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a. This Chapter provides the policies and procedures that will be used when the Government determines that a cost comparison between in-house (agency), contract or interservice support agreement (ISSA) performance is warranted.
b. The procedures of Part I of this Supplement regarding cost comparison waivers, the certification of the Government's MEO, review by an Independent Review Officer and the Administrative Appeals process apply. Cost comparisons will be based upon the same scope of work and performance requirements contained in the Performance Work Statement (PWS).
c. Cost comparisons are conducted in accordance with this guidance, modified to the extent applicable by Chapter 5 of this Part. The procedures differ for the conversion of work from contract or ISSA to in-house performance, however, in four basic areas: (1) the identification of new or increased in-house costs, (2) one-time conversion costs and (3) the calculation of the minimum cost differential, and (4) certain other adjustments that may be necessary if an ISSA is being considered.
a. The competitive cost of in-house performance includes all significant performance costs associated with the activity that are not common to the in-house, contract or ISSA options. The in-house cost estimate is based upon the following:
--Personnel Costs
--Materials and Supply Costs
--Other Specifically Attributable Costs
--Cost of Capital
--Maintenance and Repair
--MEO Subcontracts
--Other Costs
--Overhead Costs
--Additional Costs
b. In addition to costs generally associated with the in-house performance of an activity, including personnel, material and overhead costs, a conversion from contract or ISSA performance to in-house performance may require increased costs for facilities and equipment. The cost of all capital assets not currently provided to the contractor will be computed using the depreciation and cost of capital methods provided in this Chapter. Increases for the rent, maintenance and repair, utilities, travel and their associated overhead is also calculated. Government costs that would be the same for in-house, contract or ISSA operation, should be identified, but need not be computed.
a. This Supplement establishes a minimum threshold of undefined costs that must be exceeded prior to a conversion to or from in-house, contract or ISSA performance. The minimum differential is also established to ensure that the Government will not undertake a conversion for marginal estimated savings.
b. An activity will not be converted to or from in-house, contract or ISSA performance, on the basis of a cost comparison, unless the minimum cost differential is met. The minimum cost differential is the lesser of 10 percent of in-house personnel-related costs (Line 1) or, $10 million over the performance period. Factors such as decreased productivity, and other costs of disruption that cannot be easily quantified at the time of the cost comparison are included in this differential.
c. Whenever a cost comparison involves a mix of existing in-house, contract, new or expanded requirements, or assumes full or partial conversions to in-house performance, each portion is addressed individually and the total minimum differential is calculated accordingly.
a. Agencies will use the annual inflation guidance developed annually for the President's Budget and provided by OMB for use in cost comparisons conducted in accordance with this Supplement.
b. In preparing cost estimates, all known or anticipated increases incurred before the end of the first performance period; e.g., salary increases for Government employees, are included in each cost element--prorated as appropriate. For subsequent periods, the cost of anticipated changes in the scope of work, as described in the PWS, is determined. Inflation factors for pay and non-pay categories will then be applied to the estimated year-end costs for the first year of performance. There are some exceptions to the inflation adjustments as discussed later, such as personnel costs subject to economic price adjustment clauses of the Service Contract Act, Davis-Bacon Act, depreciation costs for facilities and equipment, and the cost of minor items.
c. To calculate out-year costs: (1) determine the cost elements affected by inflation during each performance period. For each period, ensure that the number of months in the period and the changes in the PWS for each period have been considered; (2) multiply each cost element for each performance period by the respective salary/wage or material cost inflation factors to the applicable performance period, and (3) once adjusted for inflation, calculate the total cost of that CCF Line item.
a. It is not the intent of this Supplement to require an ISSA offeror to significantly alter its methods of operation to provide unique or site specific services. While such services may meet agency missions and may legitimately be included in the solicitation, additional adjustments to the ISSA cost estimate may be necessary to reflect differences in in-house and contractor bids.
b. Agencies should identify the minor differences between the requirements of the solicitation (contractor bid) and the ISSA cost estimate. The agency determines if any item or combination of items will impact the agency's ability to perform. If the agency's ability to perform would be adversely impacted, the ISSA cost estimates may be rejected as non-responsive. If the differences will have minimal agency performance implications, and/or can continue to be performed by agency personnel, the ISSA cost estimates will be adjusted for purposes of comparison with the contractor and MEO offers, based upon the comparable costs contained in the agency's MEO.
c. A complete record of all adjustments to the contractor and ISSA cost estimates should be maintained and made available to the public upon request.
B. Personnel--Line 1
a. Position Title or Skill--Identify the job. Example: carpenter, driver, janitor, supervisor, foreman, administrative clerk or department head.
b. Grade--Identify the appropriate GS/FWS grade for each position title or skill.
c. Number of FTE Required--Identify the FTE required for each grade. Identify the temporary and intermittent employee work years. This is important for later fringe benefit calculations, since intermittent and temporary employees get fewer benefits than full-time or part-time employees.
d. Annual Salary/Wages--Pay information can be obtained from the personnel or finance office. Use current pay rates based on the Government-wide representative rate of step 5 for GS and step 4 for FWS employees. Multiply that pay rate by the number of FTE, except for intermittent positions where actual hours are used. As a rule, GS salary is expressed as an annual rate of pay and the FWS salary is expressed as an hourly rate. For positions to be used on a prearranged regularly scheduled tour of duty, this hourly rate is multiplied by 2,087 (the number of hours employees are paid annually).
e. Other Entitlements--Include entitlements that will also earn fringe benefits. Work closely with the personnel office to make sure all entitlements are considered and to obtain current factors. Examples include: night differential pay for FWS employees, environmental differential pay and premium pay for Federal civilian fire fighters and law enforcement officers.
f. Fringe Benefits or FICA--The following fringe benefit factors are estimated according to the Federal Accounting Standards for Liabilities-Exposure. Multiply the following Governmentwide standard factors by the appropriate basic pay:
(1) Full or part-time permanent Federal civilian employees:
(a) The standard retirement cost factor represents the Federal Government's complete share of the weighted CSRS/FERS retirement cost to the Government, based upon the full dynamic normal cost of the retirement systems; the normal cost of accruing retiree health benefits based on average participation rates; Social Security, and Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) contributions. The current (1996) rate is 23.7 percent of base payroll for all agencies. The comparable retirement cost factors for special class employees are 32.3 percent for air traffic controllers and 37.7 percent for law enforcement and fire protection employees.
(b) The cost factor to be used for Federal employee insurance and health benefits, based on actual cost, is 5.6 percent, plus an additional 1.45 percent for Medicare.
(c) The cost factor to be used for Federal employee miscellaneous fringe benefits (workmen's compensation, bonuses and awards, and unemployment programs) is 1.7 percent.
(2) Intermittent or temporary Federal civilian employees.--The Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) employer cost factor of 7.65 (or the current rate established by law) will be applied to civilian employees not covered by either of the two civilian civil service retirement systems (normally intermittent and temporary employees). Apply the FICA rate only to wages and salaries subject to the tax; there is an annual salary limitation for FICA tax.
g. Other Pay--Include entitlements that do not earn fringe benefits. Some examples are night differential pay for GS employees, overtime, holiday, awards, bonuses, and uniform allowances.
h. Personnel Cost--Add Basic Pay, Fringe Benefits or FICA and other pay for all positions and total for both Federal Wage System (FWS) and General Schedule (GS) categories. This figure can now be used as a basis to compute the annual personnel costs for each performance period.
