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The legend of the Bura Wind
November 29, 2017 by tanyatravels, posted in Adriatic, Bura Wind, wind
There's something people talk about here as if it's a human entity: the Bura Wind.
In Croatia, it's a fierce force, just like the Boreas character from Greek mythology. The mythological story goes that Boreas was the god of the north wind and of winter. He fell in love with the Athenian princess Orithyia. But when charm got him nowhere, he became angry, kidnapped her and made her his wife. A real charmer, that Boreas.
Even today, the Bura Wind (also known as Bora) can be violent, sometimes bringing gale force that can close highways, keep sailors and ferries at harbor, rip trees from their soil and blow tiles from rooftops.
This dry northern wind also has a good side. It can blow away clouds. My landlord tells me the Bura Wind can be cleansing. I tried to explain (in my English/Croatian/pantomime) that we were beginning to see mold inside on the concrete walls on north side of the house, and I was using bleach to clean it. He told me the Bura Wind would solve the problem. He said I must wait for the dry wind to come so I can air out the apartment, but I must be careful not to open windows on a cloudy day and bring in too much draft (propuh). Forget dehumidifiers or cleaning products, he seemed to be saying. Leave it to the wind.
The old women who sell cheese at the market say the Bura Wind is good for flavor. It brings sea air to the grass that sheep graze on and saltiness to the cheese. But it's not just for cheese, they say. It's also essential for Dalmatian dry-cured prosciutto (pršut). The market women credit the wind for bringing the region these delicacies.
They also talk of the Bura Wind being light and dark. Everyone loves the light one that brings clear skies. The dark one brings rain and clouds. Bura also has an opposite, "Jugo," which blows from the sea to the land and just brings junk. They wait for a light Bura day to hang their laundry.
Their old wives' tales don't stop there. This Bura Wind must help shopkeepers sell a lot of scarves. The women here don't expose the backs of their necks to the wind for fear of getting sick. I remember buying scarves on a trip to Europe years ago, and I wondered if they would be out of fashion. I've discovered scarves are not a trend here. They are a way of life when the temperature dips.
There's no Bura Wind today in our Zadar region of Croatia. It's chilly, cloudy and rainy with a light breeze from the south-southeast. It's not quite the southwesterly "junk" air, but it's close. Today's pretty dreary. We might get a few Bura gusts tomorrow.
With any luck, that fierce Boreas will clear out the clouds. Just like Old Man Winter, Father Frost or Jack Frost, the Bura Wind is bound to make an appearance any day now. He'll bite our noses and give us a chill, and we'll know that winter is coming.
Tagged Bora, Boreas, Croatia, Croatian, dry wind, Father Frost, God of the North Wind, God of Winter, Greek mythology, Jack Frost, Jugo, junk wind, Legend of the Bura Wind, north wind, northern wind, Old Man Winter, superstitions, winter, winter is coming12 Comments
Easy for you to say
November 11, 2017 by tanyatravels, posted in bus tour, Croatia, Dubrovnik, Montenegro, Slovenia
When we moved to Croatia, I had a hard time pronouncing the simplest things. Even the name of our seaside town, Zadar, seemed simple enough. "Zah-DHAR" seemed right. The local pronunciation is more like "ZAH-der."
My kids are wondering when I'm ever going to advance beyond my toddler-level Croatian vocabulary. The boys tell me to look at the accent marks to figure out if a "c" is hard or soft, or if a "d" is supposed to sound like a "j." The alphabet has no "q," "w," "x" or "y." I feel proud of myself when I can run daily errands speaking only the local language. I'm sure I'm mangling what little I know.
That hasn't stopped me from playing tour guide for family and friends in cities I can barely pronounce.
(sounds like "plit-vi-che")
My aunt from Las Vegas said she could have spent her whole vacation at this national park. It was the height of autumn's color show, and the leaves made October the perfect time to visit the park with its 16 terraced lakes linked by waterfalls. It was a different world from the summer crowds, and each time I've been there, I've seen it in a new light. It's a must-see if you are coming to Croatia.
(sounds like "dew-broav-nik")
All of our American visitors have put the walled city of Dubrovnik among the top of the list of places to see in Croatia. It's a stop for many cruise ships, and it's becoming ever popular for its Hollywood factor as the setting for "King's Landing" in the HBO series "Game of Thrones" and the new movie "Star Wars: The Last Jedi." The highlight of my last trip there was walking the medieval city walls and seeing the sea of red-tiled house tops below on the edge of the Adriatic. We also stopped for drinks at Café Buza. The name means "hole in the wall," and you walk through a hobbit-like door down cliffside steps to get there.
(sounds like "mon-ti-nayg-roh")
This country in the Balkans was a day trip from Dubrovnik on our Gate 1 Travel bus tour. We visited the Bay of Kotor and the touristy Kotor Old Town. This is the first European city I've been to where the outskirts overshadowed the old town. My favorite part was a boat ride out to Our Lady of the Rocks, a church that pays tribute to the sailors and the women who prayed for their safe return.
(sounds like "puhl-a")
Coming here with a local guide on our bus tour meant I learned some things about this Roman town on Croatia's Istrian Peninsula that I would not have known without a guide. I'd been there once before and had been telling people that it has one of the best-preserved colosseums in the world. The guide corrected that. She said the word "colosseum" is reserved for the one in Rome. What Pula has, she said, is a Roman amphitheater. And it's spectacular.
(sounds like "ro-veen")
I've heard people say that coming to Croatia can be like a trip to Italy without the crowds or the cost. In Rovinj, that's true. It's said to be the most Italian town in Croatia, and its cobblestone streets are as picturesque as they are treacherous (pack shoes than can handle slick pavement). Our bus tour made a quick side trip here, and I'd wished they had given us more time to wander around. Artists and locals still live along the old town's steep streets, and every stop along the way looks like a postcard.
(sounds like "rad-oh-leets-ah")
This Slovenian town outside Bled was one of the last opportunities for an extra day trip on our bus tour of Croatia and Slovenia. I don't think I ever would have discovered it on my own. It's a tiny and enchanting medieval place in the heart of the Slovenian Alps, and I could hear others on my tour talking about how it looked like something from a movie set with its Renaissance and Gothic architecture and painted facades on old buildings. We stopped for wine tasting and a Bavarian-type dinner at a tavern that felt like a throwback to another era.
I may not be able to remember or pronounce their names, but all of these places made for memorable spots to check off my bucket list.
Dovidenja ("doh-vee-jeh-nyah"), Plitvice, Dubrovnik, Montenegro, Pula, Rovinj and Radovljica. Goodbye, for now. I hope to be back.
Tagged bay of kotor, Cafe Buza, Croatian, Game of Thrones, Gate1Travel, HBO series, King's Landing, language, Our Lady of the Rocks, Plitvice National Park, pronunciation, Pula, Radovljica, Rovinj, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, tour guide, vocabulary6 Comments
Reuniting with my family's Bosnian exchange student
September 19, 2017 by tanyatravels, posted in Bosnia
The last time I saw my parents' Bosnian exchange student, we were living in our own self-absorbed worlds. I was 25, working as a sports writer at USA Today near Washington, D.C., and going through a bad breakup. She was 18, living in Kentucky with my parents, and homesick and traumatized by war.
I didn't get to know her much mostly because I wasn't around. My memories of her were from stories my parents and younger sisters told of their adventures together, circa 1995, when Sabina was attending high school at my alma mater, Notre Dame Academy, an all-girls school in Park Hills, Ky.
At the time, I didn't grasp what she must have been going through. She grew up in Tuzla in northern Bosnia, a city that lost more than 250,000 people as the former Yugoslavia erupted in to chaos in the early 1990s. She was a Muslim whose parents got her out of a war zone by sending her to live in the States and go to a Catholic school. My parents took her to Mass on Sundays and home to the suburbs. It must have been so surreal for her. In the pre-email era, she was cut off from communication with her friends and family, except for occasional phone calls and whatever she got in the mail.
I never actually heard the stories of her war experiences and what became of her life until a few days ago – 21 years after I last saw her – when she and her son welcomed me and my two sons for a weekend visit in Sarajevo.
Even before she learned through Facebook that my family was coming to live in nearby Croatia, she had invited us to come and stay with her. When I realized she was only a five-hour drive away, we made plans for a reunion. Even though I was only a peripheral part of her American experience, I got the sense that she wanted to give back to my family and host us.
She warned me that Bosnia was a country without real highways. Still, I was excited to rent an automatic car for a weekend and set off for the Balkans. I didn't realize my GPS would take me on a gravel road over the mountains to get there. My 11-year-old asked if we should turn around when we got to a narrow off-roading section near the Bosnian border. But we kept going because I didn't know how else to get there. I only later read that there are some stretches of road considered "God said good night" (God-forsaken) areas. Luckily, we navigated them while it was still daylight.
When we got to Sarajevo, Sabina greeted us outside her tall, Soviet-era apartment building in the residential area across the river from where she works at the American Embassy. She told me the place she lives now is similar to the building where she used to live in Tuzla during the war, where they would go to the basement during air raids and had no water or electricity and little food. She recalled a time in her teens when her friends all went out to a neighborhood gathering spot and she happened to stay home. More than 70 people were gunned down that day as the Serbs attacked the Muslims, including some of her friends. The town held a mass memorial service so neighbors could gather in safety in the dark of night.
