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Optoma HD141X Projector Review
The Optoma HD141X projector has native 1080p resolution, aka Full HD. With a street price between $599 and $650 online, this DLP projector is suitable for movie viewing, HDTV, and gaming! It will even double as a business projector in a pinch.
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Optoma HD141X Home Entertainment Projector Overview
With companies like Optoma bringing the price of true full HD – 1080p resolution down to the $600 price range, sometimes I wonder why folks bother to buy LCDTVs. OK, we do know the reason – LCDTV's are relatively easy. In the old days, home projectors – rather home theater projectors, demanded very dark rooms to produce a respectable picture, or as we like to describe them – a dedicated home theater or cave. Those rooms ideally had dark walls, ceilings and floors. After all, most home theater projectors produced 900 lumens or less at their brightest.
But, home entertainment projectors now proliferate from $399 (for lower resolution 720p), up to the $2000 price range, and we're even seeing some very serious home entertainment projectors that can cost $5000 and up. What they have in common, is a lot of brightness, so that they can function well in rooms that aren't really dark – we're talking your family room, living room, a spare bedroom, basement, or bonus room.
The Optoma HD141X claims a massive 3000 lumens, that's over 4 times my expensive but now 5 year old JVC "home theater" projector that was $7999 new, and measured less than 900 lumens at its very brightest. (In truth, I rarely ever use that projector anymore since I always have multiple newer projectors here for review.)
The point being that while you might still want a very dark room for critical movie viewing, that's not normally the case for sports viewing, or watching your favorite sitcom.
OK, so what's this HD141X have? I mean, I described it as entry level, but it does have a couple of step up features.
It's got a gaming mode, and as I expected, some pretty low input lag numbers (important for serious gamers). Details on that in our summary.
It has two HDMI inputs, which is no surprise since virtually every projector has at least one. Of note though, is the hot new trend, which is having an HDMI port that supports MHL – which we can call "mobile HDMI", as it allows projectors to get smart, that is connected, with devices such as Roku sticks for streaming content from the web.
It's got some respectable sound built in, which when you also consider MHL, makes it easy to go portable, say for an outdoor movie night.
There's a manual zoom lens – with limited zoom range, but enough to fine tune the position of this projector to your screen, so you can easily fill the screen.
The remote control is backlit, a real plus when you are watching a movie and the room is dark.
Below are some photos giving you an idea of what the HD141X is capable of. Note please that with a street price that's mostly at $599, we realize that people aren't going to buy an HD141X, and then separately spend $300 to $500 to have it calibrated for best picture. That considered we didn't calibrate this projector. The images you are seeing below are taken with settings right out of the box, except for minor adjustment of brightness and contrast, which anyone can do quickly.
The first three images in this photo player, were taken when I first fired up the projector, which means it was in what Optoma calls Vivid mode. If this were an LCDTV, that would probably be the equivalent of many LCDTVs "store mode", which is to say, the settings are tweaked for a very "vivid" image, one that's not as natural as an ideal one, but one that can look extremely good when you have ambient light present.
First thing that came on my satellite box to be viewed on the HD141X turned out to be a pre-game show for Thursday Night Football. My room had the rear window shutters mostly open, yet the Optoma HD141X did a very respectable job punching up an almost 100″ diagonal image in Vivid mode. Bright mode was brighter, but not needed, especially since Bright/Dynamic modes are famous for ugly color.
I then took a few other images in Cinema mode and Standard mode. I won't break those out for you now, but later. Let's say that without me shuttering the windows a lot more, Vivid mode was the way to go.
Optoma HD141X Highlights
The Optoma HD141X projector picks up one of our Special Interest Awards. It's particularly strong for gaming, has MHL for the "cut the cord" (to cable/satellite) crowd, and offers overall solid performance despite the rock bottom price for a 1080p home entertainment projector!
- Extremely bright claiming 3000 "white" lumens
- Compact projector small enough to go portable, room to room, or take on vacation
- Enhanced contrast using lamp dimming (Dynamic Black)
- 1.1:1 zoom lens, and horizontal keystone correction provides some placement flexibility
- Three brightness modes offering excellent lamp life for low cost of operation
- Built in 10 watt speaker provides respectable sound if you don't have a separate surround sound system.
- 2X color wheel
- Digital Zoom
- Supports all current HDMI 1.4a 3D standards, including Frame Packing used by Blu-ray 3D.
