remarks with humor, particularly about his obsession and love for the Kansas Jay Hawks basketball team.

Srinivasan was born in Chandigarh, but was raised in Lawrence, Kansas, and attended Lawrence High School where he was an accomplished basketball player.

Among the speakers were Judge J Harvie Wilkinson, III, under whom Srinivasan had first clerked; former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger; former colleague and friend both in the public and private sector Professor Irving L Gornstein; and his sisters Srija and Srinija Srinivasan, who was Yahoo!’s fifth employee in 1995 and vice president and editor-in-chief when she stepped down in 2010.

Both sisters evoked much laughter and emotion speaking of their growing up years and their brother’s love and understanding and unshakable character and his passionate standing up for the underdog.

 

Srija said, “I can say without equivocation or reservation that he’s an awesome big brother. I looked up to him all my life in more than just height. I admire him, I’ve learnt from him and I’ve always looked forward to spending time with him… He is just a tremendously great guy — a guy I am honored and appreciative to have serving our country and furthering the public good.”

Srinija said, “I am his baby sister and his number one groupie,” and spoke of how she was “gunning for perfect attendance,” being there for 24 of his 24 oral arguments before the Supreme Court.

Judge Srinivasan spoke emotionally about his family.

 

My sisters Srija and Srinija, I have relied on your love from an early age and it has sustained me throughout,” he said. “Maya and Vikram, you two give more love and inspiration to me than any parent can rightfully expect from a child. To my mom, you’ve been with all of us at every meaningful step of the way, so it’s especially fitting that you were able to stand with me today to assist me in taking this oath of office.”

He also thanked White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, who read out his Commission and paid tribute to President Barack Obama for nominating him and the US Senate for confirming him. And he told the sizeable number of Indian American guests on hand to witness this historic swearing, ‘I am touched by your efforts and I am humbled by your confidence.’

Then turning to the Prime Minister’s wife, who was seated in the front row, with her two daughters and Saroja Srinivasan, he said, “What a terrific thing that you were able to be here with us today — essentially fresh off the plane from India (the First Lady had landed in Washington earlier that day). That means especially much to us given my late father’s most recent passing and the incredibly close relationship that the Prime Minister and you had with him and my mom.”

He added, “I know today, it’s a very special day to you and your household and so, I want to extend to the Prime Minister, a very happy birthday from all of us.”

 

Srinivasan also thanked Justice O’Connor: “You challenged me from the very first day I met for the interview for my clerkship. You’ve challenged me over the years and you’ve challenged all of us and we are all the better for it.”

He said, “I have worked in two places in the law — the office of ‘O’Melveny & Myers and then in the Solicitor General’s Office after my clerkship years,” serving three terms in the private sector and four terms in the SG’s office, the last as the Principal Deputy Solicitor General.

“Two wonderful institutions with amazingly gifted lawyers and wonderful colleagues infused with inspiring ethics, of decency, integrity and public spiritedness. I can’t think of two more fulfilling places to have worked in.”

He added, “I now have a third home in the law and that’s here in this court. To my colleagues on the DC Circuit, you’ve welcomed me so warmly and so graciously and it’s an incredible privilege to be in your midst. It’s going to be a place I am going to love to come everyday.”

source::::::rediff.com

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Abdul Haji…. A Hero Who Rescued Many @ WestGate Mall in Kenya ….

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Portia Walton is helped to escape by Abdul Haji

Exclusive: American family the Waltons have told how they were rescued from the siege at Nairobi’s Westgate mall by a man who has been hailed a hero. Aislinn Laing reports on the terrifying drama and the iconic picture which bears witness to it.

Faced with a long afternoon trapped in the house with her five children last Saturday, Katherine Walton decided on a quick excursion – a trip to Nairobi’s popular Westgate Mall.

On arriving together, her two teenage boys briefly went ahead with Mrs Walton following with her three daughters including four-year-old Portia.

Four hours later, the family lay pinned to the ground opposite the supermarket where they did their weekly shop as gunmen hurled grenades and sprayed bullets just yards from them.

“We were just going to meet my two older boys in the supermarket when we heard an explosion,” said Mrs Walton, a 38-year-old IT worker from North Carolina who moved to Kenya with her husband Philip and their children two years ago.

“I grabbed the girls and started running. A woman pulled us behind a promotional table opposite. I could see the bullets hitting above the shops and hear the screaming all around us.”

