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Everest Group Market Vista Finds Global Outsourcing Transactions Declined for Fifth Consecutive Quarter | Press Release
Quarterly Research Report Includes Focus on Latin American Sourcing Market
DALLAS, August 8, 2012 – The global services market saw transaction volumes decline in the second quarter of this year, following a declining trend observed over the previous four quarters, according to Market Vista: Q2 2012, a quarterly market report by Everest Group, an advisory and research firm on global services. A one-hour webinar will be held August 22, 9 a.m. CDT, to present study findings and insights.
Market Vista: Q2 2012, which analyzes global outsourcing and offshoring activity contracts irrespective of contract value, found second quarter transactions and annual contract volumes fell 7 and 25 percent compared to the first quarter, respectively. The market witnessed 411 outsourcing deals in the second quarter, compared to 441 during the first quarter, and global transaction volume reach about US$2.2 billion in annual contract value (ACV). Compared to the first quarter of the year, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) transaction activity dropped 19 percent while IT Outsourcing (ITO) transaction volumes fell 3 percent.
"A sluggish global economy and the relatively conservative approach of buyers continue to have an impact on the global services market," said Eric Simonson, managing partner of Research. "Buyers are taking advantage of increased provider competition in a tough market by negotiating shorter contract commitments at competitive prices."
Other second quarter 2012 findings include:
The second quarter saw 54 major deals, each valued at over US$50 million in total contract value (TCV), two of which were valued at over US$1 billion in TCV.
Compared to the first quarter of the year, the public sector (government and defense) accounted for one-fourth of total transactions, an increase of 22 percent in ACV and most of the ITO contracts during the quarter.
The BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance) sector, holding almost one-fifth of market share, continued to lead the market in transaction volumes with overall ACV increasing 61 percent compared to the first quarter of the year. The MDR (manufacturing, distribution and retail) vertical, with 17 percent market share, saw a 3 percent increase in transaction volume and 44 percent decline in ACV compared to the previous quarter.
Transaction volumes continued to decline in major markets such as North America and Western Europe but picked up in other geographies including Australia, Brazil and India.
Set-ups of Global In-house Centers (GICs) were balanced between Europe, India and Asia-Pacific while Latin America and Africa experienced limited activity.
Location activity increased significantly as 47 new delivery centers were established across GICs and service providers, including a notable spike in set-ups in tier-2/3 locations, particularly in Asia.
Service providers' consolidated revenues and margins fell in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the previous quarter (Financials lag other service provider activity by one quarter).
Everest Group's quarterly Market Vista reports provide data and analysis of deal trends in the outsourcing and offshoring market, the GIC landscape, and current and emerging locations, as well as key service provider intelligence insights. Everest Group's industry trends research complements the Market Vista reports through quarterly updates focused on industry-specific global sourcing data, developments and insights across the BFSI, MDR, public sector, healthcare, energy and utilities, technology and telecom sectors.
The report also includes these focus sections:
Latin America: analysis of labor arbitrage sustainability, operating costs, operating cost inflation, arbitrage sustainability and currency trends. Cities profiled include Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil; Santiago, Chile; Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico; and San Jose, Costa Rica.
Location optimization insights include a focus on emerging delivery center locations Bulgaria, Romania, South Africa and Vietnam; macroeconomic uncertainty and policy instability in Argentina; attractive incentives and declining operating costs boosting South Africa as attractive proposition for voice support for Europe; and rising prominence of Costa Rica for voice and non-voice BPO.
Quarterly Market Vista reports comprise key developments among 20 leading global service providers. Traditional service provider profiles include Accenture, Xerox, AON-Hewitt, Atos, Capgemini, Convergys, CSC, HP, IBM, Dell Services and Unisys. Offshore-centric service provider profiles include Cognizant, EXL, Genpact, HCL, Infosys, Mahindra Satyam, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro and WNS.
The webinar will be held August 22, 9 a.m. CDT; 2 p.m. GMT Standard Time. To register, please visit: research.everestgrp.com/Events/Webinars.
Market Vista is a subscription service with four reports published per year, including location datasets, Breaking Viewpoint briefings, Market Vista Primer and Global Locations Insights newsletter. For information about the Market Vista: Q2 2012 report or other research services, please visit research.everestgrp.com, e-mail [email protected] or call +1-214-451-3110.
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To Read and Write Malayalam.
A computer represents an alphabet using a number code. The coding scheme which is currently used (ASCII) however only represents the English alphabet and numerals and some special characters.
Unicode is a new encoding scheme which represents all alphabets in all languages in the world. In Unicode, Malayalam first letter 'a' (അ) is given the code number 3333. Similarly, different numbers are given for rest of Malayalam alphabets. The fonts that understand this new encoding scheme are called Unicode fonts.
The use of Unicode fonts opens up wonderful possibilities. For an example, it allows you to search google for Malayalam words and retrieve web pages which contain that particular Malayalam text.
To read and write Malayalam properly in your computer you need to have Unicode Malayalam fonts installed in your machine. Windows XP comes with a default Malayalam unicode font Karthika, but it is small and difficult to read.
So its recommended to install some other unicode malayalam font like AnjaliOldLipi, Rachana etc.
Please Note that the font used in the websites like Malayala-manorama, Deepika etc are not unicode, they are just usual ASCII encoded fonts which uses malayalam symbols at the places of English one's. They use the code numbers assigned for English alphabets for Malayalam. This method does not have any of the features of Unicode fonts.
Browse to the font you downloaded.
Click ok and the font will be installed.
To enable Firefox and IE read Malayalam page.
Note that you need these steps only if this if you see some garbage here "മലയാളം" or Here.
Make sure you have AnjaliOldLipi installed.
You can see the Fonts & Colors section. Take Advanced.
Choose Malayalam from the Fonts for dropdown menu.
Now set AnjaliOldLipi in each of the dropdown list. Click Ok and Ok.
Check whether you can see malayalam written here "മലയാളം" or Here.
Set the font as AnjaliOldLipi in the below list box.
The standard computer keyboard is not designed to support Unicode character inputting.
So, one option is to use a software called Varamozhi. This software allows text inputting in Mozhi scheme [typing 'ka' in English will output malayalam letter ka (ക) in Varamozhi] and it automatically creates a unicode file.
Another option is to use a software called MozhiKeymap, which maps the keys you pressed to the appropriate Unicode one. This software allows typing into IE or Word directly in Mozhi scheme. Please click here for detailed installation instructions.
It's seen that Firefox, Notepad etc render malayalam letters incorrectly while IE and Word etc display them correctly.
This is usually due to an old version of the Unicode rendering file 'usp10.dll'.
Usually installing a new version of this file from Microsoft may solve the problem.
Download and unzip the file to a temporary directory.
Rename the usp10.dll in windows/system32 to usp10OLD.dll[backup copy] and copy the new usp10.dll.
