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Cheque truncation system: What is it, how will it benefit you?
If you receive any cheques which are non-CTS compliant, you should encash them before 31 December 2012. If they are post-dated and payable after 1 January 2013, you may get these exchanged with new CTS 2010 cheques as the old cheques will not be cleared thereafter
Of late you would have seen notices in newspapers issued by banks asking their customers to exchange their existing cheque books for new cheque books issued under the CTS2010 standards prescribed by Reserve Bank of India (RBI). What is CTS 2010 and how does it benefit you as a bank customer? First, a bit of history on how CTS has come about.
As per the Negotiable Instruments Act, every cheque is required to be presented to the drawee (paying) bank for payment. In the good old days, cheques deposited by customers used to be presented by the collecting bank to the paying bank over the counter of the latter and thus collect the amount due from each bank. Over a period of time, with the growing use of cheques by the trading community, banks devised a system of meeting in a central place and exchange the cheques drawn on one another and thus settle the net amount due to each bank through the institution called a "clearing house". A number of clearing houses were set up in different cities for clearing of cheques through the manual operations for a number of years.
Introduction of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR):
As the number of cheques in use grew substantially, banks introduced the Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) format for sorting of cheques. These are machine-readable codes added at the bottom of every cheque leaf which helped in bank and branch-wise sorting of cheques for smooth delivery to the respective banks on whom they are drawn. This no doubt helped in speeding up the clearing process, but physical delivery of cheques continued even under this partial automaton.
Birth of Cheque Truncation System (CTS 2010):
CTS 2010 is the standard prescribed by the RBI recently for cheques issued by all banks in the country. CTS stands for Cheque Truncation System and essentially means that instead of sending the cheque in physical form by the collecting bank to the paying bank, an electronic image of the cheque is transmitted to the drawee branch for payment through the clearing house, thereby eliminating the cumbersome physical presentation of the cheque to the paying bank, thus saving in time and costs involved in traditional clearing system.
This was introduced as a pilot project in the National Capital Region in 2008 and in Chennai from September 2011. Based on the experience gained and the benefits that will accrue to both banks and customers, it is decided to operationalise CTS across the country. It is proposed that the cheque clearing would be centralized into four grids, in four centres, North, South, East and West, and all the existing clearing houses across the country will be linked to these CTS grids in course of time.
The RBI has confirmed that with amendments to Sections 6 and 1(4) and with the addition of Section 81A to the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, the truncation of cheques has since been legalized.
What are the benefits of CTS to bank customers?*
- The main feature of the CTS 2010 cheque is that the physical movement of the cheque is stopped and the images of cheques are transmitted electronically thereby speeding up the process of cheque clearance and settlement between banks. This obviously means quicker clearance, shorter clearing cycle and speedier credit of the amount to your account.
- With the movement of cheques from one bank to another having been stopped, there is no fear of loss of cheques in transit and chances of cheques being lost due to mishandling, etc are totally avoided.
- At present clearing is restricted to banks operating within a city or within a restricted geographical area. Under the CTS, it is proposed to integrate multiple clearing locations managed by different banks in different centres so that cheques drawn on upcountry banks too can be cleared electronically without any geographical restrictions. Eventually, this will result in integration of clearing houses into a nation-wide standard clearing system, thereby making clearance of cheques drawn on any bank in India within 24 hours possible.
- The cheques in transit are most susceptible to frauds and customers of banks are the worst sufferers in the present system of physical movement of cheques from one place to another. Under the CTS system moving of physical cheques at different points is obviated as only electronic images are transmitted between banks, and this will considerably reduce the scope for perpetuation of frauds inherent in paper instruments.
- With the introduction of homogeneity in security features under CTS standards 2010 such as embedded verifiable features like bar codes, encrypted codes, logos, watermarks, holograms, etc in every cheque leaf, it is now possible to detect frauds easily through interception of altered and forged instruments while passing through the electronic imaging system. This is expected to considerably reduce operational risks and risks associated with paper clearing for the benefit of all bank customers.
- The CTS is expected to improve operational efficiency of the entire banking system, resulting in better customer service, improved liquidity position for banks' customers and safe and secure banking for the entire banking public.
In the words of RBI, CTS brings elegance to the entire activity of cheque processing and clearing and offers several benefits to banks in terms of cost and time savings, including human resource rationalization, cost effectiveness, business process re-engineering and better customer service.
