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Financial regulators would be given sweeping new powers to step in and take control of Australia's banks, insurers and superannuation funds in the event of a crisis, under new federal government laws.
Foreign banks operating in Australia have also been targeted as part of the changes amid concerns they would siphon money out of the country if they ran into problems at home.
The push for tougher regulation comes in the wake of the financial crisis, which exposed gaps in the ability of authorities to pro-actively intervene in the system to prevent mis-management and to control a crisis.
In a wide-ranging report yesterday outlining the proposed rules, the government warned that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority did not have enough authority to resolve a crisis quickly if a financial group was at risk of collapse.
"There is a risk that APRA's existing powers may not be sufficient to enable it to intervene effectively in the event of crisis in a financial group, particularly where a company in the group is in receivership or liquidation, or where a risk of that occurring exists," the report prepared by Treasury said.
Under the government's plan, APRA would be given far-reaching powers to move in and appoint a manager to an institution that it suspected was on the verge of collapse.
APRA would also be given more authority to wind up failing banks, insurers and superannuation funds.
While APRA already has the right to appoint managers and wind up groups that are insolvent, the new laws would extend its powers so it could act sooner to prevent a crisis from escalating out of control.
This includes where there were "reasonable grounds" to believe that a financial institution was facing a material deterioration in its performance that could put depositors' money at risk.
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The Australian Bankers' Association said it was studying the proposals.
"It is important to note that the Australian banking sector remained profitable, stable and reliable throughout the GFC unlike the experience of some foreign banks...which required taxpayer bailouts," ABA policy director Tony Burke said.
With Europe's debt crisis casting a cloud over the viability of many of the world's financial institutions, the government report warned the failure of an international group with local branches could rock "the stability of the Australian financial system".
In a bid to prevent Australia being dragged into a global crisis, APRA would be given the muscle to appoint a manager and wind up the local branches of foreign financial institutions. The new laws would also give APRA more power to prevent overseas groups from pulling assets out of Australia. There are currently 48 foreign banks operating in Australia, managing around $300 billion in assets.
"In Australia, there is a risk that, if a foreign ADI [authorised deposit taking institution] becomes financially distressed or is about to fail, its assets in Australia could be moved to another part of the ADI's global operations to the detriment of depositors and other creditors in Australia," the report warned.
"Depending on the size and nature of a foreign ADI's participation in Australian financial markets and payment systems, the distress or failure of a foreign ADI also has the potential to cause disruption to the stability of the Australian financial system."
With Australia's pool of retirement savings growing to $1.4 trillion, the government proposals would also give the prudential regulator pre-emptive powers to step-in to remove trustees, directors or officers of a superannuation fund where they anticipated a breach of the law.
APRA has existing powers to wind-up or investigate a super fund, but these are only available after a disaster had occurred, leading to fears the prudential regulator does not have the appropriate authority to intervene in the sector to prevent a collapse, fraud or crisis.
"While these powers are useful, they may be disproportionate or respond to an event only after it has occurred. Disqualifications, investigation and criminal proceedings, while important enforcement tools, are reactive in nature, rather than suited to pre-empting a developing prudential concern," the Treasury report said.
The move to beef up regulation of the super sector comes after the $176 million collapse of Trio Capital in 2009 which exposed key failings in the regulation of the $1.4 trillion super system. A parliamentary joint committee found earlier this year that APRA reviewed Trio five times between 2004-09 but took no enforcement action, raising questions about its "active supervision" of the sector.
"APRA currently does not have a general early intervention tool, of the flexibility of the directions power in the other industries, to address a superannuation entity's deterioration or non-compliance with prudential requirements," the Treasury report warned.
"Whilst there are certain existing direction powers in superannuation, their specificity limits their utility and the broadest direction power is not pre-emptive".
■ Treasury pushes sweeping new powers for APRA
■ APRA apprehensive about life insurers
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Iraqi Women the Worse for War
Posted on May 18, 2007
Remember those photos of Iraqi women triumphantly raising freshly inked fingers for Western cameras after voting in their new "democracy"? They were presented to the world by the U.S. government as an indication of a policy that would liberate Iraqi women and men. Well, it didn't quite work out that way, according to Iraqi women's rights activist Yanar Mohammed, who argues that the situation for women in her country has significantly worsened since the American invasion in 2003.