My weekend was an education about a war that I didn't pay much attention to in my 20s. Ironically, I didn't know my husband yet then. He was tuned in because he was an American soldier. When Sabina returned to Bosnia, she worked as a translator for the Army in Tuzla at the same base where my husband was working as an Army medic. It struck me how different their world experiences were from mine during that time of our lives. They were experiencing life and death when I was just out of college and felt like I was just beginning mine. I didn't consider the world's problems mine.
Sabina took us to war and history museums and to the Tunnel of Hope, a wartime tunnel built to smuggle food, war supplies and humanitarian aid into the city of Sarajevo. She set me up with a Sarajevo city tour guide, Raza, who also had a personal story that struck me. Raza was 11 when the war started. Her younger brother had a learning disability, and his teachers wanted to send him to live with professors in Germany to escape the war. They sent Raza as his caretaker. She and her brother were in Germany for three years, and it changed the course of her life. She speaks German like it's her mother tongue and English almost as well. She found strength during a time that could have broken her. And she returned to Bosnia because her mother wanted her to come back. As she told me her story, I thought of my own boys, the same age she and her brother were during the war. Could I have left my boys in Germany for three years to escape the war while my husband and I stayed behind? What horrific choices people had to make not so long ago.
Only a couple of decades after the war, we toured a once-burned and now restored Sarajevo City Hall and a history museum filled with before and after pictures and heartbreaking items, like a bloody sweater from a young boy struck and killed by a bullet that first hit his mother.
Sabina showed us some cheerful spots, too – a festival going on in her neighborhood, a restaurant where a celebrity chef was doing the cooking, a hilltop overlook where the kids rode a roller coaster. My 10- and 11-year-old boys were enthralled with her 14-year-old son, who had his own green screen, YouTube channel and 300+ followers.
As our boys became friends, Sabina and I reminisced about her time in America, her experiences with my family, our fondness for the late Sister Mary Reina (who encouraged us both to pursue our interests in art), and the coincidences that brought us together again.
I wished my parents could have been on the trip to see Sabina now and have some closure on whatever became of their exchange student. They hadn't kept in touch much in the last couple of decades. They weren't sure what happened to the group of exchange students who came to Kentucky in 1995.
I was glad to talk to my mom last night and tell her Sabina turned out to have a good life. Her experience in America made a real difference. She learned fluent English during her year abroad, and it helped her establish a thriving career doing work for government agencies. My parents should be proud of their contributions and being a safe haven during a time of war. I might not have been paying much attention then. But I'm glad I tuned back in to see Sabina's happy ending.
Tagged air raids, Bosnian war, Catholic, Croatian, exchange student, gravel roads, Herzegovina, mountain roads, Muslim, Sarajevo, Serbs, Sernan, Tunnel of Hope, war52 Comments
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Findings Reveal Hundreds of Mutated Genes Could Contribute to Cerebral Palsy: International Study Will Allow Physicians to Identify Genetic Cause of Cerebral Palsy for Many
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A new study provides the first strong statistical and laboratory evidence that a large proportion of cerebral palsy cases are caused by mutations in a single gene. These findings will directly inform clinical care by improving physicians' ability to identify the cause of an individual's cerebral palsy, which will provide closure for families, guide preventative health care and can even alter the course of treatment.
Michael Kruer, MD is chair of the International Cerebral Palsy Genomics Consortium. Dr. Kruer coordinated the study as part of an ongoing worldwide collaboration and served as Senior Author. (Image: University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix)
The study, directed by Michael Kruer, MD, an associate professor of Child Health, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix and director of the Cerebral Palsy and Pediatric Movement Disorders Program at Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, featured more than 70 collaborators who came together from institutions across the globe. These included researchers at Phoenix Children's Hospital, Washington University, Yale University, Rockefeller University, the University of Adelaide in South Australia, the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and many others. Findings were published on Sept. 28 in Nature Genetics.Cerebral palsy (CP) is a core neurodevelopmental disorder that affects an estimated 1 in 250 children. Historically, medical experts have known that CP occurs due to factors such as prematurity, an infection or a lack of oxygen to the developing brain. However, as many as one-third of people with CP may not have these risk factors. For many of these individuals, their CP may be due to a genetic mutation.
UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix postdoctoral fellow Sara Lewis, PhD, one of the study's lead authors, emphasized that the team's findings represent a shift in how scientists think about CP. "Studies like this are creating new opportunities for how cerebral palsy can be studied and understood. Long term, we hope this can improve patient treatment and lead to the development of new interventions."
Researchers performed whole exome sequencing in 250 parent-offspring trios from centers in the U.S., China and Australia. The study discovered that 14 percent of the cases in their cohort could be attributed to genetic mutations. Dr. Kruer said that this was a conservative estimation, and the number may be higher. In comparison, lack of oxygen at birth is currently estimated to account for about 10 percent of CP cases.
Through this research, scientists found a strong signal for de novo mutations. These spontaneous changes in DNA are not found in either mother or father, but arise shortly before or after conception. This explains why most families have just one child with CP, yet genetics play an important role.
Sara Lewis, PhD (Image: University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix)
"Our data indicates there are likely to be hundreds of different genes that may lead to CP when a mutation develops within them," Dr. Kruer said. "Instead of mapping to inflammation and blood clotting as most research with CP has focused on, these genes indicate that fundamental changes in early brain development (the way neurons form intricate webs or circuits with one another) are important as well."
Somayeh Bakhtiari, PhD, another of the study's lead authors and postdoctoral fellow at the UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, said "the study identified several genes in CP patients that were previously implicated in other neurodevelopmental disorders such as epilepsy, intellectual disability and autism. This overlap mirrors what is seen clinically and epidemiologically, indicating connections between different disorders of development."
The paper also reported the discovery of two new genes that lead to CP when they carry mutations, RHOB and FBXO31, and also implicated several dozen additional genes that await final confirmation.
"I had a nagging sense that we were missing something years ago in regards to our understanding of CP, and that if we could better understand causes, we could develop better treatments. These findings provide a foundation for that work," Dr. Kruer said.
Dr. Lewis added that these findings open up new research directions. "As a result of these studies, we have developed new animal models of genetic CP and are keenly interested in common pathways that seem to be affected, altering brain development."
Experiments in the paper included studies of fruit flies with mutations in the same genes found in the human patients. "The fly studies tell us that finding cerebral palsy genes is more than a hypothetical exercise — altering these genes can change how organisms move," said Lewis.
Dr. Kruer said that in genetic studies, there is power in numbers. They are partnering with patients, families and cerebral palsy centers of excellence through the Cerebral Palsy Research Network to do a follow-up study. International collaborations through the International Cerebral Palsy Genomics Consortium will also serve as a powerful resource for future research.
"We believe this is only the start of what we will be able to uncover, and genetics is just the beginning," Dr. Kruer said. "There is an awful lot of neurobiology to understand and many challenges that we'll encounter in trying to improve the lives of people with CP, but now at least we have a roadmap."
Founded in 2007, the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix inspires and trains exemplary physicians, scientists and leaders to optimize health and health care in Arizona and beyond. By cultivating collaborative research locally and globally, the college accelerates discovery in a number of critical areas — including cancer, stroke, traumatic brain injury and cardiovascular disease. Championed as a student-centric campus, the college has graduated 593 physicians, all of whom received exceptional training from nine clinical partners and more than 2,400 diverse faculty members. As the anchor to the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, which is projected to have an economic impact of $3.1 billion by 2025, the college prides itself on engaging with the community, fostering education, inclusion, access and advocacy.
SOURCE: https://phoenixmed.arizona.edu/newsroom/news/findings-reveal-hundreds-mutated-genes-could-contribute-cerebral-palsy
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package com.ameliant.tools.kafka.perftool.drivers;

