The City Clerk is primarily responsible for compiling and publishing the City Council agendas, attending each meeting of the City Council, and maintaining a record of accurate minutes of the proceedings. Completed minutes can be found on Round Rock Replay and are usually available 2 to 4 weeks after a meeting has occurred.
In addition, the City Clerk is the custodian of all official city records, which includes, but is not limited to ordinances, resolutions, contracts and agreements, easements, deeds of city owned property, and is the designated Records Manager of the City.
Proclamation requests are also made through the City Clerk's office. If you wish to request a proclamation to be read at an event or at a City Council meeting, please complete and submit a Proclamation Request Form at least 1 month in advance of the date it is needed.
This office also coordinates municipal elections, oversees publications and postings of legal notices and agendas of all boards and commissions of the City; as well as monitoring and managing the terms and attendance of all board and commission members. The City Clerk also reviews and approves TABC (Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission) applications, issues local alcoholic beverage permits, as well as processes applications for outdoor music venue permits.
The City Clerk's office oversees the publication and codification of the City's Code of Ordinances, and is deemed the City's public information officer as it relates to the Texas Public Information Act, and provides information maintained by and for the City in accordance with requirements established by law in the Texas Public Information Act. To submit a public information request using our online open records request system, please click here.
The Council Meetings are held the second and fourth Thursday of the month and the agendas are posted at City Hall and on the website at least 72 hours in advance of a meeting in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act.
Sara White has served as City Clerk for the City of Round Rock since October 2007. Prior to coming to the City, she started her career with the Texas Department of Agriculture and Samsung Austin Semiconductor.
Sara holds both a Bachelors Degree (BBA) and Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Texas Tech University and is a Texas Registered Municipal Clerk (TRMC) through the Texas Municipal Clerks Certification Program.


Are you afraid of the dentist or does the thought of visiting the dentist fill you with anxiety or nervousness? You aren't alone! Over 50% of people in the US have postponed visiting the dentist due to dental phobias or anxieties.
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Q: Angularjs ui router needs to load child state by default similar to home page I am using angularjs ui router  and I need to load the child state by default (i.e., 'dashboardParent.dashboard').
$stateProvider.state('dashboardParent', {
        abstract: true,
        url: '/dashboard',
        templateUrl: 'app/views/dashboard/dashboard-parent.html',
        controller: 'DashboardParentController'
    }).state('dashboardParent.dashboard', {
        url: '/',
        templateUrl: 'app/views/dashboard/dashboard.html',
        controller: 'DashboardController'
    })

Generally what we do is we have home state with url ("/") from there we navigate to some other state let say  'dashboardParent.dashboard'. But here I don't have any home state. When I start the application I want dashboardParent.dashboard state to be loaded. How to achieve it.
If I add another state home and provide a link to navigate to  the state 'dashboardParent.dashboard' it is loading fine. But my requirement is I do not have any home state, instead I need to load 'dashboardParent.dashboard' by default. How to achieve it?

A: code below will help you:
// if the path doesn't match any of the urls you configured
// otherwise will take care of routing the user to the specified url
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/');

reference: URL-Routing of ui-router
note: Don't forget injecting the $urlRouterProvider service.

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The operating system you choose depends solely on the type of smartphone you have because the smart watch is paired with your smartphone. If you own an Android smartphone, your smart watch should have Android Wear or Tizen. If you own an iPhone, choose an Apple Watch. For example, the Samsung Gear S3 runs Tizen and is compatible with both the Android and iPhone.
Like other Fitbit devices, the Charge 3 takes little effort to set up. It works with Android and iOS devices, and all you need is the Fitbit mobile app to use it. Choose the Charge 3 from the list of devices you can pair via Bluetooth to your smartphone or tablet, and follow the on-screen instructions. After setup, you may want to also edit basic information that the Charge 3 uses when tracking activity, such as your age, height, weight, and the activity metric you care most about (steps, active minutes, etc).
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In 2009, Hermen van den Burg, CEO of Smartwatch and Burg Wearables, launches Burg the first standalone smartphone watch which has its own sim card and does not require to be tethered to a smartphone. Burg receives the award for the Most Innovative Product at the Canton Fair in April 2009[36][37][38][39][40][41][42] Also, Samsung launched the S9110 Watch Phone which featured a 1.76-inch (45 mm) color LCD display and was 11.98 millimetres (0.472 in) thin.[18]
Of the scores of Wear OS by Google (also called Wear OS, and formerly Android Wear) smartwatches that function nearly the same, the Fossil Q Explorist and Fossil Q Venture are the ones we recommend for most people. Similar models that differ mainly in size and design, these two Fossil watches offer style and band options for the widest range of tastes while performing as well as (or better than) anything else out there. They handle notifications and your responses without delay, provide all-day battery life, swiftly handle voice transcription and Google Assistant questions, and provide casual fitness tracking. Their buttons and screens are responsive. They look and feel like good watches, too, which is something we think most people want from a smartwatch at this point.
The company claims that the SpO2 monitor will help its devices look for signs of sleep apnea and other breathing problems, potentially great features for devices that are meant to be worn 24/7. It'll be used primarily in Fitbit's forthcoming Sleep Score Beta, which further analyzes sleep quality using heart rate and breathing data. Starting sometime this November, users with devices that only have heart rate monitors can get a "sleep score" after each night's sleep. Those with an Ionic, Versa, or Charge 3 will presumably have better data thanks to the SpO2 monitor collecting breathing data.
When we compared the storage space of the Samsung Gear Sport with the other contenders, it didn't have the most. With 4 GB — only a quarter of what you'll get with the Apple Watch Series 3 GPS — you will have to manage your apps so you don't run out of room. If you like to carry all of your music with you and you have an extensive library, you might run out of space with the Gear Sport.
In 2003, Fossil released the Wrist PDA, a watch which ran the Palm OS and contained 8 MB of RAM and 4 MB of flash memory.[27][28] It contained a built in stylus to help use the tiny monochrome display, which had a resolution of 160×160 pixels. Although many reviewers declared the watch revolutionary, it was criticized for its weight (108 grams) and was ultimately discontinued in 2005.[29]
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They include a heart rate monitor, pedometer and altimeter to track steps taken and stairs climbed and often a GPS chip to record your distance covered. They will sync with your smartphone to give you a suite of tools to monitor your exercise progress. Many of them will offer notifications of incoming phone calls, text and email alerts as well. But they are designed with fitness tracking in mind. If you are happy using your smartphone for your day to day messaging, calendar, apps and music, a fitness tracker will suffice.
The first digital watch, which debuted in 1972, was the Pulsar manufactured by Hamilton Watch Company. "Pulsar" became a brand name which would later be acquired by Seiko in 1978. In 1982, a Pulsar watch (NL C01) was released which could store 24 digits, making it most likely the first watch with user-programmable memory, or "memorybank" watch.[9] With the introduction of personal computers in the 1980s, Seiko began to develop computers in the form of watches. The Data 2000 watch (1983) came with an external keyboard for data-entry. Data was synced from the keyboard to the watch via electro-magnetic coupling (wireless docking). The name comes from its ability to store 2000 characters. The D409 was the first Seiko model with on-board data entry (via a miniature keyboard) and featured a dot matrix display.[10] Its memory was tiny, at only 112 digits.[9] It was released in 1984, in gold, silver and black.[11] These models were followed by many others by Seiko during the 1980s, most notably the "RC Series": During the 1980s, Casio began to market a successful line of "computer watches", in addition to its calculator watches. Most notable was the Casio data bank series. Novelty "game watches", such as the Nelsonic game watches, were also produced by Casio and other companies.[citation needed]
In China, since around 2015, smartwatches have become widely used by schoolchildren. They are advertised on television throughout the country as a safety device whereby the child can call in case of emergency. The devices are commonly colorful and made of plastic. They normally have no display unless a button is pushed. These smartwatches have limited capability compared to other smartwatches; their main functions consist of being able to conduct calls, displaying of time, and sometimes have air temperature sensitivity. They cost around $100 to $200 USD.
There's now a heart rate monitor, as the name suggests, for tracking beats throughout the day and during exercise, a GPS monitor to keep up with your workouts and an NFC chip to enable Google Pay. Add to that the ability to take this underwater up to 50 metres, all on the top of the refreshed Wear OS, and it all rounds out as a very complete smartwatch experience.
The Asus ZenWatch 3 was a previous top pick for a Wear OS smartwatch. As of now, it has reached the end of its Wear OS updates (after a very long delay getting to Android Wear 2.0). Its rotating crown does not actually work to turn or scroll anything on the screen. Its proprietary watch band connections mean that your options are limited to what is available from third parties on Amazon. And the watch is hard to find new.
For most people, the most useful thing a smartwatch can do is relay phone notifications to your wrist so you can check them without having to pull out and wake up your handset. You can still be distracted by whatever is buzzing you, but it's easier to quickly see whether something is important or not. Often you can interact with that notification—by acknowledging it, dismissing it, or replying to a message with voice dictation, a pre-written response, or (awkward) finger typing or swiping—right on the watch.
If you're into premium smartwatches, the Montblanc Summit is the latest option hitting watch shops around the world. Out of the box, it runs atop Android Wear 2.0 with the standard specifications — Snapdragon Wear 2100, 512mb of RAM, and 4GB of storage. There's no NFC or LTE on board, but the watch does feature a heart rate sensor and premium materials.
The Gear 2 also includes a gyroscope, an accelerometer, and a heart-rate sensor. It also can control a TV or set-top box remotely using a built-in IR blaster, and it has the ability to function as a stand-alone music player. And its built-in camera—handily built into the watch itself rather than on the band, like the original Galaxy Gear—takes 2-megapixel stills and 720p video.
You'd be amazed how hard it is to text something as simple as "hi" on many smart watch interfaces. Still, most designs take this into consideration. We tested all kinds of watches from auto-scrolling screens where you drew the letters with your finger to pre-smartphone layouts more akin to the alphanumeric layout of a payphone keypad. While the drawing features were nice, we felt that the texting was a little more manageable on keyboards.
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Q: Applying CSS transitions to smoothly rotate between CSS animations? I'm animating an svg. The svg is made up of several shapes and grouped shapes that form a character. I'm planning to have different CSS animation effects running on different shapes and groups at the same time to bring the character to life.
The character's emotional state will change dynamically. I'm currently accomplishing this by applying a class to the overall svg (.joy, .sad, etc). The animations of the different shapes and groups within the svg change depending on which class is present. In this case, I'm animating a group of shapes with the ID #head. Here's some of the code that's making this work.
Jquery and HTML to change the class of the svg (#character):
<button onclick="toggleStill()">Be Still</button>

