Internationally, American students lag far behind most of their foreign peers.
One in four high school students fails to graduate on time.
Only about one in two college students earns a diploma.
No single program can solve these problems. That's why StriveTogether communities bring together a wide range of groups that are committed to student success — not just families and teachers, but also businesses, civic organizations, nonprofits and investors. These cross-sector partners adopt common goals and expand on best practices for their local community. Our nationally recognized collective impact framework guides community partner progress to improve outcomes and expand opportunities for every child through guiding principles and a continuum of quality benchmarks. Partners commit to a shared community vision and hold each other accountable for getting results.
StriveTogether communities collect and share data annually on the progress they are making on at least six cradle-to-career goals. They use local data to identify gaps by race, gender and other demographics to understand the needs of the most marginalized and vulnerable students.
Partnerships use these findings as evidence to make decisions in real time, improve and scale practices and target resources to support what works. In short, data gives StriveTogether communities the insight and information to make smarter investments in the success of every child, cradle to career.
As part of StriveTogether's new strategic plan, communities will work toward better results and close gaps through stronger collaboration among traditional school systems, education-focused service organizations and other sectors, such as housing and health. With more communities accelerating progress in changing systems and improving outcomes, we will collectively move toward achieving our ultimate goal of supporting the success of every child, cradle to career.


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News & Videos FAA marks 60 years of safer skies
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August 31, 2018 By AOPA ePublishing staff
In the 60 years since the FAA was established, it has fashioned a focus on safety and spurred phenomenal growth known and admired throughout the world, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said at an event to celebrate the agency's milestone Aug. 30.
Richard McSpadden, executive director of the AOPA Air Safety Institute, joined Chao, Acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell, three former leaders of the agency, and FAA employees and guests at its Washington, D.C., headquarters to mark the FAA's six decades.
In her keynote remarks, Chao—who became the first woman of Asian descent in U.S. history to join a president's Cabinet when she was Secretary of Labor from 2001 to 2009—noted the FAA's "proud milestone" of the sixtieth anniversary. She credited the agency with shepherding air transportation through a period of growth during which aviation surpassed ships in transporting people across the Atlantic Ocean (1958); saw 173 million Americans fly (1970); and surpassed the one-billion-passenger mark in 2017.
Looking to the future, she pointed to the inception in May of the FAA's unmanned aircraft systems integration program, which she said would contribute key guidance "to the regulatory framework in which safety will be a key objective."
Disruptive technology always poses a regulatory challenge, but also offers "an opportunity." she said.
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Lincolnshire Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center offers some of the most comprehensive therapy programs around the Region. Their new Director of Physical Therapy, Josh Campos, is looking to expand on their pedigree, already settling in with his new team and making friends with patients.
Campos started his career in therapy six years ago, when he worked as a rehab tech while going through college. After gaining experience at other facilities, he had another child and decided to look for something closer to home and found Lincolnshire. It quickly proved itself a unique facility compared to his previous experiences.
Even though his goal is to get every patient back on their feet as quickly as possible, Campos loves to build a strong relationship with everyone he helps.
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Владимир Цървенков е български общественик и учител, деец на късното Българско възраждане в Южна Македония.

Биография
Роден е в Прилеп, в Османската империя, във видния български род Цървенкови. Завършва със стипендия Ломското педагогическо училище в 1894 година. След това завършва Висшия педагогически курс в София, днес Софийски университет. Завръща се в Македония и развива просветна дейност. В 1902 година става директор на Прилепската българска девическа прогимназия, сменяйки на длъжността Цветанка Сенокозлиева. Цървенков оглавява деивическото училище две години до 1904 година.

Установява се в Солун, където преподава в 1910 - 1911 година в Солунската българска търговска гимназия и в Солунската българска девическа гимназия в 1911 – 1912 година. След това заминава за Сяр и в 1912 – 1913 година е учител в Сярското българско педагогическо училище.

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Родени в Прилеп
Български общественици от Македония
Български просветни дейци от Македония
Директори на Прилепското българско девическо класно училище
Възпитаници на Софийския университет
Учители в Солунската българска девическа гимназия
Учители в Солунската българска търговска гимназия
Учители в Сярското българско педагогическо училище

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Home Chevron down icon Short Stories Chevron down icon Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories
Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories
By: Cyril Wong
Recommended by the National Library Board Singapore and Ministry of Communications and Information
A woman learns of a friend's illness and wonders if she ever truly knew him. A boy who sees ghosts heeds the advice of a fortune-teller, with surprising consequences. A girl wakes up and realises everybody in her Bedok neighbourhood has vanished. From Cyril Wong, award-winning author of The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza, comes another beautiful book about characters in crisis, with two stories crossing intriguingly into creative autobiography.
"Better known for his award-winning poetry, Cyril Wong delivers a medley of prose. High notes of the collection include the titular story, apparently autobiographical, and Cinema, the wistful story of two people separated by wealth and class but united in loneliness."
—Akshita Nanda, The Straits Times
"An eclectic collection of short stories that is original and often deeply moving."
—Dave Chua, author of The Beating and Other Stories
"Cyril Wong's largely character-driven stories demonstrate clearly how they are inspired, in each case, when a personality passes through a moment of crisis, as in the tales of R. K. Narayan. Whether his people are young or adult, female or male, gay or straight, there is always a struggle and a revelation. Sometimes there is no resolution. Cyril writes with insight and sympathy about people in a Singapore spectrum that readers can identify with."
—Robert Yeo, playwright and author of The Adventures of Holden Heng
"Wong's most recent work – and possibly his last – is a sensitive, introspective read, occasionally upsetting, but also enjoyable and surprisingly riveting…Literature fans should grab a copy of this book and pin it proudly on their support pole, perhaps to remind the prolific writer of the imminent loss in the local literature scene should he hoist the white flag."
—Melissa Chang, npTribune
Cyril Wong is the Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of poetry collections such as Unmarked Treasure, Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light and Satori Blues, as well as a collection of strange short fables called Let Me Tell You Something About That Night. He has served as a mentor under the Creative Arts Programme and the Mentor Access Project, as well as a judge for the Golden Point Awards in Singapore.
A past recipient of the National Arts Council's Young Artist Award for Literature, he completed his doctoral degree in English Literature at the National University of Singapore in 2012. His books include poetry collections Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light (2007) and The Lover's Inventory (2015), the novel The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza (2013) and short fiction collection Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me (2014).
