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Intel Puts Whiskey Lake on The Bonfire: Penny for the NUC
by Anton Shilov on March 10, 2020 7:00 PM ESTIntel has begun winding down sales of the majority of its Whiskey Lake-based 8th generation NUCs (NUC8 Series). This month the company issued a product change notification for the UCFF systems, establishing a plan for transitioning the systems to end of life (EOL) status. Like other EOL transitions, Intel is giving themselves and customers a bit of time to prepare, with the final shipments of the systems set to occur in July.
The list of SKUs to be discontinued includes such models as the NUC8I5INHJA, NUC8I5INHPA, NUC8I5INHP, NUC8I5INHX, NUC8I7INHJA, NUC8I7INHPA, NUC8I7INHP, NUC8I7INHZ, and NUC8I7INHX. Intel's customers are recommended to make their final orders by April 30, 2020, with shipments set to end by July 2nd.
Interestingly, while Intel is discontinuing most of their Whiskey Lake-based NUCs, they aren't discontinuing all of them, at least not in a single go. This month's announcement only covers NUC8s using Core i5 and Core i7 chips; the Core i3 models are not part of the EOL plan.
Intel's Whiskey Lake processors were introduced in August 18, 2018. These CPUs are still widely used by PC manufacturers, so it's a bit surprising to see Intel discontinue NUCs based on them so soon. But with the company using the same 14++ process for numerous other and newer parts, including Comet Lake and Coffee Lake, there is some definite redundancy in Intel's chip stack. As well, the company is still working to meet the overall demand for chips made on that process.
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abufrejoval - Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - link
Bonfire suggests heavy discounts, even ridiculous prices: So such thing, at least not so far.
I like those Whiskey Lakes, especially the one with the Iris 655, but I'd like them even better in Mini-ITX with the ability to put my own fan on them: Those NUC fans are noticeable when you load the system to the max.
I'd love to see some Ryzen 4000 based mini-ITX options, especially something with >64GB RAM and 10Gbit Ethernet as mini-servers for the home-lab. Really quiet, small, economical.
Alas, live-migration across AMD/Intel is a bit of a bother... -
abufrejoval - Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - link
sigh: "No such thing... " need edit or fresh eyes. -
Ian Cutress - Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - link
Cannon Lake NUCs are still full price, fwiw -
heavysoil - Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - link
It's a British thing - putting something on the bonfire would suggest getting rid of something no longer wanted - on 5th November we have bonfires, and old pallets, furniture and any other unwanted stuff that'll burn gets thrown on. A fire sale is an American thing I think, getting rid of fire-damaged stuff as cheap as possible. -
mrvco - Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - link
Makes sense, thanks for the clarification / differentiation. -
Deicidium369 - Sunday, April 12, 2020 - link
Defeats the purpose - these systems are not for everyone.
In my business (little under 1000 employees, 65 of which are management/C-Levels) I use the Intel NUCs for a specific reason. We standardized around Dell monitors (long long product life, no changes to exterior - not exclusive to Dell). I fabricate a bracket - 4.5"x 11" long from 1/16" stainless steel. There are 2 90deg brakes so the side profile looks like a "z". Each end has the 100mm VESA bolt pattern drilled out. 1 end is mounted between the monitor and the stand - sandwiched between the 2. The other end has the mounting plate for the NUC base. We bought 1' long DP cables for video, a 1' USB (A to B) for the Dell monitor USB hub. The power supplies Intel provides are OK -but some have had convex sides. I sourced a high quality power brick that was flat, and had a standard 3 pin power connector (exactly like the one that goes to your desktop PC power supply) and a barrel connector on the other end - we found the correct DC power cable between the PS and the NUC. A 2 way Y splitter is used to split the single AC power between the NUC and the Monitor. Power brick is attacked via velcro.
What this does is create an AiO configuration, with 1 single AC cord and 1 single CAT6E cable running from the faceplates to the computer. Super clean.
My users typically run Word and Excel as well as Outlook (converged messaging between Exchange and Switchvox IP PBX) and Chrome. Chrome is used due to preference and it's main function, other than Internet Browsing is to access the custom built application. The custom built application is modular and has 18 modules and a framework - this handles everything from contract ingestion to quoting, to manufacturing and stacking the materials on a pallet and where on the flat bed to load the pallets - built originally with C and C+ now in Rust. The application dynamically creates the UI via HTML5. Fleet and Logistics use commercial applications - soon to be moved over to SAP.
Systems do everything we need of them, no need to extra fans or the complexity of a "full PC". I have several generations of the NUC - some 3 years old - which were the 1st systems installed and then as the company grew, the latest NUCs were purchased - 3 generations total. Even the early systems have sufficient compute power, it is graphics where the strain is felt (Users can select their keybd/mouse wired or wireless, and single monitor or dual monitor - it's their choice) when some users want to go dual 4K - and on the earliest systems even dual 2560x1440 can be taxing.
When the Tiger Lake NUCs are released - I plan on replacing all of the 65+ units I have installed. Current configs are 8GB-16GB RAM and 128GB to 512GB Samsung SSDs. All will be the i7 variant with the G7 graphics and will be 32GB DDR4 and 512GB to 1TB Samsung NVMe SSDs. I am glad to see 2.5Gb/s Ethernet - I wish there could be a SFP+ port... I am wired completely with fiber as well as copper - and would be alot easier to flatten the network a little by doing away with the copper ports and moving directly to the main switch - even if I did have to replace/upgrade with more 10Gb/s ports.
May seem a little convoluted - but as I and the IT department started migrating ppl from their office to their homes, being able to transport the PC intact and only 2 cables effortlessly - the design makes sense. Not all use cases are the same, not all computers fill all needs. Making something simple - standard and functional is what the NUC excels at. Can't comment on it as a Media Server, can't comment on how well it works with VMs.
I agree with Watzupken below - not enough of a diff between the generations - the 10th gen Cascade Lake is alot of compute power but with the same Gen9.5 graphics. There will not be another entry in the 10th gen NUCs - and I also agree it's a bit confusing having both Cascade Lake and Ice Lake in the same tier. The Tiger Lakes will be Gen 11 which finally makes sense.
