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What were Apple's 1981 "Awful Bullflap memos"?
The “Awful Bullflap” memos were a satirical, anonymous Apple internal publication made in a “press release” or “internal memo” format similar to the official “Apple Bulletin” memos. The name even fit into the same number of letters as the Bulletin’s distinctive banner.In the imaginary world of the memos, the “Awful Bullflap” reports on the activities of “Awful Computer” on “Badly Drive” in “Cuspiduro, CA” in a way that ‘coincidentally’ corresponds to what the “Apple Bulletin” might report about “Apple Computer” on “Bandley Drive” in “Cupertino, CA.” “Awful” stands for “Apple” and “Bullflap” euphemistically stands in for “Bullshit.” The slang term “flap” also means “agitation, panic, or fluster,” adding an additional layer of meaning.The Apple archives at Stanford have three specimens of “Awful Bullflap” from April 1981. It is not clear if these were the only three memos or if more were made.The first memo is styled as a press release and describes a fictional testing facility being opened at Sing Sing prison, presumably a protest against setting up a low-cost 3rd party facility in place of Apple Employees.The second memo describes a “Proposed Sacrificial Offering” of shareholders, probably mocking stock offering memos of the era.The third memo is of the form of an internal memo (which is how companies communicated before e-mail, you younglings) from “C. A. Drakkula” (Probably a mashup of Count Dracula and Mike Markkula) making fun of an internal reorganization. As in all the Bullflap memos, the thinly veiled “changed” names are pretty indicative of the names they represent.MAKING OF THIS ANSWERI first saw this question two years ago, and I was intrigued. I followed it. When I searched for “Awful Bullflap” I found that Stanford University housed the original Apple Computer, Inc. records, 1977-1998 in the Special Collections & University Archives.When I looked further, I found that members of the public could request access to these archives and read them in the Field Reading Room. Since the special collections live in offsite storage and not in the library itself, Stanford requires at least 48 hours advance notice to transport the materials to the reading room.I posted this information in the comments of the question and said, “hey, someone local should do this!”Crickets.In September 2017, I knew I would have an afternoon appointment near Stanford, and I knew with enough advance notice to request the material. So I did! I blocked the two hours on my calendar before my meeting to park, go to the Green Library at Stanford, and see this mysterious material that is not available in digital form, and then get to my other appointment.Thankfully, Stanford is generous in allowing public access to a lot of rare archives, and they have a straightforward, well documented process that I successfully used to access this rare and unique collection.First, I requested the material through Access to Apple Collections on Tuesday, setting an appointment to view on Friday. After a painless on-line registration process. I got an email which let me track the progress of the material from an offsite location to the Field Reading Room. Before I left for Stanford, I could check that it had made it to the reading room.On Friday afternoon I departed for the labyrinthine alternate universe of Stanford. I meandered among an alphabet soup of vaguely threatening permit parking signs that festoon the campus and reflect the rigorous hierarchy of privilege there. I finally found a visitor lot and paid for parking. The clock began ticking!Using Google Maps to navigate my walk, I found my way to the Green Library where a gentleman pointed me to a computer that registered my existence by scanning my drivers license and ingesting my vital information. Once the computer acknowledged my existence, I checked in to the library and printed an adhesive name tag granting me admission to the hallowed halls.I found my way to the Field Reading Room on the second floor of the Bing Wing and identified myself there. On a separate computer system tracking users of archival material, I registered myself and signed in. They gave me a locker key in return for my ID so that I could leave everything I brought in a secure locker. I was permitted only a laptop and phone, and free Wi-Fi access. I locked up my stuff, washed my hands and headed in.Now that I had cleared all of the administrative hurdles, they gave me this:Then I sat down at their posh, academic-looking desk with a wide, comfy chairAnd found the object in question:This is what research looked like before Google, kids! (EDIT: as Sean Owczarek points out, much modern research looks this way, too, especially for history! Contrary to popular belief, not everything is on Google.)It was fun to research this answer. I hope the question followers enjoy it. There were additional questions in the comments. If they turn into actual questions, I can probably answer them.
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At the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR), given the choice, which is the better place to join, IMG or SDSLabs? Why?
Disclaimer: I am a member of SDSLabs. This answer reflects my personal views and are not the views of SDSLabs as a whole. SDSLabs as a whole chose to ignore this but I think otherwise.Let's start off with some stats. I'm in 3rd year and have been part of SDSLabs' recruitment process in 2nd and 3rd year. So for these two years, here are the most relevant stats for this question:2013: 5 out of 6 candidates who were selected in both chose SDSLabs over IMG2014: 5 out of 5 candidates who were selected in both chose SDSLabs over IMGYou don't see stats here because no one from SDSLabs answered, IMG definitely wasn't going to quote these numbers and the anonymous guys won't know these numbers.I cannot be sure of why the people who chose SDSLabs chose so but I can talk about myself. I did not appear for IMG test. Why? Simple. IMG projects are all institute projects. I don't want to be dictated on what I should work on when I'm in college. I love my freedom. Plus, when I was in my first year, I had attended the open lectures conducted by SDSLabs on topics like HTML, CSS, PHP, JS etc. Even when I was not part of SDSLabs, I already knew about them and the quality of work they were doing. I could see their enthusiasm and interest towards technology through these lectures and outsignNow programs. IMG, on the other hand, was like a closed garden.Also, I think this is relevant too, IMG rejected people likeCapt Nemo (Abhay Rana), who is without doubt one of the best developer in IIT RoorkeeHarshil Mathur, one of best hackers that IITR has seenChetty Arun, one of the best designer in IITRAbhishek Das, this guy has GSOC, Google student ambassador for IITR and OWASP internship under his belt.This says volumes about their recruitment process.One answer here mentionsI see channeli coming up with a whole new design with many more apps almost every month (yaadein, thinktank, the mcm form and lots more and yeah maybe they should do something about the iitr website).Yaadein is not a new app. They make it online at the end of every academic calendar.Thinktank is also an old app.MCM form is not an app. If it is one then all submission forms in the world are apps.Also, the new channeli design was under development for 3 years before its launch.The same answer saysIn my experience I have seen far more changes in the channeli as compared to sdslabs ( where the only changes I have seen is the addition of a bunch of questions on code-village that too I have heard is done by PAG).Here's SDSLabs' timeline of stuff done in the year 2013:January 2013: Developed Cognizance 2013 Main WebsiteFebruary 14 2013: Launched Campus CupidFebruary 2013: Codematics, SrishtiMarch 2013: Conducted Backdoor, IITR's first CTF competition, and this had international participationMarch 2013: Conducted Insomnia and this had international participation too.April 2013: Won Deloitte Collegiate Cyber Security Competition for 2 years in a row.Summers: Released IIT JEE Rank ListAugust-October 2013: Lectures on HTML, CSS, JS, Ubuntu Meetup, Linux Installation partySeptember 4 2013: Conducted Codeblitz 4October 17 2013: Launched ErdosOctober 17 2013: Launched new CodebotOctober 19 2013: Conducted Syntax Error, IITR's first hackathonOctober 24 2013: Launched StudyportalOctober 24 2013: Launched EchoOh and before I forget, added a few problems on Code Village with the help of PAG some time in the year I guess we did not promote our activities well enough. I apologise for that and promise that we'll do better. In the meanwhile you should follow us on FB: SDSLabs SDSLabs not only develops apps, they also promote technology and software in the campus of IITR. If I were to face the question ever, I wouldn't need more than a split second to settle upon SDSLabs.PS: I had seen this question before but did not answer because I wanted to post it with the stats for 2014.EDIT: Shaumik Daityari's edit clarifies on tasks done by IMG. Let's not get lost in description of work because if I added one for each of the points in timeline that I have listed, this answer would become too long to read. The stats remain the main part of my answer.
