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87Restrictions on commencement of business
(1)A company shall not commence any business or exercise any borrowing powers unless—
(a)shares held subject to the payment of the whole amount thereof in cash have been allotted to an amount not less in the whole than the minimum subscription ; and
(b)every director of the company has paid to the company on each of the shares taken or contracted to be taken by him, and for which he is liable to pay in cash, a proportion equal to the proportion payable on application and allotment on the shares offered for public subscription, or in the case of a company which does not issue a prospectus inviting the public to subscribe for its shares, on the shares payable in cash; and
(c)there has been filed with the registrar of companies a statutory declaration by the secretary or one of the directors, in the prescribed form, that the aforesaid conditions have been complied with ; and
(d)in the case of a company which does not issue a prospectus inviting the public to subscribe for its shares, there has been filed with the registrar of companies a statement in lieu of prospectus.
(2)The registrar of companies shall, on the filing of this statutory declaration, certify that the company is entitled to commence business, and that certificate shall be conclusive evidence that the company is so entitled :
Provided that in the case of a company which does not issue a prospectus inviting the public to subscribe for its shares the registrar shall not give such a certificate unless a statement in lieu of prospectus has been filed with him.
(3)Any contract made by a company before the date at which it is entitled to commence business shall be provisional only, and shall not be binding on the company until that date, and on that date it shall become binding.
(4)Nothing in this section shall prevent the simultaneous offer for subscription or allotment of any shares and debentures or the receipt of any money payable on application for debentures.
(5)If any company commences business or exercises borrowing powers in contravention of this section, every person who is responsible for the contravention shall, without prejudice to any other liability, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds for every day during which the contravention continues.
(6)Nothing in this section shall apply to a private company, or to a company registered before the first day of January nineteen hundred and one, or to a company registered before the first day of July nineteen hundred and eight which does not issue a prospectus inviting the public to subscribe for its shares.

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DO-254 Training covers principals, objectives and guidance for design assurance of airborne electronic hardware based on RTCA DO-254/Eurocae ED-80 standards. Do-254 Training covers all aspects of airborne electronic hardware from conception through initial certification and subsequent post certification product improvements to ensure continued airworthiness. Get familiar with DO-254 defines objectives which must be met by avionics equipment manufacturers according to EASA and FAA guidelines.
DO-254 is a two-day training class providing a good overview and application of DO-254 as defined by current FAA and EUROCAE ED-12C / ED-109A guidance. Students will learn current FAA and EASA guidance on the application of DO-254 in airborne systems.
DO-254 training also covers objectives of RTCA DO-254 five levels of criticality from level A (highest) to level E (lowest). These design assurance levels are required for all civil airborne electronic hardware. Learn also how military airborne applications such as A400M are now requiring DO-254 compliance.
DO-254 training is intended to help aircraft manufacturers and the suppliers of aircraft electronic systems techniques on how to assure that electronic airborne equipment safely performs its intended function. The DO-254 training clarifies design life cycle processes for hardware that includes line replaceable units, circuit board assemblies, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), programmable logic devices, etc. It also characterizes the objective of the design life cycle processes and offers a means of complying with DO-254 certification requirements.
Program managers, Project managers, process managers, hardware engineers and designers, verification, and quality assurance engineers working on projects requiring DO-254 certification.