- Supports DLP-Link for 3D as standard, or you can purchase an RF emitter to work with RF 3D glasses (better)
- Optional Wireless HD so you can connect to HDMI sources without running long wires.
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Win Tickets to See All Time Low and Gentlemen Hall at the Ford Center
Baltimore, Maryland native's, All Time Low are bringing their infectious pop-punk sound, along with their buddies, Gentlemen Hall to the Ford Center on Friday, April 20th and KISS-FM has your tickets!
Check me out every afternoon between 2-6pm all next week for your chance to win. If luck's not on your side with me, Melissa Awesome will also have a pair of tickets every night during The Night Show between 6-11pm.
If next week comes and goes and you still don't have tickets, you can always buy them. All seats are just $20 and on sale now at all Ticketmaster outlets including the Ford Center box office, online at Ticketmaster.com, and by phone at 1-800-745-3000.
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Julianne Hough on Relationship with Ryan Seacrest: Nothing Was...
Julianne Hough on Relationship with Ryan Seacrest: Nothing Was Right
Julianne opens up to Redbook about why she called it quits with her past relationships especially with Ryan Seacrest.
"Citing what went wrong in her previous romances, Hough-- who is currently dating hockey player Brooks Laich-- told the women's magazine, "Every relationship, there was nothing wrong or bad, but there was nothing right. I had one foot out because I didn't want to get hurt. And I didn't say what was on my mind because I didn't want to ruffle any feathers. I needed to be perfect." (Yahoo)
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Voted as one of the top five zoos for kids in the country, the Phoenix Zoo is home to some of the world's most distinct animals.
Visitors do more than just stroll the zoo; they ride (camels and trains), pedal boats, encounter and pet animals, rock climb, bike and so much more. The zoo also offers an exceptionally varied menu for when visitors' stomachs growl in hunger after a day of these activities.
With 2.5 miles of walking trails and nearly 125 acres of land, the Phoenix Zoo is home to more than 1,300 animals, including more than 200 endangered species.
The Phoenix Zoo has four major themed trails: tropics, Arizona, Children's and Africa's — each with an experience worth remembering.
The lives of the animals are not framed behind cages and exhibits; in fact, visitors can experience the wildlife with no barriers in-between. Visitors may interact with the monkeys in the "Monkey Village," encounter giraffes and pet stingrays. Other activities include camel rides and a visit to the petting zoo, a trip to the farm without ever having to leave the zoo.
When reality hits hard for the kids and the animals become too real, there is also the Endangered Species that will take them for a ride on authentic, hand-crafted animals.
Families can also enjoy a wide variety of seasonal activities like Breakfast with the Animals and Wild Art Classes, where kids have a meal with some of their favorite animals or are inspired by them to create their own ornaments, masquerade masks or even sun catchers.
The Phoenix Zoo is perfect for a casual day out in the wild for kids, families and animal-lovers of all ages or a pleasant, yet wild, night during the zoo's tent-camping experience. The night camp is a full night-in-the-wild experience with a fresh dinner off the grill, a night hike, close-up animal encounters and a camp fire. Campers also wake up to a breakfast with the animals and a private safari tour.
Since 1962, the Phoenix Zoo provides locals and travelers from all across the world an experience of the wild and a glimpse of an animal-loving traveler, bringing to the state some of the world's most threatened, yet distinct, animals.


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Debutant Phil Bailey told Kangaroos teammates after being presented with his Australian jersey last night that he wanted to be buried in it.
One of Australia's most inexperienced rugby league touring sides kicks off its six-week jaunt through New Zealand, France, England and Wales when it takes on the Kiwis in the 100th Test between the trans-Tasman rivals at North Harbour Stadium this afternoon.
Today's side includes three international rookies, centre Michael De Vere, and reserves Richard Villasanti and Cronulla's Bailey.
Last night, the trio and fellow first-time tourists - Joel Clinton, Luke Lewis, Trent Waterhouse and Michael Crocker - were presented with their jerseys by former Australian captain Laurie Daley during a function at the team hotel.
"Now they've got something to bury me in," was Bailey's memorable line, according to insiders.
The players were shown a highlights tape from Kangaroos tours going back more than half a century, Daley telling the youngsters that they would be able to figure in similar packages in 100 years if their deeds deserved it.