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Lycopodiophyta-consisting of three orders, Lycopodiales, Isoetales and Selaginellales, with different types of shoot apical meristems (SAMs)-form the earliest branch among the extant vascular plants. They represent a sister group to all other vascular plants, from which they differ in that their leaves are microphylls-that is, leaves with a single, unbranched vein, emerging from the protostele without a leaf gap-not megaphylls. All leaves represent determinate organs originating on the flanks of indeterminate SAMs. Thus, leaf formation requires the suppression of indeterminacy, that is, of KNOX transcription factors. In seed plants, this is mediated by different groups of transcription factors including ARP and YABBY. We generated a shoot tip transcriptome of Huperzia selago (Lycopodiales) to examine the genes involved in leaf formation. Our H. selago transcriptome does not contain any ARP homolog, although transcriptomes of Selaginella spp. do. Surprisingly, we discovered a YABBY homolog, although these transcription factors were assumed to have evolved only in seed plants. The existence of a YABBY homolog in H. selago suggests that YABBY evolved already in the common ancestor of the vascular plants, and subsequently was lost in some lineages like Selaginellales, whereas ARP may have been lost in Lycopodiales. The presence of YABBY in the common ancestor of vascular plants would also support the hypothesis that this common ancestor had a simplex SAM. Furthermore, a comparison of the expression patterns of ARP in shoot tips of Selaginella kraussiana (Harrison CJ, et al. 2005. Independent recruitment of a conserved developmental mechanism during leaf evolution. Nature 434(7032): 509-514.) and YABBY in shoot tips of H. selago implies that the development of microphylls, unlike megaphylls, does not seem to depend on the combined activities of ARP and YABBY. Altogether, our data show that Lycopodiophyta are a diverse group; so, in order to understand the role of Lycopodiophyta in evolution, representatives of Lycopodiales, Selaginellales, as well as of Isoetales, have to be examined.


The Egyptian food processing sector was in high profile in Russia during the four-day World Food Moscow trade fair which concluded on September 18. Sixty-eight companies from across the nation were on the scene exhibiting a wide assortment of products ranging from frozen fruits and vegetables to fresh produce, value-added meats and poultry, fish, cheese, other dairy items, juices, coffee, baked goods, sweets, biscuits, jams, herbs, spices, cooking oils and other food ingredients.
Having shipped approximately $12 million worth of processed food exports to Russia in 2013, producers from Egypt aim to substantially increase sales this year and into 2015. Business is expected to be boosted considerably by rising demand following the import ban on products from the European Union, Norway, United States, Canada and certain other countries that are being embargoed for one year in retaliation for economic sanctions they imposed on Moscow over its annexation of Crimea and support of secessionist forces in Ukraine.
Frozen strawberry exports from Egypt to Russia in 2013 fetched $1,455,749 (up 676%) over the year before, while frozen vegetables generated receipts of $705,996 (+1,687%). Frozen potato sales amounted to $212,133 (+2,676%), and revenues for other frozen fruit totaled $148,016 (-51%), according to statistics from the Cairo-headquartered Food Export Council (FEC), an arm of the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
"The fruits of Egyptian agricultural production and food processing are more abundant than ever. Crops nourished by the fertile Nile that feeds the farms and fields of Egypt are yielding harvests so plentiful that we are fortunate to be in a position to notably increase exports," said Eric R. Mansour, speaking on behalf of FEC members during Egyptian Day activities held in conjunction with the show.
Eric Mansour (left) of Givrex confers with Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, Egypt's Minister of Industry, Trade and Small and Medium Enterprises, after addressing an Egyptian Day function during the World Food Moscow exhibition.Processed food sales of $2.85 billion accounted for fully 14% of Egypt's non-petroleum product exports last year. The lion's share went to Arab countries ($1.94 billion, or 68%), followed by Europe ($288 million, or 10%) and the United States ($85 million, or 3%). Imports from all other countries combined were valued at $547 million, or 19%.
Mr. Mansour, who is marketing and sales manager of the Alexandria-based Givrex frozen vegetable and fruit company, concluded his remarks by inviting food importers from Russia and elsewhere to visit Food Gate-Fresh Gate Egypt, which will take place December 6-7 in Sharm El Sheikh.


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Somewhat overly legibly, I wrote on a sheet of paper, 'We're held up indefinitely by the parade. We're going to find a phone and have a cold drink somewhere. Will you join us?' I folded the paper once, then handed it to the Matron of Honour, who opened it, read it, and then handed it to the tiny old man. He read it, grinning, and then looked at me and wagged his head up and down several times vehemently. I thought for an instant that this was the full and perfectly eloquent extent of his reply, but he suddenly motioned to me with his hand, and I gathered that he wanted me to pass him my pad and pencil. I did so - without looking over at the Matron of Honour, from whom great waves of impatience were rising. The old man adjusted the pad and pencil on his lap with greatest care, then sat for a moment, pencil poised, in obvious concentration, his grin diminished only a very trifle. Then the pencil began, very unsteadily, to move. An 'i' was dotted. And then both pad and pencil were returned personally to me, with a marvellously cordial extra added wag of the head. He had written, in letters that had not quite jelled yet, the single word 'Delighted.' The Matron of Honour, reading over my shoulder, gave a sound faintly like a snort, but I quickly looked over at the great writer and tried to show by my expression that all of us in the car knew a poem when we saw one, and were grateful.
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At Financial Information Security Decisions, many of the industry's leading information security experts gathered to share vendor-neutral expertise and proven security strategies. If you couldn't make it to New York City for this year's event, you can catch up here. Below you can download speaker presentations from a selection of this year's sessions. Feedback on Financial Information Security Decisions presentations can be submitted via SearchFinancialSecurity.com.
What is law enforcement doing to tackle cybercrime, and how can law enforcement work with private industries to prevent, investigate and prosecute cybercrime? In this session, Erez Liebermann, a federal prosecutor focusing on cybercrime, discusses recent cases prosecuted by his office and across the country. The discussion focuses on the state of the law and what law enforcement is doing to fight the growing instances of cybercrime, both domestically and internationally. Liebermann explains why cooperation between private industry and law enforcement is critical and why the myths about cooperating with law enforcement are outdated.
Everyone is talking about compliance testing and data leakage, but what's really going on that's pushing the industry in that direction? And will it work? Marcus Ranum, a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation and recognized as an early innovator in firewall technology, candidly discusses how today's trends are likely to affect the future of security.
