Amul is one of asia's highest milk & milk product producer based on India. Its advertising concept known since long as a graphical representation which depict current issues of nation with humor and advertise its products. Below are the some cool pics of 2012. It will surely create a humor.
( Images: Amul.com)
( Images: Amul.com)
Air India pilots strikes for wage hike, as they are getting only 12320 % of Indian average. Isn't it laughable?
How much, in fact, do these pilots earn?
“Enquiries revealed that the average salary of an AI co-pilot is Rs 3-4 lakh per month and those of a senior captain, depending on his experience, is between Rs 6 lakh and Rs 8 lakh per month.
Enquiries revealed that the average salary of an AI co-pilot is Rs 3-4 lakh per month . AFP
IA co-pilots, however, get Rs 2.25 lakh to Rs 3.25 lakh per month and a commander’s average earnings are Rs 4-5 lakh a month,” says India Today.
How do the pay packets of the pilots compare to other Indian wage-earners – and wage earners across the world?
BBC makes it easy to get the answers, thanks to a calculator they have created to see where you stand. All you need to do is to enter the country you live in and details of how much you earn each month, and out pops an indicator of how you fare vis-à-vis others in your own country and vis-à-vis others in the rest of the world. “It’s a rough figure based on data from 72 countries, omitting some of the world’s poorest nations. All figures are adjusted to reflect variations in the cost of living from one country to another,” the study warns.
For the record, the average monthly Indian wage, according to the study, is pegged at $235.
Using this calculator, AI co-pilots (those earning Rs 3 to 5 lakh per month, an average of the Rs 3-4 lakh quoted in the India Today article) would receive an answer that says “Your wage is $18,172. The world average is $1,480. Your wage is 6160 percent of the India average and 1228 percent of the world average.”
A senior captain in AI, earning an average of Rs 7 lakh per month, would see this:
“Your wage is $36,345. The world average is $1,480. Your wage is 12320 percent of the India average and 2456 percent of the world average.”
The lowest paid AI pilot earns 6160 percent of the India average and a senior pilot 12320% of the India average.
And they call themselves “workmen” (under the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act, pilots are currently classified as ‘workmen’) and go on strike for more money.
No wonder they receive no sympathy.
Analysis:
Analysis shows how unequally the salary structure within indian corporate and government enterprises distributed. India is already struggling with higher unemployment in youth. They are not getting base salary to survive in current inflation scenario ( Not the one calculated by planning commission to survive in sub 30 Rs daily salary ), but the actual scenario felt on street by young graduates. They can't even get into the system and ultimately left the labor force. It's a real loss to Indian Economy as government can't use the work force to the fullest to achieve higher GDP. The policy inequality should be addressed to get more youth employed and keep Indian economy strong enough domestically so that robust growth can be achieved and withstand the global economical crisis.
His lightweight Richard Mille timepiece is priced at 300,000 euros, or around $370,000. He’s worn the watch since 2010, and it was strapped to his clay-stained arm as he held aloft his seventh French Open trophy this week.
This morning, however, came news that the watch was stolen. It was allegedly taken from the hotel room where he and his family were staying during the Open. Nadal said he woke up and noticed that the watch was gone.
Apparently, French police work fast — because it’s just been found. Police sources are saying they nabbed a hotel barman who took the watch and hid it along a railway track in the Essonne Area (they traced his security badge). The watch has since been recovered.
This would all be minor news, if the Mille weren’t the most famous watch in tennis — and perhaps in sports.
As my readers recall, Nadal agreed to start wearing the watch as part of a sponsorship agreement with Richard Mille. The details were never disclosed, but it’s unlikely that Nadal actually paid for the watch — instead, offering to wear it on the court to give the company press.
Mille is one of those small-volume, ultralux watch brands that has its image roots in Formula 1 racing and “performance.”
Nadal's watch, which has the macho-luxury name “RMO27,” is made of carbon-composite as well as titanium and Lital, a lithium alloy containing aluminum, copper, magnesium, zirconium, which are often used in lightweight aircraft. It weighs a mere 20 grams.
