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Rediff.com » Business » Why CBI went after Sebi officers for Saradha, not Sahara
Why CBI went after Sebi officers for Saradha, not Sahara
By Debashis Basu
It is intriguing that the CBI has shown little interest in the most scandalous and biggest collective investment scheme ever, from the Sahara group, asserts Debashis Basu.
Photograph: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters
The Central Bureau of Investigation, often termed a 'caged parrot', recently searched the residences of three officers of the Securities and Exchange Board of India in connection with the Saradha Ponzi scheme.
The news passed off with barely a murmur, but the hapless Sebi officials concerned would be left with dealing with ignominy and stress.
To us, the silly CBI action on a scam that erupted a decade ago seems laughable.
But it is not only sinister and perverse, but the CBI's raid raises several larger issues that the government ought to address urgently.
It is intriguing that the CBI has shown little interest in the most scandalous and biggest collective investment scheme ever, from the Sahara group.
In August last year, Vivek Aggarwal, joint secretary, cooperatives and central registrar, wrote an extraordinary letter to the ministry of corporate affairs that four multi-state cooperative societies of the Sahara group had raised an astounding Rs 86,673 crore (Rs 866.73 billion) over 10 years (from 2010, when Saradha was at its peak) from millions of depositors and was unable to make repayments.
There are frequent demonstrations of depositors in front of Sahara offices for repayment and there have been cases of suicide as well, without attracting any serious action.
How does the Saradha scam compare with Sahara?
At its peak in 2011-2012, Saradha had raised Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion).
In contrast, the Sahara group has picked up Rs 1.1 trillion without any fanfare, completely unaffected by a high-profile trial in the Supreme Court, which led to group chairman Subrata Roy being sent to Tihar jail in March 2014.
The Supreme Court order was part of a long and bruising battle with Sebi in connection with Rs 24,000 crore (Rs 240 billion) raised by two Sahara realty entities by issuing optionally fully convertible debentures (OFCDs) without Sebi's permission.
If the CBI targets three middle-level Sebi officials and stays away from something 10 times larger, its action will obviously seem motivated.
For those who remember, Sahara had the temerity to put out large front-page advertisements, calling Sebi a 'sarkari goonda' when it acted against Sahara for illegally raising money from the public.
Why allow collective investment schemes?
What does Sebi have to do with Saradha? Well, Sebi is supposed to regulate what are called collective investment schemes (CIS).
Forget the official nomenclature, these are essentially chain-money schemes, which pay old investors high returns with the money raised from new investors.
Since such a business model is unsustainable, they go bust after a while, often destroying the lives of the poor and the middle class.
But by then, the allure of high returns would have caught on like a wildfire, allowing a scheme to raise billions of rupees very rapidly.
Saradha was one such scheme. As were Rose Valley, MPS Greenery, and hundreds of others across India, which are regularly destroying hundreds of billions of rupees.
Some time ago, a reader alerted us to the Swiss Mutual Fund, which offered a stupendous 25 per cent return per month, 'plus 10% Commission, 10% Bonus, 10% Revenue & 0.10 Daily Profit Payout!!! Guaranteed By Swiss Mutual Fund (1948)'.
Sebi is supposed to regulate these schemes as part of the Sebi (Collective Investment Scheme) Regulations, 1999, later extensively amended.
But it is a useless piece of legislation. Here is why:
When the amendments to the CIS were passed in 2014, Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar pointed out that only one scheme (Ahmedabad-based Gift Collective Investment Management Company Ltd) had registered itself under Sebi's 1999 guidelines and had yet to launch a single scheme, while at the same time, thousands of ponzi schemes had been operating unchecked all over India.
Section 36 of the CIS says the units of every CIS shall be listed within six weeks of the date of closure of the CIS on each of the stock exchanges.
Have you seen any scheme listed on the stock exchanges? Right now, there are none.
This is not a surprise. The fact is there is no evidence of any genuine business happening under CIS.
Schemes such as Saradha thrive under a nexus of politicians and police in every state.
All these have essentially been chain-money schemes, which are frauds and have to be dealt under the Indian Penal Code.
There is no role for a securities regulator here. To expect Sebi to regulate them is laughable, but it has been asked to do it.
The 1999 CIS regulation came up because of the mid-1990s fraud perpetrated by plantation schemes.
The subsequent amendments came about in 2014 following scams such as Saradha and Rose Valley, since politicians needed to show some action although they were themselves deeply involved.
By the way, there is another good piece of legislation called the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Act since 1978, supposed to be implemented by states.
But politicians in states themselves support shady schemes and enjoy the money until they go bust.
For years, policymakers debated whether the Reserve Bank of India, Sebi, or states should deal with such toxic schemes.
When U K Sinha was Sebi chairman, P Chidambaram as finance minister made Sebi the main regulator of something that cannot even be called 'securities' and is usually built on fraud.
Incidentally, Chidambaram's wife has been also investigated in connection with Saradha.
Even then, Sebi has made valiant attempts to 'regulate' these schemes, which are often conceived as criminal enterprises from the start.
Its actions against high-profile schemes such as Pancard Clubs, MPS Greenery, Rose Valley, Green Touch Projects, Ramel group, and a host of others have also been commendable.
Sebi was also the first to stop PACL, or Pearls, from raising money when it had raised Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion).
PACL gamed the legal system and got repeated stay orders until the amount finally ballooned to Rs 49,000 crore (Rs 490 billion) plus interest.
Sebi has had to face long misuse of legal processes in most other cases too.
It is simply revolting that someone in New Delhi has ignored the complexity of the issues involved here and Sebi's unenviable position regarding CIS, and unleashed CBI on a few hapless employees of the market regulator.
Debashis Basu is the editor of www.moneylife.in.
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Carnifex Vocalist Scott Lewis on The MetalSucks Podcast #300
August 5th, 2019 at 3:36pm
Carnifex vocalist Scott Lewis is the guest on our 300th episode. We discuss the band's new album World War X, the concept behind the record, the importance of the atmospherics and layers to the album's sound, the importance of the visual aesthetic in this album's videos, and how this year's Summer Slaughter tour has been going and why it's working so well. We also discuss Scott's passion for action films, the importance of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, why Tim Burton's vision is not on that same level, modern day feature film directors choosing to go to television instead of doing more features, and the most important contribution to society we have power over as individuals.
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Q: How do I show that for any set of n measurements, the fraction included in the interval y(bar) - ks to y(bar) + ks is atleast 1 - 1/k^2 I'm having trouble showing this.
It says: let k be greater than or equal to 1. Show that for any set of n measurements, the fraction included in the interval y(bar) - ks to y(bar) + ks it atleast $1 - 1/k^2$. y(bar) is the mean.
The problem gives a hint:
$s^2 = 1/(n-1)[sum(y - y(bar))^2]$. In this expression, replace all deviations for which |y - ybar| is greater than or equal to ks with ks. Simplify.
I'm not sure what that means.

