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In my endless search for apt analogies to the grantsmanship game, I have a new one. Have you ever played the card game Fluxx? It's an incredibly awesome game in which the rules keep changing as you play. You think you have a winning strategy, are ready to win the next turn, and then someone changes the fucking rules and someone else wins. Or you are just plodding around trying to regroup your strategy to the new rules, then the rules change again, and suddenly you find yourself with the right card combo and you instantly win. Writing grants is the same thing, you think you have a winning strategy and then suddenly your panel switches emphasis, or changes the grant requirements/deadlines, or study sections are reorganized. Sometimes this suddenly works against you, sometimes in your favor, like when a new RFA is released dealing exactly with your topic area. You just have to keep on playing and hope that the rules change in your favor. I guess one difference is that in Fluxx, you can be the one to change the rules, in the grant game this seldom happens.
Another Neurodoodle
Dilemma about philanthropically funded research
Recently a friend of a friend (yes that's a real person), who apparently is quite wealthy, wanted to donate a substantial sum of money for research in a specific disease. He had been in contact with a major research university and was directed to a given investigator working on this disease and who wrote up a research prospectus of the research and clinical study he was going to use the funds for. My friend knew I was sort of in the field (not really, neuroscience is a BIG field) and asked me what I thought of the research plan. I told him I wasn't an expert in this and referred him to someone who was, and who could help give a proper evaluation. I also gave him contact information for a professional society dedicated to finding a cure for this disease and who could also provide better guidance. However, I did look at the prospectus and spoke to some folks about said disease and really it didn't seem to me like this would be the best use of this person's money. The investigator didn't seem to have a long track record working on this disease nor any current funding for this type of work. Which to me poses an ethical dilemma, clearly this donor is invested in funding the best research for a disease to which they probably have a personal connection to, and clearly since funding is so screwy it is becoming more common for individual investigators to make direct philanthropic appeals to fund their own research. However is the best research being funded or are development offices taking advantage of someone's goodwill? Clearly this was a case where advice from a panel of independent experts would be useful and hopefully my friend told his friend to get in contact with the experts (although he also made it sound like this donation was a done deal). But I don't really feel comfortable directly advising my friend not to fund these people as I'm not an expert, even if my instinct tells me that his money might be better used elsewhere. Perhaps donated to the professional organization which can then allocated as grants.
Advice for a young investigator
Stay away from assholes.
That's it! Whenever I've followed that advice that was given me as a grad student I've been glad I did, whenever I've not followed this advice I've regretted it. This applies to mentors, big shot collaborators, colleagues and trainees. If they are established and confirmed assholes – stay away, if your asshole-meter is ringing all over the place – stay away. The corollary of this advice, of course is: don't become an asshole yourself.
So many questions!
Last week was my last class period for the semester and the final is later this week. Now is the time when the students start studying and coming up with all sorts of questions. In a class of around a hundred students this adds up to a lot of questions. To help we have a review session run by our trusty TAs and I also have office hours. Both of these are fairly exhausting for the TAs and for me, since it involves answering a relentless barrage of questions from students. A few years ago I instituted a class policy to not answer any questions related to the class material over email, mainly because I find myself answering the same thing multiple times and my inbox goes crazy. Instead we set up a course discussion board (using a great free tool called Piazza) where students can post their questions (anonymous to their classmates, but visible to me) and the instructor, TAs and fellow classmates can post answers and followups. This provides an archive of questions people can look up before asking the same thing again, and everyone can benefit from seeing the answers. By the end of the semester, about half the questions are being answered by other students, so I don't even have to do it, just check that its correct (it allows the instructor to endorse an answer). I've been very happy with Piazza and the students also like it based on their course reviews. That said, I've had colleagues have bad experiences with discussion boards, especially when students use them to ridicule other students or complain about the course. So I guess your mileage may vary, depending on the students in your class.
Research Talk
So today for my class, rather than having a regular period I decided to give a research talk about some of the research going on in my lab. I think it went pretty well, I gave it at the level that I would to a regular seminar audience (usually grad students, postdocs and faculty) and they appeared to be following quite well based on some of the questions. They should be able to follow if they had been paying attention during the whole semester, since there really wasn't any concept in the talk that we hadn't at least touched upon during the course. For some reason I felt far more nervous giving a research talk to my class rather than to a seminar audience, maybe because if I came off sounding like an idiot I would still have to confront them during the rest of the semester. In any case I don't think I came off sounding like an idiot, and hope that they learned something.
Does anyone else routinely talk about their own research during your classes? Or is this bad form and self-important?
