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LITTLE ROCK - Senator Jason Rapert of Conway and Representative Tommy Wren of Melbourne said Friday they would schedule a series of special meetings of the Senate and House Committees on Insurance and Commerce to develop a strategy for holding down the spiraling costs of teacher health insurance.
"In a state where teachers are underpaid compared to other states, it's unsustainable for them to have to absorb premium increases of up to 50 percent," Rapert said. "It's not right for teachers, it's not right for support staff like cafeteria workers and maintenance personnel, and it's not right for their families."
The specific dates for the meetings will be announced soon, Rapert said, adding that there is a need for urgency because many complex issues must be resolved before the 2014 legislative session.
"This problem has been getting worse for quite a few years, and now we're at the tipping point for teachers and other school staff," Wren said. "They're staring at increases of $500 a month for the cost of health insurance, and they can't wait any longer for solutions. "
Teacher health insurance premiums have been increasing steadily for the past several years, but Wednesday teachers learned that next year their health insurance rates would spike even more dramatically than usual. The State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Board approved rate increases of as much as 50 percent. For example, family coverage under the most popular plan will increase from $1,029 to $1,528 per month.
A factor in rising health insurance costs for teachers is that they pay a relatively large portion of their premiums. Some elected officials have proposed that the state fund a greater share of the health insurance costs. However, that remedy would take time. The legislature convenes in a fiscal session on February 10, 2014, and a funding increase would take effect at the beginning of the next fiscal year, on July 1, 2014. That would help teachers in the 2014-2015 school year, but not during the current school year.
"Something has to be done. It may be that we can adjust the current system, and it may be that we have to explore more drastic alternatives, such as dismantling the system now in place and completely starting from scratch," Rapert said.
"Such drastic increases in health insurance are too much of a sacrifice for the families of school personnel," Rapert said. "I honestly don't know how they will be able to handle it, because these increases are devastating to a family budget."
Rapert noted that the state Employee Benefits Division, which administers the teacher and the public employee health insurance programs, reports to the legislature's Insurance and Commerce Committees.
"Costs for state employees have not risen at nearly the same rate as they have for teachers, in spite of the fact they are in the same plan and it's administered by the same agency," Rapert said. "I'm really frustrated by the inconsistencies between how teachers and state employees are treated, because if we don't compensate them more equitably, Arkansas will begin losing our best teachers to other states," Rapert said.
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Replaing the troublesome OEM batteries
It seems that Vectrix has not (or can not) come up with a viable alternative to the Nimh cells.
With many of us coming to the end of our warranty period and the reported US$5000 replacement cost of a new pack, I have been watching the posts about replacement packs. Not keen to throw money at Vectrix for poorly resolved cells/BMS in their existing catalogue.
Replacing individual dead sells with secondhand cells will only keep our bikes running so long.
I note that 40Ah Thundersky cells will be problematic to fit in the available space. I cannot get a good quote from our Australian KOKAM dealer, so where to now? A123? Too expensive. Valence? Won't fit and too expensive.
I have been in touch with and have a quote from a manufacturer called Realforce of Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, China.
The price quoted is $3477 (I assume US dollars) for a nominal 125V LiPo4 pack of 40Ah capacity and includes BMS and charger. Postage would be extra and larger orders would attract a discount. I asked for a charger as tying in the OEM charger with a third party BMS is beyond my ability.
The pack is sized to fit a Vectrix battery bin, that is 230mm by 700mm and 330mm deep, the weight is quoted at 57kg, some 33kg less than the OEM pack and an extra 10Ah increase in capacity. I have asked for a nominal 130A constant load and a peak of 180A. The charging will take 6 hours and is a constant voltage, constant current type of 230V AC input. Size and weight of charger was not included by Realforce. Life of the pack is quoted at 1500 cycles to 80%. Pack consists of 40 cells of 10Ah in series with 4 such strings in paralell.
So, my question to the learned EV community is, does anyone out there know of Realforce and are there any other firm quotes for replacement packs?
Thanks for doing that research, Paul!
I have added this thread to the Vectrix Collaborative Handbook, please stay on topic!
I have so far only pondered theoretical hurdles to alternative battery pack installation, but have not looked at actually available batteries.
Some potential hurdles:
A) The replacement pack must be able to be "split" into sections of 27/102 x2 and 48/102.
Otherwise the stock BMS will always "see" a severely unbalance pack and probably cause trouble.
A solution to this might be possible by adding just the right resistor between the tabs where the S-BMS measures voltages and the PCB with the voltage divider and the temp sensor/CAN interface.
How can this be done?
B) On the CANBUS seem to be messages from the same ID's during charging mode and during booting up to riding mode.
This might mean that the signals from the stock charger are needed (even if a different battery pack including it's own charger has been installed). But that might not be much of a problem, maybe during riding the charger just announces that it is doing nothing and no-one else on the CANBUS cares..??
A) The replacement pack must be able to be "split" into sections of 27/102 x2 and 48/102.
A 38 cell LiPo pack would be a perfect match:
10/38 + 10/38 + 18/38
I'm thinking of 38 x 40Ah Kokam LiPo cells with Vectrix charger and Schulze balancer on top of cells. Schulze balancer is powered by the cells it is equalizing, so no connection with the charger is needed.
38 LiPo cells can be charged up to 159.6 Volts (4.2V/cell), which is more than enough to be in the safe zone with Vectrix charger. In fact, not fully charging them increases their cycle life. Kokam 40Ah cells also fit pefectly in the Vectrix battery bay.
Hi there,
as I´m waiting that one lokal dealer gets his equipment from Vectrix or the main-importer of Austria to check my Vectrix again
(it has started to barbecue its batterypack during every charging reaching 40°C very fast) i did some batteryresearch and found
some interesting link: manufacturer and an interesting batterytype: GP Lifepo4 45Ah which might fit in the vectrix bay.