What is expected of bank customers under CTS 2010?
Every bank customer is expected to obtain new cheque books from their respective banks as early as possible preferably before the end of December 2012. All bank customers should use only "CTS 2010" cheques, which have more security features with effect from 1 January 2013. To identify that the new cheque book is CTS-2010 compliant, please look for the letters "CTS-2010" printed vertically on the cheque leaf, near the perforation on the left side of the cheque as under:
If the letters "CTS-2010" are present here, your cheque book is CTS-2010 compliant.
To ensure fraud-free cheque clearance, RBI has advised that customers should preferably use dark coloured ink while writing cheques and you should avoid any alterations or corrections thereon. For any change in the payee's name, amount in figures or in words, fresh cheque leaves should be used by customers, as this will facilitate smooth passage through image based clearing system.
If you receive any cheques which are non CTS compliant, you should encash them before 31 December 2012. If they are post-dated and payable after 1 January 2013, you may get these exchanged with new CTS 2010 cheques as the old cheques will not be cleared thereafter. Similarly, if you have given any post dated cheques in the old format to any finance company, etc you may replace them with new cheques to avoid old cheques being returned by your bank without payment.
What more requires to be done to improve customer service?
Though the RBI has given clear instructions to all banks to issue only multi-city payable at par CTS 2010 standard cheques , many banks are still issuing cheque books with CTS 2010 standard, but without specifying the fact that they are payable at par all branches. RBI should strictly enforce this basic requirement in the interest of making available this facility to all bank customers as a part of the up gradation of the clearing system in the country.
At present a number of banks levy charges for use of cheques beyond a certain number of cheque leaves per month. The RBI should stipulate that the new cheque books issued under CTS 2010 in lieu of the old cheque books should not be charged for, if customers have already been charged for the old cheque books, as this change over is at the instance of RBI and the banks.|
Currently, there is no standardization of account numbers across all banks. Each bank follows a different method of maintaining account numbers, ranging from 10 digits to16 digits causing confusion to bank customers. The RBI should devise a system on the lines of mobile phone numbers, to have uniformity in the number of digits in account numbers, so that mistakes do not occur while conveying account numbers when using remittance service etc. from banks.
Besides, there is no uniformity in respect of routing codes presently used by banks. For instance, the MICR code is used for electronic clearing services (ECS), Indian Financial System Code (IFSC) is used for National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) and Real Time Gross Settlement Systems (RTGS), and Basic Statistical Return codes are used for identification of a branch of a bank. These multiple codes may be harmonized as having uniform code for all types of bank transactions will go a long way in improving customer convenience and error free electronic and on-line transactions.
*Source: www.rbi.org.in
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arun adalja 3 years ago
some psu banks are not aware of new cheques namely bank of india and indian bank i personally visited them but not aware of these cheques.rbi must penalise them as they have not read the circulars.
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SuchindranathAiyerS 3 years ago
Since the signatures are stored in Image format by Banks, it is possible, for an employee, after obtaining a customer's cheque leaf, to prepare a cheque with "genuine" signature, through a "cut-and paste" process and include it in clearing.
The Post Office Savings Bank is NOT changing its cheque formats. They say this is only for "core banking" banks??? But, the cheques are being processed through clearing as of now.
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TIHARwale 3 years ago in reply to SuchindranathAiyerS
detection of tampering of instruments by indulging in cut and paste is to be sorted by vigilant collecting bank staff as journey of instrument stops at collecting point itself and any tampering indulged by the collecting Bank staff is to be borne by the collecting Bank only as paying banker pays by viewing the image only.
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Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on America Tonight with Kate Delaney to talk about government spending out of control. Eland compares the US money supply and spending under George W. Bush and Barack Obama to eating candy and getting a "sugar high" instead of a good balanced diet. British Prime Minister David Cameron has followed the examples of US Presidents Harding, Coolidge, Eisenhower and Clinton and embraced austerity to bring about long term prosperity.
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Childhood Poverty, Government Failures, and the Need for Economic Liberty
Recorded: Thursday, April 30, 2015
Senior Vice President Mary Theroux is interviewed on radio station KOGO in San Diego to talk about the latest on California's Maximum Family Grant rule for families on welfare. She discusses the underlying reasons why children are born into poverty and the difficulty of breaking the cycle of poverty.