As technologies change and audit processes evolve, so do the interpretations of regulatory requirements. For instance, how do you deal with the explosion of virtualized machines when it comes to segregation of function? Further, how do you deal with the responsibilities for administration of the virtual machine versus the administration of the underlying environment in meeting compliance requirements? And how do you take existing, standard regulations and apply them to new and ever-changing technologies? In this presentation, compliance expert Richard Mackey, vice president, SystemExperts, describes how to effectively interpret particular requirements from regulations such as HIPAA and PCI and discusses the implications these interpretations have on compliance activities, administration, and auditors.
While organizations are increasingly turning to service providers to reduce cost, augment their product set, and focus on core services, it's no secret that many of the recent data breaches occurred due to missteps with a third-party vendor. Partnering with other organizations brings with it risk, particularly when the information shared with the service provider is sensitive and is subject to regulatory requirements. Organizations are under pressure from regulators, customers, and partners to ensure that information they entrust to service providers is kept secure. In this presentation, Mackey discusses the requirements stated in various regulations, from PCI to FFIEC, and delivers best practices designed to help you effectively manage your services providers. He addresses the importance of risk analysis to service provider management, and the importance of coordinated incident response and business continuity planning with service providers.
This past January, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued guidance for managing the risks associated with remote deposit capture (RDC). Financial institutions have been adopting RDC mostly for their commercial customers, but the FFIEC guidance makes it clear that banks must understand RDC risks and manage them, a responsibility that was in the hands of executive management. The main risk with implementing RDC is the exposure of the check writer, user, vendor and financial institution to increased security risk. Add to this risk Internet transmission of files or images, and additional security layers may be required. You need to determine if your organization can effectively manage the overall increased risk. Find out where to start with Dan Fisher, president & CEO, The Copper River Group, as he discusses what the FFIEC expects in the form of changes and additional measures that need to be taken, how the guidance pertains to the role of the IT security professional and RDC technology, and the changes in BCP and DRP that are required.
While data breaches run rampant and every vendor under the sun claims to offer a data protection solution, there is very little information available to build a practical, effective, data security program. This session busts through hype, hyperbole, and complexity and details a pragmatic approach to information-centric security you can implement in nearly any organization. From tools and techniques to process and even to satisfying those pesky auditors - we'll present a straightforward, step-by-step process to reduce risks, stay out of the headlines and keep your organization's most valuable information safe. Rich Mogull, founder of Securosis, examines the top five steps you can take today for data protection, why traditional data classification doesn't work, and which data security tools really work.
The downturn in the economy is driving downsizing and forcing companies to do more with less. Achieving compliance with auditor requirements and maintaining a secure environment are still top priorities. Identity management solutions help companies implement sustainable processes that drive efficiency, accuracy, and compliance. This presentation explores the business challenges that have been exacerbated by today's financial crisis and looks at how identity management solutions can help address these challenges. Learn where your organization fits on the capability maturity continuum and receive practical tips for moving further along the continuum. Kelly Manthey, business process partner, Solstice Consulting LLC, and Brian Schlueter, lead security specialist at a major insurance company, discuss the IdM technology landscape, common business challenges, and implementation best practices.
There has been a great deal of buzz around cloud computing and like all emerging technologies, it has many definitions and solutions as well as many points to consider from a security perspective. This discussion explains cloud's many uses, its current advantages and disadvantages, and most importantly, the security questions that must be considered. In this presentation, David Sherry, CISO, Brown University, discusses cost considerations when utilizing the cloud, practical uses for piloting and testing the cloud, regulatory implications when moving to cloud computing, and how cloud computing can be used securely within an organization.


After over 1,000 package locker & automated package room installs since 2013, the veteran package management company has announced its 99.9% uptime guarantee.
Sacramento, Oct. 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Luxer One, the original leader in smart package lockers solutions, has announced a program guaranteeing at least 99.9% uptime for its apartment community customers.
The company unveiled its US-made outdoor locker systems at the 2017 National Apartment Association Education Conference earlier this year. Its four locker tower models – including the oversized locker compartment standing at over 6ft. high – will be available in both indoor and outdoor configurations.
The new uptime guarantee was released at part of the company's commitment to customer service and resident support. As a neutral third-party package acceptance system, Levy says Luxer One's business mission is to accept 100% of the packages that come through the door at apartment communities, regardless of package size, delivery carrier, or retailer.
"We have a responsibility to our users to give them an excellent package delivery experience, and that includes ease-of-use, 24/7 support, and data privacy," says Levy. "When apartment communities are considering package lockers, it's vital for them to adopt agnostic solutions like ours, to deliver on their promise of excellence and to protect the information their residents have entrusted them with."
Luxer One's dedication to solving the package problem for apartment communities has resulted in 400% revenue growth in the past year.
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Cory Booker Talks Gun Violence Causes and Reform with Elected Leaders at "Milwaukee Rise" Rally
By Mrinal Gokhale
Senator Cory Booker takes stage at Sherman Phoenix during Milwaukee Rise rally. (Photo by Mrinal Gokhale)
The issue of gun control has been controversial in the United States for years, but especially lately when two mass shootings took place this month. On Sunday, August 11, presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) discussed his experiences and solutions for gun violence at Sherman Phoenix, 3536 W. Fond Du Lac Ave.
The "Milwaukee Rise" rally was held almost three years after 23-year-old Syville Smith was shot and killed by a police officer at Sherman Park. Sherman Phoenix –previously a bank building – was burned in riots following Smith's death. The building was rebuilt last year and currently houses multiple business such as restaurants and a barbershop.
Khary Penebaker and Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes on stage. (Photo by Mrinal Gokhale)
Once doors opened at 2 p.m., the building became quickly packed with long lines of people waiting at the entrance. Many attendees held signs that read "Cory 2020" and "We Rise MKE." News outlets from Wisconsin, New York, and New Jersey were in attendance.
Local elected leaders gave their remarks before introducing Booker. DNC elect Khary Penebaker's support for Booker comes from losing his mother to suicide when he was just a baby. He said that he tried to take his own life the same way in 2003.
"I just sat there with a 9 mm gun in my mouth," he said. "There have been so many lives – so many in betweens –cut short due to gun violence. Not too far from here, Dontre Hamilton's in between was cut short by 14 bullets."
Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes provide remarks at Milwaukee Rise rally. (Photo by Mrinal Gokhale)
Before becoming a U.S. senator, Booker was the mayor of Newark, NJ. He became inspired to pursue politics after witnessing neighborhood violence in his hometown.
"I got my B.A. from Harvard, but my PhD from the streets of Newark," he said. "What that means is I finished law school and moved to Newark near an abandoned building with lots of drug use. I heard gunfire regularly. I had an idea that I'd use my law degree to make the neighborhood better."
Like the other Democratic presidential candidates, Booker supports "common sense gun reform." He is, however, the only candidate that introduced a plan for nationwide gun licensing if elected. Currently, 13 states plus Washington, D.C. require a permit or license to purchase a handgun.
Cory Booker, U.S. Senator (D-NJ)
"If you need a license to drive a car, you should have a license to own and possess a firearm," Booker said. "It's not an intrusion on your second amendment rights, and if you're a law-abiding citizen, you have nothing to worry about."
He stated that in Connecticut there has been a 40 percent decrease in gun violence and 15 percent decrease in gun related suicides as a result of requiring gun buyers to pass background checks before purchase.
Senator Latonya Johnson said she feels it's important for a presidential candidate to understand the struggles her constituents face in one of Milwaukee's poverty-stricken zip codes, 53206.
"I moved to 53206 when I was 12 years old, and it was the first time my family and I lived in a place with indoor plumbing," she said. "Cory represents an area where the median income was $14,000 in 2010."
Although Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes hasn't publicly endorsed Booker, he feels "compassionate leadership" is lacking under the current administration.
"If we had leadership that led with the heart, we wouldn't have children locked in cages," he said. "We wouldn't have an ongoing series of climate denial. We wouldn't have the continuation of the error of mass incarceration."
Wisconsin is one state that supported the Democratic vote for many years but then changed to supporting Trump. Booker stated that candidates that can "excite and energize" are needed to defeat Trump, but it's about more than winning.
"We cannot make it all about him because that is what he wants," Booker said. "Beating Donald Trump is the floor, not the ceiling. It gets us out of the valley but not to the mountain top. I'm all about the mountaintop."
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Nowadays, the use of large-sized analog mixing consoles, such as SSL and NEVE, has significantly declined, so mixing is almost done entirely in stereo. Although most listeners enjoy music with stereo system today, it's important for mixing engineers to check sound balance in mono during a music mix. Don't forget the sound also sounds good in stereo if the sound has a good balance in mono. The reasons we do a sound balance check in mono are as follows:
1) To make it easier to figure out the distance between instruments and listener
First, listen to the stereo sound which has got audio treatments such as panning and effects during stereo mixing, then listen to that sound again in mono with a small volume. If you listen carefully, you may relaize that the perception of distances between listener and instruments is better in mono than listening in stereo mode.
2) To check phase cancellation of instruments for each frequency
Check if the instruments panned too far left or right can be heard without phase cancellation even in mono mode.
3) To check the amount of reverb or effect processed for each instrument
When you monitor a stereo sound in mono mode, which is distributed to the left and right speakers, the distributed sounds are arranged in one line on the speaker. At this time, the spatial sense, distance, and amount of effects processed with various instruments such as vocals, rhythms, and other instruments, and the panning state and phase difference of each instrument can be identified.
In the past, recorded sound source of piano was not much different in phase between the left and right microphones, but piano sounds in popular music these days are very wide and colorful. This style of sound source causes distortion of sound due to phase cancellation in mono mode, and in particular, causes a lot of low bass sounds to disappear.


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Eye On India: Lack of Electricity Hampers India's Growth
Posted by Jesse Jenkins
[From the NY Times:]
GURGAON, India — This suburb south of New Delhi is where the fruits of India's economic advance are on full display: sprawling malls, skyscrapers housing India's acclaimed software companies, condominiums with names as fanciful as Nirvana Country.
But this fashionable address of the new India is also a portrait of ambition bumping up against reality, namely an electricity crisis that represents one of the major hurdles to India's ability to hoist itself into the front ranks of the global economy.
Look up at the tops of buildings, and on any given day, you are likely to find three, four or six smokestacks poking out of each, blowing gray-black plumes into the clouds. If the smokestacks are being used, it means the power is off and the building — whether bright new mall, condominium or office — is probably being powered by diesel-fed generators.
[Image: One of the malls in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Dehli, burns 1,600 gallons of diesel a day.]
This being India, a country of more than one billion people, the scale is staggering. In just one case, Tata Consultancy Services, a technology company, maintains five giant generators, along with a nearly 5,300-gallon tank of diesel fuel underground, as if it were a gasoline station.
The reserve fuel can power the lights, computers and air-conditioners for up to 15 days to keep Tata's six-story building humming during these hot, dry summer months, when temperatures routinely soar above 100 degrees and power cuts can average eight hours a day.
The Gurgaon skyline is studded with hundreds of buildings like this. In Gurgaon alone, the state power authority estimates that the gap between demand and supply hovers around 20 percent, and that is probably a conservative estimate.
For all those who suffer from crippling power cuts in cities like this, there are others who have no connection to electricity at all. According to the Planning Commission of India, 600 million people — roughly half the population — are off the electric grid. For this reason, it is impossible to estimate accurately the total national shortfall.
But no matter how it is calculated, there is no doubt that India's electricity crisis is becoming all the more acute for the roaring pace of the country's economic growth and the new material aspirations it has generated.
Rachna Tandon, a prosperous housewife, is a good example. She moved here to a quiet street of row houses 14 years ago, settling in what was one of the first residential sites built by DLF Universal, Gurgaon's and India's largest builder.
Back then, electricity was in short supply, but she was fully confident things would improve. The advertisements at the time described Gurgaon as the best address south of Delhi. It was pitched as a millennium city.
Today Ms. Tandon says she prefers to think of it as a medieval city. The day before, the power went out for roughly 11 hours. Her power inverter, which is basically a series of rechargeable batteries — a household necessity here — failed after four hours.
For respite, some of her neighbors drove around in their air-conditioned cars. Her own children lingered outside and finally, when they nodded off to sleep, they lay on the living room floor, the coolest spot in the house.
Each appliance in her well-stocked home — an air-conditioner in each room, a flat-screen television, a microwave and an electric stove — speaks to the gap between India's dreams and its realities.
The power cuts thawed the chicken sausage in her freezer and she had to throw it away, just in case it had spoiled. She did not dare use her electric oven, for fear that the power would go out in the middle of baking.