Don´t worry about grammar and spelling, it´s rather hot and dampy today...
greetings Mike
I was planning to charge my Vectrix's battery using a Variac (not the built-in charger) at a low amperage rate to equalize it and if that's successful I then have to get the the Vectrix to update it's BMS to the batteries new state of charge, how do you plan to do that each time you charge your Vectrix ? Note ordinarily I will be charging it with it's built-in charger.
Also some questions I would like to know before ordering a LiPo replacement battery is if it fits in the Vectrix's battery box will it require cooling and will air cooling be adequate for it in a stacked configuration. The Vectrix's plastic battery container is designed for air cooling meaning there is space for air to pass around the cells. I would also want to know if the battery packs are serviceable meaning can you replace individual cells within a pack.
I like the links Mikemitbike, excellent info available and a preliminary price as well!
As for Anderson's concerns, yes, more info and more technical details will be required before any orders happen. Haven't been able to find any details about a specific Schulze balancer that would be applicable to the pack we need.
Maintenance of packs: well it seems to me that the hard case cells would be maintainable with bolted connections etc. Soft case cells may be dificult as these packs are well taped up in the manufacturing process and I am not sure of the connection method, but it's probably not a bolt and nut connection.
I would prefer hard case cells as spacing can be included to allow cooling air flow. Soft case cells are more prone to damage in manufacturing and shipping and end up as a solid mass, no cooling to the middle?
Interfacing any new BMS/cells/charger will be problematic and will need the CAN system to be better understood than I do at the moment. I hope some good CAN bus info turns up on one of the forums sooner or later.
I suspect this whole process will take a while and I will not be handing any hard earned cash over to anyone untill the whole problem is better understood.
It seems Realforce is a little known entity........I'll put that quote aside then.
Hi there,
finally i did find the missing link of a company making replacement-packs for the Vectrix [edit:SORRY MY MISTAKE THEY MADE THE BMS NOT THE PACK].
I´ve no information if it is an prototype, which kind of Lithium or the price for the pack. Enjoy the Link : Elithion
Greetings from Austria Mike
Hi there,
finally i did find the missing link of a company making replacement-packs for the Vectrix [edit:SORRY MY MISTAKE THEY MADE THE BMS NOT THE PACK].
I´ve no information if it is an prototype, which kind of Lithium or the price for the pack. Enjoy the Link : Elithion
Greetings from Austria Mike
Very nice!
After all this company looks like a great candidate to providing battery upgrades for a Vectrix (once we run out of a Vectrix in house solution). I wonder if Elithion would be interested to "pick" up this business. I Ind of would be happy with a Lithium upgrade for my Vectrix.
Thanks for the link mikemitbike, now the question is the price, has anyone asked about it?
hopefully with time more and more solutions of this type will be available.With the amount of Vectrix scooters sold here in Spain i think the importer will find an alternative by itself. The Spanish importer made a big deal with Hertz, they have plenty of Vectrix to rent, they will have to find some type of replacement in a years time if the batteries fail.
I noticed the surge of traffic to our site (Elithion) from this page and came to investigate.
Yes, Elithion did make a BMS for a Vectrix Li-Ion pack, but it did so for K2 Energy, the maker of the LiFePO4 26650 cells used in that pack.
I will contact K2 and let you know if it is interested in offering battery packs for the Vectrix to individual owners.
I noticed the surge of traffic to our site (Elithion) from this page and came to investigate.
Yes, Elithion did make a BMS for a Vectrix Li-Ion pack, but it did so for K2 Energy, the maker of the LiFePO4 26650 cells used in that pack.
I will contact K2 and let you know if it is interested in offering battery packs for the Vectrix to individual owners.
Welcome, and HIP-HIP-HURRAY for a vendor who is proactive and knows how to use their website!
Yepee, Davide welcome to our page! I am confident hat many of us are desperate Vectrix owners happy to learn about possible battery upgrades.
Very interesting post.. I can take for granted I'll someday need a lithium battery....
Maybe all CANBUS problems with lithium can be solved by reprogramming the Vectrix... I've read that the prius software can be customized very easely!
Has anyone tried to change Vectrix's software? (ex: change top speed, acceleration...)
Very interesting post.. I can take for granted I'll someday need a lithium battery....
Maybe all CANBUS problems with lithium can be solved by reprogramming the Vectrix... I've read that the prius software can be customized very easely!
Has anyone tried to change Vectrix's software? (ex: change top speed, acceleration...)
Slowly, slowly....
Before changing anything, we need to figure out how the CANBUS works in the Vectrix.
I am making some progress with the CANBUS, but this is going off topic here. Details at: http://www.canhack.de/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1094&st=0&sk=t&sd=a and http://visforvoltage.org/book/ev-collaborative-hand-books/6916 ,
Last night I found the Battery Temp Sensor signals on the CANBUS! They communicate with the charger, I believe, even when not charging. Have another look at the picture of the Li-BMS posted on the ELITION website and note the CAN to USB adapter lying around in it all....You can bet your bottom dollar that a software patch and access to a special version of the Scooter Diagnostics Software is needed to install the Lithium battery pack and BMS and make it work in the Vectrix.
I would not be surprised if a battery pack and BMS is fully developed and ready, but will never be available because of all the legal hullabaloo going on around Vectrix' Corpse!
The dealers had to sign non-disclosure agreements, imagine what software and hardware developers would have had to sign. The patents might be used by someone buying Vectrix' Corpse in the future. And selling of battery upgrades to existing (and unlikely but possible future) owners would certainly be a factor in any feasibility calculations by anyone considering to buy the remains and revive it.
