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UP's Bahraich District Focuses On School Children To Improve Its Health, Hygiene And Nutrition Status
Bahraich is a one of the aspirational districts chosen by NITI Aayog to bring about a positive change on parameters like health, Nutrition, Education and water
Reported By: Ambika Singh |
New Delhi: Bahraich is a one the aspirational districts chosen by Niti Aayog to bring about a positive change on the socio-economic ground. With a population of nearly 35 lakh, Bahraich ranked 96 out of 117 on 6 different parameters from health, nutrition, education and water to others. Aga Khan Foundation has been working in Bahraich since 2010 with interventions in education, health, WASH as well as women empowerment. The first step towards swachh and swasth bharat was making the district of 35 lakh people Open defecation free. Challenges were immense because the scale was big. Creating a huge asset was a mammoth task, but efforts to bring about a change saw some visible results. Arvind Chauhan, IAS, Chief Development Officer, Bahraich told us, "When the survey was done by NITI Aayog initially Bahraich district was in top worst districts in the country and giving past one year we have improved a lot and there is a lot of cooperation from NITI Aayog and even logistic, financial and advisory support".
Also Read: Swasth Report Of Uttar Pradesh: India's Most Populous State Grapples With Anaemia Among Women, Child Wasting And Diarrhoea
The district received the infrastructure award as well. Added Mr. Chauhan,
The district has a sense of competition for inter-district and intradistrict, as everyone wants to fare better which is helping in improving facilities like health, nutrition, health and irrigation and now we have achieved no.1 rank in all over the country in infrastructure and now with the entire prize fund and more efforts we hope in coming one or two years bahraich should become from aspirational to exceptional district.
Supporting Swachh Bharat campaign focus was on making the district Open defecation Free. Use of toilets the very basic to a healthy population, hence behaviour change was also worked on.
Bahraich was declared ODF on 15th august 2019. Now the ground is set to take it to the next level and prove that sanitation is linked to health. Aga Khan Foundation works in 4 states supporting the Swachh Bharat Mission, working on the community Open Defecation Free campaign with the school hygiene programme.
Under the Dettol Banega Swasth India campaign, Aga Khan Foundation is partnering with Reckitt Benckiser in 3 states working together in 3000 schools. Bahraich being one district where 711 schools have been taken up.
Also Read: Kanpur Waste Forcing Village Youth Into Bachelorhood
Satviki Varma, Programme Officer, WASH & Health, Aga Khan Foundation shared with us,
We are working on community odf campaign as well as with a dedicated school hygiene program and now also at the healthcare facility level and the idea is to basically enable behaviour change at the household if people are constructing toilets if they are using it they are adopting the hand wash practices similarly in schools can we make students those change agents who could actually learn those hygiene practices, good practices such as handwashing such as personal hygiene and become those agents and ambassadors.
Children being the agents of change and take back what they learn at home back to their homes and communities, the Dettol Banega Swachh India campaign is focusing on the school curriculum. "So in both of our experience in RBF and AKF experiences we have always felt that hygiene as link was missing from the entire Swachh Bharat campaign we felt that it needed a dedicated focus now in school it needed focus in sense that you have to develop teaching materials and an age-appropriate and grade-appropriate curriculum they have also developed a very engaging games which are actually involving the students", added Satviki.
One often hears about donating food, clothes and books.. In a unique initiative communities are coming forward to donate soaps to encourage handwashing. Handwashing is a critical element to reduce the risk of diarrhoea and other infectious diseases. "There is a lot of awareness about cleanliness in areas around the home, schools and now parents also have an interest in soap banks so instead of distributing sweets/chocolate soaps help all kids and they are regular in washing hands", shared Shweta, teacher.
Jairam Pathak, UP State Team Leader, WASH, Aga Khan Foundation shared with us the concept of the soap bank. "The aim is not only about donating soaps but collectively inculcating the good habit of hand hygiene so we try to bring the students, teachers and community on the same level".
Also Read: Global Handwashing Day 2019: A Lucknow Based Madrasa Has Benefits Of Handwashing In Its Curriculum
Through the hygiene curriculum, peer to peer hygiene monitoring has played a very important role. After learning in school children are taking this back to their homes. For instance Suraj Kumar, a class 5 student told us,
Earlier we used to use ash and now I use soap, in fact I have even told my parents to use soap as it removes the germs.
Students are a part of child parliaments wherein they have different duties. " Chittrajan Kumar, Cleanliness Perfect shared, "We check if their nails are cut, their clothes are clean, hair combed and also if their hygiene is maintained and we even explain to them that if one does not maintain hygiene they will fall unwell, miss school and lag behind."
Enabling an environment with infrastructure like handwashing stations, toilets and even designated place to eat their meals has impacted the attendance of students. "Children are now aware about hygiene because they can use all the newly constructed toilets, hand washing stations and since the facilities have improved attendance has gone up as well and they don't have to keep going home to use toilets", said Shweta, teacher.
Midday meals in schools have had a long history in India, designed to better the nutritional standing of school-age children nationwide but the problem of management of the mid-day meal, wastage of food, lack of infrastructure for storage, cooking and serving food, lack of safety provisions, unhygienic surroundings have been a challenge. One such step taken by Aga Khan Foundation is the creation of hygienic spaces for food preparation and eating of these meals by children in a clean environment.
For many children, the mid-day meal is the first, and at times the only proper meal of the day. A designated area to cook the food as well as eat in the schools is another initiative. Sukanti has been cooking food for the midday meals for over 18 years and follows the hygienic practices to provide a wholesome meal. "We wash our hands, cover the food, clean the rice, wash vegetables properly and feed the kids with love as they are our children", said Sukanti, Cook, Midday Meal.
Also Read: Uttar Pradesh Is Open Defecation Free But People Still Prefer "Fresh Air"
It is a known fact that working on WASH is a precursor to improving the nutritional status of communities. Jairam Pathak, UP State Team Leader, WASH, Aga Khan Foundation added,
So after 2014 when government started this mission of open defecation free we are working with the government, on one hand, to create a model and demonstration of good practices while on the other hand we are supporting government in enhancing their execution capacity so this open defecation free efforts can be sustained so in order to go to next step we are also supporting government in management of solid and liquid waste providing safe water quality. So infection is the main cause of malnutrition there is the vicious cycle if the child is malnutrition then the infection will take place if infection is there then malnutrition will occur so there is a very close connection between malnutrition and sanitation. So while ensuring this open defecation free we are observing a certain amount of reduction in infectious diseases and that is surely contributing towards decreasing malnutrition.
Aaganwadi workers and Asha Didi's play a crucial role in bringing about behavior change as well as spreading awareness on critical issues like counselling on breastfeeding, nutrition, food habits, hygiene and learning needs, combined with effective preschool education. Rina Devi, Asha worker shared with us,
We go and tell the mothers about breastfeeding the baby within one hour of birth and also eating nutritious food, fruits and vegetables so we notice that anemia and malnutrition has reduced and even diarrhea has reduced after construction of toilets so malnutrition has come down.
Also Read: Only 9 Per Cent Children Get Nutritious Food: Union Minister Smriti Irani
Shaheena from Kamali village in Bahraich delivered her twins out of which Sameer was a case of severe malnourishment. Sameer with intervention is still malnourished but on their way to becoming healthy. "We focus on overall growth but in Sameer's case since he was only 2 kgs and severely malnourished we told the mother to take care of his health and she listened to us, today Sameer has come to the yellow category", said Rambhavati, Kamaali Aaganwadi incharge.
A comprehensive program with adolescent's girls on menstrual hygiene management to help them make a better decision about their health through play-way methods and informal conversations is also a unique initiative. Satviki Varma, Programme Officer, WASH & Health, Aga Khan Foundation shared with us, "when we started to work on WASH we felt that menstrual hygiene was a segment that could not be left behind and there were some issues so we went to communities to understand their practices and raised awareness on what menstruation hygiene is, what is the proper nutrients needed at that time and we are giving them basket of choices because we know with women and girls one has to give many choices so whether it is boles or re-usables they should be able to take decision about themselves we are working with them using very interactive tools like playway methods and games to basically understand how we can dispose those myths and taboos".
Recently Bahraich has been awarded for creating good infrastructure. The next step is to work on maternal health and nutrition making the district a healthier one… And for this, it is important for all stakeholders like the govt., NGOs, corporates and most important the community to come together to bring about a significant change from only a swachh district to swasth Bahraich.
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 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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package org.exist.xquery.functions;