I had fun reading the various #gatewaytoscience tweets late last week. People wrote in what initially got them into science. I think anyone who is a scientist as an adult probably had some interest in science as a kid and it was fun reading about the various books, teachers, experiences that got people hooked. But the tweets I found more interesting were those that describe how folks became interested in science as adults. And I wanted to share my own experience, not because it is particularly interesting, but because it is apropos about recent discussions about undergraduate access to research labs. When I started college I knew I wanted to do some sort of life science (molecular biology sounded good, although I had no idea at the time what that actually meant). My first semester I enrolled in a Neuroscience course. I was very excited because I literally knew zero about the nervous system, and that was pretty much the same for everyone else in the course. This was a great equalizer, because we were all on the same footing and about to learn some really cool things about an incredibly complex system. Needless to say I was floored by the course. It was a huge lecture course with about 350 students and team taught by various faculty but I remember just being awestruck, and decided I wanted to learn everything I could about neuroscience (I also realized that molecular biology, at the time, was kinda boring to me). So I kept on taking neuroscience courses and becoming more and more enamored. I remember going home that first summer and working in my father's hardware store and just thinking about how I'd much rather be working in a lab. So sophomore year I went back determined to work in a lab. I approached my favorite professor, told him I wanted to learn everything about the work in his lab and wanted to do research. He told me his lab was already too big, that he appreciated my enthusiasm but sorry. So I kept on bugging him until finally, second semester he offered me a volunteer position. For two semesters I volunteered (also got a summer fellowship for both ensuing summers) and then I worked in the lab for course credit the other semesters. I have to say this was a life-changing and career defining experience. Not only did I get to do a bunch of incredibly cool things (record from neurons! study memory in a dish! slice and stain brain slices!), I also learned so much both from the PI and from the other people in lab. I learned what research was like, how to make figures, how to analyze data, I got to present at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, was co author in a glam pub and was also first author in another paper based on my senior thesis. To me having this opportunity, first as a volunteer and then as an honors student, was central to me becoming a neuroscientist, and to hear someone say that I was being 'exploited' because the PI benefited from my labor seems ridiculous.
Not to say that unpaid undergrad volunteers can not end up in a more exploitative situation, as proposed elsewhere. Especially with lack of mentorship and being relegated to menial tasks like making stocks and washing dishes, rather than contributing to a project. So just because I wasn't exploited doesn't mean that others haven't suffered from such an arrangement. But what I see as the biggest issue here is access. I was lucky enough that I did not have to work and extra job during the school year when I was in college, so I had time I could devote to working in the lab. Not everyone can do this, and that is why I have made the argument before that working in a lab should be something that could be used to fulfill work-study obligations. And so we should work towards making research accessible to everyone, rather than limiting the ways people get to do research. Everyone's path is different, what worked for me might not work for others. Nevertheless I think that lab experience really is something that should be done by anyone before they go to graduate or medical school. For future grad students it really helps you figure out if research is really for you, before its too late. With such a low probability of success of a career in academic research, you better really want it before you embark on your journey. For med students, science is really at the root of their discipline, and knowing how fickle and variable science really is will go far in making future doctors evaluate medical and scientific literature when deciding how to treat their patients. I certainly have far more confidence in a doctor if I know they've spent time doing research.
Lab Insurance
A lot has been written about how big labs with more grants are not necessarily more productive per grant dollar spent on research. This may be true, but one big advantage that having multiple grants gives you is: insurance. I've always had a small lab and I think we've been fairly productive with the very limited amount of grant funding we've had over the years. The largest my lab has been (briefly) was 2 postdocs and 3 grad students, but normally we're about half that size since that's all I can afford to support (barely). Which is fine, we also have a lot of undergrads working in the lab for course credit and towards their Honors theses and they can be fairly productive, but often devote less of their time to research during the school year. And I've been lucky to have good people who get a lot of work done. But the problem with a small lab like this is what happens when one of your 2 or 3 lab members is not very productive. And I don't mean so non-productive that they'll lose their job, but maybe just not so into it or distracted with a bunch of other stuff. As a mentor, one tries to correct these things, but sometimes it just doesn't work out quite as well or the person only partially responds to your intervention. As a result of one unproductive person, you can have entire projects grind to a halt, making it harder to publish papers and to get more funding. And it is easy enough to say, well "why don't you just kick this person out". But again that is hard to justify in the absence of any egregious wrongdoing, and even if you do, then you are halfway through the grant cycle and can't really commit to hiring anyone else, since who knows if your grant will get funded again. This makes it increasingly difficult to recover from funding lags, and forces one to basically start from scratch once new funding comes in but there's no one left in your lab to help train the new people. With multiple grants one can afford to support multiple individuals, spread projects more evenly across the lab and thus be more protected if things don't work out with a lab member.
So I've been making some drawings on my iPad. I started playing with my cool new Pencil stylus and by habit I drew a few neurons. Then started adding some color splotches, and then digitally cutting up the image and rearranging them. This lead to more doodling, this time following connectivity schemes of specific neural circuits and then overlaying some of them on collages made from drawings from Cajal and other classic neuroanatomists. It's a bit hard to have much control on an iPad mini, but it works OK. I've been posting a few of them on Twitter, but I figure it's be fun to share some of them here. A sort of "Handbook of Neural Circuits".
