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NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305
As the head of the student organizing committee for ACT 2012, write a letter to an industrialist
inviting him for a seminar.
Amity University
Sector 125
Noida – 201303
7 September 2012
Managing Director
Teemo Tech Ltd
Alaknanda
New Delhi - 110019
Subject: Invitation to attend ACT 2012 Seminar
Sir
I’m writing this letter to inform you that you are invited to a seminar hosted by Amity Cultural and
Technical Fest 2012 unveiling the latest advancements in the technological field.
There will be five speakers like you each presenting on their fields of expertise and their experiences.
We were hoping you would voice your opinions on cloud computing and how it is slowly paving a way
for next generation computing. There will also be a short session where the students will ask you
questions.
The seminar will take place on Tuesday, 27th September, at 10:00am in Amity University, Noida.
A conveyance can be provided, if required.
Please confirm your attendance.
Yours Sincerely
Rahul
Rahul Ahuja
Head of Student Organizing Committee
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NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305
200 Proverbs & Sayings
1 All things are difficult before they are easy
2 An apple a day keeps the doctor away
3 An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle
4 An oak is not felled at one stroke
5 An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup
6 Appearances are deceitful
7 As like as two peas
8 As sure as eggs is eggs
9 As the old cock crows, so does the young
10 As welcome as water in one's shoes
11 Ask no questions and you will be told no lies
12 Bad news has wings
13 Beauty lies in lover's eyes
14 Best defence is offence
15 Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
16 Better be envied than pitied
17 Better give a shilling than lend a half-crown
18 Better lose a jest than a friend
19 Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven
20 Between two evils 'tis not worth choosing
21 Betwixt and between
22 Blind men can judge no colours
23 Business before pleasure
24 By the street of 'by-and-bye' one arrives at the house of 'Never'
25 Charity begins at home
26 Choose an author as you choose a friend
27 Claw me, and I will claw thee
28 Cross the stream where it is shallowest
29 Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
30 Death pays all debts
31 Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies
32 Dog does not eat dog
33 Doing is better than saying
34 Don't keep a dog and bark yourself
35 Don't whistle (halloo) until you are out of the wood
36 Drive the nail that will go
37 Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
38 Empty vessels make the greatest (the most) sound
39 Even reckoning makes long friends
40 Every bean has its black
NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305
41 Every day is not Sunday
42 Every dog is valiant at his own door
43 Every man is the architect of his own fortunes
44 Every tub must stand on its own bottom
45 Everybody's business is nobody's business
46 Experience is the mother of wisdom
47 Faint heart never won fair lady
48 False friends are worse than open enemies
49 Feast today and fast tomorrow
50 First deserve and then desire
51 Fish begins to stink at the head
52 Fools and madmen speak the truth
53 For the love of the game
54 Forewarned is forearmed
55 From bad to worse
56 Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself
57 Give never the wolf the wether to keep
58 Good counsel does no harm
59 Gossiping and lying go hand in hand
60 Great boast, small roast
61 Greedy folk have long arms
62 Happiness takes no account of time
63 Hares may pull dead lions by the beard
64 Hasty climbers have sudden falls
65 He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue
66 He gives twice who gives in a trice
67 He is lifeless that is faultless
68 He knows best what good is that has endured evil
69 He laughs best who laughs last
70 He smells best that smells of nothing
71 He that fears you present wiil hate you absent
72 He that has a full purse never wanted a friend
73 He that has no money needs no purse
74 He that knows nothing doubts nothing
75 He that mischief hatches, mischief catches
76 He that promises too much means nothing
77 He that spares the bad injures the good
78 He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut
79 He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens
80 He who pleased everybody died before he was born
81 He who would eat the nut must first crack the shell
82 Head cook and bottle-washer
83 Honey is sweet, but the bee stings
NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305
84 Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper
85 Hungry bellies have no ears
86 If ifs and ans were pots and pans
87 If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
88 If wishes were horses, beggars might ride
89 If you laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper
90 If you throw mud enough, some of it will stick
