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Telangana Government sanctioned DA Order from Jan 2018
September 21, 2018 GEDWEBZIP
GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA
ALLOWANCES – Dearness Allowance-Dearness Allowance to the State Government Employees from 1st of January, 2018 – Sanctioned – Orders – Issued.
FINANCE (HRM.IV) DEPARTMENT
G.O.Ms.No. 143
dated:05.09.2018
Read the following:-
1. G.O.Ms.No.35, Finance (HRM.IV) Department, dated 01-10-2014
3. G.O.Ms.No.129, Finance (HRM.IV) Department, dated 09-09-2015
Government hereby order revision of the Dearness Allowance (DA) sanctioned in the Government Order 8th read above to the employees of Government of Telangana from 25.676% of the basic pay to 27.248% of basic pay from 1st of January,2018.
2. The Dearness Allowance sanctioned in the above para shall also be payable to:
i) The employees of Zilla Parishads, Mandal Parishads, Gram Panchayats, Municipalities, Municipal Corporations, Agricultural Market Committees and Zilla Grandhalaya Samasthas, Work Charged Establishment, who are drawing pay in a regular scale of pay in the Revised Pay Scales, 2015.
ii) Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff of Aided Institutions including Aided Polytechnics who are drawing pay in a regular scale of pay in the Revised Pay Scales, 2015.
iii) Teaching and Non-Teaching staff of Universities including professor K. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad who are drawing pay in a regular scale of pay in the Revised Pay Scales, 2015.
3. Government also hereby order revision of the Dearness Allowance rate in respect of State Government employees drawing the Revised U.G.C Pay Scales, 2006, from 139% to 142% of the basic pay with effect from 1st of January,2018.
4. Government also hereby order revision of rate of the Dearness Allowance in respect of Judicial Officers whose pay scales were revised as per Shri E. Padmanabhan Committee Report vide G.O.Ms.No.73, Law (LA&J, SC-F) Department, dated: 01.05.2010 from 139% to 142% with effect from 1st of January, 2018.
5. Government hereby order revision of the Dearness Allowance rate sanctioned in the G.O. 5th read above to the State Government employees in the Revised Pay Scales 2010 from 105.288% of the basic pay to 107.856% of the basic pay with effect from 1st of January, 2018in the Revised Pay Scales of 2010.
5.1 The Dearness Allowance sanctioned in the above para shall also be payable to:
i) The employees of Zilla Parishads, Mandal Parishads, Gram Panchayats, Municipalities,Municipal Corporations, Agricultural Market Committees and Zilla Grandhalaya Samasthas, Work Charged Establishment, who are drawing pay in a regular scale of pay in the Revised Pay Scales, 2010 and to the full time contingent employees whose remuneration has been revised from Rs.3850/- to Rs.6700/- per month vide G.O.Ms.No.171, Finance (P.C.III) Department, dated 13.05.2010.
6. Government also hereby sanction an ad-hoc increase of Rs.100/- per month in cash to the Part-Time Assistants and Village Revenue Assistants from 1st of January, 2018.
7. The Dearness Allowance sanctioned in the paras 1-5 above shall be paid in cash with the salary of September, 2018payable on 1st of October, 2018. The arrears on account of payment of Dearness Allowance for the period from 1st of January, 2018 to 31st August, 2018 shall be credited to the General Provident Fund Account of the respective employees.
7.1. However, in the case of employees who are due to retire on or before 30th of November, 2018, the arrears of Dearness Allowance shall be drawn and paid in cash as the employees due to retire on superannuation are exempted from making any subscription to the General Provident Fund during the last four months of service.
7.2. In respect of the employees who were appointed to Government service on or after 01.09.2004 and are governed by the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), 10% of the Dearness Allowance arrears from 1st of January, 2018to 31st August, 2018 may be claimed in the month of October, 2018 andshall be credited to the PRAN accounts of the individuals along with the Government share as per the existing orders. The remaining 90% of Dearness Allowance arrears shall be paid in cash, with the salary for the month of September, 2018, payable on 1 st October, 2018.
7.3. In respect of Full Time Contingent Employees, who are not eligible for GPF Accounts, the arrears may be paid in cash, with the salary for the month of September, 2018, payable on 1st of October 2018
7.4. In the event of death of any employee before the issue of these orders, the legal heir(s) shall be entitled to the arrears of Dearness Allowance in cash.
8.The term 'Pay' for this purpose shall be as defined inF.R.9 (21) (a) (i).
9. The Drawing Officer shall prefer the bill on the Pay & Accounts Officer,Hyderabad, or the Pay & Accounts Officer/ the Assistant Pay & Accounts Officer of the Telangana Works Accounts Service or the Treasury Officer, as the case may be, for the amount of arrears for the period from 1 st of January, 2018to 31st August, 2018 to be adjusted to the General Provident Fund Account in the case of an employee who has opened a General Provident Fund Account.
10. The Drawing Officers shall ensure that the Bills are supported by proper schedules in duplicate indicating details of the employee, the General Provident Fund Account Number and the amount to be credited to the General Provident Fund Account, to the Pay & Accounts Officer/Treasury Officers/Assistant Pay & Accounts Officers or Pay & Accounts Officers of the Telangana Works Accounts Service, as the case may be. The Pay & Accounts Officer/Assistant Pay & Accounts Officer or Pay and Accounts Officer of the Telangana Works Accounts Service/District Treasury Officer/Sub-Treasury Officer shall follow the usual procedure of furnishing one copy of the schedules along with bills to the Accountant General based on which the Accountant General shall credit the amounts to the General Provident Fund Accounts of the individuals concerned. The second copy of the schedules shall be furnished to the Drawing Officers with Voucher Numbers.
11. All Drawing Officers are requested to ensure that the bills as per the above orders are drawn and the amounts credited to General Provident Fund Account by 30th November, 2018 at the latest. The Audit Officers (Pay & Accounts Officer, Deputy Directors of District Treasuries and Pay & Accounts Officer of Telangana Works Accounts Service, etc.) are requested not to admit the pay bills of the Office concerned for the month of December, 2018 unless a certificate is enclosed to the bills to the effect that the arrears of difference in Dearness Allowance for the period from 1st of January, 2018to 31st of August, 2018,are drawn and credited to the General Provident Fund Account before 30th of November, 2018.
12. In respect of employees working in Government Offices in the Twin Cities, the Pay and Accounts Officer shall consolidate and furnish information in the proforma annexed (Annexure-I) to this order to the Finance (HRM.IV) Department to reach on or before 15th of December, 2018.
13. All the Audit Officers (Sub-Treasury Officers) are requested to furnish the figures of the amount credited to the General Provident Fund Account and the amounts credited to Compulsory Savings Account in the prescribed proforma (Annexure-I) enclosed, to the District Treasury by the end of15th of December, 2018.
14. The Deputy Directors of District Treasuries, in turn, shall consolidate the information and furnish the same in the same proforma to the Director of Treasuries and Accounts by 31st of December, 2018, and who in turn, shall furnish the consolidated information to Government by 15th of January, 2019.
15. In respect of employees of Local Bodies, the Drawing Officers shall furnish the above information in the prescribed proforma as per Annexure-II to the Audit Officer of the District concerned before15th of December, 2018 and who will, in turn furnish the consolidated information to the Director of State Audit by 31st, December, 2018. The Director of State Audit in turn shall furnish the consolidated information to the Secretary to Government, Finance (HRM.IV) Department by 15th of January, 2019.
16. In regard to the Project Staff, the Joint Director of Accounts of each Project shall furnish the information in the prescribed proforma as per Annexure-II to the Director of Works Accounts by15th of December, 2018, and who, in turn, shall furnish the information to the Finance (HRM.IV) Department by 15th of January, 2019.
17. All the Drawing and Disbursing Officers and Audit Officers are requested to intimate to the employees working under their control as to how much amount of arrears of Dearness Allowance is credited to the General Provident Fund Account/Compulsory Savings Account as per the Proforma annexed (Annexure-II) to this order. They are further requested to adhere to the above instructions and any deviation or non-compliance of these instructions will be viewed seriously.
18. All Departments of Secretariat and Heads of the Departments are requested to issue suitable instructions to the Drawing and Disbursing Officers under their control and to see that these instructions are followed scrupulously. The Director of Treasuries and Accounts/ Director of State Audit/Pay & Accounts Officer/Director of Works Accounts, Telangana, Hyderabad, are requested to issue suitable instructions to their subordinate Audit Officers so that these instructions are carefully followed by them.
19. The expenditure on the Dearness Allowance to the employees of Agricultural Market Committees and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation shall be met from their own funds in view of the orders issued in G.O.Ms.No.9, Finance (PC-I) Department, dated: 18.01.2010.
20. This G.O. is available on Internet and can be accessed at the address http://goir.telangana.gov.in.
(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF TELANGANA)
RAMAKRISHNA RAO
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT
Tamilnadu government DA order Jan 2015
Grant of DA to State Government employees – Rajasthan G.O (7% to 9% effect from 01-07-2018)
DA Order from 1st July 2018 – TN Govt
DA Order 2015-Telangana