Here's one of my favorites, it's based on the circuitry of the olfactory bulb, which is responsible for sorting, organizing and relaying olfactory information from the olfactory epithelium to the rest of the brain. The underlying image is actually a drawing from Camillo Golgi, Cajal's colleague and rival. Hope you like it!
Twitchy Bias
I've written in the past about what it's like living with Tourette syndrome. In general, my tics don't really bother me, they're just there in the background and for the most part I can suppress them if the situation calls for such action. Thus, normally my tics are not a problem for me when I do things like teach or give a seminar. Especially if I am "in the groove" while I'm teaching or speaking, then urge to tic really becomes suppressed on its own. Sometimes when I'm stressed or tired, and having problems focusing, then it is more of a challenge to suppress my tics during class or meetings. And on days like those, teaching can be very draining since a lot of my energy is directed toward suppressing my tics, and then they tend to get pretty bad for the rest of the day. That said, this is all from my perspective. Although I may think that I am suppressing my tics because I can push them out of my consciousness, it doesn't mean that they are completely invisible to everyone else. This is why absolutely hate seeing video of myself, because I realize three horrifying things about myself: (1) that my voice is really high, I never quite realize how high my voice really is until I hear it recorded, (2) I need to lose about 20 pounds and (3) that even though I'm not thinking about them my tics are really obvious.
Fortunately my students have had the tact to not really comment about them, at least not openly to me, and imagine that they simply get used to them. One time there was one student who wrote on the teaching evaluation "the professor's tics are very off-putting". Which was a complete asshole remark to make, but at least they let me know that I may need to do a better job in controlling my tics during class. Seeing my twitching on video also makes me think about how I come across to my colleagues. Since I've started my job, only two people have ever asked me about the tics, one was a friend who was just curious the second wanted to learn more because they had a child with Tourette's. Everybody else seems to just ignore them, but again maybe that's just what I see. It could very well be that they discuss them amongst themselves when I'm not around, and I've often wondered if my Tourrette's clouds their perception of me as a serious colleague. I recently read an article about how disabled people are often perceived as less competent than fully able ones in realms that are completely unrelated to the disability. I think that is human nature that when we perceive any form of weakness in a person, we are biased to somehow take them less seriously or think about them as being less competent. And so I worry. Although I do not consider my Tourette's to be a disability, I often wonder when sitting at a faculty meeting if my colleagues will ever so slightly take the twitchy guy perhaps slightly less seriously. I'm sure not everyone does this, but I wouldn't be surprised if some do. It doesn't help that the science I work on is somewhat out of the mainstream from what goes on in my department, at least in first appearances, and so I feel a little bit like an outsider. And I have noticed that for example when certain faculty are asked to talk about their research in front of potential donors to our department, or to showcase the research in the department for whatever reason, I am always overlooked, even though my publication record is as good or better than other people, and I think my research is pretty cool and exciting. And again this might have nothing to do with the fact that I have tics, might have a little bit to do with it, or might have everything to do with it. And I will never know since a lot of these biases are unconscious, and the people harboring them might not even know they have them.


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"As far as I am concerned the decision has been made by faceless people in the Department of Justice," he said last Tuesday (September 18).
[Source: Derry Journal]
Dan Allen of Muff is a man with great foresight.
He bought a new car number plate from the DVLA the night before Donegal beat Cork. The registration number: DL 12 SAM.
Clever Dan paid $1,600 – his winning bid for the number plate.
The following day, the DVLA phoned him to ask him the significance of the number plate, as they had received over 200 calls enquiring about the purchase of it. So, a delighted Dan explained the background to them.
Since then Dan has turned down $16,000 for this unique plate.
[Source: Donegal Democrat]
The funerals had taken place last Wednesday of Ulster rugby starlet Nevin Spence, his father Noel and brother Graham, who all died in slurry tank farm accident on their Northern Ireland farm.
The service was held at Ballynahinch Baptist Church, Co. Down.
Noel (68) and brothers, Graham (30) and Nevin (22) all died trying to save each other on the family farm near Hillsborough.
The sole survivor of the tragedy, Nevin's sister Emma – who tried in vain to save her dad and brothers – told mourners at the funeral "they were gentlemen."
[Source: Belfast Telegraph]
Murdered Alan Ryan's gang has drawn up a hit-list of criminals they believe gunned down the Real IRA boss.
Ryan's pals have been intimidating local drug dealers for information on the killing, the Herald can reveal.
The gang has now compiled a short-list of two prominent names they believe are behind the murder.
"The RIRA boys have been making their own inquiries with local drug dealers – it seems they have received a good level of cooperation there," a source said.
[Source: Evening Herald]
An Ederney man who admitted harassing a woman he met through a community-based course has been told to stay away from the woman and not to attempt to contact her either at home or at her place of work.
Imposing an 18-month probation order and a restraining order on Cyril Albert Irvine (35) from Glassmullagh, Ederney District Judge Liam McNally told the defendant he had no doubt his conduct over a six-month period caused "a great deal of trauma to this lady" but rather than sending him directly to prison the judge said he would like him to address the issues which cause him to act in this manner.