function toggleStill() {
  $("#character").attr("class","still");
}

CSS:
#head {
    transition: all 1s;
}

.joy #head {
    -webkit-animation: headbob 7s infinite both;
    animation: headbob 7s infinite both;
}

.still #head {
    animation: none;
}

@keyframes headbob {
    0%,100%{
        -webkit-transform:translateY(0) rotate(0);
        transform:translateY(0) rotate(0);
        -webkit-transform-origin:50% 50%;
        transform-origin:50% 50%
    }
    15%{
        -webkit-transform:translateY(-30px) rotate(6deg);
        transform:translateY(-30px) rotate(6deg)
    }
    30%{
        -webkit-transform:translateY(15px) rotate(-6deg);
        transform:translateY(15px) rotate(-6deg)
    }
    45%{
        -webkit-transform:translateY(-15px) rotate(3.6deg);
        transform:translateY(-15px) rotate(3.6deg)
    }
    60%{
        -webkit-transform:translateY(9px) rotate(-2.4deg);
        transform:translateY(9px) rotate(-2.4deg)
    }
    75%{
        -webkit-transform:translateY(-6px) rotate(1.2deg);
        transform:translateY(-6px) rotate(1.2deg)
    }
}

.still makes the character stand still — no movement or animations.
Here's the problem: Assume .joy is applied to the svg on page load (<svg id="character" class="joy">). When I click the button to switch it to .still, #head stops moving as expected but it does so abruptly. I'm trying to make it return to the original position smoothly rather than suddenly jumping there.
I set a transition property to #head, hoping this would fix the problem but it hasn't.
I also tried to create a new animation where "from" is undefined and "to" is set to the original position. I was hoping this would take #head's current animation position and then animate it back to its original spot. Again, it stops the animation, but it's choppy:
.still #head {
    animation: reset 1s;
}

@keyframes reset {
    to {
        transform:translateY(0) rotate(0);
    }
}

Any ideas on how I can make the transition between animations work? I'd prefer the motions between the emotional states be fluid rather than choppy and sudden.


The Earth Citizens Club of Queens hosted their annual Earth Day Art Fest on Sunday at Ehrenreich-Austin Playground in Forest Hills.
Body & Brain Yoga and Tai Chi instructor Mané Andreasyan was at the event to assist residents in making a pledge to their body, community and earth through small changes in their daily life.
Some residents chose to help the community by shopping locally and using a reusable tote bag to reduce plastic. Others said they would start eating natural foods.
At a station that provided healthy snacks and fruit-infused water, volunteer Joyce Peprah spoke to the community about the city's safe tap water and using food scraps for compost.
"We want to encourage people to drink tap water because New York City tap water is pretty clean and some of the best water for you," Peprah said. "We're responsible for the earth but sometimes we forget, and if we take these small initiatives, hopefully it will also encourage others to do the same.
Through the event, the club encouraged residents to live mindfully for a sustainable world.
Activities included planting flowers near the playground, kite making, a tai chi demo, acting workshop, presentations from city agencies, a wellness and health station, chalk mural and live music.
The event also consisted of an outdoor photo gallery that featured the 10 winners of a photo contest showcasing local parks. Earth Citizens Club of Queens founder Amy Long and several judges selected the top 14 photos from the dozens of submissions and the community voted on the top ten.
"Mirror" by Cyntia Gomar was chosen as the first-place winner. The photograph depicts a crystal clear reflection of Forest Park's trees in a puddle of water.
Chen Pan and her family recently moved to the neighborhood and stumbled upon the art festival while on a trip to the park.


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Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1941. Frederick J. Conboy was elected mayor.

Toronto mayor
The mayoralty was open following the retirement of Ralph Day. Two members of the Board of Control sought the seat, Frederick J. Conboy and Douglas McNish with Conboy winning by a significant margin.

Results
Frederick J. Conboy - 55,677
Douglas McNish - 33,024

Board of Control
There were two open seats on the Board of Control as Conboy and McNish chose to run for mayor. These were won by former alderman and mayoral candidate Lewis Duncan and alderman Robert Hood Saunders. Finishing a close fifth was alderwoman Adelaide Plumptre, who was running to be the first woman elected to the Board. Aldermen Ernest Bray and David A. Balfour also ran for the Board, but finished some distance back.

Results
Lewis Duncan - 49,382
Fred Hamilton (incumbent) - 39,021
Robert Hood Saunders - 37,417
William J. Wadsworth (incumbent) - 33,411
Adelaide Plumptre - 33,021
Ernest Bray - 26,391
David A. Balfour - 20,849
J. Nelson Day - 4,645
Harry Bradley - 3,271
Robert Harding - 2,523

City council

Ward 1 (Riverdale)
Gordon Millen (incumbent) - 6,240
Frank M. Johnston (incumbent) - 5,260
George Gresswell - 1,575
Harry Bell - 1,376
Charles Minett - 1,197

Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)
Louis Shannon (incumbent) - 4,670
William Dennison - 2,682
George A. Wilson - 2,640
W.B. Amy - 1,003
George Harris - 712

Ward 3 (Central Business District)
John S. Simmons (incumbent) - acclaimed
Percy Quinn (incumbent) - acclaimed

Ward 4 (The Annex, Kensington Market and Garment District)
Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - 3,829
Hugh Ross - 2,863
Herbert Orliffe - 1,917
David Goldstick - 1,381
Louis Zuker - 1,098
Joseph Gould - 1,009
Fred Sykes - 549

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods
Ernest Bogart (incumbent) - 7,519
Charles Carrie (incumbent) - 6,094
Gerrard McGrath - 2,082
Pat V. Roach - 1,282

Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale)
William V. Muir (incumbent) - 9,081
D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 7,411
Jack Bennett - 6,206
William Logie - 1,046
Nina Dean - 993

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
Charles Rowntree (incumbent) - 5,322
H.M. Davy (incumbent) - 3,899
Frank Whetter - 2,907

Ward 8 (The Beaches)
Walter Howell (incumbent) - 7,266
Hiram E. McCallum - 4,927
Roy Cormack - 2,673
Frederick Baker - 2,484
Norman Caldwell - 2,484
Bertram Leavens - 1,854

Ward 9 (North Toronto)
John Innes (incumbent) - acclaimed
Donald Fleming (incumbent) - acclaimed

Results taken from the January 2, 1941 Globe and Mail and might not exactly match final tallies.

