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When I ponder the American discussion for the supposed cure of our health care systemic woes, it frankly frightens me. The rush for decision on something so amazingly partisan and so swiftly cobbled together in the style of the previous sweeping spending bill ought to scare any reasonable human being. Partisan politics, however, is not the place to find reason, except of the Machiavellian sort.

I found it funny when the president derided the US Postal Service a few weeks ago. Being familiar with the USPS operation, and having high respect for them, I would imagine that common letters to the president (presumed to be complaints) are now delivered all the more swiftly and more obviously important business letters are delivered by USPS people just off their lunch break. The Cash for Clunkers program, where dealers are calling each other for the hopes of hearing “Yes, they paid me” among other dealers, but instead hearing “No, they haven’t paid me anything yet”, becomes an excellent better illustration of the future government-controlled health care system.

Last month we have ordered for free Desktop Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) CD, which reached to our hands last week. We have installed Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) inside Windows operating system using Wubi tool without re-partitioning the hard disk.

We tried to install Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) with any one of the provided Indian Language, finally we found that Wubi tool does not supports for the Indian languages. But if you are trying to install Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) as a fresh copy in your hard disk, you can install Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) in any of the supported Indian languages.

We used Wubi tool which is built inside Ubuntu 9.04 CD, which helped us to install Ubuntu 9.04 without re-partitioning hard disk. But we couldn't install in our favorite Indian Language. Finally we found a way to change the Ubuntu 9.04 OS with our favorite Indian Language (Tamil).

Steps to change Language for Ubuntu 9.04

Select Language support from System->Administration->Language Support

You can view a window which asks to select the language for menus, windows and login screen. If your favorite language is not found in the list, just click Install/Remove Languages.

You will be getting a window with list of installed languages, find out you favorite language (Tamil),  select components and finally click apply changes.

Now select installed language which looks like special characters, after rebooting you can view Ubuntu operating system with your favorite language.

Ubuntu 9.04 comes with additional language keyboard which helps users to type in their favorite Indian language.

You can  view Keyboard icon in system tray, right click on it and find out SCIM setup as shown below picture.

SCIM setup enables users to setup SCIM tool and input methods, you can enable many number of languages, assign hot keys for particular language or particular keyboard system.

SCIM input method setup provides advanced options like panel, IMEngine (Global setup, Generic Table) and Front end.

SCIM tool bar

SCIM tool bar with languages

Note 1: After SCIM setup, SCIM tool bar may be not visible. So open any document application and click on keyboard icon in system tray, you should get list languages.

Note 2: You can shift from one language keyboard to another language keyboard by pressing shift key once.

Google India launched transliteration application before two years in Google India Labs. Which lets users to type in their own language, but the problem is when users need to type in their own language, users need to navigate for Google Transliteration page.Which makes difficult to navigate every time to type in their own language, to overcome this problem Google India introduced Google Transilteration Bookmarklets. Which helps users to type in their own language in any website.

Installing Google Transilteration Bookmarklets is easy which can be installed easily by dragging your language bookmarlet to bookmarks toolbar in your browser. Google explains step by step for your browser to install Google Transilteration Bookmarklets.

Google Transilteration Bookmarklets available for 5 Indian Languages and Arabic Language.

• Arabic bookmarklet
• Hindi bookmarklet
• Kannada bookmarklet
• Malayalam bookmarklet
• Tamil bookmarklet
• Telugu bookmarklet

After installing bookmarklet in your browser just click the bookmark and enable transliteration.

Now type your content in the text field and press space bar, transliteration changes the English text to your own language.

To disable transliteration, click the bookmark again which disables the Google transliteration.

Serves 4

Preparation time 1 hour 30 minutes

Cooking time 30 - 45 minutes

Ingredients 

1.2 cups chick peas

2.1 tea bag

3.4 green chilies, finely chopped

4.3 tomatoes, finely chopped

5.1 onion, finely chopped

6.1 inch ginger,  finely chopped

7.1 tbsp fresh coriander, finely chopped 

8.1 tsp dry mango powder (aamchur)

9.2 tsp garam masala powder

10.2 tsp red chilly powder

11.2 tsp dry coriander powder

12.1 piece bay leaf

13.1 tsp oil

To be dry roasted on a warm skillet and ground into dry masala

1.1 tsp garam masala

2.8 cloves

3.1 inch cinnamon

4.1 tsp whole black pepper or 2 tsp ground black pepper

5.1 tsp cumin seeds

6.1 tsp coriander seeds

7.1 tbsp anardana  (dried pomegranate seeds)

8.2-3 cardamoms

Directions

Serves 2-4

Preparation time 30 minutes

Cooking time 30 minutes

Ingredients

1 cup Tamarind (dried, found in packets in grocery store)

1/2 cup Palm Sugar (Jaggery)

2 tbsp sugar

1/2 tsp red chilly powder

1/2 tsp black pepper

1/2 tsp ground clove

1 tsp cumin powder

2 cups water

salt to taste

1 onion, cut into thin strips

1 tsp fresh coriander, finely chopped

Directions

De seed the tamarind and soak in the water for about 30 minutes. Once done, squeeze all the liquid from the tamarind and strain the water. Add water in a sauce pot and add all the remaining ingredients. Boil until all the ingredients are well dissolved and the chutney is slightly thick. This takes about 30 minutes. Once cooled add the onions, mix well and garnish with fresh coriander.

Makes5-6 tbsp

Preparation time 10 minutes

Cooking time 5 minutes

Ingredients:

1. 10 red dried chillies  (kashmiri chilies)
2. 2 tbsp dried corriander seeds
3. 2 inch cinnamon stick
4. 4 cloves
5. 1 tsp nutmeg
6. 1 tsp cumin seeds
7. 1/2 tsp poppy seeds (khus khus)
8. 2 bay leaves
9. 1 tsp turmeric
10. 1 star anise
11. 1 tsp fennel seeds
12. 1 tsp whole black pepper

Directions:

In a wok dry roast all the ingredients for 5 minutes or until well roasted. As soon as the condiments are roasted there will be a fragrant spicy flavor from the mixture.  Make sure you don't burn the condiments while roasting or your masala will turn bitter. Once roasted cool the mixture and blend into a smooth powder. Store in an air tight container. This masala has a shelf life of a year if kept in a cool dry place.