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Arizona Border: A safe heaven for illegal immigrants to US

Abhi Bhi Zinda Hun — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:05:00 +0000

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/CISORG

“Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2: Drugs, Guns, and 850 Illegal Aliens” is the Center for Immigration Studies’ second web-based film on the impact of illegal alien activity in Arizona. The Center’s first video on the subject, “Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border: Coyotes, Bears, and Trails,” has received over 50,000 views to date. This new 10-minute mini-documentary raises the bar, featuring footage of both illegal-alien entry as well as gun- and drug-smuggling. At minimum, the inescapable conclusion is that hidden cameras reveal a reality that illegal-alien activity is escalating.

The hidden camera footage, acquired from a variety of sources, indicates that there is an unfortunate lack of federal law enforcement presence on Arizona’s federal land on the border in Nogales, in the Coronado National Forest (15 miles inside the border), and the Casa Grande Sector (80 miles inside the border). Also significant to the story are responses received as part of Freedom of Information Act requests made by Janice Kephart, the Center’s Director of National Security Studies, in August 2009. Featured in the film is a 2004 federal government PowerPoint showing the near-complete devastation of a borderland national park due to illegal-alien activity, highlighting the disconnect between the situation on the ground in Arizona and Washington rhetoric.

Short Threads: July

Abhi Bhi Zinda Hun — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:04:00 +0000

1.
Eyes-on: Peter Molyneux’s Virtual Human Milo

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-07/13/peter-molyneux-milo-and-kate-xbox-kinect-preview

Watch The Demo: 2.
Planck spacecraft helps explain formation of the Universe.:

http://space.gs/10/05-jul-1.html

3.
The Case for Colonizing Mars by Robert Zubrin:

Interesting

http://www.nss.org/settlement/mars/zubrin-colonize.html

4.
An Internet 100 times as fast: A new network design ( Optical Flow Switching ) could boost capacity:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33724235/Optical-Flow-Switching-Paper-By-Chan-Muriel-Medard

http://www.physorg.com/news196940134.html

5.
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/all/1

6.
The biggest bangs in history :
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/biggest-bangs

7.
Bit older research report but, we all need it . Eating less may extend lifespan

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070502143834.htm

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=77925

8.
Apollo-Soyuz: An Orbital Partnership Begins

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/astp_35.html

9.
Bye-Bye Batteries: Radio Waves as a Low-Power Source

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/business/18novel.html

More coming up …..

We Live In A Nation

Abhi Bhi Zinda Hun — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:36:00 +0000

I got following lines from www and the source is anonymous.

It really makes you wonder and is a slap on our society. It is something we all should learn and introspect.
Lets learn from these lines.

We live in a nation :

Where Pizza reaches home faster than Ambulance or police,
Where you get car loan @ 8% and education loan @ 12%,
Where rice is Rs 40/- per kg but sim card is free,
Where a millionaire can buy a cricket team instead of donating the money to any charity,
Where the footwear, we wear, are sold in AC showrooms, but vegetables, that we eat, are sold on the footpath,
Where everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to follow the path to be famous,
Where we make lemon juices with artificial flavors and dish wash liquids with real lemon.
Where people are standing at tea stalls reading an article about child labor from a newspaper and say,
“Yaar bachhon se kaam karvane wale ko to phansi par chadha dena chahiye”
and then they shout “Oye chhotu 2 chaii laao…..”

Source: Anonymous

An Internet 100 times as fast

Abhi Bhi Zinda Hun — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:50:00 +0000

Can you believe an Internet 100 times as fast? A new network design ( Optical Flow Switching ) could boost capacity.

Here is paper on Optical Flow Switching-Chan & Medard

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33724235/Optical-Flow-Switching-Paper-By-Chan-Muriel-Medard

Here is full story: http://www.physorg.com/news196940134.html

Have you tried GoogleCL?

Abhi Bhi Zinda Hun — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:45:00 +0000

Hey.. GoogleCL ( Go to http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-google-command-line-tool.html ) is really awesome stuff from google .

First you need to install Google Data Python Client LIb and then you can access google services from cmd line using GoogleCL .

I just listed all docs of my Google Docs . Now, I am set to do all cmd line stuffs . Just need to write scripts .

