Understanding the Universe - The Large Hadron Collider

By Mahbub Manik Einstein said, “Imagination is more powerful than knowledge”. Human imaginations don’t have any limits. People play with imaginations and imaginations open the horizons of limitless unknowns. Now scientists are being playing with a project that envisioning the creating of the same environment like after the creation of universe. To do that the largest underground scientific complex is made expensing more than $10 billion. The project is titles as ‘The Large Hadron Collider-LHC’. Recently the world has heard lots and there is huge enthusiasm, talk and debate on this issue. Basically it is the output of the nature and desire of human beings to know unknowns. Mystery of the universe’s creation is always a matter to research, rethink and rediscover. Physicists have been working relentlessly around the world to unearth the mystery of the universe’s creation. What is the Large Hadron Collider-LHC?The Large Hadron Collider- LHC is a gigantic scientific complex buried more than 300 feet underneath near Geneva, in Franco-Switz border. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionize our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe. The LHC is the largest machine in the world and the emptiest space in the Solar System.It’s the hottest spots in the galaxy, but even colder than outer space. It is considered as the biggest and most sophisticated detectors ever built. The most powerful supercomputer system in the world is made to control, monitor and preserve the data of it.

Why the LHC?

The Large Hadron Collider is designed to resolve some key questions in particle physics. It may achieve some unexpected results that no one ever thought of it. There are some key issues in below that are the main issues of creating LHC.

Secrets of Big Bang

We all heard about the theory of ‘Big Bang’. The Big Bang model says the universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand till today. But human minds have always wondered about the environment during the Big Bang and after that. What was matter like within the first second of the Universe’s life? The Collider will recreate the conditions of less than a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, when there was a hot "soup" of tiny particles called quarks and gluons.

Gravity no gravity

There is another model called as ‘The Standard Model’ of particle physics. The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes three of the four known fundamental interactions among the elementary particles that make up all matter. But the model has not well accepted as there is no explanation of gravity and there are some missing links in the model.

There is another term ‘Higgs Boson’. The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. It is predicted that during the Big Bang the ‘Higgs Boson’ particle existed. But no experiment could prove it.

Invisible mass

Again we may ask, what is mass? What is the origin of mass? Why do tiny particles weigh the amount they do? Why do some particles have no mass at all? At present, there are no established answers to these questions.

There is an invisible problem. What is 96% of the universe made of?Everything we see in the Universe, from an ant to a galaxy, is made up of ordinary particles. These are collectively referred to as matter, forming 4% of the Universe. Dark matter and dark energy are believed to make up the remaining proportion, but they are incredibly difficult to detect and study, other than through the gravitational forces they exert. Investigating the nature of dark matter and dark energy is one of the biggest challenges today in the fields of particle physics and cosmology.

Matter vs Antimatter

We may think about matter. But do we ever think on ‘antimatter’? Why is there no more antimatter? We live in a world of matter – everything in the Universe, including ourselves, is made of matter. Antimatter is like a twin version of matter, but with opposite electric charge. At the birth of the Universe, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been produced in the Big Bang. But when matter and antimatter particles meet, they annihilate each other, transforming into energy. Somehow, a tiny fraction of matter must have survived to form the Universe we live in today, with hardly any antimatter left. Why does Nature appear to have this bias for matter over antimatter?

Extra Dimensions

Do extra dimensions of space really exist? From Einstein we know about the three dimensions of space. But the String theory implies that there are additional spatial dimensions yet to be observed.

How the LHC works

The LHC, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator is the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. It mainly consists of a 27 km ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way.Inside the accelerator, two beams of particles travel at close to the speed of light with very high energies before colliding with one another. The beams travel in opposite directions in separate beam pipes – two tubes kept at ultrahigh vacuum. They are guided around the accelerator ring by a strong magnetic field, achieved using superconducting electromagnets. These are built from coils of special electric cable that operates in a superconducting state, efficiently conducting electricity without resistance or loss of energy. This requires chilling the magnets to about 271°C – a temperature colder than outer space! For this reason, much of the accelerator is connected to a distribution system of liquid helium, which cools the magnets, as well as to other supply services.Thousands of magnets of different varieties and sizes are used to direct the beams around the accelerator. These include 1232 dipole magnets of 15 m length which are used to bend the beams, and 392 quadrupole magnets, each 5–7 m long, to focus the beams. Just prior to collision, another type of magnet is used to 'squeeze' the particles closer together to increase the chances of collisions. The particles are so tiny that the task of making them collide is akin to firing needles from two positions 10 km apart with such precision that they meet halfway!All the controls for the accelerator, its services and technical infrastructure are housed under one roof at the CERN Control Centre. From here, the beams inside the LHC will be made to collide at four locations around the accelerator ring, corresponding to the positions of the particle detectors.

The LHC experiments

There are six experiments are running at the LHC. They are (1) ATLAS - A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (2) CMS-Compact Muon Solenoid (3) ALICE -A Large Ion Collider Experiment (4) LHCb- Large Hadron Collider beauty (5) TOTEM- TOTal Elastic and diffractive cross section Measurement (6) LHCf ­- Large Hadron Collider forwardThe two large experiments ATLAS and CMS, are based on general-purpose detectors to analyse the myriad of particles produced by the collisions in the accelerator. They are designed to investigate the largest range of physics possible. Having two independently designed detectors is vital for cross-confirmation of any new discoveries made.Two medium-size experiments, ALICE and LHCb, have specialised detectors for analysing the LHC collisions in relation to specific phenomena.Two experiments, TOTEM and LHCf, are much smaller in size. They are designed to focus on ‘forward particles’ (protons or heavy ions). These are particles that just brush past each other as the beams collide, rather than meeting head-onThe ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb detectors are installed in four huge underground caverns located around the ring of the LHC. The detectors used by the TOTEM experiment are positioned near the CMS detector, whereas those used by LHCf are near the ATLAS detector.

LHC Computing Grid

The Large Hadron Collider will produce roughly 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) of data annually – enough to fill more than 1.7 million dual-layer DVDs a year! Thousands of scientists around the world want to access and analyse this data, so CERN is collaborating with institutions in 33 different countries to operate a distributed computing and data storage infrastructure: the LHC Computing Grid (LCG).Data from the LHC experiments is distributed around the globe, with a primary backup recorded on tape at CERN. After initial processing, this data is distributed to eleven large computer centres – in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, Spain, Taipei, the UK, and two sites in the USA – with sufficient storage capacity for a large fraction of the data, and with round-the-clock support for the computing grid.These so-called “Tier-1” centres make the data available to over 120 “Tier-2” centres for specific analysis tasks. Individual scientists can then access the LHC data from their home country, using local computer clusters or even individual PCs.

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The first beams were circulated through the Collider on 10 September 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled on 21 October. The experiments could generate enough data to make a discovery by 2009, experts say.

