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JOHN CABELLO
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Working Hard and Representing You in Springfield!
Illinois repeal gas tax hike during a recession
by Admin | Nov 11, 2019 | Media |
The 19th century New York lawyer and newspaper editor Gideon J. Tucker wrote in 1866 that "no man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session." His words have never been more true than in Illinois in 2019. With 21 new or increased taxes approved in Springfield this year, more working families, seniors on fixed incomes, and recent graduates looking to join the workforce are feeling the pressure of the higher cost of living than ever before.
The Illinois House of Representatives returned to Springfield this week for the first time since passing a bill on June 1 doubling the state's gas tax. Twenty Republicans joined 63 Democrats to approve that increase. I voted No, but leadership means more than just standing up against a policy you believe is harmful to families and taxpayers. Leadership requires offering solutions and working tirelessly to promote them.
That is why, on the first day of session this week, I filed new legislation to protect working families if and when an economic recession occurs by fully repealing the gas tax increase, which doubled the state's tax on gasoline from 0.19 cents per gallon to 0.38 cents per gallon and increased the tax on diesel fuel from 0.215 cents per gallon to 0.455 cents per gallon.
My bill, House Bill 3937, would fully repeal the motor fuel tax hike if the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Illinois exceeds 8% for a period of three consecutive calendar months. In that event, the Illinois Department of Employment Security would be required to notify the Illinois Department of Revenue, the agency responsible for adjusting the tax rate collected by retail merchants that sell motor fuel.
Gas taxes would then revert to their pre-July 1, 2019, rate. Those lower rates would remain in effect until IDES notifies IDOR that the unemployment rate in Illinois has been 8% or less for a period of three consecutive calendar months.
While there is no way we can ever get those who voted for the gas tax hike back in June to repeal it, we should all come together to protect working families who already can't afford it if and when a recession hits Illinois. I will work with anyone from either party, from any region of Illinois, who shares my commitment to fight for taxpayers.
You can help. Go to ilga.gov and click on "Legislator Lookup" on the homepage. Type in your address to find out who your state representative is. Call or email and ask him or her to co-sponsor House Bill 3937. Together we can build a movement to fight against the tide of higher taxes in Illinois.
John M. Cabello, R-Machesney Park, is state representative in the 68th District.
Paid for by Citizens for John M. Cabello. A copy of our report filed with the State Board of Elections is (or will be) available on the Board's official website (www.elections.il.gov) or for purchase from the State Board of Elections, Springfield, Illinois.


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5. Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend
By Josh TyrangielMonday, Nov. 03, 2008
Dubbed the "whitest band" by the experts over at Stuff White People Like, these recent Columbia University alums do indeed sing about such pressing subjects as Oxford commas, albeit with the proper disdain ("Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?") But their whiteness has less to do with their familiarity with the MLA Handbook than an unrestrained admiration for blackness. From the Afro-pop guitars and soukous rhythms to name-checking Lil Jon ("First the window, then it's to the wall/ Lil' Jon, he always tells the truth"), it's clear this band knows its melanin. If that sounds a tad anthropological, the joy of this debut is that it never feels it. The Afro-pop and indie rock fusion is seamless, particularly on "A-Punk" and "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa," which includes the lyrical deprecation "This feels so unnatural/ Peter Gabriel too." More than most new bands, Vampire Weekend knows how to find a song's soul without compromising its wit. Peter Gabriel would be proud. Paul Simon would be prouder.
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Well I finally finished painting my chest of drawers, my first attempt with Chalk Paint™. After the arrival of the paint in New Zealand some months ago I have been itching to get stuck in and see if it is as good as everyone says and I can now say first hand, "this paint is truly a miracle in a tin" and I am thrilled with my first project. I took a 'tired', stained, 50's mahogany chest of drawers and gave it a total makeover with a little French appeal, my results are far better than anticipated, I am totally hooked and eagerly awaiting my next project!
At this stage, I just want to add, although the Chalk Paint™ was provided for me to try the product, my words and opinion are in no way influenced by the company providing these materials. I have found this product so easy to use that I have since 'purchased' more colours from their range for a series of further makeovers.
Below, my rather nondescript 'before'.
I first removed the handles, deciding to keep them as the brass had aged to a lovely patina.
I removed the drawers and decided to seal the body with one coat of Resene smooth surface sealer to stop bleed through. This is apparently not necessary but as my piece was very dark stained I wanted to protect my light paintwork from any stains coming through.
Tip: Painting it upside down makes it much easier, once dry, flip it over and do the top.
I first masked off the inside bottom of the drawers as I was only painting the side parts. It is not necessary to paint the insides. Just tape around 1.5" from the edge of the drawer on the outside, as Olivia did recently with her bedside tables. I painted two coats of my Paris Grey/Old White mix although it is very good coverage and you may only need one coat. This was painted directly over the wood (I did not seal the drawers first). I allowed an hour between coats for drying time. The paint dries very quickly and it is easy to see which areas are dry as it lightens as it dries.
once the paint was dry, I applied a thin coat of clear wax using a fairly stiff brush. I rubbed the wax in a circular motion rubbing it well into the wood. I gently wiped off any excess wax with a soft cloth. Allowing it to dry (2 hours in warm weather). I then began to buff in a circular motion with a soft cotton cloth, achieving a lovely shine.
I then applied my dark wax. I mixed half dark and half light in a small jar and used a fine paint brush to apply to areas along the edge of the drawers and the leg as below. I applied the dark wax in areas such as the join where the leg and chest meet and the bevelled edges of the drawers. I then used a rag to apply larger areas of dark wax such as the drawer fronts and top and sides of the chest. Note: Do not apply dark wax heavily, use a soft rag and apply only in areas you wish, then wipe gently leaving enough dark wax for the look you want. If you use too much then you can easily remove it with a cloth dipped in a little light wax. 'Less is more' here.
I wanted to try something a little different on the top so first painted 1 good coverage of 'Old White'. When this was dry I painted two coats of my mix of 'Paris Grey/Old White', allowing 1 hour drying time between coats. When this was completely dry I applied my first coat of clear wax. Working on small areas at a time, I applied the wax using a fairly stiff brush working it into the wood. Once this was dry (approximately 2 hours), using a circular motion, I polished it with a soft cotton rag.
Note: When you apply wax your base colour will deepen slightly.
I then mixed a small amount of half dark and half light wax and put it into a screw top jar. I used this mix in areas I wanted to look aged/antique. This was applied with a soft rag and gently wiped off if it was a little dark. I allowed it to dry and polished it off before sanding. Note: Do not apply the dark wax heavily, you need very little.
I sanded back the edges with a lightweight sandpaper to reveal the 'Old White' beneath, I purposely didn't sand back everywhere to the original wood. This creates a great coastal look. If you want a fresh, coastal look I would only use the light wax.
On the edges of the drawers however, I sanded back to the dark wood as you can see below.
When it comes to distressing your piece, although this is not necessary unless you want an aged, worn look. To achieve an authentic look, only distress in areas where the piece would normally wear.
Legs and edges of the side of the chest.
Using a medium sandpaper sand back until you expose the wood beneath or if you have painted a coat of Old White you can simply sand back to the white area for a coastal look.
Once you have finished sanding back, apply a thin coat of clear wax, allow it to dry and then polish or buff as previously. This coat will seal and protect the paintwork and give it a beautiful shine. Without the wax you will have a very flat finish, the wax helps to give depth to the piece.
Note: When applying wax you only need a thin coat. If it soaks into the wood, you can apply another thin coat, allow it to dry and buff again.
I hope you have enjoyed this post and if you are new to Chalk Paint™, decorative paint by Annie Sloan, you might be inspired to have a go yourself. I will be featuring regular Chalk Paint™ makeovers on the blog, if you don't want to miss out then please sign up for my email updates on my side bar.
Thank you Cindy and hope you enjoy catching up. Yes Annie Sloan paint is fantastic, I would love to have all my floors whitewashed but so many tasks to catch up on but it is on my list.
Thank you Danielle, I hope further makeovers will be just as good and I now have my first DSLR camera so hope to have some lovely shots in the future.
It looks gorgeous now, well done! So much charm.
Can't wait till Chalk Paint gets to my part of the world too!
Sorry, I have only just seen your comment Camille, what part of the world are you living in? Chalk paint is in most countries, if you go to their website, I have placed a link above, maybe you can find somewhere near that will post to you.
Hi, Just wondering when coating the drawers did this not make them harder to close/open, just wondering as i have a wine unit with cupboard and drawer and down want them to end up a tight fit.
My drawers were really good, they ran smoothly before I painted them, however, I have since learned that you need not paint the drawers inside. You can run a piece of tape down the outside of the drawers about 1" back from the edge so that you paint the front of the drawer and only an inch at each side. In saying this though I really wanted fresh paint inside but then its hard to know where to stop. If your drawers are already sticking a bit when you slide them in and out then definitely don't paint the outside. Also the wax finish helps the drawers to slide.
It depends very much on the piece you have. Another tip when painting is to make sure there are no drips or blobs on the edges. So far I have painted several pieces and not had a problem. I am meeting Annie Sloan tomorrow as she is in New Zealand and I have been lucky enough to have some one on one tuition with her. I will ask what she 'personally' recommends and reply again tomorrow. I don't want you to spoil your cupboard but so far everything I have painted with chalk paint has worked beautifully.