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Partitioning Iraq for Peace
Recorded: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland, author of Partitioning for Peace, appeared on "Doug Stephan's Good Day" radio program. Eland talks about the state of terrorism in the Iraq and whether the US creates more of a problem with its intervention. He also discusses the question of how ISIS is different than other terror groups.
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Are Liberals at Fault for the Breakup of the Family?
Recorded: Friday, March 27, 2015
Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis and A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, joins radio host Larry Kudlow to talk about the costs society is bearing for the breakup of traditional families. Goodman talks about how the welfare state subsidizes and enables and even rewards single parent families.
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Stephen P. Halbrook on the Tom Woods Radio Show to Discuss Gun Control
Recorded: Monday, March 23, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich, talks with radio host Tom Woods about the events in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s that led to the disarming of Jews and other so-called "Enemies of the State" beginning with gun registration policies of the Weimar Republic, to the Nazis use of that information to disarm and eliminate any opposition.
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Fremont police are asking for the public's help in finding a 15-year-old girl who walked away from an apartment near Central Park late Sunday night.
Family members of Miloshi Mehta believe she may have taken BART to downtown San Francisco or to an airport to meet a man she met online, according police.
Police said Mehta is 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs about 170 pounds, and has black eyes and black hair. The tip of her left ring finger was cut off in a childhood accident.
She was last seen wearing a gray Adidas jacket with white stripes, black capri pants with pink stripes, a pink shirt and pink Crocs shoes.
Police said she is not under a doctor's care and takes no medication.
Police said Mehta was reported missing by her father, Miten Mehta, at 11:30 p.m. Sunday when she failed to return from a walk.
She was last seen at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday when she left her uncle's condominium on Red Hawk Terrace, which is near Stevenson Boulevard and Central Park, to go for a walk.
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The National Weather Service says strong gusts will make it easy for any fires that start Tuesday and Wednesday to spread.
Forecasters say that by Thursday, significant rain chances should dampen the threat somewhat.
On Monday, a number of fires spread in northeast Oklahoma.
One fire burned in Omulgee County and another in Creek County.
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Sex abuse cases sent to grand juryPublished 1:03pm Sunday, June 9, 2013
Three of the Tallassee residents charged in the horrific sex abuse case allegedly involving at least 12 children under the age of 12 uncovered last month had preliminary hearings Thursday.
In each case, District Judge Glenn Goggans found sufficient evidence to have the cases against Brandy Conrad, Helen Hazel Gantt and Jeffery Mark Ray bound over to an Elmore County grand jury.
The three defendants each have been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sodomy and three counts of sexual abuse of a child under 12 years old, for witnessing or knowing of Steven Norman Conrad Jr.'s ongoing sexual abuse of his own 2-year-old son and not reporting it.
The failure to report the long-running abuse constitutes aiding and abetting Conrad's crimes.
Brandy Conrad is the wife of Steven Conrad and mother to some of her husband's alleged victims.
Steven Conrad has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
Goggans denied requests by the trio's attorneys to have some of the charges dropped or the defendants' bond amounts reduced.
The four all lived in the same Tallassee household where Steven Conrad allegedly sexually abused at least 12 victims under the age of 12, including one who was 10 months old. Four of the victims were his own children, according to Tallassee police.
Ray's court-appointed attorney, Kenny James, argued his client never actually witnessed the abuse, "he just didn't report what he knew."
Goggans slammed the door on that line of defense, saying, "if you're an adult and you know a child is being abused and you don't do anything, that sounds like aiding and abetting to me."
In testimony given during Brandy Conrad's appearance, Tallassee Assistant Police Chief Chris Miles testified that Brandy Conrad signed a confession saying she "witnessed crimes against her own son."
"She observed all of this and did nothing," Miles said.
He described Brandy Conrad and Gantt on three occasions in March 2012 walking into a room witnessing the rape or sodomy of the 2-year-old victim, the Conrads' child.
Gantt's attorney, Bill Lewis, pushed for leniency, noting the 56-year-old had "only lived there a month," since she became Ray's girlfriend.
Lewis also sought reduced bail due to a variety of health concerns. Both requests were denied, though Goggans did urge Gantt to make sure she saw the nurse in the jail to be sure her health was looked after.


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This is what some TV viewers in the Middle East have got instead of the World Cup. So how did Al Jazeera's World Cup dream turned into a business nightmare?