Despite his immense failings and unforgivable atrocities, Saddam Hussein ran an essentially secular government that gave women more educational, professional and social freedoms than does the current regime. This is a source of chagrin to people like Mohammed who detested the dictatorship but fear that the future will only bring new restrictions and greater oppression for Iraq's women under the guise of "democracy."
On April 14, Yanar Mohammed was honored by the Feminist Majority Foundation, an organization that warned the world about what the Taliban was doing to women and girls in Afghanistan long before the U.S. decided to take military action. As one of four special guests at the foundation's Global Women's Rights Awards, she was able to speak out about the many battles that she and other members of her activist group, the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, are fighting on behalf of women in their country, risking their lives on a daily basis for their cause. Mohammed tells Truthdig's Associate Editor Kasia Anderson about her mission and explains how the current state of affairs for Iraqi women differs from the picture painted by many Western media outlets.
Yanar Mohammed: After this war started on Iraq I immediately decided to go back to set up an organization and to be the voice for free women there, and since the beginning, in my organization, we decided to do demonstrations, to do campaigns, to make petitions, and to see whatever is needed. And it started with speaking out against the human trafficking of women, and we were the first to demonstrate. It was a few months after the [March 2003] beginning of the war—in August 2003—we started that. But later on, our work was mainly on sheltering women from honor killings, and also on seeking out the reports of women's trafficking, and later on in the last two years we found out—especially after the breakout of the scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison, we found out that it is very important to have a presence in all the women's prisons and see what's happening there. So, we managed to become regular visitors to the central prison—it's called Khadamiyah, a women's prison, and we interviewed all the women in there, and we found out terrible things happening before they reached the prison. Six of them, actually, spoke out about being assaulted, about being raped, some of them serially raped by the staff of the police station before they reached the prison. So, we decided: This is a program that we will have to pursue immediately. And the surprise here is that most of this work we do with very minimal funding—mostly depending on volunteer work.
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Mohammed: Well, although people on this part of the world think that Iraqi women are liberated, actually, we have lost all of the achievements or all the status that we used to have. It is no longer safe to leave your house and get groceries. We're not speaking here about a young woman trying to reach the university, because that is beginning to get too difficult. We're not speaking here about women who are trying to go back and forth to work and even those of my friends who do that already because they have to—many of the police at work are being killed for sectarian reasons. So, you have to witness all sorts of atrocities just going back and forth to work, and if there is this new [policy] of Sunni and Shiite, checking all the IDs of people, you leave the house and you do not guarantee that you come back safe.
Anderson: And I know that the markets are one particular target for bombers—repeated targets for bombers—when people are just trying to shop and go about their business.
Mohammed: Well, all the districts of Baghdad have witnessed bombing, and it's like the bombings move from one neighborhood to the other every month, so ... I moved my residence from one place to another, but I found out they're all unsafe.
Anderson: What is your hope now for your organization—to move into new areas of social and political concern? Or are you going to keep building up what you're working on now?
Mohammed: Actually, we always try to be ahead of the atrocities happening. It started with sheltering; then, it extended to the matter of the trafficking of women. The third thing is that we went into the prisons and we are watching for women's self-esteem to be respected in there. And finally we found out that if you do not put women's rights in context, you have done nothing. So, we have started a youth initiative where we are inviting youth from the Sunni and the Shiite areas and making poetry events where we tell them: "The subject matter of the event is about women, is about love, is about hope," and we are witnessing very good results—that the youth do not want to be recruited for a civil war, do not want to kill each other, but there are very few alternatives for them out there, and the few democrat, seculars and outspoken women aren't really supported. This is the reason that I visit L.A. and speak to our friends at the Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. Magazine, trying to seek support so we can survive as a project and as a voice, because, surprisingly, this war on Iraq brought all the support for the fundamentalists, for the extremists, who are new in the country, who are not the original people of the country, and they made them strong against us—the women and the freedom-loving people of Iraq.
Anderson: Besides the mistaken notion that women in Iraq are enjoying more freedom now than before the beginning of the current war, which tends to be a party line over here, what other misconceptions about what's going on in actuality in Iraq do you feel you could disabuse us of on this end?