Have fun reading and writing Malayalam 🙂 …..
Special thanks to Cibu for his Varamozhi page which is the source for most part of this article.
THis is really cool I am adding a link from the blog to here..
🙂 Thanks Vishnu for the appreciation..
Pls let me know the results..
Thanks for the info, it works fine now. I've been looking for this font for some time and the link provided by the site is dead : http://www.malayalamanorama.com/fonts/index.htm .
If possible, please shed some light on this. Is this is a Unicode compliant font ? The site displays fine on IE even without installing the font separately, why ?
this is not a unicode font but its a 'dynamic font'..
Hi Lalu, I was able to read manorama site without doing anything in google chrome.
Also checked ml.wikepedia.org which to worked fine since i've already installed Anjali lipi.
This was an extremely useful post. Installing a font worked for me on a Mac.
Hi Shaafi, they use something called dynamic fonts.
When using IE, these fonts get automatically downloaded to the browsers cache. However, this does not work in other browsers like FF or opera, there you need to manually download and install the font.
This is the best of its kind!!! Thanks a lot buddy….. This is an all in one help page on malayalam font problems!! I was looking for that dll solution.
Thank you for the inform.


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The Global Brain – SUMMARY
[PCI urges you to purchase the whole book here!]
I first read this book, and heard Peter Russell speaking, shortly after it was published in 1982. It struck me as perhaps the most intelligent, science-based introductions to the New Age: Russell argues that – because it took 10 billion atoms to create one living cell – and because there are 10 billion living cells in a single human brain – that when there are 10 billion conscious human brains on the planet, we will create a Global Brain – a "Gaiafield" that brings the human family together in a selfless, super-organism that organises and stewards our collective host – Planet Earth – in a peaceful happy way. In the first part of the book, he argues that evolution is tending, inevitably, in this direction. In Part II, he argues rather too earnestly for my liking, that New Age thinking will bring about the planetary consciousness needed to "awaken" the Gaiafield in our lifetimes. It hasn't! – Yet!
Invitation: Positive Vision – I make no apologies for this! Positive vision equates into an attractive force for the future – rather than oppressive darkness.
Prologue – the Blue Pearl:
"All of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games…. All of it exists on that little spot out there!" Russell Schweickart, Astronaut's reaction to seeing the Earth from Space. Perhaps the most valuable spin-off from the moon shot may not have been the rocks brought back from the moon, but the shift in consciousness caused by looking at that Blue Pearl;
The Living Earth / the Gaia Hypothesis: "… a self-regulating, self-sustaining system that continually adjusts its chemical, physical and biological processes in order to maintain the optimum conditions for life!"
A General Living System: 19 sub-systems; 1st 8 are matter/energy processes – ingestion to excretion; the next 9 are communications systems; the last two hold it all together.
Humanity in Gaia: Humanity could be – 1) a vast planetary nervous system; OR 2) some kind of Planetary Cancer; In order to become the former – and create the Global Brain, we have to defeat the tendencies which are making us into the latter;
PART ONE: Evolution Past, Present & Future:
Evolution so far: How did the universe begin? With a "'Superhot' Big Bang!" It cooled from about 100 Billion degrees centigrade at the explosion to 900 million degrees in the first 3 minutes – and neutrons & protons combined to form atoms. Solar systems and galaxies kept emerging from smaller Big Bangs over 15 billion years: our own sun is a probably 4th generation star; and all the time, the universe was cooling creating that 'Primeval Soup' from which emerged –
The Building Blocks of Life: by bombarding the primeval soup with sparks, simulating lightning, experiments have shown you can create the basic chemical compounds that are the basic constituents of life. But lightning on this soup of chemicals is just one of many ways that the basic building blocks of life could have been formed.
Evolution of Life on Earth: Started in Oceans and Rockpools – as algae and bacteria (macro-molecules made up of millions of atoms). These produced oxygen – which rose to become an ozone layer protecting planet Earth. Oxygen produced photosynthesis which turned some bacteria into plants, others into animals. Oxygen magically remains at about 21% concentration in the atmosphere.
From Single Cells to Complex Organism: single cells survived by eating physical matter to become bigger cells. The great leap forward was when cells learned to clump together into organisms and start feeding off other cells – becoming complex multi-cellular organisms like molluscs and worms. Then came the nervous system then the spine to contain the main nerves which then combined to form nerve centres or Brains. Brain weight as a rato of body weight has increased from Factor 20 (dinosaurs) to 350 (humans) – in just 50m years! And it is still evolving and growing!
Self-Reflective Consciousness: Consciousness is the "field in which all experience takes place…" Humans – and many other mammals have it – but probably only humans are "conscious that we are conscious." That is Self-Reflective Consciousness. The development of language has enabled us to describe and communicate our conscious thoughts to each other. Language led to writing, to printing, broadcasting, digital communication – so, in a flash of evolutionary time – human beings have grouped together in amazingly complex groupings – families, communities, nations, and – maybe eventually – a planetary family.
So – what's going to happen in the next 4 billion years?! The Next Million? The next 100? The next 10 years?
Hidden Orders in Evolution: the universe has developed in unexpected ways since the Big Bang. Life is much more than a collection of atoms; the human brain and consciousness is much more than 10 billion living cells encountering each other. There are other things going on. Just as the potential for life is present, but unmanifest, in inanimate matter, so the potential for consciousness and a new order of being is present, but unmanifest, in the life-forms of today.
Evolving Complexity: Complex means 'Inter-woven' – it has 3 x basic characteristics:
Diversity = hundreds of millions of atoms gathered into protein and other molecules. Russell argues that diversity of the order of 10 to the power of 10 (10 billion) is needed to create the leap forward: 10 billion atoms in a living cell; 10 billion living cells in the cortex of the human brain.
Organisation = atoms / molecules / living cells are all fantastically well-organised to produce the living organisms we know. Organisms are a product of that fantastic organisation;
Connectivity = in low forms of life – scents, hormones, and pheromones linked early cells – and language, printing, then telecommunications connected the more complex clumps of cells;
Order vs. Disorder: the 2nd Law of thermodynamics says that all evolution leads to disorder – but that is only in Closed Systems (the ink-drop is a jar of water.). Living systems are Open Systems – they therefore tend towards becoming more ordered.
Self-organising systems: how does order arise out of disorder? Self Ordering processes = dissipative structures; self-reinforcement produces the self-organisation out of chaos.
Dissipative Structures in Evolution: Eric Jantsch's "Self-organising Universe" is a product of dissipative structures. And we are dissipating the resource and energy structures of our planet wildly at the moment resulting in pollution and eco-destruction. This can only result in either Breakdown or Breakthrough. We have to move up to a new level of organisation.
