Suggestion for Transportation problems in Bangalore - 2

Ok, I have second thoughts about multiple airports. Well, I still stick with major, international at Devanhalli and smal domestic one at Electronic city. Thats enuf.

Now don't turn bangalore into another west coast US city. Plan ahead for mass transport. Use the help of major industrial companies as BHEL, ISRO, BEL, colleges such as IISc to come up with instruments to make underground or elevated rail system. Only elevated won't help. It has to be mixture of both. Make them so that people don't need to commute by their own cars or bikes. People should choose these mass transits.

I look like my nana

I just realized, looking at myself in the wafer which acts as my mirror, that I look like my nana (Maternal grandfather). After the hair cut, which I made really short, spikey :-), i have big nose, big protruding ears...just like nanaji.

 

 

A sign of things to come

Ordering Pizza in 2008

Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your national ID number?"

Customer: "Hi, I'd like to place an order."

Operator: "I must have your NIDN first, sir?"

Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it's 6102049998-45-54610."

Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland
Drive, and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at
Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Email
address is sheehan@home.net. Which number are you calling from, sir?"

Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this information?"

Operator: "We're wired into the HSS, sir."

Customer: "The HSS, what is that?"

Operator: "We're wired into the Homeland Security System, sir. This
will add only 15 seconds to your ordering time"

Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your
All-Meat Special pizzas."

Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, sir."

Customer: "Whaddya mean?"

Operator: "Sir, your medical records and commode sensors indicate that
you've got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol.
Your National Health Care provider won't allow such an unhealthy
choice."

Customer: "What?!?! What do you recommend, then?"

Operator: "You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza. I'm sure you'll like it."

Customer: "What makes you think I'd like something like that?"

Operator: "Well, you checked out 'Gourmet Soybean Recipes' from your
local library last week, sir. That's why I made the suggestion."

Customer: "All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then."

Operator: "That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four
kids, and your 2 dogs can finish the crusts, sir. Your total is
$49.99."

Customer: "Lemme give you my credit card number."

Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay in cash.
Your credit card balance is over its limit."

Customer: "I'll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your
driver gets here."

Operator: "That won't work either, sir. Your checking account's overdrawn also."

Customer: "Never mind! Just send the pizzas. I'll have the cash ready.
How long will it take?"

Operator: "We're running a little behind, sir. It'll be about 45
minutes, sir. If you're in a hurry you might want to pick 'em up while
you're out getting the cash, but then, carrying pizzas on a motorcycle
can be a little awkward."

Customer: "Wait! How do you know I ride a scooter?"

Operator: "It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so
your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid for and you just filled
the tank yesterday"

Customer: Well I'll be a "@#%/$@&?#!"

Operator: "I'd advise watching your language, sir. You've already got
a July 4, 2006 conviction for cussing out a cop and another one I see
here on September for contempt at your hearing for cussing at a
judge." "Oh yes I see here that you just got out from a 90 day stay in
the State Correctional Facility. Is this your first pizza since your
return to society?

Customer: (Speechless)

Operator: "Will there be anything else, sir?"

Customer: "Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke".

Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but our ad's exclusionary clause prevents us
from offering free soda to diabetics. The New Constitution prohibits
this.

Thank you for calling Pizza Hut!"

Suggestion for Transportation problems in Bangalore
 

So, bangalore is expanding exponentially, and so is the traffic problem and any other problem with it. With so many jobs getting "Banglored", wouldn't it be nice that people coming to work in Bangalore (permanently or temporarily) or NRIs returning to Bangalore, don't have to see all the traffic jams, pollution, and water logging during monsoon.

 

So, here are some of my suggestion:

 

1) Small domestic (initially) airport south of Electronic City.

Imagine peepul flying from Delhi to bangalore in 2.5 hrs, have to drive to electronic city where vast majority of Tech and Biotech companies are located in same 2.5 hrs.. he he irony haan ?

 

So, I think, let couple of private airlines who want to make bangalore there hub (as in airlines in US) come togeather with state govt or central govt  in whatever ratio to Build Own and Operate the airport, with some part of profit going to state and or central govt.

 

1.1) Create a Suburb south of Electronic City.

This city should be incharge of the airport. People live there and coomuute to their job within 15 minutes.

 

2) Small domestic airport east of whitefield

Same a (1)

 

3) Build Freeway system between Devanhalli, Whitefield, Electronic City and west bglr

This freeway can be tolled, and local companies can be tacked 5 paise per Rupee they earn, to help the city build this transit system. There will be some road leading to and from MG Road, etc.

With over 1000 crore business, that would generate 50 crore per year to build this. And corporations would love such a system, so I am thinking would mind the extra tax. In the past Infosys has helped cleaning and building road to Electronic city..

 

4) Create sub-burb near Devehalli

Encourage companies to open up there and developers to develop there. With malls, shopping centers, movie theaters.

Peepul come to M G Road, Brigade Road and Commercial street only during weekend.

Hell, if the suburbs are developed well, they don't even need to do that. Decentralize bangalore.

