Life .....

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

Environment .....

"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations."

Knowledge .....

"Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes."

Perception .....

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough”

Achievement

"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."

Saturday, 8 March 2014

15 Intellectual Quotes by Great People



Great people have great minds and great thoughts. Majority of the great people not only achieved their goals but also they have left their precious words and sayings behind for others to follow and to give them a path of success.

If we read their sayings and words from the depth of our heart, we’ll come to know that they have given us formulas to live a successful and meaningful life.

Let us have a look on these 15 quotes by 15 great personalities of their times.

  • Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.~Albert Einstein
  • Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. ~ Socrates
  • Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful — that’s what matters to me.~ Steve Jobs
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.~ Nelson Mandela
  • Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • The wound is the place where the Light enters you.~ Rumi
  • The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.~ Khalil Gibran
  • You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.~ Bear Grylls
  • Some are born great, others achieve greatness.~ William Shakespeare
  • Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.~ Plato
  • Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.~ Leonardo da Vinci
  • I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.~ Saadi
  • Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.~ Charles Dickens
  • The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.~Hellen Keller

Friday, 14 September 2012

Plagiarism is a big deal - Tutorial


Plagiarism is a big deal, and it’s not something you want to find out about the hard way. It could get you dismissed from the university! Researching ethically is also researching efficiently: not only will you learn how to avoid plagiarism, but you’ll also pick up some good research tips too.

Vaughan Memorial Library, Acadia University, The Governors of Acadia University has made the tutorial about plagiarism and why it’s essential to start your research early.Also explains the difference between paraphrasing and quoting, and how to do both properly. When to cite, what to cite, and how to cite.
To know about the  tips please read full: http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

Monday, 3 September 2012

Book Summary of Automatic Control Systems



This best-selling, classic introduction to automatic control systems has been updated to reflect the increasing use of computer-aided learning and design, and revised to feature a more accessible approach without sacrificing depth.
Table of Contents

Unit-I
Mathematical Model of Physical Systems: Differential Equation of Physical system. Transfer function, Block Diagram Algebra, signal flow graphs. Feedback characteristics of control systems. Feedback & Non feedback systems, reduction of parameter variation, control of system Dynamic. Control of the effect of dynamic signal by use of feedback, regeneration feedback.

Unit-II
Time Response Analysis: Design specification and performance Indices. Standard Text signals, Time response of first and second order system, steady state error and error constants, Effect of adding a zero to a system. Design specification of second order system stability concept, Routh- Hurwitz stability criteria relation stability analysis.

Unit-III
Root Loci’s Technique: Root loci’s concept construction for Root loci, Root contours, system with transportation by Polar Plots, Bode Plots. All pass and minimum phase system.

Unit-IV
Stability in Frequency Domain: Nyquist stability criteria, Assessment of relation stability. Realization of basic compensators, Cascade compensation in time and frequency Domain. Feedback compensation.

Unit-V
Sate Variable Analysis and Design: Concept of stab, state variables and state model. State model for linear continuous time systems, Diagonalization, solution of state equation, concept of controllability and observability. Pole placement by state feedback.

Thursday, 5 July 2012

3D Virtual Tours around the World


Air Pano is a Russian project of panoramas enthusiasts, focused on hi-resolution aerial panoramas. To bring this unique and progressive project to life, the Russian team shoots from a helicopter but sometimes they use dirigibles, air balloons, light jets and radio-controlled helicopter.
In its 2 years of existence, Airpano project is scheduled to cr eate the aero-panoramas and created the virtual tours for more than 250 of  the most interesting corners of othe World, which you can freely admire on AirPano website. Every week t hey present a new virtual tour on Airpano website. So far, they already covered 70 cities and corners aero-panoramas, such as:


for more details, visit :

