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Posted on 6 October 2019 6 October 2019 by Daniel Sjöberg
Welcome to Allmogens's new home on the web. After 4 years it was time for a move, a refresh of the website and even a new logo. Now we are entering a new chapter.
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Four years. Time flies! Soon we will all be dead and buried, and other feet will tread the familiar paths that we ourselves walk today. Well, not too soon I hope! But yes, a new website. What's that all about, anyway? Ones and zeros. Pretty meaningless. But still not.
I have always admired the old granite foundations on which our beautiful Nordic log houses, barns, castles and fortresses are built. Real. Sturdy. Immortal. That's exactly what this new website is, a solid foundation. What will be built on that foundation in the future? I have my ideas, oh what ideas, but of course it's up to Allmogens members to have their say too.
To start with, navigation and categorisation have been simplified to make it easier to dig into Allmogens editorial material and archives. All editorial material is now found in four categories, History, Culture, Chronicles and News. All digitised material, all old texts, speeches, poems, books and songs, can now be found in Archive. Then there is also a category with exciting destination around our vast country.
The first website I knocked together on a November evening 4 years ago? It was just a soil survey. The results have come in; there is soil here to grow. Something lasting will be built here. Because our history, the knowledge of ourselves and our Swedish and Nordic culture, is worth preserving and passing on to our descendants. That task falls to no one but ourselves.
And what we have achieved together over these years to raise awareness and interest in our history! We who read, like, share and support Allmogens work, and in other ways engage with our cultural heritage. This year alone, 123,944 unique visitors have found their way to the website, and only last month 130,909 people have been reached by Allmogens storytelling on Facebook. We are not only helping to preserve our own history and awaken the interest of a new generation, Allmogens work has also had repercussions at the political level, reaching all the way up to the pinnacles and towers of power.
You are the members, Allmogens true friends, which makes it possible. You are the bedrock on which the granite blocks rest. You are the primordial source from which Allmogens gets its power. You are the general public. Instead of talking about the plans for Allmogens I thought I'd just show you instead. Actions speak louder than words. Follow-up to come...
So what's the deal with the star in the picture?
Eight-leaf rose, selburose (from the Norwegian village of Selbu in Sør-Trøndelag), Nordic rose, kannuksenpyörä, the dear child has many names. This symbol, Allmogens new logo and symbol, can be traced back to Nordic Viking times, including its use as a tree mark. It is a symbol that has been used in Nordic, Baltic and Slavic folklore to ward off danger, to protect home and hearth from misfortune and evil forces. Today you may recognise the symbol as an extremely popular motif on knitted mittens and woollen sweaters.
The symbol is found not only in Nordic culture but also in Baltic culture, where it is known as Auseklis, the morning star, the protective star, a symbol of the planet Venus that can be seen at sunrise. In Latvian mythology, the god Auseklis is the embodiment of the morning star and as such represents the dawn, the victory of light over darkness, the rebirth of life generation after generation. In times of war and crisis, the star is said to guide people to safety.
What's not to like about that symbolism? Especially this time of autumn when darkness is settling over the country. The light and life are coming back. Always. Especially if you wear a little morning star as a pendant around your neck, which of course you'll be able to buy in the store soon (hehe).
The symbol also has a deeper meaning for me and this project, as the morning star has been Allmogens official symbol ever since this public education project started in 2015 under the name Project Moberg (after the author Vilhelm Moberg). But it's not the star in the sky, it's the morning star. A wooden handle with a large iron lump with sharp spikes on it. It doesn't sound very inviting, I know. But read on!
Vilhelm Moberg used this weapon as the summoning symbol of the omnipotent in his novel "Rid i natt!", and Moberg in turn got the idea from Alfred Kämpe's history work The struggle for freedom of the Swedish Ommogens. Kämpe depicts a real peasant uprising from Närke in 1653, when some 15 peasants rebelled against the Swedish state's soldier drafts and heavy taxes. They were said to have used the morning star during their short-lived struggle for freedom. The rebellion was quickly put down and many of the peasants were executed, but the morning star would live on as a symbol of freedom and justice into our time. Vilhelm Moberg writes in "Rid i natt!":
"Jon Stånge stands with the board in his hand, the message board, bearing the sign of the morning star. He has received a message from fellow brothers who share with him the lot of oppression. This board is carved from the hands of bread, it has been carried through nights and days, it has run mile after mile, it has passed from hand to hand. This cloak has been covered and worn by many hands, which have grasped it and thumbed it and left their marks. It has run through a long chain of heavy peasant hands, each of which is unable to free itself, but which now grope and grope for support from one another. There are a hundred hands stretched out against him with this board, there are the hands of fellow-brothers, there are a thousand living hands. Now it is his turn to join his hand to the chain."
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Truly a good choice, morning star. In this way, our peoples and history in the Nordic countries are also properly linked to the peoples of the Baltic States. As I see it, allmogen.se works for the freedom of the people, the preservation of culture and history and towards independence from the state and the bailiffs.
If correctly interpreted, Allmogen must also resist the great exchange of people. For if there is no people left, there is no freedom or culture to preserve.
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From 1969 to 1998, Northern Ireland went through a violent period known as 'The Troubles'. Nationalist and Unionist political leaders and the governments of Ireland and Britain held peace talks to come up with ideas to end the violence.
The peace talks resulted in the Belfast Agreement. This is also known as the Good Friday Agreement because it was signed on Good Friday 1998.
The Good Friday Agreement created a special type of government called power-sharing. This means that Unionists and Nationalists now share the power to make decisions about Northern Ireland.
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This past weekend was the ReFuel Clean Power Performance Event hosted by Speed Ventures at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This event is an electric-only track day for electric cars and motorcycles and a great opportunity for riders of all skill levels to ride on a real race track. And not just any track, Laguna Seca! Home of the (in)famous Corkscrew! I've been meaning to make it up to this event for the last couple of years and I finally had all the gear and the bike to make this a reality. Along with me from SoCal were: shop service guru Frank Caridi riding a 2014 Zero FX equipped with Hollywood Electrics Supermoto Kit, customer Eric Barkalow on a 2012 Zero DS with S wheels, and our Hollywood Electrics racers, Brandon Nozaki Miller on his 2014 Zero SR and Jeff Clark on his 2013 Zero FX Pikes Peak Special. A bunch of the guys from the Zero factory were up there, and Brammo made the trip down from Oregon just for the event. There was even someone who brought their own homemade electric motorcycle, although I don't think I saw it go around the track more than a couple of times. I've had little track experience and this was my first time on a proper race track, and I was riding a stock 2014 Zero S, a demo we have in the shop, so I kept it pretty sedate for the most part. The other guys, not so much. It's impressive to see these guys whizzing by me on the track when I think I'm going fast. Towards the end of the day, we were all given the opportunity to participate in the TT, a timed lap around the track, to see how we rank amongst the group. Brandon was the fastest in the production electric motorcycle category on his SR, a second SR just behind him, followed by an Empulse R. It was a great event and a fun time was had by all. I know we're all looking forward to returning next year. Thanks again to the guys at Speed Ventures for organizing a great event!


