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Warning going everything

Natural calamities have traditionally been known to bring out the most humanitarian instincts in people. However, in a disturbing series of reports from Kurnool,

2009  Kurnool placed floods total disaster

A Familiar Road To Disaster(2013)

In the holy town of Kedarnath, legend has it that Lord Shiva moved the hills 12,000 feet above land to deny the Pandavas —
humankind — a sight of him. Struggling to find an explanation for the death and destruction triggered by the cloudburst and flash floods in Uttarakhand last year, people living on the banks of the Mandakini recount this myth every day

2014 disaster

With the rains in the city, flood like conditions is common every year. A view at Police Barracks in Visakhapatnam. EPSCops clearing the floodwaters that got stagnated in a women's police station in Visakhapatnam.EPS

2015 disater


Water- Water everywhere due to heavy rain fall started in chennai from 13th November 2015 and destroy the life cycle chain of chennai. Houses, Vehicles, Roads submerged in water because of heavy rain fall in Tamil Nadu. Offices and Schools remain closed in chennai and Tamil Nadu. Rain fall stopped the connectivity of chennai from other states in terms of food supply and communication. Every day Southern Railway cancels 10-15 trains due to rainfall. People are not able to get food and other needed things dut to less connectivity in several areas of Chennai.

This all the things I believe ending of something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMBOkdoRj_o
I mean to say friends

SQL ID Extraction from String

Suppose we have a requirement that we have to extract numbers from a set of alphanumeric strings.E.g. the input will be

ID StringValue
1 My Address is #456, 13th Main, 16th Cross, Area code - 560009
2 My first mobile number:91161181100. Second mobile number:- 1111111111. 

Third one is

: 1212121212

The respective output will be

ID CommaSeperatedValues
1 456,13,16,560009
2 91161181100,1111111111,1212121212

Inorder to solve this problem,first we will split the strings with space(' ') as the delimeter as shown under

DECLARE @T TABLE(ID INT IDENTITY,StringValue VARCHAR(500))
INSERT INTO @T 

SELECT 'My Address is #456, 13th Main, 16th Cross, Area code - 560009' UNION ALL
SELECT 'My first mobile number:91161181100. Second mobile number:- 1111111111. Third one is: 1212121212'

;WITH SplitCTE AS(
SELECT 
 F1.ID, 
 X.SplitData 
 ,Position = PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', X.SplitData)
FROM (
 SELECT *, 
 CAST(''+REPLACE(StringValue,' ','')+'' AS XML) AS XmlFilter 
 FROM @T F
 )F1
 CROSS APPLY
 ( 
 SELECT fdata.D.value('.','varchar(50)') AS SplitData 
 FROM f1.xmlfilter.nodes('X') AS fdata(D)) X
 )
 SELECT *
 FROM SplitCTE

The output is as expected

ID SplitData Position
1 My   0
1 Address   0
1 is   0
1 #456   2
1    0
1 13th   1
1 Main   0
1    0
1 16th   1
1 Cross   0
1    0
1 Area   0
1 code   0
1 -   0
1 560009   1
2 My   0
2 first   0
2 mobile   0
2 number:91161181100. 8
2 Second   0
2 mobile   0
2 number:-  0
2 1111111111.  1
2 Third   0
2 one   0
2 is:   0
2 1212121212  1

Now, it is quite silmple to figure out the set of numeric and alphanumeric strings by using the

PATINDEX function as shown under

WHERE PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', SplitData) > 0

The output will be

ID SplitData Position
1 #456   2
1 13th   1
1 16th   1
1 560009   1
2 number:91161181100. 8
2 1111111111.  1
2 1212121212  1

The next task is to find out the numeric values which can be done by using the following SQL Code snippet

SELECT ID ,AllNumeric = LEFT(SUBSTRING(SplitData, Position, LEN(SplitData)), PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', SUBSTRING(SplitData, Position, LEN(SplitData)) + 't') - 1)   
FROM SplitCTE

The output will be

ID AllNumeric
1 456
1 13
1 16
1 560009
2 91161181100
2 1111111111
2 1212121212

So now as a final step, we need to use the FORXMLPATH and group by the items by using the ID