Mohammed: Well, the myth of democracy has killed already half a million Iraqis, and if it were giving us real democracy, where people are represented according to their political affiliations or their economic understanding or their social justice affiliations, that would have been understood. But the way Iraqis are represented is according to their religion and their ethnicities. It is as if the U.S. administration is trying to tell the whole world that Iraqis are not entitled to political understanding or political activity. The political formula that was forwarded to us is a total insult for a part of the world where the politics are very much thriving and all kinds of politics—with the dawn of the war, thousands of political parties have registered. And they all wanted to be competing, or let's say running into democracy, but who was empowered, who was supported? It's mostly the religious and mostly the ethnic groups, and the women's groups? The U.S. administration wasn't really interested to speak to, let's say, free women's groups. They preferred to bring decorative factors to the parliament, where they look like women, but they all voted for a constitution that is against women. And the constitution at this moment has imposed Shariah law upon us, when in the times before the war we had more of a secular constitution that respected women's rights. So, it's one more thing lost for this war.
Anderson: Can you respond to the claims made by U.S. politicians talking about how well the reconstruction efforts in Iraq are going?
Mohammed: Well, you know, the billions of dollars that we hear should have reached Iraq and been spent for the reconstruction—well, we don't see any reconstruction. Whatever they have tried to construct, like the electricity generators and water supply and all of that—they have been blown away by the resistance over and over again, so they stopped doing those.
Anderson: Those are particular targets for the resistance?
Mohammed: Yes, yes, because they do not like to see the country run in the American way. So, the answer here is that it cannot be solved by money. There is a political issue to be solved, and later on the reconstruction follows. We're not saying that money should not be spent on the reconstruction, but the political issues have really stopped, and there is absolutely no communication, and all of the solutions are reaching a dead end. So, all talk of reconstruction is nonsense at this point. We have not seen any buildings reconstructed in Iraq. I wonder what they're talking about.
Anderson: And the utilities are, at this point, shot?
Mohammed: Nothing! We get electricity one hour in the morning and one hour at night, and in the last two days there was no electricity. We did not see any new buildings built, unless they are inside the Green Zone, where we cannot see them.
Anderson: And there was a wall being constructed in April. ...
Mohammed: Not one wall—there are 10 layers of concrete walls that we have to be searched over and over until we reach the Green Zone. So, maybe there is some reconstruction in there, but I've been there and I haven't seen really much. So where are these billions going? I have no answer, but I think they are going somewhere else.
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By Nesreen, June 13, 2007 at 6:33 am Link to this comment
saddam had his faults (some exagerated by the US) but he was secular and protected the christians in iraq (who are now fleeing iraq to syria and jordan )
he eradicated Illettracy in 1982 , something still unheard of in the rest of the arab world (saudi women were allowed to go to school for the first time only in the late 70s ) Islam says Education is a must for both male and female 1400 years ago. the first thing we learn in islam : READ , read in the name of your lord .
By Nesreen, June 13, 2007 at 6:25 am Link to this comment
Scott Daniel on 5/20
Iraqi women had rights in 1959 law , when saudi women could not go to school yet . (until the late 70s) women dressed as they wanted , mostly in western clothes in the 60s and 70s , christian iraqis had no problem (until now )
By Toby, May 28, 2007 at 9:32 am Link to this comment
Like it or not the simple truth is, Saddam Hussein was able to unite the majority of his people under one government, guarantee women equal rights and keep the "extreme religious" leaders from controlling the government and the country.
Perhaps he used force to meet that goal, but he achieved that goal none the less. In spite of the Gulf war, in spite of all the sickness from Depleted Uranium, in spite of twelve years of sanctions, women had equal opportunity, everyone received education. They had one of the highest standards of living in the area. And one of the highest rates of college graduates.
Then along comes the "extreme religious" leaders from the West. Guns blazing, riding in like John Wayne to deliver their version of democracy to a people who, we decided, needed to be democratized. Well the neo-con version of "The Texacan" did what they are becoming so well known for. They reduced a high standard to the lowest possible. Killed more people than anyone can count, and made a lot of money for their buddies in the process.
Here in the land of the free and the brave in case you hadn't noticed, women who have the bad fortune to be born into a family dominated by "extreme religious" views are also used and abused and discriminated against as second class citizens.
No, really?
No matter what a "holy man" may wear, or how many committed followers he has. When it comes right down to it, they are all the same. So, why on earth is anybody surprised?
