गांधीनगर, १६ जुलै (प्रे.ट्र.) - जबरदस्ती, प्रलोभन किंवा फसवणूक यांद्वारे धर्मांतर घडवून आणणार्‍यांच्या विरोधात कडक कारवाईची तरतूद असलेला गुजरात धर्मस्वातंत्र्य कायदा राज्यात आजपासून लागू करण्यात आला. गुजरात धर्मस्वातंत्र्य कायद्याविषयीचे विधेयक २००५ मध्ये विधानसभेत संमत करण्यात आले होते.

काही पंथांनी सदर विधेयकाला विरोध केल्याने राज्यपाल नवलकिशोर शर्मा यांनी त्यावर स्वाक्षर्‍या करण्यास नकार दिला होता. राज्यपालांनी सूचवलेल्या दुरस्त्यासह राज्य सरकारने हे विधेयक अर्थसंकल्पीय अधिवेशनात पुन्हा संमत करून घेतले व राज्यपालांकडे पाठवले. राज्यपालांनी अर्थसंकल्पीय अधिवेशन आटोपताच त्यावर स्वाक्षरी केली, असे राजभवनाच्या सूत्रांनी सांगितले. या कायद्यानुसार एखाद्या व्यक्‍तीला धर्मांतर करण्याची इच्छा असल्यास तिला जिल्हाधिकार्‍यांकडे अर्ज करावा लागेल. जिल्हाधिकार्‍यांनी एका महिन्याच्या आत संमती दिल्यास त्या व्यक्‍तीची धर्मांतराची वाट मोकळी होईल. त्यानंतर त्या व्यक्‍तीला १० दिवसांच्या आत बदलेल्या धर्माची माहिती जिल्हाधिकार्‍यांना द्यावी लागेल.

दैनिक सनातन प्रभात

Just over 20 years after first eyeing the Indian market, the FT has failed to obtain permission to print the newspaper in India and has, in the past few weeks, walked away from a joint venture that had gone sour with the Business Standard, one of the countries leading business dailies.

The FT is now looking at a new venture with Network 18, a television-based group that has successful joint tv channels with CNN and CNBC, and is partnering with Forbes to produce a business magazine in India.

Network 18 is expected to launch a new business newspaper which would have pages devoted to FT syndicated stories and will probably have an FT equity stake - though the FT is also focused on developing its online audience with Network 18, and is primarily interested in printing its international edition in the country.

It is just over 20 years since the FT started trying to get a toehold in India’s newspaper market after it was approached (while I was its Delhi-based South Asia correspondent) by two Indian business families – the Delhi-based Modis and the London-based Hindujas– to print the paper in India.

Those approaches did not lead to a deal, nor did talks with the Bennett Coleman group, which owns the Times of India (circulation 2.8 million) and Economic Times (over 750,000), India’s leading general and business titles. Bennett Coleman has been blocking the FT’s entry, fearing the competition mainly in terms of staff salaries and quality. It registered Financial Times as a Bennett Coleman title, started protective legal cases around the country, and publishes a weekly inconsequential-looking four sheet supplement called “Financial Times” to underpin its rights.

About 15 years ago the FT joined up with the Business Standard, then owned by ABP, a Calcutta-based publishing house run by Aveek Sarkar, who has a successful and happy 50-50 publishing joint venture with Penguin Books and is talking to Time Warner, which owns Fortune, about launching a monthly business title. In the early 1990s the FT posted an associate editor into the Business Standard for three years, who helped raise editorial standards. Five years ago it bought a 13.85% stake in the paper, which it expected to raise to 26%, the maximum foreign direct investment (FDI) allowed in newspapers.

The FT quickly found it had run into more opposition. The Business Standard had by then sold by Sarkar to a group of Mumbai financiers, led by Uday Kotak, a leading banker, and the FT’s bid to boost its equity stake was turned down by the government because FDI in Kotak’s businesses allegedly pushed the total in the paper above 26%. Later the FT found its views were not listened to by people running the paper, and that it was receiving no help arguing with the government over the equity stake.

Sensing that it had found another opponent rather than a partner, it eventually decided to pull out – which it has now done, selling its stake to Kotak interests. T.N. Ninan, editor and publisher of the Business Standard, would not comment on these developments when I telephoned him, though he did say his newspaper was doing well with daily circulation rising near 200,000, and he seemed unconcerned that he will not be able to use FT syndicated articles from the end of this year.

Over the years the FT has secured the support of some government ministers but not enough for a majority in the cabinet, and no prime minister or finance minister has felt it a big enough issue to make it worth challenging their colleagues.

Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal has a partial presence through a (non financial) partnership with the Hindustan Times group in Mint, a one-year old business newspaper. Mint is raising the standards of accuracy, in-depth reporting, and quality in a branch of the media where such standards are rare.

Rupert Murdoch has talked since he bought the Journal of starting a paper in India, and could invest in Mint.  There are also two other local companies entering a booming but crowded market that already has six English language business dailies, some of which, including the Economic Times and Business Standard, are launching Hindi and local language editions.

