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Cover of Snow: A Novel (edition 2013)
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Suspenseful, some interesting twists but a bit confusing in middle. Liked Nora, and Dugger characters.
Actual rating: 2.5 stars
Thanks to Allison @ The Book Wheel's recommendation, I picked up Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman.
Talk about a great psychological thriller/mystery! It reminds me of what I thought He's Gone should have been.
Nora Hamilton wakes up one snowy morning in a fog. As she comes to, she finds her husband's dead body – a suicide. But there's no note, and it's very unlike-Brendan to have committed suicide. So what is going on?
For the full review, visit Love at First Book
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.COVER OF SNOW. Wow, what to say about this book? Parts of it, especially early on, were a struggle for me, and I almost gave up a couple of times. However, the puzzling mystery and the uber-creepy atmosphere of the story kept me hanging on, and I'm glad I did.
Nora and her husband Brendan live in an old farmhouse in the remote mountain town of Wedeskyull, NY (pronounced weeds-kill). Brendan is a cop, and Nora restores old homes. Their marriage is a happy one, so Nora is in absolute shock to wake up one morning and discover Brendan had killed himself.
Nora wants answers to why this happened, so she starts asking questions, only to run up against brick walls at every turn. Brendan's friends and fellow cops, his mother, and others in town seem to be discouraging Nora from discovering the truth any way they can, until she meets an unlikely ally with the keys to unlock Brendan's past.
So, there were things about this book that troubled me, and most of it occurred in the first half. First, the prose didn't click with me. Descriptions of relief being like "thick soup" and a trendy coffee shop being like a "prison camp" where just odd to me. I also thought some of the dialogue was awkward. There were conversations that went nowhere, or were a struggle to get out. Finally, I thought some of what went on just wasn't plausible, especially Nora's troubling lack of knowledge of her husband's past. I just didn't believe it.
But, in spite of the book's flaws, I would still recommend this book to mystery/suspense fans. Why? Because the mystery itself was just THAT good, and the overall tone of the book was bone-chilling! I haven't felt such an eerie sense of foreboding while reading a book in a very long time. *shudders* The ending was amazing, so much so that I can forgive what I didn't like and give COVER OF SNOW 3½-stars!
Source: I won an Early Reviewers copy of this book from LibraryThing.
Nora Hamilton wakes up one morning to find that her husband has hung himself. This is especially surprising to her because just the night before they were getting busy with each other and everything seemed fine. Apparently a lot more was going on with Brendan than he let on to his wife.
The first hundred pages had me hooked. Was Brendan murdered or did he commit suicide and if so why? After that the plot wore thin and it ran out of gas for me. Nora spent too much time dilly dallying all over the place without advancing the plot. The pacing was not very good.
This novel is a little reminiscent of a Louise Penny mystery. Both authors chose small, icy towns with an omnipresent police force for their settings. Also in both books the townspeople know a lot more than they are willing to say. The main difference is a Penny novel has a more developed, intriguing mystery to anchor it. In Milchman's book everyone in the town knows what's going on except for clueless Nora. The only one who is willing to talk is Dugger who is autistic and he only speaks in gibberish rhymes.
The most unforgivable thing for me in this book was the lazy writing. A major character tells Nora that they will tell her everything .......tomorrow! You know they are never going to see another sunrise, come on give me a break! Really? It made me lose respect for the novel. Another troubling thing thing was the tie up to end of the novel was resolved so fast that plot points were not adequately addressed. I still do not have any idea why Brendan chose to end his previous relationship. The problem is once you have read Gone Girl which is so wickedly and brilliantly plotted, other novels in this genre fail to live it up to the expectations.
I got this off the She Reads thriller list. Usually their suggestions are stellar but I could have passed on this. For more on this book click here. http://www.shereads.org/2013/02/some-thrillers-to-chill-you/
When promo materials say there are deadly secrets buried within Cover of Snow—believe me, they are correct.
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I have a particular love (and lots and lots of sketches) of treeless landscapes and endless plains. But I have to admit—after driving cross-country over more than 2,000 miles of the flat interior of the continent, seeing mountains again, at last, feels like a kind of reward.
* "Seeing the Elephant" was a popular (and complicated) American expression in the late 19th century, often used by pioneers to refer to the reward awaiting them at the end of their long wagon journey west.


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People of the Jewish persuasion have recently completed their annual solemn celebration of Passover. This is the holiday that contemplates the exodus under the leadership of Moses from Egypt.
The plagues. Parting of the red sea. Forty years in the desert. Unleavened bread — matzoh — because they were in such a hurry to leave, there was no time for the bread to rise. That stuff.
The first two nights of Passover are set aside for sacred dinners, known as Sedars, where the story is repeated so as not to be forgotten. Part of the liturgy that precedes the meal are Four Questions, asked of the elders, the answers to which explain the importance of this remembrance.
Since basketball is religion in these parts. And the Final Four the holiest of holy destinations, I thought I'd present the Four Questions, which must be answered if the Louisville Cardinals are to succeed.
(Which is not to mention, I needed a hook to reel you in, given how much you've already read and reread about the upcoming weekend in Atlanta.)
1. Will U of L misunderestimate Wichita State?
Admit it, until last weekend, when Wichita State upset Ohio State — I have purposely avoided use of the word "shocked," since it is now cliche — you really hadn't considered the MoValley school much. Maybe you saw them go down to Creighton during Arch Madness. Maybe you discovered Cleanthony Early, when fashioning an All-Name team. But other that that, the team hardly registered on the radar, right?
The numbers prove my point. Less than 1/4 of 1% in the ESPN Bracket Pool have the Shockers in the Final Four. Only 3.3% had them penciled into the Round of 16.
But LaSalle, Pitt, Gonzaga and Ohio State know. They're sitting at home watching their conqueror compete in the Big Room during the sport's final weekend.
A worry I've heard far too often this week from Cardinal fans: "I sure don't want to face Syracuse again."
To which I respond — all together now — You only play who(m) you play. More specifically, "The Cards don't play Syracuse — or Michigan — they play Wichita State."
A 10 1/2 point favorite the Cardinals might be, they'd best not look past Saturday night's foe.
Just as the Cardinals have some great back stories, experiences that have forged the team into a legit title contender, so too does Wichita State.
Oregon transfer PG Malcolm Armstead had to pay his own way for his sit out season in Wichita. He worked for a car dealership to make ends meet.
Carl Hall has a heart condition, which was/remains life threatening.
Besides the coolest name still playing, Cleanthony Early rebounds like he wants to be Kim Jong-un's best pal, Dennis Rodman. That Tekele "100%" Cotton kid, who plays the #2 guard, also hits the boards like he's watched a lot of Kenneth Fareid videos.
Gregg Marshall is generally recognized by every scribe who has dealt with him as being a one of the real putzes in the business. He's also recognized as being one of the best young coaches around.
Plus that Tim Tebow guy gave them a pep talk on the team bus. So they've got that going for them.
Saturday night is far from a lock for U of L. Of course, on paper, it looks like an easier road to Monday night than the Orange and Wolverines face. It's reminiscent of the '86 Final Four, when the Cards drew LSU on the semi undercard, while Duke and Kansas battled in the heavyweight nightcap.
You still gotta score more points Saturday to survive and advance to Monday.
One can only hope, like Oregon did in Indy, getting off to a woeful start, that Wichita State looks around the Georgia Dome Saturday night, and says to itself, "Oh my, we're not in Kansas anymore."
2. How big is the loss of Kevin Ware?
First off, let me say that I remain way stunned at how Ware's injury, horrific as it was, and his courageous reaction to this teammates in the aftermath, have become such a national, well, "thing."
The First Lady. Oprah. Discussion on NPR's "State of the Nation." Letterman's Top Ten.
Wasn't it just a month ago that Cardinal fans hoped the still underachieving third guard could come in the game to relieve Siva or Smith and not hurt the cause too much? Yes, it was.
Ware's blossoming — along with that of Silent L — are two of the reasons Louisville has been so formidable as of late. I watched the tape of the Oregon game last night. Without Ware, the Cardinals might not be in Atlanta today. Peyton Siva did one of his stupid foul things, and had to sit for 15:33 of the first half. Ware came in and was the deal.