91 In every beginning think of the end
92 Iron hand (fist) in a velvet glove
93 It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
94 It is easy to swim if another hoids up your chin (head)
95 It is the first step that costs
96 It's no use pumping a dry well
97 Judge not of men and things at first sight
98 Last, but not least
99 Learn to say before you sing
100 Let every man praise the bridge he goes over
101 Life is but a span
102 Like a cat on hot bricks
103 Like draws to like
104 Like teacher, like pupil
105 Little pigeons can carry great messages
106 Little things amuse little minds
107 Look before you leap
108 Lord (God, Heaven) helps those (them) who help themselves
109 Love me, love my dog
110 Man proposes but God disposes
111 Many a good father has but a bad son
112 Measure thrice and cut once
113 Misfortunes tell us what fortune is
114 Money is a good servant but a bad master
115 Much will have more
116 Necessity is the mother of invention
117 Need makes the old wife trot
118 Neither rhyme nor reason
119 Never offer to teach fish to swim
120 Never too much of a good thing
121 Nightingales will not sing in a cage
122 No joy without alloy
123 No man is wise at all times
124 No sweet without (some) sweat
125 Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it
126 Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something
NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305
127 Old birds are not caught with chaff
128 One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
129 One fire drives out another
130 One link broken, the whole chain is broken
131 One today is worth two tomorrow
132 Opportunity makes the thief
133 Penny-wise and pound-foolish
134 Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is
135 Pride goes before a fall
136 Rain at seven, fine at eleven
137 Rome was not built in a day
138 Score twice before you cut once
139 Self is a bad counsellor
140 Short debts (accounts) make long friends
141 Sink or swim!
142 Small rain lays great dust
143 Soon learnt, soon forgotten
144 Speech is silver but silence is gold
145 Stretch your legs according to the coverlet
146 Sweep before your own door
147 Tarred with the same brush
148 That cock won't fight
149 The best fish smell when they are three days old
150 The busiest man finds the most leisure
151 The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
152 The darkest place is under the candlestick
153 The devil lurks behind the cross
154 The early bird catches the worm
155 The face is the index of the mind
156 The first blow is half the battle
157 The last drop makes the cup run over
158 The moon does not heed the barking of dogs
159 The morning sun never lasts a day
160 The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last
161 The rotten apple injures its neighbours
162 The tongue of idle persons is never idle
163 There are lees to every wine
164 There is no place like home
165 There is no smoke without fire
166 They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer
167 Time cures all things
168 Time works wonders
169 To be in one's birthday suit
NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305
170 To bring grist to somebody's mill
171 To call a spade a spade
172 To cast pearls before swine
173 To come off with flying colours
174 To cook a hare before catching him
175 To draw water in a sieve
176 To find a mare's nest
177 To flog a dead horse
178 To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
179 To kill two birds with one stone
180 To know what's what
181 To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
182 To measure another man's foot by one's own last
183 To plough the sand
184 To put a spoke in somebody's wheel
185 To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
186 To set the wolf to keep the sheep
187 To teach the dog to bark
188 To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine
189 To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve
190 Too many cooks spoil the broth
191 True blue will never stain
192 Truth is stranger than fiction
193 Velvet paws hide sharp claws
194 Waste not, want not
195 We shall see what we shall see
196 What can't be cured, must be endured
197 What is lost is lost
198 What must be, must be
199 When children stand quiet, they have done some harm
200 When the cat is away, the mice will play
NEIL MATHEW ‐ 3CS4 ‐ Y3305   September 11 
1 
What is Corruption ?
 The misuse
of public office
for private gain
 Types:
 Bribery
 Nepotism
 Fraud
 Embezzlement
 Land and property
 Tendering processes
and awarding contracts
 Preferential award of public resources
Corruption in India Land and Property
 Acquiring,
 developing and
 selling of government allotted land illegally.
Adarsh Housing
Scam
1. Originally meant to house
Kargil war widows.
2. Land allegedly used to
make a multi-storey
building.
3. 3 BHK house sold for 60-80
lakhs to netas and their
families.
4. Original price estimated
6 – 8.5 Cr.
Tendering processes
and awarding contracts
 Government officials award contracts
preferentially to selected bidders.
