V i r d a V a j a d i , K a l a w a d R o a d , O p p . M o t e l T h e V i l l a g e , R a j k o t - G u j a r a t

H. O. D. :

Pro. A. R. Vasant

*

Committee Member :

K. B. Vora

April 2013

Shree Pravinbhai R. Maniar

Chairman

* Shree Lalitbhai Mehta

Managing Trustee

* Shree Chandrakantbhai Pavagadhi

Trustee

* Shree Kaushikbhai Shukla

Trustee

* Dr. Sachinbhai Parikh

Principal

Do You Like Studying For Examinations?

Prof. Avani Vasant H.O.D. I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

Do you think a desire to pass an examination in

mathematics is necessary for motivating one to

practice solving mathematics problems, or even for

actually passing the examination? Not quite. A

student, who likes mathematics, will solve the

problems because he gets pleasure out of it. He

enjoys each step that gradually leads to the solution

of the problem. He will pass the examination too as a

natural outcome of his effort, without specifically

desiring that outcome.

Most people find it difficult to appreciate that desire

should be discarded if we want to pursue the spiritual

goal of liberation. They are afraid that without desire,

the essential locomotive for action would be missing

and one may become inactive. But action can have

other locomotives too.

Consider bodily movement. The instruction for

movement of hand normally comes from the mind and the brain. For example, a thought or desire for

taking a book from the book case comes in our mind and then the brain instructs the appropriate muscles

of legs and hands to move and do the needful.

However, movement of digits can come about even without our mind or brain coming into the picture.

For example, when we accidentally touch a hot object, our medulla oblongata directly gives instruction

to the hand muscles to withdraw without the brain or mind coming into picture beforehand. We know

this to be a reflex action.

This, of course, is purely a physiological phenomenon connected with survival instinct. But even a

conscious task can be performed with desire as its locomotive or without it.

Motivation for action in worldly life usually comes from mind and action gets executed through the

brain and action organs. But, motivation for action can also come from pure consciousness, the divine or

soul. Let me call that motivation as the ―divine objective‖. It is not centered around any selfish interest

except only outwardly. It is something that fits the big picture of the Creator and helps us work out a

road map for action. A spiritually inclined person will then focus on action in the present moment and

not remain preoccupied with the thoughts of reaching the destination.

On the other hand, a not-so-spiritual person will remain attached to the idea of reaching the destination.

In such a case, the objective coupled with attachment becomes a desire. Due to this attachment, such a

person will have to undergo emotional ups and downs like hope, anxiety and self-doubt along the way.

He is likely to indulge in actions that are dishonest and aimed solely at fulfilling the desire by hook or

by crook. For example, a highly keyed up student is likely to spend a good amount of crucial time just

before examination in preparing small-sized ―copy sheets‖ that can be hidden in his palm while writing

the examination paper!

A spiritual person will enjoy the walk even if he may or may not reach the destination. He will enjoy the

scenery alongside as he is not keyed up about reaching the destination. A typical worldly person,

however, has his eyes and mind always fixed on the destination and misses the potential pleasures of the

journey itself.

In short, desire is something that is anchored in future and compels us to ―try and cross the bridge even

before reaching it!‖ Thus, desire becomes the foreground. On the other hand, an action orientation,

karma yoga, is rooted in the present with the objective forming only a background.

Ref:http://www.speakingtree.in/spiritual-articles/lifestyle/do-you-like-studying-for-examinations

YouTube founder uses April Fools'

prank to show off video service

Elaborate Aprils Fools' Day joke or a teaser of something that's actually in the works?

(Credit: Screenshot by Donna Tam/CNET)

YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley used a YouTube prank to promote a new video-sharing service

today, sparking speculation over whether or not he's taking us all for fools.

"Since @YouTube is ending, we're launching a new video site... Welcome to http://MixBit.com!

@MixBitApp This time it's not a contest!" he tweeted today.

Since @youtube is ending, we're launching a new video site... Welcome to MixBit.com!

@mixbitapp This time it's not a contest!

— Chad Hurley (@Chad_Hurley) April 1, 2013

Hitul Marvaniya Asst. Prof. I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

Komil Vora Asst. Prof. I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

Music As Gateway To Infinity

To us young shagirds or disciples, Guru Pandit

Amarnathji would often repeat the phrase, ‗Swara

hi Ishwar hai,‘ a subtle declaration that would mark

the end of many a brainstorming session held on

classical music... to impress upon us that ―music

took you to God‖ – or in other words, to infinity, to

the Self.

The etymology of ‗swara‘ is ‗swa‘ meaning the

‗Self‘ or ‗Soul‘, and ‗ra‘, meaning to ‗proffer‘ or to

‗hold out for acceptance.‘ The word ‗acceptance‘

refers to the connectivity requested by a musician

when his music is offered to the Lord. Indeed, the

human voice, producing naada or cosmic sound, is

a gateway to infinity.

The gateway is revealed by the sensitive guru who constantly opens up the psychological congestions of

swaras in the human voice, to reveal the exquisite beauty of the infinite Self within. During the course of

training, the siddha guru, with intense intuitive power, will coordinate the psychological or mental

placements of the swaras with their vocal placements in the disciple, constantly locating and correcting

her misplaced conceptions, which create discordant areas in the disciple‘s swara mandala or tone table.

You will enact what you conceive. Any lack of coordination-- which makes the student no less

uncomfortable as well—is a result of the mythical ‗darkness of ignorance‘ about the swaras in her psyche,

and therefore in her soul as well. As the swaras are corrected, she will experience a constant release, and

therefore spiritual liberation. Not to speak of an immensely improved melodiousness in her singing or

playing. For each swara is potentially the gateway to a flood of infinite Light.