[Source: Fermanagh Herald]
Community and social projects in the south Connemara area could be in for a windfall if a wind farm project in the Lettermucu area gets the planning go ahead.
Gaoi an Iarthair Teo is offering a fund totaling over $1.4 million over a 20-year period to organizations within a 10 mile radius of the proposed wind farm – from the time the business comes into operation.
The initial fund would be $320,000 with yearly additions of $65,000 in the two decades following. A spokesman for the company said that an independent group would be set up to assess applications and make payments.
[Source: Galway Bay FM]
The population appears to have fallen dramatically in rural areas in south Kerry in a drift towards the towns of Cahersiveen, Killorglin, Killarney and Kenmare, according to a new draft plan to go before the public for comment.
A substantial number of people still living in the countryside travel for work in Kenmare, Killarney, Killorglin and elsewhere, according to the report covering the section of the Ring of Kerry from Cahersiveen to Sneem.
In the wider rural Waterville area the population has fallen by eight percent in the last five years but some of the surrounding town lands have lost more than 22 percent.
[Source: Irish Times]
Undercover Gardaí (police) are targeting local markets where illegal cigarettes may be sold, according to a senior Garda spokesperson.
This follows the revelation, in a recent survey, that Co. Kildare – and Newbridge, in particular – has one of the highest levels of illegal cigarette sales in the country. Traders throughout the county have expressed frequent concerns about the amount of illegally imported cigarettes being sold on the street and at local markets.
[Source: Kildare Nationalist]
The casual traders of Kilkenny Farmers' Market have been granted their long-standing wish to move their stalls into the center of the Parade on a trial basis, beginning last Thursday.
Until last week, the traders were based on the gravel walk on the east side of the Parade. However, for two years now, they have been making submissions to the council asserting that the location is not suitable.
Two submissions made during a recent review of the local casual trading by-laws said that the gravel walk was too far away from the main thoroughfare of the town, lacked visibility, was difficult to keep clean, and even posed a health and safety risk.
[Source: Kilkenny People]

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We are all home from the hospital in time to celebrate with family on Christmas!! I was discharged from the hospital with my new son on Christmas Eve and that was my biggest goal of all: to have my family intact & healthy on this special holiday.
Richard Logan Smith was born Dec 18 at 9:42am at 36 weeks gestation weighing 6lbs 5 oz, 19 in long. Not the huge baby they predicted! He came home a perfect & tiny 5lbs 12oz and we're loving every minute together. There's more to the story, it's long & boastful and then gets scary but the general news is I had a scheduled C-section that went off beautifully, a perfect birth after all my worries & complications. I had more complications after delivery & will be stuck in bed recovering for a few weeks or months. Bedrest isn't really over for me yet. But I have my family here and the best therapy is a big dose of soft baby skin & hugs from loved ones. It IS something we can survive!!


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I had my home owners insurance w/The Hartford for twelve years. During those 12 years, I saw my premium rise from $800/mo to $2,000/mo. without ever making a claim and without adding anything to the policy. Further, within my total 35 years of home-ownership, I had never been late paying a premium, and I never made a claim to any homeowners insurance company or policy. Additionally, I had not made a claim to any other type of insurance policy/insurance company for more than 30 years (I include in that statement, health insurance, auto insurance, homeowners insurance, life insurance - ANY INSURANCE whatsoever). In 2009, I had a fire in my home. I immediately called Hartford. I complied with all procedures to see my claim to the end. My claim was not disputed, and to my knowledge was not investigated. I jumped through every hoop and obstacle that Hartford put before me (and there were many). During this procedure it became very obvious that their procedures and intentions were in place to contribute to the claimant in failing to comply with their demands. But, I did not fail; I complied with every little piece of documentation, every question, every form, every fact, receipt; whatever it was that they demanded, I provided in a timely manner, and well before their demands expired. The damages to my home had been estimated at more than $80,000. Long story short, Hartford dragged their feet paying the final $10,000 of my claim. Approximately three weeks prior to completion, the adjuster had done a final walk-thru and was impressed with the work and indicated the final payment would be sent within a few working days. The contractor completed all repairs agreed upon - on time and did excellent work; we waited and waited for final payment. A week after the adjuster made the final walk through I tried contacting her to let her know the work was completed. Three weeks later, after leaving numerous messages and emails, she finally emailed me back with a request for something she said she wanted from the contractor that came out of nowhere, which was completely unnecessary, and was not in the contract which was approved by the adjuster. I didn't question her request, I informed the contractor of the request, he complied with the documentation she requested and she had what she requested within three days. I again tried contacting her, left messages, sent emails, without reply. The contractor finally made contact with the adjuster in an attempt to find out what else needed to be done for him to get payment. (The only thing I can figure with her even taking his call is because she did not recognize his name.) The adjuster hung up on him, and from that day on, I was unable to make any contact whatsoever with anyone from Hartford for a year. I paid the contractor out of pocket for his final invoice which was more than $10,000. I did this because the money was owed to him plus I was confident I would be reimbursed by Hartford. As it were when I did pay the contractor, he had already waited for three months for payment, which was way beyond the agreement we had and well after the completion of his work. Matter of fact, the contractor had used his own funds for materials to finish the job. Because of their lying, deceitful, crooked, underhanded processing of my claim (or non-processing) I lost my home that I owned for 21 years. I finally received the money owed to me, via a check more than one year after losing my home which was approximately 20 months after making the initial claim. I still have that check; I am unable to cash it because it is made out to my former mortgage company and myself. The mortgage company would not negotiate so I still have the check. (That's another story in itself)