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Q: Help with the integral $\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{x^{s}}{\Gamma(s)}s^{z-1}ds$ Consider the integral :
$$\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{x^{s}}{\Gamma(s)}s^{z-1}ds$$
Where $x\in \mathbb{R}^{+}$  , $z\in \mathbb{C}$
Using the Hankel contour representation of the reciprocal gamma function, we have:
$$\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{x^{s}}{\Gamma(s)}s^{z-1}ds=\frac{i}{2\pi}\oint \int_{0}^{\infty} \left(-\frac{x}{t}\right)^{s}s^{z-1}e^{-t}dsdt$$
$$=\Gamma(z)\frac{i}{2\pi}\oint \left(-\log\left(-\frac{x}{t}\right)\right)^{-z}e^{-t}dt$$
But i have no idea on how to do this integral. any help is highly appreciated

A: It looks like Ramanujan's master theorem (see [1] pg. 298-300). Instead of Ramanujan's formula we use Hardy's theorem which is also in [1] pg. 299-300.
THEOREM 1. (Ramanujan-Hardy)
Let $s=\sigma+it$, $\sigma,t$ both real. Let $H(\delta)=\{s:\sigma\geq-\delta\}$, $0<\delta<1$. If $\psi(s)$ is analytic on $H(\delta)$ and exist constants $C,P,A$, with $A<\pi$ such that
$$
|\psi(s)|\leq Ce^{P\sigma+A|t|}\textrm{, }\forall s\in H(\delta),
$$
for $x>0$ and $0<c<\delta$, we define
$$
\Psi(x)=\frac{1}{2\pi i}\int^{c+i\infty}_{c-i\infty}\frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi s)}\psi(-s)x^{-s}ds.
$$
If $0<x<e^{-P}$, then
$$
\Psi(x)=\sum^{\infty}_{k=0}\psi(k)(-x)^k.
$$
For $0<\sigma<\delta$, we have
$$
\int^{\infty}_{0}\Psi(x)x^{s-1}dx=\frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi s)}\psi(-s).
$$
Here (in your case) if we set
$$
\psi(x)=\frac{\phi(x)}{\Gamma(x+1)},
$$
and
$$
\Psi(x)=\frac{a^x}{\Gamma(x)}=\sum^{\infty}_{k=0}\psi(k)(-x)^k=\sum^{\infty}_{k=0}\frac{\phi(k)}{k!}(-x)^k,
$$
then
$$
\int^{\infty}_{0}\frac{a^x}{\Gamma(x)}x^{s-1}dx=\frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi s)}\psi(-s)=\frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi s)}\frac{\phi(-s)}{\Gamma(1-s)}
$$
Using now the formula
$$
\frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi s)\Gamma(1-s)}=\Gamma(s),
$$
we arrive to
$$
I(s):=\int^{\infty}_{0}\frac{a^x}{\Gamma(x)}x^{s-1}dx=\Gamma(s)\phi(-s).
$$
Hence if $(Mf)(s)$ is the Mellin transform of $f$, then
$$
\left(Mf\right)(s)=\int^{\infty}_{0}f(x)x^{s-1}dx
$$
and
$$
\left(M\Psi\right)(s)=I(s)=\int^{\infty}_{0}\frac{a^x}{\Gamma(x)}x^{s-1}dx
=\Gamma(s)\phi(-s).
$$
But from 2 we have the following
THEOREM 2. (for the conditions see 2)
$$
\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}\left(M\Psi\right)(\sigma+it)f(t)dt=2\pi\sum^{\infty}_{k=0}\frac{\Psi^{(k)}(0)}{k!}f(i(\sigma+k)).
$$
Hence in our case with $\Psi(t)=a^t/\Gamma(t)$ and $f(t)=e^{-itx}(M\Psi)(\sigma-it)$, we have
$$
\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}(M\Psi)(\sigma+it)f(t)dt=
$$
$$
=\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}(M\Psi)(\sigma+it)e^{-itx}(M\Psi)(\sigma-it)dt=
$$
$$
=2\pi\sum^{\infty}_{k=0}\frac{\Psi^{(k)}(0)}{k!}f(i(\sigma+k))=
$$
$$
=2\pi\sum^{\infty}_{k=0}\frac{\Psi^{(k)}(0)}{k!}e^{-ii(\sigma+k)x}\Gamma(\sigma-ii(\sigma+k))\phi(-\sigma+ii(\sigma+k))=
$$
$$
=2\pi\sum^{\infty}_{k=0}\frac{\Psi^{(k)}(0)}{k!}e^{(\sigma+k)x}\Gamma(2\sigma+k)\phi(-2\sigma-k).
$$
Hence with $\sigma=1/2$:
$$
\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}\left|(M\Psi)\left(\frac{1}{2}+it\right)\right|^2e^{-itx}dt=2\pi e^{x/2} \sum^{\infty}_{k=0}\frac{\Psi^{(k)}(0)}{k!}\Gamma(k+1)\phi(-k-1)e^{kx}.
$$
Hence we can write
$$
\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}\left|(M\Psi)\left(\frac{1}{2}+it\right)\right|^2e^{itx}dt=2\pi e^{-x/2} \sum^{\infty}_{k=0}\frac{\Psi^{(k)}(0)}{k!}\left(\int^{\infty}_{0}\frac{a^t}{\Gamma(t)}t^{k}dt\right)e^{-kx}\textrm{, }x>0
$$
Which is a sampling formula, recovering the absolute value of the Mellin transform of $\Psi(x)$, from the values of $(M\Psi)(x)$ at $x=k+1$, where $k$ belongs to the non negative integers $k=0,1,2,\ldots$. As someone can see the result can be generalized very easily for $\Psi(x)$ analyitic around $0$ and entire in $\textbf{C}$ such that $\int^{\infty}_{0}|\Psi(t)t^{k}|dt<\infty$.
NOTES.
1) The general formula that rises is
$$
\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}\left|(M\Psi)\left(\frac{1}{2}+it\right)\right|^2e^{itx}dt=2\pi e^{-x/2} \sum^{\infty}_{k=0}\frac{\Psi^{(k)}(0)}{k!}(M\Psi)(k+1)e^{-kx}\textrm{, }x>0
$$
As an example of evaluation take $\Psi(x)=e^{-x}$. Then
$$
\int^{\infty}_{0}e^{-t}t^{k}dt=k!.
$$
Hence we get the next integral
$$
\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}\left|\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{2}+it\right)\right|^2e^{itx}dt=2\pi\frac{e^{x/2}}{e^x+1}\textrm{, }x>0.
$$
2)
Also from the inverse Fourier theorem with $\Psi(x)=\frac{a^x}{\Gamma(x)}$, then
$$
\left|(M\Psi)\left(\frac{1}{2}+iw\right)\right|^2=\left|\int^{\infty}_{0}\frac{a^t}{\Gamma(t)}t^{-1/2+iw}dt\right|^2=
$$
$$
=\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}e^{-x/2} \sum^{\infty}_{k=0}\frac{\Psi^{(k)}(0)}{k!}\left(\int^{\infty}_{0}\frac{a^t}{\Gamma(t)}t^{k}dt\right)e^{-kx}e^{-i x w}dx
$$
[1]: Bruce. C. Berndt. "Ramanujan's Notebooks Part 1". Springer-Verlang. New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, Tokyo. 1985.
2: N.D. Bagis."Numerical Evaluations of Functions Series and Integral Transforms with New Sampling Methods". Thesis. Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2007), (in Greek from Researchgate here)

