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Asia Gets Ko and Ko in Pool's Kings Cup
Double KO. Team Asia Gets the Best Pool Player in the World & his brother (World pool ranked #1 & #8.) Reigning World Pool Champion Ko Pin Yi & his younger brother Ko Ping Chung finalize the greatest Asian team ever assembled in history. In one month, we'll find out if it's the greatest team in the world.
Kings Cup's East vs West, The Real Rivalry begins November 19th. The Legend starts…
Dragon Promotions reports that "The greatest Asian team ever assembled is now official. The hands down hottest player in the world, World #1 Ko Pin Yi of Chinese Taipei and his younger brother Ko Ping Chung, the bronze finisher at the World Championship, join Captain Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante. The Philippines and Taiwan have for decades been the greatest pool rivals of Asia, perhaps the greatest rivals of any two countries in the sport. This will mark the first time the two giants join forces, which may be the greatest challenge to any team facing them. European and American champions will go against Asia's champions on November 19th at Resorts World Manila Casino & Hotel in the inaugural Kings Cup! In what surely will become the most epic rivalry in cue sports, the pool world is about to get rocked in a war that fans have been dreaming about for years. Dragon Promotions is pleased to announce the Kings Cup, a first time ever event pitting the men's champions of Europe & USA versus the champions of Asia in a three day contest to declare which side is the strongest, the East or the West. On November 19th-21st 2015, the world, as well as the players themselves, will find out! Four players on each side will be selected to represent their continent. The Kings Cup will be hosted by the award winning Resorts World Manila Casino & Hotel and produced by Dragon Promotions. The event will be played on the beautifully designed Rasson Table using Andy Cloth, Viking Cue, Cyclop Balls. Pool & Billiard Magazine, and Billiards Digest are also co-sponsors.
Ko Pin Yi is without a doubt currently the best player in the world
"I am very happy and honored to join Team Asia. Especially due to the fact that this is a first time battle, I believe that it makes everything even more exciting!", said the World #1 Ko Pin Yi. He adds, "With the tournament being arranged in the Philippines, I know there are many pool sports fans. I am always touched by their friendliness and support."
Having won his second World Championship within the same calendar year is a feat less than a handful have been able to do in modern memory. Ko Pin Yi won just weeks ago at the World 9-Ball Championship in Qatar, and then won the World 10-Ball in the Philippines earlier in the year. In his teens, he also won the World Junior Championships in Germany and the United States, giving him the distinction of being the only 4 time World Champion who has won in 4 different countries and 3 different continents.
"I'm happy to hear Ko Pin Yi is on Team East. You got to have the current best playing pro in the world in the Kings Cup", said an up for the challenge Mika Immonen, Captain of Team West.
"Ko is a really good pool player, and good person. Though we may speak a different language, I know that it won't hinder the team's performance. Having Ko in the team, who is now the World Champion for 9-Ball and 10-Ball, is really a big advantage for us", explained Francisco "Django" Bustamante on his prediction of Team Asia's chemistry.
"When I told other players that I will join Team Asia in the Kings Cup, and our captain is Efren Reyes, they all said " wow. How lucky you are! " . And yes, I also can feel that they envy my good luck. In Taiwan, Efren Reyes is a legend, we really like him very much. I like to watch Efren and Bustamante on Youtube because their bank shot skills are amazing. So I really appreciated the invitation to play with both Filipino champions!", explained Ko Pin Yi.
Ko Ping Chung has quickly risen to the World's Top 10
Complicating the situation further for Team West, Ko's younger brother Ko Ping Chung will be the fourth man on Asia. "Little Ko" is currently ranked #8 in the world, well ahead of most of the western champions. He made it to the semi-finals twice of both world championships that his brother won. And already won a pro title in the USA last year. Which means he has youth on his side and nowhere near slowing down in his imporvements. The X factor is the chemistry. It's probably a good bet these two will play very well together.
"He is knocking on the door to win some serious majors. What a tag team these two are going to be. No fear. No respect,", said Immonen with a chuckle.
"This is not the first time I will play together with my brother. We have been a team together in the World Cup of Pool and finished 3rd place. I always think that we could perform better, I was too nervous at that time. Now I am more than happy as it is an honor to be invited to play in the King's Cup. I am so looking forward to be on a team with my brother again, and this time I will be ready and I will do my best, I hope I won't let him down," said Ko Ping Chung.
Mika added, "When I first heard the news of the Ko brothers joining Efren and Django…I was like, 'Wow. (whistles) .
"Now that's a team."