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Q: Calculate and set location of label at design time On a form I got a TabControl, and above this a Label.
I always want the label to appear centered above the TabControl.
The width of the TabControl changes (with anchors) if the width of the form is changed.
Now I want the position (location) of the label to be adjusted accordingly.
At runtime this is easy:
//Position headline label
lblHeadline.Left = tabControl1.Left + (tabControl1.Width / 2) - (lblHeadline.Width / 2);

But how do I get Visual Studio to do this at design time, so if the width of the form is changed from the properties window, the label's position is automatically recalculated?

A: Winforms aren't that dynamic at design time, like @o_O alreday mentioned in his comment.
But in your case there's no need to center the Label programmically.
Like following, the label-Text will also be centered at design time:

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*Set the AutoSize-Property of the Label to False

*Adjust the width of the Label to the same width as the TabControl

*Set the Anchor-Property of the Label to Top, Left, Right

*Set the TextAlign-Property of the Label to TopCenter

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'You don't cross George Bush'
In 1999, while I worked on a background piece on Harris County, Texas, judge Robert Eckels, some Houston politicians invited me to a fund-raising reception for then governor George W. Bush. Bush, already mentioned as a front-runner for the GOP Presidential nomination in 2000, easily won a second term as governor the year before by building a very un-Republican like coalition of Hispanics and moderates. Bush sipped a bottle of Corona as he walked among well-to-do Texans at the outdoor event, slapping some on the back. He approached and stuck out his hand. "I'm George Bush," he said. The handshake, quick and limp, lacked any warmth or sincerity. The plastic smile looked phony. He moved on.
In 1999, while I worked on a background piece on Harris County, Texas, judge Robert Eckels, some Houston politicians invited me to a fund-raising reception for then governor George W. Bush.
Bush, already mentioned as a front-runner for the GOP Presidential nomination in 2000, easily won a second term as governor the year before by building a very un-Republican like coalition of Hispanics and moderates.
Bush sipped a bottle of Corona as he walked among well-to-do Texans at the outdoor event, slapping some on the back. He approached and stuck out his hand.
"I'm George Bush," he said. The handshake, quick and limp, lacked any warmth or sincerity. The plastic smile looked phony. He moved on.
Later in the evening, I walked behind a group where Bush spoke with some of his cronies. They were talking about possible opponents for the GOP nomination. One member of the group suggested some opponents might use Bush's less-than-sterling past against him.
"Let 'em try," Bush said with swagger. "I'll fucking destroy them."
I recounted the story with my host as he drove me back to my hotel.
"That's our governor," he said. "Don't let the smile fool you. He can turn on you in a second. You don't cross George Bush."
The corpses from George W. Bush's political wars litter the landscape. Arizona Sen. John McCain threatened Bush's chances for the nomination in 2000 and became cannon fodder in a Karl Rove-orchestrated smear campaign. Democrat John Kerry's campaign disintegrated when he failed to respond to the Swift Boat veterans' campaign of lies and innuendo funded by Bush's cronies in Texas.
On Monday, Bush admitted to declassifying parts of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) just to discredit Ambassador Joseph Wilson's assessment that Iraq was not, in fact, trying to obtain weapons-grade uranium from Niger – a key part of the administration's manufactured rationale for invading Iraq.
"I wanted people to see the truth and thought it made sense for people to see the truth," Bush said during an appearance at Johns Hopkins University.
"You're not supposed to talk about classified information, and so I declassified the document," he said. "I thought it was important for people to get a better sense for why I was saying what I was saying in my speeches. And I felt I could do so without jeopardizing ongoing intelligence matters, and so I did."
Like so much of what Bush says, it isn't true.
What Bush calls "the truth" was, in fact, a lie. Ambassador Wilson was right and the raw information in the National Intelligence Estimate was wrong. Detailed analysis from the Central Intelligence Agency had already called the claim that Iraq had sought weapons grade uranium from Niger "nonsense" and urged the White House to stop using the false information.
But Bush, who has never let facts stand in the way of his political agenda, continued to use the discredited information and told Vice President Dick Cheney to launch is disinformation campaign to discredit Wilson.
That campaign ultimately led to the "outing" of Wilson's wife as a covert CIA operative.
"After we liberated Iraq, there was questions in people's minds about the basis on which I made statements — in other words, going into Iraq," Bush said Monday. "And, so, I decided to declassify the NIE for a reason. . . . I thought it was important for people to get a better sense for why I was saying what I was saying in my speeches."
Once again, the President of the United States lapses into denial.
Americans no longer have questions about why Bush said what he said or did what he did.
They know the President of the United States is a liar. He proves that just about every time he opens his mouth.


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Commercial Minister handing over the CIP card to the MD of Ananta
Commercial Minister greets Mr. Inam Khan, MD
Managing Director of Ananta receives CIP card for the 4th Time
Managing Director of Ananta Mr. Inam Khan has received CIP (commercially important person) card for the year 2013 under export and trade categories for his significant contribution to the country\'s economic growth.
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed handed over the card to the MD of Ananta at a programme, jointly organised by Ministry of Commerce (MoC) and Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) at a city hotel on Monday. MoC Senior Secretary Hedayetullah Al Mamoon presided over it.
The CIP cardholder Mr. Inam Khan will enjoy some privileges for one year. He will get permission to enter Bangladesh Secretariat, participate in different national programmes, and get priority in booking tickets for air, railway and waterway travels for business purposes.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs will also help him receive visas by issuing letter of introduction to the embassies concerned.
The CIP will also have access to VIP lounges at the airports in the country, and his families will get priority in booking cabins at the government hospitals.