I believe it will take a long time before Elithion and / or K2Energy will be able to sell upgrades for the Vectrix without risk of being sued.
At this stage I will concentrate more on ironing out the bugs in the existing NiMH packs.
Just to let you know that I am talking to K2 about offering replacement Vectrix batteries. As you can imagine, there are multiple issues, so at this point it's hard to say. I'll keep you posted.
Davide Andrea
Geez I am embarrassed every time I see 'Replaing'. Should be Replacing of course.
Well I have been busy fixing up my pack by replacing a dead cell with a spare!
Firstly let me describe the symptoms of the cell failure:
The bike had been working well, good acceleration, ok range, no hot temperatures and almost 10000kM on the clock.
Over a period of a few weeks, I noticed a high rate of self discharge over the weekend, reduced range and poor acceleration.
One morning after the hill climb part of my daily ride, I heard a loud thump eminating from the bike. Thought nothing of it.
From then on, range and acceleration deteriorated, BATHOT came up at the drop of a hat and I became despondant.
The dealer suspected a dead cell and sent me some spares. Many thanks.
So to the replacement process:
I made up a battery lifter
First disasemble the panels and battery cover.
Disconnect the back battery management (BM) connector and remove the BM card by pushing the plastic standoff pins through.
Discommect the battery connector at the front battery pack.
Lift the thin plastic pack cover and disconnect the battery terminals to the back pack.
Ensure all connections are clear of back pack
Lift pack out- the back pack is the big big one and BEWARE, the weight is 45KG+ and if the bike is on a side stand, will have to come out at an angle.
Make sure you have somewhere to put the pack down before you start.
The front pack will come out in a similar way, but the BM card is fixed to the frame in a fiddly place, perservere!
This is where I got a white paint pen out and started marking everything: An arrow to indicate the front of bike, B for back pack, P for the front pack, T for top row, L for left side, R for right side. eg, BBL is back pack bottom left side.
Be aware, with 102 cells in 18 rows of 8 or 9 cells each, it is easy to get mixed up so mark everything!
As Mik has identified, damaged cells will be swollen on their small side, I also found my dead cell showed evidence of being very hot and had melted it's spacers. I understand that other bikes and dead cells may not be so obvious, but a methodical investigation will reveal any faulty cells.
The picture above shows good spacers to the left and melted spacers on the right.
I also measured the voltage of each cell in the pack and found about 1.367V in all but one cell. The dead cell was 0.01V.
So, when a dead cell or cells are identified, free up the row and clear some bench space. Disconnect the cell connection links either side of the dead cells.
BEWARE, the cells are held apart by the plastic spacers and held together by a steel strap, DO NOT CUT or BREAK THE STRAP
The target cells must be squeezed out from between all the rest in the row. The steel strap is a pain, but with care, cells can be freed from the strap's embrace.
At this point, I measured the cell voltage again and charged up the new cell to the same voltage. I have a variable voltage DC power supply and charged the new cell to 1.367V at 0.5A until it matched the original cells. I know, this is not ideal treatment and a proper equalization charge is recommended, but it's the best I could do.
When the old cell is out and a new one is in place, check the polarity of the new cell again and reasemble the row, but without the spacers for now.
Everything is a tight squeeze even without the spacers, so I made up a wooden wedge:
The wedge is gently tapped in between cells to allow a spacer to be inserted. The spacer must also be tapped in too.
When all spacers are in place, check polarity again and put the cell connection links back in place and tighten the bolts.
Measure the row voltage and compare with the row voltage in all other rows. Of course, front rows are lower voltage than back rows.
As rows and packs go together, check all bolted cell connections for tightness, but don't overtighten.
When you are happy, put it all together and beware of the last connection to the bike as 125V+ will cause a bit of a spark. The spark may or may not cause damage to the bike as has been discussed elsewhere.
If all things are equal, re-assemble and test.
Good luck!
By the way, my bike is going like a train now!
Nicely flattened spacers! Did the cell explode in the end?
Do you need to break the spacers to get them out before removing the cell?
I could not figure out how to remove cells without taking the strap off, so I figured out how to fix the strap again instead! I feared that I would ding or even pierce the cell walls if I tried to lever them out or back in.
One very important addition: Disconnect the big blue Andersons connector first and reconnect it last, and use an ICL.
1, I did break the strap and repaired it with a pop-rivet, but in discussions with the dealer, he assured me that dis-assembly is possible and preferred if the strap is intact.
2, I know, piercing a cell is a worry, but carefull use of a wedge prevented any damage.
3, Correct, the Anderson plug..........I had neglected to include that in my post.
No, the cell didn't explode, but it was very swollen, I think the thump was the cell pressure valve going off.
Bottom spacer is melted to cell and everything came apart when I initially broke the strap.
Do I understand it correctly that you did not find a way to remove the cell without breaking the strap?
Pop-riveting the strap when the cells are out might be a good idea; it does not work when the cells are in, the strap is too short and the usual devices for such a job require way too much space to operate, and leave behind a clamp that is too thick. I used the wire method, so far it seems to have held up for 4000km, but I only looked at the top layer. Next time I'll consider cutting holes in the plastic container for inspection purposes.
Well, sort of.
I did break the strap, and repaired again prior to re-assembly. Pop rivet from inside out so flat side is to the aluminium end plate.
However, Eyeinthesky tells me he was able to do the whole job without damage to the strap. If he can do it, then we all can.
I think I'm ready to take the leap myself. I've got the seat off, and removed the first four panel screws, and now...well, rather than removing things randomly, I thought I'd get some advice. Has anyone posted directions on which panels to remove, in which order, etc.?
