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Robert S. McNamara Irish, Ireland, Businessman, U.S. Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara (June 9, 1916 - July 6, 2009) Irish, Ireland, Businessman, U.S. Secretary of Defense
Defense issues, including the missile gap, played a prominent role in the campaign of 1960. President-elect John F. Kennedy, very much concerned with defense matters although lacking former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's mastery of the issues, first offered the post of secretary of defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett. When Lovett declined, Kennedy chose Robert S. McNamara on Lovett's recommendation.
Robert S. McNamara was born in San Francisco on June 9, 1916, to Clara Nell (Strange) and Robert James McNamara, a sales manager of a wholesale shoe firm. His father's family was Irish and, in about 1850, following the Great Hunger, had emigrated to the U.S., first to Massachusetts and later to California. McNamara graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley 1937 with a B.A. in economics with minors in mathematics and philosophy. During his sophomore year, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned a varsity letter in crew.
McNamara was also a member of the UC Berkeley's Order of the Golden Bear, a fellowship of students and leading faculty members formed to promote leadership within the student body. Following graduation, he earned a master's degree in 1939 from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, worked a year for the accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse in San Francisco, and then returned to Harvard in August 1940 to teach in the business school. That same year, he married Margaret Craig, who later created the successful literacy program for poor children, Reading is Fundamental. She died in 1981.
McNamara entered the Army Air Forces in 1943 as a captain and left active duty three years later with the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the war, Henry Ford II hired McNamara and a group of other Army Air Force veterans to work for Ford Motor Company. He advanced rapidly through a series of top-level management positions to the presidency of Ford in 1960, becoming the first company head selected outside the Ford family. While there, he received substantial credit for Ford's expansion and success in the postwar period. Less than five weeks after becoming president at Ford, he accepted President John F. Kennedy's invitation to join his cabinet.
Although not especially knowledgeable about defense matters, McNamara immersed himself in the subject, learned quickly, and soon began to apply an "active role" management philosophy, to "provide aggressive leadership—questioning, suggesting alternatives, proposing objectives and stimulating progress." He rejected proposed radical organizational changes which would have abolished the military departments, replaced the Joint Chiefs of Staff with a single chief of staff, and established three functional unified commands. McNamara accepted the need for separate services but argued that "at the end, we must have one defense policy, not three conflicting defense policies. And it is the job of the Secretary and his staff to make sure that this is the case."
He supported President Kennedy belief that rejecting the concept of a first-strike attack and emphasized that the need for adequate strategic arms and defense to deter nuclear attack on the United States and its allies was necessary. U.S. arms, he maintained, must constantly be under civilian command and control, and the nation's defense posture had to be "designed to reduce the danger of irrational or unpremeditated general war." The primary mission of U.S. overseas forces, in cooperation with allies, was "to prevent the steady erosion of the Free World through limited wars." Kennedy and McNamara rejected massive retaliation as a posture of flexible response. The United States wanted choices in an emergency other than "inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation," as the president put it. His major review of the military challenges confronting the United States in 1961 led to an increase in the nation's limited warfare capability.
The Kennedy administration supported improving the U.S. military's ability to counter Communist "wars of national liberation," in which the enemy avoided head-on military confrontation and resorted to political subversion and guerrilla tactics. As McNamara said in his 1962 annual report, "The military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush, and the raid. The political tactics are terror, extortion, and assassination." In practical terms, this meant training and equipping U.S. military personnel, as well as such allies as South Vietnam, for counterinsurgency operations. Later in the decade, U.S. forces applied these counterinsurgency techniques with mixed success in Vietnam.
Increased attention to conventional strength complemented these special forces preparations. The creation of the wall in Berlin in 1961 demonstrated to McNamara the need for more troops. In this instance, he called up reserves and proceeded to expand the regular armed forces.
McNamara played a much larger role in the formulation of nuclear strategy than did his predecessors. In part, this reflected both the increasing sophistication of nuclear weapons and delivery systems and Soviet progress toward nuclear parity with the United States. Central in McNamara's thinking stood the NATO alliance and the U.S. commitment to defend its members from aggression, especially the possibility of a surprise Soviet nuclear attack on the Western allies. Basic NATO strategy in such an unlikely event, McNamara argued, should follow the "no-cities" concept. "General nuclear war," he stated, "should be approached in much the same way that more conventional military operations have been regarded in the past. Military objectives, in the event of a nuclear war stemming from a major attack on the Alliance, should be the destruction of the enemy's military forces, not of his civilian population."
With his principal goal deterrence—to convince Moscow that a nuclear attack against the Western allies would trigger U.S. retaliation against Soviet forces, perhaps eliminating their ability to continue military action—he also wanted to provide the Russians with an incentive to refrain from attacking cities.
McNamara soon deemphasized the no-cities approach, for several reasons: public fear that planning to use nuclear weapons in limited ways would make nuclear war seem more feasible; increased Air Force requirements, after identifying additional targets under the no-cities strategy, for more nuclear weapons; the assumption that such a policy would require major air and missile defense, necessitating a vastly expanded budget; and negative reactions from the Soviets and NATO allies. McNamara turned to "assured destruction,'' which he characterized as the capability "to deter a deliberate nuclear attack upon the United States and its allies by maintaining a highly reliable ability to inflict an unacceptable degree of damage upon any single aggressor, or combination of aggressors, even after absorbing a surprise first strike." As defined by McNamara, assured destruction meant that the United States would be able to destroy in retaliation 20 to 25 percent of the Soviet Union's population and 50 percent of its industrial capacity. Later the term "mutual assured destruction" meant the capacity of each side to inflict sufficient damage on the other to constitute an effective deterrent. In conjunction with assured destruction, McNamara stressed the importance of
"damage limitation"—the use of strategic forces to limit damage to the nation's population and industrial capacity by attacking and diminishing the enemy's strategic offensive forces.
To make this strategy credible, McNamara sped up the modernization and expansion of weapon and delivery systems and took other steps to improve U.S. deterrence posture and military capabilities. He raised the portion of Strategic-Air-Command bombers on 15-minute ground alert and established the Strike Command (STRICOM). He also increased long-range airlift and sealift capabilities and funds for space research and development. After reviewing the separate and often uncoordinated service efforts in intelligence and communications, in 1961, he consolidated these functions in the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Communications Agency.
McNamara's institution of systems analysis as a basis for making key decisions on force requirements, weapon systems, and other matters occasioned much debate. Systems analysis takes a complex problem and sorts out the tangle of significant factors so that each can be studied by the method most appropriate to it." McNamara's tendency to take military advice into account less than had previous secretaries contributed to his unpopularity with service leaders.