The Increasing Tempo of Evolution: If you compress the 15bn years of the History of the Universe into a single year(P54), dinosaurs don't appear until the last week of December and walking human beings until 11.00pm on Dec. 31st. Human language appears at 90 seconds before midnight – and the Industrial Revolution in the last half second.
Evolutionary Leaps: Most of evolution has taken a long time – millions of years. But some advances happen very rapidly: so bacteria emerged relatively quickly from the primeval soup – but it took a long time for those bacteria to merge into living cells. With the emergence of the human brain, self-reflective consciousness is making incredibly fast evolutionary leaps so human evolution today is advancing at a breathtakingly rapid pace.
Acceleration Today: Biology has advanced very fast since the 17th Century and the invention of the microscope; now, with genetic modification, biology is advancing even faster; atomic physics, solar cells, space and air travel, telecommunications – all these accelerating technologies cross-fertilise and speed each other up. Futurist, John Platt, wrote: "Anyone who admits that the invention of Agriculture or the Industrial Revolution represent sudden jumps in evolution must conclude that today we are passing through a jump far more intense than these…" Could we be on the threshold of an evolutionary leap as significant as the evolution of life from inanimate matter?
Our Evolving Society: Exponential growth is a mathematical fact – especially in relation to population: In 1000AD, population doubled every 500 years; now it doubles every 35 years. Super Exponential growth – but it cannot go on forever: bacteria doubling in number eventually fill the petri dish; humanity will fill the planet – and we'll have to stop doubling. Declining fertility has already produced zero population growth in some countries.
The Magic 10 Billion (P68): "So population may stabilise at around 10 billion (1010) – the approximate number of elements that need to be gathered together for a new level of evolution to emerge. (The No. of atoms in a living cell; the number of living cells in the Cortex of a human brain;) If the same pattern recurs, the human race may be fasth approaching the stage where the next level of global consciousness can emerge." But it is not an exact figure – it could emerge at 8 billion, or we may have to wait to 11 billion.
Social Organisation: But the 1010 brains, like atoms & cells, have to be organised thus –
Step 1: Clumping – of people, communities, nations into groups like the EU;
Step 2: Intelligence – the ability to draw meaning from our perceptions into concepts; Step 3: Specialisations – we need to make a network of interdependent specialists in a wide variety of fields;
Step 4: Information Sharing – the ability to organise and order our experience of the world and to store / communicate that experience in language and art;
The Information Age: The workforce in the agricultural revolution doubled every 45 years; for the Industrial revolution, it doubled every 16 years; for the Information revolution, it's doubling every 5 or 6 years. LDCs are getting through the Ag. And Ind. Ages to the Information age much quicker. And from language, through to printing took forever compared to radio, TV and recording through to the Internet age. Massive acceleration in information sharing now going on in Robotics and AI "speeding human evolution towards ever greater complexity."
The Evolution of a Global Brain: the growth of the human brain starts shortly after conception with a massive proliferation of millions of brain-cells. There-after, growth slows down as nerves start to link the braincells. So it is in society: population growth is slowing as inter-connectivity of human brains (via the internet) is growing. "The Global Brain is being activated by near-instant linkage of everyone to everyone through communications technology…" (written in 1982!!) In 1980, there were 440m telephones – a minute fraction of the "trillions of synapses in the human brain through which nerve cells interact." But – back then, Russell projects that, with data-processing capacity doubling every 2.5 years, a telecommunications network equalling the complexity of the human brain could be in place by the year 2000. "No longer will we perceive ourselves as isolated individuals; we will know ourselves to be a part of a rapidly integrating global network: the nerve cells of an awakening Global Brain!" (P79)
The Emergence of a social Super-organism: There are many social super-organisms in nature: bee-hives, ants nests, termite mounds; shoals of fish; flocks of birds – the largest recorded was 150 million shearwaters – 10 miles across. Slow-motion films show flocks like these turning synchronously with delays of less than a 70th of a second. A human social super-organism would be different – as humans are different, not all the same like Ants or Birds; so Russell suggests the Human social super-organism will come together through the evolution of consciousness rather than a physical or biological evolution;
The 5th level of Evolution – the 'Noosphere' (Mind-sphere): Pierre Teilhard de Chardin concluded that humanity was headed towards the "unification of the entire species." He saw this as the "Planetisation of Mankind" – the "Noo-genesis" or 'Omega point' towards which all mankind is converging. "Integrated Planetary Consciousness" – or, as Sri Aurobindo called it: "Supermind." Russell calls it the "Gaiafield" – and compares it to a print photograph composed of millions of dots – people – that together form the whole. We – as one dot – only know the cell we are, so it's very hard to imagine this new level of consciousness. When might the super-consciousness happen? De Chardin thought thousands of years; Aurobindo thought hundreds or even decades; maybe even in our own lifetimes. Right now we are in the "Twilight Zone" – disconnected, uneasy.
Evolution's Twilight Zones: Russell describes the "Grex" – primeval slime amoeba that cluster together in a great pile until it topples over and moves along the ground searching for food – like a slug. Similarly, the Kachin hill tribes of N Burma stay separate until famine hits, then they come together under a single King to find food together.
Emergence through Emergency: Transition through a Twilight Zone is fraught with danger – political, economic, environmental, moral. Such dangers may be an evolutionary catalyst, preparing to move us to the higher level; The photosynthesis emergency 3500 million years ago would have looked ridiculously dangerous to the bacteria of the time: "The oxygen it produces will poison us and, if ignited, will burn us all to ashes." But – the bacteria were not conscious: photosynthesis went ahead and the result was plants, animals and human beings! The current emergency is "Wei-Chi" – Chinese for "Opportunities for Change." The question for us is: "Will we seize those opportunities?"
The Journey so far…. So – we have learned that we have this opportunity to create a Global Brain. But "Ten Billion neurons, even with their trillions of connections, do not necessarily result in consciousness. Equally, the several billion people / brains on the planet will not necessarily connect into a global nervous system to create a Global Brain. Something more is needed….
"We no more know our own destiny than a tea leaf knows the destiny of the East India Company."
Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
PART TWO: Inner Evolution:
Synergy…. Why, when humanity sits on the brink of achieving "the progressive integration of human minds into a single living system…" – is it also sitting on the brink of disaster? Answer – the lack of spontaneous 'synergy' within the system. Synergy is the essence of Life in any body. When it is not well-functioning, the body is sick; when it ceases all together, the body dies. If it is to avoid disaster and to push ahead into higher levels of integration, crucial changes are going to have to take place in the realm of human self-reflective consciousness.
The Skin-encapsulated Ego: Mindsets are hard to change – but when they do change, they often change very quickly. EG. For millennia, men thought the sun travelled round the earth. In a few short years, they reversed that idea. But we need to have a mindset to encourage change.