June 14, 2010 5:06 by Sam Potter
A little over a month ago, Al Jazeera was celebrating after the network was awarded exclusive rights to broadcast the FIFA World Cup 2010 to the Arab World.
It was big news for the Qatar-based network. In order to properly serve the diverse and expansive region the company announced it would allocate five channels to the coverage, including one in English. Subscriptions were set to soar, as the network announced uniform prices across the GCC – $100 for subscribers, $130 for new subscribers and six months of sports channels, $175 for new subscribers and a year of sports channels.
The company has also invested some serious resources into the estimated 1,000 hours of required broadcast time. When announcing the deal, Al Jazeera said fully 350 staff would be needed for the event.
But Al Jazeera's business coup turned into a nightmare just minutes into the tournament, when Al Jazeera's signal was disrupted by pirate broadcasters during the opening game.
Fans across the Arab world suffered disruption to their viewing and were frequently faced with blank or frozen screens. The signal did return, but its quality was said to be "patchy."
"We apologize for the interruption that happened, it was because of satellite interference from an unknown source," Nasser al-Kholeifi, the managing director of Al Jazeera Sport, said. The network says its broadcast on Arabsat and Nilesat were deliberately jammed. The satellite companies are now said to be working with Al Jazeera to investigate the source of disruption, and may broadcast on more than one frequency to ensure the matches can be seen.
FIFA is also helping with the problem, apparently. In an emailed statement it said, "FIFA is supporting Al Jazeera in trying to locate the source of the interference. FIFA is appalled by any action to try to stop Al Jazeera's authorized transmissions of the FIFA World Cup as such actions deprive football fans from enjoying the world game in the region. It is not acceptable to FIFA."
The costs to Al Jazeera of this interference could be high, both in terms of cash and reputation. The company has pledged to take legal action when it finds those responsible, but in the meantime may find it faces legal problems of its own.
Al Masry Al Youm reports that the Egypt Radio and Television has filed a lawsuit against Al Jazeera Sport for breaching three articles of the agreement it signed with the union by cutting airtime of the World Cup's opening match. It is also angry at accusations that Nilesat was somehow involved in the broadcast interference.
Meanwhile Al Jazeera could also be financially hit from another direction – angry fans, who have paid good money for their subscriptions, are understandably disappointed with the coverage they have received and are demanding refunds. Responding to a news story here on Kipp, one fan said, "Subscribers should not be the one that pay the price. They paid to watch the world cup, Al-Jazeera failed to deliver, regardless who is doing this, the subscribers are entitled to receive the services they subscribed to receive based on the agreement they signed that Al-Jazeera accepted. Subscribers delivered on their obligation by paying for the service however, Al-Jazeera failed to deliver."
Al Jazeera is having a tough time, but it can take solace that it isn't the only broadcaster suffering World Cup woes. In the UK, ITV has faced a barrage of media criticism after it cut to commercial during England's first goal, angering more than a million viewers.
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A man considered to be a violent sex offender has pleaded guilty to tampering with a child's birth certificate.
Police arrested Don Coleman in November 2012. They say the 37-year-old tried to change a child's birth certificate to make it look like he was the biological father.
Coleman was previously convicted of aggravated sexual battery of a 9-year-old. Because of this, the court does not allow him to live with a child that is not his biological child and he cannot be a step-parent.
Coleman agreed to a four-year suspended sentence with supervised probation under the plea agreement on Monday.
He will be back in court in January to face an additional eight violations of the sex offender registry.


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American clothing production saw a slight increase this past year. What caused the change? Will there be more to come or is the U.S. too far behind?
American clothing production saw a slight increase this past year. What caused the change? Will there be more to come or is the U.S. too far behind?
Halloween is all fun and screams, but the dark reality of our festival of the spooky and the sweet is this: Behind most of the chocolate you hand out, there are Third World workers -- many of them children -- suffering real horrors of their own.
Called it conscious capitalism or just good business, but these five companies have all prospered in every measure over the last decade by doing good for their employees, suppliers, customers or the general public.
Take a look at the receipts in your wallet. They show what you paid for the items you bought, but what's missing are the true costs -- to people and the environment. But, good news: Sustainable and fair trade products don't have to cost you more. Consider, for example, a banana ...
You might not yet have heard of "B corporations" -- these companies with the dual missions of boosting social good and generating profits are a relatively new idea. But thanks to a recent California decision to make that social mission legally binding, the idea is poised to really take off.