McNamara's staff stressed systems analysis as an aid in decision making on weapons development and many other budget issues. The secretary believed that the United States could afford any amount needed for national security, but that "this ability does not excuse us from applying strict standards of effectiveness and efficiency to the way we spend our defense dollars. . . . You have to make a judgment on how much is enough." Acting on these principles, McNamara instituted a much-publicized cost reduction program, which, he reported, saved $14 billion in the five-year period beginning in 1961. Although he had to withstand a storm of criticism from senators and representatives from affected congressional districts, he closed many military bases and installations that he judged unnecessary to national security. He was equally determined about other cost-saving measures.
Nonetheless, mainly because of the Vietnam War buildup, total obligational authority increased greatly during the McNamara years. In the broad arena of national security affairs, he played a principal part under both Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, especially during international crises. The disastrous failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, carried through by the Kennedy administration based on planning begun under Eisenhower, proved a great embarrassment. When McNamara left office in 1968, he told reporters that his principal regret was his recommendation to Kennedy to proceed with the Bay of Pigs operation, something that "could have been recognized as an error at the time."
He was more successful as part of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM), a small group of advisers who counseled Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. He supported the president's decision to quarantine Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from bringing in more offensive weapons. During the crisis, the Pentagon placed U.S. military forces on alert, ready to back up the administration's demand that the Soviet Union withdraw its offensive missiles from Cuba. Similarly, McNamara regarded the use of nearly 24,000 U.S. troops and several dozen naval vessels to stabilize a revolutionary situation in the Dominican Republic in April 1965 as another successful test of the "readiness and capabilities of the U.S. defense establishment to support our foreign policy."
The Vietnam conflict came to claim most of McNamara's time and energy. The Truman and Eisenhower administrations had committed the United States to support the French and native anti-Communist forces in Vietnam in resisting efforts by the Communists in the North to control the country. Although he loyally supported administration policy, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam. The Tet Offensive of early 1968, although a military defeat for the enemy, clearly indicated that the road ahead for both the United States and the South Vietnamese government was still long and hard. By this time McNamara had already submitted his resignation, chiefly because of his disillusionment with the war.
He left office on February 29, 1968, and served as head of the World Bank until 1981. For his dedicated efforts, the president awarded him both the Medal of Freedom and the Distinguished Service Medal. In 1982 McNamara joined several other former national security officials in urging that the United States pledge not to use nuclear weapons first in Europe in the event of hostilities; subsequently, he proposed the elimination of nuclear weapons as an element of NATO's defense posture. His book, In Retrospect, published in 1995, presented an account and analysis of the Vietnam War that dwelt heavily on the mistakes to which he was a prime party and conveyed his strong sense of guilt and regret.
McNamara passed away on July 6, 2009, at home in Washington, DC. He was survived by his second wife, the former Diana Masieri Byfield, who he married in 2004, and his son, Craig. Evaluations of McNamara's long career as secretary of defense vary from glowing to negative and sometimes scathing. Although he had many differences with military leaders and members of Congress, few could deny that he had had a powerful impact on the Defense Department and that much of what he had done would be a lasting legacy.
Photograph montage. 1. Robert McNamara points to a map of Vietnam (Library of Congress, cph.3c34155); 2. Pickets in front of the White House (Thomas J. O'Halloran, photographer, Library of Congress, LC-U9-14454-17A); 3. East German students sit atop the Berlin Wall (University of Minnesota Institute of Advanced Studies, 141107_A-YG824-002); 4. Robert McNamara's book; 5. Robert McNamara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk with President Kennedy, 12-10-62 (Abbie Rowe, photographer, JFK Presidential Library and Museum, AR7629-B); 6. Soldiers from the U.S. Army Berlin Command face former East German police at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961, courtesy of the U.S. Army, army.mil-54764-2009-11-02-061101); 7. Dean Rusk, left, and Robert McNamara, right, with President Johnson, 7-21-65 (Warren K. Leffler, photographer, LC-U9-14298-8A); 8. Members of the Organization of American States vote during a meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Washington, DC (Marion S. Trikosko, photographer, LC-U9-8663-25); 9. President Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council, EXCOMM, 10-29-62, JFK Presidential Library and Museum, ST-A26-1-62); 10. Berlin Wall shortly after its construction with the Brandenburg Gate (Courtesy pexels.com, 370886). Headshot of Robert McNamara (Official Portrait, 1965).
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were together for 12 years. Many fans were shocked when the news of their divorce went public in September 2016. As PopSugar recalls, Jolie's attorney soon stated that their breakup was for the "health of the family." In a separate statement, Pitt stated that he was "saddened" by the split but that his focus moving forward was on the well being of their six children, Maddox, 16; Pax, 14; Zahara, 12; Shiloh, 11; and 9-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
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It is said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. That seems to apply to congressional Democrats – and especially the House Democrats who are being led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi like a bunch of nose-ringed cattle.
For several years, House Democrats were able to peddle their baseless claim of Russian collusion by President Trump. Thanks to a compliant news media, they carried that bogus story as news until Special Counsel James Mueller burst their bubble with a report that exonerated Trump, his campaign and every American from conspiring with Russian interference in the election.
Pelosi later organized the first impeachment of President Trump. It was a slam-dunk from the start. She had the votes to impeach regardless of any evidence – so she ordered the impeachment. Whatever one thought of the justification for the impeachment– or lack thereof – it did not win popular approval. It did not move the needle of public sentiment against Trump. It failed to achieve Pelosi's objective. Whether it ultimately led to Trump's loss in the election is arguable but unresolvable.
Even as Trump was days away from leaving office, Nancy Pelosi engineered another slam-dunk impeachment. She had the votes, so to Hell with justification. This time it was due to Trump's alleged role in the Capital Hill riot. We know it was only an alleged accusation because since that time, Pelosi has been calling for a bipartisan commission to prove what the second impeachment was supposed to have proven.
Nancy Pelosi signed off the second impeachment even knowing that there would be no time for a trial to consider removing Trump from office – which is the primary purpose of impeachment. Pelosi admitted that her motivation was simply to put another bad mark on Trump's historic record. This is clearly an abuse of the impeachment process.
Now we have Nancy Pelosi's "Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol." It is starting off like that line about the judge telling the defendant that he would get a fair trial and then be hanged. The Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) constantly talks about investigating the "insurrection" – prejudging the nature of the attack. It is not at all clear that it was an insurrection as opposed to a riot. I have opined on that issue several times – seeing the attack as having all the elements of a riot, not an insurrection.
Nancy Pelosi's select committee consists of seven Democrats and one Republican – Arizona Congresswoman Liz Cheney — to demonstrate her devotion to bipartisanship. Really? The Democrats and Cheney all have one thing in common. They already know the outcome of the investigation(?). They have prejudged the case.
So far, of the hundreds of rioters arrested and indicted by federal prosecutors, none have been charted with being part of an insurrection. Many legal analysts – even on the left, such as CNN's Jeffery Toobin – believe that there may not be any charges of insurrection. Insurrection, sedition and coup are merely the political terms of the left in the court-of-public-opinion, where propaganda trumps the rule-of-law and rules-of-evidence.