And the moral of the story? Someone once said (about joint ventures in China, I think) that “your worst enemies are your partners” - to which one could add “and allies in their industry.” Only two foreign newspapers are currently published in India. One is the International Herald Tribune, which has successfully defied a government ban on foreign papers printing a special Indian edition. The other is the Daily Mail, whose UK publishers, Associated Newspapers, have a 26% stake in a look-alike semi-tabloid Mail Today which is also raising standards and seems to have escaped opposition from vested Indian interests because none of them saw it as competition.

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காங்கிரஸ் கட்சியில் தமிழ்நாடு பொறுப்பாளர் அருண்குமார் தற்செயலாக சென்னை விமான நிலையத்தின் தே.மு.தி.க. தலைவர் விஜயகாந்தைச் சந்தித்தும், அவருடன் ஒன்றாக விமானத்தில் பயணித்ததும் ஒரு சர்வ சாதாரணமான நிகழ்வு.

இந்தச் சம்பவத்தைத் தொடர்ந்து, நீங்கள் விஜயகாந்துடன் அரசியல் பேசினீர்களா என்கிற நிருபர்களின் கேள்விக்கு, "ஆமாம், அரசியல் பேசினோம். என்ன பேசினோம் என்பதை நேரம் வரும்போது வெளியிடுகிறேன்' என்று சர்வசாதாரணமாக தமிழ்நாடு காங்கிரசின் மேலிடப் பொறுப்பாளர் சொன்ன பதிலிலும் எந்தவித அதிசயமோ ஆச்சரியமோ இருப்பதாகத் தெரியவில்லை.

ஆனால், இதை ஏதோ விபரீதமாகவும், அருண்குமார் இமாலயத் தவறு செய்துவிட்டது போலவும் திமுக தலைமை சித்திரிக்க முயல்வது ஏன் என்பதுதான் பலரையும் புருவத்தை உயர்த்த வைத்திருக்கிறது. திமுக தலைவர் கருணாநிதியின் உத்தரவோ, வழிகாட்டுதலோ இல்லாமல், திராவிடக் கழகத் தலைவர் கி. வீரமணியிடமிருந்து முதல் கண்டனம் வந்திருக்காது.

""அருண்குமார் ஒரு பார்ப்பனர். அவர் மரியாதை நிமித்தம் முதல்வர் கருணாநிதியைச் சந்திக்காத நிலையில் விஜயகாந்தை மட்டும் சந்தித்துப் பேசுவது எப்படி?'' என்கிற விதத்தில் கி. வீரமணியின் காட்டமான அறிக்கையால் விஷயம் முடிந்துவிட்டது என்று நினைத்தால், திமுகவின் நிர்வாகக் குழு தனது தீர்மானத்தில், காங்கிரசுக்கு எச்சரிக்கையும், அறிவுரையுமாகத் தனது ஆதங்கத்தைக் கொட்டித் தீர்த்திருக்கிறது.

இந்த அளவுக்கு திமுக ஒரு சாதாரண சம்பவத்தைப் பெரிதுபடுத்துவானேன்? அருண்குமார், விஜயகாந்த் சந்திப்புக்கு அந்த அளவுக்கு முக்கியத்துவம் உண்டா?

""தலைவர்கள் சந்தித்துக் கொள்வது, பேசுவது என்பது சாதாரணமான விஷயம். சமீபத்தில் தேசிய வளர்ச்சிக் குழுக் கூட்டத்தில் முதல்வர் கருணாநிதியும், குஜராத் முதல்வர் நரேந்திர மோடியும் சந்தித்துக் கொண்டார்களே! இல. கணேசன் அடிக்கடி முதல்வர் கருணாநிதியைச் சந்திக்கத்தானே செய்கிறார்? இது அரசியலுக்கு அப்பாற்பட்ட மரியாதைநிமித்த சந்திப்புகள். இதற்கெல்லாம் கோபப்பட்டால் எப்படி?'' என்று கேட்ட காங்கிரஸ் பிரமுகர் ஒருவர் இன்னொரு சம்பவத்தையும் குறிப்பிட்டார்.

1998 நாடாளுமன்றத் தேர்தலின்போது, மதுரையிலிருந்து சென்னை வரும் விமானத்தில் அன்றைய முதல்வராக இருந்த கருணாநிதி, முன்னாள் முதல்வர் ஜெயலலிதா மற்றும் த.மா.கா. தலைவர் ஜி.கே. மூப்பனார் ஆகிய மூவரும் வந்ததாகவும், திமுக கூட்டணியில் இருந்தபோதும் த.மா.கா. தலைவர் மூப்பனார் ஜெயலலிதாவிடம் சிரித்துப் பேசியதை முதல்வர் கருணாநிதி விமர்சிக்கவில்லை என்றும் தெரிவித்தார்.