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Where was your first duty station when you were in the US Navy? What was your rating?
“Where was your first duty station when you were in the US Navy? What was your rating?”Quick answer:Duty Station: USS Lockwood (FF-1064).This is DESRON 15 (missing one destroyer) in the mid-’70s, comprised of four frigates and two destroyers.Rating: Sonar Technician, Guns (STG)Knox-class Sonar Main Control. The door in the back goes to the 01-level weather decks, port side. That’s right, we faced astern!The long answer.RTC (Recruit Training Command) San Diego, CA9 weeks of training (1976 was the last 9-week course, and NOBODY carried a rifle. Training was 8-weeks, starting in 1977, and included rifles for the Rifle recruits to carry.Training began as a Recruit (Not Seaman Recruit, just “Recruit”). Upon graduation, we were all E-1, either Seaman Recruit (SR), Fireman Recruit (FR), Airman Recruit (AR), Constructionman Recruit (CR), Hospitalman (HR), or Dentalman Recruit. Seamen do Deck and Administrative Ratings, Firemen do Engineering and Hull ratings, Airmen do Aviation ratings, Constructionmen do SeaBee rates, Hospitalmen do Medical rates, and Dentalmen do Dental rates. Based on your enlistment contract, you either have a designated rating path, or enlist as an undesignated recruit. If you do that, then, depending on the “needs of the Navy,” you will be assigned to the Deck or Engineering path.How can you tell by looking at one? At the Recruit level, you can’t. Recruits have no stripes. Just an empty sleeve. Starting at Apprentice (E-2), the double diagonal stripe’s color tells the story. Engineering is red, Aviation is green, SeaBees are sky blue, and the rest are red (on a blue uniform) or navy blue (on a white uniform). Khaki uniforms have a collar insignia instead of stripes.I graduated as a Seaman Recruit.Company 952 — the last “Special Company” in 1976. Special Companies were formed weekly (“Rifle” Companies were formed daily). Special Companies were formed for PR (Public Relations), comprised of the Rifle Team, 50 Flag Team (50 US State flags), Drum and Bugle Corps, and Bluejackt Choir (I was a baritone). We performed every Friday in front of Training Regiment HQ in the morning, and at the graduation Ceremony for the current week’s Graduation Class, on the Preble Field parade ground. Plus, the Choir had the volunteer opportunity to participate in the weekly Mass at the base Chapel. Most of us participated, for the opportunity to meet girls and have free donuts. We spent the first five weeks doing the same training as the Rifle companies, PLUS early training that the Rifle Companies would be getting in five weeks. While they were doing their final four weeks of training, we spent our time learning, drilling and practicing our routines.FLEASWTRACENPAC (Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center Pacific), San Siego, CA.Sonar A-School, divided into Phase 1 and Phase 2. My four-year enlistment contract only gave me an guaranteed A-School slot and, on graduation of Phase 1, a striker’s designation (a rating).Upon arrival, I was advanced to undesignated Seaman Apprentice (SA) (E-2). That meant that if I failed Phase 1, I would be sent to the Fleet with no striker designation (no rating) and assigned to a ship’s Deck Division (mostly grinding, chipping, and painting a ship’s deck, hull and superstructure). Once there, you’re given exposure to all of the different Deck ratings (everything that’s not Engineering or Aviation), and advised to choose one).At that point, once I finished Phase 1, I would be given my Striker’s badge, and become an STGSA (Sonar Technician, Guns, Seaman Apprentice). Still an E-2. If I failed Phase 2, I would be sent to the fleet as an STGSA, to the ASW Division. Once I finished Phase 2 training, I would be advanced to STGSN (E-3) (Sonar Technician, Guns, Seaman).Phase 1 is basic sonar operations, learning on generic sonar systems, and how sonar works.Phase 2 is advanced sonar operations, learning how to operate a specific sonar system. For surface ship sonar, those were SQS-23, SQQ-23 PAIR, SQS-26CX, SQS-53, or SQS-56. Each one was for a specific class of ships (frigates, destroyers or cruisers).I received training on the SQS-26CX, which was on all frigates (FF) (except Oliver Hazard Parry class) and California class nuclear-powered cruisers (CGN).While going through training, I was told about an advancement option. If I extended my enlistment contract to six years, I would be guaranteed a C-School billet (sometime in the next three years) and automatic advancement to Petty Officer Third Class (E-4), derisively known, in the fleet, as a “Pushbutton Third” because you didn’t earn it by taking the advancement test. In the fleet, STGSNs HATED pushbuttons, because it made their advancement nearly impossible (In the Navy, you are not advanced until somebody in your desired rate has advanced and left an empty slot. Most of the empty PO3 slots are filled by pushbuttons.)The available pushbutton slots are filled well in advance, but if somebody with that slot fails A-School, the slot is open. There’s a waiting list for the program, and if one doesn’t open up, you go to the fleet as planned, on your 4-year contract.I got my pushbutton slot halfway through Phase 2, signed the 2-year extension, and was advanced to STGSN. If I failed Phase 2, I would be sent to the fleet as an STGSN, as before, but STILL on a 6-year contract (It’s not the Navy’s fault if I failed).I graduated, was advanced to STG3 (E-4), and the “needs of the Navy” sent me to the fleet. I would get my C-School AFTER I completed my first sea tour.FTG (Fleet Training Group), San Diego, CAReported on the Fourth of July 1976.Four weeks of required pre-reporting fleet training, 2-weeks of Damage Control training, and 2-weeks of Fire Fighting School.My first duty station, a Knox class frigate, was USS Lockwood (FF-1064), 3rd Division (Part of Weapons Department. 1st Division was Deck, 2nd Division was Guns and AAW Missiles. 3rd Division was Sonar, Torpedoes, and ASROC ASW Missiles). She was home-ported in Yokosuka Japan, part of DESRON 15 (four Knox class frigates and two destroyers), a member of the 7th Fleet. The rest of the ships were an aircraft carrier, USS Midway (CV-41), which carried F-4 Phantoms, A-7 Corsairs and miscellaneous aircraft, and two cruisers, USS Oklahoma City (CG-5) and USS Worden (CG-18). Oklahoma City was the 7th Fleet Flagship.It took a few weeks to get there. I spent one week at Naval Station Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, waiting for a flight to Japan. Once in Japan, I spent six weeks in transient quarters, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, waiting for the ship to return from sea.The first two weeks, we attended a mandatory inter-cultural training course, to keep us from screwing-up with the Japanese. We were forbidden from going off base until we graduated. They enforced it by taking our Military ID cards. No ID, you can’t go off base. They checked everybody at the Main Gate (Not just for ID. They also have to approve of your civilian attire at the gate. Example: If your pants have belt loops, they need to be filled with a belt.)The last two days of the class was a practical test. We were divided into groups of four (my group was led by a female Lieutenant). We were given a list of places to go (in Tokyo), things to do, and what proof was acceptable to make sure we did everything (train tickets, Polaroid pictures, etc..). One of ours was to go to the University of Tokyo, find some students, and complete a list of questions. We found a group, and asked them what they were studying.NOTE!!! This is NOT a racist account! It’s what actually happened!