It also has a complex Tourbillon to insure maximum accuracy. And there were only a limited number made.
In other words, this isn’t your grandpa’s chunky diamond Rolex.
I’m glad the watch is back in the hands of its owner. Partly for justice. But mainly because as a big Nadal fan, I appreciate how much of his success is owed to his obsession with personal routine and repetitive habit.
Losing that trusty 20 grams on his wrist could have been costly — for his game as well as the watch company.
The report also says that about 101 inmates of the home were subjected to various forms of abuse. The shelter home inmates were used as construction labourers.
A speech and hearing impaired girl was sold thrice and another girl was reportedly found pregnant. Yet another inmate was found to be HIV positive by the probe team.
Most of the girls were made to garland men, saying they were 'married', and forced to consent to physical relationship.
Few weeks ago, Government of India passed a bill called The New Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (PCSOA) 2012. Will it be strong enough to prevent this kind of anti human activity and punish the criminals to the extent that it won't happen again. This breaking news is shocking reality that how Indian Government is ineffective in terms of policies.
Twitter has announced Tailored Trends will become part of its service, rolling out slowly across the world right now. The idea is to capture "emerging topics people are talking about on Twitter" in a sequence that is now based on where users are located--after all, an emerging trend talking about a tornado warning in the U.S. is irrelevant for folks in the U.K., although users can turn off the location aspect and can, if curious, select locations to see the tailored trends elsewhere. Though it's a subtle adjustment, it's possible it may have a significant effect on the informational value of Twitter as a feed of relevant news for its users and is another step in the future battle for news and sharing against Facebook and Google. Twitter has been making a number of moves recently to promote its usefulness, including a deal with NASCAR and assembling a roster of interested parties in NBA to comment on basketball games through the finals.
DOJ Investigates Cable Companies For Streaming Data Caps
The Department of Justice is launching an anti-trust probe to scrutinize the testy relationship between cable providers and new-fangled streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Online video streaming of the legal and less-than-legal variety are luring television watchers away from expensive cable TV subscriptions. In the U.S. though, it's the same cable providers who wire up a home for access to the Internet that Hulu and Netflix rely on. The DOJ investigation has to do with streaming caps that cable companies like Comcast set on their users, limiting the hours of video they can watch online, while excluding their own streaming apps (like Comcast's Xfinity for the Xbox) from that data count, the Wall Street Journal reports
Court Room Stalemates Spell Trouble For Apple
Apple has been stalled in two key trials in the patent wars it's fighting against competitors Samsung and Google. A Chicago judge cancelled Apple's trial against Motorola mobility last week, and events at a San Jose court yesterday evening snuffed out Apple's efforts to ban Samsung's Galaxy III before its launch on June 21, Reuters reports. These latest events are by no means a final word on the patent issue itself--Apple can continue litigation through appeals and other means. However, the long-term delays collectively benefit Apple's competitors and alleged patent infringers. Meanwhile, Apple is already three years into the patent wars, and the glacial pace of court cases continue to delay and so deny Apple the clear advantage of a decisive win.
Readability Kills Failed Reader Fees Plan To Compensate Publishers
Readability, the web and mobile app that lets users organize and read stripped-down versions of web stories, today announced in a blog post that it will end its controversial reader fees program, designed to compensate publishers on the platform for their content. Starting June 30, Readability will no longer accept reader fees.
The payment program, introduced early last year, collected $5 monthly fees from users (then-known as "premium" members) who, in exchange, would receive access to paid features such as a "Read Later" button. The program continued after Readability switched over from a "premium" to a "subscriber" option that made payments optional. Readability originally intended to distribute the funds it collected to the publishers and other online content providers featured on its platform. The program was CEO Rich Ziade's answer to existing options, such as paywalls and tollbooths, that did little to help publishers monetize content.
