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Q: Convert XML to multiple HTML tables I have an XML file that needs to go to HTML. It will be converted into several tables with a 16 rows per table, including the first row of XML data becoming the same first row of each table. Each table would get a unique ID.
The xml sample file is structured as follows (truncated - usually several hundred rows):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Data>
<Title>As of April 17, 2014</Title>
<Person><Name>ADAMS,MARTIN</Name><DOB>DOB: 11/02/38</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>ADAMS,ICHAEL</Name><DOB>DOB: 04/06/37</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>ALANIZ, ALEX</Name><DOB>DOB: 08/09/37</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>ALFORD JASON</Name><DOB>DOB: 08/11/35</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>ALLEGR ERICK</Name><DOB>DOB: 09/01/38</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>ALMER,XANDER</Name><DOB>DOB: 01/09/33</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>ALVAREHECTOR</Name><DOB>DOB: 07/04/30</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>AMAR,  TUMAA</Name><DOB>DOB: 07/09/32</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>ANON, JUSTIN</Name><DOB>DOB: 05/06/37</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>ANSON, TERRY</Name><DOB>DOB: 01/18/35</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>APGUI, JORGE</Name><DOB>DOB: 12/05/34</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>APDACA, CODY</Name><DOB>DOB: 02/01/33</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>ARLLO, MARIO</Name><DOB>DOB: 04/03/30</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>AR, CHANELLE</Name><DOB>DOB: 06/07/39</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>AR AGA, ADAN</Name><DOB>DOB: 08/30/32</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>ATC, MICHAEL</Name><DOB>DOB: 05/01/37</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>BAI Y, JAMES</Name><DOB>DOB: 03/05/35</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>BAKER, ALECD</Name><DOB>DOB: 02/02/31</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>BALDWIN , PH</Name><DOB>DOB: 08/08/39</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>BALLWEBE RRY</Name><DOB>DOB: 04/06/34</DOB></Person>
<Person><Name>BANDLE, T X2</Name><DOB>DOB: 02/09/30</DOB></Person>
</Data>

Based on the sample file, the resulting HTML file should appear as follows (obviously a larger XML file would result in more tables):

Date of list: 04/21/2014

ADAMS,MARTIN	DOB: 11/02/38

ADAMS,ICHAEL	DOB: 04/06/37

ALANIZ, ALEX	DOB: 08/09/37

ALFORD JASON	DOB: 08/11/35

ALLEGR ERICK	DOB: 09/01/38

ALMER,XANDER	DOB: 01/09/33

ALVAREHECTOR	DOB: 07/04/30

AMAR,  TUMAA	DOB: 07/09/32

ANON, JUSTIN	DOB: 05/06/37

ANSON, TERRY	DOB: 01/18/35

APGUI, JORGE	DOB: 12/05/34

APDACA, CODY	DOB: 02/01/33

ARLLO, MARIO	DOB: 04/03/30

AR, CHANELLE	DOB: 06/07/39

AR AGA, ADAN	DOB: 08/30/32

Date of list: 04/21/2014

ATC, MICHAEL	DOB: 05/01/37

BAI Y, JAMES	DOB: 03/05/35

BAKER, ALECD	DOB: 02/02/31

BALDWIN , PH	DOB: 08/08/39

BALLWEBE RRY	DOB: 04/06/34

BANDLE, T X2	DOB: 02/09/30

Based on several other instances of converting the XML into tables, I assume I need to utilize XSLT to accomplish this. The problem I've ran into was I could never break up the  and  fields into separate  elements whilst still getting the rest of the table to generate properly. It was either one large table, or several tables with only one  element per row.
Edit:
The following XSLT gets me one large table that's formatted properly. I'm just not sure how to get this to several 16 row tables instead:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:value-of select="Data/Head/Title"/>

<xsl:for-each select="Data/Person">

<xsl:value-of select="Name"/>
<xsl:value-of select="DOB"/>

</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I greatly appreciate any assistance in this endeavor.

A: Here's an option that doesn't use DOE (disable-output-escaping="yes").
There might be a better/more efficient solution, but I primarily use XSLT 2.0 where grouping is much easier.
XML Input
<Data>
    <Title>As of April 17, 2014</Title>
    <Person><Name>ADAMS,MARTIN</Name><DOB>DOB: 11/02/38</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>ADAMS,ICHAEL</Name><DOB>DOB: 04/06/37</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>ALANIZ, ALEX</Name><DOB>DOB: 08/09/37</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>ALFORD JASON</Name><DOB>DOB: 08/11/35</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>ALLEGR ERICK</Name><DOB>DOB: 09/01/38</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>ALMER,XANDER</Name><DOB>DOB: 01/09/33</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>ALVAREHECTOR</Name><DOB>DOB: 07/04/30</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>AMAR,  TUMAA</Name><DOB>DOB: 07/09/32</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>ANON, JUSTIN</Name><DOB>DOB: 05/06/37</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>ANSON, TERRY</Name><DOB>DOB: 01/18/35</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>APGUI, JORGE</Name><DOB>DOB: 12/05/34</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>APDACA, CODY</Name><DOB>DOB: 02/01/33</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>ARLLO, MARIO</Name><DOB>DOB: 04/03/30</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>AR, CHANELLE</Name><DOB>DOB: 06/07/39</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>AR AGA, ADAN</Name><DOB>DOB: 08/30/32</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>ATC, MICHAEL</Name><DOB>DOB: 05/01/37</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>BAI Y, JAMES</Name><DOB>DOB: 03/05/35</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>BAKER, ALECD</Name><DOB>DOB: 02/02/31</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>BALDWIN , PH</Name><DOB>DOB: 08/08/39</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>BALLWEBE RRY</Name><DOB>DOB: 04/06/34</DOB></Person>
    <Person><Name>BANDLE, T X2</Name><DOB>DOB: 02/09/30</DOB></Person>
</Data>

XSLT 1.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <xsl:variable name="title" select="/Data/Head/Title"/>

    <xsl:template match="/*">

                <xsl:apply-templates select="Person"/>

    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Person[position() mod 16 = 1]">

                        <xsl:value-of select="$title"/>

            <xsl:apply-templates select=".|following-sibling::Person[not(position() > 15)]" mode="row"/>

    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Person" mode="row">

                <xsl:value-of select="Name"/>

                <xsl:value-of select="DOB"/>

    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="text()"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output