import com.ameliant.tools.zookeeper.testdsl.EmbeddedZooKeeper;
import com.ameliant.tools.kafka.testdsl.EmbeddedKafkaBroker;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * @author jkorab
 */
public class ProducerPartitioningTest {

    public static final String FOO = "foo";
    public static final String BAR = "bar";
    public static final String BAZ = "baz";

    @Rule
    public EmbeddedZooKeeper zooKeeper = new EmbeddedZooKeeper();

    @Rule
    public EmbeddedKafkaBroker broker = EmbeddedKafkaBroker.builder()
            .zookeeperConnect("127.0.0.1:" + zooKeeper.getPort())
            .topic(FOO)
                .partitions(3)
            .end()
            .topic(BAR)
                .partitions(1)
            .end()
            .topic(BAZ)
                .partitions(2)
            .end()
            .build();

    @Test
    public void testSend_roundRobin() throws InterruptedException {
        int numConsumers = 3;
        int numProducers = 1;

        DistributionValidator validator = new DistributionValidator(broker);
        validator.validateRoundRobinDistribution(new DistributionRun(FOO, numProducers, numConsumers));
    }

    @Test
    public void testSend_roundRobin_multiProducer() throws InterruptedException {
        int numConsumers = 3;
        int numProducers = 2;

        DistributionValidator validator = new DistributionValidator(broker);
        validator.validateRoundRobinDistribution(new DistributionRun(FOO, numProducers, numConsumers));
    }

    @Test
    public void testSend_roundRobin_multiTopic() throws InterruptedException {
        DistributionValidator validator = new DistributionValidator(broker);
        validator.validateRoundRobinDistribution(
                new DistributionRun(FOO, 1, 3)
                        .uniqueKeys(2)
                        .expectedConsumersWithoutMessages(0),
                new DistributionRun(BAR, 1, 1)
                        .uniqueKeys(2)
                        .expectedConsumersWithoutMessages(0)
        );
    }

    @Test
    public void testSend_sticky() throws InterruptedException {
        int numConsumers = 3;
        int numProducers = 1;

        DistributionValidator validator = new DistributionValidator(broker);
        validator.validateStickyDistribution(new DistributionRun(FOO, numProducers, numConsumers)
                .expectedConsumersWithoutMessages(1));
    }

    @Test
    public void testSend_sticky_multiProducer() throws InterruptedException {
        int numConsumers = 3;
        int numProducers = 2;

        DistributionValidator validator = new DistributionValidator(broker);
        // two consumers should receive half of the messages each
        validator.validateStickyDistribution(new DistributionRun(FOO, numProducers, numConsumers)
                .expectedConsumersWithoutMessages(1));
    }

    @Test
    public void testSend_sticky_multiTopic() throws InterruptedException {
        DistributionValidator validator = new DistributionValidator(broker);
        validator.validateStickyDistribution(
                new DistributionRun(FOO, 1, 3)
                        .uniqueKeys(2)
                        .expectedConsumersWithoutMessages(1), // evenly partition - one consumer gets nothing (2 keys)
                new DistributionRun(BAR, 1, 2)
                        .uniqueKeys(2)
                        .expectedConsumersWithoutMessages(1), // one consumer blocked
                new DistributionRun(BAZ, 1, 2)
                        .uniqueKeys(2).expectedConsumersWithoutMessages(0) // evenly partitioned
        );
    }

}

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Q: How to host a Laravel website on Netlify? I'm trying to host my Laravel website on Netlify.
I was originally using Laravel Forge to deploy and host my website.
The deploy script that was used on Laravel forge was:
cd /home/forge/lucaban.com
git pull origin master
composer install --no-interaction --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader
echo "" | sudo -S service php7.1-fpm reload

if [ -f artisan ]
then
    php artisan migrate --force
fi

Is there any way I can host the website on Netlify and run these composer commands? Because I think I can only insert NodeJS commands into the build command input.
I have not yet succeeded getting my website live...