She remembers only fragments of the hours that followed which she spent huddled under the table, but, according to Mr Walton, 39, she saw enough of the attackers to be able to describe several of them in detail afterwards.

Mrs Walton and an Asian lady escape with two of the children

“She heard them talking to people, telling them to stand up followed by gunshots,” he recalled. “The thing that’s troubling her now is she can’t forget the smell of the gunpowder.”

During their ordeal, the couple’s three daughters, aged four, two and 13 months, were shielded and calmed by an injured Kenyan woman and two Indian women who hid with them.

“They were so still and quiet,” Mrs Walton said. “My baby was screaming when there was shooting but between that, she just slept. In one lull in the fighting, my two-year-old and the baby were playing together with my phone. I couldn’t understand how they could be acting like everything was fine.”

Yards away a man with a pistol who was shooting at a heavily armed young jihadi in a bandanna who was taunting him to come closer.

That man was Abdul Haji, the son of a former security minister in the Kenyan government, who had rushed to the mall after getting a text message from his brother who was trapped inside.

Abdul Haji and a fellow police offider in the mall.

We saw a lot of dead people. Very young people, children, old ladies, you cannot imagine,” Mr Haji told the Kenyan television station NTV.

“From what they were doing, you could tell that these were not normal people. The fact that he was making a joke out of this whole thing made me much more angry and determined to engage them, and to shame them.”

Mr Haji said his father taught him to use a gun to protect their cattle from bandits when he was growing up.

Last Saturday, he used his skills to provide fire cover for the Kenyan Red Cross workers and, over a period of three hours, help to evacuate some of the 1,000 people who escaped the mall in the initial stages of a siege that would last three days and leave at least 72 people dead. As he stood with a fellow rescuer crouched outside the Nakumatt supermarket, Mr Haji said he noticed the women hiding under the table.

“Just a few minutes ago we were exchanging fire with the terrorists and these people were right in the middle of it, in the crossfire. We regrouped and we started to strategise on how to get them out of there,” he said.

He asked the women to move towards them but they indicated they had children with them and could not all run together.

Mr Haji said he asked Mrs Walton if one of the older children could be encouraged to run towards him.

Mrs Walton’s oldest daughter Portia emerged and ran across the deserted corridor.

The moment was captured by a Reuters photographer, Goran Tomasevic, in a dramatic image that was beamed around the world.

Mr Walton, who during the siege was 9,000 miles away on a business trip to the United States, said he reacted in disbelief when he first saw the photograph of his daughter striking out alone across the mall. “She’s not normally the kind of girl that would run to a stranger, particularly one with a gun,” he said.

His wife added: “I don’t know how she knew to do it but she did. She did what she was told and she went.”

Seeing the little girl running towards him gave Mr Haji fresh impetus to continue helping people out.

“This little girl is a very brave girl,” he said. “Amid all this chaos around her, she remained calm, she wasn’t crying and she actually managed to run towards men who were holding guns. I was really touched by this and I thought if such a girl can be so brave … it gave us all courage.”

One by one, the Walton family emerged and ran with Mr Haji and other rescuers until they reached the police lines outside the mall.

There, Mrs Walton was reunited with her teenage boys who had been trapped with another family in the basement of the mall but also had escaped.

“As we went out, it was so quiet and we started to get upset because we realised we were almost there,” Mrs Walton said.

“They soothed us, told us we were OK, we were safe and to stay calm. They did a wonderful job.”

Portia Walton is safely reunited with her mother.

 

Looking at the photograph now, Mrs Walton says she can see the fear etched on her daughter’s face. “I was worried about family in America seeing it because we haven’t really shared the whole story with them yet,” she said. “For me, I know the story behind it and that it ends well. I think I owe Mr Haji a hug or two.”

Since he has been identified, many Kenyans have hailed Mr Haji as a hero but he disagrees.

“I think I did what any Kenyan in my situation would have done to save lives, to save other humans regardless of their nationality, religion or creed,” he said.

Portia and her big brother have since been sent back to school in an attempt to establish “a new normal”, Mr Walton said.

“Our two-year-old cries a little bit more and Portia wants to stand a little closer but really they are doing exceptionally well considering,” his wife added.