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Home » The 2024 Acura Integra Type S Will Be A Second-Hand Icon
The 2024 Acura Integra Type S Will Be A Second-Hand Icon
Color me unsurprised. Acura is trotting out a hot 2024 Integra Type S, a car that should really silence everyone who based their Integra memories on the hot GS-R and Type R models, then demonized the new Integra for being a five-door hatchback. While it's destined to be a very niche product, I have a feeling that the Integra Type S will be massively revered on the second-hand market, especially once it exits production. Let me explain.
Let's start with what we know about the Integra Type S. Acura announced on Monday that the Type S — the revived name it's using for performance-focused cars — will have a two-liter turbocharged VTEC engine producing "over 300 horsepower" and putting power down exclusively through a six-speed manual gearbox with a limited-slip differential. On the regular Integra, a manual is only available on the top A-Spec model with the Technology Pack, albeit as a no-charge option. As expected, this probably means the new Integra will be fairly comparable to the new Civic Type R that it shares a platform with, and that's good news because the new Type R is already winning over reviewers.
But while the regular Integra has been somewhat unfairly compared to frenetic VTEC memories from the Hot Import Nights era, the new Type S will be more faithful to our collective exaggerated version of history. And it had better really bring the heat to be worth it.
Let's start by running through some numbers that we know. In America, a manual Acura Integra costs a whopping $7,700 more than a 2023 Civic Si at the time of writing. That's a huge sum of money, especially considering what that $7,700 gets you. Aside from the obvious liftback and adaptive dampers that were standard on the old Civic Si, the Integra really just adds comfort features like a more powerful stereo, heated seats, a heated steering wheel, and a nameplate that instantly evokes good vibes for anyone who's still really into Incubus. This puts the standard car on shaky ground and could spell serious sales trouble for the Type S.
Should the Type S model see a similar premium over the Civic Type R, it could be knocking on the door of $50,000. I repeat, $50,000. That's butting up against full-on sports car territory, rubbing fenders with the manual Toyota Supra, Nissan Z, and well-specced Mustangs. Most people looking for a really hardcore Honda product will likely just save the money, get a Civic Type R, and just bundle up on cold mornings. What's more, existing premium buyers aren't likely to flock to the Integra Type S as Acura still doesn't carry quite the same snob appeal as Mercedes-Benz or BMW, regardless of how underwhelming the 2-Series Gran Coupe is.
You may wonder, "what makes this different from the old Integra Type R?" Well, the 1997-2001 Integra Type R didn't just gain a following because it was a fast Honda, it gained a following because it was the fastest front-wheel-drive Honda product Americans could buy.
The Civic Type R of the time never made the boat over from Japan, the Prelude was more of a high-tech, front-heavy grand tourer, and the Civic Si was down a whopping 35 horsepower from the ITR's 195. While the Integra Type R Americans know and love was in a league of its own, it's hard to believe that the new Integra Type S will be in another league from the current Civic Type R.
Granted, a handful of Integra Type R devotees will lap up the new Type S model, but apart from that truly tiny demographic, I can't see much reason to spend the extra money over a Civic Type R. This should offer what we call "assured rarity," meaning "nobody bought it when it was new." However, assured rarity is often a very good thing when it comes to performance cars. Think Cadillac CTS-V Wagon, Honda S2000 CR, or any other fast car that lingered in showrooms when new yet is hotter than the surface of the sun right now.
For a start, the Integra Type S has legendary bones. It's the full-fat, over-caffeinated version of the new Integra that the keyboard brigade has been shouting for since always. We're talking about a premium small car based upon the hottest hatchback of the moment, the Civic Type R. It doesn't seem to be missing much over the Civic Type R either. Car And Driver had a crack in a prototype and found it to still have the 265-section Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires, the two-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, and the six-speed manual gearbox from its Civic sibling. If anything, the Integra Type S should dial up the luxury while offering even more understated styling devoid of an enormous rear wing.
In addition, the Integra Type S carries nostalgia, not just for the old Integra Type R but for the internal combustion hot hatch era as a whole. Pretty soon, just about every new car will be electrified in some way which means that weight will go up, noise will go down, and the manual gearbox will go in the bin. Hot hatches are great because they often offer great sensation of speed without quite the same law-breaking pace as more serious sports cars, all while being practical enough to use as an only car. The end of the golden years is in sight and Acura's going out with a mag dump.
The Acura Integra Type S isn't likely to be a big seller and we'll make up all sorts of justifications as to why we won't buy it. It also may be a limited-production car, just like the Civic Type R was. However, its blend of performance, lineage, and assured rarity will likely make it a second-hand hero and a star of whatever internet car auction sites are still left in a decade's time. While I have a feeling that the truly hardcore Honda folk will gravitate towards the Civic Type R, let's be glad that Acura's making a hot Integra at all.
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DongSlap says:
Should have just made 1 Integra and given it the 2 liter turbo from the Accord. 250hp with a 6 speed or 10 speed auto. $35k.
Fill a void instead of just rebranding 2 already existing Civic trims with inflated price tags. As a bonus, it would have made for a much more compelling car versus the A3/CLA.
Nsane In The MembraNe says:
I'm sure it'll be a great car to drive but I don't think it's going to be particularly competitive at its price point *ducks*. Seeing as the current CTR is priced at a rather ambitious 45k I think it's safe to assume that this will come in at 50+ where the competition from the Germans is going to be stiff. That's well equipped S3/M240i or base C43/m340i money and all of those cars will wipe the floor with this performance wise and offer all wheel drive, which this won't. There's also the CT4 V Blackwing in striking distance of this if you want an unhinged manual luxury sedan specifically.
I think the incredibly stubborn "attainable performance cars are manual only" thing is going to backfire on the Japanese manufacturers eventually. Even if we (enthusiasts) all love manuals the general population doesn't. If you're part of the "manual or no dice" crowd obviously this or the CT4 V BW would be your pick out of the lot I mentioned but how what percentage of potential buyers are part of that group in 2022? It's not a lot.
They needed to find a way to offer this with an automatic and all wheel drive, point blank. They can get away with forcing middle class enthusiast buyers in the 30k-40k range into manual front wheel drive cars but they're going to have a harder time with it in the 50 range. I honestly thought finding a way to make the base TLX's drivetrain work in an Integra would've been the best approach here.
Again, I think it'll be an amazing car to drive and that the sorts of people who want it will be very happy, but I'm not so sure that it's going to be a big success overall. It's hard to make a manual and FWD only luxury product work in that price range. I don't think their usual crowd has that type of money laying around and I'm not so sure that the luxury crowd who does will be swayed.
mkaresh says:
Where might I buy a CT4-V BW for around $52,000?
PL71-Enthusiast says:
This is everything wrong with modern cars imo. A maybe 15k (? Not in the US market but surely in another market) car turned into a 50k car. 300hp in a fwd car??? You are going to need some sticky rubber.
Who do they think they are competing with? As you said this will get destroyed by the Germans in every way but reliability, but more importantly why the heck would you buy this over a Lexus? Definitely pandering to the manual fanboys.
That's all I've got left…the mandatory manual crowd and Honda fanboys. They've sliced themselves too thin with this product. It's a $50,000+ Civic with only front wheel drive and no automatic option. The Venn Diagram of people who can afford $50,000+ luxury cars and the Hondacore crowd doesn't have much overlap.
And why would you buy this over a TLX Type S in the same showroom? Is a manual so important that you'd give up more power, more space, more performance, and all wheel drive to row your own? If it is more power to you I suppose but it sure as shit isn't for me or a lot of the other folks who could actually afford one of these.
The performance Civics are cool and good but they're not cool and good enough that Honda will be able to get away with this stratospheric pricing. Making them manual only doesn't justify paying a premium for less features. Honda is way behind the times and really overconfident in their products right now IMHO.
Ruizing says:
Agree with you on the market segment. And those two groups will save some $ by buying the CTR. If they wanted to differentiate this, it would have AWD. That's the only way I see this getting $50k. Otherwise, the TLX S is just $4k more.
I am absolutely mandatory manual crowd for any sporty cars I own but I'm also not an insane person who would spend 50k on a civic.
I do not subscribe to the theory that you should buy the loaded cheap car instead of the base model luxury car though. For this reason I am not a fan of platform sharing such as Acura/Honda or MQB Audis.
VicVinegar says:
It should basically be a 4/5th scale TLX Type-S with a manual option. I'd be interested in one. I'd like a *nicer* car with decent performance, but still don't want to deal with maintaining a German car. I'm always looking for my Honda or Toyota Golf R.
Well Toyota sort of made one, that will cost as much as a German car after the dealers are done marking it up. Maybe I'd have a better chance with an Acura Type-S model after the dust settles.
Rollin Hand says:
After taxes in Canada, it's $51K (thank you Acura.ca configuator). That's simply too much when the Elantra N comes in $5K cheaper and the Civic Si comes in $9K cheaper.
That said, the type R is well over $58K after taxes et al.
Makes me want to find an Accord Sport 2.0T and put a tune on it.
I'm obviously biased because I bought one but the N models make all of the sporty Civic variants a much harder sell for me. The Civic SI is a good car but for a couple grand more you can get a manual Elantra N which has roughly 80 more horsepower and pound feet of torque. The Honda fanboys are always quick to say "it won't be as engaging and power isn't everything" but 80 horsepower is a lot.
The CTR is an objectively better performance car than any of the Ns but the Ns max out at 35k USD and offer about 90% of the performance. It it worth paying another $10,000 to unlock that last little bit of power and engagement? For some people it might be, and that's fine. But going purely off financials it's not an amazing buy, although it will probably hold value a bit better.
The base Integra that makes you load it before you can unlock the stick is the biggest joke of them all though. 35k+ for a 200 horsepower front wheel drive hatchback is laughable. Honda is more or less all in on brand loyalists and the "it has to be manual" crowd keeping these cars afloat and I just don't think it's going to work out long term. I think Toyota's approach with the GRC is way more compelling than any of the Civic variants even though I'd never personally daily a manual because I sit in traffic constantly.
jakeasaurus says:
I honestly forgot this was coming. But looking at it now, I think I'll at least test drive one when they hit showrooms. Sure it'll be tough to justify $50K+. BUT it'll have three pedals and four doors. You can't say that for the 3-series, the Audi, the Merc, the anything. It'll be way more refined than a WRX. I could never see myself driving a Civic Type R (that rear wing is ridiculous). But I could see myself driving this.
v10omous says:
The premise is false IMO. It presumes the reasons to choose the Civic over the Integra won't be exactly the same on the secondhand market a decade from now.
There is no cheaper rebadged version of the S2000 or the CTS-V wagon (or other examples you could have chosen like the Gen V Viper, Chevy SS, etc). The Civic R and the Integra S might *both* rise in value in the future, but I doubt their relative positions will change much.
These are also cars with 5+ year old engines and transmissions that have only received minor tweaks. I don't think it's a sure bet that they're going to hold on to the legendary status that the automotive press unquestionably bestows on every single Honda performance product before it even hits showrooms. This is effectively increasing the number of CTRs out there and I don't think the current one's value in this bonkers market is a good indication of where they will eventually wind up.
Everyone buys into this OH IT'S GONNA BE THE LAST MANUAL PERFORMANCE CAR EVER narrative and yet manufacturers are still releasing new performance cars with manuals every year. And as I said below…on paper this product is DOA against ze Germans in the same class and the amount of fanboys that Honda relies on to move these products is finite and not a crowd that has unlimited finances.
They're playing a dangerous game moving the CTR and now this upmarket and I don't think they realize it.
ADDvanced says:
No, no, no…. no…. no.
That car fucking sucks. It's not an integra. It's a giant bloated sedan, and it has nothing that actual Honda enthusiasts want. It's as bad as when Chevy brought back the Malibu name and shoved it onto that generic looking turd.
Seeing that car legit makes me angry for what COULD have been, but nope, marketing, gotta just slap a name on a boring, fat, giant turd, in hopes that the name will sell it. Fuck that car.
One last thing, THIS IS WHAT THE INTEGRA SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/tgs-guide-japan/what-new-honda-integra-should-look
You want a new Integra? Buy a GR86 and quit whining.
415s30 says:
When they announce a car and we speculate we get some amazing renders, then shocking disappointment. I think the new Vette is a god awful mess of a design, it's like a Camaro banged a 360 Modena on a European spring break. There were some cool designs out there when we had no idea what it would be like, we only knew it was mid engine. I have never been a Vette fan (other than a split window) and I was kind of getting ready to like it and maybe want it….
BunkyTheMelon says:
To be fair, the Malibu has sucked since 73. So 50 years of suckage.
MATTinMKE says:
As the former owner of a '75 Malibu Classic, I can mostly confirm that statement. The 350 with a 2 bbl and a slush box was slow as molasses, but it made the right noises, could do a nice burnout, and had a pea-green vinyl top. So overall, meh.
Oh, and "be glad they're making an integra at all"
yeah NO boss. That's like telling Mitsubishi Eclipse fans "hey well at least they're still making an eclipse!" when it's a gd crossover. This just pisses into the faces of the enthusiasts who've kept the fire alive, and dilutes the status that name once had. Now when people hear integra, instead of being excited, they have to follow it up with "is it that new stupid fat giant thing or the actual integra". Man I'm going to stop ranting but seriously fuck that car so much.
6SpeedJunkie says:
It's almost time to retire my trusty 2004 Honda V6 6speed so I'll be looking for a 4 door as a replacement. I'd like something with a little bit of spice as well and one of my other requirements is having a manual, so the timing of this and the GR Corolla are pretty good for me. The only challenge now is navigating those damn ADM…
rootwyrm says:
First of all, why the fuck are they using the Skechers logo for their camo? (Once seen cannot be unseen.)
Secondly, this is not what people want. It never was. That's why the sales have been – hang on, let me check my notes here – no, no, this can't be right. I mean besides the Integra being classified as a compact.
Hang on, I need a second source.
Well. Huh. Acura has managed to move a whopping 1,496 Integras in the first half of 2022.
Meaning out of all non-discontinued cars, it beat… only the Mini Clubman. Literally the only thing in the segment. (Also, who the fuck sold a Dodge Dart and a VW Beetle?! The Beetle's been discontinued for over 3 years!)
Hang on, I'm being paged with the Q1-Q3 analy… wow, I hope they have blameless root causes. Because the discontinued Acura ILX outsold it. Jesus.
So did the Honda Insight, VW Golf, Audi A3, Polestar 2, and Nissan Leaf to just keep heaping on the insults. To say the Integra is a sales disappointment is to completely fucking ignore the 96,286 Honda Civics sold in the same period. And the 216,575 Civics sold over the first 3 quarters last year. (Uh, Honda? You guys okay over there?)
Forget the price; the price isn't the issue. The issue is that nobody who actually gives a shit about the Integra nameplate (HI!) knows that more than 50% of the magic of the Integra had NOTHING to do with the engine, and everything to do with it's unique DC2 chassis. Yes, it can go decently fast, but not really. 170HP, and less torque than a contemporary Ford Escort. And no, that is NOT an exaggeration. Without the DC2 chassis, it was just a dressed up Civic with a fartcan.
And if you think that's overselling the DC2, go look at the lap times of the Real Time Racing DC2 Integra versus a 6th gen Civic. Go watch a bone stock DC2 GS-R up against literally any contemporary. And remember, the EJ8/EK9 came after the GS-R and packs the equally potent B16B.
Wikipedia would have you believe they're the same chassis or very closely related; they're not. They would have you believe the Type R got magic reinforcements; no, it was a homologation special that got over 100 pounds of added weight and sacrificed usability and comfort. (Nearly every chassis change in the Type R is to reduce chassis tearing and cracking, not to improve rigidity.)
If you want more proof that they're nowhere near as closely related as you think: the DC2 platform also came in the ZXi4WD and Xi4WD as the DB9. Yes, an AWD Integra. And far more importantly, the Integra offered good power, superb handling, was entirely different from Honda's entry-level econobox, and did so without punishing you.
The new Integra does none of these things. It's not significantly more agile. It's not significantly faster. It's not even significantly different in styling. Some idiot decided to cash in on nostalgia by slapping the badge on a very lightly restyled Civic, and pretending the only differentiator of the DC2 was a nicer stereo.
Slapping the 'Type R' badge is just another cynical attempt to crank up sales with more nostalgia; just putting more lipstick on a pig. The Acura isn't even different inside either. There is literally no reason to buy an Integra over a Civic. Unless you're an idiot looking to spend an extra $4000+ over a Civic Si for 'prestige.'
nate8088 says:
I think the main reason they've sold so few Integras is that they're impossible to get…. they aren't building them fast enough. I know people who are still on the waiting list and have been since May.
Werd dude. I fucking hate this car.
And for the record I've had a few integras, preludes, civics, accords, all from the golden era of 86-99. Today's honda is garbage. Even the new CTR sucks imho, the Elantra GT is closer to what a CTR should have been.
N. I meant N. No edit button.
But but but…the totally unbiased car publications and YouTubers say it's actually a brilliant car despite the fact that the performance numbers are non starters in the classes it's supposed to compete in! It's a Honda with a manual so it HAS to be brilliant! Those are the rules.
Honda's entire performance wing is nothing but a cynical cash grab at this point. They're charging so much for their offerings that it's putting them into price ranges they can't compete in…and to add insult to injury they're literally looking at what their competitors offer (performance automatics, all wheel drive, etc) and saying "you'll get this the way we decide you'll get it, take it or leave it". Great attitude that'll definitely win over customers who aren't Honda fanboys who think it's still 2004.
Don't get me wrong-I'm sure this and the new CTR are brilliant to drive, and it's not like I'm some Honda hater because my wife and I own one. But they're massively overpricing these products for what they deliver in the hopes that enthusiasts and their core fans pony up because they're manual and have name recognition. Basically, they're taking us for fools.
andyindividual says:
"Second hand icon"
Oh great, more fart cans, subwoofers and vanilla vape on the horizon.
Don't worry, most honda enthusiasts will completely shun this thing.
metric_tongues says:
Not apples to oranges, but I picked up one of the early ILX's with the 6 speed which were identical to the SI underneath the sheet metal, aside from the LSD. The price difference between the two made little sense when they were new because there really wasn't that much "luxury" added for the Acura, but they go for about the same price used today. The type R and S will have much more lasting hype around them than those cars but if they depreciate to be close enough in value, the Acura could be appealing choice for people who favor the styling or want more of a sleeper with some small feature upgrades. Add in rarity if they don't move many units and the premise makes sense
Kakairo says:
What is with Honda and three exhausts? Makes sense on the three-cylinder GR Corolla. I could see it on a six-cylinder, but not a four-cylinder.
365daytonafan says:
Probably the same logic that the 8 cylinder Ferrari F40 had 3 outlets, one of them probably only comes into play at certain engine speeds?
Cerberus says:
The center tip on the F40 was from the wastegate.