A: This is Chebyshev's inequality. Here's an extended HINT.
You know that the standard deviation $s$ is given by the expression
$$s^2=\frac1{n-1}\sum_{k=1}^n\left(y_k-\bar y\right)^2\;,$$
where the $n$ observations are $y_1,y_2,\ldots,y_n$. (You missed the square on $y-\bar y$ in your statement of the hint.) Split the set $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ in two by letting $A=\{k:|y_k-\bar y|<ks\}$ and $B=\{k:|y_k-\bar y|\ge ks\}$. Note that if $k\in B$, then $(y_k-\bar y)^2=|y_k-\bar y|^2\ge k^2s^2$. Thus,
$$\begin{align*}
s^2&=\frac1{n-1}\sum_{k=1}^n\left(y_k-\bar y\right)^2\\
&=\frac1{n-1}\left(\sum_{k\in A}(y_k-\bar y)^2+\sum_{k\in B}(y_k-\bar y)^2\right)\\
&\ge\frac1{n-1}\left(\sum_{k\in A}(y_k-\bar y)^2+\sum_{k\in B}k^2s^2\right)\\
&=\frac1{n-1}\left(\sum_{k\in A}(y_k-\bar y)^2+|B|k^2s^2\right)\\
&\ge\frac{|B|k^2}{n-1}s^2\;.
\end{align*}$$
where $|B|$ is the number of elements in $B$. Dividing through by $s^2k^2$ gives us $$\frac1{k^2}\ge\frac{|B|}{n-1}\;.\tag{1}$$
The observations in the interval $(\bar y-ks,\bar y+ks)$ are the observations $y_k$ with $k\in A$, so the proportion of such observations is $\frac{|A|}n$. You want to show that $$\frac{|A|}n\ge1-\frac1{k^2}\;.\tag{2}$$ Use $(1)$ and the fact that $|A|+|B|=n$ to derive $(2)$.

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Q: Cannot resolve KeyInfo for verifying signature while sending soap request I keep getting the below error response while trying to make my request.
Error response:
Cannot resolve KeyInfo for verifying signature: KeyInfo 'SecurityKeyIdentifier
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    IsReadOnly = False,
    Count = 1,
    Clause[0] = X509ThumbprintKeyIdentifierClause(Hash = 0x00EE1960A463F7A891C0C9551DC937BD5D8F5F64)
    )
', available tokens 'SecurityTokenResolver
    (
    TokenCount = 1,
    TokenEntry[0] = (AllowedReferenceStyle=External, Token=System.IdentityModel.Tokens.X509SecurityToken, Parameters=System.ServiceModel.Security.Tokens.X509SecurityTokenParameters:
InclusionMode: AlwaysToRecipient
ReferenceStyle: Internal
RequireDerivedKeys: True
X509ReferenceStyle: Thumbprint)
    )
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Client creation:
Dim client As New xxxClient()
client.Endpoint.Contract.ProtectionLevel = ProtectionLevel.Sign
client.Endpoint.Binding = CreateBinding()
client.Endpoint.Address = CreateEndpointAddress(client.Endpoint)
Dim x509Certificate2Client As X509Certificate2 = CertificateManager.GetCertificateBySerialNumber(ConfigSettingFunctions.CertificaatSerialNummer(_Company_ID), True)
Dim x509Certificate2Server As X509Certificate2 = CertificateManager.GetCertificateBySerialNumber(ConfigSettingFunctions.CertificaatSerialNummer(_Company_ID), False)
client.ClientCredentials.ClientCertificate.Certificate = x509Certificate2Client
client.ClientCredentials.ServiceCertificate.DefaultCertificate = x509Certificate2Server
client.ClientCredentials.ServiceCertificate.Authentication.CertificateValidationMode = X509CertificateValidationMode.None

Binding creation:
Private Function CreateBinding() As Binding
    Dim binding = New CustomBinding()
    Dim initiatorSec As SecurityTokenParameters = New X509SecurityTokenParameters(X509KeyIdentifierClauseType.RawDataKeyIdentifier)
    Dim recipientSec As SecurityTokenParameters = New X509SecurityTokenParameters(X509KeyIdentifierClauseType.Thumbprint)
    Dim asym As AsymmetricSecurityBindingElement = New AsymmetricSecurityBindingElement(recipientSec, initiatorSec)
    binding.Elements.Add(asym)
    binding.Elements.Add(New TextMessageEncodingBindingElement(MessageVersion.Soap11, Encoding.UTF8))
    binding.Elements.Add(New HttpsTransportBindingElement())
    Return binding
End Function

EndpointAdress creation:
Private Function CreateEndpointAddress(endpoint As ServiceEndpoint) As EndpointAddress
    Return New EndpointAddress(endpoint.ListenUri, EndpointIdentity.CreateDnsIdentity("xxx"))
End Function

While using SoapUI the request works so I'm sure that at the very least the client certificate is correct. Which makes me believe that something is wrong about the custombinding.
I also tried to use multiple verions of the MutualCertificateDuplex bindings but I continually received the same error. I'm fairly sure I need to use a Asymetric security binding to be able to connect to the service since the example code of the service uses the above binding configuration.


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John F. Kennedy. Harper/Book-of-the-Month Club/1956.
INSCRIBED by JFK to a nurse who worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I bought this book from her family, with whom it had remained since Kennedy inscribed it.
This copy is a Book-of-the-Month Club edition, with the exterior dressed up with a trade edition dust jacket. The previous owner's name and sticker are on the front pastedown, and another family member's name has been blacked out on the pastedown with a marker. These are covered by the front flap of the dust jacket. Otherwise, the book is in good condition: shelf wear, some browning to the endpapers; interior clean and attractive.
Jackson Pollock, Francis Valentine O'Connor, Eugene Victor Thaw. Yale University Press, 1978.
Catalogs and describes Pollock's work. An invaluable reference.
Four volumes in fine condition. Slipcase has minimal shelf wear.
Hinges have been professionally strengthened. A nice copy of this Civil War title.


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Former roommates reunite for noon recital at First Lutheran Church
Eileen C. Mitchell and Robin Malloy were roommates while majoring in music at the Pennsylvania State University.
Whenever Mitchell sang, Malloy played piano accompaniment.
After graduation they went their separate ways but remained friends. Mitchell lives in Tyrone and Malloy in Indiana. They talked about getting together to do a recital and decided to offer their talents to the Tuesday Noon Recital Series.
They will present a program of popular classics at noon Oct. 12 at First Lutheran Church, 415 Vine St., Johnstown. Their recital includes works by Puccini, Gounod and John Jacob Niles.
"We love to share our music with others." Mitchell said.
She is a retired teacher, having taught music in the public schools for 38 years. Choirs under her direction have performed in Boston, Nashville and Washington, D.C. Also in Florida, Virginia and many music festivals throughout Pennsylvania.
She has taught voice and piano privately and studio voice at Juniata College. She has been the music director at her church for more than 40 years, directing the choir and playing the piano and organ.
Mitchell currently performs with the Allegheny Choir and a group called Take Note. She directs a Juniata Valley High School alumni choir and a community choir in Tyrone. She holds a master's degree from Penn State.
Malloy has a master's degree in music performance from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has a studio in her home for lessons and recitals. She has played the piano and organ in various churches and for numerous events.
The recitals are free thanks to a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and individual donations.