Mr Walton said there was no question that they would now be leaving Kenya. “There will always be bad people in the world but it’s the comfort of knowing that there are good people that matters,” he said.

“The way this community drew together and responded was just incredible. It’s an honour and a privilege to be able to live among such good people.”

Asked what they would tell their children about the Westgate attack when they grew up, he said: “We will be truthful with them.

“It defies logic that they survived but we’re a family of deep faith and take a lot of comfort from knowing that God protected them.”

 

source::::::The Telegraph UK

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Digital Indians : Meet Ruchi Sanghvi …An Enterprising Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley !!!

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Ruchi Sanghvi

When Ruchi Sanghvi arrived at the Facebook office in California for a job interview in 2005, she found a menu card outside saying: “Looking for engineers.”

The start-up was located above a Chinese restaurant in downtown Palo Alto. It was modest looking place filled with gawky engineers, black sofas, lava lamps, and walls covered with murals and movie posters.

Earlier that year, the computer science engineer from Carnegie Mellon University had fled a job with a bank on Wall Street after three weeks. “I had panicked. I wanted to be in a business that was dependent on my core skills,” she says.

She had flown out to California, interviewed with Oracle and started out there, when a friend had told her about Facebook.

“I didn’t know much about them. I didn’t even know that they had moved to California. I thought they were still in Boston working out of Harvard dorm rooms,” she says wryly.

Scooter culture 

We are sitting in the hip Dropbox office in downtown San Francisco, where Ms Sanghvi, 31, works as a vice-president of operations.

Employees at the online storage firm whizz through corridors on skates and office scooters, some take time off to play pool and video games, and a plush music room is ready for a karaoke contest.

But, for the moment, we are talking about how Ms Sanghvi got the job at Facebook and became its first female engineer.


It is difficult to do exciting things in India. There are a lot of issues and barriers, simple things like a good internet line to the office”

Ruchi Sanghvi

“When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world,” she says.

“It was extremely chaotic, but it was a wonderful experience. I learnt everything there.”

At Facebook, she was part of the team that developed the news feed.

How was it, I asked, being the first female engineer at Facebook?

Ms Sanghvi says she was used to being in a minority: at engineering school, she was one of the five female students in a class of 150.

But at Facebook, she says, she truly came into her own.

“You had to be opinionated, you had to make sure your point of view was heard, you had to ask questions. Sometimes people would tell you were stupid and you’d start all over again,” she says.

“But it was, by and large, a meritocracy. It had one of the best environments for learning.”

Facebook was also where she met her future husband who was the first Indian engineer the company had hired.

I ask her for a story about Mark Zuckerberg, one of the founders and chief executive. She frowns, thinks hard, and says she doesn’t quite like talking about Mr Zuckerberg. Then she relents.

It’s a story about how the news feed launch outraged users and nearly killed it.

The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me”

Ruchi Sanghvi

“We had less than 10 million users when news feed arrived. Mark was at a press conference (announcing it) and over a million users began protesting against it,” she says.

Last year, Ms Sanghvi spoke about the time in vivid detail.

“Groups with names like ‘I hate Facebook’ and ‘Ruchi is the devil’ had been formed. People camped outside our office and demonstrated. But we realised the very people who hated it were able to spread the word because of the news feed,” she told a talk.

But Mark Zuckerberg stuck to his guns, Ms Sanghvi tells me.

“Typically in any other company if 10% of your users decide to boycott a product you are obviously going to reverse the changes or do something about it. But Mark was really adamant about his vision about the potential of news feed.”

Mark ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg ‘was adamant about his vision’ for Facebook, Ms Sanghvi says

When Ms Sanghvi left Facebook in 2010 after an itch to start her own company, the social networking site had more than 1,500 employees and more than 500 million users.

As a young girl growing up in India’s industrial city of Pune, she had dreamt of taking over her family business.

Her father, a second generation businessman, runs a heavy engineering company. Her grandfather ran a stainless steel business. “We are an entrepreneurial family,” she says.

But now, she was in the US, having studied computer science and worked at Facebook. The world beckoned.

So she went ahead and set up her own company, Cove, with her husband in 2010. There, helped by a team of engineers, they made “collaborative software” for communities and networks.

“The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me,” says Ms Sanghvi, who has been lobbying US authorities to ease immigration laws.

“When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.”

Diverse roles

Two years later, in February 2012, Cove was bought by the cloud-sharing service Dropbox.

