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President Lawrence visits Indian alums, educators
Speaks of liberal arts opportunities at Brandeis for Indian students
Brandeis President Fred Lawrence has visited India for the second time in 11 months, meeting with alumni, students, prospective students and friends as the University strengthens relationships and furthers partnerships with the people and institutions of the world's largest democracy through the Brandeis-India Initiative.
Accompanied by Harleen Singh, the Helaine and Alvin Allen Assistant Professor of Literature and co-chair of the South Asia Studies Program, and his wife, Dr. Kathy Lawrence, the president met with dozens of members of the Brandeis family in India at receptions in Delhi and Mumbai in early January.
"India is a natural partner for Brandeis as we seek to establish relationships with institutions around the world as a global liberal arts university," Lawrence said. "The opportunities for collaboration in India are numerous, particularly in areas such as scientific research, student and faculty exchanges and social justice."
More than 200 Brandeis alumni live in India, some of whom work in sustainable development and social justice. For example, Devika Mahadevan '00 serves as CEO of Mumbai Mobile Creches, a nonprofit organization that promotes the health and welfare of children of migrant workers growing up on construction sites in India. She was recognized for her work when she received the Brandeis Alumni Achievement Award in 2010.
Lawrence also met with secondary education leaders who are helping Brandeis recruit top-quality students from India. The Indian system of higher education features general degree programs in arts, commerce and science and professional degree programs in engineering, law and medicine, but there are limited opportunities for students interested in the liberal arts (literature, languages, philosophy and history).
"Our model of education – an intimate, student-centered liberal arts college as part of a global university – is not widely available in India," Lawrence said. "Something such as a double major, which we take as a given, is a huge opportunity for Indian students with varied interests."
About 60 students from India are part of the Brandeis undergraduate student body. Dozens of Indian graduate students attend the Brandeis International Business School and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
The president also spent time with Yahel Vilan, the deputy chief of mission at the Israeli Embassy in India.
Lawrence made his first trip to India as Brandeis' president in February 2012, when he accompanied a group of professors and administrators to explore collaborations in the sciences with leading Indian research institutions, including the Indian Institute of Science and the National Centre for Biological Sciences.
During that trip, Lawrence also spoke at a public forum with former Indian Attorney General Soli Sorabjee G '10, a renowned human-rights lawyer and free-speech advocate, on justice in diverse societies.
"We enjoyed our trip and look forward to continuing to broaden and deepen our relationships through the Brandeis-India Initiative," Lawrence said.
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The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
Little, Brown $36.99
This novel by Simon Mawer is set in wartime Europe, when things are at their worst in France, and rationing has tightened its hold on England.
The situation is grim, and everyone who can is trying to assist the war effort.
This includes Marian Sutro, who joins the WAAF for a bit of excitement, then finds herself bored to sobs in a desk job in the English countryside.
But help is at hand. Sutro is recruited by the SOE (Special Operations Executive) to train as a spy. Sutro is a hybrid, half-French, half-English, and her fluency in both languages makes her an ideal candidate.
Oh, the excitement. The secrecy, the training in hand-to-hand combat, weaponry and sabotage, the false identities and code names - Mawer covers off the lot with authority and conviction. It's all a game at first. It gets serious when Sutro is parachuted into southwest France, ostensibly to act as a Resistance courier.
Her real mission is to get to Paris to make contact with old family friend Clement Pelletier, a nuclear physicist engaged in the race to create new and horrifying weapons.
His significance to the Allies is inestimable.
Mawer makes a pretty fair fist of exposing the conflicting moralities of nuclear fission, that Pandora's box of unknown outcomes resulting from genuine scientific research.
Who decides whether the possibilities of a nuclear explosion should be used for a quicker end to the war? How innocent are the scientists, and whose side are they on?
Our heroine struggles with this and questions of loyalty and betrayal as she alternately creeps, fights and blusters her way through the maze of accomplices and newfound friends.
The strain of weighing every word, of looking for hidden meanings and unexpected coincidences, of working out who is friend and who is foe, begins to take its toll.
Despite this, Marian Sutro is a convincing heroine. She's too smart for her own good at times, especially during training, but this attribute is essential later.
What completes her training is the understanding that war changes everything, and that love cannot be trusted.
Mawer adds to the suspense in this adventure by changing the tense of the book, from past to present, thus adding to the pace.
It's a nice trick and it works, although it's a little disconcerting at first.
The story ends suddenly and unexpectedly - to say more would ruin it.
Simon Mawer is an experienced and competent writer. His novel The Glass Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker in 2009, and he has written six other novels and two non-fiction works. His knowledge of physics and the intricacies of scientific research is impressive, although a little daunting at times.
In The Girl Who Fell From The Sky Mawer combines a gripping adventure story with a meditation on patriotism, love and betrayal.
It's a jolly good read.
Phoebe Falconer is an Auckland reviewer.


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Nearly everywhere we looked there was an abundance of women holding hands, kissing each other openly, hanging out with friends, and pride was in the lightly balmy air in Key West.
It was WomenFest, the annual all-girl weekend filled with outdoor adventures, cruises on the Atlantic Ocean, comedy shows, music and an after party now in its 27th year, hosted at the southernmost point of the U.S. in the resort island. WomenFest traditionally is held the weekend after Labor Day. This year it was held September 3-9.
It was an amazing time to be at WomenFest and Key West. It was days after out-lesbian Diana Nyad stumbled out of the Gulf of Mexico onto the shores of Key West from her historic Cuba to Key West swim on September 2.
Nyad wasn't at WomenFest, she was flown out to appear on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, according to Pam Derdarian, a member of Nyad's management team. She told Edge Media at a party at Pearl's Key West, formerly Pearl's Rainbow, on September 5. Otherwise, she was expected to appear at some of the parties to celebrate her feat.
Women were excited about Nyad's fifth and final attempt to swim shore to shore from Cuba to the U.S. Nyad was the talk among the town and women at WomenFest all weekend long. Comedian Christine O'Leary told the story over and over again how Nyad grabbed her hand during the parade that Key West officials threw in Nyad's honor and made her repeat what she yelled out to Nyad.
"When you win, we all win," said O'Leary as Nyad guided her hand pointing to the crowd around them.
Talk about women empowerment! It definitely wasn't the year to miss WomenFest.
Girls, Girls, Girls
This was my girlfriend's and my first time in Key West and at WomenFest. We didn't know what to expect beyond the Southern hospitality, tropical weather and lots and lots of women.
Women clearly filled the hotels and were out and about at the nine parties, the sold-out Suzanne Westenhoefer comedy show, and other activities throughout the week.
Even so, it didn't quite feel like the estimated nearly 4,000 that our host Stephen "Steve" K. Smith-Murray, a sales manager of gay markets of the Florida Keys and Key West who also works with the Key West Business Guild, guesstimated as the attendance.
Veteran WomenFest attendees even wondered where all of the women were; some fellow travel writers commented that the streets weren't packed like previous years. Still there were a lot of women in Key West splashing around in the pools, drinking, dancing and having a good time.
But my girlfriend and I were disappointed by the lack of diversity and initial not-so-Southern hospitality by some staff at Aqua Nightclub and Pearl's, two popular Key West lesbian businesses.
The lack of diversity didn't seem to bother the sprinkling of women of color that increasingly appeared throughout the weekend. They were out to have a good time.
Akaiilah and Maria Staten, both in their early 30s, were having a good time. The native New Yorkers were checking WomenFest off their pink list of girl adventures. The vacation was exactly what they expected, and the people were welcoming and friendly, they both say.
Girl Space
Older women dominated the attendance at WomenFest, but a new generation of women is discovering the all-girl getaway. This was the second year that Ashley McGurle and her partner, who declined to disclose her name, were attending WomenFest. McGurle, a 29-year-old physical therapist from Philadelphia, said that they had decided to make this weekend their annual trip after their first experience last year.
"It's nice to feel comfortable and supported," said McGurle about being in an all-women environment. She points out that there are not that many all-queer girl spaces to go to anymore since the lesbian bars in Philadelphia closed down.
As a matter of fact, 44.6 percent of the Key West's population is female, and 26.1 percent of its businesses are owned by women, according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau. Overall, the island's LGBT population is 23,262 of the general population, which is 25,057, according to City-Data.com and the census, respectively.
Two of the island's most well-known lesbian-owned businesses are Pearl's, the mostly women resort, and Kelly's Caribbean Bar, Grill and Brewery (301 Whitehead Street, 305-293-8484) owned by celesbian Kelly McGillis of Top Gun [HD] fame.
