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The Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things (IoT) appears to be one of the hottest topics in the IT world today and seems to be significantly influencing the strategies and plans of companies in varied segments ranging from mobile and data centre to systems security.

Intel Inside:

For a long time, ARM has been inside many a successful IoT devices, but now Intel is gearing up for the race. “The continued growth of the mobile ecosystem depends on solving tough computing challenges—unlocking data’s potential while securely and reliably connecting billions of devices with leading edge computing and communications technologies”.

“Today we are announcing leading communications products as well as new computing platforms. Intel’s 2.13GHz Atom processor Z3480 for Android smartphones and tablets, a 22-nanometre Silvermont micro-architecture based 64-bit ready SoC with Intel’s new Integrated Sensor Solution, which efficiently manages sensor data to help devices remain smart and contextually-aware even in a low-power state.

McAfee, securing the IoT: 

According to IDC, the installed base of the Internet of Things will be around 212 billion ‘things’ globally by the end of 2020. Put differently, that is, approximately 27 things per person! While the myriad devices ranging from smartphones and mobile devices to industrial sensors provide a rich user experience and enhanced effectiveness, they also pose serious threats to privacy and security.

McAfee hopes to secure all these devices smoothly without hassling the users, while enabling them to perform effectively. Their strategy comprises several dimensions, including assurance that devices are operating as intended by the manufacturer and have not been corrupted; lifecycle security across the device, network and data centre; support for industry standards and device interoperability; ability to solve IT/cloud services challenges in connecting legacy and new systems to new and future services; and technology to assure individual privacy.

Cisco, enabling smartness: 

In the energy space, working with utilities, hoping to deploy as many as 10 million smart meters supporting Internet Protocol (IP) by the end of the year as against current figures of 2 billion smart meters in operation using 135 varied utility protocols. Cisco also working on migration strategies to smoothen deployment. On the tech front, Cisco has fit an IPv6 stack into a 40kB RAM.

Microsoft, Internet of Your Things:

Microsoft announced a Windows for IoT platform. But more exciting is the company’s acquisition of Azure Intelligent Systems, a key move towards making the IoT more accessible. Microsoft is thinking about the Internet of your things and not the Internet of everything, meaning they wish to make the whole concept more user-friendly and accessible to users. How would Azure Intelligent Systems help? It is a solution for people to manage their entire IoT infrastructure from a single site. It is essentially a Cloud-based service designed to manage IoT devices, collect the data they produce and route it to useful tools, including their own Hadoop-based HD Insight, Office 365’s Power BI, as well as custom software from Microsoft partners.

Intelligent Systems is a cross-platform service that augments existing infrastructure investments. It connects to devices over IP, and lets you connect to any device, anywhere and get data off that device. Even Linux devices! That is what makes the acquisition criticalto Microsoft’s IoT strategy. While Windows for IoT helps position Windows as a player in the IoT space, Intelligent Systems helps them span the whole market.

Oracle, small devices to Big Data: 

Java-enabled devices and engineered Big Data systems are central to the company’s plans. They are positioning embedded Java technology as a key enabler of the IoT, and develop Java-based solutions for small-to-large embedded devices, helping reduce costs, improve product quality and speed time-to-market.

While embedded devices are one end of the IoT spectrum, Big Data infrastructure is the other and Oracle has a strategy for that too. The company designs ‘engineered systems’ that are pre-integrated to reduce the cost and complexity of IT infrastructures while increasing productivity and performance.

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When it comes to getting inked, the old motto "no pain, no gain" is unfortunately rather accurate. All tattoos hurt at least a little.

·          Where tattoos hurt the most:

A good amount of the pain from your tattoo is affected by the location on your body where you get it. If you're looking to minimize your pain, you may want to move it to one of the less-painful areas. While everyone's body is different, in general.

·         Areas with lots of muscle (arms, legs, upper pectorals) and areas with lots of fatty padding (glutes, hips, etc.) tend to hurt the least.