I think I'm ready to take the leap myself. I've got the seat off, and removed the first four panel screws, and now...well, rather than removing things randomly, I thought I'd get some advice. Has anyone posted directions on which panels to remove, in which order, etc.?
Thanks, Mik--it looks like that may be of great help. Is there any way to bypass the slideshow and access the grid version of your photos in Photobucket?
To separate the cells without breaking the strap use a screw driver to ease up the spacers one from the top then one from the bottom
repeat until cells are loose
To assemble! on the last few spacers wedge the cells apart, firstly with a wedge both sides to create a gap to place a screwdriver in the top to insert the last spacer, then gently and evenly knock it down
spacer lugs overlap each other, well!... you will figure that out.
I changed 8 cells in four pack, bike finished in 5 hours
I changed 8 cells in four pack, bike finished in 5 hours
How did you decide which cells to replace? Where were they located - more in bottom layer??
I received cells from Vectrix measuring 1.32 volts
So I rode the scooter to 1.31v, took the covers of then charged it to 1.32v
8 cells had a lower measurement of 1.31v. of those 8, 7 were swollen when looking along the side but I decided to changed all 8
All in the rear pack, 4 in LH middle, 2 on LH top, 1 on RH middle, 1 on LH middle.
none of the 1.32v cells were swollen
Klms have increased distance and power to 2/17, and on the last 1/17 the power is reduced
At 80kph I get 40klm, before I got 25klm
I have two different cells in the original packs, 1/3 of them have twice as many strengthend sidebars
And the replacements are different again, sharper corners
What a jumble!
I have two different cells in the original packs, 1/3 of them have twice as many strengthend sidebars
And the replacements are different again, sharper corners
What a jumble!
It is the same with my so called "original" pack: Two different types, the type with 2 ridges on each side and then a few with 4 ridges on each side. Mixed together in some of the modules!
Makes you wonder if these batteries were new!
Has anyone identified a source for replacement cells other than Vectrix or by scavanging them from damaged packs?
From the photos, they're clearly made in Hong Kong and I see serial numbers, but no model number or manufacturer name. If we had that info, perhaps we could track down local distributors.
I thought it had been said on other posts here that the quantity they are available in are in the thousands so no individual or even this group could buy the cells needed for all our bikes. It's probably going to be one of us buys a wrecked bike and then sells the cells to other group members that have dead cells on their bike...


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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Friday, February 24, 2012
The scale of the universe
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How Obama makes decisions
Ron Suskind's book
Confidence Men
portrays Barack Obama as being confounded by his duties as president. Some of the scenes depicted by Suskind would be comical if they were not so tragic for America.
For example, when Obama's experts assembled to discuss the scope and intricacies of the stimulus bill, Barack Obama was out of his depth. He was "surprisingly aloof in the conversation" and seemed "disconnected and less in control." His contributions were rare and consisted of blurting out such gems of wisdom as "There needs to be more inspiration here!" and "What about more smart grids" and -- one more that Newt Gingrich would appreciate -- "we need more moon shot" (pages 154-5).
Suskind writes:
Members of the team were perplexed...for the first time in the transition, people started to wonder just how prepared the man at the helm was. He repeated a similar sorry performance when he had a conference call with Speaker Pelosi and her staff to discuss the details of the planned stimulus bill. He shouted into the speakerphone that "this stimulus needs more inspiration! Pelosi and her staff visibly rolled their eyes."
Presidential exhortations more befitting a summer camp counselor will evoke such reactions.
Several months ago, I cited
a study of Woodrow Wilson
written by Sigmund Freud and William Bullitt:
Throughout his life he took intense interest only in subjects which could somehow be connected with speech...He took no interest in mathematics, science, art or music--except in singing himself, a form of speaking. His method of thinking about a subject seems to have been to imagine himself making a speech about it...He seems to have thought about political or economic problems only when he was preparing to make a speech about them either on paper or from the rostrum. His memory was undoubtedly of the vaso-motor type. The use of his vocal chords was to him inseparable from thinking.
To Obama, it's all about the speeches, all about the hype. Despite his faux reputation as an intellectual, the man has remarkably little interest in contemplation, analysis, or problem-solving.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Obama is planning
draconian cuts in the Federal Flight Deck Officer program
, also known as the armed pilots program.
Five Feet of Fury
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status...The explosive component in the contemporary scene is not the clamor of the masses but the self-righteous claims of a multitude of graduates from schools and universities. This army of scribes is clamoring for a society in which planning, regulation, and supervision are paramount and the prerogative of the educated. They hanker for the scribe's golden age, for a return to something like the scribe-dominated societies of ancient Egypt, China, and the Europe of the Middle Ages. There is little doubt that the present trend in the new and renovated countries toward social regimentation stems partly from the need to create adequate employment for a large number of scribes...Obviously, a high ratio between the supervisory and the productive force spells economic inefficiency. Yet where social stability is an overriding need the economic waste involved in providing suitable positions for the educated might be an element of social efficiency.
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
The millions of immigrants dumped on our shores after the Civil War underwent a tremendous change, and it was a highly irritating and painful experience. Not only were they transferred, almost overnight, to a wholly foreign world, but they were, for the most part, torn from the warm communal existence of a small town or village somewhere in Europe and exposed to the cold and dismal isolation of an individual existence. They were misfits in every sense of the world, and ideal material for a revolutionary explosion. But they had a vast continent at their disposal, and fabulous opportunities for self-advancement, and an environment which held self-reliance and individual enterprise in high esteem. And so these immigrants from stagnant small towns and villages in Europe plunged into a mad pursuit of action. They tamed and mastered a continent in an incredibly short time, and we are still in the backwash of that mad pursuit.