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EU study tour on "Electricity Interconnections and Markets"
The Network invites all members and friends to join the "June 2018 series of webinars". Specifically, we are organising three webinars taking place on 19th, 21st and 26th of June 2018 with the participation of distinguished EU and GCC experts. Apart from the presentations and the discussion among the invited speakers, we have secured time for a live discussion with all participants. For this reason, we encourage you to send us your questions via e-mail at contact@eugcc-cleanergy.net.
The "Hydrogen based Decarbonisation of Transport" webinar will take place on Tuesday 19 June 2018 at 10:00 - 10:45 CET.
The "Smart grid innovation and climate policy" webinar will take place on Thursday 21 June 2018 at 10:30 -11:15 CET.
The "Renewables Integration & Electricity Sector Flexibility" webinar will take place on Tuesday 26 June 2018 at 10:30 -11:15 CET.
Registration for the 1st webinar entitled "Hydrogen based Decarbonisation of Transport" is now open. You may find all relevant information as well as the registration form at the webinar's webpage.
Registration for the 2nd webinar entitled "Smart grid innovation and climate policy" is now open. You may find all relevant information as well as the registration form at the webinar's webpage.
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I've been a recent advocate of taking your time with your book: showing patience, getting help as needed, perfecting your work, doing pre-marketing, etc.
I have some trepidation that authors might read this article, especially given where it was published, and interpret that to mean that writing and publishing as quickly as possible is a successful business model.
No matter how you publish, it will take a special brand of content and packaging to attract a large readership, and discoverability is only becoming more challenging each year.
If the book isn't attracting readers, having thirty such books probably won't help.
But if you have a special book that's just a magnet for readers, those readers will crave more, and the faster they can get it, the better.
The getting-more-books-out-there-quickly plan may have some merit.
Let me emphasize that there is more to it than just a large number of books; content is especially important, and so are packaging and discoverability.
I've mentioned previously the power of a backlist: Most authors who put out many titles in a few years already had much of the work done before publishing.
I benefited from a backlist, a coauthor, and publishing many workbooks that don't compare to writing a novel. I know that it can help to have several books out. The more marketable books, the better. Having a large number of books that aren't too marketable won't help much.
Just wrote a long comment and deleted it. I wish I knew how someone can write a publishable novel in five weeks, or how people can follow the advice that's out there to never revise. I know it works for some people, but if I'd "just hit publish" on early drafts of my work, I'd be too embarrassed by plot holes and weak character motivations to ever try to release anything again!
I'm probably losing money by actually revising and polishing my work, but I'm too much of a perfectionist to release anything that's not the best I can make it. With so many choices out there for readers already, I'd rather take up less shelf space with higher-quality work than take up more with work that's less than my best, even if it means I make less money (and I know that in the current publishing climate, I AM losing money). Silly, right?
I agree that the example given in that article is too extreme. I also believe that model won't pan out for most authors. But I thought it would provide balance to my previous suggestions of taking more time.
One constant in book marketing is change. If word spreads and more readers begin to favor authors who perfect their books, the author who rushed dozens of books to the market will suddenly have little to show for much hard work. Perfected content, in my opinion, can thrive in any market. We already see the market changing from a social-media frenzy to content-rich websites. It seems like content-valued books would fit nicely with this.
I also believe that putting extra time to perfect the book, create buzz, and build a following has a much greater chance of success, especially in the long run. But if an author can succeed with a quicker-to-market plan, it would be hard for me to contradict the results and say it was the wrong thing to do. It's ultimately the readership that makes such decisions.
Good post. In finishing my book I took the painstaking approach.
One bonus for you is pride in your finished product. 🙂 Good luck with your book.
I guess it's really a matter of finding your own pace and what works for you. Me? I take a few years to get a decent novel written and ready to be seen by outside eyes. Other people can pop out two or three a year. But that's the thing — some people can and should write quickly, because they're really good at it, and their brain just works in a way that lets them come up with ideas fast, write fast, edit fast, and turn out a great end product. But, like you said, there are also a ton of authors out there who write a first draft, run a spell check, and hit Publish, which is ever so worrisome.
That's a good point. I can think of some popular traditional authors, like Heinlein, for whom ideas just seemed to roll right off their fingers. It's a rare talent, though on the other hand there are millions of active writers.


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Climate denial school can be a scary place. Those crazy, totally anti-science myths we've been discussing week after week in Denial101x keep popping up in the real world, and in recent weeks were spotted everywhere from Judith Curry's blog to Australia's federal government.
And it just got even scarier. Because this week, we delved into the real-world implications of human-caused warming, from just how warm scientists believe the planet's going to get, to the ways that the environment, wildlife and human society will suffer as a result. Five weeks in, we're getting to the heart of why it's so important to fight climate denial: the stakes are huge, and they are already affecting us today.
Climate deniers try to minimize the impact that a lot of the climate change-related phenomena discussed this week will have, which is why the interviews with experts this week are particularly striking. These are people who have looked closely at the data, and who understand better than any of us what we're in for. Watch their warnings closely, then try to tell yourself they're blowing this all out of proportion.
-There are the consequences of climate change we hear about a lot, like starving polar bears, and the ones that grab fewer headlines, like ocean acidification. This week's course tackled myths on both fronts. Polars bears, explains Dana Nuccitelli, aren't uniformly threatened by vanishing Arctic ice: their populations are in greatest danger in areas where sea ice is seasonal, or where it retreats from the shore during the summer. Populations that live in more stable regions are doing just fine, for now. But the myth that polar bears aren't in trouble because their numbers are greater now than they were in the 1970s makes little sense, Nuccitelli continues. In the past, their numbers dwindled as a result of other kinds of human activity, namely hunting. We regulated our way out of that crisis, but are failing to do the same for this new, worsening threat.
Rather than asserting that things that are in danger actually aren't, another pervasive myth holds that lifeforms harmed by climate change will be able to recover. Lecturer Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, whose lab has conducted research on the Great Barrier Reef, explains how that thinking plays out with coral reefs: they've withstood periods where the ocean's pH was too low in Earth's past, but it took them about 10 million years to bounce back. "Try telling the tour guides on the Great Barrier Reef that there's no need to worry about climate change," he scoffs, "because reefs will eventually come back in a few hundred generations."
Even a tiny bit of sea level rise, like the amount we'd achieved in New York by 2012, has an effect on a hurricanes' ultimate toll, Jacobs explains. One analysis found that it increased the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy by a full 30 percent, costing us an additional $8 billion. Rains and winds are expected to become heavier and faster with climate change as well.
The claims made by those who, unlike Emanuel, choose politics over science -- that hurricanes have always happened, or that recent periods in which hurricane activity was low suggest that storms are in no way related to climate change -- don't actually say anything about the climate change-hurricane connection at all.
-Try not to get too excited, climate deniers, but sometimes people do exaggerate certain risks. Andy Skuce, an independent geoscience consultant, explains that methane gas trapped in clathrates -- cages of water molecules below seabeds and the Arctic permafrost -- certainly sound worrisome: they contain more carbon than can be found in the entire atmosphere, and the release of a fraction of one percent of them would double the amount of methane, a greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere. However, he continues, it's probably going to take a long time, on the order of thousands of years, before the effects of climate change cause the large scale destabilization of the clathrates. Our time is better spent, for now, worrying about fossil fuels, which are already causing catastrophic warming on their own.