The format of the Kings Cup will follow in the footsteps of the successful Queens Cup. Teams will play in versatile styles including singles, doubles, triples, and quadruples each of the 3 days of the men's competition. The final player of the Kings Cup will be announced tomorrow!
Follow the Kings Cup at www.facebook.com/kingscuppool and visit www.KingsCupPool.com for updates.
Fans and sponsors can e-mail dragonpromotionsnews1@gmail.com. Pay Per View earlybird discounted special is now available on www.KingsCupPool.com. Fans can watch live or the delayed telecast at their convenience.
Official Table: Rasson Billiards * Official Cloth: Andy Cloth *Official Cue: Viking Cue * Official Balls: Cyclop
Billiards is considered to be a national sport in the Philippines, and the atmosphere for national sports is always electric in Manila!
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The Holy Spirit is moving mightily in Rosario, Argentina. Andres Bisonni recounts the words of Jesus as he reminds us that the Holy Spirit comes to dwell inside each of us. Speaking about Jesus Christ, Bisonni shares, "I will not only be with twelve people, I will be inside every one of my sons and every one of my daughters through My Spirit". Filled with trembling, tears, and laughter, scores and scores of people are consumed with the desperate hunger to have more of God and encounter The Holy Spirit.
Revival SIGNS, WONDERS, MIRACLES and The Glory of God! The Holy Spirit Power in Huntsville Prison!


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Tall Blacks edge Gilas five | Inquirer Sports
Tall Blacks edge Gilas five
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 10:28 PM July 18, 2013
GILAS-Pilipinas ended its New Zealand campaign with a close 76-77 setback to the Tall Blacks, NZ's national squad, Thursday.
"Lost to NZ national team, 76-77. Tall Blacks have only been practicing for three days and missing a couple of guys. But we played well," said Gilas coach Chot Reyes on his Twitter account.
"More importantly, we played physical. Two of their guys bloodied, one limped off, all accidental, of course," he added.
The loss capped the Nationals' six-game training stint, their final tuneup for the Fiba Asia Championship which gets going on Aug. 1 at Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay.
The Filipinos, who are expected to fly home this weekend, lost three of their last four games.
Skipping the previous two games to rest an ailing back, naturalized center Marcus Douthit had 28 points and 14 rebounds against the Tall Blacks, who are ranked 18th in the world.
Gilas posted two consecutive wins against the Hawke Bay Hawks in Napier but lost a pair of close games against the NBL All Stars (85-86) and the Wellington Saints (96-100).
On Wednesday, the Nationals downed the Super City Rangers, 95-77. June Navarro
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The Catholic Church's Working Group on Rural Issues organises an annual conference to closely and proactively examine the issues of the day.
Agricultural concerns feature prominently such as the response to diseases that threaten animals and consequently food supplies to Single Farm Payment registration for diocesan-owned farms. Rural ministry covers many other areas – every rural area is in somebody's Catholic parish – so many other issues come under the spotlight like flooding and the plight of rural migrant workers.
Although 'rural' means much more than farming, every conference includes 'A View from the Farm Gate'.
Over the years, conference delegates have heard from a variety of expert speakers covering a wide range of subjects and areas of expertise.
Conferences also include visits to organisations working in the field such as the Food and Environment Research Agency in North Yorkshire, and working sites like a 2,200-cow dairy herd in Lancashire.


Rebecca Muder preaches for the Second Sunday of Advent, offering a reflection on discipleship: "We are called to find and dedicate ourselves to the work that is uniquely ours to do, work that contributes to the creation of a more just and compassionate world."
A self-professed perfectionist, she finds solace in today's readings, saying, "God isn't interested in perfect. She is interested in our willingness to try."
A native Kansan, Rebecca studied English and Sociology at Emporia State University. As an Amate House Volunteer in Chicago, she worked for the Catholic Charities of Chicago and Heartland Human Care Services. Becca earned a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from the University of Dayton where she also worked as a Residence Life Campus Minister. Following graduate studies, she returned to Chicago to serve Amate House for four years as a Program and Recruitment Coordinator before joining the Maryknoll Lay Missioners in 2016. She recently transferred to El Salvador from Brazil and is currently engaged in the process of learning Spanish. In 2019, she will begin a new ministry at a primary school, Patronato Lidia Coggiola, in Zaragoza, a small town just outside of San Salvador.
Visit www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/12092018 to learn more about Becca, watch her video, read her text, and for more preaching for the Sunday Scriptures from Catholic women.


