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关 键 词:三农 问题 工作研究
1.农民的物质生活改善相对缓慢。虽然国家已经和正在采取措施缩小城乡收入差距,但城镇居民和农民之间的收入比仍由1985年的1.53︰1扩大到2011年的3.13︰1(《中国收入差距正迎来缩小的拐点》赖德胜 陈建伟 人民日报 2012年4月10日)。城镇居民和农民间收入和生活质量差距逐年拉大,日新月异的城市、拔地而起的高架环路、城镇居民日渐增长的公共服务与日渐冷落、基础设施落后、较少得到公共服务的农村形成强烈反差。虽然农民收入和生活质量这些年已有很大提高,但是农民由于没有同步享受到国家经济快速发展带来的成果,被遗忘、不平衡的心理普遍存在。
2.新的"剪刀差"客观存在。这主要表现在农产品价格提升幅度远远低于化肥、农药等工业品涨价幅度和对农民工、劳动派遣用工实行不平等工资福利待遇两个方面。我国有13亿人口,目前的城镇化率接近50%,但"目前中国城镇化如果按照户籍城镇化口径来计算,那麽会下降1/3"(引自中央农村领导小组办公室主任陈锡文在中国城镇化高层国际论坛上的主题发言 东方网 2012年3月25日),这就是说我国目前仍大约有9亿农民。9亿农民为4亿城镇居民提供低价农产品和廉价劳动力,促成了城镇快速发展和居民收入的提高,这就是新的"剪刀差"。由于全国统一的农产品市场尚未形成,目前的农产品最低保护价虽然保护了农民利益,但尚不能反映真实生产成本,加上作为粮食市场主体的国有粮食收购企业很难做到敞开收购,不仅使得国家对流通环节的补贴远高于对农民的补贴,还富了一批倒买倒卖的中间商。
党的十八大报告中关于" 必须更加自觉地把以人为本作为深入贯彻落实科学发展观的核心立场,始终把实现好、维护好、发展好最广大人民根本利益作为党和国家一切工作的出发点和落脚点,尊重人民首创精神,保障人民各项权益,不断在实现发展成果由人民共享、促进人的全面发展上取得新成效"方面的论述,是我们解决一切农民问题的理论依据和行动指南。依据我个人的思考和理解,提出以下建议:
一是要确立农民是党和国家执政基础的地位。我们的政府是人民的政府,毛泽东同志在中共七大口头报告中指出:"所谓人民大众,主要的就是农民","忘记了农民,就没有中国的民主革命;没有中国的民主革命,就没有中国的社会主义革命,也就没有一切革命"(《毛泽东农民问题理论对新农村建设的现实意义》张加磊 山东省农业管理干部学院学报 2006年第06期)。我国农民人口数量目前仍远超过城镇居民,且城镇居民大部分为解放后迁入的农民,农民理应成为国家主人,国家意志应体现农民的诉求。我个人不贊成把农民称作"弱势群体",农民作为国家的主人,其基本权利当然包括与城镇居民一样共享改革发展成果的权利,而不是救济和施舍的对象。确立起农民是党和国家执政基础的地位,是我们解决农民问题的立足点、出发点,理念达不到这个程度,就很有可能再次做出损害农民利益的决策或行动。
一是要确立现代化农业的发展导向。农业的出路和可持续发展在于实现农业规模经营、机械化和科学种管,也就是要实现农业现代化。而我国目前的家庭承包经营可称得上是世界最小的规模农业,小且分散的经营方式不支持社会化的大生产,限制了大型农业机械的使用、农业科学技术的推广、名优品牌产品生产及其价格优势的形成,更无法应对国际跨国公司的激烈竞争。实现我国农业现代化,我认为需要同时解决好三个相互关联的难题,即提高农产品价格、放开户籍限制和实现土地合理流转。因为,只有提高农产品价格,才能提高农民种粮积极性,实现农村资源的重新整合,防止农民盲目进城;只有放开户籍限制允许农民进城落户,才能解除农民生活、养老等后顾之忧,减轻农村土地人口承载量,为农业规模经营奠定基础;只有实现了土地合理流转,才能扩大生产规模,实行机械化作业,进而实现农业现代化。这其中,土地流转包含着政治因素可谓是难题中的难题,毕竟中国歷史上几次较大规模农民起义都与土地兼并有关,即所谓农民"手中有粮心中不慌"。应当看到,我国现在已整体进入工业可以反哺农业、城市可以大量吸纳农民的"工业化中期的后半阶段"(《中国进入工业化中后期阶段》中国社会科学院科研局副局长黄群慧 新华社 2012年2月28日),工业经济发展已经为实现农业现代化提供了前所未有的机遇,在这样的有利条件下如果仍一味地担心犹豫,反而会延误我国现代化的进程。家庭土地承包已延续30多年,我个人认为已到了应完善的时候,在放开户籍管理和健全社会保障制度基础上,迁徙、销户农民的承包土地和宅基地应当收回,年青一代在村务农的农民应当分到土地。新一轮土地承包应当将农村人口减少而闲出的耕地和宅基地由村集体集中起来,优先有偿承包给产业龙头企业或种田能手。要尽快建立土地流转市场,让市场发掘土地的真实价值。要提供优惠政策,引导农户组织起来以专业合作社的方式互帮互助,实现产、供、销的有机衔接,加快实现农业机械化和现代化的步伐。
五是要成立专门为三农服务的金融机构。既要解决农业欠账问题,又要加快推进农业现代化,大量的资金需求仅靠财政投入显然远远不够,绝大部分资金还需要金融部门来提供。西方发达国家农业人口少、农业在国民经济所占比例不大,却大都设有不以盈利为目的专门为农民提供贷款的金融机构,而我国严格讲目前还没有一家这样的金融机构。目前的金融改革过多强调金融机构利润最大化,出现了金融业单一市场化取向和组织结构趋于雷同、经营模式趋于雷同、业绩考核趋于雷同的状况,各金融机构从农村资金市场"抽水"再流向收益有保证的大企业大项目,直接面对农业和农民的贷款普遍都在逐年下降。这个问题如果得不到解决,势必会制约我国农业现代化的步伐。为解决农村金融服务缺失问题,陈薇同志和我曾经写文章,唿吁把目前的农村信用社改造成为不以盈利为目的专门为农民、城市低收入者和小微企业提供金融服务的金融机构(详见《加快推进面向低收入群体的金融服务》人民日报内部参阅第35期『总第1076期』 2011年9月9日),希望能引起关註。
农村基层组织主要指乡镇和村两级党、政组织,是国家行使权力的末梢,是联系党和政府与农民间的桥梁。从整体看,目前农村基层组织是尽职的,好的和比较好的占多数; 基层干部工资收入低、工作条件差、分担事物杂、十分辛苦,总体上应当肯定。但不能否认"一些基层党组织软弱涣散,少数党员干部理想信念动摇,宗旨意识淡薄,形式主义、官僚主义问题突出,奢侈浪费现象严重"(引自十八大报告)的问题,在农村基层组织中的表现还是相对突出的。
Abstract: At present, China's rural areas are mainly new problems: new scissors, urban-rural split is not enough to protect the interests of farmers and caused some anxiety and discontent of farmers, lack of agricultural inputs, poor infrastructure and small and decentralized mode of operation restricted the healthy development of agriculture, the township government functions distortions and part of the village organizations are weak and lax affected the party cadre, etc. This article from consolidating the party's base, to achieve sustainable agricultural development, strengthen the Party's leadership over rural work three aspects clarify the path to solve these problems, by improving the agricultural price formation mechanism, open urban household registration, improve the household land contract and a series of specific recommendations.