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Charles Picqué, né à Deinze le  et mort à Bruxelles le , est un artiste-peintre, lithographe et graveur belge connu pour ses œuvres de facture néo-classique et romantique. Il s'illustre dans plusieurs domaines : portrait, paysage, art sacré et peinture d'histoire.

Biographie
Charles Louis Picqué, né à Deinze en 1799, est le fils d'un maître tailleur d'habits, Philippe Picqué et de Marie-Josine Cras. Il étudie à l'Académie royale des beaux-arts de Gand en qualité d'élève de Joseph Paelinck. En 1823, il obtient le premier prix de l'Académie royale des beaux-arts de Bruxelles et expose la même année au salon de Gand. En 1824, il propose deux œuvres au salon triennal de Bruxelles et reçoit le premier prix pour Le vieux Tobie, aveugle, bénissant son fils. En , il reçoit le grand prix de peinture au salon de Gand pour son Hébé et l'Aigle de Jupiter.

En 1827, il obtient une bourse d'études pour se rendre à Rome et s'y former durant trois ans. En 1830, il se rend également à Naples avant de revenir en Belgique. Il effectue également de nombreux séjours en Grande-Bretagne.

Il est essentiellement connu pour avoir réalisé un tableau représentant les membres du gouvernement provisoire belge de 1830.

Le , Charles Picqué épouse à Bruxelles Marie Jeanne Françoise Catherine Lubin (1807-1861). Deux enfants naissent de cette union : Camille Joseph (1834-1909) et Virginie Hélène (1836-1917). Charles Picqué devient veuf en 1861.

Charles Picqué meurt, à l'âge de , le , dans sa demeure rue de l'Étuve à Bruxelles.

Style
Charles Picqué demeure fidèle au néoclassicisme lorsqu'il séjourne à Rome, mais il prend des libertés dans l'application des préceptes néoclassiques en demeurant fidèle à son sens flamand de la couleur, évoquant les artistes baroques, tels Rubens et van Dyck. Outre des sujets religieux, Picqué peint également des scènes folkloriques durant sa formation à Rome.

Œuvres

 1824 : Portrait d'un prêtre, salon de Bruxelles de 1824 ;
 1824 : Le vieux Tobie, aveugle, bénissant son fils, premier prix au salon de Bruxelles de 1824 ;
 1826 : Hébé et l'Aigle de Jupiter ;
 1827 : Un saint-Bernard vient en aide à une femme perdue avec un enfant malade, conservé au Rijksmuseum Amsterdam ;
 1827 : Femme à la toilette ;
 1830 : Portrait d'une jeune Romaine, conservé au musée de Deinze et du Pays de la Lys ;
 1830 : Portrait de Paolina ;
 1830 : Le gouvernement provisoire, conservé aux musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique ;
 1833 : La fuite en Égypte ;
 1833 : Autoportrait ;
 1835 : La Sérénade ;
 1835 : Le Duo ;
 1835 : Portrait de Jean-Louis van Aelbroeck ;
 1836 : Portrait de Thérèse Beyaert et de sa fille ;
 1836 : Saint Roch guérissant les pestiférés ;
 1838 : Portrait de Matthias Wolverley ;
 1842 : Portrait de l'ingénieur Pierre Simons, conservé aux musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique ;
 1849 : Le Songe ;
 1852 : La Crèche ;
 1863 : Portrait de Léonard Beckers ;
 1868 : Femme sortant du bain.

Galerie

Notes et références

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Liens externes

Naissance en juin 1799
Décès en mars 1869
Décès à Bruxelles
Décès à 69 ans
Peintre belge du XIXe siècle
Graveur belge du XIXe siècle
Lithographe belge
Lithographe du XIXe siècle
Peintre portraitiste belge
Peintre d'art sacré
Peintre néo-classique
Élève de Joseph Paelinck

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PyNN: towards a universal neural simulator API in Python
Volume 8 Supplement 2
Sixteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2007
Andrew Davison1,
Pierre Yger1,
Jens Kremkow2,3,
Laurent Perrinet2 &
Eilif Muller4
BMC Neuroscience volume 8, Article number: P2 (2007) Cite this article
Trends in programming language development and adoption point to Python as the high-level systems integration language of choice. Python leverages a vast developer-base external to the neuroscience community, and promises leaps in simulation complexity and maintainability to any neural simulator that adopts it. PyNN http://pynn.gforge.inria.fr/ strives to provide a uniform application programming interface (API) across neural simulators. Presently NEURON and NEST are supported, and support for other simulators and neuromorphic VLSI hardware is under development.
With PyNN it is possible to write a simulation script once and run it without modification on any supported simulator. It is also possible to write a script that uses capabilities specific to a single simulator. While this sacrifices simulator-independence, it adds flexibility, and can be a useful step in porting models between simulators. The design goals of PyNN include allowing access to low-level details of a simulation where necessary, while providing the capability to model at a high level of abstraction, with concomitant gains in development speed and simulation maintainability.
Another of our aims with PyNN is to increase the productivity of neuroscience modeling, by making it faster to develop models de novo, by promoting code sharing and reuse across simulator communities, and by making it much easier to debug, test and validate simulations by running them on more than one simulator. Modelers would then become free to devote more software development effort to innovation, building on the simulator core with new tools such as network topology databases, stimulus programming, analysis and visualization tools, and simulation accounting. The resulting, community-developed 'meta-simulator' system would then represent a powerful tool for overcoming the so-called complexity bottleneck that is presently a major roadblock for neural modeling.
This work is supported by the European Union through the FACETS project (contract number FP6-2004-IST-FETPI-15879).
UNIC, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Andrew Davison & Pierre Yger
INCM, CNRS, Marseille, France
Jens Kremkow & Laurent Perrinet
Neurobiology and Biophysics, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Jens Kremkow
Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Eilif Muller
Andrew Davison
Pierre Yger
Laurent Perrinet
Correspondence to Andrew Davison.
Open Access This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Davison, A., Yger, P., Kremkow, J. et al. PyNN: towards a universal neural simulator API in Python. BMC Neurosci 8 (Suppl 2), P2 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-8-S2-P2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-8-S2-P2
Simulator Community
Code Sharing
Software Development Effort
Simulation Accounting
Submission enquiries: bmcneuroscience@biomedcentral.com