Vacancy
Ward 1 Alderman Frank M. Johnston died on October 10, 1941 and was not replaced.

References
Election Coverage. Globe and Mail. January 2, 1941

1941 elections in Canada
1941
1941 in Ontario

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Hi. I am currently doing a research project on synthesizing a water-soluble rotaxane via Diels-Alders reaction. But I am facing a problem in synthesizing this molecule(please refer to attached photo) which is part of the process to synthesize a dienophile for Diels-Alder reaction. I anticipated to be able to synthesize compound 17 from compound 16 via hydrolysis of the methoxycarbonyl group, but it went unsuccessful. I think instead of the methoxycarbonyl group, the maleimide group underwent hydrolysis. Are there any ways to resolve this issue? How can I undergo hydrolysis on the -COOMe group without affecting the maleimide group?
You can not hydrolyze the ester with methoxide, you need hydroxide.
As rolnor said you need hydroxide to hydrolyze esters. I would think if you used a stoichiometric amount of hydroxide the methyl ester would react much more readily than the maleimide. This reminds me of Gabriel and you really have to pound it to hydrolyze to the primary amine.
Is this theoretical or are you actually doing this synthesis?
I see, thank you! I'll consult my supervisor whether or not he agrees to this idea. And, I am actually synthesizing this molecule for my college research project.
Could you share a reference to that statement?
I wonder, with the K2CO3 system, was this a aromatic acid methylester or a aliphatic one? The aliphatic is much easier to hydrolyze.
I dont have a reference, its just something I tried and it worked. It is probably not general method but it worked for me. In the end I used hydroxide anyway but for different reasons.