As of April 17, 2014

            ADAMS,MARTIN
            DOB: 11/02/38

            ADAMS,ICHAEL
            DOB: 04/06/37

            ALANIZ, ALEX
            DOB: 08/09/37

            ALFORD JASON
            DOB: 08/11/35

            ALLEGR ERICK
            DOB: 09/01/38

            ALMER,XANDER
            DOB: 01/09/33

            ALVAREHECTOR
            DOB: 07/04/30

            AMAR,  TUMAA
            DOB: 07/09/32

            ANON, JUSTIN
            DOB: 05/06/37

            ANSON, TERRY
            DOB: 01/18/35

            APGUI, JORGE
            DOB: 12/05/34

            APDACA, CODY
            DOB: 02/01/33

            ARLLO, MARIO
            DOB: 04/03/30

            AR, CHANELLE
            DOB: 06/07/39

            AR AGA, ADAN
            DOB: 08/30/32

            ATC, MICHAEL
            DOB: 05/01/37

As of April 17, 2014

            BAI Y, JAMES
            DOB: 03/05/35

            BAKER, ALECD
            DOB: 02/02/31

            BALDWIN , PH
            DOB: 08/08/39

            BALLWEBE RRY
            DOB: 04/06/34

            BANDLE, T X2
            DOB: 02/09/30

A: I appear to have mis-read your question. I first thought your XML was also split up in multiple groups of 16, but now that I look again it isn't. Your question is a tough one, and I don't know of a nice solution. What I always do is just inject <some_tags> in, like this:
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[<some_tags>]]></xsl:text>

So what you could do is this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="/">

                <xsl:for-each select="Data/Person">
                    <xsl:if test="(position() mod 16) = 1">
                        <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[
</xsl:text>
                        <xsl:value-of select="(position() + 15) div 16"/>
                        <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[">]]></xsl:text>

<xsl:value-of select="/Data/Head/Title"/>

                    </xsl:if>

                        <xsl:value-of select="Name"/>
                        <xsl:value-of select="DOB"/>

                    <xsl:if test="(position() mod 16) = 0 or position() = last()">
                        <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[
]]></xsl:text>
                    </xsl:if>
                </xsl:for-each>

