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2014 Formula One exhaust energy recovery system explained
In an effort to reduce fuel consumption in Formula One by up to 35% the FIA have introduced wholesale changes to the technical regulations to significantly increased energy harvesting for the 2014 season.
In addition to doubling to power of the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS), first introduced in 2009, from 60 kw to 120 kw and increasing kinetic energy storage by five times from 0.4 MJ/lap to Max 2MJ/lap, a new method of heat-based Energy Recovery System has been introduced.
The regulations refer to the two devices as the 'Motor Generator Unit – Kinetic' (MGU-K) and 'Motor Generator Unit – Heat' (MGU-H). The latter uses heat energy from the turbo to generate electrical energy.
The MGU-H unit captures waste heat as it is dispelled from the exhaust turbocharger via an electric generator attached to the turbocharger shaft. This waste heat energy is stored as an electrical charge adding an additional 2MJ/lap to KERS resulting in 10x (4MJ compared to 400 kJ) as much electric power boost per lap compared to 2013 KERS.
2014 V6 Engine Q & A with MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS
What can you tell us about the 2014 engine?
First of all, let's mention the rules rather than the engine. For 2014, the rules specify a maximum race fuel allowance of 100 kg – compared to a typical race fuel load of around 150 kg today, although that's not fixed by the rules.
That means we have one third less fuel to complete the same race distance with – and we want to do it at the same speed. So we need a powertrain that's 30% more energy efficient.
And that's where the new engine comes in?
Well, it's not really just an engine any more. Without getting too technical, Article 1.22 of the Technical Regulations now refers to what's called a 'Power Unit'. This comprises an ICE (Internal Combustion Engine), an ERS (Energy Recovery System) and all the ancillaries needed to make them work.
But why a Power Unit? Well, today's V8 essentially features a "bolt-on" KERS Hybrid system that was added during the engine's life. The 2014 Power Unit has been designed with integrated hybrid systems from the very beginning.
Interesting. F1 loves jargon, so ICE and ERS sound just perfect. What do they mean?
The ICE is the traditional engine in the Power Unit package. 1.6 litre capacity, turbocharged, and with direct fuel injection at a pressure of up to 100 bar. Where the current engines rev to 18,000 rpm, the ICE is limited to 15,000 rpm from 2014.
As for ERS, it's like KERS on steroids: not only can we still harvest energy from and deploy energy to the rear axle, we can now do the same from the turbocharger; the kinetic machine is called MGUK (Motor Generator Unit Kinetic) and the machine on the turbo an MGUH ('h' for heat).
In total, we are allowed to harvest and deploy energy at twice the power to the rear axle – so 161 hp compared to 80.5 hp today. And we are allowed to deploy ten times as much energy – 4MJ compared to 400 kJ. Simply put, that means a bigger power boost for a higher percentage of the lap.
And that's what helps improve the efficiency?
Exactly. Part of the efficiency gain comes from the ICE, which runs at lower speeds with fewer moving parts than the V8 and the benefit of turbocharging; but the other part is to be found in the ERS.
Today, the fuel energy we combust in the engine then has one possible energy journey to improve system efficiency, via the KERS system.
In 2014, there will be up to seven possible energy journeys to keep energy within the vehicle rather than wasting it through the exhausts and brakes.
Sound pretty impressive. Will it be exciting for the fans?
We believe so. The target is to achieve the same power output of around 750 hp but to do so using around 30% less fuel.
In terms of sound, the engine note is not as loud as the current V8 because of two factors: the lower engine speed and the fact that the turbocharger sits in the exhaust flow, recovering energy from it that would otherwise be lost as heat and sound.
But because of the mechanical balance of a V6 engine, it also sounds sweeter. And we're confident that fans will find it pretty exciting when they hear it at the track.
What impact will it have on the racing?
First of all, the engine is going to produce a lot more torque than the current V8 and over a wider power band.
That means the car is going to be grip limited on corner exit, in technical terms; in layman's terms, they're going to be a handful for the drivers.
The next point is that it will reward the most intelligent drivers - the fastest way to finish a race will not always be straightforward and the cleverest drivers will probably adapt fastest to the new challenges.
So will we see F1 turned into an economy run – or cars running out of fuel in the latter stages?
Unlikely. Managing fuel consumption is already a critical part of F1 and it will remain so in 2014; for example, did you know that our V8 can complete a race distance today using 11.6% less fuel than it did in 2006?
Today, teams are very good at monitoring fuel consumption: we track each injection of fuel into each cylinder so we know exactly how much fuel is being used. And there are over five million injections in an average race!
Ultimately, the smartest driver in the quickest car will be successful in 2014, which remains true to the fundamental challenge of Formula One. What we're really doing is putting the 'motor' back into 'motorsport'.
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Apply the 'Motor Generator Unit – Kinetic' (MGU-K) and 'Motor Generator Unit – Heat' (MGU-H) to a Wankel engine and we have a highly efficient road vehicle engine. Or forget the (MGU-K), have electric motors in the wheel hub then reclaim kinetic energy and have a large battery set and the Wankel turning a generator at a constant speed at its most efficient its sweet spot. then we have a wonderfully efficient hybrid with small generator unit. The efficiency may be greater than what the grid produces.


For a week, I have looked forward to a small celebration of the beginning of my new efforts as full-time writer. Since the title of my writing project is 'growing and gathering', I wanted to mark this celebration with the gathering, preparation and eating of an 'edible wild'. I cannot think of a more accessible yet neglected food than dandelion greens.
I made my salad of freshly picked dandelion greens, garden chives and pea sprouts. The pea sprouts are a gift from a friend in Cocagne, New Brunswick, given to me a couple of weeks ago when I did my first poetry reading and presentation on the topic of 'growing and gathering' at an evening gathering of Le Groupe de développement durable du Pays de Cocagne . The chives are from my garden, started years ago by my son when he planted his own little garden.
I picked the dandelion greens from around our front steps. This time of year they are fresh and generally untouched by bugs. I picked the best leaves and cleaned them in fresh water, removing any blemished bits and the stems which contain a bitter sap.
My salad was delightful. I had it without any dressing because I wanted to taste the flavour of the greens. The green leaves were delicious, crisp and tender at the same time. The flavour was very pleasant with none of the bitterness you may get from older dandelion leaves. The flavors also blended well, none overwhelming the others. My celebratory salad is declared an unconditional success!
My Mom often used dandelion greens for food. She always cooked hers, the way you would prepare Spinach or Swiss Chard. I know she ate dandelion greens regularly as a child, growing up in the lean years of the 1930s.
The Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale Weber) is easy to identify. In summer it has a bright yellow flower with a hollow stem. After flowering, Dandelion seeds are dispersed by wind from fluffy, spherical heads. The leaves grow from a basal rosette and are lobed and toothy.