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Iquitos, Peru: Black Days, Red Nights: Riot '98
A guest post by Dag Walker
Rumours of war became the realities of battle one late afternoon in Oct. 1998 as thousands rampaged across Iquitos, fires raging, smoke and flame covering the city as bodies laid in the street amid pools of blood and broken glass.
Fury reigned for days. In these later years those who were there say, "Yes, I was there, but I can't remember it." The dead were buried in the acid soil, the blood was washed away by the heavy Amazon rains, and the thick grey ash blew away years ago on hot winds. Life is now, not then; and the city today is at peace. Days and nights of violence: that is memory long lost. For the locals, the riot of '98 happened, but it was too long ago to think about, or even to recall at all. For some, though, the memories are clear and never-ending. Those memories are the black and red realities in the pale, dim mists of phantom rumours in private lives so hard to recall exactly. The Iquitos Riot of Oct. '98. Some will never forget those days.
Political demonstrations in Peru can be 'enthusiastic' at the best of times, manifestations, as they're called, and the assembly at Independence Square in Iquitos, Peru's Plaza 28 de Julio, had from the start the basic elements of any bad situation. The point of the mass assembly on 26 Oct. 1998 was to demonstrate against Ecuador having seized a chunk of historically disputed Peruvian territory ranging from the Ecuador border near the Peruvian village of Pantoja to the tiny town at the end of the dirt road leading from Iquitos, Nauta, about 50 miles away into the jungle from the city. Wars have been fought many times over this area, and those men and women assembled that Saturday afternoon at the park were emotionally prepared for another war. By the time people found that the story of invasion by Ecuador was all nonsense it was too late: the dead were already dead, and the city of Iquitos lay under a blanket of ashes, smoke, and ruin. The 'invasion' was maybe someone's idea of a joke. It might well have come to little more than an average manifestation but for one accident that changed the mood and purpose of the crowd into that of a violent mob. For three days, in spite of the lack of an actual invasion by Ecuador, the city was like a war zone. To make matters worse, it seems someone was buying and passing out free beer to the people at the plaza. People were not only angry, they were often drunk. Demagogues had been priming the people for a couple of weeks previous. The rumour of war furthered the cause of those we know not exactly of. There are rumours.
At 5:30 p.m.– and closing in on 6:00 p.m– Mike was in the living-room at his first floor apartment at #633 Prospero St. having a beer, lying in a hammock with his feet up, relaxing in his home at the back of the one story building. Not unusual, the electricity went out in Mike's flat, so Mike got up and walked barefoot down the hall and outside to survey the extent of the outage. He stepped onto the sidewalk. He looked down toward the Plaza de Armas in the twilight and saw nothing out of the ordinary, just the city going about its business without light; and then he turned to the opposite direction, toward what would be in the distance the Plaza 28 de Julio. The Plaza is half a mile or more up Prospero with a sharp right rurn down the road even farther. In turning toward the Plaza, instead of the distant park, Mike saw a roiling tidal wave of rampaging demonstrators coming straight at him, angry people who were smashing windows, setting fire to shops, people ripping up and toppling shallow-rooted twelve foot palm trees in terracotta post which they smashed on the street as they came foward, a solid wall of screaming fury on the march– with Mike in their direct path a matter of meters away.
Of all the horrible sights to see during that three days of blood, fire, and death, one of the worst must have been seeing Mike, middle-age, vastly overweight, and barefoot, running wild-eyed and sweating down the pot-holed Prospero street in the dark toward the Iron House seeking refuge from a mob ready to kill him.
The second floor of the Iron House back in 1998 was the location of the Regal Restaurant, and it was also at the time the residence of Phil Duffy the British consul at Iquitos, Duffy's wife, and young child. In both instances the Iron House served as a place of safety for expats in times of trouble: have a beer while you get your passport sorted out. Over the course of that long weekend the Iron House was home to 18 people wondering if they'd survive at all. Mike ran through the door and up the stairs and, in the same manner he does to this day in ordinary circumstances ordering another beer, bellowed in his broad countryside English accent, "Bolt the doors! They're coming!"
Inside the Iron House on the second floor, looking out through the crack of the shuttered window at the now dark city, one could see smoke blowing across the red domed sky as the city burnt: houses and shops aflame, six of the city's very rare cars on fire, while hotels and government buildings were smashed, looted, set afire and left to burn to the ground from one end of the city to another. People were killed. Mayhem ruled the city. Mike, with 17 other men and women from four nations, trapped and fearing for their lives, said later of those days and nights as he and his fellows refugees waited for savage beatings at the hands of raging mobs and death by fire inside the Iron House, "We had a helluva good time."
Another witness, living across town at the time, said he was sleeping at his home and dreamed that he was back in the army, and that he was ducking tracer bullets during basic training training. He awoke to find that basic training over and the war was now real. "It scared the hell out of me," he said.
The rioting was all about nothing, originally, but in the end it left, according to newspaper reports, a minimum of three dead, with eyewitnesses saying the total was closer to 20. Papers record that 30 were seriously wounded and that over a hundred were arrested. Buildings big and small were destroyed, and property damage extensive and expensive– in the multiple millions in this less than wealthy city. And yes, surviving such a thing is often the high point of a lifetime, though at the time the only possible beneficiaries of the violence and destruction would have been the organised drug lords whose records were tossed by the armload from the Supreme Court building onto the street, and there the records were burned.
In the immediate beginning of the riot, the Soviet-style concrete block Supreme Court building, nearby to the Plaza 28 de Julio was torched when the demonstrators had finished throwing computers and fax machines and burning papers out the windows onto the street. When the crowd tired of that destruction, they crossed the street and burned down the elegant Neo-classical luxury Rio Grand Hotel. Then the mob turned and marched on the city centre itself.
The English novelist Graham Greene calls it "The Ministry of Fear," that dark place that houses the secret police of a nation at war against its own people: The Ministry of Interiour. The Orwellian term could be "MINI-CULT," whose agents wear black trench coats, hard men who arrive silently for the 2:00 am. wake-up call of a jackboot smashing in the door and then muted ride in a small four door black sedan to that place one never returns from because one was never really there and one never really had a name. 'No, there is no such person in our records.' At the Ministry of Fear, all things are known. One knows nothing.
As the crowd protested at Plaza 28 de Julio against the supposed Ecuadoran invasion of Peru back in late Oct. '98, a general from the Ministry of Interiour was having a small, official engagement at the Rio Grande Hotel across the street from the flat and grassy plaza where one of the first of the city's public transport train locomotives sets like a large toy on a concrete block. The crowd in the park were riled up by rumour of war, of betrayal by the generals. The crowd turned their attentions toward the hotel where Minister of Interiour was at his meeting, and he, in a state of nervousness, decided to flee by a hotel side door to discretely avoid the crowd riled to madness over the supposed give-away of their homeland to enemy Ecuador. In his haste to escape the demonstrators, the minister's car ran over and killed Sra. Corina Coral Arana, aged 47. Her accidental death alone could likely have set off the demonstrators, but the general's car also ran over and killed Maria Katerina Echeverria. She was two years old.
The 'Ministry of Fear's' general, Jose Villanueva Rueseta, who later received a nine year prison sentence for massive theft, (convicted of crimes against the public administration,) sped away after killing the woman and child.
The Hotel Rio Grande and the Corte Superior de Justicia de Loreto remained even after the general fled, and they were burned down. With those building in flames and smoke and ashes swirling in the wind above the city the crowd turned its attentions to the rest of the city, and it was then that Mike found himself facing the surging mob coming at him on Prospero street as the sun set on the city and fire lit the night.
Mike was an insurance salesman back home, and as he was trapped in Iquitos' Iron House and the mob outside were smashing at the iron doors to get in to kill everyone, thought of actuarial tables of insurance gave way to, not the well-known and professionally calculated odds of long term survival, but to the thought of the chances of living through the night. Was there any chance at all of living through the next assault from the mob downstairs smashing the doors downstairs?
Along with Mike, the British consul and his family, were two other Brits, two Australians, a few Peruvians, and a handful of U.S. Marines from the Riverine Support Team under the command of Marine Corp Lt. Colonel Michael Pierce, absent that period. Regardless of the skills of professional soldiers, the U.S. Marines would have been under the temporary command of the British consul. Outside, their opponents were under control of the Furies. On the corner of the block by the Malecon Tarapaca Peruvian soldiers stood in formation, nervously pointing their rifles as they faced their own people with the possibility of having to shoot them and kill them.
Inside the Iron House's second story Regal Restaurant and British Consulate, the Marines were far from their suburban base at Moronacocha where they had moved from expensive hotels to be lodged instead in luxury 20 room mansions rented from local drug lords. In a city that to this day has only a few actual cars, the Marines drove around the city in giant SUVS, and sometimes the soldiers were drunk, sometimes causing accidents that required the injured to be flown to Lima to receive the best medical treatment available in the nation. The Marines might well have been party to other accidents, in part because they were given $39.00 per diems for food allowances in a city where to this day one can find a good meal for a dollar. Unsurprisingly, for every Marine there were ten local girls vying for his attention. Perhaps as part of the $47 million per year the U.S. Government put directly into the local economy at least some of that was danger pay for the soldiers, well-earned no doubt when confronting drug smugglers, if not furious local boys who couldn't get a date anymore. To the local lads, seeing the Marines fighting off local girls at the Iron House's Regal nightly, Marines in danger didn't look so dangerous at all. As the local hang-out for Marines, the locals found in the Iron House a fair target to set alight once they'd smashed in the door and made their way partly up the staircase to the second floor. They were intent on burning down the Iron House, its floors and walls and ceilings covered in wood.
Mike and some of the others had watched the crowd on the street below by peeking from the second story windows, but in doing so the inside light gave them away, alerted the crowd to their presence and drew their attention toward the Iron House. Those inside had assembled heavy wooden chairs to hurl down at those coming up to greet them, and Anthony Taggart, an Australian, had ordered a Peruvian waiter to boil water in the kitchen to pour on the mob like a scene from a Medieval siege. The Consul said that such a move would only antagonise the mob who had just burned down television station Chanel Seven. So too, they had burned out Discotecas Caimito y Karaoke bar and had burnt down an old school house before proceeding to burn down la Libereria Marisabel and Foto Aspinwell. The mob was at the Iron House, pounding on the metal doors, shouting.
After repeated ramming, the Iron House doors broke open. As the mob made their way up the stairs, Consul Duffy, a man who had at one time unceremoniously snubbed two homesick tourist ladies from his hometown of Wiggan, acted in what could well have been a Charlton Heston scene of Lord Gordon of Khartoum facing down the Madhi army in Sudan. Consul Duffy appeared in front of the mob ascending the Iron House stairs and, dressed in a teeshirt and shorts, shouted at them in imperious consular English, "Get. The. Fuck. OUT!"
Stunned, the crowd turned around and quietly went down the stairs and docilely left the building. But outside the crowd kept on burning Iquitos: la Direccion Regional de Agricultura de Pevas not only going up in flames, but the mob also smashed computers, fax machines, and even tossed a refrigerator out of an Agriculture building window, thereby smashing a gaping hole in the concrete sidewalk. The building housing the Department of Mines was burnt, and so too the Department of Fishing. At least 14 building were burnt during the rioting.
Peruvian president Fujimori ordered five Hercules transport planes filled with 300 black-clad troops, the Aguilar Negra special forces, flown in from Lima and gave them orders to shoot to kill. Luck was with them, as they did not have to wait their turn to land at Iquitos, which in later years would have been the case because planes weren't the only airborne craft with landing rights in local airspace: some years later the garbage dump was next to the aeroport, and thus the skies were filled with vultures from dawn till dusk, each vulture being big enough to bring down a plane if it were sucked into a jet engine. As it was that day, the skies were clear. The Black Eagles had landed. At least one man, 21 year old Jorge Valles Sinarahua, was shot to death on the street.
Sunday was quiet, and by Monday the incident was over. Years and years later Mike recalls it as a fine time. "There were plenty of sofas inside the second floor of the Iron House, and there was no shortage of beer and food." For almost everyone in the city today the episode of the riot over nothing is either forgotten or not even known of. People have moved on long since, and this story is but a minor footnote in the history of Prospero St. and the Iron House.
Mike's girlfriend, by the way, waited for the mob to pass by the open door of the apartment building on Prospero St. before she fled to safety in the opposite direction.
City life resumed, and today, as people move purposively along the sidewalk, there is, as well as a pharmacy on the main story of the Iron House, a trinket shop selling snake skins and postcards and piles of brightly coloured Amazon Indian-style clothing fit for the most fashion-conscious hippies on earth. Upstairs, closed and abandoned, the Iron House restaurant, the setting of more than a hundred years of dramas large and small, sits in silent stillness and gloom, abandoned for now, some memories perhaps collecting dust in the darkness.
This piece is an excerpt from my up-coming book, "Iquitos, Peru: Almost Close," a popular account of Iquitos, its history and people.
A gentle reminder that my book, An Occasional Walker, is available at the link here:
http://www.amazon.com/Occasional-Walker-D-W/dp/0987761501/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331063095&sr=1-1
If you would like to read more about Iquitos Peru, click this link to my blog, No Dhimmitude;
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1 Loren Whisenhunt April 2, 2013 at 10:02 am
What a story! I had no idea of this history of my favorite jungle city. Thanks for this great and informational post.
2 Dag Walker April 2, 2013 at 11:31 am
I'm happy that others find this piece interesting, and I hope further that some of those witnesses of the events above will contribute more to this story by relating their personal experiences here.
I'd like to thank Mike Collis for relating this story to me, and also Leon Jones who added some colorful detail.
Loren, thank for your comment.
3 Eduardo Rios April 2, 2013 at 12:29 pm
I was in IQT during that riot… just two days before teh riot, new in the jungle and witnessing all that madness… It was shocking
4 Dag Walker April 2, 2013 at 1:52 pm
I'm sure your experience was shocking, as it must have been even for those who reflected on their own behaviour in later days. I'd be pleased to get further details from you about this event.
But the story isn't exactly about the shock of a riot: I hope to convey the sense people in Iquitos have of tomorrow rather than memory-obsessed grievance. I like that people have moved on and mostly can't recall the event even though they were there. Living for the moment has its drawbacks, but it is interesting to see optimism as the usual mode in a whole culture. The riot happened, and it is over and life goes on. It's an incident in the history of the Iron House. There is much, much more.
And there is the rest of the history of Iquitos. I love getting up in the morning to find out and write about the city, its people, the culture, old times and new. In all, I love it here. Perhaps, in spite of the shock you experienced, you might have witnessed some act of bravery or kindness as well. I'm sure many such acts occured. Let me know if you (and other readers) recall anything such.
I've had a lot of help putting this part of the story together, and I wish to thank Maria Isabel Perez Reatagui of La Region for her assistance in close details.
It goes without saying, of course, that I am delighted to see this work at Bill Grimes's blog.
5 Mike Collis April 3, 2013 at 8:36 am
Great work Dag.
A couple of minute errors though and one BIG ONE!
In those days I weighed in at a petite 12 stones 6 lbs ( about 180 lbs).
6 Dag Walker April 3, 2013 at 12:24 pm
Mike, I'm sure you'll be back to that fighting trim soon enough.
Dag.
7 adrian walker April 4, 2013 at 11:20 am
Nice piece of wri(o)ting Dag. I missed the event by 12 years or so and of course also missed out on the sight of a trim Mike Collis. Maybe it was the 60 a day he used to smoke in those days that kept the weight down? Good thing Mike was so slim or he would've been an easy target!
Nice thing about history is that it gives one a clearer sense of why life is as is today. Looking at Mike on a diet tells us that historically he was in fine shape and has a desire to reclaim that condition today. It's one of those epiphanic, "AHA!" moments in which life makes better sense.
The story of the riot is interesting as well in that it tells us something about the nature of people in general and people specific to Iquitos, though I'm not sure yet just what it tells us.
Thus, as I work on the final pieces of my book about the city I look toward that day when I have my own epiphany about the city and its people. If I "get it" I can pass it on to the world at large. If I don't, then others will see what is plain in the text and will go from there to a better awareness of life in Iquitos. Everyone wins, regardless.
9 Robert Burnaby April 4, 2013 at 6:59 pm
Dag Walker,
I've been reading your book, An Occasional Walker, and it's a pleasure to see you now writing about Iquitos, Peru, which I might have thought was a more serene if not civilized place to travel. However, I guess there's a convergence of themes inasmuch as your interest lies in mob behaviour, savage killing, unthinking group belonging and redeeming individual responsibility. Yours is a mind moved by the need to see and feel our episodes of violence, if only to transcend it in the world of language and memory.
Perhaps one of the differences between the leftists and Islamics you previously write about, and this riot, is that in Iquitos they eventually knew when to stop. It wasn't a lifestyle. It sounds like this riot was kind of a carnival, a temporary inversion of the normal order, not a life-long committment to destroy a supposedly "fallen" world and rebuild it with special Gnostic knowledge of some imaginary Utopia.
You can't rationalize this too much, I guess. Rioting and destroying your own city in support of national pide doesn't make a lot of logical sense, unless maybe you're thinking the wealthy and the official class are letting the nation down, kind of how many of us in the developed West feel today about our elites, though we don't need drug dealers to tell us. But whereas in your book you evince a desire to avenge the slaughter of the innocents, here it seems there is no such feeling – because there were victims on both sides? It is as if you are almost neutral, identifying with the expatriates who felt targets, and yet not entirely against the mob who revenged the Minister's road victims. I wonder if you see a redemptive possibility for the West from the kind of people who would still riot on behalf of their nation's honour, even if they are largely unaware of their possibility.
I've read about the culture down there in Amazonia being rather matriarchal, in that women rule the families and the men shift about, vaguely polygamous, never settling down. And so the riot, presumably male dominated, might then be some attempt of marginal men to assert a rough idea of manhood. Here again, maybe there is some comparison with modern leftists and Muslims (if not also the world traveller) who spend time bowing down to some all-powerful yet unknowable god, no loving father. And yet, reading what you are writing about Iquitos, you don't seem to feel the people are at all like the incipient death-squad members that are growing up in Obama's increasingly female-educated America, in the feminized Canada you love to hate, or in the hysterical dens of Allah so obsessed with the honour of their women, all of which you write about so much.
Best wishes for your ongoing journeys, and keep on writing them up.
10 adrian walker April 5, 2013 at 11:48 am
Epiphanies are of course dependent entirely on perspective and a thin Mike Collis perspective may well differ considerably from a "grossly overweight" Mike Collis point of view. Overall though I suspect Mike wished he was back in the insurance business selling "riot prevention" policies. He'd have done well. Insurance salesmen don't need epiphanies, just writers.
11 Dag Walker April 5, 2013 at 1:56 pm
I wonder, now that you bring it up, if Bill Grimes named his cafe Dawn on the Amazon because Epiphany on the Amazon would sound too arty. I'm thinking that's pretty likely.
12 Dag Walker April 5, 2013 at 10:20 pm
Robert, the first thing I notice in you comment is that you not only read my book, An Occasional Walker, but that you are rereading it. A few more comments like that and I'll be able to pay you all for advertising. Thanks.
About writing Iquitos, I am within reach of concluding a large volume of history of the city as an historical setting of institutions; and I am also writing of people, now and then, as Iquitos allows for expressions in ways I don't find often elsewhere. Thre is an unguardedness in the city that allows for expression one finds stifled in the Modern world today. There is something like an innocence here that one doesn't find elsewhere. There is big city sophistication, indeed, but there isn't what you refer to as Gnostic Utopianism. I think that is why the riot flared up and died out in a matter of hours and is long since forgotten.
I'll come back to your comment.
What makes Iquitos so attractive to me as an expat from America is that Iquitos, and the Amazon in general, is in its way an American frontier I can understand in home terms, foreign like the western territories would have been to my ancestors. Iquitos is in some ways very much the 19th century open range, a place for cowboys.
Iquitos is, therefore, totally unlike the Puritan Utopianist New England of America. There is no history of Protestant Utopianism here. Nor is there much trace, outside of the ubitquitous ayahuasca drug tourism, much influence of the German Revolution of Bizmarck or the ideologies stemming from Rousseau, both of which infect America today to the point it is almost unlivalbe back home.
In short, we do not in Iquitos have to deal much with state socialism as the Bizmarckean German immigrants implanted in New England and Chicago; nor do we have the rotten roots of the German Revolution's corruption of Protestant Chirstianity as implanted by Walter Rauschenbusch. i.e. the Hilary Clinton style Social gospel of post-Christianity of today's America.
It's the lack of these fundamental U.S. influenences that is so striking to me as an outside observer. In this Amazonian Indian/Catholic culture with a superficial overlay of Modernity, i.e. market capitalism, one finds a wholely different experience of living from that of the Social Gospel Utopianism back home and the State as informed by the German Revolution.
Things are not efficient here, for the most part, but in that lays the beauty for the average cowboy: There is little effective interference in daily living at a personal level from an ineffectual State. The culture is one of benign neglect as opposed to the Puritan meddling and the Social Gospel social engineering of the Left today in lock step with the Bizmarckean State.
People here got sick and tired of bullying from Lima, and they went mustang for a day or so and let it be known that the Amazon is a hands-off region, which it has been from the beginning of Colombian settlment here.
The beauty of it here is that the locals are basically nice people with little influence from Europe. This is a jungle setting where life and death are too immediate to give in to arcane concerns about Utopian schemes of intellectuals from the city. This is not the Andes. this is not a place for Incan authoritarian control. It's the Amazon. Many of the Indians here are cowboys.
My kind of place.
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You can only use 1 "Hi-Speedroid Kusarigainer" effect per turn, and only once that turn.
(1) You can target 1 face-up card on the field; negate its effects.
(3) During the End Phase, if this card is in your Graveyard: You can banish 1 WIND monster from your Graveyard; Special Summon this card.
This was originally a request from Zazu's Create-A-Card thread in Games.
As you can probably tell by now, it's a HSR Synchro Monster.
Kind of like a Fiendish Chain for Spell/Trap Cards as well, or a 4th Chain if you really need it.
I'm not an expert at how Speedroids function, but they should be able to make this with their current support, looking at their stuff.
That, and it is still generic for whatever L7 Synchro Deck that wants it.
Anyway, CnC and other comments are appreciated.
Edited by Sakura Haruno, 20 October 2015 - 06:38 AM.
It has its utilities, but it's pretty much weaker Fiendish chain split in two, and is in the level where it faces competition with the best synchroes in the game (Moonlight, BRD, Yazi, CWSD, etc). Its stat left a bit more to be desired, and unlike other speedroid synchros it doesn't have float/pseudofloat effects going for it.
it's just...feel weak aside from being a WIND option aside from CWSD for 7. But this'll rarely come into play unless you use Taketonborg's eff.
Yeah, Level 7 is a tricky area to navigate for Synchros, especially since a lot of them are good.
Stat-wise, boosted it to 25/22 so it can at least tie with Clear Wing power-wise.
I don't know; maybe it can be boosted further (but trying not to eclipse Yazi).
Changed the effect to permanent negation, but it's still limited during your turn.
As for the floater effect, I have it reviving during the End Phase with a banish cost.
I did intend on having this be another 7 option for Synchro MPBs as well, to be honest.
Again though, I am not sure how Speedroids function [if they can recur their banished resources without too many problems].