O'Leary, who was the emcee at Pearl's, told our group during breakfast at the resort one day that the reason she loves Key West so much is that people are stripped down to who they really are at the edge of the U.S. It's what keeps her coming back.
It's true. Any conch — what locals are called — or visitor can count of having their airs or edges mellowed out by the tropical heat, rubbed off by the soft sand and detoxified by the natural beauty.
Many locals made up for our initial experience by displaying their warm island hospitality when we were out at bars and restaurants revealing a genuine joy in meeting visitors to Key West.
Fun, Fun, Fun… And More Fun
Key West is a natural water world filled with a bevy of water adventures that women enjoy during WomenFest. While my girlfriend and I opted to stay on dry land, the rest of our group had a blast on the Fury's All Women Ultimate Adventure. The Fury captain and crew take women out for a day of sailing, snorkeling, jet skiing, parasailing, kayaking, rock climbing wall, water slide and more. There's also the popular Barefoot Billy's Jet Ski Tour.
The same team took the girls out on the Fury's "Commotion on the Ocean" Live Music Sunset Sail. May be it was the hot Captain Jenna Moller and her all girl crew, but out of the two sunset cruises we took, my girlfriend and I loved Fury. They had it going on with an open-air boat and the rainbow flag raised high in the sky, decent food to snack on and average beer selections, included with the ticket. You couldn't go wrong with the entertainment on either cruise with the popular Sister Funk and Jennifer Corday, but Fury had what women want.
Non-water sporty outings during WomenFest include a Girls Golfing at the Key West Golf Club on Stock Island, the island over from Key West, and a variety of yoga classes.
Then there are the pool parties, where your bikini or swimsuit simply becomes a question of, "Which one am I going to wear today?" In the evening, the nightclubs were packed with girls in tank tops and shorts and summer dresses along Duval Street for six days straight.
During the day nearly every hotel had its own poolside comedian getting the girls laughing and mixing with a variety of crazy games. Local comedian Postal Wendy, kept the women at the Lighthouse Court Hotel (902 Whitehead Street, 305-294-9588), where we stayed as their guests, laughing around the pool, while O'Leary entertained the girls at Pearl's.
WomenFest is a girlfriend getaway that offers something for everyone. There was a fair share of proposals and honeymoons, singles and couples, comedy shows, outdoor adventures and parties and more parties proving girls do just wanna have fun.
To learn more about WomenFest, visit WomenFest.com.
Originally published by Edge Media.


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On the premiere episode, let us review some of the stand out designers in this year's Spring Summer collection, showcasing the highlights in the runways of Russia, Buenos Aires, Beijing, Amsterdam, Russia and Australia and how their designers measure up with the luxury labels such as Dior, Saint Laurent and Prada.
Let's find out what the stars are wearing during the Met Ball and the Academy Awards with spotlights on Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Williams, Emily Blunt, Daniel Radcliff and Charlize Theron.
Designers featured: Krommenacker, Visentini, Ne Tiger, Winde Rienstra, OudiFu, Anna Langdon, Gareth Pugh, Isabel Marant, Aquilano Rimondi, Telega, Carolina Herrera, Dior, Saint Laurent and Prada.


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The World Conference took place from 3-6 February at Kirpal Sagar
After 12 years of construction work, the Project had then reached a considerable standard under the chairmanship of Dr Harbhajan Singh. It was moving towards a new phase, which should be started with the laying of the foundation-stone of the central building in the Sarovar which today carries the Symbols of inner unity.
On 3 February the event started off with a procession from Chandigarh to Kirpal Sagar by car. On the way, an official reception was held in Rahon. In the evening, the Inaugural Session was held at the meeting hall at Kirpal Sagar. Dr. Harbhajan Singh opened the conference with the following words:
Dear brothers and sisters, we have come together in the sweet remembrance of Sant Kirpal Singh. His teaching is spreading all over the world. He gave us this experience which is described in all Holy Scriptures. His birthday is going to be celebrated everywhere in the world.
Why do people remember Him? Because He was not a Master of one religion – He came for everyone, He came for the whole humanity. He broke all barriers and loved everyone. Similarly, when Guru Nanak went to Mecca, he was asked to which religion he belonged. He answered, 'If God is Hindu, I am a Hindu; if God is Moslem, I am a Moslem; if God is Christian, I am a Christian. I am born in a Hindu family but I belong to the religion of God.'
When such powers come into the world, they neither condemn any religion nor create any new religion. We have gathered here not to hold up any particular religion or community but to hold up the humanity. Man should become a real man who loves everyone, otherwise he is not really a man.
On 4 February Mr. Chaudri Santoch Singh, Chief Parliament Secretary of the Federal State of Punjab, welcomed all the guests on behalf of the Government.
Four panel Conferences dealt with the subjects:
The responsibility of ethically orientated politics and science
The basic unity of religions
Education as man-making
Spirituality – the base for world-wide unity
On 5 February the delegates from India and abroad gave their speeches. It is remarkable that after a period of 20 years Sadhus and Swamis were present who had personally known Sant Kirpal Singh and had met Him at the Kumbha Mela in Hardwar in 1974.
On 6 February was the celebration of Sant Kirpal Singh's 100th Birthday Anniversary. the laying of the foundation-stone for the building in the Sarovar was the highlight of the conference. A welded steel-box containing Sant Kirpal Singh's books and scriptures, partially on microfilms and printed paper, had been prepared to be used as foundation stone. In these books Sant Kirpal Singh explained the common truth of all religions, so this act symbolised that the building is founded on truth. A biography of Sant Kirpal Singh and coins from all over the world were also included in the box, referring to his saying that the various countries of the world are just like chambers in the house of the Lord.
The conference was supported by a social programme:
Inauguration of the Home for the aged by Mr Chaudri Santoch Singh, Chief Parliament Secretary of the Punjab
Inauguration of the guest house
Opening of the programme of medical check-ups and treatments by Mr S. Lakhmir Singh Randhawa, Education Minister of the Punjab


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In 2006, when Eugene Semenov was an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University, he volunteered at the medical clinic of Baltimore Rescue Mission, which provides free medical attention to people who are homeless.
He couldn't help noticing that the record-keeping system was stuck in a pre-computer era, with volunteers tasked with taking vital signs and gathering information. The result was a lack of standardization, and a system of physical paper, which could not be transferred electronically to other doctors.
Now, the clinic has an electronic medical system that creates a standardized, searchable database for each patient, and provides prompts that assure the volunteers, who are Johns Hopkins undergraduates and medical students, are correctly gathering and recording information.
When a homeless person arrives at the clinic, a volunteer can easily access that patient's records, and follow a series of touch screens to collect vital signs and other information.
The system was created by Semenov, now 27 and a third-year Hopkins medical student, and Michael Morris, 26, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
"We set it up so you can't finish the page until you finish collecting the vitals," explained Semenov.
"If you put in medications but not the dosages, you can't continue," added Morris.
The system, which is far simpler and less expensive than ones used at large institutions like Johns Hopkins, has been in place about a year. The students, who were undergraduates together at Johns Hopkins, both volunteered at the clinic during their first year of medical school. They spent several years developing the system, believed to be the first student-created electronic medical system for use by a free clinic.
They hope it will become a template for systems that can be used by other clinics treating underserved populations.
"Our goal is really to connect the local clinics to this system," said Semenov.
They also hope the information gathered by the electronic medical records system will help officials better document the needs and demographics of Baltimore's homeless population. Morris and Semenov said the need for such a system is clear.
"The beauty of electronic records is how easy it is to transition information from one clinic to the next," said Semenov. So doctors who treated a patient at an emergency room in a Baltimore hospital, for example, can access records showing if that patient has allergies to medications or a history of high blood pressure.
Morris noted the system also lets physicians see workflow and identify areas that could be improved.
Federal law requires that medical organizations establish electronic record-keeping systems, which can cost hundreds of millions of dollars. But Semenov and Morris estimate they spent less than $5,000 to develop the system, not counting their own hours of work. It was offered to the clinic at no charge, and future systems will be less expensive, said Morris.
They received some funding through an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, and the rest from private donations to the nonprofit organization they created, Networking Health. They worked with two other Hopkins medical students, Mark Fisher and Roosevelt Offoha, and advisors including Hopkins computer science professor Avi Rubin.
"Michael basically sent me an email one day saying they were working on this system," said Rubin. "They were interested in looking at the security of their system, what they could do to make it more secure."
Design of the system began with considering what a medical clinic serving a homeless population need. Billing information is not included, because the clinic is free. All the coding related to insurance claims are not necessary.