·         Sensitive areas (breasts, underarms, face, groin) and "hard" areas close to bones (scalp, face, collarbone, ribs, hands, feet ) tend to hurt the most.^[2]

·         This article has a handy diagram that shows the pain levels for different parts of the body.

·         Which tattoos hurt the most:

All tattoos are not created equally. The pain level of your tattoo experience can also be affected by what, exactly, you're getting put onto your body. While some exceptions exist, in general:

·         The smaller and simpler a tattoo is, the less painful it will be. Large, detailed designs hurt much more.

·         One-color tattoos are less painful (and take less time) than multi-color tattoos.

·         Areas of solid color hurt the most because they require the artist to go over her work several times.

·         Know that there will be needles and a small amount of blood:

A modern tattoo gun is essentially a small set of needles that go in and out of the skin very quickly, leaving a little ink each time.^[4] This basically has the effect of making lots of tiny cuts in the area where the tattoo is. Almost everyone who gets a tattoo bleeds a little bit from this. If any of this process makes you feel faint or nauseous, you should plan not to watch.

·         Don't be afraid to explain your situation to your tattoo artist. A good one will be more than happy to help you get through your tattoo with minimal discomfort.

·         While You're Getting the Tattoo:

Ø  Calm yourself

Ø  Make yourself as comfortable as possible

Ø  Squeeze or chew something to relieve pain

Ø  Exhale during especially painful periods

Ø  Move as little as possible

Ø  Don't be afraid to take breaks

Ø  Try an OTC pain medication (but not a blood thinner)

Ø  Don't dull the pain by getting drunk

Ø  Listen to your artist's care instructions

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Respected Teacher

Previously students used to respect teachers because teachers helped them gain career, good life, name and fame. Today the large scale privatisation of education has reversed the thought... Some students and their parents think that teachers are their personal servants as their salaries are paid by them... and they openly express it. Admissions have gone down tremendously, revenues have shrunk, private college managements are under tremendous stress and strain. They are not able to pay the staff fully. The teaching staff is highly dmoralized, insecure and overly exploited. Managements are forced to compromise with quality by certain set of students. Some Students on condition of keeping their identity confidential say that college X committs orally that even in engineering courses No attendance is needed ;one can stay back home and complete the degree, min 80% marks for sessionals/ internals are guaranteed and help in final exams shall be provided. If that is true how managements and college administration can force quality. The moment one forces; students migrates to another green pasture for good marks/awards. if teachers don't ensure learning and teaching quality they will not be respected ! and the prevailing environment ensures that they will not be able to... similarly managements except a very few are on a highly volatile turf that may soon explode...

T#2

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer it to

T#1

It isn't a matter of chance but of choice. Make great choices and will experience great results!..

Boundaries

"Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'."1 I'm sure you know some people who won't take no for an answer. They're boundary busters who have no respect for other people's personhood. Healthy boundaries are to protect ourselves from toxic people, from controlling and manipulating people, from con artists, from abusive people, from people who can hurt or use us for their own ends, and so on. External boundaries are needed to protect our physical well-being. Nobody has a right to come into our space, get into our face, or touch us without our permission. Internal boundaries are to protect our feelings. Nobody can upset us, hurt our feelings, make us feel guilty, ashamed, afraid, or angry without our permission. This is why we need good internal boundaries. Boundaries are not walls. Boundaries allow the people in that we want close to us. Walls shut everybody out. Boundaries are also needed to contain our own "badness" so we don't hurt others. Without healthy boundaries, people will walk over us, use us, or abuse us and we will end up feeling angry, upset, hurt, and maybe even wallow in self-pity. What other people do is their responsibility. What we allow them to do to us is our responsibility. This is why we need healthy boundaries without which it is impossible to recover, grow, and live meaningfully. Furthermore, without the freedom to say no our yeses are meaningless.

Dreams

I have come to believe that coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from.