More Americans are waking up to the idea of citizen consumerism -- a fitting topic on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, when our thoughts turn to social consciousness. Could the concept of making more of our purchases purposeful go mainstream in the same way that the green buying movement has?
The Victoria's Secret chain has a secret, all right, and it's a dirty one. Its undies that are purported to be made with "fair trade" organic cotton actually utilize some unseemly labor practices in the early stages of the supply chain.


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If the physical exam doesn't lead to a diagnosis, the doctor may do a chest X-ray to see if your child has swallowed a foreign body or has pneumonia. In rare cases he may order an EKG, which measures the electrical impulses in your child's heart. (Though heart problems in children are quite uncommon, your doctor may want to do this test just to rule out the possibility.)
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Why there are no more Joseph Hellers.
In the summer of 1961, when Ernest Hemingway shot Ernest Hemingway and proved that "grace under pressure" was a motto easier to admire than to embody, novelists still were the generals of the culture, an officer's class of swaggering hero-artists: domineering, prickly, aggressive, and conspicuously male. Their defining subject was organized violence, modern war as experienced from within, and they seemed to agree with Poppa and Stephen Crane that however ignoble war's ways and means might be, its effect on the person was purifying, finally. It erased the contingencies of class and background, stripped away illusion, chased off folly, and offered one and all the same grim sacraments of terror, pain, and loss.
Then, that fall, Joseph Heller's Catch-22 appeared, abruptly downgrading war's special status as an existential crucible and also, unwittingly, beginning the process of rendering four-star male novelists irrelevant. The book treats war on a par with business or politics (to Heller they were very much the same), portraying it as a system for alienating people from their own interests and estranging them from their instincts. Protocol replaces principle, figures plucked from thin air supplant hard facts, and reason becomes rigamarole. Heller's island airbase of freaked-out aviators oppressed by cuckoo officers is the ding-a-ling civilian world in microcosm, not an infernal, tragic realm apart. The men who can feel aren't agonized, they're addled. The ones who can't feel (and therefore give the orders) are permanently, structurally annoyed. The naked and the dead are here but invisible to the beribboned and the daft.
Rereading the novel on its 50th birthday, I found it slightly creaky and cranky but fundamentally alert. The dialogue, which relies on circular reasoning from erroneous or irreconcilable premises, churns away mechanically at times, long after its points about pointlessness are made. Yossarian, the gun-shy anti-hero, is losing his mind by preserving his common sense: Not dying, not being killed, is his definition of victory in war, and those who don't share his thinking, whichever side they're on, are the enemy. Heller feeds him endless killer lines and arms him with sly, irrefutable arguments, but he resembles a construct rather than a character, just as his nemeses among the brass include many straw men, some badly overstuffed.
The vast influence of the novel outside its covers also dulls its power and distinctiveness. What only Heller could do when it was written, we can all do now, almost reflexively. His tone of insubordinate slapstick and his clever moral inversions are our common, satirical inheritance. When the mess-hall officer Milo Minderbinder bombs the base in order to boost his profits from a fiendishly tricky black-market trading scheme, it once struck readers as a world turned upside down. Now it comes off as standard Hollywood comic hyperbole.
All of this is a measure of Heller's success, of course, and a tribute to the triumph of his tropes. (The Office is Catch-22 without the blood.) Another gauge of his accomplishment is that there are no more Joseph Hellers, no more glorious literary crusaders who can ambush and sack, all alone, immense and intimidating social edifices. That demolition job's been done, that project is complete.
In Just One Catch, the first biography of the last of a certain type of lion, English professor Tracy Daugherty shows us an artist whose triumphant iconoclasm set in motion his own extinction. The story begins with the dawn of Heller's ambition, which was of a distinctive, mid-20th-century kind, blending the yawning hunger of immigrant roots with the arrogance born of imperial citizenship. Almost as soon as Heller left the army, he set about engineering a personal life suitable for sustaining worldly achievement. He married a woman supportive and presentable and promptly invested her loyalty and energy in the project of his own enlargement.
He approached his literary studies the way some men enter finance or medicine: patiently and with a plan. School by school, story submission by story submission, he pushed ahead down a well-marked path. He started his novel in his early 20s and financed the writing by working for corporations (Time Inc., for example) of precisely the sort he unleashed such contempt for among his anti-establishment fans. The Beats, his contemporaries, were off a-wandering, but Heller lacked their itchy fecklessness. Hunkered down at his desk in deepest Manhattan, he plotted his revolution from inside headquarters.
