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Most significant projects
- January 2013: World's largest solar cooking class takes place in India - On January 19, 2013, middle school students gathered on the grounds of JES College in Jalna, India to be trained in the use of a simple solar panel cooker. After a quick breakfast, and guidance from 205 trainers, a record-breaking 2,044 students assembled their own solar cooker and placed prepared ingredients inside to cook. After speaker presentations, they were able to enjoy the lunch they had cooked themselves. This event, sponsored by Simplified Technology for Life, demonstrates that India is quite serious about introducing solar cooking to young students.
- April 2010: Gadhia Solar Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd. recently completed installation of an enormous solar steam cooking system, capable of cooking 40,000-50,000 meals per day. It is located at Shirdi Saibaba temple in Shirdi, Maharashtra, India. With nearly 30,000 visitors each day, the temple's dining halls are some of the largest in India. The solar steam cooking system is comprised of seventy-three rooftop-mounted Scheffler reflectors of sixteen square meters each. The dishes concentrate sunlight on receivers that contain water, generating steam that is piped down to the kitchen for cooking purposes. To maintain constant focus with the sun, the dishes automatically rotate throughout the day after being manually aligned once each morning. The solar steam cooking system is retrofitted to existing liquid petroleum gas-powered steam boilers that are still used in the evening and during prolonged periods of inclement weather. Though the solar steam cooking system cost nearly $300,000, government subsidies reduced the temple's portion to about $170,000. Liquid petroleum gas use has been cut by roughly 100,000 kilograms each year, for an annual savings of approximately $45,000. The temple should recoup its investment in three to four years. According to company founder Deepak Gadhia, the solar steam cooking technology was originally developed in Germany. However, the equipment does not contain imported components and is manufactured with local machinery and labor, creating much-needed jobs. Gadhia has adapted the system for use in India, and has installed 50 such systems of varying sizes over the past two decades. The March edition of CNN's Eco Solutions program highlights the Shirdi Saibaba temple solar steam cooking system.
- See other Most significant solar cooking projects worldwide.
- NEW: January 16-22, 2017: (Vadodara, Gujarat,) Solar Cookers International is organizing the next solar cooking conference to take place at the Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj (near Vadodara), Gujarat, India from 16-22 January, 2017. Topics to be addressed include: solar cooking, solar food processing, energy policy, and solar thermal industrial applications. More information...
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News and Recent Developments
- May 2013: It was a solar week at Barli Development Institute for Rural Women in which a week-long solar cooker training of SK-14 solar cookers was organised at the Institute's campus (5-11 May 2013). The training was attended by 26 trainee-women of the outgoing 104th batch of women trainees. The rural and tribal women trainees eagerly learnt the process of assembling the solar cookers, cooking various dishes, and maintaining the cookers. The training was conducted by Mr. Yogesh Jadhav (Chief Operating Officer, Barli Institute) who took over from Mr. Jimmy McGilligan when he retired from the Institute in April 2011. After the training each of the trainees promised to save the environment and use the solar cookers.
- April 2013: LPG cylinder replacment is slow and unpredictable - Gautam Raja reports that is his area gas customers will first receive two cylinders of fuel when they establish their gas service. But when they run out, replacement can take over two weeks. Deliveries arrive unannounced, so the customer may miss it, and have to start the process all over again. Many residents have switched over to electrical induction cook tops, but the power supply can be less than reliable. Concerned about missing his morning chai, Gautam then discovered solar cookers, and was amazed by their capabilities. They help fill the gap, that is until the monsoon season. Read more...
- February 2013: Solar cooking and processing workshops in India - Celestino Ruivo, of the Instituto Superior de Engenharia da Universidade do Algarve in Portugal, traveled to India at the end of January to attend the 1st International Solar Food Processing Network workshop at the Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. He brought with him 50 kg. of solar cooking bagage: 8 black pots, 16 glasses of windows cloth washing machines, corrugated sheet metal, reflective foil and tools to make low cost and effective portable funnel cookers. Creatively, Celestino used his suitcase as the mold to construct examples of his solar funnel cooker in concrete. He also gave a lecture about solar cooking and how to construct a funnel cooker at the CT institute in Punjab for more than 300 students, as well teaching solar cooking for ladies in domestic context at Jalandhar. The eight funnel cookers were donated to friends in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Muni Seva Ashram, Vadodara, Jalandhar and New Delhi.
- February 2013: The Solar Food Processing Network (SFPN) held a regional workshop in January 2013 at the Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. This gathering was a follow-up to the 2009 AFPN conference held in Indore, India in 2010. Workshop participants heard from food marketing and technology experts. Conference organizers, Deepak Gadhia and Rolf Behringer held discussions on local and international marketing, village industries, packaging, policy interventions, R&D, and effective monitoring and evaluation of projects. Attendees discussed the formation of an international solar food standard and shared their own practical experiences using solar technology for food processing. Visit the Solar Food Processing Network to see a muscial video of the event and videos of solar food processing projects in Burkina Faso.
- January 2013: World's largest solar cooking class takes place in India - On January 19, 2013, middle school students gathered on the grounds of JES College in Jalna, India to be trained in the use of a simple solar panel cooker. After a quick breakfast, and guidance from 205 trainers, a record-breaking 2,044 students assembled their own solar cooker and placed prepared ingredients inside to cook. After speaker presentations, they were able to enjoy the lunch they had cooked themselves. This event, sponsored by Simplified Technology for Life, demonstrates that India is quite serious about introducing solar cooking to young students.
- January 2013: Parabolic community solar cookers used for midday meals in rural schools - WOTR is a nonprofit organization that has been operating in five Indian states since the early nineties. They have untaken a unique solar cooking project targeting Zilla Parishad primary schools in the Sangamner and Akole taluka of the Ahmadnagar district. The objective was to find ways to help prepare their midday meal. Currently, twenty-three solar cookers are in service. After a careful study of all options, it was decided to deploy the PRINCE - 40 parabolic solar cooker, designed by Ajay Chandak, for the pilot installation in fifty-three villages across three states – Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh. Most of the schools where these cookers are installed are using them as main source of energy for the mid-day meals. Read more about the project at: A Report on Deployment of Parabolic Community Solar Cookers for Midday Meals in Rural Schools
- December 2012: Indian Government's Ambitious New Solar Cooking Policy - Deepak Gadhia reports that the Indian government has announced a very ambitious Solar Cooking Policy under the Jawharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, JNSSM Phase II Targets for "Solar Cookers and Steam Generating Systems will include: At-least 100 institutions that would deploy solar cookers (Likely Solar Steam and Thermic Fluid System Cooking Systems for Institutional Cooking for 500 + people); Around 25,000 installations of solar cooking devices in schools for mid day meals. (Likely Scheffler Cookers, PRINCE 40, 60 and other mid-size solar cookers that can cook for 50+ people; An overall target of deployment of 50,000 solar cookers would be set in Phase II of JNNSM. (Likely the SK 10/ Sk 14/ Prince 15, etc. for domestic cooking).