Now we marvel that women in Iraq, once treated as equals are used and abused and discriminated against like second class citizens. Not to mention living in constant fear!
And now that "extreme religious" groups are fighting to control the people we "liberated" we're scratching our heads wondering what to do.
Well for starters we should kick the "extreme religious" leaders in our country out of Washington DC. They have absolutely no business trying to grab control of the peoples government! They can't even agree with each other on what's right and what's wrong. What on earth makes them think they can run a country?
Would that bring peace to the Middle East?
There will never be peace in the Middle East as long as men chose to take the name of God in vain and use it to justify control over those who might choose otherwise.
Ditto here.
We allow fighting fructuous greedy men to play God. Until we put them back in their boxes and keep them there, we will have no peace. Here or anywhere else in the world.
By shz, May 26, 2007 at 10:47 pm Link to this comment
Democracy is a good idea which has yet to be fully expressed in the US. Why would we think we could impose it on Iraq?
I met a Sunni man from Iraq and asked him how things were before the war. He had no use for Hussein, but said things ran well, the population was educated and employed, and women were as free there as women are in the US.
By MLMrev, May 24, 2007 at 7:58 pm Link to this comment
You cannot break all the chains, except one. You cannot say you want to be free of exploitation and oppression, except you want to keep the oppression of women by men. You cant say you want to liberate humanity yet keep one half of the people enslaved to the other half. The oppression of women is completely bound up with the division of society into masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, and the ending of all such conditions is impossible without the complete liberation of women. All this is why women have a tremendous role to play not only in making revolution but in making sure there is all-the-way revolution. The fury of women can and must be fully unleashed as a mighty force for proletarian revolution.
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By Don melchiori, May 22, 2007 at 11:57 am Link to this comment
A must read for every american.
We have been kept in the dark by the media and the administration. read about the true facts of Iraq.
By lester g, May 22, 2007 at 10:02 am Link to this comment
By Frances Colares, May 22, 2007 at 6:38 am Link to this comment
I am an old Brasilian old lady and I agree with what a winner Oscar (I dont remember his name)when Bush invaded Iraq, THAT IS A WRONG WAR IN A WRONG PLACE AT A WRONG TIME. I was living in California at that time.
Bush made to the American a great harm. After 9/11, he promissed Americans that he was going to smoke Bin Laden out of his cave. But instead of that, he and Cheney destroid 3 countries that had done America no harm.
I do really love American people. I have goods friends in America and I feel very sorry for them.
WHERE IS BIN LADEN, Mr. President GWBush?
By Scott Daniel, May 20, 2007 at 9:00 pm Link to this comment
I am absoluely aghast that women thourgout the Middle East suffer deeply by not even being able to enjoy basic human rights - to dress as they wish, to drive cars, to enjoy equal legal and moral treatment etc.
It is totally unaccelptable to me that the US government just allows this to happen, that our country is willing to dialoge with countires where women are 'sub-class' citizens…..
sincerily, Scott Daniel
By dsmith, May 19, 2007 at 5:57 am Link to this comment
Can you imagine a half million Jews being killed as the result of an invasion by the US. Steven Spielberg would be rushing into production as we speak with another Jews Are Victims movie and the Jewish victims would be filing lawsuits. Let the US military offer $2,000 as compensation to an Israeli and see how far they get.
Since these are non-whites who are killing each other in a civil war there seems to be little concern that over 650,000 Iraqi men, women and children are dead, again due to the invasion by Bush and his neocon handlers.
You would think Bush, knowing he and Wolfowitz caused so much misery, might feel just a tad guilty since thier premise for the invasion was totally bogus, but not these warmongers, they now want Iran to become the next disaster, paid with lives of innocent Iranians and US servicemen.
By Jeanine Molloff, May 18, 2007 at 8:53 am Link to this comment
This is a sad commentary not only on Iraq, but also on the consequences incurred when a corporate press constitutes the 'mainstream press.' Had a vital and real press been in existence; these atrocities committed by our government wouldn't have happened. This woman is a true hero, and she has my total admiration and respect. SHE should be the President of Iraq. As a result of this article; I intend to step up my political activities—like her—speaking truth to power. More importantly, we have to get the truth out to the average citizen here in the states so more pressure can be brought to bear on our disgraceful congress. God bless this wonderful teacher.