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Used Fast EZ-EFI 2.0 system PN#30400 and Fast in tank fuel system. I bought this system from a friend who totaled his car and never used it. System was running when removed and has been sitting for 2 years. Fuel pump is the 255lph Walbro. $1200+shipping, PM me here if interested.
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For Sale – Port-A-Tree Pocket Pal Practice Tree with button. I bought this late this summer & played with it a little. It's still in new condition. Works great. Health/Retirement sale.
Asking $55 complete shipped in the lower 48 states.
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Set of 16 Smith Brothers 5/16 X .83 wall pushrods. Ball on both ends with no oiling holes. 9.390 Length. Used on a 440 with a Mech. Cam and Comp Pro Magnum Rockers Arms. Very little use, $170 New will sell for $100 shipped, PM me here if interested.
New Clevite MS-1795 V series Main bearings for 440 in Std. size. Used for mock up, not ran. $75 shipped, PM me here if interested.
Full tune specs Dyno and Flow Sheets to buyer.
Engine Dyno'd with headers below.
No expense spared on these heads have a ton of money into them.
Entire Engine fresh Ready to run. Willing to ship or pick up in San Diego Ca.
TTI W5 1 7/8" primary A body race headers with Performance welding slip on 3 1/2" merge collectors. Freshly coated. Collectors alone were $600 from Mark at performance.
For sale is a new unused small block Mopar forged rotating assembly that will generate 430 cubic inches. The assembly is a BPE stroker kit which features a 4340 forged 4.125 stroke crankshaft with 273-318-340 main bearing size (2.5" journals) and small block Chevy 2.0 sixed rod journals, forged 4.070 bore RaceTec 17 cc dished pistons pins and locks, total seal rings, Callie's Compstar 6.200 rods, Clevite main and rod bearings. Compression will be ~ 10.7:1 with the Eddy 63cc head chambers if your block is machined for 0 deck height and you use a 0.040 compressed head gasket. I can only post one picture so contact me for pictures of all the parts. Price is $2,350 plus actual shipping cost.
Email me at procketrichard@hotmail.com with any questions or for more pictures.
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I have a new Mopar Performance 3.65" stroke forged crankshaft part # P4529713 for small blocks. It has an 8 bolt flange and is drilled for use with manual transmissions. This crank fits 273, 318 & 340 blocks as well as aftermarket blocks that use crankshafts with 2.5" main bearing journals. The rod journals are standard small block Mopar 2.125"
Price is $625 plus shipping.
Email me at procketrichard@hotmail.com with any questions.
For sale is a new Competition Cams solid roller camshaft. It features 440 lobe lift intake and exhaust (660 valve lift with 1.5 ratio rocker arms) Duration is 288 and 296 degrees at 0.050 tappet lift intake and exhaust. Lobe separation angle is 109 degrees. See picture of the cam card. The cam is sprayed with oil and wrapped up to keep it rust free. Ready to clean and install. The camshaft comes with the cam card for degreeing in the camshaft.
Price is $300 shipped to lower 48 states. I will ship internationally for the additional cost.
I have a nice small block stroker 340 main assembly consisting of a Mopar Performance 3.79 stroke forged crankshaft, new Wiseco 4.080 bore flat top pistons and 0.927 pins, new Childs & Albert Duramoly rings featuring gapless second ring and new K1 6.125" H beam rods. All parts are new except the crankshaft. The crankshaft is fresh from the machine shop. It was cleaned, magnifluxed, checked for straightness and the throws were indexed. Mains were ground 0.011 undersized and the rod throws are 2.100 (small block Chevy size). Pistons are 1.565 compression height. The pistons were assembled and placed in a block with a different rotating assembly in the past. I changed direction and disassembled the short block. Pistons show minor markings from the assembly and disassembly process on the skirts. Assembled, the pistons will be right around 9.585" for a zero deck height. Add bearings and balancing and it is ready to go.
Price is $1,850 plus shipping to the lower 48 states. I can ship internationally.
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I have a new Mopar Performance 4340 Forged steel crankshaft with stock 6 bolt small block flange still in the box. Part number is P5007253AB. Fits 273-318-340 main engine blocks. I bought this for a project that I will not get to. It is standing in the corner and want to offer it to someone who can use this. It requires the use of a Chevy connecting rod - 2.100 in rod journal. In a 340 block with stock bore the engine will displace 367 ci and with a 0.030 overbored 340 block the displacement will be 373 ci.
Here is the description from Mopar Performance.
Surface hardened, forged Small Block Crankshafts feature radiused fillets at main and rod journals. Each features a 6-bolt flange and is forged from 4340 steel. 3.58" Stroke, 50 lbs., 2.100" Rod Journal, Generic Rear Flange, 340 Main.