With no television, her 10-year-old son has been so bored that he took out his old cricket bat and ended up putting a ball through the kitchen window. Her daughter, 13, has had to study by flashlight. This summer, Ms. Tandon said, the family will have to choose between buying a generator and going on vacation. "We're living in the Dark Ages," she said.
For all her middle-class suffering, a reminder of the other India came earlier in the week, when her mother called from her hometown in rural north India and said she had had electricity for just one hour during the day.
In part because of these limitations, Indians are, for now, relatively conservative consumers of energy: about 600 units per capita per year, or one-fifth that of a typical American. But that will certainly increase as Indian desires reach those of the wealthy Western countries.
A recent report by McKinsey Global Institute frothily predicted a fourfold increase in consumer spending by 2025, vaulting India, as it said, "into the premier league among the world's consumer markets." McKinsey forecast that India would surpass Germany as the fifth-largest market in the world.
Driven by the increasing need for power, India has stepped up generation in recent years at the pace of about 6 percent a year. It is a pittance compared with what neighboring China adds on each year and in any case insufficient to keep up with India's galloping demand.
The government has promised electric connections for all — which means access to the grid, not round-the-clock power — by 2009. That is a target that does not seem plausible at current rates of power generation.
The development of power plants, meanwhile, is constrained by a lack of access to land, fuel and water, all of which a power plant needs in large quantities. The power grid remains weak.
In Gurgaon, for instance, transformers routinely blow out because of heavy loads. Voltage fluctuations damage electrical appliances of all sorts.
What the state cannot provide efficiently, many take for themselves. The World Bank estimates that at least $4 billion in electricity is unaccounted for each year — that is to say, stolen. Transparency International estimated in 2005 that Indians paid $480 million in bribes to put in new connections or correct bills.
The country's energy needs are one of the government's main arguments for a nuclear deal with the United States, which would allow India to buy reactors and fuel from the world market.
But even if the deal goes through, it would lift nuclear power, which provides 3 percent of India's energy, to no more than 9 percent, said Leena Srivastava, executive director of the Energy and Resources Institute, a private research group.
Similarly, in the coming years, alternative sources of energy, like wind, are expected to double, but to no more than about 8 percent of supply.
Coal will continue to dominate power generation, and already more than a third of India's coal plants do not meet national emissions standards.
For Indian business, coping with chronic power shortages is a part of the cost of business.
At Tata, company managers took pains to say that power shortages did not hinder their ability to meet deadlines for their clients.
"The work as such does not suffer," said Gurinder Virk, an assistant general manager. "We have sufficient stocks of diesel at all times." Behind the building, three generators purred as a sweltering evening descended. A 2004 World Bank survey found that 60 percent of companies in India have such facilities.
Still, construction here surges ahead. With few exceptions, there is little effort to reduce power consumption, beyond the use of low-energy light bulbs. Gurgaon is dotted with buildings that are effectively curtains of glass, soaking up the searing summer heat.
"It's good for New York, not Gurgaon," was the verdict of Niranjan Khatri, a general manager with ITC, an Indian conglomerate whose office tower here is one of the few to comply with so-called green building codes.
Across the highway, the nearly completed Ambi Mall promises almost a mile of shopping on each floor. Next to it, a billboard for the Mall of India promises an even bigger shopping center, one that will put India on the "global retail map."
Never mind that Gurgaon does not have a sewage treatment plant of its own, or that the city's Metropolitan Mall burns an average of 1,600 gallons of diesel a day to run its generators during power cuts.
Farther south, in Nirvana Country, there are only generators. The 800-unit complex of row houses and apartment blocks, still under construction, is not even connected to the electric grid. It swallows 6,000 gallons of diesel each week to meet its needs — with only a fifth of its units occupied.
It was unclear how the power needs would be met once it reached full occupancy, said M. K. Pant, a retired army colonel who is now Nirvana's estate manager. "There's nothing in the files," he said. "There's nothing in the thinking also."
No matter. Newspaper advertisements for Nirvana Country promise "air-conditioning in all rooms."
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Really a great article about Gurgaon,And you highlight india's problem also and i am agree with you.
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Parwati said...
I don't know why some peoples compare india with China.
Even we have not electricity for basic purpose.


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Suspended Sentencing for DWI in New Hampshire
Posted by Ryan Russman | Jul 07, 2014 | 0 Comments
One common term that is used when discussing criminal sentencing in New Hampshire is suspended sentence. A suspended sentence occurs when a person is convicted of a crime and sentenced to a period of jail time or a fine. The judge may decide to 'suspend' part or all of the sentence either during sentencing or after a petition has been filed. RSA 651:20 states:
The sentence to imprisonment of any person may be suspended by the sentencing court at the time of imposition of the sentence or at any time thereafter in response to a petition to suspend sentence which is timely brought in accordance with the limitations.
Suspension can be either conditional or unconditional. Unconditional suspension means that the terms of the sentence such as the jail time and fines do not have to be fulfilled but the defendant is still convicted of the crime. This can be beneficial because the defendant's criminal record will reflect a conviction but they will not be subject to penalties sentenced to them.
A conditional suspension is similar to probation and will allow the defendant to avoid fulfilling their sentencing requirements if they abide by certain terms given by the judge. Often, this means refraining from any if your criminal activity for a full year. If the year passes and the defendant has remained out of trouble, they will not have to complete their sentence. If they are, however, charged with violating the terms of their suspension, they may be forced to serve their entire remaining sentence.
How Often Are Sentences Suspended in New Hampshire?
Suspended sentencing is actually quite common. For example, the local news outlet, The Sentinel Source, reports some recent criminal convictions in New Hampshire that occurred in February 2014. Many of them include suspended sentences:
A 33-year-old Westmoreland man was convicted of reckless conduct with a deadly weapon in Cheshire County Superior Court. He was sentenced to one year in jail, all suspended.
David Buckley, a 53-year-old man, was sentenced to 1 to 2 years in State prison after pleading guilty to 2 counts of violating a protective order. His entire sentence was suspended.
Keith Ridge, a 39-year-old man, was sentenced to 1 year of jail time, 1 year of probation, and a fine of $350 after he pleaded guilty to selling cocaine and heroin. His jail sentence and fine were both suspended.
