Recently, I visited Surat as a part of karROX to be a guest at the ‘Business Opportunity Aapke Ghar‘ workshop. This got me thinking about the future prospects of the Information Technology industry in the state. According to the Department of Information Technology (DIT), the IT  industry grew six times over eight years. Skilled and cheap workforce form the basis of this ‘IT hub’ tag bestowed on us. Companies look at India as a destination for outsourcing too, of which information technology outsourcing forms the backbone. Apart from Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and other cities, there have been recent developments in establishing new centers of technology.

Supplementing its industries, Gujarat is making strides in Information Technology too. I believe the Ahmedabad – Gandhinagar knowledge corridor is touted to be the next big SEZ. All this is due to the fact that the government is encouraging the growth of the IT sector.

No doubt, the future looks bright, but, the problem, as I see, that can arise out of this rapid growth is the lack of necessary knowledge regarding technology. People may be interested in investing in Information Technology to improve their businesses and to develop their products, but may not have sufficient knowledge regarding the same. Honestly, to be in this race for supremacy, having the latest knowledge is essential. So, the need of the hour is to include IT education in the normal curriculum of school to supplement the growing demand of the industry. For other people too, there are IT training centers that cater to the demand of the industry. An example of latest technology is cloud computing which is thought to be the next big thing. Knowledge and incorporation of this new technology will go a long way in the progress of the industry.

I will be visiting Gujarat again to search for entrepreneurs interested in the franchise business. For further details, you can contact me:

Kushark Jaiswal

http://in.linkedin.com/in/kushark

Nelson, 34, hoped her nine-hour test of endurance would raise money for two cancer charities and heighten awareness about a plight affecting millions of women , without knowing that God is also supporting her in this endurance when he sent Shark ‘named Larry’ to support and escort her full 40 miles stretch.

30-foot minke whale swam alongside her 14-foot board and accompanied Nelson as she stood and paddled for two of those nine hours, thus joining the cause. This minke whale did not merely swim close to Nelson. He rolled around repeatedly alongside her and blew bubbles beneath her board. A film crew was on the escort boat and CNN, Fox News and ABC are just some of the networks lucky enough to cover this incredible unforgettable incident..

“It was a day that all of us involved will never forget,” Nelson said, in reference to Angela Robinson, her best friend, and the rest of a crew aboard an escort boat.

Minke whales are not commonly seen off Southern California, and those spotted by boaters are often elusive. So when a mammal Nelson named Larry joined her endeavor to become the first woman to make this long paddle, she took it as a sign.

“To me it was a total God thing,” the San Clemente resident said. “We prayed at 4 that morning that God would reveal his beauty and creation and nature, and allow me to endure this long trek, so for me it’s not such a huge surprise that this happened.”

Alisa Schulman-Janiger, an American Cetacean Society whale researcher, said minke whales can be friendly but added: “This type of quality encounter is highly unusual.”

Nelson raised only about $6,000 in advance of the paddle, disappointingly short of her target of $100,000 for the Keep a Breast Foundation and Boarding for Breast Cancer. A few of her celebrity friends let her down, she said, but when this story reaches a national audience she expects the pool to grow considerably.

“I thought, ‘I don’t need so-and-so,’ ” she said of a particular celebrity, whom she declined to name. “Because I honestly feel like Larry is going to help us reach the $100,000 mark with our fundraising effort.”

Larry or no Larry, completing a standup paddle over 39.8 miles of ocean and sharks speaks volumes about Nelson’s strength, stamina and determination.

Larry took her mind off the task for two magical hours, but her mind never strayed from the cause. “I can’t even begin to compare what I did to what cancer patients are going through,” she said. “But I wanted to put myself out there in a dangerous and scary, overwhelming situation; something that was big and just to show people that you can win that battle with that big, scary thing called cancer.

“I wanted to draw some kind of parallel and just encourage people to keep fighting.”