Keywords:: rural issues Work Research
Fortunate enough to participate in this year of the Hebei Provincial organizations helping to strengthen grassroots construction activities in towns and villages, which I learn from Dazhai village following the 1977 and 1986 after a poor village, another resident in the village close contact with farmers in Helping work, I am with the other two, Hebei Province Rural Credit Cooperative Union comrades insist with the villagers eat, live, with labor, with the study thanks to provincial attention and support of the provincial association, out of farmers' sincere emotion, we do the repair for the village cement road, power grids, built more than a dozen things for the villagers Square, recognized and praised by the villagers, where the Working Group was rated as outstanding village working group. should be said that in recent years, this is my the most ground gas, the most fulfilling and most rewarding, the most memorable of the year, however, honor and praise, but increased during the residency has been haunting my lingering fear and anxiety, which is that although the reform and opening especially since 2003, the CPC Central Committee put forward the "peasant agriculture and rural areas to solve the problem of the party's work is a top priority," since the party and the country attached great importance to rural work, to support efforts to increase year after year, capital investment increased year by year, agriculture has been the cause of showing a good momentum of development, but compared with the eighties of last century, the rural areas there has been relatively slow to improve the material life of farmers, agricultural production conditions deteriorate, some grass-roots political power are weak and lax, and other new issues. reasons for the formation of these issues and solve problems path, way, I did nearly a year of research, after much thought, now combined with the party's 18 report learning experience, to what I see, think and are summarized as follows:
First, farmers' anxiety and consolidate the party's base issue
I am pleased to see that the farmers really support the Chinese Communist Party, they are my basis for the ruling party and a solid foundation. Peasant emancipation thank the party to help them live a good life, thanks to the reform and opening up and bring them well-being of agricultural tax exemption, especially some of the older villagers, never allowing others to speak ill of the Communist Party, even though in real life there are some phenomena that they could not understand or even cause dissatisfaction, but they think, "the Communist Party 'by' is good, just let the bottom The 'Monk' to read distorted. "This is the result of 30 years of reform and opening up and the transition to a market economy in China farmers mainstream consciousness.
But I Did See Some Farmers Currently Growing In Anxiety And Dissatisfaction, Saw The Party's Base Facing Danger Of Erosion:
A farmers improve the material life of the relatively slow, although countries have and are taking steps to narrow the urban-rural income gap, but between urban residents and farmers income ratio still in 1985 expanded to 1.53 ︰ 1 ︰ 1 2011 3.13 (< <China is ushering in narrowing the income gap inflection >> Chen Jianwei Lai Desheng Daily April 10, 2012) of urban residents and farmers income and quality of life gradually widening the gap, the ever-changing city, where they stand elevated loop urban residents and growing increasingly neglected public services, infrastructure, public services in rural areas receive less stark contrast, although farmers' income and quality of life has greatly improved over the years, but farmers enjoy the country's economy because there is no synchronization the rapid development of the fruit, forgotten, psychological imbalance prevalent.
2 new "scissors" objective reality, which is mainly manifested in the prices of agricultural products to enhance the rate is much lower than chemical fertilizers, pesticides and other industrial products, and price increases for migrant workers, labor and employment practice unequal wages and benefits dispatched two aspects of There are 1.3 billion people, the current urbanization rate of nearly 50%, but "if in accordance with China's current urbanization urbanization caliber to calculate the household, it will drop 1/3" (quoted from the Central Leading Group Office of Chen Xiwen, director of rural urbanization in China high-level international forum on the theme of speeches LONDON March 25, 2012, which means that China is still about 900 million farmers .9 million peasants to 400 million urban residents to provide cheap agricultural products and cheap labor, contributed to the rapid development of urban and residents' income increase, which is the new "scissors." because the country has not yet formed a unified agricultural market, the current minimum price of agricultural products, although protecting the interests of farmers, but can not reflect the true cost of production, coupled with the state as the main grain market grain enterprises difficult to achieve open purchase, not only makes the state subsidy circulation is much higher than subsidies to farmers, but also a number of rich Daomaidaomai middlemen.
3 the process of reform and market interests of farmers concerned about inadequate protection due to poor access to information, is difficult to directly reflect the aspirations of farmers to decision-making in rural areas should not merge the already weak institutions merge a lot of farmers enjoy the social public goods and services in some areas less than the eighties of last century, the emergence of rural schooling, medical care, loans, buy genuine difficulty in our conversations with farmers, many farmers showed supply and marketing cooperatives to their village in the past, credit agency stations, cooperative medical point, the village primary school and was often agricultural village remembrance service technician, I personally think that these institutions should merge speaking has its rational factors, but it was after all should listen to the views of farmers and do not be too hasty to engage across the board all these years despite increased state subsidies to farmers, but the farmers did not all get the benefits, such as subsidies for farm machinery and appliances, many farmers in the purchase of quality encountered problems falling or rising prices.
4 Some farmers lack confidence in building a new countryside. Household land contract bonus gradually disappeared, some villages with irrigation facilities damaged disrepair, peasant economy dependent on the weather, poor information, weak anti-risk ability drawbacks began to emerge, plus do not make money on the farm, the farmers are not enthusiastic about farming, especially the younger generation in rural areas, "farming without land, no post office, no city households, guaranteeing that no copies of" village Daibu Zhu, wage discrimination, the majority have been perennial not at home, in the work of migrant workers or homeless status.
5 Some farmers moral landslide occurred with residency experience over the last century, I have a bad feeling that some farmers are now more concerned about their own interests showed little concerned about the collective or caring for others, collectivism Hubang Mutual concept is very weak. village just this year, we have to see past the villagers welcome to village cadres above the warm, they generally think that we can not live in the village, it is impossible to do any real work for the village, they said: "Ten years , and have not seen the provincial cadres overnight in the village and township cadres to which is to be left for a while. "spiritual and cultural life of farmers eighties of last century more than the poor, in addition to listening to the radio from the past becomes watching TV In addition, no other basic cultural life. "From the land contract, the village all the villagers will be opened no, there is no organized learning" the villagers said. advanced ideology and culture in the rural areas are not widespread, feudal superstition, gambling phenomenon took the opportunity to rise. Even more serious is the problem of outstanding individual villagers petty theft, corn and vegetables not yet fully mature, the village farmers rushing to recover the house, or is likely to be lost, and we have also dedicated to the village installed 11 cameras and electronic monitoring systems, which are also considered during the residency run by practical one.
The party's 18 report on "must be more conscious of the people-oriented as thoroughly implement the scientific concept of development the core position, and always realize, safeguard and develop the overwhelming majority of the people's fundamental interests as the party and the state all the starting point and foothold, respect their creativity, protect their rights and interests, and constantly in achieving development results shared by the people, and promote the comprehensive development of new achievements "aspects of discourse, is that we solve all the problems of farmers theoretical basis and guide to action. based on my personal thinking and understanding, made the following recommendations:
First, we must establish the farmer is the ruling party and the state based on the status of our government is the people's government, Comrade Mao Zedong in the Chinese Communist seven oral report states: "The so-called masses, the main is that farmers", "forget the farmers, on the Without China's democratic revolution, without China's democratic revolution, it is not China's socialist revolution, there is no all revolutionary "(<< Mao Zedong's theory of peasant question the reality of the new rural construction Significance ZHANG Lei Shandong Agricultural Administrators' College 2006 No. 06. Farmers population is still far more than urban residents, and the majority of urban residents moved liberation of the farmers, farmers should become masters of the country, the state should reflect the will of the demands of farmers and I personally do not agree to farmers called "vulnerable groups", the farmers as masters of the country, including of course their fundamental rights as urban residents the right to share the achievements of reform and development, rather than relief and objects of charity. established farmers from the ruling party and the state based on position, is We solve the problem of farmers' standpoint, the starting point, the concept reached this level, it is likely to harm the interests of farmers once again make decisions or actions.
The second is to establish a fair and reasonable system of agricultural price formation. Rationalize prices of agricultural products is the basis for solving the problem of farmers. Should capitalize on the current Internet has a highly developed conditions, so as to establish a unified national agricultural markets by removing market barriers to timely use of market detection and correction agricultural prices and in turn guide the agricultural production. States should establish agricultural price support policies, through the establishment of industrial and agricultural products between reasonable "parity" proportional to protect the interests of farmers. agricultural minimum price should be barren land cost of agricultural production basis, or can not solve the problem of land abandonment, minimum price should also include the inflation and gradually narrow the income gap between urban and rural elements, or in the case of base disparity, the same or a slightly higher growth in rural areas the proportion of urban residents will remain with farmers widening the gap between the life from the perspective of economics, the price elasticity of demand for agricultural products is less than a majority of agricultural products in favor of unilateral price increases total social supply of aggregate demand does not produce inhibition. Additionally, the state also should make good use of WTO on agricultural "green box", "basket case" requirements, continue to increase subsidies to farmers to support from several aspects to enhance the enthusiasm of farmers.