Friday, 29 June 2012

Stop Trying Multitasking, You can’t do it…


Doing too many things at once reduces efficiency, accuracy, and creativity
Based on over a half-century of cognitive science and more recent studies on multitasking, we know that multitaskers do less and miss information. It takes time (an average of 15 minutes) to re-orient to a primary task after a distraction such as an email. Efficiency can drop by as much as 40%. Long-term memory suffers and creativity—a skill associated with keeping in mind multiple, less common, associations—is reduced.
We have a brain with billions of neurons and many trillion of connections, but we seem incapable of doing multiple things at the same time. Sadly, multitasking does not exist, at least not as we think about it. We instead switch tasks. Our brain chooses which information to process. For example, if you listen to speech, your visual cortex becomes less active, so when you talk on the phone to a person and work on your computer at the same time, you literally hear less of what the other person is saying.
Why do we try?
Our brains are wired to respond strongly to social messaging, whether it is verbal or non-verbal. Knowing and improving our status, expanding awareness of our group, is important to us, and as a result information that helps us do that is often processed automatically, no matter what else we are trying to focus on.
Remote distractions, the ones aided by technology, are often unaware of current demands on us. People, who call you at work, send you emails, or fire off texts can't see how busy you are with your current task. Nor can Twitter feeds or email alerts. As a result, every communication is an important one that interrupts you.
Also, we crave access to more information because it makes us comfortable. People tend to search for information that confirms what they already believe. Multiple sources of confirmation increase our confidence in our choices. Paradoxically, more information also leads to discomfort, because some of it might be conflicting. As a result, we then search for more confirmatory information.
What can we do about it?
Technological demands are here to stay. What can you do to avoid overload?
First, make an effort to do tasks one at a time. Stick with one item until completion if you can. If attention starts to wane (typically after about 18 minutes), you can switch to a new task, but take a moment to leave yourself a note about where you were with the first one. Then give the new task your full attention, again for as long as you can.
Second, know when to close your door. In the "old days," people did this when they had to work hard on something. Doing the same thing to the electronic equivalent is perhaps even more important if you want to be productive and creative. Set aside time when people know you are going to focus.
Third, admit that not all information is useful. Consider which communications are worthy of interrupting you, and what new data you should seek out. When doing a Google search, ask if you are just accessing links that confirm what you already believe or those that challenge those beliefs. Similarly, know the difference between social networks, which are likely to confirm your choices and therefore make you feel good, and knowledge networks, which might challenge them, and therefore help you make a better decision.
Paul Atchley, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Kansas.
Provided by Harvard Business Review—Copyright © 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Getting Started with Time Management


If your current time-management system involves 5-hour ENERGY drinks or three to four cups of coffee per day, it's time for a change. But cutting back on your work is likely not an option: In this competitive job market, taking on more responsibility and exceeding expectations is a given if you want to advance in your career.
"Usually, self-care, such as sleep and exercise, suffers as people prioritize work and other responsibilities, but this can have a negative effect on health and productivity over time," says Joyce Marter, co-owner of counseling service Urban Balance, LLC. "That's why it is important to have some systems in place to prioritize goals, overcome procrastination by focusing on payoff, set a schedule or routines with boundaries and manage time effectively."
Working longer and harder might seem like the logical way to get more done, but there are better methods for coping with work overload.
Productivity experts have come up with effective ways to accomplish more in less time. Check out these four, great time-management techniques that many have sworn by:
1. The Pomodoro Technique. The idea is to break down work periods into 25-minute intervals, because that's how long our minds focus effectively. The creator of this method, entrepreneur and mentor Francesco Cirillo, calls these intervals "pomodoros."
The technique gets more complicated as you delve into it, but you begin it by first deciding which tasks you need to accomplish. Next, set the timer to 25 minutes and work free of distractions until it rings. Then, take a five-minute break. Every four intervals, take a longer break (15-20 minutes).
2. 18 Minutes. This technique is the brainchild of Peter Bregman, chief executive officer of the global management consulting firm Bregman Partners and author of 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done:
--Five minutes in the morning: Sit down and think about what you need to do today to make it successful. "What can you realistically accomplish that will further your focus for the year and allow you to leave at the end of the day feeling that you've been productive and successful?" Bregman writes in his book. "Then take those things off your to-do list and schedule them into your calendar."
--One minute per hour: Refocus. Set an alarm every hour and when it beeps, "take a deep breath and ask yourself if you spent your last hour productively," he writes. "Manage your day hour by hour. Don't let the hours manage you."
--Five minutes in the evening: Turn off your computer and review how the day went. Ask yourself questions like: How did the day go? What did I learn?
3. COPE. Personal productivity expert Peggy Duncan suggests the Clear-Organized-Productive-Efficient technique. "My system incorporates getting to the root cause of why you don't have enough time and what you can do about it," Duncan says. "You have to totally revamp how you work." Start by analyzing how you're spending the day by logging your activities and eliminating time wasters. Then, organize everything around you and then prioritize your tasks and get the main things done without multitasking.
Duncan also suggests systemizing all of your repetitive tasks. For instance, email templates are great for reaching out to many different people for a common purpose.
4. ABC & Pareto Analyses Combo. Marter recommends this classic business-management combination of the ABC and Pareto analyses techniques. For this combo to work you have to categorize each of your tasks by either A, B, or C:
A: Tasks that are perceived as being urgent and important.
B: Tasks that are important but not urgent.
C: Tasks that are neither urgent nor important.
Starting with the A column, apply Pareto Analysis by highlighting the work that will take the least time in this group. "Pareto Analysis suggests that 80 percent of tasks can be completed in 20 percent of disposable time and the remaining 20 percent will take up 80 percent of time," Marter says. "Productivity will be higher if the tasks that take less time are completed first."
In other words, get the easy stuff out of the way first for maximum productivity. Then, move on to group B.