import java.text.Collator;

import org.exist.Namespaces;
import org.exist.dom.NodeProxy;
import org.exist.dom.QName;
import org.exist.memtree.NodeImpl;
import org.exist.memtree.ReferenceNode;
import org.exist.xquery.Cardinality;
import org.exist.xquery.Constants;
import org.exist.xquery.Dependency;
import org.exist.xquery.Function;
import org.exist.xquery.FunctionSignature;
import org.exist.xquery.Profiler;
import org.exist.xquery.ValueComparison;
import org.exist.xquery.XPathException;
import org.exist.xquery.XQueryContext;
import org.exist.xquery.value.AtomicValue;
import org.exist.xquery.value.BooleanValue;
import org.exist.xquery.value.Item;
import org.exist.xquery.value.NodeValue;
import org.exist.xquery.value.NumericValue;
import org.exist.xquery.value.Sequence;
import org.exist.xquery.value.SequenceType;
import org.exist.xquery.value.Type;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

/**
 * Implements the fn:deep-equal library function.
 *
 * @author Piotr Kaminski
 */
public class FunDeepEqual extends CollatingFunction {

	public final static FunctionSignature signatures[] = {
		new FunctionSignature(
			new QName("deep-equal", Function.BUILTIN_FUNCTION_NS),
			"Returns true iff every item in $a is deep-equal to the item at the same position in $b, " +
			"false otherwise. If both $a and $b are the empty sequence, returns true. ",
			new SequenceType[] {
					new SequenceType(Type.ITEM, Cardinality.ZERO_OR_MORE),
					new SequenceType(Type.ITEM, Cardinality.ZERO_OR_MORE)
			},
			new SequenceType(Type.BOOLEAN, Cardinality.ONE)
		),
		new FunctionSignature(
			new QName("deep-equal", Function.BUILTIN_FUNCTION_NS),
			"Returns true iff every item in $a is deep-equal to the item at the same position in $b, " +
			"false otherwise. If both $a and $b are the empty sequence, returns true. " +
			"Comparison collation is specified by $c",
			new SequenceType[] {
				new SequenceType(Type.ITEM, Cardinality.ZERO_OR_MORE),
				new SequenceType(Type.ITEM, Cardinality.ZERO_OR_MORE),
				new SequenceType(Type.STRING, Cardinality.EXACTLY_ONE)
			},
			new SequenceType(Type.BOOLEAN, Cardinality.ONE)
		)
	};

	public FunDeepEqual(XQueryContext context, FunctionSignature signature) {
		super(context, signature);
	}

	public int getDependencies() {
		return Dependency.CONTEXT_SET | Dependency.CONTEXT_ITEM;
	}

	public Sequence eval(Sequence contextSequence, Item contextItem) throws XPathException {
        if (context.getProfiler().isEnabled()) {
            context.getProfiler().start(this);
            context.getProfiler().message(this, Profiler.DEPENDENCIES, "DEPENDENCIES", Dependency.getDependenciesName(this.getDependencies()));
            if (contextSequence != null)
                context.getProfiler().message(this, Profiler.START_SEQUENCES, "CONTEXT SEQUENCE", contextSequence);
            if (contextItem != null)
                context.getProfiler().message(this, Profiler.START_SEQUENCES, "CONTEXT ITEM", contextItem.toSequence());
        }

        Sequence result;
		Sequence[] args = getArguments(contextSequence, contextItem);
		Collator collator = getCollator(contextSequence, contextItem, 3);
		int length = args[0].getItemCount();
		if (length != args[1].getItemCount())
            result = BooleanValue.FALSE;
        else {
        	result = BooleanValue.TRUE;
    		for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
    			if (!deepEquals(args[0].itemAt(i), args[1].itemAt(i), collator)) {
                    result = BooleanValue.FALSE;
                    break;
                }
    		}
        }

        if (context.getProfiler().isEnabled())
            context.getProfiler().end(this, "", result);

        return result;
	}

	private boolean deepEquals(Item a, Item b, Collator collator) {
		try {
			final boolean aAtomic = Type.subTypeOf(a.getType(), Type.ATOMIC);
			final boolean bAtomic = Type.subTypeOf(b.getType(), Type.ATOMIC);
			if (aAtomic || bAtomic) {
				if (!aAtomic || !bAtomic) return false;
				try {
					AtomicValue av = (AtomicValue) a;
					AtomicValue bv = (AtomicValue) b;
					if (Type.subTypeOf(av.getType(), Type.NUMBER) && Type.subTypeOf(bv.getType(), Type.NUMBER)) {
						//or if both values are NaN
						if (((NumericValue)a).isNaN() && ((NumericValue)b).isNaN())
							return true;
					}
					return ValueComparison.compareAtomic(
						collator, av, bv, Constants.TRUNC_NONE, Constants.EQ);
				} catch (XPathException e) {
					return false;
				}
			}
//		assert Type.subTypeOf(a.getType(), Type.NODE);
//		assert Type.subTypeOf(b.getType(), Type.NODE);
			if (a.getType() != b.getType()) return false;
			NodeValue nva = (NodeValue) a, nvb = (NodeValue) b;
			if (nva == nvb) return true;
			try {
				//Don't use this shortcut for in-memory nodes since the symbol table is ignored.
				if (nva.getImplementationType() != NodeValue.IN_MEMORY_NODE && nva.equals(nvb)) return true;		// shortcut!
			} catch (XPathException e) {
				// apparently incompatible values, do manual comparison
			}
			Node na, nb;
			switch(a.getType()) {
				case Type.DOCUMENT:
					// NodeValue.getNode() doesn't seem to work for document nodes
					na = nva instanceof Node ? (Node) nva : ((NodeProxy) nva).getDocument();
					nb = nvb instanceof Node ? (Node) nvb : ((NodeProxy) nvb).getDocument();
					return compareContents(na, nb);
				case Type.ELEMENT:
					na = nva.getNode(); nb = nvb.getNode();
					return compareElements(na, nb);
				case Type.ATTRIBUTE:
					na = nva.getNode(); nb = nvb.getNode();
					return
						compareNames(na, nb)
						&& safeEquals(na.getNodeValue(), nb.getNodeValue());
				case Type.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION:
				case Type.NAMESPACE:
					na = nva.getNode(); nb = nvb.getNode();
					return
						safeEquals(na.getNodeName(), nb.getNodeName())
						&& safeEquals(nva.getStringValue(), nvb.getStringValue());
				case Type.TEXT:
				case Type.COMMENT:
					return safeEquals(nva.getStringValue(), nvb.getStringValue());

				default: throw new RuntimeException("unexpected item type " + Type.getTypeName(a.getType()));
			}
		} catch (XPathException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
			return false;
		}
	}

	private boolean compareElements(Node a, Node b) {
		return
			compareNames(a, b)
			&& compareAttributes(a, b)
			&& compareContents(a, b);
	}

	private boolean compareContents(Node a, Node b) {
		a = findNextTextOrElementNode(a.getFirstChild());
		b = findNextTextOrElementNode(b.getFirstChild());
		while (!(a == null || b == null)) {
			int nodeTypeA = getEffectiveNodeType(a);
			int nodeTypeB = getEffectiveNodeType(b);
			if (nodeTypeA != nodeTypeB) return false;
			switch (nodeTypeA) {
				case Node.TEXT_NODE:
					if (a.getNodeType() == NodeImpl.REFERENCE_NODE && b.getNodeType() == NodeImpl.REFERENCE_NODE) {
						if (!safeEquals(((ReferenceNode)a).getReference().getNodeValue(), ((ReferenceNode)b).getReference().getNodeValue())) return false;
					} else if (a.getNodeType() == NodeImpl.REFERENCE_NODE) {
						if (!safeEquals(((ReferenceNode)a).getReference().getNodeValue(), b.getNodeValue())) return false;
					} else if (b.getNodeType() == NodeImpl.REFERENCE_NODE) {
						if (!safeEquals(a.getNodeValue(), ((ReferenceNode)b).getReference().getNodeValue())) return false;
					} else
						if (!safeEquals(a.getNodeValue(), b.getNodeValue())) return false;
					break;
				case Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
					if (!compareElements(a, b)) return false;
					break;
				default:
					throw new RuntimeException("unexpected node type " + nodeTypeA);
			}
			a = findNextTextOrElementNode(a.getNextSibling());
			b = findNextTextOrElementNode(b.getNextSibling());
		}
		return a == b;		// both null
	}

