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★ Medan Grand Mosque – A blend of the west and Muslim culture
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★ Washing Elephants in Tangkahan
★ Sipiso-Piso Waterfall
Medan is one of Sumatra's major metropolis, as well as Indonesia's third largest city. Famous for its Dutch-colonial-era charm, Medan is also a 3-4 hour drive away from Lake Tabo, one of the world's largest, and deepest crater lakes.
Being a popular transit destination for travelers in Indonesia, Meda's uniqueness and a blend of cultures are sure to create experiences and memories that you'll cherish for a life time!
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AttractionsLake Toba – One of world's deepest and largest crater lakes
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Law Firm Economics: The Case for Variable Software Pricing
As we approach the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I'm reminded of the financial troubles that my immigration firm experienced in downtown Manhattan shortly after the attack. Being locked out of your own office for an entire week is almost never good for business, plus there was the logistical nightmare of making sure all of our employees were okay and dealing with those who understandably decided never to return to work. But like many businesses in New York, we survived thanks to our employees' dedication and the understanding/compassion of our corporate clients. And having an off-site immigration case management system didn't hurt either!
Like so many other immigration firms though, we struggled to cope with the post-9/11 immigration reality. Longer visa wait times, stringent entry/exit requirements, and dealing with the newly created immigration agencies meant that cases took longer to process, required more hand-holding, and had unpredictable outcomes at best. Aside from these "procedural" challenges, there was also the local and national economic downturn which led to fewer jobs, fewer international assignments and a severe reduction in employment-based immigration matters. Faced with these dire consequences, we naturally looked to cut back on our overhead expenses as much as possible, scrutinizing those "fixed costs" which had to be paid regardless of how our firm was doing. Personnel, facilities and services were the three fixed expense areas that we examined, and sadly, cuts in personnel became necessary. Fortunately though, our firm had a high degree of variable costs which fluctuated directly with the number of cases we handled. As a result, we were able to weather the perfect storm and rebound again by paying less during those difficult times.
Fast-forward to 2011, and many immigration firms are still struggling to survive amidst the lackluster US economy and ever-thickening immigration red tape. While navigating the murky immigration waters has not gotten any easier, there have been significant advances in case management technology which enable immigration firms to run their entire practice from one comprehensive application. Gone are the days when you needed a word processor, forms program, separate database, a billing program, and a typewriter (remember those?) to complete all of the paperwork. In today's world, information technology is now mission critical to just about every function your immigration law firm performs.
And yet, many organizations naturally worry about the costs of such a system. What if my case volume plunges suddenly or I'm unable to attract new clients? How will I afford to pay for a fancy tech system during difficult times? The answer: turn that "fixed" technology expense into a variable cost. Or in other words, choose a system where you pay only for what is needed, when it's needed.
Immigration Case Management Pricing 101
When shopping around for an immigration case management system, you're likely to see a variety of pricing models, making it difficult to compare apples to apples. A forms-only program ("immigration management lite" if you will) may charge a low yearly fee, but will usually not include the level of features and support needed to truly streamline a law firm's operations.
Another common pricing approach is to charge a "Per User per Month" fee with gradual price increases over time. Assuming your staff levels remain fairly static, this "case management fee" essentially resembles a "fixed cost" which you will have to pay regardless of how your business is doing. Having a slow December due to the holidays? Is the economy making PERM applications impossible to start? Regardless, your case management fee remains the same on a month-to-month basis. Some firms may try to get around this "monthly nut" by sharing user logins, which isnot a good idea for several practical and legal reasons. Sharing a login is akin to sharing one's identity – it eliminates accountability, increases the likelihood of untrained user error, and in the worst case scenario, can facilitate fraud! Whatever pricing method you choose, never share user logins or passwords.
A third approach, championed by LawLogix, is to charge a much lower "Per User per Month" fee (to account merely for the provisioning of user support) plus a fee for each case that you open in the system. How does this impact your bottom line? Well, just like any other variable cost, this pricing enables firms to pay only for what they use in a given month while still maintaining the same professional system for existing clients and matters. So using our example above, the firm with a slow holiday season will have a much lower case management expense due to the variable nature of the fees. How significant is this? Well, imagine you were having a difficult month and your landlord came to you and said, "I noticed you are hardly using the office these days, so I figure you only need to pay me for the days that you were physically here. Sound okay to you?" Yes, I know…unless your landlord is your mother, that's probably not going to happen any time soon. But, with variable case management fees, you can enjoy the flexibility to pay less.
Let the good times roll
Thus far, we've only been talking about case management fees during the down times. How will variable costs impact me if I suddenly pick up a new client, or against all odds, Congress passes pro-immigration legislation? This is what we like to call a "high class problem" – having more case fees is certainly a concern, but at the same time, having more cases is a problem we'd all like to have! So yes, the flip side of the coin is that your variable case management fees will naturally rise as your business grows and expands. However, as we'll explain in a future blog post, most firms will choose to pass that case fee along to their clients in exchange for convenient online case status updates, a wide variety of reports, and quicker case processing overall. In this regard, it's important to note that a case management fee is usually not considered to be an "overhead cost" by your clients, but rather a value-added benefit of doing business with your firm.
Aligning your vendor's interests with your own
A funny thing happens when you adopt a variable case fee approach with your vendor: suddenly, your interests are both perfectly aligned. The more cases you prepare, the more fees the vendor collects; conversely, if you are having a bad month, so does your vendor. This alignment of interests is important because it creates a natural incentive for your vendor to help you get more business by continually innovating and improving the product. And as we have frequently discussed on this blog, it's absolutely essential to choose a vendor who will act as your partner by listening to your suggestions and even anticipating new trends or desires.
In today's new economy, immigration practitioners know that their fixed costs have become a major business liability which can doom their operations in bad times. Moreover, getting locked into a long-term, traditional "pay per user" software license agreement can be expensive and painful, especially if your vendor is not motivated to improve its interface or offer new features. Plus, on principle alone, many firms find that paying for unused portions of your system is like throwing money out the window.
Conversely, having a variable case management fee (as offered by LawLogix) enables your firm to remain nimble as expenses are automatically scaled with actual case revenue. This financial balancing is essential for any law firm, but is absolutely critical for solo practitioners or any firm on a tight budget. And when conditions improve, you'll appreciate having a system (and a partner) that works with you to ensure your continued success.
If the post 9/11 (and now post financial crisis) economies have taught us anything, it's that we must prepare for the unexpected, but always hope for the best!
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Do you have a friend that toilet-papered your house that you need to get back? Use this simple and quick prank to settle the score.
1Find a condom, usually in boxes of three or twelve. You can buy them at gas stations, grocery stores, drug stores, or you can probably find them in your older brother's/father's sock drawer.
2Select a target, usually someone who is either a close friend who you don't mind startling or someone you hate who needs to be humbled up a bit.
3Find their car, preferably when they are not around. The motor must be off and the tail pipe cool.
4Remove the condom from its package, and gently stretch and roll it onto their tailpipe, just like you would roll it onto other large, round, hard objects.
5Leave the scene and, if you want, you can watch from a distance for when they come out to their car.
6When they start the car, the condom will burst and, usually, make an earsplitting bang.
7If the person has any sort of brain they will usually immediately stop the car and open the hood, looking for what blew up when they started the car.
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Anybody else have vague homoerotic memories of Harry Hamlin as Perseus in Clash of the Titans in 1981?
Now the remake is underway and these first shots of Terminator: Salvation's Sam Worthington's Perseus looks fairly drool-worthy though he's clad in a lot more armor. Said Worthington of the skirt: "We're trying to make it as manly as possible."


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You can get the very latest up-to-the-minute Xconq sources using a CVS repository on the Sources.redhat machine at Red Hat.
To do this, follow these steps:
cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:email@example.com:/cvs/xconq login {enter "anoncvs" as the password} cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:firstname.lastname@example.com:/cvs/xconq co xconqOnce you have a checkout, other CVS commands like "cvs diff" and "cvs update" will work without any additional arguments. (The repository's location is recorded in the CVS subdirs.)
While everybody can read all the files, the repository is only writable by a select few (but if you have something you'd like to change, by all means send mail to the mailing list).