Back in the 1970's, aka the 'golden age' of sunbathing, sunscreen was an unknown word, and sun lotions were all about getting those copper toned bodies flaunted by the likes of Farrah Fawcett. In those days, fake tan was a streaky, hit-and-miss affair and instead, women slathered on everything from baby oil to branded lotions that promised to deliver that sought after golden glow. Even a little redness was considered on trend and a sign of devotion to sunbathing.
Those from an earlier generation who didn't favour tanning taught their daughters that foundation would protect the skin on their face from burning; after all, a red face is never a good look. These savvy women knew instinctively that their makeup provided a certain amount of protection from the sun's strongest rays, even if they weren't exactly sure why. The Sun Protection Factor (SPF) rating wasn't adopted by regulators until 1978, so how was it that makeup was able to provide this protection? The answer is simple, titanium dioxide.
Used in liquid foundation since the 1920's, titanium dioxide is derived from a naturally-occurring mineral that in powdered form creates the whitest pigment available. Developed for use in artist's paint at the start of the 20th century, its high levels of opacity and iridescence made it ideal for creating coverage and bringing luminosity to foundation. Low toxicity meant it could be used on the delicate facial area as sensitivity or allergic reactions to it are rare. From the early days of foundation production prestige brands, such as Estee Lauder, included it in their formula.
Titanium dioxide has what is known as a high refractive index which means it reflects away light and is where it gets its opacity from. This property meant it was noted as the ideal solution to protect against the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays. When sunscreens were developed, it was therefore included as a key ingredient to provide protection. The sun protection factor was created at differing levels by increasing or decreasing the density of titanium dioxide. To put it simply, the greater the amount of titanium dioxide, the higher the SPF.
In addition to the inclusion of titanium dioxide, foundations have traditionally provided some protection from the sun's rays by simply creating a barrier on the skin. Just as denser fabrics, such as cotton or linen, provide protection when worn in the sunshine, a layer of makeup provides coverage in a literal sense. With foundations being thicker and denser in their earlier incarnations, they were able to provide a protective layer on the skin's surface.
Interestingly, while titanium dioxide is still used in many makeup formulations today, they are not always noted as having an SPF. As with the earlier foundations, its inclusion is to create coverage and opacity rather than UV protection. It can also be at levels lower than an SPF of 15 which the regulations don't require to be registered. The reason for this is to protect consumers from claims that foundations offer greater protection than they actually do. In these sun conscious times, an SPF in a foundation can be a real draw, so it is important that they are correctly labelled. That said there is no doubt that they do offer some protection because of the inclusion of titanium dioxide.
Of course, titanium dioxide is not the only ingredient used in either sunscreen or foundation to provide protection against the sun. Zinc oxide has been in use as a treatment for skin conditions for centuries. Like titanium, it is a white pigment with a high refractive index which gives it a high level of opacity. As a thick white paste, it had been in use to protect against skin burning for hundreds of years. However, its consistency and density meant this was restricted to key areas, usually the classic white stripes on the nose and under the eyes, and exposure to the blazing hot sun.
Zinc has the benefit of being able to prevent UVA rays from reaching the skin and is also used in sunscreens to provide the SPF. As broad spectrum sunscreens are now recommended, the most effective usually contain a combination of both titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. However, when it comes to including them in makeup zinc oxide is not without its drawbacks. While both ingredients are micronized, which means they are reduced down to very small particles, zinc particles are slightly larger than titanium dioxide ones and can end up blocking pores.
Additionally, while titanium dioxide is brighter zinc's density means it is has a greater opacity which makes it an excellent choice as an ingredient in concealer. However, it also means it is highly reflective and is one of the culprits when it comes to flashback, those ghostly white areas that appear on the face under flash photography. As a result, it is not ideal for use in foundations that are worn at night.
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Creating a Sustainable Light – a Measured Response
By E Kinnersley
The greatest recent discovery in archaeology is not a forgotten tomb, the key to a forgotten language, or anything the Ancient Aliens conspiracy theory types will rob of all context to mislead people for tv ratings; it's asking a local what they think about it.
Find a 4,000-year-old barn with a ring of bricks only one brick high in the middle?
"Baby chicks can't jump that high, while the hens can still move freely," answers the farmer in the nearest village.
All the knives in an Incan dig site are placed on the house's rafters?
"Kids can't get to them," a Quechua mother down the road will tell you.
Where does this fit into lighting and the environment?
Well, on the 28th of October this year; Recolight, a lamp recycler in the UK, ran a 90-minute stream featuring two talks, a panel discussion, and a Q&A session – watch the whole thing here – but these experts in the field missed a few things they might not have if they just asked anyone who works in the actual field installing and commissioning lighting. Allow me to enumerate a few of my own thoughts from watching the video.
Serviceability is sustainability
I will offer some credit to the presentation's organizers for including NAILD's celebrity guest star/loudmouth Michael Colligan, who still seems to find time to plan lighting retrofit projects in between his gig as an internet attention-seeker and his little soapbox podcast Get a Grip on Lighting. He managed to point out something that hasn't really been mentioned by regulators or environmentalists: this industry used to make equipment that was viable and easily repairable for decades.
In the last decade, many millions of 15- to 50-year-old 2×4-foot recessed troffers have been ripped out to be replaced with LED flat panels. Many of these fixtures bear the retrofit scars from when they were converted from T12 to T8 fluorescent and some from T8 to T5 and others from T8 and T5 to TLEDs. Fixtures like these have been in operation for decades and some for half a century or more.
When lighting is paid for as a capital expense, the minimum amortization period in the GAAP principles is 25 years, it can be up to 40 years. The LED conversation is all about lumens-per-watt tech, energy savings, and the promise that the fixtures will never burn out. But all of us industry insiders know that while the light source might outlast two or three fluorescent tube cycles, there is no way it will be in service for more than 10 years in any serious lighting application.
So, the accountants and people who have more than two decades in the lighting industry know what's up but those on the Recolight panel seemed to think that this was a problem that has always existed. The tragic fact is that the race for lumens-per-watt at the lowest China price has led to fixtures that become e-waste as soon as any single component in the unit craps out. We have traded a minor increase in average light source lifetime for a drastic reduction in the life cycle of the asset.
Sure, trillions of kilowatt-hours have been saved but we are looking at a monster pile of e-waste trash in the coming years. This is robbing Peter to pay Paul, people. When you break the environmental benefit down to brass tacks.
Recycling is bull$#7!
Mostly. Assuming we can all agree on what recycling actually means.
When it comes to legacy lamps, "recycling" is usually a code word for mercury recovery and storage. With legacy fixtures, scrap metal has cash value, but the glass is usually crushed and sprayed over landfills so that wildlife doesn't pick at the garbage. That type of landfilling is categorized as recycling and has been given the cute name of beneficial reuse. But the makers of lighting don't use much glass, copper, and aluminum anymore, the weight of durable materials drives the cost of trans-pacific freight too high. So, we use more and more plastic.
You can sort plastic into a nice little bin and it goes away in a nice blue truck and we all feel good about it. But 90% of it gets crushed into cubes, shipped to Somewhere Else, where it gets buried or burned unsafely. No producer wants anything but virgin material and it's just too easy to make it a "Somewhere Else, Someone Else Problem".
And what about all the e-waste? Legacy lighting fixtures were made with materials that had a relatively high scrap value at end of life. LEDs are at best worthless, or they cost money to dispose of responsibly, on the off-chance it does happen.
The circular economy isn't circular
It's more like a spirograph. Loop after loop, never quite overlapping. Every loop takes energy, time, and resources.
Recolight has just started a program that aims to divert some of the components they bring for refurbishment rather than recycling, but this takes time and personnel to sort that out. All of that costs money. And when is the last time you heard of anyone buying a refurbished TV let alone scratched and dinged refurbished lights?
A proposal was made that manufacturers should be responsible for continually updating their own, leased equipment in the field as improvements are made. But what of a change of use to the space? Or the coming avalanche which is the health effects of electric light or dark sky requirements? And do manufacturers of light fixtures have any interest in doing this at all?
The circular economy strikes the informed technician as laughable.
Legislation is not the answer
"You can't legislate good behavior."
"Policy solutions are closing the barn door after the horse is out."
"Political solutions are beholden to the politics of the day more than they are to good sense."
Insert your truism here, but anything that comes from the DoE, Congress, or an individual state body will be clumsy, crude, shortsighted, and too re-written by lobbyists to be of any real use.
There's no business sense to breaking the current plan
As far as the manufacturers are concerned there isn't any incentive to do better. Grab a bunch of chips from China, slap 'em on a board, hit the right lumens-per-watt and life expectancy numbers in the lab, and the DLC sticker does all the sales work because the utility incentive taps aren't ever gonna close.
Hell, in a few more generations of replacing LED lighting we'll see clients start to like it. It's a great excuse to renovate, fixtures are a fashion now; every five and half years you can create a new look, and look at how our new lights help you sleep better at night. Heck, maybe they'll even invent some light that increases your libido, grows your hair back, or fixes your macular degeneration. And the DLC and the utilities have cooked up a whole new set of rebates to take the sting out of the fact that you just generated a pile of junk that will quickly be "Somewhere Else and Someone Else's Problem".
Go back to the way things used to be
I'm trying not to be a downer; I am trying not to be rude to the webinar's guests and, believe me, I hate to admit that Colligan's right. But it's time to go back to the way things used to be. We are at once the most informed and most deceived populace in history, and we can't be experts. No matter how well-intentioned, their fixes forget the perspective from boots-on-the-ground field practitioners.
Again, I spend most of my work week in the weeds of lighting projects and I know what I would like to see:
Immediately standardize all mechanical form factors for light fixtures by application and type.
Open access to third parties to immediately enter the replacement parts market so that fixtures can be repaired in the field with parts that are available over the counter at lighting and electrical distribution stores.
Certifications and incentives that value products with standardized, cross manufacturer replaceable components.
It's good that we are talking about the problems our industry faces, but everyone needs a voice, not just the complainers, lobbyists, and academics. Solutions will come from being able to reach out to regulators and do what is best for illuminating the built environment in responsible ways. Go back to the way things used to be in the pre-LED boom era. The people that make this industry work, the people that have real stakes in lighting – members of NALMCO, NEMA, NAED, NAILD, and NEMRA must stand up to the big guys and demand better for us all. Finally, the ivory tower crowd must stop thinking of these folks as people that need to be told what to do and start getting them to the table and listening to them intently.
E Kinnersley has worked as an independent technology and policy commentator for the past years and has recently turned to work as a marketing consultant for the lighting and electrical industries.
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Discussion (1 comments)
James	December 8, 2021 / 9:13 pm
Is E Kinnersley an anonymous name for Ebenezer Kinnersley who helped invent lightbulbs?
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Кирил Семјонович Москаленко (; Гришно, 11. мај 1902 — Москва, 17. јун 1985) је био маршал Совјетског Савеза, главнокомандујући Стратешких ракетних снага и Генерални инспектор министарства одбране.