	private Node findNextTextOrElementNode(Node n) {
		for(;;) {
			if (n == null) return null;
			int nodeType = getEffectiveNodeType(n);
			if (nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE || nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE) return n;
			n = n.getNextSibling();
		}
	}

	private int getEffectiveNodeType(Node n) {
		int nodeType = n.getNodeType();
		if (nodeType == NodeImpl.REFERENCE_NODE) {
			nodeType = ((ReferenceNode) n).getReference().getNode().getNodeType();
		}
		return nodeType;
	}

	private boolean compareAttributes(Node a, Node b) {
		NamedNodeMap nnma = a.getAttributes(), nnmb = b.getAttributes();
		if (getAttrCount(nnma) != getAttrCount(nnmb)) return false;
        for (int i=0; i<nnma.getLength(); i++) {
			Node ta = nnma.item(i);
            if (Namespaces.XMLNS_NS.equals(ta.getNamespaceURI()))
                continue;
            Node tb = ta.getLocalName() == null ? nnmb.getNamedItem(ta.getNodeName()) : nnmb.getNamedItemNS(ta.getNamespaceURI(), ta.getLocalName());
			if (tb == null || !safeEquals(ta.getNodeValue(), tb.getNodeValue())) return false;
		}
		return true;
	}

    /**
     * Return the number of real attributes in the map. Filter out
     * xmlns namespace attributes.
     *
     * @param nnm
     * @return
     */
    private int getAttrCount(NamedNodeMap nnm) {
        int count = 0;
        for (int i=0; i<nnm.getLength(); i++) {
            Node n = nnm.item(i);
            if (!Namespaces.XMLNS_NS.equals(n.getNamespaceURI()))
                ++count;
        }
        return count;
    }

    private boolean compareNames(Node a, Node b) {
		if (a.getLocalName() != null || b.getLocalName() != null) {
			return safeEquals(a.getNamespaceURI(), b.getNamespaceURI()) && safeEquals(a.getLocalName(), b.getLocalName());
		}
		return safeEquals(a.getNodeName(), b.getNodeName());
	}

	private boolean safeEquals(Object a, Object b) {
		return a == null ? b == null : a.equals(b);
	}

}

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WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 18—Technology-rich equipment, tools, drones, robots and vehicles are revolutionizing how America's commercial and industrial construction projects are built, according to the July/August issue of Construction Executive magazine. Improved safety, productivity gains and expedited schedules are driving industry-wide investment in technology acquisitions and upgrades among contractors of all sizes.
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Telematics give workers real-time vehicle performance statistics, location and speed via mobile apps.
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Sexual Identity Lecture @ Trinity Episcopal Church Pocatello, ID
by emily | Sep 26, 2013 | Positive Sexuality Blog
The Trinity Episcopal Church's LGBTQ Action Committee was organized in June of 2012 to support the youth of our community who are struggling with sexual identity issues and searching for a spiritual home. The group joined efforts with All Under One Roof whose goal is to provide a safe and empowering environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning youth and the ISU Anderson Gender Center. The Gender Center takes part in commemorating nationally-designated months and events designed to draw attention to particular gender-related issues.
After offering a very successful film series in 2012-13, the Trinity LGBTQ Action Committee decided to sponsor a lecture series this year on the various aspects of sexual identity. The series will start on Monday, October 14th at 7:00 pm in the Trinity Parish Hall, at the corner of Lander and North Arthur Ave, with a lecture by Christopher Loether, professor from Idaho State University.
The topic of the first lecture is Homosexuality across Time and Cultures. This talk will focus on the practice of homosexuality both in ancient Europe, namely among the Greeks and Romans, and also among Native North American peoples. Primarily in Greek society, and to a lesser extent in Roman society, homosexuality and specifically pederasty, was practiced among upper class males. It was considered an important step in a young man's education. Homosexuality in many Native American societies was seen, and still is seen by some, as a gift from the Creator, and homosexuals were considered a third gender with a ritualized place in society.
Christopher Loether is an anthropologist who specializes in western Native American languages and cultures. He is currently the Assistant Chairman of the Anthropology Department at Idaho State University, as well as the Associate Director of the American Indian Studies Program and the Co-Director of the Shoshoni Language Project.
The second lecture in the series will be held on November 11th at 7:00 pm in the Trinity Parish Hall and the topic is The Development of Sexual Identity. There are many different ideas about how one develops their sexual identity. Is it entirely biological? Do social and environmental factors influence your sexual identity? Can your identity change over your lifespan? These are some of the questions we will address as we look at current research and theories about how our sexual identity comes to be.
Presented by Emily E. Prior, MA, Executive Director of Center for Positive Sexuality in Los Angeles, and Adjunct Sociology Professor at Idaho State University, College of the Canyons, and Pasadena City College. More information about Emily and the Center can be found here: https://www.positivesexuality.org
Coffee and dessert will be served.
Questions? Email info@trinitypocatello.org or call 208.233.2640

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Home MMA News Ariel Helwani Tyron Woodley rips Joe Rogan for commentary hypocrisy at UFC 248
Tyron Woodley rips Joe Rogan for commentary hypocrisy at UFC 248
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It appears Tyron Woodley won't be joining The Joe Rogan Experience podcast anytime soon, as he slammed the UFC commentator for his hypocrisy on the UFC 248 broadcast.
In an Instagram post, Ariel Helwani shared a quote from Israel Adesanya regarding his hopes of finishing Yoel Romero at UFC 248 last weekend.
"My plan was to flying knee him in the face," Adesanya said. "I had three ways of finishing him. That was one of them. I was probing him, I was attacking him, but he never countered back… It was the weirdest rhythm of a fight."
Adesanya ultimately defended his middleweight belt by claiming the unanimous decision victory, but the crowd was left irate by the lacklustre showdown.
Woodley responded to this post from Helwani by calling out Joe Rogan for failing to criticize Adesanya's inactivity the same way he criticized Woodley's inactivity in previous title fights.
"Funny how no one got into Rogan's ear piece and let him know he broke the record for least amount of strikes thrown in a title fight," Woodley said. "No shitting on their prima donna. Just excuses and exceptions. How convenient."
The former welterweight champion felt the wrath of the MMA community, particularly UFC president Dana White during some of his title defences. White launched a scathing attack on Woodley for a anti-climatic victory against Demian Maia in 2017. At the time, Woodley held the record for the least amount of strikes thrown in a title fight.
He also received criticism for his prior bouts against Stephen "Wonderboy" Thomson and didn't receive the same praise as Adesanya for his defensive strategy. The athlete has since tried to mend his relationship with the UFC boss, but his recent comments prove his relationship with the MMA big-wigs are still strained.
Regardless of any past fault-finding, Tyron Woodley will have the opportunity to shut down naysayers when he returns to the Octagon to face top ranked welterweight Leon Edwards at UFC London on March 21.
This article first appeared on BJPENN.com on 3/11/2020.
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Lights Camera Rock and Roll - The Photography of Paul Jendrasiak at the Muskegon Museum of Art
Let me start off by saying, this was one of the most fun interviews I have done in a while, and it could have easily gotten out of hand...quick as we sat down to reminisce about the photography gallery that's going to be on display beginning May 23rd at the Muskegon Museum of Art. Tough as it might have been, the artist and myself managed to keep it together....for the most part and talk about the display and the work that went in to the gallery...30 years in the making. Let's rewind to begin.
Way back when, I was just a lad getting started in radio. There was the internship where I got my start, then the next step was to be hired on as a "board op". The board op had to stick around the radio station and run the music, commercials and everything else when the actual air personality went out to broadcast live somewhere. It was the second step to being "on the air" and it was a chance to get used to the mechanics before you drove yourself into the wall actually talking on the radio for the first time. Which I did....and how. Amazing the humiliation you'll put yourself though for $6 bucks an hour if you want something bad enough. Anyway, Paul Jendrasiak was also a board op and if memory serves me right, he did some air work too back when. Part time, weekend stuff and it was always good to work with Paul. Lights Camera Rock and Roll Opening Event on Facebook
Paul on the other hand was a lot more eclectic in his focus when it came to all things media and music. Ya, we were both a couple of "mullets" (his was WAY better than mine) but we loved the heavy and hard stuff and while I was out mingling with fans and bands, Paul was writing about them for the Music Review and gathering up photo passes to really capture some amazing moments from behind the lens. Paul's photography and journalistic approach led him to a world of surreal experiences, much like I had, but just from a different angle and the amount of shared experiences we had over the years....the amazing events, the incredible people...it's truly the stuff dreams are made of. Paul did have one distinct advantage though.
Paul's memories are all preserved. Photos...1000's of them, the best of which will be on display beginning may 23rd at the Muskegon Museum of Art. It's a comprehensive gallery covering the three decades Paul has been on stage, or side stage with the biggest names in the business. Moments just before a lot of bands really hit the big time, or some moments of when established icons came to West Michigan for a visit.
Paul and I sat down for a chat in front of Metallica front man James Hetfield, a photo Paul took at the LC Walker Arena on November 1st 1991. Paul was behind the camera, and I was in the center of the stage in the "Snake Pit" for the show that barely left the LC Walker Arena standing. Take a listen.
His memories are in print...mine...all in my head. I think in the long term, I had to give the win to Paul for his amazing work and his terrific approach to an industry we both grew up loving...and both found ways to dig in deeper than most anyone could. It's been a great 30 years of friendship...and even the few minutes of getting together brought back so many memories. Please join Paul for his gallery opening and photo discussion on May 23rd. I will see you there to hear Paul's side of the story. For more about the Muskegon Museum of Art, click on their logo below.
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Biografia
Nacque a Milano nel 1959 da genitori irpini di Cervinara.