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The 32-year-old Benin international has agreed a two-year deal at the Matchroom Stadium, and becomes the Club's 11th summer arrival.
Born in France, Boco started his career at Chamois Niortais before crossing the channel in 2005 in order to sign for Accrington Stanley.
Boco went on to strike up a brilliant relationship with the Stanley supporters, and made 31 appearances during his debut season as John Coleman's side went on to achieve promotion from the Conference.
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Between 2008 and 2010, Boco made 60 appearances for Sligo and spent a short time on loan back in England with Burton Albion during the 2009-10 season.
The midfielder then gained further experience across the globe in 2011, signing for Chinese side Shanghai East Asia where he spent a year before returning to Sligo Rovers for their 2012 campaign.
Having had a taste of several countries, Boco then returned to England and Accrington in August 2012, penning a one-year deal.
Boco then spent time at both Plymouth Argyle and Chesterfield for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 campaigns, before going out to India in January 2015 to sign for Bharat FC as their marquee player.
Following 20 appearances for Bharat, Boco signed for Portsmouth ahead of the 2015-16 season though found his playing time limited and spent a period on loan at Havant & Waterlooville.
With just shy of 50 international caps for Benin to his name, Boco then returned to Accrington for a third spell in January 2016.
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Home Telecommunication Services e& e& named MEA's most valuable portfolio of telecom brands, by Brand Finance
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e& named MEA's most valuable portfolio of telecom brands, by Brand Finance
Value of Group brand portfolio exceeds US$14 billion, according to 2023 Brand Finance Global 500 Report released at WEF, Davos
AAA rating ensures etisalat by e& remains the single strongest brand in all categories – and one of the top three telecom brands in the world
Abu Dhabi: e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group) has consolidated its position as the most valuable portfolio of telecom brands in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), according to the 2023 Brand Finance Global 500 Report released at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
Highlighting its transformation efforts into a global technology and investment conglomerate, e& has achieved remarkable business growth and unwavering stakeholder confidence in 2022, with its portfolio of brands now exceeding a total value of US$14 billion.
This reflects the success of the Group's business strategy over the past year, which has introduced further improvements in customer service, more people-focused products and new digital services across its specialist business verticals.
etisalat by e&, the Group's largest telecom brand, also retained its position as the strongest telecom brands across all categories in the MEA region, achieving a score of 89.1 out of 100 and a AAA rating, according to the report. It was also rated one of the top three telecom brands in the world, due to its market reach, operational capabilities, and outstanding customer service record.
Hatem Dowidar, GCEO of e&, said the Group's endorsement by the Brand Finance was both humbling and a worthy reflection of the UAE's unstinting commitment to unlock economic growth and potential through its investment in state-of-the-art infrastructure and digital transformation.
"Guided by our 46-year legacy of pushing the boundaries of technology and service excellence, we have emerged as an inspiring global technology conglomerate; this international recognition makes us extremely proud," he said.
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ASN Convention: Preliminary Programme
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:28:02 +0200 (EET)
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5th Annual Convention of the
Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
"Identity and the State: Nationalism and Sovereignty in a Changing
World"
Columbia University, 13-15 April 2000
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM NOW ON THE WEB
The ASN Convention continues its impressive growth. The 5th Annual
Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
will feature the unprecedented number of 105 panels, almost twice the
size of the convention two years ago, spread over eleven sessions from
Thursday April 13, 1 PM, to Saturday April 15, in the evening. Close
to 500 people will be on panels. The full preliminary program is now
available on the ASN web site: http://asn.uno.edu.
All post-Soviet areas will be covered in tremendous depth, with
fourteen panels on the  Balkans, thirteen on the Russian Federation,
twelve each on Ukraine, Central Asia, and Central Europe, six on the
Southern Caucasus, five on the Baltics, and almost two dozens on
thematic and cross-regional themes. Special events will include a
roundtable on the 2000 Russian Presidential Election, roundtables on
the recent work of Jack Snyder and Valery Tishkov, the INCORE Tip
O'Neill Annual Lecture, delivered by Fernand de Varennes on minority
rights, and several panels devoted to the recent/ongoing wars in
Kosovo and Chechnya.
Thematic panels at the convention will include:
War and Gender
What Is European Identity?
Why Do Conflicts Not Turn Violent?: Cases of Tatarstan, Ajaria, and
Factors Influencing the (Non-)Violent Nature of Ethnopolitical
Approaches to the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict
Systemic Change and the Transformation Process in Comparative
Jewish Minorities in the Post-Communist States
The European Union: Problems and Prospects of Enlargement
Self-Determination in the Age of Globalization
Self-Determination in the Twentieth Century: From Communism to
Post-Communism
Language Laws: Nation-Building, Ethnic Containment, or Diversity
Management?
Hans Kohn Revisited: Civic and Ethnic States in Theory and Practice
The convention is unveiling a full section devoted to new
documentaries and feature films exploring ethnonational and identity
issues in the post-Communist world. No less than four films will be
devoted to Chechnya: THE MAKING OF A NEW EMPIRE (Netherlands 1999), a
documentary on a Chechen warlord; IMMORTAL FORTRESS (US, 1999),
featuring interviews with Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduyev; along
with CHECKPOINT (Russia 1999) and PURGATORY (Russia, 1998), two
feature films set during the first Chechnya war. The Balkan wars will
also be featured prominently with the documentaries A CRY FROM THE
GRAVE (UK, 1999), on Srebrenica, and THE VALLEY (UK, 1999), on events
in the Drenica Valley of Kosovo in Summer 1998, as well as a panel on
The Yugoslav Wars on Film. Other  films to be shown include TRADING
STORIES (US, 1999), on Jewish property and restitution in the Czech
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Sikh coppers request bulletproof turbans
Sikh police officers are asking for "special bulletproof turbans" which would allow them to serve in firearms units, the Guardian reports. There are around 2,000 Sikhs in the police force, but they're unable to pack a piece since existing safety helmets don't fit over their traditional headgear. Accordingly, the recently- …
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Friday 8th May 2009 11:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
Does anyone know the compatability between the Sikh religion and shooting criminals? I mean, the last thing we need is, "Sorry Guv, I couldn't shoot the criminal; it's against my religion; I'd be saying Hail Mary's for a six month."
I'm all for religious freedom, but when we start mixing it with the secular organisations that are at the heart of the country ... that seems like madness to me.
Some of our already highly trained firearms officers already suffer significant trauma after killing someone ... what would happen to the mental health of a peron who would carry the extra moral weight of a religion on top of that?
Friday 8th May 2009 11:38 GMT The Dorset Rambler
Would they be sent on sikh and destroy missions?
I wonder how many are prohibited from becoming firearms officers because their religion does not allow them to shoot people ?
your religion doesn't allow you to remove a piece of cloth wrapped around your head, but is perfectly fine with you shooting and killing people.
Somehow i think the priorities may be a little mixed up here.
Friday 8th May 2009 11:38 GMT Steve Kay
Countdown to someone mentioning "Trotter's Crash Turbans"...
...3 ...2 ...1 ... INCOMING!
75 % of what's under a turban is hair/air. Anyone thinking of taking a headshot is unwise, I reckon Sikhs will be safe.
How on earth is a material that needs to be flexible enough to be wrapped around hair going to have the necessary qualities to stop a bullet ? From what I understand, the armed police who shot and killed the unfortunate Brazillian electrician were wearing baseball caps...
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what a load...
What a load of steaming bollocks. Religion, regardless of your particular choice of fairy story, is no excuse for special treatment. I am sick and tired of different brands of voodoo claiming that they are harshly treated because they choose some whacko lifestyle choice over the others. If you want to be an armed response copper that much then you will wear the frikkin helmet and if you aren't prepared to shave your beard off then you can't be a fireman.
We shouldn't be pandering to religion.
Friday 8th May 2009 12:12 GMT Barnaby Self
Doesnt bother the Indians
When I was in India earlier in the year, I saw Sikh soldiers manning armed sentry points at the Airports. They werre wearing turbans and not helmets. Why can they not do the same over here? Or how about wearing a top knot under their helmets cos surely those pointy hats the cops wear have enough space under them??
Not ballistic protection, identity protection!
I think the main purpose of these helmets on the police is not to stop a bullet but to stop a camera catching a mugshot and them being identified!
Friday 8th May 2009 12:15 GMT Shell
Un-PC
Why are they wearing them in the first place? Perhaps it's terribly un-PC of me (har har), but surely the police shouldn't be allowed to have such blatantly religious regalia in the first place while on the job.
Friday 8th May 2009 12:15 GMT Simon
But won't God stop the bullets anyway?
I used to see a guy by me riding around on a motorbike not wearing a crash helmet but a turban.
I used to think "So you put your faith in God before faith in a safety helmet".
Well you have to say this biker guy was dedicated to his religion! But possibly if he comes off that bike hes going to meet his God sooner than later.
Anyhow I'm looking forward to seeing what a bulletproof turban looks like.
Friday 8th May 2009 12:15 GMT weirdcult
@Headshot By Anonymous Coward
Apparently spider silk will do it =]
Sikhs can kill people
After you are a baptised sikh you carry a knife with you. To defend yourself.
Also they train in using bladed weapons as part of religion
Friday 8th May 2009 12:15 GMT spezzer
what a load of bollox!
i cant believe they would spend a dime on this kind of research - if these guys want to become armed officers then stop pissing around, get a haircut and get on with the job. what is it with british society that means everyone has to bend over backwards for poxy religion. its gets right on my tits, as you can probably tell!
Friday 8th May 2009 12:15 GMT Dave Harris
@Michelle, & AC 11:21
One of the things kept underneath the turban is a small symbolic sword, denoting the warrior traditions of Sikhism, so I don't think that being a firearms officer would contradict the main tenets of the religion at all.
Is there a Sikh among the Reg readership who could enlighten us on this one?
@Headshot, I would think it's for those situations where armed response units are waiting outside places where there are known to be gunmen and everyone gets as padded up as possible. The blokes on the Tube weren't wearing body armour either, since it wasn't your average firearms officer job, more of an SO19 thing.
