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Somalilandsun – British troops are to be deployed to Somalia, opening up a new front in its military commitment in Africa.
Amid fears of 'mission creep' in UK involvement in the region, soldiers are to be sent to Mogadishu to provide security for a new embassy.
It is the latest stage in David Cameron's commitment to providing advice and training to Africa Union forces in taking on Al Qaeda-linked insurgents.
Britain is offering extra help to the Somalia government which is locked in protracted fighting with the al Shabaab militant group
Britain is offering extra help to the Somalia government which is locked in protracted fighting with the al Shabaab militant group
Ministers today published an International Defence Engagement Strategy setting out defence activity, which stops short of combat operations. It insists efforts will be focussed on 'those countries which are most important to our national interests'.
The Prime Minister has warned that 'Al Qaeda franchises thrive where there are weak political institutions, political instability and the failure to address long-standing political grievances'.
It is hoped the opening of an embassy in Somalia will strengthen ties with the country where African Union forces are locked in fierce fighting with the al-Shabaab.
In addition to a new pen a new Defence Section in the new British Embassy in Mogadishu, it also commits to a Defence Attaché and Defence Section in the British Embassy in Burma and a Defence Section in Juba, South Sudan.
There will also be closer work with Libya, including training its military, especially its Navy and Air Force, and helping to establish bomb disposal and defence language schools.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said: 'Defence, and in particular the Armed Forces, plays an important role in delivering Britain's international objectives, drawing on our reputation and capabilities.
'This strategy is welcome at a time of limited financial resources, providing a means to focus our assets and activities such that we can make an even greater contribution to securing a safe and prosperous future for the UK.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said the strategy will 'help the UK to work more effectively to deliver our foreign policy objectives, delivering an integrated approach drawing on all of the levers of power across government'.
However, it comes after Britain committed more than 330 troops to the French military effort against Islamist militants in Mali, amid warnings that the conflict in Africa could last for years.
Up to 240 troops could be deployed to train the Malian and prepare combat troops from neighbouring west African countries, while around 90 personnel are providing a transport aircraft and spy plane.
Last week Mr Cameron used a surprise trip to Libya to promise Britain would provide more advice and training to security forces in the country.
'The British people want to stand with you and help you deliver the greater security that Libya needs,' he told recruits at a police academy.
'So we have offered training and support from our police and our military. We look forward to working together in the years ahead.'
An African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA) deployment is expected to see up to 200 British troops training combat troops from neighbouring English-speaking African countries which could then be sent in to Mali.


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Adding fuel to rumors that Apple is working on designs for a car, local officials say engineers for the giant tech company recently made inquiries about a former navy base that's been converted into a testing ground for self-driving cars and other cutting-edge vehicles.
Apple, which is best known for making iPhones and Mac computers, hasn't said what kind of testing it hoped to conduct at the GoMentum Station automotive testing facility, which used to be a naval station in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Concord.
"We don't know. They haven't said what they want to test. It could be an iPhone," joked Jack Hall, program manager for connected vehicles and autonomous vehicles at GoMentum Station, which is operated by the Contra Costa Transportation Authority. The agency is promoting a portion of the former Concord Naval Weapons Station as an ideal testing facility for carmakers and tech companies working on automotive technology.
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It is, perhaps, the greatest failure of collective leadership since the first world war. The Earth's living systems are collapsing, and the leaders of some of the most powerful nations – the United States, the UK, Germany, Russia – could not even be bothered to turn up and discuss it. Those who did attend the Earth summit in Rio last week solemnly agreed to keep stoking the destructive fires: sixteen times in their text they pledged to pursue "sustained growth", the primary cause of the biosphere's losses.
The action – if action there is – will mostly be elsewhere. Those governments which retain an interest in planet Earth will have to work alone, or in agreement with like-minded nations. There will be no means of restraining free riders, no means of persuading voters that their actions will be matched by those of other countries.
Giving up on global agreements or, more accurately, on the prospect that they will substantially alter our relationship with the natural world, is almost a relief. It means walking away from decades of anger and frustration. It means turning away from a place in which we have no agency to one in which we have, at least, a chance of being heard. But it also invokes a great sadness, as it means giving up on so much else.
The world won't adapt and can't adapt: the only adaptive response to a global shortage of food is starvation. Of the two strategies it is mitigation, not adaptation, which turns out to be the most feasible option, even if this stretches the concept of feasibility to the limits…Yes, it might already be too late - even if we reduced emissions to zero tomorrow - to prevent more than 2C of warming; but we cannot behave as if it is, for in doing so we make the prediction come true. Tough as this fight may be, improbable as success might seem, we cannot afford to surrender.If we compare both comments, it is clear that he has surrendered but now thinks surrender is not the end of the fight. This admission deserves respect even if it comes late. However, it is remarkable that Monbiot does not see the importance of adaptation, nor the potential of decarbonizing the energy systems through technological innovation. Beneath his shift of perspective he still holds fast to an alarmist and moralizing rhetoric and an emphasis on the protection of the natural environment. These form the bedrock on which he builds his ecological policy: one which is rather backward looking, attempting to preserve (or restore) the beautiful English countryside. It is quite disappointing that he should draw such a lesson from the failure of a global treaty strategy.
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Saturday, August 26, 2006
Now is the Time to Make Case for Lower Taxes
Regular readers of this blog will know my views on whether the Conservative Party should commit itself to lower taxes. A poll in tomorrow's Sunday Times makes very happy reading for those of us who believe the Conservative Party is nothing if it does not believe in lowering the level of taxation on ordinary working people. I won't go into the details because you can already read them HERE in exhaustive detail on ConservativeHome. Making the case for lower taxes is a long term project. We mustn't let Labour steal the march on us. I think people are now beinning to realise that they've paid over huge amounts of money to the government but not seen the return on their investment. Some years ago (I think it was under William Hague) the Party ran a poster campaign with the slogan YOU'VE PAID THE TAXES, WHERE ARE...? It might be time to repeat it, as it was a few years too early to catch the public mood.
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- Benedict White said...
I think the "YOU'VE PAID THE TAXES, " line is a good one, because public services seem in some ways to be in free fall. They certainly are in my local NHS.
Shame really. I would not have minded the taxes so much had they been about building sustainability. For example, improving transport to where people live but don't have jobs, so that they can get jobs with out moving.
So, lots of money spent, no results. Not an argument for lower taxes per se, but certainly an argument against higher taxes = more services. That is clearly bonkers. - August 27, 2006 1:25 am
You've paid the taxes,
where are the border controls? - August 27, 2006 1:44 am
- SPL said...
Yes - but I would argue that low-tax economics is actually a classical-liberal construction. Historically, the Conservative Party was an advocate of protectionism.
(Is Adam Rickitt really an "opinion former"?) - August 27, 2006 2:39 am
- Praguetory said...