“What are you studying?”“Raw.”“What?”“Raw.”“We don’t understand.”“I study to be rawyer.”“??? Oh! Lawyer!”“Hai! Rawyer!”(Native Japanese have a difficult time with the English “L” sound. Japanese has no equivalent.)We passed, and then just waited for our ship.One night, after midnight, they rousted everybody going to Lockwood, “Pack your sea bags and wait for a van.” The van took us to the Tugboat Pier. The tugboat took us for an hour-long ride through Sagami-wan (Sagami Bay), going in circles, waiting. Lockwood finally showed up, doing about 15 knots. She made a beautiful (to an inexperienced sailor) Williamson Turn, scrubbing the speed down to about 5 knots, for the transfer.The transfer was done by Jacob’s Ladder, throwing the sea bag up to waiting hands and climbing about six feet.We arrived after breakfast, but the cooks kept two tables open for us and gave us a good breakfast.Side note. My recruiter was a friend and mentor (and boss for a few weeks while still in high school) before I enlisted. Seeing my huge appetite, he told me “I know you. The first place you’re going to go when you get to your first ship is the mess decks.” He was right! HAHAAfter reporting aboard, getting your berthing assignment (always stow your gear first), and getting all the paperwork finished, we were assigned to a temporary Indoctrination Division. We were given a list of things to do, and spent one day with each division on the ship, to see what everybody else in the crew does. This included all divisions, not just the ones in your own Department.Once assigned to my division they gave me several things.Assignment to a Work Center. There are several Work Centers in each Division. It’s the lowest administrative level, all designed around the 3M equipment maintenance system. 3rd Division had several. (SQS-26 sonar, SQS-35 sonar, SQR-17 sonar, MK 114 fire control system (those were all for Sonar Technicians), MK 46 torpedoes and MK 32 torpedo tubes (Torpedoman’s Mates), and ASROC missiles (Gunner’s Mates, Technical).Each Work Center had a Work Center Supervisor, either a PO2 (E-5) or PO3 (E-4). I was in the SQS-26 Work Center (WS01, I think. It’s been 40 years). My Work Center Supervisor was an STG2.Assignment of a particular piece of equipment to be responsible for maintaining. Mine was the WQC-2 Underwater Telephone. It had three units. The Equipment Unit was in a compartment (Sonar Switchgear Space) deep down in the bottom of the ship (three decks straight down a vertical tunnel, starting on Deck 2 (in other words on deck 5). The top of the tunnel had a “circle X-ray” hatch (which means you can pass through at any time, but have to shut and dog it after passing through — what a pain in the butt!), and an eductor at the bottom (for emptying the bilge). The Control Unit was in Sonar Main Control, on the 01 Level in the forward superstructure. The Remote Control Unit was on the Bridge, next to the Captain’s Chair (horror of horrors to a newbie! Working in front of the Captain!!! “What if I screw up?” Of course, the Captain wouldn’t know if you did or not).Assignment of an equipment space to clean. Of course, being junior man, I was assigned the Sonar Switchgear Space. This included emptying the drip-trays for the two compartment dehumidifiers, and doing “sweepers” every day. Besides being a place that’s hard to get to (I enjoyed it, myself. It helped me stay in good physical condition and kept me away from the more senior assholes, who were too lazy to go down the tunnel), many people didn’t like it, because the compartment was forward of the Collision Bulkhead. That’s the first bulkhead in the hull that is one piece, going down from the Main Deck (Deck 1). If the ship gets in a collision, the stuff forward of the Collision Bulkhead is supposed to crumple, including any sailor who just happens to be there at the time.Assignment of a watch section, watch station, battle station, abandon ship station, in-port watch-section, in-port watch station, etc.. At sea, my watch and battle stations were in Sonar Control, as a Sonar Operator. In-port, my watch-station was on the Quarterdeck, as the POOW (Petty Officer Of the Watch), the armed assistant to the in-port Officer Of the Deck. I was armed with a Colt 1911A1 .45 pistol.Given three PQS (Personal Qualifications Standards) cards: Ship Damage Control, Sonar Operator, and POOW. I couldn’t stand those watches, except “under training” until I was qualified. No stress there, of course. LOL.Given a “sea daddy,” the guy who is responsible to train me on everything I needed to know to function on a ship. Of course, they put me under the Division’s only STGSN, who hated me, instantly, because I was a pushbutton third. He was the first person I ever had a fist-fight with (HE attacked ME, because he was pissed at something he thought I had done (I didn’t, but “perception is reality”).So, I was an STG3 (a surface ship sonarman).At sea, I stood watch (four hours on, eight hours off) in sonar, and off watch, spent my normal workday maintaining whatever they told me to, and cleaning whatever they told me to.In port, when in in a “working” port, we were in four sections (restricted to the ship one day out of four), where I stood two four-hour watches on the Quarterdeck. In a “liberty” port, we were divided into five sections, where I stood THREE four-hour watches every day (to maximize everybody’s “liberty” time).In a “working” port (Yokosuka, Japan, Chinhai, South Korea, Subic Bay, Philippines), we had an eight-hour work day, M-F. In a “liberty” port (Taipei, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bunbury, Australia, Bandar Abbas, Iran), there was no “work day” and each person was responsible to accomplish scheduled maintenance work on a “liberty” day. The maintenance schedules were watched, daily, by the supervisors, and if Thursday rolled around and you had’t finished that week’s maintenance, your liberty was canceled until you did. The duty section did all of the “sweepers” during the day.For unmarried crew, the more senior men would often rent an apartment off-base in Yokosuka. Everybody else lived on the ship, 24/7/365.
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What are the innovative decisions taken by Delhi AAP Government, which makes them different from other parties?