The Career committee has six members who organize four career evenings during the academic year 2018-2019. People from several work fields based on the master programs offered at the University of Groningen will give insights into their professions and their career paths as well as sharing all their career tips. The events are meant to give students an idea of their opportunities as a bachelor's graduate of Psychology and also a more practical understanding of how the acquired skills and knowledge can be applied. There are many possibilities and you have to choose for yourself what you want your future career to be.
Our night owl, Sofia is our Treasurer. Since she has to watch out for the money at night, she has to sleep at daytime. As the only guy in between five girls, Wouter is a "womanizer". Therefore, his destiny was Acquisition as he can use his skills to let some money flow in our direction. Maaike, our Secretary, is often a little late and has a rather rough relationship with numbers. Apart from that, she's super organized. Our "grandma" Tineke who is doing External Affairs, likes her Liquor 43 as it makes her more fluent in talking to and more open to approach people needed for our events. Nikola provides stability to the group and wraps her creative mind about doing the Promotion for our events. And last but not least, the youngest boss alive: our Chairwomen Margriet.
Fun fact: With Dutch, Frisian, Spanish, German, and English, there are five languages represented within our committee.
The Career committee organizes four career-evenings every year. The topics of each evening are based on the different master programs that are offered at the University of Groningen. This means the evenings will be about Developmental Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Neuropsychology. On these career-evenings, people from the field will come and talk about their work and their career. They will also give career tips to the participants. If you are in this committee, you will mostly be busy trying to find multiple speakers for each evening, and a location. Flyers will also be handed out to let people know there will be a career evening.