He made several baskets which sucked the heart out of mini Duck runs. He stole the energy of possible Quack comebacks.
So, the query is: Will the Win-It-For-#5 energy be enough to overcome the loss of his presence on the hardwood?
Hopefully, the men will take a cue from Jeff Walz's seriously feisty women's team, which is similarly perched in the Final Four. The distaff Cards have overcome the loss of Shawnta' Dyer (MCL and ACL tears), Tia Gibbs (hip) and Asia Taylor (hip). Plus Monique Reid is playing on one wheel. Which injury did not prevent her from going end to end and making the winning play against Britney Griner, the best baller in the women's game.
Can the men get enough from Tim Henderson to at least partially fill the big hole in the Cardinal game plan? Can they otherwise fill the hole present due to Ware's absence?
3. Besides Louisville's Big Three, which of The Others is going to come up big?
Wichita State is known for hitting the boards.
Will Silent L come up with an effort like his second half against Syracuse in the Big East final? It would be a good thing.
Will it be Chane Behanan, who has somewhat underachieved this post season, compared with his performances during last year's run. He has played with passion and intensity the last couple of games. Will it result in an even larger presence Saturday night?
Will his Dunk of the Year Award spur him on? Will he give a Golden Arches All-American performance?
Or will the Cards get that from Wayne Blackshear, who has been stalwart on D, but mysteriously ineffective on offense? We know he's got the best grades of any competitor in the Final Four. Yesterday he was honored with the Elite 89 Award, which goes to the student-athlete in the Final Four with the highest grade point average..
He's due a breakout performance. Saturday night would be a great time for it.
How about Luke Hancock?
His old mentor at George Mason, national Coach of the Year Jim Larranaga — the anti-Gregg Marshall, a guy generally recognized as one of the truly great fellows in the biz — says of the transfer: "Players like Luke are more valuable than they get credit for. They're not your leading scorer, not your leading rebounder and they don't get national attention, but you can't win without them."
Perhaps SVT? It could be the moment when steady and stalwart as he goes Van Treese shows the Shockers how Hoosiers learned to play ball from an early age. Fundamentally sound. With passion.
4. Will Richard Pitino again be a factor?
I've been worried all season that Rick Pitino didn't have an assistant with the acumen to observe a necessary change in the Cardinal way of handling things, and the gumption to present it to The Rick.
Then, during the regional, we learned that Richard Pitino, suggested the ball screen, pick & roll tweak that vanquished the Dukies.
I love the story, just as I hated when we learned in '09 that former Tom Izzo assistant Tom Crean made suggestions that aided Sparty's upset of the Cards.
I was hoping that Pitino the Younger would be around all week, We know he has his dad's ear. And we now recognize his coaching talent. Instead he's up in Minneapolis, being introduced as the new guy in charge of the Golden Gophers.
After all the years, I've given him shit, referred to him as Little Ricky, I now really hope he makes it back to Atlanta, just to be there as whisper counsel to his father.
Bonus: Will the Cardinals be Hot in 'Lanta?
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(Columbia-AP) Aug. 22, 2004 - Collectors and historians are keeping a close eye on South Carolina's attempt to obtain more than 440 letters and records from the Civil War.
Thomas Law Willcox was trying to sell the letters he got from his great-great-uncle Evander McIver Law, a general with the Confederate Army. However, South Carolina officials say the documents were part of the state archive because the law at the time of the war required that all public documents be preseved.
The papers have an estimated value of $2.4 million. The sale was put on hold after Willcox filed for bankruptcy last week.
Outside collectors worry that if South Carolina is successful, it might go after other such collections and artifacts. State officials say they approach equipment differently than records so people should not worry.
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23-11-2010 17:27
as the title says
im looking for an ebook reader for my n8
viewing post and forums, there are no preinstalled ebook reader
ovi doesn't have any readers i can find
pls suggest a compatible ebook reader for the n8
also provide link if you can
ovi should already found a developer who makes this kind of software
and should have had this preinstalled
the iphone already has a great ebook reader
yet nokia's current flagship is so lacking
23-11-2010 17:37
28-11-2010 15:30
No, that thread does not provide a good solution.
Anyone who has a proper option? I have been looking for this for days now but I can't find anything that is working.
28-11-2010 17:49
some more ideas there :
28-11-2010 18:51
The solutions in there don't work very well for me.
As for the Ereader Pro: for some reason I can't figure out where to put my own books.....
The book swhich come with the reader give me all kinds of errors so that's not a great start either.
28-11-2010 18:54
SAme problems here and when i tried to use foliant it didnt work with the books all it gave me was a bunch of weird looking characters
28-11-2010 21:26 - edited 28-11-2010 21:37
I figured out how to get eReader Pro to work on the N8. In the options menu you have to play around with the settings and in the end I was able to read the books.
I also figured out where to put the personal content. On the N8 it is stored in Mass Memory -> Data -> Others
Once I put my personal content in there (in PDB format) it came up in the library,
10-12-2010 23:59
Thank you for the tips! I am so excited I can now use the reader!
The problem was that the default font doesn't work on the N8, so you need to change it to a Nokia one. I used Nokia Sans S60, with font size 9. Works a treat! A bit laggy with the page sliding, but otherwise fine...
now all I have to do is find a good source of free books to download...
11-12-2010 0:13 - edited 11-12-2010 0:14
Manybooks seems to have a lot - 29,000 - but not sure about the quality - haven't used it yet.
12-12-2010 1:22
Thank you. I tried that site and thought I was happily downloading books, only to discover that they only work when I'm online...is that right?
12-12-2010 2:03
I just did a test. Downloaded Calibre ebook reader to my PC, downloaded a book from Manybooks, and it seemed to read OK from the downloaded file. Haven't got an ebook reader on my N8, but can't see why that shouldn't be the same. Are you downloading the books and transferring them to your phone. The only way I can think that it would require a link is if your were saving a link to the books rather than the books themselves. I used the red Download box, choosing epub from the dropdown and it seemed to download the books to my PC OK.
12-12-2010 12:05 - edited 12-12-2010 12:07
Thanks for that! I had been downloading direct onto the N97 mini, and it was obviously only doing the links. So I got it working by DL to laptop and dropping the files into the correct folder. Pretty sure it's not going online (home wifi) to read it now, but will test it when I go out tomorrow.
Thanks again
By the way, this is my husband's phone, I have the N8 which I love!
30-12-2010 23:34
Thanks Rodeto. It's work very well.
31-12-2010 7:55
31-12-2010 9:07
Here's a nice review of three readers inclusing Ereader Pro and ZX Reader.
02-01-2011 3:09
02-01-2011 8:58
To be honest, Ereader Pro suits my needs. Of course there can be made further progression in development of that program but I can do what I want and how I want. That enough for me.
22-01-2011 15:43
Can anyone help me. I have downloaded the ereader pro to my N8 phone. I purchased a book from the ereader web site and downloaded it to the phone, through bluetooth from computer and from the web site on the phone itself and then when I want to open the file it says unable to open, file type not supported. What am I doing wrong?
22-01-2011 15:50
Is the book in PDB format ?
22-01-2011 17:27
Yes, it is!!


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"Imagine me buying some video equipment off of eBay, turning it on, pressing some random buttons, and then calling whatever comes out my 'work.' This mind-set is the spirit of Adult Contemporary. In contrast to some of my older work, which exercised a somewhat subversive use of modern digital tools, the pieces in this show are inspired by the idea of using technology exactly as it was designed, although in a manner best described as 'non-expert.' What if the possibility of using a system poorly in an uneducated manner were celebrated? What if I, as an artist, attached my name to the aesthetics of different eras of technology without really bothering to do my homework or even reading the manual (so to speak)?"