I prefer a rather more aggressive tone. It would include sharp facts re government waste followed by the tag line
STOP STEALING OUR MONEY - August 27, 2006 7:36 am
- Johnny Norfolk said...
Surley the main difference between Labour and Tory is about the size of the state, and how much or little it should do. If the state is going to interfear in our lives less it will cost less and we can have some of our money back. simple
- August 27, 2006 7:47 am
Dear Senor Iain
1 Fido is a dog
2 All dogs are black
3 Fido is a black dog
1 Roman Emprie needs massively expensive Army
2 Roman Army needs taxes beyond the capacity of the Economy to support
3 Collapse of Roman Empire
British Parallels !!!!
G Eagle - August 27, 2006 9:16 am
I am sure you will not be as pompous and self important about it as ConHome and its owner are. Beginning to sound like Beaverbrook at his worst.
- August 27, 2006 9:25 am
I'm glad Iain that you say " lowering the level of taxation on ordinary working people" because that is not really what past Tory govts have done - when you look at the Thatcher tax "adjustments", they mostly take the form of reduced taxes on unearned income such as dividends. Thatcher / Major actually increased the overall tax burden on the middle classes. I am sceptical that in reality a Cameron govt would be any different.
Changing the subject, just listening to the really absurd Ruth Kelly on BBC1 this morning, who claims she "celebrates" when she sees Muslim women in the Hijab! Anybody want to join the party? - August 27, 2006 9:59 am
The Sunday Times article sounds like it was written by Rupert himself.
Iain - are you going to post on Cameron's comments on South Africa? - August 27, 2006 10:14 am
anonymous at 10:14
It's also on the bbc website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5290106.stm - August 27, 2006 10:45 am
"Making the case for lower taxes is a long-term project."
Couldn't disagree more; the case for lower taxes has been made time and time again, ever since Keynesian economics started looking ropey - 40 years at least. Just how long is it going to take before the message gets across to those who make a living by spending *our* money? Another 40 years?
Now implementing lower taxes, that is a long term project, but it's never too soon to start. So where to begin? Where will the first blossomings of CP fiscal reform thrust their fragile shoots in defiance of the steamroller of tax n'spend?
According to my Sunday Torygraph it's Stamp Duty, though not as many a home-owner would hope, ST on house purchase - it's ST on share transfers/sales. Wow! That will really get them dancing in the aisles of the local supermarket; a real headliner, get lots of votes, that will. After all it will help personal pensions, in 40 years(!) you'll see the benefit (if they don't change the rules again when all the Treasury chickens come home to roost) - and if you can actually afford to save for a pension after the other taxes have done hoovering your pay-packet.
Of course there are some who will gain short term - the pension/insurance/banking orgs and those wealthy enough to have their own share portfolio. Given that, guess how the cynic-in-the-street will view this putative policy - fat cats to get fatter, looking after their pals, cosying up to the most profitable sector in the Stock Exchange - for why? Couldn't be in the hope of party donations, could it?
I despair, I really do. Where is the radical thinking? Where is there a sign that the Cons are not just a bunch of mealy-mouthed Labour-lite statists?
Offer something before the next election that would directly affect the pockets of the many. Don't tinker about at the edges. Grasp the nettle, for God's sake. - August 27, 2006 11:14 am
Sounds like you are floundering in Vince Cable's wake here...
- August 27, 2006 12:56 pm
- Iain Dale said...
Anonymous, Vince Cable is not proposing cuts in the overall tax burden, so I don't think that comment really stands up. His tax redistribution plans are ill thought out and do not add up. If they did I might welcome them.
- August 27, 2006 12:59 pm
- Scipio said...
We need:
1 A Royal Commission established to look at the whole tax AND benefits system (you cannot seperate one from the other really). The idea should be to establish ways of reducing the overal tax take, and how best to fairly distribute the tax burden.
2. Take those on benefits out of the income tax system completely. What is the point of taking income tax of them, only to give it back in benefits. You should tax the things you wish to discourage. You should not discourage people from seeking employment. Get people off benefits and into work. - August 27, 2006 1:23 pm
John Prescotts expenses...
illustrate it by hovering over a CGI generated London suburb, with thousands of chavs entering each house and coming out with a tenner each.
repeat for each John Prescott expense.
End with the punch line.
STOP STEALING OUR MONEY - August 27, 2006 4:05 pm
"Changing the subject, just listening to the really absurd Ruth Kelly on BBC1 this morning, who claims she "celebrates" when she sees Muslim women in the Hijab! Anybody want to join the party?"
well she is opus dei, so maybe the hijab reminds her of the veil of the virgin mary.
(we really do have some serious fruitcakes in power nowadays - where are the rationalists???) - August 27, 2006 4:09 pm
Osborne is still wet behind the ears and is no match for for the bullying conman Brown. Too timid too unsure of which line of attack to adopt. Dead scared of media headlines' "Tory tax cuts for the rich will close all hospitals schools etc". The credible line of attack is
- Govt incompetence corruption and waste
- Brown's incompetence and deceipt
Propose solutions after setting out and repeating ad nauseum the facts and figures to support attack. Very few in this country believe we have an honest and competent Govt. UK has one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe when you adjust the figures to account for those who have become 'disabled' since 1997. Up 100% during a time when NHS spending is up by 80% in cash terms.
There are 100's of killer facts that can demolish Brown's claim to be a prudent Chancellor. Time young George had the nous and balls to step up to the plate.
The bad news is this. When Osborne is Chancellor after next election, he will not be able to reduce taxes. The Govt finances have built in toxic waste that will take five or more years to neutralise. A poisoned chalice. - August 27, 2006 5:53 pm
annie mouse said:
"the really absurd Ruth Kelly on BBC1 this morning, who claims she "celebrates" when she sees Muslim women in the Hijab!"
So it's goodbye,Commission on Integration and Cohesion. So very last week. - August 27, 2006 7:29 pm
"Ruth Kelly "celebrates" when she sees a hijab.
And so she should. There are millions of women who would look better in a hijab. The rest should be obliged to wear bikinis. - August 27, 2006 7:34 pm
what a surprise Osbourne proposes tax cuts one day after Iain does a post on his blog. can you see the string?
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The shadow of abortion looms large over the American conscience. Over thirty years after Roe v. Wade, the abortion controversy has not gone away. If the U.S. Supreme Court majority really thought that their decision to create a new "right" to abortion would resolve the issue, history has rejected that assumption. The nation is even more divided on this question in 2008 than it was in 1973.
Each new presidential election is greeted by some with hopes that the abortion issue will go away. The controversy resists disappearance. It cannot merely go away, because both sides in the controversy see the issue in ultimate terms.