The "xconq" module does not include a version of tcl/tk libraries. If you don't already have those installed, you can check out the "xconq-all" module instead, which will include versions of those libraries that have been modified to compile using the same configure/make that builds the rest of Xconq.
CVS is also accessible via the Web using cvsweb.
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Travel tip: Why a cash advance is a bad idea when you're on vacation
You're on vacation and getting ready to use your credit card for a cash advance.
Stop right there and ask yourself whether it's an emergency that can be resolved another way.
That's because the fees and interest rates charged on such advances can add up, said Matt Schulz, senior industry analyst at CreditCards.com, an online marketplace for credit cards that on Wednesday release a report released about cash advance cards.
Many credit cards used for purchases can incur a foreign transaction fee, which can add 5% or more to your purchase. You can find a list of those fees at CreditCard's list.
Not every transaction can be handled with a credit card, and if you're out of cash and don't, for some reason, have a debit card on you, you may be tempted to use the credit card's cash advance feature.
"A cash advance is basically just using your credit card to withdraw money from an ATM," Schulz said. "That's the most typical example of when someone would do a cash advance."
But, he added, "That comes with fees, and it comes with a high interest rate, and those two things generally make it a pretty bad choice for somebody under normal circumstances."
How high? Some cash advances charge 23.5% interest—"8 ½% higher than the average credit card, which is 15%," Schulz said, "a big difference." The report said one bank charged 36% on advances.
The other catch: Interest begins accruing immediately, unlike a regular credit card purchase in which you have a grace period, depending on the terms of the card. Because you won't be home, you may not think to pay it off immediately.
All in all, a cash advance isn't your best financial move unless circumstances warrant. We often urge people to carry several financial tools when traveling, but that ought to be the last one you take out of that tool chest.
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Legislature sends bills on virus aid, $25B budget to Wolf
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A piecemeal, no-new-taxes $25.8 billion budget headed to Gov. Tom Wolf's desk Thursday, as did legislation to distribute about $2.6 billion in emergency federal coronavirus aid to counties, nursing homes and wide range of other causes.
Both won speedy approval in the Republican-controlled Legislature.
The budget measure was unveiled Tuesday and the plan to distribute federal coronavirus aid Thursday morning. The main appropriations bill in the budget was approved 44-6 in the Senate on Thursday, while the legislation to distribute emergency federal aid was unanimous.
Wolf, a Democrat, was expected to sign both.
The budget package carries full-year money for many public school budget lines, as well as for state-supported universities, debt service and school pension obligations. But it funds much of the rest of the state's operating budget lines, including billions for social services, only through Nov. 30, the last day of the two-year legislative session.
Wolf and other budgetmakers say that will give them time to see how badly coronavirus-related shutdowns damage tax collections and whether the federal government sends another aid package to states.
If the federal government doesn't come through, the shortened timeline sets up a post-election budget fight in November. Some budget analysts projecting a $6 billion shortfall through next July 1, with the rising cost of health care and an aging population exerting heavy pressure on Pennsylvania's finances.
Budget makers also point to as much as $2 billion in tax collections, if not more, that will not arrive in state coffers until after the July 1 start of the fiscal year because of tax deadlines that were delayed amid the pandemic-related shutdowns.
Meanwhile, the legislation to distribute about $2.6 billion in emergency federal coronavirus aid will leave the state with about $1.3 billion for future needs.
Sen. Vincent Hughes, D-Philadelphia, called the legislation "a thoughtful package that will get help out to millions of people in Pennsylvania."
Almost $700 million will go to nursing homes and long-term living programs for older adults, while $625 million will go to counties that did not already get direct aid from the federal government.
The grants to counties will be distributed by population, rather than by how hard the county was hit by the coronavirus.
So, for instance, York County, home to 970 confirmed cases, will get more than $40 million, while Berks County, home to about 4,000 confirmed cases, will get $38 million and Lehigh County, with more than 3,700 confirmed cases, will get about $33 million.
Meanwhile, Westmoreland County, with just 443 cases, would get $31.5 million, well over what Luzerne and Northampton counties will get, despite the fact that those two counties had at least six times the number of confirmed cases.
Counties can send money to municipalities, use it to cover costs to respond to the coronavirus, put it toward behavioral health programs or give it out to nonprofit entities and small businesses.
Philadelphia and the state's six other most populous counties received a total of $1 billion directly from the federal government.
An aide to House Appropriations Chairman Stan Saylor, R-York, said distributing money by population to counties, rather than by coronavirus caseload, follows federal precedent in Congress' emergency aid legislation. Besides, preparation for the coronavirus was the same in many ways even in places that were not hard hit, said the aide, John O'Brien.
The way Congress pumped out direct federal aid meant that Pennsylvania, along with other hard-hit states, got comparatively little when measured by the number of positive coronavirus tests, while states that saw far fewer cases took in an outsized share of the $150 billion.
The legislation on Wolf's desk also creates a $225 million pot of grants to help small businesses hurt the most in the coronavirus shutdowns. However, it thus far lacks legislation that provides a distribution plan or guidelines.
Another $150 million will go for rental assistance of $750 per month for up to six months, available through the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. Assistance is contingent on the renter losing their job after March 1, or seeing their income drop by at least 30% due to the pandemic.
Yet another $150 million will go to school districts to cover the costs of cleaning, equipment and social-distancing measures related to the pandemic, as well as to buy equipment for distance learning.
Each district would receive at least $120,000, plus a proportional amount based on its student population.
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Virgin Records Snapping Up Jermaine Dupri And So So Def
It looks like Jermaine Dupri is not only going to find a new home for his So So Def Records, but he's also picking up a new executive position.
On Monday (January 24) Dupri was officially named president of Virgin's urban music division and it was announced he's bringing his So So Def imprint with him.
"I gotta get acclimated to all the e-mails, meet the people, see who's gonna be in there and who ain't. I gotta do what I gotta do now," Dupri said of his first day in his new office.
He said he wasn't swayed to sign on the dotted line by the rumored $20 million (which he wasn't at liberty to comment on) he snagged or by the fact that girlfriend Janet Jackson happens to be the label's biggest act.
"Everybody believes I'm over here because of Janet and for the money. It has nothing to do with that," he insisted. "I feel like today's market is open for anything. My goal is to get Virgin poppin' just like Lil Jon did [with TVT]. He made an independent look like a major. I'm at a major that don't look like a major. I'mma try and make it look major."
In December Dupri said he was leaving Jive -- which had taken over So So Def's distribution when Arista collapsed in early 2004 -- for a situation more compatible with his roster.
"I'm just looking for a nice place to put out records and a place that's in love with what I do," the veteran producer of such artists as TLC, Usher and Jay-Z said at the time. "I love to put out records. I make something I believe in."
Among the acts on the So So Def roster are the Youngbloodz, Da Brat, Daz Dillinger, 3LW and of course Dupri himself.
J.D. contemplated releasing his own Green Light album first once he landed a new home, but he's decided to try his hand at breaking a new act instead. He's handing the ball to ATL newcomer T-Waters, who's been on several mixtapes rapping with the LOX's D-Block crew. Daz Dillinger will probably bat second.
"People look at Daz and say, 'He was with Tha Dogg Pound,' " Dupri said. "That era in their music has never gone. I'mma see Daz come back and you'll probably see some of them usual suspects on his album. I think him and Game got a song together, him and Snoop got a record. [Daz's] album will definitely be one of them rap records that from East to West you have to buy."
Besides the So So Def family, J.D. just finished work on new albums by Mariah Carey and Bow Wow and is going to executive produce a new one from his aforementioned main squeeze (see [article id="1494844"]"Jermaine Dupri: New Janet LP's 'Gonna Be Straight 'Control' '"[/article]).


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Another source is David Wilcock, a prominent researcher of emerging scientific paradigms. Wilcock has been told by additional independent sources that extraterrestrial disclosure will take place by the end of 2009. He furthermore claimed in a Coast to Coast AM radio interview that "a 2-hour international TV special has already been booked that will introduce an alien species, similar to humans, to the world."
For those who might enjoy a two pump soy chai latte to digest the bangin' curry goat with rice and peas they just ate.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
BREAKING NEWS: Official disclosure of extraterrestrial life is imminent
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This is nonsense I am ashamed of the people who put it out there. These pronouncements continually prove to be false. How arragant can you get? These people have the inside dope huh. Like the UN Meeting that never happened or the NOV. 27th anouncments that never happened. Same people by the way.ReplyDelete
Insanity is doing the same thing over and expecting differnt results these people are either insaine or just want to get hits on the internet or in the media.
