Completing 7 yrs with RA

Email from Supervisor:

To: Rinith KT
Subject: RE: Completing 7 yrs with RA

Sent: Tuesday, 26 February, 2013

Rinith,

You have done exceptionally well since I have started working here. We have achieved significant milestones in last 5 years and you have played pivotal role in most of them. You're quick learner, sincere, hardworking and dependable which are very good qualities for an IT professional. I am absolutely confident that you will do well under the new leader. I will miss you all after June.

Best of luck

Umesh

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Email to Supervisor

From: Rinith KT
Sent: Tuesday, 26 February, 2013

There are some magical numbers in life to bestow upon and I surely consider completing another gracious milestone of  7 Years as RA Employee

I can keep writing this on-and-on, but let me pause and appreciate some good things that did happen:

• Great Learning – I have said this to a number of my colleagues. The learning experience that I get just by being inside RA is a zillion!!! I learn from every single conversation that happen here. Connection with Microsoft at all innovative levels (GP, SharePoint, Cloud computing, HyperV, SQL Consolidation), other infrastructure support vendors AvePoint, Symantec, McAfee, VMWare,  Websense, Citrix, and so on, is so much fun. I don’t have words to express the same.
• Great people and friends – I think this is the best of the best part. I have made exceptionally great friends in this journey of completing 7 years. Many inside the company with the interactions, and multiples of them outside the company too. Some of ex-colleagues still in constant touch with me across the globe.
• Passion with mix-Community – IT community is endless which keeps on crawling ever since past 17 years of my entry to IT domain and is still going strong. I had also opportunities to share my tech expertise to other communities outside the company.
• New Challenges everyday – It sometimes comes down to what I am doing new to keep my interest levels on the high. You will be surprised that, it is not the routine job functions that keep me busy but the new challenges to try and do something new for self and for the best interest of business continuity and projects in the sessions is what makes every day drive to the office exciting. It is not always that you get to do what you love, but find opportunity to explore and do your bit to learn what you love the most.

So, thank you once again for being an exemplary supervisor which I believe is the strongest pillar behind an employee’s success.

-Rinith

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From: Rinith KT
Sent: Sunday, 26 February, 2012 17:15
To: IT-Group
Subject: completing 6 yrs with RA

Dears,

I would like to take this opportunity to talk about a great milestone here at RA today. Today, I complete 6 years of my journey at the RA. 2 years of a journey filled with stories of struggles from pillar-to-post, and thereafter success, fights, fun and joy with greater IT professionals of different calibres. This journey is made even more memorable because of the larger effort that each one of you put in here at work. I take pride in THANKING each and every one of you here for the continual support given to me. With the advent of this milestone in my life and with RA, I intend to extend myself as a ‘sailor’ and further dig & explore all the possible hidden treasures in me… neither boasting nor going more philosophical.. so, thank you all once again for the candy-coated smiles.

-Rinith

Humans Destroy - A Film

 

Save our ocean, save it from getting spoilt, be the change..! - rinith

This video is about an island in the ocean at 2000 km from any other coast line. Nobody lives there, only birds... and yet they have to face death for our deeds. 

You will not believe your eyes!! Please don't throw anything into the sea. Just look at the consequences!

http://www.midwayfilm.com/

Once in a Blue Moon in August

The term Blue Moon refers to the second full moon in a single calendar month. The first full moon was on 2nd Aug 2012 The second full moon will occur tomorrow the Friday, 31st Aug 2012, a rare spectrum happening once in 3 years. Doesn't mean the moon is blue it would be the normal FULL MOON. 

However, as per NASA's email alert I received earlier this morning I thought of writing it down here what I knew. It could be either Blue Full Moon or the normal lighter red Full Moon which occurs only once in a blue moon. 

With the caveat in mind, A True Blue-Moon can happen with a rare disaster. As a catastrophic result of forest fire or volcanic eruption which could throw plumes of smoke where the atmosphere could get more aerosols which scatters blue light can cause the Moon turn blue..   sounds absurd? This also can happen once in a blue moon, indeed..!

As a matter of scientific fact; the SKY remains blue and the RED BALL 'sun' spurns from yellow to red - The pattern of color spectrum and its scattering wavelengths forms so.

During sunrise and sunset Blue and associated spectrum of colors are scattered by the molecules in the atmosphere more than the visible red light which has a wavelength (lambda) of 650 nanometer.

So the lambda of colors and the aerosol scattering affect makes the natural formation of scenery..! its all about, 'once in a Blue Moon' twin sister of 'Harvest Moon' or the 'Wine Moon' AND cousins of 'Wolf Moon, 'Snow Moon', 'Worm Moon', 'Pink Moon', 'Flower Moon',  'Strawberry Moon', 'Buck Moon', 'Sturgeon Moon', 'Hunters Moon', 'Beaver Moon' and 'Cold Moon'.