Things are different when people subjected to drastic change find only meager opportunities for action or when they cannot, or are not allowed to, attain self-confidence and self-esteem by individual pursuits.
In this case, the hunger for confidence, for worth, and for balance directs itself toward the attainment of substitutes. The substitute for self-confidence is faith; the substitute for self-esteem is pride; and the substitute for individual balace is fusion with others into a compact group.
It needs no underlining that this reaching out for substitutes means trouble.
In the chemistry of the soul, a substitute is almost always explosive if for no other reason than we can never have enough of it
...We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising, and the pride we derive from an identification with a nation, race, leader, or party is extreme and overbearing. The fact that a substitute can never become an organic part of ourselves makes our holding on to it passionate and intolerant.
To sum up:
When a population undergoing drastic change is without abundant opportunities for individual action and self-advancement, it develops a hunger for faith, pride, and unity.
It becomes receptive to all manner of proselytizing, and is eager to throw itself into collective undertakings which aim at "showing the world." In other words, drastic change, under certain conditions, creates a proclivity for fanatical attitudes, united action, and spectacular manifestations of flouting and defiance; it creates an atmosphere of revolution.
--Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change
(emphasis added)
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Erin O'Connor
links to
George Eliot
It is an interesting branch of psychological observation to note the images that are habitually associated with abstract or collective terms -- what may be called the picture-writing of the mind, which carries on concurrently with the more subtle symbolism of language. Perhaps the fixity or variety of these associated images would furnish a tolerably fair test of the amount of concrete knowledge and experience which a given word represents, in the minds of two persons who use it with equal familiarity. The word railways, for example, will probably call up, in the mind of a man who is not highly locomotive, the image either of a "Bradshaw," or of the station with which he is most familiar, or of an indefinite length of tram-road; he will alternate between these three images, which represent his stock of concrete acquaintance with railways. But suppose a man to had successively the experience of a "navvy," an engineer, a traveller, a railway director and a shareholder, and a landed proprietor in treaty with a railway company, and it is probable that the range of images which would by turns present themselves to his mind at the mention of the word "railways," would include all the essential facts in the existence and relations of the thing. Now it is possible for the first-mentioned personage to entertain very expanded views as to the multiplication of railways in the abstract, and their ultimate function in civilization. He may talk of a vast net-work of railways stretching over the globe, of future "lines" in Madagascar, and elegant refreshment-rooms in the Sandwich Islands, with none the less glibness because his distinct conceptions on the subject do not extend beyond his one station and his indefinite length of tram-road. But it is evident that if we want a railway to be made, or its affairs to be managed, this man of wide views and narrow observation will not serve our purpose.
Probably, if we could ascertain the images called up by the terms "the people," "the masses," "the proletariat," "the peasantry," by many who theorize on those bodies with eloquence, or who legislate for them without eloquence, we should find that they indicate almost as small an amount of concrete knowledge -- that they are as far from completely representing the complex facts summed up in the collective term, as the railway images of our non-locomotive gentleman. How little the real characteristics of the working-classes are known to those who are outside them, how little their natural history has been studied, is sufficiently disclosed by our Art as well as by our political and social theories.
Read the whole Eliot passage plus Erin's post.
See also Peter Robinson's post about
Khrushchev and Soviet management practices
, which I see as being pretty related.
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A thoughtful essay by Richard Fernandez
about the costs of the effort to establish top-down control over all aspects of human life.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Government lunchbox inspectors in North Carolina
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Even in the freest society power is charged with the impulse to turn men into precise, predictable automata. When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual – the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker – and that every device they employ aims at turning man into a manipulatable 'animated instrument,' which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.
On the other hand, every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.
There is no doubt that of all political systems the free society is the most "unnatural." Totalitarianism, even when it goes hand in hand with a modernization of technique, constitutes a throwback to the primitive and a return to nature. It is significant that the "back to nature" movements since the days of Rousseau, though generous and noble in origin, have inevitably tended to terminate in absolutism and the worship of brute force.
Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
...conducted by Francis Fukuyama, about America's current trajectory. Thiel co-founded PayPal and is a venture capitalist; he was an early investor in Facebook. In 2010 he created a fellowship with the mission of awarding $100,000 each to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them to quit college and create their own ventures. Fukuyama is a political scientist and writer best known for his book The End of History.
Link to the interview
I think this point made by Thiel is particularly worthy of note:
One regulatory perspective is that environmentalism has played a much greater role than people think. It induced a deep skepticism about anything involving the manipulation of nature or material objects in the real world. The response to environmentalism was to prohibit scientists from experimenting with stuff and only allow them to do so with bits. So computer science and finance were legal, and what they have in common is that they involve the manipulation of bits rather than stuff. They both did well in those forty years, but all the other engineering disciplines were stymied. Electric engineering, civil engineering, aeronautical, nuclear, petroleum—these were all held back, and attracted fewer talented students at university as the years went on. When people wonder why all the rocket scientists went to work on Wall Street, well, they were no longer able to build rockets. It's some combination of an ossified, Weberian bureaucracy and the increasingly hostile regulation of technology. That's very different from the 1950s and 1960s. There's a powerful libertarian argument that government used to be far less intrusive, but found targeted ways to advance science and technology.
Read the whole thing.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Predictions about the year 2000
made by Robert Heinlein in 1952.
Newmark's Door
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
The first stored-program electronic computer capable of doing useful work was the
, built at Cambridge University and commissioned in 1949. It supported research in several scientific disciplines as well as the development of software techniques until being scrapped as obsolete in 1958. There is now a project to
this pioneering computer: the reconstructed version will be made as close as possible to the original, with one exception...and the reasons for the exception, I think, are perhaps more related to social history than to the history of technology.