C. Material and supply--Line 2
----------------------------------------- Elements of Cost Paragraph ----------------------------------------- Depreciation.................. 2D2 Cost of Capital............... 2D3 Rent.......................... 2D4 Maintenance and Repair........ 2D5 Utilities..................... 2D6 Insurance..................... 2D7 Travel........................ 2D8 MEO Subcontracts.............. 2D9 Other Costs................... 2D10 ----------------------------------------
a. Depreciation represents the cost of ownership and the consumption of an asset's useful life.
b. Unless an asset is fully depreciated, the Federal Accounting Standards for Property, Plant and Equipment will be used. If an applicable asset is fully depreciated, is to be used by the MEO during the performance period and is not to be provided to the contractor or ISSA provider, extend the life of the asset through the end of the performance period. The cost of depreciation is then recalculated using the extended life and original acquisition cost.
c. Individual assets costing less than $5,000 are considered minor items and will not be depreciated, but will be added to other costs (see paragraph D.10). The joint use of minor items need not be prorated to the function under study. Assets costing more than $5,000 are major items for depreciation.
d. If an in-house activity shares an asset with another activity not under review or cost comparison and that asset will not be provided for use by the contractor or ISSA, allocate depreciation to the in-house estimate on the basis of use or other appropriate methodology. If the activity is converted to contract or ISSA performance, the asset's life and utilization rate may change.
e. To find the cost of depreciation added to each option year, subtract the residual value from the total of the acquisition cost plus any capital improvements and, then, divide by the estimated useful life of the asset. Include the resultant annual depreciation for each year of the cost comparison. If the asset was acquired through transfer, seizure or forfeiture, an industry specific standard or engineering appraisal may be used to establish the market or "acquisition" value of the asset at transfer.
f. Facilities are generally categorized as permanent, semi-permanent or temporary and the useful life will be standardized for the entire grouping. The useful life expectancies listed below may be used by type of facility. If useful life has been exceeded, obtain an engineering projection of anticipated remaining useful life. These costs will be prorated to the activity under study by a unit of measure that varies directly with consumption (e.g., floor space, type of facility, number of telephones). Estimates of expenses to be incurred for the first year of performance should be based on current experience, appropriately adjusted for anticipated requirements. Engineering estimates should be used when historical data are not available. All estimates should be appropriately documented with supporting detail.
------------------------------------------ Facility Category Useful Life ------------------------------------------- Permanent (P).................. 75 years Semi-Permanent (S)............. 50 years Temporary (T).................. 25 years -------------------------------------------
a. The annual cost of capital is added to the depreciation cost of any asset costing more than $5,000 acquired by the Government if: (1) not provided for the contractor's or ISSA provider's use, (2) is purchased less than two years prior to the cost comparison date or (3) is scheduled for purchase within the performance period.
b. The cost of capital is defined as an imputed charge on the Government's investment in capital assets necessary for the activity to provide the product or service.
c. To estimate the annual cost of capital, it is necessary to identify the total depreciable acquisition cost of new assets or, if acquired by transfer, forfeiture or seizure, the market value of the assets. The total cost results from the value of the asset, transportation costs (if not already included in the purchase price) and any installation costs to place the asset in operation. The cost of capital will be computed by applying the nominal rate provided by OMB Circular A-94 to the determined total cost of the asset.
a. Operation of any Government activity involves risks and potential costs from property losses (fire, flood, accident, etc.) and liability claims. These risks are normally covered by insurance included in any commercial cost estimate.
b. To the extent assets are not provided to the contractor or to the extent that property losses may be assessed against a contractor who uses Government space, facilities or equipment, in-house casualty premiums must be computed. Generally, the Government's casualty premium equivalent cost will be computed by multiplying .005 times the net book value of Government's equipment and/or facilities, plus the average value of material and supplies.
c. Insurance to be computed on assets will depend on the requirements of the Performance Work Statement (PWS). If the contractor or ISSA provides special casualty insurance on all Government furnished assets, compute insurance for all assets used by the activity under study. If the contract does not require the contractor to furnish special casualty insurance, e.g., the Government will self indemnify, compute casualty insurance on only those assets to be used by the activity under study that would not be provided to the contractor or ISSA provider, as appropriate.
d. Personnel liability losses will be computed by multiplying .007 times the Government's total personnel-related costs on Line 1. Additional liabilities assigned to the contractor or ISSA provider by the PWS that are not associated with personnel will also be computed by applying the standard .007 factor to the estimated liability ceiling identified in the PWS and included in the in-house cost estimate.
a. Other Costs is a general category for specifically attributable costs that do not properly fit into one of the other cost elements, but would change in the event of contract or ISSA performance. Some examples are purchased services packaging and crating (if not already a part of material and supplies); transportation costs; and royalties. Ensure these costs are not also covered in Line 4 overhead costs.
b. Include the cost of minor items that are not immediately consumed by the activity and not provided to the contractor or ISSA provider. This includes items such as overhead projectors, office equipment, tools, chairs, desks, cabinets, etc. Estimate the cost of minor items for each performance period by allocating 10 percent of the total estimated replacement cost of all such items. Should the supply source mark-up increase the item's cost to more than $5,000, it will still be considered a minor item.
E. Overhead--Line 4
a. New investment by the Government in facilities and equipment should not be included as one-time costs. The costs incurred in acquiring facilities or equipment and installing the equipment should be included in the capitalized cost of in-house performance.
b. Government facilities and equipment will not normally be expanded to accommodate new or expanded work if cost-effective contract or ISSA facilities and equipment are available. Likewise, agency ownership shall not preclude a contractor or an ISSA provider from competing for the service. If in-house operation is dependent upon the Government's purchase or construction of new facilities or other major capital asset purchases, the cost comparison and conversion to in-house performance will be delayed until the approval to purchase or construct such items is obtained, subject to the cost comparison.
G. Total cost--in-house performance--Line 6
Enter the sum of Lines 1 through 5 on Line 6.
a. In determining the amount to be recorded as the contract price, consider the contract type. The following guidance is provided in this regard.
b. In the case of a sealed bid, firm fixed price contract, the price of the low responsible, responsive offeror will be entered. If a firm fixed price contract is to be negotiated, the negotiated price will be entered.
c. If a cost-reimbursement or cost-sharing type contract is proposed, enter the low negotiated estimate.
d. If a contract with an incentive or award fee is proposed, enter 65 percent of the potential maximum incentive or award fee plus the contract costs of the most advantageous offer to the Government.
e. If a time and material or labor-hour contract is proposed, enter the estimated total cost of performance. Alternatively, comparable rates can be developed for the Government cost estimate, developed in accordance with this Supplement, and the comparison can be made on the basis of rates, rather than costs.
a. If the apparent low contract offeror is a tax-exempt organization, the tax-exempt's contract price is adjusted by an amount equal to the estimated Federal income taxes that the lowest non tax-exempt offeror would pay. This adjustment is necessary to determine which offeror has the lowest overall cost to the Government.
b. Calculate the Federal tax adjustment by using the procedures in paragraph G of this Chapter. Add the Federal taxes calculated to the tax-exempt's offer for comparison with other non tax-exempt offerors.
c. Compare the tax-exempt's adjusted offer to the low non tax-exempt offer. The lowest cost offeror, after this comparison, will then compete against the Government's in-house cost estimate and any ISSA proposals. If the tax-exempt's adjusted offer is lower than the low non tax-exempt offer, enter the unadjusted tax-exempt's offer on Line 7.
a. If a preference eligible contractor meets the requirements of an unrestricted solicitation, and is an otherwise fully responsive offeror, the preference eligible may compete with non-preference eligible offerors. This is accomplished by adding 10 percent of each non-preference eligible's offer to their offer for initial comparison purposes only. The lowest offer, after adjustment, will be chosen to compete with the Government's in-house cost estimate and ISSA offers.
b. If the preference eligible's offer is lower than all other commercial sources--after adjustments--enter the preference eligible's price on Line 7. If the non-preference eligible's adjusted price is lower, enter the unadjusted non-preference eligible's price on Line 7.