Love of a man and a little child

There was a man who had a little boy that he loved very much. Everyday after work the man would come home and play with the little boy. He would always spend all of his extra time playing with the little boy. One night, while the man was at work, he realized that he had extra work to do for the evening, and that he wouldn't be able to play with his little boy. But, he wanted to be able to give the boy something to keep him busy. So, looking around his office, he saw a magazine with a large map of the world on the cover. He got an idea. He removed the map, and then patiently tore it up into small pieces. Then he put all the pieces in his coatpocket. When he got home, the little boy came running to him and was ready to play. The man explained that he had extra work to do and couldn't play just now, but he led the little boy into the dining room, and taking out all the pieces of the map, he spread them on the table. He explained that it was a map of the world, and that by the time he could put it back together, his extra work would be finished, and they could both play. Surely this would keep the child busy for hours, he thought. About half an hour later the boy came to the man and said, "Okay, it's finished. Can we play now?" The man was surprised, saying, "That's impossible. Let's go see." And sure enough, there was the picture of the world, all put together, every piece in its place. The man said, "That's amazing! How did you do that?" The boy said, "It was simple. On the back of the page was a picture of a man. When I put the man together the whole world fell into place."

Life is Struggle

Life is a forever learning lesson. It’s all about how we handle situations every day and not letting things get in our way to stop us from doing the things we want to do in life and be happy. And to be happy with the things we have in front of us right now...

Struggle

A biology teacher was teaching his students how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. He told the students that in the next couple of hours, the butterfly would struggle to come out of the cocoon. But no one should help the butterfly. Then he left. The students were waiting and it happened. The butterfly struggled to get out of the cocoon, and one of the students took pity on it and decided to help the butterfly out of the cocoon against the advice of his teacher. He broke the cocoon to help the butterfly so it didn't have to struggle anymore. But shortly afterwards the butterfly died. When the teacher returned, he was told what happened. He explained to this student that by helping the butterfly, he had actually killed it because it is a law of nature that the struggle to come out of the cocoon actually helps develop and strengthen its wings. The boy had deprived the butterfly of its struggle and the butterfly died.

SECRET OF HAPPINESS: A merchant sent his son to learn the secret of happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was looking for. However, instead of finding a holy man, our hero entered a room and saw a great deal of activity; merchants coming and going, people chatting in the corners, a small orchestra playing sweet melodies, and there was a table laden with the most delectable dishes of that part of the world. The wise man talked to everybody, and the young man had to wait for two hours until it was time for his audience. With considerable patience, the Sage listened attentively to the reason for the boy’s visit, but told him that at that moment he did not have the time to explain to him the Secret of Happiness. He suggested that the young man take a stroll around his palace and come back in two hours’ time. “However, I want to ask you a favor,” he added, handling the boy a teaspoon, in which he poured two drops of oil. “While you walk, carry this spoon and don’t let the oil spill.” The young man began to climb up and down the palace staircases, always keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. At the end of two hours he returned to the presence of the wise man. “So,” asked the sage, “did you see the Persian tapestries hanging in my dining room? Did you see the garden that the Master of Gardeners took ten years to create? Did you notice the beautiful parchments in my library?” Embarrassed, the young man confessed that he had seen nothing. His only concern was not to spill the drops of oil that the wise man had entrusted to him. “So, go back and see the wonders of my world,” said the wise man. “You can’t trust a man if you don’t know his house.” Now more at ease, the young man took the spoon and strolled again through the palace, this time paying attention to all the works of art that hung from the ceiling and walls. He saw the gardens, the mountains all around the palace, the delicacy of the flowers, the taste with which each work of art was placed in its niche. Returning to the sage, he reported in detail all that he had seen. “But where are the two drops of oil that I entrusted to you?” – asked the Sage. Looking down at the spoon, the young man realized that he had spilled the oil. “Well, that is the only advice I have to give you,” said the sage of sages. “The Secret of Happiness lies in looking at all the wonders of the world and never forgetting the two drops of oil in the spoon.”