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In this interview, Melissa Tondi, the founder of Denver Mobile and Quality, talks about the tester's responsibility to balance technical acumen with user advocacy. She discusses the changing landscape of the role of testers, as well as what testers are—and what they are not.
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To those of you who don't know, this past weekend I was at WordCamp Raleigh. It was my first WordCamp, and overall I found it to be a great experience. I met a bunch of people in the WordPress community, and everyone I encountered was very friendly and welcoming.
While I was there, I met Jeffro of WP Tavern and he pulled me aside to do a video interview. In the interview I talk about:
- My experiences at WordCamp so far, including the quality of the cookies
- Anything new I've learned from the sessions, including what I can apply to theming
- Whether or not I will attend future WordCamps wearing a lab coat
- Future plans for Theme Lab, including the Underground
I've embedded it after the jump, check it out.
Let me know what you think of the interview in the comments. And now that WordCamp Raleigh is over, as well as the Page.ly contest, I'll get back to the regularly scheduled content including themes, tutorials, and CSS tips galore.
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to smartphones and tablet and he also loved it. What I didn't know was, that you can charge it through the USB ports as well.
If you guys have any questions just ask me. I might make a few pictures later if you guys need them.
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Don't trash that rod! It can be repaired in such a way that you'll never know it. Take your time. It isn't brain surgery by any means.
You take a small tapered tube of FIBERGLASS,(Don't cheat), about an inch long and slightly greater in diameter than the broken rod. Taper the outside ends of this sleeve slightly.
Sand both ends of the broken sections slightly then epoxy the sleeve in place using a good rod epoxy like Rod Bond.
Let cure then wrap with thread if so inclined but it may just require a coat of finish. You may want to sand some more taper on the ends of the sleeve at this time. It's an 'eyeball' sort of thing.
Note: This repair is done on a routine basis by some top notch rod builders that I know to save a blank. If done properly, you can hardly see it.
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The season will conclude away to Liverpool in November.
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Carson Park's board members have big plans for the county-owned horse park.
They'd like to see it become a regional horse park, offering therapeutic and recreational riding opportunities.
"I feel like Luther Carson was so generous by giving Carson Park to the county," Carson Park board member Sandra DeWeese said. "I want everybody to enjoy this park."
Currently, park leaders are limited in planning because they operate on grants and donations. They're seeking grant funding to renovate the outdoor horse arena, which is in serious need of new footing. The current footing hasn't been replaced since the '70s, and when it rains, the park cannot host a horse show.
But the arena is the largest outdoor arena in the Purchase, DeWeese said.
The grant the park board is applying for would also be used to buy equipment to help maintain the arena and footing.
The park leaders' other plans are merely wants and dreams at this point, as they haven't found funding.
What they're hoping to see is a new covered riding arena near the south end of the half-mile track, two new outdoor riding arenas, replacement of the existing horse barn used for a theraupetic riding program, a new indoor riding arena for the therapeutic program, as well as replacement of the fencing that surrounds the property and a riding trail. The trail could include sensory features such as chimes and bridges, especially for those in the therapeutic riding program, DeWeese said.
Eventually, DeWeese would like to see a concession area, a carousel, a small park area for kids and a new retail building at the front entrance of the park where riders can buy horse tack and visitors can learn about the area. The board's master plan comes with the intention of renovating the park in increments over time with specific buildings receiving higher priority. The 30-acre park, which was established in 1934 when Luther Carson donated the property to the county to be used for horse riding, boasts the second-oldest half-mile riding track in Kentucky.
But because the facilities aren't up to date, DeWeese said, the existing outdoor riding arena is only host to a handful of shows per year. A new covered riding arena alongside the existing bleachers at the half-mile track would also open the venue to larger shows, such as 4-H shows or a major rodeo.
"That will enable us to draw big crowds," she said.
Top on the board's list is the special needs barn for therapeutic riding, which is set to be 80-by-200 feet in size. A 130-by-200 foot arena attached to the barn would allow for the local Horses Inc. program, which provides therapeutic riding opportunities to individuals and children with disabilities, to operate year round. Currently, they cannot ride when it's too hot or cold outside.