The connectivity of one swara with another is equally interesting. When we were young we were told

that swaras were in relationships very much like familial relationships, and that the beauty of each swara

was enunciated by the measure of its distance from the other swaras. Just as distance created the

classification and meaning of a relationship, so, too, distances between the swaras marked the tone and

meaning, and the colour and fragrance of musical relationships, which turned into beautiful musical

phrases and sentences. And so we discovered how all the agony of a raga like Bilaskhani Todi lay in the

treatment of a suspended gandhar or Ga, all the pleading in the raga Gorakh Kalyan was produced by the

silent ambience of its nishad or Ni, and that you lit the lamp in the raga Durga at its madhya saptak

dhaivat or middle register Dha, sung like an ecstatic call, even when the same Dha in the lower register or

mandra was as peaceful, and as quiet, as ever.

I remember once asking Panditji about the difference between the swaras when a musician was young,

and when she was older. Panditji loved the question, and replied that when you were young, the swaras

felt ‗apart and separate‘. When the musician was older, their outlines tended to fade away; and having

‗ripened‘, their shrutis or microtones, addressing and relating to each other, belonged to each other more

profoundly than ever before.

It was only years later that I realised what he had actually meant. He had spelt out the experience

of Samadhi or meditation during the rendering of the raga. When, for the musician, all the swaras started

merging and becoming One in a loving, ecstatic whole... from ‗Swara‘ to ‗Ishwara‘. From offering to

Acceptance.

Ref: http://www.speakingtree.in/spiritual-articles/mysticism/music-as-gateway-to-infinity

Radhika Kotecha Asst. Prof., I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

Are You Smiling or Frowning to Yourself

Mother Theresa believed ―peace begins with a

smile.‖ A sincere smile shines from our soul,

making the world a warmer place. As Joseph

Addison expressed, ―What sunshine is to flowers,

smiles are to humanity.‖ A genuine smile puts us at

ease whilst a frown creates unease, promoting

disease, depression and an unfriendly environment.

Smiling to others and ourselves is a gift of love. It

transforms negative energy into positive.

The universal language of a smile speaks straight

to the heart, bypassing the intellect and ego.

Ever wondered why are we always asked to smile

in photos? It is because people look their best when

smiling. Smiling makes you more attractive!

And smiling happens without much thought. When you watch a friend do something silly or

embarrassing, you smirk. When a police officer lets you off without a ticket, you grin. And when you are

recognized for your top performance in academics or at work, you beam. Smiling is a very natural

response that shares our happiness with others. Smiling also triggers activity in your brain. Yep, there's a

serious mind-body connection there, in your left frontal cortex to be exact, which is—not surprisingly—

the area of your brain that registers happiness. It‘s easy to share a smile with others, since it‘s the second

most contagious facial expression next to yawning.

But in today‘s technological world, people are so busy in their work and schedules that they hardly find

any minute to smile. Ask few questions to yourself:

How often do you smile in a day?

Do you smile when you meet new people?

When you see your friends?

When you‘re around your co-workers?

Your face has 44 muscles in it that allow you make more than 5,000 different types of expressions, many

of which are smiles.

Since years I follow a quote by an anonymous personality:

“Be kinder than necessary, every person you meet is fighting some kind of battle”

Since we are discussing the busy schedules in today‘s competitive and superfast era, it is worth noting

that every person on this earth is a victim of some problem, some issue, some depression or some

dissatisfaction. When you meet a person, you might treat them very well if he‘s your boss or is going to

get you something someday. In the other case, you will definitely ignore them if they don‘t mean

anything to you.

Ever wondered what that person is undergoing? And what I believe is that the first step to kindness is to

smile. Your one smile can make him forget his distress for a moment. It can make that person smile who,

may be, hasn‘t slept the entire last night. And smiling doesn‘t cost. Then why not to smile?

As motivational speaker Les Giblin felt ―If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million

dollars in the bank and no check book.‖

From a survey, I found 3 special things to Smile about which I‘d like to add here:

1. Smiling can make others happy.

"When you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you." Ever heard that song, made famous by Louis

Armstrong? Well, it's true. Research shows that smiling is contagious. Ever been around someone who

just had something fantastic happen to him or her? Isn't it almost impossible not to feel good, too? Studies

show that something as simple as seeing a friend smile can activate the muscles in your face to make that

same expression, without you even being aware that you are doing it.

2. Smiling can help you de-stress.

The next time you're stressed about work, don't freak out. Take a few deep breaths and smile! Smiling

may help to reduce symptoms associated with anxiety. Reducing stress is so important for health, too, as

it can lower blood pressure, improve digestion and regulate blood sugar. Note that this works during

workouts, too! If you're having a hard time getting those final 5 minutes in on the treadmill, smiling can

do wonders!

3. Smiling can make you happy (even when you're not).

The simple act of smiling sends a message to your brain that you're happy. And when you're happy, your

body pumps out all kinds of feel-good endorphins. This reaction has been studied since the 1980s and has

been proven a number of times. So the next time you feel sad or upset, try smiling. It just might make

your body—and therefore you—feel better.

So when dressing in the morning remember author Jim Begg‘s advise,

“Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available!”

References:

1. ―The Inner Smile‖, by Caroline Robertson

2. ―7 Good Reasons to Smile‖, by Jennipher Walters

Kunal Khimani Lecturer, I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

What Motivates Children to Learn

Every child learns a little differently. It would be

convenient if each child fit into one of the

traditional learning styles, such as visual learner,

kinesthetic learner, or auditory learner. The truth is

that each child is a unique combination of these

learning styles as well as other points in their

personalities that make their learning style unique

to each child.

Learning styles tend to explain how a child learns.