The worldview clash is never more clearly revealed than on this grave question. One side defines the issue in terms of a woman's right to control her own destiny. Then, as now, abortion advocates argue that access to abortion is necessary in order to level the playing field between men and women.
Feminists argued that abortion rights were and are absolutely necessary to a woman's autonomy and privacy. Abortion rights advocates have argued amongst themselves over the question of whether to admit that the killing of an unborn child is even a tragedy. Whatever the admission, the unborn child's intrinsic right to life is denied. In the classic form of this argument, a woman must have the right to an abortion at anywhere, any time, for any reason, whether or not she can pay for it.
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For the better part of four decades, some have attempted to find a middle ground between these two positions, but to no avail. The reason quickly becomes clear. If abortion is to be understood as a fundamental right, no woman can be denied the exercise of that right. If abortion is the taking of innocent human life, no justification can be offered for abortion as a means of ending an unwanted pregnancy – none at all. Middle ground would be possible only if we can assume that the right to abortion is not fundamental, but merely provisional, and that the unborn child does not have an intrinsic right to life, but only a provisional right. Efforts to frame the issue in this way fail because neither of these assumptions can qualified in this way and remain coherent.
Abortion is back front and center in the 2008 presidential race. Sen. John McCain and the Republican Party Platform call for a reversal of Roe v. Wade and against any notion of abortion as a fundamental right. Both the candidate and the platform call for specific measures to curtail access to abortion and to lead, eventually, to the end of abortion on demand.
Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic Party Platform call for a stalwart and enthusiastic defense of Roe v. Wade and for expanded access to abortion. In the case of Sen. Obama, his advocacy of abortion rights goes considerably beyond where any major candidate has ever gone before.
In a recent essay, Professor Robert P. George of Princeton University makes the case that Sen. Obama is "the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States." Further: "He is the most extreme pro-abortion member of the United States Senate. Indeed, he is the most extreme pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress"
This is quite a claim, but Professor George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, argues his case convincingly.
For starters, he supports legislation that would repeal the Hyde Amendment, which protects pro-life citizens from having to pay for abortions that are not necessary to save the life of the mother and are not the result of rape or incest. The abortion industry laments that this longstanding federal law, according to the pro-abortion group NARAL, "forces about half the women who would otherwise have abortions to carry unintended pregnancies to term and bear children against their wishes instead." In other words, a whole lot of people who are alive today would have been exterminated in utero were it not for the Hyde Amendment. Obama has promised to reverse the situation so that abortions that the industry complains are not happening (because the federal government is not subsidizing them) would happen.
He has promised that "the first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act" (known as FOCA). This proposed legislation would create a federally guaranteed "fundamental right" to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, including, as Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia has noted in a statement condemning the proposed Act, "a right to abort a fully developed child in the final weeks for undefined 'health' reasons." In essence, FOCA would abolish virtually every existing state and federal limitation on abortion, including parental consent and notification laws for minors, state and federal funding restrictions on abortion, and conscience protections for pro-life citizens working in the health-care industry-protections against being forced to participate in the practice of abortion or else lose their jobs. The pro-abortion National Organization for Women has proclaimed with approval that FOCA would "sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies."
Obama, unlike even many "pro-choice" legislators, opposed the ban on partial-birth abortions when he served in the Illinois legislature and condemned the Supreme Court decision that upheld legislation banning this heinous practice. He has referred to a baby conceived inadvertently by a young woman as a "punishment" that she should not endure. He has stated that women's equality requires access to abortion on demand. Appallingly, he wishes to strip federal funding from pro-life crisis pregnancy centers that provide alternatives to abortion for pregnant women in need. There is certainly nothing "pro-choice" about that.
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In an act of breathtaking injustice which the Obama campaign lied about until critics produced documentary proof of what he had done, as an Illinois state senator Obama opposed legislation to protect children who are born alive, either as a result of an abortionist's unsuccessful effort to kill them in the womb, or by the deliberate delivery of the baby prior to viability. This legislation would not have banned any abortions. Indeed, it included a specific provision ensuring that it did not affect abortion laws. (This is one of the points Obama and his campaign lied about until they were caught.) The federal version of the bill passed unanimously in the United States Senate, winning the support of such ardent advocates of legal abortion as John Kerry and Barbara Boxer. But Barack Obama opposed it and worked to defeat it. For him, a child marked for abortion gets no protection-even ordinary medical or comfort care-even if she is born alive and entirely separated from her mother. So Obama has favored protecting what is literally a form of infanticide.
Anyone who takes the issue of abortion with moral seriousness should look closely at Professor George's essay, for it makes his case convincingly, adding many points of argument and evidence to those cited above. Beyond Professor George's essay, take a look for yourself at the Freedom of Choice Act [FOCA] Sen. Obama has pledged to sign – even as a first act in office as President.
The FOCA establishes the right to an abortion as a fundamental right, ensuring that abortion rights would remain in force even if Roe v. Wade were to be overturned. The act would also repeal provisions that limit federal funding of abortion, strip doctors of "conscience clauses" that allow them not to perform abortions, and nullify state provisions that allow for waiting periods, counseling, and parental notification when a minor is involved. Support for this provision would alone suffice to characterize Sen. Obama's position as radical and to sustain Professor George's argument.
The fact is that Sen. Barack Obama has never voted to support any measure that would, in itself, lead to any reduction in the number of abortions performed. He also appears never to have failed to support any provision – however radical – that would expand access to abortion. He even opposes a ban on partial birth abortions.
Some now argue that pro-life voters can nevertheless vote for Sen. Obama. As Professor George argues, this is delusional.
There are signs of fatigue among Christians on this issue. Some argue that the sanctity of life issue is simply one among many important issues. Without doubt, we are faced with many urgent and important issues. Nevertheless, every voter must come to terms with what issues matter most in the electoral decision. At some point, every voter is a potential "single issue" voter. Some issues simply eclipse others.
This is the case with the sanctity of human life. I can understand the fatigue. So little progress seems to have been made. So much ground has been lost. So many unborn babies have been aborted. The culture has turned increasingly hostile to this commitment, especially among the young. There is a sense that many want to get on with other issues.
There is fatigue and frustration with the Republican Party and with limited progress. There is frustration with mixed signals and missed opportunities. There is the acknowledgment that we have too often been told what we want to hear and then ignored.
There is the sense that the battle has grown old – along with those who are fighting it. There are signs that the culture is closing its ears. We all have other concerns as well. Can we make any progress on those if we remain tenaciously committed to opposing abortion?
Yet, there is the reality that we face a choice. This is a limited choice. And we cannot evade responsibility for the question of abortion. Our vote will determine whether millions of unborn babies live or die. The Freedom of Choice Act, if passed, would lead directly to a radical increase in the numbers of abortions. The abortion industry has told us that themselves.