Suo padre fu direttore dell'Agenzia delle Entrate al Nord.

Milanese frequenta ragioneria e dopo la maturità decide di entrare in accademia e di arruolarsi nella Guardia di Finanza diventando tenente colonnello,

Nel 2001 gli viene affidato un incarico presso il Ministero dell'economia e delle finanze guidato da Giulio Tremonti, diventandone l'anno seguente consigliere politico,  congedandosi nel 2004 dalla Guardia di Finanza.

Lo stesso anno, sfruttando gli esami riconosciuti a chi ha frequentato l'accademia, Milanese consegue la laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Giurisprudenza all'Università di Salerno all'età di 45 anni e si iscrive al registro dei praticanti presso l'Ordine degli avvocati di Milano il 27 settembre del 2007.

Poi apre uno studio nel capoluogo lombardo in zona San Paolo e nel frattempo consegue una laurea magistrale in Scienze della sicurezza economico-finanziaria e un master in diritto tributario internazionale.

Nel 2007 supera l'esame di abilitazione alla professione di avvocato e grazie ad una legge voluta da Tremonti ha iniziato ad insegnare alla Scuola superiore dell'economia e delle finanze.

Ha svolto ruoli di consulenza per diverse aziende pubbliche come Alitalia e Ferrovie dello Stato.

Deputato PdL
Simpatizzante di Forza Italia per le elezioni politiche del 2008, Milanese,  viene candidato a deputato in Campania venendo poi eletto. Milanese viene nominato anche vice coordinatore regionale del PdL in Campania dal coordinatore regionale Nicola Cosentino. Durante la legislatura è membro della Commissione Finanze della Camera dal 21 maggio 2008 al 7 giugno 2011, membro della Commissione Bilancio dal 6 maggio 2010 al 5 dicembre 2011 in sostituzione del Sottosegretario di Stato al Dipartimento per i Rapporti con il Parlamento Laura Ravetto ed infine è membro della Commissione Unione Europea dal 5 dicembre 2011.

Il 21 aprile 2012 viene nominato dal Presidente della Commissione UE della Camera Mario Pescante (PdL), di cui Milanese è membro, relatore del Documento di programmazione economico-finanziaria (DEF 2012) del Governo Monti. Il PD ha giudicato la nomina di Milanese inopportuna e ha chiesto le sue dimissioni essendovi in corso indagini a suo carico. A causa delle polemiche Milanese rinuncia all'incarico.

Nomina alla Scuola Superiore dell'Economia e delle Finanze
Nell'agosto del 2013, Milanese viene riassegnato alla Scuola superiore dell'economia e delle finanze, direttamente controllata dall'omonimo Ministero, dove aveva inizialmente preso servizio nel 2007, in seguito ad una norma oggetto di notevoli critiche. La nuova nomina suscita notevoli polemiche, anche per l'entità dello stipendio di Milanese: 194.332 euro lordi l'anno.

Indagini giudiziarie
Il 7 luglio 2011 il GIP di Napoli dispone la richiesta di arresto nei confronti di Milanese per il reato di corruzione. Insieme a Milanese sono stati raggiunti dalle medesime misure cautelari il Sindaco di Voghera Carlo Bardieri (PdL) e il commercialista vogherese Guido Marchesi. L'accusa è stata lanciata dall'avvocato Paolo Viscione, settantenne cervinarese che accusa di avere elargito allo stesso Milanese pagamenti non dovuti e costosi regali per un totale di circa un milione di euro. Tali elargizioni, quali cospicui versamenti di danaro e altri donativi quali orologi di pregio, gioielli, auto di lusso (Ferrari e Bentley), viaggi e soggiorni turistici all'estero, erano il corrispettivo della rivelazione di notizie riservate e dei successivi interventi volti a rallentare le indagini condotte dalla Guardia di Finanza, in cui Milanese aveva buoni contatti avendo fatto parte del Corpo stesso e grazie al suo ruolo di consigliere politico del Ministro dell'Economia da cui dipende la Guardia di Finanza, sulle società dell'imprenditore Viscione. Le indagini hanno portato a verificare che Milanese aveva venduto alcuni immobili da lui posseduti in Francia ad altre persone, fra le quali Marchese e Barbieri favorendone allo stesso tempo l'attribuzione di incarichi agli stessi in diverse società controllate dal ministero dell'Economia, quali Ferrovie dello Stato, Ansaldo Breda, Oto Melara ed altre. Dall'indagine emerge come fosse Milanese stesso a gestire l'intera girandola di nomine di competenza del Ministero negli enti pubblici che passavano tutte per lui grazie ad un forte legame con il Ministro dell'Economia Giulio Tremonti di cui Milanese era consigliere. Inoltre emerge che Milanese avrebbe pagato un canone mensile di 8.500 euro di affitto per un appartamento sito nel centro di Roma, di proprietà del Pio Sodalizio dei Piceni in cui però risulta abitare come inquilino lo stesso Tremonti, il quale saputa la notizia decide di lasciare l'appartamento. Infine emergerebbe una divisione interna nel Corpo della Guardia di Finanza divisa in due cordatecostituite in vista della nomina del prossimo Comandante Generale: quella facente capo a Milanese e quella a Michele Adinolfi, Capo di Stato Maggiore del Corpo, vicino al premier Silvio Berlusconi. Secondo quanto riferito da Tremonti ai magistrati egli decise di accettare la casa offertagli da Milanese proprio perché si sentiva spiato e pedinato da alcuni membri della Guardia di Finanza nel periodo in cui dormiva nella foresteria della caserma di via Sicilia a Roma. A causa delle pressioni mediatiche subite, il 26 giugno 2011 Milanese rassegna le dimissioni da consigliere politico del Ministro dell'Economia Giulio Tremonti. Il 9 marzo 2012 la Procura di Napoli ha chiuso le indagini rinviando Milanese a giudizio.