Basically, GoogleCL is a pure Python application that uses the Python gdata libraries to make Google Data API calls from the command line.

References:

1. For Google Data Python Client Library : http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/python_client_lib.html

You have to have python 2.5 or higher.

2.
GoogleCL Project Page:
http://code.google.com/p/googlecl

Instructions For Installing GoogleCL:
1. DEPENDENCIES
GoogleCL requires Python 2.5 or 2.6 and the gdata python client library.
You can get the library from the project homepage:
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/

The installation directions for the client library should also contain
directions on installing Python, if you don’t have it already.

2. INSTALLING GOOGLECL
Short instructions:
From the command line, in the directory as this file, run
$ sudo python setup.py install

$ python setup.py install –home=~
(remember to set your PYTHONPATH to include your home directory if you
do it this way)

For more detailed instructions, I recommend looking at the gdata-python-client
INSTALL.txt file. It also has instructions on modifying PYTHONPATH.

After installing Google Data Python Lib ( http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/python_client_lib.html ), you will have sample and example scripts. You can now write your own scripts for accessing various google services.

Just running docs_example.py :

51-196-201-123:gdata-2.0.10 chandratewary$ ./samples/docs/docs_example.py
NOTE: Please run these tests only with a test account.
Please enter your username: ctewary@gmail.com
Password:

Document List Sample
1) List your documents.
2) Search your documents.
3) Upload a document.
4) Download a document.
5) List a document’s permissions.
6) Add/change a document’s permissions.
7) Exit.

> 1
Retrieve (all/document/folder/presentation/spreadsheet/pdf):
Enter a category: all

TITLE TYPE RESOURCE ID
compensation pl… spreadsheet spreadsheet:0ApfFevdQHTHqdFZpemkyczItY2tTT25lZ2xXTFkxd3c
compensation pl… spreadsheet spreadsheet:0ApfFevdQHTHqdFA4VTBXRENJeXhUdVdiNXkwdE1aeHc
null spreadsheet spreadsheet:0ApfFevdQHTHqdFNBR1lsMnpiR1RJUXA3T3FqcVJZeUE
Inspiration document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF8xOGRzNXQ1c2Nr
Degree Cert4 document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF8xNmN2a3d0d2c5
Degree Cert2 00… document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF8xNGczc2hnd2Z3
Degree Cert2 document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF8xMmdzMm4zZmc2
Degree Cert1 document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF8xMGZjbTMzcmNu
ai_designer_int… document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF83ZGNxd2RjZmc
dw_designer_int… document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF84Z3J0a2M4Y20
General_Qs_Inte… document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF85ZGptc20yemc
Untitled Presen… presentation presentation:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF82Y2hjYjRyY2g
1126_Dossier_P1 pdf pdf:0B5fFevdQHTHqMTE4MGQzMWEtY2FiYy00YmQ5LTlmNTctNWVlM2MyYzRlMDEy
Chandra_Shekhar… document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF8zZmh4OXptaGY
Index document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF8yZGI5dDR6YzM
ITPOfflinePayme… document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF8xZmJrbnEzZmo
NIJobs – Job Se… document document:0AZfFevdQHTHqZHBucnY3NF8wYzV4NDZ2Zm0

> 7

Goodbye.
51-196-201-123:gdata-2.0.10 chandratewary$

All these dirs have sample scripts for general use for various supported google services. If you want something more then you can also write for your own purpose.

51-196-201-123:samples chandratewary$ ls -lrt ../../gdata-2.0.10/samples/
total 0
drwxr-x—@ 5 chandratewary staff 170 May 13 01:00 webmastertools
drwxr-x—@ 3 chandratewary staff 102 May 13 01:00 spreadsheets
drwxr-x—@ 3 chandratewary staff 102 May 13 01:00 sites
drwxr-x—@ 6 chandratewary staff 204 May 13 01:00 oauth
drwxr-x—@ 3 chandratewary staff 102 May 13 01:00 mashups
drwxr-x—@ 3 chandratewary staff 102 May 13 01:00 maps
drwxr-x—@ 3 chandratewary staff 102 May 13 01:00 finance
drwxr-x—@ 4 chandratewary staff 136 May 13 01:00 docs
drwxr-x—@ 4 chandratewary staff 136 May 13 01:00 contacts
drwxr-x—@ 3 chandratewary staff 102 May 13 01:00 codesearch
drwxr-x—@ 3 chandratewary staff 102 May 13 01:00 calendar
drwxr-x—@ 6 chandratewary staff 204 May 13 01:00 blogger
drwxr-x—@ 6 chandratewary staff 204 May 13 01:00 base
drwxr-x—@ 3 chandratewary staff 102 May 13 01:00 authsub
drwxr-x—@ 3 chandratewary staff 102 May 13 01:00 apps
drwxr-x—@ 4 chandratewary staff 136 May 13 01:00 analytics

