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1431. Cook, R.J.. 1974. Control of Fusarium footrot of wheat in the Northwest USA.. Australian Plant Path. Soc. Newsletter 3(2).
2597. Herrman, T. and M.V. Wiese. 1984. Foot rot control in winter wheat using tillage, rotation, variety, fungicide, and nitrogen variables.. ID Agr. Expt. Sta. CIS #737.
Worst infection with conventional tillage; Stephens a more resistant variety; 3 yr rotation had lowest level, also lower levels with peas versus lentils; fungicides increased yields 4-6 bu/ac; no effect of level of N fertilizer; evidence from other areas that green manure could reduce infection levels; late fall tillage reduces infection; reduced tillage intensifies other diseases such as Cephalosporium stripe and Fusarium root rot. T: disease incidence by tillage, variety, fungicide.
4774. Murray, Tim. 1990 Jan.. Fungicide resistant footrot in wheat.. presentation at STEEP Annual Review, Moscow, ID.
Strawbreaker footrot (Pseudocercosperella herpotrichoides) is becoming resistant to some common fungicides (Benlate, Topsin, Mertek). Incidences have been documented in continuous wheat and in 2 and 3 year rotations. Crop rotation will give moderate control. Two new varieties have some resistance to the disease - Hyak and Madsen. Delayed seeding date is the best control strategy. Dealy about 7-10 days, so planting occurs in late September. For crop monitoring, a 10% obvious infection is the economic threshold for treatment. There appears to be reduced footrot in reduced tillage systems.
5735. Rasmussen, P.E. and C.R. Rohde. 1988. Stubble burning effects on winter wheat yield and N utilization under semiarid conditions.. Agronomy J. 80:940-942.
Burning vs. not burning was examined at 3 nitrogen levels over 6 years (3 crops). Burning had no effect on grain yield or grain N uptake. Burning increased straw yield when wheat was fertilized by N, but had no effect on straw N uptake. Burning did not decrease foot rot incidence or severity, but did reduce downy brome density. T: Effects of stubble burning and N fertilization on grain and straw of winter wheat 1980-85. Effect of stubble burning on foot rot infection. Effect of stubble burning on downybrome infestation.
8307. Murray, T., C.C. Walter, and L. Pritchett. 1990. Strawbreaker foot rot and Cephalosporium stripe. p. 88-90.. IN: 1990 Field Day Research Report. Dept. of Agronomy & Soils, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA.
Strawbreaker footrot (eyespot) is one of the most important and chronic diseases of winter wheat in eastern WA. Cephalosporium stripe is another important disease that can be devasting, but epidemics are more sporadic than footrot. Both diseases are important in wheat seeded early on summer fallow, especially in areas with more than 16" precipitation, and where crop rotations are short. Soil pH appears to be a factor in both diseases, with less severity at higher pH. Strains of footrot resistant to the fungicides Benlate, Mertec, and Topsin have been identified. Two new wheat varieties resistant to footrot have been released - Hyak and Madsen. Using a disease index of 0 (good) to 400 (bad) for footrot, Madsen rated 119, while Stephens rated 306. Stephens treated with fungicide rated 140. The economic threshold is 175-225. Overfertilized plants are more susceptible to footrot. There is a reduction in disease when going to no-till, which may only be a seeding date effect.
11057. Cook, R.J.. 1980. Fusarium foot rot of wheat and its control in the Pacific Northwest.. Plant Disease 64:1061-1066.
Fusarium foot rot occurs mainly in low to intermediate rainfall areas of the PNW (20-40 cm) where wheat is grown after fallow. The disease appears related to water stress. Sometimes nitrogen use can induce water stress and was blamed for the disease. Wheat varieties vary in their susceptibility to the disease. The disease can be controlled by minimizing pathogen population increases and by reducing or delaying water stress. Oats should be avoided since they are an excellent host for the disease. Actions to improve water infiltration and storage reduce the chance of water stress. By maintaining residue on the surface, airborne saprophytic fungi will colonize it and prevent Fusarium from doing so. N applications should be based on realistic yields so water stress will not be induced. September seeding, rather than August, avoids excessive foliar growth which can induce water stress.
11067. Cook, R.J. and J.T. Waldher. 1977. Influence of stubble-mulch residue management on Cercosporella foot rot and yields of winter wheat.. Plant Disease Reporter 61:96-100.
The stubble-mulch method of residue management at Pullman, WA, did not favor more Cercosporella foot rot than the moldboard plow method. Foot rot was generally less severe on wheat in stubble-mulched plots, apparently because of poorer wheat growth already in early fall. This poorer wheat growth in certain years was not corrected by benomyl application. In general, Cercosporella severity was directly proportional to plant size and vigor in the fall, regardless of tillage method.

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January 3, 2011 5 Comments
Indian Bank (PO) General Awareness Paper
held on 2nd Jan. 2011
(some question's ans. based on memory)
|1. The acronym "RTGS" stands for – Real Time Gross Settlement
|2. Expansion of TRAI is – Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
|3. CDMA stands for – Code Division Multiple Access
4. Which one of following states is largest producer of spices in India?
a) Karanatka b) Kerla c) Gujarat d) Tamilnadu e)Orissa
5. Government had proposed a new Uranium Mining Projects to be carried out at –
a) Meghalya b) Manipur c) Aasam d) Tripura e) Nagaland
6. Which one of following act as a Regulator of Banking System in India?
a) NABARD b) IBA c) SEBI d) RBI e) CRISIL
7. Who is Chief Minister of Maharashtra?
a) Ashok Chavan b) Shivraj Patil c) Shankar Rao d) Nitish Kumar e)None of these
8. Recently G-20 Summit was held at –
a) Japan b) Seoul c) Itlay d) Canada e) None of these
9. What is India's ranking on Human Development Index report published by United Nations Development
a) 89 b) 102 c) 119 d) 134 e)None of these
10. Myanmar's Suu Kyi is a –
a) Senior Citizen b) Military Officer c) Noble Prize Winner d) Sports person e) None of these
11. Statue of Liberty is National Monument of –
a) Russia b) France c) Itlay b) USA a) None of these
12. Bank of Rajasthan merges with –
a) HDFC Bank b) IDBI Bank c) ICICI Bank d) SIDBI Bank e) None of these
13. Who wins first gold medal of 19th Commonwealth Games 2010 event held at New Delhi?
a) Augustina Nwaokolo b) Abhinav c) Gagan Narang d) Leisel Marie Jones e) Physics
14. Whose signature is found on a ten-rupee currency note in India?
a) Finance Minister b) President c) Governor of RBI d) Prime Minister e) None of these
15. Kaveri is a/an
a) indigenous jet engine
b) supersonic cruise missile
c) air-to-surface missile
d) unmanned aerial vehicles
e) surface-to-air missile
16. The author of book "The God of Small Things" is –
Ans : Arundhati Roy
17. According to ADB report, which country has highest GDP growth rate in 2011 –
a) Russia b) India c)China d) Brazil e) Indonesia
18. Merdeka Cup is associated with the game –
a) Hockey b) Cricket c) Badminton d) Football e) Chess
19. Dada Shaheb Falke Award for 2010 was given to –
a) Amitabh Bachan
b) Hema Malini
c) Gulzar
d) Javed Akhtar
e) None of these
20. Sariska Tiger Reserve is loacted in which of following states?
a) Madhya Pardesh b) Utar Pardesh c) Gujarat d) Chattissgarh e) Rajasthan
21. SEBI cuts listing time to 12 days after the closure of a public issue w.e.f 1st May 2010
22. Which one is a financial assets – account in share of stocks
23. Which foreign organization helps india to improve standard of municipal schools through Municipal
School Adoption Programme (SAP)?
a) IMF b) World Bank c) UNICEF d) UNDP e) ADB
24. RBI regulating & monitor the banking services under the act?
Ans : Banking Regulation Act
25. Which risk is related to corporate Hedging –
Ans: Currency risk (also known as Foreign Exchange Risk hedging)
26. As per FCCB(Foreign Currency Convertible Bond) guidelines , a person can buy foreign exchange up
to maximum amount of Rs.
a) 10,000 b) 20,000 c) 30,000 d) 50,000 e) None of these
27. Planning Commission had proposed setting up an $11-billion India Infrastructure Debt Fund (IIDF).
|28. Banks are forced to buy govt. securitites under – reduction of credit growth rate
29. A zero balance account is opened for – Salaried Persons
30. Saving Deposit Account Definition
Ans: A Account in which people deposit money and withdraw it when they required it.