SELECT ID,STUFF(( SELECT ',' + c1.AllNumeric
    FROM numericCTE c1
    WHERE c1.ID = c2.ID
    FOR XML PATH(''),TYPE)
    .value('.','NVARCHAR(MAX)'),1,1,'') AS CommaSeperatedValues
FROM numericCTE c2
GROUP BY ID

The result

ID CommaSeperatedValues
1 456,13,16,560009
2 91161181100,1111111111,1212121212

Varaition in Explanation about Technology

Programmers are a fickle bunch. One day they’re all using Java, and the next day Python is the hot new thing. While developers indelibly will dabble in different languages, we’re now seeing them do similar things with databases, particularly those of a NoSQL bent. The database explosion benefits developers, but it’s a headache for the admins tasked with managing the stuff.

Time was, you installed the Oracle database and were happy with it, damn it. Oracle defined what you could do with the data, and your developers worked within those bounds. While the department across the hall may have used another database, such as Postgres or DB2, it was not radically different. It may have done some things differently and had its own particular schema, but it was still SQL at the end of the day. Everybody was on the same page.

My, how times have changed. Thanks to the rise of big unstructured data, social media, and the changing nature of Web-based consumer apps, the capabilities and requirements of databases have mutated beyond what relational databases can comfortably handle, and as a result, both the type and number of databases has exploded.

The data is made available through a JSON graph, using the DataSource interface having the following asynchronous operations: get, set, and call. The client can traverse the graph using JavaScript paths similar to when accessing the JSON data directly. For demonstration purposes, we’ll consider this minimal JSON object:

Netflix has been using Falcor, in various iterations, for a little over three years. The decision to create Falcor stemmed from a need to free up developers from worrying about data access. With no viable alternative in existence, Netflix poured a considerable amount of effort into creating its own platform. So why open-source that platform? We posed that question to Husain.

“What we really thrive on [at Netflix] is selling great experiences in terms of watching titles. We’re not selling software. We’re taking the good engineering that we do in-house and releasing it into the community… often doing good things helps you, and that’s what Netflix’s interest [is] in open-sourcing Falcor.”

D3

What is D3? .Why D3 Comes ?

D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. For example, you can use D3 to generate an HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive SVG bar chart with smooth transitions and interaction.

D3 is not a monolithic framework that seeks to provide every conceivable feature. Instead, D3 solves the crux of the problem: efficient manipulation of documents based on data. This avoids proprietary representation and affords extraordinary flexibility, exposing the full capabilities of web standards such as HTML, SVG, and CSS. With minimal overhead, D3 is extremely fast, supporting large datasets and dynamic behaviors for interaction and animation. D3’s functional style allows code reuse through a diverse collection of components and plugins.

How it works ?
Modifying documents using the W3C DOM API is tedious: the method names are verbose, and the imperative approach requires manual iteration and bookkeeping of temporary state. For example, to change the text color of paragraph elements
D3 employs a declarative approach, operating on arbitrary sets of nodes called selections. For example, you can rewrite the above loop as:

d3.selectAll("p").style("color", "white");
Yet, you can still manipulate individual nodes as needed:

d3.select("body").style("background-color", "black");
Selectors are defined by the W3C Selectors API and supported natively by modern browsers. Backwards-compatibility for older browsers can be provided by Sizzle. The above examples select nodes by tag name ("p" and "body", respectively). Elements may be selected using a variety of predicates, including containment, attribute values, class and ID.

What is Conman? Is it Selling facebook Scrips

CLEVELAND - Perhaps the biggest challenge that cyber crime poses to the FBI is how to convey just how much of a threat it is to the United States and you.

“It’s your info they’re coming after,” warned Joe Demarest, Assistant Director to the FBI’s Cyber Crime Division, on a recent visit to Northeast Ohio to meet with the Cleveland field office and address the City Club about these concerns.

Cyber threats have shot to the top of the FBI's concerns because they involve everything regarding money and technology.

As are all of the FBI’s field offices, the Cleveland FBI is working to prevent the devastating losses that cyber crime can have on business in Northeast Ohio.