C. Contract administration--Line 8
Table 3-1. Contract Administration Factors ---------------------------------------- MEO Staffing Contract Administration FTE -------------------------------------------------- 10 or less.................... .5 11-20......................... 1 21-50......................... 2 51-75......................... 3 76-100........................ 4 101-120....................... 5 121-150....................... 6 151-200....................... 7 201-250....................... 8 251-300....................... 9 301-350....................... 10 351-450....................... 11 451 and above.................. 2.5 percent of in-house MEO staffing --------------------------------------------------
E. One-time Conversion--Line 10
a. A conversion may result in certain items of Government material or equipment, that would otherwise have been used by the in-house MEO, becoming excess and available for transfer to another in-house activity or to the contractor.
b. It should be possible to transfer the material to the contract or ISSA offeror. In this case, it may be appropriate to conduct a special joint physical inventory and include the Government's cost of conducting the joint inventory (costs may be shared with the winning bidder) on Line 10.
c. If the transfer of existing materials to the contract or ISSA offeror is feasible, and the agency elects not to provide the material, no charge for conducting the inventory is permitted.
a. A conversion will also normally result in certain one-time labor-related expenses. These may include health benefit costs, severance pay, homeowner assistance, relocation and retraining expenses and initial contractor security clearance requirements.
b. Estimated severance pay is calculated at four percent of the annual basic pay (performance period 1 only) entered on Line 1, without fringe benefits.
c. If there is a requirement for the commercial source to have access to classified information or other security clearances under existing agency directives, only those costs that would be necessitated by the conversion may be calculated. Recurring requirements necessitated by in-house attrition or by employees that may be hired under the Right-of-First-Refusal will not be included.
A. Conversion differential--Line 14
C. Adjusted total contract or ISSA cost--Line 16
ILLUSTRATION II-1 THE GENERIC A-76 COST COMPARISON FORM (GCCF) IN-HOUSE VS. CONTRACT OR ISSA PERFORMANCE Performance Periods --------------------------------------- 1st 2nd 3rd Add'l Total Reference ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- --------- In-House Performance 1. Personnel 2. Material and Supply 3. Other Specifically Attributable 4. Overhead 5. Additional ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 6. Total In-House Contract or ISSA Performance 7. Contract/ISSA Price 8. Contract Administration 9. Additional 10. One-time Conversion 11. Gain on Assets ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) 12. Federal Income Taxes ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 13. Total Contract or ISSA Decision 14. Minimum Conversion Differential ----- 15. Adjusted Total Cost of In-house Performance ----- 16. Adjusted Total Cost of Contract or ISSA Performance ----- 17. Decision--Line 16 minus Line 15 ----- 18. Cost Comparison Decision: Accomplish Work In-House (+) ----- Contract or ISSA (-) ----- 19. In-House MEO Certified By: Date: Office and Title: "I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the in-house organization reflected in this cost comparison is the most efficient and cost effective organization that is fully capable of performing the scope of work and tasks required by the Performance Work Statement. I further certify that I have obtained from the appropriate authority concurrence that the organizational structure, as proposed, can and will be fully implemented - subject to this cost comparison, and in accordance with all applicable Federal regulations. 20. In-House Cost Estimate Prepared By: Date: 21. Independent Reviewer: Date: Office and Title: "I certify that I have reviewed the Performance Work Statement, Management Plan, In-house cost estimates and supporting documentation available prior to bid opening and, to the best of my knowledge and ability, have determined that: (1) the ability of the in-house MEO to perform the work contained in the Performance Work Statement at the estimated costs included in this cost comparison is reasonably established and, (2) that all costs entered on the cost comparison have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of Circular A-76 and its Supplement. 22. Cost Comparison Completed By: Date: 23. Contracting Officer: Date: 24. Tentative Cost Comparison Decision Announced By: Date: 25. Appeal Authority (if applicable): Date:
a. possible conversion to or from in-house, contract or ISSA performance involving 65 FTE or less;
b. activities that will compete largely on a labor and material cost basis such as, but not limited to, custodial, grounds, guard, refuse, pest control, warehousing and maintenance services;
c. activities for which significant capital asset purchases are not required or for which all equipment requirements will be Government Furnished/Contractor Operated (GOCO), and
d. activities that are commonly contracted by the Government and/or private sector, e.g., there are not less than four comparable agency contracts of the same general type and scope and the range of the existing service contract costs are reasonably grouped.
ILLUSTRATION II-2 THE STREAMLINED A-76 COST COMPARISON FORM (SCCF) (LIMITED TO 65 FTE OR LESS) IN-HOUSE VS. CONTRACT OR ISSA PERFORMANCE Performance Periods --------------------------------------- 1st 2nd 3rd Add'l Total Reference ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- --------- In-House Performance 1. Personnel 2. Material 3. Overhead 4. Other ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 5. Total In-House Contract or ISSA Performance 6. Contract and ISSA Price Range 7. Contract Administration 8. Federal Taxes (-) ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 9. Total Contract and ISSA Price Range Decision 10. Minimum Conversion Differential ----- 11. Adjusted Total Cost of In-house Performance ----- 12. Adjusted Total Cost of Contract or ISSA Performance ----- 13. Cost Comparison (Line 12 minus Line 11) ----- 14. Cost Comparison Decision: Perform In-House ----- Convert to Contract or ISSA ----- 15. In-House Cost Estimate Prepared By: Date: 16. Independent Reviewer: Date: Office and Title: "I certify that I have reviewed the proposed contract, in- house and ISSA cost estimates and contract prices and find them to be reasonable and calculated in accordance with the principles and procedures of Circular A-76 and its Supplement. 17. Cost Comparison Completed By: Date: 18. Contracting Officer: Date: 19. Tentative Cost Comparison Decision Announced By: Date: 20. Appeal Authority (if applicable): Date:
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Remarks by the President at Signing of the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act
Oval Office
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THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Hope you guys are all staying cool. Well, listen, I just wanted to welcome these outstanding leaders to the Oval Office. I want to in particular acknowledge Congressman Howard Berman and Senator Barbara Boxer, who have done outstanding work in shepherding through this bipartisan piece of legislation that underscores our unshakeable commitment to Israel.
As many of you know, I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues -- intelligence, military, technology. And, in many ways, what this legislation does is bring together all the outstanding cooperation that we have seen, really, at an unprecedented level between our two countries that underscore our unshakeable commitment to Israel security.
I'm also very pleased that this week we are going to be able to announce $70 million in additional spending -- $70 billion [million]*, excuse me, in additional spending for Iron Dome. This is a program that has been critical in terms of providing security and safety for the Israeli families. It is a program that has been tested and has prevented missile strikes inside of Israel. And it is testimony to the leadership of the folks sitting here that we're going to be able to lock in that fund to assure that that program continues and that we are standing by our friends in Israel when it comes to these kinds of attacks.
Let me just close by saying that the tragic events that we saw in Bulgaria emphasize the degree to which this continues to be a challenge not just for Israel, but for the entire world -- preventing terrorist attacks and making sure the people of Israel are not targeted.
And I hope that, as I sign as this bill, once again everybody understands how committed all of us are -- Republicans and Democrats -- as Americans to our friends in making sure that Israel is safe and secure.
Leon Panetta, our Secretary of Defense, will be traveling to Israel to further consult and find additional ways that we can ensure such cooperation at a time when, frankly, the region is experiencing heightened tensions.
So, with that, let me sign this bill. Again, I want to thank all who are standing beside me for their outstanding leadership and their outstanding work on this issue.