கருணாநிதி பயப்படுவது ஏன் என்று புரியாமல் குழம்பும் காங்கிரசார்தான் அதிகம். ""யார் யாரைச் சந்தித்துப் பேசினாலும், காங்கிரஸ் கட்சியைப் பொருத்தவரை, சோனியா காந்தி என்ன முடிவெடுக்கிறார் என்பதைப் பொருத்துத்தான் கூட்டணி அமையும். பிறகு ஏன் இப்படி அலட்டிக் கொள்ள வேண்டும்?'' ~ இப்படிக் கேட்பது மூத்த சட்டமன்ற உறுப்பினர் ஒருவர்.

விஜயகாந்தை முன்னிலைப்படுத்தி ஒரு கூட்டணிக்குக் காங்கிரஸ் சம்மதிக்கப் போவதில்லை. அதுமட்டுமல்ல, தேமுதிக - காங்கிரஸ் கூட்டணி என்பது திமுக மற்றும் அதிமுக அமைக்கும் கூட்டணிகளுக்கு மாற்றாகவோ, அந்த அளவுக்கு பலமானதாகவோ இருக்க முடியாது என்பது பச்சைக் குழந்தைக்குக்கூடத் தெரியும். இடதுசாரிகள் சேர்ந்தால் ஒருவேளை அந்தக் கூட்டணி பலம் பெறலாம். ஆனால் அதற்கான வாய்ப்பு இருப்பதாகத் தெரியவில்லை.

""எங்களைப் பொருத்தவரை நாங்கள் திமுகவுடன் கூட்டணி என்பதில் தெளிவாக இருக்கிறோம். இடதுசாரிகள் நிச்சயமாகக் காங்கிரசுடன் எந்தவிதக் கூட்டணியும் வைக்கப் போவதில்லை'' என்கிறார் மார்க்சிஸ்ட் கம்யூனிஸ்ட் தலைவர் டி.கே. ரங்கராஜன். இந்திய கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சியின் நிலையும் அதுதான் என்று உறுதிப்படுத்துகிறார் டி. ராஜா.

காங்கிரஸ், திமுகவின் தோழமைக் கட்சியாகத் தொடரும் என்பதில் மற்றவர்களுக்கு இருக்கும் நம்பிக்கை ஏன் முதல்வர் கருணாநிதிக்கு மட்டும் இல்லை?

காங்கிரஸ் வாக்கு வங்கி என்பது எப்போதுமே திமுகவை ஏற்றுக்கொள்வதில்லை. திமுக எதிர்ப்பு என்பது இந்த காங்கிரஸ் அனுதாபிகளின் ரத்தத்தில் ஊறிய விஷயம்'' என்று தெரிவிக்கிறார் மூத்த காங்கிரஸ் தலைவர் ஒருவர்.

சோனியா காந்தியைக் கடுமையாக விமர்சித்ததன் மூலம் காங்கிரஸ் அனுதாபிகளின் வெறுப்பை ஜெயலலிதா சம்பாதித்துக் கொண்டதால்தான் அவர்கள் திமுகவை ஆதரிக்க முற்பட்டிருக்கிறார்களே தவிர, அடிப்படையில் அவர்கள் திமுகவைவிட அதிமுகவுடனான கூட்டணியைத்தான் விரும்புவார்கள் என்கிறார் அவர். அந்தப் பிரமுகர் சொல்வதில் உண்மை இல்லாமல் இல்லை.

காங்கிரசைப் பதவியிலிருந்து இறக்கிய கட்சி என்கிற கோபமும், காமராஜரைத் தோற்கடித்த கட்சி என்கிற வெறுப்பும் பழைய தலைமுறை காங்கிரஸ்காரர்களுக்கு எப்போதுமே உண்டு. அதனால்தான், நாடாளுமன்றத் தேர்தல்களில் திமுக, காங்கிரஸ் கூட்டணி பெறும் அளவுக்கு சட்டமன்றத் தேர்தலில் வெற்றி பெற முடிவதில்லை.

1980 நாடாளுமன்றத் தேர்தலில் திமுக - காங்கிரஸ் கூட்டணி வெற்றி பெற்றதையும், அதைத் தொடர்ந்து நடைபெற்ற சட்டமன்றத் தேர்தலில் தோல்வி அடைந்ததையும், சுட்டிக்காட்டிய திமுக பிரமுகர் ஒருவர், கடந்த நாடாளுமன்ற மற்றும் சட்டமன்றத் தேர்தலையும் உதாரணம் காட்டினார். நாடாளுமன்றத் தேர்தலில் 40 இடங்களிலும் வெற்றி பெற்ற ஐக்கிய முற்போக்குக் கூட்டணி, சட்டமன்றத் தேர்தலில் அந்த அளவுக்கு வெற்றி பெறவில்லை என்பது மட்டுமல்ல, திமுகவுக்குப் பெரும்பான்மை கிடைக்கவில்லை என்பதும் குறிப்பிட வேண்டிய விஷயம் என்கிறார்.