In recent years, the FBI established a cyber task force at each of its 56 field offices, manned by about 1,200 people.

On April 25, news surfaced that Russian hackers breached White House computers and obtained sensitive information, including President Obama’s unclassified email.

While that is a stunning headline, cyber crime still comes off as a distant, abstract concept to average people – at least, until their identity gets stolen.

Demarest said cyber threats generally fall into five different categories.

NATION STATES

Much like the aforementioned Russian hacking, the FBI’s next area of cyber concern is foreign countries trying to steal our industrial information or military secrets.

“Nation states – the most prolific army working against us,” Demarest said.

One of the most notable recent cases was North Korea hacking Sony Pictures over the controversial comedy “The Interview” in December.

Within hours of the attack on Sony, Demarest said the FBI had teams on the ground at Sony offices, going from computer to computer.

Thousands of emails from Sony employees were exposed, causing some people to lose their jobs while the financial damage to Sony ran into the millions of dollars.

No two nation states are alike in regards to the threat they pose to the U.S.

Demarest said China remains the biggest threat; Asian actors tend to infiltrate the U.S. health care industry.

While Russia poses a threat, Demarest said its abilities are not as good as ours – although its know-how can sometimes be traced back here.

“There are [people with] PhDs working against us on the other side of the world. Many are trained here in the U.S.,” he said.

Although the U.S. is currently working on a nuclear deal with Iran, the country remains a threat in the Middle East.

After initial takedown, more efforts put into making new fake accounts look genuine.

Virus Bulletin's research into a scam selling fake Twitter accounts being passed off as 'followers' has helped in the takedown of more than 45,000 such accounts - but has also showed that the scammers are upping their game.

The success of a social media account can be measured by the number of followers it attracts. It seems obvious that this doesn't work the other way: an account won't become more successful if it simply buys a bunch of followers. Yet the shady corners of the Internet are rife with sites that let you 'boost your reputation' by buying followers.

Facebook posts like this!

Not a day goes by that I don’t login to see one of these posts. And they always seem to have a bazillion (no exaggeration) likes, comments or shares.

Nearly 5000 people saw this (image on the left) in their newsfeed and figured clicking, commenting and then sharing would reveal some crazy feature or event.

And guess what did happen! Nothing at all.

These posts infuriate me.

And it’s not just the fact they are filling up my already overpopulated newsfeed with rubbish and distracting me from the stuff I actually wanna see, like my friends sharing their thoughts on TV shows, photos of food or jokes they’ve stolen from Reddit.  It’s the unashamed use of terrible circumstances like cancer, or sick kids or horrific accidents that these pages usually use to get clicks that really pisses me off.

From Olden days. After A young kid from house means adult after Education While searching job They will sing this song

Remembering this song .Because of my friend way of thinking Suddenly I struck with this song
+dileep kandula

Sapatu etuledu pataina paadu brother
Sapatu etuledu pataina paadu brother
Rajadhani nagaramlo veedhi veedhi needi naade brother&nbsp
Swatantra desamlo chavu koodaa pelli laantide brother
Swatantra desamlo chavu koodaa pelli laantide brother

Charanam 1:
Mana talli annapoorna mana anna daanakarna
Mana bhoomi vedabhoomiraa tammudu
Mana kirti manchu kondaraa
Digreelu tecchukoni chippacheta pucchukoni
Dhilliki cherinaamu dehi dehi antunnaamu
Desaanni paalinche bhaavi paurulam brother
Sapaatu etuledu paataina paadu brother
Rajadhani nagaramlo veedhi veedhi needi naade brother
Swatantra desamlo chaavu koodaa pellilaantide brother
Bangaaru panta manadi minneru ganga manadi
Elugetti chaatudaamuraa intlo eegalni toludaamuraa
Ee punyabhoomilo puttadam mana tappaa
Aavesam aapukoni amma naannade tappaa
Gangalo munakesi kaashaayam katteyi brother
Sapatu etuledu pataina paadu brother
Rajadhani nagaramlo veedhi veedhi needi naade brother
Swatantra desamlo chavu koodaa pelli laantide brother