A: You cannot host a laravel site on Netlify.  Check out https://jamstack.org for more about the philosophy behind Netlify's hosting service.
While you can use php in the build environment (composer install should work, though you may want to set PHP_VERSION to 7.2 since the default is 5.6), the build process is intended to create static output files - html, css, js, images, etc - which Netlify can then serve from its CDN without running any more code on the server side.  While the comparison is not quite perfect, imagine that the output from your build (limited to 15 minutes and no incoming network connections) is a bunch of files, which are stored on S3 and served as-is.  So if you end up with file.php - Netlify would show, not run, the code in the file.
You cannot host a laravel, wordpress, drupal, magento, etc site on Netlify, though it is Netlify and the JAMstack movement's assertion that you don't need a legacy website that runs code at every visit to run much of the web and that there is great value in reducing the dynamic portions of a website to small services, such as form-handling or lambda functions.  Here's a case study on a customer who migrated their site from wordpress to Netlify and includes authentication, comments, and e-commerce:   https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/03/16/smashing-magazine-just-got-10x-faster/

A: You may want to have look at Vapor which is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel:
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Daniels Up For The Challenge
4 Feb 5, 2014 - 05:30 pm
By Lunga Adam
Bloemfontein Celtic defender, Clayton Daniels, has defended his decision to sign a pre-contract with SuperSport United, saying he is going to Tshwane to fight for a place in the team.
The Bishop Lavis-born player has been at Celtic since the beginning of the season, after he signed from Mamelodi Sundowns where he fell out of favour with Pitso Mosimane.
Critics believe his move to Matsatsantsa a Pitori will backfire, as they are looking stable in central defence and he is enjoying his game under Ernst Middendorp. However, 'Hare', as he is affectionately known, says he has nothing to worry about.
He told the Siya crew, "Ja, even when I moved from Ajax Cape Town to Sundowns, I knew Sundowns is a big team and I was going to fight with big players. Me, I'm always willing for a challenge. Even coming to Celtic, I knew they have good quality players and that I have to work hard and fight for my position.
"It's not like I come and my position is secure and I'm relaxed. No, I'm not like that. I'm not that kind of character. I'm a character that comes to work every day, does his best and puts everything on the table. That's it."
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Training Log Archive: MikeS
In the 30 days ending Apr 30, 2013:
Running 26 24:05:09 208.52 (6:56) 335.58 (4:18) 3932
Strength & conditioning 10 4:05:00
Total 36 28:10:09 208.52 335.58 3932
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Tuesday Apr 30, 2013 #
(rest day)
Early start, in London all day, pub trip, no running.
Monday Apr 29, 2013 #
Running 1:00:02 intensity: (18:12 @2) + (40:52 @3) + (58 @4) 8.39 mi (7:10 / mi) +214m 6:38 / mi
ahr:131 max:147 shoes: New Balance 1080 (4) (9)
Still struggling to get back into a running groove, and the cold isn't helping. But nonetheless I enjoyed myself and it was a lovely evening.
Sunday Apr 28, 2013 #
Running 59:30 intensity: (21:46 @2) + (37:44 @3) 7.6 mi (7:50 / mi) +273m 7:03 / mi
The cold has arrived. Banging headache for the duration of this run, although alcohol may also have played a small part in that. A leisurely cruise around Rivelin. Legs feeling good.
Saturday Apr 27, 2013 #
Running 44:33 intensity: (18:57 @2) + (22:00 @3) + (3:34 @4) + (2 @5) 6.23 mi (7:09 / mi) +172m 6:35 / mi
Out early for a short run. Still got this annoying cough, which doesn't seem to be affecting my chest, and hasn't yet developed into a cold. Not too bothered as I'm just ticking over.
Then I volunteered at the parkrun. Got the important job of one of the barcode scanners, and we had a record attendance of 498 so it was quite a busy shift. Enjoyed helping out, and had a lot of people recognise me and ask why I wasn't running!
C • 498 ! 2
Friday Apr 26, 2013 #
Short run round the block. Legs OK, but throat and chest not so. HR quite high as well. Not as well recovered as I'd though!
Thursday Apr 25, 2013 #
I was planning on a run this evening, but got stuck late at work trying (and failing) to make a cash flow balance. Also feeling a little bit under the weather. Might try and get out tomorrow. Legs feel pretty much recovered.
C • If Sprotty can't make a cas... 4
Wednesday Apr 24, 2013 #
Feel like I could manage a run so going to have one more day off and go for a curry instead.
C • Good 2
Legs a bit sore, but nowhere near as bad as they have been after other marathons. More than happy to do nothing today other than reflect on yesterday's race.
Overall, I'm still really happy. I refused to leave London without a pb this year, and I succeeded in that aim. However, I'm still a long way off the sub 2.40 I ultimately want to achieve, which is making me consider whether that's even possible.
I did play very conservatively to make sure I got a pb, and even when I went through halfway slightly behind schedule, it felt so easy that I still thought a negative split was an on. But the tiredness hits you quickly and I dropped off a bit in the last few miles. However, the difference between the two halves is the lowest I've managed since my first ever marathon, which is encouraging.
(2009: 81.40 / 82.48)
So I basically need to run the first half two minutes faster, without it feeling any harder, and then only fade by 90 seconds in the second half, and that's 2.40. Simple!
Anyway, plenty of time to think about whether I fancy another go.
Event: London marathon
Running race 2:43:00 intensity: (43 @2) + (54:44 @3) + (1:47:32 @4) + (1 @5) 26.21 mi (6:13 / mi) +248m 6:02 / mi
ahr:145 max:155 shoes: Asics Gel Hyperspeed (4) (8.5)
A new pb, ran a controlled race but just couldn't quite hold the pace at the end.
5k 19.00
10k 19.10
Half 1.20.35
Finish 2.43.03
C • Top Man 9
Running 29:08 intensity: (24:46 @2) + (4:22 @3) 4.01 mi (7:16 / mi) +38m 7:04 / mi
From the hotel straight to the Houses of Parliament, then ran Birdcage Walk and The Mall at marathon pace. I would love it to feel that easy tomorrow! Then to Hyde Park corner and back to the hotel through Victoria. Felt great, really excited about tomorrow. Ready to go and smash it!
C • Yes 4
Strength & conditioning 10:00 [2]
A bit of stretching in the gym.
Running 42:55 intensity: (19:48 @2) + (20:38 @3) + (2:29 @4) 6.22 mi (6:54 / mi) +170m 6:21 / mi
Usual loop before heading back down to London. Pleased to feel refreshed after a complete day off, and not sluggish which is sometimes the result.
C • bon chance 10
In London with work. And a good time to have a complete rest day. Made it out to the expo and got registered (number 631).
Running 9:31 intensity: (8:04 @2) + (1:01 @3) + (10 @4) + (16 @5) 1.26 mi (7:32 / mi) +11m 7:20 / mi
Lap of the bowl.