Coach Chris Anderson said: "They were emotional about it, as they should be. We put on a video about the history of the Kangaroos, and Laurie got up and spoke about it for five or 10 minutes."
Anderson admitted the nature of the Kangaroos' confidence at the beginning of this tour was different from previous trips in which he had been involved.
"It's a bit unknown," Anderson admitted. "In the past, you're fairly comfortable with the quality of the players you've got and the fact that they've been at this level for a number of years. They're super confident in the way they take the field.
"This is a completely new outfit, a new captain and vice-captain. We've inducted seven new players - in an inexperienced team."
Both sides trained without incident yesterday, although the Australians were somewhat dismayed by the boggy state of the pitch at North Harbour and the narrow in-goal areas.
Kiwis coach Daniel Anderson said he planned to have a former international address his side before kick-off but he had not settled on who it would be.
ARL officials, meanwhile, had warned the Italian Rugby Union it is wasting its time trying to poach winger Anthony Minichiello.
Italy World Cup coach John Kirwan is to meet Minichiello's manager and Italy league coach David Riolo next week about the possibility of the Sydney Roosters star switching codes for one-off matches.
But ARL chairman Colin Love said: "It's not a worry because the club would have to give him permission and there's no way known that would happen. Do you think they are going to risk one of their star players, playing another code?"
Minichiello was cautious in his reaction to the offer, saying: "I heard about it yesterday. [I've got] really no reaction. When I was told about it I was a bit surprised."
Love also confirmed that the world cup might be be revived in 2008. Officials had been planning a four-team tournament to celebrate the centenary of the game in Australia but are now discussing an extended competition.
"We've been talking about it for a while," he said. "We want to do something special and that [a world cup] is one of the proposals under consideration.
"You're looking at whether you have a straight-out world cup or have a two-tiered competition. They made it work in the UK in 1995. It can be run well and be very successful, I think."
Back on the tour, there was good news for Australian centre Ryan Girdler yesterday with an ultrasound showing only minor damage to his thigh. He'll be fit to resume in two weeks.
"He's only got a very, very small tear there so we are persisting with him, building him up slowly," said team doctor Hugh Hazard.
And the Warriors' Villasanti believes he has been targeted as a defensive weakness by his club coach, Kiwi boss Daniel Anderson.
"He's going to have told them I rush up out of the line," said Villasanti. "I'm not going to do that. I'm going to ease myself into the game and go from there."
In Manchester, all eyes are on Bradford skipper Robbie Paul ahead of Saturday's Super League grand final against Wigan at Old Trafford.
Paul hopes to return from a broken arm, but fans won't know if he's playing until an hour before kick-off.
The Bulls, meanwhile, have extended the contract of Australian utility back Michael Withers.
NZ v Australia
Where: North Harbour Stadium, Auckland. When: Today, 2.30pm Sydney time.
TV: Channel Nine, 2.25pm. Fox Sports replay, 9.30pm.
NEW ZEALAND: Motu Tony (Warriors); Henry Faafili (Warriors), Vince Anderson (Warriors), Clinton Toopi (Warriors), Francis Meli (Warriors); Nigel Vagana (Bulldogs), Thomas Leuluai (Warriors); Ruben Wiki (capt, Canberra), Tony Puletua (Penrith), Joe Galuvao (Penrith), Nathan Cayless (Parramatta), Monty Betham (Warriors), Jason Cayless (Syd Roosters). Reserves: Awen Guttenbeil (Warriors), Jerry Seuseu (Warriors), Ali Lauitiiti (Warriors), Sione Faumuina (Warriors).
AUSTRALIA: Darren Lockyer (capt, Brisbane); Anthony Minichiello (Syd Roosters), Shannon Hegarty (Syd Roosters), Michael De Vere (Brisbane), Matt Sing (North Qld); Craig Wing (Syd Roosters), Brett Kimmorley (Cronulla); Luke Ricketson (Syd Roosters), Craig Fitzgibbon (Syd Roosters), Steve Simpson (Newcastle), Robbie Kearns (Melbourne), Danny Buderus (Newcastle), Shane Webcke (Brisbane). Reserves: Willie Mason (Bulldogs), Richard Villasanti (Warriors), Phil Bailey (Cronulla), Craig Gower (Penrith).
Referee: Sean Hampstead (Australia).