Friday 8th May 2009 12:15 GMT Stuza
Awesome....
Pick the parts of a religion you want and the parts you dont .... like it!
Alternativly
..screw the hokey fairy taies and accept that certain situations require changes. If you want to be a firearms officer, then you need to wear the gear. no one is forcing you to become a copper ffs.
besides, isnt hiring people based on their religions/race etc to avoid breeching equal rights, inherintly unfair to the other candidates? People should be hired on their ability to do the job, not what religion they are.
non issue imo.
Political correctness gone too far
Jews can't be bacon-sarnie tasters, and I'm sure they accept that. Why can't sikh's accept this? How many of them are honestly so desperate to become ballistics officers that this is a genuine concern? If they ever produced these I bet maybe 1-2 officers would switch, and that would be it... it's not making a point it's just wasting taxpayers money...
I'm pretty sure if a squad of heavily armed men wearing turbans will provoke a riot amongst Daily Fail readers.
Anon. because Daily Fail readers scare me too.
A title is required.
>Anyone thinking of taking a headshot is unwise
Absolutely true, if you've had any firearms training, you'll know perfectly well that you should always aim for the centre of the chest (assuming the target is not obscured).
Headshots are only useful at point blank range when you have reasonable cause to suspect that your target is an innocent brazilian ^H^H^H^H, sorry, I mean you have reasonable cause to suspect that your target is a human bomb and is about to hit the trigger (and you know it's not a dead-mans trigger)
I'm sure someone will post my main thought - don't turbans cover hair? Which is already dead, has no nerves and is more likely to be parted by a bullet than cause massive trauma to the humans system? With my haircut (or rather, complete lack of it), a bullet proof turban would be a waste of time. Even in the 70s when I made bigfoot look a bit bald, I could have just brushed over any bullet holes in my locks.
Friday 8th May 2009 12:44 GMT Cameron Colley
How about they stop being morons?
Surely anyone moronic enough to believe in organised religion is too stupid to be given a gun? Just look at the Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip or the US for examples.
Friday 8th May 2009 12:44 GMT Sweep
@ Michelle Knight "compatibility"
Sikhs have always been have always been well regarded as warriors (the militarism of the sikhs originated in their opposing the muslims in India so should serve them well when required to shoot terrorists/ Brazilians) and as already mentioned all sikhs are obliged to carry a small sword.
Sikhs have a very proud history of service in the army and also refused to wear helmets in the world wars in which "83,005 turban wearing Sikh soldiers were killed and 109,045 were wounded"
To a Sikh i think the wearing of the turban is much more than a religious thing, it's a symbol of their identity.
send them all back i say
Friday 8th May 2009 12:44 GMT Jonathan
Just wear their hair down and use a standard hat
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the sikh requirement is to *not cut their hair*, not *wear a turban* per se. They could wear their hair down, plait it and tuck it under their body armour, then wear a normal bullet proof helmet on their head, without violating the religious laws.
I believe there is a steel comb they are also required to wear (the knife traditionally went on the belt, not in the hair), but again, I don't think there is any reason why they couldn't tuck it into a plait.
*I think*. As I say, any sikh reader please correct me!
Bladed article
"After you are a baptised sikh you carry a knife with you. To defend yourself.
Also they train in using bladed weapons as part of religion"
Well, those Sikh coppers will have to arrest themselves for carrying a bladed article in public.
The more I read about various religions, the more I want religion to have nothing to do, whatsoever, with our state.
Friday 8th May 2009 12:44 GMT Paul Dewey
Yes but.......
I remember the time they all got away without wearing crash helmets and it was decreed a turban offers sufficient protection. Tarmac / concrete / bullets.......
Friday 8th May 2009 12:44 GMT Mel Collins
Sikhing the truth
AFAIK , the Sikhs had to fight for their lives and religion from almost the beginning. They're historically warriors. Traditional ceremonies involving huge guys waving massive scimitars, etc.
I would assume that the "problem" is that regulations require firearms officers to wear armoured headgear whilst on duty, and there being no leeway for those who do not want to (in case it messes up their hair, or whatever). I say let 'em go hatless, and put full responsibility for that decision on the officer in question.
But of course, the nanny state wouldn't want to be seen letting informed people take calculated risks. The Daily Mail would be up in arms!
Are Christian police in Britain allowed to wear crosses on their uniforms?
One would think that in a secular organization such as the police, that religious symbols of any kind, be they crosses, crescents, turbans, etc would be prohibited.
But apparently in Britain, to quote George Orwell in Animal Farm, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".
so what about those sikhs that do have helmets when in military units in islamic countries?
... or are they "not really sikhs"... anyway tolerance of religion does not equal to having religious beliefs changing regulations. As these people can become police officers - they do not HAVE TO. No discrimination there. If you want to have a driving licence you have to pass the tests. If you do not want to pass the test because of your religious beliefs then sorry you do not get a driving licence. People should stop confusing the two things "being discriminated against" and "discriminating against". In this case people are not being discriminated because of their religion. On the contrary, people are discriminating because of their religion! They are allowed to do that, a sikh is allowed not to become an officer with a firearm! This is perfectly acceptable to me. Just as Jews are allowed not to eat pork etc.
Scary pointless
Ok as several posters have already pointed out, the turban largely covers hair, and anyone going for a head shot is either a) monumentally dumb or b) a damn fine shot.
Either way, bullet proof bonce top not much use.
If however, it's to spare glancing blows then fine. Just one problem. The structure of any bullet proof items combines two basic things. A flexible component and a rigid one. Ok, they can be combined into one (Kevlar woven into things for instance), but still, every bulletproof object I've worn, seen, drooled over (sad I know) etc has been neither terribly light nor remotely "flexible enough to wind round the head". To get something decently bulletproof that will slow the round, distrubute the force, deflect the round AND look like a turban is going to have to be cast. So sort of like a helmet for instance.
Puzzled of non Daily Fail world
PS KEVLAR ISN'T F**KING BULLETPROOF!!! It's just really, really strong along it's length (sucks on lateral strength iirc).
Friday 8th May 2009 13:11 GMT Bad Beaver
really. Looking at their history, I would assume the Sikhs themselves would rather not care about the helmet in the first place. It is the regulation that insists on officers using one.
How about a helmet designed to look like a turban?
Perhaps the same kevlar material can be used for making Kilts so that us Scots can wear our traditional costume on duty - don't really want to get shot in the dangly bits, do you :O
I do think religions and traditions need to learn to bend to be compatible with our progressive modern society - where there is a clear requirement (such as safety equipment) either you choose our modern developments, or you choose to live with your traditions. The important point is, YOU have a CHOICE.
Paris - there must be a joke here somewhere about Paris and helmets.
slightly OT
Ravi Bopara is a Sikh. He wears helmet.
Ok - he cut is hair. Fine.
Navjot Sidhu used to wear a helmet.
Friday 8th May 2009 13:20 GMT Paul
When did the Daily Fail take over El Reg?
Or have the residents of the BBC message boards all decamped here? Most of the comments here would not be out of place on the Twat-o-tron.
You lot need to simmer down a bit before we all get covered in your mouth froth.
Friday 8th May 2009 13:38 GMT Kevin
Religion & History
Why are people chiming up with "How can they be religious and carry a gun" as religion and killing are mutually exclusive? If history is anything to go by it tells us that religion makes it EASIER to kill people (crusades, inquisitions, honour killings, 'terrorism', etc).
"Forgiveness" makes it all possible.
Friday 8th May 2009 13:38 GMT dave
@Anonymous Coward "Scary pointless"
You do remember correctly re Kevlar being strong along its length. This strength causes it to act as a decelerator when a projectile slams into it by deflecting the momentum of the proj. lengthwise.
But that alone isn't enough.
A single length of Kevlar would be next to useless as the proj. would just tend to travel around the fibre in a glancing blow. The bullet stopping effect is caused by having lots of fibers bundled together. However the force of the proj. is simply transfered to the fibers which in a turban type configuration could result in a bit of a head removal situation. Hence the need for some sort of rigid(ish) base material to transfer the force around the old brain container. A configuration commonly found in err... combat helmets.
That said the bravery of Sikhs who regularly go into battle, to this very day, with no effective headgear leaves me in awe. The army's concession to Sikhs has been to provide turbans made from cammo material. Result all round, the army keep the pc brigade off their backs and Sikhs getting to blow the living crap out of the foe of the day.
Friday 8th May 2009 13:38 GMT Osiris
To bodly go where no Sikh has gone before
I guess we wont see any Sikh astronauts soon then?
Vaccum with no helmet is a bitch I hear
Friday 8th May 2009 13:38 GMT Stef
Let 'God' sort it out
Sure their invisible magic friend that lives in the sky can protect them?
Obviously the same goes for Catholics/Jews/Pastafarians/whatever.
Friday 8th May 2009 13:43 GMT Dogbyte
Lateral thinking
Why mess about developing bulletproof turbans? Just make a bigger helmet so they can wear it on top!
....Sikh's 'aint big on deep-sea diving then I'll wager!
Friday 8th May 2009 14:10 GMT Roger Heathcote
@Paul
"When did the Daily Fail take over El Reg? "
It's hard to place exactly but I'd put it around 9-10 months ago. Depressing isn't it?
Cricketers don't have this issue.
What about construction workers?
I smell bullshit.
Friday 8th May 2009 14:40 GMT Francois
@Roger H
Friday 8th May 2009 14:41 GMT Harps
Sikh perspective
As a turban wearing Sikh.......
Can't speak as a member of the police or services I'm just a keyboard warrior ...
I believe rules and regs state that you have to have the correct protective measures. As has been stated earlier lots of Sikhs are happy to take the risk and let God look after them (as they are want to do on motor cycles in the Uk and in the armed forces for other countries) Sikhs have a martial history and have served in her majesty's forces whilst wearing turbans in several campaigns without whinging and moaning about it.
The sensible course of action would be to let them take the risk - they know what a bullet is capable of doing and it is there choice to forego protection. The nanny state would not be happy with that however, and therefore puts up barriers.
Equally those Sikh's unwilling to go into that job without protection should not expect special treatment.
Rather than explain the why's and wherefore's of Turban wearing I'l just link : http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Turban
@ Stef (13:28 GMT)
Pastafarians? I for one welcome our italian cuisine-munching secular prophets. Or did you mean the fundamentalist Druids- the Pastiefarians?