முதல்வர் கருணாநிதியின் பயம் அதுதான். இதுபோன்ற சந்திப்புகள், யூகங்களுக்கு இடமளிக்கும் என்பதால், காங்கிரஸ் வாக்கு வங்கியில் பிளவு ஏற்படும் வாய்ப்பு இருக்கிறது. சோனியா காந்தி இருக்கும்வரை தனது தனிப்பட்ட நெருக்கத்தின் மூலம் கூட்டணி தொடர்வதில் எந்தவிதத் தடையும் இருக்காது என்று முதல்வர் கருணாநிதிக்குத் தெரியும். ஆனால், காங்கிரசின் வாக்கு வங்கி முழுவதுமாகக் கூட்டணிக்குச் சாதகமாக இல்லாமல் போனால், கூட்டணி தொடர்ந்தும் பயனில்லாமல் போய்விடும்.

காங்கிரஸ் வாக்கு வங்கி சிதறி, அடுத்து வரும் நாடாளுமன்றத் தேர்தலில் மீண்டும் அதிமுக பலமடைந்து விட்டால்? அப்படியொரு நிலைமை ஏற்பட்டால், மத்தியில் ஆட்சி அமைக்க காங்கிரஸ் கட்சி அதிமுகவின் தயவை நாடாது என்று என்ன நிச்சயம்?

கருணாநிதிக்கு ஏன் கோபம் வருகிறது என்பது இப்போது புரிகிறதா?

• CopyBot does not need permissions to copy an object. The copier does not even need to own the object.
• CopyBot cannot copy scripts.
• CopyBot can only copy objects it can directly see. It cannot enter a shop and copy all of the products because all it can see is the vendors.
• CopyBot is not an object in Second Life, nor a script. It is a program which a person runs on their computer instead of running the regular Second Life. It logs in as an avatar.
• Using CopyBot or any other software to make copies of avatars, objects, or textures that you do not own is a breach of the Second Life Terms of Service and will result in being banned.
• If an object of yours is copied, you can Abuse Report the copier and file a DMCA notice against them.
• Help or Mentors will not tell you where to get the CopyBot.
• The CopyBot Defeater tries to get rid of CopyBots by sending the message "!quit" over and over again to everyone in range. This did work for a few hours as the CopyBot would interpret it as a command to quit, but CopyBot was quickly patched to ignore it. These objects only serve a historical purpose now and do not have any real effect except to annoy everyone.

How can I stop the messages from CopyBot Defeater ?

1. Go to your chat history window by click on "Chat" near the bottom left corner of your interface next to "IM".
2. In the chat history window go to the box at the top with the down arrow in it and click on the arrow.
3. Scroll through the list of names and find the one called copybot and click on it then go to the Mute Resident button in your chat history window. NOTE: There may be more than one bot so you might have to do this several times to stop them all.

ATTENTION:Doing this can in most cases mute the owner of the land you muted the copybot defeater in so if you can't hear the owner of the land you might want to temporarily unmute the copybot defeater.

If it still doesn't stop after this you should contact the owner of the object and point them to this page, explaining that their script does not have any functional purpose. As a last resort you can file a Help Request to attempt to mediate the issue. If you are familiar with libsecondlife programming, there is source code for a program available at http://libsecondlife.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/IMResponder/ to log a bot in that automatically responds to !quit messages from objects and informs the owner of the issue and where the object is located.

SECOND LIFE, Nov 15 (Reuters) - A software tool called CopyBot that can clone avatars, objects and textures is stoking the ire of Second Life business owners who fear their creations could be illicitly copied and sold.

“This product has caused tremendous worry among content creators who want to understand how its use may possibly affect their business,” Community manager Robin Linden said in a blog post after meeting with concerned residents. “In particular, they are concerned about theft of their creations, and the potential for unscrupulous people to undercut their prices and essentially take away their business.”

Linden Lab has attempted to make the protection of intellectual property a cornerstone of Second Life, giving residents ownership rights for the content they create in-world, and setting up a mechanism for residents to file claims of copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

CopyBot was originally created by libsecondlife, a Linden Lab-supported open source project to reverse engineer the Second Life software. It allows the copying of any avatar or object, including those that are designated as “no copy” by their creators.

Amid increasing criticism, the group moved to pull the Copybot source code, but on Monday evening Copybot was put up for sale on the online marketplace SLExchange, raising the prospect that it could become widespread.

In a comment on the Official Linden Blog, apparently written before CopyBot was made available for sale, libsecondlife member Baba Yamamoto said: “CopyBot is not a product that we sell or distribute. It’s a debugging tool and silly demo with a [now] obviously bad choice of name. Hopefully you won’t be seeing copy bot on SLex any time soon.”

Yamamoto was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday.

Prim Revolution, the resident who has put CopyBot up for sale, said he has had made less than a dozen sales at L$3,000 each. In an in-world interview with Reuters, he demonstrated CopyBot by making a perfect replica of the Adam Reuters avatar (above).

“You’ll never get around the potential for abuse and the negativity associated with this particular app,” he said. “But I think the idea of clones and bots is very cool and i’ll be adding more new features for things like automated go-go dancers at clubs.”

“Even if I pull this program, plenty of other people out there have it or have the knowledge to create something bigger and better,” Revolution added. “My advice is to offer the whole package when you sell something. Don’t just offer a couch, but a couch that has several custom poses … work one-on-one with people to create unique things, and offer customization services instead of throwing up some prims for sale and forgetting about it.”