- November 2012: Regional Solar Food Processing Network to be established in India - Rolf Behringer reports that the German NGO WISIONS has agreed to support the establishment in India of the first regional Solar Food Processing Network. A workshop to inaugurate this effort will take place in early 2013 (date and location to be announced). The aim of the Solar Food Processing Network (SFPN) is to establish a global network of interested parties (NGOs, governments, farmers, and manufacturers) to develop and promote efficient methods of solar food processing and conservation. These are intended to help reduce poverty, improve local economic opportunities and health, and decrease environmental damage. In countries with high solar insolation, effective solar thermal production technologies will contribute to the sustainable development of small rural communities. SFPN is managed by the German NGO Solare Zukunft (Solar Future in English). It is financially supported by WISIONS, an initiative of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy to foster practical sustainable energy projects.
- November 2012: The Times of India reports that the Akshardham temple in the capital has switched from piped natural gas to solar technology for cooking its daily quota of close to 4,000 meals every day. The solar concentrator, named ARUN®100, produces steam which powers the cooking process. Read more...
- May 2012: The Telegraph of Calcutta reports that State Animal and Fish Resources Minister Giriraj Singh will not be affected if the government of India cuts subsidies for LPG cooking gas and kerosene. He has started using solar cookers to prepare meals at home. Fearing a rise in cooking gas prices, he has already started using solar cookers. He has also urged the state energy minister, Vijendra Prasad Yadav, to come up with a plan to reduce the dependence of government buildings on traditional sources of power. Solar energy, the minister suggested, would be a suitable alternative.
- March 2012: To save the Golden Temple from the ill-effects of pollution the Punjab Energy Development Agency(PEDA) is developing a plan to prepare a daily meal of Langar dal with the help of a solar steam cooking system. PEDA is the governmental agency promoting renewable energy within Punjab, India. To prepare Langar dal for 50,000 to 60,000 devotees daily at the Golden Temple, requires one ton (909 kg) of dal to be cooked each day. A recent study has shown cooking dal with the help of steam will save at least 25 LPG cylinders and also keep the environment pollution-free. PEDA chairman Manjeet Singh said they would bear the entire project cost.
- March 2012: China and India lead the world in large scale solar cooking projects. Dar Curtis of Solar Household Energy recently researched where large scale solar cooking projects are happening around the world. The projects in African refugee camps are fairly well known, but institutional projects and the high-use of solar cookers is happening primarily in Asia. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has registered eight solar cooker projects in China since 2009. A total of 207,000 parabolic solar cookers have been distributed, serving 848,000 people. In India, CDM registered a Gold Standard project in 2006. The Gadhia Solar company has created institutional kitchens with arrays of large parabolic solar concentrators to generate steam. Such an installation at Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, can produce meals for 38,500 pilgrims per day. Read more from his well-documented report. Some Big Solar Cooking Project in Asia, December 2011
- February 2012: The Solar Fire TinyTech Concentrator has been developed by the TinyTech company for use as either a village power source, or to generate steam for institutional cooking. It measures 90 sq. meters and is a fixed focus completely folding concentrator, not requiring any foundation in the ground.
- February 2012: Medical colleges including those owned by the State Governments across the country are gearing up to do their bit to tackle climate change by adopting environment-friendly measures. the Medical Council of India (MCI) has proposed that colleges give emphasis to promotion of national bio-gas and manure management programs (NBMMP), national biomass cook-stove programs (NBCP), and solar cooking systems according to their suitability to ensure sustainability." Read More... - The Pioneer
- February 2012: Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Farooq Abdullah, noted at a recent seminar in Ambala, India, that the rapid rise in the use of fossil fuels has threatened exhaustion of conventional energy sources in the country. He said most of the energy required in the industry, transportation and agriculture field is generated from fossil fuels like coal, petroleum and natural gas. Farooq said his ministry had chalked out a detailed plan to promote solar cooking. - IBN Live
- January 2012: Private equity firm Zephyr Peacock has reportedly invested $11,000,000 USD in Mumbai-based Gadhia Solar in India.. The solar energy company provides energy solutions by using parabolic concentrated technology and has implemented some of the world's largest solar thermal systems during the past two decades. Read more...
- January 2012: Ajay Chandak reports that in the Indian government's 12th five year plan, 2012-2016, 30000 million INR (approx. 600 million USD) is budgeted for solar cooking in a half a million schools. This will not only help in saving environment, but will expose millions and millions of school children to solar cooking and build the confidence that these systems work. This project is included among Most significant solar cooking projects.
- November 2011: The World Intellectual Property Organization commissioned an extensive report on the state of solar cooking, prepared by Scope e-Knowledge Center Private Limited based in India. Released in August 2011, the report validates the viability of solar cooking, a technology well-suited for a growing portion of the world's population. It also provides a number of examples of various designs that have applied for patents.
- October 2011: The latest PRINCE newsletter announces a scheduled training for Scheffler Reflector Solar Cookers coming January 21 -27, 2012. Next, PRINCE founder Ajay Chandak has received an Energy Conservation Award from the Government of Maharashtra. Also, PRINCE has organized a networking workshop for all stakeholders in the renewable energy business on January 25 - 26, 2012. PRINCE Biogas Plants now approved by MNRE. Read more about these items: PRINCE newsletter, Fall 2011
- June 2011: First Solar Cooking Training on World Environment Day - Janak McGillian reports that Sanawdiya, a village located at the historic Devguradiya Temple, is increasingly affected by smoke from toxic dumps. On World Environment Day, June 4th and 5th, Janak organized a program to combat this smoke. With many guest speakers, the highlight of the program was a demonstartion of solar cooking with a SK-14 parabolic solar cooker. There was considerable interest from the villagers from Sanawadiya and farmers from the surrounding area. Read details of the event at: First Solar Cooking Training on World Environment Day
- January 2011: Government clears plan for sixty solar cities. The Centre will kick off an ambitious scheme to develop sixty solar cities in two years. It will be done in collaboration with city corporations, municipalities and district councils. The focus will be on renewable energy devices such as kitchen waste-based plants, solar water heating systems, solar cooking systems, solar steam generation, drying and air heating systems, solar air-conditioning, bio-mass gasification based systems and biogas.
- January 2011: RNCOS Report Predicts Growth of Solar Cookers in India. RNCOS, market research and information analysis company, in its recent report titled, "Indian Solar Energy Market Outlook 2012", studies the latest trends in the industry by utilizing inputs from the state and central regulatory background of the country. According to the report, the solar cookers in India will witness a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6% in 2010-2013. The report details the rapid growth of solar industry in India and predicts that it will grow more in future. There is a growing demand for solar products in rural areas, and the trend will continue in the future too. The report quotes that the Solar Cookers International has rated India as the foremost country with abundant solar cooking potential. It mentions the various steps taken by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in India in popularizing the usage of solar cookers in government organizations, villages, societies, hostels and hotels. The report also discusses various factors that push the growth of solar cooker market in India.
- December 2010: Institutional solar cooking gains momentum in India. A news release from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, reporting on important activities in 2010, states: Solar concentrating systems, comprising automatically tracked of parabolic dishes, have been found to be useful for generating steam to cook food for hundreds and thousands of people in community kitchens especially at religious places such as Shirdi, Mount Abu, Tirupati etc. The world's largest system is functioning at Shirdi for cooking food for 20,000 people/day. These systems have found good applications for air conditioning and laundry also and a few demonstration plants have recently been installed. A total of around 80 concentrating systems of different capacities covering 25,000 sq.m. of dish area are functioning in the country, largely for cooking purpose. During 2010, 15 such systems were sanctioned covering a dish area of around 3000 sq.m. More Information...