Биографија
Рођен је у селу Гришно, близу Доњецка у Украјини. Ступио је у Црвену армију 1920, и борио се на разним фронтовима током Руског грађанског рата. Похађао је више војних академија. Током Совјетско-финског рата је био командант артиљерије 51. дивизије.

Када је почела Немачка инвазија на Совјетски Савез, јуна 1941, Москаленко је био командант противтенковске бригаде. Између јуна 1941, и марта 1942, Москаленко је био командант следећих формација, овим редом: 1. противтенковска бригада, XV стрељачки корпус, 6. армија, и VI коњички корпус. Био је командант реформисане 38. армије од марта до јула 1942. Затим је био командант 1. тенковске армије (јули - август 1942), 1. гардијске армије (август - октобар 1942), пре него што је коначно добио команду над 40. армијом, што је дужност коју ће држати до октобра 1943. Москаленко је предводио своје трупе током зимске противофанзиве и током Курске битке. Због бројних доприноса у многим кључним биткама, као што су Московска, Стаљинградска, и Курска битка, битка на Дњепру Москаленко је добио звање Хероја Совјетског Савеза.

Од октобра 1943, до краја рата, Москаленко је био командант 38. армије. Предводио је ову армију при избацивању Немаца из Украјине, Пољске, и Чехословачке. Након рата, Москаленко је служио на разним позицијама у Московском војном округу, пре него што је постављен за команданта 1953.

25. јула 1953, Хрушчов је од њега тајно затражио да ухапси Берију, што је и учињено наредног дана током састанка Президијума, уз помоћ маршала Жукова. Због страха који је совјетска влада имала од раста популарности Жукова, није могао да унесе пиштољ у Кремљ. Москаленко се ушуњао у Кремљ са пиштољем како би ухапсио Берију. Током наредних шест месеци, он и Руденко су истраживали "Случај Берија". Децембра 1953, совјетски врховни суд је прогласио Берију кривим, након пет дана суђења. 23. децембра је стрељан.

Москаленку, заједно са петорицом других команданата, је 11. марта 1955. дат чин Маршал Совјетског Савеза. Москаленко је остао у Московском војном округу до 1960, када је постављен за главнокомандујућег Стратешки ракетних снага. 1962. је постављен за Генералног инспектора Министарства одбране. Умро је 17. јуна, 1985, и сахрањен је на гробљу Новодевичије.

Референце

Рођени 1902.
Умрли 1985.
Маршали Совјетског Савеза
Хероји Совјетског Савеза


Loan transactions are document intensive. When the agreements have all been drafted and agreed, it's time for the lender and borrower to sign the documents and fund the loan. Closings can be easy or hard. Here are some tips to make them as smooth as possible.
1. Authorizing resolutions. After the main transaction documents are complete, there may remain other documents to be drafted, agreed and signed. For example, the lender wants assurance that the borrower's board of directors has authorized the loan. To that end, the lender may provide its own form of board resolution for the borrower. It can take time to organize a meeting or pass around resolutions for signatures. Borrowers should plan to remain involved and put in extra time even after the documents are finalized.
2. Closing certificates. Most loans in excess of a few million dollars will require officers of the borrower to certify that all representations and warranties are true and that all conditions to the loan have been met. Other certificates may be required with respect to resolutions, articles of incorporation and bylaws of the borrower. In addition, the lender may ask for a solvency certificate to confirm the borrower is solvent. Insurance certificates may be required. Here's the point—a fair amount of work remains to be done after the main loan documents are complete. Finance counsel can walk you through it all.
3. Third party documents. Closings are often delayed because the lender requires third parties, such as landlords, to sign documents (e.g., consents to collateral assignments of agreements or landlord estoppels). An experienced lawyer will help the borrower identify these documents in advance so that they can be distributed to third parties well before the closing. Lenders may be willing to accept such documents on a post-closing basis.