"Anyway, at that point I wanted to somehow get back into video, and I was thinking, how do people make video today? Materially, technologically, video as a tool, as a kind of structure. It seemed like people take "content" and feed it through a set of digital effects. This is true whether it's a cheap TV documentary zooming slowly in on an archival photograph, or a Hollywood movie where footage is treated with color effects, or computer-generated imagery, or video art. So I decided to focus on the effects themselves. I made several videos that function like demonstrations of digital video transitions. They're proposals for effects that could actually exist, like "plug-in" software you might buy and enlist in some project or other. This one is called Digital Video Effect: "Holes." The image accumulates as a series of droplets or holes, like paper-punch waste, and at a certain point you can see the image as a composite, though not entirely clearly, and then it drains away. The "content" here consists of pictures taken from websites that function as clearinghouses of grisly or brutal images, mostly pictures of people who have been in accidents, supposedly supplied by police examiners, morgue workers, or photojournalists who couldn't publish the material. A lot of these could be fabrications, but the point is really about circulation and redundancy. You know, these kinds of images have been around forever, but now they have a new form of circulation, so it's all different. Certainly the audience changes; when I was working on the video I showed it to some students, and they immediately identified the sites, and some recognized individual pictures. Last year it came out that American troops in Iraq were being awarded free porn-site memberships in exchange for uploading grisly war photographs to these other sites, which are often owned by the same companies."


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Unless Congress acts, the spending cuts and tax increases that would be triggered automatically next January would take 5.1% out of the country's GDP in one year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That would be one of the most severe experiments with austerity in history–larger than anything Greece, Spain, Italy or the U.K. has tried. In fact, it is almost three times the size of Britain's program. And the results of those European austerity policies have thus far been a dramatic slowdown in economic growth and a sharp spike in unemployment. Virtually every economist who has studied this believes that similar measures, even if enacted for a few months, could push the U.S. into a double-dip recession.
Even a prominent CEO-sponsored public campaign geared explicitly toward deficit reduction has warned that this much reduction this fast would be catastrophic for the country. In fact, just the fear that it might happen has already stopped companies from expanding. And once again, the rest of the world watches to see if the U.S.–the center of the global economy–will actually commit economic hara-kiri.
The big problem here is that since the M.I.C.(military-industrial-complex) owns the vast majority in Congress and the White House, there is virtually no chance for a reasonable cut in military spending nor foreign aid. These two items have become a veritable cancer on the national treasury but the people in Washington today think only about themselves and how to become yet wealthier! This will, if unchecked, bring this country to it's very knees!!!
Indeed to cut spendings would pose a huge problem for Romney, should he be elected. If not, he might just as well be relieved. Sitting in the Oval Office is not an enviable job momentarily. Perhaps Romney should let Obama stay for another term to clean up the mess, before he claims this office next time.
Term limits aren't a reality The dream continues.
How come U.S have 16 trillion dollars in deficit if CBO is such an effective organization? Did it forget to give warning about consequences of tax cut? Did it forget to give warning about consequence of bush medicare deal and keeping iraq war off the budget? I won't get into repeal of glass stegall act because CBO don't have talented people to understand the consequence of repealing glass stegall act. Even math PH. D holder Alan Greenspan did not understand why CDO's were getting triple A rating from rating agencies.
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Has anyone noticed the exhibition play of Aaron Boone? It seems that the aquisition of Andy Marte has possibly given Boone a little extra motivation to start the 2006 season in a great way.
Of course, he did play well after last season's All-Star break, so it shouldn't be that big of a surprise to see him lighting it up in spring training.
Right now he leads the Indians with a .464 batting average, and has hit three homeruns and driven in eight RBI.
What's great about this situation is that Marte is also having a great spring, hitting .343 with a homerun and eight RBI, so the Indians will have the kind of depth at third base they have been needing for some time.


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No question, Ryan Gosling is having a moment.
Or a series of them, really. The Canadian actor, who first set female hearts atwitter in 2004's The Notebook, reached bonafide leading-man status in 2011 thanks to a triple threat of flicks: Crazy, Stupid, Love; Drive; and The Ides of March. Here's a look back at the changing face of Gosling's career.
see more — Ryan Gosling Through the Years
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By Nancy R. Elliott
The Herald Bulletin
ANDERSON, Ind. —
Laughter and banter are staples in the downstairs meeting room at the The Anderson Center for the Arts, at least when Jan Johnson is there to teach a class.
It's that mix of fun and learning that drew repeat students back last week to put their heads together around a table littered with beads and small hand tools. It was the first evening of Jan Johnson's bead and wire earrings class.
"She's a good teacher," said Suzy Elliott, who has taken a number of Johnson's classes. "She gives really good instructions. ...We have a good time learning."
In fact, Elliott was wearing one of her own beaded necklaces, and she removed the colorful piece to show the details to her classmates. Deborah Stapleton, director of the Anderson Center for the Arts, was among the students admiring Elliott's creation.
The arts center is at 32 w. 10th Street in Anderson.
Johnson provided all the supplies for the evening's work. The focus was on wire wrapping, with the ultimate finished product to be a pair of sparkly, beaded earrings. As the group set about selecting their beads and wires, friendly chatter and stories began to flow.
"It's just fun," said student Arlene Ellingwood of Johnson's bead classes. "She's very knowledgeable. I've made a lot of really nice necklaces."
Johnson has been teaching bead weaving classes for about 10 years. This week marked the first wire wrapping class she presented at the center.
Johnson discovered her creative passion after an entirely different career. She sold real estate for 20 years, and worked as a relocation director in Alabama,
"When we moved to Indiana, I just kind of got interested in the bead things," Johnson said. She started out with a few classes to learn the techniques. She eventually went to Chicago for more advanced training from internationally known instructors.
"It's just been a process," said Johnson.
Johnson founded the Indiana Bead Society in 1998, now about a hundred members strong. While serving on the faculty at the Indianapolis Art Center, she was approached about offering classes in Anderson.
"I like it a lot. I really have a good time there. Everyone's so friendly. All the students have been fun," said Johnson, who now instructs frequently at The Anderson Center for the Arts. She noted that the social aspect of the classes is a big part of the attraction, but the beadwork itself is also key. "It's artistic expression."
The bead and wire earrings class is one of several early spring offerings at the Center with a shorter class term of only three or four weeks. Samson Hunckler is teaching portrait photography in an adult class. Diane Burrell is teaching oil pastels. Kids 11 to 14 are learning beginning/intermediate drawing with Stephanie Cochran.
The center is located at 32 W. Tenth St. in downtown Anderson. For more information about classes, workshops and exhibits at The Anderson Center for the Arts, check out the website at www.andersonart.org or call 649-1248.


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ADX is a lagging indicator that measures the trend strength without regard to trend direction.
ADX is formed by combining two other indicators which are positive directional indicator (abbreviated +DI) and negative directional indicator (abbreviated -DI). Positive Directional Indicator is calculated based on differences between current high and previous high over recent trading periods. Similarly Negative Directional Indicator is calculated based on differences between current low and previous low over certain recent trading periods.
ADX will range between 0 and 100 and is usually calculated based on 14 time-periods. Usually 20 is used as the key level for analysing ADX.
Since ADX enables one to quantify trend strength, it helps to identify the strongest trends as well as range conditions. So, appropriate trading strategy can be used. In trending conditions, one can enter on pullbacks and trade in direction of the trend where as in range conditions, one can trade on reversal either at support (bullish) or at resistance (bearish). In range conditions, another strategy can be to combine ADX with RSI (overbought and oversold) signal.
Different researchers have come out with various ways to interpret ADX. Some of the popular ones are as below:
Note: ADX or +DI/-DI based signals are frequently generated and have to be filtered, that is, they are to be confirmed using other indicators such as volume based indicators, basic trend analysis such as based on Moving Average (MA) Indicators and Chart patterns.