Charanam 2
Santana moolikalam samsara baanisalam
Santana lakshmi manadiraa tammudu sampadanokati baruvuraa
Chadaveyya seetuledu chadivoste paniledu
Annamo ramachandra ante pettedikkeledu
Devudide bhaaramani tempu cheyaraa brother
Sapatu etuledu pataina paadu brother
Rajadhani nagaramlo veedhi veedhi needi naade brother
Swatantra desamlo chavu koodaa pelli laantide brother




Actor :KamalHassan
Movie:AkaliRajyam

Is it "Data Science" Make Help to Marketing startegy

Data science has entered business vernacular with a bang...but what exactly is it?
Identified as the "sexiest job of the 21st century" by Harvard Business Review, it's no wonder that demand for the data scientist position has skyrocketed. However, according to McKinsey research, by 2018 the United States will experience a shortage of 190,000 skilled data scientists and 1.5 million managers and analysts capable of reaping actionable insights from the big data deluge. With an estimated 40,000 exabytes of data being collected by 2020 -- up from 2700 exabytes in 2012 -- the implications of this shortage become apparent.

So what exactly does the role of the data scientist entail and what value can data-driven marketing bring to organizations? CXOTalk went straight to the source and talked with two of the most extraordinary data scientists of the day: Dr. Michael Wu, the Chief Scientist at Lithium Technologies and Jeremy Stanley the Chief Data Scientist of Sailthru, Inc.


The term data science has entered business vernacular with a bang…but what exactly is it?   Despite all the media buzz, one story that has gone largely untold is that statisticians are asking themselves the very same question: “The exact meaning of this term is a matter of some debate; it seems like a hybrid of a computer scientist and a statistician.”  I have quoted from Statistics and Science: A Report of the London Workshop on the Future of the Statistical Sciences, a product of a meeting in London in November, 2013 that was attended by more than 100 prominent statisticians from around the world.

If such a distinguished body doesn’t have the answer, for me to declare that I do would strain credibility.  In place of suggesting my own definition of data science I will offer some thoughts about it and what I feel is its place in marketing research, based on my experience as a marketing science person as well as interaction with contacts and business associates who describe themselves as data scientists.
The first dimension

As noted in Statistics and Science, “data science” is loosely used to refer to lines of work that make extensive use of computer science and statistics.  Most of these occupations are not directly related to marketing, genomic research and seismology being two examples, and now play a role in many fields.  Data science is often coupled with the term big data, and I should note that there doesn’t appear to be much agreement about what big data means either
Back to the present

We shouldn’t let ourselves get carried away, though.  In A Practitioner’s Guide to Business Analytics, Randy Bartlett devotes considerable space to organizational cultural challenges and more than he does to technical matters.  We should note that the author is not a journalist or software vendor but an analytics veteran of more than 20 years who holds degrees in both computer science and statistics.  I share his view that the old ways still dominate true science in most decisions: “Corporations are not as sophisticated or as successful as we might grasp from the sound bytes appearing in conferences, books, and journals.  Instead opinion-based decision making, statistical malfeasance, and counterfeit analysis are pandemic.  We are swimming in make-believe analytics.”  That is the real world as I see it too.

Earth Quake in Nepal Later it Effected in INDIA Places of (Sikkim&Bihar)

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday spoke to chief ministers of Bihar and Sikkim amid efforts to get information about the situation after a powerful earthquake struck north India."We are in the process



Gangtok: A major earthquake rocked Sikkim today, triggering landslides in various parts of the state. The quake, having its epicentre in Nepal, was felt at about 11:48 AM, officials said. A series of minor landslides have



7.5 Scales
450 people dead by Earthquake in Nepal(Kattmanduu ) Area

Alas

SriSriRaviShankar

For Gurujis 60 th Birthday 

ON 

April 24th The Homa Starts in the Morning

Ancient vimana

This is about the Ancient Indian Vimana or the flying machine. A scientist named Dr. Talpade made and flew an unmanned aircraft using ancient Indian technology re-discovered from the ancient books by scholar - Pandit Shri Subbaraya Shastri and conveyed to Dr.Talpade, built and flew on Chowpati beach in Mumbai, India in 1895, excatly 8 years before Wright brothers invented Aeroplane. 