"We don't need the extra functionality," said Semenov.
The clinic is staffed by a medical director, Dr. John Dalton, and is run primarily by volunteers. With a paper medical record, Dalton said, "You have a chart and you have to thumb around to different places and it's all there but it's kind of clunky." With the electronic records, "you see everything at a glance and it's a whole lot better."
Dalton said the system is particularly useful in documenting changes in treatment. For example, "if you're maintaining somebody who is complicated and they've got 10 different medications," a change in dosage of one medication can be accomplished with a click on a keyboard. "Whereas if you do it by hand you have to do the whole thing," he said.
"It's already a success," he said of the system.


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Lead Exposure Risk Assessment Questionnaire for Children
- Spanish Version
- Lead Exposure Risk Assessment Questionnaire for Children" is available in Portable Document Format (PDF, 27KB, 1pg.)
In addition to the required testing of all children for lead with a blood lead test at one year of age and again at age two, assessment of risk for lead exposure should be done at each well-child visit or at least annually for each child six months to six years of age. The questions below serve as a risk assessment tool based on currently accepted public health guidelines. Children found to be at risk for lead exposure should receive a blood lead test whenever such risk is identified.
1. Does your child live in or regularly visit a house/building built before 1978 with peeling or chipping paint, or with recent or ongoing renovation or remodeling?
Note: This could include a day care center, preschool, and the home of a babysitter or a relative.
2. Has your family/child ever lived outside the United States or recently arrived from a foreign country?
3. Does your child have a brother/sister, housemate/playmate being followed or treated for lead poisoning?
4. Does your child frequently put things in his/her mouth such as toys, jewelry, or keys? Does your child eat non-food items (pica)?
Note: This may include toys or jewelry products that have been recalled by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) due to unsafe lead levels. Our Lead Hazard Product Recalls site provides a list of recent recalls that are related to lead hazards.
5. Does your child frequently come in contact with an adult whose job or hobby involves exposure to lead?
Note: Jobs include house painting, plumbing, renovation, construction, auto repair, welding, electronics repair, jewelry or pottery making. Hobby examples are making stained glass or pottery, fishing, making or shooting firearms and collecting lead or pewter figurines.
6. Does your child live near an active lead smelter, battery recycling plant, or another industry likely to release lead, or does your child live near a heavily-traveled road where soil and dust may be contaminated with lead?
Note: May need to alert parent/caregiver if such an industry is local.
7. Does your family use products from other countries such as health remedies, spices, or food, or store or serve food in leaded crystal, pottery or pewter?
Note: Lead has been found in traditional medicines such as Ayurvedic medicine, liga, greta, azarcon, litargirio, and in cosmetics such as kohl, surma, and sindoor. Lead exposure risk is higher with old, imported, painted, cracked or chipped china, and in low-fired and terra cotta pottery, often made in Latin America and the Middle East.
If the answer to any of the above questions is YES, then the child is considered to be at risk for lead exposure and should receive a blood lead test.
- Ask any additional questions that may be specific to a particular community (or population) e.g. high risk zip code, refugee child recently arrived in the United States, children with behavioral and/or developmental disabilities, children who receive Medicaid or children entering foster care.
- Ask if any of the above conditions are expected to change in the future (e.g. house remodeling).
- Tailor appropriate anticipatory guidance to the child and family.


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This week I came across an article in House Beautiful from a couple of months ago on 50 designer tips for choosing a sofa. I love reading stuff like this. So many opinions all in one place!
One designer fancies a roll arm on a sofa. Another prefers flat. One suggests a modern tuxedo sofa. Another likes a curved sofa in a square room.
"Sofas so often end up looking like beached whales!" said yet another designer, who uses sofas with low backs and "simple, strict tailoring" to avoid this problem.
That comment is one that will surely stick with me. Beached whales? I may never look at a sofa the same way again.
A little humor always helps when it comes to taking a good look at our homes. Designers have a way of delivering exactly what we need to hear.
For example, I've enjoyed flipping through a book with the irresistible title "101 Things I Hate About Your House" by designer James Swan with Carol Beggy (Health Communications Inc, $18.95).
Room-by-room he takes us, shaping us up along the way:
In the living room: "The tiniest of spaces notwithstanding, most rooms for living will benefit greatly from pulling furniture away from the walls."
In the kitchen: "If glass cabinet doors are what you want, then be prepared to maintain a level of orderliness. Otherwise, straighten up the shelves or smash the glass and start over. Either way you'll be on your way to a more beautiful kitchen."
In the family room: "Furniture with cup holders should be taken out and burned. Sorry, but these devices can slip under the radar for pickup trucks, stadium seating and the occasional home theater. But beyond these isolated uses just because you can, doesn't mean you should!"
No, we don't own any furniture with cup holders, but we do have some glass-front cabinets that need attention from time to time.
Now before you go neatening your cabinets or moving your furniture, here are a few more memorable comments, including some dating back decades:
• From the late designer Michael Greer: "Without a border on a rug you don't have a rug; you just have a piece of cloth lying there, like a towel."
• From the late Mark Hampton: "Oh coffee tables! People are so hung up on them."
• From interior designer Miles Redd in Elle Decor: "Buy the best, and you only cry once."
And, more recently, this one from Jonathan Adler: "I believe handcrafted tchotchkes are life-enhancing."
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Requesting VASU to put BARAHA into OPEN SOURCE, Answer to Dr. Pavanaja's email,
Requesting VASU to put BARAHA into OPEN SOURCE, Answer to Dr. Pavanaja's email, Answer to some of the questions raised here in the email.
Dear Mr. Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan,
At the out set, I would like to write that our kannada association HONORED you in Southern California during the SILVER JUBLIEE CELEBRATIONS for your kannada fonts BARAHA. I am the one who dropped you and your wife to the airport. This is way before your email of July 2004 to Mr. Anand owner of Akruthi Fonts. No kannadiga knew anything about what you did till July 2004.
Here in this email I have copied the following:
1. Your email dated June 22, 2004 to Mr. Anand owner of Akruthi Fonts. This is exact copy of the email that was sent to me by Mr. Anand in 2004 itself.
2. Email dated July 29th 2004 written by Dr. U. B. Pavanaja to me – V. M. Kumaraswamy(email@example.com)
I hope Dr. Pavanaja has written factual things. Please go through the email. If you disagree with anything he has written please write back to me. This helps to clarify things for kannadigas. Some kannadigas wants to know it from you.
Did you call or email Dr. U. B. Pavanaja? Did Dr. Pavanaja tell you in detail what you needed to do.
Dr. Pavanaja says that you are telling all kannadigas by quoating a wrong case to proove that, What you did was correct and that you did not steal the IPR of AKRUTHI Fonts ti develop BARAHA 1.0. You also had sent the same thing to me and other kannadigas also, to prove to kannadigas that you have not done anything wrong. Dr. Pavanaja writes in detail and explains where you cleverly not telling all kannadigas about what really happened in that case of ADOBE Fonts. Do you think Dr. Pavanaja is wrong ???
Dr. Pavanaja also concludes that you have stolen Glyphs from Akruthi Fonts in releasing BARAHA 1.0 in 1997. At the same time Dr. Pavanaja concludes that NUDI Fonts has been developed by using BARAHA Fonts. This shows that you have made KAGAPA to take your BARAHA Fonts make KHALITHA Fonts and then rename it as NUDI FONTS and sold it to Govt. of Karnataka. This shows that you are an accessory to develop NUDI Fonts.
Also I would like to point out is that, Mr. A. Sathyanarayana, KAGAPA's Founder Secretary and who worked in KGP/KAGAPA for more than Four years also states in this email to me in 2004, that KAGAPA made KHALITHA Fonts from BARAHA Fonts and then named it NUDI Fonts before selling it to Govt. of Karnataka. Is Mr. A. Sathyanarayana writing wrong on this ?? Please clarify this also.
3. Your Press Report of June 15th 2009, which happened in Tumkur. Copy of the entire pdf file is attached for kannadigas to read and some of the important points are typed here in this email for convinience of Kannadigas to read and ponder themselves on what has happened.
I have made series of questions to you on this press report
4. Since you are giving BARAHA as FREE DOWNLOAD to KANNADIGAS, why do't you put BARAHA Fonts into OPEN SOURCE so that APPLICATION SOFTWARES can be developed by KANNADIGAS. You are telling on June 2009 "ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಅಗತ್ಯ" So this will benefit kannadigas anyway.