Although there have been many policy changes, many ways to stop corruptions, many arrests in case of corruption, this question seeks certain innovative decisions, not particularly related to better administration, but out of the box initiatives.Hence I would skip the usual stuff and come to the one which blew my mind, and has the potential to change the health sector across the country:1. The Aam Aadmi ClinicUsually a dispensary is built by Rs 20 Million / 2 Crore. However, these Aam Aadmi Clinics are being built in a frugal budget of Rs 1.5 Million / 15 Lakh.One thing apart from the frugal budget and the nice output that I like about this particular clinic is that ramp at the left. Most health facilities in India miss that.A view from inside: 1,000 such clinics are planned all over Delhi and 500 such clinics are planned in current fiscal year. The plan is to reduce the load and on bigger hospitals. There is a waiting room, a doctor's room and a pharmacy as well, which distributes free medicines. It is also equipped with state-of-the-art blood testing facility. A gynaecologist and paediatrician will visit the clinic once every week, besides regular doctors posted at these clinics. Ambulance services will be arranged so that if any patient is referred from these clinics to hospitals there is a facility to take him or her there.As of now, 180-200 patients visit this particular facility every day.More discussion on these clinics has taken place on Quora at What are the pros and cons of the Neighbourhood Clinics launched by the AAP government in Delhi? 2. Crowd-Sourcing the Yearly BudgetThis year, Mohalla Sabhas (community discussions) were done in 11 constituencies in Delhi. Not only that, people from industry were also consulted. The end result, the final budget impressed everyone, and shut the mouths of the cynics and the critics. The accolades came from CII - CII CEOs on Delhi BudgetThe members also appreciated the Government for incorporating many of recommendations and suggestions submitted by CII Nobel Laurette Kailash Satyarthi - Kailash Satyarthi on Twitter From industry to child activists, eveyone loved the budget. Not only was the budget for Education and Health sector hiked, the cash strapped MCD was also given adequate money to fix itself (I think this is the last chance for MCD).Read Ten Highlights From Aam Aadmi Party's First Delhi Budget 3. Redesigning Delhi RoadsDelhi already has a huge road network and the width of the roads is also decent enough. Still it continues to battle with the traffic issues. To counter that, it has been decided that a better use of available road space would be done, instead of building new flyovers.1,260km of Delhi roads to be redesignedThe target is ZERO fatalities on the road as well.The BRTS was also scrapped, which was only adding to more chaos in the city and it is being planned from scratch now. AAP is focussing more on better design, rather than taking up a haphazard approach. The new BRTS is being planned at Rs 20-30 Crore per KM, against the older one which was built at Rs 50 Crore per KM.The height of the foothpath would also be reduced to 6 inches, when the current foothpaths are much higher. The plan is to add the cycle tracks as well, widen the footpaths and ensure that the public transport is given the priority.4. Bus MarshalsMuch has been talked about the women's security, or a lack of it in Delhi. An initiative to make at least the bus ride safe for women of the city is done by deploying bus marshals in DTC buses. Delhi government to deploy 4,000 marshals in city busesAlso, CCTV cameras have already been installed in 200 buses as of now and more buses would be covered as well in the future. 5. Power from unconventional sourcesDelhi doesn't generate power and has to buy from other states. In order to counter this, the AAP government is taking initiative in few areas.Solar Power: There have been few developments in this area:AAP Government Plans to Install Solar Panel on Roofs of Bus Shelters: A target to generate 1000 MW from Bus Shelters in next 5 years has been set.Delhi: Discoms buy solar power from rooftop units: Not directly under the Delhi government, with Delhi government being a stakeholder at 49%, the DISCOMs are now going to buy solar power from rooftop units. The two BSES on Monday said they had already started net-metering at six locations in the city — four residential and one commercial building in south Delhi and a school in the east. It would save them Rs 3,000 to Rs 32,000 a month. Delhi Jal Board commissions first hydropower plant - Think about power being generated out of the effluent coming out of the sewage treatment plants! And it produces produce 20,000 kWh of electricity per year! That's how innovative this AAM government in Delhi is.“It is a pilot project which has been set up free-of-cost. We are also exploring the possibility of replication of this ‘Green Power Generation’ at other installations as well”Also, there are plans to create many garbage to electricity plants across Delhi, however a feasibility study is going on, if it should be done on a large scale.6. Toilet to Tap WaterNot that it is being done for the first time anywhere, however what the catch in this news is that the water to the Delhi Secretariat would now be supplied from the Toilet-To-Tap water treatment plans. CM Kejriwal drinks treated raw sewage water“Similar plants in every colony would do away with the need to have sewer pipelines and water pipelines to transport them to big plants. Water can be produced from raw sewage at the local level at small plants such as this”The plan is to build a large number of such small plants across the city, perhaps in every colony, so that there would not be any need to have sewer pipelines and water pipelines to transport them to big plants.The idea is very ambitious, however if it is implemented successfully, it can change the face of the city.7. Delhi to be the first e-StateCome 2016, and there won't be any paper work being done inside the Delhi Government ministries. The government has approved the e-office plan and it would be implemented by December. This would streamline the processes better, introduce transparency, remove corruption and expedite the processesDelhi to be first state to go paperless in all govt departments“Delhi will be the first state to implement e-office in all its departments. In the first phase, it will be implemented in 15 departments. Simultaneously, all other departments and their attached offices will also start necessary preparations for its implementation. In these 15 departments, there will be no physical movement of files from December 1,” an official said. Wait, there is more to it. Remember that every MLA (and MP) gets certain amount of funds for local area development? Do you know what happens to them? Most of us don't.All this information would be soon available online as well - Now monitor Delhi MLA projects onlineThe online application, hosted at Welcome to the MLALAD, has been developed by the 'Delhi e- Governance Society' and will be coordinated by the newly- formed body Delhi Urban Development Authority (DUDA)Also, now acquiring government certification for marriage, income, domicile, caste, nationality, birth and death will soon be replaced by a virtual experience on the e-district platform in Delhi - Govt papers now just a click awayMore on the e-State initiative, the Delhiites get e-locker for papersCitizens can now digitally store revenue department certificates as well as identification documents including Aadhaar, voter ID and driving licence. The portal is accessible on smartphone and a mobile app is also on the way. Users may upload documents and place digitally-signed certificates in the locker. Once a file is processed and certificate generated, the locker is the space where it goes to by default. The user can access his document through the unique password issued at the time of registration Of course, all this would be very handy with the free WiFi coming up at various schools, colleges and 1000 select places soon, but that is already a given.Delhi would soon be the first state to fulfill the Indian dream of Digital India!8. EducationSchools, colleges, argh!! We all have been through the abysmal condition of the public schools in the country. I was lucky enough to study in a Central school, but it was not all that rosy as well. I remember seeing the roof of my school blown away after heavy rains and winds once. My wife still laughs her heart out listening to it.We don't want to send our kids to government schools. Municipality schools are a strict no-no for us. I don't have to mention that the government schools in much of Europe are awesome. However, I was surprised to know that even in case of USA, people prefer government schools than private schools.AAP, unlike all other parties, steeply hiked the education budget by 106%, as I mentioned above. Apart from that, there have been other developments as well:The Education department has decided that it will now monitor all nursery schools and playschools running on private land as well - Playschools on private land to be monitored Education dept has introduced skills training in high school. Besides Academic degree, student will pass out with skills degree47-50 new schools