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Visby Medical™ Receives FDA Clearance and CLIA Waiver at the Point of Care for PCR Sexual Health Test
San Jose, CA – August 30, 2021 – Visby Medical™ announced today that it has received a 510(k) clearance and was granted a waiver under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its fast, single-use polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostic test for the multiplexed detection of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) caused by Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV), using a self-collected vaginal swab.
With the capability to detect three of the most common and treatable STIs, the Visby Medical Sexual Health Click Test is uniquely positioned to address women's health needs and promote positive health outcomes. As described in the clinical trial results published by The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the test offers PCR technology in palm-sized dimensions and provides accurate results in under 30 minutes, with no additional instruments required.1
The FDA-granted CLIA Waiver allows any healthcare setting with a CLIA Certificate of Waiver to administer the test during the patient's appointment, eliminating the need to send specimens to a laboratory, and greatly reducing the time between initial testing and treatment. Use of the Visby device could significantly reduce growing STI rates, especially in communities with limited access to testing.
"In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an urgent need to address the rising rates of STIs in the U.S. Without an accurate test result, we are fighting blind, often prescribing STI treatments before we have a clear diagnosis, which can lead to delayed or ineffective treatment and to the emergence of antibiotic resistant microbes," said Gary Schoolnik, MD, an infectious disease expert, Chief Medical Officer at Visby Medical, and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. "Empowering clinicians with immediate access to a lab-grade PCR result will help guide not just the right treatment, but also the right patient discussion during that single patient visit. This can help save time, money, and reduce anxiety for the patient and clinician alike, enabling expedited partner treatment."
A recent report by the CDC highlighted that females are disproportionately burdened by STIs, both in terms of negative health outcomes and medical costs.2 Chlamydia and Gonorrhea are major causes of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which can lead to infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and chronic pelvic pain. While Chlamydia and Gonorrhea infections must be reported to public health authorities, no such requirement exists for Trichomonas infections – meaning that cases of trichomoniasis might be significantly underreported. This causes concern because trichomoniasis increases the risk of HIV infection. With pregnant women, Trichomonas can result in preterm birth, pre-labor rupture of membranes and low birthweight babies.
According to Clinical Professor of Medicine, Population and Public Health Sciences, Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH, University of Southern California, "For both patient care and public health control of these STIs, the Visby Medical Sexual Health Click Test represents a breakthrough. We will now have exact test results to treat women correctly, avoiding unnecessary over-treatment, and greatly reducing the time to treatment, which will reduce transmission and complications."
Visby Medical Founder and CEO, Adam de la Zerda, PhD, who is also Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, firmly believes it is critically important to have an accurate test that can return results in a single patient visit to foster better patient outcomes.
"This FDA clearance and CLIA Waiver further validate our technology, and allows us to start changing how infectious diseases are identified and treated to improve patient lives and public health monitoring," said Dr. de la Zerda. "Accurate results can ensure the clinician is able to make informed decisions that can shorten infection duration, prevent transmission, and may lower the risk of complications, all while improving the patient and clinician experience."
About Visby Medical™
Visby Medical has been working to change the order of diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases for a decade. Visby Medical has a single-use PCR platform to rapidly test for serious infections, originally developed for sexually transmitted infections. Tested, reviewed, and endorsed by top public and private organizations, the first commercial application of the Visby Medical technology received FDA Emergency Use Authorization in 2020 for moderate-complexity laboratory testing of symptomatic patients in the fight against COVID-19, and in 2021 for use in settings with a CLIA Certificate of Waiver. Visby Medical is partnering with government and private entities to accelerate the delivery of PCR-grade diagnostics, designed for use at the point of care, and eventually for use at home.
Contact: The Visby Medical Press Team press@visbymedical.com
Lancet Infect Dis 2021;21: 668–76
Sexually Transmitted Infections Among US Women and Men: Prevalence and Incidence Estimates, 2018, Sexually Transmitted Diseases: April 2021 – Volume 48 – Issue 4 – p 208-214 doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001355
Published 08/30/2021 By Ricardo Mazzi
Categorized as Press Release Tagged chlamydia, gonorrhea, STI, syphilis, trichomoniasis, Visby PCR Sexual Health Test
Lancet Publishes study measuring Visby Medical Sexual Health Click Test performance
FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for Visby Medical's COVID-19 RT-PCR Test for Pooled Samples
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Clinical Data of The Visby Medical Sexual Health Click Test Published in Journal of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association
Antimicrobial stewardship, rapid PCR and STI
Visby Medical Appoints Industry Veteran Thomas Prescott as Chairman of the Board
A WordPress Commenter on Visby exits stealth to bring its Personal PCR Test to the fight against COVID-19

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Asbury Solomons brings everything you could want in retirement living to one remarkable location. It's waterfront living at an affordable price with a relaxed resort-style atmosphere, endless opportunities for enjoyment and, most importantly, the security of knowing you planned well for the future.
Every day, Asbury Solomons is creating a lifestyle full of possibilities. Through our HealthAbility™ program, you have a choice of ways to nurture your social, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, physical and vocational wellness with an exceptional location, well-considered amenities and an overall atmosphere of relaxation and enjoyment. Live a more active and fulfilling lifestyle at Asbury Solomons.
Being an intimate, tight-knit community has its advantages. Neighbors take extra pride in their community and care more deeply about their neighbors. Many residents take great satisfaction in contributing their time and talents to the surrounding community. Calvert Marine Museum, the University of Maryland Chesapeake Biological Lab and Annmarie Garden are just a few of the places where residents work as volunteers.
The Go Green Committee, formed by residents, leads efforts to promote environmental stewardship through awareness and action. From recycling initiatives to an oyster gardening effort aimed at improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, residents are leading the charge and creating a legacy of a better world.
In 2011, the International Council on Active Aging awarded Asbury Solomons the Innovators Award for its committment to working with residents to create events that target all dimensions of wellness. "Taste of America" is an ongoing celebration of regional cuisine, music and traditions that brings staff and residents together for memorable evenings throughout the year.


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Adi Utarini (Yogyakarta, 4 de junio de 1965) es una investigadora de salud pública indonesia que trabaja para eliminar la fiebre del dengue en su ciudad natal. Es profesora de salud pública en el Departamento de Salud y Gestión de Políticas de la Universidad de Gadjah Mada. En 2020 fue seleccionada como una de las 10 personas más relevantes para la ciencia ese año por la revista Nature por ser pionera en el ensayo controlado aleatorizado de una técnica de prevención del dengue utilizando mosquitos portadores de la bacteria Wolbachia.

Biografía
Adi Utarini nació en la ciudad indonesia de Yogyakarta en 1965. Estudió Medicina en la Universidad Gadjah Mada. Después de graduarse en 1989 completó dos maestrías, una en el Instituto de Salud Infantil de la UCL Great Ormond Street del University College London, Reino Unido (1994) y otra en la Universidad de Umeå, Suecia (1997). Permaneció en Umeå para su investigación doctoral, donde se centró en un programa de control de la malaria en Java Central. Completó su doctorado en 2002.

Utarini se centra en el control de enfermedades y la calidad de la atención sanitaria en la Universidad de Gadjah Mada. Se desempeñó como Líder del Proyecto «Eliminar el Dengue» en su ciudad. Yogyakarta es una urbe densamente poblada de casi 400.000 personas con altas tasas de transmisión de la fiebre del dengue. En 2018, Utarini dio una charla en TEDx sobre los intentos de reducir los brotes de dengue en la ciudad.