5, In 2004 you gave press statements Deccan Herald, WHY you did not mention anything about " ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಅಗತ್ಯ " in 2004. Probably you did not know anything about this at that time, I think. Now you have seen kannadigas are pressing for these, you come and make statements like you did in June 2009.
6. One more thing, instead of just saying that KANNADA needs "ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಅಗತ್ಯ",, Why do't you develop it yourself or STEAL from some one else and provided it FREE for KANNADIGAS as you did on BARAHA FONTS.
7. One more thing, WITHOUT BARAHA 1.0, you could not have done further releases of BARAHA. Such as BARAHA 2.0, 3.0. 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, and others. You need to know when a baby needs to be born to grow and become grown up. It will not happen just like a real grown up person right from the begining. So you needed BARAHA 1.0 to develop your further releases of BARAHA. As you have stated in your email of July 2004, you have STOLEN the IPR / GLYPHS of AKRUTHI Fonts to release BARAHA 1.0 Fonts in 1997.
8. Please do not go on telling others there were no KANNADA FONTS available before BARAHA and NUDI came into existence. Please do not do this and tells LIES to Kannadigas. Govt. of Karnataka was using KANNADA FONTS before BARAHA and NUDI Fonts.
9. In conclusion, BARAHA and NUDI have destroyed the KANNADA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT in Karnataka Statement. I some kannadigas dis agree on this statement. It has been going on like this since 2004 anyway. AGREE to DISAGREE and we need to move on and correct the things for the sake of KANNADA BHASHE.
YOUR email to Mr. S. K. Anand
—– Original Message —–
From: Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: <email@example.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: From Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan
> Dear Mr. S.K. Anand,
> I recently saw a remark from you in one of the postings in an Internet
> newsgroup which goes as follows…
> "We who have been developing such fonts (AKRUTI) well over two decades would
> not like a repeat of the experience, we had when our fonts were pirated off
> the Web and used without acknowledgement, first by an individual who went on
> to release a free software…"
> I thought you may be referring to Baraha software in the above remark, and
> hence is this email.
> When I started developing a Kannada software, I had no knowledge of fonts at
> all. I experimented a lot with various Kannada fonts available in the
> Internet, including Akruti. This research helped me to understand the
> technology behind the Kannada fonts and I learnt a lot from these software.
> Initially, I wanted Baraha compatible with other Kannada fonts. But due to
> various limitations of such fonts, I had to come up with my own encoding.
I honestly admit that I have used the glyphs from one of the Akruti fonts in Baraha 1.0, and I was not very serious to mention about it.
When I released Baraha 1.0, I didn't know it will become popular and used by many people. It was only an experiment which I wanted to share with my family and friends.
> But later, when Baraha became popular, for copyright reasons, I had to add
> my own fonts for Kannada and other languages. I have created many new font
> styles, which don't exist in any other Kannada software. My intention was to
> provide the facility for basic documentation needs of Kannada. It was not my
> intention to copy or re-create various Kannada font styles that are
> available in other packages. Instead I have focussed more on portability of
> Kannada text from Baraha to other software such as Akruti, ShreeLipi, e.t.c.
> Through this mail I would like to express my grattitude to various other
> Kannada software for helping me to acquire the knowledge.
My acknowldgements to Akruti software for providing the glyphs which were used in the intial releases of Baraha.
I apologise for this delayed acknowledgement.
> Regards
> Vasu
> ***********************************************************
> Free Kannada/Devanagari software – http://www.baraha.com
> ***********************************************************
ನಾನು ವಾಸು, ೧೯೯೭ ಇಸವಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಕೃತಿ ಫಾಂಟ್ಸ್ ಇಂದ ಕದ್ದು ಬರಹ ೧.೦ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು ಅಂಥ ೨೦೦೪ ನೆ ಇಸವಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಈಮೇಲ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಆಕೃತಿ ಓನರ್ ಆನಂದ್ ಗೆ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿ ನನ್ನ ಈಮೇಲ್.
೨೦೦೪ ರ ಈಮೇಲ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ , ನಾನು, ನನಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ತಂತ್ರಾಶದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಏನು ಗೊತ್ತಿತ್ರಲಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂಥ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದೇನೆ,
ಎಲ್ಲ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರು ನನ್ನ ಈಮೇಲ್ ಓದಿ ಅರ್ಥ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು.
ನಾನು ವಾಸು ಹೇಳುವುದು ಏನಂದರೆ, ಬರಹ ೧.೦ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರಿಗೆ ಉಚಿತ ವಾಗಿ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದೇನೆ.
Dr. U. B. Pavanaja's email to Me (V. M. Kumaraswamy), Detailing the account of FONTS ISSUES.
Subject: font issues
Date: 7/29/2004 12:18:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
Reply To:
To: email@example.com
Sent on:
Sent from the Internet (Details)
I have attached the promised document on the font issues. Hope I can
sleep peacefully now (it is 00:45 hrs in the night) 🙂
Dr. U.B. Pavanaja
CEO, Vishva Kannada Softech
Think Globally, Act locally
Font issues -Akruti, Baraha and Nudi
by U B Pavanaja
Birth of Baraha
I had put up Kannada's first web-site called Vishva Kannada during Dec. 1996 with the support of S K Anand of Cyberscape. Dynamic font technology was not being used by Vishva Kannada at that time. Akruti fonts were given for download at the web-site. Users have to download the font, install it in their PC and then they could read the Vishva Kannada web-site in Kannada. Sometimes in the first half of 1997, I got an email from Sheshadri Vasu who was at USA. In that mail he appreciated Vishva Kannada. He added that it takes a long time to copy characters through CharMap (an utility present in Windows to copy a glyph of a font into any application) and make a Kannada sentence. I explained him how to type in Kannada using the keyboard driver which has to be bought from Cyberscape. I gave the contact details of S K Anand and the approximate price of the software also. Then there was no mail from Vasu for some time. (Recently, during his visit to India in June 2004, Vasu wrote an article for Vijaya Karnataka, wherein he mentioned the discussions he had with me about the relation between font and keyboard driver). One day I got an email from Vasu saying that he has made a software called Baraha that can be used as an editor for Kannada. He wrote that he wanted to give this software free to everyone. The version sent to me was a beta version. He had actually written an editor for the font he downloaded from the web. I asked him about the copyright of the font. He had not thought anything about that. I explained to him the he need to take the permission of S K Anand of Cyberscape to use Akruti fonts in his software. He included the Kan Ballal font which was given to read Udayavani web-site with the first release of Baraha, which was given to some select friends only. Later on he changed the ASCII values of the glyphs of Akruti font and released the Baraha package officially. His idea was that just by changing the ASCII values of the glyphs, his font becomes different from Akruti font. But morally, ethically and legally, this amounts to violation of intellectual property rights. After a long gap of six years, recently (2004), Vasu admitted that he used the glyphs from Akruti fonts, in a mail to S K Anand.
Fonts used in Nudi
Now let me discuss the about the fonts bundled with Nudi. Nudi was initially thought as a testing software. This was made into a package later on. Myself and Harsha (the programmer who did the coding for Nudi) were opposing the release of Nudi without our own professional fonts. Making a font is an elaborate process. Artists have to draw each character (glyph) on paper, they have to be scanned, digitized, hinted, etc. It takes months for each font. C V Srinatha Sasthry (CVSS), Chief Secretary, Kannada Ganaka Parishat (KGP), told me that he got the font made from someone before submitting the final package to GoK. In one of the executive committee meeting S K Anand and myself questioned CVSS about who made the fonts, how much was paid to him, etc. G N Narsimha Murthy (GNNM), Secretary, KGP, gave a reply that someone at Koppa made the fonts. I mentioned that KGP should have the complete record of making of the fonts like original drawings by the artist, first raw digitized data, the final font, etc. GNNM promised to get all these from Koppa and show to us in the next meeting. He never bothered to do that.
I came to know about the entire story about fonts much much later. Initially I used to believe the statements of CVSS about the fonts. But it took almost 2 years for me to accidentally discover the truth. While experimenting with opentype font creation, I was studying the glyphs of all Kannada fonts. When I opened Baraha, Akruti and Nudi fonts in a font editing software, I found that they all have the same glyph sets, even though their ASCII values are different. As Sathyanarayana has detailed in his write-up, the glyphs from Akruti fonts were used in the first version of Baraha, which was then used in the first version of Nudi. As per my knowledge CVSS got this conversion of font encodings done by someone here at Bangalore itself. The fonts were not made from scratch at Koppa. This is clear violation of intellectual property rights. I had a strong and heated argument with CVSS and GNNM about one or two months before the elections to the executive committee of KGP. I blasted CVSS for misleading me and telling lies to me that the fonts were developed at Koppa. CVSS and GNNM have told lies to me and cheated GoK by supplying them with pirated fonts. Definitely my position became very awkward that I being the mentor and the person in charge of Nudi in the initial stages was not informed of these backdoor activities by CVSS. I fired both CVSS and GNNM left and right. At that time GNNM even challenged me to prove these in the court along with S K Anand who had already threatened to sue KGP for violation of intellectual property rights.