Also makes no sense to give a rat's a** about lithography - it is TRULY meaningless. People buy based on performance and features. Besides, TSMC "7nm" is a bit inferior to Intel "10nm" - both are 10nm class products. And all the talk about yield (the release saying 10nm will be less productive to 22 and 14nm - was about 10nm being a short node, and will not be shipping as many 10nm devices as it shipped 14nm devices (nothing from anyone comes close to the numbers sold using 14nm (which TSMC would have called 14+ as 13nm, 14++ as 12nm and 14+++ as 11nm)) it is not a comment about yield. The reordering Cooper Lakes to being only 4 and 8 socket as opposed to 1,2,4 & 8 is an indication that Ice Lake Xeon is well on track, hitting yield targets and working well - no need to have Cooper Lake on 1 & 2 S configs - 2 completely different processors and use cases.
Sorry for the length, can understand TL;DR -
watzupken - Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - link
I feel this is a step in the right direction for Intel. Currently, there is no difference between their gen 8, 9 and 10 since its basically using the same fab, graphics and CPU architecture. Gen 10 is also confusing in a sense there is the Ice Lake and Cannon Lake. In short, they have too many models and it is time for a consolidation from my opinion. -
milkywayer - Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - link
I consider myself fairly tech savvy and even I get dizzy trying to differentiate between these lakes. Intel need to stick to a simpler numeric system so you don't need a friggin chart to decode what each lake means and in what order. -
lmcd - Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - link
I mean the biggest problem is that bigger doesn't necessarily mean better anymore, unintentionally. Other big problem is that TDP/design TDP is a bigger factor than ever with these small form factors. -
Kangal - Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - link
I would propose that there's no difference between Intel's 6th-gen, 7th-gen, 8th-gen, 9th-gen, and 10th-gen chipsets. That's Nearly Five Years, Yikes! They're all basically using the same +14nm lithography, the same Skylake architecture, and basically the same iGPU.
The only differences are core/thread counts. And RAM options.
*PS: yes I know half of the 10th-gen are their "super-duper-final-round" of Skylake stuff, and the other-half is on the new architecture and on 10nm. But that doesn't matter, since the old +14nm and old architecture is still superior overall, since, the new architecture isn't as optimised and the lithography is premature.


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Outlook-The Bat migration and mail transfer using Outlook Export Wizard
This article describes the process for MS Outlook migration to The Bat when it is not possible to use the standard The Bat import wizard.
To ease the process of MS Outlook migration, as well as migration from Thunderbird, Eudora and other mail programs, The Bat has a built-in wizard for importing e-mails and contacts. The import wizard is a fine solution for those wishing to transfer emails to The Bat on a single computer. But what should you do when you are migrating between two unconnected computers, for example, an office PC with corporate Outlook and a home computer with The Bat installed? In this instance you can transfer emails in the Outlook-The Bat direction by first performing an Outlook export of your messages followed by a The Bat import of these files.
How to extract emails from MS Outlook
The first step is to extract emails from Outlook. This format is not supported by Microsoft's built-in wizard for Outlook export, so we will use the Outlook Export Wizard utility instead.
- Launch Outlook Export Wizard and on the first page of the wizard choose the .pst file from which you wish to extract emails, and indicate the directory in which you want the generated files to be placed.
- Set the "Output Format" option to "EML – Outlook Express (RFC822)" mode. Although The Bat supports the import of .msg messages, we recommend using the standard, tried and true .eml format.
As alternative – you can select the "MSG – Outlook Message" output format and enable the special option "Export MSG files as RFC 822 text eml format". This will save extracted messages to files of eml format with msg extension.
- Wait while the program scans the structure of the .pst file and launch the process to begin to extract emails.
- Check the result: the specified directory should now contain a group of folders corresponding to the Outlook folder structure, and which contain .eml files. Files with the .eml extension but which are not e-mails (contacts, calendar and agenda entries) can be deleted.
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The City of Berkeley will be looking brighter, and lighter some carbon emission pounds, come January. The plan is to replace the old, yellow-hued sodium streetlights with bright, energy efficient LED lights. The 8,000 streetlights add up to a lot of energy used by the city, and cost savings on the energy bill are expected… Read more »


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This past July, the American Historical Association, the Library of Congress, and the Community College Humanities Association (CCHA) sponsored a seminar for community college faculty entitled "Trans-Oceanic Exchanges." The seminar, the third in a series of summer seminars funded by the Ford Foundation, brought community college and research university faculty together to discuss new developments in global history. The most recent seminar focused on oceans and seas not as boundaries, but as unifiers of states, empires, and peoples. Organizers encouraged participants to take comparative, cross-cultural, systematic, and global approaches. A major purpose was to explore contemporary globalization in historical context and the historical processes that drive globalization, as well as the way in which globalization and fragmentation affects the definition of areas and regions.
The seminar was designed to give community college faculty an opportunity to conduct primary research and become familiar with the latest historical research, enhancing the teaching of history at their home institutions. Participants and seminar organizers agreed that programs like this could encourage community college administration to recognize that faculty research enhances teaching and learning at every level of the academy. Seminar participant Mary Bruce Piering (Pikes Peak Community College) appreciated the recognition that "community college students deserve high-quality instruction by instructors that care deeply about their subject." Participants used their time in Washington to research articles and redesign curricula. In the coming months, they will present their projects to their colleagues and communities.
Participants praised the seminar for giving them time for research and professional development, too often precluded by the heavy teaching load at community colleges. Some participants prepared articles for publication, while others will present their research at the CCHA National Conference and in a CCHA-sponsored session at the 2004 AHA annual meeting. Several participants came from institutions with rudimentary library resources, and appreciated the opportunity to become familiar with the electronic resources of the Library of Congress. While there were some complaints about the dormitory housing, participants appreciated the opportunity to focus on research and spend time with a "motivated and talented" group of colleagues, as Jim Davis (Mt. San Jacinto College) observed.
As at previous summer seminars, seven guest lecturers discussed the latest historiography on global history, providing a framework for individual research projects. The emphasis on interactions across oceans suggested one possible framework for teaching international history. Previous seminars focused on "Explorations in Empire" and "Globalizing Regional Studies." Two research conferences, "Interactions: Regional Studies, Global Processes, and Historical Analysis" and "Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges," were organized by the project steering committee, which includes representatives of the AHA, the Community College Humanities Association, the Library of Congress, the World History Association, the Middle East Studies Association, the African Studies Association, the Latin American Studies Association, the Conference on Latin American History, and the Association for Asian Studies. The committee is exploring funding opportunities for a possible future seminar on globalizing American history.
—Brandon C. Schneider is a graduate student at Georgetown University and was the Seascapes project assistant. Debbie Ann Doyle staffs the globalizing regional history project.