Self Models: usually me! An Individual – but imagine: you could be a universal Self Model;
The Development of Duality: A child is 'out there' in the universe; but from education and parents, s/he learns to be in there – a skin-ecapsulated ego. This makes us feel separateness! Example of the hole in a piece of wood – defined by the wood around it, not the hole!
To be loved, to belong, to believe: Patriotism, a sense of belonging – doing stupid things because "your country needs you!" This is the downside of being 'out there' – defined by others.
The Low Synergy Society(LSS): In an LSS, at the first rumour of fuel shortage, people fill up – even though it is NOT in the interests of wider society to do so. In an HSS, people would work together to conserve fuel, share it wisely, and make it go further. The dominant sense that "Little me won't have an effect on the whole…" is the whole cause of eco-destruction. Coercive legislation is not the answer: we have to create an LSS by changing our consciousness.
Egonomics: the idea of a perfect Communist system in Russia doesn't work: private farms produce more than collective farms – because of the greed/financial incentives.
Humanity vs. Nature: Nature is destroyed for short term needs; sulphur is burned even if it causes acid rain in other countries. Nature cannot continue to deal with human Egos.
A New World-View: this change is not just desirable. It is ESSENTIAL if we are to survive as a species. If we just concentrate on the skin-ecapsulated ego, we'll never make it: we need to listen to our spiritual selves – follow our spiritual teachers and find our deeper identity.
The Quest for Unity: Russell's skilful – but not entirely convincing – argument that the New Age will usher in the linking of the skin-ecapsulated egos into a single, global brain is peppered with compelling quotes and images. One is the idea that, if humanity were a 'hole' most of us would describe ourselves as "the wood surrounding the hole – rather than the air in the hole which is much harder to describe…." Really hard to pin down: you are your body (male or female) but that is not all you are; you are your emotions (angry / loving) – but those emotions change. Who is the real YOU? The Pure Self?
The Pure Self: " – lies beyond description. A state in which you listen – but you are in total silence: there is nothing to listen to." ' The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao…' The Pure Self is in a personal quest for union with the Divine: "I and all things in the Universe are one…" 4th Century Chinese Mystic. "All creatures are the same life, the same essence…" Henry Suso, a German monk. For those of us who think of ourselves as separate, wonderful individuals – try thinking of yourself as Rumi told us: a pure drop of water which is separate but also part of the infinite ocean.
The Perennial Philosophy: "We are at our core, United…" That is the Perennial Philosophy as defined by Aldous Huxley. "A psychology that finds in the human soul something of the Divine…" It is not really a philosophy – it is an invitation to experience something that many others have experienced – and you can experience too. Even Alfred Lord Tennyson experienced it: "Individuality seemed to dissolve away into boundless being, not a confused state but the clearest state where death was a laughable impossibility…" If you have not experienced this state, you may feel it all sounds a bit wacky and far-fetched. But modern physics would testify to its possible existence…
The Mystical Physicist: You and I and everything else in the universe – are composed of the same elements: a hundred or so atoms. "We are all of the same physical essence." Einstein spent the later years of his life trying to prove his 'Unified Field Theory' – how gravity, electro-magnetism and nuclear forces were physical manifestations of a single principle. "We are all intrinsically interwoven into the fabric of the universe." So – the physicists are proving the perennial philosophers correct!
Awakening the Self: Einstein wrote: "Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison of thinking ourselves separate from the rest of the universe by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in all its beauty…" William Blake talked about the same thing when he talks about "Cleansing and Opening the doors of Perception to see the Infinite – which, up to now, we have seen through narrow chinks in our cavern…" It's very hard to change because we are isolated by language, culture and our own egos. We need a Paradigm Shift.
The Copernican Revolution: Russell tells the story of the most massive paradigm shift in history from Ptolemy to Copernicus and Kepler finally to Isaac Newton.
The Identity Shift: Getting to feel that the "I" – the Ego – and the Universe are one and the same Essence is a paradigm shift of equal magnitude and complexity. It is sourced in the experience of "Unboundedness" – like seeing the earth from space. But – HOW to make that experience permanent? How do you avoid slipping back into feeling the boundaries of the ego?
The New Copernican Revolution: Willis Harman says that "just as the original Copernican Revolution shifted the geocentric model of the universe, so the new Copernican Revolution must shift the Eco-centric model of the material world." True enlightenment is to re-invent the ego where it does not define itself at the expense of others… The Ego is liberated from its self-centredness. It becomes SELFLESS! It is in love with the rest of Creation. As Tao Te Ching says: "Love the world as your own self, then you can truly care for all things!" Teilhard de Chardin says the same thing, and Russell says: "The Enlightened person experiences a deep and universal compassion and his life becomes one of service to the whole world. Therefore, it is toward this goal of Enlightenment that the whole of humanity must now move."
Healing the Planetary Cancer: The increasing incidence of Cancer in humans coincides with the appearance of humanity itself as a malignant cancer to the natural environment. We have to tie ourselves back into the natural world – to re-discover that One-ness. The way to do that? – the Latin for 'Tie back' is 'Re-ligare' – from which the word 'Religion' derives. We need a spiritual renewal – a total re-invention of "Religion." That is the 'Evolutionary Imperative…'
Evolution from the Inside: "Consciousness is the spearhead of Evolution. It is the Universe evolving through us…". Our question now: "How do we facilitate this Inner Evolution?"
The spiritual Renaissance: Many people, in all walks of life, experience the unbounded joy of life in the spirit. But, only for a handful, is it their dominant mode of consciousness. Making it a permanent state for all is a challenge – and looking to conventional religion doesn't help. The teachings of the original founders/prophets of all religions have been distorted by sects and cut off from the source. Walter Stace, who spent his life studying the writings of all the great spiritual teachers, concluded that they all had the same, central message: We are at one with Creation. IE – they taught Perennial Philosophy. We need to get back to that.
Paths of Awakening: Many work through Meditation. TM – by definition – transcends normal thinking. Hatha Yoga and Tai Chi aim for the same stillness and serenity= oneness with the universe. All need to be taught – and taught well. It will not happen overnight, but it's started.
The Marriage of East & West: linking western science – esp. neuro-science – with eastern meditation. Isolation Tanks, hypnosis, psycho-technology and accelerating spiritual growth through drugs or 'biochemical means'(!) also deliver the necessary marriage. Russell feels that "Chemicals are capable of triggering the brain states associated with the Pure Self." And the final component of western science? Telecommunications: these allow spiritual teachers to "spread the means to self-realisation and enlightenment directly and accurately worldwide."
A New Age Dawning: Russell defines the New Age as having 4 x components:
We have Potentials beyond what we can even imagine!
Humanity and the Environment are a single system;
We are mistreating both ourselves and our surroundings
Humanity CAN change for the better
The New Age movement is broad and massively diverse. But all are moving us towards the Age of Aquarius. The Sixties represented the flowering of the New Age – with the Beatles, "All You Need is Love" providing the creative flash of insight. Infrastructuralising that flash is hard!