The question comes down to this: How many lives are we willing to forfeit – to write off as expendable – in order to "move on" to other issues of concern? There is no way to avoid that question and remain morally serious. The voting booth is no place to hide.


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Ace's odyssey through time and space to bring you this compilation has taken almost as long as the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. The 40th anniversary of the moon landing had yet to be celebrated when this CD was first scheduled for lift-off. It has taken a fair old while to get to the launching pad, but we haven't Saturn our backsides waiting for mission control to clear us for lift-off.
The Ace-tronauts of Steele Road never lost sight of their mission statement – which was to boldly go where no CD of its type had gone before; maybe even to The Final Frontier as far as space-themed compilations go. Nearly five years after the final countdown first began, we are ready for the blast off!
"Greatest Hits From Outer Space" offers a stellar collection of music that can truthfully be said to be nothing less than out of this world. Whether you live on Jupiter or in Jesmond, on Venus or in Ventnor, on Pluto or in Prestwich, Ace's lab-coated boffins have bet their moonboots that, unlike Houston, you won't have a problem in enjoying this voyage around the galaxy of space-related music. We don't claim to be definitive in our quest – to be so would require a boxed set, at least – but we do feel that we've left no moon rock unturned in an attempt to bring you the best selection of space-related music ever to orbit around your CD player.
Our trip around the galaxy embraces all manner of other worldly sounds. You won't be hearing from any purple people eaters with the kind of sped-up voice which make your Mercury rise and which Mars any listening experience, but you will hear all sorts of other weird and wonderful sounds as you spin through the musical orbit. Your flight time is around 75 minutes, during which time you will thrill to the Theremin's eeriness, hear legendary space and sci-fi related 1950s and 60s movie and TV music, catch a few popular songs by such space age talents as Bobby Womack, the Ames Brothers, Moon Mullican and Thelma Houston relating specifically to our old friend Mr Green Cheese, and much more besides – including what we believe to be the first appearance of a piece of classical music on an Ace compilation, courtesy of that nice Mr Strauss and his 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', a favourite of all would-be astronauts since the days when even 2001 seemed an impossibly long way off, never mind 2014. Older listeners may feel the urge to hide behind the nearest sofa when the original theme to Doctor Who appears about halfway through the trip. Don't say we didn't warn you.
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At Tooling Tech Group, our facilities are stocked with state-of-the art equipment run by highly skilled machine operators to ensure we deliver to you the highest quality molds, dies and fixtures.
Across our facilities, we have myriad tools for milling, turning, boring, drilling and grinding that allow us to build workpieces up to 343-in. long x 100-in. deep x 120-in. tall, as well as top notch equipment for secondary operations. A critical differentiator when partnering with Tooling Tech is the fact that we have our own in-house foundry for producing cast molds.
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In this process, the heavy truck components (about 5-ft x 7-ft in size) are kept in a glue/bond apply station where a robot travels along a shuttle applying the adhesive to the different stations. The operator then manually loads the components in the front half of the cell and six components on the other side of the cell. The side with six components pivots up and is merged with the stationary side with the three components. The cycle then starts where cylinders are engaged to apply the pressure to finalize the bond
Combining Manual and Automated Processes
In this instance our customer asked us to develop a process to bond steel and composite brackets, apply glue and drill holes in a new 2.5 ft x 4 ft component in right-hand and left-hand styles.
In our process, the operator loads the component into the drill where six holes are drilled. The operator then takes the part and puts it into a loading nest where the robot picks up the part and moves it under a stationary dispensing head that applies the glue for the bracket reinforcements. While the glue is being applied, the operator is loading the brackets into the next station. Once these actions are completed, the robot then loads the part into the nest at the manual station and the assembly press closes automatically to complete the bonding process. A mix of two to three operators and one robot results in an efficient cycle time of 3 to 3.5 minutes
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Our customer provided us the spec sheet outlining the time, temperature and recipe for a foam mix that needed to be applied in order to complete the manufacture of four different composite components.
We developed an automated dual line solution with two 6-axis robots and two shuttles functioning as axis 7 and 8 as the shuttle movements are interlocked with the robots. The operator loads the component on the fixture device and as the shuttle moves, the first robot arm is programmed to apply the foam. This robot then moves out of the way and the second robot moves in and measures the foam bead via a laser measuring system to ensure the right amount was applied. This robot then picks and place the component in the oven. Overall cycle time is 85.9 seconds.
From Four Machines to a Single Line
Our customer needed to produce two versions of a composite automotive part that required the routing of 100 holes and the application of 65 float nuts along with some rivet studs. In addition, they wanted a fully automated solution with +0.25mm tolerance on the holes, zero dust emission and a cycle time of just over three minutes. The customer thought it would take four machines to accomplish this.
Tooling Tech developed a solution that could route all the holes in a single orientation during a continuous process while using a minimum amount of floorspace. The process starts with the operator manually loading the part on a wall fixture where the automated cycle then starts. The part is clamped in place, the part style verified via a sensor, and several holes are drilled. The wall then rotates 180 degrees and a handling robot picks up the part and places it into the route cell where four robots cut about 65 holes. Each robot has a vacuum unit at its head and collects the dust during the routing process.
The handling robot then moves the part to the rivet nut station where two robots apply 66 float nuts, fed to the robots via a pneumatic tube. The nuts go in and are crimped using amperage as an indicator if the nut is properly secured. At the end of this process, all six robots communicate with the material handling robot to determine good or bad part.
Eliminating Human Error
We supplied our customer with a solution for welding two components together, where clinch nuts were already pressed in prior to welding. After welding, manual processes included the insertion of two push pins for a wiring harness operation and the application of a piece of double-sided tape. However, 10 – 15% of the components were being sent to quarantine due to missing parts.
Tooling Tech developed a fixturing station for assembly and a checking station to verify part presence. Once the part is welded, it is manually moved to the assembly station where the pin and tape are put in place. The part is then moved to the checking station where the part is clamped in place, and it goes through an automated checking cycle. Using a variety of sensors, the presence of the tape, clinch nuts and pins are all verified. This has saved the customer about $10,000/week.
In these days of lightweighting, it's not only performance vehicles that benefit from composite structures. Introduced in 1987, the Jeep Wrangler has become an icon and popular across the world. With the 2018 model re-design, engineers were able to drop 200 pounds from the vehicle by employing aluminum bodywork and composite hardtop panels, with molds supplied by Tooling Tech Group. The frame is also 100 pounds lighter through extensive use of high strength steel.
Originally introduced in 2010, this performance truck shed 500 pounds in its 2017 iteration with a new aluminum body as well as composite hood and front fenders. This 2018 model has the same features, proving that lightweight materials can tough out off-road driving.
From the sleekest and sexiest of vehicles to the biggest boys on the highway, Tooling Tech Group provides molds for many heavy truck manufacturers. When you look at the size of these cabs, you can just imagine the weight reduction being achieved by the usage of composite materials.