were planned to be built this fiscal year, however recently CM Arvind Kejriwal announced that the work for 236 schools have already startedNSIT has been upgraded to a university now - Cabinet approves varsity status for NSIT - The Times of IndiaCCTV cameras are being installed in the schools of Delhi. That would improve both discipline in the government schools and the quality of education as well - Install CCTV cameras, schools toldThere cannot be any illegal demands from the parents from the schools and the Delhi Government has been very strict on this - School donation: Parents get help to report illegal demand. Not just that, Action Against Delhi Schools if Parents Not Allowed Mobiles Education dept has introduced skills training in high school. Besides Academic degree, student will pass out with skills degree.AAP govt offers higher education loans to studentsThe scheme is being introduced to help students who wish to pursue higher education. A loan of up to Rs. 10 lakh will be given by the bank with the government as a guarantor. The student will get a gap year after completing his/her education, after which the repayment period of the loan has been earmarked at 15 years. The interest rate will be 2% in addition to the base rate offered by the bank. The scheme also has a mandatory insurance with a varying premium.In order to help the kids of construction workers with better education, the Delhi Government gave Rs 15 Crore to the Education ministry to help with the education of children of 26,451 registered construction labourers, who are studying in 266 schools of the city. Also a database of these kids is being prepared for the last fiscal. - Delhi Government Announces Increase in Aid for Construction Workers I just couldn't stop myself when it came to education. There are many good initiatives to make education not only affordable but also of a better quality. Investing in our kids is supposedly the best investment indeed.9. Employment GenerationFor all the schemes, life is miserable if you don't have a job to do. There have been many initiatives by AAP government, which sadly other governments are not taking, to provide employment to the youth:Apart from the initial plan of backlog of 20k posts to be cleared by year-end, the Delhi government has been holding job summit as well - Delhi government to hold a large-scale job summit. After the job summit in the first two weeks of August, which gave jobs to 2000 people - 2000 people get offer letters, Delhi govt to organise 2nd job summit soon. However a true boost to employment generation can only come from private sector, and for that there have been many tax reliefs, plus a boost to women entrepreneurs - Kejriwal assures help to women entrepreneurs. Also, VAT procedures have been simplified - VAT made trader-friendly, tax form deadline extended.10. Fight against Drugs MenaceLet's face it. Only AAP MLAs have been the ones which have been mercilessly bashed for their fight agains the drug menace that has occupied many parts of Delhi. In 2014 it was Somnath Bharti, in 2015 it is Alka Lamba. Local friends tell me that drug peddlers have fled the Malviya Nagar area, and the fight against drugs by AAP carries on. They can be abused as drama-queens, but the truth is that they are sincere. Read Delhi, Drugs And Alka Lamba - Time To Defame AAP! to know more about the Alka Lamba case.11. Curbing PricesI thought of writing 5 points, then thought of writing 10, now this is the 11th one. I promise this is the last as of now.When the whole country was crying over the onions, the AAP government at Delhi was the only one which was able to first provide some relief, and then substantial relief by its sincere efforts.Although the initial 250 or so government outlets for onions were inadequate, later, by getting more onions, it was able to control the price of onion below 50 - Delhi govt starts mobile vans to ease onion prices.When the onion was cheap, the AAP government had bought in bulk (I think at Rs 19/-) and later it sold at a price of 30 via its 250 outlets. Hence the onion was not really subsidised as well.That's it for now! Phew ... I would add if anything new comes across.
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Is India really changing under PM Modi?
YES, of course!Let me help you see it because…… and your answer lies in the above quote.Let’s begin -The World today is taking India more seriously and feeling India's presence the way it should have felt long ago!But, why and how?!Just ONE WORD answer to it…MODI.Let me mention a few signNow Global events - this will also serve as a review of what has happened, rather what has changed, in last 4.5 years.Diplomatic Wins :The recent ones -No US sanctions imposed on India despite the S-400 deal with Russia and continued import of Crude Oil from Iran.Despite repeated attempts by China to create Political turmoil in Maldives and Sri Lanka, both the countries reiterated their 'India First' stand.Global Recognition :India launched the SAARC Communication Satellite following which, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s South Asia Office will now be based in New Delhi, aiming to serve the 24% of the World Population, of course that includes Pakistan ;) - surely recognizing India’s IT Services’ hold on World ICT.International Yoga DayThe hashtag #SelfieWithDaughter started trending worldwide after Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked people to post their photos during his radio address Mann ki Baat, and guess what #SelfieWithDaughter became No. 1 Twitter trend in India and also listed in worldwide trends.Infrastructural Feats :The projects are getting completed on time - (this has improved India’s image and helped getting Construction Projects abroad thereby improving economic ties.)World's Tallest Statue,World's Highest Railway Bridge,India' s Longest Rail-Road Bridge,India's Longest Tunnel etc.Pakyong Airport - an Engineering marvel Greenfield Airport, India’s 100th, Sikkim’s 1st airport (even before a railway line built in here!), built at a height of 4,500 feet, will be a boost to the defence forces.Recognizing the Valour :Now India has a Police War Memorial.and the Latest One…under Make in India!Foreign Visits :Many blame him for this, but the impacts are far signNowing…Narendra Modi has made us proud again, by upholding our roots and deciding to speak in Hindi at all world stages. It's a soft and subtle message to the world about our renewed vision for self sustenance. Such small decisions are widely observed and carefully studied by International Relations' observers, and no wonder Modi is sending out a strong message!HE wooed people across the world with his speeches made at their respective Parliaments, and became the 1st Indian PM to do so.(at American Congress)(at Australian Parliament)(at British Parliament)When Modi got a full house reception of 18,000 people chanting his name in Madison Square Garden, New York.and in UK…Even CHINA couldn’t resist welcoming our PM!Below are some of the Proud moments in Narendra Modi’s tenure as Prime Minister winning accolades all over the world. Many say that he is against Muslims but even Islamic Countries conferring him with their Highest Civilian Honor, for sure, is a proud moment!Narendra Modi conferred Saudi Arabia’s Highest Civilian Honor “Abdulaziz Al Saud”in 2016.Narendra Modi conferred Afghanistan’s Highest Civilian Honor “Amir Amanullah Khan Award” in 2016.Narendra Modi conferred Palestine’s Highest Civilian Honor for Foreign Dignitaries “Grand Collar of the state of Palestine”.Some perfect ‘then and now’ moments…and in India…So, HE is…HE always made us proud back here in India while being outside! but criticized because, hardly any other Indian PM achieved such milestones!Still, what PM Modi brought back was indigestible to some people!HE once said,but he continued working…even harder!(Translation - A Big hit to ‘Sickulars’…despite multiple foreign visits, PM Modi made a record of working maximum number of hours at Prime Minister’s Office, PMO)(older pics)If this doesn’t make Indians proud, then what will???come on at least not these people…do they?!!!(Translation - People’s Servant vs Clan Prince!)(Translation - Those who turned into Muslims before Modi becoming PM, now embracing Hinduism…isn’t it a signNow change!)(Translation - No one felt if there is a PM in the country…but Modi made India famous again all around the world in just first 19 months of coming into power! and that’s my friend is the real reason for Intolerance!!!)(Translate - On Election defeat ‘they’ say - Fault of EVM! On legal defeat ‘they’ say - Fault of Judges! On Surgical Strike ‘they’ say - Army is lying!)HE is truly for everyone…(Translate - Rahul Gandhi says, “Modi ji travelled all around the world, but I’ve never seen a single pic of him either with a farmer, a laborer or an unemployed YOUTH!)…and remembers everything!The People’s PM :Always at the Center of Attraction! :)(There is a lot more still left to be added, but I think this will suffice.)To conclude, I would say -“ To feel proud by heart, First Decide WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL PROUD! about something or someone…”Jai Hind!EDIT 1 - Auctioning of all the Gifts received so far!This he did today only (28/01/2019)!