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By L. Arias
Ronald Reyes/The Tico Times
Local Dos Pinos dairy products were Costa Rican consumers' top choice last year, according to the annual Brand Footprint report released this week by consulting firm Kantar Worldpanel.
The study, which evaluates actual purchases and not just brand preferences, presents rankings and insights on consumer behaviors based on how often and where in the world a brand is chosen by consumers.
In Costa Rica, 99.7 percent of survey participants said that last year, they purchased Dos Pinos products.
According to the report, "the wide variety of products offered by this brand, which includes milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, ice cream, juice and drinks, among others, allows Dos Pinos to be the leading brand among Costa Ricans."
Dos Pinos products accounted for approximately 46 million purchases last year and the brand is also the only local brand in the country's top 10, which includes some former Costa Rican brands that were bought out by foreign corporations.
The second place is held by soup, condiment and noodles manufacturer Maggi with 22 million purchases, and Coca-Cola came in third with 20 million.
Globally, Coca-Cola leads the Brand Fooprint ranking for the third consecutive year and also tops the Central American list. Costa Rica is the only country in the region where the beverage giant is not at the top of the brand ranking.
Local research was conducted in 750 Tico homes, with a geographic coverage of 81 percent of the country.
The study analyzed purchases in retail outlets including grocery stores, province markets, supermarkets, buying clubs, discount stores, convenience stores, sales catalogs, and via e-commerce, and others, Kantar reported.
The company conducted similar studies in 986 million households spanning 35 countries and analyzed purchases of 11,000 brands. Rankings show purchases by brand in a general category and also present specific rankings in categories such as food, beverages, personal care and home care.
Costa Rica's top 10 rankings by category are listed below:
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HomeCloud ComputingAdvancing digital sovereignty on Europe's terms
Advancing digital sovereignty on Europe's terms
In September 2021, we unveiled "Cloud. On Europe's Terms," an ambitious commitment to deliver cloud services that provide the highest levels of digital sovereignty while enabling the next wave of growth and transformation for European organizations. We've since seen increasing demand from customers and policymakers for digital sovereignty solutions.
Working closely with our European customers, partners, policy makers, and governments, today at Google Cloud Next we're pleased to share that we've delivered and are continuing to develop a broad portfolio of Sovereign Solutions that can support European customers' current and emerging sovereignty needs as they progress their digital transformation.
Google Cloud Sovereign Solutions come from these efforts to understand evolving sovereignty requirements. We've heard from numerous customers that they would prefer to work with local partners in their transformation journey, and that's why we have established partnerships including T-Systems in Germany, S3NS in France, Minsait in Spain, and Telecom Italia in Italy.
Sovereign Controls by T-Systems is now generally available, and Local Controls by S3NS, the Thales-Google partnership, is now available in Preview. You can expect more region and market announcements in the coming months.
Google Cloud Sovereign Solutions
Our Sovereign Solutions are designed to support data, operational and software sovereignty requirements, increasing customer control and transparency for sensitive data moving to the cloud. For example, Sovereign Solutions can help support compliance with European regulations such as GDPR and legal rulings such as Schrems II.
Google Cloud Sovereign Solutions comprise Sovereign Controls, which can help organizations more easily manage vital data sovereignty goals, as well as Supervised Cloud and Hosted Cloud options to help address operational and software sovereignty concerns.
The range of Google Cloud Sovereign Solutions
The market is already making valuable use of our offerings: In September, employee communication platform Haiilo said it would rely on the Sovereign Cloud from T-Systems and Google in the future.
Oliver Queck, vice president at T-Systems International, said that Sovereign Solutions can help drive digital transformation. "T-Systems and Google Cloud are building and delivering sovereign cloud services for European enterprises from the public and business sectors. Our common goal: support all organizations in migrating their workloads to the cloud – through more innovation, flexibility, performance, and data security."
Let's look at each of the product offerings:
Sovereign Controls
Sovereign Controls for Google Cloud
Today, customers can meet many data sovereignty requirements using Google Cloud controls, delivered directly by Google Cloud through Assured Workloads for EU or through our local partners. These Sovereign Controls can help organizations:
Create and maintain workloads with data residency controls in Europe for core customer content at rest, with processes that help limit personnel access to core customer content to EU persons located in the EU;
Maintain comprehensive visibility and control over administrative access to the data and workloads;
Encrypt data with keys that they (or someone appointed by them) control and manage outside of Google's infrastructure through our Cloud External Key Manager.
At Google Cloud we firmly believe that the control of encryption keys is the strongest and most effective technical measure against extraterritorial requests for data that can be offered to cloud customers today. To achieve sufficient control, keys must be kept outside of the cloud provider infrastructure and coupled to a strong key access justification mechanism.
Queck added that Sovereign Controls can help balance data management and control requirements with the drive to innovate. "With Sovereign Controls by T-Systems, we have developed a cloud solution that allows you to securely host your sensitive data and implement supplementary data protection measures that can help meet the requirements of European data protection authorities without losing on scalability or elasticity. In other words, you retain full control over your data, software, and operations, and still benefit from all the advantages of the Google Cloud – especially the innovation power," he said.
Sovereign Controls for Google Workspace
Customers' sovereignty requirements also extend to the digital tools they use to collaborate and communicate. We recently announced Sovereign Controls for Google Workspace, which will provide digital sovereignty capabilities for organizations to control, limit, and monitor transfers of data to and from the EU starting at the end of 2022, with additional capabilities delivered throughout 2023. This commitment builds on existing Client-side encryption, Data regions, and Access Controls capabilities in Workspace.
Supervised Cloud
Our forthcoming Supervised Cloud offerings will be managed and operated by partners to support data sovereignty and operational sovereignty needs for specialized and highly sensitive data. We are in the process of designing and building these offerings, aligned with local regulations in France, as well as strong customer needs in Germany, with our respective partners S3NS and T-Systems.
Cyprien Falque, managing director of S3NS, a Thales and Google Cloud partnership, spoke about plans for their forthcoming solution and ways for customers to begin their journey to the cloud now:
"S3NS' mission is to help public and private organizations in France benefit from the power of Google Cloud while protecting their sensitive data in compliance with the criteria of the French 'Trusted Cloud'. Our Local Controls offering is a first step and a first milestone this year, before a future solution in compliance with the French 'Trusted Cloud' criteria, which we are working on in parallel. Our objective is to be among the first to make such an offering available for certification based on hyperscale cloud technology," Falque said.
Hosted Cloud
Finally, there are some customers and workloads that have a strict need to support disconnected operations. To help meet these software sovereignty requirements, we will offer Hosted Cloud services, which are part of Google Cloud's Distributed Cloud offerings. Google Distributed Cloud Hosted does not require connectivity to Google Cloud at any time to manage infrastructure, services, APIs, or tooling.
LuxConnect is a Luxembourg-based IT provider whose mission is to strengthen the country's IT infrastructure and to increase international Internet connectivity in order to drive progress and innovation. LuxConnect CEO Paul Konsbruck said that he is looking forward to the availability of Sovereign Cloud solutions that can complement existing IT services, including Hosted Cloud.
"Digital sovereignty is becoming more and more important to us and to our customers across Europe as we work to support their digital transformation initiatives. The ability to keep data within strict boundaries and maintain local operations further enable efforts in Luxembourg to serve for example as "data embassies" – protecting vital data and services that are essential to the smooth running of a country on their behalf, thereby reducing the potential impact of cyberattacks," he said. "We are closely following the efforts of Google Cloud to develop and offer Hosted Cloud solutions that can complement our data center, connectivity, and HPC offerings."
Expanding the Sovereign Solutions ISV ecosystem
It's also clear from our discussions with Cloud customers and partners that the ability to meet sovereignty requirements must include support for the applications they use to power their businesses and drive innovation. To this end, today we are thrilled to announce that more than 20 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) from Europe and around the world have joined the new Google Cloud Ready – Sovereign Solutions program with the intent of bringing their products to Google Cloud Sovereign Solution environments. These partners include Aiven, Broadcom (Symantec), Cloud Software Group (Citrix), Climate Engine, Commvault, Confluent, Datadog, DataIKU, Dell Technologies, Elastic, Fortinet, Gitlab, Iron Mountain, LumApps, MongoDB, NetApp, OpenText, Palo Alto Networks, Pega Systems, Siemens, SUSE, Thales, Thought Machine, Veeam, and VMware.
We'll continue to listen to our customers and key stakeholders across Europe who are setting policy and helping shape requirements for customer control of data. Our goal is to make Google Cloud the best possible place for sustainable, digital transformation for European organizations on their terms — but also for others around the world, and there is much more to come.
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Q: OTP Distributed Application Takeover I'm dynamically loading an Erlang application into the system based on a config file which procludes me from starting the distributed app at boot time -- I'm able to get failover to work, but not failback (or in OTP Terms, Takeover.)
Say I have NodeA running the app, and NodeB as a failover node. I pull the cord on NodeA, and the application migrates to NodeB. This is expected. But when I bring NodeA back online and try to call application:start(MyApp) I get:
{error, {shutdown,{myapp, start, [normal,["config.xml"]]}}}
Which is indicative of the app failing to start up.
No matter, it fails to start because I have the supervisors running on the other NodeB already, and I've net_adm:ping'ed them together.
I would imagine I can call application:takeover/2 on MyApp to get control back of the node, and kill the application on the other node.
{error,{not_running_distributed, MyApp}}
But this doesn't work either. My Node priority list is [NodeA, {NodeB, NodeC}], so I would think that the app would know to move to the higher priority node once back online.
How do I go about implementing Takeover in this scenario?

A: You may need to use application:takeover/2 instead.

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there arent any real millionaires who solely traded in the forex market to make their fortune. Year 2010, situations like the one described before are not a black swan of the past. This feature is not available right now. Well, this is not necessarily true. The currency Krieger targeted was the New Zealand dollar, also known as the kiwi. UK, I'm doing very, very well. The way I think, I'm almost like a robot when I trade. Krieger later left Bankers Trust to go work for George Soros. Druckenmiller was confident that he and Soros were right and showed this by buying British stocks.
That's the difference between trading and gambling. Good money can be made by a professional trader without greed. Using the relatively new techniques afforded by options, Krieger took up a short position against the kiwi worth hundreds of millions. 1: George Soros. His career began in 1969 with the establishment of the Quantum fund on Curacao. There's this big bottle of champagne called Ace of Spades, 30 liters, it's a very unique bottle. That's called insider trading. He believed that Britain would have to slash lending rates, thus stimulating business, and that the cheaper pound would actually mean more exports compared to European rivals. His success secret is quite simple and is on the basis of fundamental analysis exclusively: The most important thing is following economy changes of countries for the short term. As a rule, its a tendency of the losing people to be very loud in their negative comments. The press is filled with stories of currencies overvalued being restored to fair value; in the recent European crisis forex players brought the value of the Euro down when it was overvalued (from.3654 on April 14 2010.1925 on June 8, 2010. Alex Hope: Splurge is such a unique word isn't it?
As in all other businesses, the forex market has a list of its outstanding people, whose names are known worldwide. Though this market is somewhat young, today a lot of examples are available many people have achieved results that are unbelievable in this business. Alex Hope: Because Ive literally dedicated my whole life. Novices in the forex market should know the importance of not posting real data about profits they make.