Saturday, 2 June 2012

A blend of punjabi and sufiana music,sooding to ears

Alif Allah, Jugni, Arif Lohar & Meesha, Coke Studio, Season 3


Dum ghutkoon jugni ji, singer Arif Lohar and Meesha Shafi, and you can't help but tap your feet. Long after listening to the song, you inadvertently hum bits and parts of it. Coke Studios spectacular collaboration this year, coupling Arif Lohars larger than life folk singing with Meesha Shafis powerhouse vocals, is unarguably one of this years most popular songs. The music, in true Coke Studio tradition, is ethnic yet modern, classic folk yet funk with Arif Lohars traditional chimta (tongs) chiming companionably alongside Gumbys reverberating drums.

Then again, the music in Coke Studio is always great what with some of Pakistans most prolific musicians included in the house band. What makes Alif Allah really work is the unlikely pairing of Meesha and Arif. The two vocalists are worlds apart, from their backgrounds to their singing styles to their career graphs. He is the descendant of folk singer Alam Lohar and considers it his duty to continue his familys legacy. Arif has the looks of the quintessential Lollywood hero, a penchant for vividly colored dhotis and kurtas and aside from his musical career, has starred in about 45 Punjabi movies. He has the candor of a jovial Punjabi munda but once he begins to perform, his inimitable style leaves you spellbound. The deep timbre of his voice is famous; with its precipitous highs and gentle lows, accompanied always with the skilful clanking of the chimta and a shake now and then of his curly locks. Folk musicians are born, they canot be trained, he says. These lok geet and the messages they impart are part of my heritage.



Watch it out......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjaH2iuoYWE&feature=related

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

5 Ways a Personal Blog Can Boost Your Career


Friday, April 27, 2012 at 08:02AM
Andrew G. Rosen in Career Advice, career advice, personal blog career, personal branding

When I first graduated from business school, I leveraged our school's alumni network to seek advice on securing my first job. One successful businessperson I spoke to advised that starting a blog would be one of the best things I could do to advance in my career. Looking back, I completely agree with this advice. Building a blog is one of the best tools for getting started and advancing in your career field. If you don't have a personal blog yet, I hope to provide some concrete reasons in this article on why you must start one today.