    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


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Arbor Realty Trust Reports First Quarter Results and
Increases Quarterly Dividend to $0.28 per Share
· GAAP net income of $0.26 and AFFO of $0.33 per diluted common share1
· Declares a cash dividend on common stock of $0.28 per share, a 4% increase in our dividend from last quarter and 12% higher than a year ago
· Issued $90.0 million of 5.75% senior unsecured notes due in 2024
· Segment income of $13.1 million
· Loan originations of $845.9 million
· Servicing portfolio of $18.88 billion, up 2% from 4Q18 and 13% from a year ago
· Portfolio growth of 4% on $416.3 million of loan originations
Uniondale, NY, May 10, 2019 — Arbor Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ABR), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019. Arbor reported net income for the quarter of $22.7 million, or $0.26 per diluted common share, compared to $26.2 million, or $0.42 per diluted common share for the quarter ended March 31, 2018. Adjusted funds from operations ("AFFO") for the quarter was $35.5 million, or $0.33 per diluted common share, compared to $21.4 million, or $0.25 per diluted common share for the quarter ended March 31, 2018.1
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· Payoffs and pay downs on 26 loans totaling $279.5 million
As previously announced, the Board of Directors has declared cash dividends on the Company's Series A, Series B and Series C cumulative redeemable preferred stock reflecting accrued dividends from March 1, 2019 through May 31, 2019. The dividends are payable on May 31, 2019 to preferred stockholders of record on May 15, 2019. The Company will pay total dividends of $0.515625, $0.484375 and $0.53125 per share on the Series A, Series B and Series C preferred stock, respectively.
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Preferred stock, cumulative, redeemable, $0.01 par value: 100,000,000 shares authorized; special voting preferred shares; 20,487,544 and 20,653,584 shares issued and outstanding, respectively; 8.25% Series A, $38,787,500 aggregate liquidation preference; 1,551,500 shares issued and outstanding; 7.75% Series B, $31,500,000 aggregate liquidation preference; 1,260,000 shares issued and outstanding; 8.50% Series C, $22,500,000 aggregate liquidation preference; 900,000 shares issued and outstanding
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A Deep Discussion with Basil Hiley
[Basil Hiley, prev.]
Let me give an example of how the causal interpretation can shed some light on what Bohr wrote. In his Phys. Rev. paper in answer to EPR [PR, 48, 696, (1935)] Bohr wrote, "From our point of view we now see that the wording of the above mentioned criterion of physical reality proposed by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen contains an ambiguity as regards the meaning of the expression 'without in any way disturbing a system.' Of course there is no question of a mechanical disturbance of the system under investigation during the last critical stage of the measuring procedure. But even at this stage there is essentially the question of an influence on the very conditions which define the possible types of predictions regarding the future behaviour of the system." He re-quoted this passage in his essay in "Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist" claiming that it was the clearest way he could explain the EPR result.
Notice the word 'influence'. It is not a 'mechanical force', it is an 'influence'.
[Mutnick]
Gesundheit!
[Hiley, prev.]
What does he mean by an 'influence'? Bohr never makes this clear. But in the causal interpretation there is a 'quantum potential' between the two entangled particles so that they are still coupled even though they are 'miles' apart and have no classical potential between them.
In the "Undivided Universe" we argued that the QP did not give rise to a mechanical force. We suggested it was a new quality of energy that had its roots in a new notion of 'active information'. In EPR this active information encodes the very experimental conditions that the pair of particles were subjected to. In other words the Bohm interpretation offers an explanation of the EPR effect by providing the exact mathematical source for the 'influence'. Thus paving the way for a different explanation of the EPR effect in terms of active information.
[Peter Mutnick, prev.]
This very virtue, however, is considered a liability by Henry Stapp, for instance, who has confided in me that he doesn't like the Bohm interpretation precisely because a feature belonging to the observer (namely the R^2 probability law) is encoded in the supposed "quantum potential" governing the observed system.
[Hiley]
I know Henry doesn't like it. So what? That is Henry's privilege. I don't like it. The macroscopic world around us is not like it. When I played snooker I wanted all the balls to behave independently of each other except when they collided. I certainly wanted them all to be independent of my cue except the white ball during the instant I struck it. Separation on the table means mechanical independence. Indeed we find spatially separated system are in general independent unless there is some field of force acting between them. That is so self evident in our macroscopic physical world that only a fool would deny it!
However our experience with quantum phenomena provides plenty of evidence that denies this principle. In quantum mechanics spatial separation (of wave functions) is not necessary for independence (orthogonality), neither is spatial separation sufficient to ensure independence. It is this feature that Bohr recognised when he talked about the "indivisibility of the quantum of action" (i.e., the impossibility of making a sharp separation between observer and the means of observation). It is what Bohm means when he writes "...the entire universe must, in a very accurate level, be regarded as a single indivisible unit in which separate parts appear as idealisations permissible only on a classical level of accuracy of the description. This means that the view of the world as being analogous to a huge machine, the predominant view from the sixteenth to nineteenth century, is now shown to be only approximately correct. The underlying structure of matter, however, is not mechanical." (p. 167 QT)
This 'indivisible unit' or 'non-separability' is what the violation of the Bell inequalities is all about. Experiment shows that entangled quantum systems do not satisfy these inequalities no matter how far we separate the systems. The local experiment on one of the particles 'influences' both particles in an entangled pair. Our cherished mantra 'spatial separation means independence' is not being honoured by Nature. I don't like it, but Nature is saying "tuff, like it or lump it"!
Who cares what "Nature" says? Our independence is a fact anyway, and so is Nature's. Hari knows.
The problem is that we are inside the universe looking out, but we would much rather be outside the universe looking in. We cannot look at the universe as I look at the balls on the snooker table. I cannot sit outside the universe looking in. As both Bohr and Heisenberg say, "We are both actors and spectators".
Bohr also insisted on retaining his term "detached observer", under close scrutiny and criticism from Pauli. I maintain that this incident of dispute between Bohr and Pauli revealed this concept of "detached observer" as the heart and soul of the Copenhagen Interpretation, as opposed to the Zurich Interpretation or the Munich Interpretation. It means that indeed we can stand or sit outside the universe looking in. It means that we as detached observers really exist in a meta-physical world quite independently of the quantum physical world. It means in terms of psychology that there really is a detached soul and that we are it.
Is the observer entirely detached? Of course not. The body of the observer functions as a measuring instrument and is ultimately comprised of quantum atoms, so we must have a theory of the embodied observer, in addition to our theory of the detached observer. Henry is right that von Neumann began to lay the foundations for this treatment of an embodied observer, which he distinguished from the detached observer. S, M, and O refer to the quantum System, the Measuring Apparatus, and the embodied Observer, respectively, while I, II, and III refer to the actually observed system, the measuring instrument, and the detached actual observer. S, M, and O exist in I. Von Neumann's working hypothesis was the Principle of the Psycho-Physical Parallelism, which he took to mean that the extra-physical elements of the observational process can be regarded as physical (or in one-to-one correspondence with physical elements) for the purposes of science. The existence of S, M, and O in I is not exactly that, because they do not exist in the physical world, but in the emotional world, which is nonetheless a part of I.
When we act we participate. This is the lesson Wheeler is trying to get across when he says: "The observer finds himself, willy-nilly a participator. In some strange sense this participatory universe." (At Home in the Universe, AIP, 1994, p. 287) We came to a similar conclusion when we discussed the measurement process in the UU (p. 107-115). Our analysis using the quantum potential enabled us to conclude: "We are not 'measuring' a state that has already been in existence. Rather the apparatus and the observed system have participated in each other." Like Wheeler we concluded that we lived in a participatory universe where matter participated in matter.
Thank you. I wanted to know your perspective on the measurement process, and this may be the key to it. Indeed, you are talking about the apparatus and the observed system in precisely von Neumann's embodied sense, i.e., quantum sense, but you should be aware that von Neumann's concept of the abstract "ego" as the observer of last resort refers to the detached observer, which always stands *outside* the quantum calculation, "lest it proceed vacuously".
Bohm himself emphasized in "Quantum Theory" that the classical realm does not emerge from the quantum realm, but is presupposed by it, and the latter can only be defined in relation to the former. This is indeed the perspective of the Copenhagen Interpretation. Bohm then makes the, IMHO, brilliant deduction that at the very heart of the classical realm must be the quantum implicate order. He says that in following the von Neumann chain we can go past the classical region of brain, which *is* the abstract "ego", into an even deeper quantum region. It is clear that *this* opens into the quantum implicate order of the true Mind of the Observer, for Bohm often emphasizes that the implicate order is our normal subjective or phenomenological perspective (in "Wholeness and the Implicate Order", pp. 200-4, for instance).
So, with Bohm's deepening of the Copenhagen Interpretation, the detachment of the observer is justified. It is not just the classical order that exists independently, but the quantum implicate order, which is the source of all. The intimacy of the classical order and the quantum implicate order can be easily grasped by realizing that the classical order includes the thought attribute as well as the extension attribute. The thought attribute is, of course, the seed of the thought-like quantum conception of physical reality, but it first emerges into the quantum implicate order as the true Mind of the Observer before it unfolds into the quantum explicate order of the ontological system of worlds.
I cannot see the non-Euclidean geometry as I see the non-Euclidean triangles drawn on the surface of a sphere. I must draw my figures with light rays from within. This is what Herman Bondi brought home to me when he showed how the k-calculus worked in special relativity. You can construct a Minkowski space-time simply by using a radar set and a clock. In a similar manner John Synge's 'bouncing photon' can be used to reveal information about the Riemann tensor. The internal angles of a triangle defined by three light rays do not always add up to 180 degrees. Thus we explore our surroundings ('outside') with a light probe. We are not 'passively looking', we are 'acting'.