Il 14 settembre 2011 la Giunta per le autorizzazioni della Camera ha approvato la mozione Gava (PdL) per non concedere l'autorizzazione dopo che il precedente relatore il leghista Marco Paolini aveva rinunciato chiedendo che Milanese fosse difeso da un membro del suo partito il PdL, con 11 voti favorevoli (PdL, Lega Nord, Pt, Pri del Gruppo misto), 10 voti contrari (PD, IdV, UdC, Fli) nessun astenuto o assente. Il leader della Lega Nord Umberto Bossi ha ipotizzato liberta di coscienza per il voto in Aula dei deputati leghisti.

Il 22 settembre 2011 la Camera dei Deputati a scrutinio segreto nega l'autorizzazione ad eseguire misure cautelari nei confronti del deputato Milanese con 306 si 312 no e nessun astenuto. Votano contro la maggioranza di Governo composta da Pdl, Popolo e Territorio, Forza del Sud, Partito Repubblicano Italiano e Lega Nord oltre ai Radicali del Pd mentre le opposizioni PD, Italia dei Valori, UdC, Fli, Alleanza per l'Italia, Mpa e LD si esprimono a favore. Non hanno preso parte al voto le minoranze linguistiche (Südtiroler Volkspartei e Autonomie Liberté Démocratie). Sì unanime alla richiesta di perquisizione di tre cassette di sicurezza come richiesto dalla Procura. Assente il Ministro Giulio Tremonti. La Camera prima aveva dato parere favorevole alla perquisizione di tre cassette di proprietà di Milanese in cui erano stati ritrovati alcuni gioielli.

Il nome di Milanese emerge anche nell'inchiesta sugli appalti Enav e sui presunti fondi neri di Finmeccanica. Fabrizio Testa è accusato di aver aiutato il deputato a procacciare un acquirente per il suo yacht con una cresta di almeno 250.000 euro, per ottenere un appoggio che lo aiutasse a essere nuovamente confermato nel CdA di Enav. Cosa che però non avvenne, ma venne nominato dal Tesoro alla presidenza di Techno Sky. Il 10 marzo 2012 inoltre la Procura di Roma indaga, in relazione al filone Enav su favori e nomine, Milanese insieme all'ex Ministro dell'Economia Giulio Tremonti per finanziamento illecito di un deputato per l'appartamento in via Campo Marzio in Roma dove Tremonti avrebbe alloggiato da luglio 2010 a luglio 2011 con l'affitto pagato da Milanese. L'ipotesi dell'inchiesta è che l'imprenditore Angelo Proietti, titolare della Edil Ars, abbia pagato di tasca propria, tra 2008 ed il 2009, i 250.000 euro di lavori eseguiti nell'immobile di 200 metri quadrati di via del Campo Marzio per entrare nelle grazie del ministro Tremonti e per consolidare il legame con Milanese il quale, in Sogei, aveva un peso specifico rilevante in materia di nomine e di affidamento di appalti. Il 28 marzo dello stesso anno il Tribunale di Roma lo condanna a 8 mesi di reclusione.

Il 30 maggio 2012 Milanese risulta indagato dalla Procura di Milano nell'inchiesta che ha portato all'arresto Massimo Ponzellini, ex presidente della Banca popolare di Milano ed ex presidente di Impregilo per delle tangenti da circa 6 milioni di euro. Il deputato è indagato per associazione per delinquere e corruzione, perché come risulta nell'ordinanza a carico dell'ex presidente di Bpm, si sarebbe speso da relatore parlamentare per l'introduzione di una legge sul gioco d'azzardo favorevole a Francesco Corallo, titolare della società Atlantis. Le indagini del nucleo di polizia tributaria della Gdf, infatti, hanno ricostruito come nel 2010 Milanese, parlamentare, riuscì a far approvare una legge ad hoc sul gioco d'azzardo per favorire la società Atlantis di Corallo. Legge che rientrava nella necessità da parte dello Stato di reperire, come ha dichiarato un altro testimone, Guido Marino, legale rappresentante della Mag Associati, «risorse per la ricostruzione dell'Abruzzo dopo il terremoto». La legge, in sostanza, ha istituito la possibilità di utilizzare le slot machine videolottery, ossia di nuova generazione. La legge venne approvata e Corallo ottenne anche il finanziamento sospetto di 148 milioni di euro da Bpm guidata allora da Ponzellini per comprare la nuova tecnologia.

Il 5 giugno 2014 Milanese risulta tra gli oltre 100 indagati dalla Procura di Venezia per le tangenti sullo scandalo MOSE (che ha portato agli arresti anche il Sindaco Pd di Venezia Giorgio Orsoni e una richiesta di arresto alla Camera per l'ex Governatore del Veneto Giancarlo Galan). Secondo l'accusa avrebbe ricevuto una tangente di 500.000 euro dal Consorzio Venezia Nuova per far sbloccare dal CIPE i fondi necessari per il Mose. Per l'accusa quella mazzetta Milanese l'avrebbe dovuta poi girare all'ex Ministro dell'Economia Giulio Tremonti (di cui era consigliere), che tuttavia non risulta indagato. Il 4 luglio 2014 viene arrestato per corruzione in seguito all'inchiesta sul MOSE.

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Kendu leaf collection in Odisha has become a bone of contention between local communities and the forest department, again. Two tribal villages, Nuapada (105 households) and Dheknapada (55 households) in Kalahandi district, are unable to sell the kendu leaf in spite of having the required titles to sell it as the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) has denied them a Transit Permit (TP), necessary to transport produce outside the forest area it is grown in.
The state forest department has repeatedly misused it to deny communities their right over Minor Forest Produce (MFP), including kendu leaf.
This is a violation of the Schedule Tribe and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (FRA), according to which forest dwelling communities have ownership over MFP.
In fact, Gram Sabahs of villages where Community Forest Rights (CFR) titles have been given by the forest department can issue their own TPs. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, (Kendu Leaves), Odisha confirmed the same in a Right To Information request February this year.
The problem arises due to the fact that the leaf is recognised as a nationalised product in the state, which gives the Forest Department a monopoly over its trade.
The 200 odd households of the villages have collected more than 100,000 kerries (1 kerry = 40 leaves) so far.
In what was a sign of forest dwellers successfully asserting their rights under FRA, in November 2017, the forest department of Odisha had allowed six villages in Kalahandi district to sell kendu leaves as per their discretion. The department's notification dated November 17, came after the six villages were denied ownership rights over kendu, a commercially lucrative Minor Forest Produce (MFP) May last year.
"Inspired by the success of Gram Sabha led kendu leaf business, Nuapada and Dheknapada undertook bush cutting of the leaf and plucked the leaves. Now the Divisional Forest Officer has refused to issue transit permit," says Chitta Ranjan Pani, a local tribal rights activist. "The DFO is denying TP on a baseless assertion that the villages' CFR areas are not properly demarcated and hence TP cannot be issued," Pani added.
A letter from the DFO, Kendu Leaves, Kalahandi, addressing the Naupada Gram Sabha, has asking for the submission of their CFR map and a government permission to trade in kendu leaves.
"It is unfortunate that the DFO has asked the Gram Sabha to submit their CFR map instead of helping the Gram Sabha to demarcate the CFR boundary in a participatory manner. It has been more than six years since Nuapada and Dheknapada gram sabhas got the CFR title and Forest Department never bothered to ask the same," says Pani.
The Jamguda Gram Sabha is also facing a similar problem. For the first time, Jamguda gram sabha was involved in kendu leaf collection. But after having collected more than 100,000 kerries, forest department has withheld TP on account of CFR area demarcation issues.
The DFO was unavailable for comment.