The facilities would also be open to the public and ideally would have a barn manager, DeWeese said. Currently, individuals who house their horses at the park must handle all care themselves. While the group is working to obtain grants, it's also organizing a fundraising committee to help raise donations for the park's revitalization. All of the plans combined could cost between $2 million and $3 million. The special needs barn is estimated to cost about $1 million.
The board has also been working over recent years to improve the park within the budget it has. Carson Park Board President Randy Wiersma said the historic Floral Hall meeting house building on the southeast edge of the park near the entrance has improved "tremendously" with the installation of air conditioning and heating, which has made it a venue for weddings.
The board's vision for the park overall is to make it a place where schools can bring students, the community can gather and horse riders can consider it western Kentucky's premiere location for all equestrian activities.
"A lot of horse parks in the country are clear lots with buildings," DeWeese said. "We want it to be a park-like setting."
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Try as he might, Anton Newcombe's megalomaniac antics can't ruin every post-Dig album his Committee To Keep Music Evil label puts out. Changes Near, the sophomore release from the Quarter After collective, proves this point in kaleidoscopic spades. The band centers on the brothers combo of singer-songwriter Dominic Campanella and lead guitarist, long time producer Rob, along with experienced bassist Dave Koenig and Brian Wilson drummer Nelson Bragg. There's a laundry list of others who also had a hand in bringing this to you (including Matthew Sweet and Miranda Lee Richards) but none stick out more than Ric Menck (drummer for Velvet Crush and The Tyde). Though he's mostly given tambourine duty here, Menck recently published his first book in the 33 1/3 series on The Byrds' 1968 classic The Notorious Byrd Brothers. I can't express to you how much that particular album influences the Quarter After sound. Their psychedelic country jangle is practically lifted verbatim from the later work of The Byrds, made even more apparent on Changes Near than on their quietly released debut.
It is a fine line between derivation and influence. The work of Quarter After exhibited on this perfectly transcendent piece of retro pop easily places them closer to the latter. As his swollen list of credits attests, Rob's skills as a producer are unsurpassed. The bright, harmonized, richly dynamic sheen on this record is not a parody of groundbreaking '60s sound, but a shining example of it still vibrating in the 21st century. The heart of the band is also much more open and inviting than the continually more depressing Brian Jonestown Massacre bitch-fest that follows Newcombe around. You can't fake good-hearted fun. As such, Changes Near is a golden psych nugget on par with the entire Rainbow Quartz catalogue. Give 'em another album or two and they may surpass David Crosby.
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White came to Hudson Valley in 1991, starting as an adjunct faculty member, becoming a full-time automotive instructor in 1995. White later served as coordinator of the college's Telecommunications Technology – Verizon program and most recently served as department chairperson for several programs in the School of Engineering and Industrial Technologies – Electrical Engineering Technology, Network and Information Technology, Drafting, Telecommunications Technology – Verizon as well as the college's Automotive programs.
White said his new position will allow him to focus on program and curriculum development, as well as growing enrollment and online course offerings. Expanding the college's technology programs also is essential, White said, in order to prepare students for the Capital Region's growing technology field. White has already been involved in such an initiative, helping the college develop the new Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology course. "Tech Valley, it's coming," White said. "So we have to be in a position to provide the skills students will need."
White received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration and his master's degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix. Before coming to Hudson Valley, White owned the automotive product store Crowley Supply Co. in Troy for 20 years. He is a member of the Automotive Service Industry Association's executive committee, and he has served as an instructor and district committee chairman for I-CAR, a technical training organization that focuses on helping the collision repair industry achieve a high level of technical training, since 1995.
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Connection between SIMATIC NET OPC server, ProTool/Pro RT and SIMATIC S7
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Can I set up a connection simultaneously to the S7 CPU via SIMATIC NET OPC server and via ProTool/Pro RT using a communication processor in the PC (e.g. CP 5611)?
This entry includes instructions on how to configure a connection between the SIMATIC NET OPC server / S7 CPU and between ProTool/Pro RT / S7 CPU via a communication processor in the PC (CP 5611).
- ProTool/Pro V6.0 SP2
- STEP 7 project for the SIMATIC S7
Configuring the PC station
- Open your STEP 7 project.
- Insert a PC station via "Insert > Station > SIMATIC PC station".
Fig. 1: Inserting a PC station in STEP 7 project
- Double-click "Configuration" to open the hardware configuration of the PC station.