Third, accelerate the opening up urban residence. Farmers into the industrialization process of any country prerequisites have not heard of any country because farmers into the city and economic development of this country harm, because China is the homeland of the complex difficulties of farmers away, so long as prices of agricultural products and industrial products can do with the income level of residents simultaneously improve, farmers will be able to effectively suppress the urge to blindly into the city, they can choose whether to allow farmers into the city, but do not need indicators, tax age and other restrictions. difficulties and building a moderately prosperous society focused on solving the problem of farmers, the biggest domestic demand are 900 million farmers, as soon as possible to break the urban-rural division of the dual structure, accelerate until the full liberalization of the household registration restrictions, and gradually make progress City farmers and urban residents enjoy the same basic housing, children education, pension health care, social assistance and protection of rights such as wages and benefits, will effectively stimulate domestic demand, and to provide sufficient labor resources of China's industrialization, and compensate for an aging society reduction of the "demographic dividend", is likely to give our economy a long and rapid development of strategic opportunities.
The fourth is to strengthen the construction of rural socialist core values. More politically impartial and incorruptible cadres dedicated socialist core value system is an important component of the core values of society as a whole has an important impact on the formation of all levels of party and government organs and agriculture-related departments should conscientiously implement the "to ensure that the people are the masters as fundamental to enhancing vitality of the Party and the state, to mobilize the enthusiasm of the people as the goal, expand socialist democracy, accelerate the construction of a socialist country ruled by law and develop socialist political civilization" (quoted from eighteen Great reporting requirements, so that all decisions involving the vital interests of farmers should fully listen to the views of farmers, those who damage the interests of the masses must resolutely prevent and correct practices, resourceful and benefit farmers, farmers fear for multiple solutions, to solve most farmers concerned about the most direct and practical interests, take the initiative to resolve conflicts, close party. should strengthen ideological and cultural construction in rural areas, with the core values of socialism led rural social thought. "People always want a little spirit" (Mao-eighth Second Plenary Session of speech, do not just stare at the money and want everything from their own interests, or harmony and stability in rural areas, agricultural industrialization and modernization are out of the question. establishment of core values in the rural areas, improving the quality of farmers and rich moral spiritual and cultural life of farmers, especially the township party organizations at all levels, the village Party branch should play a greater role.
Second, weak agricultural foundation and Sustainable Development
In recent years agricultural commodities provided to the community is indeed increasing year by year, mainly due to two: one ZiZhong and breeding methods to bring change. ZiZhong scientists like to thank Longping, corn, rice, wheat and other bulk agricultural crops of seed revolution, production has doubled over the last century, the eighties, the effect of planting patterns change very obvious in the past raised a pig to slaughter takes eight or nine months, and now time is shortened by nearly half. two farmers' own consumption is reduced due to improved living standards of the farmers themselves eat much less than in the past, based on the lack of manpower and health and safety and other reasons courtyard raise livestock and swine and sheep chickens and rabbits have very little to eat grain plus migrant workers dishes reasons, some farmers own consumption substantially reduced.
Agriculture does not mean the provision of goods increased agricultural production has increased dramatically, China's food security and the effective supply of major agricultural products are still very concerned about the party and the government needs a major problem I see is that the current agricultural foundation is weak and unsustainable development issues In some rural areas have behaved more prominent:
1 Tillage extensive and I have in the village of 163, 655 people working outside year round workforce of nearly 200 people. Because farmers do not want their own children also when farmers, the vast majority of young people do not want the village will not be kind , and thus the basic farming at home is elderly and women left behind. part of the land abandoned, and some engage in primary tillage plowing land, plot, sending manure been rare, extensive use of fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and so shallow tillage technology, soil toxins desertification, land compaction of the problem has been very prominent, if not difficult to imagine that a new round of revolution seed production will increase substantially the same quality and safety of agricultural products is also very worrying.
2 seriously lagging behind the construction of farmland water conservancy facilities and some villages in the eighties of last century before the construction of water conservancy facilities have been used for many years due to or close to retirement, when the irrigation channels, has been largely flat to make farmland shelterbelts, water retention capacity of the land lacks water, groundwater Bit declined year by year. stakes have been eating and exhausted, the new has not yet built, irrigation infrastructure debts too, has affected the sustainability of agriculture.
3 land use efficiency is not high because the land contracted by farmers bear the rural poor while living security role, the state provides long-term stability household land contract remain unchanged, but 30 years after the last new contradictions emerged: Death and relocate There are accounts of people, the new generation of farmers not born, it has been neither peasant migrant workers are unwilling to farming the land subcontract, who want to kind of be farming land but no ground or lack of land utilization is not is also reflected in the high idle abandoned homestead in rural hollowing issue, where I currently abandoned and idle village homestead has more than 1/3, but also accelerating tendency to expand from the Internet check, the National Rural homestead is equivalent to 2.52 million mu of 168,000 square kilometers, which does not include the village roads area. chronic lack of village construction planning and management of land has been accounted for housing accounted for, the new building is constantly occupied land, the peasants had Multi homestead occupied in the past been engaged in governance, but with little success. this problem is not resolved, to ensure that no less than 18 million mu of arable land red line sooner or later will be exceeded.
4 missing agricultural financial services. Agricultural loans exist points wide, the amount of small, high frequency, high operating costs, a large affected by natural disasters, lack of collateral and other unfavorable factors to consider for profit maximization, since the reform of state-owned commercial banks have since been established in rural areas merge outlets, rural credit cooperatives also undo the village an agency agency, the abolition of the legal status of village-level institutions currently finance "off the farm" and "pump" the trend is very clear, so that agricultural production harder than the eighties of last century to get financial support.
Based on the above is put into labor, capital, land and other agricultural production conditions, factors of production problems, could not cause us concern about the outlook for agricultural development.
Agriculture is the foundation of national economy, is the relationship between people's subsistence, economic prosperity, national security, the foundation of industry, agriculture sustainable development issue has always been highly concerned about the party and the government issues this end, based on my own thinking to mention the following recommendations:
First, we must establish the development of modern agriculture-oriented. Way and sustainable development of agriculture is to achieve scale agricultural operations, mechanization and scientific kind of pipe, that is, to achieve agricultural modernization, while China's current household contract management can be regarded as the world's smallest scale agriculture, small and decentralized mode of operation does not support the socialization of large-scale production, limiting the use of large agricultural machinery, agricultural science and technology promotion, famous brand products and the formation of price advantage, but can not cope with multinational companies competition. realization of China's agricultural modernization, I think the need to solve three interrelated problems that raise agricultural prices, open residence restrictions and achieve reasonable transfer of land, because only raise prices of agricultural products in order to improve farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain, re-integration of the rural resources, prevent farmers blindly into the city, only release the residency restrictions allowing farmers settled into the city in order to lift peasant life, pension and other worries, alleviating rural population carrying capacity of land, lay the foundation for the large-scale agricultural operations, and only realized reasonable transfer of land to expand the production scale, the implementation of mechanized operations, thus achieving agricultural modernization. Among these, the land transfer contain political factors can be described as the problem of problems, after all, the history of Chinese peasant uprisings are several large-scale mergers and related land , the so-called farmers' hands of food hearts do not panic. "It should be noted that China has now entered a whole industry can be nurturing agriculture and cities can absorb a large number of farmers," the latter half of the mid-industrialization phase "(<< China into the later stages of industrialization >> CASS research Qunhui Deputy Secretary Huang Xinhua News Agency February 28, 2012, the industrial economic development for the realization of agricultural modernization has provided unprecedented opportunities, in such favorable conditions blindly worry if you still hesitate, it will delay our modernization. household land contract has lasted 30 years, I personally think that has to be perfect when you release the household management and a sound social security system based on movement, pins farmers contracting land and homestead should be recovered, the young generation of farmers in the village farming land should be assigned to the new round of land contracting and idle rural depopulation should be out by the village collective land and homestead together, first paid or contracted to industry leading enterprises farming experts. establish the land as soon as possible transfer market, so that the true market value of the land to explore. want to provide preferential policies to guide farmers to organize themselves in a professional manner cooperatives help each other to achieve production, supply and marketing of organic convergence, accelerate the pace of agricultural mechanization and modernization.