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Large-scale cyberattacks with eye-watering statistics, like the breach of a billion Yahoo accounts in 2016, grab most of the headlines. But what often gets lost in the noise is how often small and medium-sized organizations find themselves under attack.
In the last year, half of American small businesses have been breached by hackers. That includes Meridian Health in Muncie, Indiana, where 1,200 workers' W-2 forms were stolen when an employee was duped by an email purporting to come from a top company executive. Many small companies are just one fraudulent wire transfer away from going out of business.
There's lots of advice available about how to fight cybercrime, but it's hard to tell what's best. I am a scholar of how businesses can more effectively mitigate cyber risk, and my advice is to know the three "B's" of cybersecurity: Be aware, be organized and be proactive.
Here's how more companies can boost their cybersecurity preparedness without breaking the bank.
Almost any company can be vulnerable to a range of cyberattacks. A company manager or network security professional needs to know about the various types of digital threats and how to limit vulnerability.
There are some attacks that every employee should know about. The most common attacks use a method called "phishing," or a variant that specifically targets one potential victim, called "spearphishing." These typically take the form of email messages that appear to be sent by coworkers or supervisors asking for sensitive information. That's what happened to the health care company in Muncie. These messages can contain instructions that a victim might follow, believing them legitimate – such as clicking a link that installs malware or captures login information, or even making a wire transfer to another business's account.
The best defenses against these types of attacks involve skepticism and vigilance. Attackers can be very clever and persistent: If just one person has one weak moment and clicks on one malicious link, an entire network can be compromised.
Most companies go to great lengths to protect their physical assets and personnel. But many do not take similar precautions with their digital information. A key computer may be kept disconnected from the internet, but if it accepts flash drives or rewriteable CDs, or if its password is easy to guess, the information is just as vulnerable.
Small business owners need to prioritize cybersecurity. Without proper preparation, even large companies can find themselves unprepared for cyberattacks. When Sony was hacked in 2011, it did not have an executive focused solely on information security. But hiring someone did not prevent another hack in 2014.
Planning ahead is vital, instead of just being reactive. The National Institute for Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework lists five main functions of cybersecurity efforts: Identify vulnerabilities, protect against attacks, detect anyone who gets through, respond to the attack quickly and recover after the attack has been stopped.
Some companies are already receiving advice that following the NIST guidelines can reduce legal liability if cybersecurity problems arise or are discovered. Companies can also work with colleges and universities to create cybersecurity clinics, or even consider buying cyber risk insurance.
There's no way to avoid being the target of a cyberattack, but that doesn't mean becoming a victim. Simple steps can have huge results: The Australian government reported resisting 85 percent of cyberattacks by taking three basic steps: restricting which programs can run on government computers, keeping software updated regularly and minimizing the number of people who have administrative control over networks and key machines.
Cybersecurity doesn't have to be rocket science; it's just computer science.


I've started the process of porting CSLA .NET version 4.1 to MonoDroid. I expected this to be relatively easy because I've already got a version of CSLA 4 running on WP7, and from everything I know about MonoDroid it should be pretty comparable (excluding anything to do with XAML and UI concepts of course).
Fortunately some googling (with Bing of course ) turned up the answer in the form of an environment setting named ANDROID_SDK_HOME that both C++ and Java will honor. The problem is that my User directory isn't on the C drive, and either C++ or Java can't handle this concept. Setting ANDROID_SDK_HOME to the path of my actual User directory solves the issue so the emulator works as expected.
The Android emulator is extremely slow, but functional. Just deploying my tiny little test app takes several minutes, and my computer is no slouch. It is clear that Android developers don't round-trip very fast in terms of running their code to see if it works. I feel sort of like I'm back in 1992 on a VAX where the compile-link-run cycle took minutes. I'm obviously very spoiled with the performance of things like the WP7 emulator or the ASP.NET development web server, where the compile-debug/run cycle takes seconds (at most).
I mocked up the initial types to implement ObservableCollection, and it won't take a lot more effort to make them have the functionality required by CSLA. I don't feel the need to completely replicate those types – only the parts CSLA cares about.
Creating a data portal proxy/host pair isn't hard, the data portal is designed with this sort of flexibility in mind. However, this will be the first non-WCF proxy/host pair I've built on the Silverlight/WP7 code base, so I'm looking forward to establishing that it is as easy as it should be.
The unexpected dependencies on System.ServiceModel are probably the most worrisome aspect of this project so far. I suspect unraveling the dependencies and fixing the design/implementation may lead to some breaking changes in the Silverlight/WP7 code. On the other hand, if my early suspicions are correct, the design is probably flawed and I'll be able to improve things as a result.
The loss of Csla.Xaml is not ideal. At the very least I think a Csla.Android project will need ViewModelBase and ViewModel, but I suspect other Android-related UI components may be required.
Anyway, I'm quite impressed by MonoDroid. It seems pretty complete, pretty functional, and pretty well integrated into Visual Studio. Other than my issues with the emulator configuration the install was painless.
To head off this question before it is asked: I do expect I'll create a version for MonoTouch at some point.
But MonoDroid has a much lower barrier of entry since it installs on Windows and works in Visual Studio. MonoTouch requires a non-trivial cash outlay to buy a Mac, and a non-trivial time outlay to learn the Mac, MonoDevelop, some Mac svn implementation, etc. Where I'll probably have a working version of CSLA 4 for Android in under 20 hours, I strongly suspect it will take more than twice that long (and a lot of money) to get a version working in iOS.
In this regard I must give kudos to Google, Android and MonoDroid – they have a much lower barrier to entry than Apple currently provides.


