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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Milk cake OR Why I am not blogging regularly

Rich? Oh yes!

Why did I not blog for the last ten days or so? Have I lost the interest? Have I not been cooking? Or have I just been too lazy to take photographs?

Well, none of the above. I havent been blogging because my broadband connection was down; thats why.
Many of you have asked me in the past one month to write about my experience of moving back to India and how I find life here now. One thing that I would like to point out in this context is that we as a people are laid-back. Please dont misunderstand me. I absolutely respect my country. I wouldnt have come back otherwise. However, every country or community has a few flaws, and they can be corrected only if you step back for a while and watch it like an onlooker. Many of you will agree that living outside India gives you that perspective easily.
And I am sure that many of you will agree with me when I say that time does not put as much pressure on us as it does on some other communities. For example,

- we give unrealistic deadlines. We are always too afraid to say that it will take one full week. We always only use the word soon.

- we never are punctual. Although everybody seems to be in a deadly hurry on the road, nobody reaches anywhere on time. Why the hurry then?

- we do not value others time. We just dont.

The moral of the story is that I had to live with a dead broadband connection for about ten days. But believe me, I have not been wasting my time during this period. I have been cooking and photographing while cooking quite religiously.

Like I finally managed to try out this dessert, the recipe for which I had for the last three years. Shall I straight away head to the recipe without wasting any more time of yours then? :)

White goods? :)
Clockwise from top left: condensed milk, plain milk, Paneer

Recipe for Milk Cake
(Can you please please suggest a better name? I know that you are good at it.)

Makes 12 small servings.

Ingredients:

400g. sweetened condensed milk (I used one tin of this.)
250g. finely grated Paneer (I used store-bought.)
½ cup milk OR water (Please see Step 1.)
2-3 tsp castor or powdered sugar (optional; I didnt use.)
2 tbsp Ghee

saffron strands, chopped nuts for garnishing (I used this store-bought blend.)

Method:

1. Combine the condensed milk and grated Paneer in a non-stick pan. In case you are using up the entire tin of condensed milk, add ½ cup of water to it, shake vigorously and add this milk to the pan. Otherwise, add ½ cup of plain milk.(Dont you just admire my sense of economy in the kitchen? :))
2. Add sugar, if using and put this mixture to boil on medium-high heat. Stir continuously.
3. After about 10 minutes, add 1 tbsp of Ghee along the sides of the pan. The mixture of will start getting thicker now. It will move as one mass as you stir.

4. Take the pan off heat and let it cool for about five minutes.
5. In the meanwhile, grease the sides of a mould with the rest of the Ghee. Spread the saffron strands and/or chopped nuts on it. If you wish, you could add some to the mixture in the pan too.
6. Spread the mixture evenly into the greased mould and allow it to set. No refrigeration is required for it to set.

After about an hour, unmould the Milk Cake onto a decorative dish or platter. Garnish it more, if you wish, cut into pieces/wedges and serve.

I made this dessert for my younger sisters bridal shower. Or shall I say one bridal shower? There are two more planned in the next 15 days. Is the foodie in me HAPPY or what? :)

Now I need to rush this post to the Festive Food Fair organised by Anna. After all, it has a long way to go. Australia isnt around the corner, is it? :)

Tags: festive food fair, Dessert, Kalakand, Condensed Milk, Paneer, Barfi

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Miss Ms or Mrs

Where is the check box for Dr.?

Is this Murphys Law? I spent my entire grad student teaching career correcting students when they called me Professor, or Dr. Fraud, and now, this week alone, I have heard Miss Fraud, Mrs. Fraud, and Ms. Fraud (interestingly, all from women).

I came up with a plan of action for when this occurs in a phone call. When the student says, "Is this Miss Fraud?" Ill reply, "Yes, this is Dr. Fraud." But how do I deal with the interactions in the classroom, hallway, or my office? Or what if they dont ask is its me on the phone and just launch into "Mrs. Fraud..."

Im convinced this is one of those annoying forms of unconscious gender bias. A male colleague, who intestingly isnt even a Dr. yet, said that hes never been called Mr. Know-It-All. Students always call him Professor or Dr. Know-It-All.