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USC Will Offer Free Tuition to Low-Income Students
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FILE — The Ronald Tutor Campus Center at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Aug. 23, 2019. The university has announced that it is making tuition free for students from families with an annual income of $80,000 or less, starting in the fall. (Andrew Cullen/The New York Times)
By Anemona Hartocollis |
PUBLISHED: February 20, 2020 at 11:58 a.m. | UPDATED: August 19, 2021 at 2:09 a.m.
In a striking recognition that college has become unaffordable for many middle-class students, the University of Southern California announced Thursday that it would make its education tuition-free for students from families with an annual income of $80,000 or less, starting in the fall. It is the latest private college to do so amid growing concern about the rising cost of tuition across the country.
As the major private university in Southern California, USC plays an outsize role in Los Angeles, giving the move high symbolic as well as practical value. Other schools, like Harvard and Stanford, offer tuition-free education or deep discounts to families earning up to $150,000, but they have much bigger endowments.
USC's president, Carol Folt, who was hired last year, said the offer of free tuition would help the university compete for lower-income students who might otherwise attend California's public system, which is relatively generous with financial aid and offers significantly lower costs.
"More students who want to come to USC will be able to choose that," she said.
The university will also take into account the skyrocketing value of housing in Southern California; owning a home will no longer be counted in the calculation used to determine a student's financial need. High real estate prices can exaggerate the wealth of families who have a large part of their net worth tied up in their homes.
"People work so hard to have a house," Folt said, "and we didn't want that to count against their chances of having their kids going to the school."
In the last decade, USC has worked to become a top-tier academic institution, but the elite private campus of 44,000 students in the heart of LA has also been rocked by scandal, including revelations that a longtime head gynecologist of the university's health center had been accused of sexual misconduct and the resignation of the dean of the medical school over allegations of drug use on campus.
Then last year, dozens of wealthy parents were accused of bribing their children's way into the school, bringing renewed attention to class divides on a campus where the offspring of celebrities and real estate moguls study alongside the children of nannies and dishwashers.
"It's fitting that USC, which was at the center of the Varsity Blues scandal, would take this important step," said Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation who studies college costs for low-income students.
But he said offering more financial aid would not be enough to increase diversity on campus unless it is coupled with other admissions reforms, like a willingness to give low-income students a break on SAT scores, which strongly correlate with income.
"You can have the most generous financial aid in the world, but if low-income students aren't admitted, socioeconomic diversity won't rise," he said.
USC's announcement comes amid a national push to make college tuition more affordable. About 42 million borrowers owe $1.5 trillion in outstanding student loans across the U.S., experts said. Wiping out student debt and providing free college tuition have become major points of debate in the presidential campaign.
Continually rising college costs mean that debt load isn't likely to drop much in the next few decades. The average student borrower takes out about $26,000 in loans over the course of earning a bachelor's degree – debt that is impossible to discharge in bankruptcy, difficult to have forgiven and increasingly unlikely to be fully repaid on schedule.
Tuition at USC was roughly $57,000 this academic year, with the total cost of attending – including housing, food and books – reaching almost $77,500.
While acknowledging the need to help more people afford college, Folt defended the high cost, saying it was an outgrowth of the many opportunities for research, travel and learning that an institution like USC provides.
"It's expensive to do," she said. "Wherever we can make it so the cost is not prohibitive, I think that's where we focus our efforts."
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'As you can see, China is practically alone,' Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr says
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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines urged China on Tuesday, August 30, to heed an arbitral tribunal's historic ruling on the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), or risk being "losers at the end of the day."
"We are trying to make China understand, especially when the dust settles, that unless they respect and recognize the arbitral tribunal, they will be the losers at the end of the day on this matter," Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr said in a congressional budget hearing on Tuesday.
"I do not think it is quite correct to say that China has won," Yasay added. "We have won. This is a great and resounding victory for the Philippines."
Yasay made this statement as the Philippines eyes bilateral or one-on-one talks with China on the West Philippine Sea dispute.
The Philippines' top diplomat said on Tuesday: "When we start formal negotiations or bilateral engagements with China, we will have to do it within the context of the arbitral tribunal decision. There are no buts or ifs insofar as our policy on this matter is concerned."
"We will not engage China if they will impose as a condition that we will only have bilaterals outside the framework of the arbitral tribunal's decision," he added.
China 'practically alone'
Before holding formal negotiations with China, however, the Philippines for a "provisional arrangement… particularly in Scarborough Shoal, for our fishermen to use this area as their traditional fishing ground."
On this provisional arrangement, Yasay said, "This is what we would like to be as some kind of a baseline before we really even open formal engagements with China.
He added: "We are also getting the pressure on the part of the international community to urge China to precisely respect and recognize the decision of the arbitral tribunal. This pressure on the part of the international community is building up."
"As you can see, China is practically alone," Yasay said.
President Rodrigo Duterte himself on Monday, August 29, urged China to consider the plight of Filipino fishermen as Manila and Beijing try to mend their sea dispute.
Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua, for his part, said in an interview with reporters, "We cannot accept the arbitration award but we do look forward to talk to the Philippines bilaterally of the troubles we have." – Rappler.com
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The longest serving appellate jurist in Michigan's history, retired Justice Michael F. Cavanagh joined us after 32 years of service on the Michigan Supreme Court. Cavanagh received his B.A. from the University of Detroit in 1962, and he obtained his J.D. from the University of Detroit Law School in 1966. While studying at the University of Detroit, Cavanagh worked on Great Lakes freighters shovelling coal to pay his tuition. His first job after law school was as a clerk at the Michigan Court of Appeals. Not long after that, he became the Lansing City Attorney.
In 1972, Cavanagh was elected to serve as a judge in the 54-A District Court in Lansing. Just three years later, he was the youngest person at that time to be elected to the Michigan Court of Appeals. After serving seven years on the Court of Appeals, he won a seat on the Michigan Supreme Court. He was re-elected three times, serving a total of 32 years. For four of those years, he served as chief justice. While serving as a justice, he was the liaison between the tribal and state courts.
As well as serving as a justice throughout his years, Cavanagh also held many positions as a leader for multiple local organizations. He was the president of the Incorporated Society of Irish-American Lawyers from 1987 to 1988. He was also on the Board of Directors for the American Heart Association, the Lansing YMCA, and Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
In his spare time, Cavanagh enjoys fishing and the occasional round of golf.
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This section contains photographs of historic sites and battlefields that we have actually visited recently in the USA, or elsewhere, like London.
For example, if you've had the chance to visit Washington DC, you'll know how awesome the town is, with its array of famous monuments. Not all of these are monuments to past battles of course.
Many, if not most, record the political history of the USA, centred around prominent figures of the past like Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King. However, there are many Civil War battle sites nearby and stretching south.
Washington is also home to Georgetown University, an historic and renown place of higher learning, one with quite a reputation throughout the USA and in fact throughout the global tertiary world.