This vehicle, commemorating the movie Bullitt starring Steve McQueen, was 'the thing" at the 2018 Detroit Auto Show. To match the original movie car, this version is light on external badging and painted in the same dark green. However, the original was a steel vehicle and today's version features composite panels.
Ford's research into improved efficiency through weight reduction with advanced materials including new metals, alloys and composites began more than 25 years ago. Although the new 2019 Ranger features a high strength steel frame, the company is employing composite truck beds and body panels to help reduce vehicle weight. Other highlights include frame-mounted steel bumpers, an aluminum hood and tailgate, and standard automatic emergency braking and rearview camera.
Tooling Tech Group has long history of providing compression molds for various body panels on the Chevrolet Corvette, most recently providing the molds, bonding, drilling and assembly equipment for the C-7 and C-8 Stingray and Z06. The C6 Z06, introduced in 2006, was recognized for its use of advanced materials including an aluminum frame, magnesium roof structure, engine cradle and other suspension attachment points as well as light-weight, high-strength composite panels for the front fenders, front wheelhouses and rear fenders.


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New Delhi (India), January 18: In the dynamic landscape of digital business, the emergence of Firmads.in on October 26, 2022, marks a significant milestone. Founded and bootstrapped by the visionary duo, Mr. Akash Dutta and Ms. Suhani Gupta, Firmads.in has swiftly positioned itself as a one-stop solution for comprehensive company growth strategies. This article delves into the myriad services offered by Firmads.in, exploring how this startup is reshaping the way businesses approach their digital presence.
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The centerpiece of the Republican Tax Act signed into law at the end of last year was the cut in the corporate income tax rate. The reduction in the tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, along with other reductions in business taxes, accounts for almost 40 percent of the $1.6 trillion projected gross cost of the tax cuts.
Since the law passed, most of the discussion has focused on the division of the benefits of the corporate tax cuts between shareholders and workers. On this score, the shareholders look to be the big winners. According to an analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness that focused on the public announcements from the country's 500 largest corporations, share buybacks announced since the law's passage have totaled more than $400 billion compared with $6.1 billion in announced bonuses or pay increases, with the vast majority of this money falling in the category of one-time bonuses.
It is also worth noting that companies were effectively getting paid to announce bonuses as soon as the law was passed. A bonus announced in calendar year 2017 could be written off against the 35 percent corporate income tax rate in effect that year even if it would be paid in 2018. In contrast, bonuses that were not announced until 2018 could be deducted only at the new 21 percent corporate income tax rate. As a result, a company like AT&T, which announced one-time bonuses of roughly $200 million in December for its employees (equal to less than 10 percent of its annualtax savings), was effectively paid $28 million to make its announcement in 2017 rather than wait until January. This is in addition to the benefits of getting into the good graces of a notoriously capricious president.
However exciting this shareholder-versus-worker scorekeeping might be, it actually is beside the point if we take the Republicans' claims about the tax cut seriously. Their argument was not that if we give tax cuts to corporations, the corporations would pass them on to workers. If that were the case, it would be much simpler just to give the tax cuts to workers. They argued that the big gain to workers would be through an indirect channel. Their story was that lower corporate tax rates would lead to a huge increase in investment, which would in turn increase productivity, which would then lead to higher wages.
Kevin Hassett, the head of Trump's Council of Economic Advisers (and a friend), was the leading promulgator of this view. Hassett was not just arguing this position to justify the Trump tax cut; he is a true believer. He has been doing research for decades that finds investment to be hugely sensitive to tax rates.
Hassett argued that the reduction in the corporate tax rate would spur enough investment to boost the capital stock by roughly a third after a decade over its baseline growth path, increasing output and wages by 10 percent over the baseline levels. That forecast is the basis for the 3 percent annual GDP growth assumed in the Republican projections, as compared with a growth rate of under 2 percent projected by the Congressional Budget Office.
It is also how the Republicans could claim that a tax cut amounting to a bit over $1,000 per year per household would raise family incomes by more than $4,000. The claim depends entirely on the additional growth that will result from the lower tax rates. The distribution of the initial tax cut itself is trivial by comparison.
Looking at a limited set of countries over the last few decades, Hassett's work finds that lower corporate tax rates are associated with higher real wages. Other research on variations in state tax rates in the United States and provincial tax rates in Canada finds similar results, so there is some basis for the claim about growth and higher wages.
These studies, however, have to be put up against a larger body of research that examines the determinants of investment. The primary channel through which a lower tax rate would boost investment is by reducing the after-tax cost of capital. Paying a lower tax rate effectively makes it cheaper to invest.
The research on this issue is extensive, and most of it finds that investment is relatively unresponsive to changes in the cost of capital. This is part of the story of weak investment in the recovery from the Great Recession. The interest rate that companies have had to pay in recent years on borrowed money has been at historically low levels. For example, the interest rate on AAA bonds is currently at 4 percent and has been as low as 3.5 percent. With an inflation rate of around 2 percent, this comes to a 2 percent real interest rate. That compares with a real interest rate near 4 percent during the late-1990s investment boom.
The story is the same with lower-quality BAA bonds, which now have a yield of 4.8 percent for a real interest rate of 2.6 percent. In the late 1990s, the real interest rate on these bonds averaged over 5 percent. Investment, in other words, has been far more responsive to demand growth than to the cost of capital.
The same story emerges from careful micro-level analysis of firms' investment decisions. A series of studies that Washington University professor Steve Fazzari did in the late 1980s with Glenn Hubbard, George W. Bush's chief economic adviser, found the cost of capital to be a minor factor in determining firms' investment decisions, especially for new firms. Sales growth was a far more important determinant.
There is another reason for questioning the impact that cutting the corporate tax rate will have on investment: We tried this trick before. The 1986 tax reform lowered the corporate income tax rate from 46 percent to 34 percent. This is almost as large a reduction as the one in the new law. (The way to think about the size of the cut is the share of profit pocketed by the company. The 1986 tax cut increased the share from 54 percent to 65 percent, a 20.4 percent increase. The 2017 tax cut raised the share from 65 percent to 79 percent, a 21.5 percent increase.)
Unfortunately, no investment boom followed the 1986 tax cut. In fact, investment fell slightly when measured as a share of GDP, going from 13.2 percent of GDP in 1986 to 12.6 percent in both 1987 and 1988. This history does not seem consistent with the view that investment is hugely responsive to the corporate tax rate.
But we don't have to rely on history, since for better or worse, the tax cut is now in place. While it is still early in the game, if the Republicans' story were true we should already be seeing higher capital goods orders. Keep in mind, their story is not that the tax cuts would lead to a modest rise in investment; they claimed the tax cuts would increase the size of the capital stock by one-third after a decade. To hit that level would require an increase in annual investment of roughly $600 billion over baseline growth of 25 percent.