31. ASBA in application form used for registeration of an IPO stands for
Ans: Application Supported by Blocked Amounts
32. Minister Kapil Sibal has been given additional charge of the telecom ministry by PM on 15 Nov. 2010
33. Who introduced Know your customer (KYC) guidelines for all banks first time in 2002?
RBI on August 16, 2002.
34. Open market operations are carried out by – Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Open market operations are central bank's sales and purchases of government bonds
35. Teaser Rates are related to – Home Loans
Teaser rate is a special home loan scheme under which a concessional rate is offered for a limited
period to attract customers.
36. A credit rating –
allows borrowers to understand the financial health of the debt issuing corporation
37. NAV(Net Asset Value) in Mutual Fund –
Fluctuating Day by Day
NAV is based on the value of the portfolio. and the no of units issued
38. Which among the following country has highest literacy rate?
a) Russia b) India c)Srilanka d) China e) Brazil
39. To which one of following RBI has been given permission to issue pre-paid card?
a) LIC b) GIC c) NABARD d) IDBI e) None of These
|40. Oil subsidies are biggest item of government spending
Note : May be some of the ans./options are wrong as all ques's answers are on memory based. If anybody know about other questions of that exam.
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"A calm delight which is inexpressible and which no other situation on earth could give."
--Balloon pilot Vincenzo Lunardi, 1784
While others in Orange County are developing some of the world's most sophisticated high-tech aerospace equipment, Carl Gage and Lyle Piccard of Costa Mesa are building flying machines based on technology developed more than 100 years before the Wright Brothers flew the first airplane.
"The (hot air) balloon is sophisticated in its simplicity and it really hasn't changed that much over the years. It is an extremely efficient technological design. It can lift two or three times its own weight and can climb faster than many airplanes," said Gage, a former Marine Corps corporal.
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I remember writing my wedding vows… it was very hard for me as I only saw people giving promises to each other in movies. Part of me is glad I had no idea how to do it, as when I got a few words out, they were from my heart. I have read a lot about the origin of what we call wedding vows but that has left me more confused, so let me just tell you what I have learnt in prayer as God is the best teacher… after all, marriage is His idea.
The part that calls my attention more than any other during the wedding vows is when we say to each other "For better or worse" but, what comes to mind as those words hit the air to get to our spouses ears? in my case, I thought it meant to be faithful even when bob got sick, and make chicken soup to help him heal his cold… it also meant (to me) that if for some reason we ended up broke, I will do what I could to help my husband save money… little I knew that I had no idea of what I was saying, and NO, this does not mean I do not love my husband, it only means I had no idea what I said….
I believe that this phrase has more weight than remaining together during difficult times such as sickness and lack, I think it goes all the way to what to do when you find out your husband watches crap on his computer, or your wife likes the guy next door and the guy at the store and the guy at the gym, it goes right to the part of our marriages where we come face to face with our brokenness, when we find out we are not enough for each other, part that often is confuse with "I married the wrong one!" such moment in life sure does makes us want to run because we fear what that broken part of our spouse creates in us.
For better or worse has all to do with commitment. One of the biggest questions before marriage is not how much I need to make to buy our first house, it is "how committed to this person am I?" because commitment with help us find the path when "the worse" shows up in our marriages, I believe that commitment helps us forgive and let go faster than when we second guess our choice of marrying that person.
A long time ago, I over heard a conversation between a groom and a friend who stopped to congratulate him… my friend said "good luck to you!" and he said, "We will see how it goes!" no one should enter marriage to try… we should enter it committed to the person so that when the other person's issues come out, we can remember that we promised to keep this person, and to always cherish this person, and to always love this person no matter what, and that commitment means that no matter how ugly your issues are, or mine are, we will make things work out…. even if this takes longer, than we planned, even if it costs us more than we were willing to pay. The good thing about this is that, we can learn what commitment is and apply it even if we did not enter our marriages truly committed. God never walks away on us, He commits to love us until the end… even when we do not care much for such love, it remains… since we have such example, we can reach out to God and he will help us grow into this scary word "commitment" … if He helped me, He can help you, if I learnt … so can you.
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The leading Dutch news television program Nieuwsuur introduces a WhatsApp channel through which it informs people about the program content. CM provides the technology to send mobile messages using WhatsApp.
People enrolling for Nieuwsuur program updates through WhatsApp receive an editorial pick of the program scheduled for that same evening. Nieuwsuur (literally translated News Hour, a program like CBS' 60 Minutes format) also uses the service to highlight special upcoming reports or studio guests.
Nieuwsuur sees the rising importance of WhatsApp and understands the mobile app is more than just a text message service. The service grew to be an important source of information for millions of people. "Hyperlinks to articles via WhatsApp push traffic and lead to a growing number of visitors from many news sites. Users of our WhatsApp channel can share the WhatsApp messages with and mobile phone contacts, so our content is distributed more widely," Nieuwsuur states in the press release.
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Please bring your dog's vaccination record.
The Beginners course is for 6 weeks Tuesday or Friday evening
Puppys can start training as soon as they have had their vaccinations
Beginners course class 6:30pm till 7:15pm £45 for 6 weeks
Intermediate class 7:30pm till 8:15pm £3 per week
Advanced class 8:15pm till 9:00pm £3 per week
Our next beginners 6 week course's
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Friday January 18th
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When you have booked your course, you and your dog will be invited to come each week to watch the lessons. There is no charge for this.
It will help socialise your dog and for it to become more accustomed to the hall so that it will be more settled ready for its training.
Some of the exercises we will teach you;
Watch - asking the dog to pay attention
Come - return when called
Heel - walking with a loose lead
Wait - until you ask for the next cue
Stay - Until you return and release him/her
Stand - For examination by the vet
At the end of each lesson you will receive a handout of the lesson just taken to help you prepare for the next session. Once you have completed the beginners Course, you will be invited to join the Intermediate class or repeat the course at a cost of £3 each week.


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Jeffrey is proud to assistant direct for Rainbow Stage on Ring Of Fire after spending many years performing under the dome. You may remember Jeffrey as 'Scarecrow' in Wizard Of Oz, 'Reuben' in Joseph's Dreamcoat or 'Ethan' in The Full Monty. Other favourite performances include Crazy For You, Footloose, Chicago and Mary Poppins. This production marks the first time Jeffrey has been asked to join a creative team at Rainbow Stage and he could not be more excited to use his skill set to support the vision of his friend and mentor, Carson Nattrass. Jeffrey's recent director and/or choreographer adventures include Grease (Glenlawn), Krummhorn Castle (White Rabbit), Bloodsuckers: The Musical (KTG), Guys and Dolls, Little Shop of Horrors (MDA), Burnin' Love (PTE) and creating unique entertainment for corporate and charitable events with YPO, BOMA, and The Never Alone Foundation. These past two years, Jeffrey has been part of the Rainbow Stage office team, facilitating in education and outreach events and co-ordinating some of the budding Conservatory programs built by Artistic Director, Ray Hogg. These events include the 60th Anniversary Alumni Picnic, the Actor's Intensive, Encore 2015: Capture The Experience, the 2016 Music Theatre Conference – Teen Edition and most recently Camp Rainbow. Jeffrey is so grateful to be part of the Rainbow family at large and eager to help build the next generation of theatre creators and goers out here in beautiful Kildonan Park. From when he was very young, Jeffrey was mentored by Ken Peter, who lovingly nicknamed him 'Spatz'. Ken was his teacher, his inspirer, his friend and as Ken took the helm as Rainbow's Executive Producer in 1998, he became Jeffrey's mentor and employer. Jeffrey finds it so inspiring that many of the new initiatives he is involved with at Rainbow now are in line with the long-time dreams and visions Ken had for the theatre. Jeffrey would like to dedicate his work on this special year of activity at Rainbow Stage in Ken's memory.