Bottom line; Hartford is not your friend. They will do whatever it takes to avoid payment or making payment in full. I hounded them, I called, emailed, snail mailed them asking for that payment before losing my home. I began my correspondence at minimum three times a week, for three months, and was put on ignore. None of my correspondence was given reply. I was sure to have all of my paper work, and all of my leg work done to the T. They had everything that they required and requested from me (and then some) way before their conditions of receiving it had expired. They never disputed that I did not do my due diligence, nor did they dispute receiving all that I supplied and sent to them, nor did they dispute the legitimacy of my documents, of my statements or of my claim in general. They would not and did not respond to more than 12 months of correspondence from me. Finally, I wrote my congressman. He in turn wrote my state's insurance commission, and they contacted Hartford. When a representative from my state made contact with Hartford, within three days I received a phone call from Hartford. That is the only reason they made contact with me and the only reason they sent the $10,000 check to me. (Oh, they also paid out because they knew I would not be able to cash the check which was a two-party check.) During the phone call, the representative from Hartford informed me that they had sent the check more than a year ago and got it back through the mail, stating undeliverable. If they had sent it when they said they sent it, I would have received it. If they had sent it, why would they not respond to me for a year? They did not/would not provide evidence of sending the original check they claimed to have sent, nor did they provide evidence of its return to them.
One final note; four months prior to losing my home, my homeowner's policy came due. I received the premium notice from Hartford and as mentioned, up to the point of the fire, I had been paying $2000/year for my homeowners policy. In the statement that I received from Hartford after my first and only claim not only to Hartford, but to any other homeowners insurance policy, Hartford raised my premium by $2000 to $4,000/year. This was after my property value had DECREASED (due to the housing collapse) by more than 35% since the prior premium of $2000. So because of one claim, and even though the property value had substantially decreased, not only did they knowingly withhold payment, they then decide to punish me a further $2,000/year over and above what I had been paying. I had paid my premiums in full and on time for years to eventually be denied a timely and full payment for my one and only legal and legitimate claim. My mortgage company offered to me, through another company, the very same coverage that I had with Hartford on the same property for a total of $1,300/year; which is $2,700 less per year than Hartford was attempting to extort from me.
I have been scouring the phone book, the Internet, and any/all forms of directories in an attempt to find an attorney to represent me in a law suit against Hartford. I have yet to find one that feels comfortable going up against a giant such as Hartford. Hartford knows that someone as myself (meaning the little guy, the consumer) will have a tough time finding representation for a law suit, they know even if we did find someone to represent us, that our chances of winning are slim to none. Thus, this behavior, and their methods continue - with their underlying theme of whatever it takes, whatever we have to do, it doesn't matter, we are untouchable, we can do what we want. And they do.
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There are logical actions and reactions. This post is to demonstrate that logic is not applied equally across the board to all countries. What I propose to show you is that when France or indeed any Western country does these kind of things, the World applauds and supports their actions but when Israel reacts in EXACTLY the same way they are condemned.
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Faced with what he describes as a "never-ending battle" against rising costs, Ranjan Mahtani, the CEO of Hong Kong based apparel supplier Epic Group, is in fighting mood.
But what is also clear is his concern that the apparel industry's current preoccupation with price leaves it in danger of failing to see an even bigger and more worrying issue: the lack of new supply countries coming through.
"While we are fighting a battle on cost, there's also a big capacity war going on," Mahtani explains. "Something I have had a view on for the last five or six years is where's the next supply going to come from? For example, we don't do any production in Hong Kong any more, and we've seen countries disappear [off the sourcing radar].
"Where is the supply chain growing, and how many countries are going to be left? That's the big war that no-body wants to recognise."
With Epic's production facilities mainly located in Bangladesh and Vietnam - two countries repeatedly cited as having the potential to pick up orders migrating out of increasingly expensive China - Mahtani is well placed to comment on sourcing challenges and opportunities.
The woven apparel manufacturer has 20,000 employees and produces 36m garments a year for customers in North America and the EU, including Wal-Mart, JC Penney, Kohl's, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, H&M, and Arcadia group (which owns the Topshop and Dorothy Perkins chains).
"No matter where we are in Asia we see very high levels of inflation, rising labour costs, rising utility costs, rising fuel costs," he says, adding other issues like manpower shortages, political disturbances, and even issues like container scarcity to the mix of challenges.