New Age or Old: Some argue that we must give up on the Inner Journey in order to make society work for all of us. But if having 'society work' means that we all have to have a house, a car, a yacht and a home in the country – that is NOT where the evolutionary path to unitary consciousness is leading. We have to defeat these ego-driven dreams and aspirations.
On the Threshold: "The Ultrahuman is formed of 2 x essential elements: the Love of God and Faith in the World. At this moment, these two components are everywhere…". Russell believes we are on the threshold of an exponential growth of human consciousness. He tells how, in 1948, a Science magazine article predicted it would take 200 years to land men on the moon: it happened in 20! Star Trek fantasies about computers that could speak were realised in a 20th of the time predicted. Consciousness movements are accelerating even faster – doubling every four years. He predicts that, early in the 21st Century, we shall move from the Information Age into the Consciousness Age. (Of course we didn't – but Russell's optimism is significant!) "People would be as familiar then with meditation and spiritual experiences as they are today with pocket calculators and cassette tapes…" He believes that more people will be working in the 'Consciousness Industry' than in the 'Information Industry.' Two things make him confident that the transition will happen faster than we think:
As the old consciousness fades, the inertia and pushback it produces will fade: the new consciousness will drive forward, achieving a momentum the old one never could;
Mind Links: In Indian philosophy, darshan: the idea that just by being in the presence of an enlightened person, or having them in your mind, you can achieve enlightenment. ESP – extra-sensory-perception. Transcendental Meditation – electro-magnetic waves, Rupert Sheldrake's Morphogenetic Fields which produce 'formative causation…' He cites experiments of Lab Rats learning habits by ESP. All this can be proved, he says.
Reaching Critical Mass: Lyall Watson explained the 100th Monkey effect; the Maharishi said that if just 1% of the human family practised TM, "the age of enlightenment would dawn." Georges Gurdjieff, a Russian Mystic, said that 'just 100 fully enlightened people could change the world.' So what is 'Critical Mass'? Russell uses the example from physics: the laser operates because it combines light waves in coherent bundles, geometrically intensifying their power. TM does the same thing with human mind waves: crime goes down in cities where 1% are meditating. "Christ, Buddha, Moses and Mohammed were ahead of their time: bubbles emerging from the primeval soup as it came to the boil. Now – with consciousness accelerating and the critical mass of 10 billion brains approaching, a healthy 'super-organism' may about to be born. "We alive today could be about to witness the emergence of a true high-synergy society."
Towards a High Synergy Society: Buckminster Fuller said: "The world is now too dangerous for anything less than Utopia…" A Utopia is a High Synergy Society. One in which the goals of the individual are in harmony with the goals of the whole; in which we feel for the whole in the same way we feel for ourselves, individually. In which destroying the Rain Forest would feel as painful as chopping off our own finger. In which gathering possessions for ourselves is embarrassingly painful for us. In such a society, solutions to the problems we face today would not just be sought: they would be positively yearned for.
No Limits to Growth: Operational limits to material growth have already been reached and exceeded. Every person has a hierarchy of needs(Maslow): at bottom – food, water, air; 2) shelter, clothing, warmth; 3) love and procreation; 4) esteem & social status; 5) self-actualisation and enlightenment. Growth has to be raised to this 5th level at which there are NO LIMITS!
Unemployment Revalued: Most people think "Employment = good" / "Unemployment = bad" For most, learning stops when we leave school/college – but, if we seek to grow enlightenment, being "employed" in lifelong learning, meditation or contemplation can grow planetary consciousness. In the past, agriculture freed people from the constant work of hunter-gathering – and allowed the development of language, art, religion etc. Today, technology and AI can liberate human beings from the drudgery of employment and allow the growth of consciousness.
Healthy, Holy and Whole: All 3 x words derives from the same Greek word: 'Holos' – meaning whole or well. A High Synergy world would be a healthier world based on – 1) less stress through more relaxation; 2) less stress through less dependence on ego-driven need for esteem; 3) fewer man-made health problems – dirty water & air; fewer cigarettes, sweets, alcohol and cancer-inducing trace elements in food/drink products; 4) holistic health practices; less medicines (1/3 of all US hospital admissions are the result of previous medical treatments!) 5) Greater recognition of the healing potential of the mind itself. 6) Regular Meditation!
Left and right: 2 x sides of the brain have different functions. Left = rational thought, language, getting things done; Right = aesthetics, emotions, intuition, letting things be…. For many, Left = Male; Right = Female. Electrical studies of brains in deep meditative state show greater integration of both sides of the brain. Society must work out how to achieve that integration between Right and Left / Male and Female to achieve the right kind of Global Brain.
Synchronicity Rules: Incredible coincidences happen when the chances of them happening are sometimes of the order of a Trillion to One (Alan Vaughan). They are generally beneficial to the person and not at the expense of other people. Also, they happen more often to people who do meditation or pray. "When I pray, coincidences start to happen. When I don't pray, they don't" (Bishop William Temple). Chains of positive coincidences like these may be the first manifestations of the synchronicity that drives a social super-organism.
ESP and the Miraculous: ESP = telepathy, clairvoyance and pre-cognition. (More than just being able to know the winner of the 2 o'clock at Cheltenham!) Deeply spiritual people recognise and experience many more miraculous talents: Indian Yogis call them 'siddhis' – and include levitation, invisibility, walking on water, ability to be in two places at once. Jesus did similar things – with healing being the one that most remember. Many Christian and other religious traditions record similar powers from their prophets. Possible? We don't know – but we could certainly CHOOSE to move in this direction. Historical reports suggest it is not impossible.
Choosing the Future: "I choose to take a positive vision of the future because I feel that, being optimistic, helps that positive vision to emerge." That is unusual: most news is bad news – most films show bad / violent futures. Negativity breeds negativity and Fred Polak, a Dutch Futurist, proved that positive imaging breeds positive outcomes. (Think the question: "Will humanity still be a round 1 million years hence?" Most people say "No Chance!" Saying "Yes!" enables you to plan for a long-term future…)
Images that Heal: if you imagine a swarm of white blood cells overwhelming red cancerous cells, that image can help you cure cancer. Russell realises that "getting people to sit down to imagine world peace may not be so beneficial…" admitting that it may sound a 'way out' to some but he suggests that, as psychotechnology becomes more established as an area of scientific research, imaging that heals may become mainstream.
Our Evolutionary Test: A test of our consciousness to find out whether humanity is fit to live on planet Earth. A test of whether we can live in harmony rather than in conflict; whether we can connect with that level of unity. It's a test which, Russell admits, we may well fail – and, if we fail, humanity will probably be discarded as an evolutionary blind alley. And it's a test that has a time limit – it is our generation that must take it! "Whether we like it or not, we are now the custodians of the evolutionary process on Earth. It's in our hands – or rather in our minds. Let us follow this Cosmic Imperative!"