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The national Academy and Oregon Academy elections are February 1- February 15th.
It's an exciting year with 3 Pacific NW candidates on the national ballot. Jessie Pavlinac (Nominating), Becky Sulik (Idaho - Nominating) and Terri Raymond (Washington State - President-Elect). You can learn more about Terri on her website and Facebook page.
Take the time to vote in the national election here.
We have a robust slate of state candidates:
Anne Goetze, RDN, LD, FAND
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Director, Policy and Advocacy:
Rochelle Kirwan Inwood, MS, RD, ACSM EP-C
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Michelle Bump, MS, RD, CSR, LD
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Come visit us in our office whilst we are poring over a brief and, with minimal provocation, we will put aside the task at hand and start gabbing about our days as a prosecutor. Come sit next to us while we are pouring a brown adult beverage and we will get to that point even quicker. Once a prosecutor, always a prosecutor. Any lawyer who spent some part of his or her career in the criminal justice system will tell you that cases involving true force or fraud, with jail time in play, are much more emotionally gripping than any mass tort. Criminal cases came freighted with human tragedy, with bad decisions leading to ruined lives. Yes, we can now hear some smooth plaintiff lawyer saying that precisely the same thing happens in personal injury cases, but the degree of passion and venality is not nearly the same. At the same time, comedy crops up in criminal cases more often than you'd expect, usually as a weird contrapuntal note. In our day, many Assistant U.S. Attorney office doors were adorned with transcript inanities. We remember the late, great Jeff Rawitz (a fearless lawyer who left us way too soon) having an awkward moment with newly-enrobed Judge Lourdes Baird. Judge Baird had been our boss only a few months before. She was a splendid U.S. Attorney, and was a graceful, regal figure. You didn't want to let her down – not ever, not even a little. And you craved her respect. Anyway, Rawitz was about to commence a cross-examination of an alibi witness. He told Judge Baird that he needed a bathroom break. Okay, said the Judge. Then she asked Rawitz how long he'd be. That is, she wanted to know how long the cross-examination was expected to be. That's not how Rawitz heard it. Rawitz fidgeted, then said, "Not long, Your Honor. [Pause] Number one." When Judge Baird heard poor Rawitz stammer about the length of his bathroom break, she turned a bit red, then did her best to restore dignity to the trial. That exchange was taped on Rawitz's door by some colleague/wag.
Once we start on these stories, it's hard to stop. We remember one revocation of probation proceeding that supplied more mirth than usual. The defendant had submitted to a drug test, and his urine had a super-high concentration of H2O. Clearly, the defendant had over-hydrated just before the test, a well-known way to avoid a positive drug test. There was a contested evidentiary hearing. The defendant denied any drug use, naturally. The expert witness for the government, a septuagenarian who harbored no love for those he called "drug fiends," was adamant that the defendant had gamed the system. Now came time for the judge's decision. After uttering a few preliminary observations, the judge was suddenly interrupted by the defendant. Though he was represented by an experienced public defender, the defendant, apparently unimpressed by the level of advocacy, grabbed the microphone and delivered a jumbled thesis on burden of proof. Then, perhaps manifesting less than complete confidence in his position, the defendant purported to school the judge on possible sentences short of returning the defendant to the care of the Bureau of Prisons. The judge cut in: "Hold on. You really don't need to explain all this to me. I've been a judge for 15 years." The defendant's riposte was swift: "Okay, Judge, but I've been a criminal for 20." That also made it onto an AUSA's door.
All of which is to explain why we will grab hold of any criminal case that has even the remotest connection to drug and device litigation, in this case the use (and misuse) of pharmocogenomic information. Today's case, Nebraska v. Robbins, 297 Neb. 503, 2017 Neb. LEXIS 148 (Neb. Aug. 18, 2017), is, indeed, fairly remote from our day-to-day doings, but is interesting nonetheless. Let's begin with the fact that immediately distinguishes Robbins from the typical drug/device label nit-pickery littering our desk: the defendant in Robbins had strangled his girlfriend to death. He was charged with first degree murder. Just as almost all tort cases settle, the same is true with criminal cases. The defendant in Robbins ultimately entered a plea of guilty to a reduced charge of second degree murder. The court sentenced the defendant to 40-60 years of incarceration. In an episode of Law & Order or Perry Mason (notice how there are no tv shows on mass torts?), that would be the end of the story. Here, it is the beginning. Prisons have good law libraries and some good jailhouse lawyers As much as ex-prosecutors look back on their days in the criminal justice system with fondness, they will always report that the worst part of their job was responding to habeas petitions and other post-conviction flotsam and jetsam. Prisoner briefs are almost always nearly incomprehensible, so the first part of opposing such a motion is to translate it into something approaching rationality, and then refuting it. It is a lot of work. If you lose, all your fellow prosecutors up and down the hall will make fun of you.
The defendant in Robbins filed a motion for post-conviction relief, demanding a DNA test to determine whether he was a slow metabolizer of the anti-anxiety drug he had been taking. Huh? Why? At the time of the murder, the defendant had been taking a standard dose of an anti-anxiety drug. Now he argued that the dose was too high for his metabolism, thereby rendering him homicidal. To prove up this defense, if that's what it was, the defendant sought relief under the state's DNA Testing Act. The lower court granted this relief, which must have driven the prosecutor crazy, but the Nebraska Supreme Court held this ruling to be plain error. The issue was whether pharmacogenomic DNC evidence that the defendant was a slow metabolizer would constitute exculpatory evidence. The defendant contended that evidence of his slow metabolism might function as mitigation for sentencing, and could also have established defenses at trial regarding inability to forumulate the requisite intent, or could have established intoxication or insanity. But remember, there was no trial.
The post-conviction use of DNA testing to get people out of prison is, by now, old hat. You've no doubt read about such cases many times – perhaps enough to make you squirm about the imperfections of our justice system. Fair enough. But think about what was going on in those high-profile cases. Those DNA tests truly exonerated the prisoner. They showed that the prisoner shouldn't be in prison at all because he or she didn't do the crime. The court in Robbins reasoned that Nebraska's DNA Testing Act was limited to proof of factual innocence, not the type of mitigation or excuse that the Robbins defendant was trying to demonstrate. Semi-cleverly, the defendant argued that DNA testing would involve the same issue of identity afoot in the 'classic' DNA exoneration cases, on the theory that he was a "different person" while on the anti-anxiety drug. The court did not buy it. Here is the court's bottom line: "Because the Act is intended to assist in proving the innocence of a convicted person through establishing the person's identity, it cannot be said that evidence from the DNA testing probably would have produced a substantially different result at trial. As such, the evidence is not exculpatory under the Act." Fundamentally, the Robbins case is about statutory interpretation. The court interpreted the DNA Testing Act narrowly, limiting it to issues of identity that might completely exculpate a defendant.
On behalf of prosecutors and taxpayers everywhere, we breathe a sigh of relief over the Robbins court decision. To have granted the prisoner's petition would have amplified what is already an imbecility in the law. To our mind, the only mental state issue that should be relevant in criminal cases should be the classic mens rea: did the defendant intend the crime? Here, did the defendant intend to strangle his girlfriend? If he thought he was opening a pickle jar, then there really is an insanity defense. But too many of the insanity tests that have had their moments over the centuries were detours into the ridiculous. Why should it matter whether the defendant knew what he or she was doing was wrong? (The dreaded M'Naughten test.) If someone thinks that murder is not wrong, that's all the more reason to put them behind bars. Sure, administer psychiatric treatment (the federal prison in Springfield, Missouri specializes in that sort of thing), but by all means keep amoral, psychopathic, sociopathic (or whatever) killers away from the rest of us. The same is true of irresistible impulse, or any other species of craziness seized upon by silly academics or judges to excuse or even (gasp) exonerate a murderer. Look, we can always come up with a reason for anything. But reasons are not necessarily excuses. Whether one's metabolism is too fast, too slow, or just right, murder is murder. Maybe you think that is a primitive view. Like we told you, once a prosecutor, always a prosecutor.