1. Personal Branding
The idea of the personal brand that was coined by Tom Peters in 1997 has been greatly accelerated by the Internet which connects everyone and provides a platform for easy self publishing of content that can be broadcast to a large audience for free. By producing great content on your blog, you will establish an online presence that will strengthen your personal brand. For example, Dan Schawbel created a blog called The Personal Branding Blog which grew to thousands of monthly readers and established Dan as the expert on personal branding for Generation Y professionals while resulting in a book deal and national recognition.
2. Get Found Online
A pro tip when starting a personal blog is register your name as the domain. A good example is www.ChrisBrogan.com. Google strongly favors websites with the exact keyword phrase in the domain, so you will have a strong chance of ranking number one in Google for your name if you secure an exact match domain and create worthwhile content. If the .com domain for your name is not available, the .org is a good alternative. When people search Google for your name you will be able to attract visitors to your blog and communicate a focused message about who you are and what you offer. Generally, the more great articles you write on your blog, the more traffic you will attract from search engines like Google or Bing.
3. Knowledge Advancement
If you are regularly blogging and want to add value to readers, you will have to know what you are writing about to explain your ideas effectively and not embarrass yourself. This requires reading other blogs, books, and industry publications in your field to have the sufficient knowledge to support your ideas. Increasing your knowledge in your field can be invaluable in your career, and a blog can motivate you to spend more time learning what you should know.
4. Relationship Building
Blogs are inherently interactive because anyone can start a conversation with you by leaving a comment on an article. You can often meet people in your industry who leave insightful comments on your blog. Follow up with these people via email or LinkedIn. Contributing thoughtful comments on the blogs of people in your industry can get the attention of influential people in your field. A couple great blogging tactics is to interview people on your blog or write guest articles on influential blogs, which can both help develop valuable relationships.
5. Demonstration of Skill
Some people have suggested that a personal blog will someday replace the resume. Although this is far from reality in 2012, a blog can provide a lot more information for employers than a resume. A blog shows how you think, demonstrates your communication skills, and showcases the quality of your ideas. If you are able to build a substantial audience, this can be a great example of your online marketing acumen or your ability to execute a successful project.

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Review : How to Win Friends and Influence People


This is one of the most profound books to understand others behaviors and in teaching you skills to communicate effectively with others. A lot of the information is quite basic, but the examples and the message is quite profound. It has certainly made me stop and reevaluate my responses with others in the past few weeks when needing to work through difficult professional and personal situations. I think this book is a must read and will continue to be timeless classic book.

The book is organized into four parts with several chapters within each. Since there are 30 chapters in total, I will only discuss some of them here.

Part One. Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
1. “If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive”
Here is an important principle in relationships: don’t criticize, condemn or complain. People rarely blame themselves for anything, so if you criticize them not only are they unlikely to change, but also they may resent toward you.
2. The Big Secret of Dealing with People
People will go long way – sometimes even become insane – just to get the appreciation they need. So be a person who give honest and sincere appreciation to others. That’s the big secret of dealing with people. If you do that, you can’t keep people from liking you.

Part Two. Six Ways to Make People Like You
1. Do This And You’ll be Welcome Anywhere
This chapter contains a famous quote by Dale Carnegie:
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Are you interested in others? Do you want to know about them, admire their work, and eager to help them? If you do, they will also be interested in you.
2. A Simple Way to Make a Good First Impression
The way to make a good first impression is so simple that we sometimes forget it: smile. When you smile, people will feel that you are glad to meet them. They will feel accepted and get a good first impression about you.
3. If You Don’t Do This, You Are Headed for Trouble
People put tremendous importance on their names. Therefore it will be much easier for you to win their hearts if you approach them by using their names. Unfortunately, we often forget names.
I’m as guilty as anybody else here. Sometimes I’m introduced to someone only to forget his or her name right after the conversation. Another embarrassing situation is when I meet someone who call me by name but whose name I forget.
4. An Easy Way to Become a Good Conversationalist
It may seem counterintuitive, but being a good conversationalist is about by how good you talk. It’s about how good you listen. Encourage others to talk about themselves and be a good listener. People will feel appreciated and they will regard you as a nice people to talk with.
6. How to Make People Like You Instantly
To make people like you, make them feel important and do it sincerely. The desire to feel important is perhaps the deepest need someone has, so if you give it you will win  their heart.