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This is not happening. Was supposed to last month. Just another thing to turn peoples heads away from real issues. 30,000 more trooops to Afghanistan and all that. -Echo VoiceReplyDelete


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Mark 3:20-35
Are you in the family? Jesus emphasized the comforting truth that God's family runs deeper and stronger than all other relationships. In fact, Jesus said His true family consisted of those who do God's will.
Since we naturally cling to our devotion with earthly kin, we should all the more seek to be one who "does the will of God."
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The Scioto County Commissioners adopted a resolution on Thursday proclaiming March as Developmental Disabilities (DD) Awareness Month in Scioto County. This is an effort by the Scioto County Board of DD to spread awareness and also promote the abilities of those it affects.
Commissioners also approved the appointment of Tony Mantell to the Scioto County Children Services Board. Mantell, former superintendent of Clay Local Schools, replaces Michael Payton.
A memorandum of understanding between the Scioto County Board of Commissioners; Scioto County Engineer Darren LeBrun; and Green, Jefferson, Valley, Rarden, Madison, Morgan and Bloom townships as part of a joint purchasing program was also accepted by the commissioners. According to Commissioner Mike Crabtree, the collaboration is an effort to combat maintenance costs of township and county roads, while remaining efficient. "I commend Darren for his approach on this and his work in facilitating this. It's a lot of work to be done. I think he's done a wonderful job," Commissioner Bryan Davis said.
Lastly, the commissioners accepted communication regarding the resignation of Scioto County Dog Warden Ronald Henthorn, who has been in the position for the past six years. According to the commissioners, there has not yet been discussion on who will fill the vacant position.
The commissioners meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Scioto County Courthouse.
Reach Ivy Potter at 740-353-3101 ext. 193


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Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh accused Barack Obama of dialing up the criticism on his successor because he got caught in the Russia collusion scandal. rush limbaugh obama
Limbaugh pointed out that Obama was "now in the news all of a sudden" and "for what?"
"He's trashing Trump on corona. He's blaming Trump for coronavirus. He's blaming him for the virus," he explained. "He's blaming him for the reaction to the virus. He's blaming him for the chaotic set of circumstances in the lockdown."
President Trump on Monday made the point that Obama has been speaking out against his administration, something most former Presidents have graciously declined to do.
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Trump also suggested it was his turn to start investigating Obama tweeting, "He got caught, OBAMAGATE!"
Limbaugh concurs with the connection, suggesting Obama's public comments in a conveniently leaked conversation to the media are signs of concern for the former President.
"Why is [Obama] doing this?" he rhetorically asked. "Because it has been revealed that Barack Obama collaborated with the FBI to invent the Russia collusion scandal."
Rush Limbaugh has a theory on why Barack Obama is suddenly in the headlines. The talk show legend reckons that Obama is slamming Trump on coronavirus as a way of 'deflecting' from the bogus Russia "collusion" revelations, for which Obama is culpable. https://t.co/HcWrguLGpm
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) May 12, 2020
Obama flailed in trying to blame the Trump administration for what he describes as a "chaotic" response to the coronavirus pandemic.
"It's part of the reason why the response to this global crisis has been so anemic and spotty. It would have been bad even with the best of governments," he said.
"It has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset — of 'what's in it for me' and 'to heck with everybody else' — when that mindset is operationalized in our government," Obama added.
Barack also commented on the case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who documents show was essentially entrapped by his FBI and had charges dropped by the DOJ.
Obama claimed that the case being dropped was a sign that "rule of law is at risk."
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Limbaugh advised that "none of this Trump-Russia collusion stuff could have happened without Obama knowing about it," pointing to a "famous Oval Office meeting on January 5th of 2017."
That meeting featured former FBI Director James Comey, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former DIA Director John Brennan all briefing Obama on the Flynn case.
Sidney Powell, Flynn's lawyer, was asked if she believed the scandal reached up to Obama based on that meeting, to which she responded, "Absolutely."
.@SidneyPowell1: "The whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the FBI, Clapper, Brennan and in the Oval Office meeting that day with President Obama."
"So you think this goes all the way up to the top to President Obama?"
"Absolutely"#ObamaGate pic.twitter.com/F0BUtv8lmd
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) May 11, 2020
"Obama led a meeting on January 5th, 2017, to plan how to sabotage Trump with the Russia collusion narrative," Limbaugh charged.
"So it is not a stretch. In fact, it's factual to say that Obama collaborated to invent the Russian collusion narrative," he continued. "That's why Obama is taking all of his time and trying to focus on Trump and his supposedly horrible, chaotic response to the coronavirus."
Limbaugh surmised, "Obama knows he's got buddies. He knows he's got sycophants. He knows he's got butt kissers in the Drive-By Media. But he still needs to give them somewhere to go."
"So harping on Trump and Trump's supposed incompetence is Obama's way of deflecting."
The Justice Department shouldn't lose focus even if Obama's media pals do.
Earlier today, reports have indicated that Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell declassified a list of former Obama administration officials who 'unmasked' Flynn, a possible felony.
The Russia collusion hoax has been thoroughly obliterated at this point. Whoever was behind it needs to pay a price. Obama knows this and he's lashing out to try and take some of the sting off his own tarnished reputation.
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We love you,
Saturday, November 5, 2011
JOEY needs our prayers...
We love you,
16 comments:
- Scout and Freyja said...
No sooner said than done!
BTW, did you stop by to give P of the P to the Bleu? Check my blog.
- November 5, 2011 at 7:09 PM
- Sheila and Bob said...
Thank you for letting us know. We have visited Val's blog and given our prayers, and we will add Val's Blog to our list.
- November 5, 2011 at 8:03 PM
- NanaNor's said...
Hi there, What a blessing you must be to Val, since you have walked this path you know what she is going through. I'm headed over there now my friend. Sending tons of love to you and the gang-
Noreen & Reggie
- November 5, 2011 at 8:19 PM
- How Sam Sees It said...
We were there this morning and sent our love. We are keeping both of them in our prayers!
- November 5, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- Pepsi the Lazy Bum said...
Thanks for letting us know about Val and Joey. Heading over right now!
- November 5, 2011 at 10:03 PM
- Boondocks Love Shack Pack said...
Prayers going up. Heading over there now.
Boondocks & The Love Shack Pack
- November 5, 2011 at 10:09 PM
- Molly the Airedale said...
We're on our way!
Love ya lots
Maggie and Mitch
- November 5, 2011 at 11:34 PM
I gots my paws crossed!
woos, Tessa
- November 5, 2011 at 11:42 PM
- Two French Bulldogs said...
all our feets are crossed for Joey
Benny & Lily
- November 6, 2011 at 1:27 AM
- Baby Rocket Dog and Hootie said...
A prayer just went up for Joey and his mama. We hope that the vet can find the root of his problem and help him get well.
Smooches from pooches,
BabyRocketDog & HOotie
ps-we'll go visit his bloggie now.
- November 6, 2011 at 1:39 AM
- Scruffy, Lacie and Stanley's Place said...
Dearest Maxmom...we just visited Joey's blog and have him in our thoughts and prayers...we hope they can get some answers quickly to help him...
And can we get a copy of the book???? Let us know what we have to do...our pee mail is
Let Mumsie know....
Scruffy, Lacie and Stanley
- November 6, 2011 at 2:31 AM
- Charlie said...
Thanks for the heads-up! We'll head right over!!
- November 6, 2011 at 3:22 AM
- Tweedles -- that's me said...
I am going right now to give love and prayers.
We will be a part of those encircling with the Power of The Paws,
- November 6, 2011 at 3:46 AM
- Amber DaWeenie said...
We'll stop by. We have all 36 paws at our house crossed for sweet Joey!
- November 6, 2011 at 4:37 AM
- STELLA and RORY from Down Under said...
Hi Maxmom, we will go and visit right now. Take care all. No worries (especially for Joey), and love, Stella and Rory
- November 6, 2011 at 4:58 AM
- sprinkles said...
Headed over now to say hello and leave some words of encouragement.