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What is the genesis of the Reddy-Kamma fallout in Andhra Pradesh?
The Reddy-Kamma rivalry is that which has been studied by many scholars over the decades. At its root, the rivalry dates back to the post-Kakatiya period. But the rivalry that is often described at present started to take shape in the early 1900s and was based solely on the quest for political power and money. This rivalry has several layers and cannot rationally be blamed on a single thing, party, or person. I will divide the answer into Pre-Independence, Post-Independence, and Modern-Times situation. This answer is based largely on the work of Agarala Easwara Reddi and D. Sundar Ram in St...
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What are you banned from? Why?
I am banned from:All San Jose Sharks games for screaming "kill the fucking frog, you fucking weak piece of shit" in 2000 in a game between the Sharks and the Leafs. It didn't help that I was hanging 8ft up on the top of the plexiglass barrier.All KFC in the country for calling KFC "the disease ridden whore of fast food after a night of shagging a pile of chicken feces" and demanding to see the rotting carcass of "the Colonel" to compare its edibility with that of a six piece all white bucket - during a panel discussion about food at a food service show. I got the letter three weeks later.All "Twin Peaks" locations in the greater Dallas area for making hand motions simulating oral intercourse in front of a camera that live-streamed into the main dining hall. When challenged on the frivolity of my actions I responded that a place that uses every sexist trope under the sun to attract frat boys and idiot bankers trying to fill their wank bank has no standing in this debate - and got banned.Two Megachurches in Dallas for wearing a Gay Pride t-shirt and entering their merchandise and sermon-on-DVD store inquiring about incense and myrrh flavored condoms.Calling the Rush Limbaugh show for telling him that draft dodgers and drug addicts have no standing in criticizing our Commander in Chief.A few bars and restaurants in San Jose and around for starting fights or being involved in them.Edit: yes, I am a rude, undesirable, morally depraved and pretty ugly human being. I enjoy it. I also don't ever want to eat at KFC or Twin Peaks, I don't live in San Jose anymore, and I am not usually calling Rush Limbaugh or go to church, so none of those bans really affect me other than cementing my reputation.
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Is Amazon AWS better or Hostgator Baby Plan?
Hi there. I owned and maintained several accounts with Hostgator over the course of three years, and have tried a wide range of their products and services. I just recently canceled and signed up with Amazon AWS. I had a Linux Admin set up my AWS instance, and paid him a small one time fee- around $100 dollars to launch an instance for me configured with the specifications I needed. I saved money as Hostgator was charging me $174 for a dedicated server, and you can too.At present, I am paying around $100 dollars a month for an Optimized C4 Large server with AWS. It has a 2.9 ghz Intel processor, with 250gb of storage space, that is capable of handling all of my needs cost effectively. After two months of using AWS here is what I think are the differences as compared to Hostgator:AWS servers are faster- Hostgator dedicated server was slow, and I had to use a CDN to speed up my websites. Same thing happened with the reseller plan. AWS servers are fast with no CDN needed.Support-AWS support is through e-mail only however, you can call if you pay a monthly fee, to speak to a specialist who can trouble shoot issues. It is best to have a Linux admin on standby with AWS. You can hire a decent one on Upwork for not a lot of money and pay a very small monthly retainer fee. Hostgator support is 24/7 if you can stomach 30 minute hold times. Just because they offer support does not mean it is good whatsoever, because I often found myself more knowledgeable than people they hire over there.Bureaucracy: When you want to terminate a server on AWS, it is literally one click away. In fact, they stop billing you right that moment. With Hostgator, you have to fill out a form, then wait. In my case, I had to wait almost 30 days before it got done, after they conveniently charged my credit card one more time. Thank goodness my bank got that money back for me.Customizability: With Hostgator, you have to chose a plan already pre-configured. With AWS, you can build your own server to your own specifications.The quality of the servers was the biggest selling point for me. If you know basic Linux command line, you can easily control an AMI(Amazon Instance), as it is not rocket science. If you are used to gooey interfaces like Cpanel/WHM you could run an AMI with that software installed, for easy server administration.My site is a high traffic site, receiving over 1.1 million pageviews a month, and I am seeing a huge difference in performance. Even if you have a low traffic site, I would still go with Amazon for the longer term using the free tier 1 plan, because that low specification and simple AMI, still outperforms Hostagator shared plan with speed and, performance.
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How do you get into hotel management?