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Wave Soldering Machine Theory
Wave soldering is a kind of soldering wave formed on the surface of molten liquid solder by means of pump pressure. When the components of components are inserted to pass the solder wave at a fixed angle, the solder joint technology is formed in the pin welding area. The components are preheated at the preheating area of the welding machine during the transmission process from the chain conveyor belt, and the preheating and preheating temperature of the components are still controlled by the predetermined temperature curve. In actual welding, the preheating temperature of the component surface is usually controlled, so many devices have added the corresponding temperature detection devices (such as infrared detectors). After preheating, the component enters the lead slot for welding. Tin bath is filled with molten liquid solder. The bottom nozzle of the steel slot will solder the solder to form the wave shape with fixed shape, so that when the component surface is passed through the wave, it will be heated by the solder wave. Meanwhile, the solder wave will also moisten the welding area and expand and fill up, so as to achieve the final welding process.
It is obvious that the wave soldering is heated by the principle of convection heat transfer. The molten solder wave acts as a heat source. It flows to scour the pin welding area and heat conduction on the other hand. The pin welding area is heated under this action. When using silver lead solder, the temperature of the molten solder is usually controlled at about 245 degrees C. In order to ensure the heating of the welding area, the solder wave usually has a fixed width, so that when the welding surface of the component passes through the wave, it has sufficient heating and wetting time. In the traditional wave soldering, a wave is used, and the wave is flat. With the use of lead solder, more and more two wave forms are adopted at present.
The pin of the component provides a way for the liquid solder immersing into the metallized through hole. When the pin contacts the solder wave, the liquid solder rises up along the pin and the hole wall with the help of the surface tension. The progress in capillary action of metallized holes promotes the climbing of solder. The solder arrives at the PCB plate and spreads under the surface tension of the pad. The welding flux gas and air in the through hole are discharged from the rising solder, and the through hole is filled, and the solder joint is formed after the cooling.
The main difference between the wave soldering and reflow is that the heating source and the material supply in the welding are different.
In the wave soldering, the solder is heated and melted in the groove in advance. The welding wave of the pump plays the dual role of heat source and solder. The solsoled solder waves heat the PcB's through holes, pads, and component pins, and also provide the required solder for the formation of solder joints. In reflow soldering, the solder paste (solder paste) is pre assigned to the welding area of PCB in advance. The effect of the heat source on the reflux is to remelt the solder.
Main components and working principle of wave soldering
The wave soldering machine is mainly composed of conveyor belt, heater, tin slot, pump, flux foaming (or spray) device. It is mainly divided into flux adding area, preheating area and welding area.
The solder in tin bath gradually melts under the heating of heater. Molten liquid solder forms a specific shape solder wave on the surface of solder tank under the action of mechanical pump or electromagnetic pump. The PCB installed with the components is placed on the transmission device. After a certain angle and the depth of penetration, the solder joint is welded through the solder wave, so it is called wave soldering.
For a single wave, only a wave, called flat wave. The double wave, the wave is called interference wave, the second wave is called flat wave (Ping Huabo).
Wave disturbance effect: the SMT element and prevent the leakage of welding, which ensures the proper distribution through the circuit board solder. The solder is penetrated through the slit at high speed, so that the narrow gap is penetrated. The direction of the injection is the same as that of the circuit board. The SMT element, disturbance wave can complete welding. But for through hole components, disturbance wave itself is not appropriate for welding components, solder joints left on the uneven and excess solder, thus requiring second wave - flat wave.
Flat wave function: eliminate the disturbance wave generated by the burrs and welding bridge. Flat wave is actually a single wave soldering machine used by the wave, therefore, when the traditional through-hole components in double wave welding machine, you can put off the flat wave interference wave, you can complete the welding. The flat wave wave basically maintain the level as a mirror. At first, it seems that the tin wave is static. In fact, the solder is flowing constantly, but the wave is very stable.
Wave soldering machine joint formation: when PCB entered the wave front end, substrate and pin is heated, and not leave before the PCB wave, which is dipped in solder, solder bridging, but in the end the moment left wave, a small amount of solder wetting force effects due to the adhesion on the pad, and the reasons the surface tension, will appear to lead to the center small contraction state, the cohesive force between the solder and the wetting force is greater than two between the solder pads. So a full, round solder will be formed, and the excess solder, leaving the tail of the wave, falls back to the tin trough because of the gravity.
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"God's Word will never pass away, but looking back to the Old Testament and since the time of Christ, with tears we must say that because of a lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the part of God's people, God's Word has many times been allowed to be bent, to conform to the surrounding, passing, changing culture of that moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of God judging the form of the world spirit and the surrounding culture of that moment. In the name of The Lord Jesus Christ, may our children and grandchildren not say that such can be said about us."
― Francis A. Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster
Imagine All the People
Imagine we lived in a world where believing young people were faced with every worldview imaginable, worldviews in opposition to anything theism, and the one basis of truth they have is mostly absent from their life. The tragedy of the previous statement is we do not have to imagine, for we live in a society where that day has most certainly arrived. One of the scariest, saddest truths in the universe today is the lack of teaching, understanding, and application of the Word of God, to young believers. Take the model of youth ministry in most modern day youth groups. For the most part they are nothing more than social venues driven by emotions, worldly relevance, and shallow moralistic teaching. In other words ministry to teens and twenty something's, has been shot straight to He…Hello. I may edit that part out. And we wonder why so many young people leave the church, even walk away from the faith. If all Christianity has to offer is moralism and not absolute truth, what is the point in sticking with it? I mean if we do not have a belief system based on any more truth than other worldviews, you might as well switch to a religion or beliefs that are fun. I want to explore some of the causes as to why young people are not pursuing the Word of God, and provide some rationale as to what can be done about it. BUT FIRST, some data!
Why does it Matter? Is there really a Problem?
In one of their most recent studies on American Christians 13-18 year olds, the Barna Group revealed that only 33% read their Bibles. Further in the survey, Barna collected data as to what spiritual development these teens were looking to grow in and at the bottom of the list was Studying the Bible, a mere 18%. Is it just me or is there something wrong here? Mind you this survey is the most recent being taken in 2007, but I believe it still honestly reflects a very big, very real problem in the spiritual priorities being instilled in young people. If the Bible, if Scripture is what it say it is, if it truly is truth, then why is that not at the top of the list of what young believers are being taught to study, appreciate, and grow in love for?
How Do We Get Young People as Excited for the Word of God, as what they are One Direction?
Over the summer I would often ask myself the question "How do we get young people as excited for the Word of God, as what they are One Direction?" If you do not know who this awful teen dream, tans and teeth, hair and abs, band is, one you are fortunate, and two if you want to become unfortunate learn about who they are by following this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_direction. Moving on, whenever one of this groups hits would come on the youth and staff would go wild. On the other end, when it came to chapel messages or devotions, that energy would quickly die. I am not judging. Yeah I am sort of, but my point is, if young believers have the capability to be that excited for some stupid, secular band, then it most certainly can be possible for them to do so over the Word of God. So the question of "how?" was formed. I like a good "how?" problem. As I wrestled with the dilemma of young believers and the Bible I began to do surveys and conversations of my own with camp staff and campers. Out of every survey I did, each conversation I had, EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. said one of the reasons they did not read the Bible was out of laziness. Seeing this trend, and putting the rest of the information gathered together, it hit me that I was looking at the problem all wrong. In my mind there had to be a straight answer, one answer to shed light on this whole problem, when the reality was things were a bit more complex than that.