Price is $750 shipped in the lower 48 states.
For sale is a used Hamburger rear sump oil pan for 360 small block engines. It is designed to fit in Dodge/Plymouth/Chrysler A Body cars (Dart, Duster, Demon, Scamp, Valiant, older Barracudas, …) . The pan has two built in crankshaft scrapers and a uni-directional screen to reduce windage and keep oil near the pickup and off the crankshaft. The sump also has a trap door to allow oil to flow into the sump and keep it there upon deceleration, turns and acceleration. Pan dimensions are 22 3/8" long x 10 ½ wide x 9" tall. The centerlink of the stock suspension passes through a built in tube in the pan.
I purchased this new in the 1990's and used it in my bracket racing 1970 Dodge Dart with stock from suspension. I removed it from the motor when I changed directions with the car. It was used for ~ 30 runs at the track. Pan has some minor scratches, dings and wear from being on the engine and on the shelf.
Price is $540 shipped in the lower 48 states. I will ship it internationally for the additional cost.
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I have a new small block fluidampr that I purchased but will not be using. I purchased this a number of years ago and has been boxed and on the shelf.
Price is $350 shipped to the lower 48 states. I will ship internationally for the additional cost.
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I have a set of new ductile iron main caps available for a 360 small block. These are Mopar Performance caps. The set includes all 5 main caps. The center 3 caps are 4 bolt main. These are the same caps that came standard on R3 4 bolt blocks. I have installed the same style caps on a 340 before by milling off the ends of the center caps to leave them 2 bolt. See pictures for the 3 modified center caps installed on a 340 stroker engine. These caps are more stout than the stock caps and are an excellent upgrade for any high performance build . A line bore will be needed when installing new caps as well as some machining for the thrust bearing and #5 cap for the oil seal.
Price is $215 shipped per set in the lower 48 states.
I will ship internationally for the additional cost.
Email procketrichard@hotmail.com for more information.
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I have a Holley red pump that has not been used in a couple of years and just sitting on the shelf. I did test and pump seems to be running fine.


The company said 30 practices employing up to 300 people could face closure under plans announced by its new chief executive.
He said: "I recognise we have grown at pace and, more recently, have seen the pressure that rising costs are placing on this young business.
"We will need to recalibrate the business to deliver more measured growth whilst maintaining our plan to generate significant cash profits."
It now plans to buy back 55 of the practices that it operates through joint ventures with vets.
"Around 25 of these will be operated as company-managed practices, whilst we consider the options for the remainder, which may result in us proposing to close them," the company said.


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Evidence for a Second Receptor for Prostacyclin on Human Airway Epithelial Cells That Mediates Inhibition of CXCL9 and CXCL10 Release
Sylvia M. Wilson, Neil A. Sheddan, Robert Newton and Mark A. Giembycz
Molecular Pharmacology March 2011, 79 (3) 586-595; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.110.069674
Sylvia M. Wilson
Neil A. Sheddan
Robert Newton
Mark A. Giembycz
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Received October 27, 2010
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Published online February 18, 2011.
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Copyright © 2011 The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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Made of plastic this also fits most 1/2 gal sized growlers.
I used four of them on 1 gallon glass jar for small cider test batches. They will only work with 3 pieces airlocks. All four of them broked at some point: the plastic would crack above the screwing section. I ended replacing them with universal carboy bungs (the white ones, not made of latex).
Maybe if you screw them looser, then they would not crack, but I would fear about the impermeability of the system.


Book Review A Perpetual Season By Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine Reviewed by Adam Bell Picture a city, like most cities, but there is no exit. Concrete buildings extend upwards and out, they wrap around corners and form ornate patterns where they meet. Vines creep up the walls and even the flowers sag wearily in the morning. Walking down the street, it is easy to get confused. Each building looks like the next. Each corner and doorway forms its own elaborate pattern.
A Perpetual Season. By Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine.
Picture a city, like most cities, but there is no exit. Concrete buildings extend upwards and out, they wrap around corners and form ornate patterns where they meet. Vines creep up the walls and even the flowers sag wearily in the morning. Walking down the street, it is easy to get confused. Each building looks like the next. Each corner and doorway forms its own elaborate pattern. The dark corridors and canyon-like streets don't allow much light, and the day hovers at the threshold of night. With few markers or monuments, it's easy to move in circles until you're exhausted or outraged. Tightly edited and smartly designed, Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine's A Perpetual Season is a psychological short story that leads us through this bleak city. Intimate, yet claustrophobic, order seems to be all around, but the faces of the city's inhabitants are marked by confusion and bewilderment. Trapped in a labyrinth of their own making, they are left circling and searching.