Allow me to stress that I have no sympathy for rioters. Yes, most of the protesters were peaceful, but that does not excuse those who were not. They should be punished commensurate with their individual crimes. I apply that principle to ALL riots. Only the Democrats and the media ignore certain riots. Riots that are often far more damaging and deadly than the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
The only difference between the many riots that have scarred our cities and the riot on Capitol Hill? The targets and victims of the rioting. The riot on Capital Hill involved the political power elite. The common folks are the ones who suffered looting, arson, vandalism, injury and death. Often for days and weeks at a time.
Just as the Mueller Investigation and the two impeachments were not legitimate investigations based on any notion of probable cause, the Select Committee will develop dubious political narratives with only one purpose in mind – weaking the Republican Party in the hope of staving off a GOP takeover of the House and perhaps the Senate.
There can be no other purpose since the FBI is doing the REAL investigation. They are the only agency that can – as we hear so often – "get to the bottom of things" and bring justice. The Select Committee can put on a partisan dog and pony show. They can produce fodder for the media allies. But it has no power to indict, convict and sentence anyone.
With Nancy Pelosi in charge, the House has appropriated Hollywood's unofficial theme song, "There's No Business like Show Business."
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It's unclear what really happened, though it was definitely nasty (it's likely Cassandra later burned a series of letters to conceal some perfidy).
In real life, a well-to-do neighbour did eventually offer to marry an older Jane, but Austen found him a dullard, and refused the life she foresaw with him.
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Purists will be appalled by the changes to Mrs. Bennett's character (no hint of subtlety here), but the book is funny. If you enjoy reading about the eating of braaaiiins, that is.
For a different modernization project, there's The Jane Austen Marriage Manual (by Kim Izzo, 2012, a New Arrival in Adult Fiction). A mix of breezy chic lit, feminism and desperation (of the sort Elizabeth Bennett never suffered), this is the tale of Kate. She's 39, childless, jobless, in debt, and single. She's assigned a magazine feature on the contemporary woman's need for a rich husband, and takes it seriously.
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Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, involves computer systems designed to translate images of typewritten text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text—to translate pictures of characters into a standard encoding scheme representing them (ASCII or Unicode). OCR began as a field of research in artificial intelligence and machine vision; though academic research in the field continues, the focus on OCR has shifted to implementation of proven techniques.
1 Optical versus digital character recognition
2 Training
3 Brief history of OCR
4 Typewritten OCR
5 Hand print OCR
6 Cursive OCR
7 Research areas
8 MICR
Optical versus digital character recognition
Optical character recognition (using optical techniques such as mirrors and lenses) and digital character recognition (using scanners and computer algorithms) were originally considered separate fields. Since very few applications survive that use true optical techniques the optical character recognition term has now been broadened to cover digital character recognition as well.
Early systems required "training" (essentially, the provision of known samples of each character) to read a specific font. Currently, though, "intelligent" systems that can recognize most fonts with a high degree of accuracy are now common. Some systems are even capable of reproducing formatted output that closely approximates the original scanned page including images, columns and other non-textual components.
Brief history of OCR
In 1950, David Shepard, a cryptanalyst at AFSA, the forerunner of the United States National Security Agency (NSA), was asked by Frank Rowlett, who had broken the Japanese PURPLE diplomatic code, to work with Dr. Louis Tordella to recommend data automation procedures for the Agency. This included the problem of converting printed messages into machine language for computer processing. Shepard decided it must be possible to build a machine to do this, and, with the help of Harvey Cook, a friend, built "Gismo" in his attic during evenings and weekends. This was reported in the Washington Daily News on April 27, 1951 and in the New York Times on December 26, 1953 after his U.S. Patent Number 2,663,758 was issued. Shepard then founded Intelligent Machines Research Corporation (IMR), which went on to deliver the world's first several OCR systems used in commercial operation. While both Gismo and the later IMR systems used image analysis, as opposed to character matching, and could accept some font variation, Gismo was limited to reasonably close vertical registration, whereas the following commercial IMR scanners analyzed characters anywhere in the scanned field, a practical necessity on real world documents. The first commercial system was installed at the Readers Digest in 1955, which, many years later, was donated by Readers Digest to the Smithsonian, where it was put on display. The second system was sold to the Standard Oil Company of California for reading credit card imprints for billing purposes, with many more systems sold to other oil companies. Other systems sold by IMR during the late 1950's were a bill stub reader to the Ohio Bell Telephone Company and a page scanner to the U.S. Air Force for reading and transmitting by teletype typewritten messages. IBM and others were later licensed on Shepard's OCR patents.
The United States Postal Service has been using OCR machines to sort mail since 1965 based on technology devised primarily by the prolific inventor Jacob Rabinow. Canada Post has been using OCR systems since 1971. OCR systems read the name and address of the addressee at the first mechanized sorting center, and print a routing bar code on the envelope based on the postal code. After that the letters need only be sorted at later centers by less expensive sorters which need only read the bar code. To avoid interference with the human-readable address field which can be located anywhere on the letter, special ink is used that is clearly visible under UV light. This ink looks orange in normal lighting conditions. Envelopes marked with the machine readable bar code may then be processed.
Typewritten OCR
While the accurate recognition of Latin-script typewritten text is now considered largely a solved problem, recognition of hand printing and handwriting in general, and printed versions of some other scripts—particularly those with a very large number of characters—are still the subject of active research.
Hand print OCR
Systems for recognizing hand-printed text on the fly have enjoyed commercial success in recent years. Among these are the input device for the Palm Pilot and other Personal Digital Assistants. The Apple Newton pioneered this technology. The algorithms used in these devices take advantage of the fact that the order, speed, and direction of individual lines segments at input are known. Also, the user can be retrained to use only specific letter shapes. These methods cannot be used in software that scans paper documents, so accurate recognition of hand-printed documents is still largely an open problem. Accuracy rates of 80% to 90% on neat, clean hand-printed characters can be achieved, but that accuracy rate still translates to dozens of errors per page, making the technology useful only in very limited contexts.
Cursive OCR
Recognition of cursive text is an active area of research, with recognition rates even lower than that of hand-printed text. Higher rates of recognition of general cursive script will likely not be possible without the use of contextual or grammatical information. For example, recognizing entire words from a dictionary is easier than trying to parse individual characters from script. Reading the Amount line of a check (which is always a written out number) is an example where using a smaller dictionary can increase recognition rates greatly. Knowledge of the grammar of the language being scanned can also help determine if a word is likely to be a verb or a noun, for example, allowing greater accuracy. The shapes of individual cursive characters themselves simply do not contain enough information to accurately (greater than 98%) recognize all handwritten cursive script.
A particularly difficult problem for computers and humans is that of old church baptismal and marriage records containing mostly names where the pages may be damaged by age, water or fire and the names may be obsolete or contain rare spellings. Computer image processing techniques can assist humans in reading extremely difficult texts such as the Archimedes Palimpsest or the Dead Sea Scrolls. Cooperative approaches where computers assist humans and vice-versa is an interesting area of research.
Character recognition has been an active area of computer science research since the late 1950s. It was initially perceived as an easy problem, but it turned out to be a much more interesting problem. It will be many decades, if ever, before computers will be able to read all documents with the same accuracy as human beings.