Visual learners like to see the educational material

demonstrated, they tend to like learning on the

computer. Kinesthetic learners need to touch and

feel to learn, they like to build models. Auditory

learners learn best when hearing the information

presented. Besides having a way that they like to

learn each student has a reason, a motivation, why they learn.

It is important to take advantage of not only the way the child learns, but what motivates the child to

learn.

Some children learn what is put before them because they feel some sense of obligation to do what they

are told to do. For these children it doesn't seem to matter how the material is presented, but that the

material is presented. Sometimes these children are called compliant learners. They do not seem to need

external rewards to learn unless you consider the approval of adults as a reward.

Other children seem to need a more tangible reward. Some athletes are examples of this. They do the

school work because the end result is that if they do their schoolwork they are allowed participation in

their chosen sport. An example might be football players who must maintain a "C" average to be allowed

to play in the

game on Friday night.

There are things that are considered rewards, and for each child there is a different reward that is

important. Some children are motivated by rewards that are internal. They learn because it gives them

pleasure, or they are driven to know more about a subject, or they are driven to learn to know more than

other children, in a sense to become an expert. There is a set of children who learn for the joy of

accumulating knowledge; in a sense the knowledge itself is the reward.

Some children are motivated by the act of completion. For example, each chapter in science is an exercise

to be completed. When they finish the chapter, they have checked off some mark, and are ready to begin

the next chapter, so that they can complete it. For that child, the reward is the check mark, not necessarily

the knowledge gained.

Grades are another important reward. Receiving the praise for the grades or the gaining attention for

grades can be a reward and a motivator.

It is important to find out what the motivator is for your child. External rewards, internal rewards,

accolades, privileges, or simply the joy of learning can all be powerful motivators. Once you find the

right combination of motivating rewards for your child you will better understand what inspires them to

learn. In combination with learning styles, motivational styles can help you get the most learning into

your child, with the fewest drawbacks.

Reference:http://www.edarticle.com

Rushabh Doshi Lecturer, I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

Opening Product Data for a More

Responsible World

Data on the products we buy is rarely viewed as

something to be opened. But in fact, the

international standards that make it possible for

products to be traded across borders can be used by

consumers for their own ends—to help improve

information—sharing and choice across the planet.

There is currently no public database of this

information, but we‘re working to change that

at Product Open Data.

When a consumer buys a product he gives power to

a manufacturer, enabling it to continue or to extend

its activities. A public worldwide product database

would allow consumers to get information in real

time, by scanning the barcode with a mobile phone,

or to publish their opinions about specific products

in a way that others can easily access. The consumer would have the tools to make decisions based on

their own concerns about health, nutrition, ecology, or human rights, and to make ethical, dietary or

value-based purchases.

GS1 is a worldwide organization that assigns to a product a unique code that people can see below the

barcode (called the GTIN code). There are billions of product commercialized in the world, and the full

GTIN code list is stored only in GS1 database. The objective of POD (Product Open Data) is to open

product data by gathering these key codes, and collecting product information from the manufacturer by

creating a new RSS standard around this data (called PSS, Product Simple Syndication).

The POD database contains currently 1.4 million products. The most difficult task is to assign to each

product a classification GPC code, which carries information about the particular type of product that it

is. GPC codes are an international standard—GS1 has already assigned 10 million of them—but many e-

commerce sites have developed their own taxonomies, which makes it difficult to compare product-types

across sellers and to find the correct GPC codes online. Other challenges are finding information like the

brand, dimensions, and packaging, and lastly but crucially, to guarantee the quality of data. The database

and pictures are free to access.

Why is this important?

There are a whole load of reasons why opening product data is a really important step:

With the GTIN Code as a unique identifier, consumers will be able to communicate about a specific

product across the world.

Almost all manufacturers around the world are covered by GS1, which is focused on supply chain. By

developing an open database, a new organization with the same power will be created as a counterpoint,

but focusing on consumers‘ right.

Organizations dealing with health, ecology, and human rights will be able to provide their own criteria

about products very easily using the GTIN Code.

Individuals will be able to raise a risk or an alert about a product. A set of rules will have to be defined to

avoid buzz triggers with wrong information.

Marketing and commerce will change a lot because consumers will have new inputs to decide what to buy

(e-reputation).

Smartphone apps and a community will build around product knowledge.

Whether you‘re interested in open source and open data, the protection of consumers, or the protection of

the environment, we‘d love to hear from you. Together we can join forces in an innovative project which

is good for our planet.

Originally posted on the Open Knowledge Foundation blog. Reposted using Creative Commons.

Riddhi Patel Lecturer, I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

Join the first Open Source Hardware

Documentation Jam

The Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam will be held on April 26-28 in New York. We always thought the power of open source hardware lies in the ability to build upon others‘ work

and, when it comes to hardware, good documentation is the key to making this happen.

As the number of open source projects continue to grow, it‘s important to generate clearly-findable,

modular, remixable documentation that can not only improve the quality of projects—but can also

enhance cross-project collaboration. Quality documentation is essential to boosting the true spirit of

open innovation.

Despite the fact that the open source hardware movement has come a long way in the last few years, a

number of outstanding issues are still slowing down its expansion and ability to become a new

economic engine of efficiency, sustainability, and collaboration.

Only a shared, modular approach to open source hardware design and documentation, will facilitate

this transition and will encourage others to contribute to a common pool of human knowledge.

The documentation event

Being conscious of the wide scope of the challenges (ranging from Software to User Experience), we

have organized a 3-day event: The Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam will be focused on

identifying and sharing outstanding problems concerning the diffusion of open source hardware

documentation practices and generating creative solutions and prototyping them collaboratively.

This event will be the first of its kind; based on a mashup of well known co-design formats for group

cooperation such as service design Jams and hackathons.