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Further 3 million investment in Lancaster
Further £3 million investment in Lancaster
Stagecoach invest a further £3M in new and greener buses for Lancaster & Morecambe
Local bus operator Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire have launched a further 14 brand new double decker buses on the 2X and 100 routes between Heysham, Morecambe, Lancaster and the University. Adding to the 18 new double deck buses that were delivered earlier in 2019, this brings Stagecoach's investment in new fleet to £7million this year. The new buses, which have been placed into service, are testament to Stagecoach's on-going commitment to provide high quality and environmentally friendly bus travel for people living, studying and working in the Lancaster and Morecambe area.
With free Wi-Fi, USB charging points at each seat as well as next stop announcements the new modern buses continue to demonstrate how Stagecoach are investing in features that will help customers travel more easily, with greater comfort and assist customers in making more of their time on the bus as they stay connected and keep their mobile devices charged up. As well as bringing more features for customers on the bus, the new buses are also fitted with the latest Euro 6 diesel engines and stop-start technology which means that the buses are also helping to improve air quality across both Lancaster and Morecambe.
Mark Whitelocks, Managing Director for Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire said,"I am delighted to be launching this second phase of 14 new buses, bringing the total fleet investment this year to £7m. Our efforts combined with our partnership with Lancaster University have meant we have been able to deliver a number of improvements for our customers over the past year. The passenger growth that we have seen following these improvements on the 1, 100 and 2X Services has made us decide now is the right time to invest and I hope our customers will enjoy travelling on the new buses."
The new fleet investment comes after service changes last October saw a number of improvements being made that allowed Stagecoach to offer better frequencies for customers to Morecambe, Lancaster and the University. This was followed up earlier this year when to meet demand for services, single deck buses were replaced with double deck buses to increase capacity.
Mark Whitelocks added, "We are always listening to our customers and trying to find ways to improve. We know customers want to find a seat to travel in comfort and the changes last year helped us to achieve that. The new buses will mean we continue to offer this much needed capacity at the busiest times of the day. But we also know that customers particularly when making a new or different journey on the bus can get anxious about where to get off. The new next stop announcements feature will start to help us reassure customers when they are arriving at their destination."
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Van Hool NV, a worldwide manufacturer of buses, coaches and industrial vehicles, announced plans to locate its first U.S. facility in Morristown, Tennessee. Plans for the new facility include the creation of 600 new jobs and $47 million in capital investment.
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With sustainability becoming more important as an economic development recruiting tool, TVA amps up its region with the Valley Sustainable Communities program.
Spurred by the presence of four automotive OEMs, the Tennessee Valley's automotive sector is the second largest in the nation—and poised to leave Michigan in its taillights.
America's premier magazine for site selectors names TVA among the top 10 American utilities for economic development for the eleventh straight year. Here's why.