As I thought about the whole idea of laziness, a neat little thought dawned on me. Let's say I am in a math class, which coincidentally I am this semester. I hate math. Math is the Moriarty to my Sherlock, the Master to my Doctor, the Hitler to my Churchill. Why is that you may ask? I despise math simply because it is hard for me to understand. Sure, once I get it, especially logical problems, I with great enthusiasm think it is awesome, but until I grasp it, understand it, learn it, I have nothing but apathy toward math. Apply that same principle to young people, it is not so much that they are lazy, though in some cases they may be, but it is more so the fact that they do not know how to study, how to understand, the Bible, and so they decide not to do so. You cannot be excited or desire to do something, unless you have been give a reason to do it. They may worship, speak Christian jargon, pray some and have little devotions, but without people to help them learn and become excited for the Word of God, their enthusiasm will just not be there. Obviously this is merely one dynamic to the problem, but I most certainly think it is the starting point in helping Churches and leaders teach young believers Scripture. If a teenager can read seven hundred or so pages of Harry Potter, Twilight, or whatever else they read, understanding every jot, every tittle, I find it hard to believe that we cannot harness that energy to get them to do the same with the Bible. The problem is not illiteracy, the problem is simply not knowing how. They can read, they just need to be taught how to read the Bible.
My Mission if I Choose to Accept it
As a someday Bible teacher, it is my personal mission to constantly and consistently read articles and do research regarding the spiritual status of teens and twenty something's. During the summer I spent a majority of my time researching Bible literacy amongst this demographic. One of the methods in which I gained valuable insight was by teaching a "How to Study the Bible" module most weeks at camp. This hands on research helped me gauge where many of the students were at in their Biblical literacy and what methods did and did not work in teaching them. As the week and sessions progressed it was amazing how many light bulb moments, how many ooh's and ah's were exclaimed because they were beginning to understand! I mean they can learn awful advanced calculus for crying out loud, so why can they not learn the Bible! I am convinced without a doubt young people can learn how to effectively, meaningfully, and enthusiastically study the Bible, they are merely in need of teachers to show them how. The plethora of youth groups and ministries, who think they are doing teens or twenties a solid by teaching moralism and providing a place to hang, need to cut the crap and go back to the Word of God. That is the only thing going to make a change in the lives of people. Nothing else. Those things are not bad in the right context, but often of they take precedence over Scripture in ministries.
What then Shall We Do?
I have compiled a list of what I think is necessary in teaching young believers how to study the Bible. I believe these goals will help young believers in their study of Scripture while building a Biblical rationale as to why they should do so. These are in no particular order.
▪ Teach young believers "why" studying the Bible is important. People often do things, or at least are more willing to do them if they have a reason why.
▪ Clear and clarify their misconceptions about the Bible, in this day and age they do have so many, and addressing their misconceptions will help them further trust and understand Scripture.
▪ Teach the student how to study the Bible effectively and genuinely, to not only learn, but to also live, Biblical truth. Scripture is the core of the Christian existence, and without it you have nothing. This is pivotal to their growth in genuine faith.
▪ Once they can do inductive study, let them create their own style of personal Bible study and devotion, based off of the foundational principles of inductive study they learned.
▪ Show students how Scripture helps them grow in their relationship with God as well as others.
▪ Help students in learning how to both defend and share their faith Biblically and apologetically. If they do not know why they believe what they believe, it is going to be difficult for them to minister to their friends and people around them, not to mention continue standing firm in their own faith when met with opposing views.
The Thing about Icebergs is
As I sit here watching the word count increase, 1,476, oh 1,478, shoot 1,479, words I realize that this is only the tip of the iceberg. This is only one aspect of the problem. I am just one tiny man, with a few small ideas, hoping to make some sort of difference in this large ordeal. This is serious business. We have to teach younger generations the transforming power of God's Word, because nothing else in the universe matters. Unless we do just that, I am afraid we are going to continue losing young believers not just to mediocrity, but even more to the world. Make the Word of God the center of your life, your ministry, and take that knowledge to other believers, challenging them to do the same. I said before and I will continue to say it, somehow, someway, I, actually Christ through me, am going to find a way to get young believers as excited about the Word of God as what they are One Direction.


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CJDES, Paris, 5th April 2012
Dr Rory Ridley-Duff, Sheffield Business School (SBS) (email email@example.com) Course Leader - MSc Co-operative and Social Enterprise Management Board Member Co-operatives Yorkshire & Humber Social Enterprise Yorkshire & Humber Rory Ridley-Duff, 2012
My connection to the social economy…
• Interest as an educator/researcher:
– Lead author of Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory and Practice, Sage Publications (student text for post-graduate study). – Course leader for MSc Co-operative and Social Enterprise Management, and module leader for two MSc Charity Resource Management modules. – Frequent contributor (and reviewer) of academic articles on social enterprise / social economy / co-operative enterprise.
• Interest as a practitioner:
– Worked for 12 years in a worker co-operative that co-founded Social Enterprise London
– Currently serve on four co-operative and social enterprise boards
Forms of Social Economy
• Co-operative and Mutual Enterprises
• Enterprises based on co-operative principles (self-help, selfresponsibility, equality, equity, solidarity).
• Primary Purpose Trading in Charities/NGOs
• Trading arrangements that are socially transformative for the people trading with each other or which fulfil the social/charitable purposes of the enterprise.
• Social Firms and Businesses
• The adaptation of (private) company law for the pursuit of a social purpose or mission (e.g. Social Purpose Companies in the EU, Community Interest Companies in the UK).
Two theoretical perspectives
• Socialised enterprises (mutual):
– Where social enterprise is seen as a process of distributing wealth, power and control to primary stakeholders (workforce, customers, producers, [service users]). – Where economic activity and social organisation are selected on the basis of their contribution to human well-being. – Where the management philosophy is changed to one based on "mutuality", "participatory democracy" and 'network governance'.
• Social purpose enterprises (philanthropic):
– Where social enterprise is seen as pursuit of a social goal using business practices. – Where economic activity is justified in terms of improving the well-being of a beneficiary group. – Where the management philosophy remains unchanged, rooted in "rationalist" and "managerialist" logic under board and executive control.
Based on Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2010) "Social Rationality and its Implications for Social Entrepreneurial Thinking", Plenary to 2010 Research Colloquium on Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford University, 22nd – 25th June 2010.
Boundaries of the Debate
EU-style Social Economy: Collective Action Organised labour or government responses to social issues US-style Social Entrepreneurship: Individual Action Entrepreneurial (market) responses to social issues
Incremental building of social capital and Fast effective achievement of social assets outcomes Solidarity and mutuality Accommodation of stakeholders Democracy (bottom-up governance) Third sector / third way Champions and change agents Adherence to a 'vision' Philanthropy (top-down governance) Business thinking / any sector
Key questions for social entrepreneurs / social enterprises
1. What is the social purpose of your enterprise, and can you provide evidence that it is making a social impact? 2. Are the products and services your produce, and the way you produce them, subject to ethical review by primary stakeholders? 3. Does your enterprise socialise ownership, management and governance by passing democratic control to one or more primary stakeholders (service users, employees, customers, producers)?
A symbol that embraces the commitment of Social Enterprise Europe to build a social economy.
Sheffield Business School Support for
UN International Year of Cooperatives
• Futures North – Co-operatives Conference
– 23rd June 2012 (Saturday) – Flagship event for Co-operatives Fortnight 2012
• Co-operative and Social Enterprise Summer School
– Paris 20th-22nd June, Sheffield 18th-20th July 2012. – Two day taught course, one day Open Space event.
• Co-operative Councils Open Space Research Day
– 26th July 2012 (Thursday), Sheffield Business School – For co-operative / social economy researchers and council staff
• Co-operative and Social Enterprise Management Degree
– PG Certificate / PG Diploma / Masters – Next Intake January 2013 (can enrol on individual modules)
• At ICA Coop Expo, Manchester, 31st Oct - 2nd Nov.