- July 2010: The Ahmedabad-based Self Employed Women's Association has joined forces with the Sierra Club to provide new green jobs and technology for SEWA's 1.5 million members in India. Ninety-three percent of India's workforce remains in the informal sector, said Nanavaty, executive director of SEWA. "The Indian economy is growing tremendously, but how do the rural poor also avail of these opportunities?" Sailesh Rao, president and founder of the San Jose, Calif.-based Climate Healers, said his non-profit organization had come up with two solar cook stoves, one that could slow-cook a meal like rice and daal throughout the day, and another that could prepare rotis almost instantly. Women using the solar stoves could also generate an income by selling their carbon credits, Rao told India-West after the talk, envisioning a plan where the credits could be sold for $11 per metric ton, netting rural women about $4.
- June 2010: India's richest temple - Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), at Tirumala is relying entirely on clean energy to feed over 70,000 people everyday. The temple has installed solar powered lights, solar cooking system, windmills and a water recycling station. "The basic principle is conversion of water into steam energy. We're converting the solar energy into steam energy. The water flows through the pipes and the solar dishes concentrate the solar energy to the concentrators. In the concentrators the water is converted into steam and that steam is utilised for cooking," says Deputy Executive Engineer (Mechanical) KV Raman Rao. The solar array is similar to to the one recently installed in Shirdi, and also uses the Scheffler parabolic solar oven as the basis for their system.
- May 2010: Installation of solar cooking devices at the Vigyan ashram near Puna, India.. A project proposal for the installation of solar cooking devices(16sqm scheffler concentrator, PRINCE 40 solar parabolic cooker, tunnel drier, 12 sqm solar batch drier, Bakery / oven , biogas generator) at the Vigyan ashram was submitted to INDUSA. The proposal has been accepted for VA campus for the year 2010. The civil and foundation work are currently underway. More Information...
- April 2010: Gadhia Solar Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd. recently completed installation of an enormous solar steam cooking system, capable of cooking 40,000-50,000 meals per day. It is located at Shirdi Saibaba temple in Shirdi, Maharashtra, India. With nearly 30,000 visitors each day, the temple's dining halls are some of the largest in India. The solar steam cooking system is comprised of 73 rooftop-mounted reflective dishes of 16 square meters each. The dishes concentrate sunlight on receivers that contain water, generating steam that is piped down to the kitchen for cooking purposes. To maintain constant focus with the sun, the dishes automatically rotate throughout the day after being manually aligned once each morning. The solar steam cooking system is retrofitted to existing liquid petroleum gas-powered steam boilers that are still used in the evening and during prolonged periods of inclement weather. Though the solar steam cooking system cost nearly $300,000, government subsidies reduced the temple's portion to about $170,000. Liquid petroleum gas use has been cut by roughly 100,000 kilograms each year, for an annual savings of approximately $45,000. The temple should recoup its investment in three to four years. According to company founder Deepak Gadhia, the solar steam cooking technology was originally developed in Germany. However, the equipment does not contain imported components and is manufactured with local machinery and labor, creating much-needed jobs. Gadhia has adapted the system for use in India, and has installed 50 such systems of varying sizes over the past two decades. The March edition of CNN's Eco Solutions program highlights the Shirdi Saibaba temple solar steam cooking system.
The History of Solar Cooking in India
India, Asia's second largest country, next to China, has also the second largest number of solar cookers. The situation in India is more complex than that of China. More is also known about Indian programs. The Third World Conference on Solar Cooking was held in India, permitting the history and progress of solar the technology's uses to become better known around the world.
An official government report informs the reader that the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (MNES), Government of India, was established in 1982, first as a Department and later as a Ministry. The Ministry's mandate extends well beyond solar cooking, including fuel efficient wood and charcoal stoves, power from other renewable sources, energy from industrial wastes, research and development in a number of related fields (photovoltaics, biogas, and pollution prevention, for example). MNES began seriously to promote solar cooking in the early 80s, with an initial focus almost entirely on the box cooker.
The population of India is roughly 70% rural. MNES states that "cooking accounts for a major share of the total energy consumption in rural homes (Singhal, correspondence, 2003, p. 1). Sources of that energy are largely fuelwood, animal dung, or crop residues, all of which emit smoke, pollute the atmosphere, and are deterimental to health and safety of family members, particularly women. Fuelwood is become scarcer each year. FAO data show that 21.6% of the Indian land mass is forested, and conservation efforts are in place to reverse previous loss. The effort is affected by the large and dense population and a slowing but still substantial birth rate (continuing to increase at 1.7% per annum, or 17% in a decade). Solar cooking has been viewed as one way to alleviate a number of India's problems and as such was supported by government efforts.
The Press Bureau of the Government of India reported in 2007 that there are 525,000 solar cookers installed in India.[1] The Press Bureau also reported in 2003 that, "The solar cooker programme has been expanded by introducing new designs for community use. Three solar steam cooking systems based on automatic tracking concentrating collective technology for cooking food for 600-3,000 people per day, and one system based on 'Solar Bowl' technology, have been installed. World's largest solar steam cooking system has been installed at Tirumala Tirupati. The system is designed to cook two meals for 15,000 persons in one day. Another system for 2,000 people was erected at Brahmakumaris Ashram in Gurgaon in July, 2002. Three community cookers for indoor cooking have been installed at a training hostel and an NGO's establishment in Leh. In all, six such systems have been installed under the MNES demonstration scheme. A total of 500 dish solar cookers and 60 community solar cookers have been installed so far."[2]
Climate, Culture, and Special Considerations
Solar Cookers International has rated India as the #1 country in the world in terms of solar cooking potential (See: The 25 countries with the most solar cooking potential). The estimated number of people in India suffering from fuel scarcity but with ample sunshine in 2020 is 157,400,000. In December 2007 the Indian Government instituted a program of rebates on various renewable energy devicesincluding solar cookers. Solar cooking has been recommended even in the Rig Veda which says: "All edibles ripened or cooked in the sun's rays change into super medicine, the amrita."
The Economic Times of India reports:
- While 300 million people live below poverty line, making do with energy inefficient dung cakes, twigs and branches and occasional bits of coal, the urban middle class and the rural rich are splurging on cheap petrol, cheaper diesel, even cheaper kerosene, and absurdly cheap LPG.
- The subsidy is massive - hidden by a disingenuous device called oil bonds. Here are some rock solid facts. IOC, HPCL and BPCL are currently losing $137 million a day (i.e., Rs 582 crore per day at Rs 42.50 = $1). They lose Rs 16.34 for each litre of petrol, and Rs 23.49 for each litre of diesel sold in Delhi.