Now let me recall the lesson that G. N. Lewis taught us many years ago. If we 'sit' on a photon, we do not travel through any distance and it takes no time! It is only the 'outsider' that has to make sense of ds^2 = 0. Each Lorentz observer 'constructs ' his own space-time. In relativity contact is primary and separation secondary. But we find this very uncomfortable. We want separation (distinction) to be primary; contact is secondary, established through intermediary fields. But general relativity tells us there is no field, there is only geometry. Quantum entanglement tells us non-separability (contact) is primary no matter how far we say the 'particles are spatially separated'. The contact here is through the phase (quantum action). As I see it Nature is screaming at us to change our priorities. Contact is primary, distinction is secondary.
That's fine, but I think these references to relativity are not quite appropriate. Relativity is based on the abstraction of classical motion, v = x_2 - x_1 / t_2 - t_1, which Bohm deeply criticized in "Wholeness and the Implicate Order", pp. 200-4. If it turns out not to have much basis in reality, that is because it is an abstraction, not grounded in phenomenological reality. It needs to be redefined. *That* was Bohm's point, IMHO.
This is the underlying assumption of Bohm's "interconnectedness" and "undivided wholeness". This is what lies behind Bohr's "indivisibility of the quantum of action". Bohr tries to emphasise this by drawing to our attention to the way he uses the word phenomenon. He writes, "I advocate the application of the word phenomenon exclusively to refer to the observations obtained specified circumstances, including an account of the whole experimental arrangement." (ATHK p. 64)
Here you really seem to have a misunderstanding. While it is true that both Bohr and Bohm emphasized wholeness and interconnectedness, Bohr attributed almost everything to the observer, while Bohm in his 1952 theory attributed almost everything to the observed. This leads to vastly different perspectives on the *meaning* of wholeness and interconnectedness. Is it a property primarily of our way of seeing things or of some objective reality in nature? For Bohr, the former, for Bohm (1952), the latter. For Heisenberg, somewhere in between, as we shall see.
Bohr may cut no ice with Henry, so let us turn to Heisenberg for whom I know he has a lot of respect. The message is exactly the same. Here is the quote that is central to this discussion.
First of all, the notion of sameness between Bohr, Pauli, and Heisenberg, comprising a united front, is preposterous. Bohr in 1956 rejected unequivocally Heisenberg's conception of complementarity as that between the spacetime description and the causal description. Pauli rejected unequivocally Bohr's central conception of a detached observer. They were in fact about as divided as three men could possibly be. This is an indication that they should be understood as *differing* aspects of one universal archetype. Viva la differance. It should be the goal of anyone wanting to understand quantum theory to grasp the Gestalt of that universal archetype.
[Hiley, quoting Heisenberg]
"Therefore, the theoretical interpretation of an experiment requires three steps; (1) the translation of the initial experimental situation into a probability function; (2) the following of this function in the course of time; (3) the statement of a new measurement to be made on the system, the result of which can then be calculated from the probability function.... The second step cannot be described in terms of the classical concepts; there is no description of what happens to the system between the initial observation and the next measurement. It is only in the third step that we change over again from the 'possible' to the 'actual'." (PP p. 48)
What happens at the moment of observation? Heisenberg continues, "This means that the equation of motion does now contain the influence of the interaction with the measuring device. This influence introduces a new element of uncertainty, since the measuring device is necessarily described in the terms of classical physics; such a description contains all the uncertainties concerning the microscopic structure of the device which we know from thermodynamics and since the device is connected with the rest of the world, it contains in fact the uncertainties of the microscopic structure of the whole world." (PP p. 53)
Notice the word 'influence' again. Here the 'influence' has as its source the observing apparatus, so I don't understand Henry's objection. It is OK for Heisenberg to have "a feature belonging to the observer encoded into the process through this notion of 'influence', but it must be dismissed when we show that the Schrodinger equation provides the mathematical source of this 'influence'. It is the "quantum potential". "QP ad hoc, influence OK?" I think not! Both are different expressions of the same feature of quantum processes.
Heisenberg was an interactionist - he believed there was an essential interaction between the hypostases of von Neumann. I and II interacted in a vital and profound way. I think he understood it this way: the measuring instrument acts upon the system by establishing a state vector description of its substance; while the system acts back on the measuring instrument via the notion of potential transformed into actual event at the measuring instrument. I think he further understood that, in a representation-free sense, the state vector substance was PSI and the potential actual event was PSI*. PSI*PSI is of course the "probability function" that he keeps talking about, rather than the "wave function", as Bohm pointed out in his answer to "Physics and Philosophy". When the interaction between the measuring instrument and the system actually occurs during the measurement, the unitary evolution of the state vector in its particular representation is interrupted and the system is thrown into a representation-free interaction with the measuring instrument, which also yields the Born probabilities, but within the limits of the Uncertainty Principle, which has its origin in the representation-free interaction, which cannot on principle be taken into account. That is what I believe Heisenberg is talking about in the passage you have quoted.
I hope this has now made it clear where Bohm and myself are coming from. We were (and I still am) exploring various ways QM and GR in a structure, which starts from the assumption of 'interconnectedness'. The causal interpretation is merely an intermediary step on the way towards a deeper theory, which will eventually put GR and QM together in a single structure. Don't stop with the causal interpretation, trying to accommodate all its warts. Move on!
If I disbelieve that there was a united front consisting of Bohr, Pauli, and Heisenberg, I most certainly disbelieve that there is a united front consisting of Bohm and Hiley. I have looked at your paper on the causal interpretation in different representations and I have looked at what Bohm said about the subject, and my conclusion is that you have diverged almost completely from Bohm's program. That is fine, but please do not pull our leg with this united front business.
[Mutnick, prev.]
As I believe you and Bohm have admitted, you could never find a compelling explanation of the quantum potential (its unusual form in particular) that would justify taking it as fundamental and the continuity equation (which established the R^2 as a probability) secondary.
But I have now found the reason why the quantum potential term appears in the formulation. Please read the paper I wrote with Melvin Brown quant-ph/0005026.
There we make even clearer why it is not a question of which equation is more fundamental. But we don't need to go that far. The continuity comes from the real part of the Schrodinger equation. While the real part of the Schrodinger equation in which the 'quantum potential' appears is simply the conservation of energy equation when the energy is well defined. These equations are a pair of coupled differential equations. They co-determine each other. It doesn't make sense to choose one over the other. Thus if we put the Schrodinger equation centre stage then both the real and imaginary parts of this equation must be put on an equal footing.
I think what you have discovered is a causal matrix, which is NOT the quantum implicate order, but an abstract emanation from it, in the sense that in the beginning God said: div E = rho, div B = 0, etc. Your causal matrix in phase space is ontologically related to Heisenberg's interactionist interpretation, i.e., the Munich Interpretation. It is no coincidence that you both have a proclivity for abstract algebraic formulations, but that is NOT, IMHO, Bohm's approach, as he made clear in his response to King Saul (Epstein).
I have no comments on the rest of your e-mail.
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Dear Mr. Strieber,
I noticed the sudden upsurge of viewers of "A Deep Discussion With Basil Hiley" on my website this month and traced it to your Journal article for December, 2002. {Whitley Strieber's Journal article}
I find your article very interesting and in accord with my intellectual premises in life to a large degree. In fact, I maintain a maha-mandala on all walls of my two-bedroom apartment, and the images from your book "Communion" have for some time now played a conspicuous role.
So, when you talk about the aliens looking for a place in our lives, I guess I have been a shoe-in for them, because I right away assigned them a place in my spiritual life. Whether it is the place they in all respects desire is another question. Perhaps they are as uncertain as most of us about their proper place in life.
In any case, the role I have assigned them does have to do with both von Neumann and Wheeler, as you intuit in your Journal article. The connection with von Neumann has to do with his principle of the psycho-physical parallelism, which he popularized but attributed to Niels Bohr in a footnote of his famous book, "Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics."
The principle of the psycho-physical parallelism was for von Neumann what the principle of complementarity was for Niels Bohr. The former states that the extra-physical elements of the observational process can, for the purposes of science, be regarded as physical or at least in one-to-one correspondence with something physical.
I believe that the greys personify our sense of deep self (ens causa sui) with ongoing akashic memory. They are that deep sixth world phenomenon reduced to a borderline physical phenomenon by the principle of the psycho-physical parallelism.
In another sense, however, the golden version of the grey that is on the cover of your book, "Communion," symbolizes for me another type of reduction, the so-called phenomenological reduction of Husserl. This says that all of our emotional and mental nature can, for the purposes of philosophy, be regarded as essentially super-natural.
This is where we may disagree, because I notice that you maintain a bias against the notion of the super-natural. But in phenomenology, there is no such bias. The natural and psychic realms are precisely what must be excluded or suspended from consideration in the epoche or phenomenological reduction that is necessary to gain our true philosophical bearings. And yet nothing is lost in this reduction, precisely because the elements of the psychic and natural worlds are regarded as elements in the essentially super-natural world of true cause and effect.
We now know that cause and effect are essentially super-natural, because they do not exist per se within the quantum world of nature. They instead represent the ingression of the super-natural cause into the natural world, as effect. They express that which must be added extraneously, causing so much consternation to those who are not metaphysically minded. To those of us who are metaphysically minded, this auspicious development is the doorway to the acknowledgement of an authentic and complete sense of reality.
Well, enough for now. I would be glad to continue this line of discussion if anyone has an interest in it.
Peter Mutnick, December 31, 2002
Peter Joseph Mutnick 1949 - 2000