Revolution’s avatar was created on Nov. 13, but he said that he has been in Second Life for about two years. He declined to provide any additional information, including his real-life identity, citing “the nature of the (CopyBot) program.”

Robin Linden said that content creators who feel their copyrights have been violated “have the option of using the DMCA process to file a complaint. It’s a difficult process, but it is one that we’re willing to pursue on your behalf because we agree that copying is a disincentive to creation.”

Linden Lab is also considering other measures, including a “first use” tag that would signal who created an item, similar to a brand name garment label. But the company’s plans to open-source Second Life have raised concerns among in-world businesses that protecting intellectual property may become increasingly difficult in the future.

Timeless Prototype,creator of the popular Multi Gadget, told Reuters in an interview earlier this month: “If the server is put in control of users, they can reverse engineer everything,” he said. “If they had access to that source, they could take (the Multi Gadget scripts) in 10 seconds — it’s a big worry.”

The virtual world Second Life is having to contend with a new piece of software that makes it easy to copy in-game artifacts. Most virtual worlds claim total ownership and control of anything created in the game, but Second Life allows players to claim a copyright in their creations. Players can sell (or refuse to sell) their in-game tchotchkes, or give them away under Creative Commons licenses. Second Life has a thriving economy based on the trading of user-created objects.

An open-source tool called CopyBot allows players to cruise around copying the objects sported by other players. Many SL players are upset by this, and demanding action. Second Life's proprietors, Linden Labs, are trying to figure out what to do. They've ruled out eliminating third-party programs from Second Life, and they are on record as refusing to become copyright enforcers for their community. They are offering to temporarily adjudicate questions of infringement to see if they violate the Second Life terms of service, but they're seeking better solutions, including reputation systems.

This is a hard problem. As a practical matter, it's just not feasible to control copying in an environment like Second Life, which means that SL entrepreneurs are going to need businesses that don't collapse when copying takes place. But there are much gnarlier problems here -- for example, in real life, questions of copyright infringement are adjudicated on the basis of law passed by elected lawmakers, while in Second Life, these questions are adjudicated by a company based on its non-negotiable terms of service. You can fire law-makers who make bad copyright, but you can't fire companies that make bad terms of service. You can take your business elsewhere, but if all your "assets" live in a proprietary virtual world, you have to go away empty handed, without any of your "copyrighted works."

Second Life's management is doing an exemplary job of coping with this, but benevolent dictatorships aren't the same thing as democracies. If a game is going to declare that its players are citizens who own property, can the company go on "owning" the game?

This isn't a criticism -- it's a question. Linden Labs walks a fine line between "government" and "owner" (or, if you prefer, "God"). They're pushing some hard boundaries.

These are important features because the implications of copying should not be about Linden Lab’s approach to copyright enforcement. We are not in the copyright enforcement business. The communities within Second Life should have the tools and the freedoms to decide how and when they deal with potentially infringing content. Many will decide on less restrictive regimes in order to maximize innovation and creativity. Others will choose more restrictive options and ban visitors who do not respect them. Consumers, creators, and all residents need to have the final say about which approaches work best for them.Please recognize that using the Terms of Service is not a permanent solution. Nor is it shift in Linden Lab’s support of libsecondlife (who have removed CopyBot from their Subversion repository), machinima creators, or others who have explored Second Life beyond the features of the Second Life client. I continue to feel that libsecondlife is an incredibly important part of Second Life’s development and community.

it's the age of murders nowadays, any newspaper\mag\website u pick up only wants to talk about the latest murders on the block, nowadays suicides are not left unexploited in the hunt for TRP's, in the war to win the affections of the basest instincts of Man.

earlier this year, I was involved in two incidents that exposed me to the obsessive tendencies present in human beings. I was stunned and a bit paralyzed when i came face to face with this powerful emotion. in one incident , i was able to use reason and logic and the other i was not.
i was reminded of Rahu( i know i have written abut him before but then I never explained what he stood for). what does he stand for? Obsession, compulsion, dysfunctional tendencies, blind tendencies, everything that is considered taboo in life, that what is perceived unconventional by society. Rahu plunges that area of our life, mind and soul into chaos and leads us down to those paths...

rahu is desire- dark albeit- and since desire is powerful; so is Rahu.

Kama on the other hand, is known as the god of love. he is the beautiful embodiment of desire. Accompanied by his wife, Rati who stands for passion and lust, and his friend Vasanta, the spring, he traverses the three worlds on his parrot ( another symbol of spring), shooting shafts of love into unaware, hapless human beings.

so, then i thought - what are the examples that I know of when Rahu and Kama have morphed to yield disastrous results?

the most famous case, i have already blogged about: Nanavati..but wait- there is another case that fills the bill as well.