Although the bill was signed into law at the end of December, businesses already knew in September that a large cut in the corporate tax rate was likely. If tax rates were a large factor in investment decisions, we would expect that dynamic firms would have begun planning for investments they would make if the tax law passed. The bill then passed the Senate in the middle of December, at which point it was absolutely certain that corporations would be paying a lower tax rate.
To be sure, it takes time to get investment in place, but if there is really going to be a flood of additional investment, it should show up in companies' plans for investment. The best national measure of those plans is the Commerce Department's data on capital goods orders, which is released monthly. The data for December through March don't support the investment-boom story.
If we pull out aircraft, orders for non-defense capital goods were just 0.5 percent higher in March than in December, translating into a meager 2 percent annual rate of growth. Even including aircraft orders, the year-over-year increase was 12.4 percent. This is a respectable growth rate, but very far from a pace that would increase the capital stock by a third over baseline growth in a decade.
In fact, there have been many times where spending increased more rapidly in the recent past without the benefit of a huge tax cut. For example, in the first half of 2012, the growth in orders compared with the prior year averaged 17 percent. Going slightly further back, capital goods orders grew an average of 9.4 percent in the first six months of 2007 compared with year-earlier levels, and 12.2 percent in the first half of 2006. These were not years in which anyone thought we were experiencing an investment boom.
The National Federation of Independent Business provides another measure of intended spending based on a survey of its members. This measure showed a slight increase in the percentage of members planning to increase capital expenditures in the next three to six months immediately following passage of the tax cut, with the share going from 26 percent in November to 29 percent in February. But it then fell back to 26 percent in the March reading. By comparison, the share had been as high as 29 percent back in August 2014 when Barack Obama was in the White House. The index averaged over 30 percent in the years preceding the recession.
Several of the regional Federal Reserve banks conduct surveys of business conditions in their districts that also ask about plans for investment. The results from the New York district, the Philadelphia district, and the Chicago district all tell pretty much the same story. Investment is expanding at a moderate pace along with the overall economy, but there is zero evidence anywhere of an investment boom induced by the tax cut.
The tax cut proponents will undoubtedly object that it is too early to make much of the data we have, but remember, their claim was the tax cut would lead to a huge surge in investment, implying that businesses are very responsive to changes in the tax rate. If investment decisions really depend on tax rates to the extent they claim, it is difficult to believe we wouldn't be seeing evidence, at least in businesses intentions, of more rapid investment growth. And without this growth in investment, the corporate tax cuts look like just another way to give money to the richest people in the country who own most of the stock in the corporations getting the tax cuts.
One additional point about the Republicans' projection of 3 percent GDP growth ought to be mentioned. Contrary to what many economists have claimed, the idea of growth at that pace is not outlandish. GDP growth is the sum of labor force growth and productivity growth. Given the demographic trends, labor force growth will average less than 1 percent, but the productivity part of the story is much less certain. Although productivity growth since 2005 has averaged just over 1 percent annually, it averaged 3 percent from 1947 to 1973 and again from 1995 to 2005. It could approach that level once more.
After all, this is what job-killing robots are all about. If just a small portion of the claims about massive displacement from robots and artificial intelligence prove to be true, the resulting productivity growth could push GDPgrowth to the 3 percent range promised by the tax cut proponents. But it would have little, if anything, to do with a tax cut that will needlessly transfer hundreds of billions of dollars to the country's richest people.


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Gone are the days when cars were restricted to a higher class of people. Thanks to the increasing number of affordable cars, more number of people can now own one. Owning a car makes our travelling so much more comfortable.
However, most of the cars do not offer all the necessary accessories as the sale package. In fact, the base model of many affordable cars does not even offer an audio system. Hence, under such circumstances, it is always wise to choose some accessories that would make the car more of a complete vehicle. While some expensive cars demand high-level accessories like car alarms and security systems, budget cars need smaller things like a body kit or an audio system.
So, here are the top five accessories for cars and motors that you should get for your new car without a miss.
Car Headrest Hook
The car headrest hook helps to create an extra storage option. The hook can use to hang the handbags of groceries, toys, water bottles, baby supplies, etc., on the back side of headrests. Some people use the back seat for storing the shopping bags and other groceries after shopping. But turning the back seat in a storage place will not look good and extremely unorganized. Hence, once you invest in these headrest hooks, it can easily hold a maximum weight of six kilograms.
Car Boot Organiser
You can now utilize every inch of space on the boot of your car by using the car boot organiser. You can store weekly or monthly groceries and also other stuff in it. A boot organizer consists huge compartments. Moreover, you can also put some car repair tools or general essentials in the side pockets of the organiser. Some of the boot organisers are built with no-slip pads, which help to prevent the damages on the items that are stored in it. You can fold it after using as well. Some of them are also equipped with a removable insulated-cooler so that it can keep the drinks and foods items at the perfect temperature.
Car Ioniser
It is one of the most widespread accessories which helps to reduce the odour that comes from floor rugs or smoke. A car Ioniser quickly eliminates the peculiar smell and reduces the chances of sneezing, coughing, asthma, etc.
Car-Air Foot Pump
Sometimes the drivers did not take care of the air pressure of the tyre. However, the tyre with insufficient air pressure not only hampers the performance of your car but is not safe also. Hence, it is always recommended to carry an Air Foot Pump while going for long drives. By using this, you will be able to fill the tyres that have inadequate pressure after checking it thoroughly.
Car Seat Lumbar Support
Due to poor postures of the driver or the co-driver, a heavy back pain may arise, especially as a result of long drives. The car seat lumbar support helps to correct your posture by providing support to the lumbar region. It is one of the topmost convenient accessories which helps to correct your driving posture.
The above accessories make the car more convenient. Be it any from the list, the convenience that they bring is immense. Plus, they help keep the car tidy and decluttered, besides helping you have a comfortable long drive.


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Southwestern Vegetarian Bean Chili Serves 8 The secret to making this quick family favorite is keeping your pantry stocked with healthy convenience items such as canned beans and tomatoes. Serve it tonight with corn muffins and for lunch tomorrow wrapped in a whole wheat tortilla or heaped on a taco salad. Great over baked potatoes or nachos, you can also use this versatile chili to stuff peppers or bake a tortilla pie.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
1 cup red onion, chopped
1 cup celery, chopped
3 15-ounce cans of pinto, kidney or black beans (or a mix of all three), drained
2 14-ounce cans Mexican-style tomatoes, chopped
1 16-ounce bag frozen mixed vegetables
1 tablespoon lime juice
2 teaspoons chili powder
2 teaspoons cumin
1/2 cup cilantro, chopped
1. Lightly spray a 3-quart saucepan with nonstick cooking spray; heat over medium heat until hot.
2. Add onions and celery; sauté 5 minutes.
3. Stir in remaining ingredients except cilantro. Cover and simmer 15 minutes. Stir in chopped cilantro and serve immediately.


