AN ODE TO STEVE JOBS

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As per the statement of United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) it reads: “With the exception of cases involving _______________, a model is not ordinarily

required by the Office to demonstrate the operability of a device”.Also stated is:

“A rejection (of a patent application) on the ground of lack of utility includes the more specific grounds of inoperativeness, including ________”.

The filing of a patent application is a clerical task, and the USPTO won't refuse filings for ________________ machines; the application will be filed and then most probably rejected by the patent examiner, after he has done a formal examination. Even if a patent is granted, it doesn't mean that the invention actually works; it just means that the examiner thinks that it works, or that he couldn't figure out why it

wouldn't work. The USPTO maintains a collection of _____ Gimmicks. However, few patents have been granted in this domain notably to Howard R Johnson in 1979

for “Permanent magnet motor”.The United Kingdom Patent Office states:

“Processes or articles alleged to operate in a manner which is clearly contrary to well-established physical laws, such as _________ machines, are regarded as not

having industrial application.”

Perpetual Motion

SABEER BHATIA

Sabeer Bhatia lives in Chandigarh – Open Hand Monument

He proposed the Nano City project alongwith the Haryana Government to build a Silicon Valley in

Northern India. Steve Ballmer represents Microsoft

Heat represents Hot- these two denote Hotmail!

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X is a Ukranian professional tennis player, and a member of the Ukranian Davis Cup team. He has only one singles title to his name, which he obtained in Kyoto Open (2009) by defeating Takao Suzuki. The only time he reached a Grand Slam was the US Open 2011, where he reached the second round. Who is he, and why would you be interested in such an ordinary player?

SERGEI BUBKA JR.

He is the son of the legendary pole vaulter, Sergei Bubka.

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X was reportedly unhappy with the commonplace interpretation of his law, which is seen as capturing the essential “cussedness” of inanimate objects. He regarded the law as crystallizing a key principle of defensive design, in which one should always assume worst-case scenarios. X was said by his son to have regarded the many jocular versions of the law as “ridiculous, trivial and erroneous.” His attempts to have the law taken more seriously were unsuccessful During World War 2, he served in Pacific Theater in India, China and Burma, achieving the rank of Major. Following the end of hostilities, in 1947 attended the United States Air Force Institute of Technology, becoming R&D officer at the Wright-Development Center of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

EDWARD MURPHY (MURPHY'S LAW)

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_______ is a small winemaking village and commune in far south-eastern Luxembourg, near the tripoint where the borders of Germany, France and Luxembourg meet. Other villages within the commune include Remerschen and Wintrange. The village became famous on 14th June 1985, when _____ was signed. To use this name recognition, the council of the commune of Remerschen decided on 18th January 2006 to rename the commune to ______, which was implemented on 3rd September 2006.

As of 2005, the village has a population of 1527 with an area of 10.63 km^2.

HANGING AN ALBATROSS AROUND THE NECK

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who coined the phrase

Statue of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Somerset unveiled in 2003

Albatross (golf)- Scoring 3 under par (-3) Noose- represents hanging around the neck

CONNECT

Samuel Taylor Coleridge1816

DEDICATIONS TO STEVE JOBS

7 The novel X was originally written in German and translated into

English by Daphne Hardy, while living with Y in Paris in early 1940 just ahead of the German army. Y attempted a suicide in Bordeaux after hearing a false report that the ship taking Hardy to England (along with the only manuscript) had been torpedoed and all hands lost. On reaching England, Hardy arranged to have the manuscript published and chose the title 'X'. Since the original German text has been lost, German versions, published under the title Sonnenfinsternis (literally “solar eclipse”) are back translations from English. X is Y's most successful work, and second part of a trilogy- the first being the Gladiators (Hungarian), the third being Arrival and Departure (English) although these two are much less known. The Modern Library and TIME Magazine have ranked it on its list of 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. X was also very influential for George Orwell who used ideas from it in 1984 and also wrote an essay about it.

DARKNESS AT NOON by ARTHUR KOESTLER

Tribute- It inspired 1984, which was the year when Macintosh was launched

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“The greatest omission in our 106 year history is undoubtedly that X never received the Y. X could do without the Y, whether Y can do without X is the question.” -Geir Lundestad (2006)

When Z was given the Y in 1989, the chairman of Y committee said that this was “in part a tribute to the memory of X”. X, Y, Z.

x- Mahatma Gandhi Y- Nobel Peace Prize

Z- Dalai Lama

Dedication- Mahatma Gandhi featured in the Apple 'Think Different ' Ad both in the original version, where 17 people were there and in

the shortened one with 11 people. Steve Jobs considered him among his 'Inspirational People'.