Those wanting to help Jodie with her mission can do so via her page on the Keep a Breast Foundation website.
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A veteran animal trainer whose dream was to work at SeaWorld‘s Shamu Stadium was killed Wednesday when one of the show’s whales Orca whom she loved most, dragged her underwater.

SeaWorld said that 12,000-pound Tilikum pulled Dawn Brancheau, 40, into the orca’s tank about 2p.m.

Witnesses told the Orlando Sentinel that the animal suddenly grabbed Brancheau by the upper arm, tossed her around in his mouth and pulled her beneath the water as dozens of tourists looked on in horror.

Brazilian tourist João Lúcio da Costa Sobrinho, 28, and his girlfriend, Talita Oliveira, 20, watched the attack from an underwater-viewing area where they had gone to take photos.

Suddenly, they saw a woman in the killer whale’s jaws, her face bloody. The more than 20-foot-long orca circled round and round, turning her over and over, they said.

“It was terrible,” Sobrinho said. “It’s very difficult to see the image.”

Witnesses who watched the attack while eating at the “Dine with Shamu” show — a poolside buffet where trainers demonstrate their connection with the animals — told the Sentinel a female trainer was petting a killer whale when it grabbed her and plunged into the water.

It reappeared on the other side of the tank and leapt up holding the woman, they said.

Within minutes, an alarm sounded, and security workers escorted the spectators out. Some people were screaming, and children were crying, Sobrinho and Oliveira said. The scene was more orderly at “Dine with Shamu.”

Question is, what poor animal will do when Money hungry big companies like Sea World wants there both trapped animals and poor employees work and work.
Same said by Several spectators that the animals had been agitated during a 12:30p.m. show, playing or fighting with one another and refusing to obey commands to splash the crowd, a staple of the program. In that case, authorities should have called off the show rather then endangering life of poor lovely trainer, who was just doing it for some money and her love for animals but what she got in return.Death from her own loved ORCA.
Poor whale showed her anger on poor trainer when they both loved and kissed each others for years. Every where now this most loved whale is projected as Killer but in fact, its Sea world management fault and must be blamed and questioned for letting show proceed and run, inspite of known anger shown by Whales in prior show..

“It is with great sadness that I report that one of our most experienced animal trainers drowned in an incident with one of our killer whales this afternoon,” Sea-world President Dan Brown said in a statement to the media. “We’ve initiated an investigation to determine, to the extent possible, what occurred.”
Dont Dan Brown figure out as whose fault is this. Its just a sheer pressure on poor trapped animals where they are made to perform show after show and what people except from them, when they originally tried to show there anger in previous show?

Dawn Brancheau had worked at the park since February 1994. Ever since she visited SeaWorld with her family about 30years ago, Brancheau’s goal had been to train killer whales, said her mother, Marion Loverde of Indiana.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a longtime critic of SeaWorld’s practices, again called on the park “to stop confining oceangoing mammals to an area that to them is like the size of a bathtub,” it said in a statement.

“It’s not surprising when these huge, smart animals lash out.”

Many other animal-rights activists have long criticized SeaWorld and other marine parks for keeping orcas and other wildlife in captivity. Russ Rector, a former dolphin trainer in Fort Lauderdale, said keeping the animals captive makes them dangerous.

“Captivity is abusive to these animals. And the abuse mounts up. And when these animals snap — just for a minute — they’re so big and can be so dangerous that it’s like a shotgun,” Rector said. “It does an incredible amount of damage in just a moment.”

ORCA Whale was one of three killer whales blamed for the 1991 drowning of a trainer while he performed at the now-defunct Sealand of the Pacific in British Columbia.

Much of the debate on morning news shows centered on what to do with Whale but infect it should be more to decide as how to ban these shows that are just illegal and torture to animals.

Earlier today, Jack Hanna, a well-known animal expert with ties to Central Florida, spoke on national television about the tragedy, saying animal experts such as Brancheau are aware of the risks, as well as the benefits, of working with live animals.

