Media Invite | Dolby Surrounded Film Makers' Forum - 02 February 2012

Dear Sir,

 

Please find attached and appended below the Media Invite for Dolby Surrounded Film Makers’ Forum scheduled for Thursday, 02 February 2012 at Taj Club House, Chennai (2pm-4pm). Present at the Media Roundtable will be Mr. Will Files, Lead Sound Editor, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol; Mr. Stuart Bowling, Sr. Worlwide Technical Marketing Manager, Dolby Laboratories; Mr. Pankaj Kedia, Country Manager, Dolby Laboratories where they will be discussing the ‘Importance of Quality Sound in Cinema’. The overall theme for the roundtable would be Hollywood and Bollywood are coming together by offering the best practices in audio innovation with industry experts across the globe.

 

 

 

Looking forward to your presence at the roundtable. Do let me know your revert at the earliest.

 

Best Wishes,

 

Aashima Malik

Associate

 

Genesis Burson-Marsteller, South Asia

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efarm in the Himalayas

From chat with efarm.venky@gmail.com: Sent at 19:16 on Thursday ( http://bit.ly/F4TSrivalliK and http://bit.ly/F4TeFarm)

 efarm: ...Launched efarmdirect in the Himalayas! in Dehradun now.. be back in Chennai by month end

 me:  how was the Sam event

 efarm:  went very well .. got great exposure..

he is also very keen to drive innvovations in social enterprises and has promised lot of support

 me:  Himalayas! Sounds great.

 efarm:  farmers are growing organic in freezing ice conditions !!

  efarm:  http://on.fb.me/zF5zde

pictures of farmers in himalays ..

 efarm:  as the land area is very very small (1 nalli) typicavlly 1/10th of acre is the plot.. they are not able to comptee with plain farmers

and their conditions even more worse

...

Chairman - Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam

From email...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gopi Kumar Bulusu <gopi@sankhya.com>
Date: 18 January 2012 07:42
Subject: Chairman - Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam
To: Murali D <dmurali@thehindu.co.in>

(A facebook note I wrote, just thought of sharing with you)

"Chairman" - Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam

Tirumala - Mount Shri - Mount of The Mother of Wealth - is the abode of Lord Venkateswara. For millenia people have visited and offered their prayers to Venkateswara. Naturally, Tirumala is the abode of Lakshmi, living in the lord of the sri (lakshmi) or Tirupathi. What a wonderful name it is.

Tirumala Tirpuathi Devasthanam, or the "Abode of Venkateswara, Situated in the Lord of the Lakshmi, and the home of the Gods."

Venkateswara holds Bhudevi (Earth) and Sridevi (Wealth) close to his heart. What an apt name for the temple town of Tirumala Tirupathi !

My objective in discussing this is not spiritual but literary and to the extent I can use the word in this context, scientific and political.

We often use the term "Chairman" to refer to the head of a group of people that convenes and commands a meeting. Slightly extending the term "Chairman" to include forms of all entities, not just humans - who qualifies to be the Chairman of the "Abode of Lord Sri Venkateswara" ?

Isn't it time that the "Government of Andhra Pradesh" stops "appointing" a " T T D " Chairman ? And isn't it time that the lowly human (without in any way diluting Advaita) can claim eligibility to be the head of the " T T D "

This of course creates a strange problem for the secular democratic government in India -- here is a democratically elected government, claiming the right to appoint the head for the abode for the lord of the lord for all wealths and the abode of all Gods !

What a contradiction !

Isn't it time for the democratically elected governments of India to give up their control (or the lack of it) on the spiritual centers for a billion Indians ? Bring them on parity with those following other religions ?

Is India becoming a leader for the rest of the world by appointing government officers to head spiritual centers or is it a clear case of the egoistic politician ?

If one were to apply the principles of regression, the lord of the lord of all wealths would not only be the chairman of " T T D ", but over association through organization the state of Andhra Pradesh, the whole of India.

This would naturally violate the secular intentions of the democratic republic of India.

In the best of the secular traditions, I humbly submit that state and central governments of India give up control of the spiritual centers of the Sanathana Dharma (or the contemporary Hindu Religion).

A closing note - The Great Sri Krishna Devaraya, who invested and restored large portions of the temple - installed his statues at the entrace to the Tirumala Temple, almost like a guard to the temple ! A strong contrast to peoples representatives of a democratic secular country - MLAs, MPs, Ministers, Prime Ministers, Presidents - who claim jurisdiction over the temple and claim "Very Important Person" status to get past the tens of thousands of the bhaktas waiting in queues to get to the sanctum scantorum on priority. I humbly submit to any one who happens to read this note to introspect

Media Invite for “L’ ATTITUDE 13 05 ” by GLIM

Dear Sir,

Greetings from Great Lakes!!

 

On behalf of Great Lakes, we would like to invite you to Great Lakes campus to explore "L' ATTITUDE 13 05 " where we seek to provide a ground for those who can think beyond tomorrow and imagine things are going to change in the times to come. "L' ATTITUDE 13 05 " invites you to envision the future and be the change, for as they say 'The best way to predict the future is to create it.   

 
The distinguished speakers include:
 
Mr. Faizal Kottikollon, Founder CEO, KEF Holdings, UAE
Dr.Daniel Heiser, Associate Dean, Depaul University, Chicago

Mr.Allwin Agnel, Founder & CEO, Pagalguy.com.

 

 

 

   Date : Thursday, January 19, 2012

                                       Time: 10.30 am

   Venue: Great Lakes Institute of Management

   East Cost Road, Manamai

   Tamil Nadu – 603102

 

Transport will be arranged. 

