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Australia IT: Large Hadron Collider starts and we're still here

2008-09-13T17:04:00.000-07:00

Large Hadron Collider starts and we're still hereFont Size: Decrease Increase Print Page: Print Leigh Dayton | September 11, 2008
LAST night, physicists near Geneva switched on the largest, most powerful scientific tool ever built and the world did not vanish down a black hole, as alarmists had predicted.

Instead, the $US8 billion ($9.9 billion) Large Hadron Collider (see illustration below) successfully sent the first beam of protons -- members of a group of subatomic particles called hadrons -- hurtling around a 27km circular tunnel running beneath Switzerland and France.

The event caused sighs of relief from more than 2000 scientists from 150 institutes in 45 countries, including Australia, who had waited 14 years for the moment.

But their relief had nothing to do with lurking black holes, said cosmologist and theoretical physicist Paul Davies with Arizona State University in Tempe.

"The black hole threat was time-wasting drivel. Even had black holes appeared they would have immediately disappeared," he said.

The point of yesterday's exercise was to begin callibrating the more than 10,000 powerful superconducting magnets and four enormous detectors comprising the collider, run by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN

Once the collider is up and running scientists will use it to send proton beams around the collider in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light.

The ensuing collisions will smash the particles apart, helping physicists gain insights into the fundamental nature of matter.

"It's an exciting time because this new accelerator is providing us a window to a new regime of matter never studied before," said University of Sydney physicist Aldo Saavedra.

Along with scientists at Melbourne and Wollongong universities and WA industrial partner VEEM Engineering Group, Dr Saavedra has contributed to the development of the ATLAS detector which will be used to look for signs of new physics.

One of the first signs scientists hope to detect is proof of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle first proposed in the mid-1960s by American physicist Peter Higgs.

The boson is central to the so-called Standard Model of particle physics as it explains how other particles gain mass.

But as Professor Davies says, the "goddamn" particle -- commonly known as the "God" particle -- has until now remained beyond the reach of technology.

"I am sure the 'Higgs' will be found, but if there's no 'Higgs' it would be really exciting because it would falsify the Standard Model and force a rethink," he said.

Professor Davies predicted that while confirming the Higgs boson could take two or three years, it may take mere months to detect "supersymmetry", the "bridge" between subatomic particles and fundamental forces like gravity, electromagnetism and weak and strong interaction.

Physicists also plan to use the collider to recreate conditions just billionths of a second after the Big Bang, which brought time and space into existence.

If so, they might unravel the mystery of the "dark stuff" making up over 95 per cent of the universe.

Astrophysicists believe the ordinary matter making up stars, galaxies, planets and the other stuff of space adds up to less than 5 per cent of the universe. The rest is "dark matter" and "dark energy"' about which little is known.

Wifes of the PAST, PRESENT N FUTURE......

2008-08-22T14:49:00.000-07:00

Wife of Yesterday

Wife of Today

Wife of Tomorrow

TATA WINS DOMAIN NAME "TATA.ORG"