 Common activities like
1. Building of roads
2. Tenders for hospitals
3. Allocation of mobile spectrum
NEIL MATHEW ‐ 3CS4 ‐ Y3305   September 11 
2 
2G Scam
1. Spectrum awarded at throw-
away prices by the then
Cabinet Minister – A. Raja.
2. Licenses issued on FCFS basis.
3. Unitech, Swan Telecom got
licenses without any prior
telecom experience.
4. Kanimozhi named as co-
conspirator with A.Raja.
Preferential award of public
resources
 Public Land awarded to private firms at
negligible costs.
 Awarding mining lease to private firm
without levying any tax.
Bellary Mining
1. Reddy Brothers obtained
mining licenses in 2004.
2. Supposedly gave 25 Cr to
each independent
candidate to support BJP.
3. Played a vital role in making
BSY the Chief Minister of
Karnataka.
4. Reddy brothers defied a
ban put by the Supreme
Court.
How to Stop
Corruption?
What has been done?
 Anti Corruption Act
 Right to Information Act (RTI)
 Central Vigilance Commission
 Jan Lokpal Bill
 Stopping Clientelism
 Effective E-Governance plans
 Simplification of procedures
What should be done?
NEIL MATHEW ‐ 3CS4 ‐ Y3305   September 11 
3 
ThankYou
Atulpriya Sharma
Neil Mathew
Saurabh Sharma
Sidharth Gupta
Suraj Bhatt

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  • 1. NEIL MMATHEW C Ass W - A23 Comm sessm 3247100 mun men 002 - 3C nicat nt Fi CS4 – Y3 tion ile 305
  • 2. NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305 As the head of the student organizing committee for ACT 2012, write a letter to an industrialist inviting him for a seminar. Amity University Sector 125 Noida – 201303 7 September 2012 Managing Director Teemo Tech Ltd Alaknanda New Delhi - 110019 Subject: Invitation to attend ACT 2012 Seminar Sir I’m writing this letter to inform you that you are invited to a seminar hosted by Amity Cultural and Technical Fest 2012 unveiling the latest advancements in the technological field. There will be five speakers like you each presenting on their fields of expertise and their experiences. We were hoping you would voice your opinions on cloud computing and how it is slowly paving a way for next generation computing. There will also be a short session where the students will ask you questions. The seminar will take place on Tuesday, 27th September, at 10:00am in Amity University, Noida. A conveyance can be provided, if required. Please confirm your attendance. Yours Sincerely Rahul Rahul Ahuja Head of Student Organizing Committee
  • 3. NEIL MAT Th 1. D 2. D 3. D 4. D 5. D 6. D 7. D T 1. D 2. D 3. D 4. D 5. D 6. D ra m THEW – 3CS4 he Dos DO be polite DO rewrite th DO give every Do support y DO organize i DO state clea DO match the i.e. a bus The Don’ts DON’T make DON’T erase DON’T abbre DON’T threa DON’T length DON’T use re ace, color, n marital or pa – Y3305 The D and respect he letter, sho y subject its your stateme it chronolog arly what you e style of wr siness letter e typographi or cross out viate; abbre ten or dispa hen the lette eference cha ationality, g rental status Dos and Do tful. ould you ma own paragr ents with spe gically, but be u will do nex riting to the r should be p cal mishap. t misspelled eviation is th arage the oth er unnecess aracteristics ender, religi s, or politica on’ts of Le ake a spelling raph. ecific examp e brief. xt at the end letter type o polite but dis words in a l e sign of has her person. arily, just en that can be ion, age, app l point of vie tter Writin g error. ples d of a ‘Respo of letter bein stant in tone etter. sty writing. nough to cla the basis of pearance, an ew. ng onse to comp ng written; e. rify your inte f discriminat ny handicap plaint‘ letter ent. ion, such as ping conditio r. on,
  • 4. NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305 200 Proverbs & Sayings 1 All things are difficult before they are easy 2 An apple a day keeps the doctor away 3 An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle 4 An oak is not felled at one stroke 5 An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup 6 Appearances are deceitful 7 As like as two peas 8 As sure as eggs is eggs 9 As the old cock crows, so does the young 10 As welcome as water in one's shoes 11 Ask no questions and you will be told no lies 12 Bad news has wings 13 Beauty lies in lover's eyes 14 Best defence is offence 15 Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us 16 Better be envied than pitied 17 Better give a shilling than lend a half-crown 18 Better lose a jest than a friend 19 Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven 20 Between two evils 'tis not worth