Newage

Nothing could stop human being to think further and it’s the secret of existence of this universe. This experiment will lead further the movement of human knowledge. It will definitely open a new road of imagination. "When Columbus sails west, he thought he was going to find something. He didn't find what he thought he was going to find, but he did find something interesting," said Lykken, who works on the Compact Muon Solenoid, one of six experiments inside the collider complex. Lykken said right thing, some thing new will come soon, just wait!

Microblogging:The New Online Lifestyle

Blog

The word ‘Blog’ is well known to the netizens. One can defines ‘Blog’ as a digital diary where one can post any thing like text, data, voice, image etc one after one and readers can put their comments. The people who post are called Blogger. A blog can be controlled by single users or multiple users. Bloogging is a very popular activity of today. Many information, news and secrets are coming out through blog.

Microblogging

But today we are going to talk on Microblogging. Although the concept of Microblogging is at least two years old, it is still very new to all. Microblogging turns into a very interesting matter in our life.Everyday we want to know the latest condition of our family members and friends. We want to share very small happenings in our life, it may be sweet one or a bitter. It may be an experience. We may want to market an idea or want to share the link of our personal web. To satisfy this thirst of human being, the concept of Microblogging came.Microblogging is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates,Usually 140 characters and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging, instant messaging, email, MP3 or the web.Around 100 Microblogging service enabled sites are available in the Internet.

Common Microblogging

The users of popular social networking website facebook, Myspace, LinkedInupdate their statuses regularly. This is nothing but Microblogging. The most popular Microblogging service is Twitter, which was launched in July 2006 and won the Web Award in the blog category at the 2007 South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas. The main competitor to Twitter has been Jaiku (although this has since been acquired by Google and closed public registrations).Digg founder Kevin Rose, together with three other developers recently launched a service called Pownce, which integrates micro-blogging with file-sharing and event invitations.Micro blogging services which seek to add to the minimalism of raw micro blogging include Spoink and Plurk. Spoink released a multimedia micro-blogging service that integrates blogging, podcasting, telephony and SMS texting and supports all major mobile audio, video and picture formats. Plurk utilizes a rich interface and horizontal time-line to add a spatial dimension to micro blogging.Rakawa projects micro-blogging to another level, which is to document and inform about daily accomplishments of the users, based on the question "What have you achieved today?" and inspired by the work of the conceptual artist On Kawara.Microblogging is interesting and definitely a tool to spread the status of one.

CRMBD ltd to help call center setup

Vacancies Few weeks back I received an email from Bilal Uddinn who is an IT professional working in Computer Sciences Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Orlando, FL, USA. He asked me if there are consultancy firms in Bangladesh especially on call center. Then I searched and found many consulting firms are in Dhaka but no one specializes on call center. Recently Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission-BTRC has awarded many licenses to establish call center. There are investors too. But there is a huge lack in producing agents and necessary human resources. Te set up call center one needs manpower, technology and clear concept about it. There are consultancy firms in other countries that provide solutions to industries. It could be IT, Mechanical, financial etc. CRMBD Ltd I kept an eye on this matter. Recently I found a firm resided in Dhanmondi that provides call center consultancy. They are very much passionate on call center prospect in Bangladesh. “Customer Relationship Management Bangladesh-CRMBD is an A-Z one stop total call center consultancy firm”, said Anika Imam, CEO, CRMBD. She said that they provide technical solution, help to setup call center, training to sustain as call center service provider and training to increase entire efficiency of an organization. “ Call center business will uplift our standard of life and develop our economy. But the concept of call center is not clear to investors”-said Anika. More than 500 licenses were awarded and the response regarding this is very positive. We are now organizing free workshops to create awareness and to clear the concept, she added. Customer Relationship Management-CRM is an USA based consultancy firm and Customer Relationship Management Bangladesh-CRMBD is it’s sister concern. CRMBD specializes in all aspects of Call Center and Telecommunications Consulting. It works with top management to develop plans that align operational practices with corporate vision - combining business savvy and technical acumen to provide the very best in strategic planning, assessment, and operational improvement services. 4 brains put together Anika Imam, APPLE COMPUTERS, Inc.USA, Mustafa Hussain, EAST WEST UNIVERSITY, Sohel Ameer, INTEL CORPORATION, USA, Rifat Reza Joyee, MICROSOFT R&D, USA are the main pillars of the organization. Anika Imam works as Chief Executive Officer-CEO and Mustafa Hussain as Chief Technology Officer-CTO. CRMBD’s goal is to stand by their clients and to provide quality solution and support. Training for agents

CRMBD Ltd provides web based training to call center agents. They used digital speech processing software to adjust vocal style. Trainings are interactive. CEO Anika Imam herself conducts the sessions and there are visiting trainers from USA. “ Bangladeshi organizations hire foreigners, especially Indians to train their employees at a higher cost. Why our business houses do not give Bangladeshi citizens who have enough quality to work as trainer?”, asked Anika Imam. To make a success story in Call Center business Bangladesh needs visionary people. Investment or government policy is not everything. We have to produce skill manpower that is capable of working in Call Center, which is not an easy task. CRMBD Ltd is here and country needs more initiatives from private sector so that Call Center business can grab the opportunities and can sustain in competitive markets.

>> Short profile of Anika Imam Call Center Specialist and Corporate Trainer, USA Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CRM Ltd, Anika Imam is also an acclaimed Call Center consultant and recognized industry visionary. Anika offers a refreshing and sometimes challenging philosophy to positioning the Call Center as the true lifeline of the enterprise - believing that vision, brand, leadership, and execution combine to deliver a powerful customer experience. Anika has emerged as one of the most sought-after experts and consulting partner in the field of Call and Support Center working with the world’s top customer-focused companies. She has broad experience in conducting assessments of call center and customer service enterprises for multiple locations. Provided recommendations for reduction in staff and consolidation of several locations while improving back-office processing and “localized” customer service and response. She developed and managed contact center leadership workshops such as Camp Call Center, an intensive, interactive two-day seminar/workshop to give center managers t he knowledge to evaluate their center’s performance as it relates to the corporation’s strategies and drivers, focusing on customer satisfaction and agent excellence. Instructed how to develop performance measures, provide quality service, determine training needs, and motivate agents. Prior to being a Consultant, Anika worked as a Sr. Manager in Operations and Customer Applications at Apple Computers, Inc. where, she architected strategic policies for Apple Sales Call Center, Help Desk and technology initiatives that have supported organizational growth, increased staff productivity, and improved operating margins while achieving customer satisfaction goals. Simply put, Anika will deliver results. She brings wit, energy, and a wide breadth of experience to all engagements - and in the process, untangles complex problems by challenging business leaders to rethink their view of the Call Center world. She holds a BSc in Management Information Systems from California State University, San Francisco; she is also a Certified Apple Corporate Trainer, Certified Project Management Professional and a Member of the International Customer Management Institute (ICMI).