– http://www.icaexpo.coop/
References and Useful Reading
Aslam, A. (1999) "U.S. Wage Gap Widens", Global Policy Forum, http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/218-injustice-and-inequality/46639.html, accessed 14 December 2009. The claim is based on data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Co-operatives UK (2012) UN International Year of Co-operatives, http://www.uk.coop/resources/documents/2012-keymessages-and-text, accessed 20th March 2012. Conn, D. (2006) "Barcelona"s Model of Integrity Show Rights is Might", The Guardian, 17th May, http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2006/may/17/championsleague.europeanfootball, accessed 20th January 2010. Cornforth, C. J., Thomas, A., Spear, R. G. and Lewis, J. M. (1988) Developing Successful Worker Co-ops, London: Sage Publications. Ellerman, D. (1997) The Democratic Corporation, Beijing: Xinhua Publishing House. First published as "The Democratic Firm" in 1990. Erdal, D. (2000) The Psychology of Sharing: An Evolutionary Approach, unpublished PhD Thesis, University of St Andrews. Erdal, D. (2011) Beyond the Corporation, Humanity Working: London: The Bodley Head
Hertz, N. (2011) Co-op Capitalism: A New Economic Model From the Carnage of the Old, Manchester: Co-operatives UKI.
Restakis, J. (2010) Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital, New Society Publishers. Ridley-Duff, R. J. and Bull, M. (2011) Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory and Practice, London: Sage Publications. Wardle, L. (2012) Keynote Speech to the West Midlands Co-operative Meeting to celebrate the UN International Year of Cooperatives, Birmingham City Council, 23rd March. Weinbren, D. (2008) Families and Friendly Societies, Friendly Society Research Group.


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When it comes to being a world leader, how old is too old?
Voters in Malaysia will soon have to ponder that question, after the country's opposition alliance selected former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad to lead its challenge against Najib Razak, the scandal-ridden current prime minister.
At 92, Mahathir is almost three decades older than Najib. He was Malaysia's longest-serving prime minister, having held power from 1981 to 2003. If he wins the next election, scheduled to be held before August, Mahathir will become the world's oldest head of state or government.
Include hereditary rulers and autocratic leaders and that's quite a competitive title. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, 91, holds the distinction of being the oldest world leader – a title she took from Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe when he was ousted from office last year at age 93. Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisia's 91-year-old president, is the oldest-serving elected world leader.
Mahathir's decision to run is a reflection of the state of Malaysian politics and, in particular, his public opposition to former ally Najib, who is linked to a multibillion-dollar financial scandal involving a state development fund. If elected, Mahathir is expected to use his power to pardon another major opposition figure, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving five years on sodomy charges that his supporters say are politically motivated.
If he is pardoned, 70-year-old Ibrahim could run for prime minister – potentially succeeding Mahathir, a former-ally-turned-rival-turned-ally-again.
At the same time, the Malaysian election fits into a global conversation about how old world leaders should be. That debate has been especially pronounced in the United States, where then-70-year-old Donald Trump faced off against 69-year-old Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election – the two oldest candidates in a U.S. presidential election, with the exception of incumbent Ronald Reagan in 1985.
Some opponents of Trump contend that the president's age, in addition to a reportedly poor diet and limited exercise, has negatively affected his cognitive ability. This idea has become resurgent amid accounts from the new book "Fire and Fury," by journalist Michael Wolff, that portray Trump as childish and unable to focus on the responsibilities of his office.
The White House has strongly pushed back against this idea, with Trump himself claiming to be a "very stable genius." It has also criticized as "ridiculous" those who raised questions about a speech by the president last month in which he appeared to slur his words – although, as The Washington Post noted at the time, Trump and his surrogates had repeatedly questioned Clinton's health during the campaign.
There certainly are benefits to having older leaders in office – they can draw on wisdom accrued over decades of high-level decision-making, as well as the accompanying support and name recognition. But there's no doubt that being a world leader also includes a workload and travel requirements that can be difficult for some older candidates to handle.
Looking globally, there have been a number of world leaders whose age appears to have affected their work. Before he was ousted, Mugabe was notorious for falling asleep during high-level meetings – when he was forced out of office last year, those leading the push to impeach him said his "advanced age" meant he was no longer physically able to run the government.
In the United States, Reagan's habit of forgetting things toward the end of his time in office led to public speculation about whether his mental health was deteriorating (after he left office Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and his son later claimed that he had exhibited symptoms while in office).
However, age limits on heads of state or government are unusual. Instead, most countries tend to have some sort of minimum age requirement for running for office.
In many countries, this may be the same age as the voting age – 18 in many cases – although it can be higher. The U.S. Constitution requires presidential candidates be at least 35. Even so, the world has seen a surge in younger leaders in recent years. France's Emmanuel Macron entered office at 39, while North Korean leader and high-profile Trump foe Kim Jong Un is 34. The youngest world leader, Sebastian Kurz, was elected chancellor last year in Austria: at 31, he is just over one-third the age of Mahathir.
Few nations have an upper limit on the ages of their leaders. Indeed, when push comes to shove, the few limits there are can be strategically ignored – China's Xi Jinping, 63, is widely expected to flout Beijing's informal retirement age of 68 to continue for a third term – or outright repeal it, as happened in recent years in Turkmenistan and Uganda, by legal means.
Perhaps that's for the best. Experts generally agree that age alone can't determine someone's health or ability to work. Last year, Mahathir gave an interview to the Strait Times in which he explained that the secret to his youthful looks (the newspaper noted that his appearance had changed little in 12 years) was simple: Don't overeat.
But Malaysian voters' worry may not be that Mahathir has changed too much, but that he has not changed enough. During his 22 years in office, Mahathir had a fearsome reputation as an authoritarian with little time for liberal values, with his tactics paving the way for Najib.
And despite his old age, Mahathir has expressed little regret for his excesses since reentering politics last year.


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Adrian Lark has posted several new flights over gorgeous Martian landscapes to his Youtube channel. My favorite of his recent ones is this dive into Zumba crater:
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The food and drink offering at The Trinity Centre is literally about to go to the next level with the launch of a new rooftop bar and restaurant.
The Potting Shed Bar and Secret Garden is a multi-million pound investment by Leeds based pub and bar investors, the Burning Night Group.
It will house three distinct but linked bars – The Potting Shed, Orchard and Secret Garden – which will each have an individual, quirky and retro design and all serve food created in a theatre kitchen.
The venue will house 600 people as well as capacity for a further 100 people on a spectacular roof-top terrace with city skyline views.
The new venue will have its entrance on Bond Street, one of the busiest streets in the heart of Leeds city centre and a hub for shoppers, office workers and students.
Burning Night has provided design and management services to the Potting Shed brand owner, Ormsborough Limited Ormsborough which has granted Burning Night a licence to use the brand.
There are already branches in Bingley and Beverley, with openings also planned for Guiseley and Northallerton, but the Trinity menus are set to be made extra special.
There are over 40 cocktails as well as wines, beers and champers, bar snacks, burgers, pizzas and spicy meat dishes.
Allan Harper, CEO of Burning Night Group said: "The Leeds site, as our first city centre one, will have all the characteristic garden features plus the Secret Garden which is something special we're creating as a first here.
"Signing this sought-after rooftop space at Trinity Leeds is perfect for us. Trinity is now synonymous with the city and we're excited to be a part of, and expand on, the centre's already illustrious reputation as a Leeds institution."


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- The Singer-Songwriter Handbook 23 February 2017 Justin Williams and Katherine Williams
- Classics for the Masses: Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin and Stalin 29 January 2016 Pauline Fairclough
- The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter 5 October 2015 Katherine Williams and Justin A. Williams (eds.)
- Missa Surge Petre and motets (Jacquet of Mantua) 1 May 2015 Stephen Rice (conductor)
- Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop 12 February 2015 Justin Williams (ed.)
- Martin Scorsese: Die Musikalität der Bilder (FilmMusik, vol. 2) 1 January 2015 Guido Heldt, Tarek Krohn, Peter Moormann, Willem Strank (eds.)
- Missa de beata virgine and motets (Antoine Brumel) 1 November 2014 Stephen Rice (conductor)
- Gaia Symphony/Eden 1 July 2014 John Pickard (composer)
- Sixteen Sunrises 30 May 2014 John Pickard (composer)
- Ennio Morricone (FilmMusik, vol. 1) 1 January 2014 Guido Heldt, Tarek Krohn, Peter Moormann, Willem Strank (eds.)