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Following up two tutorial and summit days, then three days of the conference, the sprints got off to a great start on Sunday evening. I'm back at home now but wanted to put together a summary of the first two days: A lot of great projects got up on stage to pitch their sprint ideas including Brett Cannon speaking for CPython, letting people know where the sprint would be, mentioning the "dev-in-a-box" CDs, and encouraging people to come out and hack. Within 15 minutes of the end of announcements, we had 7 first-time sprinters eager to dive in and get going right away. The new developer guide was instrumental in getting everyone through the initial setup. The plan was to get a Mercurial checkout and coverage.py as a starting point, as one of the suggested sprint targets was increasing test coverage. By 6:30 on the first day, we were up to 9 people fully up and running, pouring over the coverage results (which were handily pre-generated on the "dev-in-a-box" CD), and diving into code. Here's what everyone worked on:
string tests and got a patch written and checked in within first day.
urllib tests on his Mac and got to work on fixing them. After that he started on increasing
urllib test coverage.
dbm patch he made a few days before the sprint, then got it reviewed and checked in. He followed that up with test coverage patches to
fileinput and
email package, including some documentation updates and a port of
test_email_codecs to Python 3. He's also working on
timeit test coverage.
logging test coverage.
dis module.
cgitb up to 75% test coverage by starting a test suite for it.
shutil, and
tarfile for test coverage and a few bugs.
unittest issue and wrote up a fix plus tests that got checked in pretty quickly. He's also working on
site.py coverage.
pydoc issue that was being discussed on the mailing list about named tuples
coverage and ended up diving into the order of imports on interpreter startup to fix coverage results before going further with them. He took the new results and is working on
copy test coverage.
Alright, alright, you guys win. Enough people emailed me to say they would use a 2.x version of watcher from my previous post, so here it is: version 0.2 now supports Python 2.
The changes are pretty simple. The "biggest" part of this happened in changeset 96f3f9e4511c, where I handle a few 2 and 3 specific parts split by
ifdefs. It's a few sections of handling Unicode/strings/bytes, and then a small change for 2.x to receive the action number as an
int rather than a
long. I think I did all of this correctly since it works, but that's a poor definition of "correctly" and my Unicode knowledge is definitely lacking.
I haven't done a ton of testing on it, but it seems to work alright in my simple test running between 2.7 and 3.1. If you have any issues with it, feel free to submit them or email me.
In the time I've been using Python, no project has started and stopped, and started and stopped again, more than my goal of writing a file system monitor. Sure, it's a small and simple project in the grand scheme of things that could be accomplished over that time, but I like to finish what I start.
The idea originally came from my father, also a Python user, suggesting something to work on, likely to help me learn but it'd also help him out. Years ago he wanted a multi-tabbed text editor with
tail -f functionality. I think I was reading through a wxPython book at the time and figured, "sure, I can learn this and make that tool." Started it up, had the shell of a simple GUI written, then came time to get the file system updates.
I probably got distracted by something, got hooked on something else, then totally forgot about the whole thing. For whatever reason, this happened every few months. About three years ago I tried to rejuvenate the whole thing and found Tim Golden's great "How do I..." page (pretty sure Dad sent this to me before). He has an example, three of them to be precise, covering exactly what I wanted to do: watch a directory for changes using Mark Hammond's pywin32. Awesome.
I got something coded up pretty quickly and took the library in a different direction, using it at work to write a Windows service that would monitor our servers and look for crash dumps and email the team. It was super simple and paid off big time, but I kinda just whipped it together and it was poorly designed.
Fast forward to a few months ago. I was bored and looking for something fun to work on -- ah, that file system watcher I've been half-assing for years. I thought to myself, "now that I actually know wtf I'm doing, I should do that, and I'm sure my Dad would get a kick out of it."
Somewhere in the middle of all of this I was writing C# and used the System.IO.FileSystemWatcher API, which was really nice. I've always wanted the same functionality in Python and liked what they had, so it would be cool to do what they did.
A few blogs around the web claimed the Win32 ReadDirectoryChangesW API was behind the scenes of
FileSystemWatcher. True or not, it made sense and I was familiar with that from the Tim Golden examples and my watcher service. I've been writing and reading a lot of C code lately so I started hacking.
After reading up on a few things, I came up with a much better C equivalent of what I had in that Windows service. It's multi-threaded, uses IO Completion Ports, and seemed to work pretty well. Pass in a directory and a callable, call the
start method, then you'll get callbacks for creating files, renaming files, etc. Sweet, we're on the way.
After fiddling around with that a bit, I figured it was good enough to build on. I started writing some tests and had simple things like the following working.
[code lang="python"]
>>> import watcher
>>> import os
>>> callback = lambda action, path: print(action, path)
>>> w = watcher.Watcher(os.getcwd(), callback)
>>> w.flags = watcher.FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_FILE_NAME
>>> w.start() # Then I opened up vim and created a file called "hurf.durf"
1 .hurf.durf.swp
1 hurf.durf
2 .hurf.durf.swp
That was cool and all, but I want to be able to follow one specific file, or files that match a certain pattern. I also want to be able to set callbacks for specific actions. Hmm,
FileSystemWatcher can do that. Maybe I'll just build out a clone and see how it works.
One of the first things I wanted to figure out was how to emulate the callback attaching and detaching like on Changed events. I needed a container that supplies
+= and
-=, which is none of them. Easy enough, just inherit from one and provide the
__iadd__ and
__isub__ operators.
Before you get outraged: I know that's "unpythonic", but I'm going for a clone here.
Filling in the rest was pretty easy. There's a bunch of properties in
FileSystemWatcher that map to the attributes and methods of the underlying
Watcher. For example,
FileSystemWatcher.NotifyFilter sets
Watcher.flags, which is an OR'ed group of
NotifyFilters, which are constants exposed by
watcher from Win32.
The weirdest part of the whole thing is that starting and stopping
FileSystemWatcher is done by setting
EnableRaisingEvents to
True or
False. It's not a method called
start or
stop like in the underlying
Watcher (or anything else that needs to start and stop). It felt wrong perpetuating this weirdness, and again I know it's "unpythonic", but I'm going for a clone here.
As for translating
Watcher callbacks into
FileSystemWatcher callbacks that work with all of the fancy filtering, it's just a simple queue, a regex, and a big
if/elif block.
Watcher calls its callback which puts the action and relative path into the queue.
FileSystemWatcher pulls it out, sees if it matches the filter, then we figure out from the action which callback to call. If it's a rename, do a special dance, but otherwise create an update object, fill in the details, then start calling back to the user.
[code lang="python"]
>>> from FileSystemWatcher import FileSystemWatcher, NotifyFilters
>>> import os
>>> callback = lambda event: print(event.ChangeType, event.Name)
>>> fsw = FileSystemWatcher(os.getcwd())
>>> fsw.Created += callback
>>> fsw.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.FileName
>>> fsw.EnableRaisingEvents = True
>>> # Opened up Explorer and right clicked to create a new file
1 New Text Document.txt
There you have it. It took 235 lines of pure Python for
FileSystemWatcher and 466 lines of C for
watcher for this five year project to be completed. If any future employers are reading this, I'm capable of writing more than 140 lines of code per year to complete a five year project, I swear.
The project is now on PyPI under the name watcher, complete with a few binary installers. It's 3.x only because 2.x is dead, but I'll do a backport if people are interested (email me: first name at python.org).
The project is up on bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/briancurtin/watcher. It's not really complete but it works pretty well for most usages. I know of a bunch of bugs that I'll eventually fix, but feel free to report more or even fix some of them.
Thanks for the idea, Dad.
New to Python 3.2's implementation of
shutil.copytree is the
copy_function parameter, added in issue #1540112. This new parameter allows you to specify a function to be applied to each file in the tree, defaulting to
I was thinking about a problem we have at work where our continuous integration server needs to setup a build environment with clean copies of our dependencies. To do this, we do a lot of
shutil.copytree'ing, getting files from internal teams and some from projects like Boost and Xerces. It takes a long ass time to copy all of that stuff. Really long. Fortunately my work computer has 16 cores, so I thought, why not make the
copytree function use more of my machine and go way faster? Sounds like a job for
Knowing I can use this new
copy_function parameter to
copytree, and knowing that
multiprocessing.Pool is super easy to use, I put them together.