Jefferson T. DeWeber, and Tyler Wagner, 2018, Probabilistic measures of climate change vulnerability, adaptation action benefits, and related uncertainty from maximum temperature metric selection: Global Change Biology, v. 24, iss. 6.
Predictions of the projected changes in species distributions and potential adaptation action benefits can help guide conservation actions. There is substantial uncertainty in projecting species distributions into an unknown future, however, which can undermine confidence in predictions or misdirect conservation actions if not properly considered. Recent studies have shown that the selection of alternative climate metrics describing very different climatic aspects (e.g., mean air temperature vs. mean precipitation) can be a substantial source of projection uncertainty. It is unclear, however, how much projection uncertainty might stem from selecting among highly correlated, ecologically similar climate metrics (e.g., maximum temperature in July, maximum 30‐day temperature) describing the same climatic aspect (e.g., maximum temperatures) known to limit a species' distribution. It is also unclear how projection uncertainty might propagate into predictions of the potential benefits of adaptation actions that might lessen climate change effects. We provide probabilistic measures of climate change vulnerability, adaptation action benefits, and related uncertainty stemming from the selection of four maximum temperature metrics for brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), a cold‐water salmonid of conservation concern in the eastern United States. Projected losses in suitable stream length varied by as much as 20% among alternative maximum temperature metrics for mid‐century climate projections, which was similar to variation among three climate models. Similarly, the regional average predicted increase in brook trout occurrence probability under an adaptation action scenario of full riparian forest restoration varied by as much as .2 among metrics. Our use of Bayesian inference provides probabilistic measures of vulnerability and adaptation action benefits for individual stream reaches that properly address statistical uncertainty and can help guide conservation actions. Our study demonstrates that even relatively small differences in the definitions of climate metrics can result in very different projections and reveal high uncertainty in predicted climate change effects.