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Weekly Address: President Obama Says Small Business Must be at the Forefront of the Recovery
WASHINGTON – In this week's address, President Barack Obama spoke of how important small businesses are to the economy and described the steps his administration is taking to support them. Health insurance reform will allow small business to purchase insurance for their employees through exchanges, which will increase the quality of coverage while lowering the costs, and reform will provide tax credits to those businesses. To free up credit, the President called on Congress to increase the size of various SBA loans, and he announced that the administration will be making more credit available to the small local and community banks that many small businesses depend on.
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Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
October 24, 2009
Washington, DC
All across America, even today, on a Saturday, millions of Americans are hard at work. They're running the mom and pop stores and neighborhood restaurants we know and love. They're building tiny startups with big ideas that could revolutionize an industry, maybe even transform our economy. They are the more than half of all Americans who work at a small business, or own a small business. And they embody the spirit of possibility, the relentless work ethic, and the hope for something better that is at the heart of the American Dream.
They also represent a segment of our economy that has been hard hit by this recession. Over the past couple of years, small businesses have lost hundreds of thousands of jobs. Many have struggled to get the loans they need to finance their inventories and make payroll. Many entrepreneurs can't get financing to start a small business in the first place. And many more are discouraged from even trying because of the crushing costs of health care – costs that have forced too many small businesses to cut benefits, shed jobs, or shut their doors for good.
Small businesses have always been the engine of our economy – creating 65 percent of all new jobs over the past decade and a half – and they must be at the forefront of our recovery. That's why the Recovery Act was designed to help small businesses expand and create jobs. It's provided $5 billion worth of tax relief, as well as temporarily reducing or eliminating fees on SBA loans and guaranteeing some of these loans up to 90 percent, which has supported nearly $13 billion in new lending to more than 33,000 businesses.
In addition, our health reform plan will allow small businesses to buy insurance for their employees through an insurance exchange, which may offer better coverage at lower costs – and we'll provide tax credits for those that choose to do so.
And this past week, I called on Congress to increase the maximum size of various SBA loans, so that more small business owners can set up shop and grow their operations. I also announced that we'll be taking additional steps through our Financial Stability plan to make more credit available to the small local and community banks that so many small businesses depend on – the banks who know their borrowers, who gave them their first loan and watched them grow.
The goal here is to get credit where it's needed most – to businesses that support families, sustain communities, and create the jobs that power our economy. That's why we enacted the Financial Stability Plan in the first place, back when many of our largest banks were on the verge of collapse; our credit markets were frozen; and it was nearly impossible for ordinary people to get loans to buy a car or home or pay for college. The idea was to jumpstart lending and keep our economy from spiraling into a depression. Fortunately, it worked. Thanks to the American taxpayers, we've now achieved the stability we need to get our economy moving forward again.
But while credit may be more available for large businesses, too many small business owners are still struggling to get the credit they need. These are the very taxpayers who stood by America's banks in a crisis – and now it's time for our banks to stand by creditworthy small businesses, and make the loans they need to open their doors, grow their operations, and create new jobs. It's time for those banks to fulfill their responsibility to help ensure a wider recovery, a more secure system, and more broadly shared prosperity. And we're going to take every appropriate step to encourage them to meet those responsibilities. Because if it's one thing we've learned, it's that here in America, we rise and fall together. Our economy as a whole can't move ahead if small businesses and the middle class continue to fall behind.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of telling his cohorts that their journey is only one percent finished. Even if you quibble about the exact percentage, he's right that his company's vision is boundless and that the service, in its current incarnation, is nowhere near done exploring its potential. The man is nothing if not both ambitious and patient.
Wall Street, unlike Zuck, is famously bad at taking the long view of things. When Facebook went public, a year ago today, shares were snapped up by speculators hoping to make an insta-windfall from a pop in its stock price. At the end of the first day of trading — bedeviled by NASDAQ technical gremlins — the stock flatlined rather than popping. In the year since, as my colleague Sam Gustin reports, it's bumped around without ever returning to the initial offering price of $38. Some people are still brooding about it.
If you've lost money on Facebook stock, I feel for ya. Really. But the fact that it didn't turn out to be a convenient way to turn a quick buck doesn't have much bearing on the company's importance to the world. It doesn't even say much about the its long-term prospects to do well by investors.
Plenty of tech companies have had happier IPOs than Facebook did, but a happy IPO has never been a reliable sign of a bright future. Consider Netscape, the browser pioneer which went public in 1995, in what may remain the most iconic tech-company IPO of them all. In 2003. Jim Cramer, now the host of CNBC's Mad Money, wrote a wistful remembrance of it for TIME:
We didn't know what it was. We had never opened a browser. We had never gone on the Net. But we had heard that the deal would be hot, so we at Cramer & Co., my $250 million hedge fund, dutifully put in our share of stock in the initial public offering of Netscape. We got several thousand shares. And we, along with most everyone who got some, made an absolute killing. The stock, which we thought was going to be priced at $12 a share, came in at $28 and then opened at $71. (It peaked at $97.62 on March 17, 1999) We were giddy. We had never made money that quickly in our lives. We thought it was going to be a one-time event, never to be repeated.
The Netscape IPO was fabulous if you got in on it, but it was also Netscape's last great moment of unbridled glory. After doing more than anybody else to popularize the web, the company got distracted by side projects such as business software at the same time that Microsoft began bundling the increasingly formidable Internet Explorer with Windows. In 1998, when AOL agreed to buy Netscape for $4.2 billion, it already felt like it was buying damaged goods. It never did much with its new toy, and killed the browser altogether in 2007.
Facebook is already at least as important to the web as Netscape was in its day, or almost any other company (hello, Google!) has been since. Making that case feels redundant, but let's recap a few basic numbers anyhow: 1.11 billion monthly active members (751 million of whom use Facebook on mobile devices), 300 million photos uploaded a day, 16 million events created a month. Through features such as Facebook Connect (which lets you use a Facebook account to log into other sites) and those omnipresent Like buttons, the service also provides essential connective tissue to millions of other sites.
If you went through an It's a Wonderful Life-like exercise of imagining what the web would look like in 2013 if Facebook had never been born, you'd envision a significantly different place. That's true whether you see it as a positive force or a privacy-invading scourge. And while it's fashionable to speculate that Facebook's original audience, young people, no longer think it's cool, that too is a sign of its dominance of social networking: It's tough to stay cool when you're as popular with grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles around the world as you are with teens and tweens.