Ameeta Modi, syed modi and Dr. Sanjay Singh. Syed Modi was a  badminton player who was shot dead in 1988 by assailants after he came out of a stadium following a practice session. The CBI took over the case and built a case of a love triangle: Ameeta Modi , Sanjay Singh the Jan Morcha leader and the former UP transport minister. Evidence surfaced between a "close relationship" between Dr Singh and Ameeta Modi and in no time both were charged for conspiring to murder Syed Modi. Both were released bail and barely few months later, they got married.

Passion can't wait , can it ?  :)

oh yeah....as is the case with politicians, they never went to jail and were acquitted.

As i did a google search, I learned that Ameeta and Sanjay are now challenging the Gandhis in their bastion- Amethi. Yay, our future leaders...

Kama the god of love making his entrance, and then Rahu, the significator of dark desire,obsession and chaos takes over....and the story has a tragic ending.

of course, what happened to me  was totally unrelated an different to this incident but I just remembered this famous case.

so, have any of you been exposed to this awe inspiring, sweet yet terrifying cosmic dance?

obsession, impulsive behavior can be exhibited by anyone- a boss, a friend, the neighbor-similarly as Love is manifested in different forms. the line between these 2 emotions is so thin...its fascinating to watch this psychological power dance.

who won- Kama or Rahu?
i'll sign off- its july 4th so will try to see the fireworks today.

can't wait to get my skateboard. i hope i break a bone. that's never happened to me, i admit that it is a regret I have...i know, I know..i warned u guys, I have a wierdly wired brain! :) :)

skateboarding reminds me of this quote  by James Dean (i had a poster of him and this quote in college)

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

ahhhhh...i wish i had paid more heed to it then...no matter , i'll put in practice today.

flying on a trapeze i something I want to do next(they have a place in nyc that gives classes), if only i can find similar crazy spirits :) :)... my friends have forsaken me for this outing....if you're it, let me know!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJF3LBREabk

Downloads:

• Binaries: http://www.patrioticnigras.org/downloads/Copybot22Alpha.zip
• Unstable Sauce: svn co svn://www.patrioticnigras.org/Copybot/branches/nexis/Copybot/ Copybot
• Stable(r) Sauce: svn co svn://www.patrioticnigras.org/Copybot/trunk Copybot

Introduction

You should know what a copybot is. If not, gtfo.

Basic Setup

1. Open up the Copybot GUI. If using the stable sauce, you will get errors. Continue to the next step anyway.
2. Register a new account with copybot by clicking the New Account button (The (+) button in the toolbar).
   1. Fill in the account details.
   2. Add in the IRC channel you wish to connect to. Leave the defaults there if you don’t care.
   3. Master Name = Firstname Lastname of master
   4. Master Nick = IRC Nickname of master.
3. Select the bot in the list and click Login in the toolbar.

Using the Bot

• One can copy a prim by using the export PrimUUID filename.xml command. (v2.2 saves these XMLs in CopyXML/.) Then, to build a copy in SL, use the import filename.xml command.
• Want to clone some faggot? clone Firstname Lastname (Currently does not include attachments)
• Type “follow me” to have the bot follow you around

It's *not* capable of a lot of what you may have heard,  but it can be a useful app in the right hands.

Please do NOT ask me for tech support, I cannot provide it!

Ask the guy who ,make

Liberato Lindman from SOUL

You need in our computer Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0  for work 100%

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&DisplayLang=en

http://rapidshare.com/files/123669207/CopyBot4.0BinarieWindows.zip | 745 KB

Pass:

2. Modi reacts saying only a meagre 5% of the tax paid by Gujarat's people is given as funds from the centre and says that they are relying on falsehoods. He goes one more step ahead and says that the centre is more dependent on the state's taxpayers. - in some rally

3. Issue blown over - The congress says that the data is not true as there was no data of taxes paid by states and calls for modi to be tried for treason (probably inspired by similar such calls from Nawaz Sharif recently), and says that Modi is questioning the very existance of the nation. They question the nationalism of the nationalist leader.

4. Modi asks them to go ahead with the absolutely ridiculous idea of the treason trial.

5. Congress says that Modi does not know the facts and produces facts to show that the Congress govt. did indeed give more funds to gujarat in their time than the NDA govt. did. The figures compare NDA contribution in 2002-03 and theirs in the last year showing about 25% increase over 4 years. This when the growth of Gujarat has been about 10% every year then. Also congress refutes the claim that the aid given to Gujarat is paltry, by discovering the amount taxes paid by the state to centre. One does not even know which taxes have been considered.

This is one of the better dramas unfolding in the recent past, the strong dialogues by Congress "leaders" (read sycophants like Manish Tiwari) like "trial for treason" have been interesting indeed. The congress have really given a good drama for a long time, its time they bowed out.

As for Modi, he should try and make sure he is quoted right and in correct context (he was only speaking at a rally). And he has a point, the state people work hard to produce some results in their neighbourhood. People work hard hoping that roads and infrastructure in their part of the world would improve and if any funds are going to the centre to put into sachar committees and to institute fudging experts and contract killers to maintain the sanctity of flagship pogroms oops sorry programs like NREGA.

The simple speech of Modi can shake the congress so much to call treason is testimony to the stature of Modi.