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Announcing the general availability of Query Store for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Since our preview announcement, hundreds of customers have been enabling Query Store to provide insight on query performance. We're excited to share the general availability of Query Store worldwide for Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
Query Store automatically captures a history of queries, plans, and runtime statistics and retains them for your review when monitoring your data warehouse. Query Store separates data by time windows so you can see database usage patterns and understand when plan changes happen.
Top three reasons to use Query Store right now
1. Find the full text of any query: Using the sys.query_store_query and sys.query_store_query_text catalog views, you can see the full text of queries executed against your data warehouse over the last 7 days.
SELECT q.query_id , t.query_sql_text FROM sys.query_store_query q JOIN sys.query_store_query_text t ON q.query_text_id = t.query_text_id;
2. Finding your top executing queries: Query Store tracks all query executions for your review. On a busy data warehouse, you may have thousands or millions of queries executed daily. Using the Query Store catalog views, you can get the top executing queries for further analysis:
SELECT TOP 10 q.query_id [query_id] , t.query_sql_text [command] , SUM(rs.count_executions) [execution_count] FROM sys.query_store_query q JOIN sys.query_store_query_text t ON q.query_text_id = t.query_text_id JOIN sys.query_store_plan p ON p.query_id = q.query_id JOIN sys.query_store_runtime_stats rs ON rs.plan_id = p.plan_id GROUP BY q.query_id , t.query_sql_text ORDER BY 3 DESC;
3. Finding the execution times for a query: Query also gathers runtime query statistics to help you focus on queries with variance in execution. The variance could be for a variety of reasons such as loading a bunch of new data.
SELECT q.query_id [query_id] , t.query_sql_text [command] , rs.avg_duration [avg_duration] , rs.min_duration [min_duration] , rs.max_duration [max_duration] FROM sys.query_store_query q JOIN sys.query_store_query_text t ON q.query_text_id = t.query_text_id JOIN sys.query_store_plan p ON p.query_id = q.query_id JOIN sys.query_store_runtime_stats rs ON rs.plan_id = p.plan_id WHERE q.query_id = 10 AND rs.avg_duration > 0;
Get started now
Query Store is available in all regions for all generations of SQL Data Warehouse with no additional charges. You can enable Query Store by running the ALTER DATABASE <database name> SET QUERY_STORE = ON;
To get started, you can read the monitoring performance by using the Query Store overview topic. A complete list of supported operations can be found in the Query Store Catalog Views documentation.
Next steps
Azure SQL Data Warehouse continues to lead in the areas of security, compliance, privacy, and auditing. For more information, refer to the whitepaper, "Guide to enhancing privacy and addressing GDPR requirements with the Microsoft SQL platform," on Microsoft Trust Center, or our documentation, "Secure a database in SQL Data Warehouse."
- For more information on Query Store in Azure SQL Data Warehouse, refer to the article, "Monitoring performance by using the Query Store," and the Query Store DMVs, such as sys.query_store_query.
- For feature requests, please vote on our UserVoice.
- To get started today, create an Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
- To stay up-to-date on the latest Azure SQL Data Warehouse news and features, follow us on Twitter @AzureSQLDW.
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Conference call to be held on Aug. 5, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. ET
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a leader in the global specialty chemicals industry, announced today that it will release its second-quarter 2021 earnings after the NYSE closes on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021.
The company will hold its conference call to discuss second-quarter 2021 results on Thursday, Aug. 5, at 9:00 a.m. ET. This call will be webcast and can be accessed through Albemarle Corporation's website at https://investors.albemarle.com/, via the webcast link below or by phone at the following number:
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An online replay of this call will be available on Albemarle Corporation's website (for 12 months) and by phone at the following number (for 7 days):
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+1 855 859 2056 |
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+1 404 537 3406 |
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About Albemarle Corporation
Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is a global specialty chemicals company with leading positions in lithium, bromine and refining catalysts. We think beyond business-as-usual to power the potential of companies in many of the world's largest and most critical industries, such as energy, electronics, and transportation. We actively pursue a sustainable approach to managing our diverse global footprint of world-class resources. In conjunction with our highly experienced and talented global teams, our deep-seated values, and our collaborative customer relationships, we create value-added and performance-based solutions that enable a safer and more sustainable future.
We regularly post information to www.albemarle.com, including notification of events, news, financial performance, investor presentations and webcasts, non-GAAP reconciliations, SEC filings and other information regarding our company, its businesses and the markets it serves.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Albemarle Corporation's business that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Suppose that a car traveled up three different roadways (each with varying incline angle or slope) from the base of a mountain to the summit of the mountain. Which path would require the most gasoline (or energy)? Would the steepest path (path AD) require the most gasoline or would the least steep path (path BD) require the most gasoline? Or would each path require the same amount of gasoline?
This situation can be simulated by use of a simple physics lab in which a force is applied to raise a cart up an incline at constant speed to the top of a seat. Three different incline angles could be used to represent the three different paths up the mountain. The seat top represents the summit of the mountain. And the amount of gasoline (or energy) required to ascend from the base of the mountain to the summit of the mountain would be represented by the amount of work done on the cart to raise it from the floor to the seat top. The amount of work done to raise the cart from the floor to the seat top is dependent upon the force applied to the cart and the displacement caused by this force. Typical results of such a physics lab are depicted in the animation below.
Observe in the animation that each path up to the seat top (representing the summit of the mountain) requires the same amount of work. The amount of work done by a force on any object is given by the equation
Work = F * d * cosine(Theta)
where F is the force, d is the displacement and Theta is the angle between the force and the displacement vector.
The least steep incline (30-degree incline angle) will require the least amount of force while the most steep incline will require the greatest amount of force. Yet, force is not the only variable affecting the amount of work done by the car in ascending to a certain elevation. Another variable is the displacement which is caused by this force. A look at the animation above reveals that the least steep incline would correspond to the largest displacement and the most steep incline would correspond to the smallest displacement. The final variable is Theta - the angle between the force and the displacement vector. Theta is 0-degrees in each situation. That is, the force is in the same direction as the displacement and thus makes a 0-degree angle with the displacement vector. So when the force is greatest (steep incline) the displacement is smallest and when the force is smallest (least steep incline) the displacement is largest. Subsequently, each path happens to require the same amount of work to elevate the object from the base to the same summit elevation.