However, Ziade writes, "Reading behavior on the Web is incredibly fragmented. Nobody reads from just 15 or 20 sites a month. People read from hundreds of sites a month, creating a vast long tail of publishers." And, according to Ziade, the vast majority of that tail of publishers never registered with the service in order to claim those fees. Ziade says more than 90% of content providers have left their share of reader fees unclaimed, which leaves $150,000 to date that Readability will now begin distributing to registered publishers thorugh the end of July. Publishers who never registered have till mid-July to do so, and Readability says it will donate any remaining funds to literature-minded nonprofits.
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This casino cheat needs the participation of the casino’s card dealer to work. The dealer employs a false shuffle, which is meant to look like a regular shuffle but secretly leaves some cards in place. That allows the players involved in the conspiracy, who have been tracking the cards, to know when the unshuffled cards are dealt.
It was a scam used to great effect by the Tran Organization. The gang hit casinos all over the U.S., pocketing up to $7 million in false shuffle mini-baccarat and blackjack games. The organization was ultimately brought down, and more than 40 people pleaded guilty to charges relating to the cheating scheme, including its founders, Phuong Quoc Trong and Van Thu Tran
2) Roulette Past Posting
Past posting in roulette is one of the oldest tricks in the book, and it’s still plaguing the industry, Joseph said. It’s also quite simple — cheaters place their chips on the winning number after the ball has dropped in the roulette wheel. Usually one player in on the scheme will distract the dealer, and a second player will put his chips, with his conspirator’s different colored chips underneath, on the winning number. If the second player is caught, his chips will be removed, but the first player’s chips will remain.3) Hidden Camera Baccarat Scam
This move requires a hidden camera up the sleeve of the cheater. When the player cuts the deck of cards, he or she takes the cut card and drags it over the top of the deck, slightly separating the cards from each other. The camera records the cards, and an accomplice watches and relays the information back to the gambler via an earpiece.
It’s most commonly used on baccarat but can also be used in blackjack.
Card switching — or hand mucking, as it is also known in the industry — has been around for years. However, it has moved from simple sleight-of-hand tricks to using hidden “holdout” devices. Gamblers use the device to hide a card up their sleeve and deposit it on the table, and then remove and hide cards from the table.
The gaming industry has lost millions of dollars because of this scam. Foxwoods Casino Resorts in Connecticut fell victim to it in 2010, when two South Korean nationals — Young Su Gy and Wookyung Kim — stole several hundred thousand dollars by using a holdout device to switch cards in midi-baccarat games. The two were caught, and they ultimately pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and theft. Gy was sentenced to 18 months in prison; Kim was sentenced to 12 months behind bars. They were also ordered to pay $870,505 in restitution.
5) Slot Machine Bill Validator Device
As slot machines have gotten more sophisticated, so have the cheating methods. In the old coin slot machines, cheaters could attach a piece of string to the coin, with a paper clip on the end to prevent it from falling into the hopper.
The newest way to scam slot machines involves a small computer device that tricks the bill validator. The device, usually disguised by a $1 bill, has two prongs that are inserted into the bill validator. Once they hit the contact point below the validator, the slot machine will read any bill that’s inserted as a $100 bill. The most recent devices don’t even need another bill to work — instead they just add credits after hitting the contact point in the slot machine.
However, casinos have caught on and the scam is less common than it once was. Slot machines have now been retrofitted so that the devices won’t work, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. So the only way for a cheater to use the device is to find a machine that hasn’t been updated
As slot machines have gotten more sophisticated, so have the cheating methods. In the old coin slot machines, cheaters could attach a piece of string to the coin, with a paper clip on the end to prevent it from falling into the hopper.
The newest way to scam slot machines involves a small computer device that tricks the bill validator. The device, usually disguised by a $1 bill, has two prongs that are inserted into the bill validator. Once they hit the contact point below the validator, the slot machine will read any bill that’s inserted as a $100 bill. The most recent devices don’t even need another bill to work — instead they just add credits after hitting the contact point in the slot machine.