Running 35:26 intensity: (16:52 @2) + (13:29 @3) + (5:05 @4) 5.39 mi (6:34 / mi) +12m 6:32 / mi
2 * 1 mile at marathon pace with 400m recovery and 5 * 400m at 10k pace with 200m recovery.
5.50 (AHR 131)
5.54 (AHR 137
Lap of Attercliffe to warm down. Feeling good. Ready to go.
Core and strength.
Running 43:50 intensity: (28:20 @2) + (14:11 @3) + (1:19 @4) 6.2 mi (7:04 / mi) +167m 6:31 / mi
Before work. Nice and steady.
Running 26:59 intensity: (14:58 @2) + (11:00 @3) + (13 @4) + (48 @5) 4.0 mi (6:44 / mi) +98m 6:16 / mi
Around the block. Included 5 * 30 second intervals.
Core and strength work.
Running 19:03 intensity: (10:59 @2) + (8:01 @3) + (3 @4) 2.76 mi (6:54 / mi) +13m 6:48 / mi
Home to Don Valley.
Running 37:29 intensity: (3:56 @2) + (3:53 @3) + (24:16 @4) + (5:24 @5) 6.27 mi (5:59 / mi) +32m 5:53 / mi
Two laps of the tempo loop. Crazy strong headwind on Hawke Street and Attercliffe Road, a bit like it was in Vegas. So rather than the nice consistent mile pace of last week, I was having to work hard to maintain marathon pace into the wind, and then still work hard with the wind to catch up the time I'd lost into the wind - mile 4 in 6.09 followed by mile 5 in 5.48! As a result average HR a littler higher than last week. Still a good run out, hope the wind isn't this strong next Sunday!
Running 19:16 intensity: (1:50 @2) + (16:04 @3) + (1:22 @4) 2.73 mi (7:04 / mi) +57m 6:38 / mi
Home from Don Valley.
Running 19:45 intensity: (15:02 @2) + (3:53 @3) + (25 @4) + (25 @5) 2.66 mi (7:26 / mi) +73m 6:51 / mi
Down to parkrun with Rich.
Running 16:51 intensity: (1:20 @2) + (34 @3) + (7:14 @4) + (7:43 @5) 3.12 mi (5:24 / mi) +47m 5:10 / mi
Sheffield Hallam parkrun, 1st.
Set off hard chasing Carl, then we eased off on the second climb. Got a gap on the second descent, but then lost it all when I binned ten seconds trying to get round (and nearly getting crushed by) a van that was blocking the road down past the tennis centre. Pulled away again a little by the end.
Running 42:48 intensity: (23:38 @2) + (19:10 @3) 5.46 mi (7:50 / mi) +149m 7:13 / mi
Run home with Adam.
Core and stretching.
Lap of the bowl to warm up.
2 * 1 mile at marathon pace on the track (6.03 / 5.56).
Drills.
Warm down loop of Attercliffe.
Running 44:43 intensity: (29:09 @2) + (13:13 @3) + (1:32 @4) + (49 @5) 6.19 mi (7:13 / mi) +172m 6:39 / mi
Before work. Nice to see Andy C and catch up. Not too sore or too stiff after last night, so think I got the effort level about right.
Running 1:51 intensity: (30 @2) + (1:15 @3) + (6 @4) 0.17 mi (10:45 / mi) +22m 7:42 / mi
I thought the first SY 5 mile road league race was at Oxspring. I arrived at 6.20 to see no sign of any runners. Oh dear, not good. Checked the website. Notice posted on Saturday to say the venue had been changed to Lodge Moor. Bugger. Back in the car, drove across Sheffield as quickly as I could (within the speed limit of course) and arrived with only a few minutes to spare. Put on my shoes, ran to the start and got there just in time.
Running race 28:45 intensity: (2:56 @2) + (52 @3) + (24:53 @4) + (4 @5) 5.1 mi (5:38 / mi) +150m 5:10 / mi
SY 5 mile road league race 1, 4th place.
The adrenaline was pumping, and I started perhaps a little quicker than I had wanted. I had been unsure of how to run this race, but the fast start meant that I was going to have to keep going and run quite hard. I had no idea where the course went, so I was surprised when we turned right up Roper Hill and the switch backs. By this point the first three were out ahead, and I was in a pack with Scott, Zak, a Kimberworth runner and a Sheffield Tri runner. I was even more surprised when we turned left and dropped down Andwell Lane into Mayfield Valley. I let the other runners get a little gap as I didn't want to destroy my quads on the down, but I caught and passed them all on the climb on the other side. Zak and Scott came back to me and we ran together for the rest of the race. As we turned right onto Redmires Road Scott dropped back slightly, and then I was strong enough to just edge ahead of Zak over the last 200m. Ran hard but without killing myself, felt strong, especially on the hills, but not got the speed on the flatter sections.
The next race is next Wedmesday. I quite fancy running it, but would do it at marathon pace and not push too hard.
C • next Wednesday 5
Running 12:16 [2] 1.42 mi (8:40 / mi) +20m 8:18 / mi
Warm down jog, first bit with Scott. Finished just as the rain(!!) started.
Tuesday Apr 9, 2013 #
Running 1:00:56 intensity: (50:52 @2) + (10:00 @3) + (4 @4) 8.46 mi (7:12 / mi) +225m 6:39 / mi
Before work. Bumped into Paul, long time no see.
Monday Apr 8, 2013 #
HFW.
Sunday Apr 7, 2013 #
Running 59:22 intensity: (5:04 @0) + (45 @2) + (38:55 @3) + (14:38 @4) 10.0 mi (5:56 / mi) +72m 5:48 / mi
Three laps of the Attercliffe loop plus two laps of the track to make it up to ten miles. Ended up running just under marathon pace, but the real aim for today was to run at a level that felt comfortable and that I could hold. The pace was consistent throughout, as was my HR, which meant I was maintaing the pace without an increase in effort. Sped up a little at the end on the track. Just need to do that for 20 miles in two weeks time.
Running 21:24 intensity: (4:40 @2) + (16:40 @3) + (4 @4) 3.0 mi (7:08 / mi) +77m 6:36 / mi
Home from Don Valley. Job done. Bring on the marathon.
Saturday Apr 6, 2013 #
Running 19:20 intensity: (13:17 @2) + (1:16 @3) + (1:37 @4) + (3:10 @5) 2.67 mi (7:14 / mi) +72m 6:41 / mi
Down to parkrun with Rich and Dave. Rich was racing, Dave was going to be pacemaker for Kim.
Running 16:50 intensity: (1:03 @2) + (43 @3) + (14:42 @4) + (22 @5) 3.06 mi (5:30 / mi) +46m 5:15 / mi
Sheffield Hallam parkrun, 1st place.
Out at the front on my own from the start. Ended up running comfortably hard rather than really pushing myself. Dave successfully paced Kim to a considerable pb, and either just under or just over the ultimate target of 20 minutes.
Running 46:07 intensity: (2:29 @0) + (30:15 @2) + (13:23 @3) 6.19 mi (7:27 / mi) +185m 6:49 / mi
Run home with Rich, Dave and Adam for the first part. From Broomhill ran over the top of Crookes and past Dave's new house.
Friday Apr 5, 2013 #
Running 45:15 intensity: (36:03 @2) + (9:12 @3) 6.21 mi (7:17 / mi) +170m 6:43 / mi
Before work.
Thursday Apr 4, 2013 #
Running 1:01:07 intensity: (41:59 @2) + (11:37 @3) + (32 @4) + (6:59 @5) 8.35 mi (7:19 / mi) +203m 6:48 / mi
Wednesday Apr 3, 2013 #
Running 6:17 [2] 0.92 mi (6:50 / mi) +6m 6:42 / mi
Work to Don Valley.
Running 39:55 intensity: (15:33 @2) + (5:03 @3) + (13:37 @4) + (5:42 @5) 6.41 mi (6:14 / mi) +2m 6:13 / mi
Yasso 800s. 10 * 800m with 200m recovery (c. 90 seconds). The Hallamshire session was 6 * 800m so ran with the group for these, then struck out on my own for the last four.
2.34, 2.35, 2.35, 2.34, 2.34
More than happy with that. Knew I had to be feeling nice and strong after the first six, which I was, and then I was able to keep up the pace on the last four, although it got a bit harder towards the end.
A lap of Attercliffe and then back to work.
Steady on the roads. Took a little while to warm up and get rid of the stiffness from yesterday. A little niggle in the right hip to watch.