Send me the pictures whoever grabs the best FULL MOON. Good Luck..!

Will Air-India recover its scorn and opprobrium with the arrival of Boeing 787 Dreamliner?

Let's hope Air-India's new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the paradigm of a class airliner and an eye-opener for expats..! We have enough time to decide the fate of another 27 by 2016.

787 design highlights

Chak de Air-India

India's first 787 Dreamliner to arrive today

warm wishes to you on Onam..!

നന്മയുടെയും സമൃദ്ധിയുടെയും ഒരു ഓണക്കാലം കൂടി..

Irrespective of caste, creed or relegion, almost all Malayali home celebrate Onam, the biggest festival of Kerala.

all about Onam

battles are lost, technologies never lose

The Apple iphone monopoly and blame game will prevail as long as legacy and patent remains. However think tanks should not forget - to achieve a greater technology revolution, monopoly syndrome should be eradicated.  

Of late, I heard the news Samsung Electronics shares tumbling day-by-day, wiping $12bn off the South Korean giant's market value, as Apple Inc's sweeping legal victory in their US patent battle. A US jury found Samsung had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded Apple $1.05bn in damages in the most closely watched patent trial in years. 

When you share the knowledge more inventions creep up rapidly. Apple had themselves got some of their ideas for their GUI from Xerox. So neither Apple nor Macintosh were the first to create Graphic User Interfaces with a desktop style. All companies use ideas from other companies and try to develop them and bring out their own variations. That is not necessarily stealing. This is how technology advances and inventions bloom.
By and large, i-phone customers and global community has already accepted to adapt new technology no matter it be Apple i-phone or Samsung phablet. As a layman, what's wrong if I get a Samsung product with better, stable and more reliable feature with a cheaper and branded price? 

Best of my Photography

Best of my Photography at Rinith Flickr Slide Show

Happy Independence Day

be proud of being an Indian... India is a land of raw resources where mission impossible haps to possible..

...lets make a revolutionary leap... lets support non-violence and non-corruption India

Vande Mataram

curiosity lands on Mars - sends stunning pictures

The biggest scientific endeavor of the decade accomplished with NASA's Mars rover curiosity descending on the Red Planet today.. I watched it live on NASA's website @ http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Rover sends first raw picture from the surface of the Mars

high resolution pictures expected in next 48 hrs.

The breathtaking moments of NASA scientist, ya it's unfeigned  team work:

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

 

 latest MARS mission library

Earth Observing Laboratory can see real-time pictures of space station.. what's happening there at the moment.

7 minutes of terror, Mars landing today 6th Aug 2012

live on NASA TV today scheduled to touch down inside a vast, ancient impact crater on Sunday at 10:31 pm Pacific time (1101 IST on Monday 6th Aug 2012). The 1 ton Rover will make an unprecedented Mars landing withstanding 1600 deg temp., friction will slow the capsule from its interplanetary cruising speed of 13,200 miles [21,200 kilometers] an hour to 1,050 miles (1,700 kilometers) an hour, according to NASA and finally a supersonic parachute will precisely land the rover to a stop at the identified spot.

Indian Scientist identified the landing site

The rover will operate for 687 Earth days (one Martian year), gathering information on climate, geology and to plan for a human mission to the planet.

see the 7 fateful minutes watch on youtube

India's first mission to Mars – First mission to mars 2013

ISRO Website

WOW!!! Your brain develops the negative

This is interesting..... Though an interesting piece of information forwarded to me, I didn't want to breach the information security aspect by forwarding to all my address chain and make an eye opener for the spammers. So, sharing it here.

This glimpse just takes a few minutes.

Read the instructions.. 

click this negative print to enlarge Instructions:  1. Stare at the red dot on this Indian Actress - Deepika Padukone's nose for approx. 40 seconds.  2. Turn your eyes to a plain surface (blank wall, or white surface). 3. Blink repeatedly and quickly. See the color transformation. as understood, what you should see is a full color representation of the image as your focal point of retina and brain processes the negative image.  Our visual system is constantly processing input and can fool us or create illusions from retinal or cortical processes.  This illusion example is called a negative afterimage that is caused by adaptation of the photo receptors in the retina.  Forcing one's eyes to fixate on a point (in this case the dot on Deepika Padukone nose) reduces the normal jitter or micro jerks that constantly occur as we scan things in our visual world.  The micro saccades normally cause images to "dance" over the surface of the eye eliminating the possibility of too much adaptation if an image remains static over one group of photo receptors for too long.  In fact, if one was to eliminate all movement of the eye, and we were to fixate on a single point, our perception of our visual world would fade away.  So, what happens in this illusion is that when we look from the first image to the grey space or to a large plain surface, the photoreceptors that become adapted no longer signal effectively, but the photoreceptors surrounding the adapted photoreceptors strongly signal perhaps signaling opponent cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) involved in color vision. ..like to see my pencil portraits..? Aishwarya Rai, Miss World (1994) - I drew her portrait in year 2000. ..my Drawings & Paintings..