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Is Consolidation on the Horizon for India's Banking Sector?
By John Manning – International Banker
On April 1, 2017, India's largest bank, the State Bank of India (SBI), expanded its size even further after completing its long-awaited merger with Bharatiya Mahila Bank and five of its commercial banking subsidiaries: State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Patiala and State Bank of Travancore. By most metrics, the merger created a banking behemoth—it propelled SBI onto the list of the world's 50 biggest banks by assets, while the bank can now boast of a total customer base of 370 million, a network of 24,000 branches and ATMs numbering almost 60,000. However, the financial picture for the new entity since the merger leaves much to be desired. In addition to posting huge losses, the consolidated bank has a gross nonperforming asset (NPA) ratio of 9.04 percent—more than 2 percent higher than the equivalent figure for the parent bank alone and just one indication of the bad-debt problem that has mounted to serious levels for many of India's banks. As such, the calls to address the rising NPAs through industry consolidation are growing louder.
Indeed, some estimates suggest that bad loans constitute almost 20 percent of banks' total assets, having grown by a staggering 135 percent during the last two years. State-owned banks shoulder many of those bad loans, and were estimated to have been lumbered with around Rs 6 trillion of nonperforming assets by the end of 2016, 54.6 percent more than what they had amassed 12 months earlier. More than five banks have recently reported a gross ratio of bad loans to total loans of more than 15 percent.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has sought to take significant strides to curtail the NPA problem. Since April 1, a revised prompt corrective action (PCA) framework has been implemented on banks, mandating them to maintain minimum thresholds related to capital, NPAs, profitability and leverage ratios. If those required thresholds are not met, one of three scenarios could transpire for the problem bank—either it undergoes a merger, it undertakes a reconstruction, or it declares bankruptcy. As such, many see the implementation of the PCA as a precursor to further banking-sector consolidation in the coming years.
Indeed, efforts in this vein have received notable backing recently from Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel and Deputy Governor Viral Acharya. According to Patel, "It is not clear that we need so many public sector banks. The system could be better off if they are consolidated into fewer but healthier banks". He also believes that given the abundance of cooperative banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) that can serve communities, "some banks can be merged, as a quid pro quo for timely government technical injection". Acharya, meanwhile, has publicly posited that India's banking system will prosper if it is "consolidated into fewer but healthier banks", having also lamented the fact that the poorest performing lenders seem to receive the most capital in order to shore them back up to regulatory requirements. In March, he suggested that regulators "must not allocate capital so poorly, recreate 'Heads I win, tails the taxpayer loses' incentives, and sow the seeds of another lending excess".
In addition to the central bank, the government's finance minister, Arun Jaitley, has increasingly lent a supportive voice to the idea of consolidation among the country's state-run banks. Jaitley believes that the presence of weaker banks is simply unnecessary in today's globally competitive climate, recently asserting that he wants "fewer banks but bigger and stronger banks which can be of international level". Although he has not implemented any explicit consolidation measures as yet, the minister said that the government is "seriously" reviewing such moves, and that "as far as consolidation in some areas is concerned, it is in fairly advanced stages".
If the government does impose some official policies, it will follow a series of measures it has taken to whip the public-sector banks into shape during the last few years. Soon after coming to power three years ago, the Narendra Modi government announced the "Indradhanush" initiative, which involved a planned capital injection into the lenders over a four-year period (2016-19) of Rs 700 billion; the creation of a Banks Board Bureau in order to more effectively implement growth and development strategies; and the proposal of organisational changes in order to improve the structure of banking governance. In order to expedite the recovery process from delinquent borrowers, moreover, the government passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code to simplify the framework surrounding bankruptcy, as well as allowed systemically important non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) to be classed as "secured lenders" under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act), thus enabling them to enforce security interest on assets charged to them without having to resort to judicial authorities.
However, according to S&P Global Ratings, such measures are unlikely to be enough to reduce the overall level of stressed assets within India's banking sector. The ratings agency recently forecast that total stressed assets will increase to 15 percent of total loans by March 2018, despite regulatory requirements continuing to rise until 2019. Public-sector banks are expected to account for the overwhelming majority of those assets; in the words of S&P, "the performance of the…public sector banks that we rate was dismal in the March quarter of the last fiscal. Year-over-year increase in non-performing loans (NPLs) led to higher provisions and lower profits and the capital available to absorb unexpected losses remained thin". They may be required to implement "haircuts" on loans to certain borrowers, while profitability is also expected to remain subdued.
Perhaps such statistics will provide an even stronger argument for industry consolidation. However, whether any more mergers materialise in the near future is not certain. The finance ministry recently predicted that it expects further merger activity to affect three to four more public-sector banks in the country, with some reports implying that those lenders to be affected will be Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India and Canara Bank, all of which are expected to merge with other banks. Others see consolidation between banks and non-banking entities; for instance, Moelis & Company's head, Manisha Girotra, recently observed that "rather than bank-to-bank, there is a lot of consolidation activity in bank to NBFC, bank to MFI…and I think you will see more of those happening. Also, a lot of capital is chasing the FinTech players….I think the FinTech sector will remain active in the 12-18 months with regard to consolidation".
Either way, as the concerns over the health of India's banks continue to grow, the more pressures there will be on regulatory authorities to consolidate the sector.
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Bitcoin Price Could Get As Low As $9,000, Asserts Pundit Who Correctly Predicted BTC's Top
January 8, 2023 mediabest Bitcoin
Bitcoin continued to trend range bound on Saturday, riling investors who had to contend with lacklustre price volatility in the past 14 months. At press time, the top cryptocurrency was trading at $16,966 after a 1.11% increase in the past 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap data. Its biggest rival, Ethereum, also traded sluggishly at $1263- a level it has been toying at for the past two days.
Unlike the past year, where a clique of high net-worth investors like Tim Draper and Ark Invest CEO Cathie woods made extremely optimistic calls for Bitcoin, it has increasingly become harder for investors to predict where crypto prices may be going as 2023 unravels. However, some sceptics are convinced that Bitcoin will plunge lower before the curve can flatten out in the coming days.
For instance, Gareth Soloway, the chief market strategist of InTheMoneyStocks, believes there is more room for Bitcoin to the downside. Speaking to Kitco News earlier yesterday, the pundit who correctly predicted Bitcoin's 2021 top, noted that Bitcoin could plunge to $9,000.
"I'm still looking at eventually $12,000 to $13,000 in a short-term target. I do believe it will go lower than that and pierce $10,000 and could go as low as $9,000 before all this is over." Soloway told Kitco's, David Lin.
According to him, the Bitcoin chart was in the process of forming a "bear flag pattern" which, if validated, could see its price drop to the said level. He, however, stated that BTC was likely to see a minor rally in the near term.
"All we have to do is take out $17,000, and I actually think we are going to get a short-term rally to about $18,400. So actually, I'm very short-term bullish, but you can't ignore the bigger pattern here, which is still bearish."
Soloway's predictions come even as the FTX debacle hammers the markets. In the past two months, firms linked to Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire have been folding, crushing investors' risk appetite. To Soloway, however, whereas "there is still some flushing to do", there was no doubt that all this was getting closer to ending.
"We are also getting close to potential regulation, which I think will be a huge asset for bitcoin and crypto as that will be an avenue for big money to start dabbling in crypto again," he went on.
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When performing shaft alignment, the most important goal is to align the machine to within proper tolerances. One criterion that has an impact on the tolerances that should be used is identifying and selecting the correct coupling type. In the setup shown below in Figure 1, spacer coupling tolerances were being used. However, in order to achieve a proper alignment, the alignment should have been performed using the short flex tolerances. Between the two shafts, a long coupling is used to connect them, however the connection between the motor shaft and the spacer (Left side in picture) is rigidly coupled and has no flexible element. Thus this setup should be treated as a continuous extension of the motor shaft. Therefore, the alignment should be performed using the short flex tolerances at the flexible coupling on the right side. Spacer tolerances should only be used when the distance between the two flex planes of a coupling is four inches or greater.
For a more detailed explanation of using the spacer tolerances, watch our Spacer Shaft Alignment Crash Course Video.
The standard industry norms of 2 mils offset and 0.3 mils per inch of angularity at 1800 rpm equate roughly to vectors of 1.4 mils of offset and 0.17 mils per inch of angularity. Therefore, you can apply a sliding scale when you look at your misalignment results: If you have misalignment only in one plane (either vertical or horizontal), apply the full value of the standard tolerance; if you have roughly equal misalignment in both planes apply the more conservative values shown above to both. This way you will not exceed your vector limits in any direction. To find the vector limits for any RPM, simply take the square root of the standard limits.
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An integer overflow bug in YouTube!
Certainly not Google, which assumed a 32-bit number would be enough to keep track of how many times a video had been played.
In a four-digit decimal number, the biggest value you can represent is achieved by putting the biggest digit in every position, so you max out at 9999.
Similarly, in a four-bit binary number, the biggest possible value you can store is 11112 (the little subscripted 2 means base 2, or binary), which is 15 in decimal.
Generalising, N bits can store 2N different values.
So, if you start counting at zero, you will reach 2N–1 before you exhaust all possible 2N values.
Therefore the biggest number you can fit into 32 bits is 232–1, or 4,294,967,295.
That's one less than 4G, or approximately 4 billion.
Actually, the YouTube video counter uses what's called a signed 32-bit number.
Loosely speaking, the most significant bit of the 32 is used to denote whether the number is positive or negative.
So, in 32 bits of signed number, there is one bit for the sign, and 31 bits available for counting, meaning that you can represent 232 different numbers ranging from -231 up to 231–1.
In other words, if you try to count past 231–1, the arithmetic goes haywire because the addition produces a carry, which propagates into the bit that determines the sign of the number.
→ In fact, because negative numbers are usually made not just by setting the special "is this number negative" bit but also by flipping all the others (the so-called complement system), when you add 1 to the biggest positive number, you wrap round to the biggest negative number and start going up from there. So, when you get an integer overflow, adding 1 does not give the next number in sequence.
In other words, if any YouTube video should ever rack up 2,147,483,647 views, it will have hit its limit.
Is a 2G limit in this context actually a problem?
Google's 17-character restriction on Android passwords is a ridiculous limit; Microsoft's 16 character Outlook.com passwords are even worse; but as arbitrary limits go, two billion YouTube views feels as though it ought to be more than enough.
Can you imagine how many real people would actually have to watch a video to rack up viewing figures that high?
The problem, though, is that even really big numbers sometimes stop being big enough, no matter how excessive they may once have seemed.
Even daily human tasks can clock up surprisingly large counts: as we reported recently, the South African Navy has now fired its 300-year-old Noon Guns in Cape Town on more than 65535 days in the past two-and-a-bit centuries of unbroken noonday gunning.
Incidentally, 65535 is the biggest value you can store in a 16-bit number, and formed the infamous 64KB limit of early home computers.
But we're now well past the 4GB limit of 32-bit addresses, and even the 64GB limit (36-bit addressing) that is possible on later-model 32-bit Intel CPUs.
Today's commodity 64-bit CPUs can already support up to 48-bit addresses (256TB); are ready to move to 52 bits (4PB) when we need that much; and can, in theory, be expanded all the way to 64 bits (16EB).
So you probably won't be surprised to hear that the 2 gigaview limit on YouTube has now been surpassed.
Admittedly, our headline was a bit of a spoiler: the double-gigabusting video is Oppan Gangnam Style by Park Jae-sang, though you probably know him as Psy.
We're not going to embed the video here, even though Google has apparently patched its counting mechanism to cope with the South Korean rapster's enormous popularity.
We'll just assume you've already watched it.
IIRC Google went for signed integers again…so he only has to get to 9 million million million.
PS. You meant 18,446,744,073,709,551,616, or 18 quintillion in American notation (18 million million million).
I am so out of it… I never heard of Park Jae-sang, not even as Psy, much less Oppan Gangnam Style. Somehow I don't think I'll go looking for the video, either.
Seriously, Gangnam? Is that Korean?
Was it just me or does this remind you of the bug in Pac-Man when a player manages to reach the so-called kill screen as the game's level counter isn't able to go beyond a set limit?
You could wrap the score in the original Tetris, too, but you had to be a *very* good player. That was a signed 16-bit number, so your score went from positive 32,767 to negative 32,768.
My son exceeded 'maxint' regularly in Tetris. He didn't realize why it was crashing until I called his attention to the score counter just before such an event. He was quite disillusioned, but I told him Spectrum Holobyte would make it good. We backed up the diskette –it wasn't copy protected–and sent the original off to them.
Sure enough, a few weeks later we received a new diskette with the bug fixed.
Surprisingly, there was one other change as well. One of the middle screens had been the annual Russian May Day Armament parade in Red Square. Lots of guns and missiles. In light of the fact that detente had occurred after the initial release but before the bug fix, we found that the warlike screen had been replaced by a pastoral Gorky Park!
I could probably come up with diskettes for both versions if pressed.
Ahhh….I meant the original Tetris. OK, not quite the *original* original (which was for a Soviet computer) but the IBM PC port of Tetris that also came from the Soviet Union.
There were no graphics screens because the game ran in text mode. It was written in Turbo Pascal and the score was stored in a signed 16-bit integer. The game didn't crash when you exceeded 32767, it jut wrapped to -32768 and went back up from there.