Facebook's impact on society makes it fascinating, but it doesn't, of course, make it a successful business or a sound investment. Not automatically, anyhow. Especially since part of the 99 percent of Facebook's journey that remains unfinished is finding a business model which is as transformative as the service it provides to consumers.
Most Facebook members have never paid it a nickel directly. The methods it does have to extract cash from them — it keeps suggesting that I give Starbucks gift cards as birthday presents — are unlikely to ever add up to enormous sums. Therefore, it's marketing messages of one sort or another which will bring in most of the money, and while the company made almost $1.5 billion in revenue last quarter, it has the potential to do far better.
Facebook skeptics may be worried about the amount of information the company has on its users, but anyone who uses Facebook and pays attention to the ads can tell that the company hasn't yet cracked the code of turning all that information into highly-targeted advertising of the sort that advertisers crave. Earlier this week, for instance, I pulled up my Facebook page and found ads for the Mormon Church's newsroom, a dating service, a technical-certification school and a contest involving uploading photos of oneself flossing. None of them were a match for my interests, and the dating ad was particularly discordant considering that Facebook knows I'm married. If the service knows too much about me, it's sure failing to do much with that knowledge.
It's worth noting that Google established a powerfully effective business model before it went public in 2004: text ads next to search results, auctioned off to the highest bidder. If Facebook ever comes up with anything remotely as potent, people will stop writing articles saying that there's no way it can turn a meaningful profit.
Over time, Facebook could become a cash cow; it could struggle to satisfy investors; it could grow even more dominant; it could lose ground to some shiny new thing that hasn't been invented yet. But decades from now, when people look back and argue about Mark Zuckerberg's legacy — and they will — I'll be astonished if anyone remembers him principally as that guy whose IPO didn't live up to expectations. This first anniversary seems as good a time as any to stop obsessing over it.


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In October 2011, we celebrated the re-release of Brontosaurus Brunch: A Smorgasbord of Dinosaur Delights written by Judi Peers and illustrated by Mary Coles. The author and illustrator visited the school to read to students, and speak to junior and intermediate students about writing The Rookie Card for the "O Canada" Edition, of Chicken Soup for the Soul. The event was also an occasion to congratulate two Integrated Literacy students, Jacob Bowman and Cassie DesLauriers, who have their illustrations featured in Brontosaurus Brunch.


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By C. H. M.
"Forever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven."
"Thy Word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee."
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THE value and importance of the Word of GOD cannot be over-estimated at the present moment. Its integrity and authority are being assailed from almost every quarter and in every form of attack.
"If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" (Psalm 11:3).
Infidel thoughts and principles are not limited to a few literary and speculative minds, as they were fifty years ago, but are now asserted by many who ought to be the true guardians of Christianity and the defenders of the Bible as a revelation from GOD.
In this way the multitude of the simple and unsuspecting are deceived. If the style of address be pleasing, few care to compare what they have been hearing with the holy Scriptures. The conscience not being aroused, they take no further trouble.
But what of the state of immortal souls, under such a ministry, in view of eternity? On whom does the weight of responsibility rest? Fine-spun theories will never awaken a soul asleep in sin: the lost sinner must be brought face to face with the plain Word of GOD and the solemn realities of eternity. His voice must be heard. All is absolute, positive, and definite here, whatever infidelity may say. "The Word of the Lord endureth forever."
The burden of the following pages, I am thankful to find, is well calculated to meet and counteract the looseness and indefiniteness of the prevailing teaching of the present day.
And this, I may also say, is the burden of the book of Deuteronomy.
The Jewish lawgiver presses with great earnestness the Word of the Lord on the heart of Israel. It is not a book of ceremonials, but the reminding of the people of their obligation to keep the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments of the Lord.
This is the first moral duty of man in every age - implicit obedience and submission to the revealed will of GOD.
Moses speaks to the children of Israel as a father, and appeals to them in the most tender and loving way. "Hearken, O Israel," he says, "unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you . . . ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you." And again, he says, "Thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates."
The welfare of the people individually and nationally depended on their faithfully observing these oft-repeated laws. To neglect them was to bring upon themselves the displeasure and chastening of the GOD of Israel.
But more need not be said here on these subjects. The reader will find in the following pages the most ample unfolding and practical application of these divine exhortations and warnings. But the writer has not confined himself to what Deuteronomy teaches, but has enlarged on what it suggests. In this way we have brought before us the grand cardinal truths of Christianity: a wide circle of truth is embraced, and much that applies to the individual Christian, the family, the household, and the Church of GOD will be found in the accompanying book.
It now goes forth with the earnest desire that the Lord may be graciously pleased to use it for the glory of His own name, the help of His people, and the eternal blessing of many precious souls.
London, November, 1880
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Firstly, I would like to remind all my readers (bloggers and non bloggers) about the event going on in my blog and to participate in it :)
Cooking with Whole Foods (CWF) - Quinoa, it ends on December 10th 2010.
Feels so nice to write another recipe after a long break. Last post was a tried and tasted one, so wasn't a recipe from me :)
This is one of my dear Manju didi's (my oldest SIL) recipe and everyone in my family just drools over it and want to eat it all the time, if available. My older son is I guess the biggest fan of her bua (atta) and so is this paratha of hers. He cannot do without both of these.
Anyways, this time I tried and mastered it (I guess) :) A very simple recipe actually.
Layer Masala Paratha - Layer मसाला पराठा (Indian Spiced Layered Flat Bread)
Whole Wheat Flour - 2 cups (this will usually make 4 parathas, depending on which size you want)
Water - to mix the dough
Ghee (Clarified Butter) or Butter - to help spread the masala on the paratha
Masala Spread
Lal Mirch (Red Chili) Powder - 1 tbsp
Chat Masala (This is a masala you get in Indian store) - 1 tbsp
Salt - 1 tsp
- Add water slowly to the wheat flour and knead it to a nice flat bread kind of dough. Keep it covered for couple of minutes before making parathas.
- Mix Masala Spread in a cup. I usually mix a big batch so that I don't have to mix it every time. Though it hardly takes 30 seconds, but lazy that I am :)
- Now, take a nice big ball from the prepared dough and roll it with the help of rolling pin into a circular shape of desired size (Usually parathas are about anywhere from 5-7 inches in diameter, but you can always make the size that you want). Another note here is that you don't have to roll them out very thin, if you cannot or if you don't want to.
- Now, spread about 1/4 or 1/2 tsp of ghee on your rolled out paratha (like in the picture).
- Sprinkle mixed masala (as much or as little as you want) on the ghee spread paratha.