Oh for pity's sake...
You don't see the Israeli defence force kitted out with kevlar yarmulkes, do you? They wear helmets because helmets are effective. For similar reasons construction workers in Delhi wear hard hats, not heavily starched turbans. If a job requires a certain type of protective clothing, wear that clothing or don't do the job.
Other unlikely combinations: nudist arc-welders, eskimo sauna attendants, etc
Friday 8th May 2009 15:52 GMT masterpikey
these comments are so depressing
after reading this page i am really feeling disgust and hatred towards most of the prev posters. The vast majority of you should be thinking emigrating to the deep south of the u.s. as your bigotry and small mindedness would be right at home with those inbred, fascist, right wing, fundamental christians.
the sikh religion is one of the most beautiful in the world, and is full of teachings of tollerance and understanding of others and also the responsibility of the individual to live right. One of my favorite aspects of sikhism is that there is no clergy as we would reconise, again its the individual that chooses to live right or not, and most sikh have a heavy tolerance of other religions as they belive that any path towards holyness is the right path.
As to your so called conflict of interest between religous beliefs and serving with the police, i cant see any as all sikhs will strive to adheer to the princples of "Sant-Sapai" (translated as saint soldier); to practise their belief always (rather than on just a particular day or time ie: just Sunday or Friday); to maintain and protect the cosmic balance in the world; to guard against tyranny, discrimination, evil and injustice, wouldnt it be nice if more coppers on the beat conducted themselvs with these princaples in mind??
we all have a personal identy, and if that identity dosent infringe on others you have the undying right to express it. this matter isnt about sikhs insisting that they should have special considerations made for them, but health and safety regulations preventing them from expressing their deeply held sense of identity while trying to serve their communities, and to protect you and me, after all in the military sikhs already activly serve without protective helmets, and have been doing so, protecting our country and the ex empire for hundreds of years.
So to most of you above, and you all know who im talking about, why dont you all do the world a favour and fuck off and die, your holding the human race back and until we can wipe your bigotry off the face of the planet we will be forever be stuck in the shite that we all face every day. like my dear grandmother used to say "if you have nothing constructive to say, JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP, pass the biscuits and get a job"
Thanks, Harps
Seems to me that the people involved are just saying "if we have to wear a helmet/bulletproof thing, can you help us make a turban into one"
Anyone seeing the general theme in these comments?
I'm sort of getting the feeling that maybe "the people" are not quite as keen on our cultural soup as the politicians would like to think. [or make us believe] Could it be perhaps that we are fundamentally or at least historically a society based on the Christian religion and that the majority, [well I'm sort of guessing it's still a majority for the moment] of residents would like to see it stay that way .. ?
I heard a chap say recently;
"I don't care where you come from or what colour your skin is, or even what religious denomination you choose, if you want to be British with all that entails - I'm happy to have you living next door. If on the other hand you want to change our society to suit yourself, say changing the rules to allow for the burning of dead bodies in a field .. I'd be just as happy if you decided to do it somewhere else (!)"
And I don't think he's alone.
Would be nice if the majority had a voice for a change ...
Friday 8th May 2009 20:20 GMT Andy
@taxpayers money
Could everyone banging on about tax payers money please remember that all our turban wearing friends (750,000 odd) pay taxes too? If it helps pretend that your tax money goes towards keeping them out in the first place, and theirs go towards bulletproof turbans.
Sounds like a few coppers can't fit the regulation helmets on and want the job anyway. I say let them not wear helmets if they feel that strongly about it, it's their head on the line not ours! So long as they sign legal waivers that say they can't sue if they have any head related injuries whilst on the job of course.
Anyway, I'd have thought you'd prefer to have more gun toting police so you could get them to shoot non ID carrying, DNA databased underage crims that are dropping litter in your street and shouting loudly after 9pm. Nothing to fear nothing to hide!!
as a Sikh, and from a family of baptised Sikhs, I'd just like to let everyone know something...
The turban is not religious, it's cultural. When the muslims controlled India an emperor declared that only kings could wear turbans in war (the turban we see now is a scaled down version - imagine trying to cut through 9 inches of cloth with a blow from a sword - it's pretty hard). The Guru said as all God's men were equal they were all kings, so everyone should wear a turban, not just Sikhs, everyone. It was a declaration of socailiam, not religon.
In the british army, when at war, Sikhs wear their hair in a ponytail so they can wear their helmet, why can't the police do the same thing?
Friday 8th May 2009 20:20 GMT Prashanth
Take a shot at this!
The Nihang sect of Sikhs is known for their martial skills and huuuge turbans. Take a dekho at this:
http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/003021.html
Friday 8th May 2009 20:20 GMT Shane Orahilly
To those who say "Let them go without"...
Perhaps the people who claim that they should be allowed the job without the standard issue protective equipment in place are forgetting one thing - If said member of the Armed Plod Squad is the difference between catastrophe and safety, an additional risk of them being capped in the bonce is an additional risk to anyone depending on said plod's existence to protect them. Thus you have to standardise kit to standardise the risk not just to the plodinator in question, but to the Public they're working for.
Turban Cops
I know Sikhs who Ride massive sports Motorcycles with Cloth Turbans. Look at any building Site in the West Bromwich area, you will find Sikhs wearing cloth Turbans. Watch Indian TV you will see Police and Soldiers dodging bullets wearing basic cloth Turbans....Perhaps these guys believe in God a little bit more than our PC Cops...
Saturday 9th May 2009 12:48 GMT Anonymous Coward
sigh...Sikhs...
I am a radical athiest personally (hence the AC), but I do have to say that the Sikhs are one of the few religious groups that actually give me some pause to reflect on positively. OK, they are still silly for believing in someting that requires "faith" and has no proof, but at least they are rather admirable culturally - their views on tolerance and inclusiveness are rather advanced for a religion. Too bad some of their other practices leave a bad caste in the mouth, er, taste in the mouth. No, I was right the first time...
See, one alternative is to let them wear bulletproof turbans, the Jewish cops wear Kevlar yarmulkes, and the Christians wear Crusader-style knights helmets, and the Islamic cops wear bullet-proof kevlar beards....or they can put their hair up in a helmet, in a plait or out.
Hmmm, that's a tough one, ain't it?
Saturday 9th May 2009 12:48 GMT raving angry loony
They could just design and wear a smaller damn turban that fits under a slightly larger helmet.
That said, if their religion requires them to wear a turban, let their religion (and their lavishly funded temples) pay for the research and development. In other words, in my books it's up to the religion to come up with ways to meet specific requirements, not up to the taxpayer to fund someones adherence to a set of arbitrary fantasy rules.
"Freedom of religion" comes in here that the standard shouldn't say "metal helmet", it must state something like "head covering that will stop an Xmm bullet from Y metres". If the religion can come up with an appropriate head covering, then let them wear it. But don't use taxpayer money to do the research for them.
Saturday 9th May 2009 12:48 GMT Matthew
easy way round this
Make the protective gear an option...
Or make them pay for the cost
Saturday 9th May 2009 12:48 GMT Shell
secularism ?
@masterpikey
You have cleanly demonstrated the problem; people seem unable to hold a frank and unemotional discussion when it comes the religious rights.
Perhaps we in the UK should take a leaf from Turkish secularism - a large, faithful Muslim society that STRICTLY separates religion from work/politics/public services.
I'm British, non-Christian (married to a Turkish Muslim), and I'm happy (and more than welcome) people to express their beliefs in any way they like - in their personal space and time. But when this starts to encroach on politics or public services, paid for from my taxes or otherwise, as a non-religious person this makes me very uncomfortable.
Saturday 9th May 2009 12:56 GMT Simon Ward
Re: Thanks, Harps
"Seems to me that the people involved are just saying "if we have to wear a helmet/bulletproof thing, can you help us make a turban into one" "
Quite so.
The article linked to by Harps is quite interesting in its own way - what's to stop the Sikh firearms officers wearing a patka or similar? (best example of a high-profile patka wearer I can think of is Monty Panesar, although I don't recall having seen him wearing other headgear during a match)
Really, this stinks of nanny-stateism - if the officer is good enough to do the job *and* is aware of the risks involved, turbanned or not, then he should be allowed to do it. Race/creed/religion/whatever shouldn't be a factor.
Sadly, it is.
Saturday 9th May 2009 22:45 GMT James Halliday
Personally, I feel you should be able to put anything you like on your head.
It's your head the bullet is going be heading towards. You want a helmet - fine. You want bullet proof kevlar - fine.
I think the issue with kevlar is that whilst the turban might be completely undamaged, the undamaged kevlar fabric would have been propelled quite a way into your squishy inner-head.
Bullet proof 'stuff' doesn't magically make the energy of a projectile vanish - it merely tries to distribute the force over a greater area to make it 'less-fatal'
Sooo a bullet-proof turban would have to be something that distributes the force of the bullet over your entire head... oh that sounds pretty much like a helmet.
Maybe a mega-helmet designed to fit over a turban - I personally would welcome the arrival of super-deformed-style police on the streets :)
Sunday 10th May 2009 09:10 GMT Reid Malenfant
More Fiction - Here we go again.
1. Been a Police Firearms officer for 15 years and very rarely, if ever, wear a helmet operationally; but then I don't always wear body armour either - you learn to cut your cloth accordingly.
2. Have worked with 2 Sikh firearms colleagues and their hair was shorter than mine ..... but then, like me, they were both atheists - I believe they regarded being Sikhs more as a cultural thing; or so they said.
3. Pound to a pinch of salt this story originated in the MET .... they'll never pass up an oportunity to be militant irrespective of any other consideraion - its a MET thing (yawn).
4. In my personal experience the vast majority of those who profess deeply held religious convictions invariably end up demonstrating various forms of blinkered cultural hypocrasy - but I'm an atheist so my views don't count for that much; I have, after all, been tainted by Satan .... or so a born again colleague told me last year!
Sunday 10th May 2009 09:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
I don't think there's any essential requirement to wear a turban all time in Sikh religion