Daugherty's book is crammed with cultural history as a way of compensating, perhaps, for a scarcity of revealing third-party testimonies and fresh news about Heller's hush-hush personal life (it's asserted that he took numerous mistresses, but only a couple of them are specifically mentioned). On his biographer's map of popular history, Heller is situated right next to Dylan as an idol of youthful insurrection. And his politics lay to the left, no doubt about it. He hated Nixon, loathed Kissinger, backed Eugene McCarthy for president, and adamantly opposed the Vietnam War.


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Gamma Trianguli VI was an inhabited planet. This was the homeworld of the Vaalians, a pre-warp capable humanoid species. This was, also, the home of the pod plants. It was the sixth planet in the Gamma Trianguli planetary system. This system was located in the Gamma Trianguli sector, which was a region of space in the Alpha Quadrant. Vaal, a machine with rudimentary intelligence, controlled this planet and its inhabitants for approximately 10,000 years until 2267. (TOS: "The Apple"; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, production art; ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II", display graphic)
The planet, described as an "Eden"-like paradise, consistently enjoyed a tropical climate of 76 °F, with only minor variation at the poles. These conditions were previously thought to be impossible, and were only made possible under the direct environmental control of Vaal, which extended deep beneath the planet's surface over the entire globe. The atmosphere was oxygen-nitrogen. The majority of the flora was very attractive. The soil was remarkably rich and fertile, excellent for husbandry. Its atmosphere filtered out all harmful radiation from its sun. Aside from the natives, no animal life was encountered by initial surveys. Vaal was obviously constructed on Gamma Trianguli VI by a species to care for the native inhabitants for some unknown purpose, although the natives had no memory or historical record of this.
Although an Eden at first glance, under Vaal's control the planet soon proved to be the opposite. When a USS Enterprise landing party beamed down on a survey mission, they were immediately assaulted by the planet's dangerous defense mechanisms. Deadly flora, artificial lightning strikes, and explosive mineral formations killed three crewmembers and injured a fourth. The initially friendly natives, at Vaal's behest, also became hostile and assaulted the landing party, killing a fourth crewmember. Vaal itself also began pulling the Enterprise out of orbit, prompting Captain James T. Kirk to take retaliatory action and destroy Vaal. After its destruction Kirk predicted a hard time for the natives, but eventually they would learn to organize their lives themselves. (TOS: "The Apple")


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Less than 72 hours after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake ripped through the Caribbean nation of Haiti, Expeditionary Contracting Command personnel arrived and began assessing possible contracting requirements and creating plans for future support and sustainment operations.
Aca,!A"Most of our overseas contingency operations are in support of exercises and the Joint Contracting Command efforts for OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and OEF (Operation Enduring Freedom),Aca,!A? said John Hess, ECC principal assistant to the director, mission operations. Aca,!A"This is the first time the command has been involved in a disaster relief effort of this magnitude.Aca,!A?
The Expeditionary Contracting Command, headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Va., is a subordinate of the Army Contracting Command, an Army Materiel Command element that was established less than three years ago. ECC personnel are deploying to Haiti as part of Operation Unified Response to support humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts in support of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development. ECC will assist U. S. forces through contracting support.
Currently ECC has three military contingency contracting officers (CCOs) on the ground in Port-Au-Prince, and another military and a civilian in Miami preparing for deployment to Haiti. The command also has one civilian and two military contracting officers in the Dominican Republic and one more military CCO preparing for deployment. Hess said the command will establish two regional contracting centers, one in Port-Au-Prince and one in the Dominican Republic. The contracting officers in Haiti are coordinating with the logistics community on the island, and establishing procedures in addition to acquiring transportation and Mission Advisory Group support.
On the island, military contracting officers will have to work within the confines of an almost nonexisting infrastructure. One gigantic challenge will be working with local businesses.
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For the time being, Hess said the military contracting officers are initiating orders of supplies and services over the phone through verbal transactions and orders.
Hess said the biggest challenges are getting the operation up and running, and synchronization issues with other governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
The Navy, Air Force and Marines are all sending in teams with contingency contracting capabilities.