Currently, GoogleCL supports following services:

51-196-201-123:googlecl chandratewary$ ls -lrt
total 56
-rw-r–r–@ 1 chandratewary staff 7726 Jun 20 00:35 __init__.py
-rw-r–r–@ 1 chandratewary staff 18978 Jun 20 01:34 service.py
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 chandratewary staff 136 Jun 20 13:34 youtube
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 chandratewary staff 136 Jun 20 13:34 picasa
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 chandratewary staff 136 Jun 20 13:34 docs
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 chandratewary staff 136 Jun 20 13:34 contacts
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 chandratewary staff 136 Jun 20 13:34 calendar
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 chandratewary staff 136 Jun 20 13:34 blogger

Waiting for gmail

What are you thinking? Really cool stuff . Is not it?. Yes..so, go ahead and install…and do all those geeky stuffs for accessing google services from cmd line.

David Hockney: Drawing in a Printing Machine

Abhi Bhi Zinda Hun — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:17:00 +0000

David Hockney is a british painter. Really wonderful painter. Here is his drawings taken from Drawing in a Printing Machine . For more of his works, please visit http://www.hockneypictures.com .

For his more recent activity : David Hockney On Apple Art .

Autumn Leaves :

Autumn Trees Near Thixendale :

Green Valley :

Kilham with Church :

Rainy Night on Bridlington Promenade :

Summer Sky :

Cardigan Road, Brid. :

Summer Road Near Kilham :

Winter Road Near Kilham:

Source: http://www.lalouver.com/html/david_hockney_09.html

Awesome Soccer World Cup 2010 Calendars :-)

Abhi Bhi Zinda Hun — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:39:00 +0000

1.
Soccer World Cup 2010 Calendar 1

Its UI is awesome which attracts users .

2.
Soccer World Cup 2010 Calendar 2

Multi-Purpose

3.
Soccer World Cup 2010 Calendar 3

But, I like Google one . Its simple and very lucid . Overall,it gives me more comfort. You can change your Local Time Location i.e; value of ctz.

We all have a date with the planet

Abhi Bhi Zinda Hun — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:48:00 +0000

Please watch this documentary movie “We all have a date with the planet”:

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

Thanks for watching. Now, it is time of our action. Lets save our planet Earth.

Dongria Kondh The Real Avatar Life

Abhi Bhi Zinda Hun — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Was Fictional Pandora’s Na’vi:Avatar inspired by Dongria Kondh Tribe,Orissa,india? Was it known to James Cameron and improvised the same story?

1. http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/dongria

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4tuTFZ3wXQ

3. http://makanaka.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/the-last-stand-of-the-dongria-kondh

I do feel India is safest place 4 Dongria Kondh & no harm will be done to their culture and life. But, few articles on net are disturbing.

Free Plastic Surgery For Needy People

Abhi Bhi Zinda Hun — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:52:00 +0000

If you know anyone who has met with a fire accident or people who are born with problems / disabilities such as jointed ear, nose and mouth ; and ailment in eyes, ears, nose and lips by birth then please note that they can register their names with the Pasam Hospital for free treatment (plastic surgery). Internationally acclaimed surgeons from Germany will perform surgeries in the hospital to needy patients. The treatment is free.

Address:
Pasam Hospital
(Near Government Higher Secondary School)
M M Street, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu – 624101

Dates: From March 23rd to 4th April 2010.

For Registration:
Contact Nos: 04542 – 240668, 245732.
E-Mail Id: pasam.vision@gmail.com

No harm in broadcasting , Someone will be benefitted somewhere.

News Paper Reference Link: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/11/stories/2009011151570300.htm