The second is to strengthen the scientific planning of agricultural development from the big side, what areas for the development of what industry, what varieties suitable for cultivation, suitable to build what brand? Need to use science to guide the planning of farmers, from small side, irrigation, forestry network, roads, villages how to build? village itself can not be a solution, but also should have an overall planning of agricultural development planning must seek truth from facts, according to local conditions, do not mess a pattern across the board, or is likely to occur both costly and achieving the desired effects of the problem, such as a sharp decline in the population of the village will soon disappear, should help farmers solve major face life, production difficulties, and do not help build hardened cement road, otherwise will increase future recovery the cost of land.
The third is to increase investment in agricultural infrastructure due to weak nature of agriculture itself exists, governments are given the necessary support to agriculture Our country has also increased investment in agriculture, but because of too many outstanding loans still significant input into deficiencies present agricultural inputs institutions, mechanisms are also problems, the farmers of the allocation of funds, the process of using an informed few layers of extracting management fees, service fees, and frequent rejection of embezzlement, making part of the country's agricultural inputs used in the village a real level is greatly reduced, problem solving drop in the bucket, so in addition to the need to increase investment in agriculture, the current need to solve as soon as possible disbursement of funds for supporting agriculture channels and problems in management mechanism, so that all of the village's agricultural inputs directly with Villagers meet, can project funds directly allocated to the village, to make "two committees" involved in choosing their own construction team or the organization of construction, can accept all the villagers and the joint supervision of the higher authorities. To illustrate this matter is necessary, give an I I encountered examples: in accordance with provincial requirements, residency working group to build a 60 square meters this year qualified health room, the national and provincial financial subsidies 42,000 yuan, according to local farmers building standard basic enough, it is indeed is a good thing, but in the implementation, the authorities claim to the unit by a qualified exploration, design, budget, organization bidding, health department approved organization qualified construction unit construction, completion of final accounts to audit by the authoritative department, before the Financial Fang I funding. As costs County Health Department gives a preliminary budget for 10 million, requested the Working Group or the villagers out of 50,000 yuan. repeated several times eventually find their own construction team built the village health room, but also a barrier walls, Brick paved road, built flower beds, a total expenses 51,000 yuan. Currently clinic has successfully passed the city, county and acceptance, financial assistance funds are still not in place. people do not understand is why the program cover a few bungalows to do so complex, if it is not so can not guarantee the quality, then the house is now possible to live in rural areas people do?
The fourth is to accelerate the development of agricultural information and agricultural science and technology is currently the source of farmers' access to information is very full, making the adjustment of agricultural structure tends to herd into a price rise, price drops quitting en masse reincarnation Open Internet, marketing enrichment projects, selling information products auxin like a lot, but mostly from their own interests, which also lack fake decoy ingredients. now necessary to set up a standing point of view of the national associations of farmers engaged in agricultural information collection, collation, communication, publishing, feedback, and timely to provide farmers with agricultural information and impartial authority to reduce the farmers in the decision-making mistakes. of limited arable land, grain crops and a variety of vegetables will be few, vegetable prices will be more , food prices will be less, so from the fundamental point of view purely agricultural planting structure adjustment does not increase income for farmers, agricultural production and income primarily have to rely on agricultural science and technology development and the promotion of modern farming techniques with the eighties of last century compared to the county agricultural science and technology institutions in part by the full expenditure becomes poor fill or self-supporting, the township has diverted a lot of agricultural technicians He industry, primary agricultural science and technology popularization efforts declined. want the country to be highly concerned about and solve this problem, accelerate the improvement of agricultural products and agricultural technology to adapt production, learning and research, experiment, promotion, popularization of agricultural science and technology system, organic whole, in order to improve our agricultural production, embedded value and competitiveness in international markets .
Fifth, we should set up a special service for the rural financial institutions is necessary to solve the problem of agricultural debts, but also to accelerate the modernization of agriculture, a lot of money demand financial investment alone is clearly not enough, most of the money needed to finance sector provided agricultural population less developed western countries, not the proportion of agriculture in the national economy, but mostly a non-profit dedicated to the farmers for the purpose of providing loans to financial institutions, and our strictly speaking, there is no one of this financial institution. too much emphasis on the current financial reform financial institutions to maximize profits, the emergence of a single market-oriented financial and organizational structure tends to be identical, similar business model tends, performance evaluation tends to identical conditions, financial institutions from the rural capital market. " pumping "and then flows to gain a guaranteed large enterprises and projects, directly facing the agriculture and farmers loans generally are declining. If this problem is not resolved, is bound to restrict the pace of agricultural modernization order to solve the lack of rural financial services problem, Chen Wei comrades and I have been writing articles urging the current transformation of rural credit cooperatives to become not-for-profit dedicated to the farmers, urban poor and small and micro enterprises to provide financial services to financial institutions (see << accelerate financial services for low-income groups >> See Section 35 within the People's Daily "Total No. 1076" September 9, 2011, hoping to attract attention.
Third, with the strengthening of rural grassroots party organizations and lax leadership problem in rural work
Rural grassroots organizations mainly refers to two township and village party, government organization, is a national exercise of power tip, is to contact the party and the bridge between the government and farmers from the whole, the current rural grass-roots organizations are conscientious, good and better The majority; grassroots cadres low wages, poor working conditions, sharing things complicated, very hard, on the whole should be affirmed, but can not deny that "some grassroots Party organizations are weak and lax, a small number of party members and cadres ideals and beliefs shaken, purpose consciousness, formalism bureaucratic issues outstanding, extravagance and waste serious "(quoted from eighteen reported problems in the rural grass-roots organizations in the performance is relatively prominent.
Let Me Talk About The Problems Faced By The Township Government:
1 functions of township governments distorted. Compared with the 1980s, when the township government's main function is to organize agricultural production and water conservancy construction, agricultural grain tax levy and the "three mentioned five reunification", the organization and management of education and health Hongo public utilities, to promote agricultural technology and agricultural machinery to fulfill family planning management functions, work more "real." Most of these functions are now no longer exists, leaving only the management of family planning one, but most farmers have been reluctant to health, family planning management work difficulty decline, the newly added functions mainly to maintain social stability and investment, but strictly speaking, maintaining social stability should be the main part of the police station and other political and legal departments, investment is a market and business behavior, can not be considered township Government should assume the functions of the real. << People's Republic of local people's congresses and local people's governments at the Organic Law >> Article 61 provides the township government has seven terms, and now it seems one by one is not really able to fulfill more. "real" work, though a small, but because of county agencies become ever more finely, the township "virtual" work is more and more, meeting, entertainment, hospitality, reporting, figures, reports, and complete all kinds of text materials have become the important work of the township.
2 of township agencies incomplete. Vast majority of our law enforcement powers conferred on the county level and above units, the township government law enforcement would not be able to follow, so the body will inevitably incomplete from the beginning of this century, township law enforcement charges Most stations have the right to withdraw gradually county authorities, but the actual work of the township government, but in the case of lack of enforcement powers to assume more and more of the ultra vires law enforcement tasks.
3 township fiscal nominal. Township finances without their own local taxes and tax sharing, all sources of funding for the county financial allocations in previous years for the completion of tasks lack idling higher taxes, buying tax, and the formation of a hidden deficit spending is not small, insufficient financial resources, not to mention the provision of public services and performance of public management functions. example in my village where the township, the township cadres, 73 people, 22 were part of the fiscal full wages, only to the county finance 51 per month 540 yuan subsidy, meager public funds, but the village almost every day all visitors are required to reception, also raised three car indeed very difficult.
4 undisciplined individual work style of cadres of township. Township cadres full financial expenses also more than one thousand yuan monthly salary, less the difference between the wages earned some township cadres themselves or allow relatives to find work. Township cadres to seek livelihoods in another part of the special fund had contact with agriculture, coupled with the county and township authorities are sometimes unavoidable because of lack of funds earmarked in agriculture in the article do, it makes part of the agriculture in the use of funds for both companies to find qualified units or, centralized procurement tender worth mentioning, only increase the cost and reduce the quality.
Based on the above four reasons, coupled with the higher requirements of the township too unrealistic and numerous "one-vote veto" hanging sword, making the individual township leaders to take the practice of bullying on the pressure, with the township cadres then called the play "firewall" role in this side "firewall", the lower the real situation is less than or superior understanding of open eyes closed eyes, the higher the spirit and requirements are difficult to carry out that decision. barrier "firewall" cadres work by writing, numbers guesses, compiled by experience, honor by blowing, the harm can be described as big Yan.