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This beautifully framed piece features an original piece of watercolor artwork glass-framed in an attractive two inch wide black resin frame with a double mat. The outer dimensions of the framed piece are approximately 17" wide x 24.5" high, although the exact size will vary according to the size of the original piece of art.
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The outer mat is a rich textured black acid-free mat with a decorative inset white v-groove, while the inner mat is a complimentary colored acid-free mat reflecting one of the team's primary colors. The website image of this framed piece shows the mat color that we suggest (Hunter Green), but since each piece is custom framed, we are happy to use whatever color mat you wish (depending on availability) – our standard mat colors are:
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This original, one-of-a-kind watercolor painting of the 1980-81 Minnesota North Stars (now Dallas Stars) jersey is the original artwork that was used in the creation of this Dallas Stars uniform evolution print and tens of thousands of other Dallas Stars products that have been sold across North America. This original piece of art was painted by artist Nola McConnan for Maple Leaf Productions Ltd.
Beneath the silver plate is a 3" x 9" reproduction of a well known, best-selling print that celebrates the history of the team. The print beautifully illustrates the chronological evolution of the team's uniform and shows you how the original art was used in the creation of this print. If you look closely, you will see that the print features the actual artwork being offered for sale. The 3" x 9" print looks like this:
The piece is framed with an extremely high quality framing glass. We have used this glass style for many years with excellent results. We package every piece very carefully in a double layer of bubble wrap and a rigid double-wall cardboard package to avoid breakage at any point during the shipping process, but if damage does occur, we will gladly repair, replace or refund. Please note that all of our products come with a 90 day 100% satisfaction guarantee.
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EPSOM EXCHANGE
Telephones in Epsom
1893 to the present and the centenary
of the introduction of automatic switching: Epsom, May 1912
An article by John Liffen
The telephone introduced to Britain
The telephone as a public service was introduced into Britain in 1878. A test case at the High Court in 1880 held that the telephone was a telegraph within the meaning of the Telegraph Acts of 1863 and 1869, even though it had not been invented at that time. As the 1869 Act gave the Post Office a monopoly of all internal UK electric telegraphs it followed that they also had control over the development of the telephone in the UK. To begin with, the Post Office did not engage in telephone activity but confined itself to issuing operating licences to the commercial telephone companies/
The multiplicity of small local telephone companies of the early days underwent a series of mergers during the 1880s, leading to the establishment of the National Telephone Company (NTC) as the principal supplier of local telephone service in Britain. The NTC's licence from the Post Office was set to expire on 31st December 1911 and there was no certainty of its renewal. During the 1890s the Post Office recognised the growing importance of the telephone and in 1895 took over all the NTC's trunk lines. Henceforth, although the supply of local telephone networks remained in the hands of the NTC, the Post Office controlled the infrastructure for long-distance calls. The Post Office, too, began to open local exchanges in some areas, though not usually in direct competition with the NTC. In 1899 another Act of Parliament allowed municipal authorities to run telephone services in their local areas, though this opportunity was not widely taken up and was with one exception (Hull Corporation), short-lived.
Epsom goes on the telephone
In Epsom, telephone service was first provided by the NTC which opened an exchange at 1 Hook Road, near the town centre, in 1893. This used the then-standard magneto exchange system, whereby the telephone instruments incorporated batteries, usually Leclanché cells, for supplying the speaking current, as well as a small AC generator turned by a handle for supplying the current to signal to the operator at the exchange. On 1st January 1904 the exchange had 55 lines. The Post Office opened an exchange at 34 Station Road (now Upper High Street), almost opposite the LBSCR railway station on the other side of the road, on 19 May 1905 and at the beginning of the following year this had 63 lines. It was of a more modern type of exchange called Central Battery Signalling, or CBS, in which a battery at the exchange provided the signalling current, although the telephones themselves still needed a battery for speaking.
By 1911 the number of telephone users (then called 'subscribers') in Epsom was around 350, counting both exchanges. This was the last year of the NTC, as all negotiations for an extension of the licence had failed and the NTC was due to be bought out by the Post Office on 1st January 1912. Epsom's NTC subscribers could expect early replacement of their magneto telephones by those suitable for CBS working, but a more profound change was planned: the first trial on the public network in Britain of an automatic exchange.
Automatic switching of telephone calls
Replacement of the human telephone operator for switching calls had been the objective of a number of inventors from the telephone's earliest days, but such systems were economical only when switching a large number of calls. The first practical method was developed between 1889 and 1891 by Almon B Strowger, a Kansas City undertaker who (it is said) was annoyed by the preferential service given by the city's telephone operators to a rival business. Strowger developed a switch which hunted for and found free lines through a system of relays, stepping ratchets and line banks. The sequence of operations by the selectors caused it to become known as the 'step by step' system. Strowger soon sold his interest to the Strowger Automatic Exchange Company, of Chicago, which in 1901 was renamed the Automatic Electric Company. Large Strowger systems were installed in, for example, Chicago in 1902 and Los Angeles in 1904. In 1908 Automatic Electric showed a demonstration Strowger exchange at the Anglo-French Exhibition held at White City, London.
Epsom first on the public network
As the time of the absorption of the NTC grew closer, Post Office senior management were conscious of the technical improvements that would need to be made to the merged network. After a tour of telephone systems of the USA and Canada undertaken in autumn 1909, the Engineer-in-Chief of the Post Office, Major W A J O'Meara, recommended that automatic switching should be tried in Britain. The proposal was accepted and it was decided to try the Strowger system as an internal exchange at Post Office head offices in the City of London and that it should be given a public trial too. Epsom was chosen for a number of reasons. These were articulated by G F Preston, general manager of the Post Office's London Telephone Service, as follows:-
1. The percentage of local traffic is the highest of any Post Office Exchange, being 35 per cent.
2. The number of subscribers concerned is comparatively small. This is a distinct advantage from a traffic point of view for these reasons:
(a) The ill-effects of any possible breakdown will be minimised as far as is possible consistently with a thorough trial of the system.
(b) It will take comparatively little time to educate the subscribers.
3. The subscribers are not busy subscribers, and will, therefore be less likely to resent what may appear to them to be the additional work thrown upon them.
4. The comparative dryness of the district is favourable to the satisfactory working of the switches, which are apt to be adversely affected by damp climate.
The Strowger interests in Britain were taken up by British Insulated and Helsby Cables which in turn floated a new company, Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company (ATM), in November 1911. The equipment to be installed at Epsom was purely American, being imported from Chicago by ATM, as the new company was not yet ready to begin manufacturing. Automatic Electric also sent over their own expert 'switchmen' to install the equipment and train the Post Office staff working alongside them, and their blunt no-nonsense approach to the job was no doubt something of a culture shock to the British technicians. Taking into account the value of the recovered equipment, the net cost of substituting automatic switching for manual at Epsom was about £4522. Three months were needed to complete the work but the exchange building at 34 Station Road would require strengthening first. The new installation was for 500 lines but could be enlarged to a maximum of 1500 lines. The date of 'cut-over' to the automatic equipment was planned for May 1912.