- Now, slowly with the help of one finger, mix masala with ghee and spread it across the paratha (like in the picture).
- Now, cut the paratha in as many pieces as you want. Remember, more pieces, means more layers, but then more pieces also mean more work... lol
- Once cutting them in pieces, start stacking pieces of parathas on top of each other (as shows in picture).
- Once all the pieces are in one stack, press them together into a flat piece and then dust it with little wheat flour and roll it out in desired shape. Now, here as I cut my pieces in square shape, my end result paratha was in square shapre. But, go with your imagination here.
- Now, place the paratha on a hot griddle and cook (roast) both sides with liberal amount of ghee or butter till they are nice golden.
- As I serve it to kids, I like to cut them in triangles, but just server as it is.
My family just loves it hot out of tawa with a dollop of butter and a bowl of plain yogurt. But, eat it any way you like your parathas, but honestly, there is no need of any curries or anything with it. My son, loves to separate layers while eating and love those crispy pieces.
I am sending this to Joy of cooking's Complete my thali: Roti-Bhakhri-Poli-Thepla-Puri-Rotla event which is guest hosted this month by Akheela.
That's all for now. Take care till next post.


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New induced stem cells may unmask cancer at earliest stage
By coaxing healthy and diseased human bone marrow to become embryonic-like stem cells, a team of Wisconsin scientists has laid the groundwork for observing the onset of the blood cancer leukemia in the laboratory dish.
"This is the first successful reprogramming of blood cells obtained from a patient with leukemia," says University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher Igor Slukvin, who directed a study aimed at generating all-purpose stem cells from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood. "We were able to turn the diseased cells back into pluripotent stem cells. This is important because it provides a new model for the study of cancer cells."
The research was reported today (Feb. 4) in the journal Blood by Slukvin and colleagues from the WiCell Research Institute and the Morgridge Institute for Research, private research centers in Madison.
Slukvin's group, using banked healthy and diseased bone marrow and cord blood, employed a technique developed in 2009 by Wisconsin stem cell pioneer James Thomson that sidesteps the problems posed by the genes and viral vectors used to induce mature cells to regress to a stem cell state.
According to the new study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health and The Charlotte Geyer Foundation, reprogramming blood cells to become induced stem cells is many times more efficient than the reprogramming of skin cells, which were the first mature cells to be guided back to an embryonic stem cell-like state.
The new work could open to science vast repositories of banked tissue, both healthy and diseased, such as bone marrow, the soft tissue in bones that helps make blood, and umbilical cord blood. The work could underpin insightful models capable of unmasking the cellular events that go awry and cause cancers such as leukemia, and could aid the development of new stem cell-based therapies, according to Slukvin.
Of particular note in the new study, says Slukvin, is the reprogramming of marrow cells from a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood that kills about 1,500 people a year in the United States. The disease, like all leukemias, starts in the cells that produce white blood cells in bone marrow.
According to Slukvin, the induced stem cells generated from the diseased tissue retain the exact same complex of genetic abnormalities found in the mature cancer cells. That means that when the induced cells are turned back into blood, scientists could, in theory, watch cancer develop from scratch as cells bearing cancer mutations become cancer stem cells.
"When we differentiate induced stem cells back to blood, we can identify the stages when the abnormality that leads to cancer manifests itself," Slukvin explains.
The ability to pinpoint the very earliest stages of cancer is a major focus of biomedical science.
"This is very important for developing new leukemia drugs," says Slukvin. "A major focus of leukemia research is to find ways to try and eliminate the most immature leukemia cells - cancer stem cells."
The work by Slukvin and his team may represent the first step in a new understanding of the cascade of events that results in blood diseases such as leukemia.
Employing the reprogramming technique developed by Thomson and his colleagues, Slukvin emphasizes, is important because it eliminates the exotic reprogramming genes, some of which are cancer-related genes, from the induced stem cell equation. In the case of chronic myeloid leukemia and other blood diseases, obtaining stem cells that do not have the genetic reprogramming factors is very important.
"When you use viruses (to ferry genes into a cell) you have chromosomal integration," the Wisconsin researcher notes. "Some of the reprogramming factors are oncogenes and would interfere with a study of chronic myeloid leukemia" whose abnormalities are also encoded on the chromosome.


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Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Springfield-in-Illinois et al. v. Illinois et al.
Adoption and parenting case in which Catholic Charities sued Illinois to force the state to renew a contract for foster care services while excluding couples in civil unions from being eligible foster parents.
On June 1, 2011, the Illinois Religious Freedom and Civil Union Act became effective in Illinois, providing couples who choose to enter into a civil union the rights and responsibilities of marriage on a state level. Four Dioceses of Catholic Charities refused to follow state law and declined to process the foster care license applications for couples in civil unions. These agencies claimed that they were exempt from state nondiscrimination requirements on religious grounds even though they provided state-funded social services for youth in state care.
Represented by the Thomas More Society, four Dioceses of Catholic Charities (Springfield, Peoria, Joliet and Rockford) filed suit on June 7, 2011, seeking to force the state to continue to fund their foster care services. In July 2011, the dioceses' contracts to provide foster care services expired and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services declined to renew them. On August 15, 2011, Lambda Legal filed an amicus brief on behalf of several child welfare organizations including the Evan B. Donaldson Institute, the National Association of Social Workers, and NASW's Illinois chapter.
In its brief, Lambda Legal argues that allowing the dioceses to exclude couples in civil unions from the foster parent application process would diminish the pool of loving, permanent homes for children in need. Illinois child welfare law and policies require that child placement decisions be made in accordance with each child's unique needs, and forbid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and marital status. Governing professional and ethical standards for child welfare professionals also prohibit the intrusion of bias into child placement determinations. Additionally, the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution constrains the state from funding social service providers who use the dictates of a particular religion to determine who qualifies for services.
The dioceses' refusal to license gay and lesbian prospective foster parents sends a message of exclusion, not only to the couples themselves, but to lesbian and gay youth in state care, who are particularly vulnerable. Gay, lesbian, transgender, and gender-nonconforming adolescents are disproportionately represented in foster care populations because they often experience rejection by their own families. If the dioceses' lawsuit succeeds, these children would be told by the authorities caring for them and by their government that they are morally unworthy ever of forming families of their own, and that their future relationships in adulthood—no matter how loving, how committed, or how responsible—will be inferior to those in other families.
- January 2011 Governor Pat Quinn signs the Illinois Religious Freedom and Civil Union Act into law.