A Perpetual Season. By Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine. MACK, 2014.
The book begins with a solitary window, illuminated and looking down. In an otherwise dark world, this light takes on an ominous presence. Someone or something is watching. It is best not to linger too long, so we quickly move on. As our guide through this lonesome city, Pujade-Lauraine continually points out the strange modernist structures that exist at every turn — minimalist sculpture and brutalist concrete swirl and surround the people. Windows, doorways, and stairways fill the images, but remain closed or cut off, bricked up, or sealed, just around the corner. Cities are full of incidental spaces, paved walkways, mute concrete, and discrete corners. They sculpt our daily lives and guide us through the day. We hardly pay them any mind, even when they encircle us and close off possibilities. The utopic hopes of modernism turned sour.
Although composed largely of architectural shots, lone individuals or groups also appear. Stranded on the street, they often look like fish caught in the dark eddies formed in the corners of anonymous buildings. Pushing against the current, they seem unaware of the forces acting against them, resigned or baffled by the walls that had rose up long ago, the paths that lead them astray. Remarkably, the images are striped of all contemporary markers. All advertising or signs have been carefully excised, and there are no recognizable monuments. The people who wander the streets seem of a different or alternate era. They inhabit a retro-futuristic landscape that is both distant and strangely immediate.
Careful attention has also been paid to the book. As a designer at MACK, Pujade-Lauraine helped designed most of the publisher's recent titles, and has created an elegant well-portioned book. The abstract cover echoes the structures found throughout the book, and the muted blue page edges complement the work's somber tone. Single images occupy the spreads and each image is given careful weight in the tight edit. The book contains no text save the book info in the back, which aside from the customary dedications, includes a great passage from the Argentine poet Roberto Juarroz – "In the face of an unfathomable labyrinth / only one solution remains: / build another, more convoluted / that may confound the first." Although tucked in the back, Juarroz's cryptic words offer insight into the work, and maybe just a pathway out.


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Tongue & Groove (Oct. 2008)
Oboe – Cor Anglais
Clarinet in Bb – Bass Clarinet
Written for BMIC and Okeanos
September 2008, Revised November 2008
Tongue and Groove refers to the method employed in carpentry in which similar objects are fitted together edge to edge to form a single flat surface. Each piece has a slot or groove cut along one edge and a thin protruding ridge or tongue along the opposite allowing for pieces to be fit together. For this piece I was interested in exploring this joining method musically. The word groove could easily be interpreted in the musical sense. The term is very rarely employed in connexion with contemporary art music but more commonly expressed in the popular styles of jazz, funk, rock, soul, and fusion. The term tongue would require a more subtle approach and thus I returned to the joining method itself noting that the tongue had two characteristics: first it protruded from the object in such as way as to make it a defining feature of the original object; second, its purpose was to fit inside the groove of another object. I felt that these two characteristics could be interpreted musically allowing for the piece's concept to be formalised. As the concept evolved it became apparent that the form of the piece would be dictated by the concept itself: a groove would be established using the ensemble, a tongue or protruding melody would be gradually introduced that while different from the groove could be fit against it or inside it. The melody would gradually take over the groove creating a new groove in preparation for a new 'tongue.'It could therefore be possible for the roles of each instrumentalist to be reversed either taking a tongue or groove in the same way that is inherent in jazz with the rhythm section and frontline instrumentalists.
The final form of Tongue & Groove differed slightly from this concept; as is often the case in my composing method, once a concept or rule has been established more serendipitous processes often take over leading to the concept itself being broken or sidestepped. In addition to exploring the above, I have also recently developed an interest in borrowing materials from other sources. To this end I decided to turn to Bach and Das Wohltemperirte Clavier Book II. Bach was the obvious choice for me as I had recently studied Tansy Davies's Inside Out pieces which also used Bach as a starting point. Also, I felt that the driving rhythms and frequent syncopation that can be found in Bach's keyboard music would be ideally suited
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Pentagon Has No Idea What 108,000 Contractors Are Doing
Photo: AP Photo/Gervasio Sanchez
By DAVID FRANCIS, The Fiscal Times June 3, 2013
The number of contractors working in Afghanistan now vastly outnumbers American troops stationed there, according to a Congressional Research Service report. CRS, along with the Government Accountability Office, also determined that the Pentagon is unable to properly document the work these contractors are doing. And the information DOD is receiving is often unreliable and inaccurate.