At Dropbox, a six-year-old company with more than 175 million users, Ms Sanghvi has diverse roles. She has led hiring – “only great people can make great products,” she says – and managed marketing and communications.

I ask her if she plans to do anything back home in India.

“I’d love to do something if it was easier to do it. It is difficult to do exciting things in India. There are a lot of issues and barriers, simple things like a good internet line to the office,” she says.

“It doesn’t seem as easy as Silicon Valley where you have an idea you can simply execute it with hard work. But I admire folks who are doing things in India. It requires a lot grit and determination.

“You know I think I have had it pretty easy here in US actually,” she adds, with a laugh. Then she skates away for her next meeting.

source:::: Soutik Biswas  for BBC NEWS :bbc.com

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Every One Asks : Why Changi Is The World Best !!!

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Singapore's Changi Airport: you could spend a few weeks here and not realise you missed your flight.

SINGAPORE’S CHANGI AIRPORT

Singapore’s Changi Airport: you could spend a few weeks here and not realise you missed your flight

The latest Skytrax poll, sourced from more than 12 million travellers, restores Changi to the number one position, a spot it last occupied in 2010. In 2012, for the 16th year, Changi won the Golden Pillow award for top airport from the Sleeping in Airports website.

No other airport has been named world’s best airport so consistently and by so many different sources, and it’s worth considering the reasons.

Changi handled more than 51 million air travellers in 2012 yet it feels spacious, unhurried and calm.

Its green spaces include an outside cactus garden with seating, a sunflower garden and an enclosed butterfly garden. All the terminals offer free wifi and computers with internet access. Charging stations, also free, allow you to lock up your phone while it charges.

 

There’s also a free movie theatre and a huge indoor slide where restless kids can burn some energy. Each of its three terminals has free rest areas, with leather chairs with head and leg rests that allow you to stretch out full length.

Each terminal also has its own transit hotel, with low-cost rooms available in six-hour blocks. Cleanliness is top notch. Travellers are asked to rank the toilets on an electronic scoreboard as they exit.

If a particular facility drops below par, a flying cleaner team is dispatched. Terminal 1 also has a rooftop pool with a Jacuzzi and bar. Although Changi is a big airport, the speedy Skytrain offers quick transfers.

The factors that put Changi on top stem from a recognition that passengers deserve to be treated like human beings, not an infernal nuisance to be fed and bled of cash as quickly as possible. When airport preference becomes a factor that influences passengers’ choice of airlines, the airlines as well as airports need to take notice.
source::: Sydney Morning Herald…

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” நம்மை கட்டிப் போடும் நாட்டியம் ” !!!

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பரத நாட்டியம் என்பது பாரம்பரிய கலைகளுள் ஒன்று.
விபரிக்க வார்த்தையில்லை வீடியோ பாருங்க உங்களுக்கும் புரியும் பரதநாட்டிய அரங்கேற்றங்களை பார்த்திருப்பீர்கள் ஆனால் இப்படியொரு நடனத்தைநீங்கள் இதுவரை  பார்த்திருக்க வாய்ப்பில்லை என்றே சொல்லத்தோன்றுகிறது.

ஒரு இளம் பெண்ணின் இந்த நடனத்தை விபரிக்க வார்த்தைகள் போதவில்லை. அப்படிச்சொல்வதென்றாலும்
அருமை, ஆச்சரியம், பிரமாதம், அசத்தல், சாதனை, வியப்பு, திறமை என்ற
வார்த்தைகளே மிகப்பொருத்தமாக இருக்கும்.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G607ezQ_hxk

 

source:::: You tube…. input from a friend of mine

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Message For The Day….Give Up Ego and Develop Faith In God …

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Repentance saves even sinners from perdition. No ceremony of expiation is as effective as sincere repentance. The shopkeeper may give short measure at times, but he will never accept less money; the bill always has to be settled in full. Pay it through repentance. You cannot deceive the Lord with insincerity. Unless you correct yourself through detachment and sacrifice, you cannot reach God. The Lord can be understood, only if you approach Him, develop attachment to Him, have unswerving loyalty to Him and have full faith in Him. You will easily understand Him when you feel that you are but the instrument and He wills every little movement, everywhere. Give up egoism in full, and develop faith. Then you can most certainly see Him.