 

5) Finally, build power plants for bangalore AND karnataka

Why should everyone have generators and still, even now, the major industry of every state and coutntry is agriculture. Why should poor and some rich farmers suffer for the limited electricity which may be diverted to bangalore to woo the foriegn investment.

 

6) Oh one more thing, encourage ingenuity in Indian companies..like helping students in IISc to come up with ideas and start companies, rather than copy things from other countries and or just to work for foriegn companies.

 

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Engineering Conversion Factors

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This list is based on Basic Units and Derived Units. I use the standard Multiples of Ten where appropriate.


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To Convert To Multiply By

acres ft2 43560

acres m2 4046.9

acres rods2 160

acres hectares .4047

acre feet barrels 7758

acre feet m3 1233.5

angstrom, å cm 10-8

angstrom, å nm 0.1

astronomical unit, AU cm 1.496E13

astronomical unit Tm 0.1496

atmospheres (atm) feet of water 33.94

atmospheres in of Hg 29.92

atmospheres mm of Hg 760

atmospheres psi 14.7

bar atm .98692

bar dyne cm-2 106

bar psi (lb in-2) 14.5038

bar mm Hg 750.06

bar MPa 10-1

barrel (bbl) ft3 5.6146

barrel m3 .15898

barrel gal (US) 42

barrel liter 158.9

BTU Canadian BTU 1.000418022

BTU ISO BTU 1.000527124

BTU cal 251.996

BTU erg 1.055055853 * 1010

BTU joule 1054.35

calorie (gm) (cal) joule 4.184

centimeter (cm) inch 0.39370

cm m 10-2

darcy m2 9.8697E-13

dyne g cm s-2 1

dyne Newton 10-5

erg cal 2.39006E-8

erg dyne cm 1

erg joule 10-7

fathom (fath) ft 6

feet (ft) in 12

feet m 0.3048

furlong yd 220

gallon (US) (gal) in3 231

gallon liter 3.78541

gallon (Imp.) (gal) in3 277.419

gallon liter 4.54608

gamma gauss 10-5

gamma tesla 10-9

gauss tesla 10-4

gram (g) pound 0.0022046

gram kg 10-3

hectare acre 2.47105

hectare cm2 108

horsepower W 745.700

inch (in) cm 2.54

inch (in) mm 25.4

joule (J) erg 107

joule cal 0.239006

kilogram (kg) g 103

kilogram pound 2.20462

kilometer (km) m 103

kilometer ft 3280.84

kilometer mile 0.621371

kilometer hr-1 (kph) mile hr-1 (mph) 0.621371

kilowatt hp 1.34102

knot mph 1.150779

liter cm3 103

liter gal (US) 0.26417

liter in3 61.0237

meter angstrom 1 x 1010

meter ft 3.28084

micron cm 10-4

mile ft 5280

mile km 1.60934

mm Hg dyne cm-2 1333.22

Newton dyne 105

Newton pound (lbf) 0.224809

Newton-meter (torque) foot-pound-force .737562

ounce lb 0.0625

Pascal atmospheres 9.86923 * 10-6

Pascal psi 1.45 * 10-4

Pascal torr 7.501 * 10-3

pint gallon 0.125

poise g cm-1 s-1 1

poise kg m-1 s-1 0.1

pound (lbm) kg 0.453592

pound (lbf) newton 4.4475

rod feet 16.5

quart gallon 0.25

stoke cm2 s-1 1

slug kg 14.594

tesla gauss 104

Torr Millibar 1.333224

Torr Millimeter of Hg 1

ton (long) lb 2240

ton (Metric) lb 2205

ton (Metric) kg 1000

ton (short or net) lb 2000

ton (short or net) kg 907.185

ton (short or net) ton (Metric) .907

watt J s-1 1

yard in 36

yard m 0.9144

year (cal) days 365.242198781

year (cal) s 3.15576 x 107



Basic Units
Length meter m

Time second s

Mass kilogram kg

Temperature Kelvin K

Electrical Current ampere A



Derived Units
Force Newton N kg m s-2

Energy joule J kg m2 s-2

Power watt W kg m2 s-3

Frequency hertz Hz s-1

Charge coulomb C A s

Capacitance farad F C2 s2 kg-1 m-2

Magnetic Induction tesla T kg A-1 s-2



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Multiples of Ten
10-12 pico p

10-9 nano n
10-6 micro µ

10-3 milli m

103 kilo k

106 mega M

109 giga G

1012 tera T



While these multipliers are most often used with metric basic or derived units, the multipliers are sometimes used with english units, creating confusing combinations.
Examples are kip which stands for kilopounds (1000 pounds) and ksi which is a combination of k and psi resulting in thousands of psi.