9 The English player was a surprise inclusion in the 1979/80 team touring

Australia, making him the youngest cricketer to play for England in thirty years when he entered the field during the Perth test. He took only seven wickets on that tour, which the manager Alec Bedser described as “ ￡ 7,000 for seven wickets”. His first test match included the scalp of Dennis Lillee, for which the remarkable alliteration is quoted:

Lilee c Willey b _______ 19

Although known mainly as a bowler, he is most remembered for England's sensational victory after following on, in the third Ashes Test at Headingley in 1986 as he stuck on the crease with Ian Botham in the unfamiliar role of a batsman in a 117-run partnership (80 balls only) before being bowled. Later, he held a boundary catch to dismiss Rod Marsh. Geoffrey Boycott once commented about the effects of coaching fast bowlers 'Remember what happened to __________, who started out as a genuinely quick bowler. They started stuffing line and length in his ear and now he has Dennis Lillee's action with Denis Thatcher's pace'.

GRAHAM DILLEY

Dedication- He died on 5th October, 2011 the same day as Steve Jobs.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

Geostationary Orbit, found by him is also known as Clarke's Orbit.

Koneswaram Temple in Triconmalee, Sri Lanka whose ruins were found by him.

Rendezvous with Rama, a novel by him in 1972.

CONNECT- 10th February 2000

Dedication- His model of Newspad in '2001: A Space Odyssey' has been compared to the

iPad.Also critics (notably James Randi) have compared

Steve Jobs to Stanley Kubrick, for the remake of his movie.

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Opinions were floating following the death of X that the videotape of X's fatal accident should be destroyed. In a interview his wife, Terri said she had not seen the film of her husband's deadly encounter with the _______ and that it would not be shown on television. On 3 January 2007, the only footage of X's death was handed over to Terri who later said in an interview “all footage has been destroyed”. Despite this statement, numerous videos and still pictures claiming to be of X's death surfaced on Youtube and other internet sites.

Production for Y (during filming which X died) ended and it was aired for the first time on 21 January 2007. The documentary was completed with footage shot in the weeks following the accident. X's death is not mentioned in the film, aside from a still image of him at the end alongside the text “In Memory of X”. Terri later told X had an ongoing premonition that he would die before he reached age 40 (although he died aged 44) about which she wrote in a book about their lives together, X and Me. Who is X?

STEVE IRWIN

Dedication- Nothing other than his name was also Steve :D

BEATLES

Dedication- “My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they

balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in

business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people.”

Steve Jobs was a great fan of Beatles. Also a tribute to John Lennon, whose 71th birthday

was on 9th .

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__________ is a term used in reference to fascist and collaborationist political parties and military and paramilitary forces in occupied Allied countries which collaborated with Axis occupiers in World War II, as well as for their members and other collaborators. The term was coined by British newspaper The Times on 19 April 1940 in an editorial titled “______ everywhere” after the Norwegian ________, who assisted Nazi Germany as it conquered his own country so that he could rule the collaborationist Norwegian Government himself. The Times editorial asserted “To writers, the word _______ is a gift from the gods. If they had been ordered to invent a new word for traitor... they could hardly have hit upon a more brilliant combination of letters. Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous”. Word?

QUISLING

Named after Vidkun Quisling.

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The club's players live and train at a training camp outside Moscow and fly in for home matches. This is for security reasons and entails, according to BBC “flying about 1600 kms. about 15 times a season” for the home games. They have participated only once in the UEFA Cup, 2001-02 when their opponents were Rangers FC. Instead of usual home and away fixtures, UEFA decided to hold a single match in a neutral venue (Warsaw) due to unstable situation in the neighboring region of Chechenya. Rangers won 1-0. The club has been in news recently. Club?

ANZHI MAKHACHAKLA FC

(In news for buying of Samuel Eto'o, making him world's highest paid

footballer)

RUDYARD KIPLING

The map is of 'Kipling's India' denoting the places Kipling stayed in and worked.

Tendril denoting Tendril Cottage.

Swastika symbols, and the Elephant symbol found in his works.