2008-08-02T23:22:00.000-07:00

TATA WINS DOMAIN NAME "TATA.ORG"
BY
SHRI PAVAN DUGGAL, CYBERLAW CONSULTANT,
PRESIDENT, CYBERLAWS.NET
MEMBER, MAC, ICANN

Yet another win for an Indian Corporate comes in the field of domain names. The domain name "tata.org" has been legally won by Tata Sons Ltd. In a recent decision dated 4.4.2000,the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in its administration panel decision of even date has held that the domain name "tata.org" standing in the name of The Advanced Information Technology Association, Mumbai should be transferred to the complainant being Tata Sons Ltd. In the present case, the complainant, Tata Sons Ltd., filed their complaint with WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre on 19.2.2000 under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, Rules and supplemental rules made thereunder. The respondent in the case namely The Advanced Information Technology Association, Mumbai was duly served by email, facsimile and by courier service. The respondent did not choose to contest the complaint and as such the respondent was proceeded ex-parte. Under the provisions of the aforesaid rules, if a respondent does not submit a response, in the absence of exceptional circumstances, the panel shall decide the dispute based upon the complaint. As such, the WIPO Centre panel decided the case on the basis of the complaint.>From the perusal the complaint as also the documentary and other evidence placed on the record, the WIPO Center came to the conclusion that the name/mark TATA is a "well-known" mark and that the said mark has been granted protection by means of various orders passed by various courts in India.It was further held "The mark/name TATA is synonymous with quality products and the same signifies a sense of reliability. Consumers from all classes of society consisting of urban, rural, semi-urban etc., are familiar with the TATA mark/name. The word TATA apart from being a rare surname, has no obvious meaning and is entitled to a very high degree of protection". The WIPO Centre concluded that since the respondent belongs to the same city as that of the complainant, the respondent is obviously aware of the long standing, enormous reputation of the name TATA and has adopted an identical domain name. The WIPO Center further held that the respondent is merely "hoarding" the said domain name as is clear from the fact that though the domain name was registered about 3 years back, the same had not been activated till date. The WIPO Center further held that even if a website under the domain name had been activated, in the facts and circumstances of the case, it would be still constitute dishonest adoption and misappropriation. The WIPO center further agreed with the complainant that the respondent's domain name "tata.org" is identical to the trade mark TATA in which the complainant has rights and that the respondent has not legitimate interest in the said domain name. The WIPO Centre further came to the categorical conclusion that the registration of the domain name "tata.org" is a "bad faith registration" as potential customers would be induced to subscribe to the services of the impugned websites or to deal in some matter with the respondent believing them to be licensed or authorized by or having a direct nexus or affiliation with or endorsed by the complainant.The said decision by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center is of tremendous importance with specific reference to the context of India as lots of people have deliberately indulged themselves in cybersquatting in the hope of earning quick millions. The judicial principles of "hoarding", "dishonest adoption" and "misappropriation of domain name" as spelt out by this judgement are likely to have a far reaching consequence for further domain name dispute litigations in the country. The said judgement has also gone ahead to establish another important principle in this emerging field of law that if the cybersquatter is based in the same city in which the complainant is also based or has a presence there in, then it has to be presumed that the cybersquatter is and would be aware of the reputation of the name /trademark/businessmark/ housemark/ corporate name of the complainant when he adopts an identical domain name. Further the said judgement lays down that the operation or otherwise of a website, under the said domain name, would not change the factum of coming to the conclusion of dishonest adoption and misappropriation of the domain name. The previous judicial recognition of the complainant's domain name in different litigations have been made as a very sound basis by the WIPO Centre for arriving at the conclusion about the recognition of the complainant's rights in the impugned name/trademark/businessmark/ housemark/corporate name.
This decision in case No. D2000-0049 marks an important chapter in the growth of the relevant principles of law concerning domain name disputes resolution with specific reference to India.