"All these factors are putting more and more pressure onto an industry which is already under very tight margins. One day it's cotton yarn, the next it could be a labour issue, it could be a container problem...you're going to face problems four or five times in a year.
"Over the last 10-15 years everyone has squeezed everything that is left out of this industry. The big question is how long can the apparel industry survive on these very fragile fundamentals?"
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Epic has tackled the problem of an annual 10-20% hike in costs by getting "leaner and more efficient" every year, including efforts to automate and work to faster cycle times to bring down financial costs.
But Mahtani admits it's a constant fight.
"Even in a country like Vietnam, where we have been since 1997, we've seen a 50% hike in our labour cost in the last two years. So while Vietnam is a big supplier I wonder if I will be able to do business there five years from today. And would I be there today if I was not already?" he asks.
Epic's presence in Bangladesh goes back nearly 30 years, but while Mahtani says it is "definitely a low cost country," he also cautions: "We don't think Bangladesh is a cheap country any more."
The company opened its state-of-the-art Cosmopolitan Industries Pvt Ltd (CIPL) garment manufacturing facility in Dhaka in 2006 - at the time the largest stand-alone apparel plant in the country - with the investment including an advanced wet processing area, wrinkle free technology and computerised embroidery machines.
"We need to have a sophisticated operation here as we can't just survive on price alone," Mahtani notes. "Our focus in Bangladesh has always been to set up units that could match the best units in China, and not just rely on the abundance of labour."
Current demand for apparel products made in Bangladesh is "exceeding capacity" he says, thanks to soaring orders from Europe, the US and even India.
This is partly due to changes to trade rules last year which gave Bangladeshi imports duty-free access to the EU under the generalised system of preferences (GSP) scheme, and the lifting of import barriers by the Indian government. US buyers are also shifting some purchases away from China and Vietnam to try to cut costs.
But there are also hurdles to be faced in this country too - including a lack of locally made textiles and infrastructure issues. Most of the woven fabrics used by Epic come from China and Pakistan, while Arvind Limited has shelved its plans to set up a denim plant in Bangladesh because of gas supply problems.
"Bangladesh would be able to quadruple its business in ten years if it had its own textiles," Mahtani believes. "Otherwise the roads and port need to be improved, but we see a lot of work going on and there will be progress in the next year or two. But it's not able to match the speed of demand right now."
He also believes Bangladesh is currently "on fire" not because it's the best country, but because of "a series of eliminations of other countries."
He adds: "The reality is that we are totally dependent on China. You could have five Bangladesh's but they would not be able to replace China."
New supply countries
Epic Group's search for new supply countries in which to set up manufacturing facilities has taken in Haiti and Myanmar (Burma), but "everybody's going to the same places and we haven't found an ideal replacement."
Myanmar is "very viable" from a tailoring, cost and efficiency viewpoint - but less clear cut is "the viability of being able to do business there." That said, it "could be the next place" if the country continues to open up to investors.
Haiti, though, despite being close and duty-free to the US, as well as having cheap labour, doesn't have "the efficiency and quality levels," according to Mahtani.
The solution, perhaps, is that "people may have to start making goods again closer to where they are." Adding together the cost of the garment, duty and freight may leave little difference between sourcing from far-off places compared with those that are close by, he notes.
Perhaps the most important weapons Epic Group has in its arsenal are its dedicated design studios in Hong Kong, New York and London.
"Our European customers are looking for us to put new silhouettes, new fabrics on the table every day. Five years ago we saw the same thing with America, and if you were a vendor who bought design to the table it really gave you an edge."
While the focus with US customers reverted to core, basic clothing as cotton prices climbed, the need now is for "development ability; it's being able to translate what they want, super-fast and meeting their expectations.
"Which is why we have our design studios and do our research, so that when the customer comes to us, it's something we've already done and it gives us an edge."
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nomorerack.com Ripped off in San Antonio,Texas. It looks like my daughter isn't getting her boots I ordered for Christmas. 381 Park Ave South , New York
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Theology and ministry students from across the nation study at Harding School of Theology by combining on-line courses and occasional, brief trips to Memphis. This combination of face-to-face and distance learning assures your degree program will be both accessible and academically rigorous.
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On-line courses do not require travel. Class discussions are held via Canvas, a state-of-the-art course management website that gives access to class notes and lectures. It also keeps you connected to your professors and classmates, so you have a rich personal experience with your on-line community. Multiple on-line courses are offered each fall and spring semester.
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HST occasionally offers courses that combine the on-line and on-campus meetings. These hybrid courses typically require one weekend on campus. The rest of the semester follows the standard on-line model making use of Canvas.
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The MA in Counseling and the Certificate in Church Counseling (and select classes in the M.Div., MACM, and MA) are available through the Streaming Live Interactive Classroom format. In this format, you virtually attend a class that is actually meeting on campus using the Bluejeans platform. You participate in the class in real time along with students who are physically in the classroom. Learn more about distance counselor training by clicking here. Learn more about the SLIC platform by clicking here.