I am aware that when a patient presents for a minor surgical procedure with a global period of 0 - 10 days an E/M is generally not reported because the E/M is considered inherent to the procedure unless the E/M is significant or separately identifiable. What about a new patient? When I attended the AAPC conference in June, one of the presenters stated that the CPT guidelines state you can bill an E/M with a procedure if the patient is new with modifier 25 appended. I must have missed this somewhere because I don't ever recall reading this anywhere. Am I missing something here? Is there such a notation in the E/M guidelines? If so, can you point me in that direction?
Here is the scenario....a patient presents with hearing loss and dizziness. Upon exam the provider determines the patient has bilateral cerumen impaction. The cerumen was removed and the ears were lavaged and curetted. The provider reported code 69210 for the removal (which is correct since the cerumen was removed with instrumentation) and also reported an E/M code with modifier 25. This is a new patient.
As long as the assessment is over above and beyound what is needed for the procedure then you are ok. So what else did he exam that is relevant to the patient's condition that is not necessary for the cerumen removal? If you can make a case for it then it should be appropriate.
I don't see anything above and beyond. There is HPI related to the problem and a brief exam of constitutional (general appearance), ENT of course focusing on the EAC/TM, and the lymphatic system (neck nodes). Other than that, nothing unrelated.
Hmm but he does not have to exam lymph nodes to remove impacted cerumen. He did that to check for other disease process that might be the cause of the symptoms. If he knew that the impacted cerumen was the problem, then he would have no need to check the lymph nodes. I see an E&M with a 25 modifier.