About the lectures

2008-07-16T16:19:00.000-07:00

human resourses
international economy

Beijing Olympics Gardening‏

2008-07-10T16:14:00.000-07:00

NEW Titanic

2008-05-28T19:53:00.000-07:00

India: Big Potential, Modest Progress

2008-05-17T15:52:00.000-07:00

by Anju Govil
India has the second largest pool of software engineers after the US. Given this figure it is difficult to believe the country rates so badly in the fourth Annual Information Society Index. This index, produced by World Times and International Data Corporation, ISI 2000, measures computer infrastructure, Internet infrastructure, social infrastructure and information infrastructure in each country. May 3, 2000
India is ranked 54 out of 55 countries measured, scoring 871. The US, on the other hand, is ranked second with a score of 5041, just behind Sweden. Worse, India's improvement over last year's score of 793 (for 1999) is marginal. All this when the availability of skilled manpower is not the only advantage India enjoys at the moment.
The IT industry also enjoys the government's blessings and all the concessions that go with it. Growth through 1994-98 was 25.5 per cent in production and 43 per cent in exports. What is surprising is that the players in this sector have failed to climb up the value chain and exploit the favorable conditions to their advantage. Consider this - India enjoys an 18.5 per cent market share in the global market for customized software but less than 1 per cent in the higher value added packaged product segment.
The pattern of volume growth witnessed in the software sector is now being repeated in the virtual world. One reason being cited is the rushed approach adopted towards Web business worldwide. But India's position in the Internet industry makes it really explosive. India will have the largest number of Internet users in Asia by this year end, implying a yearly growth rate of over 273 %. And we already know that this expanding base has shown a ready inclination towards e-commerce transactions.
E-commerce transactions in India are likely to break $68.2 million during the current financial year. Given the profile of people accessing the Internet, this translates into three times as many customers in India's Net space as there are in its real world premium consumer segment. When manufacturers realize this, they want to get involved. Naturally, Indian giants like The Reliance Group and Tata are leading this exodus to the new world of the Internet.
Partnerships
India can match the political will and the human resources of the players leading the race. The missing input, financial resources, is also being provided - in some cases. Indian companies are getting funds from their global partner to facilitate their entry into the World Wide Web.
For example Federal Express' Indian associate, Blue Dart Express, a $40 million courier company, has decided to focus on Internet and e-Commerce for future growth.
Other players are still seeking international partners to aid their entry into the unknown virtual world. One such company is Nippo Batteries, a leading Indian manufacturer of batteries, which is hoping to tie-up with a UK-based company for Web applications and development.
Unsteady Start-ups
India has a population of 950 million, and the number of multiple usage Net connections is expected to increase from 7.16 million in March 2000 to 17.6 million by March 2001. But this isn't the only avenue of potential. Consider the facts that 85 percent of households in India have access to the television and Net through cable access is already in 37 million households - that's more than in the whole of Europe.
Companies justify their foray into the Internet based on these rosy statistics, and have little inclination to take professional help from a qualified consultant. In most cases, a person from the company is designated to prepare a project report and prospect for suitable global partners.
Unmindful of the strategic planning that big companies adopt and the expertise which a foreign partner can bring, companies from all industries and level of operations are planning to find a foothold in the World Wide Web.
Immediate fall out of this lack of planning is a company making promises to its investors based on a non existent growth model. Lack of proper business models also means that companies are spending more on marketing and less on efforts to develop standards, processes or work flow models. In some cases the hype created through advertisements in the traditional media attract the venture capital, and in others the hype follows the venture capital inflow.
Whatever be the trigger, the media, who are still trying to learn to analyze this volatile industry and who suffer from a lack of historical data, contribute to creating false hype. And the cycle continues with more and more new ventures being announced every day.
In some cases, even a brand which has been built up through decades of investment and nurturing, is put at stake. Take the case of "S. Kumars", a highly trusted and respected brand for its textiles, suiting and garments. It recently announced its foray into the Web world. The working model is very simple. Anybody with a capacity to invest about $3000 is asked to open a pay phone booth allowing public access. This set-up will subsequently also become the delivery point for the merchandise sold on the company's e-commerce site.
The only catch is that this merchandise will be bought because of price and convenience factors. Positioning or brand value makes no difference. Is this the right kind of company to risk what it has so carefully built up before for an Internet presence?
Out Of Balance
We all know that a significant proportion of Internet transactions are value based. Of $28.8 million e-commerce transactions completed during 1998-99, only $2.72 million was from retail business. Business to business deals constitute the majority of e-commerce transactions in India.
Although technical skills are available in the marketplace, management skills are proving to be more elusive. The Web bandwagon is sweeping existing business owners off their feet, and taking many of their blue eyed boys with it. The latest to switch sides are successful managers from the corporate circuits. They are quitting from well-rewarded and secure positions to join Internet start-ups and prove themselves as good entrepreneurs.
Helping them on this path are the angel investors and venture capitalists, who are now laying more emphasis on the presence of professionals in the management team of any start-up venture. The result is that many people are switching jobs despite the fact that most of the big Internet ventures have yet to take off. And where they have taken off, they have yet to make any money.
As all the accountants, business managers, entrepreneurs, journalists, industrialists and companies get caught up in the World Wide Web, India is fast pushing itself into an unbalanced nation, with the majority of its skilled workforce looking only at the IT industry and Internet revolution for their source of jobs.
In spite of all-pervasive involvement in the Internet world, only three Indian companies are listed on NASDAQ, compared to 97 companies from the tiny country of Israel. Israel has achieved this growth outside the Internet world. More than 50 percent of Israeli companies are from non-IT sectors, but most Indian companies are from the IT sector.
It's fine to rely on technology-based growth, but it does need to be well balanced. The current haphazard growth could fall flat on its face, or leave the country in a permanent slot at the lower-middle level of the value/revenue chain.
Anju Govil is a Web developer based in Bangalore, India.
Penton Media (an associate of internet.com) organizes India's premier Internet trade show - Internet World India 2000, September 27-29, New Delhi, India. For more details visit http://events.internet.com/

Information technology in India

2008-05-13T16:18:00.000-07:00

Gravity's pull
Dec 13th 2007 BANGALORE
From The Economist print edition
Is India's computer-services industry heading for a fall?
OnAsia
MOST foreigners visit Mysore to see its many palaces, testaments to bygone royal splendour. But the city, south of Bangalore, is also a good place to observe monuments to India's modern might. One of its suburbs contains a lush campus with a collection of futuristic buildings: the Global Education Centre, one of the world's largest corporate-training facilities, operated by Infosys, a leading Indian information-technology (IT) services firm.
Visiting the centre, you would think that for India's IT businesses, the sky is the limit. Rarely has an industry grown so rapidly for so long. It has boasted annual growth rates of nearly 30% in the past ten years, with revenues now nearing $50 billion, about 5.4% of India's GDP. But some in India are starting to worry that the industry is heading for a fall. At the very least, analysts say, the industry's leading firms—Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro, to name only the three largest—need to do more to adapt their business models as the industry matures.