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Gravitational Waves Help Us Understand Black-Hole Weight Gain: "Black holes are almost impossible to observe directly, but armed with this powerful new tool we're in for some exciting times in astronomy. One model for how black holes grow has already been discounted, and now we're going to start looking at the others." The study was jointly led by Dr Ryan Shannon, a Postdoctoral Fellow with CSIRO, and Mr Vikram Ravi, a PhD student co-supervised by the University of Melbourne and CSIRO. Einstein predicted gravitational waves -- ripples in space-time, generated by massive bodies changing speed or direction, bodies like pairs of black holes orbiting each other. When galaxies merge, their central black holes are doomed to meet. They first waltz together then enter a desperate embrace and merge. "When the black holes get close to meeting they emit gravitational waves at just the frequency that we should be able to detect," Dr Bhat said. Played out again and again across the Universe, such encounters create a background of gravitational waves, like the noise from a restless crowd. Astronomers have been searching for gravitational waves with the Parkes radio telescope and a set of 20 small, spinning stars called pulsars. Pulsars act as extremely precise clocks in space. The arrival time of their pulses on Earth are measured with exquisite precision, to within a tenth of a microsecond. When the waves roll through an area of space-time, they temporarily swell or shrink the distances between objects in that region, altering the arrival time of the pulses on Earth. The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA), and an earlier collaboration between CSIRO and Swinburne University, together provide nearly 20 years worth of timing data. This isn't long enough to detect gravitational waves outright, but the team say they're now in the right ballpark. "The PPTA results are showing us how low the background rate of gravitational waves is," said Dr Bhat. "The strength of the gravitational wave background depends on how often supermassive black holes spiral together and merge, how massive they are, and how far away they are. So if the background is low, that puts a limit on one or more of those factors." Armed with the PPTA data, the researchers tested four models of black-hole growth. They effectively ruled out black holes gaining mass only through mergers, but the other three models are still a possibility. Dr Bhat also said the Curtin University-led Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope will be used to support the PPTA project in the future.

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Take me away into the skies and away from earthly bindings. Look forward to a struggle for future & some restful time with me. I like the thinking and imagination of my future...

Someday, somewhere, anywhere, unfailingly, You'll find yourself, & that, & only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life...

Someday, somewhere, anywhere, unfailingly, You'll find yourself, & that, & only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life...

MY SALUTES, DEAR MOM :Can one treat death just as a separation from a loved one? Or, does it unite us with the deceased’s soul forever? And what if it were one’s mother whose permanent adieu from this world left one dazed? Memories of one’s mother propel one to live the way she lived, love our children like she loved us and move forward in life with hope and zest. It is for us to imbibe those qualities, even if only partially, that made her an extraordinary human being. The way life takes a sudden turn and ushers in spiritual perspectives and insights can only be experienced, to be understood, even though losing a parent is the most dreaded, yet, not an unexpected event. The intimate camaraderie, genial discussions and showers of care and concern can never be replaced or substantiated by any other person. What made us stand up and go ahead as usual are memories of her giving us wise advice, always spreading joy, never demoralising us even in the worst of circumstances. The undying ethos of her celebrated life full of love, positivity, innocence and faith will always keep us inspiring. By following her ways with the world and ideals, we are also honouring her place in our life. Embracing the same divinity which she unknowingly and quite simply personified is a legacy very few would stand to inherit. Reminiscing the golden childhood moments when she would scold for a poor grade, and then pamper with delicious food and at once hug and play strict, a voice tells us that a mother builds not just a family but also its character, its lively spirit. It is the grandchildren who miss her absence the most, for it is they who received her abundant love, care and attention the most. Surely, the grief may fade with the passage of time. And not to forget her children’s father who, smiling through the pain and mourning, lends courage to the family, saying what every religion does, “Death is like slipping away into the next room”.