[code lang="python"]
def _copy_worker(copy_fn, src, dst):
copy_fn(src, dst)
class FastCopier(multiprocessing.Process):
def __init__(self, procs=None, cli=False, copy_fn=copy2):
"""procs is the number of worker processes to use for the pool
cli is True when this is being used on the command line and wants
the cool progress updates.
copy_fn is the function to use to carry out the actual copy."""
self.procs = procs if procs else multiprocessing.cpu_count()
self.copy_fn = copy2
self.callback = self._copy_done if cli else None
self._queue = multiprocessing.Queue()
self._event = multiprocessing.Event()
self._count = 0
def _copy_done(self, *args):
"""Called when _copy_worker completes if we're running as a command
line application. Writes the current number of files copied."""
self._count += 1
sys.stdout.write("Copied %d files\r" % self._count)
def run(self):
pool = multiprocessing.Pool(processes=self.procs)
while self._event.is_set():
src, dst = self._queue.get_nowait()
except Empty:
pool.apply_async(_copy_worker, (self.copy_fn, src, dst),
# We get kicked out of the loop once we've exited the external
# copy function, e.g., shutil.copytree.
except KeyboardInterrupt:
def stop(self):
def copy(self, src, dest):
"""Used as the copy_function parameter to shutil.copytree"""
# Push onto the queue and let the pool figure out who does the work.
self._queue.put_nowait((src, dest))
What we have here is a class that uses a
multiprocessing.Queue and spreads out copy jobs using a
multiprocessing.Pool. The class has a
copy method which simply puts a source and destination pair into the queue, then one of the many workers will actually do the copy. The
_copy_worker function at the very top is the target, which simply executes the
copy2 call (or whatever
copy variant you actually want to execute your copy).
Putting this to use is pretty easy. Just create a
FastCopier, then pass the
copy method of
FastCopier into
shutil.copytree. As
copytree works its way through your tree, it will call
FastCopier.copy, which pushes into the queue, and the pool splits up the work.
[code lang="python"]
def fastcopytree(src, dest, procs=None, cli=False):
"""Copy `src` to `dest` using `procs` worker processes, defaulting to the
number of processors on the machine.
`cli` is True when this function is being called from a command line
fc = FastCopier(procs, cli)
# Pass in our version of "copy", which just feeds into the pool.
copytree(src, dest, copy_function=fc.copy)
It's pretty fast. As an example, I copied my py3k checkout folder which has around 17,000 files and weighs around 1.7 GB. The baseline of using a single process does the copy in 458.958 seconds (on a crappy 7200 RPM drive). Using four processes completes the work in 120.243 seconds, and eight takes 128.336 seconds. Using the default of all cores, 16 in my case, takes 217.557 seconds, so you can see it drops off after the 4-8 range but it's still 2x faster. I haven't done much investigation since I'm pretty happy with a nearly 4x performance boost, but I'd like to do better, so maybe I'll post a followup.
Why I think this is so cool:
I'm sure there may be better and faster ways of solving this problem using many of the finely crafted modules out there, but this is available out of the box. This comes for free and it's available right now. Sure, this isn't the killer feature of Python 3.2, but I think it showcases the extensibility and the power of Python and the standard library.
After toying with it for a while, I put the initial version of my findings here and called it
copymachine. It's just a standalone script right now and has no tests (I know, I know), but I'll fiddle with it and you are more than welcome to as well.
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Families in need face going hungry Thursday as a Paphos district programme helping families in need has run out of provisions.
The Solidarity Volunteers Association usually provides food and other essential items to destitute families and individuals every Thursday.
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An unpaid gig, but one that at least gets me out of the house and will pad my resume.
It was so random. I put out a request for a recommendation for a natural hair stylist on Facebook, and early this morning my state house legislative district representative sent me a name (we used to kinda sorta work together before she became a state rep). I private messaged her that I was still unemployed and willing to volunteer for anything she needed. I was thinking just busy work— stapling, stuffing envelopes, answering phones. We met later in the day and got to talking about her needs and my interests (I'm a political junkie, and I've always wanted to work on policy stuff but have never had the opportunity), and by the end of our conversation, I was her Legislative Fellow!! SOUNDS FANCY, RIGHT??? I'll be helping her research bills and do some writing.
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ABOUT 500 young people in the Thirsk and Malton constituency have been provided with apprenticeships in a year.
Announcing the news, MP Anne McIntosh said that in North Yorkshire as a whole, 3,800 had been created. She said:
"Training and skills are the pathway to future prosperity for our young people. Through apprenticeships and training young people learn skills or a trade which equips them for an opportunity to reach their full potential. I thank and congratulate the businesses for providing the apprenticeships and those facilitating the training in enabling young people to enter the workplace."
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The 64-year-old woman was found dead in her cabin onboard The Enchantment of the Seas cruise ship Sunday.
The FBI is calling the incident a "death of undetermined cause."
The cruise ship company says the victim's husband found her dead inside her cabin.
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Vernon Downs racing applications are due March 15 and the barn area will open April 1. The 2014 race season begins on Friday, April 11 and continues until Saturday, November 1. Applications can be returned via mail – Vernon Downs c/o Scott Warren – Director of Racing, P.O. Box 860, Vernon, NY 13476, via e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com, or via fax (315) 829-3364. For inquiries to race or any questions please contact the Race Office at Vernon (315) 829-6825 or the email provided above.
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You've worked hard to come up with an original and unique idea, logo, and slogan and you think you're ready to make your proverbial mark on the business world.
Now what? For starters, your new best friend should be the website of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) because now it's time to ask yourself some questions about how to best protect all your hard work.
But that isn't all you need to worry about. There are a number of pitfalls you will need to avoid as you venture down the road to success. Here is our list of top mistakes to avoid when you begin your business.
1. Get a Patent
Remember that ideas themselves cannot be patented. Business methods or processes, however, can—provided that they (1) are novel; (2) produce a useful, concrete, and tangible result; and (3) are nonobvious, meaning that someone of ordinary skill in the given technology couldn't easily come up with the idea.
By statute, a patent grants "the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling" the patented method or process.
Although many think of scientific inventions when the word "patent" comes up, business methods and processes have actually been patented as far back as 1799, when a technique for identifying counterfeit money was patented.
Interest in business method patents died down throughout much of the 20th century until computer-related technology picked up in the 1980s, and then, in 1998, a federal court ruled that patents are absolutely intended to protect new business methods with or without the aid of a computer.
In the six months following the decision, patent filings for Internet business methods/computer software rose by 40%.
A patent application with the USPTO is usually in a "pendency period" for about two to three years, and once granted, a business method/process patent is good for 20 years from the date of the application.
2. Stake Your Claim
Since 1995, the USPTO has offered the option of filing for a provisional patent, which is valid for 12 months from the filing date. Some advantages to filing for a provisional application are as follows:
Note, however, that the 12-month period is non-renewable so if you don't file a non-provisional patent application within the year, it is as if you never had any patent protection at all—and in reality, you didn't.
3. Protect the Software
Computer software is often combined with a new business method and can therefore come under the protection of a patent. One example is Amazon.com's 1999 patent for its 1-click ordering system, which allows a buyer to avoid entering new billing and delivery information with each order because the information has already been saved in Amazon's database.
Another form of protection for computer software is the copyright. The USPTO defines a copyright as "a form of protection provided to the authors of 'original works of authorship' including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished."
Copyright applications are filed with the US Copyright Office and generally last for the life of the author plus 70 years, although rules vary according to different situations.
4. Know the Difference Between Utility and Design
Business method patents are under the category of utility patents as they protect the way something is used or works; in order to protect the way an article looks, you would apply for a design patent.
Design patents apply to the "visual ornamental characteristics embodied in, or applied to, an article of manufacture" and "may relate to the configuration or shape of an article, to the surface ornamentation applied to an article, or to the combination of configuration and surface ornamentation." Moreover, the design must be novel, original, ornamental, and nonobvious (as discussed above regarding business method/process patents).
A good example of an object granted a design patent is the original Coca-Cola bottle with its unique shape. Other beverage containers, jewelry, furniture, and even computer icons are also eligible for design patents, which are valid for 14 years from the date of issue from the USPTO.
5. Trademark Your Logo and Slogan
In order to protect your logo and/or slogan, you should register them.
According to the USPTO website, "[a] trademark is a word, name, symbol or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others."
Although even without registering you may acquire certain rights by simply using the logo or slogan, with a trademark registration you have a better chance of winning an infringement suit in case of violation because you have provided notice of your use and claimed ownership of the trademark.
Trademarks are generally valid for 10 years, but there are various forms to be filed in the interim and for renewal, so do be careful.