I don't think there's any essential requirement to wear a turban all time in Sikh religion. The basic requirement is to have unshorn hair. Sikh cricketers like Navjot Sidhu, Harbhajan Singh, Monty Panesar etc. have all worn helmets without the need to cut their hair. I think this is more a case of misunderstanding than anything else. The simple solution is, wear a turban while on normal duty, remove the turban and wear a helmet whenever required. There you have it...
Monday 11th May 2009 09:13 GMT Martin Usher
It wouldn't be a turban....
It would be a "turban-like headpiece" -- a real turban is made from a folded strip of cloth, something that's not going to work if its made from Kevlar (and I doubt that the result would be bulletproof). I suppose you could also stick a turban to the outside of a standard ballistic helmet but the result would resemble a Christmas cracker hat... it would look really silly.
I'm afraid the Sikhs are going to have to make some choices here. After all, they don't have to be firearms officers, its a choice (just like they don't have to do traffic duty on a motorcycle). The turban's only there to manage your hair after all -- its the hair that's important, not the headdress.
Monday 11th May 2009 09:13 GMT elderlybloke
They could abandon the Turban
like a lot of young Sikhs are doing, Hot, uncomfortable , bloody time wasted tying them on.
These coppers will be young , so I don't really think that most of them give a toss.
Of course the "establishment" are hollering about it.
But times change , even Sikhs will be moving into the 21first century.
Monday 11th May 2009 12:41 GMT Anonymous Coward
@ Dogbyte
Yep, that'll mean the helmets from SpaceBalls :-)
Thursday 14th May 2009 01:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
There is already a solution
In the forces, Sikhs have to wear helmets but in a compatible manner.
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The Rev. Tom Zobrist, poses in 2016 with some of son Ben's memorabilia in Eureka, Ill. BRUCE MILES | Staff Photographer
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THE REV. TOM ZOBRIST is nothing if not a man of faith.
And patience, hope and charity, too.
He tends to a congregation of 300 or so at the Liberty Bible Church in downstate Eureka.
Rev. Zobrist and wife Cindi have five adult children and nine grandchildren.
He gets his sports news in the ways that so many in the farming communities of north central Illinois do.
That checklist would include cable or dish TV, the Peoria Journal-Star, the Bloomington Pantagraph and the radio and television stations of Peoria.
When son Ben Zobrist signed with the Cubs prior to that magical championship season of 2016, the Reverend found him and his wife the objects of some sports media attention.
When Ben and wife Julianna Zobrist filed separate divorce papers in May, the 38-year-old son -- in the final season of a $56 million contract -- left the Cubs to attend to myriad matters of the heart, the spirit, family and law.
"There were a few calls to us back then," the Rev. Zobrist told The Daily Herald Wednesday.
"Since then, really nothing.
"I think the media has been very respectful to our family about all that's been happening.
"Obviously, I don't hear or read every single word that's being written or spoken. But I'm not aware of anything that's been outrageous or mean."
The father acknowledges the celebrity of the son.
But he also cites a clear line of generational independence long ago staked out.
"Ben's life is not my life," the Rev. Zobrist said. "Of course you want your children happy. And as a Major League Baseball player, Ben has nothing left to prove.
"What has happened this year is just more proof of the trials and tribulations that the Lord can throw your way and all the more reason for people to understand the absolute necessity of gratitude, hope and prayer every day.
"Things can turn very quickly. And the deeper your faith, the stronger your appreciation for what you have, the greater the chance that you can weather storms with the help of God."
The Cubs have been weathering storms all year long.
With a Swiss cheese roster and without the seasoned and reliable "glue" of a Zobrist, Joe Maddon has somehow craftworked a team that wins at home and loses on the road into a tenuous spot atop the NL-Central.
Now, with MLB personnel deadlines straight ahead, the question looms:
Is Ben Zobrist coming back to assist in a golden autumn run?
"Ben is a perfectionist," his father says.
"He has also been a very conflicted person for some time now.
"Without question, his top priority remains his three children. Then, the marriage, if it can be saved.
"As far as baseball, there have been days when I thought he was very close to coming back and other days when I think he's not coming back.
"I know he has kept in regular touch with Theo (Epstein). And if there are deadlines coming up -- and I don't completely understand all of the new rules -- obviously, a decision has to be made.
"Ben will do what's best for his children and then himself. And with the Lord, and with prayer, things will be right."
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia worldwide affecting an estimated 5.5 million people worldwide. Complications associated with chronic AF include increased risk of both thromboembolism and stroke. Left untreated, paroxysmal AF often progresses to permanent AF, which is resistant to therapy. Although underlying anatomic or pathophysiological factors may fuel its progression, AF itself may lead to its own perpetuation through electric, structural, and metabolic remodeling of atrial tissue. The realization that AF begets AF has led to management strategies that are designed to avoid the progression of AF by reducing the frequency and duration of AF episodes.
One such strategy, cardioversion, attempts to reset all electrical activity in the atria and requires the use of large (>5 V/cm) electric field gradients. These high energies cause pain and trauma to the patient, damage the myocardium, and reduce battery life in implanted devices.
Another strategy, antitachycardia pacing (ATP), seeks to avoid the development of permanent AF by suppressing paroxysmal AF. ATP consists of a train of 8 to 10 lowenergy stimuli delivered as a pacing ramp or burst at 50 Hz via a single pacing electrode. ATP is effective in treating spontaneous atrial tachyarrhythmias, especially slower tachycardias, but it is not very effective for converting AF.
To overcome the limitations of ATP and cardioversion, we proposed a new technique that employs a series of low-amplitude pulsed electric fields to overdrive AF and thereby terminate it, a strategy suggested by previous experimental studies with the use of physically implanted electrodes. The technique, which we call low-energy anti-fibrillation pacing (LEAP), takes advantage of the fact that after an electric field pulse, virtual electrodes may arise at interfaces separating regions with different conductivities . These sites may be macroscopic, such as blood vessels or ischemic regions, or smaller-scale discontinuities, including areas of fibrosis or abrupt changes in fiber direction. Virtual electrodes may become a secondary source (i.e., a site of wave emission), depending on the extent of the conductivity discontinuity and the electric field strength.
(A) Optical signal from 1 pixel during AF showing successful defibrillation after delivery of 5 far-field pulses of 1.4 V/cm at a cycle length of 45 ms (red arrows).
(B) Optical signal during fibrillation; color represents voltage (see color bar in (A)). Frames are 45 ms apart in time and show the complex wave patterns during fibrillation.
(C) Effects of shocks 1, 2, 3, and 5 (left to right), with the first 2 panels showing partial capture and the last 2 showing global capture.
(D) Evolution to full repolarization and quiescence after shock 5. Throughout, light blue shading indicates time during applied shocks (from ).
Using optical mapping in isolated perfused canine atrial preparations (Fig. 1), we have shown that a series of pulses at low field strength (0.9 to 1.4 V/cm) is sufficient to entrain and subsequently extinguish AF with a success rate of 93% (69 of 74 trials in 8 preparations) . We further demonstrated that the mechanism behind LEAP success is the generation of wave emission sites within the tissue by the applied electric field, which entrains the tissue as the field is pulsed (Fig. 2).
In conclusion, we found that AF in our in vitro experiment can be terminated by LEAP with only 13% of the energy required for cardioversion. These results for AF have been confirmed in in vivo experiments. Furthermore, LEAP has been successfully applied for the low-energy termination of ventricular fibrillation in vitro and in vivo .
A. Pumir et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 208101 (2007).
F.H. Fenton et al., Circulation 120, 467-476 (2009).
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3MP Rebrands As Classic Rock Radio And Its Pretty Ordinary
by Paul Cashmere on October 25, 2016
Melbourne's 3MP has become Classic Rock Radio but be warned … it unimaginative and bland.
Pacific Star Network has dropped the 3MP Classic Hits format (with announcers) for the new Classic Rock Radio (without announcers) but in a sample listen the station played obvious acts like Queen followed by Dire Straits followed by Eagles.
On the surface, the new direction sounds like a cheap cost-cutting exercise to avoid paying salaries by inserting a jukebox but the trouble with the jukebox is that it sounds like it was bought second hand from a Frankston pub in the 70s.
The strategy for the new station is sound. Southern Cross Austereo vacated its Classic Rock digital format last month leaving a gap in the market. However, SCA produced a unique Classic Rock station by regularly playing old songs that were not normally heard previously commercial radio and inserting its programming with entertaining block programs from Little Steven and Alice Cooper.
The new Classic Rock Radio is just aural wallpaper.
Speaking to Mumbrella, the general manager of the operation Cathy Thomas justified the repositioning by saying the company was aligning its SEN sports station with a similar 40+ male demographic and therefore creating a common sales strategy.
"We wanted to ensure, from a sales perspective, that there was a synergy between the two stations. It means when we're talking to a client both our stations are targeting males, they're both environments that males want to listen to," she told Mumbrella.
While in a board report that may sound logical, through the speakers it fails to offer any point of difference for the listeners.
The station can now be heard on DAB+ and on 3MP's AM frequency 1377.
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ARIA Singles: James Arthur Is No 1 Again This Week
James Arthur is not about to let go of his No.1 position on the ARIA Singles Chart, spending a third straight week at the top with "Say You Won't Let Go".
Regional Touring's Duane McDonald Scores Another Win With Lakeside Twilights
The Lakeside Twilights music festival at Ballarat's Lake Wendouree foreshore has sold-out more than a month in advance.
New Music Releases For 28 October 2016
Major new titles coming out this week include: James Arthur, LeAnn Rimes, Kenny Chesney, Brett Elderidge, Tkay Maidza, Empire of the Sun, Tove Lo, Madness and DJ Shadow, plus repacks from Delta Goodrem, John Farnham, Kylie's and Michael Buble's Xmas albums.
Final David Bowie Song 'Killing A Little Time' Debuts
Three new David Bowie songs recorded during the 'Blackstar' sessions but held back for the Lazarus stage show debuted this week with the final track 'Killing A Little Time' available today.
APRA AMCOS Paid 248,994 Songwriters $294,000,000 In 15-16
Australian songwriters and publishers had a 14% revenue increase during 2014-2015 with APRA/AMCOS confirming it paid out $294,600,000 in the last financial year.
Face The Music Release Program Details
Melbourne's Face The Music music conference has released more information about panels and artists for 2016.
Melbourne Music Bank Shortlist To Four Finalists
Anna Oliphant Wright, Birdhouse, Bloom and Tempus Sun are the four acts competing for the 2016 Melbourne Music Bank prize.