The “IT” in India's IT industry has always been something of a misnomer. True, most of its more than 1.6m employees sit in front of computers, writing software for Western firms, remotely maintaining their computers and electronically handling some of their operations. But the business is mostly about people and processes. The very essence of India's IT firms is their ability to marshal huge local workforces to supply high-quality services.
One of their biggest innovations has been to borrow ideas from manufacturing and apply them to services, by building a sophisticated human supply-chain, for instance. They have also focused on certification and continuous improvement—a result of having to be, at least initially, better than their Western rivals in order to win business, says Girish Paranjpe, the boss of Wipro's consulting arm. Today more Indian than American firms meet the highest internationally recognised standards for software development.
All this has enabled Indian firms to take advantage of a rare, if not unique, set of market conditions. On the demand side, Western companies needed to cut costs, but their computer systems still required a lot of human labour. On the supply side, there was an army of well trained, English-speaking engineers demanding only a fraction of a Western salary. Fast fibre-optic links brought both sides together and a favourable exchange rate made this global connection even more attractive: customers paid in dollars, and employees were paid in rupees. The result was a “low-risk, high-margin business”, says Kiran Karnik, the outgoing president of Nasscom, the industry's trade group. To increase sales, firms could hire more people without caring too much about productivity, with the result that growth in revenue correlated closely with growth in headcount.
So why the concern? Indian IT faces a host of threats, says Sudin Apte of Forrester Research, a consultancy, who argues that the industry needs to reinvent itself. The most immediate difficulty is the rapid appreciation of the rupee against the dollar in recent months.Since its low in mid-2006, it has gained 16%. This has made a liability out of what had been a big asset for Indian IT firms—making most of their sales in America. The strong rupee has also thrown other structural problems into relief. These fall into three categories.
What goes up...
First come the familiar problems. One is India's clogged and insufficient infrastructure: workers in Bangalore can spend four hours a day in traffic. Then there are the tax breaks that subsidise the industry, some of which expire in 2009. There is also a growing talent shortage. Indian engineering schools award around 200,000 diplomas each year, and produce around 250,000 graduates, but only half are employable by the IT industry. Employees have learnt to switch jobs for better pay, and salaries are going up by 10-15% a year. For senior staff, they will soon reach Western levels.
Second, competitors are starting to emerge. IT industries in other parts of the world, such as Central Europe, may never match India's in size, but they can still pick off valuable contracts. Meanwhile, foreign IT firms have been beefing up their Indian subsidiaries. In 2002 the six biggest—including Accenture, IBM and HP—had fewer than 10,000 employees in total in the country. Their combined Indian workforce now exceeds 150,000. This enables them to rival the Indian firms in scale and cost, while exploiting their stronger brands and international scope.
The third category concerns future threats. In the short term a slowdown in IT spending looms as America's economy weakens. In the longer term Indian firms must keep abreast of technological changes. Many of the services they now provide will eventually be automated; this is already starting to happen, for example, in software testing. Western firms, meanwhile, increasingly want Indian providers to do more than just keep systems running; they want help in developing new solutions to business problems—something few Indian firms are set up to do.
The question is whether the industry's business model can cope with these threats even as the potential for growth in its established markets declines. According to calculations by CLSA, a French-Asian investment bank, Indian IT firms will soon have a share of nearly 20% of their addressable market's value and almost 40% of its volume. They will also struggle to make their existing business more efficient: most fat has already been cut.
Many think that Indian IT firms need to move into new, higher-margin services and to cut the link between revenues and headcount, for instance by offering more consulting, developing more intellectual property and making acquisitions abroad. To be fair, the leading firms are already doing this. Infosys now generates nearly a quarter of its revenues from consulting, says its new boss, S. Gopalakrishnan; and Wipro recently paid $600m for Infocrossing, an American firm, the largest in a series of acquisitions by Indian firms.
But is the industry moving fast enough? Nasscom's Mr Karnik says no, but he thinks there is still time to change things. Partha Iyengar of Gartner, another consultancy, sees more urgency. He expects slower growth and lower margins if the big firms are not making most of their money in consulting and other high-margin areas within three or four years. This will be hard, he says: today's focus on people, processes and profits may keep many firms from reaching the next level. But, he says, India's IT firms have shown before that they can change if they really need to.
Even if the heavyweights stumble, smaller firms are ready to take up the baton. For example, MindTree Consulting was founded 1999 in anticipation of the very threats that have now materialised. However potent these threats prove, they have already demonstrated that for all the talk of the world being flat, economic gravity still applies.

STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters.... S.T. R

2008-04-18T08:03:00.000-07:00

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:

During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone
that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) .....she said she had just
tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a
bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening.

Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to
the hospital - (at 6:00 pm Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the
BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would
be with us today. Some don't die.... they end up in a helpless, hopeless
condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can
totally reverse the effects of a stroke... totally. He said the trick was
getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically
cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' steps, STR. Read and Learn!

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the
lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain
damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke .

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple
questions:

S * Ask the individual to SMILE.
T * Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (e.g. 'It
is sunny out today.')
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 999/911 immediately
and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

New Sign of a Stroke -------- Stick out Your Tongue

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his
tongue.. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other , that
is also an indication of a stroke.

HAPPY HOLI

2008-03-21T07:30:00.000-07:00

Happy Holi

2008-03-21T06:57:00.000-07:00

Assignment on Tourism Marketing

2008-02-18T22:07:00.000-08:00

Assignment on Tourism Marketing
By :Anita Bhochhi Bhoya
EURO MBA - Marketing
----------Yield Management Case

• You are the regional Marketing Vice President of a well-known hospitality group and your President’s (your boss) daily question is: Do we need to sell a room immediately at a discounted price in order to ensure its occupancy or should we take the risk to wait for a customer to go in our hotel and is ready to pay the full price?
• Your president asks you about the pricing policy in the group. In fact, he has an idea: He wants you to develop a Yield Management program to increase revenue in practicing a multiple price policy.
• Your pilot (main) hotel is a two-star hotel of 400 rooms called “World Nature,” in fact this hotel has a good occupancy rate of 70 to 90%, but its revenue is poor compared to its OR (Occupancy Rate). Average prices of the rooms are from 55 to 77 €.

• Explain what YIELD MANAGEMENT with what you already know is and with a search on the internet and what are its differences with a price list.

Yield management, also known as Revenue Management, is the process of understanding, anticipating and reacting to consumer behaviour in order to maximize revenue or profits. In another word, Yield management is the umbrella term for a set of strategies that enable capacity-constrained service industries to realize optimum revenue from operations. The core concept of yield management is to provide the right service to the right customer at the right time for the right price. That concept involves careful definition of service, customer, time, and price. The service can be defined according to the dimensions of the service, how and when it is delivered, and how, when, and whether it is reserved. Timing involves both the timing of the service delivery and the tining of when the customer makes known the desire for the service, whether by reservation or by walking in to the business. Price can be set according to the timing of the service, the timing of the reservation, the type of service, or according to other rules that seem appropriate. Finally, the customer can be defined according to demand characteristics relating to the service, the timing, and the price. The ideal outcome of a revenue management strategy is to match customers' time and service characteristics to their willingness to pay-ensuring that the customer acquires the desired service at the desired time at an acceptable price, while the organization gains the maximum revenue possible given the customer and business characteristics.

Enterprises that use yield management periodically review transactions for goods or services already supplied and for goods or services to be supplied in the future. They may also review information (including statistics) about events (known future events such as holidays, or unexpected past events such as terrorist attacks), competitive information (including prices), seasonal patterns, and other pertinent factors that affect sales. The models attempt to forecast total demand for all products/services they provide, by market segment and price point. Since total demand normally exceeds what the particular firm can produce in that period, the models attempt to optimize the firm's outputs to maximize revenue.

Optimization can help the firm adjust prices and to allocate capacity among market segments to maximize expected revenues. However, the optimization attempts to answer the question: "Given our operating constraints, what is the best mix of products and/or services for us to produce and sell in the period, and at what prices, to generate the highest expected revenue?"

The lodging is the one where yield management is used most heavily. Basically, yield management is an inventory management system that allows hoteliers to forecast supply and demand and adjust their pricing strategies accordingly. Yield management also plays an integral role in determining the size of group blocks, group cutoff dates, preferred arrival/departure patterns, reservation restrictions, and food and beverage guidelines. So, Hotels use Revenue Management to calculate the rates, rooms and restrictions on sales in order to best maximize the return for the property.

So, the yield management is different from the price list because the price list is fixed one while the yield management is variable and flexible. That is with the price list the firm can’t optimize there revenues while the yield management can maximize there expected revenues during the peak seasons.
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• Yield Management: Most wanted prices are from 55 to 77 € depending on seasons. You will try to find the best global revenue for the hotel knowing that in the n°3 question, 41% of sales are at 55€ with a occupancy rate of 81%. In the n°4 question 59% of sales are at 77€ with an occupancy rate of 90%. (LOOK AT THE TABLE BELOW AND FILL IT)
• Calculate Global Revenue
• Calculate Medium Revenue
• Calculate REVPAR (Revenue Per Available Room)
• Calculate the number of rooms according to their prices
It’s ALL THE BLANK THAT YOU MUST FILL

World Nature Hotel (two-star hotel, 400 rooms) # of Rooms at 77€ # of Rooms at 55€ Total # of Rooms sold Occupancy Rate per Room Global Rev. In € Medium Revenue REVPAR
Question #
1. Max. Rooms less # 80 280 360 90% 21,560 59.89 € 53.9
2. Max. Rev./Room 248 40 288 72% 21,296 73.94 € 53.24
3. YM best OR & Rm to increase Global Revenue 191 133 324 81% 22,022 67.96€ 55.06
4. YM low price until late with OR of 90% with max. price 212 148 360 90% 24,464 67.96€ 61.16