(The bill is signed.)
Let me make sure I'm using enough pens. (Laughter.) There you go. Thank you.

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Solar Charge Controller Steca Power Tarom 2140
- 140A solar module current
- 116A load current
- Programmable LCD display
Specially designed for industrial and outdoor applications, the Steca Power Tarom has an IP65 casing made of powder-coated steel.
This solar charge controller can be used to control system sizes of up to 8400 Wp at three voltage levels (12 V, 24 V, 48 V). The Steca Power Tarom is modelled on the technology of the Steca Tarom controller. When connected in parallel, several controllers from this series can be operated via a standard DC bus in a simple solar home system or a hybrid system. This allows an output of over 20 kWp to be reached.
- PWM shunt battery charging
- State of charge (SOC) battery regulation
- Built-in Ah counter
- Boost-, Equalising-, Float charging
- Automatic load reconnection
- Automatic selection of voltage for 12 V / 24 V
- Temperature compensation
- Positive grounding (or) negative grounding on one terminal
- Field-adjustable parameters by four buttons
- Lighting control options during nighttime
- RJ45 interface
- Manual load disconnect
- Dry contact
- External temperature sensor
- Alarm contact
- System monitoring via Steca PA CAB1 Tarcom
Protection functionality
- High voltage disconnect (HVD)
- Low voltage disconnect (LVD)
- Dept of discharge disconnection (DOD)
- Reverse polarity of solar modules
- Reverse polarity of load & battery
- Short circuit of solar modules
- Short circuit of load
- Overtemperature
- Overvoltage
- Lightning protection by varistor
- Low electronic interference (EMC)
- Open circuit battery
- Reverse current at night
- Two line LCD on front door showing SOC, Vbat, all currents, Ah, alarms, charging procedure
- Listed for Worldbank funded projects in Nepal
- Usable in the tropics
- Conform to European Standards (CE)
- Made in Germany
- Manufactured in a DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 and DIN EN ISO 14001 facility
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The Magnificent Seven, the 1960 Hollywood western starring Yul Bryner and Steve McQueen, and Sholay, the 1975 Bollywood remake with Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra in the lead, had a common storyline—saving an oppressed village from bandits in the original and dacoits in the copy. Both were cult films, did extremely well at the box office, and are watched even today.
Bollywood, the Hindi film industry based in Bombay, owes much of its success to dozens of remakes of, most notably, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), My Fair Lady (1964), Yours, Mine and Ours (1968), and The Godfather (1972), to name a few. Their Bollywood remakes were Satte Pe Satta (1982), Man Pasand (1980), Khatta Meetha (1978) and Dharmatma (1975) in that order.
Most of the remakes are no patch on the originals, barring Sholay, Man Pasand, Satte Pe Satta and Khatta Meetha.
Even Satte Pe Satta (Seven-on-Seven), a fairly entertaining movie starring then superstar Amitabh and Hema Malini, does not hold a candle to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, the hugely entertaining musical comedy starring Howard Keel and Jane Powell.
In the Indian version, all's well till the end of the first half when Amitabh resurfaces abruptly in a villainous double role and has a change of heart by the time you leave the cinema hall. So you have seven brothers and their seven brides, a baddie-turned hero, a bunch of villains hiding on an island, their fat kingpin, and a fight scene in the end.
Now watch Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and you wish Bollywood were banned from making a hash of Hollywood films.
Like I said there are exceptions. For instance, in Khatta Meetha (Sour-and-Sweet), veteran Ashok Kumar and the affable Pearl Padamsee reappraised the role of Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball in Yours, Mine and Ours very well. Ditto for Man Pasand where actor-director Dev Anand played the part of Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.
Years later, the Patrick Swayze-Demi Moore starrer Ghost (1990) was remade into the utterly forgettable Chamatkar (1992) starring Shahrukh Khan and Naseeruddin Shah. Now where are the copyright guys?
Holly-Bolly launched identical films just once, in 1983—Man, Woman and Child and Masoom (The Innocent)—based on the book by Erich Segal. Both versions, starring Martin Sheen and Blythe Danner in the first and Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi in the second, were worth the price of tickets and popcorn. It's not always so, you know.


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The Marilyn K. Glick Center for Glass is a glass arts studio that supports the practice of contemporary glass arts. The building features a hot shop, cold shop, kiln room, studios, and an atrium for displaying student work. Programs offered by the center are affiliated with Ball State's School of Art.
Namesake:Indianapolis philanthropist Marilyn K. Glick. Construction of the center was supported by a lead gift from The Glick Fund, a fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundation established by Marilyn and Eugene Glick. The couple's daughter, Marianne Glick, is a member of Ball State's Board of Trustees.
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The POV.HD from V.I.O. is the most flexible, rugged, and easy to use point-of-view HD video system available. This helmet camera lets you capture some of the most advanced point-of-view video imaginable in amazing 1080p format. When filming in true 1080p, the POV HD uses its super wide angle 142� lens to capture every detail! The camera captures high quality sound through its all new omnidirectional microphone. The POV HDs impressive, super bright, LCD allows you to immediately review your footage to verify you got the shot you were looking for!
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UNHCR steps up repatriation from Liberia to Côte d'Ivoire
UNHCR steps up repatriation from Liberia to Côte d'Ivoire
TOE TOWN, Liberia, December 9 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency is stepping up its voluntary repatriation operation for refugees from Côte d'Ivoire living in Liberia. On Thursday, UNHCR repatriated a group of 546 Ivorian refugees who had been living in the counties of Nimba and Grand Gedeh.
The repatriation convoy carried more people than the combined total of the past three convoys of an exercise launched in October to take back people. The refugees had fled the violence that erupted after the disputed presidential election of November last year. UNHCR is planning return convoys every Tuesday and Thursday as more refugees are signing up to be helped home.
UNHCR and its partners used trucks, buses, cars and ambulances to take the returnees to Côte d'Ivoire via the Toe Town transit centre on the Liberian side of the border between the two countries. Here they were given bread, sardines, high energy protein biscuits and water. They also receive blankets, mats and jerry cans.
"The momentum to return is on and we will continue to assist them to do so," later said UNHCR Senior Protection Officer Fatima Mohammed as the convoy moved into Côte d' Ivoire, the refugees waving goodbye.
The main return areas for the refugees were the towns of Toulepleu and Danane in western Côte d'Ivoire. Refugees from previous convoys mostly returned to Blolequin, Toulepleu, Doukoue and Guiglo, other towns in the west that experienced heavy fighting at the height of the Ivorian crisis.
Some say they are returning because the war is over and there is now peace in their home areas. Others say they need to go back to study, cultivate their fields, find work or reunite with relatives after becoming separated during the violence.
"I am a high school student. I am returning home because I want to go back to school," said 20-year-old Daple, who has two children of her own. Kui-Zoto said he wanted to go back to resume his unusual career. "I was a comedian at the Toulepleu radio station. I am returning to continue with my comedy work."
Ivorian refugees in Togo are also beginning to return. On December 1, UNHCR arranged a first convoy of 47 refugees from the more than 600 who signed up for repatriation.
Just over a year after the presidential election that sparked the six months of violence, some 96,000 Ivorian refugees have returned from Liberia. Others would like to go back, but are waiting to see what happens after legislative elections due on Sunday in Côte d'Ivoire.
UNHCR welcomes the momentum in repatriation as it is an indication of improved security in Côte d' Ivoire. In August, the governments of Liberia, Côte d' Ivoire and UNHCR signed an agreement to help refugees who want to repatriate. UNHCR signed similar agreements with Ghana, Guinea and Togo.