Before you go for voting..!! Know your Leader

this is great to know about someone especially a candidate who has criminal cases for example this one .. Criminal Records

this is what are cyber surprises..Indian politics needs improvement... which can happen with unity and without corruption.
Decide a Candidate Good or Bad 

Coconut oil watch to the end - A Real Eye Opener

A must Watch video!

Coconut's Medicinal Power 

Coconut Oil touted as Alzheimer's Remedy 

& 

cures

Parkinson's disease

ALS

Epilepsy

Dementia

Schizophrenia

Autism

- Coconut oil has ketone brain fuel and has HDL (good cholesterol)

- Coconut oil is a natural Antibiotic and helps control viruses like HIV & Herpes Viruses

- Coconut oil tends to keep the bacteria down...
watch video at http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/mp4/LJO190v1_WS

route with map anywhere in the world

very impressive site.

travel route to any destination in the world by Air by Bus or by Train and then book online

www.rome2rio.com

Vanishing Trick Revealed

Your credulity is blackmagic witche's and magician's powerful weapon. Magicians Trick revealed.. interested to watch?

David Copperfield - Flying Revealed
vanishing train trick revealed
statue of liberty trick revealed

Craig Dietz: Man with no arms and no legs still swims with confidence

click here to
see Craig on youtube

Craig Dietz is preparing to swim four miles in an open water race despite being born without arms or legsThe Pennsylvania man and motivational speaker says that competing in the race is not about winning but showing people that he can do the same things as everyone else. other reference

Merlin Award for Muthukad

Muthukad, who ventured into the world of magic at the age of 10 now receives International Merlin Award, or the magicians' Oscar for the year 2011 from Tony Hassini, President of the US based International Magicians Society. Gopinath Muthukad is the second Indian to be chosen to receive the Merlin Award after PC Sorkar Jr.

Muthukad's motto is "Magic with a mission" and want to use magic as a tool for social upliftment. He also added the he conducts shows to promote national integration and fight against social evils like alcoholism, tobacco and terrorism.

Muthukad's sustained and rigorous practice takes him in par with David Copperfield. All of the top magicians use sophisticated gadgetry and expensive equipments to mesmerize audiences.

visit Muthukad's magic on youtube: Magician on youtube

also see  David Copperfield's especially when he flies:
David Copperfield - Flying (Levitation),
vanishing Statue of Liberty,
vanishing the Orient Express

vanishing trick revealed...!

World Map summary: Population, Economy, Network

 

click here to know more about history, population, gdp, and more.. concerning all countries listed on the globe

a good informative site all what you have to do is to go with selective clicks and there your are...

Students benefited from Akshayapatra!!

What Akshaya Patra does in BENGALURU (Bangalore)

 

The kitchen from the outside

A three-storey building (in Bangalore, India) which uses Gravity Flow Mechanism developed in-house by our team. Each kitchen has the capacity to cook between 50,000 to 100,000 mid-day meals per day. Costing approximately 9 crores to set up, they are built with funds from public donations.

The kitchen from the inside, consisting of rice cauldrons each of which cooks up to 110kg of rice in 20 minutes. Sambar cauldrons cook up to 1200 litres of sambar in two hours.

It is washed thoroughly on the 2nd floor

Washed rice is sent down the chute to the 1st floor

Rice pours down into steam heated cauldrons for cooking. The entire cooking process takes place on the 1st floor

Super heated steam is used to cook food instead of flame.

When cooking is finished, it is loaded into trolleys

Cooked rice is sent down the chute to the ground floor

It flows down the pipe into containers

Piping hot rice on its way to being loaded into food vans. Around 6000 kilosof rice are cooked daily in each kitchen.

Food materials in Kitchen

Stock in the kitchen

Washed dal and vegetables flows down the chute into sambar cauldron on the 1st floor

Vegetables and dal ready to be cooked

Sambar being cooked on the first floor

Cooked sambar is packed and sent to the food vans to be loaded

Chapati dough is mixed

Heavy rollers flatten the dough into thin sheets

Dough is cut into the classic round shape

making chapatti

collecting all the chapattis

Transporting akshayapatra food through bus

Happy Kids

Students benefited from Akshayapatra!!