Saturday, August 18, 2012

An new antique to my collection


i have a chocolate when i give 25 paise to a shopkeeper on early days. 25 paise is said to be a big amount when we have that on our pencil box during my primary schooling as our parents use to leave and pick up from the school during those days. They used to take care of all the expenditures on the way to school. Whenever i get a chace to come alone or go to shop alone during those days i used to chew a chocolate by exchanging the 25 paise with the shop keeper. After few days as i grow old and went to school alone or with my friends we used to spend in 10s daily for snacks that too in school canteen and the shop thats near by our school. the 25 paise slowly started to disapper from us. suddenly i started seeing the circulation of 25paise drastically. whenever i used to get a change there i can see atleast two paise in that. I was liitle bit surprised where this 25 paise had gone these days. And after few days when i gave 25 paise for the shopkeeper the same shopkeeper returned me as sorry sir this coin does not value anymore. one side i was shocked but on the other side i was liitle bit happy as i have a lot of 25 paise with me. Then i came to know that the government of India had stopped the circulation of 25 paise from july 2011. The value of any currency after the circulation period is  known only by the numismatics.The hobby of collecting coins is called numismatics. i was made numismatics mainly because of my friends[shop keepers] as i got many 5 paise, 10 paise, 20 paise and now 25 paise that too before the end of circulation or when the government anounces the end of circulation of any coin. Each and every coin has a seperate history and the seperate characteristics either by the metal in which they are made or the design it has. After the circulation period the value of coin becomes more and more as it becomes older.   

GOOD BYE 25 PAISE FROM CIRCULATION AND WELCOME AS AN ANTIQUE TO MY COLLECTION!!!!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Intel Xeon processor E7 family

Intel, the world leader in computing innovation yesterday announced the launch of Intel Xeon processor E7 family




Enabling IT departments to better manage data-intensive environments through new security and reliability features and record-breaking performance, a new family of server processors that accelerate mission-critical computing have been announced by Intel, a company statement said here.

The record-setting Intel Xeon processor E7-8800/4800/2800 product families build on Intel's previous generation of server processors to set a new standard for high-end computing applications, including business intelligence, real-time data analytics and virtualization. Strengthening the line of defence for data centers, the new processors also provide advanced security features that ensure greater data integrity, the release said.


IT managers seeking to achieve greater economic efficiencies can replace 18 dual-core servers with a single Xeon processor E7-based server.


"Intel has been changing the economics for mission-critical computing server deployments for more than a decade, and today we are raising the bar yet again," Intel Corporation's Senior Vice President and General Manager of Sales & Marketing Group, Tom Kilroy said.


Monday, April 18, 2011

WHO IS "ANNA HAZARE"?

He once contemplated suicide and even wrote a two-page essay on why he wanted to end his life. Anna Hazare was not driven to such a pass by circumstances. He wanted to live no more because he was frustrated with life and wanted an answer to the purpose of human existence.


The story goes that one day at the New Delhi Railway Station, he chanced upon a book on Swami Vivekananda. Drawn by Vivekananda's photograph, he is quoted as saying that he read the book and found his answer - that the motive of his life lay in service to his fellow humans.

Today, Anna Hazare is the face of India's fight against corruption. He has taken that fight to the corridors of power and challenged the government at the highest level. People, the common man and well-known personalities alike, are supporting him in the hundreds swelling to the thousands.



For Anna Hazare, it is another battle. And he has fought quite a few. Including some as a soldier for 15 years in Indian Army. He enlisted after the 1962 Indo-China war when the government exhorted young men to join the Army.


In 1978, he took voluntary retirement from the 9th Maratha Battalion and returned home to Ralegaon Siddhi, a village in Maharashtra's drought-prone Ahmadnagar. He was 39 years old.

He found farmers back home struggling for survival and their suffering would prompt him to pioneer rainwater conservation that put his little hamlet on the international map as a model village.

The villagers revere him. Thakaram Raut, a school teacher in Ralegaon Siddhi says, "Thanks to Anna's agitations, we got a school, we got electricity, we got development schemes for farmers.''


Anna Hazare's fight against corruption began here. He fought first against corruption that was blocking growth in rural India. His organization - the Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Andolan (People's movement against Corruption). His tool of protest - hunger strikes. And his prime target - politicians.


His weapon is potent. In 1995-96, he forced the Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra to drop two corrupt Cabinet Ministers. In 2003, he forced the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) state government to set up an investigation against four ministers.

Maharashtra stalwarts like Sharad Pawar and Bal Thackeray have often called his style of agitation nothing short of "blackmail".

But Anna Hazare has soldiered on relentless. From one battle to another in his war against corruption. He fought from the front to have Right to Information (RTI) implemented. He is now fighting for the implementation of the Jan Lokpal Bill, an anti-corruption bill drafted by leading members of civil society that envisages speedy action in corruption cases against everyone, including ministers and senior bureaucrats.

More than 30 years after Anna Hazare started his crusade, as the 72-year-old observes a hunger strike in Delhi against large-scale corruption at the national level, nothing really has changed except the scale of his battle.



Source:http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/who-is-anna-hazare-96883