Calculation:
1.Max. Rooms less #
REVPAR:21,560/400=53.9
2.Max. Rev./Room
REVPAR: 21,296/400=53.24
3.YM best OR & Rm to increase global Rev:
Total # of rooms sold = 400 x 81/100 = 324
# of rooms at 55 euro = 324 x 41/100 = 132.84 = 133
# of rooms at 77 euro = 324 – 132.84 = 191.16 = 191
Global Rev in euro = (77 x 191) + (55 x 133) = 22,022

Medium Revenue = 22022 /324 = 67.96
REVPAR = 67.98 x 81%(22,022/400) = 55.06

4.YM low price until late with OR of 90% with max piece:
Total # of rooms sold = 400 x 90/100= 360
# of rooms at 77 euro = 360 x 59/100 = 212
# of rooms at 55 euro = 360 – 212.4 = 148
Global Rev in euro = (77 x 212) + (55 x 148) = 24,464
Medium Revenue = 24464/360 = 67.96
REVPAR = 67.98 x 90%(24,464/400) = 61.16

• 3 )What is your first conclusion?

Here, I think the yield management is very good as we are getting profit from this calculation.

• The General Manager thinks that you can have a better chance of optimizing prices (prices for Business class rooms, prices for groups, prices for individuals…) do you think Yield Management is the good response?
Yes of course, i think the yield management is the good response as it is variable as well as flexible. It is sure that it will give good profit especially during the season time. Good yield management maximizes (or at least significantly increases) revenue production for the same number of units, by taking advantage of the forecast of high demand/low demand periods, effectively shifting demand from high demand periods to low demand periods and by charging a premium for late bookings. While yield management systems tend to generate higher revenues, the revenue streams tends to arrive later in the booking horizon as more capacity is held for late sale at premium prices. But the things is the manager should have the good knowledge on the yield management, as “It is currently a supplier's market. Rate and occupancy will continue to increase over the next few years.”

• What are the different constraints a hotel manager is confronted doing his price list?

One of the major effects of yield management is more consistent pricing from sales manager to sales manager, hotel to hotel, and competitor to competitor. Translation? Less negotiating power and rate flexibility for the meeting planner.

Demand drives hotel pricing. Hotels do not have consistent margins; their product is perishable and its shelf life is one day.

Many variables affect pricing; the key is to be flexible and knowledgeable about your meeting and your group. As firms faced with lack of pricing power sometimes turn to yield management as a last resort. After a year or two using yield management, many of them are surprised to discover they have actually lowered prices for the majority of their opera seats or hotel rooms or other products. That is, they offer far higher discounts more frequently for off-peak times, while raising prices only marginally for peak times, resulting in higher revenue overall. By doing this, they have actually increased quantity demanded by selectively introducing many more price points, as they learn about and react to the diversity of interests and purchase drivers of their customers.

archana: Inspirational Women - Helen Keller

2008-02-18T16:21:00.000-08:00

archana: Inspirational Women - Helen Keller

Friendship

2008-02-10T10:56:00.000-08:00

It's 'World Best Friends Week' send this to all Ur good friends.

Even me, if I am one of them. See how many u get back.

If u gets more than 3 u r really, a lovable person.............I am waiting

It's National Friendship Week.

Show your friends how much you care.

Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND!

Even if it means sending it back to the person who sent it to you.

If it comes back to you, then you will know you have a circle of friends.

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP WEEK TO YOU!!!!!!

YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED.

F - Few
R - Relations
I - In
E - Earth
N - Never
D - Die

Friendship week or no friendship week...this one's just to thank u 4 being my friend...

May Your Day, be a Shay day

2008-02-02T20:15:00.000-08:00

Two Choices

What would you do...you make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice?

At a fund-raising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:

' When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done wi th perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where it the natural order of things in my son?

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued. 'I believe that when a child like Shay, who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.'

Then he told the following story:

Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, 'Do you think they'll let me play?' I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but as a father I also understood that if my son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.

I approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, 'We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.'

Shay struggled over to the team's bench and , with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart. The boys saw my joy at my son being accepted.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.

In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as I waved to him from the stands.

In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again.

Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.

At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game?

Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to ho ld the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

However, as Shay stepped up to the
Plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact.

The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.

As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The game would now be over.
The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman.

Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates.

Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, 'Shay, run to first!
Run to first!'

Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base.
He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, 'Run to second, run to second!'

Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base.

By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball. The smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team.

He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, inte ntionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head.

Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.