Utarini codirigió desde 2016 en Yogyakarta un ensayo controlado aleatorizado de la técnica que emplea los mosquitos portadores de Wolbachia para reducir la propagación de enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos, como la fiebre del dengue. En agosto de 2020 anunció que el método reducía la incidencia de la fiebre del dengue en un 77% durante el ensayo. La bacteria Wolbachia impide que los mosquitos transmitan virus a los humanos. Aunque el método se había desarrollado desde los años 1990 en la Universidad de Monash (Australia), el ensayo fue «la prueba más sólida hasta la fecha» para reconocer su impacto, y el primer ensayo de control aleatorizado de este enfoque. En la prueba, la ciudad de Yogyakarta se dividió en 24 grupos: 12 seleccionados al azar para recibir a los mosquitos infectados por la Wolbachia y el resto para que sirvieran de control. En diciembre de 2020 no se han publicado los datos completos, pero en junio de ese mismo año se desvelaron los datos y en agosto se publicó un resultado preliminar que mostraba una reducción del 77% en las zonas donde se liberaron los mosquitos modificados con Wolbachia en comparación con la zona de control. Los epidemiólogos elogiaron el resultado como «asombroso» y «de gran trascendencia, y un paso importante en la lucha contra el dengue, que causa alrededor de 400 millones de infecciones y 25.000 muertes al año, así como, posiblemente, en la batalla contra otras enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos.

Utarini fue reclutada para el proyecto en 2013, convirtiéndose en la científica principal del mismo en su país, Indonesia. Además de coordinar el ensayo, desempeñó un papel importante en la obtención de la aprobación normativa de múltiples ministerios gubernamentales. Durante todo el ensayo, Utarini tuvo que conseguir el apoyo de la comunidad local, lo que logró mediante pinturas murales, cortometrajes y reuniones presenciales; el interés de la comunidad por participar fue uno de los aspectos exitosos del ensayo.

Entre 2015 y 2017, Utarini sirvió en el Consejo de Investigación del Ministerio de Investigación y Tecnología de Indonesia. En 2020 fue seleccionada como una de las 10 personas más relevantes para la ciencia por la revista Nature por ser pionera en los ensayos de mosquitos con Wolbachia.

Utarini es conocida cariñosamente como «Prof. Uut», y es descrita por sus colegas como tranquila pero persuasiva. Sus hobbys incluyen montar en bicicleta y tocar el piano. Utarini estuvo casada con Iwan Driprahasto, un profesor de farmacología, también en Gadjah Mada, que murió de la enfermedad de COVID-19 en marzo de 2020.

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Increasing tickets price because of Federer is ridiculous, says Halle chief
by LUIGI GATTO | VIEW 8657
Increasing the tickets price in May because of Roger Federer's first appearance since 2016 in the Rome Open is, sadly, a popular topic. The organizers got heavily criticized by the fans and world of tennis overall. Tennisnet asked the Halle Open Tournament Director Ralf Weber if having Federer competing in the event pushes them to increase the tickets prices.
"That's ridiculous", said Weber. "We would never do it here. That's not serious. Players often look at major tournaments, the Grand Slams, who have enormous sales and enormous earnings. The money does not come from the sky for us, you need to earn it making a huge effort.
We want to keep having balanced prices for our trustable fans so that many of them can get to the event. We are not increasing the price because Federer will play on this or that day." On what Federer's 17th appearance in Halle means to them, Weber added: "An unbelievable aspect in many ways.
The greatest player ever who plays in Halle on a regular basis, he is a tournament's friend and he always feels comfortable. We are like a family, no other player had such an impact on the tournament like him. We are also partners of the Roger Federer Foundation.
He comes here with his family. That's the reason why he has won nine times here and this year maybe it will be the tenth. But the competition is a strong one, an impressive entry list with Alexander Zverev, Karen Khachanov and Borna Coric.
He was the amazing face of the tournament over those 26 years. He will be connected to us even when he stops playing, we spoke about it and we developed some ideas."


This year the University Writing Center begins a new handouts series. We are looking back over 15 years of instructional materials and updating them. As they become available, new versions will be published here. This page will also include links to selected outside writing resources. The UWC is excited to offer these writing resources, distilled from hundreds of hours of working with students.
Résumé Resources: This handout contains contact information for career services for each college.


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Basic Service Management Sensible service management for everyone
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A guide to the Standard+Case approach to service response.
Basic Service Management is now available in Spanish
This book is about how to run services, in any organisation, in any industry. It describes the basics, the core stuff, in realistic pragmatic terms. And it is pragmatically brief - we kept it to 50 paperback pages.
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FindACase™ | Estate of Doerfler v. Federal Insurance Co.
Estate of Doerfler v. Federal Insurance Co.
CHUBB INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY, Defendant-Respondent.
On appeal from Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Ocean County, Docket Nos. L-2960-14 and L-0483-14.
John N. Ellison (Reed Smith LLP) of the Pennsylvania Bar, admitted pro hac vice, argued the cause for appellant (Reed Smith, attorneys; John N. Ellison and Douglas R. Widin, on the brief).
Thomas McKay, III argued the cause for respondents (Cozen O'Connor, attorneys; Thomas McKay, III and Richard M. Mackowsky, on the brief).
Before Judges Fuentes, Manahan and Suter.
On October 29 and 30, 2012, Super-Storm Sandy made landfall near Atlantic City, sixty miles south of the Borough of Mantoloking. The storm brought wind gusts as high as eighty miles per hour. The devastation caused to our shore communities by this fury of nature is well-documented. On February 19, 2014, plaintiff Stephanie Doerfler filed a complaint against Chubb Insurance Company of America (Chubb) alleging breach of contract and bad faith in connection with a homeowner's insurance policy. Chubb filed a responsive pleading that asserted a number of affirmative defenses, including that Doerfler's loss was not covered because of the surface water exclusion in the policy. On September 5, 2014, the court severed Doerfler's claims for breach of contract and bad faith.
On October 17, 2014, Doerfler and the Estate of Ronald Doerfler (collectively the Estate) filed a complaint alleging similar claims against defendant Federal Insurance Company (Federal). In its responsive pleading, Federal also asserted as an affirmative defense the insurance policy's exclusion for loss caused by surface water. In an order dated March 16, 2015, the court severed the Estate's bad faith claim and suspended discovery related to it, pending the outcome of the breach of contract claim.
Defendants are members of the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies. Plaintiffs purchased identical Chubb Masterpiece homeowners' insurance policies. Doerfler's policy insured her residential property located on Ocean Avenue in the Borough of Mantoloking, including the personal property kept therein. The policy was in effect from November 16, 2011, to November 16, 2012; the dwelling was insured for $904, 000 and the contents kept therein for $361, 600. The Estate's policy purchased by Ronald Doerfler, now deceased, also insured property located on Ocean Avenue in Mantoloking, and was in effect from October 1, 2012, to October 1, 2013. The policy insured the dwelling for $2, 441 million and the contents of the house for $976, 400.
[W]e do not cover any loss caused by: flood, surface water, waves, tidal water, overflow of water from a body of water, . . .; or spray from any of these even if driven by wind.
The exclusions section defined the words "caused by" to "mean any loss that is contributed to, made worse by, or in any way results from that peril."
The motion judge reserved decision at the conclusion of oral argument. In two orders entered on February 5, 2016, the same day of the oral argument session, the motion judge granted defendants' motions for summary judgment; in two other orders entered the same day, the judge denied plaintiffs' cross-motions for summary judgment. The judge did not issue "an opinion or memorandum decision, either written or oral, " nor make any factual findings or state any conclusions of law as required by Rule 1:7-4(a). On March 14, 2016, the judge entered a Final Judgment Order "in favor" of defendants Chubb and Federal and "against" plaintiffs Doerfler and the Estate "on all issues and claims relating to the liability of the defendant[s] to the plaintiff[s] as alleged in Count I and II of plaintiff[s]' Amended Complaint[s] for the reasons set forth in defendantrs1' motion papers." (emphasis added).