Two motion selector mechanism
Two motion selectors, Epsom telephone exchange, 1912
Test desk, Epsom telephone exchange, 1912
Close up of selector test stand
In the months beforehand Post Office technicians visited every subscriber to install the new dial telephones together with a special switch to reverse the earth circuits at the time of cut-over. Ex-NTC subscribers had recently been connected to the Post Office CBS exchange with new instruments and were faced with learning two new calling methods in quick succession.
Each subscriber was provided with an information card, size about 10 by 7½ inches (251 by 173 mm), with a set of instructions on how to make calls. They revealed the 'additional work' for which the subscribers needed to be 'educated':-
"To operate the Calling Dial, first lift the Receiver from its rest with the left hand, then, using the right hand, insert a finger in the hole of the moveable disc corresponding to the digit to be signalled. Rotate the dial as far as possible and then remove the finger. Repeat this for each digit to be signalled, allowing the disc to come to rest before signalling a fresh digit."
Wall telephone set as supplied to Epsom subscribers in 1912
Telephone No. 55
Desk pedestal telephone, less bell set, as supplied to Epsom subscribers in 1912
The cut-over took place successfully on Saturday 18th May 1912 at 3.00 pm. From that time Epsom subscribers could dial all their local calls but still had to speak to an operator to ask to be connected to a London number or other districts. For the call being made, the operation of the switching equipment depended on whether the call was to another subscriber on the same exchange or to somewhere beyond. The system of numbering was as follows: Subscribers' numbers 200-799, London Central Exchange 15, Croydon Exchange 16, Sutton Exchange 17, Information and complaints circuits to manual switchboard 8, Test desk 9, Long distance calls 0 and Coin box stations (special four-figure circuits) 1910-1929.
As each subscriber's number was required to be three digits, numbers 0 to 99 needed to be abolished. The most convenient arrangement was felt to be to add a definite 'hundred' digit to the existing number, hence Epsom 46 becoming (for example) Epsom 546. The scheme adopted was:-
numbers 1 to 99 to become 501 to 599 respectively;
numbers 100 to 199 to become 600 to 699 respectively;
numbers 200 to 500 to remain unchanged.
Ex-National Telephone Company subscribers would have had new numbers allocated to them when switched over to the Post Office CBS manual exchange.
Reverse of information card supplied to Epsom subscribers in 1912
(original size 251 by 189 mm). BT Heritage POST 30/2380 file XI
A distinctive feature of this pioneer system was that there was no dialling tone, callers having to assume that the equipment was ready for operation as soon as they lifted the receiver. As they dialled they heard clicks caused by the make and break of the ringing relay. If the call was to another subscriber within the Epsom exchange area the caller dialled the whole of the required number which operated the appropriate first and final selectors of the switching equipment. He or she then heard a ringing tone (described as a pulsating sound) if the number was available or an engaged tone (described as an intermittent buzz) if not. Calls beyond Epsom needed to be connected manually, so dialling 15 (for London Central), 16 (Croydon) or 17 (Sutton) linked to a desk at the appropriate exchange where an operator asked for the required number. Outside Epsom, the majority of calls were likely to be made to these areas. Calls to elsewhere in Britain required 0 to be dialled, connecting the caller to the Epsom manual desk. Fire alarm calls in the Epsom District were made by dialling 600 and in the Ewell District by dialling 521. Accommodation was also made for connexion to Electrophone, the distributed audio service which was available by special subscription in certain parts of Britain between 1895 and 1925. This was obtained by dialling 0 for the operator.
Calls were charged according to the type of call. One penny was charged for each originated local call, two pence for each originated junction call for London Central, Croydon, and other exchanges in the London area, with various rates for long-distance or trunk calls. Only the local calls were automatically metered, other charges being recorded in writing by the operator handling the call.
Epsom subscribers quickly grew used to the new system and were highly pleased with it. Within three months traffic on the exchange increased by 60 per cent. Over the following few years several other switching systems were also tried across Britain but the tempo of conversion was slowed considerably by the First World War. Finally, in November 1922, Thomas Purves, the Post Office Engineer-in-Chief, recommended step by step with the addition of 'director' working (in essence the Strowger system with additional mechanism for inter-connecting groups of exchanges) and research work by the Post Office and the manufacturers was concentrated on its full-scale development. To begin with, conversion was to be confined to the largest towns and cities where it would give the greatest economy in working. Elsewhere the manual system would be retained, though in rural areas the Unattended Automatic Exchange (UAX) brought economies too. In the late 1930s the policy was adopted of complete conversion from manual to automatic in Britain, though it was recognised that this would take many years to achieve.
End of the Epsom trial
During this time the pioneer Epsom installation simply carried on. In London, conversion to director working began in 1927 when Holborn automatic and Holborn tandem exchanges opened, after which the changeover proceeded apace. The decision was made to confine automatic working to within a ten-mile limit from central London and this, ironically, was the cause of the ending of automatic working at Epsom for a period of over thirty years. The number of subscribers there was steadily increasing in the late 1920s (the term 'station' refers to the number of telephone instruments connected):
1927 1082 lines 1373 stations
By now the automatic exchange could no longer be expanded. As demand was certain to continue to increase a new exchange building was needed, and as Epsom was about 14 miles from central London this had to be manually operated. The new exchange was in East Street, Epsom, and was equipped with the then-standard CB1 switchboard. The cut-over from the automatic exchange took place on 20 July 1932 and the Station Road exchange was closed. Local newspapers have been checked but, surprisingly, no reference has been found to subscribers' reactions to being converted back to dial-less telephones and slower connexion times.
Epsom thenceforth remained a manual switching area until East Street was converted to non-director automatic working with STD (subscriber trunk dialling) facilities on 6th October 1965. By this time there were some 5750 subscribers on the exchange. In 2012 the East Street building was still Epsom's telephone exchange, but now with System X digital switching equipment. Both former exchange buildings, at 1 Hook Road and 34 Station Road, have long since been demolished, but the location of the Station Road exchange can still be identified today. In 1912 there was a pillar letter box on the pavement just outside the exchange. That same pillar box was still there in 2012, on the south side of Upper High Street near the top of the hill opposite the former railway station.
Sadly, other than this, there is probably nothing on the ground now to remind Epsom's present residents of their town's principal claim to fame as a telecommunications pioneer.
References and acknowledgements
To keep the length of this article within reasonable bounds individual citations have not been given but full details can be obtained from the author, address below. The principal sources are: Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal, especially the articles in volume 5, July 1912; BT Heritage, file POST 30/2360; F G C Baldwin, The History of the Telephone in the United Kingdom (London, 1925); and J H Robertson, The Story of the Telephone (London, 1947). I must express my thanks for the constant and friendly help provided by the staff at BT Heritage, High Holborn, London, in identifying documents, scanning illustrations and for permission to reproduce material in their care. I must also thank the volunteers and staff at Epsom & Ewell Local and Family History Centre, Bourne Hall, Ewell, for their help in finding large-scale maps and local street directories.
John Liffen
ex Curator of Communications
London, Science Museum