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Texas Motorcyclist Deaths Spike In 2020
Date: May 4, 2021Author: Dallas County Media
AUSTIN – Despite less traffic on the road in 2020 and a 2% reduction in motorcycle crashes, safety officials are alarmed by a 17% increase in Texas motorcycle fatalities compared to 2019. On average, a motorcyclist is killed in a crash on Texas roads every day—last year 482 died. Motorcyclists account for 12% of all traffic fatalities statewide.
May is National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, and the Texas Department of Transportation's annual "Share the Road: Look Twice for Motorcycles" campaign gets underway to call attention to the safety precautions motorists can take to protect motorcyclists and themselves. In 2020, in the 7,481 motorcycle crashes in Texas, 1,856 motorcyclists were seriously injured and 482 were killed.
"May through October is an especially dangerous period for motorcyclists in Texas," said TxDOT Executive Director James Bass. "Of all the motorcyclist deaths in Texas during 2020, more than 61% happened in that period. It's so important to remember that these motorcyclists don't have the same protections that drivers in vehicles have, and that's why we're urging all motorists to stay watchful and alert when traveling alongside motorcycles so everyone can reach their destination safely."
The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) reports that fatal crashes between motorcyclists and drivers often occur when drivers misjudge the motorcycle's distance and speed and make left turns in front of an oncoming motorcyclist. Last year, almost one-third of Texas motorcycle fatalities occurred in an intersection or were intersection-related. TTI also points to driver inattention as a contributing factor to motorcycle crashes.
TxDOT has these safety tips for drivers to protect motorcyclists and prevent crashes:
· Take extra care when making a left turn. It's safest to let the motorcycle pass to avoid turning in front of the rider.
· Pay special attention at intersections. Nearly one in three motorcycle fatalities happens at a roadway intersection.
· Give driving your full attention. Even a momentary distraction, such as answering a phone call or changing the radio station, can have deadly consequences.
· Look twice when changing lanes. Check mirrors, check blind spots, and always use turn signals.
· Give motorcyclists room when passing them. Move over to the passing lane and don't crowd the motorcyclist's full lane.
· Stay back. If you're behind a motorcycle, always maintain a safe following distance. When a motorcyclist downshifts instead of applying the brake to slow down, it can catch drivers off guard since there are no brake lights to signal reduced speed.
· Slow down. Obey posted speed limits and drive to conditions.
The "Share the Road: Look Twice for Motorcycles" campaign is a key component of #EndTheStreakTX, a broader social media and word-of-mouth effort that encourages drivers to make safer choices while behind the wheel, like wearing a seat belt, driving the speed limit, never texting and driving and never driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs. November 7, 2000 was the last deathless day on Texas roadways. #EndTheStreakTX asks all Texans to commit to driving safely to help end the streak of daily deaths on Texas roadways.
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Influence of Al on shape memory effect and twinning induced plasticity of Fe-Mn-Si-Al system alloy
Motomichi Koyama, Masato Murakami, Kazuyuki Ogawa, Takehiko Kikuchi, Takahiro Sawaguchi
Materials Design Division
We investigated the shape memory effect and ductility of Fe-30Mn-(6-x) Si-xAl (x = 0, 1, 2 and 3, mass-%) alloys. The alloy for x = 0 is known as a shape memory alloy, which shows a good shape memory effect but poor ductility. The alloys for x = 2 and 3 are known as TWIP (Twinning Induced Plasticity) steels, which show a high ductility but the shape memory effect has not been reported in these alloys. In the present study, it was found that the shape memory effect is preserved for x = 0 and 1, but drastically disappears when x exceeds 2. On the other hand, the ductility almost linearly increases with increasing amount of Al. As a consequence, the best combination of the shape memory effect and ductility was found in the alloy for x = 1.
Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals
https://doi.org/10.2320/jinstmet.71.502
Iron-manganese- silicon-aluminum
Martensitic transformation
Shape memory alloy
Twinning induced plasticity steel
10.2320/jinstmet.71.502
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Koyama, M., Murakami, M., Ogawa, K., Kikuchi, T., & Sawaguchi, T. (2007). Influence of Al on shape memory effect and twinning induced plasticity of Fe-Mn-Si-Al system alloy. Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals, 71(6), 502-507. https://doi.org/10.2320/jinstmet.71.502
Influence of Al on shape memory effect and twinning induced plasticity of Fe-Mn-Si-Al system alloy. / Koyama, Motomichi; Murakami, Masato; Ogawa, Kazuyuki; Kikuchi, Takehiko; Sawaguchi, Takahiro.
In: Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals, Vol. 71, No. 6, 06.2007, p. 502-507.
Koyama, M, Murakami, M, Ogawa, K, Kikuchi, T & Sawaguchi, T 2007, 'Influence of Al on shape memory effect and twinning induced plasticity of Fe-Mn-Si-Al system alloy', Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 502-507. https://doi.org/10.2320/jinstmet.71.502
Koyama M, Murakami M, Ogawa K, Kikuchi T, Sawaguchi T. Influence of Al on shape memory effect and twinning induced plasticity of Fe-Mn-Si-Al system alloy. Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals. 2007 Jun;71(6):502-507. https://doi.org/10.2320/jinstmet.71.502
Koyama, Motomichi ; Murakami, Masato ; Ogawa, Kazuyuki ; Kikuchi, Takehiko ; Sawaguchi, Takahiro. / Influence of Al on shape memory effect and twinning induced plasticity of Fe-Mn-Si-Al system alloy. In: Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals. 2007 ; Vol. 71, No. 6. pp. 502-507.
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package com.treyzania.mc.zaniportals;

import org.bukkit.Material;
import org.bukkit.block.Block;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.event.EventHandler;
import org.bukkit.event.Listener;
import org.bukkit.event.block.BlockBreakEvent;
import org.bukkit.event.block.BlockExplodeEvent;
import org.bukkit.event.block.BlockFromToEvent;
import org.bukkit.event.block.BlockPlaceEvent;
import org.bukkit.event.block.BlockSpreadEvent;
import org.bukkit.event.block.SignChangeEvent;
import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerInteractEvent;
import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerMoveEvent;

import com.treyzania.mc.zaniportals.adapters.BukkitBlock;
import com.treyzania.mc.zaniportals.adapters.BukkitItem;
import com.treyzania.mc.zaniportals.adapters.BukkitPortalPlayer;
import com.treyzania.mc.zaniportals.adapters.BukkitSign;
import com.treyzania.mc.zaniportals.adapters.EventAcceptor;
import com.treyzania.mc.zaniportals.adapters.PortalBlock;
import com.treyzania.mc.zaniportals.adapters.PortalItem;
import com.treyzania.mc.zaniportals.adapters.PortalPlayer;

public class BukkitPortalEventAdapter implements Listener {

	private final EventAcceptor acceptor;

	public BukkitPortalEventAdapter() {
		this.acceptor = new EventAcceptor();
	}

	@EventHandler
	public void onSignChange(SignChangeEvent event) {

		PortalPlayer pp = new BukkitPortalPlayer(event.getPlayer());

		Block b = event.getBlock();

		event.setCancelled(this.acceptor.onSignUpdate(pp, new BukkitSign(b), event.getLines()));

	}

	@EventHandler
	public void onInteract(PlayerInteractEvent event) {

		Player p = event.getPlayer();
		PortalPlayer pp = new BukkitPortalPlayer(p);
		PortalItem heldItem = (event.getItem() != null ? new BukkitItem(event.getItem()) : null);

		Block block = event.getClickedBlock();
		Material mat = (block != null) ? block.getType() : null;
		PortalBlock pb = new BukkitBlock(block);

		if (heldItem != null && !heldItem.isPortaly()) return;

		switch (event.getAction()) {

			// Just forward it right through.
			case RIGHT_CLICK_BLOCK: {

				if (mat == Material.WALL_SIGN) {

					// Finally, we can just pass everything through here.
					if (this.acceptor.onSignRightClick(pp, pb.getSignData(), heldItem, p.getInventory().getHeldItemSlot())) event.setCancelled(true);

				}

				break;

			}

			case RIGHT_CLICK_AIR: {

				event.setCancelled(true);
				break;

			}

			case LEFT_CLICK_BLOCK:
			case LEFT_CLICK_AIR:
			default: {

				break; // Nothing to do here.

			}

		}

	}

	@EventHandler
	public void onDestroy(BlockBreakEvent event) {

		if (event.getPlayer() == null) return;

		// Pull out the properties.
		PortalPlayer player = new BukkitPortalPlayer(event.getPlayer());
		PortalBlock block = new BukkitBlock(event.getBlock());

		if (this.acceptor.onPlayerBreakBlock(player, block)) event.setCancelled(true);

	}

	@EventHandler
	public void onPlayerMove(PlayerMoveEvent event) {

		// Very simple, just wrap the player and pass the event.
		PortalPlayer pp = new BukkitPortalPlayer(event.getPlayer());
		if (this.acceptor.onMove(pp)) event.setCancelled(true);

	}

	@EventHandler
	public void onBlockExplode(BlockExplodeEvent event) {
		if (this.acceptor.onNaturalDestroy(new BukkitBlock(event.getBlock()))) event.setCancelled(true);
	}

	@EventHandler
	public void onBlockSpread(BlockSpreadEvent event) {

		PortalBlock block = new BukkitBlock(event.getBlock());
		PortalBlock source = new BukkitBlock(event.getSource());

		// Won't always destroy it.  Better safe than sorry.
		if (this.acceptor.onFlow(source, block)) event.setCancelled(true);

	}

	@EventHandler
	public void onBlockChange(BlockFromToEvent event) {

		PortalBlock from = new BukkitBlock(event.getBlock());
		PortalBlock to = new BukkitBlock(event.getToBlock());

		if (this.acceptor.onFlow(to, from)) event.setCancelled(true);

