Friday, October 23, 2009

SINGLE FARES TO STOP CONFUSION

The Indian government seems to be very efficient in the aviation sectors recently. Due to the recession, they first took steps in order to bring the airline fares and now it has taken the next step towards helping the public. The aviation minister Mr. Praful Patel has asked all airlines to provide transparency in their airfares. Earlier the Directorate General of Civil Aviation had issued a notice regarding following the transparency policy. Till now only kingfisher airlines has started following this transparency policy. This step has been taken in order to help the public from getting confused with the actual fares as some airlines first advertise low fares and then charge the passengers with extra surcharges under different heads. This policy will prevent such confusions.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Sports

Sports have an important place in the educational curriculum. In the past, they were classified as extra curricular activities but today they are called co-curricular activities. Education is not a process of merely imparting information to students. In the past, it was believed that the task of education was merely to enable students to memories facts. Charles Dickens in his novel “Hard times” satirizes this kind of education and says that such factual education brings no benefit to students. On the contrary, it harms students. Education actually means drawing out one innate potentiality of children. By means of sports, students can develop strong and healthy bodies. This is one vital aspect of education.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Training in the industrial organizations

Training forms the axle of the industrial wheel. It is an inevitable and continuous process in an industrial setup, and no industrial organization can function successfully without training its employees. Every time you get someone to do work the way you want it done, you are training. Every time you give directions or discuss a procedure, you are training.

Any industrial organization will definitely fail to achieve its ends if these training programmers are ineffectively conducted. The organization, the trainer and the trainee are the three key factors which contribute in equal importance to the effectiveness of training.

Virtual reality

Virtual reality seeks visionaries to speed its change from novelty value to industrial worth. The perception is tat VR is great for games and toys, but the fact is, there are many things we’ll be able to do with this technology – says Bob Voiers, virtual reality guru at EDS, the former general Motors subsidiary that developed the cave. Without having to create clay models; they are crash testing cars without building costly prototypes; and they are creating “factories in a box” – assembly line simulations that can identify bottlenecks and quality control problems. But VR applications extend far beyond the world of the virtual automobile. The technology is also helping medical students improve their surgical skills.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Lithography

Lithography is one of the traditional printing methods in the early years of the nineteenth century. This method makes use of the principle of repulsion between be printed on a metal plate using a greasy substance. Then the plate is wetted. The grease on the plate repels the water and consequently only the non-printing areas become wet. When greasy printing ink is applied to the plate, it sticks to the greasy image but not to the non-printing areas. From this plate, the image can be printed on paper. In photolithography the printing stone is coated with a light-sensitive substance and then exposed to light through a paper negative of the matter to be printed. By washing with turpentine or with acid, an image, either flat or etched, can be produced on the plate for normal printing.