Vasu's justification and the realities
With this background let me discuss a bit of what Vasu has written in a document and widely circulated in mailing lists. This document is also present in his Baraha discussion group (groups.msn.com/baraha). Let me quote from this document-
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USA courts have long back decided that fonts can't be copyrighted AT ALL! Here, the digital outline can never be protected. According to them there can't be any original font style, because, every font is created by slightly modifying some other font, and there aren't really "new" font designs! See the following excerpts from the law…
"The Copyright Office has decided that digitized representations of typeface designs are not registerable under the Copyright Act because they do not constitute original works of authorship. The digitized representations of typefaces are neither original computer programs (as defined in 17 U.S.C. 101), nor original databases, nor any other original work of authorship."
So, in a font, the name, any programming code not describing the font design are all that can be copyrighted. This leaves the door open in the USA to have anyone pay for the output of each character from a typesetter and re-digitize it or extract the design from a font program (and rename it), easily duplicating the design. Most foundries have very similar fonts derived from work largely designed by others. More information about font/copyright can be found at http://ssifonts.com/Myths.htm
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Vasu is very cleverly and conveniently quoting from a web-site put up in the year 1997 and has not been updated afterwards. There is a reason for this site not being updated afterwards. This refers to the classic legal battle between Adobe and SSI. Southern Software Inc. (SSI) used to copy and rename fonts from Adobe and others. They thought they were safe from prosecution because, though they had directly copied the points that define the shapes from Adobe's fonts, they had moved all the points just slightly so they were not technically identical. Nevertheless, in his 1998 judgment, the judge determined that the computer code had been copied:
The evidence presented shows that there is some creativity in designing the font software programs. While the glyph dictates to a certain extent what points the editor must choose, it does not dictate every point that must be chosen. Adobe has shown that font editors make creative choices as to what points to select based on the image in front of them on the computer screen. The code is determined directly from the selection of the points. Thus, any copying of the points is copying of literal expression, that is, in essence, copying of the computer code itself.
SSI lost the legal battle at the courts. Judgment was in favor of Adobe. Hence SSI did not update their web-site. Vasu is conveniently quoting from this web-site. One can read in detail about this case in the following web-sites:-
When we conducted a opentype font workshop at Bangalore during March 2003, there was a talk on IPR issues related to fonts by Lawrence Liang, who is an expert on cyber laws. He had discussed this Adobe vs SSI case.
Vasu's interview to Deccan Herald and my comments
Vasu gave an interview to Deccan Herald during his visit to Bangalore in June 2004. Here are some excerpts and my comments on them:-
> "Then, I, along with Ganaka Parishad and the State Government worked to bring Kannada software for official use", he (Vasu) said.
I don't remember any of such efforts by Sheshadri Vasu. In fact Vasu was very reluctant to implement the GoK standard for font and keyboard. There was a heated argument between Dr Panditharadhya and K T Chandrashekharan, father of Vasu, in this connection. All along the time Shasthry, Narasimha Murthy and Panditharadhya were advocating that Baraha killed Kannada while Nudi saved it! Vasu did implement the keyboard and font standards after repeated appeals by Shrinatha Shasthry and Narasimha Murthy.
> Baraha 4.0 was the first software that was implemented in Government offices with font styles.
I don't think this statement of Sheshadri Vasu is true. There were many Kannada software being used in state govt much much before KGP, Nudi or Baraha came into existence.
> But the Ganaka Parishad and the State Government have introduced Nudi software as a benchmark system.
If Vasu were to introduce the GoK standards much earlier than the release of Kalitha (Nudi), Nudi would not have come into existence.
> Unfortunately for me, the government is insisting the use of Nudi software.
Why should be unfortunate to him? He is not selling Baraha.
> While Baraha has fulfilled the terms and conditions put forth by the Government, including stipulations such as keyboard and transliteration, I wonder why they are forcing departments to use only Nudi", he said. One of Baraha's many advantages, according to Vasu, is that it allows a person who knows Kannada to type it in English fonts. He felt preference of software (Baraha or Nudi) should be left to end user.
Why the choice should be only between Nudi and Baraha, both of them are obsolete in the current and future time where Unicode is the world standard? Actually the choice should be between Windows XP/2003, Mac, Linux, Solaris, Java Desktop, Unix, etc. all are having Unicode compliance.
Meeting with Vasu in June 2004
Vasu was felicitated by Upasana in Bangalore during his visit in June 2004. I met him during that function. I discussed many things in general like Unicode features, facility needed in Baraha to convert RTF and HTML documents into Unicode, etc. Casually I asked him where from he is getting the fonts for his Baraha package. As per his answer, there is an artist in Bangalore who draws the shapes on paper and sends them to him. He (Vasu) scans, digitizes and makes them into fonts. I did not discuss anything about the Akruti font issue.
Conclusion and request
Baraha has copied and used one font from Akruti software. This font is one of the many fonts bundled with current version of Nudi.
I have written everything that I know about the font issues pertaining to Akruti, Baraha and Nudi. My intention is to bring out the truth, however bitter it is. I have no personal animosity with anyone whose name appears in this write-up. Please read this objectively and subjectively. That is, do a vasthunistha (objective) reading rather than a vyakthinishta (subjective) reading.
Thanks for your patience and time.
Sheshadrivasu Chandrashekaran,s press report of June 2009, which happened in TUMKUR. Some of it is typed here for the readers to know what VASU has told. The entire press report is attached to this email as pdf file.
ರಾಜ್ಯ ವಾರ್ತೆ – ತುಮಕೂರು
ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಅಗತ್ಯ
[Kannada Software – VASU June 2009.pdf (application/pdf) 409.00K] copy attached to this email.
ಕನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರಭ ವಾರ್ತೆ , ತುಮಕೂರು , ಜೂನ್ ೧೫ ೨೦೦೯,
ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಷಾ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬಹುತೇಕ ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ (ಸಾಫ್ಟ್ ವೇರ್ ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ) ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳು ಬಗೆಹರಿದಿವೆ. ಆದರೆ ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ ಭಾಷಾ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ರುವಂತೆ ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲೂ ವಿವಿದ ರೀತಿಯ ಅನ್ವಯಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ (ಅಪ್ಲಿಕೇಶನ್) ಗಳನ್ನೂ ರೂಪಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಅಗತ್ಯವಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಉಚಿತ ಕನ್ನಡ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಬರಹದ ರೂವಾರಿ ಅಮೇರಿಕಾದ ಶೇಷಾದ್ರಿ ವಾಸು ಚಂದ್ರಶೇಖರನ್ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಪಟ್ಟರು.
ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಂದು ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶಗಳು ಲಭ್ಯವಿವೆ. ಅವಲ್ಲೆವೂ ಇ-ಮೇಲ್ ಮಾಡಲು, ದಾಖಲಾತಿ ಸಂಗ್ರಹ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಸ್ಟೇ ಸೀಮಿತವಾಗಿದೆ. ಆದರೆ ಅಸ್ಟೇ ಸಾಲದು. ವಿವಿದ ವಿಷಯಗಳಿಗೆ ಸಂಭದಿಸಿದಂತೆ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಮಾಹಿತಿಯೂ ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಲಭ್ಯವಾಗುವಂತಾಗಬೇಕು. ಅದಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಅನ್ವಯಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಗಳು ರೂಪುಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು ಎಂದು ಸಲಹೆ ನೀಡಿದರು.
ಲಾಭಕ್ಕ ಅಲ್ಲ, ಖುಷಿಗೆ : ಅಮೆರಿಕಾದಂಥಹ ದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಕುಳಿತು ಬರಹ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶವನ್ನು ರೂಪಿಸಿದ್ದು ಯಾವುದೇ ಲಾಭದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ ದಿಂದಲ್ಲ. ಕೇವಲ ಸ್ವಂತ ಬಳಕೆಯ ಖುಷಿಯಿಂದ ಎಂದ ಅವರು , ಬರಹ ರೂಪು ಗೊಂಡಾಗ ಖುಷಿಯಾಯಿತು. ಅದು ಹಲವರ ಗಮನಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದಾಗ ಅನೇಕ ಗೆಳೆಯರು ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದರು. ಅಲ್ಲದೆ ಬಿಡುವಿನ ವೇಳೆಯನ್ನು ಸದ್ವಿನಿಯೋಗಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಬರಹ ಸಂಶೋದನೆ ನೆರವಾಯಿತು. ಅದೇ ಬಹುದೊಡ್ಡ ಖುಷಿ ಸಂಗತಿಯಾಯಿತು.