There are still some 170,000 Ivorian refugees in West Africa. The majority of them are in Liberia (138,164), Ghana (15,948), Togo (5,110) and Guinea (2,480.)


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Farro Salad
Last summer I had lunch at Al Di La, the Venetian trattoria in my neighborhood and one of things we ate was a delicious farro salad. Farro is the Italian name for wheat berries - whole grain wheat. Al Di La served their Farro salad with cherry tomatoes, black olives, herbs (I don't remember which), lemon juice, and olive oil. Simple, healthy, delicious - I wanted to make it at home. I made several farro salads in the warm weather and found that they are as easy to make as they sound.
It's cold now, but last week I found myself craving farro. Is farro salad only for warm weather? Can I add things like roasted root vegetables to make a savory winter farro salad? Why not, who's going to stop me.
I rinsed the farro and then, following the instructions on the package (which is called Farro Intero), soaked the grains for 25 minutes.
Meanwhile, some small pieces of cauliflower, parsnip, and carrot, salt, pepper, and a bit of olive oil. Toss first to coat the vegetables and into the oven for about 45 minutes at 375 degrees.
After soaking, drain the farro and put it in a pot of boiling water, let it return to a boil, and then simmer for another 25 minutes. The farro should be soft but still offer some resistance, a little chewy. They're strangely tasty on their own, kind of nutty and satisfying. Strained and dressed with lemon or vinegar and olive oil, and whatever else you feel like throwing in - delicious.
I used about a half pound of farro, put in the roasted root vegetables, some fresh young goat cheese (maybe 2 ounces), the juice of a lemon, some olive oil, a handful of chopped parsley, and more salt and pepper. Mix well, and make sure to put in the goat cheese while the farro and root vegetables are still hot so the goat cheese melts and becomes part of the salad dressing.
Farro has a lot of protein. With the proteins in goat cheese, this dish offers a lot of protein, but also a good combination of proteins. There are root vegetables too - this is a complete meal in one bowl, it is not expensive to make, and you will have plenty of leftovers to take for lunch the next day.
But far more importantly, what to drink with this dish? I immediately wanted a Sancerre, or any Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire, as the goat cheese seemed to ask for it. Having none in the house, I waffled back and forth for a while before deciding on another Loire white wine.
Yes, yes, yes, I am aware that this wine is eons away from its apex but it's the new vintage of Huet and I wanted to try a bottle. The 2009 Domaine Huet Vouvray Sec Clos du Bourg, $33, A Rare Wine Company Selection. There is plenty of pleasure here, although the wine is a mere baby and very tightly wound, inward. Based on the warm 2009 vintage, I was expecting a great deal of concentration, but that's not so. The wine definitely has an inner core of energy and power, but the texture is very fine. Its is a detailed, and at times delicate body. The nose is a joy, with lovely orchard fruit and floral aromas, pure and fresh. There is strong acidity and very good balance, and the wine is delicious but not yet very expressive of Clos du Bourg, or of any of the three Huet vineyards, really. It talks instead of very young, expertly made Vouvray. The finish takes on a nice herbal tone on day 2, although there wasn't much movement on the palate. This wine is years away from maturity, but it seems to me as though it will be great. And I loved it over those two days, and it went very well with my savory farro salad.


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In his State of the Union address, President Biden announced an ambitious plan to address the country's mental health needs, presenting it as an issue with bipartisan support.
"Let's get all Americans the mental health services they need — more people they can turn to for help and full parity between physical and mental health care if we treat it that way in our insurance."
On Tuesday, the White House also released a fact sheetthat lays out details of the administration's strategy. It seeks to address a mental health crisis that has been years in the making but was only worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The plan focuses on ways to strengthen system capacity and connect people who need help to a continuum of care. It includes measures to expand the mental health care workforce, efforts to establish a crisis-care response system to support the launch of the 988 crisis line in July, a focus on children's mental health and proposals to push insurance companies to improve their coverage of behavioral health care.
"We're really thrilled about this focus," says Schroeder Stribling, president and CEO of the advocacy group Mental Health America. "We have needed a bold national strategy for a long time, and we're just pleased to see that the administration is taking this opportunity. This has been long in coming."
This is the first time since the Carter administration that the federal government has taken such significant leadership in addressing mental health, says Dr. Thomas Insel, a psychiatrist and the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
"I think this is an important moment," he says. "For the most part, the federal government has ceded mental health policy [and] services to the states. Essentially, the federal government has been missing in action for 41 years, and Biden's comments and this fact sheet bring it back into the center of the action for mental health."
Insel's and other advocates' excitement also extends to the specifics of initiatives spelled out by the White House.
But they say the success of the plan depends on congressional support for the regulations and funding proposals outlined by the administration.
It's particularly important, says Stribling, that lawmakers consider long-term funding. "This cannot be a one-time intervention from the federal level," Stribling says. "This must be a sustained and broad-based response."
The mental health impact of the pandemic, Stribling adds, "is going to have a very long tail. And we need to remember that we had a preexisting mental health crisis before the pandemic. We're talking about addressing decades' worth of declining mental health in our country."
Still, the president's focus on the mental health crisis — and recent signs of bipartisan support for addressing it — are very encouraging, says Insel: "I think for the first time in a very, very long time, we have both White House and congressional interest and momentum for, as the president said, taking on mental health."
Here are five highlights of the plan that advocates find promising.
1. Focus on children's mental health
In his speech Tuesday night, Biden gave special emphasis on addressing the mental health needs of children, "whose lives and education have been turned upside down" during the pandemic.
The plan proposes several efforts to curtail social media's harmful effects on kids, including calling on Congress to ban excessive data collection from children and advertising that targets them. It also proposes to expand early childhood and in-school services to prevent young kids' mental health problems from growing worse.
The focus on children's mental health is historic and necessary, says Dr. Tami Benton, the president-elect of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. "Prevention is the most effective and most cost-effective way to prevent the onset of mental illness," says Benton.
2. Build up the mental health workforce
The Biden plan emphasizes the need to build the pipeline of qualified mental health professionals, citing a "severe shortage" of providers. "I think this commitment to the workforce is hugely important, and it is going to take time," says Insel, whose new book, Healing, outlines the failures of the mental health care system and efforts to address them.
But he notes that the plan proposes around $1 billion of new investment in the effort in the next budget, for measures like training, scholarships and loan forgiveness to encourage people to enter the field.
Benton was impressed with a proposal to train and support paraprofessionals to be better able to help with mental health — "people who are already interfacing with vulnerable individuals such as social services employees, child welfare workers" — as well as creating certifications for peer specialists. This would be "a very different way of perceiving who's responsible for the mental health of our nation."
"It's a way to engage our communities. It's a way to destigmatize mental health, and it's a way to really expand the workforce in ways that we haven't talked about before," she says.
3. Make funding for community behavioral health centers permanent
For several years, the federal government has offered grants for funding community mental health clinics — places where people can get 24/7 care in their local community for mental health and substance use issues. Now the administration wants to put permanent funding for these in the next budget.
"That's a long-term investment to create a federally funded community mental health network. We haven't had that since really the 1970s and 1980s," says Insel. "That's a huge, huge change."
4. Support crisis care
This summer will see the launch of the new mental health crisis hotline, reached by dialing 988. The Biden administration has already provided $180 million for staffing crisis call centers and supporting local crisis response. Now it's proposing more funding to staff local crisis centers and a "crisis care continuum: someone to call, someone to respond, and somewhere for every American in crisis to go."
"The crisis lines and crisis-based services would be such an addition for many of the families who are coming in to seek emergency care," says Benton. Patients in crisis could potentially avoid going to the emergency room, she says, if they have someone to talk to who can help them understand the problem they're facing and access resources or even go to their home to defuse a crisis.