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The fight to unionize Amazon workers excited the labor movement. What does their loss mean for organizing in 2021?
by Essay by Nathaniel Pettit May 10, 2021 May 7, 2021
When we spoke in late March, veteran Pittsburgh social justice organizer Mel Packer was anxiously awaiting news from Bessemer, Alabama. There, 5,800 warehouse workers for the retail behemoth Amazon were deciding whether to unionize. If the union won a majority of worker support, the warehouse would become the staunchly anti-union Amazon's first unionized workplace in the United States.
Like many labor movement supporters, Packer believed a victory at Bessemer could reverberate across the nation, inspiring working people to see unionization in their workplaces as an attainable goal. "Any time a union or a group of workers is able to mount a successful fight," Packer argued, "it's a shot in the arm for other workers."
But on April 9, these unionists received crushing news. Amazon had soundly defeated the effort. And though the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union [RWDSU] filed with the National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] to overturn the election results, alleging that Amazon improperly pressured workers to oppose the effort to unionize, Packer readily conceded that the union's ability to only receive about 29% of the votes was a "defeat any way one looks at it."
As a supporter of labor organizing, I too was heartened by the momentum that the Bessemer struggle seemed to bring to the movement. I wanted to understand what it means — even in defeat — for the future of unionization.
In the lead-up and aftermath of the vote, I spoke to many Pittsburgh-area union supporters and heard two key points: First, that the power of Amazon, aided by federal law that favors employers, means the defeat was in many ways expected; and second, that labor organizing is a long-term fight, where even a loss can inject energy into a resurgent labor movement.
As Tina Shannon, a leader of the Steel Valley chapter of the Progressive Democrats of America, put it, "the fact that people even tried to organize is a win."
Change through solidarity
The Bessemer unionization struggle began in June 2020, when Amazon worker Darryl Richardson made contact with RWDSU organizers. Richardson and hundreds of his coworkers believed that union representation could assist the workforce in addressing what they saw as their jobs' most undesirable aspects, including unpredictable and last-minute schedule changes, long hours on their feet with insufficient bathroom breaks, and unrelenting surveillance.
Nathaniel Pettit is a freelance writer and a labor movement supporter. (Photo courtesy of the author)
National figures, from actor Danny Glover to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, identified the Bessemer struggle as a historic squaring-off between a corporate titan and a group of low-wage workers in the historically anti-union deep South. President Joe Biden in February said that deciding on unionization is a "vitally important choice" that should be done without intimidation from employers.
In communities across the country, supporters rallied in solidarity. The struggle was emblematic not just of workers taking on a corporate titan but also of a new surge for unionization in an era where traditional union power has faded. On March 20, members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 85 and the New Afrikan Workers Union [NAWU], along with community members like Packer, picketed the Amazon-owned Whole Foods in East Liberty.
Khalid Raheem, an NAWU activist and lead rally organizer, explained the significance of supporting a unionization effort several states away.
"We thought it was very important for us to give our support and to join along with others in demanding that Amazon be fair," said Raheem.
Raheem explained that the effort to unionize Bessemer's predominantly Black and female workforce underscores the need for unions across the nation to center racial and gender equity in future organizing drives.
If the Bessemer fight inspires others, it's crucial that unions expend greater energy on organizing historically non-unionized sectors, even if doing so means taking on some of the world's most powerful corporations.
'If they can do it, why can't we?'
Despite the Bessemer defeat, Rob Ruck, a historian of sport and labor at the University of Pittsburgh, believes that the struggle has emboldened people across the country.
He notes that, throughout American labor history, unionization efforts have often had a symbiotic quality, with one labor struggle leveraging the energy generated in a struggle elsewhere: "The sense is, 'If they can do it, why can't we?'"
Here in Pittsburgh, Josh Borden was among about 80 workers employed by HCL Technologies — a subcontracting tech company working in Google's Pittsburgh office — who voted in 2019 to unionize as an affiliate of the United Steelworkers [USW].
The victory was historic for white-collar tech contractors, and one inspired by similar efforts, including a concurrent push for unionization at the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.
After the HCL unionization vote, Borden said he was contacted by people inspired by their victory who wanted help organizing. He sees the victory in Pittsburgh as influential in the January 2021 formation of the Alphabet Workers Union, a union of more than 800 international workers at Google's parent company Alphabet.
"When I can point to victories in other places, whether that be other hospitals in UPMC or even in the Amazon warehouse, it really allows me to point out that, 'Hey, this is something that is doable and works.'"
But the HCL unionization fight was a bitter one.
In October 2020, the NLRB alleged that HCL Technologies unlawfully interrogated workers about organizing activities and delayed promotions and wage increases due to the union campaign.
HCL has recently been accused of failing to bargain in good faith and delaying the creation of a contract with the United HCL Workers. The company denies this. "With respect to the collective bargaining discussions," the company said in a statement to WESA, "we have been and remain engaged in honest and meaningful negotiations. Our prerogative throughout has been to listen, learn, and negotiate seriously as we work to close a contract."
In Bessemer, Amazon was accused of a number of anti-union tactics, including barraging workers with texts and calls disparaging unionization and holding mandatory "captive-audience" meetings where workers were required to view anti-union presentations. These meetings are a common anti-union tactic deployed by companies, including HCL.
While unions have held considerable political clout, their influence has waned in recent years, and even in union-heavy cities like Pittsburgh, key employers like UPMC have fought unionization for years.
Sam Tillman, a union organizer and milieu therapist at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, understands the difficulty of building a union. We spoke in early April, before the release of the Amazon election results, and in Tillman's view, a high-profile union fight has the power to show co-workers hesitant about organizing that it is possible for workers to win.
"When I can point to victories in other places," Tillman said, "whether that be other hospitals in UPMC or even in the Amazon warehouse, it really allows me to point out that, 'Hey, this is something that is doable and works.'"
But in Bessmer, the workers didn't win. Local union organizers explained that partly that's because unionization is often a lengthy fight. And partly it's because federal law fails to offer workers adequate protection in trying to organize.
Jim DePoe, legislative director for the Greentree-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 29, argues that the Bessemer struggle has laid clear the need for passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize [PRO] Act.
Among other provisions, it would ban captive-audience meetings as well as dramatically increasing the penalties for employers who illegally interfere with workers' organizing efforts. DePoe believes that this federal legislation will "turn back the clock" on what he and many of the interviewed Pittsburgh labor advocates see as the unfairly pro-business status quo of labor law.
The House of Representatives passed the legislation in early March, and Biden has confirmed his support. But the legislation's fate in the Senate is uncertain, as it faces strong Republican opposition and three key Democratic senators have thus far refused to support the bill.
Losing Round One
To Pittsburgh unionists, who know well the harsh realities of labor organizing in 2021, this April's union defeat in Bessemer stings. But, even without a change in federal law, it is not necessarily final. Pittsburgh-based organizer Lindsey Disler notes that unions "rarely win the first time around. Most union elections take two or three tries."
"Heck, even the forming of the Steelworkers took 30 years," Disler adds, noting that the Pittsburgh-based USW is today one of the nation's largest unions.
Ruck encourages the Bessemer worker-organizers to see their union battle in the arc of a far larger struggle: "Any struggle is not over just because you lose one round," he told me. He points to past efforts to expand voting rights in the American South or curb pollution in post-industrial Pittsburgh.
Initial battles in these struggles were defeated, he said. "They were discouraging; they were setbacks," Ruck continued. "But years later, people returned to that struggle, and often, eventually, won."
Nathaniel Pettit is a freelance writer and a labor movement supporter. This summer, he will be working in the United Steelworkers' organizing department. The views he represents here are his own. He can be reached at nathaniel.p.pettit@gmail.com or on Twitter @nat_pettit.