Suspended mid air, a golden circle that draws a circle of light: we fell in love with this lamp as soon as we set eyes on it at the Salone del Mobile 2019.
A cylinder, or rather two, that captures and releases the light. This is the latest blood concept by Stefano Boeri, who at the Salone del Mobile 2019 focuses on simplicity to convey to the lamp new visual strength.
The architect Andrea Maffei describes to Designbest the origins and main theme of OUVERTURE, an installation made with the partnership of Ceramica Fioranese as part of Interni Human Spaces at the Università Statale in Milan for Fuorisalone 2019.
Ergonomic and flirty, classic and contemporary at the same time: the new chair designed by Patrick Jouin focuses on style, comfort and the unconditional purity of wood.
Innovation runs parallel with the latest lamp by Martinelli Luce, recently presented at the Salone del Mobile 2019. A strip of elastic fabric that stretches from the floor to ceiling and floods the space in light.
At the Salone del Mobile 2019, Talenti debuts in the world of outdoor kitchens. We were immediately won over by this new design that draws its inspiration from pre-Columbian culture.


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Jacksonville is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, about 5 miles (8 km) west of Medford. It was named for Jackson Creek, which runs through the community and was the site of one of the first placer gold claims in the area. It includes Jacksonville Historic District which was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1966. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 2,235. As of July 1, 2011, the city's population was estimated to be 2,800.
Jacksonville was founded following discovery of gold deposits in 1851–1852. With the creation of Jackson County, it became the county seat, a role which was transferred to nearby Medford in 1927.
Jacksonville was home to the first Chinatown in Oregon, founded by immigrants from San Francisco, California. Evidence of this chapter of history was uncovered early in March 2004 when road work uncovered artifacts dating to the 1850s and 1860s. Construction was halted while archeologists performed four days of rescue excavations. Their findings included broken Chinese bowls and tea cups, handmade bottles, and fragments of opium paraphernalia and Chinese coins.
When the gold deposits were worked out, and the railway bypassed Jacksonville in 1884, the city's economy slowed. This had the unintended benefit of preserving a number of structures, which led to Jacksonville being designated a National Historic District in 1966, covering over 100 buildings. It was cited as a "mid-19th century inland commercial city significant for its magnificent group of surviving unaltered commercial and residential buildings. The city was the principal financial center of southern Oregon until it was bypassed by the railroad."
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Initiative to develop a citizen's roadmap for universal health care in India launched
Initiative to develop a citizen's roadmap for universal health care in India launched
This Commission will base its recommendations on a consultative and participatory effort that brings together key stakeholders across India's healthcare landscape.
By: Express News Service | Pune | December 11, 2020 8:01:12 pm
The commission was initiated in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has laid bare the need for a resilient health system.
The long-standing need for universal health coverage (UHC) in India has been brought into sharp focus by the pandemic. A step towards this goal was taken on Friday, with the launch of the Lancet Citizens' Commission on Reimagining India's Health System.
The launch was organised virtually on December 11 at 5pm, where speakers included Pamela Das, Senior Executive Editor, The Lancet; K. Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA), Government of India; Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, WHO, and V K Paul, Professor and Member, NITI Aayog.
This is an initiative to develop a citizen's roadmap to achieving UHC, said Dr Vikram Patel, co-chair of the Commission. Formulated in association with the The Lancet and The Lakshmi Mittal And Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, the Commission's primary mission will be to lay out the path to guarantee access to quality and affordable healthcare services to every Indian.
The Commission will be led by four health and business leaders — Tarun Khanna, director of Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, executive chairperson of Biocon, Gagandeep Kang, professor at Christian Medical College, Vellore, and Vikram Patel, professor at Harvard Medical School.
Thirteen experts from academia, the scientific community, civil society, and the private healthcare sector will also serve with them on the Commission.
They include Devi Shetty from Narayana Hrudayalaya Ltd, K. Sujatha Rao, Former Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Nachiket Mor, The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health, Rajani Ved, National Health Systems Resource Centre, K. Srinath Reddy, Public Health Foundation of India, Armida Fernandez, SNEHA, Yamini Aiyar, Centre for Policy Research, Yogesh Jain, Public Health Physician, Chhattisgarh, Mirai Chatterjee, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), SV Subramanian, Harvard University, Poonam Muttreja, Population Foundation of India, Sharad Sharma, iSPIRT Foundation and Bhushan Patwardhan, University Grants Commission
This Commission will base its recommendations on a consultative and participatory effort that brings together key stakeholders across India's healthcare landscape. A final report of its findings and recommendations will be published in the next two years, said Dr Patel.
The commission was initiated in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has laid bare the need for a resilient health system that offers comprehensive and affordable quality healthcare to all citizens.
Highlighting what sets this Commission apart from previous efforts, Kang said, "To realise a resilient health system where access to healthcare is not a luxury and where the marginalised don't remain elusive, all stakeholders including the citizenry need to work along with the government and deliberate on solutions for effective implementation of universal health coverage."
Over the coming year, the Commission will gather insights from across India through grassroots surveys, public consultations and online discussions. It will also build partnerships and work closely with academic institutions, civil society and other stakeholders to catalyse dialogue and knowledge sharing across fields.
In particular, it will continue to engage with the government, which it sees as a critically important steward to realising universal health coverage.