- The subsidy on kerosene at Rs 28.72 per litre is over three times the current retail price; and the subsidy on a cylinder of cooking gas at Rs 306 per cylinder exceeds the retail price. The total under-recovery for the oil marketing companies for 2006-07 was over $19 billion. With oil prices touching $135, under-recoveries can be $50 billion this year, unless retail prices are substantially increased.[3]
In a report presented during the Asian Clean Energy Forum in June 2008, Soma Dutta, Asia regional network coordinator for the Amsterdam-based ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, says that only 45 percent of India's 70 percent rural population have access to electricity, and over 80 percent still rely on firewood as their main cooking fuel. The long hours and big effort spent just gathering firewood give these women little time for education or employment, she adds.[4]
Another take on the social acceptance of solar cooking in India:
Technologies have been failing in the villages for many reasons, but most commonly for lack of market knowledge on the part of the innovator. One example is the solar cooker, which was first developed about 20 years ago. This technology never caught on despite the purported cost savings because it was not created in a way that suited the lifestyles of the individuals using it. The solar stove was most powerful at the times of the strongest sunlight, which was mid-day and early afternoon. The population it was made for were largely village farmers who consumed their big meals by early to mid-morning and then again late at night, after the sun had gone down. In addition to this the stoves were not made in a way that was conducive to Indian-style cooking. The stove had four separate chambers which could boil or slow cook food. Indian cooking is mostly with oil (with the exception of rice) and requires frequent temperature manipulation and flipping and turning which was not possible with the solar stove.[5]
There does however, appear to be references of solar cooking written in ancient Vedic texts:
Sun cooked food improves cellular health and longevity of life. It strengthens health and mind removes three major physical disorders to do with digestion, blood and respiratory system, balances inner body temperatures, life, glows aura and keeps various obstacles away. Sun cooked food has great medicinal value. It enhances intellect, genius. : ' Rig Veda'. - Reference from the princeindia.org website. See: PRINCE
See also
- Explaining the Unexpectedly Low Use of Solar Cookers in Gujarat, India - Girja Sharan and Raju Pandya
- Enhancing the acceptance of solar cooking in India
- July 2006: Integrated Approach for Promoting Solar Cookers in Rural Areas of Tamil Nadu - Dr. Sathyavathi Muthu and Ms. G. Anuradha
- An Analysis of Solar Cooker Usage - Bashir Ahmad
- Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables
Possible funders of solar cooking projects in India
- GEF Small Grants Programme
- See also general guidance on raising funds through grants and donations
- November 2012: Explaining the Unexpectedly Low Use of Solar Cookers in Gujarat, India - Girja Sharan and Raju Pandya
- November 2012: Bashir Ahmad, a Research Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark, provides an analysis of solar cooker usage compared to conventional cooking methods. Data was collected for the study in India and Burkina Faso in the 80's and 90's. An Analysis of Solar Cooker Usage - Bashir Ahmad
- February 2012: Patricia McArdle attended a workshop dealing with the construction and proper alignment techniques for Scheffler Community Kitchens in Dhule, India: Read her report.
- January 2009: Watermelon Processing in Integrated Solar Heater, Cooker, and Dryer - P.C. Pande
- January 2009: Thematic Studies for Processing and Preservation of Foods with Solar Energy - Ranjita Bezbaruah Sharma
- January 2009: Fortification of Solar Dried Fruit Bars -G. Sarojini, V. Veena, M. Ramakrishna Rao
- January 2009: Perspectives of Solar Food Processing in India - C. Palaniappan
- January 2009: Micro-Enterprises in Solar Food Processing - M. Ramakrishna Rao, D.J. Rao, S.L. Kumar
- January 2009: Food Processing Through Solar Energy - Ghanshyam Lukhi
- January 2009: Promotion of SK14 Solar Cookers through an Eco Center- Case Study of a Unique North-South Co-operation - Dr. Shirin Gadhia
- January 2009: Promotion of Smoke Free Villages in Chittoor District & Employment Generation to Rural Youth - Jagadeeswara Reddy
- January 2009: Advancing towards achievement of Millennium Development Goals by training Rural and Tribal women in Solar Food Processing - A Hands-on Experience at Barli Development Institute for Rural Women in Central India - Dr. Janak Palta McGilligan
- August 2008: A Solar Cooking Day
- July 2006: Disseminsation of Solar Cooker Information - Mamata Dutta
- July 2006: Sustainable Energy Policies for Promotion of Solar Cookers in India - Sudha Mahalingam
- March 2003: India's solar cooker program - Solar Cooker Review
- June 2001 S. Narayanaswamy Sheds Light on Solar Cooking - India Together
- May 1999: Solar Cooking Technology - How Far are Technology Promoters and Users From Each Other?
Articles in the media
- June 2013: 'Go solar for healthier food' - The Times of India
- April 2013: Vintage Visakha organized a demonstration of solar cooking at its office at Abidnagar. Solar cooking demo held - The Hindu
- March 2013: Solar City on the beam - The New Indian Express
- November 2012: Sun fuels hearth at Akshardham - The Times of India
- October 2012: Major Indian pilgrimage centres going green - AAJKI KABAR
- June 2012: Gujarat septuagenarian taps solar power - Daily News and Analysis
- June 2012: Ambaji temple goes green - The Times of India
- April 2012: Soon, Golden Temple may dish out solar-cooked langar - The Indian Express
- February 2012: Medical colleges into green mode for change - The Pioneer
- February 2012: Farooq for encouraging renewable energy sources - IBN Live
- December 2011: Plan to reap benefits of solar cooking system - The Hindu
- June 2011: Shirdi's Prasadalaya achieves a first, using solar energy to make meals for devotees - Daily India.com
- May 2011: Gurgaon goes green - Hindustan Times
- August 2010: Sierra Club Helps Bring Green Jobs to India - The Bay Citizen
- July 2010: Renewal Energy Park in India Set to Open During October 2010 - A to Z Cleantech
- June 2010: Smoke-free solar cooker cooks up interest in this tiny hamlet - The Times of India
- November 2009: "Every [Indian] individual/household should have a solar cooker," says Arvind Virmani, Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
- October 2009: Mass-market U.N. carbon scheme finds favor in India - Reuters
- July 2009: Economic Survey urges Indian Government to eliminate cooking fuel/kerosene subsidies and ensure rural households have a solar cooker and a solar lantern - The Hindu, Business Times
- July 2009: Solar energy to cook 30k meals at university - The Times of India
- February 2008: Bharat hot on solar cookers, new energy - The Times of India
- February 2008: Yes They Could, So They Did - New York Times
- July 2008: India's Temples Go Green - Time Magazine
- June 2008: India tackles climate change with renewable energy - The Guardian (UK)
- June 2008: Cooking with the sun - The Hindu
- June 2008: Kitchen for poor kids go high-tech (solar) in state homes - Express India
- June 2008: Gujarat industry opposed fuel price hikes - Thaindian News
- March 2008: Rewriting the Books in Ladakh - Cultural Survival Quarterly
- March 2008: Black carbon pollution emerges as major player in global warming - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- February 2008: Fiscal policy to act as a tool to lighten the oil shock - The Economic Times
- February 2008: Govt looking for consultants to tap CDM benefits - The Economic Times
- January 2008: Everything under the sun - The Times of India
- July 2007: Holy smoke! Religious places too earning carbon credits - The Times of India
- April 2007: UN engages banks to light up rural India; Solar loans, energy access transform life for poor - EurekAlert
- March 2007: Solar cookers save Indian emissions - NDTV.com
Audio and Video
|June 2006: Video showing the Smokeless Village where all inhabitants cook with solar cookers
Deepak Gadhia's efforts promoting various solar powered projects.