ಜೀವನೋಪಾಯಕ್ಕೆ ಒಂದು ಉದ್ಯೋಗವಿದೆ. ಆದರೆ ಹವ್ಯಾಸವಾಗಿ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಪ್ರಯೋಗ ಬರಹ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ರೂಪ ಪಡೆಯಿತು. ಆ ಪ್ರಯೋಗ ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾದ್ದರಿಂದ ಅದನ್ನು ಉಚಿತವಾಗಿ ಜನಬಳಕೆಗೆ ಇಂಟರ್ ನೆಟ್ ನಳ್ಳಿ ಮುಕ್ತ ಅವಕಾಶ ನೀಡಲಾಯಿತು,
SOME QUESTIONS to PONDER?
QUESTIONS to VASU on the June 2009 press report which is attached here and some part copied above. Kannadigas need to know this from vasu.
ಶೇಷಾದ್ರಿ ವಾಸು ಹೇಳಿದ ಹಾಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳು ಬಗೆಹರಿದಿಲ್ಲ. ಕನ್ನಡ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳು ಇನ್ನು ಜಾಸ್ತಿ ಹಾಗಿದೆ.
ವಾಸು, ಪರ್ತಕರ್ತ ಶ್ರೀ. ಪ್ರಭಾಕರ ಬರೆದಿರುವುದನ್ನು ಓದಬೇಕು, ಓದಿದರೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ತೊಂದರೆಗಳು ಗೊತ್ತಾಗುತ್ತೆ. nivella odi nodi.
ವಾಸು, ದಿವಂಗತ ಶ್ರೀ. ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ ಯವರು, ೨೦೦೪, ೨೦೦೫ ರಲ್ಲಿ , ಕನ್ನಡ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಬರೆದಿರುವುದನ್ನು ಓದಿದರೆ ಗೊತ್ತಾಗುತ್ತೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳು. nivella odi nodi.
ಕನ್ನಡ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳು ಬಗೆಹರಿದಿದ್ದರೆ, ಶ್ರೀ. ಪವನಜ, ಶ್ರೀ. ಇಸ್ಮಾಯಿಲ್, ಶ್ರೀ. ನಾರಾಯಣ , ಇವರೆಲ್ಲ ಪ್ರಜಾವಾಣಿ ಯಲ್ಲಿ, ಆಗಸ್ಟ್ ೧ ೨೦೦೯, ಯಾಕೆ ಬರೆದರು " ಕನ್ನಡವಾಗದ ಕಂಪ್ಯೂಟರ್ ಲೋಕ " ಅಂತ [kannadavaagada computer loka.pdf (application/pdf) 395.00K] ? ಇವರೆಲ್ಲ ಏನು ಸುಳ್ಳು ಬರೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದರಾ? ಕನ್ನಡ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳು ಇರುವುದರಿಂದ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಅಂತ ಗೊತ್ತಾಗುತ್ತೆ.
ಶ್ರೀ. ಪವನಜ , ಜುಲೈ ೨೦೦೪, ನಲ್ಲಿ, ಬರಹ ದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಕೃತಿ ಫಾಂಟ್ಸ್ ಇದೆ ಅಂತ. ವಾಸು ಯಾಕೆ ಇದುವರೆಗೆ ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಉತ್ತರ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿಲ್ಲ? ವಾಸು ಸುಳ್ಳು ಕೋರ್ಟ್ ಕೇಸ್ ಹೇಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾನೆ ಅಂತಾನು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಪವನಜ. ವಾಸು ಯಾಕೆ ಇದೆಕ್ಕೆಲ್ಲ ಉತ್ತರ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿಲ್ಲ?
ವಾಸುಗೆ ೧೯೯೭ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಕದ್ದು ಬರಹ ಮಾಡಿದಾಗ, ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಅಗತ್ಯ ಎಂದು ಗೊತ್ತಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಗೊತ್ತಾಗುತ್ತೆ.
ವಾಸುಗೆ ಜುಲೈ ೨೦೦೪ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಇಮೇಲ್ ಬರೆದಗಾನು ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಅಗತ್ಯ ಎಂದು ಗೊತ್ತಿರಿಲಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಗೊತ್ತಾಗುತ್ತೆ.
ವಾಸು ೨೦೦೪ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ ಯವರಿಗೆ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ , ಮಾತಾಡಿದ್ದ. ವಾಸು ೨೦೦೪ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಅಗತ್ಯ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಯಾಕೆ ? ವಾಸುಗೆ ಗೊತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ತಾನೇ ಹೇಳುವುದಕ್ಕೆ?
WHY VASU is saying that he really did the BARAHA Fonts. He has written an email in 2004 telling that he stole the IPR of AKRUTHI Fonts in 1997 when releasing BARAHA 1.0. Hence BARAHA is IPR Stolen product. All further releases of BARAHA could not have been done without BARAHA 1.0.
Dr. U. B. PAVANAJA on Font Issues. Birth of BARAHA, FONTS USED in NUDI, VASU's LIES, – odi nodi
VASU says he did copy this IPR for HAVYSAKKOSKARA. He should have kept it for himself. Not distributed to the whole world by creating a mess of KANNADA Software Development. This shows in his statements of June 2009 in TUMKURU. VASU has allowed BARAHA to be copied into KHALITHA fonts by KGP/KAGAPA/Kannada Ganaka Parishat and rename it as NUDI Fonts and sold NUDI FONST to Govt. of Karnataka for about 35 Lakhs.
BARAHA and NUDI have DESTROYED the KANNADA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT and INDUSTRY.
THIS SHOWS THE VASU's INTELECTUAL CAPACITY.
Vasu himself has written in his email he did not know anything about KANNADA FONTS.
DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING like this "ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಅಗತ್ಯ" TILL JUNE 2009. ?
VASU STOLE IPR in 1997 and VASU gave PRESS STAEMENTS in 2004.
VASU wrote email to Akruthi Fonts owner Mr. Anand in July 2004 that he copied GLYPHS from AKRUTHI Fonts when he released BARAHA 1.0.
Without BARAHA 1.0, VASU could not have developed further releases of BARAHA Fonts.
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Its the same people going in a loop telling and writing the same stuff about kannada. They don't have any quality to attract any more kannadigas, including their own daughter in laws and son in laws. Kannadigas will remain beggars forever, asking people to read/write/kannada movies/articles. The only progress is in trollism.
Most Kannada writers are goondas harassing/threatening people by hacking email accounts and tapping cellphones. Grow up kannadigas, look at the progress done by your neighbouring states at all levels.
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Texas GOP touts its Hispanic model
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Operatives regularly meet with Hispanic groups, appear on Spanish-language television, and bring the party's pro-immigrant message to minority neighborhoods.
The Democratic National Committee?
No. Welcome to the Republican Party of Texas.
Mitt Romney's abysmal showing with Hispanic voters on Nov. 6 - only 27 percent cast ballots for him, according to exit polls - has sparked an ongoing and urgent soul-searching dialogue among Republicans about how their party can do better with that demographic. Some believe the answer lies in the big southwestern state that shares a long border with Mexico.
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"We are very proud that the Hispanic culture is and has been a huge part of our heritage for a long time, and it will be a huge part of our future," Texas Gov. Rick Perry told POLITICO.
The Texas GOP has a lot to crow about: in a state that's nearly 40 percent Hispanic, all statewide offices are held by Republicans; about 700 new Hispanic delegates went to the party's convention last summer; Ted Cruz, the son of a Cuban immigrant, has just been elected to the U.S. Senate; and George P. Bush—who is of Hispanic descent— looks primed for a statewide run.
In interviews, a dozen party leaders, operatives, businessmen, elected officials and others said Texas could serve as a model for national Republicans looking to draw more Hispanics into the fold. They point to a proven Lone Star recipe that combines policies aimed at assisting immigrants, mixed with an effective political ground game and outreach - all of it glued together by welcoming language that embraces the Latino population and its concerns. And, those involved say, the Texas GOP has largely avoided miring itself in anti-immigrant legislation and sharp-edged words and phrases that have turned off Latino voters nationally, particularly in the last election cycle.