This take on recent polls, is my take on you and all the Gujaratis. Gujaratis are far far behind from the thought of nationalism where the nationalism is the principal and has to prevail in every member of the democracy. We are very much at the individual level; you ought to rip off that cover. Gujarat is still more of a shame to India than a proud of India in all over the world. Do not ask those money minded gujjus in London or New Jersey how they feel about the Gujarat and Modi, but asks the world. Even you can ask the other states of India. It is not the benchmark to believe that you are the best person if papa, mama and didi believe so, you should ask neighbors, friends, colleagues and even the society. Put the self on the surface - let it be commented it self. People want to look Modi, people
want to dance Modi. I am heart-ripped because of this selfish, stiff and soulless mindset of Gujjus. Modi is a good leader and knows the ways to win the elections. Getting the top rank in the school examination and being a scholar are completely diverse. Being an ideal leader and winning the election to become chief minister are also completely different.

The definition of the development is completely diverse for India in every manner. Centralization does not work for us; Distribution is the must for us. We don't need to raise 5 malls in every area; we need to raise 5 farmers in every village. There are lots of things that I am and you are (not personally you) not enough sensible to say, but we can at least comprehend the things and not just follow the mass. Also the so called development and economic growth are coming down to Gujarat because of the individual business endeavors, outsourcing and over all India's product dominance in the market.
India is having intelligence overflow (Giddens: International social science author) and that has resulted in an economic growth and we have gone through this process over more than 40 years not just last 10 years. And the 'malai' we professionals and executives are eating now, is the outcome of this stirring process of the Indian global injections. I will say hundred times – it does not coexist with development to filter the growth areas and the growing mass. If you don’t get it, I reiterate in simple words, “It is not possible to talk about hindutva & development together. Any development is futile without the intact harmony and rational environment.” It is not the development of Gujarat what you see. It will not be the Gujarat you may be wanting.

Sneh Bhavsar
Ahmedabad | 27 December 2007

What a waste of money and time.Probably SRK and Vijay Mallya now would have convinced themselves about the old indian proverb "Jo hota hai ache key liye hota hai" [ Whatever happens , happens for the good] after seeing the IPL trophy.

SRK's diplomatic response after looking at the Trophy for the first time

Heyyhey !!! What a Sexy Trophy.I love the trophy but I love my Wife even more.

Mallya's Candid reply to the media about the Trophies BEAUTY

Modi has been fooled by the Belgians , just like Dravid fooled me during the Auction.

Preeti's (My Favourite actress) Response

Wow !!! it's amazing .........What a Momento.....I never expected this just for reaching the semi-finals.Hey! where is the trophy you were about to show (looks around).

And for the captains who reached the finals of the IPL tournament it would be the 'Karma' for which they are fighting for,Dhoni for proving himself that T20 World cup victory was not a fluke and for Shane Warne it's time to prove that Australian Board that he too could have been a good captain for Australia , certainly not for the Trophy.

It's difficult to hold !!! man !!!

Cricket is a Men's sport !! and Men like Curves ...Smooth Curves....where are the curves in the trophy.The first time when Shashtri was describing about the trophy during the Rajasthan and the Delhi semifinal , I got excited to see the trophy.But when they were showing the trophy on Television, I literally vomitted just like the feeling I usually get on seeing Namitha's potruding tyre shaped belly.I remember Ravi Shastri describing the trophy studded with Blue saphires.I couldn't see any BLUE there.

Negatives in the Trophy:

The first thing I didn't like about the India Map was it's unfairness to the Game.IPL is a celebration of cricket by forgetting the political barriers we have during the international matches.We have seen some of the arch rivals in the game hugging each other during the matches.Putting the India map bluntly on a carved wooden board doesn't really looks good even though the map is studded with diamonds.

Apart from that I have a personal guilt from my childhood about the Indian map.I always felt smooth structures and symmetry is the defining characteristics of any beautiful object.And also the right size.The IPL trophy is not only awkwardly huge but also has the asymmetry of our political failures of the past.I am talking about the gaps near Nepal , Bhutan and Bangladesh in the Indian map. They look like broken edges of a termite attacked bathroom door.Specially, Bangladesh reflects our political inability to retain the Original delta region of the Holy River Ganga. Pakistan is not an issue for me because , the map looks much better without pakistan. Also there is so much ambiguity in the map.We still claim parts of Kashmir occupied by Pakistan as POK. In future if any Pakistani player is a captain of any one of the Indian side and wins the trophy , there would be a huge media uproar in Pakistan , saying that the IPL has a wrong map of India , specially near the Kashmir border.

The only good feature in the Trophy that too short lived

The statue of a player smashing a ball ,square.But I think , I saw the face of the batsman in the trophy quite closely , but not for a long time.Ofcourse I tried searching for a close-up shot of the trophy on the internet but could get only the above pic with the broad smiling face of Modi behind it.I still think the facial features of the player immortalized could have been given more realistic look.