External links
- A Solar Cooking Day in India
- Solar Cooking on the Roof - David Delaney
- Google search showing English translations of pages containing the words for "solar cooker" in Hindi
Indian solar cooking blogs
Manufacturers and vendors
Government agencies
Educational institutions
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An escape to Tuscany is a wonderful option for holidays to Italy. See the famous works of art in Florence, including Michelangelo's statue of David and the Uffizi Gallery, take a stroll along the Ponte Vecchio or even climb up to the Piazalle Michelangelo for a panoramic view of the city.
Of course, the rural aspects of Tuscany are also not to be missed, and escorted tours to Italy will give you the chance to see the hillside vineyards, explore the sun-kissed villages and taste the mouthwatering cuisine that the region is famous for.
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Whether you are intrigued by fashion, history, architecture or simply the Parisian way of life, a trip to Paris won't disappoint - and a cruise along the Seine is a fantastic way to see landmarks like Notre Dame, the Hotel de Ville and the Eiffel Tower.
Alternatively, you could get away from the hustle and bustle of the city during holidays to France in order to see what else the country has to offer.
Normandy, Burgundy and the Rhone Valley are three excellent destinations, while those looking for some sand and sunshine may want to consider Nice and the Riviera.
River boat tours are one popular way to explore Germany, with options including voyages along the Danube, Rhine or Elbe.
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Or why not opt for a Baltic cruise that sails from Dover to St Petersburg, with stops in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki?
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We offer a great atmosphere with outings daily to places like Kingston Mines – a great blues club to our regular pub crawls, comedy nights, free meals & BBQ's, bike rides and a whole lot more. We're always trying to save you money and time and offer many discounted attraction passes, transit passes and the ability to keep your workout routine while on the move. We also offer private parking on site, free housekeeping service, linens and towels and complimentary fast WI-FI around the building.
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Take the Blue Line to the Jackson stop, transfer to the Red Line towards Howard, exit at Fullerton, walk east on Fullerton, turn left on Orchard, walk one block and turn right on Arlington, Chicago Getaway Hostel is on left.
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Take any bus East on Jackson to Dearborn, take either #22 or #36 bus North to Arlington and Clark, walk across the street to Arlington Place and walk west 1 1/4 blocks to 616 West Arlington Place.
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Walk to Halsted (west two blocks), take bus #8 to Fullerton, walk east on Fullerton, turn left on Orchard, walk one block and turn right on Arlington, hostel is on left.
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Movies, books, and graphic novels depict zombies as undead abominations, hungry and carnivorous for human flesh. According to the tenets of Haitian Vodou, however, zombies are not dead, stalking husks that spread the zombie disease via biological contamination. Instead, zombies are revived by a bokor, or sorcerer, who controls and uses the zombies to complete tasks.
As strange and unbelievable as that may sound, there is an infamous medical case that delved into the reality of a bokor and its ability to turn people into zombies.
On April 30, 1962, Clairvius Narcisse, a Haitian man, checked himself into the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, complaining of body aches, fever, and a general malaise. Soon after checking himself in, though, Narcisse began coughing up blood. Physicians assigned to monitor Narcisse noted that he suffered from digestive disorders, pulmonary edema, hypothermia, respiratory difficulties, and hypotension. Over the next few days, his lips became cyanotic, or the color of blue, and he complained of tingling sensations all over his body.
Come the morning of May 2, two physicians pronounced Narcisse dead. Marie Claire, Narcisse oldest sister, identified his body and signed off on the death certificate.
Narcisse was buried the next day.
Eighteen years later, Narcisse's sister found him walking through a village marketplace, as healthy and vibrant as any other living individual. Narcisse explained that shortly before his death he felt a burning sensation all over his skin, like insects were crawling beneath it. He heard the doctors pronounce him dead and felt the sheet pulled up over his face, but he could not speak or move. He even had a scar from when one of the coffin nails was driven through the wood and into his face.
Bleeding, motionless, Narcisse remained within the coffin, buried alive, until he heard digging and the coffin was lifted out of the ground. Men opened the top, grabbed Narcisse, beat him, gagged him, and dragged his lifeless body to a sugar plantation. There, Narcisse was introduced to the plantations owner, a bokor (sorcerer), who had poisoned Narcisse with a heavy combination of tetrodotoxin (pufferfish venom) and bufotoxin (toad venom). The alleged individual who administered the bokors poison was Narcisses brother, who had a grudge against Narcisse over land ownership.
Once Narcisse was in the bokors possession, the bokor gave him doses of Datura stramonium, a plant with effects that have been likened to sleepwalking, a fugue state or psychotic episodes (particularly in that the subject has minimal control over their actions and little to no recall of the experience).
Narcisse existed in this condition for two years, working on the bokors plantation, where others just like Narcisse were working, too. Each one had been poisoned, pronounced dead, buried, dug up, and then poisoned for prolonged periods of time, so as to function like that of a zombie. The workers toiled for hours, each and every day, until one of the zombie workers fought back and killed the bokor.
The zombie workers simply walked off the plantation, all of them free, including Narcisse, who wandered Haiti for the next sixteen years. He wrote letters to his family, but none of them believed they were real how do you believe a dead man to be alive after two years of silence? It was only after Narcisse's brother died, the one who poisoned Narcisse, when he returned to his family's village, which is when his sister found him walking through the market.


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COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. -- The toxicology results have been released for the man accused of killing a 19-year-old in a car accident.
The tests confirmed that Lucky Wade Jackson's blood alcohol content was 0.281. In Georgia, a BAC over 0.08 is above the legal limit.There were not any drugs in his system.
Jackson is facing charges in Columbia County, including homicide by vehicle and DUI, in the accident that killed Jordan White on Sept. 12.
Investigators say White was turning onto Washington Road from Ronald Reagan Drive when Jackson allegedly ran a red light and slammed in to her. White later died at the hospital.
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Bran Stark assigns two orphan boys from the Winterstown to serve one of his shepherds, Billy and Jack are chosen.[1] When Bran and Rickon Stark escape from the Ironborn occupation they reach the shepherd's farm and see Billy and Jack playing there. Theon Greyjoy hunts them to the farm and then returns to Winterfell with two burned corpses.[2]
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Bran and Rickon do not go to the farm, they only go to the woods, then backtrack to the castle. The wolves go on to lead a false trail for the dogs. Theon's hunt leads him nowhere, but a freed Winterfell prisoner named Reek (actually, Ramsay Snow in disguise) takes them to a mill where he remembers there being two boys. They are not orphans but the miller's sons. Both boys are killed with their mother. Later the boys' bodies are treated as in the TV series to cover the Stark boys' escape. It is unknown where was the miller at that time, and how he reacted when he found his wife dead and his sons missing.