According to CRS, there are now 108,000 private workers in Afghanistan, a workforce that dwarfs the 65,700 American troops still stationed there. That means there are 1.6 contractors for every American soldier in Afghanistan. This is an increase from last month, when The Fiscal Times reported that there were 1.4 contractors per American soldier.
Given the size of the private forces, it's not surprising that CRS found that in recent years, the Defense Department spent more than any other agency to support contractor work.
"Over the last six fiscal years, DOD obligations for contracts performed in the Iraq and Afghanistan areas of operation were approximately $160 billion and exceeded total contract obligations of any other U.S. federal agency," CRS found. Continue reading "Pentagon Has No Idea What 108,000 Contractors Are Doing"
Author AFGE Local 704Posted on June 5, 2013 June 5, 2013 Categories Contractor PayTags Afghanistan, Congressional Research Service reports, Defense Department, Government Accountability Office, Iraq, Pentagon, United States, United States Department of DefenseLeave a comment on Pentagon Has No Idea What 108,000 Contractors Are Doing
Are Pentagon Civilians Really Behind the Pentagon's Money Woes?
By Nick Schwellenbach June 04, 2013On Monday, 25 defense analysts from several think tanks announced that they agree on three areas in U.S. military spending where money can be saved: closing down unnecessary military bases and facilities, reforming military compensation, and shrinking the number of Department of Defense civilian employees.
Justifying the last point, the analysts wrote to the Pentagon's civilian leaders and lawmakers on Capitol Hill that:
From 2001 to 2012, the active duty military grew by just 3.4 percent. Yet over the same timeframe the number of civilian defense employees grew by 17 percent, an increase five times greater than the armed forces.
Sounds bad, right? Sounds like the Defense Department's civilian workforce is out of control? Wrong.
The problem with the analysts' letter is the baseline they use. They picked the period when the Pentagon's civilian workforce was the smallest it has been since at least 1981. The number of Pentagon civilians hovered around 1.1 million throughout the 1980s.
During the 1990s, the Defense Department's civilian workforce shrunk from 1 million in 1990 to 649,000 in 2002, according to White House data. Those 350,000 civilians represented the bulk of federal civilian jobs lost during the 1990s, thanks largely to the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994, but also to reduced Pentagon expenditures as the Cold War drew to a close. Continue reading "Are Pentagon Civilians Really Behind the Pentagon's Money Woes?"
Author AFGE Local 704Posted on June 4, 2013 Categories SequestrationTags Capitol Hill, Cold War, Iraq, Pentagon, United States, United States Department of Defense, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), White HouseLeave a comment on Are Pentagon Civilians Really Behind the Pentagon's Money Woes?
Sequestration, Defense, and the EPA
The fiscal cliff looms. Part of that cliff is "sequestration": the political agreement, enacted into law, to automatically cut federal spending across the board by $1.2 trillion over ten years, starting with $109 billion next year. Half the cuts would be in defense, half in domestic spending. These mindless cuts, which nearly all of Congress acknowledges as damaging, would go into effect on January 2nd if Congress fails to reach agreement on an alternative.
Shockingly, Congressional Republicans want an even worse outcome—increases in defense spending along with more than double the sequestration cuts in domestic spending to make up the difference. They are particularly gunning for elimination of clean air, clean water, and most other programs run by the EPA. Congressional Democrats want a more balanced approach with at least some of the deficit reduction coming from tax increases on the wealthy, and fewer domestic cuts. Yet the Democrats have failed to unite behind any significant cuts in military spending.
Few realize that, even beyond spending for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, base defense spending rose over 77% in the last decade .* Obama's much maligned "defense cuts" amount to less than 1% in base military spending from 2012 to 2013. Looking forward, our military spending needs to be rolled back much more, not less, than sequestration would require. And we need to protect the EPA and reinvigorate federal programs that help to stave off global warming and environmental disaster.
Author AFGE Local 704Posted on December 18, 2012 Categories SequestrationTags Barack Obama, Congress, Democratic Party (United States), Iraq, Military Budget, Republican, sequestration, United States CongressLeave a comment on Sequestration, Defense, and the EPA
Fact checking the third presidential debate
Posted by Glenn Kessler at 12:45 AM ET, 10/23/2012
(This is an expanded version of material that originally appeared in the Oct. 23 print edition of The Washington Post.)
Foreign policy is generally a difficult area to fact check — differences can be more of opinions than numbers — but that did not stop President Obama and former governor Mitt Romney from making questionable claims.