- November 6, 2011 at 6:03 AM


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Since 1983, when " Inflation " was foremost made a portion of American idiom, it has undergone a enormous alteration. While in 1983 Webster explained Inflation as a cause instead than consequence specifying it as " Inflation is increase in supply of money that causes addition in monetary value " in 2000 it was defined as " A relentless addition in the degree of consumer monetary values or a relentless diminution in the buying power of money, caused by an addition in available currency and recognition beyond the proportion of available goods and services ",
Following are some of the causal factors of rising prices:
Supply of money goes up Or Demand for money goes downSupply of goods goes down Or Demand for goods goes up
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Following different types of rising prices are besides discussed:
Cost-Push/ Supply-Shock Inflation: This type of rising prices chiefly occurs when the cost of goods and services increases beyond control.Demand-Pull- This type of rising prices occurs when excessively much money is trailing few goods.Pricing Power/ Oligopolistic- This type of rising prices occurs when some concern houses decide to raise the monetary value of their merchandises inorder to increase their net income border. However it is non done when the economic system is undergoing a downswing or enduring from a fiscal dislocation.
Sectoral- This type of rising prices occurs when the addition in monetary value of merchandise of a peculiar sector leads to the rising prices in all the sectors that are straight or indirectly dependent on it.Fiscal- This type of rising prices occurs when the authorities carries out uncontrolled and extortionate outgo form, passing excessively much on the non-development activities and eventually seting itselt into barbarous circle of debt and payments.Hyperinflation- This type of rising prices occurs when the monetary value degree is wholly out of control and every twenty-four hours the monetary value degree is increasing by 10-15 %, this type of rising prices occurs specially when people have lost religions in their authorities and its money.
Assorted instruments used for mensurating rising prices are besides discussed:
Consumer Price Index- A step of monetary value alterations in consumer goods and services The CPI steps monetary value alteration from the position of the buyer.Producer Price Index- A household of indexes that measure the mean alteration over clip in selling monetary values by domestic manufacturers of goods and services. PPIs step monetary value alteration from the position of the marketer.Sweeping Price Index- A monetary value index which proctors change in monetary value of a basket of consumables
India Inflation Rate
From 1969 until 2010, the mean rising prices rate in India was 7.99 per centum making an historical high of 34.68 per centum in September of 1974 and a record depression of -11.31 per centum in May of 1976.
029.7710.4510.459.70* The tabular array above displays the monthly norm.
New Series on WPI Inflation
WPI rising prices is taken as the headline rising prices in India.
At the start of this twelvemonth, authorities of India released the new series on the Wholesale Price Index ( WPI ) altering the basal twelvemonth from 1993-94 to 2004-05. There is non much difference in mean rising prices rate between the new series and the old series which is about 5.5 per centum.Changes in the new series captures the current construction of the economic system, consistent with the ingestion form and the monetary value tendencies at a disaggregate degree.
Notwithstanding a important decrease in weightage, the nutrient rising prices in the new series is higher than in the old series. This is because of alteration in the ingestion basket in favor of protein-rich points such as egg, meat and angle where monetary value rise has been high apart from milk and pulsations.The non-food manufactured merchandises rising prices is lower in the new series than in the old series.
This is because of a significant overhauling of the basket with the debut of a figure of new points. The new series has 417 new trade goods of which 406 are new manufactured merchandises.
High Inflation Episodes
Traveling by the current experience of 5-6 months of dual digit rising prices as high, one can follow 9 such episodes in the last 56 old ages. Out of these 9 episodes, dual digit rising prices enduring beyond a twelvemonth occurred on 5 occasions.
The most drawn-out one lasted for 30 months during October 1972 to March 1975. The last such high rising prices was in the mid-1990s which lasted 15 months between March 1994 and May 1995.
Agricultural Output & A ; Food Inflation
Fluctuations around the tendency are determined more by the badness of supply dazes and the nature of policy response. One of the recurrent supply dazes act uponing rising prices conditions in India emanates from the agricultural sector due to drought conditions. Food rising prices, which has ever been a major beginning of fluctuation in the headline rising prices, has a important negative correlativity ( – ) 0.5 with 2-year mean growing in agricultural GDP.
Causes of Inflation
Among the general causes of rising prices, a elaborate analysis of the factors which affected the rising prices of India in recent yesteryear has been studied. The analysis was as follows:Supply-Shock Inflation: Two major constituents were discussed under this header: –Agricultural/Food Inflation:A elaborate tendency of the nutrient rising prices in India was analyzed, distinctive features ' such as, even when the general rising prices ( WPI ) has been low, the nutrient rising prices was ever been high, in dual figures ( 10.
37 nowadays ), have been discussed and factors doing this, like unequal monsoon, hapless distribution system, unequal nutrient security etc were discussed:Monsoon: Since a large portion of Indian cultivation is still based on natural rains due to insufficient or fluctuating monsoon both Rabi and kharif harvests like rice, wheat, sugar cane etc suffer production loss.Poor Distribution System: With the deregulating of nutrient market, engagement of public distribution system has been continuously discouraged, due to which a systematic dependable system of nutrient distribution seems to be absent.Inadequate nutrient security: Approximately 50 % of veggies and fruits are wasted every twelvemonth due to miss of proper cold storage installation.Marketing margin- Initially, when the distribution of nutrient points was regulated by authorities, the nutrient merchandises were straight supplied from husbandmans to the retail merchants and so to the consumers and hence the lone border above the cost of husbandmans was that of retail merchants and now in the deregulated market apart from the retail borders the selling borders are besides coming into image because of which the concluding monetary value is increasing and therefore doing rising prices.Industrial Insufficiency:General causes for industrial insufficiency:Low fabrication capacity – This can non be the ground for rising prices in Industrial sector of India because Indian fabricating units at norm are holding capacity of approximately 95 % which is sufficient to be excluded from the inflationary treatmentLow growing rate- Though this is true, but the ground is different from the normal, in India Industries are turning at low rate non because they are non capable of traveling at faster gait but because the legal issues are stultifying the gait, For Ex: For a individual enlargement of fabrication procedure, the industries are supposed to acquire clearance from more than 100+ legal governments which is both cumbrous and clip devouring procedure. This ensuing in unwanted low growing rateIncreased cost of natural materials- This could be illustrated best from the illustration of substructure growing of the state.
While authorities has chalked out a immense sum of Rs.5400 crores for the development of substructure, this could be possible merely when the steel companies are capable of providing the sufficient steel required for the intent. But it appears that the steel sector of state is neglecting in assisting in accomplishing the end, non because of technological grounds, but because of the high cost of natural stuffs, coke which is one of the natural stuffs is exported from other states and its cost seems to be continuously increasing, therefore doing addition in monetary value of steel.Sectoral Inflation: This type of rising prices is fundamentally caused due to lift of monetary value of merchandise of peculiar sector which in bend causes rise in monetary value of all the dependent merchandises and services. Ex-husband: In India which exports crude oil from Saudi Arabia and other oil rich states the uninterrupted addition in oil monetary value has led to increase in monetary value degree of transit and air power sector and other energy beginnings.Fiscal Inflation: We know that productiveness of GDP of state is given by:Y= C+I+G+NXWhere Y= Output, C=Consumption, G= Government Expenditure, NX= Net ExportsBut in this equation in the G constituent one of import factor that is transfer payment is non taken into consideration, but in instance of India it can non be neglected because the transportation payments which account for the authorities outgo over non-developmental activities like involvement payment, subsidies are so high that they are adversely impacting the sum which must be dedicated toward activities which lead to development. Every twelvemonth India takes an sum from IMF or World Bank to refund its old debt and farther development and fails to accomplish both of them and goes into farther debts and hence loans and the rhythm goes on continuously with our involvement payment lifting twelvemonth after twelvemonth demoing no mark of reprieve.
This in bend is impacting other development activities and therefore adding up to the rising prices.
Measures to command rising prices and their consequence:
Monetary MeasuresRecognition Control:Raises the bank ratesSells securities in the unfastened marketRaises the modesty ratioselective recognition control stepsNot effectual in cost push rising pricesEffective in Demand pull rising pricesDemonetization of Currency:However, one of the pecuniary steps is to demonetise currency of higher denominations. Such a step is normally adopted when there is copiousness of black money in the state.Issue of New Currency:The most utmost pecuniary step is the issue o f new currency in topographic point of the old currency. Under this system, one new note is exchanged for a figure of notes of the old currency. The value of bank sedimentations is besides fixed consequently. Such a step is adopted when there is an inordinate issue of notes is hyperinflation in the state.Fiscal Measures:Monetary policy entirely is incapable of commanding rising prices.