CONNECT:

18th January, 1936

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_____ is a small island in the Tyrifjorden lake in Hole municipality in the county of Buskerud. ___ is owned by the Worker's Youth League (Arbeidernes ungdomsfylking, AUF). The island is largely forested, with some open spaces. Its name translates in English to 'outermost island' as it is the southernmost (or farthest 'out') island of three which which lie in the lake of Tyrifjorden, the other two being Geitoya and Storoya.

Name the island, and why on earth would anyone want to know this island?

UTOYA (Norway), came in news recently following the shooting /

attacks by Anders Brehring

DIFFERENTIAL SCORING

1 or 2 teams- + 3 each 3 or 4 teams- + 2 each 5 or 6 teams- + 1 each

Written Questions- Q 16- Q 18

16

On being asked if he considered any woman writer his literary match at the Royal Geographic Society, after being described as “the greatest living writer of English prose” X replied:

“I don't think so. I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think (it is) unequal to me. And inevitably for a woman she is not a complete master of the house, so that comes over in her writing too. My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. I don't mean this in any unkind way”.

About Jane Austen he commented:“I don't think so (she is my equal). I couldn't possibly share her sentimental ambitions ,her sentimental sense of the world”.

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The inhabitants of ____ learnt about Indian Independence days after 15th August 1947. Patel realizing that Pakistan could lay claim to them on the grounds of Muslim majority (though it was nowhere near the new state of Pakistan) sent an Indian Navy ship here to hoist the Indian national flag to thwart any Pakistani attempt to grab ____. Just a couple of hours thereafter, vessels belonging to the Pakistan Navy were spotted near _____. These vessels however retreated to Karachi after seeing the Indian flag flying.

18 (Connect Question)

In 1964, X was vilified across the political spectrum for arguing in an article in HT that India led a responsibility to keep its promise to allow self-determination to the state of J&K. He hit back at critics in a second article, dismissing the Indian version of the “domino theory”. In his graceful if old-fashioned style, X ridiculed the premise that states of India are held together by force and not by the sentiment of a common nationality. “It is an assumption that makes a mockery of the Indian Nation and a tyrant of the Indian state”.Who is this otherwise respected person who courted a lot of controversy by this remark?

16. VS NAIPAUL

17. LAKSHADWEEP ISLANDS

18. JAI PRAKASH NARAYAN

CONNECT- March, 1979

19. Name the song, writer.

[Audio]

AAMAR SONAR BANGLA by RABINDRANATH TAGORE

(National Anthem of Bangladesh)

20Romeo, a young man with a remarkable patience.

Juliet , a likewise young woman of remarkable grace.Ophelia , a remarkable woman much in dispute with Hamlet.Hamlet , the flatterer of Andersen Insulting A/S.

Act I: Hamlet's insults and flattery. Scene I: The insulting of Romeo.

[Enter Hamlet and Romeo]Hamlet:

You lying stupid fatherless big smelly half-witted coward! You are asstupid as the difference between a handsome rich brave hero and thyself!Speak your mind!You are as brave as the sum of your fat little stuffed misused dustyold rotten codpiece and a beautiful fair warm peaceful sunny summer'sday. You are as healthy as the difference between the sum of thesweetest reddest rose and my father and yourself! Speak your mind!You are as cowardly as the sum of yourself and the differencebetween a big mighty proud kingdom and a horse. Speak your mind.Speak your mind![Exit Romeo] Scene II: The praising of Juliet.[Enter Juliet]Hamlet:Thou art as sweet as the sum of the sum of Romeo and his horse and hisblack cat! Speak thy mind![Exit Juliet] Scene III: The praising of Ophelia.[Enter Ophelia]Hamlet:Thou art as lovely as the product of a large rural town and my amazingbottomless embroidered purse. Speak thy mind!Thou art as loving as the product of the bluest clearest sweetest skyand the sum of a squirrel and a white horse. Thou art as beautiful asthe difference between Juliet and thyself. Speak thy mind![Exeunt Ophelia and Hamlet]