choosing 21 Betwixt and between 22 Blind men can judge no colours 23 Business before pleasure 24 By the street of 'by-and-bye' one arrives at the house of 'Never' 25 Charity begins at home 26 Choose an author as you choose a friend 27 Claw me, and I will claw thee 28 Cross the stream where it is shallowest 29 Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools 30 Death pays all debts 31 Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies 32 Dog does not eat dog 33 Doing is better than saying 34 Don't keep a dog and bark yourself 35 Don't whistle (halloo) until you are out of the wood 36 Drive the nail that will go 37 Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise 38 Empty vessels make the greatest (the most) sound 39 Even reckoning makes long friends 40 Every bean has its black
  • 5. NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305 41 Every day is not Sunday 42 Every dog is valiant at his own door 43 Every man is the architect of his own fortunes 44 Every tub must stand on its own bottom 45 Everybody's business is nobody's business 46 Experience is the mother of wisdom 47 Faint heart never won fair lady 48 False friends are worse than open enemies 49 Feast today and fast tomorrow 50 First deserve and then desire 51 Fish begins to stink at the head 52 Fools and madmen speak the truth 53 For the love of the game 54 Forewarned is forearmed 55 From bad to worse 56 Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself 57 Give never the wolf the wether to keep 58 Good counsel does no harm 59 Gossiping and lying go hand in hand 60 Great boast, small roast 61 Greedy folk have long arms 62 Happiness takes no account of time 63 Hares may pull dead lions by the beard 64 Hasty climbers have sudden falls 65 He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue 66 He gives twice who gives in a trice 67 He is lifeless that is faultless 68 He knows best what good is that has endured evil 69 He laughs best who laughs last 70 He smells best that smells of nothing 71 He that fears you present wiil hate you absent 72 He that has a full purse never wanted a friend 73 He that has no money needs no purse 74 He that knows nothing doubts nothing 75 He that mischief hatches, mischief catches 76 He that promises too much means nothing 77 He that spares the bad injures the good 78 He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut 79 He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens 80 He who pleased everybody died before he was born 81 He who would eat the nut must first crack the shell 82 Head cook and bottle-washer 83 Honey is sweet, but the bee stings
  • 6. NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305 84 Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper 85 Hungry bellies have no ears 86 If ifs and ans were pots and pans 87 If the sky falls, we shall catch larks 88 If wishes were horses, beggars might ride 89 If you laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper 90 If you throw mud enough, some of it will stick 91 In every beginning think of the end 92 Iron hand (fist) in a velvet glove 93 It is a poor mouse that has only one hole 94 It is easy to swim if another hoids up your chin (head) 95 It is the first step that costs 96 It's no use pumping a dry well 97 Judge not of men and things at first sight 98 Last, but not least 99 Learn to say before you sing 100 Let every man praise the bridge he goes over 101 Life is but a span 102 Like a cat on hot bricks 103 Like draws to like 104 Like teacher, like pupil 105 Little pigeons can carry great messages 106 Little things amuse little minds 107 Look before you leap 108 Lord (God, Heaven) helps those (them) who help themselves 109 Love me, love my dog 110 Man proposes but God disposes 111 Many a good father has but a bad son 112 Measure thrice and cut once 113 Misfortunes tell us what fortune is 114 Money is a good servant but a bad master 115 Much will have more 116 Necessity is the mother of invention 117 Need makes the old wife trot 118 Neither rhyme nor reason 119 Never offer to teach fish to swim 120 Never too much of a good thing 121 Nightingales will not sing in a cage 122 No joy without alloy 123 No man is wise at all times 124 No sweet without (some) sweat 125 Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it 126 Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something