Beyond Gaia: "If humanity were to evolve into a healthy, integrated social super-organism, it would signal the maturation and awakening of the global nervous system and the 'Gaiafield' might emerge with faculties quite literally beyond our imagination." The earth would recognise its place in the universe – and find other gaias with consciousness, and start to see beyond Gaia to other solar systems in the universe!
From Gaia to Galaxy: Our Solar System is tiny compared to the size of the whole galaxy – about the size of an apple in the continent of North America. Our sun is but a speck and our Earth a ten thousandth of an inch. There are about 10 billion other stars like our sun in our Galaxy, each with its orbiting planets, one or two of which could, like our's support life like Gaia. So there is the beguiling possibility of 10 Billion global brains – creating the potential for an inter-galactic super-organism (6th level of consciousness) The only possible nerve connection would be by ESP. Even the speed of light is too slow!
Full Circle: Our Galaxy is but another speck within the immensity of the Universe. When we look at the night sky – we are looking at less than a billionth of the Universe! Our Galaxy is part of a cluster of 27 known other galaxies just outside the Virgo Super-Cluster of thousands of Galaxies. So – could the entire Universe become a living Super-organism? Perhaps – but we must remember what a close shave it was that any of this happened at the time of the Big Bang – if the masses of the electron and proton were 1% different, complex molecules would not have formed; if gravitational force had been just a fraction larger, no convection between stars. Vary any one of a hundred factors – and the universe would never have formed. A fluke? Or is the Universe guided by a Universal Gaia? Guiding us to a 7th level of consciousness!
What then? – a "Big Wumph"? – the universe collapsing in on itself – and starting all over again with another Big Bang – and another 15 billion year cycle, all in the effort to create the Perfect Cosmos!
"When the mind rests steady and pure, then whatever you desire, those desires are fulfilled."
Upanishads, India, 500 BC
"Truly I tell you, if two of you on earth agree about something and pray for it, My Father in heaven will do it for you…."
Matthew Chapter 18, verse 19
Trouble is, He doesn't! We prayed for Remain. We got Brexit – and Trump! We pray for United Nations – we get China and the USA blocking Coronavirus Ceasefires – and the Rohingya exile. We failed the Test didn't we? And we are about to be discarded on to the evolutionary scrapheap! Shame!!

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Turkey receives 'flying castle' A400M plane, jointly manufactured with European countries
ECONOMY Daily Sabah
Turkey received an A400M aircraft made in Spain as part of a joint partnership with European countries on Saturday. Boosting the tactical transport capabilities of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), the A400M will bring gains to Turkey through services to be provided to other countries and the aircraft's new customers.
As part of the A400M project carried out by the Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB), which Turkey is part of to meet the Air Forces Command's need for tactical transport tasks, the eighth aircraft was brought to Turkey after the completion of tests and acceptance activities in Seville, Spain where it was produced. The aircraft was deployed to the 2nd Air Transport Command in Kayseri.
The eighth aircraft produced at Airbus facilities has a higher configuration compared to the other seven aircraft previously taken into the Air Force's inventory. The aircraft will fortify the Air Force and contribute to national defense.
Turkey is one of six countries, along with Germany, Belgium, France, the U.K. and Spain, in the A400M aircraft project. Turkey will add a total of 10 A400M aircraft to its inventory by early 2022.
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), along with the aviation industries of the participating countries, is responsible for the design and production of aircraft in proportion to the number of aircraft received by the countries. In addition to the main structural components of the A400M aircraft such as the Front Middle Body, Rear Body Upper Section, Paratrooper Doors, Emergency Exit Door, Rear Upper Escape Door and Tail Cone; Ailerons and Spoilers, which are the two of the most important flight control surfaces, are designed and produced by TAI engineers and technicians.
The A400M aircraft uses the TP400 engine, a unique turboprop engine designed by the Euro Prop International (EPI) consortium (Rolls-Royce, MTU, Snecma and ITP) – a subcontractor of AMSL. TUSAŞ Engine Industries (TEI) is one of EPI's subcontractors in engines. Within the scope of the A400M project, Turkey continues to gain capabilities. Retrofit (strengthening) activities, which will enable aircraft to reach their final configurations, will be carried out at the 2nd Air Maintenance Plant Directorate in Kayseri as of 2020. With the capabilities acquired, it is intended that other A400M using countries carry out the retrofit activities of their aircraft in Turkey.
The Global Service Support Agreement will be signed and enter into force next month in order to meet the logistics needs of aircraft that join the country's inventory. Under the agreement, Airbus will provide logistics support, services taking into account the common needs of the participating countries and the specific logistics needs of the countries.
The Re-Regulation Contract Amendment, signed last week, has brought financial relief to project, and includes arrangements on the delivery of aircraft with all contractual capabilities and the road map for updating the retrofit schedule. The development has paved the way for the A400M aircraft to reach potential customers.
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Q: When does a Shimura variety have contractible universal cover? Disclaimer: I know very little about Shimura varieties.
Some Shimura varieties have a contractible universal covering space, for instance $A_g$ itself. Are there any nice necessary and/or sufficient conditions implying this?

A: Connected Shimura varieties are quotients $S=X/\Gamma$, where $X$ is a Hermitian symmetric space without compact factor and $\Gamma$ is a discrete subgroup acting properly discontinuously on $X$. If $\Gamma$ acts without fixed points, then $X\to S$ is a universal covering. (In the general case, the universal covering of $S$ is $X/\Gamma_1$,
where $\Gamma_1$ is the subgroup of $\Gamma$ generated by stabilizers
of fixed points on $X$.)
It is known that $X=G/K$, where $G$ is a semisimple adjoint Lie group and $K$ is a maximal compact subgroup. The Iwasawa decomposition $G=KAN$ implies that $X$ is diffeomorphic to $AN$, hence to a real vector space. In particular, $X$ is contractible.

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I have an Isuzu MU-X with factory towbar and tow a Topaz Savannah. A while back I towed the Topaz from Kingaroy to Dubbo and noticed when I got there that the R Clip which holds the Pull Pin (which holds the towing tongue in place) was missing. I assumed that it had been stolen by mischievious children or heaven forbid I forgot to to put it in. I was extremely lucky that the pull pin didn't come out as I would have ended up with only the chains holding the Topaz to the car. I then bought a lockable Pull Pin that also has an R Clip and have used that since.
I was uncoupling the Topaz this morning after our recent 10,000 KM trip (Cameron Corner, Strezlecki and Oodnadatta track etc ) and noticed that the straight side of the R Clip was bent backwards slightly so the springy side wasn't even holding on the pull pin. If the R Clip had been upside down which can happen - it does move around a bit, then it would have fallen out. I now suspect that this is what happened the first time the R Clip went missing.