When I first started working with Catarina and Marcin on this project, we had no idea that the fruit of

efforts would be organizing such a collaborative event. I think my ouishare legacy helped facilitate this

route: collaboration is key, and openness and inclusion are great drivers of passion and innovation.

The documentation jam will be an opportunity to nurture new ideas on how to help Open Source

Hardware get better find new friends and partners and learn something radically new.

Tsunamis consist of a series of very long waves generated by any rapid, large-scale disturbance of the

sea. Most are generated by sea floor displacements from large undersea earthquakes. Tsunamis can

cause great destruction and loss of lives within minutes on shores near the source, and some tsunamis

can cause destruction within hours across an entire ocean basin.

Most tsunamis occur in the Pacific region but they are known to happen in every ocean and sea.

Although infrequent, tsunamis are a significant natural hazard with great destructive potential. They can

only be dealt with effectively through programs of warning, mitigation, and education

Introduction of Tsunami Warning System

Development of an operational tsunameter was an extraordinary engineering accomplishment.

The task was to design, develop, test, and deploy real-time reporting, deep ocean instrumentation

capable of surviving a hostile ocean environment while performing with the quality and reliability

demanded of an operational tsunami warning system. To measure tsunamis many technologies has been

tested. At present the best way known to detect a tsunami is to measure very accurately water pressure

on the sea bottom. The tsunami detection algorithm works by first estimating the amplitudes of the

pressure fluctuations within the tsunami frequency band and test these amplitudes against a threshold

value.

Refrenced by

http://www.seminarsonly.com/computer%20science/Tsunami-Warning-System.php

Rachna Parikh Lecturer, I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

Tsunami Warning System

Deval Goda Lecturer, I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

Teachers's Gestures Boost Math

Learning

Students perform better when their instructors use hand gestures -- a simple teaching tool that could yield benefits in higher-level math such as algebra. A study published in Child Development,

the top-ranked educational psychology journal,

provides some of the strongest evidence yet that

gesturing may have a unique effect on learning.

Teachers in the United States tend to use gestures

less than teachers in other countries.

"Gesturing can be a very beneficial tool

that is completely free and easily employed in

classrooms," said Kimberly Fenn, study co-author

and assistant professor of psychology at Michigan

State University. "And I think it can have long-

lasting effects."

Half of the students were shown videos of an instructor teaching math problems using only

speech. The others were shown videos of the instructor teaching the same problems using both speech and

gestures.

The problem involved mathematical equivalence (i.e., 4+5+7=__+7), which is known to be

critical to later algebraic learning. In the speech-only videos, the instructor simply explains the problem.

In the other videos, the instructor uses two hand gestures while speaking, using different hands to refer to

the two sides of the equation.

Students who learned from the gesture videos performed better on a test given immediately

afterward than those who learned from the speech-only video.

Another test was given 24 hours later, and the gesture students actually showed improvement in

their performance while the speech-only students did not.

The study is the first to show that gestures can help students transfer learning to new contexts --

such as transferring the knowledge learned in an addition-based equation to a multiplication-based

equation.

"So if we can help them grasp this foundational knowledge earlier, it will help them as they learn

algebra and higher levels of mathematics."

Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Sagar Dholariya Lecturer, I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

Smartphone Users Check Facebook 14

Times a Day

(CNN)Think you use your phone to look at

Facebook a lot? Unless you're doing it at least 14

times a day, you're actually below average.

That's just one of the surprising revelations in a

research report by IDC released. The study tapped

7,446 iPhone and Android users in the U.S.

between 18 and 44 — representative of the 50% of

the population that uses smartphones — and asked

them questions about their phone usage across one

week in March.

Depending on your perspective, many of the results

are either depressing or confirm what you knew all

along. For example, it seems that 79% of

smartphone users reach for their devices within 15

minutes of waking up. A clear majority — 62% —

don't even wait 15 minutes, and grab their phones immediately. (Among 18- to 24-year-olds, the numbers

rise to 89% and 74%.)

Given that the survey was sponsored by Facebook, most of the questions focus on the social network.

Which is, it seems, only the third most popular app on your smartphone, after email and the browser. Still,

70% of smartphone users are frequent Facebook visitors, with more than half of them checking it every

day.

Peak Facebook time is during the evening, just before bed. But any time's good: on average, we visit the

Facebook app or the site 13.8 times during the day, for two minutes and 22 seconds each time. Our

average total daily mobile time on the site — and remember, this is just via our smartphones — is half an

hour.

That's roughly a fifth of all the time we spend communicating; it's only slightly less time than we spend

texting. On weekends, we check Facebook more than we text.

Any place seems to be good to check Facebook, too. Some 46% of us check it when we're shopping or

running errands; 48% use it at the gym. Even preparing a meal gives 47% of us no respite from the social

network. (Well, what else are you going to do while you're waiting for the microwave to ping?)

Perhaps the most unpardonable sin: 50% of smartphone users admit to checking Facebook while at a

movie. We hope they mean only during the ads.

So what are we spending all that time doing? Well, for about half of that daily half-hour on the social

network, we're simply browsing our News Feed. The rest of the time is divided fairly evenly between

Facebook messaging and posting updates. Half of Facebook users play games via the service on their

phone a few times a day.

Asha Vijay Kumar Student, 8th Semester, I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

AFTER A SUCCESFUL TECHNICAL EVENT ―ELIXIR‖ IN 2010, VYAVSAYI VIDYA

PRATISHTHAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE AGAIN CAME UP WITH A NATIONAL LEVEL

TECHNICAL FEST CALLED ―TECHNOFEST 2013‖.THIS EVENT WAS SPONSERED BY JYOTI

AND PELICAN ROTOFLEX PRIVATE LIMITED.THE ELITE STUDENTS AND THE STAFF OF

VYAVSAYI VIDYA PRATISHTHAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE HAD PUT IN AN GREAT

EFFORT TO ACCOMPLISH THIS TASK AND HAD COME OUT WITH AN THRIVING

OUTCOME.IT WAS OVERWHELMING TO HAVE ALMOST 2900 STUDENTS PARTICIPATING

IN VARIOUS EVENTS AND CONTRIBUTING TO MAKE IT HUGE SUCCESS.