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You will not have to sacrifice the networking and relationships that can only form with person-to-person interaction. But you won't have to sacrifice your ministry either. By taking advantage of one-week intensive courses on-campus, you earn full credit for your course, but you are only on campus for one week during the semester. You will have reading and assignments both before coming to class and after class, so the course lasts the whole semester. You are on campus, however, only one week per class.
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Monthly intensives meet one weekend per month over the course of the semester. The monthly meetings begin Friday after lunch and end mid-afternoon on Saturday. There are reading and assignments before and after each meeting and the course lasts the full semester.
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How much do you know about aces, engineers and historical characters? Usually our knowledge is limited to such sources as online encyclopedias and short notes in a game's news. One of our War Thunder players decided to share knowledge with you, we are extremely grateful and we hope you will be too.
26 August 2016
The biggest game show in Europe - Gamescom 2016 - has come to its end in the German city of Cologne. Hundreds of thousands people arrived there to check out what's new in the world of computer games.
23 August 2016
Fighters, the operation under the codename "S.U.M.M.E.R" has come to an end. Tens of thousands of participants competed for the title of the most successful fighters and rightly deserve their awards - a new vehicle from range, "113"!
We are pleased to present another hero of War Thunder naval warfare: the heavily armed American PT-810 torpedo boat.
21 August 2016
The German Schnellboots – fast torpedo boats – became a symbol of Germany's naval superiority in several seas and, of course, in the English Channel. We're here to tell you about one of those boats today.
20 August 2016
Dear players, today is a sizzling day at Gamescom 2016 - we will be showcasing naval battles gameplay for the first time and will introduce a new German craft! Check the details in the stream schedule.
The Japanese Type 11 PT-15 patrol torpedo boat is the first ship we would like to present from the Japanese naval tech tree. Let's take a closer look at it.
19 August 2016
This year, War Thunder will be at Gamescom 2016 with some special news to show - Naval Combat ! Follow the streams for exclusive information and plenty of giveaways!
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The large Project 183 Bolshevik torpedo boat became an essential vessel of this class for the USSR in the postwar years. We are proud to present this Ship on the battlefields at sea in War Thunder.
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Newly-arrived faculty at Queen's learn about resources and make connections at New Faculty Orientation Day.
Queen's researchers measure benefits of emotional flexibility in the relationship between mothers and adolescent daughters.
Join in as Queen's attempts to set Guinness World Record for largest human letter.
As Queen's marks its 175th anniversary banners are being placed on buildings across campus.
Nurturing inclusive cultures of teaching and learning the theme for Teaching Development Day.
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Graduate students make valuable connections at Matariki Network Indigenous Student Mobility Program hosted by the University of Otago.
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"I never left Indiana," Ellsworth, a former county sheriff from Evansville, said in contrast. The critique irritated Coats, who had brushed off Ellsworth's criticisms for most of the evening but now stood on stage shaking his head. "You can shake your head all day long," Ellsworth said. "You said it."
"Brad," Coats said, sounding exasperated, "it was a second home."
Coats said voters are unhappy with federal government, and he accuses Ellsworth of being lockstep with his party leaders. "Clearly, a lot of Hoosiers are not happy with what's come out of Washington these last two years. 90% of what's come out has been supported by my opponent," Coats said. "There's a lot of enthusiasm for change in Washington."
Ellsworth said Coats' claim that he has voted in line with Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 90% of the time is misleading He said those votes could include anything from naming a post office to honoring a sports team. "I have one of the most independent voting records in Congress, and I had a more conservative voting record than four Republicans," Ellsworth said.
Coats battled back, saying that it was his law firm--not him personally--who represented clients on those issues. He pointed instead at Ellsworth, saying that the Democrat's votes for the bailout, health care law and stimulus bill put the country in almost insurmountable debt. "I can understand that someone who went to Washington talking like a conservative here at home--but followed the agenda of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama nearly 90% of the time--would not want to come home and talk about that," Coats said.
Coats appeared to claim he accepted the lobbying job only after leaving office. "I said, 'Under the laws, I'm not able to negotiate anything.' In fact, I took a month off after I left because I didn't even want t think about what was next," Coats said.
What's clear is that on Oct. 17, 1998, press reported that the firm was "quite intrigued by Coats." Coats' Senate office announced that the deal was done on Dec. 3. On Jan. 3, Coats' Senate term ended. In Feb. 1999, Coats began working for the firm, earning a salary over $400,000.
Coats' campaign said the former senator simply misspoke. By "after I left," the campaign says he meant after Oct. 21, when the Senate adjourned and Coats was through casting votes.
The idea had been germinating well before Nixon offered his advice. Gingrich had spent four years seeing his fellow Republicans in the House react instead of act. Newt reached out first to Rep. Vin Weber of Minnesota. Together they recruited Robert Walker of Pennsylvania, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, Dan Coats of Indiana, Connie Mack of Florida, Joe Barton of Texas, and Dan Lundgren and Duncan Hunter of California. The group met weekly and planned.