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Microsoft Acquires LinkedIn Separate or Together

Chris OBrien has written a thought-provoking piece for Venture Beat about the Microsoft acquisition of LinkedIn. OBrien has a bearish outlook on the deal. In his article, he cites many reasons why the deal may not work out, including the fact that Microsoft has had a less-than-stellar record of making major deals (Skype, Nokia, Yammer). I dont know if Im quite as bearish as OBrien on the deal, but I certainly have some doubts. What I found most interesting, though, was OBriens take on the issue of how Microsoft will manage LinkedIn going forward. Heres an excerpt, in which OBrien describes the "acquisition double-talk" taking place at Microsoft:

Acquisition double-talk, part 1: On the one hand, this deal is all about the oft-vaunted idea of “synergy” (even if that word is not used). The idea is presumably to build LinkedIn into all sorts of Microsoft products. Great! But, does this mean I’m going to get all sorts of messages suddenly asking if I want to share my Word doc through LinkedIn or have some LinkedIn integration with an Excel spreadsheet…or…what? There’s a lot of talk today about how this is going to broaden Microsoft’s reach into all sorts of new channels for selling stuff like cloud services. But does one of the largest tech companies in the world really need to spend $26 billion to reach new customers?

Acquisition double talk, part 2: Structurally, LinkedIn is going to remain independent. Per the Nadella memo:

“LinkedIn will retain its distinct brand and independence, as well as their culture which is very much aligned with ours. Jeff (Weiner) will continue to be CEO of LinkedIn, he’ll report to me and join our senior leadership team. In essence, what I’ve asked Jeff to do is manage LinkedIn with key performance metrics that accrue to our overall success. He’ll decide from there what makes sense to integrate and what does not.”

So, we will all work together. But we will work together while remaining separate. We call it: Separate Togetherness. (I’m going to copyright that and write a book on it one day.)

OBrien raises an interesting issue that arises in many acquisitions. On the one hand, the acquirer wishes to realize substantial synergies. After all, those synergies are the very reason why the acquirer pays a large premium to purchase the target firm. On the other hand, the acquirer does not want to spoil all that is good about the target firm. Thus, they promise to provide the target firm a great deal of autonomy moving forward. They promise to keep it separate. You can see the conundrum here. Keeping it separate means probably forgoing key synergy opportunities. Pressing for too many synergies too quickly might alienate employees at the target firm, infringe on the innovative culture of the target, etc. One also has to raise a broader question though: If you are going to manage the target separately, then could you have achieved many of the collaborative benefits without actually acquiring the firm. Could you have pursued some other organizational arrangement, such as a strategic alliance? Could you collaborate, but without the risks and costs associated with a merger?

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Maven not downloading latest snapshots or releases

Ever had issues with maven not downloading the latest snapshots when you know for a fact new snapshots are available? Or your CI environment just deployed a new release (2.0), but when another Hudson job builds, maven does not download the latest 2.0 release artifact. Want an automated solution so you dont have to manually delete the artifacts from your local repository just so maven will download the latest?

Force maven to download latest snapshots
Our company uses Hudson for our automated CI environments. Our project basically has two jobs. The first job checks out and builds HEAD when modified and deploys SNAPSHOT WARs to our companies maven2 repository (artifactory). The second job, which builds nightly, uses maven to download the SNAPSHOT WARs from artifactory, creates an EAR, deploys it to JBoss, and runs integration tests. By default, maven will check once a day for changes to snapshots, so when our second job was triggered, maven inside hudson was not downloading the latest SNAPSHOT WARs.

The solution was to append the -U in the maven goals (run mvn -help). It stands for update-snapshots and tells maven to update all snapshots no matter what.

Force maven to download latest releases
Our next problem was when we created a branch and started creating release artifacts such as 2.0. Unfortunately the description given by maven for the -U option is incorrect (or at least in v 2.0.9), "Forces a check for updated releases and snapshots on remote repositories". As much as I tried, the -U option wouldnt work in our hudson job to force maven to download the latest non-snapshot releases.