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Plight of Tamils hidden behind Sri Lankan Diplomacy: Bruce Haigh
[TamilNet, Monday, 06 July 2009, 17:52 GMT]
Western countries must look beyond government to government relations with Sri Lanka in order to grasp the Tamil issue, said former Australian diplomat Bruce Haigh in an address in Parliament. Highlighting three decades of reporting "skewed very much in favour of the Sri Lankan government" that has made it "possible all through the years to demonise the Tamils", Haigh said commonwealth nations should have played a larger role in establishing permanent peace in Sri Lanka and needed to see beyond the post 9/11 spheres of politics to independently deal with the conflict.
Bruce Haigh
Speaking at a forum held in Parliament on 17 June to discuss human rights in Sri Lanka, Haigh, a former Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, slammed Australia's previous policy of requesting police reports for Tamils seeking refugee status, as it bought attention to their families in Sri Lanka.
"It made no sense what so ever and it was wrong. But the mindset in Canberra was that this was what should be done, this was the official structure and that structure should be engaged with" Haigh explained, saying Australia's approach to Sri Lanka was much like that towards South Africa, where "Australian government took the position that they were against apartheid but they weren't necessarily against the structures and formations of the South African government".
"You can't just be against apartheid and not be for black South Africans and their rights, so better that your government and your embassy and so on come out in favour in terms of their policies and their statements and support the aspirations of black South Africans. Its been as I say the same in Sri Lanka, where in my experience the reporting was skewed heavily in favour of the Sinhalese and not at all for the Tamils" said Haige.
Highlighting the "huge contribution to the productivity of this country and also to the life of this country" made by Australia's Tamil Diaspora, Haigh said the war against Tamils was utilized by the Bush administration as a victory on international terrorism and said commonwealth nations should have played a role in establishing a permanent peace between the two sides.
"I could never understand why Australia and other commonwealth countries allowed Norway to just run with this and I think the reason was because the commonwealth didn't want to pick up on it. It should have been a commonwealth initiative out of the commonwealth secretariat in London, and it would have carried more weight had it been done by the commonwealth secretariat"
Expressing disappointment over Australia's inaction, Haigh highlighted failed approaches in dealing with regional civil unrest in West Papua, East Timor and Papua New Guinea as indicative of a federal Government that "does not want to do is to grapple with difficult problems, it sweeps them under the carpet".
Haigh also revealed a pressuring phone call received just hours earlier regarding his address to the forum, pointing his finger at Sri Lankan Government representatives in Canberra. "I do know the Sri Lankan embassy is based in Canberra and I will be seeking to find out where this telephone call came from because it reminded me of South Africa, an act of intimidation".
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BP was the first of the supermajors to announce more than a general intention of shifting toward cleaner fuels, namely a target of becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, as well as a commitment to cut oil and gas production by 40% by 2030 while scaling up renewables by $5bn per annum over the same period. Can this be done? Should it?
M-RCBG Senior Fellow Christof Ruehl will be joined by Dev Sanyal, Executive Vice President Gas and Low Carbon Energy at BP, for a discussion on the options and choices of IOCs in the face of the energy transition.
About Dev SanyalDev Sanyal is responsible for BP's global gas and low carbon energy businesses.
Dev joined BP in 1989 and has held a variety of international roles in London, Athens, Istanbul, Vienna and Dubai. He was appointed chief executive, BP Eastern Mediterranean in 1999 and in 2003 he became chief executive, Air BP. In 2006 he was appointed head of the group chief executive's office prior to being named group treasurer in 2007. During this period, he was also chairman of BP Investment Management Ltd and accountable for the group's aluminium interests. On joining the BP executive team in 2011, Dev was executive vice president, strategy and regions prior to his appointment in 2016 as chief executive, alternative energy and executive vice president, Europe and Asia regions, prior to his current role.
Dev is an independent non-executive director on the board of Man Group plc; a member of the board of overseers of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; the energy advisory board of the Government of India; and the board of the Council for European Reform.
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M-RCBG Senior Fellow, Chistof Ruehl with guest Dev Sanyal, Executive Vice President, Gas and Low Carbon Energy at BP
January 30, 2023 | 3:00 PM
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A flyer from a local gym.
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KD Crystal was designed and built by architect Jiří Suchomel and his studio SIAL. In 1974-1990 it was supposed to be a cultural center of the growing city. The architect experimented with unusual heating in that time, solar energy. Even though the citizens have never accepted the building, it belongs to the most valuable monuments of the architecture of communist Czechoslovakia.