	}

	@EventHandler
	public void onBlockPlace(BlockPlaceEvent event) {
		if (this.acceptor.onPlayerPlaceBlock(new BukkitPortalPlayer(event.getPlayer()), new BukkitBlock(event.getBlock()))) event.setCancelled(true);
	}

}

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Sustainable Development of Obolon Corporation
Official Report
People Ethics and Equal Rights
Working Environment Life and Health Ethics and Equal Rights Personnel Development Incentives and Motivation
Sustainable development is a key element of the Obolon Corporation's strategy. It allows the company to implement its corporate ambitions and fully develop each of its CSR areas: employee development, environment protection, promotion of sports, and support of the local communities.
Appeal from the PresidentSocial MissionReputationBusiness Operations StandardsCorporate StructureCorporate ManagementStakeholders
Working Environment Life and HealthEthics and Equal RightsPersonnel DevelopmentIncentives and Motivation
Producing beverages with a high level of quality and safety is the basis for the long-term development of the Obolon Corporation. Stability of production processes and guaranteed quality and safety of its beverages ensure that the company achieves its goals on the way to sustainability.
Production Facilities StructureManagement SystemBrand portfolioInnovationsTechnologies
Climate change, resource depletion, and energy dependence are the challenges of the 21st century for individuals as well as for large manufacturers. Reduction of environmental impact and conservation of nature are priorities for Obolon as the largest Ukrainian beverage producer.
Efficient Use of ResourcesWasteless Production
Obolon makes both a direct and an indirect impact on the economy of the country as a whole and specific regions where its facilities are located through job creation, paying taxes to the local and state budgets, development of related industries, and support of the social culture.
Financial and Economic ResultsProduction IndicatorsEfficient ActivityRisks
Adhering to the principles of sustainable development, Obolon views the participation in the social life of the regions where its facilities are located as an important component of developing Ukrainian society as well as its own business.
Development of RegionsPromotion of SportsEducational ProjectsSponsorship and Volunteering
For Trade Partners
For Non-Government Organizations
For Government Agencies
For Shareholders and Employees
Code of Ethics and Gender Equality
Obolon Corporation's success and good reputation depend on the contribution of each employee and the extent to which the 6,000 employees share the same moral and ethical values of the company's corporate culture.
The Obolon Corporation Code of Ethics is not a mere declaration; it contains obligations of each employee, from an assistant foreman in the production shop to the Chief Executive Officer.
Obolon Corporation's reputation is a result of correct actions and ethical conduct of each employee.
In order to systematize the principles of business conduct of the employees, Obolon developed and adopted in 2012-2013 the Code of Ethics. In addition to the adoption of this document, it was proposed to accept the Regulation on the Ethics Committee that includes company employees and supervises the compliance with the Code. The key standards of business conduct in the Code of Ethics are customer orientation, motivation for success, reliability, creativity, amicable relations between the management and the personnel, teamwork, etc.
The ethical rules establish specific boundaries in the conduct, since their purpose is to prevent unethical behaviour in the team and in relations with partners.
Each Obolon Corporation employee has equal opportunities to exercise his/her labour rights, regardless of the national origin, descent and place of residence. The employees are selected and promoted based on professional and personal capabilities, knowledge and skills.
The basic rights of men and women employed at Obolon structures are ensured by the company's Collective Bargaining Agreement. While improving the working conditions, creating new opportunities, and ensuring gender equality among the personnel, Obolon became one of the first Ukrainian companies to adopt its own Gender Plan in 2012.
For 2 years now, the document has been successfully functioning at all corporation's companies, guaranteeing equal opportunities in compensation, career growth, right for rest, and other rights for the male and female personnel. Besides adopting the Gender Plan, the corporation also introduced the position of the Gender Issues Commissioner. Obolon regularly monitors the working conditions at its facilities, and conducts gender equality meetings and seminars for the managers and employees.
In 2013, the main company of Obolon in Kyiv, in cooperation with the Social Workers League NGO, supported by the EU, joined the "Back to Work" project. This is a programme intended to improve the working practices of male and female employees who have family duties, which is even more important given the following employee groups represented in the corporation structure.
Child care leave (children under 3)
Child care leave (children aged 3 to 6)
* Working women
Women on child care leaves
Child age range
1,5 – 3
* Women having more than one child are only included in the youngest child's age row
In 2015, the corporation continues the pilot project and testing the mechanisms for successful combination of family and work duties of the employees, as proposed by the experts of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine.
Number of jobs created by Obolon in the main and related industries
30'000
270 employees with special needs
The corporation has 270 employees with special needs
28% of the corporation personnel are women
OHSAS 18001 occupational health and safety management system is employed at the corporation
Charity, Volunteering, and Social investments
Since its establishment and till this day, Obolon Corporation has been maintaining and developing the charity and volunteering traditions. Each year, Obolon makes investments into the regions where its companies are located, implements initiatives of social importance, and supports the partners by funding and product donations. Today the social activity of the company is an important component for sustainable development of the country and for the life of the Ukrainian society.More
Gender Plan
Achieving a gender balance is important for sustainable development not only as an ethical norm, but as a requirement for effective operation.The companies of Obolon Corporation have about 28% of female employees.Under the Gender Plan adopted in 2011 and the Collective Bargaining Agreement revised in 2012, Obolon guarantees and ensures equal employment rights for men and for women.More
Donorship Movement
The early 2000s boosted the development of corporate volunteering at the Obolon Corporation facilities.The donorship movement in the company, initiated by the employees, has been growing for over 14 years.Each year new employees join the regular donors and continue the noble tradition in the company. More
Since 1994, the Obolon Corporation is a member of the Ukrainian Quality Association, and since 1998 a member of the Quality Leaders Club of Ukraine. The Corporation is successful in the competition both on the domestic and on the international markets.In 2008, Obolon created an integrated management system and had four international standards certified at onceMore
Recycling of PET packaging
In 2013, the Obolon Corporation reduced its production waste levels by 48.5%. Among other things, this was achieved due to comprehensive recycling of used PET packaging.For 12 years, Obolon has been running the waste plastic packaging recycling project.The collection of used bottles, reduction of emissions, and reduction of energy consumption help Obolon significantly reduce its environmental impact.More
Brewer's grain recycling
Responsibility is the foundation of the Obolon Corporation's environmental policy. In addition to the reduction of environmental footprint, the organic brewing waste recycling technologies allow Obolon supply highly nutritious feedstock to agricultural companies.Besides, such production is a source of additional income for the company.More
Employee reintegration
The Obolon Corporation is one of the largest Ukrainian taxpayers.Its companies employ over 5,000 people, about 5% of whom have children under 6 years.In order to ensure comfortable working conditions and help combine the professional and family responsibilities, in 2013 Obolon joined the "Back to Work" employee reintegration project.More
Development of education
Obolon Corporation helps improve the education of the Ukrainian society through systematic investments into the development of education and book publishing and renovation of educational institutions.For 9 years, Obolon has supported the Petro Yatsyk International Contest of Ukrainian Speakers to promote the second most beautiful language in the world.More
Promotion of sports
Obolon started investing into the development of sports back in the 90s.For over two decades, the corporation has been providing comprehensive support to teams and projects promoting a healthy lifestyle. Today, the Obolon Corporation has its own football club, Obolon Brovar, playing in the national championship; the company supports childrens' and youth soccer (Zmina sports school), and holds competitions among its personnel.More
Support of family-type children's homes (FTCH)
For more than twenty years Obolon has been implementing a support programme for vulnerable social groups. Such categories include disabled and low-income people, senior citizens and disadvantaged children. This area of work also encompasses the support of large families acting as family-type children's homes. Implementation of this programme secures the right of children to a family upbringing and a happy childhood spent within a family.More
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Q: Fill ComboBox with names of files from a directory on FTP server I have a file folder in my FTP server and I want to fill a ComboBox with the contents inside of that folder. How would I go about doing this?
string result = string.Empty;

//Request location and server name---------->
FtpWebRequest request =
    (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://*******" +"/" + "Products" + "/");

//Lists directory
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory;

// set credentials
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user1","1234");
//initialize response
FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

//reader to read response
Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
combobox1.Text = FTP_Server();
//data from file.
result = reader.ReadToEnd();
reader.Close();
response.Close();

Thanks! I didn't know if this was even possible!