“The only thing I can compare it to is when the astronauts went to the space station and that tragic thing happened coming back,” Hanna said, referring to the 2003 disintegration of the Columbia space shuttle that killed seven astronauts. “Why did we do that? We did that to learn more about space and how that will help us.”

Tourists react to death

This morning, as tourists returned to the park, an announcement was made on the speaker system, apologizing that The Shamu Show would be closed today. Nothing was said about the death.

“It’s scary,” SeaWorld Orlando visitor April D’Agostino said this morning. “But they know what’s at risk when they get in the tank with those whales.”

D’Agostino heard the news about the trainer’s death on television, as did the Malkins from Asheville, N.C.

“I’m sensing that the mood today is a little more somber,” Heidi Malkin said while visiting the park.

Although Malkin and her husband, Dave, heard about Wednesday’s accident on television, it didn’t prevent them from visiting SeaWorld Orlando.

“We wondered how the park would be different today,” Dave Malkin added.

About six television news trucks, most representing local stations, were outside the park before its 9 a.m. opening, but there was otherwise little evidence that anything at the park had changed.

Tourist Dennis Diego, 30, of Sao Paolo, Brazil, said he wasn’t immediately aware about what happened, even though he was at the park Wednesday and saw helicopters flying overhead.

He found out about the attack after he and his wife, Vanessa, 29, returned to their hotel.

The Diegos had seen the same show where the accident happened earlier in the day, but it had not been the best performance.

“Not everything went right,” said Dennis Diego. “The girl said the whales were not in the mood for it.”

As the park opened today, cars streamed into the parking lot. At the entrance to SeaWorld, a sign informed guests that The Shamu Show would remain closed.

In his television appearance, Hanna, director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio, said that holding animals in captivity not only conserves the creatures, but it also helps educate people.

“Why do we have whales, as well as elephants and other animals? We have it to educate folks,” he said. “It’s the last chance we have to save these animals.”

SeaWorld said that 12,000-pound Tilikum pulled Brancheau, a 40-year-old veteran animal trainer, into the orca’s tank about 2 p.m.

“Dawn was a beautiful person,” Hanna said on CNN. “I did several shows with her . . . with Tilly, even in the background — that type of thing.’ he said. “I could tell you now she would want her work to continue.”

Hanna said the previous death linked to Tilikum was a different situation.

In 1999, park officials found the naked body of Daniel Dukes lying across Tilikum’s back at SeaWorld Orlando.

Dukes apparently had sneaked into SeaWorld after hours to swim with the animals.

“That’s like going over the fence at the NASCAR race,” Hanna said. “You can’t blame SeaWorld for that.”

SeaWorld acquired Tilikum after another fatal incident.

In 1991, Tilikum and two female killer whales dragged trainer Keltie Byrne underwater, drowning her in front of spectators at Sealand of the Pacific, a defunct aquarium in Victoria, British Columbia.

SeaWorld San Diego cancels show

Also Thursday, SeaWorld San Diego, a sister park to SeaWorld Orlando, canceled its Shamu show for the second consecutive day in response to the death here.

San Diego park officials had not yet determined whether Friday’s show would be canceled. But the park has worked to improve safety after several incidents over the last three decades in which trainers were injured, officials said.

In 1971, an employee suffered puncture wounds when a killer whale tossed her, according to Times reports. The most recent San Diego attack occurred in 2006 when a 33-year-old trainer was hospitalized after a killer whale dragged him to the bottom of the Shamu pool during a show.

“We’re terribly saddened by the loss of the member of our SeaWorld family, it doesn’t matter what park,” SeaWorld San Diego spokesman David Koontz said Wednesday.

The Los Angeles Times contributed to this report.

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Shah Rukh Khan’s latest movie ‘My Name Is Khan’, which made $18 million in its opening weekend worldwide, will be dubbed in German and Turkish and will be subtitled in Polish to help a wider international audience.

The decision to dub the film in various languages came instantly for the company so that it reaches out to as many people as possible.