Act II: Behind Hamlet's back. Scene I: Romeo and Juliet's conversation.[Enter Romeo and Juliet]Romeo:Speak your mind. You are as worried as the sum of yourself and thedifference between my small smooth hamster and my nose. Speak yourmind!Juliet:Speak YOUR mind! You are as bad as Hamlet! You are as small as thedifference between the square of the difference between my little ponyand your big hairy hound and the cube of your sorry littlecodpiece. Speak your mind![Exit Romeo] Scene II: Juliet and Ophelia's conversation.[Enter Ophelia]Juliet:Thou art as good as the quotient between Romeo and the sum of a smallfurry animal and a leech. Speak your mind!Ophelia:Thou art as disgusting as the quotient between Romeo and twice thedifference between a mistletoe and an oozing infected blister! Speakyour mind![Exeunt]

HELLO WORLD PROGRAM IN SHAKESPARE PROGRAMMING

LANGUAGE (SPL)

21 (Connect Question)

“I joined the people; I grabbed a rifle in a police station that collapsed when it was rushed by a crowd. I witnessed the spectacle of a totally spontaneous revolution... That experience led me to identify myself even more with the cause of the people. My still incipient Marxist ideas had nothing to do with our conduct – it was a spontaneous reaction on our part, as young people with Martían, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and pro-democratic ideas.”

FIDEL CASTRO

Che Guevara- a close friend Raul Castro- current President of Cuba, and his

brother Cuban Missile Crisis, he headed the Cuban side

during the crisis Fidel Castro speaking on the Bogatazo

revolution

CONNECT:

16th April 2003

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On 28th October 1994 against India, Adam Parore- the New Zealand wicketkeeper came after Bryan Young's dismissal at 7/1. After that, he played 138 balls, survived 203 minutes at a modest Strike Rate of 69.56 and scored 96 runs, before being dismissed by Manoj Prabhakar. By that time, New Zealand were 268/4 (finishing the innings at 269/4). Eventually, India won the match. In the way, Adam Parore created a record surpassing Zaheer Abbas's 113-ball 84 (169 minutes) vs Australia in 1982, and holds the record even today. The next few names on the list are KJ Barnett (146-ball 84, 179 mins), Desmond Haynes (133-ball 74*, 204 mins) and Ashish Bagai (117-ball 74, 160 minutes). What is the record?

MOST RUNS SCORED WITHOUT HITTING A SINGLE BOUNDARY

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The first ____ was started in 1988 to commemorate the centenary of Pandit Jawahar Lal's Nehru birthday by Madhav Rao Scindia .A cheaper version for the same 'for the common man' started its operations on 2 January 2003. While the former was later extended till Bhopal, the latter originated there itself. What are we talking about?

SHATABDI EXPRESS

The cheaper version is 'Jan Shatabdi'.

24“You have thrown us to the wolves”. - X's last words to Gandhi and his erstwhile allies in the Congress Party

“I had to go to prison many times in the days of Britishers. Although we were at loggerheads with them, yet their treatment was to some extent tolerant and polite. But the treatment which was meted out to me in this ____ state of ours was such that I would not even like to mention it to you” - X following his release from prison, as he was in house arrest for 6 years without charge. The government attempted in 1958 to reconcile with him and offered him a Ministry in the Government, after assassination of his brother, he however refused. He remained in prison till 1957 only to be re-arrested in 1958 until an illness in 1964 allowed for his release.

In 1962, X was named 'Amnesty International Prisoner of the Year' who stated “His example symbolizes the suffering of upward of a million people all over the world who are prisoners of conscience”. He was arrested in 1973, where he described the government as 'The worst kind of dictatorship'. When he was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1987, it was a first of its kind. Who is X?

KHAN ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN (FRONTIER GANDHI)

27th August 2008

PREMATURE OBITUARIES (on the mentioned dates)

“It was extraordinary that Coleridge the poet should have hanged himself just after the success of his play [Remorse]; but he always a strange mad fellow”. Coleridge replied: "Indeed, sir, it is a most extraordinary thing that he should have hanged himself, be the subject of an inquest, and yet that he should at this moment be speaking to you."

Arthur C. Clarke had his obituary published by the Goddard Retirees and Alumni Association (GRAA), even specifying the cause as pulmonary fibrosis.

Rudyard Kipling famously responded to his obituary:“I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."

JP Narayan reported dead in 1979 while hospatilized, causing a brief wave of national mourning, including the suspension of parliament and National Radio Broadcasting

Fidel Castro was among others in the CNN.com incident where multiple premature obituaries came to light, including Dick Cheney, Nelson Mandela, Bob Hope, Gerald Ford, Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan.

Bloomberg accidentally published a 17-page obituary for Steve Jobs, who responded like Mark Twain with “reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” during a keynote