EDSAC used vacuum tubes (valves, in Britspeak) for its arithmetical and logical functions; for memory, it used something called a
mercury delay line
, an idea borrowed from WWII radar technology. (EDSAC=Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator.) information to be stored was introduced at one end of a tube of mercury, down which it traveled in the form of pulses of sound. About 1 millisecond later, at the other end of the tank, the pulses were picked up, amplified, and emitted again at the starting point, with the whole train of information bits in the line thereby being kept in continuous circulation as long as the power was on.
Can you guess how the reconstructed EDSAC is going to differ from the original version?
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Monday, February 06, 2012
The IRS has a
proposed new regulation
which would prohibit charter-school teachers from participating in state retirement plans. (At present, all of the states which authorize charter schools permit, and in some cases require, the charter-school teachers to participate in these plans.) Furthermore, the new regulation would apparently
apply retroactively
and would cause the teachers to lose the state contributions to their accounts which have been accrued, and on which they were no doubt relying, unless they give up their employment. More
Today, February 6, is the last day for public comments on this issue under IRS procedures.
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Friday, February 03, 2012
AUTHOR APPRECIATION: Rose Wilder Lane
I got a Kindle a few months ago, and have been very pleased to discover lots of old and largely-forgotten but very worthwhile books available for download, often for free or for 99 cents. In this and future posts, I'll be giving some focus to these neglected but worthy books and their authors.
Rose Wilder Lane, born in 1886 in the Dakota Territory, was the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the "Little House on the Prairie" books. Lane is best known for her writings on political philosophy and has been referred to as a "Founding Mother" of libertarianism; she was also a novelist and the author of several biographies.
In her article
, published in 1936, she describes her political journey, beginning with the words:
In 1919 I was a communist.
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Novelist Ben Marcus talks about
how a writer can create emotional involvement
on the part of his readers
A Harvard Business Review writer on
how your use of pronouns reflects your personality
Speaking of Harvard, Cold Spring Shops has an interesting piece on
status differences among colleges
The American Spectator on
Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
Daniel Drezner on
American resilience
Chicago Boy Ralph Goergens calls attention to the
Building Technology Heritage Library
The world's most luxurious trains
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Yesterday, after commenting on the state of US nuclear weapons waste storage on the Marshall Islands, we said, 'one would expect that nuclear waste dumps built in the US will be to a better standard'. We take it back – we were wrong:
In the arid land of southeastern Washington State lies a remote area along the Columbia River that serves as a reminder of the Cold War standoff between the US and the Soviet Union. This 586-square foot relic is the Hanford site—a retired plutonium production complex that the Department of Energy (DOE) considers to be "the world's largest environmental cleanup project."
Some 525 million gallons of radioactive waste were generated by Hanford between 1944 and 1988, according to a Government Accountability Office report, and at least 56 million gallons of the stuff remains on site in leaky tanks. Already a million gallons of it has seeped into the ground and contaminated the Columbia River.
Approximately 450 billion gallons of waste has already been discharged into the soil during production at the Hanford site—an amount equal to about five days flow of the Columbia River.
Hanford is the most radioactive site in the US. The numbers involved in the country's radioactive Cold War legacy are truly staggering, truly chilling:
[N]uclear weapons buildup over a 45-year span left behind a nationwide toxic waste legacy: 1.7 trillion gallons of contaminated groundwater, 40 million cubic meters of tainted soil and debris, more than 2,000 tons of radioactive spent nuclear fuel, more than 160,000 cubic meters of radioactive and hazardous waste, and more than 100 million gallons of liquid, high-level radioactive waste, according to Max S. Power, author of America's Nuclear Wastelands: Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup.
Again, as with the Marshall Islands, it is the Department of Energy that is the villain of the piece. After declaring 'the US has no formal custodial responsibilities for the [nuclear waste dump] site' on one of the islands, their attitude to waste dumps on American soil is very much the same. 'They're trying to avoid the option of having to build storage tanks, which are very expensive, but the cost of a catastrophic tank failure is incalculable,' says Robert Alvarez, senior scholar for the Institute for Policy Studies.'
The clock is ticking down to when the storage tanks on the site will fail – they are single-shell and their 20-year lifespan ended decades ago. The deadline for completely emptying the tanks is not until 2040. Last year a spill from one of the tanks halted the clean up work which was only restarted in June this year.
Earlier this year the Bush administration proposed cutting the clean up budget by $600 million – a one third reduction. That's a very real illustration of how financial imperatives can trump moral and environmental ones – during hard times, priorities quite obviously lie elsewhere than in cleaning up one of the most contaminated places on Earth.
Nuclear waste is nuclear waste whether it's produced by nuclear weapons programmes or nuclear reactors. The same principles apply. There are valuable lessons to be learned here for the decision makers. The only question is, will they learn them and in time? When you read about military nuclear waste being secretly buried in hills of earth at Tricastin in France or about seagulls bathing in radioactive water at Sellafield in England, it's very clear how very far we have to go.
Hi Justin,
NICE post!! I'm glad that you're highlighting the Hanford situation. It's a bottomless federal money pit, and I have serious dou...
NICE post!! I'm glad that you're highlighting the Hanford situation. It's a bottomless federal money pit, and I have serious doubts about whether it will ever be cleaned up. Ok, I'll be blunt: I don't think there's a chance that it can be fixed.
I worked there for a while, as a chemist, with the tank waste. It's unbelievably nasty stuff.
Finally, click here for an in-depth piece I wrote about Hanford's legacy.
If you look at it from an environmental point of view, the Cold War never ended.
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Cover Pics?Edit
Do we really need five cover pics? Jaz talk 03:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
If there are any other sources to 'AeroNav' from any other novels/episodes, please include them on the Sources area. If anyone has any more information on AeroNav itself, please include that as well.