The technology used by ancient indians are depicted in early scripts and legendary books like "Ramayana" describing the power of flights. The sanskrit book written by Maharishi Bharadwaja depicts full construction of Vimana or the Flight, the metal construction, design, body, even construction of the furnace used to make the metal which inturn is used to make the body of the aircraft. It also gives good idea about the pilot, dresses, and even food. It clearly shows different kinds of aircrafts which existed. The book was translated to English by Mr. Josyer and then by Mr. David Hatcher Childress and was one of the books which has everything clearly mentioned in detail about the drawings, construction of an air craft which used Free energy or Anti Gravity to run. The speed was approx- 40,000 Km .hr. The un manned air craft flew about 1500ft from the ground and came back. The result of the experiment was Mr. Talpade was jailed. Shri Subbaraya shastri was jailed. Maharaja (King) who funded the experiment was threatened by the British people who were ruling the country to withdraw the efforts. The samples and references and remains of the air craft was sold to some German people by Dr.Talpade's relatives.

this is thing what I want to show

Rail Budget 2015

No New Trains Announced By Suresh Prabhu

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in his first Rail Budget announced a record investment plan of over Rs. 1 lakh crore in 2015-16 while sparing the passengers of a fare hike. The chartered accountant-turned politician also proposed a number of steps to increase passenger amenities.

Rail Budget 2015 stands out for its focus on the common man, putting speed, scale, service and safety, all on one track: PM Modi

NEW DELHI: An across-the-board increase in railway fares is unlikely to be announced in the Railway Budget on Thursday, with Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu set to rely on higher support from the main Budget, joint ventures with the private sector and soft financing from other countries to put the financially derailed organisation back on track.

Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/46362218.cms?

how to get good luck

Today I learned about luck meaning from my friend yaswanthgupta



Naga Naresh Karutura has just passed out of IIT Madras in Computer Science and has joined Google in Bangalore. You may ask, what’s so special about this 21-year-old when there are hundreds of students passing from various IITs and joining big companies like Google?
Naresh is special. His parents are illiterate. He has no legs and moves around in his powered wheel chair.
Ever smiling, optimistic and full of spirit; that is Naresh. He says, “God has always been planning things for me. That is why I feel I am lucky.” Read why Naresh feels he is lucky.

Childhood in a village
I spent the first seven years of my life in Teeparru, a small village in Andhra Pradesh, on the banks of the river Godavari . My father Prasad was a lorry driver and my mother Kumari, a house wife. Though they were illiterate, my parents instilled in me and my elder sister (Sirisha) the importance of studying.
Looking back, one thing that surprises me now is the way my father taught me when I was in the 1st and 2nd standards. My father would ask me questions from the text book, and I would answer them. At that time, I didn’t know he could not read or write but to make me happy, he helped me in my studies!
Another memory that doesn’t go away is the floods in the village and how I was carried on top of a buffalo by my uncle. I also remember plucking fruits from a tree that was full of thorns.
I used to be very naughty, running around and playing all the time with my friends.. I used to get a lot of scolding for disturbing the elders who slept in the afternoon. The moment they started scolding, I would run away to the fields!
I also remember finishing my school work fast in class and sleeping on the teacher’s lap!



January 11, 1993, the fateful day
On the January 11, 1993 when we had the sankranti holidays, my mother took my sister and me to a nearby village for a family function. From there we were to go with our grandmother to our native place. But my grandmother did not come there. As there were no buses that day, my mother took a lift in my father’s friend’s lorry. As there were many people in the lorry, he made me sit next to him, close to the door.
It was my fault; I fiddled with the door latch and it opened wide throwing me out. As I fell, my legs got cut by the iron rods protruding from the lorry. Nothing happened to me except scratches on my legs.
The accident had happened just in front of a big private hospital but they refused to treat me saying it was an accident case. Then a police constable who was passing by took us to a government hospital.
First I underwent an operation as my small intestine got twisted. The doctors also bandaged my legs. I was there for a week. When the doctors found that gangrene had developed and it had reached up to my knees, they asked my father to take me to a district hospital. There, the doctors scolded my parents a lot for neglecting the wounds and allowing the gangrene to develop. But what could my ignorant parents do?
In no time, both my legs were amputated up to the hips.
I remember waking up and asking my mother, where are my legs? I also remember that my mother cried when I asked the question. I was in the hospital for three months.