A: Read the listing by lines:
FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://example.com/remote/path/");
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory;
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");

comboBox1.BeginUpdate();
try
{
    using (FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
    using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream())
    using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
    {
        while (!reader.EndOfStream)
        {
            comboBox1.Items.Add(reader.ReadLine());
        }
    }
}
finally
{
    comboBox1.EndUpdate();
}

Downloading whole listing to a string and splitting it afterwards (as suggested by the other answer) can be pretty ineffective, if there's lot of entries.

A: Without knowing the exact format of your response string, my instinct would be to split the response string:
string files[] = result.Split("\r\n");

Then to iterate over the individual files, adding them to your combobox1's Items:
// Depending on how many items you're adding, you may wish to prevent a repaint until the operation is finished
combobox1.BeginUpdate();
foreach(string file in files)
{
    combobox1.Items.Add(file);
}
combobox1.EndUpdate();

That should take care of it for you! There is some excellent (and exhaustive) documentation on MSDN as well, which will often contain some usage examples to help you out further: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.combobox(v=vs.110).aspx#Examples
Note that, if you end up wanting to display information from a different FTP response, you'll have to clear the combobox1 like so first: combobox1.Items.Clear();


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Бойня в Гринсборо — события в Гринсборо (Северная Каролина) 3 ноября 1979, когда леворадикальные активисты маоистской «Коммунистической рабочей партии США» (Communist Workers' Party) и примкнувшие к ним демонстранты, протестовавшие против сегрегации на производстве, столкнулись с ультраправыми членами Ку-Клукс-Клана и Американской нацистской партии, использовавшими огнестрельное оружие. В результате погибло четверо коммунистов и один посторонний, и ещё десять демонстрантов были ранены.

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Выжившие в бойне подали гражданский иск в 1980 г. (интересы истцов представляла юридическая фирма :en:Christic Institute). В ходе процесса многочисленные полицейские и федеральные агенты обвинялись в уклонении от обязательств по защите демонстрантов и в предвзятом отношении. Присяжные признали клановцев виновными в смерти доктора Майкла Нейтена, единственного некоммуниста из погибших. Также присяжные признали виновным Полицейское управление Гринсборо в непринятии мер к предотвращению стрельбы, при том, что полицейские заранее знали о намерениях клановцев от информатора. Ответчики, включая полицию, были присуждены к выплате компенсаций общим размером в 350 тыс. долларов. Это был один из немногих случаев в истории США, когда присяжные признали полицейских виновными в содействии Ку-Клукс-Клану при осуществлении его преступных намерений.

В ноябре 2004 г., в 25-ю годовщину событий, около 700 демонстрантов прошагали через Гринсборо по пути памятной манифестации. В том же году по инициативе частных лиц была создана Комиссия правды и примирения Гринсборо, созданная по образцу аналогичной комиссии по борьбе с последствиями апартеида в ЮАР (см. :en:Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)) с тем, чтобы исследовать события и заслушать свидетельства, касавшиеся событий 1979 года. Мэр и большинство членов городского совета отказались поддержать инициативу, поэтому комиссия, существовавшая на добровольных началах, не имела полномочий вызывать свидетелей или требовать представления документов, и сбор материалов проводился лишь благодаря добровольной поддержке заинтересованных лиц. Комиссия выпустила отчёт, который гласил, что хотя обе стороны спровоцировали конфликт риторикой ненависти, клановцы и нацисты изначально планировали нанести ущерб протестовавшим, а полицейские содействовали клановцам и попустительствовали насилию с их стороны, зная об их намерениях изначально.

Лишь в 2009 г. городской совет Гринсборо принял постановление, где выразил сожаление о гибели людей во время событий. В 2015 г. в городе была открыта мемориальная плита в память о событиях; в церемонии участвовало около 300 человек.

Примечания

Ссылки
 http://www.greensborotrc.org  Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Final Report] (pdf). Examines the context, causes, sequence and consequences of Nov 3, 1979.

Статьи и новостные сообщения
 «88 Seconds in Greensboro»: Transcript , PBS Frontline. Reported by James Reston, Jr. Directed by William Cran. Original Airdate: January 24, 1983.

Публикации о годовщинах событий
 Scott Mason and Kamal Wallace, «Greensboro Set To Mark Deadly Anniversary: Five Killed, 11 Injured In 'Greensboro Massacre'», WRAL. Posted: 11:25 am EST November 3, 2003.
 «Remembering the 1979 Greensboro Massacre 25 years later»  — Broadcast by Democracy Now! on November 18, 2004.
 Darryl Fears, «Seeking Closure on 'Greensboro Massacre' Reconciliation Panel Convenes in N.C. to Address '79 Attack by Nazi Party, Klan» , Washington Post. Sunday, March 6, 2005; Page A03.

Сайты
 The Greensboro Massacre , Civil Rights Greensboro, Library website and searchable database, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
 Greensboro VOICES  Contains oral histories pertaining to November 3, 1979.
 Greensboro Justice Fund, official website, organized to aid survivors in litigation and education about the massacre