Fig. 2: Opening the hardware configuration
- Now add the required components from the hardware catalog
("SIMATIC PC station") to the empty slots of the PC station:
OPC server e.g. to Index 1
CP 5611 e.g. to Index 2
SIMATIC ProTool/Pro RT e.g. to Index 3
Fig. 3: Inserting components in the PC station
- Double-click the OPC server to open the Properties dialog. Select the "S7" tab. In this dialog you can define whether the OPC server is to work with STEP 7 symbols. Select the "All" option if you want to make all the STEP 7 symbols available in the OPC server.
Fig. 4: Activating STEP 7 symbols for OPC server
- Then open the Properties of the CP 5611 with a double-click. Network these with the PROFIBUS of the S7 controller via the "Properties" button.
Fig. 5: Networking CP 5611 with PROFIBUS
Do not use DP as the bus profile for the PROFIBUS, but "Standard". You can make this setting in the Properties of PROFIBUS.
Fig. 6: Properties of PROFIBUS
- Switch to the NetPro program via "Options > Configure Network". Mark the OPC server in the PC station and insert an S7 connection via "Insert > New Connection".
Fig. 7: Inserting a new connection
- Select the S7 controller as Connection Partner and "S7 connection" as Connection Type.
Fig. 8: Assigning the connection parameters
- Save and compile ("Network > Save and compile") the configuration.
- Open Station Configuration Editor via the icon bar or via the icon on the desktop.
Fig. 9: Station Configuration Editor
- Via "Add…" you add the "OPC server" to Index 1 and the "SIMATIC ProTool/Pro RT" application to Index 3.
Fig. 10: Adding components
- In order to have the CP 5611 displayed in the Station Configuration Editor you must set the mode of the CP 5611 to "Configured Mode" (Index 2) via the "Set PC station" program ("Start > SIMATIC > SIMATIC NET > Customize > Set PC station").
Fig. 11: CP 5611 in Configured mode
The configuration of the rack in the hardware configuration of the PC station (see Fig. 3) must exactly match the table in the Station Configuration Editor.
Fig. 12: Station Configuration Editor
- Now load the PC station from NetPro.
If the loading process of the PC station could not be completed successfully (e.g. is interrupted with the error message "Cannot reach station manager"), then information on how to proceed in this case is available in Entry ID: 12033912.
- Once you have loaded the PC station you then have to
load the S7 controller.
If the loading process could not be completed successfully, then copy the entire project onto your PG or PC. Then from there you load the configuration via MPI onto the S7.
- Close NetPro and the hardware configuration of the PC station.
Configuring ProTool/Pro RT
In order to be able to call ProTool/Pro from the SIMATIC Manager, you have to activate the option "STEP 7 Integration" in the ProTool/Pro Setup ("Start > SIMATIC > ProTool/Pro CS > Setup").
- Double-click the OP icon to open the ProTool/Pro project wizard.
Fig. 13: Double-click the OP icon
- Select "PC" as the target device and click on "Next".
Fig. 14: ProTool/Pro project wizard - target device
- Select "SIMATIC S7-300/400 V6.0" as the controller protocol and open "Parameters…".
Fig. 15: Assigning the controller parameters
- Now connect the PC with the S7 program of the S7-300 via PROFIBUS.
Fig. 16: Connecting PC and controller
- Press the "Finish" button to create the ProTool/Pro project with the settings made.
Checking the connections
- Configure a picture in the PC project with an input/output field to which a variable of the S7 controller is linked.
Fig. 17: Configuring a picture
- Start the ProTool/Pro Runtime.
- When the connection between the controller and the ProTool/Pro RT has been set up, the following message is displayed.
Fig. 18: Connection established
OPC scout
- Start the OPC Scout via "Start > SIMATIC > SIMATIC NET > PROFIBUS > SOFTNET PROFIBUS > OPC Scout".
- Link up with the OPC server by double-clicking "OPC.SimaticNet". In the dialog that opens you enter a group name of your choice and acknowledge this with "OK".
Fig. 19: Linking up with the OPC server
- Double-click the group name to open the OPC Navigator. The integrated STEP 7 symbols are made available in the "\SYM" folder. Open the navigation by double-clicking on "\SYM".