Part Three. How to Win People to Your Way of Thinking
1. You Can’t Win an Argument
You can only lose if you argue because – no matter what the outcome of the argumentation is – you won’t win their heart. So the way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
This is something that is rather difficult for me. If I have an idea I’m confident about, I’m usually willing to argue to prove my point. This chapter shows me how wrong it is.
2. A Sure Way of Making Enemies – And How to Avoid It
A sure way of making enemies is by saying that they are wrong. People don’t like that, regardless of whether they are actually wrong or not. Such statements hurt their self-esteem. So learn to respect other people’s opinion, even when you disagree.
5. The Secret of Socrates
If you want to win other people to your way of thinking, it’s important to make them agree with you from the beginning. The way to do that is by asking questions that they will inevitably answer with “yes”. Every time they say “yes” they will become more receptive toward you. At the end, there is a good chance that they will accept the idea they previously rejected. This is a technique used by Socrates to convince his opponents.
8. A Formula that Will Work Wonders for You
There must be a reason why people say or act the way they do. Find that reason and talk from their point of view. If you understand them, they will in turn understand you.

Part Four. Be a Leader: How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment
1. If You Must Find Fault, This is the Way to Begin
As a leader, we sometimes need to correct the people we lead. But how can we do that without offending them? The answer is by praising and giving honest appreciation first. When we do that, they will become much more receptive to the correction we give.
6. How to Spur People On to Success
The best way to develop good traits in others is not by punishing them for incorrect actions but by rewarding them for correct actions. Praise every improvement they make, even the slightest one, and they will go to the right direction.
7. Give a Dog a Good Name
A good way to get others do things the way you want it is by giving them a fine reputation to live up to. For instance, if you want someone to be diligent then treat her as a diligent person and say so to her. Most likely she won’t disappoint you.

Conclusion
How to Win Friends and Influence People contains excellent principles for human relations
The principles are universal and cover practically every important aspects of relationships. The stories in each chapter make it easy to grasp those principles.
The problem, of course, is in putting the principles into practice. Knowing the principles is one thing, but applying them is another thing. Since most of us have the tendency to be selfish, we need conscious and serious effort to apply the principles in the book. That’s why Dale Carnegie positioned How to Win Friends and Influence People as a workbook that we should refer to from time to time.

ME AND MY STUDENTS



It is my great fortune that I have chosen such a noble profession. There is a great praise for teachers in scriptures. In one of the Sanskrit hymns, the teacher has been compared with Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara. Therefore I should never forgot that I m doing great service in moulding the lives and the character of thousands of students within the four walls of the classroom. Students come to me with great expectation that they will get something from me. My duty is not only to teach them syllabus but to help them in building character. Students coming out of the educational institute with character and integrity alone can build this great nation. If I can do that in a humble way, I will be doing immense service to my nation and to the youth.
“Whatever a great man does, another person does the very same thing , whichever benchmark he sets , the world follows it ! ” I think my life itself will be a great source of inspiration for students. Teaching without practising will not produce any positive result. As modern students are very intelligent , they will watch our life and character. If they don’t find those things in practice they will not care for our world. If we sincerely love our students and are really interested in their welfare, they will certainly follow our footsteps. We must develop infinite patience and for bearence.
I never condemn my students for their shortcomings and mistakes, rather highlight their good qualities and success. If we speak kind words to students and encourage them they are bound to improve in time. If we can give them positive ideas they will grow up to be men and learn to stand in their own legs.
In language and Literature, in poetry and art in everything we must point out not the mistakes that people making in their thoughts and action but the way in which they will be gradually be able to do things better.
We should be able to enter the hearts of our student. They should find in us –their friend, guide and philosopher. Then only thy will open their hearts and will express their problems. Our approach to their problems should be positive and we should try atmost to help in solving their problem if it is within our reach. This intimacy and mutual affection will strengthen our relationship between taught and the teacher.
Once we put them on the right track, they will grow up as real men and women of real character and integrity. They will remain grateful to us throughout their lives for our great service rendered on them, on the other hand we will get job satisfaction which will result in peace and happiness.