Life without legs
I don’t think my life changed dramatically after I lost both my legs. Because all at home were doting on me, I was enjoying all the attention rather than pitying myself. I was happy that I got a lot of fruits and biscuits.
‘I never wallowed in self-pity’
The day I reached my village, my house was flooded with curious people; all of them wanted to know how a boy without legs looked. But I was not bothered; I was happy to see so many of them coming to see me, especially my friends!
All my friends saw to it that I was part of all the games they played; they carried me everywhere.
God’s hand. I believe in God. I believe in destiny. I feel he plans everything for you. If not for the accident, we would not have moved from the village to Tanuku, a town. There I joined a missionary school, and my father built a house next to the school. Till the tenth standard, I studied in that school.
If I had continued in Teeparu, I may not have studied after the 10th. I may have started working as a farmer or someone like that after my studies. I am sure God had other plans for me.
My sister, my friend
When the school was about to reopen, my parents moved from Teeparu to Tanuku, a town, and admitted both of us in a Missionary school. They decided to put my sister also in the same class though she is two years older. They thought she could take care of me if both of us were in the same class. My sister never complained.
She would be there for everything. Many of my friends used to tell me, you are so lucky to have such a loving sister. There are many who do not care for their siblings.
She carried me in the school for a few years and after a while, my friends took over the task. When I got the tricycle, my sister used to push me around in the school.
My life, I would say, was normal, as everyone treated me like a normal kid. I never wallowed in self-pity. I was a happy boy and competed with others to be on top and the others also looked at me as a competitor.
Inspiration
I was inspired by two people when in school; my Maths teacher Pramod Lal who encouraged me to participate in various local talent tests, and a brilliant boy called Chowdhary, who was my senior.
When I came to know that he had joined Gowtham Junior College to prepare for IIT-JEE, it became my dream too. I was school first in 10th scoring 542/600.
Because I topped in the state exams, Gowtham Junior College waived the fee for me. Pramod Sir’s recommendation also helped. The fee was around Rs 50,000 per year, which my parents could never afford.
Moving to a residential school
Living in a residential school was a big change for me because till then my life centred around home and school and I had my parents and sister to take care of all my needs. It was the first time that I was interacting with society. It took one year for me to adjust to the new life.
There, my inspiration was a boy called K K S Bhaskar who was in the top 10 in IIT-JEE exams. He used to come to our school to encourage us. Though my parents didn’t know anything about Gowtham Junior School or IIT, they always saw to it that I was encouraged in whatever I wanted to do.. If the results were good, they would praise me to the skies and if bad, they would try to see something good in that. They did not want me to feel bad. They are such wonderful supportive parents.



Life at IIT- Madras
Though my overall rank in the IIT-JEE was not that great (992), I was 4th in the physically handicapped category. So, I joined IIT, Madras to study Computer Science.
Here, my role model was Karthik who was also my senior in school. I looked up to him during my years at IIT- Madras. He had asked for attached bathrooms for those with special needs before I came here itself. So, when I came here, the room had attached bath. He used to help me and guide me a lot when I was here.
I evolved as a person in these four years, both academically and personally. It has been a great experience studying here. The people I was interacting with were so brilliant that I felt privileged to sit along with them in the class. Just by speaking to my lab mates, I gained a lot..
‘There are more good people in society than bad ones’

July 28, 2008
Words are inadequate to express my gratitude to Prof Pandurangan and all my lab mates; all were simply great. I was sent to Boston along with four others for our internship by Prof Pandurangan. It was a great experience.