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Guys can you share with some of the ways you guys connect the ground connector to the chasis from a Tripoint ?
Thank you ! am I doing it the right way or what's the best way or tool to go about this thank you !
First of all, the direction of Tripoint grounding cables is important. Spades with the blue tags are always on the component side! From your first photo it's seen you got that wrong. Use metal screws on the chassis not connectors. If you have a grounding post on the chassis, use it. Next best thing is to modify a chassis screw into a grounding post.
Marcus , thank you for pointing that out ! I am going to go and reserve that connection right away ! as for the chassis screw into the grounding post , do you have any photos or links that you can share with me , thank you so much for the help and also is it a good idea to connect the grounding cable to the RCA jack , and if so do you know what tools Is best to do that with ?
Thank you for you time and advice !
I dont think that may people use the tripoint for signal ground purposes (RCA, XLR, Etc). Im using a signature (Thanks Tang!) for chassis ground, and it is wonderful.
If anyone is using for signal ground, please weigh in, Id ne interested to hear about that.
I wish I could help, all my connected components have ground connections except the Aurender W20. Has anyone connected a W20 to their Tripoint?
Is quite easy to check by taking a multimeter and put the prongs between signal grounds / chassis / iec earth pin to see where continuity exists.
Yes, Mr. Lin, designer of Telos GNR v3.1 active electrical groundboxes advocates using this method to locate the chassis screws or ground=post which has the lowest resistance and attach the groundwire there.
The effect of his groundboxes can then be optimized.
I think this can be applied to Troy groundboxes too.
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on my dart 458 amps i'm using a chassis screw for the ground. i purchased a longer screw and a series of larger and smaller washers and a nut to attach a ground spade. seems to work well and i can hear what it's doing. love to upgrade these standard ground wires to Thor SE's when i can.
i asked my amp designer which screw would likely give me the best chassis ground which is how i choose that one. would every amp designer be so supportive and open minded to help in that way? not sure.
This looks excellent. I did the same with my Ayon amps and preamps. On the inner side of chassis I also neatly scraped the paint off sothat that the inner washer fully touch the chassis.
for the dart 458's the surface is anodized (no paint anywhere on the dart), but it's more what the screw is screwed into. the other factor is the screw metal; Miguel at one point was trying to source an alternate material for the screws, washers, and nuts (some sort of brass or copper alloy). each chassis is unique and i would recommend consulting with Miguel for optimization ideas.
Do you know where we. can order these binding posts? thank you so much for sharing !
Mike mentioned it was a longer screw with different sized washers, so I imagine any hardware store will have what you need. Those posts would hold the heavy cables well.


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Consultation? Confrontation!
Nigel March 16, 2016 North Yorkshire County Council
an "In My View" article by NIGEL WARD, summing up the acrimonious stand-off over the intended closure of Eskdale School. (With thanks to Tom BRODRICK of The Reading Room Gallery, for use of his photo of the NYCC panel).
Tuesday 15th March 2016. Whitby Pavilion. (For my report on Monday evening's event, see here).
The second roll-out of the Pete DWYER road show came, despite a tremendous turn-out, as something of an anti-climax following Monday evening's vibrant debate.
Lessons had clearly been learned about how to stage-manage an event that, on Monday, had allowed (at least from the NYCC perspective) too much latitude to the more articulate voices of opposition.
Quick to learn, Executive County Councillor Arthur BARKER set the tone from before the kick-off, telling former Eskdale Chair of Governors Mike WARD that no member of the public who had spoken on the Monday would be allowed to address the panel again.
Before the tedium of the slide-show was released upon us, we were treated to two spirited musical performances by Eskdale youngsters, the second led by former Eskdale pupil Alistair GRIFFIN. Both were greeted by rousing applause and an almost unanimous standing ovation, eschewed only by the Caedmon Headteacher Keith PRYTHERCH and his entourage of acolytes, minions and lickspittles, who remained stone-faced in their seats while Golden Boy tinkered with his mobile.
If Pete DWYER, at the beginning of his commentary slide-show commentary, seemed, momentarily, to have adopted a less strident rhetoric, he soon reverted to type. Frequent references to "this consultation" and "this genuine consultation" could not long disguise the obduracy that had characterised Monday's performance. The inevitable references to "must be financially stable" and "must not jeopardise sixth form provision" left no doubt as to the principle element of the LEA strategy – money. Pete DWYER "absolutely respected" the Eskdalers views, "However . . .".
That "However . . . " said it all for me. What he really meant was that they would be going ahead with the closure – whatever.
Caroline BIRD's latest performance did not stray far from her previous effort. If she was heckled less, it appeared to me that this was because an unspoken accord had been reached amongst the audience to allow Caroline to simply get it over with, so that we could move on to the more pressing business of the evening – the Q & A.
Again, Arthur BARKER attempted to confuse the issue by insisting on hearing two questions at a time; this time, sharing the responses between Pete DWYER and Caroline BIRD with the occasional non sequitur from Jill HODGES, introduced to slow the game. Informationally, she added nothing of value.
Despite Arthur BARKER's insistence on singling out a disproportionat number of children to speak, there were some excellent statements/questions from members of the teaching profession – notably Mrs Caroline PEARSON, Mrs Zoë HURWORTH (whose cards will now have been marked) and former Headteacher Tim LANDERS.
Dr John BROWN, who had that morning addressed the Scarborough Borough Council Cabinet to some effect, also raised some salient points. But direct answers were few and far between.
The underlying obstacle to constructive dialogue is now very clear.
The LEA is concerned with the bigger picture – the corporate strategy.
The Eskdale teachers, parents and kids – as well as the Whitby public – are concerned with young lives, in and out of the class-room.
The LEA is concerned with indicants of academic adequacy and sustainable costing projections. Unquestioning adherence to the so-called 'economy of scale'.
The Eskdalers are concerned with much broader aspects of childhood – integration, teamwork, relationships, and (dare I say it?) fun – a sense of belonging, of community, of life not in disregard of examination results, but beyond them. Real life.
The debate (though it was not worthy of that name) was non-communicative precisely because the LEA was selling justification – cold, hard, impersonal facts. Whereas the Eskdalers were holding out for more humanistic values and aspirations; less quantifiable, less susceptible to statistical evaluation, perhaps – but more 'real' in terms of life's wider challenges. Their broader vision was lost on the statisticians from County Hall.
The two sides were simply talking 'through' each other.
As I mingled with parents and teachers when the meeting closed, I heard much talk of 'a done deal'. I tend to agree; I hope I am wrong. But I also heard much talk of continuing the fight – a Call-in? A legal challenge? A Judicial Review? But, by and large, the atmosphere was redolent of futility, sadness and loss. The writing is on the wall for Eskdale and that writing says "The Whitby School – or you are on your own". No alternative in Whitby. No transport support. No escape for the bullied and abused.
So I suspect that Mr Pete DWYER and Mr Keith PRYTHERCH will have gone content to their respective beds. There would seem to be no insurmountable impediment now to the closure of Eskdale School. For not much longer will the tinkle of children's voices ring through corridor and hall. For not much longer will there be corridors and halls. First there will be rubble and then there will be new housing. There will be families. There will be kids.
Those kids will all go to the same school – "The Whitby School" – a school that has yet to be judged (either by OFSTED or by the court of public opinion) and which, before very long, will renew its Academy application, probably successfully (in accordance with the government's edict), and the 'battle' for Eskdale will be consigned to the list of many abject failures of democratic process that has characterised and chronicled the history of Whitby under the dominating Tory Councils.
As to the LEA's duty of care to the kids who are being bullied or sexually exploited – well, that may come back to haunt them.
But that is another story . . .
I hope that you will read it here on the Enquirer. Nowhere else will the full story be told.
More from the North Yorks Enquirer
Dwyer, Dwyer – Pants On Fire!
"Eskdale and a Wry Smile"
The Hidden Agenda – a Closing Chapter?
No Hidden Agenda?! – Part 3
"To Trust Or . . ."
NYCC: Safeguarding Crisis
Whitby Education: 2 Heads Are Better Than 1
Eskdale School: Consultation
Eskdale School: Another Brick In The Wall
The Eskdale Saga: Death Of A School