Besides Problems Of Village-Level Organizations:
1 village cadres are not properly protected. Village cadres subsidies did not rise much and basic channels, when the cadres steward will inevitably offend people, offend people stir up trouble, township generally could not hold it back, especially petition is to offend people to the city, county, and if it is not a matter of principle, the village cadres generally "sit wax" in office offended many people, regardless of superiors after stepping down, the village is being criticized, so part of the village cadres, it is not reasonable and necessary go steward.
2 village money work. Implementation of contract responsibility system in rural areas, the vast majority of the village collective property has long been sold try splitting the original village enterprises or closed down or sold to individuals, their eyes a few years ago the village the villagers mainly work aside funds received State "tax reform" Cancel village set-aside, the set-aside into agricultural attached, because they no longer use the village cadres to collect the money, and the village received on township finance it, the "village fiscal township tube." After the abolition of agricultural tax, agricultural tax plus stay in the township and village level becomes higher financial transfer payments to this part of the money in addition to the village cadres individual subsidies are partially trapped towns, most of the village cadres did not even know there was such a sum should Use of funds belonging to the village and some even want to do at the village's practical good road digging, because the money can not be implemented,
3. The village did not work autonomy earmarked superiors down a lot to farmers, "thing" for supporting self-financing "of a proposed" After receipt of money from the peasants give the money handed township or county supervisor account designated by the department, by the township or county authorities unified management and use, as to how to use the village cadres and farmers rarely able to participate in the use of funds and have to bear the main responsibility for reimbursement. and often pay a lot of money to do something bad , tired finish the long march by the curse, with twice the power and a half, making some village cadres have nothing positive to work,
4 part of the village cadres have no energy to steward. Village cadres are generally contracted land, and some or engage in farming, or the kind of greenhouses, or open canteen, their own natural no effort to live too much work to take care of the village. These years and Xing When entrepreneurs concurrently village cadres, the idea is to let the lead the masses to get rich together, and in fact some of these entrepreneurs when the village cadres nothing more than to their own county and township leaders mixed Lianshu, in order to facilitate the development of their own business, energy is not in the village .
Since these four reasons, some village-level organizations play their role really well, some villages it paralyzed too.
Township governments and village-level organizations current situation is caused by various factors, of course, not entirely to blame the village cadres, but the current situation is indeed to become farmers on social discontent and some local party cadre deterioration of the important reasons, should cause us great concern and efforts to solve this reason I propose the following:
First, we must strengthen the party correctly grasp the scientific connotation of Rural Work Leading the Party's leadership of the party for rural use of their high political authority rationing of social resources, and guide farmers to achieve political goals and social development process, while the party's rural pole high political authority from the farmers' trust and support is given to farmers from this point of understanding, I believe that strengthening the Party's leadership over rural work is essentially a party peasants constantly learn wisdom, and gathering strength, and thus do not realize adapt to the development of rural productivity production relations and the superstructure for change and improvement, and promote the development of productive forces, the process to achieve the aspirations of farmers whose purpose is to wholeheartedly follow services for farmers whose basic approach, one is to promote and mobilize farmers, namely, by propagating and implementing the the party's line, principles and policies, farmers cultivate the spirit of collectivism and hard work, promote new socialist culture to unite the rural social forces, and the other one is to believe and rely on the farmers, namely the masters up through farmer responsible for monitoring the party and the government and its work personnel to ensure the right of the people. "must adhere to the dominant position of the people" (quoted from eighteen major report is the fundamental idea of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the bottom line and life, but also out of Huangyanpei called "History Periodic Law" forever Celebrex Party and the socialist countries youthful political magic.
Second, the government should clarify the boundaries of the rural social management on the one hand to improve the grass-roots mass self-government mechanisms and implement eighteen report of the "governance in urban and rural communities, grassroots public affairs and public welfare undertakings in implementation of the masses self-management, self-service , self-education, self-monitoring is the people directly exercise their democratic rights according to the law an important way to improve the grass-roots party leadership vibrant grass-roots mass self-government mechanisms to expand the orderly participation, and promote information disclosure, strengthen consultation procedure, and strengthen
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How The Heart of the Car Beats – The Internal Combustion Engine
As histories go, the creation of the internal combustion engine is attributed to a number of individuals, and if you delve into it, usually results in a long (somewhat boring) laundry list of names and achievements. However, while you're here, let's have a glance at some of the more prominent names. Keep in mind that one of the most important differences between today's contemporary internal combustion engines and the earlier designs is the use of compression (specifically in-cylinder combustion). Let's get to it!
1509: Leonardo da Vinci (Assassin's Creed anyone?) described a compression-less engine.
1794: Fast forward almost 200 years before one of the first compression-less engines would be built by Robert Street and would dominate for nearly a century.
1876: Jump almost a century, and we meet Nikolaus Otto who together with Gottlieb Daimler and William Maybach developed the first practical 4-stroke cycle (which became known as the Otto cycle) engine using in-cylinder compression.
1879: Karl Benz developed a reliable 2-stroke engine based on Nikolaus Otto's design and then designed and built his version of the 4-stroke engine which were used in the first automobiles in production.
1882: James Atkinson created the Atkinson cycle engine, a more efficient engine than the Otto version at the expense of power.
1896: Rudolf Diesel built and operated the first reliable diesel engine.
Through the tireless efforts of other inventors, these first engines were improved to become one of the most commonly used for power where mobility is required as in automobiles, heavy equipment and other portable machinery.
Now that we know where it came from, let's have a look at the general principles of operation for an internal combustion engine. However, there are many types of internal combustion engines are beyond the scope of this article. Interested readers are advised to try this page for more information: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Internal_combustion_engine. What we aim to do in this article is establish the general workings to give us a better idea of how that highly advanced piece of machinery that powers your car works.
One of the most familiar types of internal combustion engines, used in everything from automobiles to lawnmowers, is the reciprocating, spark-ignited, four-stroke gasoline engine.
In these engines, the space where combustion occurs is called the cylinder. Cylinders can be arranged in one of four ways: 1) a single row where cylinders are vertical (in-line engine), 2) a double row where opposing cylinders converge in a V-shape (V-engine), 3) a double zigzag row where alternate pairs of cylinders converge in two Vs (W-engine), and 4) two horizontal, opposed rows (opposed, pancake, flat, or boxer engine). The top of the cylinder is closed by the head (a metal cover) bolted onto it and which is where the spark plug is located to provide ignition. Each cylinder has a piston which slides up and down. The bottom of the piston has a joint which is connected to the crankshaft where the reciprocating (up-down) motions of the pistons rotate the crankshaft which then turns the drive wheels of the vehicle. Your engine speed is the number of crankshaft revolutions per minute. Two other openings in the cylinders are the ports – the intake port allows the air-gas mixture to enter the chamber, and the exhaust port vents the products of combustion. The air-gas mixture ratio is regulated by the throttle which mixes the air at different ratios depending on the needs of the engine at that point.
All fine and good, you say! So what! How does all of this come together to produce energy? Well, let's take a look.
All internal combustion engines use the exothermic chemical process of combustion to generate energy. Once successfully burnt, the combustion products, typically hot gases, have more available energy than the original unburnt air-gas mixture (which has higher chemical energy). This higher available energy is used by the piston in the engine to produce work which in turn is used to do something (e.g. turning the drive shaft of a car). For a four-stroke engine (the most common kind), a single cycle (comprising of the intake, compression, power, and exhaust strokes) takes place over 4 strokes of a piston, done in 2 engine revolutions. Engines with multiple cylinders will evenly stagger the cycles for to produce smooth operation, with each individual cylinders going through the full cycle in any two engine revolutions.
1. The intake/induction stroke: The intake port opens and the descending piston draws in the air-gas mixture.
2. At the bottom of the stroke, the intake port closes, and piston drives upwards on the compression stroke, compressing or forcing the air-gas mixture into the small space at the top of the cylinder. The higher the compression ratio (ratio of the volume of the cylinder when the cylinder is at the bottom to when the cylinder is at the top) the more powerful the engine and the more efficient.
3. Just before reaching the top, the spark plug fires, igniting the air-gas mixture which turns into hot, expanding gas that forces the piston downwards on the power stroke.
4. As the piston reaches the bottom again, the exhaust port opens, allowing the piston to force the results of combustion (mainly carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and unburned hydrocarbons) on the upward exhaust stroke.