>> Short profile of Mustafa M Hussain Co- Founder and Chief Technology Officer of CRM, Ltd., Mustafa brings his expertise in implementing technology solution and led multi-vendor teams in designing and implementing technology integration solutions for self-service and multi-channel contact by diverse groups of customers (Telco, VRU, Software, CTI, IVR, Networking, Internet, IP Telephony, E Learning ) resulting in annual savings. He is also an Assistant Professor in Telecommunication Engineering at East West University. He led solution implementation teams creating Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions for clients Grameen Phone. Aktel, RanksTel, WorldTel, Fresnel Wireless,UK, Nera Networks, Norway and Nortel Networks, Canada. He holds MSc. in Telecommunications Engineering Degree from King’s College, London.

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RanksTel-The local telco brand leader

A telco brand is born in Bangladesh, grows up locally and visions to be international. Yes I am talking about RanksTel-the leading local telco brand. After 90 our government adopted free market economy and as benchmark we always encouraged foreign direct investment in our country. Multinational telco heavy weights like Telenor, Orascom, TM etc invested in our country and created success story. But we have always dreamt that our local brands would rule in our market with quality and also international market. RanksTel came in the market with that vision. Their slogan is to keep our money among us.

RanksTel brand

RanksTel has already created a strong position as a brand in the market and the state of peoples' mind. Now it is the largest PSTN Service provider in the country. The visibility and promotional activities that is branding program of it is much more than other PSTN telco service providers. 'RanksTel' is the brand name of Ranks Telecom Limited and tagline is 'connects us'. There is an emotional slogan of RanksTel that is "Keep country's money in country" (Desher taka deshe rakhun). More than 450 local graduates directly and more than ten thousand people indirectly work with RanksTel. RanksTel presently offers pre paid and post paid telecom services. There are some packages like Agami, Kotha, Gati, Corporate Wireless Phone, SME Business Proceed etc. RanksTel uses popular CDMA technology.

Mobile or PSTN

RanksTel is a Public Switched Telephone Network- PSTN telecom company. That is a fixed phone service provider. But a revolution has already taken place in the mobile telecom sector in our country. So the question is what are the possibilities in PSTN Phon. " RanksTel enjoyed 125% growth in this year, that proves the potentiality of this sector. Mobile phone is a mobility solution and there are some services like PABX, WPABX, VPN, Data, Bandwidth, E-1,Corporate SMS, Call Center Outsourcing etc cannot be provided by mobile phone" said Masrur Nawaz Waiz, Head of Operation, RanksTel. The main issue is telecom service, PSTN is a detail telecom service solution, added Mr. Masrur.

RanksTel -the market leader

The total number of PSTN Phone Subscribers has reached 1294.281 thousand at the end of July 2008 in our country. The PSTN phone subscriber base of all operators goes respectively (in thousand): BTCL 872.409, Ranks Telecom Ltd. 148.468, Telebarta Ltd. 56.424 , Jalalabad Telecom Ltd. 3.948, Onetel Communication Ltd. 38.017, National Telecom Ltd. 35.905, Peoples Telecom Ltd. 44.931 , Westec Ltd. 17.000 Dhaka Telephone Co. Ltd. 54.029 , Sheba Phone Ltd. (ISL) 9.571, S. A. Telecom System Ltd. 13.553, Banglaphone Ltd. 0.026. T and T rebranded as BTCL is the oldest public telecom service provider in our country. RanksTel is a private PSTN telco service provider and number one in private telco industry.

Vision and mission

Visions to connect individuals and businesses through providing excellence service, RanksTel missions to be the prime land phone provider in Bangladesh. The company is aimed to bring the phenomenon of the telecommunication technology at the doorstep of the people at a very competitive price, which is long desired by all the sectors and thus would contribute in the total national development of the country. "We want to reach 3 lack customer base at the end of 2008 and 5 lack customer base at the end of 2009" goals Masrur Nawaz waiz.

RANGS to RanksTel

Ranks Telecom Limited is a member of country's one of the largest business organizations RANGS Group. RanksTel is one of the largest private sector investments in the country with an accumulated investment of BDT 200 cores. Ranks Telecom Limited launched its Wireless Phone Services under the brand name of RanksTel on April 14, 2005 and had first introduced the post -paid service on April 14, 2005 and later introduced pre-paid service on 01 October 2005. Value added service RanksTel established the 24/7 Call Center, introduced value-added services such as SMS, Call Conferencing, Call Waiting, Fax, Internet, Voice Mail service and many other products and service. From the very beginning RanksTel placed emphasis on providing good after-sales services.

The Future

"We want to adopt all new technologies. We want to work intensively on PCO and Internet service in future. We will cover whole country quickly as possible and we will go for new ways to reach our vision", says Masrur.

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Leadership Lab 2

"Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty?" - was one of the statements of the recent extraordinary vocalizations that is known as 'Berlin Speech' of Barack Obama- the presidential super aspirant of United States of America-USA. Barack Obama presented the issue of our poverty before the world, but the query is what is our leaders think? Do they aware about the problem of our country? Bangladesh faces many problems-social, economical, cultural, political etc. The people of this land proved their bravery to establish language, freedom and democracy- that is politically they are apprehensive. Hartal, strike, barricade, destruction had exploited our many strengths, opportunity and priceless times. We are now living in a flat world-where knowledge ocean flows faster than our imagination. Cold war is gone. In this one centric world economic concept rises. Policy is made on economic point of view and politics evolves around economy. As a result our closest neighbor India is now a strategic ally of USA who previously was in Russian block. Bangladesh to exist in this ever changing world needs to develop visionary leaders who will be aware of today's fact. There are little efforts to develop future leaders in our country. Media can help here. Economic Times instigate to talk with some young people who are potential future leader. Our mission is to check their vision about their field and Bangladesh. 'Student politics in the 21st century' is our first theme matter. We believe students are the future of our country. We need to reshape student politics to involve them in the country building work and to unite them to do the best for the country instead of involving them in terrorism, strike and ill activities. At the outset we talked with Shafiul Bari Babu-the General Secretary of country's one of the leading political parties, Bangladesh Nationalist Party-BNP's student wing- Jatitabadi Chatradal-JCD and published the text on August 10, 2008.