Sathya Sai Baba
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Google Search For Excellence … This Young Lad is a Prize Catch For Google Team !!!!

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Himanshu Jindal

 

Placements in the Delhi Technological University broke their highest record yet, when a student bagged a job offer of Rs. 93 lakh per annum. During this placement season, which started on August 1, so far about 40 recruiters have offered up to 265 jobs.

Google, USA made the offer of Rs. 93 lakh per annum (which includes about 125 Google stock units) to Computer Engineering student Himanshu Jindal. “I owe my thanks to my parents, faculty members and, of course, the Vice-Chancellor Prof. P.B. Sharma. I am feeling very happy that I will get to work in a world renowned company. All this is possible because of my hard work and the blessings of my parents,” said Himanshu.

The second highest pay package was of Rs. 70 lakhs and it has been offered to not one but about 11 students by EPIC, a US- based software company.

Other offers include a Rs. 28 lakh pay package from Goldman Sachs and a pay package of Rs. 19 lakhs that was made to eight students by Amazon. “DTU’s undergraduate and research programmes are of high relevance and great value to the industries,” said Prof. Sharma.

The university said a major highlight of this year’s placement was that the leading companies, besides making job offers to final year students, were also offering paid internship to third year students. This, said the university, might assure even better pre-placement job offers.

 

 

Google Glass in an Operation Theatre @ Chennai !!!!

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“Can you see me? Can you see what I’m doing here?” the surgeon asks from inside the theatre. For the record, that’s not quite the way conversation goes in an operation theatre. The surgeon’s usually concerned about what he can see.

The Google Glass enters the operation theatre. Photo: Ramya Kannan

The Google Glass enters the operation theatre. Photo: Ramya Kannan

 

As far as medical procedures go, this was quite ordinary. But there was a guest in the theatre on Tuesday, perched pretty on the bridge of the surgeon’s nose. J.S. Rajkumar, surgical gastroenterologist, and chairman, Lifeline Hospitals, had brought in a piece of the future, for the very first time, reportedly, into an Indian operation theatre. He was wearing the Google Glass.

As the surgeon went in through three port holes to correct gastro oesophageal reflux disease, the Google Glass saw exactly what he did and transmitted a video live, onto a remote location.

Literature shows that twice before, the Google Glass has been within operating theatres. The first surgery with the Glass happened in June in Spain, and the second, in August in Ohio. When the Google Glass was switched on inside Lifeline Hospital’s operation theatre, it was a first in the country, and only the third time in the world that it had sat with surgeons.

Google Glass is a wearable mini computer that sits as its moniker indicates, like a pair of spectacles, except there is only one neat quadrangle prism just above your level of vision over the right eye. A touch screen, the processor and battery are compacted, nearly unbelievably, in the right arm of the part of the glass that rests on the ear. So switch on the device by tapping the touch screen, say “OK, Glass” and then tell it what you want to do: Take a photo; take a video; ask for directions; or just search on Google. Entirely hands free, this genie bows to your voice. It is so seamless, it seems nearly like magic.

Built quintessentially as a tool for social media, the Google Glass allows for instant sharing of the photo/ video you’ve just taken. “It runs on an android processor and you can hook it up to any android device- a mobile phone or a tab. The video can be streamed on any chat site that allows multimedia content, say like Google Hangout,” explains Shiva Thirumazhusai, CEO, Nasotech, the U.S.-based start up that is creating customised apps for the Glass.

So, how did Dr. Rajkumar get hold of the limited edition Google Glass, being rationed out by Google at about $1700. Mr. Shiva says he runs a Google Developers Group in the U.S., and had registered for the Glass a year ago. He was among the first to get it in hand, when Google started shipping them out in May. An old friendship with the surgeon, and Dr. Rajkumar’s own interest in using the device in the theatre, led to the debut for Google Glass in Chennai.

“Whichever way you look at it, it is an amazing device for surgeons. If you are there in the theatre and you have a hitch, you could search for a video about the procedure and clarify what’s happening. Specialists across the world can merely wear this light-weight glass and advise a young surgeon in a remote town on how to go on,” Dr. Rajkumar says. It can also enable relatives of the patient sitting across the world to catch up with the surgery live, and as for eager medical students, the implications are huge.

