Benefits of being a Vegetarian!

Hi all,
I was just going through the net regarding benefits of being vegetarian.
Being vegetarian really gives us a good feeling. It feels good from inside. You will feel cleaner and positive. The link 'http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0820/is_1999_April/ai_54232138/' is really good on explaining the numerous good factors of vegetarianism. I'll put them in short.

1. You'll live a lot longer.
2. You'll save your heart. Cholesterol levels for vegetarians are 14 percent lower than meat eaters.
3. You can put more money in your mutual fund. Replacing meat, chicken and fish with vegetables and fruits is estimated to cut food bills by an average of $4,000 a year.
4. You'll add color to your plate. Cooking by color is a good way to ensure you re eating a variety of naturally occurring substances that boost immunity and prevent a range of illnesses.
5. You'll reduce your risk of cancer.
6. You'll fit into your old jeans. On average, vegetarians are slimmer than meat eaters, and when we diet, we keep the weight off up to seven years longer.
7. You'll give your body a spring cleaning. Giving up meat helps purge the body of toxins (pesticides, environmental pollutants, preservatives) that overload our systems and cause illness.
8. You'll help reduce waste and air pollution.
9. Your bones will last longer. The average bone loss for a vegetarian woman at age 65 is 18 percent; for non-vegetarian women, it's double that.
10. You'll help reduce famine. Right now, 72 percent of all grain produced in the United States is fed to animals raised for slaughter. It takes 15 pounds of feed to get one pound of meat.
11. You'll avoid toxic chemicals. The EPA estimates that nearly 95 percent of pesticide residue in our diet comes from meat, fish and dairy products.
12. You'll be more "regular." Eating a lot of vegetables necessarily means consuming fiber, which pushes waste out of the body. Meat contains no fiber.
13. You'll preserve our fish population.
14. You'll help protect the purity of water. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef, but just 25 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat.
15. Have less sick days.
16. Easier digestion of food.
17. Lower blood pressure.

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What is BREW?

Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless : Qualcomm's open source application development

It is application development platform for wireless devices equipped for CDMA technology.

BREW is competingfor wireless software market share with J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) by Sun Microsystem.

What is Android?

OS, by google, for mobile devices e.g. cellular phones, tablet computers.

Based on LINUX Kernel and GNU software.

Developers write code in Java language.

1. Blackberry OS --> 36% market share

2. iOS --> 21% market share

3. Android --> 28%

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Hi guys,

I just want that this blog should be open to all kinds of writings, and should give some kind of awareness to the readers. This post is to throw some light on the semiconductor & telecom industries.

The BE ECE students should keep looking for what qualifications and skills the industries like Aricent, Alcatel Lucent,Nokia Siemens ask for. This will make it easy to get prepared for industrial recruitment. E.g. In an recent post, the skill set which Aricent was looking for is : 'Broadcom, Marvel, Fulcrum switching chipset or NP programming, Linux kernel work experience'. This comes from VLSI background. And students can get enough time to search for details regarding this. This will improve the knowledge and help them know in which field do they want to work.

Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is an American supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for broadband communications. Provides a suite of semiconductor solutions that integrate all kinds of wireless and wired consumer devices. It revolutionizes the bandwidth capacities and performance capabilities of wireless and wired networks for voice, video and data delivery to consumers and businesses worldwide.

The Broadcom BCM5324 single-chip switch is designed to replace the typical three- to four-chip solutions on the market today, while at the same time offering full Layer 2 management features, such as Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), which are key to SMB switch customers and translate into tremendous cost and space savings and ease-of-design.
The BCM5324 is also the industry's first 24-port FE switch with 24-port integrated transceivers to be manufactured using 0.13 micron CMOS process technology, which allows for higher levels of integration and increased performance at reduced power dissipation.The BCM5324 joins Broadcom's next generation ROBOswitch™ family and is a full-featured Layer 2 managed switch.

Marvell

Marvell is invested in the markets of high volume storage solutions(system on chip SOC solutions), mobile and wireless(EPON/GPON MAC for fast growing optical BB n/ws), networking and consumer products. Especially Ethernet, Cable, and DSL related communications devices.
Golden words by marvell “There is a new vocabulary for performance: productivity, collaboration, security and mobility are but some of the metrics that the infrastructure is graded by.”

Marvell presents Armada : appln processors for next generation mobile computing and intelligent connected devices.

Fulcrum

Fulcrum Microsystems is a leading provider of high-performance Ethernet switching silicon for the Data Center, Enterprise and Service Provider markets.

NP Programming : the latest technology in programming and labeling equipment to reproduce customer supplied codes onto Programmable Integrated Circuits (IC's).(PLD/PROM/EPROM and High Speed FLASH programming and labelling).