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Apple's iPhone 5 Sales Top 5 Million This Weekend
Source: Apple's iPhone 5 | Official Website
Just three days after it became available to the public, Apple's iPhone 5 was able to achieve record-breaking sales of 5 million units. In addition, the company announced yesterday that over 100 million devices were upgraded to iOS 6. As stated by CEO Tim Cook:
Demand for iPhone 5 has been incredible and we are working hard to get an iPhone 5 into the hands of every customer who wants one as quickly as possible. While we have sold out of out initial supply, stores continue to receive iPhone 5 shipments regularly and customers can continue to order online and receive an estimated delivery date. We appreciate everyone's patience and are working hard to build enough iPhone 5s for everyone.
Overwhelming Demand for iPhone 5
Earlier this month, it was reported that pre-orders of the iPhone 5 exceeded 2 million within its first 24 hours of availability. This beats iPhone 4S' 2011 sales record by more than 200 percent. According to Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Philip Schiller:
iPhone 5 pre-orders have shattered the previous record held by iPhone 4S and the customer response to iPhone 5 has been phenomenal. iPhone 5 is the best iPhone yet, the most beautiful product we've ever made, and we hope customers love it as much as we do.
Launch sales of Apple's latest flagship handset topped the record weekend last year, in which iPhone 4S was able to roll out 4 million units in its first three days. However, initial sales of the iPhone 5 were less compared to previous predictions because huge demand was able to outstrip supplies.
It should be recalled that Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray surveyed lines at Apple stores in Boston, Minneapolis, and New York. Considering the large crowds the analyst predicted that the company could sell 8 million iPhone 5 this past weekend.
Despite the overwhelming demand, Apple is now able to ship majority of the pre-ordered mobile phones, although a lot are still scheduled to arrive this October.
International Availability
At the moment, Apple's iPhone 5 is available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom, and United States. This September 28, the latest iOS smartphone will become available in 22 more countries and over 100 nations by the end of the year.
Earlier this month, the iPhone 5 was able to have a record-breaking start when its 2 million pre-orders were sold out within its first 24 hours. It doubled the record set by iPhone 4S last year, although actual first weekend sales did not double the previous model's launch.
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Kathmandu Dilemma or Delhi Paradox ?
Zhou Shengping
Photo by the author
When the controversial book Kathmandu Dilemma: Resetting India-Nepal Ties came into circulation in Nepal few months ago, I briefly talked with a prominent Nepali professor, who, out of my expectation, expressed horror about both the book and its author Ranjit Rae, former ambassador of India to Nepal.
Both the Professor and Rae were invited to attend a public programme some years ago in Nepal's capital Kathmandu. They chatted during the tea break. The envoy laughed at then Prime Minister KP Oli for being uneducated with only primary education which shocked this urbane intellectual. With due respect to his own nation's executive head, the Professor angrily asked the ambassador: Is this an official statement of the Indian government or just your personal view?
Their unhappy talk carrying small barbs impressed the present writer. And chapter 4 "The Post-Constitution Fallout" touches this topic saying Oli is "largely self-educated" and "a shrewd politician, possibly the shrewdest in Nepal (Page 86)."
Rae appears a satirist in the book. He depicts former Nepali foreign minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha as "totalitarian" for introducing a code of conduct for foreign diplomats to observe their meetings with Nepali politicians. The code is still valid, struggling for its proper implementation (Page 15). Rae sarcastically discloses to the readers, "Incidentally, Narayan Kaji Shrestha himself always met me alone (Page 156)."
This political satire goes so far that it scorns Nepali leaders in such manner, "The godless prime ministers of the leftist variety have no faith and it doesn't matter to the people of Nepal" (Page 173).
Besides Nepali leaders, China and the Chinese also are butts of his tendentious mocks. He shares a small story in Chapter 10 "Enter the Dragon": A senior leader of Nepali Congress passed "a state-of-the-art mobile phone and laptop" gifted by the Chinese to his son, fearing "malware"(Page 195).
In the last part of this 237-page book "Epilogue" which focuses on way forward to reset India-Nepal ties, Rae still doesn't forget digging at China as new-rich without soft power. He assumes that with "deep pockets" China tries to ingress into India's neighbourhood (Page 221).
Not surprisingly, due to Rae's inhospitable and mocking descriptions, it was said that many VVIPs in Kathmandu felt betrayed and became angry. Some words in this book are full of bias and might even be libellous.
Canadian author LM Montgomery once said, "My pen shall heal, not hurt." But I am afraid that the Indian diplomat's pen and mouth have already hurt too many people in a non-diplomatic way.
"Don't waste your time!" A former Nepali ambassador said after getting to know that this writer is seriously reading Rae's book to write a review.
One of the whimsical suggestions for Nepalese from Rae that my Nepali friends can't stand is about following the Bhutanese model to resolve the issue of the 1950 India-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship (Page 129), a tender point for Nepal. Dispelling India's concerns like Bhutan is an unpopular idea that has been floated to rub salt in Nepali people's wounds.
Born in 1957, with more than 30 years of experience in the Indian Foreign Service, Rae is not a diplomatic novice. While writing, he should weigh words and phrases with great care but many of them widely expose the pride and prejudice of the Indian political class notorious for taking Nepal for granted, even bullying it often.
September 23, 2015 is a historic day when India imposed an economic blockade on its northern neighbour that had been suffering from the devastating earthquake, which brought forth a humanitarian crisis for Nepali people.
The tragedy lasted four and a half months and Rae was the ambassador at the time. In his book, however, he uses the phrase "so-called blockade" or "Madhesi blockade", brushing India's crude behaviour off lightly.
Rae does not even spare Prithvi Narayan Shah, the founding father of modern Nepal, from his barbs. Rae calls him "the founder of Shah Dynasty" twice. In contrast, he brands BP Koirala "the father of Nepalese democracy" almost every time.
The devil is in the details. Why does an Indian diplomat belittle the great king of Nepal while promoting a political leader? Why does he always disdain Panchayat system/rule for being "autocratic" (Page 33) and "party-less" (Page 44)?
I sense, in the name of multiparty democracy, India never wants to give up the dirty British game of "divide and rule" to weaken Nepal so that it can micromanage with a controlled instability. But Rae naturally denies India's overreach.
Thanks to the US expansionism, neighbouring Mexicans say: "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the US." Nepalis might feel the same about India.
Needless to say, Kathmandu is in a dilemma for the past seven decades after India came out of the colonial period. While Nepal and Britain celebrated their two hundred years of diplomatic relations in 2015, India cast off the yoke of colonialism from British imperialists only for 68 years. But sadly, India has been arrogantly treating Nepal as a younger brother, which is vividly proved by Rae's book.
As some sober political analysts argue, India is a country of paradox and hard to understand. The paradox of Delhi's power elite with Rae as a member lies in its illusion of its own strength, superiority complex over its small neighbours, suspicion of its big neighbours, and its misconception about the west.
In the chapter 7 "The Economic Partnership: We Can grow together", Rae reiterates Nepal's tragic situation -- "one of the poorest countries" "widespread poverty." Ironically, the Global Hunger Index made public this October ranked India at 101 position out of a total 116 countries while Nepal was placed at 76.
In this sense, the sentence "We [India] are and should remain a shining example to our neighbours" (Page 222) will be taken in jest by careful readers. Interestingly, it seems that China is too big to be India's neighbour.
Brainwashed by the British and hooked with the Americans, the upper class of India has almost lost independent thoughts about India's global strategies. While discussing about Sino-Indian ties, like the US top diplomat, Rae states, "Though our relationship with China has elements of cooperation, competition and confrontation, the challenge is to ensure that it does not become conflictual" (Page 221).
Rae is a qualified envoy, working very hard for India's national interest. After retirement, he toiled hard to complete this informative and thoughtful book for the same. To the best of my knowledge, no single Chinese ambassador who worked in Nepal has done a similar job in English till date. This volume serves as an eye-opener for any Chinese who wonders how India works in this Himalayan nation.
To be honest, my personal impression of this Indian diplomat was not bad before studying his first book.
At the same time, Indian policymakers must realize that an India short of ambition is terrible, but an India trying to achieve unrealistic ambition through unreasonable means is disastrous for both India and its neighbours including China.
To be honest, my personal impression of this Indian diplomat was not bad before studying his first book. When he worked as Indian ambassador to Nepal from September 2013 to February 2017, I served as the chief of Xinhua News Agency Kathmandu bureau.
In the programme "Revival of the South-Western Silk Road: Role of trilateral cooperation between China, India and Nepal" held in June 2014 in the capital, Ambassador Rae lauded the idea of reviving the south silk road, praising it as very "fascinating". He further encouraged scholars to do more detailed cost-benefit analyses.
On that very day, I photographed a rare and precious picture in which three envoys were seated shoulder by shoulder: Nepalese ambassador to China Leela Mani Paudel, Chinese ambassador to Nepal Wu Chuntai with Rae in the middle.
As a pragmatic diplomat, Rae's support for trilateral cooperation and quadrilateral projects isn't just a flash in the pan. In the book published this September by Penguin Random House, Rae explores, directly or indirectly, possible ways to make this kind of cross-Himalayan cooperation happen. This kind of discussion from Indian side, though by half a word has precious value in a much more fragmented world being tortured by both the "new cold war" between the US and China and the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.
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Konic Thtr — DO YOU WANT TO BE THE FIRST TO KNOW THE SCHEDULE OF 'I MEETING OF DIGITAL SCENE' IN BARCELONA?
DO YOU WANT TO BE THE FIRST TO KNOW THE SCHEDULE OF 'I MEETING OF DIGITAL SCENE' IN BARCELONA?
Between May 13th, 14th and 15 th, Barcelona will become a space for debate and reflection about the future of the performing arts and new stages generated by the development of new technologies.
Where to sketch a map of the multiple possibilities of the digital scene when renovating scenic proposals, connect with new public and provide new opportunities for training and professionalization.