"There's a large evidence base supporting the effectiveness of those interventions," she says. "It's great to see an investment and, again, training people where they are and keeping families together and in their homes."
5. Make sure insurance covers mental health
Since 2008, a federal law has called for health insurers to cover mental health conditions at the same level as they cover other health problems. But enforcement was left up to states, says Insel, and patients can often struggle to get needed mental health care covered. The Biden administration says it wants to require all health plans to cover "robust behavioral health services."
"This is another great example of the federal government stepping up," says Insel. One specific ask from the White House is "that every individual with commercial insurance will get three behavioral health visits per year without a copay. That's a pretty big step forward," Insel adds.
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Health providers need to do more to understand and support lesbians who are overweight
Healthcare professionals need to develop greater understanding of the specific needs of lesbian patients and adopt a more sensitive approach to the advice they give them, according to research in the July issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing
American researchers found that overweight lesbians with identified heart risks were keen to take part in culturally sensitive programmes to improve their health, but very unhappy with healthcare professionals who focused purely on their Body Mass Index (BMI).
The study revealed important generational differences in the women's attitudes towards their weight, and being overweight, together with an overall greater tolerance of different body shapes. It also showed that homophobia and social exclusion could lead to stress, anxiety and depression, creating barriers to changing unhealthy behaviour.
Twenty-five lesbians aged between 22 and 60 took part in a series of focus groups to explore their attitudes and beliefs about the links between being overweight and heart risk. The discussion formed part of a larger study on coronary heart disease and lesbians.
Three-quarters of the women who took part were overweight and all had at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease, such as a family history of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
"The women felt angry that healthcare professionals focused on lowering their BMI, rather than improving their general health and many had been told to lose weight without any advice or support on the best way to do it" says lead author Professor Susan J Roberts from the Northeastern University School of Nursing in Boston. "Barriers to weight loss included feeling self conscious about exercising with normal weight people and lack of gym facilities that provide joint membership, or a comfortable welcoming environment, for same-sex couples."
Younger lesbians felt they had the same attitudes to weight and appearance as heterosexual women. As one of the study participants explained: "My mother, my grandmother, we all have to deal with it [being overweight]. I don't think they feel different than I do".
But some women over 40 felt that lesbians were more likely to reject the social norms for women's appearance, body type and weight. "I think that older lesbians have different perspectives around weight and body changing and accept that that happens."
There was general agreement that lesbians were more accepting of a variety of body images and a number of women acknowledged that this could be detrimental to their health. "We're more apt to accept each other for who and what we are, so if we gain a little weight so what? In the male-female community it's more of a threat."
Others suggested that while some lesbians criticised people who were overweight, some positively championed it. "Maybe at women's festivals or something there'd be like fat lesbians who want their own group."
Depression was common, as many of the women felt that being a lesbian and being overweight gave them a double disadvantage. "I do think depression is a big factor in being overweight and especially with lesbians."
Being depressed led to unhealthy stress-related behaviour, such as smoking and drinking, and homophobia and sometimes having to hide their sexuality led to feelings of anger, loneliness and isolation. "…it comes and goes because you can be out in some places and not in others."
A consistent theme to come out of the focus groups was that being a lesbian added to general work and life stress. "You are always under stress and then you choose a lifestyle which is unacceptable…it just adds to it."
A number of the women also talked about the need for constant vigilance. "I think there's a kind of gnawing stress of keeping a part of yourself hidden."
"The women who took part in our focus groups were aware of the health consequences of being overweight or obese and most expressed a desire to lose weight to improve their health and fitness" says Professor Roberts.
"A unique finding of this study is that there are generational difference in the way lesbians view weight and being overweight. We feel that their wider acceptance of different body shapes is also particularly noteworthy."
The authors are calling for culturally sensitive initiatives that help lesbians at risk of heart disease to improve their overall health and weight.
"Although these interventions may improve the general health of lesbians, and help to lower the risk of heart disease, the overall challenge is to raise sensitivity in healthcare professionals" concludes Professor Roberts.
"This study revealed that the anxiety and depression these women felt was related to being part of a stigmatised minority whose needs are often invisible to healthcare providers."


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by Victor Davis Hanson
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The horrific Newtown, Conn., mass shooting has unleashed a frenzy to pass new gun-control legislation. But the war over restricting firearms is not just between liberals and conservatives; it also pits the first two amendments to the US Constitution against each other.
Apparently, in the sequential thinking of James Madison and the Founding Fathers, the right to free expression and the guarantee to own arms were the two most important personal liberties. But now these two cherished rights seem to be at odds with each other and have caused bitter exchanges between interpreters of the Constitution.
Many liberals believe there is no need to own semi-automatic assault rifles, magazines that hold more than 10 bullets, or even semi-automatic handguns. They argue that hunters and sportsmen don't need such rapid-firing guns to kill their game — and that slower-firing revolvers and pump- or bolt-action rifles are sufficient for home protection.
Implicit to the liberal argument for tighter gun control is the belief that the ability to rapidly fire off lots of bullets either empowers — or indeed encourages — mass murderers to butcher the innocent.
Most conservatives offer rebuttals to all those points. Criminals will always break almost any law they choose. Connecticut, for example, has among the tightest gun-control laws in the nation. A murderer can pop in three 10-bullet clips in succession and still spray his targets almost as effectively as a shooter with a single 30-bullet magazine. Like a knife or bomb, a gun is a tool, and the human who misuses it is the only guilty party. An armed school guard might do more to stop a mass shooting on campus than a law outlawing the shooter's preferred weapon or magazine.
Homeowners should have the right to own weapons comparable to those of criminals, who often pack illicit semi-automatic handguns. If mass murders are the real concern, should ammonium nitrate be outlawed, given that Timothy McVeigh slaughtered 168 innocents in Oklahoma City with fertilizer? Banning semi-automatic weapons marks a slippery slope — each new restriction will soon lead to yet another rationalization to go after yet another type of gun.
Liberals counter that just as free speech is curtailed (you cannot yell "Fire!" in a crowded auditorium), the constitutional right to bear arms is no more infringed upon by the banning of semi-automatic, large magazine firearms than it is by current prohibitions against heavy machine guns.
Conservatives reply that the chief purpose of the Second Amendment was not necessarily just to ensure personal protection from criminals or the freedom to hunt with firearms, but in fact to guarantee that a well-armed populace might enjoy some parity to an all-powerful, centralized government. To the Founders, the notion that individual citizens had recourse to weapons comparable to those of federal authorities was a strong deterrent to government infringing upon constitutionally protected freedoms — rights that cannot simply be hacked away by presidential executive orders.
That may be why the brief Second Amendment explicitly cites the desirability of a militia. By intent, it was followed by the Third Amendment, which restricts the rights of an abusive government to quarter federal troops in citizens' homes.
So which amendment should we begin pruning to deal with monsters like those at Newtown and Columbine?
The Connecticut shooter, Adam Lanza, was known to be mentally unstable. He sat for hours transfixed with violent video games — in a popular culture of cheap Hollywood mayhem where bodies implode on the big screen without worry over the effect of such gratuitous carnage on the viewer.
Just as semi-automatic weapons mark a technological sea change from the flintlock muskets of the Founders' era, computer-simulated video dismemberment is a world away from the spirited political pamphleteering of the 18th century. If we talk of restricting the Second Amendment to protect us against modern technological breakthroughs, why not curtail the First Amendment as well?
How about an executive order to Hollywood to stop its graphic depictions of mass killings, perhaps limiting the nature and rationing the number of shootings that can appear in any one film? Can't we ban violent video games altogether in the same way we forbid child pornography? Isn't it past time for an executive order to curtail some of the rights of the mentally unstable — given that the gunmen in mass killings usually have a history of psychic disorders and often use mood-altering drugs?