- April 2011 Catholic Charities lobbies for passage of SB 1123, an amendment to the Illinois Religious Freedom and Civil Union Act that would exempt child welfare social services from coverage under Illinois' non-discrimination law. A state senate committee voted down the amendment, and it never received a vote on the floor of either legislative body.
- June 1, 2011 The Illinois Religious Freedom and Civil Union Act is implemented in Illinois.
- June 7, 2011 Four dioceses of Catholic Charities (Springfield, Peoria, Joliet and Rockford) file suit seeking to force the state to renew their annual contracts despite their refusal to consider couples in civil unions as prospective foster parents.
- July 2011 The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services declines to renew its foster care contracts with four Dioceses of Catholic Charities after these dioceses refused to abide by Illinois and federal law that mandates child placement determinations be made based on a case-by-case evaluation of each child's best interests, and that forbid state-funded social service providers from excluding people from services for religious reasons.
- August 1, 2011 The ACLU moves to intervene in the case on behalf of a class of foster children and two members of a civil union who wish to become foster parents.
- August 15, 2011 Lambda Legal files an amicus brief on behalf of several child welfare organizations including the Evan B. Donaldson Institute, the National Association of Social Workers and NASW's Illinois chapter.
- August 18, 2011 Court dismisses Catholic Charities lawsuit on the ground that Catholic Charities has no right to a renewed state contract on terms other than those agreed to by the state.


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The objective: This project is a series of three experiments that test the effects of distance on the intensity of radioactive sources and the effects of mass absorption of beta and gamma radiation.
1. Spectrum Techniques ST-360 Counter with GM Tube (Power supply, stand, clamp, USB cable, source holder, and 20 shields of varying mass thickness.)
2. Sony Notebook Computer
3. Radioactive Sources: Beta Sr-90 & Gamma Co-60
The procedure for the Inverse Square Law experiment is to place the detector on the clamp of the ruler stand.
Then, place the radioactive source on the surface of a table. Record 10 readings at 60 second intervals for each source from 2cm to 24cm at 1cm intervals.
The procedures for the Beta and Gamma experiments are to place the source in the source holder inside the shelf stand 3cm away from the detector.
Next, place a shield 2cm away from the detector. Record 10 readings at 60 second intervals for each source and each shield.
The results for The Inverse Square Law experiment and the Beta and Gamma experiments are: Graphs A and C describe intensity as inversely proportional to the square of the distance and plot as a hyperbola.
Graphs B and D describe intensity as proportional to the reciprocal of the square of the distance and plot as a straight line. Graphs E and G graph as a decrease in intensity as the mass thickness of the absorbers is increased.
Graphs F and H graph intensity logarithmically verses the increasing shield numbers.
The beta graph begins as a straight line but intensity decreases rapidly by aluminum shield M. Graph H plots as a straight line with a downward slope as the mass thickness of the shield numbers increase until the thickest lead absorber T is used.
Gamma radiation is more penetrating than beta radiation, and lead is a better absorber of aluminum when one compares their mass thickness. The half thickness was calculated to be 6553 mg/cm^2 for gamma.
Experimentation partially supports my objectives, goals, and results of the Inverse Square Law and the Beta and Gamma Absorption experiments.
The project states the intensity of radiation decreases proportionally as the inverse square of the distance, and the effectiveness of radioactive shielding improves with materials of increasing density and linear thickness.


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text: For the dynamic behavior of lightweight structures like thin shells and membranes exposed to fluid flow the interaction between the two fields is often essential. Computational fluid-structure interaction provides a tool to predict this interaction and complement or eventually replace expensive experiments. Partitioned analyses techniques enjoy great popularity for the numerical simulation of these interactions. This is due to their computational superiority over simultaneous, i.e. fully coupled monolithic approaches, as they allow the independent use of suitable discretization methods and modular analysis software. We use, for the fluid, GLS stabilized finite elements on a moving domain based on the incompressible instationary Navier-Stokes equations, where the formulation guarantees geometric conservation on the deforming domain. The structure is discretized by nonlinear, three-dimensional shell elements. Commonly used sequential staggered coupling schemes may exhibit instabilities due to the so-called artificial added mass effect. As best remedy to this problem subiterations should be invoked to guarantee kinematic and dynamic continuity across the fluid-structure interface. Since iterative coupling algorithms are computationally very costly, their convergence rate is very decisive for their usability. To ensure and accelerate the convergence of this iteration the updates of the interface position are relaxed. The time dependent, 'optimal' relaxation parameter is determined automatically without any user-input via exploiting a gradient method or applying an Aitken iteration scheme.


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My name is Philip Duerden and for around eight years I was the general manager of OwnerShips, leaving in 2003. They were a narrow boat shared ownership company run by Allen Matthews. Allen died in 2010 and soon after OwnerShips, the company he founded, went in to liquidation with substantial debts, but thankfully NONE of the owners lost their boat shares, but some did loose money with running costs and in other "side" projects.
During my time at OwnerShips I got to see all that was great about boat shared ownership and on leaving what I did was to acquire the web domain of boatshare.co.uk because I thought one day it would be needed...and it certainly has come in handy!
Sadly since the demise of OwnerShips in 2010 and the 2008 collapse of Challenger, the other main player in narrow boat shared ownership in the UK, the expansion of UK narrow boat shared ownership has slowed dramatically, from around 10-12 boats a year coming on the water then to around 3 or 4 a year now (2018).
Couple this with the fact that some of the older boats are being sold off by their owners and actually the total number of boats in shared ownership is slowly declining, which is a great shame. One reason boats are sold off is the difficulty in selling shares in these perfectly serviceable but slightly less "glossy" boats, and this is one reason this web site was set up to address. Shared ownership in an older boat is certainly a cheap way of boating, and the good news is that on a new or old boat the beautiful scenery looks just the same.
Of course as well as the narrow boats in England on this web site you will also find shares for sale in shared craft in France. Most of these were once OwnerShips (Replica Dutch Barges) or Challenger (Steel Cruisers) boats and since these companies ceased trading I am not aware of any NEW shared ownership schemes coming on stream.
If you are somebody who regularly hires a boat then really you should consider shared ownership, as it makes incredible financial sense, you can take the cost of a one week hire and for that probably get about three weeks instead and, dare I say, on probably a better boat.
Thankfully, whilst timeshare has a somewhat tarnished image, boat sharing on the UK inland waterways does not, even after the collapse of the two main players some years ago. It is reassuming that the only people to loose serious sums of money in the demise of those two firms were those that had invested in them in somewhat speculative schemes outside of their normal day to day activities. Yes, some owners did loose their boat fund contribution but NOBODY lost their share in their boat.