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Entrepreneur, Author & Speaker
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How to Figure Out What to Do With Your Life (Next)
"A brilliant instruction manual on how to find purpose, build a career, and live a life of fulfillment for anyone aspiring to success in work and society." – DEEPAK CHOPRA
A surefire guide to planning your next career move and discovering the job you really want.
Jennifer Turliuk was dissatisfied in her corporate job, so she quit. But she had no idea what to do next. After university, she, like so many graduates, focused on just getting a job rather than figuring out the career she really wanted. Yet how would she even begin to find out what exactly that would be?
Instead of getting another degree or going back to school to change her career path, Jennifer embarked on a "self-education journey," interviewing and shadowing some of the world's leading professors, founders, and investors from Silicon Valley companies such as Airbnb, Square, Kiva, and more. What she discovered is not only a way to find out what she really wanted to do with her own life, but a career design process that would help others do just the same.
Based on tested strategies and exercises including quantified self, design thinking, lean methodology, self-discovery, and more, Turliuk will be your guide to finding the path towards a satisfying and passion-driven career that is right for you.
"A brilliant instruction manual on how to find purpose, build a career, and live a life of fulfillment for anyone aspiring to success in work and society."
– Deepak Chopra
Jennifer Turliuk is an entrepreneur, writer and speaker. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Fast Company, Wired, and more. She attended Queen's University and Singularity University (at NASA), and was awarded an honorary degree from Humber College for her contributions to society. Jennifer's writing can be found in Forbes, Business Insider, Strategy Magazine, and newspapers.
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As President Donald Trump battles to end illegal immigration, authorities continue to confront threats on the border. More than a few citizens and outsiders aid in the smuggling and trafficking of people into the United States. One scheme had been going on for many years, involving the help of American soldiers. But at least one of the ringleaders is finally forced to face the music.
One of the biggest challenges in enforcing the border is keeping out those who had been deported. We can catch aliens and send them away as much as we want. But if the border continues to remain unsecured, they can sneak back inside, whenever they please.
Our porous Southern border has been a magnet for undocumented immigrants for years. During the Obama administration, things only got worse. His policies weakened our ability to enforce our immigration laws. "Catch and release," as well as other loopholes, allowed people who entered illegally to stick around.
A man who had entered the United States illegally, but was deported, continued to operate within the country. He was even able to smuggle more people into America. Not only that, his lucrative business attracted the help of American soldiers who used their influence to easily welcome undocumented immigrants.
Now, this man is finally getting the justice he deserves.
A federal judge sent a Mexican man in the country illegally to prison Wednesday for his role in a human smuggling operation that involved U.S. soldiers, authorities said.
Victoriano Zamora-Jasso, 54, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for supplying undocumented immigrants to an individual who worked with U.S. soldiers to smuggle them further into the country, according to the Department of Justice. Zamora-Jasso illegally resided in Houston and is expected to be deported soon.
Officials said that between March and September 2014, Zamoria-Jasso provided undocumented immigrants to Arnold Gracia, 48, who then made arrangements for the individuals to pass an internal U.S. checkpoint.
Four U.S. soldiers carried out the smuggling, authorities said, which occurred at an immigration checkpoint in Sarita, Texas. Brandon Troy Robbins, 24, of San Antonio, Eric Alexander Rodriguez, 25, of Odem, Yashira Perez-Morales, 28, of Watertown, N.Y., and Christopher David Wix, 24, of Abilene were convicted for their roles.
It's pretty scary to think the men tasked to protect our country would so easily betray it. Numerous U.S. soldiers are stationed at the border. They assist Border Patrol in securing the border, making sure no one gets into America illegally.
But these four soldiers were recruited by a human smuggler. Imagine how easy it would have been to sneak people over the border when you have people on the inside looking the other way.
According to reports, these soldiers hid aliens under military gear as they transported them across checkpoints. Naturally, Border agents wouldn't have checked these vehicles. They trusted that these soldiers weren't up to anything illegal.
That was an ugly betrayal of trust.
Gracia, the apparent ring-leader of the scheme, was given 73 months in prison. The four soldiers were convicted of their crimes, received probation, and one to two-year prison sentences.
Victoriano Zamora-Jasso, for his part, will serve out his time in prison, before being deported once again.
But the question remains, will he stay out of the country for good? Or will he be able to find his way back in?
And how many more schemes like this are going on under our noses? Small groups like this can operate under the radar — in some cases for years. During that time, they can smuggle hundreds, if not thousands, of people across the border.
Can we be assured that this is the only smuggling-ring using soldiers for cover? Or are others betraying their oaths of service?