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Perhaps the party's single most important recent effort has been the passage of a plank supporting guest workers at the state Republican convention last summer. The key language states that the party endorses a temporary worker initiative to "bring skilled and unskilled workers into the United States for temporary periods of time when no U.S. workers are currently available."
Texas Republicans said the plank has sent a powerful message of inclusion to the state's Hispanic population.
"The bottom line is, the Republican Party of Texas was the first to include the guest worker program in its platform," Joshua Treviño, an influential Texas conservative, told POLITICO. "It's a huge deal, it's an enormous deal…to support a guest worker program is to affirm several things that need affirming, the most important of which is, conservative Republicans don't mind Hispanics in their communities and as their neighbors. That's the problem with the entire immigration debate."
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"We have decided to enhance the number of our women personnel and take their strength to 25 per cent of our total deployment in the Delhi Metro. The exercise is on," CISF chief Rajiv told PTI.
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Over the Back Fence: For grads, dreams are just the beginning
Ever cruised along a major freeway in a van full of teenage boys drooling over sports cars zipping by?
"Wow! Look at that Corvette! I'm gonna have one just like that someday!"
"Ooooo … sweet! A Ferrari – that one's mine!"
"I'm getting a Mazda RX-7. Cherry red …"
"I wanna Viper!"
It's more likely they'll be driving a Hyundai. And that's when they'll realize a huge gulf exists between dreaming and making their dreams come true.
Our daughter and several of her friends graduated from high school in recent weeks. During the past four years I can't count the times I've heard them talking and planning their futures. Did I mention that every other week their plans changed? Okay, slight exaggeration – every other month.
Junior college, university or vocational training? Stay local or move near relatives? Maybe study abroad? Work for a year or two before college or go this fall? Pursue the interest as an occupation or keep it a hobby? Start a home-based or an online business? Serve in the military and then go to school, or stick around and turn the after-school job into full-time, to someday become manager?
So many more options are available to this generation than in the past.
A retired friend told me recently, "When I graduated from high school I had three options: I could get married, go for my nursing degree or become an airline stewardess."
She chose world travel.
In case you're wondering, it's OK if our graduates haven't decided yet what they want to do with the rest of their lives. The choices are endless.
What's important is to take small steps in a direction they're interested in. If they find the fit isn't right, they can always choose something else. By completing short-term goals along the way, they'll be learning and growing through the process.
Today's opportunities have a way of becoming the necessary components to reaching tomorrow's goals. Most successful 30-year-olds I know aren't doing exactly what they envisioned when they were in high school, or even college. But the education and experience of the past 10 to 15 years brought them to where they are today – smarter, more determined, more mature and able to see more clearly for the decisions they'll make today and in the future.
Final steps toward goals come only after the first steps are taken, and all the steps in between.
It's good for our kids to dream, as long as they understand dreams are only the beginning. And the bigger the dream, the more work is involved turning the dream into reality.
Ideas conceived must be labored over, nurtured and invested in. Add to the equation tons of perseverance, which translates into long hours and hard work.
But not every piano student has to become a concert pianist. Not every linebacker will make it to the Super Bowl. Because not everyone is meant to be larger than life. And that's OK.
"If you can dream it, you can do it," isn't a true statement on its own.
Maybe we've done a disservice by encouraging younger generations to reach so high. The sheer distance and weight of a "shoot-for-the-stars" mentality can easily overwhelm. We don't want to discourage them from trying anything less than world record breaking.
Putting too much emphasis on star quality hinders the efforts of most of our kids doing everyday tasks well. They'll lose sight of the value of making a difference on a small scale, within their own communities.
It wouldn't hurt to have a few more responsible employees at our local stores and businesses.
It wouldn't make the papers, but it'd be nice to see more family members who are devoted and available to the ones closest to them.
And we could use more business owners, teachers, legal and medical professionals, government leaders and other community members with integrity.
Couldn't we?
By allowing our kids to become enamored with celebrity status, they'll miss the opportunities to shine right where they are. I don't know of many neighborhoods that wouldn't benefit from a little more light.


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When New York State revised its scope of practice law several years ago, Ferkauf was the first school in New York City—and one of the first in the state—to take advantage of the new legislation to offer the MA in mental health counseling. The quality and number of applicants to the program have steadily increased, and we are constantly strengthening our course offerings, clinical training and faculty, as well as helping our students to make the all-important transition from training to practice.
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As a student in this program, you will be required to complete a minimum of 600 hours in supervised field placement before graduation. The program's field placement options span the New York metropolitan area, and many of our long-established community mental health centers, hospitals and agency affiliates are willing to accept our students as externs to fulfill this requirement. We maintain an active directory of field placements (PDF) that is frequently updated. Studying in one of the most diverse cities in the world affords you the opportunity to work with many different communities, and you will have several choices for field-study placements in appropriate agency or hospital settings.
The Mental Health Counseling Program MA Student Handbook (PDF) includes important information regarding academic outlines and requirements, policies and procedures, academic standards, curriculum planner and much more. All students are urged to refer to this handbook continually throughout their education here, as it will be updated whenever necessary.
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Self-observation and self-reflection or mindfulness are core aspects in the training of all professional counselors. The mental health counseling faculty supports this view. Applicants to this program need to be aware that some classes and field placements may require disclosure of personal information in course or program-related activities either in writing or in class discussions.
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text: Flo Rida, unsurprisingly a native Floridian, is an MC who toured as a teenager with 2 Live Crew's Fresh Kid Ice and began popping up on high-profile mixtapes by 2006, most notably DJ Khaled's We the Best -- on "Bitch I'm from Dade County," he appeared with the likes of Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Trina, and Dre (of Cool & Dre). Signed to the Atlantic-distributed Poe Boy that year, he recorded Mail on Sunday, which was released in March of 2008. "Low," featuring T-Pain, was the album's lead single; it reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100. A year later he returned with the album R.O.O.T.S. (Route of Overcoming the Struggle), featuring the hit single "Round."


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Russia coach Vladimir Kuzyutkin: "We understand Canada is young and inexperienced. We wanted to use as little energy as possible today. Our goal was to win and we did."
Russia captain Maria Borodokova: "We performed well today, better than in previous games. We hope to continue to improve."
Russia player Liubov Shashkova: "The last time I played against Canada was 1996, so I was looking forward to this match. They have an intriguing set of players."
Canada coach Arnd Ludwig: "We started the match with too much respect for them and made too many errors. But we improved as the match went on. That is important."
Canada captain Tammy Louise Mahon: "There was no pressure on us. We were playing the defending champions. We just tried to work on our game."
Canada player Marisa Field: "We started slowly today. We gained momentum towards the end. I'm proud of our team."


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Sunitinib Malate in Treating Patients With Previously Untreated Metastatic Kidney Cancer
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01158222
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 8, 2010
Results First Posted : August 16, 2018
Last Update Posted : September 14, 2018
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RATIONALE: Sunitinib malate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth or by blocking blood flow to the tumor.
PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well sunitinib malate it works in treating patients with previously untreated metastatic kidney cancer.
|Condition or disease
|Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Stage IV Renal Cell Cancer
|Drug: sunitinib malate
|Phase 2
I. To determine the feasibility of intermittent sunitinib therapy in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
I. To determine the clinical outcome (response rate and overall progression-free survival) in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients treated with intermittent sunitinib therapy.
II. To evaluate the toxicity of intermittent sunitinib therapy in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
III. To assess the feasibility of detecting circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in RCC patients and investigate the association between the VEGF -634 genotype and the occurrence of hypertension in sunitinib-treated RCC patients.