Just about every share advertised on this site is in a boat I either know, or have advertised shares for sale in before, apart from the odd one. I personally vet every advert and if I do not like the sound of something written or even do not like the sound of the (new?) scheme will actually refuse to advertise the share (s) for sale. So, whilst it is still a case of "Caveat emptor" you can at least be reassured that I have had a look at the advert first and taken a view.
Things do sometimes go wrong with boats, they either break down or need major repairs at some point in their life, but when that cost is divided between a group of say 12 owners even something like a replacement engine costing thousands is, when divided by 12, is hopefully not something that will need you having to go cap-in-hand to your bank manager about!
Shared ownership is really a very safe place to be, as long as you recognise that you are entering it to it to SAVE and not MAKE money.


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In case you haven't heard already, there is a great opportunity to learn a lot more about PowerShell coming up next year. It's the PowerShell Summit North America 2013 conference, and it is held on Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA from April 22 to 24, 2013. This conference is run by the PowerShell.org community, and it will present a ton of deep technical content on anything to do with PowerShell. What content will be covered, you ask? Well, that's up to you.
We are now accepting content proposals from anyone who wants to present at this conference. All you need to do to submit your session proposals is to add a new topic to the Session Submissions forum on PowerShell.org for each session you want to present.
Who can present?
Anyone who has something to share with other PowerShell experts and enthusiasts that will help them learn more about PowerShell can propose a topic they would like to present at this conference. There will be a survey shared with the community that allows them to vote for the sessions they want to see, so ultimately the community will decide who can present at this conference. Note that when reviewing the community results, the conference organizers reserve the right to make some modifications to the sessions that are selected to balance the topics that are discussed and to be able to better accommodate speakers who are offering to present multiple sessions.
What topics will be discussed?
There will be around 100 PowerShell experts and enthusiasts at this conference, including some PowerShell MVPs, some non-PowerShell MVPs, and some members of the PowerShell team.
At a conference like this they will be looking for advanced sessions that show them deep technical content on various aspects of PowerShell as well as real-world practical applications of PowerShell. They'll likely want to learn more about workflow, remoting, CIM, and many other technologies used by PowerShell. They'll also likely want to learn about how PowerShell is used in practice with PowerShell extensions like PowerCLI to manage vSphere deployments at Scale, or how PowerShell is being used with multiple technologies (SharePoint, System Center Orchestrator, Exchange, NetApp, Active Directory, etc.) to deal with the real-world management challenges that exist in enterprise organizations. These are just some examples of the topics that might be discussed in sessions at this conference. It is important to note that no presentations will include any NDA information. As mentioned, topics will be voted on by the community and then those results will be reviewed by conference organizers to come up with the final list of topics that will be presented at the conference.
Please keep in mind that there will be two tracks for this event: one will have the content with the deepest technical depth, and another will have real world and more intermediate to advanced level content. With two tracks, you really shouldn't be shy about submitting sessions if you think you might have something to add. Chances are, if you've been using PowerShell for a while and if you continue to use it very regularly, you probably have knowledge and experience that you can share with others. Don't worry about which track your session will ultimately fall in. The conference organizers will figure those details out as part of their agenda planning.
Where will the conference be held?
The conference will be held on Microsoft campus in Redmond in buildings 40 and 41 from April 22 to 24th, 2013. There may be additional activities surrounding the conference, but the core sessions will be April 22, 23 and 24.
When can I submit a proposal?
You can submit a proposal now. Simply post your proposal as a new topic on the Session Submissions forum on PowerShell.org for any sessions that you want to present. Session proposals will be accepted on that forum until October 14, 2012 at midnight PST (take note of that date!). Once that deadline is met, on October 15, 2012 we will publish a list of all proposals with a voting system that will allow community members to vote for their favorite sessions. Votes will be accepted over a 2 week period, and the week of October 29th the conference organizers will review the votes and sessions and put together the list of accepted sessions, contact speakers for confirmation, etc.
We strongly encourage you to submit multiple session proposals so that you increase your chances of having a session accepted. Note that you can submit a proposal even if a related session has already been proposed by someone else. In fact, if you want to present multiple sessions, I would encourage you to submit the sessions that you want to present, without holding back if a similar session is already proposed. There are advantages to presenting multiple sessions (see below), and the community will indicate what they want to see in the end anyway.
If you will be attending the conference whether you have a session proposal accepted or not, you should buy your conference ticket as soon as possible to take advantage of the early bird pricing. If you can only attend this conference if you have enough proposals accepted to cover the bulk of your expenses (see below for details on the benefits of being a presenter), you should submit your sessions now regardless and once the session review process is completed, conference organizers will contact you to make sure you are able to commit to attending and presenting at the conference. You can also fire me a note if you want to make me aware ahead of time that you can only attend if you have at least 3 sessions accepted, either using my contact me form or via email (on gmail or hotmail, either works, using the nickname I use on this blog as the user id).
Why should I submit a proposal?
Personally speaking, I find presenting information that has been learned through hard work to be very rewarding. I also find receiving information that others have learned through their hard work to be very rewarding as well. It's all about the community participation and sharing of knowledge. Aside from being proud of your work and sharing it with others, there are more tangible benefits for speakers with accepted sessions as well.
For every session proposal that is accepted (voted high enough by the community and accepted in the final review by the conference organizers), speakers will receive a $300 travel stipend as well as up to $200 to offset 1/3 of their registration cost. That means someone presenting 3 sessions will receive $900 that they can use towards their travel expenses and a full refund of their registration fee. This should make it much clearer why it is advantageous to submit multiple session proposals.
One last reason why you should submit a proposal: the value of the conversation that comes with an event like this is extremely high. You'll be able to talk to others about your challenges and ideas, learn from their efforts, perhaps find people you want to work with on various community projects, etc. It's the networking alone that drives me to attend events like this.
How do I write a proposal?
Each proposal you enter must include three pieces of information:
- a title for the session you are proposing,
- your full name, and
- a 1-2 paragraph description of what the session will contain.
You must create one topic per proposal. Don't put all of your sessions on one topic, and don't reply to current topics when creating proposals, please.
In general when planning your proposal, focus on content that will come with more demos, and less on slide-heavy content. This is a conference for experts and enthusiasts who are looking for deep technical content on PowerShell-related topics in interactive sessions. With this crowd, rich, demo-focused sessions will be preferred over slide-heavy sessions.