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Jim Lee, a world-renowned comic book artist, writer, editor and publisher, is currently Chief Creative Officer of DC (DC) and Publisher for the company. Known for his incredibly detailed and dynamic artistic style, Lee is one of the most revered and respected artists in American comics. A veritable legend in the industry, he has received numerous accolades and recognition for his work, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent in 1990, the Inkpot Award in 1992, and the Wizard Fan Award in 1996, 2002 and 2003. Prior to his current post at DCE, Lee served as Editorial Director, where he oversaw WildStorm Studios and was also the artist for many of DC Comics' bestselling comic books and graphic novels, including ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER, BATMAN: HUSH, and SUPERMAN: FOR TOMORROW. He also serves as the Executive Creative Director for the DC Universe Online (DCUO) massively multiplayer action game from Sony Online Entertainment (SOE). Jim Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1964 but moved with his family to St. Louis, Missouri when he was young. After graduating cum laude with a BA in Psychology from Princeton University in 1986, he started his professional career at Marvel Comics where his work on the X-Men continues to hold the all-time sales record for single-issue sales at an incredible 8 million copies sold in one month. In 1992, he started his own production company, WildStorm Productions, and co-founded Image Comics, an independent comics company that quickly grew to become the third largest North American publisher. Two of his creations, WILDCATS and GEN 13, saw life beyond comics as a CBS Saturday morning cartoon and as a DTV animated movie distributed by Disney, respectively. In 1998, DC Comics purchased WildStorm Productions and Lee left Image Comics to join the DC Entertainment creative team. In 2010, Titan Books released the 300-page artbook of Jim Lee's DC Comics work titled ICONS: THE DC & WILDSTORM ART OF JIM LEE. In 2011, Lee was integral in the launch of DC Entertainment's NEW 52 initiative, designing the new, more contemporary costumes for some of the DC universe's most iconic characters, including Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman.
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Movies List of Jim Lee
The Image Revolution (2013)
Bats of the Round Table (2014)
In Search of Moebius (2007)
Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures (2007)
Generation X: The Comic Book Origin of X-Men (2006)
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics (2013)
Knight Immortal (2019)
Milestone Generations (2022)
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010)
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in: Military ranks
Lieutenant colonel insignia
Late 1930s-Early 1940s
German Nazi-SS collar badge & shoulder strap
1960s US Air Force pin
Lieutenant colonel, also referred to as an obersturmbannführer in the Nazi-SS, or field colonel in the Bajoran Militia, was a military rank, usually found in air and ground fighting forces (as opposed to naval services). It was superior to major and subordinate to colonel. On Earth, this rank was used by various armies, by various units of Marines (naval ground forces), and by various air forces. Lieutenant colonels of the US Army and US Marine Corps commonly commanded regiments, which were composed of a variable number (but never less than two) of companies, batteries, or similar smaller units, along with necessary headquarters personnel. Lieutenant colonels of the US Air Force typically commanded a group of two or more squadrons that had their own captains or majors in command.
The lieutenant colonel rank was equivalent to the naval or Starfleet rank of commander. A lieutenant colonel was informally addressed as colonel.
In the United States armed forces, the insignia of a lieutenant colonel was a silver oak leaf. (TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday")
In Germany, this rank was translated as Oberstleutnant. During World War II, when Germany was under reign of the Nazis, these officers wore silver shoulder knots with a single metal pip. In the SS, Oberstleutnant were referred to by a different nomenclature, Obersturmbannführer (senior storm-unit leader), these officers wore on their collar four metal pips in a square, with two thin silver stripes beneath on a square field which was bordered by another silver stripe. (ENT: "Storm Front")
The Bajoran Militia insignia for field colonel in 2369 was a gold Bajoran insignia pin worn on the collar, with one side painted black. (DS9: "The Siege")
Worn by Bajoran officers in DS9 Season 2, this colonel pin is subordinate in design to the whole silver Bajoran symbol worn by Colonel Kira Nerys in later episodes. This suggests that Kira was promoted two steps in rank, from major directly to full colonel. (On the other hand, when Kira donned a Starfleet uniform to assist the Cardassian Resistance, she wore the rank insignia of a Starfleet commander, equivalent to a lieutenant colonel, not of a captain, which would equate to a full colonel.)
Noted lieutenant colonels
Fellini (left) a 20th century lieutenant colonel from the United States Air Force Air Police
Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, US 7th Cavalry Regiment, US Army
Lieutenant Colonel Fellini, US 498th Airbase Group, US Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel William B. Travis, cavalry, Texas Militia
Obersturmbannführer Vosk, Na'kuhl allied with Nazi Germany, SS
Enlisted personnel
Fleet: CRM PO CPO MID
OC ENS LT JG LT LT CMDR CMDR CAPT FCAPT CDORE RADM VADM ADM FADM
Military: PVT
AMN CPL
LCP SGT SSGT MSGT
1SGT 2nd LT 1st LT CAPT MAJ LT COL COL BRIG MAJ GEN LT GEN GEN MARSHAL
Services: Andorian • Bajoran • Cardassian • Ferengi • Human (CSA • Third Reich • UE MACO • USA) • Jem'Hadar • Klingon • Romulan • United Earth/Federation Starfleet • Vulcan
Mirror universe: Terran Empire Starfleet • Terran Empire MACO
This chart shows only general equivalencies based on the ranks used by many governments on Earth, as well as the rest of the galaxy.
According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 9), lieutenant colonel was a rank in the Military Assault Command Operations in the 2150s. The insignia for this rank was on display in a diagram of MACO rank and insignia.
Lieutenant colonel at Wikipedia
Insignia of United States Military Officers
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ECONOMICS EDITOR, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
About Ross
AN ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT UPDATE: TAX REFORM
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The survival of the Gillard government with the support of the various independents has breathed new life into the debate about tax reform and the recommendations of the Henry tax review. Ms Gillard has agreed with the two country independents to hold a tax summit before July next year to discuss the economic and social effects of the reforms proposed by the review. The Labor government's survival also allows it to press on with its intention to enact the revised minerals resource rent tax and the package of measures it will pay for. All of the four members of the House whose votes the government needs have indicated their support for the mining tax in some form, as have the Greens, who will have the balance of power in the Senate after June next year. About $6 billion of the $10 billion regional assistance package negotiated with the independents will be funded from the proceeds of the mining tax, via the Regional Infrastructure Fund.
The Henry tax review
The tax package was produced as the government's response to the Henry review panel's comprehensive review of the Australian tax and transfer system, federal and state. It's the first comprehensive review since the Asprey report of 1975. Just as the Asprey report set the direction for tax reform over the following 25 years, so Ken Henry's goal was to lay down a blueprint to guide further reform over coming decades, whether by this government or its successors. Henry set out proposals to:
• concentrate federal and state revenue-raising on four broad-based taxes: personal income, business income, rents on natural resources and land, and private consumption. Other taxes should be retained only where they serve social purposes or internalise negative externalities (eg gambling, tobacco and alcohol taxes, petrol taxes, pollution taxes). State taxes on insurance, conveyancing and other stamp duties and payroll tax should be replaced by a comprehensive 1 pc land tax and a 'broad-based cash flow tax' (a simplified GST-type tax). (The objection to payroll tax is not that it's a tax on labour - so is the GST - but that its high threshold means only larger businesses are taxed.)
• change the mix of taxation to reduce reliance on taxing mobile resources (eg business income) and increase reliance on taxing immobile resources (eg land and resources, and consumption). The company tax rate should be reduced from 30 pc to 25 pc. State royalty charges on minerals should be replaced by a resource rent tax levied at 40 pc.
• introduce a new two-step income tax scale with a tax-free threshold of $25,000 (but with the low-income tax offset and other offsets abolished), a 35 pc rate to $180,000 (but the 1.5 pc Medicare levy abolished) and (the present) 45 pc rate above that.
• regularise the widely disparate rates of tax on income from savings by allowing a 40 pc discount on income from interest, rent and capital gains, but also on deductions for interest expense of rental properties.
• improve the targeting of cash transfer payments.
• reform the taxation of superannuation by abolishing the 15 pc tax on contributions. People's contributions should be taxed at their marginal rate, but they should receive a tax offset designed to ensure low income earners pay no net tax on contributions, middle income earners pay no more than 15 pc and only high income earners pay more than 15 pc. This would greatly improve the present inequitable distribution of the super tax concession. The tax on fund earnings should be halved to 7.5 pc. These two measures would lead eventually to greater super payouts, particularly for low and middle earners, making a rise in the compulsory contribution rate unnecessary.