It will be a privilege for us to have your presence for the event.

 

Media Contacts

Thadeus Ben: thadeus@corvoshandwick.com /M +919840725556

 

Please find attached the invite for the same  

Thanks and Regards

Thadeus

Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick

Chennai

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E: thadeus@corvoshandwick.com

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Media Invite for the launch of the Brand Trust Report 2012

Dear Mr.Murali,

 

Thank you very much for the courtesy extended to me when I spoke to you this afternoon, further to our discussion, please find below media invite for the 2^nd edition launch of BTR followed by Q & A session. Request your valuable presence.  

 

 

(http://www.trustadvisory.info)

 

CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE LAUNCH OF THE SECOND EDITION OF

 

The Brand Trust Report^TM, India Study, 2012

(India’s most comprehensive study of Brand Trust covering 17000 brands)

A result of a primary research based on TRA’s proprietary Trust Matrix^TM

 

Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012

Venue: Courtyard Marriott, Room: Krishna & Godavari,

Anna Salai, Chennai – 600 018

Time: 12.00 Noon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warm regards,

Gopu Ramamoorthy

Principal Consultant

Blue Lotus Communications Pvt. Ltd

No.92,East Coast Chambers

G.N.Chetty Road

T.Nagar, Chennai - 600 017

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ICWAI copying questions in bulk from ICAI exams

From email: 

It is well known that candidates writing examinations are supposed not to copy though it could not be supposed that they should answer originally. However, the only exception to this is rule is 'open book system of examination'.  The recent Applied Direct Taxation paper of Cost Accountants Examination held in December 2011 is somewhat different. Here the paper-setter has copied the questions from various other examinations on wholesale basis without putting any effort towards original thinking.  

It would be interesting to see how the paper-setter or the question paper was managed so extraordinarily by adopting all the words, sentences and numerals ditto from some other examination but cleverly changing only the names which does not require any extraordinarily skill to avoid repetition of names.   

The fiasco  

The following table shows exactly how each of the questions in the question paper were copied from Professional Competence Course (PCC), Integrated Professional Competence Course (IPCC) and Final Examination conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.   

Question No.	Marks	Source – ICAI Examination of May 2011
2(a)	6	Q.No.7(a)(ii) of PCC, May 2011
2(b)	3	Q.No.7(a)(iii) of PCC, May 2011
2(c)	3	Q.No.7(a)(iv) of PCC, May 2011
2(d)	3	Q.No.6(b) of PCC, May 2011
3(a)	5	Q.No.1(a) of PCC, May 2011
3(b)	5	Q.No.6(a) of PCC, May 2011
3(c)	5	Q.No.6(c) of PCC, May 2011
4(c)	5	Q.No.7(a)(3) of IPCC, May 2011
5(a)	8	Q.No.4(a) of IPCC, May 2011
5(b)	7	Q.No.6(a) of IPCC, May 2011
6(a)	8	Q.No.1(A) of CA Final, May 2011
6(b)	7	Q.No.5(a) of IPCC, May 2011
7(a)	8	Q.No.6(A) of  CA Final, May 2011
7(b)	7	Q.No.1(b) of IPCC, May 2011
8(b)	7	Q.No.1(a) of IPCC, May 2011
Total marks for which questions were copied	87

 
 

The paper-setter perhaps was deprived of adopting from any source as the first question of 25 marks consisting of multiple-choice and fill in the blanks do not find place in similar such professional examinations. Probably, questions of this kind if were asked in any other professional examination, the job of paper-setter would have been much easier.  

The pattern of question paper relating to Applied Direct Taxation of ICWAI is that the first question of multiple choice, fill in the blanks etc is for 25 marks. The candidates have to attempt five questions of 15 marks each out of seven such questions given subsequently. In total, the question paper would contain 130 marks. The paper-setter had copied for 87 marks and the source for the balance 43 marks could not be ascertained in spite of great efforts.  

This kind of paper setting could be a child's play but the job as such is not intended to be like that. The appropriate authorities have to take note of the various observations given above and reset the system for its effective functioning.

Bambaram, Online Children's Educational Toy Library

From email:

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From: Santhosh Kumar <santhosh@bambaram.in>
Date: 11 January 2012 18:53
Subject: From Santhosh - Bambaram, Online Children's Educational Toy Library
To: BusinessLine@gmail.com


Dear Murali,

Thank you for your time. It was a pleasure talking about Bambaram today.  As discussed with you, please find below a brief introduction to Bambaram.

Bambaram (www.bambaram.in) is the First Online Children's Educational Toys Rental Library based on the renowned Theory of Multiple Intelligences! Bambaram has 1000+ Toys, Games, Books, CDs/DVDs for kids in the age range of 1 - 12 years. Bambaram serves parents with various corporates/institutions in Chennai - Cavinkare, Mphasis, Scope Eknowledge, Virtusa, Tech Mahindra, Cognizant - to name a few at their doorsteps. 

The subscription fee for the library is nominal and starts from Rs 250 onwards. Parents can save upto 80% by renting Toys from Bambaram instead of buying them. Apart from rental, parents can also choose to buy products they like and registered members can get special offers. 

Bambaram was started by Santhosh Kr Subramanian, a VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur alumnus and Parul Sarin, a XIMB (Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar) alumnus.

Please do check bambaram.in and do give us your feedback. If you love this idea and think this can have positive impact on millions of parents out there, you could help us break the news through your show.

Look forward to hear from you,

Regards,

Santhosh Kr Subramanian

Director

+91 99623 87624

www.bambaram.in

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