See the discussion going on the Trophy's BUTIPHULNESS

1. Credencial de Elector
2. CURP
3. Cartilla Militar

La imágen de la credencial será digitalizada por medio de un escaner, el sistema deberá identificar el tipo de credencial que se trata y procederá en automático a llenar en el sistema los datos de:

• Apellido Paterno
• Apellido Materno
• Nombre
• Domicilio
• Edad
• Sexo

De esta forma se pretende disminuir el tiempo y los errores de captura, al hacer automático todo el proceso que comúnmente se hace de forma manual!

Una de las apuestas de la empresa es el desarrollo bajo Java, se pensó en hacerlo en esta plataforma. Sin embargo, con unos días de investigación que realicé, comense a darme cuenta que esto no era muy factible. Lamentablemente no encontré un buen OCR Open Source para poder utilizarlo desde Java, probe GOCR, tesseract-ocr, entre otros. Sin embargo, el resultado de reconocimiento fue muy pobre para las identificaciones (Credencial de elector) descritas con anterioridad. El desarrollar un OCR estaba fuera de nuestro alcanse, pues para desarrollar un buen producto, aparte de capacidad, se necesita de $$$ la cual por el bajo sueldo era imposible siquiera tener las ganas de hacerlo.

Además, otro problema que no pude resolver por mi innexperiencia fué sobre la Adquisición de Imágenes. Usando Twain fue posible adquirir la imágen desde Java, pero existia un gran inconveniente! Y erá que no podia ocultar la ventana del programa controlador del dispositivo, es decir, desde Java y sin importar el fabricante del escaner, se "adquiria" la imágen, no sin antes pasar por la ventanita esa del escáner en donde primero habia que hacer una "vista previa " de la imágen para poder recortarla al tamaño de la credencial y finalmente digitalizar!

Obviamente el proceso anterior dejaba de ser tan "automático" como se pretendia que fuera, pues requeria la intervensión del usuario. Entre este y el gran problema de no contar con un buen OCR decidi que el proyecto no se desarrollaría bajo la plataforma Java.

Fué entonces cuando decidi mirar al acerrimo rival, .NET! Debo reconocer que en .NET mis problemas quedaron resueltos.

La adquisición de imágenes mediante WIA y el uso de MODI como OCR me permitieron dar una tentativa solución a mi problema. Con WIA he logrado adquirir la imágen directamente sin pasar por ninguna ventana del controlador y mediante MODI he logrado muy buenos resultados en el reconocimiento de imagen-texto, así pues, logré obtener los datos del visitante arriba mencionados de forma automática y en cuestión de segundos para poder ser enviados a la Base de Datos!

El desarrollo del sistema, arranco formalmente hace unos días, es decir, los días anteriores habian sido solo de investigación para ver que tan factible era desarrollarlo sobre Java o buscar alternativas. Una vez que pude resolver esos inconvenientes en .NET, ya se arranco bien el desarrollo del proyecto, aunque claro, hay que seguir una metodología! Primero es realizar el análisis de requisitos, elaborar documentos, Diagramas UML, Diagrama E-R, más documentos, esperar a que me los validen, etc etc y posteriormente iniciar la codificación! Es decir, tratar de llevar una buena Ingeniería de Software, en especifico, cumplir con la norma de MOPROSOFT (NMX-I-059/01-NYCE).

Publicaré más adelante, como adquirir imágenes desde Java y .NET. Desde Java mediante el uso de Twain y desde .NET con WIA. Con Java y Twain habrá que pasar primero por el programa controlador del dispositivo.

Saludos!!

I don't want you to tell you about the case. What I want to tell you is hundreds of thousands of documents related to our (Marathi) history (school leaving certificates, administrative documents, etc) are written in Modi script. And there are very few people who know the script. I remember a newspaper ad 5 years back by Government of Maharashtra seeking help from whoever knows and understands Modi.

But, but then there is Internet, Orkut... I stumbled upon this community on Orkut where a bunch of enthusiasts are learning and spreading the wod about Modi and as you might have guessed I have already become a member :) . I also found this very interesting and useful website related to some of the ancient languages and scripts across the world.

Hope you find this information useful.

Happy Birthday to MP!!!

That's right. One whole year of blogging 152 posts, over six thousand visitors and almost one hundred comments. And what is it all for? Self-expression? Ego stroking? A place to write and express thoughts of the day? Perhaps all of those, and then some. Personally, I am thankful that anyone even looks this way. There have been some highlights:

The first posts (originally on Blogger, then moved to WordPress after a month). The first comment I received, from the now big league MCBias (who recently has joined Dwil, MODI and Stop Mike Lupica at Sports On My Mind) on a post about blogging thoughts. Comments received from Inkognegro (formerly Parrish: The Thoughts), Enchanting Sunshine, the Head Chick of Leave The Man Alone (good to see her back in the game), Mizzo from The Starting Five, Mark Edward Nero from About.com's R&B Guide, Vivrant Thing from Songs In The Key Of Life and many others. Thanks to all for your input; I can hardly believe that anything I write from the Maryland boonies actually drew some intelligent responses.

Hopefully year 2 of the blogging experiment/(enterprise?) will bring more of everything that year one has brought this far (as well as more and better posts from yours truly).