"Just a few weeks ago, you said you think we should have more troops in Iraq right now…. You said that we should still have troops in Iraq to this day."
— Obama
"There was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement, and I concurred in that, and said that we should have some number of troops that stayed on. That was something I concurred with."
— Romney Continue reading "Fact checking the third presidential debate"
Author AFGE Local 704Posted on October 24, 2012 Categories President ObamaTags Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Iran, Iraq, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mitt Romney, United StatesLeave a comment on Fact checking the third presidential debate
Not in Romney speech: Afghanistan, Social Security
LAURIE KELLMAN | August 31, 2012 08:49 AM EST |
WASHINGTON — Social Security. Medicare. Iraq. Afghanistan. Illegal immigration.
They're all costly to taxpayers and the next president presumably will have to address them to one degree or another. Yet GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney made no mention of those issues Thursday in his wide-ranging acceptance speech that closed the Republican National Convention.
The address was Romney's most sweeping attempt yet to outline the case for his candidacy. It was no time to get into the nitty-gritty of federal budgeting and solutions to the nation's ills. But Romney did find ways to talk about an array of other issues, some of them sensitive for him personally and politically.
Romney did, for example, pledge to "protect the sanctity of life," a reference to abortion, even though there are clear differences on the issue between him and running mate Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. He referred to his family as Mormons, a rarity for a candidate who typically refers to his religion as "my faith." And Romney even showed emotion, which he seldom does in public, when he spoke of longing to wake up again with a pile of children in the bedroom he shares with wife Ann. Continue reading "Not in Romney speech: Afghanistan, Social Security"
Author AFGE Local 704Posted on August 31, 2012 Categories Huffington PostTags 2012, Afghanistan, GOP, Illegal immigration, Iraq, Medicaid, Medicare, Mitt Romney, Republican National Convention, Republican Party, Social SecurityLeave a comment on Not in Romney speech: Afghanistan, Social Security


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Rapid warming will increase floods, fires, environmental disaster and damage our health and way of life. Video still from YouTube footage posted by Jason Edmondson.
Canada is warming at twice the global rate, while right-wing politicians attack the carbon tax.
What do Ebola and climate change have in common? A large number of the people at risk don't even believe they're real.
And even a new federal government report warning that Canada is warming at twice the global rate is unlikely to change those people's minds.
On Ebola, a survey published in late March in The Lancet Infectious Diseasesreported that a quarter of the population in two towns at the centre of the disease's hot zone in the Democratic Republic of Congo said the outbreak wasn't real.
Meanwhile, a poll published earlier this year found that 18 per cent of Canadians think climate change is an unproven theory. They included 22 per cent of Canadians over age 55, and 36 per cent of those who voted Conservative in 2015.
The poll also found that two-thirds of us think it's more important to protect the environment than to promote economic growth. But sizeable minorities prefer growth and think the federal government is paying too much attention to climate change.
Those minorities are presumably the voters that Ontario's Progressive Conservatives and Alberta's United Conservative Party are appealing to by campaigning against the new federal carbon tax. Twitter was full of right-wing politicians like Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Alberta United Conservative leader Jason Kenney pumping gas on Sunday before the dreaded carbon tax kicked in on Monday.
So Canada's Changing Climate Report is unlikely to change the minds of many in the Conservative base, federally or provincially. After all, it was researched and written on behalf of the Trudeau Liberal government, making it automatically suspect.
Granted, the Liberals' "fundamentally incoherent" climate policies make the new report a bit of an embarrassment. They seem to think they can fund the transition to a zero-emissions economy by shipping bitumen to Asia and letting Asians do the emitting instead.


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Q: breaking a for loop with length decrement I found this code to convert an excel column name into a column number but having a hard time understanding the break condition for the loop
//function convert excel sheet column to number

toColumnNumber = (colName) => {
  let result = 0;
  for (let i = colName.length, j = 0; i--; j++) {
    result += Math.pow(26, i) * (colName.charCodeAt(j) - 64);
  }
  return result;
};
console.log(toColumnNumber("AB"));

it uses i-- as a break condition and i can't understand how it can be used to break the loop. or is it just that is how javascript works when we use i-- as a break condition and it reaches 0 it breaks the loop?

A: As we keep decrementing the value of i, eventually it reaches 0 and that would be falsy and would stop the loop.