‘Every country has a different requirement. In Poland, it will be released with Polish subtitles. In Germany, we want the film to go down much deeper to the German audience and that particular market prefers films to be dubbed. So that’s why we are dubbing it in German and Turkish,’ Vijay Singh, CEO of Fox STAR Studios India, told IANS.

‘My Name Is Khan’, directed by Karan Johar, also features actress Kajol. Set in post-9/11 period in US, the movie has been garnering positive reviews from Indian and international audience and critics alike.

‘Our release plan for ‘My Name Is Khan’ is very different from any Bollywood film. Bollywood films in India have a life of two weeks, so we are releasing the film over a six-month period. From March to June, we are going to be releasing the film in 25 non-traditional markets,’ said Singh.

‘The film will release in Poland next month in 50 screens whereas the largest Bollywood release that has happened so far has released in five screens. And then, we will be releasing at Germany where we will be doing a German dub and a Turkish dub.’

Germany has a substantial chunk of expatriate Turkish population.

‘There also, we are releasing the film in 40 screens whereas five screens are maximum for any Bollywood release so far. Basically, the rollout for ‘My Name Is Khan’ is very different from any other typical Bollywood film,’ he added.

This summer ‘My Name Is Khan‘ will be playing for a non-NRI audience in theatres across the US.

And the version of ‘MNIK’ that American audiences will get to see will be different from the original film released so far in India and overseas for the NRI audiences.

Shah Rukh Khan confirms this decision to shorten the film for American audiences.

‘Yes, we are cutting the length of the film for the American audience. Their requirements are different from the traditional audience for Hindi cinema. We’re in this way extending the life span of a Hindi film with first a worldwide release for Indian audiences and then phased out releases for non-Indian audiences,’ he told IANS.

Film director Karan Johar said: ‘Yes, the version for Americans will be shorter though not radically different. We’ve left the American version’s editing to the film’s editor Deepa Bhatia. She is experienced and versatile enough to understand what would be palatable to the American audiences. Deepa has worked on feature films as well as documentaries. She’s edited films for everyone from me to Govind Nihalani.’

Karan admits it’s not the songs nor the length that will determine the shape and size of the American version of ‘MNIK’. ‘The first thing we heard from the American market is, we love the songs. So the songs stay. Deepa Bhatia is looking at what to remove.’

This summer when the film releases for a non-diaspora audience in the US, Shah Rukh, Karan and Kajol will be in the country for the American premiere.

‘We’re committed to our American producers Fox-Star to take the film to the US and any other part of the world where it will be screened in whichever avatar,’ Karan said.

In India, Indian’s came together to show unity and humanity by supporting MNIK 100% and facts prove it when MNIK became biggest hit of this year, and broke all records. Hats to all Indians and all supporters and 5 stars

All this happened inspite of Shiv Sena‘s ire on MNIK for supporting Pakistani cricketers’ inclusion in the IPL. Khan was even ready to applogize but said that he did not understand the “logic” behind the controversy and would have apologised if they had a problem with his film ‘My Name Is Khan’.

The 44-year-old superstar said what hurt him the most was the fact that his “Indianness” was questioned again and again.

Khan said that he would have apologised to Shiv Sena if the content of his film, released on February 12, was found to be offensive but did not do so because he didn’t understand the “logic” behind their anger.

“If they had a problem with my film, I would have apologised. I have done so earlier because I do not want to offend anyone with my films, my aim is to entertain. But this was about who I am as a person and my Indianness and I was hurt that I had to clarify it again and again,” said Khan in an interaction with a news channel.

The actor said that he has “great respect” for the Sena leaders but feels that politics and patriotism should not have been mixed with entertainment.

“They are much older than me and I have great respect for them. But I did not understand why was the film dragged in between. I am one of those who believe that entertainment and politics should not be mixed,” he said.

“I did not understand why was my Indianness questioned. My father is a freedom fighter and I am proud of that,” he added.

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