• improve the taxing of roads by introducing congestion pricing that varies by time of day, using the proceeds to replace the tax element of motor vehicle registrations and possibly fuel taxes. Heavy vehicles should pay changes reflecting the damage they do to roads.
• reduce the complexity of the tax system, including by using an optional standard deduction for work-related expenses to simplify the completion of tax returns and save on tax agents' fees.
Contents of the original tax package
A week before the 2010 budget was announced, the Rudd government unveiled the tax reform package that was its response to the Henry review and also the centrepiece of its budget. The package consisted of one big new tax, originally called the resource super-profits tax, which would cover the cost of various tax cuts and increased tax concessions. The mining tax effectively replaced the states' various royalty charges for the use of minerals owned by the Crown. Although the states would continue to charge these royalties, miners would have their payments refunded by the feds. The resource tax was originally expected to raise a net $12 billion in its first two years of operation.
Proceeds from the resource tax would finance a range of tax reductions:
• Company tax rate phased down from 30 pc to 28 pc
• Small business to receive company tax rate cut earlier than other companies, plus instant write-off of new fixed assets worth less than $5000
• The present tax deduction for resource exploration costs to be turned into a 'refundable tax offset' at the prevailing company tax rate, making it more valuable to explorers and much more expensive to the government
• The concessional treatment of superannuation made more concessional in several ways, including: the 15 pc contributions tax for people earning up to $37,000 a year is effectively eliminated and the higher cap on contributions by people over 50 will be continued permanently for those with inadequate super. The package would also cover the cost to revenue of the decision to slowly phase up the compulsory contribution rate for employees from 9 pc to 12 pc between 2013 and 2019. (The cost to revenue arises because wages that formerly would have been taxed at the employee's marginal rate will now be taxed at the 15 pc rate of the contributions tax. The legal incidence of the increased contributions falls on the employer, but economists believe it is shifted to the employee by means of wage rises that are lower than otherwise.)
• Tax on interest income to be subject to a 50 pc discount (similar to the tax on capital gains) up to a limit of $1000 interest income.
• As a step towards simplifying tax returns, rather than itemising their work-related expenses (and tax agent's fees), people may opt to claim a standard deduction of $500, to be raised to $1000.
As well as these tax measures, the government announced that part of the proceeds from the resource tax will be contributed to a 'regional infrastructure fund' and distributed to the states, particularly the resource-rich states, to finance resource-related infrastructure.
Timing: the resource tax isn't due to begin for more than two years - July 2012 - and so all the other parts of the package are begun or phased in from that date.
The original package as tax reform
The Rudd government's response to the Henry tax review was surprisingly limited. Of the review's 138 recommendations, the government accepted and acted upon just a couple, explicitly rejected 19 politically controversial proposals and failed to comment on the rest. In other words, it cherry-picked the report, selecting just a few things it thought would bring short-term electoral benefit.
The report contained many politically difficult recommendations but one that was particularly attractive: a proposal to introduce a whole new source of revenue by using a federal resource rent tax to replace the states' mineral royalty charges. Here the government had some highly respected economists urging it to introduce a lucrative new tax on an unpopular, mainly foreign-owned industry and assuring it the tax would do nothing to discourage mining or hurt the economy.
It could use the new tax to pay for various politically attractive 'reforms', to be introduced after it was re-elected. The resource rent tax it announced was in line with Henry's recommendations, except for a spin-doctor-inspired name change to the 'resource super-profits tax'. The tax was opposed by the Opposition and bitterly resisted by the mining companies, which won a fair bit of sympathy from wider business community. This resistance caused many voters to wonder whether the tax would be bad for the economy, but almost all the criticisms were unjustified. Precisely so as to ensure the tax didn't do the bad things it was accused of, it was hugely complex, meaning that many of its critics simply didn't understand how it would work.
When you look at the other supposed reforms, however, you find they bear little resemblance to the Henry report's recommendations:
• It did propose a cut in the company tax rate, but to 25 pc not 28 pc.
• It did propose the instant write-off of assets, but for those costing less than $10,000 not $5000.
• On superannuation, the report proposed that the cost of increasing the concession on contributions by lower income earners be covered by reducing the concession to higher income earners. The government did the nice bit but not the nasty bit. The government did nothing about halving the tax on fund earnings as recommended. The report specifically avoided recommending an increase in the rate of compulsory contributions, but we got on anyway.
• The report recommended a thorough overhaul of the tax on savings, with the 50 pc discount on capital gains cut to 40 pc and the 40 pc discount extended to interest income and the interest expense deductions on rental property. The government introduced a 50 pc discount for interest income, but with a cap of $1000 in interest income. It made no changes to the capital gains discount or to negative gearing.
• The introduction of a standard deduction for work-related expenses was in line with the report's proposals (though it may have been more generous that the report had in mind) and the report said nothing about introducing a new infrastructure fund.
The package as amended by Julia Gillard
The original resource tax drew considerable opposition from the mining industry, which reduced the Rudd government's standing in the opinion polls and contributed to Kevin Rudd's removal by his party and replacement by his deputy, Julia Gillard. Within a week of her taking the top job - and just two months after its announcement - the resource super profits tax was extensively modified after negotiations with the three biggest mining companies and renamed the minerals resource rent tax. The coverage of the tax was reduced to just those firms mining coal and iron ore. Even those firms are excluded if their liability would be less than $50 million a year. The rate of the tax was reduced from 40 pc to a nominal 30 pc, but an effective 22.5 pc. The guaranteed rebate of 40 pc of losses was replaced with a higher cut-in point for the rent tax: the long-term government bond rate plus 7 percentage points. Whereas under the original arrangement all firms were given an automatic rebate of the state royalty payments, under the revised arrangement they will merely receive a deduction against their liability for the resource rent tax, meaning if they pay no rent tax they receive no relief from royalty payments. Various other changes were made and the existing 40 pc petroleum resource rent tax was extended to cover all offshore and onshore oil, gas and coal-seam gas projects.
The government originally expected to raise a net $12 billion over the first two year of the super profits tax but, as Mr Swan revealed when announcing the revised tax, later realised it would have raised 'about double' this amount (mainly because Treasury had greatly underestimated the expected production volumes of the three big mining companies). This explains why, despite the near-halving of the rate of the tax and other concessions, the proceeds from the tax are expected to fall by only $1.5 billion to $10.5 billion. This loss of revenue was covered by abandoning the plan to turn the tax deduction for exploration costs into a refundable rebate and by limiting the cut in the rate of company tax to 1 percentage point, not 2.
The economic rationale for the new resource rent tax
The present state government royalties - which aren't so much taxes as charges for the use of mineral resources belonging to the community - are quite inefficient because they are based either on quantity (a price per tonne) or on a certain percentage of the market price. This means they take no account of the cost of mining the mineral, which varies from site to site and may increase as the exploitation of a particular site moves from the easily extracted to the hard-to-extract. Thus the present royalties can have the effect of making a prospective site uneconomic and discouraging the full exploitation of a site. This inflexibility limits the ability of state governments to raise the rate of the royalty when world commodity prices are high. (They may also be inhibited by perceived competition between the states or unduly close relations with the mining companies.)
The beauty of the new tax (and the existing petroleum resource rent tax) is that, because they are based on taking a share of super-normal profits, they don't discourage the exploitation of marginal sites, nor encourage the under-exploitation of existing sites. They are highly flexible, taking higher royalties when world commodity prices are high, but automatically reducing the take when world prices fall. There will be times when world prices fall to the point where some sites are paying no royalty-equivalent (the resource tax) and there will be some sites with high production costs that never have to pay royalties.