All were screaming, 'Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay'

Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, 'Run to third!
Shay, run to third!'

As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, 'Shay, run home! Run home!'

Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team.

'That day', said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, 'the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world'.

Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making me so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

AND NOW A LITTLE FOOT NOTE TO THIS STORY:
We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people hesitate.

The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.

If you're thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren't the 'appropriate' ones to receive this type of message Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all c an make a difference.

We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the 'natural order of things.'
So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice:

Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?

A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it's least fortunate amongst them.

Mero CV

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BHOCHHI BHOYA ANITA
123 QUAI DE VALMY - 75010 PARIS
06 03 27 61 86
sky_anita123@hotmail.com
Born September 1st 1980 in NEPAL

MERIT CONTROLLING HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES
Project intitled for securing priced in 2nd position in the KUPEX-2003
(Science and Technology Exhibition held on 1st and 2nd Aug, 03)

PROJECT GROUP EXPERIENCE

2004 Graphics Design on Projection View on 3D

2003 * Database Design on Access, Visual Basic, Oracle, Java for the Industry named "Mayoos Instand Noodles"

* Combined Engineering Project on New Public Network named as
" Controlling Household Appliances"

2002-2003 Hardware & Software System Installation with Networking Knowledge

2002 * Electronics Project on Light System

* Engineering Project on Construction of Mechanical Device

2000 Programming on C++

QUALIFICATIONS

2007-2008 MBA in Marketing (Continued…….)
(Especially on International Marketing, Luxury, Advertising, Tourism ‘Marketing & Management Services’, Cross Cultural Management, Human Resources Management, Sport Marketing)
INSEEC Paris

2006 French Course (Le Bon Council)

2004 Mastering in Sun Java 1.3
College of Software Engineering, Kathmandu, Nepal

1999-2004 Bachelor in Computer Engineering
Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal

1997-1999 Proficiency Certificate Level
Amrit Science Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal

1997 School Leaving Certificate
Kavre secondary School, Kavre, Nepal

FOREIGN LANGAGES

Nepali, Indian, English fluent
French read, understand and talk

MY FIRST DAY IN PARIS

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It was so strange when we (me and my husband) were in Paris for the first time.The airport, the language, people, whether, our cloths and so on.So what is the first word that we have learn in France; that is EXIT.
So 27/01 is our first day in Paris.

Ha Ha Ha Ha .. .. .. ..

The cheapest cars in the world

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The new Tata Nano with a starting price of 100,000 rupees ($2,500)

people i know this is a chain letter but just read it!

2008-01-07T07:07:00.000-08:00

This is the real deal. Try ignoring it, and the first thing you'll notice
is having a horrible day starting tomorrow morning - and it only gets worse from there.

ARIES - The Aggressive

Outgoing. Lovable. Spontaneous. Not one to mess with. Funny. Excellent kisser EXTREMELY adorable. Loves relationships, and family is very important to an aries. Aries are known for being generous and giving. Addictive. Loud. Always has the need to be 'Right'. Aries will argue to prove their point for hours and hours. Aries are some of the most wonderful people in the world. 16 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

TAURUS - The Tramp

Aggressive. Loves being in long relationships. Likes to give a good fight.
Fight for what they want. Can be annoying at times, but for the love of attention. Extremely outgoing. Loves to help people in times of need. Good kisser. Good personality. Stubborn. A caring person. They can be self centered and if they want something they will do anything to get it. They love to sleep and can be lazy. One of a kind. Not one to mess with. Are the most attractive people on earth! 15 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

GEMINI - The Twin

Nice. Love is one of a kind. Great listeners Very Good at confusing people... Lover not a fighter, but will still knock you out. Gemini's will not take any crap from anyone. Gemini's like to tell people what they should do and get offended easily. They are great at losing things and are forgetful. Gemini's can be very sarcastic and childish at times, and are very nosey.
Trustworthy. Always happy. VERY Loud. Talkative. Outgoing VERY FORGIVING. Loves to make out. Has a beautiful smile. Generous. Strong. THE MOST IRRESISTIBLE. 9 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

CANCER - The Beauty

MOST AMAZING KISSER. Very high appeal. A Cancer's Love is one of a kind. Very romantic. Most caring person you will ever meet in your life. Entirely creative Person, most's are artists and insane respectfully speaking. They perfected sex and do it often. Extremely random. An Ultimate Freak. Extremely funny and is usually the life of the party. Most cancers will take you under their wing and into their hearts where you will remain forever. Cancers make love with a passion beyond compare
Spontaneous. Not a Fighter, But will kick your ass good if it comes down to it. Someone you should hold on to! 12 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

