Please ask Virginian Pilot to let their workers have the weekend off!

Seeing as how my mom works for the Virginian Pilot as one of their delivery persons, I have always been very concerned about their shady and nearly inhumane working conditions. I spoke with my mom yesterday and she said the paper has not yet said that they will not be working. I called customer service around 7:15 this morning and the lady let me know that I should put in a stop request to not get the paper Sunday morning because they were not yet sure if they would cancel their services. I kindly let her know that I will not put in a stop request but that if I do receive my paper Sunday morning that I will cancel my service.

The only reason I get the paper is for the coupons but I don't believe I want them that badly. This is what they told my mom last night at work: "You will get your mattress ads and coupons for Sunday tonight by themselves to deliver on Saturday morning. On Sunday morning we will open at 9am (instead of the night before) and you will deliver Saturday and Sunday parts of the paper"

Thank you for letting me vent. If you feel similarly about the Virginian Pilot, I encourage you to call their customer service line: 757-446-9000 you don't have to cancel service but I would appreciate any help to encourage this business to let their workers have the weekend off. Granted, they are opening their distribution center late Sunday morning, however I do not feel they are caring enough about the flooding that will occur even after the storm on Sunday. Words cannot describe the disdain I feel for their treatment of their lower income employees.

Officials Hid Truth About Immigrant Deaths in Jail

Big Question !!!
International Human Rights Are Still Sucking on something unknown !!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/us/10detain.html?hp

Officials Hid Truth About Immigrant Deaths in Jail

Silence has long shrouded the men and women who die in the nation’s immigration jails. For years, they went uncounted and unnamed in the public record. Even in 2008, when The New York Times obtained and published a federal government list of such deaths, few facts were available about who these people were and how they died.

But behind the scenes, it is now clear, the deaths had already generated thousands of pages of government documents, including scathing investigative reports that were kept under wraps, and a trail of confidential memos and BlackBerry messages that show officials working to stymie outside inquiry...[read more at the above link]


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Outsourcing Gone Wild!!!

This is funny. Don't take it out of context though. It shows how the craze of outsourcing and trying to save a penny here and there just might get to the extremes depicted in this article. (hopefully not though) :-)

Oh Carol-Remix by Stereo Nation

*This is an approximate translation and an approximate transliteration of the song 'Oh Carol' by Stereo Nation. I cleaned it up a bit, but my source is from Yahoo Answers

Oh Carol, tere pyar ki kasam
Oh Carol, I swear on my love
Tu mere sapnon ki raani, meri jaan aur jigaar
You are the queen of my dreams, my heart and soul
Oh Carol, hum kabhi ho na juda
Oh Carol, may we never be apart
Mere dil ko na tohdo, mujhe de na saza!
Don’t ever break my heart, don’t punish me so!

Darling there will never be another,
Coz I love you so!
Don't ever leave me!
Say you'll never go!
I will always want you for my sweetheart!
No matter what you do!
Oh Carol, I'm so in love with you!

Sanoo chad ke na javeen sohni baliye!
Don’t ever leave, pretty girl
Sanoo chad ke na javeen sohni balliye!
Don’t ever leave me pretty girl
Lele tu meri jaan, kudiye!
Take my life if you have to, girl
Haan javeen na javeen na javeen chad baliye!
Just don’t go, don’t go, don’t go leaving me girl.

O Carol, dil se dil milla de
Oh Carol, join your heart with mine
Mere gham ko mitta de, aaja re tu sanaam
Wipe away my sorrows, come now my love
Oh Carol, jeevan ki har khushi, kadmon main bicha doon
Oh Carol, I will lay all of life’s joys at your feet
Tum meri zindagi
You are my life

Heart Surgery for Children

I wonder...does America have any campaigns like this? I know we have St. Jude's and all, but do we have anything for just heart surgeries?