What are you making with the TouchShield?
I've been really busy over the last few weeks helping out everyone with specific questions on how to make this, how to code that, etc. I'm curious, though, what's everyone making with them?
Has anyone written any cool games?
Has this ever happened to you? It's a typical Sunday afternoon. You just got out of bed, and you're absolutely starving. You go to open up the fridge…and all that's left to greet you are half-empty jars of condiments. Though the prospect of eating peanut butter straight from the bottle entices you for a split second, you soon resign to the fact that it's time to go grocery shopping again. So what do you do now?
Option A: You go straight to the store and buy everything that you'd ever consider eating…immediately. This usually works out to be some variety of junk food, snacks, maybe some TV dinners for good measure. But soon enough, you'll find out that eating an entire bag of potato chips in one sitting just isn't quite the same as eating dinner. This has been me on occasion, but I try to avoid getting that desperate.
Option B: You pull out a small sheet of paper and start writing down stuff you need to fill up on. Milk, eggs, bread, you get the idea. Then you get all this stuff, and the rest of the week you find yourself relegated to making "whatever's in the fridge".
Option C (and this is my big revelation): You make a list of all the meals you think you'd want to eat this week. It doesn't have to be detailed, and you'll probably have some guesswork mixed in. But all the important stuff is there. Let's say you want some tacos this week. So you write down "Tacos", and underneath, shredded lettuce, cheese, taco shells, ground beef, seasoning, and whatever other ingredients you want to add to your homemade tacos. And you do the same for all the other meals you want to have this week—you make a list of the ingredients and make sure you're organized about getting it. You'll probably grab a few random things along the way, but at least you know what you'll be eating this week.
I've walked through all these options at one point or another. But ultimately, I've settled on the last one—it's changed the way I buy, how much time I spend shopping and also has the added benefit of making sure I've got what I need to make a real meal when I'm hungry. So rather than just buying random ingredients (milk, eggs) or a finished product (TV dinners, or go to a restaurant), I'll buy the ingredients that I need for a particular meal. I enjoy cooking, I like making things my own way, and I don't feel like shelling out triple the price plus tax and tip to get my food. It's just not cost effective, and I don't get the gratification that I get from making what I want, how I want it, right when I want it.
Believe it or not, there is a point. As someone who's pretty handy with things, you've probably said something like, "I know just the thing that would make this [gadget name here] totally awesome!". And then you proceed to take it apart, solder random crap to it, reprogram it, and voila! A modded gadget. Well, what if I told you that you wouldn't have to spend a ton of money to get the finished product…that you were just gonna crack open and mod anyway? What if there was a place where you could go to figure out the parts (ingredients) for your project(meal), and then you could purchase exactly those parts you need, with the project in mind? And then you could build what you want, how you want it, right when you want it?
So that's what we are. On the one end, you've got the restaurants that give you the finished product and make it how they want it, and charge you a ton plus tax and tip…for something you could do yourself a lot cheaper. In our techie world, the restaurants are all the companies that build the finished product, like Apple or Sony. On the other end of the spectrum, you've got the people who sell the raw ingredients, the Intel, AMD, Asus. The Makes, Liquidwares, and Sparkfuns of the world are like the grocery store where you can find your ingredients. And some can even help you out finding exactly those recipes and ingredients- I mean, parts and components- for the projects on your shopping list. Figure out what you want to make, design it, and you can buy exactly what you need to make it yourself, just how you've always envisioned it. And doesn't it feel good to build it yourself?
Wow! A lot more people are writing in with cool little projects using the TouchShield. If you're working on something fun too and want to share, just shoot me an email over at inthebitz@gmail.com!
In the meantime, since lots of people are asking, the easiest way to grab the latest version of the TouchShield's core is over on the liquidware.org site, under the TouchShield project, "Code" section, and the file called touch-007.zip (in the spirit of the upcoming Bond movie, of course).
Ok, ok, so that's not necessarily intuitive, so for mere mortals, here's a quick link.
Tri-State Buffers are a common form of logic for many bus applications. The tri-state obviously stands for three states, which represent the 3 possible out put states: high, low and floating.
During the floating state the Output is not being controlled in anyway by the input signal.
There are two inputs and one output.
Open source hardware is about empowering individuals to create their own products. It encourages a new behavior, called builder-consumer that fulfills the theoretical / philosophical "long tail" of consumer devices. Meanwhile, it has two (un)intended consequences: first, it is encouraging engineering education by making electrical engineering product design technology accessible to a far larger audience, and second, it is creating a newly empowered consumer who is no longer bound to traditional product hype-launch-consume expectations. The net is a fulfillment of a traditional market void in consumer products that in theory could up to double the current consumption of consumer products. In practice, because the source of the product can come from remixed products, and because open source consumer devices do not always reflect new sales (some of them compete against existing products), doubling product consumption is clearly an exaggeration, but the potential may still be strong enough to create a new market.
Clive Thompson says in a recent article called How DIYers Just Might Revive American Innovation (in Wired), "when we stop working with our hands, we cease to understand how the world really works. You see this on a personal level. If you can't get under the hood of the gadgets you buy, you're far more liable to believe the marketing hype of the corporations that sell them. When things break, you toss them and buy new ones; you accept your role as a mere consumer."
It's a great point. Most people these days are indeed just consumers. In line with this phenomenon, though, Matt identified a new group of consumers he calls the "builder-consumer" You see them around you. Builder-consumers are those folks who buy parts or mainstream products, then hack them to do what they really want to do. Look at the multitude of home-grown projects, ranging from "modding" your car to display engine stats as you drive, to writing software that's leaner, more user-friendly and functional for running your iPod than the hulking straitjacket that Apple likes to call "iTunes".
So why are builder-consumers/DIY making a comeback?
The kicker: Now these folks can find each other- and solutions to their questions- in online communities.
I just got back from a really fun road trip out west, and saw a lot of really cool things, like wild animals, trees (which don't really exist in New York City). It really got me thinking about *real* physical computing, I also had time to upload some other videos I'd taken that I hadn't uploaded yet.
You might also have discovered that if you boot up BitDJ, you can go to the system menu, and turn on inter-screen fading (which looks really cool with the hardware in-out soft fading, kind of like an Apple laptop's pulse button).