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//  Created by Batuhan Erden.
//  Copyright © 2016 Batuhan Erden. All rights reserved.
//

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Ball : MonoBehaviour {

	private const int SPEED_FORCE = 10;
	private const int JUMP_FORCE = 8;
	private int jumpingsLeft;
	public GameObject camera;
	public GameObject sun;
	public int currentLevel;
	public int coinAmount;
	public float timer;

	private void OnCollisionStay() {
		jumpingsLeft = 2;
	}

	private void Start() {
		GameMaster.currentLevel = currentLevel;
		GameMaster.coinAmount = coinAmount;
		GameMaster.timer = timer;
	}

	private void Update() {
		move();
		jump();

		trackBall();
		nullifyZ();
	}

	private void move() {
		if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.DownArrow) || Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.S))
			GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = new Vector2(0, GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity.y);
		else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.RightArrow) || Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.D))
			GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = new Vector2(SPEED_FORCE, GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity.y);
		else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftArrow) || Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A))
			GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = new Vector2(-SPEED_FORCE, GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity.y);
	}

	private void jump() {
		if ((Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.UpArrow) || Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) || Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) && --jumpingsLeft > 0) {
			GetComponent<AudioSource>().Play();
			GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = new Vector2(GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity.x, JUMP_FORCE);
		}
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	private void trackBall() {
		camera.transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y + 1, -10);
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Fort Smith shooting: One dead, arrest made
Kelsey Christine Dampier of Pocola was arrested Thursday in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Joshua Flanagan of Fort Smith.
Dampier, also known as Kelsey Christine Stafford, was charged Friday with one count of first-degree murder and a felony possession of firearm by certain persons, according to Sebastian County Prosecutor Dan Shue.
No bond has been set for Dampier, the prosecutor added. She will be arraigned on the charges 8:30 a..m. Wednesday, Jan. 13.
According to the affadavit, Flanagan had a single gunshot wound to his stomach from a .380 handgun. Police spoke to numerous people in the neighborhood and one told them Stafford was "upset because her phone got stolen, and claimed that she pinged her phone to Flanagan."
"Flanagan argued with Stafford, and she pulled out a purple colored 380 caliber handgun and shot him one time in the stomach," the affadavit states. "She said that she ran into the office, and saw Stafford walking down the street toward North 18th and G."
The manager of the properties saw Flanagan arguing with a female that with the description she gave matched that of Stafford, the affadavit adds. Another neighbor also gave a description of Stafford as the shooter.
Fort Smith Police responded to the shooting call in the 600 block of North 18th Street around 3:30 p.m. Thursday. Flanagan was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The Fort Smith Police Department's Criminal Investigations Division continues to investigate the homicide.
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Shaking Up the Digital Marketing World: Erik Huberman '08 BSBA (Business Management)
Eller College
Erik Huberman, '08 BSBA (Business Management), Founder and CEO, Hawke Media
Erik Huberman has always been an entrepreneur. His first recollection of making income was at age six, when he sold some of his parent's collectibles to neighbors. By age nine, he figured out how to make thousands of dollars during the Beanie Babies craze.
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Fast forward just two short decades, where Huberman's career has catapulted to tremendous success. The Eller graduate is founder and CEO of Hawke Media, a digital marketing firm that built its reputation as a full-service outsourced CMO by avoiding long-term contracts.
Huberman was named one of Forbes' 30 under 30 entrepreneurs and Inc.'s Top 25 Marketing Influencers in 2016. Last year, Hawke Media was also recognized as Built in Los Angeles' Top 50 Startups in L.A. and Happy City's Top Happiest Places to Work.
Frustrated with how traditional and digital agencies operated, Huberman started Hawke Media three years ago. Today, the Santa Monica-based firm has 80 employees.
"Hawke Media is more about people than most businesses," Huberman said. "Most companies provide a product or a service. In our case, our people are also our product, so our culture is always our most important focus."
Much of the firm's success has been a result of Huberman's ability to recognize weaknesses in the traditional agency model and provide a more efficient, cost-effective alternative.
"Everything we do for clients is on a month-to-month basis, meaning no long contracts, which is rare for the better agencies," Huberman explained. Clients choose from a menu of services that are all a la carte.
"From social media ads to email and influencer marketing to web design, we can spin up expertise that the company needs," he said. "The biggest differentiator for us, though, is the outsourced CMO component. Every company we work with gets a high-level marketing strategist who acts as both a strategy consultant and a project manager. This allows us to really drive the marketing function of a company, and keep on top of everything both internal to the company as well as new marketing opportunities that arise."
Huberman credits his accelerated career track to watching his father when he was growing up in Ojai, California.
"My dad was an entrepreneur, so I grew up with the mindset that if I were to get a job, it was just to learn something so that I could eventually start my own business. I just assumed that's what people did at a young age," he said.
At age 16, he started researching business schools, and he was attracted to the University of Arizona, not only because it was close to California, but because the Eller College of Management ranked high among the nation's best business schools.
Looking back at his time at Eller, he is grateful for professors like Marty Fox, who taught his strategic management capstone course.
"Marty really encouraged me, and I will never forget that towards the end of the year, he told me he wanted to stay in touch because of his expectations of me," he said. Working with a cohort also was a great experience for him.
"There was one project we did together that was so valuable that I refer back to it time and time again," Huberman said. "Our cohort consisted of five people from different majors -- including finance, accounting, and marketing -- and we had to come up with a business plan and pitch it. I still use the business plan we created as a benchmark for analyzing new ones."
Now at age 30, Huberman has big plans for growth for Hawke Media. "We've been able to exceed our goals so far with innovative projects," he said. "We have helped build an incubator focused on celebrity marketed products, we created a marketing artificial intelligence platform, we opened a retail store for e-commerce brands, and we are diversifying into real estate."
A contributing writer for online publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Inc., Huberman is currently working on a book with William Morris Endeavor titled Greedless, which will outline how to be successful without being greedy.
Between work and leisure, Huberman travels on average six times per month. Finding time for fun is just as important as work.
"I love to travel and take advantage of what life has to offer," he said. "Recently, I went heli-snowboarding with other entrepreneurs. I also love to exercise and play guitar. There's a guitar behind my desk in my office and one sitting my living room, always ready to go."
For those looking to start or grow a business, Huberman offers this advice for success:
"Luck and timing help, but it really comes down to one thing – get it done. Execute, check things off, move forward with projects, and see things through. I've worked with thousands of CEOs and founders, and the one thing I've seen that holds the successful ones together is that they all know how to execute."
Header photo courtesy Pixabay.