One area where accuracy and speed of computer input of character information exceeds that of humans is in the area of magnetic ink character recognition, where the error rates range around one read error for every 20,000 to 30,000 checks.
Barcode and barcode scanners
Digital image processing
Magnetic ink character recognition
OMR (optical mark recognition)
Guide to OCR from about.com (http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/ocr/)
Britannica article about OCR (http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article?tocId=9373879&query=optical%20character%20recognition&ct/)de:Texterkennung
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by Kshitij Rawat | 12/08/2020
Check out the discounts and deals on Mahindra cars, like XUV300, XUV500, Scorpio, etc, available during August 2020.
During the days when automakers are making great attempts to revive the buyers' sentiments and lure in more customers towards their showrooms, the domestic-grown manufacturer, Mahindra & Mahindra can't stand outside the game. It is quite a positive signal that, after the zero unit sales reported in India in April 2020, the sales of the auto companies like Mahindra have started picking up in the months of May. June and July. To keep this good momentum, Mahindra is offering some great discounts on their products during this month. From the KUV100 to the Alturas G4, here's the list of Mahindra car offers and discounts for August 2020.
Mahindra KUV100 – August 2020 Car Offers and Discounts
First thing first, let's talk about the most affordable model in Mahindra's vehicle lineup, the KUV100. The Mahindra KUV100 has been launched in India for quite a time now and it is the first car in the list of best Mahindra August 2020 car offers. Even though there's no official discount on the Mahindra KUV100 but some select dealerships are offering discounts worth up to Rs 25,000 on some variants of the model.
Mahindra KUV100 Prices in Some Popular Cities
Rs 4.88-7.94 lakh
Rs 5.05-8.1 lakh
Hyundai Car Offers & Discounts in August 2020
Mahindra XUV300 - August 2020 Car Offers and Discounts
Unlike the KUV100, the Mahindra XUV300 is being sold in quite a good number in the Indian market. Based on the SsangYong Tivoli, the Mahindra XUV300 is a popular sub-four-metre SUV that has been recently recognized as the safest car in India. The SUV goes on to compete with the likes of Maruti Vitara Brezza, Tata Nexon, Ford Ecosport and Hyundai Venue.
For the month of August 2020, the XUV300 is available with an exchange bonus of Rs 25,000 and a corporate discount of Rs 4,500, which are offered for all trims and variants of the model. The company has even cut the prices of the XUV300 by up to Rs 90,000 just a while back, thereby making the SUV a good value-for-money option in its space.
Mahindra XUV300 Prices in Some Popular Cities
Rs 8.1-12.69 lakh
Rs 9.95-14.18 lakh
Rs 10.28-15.15 lakh
Rs 10.51-15.8 lakh
Mahindra Scorpio - August 2020 Car Offers & Discount
The BS6 version of Mahindra Scorpio just went on sale in the market some months ago and for the month of August 2020, the Scorpio is on offer with some great discounts and benefits on many of its variants. While the S5 variant of the Scorpio is packed with a cash discount of Rs 20,000, an exchange bonus of Rs 25,000 together with an accessories package of Rs 10,000, not to mention a corporate discount of Rs 5,000. Whereas, the S7, S9, S11 variants are on sale with the same amount for the exchange bonus and corporate discount.
Mahindra Scorpio Prices in Some Popular Cities
Rs 9.99-16.7 lakh
Rs 10.2-16.97 lakh
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Mahindra XUV500 – August 2020 Car Offers & Discount
The next car in the list of Mahindra car offers August 2020 is the Mahindra XUV500 which has just received a BS6 update a few months back like the Scorpio. The next-gen Mahindra XUV500 will be launched in India next year and spy shots of the XUV500 have emerged around the Internet multiple times.
In the month of August 2020, the BSVI XUV500 is going on sale with a cash discount of Rs 6,840, an Rs 5,000 worth free accessories package, a corporate discount of Rs 9,000 and an exchange bonus of Rs 30,000.
Mahindra Cars Offers July 2020
Mahindra & Mahindra is known for making some of the toughest and most rugged utility vehicles in India. Due to the sales slump in the Indian auto industry, the Indian manufacturer is having trouble selling its vehicles. This was only exemplified by the nationwide lockdown due to the pandemic. To attract customers once again to its vehicles, Mahindra is offering great deals and discounts on its entire line-up.
Here, we shall list all the available offers on all Mahindra cars for June 2020.
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Discounts on Mahindra KUV100
Mahindra KUV100 is currently the smallest SUV offering in Mahindra's line-up, but that doesn't mean it isn't impressive. The car's smartly proportioned dimensions can easily seat five, or even six, passengers comfortably. The KUV is being offered with a cash discount of Rs. 17,000 on the 'K2' trim, while the 'K4'has a higher discount of Rs. 23,000. On higher trims, i.e. K6 and K8, buyers can avail a discount of Rs. 38,000. There is an exchange bonus of Rs. 29,000 also available, which gets added on to the value of the car you bring in for exchange.
Discounts on Mahindra XUV300
Mahindra XUV300 is the safest car by an Indian manufacturer, with an adult safety rating of 5-stars and a child occupant safety rating of 4-stars. On the petrol variants, Mahindra is offering a cash discount worth Rs. 20,000 on the W4 trim, while 'W6 MT' trim gets a discount of Rs. 25,000. The same on W8 and W8 (O) is Rs. 30,000. There is also an exchange bonus of Rs. 30,000. On the diesel variants, there is no cash discount, but only an exchange bonus of Rs. 30,000.
New-Gen Mahindra Scorpio Spied Testing Again
Discounts on Mahindra Scorpio
Mahindra Scorpio is the most popular SUV in India of all time. First launched in 2002, the Scorpio has recently lost customers' interest. Mahindra will be launching the next-gen model in the market soon, which will help reinvigorate consumer interest in the SUV. On the S5 variant, you can get a discount worth Rs. 30,000. There is also an exchange bonus on all trims worth Rs. 30,000.
Discounts on XUV500
Mahindra's first monocoque SUV was one of the most impressive ones to ever be sold in the Indian car market. Its cheetah-inspired exterior design manages to impress even today, although it is due for an update soon. The XUV500 is available with an exchange bonus of Rs. 40,000, but no cash discount.
Bookings Open For Next-Gen Mahindra Thar, Launch Slated For August
Discounts on Alturas G4
Mahindra Alturas is the carmaker's flagship in the Indian market. Based on the current generation SsangYong Rexton, the Alturas is known for both its luxury as well as its ruggedness. Mahindra is offering perks worth a total of Rs. 3 lakh worth on the SUV, including cash discounts, exchange bonus, and free maintenance packages.
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" VIDEO: 'Bush League Justice' Series Continues On MSNBC With Dan Abrams Calling For AG Mukasey To Open An Investigation Into Siegelman Case "
VIDEO: 'Bush League Justice' Series Continues On MSNBC With Dan Abrams Calling For AG Mukasey To Open An Investigation Into Siegelman Case
By Alan Breslauer on 2/26/2008, 12:07am PT
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... Mar said on 2/26/2008 @ 5:47 am PT...
My dear Ms. Simpson........you think Rove should do WHAT..!!
Swear in front of Congress about ever having met you......surely, you jest..!! You MUST know by now that won't mean a damn thing.....that guy is a liar through and through and we all know that perjury isn't something that HE has to worry about, considering the company he keeps.
... Roger said on 2/26/2008 @ 6:48 am PT...
When will we get someone with the balls to indict this motherf***er?! How obvious can it be that he is a criminal? They're all crooks, worse than Nixon and his cronies ever were. Simply outrageous.
... Dredd said on 2/26/2008 @ 7:14 am PT...
Kudos to Dan Abrams. If he is sincere he is golden. I hesitate and use "if" because I have become shell shocked after 12 years of republican fascism.
I hope he is a true light to all the republicans I hope exist still who will not stand for the downfall of America and replacing it with Amurka.
RENZI ... move to Alabama ... fast:
Mr. Renzi, with his legal troubles mounting, had already announced that he would not seek re-election to a fourth term. But his insistence on remaining in office while fighting the charges is likely to frustrate fellow Republicans who are already facing enormous challenges in this year's elections, including a persistent disadvantage in campaign money and a wave of retirements by incumbents.
Mr. Renzi had been serving as a Arizona state co-chairman of Senator John McCain's campaign for president. But Mr. McCain has indicated that Mr. Renzi would be resigning that post.
(NYTimes). Yep, sweet home Alabama. I hear that Craig (R-Closet) is going to move there too.
Their new motto is "we are not going to take all this justice anymore".