On August 19, 2008 Mahbub Manik and Abul Hasan had a café chat with Mahmud Hasan Ripon- the President of country's most ancient student organization Bangladesh Chhatra League-BCL The chat content goes bellow:

“Regular elections of students unions in universities like DUCSU, CUCSU, RUCSU must to excel student politics and develop future leaderships"- Mahmud Hasan Ripon

Chhatra League's ideology We asked Mahmud Hasan Ripon about Chhatra League's ideology. He answered that Chhatra League's ideology is the ideology of Father of the Nation Banga Bandhu Sheikh Mujib's ideology. Our three mottos are Education, Peace and Progress, he added. He said that Bangladesh Chhatra League was established on January 4, 1948 before Awami League (1949). Chhatra League was established to unite all Bengali students to establish their rights and to plant the seed of independence among Bengalese.Chhatra League is the torch bearer of all historic movements in then East Pakistan and Bangladesh. In Language Movement of 1952, Forming Jukta Front in 1954, Education Movement of 1962, Six Points Movement of 1966, 11-points movement in 1969 and in Independence war of 1971- Chhatra League lead. Chhatra League is the premier stake holder of all historic and golden histories of us, stopped Mahmud.

Safe guarding interests of common students It's true that main stream student politics little bit detracted from its main track, said Mahmud. But Bangladesh Chhatra League-BCL always works for the interest of common student. Many historic political movements were started from class room. Unfortunately all autocratic army rulers were against of student politics, they knew students were the main obstacle for their power. Student community is the safe guard of democracy, independence and sovereignty. We need not to go back very far, remember last years' the August's Student Movement. All students and teachers rose against this Care Taker Government, breaking the emergency rule. We observed peaceful programs like silence procession; bear footed procession, inspirational music singing, cartoon display etc against current government. We did not call strike or Hartal. We did not vandalize assets and establishments, he added. We did not put the classes under lock and key. So student politics is not disturbing common students, rather common students are engaging with movements more and more.

On DUCSU

"Regular election of students union in every educational institute like DUCSU, CUCSU is must to solve the common students' problem and thus student politics can be the politics of real students" said Mahmud Hasan Ripon. University authority is responsible for not being organized DUCSU since 1990. It is the responsibility of university authority to unite all to organize the election, he said. DUCSU is the soul and inspiration of student politics. We are doing lifeless politics without DUCSU politics, no inspiration, and no commitment. To solve common students' problems related to residence, dining, library, class room, toilet etc, we have to reactivate DUCSU. DUCSU has specific post like Residence Secretary who could take care the residential problems. Not only DUCSU- all student representative executive committees in each educational institution should run properly. These student bodies can work to solve the problems of students, Thus real students can engage with policy making system and real solution can come. Bangladesh Chhatra League demands DUCSU election early as possible, he said. "I want to tell firmly again that there is no alternative of reactivating of Student Executive Committees in every where" said Mahmud.

As organization

Mahmud Hasan Ripon claimed that Bangladesh Chhatra League is the most organized organization. Central committee is formed every two years and other committees are formed each year. We practice democracy in every level as per we can.

Election or Selection

"For the first time in the history, the present committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League-BCL was formed through election where 2100 councilors voted" said Mahmud. Hasan Mahmud Ripon enjoyed a landslide victory in that election as a President. This credit goes to party President Sheikh Hasina, said Mahmud. She ordered to confirm some issues in election like candidates should be regular student; their age should be under thirty and at last but not the least forming the committee through vote by using transparent ballot box. "I am around twelve year's junior than the President of Chhatra Dal" smilingly said Mahmud. Our committee members are regular student. This is a milestone for students' politics. All should follow this, he argued. Real student should do politics, he demanded.

On Ershad

"The mass revolution against Ershad in 1990 was a necessary and as a consequence of that democracy was established in Bangladesh" said Mahmud. Recently Ershad who was an evil autocratic ruler in the history of Bangladesh and threw from power through mass revolution in 1990 ending a nine year rule- expressed his dream to be a President again. We asked him on this point. Smilingly he avoided the issue. But he said that Ershad is not a national leader, he is a regional leader and his position weakens day by day.

About corruption

In these 19 months one thing is proved that this government t worked against corruption rather they are working against politicians, boldly said Mahmud. All autocrats from Aiyub Khan to Ershad are same. Their first voice was anticorruption and at last they were proved the most corrupted person, he added.

Terrorism, unrest and strike on campuses

Mahmud Hasan Ripon told that his party is always against of terrorism on campuses. The best time for student politics was during Hasina regime (96-01). That time university of Dhaka did not close for a single day, he added. We don't support strike, Hartal, vandalism on campuses. We always support peaceful program on campuses, he said. Today's young student leader will be the future leader of Bangladesh. A good leader cannot grow up in chaotic political situation. A proper democratic environment can ensure a competitive student politics, said Mahmud.

Using technology as a tool

He said that Chhatra League established a Computer Lab in Dhaka University. But recently is not working. We asked him about the database of his party activist, website, online group, publication etc. He said that we have lack in this regard. There is a gap between the techi people and us. Right now there is no peaceful environment. We don't have fixed residence as we have to hide to avoid police harassment, how can we work in these fields, questioned Mahmud. But we have to adopt technology to connect our people, he said. A certain group of people don't think about country, independence and democracy, we have to reach those people said Mahmud.

Present Bangladesh

Bangladesh is passing an uncertain time. National election was supposed to be held two years back but did not held yet. Emergency has been going on since January 11, 2007. War criminals were not punished. Government has no vision and has no concentration on national election rather they are busy with local election. Really this a hard time for democracy. All student organizations have to work unitedly to reinstate democracy without further delay, said Mahmud.

Future Chhatra League

"After arresting party President Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Chhatra League brought out processions on campuses breaking emergency rule" said Mahmud. We struggled against price hike, arresting teachers and students. We want to continue to sacrifice for saving independence, democracy and sovereignty of our country.

Future Chhatra League

will be reshaped with the demand of globalized world and information age, he confirmed. Future BangladeshBangladesh Chhatra League- BCL dreams the dream of Father of the Nation Banga Bandhu Sheikh Mujib's that is to build a progressive, happy and developed golden Bangladesh. We are ready to face the challenges of the 21st century. We have to build a technology based Bangladesh. The past golden tradition of student politics is coming back soon

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It's time for VoIP phony

VoIP is a frequently pronounced and heard term in Bangladesh since January 2007. One may be surprised thinking that Bangladesh progresses in this high technology. But the matter is not like that. The matter is that VoIP business is an illegal business in Bangladesh. Many people were arrested and punished a lot for involving with this business. Their equipments were also destroyed. The scenes were broadcasted and news was published with the high importance in the newspaper. As a result the term emerged here with a negative image. But government and media did not have proper knowledge on VoIP technology. If they have the proper knowledge government could not mix the high tech VoIP activities with the anti corruption drive and media could not broadcast those with the similar leveling them with thieves, corrupts and serious criminals. Good news is that government now conceives a positive image on VoIP. Few months back the activities were illegal one and now it is going to be a legal work. Can't those legal from the beginning? Better late than never, we can hope now that this sector will boost in our country soon and people will get benefits. The development in VoIP is very fast too. VoIP is implemented in mobile phone too. So mobile operators can adopt this technology and can provide the service at the lowest cost.