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The effect of ISO 9001:2008 certification on process quality: a case study of Kenya Power and Lighting Company
Mulela, John K
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Many organizations in Kenya and across the world are adopting ISO 9008:2001 in an endeavor to improve their processes and hence process quality. Process quality plays a key role in the performance and survival of organizations in the current competitive world. This is what informed the study. The study endeavored to establish whether KPLC achieved process quality improvements after ISO 9001:2008 certification. It also sought to establish the impact of the certification on process interactions. In order to study whether KPLC had achieved process quality improvements after ISO 9001: 2008 certification, one internal process, the new connections process, was selected and broken down into its sub-processes. These were design, quotation, wayleaves acquisition, construction, metering and process interactions. Six hypotheses were then tested with the use of one-tailed z-test at 0.05 significance level for a sample of 150 jobs done before and after ISO 9001:2008 certification. A paired t-test was performed on the mean differences of the sub-processes' quality in order to make a final conclusion on overall process quality. The findings of the study revealed that there were significant improvements in process quality in the sub-processes apart from the quotation sub-process which recorded a reduction in quality. The study revealed significant improvement on overall process quality at 0.05 significance level. Process interactions improved significantly after ISO 9001 :2008 certification at 0.05 significance level.


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Pompey Academy extended their unbeaten Merit League 1 division start to five games with a gutsy 1-0 win over Barnet at Furze Lane earlier today.
James Granger scored the Blues' all-important goal with a second-half free-kick.
But the hosts were made to work hard for their three points by a well-organised Bees outfit who arrived on the south coast as reigning Youth Alliance League south east division champions.
Indeed, it was a victory made all the more impressive by the fact that Pompey had three regular players unavailable.
Goalkeeper Alex Bass made the trip up to Accrington with the first team, deputising on the bench for the injured Michael Poke, while Adam May was ruled out with illness.
And the unfortunate Lewis Gill is unlikely to feature again this season after breaking his toe in training this week.
The hosts edged what was a scrappy first half, with Calvin Davies, Theo Widdrington and Liam Sayers all denied by the impressive Bees goalkeeper Kai McKenzie-Lyle.
The opening period belonged to the keepers, with Bass' replacement in the Blues goal, Joe Hunt, denying Fumnaya Shomoton and Ryan Gondoh in quick succession.
Pompey led two minutes after the restart, though, when Davies was felled on the edge of the box and Granger's low curling effort bobbled over the outstretched McKenzie-Lyle.
From then on it was the Bees who dictated proceedings, however, with the Blues largely relying on an impressive rearguard action to protect the points.
Hunt again did well to deny both Elliott Harris and Mathew Stevens, while full-backs Brandon Haunstrup and Fahad Rwakarambwe were kept busy by Harris and Gondoh respectively.
The home side remained a threat on the break, though, and having weathered the visiting storm, should have put the game to bed from a late counter-attack.
Substitute Brandon Joseph-Buadi showed good pace to leave his marker and round McKenzie-Lyle, but with the goal in his sights, chose to set-up onrushing team-mate Kaleem Haitham rather than shoot himself.
Sadly, for the hosts, Joseph-Buadi's final ball let him down under pressure with Blues winger Haitham unable to collect the intended pass in his stride for a tap-in.
A head injury to Haunstrup resulted in five minutes of stoppage-time.
And there was to be late drama at the death when Bees winger Harris got past his Pompey marker and fired in an inviting low cross.
Incredibly, though, with the goal gaping, two Barnet players slid and missed the delivery when a last-gasp equaliser appeared a certainty.
And with that the referee's final whistle sounded as a dogged Blues side extended their impressive run of form with a hard-fought win.
Academy boss Mark Kelly said: 'There were elements of the game, such as our movement patterns, that were good, but I think we gave control away in the second half.
'We were rushing things, panicking and not getting the quality – we came off the game plan a little bit, which the players identified themselves.
'The positive, though, is that at the beginning of the season we would probably have lost that game.
'But the way we are now as a group, we work for 90 minutes and are mentally resilient.'
POMPEY ACADEMY: Hunt, Rwakarambwe, Nilsen, Field, Haunstrup, Davies, Granger, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Widdrington (Bradbury, 90), Haitham, Sayers, (Joseph-Buadi, 70)


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Pretty girl, Kelly Rowland hit up late night talk-show "Chelsea Lately" last night!
The uber fabulous singer, who is up for a Grammy this weekend, chopped it up with Chelsea Handler about getting Lil Wayne on the hit song "Motivation,†turning 30, her 80/20 diet plan & sexy Abs workout video, and of course, finding love.
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was all Kelly revealed. Mmmmmhhhh, gone Kels! Get yours mama!
The singer also attempted to show off her
Australian British accent.
On her "nice" boobies
Hopefully, I can get two drinks with these.
On the Lil Wayne collaboration on her Grammy nominated song "Motivation"
I went to the studio, I told him about the…actually, no I'm lying. We were at a Heat game. I went to a Heat game. I saw him at a Heat game. Miami Heat game. And I told him I had a song. I went to the studio, played him the song and he got on it. And sometimes, I don't know if you guys know, but artists will really, be a little bit difficult when it comes to getting on songs. Like you go through that Hollywood stuff. I don't like that and he just did it.
On her 3rd album "Here I Am" being about in your 30's and feeling sexy
Absolutely. When I turned 30. It was so empowering for me to turn 30. Like everything stupid that I did in my 20's, like I was just like, ok, you cannot call him back. Don't do anything stupid. I just decided just "shut up Kelly".
On if she's still single
I got a good man.
Are you happy?
Absolutely. Girl, am I happy?
You look happy and horny when you talk about him.
Those feeling come about too when thinking about him.
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And the much talked-about Abs?
On her 'Sexy Abs' DVD
I had so much fun. My trainer, Jeanette Jenkins taught me so much. Of course, Abs but she talk me this 80/20 rule because first of all I love sweets, I love cookies, I love cakes,  I love pies, I love sugar, I love candy and anything that has sugar in it. So I had to cut all of that off. So I cut it off which I swear I was like a crazy person and mean as hell. But I did it and I got those result. It really works. 80% of the time you're doing everything healthy. You eat, the greens and stuff that isn't fun to eat but it's good for you and it's what you're body needs. Then the stuff that I like –sugar, cakes, cookies, pies, and maybe a little cocktail in there, maybe five, that's all the fun stuff.
Here is a peak of her Abs video with Hollywood Trainer Jeanette Jenkins:
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2017 Age Waivers - how old have you seen in training?
Posted 14 December 2017 - 13:57
Has anyone over 40 been granted a waiver? I am a fast jet guy in the Air Force looking to make the jump to the Army Guard for the last 15 or so years of my career. I understand the age limit at Rucker is 32 without a waiver regardless of current military status or previous military flight time.
Thank you for the replies.
Posted 14 December 2017 - 17:21
There was a WO in my 47 class who was 34. He was National Guard and I think he said he got picked up just before he turned 33. Probably doesn't help answer your question much, but that's about the oldest I've seen. I'm sure he's not the oldest one who's been through though. The Army wants pilots.
Posted 14 December 2017 - 19:14
Posted 15 December 2017 - 05:57
Im curious how they would put you through training if youre already a military rated aviator, but fixed wing. I know a guy who transferred from the USMC, but he was a CH-53 pilot, so just went to the -60 qual, and he was good.
Good luck.
Posted 15 December 2017 - 08:17
Posted 17 December 2017 - 20:56
The Guard is definitely nice in that you will have people who genuinely want you to get a waiver and will be gunning for you during the process. I had to get two waivers prior to flight school and I don't think I would have been able to get them in time if I didn't have my unit's flight surgeon actively tracking their progress and trying to get them pushed through. Both of mine were medical though, so I can't speak for age waivers.
On the flip side of that, most units are going to want you to commit to them before they're going to invest their time into getting you a waiver. If you are ANG or Air Force Reserve I'm sure you're familiar with that. A lot of it will be unit specific.