Another perspective from which to analyze this situation is from the perspective of potential and kinetic energy and work. The work done by an external force (in this case, the force applied to the cart) changes the total mechanical energy of the object. In fact, the amount of work done by the applied force is equal to the total mechanical energy change of the object. The mechanical energy of the cart takes on two forms - kinetic energy and potential energy. In this situation, the cart was pulled at a constant speed from a low height to a high height. Since the speed was constant, the kinetic energy of the cart was not changed. Only the potential energy of the cart was changed. In each instance (30-degree, 45-degree, and 60-degree incline), the potential energy change of the cart was the same. The same cart was elevated from the same initial height to the same final height. If the potential energy change of each cart is the same, then the total mechanical energy change is the same for each cart. Finally, it can be reasoned that the work done on the cart must be the same for each path.
For more information on physical descriptions of motion, visit The Physics Classroom Tutorial. Detailed information is available there on the following topics:
Work Forces on Inclined Planes Potential Energy Kinetic Energy Mechanical Energy Internal vs. External Forces Work-Energy Theorem
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Elka Beth Klein, a specialist in the history of Judaism and medieval Catalonia, died on March 28, 2005, in Cincinnati, Ohio, after a protracted struggle with ovarian cancer. She was 39 years old.
Klein earned her BA summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1988, majoring in history and religious studies. After an additional year of study at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem in 1988–89, Klein entered the doctoral program in history at Harvard University. She completed her doctorate in 1996 under the direction of Thomas Bisson, with the support of fellowships from Harvard University, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Fulbright IIE Program, and the Real Colegio Complutense. Between 1998–2001, Klein was a postdoctoral Dorot Fellow in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. In 2001, she joined the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where she taught until the final weeks of her illness.
Klein's brief but accomplished career represented a significant contribution to research and teaching in the fields of Judaic and medieval studies. Klein drew upon a wealth of expertise in Talmudic law, language, and literature, as well as medieval Catalan and Latin, to bring new archival documentation and perspective to her study of medieval Barcelona's Jewish community. Prior to Klein's work, studies of Catalonia's Jewish population had emphasized the divide between Christians and Jewish communities within the medieval Crown of Catalonia-Aragon, and focused principally upon the decades directly preceding the riots of 1391. Klein worked beyond this temporal focus to complicate and challenge older views, showing, as she would assert in "The Widow's Portion: Law, Custom, and Marital Property Among Medieval Catalan Jews," Viator 31 (2000): 147–163, that Jews and Christians in medieval Catalonia needed, rather, to be understood as "part of one cultural system."
Klein's dissertation, Power and Patrimony: The Jewish Community of Barcelona, 1050–1250 mined published and unpublished records from the Arxiu de la Corona d'Aragó, the Arxiu Capitular de Barcelona, and the Arxiu Diocesà de Barcelona to trace an overlooked transition in the governance of Barcelona's Jewish community over the relatively neglected 11th through 13th centuries. Klein found that leadership passed during this period from the so-called "courtier-nesi'im," a select cadre of Jews favored by the emerging Crown of Aragon, to elected communal officials in a manner that paralleled contemporaneous power shifts among urban elites throughout Christian Europe. In "Protecting the Widow and the Orphan: A Case Study from 13th-Century Barcelona," Mosaic 14 (1993): 65–81, Klein would meanwhile make her earliest foray into social history, her strongest area of scholarly interest. In various works that followed, such as "Splitting Heirs: Patterns of Inheritance Among Barcelona's Jews," Jewish History 16, no. 1 (2002): 49–71; "Barcelona," in Medieval Jewish Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2003), 79–82; scholarly presentations at meetings of the American Historical Association and the Association for Jewish Studies; and in her second book, Community and King: Jews, Christian Society, and Royal Power in Medieval Barcelona (forthcoming in the University of Michigan Press series, History, Language and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds), Klein would expand her treatment of Jewish-Christian interaction to examine such diverse topics as the economic activities of medieval Jewish women, Jewish family law, and the punishment of informers within the Jewish community.
Throughout this research, Klein argued for a pattern of what she termed "selective acculturation" in the legal transactions of Barcelona's Jews, who adapted, rather than passively imitated, the practices of their Christian neighbors. Klein's work also made an important body of previously unpublished documentation accessible to future scholars. Her first book, Hebrew Deeds of the Catalan Jews, 1117–1316 (Barcelona and Girona: Societat d'Estudis Hebraics/Patronat Municipal Call de Girona, 2004), published in English and in Catalan, offered a meticulously annotated edition of 18 Hebrew Shetarot Klein discovered in the Arxiu Capitular de Barcelona. In January 2005, Klein delivered her last scholarly lecture at the Institut d'Estudis Nahmànides in Spain to celebrate the appearance of this volume.
Klein demonstrated an equally pioneering grasp of the internet's potential as a tool for the dissemination of sources, teaching, and scholarly exchange. Along with Hebrew Deeds, Klein's plentiful translations of Rabbinic responsa and documents from the Arxiu de la Corona d'Aragó for The Internet Medieval Sourcebook and other Internet sites made important source materials available as teaching aids for the first time. In 1998, Klein served as editor of the segment "Medieval Jews and Judaism" for The ORB: An On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies (https://www.the-orbnet), authoring "The Jewish Community," a lengthy exposition of history and historiography. Syllabi for several of the courses Klein developed at the University of Cincinnati remain available at the Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion (https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu). Klein was also a prolific reviewer and contributor to H-Net Judaic.
Klein was, finally, a generous friend to many fellow scholars in medieval, Hispanic, and Jewish studies, as well as a gifted, caring, and greatly beloved teacher. One colleague, Gila Safran Naveh, described Klein's hospital bed as "covered with student papers, books she was reviewing, course lists she was scrutinizing for approval, syllabi she was modifying," only two weeks before her death. Hailed as "collaborative," "inspiring," and "brilliant" by faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Klein was posthumously conferred with the university's Edith C. Alexander Award for Distinguished Teaching last May. A series of commemorative sessions of Talmudic study were undertaken in her honor at various sites across the United States and Canada during the spring and summer 2005. Plans are underway to endow a scholarship in her name.
In numerous memorials since her death, Klein has been praised as the Eshet Hayil, "the woman of valor," whose convictions sustained active commitments to Judaism, feminism, and global justice alongside her lifelong engagement with history. The tradition of Hebrew prayer in which Klein was so deeply immersed affirms that the memory of a departed one lives on in their acts of goodness. Klein's memory survives in the legacy of learning and friendship she leaves to scores of students and colleagues who delighted in her warmth, kindness, and courageous humor. Klein is survived by her parents, Suzanne Silk Klein and Martin Klein, professor emeritus of African history at the University of Toronto; a brother, Moses Klein; her husband, Yoseff Francus; daughter Dina, 4; and son Shaul, 3.
—Jonathan Ray, University of California at Los Angeles
—Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau, University of Kentucky
—Steven Fine, University of Cincinnati
—Gail Labovitz, University of Judaism at Los Angeles
—Emily Sohmer Tai, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
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