Super-normal profits are profits received in excess of those needed to keep the capital employed within the business rather than leaving in search of more profitable opportunities. So super-normal profit represents 'economic rent' - any amount you receive in excess of the amount needed to keep you doing what you're doing, your opportunity cost. Accountants and economists calculate profit differently. Accountants take revenue, subtract operating costs and regard the remainder as profit. But economists also subtract normal profit - the minimum acceptable rate of return on the capital invested in the business - which they regard as an additional cost, the cost of capital. The appropriate rate of return must be 'risk-adjusted' ie the higher the risk of the business operating at a loss, the higher the rate of return above the risk-free rate of return, usually taken to be the long-term government bond rate.
(This is what's so silly about the mistaken claim that the original resource tax regarded any profit in excess of the bond rate as super profit. The risk was taken into account not by adding a margin to the bond rate [as occurs with the petroleum resource rent tax] but directly, by having the government, in effect, bear 40 pc of the cost of the project, including losses.)
Most taxes on an economic activity have the effect of discouraging that activity. This is clear in the case of the existing royalty charges. But resource rent taxes are carefully designed to have minimal effect on the taxed activity. Because the return on capital remains above its opportunity cost, activity should not be discouraged, meaning there should not be any adverse effect on employment or economic growth. Indeed, because of the more favourable treatment of marginal projects, there should be more employment and growth.
Economic theory says a resource rent tax should not add to the prices being charged by the taxed firms because it does nothing to add to their costs (as opposed to the effect on their after-tax profits) and because the firm is already charging as much as the market will bear. In practice, it may not be charging as much as it could. So a better argument is that our mining companies are price-takers on the international market, with Australian producers' share of the world market not big enough to have much effect on the world price.
The fact that resource rent taxes have been explicitly designed not to do all the bad things the vested interests accuse them of doing explains the strong support for such taxes from economists. The resource rent tax is actually the proud invention of Australian economists, available to be copied by other countries.
The package as short-term macro management
The tax package is roughly revenue neutral over the next four financial years. It can be thought of as detachable - should the mining tax not be passed by the Senate, none of the measures it finances would go ahead, thus leaving the budget little affected.
This means it's wrong to imagine the resource tax would play a significant part in returning the budget to surplus. The budget is projected to reach (negligible) surplus in 2012-13 for three reasons:
• the effect on the budget's automatic stabilisers of the economy's expected return to strong growth
• the always-planned completion of the government's temporary stimulus measures
• the government's adherence to its 'deficit exit strategy' of allowing the level of tax receipts to recover naturally as the economy improves (ie avoid further tax cuts) and holding the real growth in spending to 2 pc a year until a surplus of 1 pc of GDP has been achieved.
The fact that the government now expects the return to surplus to occur three years' earlier than it expected in last year's budget is explained by the much milder recession than it expected and the much stronger forecasts for the next four years. Various factors caused the recession to be so mild, including the V-shaped recovery in China and the rest of developing Asia, and the consequent bounce-back in coal and iron ore prices.
In view of the government's commitment to limiting the real growth in its spending to 2 pc, it's worth noting that virtually all the things on which it intends to 'spend' the proceeds from the resource tax are tax cuts and tax concessions. That is, the package has been structured so as to add little to the government's difficultly in meeting its 2 pc target. The qualification to this is the plan to put about $700 million a year into the new state infrastructure fund. My guess is that contributions to the fund have been designed to be the 'swing instrument' - that is, to be reduced or even eliminated should collections from the resource tax fall short of projections.
The package as long-term macro management
Because the resource tax is designed to be heavily influenced by the ups and down in world commodity prices, receipts from it are likely to be highly variable over the years. By contrast, the cost to revenue of the tax cuts and concessions it finances is likely to be far less variable. For an accountant-type, as Peter Costello appeared to be, this would be a worry. The tax package will make the budget balance much more cyclical. For an economist, however, this is a virtue: by introducing the resource tax the government has added a new and powerful automatic stabiliser to its budgetary armoury.
Because Australia is such a major producer of mineral commodities, the cycle in world commodity prices is likely to align pretty closely with our business cycle. Whenever we're in a resources boom, close to full capacity and with the Reserve Bank worried about inflation pressure, the resource tax will take more revenue from the boom sector and send it to the budget. Provided this extra revenue isn't spent or used to repeatedly cut income tax (as it was in John Howard's day) it will act as a drag on the economy, reducing inflation pressure and hence the need for higher interest rates. Whenever we're in a resources bust, the economy has turned down and unemployment is rising, resource tax collections will collapse, the budget will go more quickly and more deeply into deficit and this will be the automatic stabilisers working to help prop up the private sector and put a floor under the downturn.
The tax package can be seen as an attempt to improve the economic managers' ability to manage the economy during resources booms: to chop the top off them and make them less inflationary, but also to ensure we have more to show from them when they've passed. The contributions to the state infrastructure fund are a way of requiring the miners to contribute more towards their own additional infrastructure requirements.
More significantly, the linking of the minerals tax with an increase in compulsory superannuation contributions should ensure at least some of the income from the boom is saved rather than spent. Empirical evidence suggests the introduction of compulsory super has done more to increase national saving than conventional analysis led us to expect. (The practical weakness in the argument is that the super increase is being phased in so slowly - the first tiny increase takes place in July 2013 and the last in July 2019 - the boom could be long past its peak by then.)
Ceteris paribus, an increase in national saving will cause our current account deficit and foreign liabilities to be lower than otherwise - always remembering that the resumed resources boom is expected to cause the CAD to be high for a protracted period. The small cut in company tax may make Australia more attractive as a destination for foreign investment, particularly equity investment. Combined with the higher national saving and potential for interest rates to be less high than otherwise (less weight on monetary policy), it's possible to see this leading to a lower exchange rate than otherwise.
The economic effects of Julia Gillard's changes to the mining tax
When the government finally realised its tax would extract about twice as much from the miners as it had expected to, it should simply have halved the rate of the tax from 40 to 20 per cent. This would have left all the efficiency benefits and macro stabilisation benefits of the tax intact. Instead, the government almost halved the effective rate of the tax (from 40 to 22.5 per cent) but also butchered the tax, thus reducing - though not eliminating - its economic benefits.
Originally, the tax involved a complete, up-front rebate of state royalties; now all a firm gets is a deduction against any mining tax it pays. Originally, the tax applied to all minerals; now it applies only to coal and iron ore, with an exemption for those firms owing less than $50 million in mining tax. So whereas originally the whole of the mining industry would have benefited by being released from the state royalty system, now all non-coal and iron ore miners and many small coal and iron ore projects will stay subject to the inefficient, activity-discouraging royalty system. Originally, 40 per cent of losses were guaranteed by the government. Now 7 percentage points have been added to the bond-rate 'uplift factor'. This arbitrarily leaves some projects better off, but some worse off.
It was always the case that virtually all the new tax was to have been paid by the big three companies; in some years, MORE than all. In other words, excluding the other minerals and the coal and iron-ore tiddlers may actually have saved the government revenue. Many projects would have been permanently relieved from paying royalties while only sometimes having to pay resource rent tax. If so, those other firms are worse off under the changes. They would remain subject to all the drawbacks of the state royalty system. And fewer mining projects are likely to be started because their potential promoters will find the prospect of early losses more daunting.
When the mining tax involved a 40 per cent take from profitable mining projects, but a 40 per cent rebate for unprofitable projects, this made the proceeds from the tax highly cyclical. They would shoot up when world commodity prices were high, but collapse when resource prices were low. In those years, the government might be paying out almost as much on unprofitable projects as it was receiving from profitable projects. So the replacement of the 40 per cent rebate on losses with a higher uplift factor reduces the extent to which the new tax would act as one of the budget's automatic stabilisers.
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Q: Repository Design Pattern in Laravel4.1 - Retriving all data Hi All following are the details of my problem : Am able to create resource but not able to retrieve all resources.
RepositoryInterface
<?php
namespace Repo\Repositories\RepoInterfaces;