Aca,!A"This is not an insignificant effort. We have at least two personnel from ECC Headquarters going to Haiti to provide support. Our brigades are not alone out there. The headquarters is also providing a degree of reach back operational contracting planning support,Aca,!A? Hess said. Aca,!A"We also play a supporting role, and along with the AMC Army Field Support Brigade provide critical life support and services to our Soldiers.Aca,!A?


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This view shows enzymes only for those organisms listed below, in the list of taxa known to possess the pathway. If an enzyme name is shown in bold, there is experimental evidence for this enzymatic activity.
Synonyms: formylaminopyrimidine salvage, base-degraded thiamin salvage
|Biosynthesis → Cofactors, Prosthetic Groups, Electron Carriers Biosynthesis → Vitamins Biosynthesis → Thiamine Biosynthesis → Thiamine Salvage
Some taxa known to possess this pathway include : Bacillus halodurans, Bacillus subtilis subtilis 168, Pyrococcus furiosus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Expected Taxonomic Range:
General Background
Thiamine diphosphate, also known as vitamin B1, is known to play a fundamental role in energy metabolism. It is an essential cofactor for a variety of enzymes such as
pyruvate dehydrogenase,
pyruvate decarboxylase, and
α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase
[Lawhorn04a]. Its discovery followed from the original early research on the anti-beriberi factor found in rice bran. Beriberi, a neurological disease, was particularly prevalent in Asia, where the refining of rice resulted in the removal of the thiamine-containing husk
[Begley96]. Thiamine is synthesized de novo by microorganisms, plants and some lower eukaryotes (e.g.
About This Pathway
Since the de novo biosynthesis of thiamine diphosphate is a very complex process, many organisms possess various salvage pathways that enable them to rescue thiamine fragments obtained from the environment. This pathway describes the salvage of base-degraded thiamine compounds, and starts with formylaminopyrimidine, a compound that is generated by base-mediated degradation of the thiazolium moiety of thiamine [Jenkins07].
Formylaminopyrimidine is transported into the cell and deformylated by N-formyl-4-amino-5-aminomethyl-2-methylpyrimidine deformylase ( ylmB). The resulting aminomethylpyrimidine is converted to 4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinemethanol (HMP) by 4-amino-5-aminomethyl-2-methylpyrimidine hydrolase (TenA, thiaminase II). The salvaged HMP is then phosphorylated to form 4-amino-2-methyl-5-diphosphomethylpyrimidine, which is incorporated into the de novo thiamine biosynthetic pathway [Jenkins08].
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae the trifunctional fusion protein THI20p is also able to hydrolyze aminomethylpyrimidine to form 4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinemethanol in this salvage pathway. The enzyme which exhibits HMP/HMP-P kinase and thiaminase II activity was a puzzle for a long time as it apparently fuses thiamine biosynthetic and degradation activities in one enzyme. However, those activities, encoded by several monomers in bacteria, fit well in the thiamine salvage pathway as they hydrolyze thiamine and similar compounds, e.g. aminomethylpyrimidine to 4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinemethanol which is immediately phosphorylated by the HMP/HMP-P kinase activity of the same protein [Haas05, Onozuka08, French11].
The key enzyme in this pathway, thiaminase II, was considered a thiamine degradation enzyme for a long time after its discovery [Fujita54], since it is able to catalyze the hydrolysis of thiamine to its thiazole and pyrimidine components. Its true nature as a salvage enzyme was revealed only five decades later [Jenkins07].
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Lawhorn04a: Lawhorn BG, Mehl RA, Begley TP (2004). "Biosynthesis of the thiamin pyrimidine: the reconstitution of a remarkable rearrangement reaction." Org Biomol Chem 2(17);2538-46. PMID: 15326535
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GOA00: GOA (2000). "Gene Ontology annotation based on Swiss-Prot keyword mapping."
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Hi, my boy is the same age. In his first or second week at school his teacher told us that he beat somebody, nothing serious. When he got home, we told him that beating was wrong and that because of that he was going to stay alone in a corner for awhile. After a minute, crying, we asked him if it was right to beat. He said no. We asked him if he was going to do it again. He said no. Then we told him that if he did that again, we would do the same thing, because it is not right. I don´t know if we´re lucky, but it worked for us. He never did it again and he knows very well what the punishment will be if he does something wrong. Also, we ask him to say he´s sorry, then we kiss and hug. I feel bad sometimes, but I think that we need to do that for his own good. Good luck!posted 07/23/2012 by Elarpb
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