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I was searching this morning about blood sacrifices in Hinduism and I got a somewhat satisfying answer from this post on Hinduism Stack Exchange which has a tick mark on the answer. But then another related question rolled in my mind. The person who answered the question says that blood sacrifices for Goddess Kali are done in Hinduism for those who really can not abondon meat eating because consumption of meat is prohibited in Hinduism by a lot of saints and also in a lot of the scriptures. Blood Sacrifices are also done in Hinduism because it is good for both the animal being sacrificed as he gets immediate allowance to be born as a human in the next life because the souls have to be born as a lot of different animals before they are born as a human, and it is good for the human who is sacrificing the animal as he gets to eat meat which is sacrificed for Goddess Kali and not any other unclean meat which is sold in slaughterhouses. In brief, it is for those who can not leave meat eating. If you want to eat meat, be a devotee of Goddess Kali. But then there are thousands of Hindus who are devotees of, for example Lord Shiva, Guru Nanak, Sai Baba who eat meat. Why is this? If it is said that if a Hindu wants to eat meat, he should be a follwer of Goddess Kali and if he is a follower of any other deity, he is not allowed, then why do other Hindus eat meat? And do sacrificial acts not tackle the law of Ahimsa (the rule which states that we should not violate any living being) in Hinduism as a whole?
You have many questions and let me answer each question. Actually, most of your questons are answered already on this site. As it is difficult to mark this question as exact duplicate, i am providing an answer for this.
Is Non Veg allowed in Hinduism?
Yes. It is allowed but not recommended.
You can eat meat when your life is in danger i.e, when doctor prescribes you to eat. For example, your body may badly require some protiens and you can eat meat in those cases as Human birth is aquired after lots of good virtues or Karma. It is not wise to torment your own Human body by not eating mamsa in those cases. Also, you can eat meat if you do lots of Physical work. Rama, Krishna and Pandavas as Kshatriyas ate Mamsa. They need to participate in wars as part of their Kshatriya Dharma and they need muscular body to do that.
This answer explains beautifully, why it is not recommended (not mandatory) to eat "living animals" but not "living plants". I provide some verses from that answer to justify eating meat when our life is in danger.
So, it is clear that we can offer food to Devas or Lord first in those cases.
Also, there are three types of foods. Satvic, rajasic and Tamasic. Our Gunas or traits depend on what we eat. Generally, it is not recommended to eat Tamasic foods as we acquire Tamas guna.
Refer following questions to get more clarity. Is the ritual of killing an animal as offering to Maa Kali correct? and Should a Brahmin be vegetarian?.
Should i become Kaali Maa Bhakta to eat meat?
As said above, we can eat meat if our life is in danger or during festivals when animals are sacrificed to Kaali Mata or any form of her form (especially Grama Devata in South India).
As stated in this answer, sacrificing animals for Kali Mata or any Grama Devata will take those sacrificed animals to heaven, as mentioned in Srimad Devi Bhagavatam. But this doesn't mean you should be Kali Bhakta to eat meat. You can offer it to Devas (or your Ista Deva) and eat it (mostly recommended this only when your life is in danger).
You can worship any form of Brahman (Shiva, Vishnu or Durga) or any Deva and eat meat by offering to your Ista Deva.
Please refer the question, Should we chant mantras before eating food?.
And do sacrificial acts not tackle the law of Ahimsa (the rule which states that we should not violate any living being) in Hinduism as a whole?
Ahimsa is good but not mandatory. One should decide to choose Himsa or Ahimsa based on their Profession or Varna. A soldier can't follow Ahimsa and defend the country.
All those warriors who die in battle field by following Himsa reach heaven, as they strictly followed their (Kshatriya) Dharma or duty. This is the reason, all those warriors who died in Mahabharata War reached swarga including Kaurava Army.
Krishna Himself supported Arjuna to participate in war as it was proper to Arjuna as Kshatriya. So, choosing Himsa or Ahimsa depends on Varna or your profession.
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Body camera footage of the shooting, shown above, shows moments right before and after the shots ring out.
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Tempe police say Jaen's resignation "is independent from the criminal review and administration investigation."
Danny Ortega, the attorney representing Arce's remaining family members, said there being no direct reason given for Jaen's retirement leads him to speculate.
"It leads to a lot of speculation, nobody really knows at this point why it is he resigned,," Ortega said.
"All we know is the video is very clear, this was an unjustified shooting of a young man."
Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell gave ABC15 a statement saying he will refrain from passing judgment on officer Jaen until the administrative investigation by the department and investigation into criminal charges have by the county attorney have concluded.
I have been informed today of the resignation of Officer Jaen. The City Council and I continue to refrain from passing judgment on the Jan. 15 officer-involved shooting of Antonio Arce while we await the conclusion of the Tempe Police administrative investigation as well as the Maricopa County Attorney's decision on criminal charges. As I have expressed, inserting any political influence at this stage would be wrong. I continue to hold the Arce family and Officer Jaen and his family in my thoughts.
Jason Gonzalez Arce, Antonio's brother, said Jaen's resignation left him speechless.
"His resignation has left me speechless. He knows he messed up, that's why he's choosing to resign. Justice shall be served!"
The Maricopa County Attorney says the investigation into possible criminal charges is ongoing.
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3D printed live neuronal cells. Image courtesy of the University of Minnesota.
Approximately 300,000 people in the United States live with spinal cord injury (SCI), and 17,000 new cases are reported every year. With no cure, the primary treatment option for people with SCI is rehabilitation with a physical therapist combined with medications to control the pain. Given the relatively permanent nature of these injuries, a new study conducted by Dr. Michael McAlpine and Dr. Ann Parr's groups at the University of Minnesota is particularly exciting. These scientists have developed a 3D-printing technique to generate a network of neuronal cells in the lab, which they hope will be useful to treat patients with long term SCI. This is the first instance of printing and differentiating neuronal stem cells in a lab. Let's take a look at how they did it!
The investigators started with induced pluripotent stem cells derived from adult cells (ex. blood, skin etc…), which were then used to bioprint the neurons of interest. They not only printed neurons, but also neuronal support cells called oligodendrocytes, which are responsible for ensuring that neurons can transmit messages efficiently. The uniqueness of their approach lies in their printing process, where the cells were printed in the context of a silicone mold. The silicone "guide" promoted neuronal differentiation as well as provided a scaffold for the scientists to spatially organize the architecture of the cells they generated. Both spatial organization and the presence of the neuronal support cells is particularly important because previous studies have shown that while injecting rodents with neural stem cells has improved SCI, the longevity of these results was compromised by a lack of support system for the injected cells. Therefore, the ability to generate both a functional cell type as well as a spatially accurate structure is important to make this neuronal printing system relevant for treating patients.
To confirm that printed cells were functional, the investigators used calcium flux assays, which demonstrated that the neuronal networks generated were able to communicate with each other. Not only were the cells healthy and functional, but their viability was exceptional: 75% of the cells stayed alive, which is remarkable for cells printed in a laboratory.
The possibility of implanted neuronal stem cells being effective to treat SCI is also being investigated with the CIRM-funded Asterias trial. To check out more information about this work, read our blog post here and the clinical trial details here.
An exciting development for spinal cord injury research was published this week in the journal Nature Medicine. Scientists from the University of San Diego School of Medicine transplanted human neural progenitor cells (NPCs) into rhesus monkeys that had spinal cord injuries. These cells, which are capable of turning into other cells in the brain, survived and robustly developed into nerve cells that improved the monkeys' use of their hands and arms.
The scientists grafted 20 million human NPCs derived from embryonic stem cells into two-week-old spinal cord lesions in the monkeys. These stem cells were delivered with growth factors to improve their survival and growth. The monkeys were also treated with immunosuppressive drugs to prevent their immune system from rejecting the human cells.
After nine months, they discovered that the NPCs had developed into nerve cells within the injury site that extended past the injury into healthy tissue. These nerve extensions are called axons, which allow nerves to transmit electrical signals and instructions to other brain cells. During spinal cord injury, nerve cells and their axon extensions are damaged. Scientists have found it difficult to regenerate these damaged cells because of the inhibitory growth environment created at the injury site. You can compare it to the build-up of scar tissue after a heart attack. The heart has difficulty regenerating healthy heart muscle, which is instead replaced by fibrous scar tissue.
Excitingly, the UCSD team was able to overcome this hurdle in their current study. When they transplanted human NPCs with growth factors into the monkeys, they found that the cells were not affected by the inhibitory environment of the injury and were able to robustly develop into nerve cells and send out axon extensions.
Large numbers of human axons (green) emerge from a lesion/graft sites. Many axons travel along the interface (indicated by arrows) between spinal cord white matter (nerve fibers covered with myelin) and spinal cord gray matter (nerves without the whitish myelin sheathing). Image courtesy of Mark Tuszynski, UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Dr. Tuszynski is a CIRM-grantee whose earlier research involved optimizing stem cell treatments for rodent models of spinal cord injury. We've blogged about that research previously on the Stem Cellar here and here.


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posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2021 in Vet Services News and Events
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posted on Thursday, December 16, 2021 in Central Region News
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posted on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 in Swine Health Services News
AMVC Swine Health Services staff and veterinarians celebrated the opening of their new office space and warehouse on East Wabash Street with a ribbon-cutting. View More
posted on Monday, November 22, 2021 in Vet Services News and Events
AMVC Veterinary Services was pleased to present the Audubon FFA Chapter with a $500 donation through the Zoetis Industry Support Program. AMVC has participated in the program since 2016 and annually designates the funds accumulated to be split between the Audubon and IKM-Manning FFA Chapters. View More
AMVC recognizes seven employees with prestigious awards
posted on Monday, October 25, 2021 in Central Region News
During the AMVC 3rd Annual Awards Ceremony seven different awards were presented. The awards presented included: Rookie of the Year, Swine Specialist of the Year, Rising Star, Manager of the Year, Legacy Award, Impact Award and Golden Pig Award. View More