STUDENTS FROM VARIOUS OTHER COLLEGES HAD COME TO ANTICIPATE IN THE

TECHNOFEST 2013.VARIOUS TECHNICAL EVENTS SUCH AS PAPER

PRESENTATION,POSTER PRESENTATION,PROJECT PRESENTATION,ROBOTICS,ROBO

SOCCER AND TUG OF WAR WAS ORGANIZED WHICH GAVE THE STUDENTS FROM

VARIOUS FIELDS TO PROVE THEIR METTLE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE TECHNICAL

FIELD.THROUGH PAPER PRESENTATIONS,ONE GETS ENOUGH CONFIDENCE TO PRESENT

ONE‘S PAPER IN FRONT OF THE MASS.A THOROUGH PREPARATION IS REQUIRED FOR

IT.POSTER PRESENTATION GIVE EVERYONE A FAIR CHANCE TO PRESENT THEIR IDEA

IN AN ATTRACTIVE AND IN AN INNOVATIVE MANNER.YOU CAN REFLECT YOUR

CREATIVE SKILLS IN IT.PROJECT REQUIRES METICULOUS WORK.THE STUDENTS CAME

UP WITH REALLY INCREDIBLE PROJECTS.IT WAS REALLY COMMENDABLE TO SEE

THEIR HARD WORK.ROBOTICS WAS AWESOME AND ROBO SOCCER WAS A BREATHE OF

FRESH AIR.EVERYONE WAS REALLY MESMERIZED AND AMUSED TO SEE THE ROBO

SOCCER.EVEN TUG OF WAR WAS AN IMPLAUSIBLE EVENT.THERE WAS GREAT RAGE

FOR THESE EVENTS AMONG THE PARTICIPANTS AND THE VIEWERS. IN TOTAL THERE

WERE 54 PAPER PRESENTATIONS MADE BY 134 PARTICIPANTS.41 POSTER

PRESENTATIONS BY 106 STUDENTS AND 32 PROJECTS WERE PRESENTED BY 87

STUDENTS.

THERE WERE MANY ON THE SPOT EVENTS AND LAN GAMES ALSO ADDED ICING TO

THE CAKE.THE ENTIRE AURA OF THE EVENT WAS GREAT.THE VOLUNTEERS HAD

SHOWN GREAT COMMITMENT TOWARDS THEIR DUTIES RESPONSIBILITIES.VARIOUS

VVP TECHNOFEST 2013

DEPARTMENTS HAD DECORATED THEIR DEPARTMENTS BASED ON THE THEME.IT

REFLECTED THEIR DRASTICALLY NEW IDEAS.THE COMMON THEME WAS THE

GREATEST IDELIST SWAMI VIVEKANAND AND HIS IDEOLOGY.ALL THE 8

DEPARTMENTS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, COMPUTER, ELECTRONICS AND

COMMUNICATION, ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL, BIOTECHNOLOGY, CIVIL AND

CHEMICAL HAD CONTRIBUTED IMMENSELY IN MAKING THIS EVENT A HUGE

SUCCESS.IT WAS A TEAM EFFORT AND IT ECHOED IN THE END.THE PARTICIPANTS

WERE GLAD TO BE A PART OF IT.EVERY EVENT HAD TWO WINNERS.THE PRIZES FOR

THE PAPER,POSTER AND PROJECT WAS GIVEN DEPARTMENTWISE.THE ARRANGEMENT

FOR THE PARTICIPANTS WAS ALSO MADE BY PROVIDING THEM WITH TEA,SNACKS

AND LUNCH PASSES.IT WAS A ONE DAY EVENT,WHICH STARTED IN THE MORNING AND

ENDED IN THE EVENING.PEOPLE WERE THRIVING TO HAVE MORE OF IT.EVERYONE

WAS HOPING THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF IT CONTINUED FOR FEW MORE

DAYS.THIS WAS A BOOMING RESPONSE FROM EVERYONE AND EVERYWHERE AROUND.

AT LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST WE WOULD HEARTILY GIVE A VOTE OF THANKS TO OUR

HONORABLE CHAIRMAN SHRI PRAVINKAKA,RESPECTED PRINCIPAL DR. SACHIN

PARIKH,CONVYER AND H.O.D.(I.T.) PROF. AVANI VASANT RESPECTED PROFESSORS FOR

GUIDING AND ENDOWING THE STUDENTS OF VYAVSAYI VIDYA PRATISHTHAN

ENGINEERING COLLEGE WITH SUCH A RAVISHING AND MEMORABLE EVENT.