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LSM Featured Players: Brian Boucher & John LeClair!
BRIAN BOUCHER
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Drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft.
Began play with the Flyers during the 1999-2000 season.
Spent 12 seasons overall with the Philadelphia Flyers and Phantoms.
LSM features Brian Boucher at the Skatium
in Havertown, PA for the Annual CHOP/Dixon Boys
Fundraiser this Friday, April 4th, 2014 at 6pm.
JOHN LECLAIR
Traded to the Philadelphia Flyers on February 9, 1995
Played left-wing on the famed "Legion of Doom" line, with Eric Lindros at center and Mikael Renberg at right wing
In1998, LeClair became the first American-born NHL player to record 3 consecutive 50-goal seasons and the second Flyer to do so.
Played for the Flyers for 10 seasons and was one of the most productive players in franchise history, scoring 333 career goals and an additional 35 in the playoffs
Played in the NHL All-Star Game in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
LSM features John LeClair at a public autograph
signing at Poppel Sports Autograph in the Montgomery
Mall, North Wales, PA this Saturday, April 5th, 2014.
Signing starts at 12:00 pm.
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Bernie Parent Autograph Signing
Michal Neuvirth Autograph Signing
Meet & Greet Winner with Eric Lindros!
Michael Del Zotto Autograph Signing
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Philadelphia Flyers Alumni Fantasy Camp 2015
Legendary Broad Street Bullies Signing at Gateway 26
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package com.aruld.jersey.streaming;

import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
import org.glassfish.jersey.jetty.JettyHttpContainerFactory;
import org.glassfish.jersey.logging.LoggingFeature;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig;

import javax.ws.rs.core.UriBuilder;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 * Media server
 *
 * @author Arul Dhesiaseelan (arul@httpmine.org)
 */
public class App {

    private static int getPort(int defaultPort) {
        String port = System.getProperty("jersey.test.port");
        if (null != port) {
            try {
                return Integer.parseInt(port);
            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            }
        }
        return defaultPort;
    }

    private static URI getBaseURI() {
        return UriBuilder.fromUri("http://localhost/").port(getPort(9998)).build();
    }

    public static final URI BASE_URI = getBaseURI();

    protected static Server startServer() throws IOException {
        System.out.println("Starting jetty...");
        ResourceConfig config = new ResourceConfig(MediaResource.class);
        config.register(new LoggingFeature(Logger.getLogger(LoggingFeature.DEFAULT_LOGGER_NAME), Level.INFO, LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAYLOAD_TEXT, Integer.MAX_VALUE));
        return JettyHttpContainerFactory.createServer(BASE_URI, config);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Server httpServer = startServer();
        System.out.println(String.format("Jersey app started with WADL available at %sapplication.wadl\nHit enter to stop it...", BASE_URI, BASE_URI));
        System.in.read();
        httpServer.stop();
    }
}


Tell us more about the digital substation you are delivering to Technopark and how is it going to help?
What is the kind of opportunity of setting up more such digital substations across India?
India is the third largest energy consumer in the world. Digital substations can therefore contribute to India's energy requirements by rendering multiple efficiencies. The scope for digital substations could be further strengthened with factors like the introduction of more renewable energy into the grids. It can also effectively cater to the power needs for railways, IT parks or industrial campuses. Thereby further enhancing the Make in India initiatives across sectors by contributing to reliable and quality power and providing access to electricity.
Have you set up and R&D facility to develop such substations?
This is part of our existing R&D focus areas along with a range of other next level software led solutions to power the energy revolution.
How is the current power grid infrastructure in the country? What kind of improvement does it require?
The clean energy ambitions of the government coupled with the technology vision will be key drivers to modernize the Indian power grid. India has one of the largest operating synchronous grids in the world. The various government programs from 24x7 reliable power to all with rural electrification, renewable energy focus, the National Smart Grid Mission are all initiatives which are contributing to the modernizing of the Indian grid. The concerted efforts around power quality improvement thereby reducing losses, transmission and distribution automation with focus on efficiency and smart metering are areas which will be in focus. Integration of renewables will require greater digitization of the grid.
How many power grid projects is ABB currently operating or in the process of setting up in India?
ABB has been associated with power grids since its inception. We have been fortunate to be part of landmark projects. A few recent ones would be the world's first multi terminal UHVDC link to connect power from the hydel plants of the north east to Agra with reverse flow and the recent Raigarh Pugalur UHVDC transmission corridor which will cater to the integration of renewables, balancing the demand-supply patterns of south and central India. For Power Grid Corporation's Bina substation pilot ABB is the only company to provide 1200 kV, world highest voltage rated transformer and circuit breaker designed and made in India. All these will entail most of the global ABB technologies to be engineered and manufactured in India.
What is ABB's current investment in the country? How much does ABB plan to invest in the Indian market in the next five years?
ABB has been investing in India for decades. This is a continual process of upgrading or adding factories and production lines or new products, technologies etc. at an average capex of upto $100 million per annum in such various forms. While we are consolidating, we continue to invest in improving our facilities, adding lines for our factories and cost optimizing existing lines.
How is a digital sub-station different from the current ones being used now?
It will leverage digital communications via fiber optic cables that will replace traditional copper connections using analog signals and the digital substation will be IEC 61850 compliant, ensuring an open communication architecture. Digital Substation stands for a break-through innovation in substation technology, based on a seamless integration of state of the art IEC 61850 based control and protection IEDs with all relevant primary components and sensors of a modern substation.
What are the benefits of using a digital sub-station?
A digital substation is an example of our ABB Ability™ that connects our customers to the power of the Industrial Internet of Things and goes further by turning data insights into the direct action that "closes the loop" and generates customer value in the physical world. The digital substation is more compact, flexible, reliable, safer, cost effective over the lifecycle and simpler to maintain and extend.
As a key component towards smarter grids, where utilities continue to integrate increasing amounts of intermittent renewable energy sources, digital substations will also help improve safety thanks to a shorter decision time in case of an emergency.
Are such systems prone to hacking thereby threatening the whole power grid system?
No single solution can keep increasingly interconnected systems secure, so ABB works with customers to create a defense-in-depth approach where multiple security layers detect and deter threats – if, where and when they may arise.
How robust is India's green corridor? Is it strong enough to evacuate the 125 Gigawatt renewable energy capacity that the government plans to add by 2022?
The green energy corridor project is divided into two parts and for it to realize its full potential it is important that the central projects as well as the inter-state transmission system and the real time monitoring system are duly executed. -The corridor is expected to address certain limitations of renewable energy like intermittency and variation in power quality. Under the project, renewable energy management centers are to be set up to predict renewable power generation and demand. These centers will also be interconnected with load dispatch centers to gather real-time information, as well as monitor and control capacity addition.