LEO - The Lion

Great talker. Attractive and passionate. Laid back. Usually happy, but when unhappy tend to be grouchy and childish. A leo's problem becomes everyone's problem. Most Leos are very predictable and tend to be monotonous. Knows how to have fun. Is really good at almost anything. Great kisser. Very predictable. Outgoing. Down to earth. Addictive. Attractive. Loud. Loves being in long relationships. Talkative. Not one to mess with. Rare to find. Good when found. 7 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

VIRGO - The One that Waits

Dominant in relationships. Someone loves them right now. Always wants the last word. Caring. Smart. Loud. Loyal. Easy to talk to. Everything you ever wanted. Easy to please. A pushover. Loves to gamble and take chances. Needs to have the last say in everything. They think they know everything and usually do. Respectful to others but you will quickly lose their respect if you do something untrustworthy towards them and never regain respect. The do not forgive and never forgetThe one and only. 7 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

LIBRA - The Lame One

Nice to everyone they meet. Their Love is one of a kind. Silly, fun and sweet. Have own unique appeal. Most caring person you will ever meet! However, not the kind of person you want to mess with... you might end up crying... Libras can cause as much havoc as they can prevent. faithful friends to the end. Can hold a grudge for years. Libras are someone you want on your side. Usually great at sports and are extreme sports fanatics. Kinda dumb at times. 9 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

SCORPIO - The Addict

EXTREMELY adorable. Loves to joke. Very Good sense of humor. Will try almost anything once. Loves to be pampered. Energetic. Predictable. GREAT kisser. Always get what they want. Attractive. Loves being in long relationships. Talkative. Loves to party but at times to the extreme. Loves the smell and feel of money and is good at making it but just as good at spending it! Very protective over loved ones. HARD workers. Can be a good friend but if is disrespected by a friend, the friendship will end. Romantic. Caring. 4 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

SAGITTARIUS - The Promiscuous One

Spontaneous. High appeal. Rare to find. Great when found. Loves being in long relationships. So much love to give. A loner most of the time. Loses patience easily and will not take crap. If in a bad mood stay FAR away. Gets offended easily and remembers the offense forever. Loves deeply but at times will not show it feels it is a sign of weakness. Has many fears but will not show it. VERY private person. Defends loved ones will all their abilities. Can be childish often. Not one to mess with. Very pretty. Very romantic. Nice to everyone they meet. Their Love is one of a kind. Silly, fun and sweet. Have own unique appeal. Most caring person you will ever meet! Amazing in bed..!!! Not the kind of person you want to mess with- you might end up crying. 4 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

CAPRICORN - The Passionate Lover

Love to bust. Nice. Sassy. Intelligent. Sexy. Grouchy at times and annoying to some. Lazy and love to take it easy. But when they find a job or something they like to do they put their all into it. Proud, understanding and sweet.
Irresistible. Loves being in long relationships. Great talker. Always
gets what he or she wants. Cool. Loves to win against other signs especially Gemini's in sports. Likes to cook but would rather go out to eat at good restaurants.
Extremely fun. Loves to joke. Smart. 24 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

AQUARIUS - Does It In The Water

Trustworthy. Attractive. Great kisser. One of a kind, loves being in
long-term relationships. Can be clumbsy at times but tries hard. Will take on any project. Proud of themselves in whatever they do. Messy, and unorganized. Procrastinators. Great lovers, when their not sleeping. Extreme thinkers. Loves their pets usually more then their familiy. Can be VERY irritating to others when they try to explain or tell a story. Unpredictable. Will exceed your expectations. Not a Fighter, But will Knock your lights out. 2 years of bad luck if you do not forward

PISCES - The Partner for Life

Caring and kind. Smart. Center of attention. Messy at times and irresponsible! Smart but lazy. High appeal. Has the last word. Good to find, hard to keep. Passionate, wonderful lovers. Fun to be around. Too trusting at times and gets hurt easily. Lover of animals. VERY caring, make wonderful nurses or doctors. They always try to do the right thing sometimes get the short end of the stick. They sometimes et used by others and hurt because of their trusting. Extremely weird but in a good way. Good Sense of Humor!!! Thoughtful. Always gets what he or she wants. Loves to joke. Very popular. Silly, fun and sweet. Good friend to other but need to be choosy on who they allow their friends to be. 5 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

OK here's the thing you cant send this to the person who sent this to you so good luck! the other hard part is that last one with this is the loser.

ready ........ set............ GO!

1-3 people= 1 minute of luck

4-7 people= 1 hour of luck

8-12 people = 1 day of luck

13-17 people = 1 week of luck

18-22 people = 1 month of luck

23-27 people = 3 months of luck

28- 32 people = 7 months of luck

33-37 people = 1 year of luck

38 and more = a very lucky life!

MY FAVOURITE PICTURES COLLECTION

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Krishna And Radha

My Angel

Phool mean "Flowers"