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Fight Hunger by Fighting Poverty and Powerlessness
By Andrew Fisher
Tim Cook, for The Chronicle
A few years ago, just as the holiday season was underway, my third-grade son, Orion, came home one afternoon quite excited: "There's a food drive in my school. The class that brings in the heaviest food and raises the most money will win a pizza party." He promptly started scouring the cabinets for the heaviest food we had. We gave him a few cans of beans to take to class the next day.
A week or so later, as I was headed out to the grocery store, he urgently implored me to pick up some more heavy food, as other classes seemed to be ahead of his. He really wanted that pizza party.
As I was at the grocery store considering the dollar-to-pound ratio of foods to purchase for his classroom bin, I realized that the food drive was a microcosm of the fundamental weakness of the charitable food system: it was all about the number of pounds distributed.
Food banks typically measure their success by the weight of the food they distribute and the number of people they serve. The heavier the food, the better. The more people they serve, the more successful they appear to be.
I have run into this problem head-on in my own work experience. As the interim leader of a small gleaning group in Portland, Ore., I found it difficult to convince grant makers to consider indicators other than the weight of the fruit we picked.
Yet, pounds distributed and people served are not outcome measures but outputs. They do not assess impact. Most important, they fail to recognize that food is the solution to hunger only in the most illusory and temporary of ways. It fails to resolve the underlying problems that lead people to lack sufficient food in the first place.
Peacekeepers know that a truce does not mean there is peace. Health professionals know that the absence of disease does not mean a person is healthy. Likewise, giving away a bag of food may end today's hunger but doesn't deal with the underlying causes that led the individual to be in that unfortunate situation. Hunger is a symptom of poverty, itself linked to powerlessness.
Perpetuating Charity
A bag of groceries is a measly substitute for increased political power. Yet, if all food charity does is treat today's hunger but not its underlying causes, charity fosters its own self-perpetuation. A free box of food every month keeps people at hunger's edge, doing little to help them avoid coming back the next month. The anti-hunger field has become a hunger-maintenance industry.
And food charities have gone far beyond simple survival. Food charity has been growing by leaps and bounds since the early 1980's, when modest food-distribution efforts came into being to help workers laid off by a recession.
Last year in the Feeding America food-banking network alone, more than 200 food banks served food pantries, and soup kitchens that provided 46 million people in the United States with four billion meals. Anti-hunger charities continue to grow by popular demand: Volunteers and donors feel good about "solving hunger." Food companies earn a tax write-off and a halo effect from their donations. Conservative policy makers see charity as a way to help privatize our national response to hunger. And CEO's of food banks earn nice bonuses on top of their $200,000 salaries when they exceed poundage goals.
Oppression and Racism
The anti-hunger industry grows because entrenched interests profit from it, not because it helps the poor. Poor people are just the pass-through, suffering death by a thousand cuts to their dignity every time they need to pick up food to help them get by to the end of the month. Their health may suffer as well, as they receive the downstream detritus of the processed-food industry.
As a white middle-class volunteer at a food pantry in Portland, I often felt the oppression and racism inherent in the emergency-food system as I was encouraged to prevent low-income persons, often of color, from taking an extra can of tuna or package of frozen hamburgers. As someone who accepted emergency food for investigative purposes, I experienced the resentment that comes from being processed, scrutinized, and admonished. It is a system, to paraphrase Robert Egger, founder of the L.A. Kitchen and a longtime anti-hunger activist, that redeems the giver rather than liberates the receiver.
Food banks have become, in the words of a former East Coast food bank CEO, mainstream, rich, and respectable, akin to museums or hospitals as venerable institutions in their community. They have also become appendages of the food industry, recipients of their donations, waste, volunteers, and logistical support. I discovered that of 2,586 people who make up the boards of three-quarters of all the food banks affiliated with Feeding America, 22 percent worked for a Fortune 1000 company or its equivalent. (Only two worked for a labor union.)
It is not just the food industry that heavily supports food banks, but companies in virtually every part of the U.S. economy. In 2015, the 11 primary domestically oriented anti-hunger groups reported receiving food and cash from more than 150 corporations. Hunger relief has become quite a marketable cause because of the universal repugnance that people go hungry in the world's richest nation. Supporting feeding efforts is a safe way for corporations to enhance their reputations as caring companies, without threatening their profits.
To maintain their status as "mainstream, rich, and respectable," food banks all too often fail to address the causes of hunger, for fear of alienating their corporate donors and the individuals, from all political views, who make annual gifts.
Only a handful or two of the nation's 200 or more food banks advocate on anti-poverty policies such as minimum-wage increases, affordable housing, and the Affordable Care Act. For example, when the City Council in Washington, D.C., passed legislation in 2013 requiring that Walmart workers receive at least $12.50 an hour as a condition for the company's entry into the nation's capital, neither D.C. Hunger Solutions nor the Capital Area Community Food Bank, the two largest anti-hunger groups in the capital, both funded by Walmart, endorsed that bill.
This nexus between corporate America and anti-hunger groups has become a hunger-industrial complex, akin to the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about. There are few incentives to actually seek to end hunger, as it would be bad for business on all levels.
Corporate Money
Many anti-hunger groups will go to great lengths to gain and keep their access to corporate dollars.
In the case of Feeding America, it has encouraged cause-marketing partnerships with the food industry that promote efforts to feed the poor by encouraging people to buy more cookies, cheesecake, Snickers, and Pop-Tarts, amid a diabetes and obesity epidemic. Share Our Strength purports to end childhood hunger but doesn't actively support minimum-wage increases. Instead, the group receives funding from the National Restaurant Association, the main force lobbying against raising the tipped minimum wage for restaurant servers.
Hunger Free America runs, ironically, a "nutrition service corps" financed by … Pepsi. The Food Research and Action Center, the main anti-hunger lobbying organization, lobbies with the soda industry to ensure that recipients of the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs be allowed to continue purchasing soda under the SNAP program, benefiting the soda industry to the tune of roughly $6.5 billion every year. The center even requested that the Harvard School of Public Health refrain from publishing research results about the poor diet of SNAP recipients because the group believed those results were harming the passage of SNAP in the 2014 farm bill.
We can change the way things work today. That's what we should all resolve to do in the upcoming holiday season, when food pantries will be in the spotlight more than at any other time of the year:
Let's make food banks obsolete in the next 20 years, if not sooner. Achieving this will include developing new indicators of success. Food banks should set benchmarks, such as dedicating 10 percent of their budgets to policy advocacy and organizing by 2022. They should stop holding canned-food drives by the end of 2018, and pledge not to build larger warehouses. Foundation and corporate donors should commit to funding advocacy efforts that stomp out the causes of hunger, and refuse to support capital campaigns that build more food-bank facilities.
Anti-hunger groups should invest in leadership development to bring more current and former food-pantry clients and food-stamp recipients onto boards of directors and advisory committees. Donors need to tie funding not just to diversity goals but also to accountability goals.
We should build on the incredible amount of innovation by anti-hunger advocates. The Closing the Hunger Gap network, led by WhyHunger, shows how cutting-edge food banks are reinventing themselves to focus on distributing only healthy food, stomping out racial inequities in their networks, promoting economic-development strategies in cities and towns, and undertaking policy advocacy to tackle the root causes of hunger. This work needs to gain more visibility in the media and be more robustly funded.
We need to redefine what it means to "fight hunger." Let's refocus our efforts on promoting public health, ensuring economic justice, and democratizing the economy. Donors can help build alliances of people working to improve labor conditions, promote access to local food, fight poverty, and work in other ways to meet the needs of the nation's most vulnerable.
Andrew Fisher is co-founder of the Community Food Security Coalition — which stimulated the growth of the food movement —and ran it for 17 years. His book "Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups" was released in May 2017 by MIT Press.
A version of this article appeared in the December 5, 2017, issue.
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this was my uncle. he got killed when i was 7 in 1999.
now i can never see him again until i'm in heaven with him.
I do not have the email you seek. You might try SLDN.
Greetings, my name is Kevin and currently I am doing a class project on researching hate crimes. I am researching PFC Winchell because I wanted to search for any hate crimes in the military since I am going into service. I wanted to understand how…(Sorry I can not seem to find the right words to use). I just want more information on PFC Winchell so I can give an effective presentation to my class about how serious this problem is in our military.
The best source I can think of outside PFC Winchell's family is the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), headquartered in DC. Google them for the email address and phone. They have assisted Barry's mother and stepfather for years with legal assistance, and first pushed the officials at Fort Campbell to admit there was an actual hate crime on base. Barry's love, Calpurnia Addams, is online, too. She is in California pursuing a career in the entertainment industry, last I knew.
This story saddens me, I watched the movie this past weekend and it brought me to tears….it was so touching and sad at the same time…..touching as to what an amazing man Barry seemed to be and the loved him and Calpernia had for one another. I can not believe anyone would kill someone because of their sexual orientation…..I feel pitty for the guys that committed this crime and I just wish crimes like this were nonexistent. I live in Kansas City and will be going to see Barry's grave on July 6th…..If his family ever reads this I am very sorry for your loss, your son seemed to be amazing….
I visted Barry's grave on Sunday July 4th…wish those cowards would not have done what they did. Everytime I think about it it saddens me and makes me so mad….and to think one got out of prison already and is enjoying life? what is with our justice system?!
He looks so dear. I just saw Soldier's Girl last night. My heart is broken for Barry. I think Troy Garity did a very good job making me like him. Barry just followed his heart being a soldier and being with Calpernia. He didnt hurt anybody and still this happened to him. I want to do something for him and his memory. I hope Justin Fishers life is ruined (which it probably is after six years in jail and being the drunk bum he is) and that Calvin Glover serve on the better side of 25 years. At least. RIP Barry, hope you are in a better place.
the murderess still in jail?
It is sick that Fisher got off so easy. I think he was the main one who killed Winchell. Glover was just a weapon. I think Fisher did it because he was gay and he was jealous of Winchell because Winchell accepted his own homosexuality while Fisher was too much of a coward to come out of the closet. Barry Winchell probably could ahve made the world a better place but he was brutally murdered just because he was gay. It is so sad that someone's sexual orientation could cost them their life. All gay soldiers should look to Winchell for inspiration. Not just soldiers but everybody. It was brave of him to take such a huge risk for love and be with Calpernia Adams even though he knew homophobes would persecute him for not being heterosexual. I hope all gay men can be this brave. Winchell wasn't the only gay soldier to suffer for his sexuality, but this is one of the saddest stories.
It wasn't about a deliberate thought to be brave. The point here was that Barry Winchell was murdered because he had a capacity to love (which is LOST on so many people Gay or Straight). I don't think that he would have wanted to be the poster boy for the GLT movement because it wasn't about that for Calpernia and Barry. Even Calpernia's story was lost in this as she was just as much of a living victim as Barry is another soul who was not able presently, to freely love as he chose. This is not a "free" country. Being "free" has always had a damned price. It's no different to being black or whatever, this country is so faked up with it's "tears" for things that they do not understand. Barry's death was BECAUSE he was able to love and wasn't so insecure about it. This couple wanted to be an average couple with out being thrusted into the show pen in this way. Calpernia was only humiliated again as she was paled in the background once again. The media and every organization turned this into a political statement because they were against Clinton in the first place. If Clinton had any other policy that "failed" THEN that would have been the focal point of that year (the same as what they are dong to Obama). Folks are nothing more than pirranah's after their next bite and if I were Calpernia, I wouldn't trust anyone ever again. Barry more than likely would have married Calpernia and they would not have wanted their love to be the catalpult that this has been for so many careers and tons of money for organizations. It's wrong to view them in any other way. But as I am sure as Christ rose from the tombs that NO one will understand a thing that I am saying here. At the end of the day, the entire parade is BS and no one truly cares about the real humans who are left behind of this sick horror. Those who love Barry live with this loss every single day.
I've just watch the movie after 10 years, but Barry Winchell story brings a huge impact on my life in every level particularly in accepting myself as a Moslem gay and of Asian origin. I was crying over and over again at the end of the movie, and even at this moment. Why can't we just be our own self?. There are more stories of a brave gay,lesbian, Tran sexual and Bisexual around the globe but this one has it's own story to tell….and it inspired me to be strong, to be brave and to be true about my colors.God is not judging me like those homophobic toxic peoples do,Love is from God, and to be embrace it no matter who you are. There are saying, is God made mistake that we fall in love with the same gender? but as we know that God is never mistake….So don't judge us being GLBT!
I just can't stop crying, this is so sad for me I'm a transsexual woman, married , I love my husband, and I'm sure calpernia love him , things like that never can happen, he was young man, I wish he's murder stay in jail for the rest of he's live. Stop hate people , we are humans , we love like everyone in this world, love you barry and I love you calpernia.