What is VoIP

The elaboration of VoIP is Voice-over-Internet protocol. Today it is also called as IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband, broadband telephony and broadband phone. This technology is known as zero one (0/1) technology too. VoIP is a protocol optimized for the transmission of voice through the Internet or other packet-switched networks. VoIP is often used abstractly to refer to the actual transmission of voice (rather than the protocol implementing it). VoIP providers may be viewed as commercial realizations of the experimental Network Voice Protocol (1973) invented for the ARPANET providers.

History

Voice-over-Internet Protocol has been a subject of interest almost since the first computer network. By 1973, voice was being transmitted over the early Internet The technology for transmitting voice conversations over the Internet has been available to end-users since at least the early 1980s. In 1996, a shrink-wrapped software product called VocalTec Internet Phone (release 4) provided VoIP along with extra features such as voice mail and caller ID. However, it did not offer a gateway to the PSTN, so it was only possible to speak to other Vocaltec Internet Phone users. In 1997, Level 3 began development of its first softswitch (a term they invented in 1998); softswitches were designed to replace traditional hardware telephone switches by serving as gateways between telephone networks.

VoIP voyage

VoIP is a technology that is popular all over the world for its cost effectiveness. The poor people of our country can talk at a lower price. For example, if one talks to USA through VoIP he or she can do that with BDT 7 per minute only- much lower than any other system. Here is the strength, beauty and opportunity of the technology. People can connect and communicate with little money and technology. A computer with Internet connection one can talk over any distance. Communication is business. Many countries in the world already have adopted the technology. For example revenue in the total VoIP industry in the US is set to grow by 24.3% in 2008 to $3.19 billion. Subscriber growth will drive revenue in the VoIP sector, with numbers expected to rise by 21.2% in 2008 to 16.6 million. The US's largest VoIP provider is Vonage. The technology is fastly growing in Europe.Huawei a leader in providing next generation telecommunication network solutions for operators around the world has successfully completed commercial technology testing for 'VoIP over HSPA' in Shanghai in conjunction with QUALCOMM Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and mobile data solutions. It is the industry's first VoIP service display with an ALL IP end-to-end solution that is based on a commercial chipset and IMS-based system platform High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is a mobile data packet technology of Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) that allows mobile phone users to enjoy high-quality, richer voice communications at a low price and is an example of Huawei's end-to-end IP solutions offered over a mobile network. The cost to talk through VoIP technology is much lower than PSTN or traditional phone. Some cost savings are due to utilizing a single network to carry voice and data, especially where users have underused network capacity that can carry VoIP at no additional cost. VoIP-to-VoIP phone calls are sometimes free, while VoIP calls connecting to public switched telephone networks (VoIP-to-PSTN) may have a cost that is borne by the VoIP user.Voice-over-IP systems carry telephony signals as digital audio, typically reduced in data rate using speech data compression techniques, encapsulated in a data-packet stream over IP. There are two types of PSTN-to-VoIP services: Direct inward dialing (DID) and access numbers. DID will connect a caller directly to the VoIP user, while access numbers require the caller to provide an extension number for the called VoIP user.

VoIP as multi tasking

VoIP can facilitate tasks and provide services that may be more difficult to implement or more expensive using the PSTN. Examples include:

Multiple telephone calls

The ability to transmit more than one telephone call over the same broadband connection. This can make VoIP a simple way to add an extra telephone line to a home or office. Conference calling, call forwarding, automatic redial, and caller ID; zero- or near-zero-cost features that traditional telecommunication companies (telcos) normally charge extra for. Secure calls using standardized protocols (such as Secure Real-time Transport Protocol.) Most of the difficulties of creating a secure phone connection over traditional phone lines, like digitizing and digital transmission, are already in place with VoIP. It is only necessary to encrypt and authenticate the existing data stream.

Location independence

Only an Internet connection is needed to get a connection to a VoIP provider. For instance, call center agents using VoIP phones can work from anywhere with a sufficiently fast and stable Internet connection. Integration with other services available over the Internet, including video conversation, message or data file exchange in parallel with the conversation, audio conferencing, managing address books, and passing information about whether others (e.g. friends or colleagues) are available to interested parties. Advanced Telephony features such as call routing, screen pops, and IVR implementations are easier and cheaper to implement and integrate. The fact that the phone call is on the same data network as a user's PC opens a new door to possibilities.

VoIP challenges

The challenges that VoIP faces are Available Bandwidth, Network Latency, Packet Loss, Jitter, Echo, Security, Reliability, in rare cases, decoding of pulse dialing Many VoIP providers do not decode pulse dialing from older phones. ReliabilityConventional phones are connected directly to telephone company phone lines, which in the event of a power failure are kept functioning by backup generators or batteries located at the telephone exchange. However, IP Phones and the IP infrastructure they connect to (routers and servers) typically depend on the availability of electricity or another locally generated power source.Voice travels over the internet in almost the same manner as data does in packets. So when you talk over an IP network your conversation is broken up into small packets. The voice and data packets travel over the same network with a fixed bandwidth. To increase the reliability of VoIP phones the VoIP provider needs to increase dedicated and redundant connectivity via T-1 access and backup DSL, with automatic failover at each location. The company can create a reliable network by reducing the number of single points of failure.

Quality of service

Some broadband connections may have less than desirable quality. Where IP packets are lost or delayed at any point in the network between VoIP users, there will be a momentary drop-out of voice. This is more noticeable in highly congested networks and/or where there are long distances and/or interworking between end points. Technology has improved the reliability and voice quality over time and will continue to improve. VoIP performance as time goes on.It has been suggested to rely on the packetized nature of media in VoIP communications and transmit the stream of packets from the source phone to the destination phone simultaneously across different routes (multi-path routing). In such a way, temporary failures have less impact on the communication quality. In capillary routing it has been suggested to use at the packet level Fountain codes or particularly raptor codes for transmitting extra redundant packets making the communication more reliable.

It's time for VoIP

VoIP is getting popularity all over the glove for its cost effectiveness. Using VoIP technology can benefit Bangladeshi people. Few years back when government did not allow VoIP, many people secretly used VoIP technology, operated business and they were benefited. That proved we have many people who can emerge as an enterprise in this business. Government should open this technology for the people and should monitor and provide guideline to ensure and watch whether common people are getting the real benefit. By providing licenses to few people will create syndicate, they will earn money by controlling cost and people will not be able to talk in the real cost. Hundred and thousands of young people can involve with this business all over the country. Thus they will get job and people of the nook and corner of the country will be really benefited. Thus it can shift the life style to the next level from the level that is enhanced by mobile phone revolution in Bangladesh. Day by day the technology is developing as user friendly. Simple and smart equipments have already invented to use VoIP technology. It's time for VoIP … can we lag behind?