Joining Google R&D
I did not want to pursue PhD as I wanted my parents to take rest now. Morgan Stanley selected me first but I preferred Google because I wanted to work in pure computer science, algorithms and game theory.
I am lucky. Do you know why I say I am lucky?
I get help from total strangers without me asking for it. Once after my second year at IIT, I with some of my friends was travelling in a train for a conference. We met a kind gentleman called Sundar in the train, and he has been taking care of my hostel fees from then on.
I have to mention about Jaipur foot. I had Jaipur foot when I was in 3rd standard. After two years, I stopped using them. As I had almost no stems on my legs, it was very tough to tie them to the body. I found walking with Jaipur foot very, very slow. Sitting also was a problem. I found my tricycle faster because I am one guy who wants to do things faster.
One great thing about the hospital is, they don’t think their role ends by just fixing the Jaipur foot; they arrange for livelihood for all. They asked me what help I needed from them. I told them at that time, if I got into an IIT, I needed financial help from them. So, from the day I joined IIT, Madras , my fees were taken care of by them. So, my education at the IIT was never a burden on my parents and they could take care of my sister’s Nursing studies.

Surprise awaited me at IIT
After my first year, when I went home, two things happened here at the Institute without my knowledge.
I got a letter from my department that they had arranged a lift and ramps at the department for me. It also said that if I came a bit early and checked whether it met with my requirements, it would be good.
Second surprise was, the Dean, Prof Idichandy and the Students General Secretary, Prasad had located a place that sold powered wheel chairs. The cost was Rs 55,000. What they did was, they did not buy the wheel chair; they gave me the money so that the wheel chair belonged to me and not the institute.

My life changed after that. I felt free and independent. That’s why I say I am lucky. God has planned things for me and takes care of me at every step.

What happens to cricketers' jerseys after a match?

We had Ajit Agarkar in the studio today and I put this question to him and here's what he had to say:

Each player gets a set of jerseys for a tour (although they can always get more if they want, at any time). So, for a 4-Test series, he'd gotten between 6 to 8 and he was happy with that.

On a tough bowling day, he'd run through 3-4 jerseys in a single day. Often there's even a laundry option at the ground and they just ask them to wash and dry and iron it right there.

Anyway, they get to keep all their jerseys. Ajit, on his part, used to keep them early in his career, but he resorted to giving them away later on or passing them on to charity.

Nowadays, they have even more jerseys available to them and there's really no dearth of money for most major boards.

It might be interesting to know how teams like Zimbabwe handle this. But Ajit reckons it's similar with all Test playing nations.

Hope that answers your question.
I'll put together a longer and more detailed response (ask players from other teams and different eras too) in a few days' time if someone reminds me, but here's a cursory idea as to what happens really, and how I might know this:

Each player gets a new jersey for every new game and/or whenever they need a new one. I know, for instance, Aakash Chopra played in 10 Test matches in his career. He's given me two of his international Test shirts.

Possibly, they're given a quota of shirts for a series or tour and they work with that. That might explain why one of the shirts he gave me was almost brand new and may well have been an option for practice that he never used.

How do I get into Harvard ?
I spoke with William Fitzsimmons, the Dean of the Admissions at Harvard and general PR whiz, who described admits in two ways: the superstars in their field and the "all arounders." 
He tld me he looked up my file, and that I was indeed an all-arounder. Generally speaking, the baseline for admission to Harvard is easy to describe: a good GPA that will land you in the top 10% of your class, an SAT score at least in their 25%-75% percentile range, strong recommendations, a coherent essay, well-developed extracurricular interests (or academic ones).
Since Harvard can fill its entire class entirely with valedictorians, academics are obviously not the only thing that comes into play. It helps if you're a recruited athlete, professor's offspring, legacy, or dad's in the position to donate a new building. But this is not the entirety of the class. 
There are plenty of admits who are passionate about politics, world-famous musicians, amazing actors, lobbyists, beef jerky entrepreneurs (true story), among other things. There are also recruited football players who are brilliant physicists - so you never really know.

I'd say to keep in mind that they're looking to admit a class of students, not a student who can encompass every quality. It's ok if you're not a passionate volunteer, a successful entrepreneur, a master pianist, and an Olympic athlete. But applicants generally have pursued their interests to high levels, whether it's a couple of activities at the school and state levels, or one or two activities at the national/international