It should, therefore, be supplemented by financial steps. Fiscal steps are extremely effectual for commanding authorities outgo, personal ingestion outgo, and private and public investing. The chief financial steps are the undermentioned:Decrease in Unnecessary Outgo:The authorities should cut down unneeded outgo on non-development activities in order to control rising prices.
This will besides set a cheque on private outgo which is dependent upon authorities demand for goods and services.Addition in Taxs:To cut personal ingestion outgo, the rates of personal, corporate and trade good revenue enhancements should be raised and even new revenue enhancements should be levied, but the rates of revenue enhancements should non be so high as to deter economy, investing and production.Increase in Savingss:Another step is to increase nest eggs on the portion of the people.
This will be given to cut down disposable income with the people, and therefore personal ingestion outgo.Excess Budgets:An of import step is to follow anti-inflationary budgetary policy. For this intent, the authorities should give up shortage funding and alternatively hold excess budgets. It means roll uping more in grosss and disbursement less.Public Debt:At the same clip, it should halt refund of public debt and postpone it to some hereafter day of the month boulder clay inflationary force per unit areas are controlled within the economic system. Alternatively, the authorities should borrow more to cut down money supply with the populace.Other MeasuresThe other types of steps are those which aim at increasing aggregative supply and cut downing aggregative demand straight.To Increase Production:One of the foremost steps to command rising prices is to increase the production of indispensable consumer goods like nutrient, vesture, kerosene oil, sugar, veggie oils, etc.
If there is demand, natural stuffs for such merchandises may be imported on discriminatory footing to increase the production of indispensable trade goods.Rational Wage Policy:Another of import step is to follow a rational pay and income policy. Under hyperinflation, there is a wage-price spiral. To command this, the authorities should stop dead rewards, incomes, net incomes, dividends, fillip, etc. But such a drastic step can merely be adopted for a short period and by antagonising both workers and industrialists. Therefore, the best class is to associate addition in rewards to increase in productiveness.
This will hold a double consequence. It will command pay and at the same clip addition productiveness, and therefore production of goods in the economic system.Monetary value Control:Price control and rationing is another step of direct control to look into rising prices. Price control means repairing an upper bound for the monetary values of indispensable consumer goods. They are the maximal monetary values fixed by jurisprudence and anybody bear downing more than these monetary values is punished by jurisprudence. But it is hard to administrate monetary value control.Rationing:Rationing purposes at administering ingestion of scarce goods so as to do them available to a big figure of consumers.
It is applied to indispensable consumer goods such as wheat, rice, sugar, kerosene oil, etc. But it is really inconvenient for consumers because it leads to waiting lines, unreal deficits, corruptness and black selling.
Effectss of steps taken by RBI:
Monetary steps:
Repo rate addition: When RBI increases Repo rate, the financess Bankss borrow from RBI becomes dearly-won and therefore they tend to increase the loaning rates. Hence loans for common adult male go dearly-won as good and therefore they avoid taking loans.
Hence the hard currency supply in the market reduces ensuing in decrease in demand. This leads to decrease in monetary values of goods and services therefore take downing rising prices.Rearward repo rate addition: When RBI increases the rearward repo rate, Bankss tend to give more loans to RBI as this is a really safe investing and they gain larger net income by making this. Hence excess hard currency is extracted out of the market therefore cut downing money in market, taking to decrease in ingestion and demand in the market therefore take downing rising prices.Open MARKET OPERATIONS: RBI can sell securities to Bankss which will pull out the extra hard currency from the market and the market will set itself for equilibrium.Cash to Reserve Ratio Increase: When RBI increases hard currency to reserve ratio, Bankss have to maintain higher sum of hard currency with RBI and therefore the available money with the Bankss for loaning reduces well. Hence Bankss increase the loaning rates which cut down no.
of loans given to people and less money is at that place in the market. Hence there is a lessening in demand and ingestion.Statutory Liquidity Ratio addition: When RBI increases SLR, Bankss have to pass higher sum in purchasing bonds and securities and therefore the available money with the Bankss for loaning reduces well. Hence Bankss increase the loaning rates which cut down no. of loans given to people and less money is at that place in the market. Hence there is a lessening in demand and ingestion.
Consequence ON LM CURVE: The LM curve displacements upward on diminishing money supply which consequences in addition in involvement rates as shown in diagram below.
Consequence of Fiscal Measures
Decrease in unneeded outgo
Since authorities disbursement has become an of import constituent of the aggregative disbursement, by altering its outgo in relation to the revenue enhancement grosss, the authorities can exercise a powerful consequence on the flow of money, aggregative demand and economic activity.
Increase in nest eggs
Reduce disposable income – & gt ; cut down personal ingestion outgo
Public Debt
The payment of public debt can be delayed by the authorities as due to inflationary force per unit areas financial shortage additions and authorities subsidies need to be increased.
Hence by detaining payment of public debt there will be take a breathing infinite.
Addition in revenue enhancements:
Addition in revenue enhancements leads to increase in budget excess and reduces the personal disposable income of an single thereby diminishing ingestion and demand, therefore cut downing monetary values of goods and services thereby cut downing rising prices.
Surplus Budgets
Surplus budgets average addition in grosss and lessening in disbursement. In both instances the liquidness in market will diminish
Other Measures
Increase Production
Increasing production is used to undertake supply side rising prices
This leads to doing necessary things available at a lower cost to assist contend the societal effects of rising prices
Rational Wage Policy
Control Measures by RBI
The RBI has been given the authorization to harness in Inflation, but it is non good equipped to manage rising prices. RBI can merely act upon the Monetary Policy, which has been non so successful in conveying down the Inflation in recent times in India. The grounds for this are multiplex:Monetary tools are more effectual in economic systems with greater fiscal inclusion.
In India the bulk of the population still has no entree to Bankss. The increasing cost of financess and lifting involvement rates are of small effect in the economic life of a financially excluded population. The ratio of sedimentation histories to entire grownup population is merely 59 per cent in India.The nature of the rising prices is more of a " supply goaded " nature and non demand driven. And tighter pecuniary controls are aimed at take downing the demand.
When recognition is made costlier, it does n't separate between the recognition for ingestion or production.Interest rate is one tool to act upon rising prices, but exchange rates are even stronger tool to act upon rising prices.Domestic Inflation connected with the rise of planetary trade good monetary values. Commodities such as comestible oil, pulses that India exports are straight affected by the international rates and sometimes due to a bad monsoon even the basics like wheat, sugar etc had to be imported.
What the RBI has been making so far is merely seeking to command the recognition handiness in the market by lifting the CRR, Repo Rate, and SLR etc. This makes the financess more dearly-won for the commercial Bankss and in bend they are forced to increase the Prime Lending Rate ( PLR ). The addition in PLR increases the cost of recognition for concern and reduces the investing in the production sector. The high PLR means that no SME could acquire loan for working capital for less than 12 % – 15 %. This so sometimes leads to a recession ( smaller magnitude ). Infact in most of the times more inflationary force per unit areas appear on the economic system due to less production. Whereas at the same clip in remainder of Asia the involvement rates are really low ( Real Interest Ratess in China: -2.
64 %, South Korea: 3 %, Thailand: 1.45 % ). So the Indian concern involvement would be hurt if merely recognition control steps are taken to command rising prices.Besides high involvement rates have become a magnet for foreign portfolio financess ; which tends to appreciate the Rupee. But the RBI here once more stairss in to halt the Rupee from appreciating by inculcating domestic currency into the economic system, which once more leads to more rising prices.
The ability of the RBI to act upon the WPI is limited ; it is the monetary value index that is to a great extent influenced by international trade good monetary value. Here the exchange-rate direction offers the best hope for commanding rising prices. Roughly speech production, a 1 % grasp of the rupee yields a 0.