6. Limit Your Liability
Inventors often forget the last and most important step in the initial phases of creating their business—the actual formation of their company. Often inventors get so mired in designing and protecting their inventions that they don't remember to limit their own liability by forming a corporation or an LLC.
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Jeff has a predominantly transactional practice emphasizing corporate, business and regulatory law, probate, trusts and estate planning, with particular emphasis on the needs of small to medium-size companies and their owners, and the state and local needs of larger business and financial institutions. He engages daily in the preparation and review of leases, contract documents, corporate organizational and other papers, wills, and trusts. He also serves as general counsel for a number of companies, ranging from public transportation to the equine business.
Jeff received his BA degree with honors in history from DePauw University in 1966. He received his JD degree from Duke University in 1969.
Jeff joined Boehl Stopher & Graves, LLP immediately upon receipt of his law degree in 1969 and has remained with the firm since that time. He has been a partner since 1975.
Jeff was heavily involved in the combination of two Louisville, Kentucky banks in one of the early bank merger transactions. He has represented several soft drink bottlers in acquisition transactions. He has had dozens of cases before local tax boards and the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals in matters including the application of sales tax to auction sales, application of sales tax to reusable containers and a novel issue related to the Kentucky healthcare providers tax. He has also represented horse breeders with respect to Kentucky sales and use tax matters.
Professional Recognition & Memberships
Jeff is currently a member of the Louisville Bar Association, the Kentucky Bar Association, the Indiana Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. He is admitted to practice in Kentucky and Indiana, and federal courts in the Eastern District of Kentucky, Western District of Kentucky, Southern District of Indiana, and the U.S. Tax Court. He is a member of the American Bar Association's sections of taxation, business law, real property, probate, and trust law.
He is currently President of the Louisville Bar Foundation and a director of the Louisville Bar Association. He is a member and past director of the Louisville Estate Planning Council and past president of the Louisville Estate Planning Forum. He is a past director of Kentucky Industries for the Blind. Jeff was recognized with an MS Community Leadership Award in 1996. He is listed in Kentucky Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America and in the December 2008 issue of Worth Magazine as one of the nation's top 100 wealth planning attorneys.
He has been a speaker to the American College of Life Underwriters in Louisville, Kentucky on estate planning matters, the American Red Cross, Louisville, Kentucky on inheritance tax matters, and a panelist in a number of seminars on estate and retirement planning.


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Underrated: "I Don't Feel He Gets As Much Shine As He's Supposed To"
Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011 8:15AM
[SOHH features a new entertainment personality each week to speak on who they feel is the most underrated artist. After Chet Haze gave Saigon the title last week, Cali Swag District's Yung now crowns Ludacris SOHH Underrated.]
Who do I feel is the most underrated? I'd have to say it's Ludacris. I don't feel he gets as much shine as he's supposed to. I feel like people be sleeping on him because I've been listening to a lot of Ludacris music lately and he be saying some stuff from different mixtapes and different features that's crazy. Ludacris has got it. He's the most underrated.
I haven't been following Ludacris' career from the beginning. I recently started listening to him a lot when [Cali Swag District's] M-Bone and us would be doing interviews and they'd ask him who was one of his favorite artists. He would always name Ludacris and so I was like, "OK, he said Ludacris a lot so let me check him out."
So then I really started listening to him and was like, "Oh, OK, I get it." I would start listening to different verses he would put on mixtapes and albums or different features he would get on and then I'd have to agree and be like, "Yeah, Ludacris is underrated." You have to listen to the way he flips verses and how he does his thing on tracks he is on.
He kind of reminds me of Busta Rhymes. Busta Rhymes be doing the same thing. Their styles are totally different but both of them dudes are dope.
Yung is a member of four-man rap group Cali Swag District from Inglewood, California. The group is best known for the single "Teach Me How to Dougie. The group is signed with Capitol Records' Checkmate Entertainment imprint.


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Poker runs are a popular way for bikers to raise money for charitable events.
But, because of a new Illinois state law starting in January, organizers will have to dig deeper in their pockets to participate.
The rules of a poker run are simple.
Bikers travel to a series of five locations, typically bars, where each participant draws a card at each stop.
This becomes the biker's poker hand. In the end the best poker hand wins prizes.
TNT Action Sports owner Bryan Smith hosts poker runs each year and says it's a fun way to give back to the community.
"We live here. Okay, the community is where we live. We do great business here in this community so we have to give back to it. Not only through the taxes that we pay and we have to realize there's a lot less fortunate people in the world and the more you can help them the better off you are," said Smith.
But, starting in January poker runs will fall under the Charitable Games Act in Illinois, which would require participating bars to obtain a license ranging from $50 to $100.
"In the long run, we'll get some creative minds behind it and probably come up with some alternative ways to raise money for the community," said Smith.
Several bar owners in Quincy say the license fee is not fair because these events are held for charity.
And Smith agrees, and he says he doesn't understand.
"To have a fee to help take care of the community really baffles me. I don't understand where the state is coming from on this," said Smith.
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Extension of Risk Allowance till 30.06.2011.
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
( Zoya C.B.)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India
Bankers D.A. for Feb, March, April 2011
Likely D.A. for Bankers
- It is known that Dearness Allowance is linked with CPI. If the Cost Price Index of December 2010 remains same as November 2010, the increase will be 2.93%.
- If the CPI touches 185 figure for the month of December 2010, the D.A. will be 3.78%, taking the figure to 49.98%.
- It may kindly be noted that it is only an assumption and the final figure is expected to be published in the end of January by the Labour Bureau. So Bankers, kindly be patient.
Read more news regarding D.A. Pay hike in PayCommission.blogspot.com
Enhancement in allowances under the DFFT Scheme of DOPT.
Government of India
Department of Personnel and Training
Block IV, Old JNU Campus, New Delhi
Dated the 19th January, 2010
1. The Chief Secretaries of all the State Governments/ UTs.
2. The Secretaries of all the Ministries/Departments of Government of India.
1. The Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India has been sponsoring the names of suitable officers every year for undergoing training in various universities/institutions abroad under the Domestic Funding of Foreign Training (DFFT) Scheme.
2. A Committee had been constituted in this Department to review/revamp the foreign training programmes being administered under the scheme. The Committee has recommended, among other things, an enhancement in allowances to be provided to the officers being deputed for long term training programmes, short term training programmes and partial funding, under the Scheme.
3. Based on the recommendations of the Committee and further approvals obtained thereon, it has been decided to implement the revised rates of various allowances under the Scheme. The enhanced rates would be as follows:
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General Pass Rule issued by the Ministry of Railway Board
In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution, the President hereby makes the following Rules, regulating the issue of passes and Privilege Ticket Orders to Railway servants, for travel by trains namely:-
Pass Rules
1. Short Title, Commencement and Application:
1. These Rules may be called the Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986.
2. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the
Official Gazette.
3. Except where specifically provided to the contrary they shall apply to all railway servants under the administrative control of the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) but shall not apply to :-
i. an apprentice engaged under the Apprentices Act ;
ii. a person in the casual employment or employed on daily wages
iii. any person under the administrative control of the Ministry of
Railways who by a general or special order is, excluded from
the facilities of Pass or a Privilege Ticket Order under these
2. Definitions : In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires:-
a. 'adopted child' means a child for whom there is satisfactory proof of adoption irrespective of the fact whether such adoption is permissible or not under the personal law governing the railway servant concerned.
b. 'attendant' means a person exclusively employed on salary in the
personal service of a railway servant.
c. 'dependent relative' in relation to a railway servant, whose father is
not alive, means:-
i. mother including a divorced mother;
ii. unmarried or widowed sister;
iii. brother/step-brother under twenty one years of age provided
he resides with and is wholly dependent on the railway
iv. invalid brother of any age, and
v. brother who has attained the age of twenty one years and is a
bonafide student of a recognized educational institution:
vi. legally divorced sister.**
As the DA crosses 50% w.e.f. January, 2011 Allowances which will be increased by 25 Percent
- TA / DA Rates on tour,
- Daily allowance on tour
- Mileage allowance for journeys performed by taxi / autorickshaw/scooter/cycle (as eligible)
- TA Rates on transfer
- For journeys performed by taxi/auto-rickshaw/scooter/cycle (as eligible)
- Rates of transpiration of house holds on transfer
- National Holiday Allowance
- Nursing Allowance, Uniform Allowance, Kit Maintenance Allowance &
- Washing Allowance
- Project allowance and Compensatory (construction/Survey) allowance.