And that's it! You now know a little bit about how the revving hunk of metal that powers your car works. I hope you enjoyed the read and that you learn something!


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J.K. Rowling Says This 'Harry Potter' Chapter 'Nearly Finished' Her
J.K. Rowling is spilling on which Harry Potter chapter was particularly difficult to write.
The author made the revelation on Twitter this week after a fan asked her for advice on struggling with rewrites.
"Chapter 9, Goblet of Fire nearly finished me," J.K. responded. "I rewrote it more times than I can now remember. You'll get there."
Chapter nine in the fourth Harry Potter book is titled "The Dark Mark." It follows Harry, Hermione, and the Weasleys as they head to watch the Quidditch World Cup. It's also the same chapter in which Death Eaters attack their campsite and all the Muggles in the area.
It's basically Harry's first taste of what the first wizarding war was like so, we get it.
When another fan called her work "flawless," J.K. said wisely, "Certainly not flawlessly, but I did it. Never wait in expectation of perfection or you'll wait forever. Do the best you can with what you've got and be one of those who dared rather than those who merely dream. And thank you x."
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My husband and his mom and sister like to joke about how feisty I am. I will defend and protect those that I love because that's how I was raised. I was raised to not take any shit. So, when we have to call the cable company because they were supposed to send a technician out and they never showed or call the city because the utilities were supposed to have been turned on in our new house and they weren't - he puts ME on the phone to put the verbal hurt on the poor, poor soul that's on the other end of the line. I let the claws out and it gets things done.
So, when it comes to my kids you can imagine how much more feisty I am. When they're sick and the doctor isn't bothering to do anything constructive to help, I go for the jugular. I fight and I claw and I will get down right nasty if my niceness has not gotten me anywhere. Some people think being nice is weak and they will treat you like you're weak. I am not weak and I will not allow someone to treat me as such. I also will not tolerate laziness or treating my children like crap because you got your feelings hurt when I told you I didn't like your course of action (or lack there of). I tried being nice to my kids' (now former) doctor and he wouldn't budge, so I took them elsewhere. That was the best decision I've ever made. My daughter is doing 100% better and I am much happier. I wanted to cry when the new doctor actually listened to me and gave her something to help her.
It's exhausting being the one that fights, last week was emotionally draining for me because I felt like I was forced to fight a battle that shouldn't have even been an issue. But, I don't regret it. I will not stand by, silent, while my children suffer. Don't EVER apologize for following your instincts and sticking up for your kids. Now that this whole ordeal is done, we can move forward. Now that my youngest is feeling better and sleeping better, maybe my husband and I will be able to take our trip to Austin at the beginning of June. I've been looking forward to it for MONTHS. We get to see Butch Walker at Stubbs....please, please, please - I DO NOT want to miss the opportunity to see him yet again. He only comes to Texas once every few years.
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Baseball has already started, and we love to be at the ballpark. One thing we always look for is how to improve, but we want to improve with proper mechanics to help prevent injuries in the future and to enable a long and fun career.
I came across this video of Nolan Ryan and Tom House instructing players on how to prepare physically for the game, proper mechanics and mental awareness. This is a great insight into a Hall of Fame Pitcher, and one of the all time greats, Nolan Ryan.


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Cahaba Medical Care - Centreville will be having its annual Reach Out and Read - AL summer reading program on Friday, August 4, 2017 from 12 noon - 1:15 pm in the lobby of its facility located at 405 Belcher Street, Centreville, AL. The event is filled with games, arts & crafts, and a reading of the book, "Sometimes I Feel Funny," which deals with emotions. The book will be read this year by the Honorable Stephanie Kemmer, Bibb County Judge of Probate.
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Jharsuguda: A District Level Gandhiji and Shastriji Jayanti were being celebrated at DAV School premises at 11. P.M. organized by Dist. Administrative and Nehru Yuva Kendra & DAV Public School.
In this occasion the Jharsuguda Collector Bishnu Parasad Sahoo was the Chief guest of this function along with ADM Rabindra Mishra , Jharsuguda S.P. K.S. Kanwar , DIPRO Subhash Suptkar who were the guest of honour of this function.
The function was started by lighting of lamp and garlanding of portrait of Gandhiji and Lal Bahadur Shastriji by the Chief Guest followed by the devotional songs sung by the DAV public School Students.
School children's along with the DAV public School Principal had come up and said few words about both the legends.
Later a prize distribution ceremony was held where the chief guest Mr. Sahoo had given away the prizes to the winners of the competition held on Dist. Level.
Along with the students of DAV public school many distinguished guest of Jharsuguda were also present in this function.DAV Principal P.K. Panda, Bal Govind Mishra , Arjun More , Tapas Ray Chouwdhary , Gouri Shankar Tiwari , Sanjay Swaragi , were also present in this function.


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Magnuson Hotels consortium signs up 20 more UK members
April 27, 2010
By Janet Harmer Caterer and Hotelkeeper
Magnuson Hotels, the US-based consortium which was launched in the UK two weeks ago, has signed up 20 British hotels.
The company, which claims to be the world's largest independent hotel chain with 1,200 properties in North America, is targeting independently-owned hotels throughout the UK with 20-plus bedrooms.
Chief executive Tom Magnuson, who launched Magnuson Hotels with his wife Melissa in 2003, said the response from UK hoteliers had been phenomenal and had been driven by word of mouth.
"The phones have been ringing non-stop," he said. "As well as having signed up 20 hotels already, we have a further 50 who have expressed serious interest.
"For half of them, it will be the first time they have been represented online. The other half are Best Western members seeking higher reservation revenue, lower costs and more control over their hotel."
A key attraction for properties is that Magnuson does not impose membership fees or long-term contractual commitments on members. Hotels simply pay a 15% commission on all bookings delivered by the company.
The company also offers representation on the five major Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and a presence on more than 2,000 leading websites including Expedia and Priceline.
Magnuson intends to step up its marketing activity in the UK during the summer when it opens an international office in London to handle its European expansion.
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In only seven years, Magnuson Hotels headquartered in Spokane, WA has become the world's largest independent hotel group, representing nearly 1500 hotels and a combined affiliate base with assets in excess of $5.5 Billion. One of the top 10 global hotel chains, Magnuson Hotels was the #1 Hotel Company of Inc. Magazine's 2009 annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest growing privately owned U.S. companies. With a four year reservation sales growth of 595%, Magnuson Hotels is listed in the top 100 U.S. business services companies.
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ACE Seminar: On the Challenges of Detecting and Diagnosing Malicious Data Injections
Speaker: Dr Emil Lupu
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Wireless Sensor Networks are often deployed to monitor physical phenomena, but are also particularly vulnerable to malicious attacks since: the deployments are often unattended; the sensors are physically accessible and the sensor hardware has limited computational resources. When several sensors have been compromised malicious data can be injected to create fake events or to mask the occurrence of actual events with potentially devastating consequences. Such attacks are difficult to detect especially when several compromised sensors may collude in the attack. In this talk I will discuss some of the challenges of this problem and present some of our early work on this topic.
Dr Emil Lupu leads the ACE-CSR at Imperial College. He is generally interested in techniques that allow systems to adapt and continue to operate even when they are under attack or have been partially compromised. He has worked in the past on policy-based techniques for network and systems management and autonomous pervasive systems, distributed access control, usage control, trust management and privacy amongst others.


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How far would you go for love? That's the question at the heart of Michael Pearce's Beast, a mesmerising thriller that has received plaudits and wowed festival audiences around the world, and which makes its eagerly anticipated arrival in UK cinemas this April.
Jessie Buckley stars as Moll, a young woman tethered to her family and their small island community. A chance to escape presents itself in Pascal (Johnny Flynn), an enigmatic outsider, who comes to her rescue after a night out takes a dangerous turn. Charming and independent, he gives Moll the opportunity to discover happiness for the first time. The pair fall in love, but this bliss is shattered when Pascal is accused of a spate of gruesome murders. Moll is forced to pick a side when the community and media condemn Pascal before giving him a chance to defend himself, and she finds herself facing some unthinkable choices.
This British-made psychological thriller is a breakthrough for three very exciting talents. Writer-director Pearce gorgeously lenses the Jersey location, seeing the island from an alluring new perspective and giving the story a unique landscape in which to unfold. Channelling Hitchcock in his feature debut, Pearce's story is just as seductive: a dark coming-of-age tale that poses questions around every corner. We feel the exhilarating rush of passion in Moll's new romance collide with menace and confusion when questions begin to be asked. The film builds to a crescendo that will have you talking once the lights go up.