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Finally fluttering the lashes of its 360-degree eyes over the rest of Hong Kong's Polytechnic University is the recently finished Jockey Club Innovation Tower. Designed by starchitect Zaha Hadid, the 15-story high tower boldly reflects the imaginative spirit of design held by the students and exhibits within.
Beyond designing a functional and suitably innovative building for PolyU's School of Design, Hadid's goal with this massive tower was to infuse creativity into the walls to inspire students from every direction. She has accomplished this by avoiding the cliche that towers must be symmetric and submissive, encouraging students to be flexible in their definitions of contemporary design.
Inside, the Tower feels more like a museum than a stuffy, conventional university hall. Upon stepping through the grand entrance, a long rising escalator slices through the upper levels. This affords students the opportunity to enjoy a panoramic view of the exhibits above and below as they ascend. Each level's 360-degree windows bring in light, fresh air and views of the surrounding city. Besides many classrooms, the Tower also holds several studios, workshops, galleries and even a museum.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has significantly grown in recognition and size throughout the decades, with the Innovation Tower being one of its latest accomplishments. The Tower's shifting translucent levels allude to the school's changing perception that breaks with convention in hopes of accelerating the creativity of the campus.
While already open and in use, the Innovation Tower will have its grand opening in March 2014.
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Chair: Dr David A Hamburg
Our conference – enriched by the opportunity to draw on the work of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict – recognised the long-term importance of structural, cause-removing approaches to averting conflict; but our prime focus was upon the operational aspects of prevention and limitation when outbreak loomed or happened. Our discussion mostly concentrated, moreover, upon the intra-state category of conflict which had increasingly commanded public attention in the post-Cold-War years. We nevertheless accepted salutary reminder both that the inter-intra distinction was sometimes blurred, and that classical inter-state disputes and consequent risks of war, even if general reasons could be discerned for their diminishing incidence, had by no means dependably disappeared from the scene, and so must continue to engage preventive attention.
The past decade had seen both successes and failures in prevention. We were uncomfortably aware that the former were both harder to prove and less able to command media attention, and we wondered inconclusively whether more might be done – for example in the UN setting – to note and celebrate them; reward in some currency attractive to political leaders might be a valuable stimulus. But inescapably the failures and their costs would still make the big headlines.
The theme of early action resonated through our discussions. Delay raised costs of almost every sort; it made eventual rebuilding and reconciliation harder; it increased the risk that as conflict deepened extremist leaders – for whom conflict or stark victory/defeat choice was almost a raison d'être – would come to the fore and would prove to be the only available interlocutors. We noted, too, the unwisdom of regarding military action as a last resort to be tried when everything else had failed; for all that this fitted the diplomatic mindset of many UN members, it risked under-using a valuable pre-emptive instrument and condemning armed forces to operate too often in near-desperate situations where the concrete and realistic objectives their exploitation needed were hard to formulate in adequate operational terms.
But we acknowledged that it was easier to call for early action in general terms than to embark upon it in particular situations. Good and timely information was a cardinal need, and more might be done to acquire and disseminate it – for example, nations might be encouraged to pass intelligence more fully and systematically to the United Nations, which might itself extend its fact-finding efforts; and it might be possible to draw more extensively on the observation and experience of non-governmental organisations, who often had local access which governments could not readily match. Even where conflict-risk situations had longstanding structural roots, there were often specific indicators that could be looked for and detected, such as the mobilising of combative public opinion through deliberate choice by leaders, or the amassing of arms. The assembly of information had however to be partnered by proper capability to analyse and understand it in what were often complicated settings remote from the ordinary understanding of "Western" governments; the bull-in-a-china-shop risk was real, as more than one recent experience suggested.
It was moreover one thing to have a strong and well-founded sense that there was trouble ahead, and often quite another to have evidence in a form and of a status adequate to trigger action by outside governments which, whether for good reasons or bad, usually felt a strong initial inclination against intervening. Usable early warning had to relate to action practically desirable or feasible. That consideration illustrated the limitations of over-reliance on the undoubted assets of NGOs – they were of varied purpose, skill and accountability; by no means all would welcome any role alongside governments; and they could not always be free from distorting motivation. Decisions on intervention, and on what information might justify it, must ultimately lie with governments.
The reluctance of governments engaged us recurrently. Some of us were sceptical of the concept of "political will" as a distinct commodity; the key factors were perhaps the early recognition of strong interest in preventing or confining a particular conflict, and leadership in conveying that recognition to publics and parliaments. We recognised however that there were importance resource constraints both in the UN and in many nations – not just in the availability of money or matériel, but also for example in the ability to devote high-level attention and to cope with simultaneous demands.
The concept of legitimacy in intervention much exercised us, in respect both of the basis for action and of who should undertake it. As to the basis, there was a continual tension between the concept of national sovereignty and that of universal human rights, and some key countries had reasons of their own for not wanting to see the balance swing generally from the former towards the latter. But there had in practice been a tilt in recent years, as instances and informal case-law accumulated, with an undercurrent towards a sense of global community, universal standards and world-wide jurisdiction – symbolised for some by recent developments on an International Criminal Court, though we heard comment that the impact of that might prove more positive in preventing (by deterrence) than in resolving conflict. (This last point reflected an issue remaining contentious in our debate – the question whether, as arguably in South Africa and Northern Ireland, there might in the ending of conflicts have to be some trade-off between peace and perfect justice.) Some participants hoped that the content of international law could be deepened in regard to the protection and collective rights of minorities, so often a prime issue in conflict-risk settings.
Who had the right to act? The United Nations, for preference, most of us thought, even though we acknowledged the awkwardness that the United States – much the best-endowed and most effective actor – harboured more reservations than most about any wholesale dependence on the UN either to authorise or to lead action. The drawbacks of bureaucratic rivalry and complexity still beset the UN in some degree, but competence, coordination and confidence were improving. We were reminded of the limitations (albeit sometimes overstressed) arising from veto power in the Security Council; there were avenues around this, but they were not always readily open. Both for this and for more positive subsidiarity-type reasons the capability of regional organisations to act should be respected and, where it was weak, fostered.
We talked in broad terms about strategies for preventive action – beginning with a salutary reminder that solutions had to be particular and tailor-made; one-size-fits-all, or the overneat application of perceived analogies from the past elsewhere, were recipes for disaster. Effective strategies would usually need to be multi-faceted, combining both coercion – almost always an unavoidable aspect, if only in potential – and reassurance. Key elements would often include interrupting cycles of violence, establishing firebreaks, and filling spaces and intervals with positive remedial activity, preferably involving indigenous and not just external participation and solution-finding responsibility. We heard, partnering all this, vigorous criticism of the search for pre-determined (and, still worse, pre-timetabled) "exit strategies"; intervention, whatever its form, must be prepared for patience and endurance.
The instruments potentially available were of diverse kinds. Political action, even if it might seem to lack concrete leverage, could often play a part; though media attention sometimes concentrated upon the imperviously intransigent, many states – or communities within them – minded about lack of recognition, ostracism, condemnation or exclusion from desired associations (like the Council of Europe, the Organisation of American States or the Commonwealth). Such associations, at least where (as was not always the case) they were built on some substantial commonality of interest and values, could have useful leverage, and it would be advantageous wherever practicable to systematise – even perhaps make in some degree routine and automatic – their monitoring of conflict-threatening features. The surveillance and contact work of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, despite its resource limitations, offered an encouraging illustration of what might be done.
We touched more briefly upon economic and military instruments. The effect of economic sanctions was often hard to predict or to measure and their humanitarian cost worrying, but they were sometimes an unavoidable component of pressure. More positively, the international financial institutions could sometimes contribute valuably, for example by making grants or loans for development conditional upon collaboration between adversaries. On the military side, we recalled the need, if international cooperative effort in intervention was to be effective, for common standards in training, equipment, procedures and – crucially but not always readily – rules of engagement and command channels. We observed with some unease the practical difficulty – alongside the obvious desirability of broad participation – of adequate burden-sharing when key elements of military power were in the hands of relatively few countries (and those not always among those most disposed towards international engagement, or historically most acceptable in the relevant theatres). Enhanced or better-directed effort on a wider basis, to reduce the world's dependence and demands upon the United States, seemed necessary; but it was not clear, in political realism, how it would be forthcoming. We were uncomfortable about the apparently-growing use of mercenaries; they could be useful, no doubt, and might even in some settings be the only force available, but it was then essential that they be still subject ultimately to public authority, politically accountable.
The problem of legitimacy, earlier noted, beset not only the matter of who could intervene but also with whom they could do so – who were valid parties to solution-seeking? In many intra-state problems the recognition of minorities as entitled to a distinct voice was – at least for the governing majority – precisely what was in dispute, and intervening mediation, however sincerely pacific its intent, could not appear wholly neutral. The management of minority-related conflict bulked large throughout our discussions, for scarcely any trigger of conflict was more powerful than a sense among a significant minority, whether ethnic or religious, that they were being discriminated against or denied identity. Outside efforts towards reconciliation could sometimes contribute usefully by placing before disputants – and, importantly, involving them as fully as possible in pursuing – a wider, more flexible and more need-specific range of options, constitutional or cultural, than such black-and-white outcomes as capitulation, secession or subordination.
We should have liked to find more time to discuss the contribution of religious and business leaders – respectively, sometimes valuable and usually thin, said brief observations – and the role of the media; as to that, references to their possible effect as intensifiers or even precipitators of crisis were balanced by comment that the "CNN" factor was usually overrated and that to cast the media in any role other than that of providing public information would be misconceived.
Our conference overall renewed our awareness of the acute difficulty of many conflict situations – key actors might not truly want any resolution, or key populations might simply have lost any desire to live together, for example. But there nevertheless came through our discussions a sense of widening recognition of global interest and responsibility in reducing conflict, matched by a gradual increase in the understanding of instruments available and in readiness and competence to use them. We doubted whether it would be practicable to formalise any official list of "at-risk" situations to help focus and prioritise international action, but timely sensitivity to them was improving; and we were sure that heightened effort both to monitor the present and to understand and disseminate the lessons of the past would reap dividends in the future.
Chairman: Dr David A Hamburg
President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York
General John de Chastelain
Chairman, Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, Northern Ireland; formerly Chief of the Defence Staff
Mr John G Cockell
Associate, Conflict Analysis and Development Unit, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Mr David M Malone
President, International Peace Academy
Monsieur Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Cour des Comptes; formerly Ambassador to WEU
Dr Dominique Moïsi
Deputy Director, IFRI
Ambassador Dr Hansjörg Eiff
Formerly Permanent Representative to OSCE
Professor Dr Helmut Hubel
Chair, Foreign Policy and International Relations, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena
Dr Winrich Kühne
Director, Research Institute for International Affairs, SWP
Lieutenant General Sir Mike Jackson KCB CBE
Commander, NATO ACE Rapid Reaction Corps
Dr Kennedy Graham
Director, Planning and Coordination, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Stockholm
HE Mr Jan Eliasson
Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Sir Leonard Appleyard KCMG
Senior Adviser, Barclays Capital; formerly Ambassador to China
Mr Anthony R Brenton
Director, Global Issues, FCO
Dr Edgar Buckley
Assistant Under Secretary (Home and Overseas), Ministry of Defence
Dr Andrew Cottey
Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
Mr Simon Fuller CMG
Head, UK Delegation to OSCE
Main TV presenter/anchor, BBC World
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Policy and Practice Adviser on Emergencies, Save The Children Fund
Dr Rosalind Marsden
Head, United Nations Department, FCO
Ms Sally Morphet
Global Issues Research Group, FCO
Dr Oliver Ramsbotham
Director, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
Mr Roland Smith CMG
Ambassador-designate to Ukraine; formerly Director, International Security, FCO
Mr Nick Stockton
Emergencies Director, OXFAM
Dr Michael C Williams
Senior Consultant, Office of the High Commission, UNHCR
Dr Jane E Holl
Executive Director, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
Professor Bruce W Jentleson
Program of Political Science, University of California, Davis, Washington Center
Mrs Wendy W Luers
President, The Foundation for a Civil Society
The Honorable William H Luers
President-designate, US United Nations Association
The Honorable Stanley O Roth
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of State
Professor Barnett R Rubin
Director, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations
The Honorable Cyrus R Vance KBE
Formerly Secretary of State
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Director, African Studies and Conflict Management Programs, Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies


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Q: Sencha Touch 2.4.1, bug with iPhone scrolling A bug appeared after I upgraded the sencha touch fw from 2.3 to 2.4.2.
From time to time, when I scroll down or up the application, all the page scroll, and a black screen appear up or down...
This issue i random on iPhone.
Some people already experimented this issue ?
Thank you !

A: We have investigate this issue.
This issue appear when we try to scroll a list and some  link are in the item template.
Scrolling with a finger on the link make the screen moves, scrolling with a finger outside the link the list scroll normally.
For the moment, as the application is in production, we just downgrade sencha to 2.3.1, and it's working.
So we stick on sencha 2.3.1 for the moment, and try to address the issue later.

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Currently serving as the Director of eDiscovery for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
Bradley Koehler is a Senior Director in the Forensic Technology Services group within Alvarez & Marsal's Disputes and Investigations practice in New York. He brings more than 10 years of experience in electronic discovery management, applied data analytics and development of solutions to information technology issues that arise from complex litigation, bankruptcy, investigations and other types of disputes.
Mr. Koehler specializes in advising and delivering services across the full spectrum of the electronic discovery process from information governance, preservation and identification to collection and processing through review and production. He has significant experience managing large document reviews, which have involved technology assisted review, advanced analytics and the use of third party data mining and investigation tools.
He has worked with clients in a variety of industries, including banking, financial services, pharmaceuticals, health care, industrials and manufacturing, technology and telecommunications, oil and gas, government agencies and Am Law 100 / 250 law firms.
Currently, Mr. Koehler leads the electronic discovery team for the Lehman Brothers Holdings bankruptcy. Over the course of more than seven years, he has supported more than 400 matters and the collection and processing of more than 750 million documents, which required the design and implementation of a proprietary system to facilitate searching and tracking. He has had oversight of hundreds of document reviews involving more than 30 million documents on multiple review platforms.
Mr. Koehler has significant experience supporting, migrating and validating enterprise information archiving tools, including Iron Mountain Digital Archive, Microsoft Online, Microsoft Office 365, Mimecast, Google Postini, Global Relay, Smarsh, Bloomberg Vault and Autonomy. He led the team that designed and implemented a proprietary in-house information archive for the Lehman Brothers Holdings estate which houses more than three billion messages.
Before joining A&M, Mr. Koehler spent three years with Huron Consulting Group's Legal Consulting practice in New York. While there, he worked on a number of projects involving electronic discovery, applied data analytics and enterprise information technology applications for client engagements in New York, Chicago, Scottsdale and Dallas.
Mr. Koehler earned a bachelor's degree, with honors, in industrial and systems engineering from Lehigh University.