-Wrote by Mahbub Manik

Page Editor

Tech Parley, Brand Jatra and Eduloid of Economic Times

4 Things Mobile Can Do but We May Not Know

Mobile Generation

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:

1. Emergency

The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.Also in Australia , the Australian emergency number 000 can be dialled whilst your mobile phone keyboard is locked. This is another reason why 000 receives so many false emergency calls!

2. Have you locked your keys in the car?

Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone.Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).Editors Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!"

3. Hidden Battery Power

Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.

4. How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone!:star-hash-zero-six-hash* # 0 6 #A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.Not only the above, but also in Australia your stolen phone is added to a "Stolen Mobile Phone" database, so if your phone is found later on it can be returned to you.

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Mahbub Manik

Students' reaction on accident-incident

Photo from Prothom Alo : 29-06-08

Parleygram: Pictures of the participants

Reaction:Students of Dhaka College torch a multi-purpose vehicle bringing it inside their campus yesterday (28-06-08) as the car was involved in a road mishap in which a student of the college was hurt Photo from The Daily StarLink: http://thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=43326

Economic Times Parley

Students' reaction on accident-incident

Mahbub Manik

Bangladesh, Dhaka,Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Links http://weeklyeconomictimes.com/news-details.php?recordID=1059

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=17453549070

Prologue:

Life is the total sum of our daily activities. Incident-accident and reaction to those are normal phenomenon every where in the world. But the degree of the reaction is different from country to country. In some regions of the world, the reaction to the accident turns into a horrible level that some times breaks into even a civil war. Reactions of the incident and accident of some students of some places in Bangladesh have been crossing the level of maximum violence. Usually in the response to an accident university students destroy hundred of vehicles, create blockade in the busy capital city road hour after hour, classes are suspended day after day. Students' this reaction produces nothing, no solution, just self destroying of the nation. Economic Times thinks differently. It believes a nation can not go ahead in this flat world having this type of attitude, especially in the mind of students who are the ultimate future of any nation. It tries to detect the reasons behind this kind of attitude. It organizes a parley. It invites some top national intellectuals that include one political scientist, one scientist, one philosopher, one psychologist, one top bureaucrat, one senior journalist. It also invites some students from the various universities and university journalist body's personnel in the parley. It specially invited all national print and electronic media to focus on the issue. Economic Times Editor who is also the President of National Press Club, well known as a top young intellectual persona and country's future forecaster Shaukat Mahmood moderated the whole program. Professor Dr. Golam Mowla - Vice Chancellor, Comilla University was the Key Note Speaker.


Parleygram: Pictures of the participants

Summarized proceedings

Resentment causes sufferings — Shaukat Mahmood

Shaukat Mahmood delivers the welcoming speech and describes the objectives of the seminar. He says that the contribution of the student community of Bangladesh is very rare and unique in the direction and magnitude to establish democracy in Bangladesh and whole nation owe to them. Without their sacrifice we can not stand here today. But today we have to think and to start the dialogue how our brilliant student community can contribute maximum to the country building work living in an independent country and how we can prevent them from the destructive and unwanted activities. Sometimes the resentment by them even for good causes turns into a great suffering for many. He mentions a recent incident occurred on the University of Dhaka campus in which one medical college student named Mrinal was killed brutally by mass beating on the campus suspecting him as a mobile phone thief. Media later found he was not a thief but a brilliant medical college student. He said that we all are some how responsible for this. Today we will make some recommendations but definitely not show our angrer to them. We want to express, talk and discuss on this issue. Today our journey is to identify the causes, effects and solution of the problem and to create a more responsible student community. He makes the point clear that the parley is not against student politics. "The parley will just search the reason why students community reacts cruelly after an accident" he clears the position of the parley.

Keys of Keynote

Professor Dr. Golam Mowla covers related issues in his keynote speech. He focuses on key issues of the theme of the parley like accident and incident, students' reaction, relative clashes among the factors of the reaction, argument for both the opposition and the proposition of the theme, and responsibility, commitment and expectation of the nation from the student community. He points out three issues that play a role on students to react to the incident and accident. The reasons include students are soft in mind, emotional and susceptible to the social and economic factors. Then he digs out the subject matters that contribute to the reaction to the incident and accident. Then he depicts the comparison between reactions and violence, reaction and emotion and reaction and sympathy. After that he draws the graph of reaction versus discipline, coordination vs management respectively. He calls upon student community to build them as national asset and not liability. He says that students have to keep them away from violence and negative activities at any time. "They have to perform their responsibility to their institutions, family, society, country and nation while passing the road of life" he ends his speech through this line.

We need patience — Abdul Karim

Country's Home Secretary Abdul Karim calls upon all to keep patience to avoid any kind of bad situations. He remembers a story that took place in the Chittagong University while he was studying there. The story is like that a student jumped from one roof to another roof of a train compartment and unfortunately he could not reach the other roof and fell down and died immediately. So no one was responsible for that, which was an accident. But that time while students heard the incident they reacted violently that turned into disorder. They destroyed all establishments in and out side of the university campus. They fired the rail way station. Such incident is not rare even today. He urges all not to participate in such destructive activities. He then remembers the contribution of the student in 1952, 1971. But he urged all to keep patience. He says that he asked police to keep patience every where. He mentions about the August incident that took place last year around the all educational campuses all over the country when nearly eighty police personnel were wounded only on the Dhaka University campus. But he ordered police that time not to react. He also refers some points showing the original copy to the audience from the Justice Habibur Rahman Commission report that was published publicly and he urges for accepting the commission's recommendations promptly. Home Secretary mentions that the Justice Habibur Rahman Commission recommended to Monitoring Cell for the campuses, Proctor Committee to mitigate disputes, promote extra-curricular activities, activate DUCSU, form Search Committee to recruit qualified teachers. The commission also suggested media to focus on positive activities of the students and not to publish extravaganza of the negative incident.

Share the ownership — Professor Emajuddin Ahmed

Professor Emajuddin Ahmed digs out some reasons of our aggressive mentality. He says our aggressive mentality developed during the colonial regime. That time people of this area used to think that they were not the owner of the state assets. He continues that they used to attack government establishment to express their resentment. Similar type of mentality can be found in all post colonial countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc and can not be found in South East Asian countries. He says our all governments since 1971 had never thought to share the ownership of the country among country men. As a result the habit of respecting law never developed in ourselves. "We have to develop a system where each person will think that all public assets are mine. I have a portion in every government establishment" said Emajuddin. He insists on the total transformation of the system- the system that would ensure the sense of identity and ownership among mass people in the government's assets. He mentioned the forming of 'Paribesh Parishad' during his tenure as a VC of Dhaka University to create a congenial environment on the campus was successful instance.