- Natural Calamity Advance.
- Bi-Cycle, Warm Clothing & Table fan advance
Festival advance
- Night Patrolling Allowance.
- Special Allowance for child care for women with disabilities and Education Allowance for disabled children
- Conveyance Allowance
- Children Education Assistance and Reimbursement of Tuition fee.
(Compiled by K. V. Ramesh, Zonal Secretary ICF – IRTA)
Allowances and Advances shall be increased by 25% whenever the Dearness Allowance goes up by 50%
(a)ln thc opening clause indicating eligibility, for the words and figures "whose basic pay and dearness pay taken together does not exceed Rs.7. 500 (Rupees Seven thousand five hundred) per month", the words and figures "whose grade pay does not exceed Rs.2. 800/- ( RupeesTwo thousand eight hundred)". shall be substituted.
(b) In proviso (i) relating to amount of advance admissible, for the words "shall not exceed Rs.l .500 ( Rupees One thousand five hundred)", the words and figures. "shall not exceed Rs.3000/- (Rupees Three thousand)", shall be substituted.
(c) Proviso (iii) relating to recovery of interest has been deleted.
In Rule 35 relating to amount of Warm Clothing Advance admissible, for the words "shall not exceed Rs.l,5001- (Rupees One thousand five hundred)", the words and figures, "shall not exceed R.s.3,000/- (Rupees Three thousand )", shall be substituted.
Rule 38 relating to recovery of interest has been deleted.
In Rule 53. in clause relating to ehgibility for Festival Advance, for the words and figures basic pay and dearness pay taken together does not exceed Rs.l2,450 (Rupees TWelve thousand four hundred and fifty) per month", the words and figures" whose Grade pay does not exceeds Rs.4800/- (Rupees Four thousand eight hundred)" shall be substituted.
In Rule 58 relating to amount of Festival Advance admissible, for the words "shall not exceed Rs.l500 (Rupees One thousand five hundred)", the words and figures "shall not exceed Rs.3.000/- (Rupees Three thousand )". shall be substituted.
In Rule 66 relating to amount of Natural Calamity Advance admissible, for the words "shall not exceed Rs.2,500/- (Rupees Two thousand five hundred)", the words and figures" shallnot exceed Rs.5.000 (Rupees Five thousand)", shall be substituted.
Note: I Rule 38F A- 38F relating to Table Fan Adance deleted.
II The rates of these advances shall be increased by 25% whenever the Dearness Allowance payable on revised pay struture goes up by 50%
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
E.II(A) Branch
The undersigned is directed to say that in pursuance of the decision taken by the Government on the Sixth Pay Commissions recommendations relating to advances, the existing provisions of Compendium of Rules on Advances 126.96.36.199.58,66— relating to advances for purchase of bicycle, warm clothing, table fan and advances for festival and natural calamity are amended as per the amendments attached
2. These orders wilt take effect from the date of issue. The cases where the advances have already been sanctioned need not be reopened
3 The advance for purchase of table fan will stand discontinued. The advances for purchase of warm clothing and bicycle granted/sanctioned after issue of this order shalt be treated as interest free advances
4 The rates of these advances shall be increased by 25% every time dearness allowance on revised pay bands increases by 50%
5. In so far as persons serving in Indian Audit and Accounts Department are concerned. these orders issue in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India
6. All the Ministnes/DePartrnefltS are requested to bring the amendments to the notice of all its attached and subordinate offices for their information
7. Hindi version of this O.M will follow.
Revised pay limits for entitlement of Passes/PTOs on the basis of Pay drawn in the Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008.
No. E(W)2008/PS 5-1/38
New Delhi, the 6th January, 2011
The General Managers
All Zonal Railways and
Production Units
Sub: Revised pay limits for entitlement of Passes/PTOs on the basis of Pay drawn in the Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008.
Consequent upon revision of Pay Scales on the basis of decision of the Government on the recommendations of the Central Pay Commission, the question of revision of existing entitlements to Passes/PTOs under the Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986 (Second Edition, 1993) has been under consideration of this Ministry.
2. The matter has been examined and the President is pleased to decide that the entitlements of Passes/PTOs in respect of railway servants drawing pay in the Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 shall be as under
|Type of Privilege Pass & Privilege Ticket Order
|Type of Duty Pass
|Group'A' & Group'B'
|: 1st Class 'A' Pass
|1st class 'A' Pass
2 Non-Gazetted employees:
(1) In Grade Pay Rs.4200/- and above 1st Class Pass 1st Class Pass (ii) In Grade Pay Rs.2,800/- IInd Class 'A' Pass* IInd Class 'A' Pass* (iii) In Grade Pay Rs.1,900/- :
and above but below Grade
Pay Rs.2,800/-
One IInd Class 'A' Pass*
in a year, remaining
passes and PTOs of
Second/Sleeper Class.
IInd Class 'A' Pass* (iv) Employees in Grade Pay :
One IInd Class 'A' Pass*
in a year, remaining
passes and PTOs of
Class Pass
*Note:In terms of the extant instructions, the holder of lind Class 'A' pass shall be entitled to travel by AC-3 tier dass in trains other than Rajdhani/Shatabdi/Duronto Exp. trains. lind Class 'A' Pass is of yellow colour.
3. In all other respects, the provisions of the Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986(Second Edition, 1993) will apply.
4. The Railway employees who are already entitled to 1st Class Passes, shall continue to draw 1st Class Passes, irrespective of their eligibility in terms of these orders.
5. Necessary amendment to the Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986 (Second Edition,1993) shall follow.
6. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
7. Receipt of this letter may please be acknowledged.
(Debasis Mazumdar)
Joint Director Establishment (Welfare)
Railway Board.
No.E (W)2008/PS 5-1/38 New Delhi, the 6th January, 2011
: Children Education Allowance Scheme – Clarification
The payment shall be made by the office in which
Sub: Children Education Allowance Scheme- Clarification
Subsequent to issue of this Department OM No.12011/2008-Estt (Allowance) dated 02/09/2008 and clarification OMs dated 11/11/2008, 23/11/2009 and OM No.12011/16/2009-(Allownace) dated 13/11/2009 on the Children Education Allowance (CEA) Scheme, this Department has been receiving references from various Departments, seeking further clarification.
(i). Whether CEA is admissible to a Government Servant who ceases to be in service due to retirement, discharge, dismissal or removal from service in the course of an academic year ?
CEA/hostel subsidy shall be admissible till the end
of the academic year in which the Government
servant ceased to be in service due to
retirement, discharge, dismissal or removal from service in
the course of an academic year.
the Govt. servant worked prior to these events
and will be regulated by the other conditions
laid down under CEA scheme.
(ii). Whether Children of a Government servant who dies while in service are still eligible for reimbursement under the new CEA scheme?
If a Government servant dies while in service,
the Children Education Allowance or hostel
subsidy shall be admissible in respect of his/her
children subject to observance of other
for its grant provided the wife/husband of the
deceased is not employed in service of the
Central Govt., State Government, Autonomous
Body, PSU, Semi-Government Organization
such as Municipality, Post Trust Authority or any
other organization partly or fully funded by the
Central Govt/State Governments. In such
cases the CEA/Hostel Subsidy shall be
payable to the children till such time the
employee would have actually received the
same, subject to the condition that other terms
and conditions are fulfilled. The payment shall
be made by the office in which the Govt.
servant was working prior to his death and
will be regulated by the other condition laid
down under CEA Scheme
iii) Whether any upper age limit of the children has been prescribed for ciaming CEA? Whether CEA can be allowed in case of children studying through "Correspondence or Distance Learning"? If so the age limit prescribed for the same.