For my engineers :-)

This is best answer by B.E students during viva. >---> This one is for those who had nightmares during their Engineering Viva's (EEEs and ECEs). They bring back fond memories for those who care to smile at the past

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Interviewer: Why is a thicker conductor necessary to carry a current in A.C. as compared to D.C. ?
Candidate : An AC current goes up and down (drawing a sinusoid) and requires more space inside the wire, so the wire has to be thicker.

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External (to student) : "Why does a capacitor block DC but allow AC to pass through ?
Student: See, a capacitor is like this ---| |--- , OK. DC comes straight, like this ----------, and the capacitor stops it. But AC,goes UP, DOWN, UP DOWN and jumps right over the capacitor!" ------- good one : - )

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Interviewer: How will you tell if that wall outlet carries AC or DC?
Candidate: I will put my finger in. If it is pushed away, it is AC. If it gets stuck was DC.

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Interviewer: How will you reverse direction of an Induction motor?
Candidate: I will remove the four bolts at the x-ud, turn the motor around, and put back the bolts.

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Interviewer: How do you start a synchronous motor?
Candidate: Vrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (in rising pitch)
Interviewer: Stop! Stop!
Candidate: rrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (in falling pitch)

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Examiner: "What is a step-up transformer?"
Student: "A transformer that is put on top of electric poles."
Examiner (smiling): "And then what is a step-down transformer?"
Student (hesitantly): "Uh - A transformer that is put in the x-udment or in a pit?"
Examiner (pouncing): "Then what do you call a transformer that is installed on the ground?"
( Student knows he is caught-can't answer )
Examiner (impatiently): "Well?"
Student (triumphantly): "A stepless transformer, sir!"

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TOP FACTS ABOUT ENGINEERS
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Engineers at work:
Assignments solved by one and then carry out mass transfer operations throughout the class

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The most important machine for Engineers:
Xerox Machine (Without which assignment Completion couldn't be possible)

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Top two Engineering Rumours:
Did you hear the results are being put up today at 5:30pm
Did you hear the exams are postponed by two weeks

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Common Engineering Dialogues after a paper:
'What is this man, 60% of the paper was out of the syllabus'
'This was the worst paper set in the entire
engineering history' 'I am failing'

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What is B.E?

8 semesters
80GB syllabus
80MB we study
80KB we remember
80 Bytes we answer
BINARY marks we get,
The Degree finally we get is BE
That is Brain Empty (B.E)

What the REAL economic Crisis is like!

What the real crisis is like!

If you think that the current economic crisis is something that has never happened in history before, you may be wrong! After the collapse of the agriculture sector in Zimbabwe in 2000, the inflation in that country skyrocketed to 231 million percent a year! Just think about it - 231 000 000%! Unemployment went up to 80% and a third of country's population left it.

Let`s now have a look at the photos that you may not be able to see anywhere else in the world.

Here is a boy getting change in 200 000 dollar notes!

One 200 000 dollar note equals less than $0.10 cents.

December 22nd, a new note of 500 000 dollars introduced to the market!

Next - 750 000 dollars.

January - new note of 10 million dollars.

This US $10 dollar note is 10 times worth more than the 10 million dollars Zimbabwe note.

A case worth 65 billion Zimbabwe dollars which equals to $2000 US dollars.

This guy is going to a supermarket. The exchange rate is 25 million Zimbabwe dollars for 1 US dollar.

This mountain of cash is worth $100.

50 Million note is then introduced!

Next is 250 million dollars note!

Sorry, how much is this t-shirt?

- It`s cheap, only about 3 billion dollars!

May - a note of 500 million dollars is introduced!

June - note worth 25 and 50 billion are printed.

And finally - 100 billion dollars note!

What can you buy for it? Well, these 3 eggs for example.

Thats how people went to restaurants!

And the bills:

In August, the government devalued Zimbabwe dollar by removing 10 zeros from notes.

However, inflation kept going up and in September for this amount of cash you could only buy 4 tomatoes.

And for this - some bread.

And then it started again: 20 000 dollars note in September.

50 000 a couple of weeks ago!

They`ve got a pretty good chance of hitting billion dollar notes again by the end of this year!