Cuireadh ocht mbeatha nuascríofa leis an an mBunachar Náisiúnta Beathaisnéisí Gaeilge, www.ainm.ie, le deireanas. Ina measc, tá cuntas ar Phádraig Ó Fiannachta (1927–2016), ollamh le Gaeilge i Maigh Nuad, a saolaíodh sa Phaideac, Ceann Trá, Co. Chiarraí. Bhunaigh Pádraig an teach foilsitheoireachta An Sagart, agus ina dhiaidh sin, mar shagart paróiste an Daingin, bhunaigh sé institiúid diagachta agus léinn dúchais, An Díseart. B'fhile agus scoláire é, a bhí ina eagarthóir ar feadh breis agus daichead bliain ar Léachtaí Cholm Chille agus ar Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad mar aon le hirisí agus leabhair eile, ach thar aon ní eile is é An Bíobla Naofa (1981), a raibh Pádraig mar eagarthóir air agus mar aistritheoir ar chuid mhór de, a bhuanaíonn a chuimhne.
Bean ghnó agus léiritheoir teilifíse ab ea Máire Ní Thuathail (1959–2016) a rugadh i dTuar Mhic Éadaigh, Co. Mhaigh Eo. Bhí tionchar as cuimse ag Máire ar chúrsaí teilifíse i nGaeilge agus in 1988 bhunaigh sí a comhlacht féin, Eo Teilifís, a raibh a cheanncheathrú ar an Spidéal agus a léirigh cláir i nGaeilge do pháistí. Bhí sí mar léiritheoir feidhmeach ar Ros na Rún ón gcéad lá go dtí gur buaileadh tinn í in 2016.
Ba as an Ailt, Gort an Choirce, Co. Dhún na nGall, do Shéamus Mac Géidigh (1961–2016). Mar iriseoir agus mar thráchtaire spóirt a chuir pobal na Gaeilge agus na Gaeltachta aithne ar Shéamus le linn dó a bheith ag craoladh le RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta ón am a chuaigh sé i mbun oibre leis an stáisiún in 1988 go bhfuair sé bás i mí Iúil 2016. Bhí na scileanna riachtanacha aige mar thráchtaire: léamh ar an imirt, líofacht chainte, stór breá focal agus an cumas a raibh ag titim amach os a chomhair a chraobhscaoileadh don éisteoir ar bhealach soiléir stuama meáite.
I gCamas, Co. na Gaillimhe, a rugadh Pádraig Ó Méalóid (1931–2016) agus in 1956 d'aistrigh an teaghlach go Doire Longáin, Baile Átha Buí, Co. na Mí. Ba iad slite beatha na craoltóireachta agus na múinteoireachta i nGaeilge a tharraing sé chuige féin. Ba mar léitheoir nuachta raidió a thosaigh Pádraig a shaol oibre le RTÉ agus d'fhág an dea-Ghaeilge a bhí aige agus a chuid dea-urlabhra go raibh sé thar a bheith foirfe i mbun an phoist. Lean sé den chúram céanna ar an teilifís nuair a tháinig sin ar an saol Oíche Chaille 1961.
In 2001 ba é Thomas Kenneth Whitaker (1916–2017) rogha lucht féachana RTÉ mar Éireannach an chéid. Rugadh é i Ros Treabhair, Co. an Dúin agus bhí sé sé bliana d'aois nuair a d'aistrigh an teaghlach go Droichead Átha, Co. Lú. Áirítear an Tuaisceart agus an Ghaeilge ar na ceisteanna náisiúnta ar chuir sé spéis faoi leith iontu. Bhí sé ina ghobharnóir ar Bhanc Ceannais na hÉireann (1969–76) agus ina sheansailéir ar Ollscoil na hÉireann (1976–96). Chaith sé tréimhse ina chathaoirleach ar Chomhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann (1972–96) agus ba é an chéad chathaoirleach é ar Bhord na Gaeilge (1974–78).
Ceannródaí i réimse na ríomheolaíochta, go háirithe ó thaobh na Gaeilge de, ab ea Marion Gunn (1947–2016). Chaith sí roinnt blianta i gCartlann na gCanúintí a bhunaigh Tomás de Bhaldraithe sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath. Bhí comhlacht aici a rinne logánú bogearraí agus cáipéisí oifigiúla a aistriú don earnáil phoiblí agus is iomaí eagraíocht ar fhág Marion comaoin orthu.
Bhí pobal Gaelach beo bríomhar ag saothrú in Butte, Montana, ag tús an fichiú céad, agus tá cuid mhaith dá bhuíochas ar Sheán Ó Súilleabháin (1882–1957) as an scéal a bheith amhlaidh. Ar oileán Inis Fearn Ard, na hAoraí, Co. Chorcaí, agus thug sé a aghaidh ar Mheiriceá in 1905, áit a raibh sé ag obair sna mianaigh in Butte. Mhúin Seán Gaeilge d'Éireannaigh thall agus baisteadh Seán 'Irish' Ó Súilleabháin air de bharr an dúil sa Ghaeilge a bhí aige agus chuir sé cnuasach fairsing d'amhráin agus de dhánta Gaeilge le chéile.
Rugadh Conchúr Mac an Bháird (1889–1973) i gCorr Lí Ghoirm, Achadh an Bhrúim, Co. Mhuineacháin, i seanGhaeltacht Oiriall. Múinteoir agus sagart a bhí ann agus scríobh sé léirmheasanna don Ghúm ar leabhair Sheosaimh Mhic Grianna; ceann binbeach ar Na Lochlannaigh agus ceann dearfach ar Mo bhealach féin.


Portobelo is one of the most cultural destinations within Latin America.
Located on the Caribbean Coast, it was one of the most important villages in America during the colonial period, a vast majority of the gold and wealth that sailed back to Spain passed through this town.
In 1976, the National Park and four years later, the ruins of the fortifications together with the nearby Fort San Lorenzo were recognized World Heritage by UNESCO.
Culture, heritage, sea and jungle impregnate the town in order to offer unique sensations to its visitor.


Adrenaline Forest has sprung up right in the heart of Rennes. This treetop adventure centre, in the Gayeulles park, offers adventure trails suitable for all ages and all abilities.
At the Les Gayeulles Leisure Centre in Rennes, reach for the skies and experience new thrills by following 10 adventure trails based on the theme of biodiversity. Whether you try the Ouistiti (Marmoset) Trail (for age four upwards) or the Panthère Noire (Black Panther) Trail (for age 14 upwards), you can enjoy zooming around in the greenery, up in treetops. Children aged nine years upwards can slide on a 180-metre zip-wire across the lake. If you're 14 or over, you can come and try the incredible Base Jump! The little ones of two and three needn't feel left out: they can get started on the Espace Pitchoun – the beginners' area, just one metre above the ground. As a family or with a group of friends, you can learn more about the local fauna through puzzles and fun workshops amongst the trees.


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Nusrat's family still reeling from her death
Mizanur Rahman and Rafiqul Islam, Feni
Published at 08:42 pm April 12th, 2019
Nusrat's brother Raihan swoons after her body reaches their family home in Feni on October 11, 2019 | Focus Bangla
Nusrat was the only sister to her three brothers
Five days after Nusrat was set ablaze at a madrasa in Feni, she died of extensive burn injuries on Wednesday, leaving behind a traumatized family.
She was laid to rest beside her grandmother's grave on Thursday evening. Overwhelming protests demanding justice following her death has stirred the whole nation, still, her parents and siblings are inconsolable.
Their father AKM Musa Manik stood grim faced in front of his daughter's grave. Her mother Shirin Akter is shifting between appearing normal and suddenly breaking out in tears and fainting.
Nusrat Jahan Rafi was the only sister of her three brothers - Raihan, Noman and Arman - who are traumatized by their sister's violent death.
Tenth-grader Raihan is the youngest of the siblings; he has been severely affected by her death.
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Raihan was by Nusrat's side the entire time she was at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where she breathed her last. His health has steadily deteriorated and he is having a difficult time coping with his beloved sister's passing.
He is currently receiving treatment at home. Doctors remain concerned about his well-being.
He went to the mosque to pray Nusrat during her namaz-e-janaza. After the janaza, he wanted to go to the graveyard with the rest of the family. Raihan's cousins were constantly trying to calm him, fearing that he might faint during the burial.
Nusrat's uncle Azharul Islam said: "Raihan is not acting normal. He is not eating or drinking anything. We have consulted doctors about his state."
Nusrat's funeral saw a massive turnout; thousands came to grieve her untimely death. Students, teachers and members of children and human rights organizations attended from all across the country.
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