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Q: How to fix 'TypeError: Cannot call method "getRange" of null' in Google Apps Script I'm setting up a script to auto-populate a template document in Google Docs using data from Google Sheets. I keep encountering the 'TypeError: Cannot call method "getRange" of null' error. How do I resolve this error?
From what I've read, this error usually comes from not having the variable defined properly (in this case, the name of the sheet). However, I'm sure the name is the same as the file name in sheets. I've tried changing the name in both places and even making an entirely new document.
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This is the error message I receive:

TypeError: Cannot call method "getRange" of null. (line 14, file "Code")

This is the log from   Logger.log(ss + ' ' + sheet);:
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A: Issue:
sheet.getRange("A2:A16")

TypeError: Cannot call method "getRange" of null. (line 14, file "Code")

The error means sheet is null and null doesn't have a getRange method. Only a real Sheet class does.
As written in the documentation, There is only one reason, where the sheet returned is null.

Returns null if there is no sheet with the given name.

There is only one answer. It's when that sheet name doesn't exist.
Possible solutions:
sheet name refers to the tab name in a spreadsheet/workbook. It does not refer to the filename or document name. By default, the first sheet/tab is named "Sheet1". Try
ss.getSheetByName("Sheet1");

If you still have trouble getting the sheet, check for spaces, non printable characters in the sheet name. Alternatively, Rename the sheet to something simple like S1.