The only current solution I know of is to use the maven-dependency-plugin and its goal purge-local-repository. So in your maven goals at some point execute mvn dependency:purge-local-repository and maven will physically delete your projects artifacts from the local repository (/home/user/.m2/repistory) and its transitive dependencies (I think). I tried setting the actTransitively to false and it didnt work for us so I just removed it. I also set verbose to true so I could see what maven deleted in Hudsons console output.

The pipes are used to separate out different goals to isolate its classpath or properties. That way we can skip tests in one run, and then run them in the next all in the same goals section.

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Mirzya Movie Budget Profit Hit or Flop on 14 Day Box Office Collection

Here is Below are Box office collection report of Bollywood Movie Mirzya With his Budget, Profit and Hit or Flop status at MTwiki.blogspot.com. also including of the film lead star cast:- Harshvardhan Kapoor, Saiyami Kher, Anuj Choudhry, Art Malik, K. K. Raina, Om Puri, Anjali Patil.
Mirzya is an Indian epic fantasy romantic thriller film of 2016, directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and produced by Rohit Khattar, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, P.S. Bharathi, Rajiv Tandon.

Last Update:	22 October 2016
First look Poster of Mirzya 2016

Total Collection:-	11.00 Crores
Mirzya Film Budget, Profit, Loss and Verdict Hit or Flop ?
Budget + P&A:	35 Crores (Production Cost: 25 Crores Prints & Advertising Cost: 10 Crores)
Profit/Loss:	N/A
Theatrical Business Verdict:	N/A

Synopsis:The basic premise of the film is inspired by the Punjabi folklore of Mirza Sahiban. It is releasing on nearly 1000 Screens in India, Film is released on 7th October, 2016.
Note: All Box Office collections Report as per production and distributor sources and MT WIKI Research.

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Report of Daily Domestic Box Office Collection:-
Friday (Opening Day)	2.2 Crores	Mirzya had a poor opening day.
Saturday	2.1 Crore	.
Sunday	2.20 Crore	Film Has One Of The Poorest Weekend Of 2016
Monday	1 Crore	.
Tuesday	1.30 Crore	.
Wednesday	1.10 Crore	.
Thursday - 2nd Monday	1 Crore	.
2nd Friday	Pending	.
2nd Saturday	Pending	.
Total: 11.00 (14 Day)

Worldwide Collection:-
-	-	-
Total:-- Crore

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Mirzya Movie Box Office Collections With Budget its Profit Hit or Flop

Here is Box Office Collections of Bollywood Movie Mirzya (2016) With Budget and its Profit, Verdict (Hit or Flop) Reports at zeewiki.blogspot.com. Its Star-Cast Includes Harshwardhan Kapoor and Saiyami Kher.


Mirzya released in around 1000 screens.
Mirzya Movie Box Office Report With Its Verdict (Hit or Flop)*Updating Regularly
Box Office Earnings (Domestic):	7.25 Crore
Budget + P&A:	35 Crores
Profit:	N/A
Theatrical Business Verdict:	N/A

Collection in India:-
Friday (Opening Day):	1.75 Crore	Opening Day
Saturday	1.5 Crore	2nd Day
Sunday	1.75 Crore	3rd Day
Total Domestic Collection Till Now:	7.25 Crore	.
Total Worldwide Collection Till Now:	Update Soon	.
Total: 7.25 Crore (Till Now)

Country :	in Local Currency	in Rupees (INR)
Collection in Overseas
India	--	7.25 Crore (Till Now)
Total(WorldWide Collection)	Update Soon	--

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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Milk cake OR Why I am not blogging regularly

Milk cake OR Why I am not blogging regularly

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Miss Ms or Mrs

Miss Ms or Mrs

Friday, February 24, 2017

Microsoft Acquires LinkedIn Separate or Together

Microsoft Acquires LinkedIn Separate or Together

Monday, February 20, 2017

Maven not downloading latest snapshots or releases

Maven not downloading latest snapshots or releases

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Mirzya Movie Budget Profit Hit or Flop on 14 Day Box Office Collection

Mirzya Movie Budget Profit Hit or Flop on 14 Day Box Office Collection

Mirzya Movie Box Office Collections With Budget its Profit Hit or Flop

Mirzya Movie Box Office Collections With Budget its Profit Hit or Flop