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[conditional use/MAX HP 70 or lower] Send two [subtype: Magic Doll] from your cemetery out of the game, and this unit gets MAX HP+10 and is fully healed.
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Two homemade explosive devices, including one resembling a land mine, have been removed from a home in Pueblo West.
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Besides the device resembling a land mine, investigators describe the second device as similar to a stick of dynamite.
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Eldora Mountain Resort says it will open its 50th anniversary season Friday as a smoke-free environment.
The resort in Nederland says smoking will be banned in lift lines, on the lifts, and within 15 feet of its decks and buildings around the ski area.
Eldora plans to have a 20-inch base with three trails open Friday.
Vail Mountain also opens for the season Friday for its 50th anniversary season. It will be dedicating a new gondola that has cabins with heated seats and Wi-Fi access. The new gondola won't be available for regular operations until later this month.
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Have a grand time on this year's Holiday Home Tour
By: Joyia Emard, Loomis News Staff Writer
Three-story Victorian mansion a highlight
A grand Victorian mansion, hidden away in rural Loomis, will open its doors to the pub-lic for just one day during the Loomis Basin Holiday Home Tour. The three-story, 7,100-square-foot local treasure will be showcased in holiday décor dur-ing the tour, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 11. The home tour is sponsored by the Loomis Basin Education Foundation and benefits the students of the Loomis Union School District. Four other local homes will also be featured on the tour, including a farm estate, a mod-ern-day castle, a country home and a Santa Barbara-inspired villa. Daniel and Glenna Haley have lovingly restored the Victorian, a 19-room, Queen Anne style home, to its original splendor. The couple and their two children, Steven Schneider, 41, and Chelsea, 37, labored on the home for nearly 15 years. Glenna Haley is an accountant and her husband, Daniel, is a certified public accountant. They own Haley and Company, LLP, a CPA firm in Roseville. According to history accounts, William Courtland Pendleton, a Loomis pharmacist, built the home in 1904. The turreted mansion sits on a ridge off Val Verde Road and was once part of a one-square mile parcel, according to Glenna Haley. Information given to the Haleys indicates that Pendleton may have been a "remittance man," from a prominent English family who was sent to live abroad, either in disgrace or because he wasn't a first-born son. Remittance men continued to receive money from England and often replicated their lavish lifestyle in their new homelands. Haley said the palatial home at one time commanded a 360-degree view before nearby trees grew taller and screened it from public view. The home still boasts a spacious wrap-around porch, turrets, a covered carriage entrance, balconies, large kitchen, seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, butler's pantry, parlor, game room and living room. The rooms are tastefully decorated in a traditional style and are filled with antiques. The estate sits on three landscaped acres and includes a pool, tennis courts, gazebo and pasture. When the Haleys bought the home in 1976, it had been through various owners and in the 1960s stood vacant for six months. During that time the home was vandalized. The late Vivian Rasmussen, a longtime Loomis resident, wrote in a historical account of the home, "Anything of value was removed from the interior; all that remained was a shamble." Haley said her family devoted themselves and their finances to restoring the home and took the walls down to the studs because the lath and plaster construction was failing. They were able to redo plumbing, electrical and insulation. Haley said they used dedicated craftsmen to replicate destroyed or stolen pieces of the interior. She said her family lived in the house while the renovation took place, some-thing she would not recommend. "Ten years into it we had second thoughts. We didn't want to cut corners on the renova-tion and had set a high standard for the work we had done, but we were tired of living in construction," Haley said. Haley said they considered abandoning the project and selling, but instead chose to finish and decorate the second floor so they could have some semblance of a normal life. Over the years, she said, all of their friends and extended family, and even their children's friends, had a hand in the renovation. The finished product harkens back to a time when a few stately homes dotted the Loomis Basin. Holiday Home Tour tickets are available in Loomis at Blue Goose Produce, High Hand Nursery and the Flower Farm. For more information, visit lbef.net.


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NYU is required to verify part of their student population applying for federal financial aid. If there are differences between the information reported on the FAFSA and the information gathered through this review, NYU is obligated to make corrections to your application, and your eligibility for federal and/or institutional aid may change as a result.
Because NYU must adhere to compliance standards, it is important to be aware that failure to respond and return the documents in a timely and complete manner will result in a cancellation of federal and need-based financial aid. Please respond to this request in order to avoid cancellation.
To access the required verification documents:
Please note that the review of the verification documents you submit may take about two weeks. Also, if there is information that is unclear or conflicting, NYU may ask you for additional documentation. If additional documentation is needed, you will receive an email directing you to your Albert "To Do" list detailing what is required.
Instructions on how to request a FREE tax return transcript are listed on Page 4 of the Verification Request forms on your Albert "To-Do" list.
For further information about requesting a transcript of your tax return please visit the IRS web site or you may contact the IRS at 1-800-829-1040.
Log in to your Albert Student Center and click on the Verification Worksheet on your To-Do List. Page 7 of the worksheet is a checklist of the documents that you will need to provide which includes:
Below are samples of some of the documents we will request. Not all students will need all of the forms listed. The forms specific to you are located on your Albert "To-Do" list in and in the initial verification request.
Household Verification Form: This form details who should be listed in your household.
Expense Resource Worksheet: This form details your expenses and resources for the tax year.
After the initial review of your submitted documents, we may need to request additional items. Any additional or supporting documentation required will be listed on your Albert "To-Do" list. Below are samples of what may be requested.
Supporting Schedules from your Federal Tax Return: After the initial review of the students/spouse or dependent student parents IRS tax transcript, the Office of Financial Aid may request copies of Schedule A, B, C, D, E or F of your federal tax return.
Proof of Asset Value: The value of cash, checking/savings accounts and investments on the day you completed the FAFSA form are supposed to be reported. If you did not report any value or the value appears low in comparison to your federal tax information you will be required to submit proof of asset value. Copies of statements for bank/investment and/or brokerage accounts which were reported on Schedule B must be submitted, detailing the value of the accounts on the day the FAFSA form was completed. Copies of 1099B forms are not acceptable.
Proof of Food Stamp (SNAP) Benefit: This documentation is requested when a student indicates that either the student, parent, or a member of the student's household receives food stamp benefits.
The student will need to provide a signed statement indicating receipt of benefit. In addition you may be asked to provide a letter from your county/state agency that provides the benefit showing that a member of the household has received it.
Business Information/Value: If your federal tax returns indicate your or the parents of a dependent student own a business this form will determine if the value of that business is supposed to be reported on the FAFSA form.
Real Estate Information/Value: If your federal tax return indicates you own real estate this form details the fair market value of the real estate that should have been reported on the FAFSA form.
Proof of Child Support Paid: This documentation is requested when a student/spouse or dependent student's parent reports on the FAFSA form that they paid child support.
The student will need to submit a statement signed by him/her or parent of dependent student detailing the:
The amount should only include money paid out for children that are not a part of the student's household as listed on the household verification form.


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Tampa, FL (Sports Network) - Travis Snider scored the go-ahead run on a wild
pitch as part of a two-run seventh inning in the Pittsburgh Pirates' 2-1 win
over the New York Yankees.
