Responsibility and Accountability

"I do not accept personal responsibility for what happened." Patricia Dunn, former Chairman, Hewlett-Packard, sworn testimony before the United States House of Representatives on 28 September 2006.

"Now we know the depth of what has transpired, I take full accountability to drive the actions to set it right," said HP's CEO Mark Hurd yesterday at the company's spy scandal press conference.

Hurd did not take "full accountability" for the ever-worsening spy probe but rather just "full accountability" to make things right.

On the other hand we have chief like Dr.Friden who are manly/womanly enough to take responsibilities and not shy away from accepting/admitting mistakes.
I read this article about Chief Healthcommissionerr on Dr Frieden, New York's Chief health commissioner, who tossed the city's smokers from the bar-room to the sidewalk in 2003. Dr. Friden claimed that,
"Public health is fundamentally about social justice," he says. "When anyone dies at an early age from a preventable cause in New York City, it's my fault."

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/aa5856ba-0578-11db-bb76-0000779e2340.html


A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten";

EOL by Execution

Lots of debate happening around Capital Punishment. Not sure where I stand on this. Anyhow Supreme Court did not bother to ask my valuable inputs before proceeding with the verdict. So I am OK with NOT making up my mind regarding this.

What our society is going to achieve by hanging a person for a crime he committed 15 years ago. whatever be the verdict they should have a faster time limit for these type of decisions. Even Supreme Court/parliament/any other authority cannot pressurize the president and demand decisions regarding Clemency. Strange..
Lots of people (including George.W.bush) believe in Life begins at conception and ends in execution

Brain Sex

BBC has posted some tests to identify whether your brain functions in Male pattern or female pattern.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/index_cookie.shtml

I strongly believe that with conscious learning we can improve various(male/female) brain traits, like the way I did after years of going through different atlas pages, finally figured yesterday that the Japanese did not have to travel through the entire Europe or crossing Atlantic ocean to bomb Pearl Harbour. Amazing discovery for me.
For those guys/gals, who are clueless behind this euphoria for finding the obvious thing, little background about my geography skill will help.

I was having high temperature during my quarterly exams and being a good student I went to write the exam ( or was it my mom who threw me out of the house to directly land in school, after all my tantrums I made while sitting at home?) Anyhow I went to write my
H & G Quarterly exam. After all the usual questions on capitals/states etc, I have to finish the most dreaded portion of the exam - MAPS.
Slowly I turned the question for the map and was very delighted seeing the assignment is marking any Indian Railway route between Srinagar and Kanyakumari. Cool! I thought. Kashmir is at the top and Kanyakumari at the bottom, so I could connect with 3 or 4 Z lines in between these two points. Picking a map from the desk I acted upon my plan of action for the railroad between Kashmir and Kanyakumari. Big mountains like Himalayas lies in the north and so the railway gauge has to be very narrow towards the top and somewhere in the middle we have some desert portion where the gauges has to be little broader than broad gauge, since this will shrink due to alternating between high temperature in the day and very low temperature in the night (Even as a kid I believed, Science - if not applied practically does not have any values) Armed with color pencils, I properly demarcated all different(narrow, little less narrow(more high you go, more narrow it becomes, metre, broad, little broader than broad) gauges.

Completely satisfied with my work and with oozing confidence I submitted my answer sheets tied with the map. Sadly, I did not get any marks for my fantastic work.

Even now I am not sure whether it is my low IQ or High Temperature, which made me to draw the rail route between Kashmir and Kanyakumari using Europe Map.

Movies

Watched 3 movies in the last 5-6 weeks in theatre.

• Lage Raho MunnaBhai was excellent. It is very difficult for sequels to live upto its expectations from the previous one. But this one is extraordinary. I just could not resist comparing with Rang De Basanti. Though the theme was very similar, RDB theme was portayed as negative, whereas Lage Raho... is positive oriented message to the public. Kudos to the director who made Gandhigiri very popular among youth.

Dilip Prabhavalkar plays GandhijiÂ’s role in a convincing manner. He never preaches -- but offers advise in a take-it-or -leave-it manner, and with a smile. Logic behind Mahatma'sappearancee is very convincing.

• I am little faint hearted, where thriller movies are concerned and I avoid seeing thriller movies in theatres. But I got free tickets for Vettaiyadu Velaiyadu and was forced to accompany our folks to watch this movie. Good thriller. Looks like story is the adaptation of a novel I read sometime before, "The surgeon" by Tess Gernstein. They could have acknowledged somewhere that VV is based on "The Surgeon"

( Writing my own last/sur name, I make spelling mistake so I doubt whether I got this author name correctly :-)

• Jillunnu oru Kadhal Kadhai - Timepass / nothing extraordinary. One thing I noticed was the shots revolving around Ambasamudram is not really that place. Few times I noticed some Telugu letters in the nearby wall, where it is supposed to have been Ambasamudram. Is Ambasamduram that popular enough to be faked?