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How Big Of An Enterprise Security Threat is Whaling and Phishing?
Even companies like Snapchat and Seagate have fallen prey to whaling and phishing attacks that steal thousands of proprietary company data records. Is your enterprise company next?
Phishing attacks on companies have been around for as long as email has been a primary mode of business communications. And while cyber attacks have gotten more and more sophisticated, phishing attacks still haven't gone away.
In fact, a 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that a vast majority of company data breaches are still caused by phishing attacks – with a growing concern over whaling phishing attacks.
What is a whaling phishing attack?
A whaling attack is very similar to a regular phishing attack in that it relies on cyber criminals sending fraudulent emails in order to obtain personal credentials and sensitive information, such as bank account information, company login credentials, and credit card info.
The difference with whaling is that these emails are targeted at high-level company individuals, such as the C-suite and VP level positions, in order to gain access to higher-level company data.
Also, whaling attacks are much more methodical and targeted to an individual user, taking into account their positions, vendor relationships, and other targeted information that can be found online in order to trick the person receiving the email into believing that it's from a legitimate source.
Whaling and phishing attacks might seem outdated in a world where highly sophisticated cyber attacks happen fairly regularly. However, human error is still one of the biggest threats for enterprise companies, and whaling attacks take advantage of the knowledge that most people have a hard time discerning between real and fake emails.
Is Whaling and Phishing Still a Major Threat?
If you thought that whaling phishing attacks weren't still a major concern, consider this statistic from the same Verizon Data Breach report: last year, 30% of all phishing emails were opened by the target recipient. In addition, a full 10% of phishing attacks result in a data breach.
And it's not just lesser known companies that are falling prey to these types of scams.
Over the last few years, whaling and phishing scams have been successfully targeted at places like Snapchat, where payroll data for over 700 employees was compromised because an employee received a fake email made to look like it was from the CEO, Evan Spiegel.
Enterprise technology company, Seagate, lost 10,000 W-2 tax forms in a targeted whaling attack. And Austrian aircraft manufacturer, FACC, ended up losing 50 million euros in a well-targeted whaling attack.
Fighting back against whaling and phishing attacks isn't easy, as it relies heavily on educating employees on how to identify a fraudulent email and what to do if they encounter one.
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US Ambassador to Russia with diploma in «Color Revolution»
John LEWIS on 2012-01-09
US National Security Senior Director of Russian and Eurasian Affairs until recently, Michael McFaul, a 48 year old Stanford University professor, was appointed US ambassador to Russia at the end of last year. He's widely known as someone who initiated the "reset" Russian policy but not only.
A long time Russia scholar, he has written about 20 books and many articles about Russian internal politics. At he same time, the newly fledged ambassador has rich experience in organizing color revolution in the post Soviet space.
It is confirmed by his monographs like: Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin, Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000, Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Рostcommunist World and Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should and How We Can, as well as his own admissions during public appearances and US Congress special hearings.
It was Michael McFaul who was the author of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) final report on specifics of working with Ukrainian electorate before the 2004 Ukraine elections, when Victor Yushchenko snatched victory that was widely noted by the US establishment.
A fluent Russian speaker, the new Washington envoy has already been to Russia and Ukraine many a time to study all walks of life voters opinions in order to find ways to influence them. He also took the most active part in working out and bringing into life political election technologies in the post Soviet space.
As he confessed publicly American non-government organizations spent totally $ 18,3 million to support Victor Yushchenko in the Ukraine presidential election in 2004. Though a history now, it's curious to see how the US dollars were spent before and during the vote.
As the new US ambassador to Moscow recalls, the money came mainly through USAID channels and was spent along five directions for propaganda and information to be distributed among the voters, as well as among the electoral committees. As Michael McFaul said the money defined the outcome of the Ukrainian 2004 elections that was greeted so enthusiastically in Washington.
Upon his recommendation in the capacity of chief funds distributor, the major part of all these financial flows, $ 12,45 million or 68% of the total sum to be exact, was spent on the elections monitoring and spurring efforts of various political parties to come out in support of Victor Yushchenko.
The money went to support the mission of 250 US observers working for the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) that organized the work of all political parties and leaders and analyzed the pre-election process.
Some funds went to "district coordination centers" destined to survey the pre – election campaign and convey the corresponding information to the "central election observation group". Partly the money went to the Committee of Voters of Ukraine through the US National Democratic Institute (NDI). The Committee surveyed the Ukrainian media outlets, organization of civil local monitoring groups and regional election observers training.
Aided by NDI and International Republican Institute (IRI), the US Freedom House allocated funds for civil society monitors training, ensuring voters turnout, distribution of pre-election propaganda posters and materials, the mission of international NGOs 1000 monitoring specialists, including "activists" from Georgia, Poland, Serbia and Slovakia. The IRI funded training of specialists in formation of interparty coalitions, pre-election planning, special activities among women and children and opinion study for all the parties supporting Yushchenko.
Simultaneously the NDI allocated money to ensure unity among pro Yushchenko parties supporters and to improve cooperation among election districts at local and regional levels. Some funds went to training the parties members, who selected specialists who would work with voters, as well as experts in electoral process analysis, relations with media, and exit polls counting.
The United States Association of Former Members of Congress aided by the US – Ukraine Foundation funded training in monitoring internal situation before and at the time of election. Some activities took place among the Ukraine security service officers. The goal was to cause a split among them along political lines and prevention of their participation in dispersals of voters protests.
$ 2,62 million came through American Association for Development to organize round tables with participation of Rada members, representatives of state structures and leaders of Ukrainian NGOs. A lot of attention was paid to professional improvement of heads of election committees. Special grants were received by civil groups standing for the Ukraine's electoral legislation reform. In parallel the American Association for Development allocated money for training pro Yushchenko election committees personnel, parties members and lawyers. The methods to detect violations and rigging were a priority in the training course.
$ 1,13 million went to pro Yushchenko media, partly spent on training journalists of print and internet media to enhance their special skills in covering pre election campaign and election as a whole. A special foundation (Media Development Foundation) was opened at the US Kiev embassy to encourage individual journalists and NGO staffers, as well as individual media outlets. Michael McFaul admits special "grants" for the same purposes were provided by "some other Western embassies" in Ukraine.
Part of US funds for working with Ukrainian media was allocated through the OSCE channels.
$ 1,12 million went for the research in the field of presidential election and potential voters high turnout studies. It was also spent on local media pre-election agitation, public opinion surveys by research bodies, training election observers and civil society vote tellers enhancing their skills to survey exit polls.
The Institute for Sustainable Communities, National Endowment for Democracy, Ukrainian Eurasia foundation, and Committee on Democracy specially established at the US embassy in Kiev (it gave money to Ukrainian NGOs, including dissemination of election information) coordinated the funds distribution.
Special attention was paid to the strategy of disruption of first round election, that didn't end in Victor Yushchenko's favor, by spreading information about so called "significant violations occurred during the voting". The information was prepared and spread by about 10 thousand people, mainly members of "The Committee of Voters of Ukraine".
At last, $ 985 thousand was allocated through the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) to hone electors, lawyers, party members and NGOs skills for the purpose of complete monitoring of pre-election campaign.
It's worth to mention Michael McFaul saying the Victor Yushchenko's victory in 2004 was mainly ensured by intensive cooperation with Ukrainian young people made possible thanks to the US money.
Afterwards Michael McFaul used this "experience" of manipulating Ukrainian voters extensively at the time the State Duma and presidential elections in Russia were organized and held in 2007-2008.
The US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs held special hearings on May 17, 2007. A decision was made to work out an adequate conceptual analytical study before the Russia's would be pre-election campaigns start defining ways and methods to conduct corresponding activities.
The leading US analysts and Russia scholars were involved, including Michael McFaul. At the hearings he presented concrete recommendations and practical proposals that were accepted for implementation.
Right now the US experts prepare recommendations for the administration on rendering substantial financial, political and moral support to the opposition parties and individual Russian media outlets before the 2012 presidential election. The worked out strategy envisions to purposefully influence the Russian citizens working in state structures, employed in private business and elected into the State Duma. Remembering the Michael McFaul's statements in 2011, as head of US embassy in Moscow he has an intention to establish the structures for dialogue on human rights, media freedom, fight against corruption in Russia. While expressing his views to Radio Liberty in June 2011, McFaul said he had an intention to make the "reset" concept an instrument of involvement of the Russian government into democracy and human rights discussions.
It is suggested to support the individuals who possess the makings of leaders, no matter their views may be murky, during the elections. Special importance is attached to intensive propaganda activities among the citizens expressing their discontent with the incumbent regime's policy, as well as with the young people who, as sociological centers studies show, make 60% of protesters gathered for the Academician Sakharov avenue for a meeting held on 24 December 2011.
Coming to Moscow in his new capacity, the former director of Stanford University Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law is to establish close contacts with the Russian "non-systematic" opposition hoping to prevent Vladimir Putin's election victory at the coming presidential election, no matter Putin enjoys wide support among voters, as sociological surveys say. In Washington they would like to see someone else to win the race, someone with sympathy for the West and who's plans do not include the defense of the Russian state interests. Michael McFaul thinks "some dictatorships" simply are not able to achieve progress in the development of democracy and should be assisted, as The New York Times wrote on February 24, 2011 in an article "Seizing Up Revolutions in Waiting".
Larry Diamond, one of Stanford University professors, who knows him closely having worked together, said, it's McFaul who, once in Russia, would be sticking to the policy of enhancing American values and principles, and he would also be trying to support and involve various social and political forces in Russia into his activities. That's what The Stanford Daily reported on September 26, 2011.
All these activities will be coordinated by the new US ambassador to Russia, who never had any particular sympathy for the country. For instance, many a time he has openly expressed negative attitude towards Vladimir Putin, the head of the Russian Government. That's what the New York Times (May 29, 2011) said and Michael McFaul himself wrote in the Foreign Affairs magazine (January-February 2008) as well as in his other numerous publications.
It was on his initiative the leading US newspapers started a series of publications aimed at the Vladimir Putin's defeat or, at least the minimization of his victory, at the presidential elections in March 2012. They are not making a secret of the alternative goal: to weaken Vladimir Putin's authority in case he wins the election, to undermine the Government's policy aimed at solving the pressing socials and economic problems and to weaken the Moscow's international standing in general.
The newly assigned US ambassador's political portrait should be added by the following: going back to history he is the second head of the embassy who's not a career diplomat. He supported the August 2008 Georgian aggression against South Ossetia. Not long ago he exerted efforts to exclude Russia from the process of defining the Libya's future after Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow in October 2011.
He also stands against legally binding obligations by the USA not to use missile defense against Russian strategic nuclear forces and achieving an agreement with Moscow on joint European missile defense on the basis of mutual acceptance and equality.
Finally. By the end of 2011 the US Congress confirmed $50 million for anti Russia propaganda before the Russian presidential election. It's twice as much as the sum allocated for the very same purpose back in 2008.
This and the fact Michael McFaul is coming to Russia at the time between parliamentary and presidential elections gives much food for thought about non-terminating efforts on the part of Washington to make an open and multidimensional interference into Russian internal affairs. That's what in substance is meant by the "reset" policy in US-Russian relations. The one, as some US experts say, had been elaborated by the very same Michael McFaul.
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Home Engineering, Technology, Research and Development India emerging as a major centre for R&D projects for global multinationals
India emerging as a major centre for R&D projects for global multinationals
Written by Viswanath
New Delhi: Deloitte in India has recently launched a paper on 'Research & Development expenditure' that focuses on the development of R&D in India and tax benefits and incentives being provided for its growth.
According to the paper, India is on a path to become a technology driven superpower in the coming years. The country's large talent pool of engineers and scientists is the driving force behind this transformation. Comparative lower cost of the talent pool is perceived as an added advantage.
MNCs are setting up dedicated and independent R&D centres for shoring up research activities in the emerging areas of high tech designs, electronics and even pharmaceutical sector. Generally, MNCs prefer to set up captive R&D centres for their overseas entities. This is a major driving force behind India becoming an R&D powerhouse. More than 300 MNCs have setup their R&D centres in India.
Governments across the world recognise that increased R & D is an absolute necessity for the development of economy. However, given the uncertainty of R & D projects, investments in R & D may not necessarily bring in immediate benefits to the entities carrying out research. Further, investments in certain areas of R & D, may be strategically important to the country, say for instance research in Defense areas and environmentally beneficial projects. But these may not be high on the priority of corporates, given the long gestation periods. Fiscal benefits on R & D are therefore very relevant, and act as incentives to corporates to take up R & D. Countries, world over, attract R & D investments by providing benefits in the form of Tax credits, super deductions, tax exemptions, grants, etc. Certain countries provide wage bill credits as well.
Benefits of R&D investments in India
India has one of the most favourable tax regimes for R&D. The benefits are in the form of Direct tax benefits, Indirect tax benefits and state government incentives. Currently these benefits are available to contributions made to specified institutions and expenditure incurred on in-house R & D centres of manufacturing entities. Indirect tax benefits are available for recognised R & D centres as well.
The rates of super deductions in India are comparable with those across the globe. Till FY 2009-10, the benefits were restricted to manufacturing companies in certain specified sectors only. As a result the flow of foreign R&D is mainly concentrated in areas such as electronics and telecommunication, software development, auto design, drug design and pharmaceuticals, hardware and product design. But now, benefits are broad based benefiting all manufacturing companies. The super deduction has been enhanced to 200% from the earlier limits of 150% as well. We are broadly travelling in the right direction.
The super deduction is available both on capital as well as revenue expenditure. During the starting up stage, companies would have high amount of capital expenditure, in the form of investments in the R & D facilities and equipment. These could be entitled to the super deduction of 200%. It needs to be kept in mind that investments in land and building are not entitled to the increased super deduction of 200%. From the indirect tax perspective, import of capital equipment by recognised R & D centres could be eligible for customs duty exemptions as well.
Under the DTC, the current benefits will be continued and are likely to attract more investments resulting in higher R & D spends in India.
According to a Deloitte's spokesperson, "India is a strong contender in the field of global R&D. Many MNCs have started considering India as a favourable destination but there is a need for wider policies to attract more investments in this area. Currently, India's spends on R&D is around 2% of the global spending which is quite less when we look at other South Asian counterparts."
Talking about tax incentives he added, "Further, the State government incentives are not uniform across all States. From a Direct tax perspective, it needs to be recognised that captive R&D centres bring in a high amount of employment, and R&D infrastructure into India, and this needs to be encouraged. Currently, these units do not seem to be receiving enough incentives." Relevance of the white paper
There is a noticeable shift in geographies of R & D investments, with greater focus on the Asian region. Understanding the fiscal benefits available for R & D expenditure in India is therefore of prime importance, and companies should be aware of these while strategising their decision on R & D investments. It is interesting to note that there are no conditions prescribed with respect to location of patents in India, what is required is that the R & D activity should be located in India, the costs need to be incurred in India, the benefit of R & D should be utilised in a manufacturing set up in India.
The companies need to be aware that the disclosure of R & D expenditure in the annual report assumes significance in claiming the tax benefits since a high degree of reliance is placed on these by the authorities while certifying the expenditure. The accounting practices could also have an impact on the tax benefits, where the company is covered under MAT (Minimum Alternate Tax) where the book profits assume significance.
R&D spend in India
Investments in research, until recently, lagged behind that of China, the European Union and the U.S. The Indian government has made concerted efforts to drive investments in S & T and this is reflected in the five-year plans. The XI Five Year Plan (2007-12) has ambitious programs and covers:
• substantial stepping up of support to basic research,
• enlarging the pool of scientific manpower,
• strengthening S&T infrastructure,
• implementing selected national flagship programmes which have a direct bearing on the technological competitiveness,
• establish globally competitive research facility and centers of excellence.
The plan includes a four-fold increase for education over the previous plan. It also targets growth of R&D as a share of GDP from the current levels of 0.9% level to 1.2% by 2012.
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The late Rosa Parks continues to make history. Her likeness will be depicted in a statue later this year at Capitol Hill's Statuary Hall, making her the first African-American woman to achieve the mark.
Each of the 50 states donates two statues of their most prominent citizens to Statuary Hall. Rosa Parks will be representative of the state of Alabama where she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and became the "mother of the civil rights movement." Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced the statue would be revealed in late 2013. As chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, he is also in charge of artwork in the Capitol.
Congress passed an order to place the statue in the hall in 2005. In 2008, the National Endowment for the Arts announced a design competition calling artists to submit designs for the statue. The U.S. Postal Service is also commemorating the life of Rosa Parks. On Feb. 4, the postal service is issuing a special "Historic Forever" stamp in honor of Parks' 100th birthday.