Kulin Dave Student, 4th Semester, I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

There's a new type of service being developed that will take broadband into the air. The

airborne Internet won't be completely wireless . There will be ground-based components to

any type of airborne Internet network. The consumers will have to install an antenna on their

home or business in order to receive signals from the network hub overhead. The networks will

also work with established Internet Service Providers (ISPs), who will provide their high-

capacity terminals for use by the network. These ISPs have a fiber point of presence their fiber

optics are already set up. What the airborne Internet will do is provide an infrastructure that

can reach areas that don't have broadband cables and wires

Introduction of Airborne Internet

The HALOT Aircraft is under development and flight testing is expected to occur by mid-

1998. The aircraft has been specially designed for the HALOT Network with the

Communications Payload Pod suspended from the underbelly of its fuselage

The HALOT Aircraft will fly above the metropolitan center in a circular orbit of five to eight

nautical miles diameter. The Communications Payload Pod is mounted to a pylon under the

fuselage. As the aircraft varies its roll angle to fly in the circular orbit, the Communications

Payload Pod will pivot on the pylon to remain level with the ground

The HALOT Network will use an array of narrow beam antennas on the HALOT Aircraft to

form multiple cells on the ground. Each cell covers a small geographic area, e.g., 4 to 8 square

miles. The wide bandwidths and narrow beamwidths within each beam or cell are achieved by

using MMW frequencies. Small aperture antennas can be used to achieve small cells. One

hundred dish antennas can be easily carried by the HALOT Aircraft to create one hundred or

more cells throughout the service area. If lensed antennas are utilized, wider beams can be

created by combining beams through each lens aperture, and with multiple feeds behind each

lens multiple beams can be formed by each compound lens.

If 850 MHz of spectrum is assumed, then a minimum capacity of one full-duplex OC-1 (51.84

Mbps) channel is available per cell. For example, a single platform reusing 850 MHz of

spectrum in 100 cells would provide the equivalent of two, OC-48 fiber optic rings. The

elements in the communications payload are shown below. It consists of MMW transceivers,

Airborne Internet

pilot tone transmitter, high-speed modems, SONET multiplexers, packet switch hardware and

software, and associated ancillary hardware such as power supplies, processors, etc

Summary

Several companies have already shown that satellite Internet access can work. The airborne

Internet will function much like satellite-based Internet access, but without the time delay.

Bandwidth of satellite and airborne Internet access are typically the same, but it will take less

time for the airborne Internet to relay data because it is not as high up. Satellites orbit at several

hundreds of miles above Earth. The airborne-Internet aircraft will circle overhead at an altitude

of 52,000 to 69,000 feet (15,849 to 21,031 meters). At this altitude, the aircraft will be

undisturbed by inclement weather and flying well above commercial air traffic.

Networks using high-altitude aircraft will also have a cost advantage over satellites because the

aircraft can be deployed easily -- they don't have to be launched into space. However, the

airborne Internet will actually be used to compliment the satellite and ground-based networks,

not replace them. These airborne networks will overcome the last-mile barriers facing

conventional Internet access options

The HALOT Network is capable of providing high rate communications to users of

multimedia and broadband services. The feasibility of this approach is reasonably assured due

to the convergence of technological advancements. The key enabling technologies at hand

include:

GaAs RF devices which operate at MMW frequencies

ATM/SONET Technology and Components

Digital Signal Processing for Wideband Signals

Video Compression

Very Dense Memory Capacity

Aircraft Technology

Hemangi Sojitra Student, 4th Semester, I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

Aura : Paranormal

The ―aura‖ or ―human energy field‖ is a field

of energy which surrounds and penetrates the

body. The aura underlies and supports the

functioning of the body. Contained within the

aura are the energetic aspects of every

structure and function of the body, as well as

everything that we experience (physical

sensations, thoughts, feelings, states of

consciousness, etc.)Everything in the Universe

seems to be just a vibration. Every atom, every

part of an atom, every electron, every

elementary ―particle‖, even our thoughts and

consciousness are just vibrations levels of the

functioning of our body (DNA structure,

metabolism, circulation etc.) whereas high

frequency(UV part) is more related to our

conscious activity such as thinking, creativity, intentions, sense of humor and emotions. Russian

scientists, who seem to be about 3 decades ahead of everyone else in Aura research,make

experiments suggesting that our DNA can be altered, by influencing its microwave Aura. The

high frequency UV part is very important and most interesting but largely unexplored. And this

part can be seen regardless how impressive, eloquent, educated, "good looking" or "well

dressed" he/she seems to appear. with naked eyes.

Why do we need to see auras? Colors and intensity of the aura, especially around and above the head have VERY special

meanings. Watching someone's aura you can actually see the other person's thoughts before you

hear them expressed verbally. If they do not agree with what this person is saying, you

effectively see a lie every time. No one can lie in front of you undetected. We cannot fake the

Aura. It shows our True Nature and intentions for everyone to see Also, aura is our spiritual

signature. When you see a person with a bright, clean aura, you can be SURE that such person

is good and spiritually advanced, even if he/she is modest and not aware of it. When you see a

person with a gray or dark aura, you may be almost SURE, that such person has unclear

intentions, Meaning of Clean Colors of the Aura (colors of the rainbow, bright,

shiny,monochromatic color): Purple: indicates spiritual thoughts. Purple is never a strong point in the Aura. It appears only

as temporary "clouds" and "flames", indicating truly spiritual thoughts.

Blue: Balanced existence, sustaining life, eased nerve system, transmitting forces and energy.

People with blue strong point in their Aura are relaxed, balanced and feel ready to live in a cave

and survive. They are born survivors. Blue thought is a thought about relaxing the nerve system

to achieve the balance of the mind or a thought about surviving. Electric blue can override any

other color in the Aura, when the person is receiving and/or transmitting information in a

telepathic communication. For example Michel Desmarquet, author of "Thiaoouba Prophecy",

frequently glows with the electric blue during his lectures, especially When he answers question

from the public.

Turquoise: indicates dynamic quality of being, highly energized personality, capable of

projection, influencing other people. People with turquoise strong point in their Aura can do

many things simultaneously and are good organizers. They feel bored when forced to

concentrate on one thing. People love bosses with turquoise Auras, because such bosses explain

their goals and influence their team rather than demand executing their commands. Turquoise

thought is a thought about organizing and influencing others.

Green: restful, modifying energy, natural healing ability. All natural healers should have it.