NH DWI Suspended Sentencing
In New Hampshire, the penalties for DWI include jail time for many offenses. Under RSA 265-A:18, offenses such as aggravated DWI or repeat DWI include provisions for jail time and how much of the sentence can be suspended. For example, a person who is convicted of DWI with one prior conviction within the past 2 years will be subject to "a mandatory sentence of not less than 60 consecutive days in the county correctional facility, of which 30 days shall be suspended" under RSA 265-A:18III (a)(3). This means that any person convicted of a second DWI with in a two year period in New Hampshire will have to serve 30 days in jail and can have the other 30 suspended. For more information about suspended sentencing, see the New Hampshire Court website or contact a DWI attorney.
Ryan Russman
Attorney Ryan Russman has dedicated his career to fighting for the rights of New Hampshire citizens. His practice, based in Exeter (Rockingham County) New Hampshire, is limited to cases involving DWI and DUI, other motor vehicle and criminal cases, and many cases involving personal injury. He is, however, best known as one of New Hampshire's leading legal authorities on DWI.


CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a leader in the global specialty chemicals industry, announced today that Talison, a joint venture between Albemarle and Tianqi Lithium Corporation, has approved the expansion of lithium concentrate production at its Greenbushes, Australia spodumene mine. Greenbushes is the world's largest active lithium mine. It has the largest hard rock lithium reserve, and contains the highest concentration of lithium oxide available of any active mine.
"This project is integral to our announced lithium expansion plans so that we can meet the growing needs of our customers," said John Mitchell, president, Lithium and Advanced Materials for Albemarle. "The expansion of the mine and ore upgrading facilities is a key deliverable in our supply strategy to grow total combined lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) production to approximately 165,000 MT/year early in the next decade."
The expansion is intended to more than double the LCE capacity at Greenbushes from 80,000 MT/year to more than 160,000 MT/year, of which Albemarle has a 50% interest in the offtake. Commissioning of the expansion is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2019.


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£1.5m Rimac C_Two hypercar almost sold out in three weeks
The Croatian firm's second electric model promises to be astoundingly quick and offers Level 4 autonomy
The Rimac C_Two can achieve 0-60mph in 1.85sec and 0-100mph in 4.3sec from a rolling start, said the company
This new model uses a 120kWh lithium battery…
…and develops 1888bhp and 1696lb ft of torque
It has an electric motor at each wheel, allowing for four-wheel drive
It uses a pair of independent single-speed gearboxes to drive the front wheels…
…and a pair of two-speed carbon-clutched gearboxes for the rear wheels
The car has a top speed of 258mph
The C_Two is equipped with new liquid-cooled thermal management systems…
...which Rimac claims allow the car to drive two full laps of the Nürburgring at full power "with negligible drop in performance"
It has a claimed range of 404 miles on an NEDC cycle…
…and can be charged to 80% capacity in less than 30 minutes
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Rimac has confirmed that its second electric model, the C_Two, is close to being sold out just three weeks after it was revealed.
Head of sales Kreso Coric said at the New York motor show that nearly all 150 examples of the model, which can achieve 0-60mph in 1.85sec and 0-100mph in 4.3sec, have now been spoken for. It costs from €1.7 million, which equates to about £1.5m at current exchange rates. Buyera are adding an average €500,000 worth of options.
The model's performance puts it on par with the Tesla Roadster, which is claimed to do those benchmark sprints in 1.9sec and 4.2sec respectively.
The C_Two is a follow-up to the Concept One, which achieved 0-60mph in 2.5sec and became infamous after ex-Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond crashed one of only eight cars built.
This new model uses a 120kWh lithium battery and develops 1888bhp and 1696lb ft of torque. It has an electric motor at each wheel, allowing for four-wheel drive. It uses a pair of independent single-speed gearboxes to drive the front wheels and a pair of two-speed carbon-clutched gearboxes for the rear wheels. This allows the C_Two to make use of "its prodigious torque", said Rimac.
The car employs all-wheel torque vectoring, coupled with huge 390mm carbon-ceramic brake discs and six-piston calipers on both front and rear axles.
The largely carbonfibre model features double wishbone suspension with electronically controlled dampers and active ride height.
Capable of a top speed of 258mph, Rimac claims that new liquid-cooled thermal management systems mean the car is capable of two full laps of the Nürburgring at full power "with negligible drop in performance". An inability to perform consistently is a criticism often levelled at electric performance cars.
The C_Two has a claimed range of 404 miles on an NEDC cycle and can be charged to 80% capacity in less than 30 minutes.
The two-seater also features Level 4 autonomous driving – one level off full autonomy – as well as artificial intelligence.
On-board systems use facial-recognition cameras to unlock the car and let the driver start it without a key. The car then attunes itself to the driver's mood by recognising various inputs and adapts accordingly. This could be by playing soothing music or adjusting the car's dynamics for a more pliant ride.
As part of its autonomous capability, the C_Two's systems can load selected race tracks in real time, offering guidance on racing lines, braking/acceleration points and steering inputs.
The hypercar uses a carbonfibre monocoque with bonded carbon roof, integrated battery pack and rear carbon subframe. Crash structures are formed from carbon and aluminium and the body itself is carbonfibre.
The C_Two will go into production in 2020, while first mules will be built later this year.
While Rimac develops its own cars, it is also a supplier for many car makers including Aston Martin, for which it is providing the Valkyrie hypercar's hybrid system.
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Every car maker big or small, new or established have Tesla in their sights. Other than Jaguar I Pace all other cars are work in progress yet they get mentioned as if they are more than fantasy.
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In this type of segment the Tesla or any other EV for that matter are the least desired cars of the bunch, get real!
Pretty staggering that they
Pretty staggering that they've sold all of them at near enough £2m..


Mithali Raj, the ODI captain of India, became the first woman cricketer to feature in 200 One Day Internationals (ODIs) in the third match of the three-match series against New Zealand on Friday at Seddon Park in Hamilton.
'Record-Breaker'- the title perfectly suits Mithali Raj, the batting maestro as well as the flag bearer of women's cricket for almost two decades in India. She is not only re-writing the history with her bat and leadership skill but has achieved another milestone in her life also. She inscribed her name in record books all over again with the 200 ODI appearances. Yes, there is probably nothing in international cricket, which she couldn't achieve so far.
As a little kid, Mithali was too lazy and to inculcate the habit of early rising, her father Dorai Raj took her to the cricket academy. There she used to play with the boys under the late Sampath Kumar's guidance. He was the first person who saw the spark in Mithali and said that she will have a bright career ahead. Back then, Mithali used to love dancing more than cricket.