Blood Memory, shown in the National Gallery of Kosova in March 2015, consisted of 40 images from a body of work I carried out in the politically turbulent years of 1990-91. At that time Yugoslavia, where I was born, was on the brink of civil war, threatening the fragile process begun in Kosova of miraculously transforming centuries of bloodshed into a promise of peace and reconciliation. Since the 15th century, families in the region have lived by the grim edict "spilled blood must be met by spilled blood". In 1990, sickened by the slaughter and destruction as Yugoslavia imploded, the people of Kosova took the future into their own hands. With no formal organisers or leaders, men and women, young and old, all over the country left their homes and trekked all day or hitchhiked on tractors or vans to witness their elders and victims' families publicly announce forgiveness. They forgave the unforgivable: the destruction of homes and the destruction of lives. Blood Memory shows the crowds assembling with bodies clinging to every incline, mounted on telephone poles, rooftops and trees. At the heart of the group elders ceremonially embrace, arm in arm, hand in hand. Robbed of so many sons and brothers, the grieving crowds give their assent. This exhibition captures the tension of the moment, the solemnity of this life-changing transformation, and the exuberance as the reality of reconciliation strikes home. A dove is released, a white horse is ridden into the crowd, a couple and a drummer clear a space for an impromptu dance. Landscape and figures coalesce in scenes of powerful emotional beauty. How often does a community turn its back on hatred for the good of individuals and society? In a unique re-enactment of the original moment, Erzen Shkololli, Director of the National Gallery, asked to exhibit this work in 2015, a year marked by both European consolidation and growing instability. Working together with Karen McQuaid, of the Photographers' Gallery, we installed the work, large and small, to encourage the audience to remember, and to move them to relive the moment of 1990-91. My images document the dignity, courage and compassion of ordinary people in an extraordinary time, and serve to inspire future generations to similar acts of altruism. It is about much more than one point in history and one place in Europe. The event it brings to life has powerful implications for other times and other places. That is why the exhibition attracted extensive media attention and was visited by the Presidents of Kosova and of Bulgaria, distinguished representatives of the EU, OSCE, foreign ministers and ambassadors. However, for me the highlight was when it was visited by the people who took part in the movement, their sons and daughters, their grandsons and grand daughters all remembering in front of these photographs. It brought the community together to remember solidarity over hatred. From Kosova in 2015 a message of hope resonates through the world.


NVIDIA CodeWorks for Android and AMD?
Hello! I was in the middle of installing CodeWorksforAndroid-1R6u1 for my computer in order to ship a test game into my Android device, but I noticed it also installs some NVIDIA drivers and stopped the process.
Is it safe to install those drivers into a Windows 7 computer with AMD as its main processor or do I actually need a computer that runs NVIDIA as the processor in order to not affect my AMD drivers?
I'm not entirely sure if these NVIDIA drivers would update my computer's main drive or it is for the Android's shipping process. I would gladly appreciate an answer to my issue!


John, with Parkinson's, and Sue have been involved with the RSN since its inception and Public and Patient Involvement with the NIHR for a good many years. However, their role as VRC has really been what they choose to make it within the bounds of Parkinson's UK.
When we moved to Cornwall nine years ago we struggled to find information on local research. Nobody really knew what was going on in the area. We met an excellent Consultant who spoke about research and asked if we were interested. We jumped at the chance. Through that consultant we were able to fill in the usual paper scales to track different symptoms and became aware of the Brain Bank. But nobody with other consultants in Cornwall seemed to know what was going on.
In our role and through the RSN, we keep up to date about trials and research. We are lucky to have a consultant who is closely involved with research at Plymouth University and we have been able to use her links to get a good idea of what is coming up in the pipeline.
We write articles for the local Branches' Newsletters and speak at Branch and support group Meetings. We have organised focus groups for researchers to meet pwP to discuss the significance and feasibility of proposed research projects in an informal setting.
We have extended our role significantly in that we have worked with people in the Clinical Research Network to stage two regional conferences in the South West, one in Plymouth and the other at Buckfast. The intention of these was to reach as many people affected by Parkinson's as possible, introducing them to the teams involved in each clinical trial and helping them to feel that participating was not beyond them. In addition we invited leading researchers whose research had recruited heavily in the region to come and tell us about the results.
What would you need to get started?
You would find it useful to have an introduction to all the local support groups from your Local Volunteer Coordinator.
Links to the editors of the local branch newsletter.


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Blog Let's Get the Party Started With STEM and Engineering!
The school year is in full swing – all of the beginning of the year activities such as Back to School Nights and initial parent conferences are finished. As you look ahead, what do you see looming in the future? Holidays and specials occasions are on the calendar to celebrate. And that means classroom parties! And we think STEM activities can add fun elements to the festivities!
Celebrating holidays with a classroom party is a tradition in most elementary schools. In our school we were limited to two parties a year plus a year end celebration. Several years ago we transitioned our events into STEM extravaganzas that emphasized problem solving and collaboration with a holiday theme. Our room parents loved this change because instead of frosting cupcakes at midnight, they were just asked to donate a few simple materials that were easily picked up at the grocery store. We love it, the kids love it and the parents love it . And when the principal peeks in the room on party day, she or he sees a whole lot of exciting science and engineering happening. So the administration loves it too!
Our STEM parties revolve around a few activities that we pick and choose. We tend to use similar activities that allow adaptation to fit the occasion. For example, students can build catapults to throw candy pumpkins, heart shaped candies or marshmallow chicks.
Likewise building a gumdrop structure can be accomplished with red gumdrops for Valentines Day, all green for St. Patrick's Day or orange and black for Halloween.
Food coloring is the magic ingredient for switching holiday slime or squishy circuits. Various brightly colored holiday candies can be used to do dissolving experiments.
Engineering a valentine box for February.
We also simplified holiday snacks by encouraging fruit, pretzels and juice boxes or water. This supported efforts by the school to decrease the amount of sweets consumed in the classroom in order to help fight the national childhood obesity problem. Of course, we still have fancier treats show up at times, but truthfully the kids are far more interested in the STEM activities than the food.
Instead of goodie bags, the kids are thrilled to receive a page of science recipes that they can make at home. At the end of the day students are given a manila envelope containing the recipes and quietly decorate it as they wait for dismissal. Our holiday parties end with a calm but happy group of children.
Whether you do holiday parties, or just want a special celebration "just because", incorporating STEM will provide a fun and successful learning experience for your students that they will long remember. We get letters from kids we had long ago who say our STEM parties are some of their favorite memories from elementary school.
We hope you and your kiddos "Get Caught Engineering" at a party.