Sorry I can't be of more help. Good luck!
Posted 18 December 2017 - 13:21
You're already a rated military aviator, you aren't subjected to the same age restrictions as an initial applicant. You just have to find a guard unit willing to take you on, you just have to have less than 18 years AFS.
My guess is after you agree to revert to Warrant (WO1) they'll probably just use one of their regular flight school allocations, you just won't have to endure WOC school. You're easiest route would be to find a Guard fixed wing unit, they'd just send to whatever platform AQC they fly and you'll be fully integrated.
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Posted 19 December 2017 - 15:59
Mike, do you have a regulation you can point to that has that info? I was under the impression I would not need an age waiver for that reason but I havent been able to back it up yet with truth data.
Try AR 614-120 which covers active duty inter-service transfers. I don't have any visibility on how the Guard does business. I've seen some specific guidance on aviator transfers but it's been awhile.
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Recently, I was having a conversation with someone struggling in a relationship, and I recommended they take a look at "The Five Love Languages" by Gary Chapman. I remembered reading the book myself gave me clarity around my own relationships (both personal and professional). "The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace" (co-written by Paul White) was another worthy read. I wrote about this several years ago, but thought it was a good time to re-share the topic. The books were both easy reads, and were practical, with quick, applicable stories. If your time is limited or you'd prefer a more condensed version, these posts will get right to the heart of the books. I will share one "language" each month. After giving you a brief overview, I'll get into the details of those who prefer the language called "Words of Affirmation."
These are the Five Languages:
Words of Affirmation
Quality Time
Acts of Service
Each of us has a primary and secondary preference and these may differ between your personal and business lives. (For the free personal assessment, go to www.5lovelanguages.com/profile . For the professional version, there is a $15 charge, but can be found at www.mbainventory.com . Here is a brief description of each language:
Words of Affirmation: Those that count this as their primary language require words to feel loved and appreciated. These can be spoken or written. We'll learn more about this in a bit.
Quality Time: For these types, one-on-one time together is important. Acitve listening is key here! We'll dive into details of this one next month.
Acts of Service: These acts typically involve anything that could be counted as "thoughtful". While the specific act will vary, the gesture is what counts the most to these peeps.
Gifts: As if this isn't obvious. This person prefers physical, tangible evidence of being loved and appreciated. While expensive and materialistic items may qualify, these gift lovers often enjoy handmade gifts, flowers or other thoughtful expressions of love and appreciation.
Touch: You know that "touchy-feely" person that always seems to hug, touch and show PDA virtually anywhere? Yeah, this is probably their preferred form of loving communication. While less likely (and some would caution, less appropriate) at work, these people can be identified as the high-fiving, fist bumping ones.
Figuring out another's language can be tough, but once you do, there are an endless number of options to satisfy their need. Each post will highlight a particular "language" and some suggestions on ways to meet that need for yourself and others. This information is very beneficial in every relationship you have and it would behoove you to understand your own language and those you spend a lot of time with. This week, let's focus on Words of Affirmation.
For those who need Words of Affirmation, it's obvious they need words, but it is equally important that they get sincerity! They don't want empty or generic compliments. "Nice job today" will feed the need for about 5 seconds. They want to know specifically what they did to please you. If she cooked a rockin' dinner, tell her what was so awesome about it and why it was appreciated by you. If he spent the entire day tiling the bathroom floor, take the time to point out how awesome it looks. If Suzie dealt with the "customer from hell" so the rest of you wouldn't have to, tell her what this meant to you. Also, those who feel loved and appreciated by this language want to be recognized for the personal characteristic that got it done or made it so worthy of mention. Tell her how much her dedication to providing quality food to the family is admired. Tell him how his sense of responsibility, like keeping the home in good condition, is one of his sexiest traits. Let Suzie know that her patience in dealing with higher-maintenance people makes the rest of you envious and you'd like to know how on earth she does it without flipping shiz.
Keys to remember: Be specific, be detailed, and be sincere. This is not a "fake it til you make it" opportunity. If you can't be sincere, then be silent.
Now what: If you can identify with this language, and believe it to be your primary or secondary language in either setting (personal or business), there are a few things you can do with that knowledge. Let others know this is how you prefer to be loved and recognized. Also, understand that those times when you feel neglected or slighted by someone may not be because they don't love or appreciate you, but because they are speaking a different language. If you suspect a loved one or co-worker prefers this language, get creative in ways to recognize them. This can be spoken face-to-face or publicly acknowledged, or written in a thoughtful letter, card or email. This is one of the quickest and easiest needs to meet once you're aware. So pay attention and share with words why you think someone is a ROCKSTAR!! Next month, we'll spend time on the "language" of Quality Time.
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Dalits tell woes to commission, demands justice for atrocities
In a state where the government is making tall claims of the providing good administration to the people a minor girl is struggling to get a case registered against a man who allegedly made obscene remarks on her despite trying to establish relation with her. Following her refusal the man threatened her and her family.punjab Updated: Sep 11, 2012 20:44 IST
In a state where the government is making tall claims of the providing good administration to the people a minor girl is struggling to get a case registered against a man who allegedly made obscene remarks on her despite trying to establish relation with her. Following her refusal the man threatened her and her family.
The victim was one of 28 others belonging to schedule castes, who allegedly reported atrocities by the upper caste , to Rajesh Bagha, chairman of the state commission for scheduled castes, during a public hearing at Ambedkar bhavan on Tuesday.
The programme was organised by Dalit Dastan Virodi Andolan (DDVA), an NGO, working for the dalits. Narrating their stories, the victims told the commission that the police did not take any necessary action against the culprits, and demanded justice from the commission.
The minor while complaining to the commission said that the incident took place on September 5 when her mother, Balwinder Kaur, who had been working as a domestic help in the house of the accused fell ill, and sent the victim to work in her place.
She along with her 10 years old younger brother went to the house. The accused finding her alone passed obscene comments on her and also tried to establish a relation. But she managed to flee for the house and narrated the incident to her mother who also stopped going to his house.
She said that now the accused has been threatening her and the family of not telling the incident to anyone and also forcing them to join work again. The case was also not registered, she said.
Another gang rape victim from Ferozepur district while narrating her story said that after six people of her village Basti Dulla Singh raped her, the police booked six upper caste persons identified as Bhakhshish Singh and his five other accomplices but only none of them was arrested.
Sukhwinder Kaur(36) of Taran Tarn complained against a brick kiln owner Harpal Singh of Machhike village of Taran Taran who misbehaved with her in Khem Kharan police station in front of ASI Narinder Singh when she went there in support of bonded labourer who were rescued from the brick kiln of the accused.
She said that this incident occurred in February, 2011 and since then she had made various representations to the deputy commissioner, SSP Taran Tarn but no case was registered.
Pawan Kaler a victim of Nangal Fida village in Jalandhar said that he along some other people were attacked by upper caste men in the village on June 20 after their one of them defeate an upper caste man in a village wrestling match. He said that they stioll feel threatened in the village.
In a similar case Hakam Singh(25) complained that some upper caste men attacked him after he stopped playing kabbadi in their club as he was not given due share in cash prize money.
Gurmel Singh of Nayan Kalan village of Patiala district and Sidhoria Khan of Kaithal, Haryana told the commission how they were forced to work as bonded labourers.
Jai Singh the patron of DDVA said that such public hearing have been arranged only to ensure that that the commsion takes prompt action against the accused.
Rajesh Bagha said that the commission would ensure justice for the victims and would also take preventive measures to curb such incidents in future.
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Using the wrong racking for the application, too much of it, not enough or improper use of racking can result in product loss, structure damage, physical injury and even death. Below are the top reasons racking fails to support and collapses.
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- Using the wrong equipment in combination with the racking you have installed.
- Operator error
- Structural problems with floor or other imperfections in your facility structure
Working with professionals that can help you specify the right racking and get it installed properly can go a long way with ensuring safety and longevity with the storage of your materials. Visit our Racking Solutions Webpage and call us if you can any questions or would like us to help you specify racking for your facility.