As every general and C-suite pseudo-warrior knows, the ancient Chinese military theorist advised that every battle is won before it is ever fought — a saying that highlights the importance of preparation prior to any fight. The recent news that Goldman Sachs is the first financial institution (FI) to sign up with U.K.-based Immersive Labs for its cyber security war games demonstrates the enduring appeal of that adage.
Businesses have long played war games (certain veterans might take issue with the use of "war" to describe issues related to profit and loss, but capitalist society long ago embraced the idea that "business is war"). Those games might revolve around the question of whether to raise prices by a certain percentage, for instance, or seek to anticipate the effects of a competitor breaking into the market. The games might be analog or digital, and take the form of a series of meetings or a corporate retreat.
In addition, organizations — those with a long view, at least — have long done cyberthreat assessments, a process centered around checking anti-hacking technology and the credibility of cyberattack response plans.
However, what Goldman Sachs is doing represents a different level of preparedness for hacking attacks, data breaches and similar digital threats — though one that carries its own risks.
Immersive Labs, the company hired by Goldman Sachs, created a cyber war game tool just four hours after the WannaCry malware attack became public. That tool enabled users to analyze how the ransomware behaved so they could create prevention antidotes. The general idea — the one that comes straight from Sun Tzu — is to get employees ready for the various facets of response to a cyberattack, actions that can not only include counterattacks against the invading technology, but communications among company officials and to customers.
"Another benefit of cyber war games: They may prevent participants from getting mired in minutiae and organizational politics," said Deloitte in a column from The Wall Street Journal, which still holds true today.
Of course, the use of cyber war games extends beyond Goldman Sachs and the financial industry.
Last August, for instance, Boeing conducted what it called the "inaugural Defense Industry Cyber War Game," with the purpose of helping to "position companies against cyberattacks and practice preparedness," according to a statement from the company. Other companies that took part in the exercise included BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, "all of whom are members of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base," Boeing said.
The exercise, which was the first of its kind, provided an opportunity to examine and address a large number of different cyberattack methods that can occur simultaneously and, if left unchecked, accelerate out of control. The exercise, described by Boeing, seemed more like chess than to checkers.
When it comes to real war, not the boardroom imitation of it, successful games can lead to significant battlefield success. Take the Louisiana Maneuvers, a series of U.S. Army exercises conducted before the Pearl Harbor attack — its lessons, according to military historians, led to tactics and policies that helped the Allies win later success against German forces.
Then again, war games — or plans based on them — can lead to something akin to defeat. The locked-in thinking of European military leaders in the summer of 1914 — the alliances, rail transport schedules, set-in-stone countermoves — arguably helped turn World War I into the unexpected slaughter it quickly became.
Can businesses learn something from that? Probably, at least according to a McKinsey & Company report that dates to 2012, but whose wisdom might have found approval from Sun Tzu.
That passage stands not only as a call for constant preparedness, to strive to win the battle before it is fought, but as a warning against rigid thinking, which holds especially true in an era when criminals operating in the digital world can adjust their moves with amazing speed.


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With all of the above said, if you have better recommendations, please feel free to educate us.
My personal recommendation is for you to simply take apart your first door and store all of the bolts in a box. Then, take those to a place such as Fastenal and have them replicate everything in that box.
Finally, if you don't wish to get the bolts yourself and want someone else to do it for you, then you can order a set of the bolts, nuts and washers I list below here. Please know that it will be cheaper if you simply buy the bolts direct.
bolt: 1/4- 20 X 3/4″ Philips Drive Head grade 18-8 stainless steel.
Note: These washers are slightly wider, so they will not fit behind the nut on the side for one of them nuts per side.
You will need 6 of them, normally you'll need 8 but because of the with two of them won't fit with the rail (from the inside / behind the nut).
bolt: 1/4- 20 X 1-1/2″ Philips Drive Head grade 18-8 stainless steel.
bolt: #80-30X1″ S/S Pan Head 7'th.
Note: If you have found a different part number that works better please let me know and I will update the post.