This is just a fancy way of doing:
for (let i = colName.length, j = 0; i > 0; j++, i--) {
    result += Math.pow(26, i) * (colName.charCodeAt(j) - 64);
  }

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With Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 set for 2019, Tom Holland becomes the Spider-Manliest actor
By Connor Sheridan 2016-12-14T21:59:01.348Z
(Image credit: Marvel)
Spider-Man: Homecoming won't arrive until summer, but Marvel and Sony have already confirmed that the young webslinger's second solo film will hit theaters on July 5, 2019. That puts it a few months after the untitled follow-up to Avengers: Infinity War and, er, confirms that the world won't end in the big team-up movie. But more importantly, it also secures Spider-Man actor Tom Holland's legacy as the Spider-Manliest of them all.
Not sure what I mean? Let's consult the Spider-Man cinematic portrayal scoreboard:
Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978)
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (1979)
These were made-for-TV movie edits of the '70s Amazing Spider-Man show, but they still count, dammit.
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) - Unconfirmed, but c'mon
Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 (2019)
Yep, that's four cinematic Spider-Man appearances for Holland, working off the pretty safe assumption that he'll show up in at least Avengers: Infinity War or its sequel. Failing that and he'll still tie Hammond and Maguire with three. Then he'll win the tiebreaker round as the only Spider-Man actor to ever actually look like a teen.
Directed by Jon Watts and starring Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei and Donald Glover, Spider-Man: Homecoming will hit theaters on July 7, 2017.
Images: Disney and Sony
Connor Sheridan
Connor has been doing news and feature things for GamesRadar+ since 2012, which is suddenly a long time ago. How on earth did that happen?
Just Mercy review: "Jamie Foxx is on awards-worthy"


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20th anniversary of Prime Point Foundation
K. SrinivasanMonday, July 06, 2020Anniversary No comments
The 20th Anniversary event of Prime Point Foundation was a grand success. Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon'ble MOS for Parliamentary Affairs), Shri Hansraj Ahir (Former Hon'ble MOS Home Affairs), Shri T S Krishnamurthy (Former Chief EleCtion Commissioner of India) Dr Y S Rajan (Co-author of the book India 2020 with Dr Abdul Kalam), Dr Maria Zeena Johnson (Chancellor, Sathya Bhama University), Mr B Suresh Kamath (Mg. Director, Patterns) and Mr Nurullah (Senior Tamil journalist) who have all supported during the incubation and take off period shared their views.
The proceedings can be watched from this link.
https://youtu.be/Wn2zWiv_0fY
The photos can be seen from this link.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/U1carUUXKFxLDC7t6
Prime Point Foundation thanks all the well wishers who have supported in the journey of 20 years.
Watch live - 20th Anniversary of Prime Point Foundation
K. SrinivasanThursday, July 02, 2020Anniversary No comments
We are pleased to announce that the 20th Anniversary Celebrations of the Prime Point Foundation on Sunday, 5th July 2020 at 6 PM through Zoom. Prime Point Foundation was started on 5th July 2000 and is completing 20 years. During the incubation period of the first ten years, we had many challenges and opportunities, as well as exciting experiences. We had the unique opportunity of being guided by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and many other eminent persons. The India Vision 2020 initiative and the launch of eMagazine PreSense were the great achievements during the first ten years.
During the 'take off' period of the next ten years, our eMagazine PreSense launched five active and successful initiatives viz (1) Education Loan Task Force (ELTF), (2) Sansad Ratna Awards, (3) Digital Journalists Association of India (DiJAI), (4) Digital Security Association of India (DiSAI) and (5) Next Gen Political Leaders (NGPL). Now, with the support of our well-wishers and our team members, we maintain the highest standards of values and ethics in our service to the nation.
It is time for our team to convey our humble 'Thank You' to all our well-wishers who have helped us through their unstinted support and guidance during our journey.
Mr Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon'ble MOS Parliamentary Affairs), Mr Hansraj Ahir (Former MOS Home Affairs), Mr T K Rangarajan (Former MP, Rajya Sabha), Mr T S Krishnamurthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India), Dr Y S Rajan (Co-Author of the book, India 2020 with Dr Abdul Kalam), Dr Maria Zeena Johnson (Chancellor, Sathyabhama University), Mr B Suresh Kamath (Mg. Director, Patterns) and Mr R Nurullah (Senior Tamil Journalist) have guided and supported us during the incubation and take-off stages.
During our celebrations, we would like to express our gratitude to them for their support. I am pleased to inform that they have all agreed to join the celebrations and bless our team.
The proceedings can be watched live from 6 PM on Sunday, 5th July 2020 through the following link.
Watch live - 20th Anniversary of Prime Point Found...