Patients receive oral sunitinib malate once daily on days 1-28. Sunitinib dosing schedule may be changed to 14 days on followed by 7 days off, and repeated for a 6-week cycle, at the discretion of the treating physician for toxicity purposes. Cycles will be defined as 6 week intervals regardless of dosing interruptions. All patients will be treated for 4 cycles in the absence of unacceptable toxicity or RECIST-defined progressive disease.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|37 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study of Intermittent Sunitinib in Previously Untreated Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
|Actual Study Start Date :
|August 18, 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 20, 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 1, 2017
Experimental: Arm I
Patients receive oral sunitinib malate once daily on days 1-28. Treatment repeats every 42 days for at least 4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: sunitinib malate
Given orally
Other Names:
- Feasibility as Assessed by Proportion of Patients Eligible for Intermittent Therapy Who Actually Receive it [ Time Frame: after 6 months of treatment (4 cycles) ]Treatment repeats every 42 days for at least 4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
- Change in Circulating Tumor Cells [ Time Frame: Pre-treatment, day 1, and day 28 of every cycle ]
- Relationship Between Hypertension and Germline VEGF Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) -634 Genotype [ Time Frame: Day 28 of each cycle ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically or cytologically-proven advanced RCC with a component of clear cell histology
- Measurable disease per RECIST criteria
- ECOG performance status 0-1
- Prior nephrectomy is NOT required
- Serum aspartate transaminase (AST; serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT]) and serum alanine transaminase (ALT; serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase [SGPT]) ≤ 2.5 x laboratory upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Total serum bilirubin ≤ 2.0 x ULN
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1500/uL
- Platelets ≥ 100,000/uL
- Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL (transfusion permitted)
- Serum calcium ≤ 12.0 mg/dL
- Serum creatinine ≤ 2.5 mg/dL
- Patients with history of brain metastases can be enrolled at a minimum of 2 weeks following the completion of surgery, gamma knife or whole brain radiotherapy; repeat brain MRI not required for eligibility
- Signed and dated informed consent document indicating that the patient (or legally acceptable representative) has been informed of all pertinent aspects of the trial prior to enrollment
Exclusion Criteria:
- Prior systemic treatment for advanced RCC. Prior adjuvant therapy (any drug) is allowed if end of adjuvant therapy was more than 1 year prior to start of sunitinib on this protocol.
- Any of the following within the 6 months prior to study drug administration: myocardial infarction, severe/unstable angina, severe peripheral vascular disease (claudication) or procedure on peripheral vasculature, coronary/peripheral artery bypass graft, New York Heart Association grade II or greater congestive heart failure, cerebrovascular accident or transient ischemic attack, clinically significant bleeding or pulmonary embolism
- Hypertension that cannot be controlled by medications to < 160/90 mmHg
- Known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related illness
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Other severe acute or chronic medical or psychiatric conditions or laboratory abnormality that may increase the risk associated with study participation or study drug administration, or may interfere with the interpretation of study results, and in the judgment of the investigator would make the patient inappropriate for entry into this study
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01158222
|United States, Ohio
|Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
|Principal Investigator:
|Brian Rini
|Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01158222 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2010-01391 ( Other Identifier: NCI/CTRP )
|First Posted:
|July 8, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|August 16, 2018
|Last Update Posted:
|September 14, 2018
|Last Verified:
|August 2018
|Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:
|Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
|Product Manufactured in and Exported from the U.S.:
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Carcinoma, Renal Cell
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Kidney Neoplasms
Urologic Neoplasms
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Kidney Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Growth Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action


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For many business owners, sorting out the finances is a full time job. These days, you don't need a head for figures to run a successful business. The key is surrounding yourself with expertise, to help you stay organised, accurate and in the black at year end. So we've partnered with the award-winning business finance specialists, Aldermore Bank, to bring you a range of specialist tools – developed just for small and growing businesses.Get started
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For this you will need a standard form, two text boxes and two buttons. You will also need a text file.
First thing you need to do is to create the form with the text boxes and buttons. Under the first button we will put the code to get the data from the text file and to put it into the first text box:
Private Sub Command1_Click() 'This will declare the variable data as a string Dim data As String 'This will find the file that we are using Open "\the address\name of file.txt" For Input As #1 Input #1, MyData 'This puts the data in the textbox Text1.Text = MyData Close #1 End Sub
In the text file put a number into the it and save. now when you press F5 and press the first button it should show you the number. Simple now we look at changing the data.
This next part is a bit bigger but what it does is that it will change the data in the text file but not add to it.
Private Sub Command2_Click() Dim data As String Open "\vb\tutorials\datafile.txt" For Input As #1 Input #1, MyData Close #1 Open "\vb\tutorials\datafile.txt" For Output As #1 mydata2 = Val(Text2.Text) + Val(MyData) Print #1, mydata2 myTimeStamp = Now Print #1, "data"; myTimeStamp Close #1 Open "\vb\tutorials\datafile.txt" For Input As #1 Input #1, MyData Close #1 Text2.Text = MyData End Sub
It is similar to the first part but now it will change the data and add the date and time.
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Hear how ESG defines "tier-1" storage in the modern IT world and in the data centers and services that support it. What was a simple environment just a few years ago with mainframes or a few large servers to be supported has evolved into a complex web of virtual machines, clouds, and expanding user expectations -- factors which demand and create flexibility, but do so in a way that pushes a lack of predictability upon the storage infrastructure. Learn what your criteria should be for tier-1 storage.
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Students Document the Anniversary of the March on Washington
On the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, 18 student reporters from Ithaca College made the journey to the nation's capital, cameras in hand, to witness and capture the momentous occasion.
James Rada, associate professor of journalism, coordinated two trips with the students. The first included 13 students who traveled to D.C. on August 24 to cover the Jobs, Justice, and Freedom rally. These students worked in collaboration with NBC Weekend Nightly News with Lester Holt.
Nearly all of the footage the students shot was used in the broadcast, and additional material not shown during the broadcast was used for web content on NBCNews.com.
The second group made the trek to Washington days later for the actual commemoration of the March on Washington. The students worked with PBS Newshour Online shooting interviews, live tweeting, and editing web content for the Student Voices section of the website. The students had the opportunity to hear President Barack Obama and Bernice King, Martin Luther King's youngest daughter, speak live at the event.
Mia O'Brien '15 had the opportunity to interview a woman whose father had helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference along with Martin Luther King Jr.
"We discovered the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth's daughter in the crowd," said O'Brien. "I'll never forget kneeling next to her and her telling me how her sister used to watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s kids and how she used to hang out at the King family house."


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This script is run before the installation of the archive. If the script is meant to validate the archive, it is kept in the archive. If the script is meant to preserve local configurations on the clone system, it is kept on the clone system. This script also can analyze and collect local data necessary for later customization. For example, client-specific information can be saved before being overwitten by files about to be extracted. This information can then be used in the final stage after extraction.
Create the predeployment script. Follow the guidelines that are described in Guidelines for Creating a Custom Script.
Store the script in one of the following directories.
For archive validation, store in the /etc/flash/predeployment directory.
If you are referencing with a precreation script, store in the $FLASH_DIR/preinstall directory.
If you are preserving configurations on a clone system, provide the path to the script that is stored on the clone system with the local_customization keyword in the JumpStart profile.
#!/bin/sh $FLASH_DIR/TestApplication/check_hardware if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo Unsupported hardware exit 1 fi $FLASH_DIR/TestApplication/check_licence_key if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo No license for this host exit 1 fi $FLASH_DIR/TestApplication/deploy_license_key \ $FLASH_DIR/TestApplication/.TestApplicationLicenceTransfer $FLASH_DIR/TestApplication/save_data_files $FLASH_DIR/flash exit 0


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The Production Process for Online Presentation Content on nanoHUB.org
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Over the past 10 years, the NCN has produced more than 1400 online presentations in the form of course lectures, seminars and workshop presentations, and tutorials and has made them available on nanoHUB.org. These presentations have been viewed by almost 400,000 users and during the past year, more than 90,000 users have watched at least one of these presentations. In 2005 the NCN first introduced podcasts to nanoHUB.org.
This presentation will provide an overview of the techniques that NCN uses today to place lecture content on nanoHUB.org. A brief history of how we got from our first days of online content to the current methods we employ will also be presented. The NCN currently uses a variety of commercial and in-house developed tools in its production process and delivers content to the nanoHUB (podcasts, HTML5), iTunes U and YouTube.
Joseph Cychosz began his computing career in 1974 at the University of Illinois where he became an electrical engineer by degree, and a programmer by trade, while working with the Control Data computer systems, a system comprising the university's computing center and PLATO system. Upon leaving the University of Illinois, Cychosz went to work for Control Data, where he eventually served as technical liaison between CDC's Supercomputing and CADCAM divisions and various university efforts. One of those efforts evolved into Purdue's NSF funded ERC for Collaborative Manufacturing.
With the founding of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) and the NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing in 2002, Cychosz joined these efforts as systems manager and has migrated to production manager for online presentations. His team over the last 10 years have produced in excess of 40 nanotechnology related courses and more than 1500 lectures/seminars for nanoHUB.org. He also serves as site lead for the NCN@Purdue effort and general ombudsman for the other site leads.
Cychosz has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He has published several articles on computer graphics and has authored contributions in the Graphics Gems series. He has chaired various committees for SIGGRAPH and is a member of ACM SIGGRAPH and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
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