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IAS officer not to appear before inquiry officer today
Shimla, February 21
Senior IAS officer Manisha Sridhar, charge-sheeted by the state government for alleged disobedience, will not appear before additional chief secretary Harinder Hira who has been appointed inquiry officer, as she has sought time to prepare her defence.
Nod for snow leopard project
The Snow Leopard Conservation Project will finally take off in the cold desert of Spiti with the Centre releasing the first instalment of Rs 80 lakh for the implementation of Rs 5.5 crore project. The most remarkable feature of the project is the Snow Leopard Research Centre to be set up at Kibber. It will be the only second such institution in the world to be set up on the pattern of the one existing in Mongolia.
A file photograph of a snow leopard at Himalayan Nature Park, Kufri.
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Day 2: NSUI activists boycott classes
Kangra, February 21
Supporters of the National Students Union of India (NSUI) today continued their protest against the alleged police atrocities against NSUI activists and the police inaction against the miscreants responsible for assaulting and beating activists of the union in Jawalamukhi Degree College at Jawalamukhi yesterday.
Queen of the hills
Miss Himachal 2011 Sheetal Verma (centre), first runner-up Vishakha (L) and second runner-up Apurva at Gaiety Theatre in Shimla on Sunday night. Photo: Amit Kanwar
Apology sought from Education Minister
The Congress has blamed Education Minister ID Dhiman for the attack on members of the National Students Union of India who were staging peaceful demonstration during the annual function of the local college at Jwalamukhi and demanded a public apology from him.
Rising food prices threat to growth: Economist
Sky-rocketing food prices, rampant corruption and rising crime graph are the main hurdles in creating a climate conducive to sustainable growth and development of the country, asserts Prof MM Goel, the first ICCR Chair of Indian economy at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul.
Police remand of studio owner extended
Mandi/Kullu, February 21
The State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (SVACB) has found that Kullu-based studio owner Ramesh Volga, whose police remand was extended for two more days at Kullu today, acted as an agent between the "favoured companies and certain district police and other officials, whose bank accounts have come under the scanner".
Borehole method for resin extraction
Solan, February 21
With a view to improving the product quality and minimising damage to pine trees, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, has introduced a new technique, borehole method, for oleoresin extraction, which is slated to bring down the cost of resin tapping by almost 25 per cent.
Students with Industry Minister Kishan Kapoor at the annual prize distribution function at Government College, Dharamsala. Photo: Kamaljeet
Union for probe into HPU affairs
Up in arms against deputation appointments, the Non-Teaching Employees Union of Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) today urged the Governor, Urmila Singh, to order a probe into the affairs of the HPU by a sitting judge of the High Court.
'Form rehab policy for Bhakra oustees'
Bilaspur, February 21
The newly elected Bilaspur nagar parishad urged the state government to ensure that a rehabilitation policy should immediately be finalised for Bhakra dam oustees of the town as directed by the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
Chauhan takes charge as DC
Ritesh Chauhan took charge as Deputy Commissioner here this morning. He interacted with the staff regarding their issues. He took charge in the place of Nandia Gupta, IAS, who has been transferred to Shimla as Special Secretary Revenue and who had relinquished her charge last Monday.
Health centre opens
Kullu, February 21
Himachal Pradesh BJP president and local MLA Khimi Ram Sharma inaugurated the newly constructed buildings of the Primary Health centre (PHC), Bhuntar, constructed at a cost of Rs 57 lakh and an additional PWD rest house building at Mohal built at a cost of Rs 50 lakh yesterday.
Youth dies in mishap
Sundernagar, February 21
One youth died when his car rolled down into a gorge at Kangoo, near here, last night. He was spotted dead by some local residents in his damaged car today. According to the police, a case under Sections 279/304A, IPC, has been registered.
Pratibha Chauhan
Tribune News Service
Sources said Sridhar, in a letter sent to the state government, today said she would not be in a position to appear before the inquiry officer as she needed some time to prepare her defence. "Her main plea is that she has sought some information and documents from the state government which was not supplied to her even earlier, so she will not be appearing," confirmed sources.
Sridhar, a 1984 officer, had been asked to appear before the inquiry officer on February 22 with regard to the chargesheet. She had been on deputation with the World Health Organisation (WHO) for one year since 2009. Trouble started when the state government turned down her request for further extension and directed her to return to the state in November.
The officer, who has remained the Deputy Commissioner of Kangra and Shimla and held several other significant posts, has obtained a Ph.D on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) from IIT, Delhi. In fact, she was looking after IPR issues related to medicine.
The state government took quick action and charge-sheeted her after finding the reply filed by her as unsatisfactory. It also wasted no time in appointing an inquiry officer so that further action could be initiated on the report of the inquiry.
Even as this happens to be one of the rarest case in which the state government has taken a far too serious view on a deputation related issue of an IAS officer, it is being felt that it is too harsh an action.
Others also point out that the government has not been adopting the same yardstick while dealing with requests for deputation as some are allowed to continue while other are called back.
Rakesh Lohumi
The Snow Leopard Conservation Project will finally take off in the cold desert of Spiti with the Centre releasing the first instalment of Rs 80 lakh for the implementation of Rs 5.5 crore project.
The most remarkable feature of the project is the Snow Leopard Research Centre to be set up at Kibber. It will be the only second such institution in the world to be set up on the pattern of the one existing in Mongolia.
The integrated project formulated by the Mysore-based Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) is being implemented in five trans-Himalayan states where the prized animal is found. The project was approved in principle in 2007 but for the implementation in the field, a comprehensive management plan was to be formulated after conducting a baseline survey.
The NCF which has been working on the endangered animal in Spiti for the past 20 years has already finalised the plan and now implementation would start.
Principal secretary, Forests, Sudipto Roy, who pursued the matter for release of funds, said it was designed on the pattern of the Project Tiger to be funded by the Centre.
With relatively less biotic interference, the Spiti valley was the stronghold of the endangered cat in India. An important feature was that the project would involve the local communities in monitoring and conservation to help reduce the snow leopard-migratory grazier conflict which had taken a heavy toll of the animal.
It is a unique collaborative project on which snow leopard experts are working closely with the senior wildlife officials to develop a good, participatory management plan for the unusual Spiti landscape on the basis of authentic scientific data.
The painstaking research conducted over 4000 sq km by wildlife experts in upper Spiti has revealed the presence of 4 or 5 snow leopards per 100 square km. The presence of other high altitude species like ibex, snow cock, blue sheep and grey wolf has also been noted during the research study to co-relate it with the snow leopard on through the prey-predator relationship and delineate its domain and movement. It is for the first time that so much research has been carried out in preparing a management plan before starting implementation of the project.
Besides Himachal, the project is being implemented in Jammu and Kashmir, Uttrakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh where the animal is found.
Snow leopard is a globally endangered species, restricted to the high mountains of Central Asia and rough estimates place its global population at around 7,500, which is believed to be fast depleting.
NSUI activists today boycotted the classes and held demonstration outside the college premises and raised slogans in favour of their demands and against the government.
The protesters were led by Students Central Association leaders, besides NSUI in charge Dheeraj Sharma.
Sharma criticised the government for ignoring their demand of appointing a principal, providing a better infrastructure and taking over of the college by the government.
The NSUI activists continued their dharna outside the college till this afternoon. Later, they were persuaded by Sanjay Rattan, local Congress leader, to lift the dharna.
The police was deployed outside the college today to avert any untoward incident.
Meanwhile, Sanjay Rattan today came out in support of the NSUI and demanded that the government should take over the college and accept the other two demands of students, besides it should order a departmental inquiry against the Jawalamukhi SHO for unleashing a reign of terror among NSUI supporters.