2 % decrease in the WPI. Today India has about $ 300 billion of foreign militias ( good beyond what is required to guarantee stableness ). This militias build-up has contributed to rising prices because rupees had to be pumped into the economic system when the cardinal bank purchased dollars. So selling the militias would hold three benefits:An exchange rate grasp would battle rising prices, because there would be so an addition in the buying power of money.The implicit and expressed financial costs of keeping militias would worsen.And it would back up the pecuniary tightening that helps fight rising prices.
The RBI would be able to wipe up up the extra domestic currency from the economic system.But here the grasp of the Rupee would ache Indian exports and so a trade-off has to be made. In China whose authorities controlled Bankss absorb the " sterilisation bonds " that keeps domestic currency devalued at the same clip decreases the currency in the economic system ( so less rising prices ). But in Indian the sterilisation bonds are non really favored by the Bankss and they sell them in exchange for money.
Recommendation & A ; Conclusion
The RBI can look at another facet to undertake rising prices, the Supply side of rising prices. The strengthening of the supply side would necessitate substructure development, planning, big graduated table investings etc. These are by and large accomplished by the Government through Fiscal policies etc.
But even the RBI has some tools to play a important function here. The RBI already on a regular basis issues master handbills, through which they direct assorted facets of banking and certain corporate affairs. It besides regulates and governs affairs sing influx of foreign financess, foreign institutional investing ( FII ) into India, Utilization of External Commercial Borrowings etc. So for the intent of bolstering agricultural growing, development of substructure and all other avenues, it may put down ordinances to direct money either straight or indirectly with particular importance to these sectors. And through this carefully routed capital, there may be an entree to the required finance for the husbandmans & A ; SMEs notwithstanding the high involvement rate ( which the RBI would so be able to keep in the economic system ).
Eventhough in the short-term the RBI recognition policy step has been making hurting and might even force the economic system into a little recession. However, it gives the creditability of the Central Bank to contend involvement rate outlooks and seeking to command inflationary outlook within its authorization, so in medium-run it will decidedly heighten the creditability of Indian economic environment.Besides if we look at the broader image, another ground for rising prices might be the economic position and mentalities of the people of India, which are progressing. The Indian consumer today demands merchandises and services which were earlier non available to him/her. This is an index of an improved criterion of life. And this should be considered as a good mark.
Therefore the RBI alternatively of seeking to unnaturally push demand down should give more attending to the supply factors for commanding rising prices.


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Poor, beautiful legs!
Mosquito's three square meals.
Canuck blood too sweet.
I am seriously starting to wonder if my blood is laced with the mosquito version of crack cocaine. I have been bitten an unseemly number of times.
It takes me back to my time in South Korea. One year, I tried to hike up Hallasan with my brother. (We failed, because I was then slow and out of shape, thus missing the summit cutoff time at the last checkpoint by half an hour.) I counted the number of mosquito bites on my legs: 30-32, if I recall correctly. My brother? Two or three.
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GSoC/2013/Project ideas
- 1 Mentors
- 2 Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013
- 2.1 Internationalize SILPA project with Wikimedia jquery projects
- 2.2 A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections
- 2.3 Indic rendering support in ConTeXt
- 2.4 Automated Rendering Testing
- 2.5 Create Bold and Italic variants for Meera and Rachana
- 2.6 Flask Based SILPA
- 2.7 Converting indic processing modules currently in SILPA into Jquery library
- 2.8 Improving cross language transliteration system.
- 2.9 Improving the webfonts module in Silpa using jquery.webfonts and proving more Indic and complex fonts as part of it.
- 2.10 Adding Indic Sript Rendering Support to GIS applications
- 2.11 Building a system and API's for accessing and upadating Malayalamgrandham Bibligiography Data
- Santhosh Thottingal
- Baiju M
- Praveen A
- Rajeesh K Nambiar
- Vasudev Kammath
- Hussain K.H
- Jishnu Mohan
- Hrishikesh K.B
- Anivar Aravind
Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013
Internationalize SILPA project with Wikimedia jquery projects
SILPA project has many Indic language applications, but as of now, if somebody want to input in Indian languages, there is no built in tool in it. Similarly, the application is not internationalized. Both of these can be achieved by using the jquery.ime and jquery.i18n libraries from Wikimedia. A sample implementation is avaliable in our website. The i18n should be in the SILPA flask framework with a nice templating system. Similarly the interface should have webfonts using jquery.webfonts library.
Expertise required: jquery, css, html5, python
Mentor : Hrishikesh
A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections
SILPA project has a spellchecker written using python with a not so simple algorithm. But still it is not capable of handling inflection and agglutination occurring in Indian languages especially south Indian languages. The dictionary we have for Malayalam spellchecker have about 150000 words. Of course we can expand the dictionary, but that doesn't have much value since words can be formed in Malayalam or Tamil etc by joining multiple words. In addition to that, words get inflected based on grammar forms(sandhi), plural, gender etc. Hunspell has a system to handle this, but so far nobody succeeded in getting it working for multi level suffix stripping as required for Malayalam. Some times a Malayalam word can be formed by more than 5 words joining together. We will need a word splitting logic or a table taking care of all patterns. The project is to attempt solving this with hunspell. If that is not feasible(hunspell upstream is not active), develop an algorithm and implement it.
Expertise required: Basic understanding of grammar system of at least one Indian language
Mentor : Santhosh Thottingal
Indic rendering support in ConTeXt
ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. To find more information about ConTeXt, see the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page. ConTeXt MKII is supposed to have Indic language rendering support using XeTeX, but in practice we have found it lacking. MKII is deprecated anyway, and the new MKIV backend doesn't support Indic rendering yet. The aim of this project is to add support to Inidic rendering to ConTeXt MKIV. XeTeX is using Harfbuzz to do correct Indic rendering.
Expertise required: Understanding of the TeX system, experience in either LaTeX or ConTeXt and basic understanding of Indic language rendering. MKIV uses Lua, familiarity with Lua, opentype specifications or Harfbuzz will be added advantage.
Mentor : Rajeesh K Nambiar
Automated Rendering Testing
Automated Rendering Testing system for Indic languages. Currently there exists 3 main rendering engines in computing world - Uniscribe of Microsoft, CoreText (Apple Advance Typography - AAT) of Apple and Harfbuzz for *nix systems. The Opentype font specification is maintained by Microsoft and implemented in Uniscribe, which is used as baseline for Harfbuzz. At present, there is no automated mechanism to determine if Harfbuzz is rendering complex Indic text correctly or not - someone expert in relevant language has to manually inspect the output from hb-view. The project aim is to identify and implement an automated method to test the rendering. One method to do this might be to check the order of glyphs/glyph indices output by the rendering engine - this depends on the font too. A related topic is UTRRS https://fedorahosted.org/utrrs/, http://tdil-dc.in/utrrs/home/about
Expertise required: Knowledge of Indic language rendering and Opentype specification.
Mentor : Rajeesh K Nambiar
Create Bold and Italic variants for Meera and Rachana
Project :The Meera font has only regular version now. Synthetic bold and italic is not perfect and suitable for Malayalam. Create a bold and italic variant version for the Meera and Rachana fonts
Expertise required: Digital typography, good understanding of Malayalam writing system, fontforge, understanding of rendering engines like Harfbuzz.
Possible Mentor : Hussain K H
Flask Based SILPA
Port remaining modules to the new flask based Silpa
Project: Silpa is being re-written using flask framework. Core part is almost complete. But most of the sub modules written under old framework are need to be ported to new framework.
Mentor : Rajeeesh Nambiar/ Jishnu
Provide REST API for new flask based Silpa, including conversion of templates to this REST API from JSON RPC
Project: Silpa is now relying on JSONRPC. We need to, either completely move to REST API or provide REST API as an additional feature.
Mentor : Vasudev/Jishnu
Separate templates from SILPA and have it inside modules packaged for pypi
Project: The templates used as User Interface is part of SILPA. this should be separated and should come as a part of individual modules.
this should give more idea on it
Mentor : Vasudev/Jishnu
Converting indic processing modules currently in SILPA into Jquery library
Project: Port some of the silpa algorithms to Jquery.
Mentor :Vasudev/Jishnu
Improving cross language transliteration system.
Currently only Kannada and Malayalam are perfect rest all are first converted to Malayalam then to English due to lack of language internal. Also currently for English to Indic we use CMUDict so transliteration capability is limited to words in CMUDict only probably we could develop better method for English to Indic transliteration
Expertise required:python
Mentor : Vasudev/Jishnu
Improving the webfonts module in Silpa using jquery.webfonts and proving more Indic and complex fonts as part of it.