However, casinos have caught on and the scam is less common than it once was. Slot machines have now been retrofitted so that the devices won’t work, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. So the only way for a cheater to use the device is to find a machine that hasn’t been updated
6) Card Counting
Players who count cards are considered “advantage players,” people who use an advantage they have to win, rather than cheaters. If they use their mind to keep a tally of the value of cards they’ve seen to determine the ration of high cards to low cards remaining in the deck, it’s legal. However, the act crosses the line into cheating when someone uses a device, such as a card counting computer
Players who count cards are considered “advantage players,” people who use an advantage they have to win, rather than cheaters. If they use their mind to keep a tally of the value of cards they’ve seen to determine the ration of high cards to low cards remaining in the deck, it’s legal. However, the act crosses the line into cheating when someone uses a device, such as a card counting computer
Also considered an advantage play, hole card reading occurs when players in games like blackjack, three card poker and Texas Hold’em try to spot the dealer’s hole-card — the card that’s face down — and use that information while playing the game.
Like card counting, hole card reading crosses the line into cheating once the player uses a device like a small, hand-held mirror or hidden camera to see the card
Instead of tossing the dice during a craps game, some cheaters have been known to slide dice down the table without changing the number that he or she has selected to face up.
Typically, the cheaters try to control only one die so the bouncing one gets the attention. They can also employ a sleight-of-hand trick to spin the die so that is more stable when it slides, which also adds to the element of deception.
It is not the most frequent scam, but it can mean a big payday for those who pull it off — and a big loss for the casinos. Wynn Las Vegas lost $700,000 to a team of alleged dice sliders in 2011, according to a lawsuit the casino filed against the alleged cheaters in September 2011.
9) Roulette Color Up
This ruse involves two players. The first player will purchase a certain color of roulette chips for $1 each, and slip some of them into his pocket. He then passes them off to an accomplice, who hides them in his pocket, returns to the same table and buys the same color chips for $25 each. After playing for a while, he cashes in the $1 chips as $25 chips.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board tells CNBC the scam is a big issue right now in the state’s casinos.
This ruse involves two players. The first player will purchase a certain color of roulette chips for $1 each, and slip some of them into his pocket. He then passes them off to an accomplice, who hides them in his pocket, returns to the same table and buys the same color chips for $25 each. After playing for a while, he cashes in the $1 chips as $25 chips.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board tells CNBC the scam is a big issue right now in the state’s casinos.
10) Marking Cards
There are a number of ways to mark cards — including infrared markings, denting it with a chip, bending the corner, and using a razor to scrape off some ink. The results, however, are the same — once the marked card enters the game, the player uses it to his advantage. The cards can be marked before the game and the cheater slides it in, or it can be marked during the game
Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, was second with tuition and fees of $43,564, the Education Department said on its website. The average annual tuition among private nonprofit schools was $21,949, the agency said.
As education loan debt has reached $1 trillion, surpassing the total Americans owe on credit cards, President Barack Obama has called on colleges and universities to rein in costs and make sure that students understand how much they’re spending and borrowing for school. The agency’s annual rankings also include public and for-profit colleges.
“Students need to know up front how much college will actually cost them instead of waiting to find out when the first student-loan bill arrives,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement. “These lists are a major step forward in unraveling the mystery of higher-education pricing.”
Pennsylvania State University’s main campus, located in State College, had the highest tuition among public colleges at $15,250. The University of Pittsburgh was second in the category at $14,936 annually.a
Oracle Corp Employee caught in sex-for favors corruption case !..
A female employee of computer giant Oracle's Singapore unit was named on Tuesday in a sex-for-favors corruption case involving the former head of the city-state's anti-narcotics agency.
Ng Boon Gay, then director of the Central Narcotics Bureau, faces two charges of obtaining sexual gratification from a senior sales manager at Oracle Corporation Singapore as an inducement to help further the firm's business interest, Singapore's anti-corruption agency said.