Fig. 20: S7 connection in the OPC navigator
- Navigate one level lower by double-clicking on the SIMATIC station. If you mark the CPU in the navigation, you see the symbols from the STEP 7 symbol table. Via the right arrow "-->" you select the variables as OPC items.
Fig. 21: Defining an item
- If you want to define your own items for the OPC server, you have to use the conventional method, i.e. without using symbols. So, you open the \S7 path with a double-click. The S7 connection created in NetPro is displayed. Double-click on the S7 connection and "object" and the tree is displayed with the objects you can access. Via "New Definition" you can now define your own items accordingly. Via the right arrow "-->" you select the items for the item list in the OPC Scout.
Fig. 22: Creating your own items
- Close the OPC navigator with "OK". The items selected are
transferred to the OPC Scout.
If the "Quality" is good, then your connection is set up and you can read/write the items.
Fig. 23: Item in the OPC Scout
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In assessing my own physical prowess, I arrived in America early last year with somewhat of an inflated opinion.
Sure, I wasn't sporting a rippling six-pack or benching twice my bodyweight, but neither was I sucking on inhalers, counting pills or crawling the sidewalks of Manhattan on a reinforced mobility scooter.
Born-and-raised in a First World country with a BMI - depending on the day's carrot cake intake - bobbing somewhere at the low end of the scale, 25-years-old. No asthma. Low blood pressure. Not a single cigarette in all my life. And no greater physical complaint than popsicle-stick thighs of a willowy 14-year-old girl.
Yes! I thought. Here I am, America! Young, healthy and keen! Now sign me up for health insurance before I do anything to spoil my luck.
At first I was a little amused when the quotes on premiums came back. Then, as scores of companies pushed me to sign, my surprise turned to outright despair.
As a freelancer, the most basic insurance plans, covering only trips to the ED, would cost me in the vicinity of US$300 ($363) a week. Welcome to the USA.
Only by a stroke of great fortune, as I steeled myself for a life of permanently risking physical and financial ruin, I was guided to a freelancers' union and a health insurance plan a third the previous price.
Still, in two years, for thousands of dollars in payments, my medical attention in the United States extends to a one-off dental check-up and a US$15 flu jab. And I've been intrigued to see how Obamacare might lower the price of my coverage.
When Obama's healthcare plan went live a month ago, I created an account in the first few days. I tried to shop around to compare the options. But a month in, just like millions of other Americans, the official website still won't let me see the deals.
It's a hopeless error. In attempting to fix something as complicated as the US health system you'd think sorting a usable website would be a comparatively easy win.
Still, for all the calls to delay the individual mandate or scrap Obamacare altogether, for a month's delay it's worth considering how life might be in 15 or 20 years.
Americans won't be lamenting a finicky website. They'll be celebrating not having to pay US$300 a week for a basic human right.


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The son of former Akal Takht chief Giani Puran Singh has been convicted for "sexual assault" and "sexual interference" with a minor by an Abbotsford court.
Ajai Singh, 37, a raagi (hymn singer) with the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), was given 90 days of imprisonment for his misconduct with a 13-year-old girl.
His father was the Akal Takht head in the late '90s.
Singh was visiting Canada when the matter was reported to police on February 9 this year.
The court ordered that he be deported after serving his sentence.
SGPC had already suspended him for the misconduct.
Speaking on the verdict, the victim's family on the condition of anonymity informed that they were satisfied although had wished for a longer sentence.


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This is what it feels like to finish a novel (especially the bit around 2 minutes until the end):
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my name no one shall know...
On your mouth I will tell it when the light shines.
And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine!...
(No one will know his name and we must, alas, die.)
Vanish, o night!
Set, stars! Set, stars!
At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win!
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A SL-5868P digital sound level meter with an USB interface is being used to monitor and record the sound level of the power supply under test. During our acoustics tests and in order to produce the most accurate results possible, all cooling fans of our PC temporarily cease to operate and only the cooler's fan(s) are being left operational. The sound level meter is mounted one meter away from the cooler in a straight line and with no obstacles in-between. Finally, a tachometer allows us to check the exact rotational speed of the fan at all times.
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Previously, Althoff was senior vice president of worldwide alliances and channels and embedded sales at Oracle, according to a Microsoft news release. At Oracle, Althoff had also served as group vice president for worldwide alliances and vice president of global platform and distribution sales.
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