Storm Large returns with her band to perform for this year's Jazz on the Hill at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive.
Tickets range from $25 to $92. To purchase tickets and for more information, visit www.durangoconcerts.tix.com.


The presence of phthalates in toys is a direct threat to your children's health.
It seems almost beyond belief that plastic toys designed for younger children would include toxic chemicals like phthalates. But they do.
Recent studies suggest that almost 40% of toys include PVC, a soft plastic which contain the chemical phthalates.
How can you tell if PVC is used in the manufacture of any given toy? There is no easy way to know. But a rule of thumb is that if the plastic feels soft or malleable, it's probably PVC.
Think of that "rubber" duck. It isn't rubber, it's PVC.
Think of dolls and action figures that are not made of hard plastics.
Think of all the accessories that come with those dolls and action figures.
And think of the plastic jewelry your children wear while playing.
In addition to the presence of phthalates, many PVCs also contain heavy metals like lead and cadmium, both of which are also highly toxic.
* Phthalates are endocrine disruptors, and can upset normal hormonal balance in our bodies, stimulate the growth and development of cancers (breast, uterine, prostate), impair fertility, and disrupt pregnancy.
* Lead causes damage to the nervous system, leading to decreased learning ability and behavioral deficits. Children are especially susceptible because they absorb and retain lead more easily than adults and also because their brains are still developing.
* Cadmium is known to produce cancer and in animal tests causes kidney damage. It can also affect the developing brain.
Since 1997, bans on phthalates in soft vinyl toys have taken effect in Austria, France, Greece, Mexico, Norway and Sweden. And while some toy manufacturers and retailers are working to get PVC toys off the shelves, PVC is still present in about 40% of toys in North America.
The greatest concern here is that younger children not only handle their toys a great deal, but also chew on them, greatly increasing the chances of exposure to these toxic chemicals.
First, get rid of the older plastic toys in your home, which likely contain the highest levels of toxic chemicals.
Buy toys from major brands, and from well-known stores. Avoid cheap plastic toys from bargain retailers. These are likely to be directly imported from China, and were probably manufactured with almost no control over the chemicals used.
Rediscover the pleasures of old-fashioned wooden toys, preferably unpainted.
Finally, to find out if a particular brand of toy contains heavy metals or other toxic chemicals, follow the instructions in this short video from healthystuff.org.


Among her recent publications are: "Can Colombia eradicate coca by drones? The illusion of a technological fix," The Brookings Institution, July 24, 2018; "Death by bad implementation? The Duque administration and Colombia's peace deal(s)," The Brookings Institution, July 24 2018; "Andrés Manuel López Obrador and a new era of politics in Mexico," The Brookings Institution, July 3 2018; "The hard, hot, dusty road to accountability, reconciliation, and peace in Somalia," United Nations University, June 2018; "In Nigeria, we don't want them back," United Nations University, June 2018; "How synthetic opioids can radically change global illegal drug markets and foreign policy," The Brookings Institution, April 30, 2018; "Opioids of the Masses: Stopping an American Epidemic From Going Global," Foreign Affairs, April 2018; "When Terrorists and Criminals Govern Better Than Governments," The Atlantic, April 4, 2018; "Nigeria's Troubling Counterinsurgency Strategy Against Boko Haram: How the Military and Militias Are Fueling Insecurity," Foreign Affairs, March 30, 2018; "After the ivory bans, diligent enforcement is needed," The Brookings Institution, March 2, 2018; and "Bone of contention: Pragmatism versus ideology in countering poaching and wildlife trafficking," The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, March 1, 2018.
Among her recent publications are: "Can Colombia eradicate coca by drones? The illusion of a technological fix," The Brookings Institution, July 24, 2018; "Death by bad implementation? The Duque administration and Colombia's peace deal(s)," The Brookings Institution, July 24 2018; "Andrés Manuel López Obrador and a new era of politics in Mexico," The Brookings Institution, July 3 2018; "The hard, hot, dusty road to accountability, reconciliation, and peace in Somalia," United Nations University, June 2018; "In Nigeria, we don't want them back," United Nations University, June 2018; "How synthetic opioids can radically change global illegal drug markets and foreign policy," The Brookings Institution, April 30, 2018; "Opioids of the Masses: Stopping an American Epidemic From Going Global," Foreign Affairs, April 2018; "When Terrorists and Criminals Govern Better Than Governments," The Atlantic, April 4, 2018; "Nigeria's Troubling Counterinsurgency Strategy Against Boko Haram: How the Military and Militias Are Fueling Insecurity," Foreign Affairs, March 30, 2018; "After the ivory bans, diligent enforcement is needed," The Brookings Institution, March 2, 2018; and "Bone of contention: Pragmatism versus ideology in countering poaching and wildlife trafficking," The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, March 1, 2018.


1) The shape of the pot makes for easy stacking in even a small amateur pleasure boat.
2) The way the bait box is designed means it's really easy to lift the hinged lid and put your bait in.
3) The bait box enables you to use everything from fish skins and trimmings through to entire fish frames, and is a big improvement on previous systems.
4) The bait box is positioned away from the sides and is a robust plastic box that keeps the bait active for much longer. To eat any of it, the crays have to climb in.
5) The bait box's lid is made of a special UV protected plastic and allows for clear display of your details, as required by fisheries inspectors.
6) The pot's rectangular shape also means it tends to stay steady on the sea bed, as opposed to round pots or pots made from lighter materials, which often move around on the sea bed as the swells go by. Unstable pots rarely catch crayfish.
7) The throat is a robust heavy duty molded plastic entrance way (not a cheap plastic bucket). The throats slippery one-way entrance makes it much more difficult for crays to escape.
8) The pot's corners hold crayfish for longer as they seem to give a false sense of security, as opposed to the traditional round pots, which the crays tend to get out of after daylight.
10) All parts are replaceable on order.


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Marc is married to Jennifer Beer and he has 3 children Catherine, Elizabeth and Nicholas beer. Marc had two brothers that's Scott beer and Michael beer .Marc is the founder of Renovia with Ramon Iglesias, MD, and Yolanda Lorie0N 2016 August and closed a series of financing with first health care venture. He brings more than 25year commercialization experience and development in diagnostic, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Marc become the founding CEO of ViaCell in April 2000 which was a biotechnology company which specialized in development ,collection and preservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells and he led the company over 7 years from its start to its rapid growth and robust organization. The company grew to over 300 employees under the marcs leadership and went into public.
While mark was the CEO of via cell he was also the member of board of director of Erytech pharma which was a public trade biopharmaceutical company. He recently raised $42m to fund women's health. Beer also worked as a strategic consultant to ova science. Marc was accused by FDA of improper suggestion of drug that will cure the heart conditions after he had developed that drug from high cholesterol which was rocked. His company didn't respond to question of investment and pipelining of products .he would share a better vision about best diagnose that would cure and improve the lives of millions of people and the women who are affected by the pelvic floor disorders.
Renovia joined the series B round which was led by New York based perspective advisor whom they focused in investing firm had been invested by Renovia and it was supported by the Longwood Fund and it focused in development and testing for more diagnostics products and therapeutic which involves new generation of leva device. Through it proper medication device and app that enables visualization of pelvic movement, he decided to develop a pipeline product that had a potential to diagnose and treat women with urinary problems and pelvic floor disorder.