If conservatives have ensured that there are millions of semi-automatic assault weapons in American society, liberals' unprecedented expansions of free expression have led to an alarming number of unhinged Americans on our streets, nursed on sick games like "Grand Theft Auto" and hours of watching odious movies such as Natural Born Killers.
Legislating away the evil in men's heads and hearts can be a tricky — and sometimes unconstitutional — business.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - Lackawanna County Commissioner Corey D. O'Brien will make his intentions known regarding a run for the United States Congress (PA-11) on Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 9:45 a.m. from the steps of his childhood home, 1906 Delaware Street, Dunmore PA 18512.
As an 18-year old Dunmore High School senior, Corey successfully lobbied for a $600,000 federal appropriation to build a community center in Dunmore. Today, residents of Dunmore enjoy a $4.5 million state-of-the-art community center that mirrors Corey's early vision of providing residents with a multi-generational community center.
Corey O'Brien continued his civic involvement in college. While attending Penn State University, Corey testified before a Pennsylvania House Education Sub-Committee promoting affordability of higher education. After college graduation, Corey interned in the Clinton White House and was later appointed to a position in the United States Agency for International Development.
After serving in the Clinton Administration, O'Brien attended and graduated in the top of his class from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. Corey is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and in the District of Columbia. Corey is also licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court and other federal courts.After 10 years in Washington, D.C., Corey and his family moved home to Northeastern Pennsylvania.
After being back in Pennsylvania for only four months, Corey launched the public affairs television show, The Pulse with Corey O'Brien on FOX56. After only one season, The Pulse with Corey O'Brien was recognized by the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters as an Outstanding TV Public Affairs Program/Series. The Pulse was also recognized by the Electric City newspaper as the region's top public affairs television talk show. In addition, Corey served as a political analyst on the ABC-affiliate, WNEP-TV 16, and WILK News Radio. Corey also hosted a radio program, Corey O'Brien Now on WILK News Radio.
In 2007, Corey O'Brien was elected to the post of Lackawanna County commissioner in an unprecedented landslide victory, with Corey and his running mate winning in all of Lackawanna County's 163 precincts. Corey O'Brien resides in Moosic, Pennsylvania with his wife, Atty. Michelle R. O'Brien, and their two young children, Kate and Casey.


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***Originally posted February 12, 2014***
It's a last-minute post, but I *just* figured out how to package this up. You've probably seen "Flubber recipes" all over Pinterest. The basic idea is to mix Elmer's glue, warm water, and food coloring in one bowl, and water and Borax in another bowl. When you combine the two, you get Flubber! We made some over the summer, and the kiddo LOVED it. We had it in a tupperware container, and it lasted for months.
As you've seen before, I'm a fan of simple gifts that aren't necessarily food when giving gifts to classmates. I'm just wary of dietary issues, and creating the expectation that all celebrations have to involve sugary treats! (What a party pooper!) But really, I want to give things that kiddo can help make, and that are an alternative to the inevitable influx of candy. (Trust me, I LOVE the candy…) So I thought giving out homemade flubber would be a great gift for 2-3 (or 4 or 5 or 6) year-olds.
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center has built one of the largest tiled displays ever. They arranged 75 30inch Dell displays in a 5×15 pattern. The overall the system has 36GB of graphics memory and 108GB of system memory. They intend on using the system to display very large data sets. If you think the size seems arbitrary, it is. They just happened to purchase five more monitors than the University of California San Diego.
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How it is that the same scholars who can produce such nuanced, complex, critical accounts of the workings of power and capital, of mediascapes, of speculation, of neoliberalism, of privatization and enclosure, of circulation, of exploitive labor practices, of union-busting, of social change, of technology, of educational practices, of inequality, of law, of injustice, of everything that matters—past and present—could seemingly be so out of touch when it comes to the political economy of the scholarly publishing system to which they contribute free labor as editors and peer-reviewers, through which they circulate their research findings, and from which their scholarly organizations increasingly extract rents that their home institutions, their students, and their societies cannot afford (and should not need) to pay?
Let that biased question rest. I was not trained to write in provocative ways and as my friend Alex Golub has rightly noted, I tend to bury my lead (Golub 2011). Being myself then, here is a less accusatory path to the place where these two movements for a realistically imagined, practically achievable, and clearly better world meet.
In 2009, The Chronicle of Higher Education (2009) published UNESCO data on total global postsecondary enrollments for 2007. According to this source, there were 150.7 million college and university students in that year.
Seeking a world population figure for that same year, I found the "2007 World Population Highlights," a summary of the Population Reference Bureau's "2007 World Population Data Sheet" (PRB 2007). It reports that the global population for 2007 was 6.6 billion.
In a quick search, I could not find an estimate for the size of the global professoriate, but for purposes of this thought experiment, let us imagine that there is a global 10:1 student teacher ratio. Given that such a ratio is characteristic of an elite U.S. liberal arts college the real global average ratio is surely more imbalanced, even when taking into account non-teaching researchers, such as postdoctoral fellows, that are found at major research institutions. A real ratio greater than 10:1 would decrease a faculty estimate based on the Chronicle of Higher Education/UNESCO student count. At 10:1, there would be 15,070,000 faculty worldwide.
If we combine these student and faculty estimates, the result is 165,770,000 students and faculty worldwide in 2007. As a percentage of global population, these university folks would represent 2.5% of the world's people (ca. 2007). I am not a demographer, a statistician, or a student of global higher education. A professional in these fields could surely do better than I have done in this quick calculation, but hopefully this number is adequate for my argument.
Now let's imagine something ridiculous. Commercial scholarly publishers and their scholarly society partners regularly point to their philanthropic initiatives designed to expand access to the scholarly literature in the "developing world." Such initiatives include HINARI (health topics), AGORA (agriculture topics), and OARE (environmental topics). On top of such widely participated-in initiatives, the American Anthropological Association (2012) has created a unique one of its own, targeting Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges, and First Nations Colleges in the U.S. and Canada. While some observers understand them mainly as public relations and marketing activities, I do not wish to diminish the real value of such initiatives to those positioned to benefit from them or to question the goodwill or good intentions of those working to provide and enact them (critiques include Chan, Kirsop, and Arunachalam 2011). I bring up such programs with a different intention. The ridiculous thought is simply the idea that such programs might reach all (100%) of their target end-users. These programs aim to provide access to the scholarly literature for those students and faculty at work in institutions of higher education (mainly in the developing world) that otherwise would not (for lack of financial resources) have access to toll access scholarly publications. A huge range of factors—language issues, technical issues, expertise issues, and many more—can be cited as factors that reduce actual participation in these programs.
The companion ridiculous thought would be that every student and faculty member in the so-called "developed world" had complete, paid-for access to the entire toll access scholarly literature. Even those who have the privilege of working or studying at elite research universities in the United States know that this dream is far from realized and that there is little hope that the toll access system will provide anything approaching access to the whole of the scholarly literature. Despite the best efforts of the commercial publishers to deny the serials crisis, the warning signs are everywhere. College and university librarians do triage work everyday trying to figure out what databases, journals, books, and disciplines to abandon so as to be able to continue providing others. (For the state of these issues, see Fitzpatrick 2011.)
For special purposes, what I have just imagined is a kind of utopia built out of the toll access publishing system that we already have. In summary, it would be like this. Every student and faculty member in the developed world gets access to the whole of the scholarly literature because they are affiliated with an institution that can and does have the capacity to pay (vast sums) for this literature as provided for by a mix of mostly small not-for-profit publishers and (primarily) very large, very profitable commercial publishers. Up until the time that their home countries move out of the category "developing" and into the category "developed," students and faculty in places like Angola and Bangladesh would gain access, where necessary, from philanthropic initiatives supported by this publishing community.