Rattan demanded that a high-level inquiry should be ordered into the yesterday's incident in which the police thrashed NSUI activists, who had taken shelter in the house of a local village pradhan.
He threatened that if their demands were not accepted within seven days, the Congress and the NSUI would gherao Jawalamukhi Degree College and stop its functioning.
Tension gripped in the college since yesterday when NSUI held a protest demanding the college, which was being run by the Jawalamukhi Temple Trust, should be taken over by the government and a Principal be appointed. They raised their demands when Education Minister ID Dhiman reached the college, which resulted in a clash and subsequently the police allegedly thrashed the NSUI activists.
General secretary of the party Kuldeep Rathore said the incident had taken place in the presence of the police which remained a silent spectator as those involved in the attack were BJP workers. It appeared that the minister moved around with a group of anti-social elements who indulged in violence.
Instead of discouraging hooliganism and violence in educational institutions, the minister was encouraging it by bringing along with him rowdy elements from outside. He had no moral right to be the Education Minister, he should either tender a public apology or resign. — TNS
"There is an urgent need for adopting the latest technology and work culture for finding economically viable solutions to emerging challenges in the Indian economy, including built-in corruption, high incidence of accidents and rising crimes and food inflation. It is time to replace cosmetic measures with concrete plans of action in all the sectors to achieve the desired results," observed Goel, who was here on a visit to HP University.
Dwelling on the emerging agriculture scenario and food inflation with fast increasing costs of agricultural inputs, Professor Goel emphasised the need to encourage agriculture research for making farming cost-effective by increasing yield and reducing post-harvest losses. Substantial funding was required for conducting high quality research for finding economically viable solution to the emerging challenges.
Farming must be upgraded from a vocation to a profession by making it knowledge intensive to ensure that farmers benefited from advances made in bio-technology, genetic engineering and other techniques to boost productivity. There was a strong case for rural industrialisation and crop diversification for reducing under employment and disguised unemployment in agriculture. The post harvest losses need to be reduced to minimum for making farmers pay their electricity bills.
He has a rather queer solution for black money issue in suggesting that all unaccounted money should be allowed to be deposited in banks and a 10 per cent tax should be charged on it.
Similarly, for checking crime, CCTV cameras be installed in every nook and corner to improve the state of Indian economy riddled with black money, inflation and inequitable distribution of growth benefits, Professor Goel added, who is going back to Seoul on February 24 and remain there till August 2011.
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The vigilance is yet to come out as to "who are the beneficiaries and how much money they got transferred from the bank accounts of the studio owner". The vigilance has yet to arrest the accused under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Talking to The Tribune today on the phone, ADGP, vigilance, KC Sadyal said it seemed that Volga acted as an agent between official beneficiaries and hydropower companies seeking their favour. "We are checking the bank accounts of Volga and others involved in the case and corroborate the facts to complete the investigations", he added.
When asked as how much money was transferred from Volga's account to the official beneficiaries, including a former Kullu SP, Sadyal said, "It is a huge exercise and takes time to verify and corroborate the facts. We have deputed two more persons for the job to expedite the case".
He said the vigilance would not name the IPS or any other officer in the case till the probe was complete. "We have arrested the photographer and his interrogation is on", he added.
When asked which hydropower companies sought officials favour and paid money in the account of the photographer, Sadyal refused to disclose the names, saying that the vigilance would reveal it at an appropriate time. "We will take it to a logical conclusion", he added.
Meanwhile, sources told The Tribune that Volga was produced in the court at Kullu and sent in police remand till February 23.
There are, however, six power companies that have come under fire from villagers in Manali, Prini, Parbati, Malana and other areas in Kullu district.
Vice-chancellor Dr RS Dhiman said it was an alternative to the rill method which had reduced the number of blazes with time. Besides this, the spray of concentrated acid often created healing problems to the trees thus leading to their girdling further affecting their growth.
"With thousands of pine trees drying in the past decade, the other methods in use like French cup, lip and rill methods had reduced the scope of intensive tapping. The university had, therefore, standardised the borehole method which was tree-friendly and easy to operate", explained Dr Dhiman.
The borehole method involves drilling holes into the wood to open the maximum number of resin ducts. The holes are drilled with slight slope towards opening so that oleoresin drains freely. Multiple boreholes are arrayed evenly around the tree's circumference, or else clustered in-groups of 2 or 3 boreholes.
The polythene bags are attached to the spout with the help of tie for collection of oleoresin and replaced when filled with oleoresin during the period of tapping.
The new method has multifarious advantages over the conventional methods which include higher labour productivity, improved product quality, reduced tree stress and insect pest problems.
University scientists opined that once adopted, it would fetch good returns and would be of great significance, if introduced successfully, as it does not need any bark shaving and simply a hole made at the base of tree serves the purpose of resin extraction.
In a statement issued here today, member of the Executive Council of the HPU Waryam Singh Bains demanded that all officers and employees on deputation must be repatriated.
"It is not appropriate to invite officers on deputation who are not familiar with the functioning of the university system," he remarked.
He said the manner in which the HPU administration had appointed a controller of examination on secondment basis and later invited application for the post not only reflected their malafide intentions but also created suspicion in the mind of public over the selection process.
He said there was no logic in deploying officers on secondment basis against key positions and this would only disturb the administrative hierarchy and adversely affect the functioning of the HPU.
"Regular appointments must be made against the posts like registrar, finance officer, controller of examination, librarian, director of the Academic Staff College, University Institute of Legal Studies, University College of Business Studies, University Institute of Information Technology and International Centre for Distance Education and Open Learning," he demanded.
He also hoped that Chief Minister PK Dhumal would take into account all these issues and not allow the violation of the Himachal Pradesh University Act, Statutes and Ordinances, especially in view of the fact that his regime had even scrapped Section 35-A to restore the autonomy of the HPU.
A deputation of the parishad members, led by its president Rajni Sharma, met the DC here recently and presented a memorandum to be forwarded to Chief Minister PK Dhumal.
The deputation included all eight members of the Congress-dominated nagar parishad, including its vice-president Kamlender Kashyap and five other members of the BJP.
However, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has ordered the removal of all encroachments on the government land in the town, but at the same time it also suggested that the government might form a rehabilitation policy to save the Bhakra dam oustees from the rigours of the order.
Meanwhile, a number of Congress leaders, led by Bilaspur Sadar Mandal Congress president Col AP Gauttam (red), state Congress member Jitender Chandel, former MLAs Dr Babu Ram Gauttam and Tilak Raj Sharma, staged a protest outside the office of the DC recently and submitted a memorandum to him.
He belongs to the Sihunta area of Chamba district and also served as SDM at Una and Palampur and ADC Mandi earlier.
Later talking to mediapersons at his office, Chauhan said he would first study the issues of Bhakra dam oustees of Bilaspur town and district and would see what could be done to solve them. — OC
While addressing a gathering at Bhuntar, Khimi Ram said the required formalities for upgrading the PHC Bhuntar to Community Health Centre had been completed and it would be notified shortly.
Khimi Ram claimed that the state had unprecedented development in the field of health and education, besides attaining distinction in seven other fields at the national level.
He said the common man had been benefited with the schemes like Atal Sawasthya Yojna (free ambulance services), Swasthya Bima Yojna, free distribution of 38 life- saving drugs in hospitals, free delivery facility for women, besides free medical services to the BPL families.
It further said the victim had been identified as Deepak Sharma (22) of Mandi, who was coming from Chandigarh in his swift car (HP33B-0777) which rolled down from the road into 150-metre deep gorge.