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Last Updated: Thursday, 25 August 2016 09:02
For most nature lovers, spotting a bald eagle is a conversation-halting moment. Without fail, everyone falls silent to watch the magnificent bird soar, swoop, or simply reign over a towering tree.
WHEN: Wednesday, August 31st at 12:30 PM, celebratory cake to follow
WHERE: Willow Grove Park, Willow Grove Rd., Longview, WA 98632
Note: the closest parking lot to the release site is the one just after the boat launch parking lot. Please keep your eyes open for signs and volunteers providing directions.
The injured eagle was spotted along Highway 30 near Clatskanie and brought to the Audubon Society of Portland's Wildlife Care Center nearly three months ago after a wing injury prevented the bird from flying. Audubon staff and volunteers at the Wildlife Care Center rehabilitated the injured eagle to prepare it for release back into the wild.
The release of a rehabilitated bald eagle is a victory for the Columbia River and we want you to be part of it. This is unique opportunity to learn about the eagle rehabilitation process and to witness the eagle's first flight back into the wild.
Columbia Riverkeeper and the Portland Audubon Society thank the Port of Longview for providing this release site at the park near the eagle's home.


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Q: ComplexUpset: How can I plot ONLY specific intersections? I am trying to make an upset plot that only shows specific intersections. I have 6 different fjords which generate too many intersections. I am only interested in plotting some of those:
I have run this next script:
upset(fjords, fjordnames, width_ratio=0.15, height_ratio = 0.6, sort_sets=FALSE, sort_intersections = "descending", sort_intersections_by = 'cardinality',
 base_annotations = list('Intersection size'=list(aes=aes(x=intersection, fill=Classification), geom=list(geom_bar(stat = "count", position='stack'),
 theme(panel.border = element_blank(), panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank(), axis.line = element_line(colour = "black")), scale_fill_manual(values=divpalette)))))

I obtained the next plot:
Species shared by fjords
But I am only interested in showing the intersections that are marked with the red arrow. I want all the others removed. I have looked for answers but have found none. Is there a way to only select those intersections?
Thank you in advanced

A: You need to first update to a recent version (minimum recommended 1.2):
install.packages('ComplexUpset')

And then use the intersections argument:
upset(
    movies,
    genres,
    width_ratio=0.1,
    intersections=list(
        'Comedy',
        'Drama',
        c('Comedy', 'Romance'),
        c('Drama', 'Romance'),
        'Outside of known sets',
        'Action'
    )
)

You can keep the order by adding sort_intersections=FALSE.


Many people still can not agree whether methadone is a drug or medicine. Some see it as salvation, others casting out the devil the devil. The controversial story of methadone is breakneck and convoluted since its inception. Where did actually married and who brought it to us?
For the first time, methadone was synthesized in 1939 in pharmaceutical laboratories in Germany. He was the product of a long search for new analgesics, which began in the eighties of the 19th century. What happened?
It is said to have been used during the Second World War and has been manufactured to order. Both of these claims have but apparently the clay feet.
The name itself methadone was first used in 1947 and the first tests carried out in 1942.
He was granted the army, who worked with him under the name Amidon, but it certainly was not used during the war. Even the makers of pharmaceutical laboratories and even military doctors because it could not take in adequate doses.
This drug has not been approved or in addition to commercial use.
Methadone was widely used during World War II to relieve pain. Therefore, it is a bit far-fetched to say that it was the opposite and it was used as a substitute for morphine called Dolofin. He is said to be derived from the addition of the first name Adolf Hitler. Dolofin exists, but its name is derived from the Latin words "dolor" and "finis" or end the pain. Similarly, incorrect assertion is that Amidon fit then known among the soldiers and the public as Adolfin. This name is actually created in the 70th years in New York, opponents of methadone as an attempt to discredit its use as a drug.
The origins of substitution treatment in the Czech Republic were no wild exaggeration. From the 70th years of the last century were used ethylmorphine and buprenorphine to treat addiction to homemade opiate "braun". The very first methadone came to us in 1992 from Switzerland. Was imported, MD. George passed, the head of the Foundation Drop-in. After a number of problems with the customs authorities and medical treatment was eventually allowed - but only as an annual experiment. In 1997, the Department for addiction treatment under the guidance of MD. Petra Popova running another similar program released by the Ministry of Health. But he was limited to 20 patients.
Czech government finally swayed to act, and in 1999 formed an official standard replacement therapy. Capacity Apolinár the doctor Popova was gradually increased to 100 patients. But this was not enough, and it was launched in May 2000, an additional 7 substitution programs. Despite the tough and wild beginnings as methadone helps today.


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Tell me Why é uma canção de autoria de John Lennon e Paul McCartney. Foi gravada pelos Beatles, no álbum A Hard Day's Night, em 1964.

Créditos
John Lennon – vocal principal, guitarra base
Paul McCartney – backing vocal, contrabaixo
George Harrison – backing vocal, guitarra solo
Ringo Starr – bateria e piano

Outras versões
Tell me Why foi posteriormente gravada também por outros artistas, como:
1965: The Beach Boys, no álbum Beach Boys' Party!.
1982: April Wine, no álbum Power Play.
2002: The Punkles, no álbum Punk!.

Canções gravadas por The Beatles
Canções compostas por Lennon/McCartney
Canções gravadas por The Beach Boys

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


After going through a difficult period in my personal life, my work habits had deteriorated pretty badly. I knew it was time to turn things around again, but darn, it was so freaking hard.
Paula Kearney just spent the weekend selling door to door. She made more than 150 sales. Paula is seven.
If you're still not closing at the rate you want, here's what you should try next.
Hello there, I'm Doug Lessells. Welcome to the Sell Smarter podcast from SalesFuel!
Last week, we discussed "fake facts" in regard to presentations; now it's time to turn our attention to closing. There are a lot of myths out there about closing, and unfortunately, reps take those myths to heart.
How Much Should You Sell?
How much of your product or service do you think clients and prospects really care about? Often, reps spend too much time talking about every single feature of what they're selling, wasting both their and the prospect's time.
"Be authentic" has become the most tossed around and over-used cliché in the world of business and sales. Authenticity is not a sales strategy!