Police should be polite— Abdul Quayum Mukul

Abdul Quayum Mukul says that the expectation to get services from the police is high. Police is well trained organization, they can not do the same thing that an untrained person do. A student as he is not trained can throw a stone to police but a trained police can not do the same. Abdul Quayum Mukul says that the topic of the day is very important, deep andhas enough room to think and discuss. "We always try to publish positive report on activities of the student community" he confirms. He says we have many achievements but we could do better.

Student have politics — Professor Dr M Shamser Ali

Professor M Shamser Ali proposes some measures to control accident. He proposes to build efficient Highway police, strict license issuing rule, introducing insurance. He says that we can produce more drivers. We need not impose extra pressure on a driver. He says the road sense of all persons is not equal. Some people start to run across the road when a speedy car reaches a near distance. He said student should have their own politics for attaining their own rights. They should raise their voice for their rights of having the opportunity of modern library, state of the art lab, Internet access, access to the cutting edge technologies, transport, food, entertainment, and extra curricular activities etc. He called upon all to stop partisan student politics. He urged the media to write strongly to introduce individual Chancellors in each university instead of present system of having the state's President as the Chancellor of all universities. He says that a Chancellor should go to the student community and should hear their voice for effective solution.

At First Teachers — Professor Dr Aminul Islam

Professor Aminul Islam says to change the situation at first parents and the teachers should change their mentality. He raises a question that how much a teacher thinks about his students. He says humanity can solve all problems. He appreciates Shaukat Mahmood for his initiative to arrange the program. "Shaukat Mahmood knows when to do, where to do and how to do" says Aminul. He says people have two characteristics, rationality and emotionality. Students have to consider both factors while reacting. He urges to spread the talk on this issue from campus to campus. He also calls upon the authority to materialize the idea of DUCSU and other efforts.

Psychological development want— Professor Dr. Anisur Rahman

Dr. Anisur Rahman says the development of psychology of the political leaders is the most important issue to make a change in mentality of the student. He says his village primary school has four teachers for seven hundred students. How can the students develop their mentality in such environment. He also says that the change should be started from childhood. Parents’ responsibility is to inject spirit of courtesy, modesty inside child mind. He advised to establish counseling center in every institution.

Media portraits negative-Masudur Rahman

"Media always portraits the negative picture of student community" says Masud. He pinches Prothom Alo saying that it seems that the Prothom Alo only distributes relief goods, it publishes mega series on their very little effort. But student community distributes relief goods hundred and thousand times greater than that of prothom Alo but this efforts never get due place the newspaper.

Proper counseling needed — Fuad Hossain

Fuad Hossain says that proper counseling is a must measure to cut students' negative activities. He says there are many students and teachers who work in every campuses to create a turmoil condition in the country. He mentions two specific accidents of Kauser Hossain who was a teacher of Jahangir Nagar University and Zakia Sultana Sumi, a student of the same university. He describes the post accident incidents of those two accidents were similar. Those were horrible. He continues that angry students vandalized hundreds of buses, cars, auto rickshaws, and various vehicles. Hundreds of people were wounded. They created blocked on the highway for a day. They broke glasses of all buildings inside the campus. They destroyed chair, table and other equipments of the university. He confirms the seminar that no one ever took any information of the victim's family after the incidents.

Students are arms— Moudud

Moudud says that students are used as arms. The student community brought democracy and performed many good works for us. Now we need to search why the same community is doing wrong work. Find backers soon— Shahidul Islam Razib Razib says that we need to find out the people who are playing behind the backdrop. He raises many issues of his universities. He says that maximum student of his university are from villages, they do not know about other things of the city. After getting admission they only know their teachers. "It is our teachers who lead us in bad deeds" says Razib.

First seen person— Mahbubur Rahman

"The person whom we first know on our campus is a student political leader but no one from university authority" says Mahbub. He describes a-z of the process of the transforming of a common student into a party activist. The students have to be habituated of shouting slogans and marching to get a seat in the hall. He says that students are empowered by the political big brothers. Big brothers empowered them to do any thing they want to do.a university student He also describes how the accident of Shammi Akter Happy- a university student, transformed into a political issue and broke like war in the University area in Dhaka city.

The End

AUDC 2008-Curtain Fall Asia’s Premier Debating Champ-NTU at Top

Caption: The Champion Team - NTU receiving the Champion Trophy

Mahbub Manik
Dhaka,Bangladesh
Sat May 24 2008

AUDC 2008...

Super NTU Clinched the Top Title

Curtain Fall of Asia’s Premier Debating Champ

Caption: The Champion Team - NTU in Final Debate

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore team clinched the title of the premier debating tournament of Asia -AUDC 2008 four years after becoming host to the Asian Universities Debating Championship in 2004. Ateneo De Manila - ADMNU became runners up. ADMNU won consecutively last three tournaments. The leading and the most prestigious tournament of the Asia finished with a great accomplishment on last Wednesday in the International Islamic University of Malaysia-IIUM. The tournament started on May 14, 2008. Around 90 teams and more than hundred adjudicators participated in the tournament from East Asian, South-East Asian and some South Asian Universities. The tournament followed its own format known as Asian Debating Style.

CA and DCAs 2008

The Chief Adjudicator of the tournament was Muhammad Abdul Latif (IIU)

The Deputy Chief Adjudicators’ were:

Sir Martin Cortez (The Philippines),

Priyam Saraf (Singapore),

Ravi Prajapati (Thailand)

and Rashedul Hasan Stalin (Bangladesh).

Organizing Committee

Convener: Yem, Deputy Convener: Yacoob, Tournament Director: Taha, Asst Tournament Director: Momin, Secretary: Fairuz, Financial controller: Nurizzati Sponsor: Danial, Programme Coordinator: Mahees, Liason: Asmaa, AUDC officer: Sani

Past year’s hosts and winners

1st AUDC 2005

Hosts: NTU, Singapore 2005, Winner: ADMU, Runner-Up: NTU

2nd AUDC 2006

Hosts: ADMU, Philippines 2006, Winner: ADMU, Runner-Up: ADMU

3rd AUDC 2007

Hosts: ITB, Indonesia 2007, Winner: ADMU, Runner-Up: NUS

4th AUDC 2008

Hosts: IIU, Malaysia 2008, Winner: NTU, Runner-Up: ADMNU

5th AUDC 2009

Hosts: EWU, Bangladesh, Winner: ? , Runner-Up : ?

Knowing AUDC

The Asian Universities Debating Championship-AUDC is the premier debating championship in Asia. Being the largest debating competition in the region, it has attracted more than 200 teams from across Asia since its inception. Beginning in 2005, the Asian debating community decided to create a flagship tournament that ensures transparency in all areas, is highly competitive and provides top grade adjudication and tabbing processes. With these principles in mind, the founding institutions convenened in Singapore and decided to form the AUDC to decide the "CHAMPIONS OF ASIA". AUDC is where all the best teams in Asia meet. AUDC uses the best tabbing system around.