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Kuo: AirPods 3 and iPad Pro with mini-LED Display Launching in H1 2021
Posted by Rajesh Pandey on Nov 13, 2020 in AirPods, News
TFI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that Apple plans on launching the AirPods 3 and an iPad with a mini-LED display in the first half of the year.
The analyst claims that the AirPods 3 will feature a design similar to the existing AirPods Pro with a shorter stem and replaceable ear tips. They will also switch to a System-in-Package design similar to the existing AirPods Pro which is different from the rigid-flex PCB + SMT design the existing AirPods use.
There's no word on what other improvements AirPods 3 will bring to the table, though longer battery life could certainly be one of them. Apple is seemingly also working on a new wireless chip for its wireless earbuds. Despite sharing the same design as the AirPods Pro, the upcoming AirPods 3 will not feature ANC.
As per Kuo, Chinese company Jialianyi will receive component orders from Apple for AirPods 3 which will boost its Q2 2021 revenues and profits. The Chinese company is expected to become a major partner in Apple's supply chain thanks to its flexible soft board technology which offers a more flexible way of connecting components while still allowing them to transfer data at highs speeds and low-latency.
Kuo also claims that Apple will be launching an iPad mini-LED display in the first half of 2021. The soft board components used inside this iPad will also be supplied by Jialianyi.
Apple tends to hold a media event in March in the quarter of every year. It is possible that in March 2021, the company ends up announcing the AirPods 3, AirTags, AirPods Studio — its rumored over-ear headphones, and the iPad Pro lineup with a mini-LED display.
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The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison: review
This novel, longlisted for the Orange Prize, has not been reviewed - until now, by Jane Shilling
By Jane Shilling
2:40PM GMT 18 Mar 2010
Every longlist contains a handful of depth charges. That is the main reason for allowing a longlist to escape from the seclusion of the judging room – to roam about in the pages of newspapers, drawing attention to itself.
The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
This year's Orange Prize longlist is duly accompanied by some surprises. Among them is Rosie Alison, a film producer whose debut, The Very Thought of You, was launched by its small publisher to a resounding silence. Not a single review appeared in the books pages of the national newspapers.
For a first novel not to be critically noticed is not so very astonishing. Only a tiny number of the novels published each year can be noticed in the newspapers. Small publishers learn to rely on other forms of publicity – blogs, book groups, prize nominations. Alison's debut has attracted a handsome handful of these. So have the literary editors of the nationals carelessly ignored a literary gem?
Alison's novel sprang from an act of family piety. She describes how her father gave her a batch of papers belonging to a cousin, the diplomat Sir Clifford Norton. Sir Clifford and his wife appear as minor characters in the story of Anna Sands, an eight-year-old girl who is evacuated at the outbreak of war to Ashton Park, a Palladian mansion on the North Yorkshire moors.
It is owned by Thomas and Elizabeth Ashton, a childless couple with a heavy burden of family misfortune. Thomas's two elder brothers were killed in the First World War, his sister died in the flu epidemic, and he caught polio soon after his marriage and is confined to a wheelchair. By the time Anna arrives, her hosts' marriage is wretchedly unhappy.
What follows is a rite-of-passage novel, as Anna grows up, her sensibility both enriched and haunted by the complicated and dangerous grown-up world of love that she witnesses at Ashton.
Assiduous research is evident in Alison's novel, together with the influences of D H Lawrence, Elizabeth Bowen, Olivia Manning, L P Hartley and Mary Wesley. Her story is elegantly constructed, with a plangent dying fall of a twist in the final scene, and richly patinated with the desires and regrets of country-house living.
The trouble is Alison's characters. There are far too many of them, and they all have the same problem – of being out of love with the person that they're married to, and keen to hook up with someone else.
The narrative monotony is compounded by an omniscient third-person narrator who tells us what everyone is feeling, in terms that fail to distinguish between one character and another. Thus Anna, about to leave home, "looked up at her mother with unblinking eyes. In the years to come, she would remember that fragile day, its touchless light, their quiet elations." This is a determined stab at evocative writing, but what does it actually mean? What is touchless light? What are quiet elations?
The Very Thought of You is a pleasant, competent book. Thousands like it are published every year. But consider the heart-stopping opening passage of Alison's fellow Orange longlister, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, in which the beaten child Thomas Cromwell, lies on the ground, bleeding and thinking, "I'll miss my dog", and you may conclude that in the selection of their longlist, the Orange Prize judges have given themselves a task as problematic as trying to compare cupcakes and turnips.
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By the Reverend Chad E. Jarnagin, founding Rector of Luminous Parish in Franklin, TN, an AMiA Church.
Today more than ever, we are in need of The Table. Not just any table. A great big table with plenty of room for everyone. Our society seems to be disoriented, fatigued and misunderstood. What better space than a feast to regain our composure, health and bearings? Enter Luminous Parish, an Anglican mission to Nashville/Franklin and Middle Tennessee.
Greater Nashville now has 2 million people and a growth rate of 100 people per day. Over the next six years another million people are expected to move to the area. Cities as far as 45 miles south are growing. These are exciting times to be around Nashville. The music scene is better than ever, and country music is one of the last things you think about once here. (Thanks be to God.) These are also exciting times for parish life.
Isn't it interesting and beautiful to think about how Christ himself gave us his body and blood to reorient his Church? Jesus performed his first miracle at a wedding feast where he turned water into wine. Hallelujah! On the night he was betrayed, he broke bread and drank wine with his brothers/disciples. After his resurrection, he wasn't even recognized by some of the same brothers until he was known in the breaking of the bread. In times when our identity can be hijacked by our broken world, Jesus is still known to us in the breaking of the bread.
From observing the unsustainable pace that our culture is operating at, it shouldn't take us long to realize that we are fraying at the edges. We are divided and at odds over the smallest issues. It has been said that "when you have more than enough, build a bigger table, not a higher fence." What if the Anglican Way flourished into our true Via Media? At Luminous, we believe that is precisely what we should be doing.
Through Anglican history and even back to Celtic spirituality, we see that belonging can lead to believing. So many in our society don't feel they have a place to belong. A friend of ours mentioned that she was too conservative for liberals and too liberal for conservatives. Take that in addition to far too many having a turbulent past with the Church, and it is no wonder that the number of professing Christians in the U.S. is shrinking. If we continue to major in minors, we will continue being distracted by games instead of being about the work of the people and the way of Jesus. As Anglicans, we practice the liturgy so that we become the liturgy.
The case for three-stream church planting has resonated with many of us for years. Over time, we had to patiently process the ideas to learn what it would begin to mean for us. Scripture, Sacrament and Spirit is more Anglican than many would have ever imagined. There are layers to the tethering that bring us together. When one-third of your parish comes from a liturgical background, another third from charismatic movements and the last third from Methodist or Baptist traditions, you have a healthy collection of families finding a home within three-stream Anglicanism. That is what we have found to be the reality of Luminous Parish.
From the first time I met anyone affiliated with AMiA, I quickly learned that they were people hoping to pay attention to what God was doing here in the U.S. and around the world. Though we all tend to gravitate toward others who are like us, the way in which AMiA fills the need for diverse perspectives is one of the things that makes it distinctive.
In Middle Tennessee, we Anglicans aren't simply "playing nice;" we are actually serving with one another. We find rectors, assistant priests and deacons serving in one another's churches. We watch as our children join one another for Creation Care Camp during the summer. And these are just examples—the list goes on. We hope to build on this posture of cooperation.
From an Anglican mission in Middle Tennessee, we have begun to communicate with one another and continually hope to open more opportunities for formative connection and support. There are leadings for future church plants, apostolic efforts and community integration. We're collectively encouraged about the presence and stirrings of AMiA in Middle Tennessee. It has given Luminous a place of belonging. The work of the people seems to be building momentum in deep, rooted and meaningful ways.
The Reverend Chad E. Jarnagin is the founding Rector of Luminous Parish. He is an ordained Anglican priest. With a passion to introduce, curate and develop catechesis, ancient spirituality and contemplation, Fr. Chad respects intentional pace for spiritual formation. Fr. Chad has a master's certificate from Berklee College of Music and is pursuing more higher education with Veritas College, seeking to earn a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies. He has been a recognized musician, songwriter, liturgist and communicator while being on mission for over 20 years. Chad+ is also the founder of Luminous Project and Luminous CITY.
He and his wife Jennifer, a Montessori educator, have three sons and live in historic Franklin, Tennessee. He continues his family's heritage by coaching baseball in the local youth league with his oldest son.