- Currently Silpa provides 36 webfonts. add more fonts to this collection.
- Rewrote webfonts module to use the features of jquery.webfonts
- reate a repo as per jquery.webfonts specification
- Provide a clean api so that other websites can use our webfonts in their websites
- Document the usage
- Provide font preview and download options
Expertise required:jQuery, Python , technical understanding about fonts
Mentor : Vasudev/Jishnu
Adding Indic Sript Rendering Support to GIS applications
Add proper Indic / Malayalam rendering to Mapnik
Mapnik is a free mapping toolkit, written in C++. One of it's major users is OpenStreetMap. If you check OpenStreetMap, you can see that Languages like Russian, Arabic, Persian, Chinese etc are rendered in it (Not sure whether they are properly rendered or not). The lack of proper Indic support is the major reason for the absence of Malayalam.
Add Indic / Malayalam rendering to MapServer + OpenLayers stack.
Add proper Indic / Malayalam support and rendering to GRASS GIS.
It is used by a number of organizations for analysing GIS data, creating maps etc. GRASS also is an OSGeo project. It is in the process of rewriting the old Tcl/Tk interface in the new wx-python.
Mentor: Praveen A
Building a system and API's for accessing and upadating Malayalamgrandham Bibligiography Data
Malayala Grantha Vivaram is a project intended to make available reliable bibliographic information on all Malayalam books published in Kerala and elsewhere. This Open data set contains Complete bibliography data from first Impression to 1995. This project wants to add following features to Malayalagrandham DB and build it as a bibliography web service
- Facility for adding copyright expired books to malaylagrandha vivaram
- Adding ISBN
- Building Interface for Publishers through with they can contribute their publication bibliography .
- Similar module for Libraries . That will be added to found in library section of each book
- A module for building qr code of bibliography with a malayalagrandham link . It can be used by publishers and libraries
- Crowd sourced way for input and an evaluation interface for submissions.
- MARC21 and MARCXML support
Expertise required:
Mentor: Baiju M /Anivar


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Finding HGV Insurance in the UK
If you're looking for HGV insurance in the UK you could be wondering where to start. There are so many different options available that it can be overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be that difficult to find a policy to suit. All you need to do is head online and take a look around, and you could be left with the perfect quote before you know it.
Gone are the days of having to trawl through the phone book to find a company that could accommodate your needs, because these days all reputable insurers will have a web presence to make sourcing and choosing your policy far easier. Just head online to perform a quick search and you'll soon be presented with numerous different options, and then all you have to do is take your pick.
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As the time is passing, the technology is following the up curve in the progress graph. It's not any hidden fact that technology has made life of human being, comfortable. They can communicate with their loving beings within matter of few milliseconds while sitting at home, they can enjoy the beautiful scenes of world at home, and can do lots of other things just because of technology.
Since technology has its impact in every field of life, so the question is common to hit the walls of brains that 'what is the importance of technology for students?' Well, as we all know, education is need of today. We just can't live a happy life without getting education. So, is the growing technology playing any role in students' lives? The answer is 'Yes'. This article will explain the answer. Read out the importance of technology for students essay below.
They can Get Knowledge Anywhere, Anytime
Knowledge is no longer restricted to the walls of education institutes. There was a time when students had to wait for the college/school time to get their doubts cleared on any particular topic. They can now get them cleared with the help of technology. They can do it anywhere and anytime. With distance education, they can attend the classrooms virtually.
They Get Detailed Knowledge
Just consider the scene of classroom without any part of technology in/out it. The teacher who is teaching can't tell more than what he/she knows him/herself. In other words, students' knowledge level can't be higher than that of their teacher. Well, thanks to technology that this scene that we were considering, is no longer there. Now students have Internet. If they don't like the lecture of their teacher, or are just curious to know more about any particular topic, then they can start searching the waves of web for it.
Active Participation
Technology has brought the active participation property in the students. They are no longer only 'book-followers', but participate in finding answers for any particular question. Technology lets them do so. Teachers nowadays direct students to use the Internet to find the answers of any particular problem. They do the same. This results in active anticipation, and hence, students' interest in studies.
Increase in Productivity
Technology has resulted in increase in productivity of students. As already said, because of technology, the education is no longer restricted to any particular location, time etc. Students can keep learning new stuff on their own with the help of technology. It has resulted in increase in their productivity.
Increased Motivation
It is because of technology that students can view the movies and videos. Many education institutes tend to show motivational videos to their students on regular intervals, so that they can be optimistic in whatever task they do either in academic career or in professional life.
Of course, there are some negative effects of technology too but come on, everything comes with merits and demerits. It's on us how we use any particular thing. The positive use of technology by students makes it boon for them.


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Mantle's Cave is located in Dinosaur National Monument in northwestern Colorado, just south of the Yampa River. It is a large, vaulted, north-facing cave 100 m long x 40 m wide x 33 m in height, formed in sandstone. The relatively level floor covers over 300 square meters, and its contents are stable and dry.
Mantle's Cave is named after Charley Mantle, the property owner during the 1940 excavation of the cave. Mantle was one of the first to recognize the cultural significance of the cave and the other rock shelters in the Castle Park Region, and the need for their preservation and interpretation. In 1939 Frank C. Lee and J.R. Jones of Boulder, Colorado, dug at Mantle's Cave, collecting numerous objects, among them a basket containing fishhooks, bundles of snares, and netting. The artifacts were brought to Earl Morris. It is easy to see why the discoveries of Lee and Jones inspired academic investigations the following year
The 1940 excavation was conducted by Charles R. Scoggin, student assistant at the Museum, and Edison P. Lohr of Loveland, Colorado. They excavated some 17% of the cave (Horn and Reed 1989). Scoggin died in World War II. Robert Burgh did additional work in Castle Park in 1947 and 1948 and published their findings in 1948 in The Archaeology of Castle Park, Dinosaur National Monument.
A variety of material remains were recovered from Mantle's Cave during the 1939 discoveries and the 1940 excavation. These include: flake stone tools, ground stone, bone implements, bags made of hide and netting, coiled basketry, snares, cordage, matting, moccasins, headdresses, corn and more. Approximately fifty storage pits of various kinds were recorded. Burgh and Scoggin (1948) concluded that Mantle's Cave:
- Was not used for residential purposes
- Was used for storage of corn and other foods
- Was used to store perishable materials
- Contained relatively little pottery and no human remains
Burgh and Scoggin assigned the materials to the Fremont culture, later referred to as the Uinta Fremont, and gave the site a date range of 400-800 A.D. based on artifacts. The Uinta Fremont are thought to have continuously occupied this area from 550-1000 A.D.and there is evidence that they may have remained in the area as late as 1300 A.D.(Spangler 2000). The Fremont are believed to have been both hunter-gatherers and farmers. Subsequent investigations demonstrated that the cave was used for longer than the time period Burgh and Scoggin thought. Also, reanalysis of some of the artifacts from the cave suggest that the Uinta Fremont interacted with other Fremont groups as well as groups from the Plains and the Southwest.
The Mantle's Cave collection of artifacts and archival material from Scoggin, Lohr, and Burgh is curated at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Scoggin made meticulous field notes and kept a journal with personal impressions of his Castle Park experiences. He endured sleep deprivation and weather reaching 30 degrees below zero, but he also enjoyed breathtaking scenery, freshly baked cookies, insight, and companionship from the Mantle family. Ten intriguing artifacts from the Mantle's Cave/Castle Park collection are presented here along with their descriptions and comments, when available, from Scoggin's journal.
Researched and written by Sheila Goff, Museum Associate, University of Colorado Museum.
Calibrated carbon-14 dates funded by the Endowed Fund for Anthropological Research at the Museum and the Colorado State Historical Fund.


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Back in August I wrote about Karl "Speedgoat" Meltzer's attempt to break the speed record for a supported thru-hike on the Appalachian Trail. I followed reports of Karl's progress as he hiked/ran from AT's north terminus at Mt. Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia. There were some nail biting moments when it looked … Continue reading Just Keep Hiking!