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MIRAGE @ Nuit Blanche
MIRAGE at Nuit Blanche in Toronto last week-end, presented by Abilities Arts Festival. We got 545 people through the black space and more than 1000 in the white space.
2 great reviews: NOW magazine: '…sensational…spectacular movement performance, accompanied by compelling electronic music. 45 minutes of jaw-dropping beauty. For free. A perfect example of why Nuit Blanche rocks.' by Susan G.Cole
BLOGTO: ' My favorite for the night….intense and unforgettable. Personal, immediate, complex: it was the only Nuit Blanche installation I would have paid money to see.' by Matthew Harris.
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Bristol Cars
Our video on the world's only manufacturer of hand-built cars
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: 3:34 of London
On a recent trip to London, we visited the studios of artist Dodi Wexler, design collective Troika and Social Suicide, the very forward men's fashion label
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On CH's recent London trip, we visited the studios of artist Dodi Wexler, design collective Troika and Social Suicide, the very forward men's fashion label. From Troika's tech-enabled activism to Dodi's "little worlds" and Social Suicide's pairing...
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by Michael Tyburski In this video, Beefeater Master Distiller Desmond Payne lets us in on some of his more unusual approaches to finding inspiration, and helps fill in the backstory of how the gin's 2010 launch, 24, came to be. Stay tuned for our...
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Troika, a multi-disciplinary art and design studio in Brixton, London, exploits technology and subversion in their conceptual work
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The techno-subversiveness of Troika's mobile phone-controlled Tool for Armchair Activists and SMS Guerilla Projector initially caught CH's attention a couple years back. Episode 56 of Cool Hunting Video visits the now three year-old, multi-disciplinary...
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by Dan Wiener | December 6, 2013 1:24 pm
What gives?
[1]Wall Street seems to have a chronic case [2]of bipolar disease. Is lower unemployment good or bad? Is tapering good or bad? Are higher interest rates good or bad?
Today's report of a lower unemployment number, a decline from 7.3% to 7.0% is healthy. Say what you will about the quality of jobs being created, but if more people are earning a paycheck — any paycheck — that's a good thing. (I would note, also, that the U-6 number is declining even faster than the headline unemployment number, which is really good.) The initial read from Wall Street, however, was that lower unemployment might prompt a faster taper, which is bad.
Now, it's only a guess but my guess would be that most institutional investors and Wall Street pundits would argue that the monthly $85 billion purchase of bonds by the Fed isn't helping the economy. So, why would reducing, or tapering purchases be bad? Wouldn't everyone be happier if the government was printing fewer dollars and buying fewer bonds? If the housing market suffered there's nothing that says the Fed couldn't step back down on the stimulus accelerator.
But generally, wouldn't a faster taper mean the economy is improving enough that, indeed, the Fed believes it can stop or slow its bond buying? Isn't that good?
This morning Wall Street seems to be in a cheery mood with stocks up and the Dow once again nearing 16000. Maybe the drugs are working, but I wouldn't count on it.
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Aerospace Notebook: Major assembly begins on first 777 freighter
Published 10:00 pm, Tuesday, January 29, 2008
ANY BETS on which will fly first, The Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner or its 777 freighter?
Boeing workers in Everett on Tuesday began major assembly of the first 777 freighter, which, according to the company, will make its maiden flight in June.
That's also when the 787, which is about nine months late, is supposed to finally be ready to fly.
Boeing will update analysts and media on the 787 program Wednesday, when it announces fourth-quarter and year-end financial results. It will mark the first time that Boeing Chairman and Chief Executive Jim McNerney has talked in-depth about the 787, and fielded questions about the program, since October, when Boeing acknowledged that supplier and partner problems were so serious that initial deliveries of the 787 would be delayed from May until the end of 2008.
Since then, it has been Boeing commercial boss Scott Carson, along with new 787 skipper Pat Shanahan, who have been front and center on the 787 troubles. They announced earlier this month another delay of three months, with first flight pushed back from March until the end of the second quarter, or late June.
A Boeing spokesman said Tuesday that June was always the targeted month for first flight of the 777 freighter, though a date has not been set. First delivery of a 777 freighter to Air France will follow in the fourth quarter of this year. The flight test program will be fairly short because a lot of data already were gathered during certification of the 777-200LR passenger plane, on which the freighter is based.