Jeff Larish slapped an RBI single in the seventh for the Pirates, who got six
shutout innings from starter Jeff Locke.
Lyle Overbay smacked an RBI double in the ninth for New York, which also got
six shutout frames from its starter Hiroki Kuroda.
The Sports Network


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This blog is intended to showcase the landscape photography of photographers who have moved beyond the pretty picture and for whom photography is more than entertainment - photography that aims at being true, not at being beautiful because what is true is most often beautiful..
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Observatory Anniversary
Celebrate the 130th Birthday of the Observatory!
In 2013-2014, Albion College will celebrate the 130th anniversary of its 8" Alvan Clark refracting telescope and observatory building. Dedicated in 1883 and completed in 1884, the observatory is one of the few original surviving examples of nineteenth century astronomical buildings and instruments, which include the Alvan Clark refracting telescope and a Fauth and Company sidereal clock and transit telescope. Several times each year, the telescope is open to the public and to the campus community for public observing events.
To kick off anniversary celebrations, Bart Fried, president of the Antique Telescope Society, presented a talk about our telescope's place in astronomical observation history in September. The talk is the first celebratory event for the year, and will be followed in October by the college's Homecoming weekend themed "Albion and Beyond", in homage to our students, our alumni, and our telescope. Also planned are public observing nights throughout the year, tours of the observatory, a steampunk ball for students, and another lecture in the spring to celebrate the 210th anniversary of the birth of Alvan Clark himself.
Nicolle Zellner (Physics) and Nicole Garrett Smeltekop (Library) had an article about the Alvan Clark telescope published in HAD News, the newsletter of the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society. The article can be found on page 6 at http://had.aas.org/hadnews/HADN83hires.pdf.


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The Alaska State Fair is the home of record-setting giant vegetables and beautiful flower gardens. Nestled in the heart of the Chugach Mountains, in the fertile Matanuska-Susitna Valley the Fairgrounds are just an hour north of Anchorage. Each Fall, the Fair provides a setting for Alaska's last blast of summer, a showcase of Alaska's uniqueness and beauty.
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Queen's birthday honours: Crouch End celebrity conductor on song with OBE
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The nation's favourite choirmaster Gareth Malone was thrilled to be given an OBE in the Queen's birthday honours on Saturday - and said he was indebted to his long-suffering parents for putting up with his hours of piano practice.
The Crouch End music maestro has become familiar to TV viewers for his many BBC shows in which he whips raw recruits into concert performers.
Malone has also pulled off the unlikely feat of leading his choirs on two number one singles in the space of less than six months.
He said: "This is a great honour and one I'm thrilled about.
"Over the past 10 years, encouraging people to sing has been a labour of love so it's wonderful to be recognised in this way. I am hugely grateful to all the people I have worked with in both television and the arts for helping me to bring music into people's lives."
Mr Malone - who also thanked his wife for her support, and Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans - added: "I would not be receiving this honour if it weren't for the unstinting support of my long-suffering parents through hours of piano practice and I'm indebted to them for all they have given me.
"It is extra special to receive an OBE during the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations, having just performed at the jubilee concert. What a year."
Mr Malone's parents sang in a local choir, and he went on to sing in ensemble at his grammar school in Bournemouth.
He later studied drama at the University of East Anglia - composing, singing and directing for a student drama group. He further developed his choral work with a postgraduate degree in singing at the Royal Academy of Music and it was while working with choirs as an animateur at the London Symphony Orchestra that he was approached by TV producers about working on their new project.
The resulting series, The Choir, was seen by more than three million viewers and he has gone on to work on five more choir TV projects, as well as children's programmes.
The father-of-one famously took his Military Wives choir - assembled for a BBC2 show last year - to number one, holding X Factor winners Little Mix off the top of the charts for Christmas.
And then he guided the women again when they featured on Gary Barlow's diamond jubilee anthem Sing, conducting the choir when they performed at the jubilee concert.


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JOLIET, IL (21 Alive) - David Yoder passed for two touchdowns and Jason Nicodemus ran for 126 yards and a score as Saint Francis rang up a 37-28 win at St. Francis (Ill.) Saturday night.
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From their prison cells and with the help of corrections staff, authorities say, members of a violent gang were feasting on salmon and shrimp, sipping Grey Goose vodka and puffing fine cigars – all while directing drug deals, extorting protection money from other inmates and arranging attacks on witnesses and rival gang members.
Justin Fenton , "Indictments reveal prison crime world: Officers, inmates charged in drugs, extortion," The Baltimore Sun, April 17, 2009
Situatsiya verbovochnaya — Recruitment Situation
The main circumstances which give rise to a recruitment situation include: the target's psychological state is propitious for exerting influence on him in order to induce him to cooperate secretly; external factors which make it possible to achieve the recruitment covertly; circumstances which compromise the target and put him in a position of dependence vis-a-vis the intelligence or counter-intelligence agencies, thus creating an effective basis for recruiting him; or the availability of data offering a real possibility of a recruitment on an ideological and political basis, or on the basis of a desire to secure material or other personal advantages.
Vasil Mitrokhin, KGB Lexicon: The Soviet Intelligence Officers Handbook , p. 373
What distinguishes a corrupt prison guard from a gangster when he (or she) is working with — or for — an incarcerated gangster?
Probably only that the gangster is making a lot more money than the guard. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS):
Median annual earnings of correctional officers and jailers were $35,760 in May 2006. The middle 50 percent earned between $28,320 and $46,500. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $23,600, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $58,580. Median annual earnings in the public sector were $47,750 in the Federal Government, $36,140 in State government, and $34,820 in local government. In the facilities support services industry, where the relatively small number of officers employed by privately operated prisons is classified, median annual earnings were $25,050.
Better than pushing cheeseburgers. But in a case I write about in my forthcoming book — No Boundaries: Transnational Latino Gangs and American Law Enforcement (University of Michigan Press, June 2009) — a Mexican Mafia boss running a street gang operation from prison had a box containing half-a-million dollars in cash stored in his girl friend's closet. He was also receiving thousands of dollars of income monthly from a street gang operation "taxing" local dealers.
Many cases of corruption in prison are just another facet of the enormously corrosive effect of the modern drug traffic. The most lucrative business in history is a river of acid at flood stage. It rolls over obstructions in its path, seeks out alternate courses, and above all eats at the foundations of everything it comes in contact with — from families, to prisons, to governments.
This examination of prison corruption is no "dis'" on the many fine public servants working in our prisons. It's just a look at stark reality. As of September 30, 2008, for example, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General reported to Congress that it had 238 open cases of alleged misconduct against federal Bureau of Prisons employees. "The criminal investigations covered a wide range of allegations, including introduction of contraband, bribery, and sexual abuse." That is a very low rate, considering that the BOP has about 36,000 employees (not all of whom, of course, are in contact with offenders).
Prison guards are also known as "correctional" or "detention officers." Here is how the BLS survey describes the work:
Working in a correctional institution can be stressful and hazardous. Every year, correctional officers are injured in confrontations with inmates. Correctional officers may work indoors or outdoors. Some correctional institutions are well lighted, temperature controlled, and ventilated, but others are old, overcrowded, hot, and noisy. Although both jails and prisons can be dangerous places to work, prison populations are more stable than jail populations, and correctional officers in prisons know the security and custodial requirements of the prisoners with whom they are dealing.