Start as a night auditor; preferably in the largest full-service hotel, with the most food-and-beverage, meeting and banquet, lounge and gift shop operations on premises, that you can get to hire you.It's actually a pretty easy job to get as far as hotel front-office jobs go - the hours are crap. It runs in most properties at 11 at night to 7 in the morning, (and no, it can't be done in the daytime), which is why the demand exceeds supply when the economy is good and jobs are plentiful, and why supply doesn't exceed demand by much when jobs are scarce and you see more people competing for any job they can get (including hotel night audit jobs with crappy hours). You don't want to be there forever, but as you yourself pointed out, you're there to learn.That's where you learn how the numbers go together and what affects them, essential know-how for the management of any business.Pay attention to what you're doing in that job. Back in the day, experience was a plus, but if you brought along sufficient accounting skills to balance your checkbook the old fashioned way (using the form printed on the back of your bank statement, making the entries and doing the math; rather than just checking your balance online), you could be trained - balancing accounts, after all, is most of what the job of night audit is about. (Most business get audited by their accountants every quarter. Hotels are unique in that they get audited every night.) Nowadays, nearly all hotels have computerized front desk management systems; so to too many hire-for-personality-and-train-for-ability hotel 'administrators' and the people they insist on hiring, the job consists mostly of going down a list of reports to be printed, and printing out, and collating and routing, several stacks of reports. If it wasn't for the fact that it's necessary to do a bucket check and confirm the rates of all your guests, and make sure your cash and credit card totals balance (as well as your restaurant and banquet checks if it's a full-service hotel), a trained monkey or service animal could do it. But you want to be more than a button-pusher and report printer: you want to read through those reports as you produce them, achieve an understanding of what those reports tell you, why they're necessary, and why they come up the way they do. Consider, every time you read through a bunch of numbers, if you want a certain figure on that report to come up differently (e.g., a revenue value to be increased, a cost factor to be decreased), what someone in the hotel must do to cause that to happen.Cornell University, and quite a few other colleges and universities, have degree programs in hotel administration for people who want to go to work for a company like Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott or Kimpton, and move on to run a big, full-service luxury hotel. If you're just starting out in life, finishing high school, and you're confident that that's what you want to do with your life; then apply to two or three of them, including Cornell. Nearly all of them are good (before applying to any degree program at any college, I'd check behind them to see where their alumni are placed); but Cornell has the School of Hotel Administration that schools of hospitality administration, etc., at all other colleges and universities around the country all gather around on Sunday morning to bow down and pray to. (The school of journalism at Columbia, the school of architecture at Yale, and Harvard Law enjoy similar status within their own respective fields: hotel management is the thing for which Cornell enjoys the highest reputation.) So, if that's where you are with your life, apply to Cornell as well as one or two of the others, just to see if you can get into Cornell. You don't have to worry about where Cornell's alumni are placed: if you can get them to take you, you could someday run the Waldorf.Some of the stuff you're going to see here, however, is things that you can pick up at the local comm-tech - or even on your own. Formal education will give you a running start and some industry contacts, and teach you a lot of things it would take you a long time to pick up on your own. But if you don't have that much of it, don't sweat it. I've seen people with advanced degrees perform dismally at this business, and they still have a job. I've seen people whose education is limited to a GED and a few night classes, given the right opportunity, do well at it.Either way, there is no substitute for the hands-on experience and the recordkeeping experience you acquire on night audit. If I'm doing the hiring for a general manager or assistant general manager -- any salaried management accountability -- of a property, I require a minimum of six months experience as a full-time night auditor - regardless of education (even a degree from Cornell) and previous experience (even hotel management experience) - and the only reason I don't require more is because doing so would thin out the pool of qualified applicants more than it's worth. I might, very rarely, cut someone a break on the requirement if they have previous management experience and I know them personally and know how they work (Favoritism? Perhaps, but reference checks have limited value in this business, I have to go on some rational basis, and I neither accept nor content myself with any substitute for my own personal knowledge . . .). But by the time I put them in charge of an investment worth four million dollars or more (probably someone else's investment, but one for which I myself am accountable), they're going to have some night audit experience - their first day on the job, like it or not, is going to begin at 11pm. The knowledge, skills, and abilities required of a night auditor are much the same as those required for a manager – and will be called into play, if not quite as frequently, with a suddenness that requires thinking fast and making choices that, when second-guessed, prove to be correct, or at least respectable. (You're all alone, the only employee – indeed, the only representative of the entire company – on the property at 3:30 a.m. An incident comes up – often a recordkeeping mess left behind by a desk clerk, but perhaps something that challenges your diplomatic skills with a guest or visitor, perhaps something that tests your understanding of building engineering or maintenance, perhaps something bizarre or unusual, perhaps something that might have serious consequences for yourself, a guest, or even the hotel itself, perhaps even the entire company. The general manager or AGM can be called – maybe – but even if so, he or she will like you a lot more if you don't get him or her out of bed at that hour of the morning, especially if your own handling of the situation is sound. You're in charge – what are you going to do?).And don't stop there. (As you'll see, you can be stalled there for a very long time if you do.) Another important part of it is sales and marketing.You can be an operational bozo with no organizational skills whatsoever, who isn't competent to manage the inside of an empty paper bag without letting it deflate; but if you have a high level of social skills, networking ability, lots of contacts, and a proven talent for bringing in business for the hotel, someone, somewhere will hire you in a senior management position -- and put people around you to serve as drones who are operationally competent, who pick up the slack, who actually do the work involved in managing the operation and delivering on the things you promise your customers, and who are put and kept there to make you look good. It won't be me, although I might look at you for a sales and marketing slot [and that's not the first thing I look for in an applicant for a business development accountability]. Sorry if I sound cynical, but I've seen it happen too many times: indeed, one of the reasons I formed my own company was that I got sick of seeing it. It's also half the reason that I - as noted - put limited faith in reference checks. On the other hand, you can be Seth Godin's Linchpin (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product... incarnate - and we'll come back to Seth . . .); you can be the one guy who can be counted upon to keep the property running like a fine watch; you can have the highest technical skills, you can be absolutely aces when it comes to management ability, you can able to supervise a large staff and keep everyone working efficiently and happily, you can know and understand the business operation inside out; you can keep the rooms clean, and the front desk operation and reservation system running tight, and the building warm, and the bottom line in the black no matter what the conditions or circumstances . . . but if you don't know how to generate business for your hotel, your career prospects could be limited to being one of those drones.Many newer, larger and/or corporate-owned hotels have a 'director of sales' or a 'sales manager', at $30k per year give or take, but most of the training they get, at least from within the hotel industry itself, is all wrong. The biggest reason why is that it's all uniform, yet every hotel and every location is unique and has unique needs. There are some common principles that apply to all hotel sales and marketing, but you want to do what works best for the hotel in which you're doing it - and have the wisdom to know the difference. How to do it right is a subject in itself, but try to get started doing it at a smaller property where you can pick up the sales and marketing accountability as part of another job in the hotel - just the opposite of the sort of property I recommend to learn to do night audit. Many smaller, family-owed hotels who don't have someone already dedicated to working on it will be glad to let you have it. (You don't have to worry about having, or earning, credentials for it: either you can do it or you can't, and if you can, word will get around . . .) Use the resources available to you by your hotel's franchise organization (e.g., study the group booking contract forms, know the revenue tracks, know the four primary travel market segments [business travelers, extended-stay travelers, leisure travelers traveling as singles or couples, and leisure family travelers] and how to identify and the address the needs of each, etc.) Realize that half of what you're going to attempt isn't going to work, and focus on identifying what's working and what's not, and doing more of what works and less of what doesn't work. Be candid about your results.Pay