Interesting trivia about AUDC

A few teams that did well in previous AUDC's, later went on to break at Worlds & Australs. So it comes to show that teams can learn a lot from each other and from adjudicators at AUDC. The adjudicators attending this year's AUDC has also adjudicated the breaking rounds of Worlds and Australs (a few even went all the way and judged the recent Australs grand finals), ensuring the quality of adjudication in this tournament remains solid as ever. AUDC is the ONLY flagship debating tournament that not only ranks the debate teams, but also enforces the teams to rank their adjudicators. Because of the above mandatory rule, power-matching not only occurs to the teams, but also to the judges as well. This means teams that did well in previous rounds would get better judges in preceding rounds. In the later preliminary rounds, the better-ranked judges would then judge the bubble rooms where they are needed the most.

The End

Designing a winning CV

Designing a winning CV

Torun Rahman

CV

CV or Curriculum Vitae (Latin for ‘course of life’) also known as a Résumé is a latest word that came to us through the wave of the globalization replacing the word bio data.


CV versus Biodata

There is a difference between CV and Bio Data. CV is a summary of academic and professional history and achievements. And Biodata is a commonly used term in Industrial and organizational psychology for biographical data. Biodata surveys generally contain factual kinds of questions about life and work experiences, as well as to items involving opinions, values, beliefs, and attitudes that reflect a historical perspective. A company needs information on your skill, education, experience etc rather than the information of your family.

Shooting a killer CV

An efficient CV can unlock the opportunities for you. It is your representative to the recruiters. It talks, argues, motivates, refreshes and reasons your recruiters to win a golden job for you in your absent. Still we have many misunderstandings on CV writing. Basically, there is no single system or rule to write a CV. Golden rule to write a CV is that it must focuses all info that a respective company wants at the front part. Here we will show you how to write a CV. We can divide the CV into two parts: (1) Cover Letter - CL (2) Body Letter – BL. There are more issues before or after sending a CV.

The cover letter:

Cover letter is like the first date, the first impression to win. Recruiters mirror you through it. It is the core of your CV. You have to convince the selectors to look at your CV from the thousands of CV. Many of us still submit CV without writing a cover letter. It is a non-pardonable error. Only this single error can lead your CV to waste bin who ever you or what ever you write in other pages. Because your recruiter may think, you do not know how to write a CV. So do not send a resume without a cover letter. Let us now see the rules to write a cover letter – CL.

Top rules to write a champion cover letter

1. Consider your and company purpose

You must match your skill with the company requirement. You have to understand the company need. You have to write different cover letters for different industry. Suppose you are writing a cover letter for Grameen phone that may not suit for AKTEL. In the same industry, they have the different vision, mission, objective, market position, risks and challenges. Therefore, at first must study on the company before writing cover letter. You can visit the company website as well as any employee. You have to mention how and why you can be the best fit in the position. Rather than the claiming ‘competent’ and ‘qualified ‘cites example and relate them to job the requirements.

2. Keep it smart but sweet – KISS

Limit the letter to one page dividing into three paragraphs. Do not repeat any thing. Use active voice and powerful verbs for lively communication. Avoid outdated sentences like ‘Enclosed please find my resume for your review’. Be careful to write flawless and grammatically correct sentences. You must avoid the words like beg, kind, humbly, faithful, obedient etc.

To be continuing …
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Expressive couple lives longer

Expressive couple lives longer

Suzan Rehman

After your marriage if you find your spouse is a talkative person or aggressive in verbal communication you may be frustrated, even you may pass some sleepless nights picturing your whole life living with such a person. But it is the time for your remedy that no needs to worry about your spouse’s angry behavior. Better you should marry a conflicting one, best is to marry a debater. Recently a survey finds it. A good argument with your spouse could be work better than any medicine. Preliminary results from a survey of married couples suggest that disputing husbands and wives who hold in their anger die earlier than expressive couples

"When couples get together, one of their main jobs is reconciliation about conflict," said researcher Ernest Harburg, professor emeritus with the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Psychology Department. "Usually nobody is trained to do this. If they have good parents, they can imitate, that's fine, but usually the couple is ignorant about the process of resolving conflict."
So while conflict is inevitable, the critical matter is how couples resolve it.
"The key matter is, when the conflict happens, how do you resolve it?" Harburg said. "When you don't, if you bury your anger, and you brood on it and you resent the other person or the attacker, and you don't try to resolve the problem, then you're in trouble."
The findings add to past research showing that the release of anger can be healthy. For instance, one study revealed when people are angry they tend to make better decisions, perhaps because this emotion triggers the brain to ignore irrelevant cues and focus on the meat of the matter. Individuals who express anger might also have a sense of control and optimism over a situation, according to another past study.
Bottled anger adds to stress, which tends to shorten lives, many studies show.
In the current study, the authors suggest a combination of factors to explain the higher mortality for couples who don't express their anger. These include "mutual anger suppression, poor communication (of feelings and issues) and poor problem-solving with medical consequences," they write in the January issue of the Journal of Family Communication.
Over a 17-year period, Harburg and his colleagues studied 192 married couples in which spouses ranged in age from 35 to 69, focusing on aggressive behavior considered unfair or undeserved by the person being "attacked." Harburg said that if an attack is viewed as fair, the victim doesn't tend to get angry.
Based on the participants' anger-coping responses to hypothetical situations, Harburg placed couples into one of four categories: both partners express their anger; the wife expresses anger; the husband communicates anger while the other suppresses; and both the husband and wife brood and suppress their anger.
The researchers found that 26 couples, meaning 52 individuals, were suppressors in which both partners held in their anger. Twenty-five percent of the suppressors died during the study period compared with about 12 percent for the other remaining couples.
In 27 percent of the suppressor couples, one member of the couple died during the study period, and in 23 percent of those couples, both died during the study period. That's compared to only 6 percent of couples where both spouses died in the remaining three groups combined. Only 19 percent in the remaining three groups combined saw one partner die during the study period.
The results held even when other health factors were accounted for, including age, smoking, weight, blood pressure, bronchial problems, breathing and cardiovascular risk.
Harburg said the results are preliminary, and his team is now collecting 30-year follow-up data. He expects the follow-up to show almost double the death rate compared with the preliminary findings.
Depending above theory we can relate that our out spoken politicians are also good for our democracy. The chaotic political situation is better than those of silent conspiracy and plotting in many parts of the world. However if your spouse is calm in every situation then it is the time now to rethink and worry because holding anger inside is very dangerous. Better release every thing to your spouse. Talk always; instigate your partner to talk, express, release...
- Source: LiveScience.com