Alongside Pearce are Beast's two remarkable leads, Buckley and Flynn, whose onscreen chemistry is electric. As Pascal, Flynn has the layered charisma to pull off a character so laced with ambiguity. As questions gather around Pascal's involvement in the murders, Flynn's captivating performance keeps the suspense high and the air of mystery swirling.
In turn, Buckley gives an unforgettable lead performance as Moll, a woman who finds herself torn between the two pillars of love and family. In particular, her abrasive relationship with her mother (the excellent Geraldine James) creates the sense that this is a woman trapped by her circumstances, leading her to wonder if the freedom that her new relationship has given her can be so easily given up. Buckley has deservedly been named one of the winners of BAFTA's Breakthrough Brits awards, and this committed performance hints that we are seeing a star in the making.
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eWeek Podcast – VOIP: How Secure?
Dave recently was interviewed in a podcast with eWEEK senior writer Matt Hines about VoIP Security. Some of the questions that were asked and answered included:
Enterprise are obviously adopting VoIP at a very fast rate, are the threats ramping up quickly as well?
What do you see as the most significant threats to VoIP security right now?
Phishing continues to menace online business applications of all types, how is the threat of VoIP phishing coming together?
Some people feel that the issue of security in regards to IP telephony are being over-hyped, do you feel that people are making too much of an issue of the problem?
What can you tell us about your work with the VoIP security alliance, what sort of work is being done by the group right now?


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Opening day at Alta was actually better than expected. With nine fresh inches on top of a meager snow base hidden obstacles were a concern. But for the most part we avoided them and found some really good snow, both high up on Wildcat on Warmup and low near the Collins lift.
There wasn't a ton of terrain open due to the low snow, with only Collins and Wildcat lifts operating, but with more storms lined up things are just going to get better!


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Action Kills Fear
Do want to make a career move but do not know where to start? Have you thought about taking on a new venture but your thoughts are paralyzing you? Do you feel your relationship is not right for you but you are do not want to go through the turmoil of a breakup? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, the underlying root holding you back is fear. And honestly it is not your fault. For some reason, the more we go through life, the more it seems fear plays the role of a silent assassin.
Think of it this way… Not fully indulging in each bite of the chocolate cake you are eating because of the extra calories, has an underlying fear (of weight gain, being unhealthy). Being overcharged on the bill handed to you but you do not saying anything, has an underlying fear (of causing a commotion, of seeming cheap). Buying possessions for your children when it has to go on your credit card has an underlying fear (for approval, for not providing enough). Obviously my point is that there is an unconscious fear in so many of our day-to-day decisions. But there is a solution to kill fear. It is action.
Action kills fear. Even saying no at times is an action. So when it comes to going after a dream, taking a chance or switching gears in life, take one small action towards it. It could be online research, picking up the phone or simply telling yourself you are worthy of moving forward. Just know that if the thought or dream has come to you, it is because you are worthy and capable of pursuing it. The power of intention stems from this fact. If you have the inspiration, it is your spirit speaking to you. And your spirit/soul/higher-self knows you very well.
We are born with infinite possibilities. It is a natural fact of the human condition. So please do not undermine your desires, goals or needs with paralyzing thoughts. Take minor steps each day to walk on the path that your inner world is guiding you towards


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Traditionally Intel is one of the first companies in the IT industriy to present their quarterly results. Because of their weight on the market they're also in important indicator wether the industry is doing well or struggling. With total revenues of 12.9 Billion US-Dollar Intel doesn't break records this time, but they exceeded analysts forecasts. We had the chance to talk about Intels first quarter 2012 with Dario Bucci. He is Country Manager for Intel Italy and Switzerland.
Marc Büchel: On Tuesday evening, after the New York stock exchange closed, Intel presented its result for the first quarter 2012. What do you think about it in general?
Dario Bucci: Also in this quarter Intel exceeded analysts expectations and therefore it surely is a solid start into 2012. Although it's no new record, like people are almost used to, it's still a good result. The industry had to face a tough environment and therefore it's even more important that Intel was able to perform with a solid first quarter. There was for example the HDD crisis which hit several companies hard. And then there was also a lot of anxiety in the industry and people were nervous. Another reason for concern was the overall economic situation. One reason why Intel was performing well can be found with the emerging markets. As an example there is the chinese market which has grown by 17 percent. On the other hand there are the mature market - like Switzerland - where Intel has seen a decrease in the consumer segment by ten percent. Nevertheless the overall situation is good. Especiall the large enterprise and data center business is growing. Furthermore there is the networking and storage part which was also able to perform well. Only the server business showed flat revenues.
Marc Büchel: Obviously the delay within the Intel Architecture Group has had an negative effect on the income compared to last years first quarter. What do you expect for the second quarter 2012?
Dario Bucci: Intel has started to ship 22 naometer processors to OEMs. These new processors are not just a Die shrink, these CPUs there are also based on three dimensional transistors now. Furthermore there were several major architectural changes, especially regarding the integrated graphics. Therefore Intel had to face tough challenges. Furthermore expectations in the industry are very high when Intel is going to lunch a new product and Intel works very hard to come up to these expectations. Probably in June a new wave of Ultrabooks will hit the market and we feel confident that this will take mobile computing to a whole new level.
Marc Büchel: You just jumped to the Ultrabook initiative. Do you see some trends specific for the Swiss market?
Dario Bucci: It is well known that the Swiss market is very responsive, especially for high-end products and components. Therefore the business with Ultrabooks started very well in Switzerland. Intel also has a very powerful marketing tool at hand with its Intel Inside programm. This allows us to act very agil in all targeted markets via our OEMs like, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, ... They all have Ultrabooks in there line-up which generating solid sales in Switzerland. At IDF we presented the first Intel smartphone. We hope we can present this exciting product at the beginning of next year or even this year.


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Terror casts its shadow over Bollywood1 min read . Updated: 30 Nov 2008, 05:02 PM IST
Terror casts its shadow over Bollywood
Terror casts its shadow over Bollywood
Mumbai: The guns many have fallen silent after a 60-hour-long battle on Saturday, but the flick of the real life action has left scars on the country's entertainment industry that will take long to go.
Bollywood, which prides itself for producing the world's highest number of movies in a year, will find it hard now to draw people back to theatres in the aftermath of the attack that killed nearly 200 lives.
According to media and entertainment industry experts, the country's film screening business incurred a loss of not less than Rs50 crore during the period Mumbai was under siege.
"After the first night of attack, all the theatres in the city (Mumbai) were closed for two days. The incident has left an impact on other places also, with viewership falling by about 40%," Pyramid Saimira Group Chairman P S Saminathan told PTI.
The size of the theatre business in the country is worth about Rs25 crore per day, he said, adding, "The industry suffered a loss of about Rs50 crore in the last three days in the entire country."
Saminathan said it could take at least four-five months to restore confidence of the audience, as there is hardly any security mechanism in cinema halls.
As on September, Pyramid Saimira had 745 screens across the country, with four of them located in Mumbai itself.
Expressing similar views, Shemaroo Entertainment Director Hiren Gada said: "There is a fear in people's mind...restoring confidence is the need of the hour. With adequate security and time, common man will again come out in public spaces."
He said the film production business also got affected as shootings were suspended during those three days.


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Why are a number of people encouraging others to buy Phen375 (Phentemine375)? They do this for numerous reasons. Phentemine375 is a stimulant that's a bit like amphetamine. Phentemine375 has been labeled a good appetite suppressant, since it tricks one's body into imagining it isn't starving. Even though you aren't, you will feel like you tend to be full. When someone taking Phentemine375 employs it along with a good diet and exercise, it can be handy. Someone who are currently struggling with obesity, high cholesterol as well as high blood pressure may be interesting in applying this product. Within the paragraphs down below, we definitely will tell you why someone would want to buy Phentemine375.
It's Not Just Another Diet Pill Product
Mind you, this isn't just another diet pill that has been placed available on the market to pull attention. This is a pill that can deliver the desired results, as long as it is taken appropriately. This is a pill that has been proven to be effective, hence the reason there is a lot of hype over it.
How Exactly Do You Take the Pill?