/**
* RepositoryInterface provides the standard functions to be expected of ANY
* repository.
*/
interface RepositoryInterface {

/**
* @param array $attributes
* @return mixed
*/
public function create(array $attributes);

/**
* @param array $columns
* @return mixed
*/
public function all($columns = array('*'));

}

Abstract
<?php
namespace Repo\Abstracts;

use Repo\Repositories\RepoInterfaces\RepositoryInterface;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB as DB;

/**
* The Abstract Repository provides default implementations of the methods defined
* in the base repository interface. These simply delegate static function calls
* to the right eloquent model based on the $modelClassName.
*/

abstract class Repository implements RepositoryInterface {

/**
* @var
*/
protected $modelClassName;

/**
* @param array $attributes
* @return mixed
*/
public function create(array $attributes)
{
return call_user_func_array("{$this->modelClassName}::create", array($attributes));
}

/**
* @param array $columns
* @return mixed
*/
public function all($columns = array('*'))
{
return call_user_func_array("{$this->modelClassName}::all", array($columns));
}
}

VehicleManufacturerRepositoryInterface
<?php
namespace Repo\Repositories\RepoInterfaces;

/**
* The VehicleManufacturerRepositoryInterface contains ONLY method signatures for methods
* related to the VehicleManufacturer object.
*
* Note that we extend from RepositoryInterface, so any class that implements
* this interface must also provide all the standard eloquent methods (find, all, etc.)
*/

interface VehicleManufacturerRepositoryInterface extends RepositoryInterface {

}

VehicleManufacturerInterface
<?php
namespace Repo\Repositories;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB as DB;
use Repo\Abstracts\Repository as AbstractRepository;
use Repo\Repositories\RepoInterfaces\VehicleManufacturerRepositoryInterface;

class VehicleManufacturerRepository extends AbstractRepository implements VehicleManufacturerRepositoryInterface
{
/**
* @var string
*/
protected $modelClassName = 'VehicleManufacturer';
}

VehicleManufacturerController
<?php
use Repo\Repositories\VehicleManufacturerRepository AS Vmanf;

class VehicleManufacturerController extends \BaseController {

public function __construct(Vmanf $vmanf)
{
$this->vmanf = $vmanf;
}

/**
* Display a listing of the resource.
*
* @return Response
*/
public function index()
{
$results = $this->vmanf->all(array('*'));
return Response::json(array('status'=>true,'data' => $results));
}

/**
* Store a newly created resource in storage.
*
* @return Response
*/
public function store()
{
$inputData = array (
'caption' => Input::get('caption'),
'image' => Input::get('image'),
);
if($this->vmanf->create($inputData)) {
return Response::json(array('status' => true));
} else {
return Response::json(array('status' => false,'msg' => 'Vehicle Manufacturer Not saved'));
}
}
}

THE Results are The store function in controller works but index
  function gives following result  {"status":true,"data":{}}

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Edgar S. Woolard Jr. (born 1934) is an American businessman. He was chairman and chief executive officer of DuPont from 1989 to 1995.

Early life
Edgar Woolard was born on April 15, 1934, in Washington, North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University in 1956. He was a lieutenant in the United States Armed Forces.

Career
In 1957, he joined DuPont as an industrial engineer in the Kinston, North Carolina plant, moving on to manufacturing and management positions in Wilmington, Delaware, Old Hickory, Tennessee and Camden, South Carolina. He was CEO and chairman from 1989 to 1995. During that time, DuPont stock increased by 160 percent.

He joined the board of directors of Telex Communications in 1998, and was its chairman from March 2000 to November 2003. He has been on the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange, Citigroup, Apple Inc., IBM and Bell Atlantic. He has also been an advisor to Acorn Energy since January 2010. He is a member of the North Carolina Textile Foundation. He was chairman of The Business Council from 1995 to 1996. He is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.

Philanthropy
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Philosophical Society. In 1988, he received the Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award Recipient from his alma mater, NCSU. He has donated more than US$1 million to the John T. Caldwell Alumni Scholarships at NCSU. The Edgar S. Woolard Chair at the University of Delaware is named after him.

Personal life
He is married to Peggy Harrell, and they have two daughters, Annette and Lynda. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware, Jupiter, Florida, and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

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StarSQL users connecting to DB2 for OS/390 or z/OS may get error messages indicating that CCSID 500 is not valid. These error messages are usually resolved by setting the appropriate ZPARM on DB2 and configuring StarSQL to reflect the appropriate host CCSID value.
[StarQuest][StarSQL ODBC Driver][DB2]CCSID 500 is unknown or invalid for the datatype or subtype.
[StarQuest][StarSQL ODBC Driver][DB2]CCSID 500 not supported by this version of the database server.
During the installation of DB2, CCSID parameters are set in the installation panel DSNTIPF. These ZPARMS may also be modified after installation.
The SCCSID operand of the DSNHDECP macro is set to 0 by default. This may need to be changed to the CCSID for your country. For American English systems, this value should be set to 37.
Note: In DB2 5.x, three new parameters ASCCSID, AMCCSID, and AGCCSID were added. If you are using ASCII tables, you may also need to set the ASCCID value; use 437 for American English.
Open the StarSQL data source configuration and go to the Experts Page.
Set the AutoTypDefOvr value to one appropriate for your host. For example, in the Czech Republic the DB2 SCCSID ZPARM is 870 and you would set AutoTypDefOvr to 870,0,0.
Note: If this error occurs in a double-byte system, additional changes may be necessary. Please consult your IBM documentation. If you have purchased maintenance, you may also contact StarQuest Customer Support for additional information.
The following listing is part of the DSNTIJUZ job from the SDSNSAMP JCL library on DB2 5.x. This is only a sample.
000203 //* ASSEMBLE AND LINK EDIT DATA-ONLY LOAD MODULE DSNHDECP.
000205 //* VALUES ARE CHANGED FROM THOSE WHICH ARE SHIPPED.


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