Job prospects in the field are "excellent" according to BLS:
Employment of correctional officers is expected to grow 16 percent between 2006 and 2016, faster than the average for all occupations. Increasing demand for correctional officers will stem from population growth and rising rates of incarceration. Mandatory sentencing guidelines calling for longer sentences and reduced parole for inmates are a primary reason for historically increasing incarceration rates. Some States are reconsidering mandatory sentencing guidelines because of budgetary constraints, court decisions, and doubts about their effectiveness.
The problem is that in the wake of the era of law and order — "longer sentences and reduced parole" ought to teach them a lesson — there is so little correcting and so much warehousing going on in America's prisons, the staff are little more than widget production line drones. Many law enforcement officials refer to prison as a place for higher education in crime. It is certainly true for gangsters, where a spin in prison is regarded as a prestigious life passage.
Imagine a life in which your job is to move a monotonous series of what "the system" views as so many interchangeable product models from Point A to Point B, then to Point C, then to Point D, then back to Point A — then repeat — at more or less the same time in a monotonous cycle every 24 hours. Now consider that the products are human beings — or, unfortunately in the view of much of today's society, humanoid — with actual internal lives and external relationships.
Yes, they think, they feel, they bleed. And they don't get to go home between shifts, so imagine the boiling pressure inside your average con. (I have visited one prison and several jails as a lawyer or journalist, and the sense of regulated confinement I felt even as a visitor was suffocating to the point of claustrophobia. It's hard to imagine what it must feel like to actually live or work in such a place.)
On occasion, one of these human inventory products may try to kill or maim you or — more often — another product.
Your work environment is supposed to be sterile — a sanitized place where access to life's easy pleasures is strictly controlled or prohibited. No drugs. No sex. Even rock and roll is rationed.
But some of the product forms you move about inside the concrete and steel box every day are organized into criminal enterprises — mostly prison gangs. There is big money to be made in contraband, and the gangsters are making it. They run prostitution, drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, access, whatever you want, they have it — for a price. On the outside these mobsters would be driving Cadillac Escalades and sporting diamonds in their teeth. Every now and then one of them makes a pass, figuratively waving a roll of bills in your face. The temptation to supplement a middling civil service paycheck is seductive.
Recruiting a prison employee into corruption is not overly different than recruiting a spy. In fact, one might say that the environment is ideal. All that remains to be found is the person with — in the KGB's felicitous phrase quoted above — a "propitious" state of mind.
A bit of dialogue from the 1981 film Outland comes to mind. Sean Connery stars as federal marshal William T. O'Neil, one lone man fighting pervasive corruption (drug smuggling) in a futuristic but incisively metaphoric outer space prison colony:
Station Manager Sheppard: If you're looking for money, you're smarter than you look. If you're not, you're a lot dumber.
Marshal William T. O'Neil: Then I'm probably a lot dumber.
Most corrections officer are, as expressed in this film's equation, "dumber" rather than "smarter."
But some significant minority succumb to the wiles of Delilah and take the bait. And, as the KGB and other such organizations know, once you bite for the little bribe — what could it matter? — you're hooked for the bigger payoff to whomever is holding the other end of the line. How does one explain that night with Delilah to a grim-faced administrator?
In succeeding parts, Fairly Civil will examine some examples of corruption inside the Big House. These cases run the gamut from the recent Maryland case involving the Black Guerrilla Family — one of the oldest prison gangs and mortal enemy of the Mexican Mafia — to corruption instigated by correctional officers themselves. The latter include a spectacular prison lobby shootout in 2006 that took the lives of a federal agent and an indicted federal prison guard.


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Impression from the Denim by PV edition in May 2012
11 Oct. 2012
For the first time ever, two events organized by Première Vision will take place in Shanghai simultaneously. From October 23-24 both the established Première Vision China and the debut of Denim By Première Vision Asia will be held in the East Dock.
Denim by Premiere Vision, which is dedicated to jeans fabrics, launched five years ago and has since become the must-attend event for the international jeanswear community. May's edition registered a record 10% growth rate and now its unique concept is about to hit the Asian continent. The new event addresses the premium jeans market in China, Hong Kong and neighboring Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
For its first edition, the show will bring together some forty exhibitors including worldwide key players such as Absolute Denim, Artistic Fabrics Mills, Artistic Milliners, Arvind, Bossa, TRC Candiani, Freedom Denim, Golden Win, Isko, JWS, ITV, Montebello, Orta, Realkom, Sartex and Tejidos Royo. Twelve exhibiting countries will be represented: Turkey (24%), Pakistan (15%), Italy (12%), Hong Kong (12%), China (10%), Spain, France, Japan and Thailand (all 5%), and Bangladesh, Tunisia and India (all 2%). The offer will consist of exhibitors from the Paris show joined by a selection of the region's own companies, all of which meet the show's criteria and standards and are mostly integrated in garment manufacturing.
To show what premium denim is and to illustrate the specific know-how in terms of materials, washes, finishing and cut choices, a special Denim by Première Vision Asia collection will be created for the event in collaboration with Italian denim experts Umberto Brocchetto and Massimo Munari from Isko's Creative Room (http://www.sportswearnet.com/businessnews/pages/protected/ISKO-PRESENTS-CREATIVE-ROOM_4304.html) and Martelli. The collection will be revealed at the show and to support the understanding of the premium denim market, Massimo Munari will give a seminar titled "Premium Blue Wave" at 11:30 on each day of the show.
Alongside, Première Vision China will offer two days of business exchanges among top textile companies and Chinese fashion professionals where international exhibitors and local agents unveil their latest fashion-fabric creations. The 18th edition, dedicated to the fall/winter 2013/14 season, welcomes 62 exhibitors from 11 countries – France, Italy, Turkey, China, Japan, Spain, South Korea, Bulgaria, India, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
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WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama says he told House Speaker John Boehner he's willing to negotiate with Republicans on their priorities, but not under the threat of "economic chaos."
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Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday: Basket Dinners OR Outside Cookout.
OUR WONDERFUL DINNER BASKETS: COMPLETE WITH EVERYTHING FOR DINNER: rolls. salads, deserts, as well as a choice of steak, roast duck, or salmon. You need to order by mid afternoon. The baskets will be delivered to your guest home around six-ish and are designed for a microwave reheat if needed later. Many guests take their baskets for a sunset picnic on a pontoon boat. Also an option any night for those traveling late on arrival day, or needing to stay in the cabin because of sleeping babies or dogs.
In Basket:Salad wedges with choice of dressing, and raw veggiesRed potatoes - boiled with butte and parsley (optional)Choice of muffin, cranberry or branChoice of dessert
Outside Cookout: usually Tuesday or Thursday. When the weather and guest mix are right we may offer an outdoor cookout on the main lodge patio (great for meeting other guests). Our wonderful Steaks, bake potato, salads, rolls and dessert. Great time to meet everyone and enjoy a bonfire. Ask the office.
Shoredinner: old-fashioned walleye shoredinner cooked over an open fire.