Nasotech has already added some customisations. For instance, while Google Glass will allow you to take only 10-second videos, the one that was used on Tuesday has virtually no limit on video time. Mr. Shiva says they are working on connecting the Glass with hospital information systems, so that at a command, the patient’s history comes up on the visual layer.

Broadband speeds being perfidious in the best of circumstances in this country, the video from a second hernia surgery did not quite reach the viewing room. Dr. Rajkumar says, “That’s the only thing: if cost and connectivity are in favour, the Google Glass can transform health care access in this country. Isn’t it exciting?” You bet!

Keywords: Google Glass, Lifeline Hospitals, J.S. Rajkumar

source::::: Ramya Kannan  in The Hindu

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கோவை மாவட்டம், திம்மராயன்பாளையத்தைச் சேர்ந்த கொதியப்பா- நஞ்சம்மாள் தம்பதிகளின் மகனாகப் பிறந்தவர் டி.கே.ராமசாமி. எழுபத்தைந்து வயதான இவர், முன்னாள் தலைமையாசிரியர்.
இவர், தன், கிராமத்தைச் சேர்ந்த, எந்த குழந்தையும் படிக்காமல் இருந்துவிடக்கூடாது என்பதற்காக, தனது கைகாசு மட்டுமல்லாமல், கடன் வாங்கி, கல்விக்காக, செலவழித்து வருகிறார்.
தனது கல்விச்சேவை குறித்து அவர் கூறியதாவது: என் அம்மா ஒரு தெய்வமுங்க. அப்போது, ஐந்தாம் வகுப்பு படிக்க வேண்டும் என்றாலே, பல கிலோ மீட்டர் தூரம் நடந்து சென்று பள்ளிக்கூடம் போக வேண்டும். ஆனாலும், என் அம்மா, ” நான்தான் கைநாட்டா போய்விட்டேன் ராசா, நீ அப்படி இருக்கக் கூடாது; நல்லா படிக்கணும். நல்லா படிக்கிறது மட்டுமில்ல, நீ, நாலு பேரை படிக்க வைக்கணும்’ என்று, சொல்லிச் சொல்லியே என்னை வளர்த்தார்.
பள்ளிக்கூடம் போவதற்காக, 1952 ல், 52 ரூபாய்க்கு, ஒரு சைக்கிள் வாங்கிக் கொடுத்தார். அந்த 52 ரூபாய், கடனை அடைக்க மூணு வருஷம் கஷ்டப்பட்டார். அதிகாலை மூணு மணிக்கு எழுந்து, மாட்டுத்தீவன புல்லை அறுத்து, அலசி எடுத்து, பரிசல் மூலம் ஆற்றைக் கடந்து, மேட்டுப்பாளையம் போய் காலணா, அரையணா காசிற்கு விற்று சம்பாதித்த காசில், சைக்கிள் வாங்கிய கடனை அடைத்தார்.
அந்த கஷ்டத்திலேயும், எனக்கு பிடிச்ச கடலை பொரியை வாங்கி, மடியில் கட்டிக்கொண்டு வந்து, கொடுப்பார். நான் சாப்பிடும் அழகை, பார்த்து ரசித்த, என் அம்மாவிற்கு, நான் செலுத்தும் காணிக்கையே, தற்போது, ஏழை மாணவர்களை தேடிப் பிடித்து படிக்க வைப்பது.