I'm hoping that someone on the forum may have had this problem and can advise me on what to do to prevent it happening again. I have been towing trailers and campertrailers for about 30 years and never had this problem.
I use a BTA Towing Equipment Anti Rattle Hitch Pin Lock.
Never had an issue with it and it stops the annoying rattle you get on some hitches.
I can't use a locking pin because they all seem to be too long and block either the trailer connector on one side, or the camera and Anderson connectors on the other.
But, instead of an R pin, my hitch came with a circular pin, much like a key ring which winds through the hole in the pin. No way it can come out. Not sure where you can buy such a pin though - mine came from Best Bars with the hitch.
I've not seen it happen before but you could try a tractor pin or similar.
Do you mean the same pin as Craig has suggested?
Craig, I was thinking of using one of those - I think they are also called Lynch pins. I did meet a guy recently at Cloncurry that had his pull pin fall out and lost and from what he described to me he was using a lynch pin to hold it in. Again, perhaps he forgot to put it on or it was stolen. He improvised when the caravan detached on the highway by using an 8 mm diameter tent peg bent around so it wouldn't fall out.
I have also contacted Hayman Reese and they have requested that I send photos which I will do today.
The only way I can see that this R clip can bend is that one end jams against the car or the tow bar (which it can) and as there is slight up / down movement of the tongue in the tow bar (not a neat fit) the pull pin is being gripped and turned slightly with the bounce of the back of the car. Afterall, there is a lot of weight on the towing tongue - with 4 jerry cans full in the Topaz right hand storage, the ball wt is at least 260 KG.
My towbar also has a bolt that can be tightend to stop the tongue rattling but I have been told by a towbar company that it should only be tight when not towing.
I've used a lynchpin for years with no issues, I also use them on the two catches on the floor and rear hatch.
I have also had a R clip almost come out, I now put a cable tie around the clip and modified the pin.
No, the one I use is literally like a key ring which you wind a key through. The only difference is that one of the ends is made so you can grab hold of it. I'm away at the moment, but I'll take a pic when I get home.
Having a tractor, I have a box of the lynch pins, but even the smallest wouldn't fit through the hole in the hitch pin. Like patrol dude, I use them on the hatch and the floor.
Btw, I tighten the "anti-rattle" bolt when towing, and it does stop the noise. I can't see why this would cause a problem - certainly hasn't for me after many kms of trailering. In fact, I've been thinking of adding another from the side to stop lateral movement too.
I changed to a Lynch pin as I swap the neck out regularly.
I've never had an issue with it find more used friendly then R clips.
I also use them on the 6 door/deck catches.
Propulsion unit- Land Rover Defender.
My son has the 'key ring' style and there is no way it could accidentally come off. I personally think it's the go.
When towing off road through gullies and the like, my tow bar has been known to plowed into terra firma for a second and has bent the R clip.
If all else fails then a piece of fencing wire will do the trick.


The global banking crisis is the largest macroeconomic event that many actuaries have experienced and has had devastating consequences for tens of millions of people across the world.
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Hi I am trying to make a rest callout from controller and I am not been able to get response . I am using apex continution callout pattern for this to make call async.
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A team of scientists from Barcelona (IDIBELL-Institut Català d'Oncologia) and Philadelphia (Perelman School of Medicine) combined three of the most promising new forms of cancer therapy: CAR-T, Oncolytic viruses, and Immunotherapy. By doing so they have defeated some of the means which tumours can use to overcome current treatments and achieved remission in mouse models of different types of cancer. In their recent publication in Clinical Cancer Research the authors show 100% survival in a mouse model of colorectal cancer and remission in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer1.
CAR-T takes T-cells, cells which seek out and/or destroy disease in the body, and uses synthetic DNA to alter them so they can recognise cancer cells via a specific protein (of the scientists choice) on the cancer cell surface. When put back into the patient the CAR-T cells can now seek out cancer cells and destroy them by signalling the bodies own immune system to attack the cancer, much like it would an infection. This one of the most promising new cancer therapies available, with the first drug of its kind (Kymriah) approved last year2.
However, CAR-T is not without fault. The study highlights two major issues with CAR-T, using T-cells which seek out Folate receptor α (FRα), a protein on the surface of several cancers including ovarian3. First, they show that the CAR-T cells select for tumour cells which don't have FRα, killing the ones with it and leaving a population without FRα behind; this essentially "evolves" the tumour to escape the treatment. Second, the tumour is often an immunosuppressive environment, in other words: the immune system doesn't work properly inside the tumour. This can cause the CAR-T cells to get "switched off", preventing them from signalling the immune system to destroy the tumour even though they have successfully found cancer cells.
Figure 1: Bi-specific T-cell engagers, or BiTEs, are made from the parts of antibodies which define what they bind to, called the Fv domain. By artificially linking the Fv domains together to form a single chain Fv (ScFv) we create tiny proteins able to stick to specific molecules, like cancer markers. A BiTE is simply two of these joined together. The BiTE in this study sticks to CD3 (Pink) and EGFR (Blue).
To solve problem one the authors wanted to give the CAR-T therapy a second way of targeting the cancer, the hope being that the tumour would not be able to escape by selecting for a population without both types of cancer marker. They chose EGFR (Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor) as their second cancer specific target. Like FRα, EGFR is found on the surface of many cancers. They also wanted to be able to stimulate normal T-cells to attack the tumour as well. The solution they chose is a therapy called a called a Bi-specific T-cell Engager, or "BiTE".
BiTE's (Figure 1) are derived from antibodies, the body's natural way of labeling harmful cells, like bacteria or virus infected cells, for destruction by the immune system. The BiTE in the study is designed to stick only to two types of molecule: EGFR (On Cancer) and CD3 (on T-cells). The BiTE's physically stick the T-cell to the cancer cell "showing" it where to direct the immune system.
Figure 2: Summary of the therapy used in this study. The oncolytic Adenovirus infects cancer cells and delivers DNA which tells the cancer cell to make BiTE's. CAR-T cells which bind FRα, others (both CAR-T and normal T-cells) stick to the BiTE with CD3 which binds to the tumour via EGFR. Simultaneously the virus causes inflammation stimulating the immune system and stopping the cancer from deactivating the T-cells.
We are left with the second problem: How to stop the tumour switching off the immune system. The solution is from the nascent field of Oncolytic virology; a promising, fast growing field which uses genetically engineered viruses to fight cancer. The viruses are engineered so they can't damage healthy cells but are deadly to cancer. They have the bonus of causing inflammation (damage signalling) in the cells they infect, which activates the immune system. Normally this would be a bad thing, but since the only cells the virus is infecting are within the tumour it works in the therapy's favour.