You need to follow the instructions provided to you by the physician. Don't ever take much larger amounts than the physician advises. There are certain brands that should be taken before breakfast time while your stomach remains empty, then you have others that may be taken one or two hours right after breakfast. Always stick to the recommendations and in case you are not sure the way to take the pill, ask the physician. Some folks who take the pill could possibly develop sleep issues, which is the reason why many will tell you to take it early in the morning. If you have the Suprenza pill, you will need to put it inside your mouth and allow it to dissolve. If you feel hungry, instead of full after you take the pill, then you need to speak with your doctor. Take note that this pill should only be taken for a short amount of time – at the most, a couple of weeks.
How Does the Drug Work?
When you take your pill, the neurons inside brain are generally stimulated, causing them to release catecholamines. They cause what is called a "fight of flight" response to the human body. In return, the being hungry signal stops because your brain no longer receives it. The less amount of food you consume, the more fat you can burn. You should definitely eat healthy food packed full of nutrition.
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For those who have always desired to lose weight and have tried endless amount of products to accomplish this and still have not received any good results, it is time to buy Phen375. Once you start using Phentemine375, very quickly at most, you should start to see a weight difference. Just keep in mind, this product is not intended for long-term use and you need to speak with a doctor if you would like taking it.


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One of the fundamentals in real estate is the importance of pricing a home. The housing market is always changing so it is crucial to list your home at the right price. Naturally, we'll assume that the seller and the agent are doing everything else right… the home has been properly staged for presentation, photography is exceptional, online marketing is robust, etc… If you get all of those important items right, but miss the price point, the home will sit and rack up the dreaded "Days on Market". Presently, the subtly changing market is causing some restless nights for sellers and their agents.
Pricing Mistakes We Often See with Homes for Sale
- Pricing to the unsold homes, rather than those that have sold. Sellers often make the mistake of looking at the homes on the market and pricing "comparatively" to the ones that are unsold, rather than viewing them as the homes that they must beat to attract buyers.
- Pricing based upon historical sales without considering a changing market. This is the mistake that we're seeing with the highest frequency among Long Island homes. In all fairness, the current shift in the market has come rather abruptly, following the hit to the tech sector early this year. The biggest pricing issues are in the $2M+ sector where there is an abundance of unsold inventory.
- Sellers over-valuing improvements. Just because a seller spent $50,000 putting in rare porcelain tile from the far reaches of China in their powder room doesn't mean that a buyer is going to pay more for the house. In fact, that "improvement" might be more of a liability than a value enhancer. The point is that not all "improvements" provide a return on investment.
- Sellers thinking that they'll get full value for maintenance expenses. This is another situation we see with a fair amount of frequency…"I just put a $35,000 roof on my home and spent $20,000 replacing the sewer line, so I need to get at least $50,000 more for my house." Yes, it sometimes happens. In general, maintenance items yield little or no return on your investment. It's simply expected that the roof does not leak and that the sewer line works.
- Pricing based upon need. "But, I need at least $___ in net equity to buy my next house." That may or may not be true, but it has nothing to do with the market's perception of your home's value.
- Setting the price based upon the Zillow "Zestimate". I could go into a full rant on this subject. Suffice it to say, Zillow's beloved "Zestimate" does NOT work with Long Island homes for sale, nor does it work if you are simply trying to determine your net worth and want an estimate of our home's value. Automated valuation models don't work here.
- Failing to listen to the market and adjust the price when activity drops off. The old adage applies, "If you keep doing what your doing, you'll keep getting what your getting." Naturally, exceptions occur, but generally its important to pay attention to the market. If your home is not selling and others around it are, pricing is usually the problem.
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as you may remember from my previous posting on February's Baltimore tattoo convention there was a slight problem with the weather. Namely that there was far too much of it. In response the conventions organizer decided to have a make-up convention of sorts in September and we attended, I was immediately struck by the total lack of a blizzard. So far so good.
In past conventions I would endeavor to book myself up s full as possible with appointments in order to assure that I would make money all weekend. This usually resulted in being stuck in the booth and not having a whole lot of time to hang out with our friends who we only get to hang with at conventions. This time I decided to take the few appointments that people contacted me about in advance and not do much drumming up of business beforehand. It worked out really well. I turned down work that wasnt really my forte and got to work on some folks who didn't seem to have planned to get tattooed, but after talking to us seemed to see something in Cara or I that they felt comfortable with.
I ended up doing one guys tattoo of a cross-section of a camera lens after we talked for a while about our mutual love for old Leicas and he decided to pull the trigger on his first piece. This can be daunting at a convention, its noisy, distracting, and being from out-of-town I don't have a local reputation attached to my name, in short all he knew about me was my portfolio and the short bit that we talked. He was also the 3rd person in as many days who told us that he had been thinking about getting tattooed all weekend but that most of the other artists seemed unfriendly or simply refused to talk to him when he tried to start a conversation about his piece. Business aspects aside, this just seems like a really shitty way to treat people.
I also tattooed a really cool guy who had one tattoo, an old parrot from his navy days acquired , if i remember correctly, in the early 70's in San Diego. I was happy to refresh this piece and he was great to talk to. I don't meet many people who took up surfing in their 40's but if they are all as laid back and friendly as this guy then Id be honored to meet more. Here is his piece
I also got to meet and tattoo a fellow tattooer named Mike Tserin (sp?) who was getting a Daruma doll on his forearm under the elbow. Mike was a really nice guy and someone I have talked to on various tattooer forums so it was nice to finally put a face on the name. As a new dad he preferred to have his daruma with the kanji for 'family'. Heres how it looked right after we got finished, apologies for the blood on the kanji.
The other Japanese inspired piece I got to do was a chrysanthemum on a woman's forearm. She is a personal trainer and was really open to suggestions as to how i could make it better. I haven't gotten to do many of this style of chrysanthemum but when i do it's always at conventions! This was really a blast to do and we were yakking and joking the whole time, it really makes the time fly and hopefully mitigates the pain a little as well when you can have a good BS session with your clients. Here is how her flower looked when we finished;
Cara ended up doing a few as well including a giant viking shield with a Celtic boar design on a British bikers arm. Conventions are not the easiest place to work but she busted it out like it was old news. I was proud of her!
Lots more happened, I got my chest tattooed the next day by Landon Lewis at his shop Black Thorn Gallery in Mechnicsburg. Once it heals I'll put it up. It was my first torso tattoo and Landon is one of the nicest tattooers I've met so it was a no brainer to have him do it for me. As we talked about over dinner the last night of the convention I am done getting tattooed by people who aren't nice. I don't care how talented the artist, if they are a dick I don't need their work on me. Fortunately there are guys like Landon, and a lot more like him who are good people and seriously talented.
Also we split the booth with Jason Angst and Mel of Tattoo Noir who were not just ideal booth-mates, but fun as hell to hang out with. Ive known Mel a long time but never really socially so it was a pleasure to get to know them both as well as to watch Jason turn out amazing tattoos.
I think we are onto something here and Cara and I are super excited to do more conventions with fun, instead of money, as the main motivation!


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Yesterday, attorneys for low power television (LPTV) station owners Mako Communications and Beach TV Properties, Inc. outlined their grievances against the FCC's incentive auction rules at the D.C. Circuit Court. The petitioners asserted that the FCC's refusal to grant LPTV licensees protection during the broadcast channel repacking process violates Section 6403(b)(5) of the 2012 Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, which states that "nothing in this subsection shall be construed to alter the spectrum usage right" of LPTV stations. Counsel for the FCC, meanwhile, highlighted the secondary status of LPTVs in reminding the court that the agency is authorized under Section 6301(b)(1) of the 2012 Act to "make . . . reassignments of television channels as the Commission considers appropriate" and to "relocate such portions of such spectrum as the Commission determines are available for reallocation."
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The Titans' 2017 NFL season kicks off on Sunday as they host the Oakland Raiders at Nissan Stadium. In this episode Benjamin, Brandon and Matt cover the match-up from snout to tail, debate the wisdom of taking gambling advice from someone who is still renting their abode and so much more goodness.
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July 5, 2017 / by Muhammad Aamir
Since it was created in the 1950's, Dianabol has become one of the most sought- after anabolic steroids. It was formulated by one Dr John Ziegler for the USA Olympic team. DrZiglar created it in response to the evidence that…Read more