If such an impossible vision were achieved, it would still be terrible. Why? Go back to the statistics. I calculated that the global population of university people was about 2%-3%. In toll access utopia, these are the people who have access to scholarship. The 97%-98% would not (except through pay-per-view options that only the most economically advantaged could afford). Given that we do not have such a utopia now and that it seems unachievable any time soon, then it follows that the percentage of people with something approximating good access to scholarship (and I am one of these fortunate few) is surely more like 1%.
Especially for a field that studies, and relies upon the goodwill of, people (the 99%) and that aspires to be, and certainly can be, engaging, accessible, and useful outside the groves of academe, the reality of 1% access and the dream of 3% access should be absolutely unacceptable (Kelty et al. 2008:564). In a world filled with lifelong learners seeking knowledge, desperate social problems needing redress, rapid cultural change to be negotiated, and nearly boundless deprivation and suffering, we have unprecedented need for an anthropological scholarship that is widely and freely available. Open access activists are addressing this problem and finding new ways to get the job done. Whatever else they are doing, the major commercial publishers and their allies are working to defend their market share, a profitable status quo, and their dominance over the key nodes in the scholarly communications commodity chain.
While 3% access is probably unobtainable with a toll access system in the hands of multinational corporations, we already know that existing open access strategies can get scholarship into the hands of 13.5% of peoples on the African continent (on the low end) and 79% of peoples in North America (on the high end) (Internet World Stats 2012). Whether it is a gold OA journal like HAU or Museum Anthropology Review, a blog like Savage Minds or Neuroanthropology, a book like Chris Kelty's Two Bits (2008), a collections database such as the Quilt Index or the anthropology collections database of the American Museum of Natural History, an open access portal such as Open Folklore, a subject repository such as the Digital Library of the Commons or the World Oral Literate Project, an ethnographic film such as those made available via Folkstreams.net, or open source software tools such as Mukurtu, open anthropology projects of many sorts are already showing that another world (of scholarly communication) is not only possible, but is vital here in the present.
There is much more nuance that could be added, of course. Even being a member of the elite scholarly access 1% is a precarious thing. For instance, most of this count is based on students, but student status is a very temporary life stage. Excluding a few tiny and new alumni access schemes, students have access, of whatever real sort, only as long as they are students. A student in Hungary studies to be a social worker. She has some access to the relevant literature in her field as a student but then when she leaves school and takes up practice in this profession, she loses this access just when she needs it most. U.S.-based practitioners in fields like applied anthropology and public folklore know this dynamic painfully well. A utopian toll access system was the best that we could dream of in the era of paper publishing, but it is hardly a dream worth dreaming in an era of digital publishing. This is all the more true when we realize the vast costs of this legacy system and track the ways that it has been transformed into a remarkably profitable engine of privatization and enclosure through which public goods and resources, including the university subsidies and the unremunerated labor of scholars, are transformed into earnings-generating intellectual property assets most often owned or managed by massive multinational corporations whose profit producing capacity can range as high as 73% (Morrison 2011).
Those working to make open access journals, open access repositories, and other open access projects succeed cannot single handedly overcome the global digital divide. Just as not everyone in the world has access to clean water or to formal education, not everyone in the world has access to the Internet, the communications technology that makes open access possible. As anthropologists and Occupy protesters are particularly well aware, there are a multitude of human problems to be addressed. In the world that we live in now, open access projects alone move toward a relative improvement in public access to scholarship and therefore to useful knowledge. The bottom line is that this is a realizable goal that is in our reach. Open access doers have already demonstrated that it can be done.
In the context of the Occupy movement and its demand that we all acknowledge the reality of growing economic disparities and their social consequences, 99% of the population is set off from the 1% who control a disproportionate amount of wealth and political influence in the U.S. and in many other states. As my scratch pad demography was intended to show, this division holds for access to scholarship as well. While scholars like David Graeber (anthropology's most prominent link to the Occupy movement), the other contributors to this issue of Anthropologies, and myself surely are not part of the economic 1%, we absolutely are part of the scholarly access 1%. North American college and university faculty are the Bill Gates, Warren Buffets, Christy Waltons and Charles Kochs of access to scholarship. Taking the long way around, this is perhaps an answer to my frustrated opening query. The wealthiest 1% surely are not monolithic and neither are the scholarly access 1%. But like some of the economically most advantaged, many research scholars are insulated from the world of lack and the world of want. Inability to access scholarship is literally not their problem, but that hardly means that it is not a problem overall. Thankfully a growing number of scholars and administrators in many fields—including in anthropology—are waking up to the access-to-scholarship problem and the means by which we can solve it. For some—as is illustrated by the growing boycott of Elsevier and increased opposition to other commercial megapublishers—the problem of access is recognized as a component problem within a larger network of political-economic ones that include the role of corporate money in politics, flaws and inequities in the intellectual property system, the growth of student debt, the systematic impoverishment of public educational systems (including libraries), the "disruption" of higher education, and the broader privatization of public resources and erosion of the commonwealth.
It should not come as a surprise that grassroots libraries figured so prominently in Occupy encampments. Anthropologists and folklorists know better than most that teachers and learners exist everywhere and that university campuses are the site of only a tiny fraction of the teaching and learning that goes on everyday. Librarians remain committed to values—true privacy, human dignity, democracy, access—that should still be our scholarly values. Just as librarians joined in the work of putting those Occupy libraries in working order and of salvaging them from dumpsters, librarians are also our allies and have proven to be unbelievably willing to labor for us, and with us, in achieving open access goals in the service of broad human interests. We have an reciprocal obligation though, both to our librarian allies and to the publics that we both aspire to serve, and that is to do a better job of making sense of the contexts and processes that underpin the publishing of our scholarship and the ways that people do or do not have access to it once it is published. We are obligated to ask how our efforts and the systems that they support align or misalign with the interests of both relatively powerful and relatively powerless actors. If we have made mistakes, gotten confused, or made dubious choices in recent years, we still have some ability to do better and to change course. The confluence of open access struggles and Occupy ones that began in 2011 is proving synergistic. While it is only one battle among many, the withdrawal by its sponsors (on the day that I write this) of the Research Works Act in the face of an unprecedented outcry by concerned scholars is an hopeful illustration of this linkup (Howard 2011; Kolowich 2011). Whether you are part of the 1% or the 99%, please join in this work.
Jason Baird Jackson
Indiana University
Note: This essay is an indulgent footnote to more straight-forward things that I have written concerning publishing and open access in my fields. Those seeking an introduction to the issues might find the interview that Ryan Anderson and I did together of use (Anderson and Jackson 2011a, 2011b, 2011c). Other pieces of relevance include an account of opting out of the corporate sector of scholarly publishing (Jackson 2009, 2011a), a mapping of the prominence of this sector in anthropology publishing (Jackson 2011b), an examination of open access issues in folklore studies (Jackson 2010) and a consideration of the Open Folklore project, a initiative of the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries (Jackson 2012).
On the day after my essay was accepted for publication in Anthropologies, Chris Kelty (2012) published an important article on these themes in Al Jazeera. As I tried to do, he linked the issue of the 1% and the 99% to open access and the imperative of supporting a world of "people who want desperately to learn."
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Nice job that man – the static maps google provides are sorely overlooked a lot of the time.
That said, after seeing you tweet earlier in the week I'd really been hoping this article was going to talk about openstreetmap (but having looked at their documentation I'm really not surprised it didn't).
Again, good job, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the month.


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