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In a parliamentary democracy, the top officials are known as ministers. The ministers make up an executive body that is called the cabinet. Ministers can also be members of parliament, and so they carry out legislative or law- making functions as well. Both the government and the cabinet functions under the control of the parliament as a whole and remains in power only as long as it has the support of a majority of the members of parliament.
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FW: Guess what

-----Original Message-----
From: Nair, Vinod [mailto:vnair@hbmaynard.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 8:38 AM
To: Binod Tripathi
Cc: kaziin@msx.upmc.edu; Rodrigues, Kevin J.; paniwalaia@msx.upmc.edu;
Raja, Mayank
Subject: RE: Guess what

dang forgot to add saala!!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Binod Tripathi [mailto:binod.tripathi@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:36 AM
To: Nair, Vinod
Cc: kaziin@msx.upmc.edu; Rodrigues, Kevin J.; paniwalaia@msx.upmc.edu
Subject: RE: Guess what

ur bowling skills are deader than marlon brando so this must be gods
smiling on u

 

             "Nair, Vinod"

             <vnair@hbmaynard.

             com>
To
                                       "Rodrigues, Kevin  J."

             07/06/2004 11:25          <Kevin.Rodrigues@jhuapl.edu>

             AM
cc
                                       <paniwalaia@msx.upmc.edu>,

                                       <kaziin@msx.upmc.edu>, Binod

                                       Tripathi/Edison/IBM@IBMUS

 
Subject
                                       RE: Guess what

 

 

 

 

 

 

well I didn't get a chance to bat.. Waterboy and Doc took charge and
completed the game .. Your bat did play a big role.. Waterboy batted
with it.. he was lucky to be dropped couple times and 2 other times was
lucky to be caught on no-balls...but hey luck plays a big role in
cricket doesn't it.. but he batted extremely well with that bat.. some
superb out of boundary/straight shots.. doc played a marvellous hook for
a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge six.. which he had never played in his
lifetime (the hook)

with regard to my over.. I will let waterboy/doc explain the course of
that over.. he he he!!! but the best thing was I never got hit for over
1 run in each of my 30 balls that i bowled.. can u imagine that!!!!!!
usually i get spanked for a 4 or a six always!

From: Rodrigues, Kevin J. [mailto:Kevin.Rodrigues@jhuapl.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:21 AM
To: Nair, Vinod
Subject: RE: Guess what

4 wkts in 1 over. Now v have a story to tell our kids about  vinod
uncle's greatest over in addition to his last ball 6.
Can u elborate a bit more on that over? tera six khi kahani sunteh
sunteh kaan pakh gaye.
Also, did the bat play any role in your easy win?
      -----Original Message-----
      From: Nair, Vinod [mailto:vnair@hbmaynard.com]
      Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 2:20 PM
      To: Rodrigues, Kevin J.
      Subject: Guess what

      Apun this past weekend solid cricket khela.. took 4wkts in 1
over..
      hooo haaaa in the second match... and didn't give a 6 or a 4 in 5
      overs that I bowled!!!!!!

      doc and waterboy batted very well too.. infact they won the game
for
      us easily.. we won by over 3 overs to spare.. wanted 81 runs in
12..

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BMA - Patients sent abroad as skills of UK doctors go unused, film reveals: "Patients sent abroad as skills of UK doctors go unused, film reveals
Press release date: Tuesday, 29 Jun 2004 (BMA London)
Patients are being sent abroad for operations when they could be treated by doctors in the UK, a film screened at the BMA's annual conference has revealed.

Many of the U.K.'s 12,500 staff and associate specialist doctors who are distinct from junior doctors and consultants - have years of training and experience. However, the current medical career structure prevents them from taking referrals from GPs, managing their own clinics, and potentially performing thousands more operations.

In his address to the BMA's annual conference in Llandudno today, Mr Mohib Khan, chairman of the BMA's Staff and Associate Committee said: 'Patients are losing out because highly skilled specialists are being prevented from offering their full expertise.'

As part of his speech, he showed Untold Stories a film featuring interviews with three associate specialists. One of them, Mr Vijay Kumar, held a senior post in a teaching hospital in Saudi Arabia, and many of the doctors he trained there have qualified to practise as consultants in the NHS. Ironically, he has not been able to do the same because his experience is not recognised by the Royal College of Surgeons.

Despite having performed hundreds of operations as a locum consultant in the NHS, he is prevented from carrying out the same work as an associate specialist. Mr Kumar says, 'It's frustrating that so many patients waiting for operations are being sent overseas, or to independent sector treatment centres staffed by surgeons from countries like South Africa. I fail to understand why they can't be treated by someone like me."

Legislation to allow doctors' experience to count towards inclusion on the specialist register – which would allow them to apply for consultant posts - was passed last year. However, Miss Pushpa Dudani, a breast surgeon in Rotherham, says change is unlikely unless the bodies that oversee doctors' training shift their stance.

"As an associate specialist I can do the same things consultants do, but I'm not allowed to become one because the royal colleges don't recognise all my years of experience. They have tunnel vision and unless they change their attitude, we're not going to move forward at all."

Mr Khan will also highlight the plight of Mr Subhash Halder, an associate specialist doctor in Halifax, who has invented an implant that has revolutionised the treatment of fractures of the neck and arm. Despite winning international acclaim, patients cannot be referred to him directly, which he describes as demoralising: "I was getting referrals from different hospitals nearly every month, but I couldn't admit any patients under my own care. They had to be admitted under the care of a consultant, even though I did the operation, I did the follow-up and I got the results."

Click here to see the full speech and view the film:
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