You should also review some of the proposals that are already submitted as examples. Keep in mind that the sessions are 35 minutes long with 10 minutes of Q&A at the end (although questions often come up during the sessions at an event like this). 35 minutes may seem like a lot of time, but it goes by quickly, especially when doing demos.
That's a lot of information, so here is a summary of the essential points along with links to additional information.
Conference Title | PowerShell Summit North America 2013 |
Conference Website | http://powershellsummit.com |
Conference Dates | April 22-24, 2013* |
Location | Microsoft Campus, Buildings 40 and 41, Redmond, WA |
Session Proposal Forum | https://powershell.org/discuss/viewforum.php?f=22 |
Session Proposal Deadline | October 14, 2012 at midnight PST |
Session Voting Period | October 15, 2012 to October 28, 2012 |
Final Tally and Processing | The week of October 29, 2012 |
Sessions Announced | As soon as possible after October 29th, once the final tally and processing is done and accepted presenters have confirmed their sessions |
Forum for Conference- and Session-Related Questions | https://powershell.org/discuss/viewforum.php?f=20 |
Speakers Page | https://powershell.org/summit/speak.php |
Conference FAQ | https://powershell.org/summit/faq.php |
Best location to ask PowerShell questions and to help the community with answers | https://powershell.org |
* With a high probability for a short, half-day event adjacent to this.
I look forward to reading your session proposals!
Kirk out.


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BERLIN — The announcement came three days after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last month, and only few German lawmakers had been briefed on what Chancellor Olaf Scholz was about to say: that Germany would infuse its beleaguered military with 100 billion euros, putting it on pace to be Europe's strongest armed forces.
Scholz added that, from now on, Germany will invest more than 2% of its gross domestic product on its armed forces. According to data collected by NATO, Germany is expected to have spent 1.53% of GDP on defense last year.
Germany's parliament erupted into a rare standing ovation, a roar that filled the main chamber of the Reichstag, a building whose destruction and rebirth were at the center of the horrors of the last world war. It was now again witness to what Germans labeled a Zeitenwende: a historic turning point.
Defense expert Jana Puglierin watched on in disbelief. "It was mind-boggling for me to see this because for many of the things that he had basically decided overnight, I had fought [for] for years and I was sure to never see them materialize," she says.
Germany long resisted building a stronger army
Puglierin, who heads the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations, says for years she has listened to Germany's allies urge it to step up and spend more on defense and provide more leadership, while Germany's government has repeatedly dismissed the idea.
She says defense spending wasn't even an issue in the country's elections this past autumn. "And I think the main reason for it was because German citizens did not feel threatened for a very long time," she says. "They never saw that their security was actually a fragile thing. They took it very much for granted. And the sheer idea that, I don't know, a Russian missile would hit Germany was completely absurd."
This German mindset is rooted in a past that's difficult for many citizens to reckon with; a time when the country, under Adolf Hitler, built one of the world's largest armies. "They started the war, and obviously all industry was turned into the army. And then afterwards, everything was flattened," says military expert Constantin Wissman.
Wissman, author of "Not Quite Ready for Combat: How the German army became a rubbish army," says World War II not only destroyed the German military, but left a residue of shame around its future. "And actually, you can see a lot of problems which the German army has now stems from that time because we never really got comfortable with having an army."
Money can't buy everything
After the end of the Cold War, Germany slashed its defense budget and used its reduced military not so much to protect its homeland as to assist in NATO missions abroad, such as Kosovo and Afghanistan. The state of Germany's military suffered so much that, in 2015 during a joint-NATO training exercise, German troops were forced to use broomsticks painted black instead of guns because of equipment shortages.
Once the parliament passes Scholz's defense spending plan, the new funding will help, but money won't solve everything, Wissman says. "I think the structural deficits of the German army run deeper and they have the structural problems which should be resolved before you spend the money on it."
Even with the new money, military analyst Thomas Wiegold says Germany's armed forces will still be forced to play catch-up. "Funny enough, this does not mean increasing the size," says Wiegold. "This doesn't even mean to add completely different capabilities. First and foremost, it means to finance what actually should be there already."
Things like modern fighter jets — earlier this month, Germany pledged to buy nearly three dozen F-35s from Lockheed Martin to replace its 40-year-old fleet of Tornado jets. Wiegold says that's just the start. Germany needs to buy new tanks, weapons and warships, among many other things.
Europe could feel safer and rely less on the U.S.
And as Germany rebuilds its military, Wiegold says the rest of Europe will feel safer. He quotes a former Polish foreign minister who said, "I'm not afraid of a strong German army. I'm afraid of a weak German army."
"It's not that France or the U.K. or Italy or even the Poles would see a militarily strong Germany as a threat," he says. "I think it's more or less the other way around; that they expect Germany, with its economic power, to do its part on the security side."
Defense expert Puglierin says she hopes Germany will move forward with the responsibility that Europe's largest military brings with it. Because for too long, she says, Germany has relied on the United States to help defend it. "I have heard so many Europeans and Germans saying 'Thank God we have the United States.' But at the same time, we need to realize that we should not take it for granted that the United States is there to babysit the Europeans forever," says Puglierin. "So I think we need to become a much more capable partner in the trans-Atlantic relationship to create a trans-Atlantic relationship on a level on equal footing."
And she says this means not only sharing the U.S. military's burden, but also having a fair say in how international security develops. She says Germany is not only wary of Russia, but also of China, and depending on who takes the White House in 2024, it's difficult to predict what Germany's relationship with the U.S. will be like. A stronger German military, she reasons, should help Germany navigate this uncertainty; a military that is now on track to be the world's third largest, behind only the American and Chinese militaries.
"What I would hope to see is that we develop a healthy relationship towards this notion of European sovereignty because I think it's definitely necessary," she says.
Puglierin says, for decades, Germany's leadership believed it could bring peace through trade and wouldn't need a big military. But the world has become more unstable and unpredictable. And a capable military, she says, is now a necessity.
Esme Nicholson contributed to this report from Berlin.
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"The technical characteristics have been confirmed to our (Russia and India) defense ministries. We propose serial production of the plane should start by 2020," he said, following the meeting of an Indian-Russian intergovernmental commission.
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Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace is expected to supply the Indian Armed Forces with about 1,000 BrahMos missiles.
India already has around 130 of the advanced Su-30MKI's in service, as part of a major re-equipment program for the service, including purchase of 126 French Dassault Rafale fighters.
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