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MACK WILLIAMS. President Duterte and high stakes poker.
By Mack Williams | On 31 October 2016
Following President Duterte's recent trips to China and Japan he has continued to play his hand in what has become a high stakes poker game with the US and China attracting a growing number of interested onlookers. Despite the twists in his game, which have often been interpreted as wobbles or even backflips by many foreign observers, Duterte has kept his cards close to his chest and tried to stay on course to rebalance The Philippines' relationship with the US and China. An axiom for understanding the Philippines domestic scene has always been " thanks to a free and hyperactive media there are no secrets but the truth is always extremely difficult to determine". That is certainly in play again now!
Duterte's policy goals have been driven by a combination of factors:.
an assumption that the Philippines would be the most adversely affected by any military confrontation in the South China Sea.
equally, the US military capacity and will in the region over the longer term is increasingly doubtful.
therefore the only realistic way to regain Philippine fishing access to the contested area and explore the prospects of co-development of undersea resources is to reopen direct negotiations with the Chinese.
He played his China card on the recent visit to Beijing bringing home an impressive basket of aid, trade and investment offers from the Chinese which overall received wide support in the Philippines. Although some Chinese leaks hinted that a deal had been struck on fishing, he came back empty handed. But it was agreed that the direct negotiations which the Chinese had called off when the previous President had commenced legal charges against China would be resumed.
It soon emerged, unsurprisingly, that the Chinese were being sticklers on the wording of any agreement. They wanted to include the words "allow" or "grant" on access which would have acknowledged Chinese ownership of the waters. At the same time the Philippines government was assuring the relevant communities that they could soon resume fishing in the contested areas.
The government has now reported that Chinese ships have departed the Scarborough Shoals several days ago and the Philippine fishermen can now proceed back there. Of course, the permanency of such a fix has to be tested and then covered by compromise wording in any agreement. Even though it would still leave China an open hand to reverse the practice, Duterte can probably claim it as a success. No doubt the Chinese were also hanging back a little to see how Duterte was going to respond to the heavy pressure he was receiving simultaneously from the US.
In playing his US card, Duterte had not covered himself with glory by some of the crude and intemperate words he had used in response to US criticism of his violent anti-drugs campaign. Exacerbated by some of the heavy handed US response to these remarks the dialogue quickly became personalised. Threatening Duterte about what the Philippines stood to lose out of any separation with the US only served once again to play up the "dependency" card from the US. This was not very smart as the "dependency" issue in the Philippines ( as it played out in the heated debates over the withdrawal of US bases years ago) cuts both ways – fuelling latent anti-US feelings for the colonial and post-colonial treatment. And played right into Duterte's hands by allowing him to renew (especially for the Chinese) his commitment to the longer term removal of US forces now in the Philippines and thus further alarm the US!
He also quickly denied suggestions that he had talked of "separation" from the US in his statements in China. He sought to explain that what he was looking for was more independence from the US in foreign policy not "severance" of ties. Understandably this then led to the US sending a very senior State Department official to Manila to seek urgent clarifications on what all this meant for the alliance. After meetings with the Philippine Foreign Secretary the official acknowledged that there was much more discussion needed. He then added that there were concerns from "other governments" , the Philippine business community and the large Filipino community in the US about the direction in which Duterte was headed – as well as a play on the dependency card again. No doubt the rapturous reception Duterte received from the large Filipino community on his arrival in Tokyo was designed to respond also.
That served to anger Duterte, by now in Japan. He announced in much more detail his thoughts about the US military presence in the Philippines and in a way to cause even more alarm in Washington (and delight in China!). In particular he expressed his displeasure with the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) of 2014 under the terms of which the US was allowed to establish a presence in 5 locations in the Philippines. Seen by many as a "build-back" of the previous US bases, this highly controversial agreement was only confirmed by the Supreme Court earlier this year.
The more that this US card is played out in public the less likely it will be for Duterte to engage with the US in the quiet way he has done so far with the Chinese. And the more that the US continues its public threats the more likely bilateral arrangements will deteriorate – especially if the criticisms are made at official or military levels. There is now talk of a possible meeting with President Obama around the Peru APEC.
While this spat continues there are clear signs of it having wider implications for ASEAN and the whole South China Sea issue – and even a gamebreaker for the US pivot/rebalancing strategy. The Malaysian Prime Minister is off to China this week reportedly keen to follow up some of the Duterte lines – having been bailed out by the Chinese over his controversial $US1 billion debt. There have also been signs of a growing relationship between China and the Thai military and President Xi has recently been in Cambodia. It was noteworthy how cautiously Prime Minister Abe handled the Duterte visit. The wording in their joint statement talked generally of the value of alliances and relationships but excluded any specific reference to the US: Philippines alliance.
As a senior diplomat in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mack Williams spent nine years working on Indochina issues in Saigon, Canberra, Phnom Penh and Washington. He was Australian Ambassador in the Philippines for five years.
Mack Williams former Ambassador to the Republic of Korea.
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Q: How can I replace the following query with ISNULL function in SQL? I have the following query. For performance optimization reasons I have been asked to replace the logic with ISNULL function in SQL. How can I achieve this? please advice.
                   SELECT CASE
                               WHEN tb1.[tag-value] IS NOT NULL THEN tb1.[tag-value]
                               ELSE 'N/A'
                          END     AS [tag-value]
                   FROM   @AgentTableFilt ta

A: This should do what you need
SELECT ISNULL(ta.[tag-value], 'N/A') AS [tag-value]

FROM   @AgentTableFilt ta

Or you could use the following
SELECT COALESCE(ta.[tag-value], 'N/A') AS [tag-value]

FROM   @AgentTableFilt ta

A: I don't think that any of these suggestions are particularly improvements in performance compared to the CASE as that's already very basic.
Another possible option (although again, probably not worth the effort as it's just a short-hand way of writing your CASE) for SQL Server 2012 and above.
I'd be interested in seeing what the reaction was of the person who asked you to optimize the CASE if you implemented this as there should be absolutely no difference.
SELECT IIF(ta.[tag-value] IS NULL, 'N/A', ta.[tag-value]) AS [tag-value]
FROM   @AgentTableFilt ta

I ran this through the test @Martin Smith linked to in his comment (and added my own for IIF) and it comes out roughly the same (if not slightly faster) as the other options. It's possibly slightly less readable though, so it depends on your familiarity with the logic.
Of course, you should test this on your own data, as what's optimal for your server may not be optimal for others.
DECLARE @i INT
SET @i = 1
DECLARE @CPU INT
SET @CPU = @@CPU_BUSY
DECLARE @StartDate DATETIME
SET @StartDate = GETDATE()

WHILE @i <= 1000000
BEGIN
  IF COALESCE('abc', 'def') = 'def'
      PRINT 1
  SET @i = @i + 1
END
PRINT 'COALESCE, both non-null'
PRINT 'Total CPU time: ' + CONVERT(varchar, @@CPU_BUSY - @CPU)
PRINT 'Total milliseconds: ' + CONVERT(varchar, DATEDIFF(ms, @StartDate, GETDATE()))
PRINT ''
GO

DECLARE @i INT SET @i = 1
DECLARE @CPU INT SET @CPU = @@CPU_BUSY
DECLARE @StartDate DATETIME SET @StartDate = GETDATE()

WHILE @i <= 1000000
BEGIN
  IF ISNULL('abc', 'def') = 'def'
    PRINT 1
  SET @i = @i + 1
END
PRINT 'ISNULL, both non-null'
PRINT 'Total CPU time: ' + CONVERT(varchar, @@CPU_BUSY - @CPU)
PRINT 'Total milliseconds: ' + CONVERT(varchar, DATEDIFF(ms, @StartDate, GETDATE()))
PRINT ''
GO

DECLARE @i INT SET @i = 1
DECLARE @CPU INT SET @CPU = @@CPU_BUSY
DECLARE @StartDate DATETIME SET @StartDate = GETDATE()

WHILE @i <= 1000000
BEGIN
  IF IIF('def' IS NULL, 'abc', 'def' ) = 'abc'
        PRINT 1
  SET @i = @i + 1
END

PRINT 'IIF, both non-null'
PRINT 'Total CPU time: ' + CONVERT(varchar, @@CPU_BUSY - @CPU)
PRINT 'Total milliseconds: ' + CONVERT(varchar, DATEDIFF(ms, @StartDate, GETDATE()))PRINT ''
GO

COALESCE, both non-null
Total CPU time: 22
Total milliseconds: 810
ISNULL, both non-null
Total CPU time: 37
Total milliseconds: 910
IIF, both non-null
Total CPU time: 21
Total milliseconds: 783


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Yesterday, March 24th, we met Jordan L. (Friesen Tokar) at Mountain Bean, and there ~ over coffee and London Fog tea, we looked at the beginning of the working drawings for the home. This is the point that my husband gets more involved than me, as all the talk about thickness of walls, joists, insulation, etc has me become a little "glazed" in the eyes. But, needless to say, since Alvin is getting somewhat antsy with the wait to begin the building stage ~ this visit was WONDERFUL!
The time together was about 40 minutes long. Long enough for him to ask a few details about what Alvin wanted (to do with the construction phase). Basically once my tea was done ~ our visit had come to an end, and we parted with another handshake and the promise to talk soon.
To say that sometimes I get this overwhelming feeling ~ would be most accurate! There are times when I almost have to pinch myself to believe we are really REALLY doing this. After 10 years of waiting ~ we are about to build!
We covet your prayers on our behalf and the behalf of the ministry. Please pray for Jordan as he works on the plans. Please pray that God sends the person he has already selected ~ to buy our house! We really need that part to come to fruition!
God is our strength. He is our guide. Our light. He is our all. To God be the glory for all that He has done over the past years, and for what He is doing in the present, and for all He is going to do in the future! We are merely his vessels through which He will do his work.