The alleged offences took place in December 2011.
Ng also faces two other charges of obtaining sexual gratification from the same individual when she was an employee of Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), according to court documents seen by Reuters.
"Any alleged inappropriate behavior attributed to our former employee during her time at HDS was undertaken without the knowledge of, or being condoned by, anyone at HDS," a Hitachi spokeswoman said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
A Oracle Singapore spokeswoman declined comment.
Ng is currently out on bail.
The charges against Ng come one week after the former head of Singapore's civil defense force Peter Lim was charged with accepting sex for favors.
Lim faces 10 charges and his case involved three different women working for IT firms in the city-state.
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A female employee of computer giant Oracle's Singapore unit was named on Tuesday in a sex-for-favors corruption case involving the former head of the city-state's anti-narcotics agency.
Ng Boon Gay, then director of the Central Narcotics Bureau, faces two charges of obtaining sexual gratification from a senior sales manager at Oracle Corporation Singapore as an inducement to help further the firm's business interest, Singapore's anti-corruption agency said.
The alleged offences took place in December 2011.
Ng also faces two other charges of obtaining sexual gratification from the same individual when she was an employee of Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), according to court documents seen by Reuters.
"Any alleged inappropriate behavior attributed to our former employee during her time at HDS was undertaken without the knowledge of, or being condoned by, anyone at HDS," a Hitachi spokeswoman said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
A Oracle Singapore spokeswoman declined comment.
Ng is currently out on bail.
The charges against Ng come one week after the former head of Singapore's civil defense force Peter Lim was charged with accepting sex for favors.
Lim faces 10 charges and his case involved three different women working for IT firms in the city-state.
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Meanwhile, Amazon's cloud player app--Amazon Cloud Player--has made its way over to iOS. The app, first available for Android, is now ready for download on an iPhone or iPod touch. Users can stream music directly from their library on Amazon Cloud, and organize songs in playlists.
Verizon's New Plans Built Around Data For Multiple Devices
Verizon Wireless has changed its approach to billing, focussing on data use, distributed over multiple devices their customers may own. Verizon's new "Share Everything" plans will become available on June 28, and will include unlimited calling, texting, and a data package for 10 devices. Tablets, notebooks, hotspots, or smartphones belonging to other members of the family can be part of the bundle for a custom activation fee. Data prices begin at $50 for 1 GB and go up to $100 for 10 GB. Verizon is first out the door to build its billing plans around data use, and analysts expect other data providers like AT&T won't be far behind.
A123 Systems Announces New Tech For Better Batteries
High tech battery maker A123 Systems is announcing a breakthrough that could lead to the production of cheaper, longer lasting lithium ion-batteries for electric cars. If successful, the new tech could serve as a lifeline for a company seeing rough times. The new technology is a step toward eliminating the need for expensive heating and cooling systems to keep A123 System's battery packs pumping, Technology Review explains. A123 Systems, like other new energy ventures, has run into difficult times due to the slow sales of electric vehicles, the New York Times reports: New models like the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt have together sold only 10,000 models this year. It didn't help that A123's partner car maker, Fisker Automotive, hit production delays on its Karma hybrid in 2011, after the battery maker invested $23 million in the company. A recall of defective batteries that same year was a further setback.
Amazon's App Store Coming To Europe This Summer
Amazon's own app store for Android devices is, according to sources speaking to AllThingsD, finally expanding beyond its American cradle and will cross the Atlantic to Europe come the summer. Amazon's expected to announce next week that developers will be able to submit apps soon. The Amazon app store is markedly different from the free market of Google Play, with curated content that's checked for quality by Amazon--very much like the Apple App Store system, and while it can serve apps to many Android devices, its primary focus is Amazon's own Android tablet the Kindle Fire...so naturally this news is being taken as a sign that the Fire may go on sale in more territories too. Apple revealed an international expansion of its App Store during the WWDC keynote yesterday, along with an updated iOS that will compete against most top-line Android devices.