People with a green strong point in their Auras are natural healers. The stronger the green

Aura, the better the healer. They also love gardening and usually have a "green hand" -

anything grows for them. Being in a presence of a person with a strong and green Aura is a

very peaceful and restful experience. Green thought indicates a restful state and healing.

Yellow: joy, freedom, non-attachment, freeing or releasing vital forces. People who glow

yellow are full of inner joy, very generous and not attached to anything. Yellow halo around

the head: high spiritual development. A signature of a spiritual teacher. Do not accept spiritual

teachings from anyone who does not have such a yellow halo. Buddha and Christ had yellow

halos extending to their arms. Today it is rare on Earth to find a person with a halo larger than

1 inch. Yellow halo appears as a result of a highly active brow chakra (which can be seen

glowing with violet by many people at my workshops). Highly spiritual people stimulate the

brow chakra continuously for many years, because they always have intensive spiritual

thoughts in their minds. When this chakra is observed when highly active, a yellow (Auric

pair) halo appears around it, surrounding the entire head. Yellow thought indicates a moment

of joy and contentment.

Orange: uplifting and absorbing. Inspiring. A sign of power. Ability and/or desire to control

people. When orange becomes a strong point, it usually contributes to a yellow halo, which

then becomes gold, indicating not only a spiritual teacher, but a powerful spiritual teacher,

someone capable of demonstrating his/her unique abilities. Orange thought is a thought about

exercising power or a desire to control people.

Red: materialistic thoughts, thoughts about the physical body. Predominantly red Aura

indicates materialistically oriented person.

Pink (=purple+red): love (in a spiritual sense). To obtain a clean pink, you need to mix the

purple (the highest frequency we perceive) with red (the lowest frequency). Pink Aura

indicates that the person achieved a perfect balance between spiritual awareness and the

material existence. The most advanced people have not only a yellow halo around the head (a

permanent strong point in the Aura) but also a large pink Aura extending further away. The

pink color in the Aura is quite rare on Earth and appears only as a temporary thought, never as

a strong point in the Aura.

Meaning of Dirty colors:

(colors appearing darker than background more like a smoke than a glow)

Brown: unsettling, distracting, materialistic, negating spirituality.

Gray: dark thoughts, depressing thoughts, unclear intentions, presence of a dark side of

personality.

Sulfur (color of a mustard): pain or lack of ease, anger

White: serious disease, artificial stimulation (drugs). Why does the white color in the Aura

indicate problems? White color is like a noise, rather than a set of harmonious tones

(monochromatic colors). It is impossible to "tune" the noise to an orchestra playing

harmonious music, hence the white Aura indicates a lack of harmony in the body and mind.

Nature, which we are a part of, is harmonious. This harmony comes in discrete vibration

"tones" or harmonics, partially described by the modern quantum physics.Several hours before

the death, the Aura becomes white, and greatly increases in intensity. For this reason in most

cultures "death" is depicted in WHITE (not black), because in the past, people could actually

see a white Aura before death. It seems that our ancestors knew much more than we are

prepared to admit.

Amplifying your Aura vibration and bio-energy

Things which can greatly amplify your aura are:

1. Meditation (purifying your mind from any thoughts)

2. Concentration exercise with the cross

3. Matching your aura with the environment

Nehal Godhasara Student, 4th Semester, I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

3D Internet

Also known as virtual worlds, the 3D Internet is a powerful new way for you to reach

consumers, business customers, co-workers, partners, and students. It combines the immediacy

of television, the versatile content of the Web, and the relationship-building strengths of social

networking sites like Face book . Yet unlike the passive experience of television, the 3D

Internet is inherently interactive and engaging. Virtual worlds provide immersive 3D

experiences that replicate (and in some cases exceed) real life.

People who take part in virtual worlds stay online longer with a heightened level of interest. To

take advantage of that interest, diverse businesses and organizations have claimed an early stake

in this fast-growing market. They include technology leaders such as IBM, Microsoft, and

Cisco, companies such as BMW, Toyota , Circuit City , Coca Cola, and Calvin Klein, and

scores of universities, including Harvard, Stanford and Penn State .

Introduction of 3D Internet The success of 3D communities and mapping applications, combined with the falling costs of

producing 3D environments, are leading some analysts to predict that a dramatic shift is taking

place in the way people see and navigate the Internet.

The appeal of 3D worlds to consumers and vendors lies in the level of immersion that the

programs offer.

The experience of interacting with another character in a 3D environment, as opposed to a

screen name or a flat image, adds new appeal to the act of socializing on the Internet.

Advertisements in Microsoft's Virtual Earth 3D mapping application are placed as billboards

and signs on top of buildings, blending in with the application's urban landscapes.

3D worlds also hold benefits beyond simple social interactions. Companies that specialize in

interior design or furniture showrooms, where users want to view entire rooms from a variety of

angles and perspectives, will be able to offer customized models through users' homePCs .

Google representatives report that the company Google is preparing a new revolutionary

product called Google Goggles, an interactive visor that will present Internet content in three

dimensions. Apparently the recent rumors of a Google phone refers to a product that is much

more innovative than the recent Apple iPhone.

Google's new three dimensional virtual reality : nyone putting on "the Googgles" - as the insiders call them - will be immersed in a three

dimensional "stereo-vision" virtual reality called 3dLife. 3dLife is a pun referring to the three

dimensional nature of the interface, but also a reference to the increasingly popular Second Life

virtual reality.

The "home page" of 3dLife is called "the Library", a virtual room with virtual books categorized

according to the Dewey system. Each book presents a knowledge resource within 3dLife or on

the regular World Wide Web. If you pick the book for Pandia, Google will open the Pandia

Web site within the frame of a virtual painting hanging on the wall in the virtual library.