more attention to people like Seth Godin, and Karl at The Startup Daily, both of whom publish blogs you'll find useful (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ , http://thestartupdaily.com/ ), and limited attention to 'industry professionals' (I'll get back to those). Run your own source-of-business reports if your property's computer system doesn't do it for you, and analyze the heck out of the data you get back; where your present business is coming from, how to get more of it if it's working for you, and how to signNow business that you're not getting.Don't get into cold-calling, or telemarketing, unless you're specifically told to by someone who's micro-managing you, or unless you're one of those DOS types who feel they have to spend a lot of time doing it just to prove to management that they're trying. These are time-consuming techniques that are dismally ineffective by contrast to the time consumed doing them. (Many will argue the point with me, but even those people will admit they don't like being on the receiving end of a cold sales call, and hate telemarketers who call them.)I could go on and on. This is one of those Quora posts that over time, I'll keep coming back to and editing.It helps if you also show up with some background in building construction, engineering and maintenance. A repair can be costly unless you know enough about it to know which options to explore.food service. There is a new tier of hotel product emerging - the upscale select service property (e.g., Hilton Garden Inn, Hyatt Place, Courtyard, Hotel Indigo, Wyndham Garden Inn and the like) - and food service is re-emerging as a valuable skill in this market tier.retail. People skills will move you along much faster in this business. Some people put too much emphasis on that, but a certain level of competence and confidence in this area is essential. For some people, it comes naturally; others (for example, introverts like me) have to work on it.Read everything you can get your hands on on the state of the business. I would recommend, as the very first place to start, two editions of the same book (believe it or not, two editions published 30-40 years apart will read very differently . . .) Find a recent edition of Jerome Vallen's Check In, Check Out (it's used as a college text, so the current edition will always be a little pricy, but you can get them used on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/mn/search/... - and the last previous edition will be current enough). Then, go find an edition of the same book from about 1974,1977 or 1980. It's changed that much since then. But the older edition has a lot of information that isn't dated or useless, and it actually does a better job of starting with the basics. Subscribe to as many industry blogs, and read all of the trade publications that you can. (My own suggestions are http://www.hotelsmag.com/init.aspx , http://www.hotelmanagement.net/ , http://www.hotelresource.com/ , http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/ to start; and you'll want to seek, find and add your own, and please share them with me.) Some of it is useful. Now that Quora is becoming a gathering spot for an encouraging subset of 'hospitality industry' types, I'm very interested in seeing what my new friend Susan's new blog I'm Changing the Name of This Later is going to shape up to be once she starts posting more material to it. Whatever material you read, you have to discern, and make the call - and revisit the subject from time to time, and notice when maybe you're wrong, and reconsider . . . It might work in theory, but will it work in real life? Nearly half the hotel managers in the world don't get that, nearly all of the other half don't even try. Be one of the ones who do both.Remember, however, that this material is informative, but judgment is required in application. Much of it is press releases by corporate owners or management companies (e.g., "Fergus T. Wingo Promoted To Assistant To Assistant Special Projects Director at Carlson Wagonlit"), and columns and blogs by people looking to advance their own resume value or marketability as consultants (e.g., "How to Engage Your Staff In Providing Fantabulous Service!"), all trying to make themselves look good. You decide whether they look good, and whether what they're sharing is, or isn't, useful from day to day. No one - not even I - is going to hand you everything you need to know. Actually, that's not true, any number of people might hand it to you - but if we ever meet, I'll know within five minutes after you open your mouth if you're one of those who had it handed to you, because you'll be spouting off the same old crap that never worked or had a chance of working, that's been circulating for years and that you've obviously never considered or contemplated critically. You'll sound 'informed' (as in, all you ever needed to know never really amounted to much), but have you ever really thought over any of this stuff you're saying?It's not about who you know (although with far too many 'hospitality industry professionals', it is, much to my frequent annoyance), but if you show up for an interview with me, and the name Anthony Melchiorri (Travel Channel's Hotel Impossible ) or Gordon Ramsay (FOX Broadcasting | Programming Schedule ) doesn't ring a bell with you, you lose a point or two. Or, if you watch those guys faithfully, as someone who's really into the game of hotel management will (for reasons I'm about to share), you might score some points. I watch Hotel Impossible, but that's not the reason you want to give me for watching it yourself. Anthony's the real deal (unlike most of the people in the 'hospitality industry' who show up in the trade magazines), his show truly is a contribution, he teaches me things . . . and no, I'm not ashamed to admit that I learn to do my job better from watching a TV program on cable: if it works, it works. Anyone who's really serious about being into hotel management will be familiar with the programs and have watched at least some of the episodes.For the record, I'm not a believer in the idea that 'management experience is management experience', as many people who hire 'middle management' types do. I don't consider hotel managers and video store managers and theatre managers and restaurant managers and convenience store managers to be interchangeable warm bodies. If you come to work for Beechmont, you're going to be running a hotel (or more likely, starting out, helping one to run), and for that, I really like to see people who are into hotels . . . just as if I was hiring a garage mechanic to work on my car, I'd want a guy who spends his off-time tearing down engines and rebuilding them and looking for ways to make them perform better . . . My definition of 'professional'? Someone who's always in the game. An example? Tiger Woods. He wins the Masters, that's great, he has something to celebrate, so what does he do the next day? How would you spend the next day if it were you? Go on a resort vacation, take a long trip and reward yourself? Relax for several days? No . . he goes out to the course and practices. Another? My former neighbor from across the street in the neighborhood where I last rented before I bought my house. He spent a career working for the airlines as an A and P mechanic - fixing airplane engines in an environment where you do repairs by the numbers and there's no margin for mistakes - and now that he's retired what does he do? He's got a garage and shop behind his house with the ultimate set of tools, not a drop of oil or a spot of grease on the floor to be seen, he can fix anything, and he's a good guy to know if you need a favor, because he likes fixing stuff: if every job paid the same, that's what he'd be doing. He's the 'go-to' guy in the neighborhood if you're having a problem with your car or your riding mower, or if you break your weed whacker.Finally, I'll leave you with my usual disclaimer about career advice, resume-writing, interviewing, etc. - all of this will work great if I'm the one doing the hiring. It's what I'd want an applicant for a management job to show up with. But every individual has their own criteria; and as always, qualifications are whatever whoever's doing the qualifying says the qualifications are. What I'm telling you here is how to learn hotel management (and there's still no substitute for doing it), not necessarily how to get a good job managing a hotel (before forming my own company, that one always kept me stumped more times than I care to recall . . .). For that, you're on your own. But I hope here to give you something you might find helpful, that will serve you well and empower you to succeed no matter how you get your chance at it. Indeed, I've ripped off an interviewing trick from one of the smarter owners I've dealt with: if I look at you for a hotel management job, we're going to become e-mail pals for a few weeks. I want to hear from you all about what you're going to do with that hotel if I turn it over to you. It'll take more than one exchange of e-mails - I want to see that you're forming a realistic plan, for that particular hotel in that particular location, not just giving me your canned sales pitch, and I want to see you're asking the right questions. (When I look at a new hotel to sign, the first thing I look for now is its STAR reports if I can get them, its TripAdvisor reviews, and anything else I can get about that hotel and its nearby competitors - even photos and promotional material - from open sources. That'll give me a pretty good idea what I'm going to find - and look for next - when I get there.) I want to see the motivation it takes to keep coming up with new ideas and keep those e-mails coming two or three times a week for several weeks. Keep that in mind as a potentially useful exercise as you progress in preparing yourself for a career move in hotel management. Just for drill, run it on any hotel you'd like. Get in the habit of doing that. (But don't neglect the other steps.)
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The only place I found information about this was in the State University's "Electronic Security (CEC) Course". It is not a prerequisite, so the only thing you need to do is read the entire class description and then just start working on getting the software, which is freely released, on your phone. If you are a student with an iPhone, just scroll to Chapter 3 and start doing stuff. There are a lot of cool apps for this.
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