- The problem is... AeroNav seems to be a non-canon concept from a novel. Here on MA, we don't have individual articles for such. This will need to be merged into the relevant novel, unless there's an episodal reference to it. -- Sulfur 13:24, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
- None exists. This could also be added to Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works. --Jörg 13:26, 5 May 2007 (UTC)


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By Sally LinderSept. 7, 2007
An Ohio University female freshman student was transferred from O'Bleness Memorial Hospital to Ohio State University Medical Center last night with a condition that has since been diagnosed as a soft tissue infection. Today Ohio University has been informed that it is not a contagious condition.
Medical professionals at the hospital who have had involvement with the student's case and Ohio University medical professionals are emphasizing that the infection is not a type that can be passed from person to person.
"Our hearts go out to the student and her family," Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Richard Carpinelli said. "We also know that a situation of this type can raise fears in those around them. Medical professionals have assured us that no other members of our university community are at risk as a result of this medical situation."
The student lives in Perkins Hall, and according to Carpinelli, residence hall staff members are providing support for everyone there, allaying fears and informing residents and staff that they have not been exposed to a contagious condition.
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NEWCASTLE United star Papiss Demba Cisse is being watched by a Spanish giant and the Magpies weigh up a swoop for a French ace, while it's quiet on the Sunderland front.
Real Madrid scouts have been watching Newcastle striker Papiss Demba Cisse with a view to making a move for the Senegal international this summer. Full story: the Times
Meanwhile, Newcastle are considering a move for Marseilles and former France under-19 defender Christophe Lowinsky. Full story: the Times
Another Newcastle target, Ajax defender Jan Vertonghen, is wanted by Spurs who could be set to move for the 24-year-old. Full story: Daily Mail
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is closing in on £17m-rated Rennes midfielder Yann M'Vila, 21. Full story: Daily Mirror
Manchester City are targeting Montpellier midfielder Younes Belhanda, 22, as a back-up target, with their pursuit of Lille's Eden Hazard, 21, proving more difficult than the club had first anticipated. Full story: Independent
Tottenham target Loic Remy, the 25-year-old Marseille striker, says he wants to remain with the French club but admits that their financial situation may lead to him being sold. Full story: Metro
Arsenal are keen to make the first move for Fulham striker Clint Dempsey, 29, who is also wanted by Liverpool. Full story: the Sun


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Interview: Promoting Democracy In Iran Successfully
By Fatemeh Aman http://gdb.rferl.org/858344D9-E2E6-4C21-933D-24D7BC02DA64_w203.jpg Milani says Iran has a stronger democratic tradition than anywhere else in the Middle East (Courtesy Photo) U.S. media and opinion makers have devoted much comment to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's proposal to provide $85 million in assistance to help promote democracy in Iran. One of these opinion makers is Dr. Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution, who has spoken out about the U.S. government's proposal in articles published in "The Wall Street Journal" and elsewhere. In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL's Radio Farda, Milani discusses his views concerning the promotion of democracy in the Middle East and Iran.
Abbas Milani: I think that if it's well spent -- in other words, if it is not squandered on things that cannot be done and it is not given to groups that cannot manage it wisely -- then it can be very effective, particularly if it is used primarily to create something like a surrogate radio and a surrogate television. Something that would be the equivalent of what an Iranian television and radio would have been, had Iran been a democratic society. I think, if Iran had such a media outlet a few years ago, for example, I think things would have been very different in Iran today. And I think they will be very different in a few years once such an institution is created with the help of this money.
Long Democratic Tradition
Radio Farda: Do you think the United States and the West have been successful at promoting democracy in the Middle East and in Iran? And if you think they have not been successful, what do you think is the reason?
Milani: The chance of promoting democracy, successfully, in Iran is greater than anywhere else in the Middle East for two very, very prominent reasons. One is, the Iranian society has an indigenous, powerful, now 100-year-old democratic movement. This is not something that has to be created ex nihilo, from nothing. This is something that is there; the United States doesn't have to create it.
Secondly, the United States faces in Iran a reality that is the opposite of every other Middle Eastern country with the exception of Israel, and that is that the government talks anti-American rhetoric, but the people, the street, is predominantly pro-American. What you have in the rest of the Middle East is that the government is trying to be, at least ostensibly are, pro-American, but the people, often influenced by advertisements in the media of those very countries, are anti-American. So in the case of Iran, you have a democratic movement that exists, that has made great strides in the past (it is now in a period of relative retreat because of the [former President Mohammad] Khatami defeat, the disappointment that came as a result of Khatami, but those forces there, they haven't gone away), and the population is predominantly pro-American. In other words, they will listen. It is not like they will not listen to something that is openly, transparently American.
Radio Farda: You said it is easy to promote democracy in Iran, but I also asked whether you think the United States has been successful in promoting democracy. If not, what has been at fault?
Milani: The problem in Iraq, the reason that democracy promotion in Iraq has not been successful is because in the case of Iraq there was not [an] indigenous democratic movement. The United States decided to invade Iraq, and that created a Pandora's box that some scholars had anticipated but many planners did not anticipate, in other words, the emergence of this kind of insurgency and all of the other things that have happened.
But at the same time, if you look at the Middle East today and compare it with 15 years ago, you, I think, have to admit that there are more democracies in the Middle East than there were. The Palestinians just had the freest elections in the history of probably any Arab country. In Lebanon, the people succeeded in pushing out Syria. There is a very viable democracy in Kurdistan, in the British part of Iraq. There is at least the possibility of democracy coming to Egypt; at least flickers of it are on the horizon, at least [Egyptian President] Hosni Mubarak knows the old trick of saying, "If you push me, you will get Islamic radicalism" is no longer enough to dissuade the U.S. from pushing for democracy. There have been failures in the other places, or small successes as in the case of Iraqi Kurdistan.