However, Google admits that many users may find this too complicated.

Apparently Google is preparing a new revolutionary product called Google Goggles, an

interactive visor which will display Internet content in three dimensions.

A 3D mouse lets you move effortlessly in all dimensions. Move the 3D mouse controller cap to

zoom, pan and rotate simultaneously. The 3D mouse is a virtual extension of your body - and

the ideal way to navigate virtual worlds like Second Life.

The Space Navigator is designed for precise control over 3D objects in virtual worlds. Move,

fly and build effortlessly without having to think about keyboard commands, which makes the

experience more lifelike.

Controlling your avatar with this 3D mouse is fluid and effortless. Walk or fly spontaneously,

with ease. In fly cam mode you just move the cap in all directions to fly over the landscape and

through the virtual world

Hands on: Exit Reality: The idea behind ExitReality is that when browsing the web in the old-n-busted 2D version

you're undoubtedly using now, you can hit a button to magically transform the site into a 3D

environment that you can walk around in and virtually socialize with other users visiting the

same site. This shares many of the same goals as Google's Lively (which, so far, doesn't seem

so lively), though ExitReality is admittedly attempting a few other tricks.

Installation is performed via an executable file which places ExitReality shortcuts in Quick

Launch and on the desktop, but somehow forgets to add the necessary ExitReality button to

Firefox's toolbar . After adding the button manually and repeatedly being told our current

version was out of date, we were ready to 3D-ify some websites and see just how much of

reality we could leave in two-dimensional dust.

Exit Reality is designed to offer different kinds of 3D environments that center around

spacious rooms that users can explore and customize, but it can also turn some sites like Flickr

into virtual museums, hanging photos on virtual walls and halls. Strangely, it's treating Ars

Technical as an image gallery and presenting it as a malformed 3D gallery .

3D Shopping is the most effective way to shop online. 3DInternet dedicated years of research

and development and has developed the worlds' first fully functional, interactive and

collaborative shopping mall where online users can use our 3DInternet's Hyper-Reality

technology to navigate and immerse themselves in a Virtual Shopping Environment. Unlike

real life, you won't get tired running around a mall looking for that perfect gift; you won't have

to worry about your kids getting lost in the crowd; and you can finally say goodbye to waiting

in long lines to check out.

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[3]. http://netways.shef.ac.uk/index.htm

[4].http://www.science.widener.edu/~wither s/pyra mid.htm

5].ftp://ftp.uwashington.edu/public/Internet

Derika Das Student, 2nd Semester, I.T. Dept. V.V.P. Engg. College, Rajkot

Why Students Need Co-curricular, Not

Extra-curricular activities?

As January's High Fliers report shows, the

gratuate job market in 2013 is one of the most

competitive we've ever known. Time and time

again employers tell us that a degree alone is

not indicative of a well-rounded graduate. So

what can universities do to provide further

development opportunities to complement the

academic curriculum?

I strongly believe that given the right tools,

students will thrive in taking charge of their

own development, but to help them do this, we

need to reassess our role as higher education

providers. We should not just provide the

opportunities for students to achieve good

academic results but actively promote the

benefits of a wider curriculum to students. After all, university should be seen as a transformative experience through which students can

prepare themselves to succeed in the many and varied roles they will undertake in future life.

That's why, over the last few years, Keele University has evaluated its offering to recognise the

importance and value of both academic curriculum and co-curricular activities in developing the

range of skills and attributes that are important for graduates. Armed with a better sense of the

student journey, the university has designed a 'development strand' to support students'

transition through higher education and enable them to take responsibility for their own

development.

This isn't a marketing exercise, but an approach that has been implemented for all new Keele

students and places the onus on them to shape and develop their studies and interests with life

after university in mind. But in real terms how have we changed?

Let's start with the academic curriculum: thanks to the introduction of a new degree structure in

2009, undergraduate students can build a degree to suit their own interests and aspirations. The

curriculum enables students to develop their subject knowledge, academic literacy and a range

of complementary capabilities.

We also make our degrees as flexible as possible, so for example arts students can study

modules in forensic science and maths, while science students can study media, politics or

history – a clear message to employers of an appetite and capability to learn new knowledge and

skills.

Then there's the co-curriculum – meaning any activities that fall outside the academic degree.

We have invested resources to offer a comprehensive range of co-curricular activities, be it

sports, societies, part-time work, entrepreneurial schemes or volunteering. We encourage

students to recognise the value of these activities as part of their development – in other words

co-curricular, not extra-curricular.

Engagement with non-academic pursuits is not only beneficial to student development, but is

known to be highly valued by employers. It may seem like a small change, but by demonstrating

to students that we view these activities as equally important to academic study, we encourage

participation. What's more, many of these activities are formally recognised on the student's

HEAR (Higher Education Achievement Record).

But the most important change at Keele has been the introduction of the development strand in

our curriculum, which relates to effective study practices, and personal, professional and career

development. These activities help students make sense of, and take responsibility for, their

learning and future. Students are encouraged to engage with these activities through a variety

of opportunities from thematic practical workshops to online seminars.

These opportunities are embedded within the academic programmes, but also offered as stand-

alone events throughout a degree – rather than being an afterthought for final year students.

Students are expected to develop a reflective portfolio to assist their development and

showcase evidence of their skills and capabilities to future employers. They also gain

accreditation from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM). The Keele curriculum

is the first to be accredited by the ILM in this way.

It is still early days but, to date, we are pleased with the increasing numbers of students

engaging with co-curricular and development strand activities. Going to university is no longer

seen as a rite of passage by this generation – it should be a well-considered investment. We

regard our students not as customers but as learning partners, encouraging them to take control

of their academic and personal development to shape their own future.