  • 7. NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305 127 Old birds are not caught with chaff 128 One beats the bush, and another catches the bird 129 One fire drives out another 130 One link broken, the whole chain is broken 131 One today is worth two tomorrow 132 Opportunity makes the thief 133 Penny-wise and pound-foolish 134 Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is 135 Pride goes before a fall 136 Rain at seven, fine at eleven 137 Rome was not built in a day 138 Score twice before you cut once 139 Self is a bad counsellor 140 Short debts (accounts) make long friends 141 Sink or swim! 142 Small rain lays great dust 143 Soon learnt, soon forgotten 144 Speech is silver but silence is gold 145 Stretch your legs according to the coverlet 146 Sweep before your own door 147 Tarred with the same brush 148 That cock won't fight 149 The best fish smell when they are three days old 150 The busiest man finds the most leisure 151 The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws 152 The darkest place is under the candlestick 153 The devil lurks behind the cross 154 The early bird catches the worm 155 The face is the index of the mind 156 The first blow is half the battle 157 The last drop makes the cup run over 158 The moon does not heed the barking of dogs 159 The morning sun never lasts a day 160 The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last 161 The rotten apple injures its neighbours 162 The tongue of idle persons is never idle 163 There are lees to every wine 164 There is no place like home 165 There is no smoke without fire 166 They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer 167 Time cures all things 168 Time works wonders 169 To be in one's birthday suit
  • 8. NEIL MATHEW – 3CS4 – Y3305 170 To bring grist to somebody's mill 171 To call a spade a spade 172 To cast pearls before swine 173 To come off with flying colours 174 To cook a hare before catching him 175 To draw water in a sieve 176 To find a mare's nest 177 To flog a dead horse 178 To go through fire and water (through thick and thin) 179 To kill two birds with one stone 180 To know what's what 181 To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water 182 To measure another man's foot by one's own last 183 To plough the sand 184 To put a spoke in somebody's wheel 185 To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds 186 To set the wolf to keep the sheep 187 To teach the dog to bark 188 To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine 189 To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve 190 Too many cooks spoil the broth 191 True blue will never stain 192 Truth is stranger than fiction 193 Velvet paws hide sharp claws 194 Waste not, want not 195 We shall see what we shall see 196 What can't be cured, must be endured 197 What is lost is lost 198 What must be, must be 199 When children stand quiet, they have done some harm 200 When the cat is away, the mice will play
  • 9. NEIL MATHEW ‐ 3CS4 ‐ Y3305   September 11  1  What is Corruption ?  The misuse of public office for private gain  Types:  Bribery  Nepotism  Fraud  Embezzlement  Land and property  Tendering processes and awarding contracts  Preferential award of public resources Corruption in India Land and Property  Acquiring,  developing and  selling of government allotted land illegally. Adarsh Housing Scam 1. Originally meant to house Kargil war widows. 2. Land allegedly used to make a multi-storey building. 3. 3 BHK house sold for 60-80 lakhs to netas and their families. 4. Original price estimated 6 – 8.5 Cr. Tendering processes and awarding contracts  Government officials award contracts preferentially to selected bidders.  Common activities like 1. Building of roads 2. Tenders for hospitals 3. Allocation of mobile spectrum
  • 10. NEIL MATHEW ‐ 3CS4 ‐ Y3305   September 11  2  2G Scam 1. Spectrum awarded at throw- away prices by the then Cabinet Minister – A. Raja. 2. Licenses issued on FCFS basis. 3. Unitech, Swan Telecom got licenses without any prior telecom experience. 4. Kanimozhi named as co- conspirator with A.Raja. Preferential award of public resources  Public Land awarded to private firms at negligible costs.  Awarding mining lease to private firm without levying any tax. Bellary Mining 1. Reddy Brothers obtained mining licenses in 2004. 2. Supposedly gave 25 Cr to each independent candidate to support BJP. 3. Played a vital role in making BSY the Chief Minister of Karnataka. 4. Reddy brothers defied a ban put by the Supreme Court. How to Stop Corruption? What has been done?  Anti Corruption Act  Right to Information Act (RTI)  Central Vigilance Commission  Jan Lokpal Bill  Stopping Clientelism  Effective E-Governance plans  Simplification of procedures What should be done?