"Trent Lott was the godfather," Gingrich recalls. "He hosted a weekly luncheon. Dick Cheney came. I thought Cheney or Lott would be the Republican leader and I'd be the senior planner."
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The developers of Ubuntu One, the next Ubuntu release, are apparently planning a music store along the lines of iTunes.
The Ubuntu Developer Summit currently taking place in Dallas TX is serving as ideasmith for the upcoming Ubuntu version. Developers are meeting there to come up with what they call Blueprints, detailed feature suggestions for the next release, of which not all will see the light of day.
Among the newest Blueprints is one that may be a money-maker for Canonical. Developers of Ubuntu One, which is a commercial offering in and of itself, are planning a Music Store from which you can possibly buy music without DRM restrictions, much like Apple's iTunes store. Because the idea came from the summit, it's likely that the store will become part of the Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" release.
The blueprints don't go so far as to present details on the iTunes alternative. However, users should be able to play in the songs directly to their audio players. A similar model has been around for some time for Linux, with the Amarok KDE audio player and Rhythmbox, both of which integrate Magnatune, for example.
It's likely that Ubuntu will enter into an agreement with an existing music service provider. Otherwise the financial burden of opening a shop in each country worldwide might signficantly exceed any profits gained.
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Announces the recipient of a 2009 award for innovation in research on drug addiction and alcoholism whose research focuses on the cellular changes that occur in response to chronic cocaine abuse.
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NIDA Program Officer Dr. David Thomas speaks about the intertwined problems of pain and prescription opioid abuse, as well as the research supported by NIDA and the National Institutes of Health to address these problems.
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A significant portion of individuals who are addicted to opioid painkillers may initiate and maintain abstinence with a brief but intensive outpatient detoxification treatment followed by opioid antagonist therapy using naltrexone.
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A new vaccine hindered the often-abused prescription opioids oxycodone and hydrocodone from entering the brain and suppressed one of the drugs' signature central nervous system effects. The findings warrant continued development of the vaccine as a potential aid in the treatment of oxycodone and hydrocodone abuse and dependence.
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EPA Approves Latest Refrigerant Substitutes | Facility Executive - Creating Intelligent Buildings
The three hydrocarbon substances can be used in small commercial refrigerators and freezers.
EPA Approves Latest Refrigerant Substitutes
The three substitutes, for use in small commercial and refrigerators and freezers (and their household counterparts), mark the first time hydrocarbon replacements might be widely used in the U.S. The refrigerants approved as acceptable substitutes, with use conditions, are propane, isobutane, and a chemical known as R-441A.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last month added three hydrocarbons as acceptable alternatives in household and small commercial refrigerators and freezers through the agency's Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program.
EPA took action after requests from Ben and Jerry's and General Electric, as well as A.S. Trust & Holdings, and True Manufacturing, a family owned small business. SNAP is globally recognized as the only program designed specifically to evaluate substitutes for ODS and to focus on the industrial sectors that use them.
"[This] is a great example of how businesses and EPA can work together to protect our planet and drive innovation," said Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Air and Radiation. "This action increases the options for effective, climate friendly refrigerants in the U.S."
Under the Clean Air Act, the SNAP program evaluates substitute chemicals and technologies for ozone depleting substances (ODS). The newly approved refrigerants (propane, isobutane, and R-441A) can be used to replace ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-12 and hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC)-22 in household refrigerators, freezers, combination refrigerator-freezers, and commercial standalone units.
Replacing older refrigerants will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 600,000 metric tons by 2020, equal to the emissions from the annual electricity use of nearly 75,000 homes, and will help protect people's health and the environment.
At the recent 23rd Meeting of the Montreal Protocol Parties, EPA and the U.S. Department of State announced that 108 countries signed a declaration to address hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). While HFCs are ODS substitutes, they are increasingly contributing to climate change. The approval of hydrocarbons in the U.S. is significant because hydrocarbons are more environmentally friendly substitutes than HFCs.
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The SNAP approval for hydrocarbons in the US is a great step towards making the refrigeration sector more sustainable.
In 2011, natural refrigerants have made some important progress namely in commercial refirgeration (http://beta.r744.com/news/view/1562) and market trends such as HillPhoenix buying Advansor seem to indicate that CO2 is also finding its way into the US market (http://beta.r744.com/news/view/1514).
A good trend that will benefit us all in the fight against climate change!
EPA approves Propane for use in refrigeration? R-290 (Propane)as well as R-600 (Butane) have been listed refrigerants long before the EPA existed. Why did it take until 2012 for them to "approve"?
Germany has been using propane in their domestics and propane and isobutane have been used globally (US too) in the commercial/industrial applications.
Glad to see the EPA has finally grabbed onto the coat tails of the private sector Refrigeration Industry.
I hope this means we will soon see mini-diesels coming to the US soon so we can scrap that GM Volt (battery pack on wheels).
I expect better from the EPA.


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