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Latent heat storage is a kind of heat storage technology and heat is charged or discharged through phase change, melting or solidification, respectively. Authors proposed a direct heat exchange system between granulated phase change material (PCM) and air. PCM is consisted from granulated porous media and paraffin. Its particle diameter is about 1〜3mm. Advantage of this system is that heat transfer coefficient is kept relative large and continuous during phase change. In this investigation, column experiments related with heat exchange between PCM and air were conducted. Also, a computer simulation program was made and phase change period was discussed by the proposal non-dimensional time.


Member for Currumbin Jann Stuckey MP is encouraging locals to have their say about road safety, with a landmark government review into speed limits across Queensland now open for comment.
"Too many fatalities and serious injuries have occurred on our roads, and this review will help improve safety by applying consistent speed limits across the state," Ms Stuckey said.
"If you think there is a road with too many speed zone changes, or you have a suggestion to make speed limits easier to understand, we want to hear from you.
"This is the first state-wide review conducted in Queensland and it's a great opportunity for local drivers to give the government quality feedback that could help improve roads in our area.
"There are a number of problematic roads and areas in the Currumbin electorate, and who better to comment then those who travel the roads day in, day out.
"I would encourage all locals to get involved in this process and make your views known by Friday 6 September.
"After all submissions have been received, Transport and Main Roads will work with local councils to identify the top 100 roads," Mr Emerson said.
Submissions can be made online at www.tmr.qld.gov.au/SpeedLimitReview from now up until midnight Friday 6 September or posted to Speed Limit Review, PO Box 673, Fortitude Valley Queensland 4006.