Having started playing at the age of 10, she got her maiden call-up in the national team at the age of 16. At 16 years and 205 days, in her debut match against Ireland, she scored an unbeaten century. From that time to today, she has been having a career span of 19 years and 219 days and counting… which is the longest career among women cricketers. Only Sachin Tendulkar (463), Sanath Jayasuriya (445) and Javid Miandad (233) have had the longer International career than the India ODI captain.
Debut at the age of 16, Raj is the only woman cricketer to score more than 6,000 runs in ODIs with an average of more than 50 plus. Since her debut, she has missed only 13 ODIs and featured in 75.19 per cent of all the ODIs India have ever played from the beginning. She is one of those 5 players, who scored centuries in their debut matches.
She is the first player to score seven consecutive half-centuries in ODIs. She also holds the record for most half-centuries in ODIs (52) as well as the most 90s. Her 90s are no less important than a century, as most of those knocks came under pressure. During the Women's T20 Asia Cup in June 2018, she became the first player from India (either male or female) to score 2000 runs in the shortest format of the game.
Mithali Raj also became the first woman cricketer to reach the feat. She is the only captain to lead India twice in ICC Women's World Cup final, in 2005 and 2017. She has also captained India 123 times, more than any other captain in the women's ODI. Former player Charlotte Edwards is at the second place with 117 games. She became the most capped player in the history of Women's ODIs on Friday, 6th April 2018 during the first match between India and England in the three-match ODI series. Now, this 200th appearance in ODI has added another feather in her hat.
She holds another record in run chasing. She averages 111.29 in 48 successful chases where she was unbeaten 31 times. This average is better than MS Dhoni (103.07) and Virat Kohli (96.23). The next best average in successful run chases in women's cricket is Australia captain Meg Lanning's (78.34).
Having made her debut at 16 years 205 days during India's tour of Ireland and England, she became the youngest woman cricketer to make a century while opening the innings. She and another debutant Reshma Gandhi made an unbroken 258-run stand which became a national record.
After 9 long years, the record was broken by Caroline Atkins and Sarah Taylor against South Africa on August 8, 2008. Later it took another 9 years to break the record. This time it was another Indian pair – Deepti Sharma and Punam Raut. Both of them scored 320 runs against Ireland on May 15, 2017.
Raj and Gandhi's unbeaten 258-run stand remains the third-highest first-wicket partnership in women's cricket till date. Mithali's game had impressed everyone on her debut match and Indian Women's Cricket had found their most dependable batter whose passion for the game still keeps her going.
This unbeaten 91 was one of her favourite knocks because her knock helped India to reach their first World Cup final. India were reduced to 38/2 within 14th over when the young captain Mithali Raj came into bat.
She found great support from Anjum Chopra and India put up 204 at the end of the 50 overs. Raj was dealing with a bad knee injury and she had to overcome it because the team was needed her the most that time. During the second innings, she couldn't take the field due to her swollen knee. However, India claimed a ravishing 40-run win in the game.
Another favourite knock of Mithali Raj was her unbeaten 94 against England at Lord's in 2012. Her knock helped to break England's winning streak. Raj made a hundred-run stand with Punam Raut (60) for the second wicket a further 89-run with Harmanpreet Kaur.
Raj led from the front and anchor the innings till the end. However, Kaur's dismissal when 14 required from 15 balls led the team into trouble as Veda Krishnamurthy got out in the final ball of the penultimate over. Sulakshana Naik's run out from the second delivery of the final over brought Raj on strike and she hit the winning runs.
If you criticise her, she will bounce back strongly. It was during The ICC Women's World Cup in 2013 at home where India had a dismal performance in every game. Everyone started questioning her ability as a player as well as a captain. She remained silent and her bat gave the answer to the critics.
Playing against arch-rival Pakistan at the Barabati Stadium where chasing more than 100 was difficult, Raj's unbeaten hundred while chasing 193, helped India to register a six-wicket win. That win helped India to maintain their unbeaten record against Pakistan as well.
After 12 long years, India were on a verge of reaching the final of ICC Women's World Cup in 2017 because of their all-round performances. But they had to win their virtual quarter-final against New Zealand.
Mithali Raj, as always became the saviour of the team. She scored 109 off 123 with 11 fours. She found good supports from Harmanpreet Kaur and Veda Krishnamurthy and made 132 and 108-run stand respectively. After her stellar century, it was Rajeshwari Gayakwad who took a fifer and New Zealand were bundled out for 79 and India had a blistering 186-run win.
Being the stalwarts of the team, Raj has seen many changes revolving around her but she stood strong and adopted every change gracefully. From joining the celebration in the end after falling wickets to staying calm and handling immense pressure tactfully; she has redefined the word 'Captain Cool'. Reading 'Essential Rumi' before going to bat to slamming the trollers on social media, she has inspired the whole nation both on and off the field.
In the nearly 20-year long international career, she has gone from strength to strength, smashing one record after another. The mountain of runs is the testimony to Raj's longevity and unflinching passion towards the game and her team. She has the gift of timing and footwork. Hope her legacy continues and she achieves many more milestones.


Brooklyn, NY – American Opera Projects (AOP)'s Board of Directors announced the appointment of two new inspiring, artistic leaders who will continue the organization's 30-year legacy of creating contemporary opera in the US. Effective July 1, 2019, Matt Gray, who currently serves as AOP's Producing Director, will become General Director, and Mila Henry will join the company as Artistic Director.
Matt Gray will be the third General Director in the Brooklyn non-profit's 30-year history, following Grethe Barrett Holby, who founded AOP in 1988, and current General Director Charles Jarden who has led the company since 2002. Jarden will help guide the organization's leadership transition in the newly-created role of Director of Strategic Partnerships. Mila Henry will be the company's first Artistic Director since Steven Osgood held the position from 2002-2008.
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The 'Shroom:Issue LIV/Review Corner
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Welcome back to another issue of Review Corner! This time around, I'm reviewing the reboot of the revolutionary Donkey Kong Country series, Donkey Kong Country Returns! DKCR was pioneered by Retro Studios, who is also working on Mario Kart 7. So let's take a look!