Month: September 2016
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It has been awhile since I last posted on my blog. Recovering from my broken toe has taken longer and been more difficult than I expected. The last 2 months have not been filled with adventure or running. I have been on a detour along my running journey that I never want to take again. … Continue reading I'm Back


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New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) In a major setback for telecom operators, especially those who want to shut operations in India, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Wednesday said there was no need for a exit policy.
"Presently there is no need for a separate exit policy for all types of licences and the entry fee paid by the licensees will continue to be non-refundable as per their license terms and conditions," TRAI said in its response to the Department of Telecom's (DoT) request last year for recommendations on exit policy.
"Present conditions in various licences with regard to their surrender (licensee can surrender its licence by giving atleast 60 days notice, 30 days in case of ISP license) shall continue to be applicable," it added.
TRAI's move will virtually shut doors for firms who plan to shut operations in India and have sought refund of their licence fee after the Supreme Court ordered cancellation of their licences.
On Feb 2, Supreme Court ordered cancellation of 122 telecom licences issued in 2008 affecting nine firms.
Companies like S Tel, Etisalat and Loop who have announced plans to exit the Indian market have sought refund form the government. Loop has sought Rs.2,800 crore as refund from the government in entry fees, bank guarantees and other investments.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had earlier issued a pre-consultation paper on exit policy in January on issues like implications, advantages and disadvantages, to individual licensees, to the government revenues and to the telecom sector as a whole.
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The Saint Patrick's Battalion: Loyalty, Nativism, and Identity in the Nineteenth Century and Today
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Two decades before the Irish Brigade covered itself with glory, an earlier unit of Irish immigrants had won renown for its service during the Mexican American War. Calling themselves the Saint Patrick's Battalion, these men marched under a flag of brilliant emerald decorated with Irish motifs: a harp, a shamrock, and the image of Saint Patrick [excerpt].
This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.
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This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
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Lavery, Kevin P., "The Saint Patrick's Battalion: Loyalty, Nativism, and Identity in the Nineteenth Century and Today" (2015). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 134.
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Hotel Weinhaus Kreuter
This hotel has been an attraction to guests from home and abroad for generations. The primary concern has always been: to give the guests a pleasant stay and thus to create the setting for good memories. A family atmosphere, real hospitality and exceptional service guaranteed.
Just a stone's throw from the bank of the Moselle and yet centrally located, the hotel is the ideal starting point for leisure activities around Koblenz. The hotel is right on the Koblenz-Trier cycling route and is therefore a popular destination for many cyclists - for whom there is a bed & bike service.
You will be pampered with local specialities, fine wines and exceptional service in our cosy restaurant. Two large, well-equipped meeting rooms are available for family parties, travel groups and conferences.
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Author: Peter Brill
The L&S PA Operations V4 book is self-published by the Author, Peter Brill. It is volume 4 of a planned 5 volume series on the topic.
Volume IV covers 1918 through 1946. It begins with the arrival of the Mikados and Pacifics which, along with the Ashley Planes, handled most of the main line operations throughout this era. It ends with steam and the Planes still dominant but Baldwin double-ender diesels in passenger service and orders for road freight diesels on the books.
The first examples of CNJ's finest steam freight power, the Mikados, arrived in 1918. Arrival of the final order in 1925, created a fleet of eighty-six engines which dominated road freights through the balance of this volume's era while bumping camelback 4-8-0's, 2-8-0's and 4-6-0's into lesser assignments. The Ashley Planes continued to hoist most of the freight tonnage out of the Wyoming Valley. Concurrently, large, modern Pacifics took over the main line passenger duties from camelback 4-4-0's and 4-6-0's. Bridges had to be replaced and facilities upgraded to handle the new power. In 1946, CNJ placed its first orders for diesel road power, EMD F-3's and Baldwin DR 4-4-1500's and took delivery of its first road diesel passenger power in the form of Baldwin DRX 6-4-2000's, units unique in the American railroad industry for their double-cab configuration.
In late 1929, CNJ introduced The Bullet, the L&S Division's equivalent to the Southern Division's Atlantic City flyer, The Blue Comet, and followed up with The Williamsporter in early 1930. But passenger traffic was in a long term decline and The Bullet was withdrawn from service within two years while The Williamsporter survived until 1945.
CNJ's facilities in Mauch Chunk and Ashley declined in importance relative to Allentown and Bethlehem. The anthracite coal and anthracite iron industries faded but the Lehigh District Portland cement industry grew until midway in the era. The Alphabet Route joined the Central States Dispatch as another important freight routing via Allentown. Major capital investments included expansion and continued modernization of Allentown Yard; construction of a new engine terminal in Bethlehem and installation of a new coal dumping pier in Jersey City.
Under a federal order, CNJ sold the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company in 1923. The buyers sold the business in 1930 to the Glen Alden Coal Company, owner of the DL&W's former coal operations. This created the industry's largest operator. In 1939 Glen Alden closed most former L&W-BC breakers and centralized their coal preparation, except for Wanamie and South Wilkes-Barre, at the new Huber Breaker in Ashley.
On August 5, 1946, the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania, formerly CNJ's subsidiary, the Easton & Western Railroad, took over operations in Pennsylvania in an attempt to shield Pennsylvania income from excessive New Jerseytaxes.
396 pages, glossy paper, black and white, indexed, soft-cover. 158 photographs, 26 maps and 107 diagrams, plans and illustrations.


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The First Article, Which Is The Beginning Of Everything
Our main problem is to establish our attitude to the Creator. Clearly, it is subjective and depends entirely on us, on how we think and feel. It does not change depending on the Creator's attitude, which is unknown to us, but is determined by what we think about Him.
On one hand, we are talking about nature, about the environment in which we develop. Once upon a time man began revealing nature, thus ascending in our world from the animate level to the human level as he researched the nature around him. After that he began to research the spiritual world, once his desire grew to that level. Thus, to the degree his desire grew, a person delved deeper and deeper into nature.
However, a person consists of two parts: one that feels and one that understands, and the two have a specific connection and influence upon one another. Precisely through them, feeling and reason or the heart and mind, he researches what he feels. Anything that does not enter his senses remains unknown to him. He researches only his impressions, whereas the things that are inaccessible to one's sensations cannot be discussed at all because that would be empty philosophy and fantasy.
Therefore, our ideas of the Creator are not based on how He actually is, but on how we perceive Him. We will never know who He really is! We only know that there is an upper, external force that is perceived as the nature around us.
We call its closest part "this world." But there is a greater nature which becomes revealed to a person when he undergoes a special development. It is called upper nature. Yet, no one knows who the Creator Himself is.
Therefore, the science of Kabbalah talks about everything in relation to man. It is written, "There is none else besides Him!" That is how a person feels and what he discerns as a result of his research.
Kabbalists tell us about their impressions of this single upper force, and it turns out that the Creator seems to get angry, or to get happy, or to enjoy something. But this is how a person feels. This is how he senses the upper force! However, we do not know what really happens to it.
Nevertheless, it is very important for us to establish our attitude to this upper force so we would know where this form, picture, impression, or sensation comes from, which we receive from Him. Whom do we feel: Himself or ourselves? Or do we perceive ourselves on the background of His Light? Or do we feel something that's common to both of us, some interaction between us? That is something I have to know!
When I feel good or bad, then whom does this sensation depend on—on me, or does it come from the Creator? Or perhaps it depends on our similarity to each other, on some special connection?
If I perform any action, whether in words, thoughts, or physically, is He forcing me to act that way or do I have some kind of freedom? But where can I get that freedom if I am a result, a product of His work?
That is to say, we must somehow define ourselves in relation to our connection with the Creator. Otherwise we will constantly get confused. This bears great significance for our attitude, our inner work, and our connection with Him. This is also reflected on all of our relationships with one another, inside the family and when a person is one on one with himself.
Therefore, this is not an abstract question for us. Establishing our state, connection, and attitude to the Creator influences all the layers of our lives. This is the most fundamental thing there is. That is why Baal HaSulam's opinion is so important to us in this regard, which he lays out in the article, "There Is None Else Besides Him," the very first article in the book Shamati.
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/11, Shamati
Related Material:
Preparing For The Right Attitude
A Black Point In The Ocean Of Love
Revealing The Creator's Goodness
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"There Is None Else Besides Him," These words mean that a man with his thoughts, emotions, spiritual life ,feelings,never existed,He only exists non else besides Him
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