An Oncolytic Adenovirus (OAd) was altered to carry the DNA of the EGFR-CD3 binding BiTE. When the virus seeks out the cancer cells it infects and forces them to make BiTEs. The BiTEs then stick to both T cells and the cancer, bringing them together. Since the tumour is now also displaying damage signaling because of the virus, T-cells become activated and attack the cancer.
The authors showed in a mouse model of colorectal cancer that the BiTE expressing virus alone was ineffective. On its own the CAR-T enabled 40% of mice to survive (compared to none in the untreated mice), but the combination of CAR-T + OAd-BiTE saved 100% of the mice. Excitingly the authors showed similar results in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer, which has a notoriously poor prognosis.
All the therapies used in this study are very new and hold individual promise for combatting cancer. While the approach in this study is still far from human trials it holds great potential. By combining our knowledge of therapies from different scientific disciplines, whether it be virology, cell therapy, or immunology, we can find synergistic effects like this one. As our understanding of cancer grows we can refine these exciting new technologies even further and seek out new combinatorial effects to achieve even better outcomes for patients.
1 Wing, A. et al. Improving CART-Cell Therapy of Solid Tumors with Oncolytic Virus–Driven Production of a Bispecific T-cell Engager. Cancer Immunol. Res. 6, 605–616 (2018).
3 Kalli, K. R. et al. Folate receptor alpha as a tumor target in epithelial ovarian cancer. Gynecol. Oncol. 108, 619–626 (2008).


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Quantum efficiency in GaAs Schottky photodetectors with enhancement due to surface plasmon excitations
A. Sellai, Paul Dawson
Centre for Nanostructured Media (CNM)
The overall quantum efficiency in surface plasmon (SP) enhanced Schottky barrier photodetectors is examined by considering both the external and internal yield. The external yield is considered through calculations of absorption and transmission of light in a configuration that allows reflectance minimization due to SP excitation. Following a Monte Carlo method, a procedure is presented to estimate the internal yield while taking into account the effect of elastic and inelastic scattering processes on excited carriers subsequent to photon absorption. The relative importance of internal photoemission and band-to-band contributions to the internal yield is highlighted along with the variation of the yield as a function of wavelength, metal thickness and other salient parameters of the detector. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Inelastic scattering Engineering & Materials Science 58%
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Sellai, A., & Dawson, P. (2002). Quantum efficiency in GaAs Schottky photodetectors with enhancement due to surface plasmon excitations. SOLID-STATE ELECTRONICS, 46(1), 29-33.
Sellai, A. ; Dawson, Paul. / Quantum efficiency in GaAs Schottky photodetectors with enhancement due to surface plasmon excitations. In: SOLID-STATE ELECTRONICS. 2002 ; Vol. 46, No. 1. pp. 29-33.
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Mobile phone: job perk or chain around our necks?
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Esso's maintenance contractor UGL, which operates maintenance on the gas rigs in Bass Strait, ended the previous employment agreement and offered workers a new agreement with 40% less pay, worse conditions and extended rosters on the platform with no guaranteed shore breaks.
Say Yes Geelong held a local Equality Walk on September 9 to promote the Yes campaign for marriage equality. The crowd of almost 1000 people, who gathered in the centre of Geelong, was very diverse and included a number of families with young children, teachers, religious ministers, unionists, students, local council candidates, local MPs and more.
Speakers included Beth McNiven, a member of Geelong Rainbow Inc, who spoke about feelings of isolation living in a smaller town and the support she has found since moving back to Geelong.
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The target: Your story alleges that Smallville City Councilmember Anita Hogwilde embezzled $6,000 from the Smallville treasury. Hogwilde is the target of your exposé, and pretty clearly "the other side.
Suddenly public figures: You write about graffiti on South Podunk Avenue, and take photos of Joe's garage. Joe is in the news, his neighbors tell him about it, and he's upset because he didn't even know in advance.
Early. Very early. Before you turn the story in to your editor.
The call for comment: In Casablanca, the police inspector rounded up "the usual suspects." As a journalist, you can do no less. Call the official sources, the company spokesperson, the school principal — tell them what you are writing about and ask if they have a comment or any information you may have missed.
The courtesy call: You are writing about a school and you haven't talked to the principal. Call her and let her know.
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He had an idea it was someone, maybe even a kid messing about, but the noise kept on, and he wanted to see what the problem was.
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Rosenthal recalled the days when insurers covered everything, and employers paid the premiums, which desensitized Americans to how much things cost.
In an interview with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the now editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News recalled the days when insurers covered pretty much everything, and employers paid the premiums -- which, in Rosenthal's view, desensitized Americans to how much things cost.
"Maybe that $10 becomes $50 or $100," said Rosenthal. "It's all this kind of inflationary cycle where everyone has the sense that nobody is paying."
Perhaps sensing the unsustainability of rising costs, hospitals and health systems -- not to mention the federal government -- have taken steps to try to curb those costs, with mixed results. Third-party vendors, data analytics companies and even mobile app developers have given rise to entire sub-industries devoted to improving the patient experience and making healthcare more consumer-friendly and affordable.
Many of these approaches focus on the increasingly consumer-centric nature of the healthcare system, banking on things like patient choice and billing transparency as viable means of keeping the power in consumers' hands.
The problem, said Rosenthal, is that the market is too flawed to truly derive benefit from these measures.
"When I asked one expert, a former health commissioner, 'Why is healthcare such a booming sector?' He said, 'It's like asking Willie Sutton why he robs banks. That's where the money is,'" said Rosenthal. "It's true. We like to say we have a market-based system, but it's such a flawed market that even the most conservative economists look at it and go, 'This isn't a market.' As buyers, we don't know the prices of the choices that are put before us. Even the doctor doesn't know the price. And the price can vary from block to block by a factor of 100. How can you possibly expect wise consumer decisions to totally solve this problem?"
Digital health has the potential to be a positive force, she said, but so far has yet to live up to its potential. As an example she cited digitized medical records and electronic medical records, which in theory allow doctors and hospitals to easily exchange patient information with each other. But what's happening, said Rosenthal, is that some hospitals don't want to share their data for commercial reasons; a patient can easily make a switch to a different health system. Essentially, electronic medical records are designed for billing purposes, not for the patient's best interest, she said.
There are things patients can do, such as question their bill, look for errors, and flat-out refuse to pay if they suspect something is amiss. It's a power most people don't know they have.
But if lasting change is going to occur on the cost front, Rosenthal said it will have to come via some kind of health reform.
"Whether it's the Affordable Care Act or a Republican replacement, until we get these prices and costs under control, nothing is going to work very well for patients," she said. "Patients are and should be the focus of this endeavor we call medicine. … It's fine for me if people make a profit, but they should make profit out of doing things that are good for patients and the best for patients. Instead, what we see is often profit without regard to whether there's actual medical benefit, and that's a sad state to be in. That's a big part of why our costs are so high."