பள்ளி ஆசிரியராக, 1961ல் சேர்ந்து, 1998ல், தலைமையாசிரியராக பணி ஓய்வு பெற்றேன். நான் ஆசிரியராக பணியாற்றிய காலத்தில், மாணவ,மாணவியரை என் சொந்த பிள்ளைகளாகவும், பள்ளி கூடத்தை என் வீடாகவே பாவித்து வந்தேன். கிராமத்தில் எந்த குழந்தையும் படிக்காமல் இருந்து விடக்கூடாது என்பதில், தீவிரமாக செயல்பட்டேன். பள்ளி மற்றும் அதனை சார்ந்த இடங்களில் மரம் வளர்ப்பதில் பெரிதும் ஆர்வம் காட்டினேன். சிறுமுகை பள்ளியில் பணியாற்றும் போது, நான் வளர்த்த தேக்கு மரங்கள், இன்று, பல லட்சம் பெறும் என்பதை எண்ணும்போது, சந்தோஷமாக இருக்கிறது. விடுமுறை தினங்களில் மாணவர்களை அழைத்துக் கொண்டு, ஊரில்,தெருவில் மரம் நட கிளம்பி விடுவேன். அந்த வகையில், இன்று, இலுப்பம் பாளையம் கிராமம் ஒரு சோலை போல இருக்கிறது என்றால், நானும், என் பிள்ளைகளும், அன்று வைத்த மரங்களே காரணம் என்று சொல்லுவேன்.
நான் படித்து, பணியாற்றி, ஓய்வு பெற்ற இலுப்பம் பாளையம் அரசு பள்ளி தான், எனக்கு சொர்க்கமான இடம். அரசு சார்பில், சுற்றுச்சுவர் கட்டிக் கொடுத்த போது, அந்த சுவர்களில் தேசிய மலர், தலைவர்கள், விலங்கு மற்றும் மழைநீர் சேமிப்பின் அவசியம், மரங்களின் முக்கியம் போன்றவைகளை, முப்பதாயிரம் ரூபாய் செலவழித்து, ஓவியமாக வரைந்து வைத்துள்ளேன். இதை, தினமும் பார்க்கும் குழந்தைகள் மனதில், நிச்சயம் ஒரு மாற்றம் உருவாகும்.
கடந்த, 98ல், பணி ஓய்வு பெற்ற பிறகு, சமூகப்பணியாற்றுவதில் தீவிரமாக இறங்கினேன். என் பென்ஷன் பணம் 17 ஆயிரத்தில், எனக்கும்,என் மனைவிக்குமான குடும்ப செலவிற்கு, மாதம் ஆறாயிரம் ரூபாய் எடுத்துக்கொண்டு, மீதம் 11 ஆயிரம் ரூபாயை, பொதுக்காரியத்திற்கு செலவிடுவதை நோக்கமாக கொண்டுள்ளேன்.
அதிலும், பெரும்பகுதி பணத்தை, கிராமத்து பள்ளி குழந்தைகளின் நோட்டு புத்தகங்கள், எழுது பொருட்கள் வாங்குவதற்கு செலவு செய்து விடுவேன். பள்ளி ஆரம்பிக்கும் போது, கொஞ்சம் கூடுதலாக செலவாகும். அதைப்பற்றி கவலைப்படாமல், கடன் வாங்கி செலவழித்து, அப்புறம் பென்ஷன் பணம் வந்த பின், கடனை அடைப்பேன்.
இது போக, ஊர் பிரச்னைகளை, அரசின் கவனத்திற்கு கொண்டு செல்வது, கோவில் காரியங்களை எடுத்துச் செய்வது, சுற்றுச்சூழல், கல்வி, தனிமனித ஒழுக்கம் குறித்து, பள்ளிகளுக்குச் சென்று இலவச பாடங்கள் நடத்துவதுடன், உயர் கல்வியின் அவசியம் குறித்து எடுத்துச் சொல்கிறேன். மேலும், நர்சிங்,என்ஜினியரிங் மாணவர்களை ஊக்கப்படுத்துவதுடன், என்னால் முடிந்த உதவிகளை செய்து வருகிறேன்.
நான் பணியில் இருக்கும் போது செய்த நற்காரியங்களை பாராட்டி, மத்திய, மாநில அரசுகளின் சார்பில், நல்லாசிரியர் விருதுகளை வழங்கி கவுரவித்தனர். விருதுக்காக நான் எப்போதும் வேலை செய்தது இல்லை. என் மனசாட்சிக்காகவும், “நீயும் நாலு பிள்ளைகளை படிக்க வைக்கணும்’ என்று, என் தாய் சொன்ன சொல்லுக்காகவும், முடிந்ததை செய்து வருகிறேன். இதை, என் ஆயுள் உள்ளவரை தொடர்ந்து செய்வேன்.
பெரியவர் ராமசாமி சொல்லி முடிக்கும் போது, வானம் இருண்டு, மழை பெய்ய ஆரம்பித்தது. “நல்லார் ஒருவர் உளரேல் அவர் பொருட்டு எல்லாருக்கும் பெய்யும் மழை’ என்பதற்கிணங்க, இந்த மழை, ராமசாமி என்ற நல்லார் பொருட்டு, எல்லாருக்கும் பெய்த மழையாகும்.

source::::: Dina Malar….Tamil Daily

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