Lars Graudal, of the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at the University of Copenhagen, has been appointed as Science Domain Leader for the Tree Diversification, Domestication and Delivery research section at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.
The World Centre for Agroforestry – also known by its acronym, ICRAF – is a part of CGIAR, a global partnership that unites a collection of leading agricultural research organisations. Together, these organisations work to alleviate poverty by improving agriculture.
Lars Graudal is a consultant and head of research in the Tropical Trees and Landscapes Research Group at UCPH's Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. For the next two years, he will alternate between workplaces in Nairobi and Copenhagen.
In Nairobi, Graudal will act as Science Domain Leader for ICRAF's area of research that deals with agroforestry tree management, known as 'Tree Diversity, Domestication and Delivery'. This 'science domain' includes species and seed source selection, the development of seed sources and seed types, as well as the supply of good planting materials for small-scale farmers. Among Lars Graudal's other primary assignments, he will also be responsible for generating projects and securing funding for them.
ICRAF is based in Nairobi, Kenya and has six regional offices – in Cameroon, India, Indonesia, Kenya, China, and Peru; and the organization works within a range of research areas, including the improvement of seed sources and types. Find out more about World Agroforestry Centre.


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Minutes - Monday, 6 December 2021 - PE702.911v01-00 - Subcommittee on Security and Defence
Security and Defence Subcommittee (SEDE) - European Parliament - Tue, 14/12/2021 - 17:57
Australia Will Retire Its MRH90 Taipan Helicopters 10 Years Ahead Of Plans
The Aviationist Blog - Tue, 14/12/2021 - 17:20
The surprising move is due to the numerous problems and low availability during the troubled career of the helicopter. In a surprising move, the Australian Defence Force has announced that it will retire its entire [...]
The post Australia Will Retire Its MRH90 Taipan Helicopters 10 Years Ahead Of Plans appeared first on The Aviationist.
INDIA/RUSSIA : Sechin triggers openings for Rosneft on Putin's trip to India
Vladimir Putin's trip to India - his first abroad since the beginning of the pandemic minus a quick stopover in Geneva to meet Joe Biden in June - proved to be greatly beneficial to Rosneft boss Igor Sechin, who shrewdly
SYRIA : Brussels sanctions Cham Wings Airlines
Syria's Cham Wings Airlines has opened a number of new routes in recent times and is even hoping to offer
UNITED STATES : Buikema-Miller, the journalist turned CIA press secretary
The CIA's new press secretary Susan Buikema-Miller had until now been working for the public affairs department of the Office
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES/IRAN : Abu Dhabi puts aside inter-Emirati differences for rapprochement with Tehran
In the wake of a series of regional reconciliations with Israel, Qatar (IO, 16/12/20), Syria and Turkey (IO, 07/12/21), there has
UNITED KINGDOM : Adrian Leppard's business interests flourish as Black Cube's picks up too
The 6 December dismissal by the California court of the conspiracy claim brought by actress Rose McGowan against Harvey Weinstein,
ISRAEL : Tough cyber talks underway between Tel Aviv and Washington
Israeli defence officials were recently dispatched to Washington in a bid to discuss the NSO affair directly with the White
AS9 Huntsman
Military-Today.com - Tue, 14/12/2021 - 05:00
Australian AS9 Huntsman Self-Propelled Howitzer
Let's Talk About The Secretive RQ-170 Sentinel Photographed In Flight Over California Desert Recently
The Aviationist Blog - Mon, 13/12/2021 - 17:13
The drone, apparently in a test configuration, was spotted over the desert south of Edwards Air Force Base. The secretive RQ-170 Sentinel low-observable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, also known as the "Beast of Kandahar" (from where [...]
The post Let's Talk About The Secretive RQ-170 Sentinel Photographed In Flight Over California Desert Recently appeared first on The Aviationist.
GERMANY : Hitschler central in new German Chancellor Scholz's military-security policy
Intelligence Online - Mon, 13/12/2021 - 08:00
Despite her relative inexperience, since coming to office earlier this month, Germany's new defence minister Christine Lambrecht, of the SPD party, has wasted no time in launching a review of the German armed forces' missions abroad. While Lambrecht has a
EUROPE : Cysec, backed by Indian ex-hacker Rajat Khare, makes mark in European satellite cyber security
The Swiss cybersecurity firm Cysec has taken another step into European cyber security with the announcement on 7 December of
UNITED STATES/EUROPE : Lockheed Martin's lobbying brings F-35s to land in Helsinki
The announcement on 6 December that Finland would be acquiring F-35 fighter jets as part of its €10bn HX programme
FRANCE : Viginum and DGSI consider partnering with defence-backed startups to fight fake news
French start-up Sahar presented its anti-fake news software to the French Ministry of the Interior on 25 November, according to
FRANCE/RUSSIA : Russian soft power chief Yevgeni Primakov Jr visits Paris to boost Franco-Russian relations
Despite the burial ceremony for Napoleonic general Charles Etienne Gudin at the Invalides in Paris on 2 December, Franco-Russian relations
UNITED STATES : White House's grand anti-corruption policy is boon to corporate intelligence firms
Launched on 6 December, the White House's grand anti-corruption strategy is under particular scrutiny by the business intelligence sector. The
BTR-4MV1
Military-Today.com - Mon, 13/12/2021 - 06:20
Ukrainian BTR-4MV1 Armored Personnel Carrier
Update: Light Tactical Transport Vehicle production begins for Belgium
Jane's Defense News - Sun, 12/12/2021 - 01:05
High-volume production has begun of 199 Light Tactical Transport Vehicles (LTTVs) for Belgium, their manufacturer, Jankel, announced in a press release on 30 November....
Update: Defence budgets surge across EU in 2020, but collaborative spending falters
Total collective defence spending across the 26 European Defence Agency (EDA) member states reached a record EUR198 billion (nearly USD223 billion) in 2020, a 5% rise...
USS Porter Completes 10th Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Europe Patrol
Globalsecurity.org - Sat, 11/12/2021 - 08:46
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) returned to Rota, Spain, after completing its 10th Forward-Deployed Naval Forces Europe (FDNF-E) patrol in the U.S. Sixth Fleet (SIXTHFLT) area of operations, Dec. 10.


We need your help. Time is running out to stop a horrifying piece of legislation affecting hundreds of thousands of jobless North Carolinians, now and in the future, from becoming law.
Please take a stand to STOP the attack on unemployed North Carolina workers and their families. NC has the 5th highest unemployment rate in the country, with three unemployed job-seekers for every available job. There is no doubt that NC families need help, but instead they find themselves under attack simply because they are out of work.
Cut the maximum benefit amount by 1/3 to $350 per week: No state has ever made such a severe cut.
Cut all benefits by changing to a formula no other state uses.
Cut the maximum weeks of benefits from 26 weeks to a sliding scale of 12-20 weeks. Only two other states (Florida and Georgia) do this.
Cut benefits for workers who lose their job because of health reasons or family reasons, something ½ the states allow.
AND, unbelievably, the bill will cut off federally funded extended benefits that over 80,000 workers now receive as of July 1, 2013. These benefits are 100% funded by the federal government and that bring an estimated $25 Million a week into North Carolina to help families try to make ends meet while unemployed. NO STATE HAS EVER DONE THIS.
Click here for more background on the North Carolina General Assembly's extreme and misguided proposal to gut our state's unemployment insurance system.
Use the letters below to contact the House Finance Committee members and Gov. Pat McCrory. You can also email the entire Finance Committee using this link (works best with Gmail and other online services).
Call Gov. McCrory directly at 919-733-5811 and tell him to stop the madness on unemployment insurance.
Take a stand to STOP the attack on unemployed North Carolina workers and their families.


Take a trip to the far side of reality with Eureka, a seemingly quiet small town where innovation and chaos go hand in hand. Reunite with the town's hard-working sheriff, Carter (Colin Ferguson), as he tries to deal with his adopted hometown's unique geniuses, volatile experiments and earth-shaking secrets… all while trying to raise his feisty teenage daughter on his own. Witty, surprising and full of intriguing mysteries, explore the fascinating intersection where human dilemmas and super-science collide in all 18 episodes of Eureka: Season Three.
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.
Top Level Categories for Thor: The Dark World [Blu-ray].


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