The upper age limit for disabled children has
set at the age of 22 years. In the case of other
children the age limit will now be 20 years or til
the time of passing 12th class which
ever is earlier. Cases where reimbursement
have been already made, in respect of children
above this age may not be reopened. It has
also been decided that CEA may henceforth be
allowed in case of children studying
through "Correspondence or Distance Learning"
to other condition prescribed
iv) What is the definition of the terms 'two sets 0f uniform' which occur in para1(e) of our O.M. dated 2.9.08. What is the definition of 'one set of shoes'?
It is clarified that 'one set of shoes' would
mean one pair of shoes and 'two sets of
uniform' would mean two sets of uniform
prescribed by the school in which the child is
studying. A set of uniform will include all items
of clothing prescribed for a day, as uniform by
the school. Reimbursement may be allowed
for two sets of such uniform irrespective of
the colours /winter/ summer/ PT uniform
(v) What is the definition of 'station' for the purpose of hostel subsidy ?
It is clarified that for the purpose of hosted
station would be demarcated by the
first three
digits of
the PIN Code of the area where the
Government Servant is posed and/or
'The first three digits of the PIN Code
indicate a Revenue District
(vi) Whether fee paid 10 organizations/institutions other than the school or fee paid to private tutors for purposes mentioned in para 1(e) of the OM dated 2.9.2008 is reimbursable?
No. It is clarified that the term 'fee' contained in
para 1(e) of the OM dated 2.9.2008 would mean
the fee charted by the school directly from
the student.
Director (P&A)
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The payment shall be made by the office in which
Special concessions/facilities to Central Government Employees working in Kashmir Valley in attached / subordinate offices or PSUs falling under the control of Central Government.
No. 18016/3/2010-Estt. (I)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions
(Department of Personnel & Training)
Dated, the 28th December, 2010
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department of even Number dated 15.3.2010 extending the Special concessions / facilities to Central Government Employees working in Kashmir Valley in attached / subordinate offices or PSUs falling under the control or Central Government, for the period with effect from 1.1.2010 to 3 1.12.2010 and to say that the Annexure attached with the OM stands partially modified to include the Notes. The Annexure as modified is attached herewith.
(Simmi R. Nakra)
Director (P&A)
All Ministries/Departments of the Government of India. (As per standard mailing list)
Details of package of Concession/Facilities to Central Government employees working in Kashmir Valley in Attached/Subordinate Offices or PSUs falling under the control of Central Government:-
I. Additional H.R.A. and other concessions:
(A) Employees posted to Kashmir Valley
(i) These employees have an option to move their families to a selected place of their choice in India at Government expense. T.A. for the families allowed as admissible in permanent transfer inclusive of transportation of personal effects, lump-sum payment for packing etc.
(ii) Departmental arrangements for stay, security and transportation to place of work for employees.
(iii) HRA as for Class 'A' city applicable for employees exercising option at (i). Such employees will be eligible for drawing the normal HRA as well at their place of posting provided Departmental arrangement is not made for his/her stay.
(iv) The period of temporary duty extended to six months. For period of temporary duty daily allowance at full rate is admissible, apart from departmental arrangements for stay, security and transportation.
(B) Employees posted to Kashmir Valley who do not wish to move their families to a selected place of residence;
A per diem allowance of Rs. 10/- is paid for each day of attendance to compensate for any additional expense in transportation to and from office etc. This will be in addition to the transport allowance, which the employee is otherwise eligible for under Ministry of Finance order No. 21(2)/2008-E.II(B) dated 29.8.1008.
Messing Allowance to be paid to the employees at a uniform rate of Rs. 15/- per day by all Departments, or in lieu messing arrangements to be made by the Departments themselves. This rate of allowance will have to be adhered to uniformly by all the Ministries/Departments with effect from 01.07.1999. The slightly higher rate of Rs. 25.50 adopted by the Department of Telecoms and Posts and allowed to be continued as a special case by the Department of Personnel in consultation with the Ministry of Finance, would, however, continue to be paid at the said rate.
As a purely temporary measure, the employees migrated from the Kashmir Valley are accommodated to the extent possible in the available vacancies under the respective Ministries/Departments in offices located outside but adjacent to the union Territory of Delhi.
Arrangements were made for payment of leave salary for the period upto 30′ April, 1990 in respect of employees who may not have received their emoluments after migration. Such employees were allowed to be given either leave salary at the minimum of the scale or some adhoc financial assistance as an advance to be adjusted from their dues after they join duty. Further the migrant employees who were unable to join their respective places of posting in the Valley due to the prevailing circumstances, were extended this facility till they were adjusted in accordance with (iii) above.
In August, 1992, it was decided that the period of migration of a Central Government employee, who migrated from Kashmir Valley in view of the disturbed conditions would be treated as Earned leave to the extent which may have been due to him on the date of proceeding for migration. However, the position was reviewed by the Ministry of Personnel in April, 1997 and if was decided that the Earned Leave which was at the credit of the Central Government migrant employee at the time of migration will not be adjusted against the migration period, but will remain available for the purpose of leave encashment on the date of their retirement in respect of the employees who had already retired or would retire in future. The period of absence would however count in the service for the purpose of pension, but shall not count for earning any kind of leave. During the period of absence, a migrant employee is entitled to his pay (excluding special pay and local allowances) dearness allowance, which he would have been otherwise paid from time to time including benefit of increment had he reported for duty immediately after expiry of his Earned leave.
Pensioners of Kashmir Valley who are unable to draw their monthly pensions through either Public Sector Banks or PA0 treasuries from which they were receiving their pensions, would be given pensions outside the Valley where they have settled, in relaxation of relevant provisions.
Ananhag, Baramulla, Budgam, Kupwara, Pulwama and Srinagar.
2. The package of concession/facilities shall be admissible to Temporary Status Casual labourers working in Kashmir Valley in terms of para 5(i) of the Casual Labourers (Grant of Temporary Status and Regularization) Scheme of Government of India. 1993.
3. The benefit of additional HRA admissible under the Kashmir Valley package shall be admissible to all Central Government employees posted to Kashmir Valley irrespective of whether they are natives of Kashmir Valley, if they choose to move their families anywhere in India subject to the conditions governing the grant of these allowances.
4. The facilities of Messing Allowance and Per Diem allowance shall also be allowed to natives of Kashmir Valley in terms of the Kashmir Valley package.
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Special Allowance to Gatekeepers of Civil engineering Level Crossings Identified difficult gates.
RBE No. 180/2010
No. E(P&A)I-2009/SP-1/CE-1
New Delhi dated 20.12.2010.
The General Managers,
All Indian Railways and Production Units.
Subject – Special Allowance to Gatekeepers of Civil engineering Level Crossings Identified difficult gates.
Rel: Boards letter No. E(P&A)I-97/SP-1/CE.-1 dated 27.01.2003
Pursuant to implementation of the accepted recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission relating to grant of Special Allowance, the issue relating to grant of Special Allowance to Gatekeepers posted at Civil Engineering Level Crossings. Identified as difficult gates, has been under consideration of the Board. This issue has also been raised by the Federations.
2. Board has decided, to revise the rate of Special Allowance admissible to Gatekeepers posted at Civil Engineering Level Crossings, identified as difficult gates from the existing rate of Rs 15O/-p.m to Rs 300/-p.m.
3. The rates of the Special Allowance may be increased by 26% every time the Dearness Allowance payable on revised pay scales goes up by 50%.
4 The other terms and conditions stipulated in Board above referred letter will remain the same.
5. These orders would be effective from 1st September 2008.
6. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
(N. P. singh)
Railway Board.
Source – NFIR


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- Not only the manual operation but also the self-timer can be used for taking a picture.
- It is possible to take eight pictures one after another to say nothing of one picture.
- The data of every day can be preserved with the memo.
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- It operates since Android1.6.
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Cedrick Brenard Lewis,30, was indicted on February 5, 2013 for aggravated kidnapping and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
Officials from The Palestine Police Department arrested Lewis back in December when they said he tried to steal a school bus full of elementary school children.
Palestine authorities said the bus was picking students up at an apartment complex when Lewis jumped on the bus and attempted to use it as a getaway car.
Maintenance workers from the apartment complex told KLTV they worked with an off-duty corrections officer and the bus driver to get Lewis off the bus and held him down until authorities arrived.
The Anderson County Courthouse said a court date has not been set at this time.
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