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SELAB-Book-Manager
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GAE-based application that can manage book information by using  a spreadsheet and APIs on Google Docs.

I configured my lab's email infrastructure by using Google Apps on 2010,
and people in my lab are using email/calendar service based on Google Apps until now.

There were so many public books in my lab and they were not managed well.
To make it easier for the people to use the books, I developed a kind of book rental system on top of Google Application Engine (GAE)
and connected with my lab's Google Apps.

People who need to borrow books require to connect a book rental page by using their ID of Google Apps and
check available books, then click `borrow` button after getting books physically.
Student who was chosen as a book master will be notified about borrowing and returning of books, through email.

Everyone was happy with this project.

Screenshots
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Click to view original images.
### Log-in
[![Login](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/Login_th.png)](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/Login.png)

### Main Page
[![MainPage](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/MainPage_th.png)](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/MainPage.png)

### Main Page2
[![MainPage2](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/MainPage2_th.png)](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/MainPage2.png)

Download
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`git clone git://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager.git`

Usage & Development
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Click to view original images.

### Spreadsheet Settings
This project work with a Google Spreadsheet document containing three sheets.

##### BookList Sheet
[![SpreadSheet1](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/SpreadSheet1_th.png)](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/SpreadSheet1.png)

##### History Sheet
[![SpreadSheet2](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/SpreadSheet2_th.png)](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/SpreadSheet2.png)

This sheet also has information about \# of books and \# of names

##### Name Sheet
[![SpreadSheet3](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/SpreadSheet3_th.png)](https://github.com/gigony/SELAB-Book-Manager/raw/master/Screenshots/SpreadSheet3.png)

`Name + Email address`

Each sheet has a unique address for accessing information from the sheet such as:
  * BookList - http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/ttRHdk6wziK4H-gC_ISC-UA/od6/private/full
  * History - http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/ttRHdk6wziK4H-gC_ISC-UA/od7/private/full
  * Name - http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/ttRHdk6wziK4H-gC_ISC-UA/od4/private/full

    (You can not access those addresses because those are private sheets)

Change above addresses in code to use this project for your own project.

And add 'SEBookManager.p12' certificate file to `WEB-INF/` folder after creating a service account in Google Developers Console.

License
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[SELAB-Book-Manager is made available under the MIT license.](http://gigony.mit-license.org/2010)

TODO
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  * Refactoring code (Currently, I have no plan to update)

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These wholesale ostrich drabs range in size from 8-10 inches long. You will get 1/2 lb of these dyed light pink ostrich body plumage feathers. You get approximately 350 feathers in this bulk pack and they are packed by weight so quantity and length will vary by +/- 10%.
You will need approximately 20 to 30 feathers for table centerpiece and 8-10" are suitable for vase between 18" and 24" vase. This is a good size for starters who is on budget. Feathers are naturally molted, clean, sanitized and ready to be used.
You can use these feathers for bouquets, carnival, floral arrangements, Halloween costume, headband making, fly tying, Mardi Gras, mask making, party decorations and other crafting purpose.
Wholesale and quantity discount is available on these ostrich drab feathers. They are in stock for immediate shipment.


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Specifically, you can have a sliver of a tile near an entryway where you step and it will crack (lesson learned from the last tile I put tile in this bathroom exactly 10 days after we moved in on Dec 20, 2004 and completed the tiling on Jan 1, 2005).
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At Cutting Edge Illusions we have built our facilites to support the repair and painting of vehicles and toys of all shapes and sizes. With over 17,000 square feet of space in the Phoenix Industrial Park in Eugene, OR, we can support vehicles from as small as bicycles and helmets, to as large as Prevost buses and eighteen wheel fleets. All of our work is completed within our facility and never outdoors.
We have a total of four booths: one large, one automotive, one infrared dryer, and one for fiberglass fabrication. We also have a 22x8x8 powder coat oven, pretreatment wash statation and a 60x16x16 media blasting booth.
We are located in a secure lot with automatic gates that are secured at night and on the weekends. Our lot has ample room and access for the largest of vehicles and trailers.
Our fifty-six foot side down draft booth is sixteen feet tall and sixteen wide. This unit includes two make-up air units with one million BTU of heat capcity each circulating a total of fifty-six thousand cfm of air at optimum application temperatures. This booth is large enough to support and entire plane, bus, or big rig as well as large batches of smaller items.
Our fifty-five foot cross flow booth also supports additional large fleet, trailers, and recreational vehicles as well as over flow space for large batch and smaller items.
Our sixty foot cross flow booth is the third coach booth and is primarily used for fleet and recreational vehicle repairs and repaints. It is equipped with pneumatic lifts that allow our painters to move the length of the unit while elevated to efficiently apply material to tall units.
Our semi down draft, twenty-four foot booth has a one million BTU make-up air unit for temperature control. This booth is perfect for smaller projects including cars and light duty trucks, accessories and powersports.
Our twenty-four foot infrared drying booth enables faster and harder curing of finishes.
Our full mixing bank, mixing computer, and color camera allow us to mix both custom colors and stock OEM colors in exactly the quantity needed for the project.