The Union Government's announcements for small farmers and salaried taxpayers are aimed at acknowledging their sincere contribution to the nation's development. Financial aid of Rs 6,000 per year for farmers is not a stand-alone gesture. Both the Centre and state governments have been supporting their cause through various welfare schemes.
THERE were several interesting announcements in the interim Budget, of which two stand out. First, financial support of Rs 6,000 per annum in three instalments, directly transferred into the bank account of farmers with landholdings up to 2 hectares. The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme would benefit 12 crore farmers and cost Rs 75,000 crore annually to the exchequer. There was immediate criticism that this financial aid amounts to just Rs 17 per day for the farmer. Both the Centre and state governments have been supporting the cause of farmers through various welfare schemes, be it subsidised seeds, manure, pesticides, low-interest loans to buy farm equipment, crop insurance in the form of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana or an increase in the minimum support price (MSP) for some crops. The governments of Telangana and Odisha have already announced and implemented support schemes on the lines of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi. So, Rs 6,000 per year is not a stand-alone gesture for the farmers. Moreover, it will be given to medium and small farmers. Why? Any welfare scheme should be a targeted one, not universal. It is the small farms that achieve much higher productivity than the big ones.
The most critical problem the NDA government faced when it came to power was the double-digit inflation arising out of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of inflation was 10.1 per cent between 2009 and 2014. The basket of food items alone constitutes about 60 per cent of the CPI. In 2014, the price of pulses reached Rs 200 per kg and the prices of fruits and vegetables showed enormous fluctuations. The various schemes that were announced by the Union Government to increase the production of pulses and other farm produce have been well utilised by the farmers. They produced grains, pulses, vegetables and fruits that have outpaced the demand. The surplus production of agricultural commodities contributed significantly to keep the food inflation, and hence the overall inflation, in check. The CAGR of inflation in the past four and a half years is 4.6 per cent. The price rise, which is normally the most prominent poll issue among the electorate, is not a plank in the 2019 General Election. The government knows that this became possible due to the tireless efforts of farmers in improving farm productivity. Hence, as a mark of respect, the government decided to pay Rs 6,000 to small and marginal farmers.
The second key announcement is the income tax rebate given to those who earn up to Rs 5 lakh per annum. Since 2014, the NDA government increased the minimum taxable income from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 2.5 lakh, decreased the tax rate from 10 per cent to 5 per cent for the income range of Rs 2.5 lakh and Rs 5 lakh, and introduced the standard deduction of Rs 40,000. Given the low inflation in the past four years, the benefits announced by the government are more than enough. Then, why did the government announce a rebate of income tax for those who earn up to Rs 5 lakh per annum? After demonetisation, the government has been promoting digital transactions through Universal Payment Interface (UPI) like BHIM. Then, it introduced GST to bring those who have been evading indirect taxes into the tax ambit. These structural reforms were essentially aimed at taxing those who evade taxes (direct and indirect) and thereby reducing the tax burden on the salaried class whose income tax component was deducted at source. As per a report prepared by the Income Tax Department, for every $100 that the US government is supposed to receive as income tax, it gets $80, whereas the Indian government receives only Rs 25 for every Rs 100 it expects to get. However, due to GST, which tracks the movement of goods from raw material to finished products through electronic trailing, indirect tax evasion is now difficult; with proper accounting of business and trade, direct tax evasion also becomes tough. Even after reducing GST substantially compared to the previous component of central excise and sales tax or value-added tax, indirect tax collections are robust. Once the GST regime is streamlined, the taxable income would increase as tax evasion would reduce further, leaving scope for the government to reduce the tax burden.
By giving income tax rebate to those who earn up to Rs 5 lakh, the government has conveyed to the people that if they cooperate in expanding the tax base and be honest taxpayers, it would be reciprocated in the form of tax cuts.
Income tax for those who earn up to Rs 5 lakh is nil. But, what about those who earn one rupee more than Rs 5 lakh? Don't they have to pay Rs 13,021 as income tax? There are many provisions, such as standard deduction of Rs 50,000, deduction of Rs 1.5 lakh through Section 80C, deduction of Rs 50,000 through the National Pension Scheme, and deduction of Rs 2 lakh (interest on the housing loan). With the utilisation of these exemptions, people earning as much as Rs 7-9 lakh will get full rebate from income tax and not just those who earn only up to Rs 5 lakh.
Earlier governments followed the approach of collecting taxes from those who were left with no option but to pay taxes, such as the salaried class, and burdened them with more taxes, while hardly making efforts to bring to book the tax evaders. This government has brought systemic changes so that all those who do business pay indirect taxes and all those who earn pay taxes as per their income tax bracket. A good and effective government should show gratitude to those sections of the population that pay taxes honestly and increase productivity (farmers in this case) and be strict and harsh with those who evade taxes. Through the interim Budget, the government's message is clear: We respect and reward all those who contribute sincerely to the nation's development.