What has happened in Kurdistan is truly incredible. It's a very viable, democratic part of Iraq that thrives. But there, the U.S. had to face the problem that it was working in a milieu, in an atmosphere, which was very, very anti-American. And it had to face the reality that there wasn't much of a democratic movement in these countries to begin with.
The U.S. had to sort of force democracy on these societies, and that can't be done. You can't force societies to become democratic. Democracy needs a lot of things. It needs civil society, it needs a middle class, it needs a technocratic class, it needs a culture of tolerance. And these things are beginning to exist on a very extensive basis in Iran. In the case of Iran, I think if there was a television and radio station that was doing this kind of a promotion of democracy, I think it would be a very different story.
Helping Iranians Help Themselves
Radio Farda: You wrote that this help can be used by those who are denouncing violence in their fight for democracy in Iran. As you have indicated, U.S. financial support for Iran-based democrats is a sensitive issue. So how can these forces be helped by the U.S. without being hurt?
Milani: Fist of all, several things have to be very clear. One is that the U.S. is not looking for a [exiled Iraqi opposition leader Ahmad] Chalabi in Iran. Second, that the U.S. is not trying to decide who the next ruler of Iran will be. Third, that the U.S. will not support any group that has a history of terrorism, a history of violence, a history of oppression. Fourth, that the U.S. will not help movements that want to dismember Iran, that are trying to break Iran apart.
The U.S. could be tempted to do that, and it would be easy because there is a lot of national resentment among Kurds, among Turks. The U.S., I think, has to say clearly, categorically, unmistakably: "We won't do this. We won't support terrorists. We won't support anyone who is advocating the violent overthrow of the government. And we don't plan to force a solution on Iran."
The only thing that the U.S. should say it wants to do is to help the Iranians themselves in this process. That's a very crucial thing. That's a big difference between Iran and Iraq. In Iraq, the U.S. essentially went in, occupied the country, ran the country for a while, and then said, "OK, let's see if you can have a democratic government here." That's hard to get. But my suggestion is that that should be avoided in Iran, and a different path can be tried. And I think that if it is tried and if it is made clear that the U.S. respects the rights of Iranians to determine their own future, then you will get a different result, and you will get a good result.
Radio Farda: Regarding your suggestion of the creation of an American visa office in Tehran, how should we imagine this? How realistic is this idea?
Milani: Well, as I said there, I don't think the Islamic regime will allow it, but the U.S. should make the offer. It should be clear to the Iranians, who now are forced to go to Turkey and Dubai and Germany and to spend a lot of money and wait in a lot of lines and be humiliated to get a passport, that this is essentially the fault of the regime. It's the fault of Mr. [President Mahmud] Ahmadinejad's rhetoric.
It is crucial, I think, for the U.S. to separate the Iranian people from this regime, to speak to the Iranian people and say: "Look, we don't have any problem with you. We respect your right to develop a nuclear program within the existing laws. But the problem is with this regime, and if we don't give you visas, it's because the regime doesn't allow us to have a visa office there."
It must be made clear who is responsible for the problems that the people of Iran face. Because it has a monopoly on the media, the regime has very successfully told people a lot of stories. They have sold the nuclear issue as a David and Goliath story. America, they have tried to sell -- tried, they haven't been successful -- as being a bully, singling Iran out and denying Iran its rights. It must be made clear that it is the regime's irresponsible rhetoric and its action, its lying and betraying the trust of the Iranian people and of the global community, that has gotten Iran into the current impasse. It has to be made clear to the Iranian people that the U.S. is willing to work with them. A truly, editorially independent media would go a long way in doing that.
Economic sanctions could further undermine Iran's already shaky economy (Fars)
MOVING TOWARD SANCTIONS: If the United Nations Security Council imposes sanctions on Iran, domestic support for Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad will wane, according to ALEX VATANKA, Eurasia editor for Jane's Information Group.
Vatanka told a February 24 RFE/RL briefing that "economic sanctions will hurt the average Iranian" and, consequently, many "will blame the ruling clerics" for making life difficult and "impairing the country's long term development."
Vatanka said sanctions would be a serious challenge to the Iranian government. If harsh economic sanctions were imposed, Iran's poorest population will be hurt the hardest -- and might react "as they did in the 1970s and protest in the streets." Sanctions on travel, Vatanka said, would hurt a many Iranians because "Iran is a nation of small traders" who depend on the ability to travel to earn an income. According to Vatanka, unemployment in Iran is estimated at 30 percent, "so small trading is essential to survival." Although current U.S. sanctions "haven't worked," he said, "Iranians fear an oil embargo." He stressed that "oil revenues are a major part of the economy, so it is critical to look at this sector."
Should negotiations with the European Union and the UN fail, Vatanka believes that Iran would follow a "North Korea model," since Ahmadinejad's base of support among the "Islamist militias" has been "urging withdrawal from the NPT [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]." The Iranian government's "tactic" so far, Vatanka said, is governed by the belief that "by shouting the loudest, you'll get concessions [from the West]."
LISTENListen to the complete panel discussion (about 60 minutes):
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THE COMPLETE STORY: RFE/RL's coverage of the controversy surrounding Iran's nuclear program.


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WBC Junior Welterweight champion Danny Garcia is sitting atop the 140 pound division patiently waiting for his next assignment. Garcia is slated to face the winner of the Lamont Peterson-Lucas Matthysse fight taking place this Saturday night as it will serve as the second round of the unofficial 140 pound tourney Golden Boy is putting on.
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