This was my first DKCountry game. Donkey Kong moves a lot differently than Mario. He has more of a lumber than the Mario, moving like the monkey he is. By shaking the Wii Remote, DK can pound the ground, and if you move while shaking, he will break into a roll that can make longer jumps and kill enemies. With the addition of Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong can extend his roll and use Diddy's jet pack to extend his jump.
The game plays really well, and one thing I was impressed with was the difficulty. This isn't an easy game; you will die. Over, and over, and over again. But unlike other games that make you want to throw your controller at the wall (and break them), DKCR makes you want to try again. It's something I've never seen before, and I always wanted to give the level just one more shot. And for those who aren't so good, Nintendo has a Super Guide in this game, too.
Last, there's co-op. A buddy can join in and play as Diddy Kong, in a manner similar to New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Donkey Kong can get his abilities if Diddy jumps on him. However, whereas NSMBW benefited from chaotic/cooperative action, DKCR doesn't. It makes the game hard to complete for more skilled players and just gets in the way.
The plot, like most spin-offs of the Mario series (and the Mario series in general), isn't that elaborate. Some tikis are awakened, and the start stealing all of the bananas on the island (for a reason revealed later) - including Donkey Kong's stash. He goes on an adventure to retrieve them.
This is one amazing game in the graphics department. Jungles are lush and vivid. Stages blend background and foreground together for added space. And what's more, if you look closely enough, you'll see references to popular Nintendo series, including the arcade game that started it all. Then there are the beautiful sunset stages, which uses silhouettes to make fascinating levels.
There's a lot of replay in this. After finishing the game, you can replay the levels for K-O-N-G letters and Puzzle Pieces. After you getting every KONG letter in a world, a very difficult Monkey Temple opens up. Defeat all of these, and you can visit the super-hard Golden Temple, which, when beaten, unlocks Mirror Mode. Mirror Mode is even harder - not only is the world mirrored, but you can die with one hit, and Diddy Kong is nowhere to be found. Puzzle Pieces, when collected in each level, unlock extra concept art, which is very interesting to look at. You can also do Time Trials to compete for the perfect time.
This game is just short of perfection. Some stages are still really hard, and Mirror Mode is nearly impossible. A little more replay value could be appreciated, too.
Donkey Kong Country Returns is flat-out one of the best games I've ever played. Retro Studios did an amazing job on this, and I can't wait to see what they do with Mario Kart 7. I give this a 9.5. If you don't already have, then I command you - I mean, request that you buy it instantly. This game is a classic.
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Mumbai rain: Man penalised by cops for helping stranded citizens
Iram Siddique,Linah BaligaIram Siddique and Linah Baliga / Updated: Jun 25, 2018, 07:43 IST
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Here's a did-you-know: As per law, it is illegal to give a lift to strangers
Navi Mumbai resident Nitin Nair spotted a group of people, including an elderly man, stranded in rain and offered them a lift. The traffic cops caught him in the act and penalised him for it
Being a Good Samaritan doesn't always pay, as Airoli resident Nitin Nair learnt to his peril last week. The 32-year-old, who had given a lift to three strangers including a senior citizen who were stranded in the rains, ended up paying a fine of Rs 1,500 and running from pillar to post for days to get his driving licence back.
In a chat with Mirror, Nair, whose Facebook post on the incident has gone viral, said, "My intention was to help people and this is what I got in return. If such is the law of our country, then no one will help a person even if he is dying on the road." The unfamiliar law under which Nair was charged is Section 66(1) read with Section 192 (a) of the Motor Vehicles Act, which deals with using vehicles for transportation without the requisite permit.
The incident happened on June 18 when Nair was on his way to his office in Andheri from Airoli. It was raining heavily that day, and so when two gentlemen, who were wearing ID cards of IT companies, asked for a lift to Gandhinagar, he offered them a lift.
"After picking them up, a 60-yearold gentleman asked me for a lift and I obliged." No sooner had he picked up the three men that a towing vehicle and a traffic cop appeared and started taking pictures of his car. "The cop told me that it was illegal to offer a lift to unknown people," he said.
Nitin Nair says that such laws will discourage people from helping others; (Right) The challan he was issued by the traffic cop
At Airoli Circle, one can find many people who give lifts in private transport for a fee. He believes this could be a reason cops felt that he was trying to do the same.
"Vehicles with a T-permit can give lifts and charge passengers. There are also apps used by private car owners who ferry passengers from Airoli to Andheri's IT Park. These private vehicles do not have a T-permit. I was probably mistaken for them and the traffic cops thought I was charging the strangers who had asked for a lift," said Nair. Even if that was the case, he wonders why the passengers were not asked if they were asked to pay for the ride.
Even after his licence was confiscated and he was given a challan, his co-passengers were not asked to take some other mode of transport. Nair in fact dropped them to their destination after the incident with the traffic cop.
Section 66(1) read with 192(a) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 says that no owner of a motor vehicle shall use a vehicle as a transport vehicle whether or not such vehicle is actually carrying any passengers or goods save in accordance with conditions of a permit granted by a Regional or State Transport Authority.
"There are two reasons this law was made. For the safety of the owner of the car and because people misuse it as a commercial vehicle without a T-permit. If it is for the safety of the owner, then why didn't the traffic police bother to interrogate the passengers," wonders Nair.
Nair was also taken aback by how tedious the entire process of getting one's licence back is. When he went to the police chowky the next day, he was asked to go to CBD Belapur court to collect his licence.
"I had to take a day's leave from work to go to court on Friday. From 9.30 am to 1 pm, I was in court and produced before the judge as if I was a criminal. The judge asked my name and I paid the fine. The judge exempted Rs 500 from the fine amount and I had to pay Rs 1,500. I was then asked to go back to the police chowky to collect my licence," said Nair.
Nitin Pawar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) for Navi Mumbai, said, "I am awaiting a detailed report after which necessary action will be taken. Prima facie, it appears that if the Honourable Court has fined the person, then it must have considered all aspects of the case. Meanwhile, I have instructed all my subordinates to verify facts/intention before taking any action under section 66/192 of Motor Vehicles Act." Should people be more wary of helping others? "If any person has good intentions, the law must not be applied in such cases. We must encourage people to help other people in a crisis," he added.
Meanwhile, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Mumbai Police, Amitesh Kumar, explained that the provision in the Motor Vehicles Act is used to book owners of commercial vehicles which ferry passengers without proper permit. "In case a regular motorist is to be booked under this section, it is done only after due verification with passengers seated in the car who have agreed to pay for the trip. A fine is imposed only after that," he explained.
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