During an event at the Everett plant Tuesday, workers loaded a 97-foot wing spar of the 777 freighter into a tool that drills, measures and installs more than 5,000 fasteners into the spar, which runs the length of the wings and provides support. The first freighter is scheduled to roll out of the factory in April.
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Boeing has won 80 firm orders for the 777 freighter, which is the sixth model of the 777 since the jet entered service with United Airlines in 1995.
While the flight testing of the 777 freighter will require only two planes, the flight test program for the 787 will be longer and more complex because it is an all-new plane, not a derivative. The Dreamliner is a much more electric plane than any commercial jetliner that has flown before, and it will have a composite airframe rather than one made of aluminum. Six Dreamliners will be needed for the various flight certification tests that must be completed before the 787 is approved to carry passengers.
Once the 787 flight test program is over, those six planes will be flown to Boeing's military modifications center in San Antonio, Texas, to be refurbished and sold to airlines. There has been speculation recently, after a blog report on flightglobal.com, that Boeing might be eyeing the Texas facility as a potential home for a second 787 production line.
The speculation was fueled by comments Texas officials made that as many as 20 787s will be flown to the site for modification work, not including the flight test planes. Boeing subsequently confirmed the number.
Because 787s will continue to be assembled while the flight test program is under way, modifications must be made to those planes based on anything that is found during the tests that needs to be reworked before planes are delivered.
Boeing executives said in July, when the first 787 was publicly unveiled, that 11 787s, including the six flight test planes, would be modified in San Antonio.
Yvonne Leach, spokeswoman for the 787 program, said Tuesday that a lack of modification stalls at the Everett plant drove the decision to send even more planes to Texas.
She said the total number headed for San Antonio is uncertain, but that the 20-plane figure, not including the flight test jets, is likely to change. After talking with customers and its suppliers and partners, Boeing expects to have a revised 787 delivery schedule around the end of the first quarter, and more will be known then about how many Dreamliners end up in Texas.
Sources close to the 787 program said Boeing has no plans to open a second production line in San Antonio.
Even though Boeing has said it is looking at a second production line in Everett to meet customer demand for the Dreamliner, such talk has faded, given the delays. For now, Boeing appears to have enough on its plate just getting the first 787 production line up and running.


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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 62,
November 2010 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia November 6-11, 2010.
Adoptive Transfer of Long-Lived Plasma Cells from NZB/W Mice Causes Immune Complex Nephritis in Recipient Rag1/ Mice.
Cheng3, Quingyu, Mumtaz1, Imtiaz M., Hoyer1, Bimba F., Radbruch4, Andreas, Hiepe2, Falk
Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany
Previously, we showed that long-lived plasma cells refractory to immunosuppression significantly contribute to autoantibody production in NZB/W mice used as a model of lupus nephritis. Since immunosuppressive and B cell depletion therapy affecting only short-lived plasmablasts and plasma cells can induce remission of the disease, the role of surviving long-lived plasma cells in the pathogenesis of the disease is not well-defined.
To elucidate the role of autoreactive long-lived plasma cells in the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis.
CD138+ plasmablasts and plasma cells were isolated by MACS technology from the spleens of >6-month-old NZB/W mice with high levels of anti-dsDNA antibodies and adoptively transferred to immunodeficient Rag1-/- mice (3 million cells/mouse). Contamination with B cells was about 2% and with T cells 0.02%. To exclude a contribution of these contaminated B cells, the corresponding number of B cells was transferred in a control experiment. Serum antibody levels in recipient mice were measured using ELISA. The recipient mice were sacrificed 21 weeks after adoptive transfer for analysis of plasma cells, including anti-DNA-secreting cells, by flow cytometry and ELISPOT as well as for renal immunohistology.
Total IgG, total IgM and IgG and IgM anti-dsDNA antibody levels were measured in recipient mice starting one week after transfer and remained constant for the entire observation (21 weeks), even after cyclophosphamide treatment. Mature non-dividing plasma cells but not plasmablasts were detected in bone marrow, spleen, and kidneys of the recipient mice. Adoptive transfer of B cells in numbers corresponding to the B-cell contamination levels within the transferred plasmablast fraction did not result in significant antibody (autoantibody) levels. Proteinuria developed 21 weeks after plasma cell transfer. Renal immunohistology showed immune complex nephritis with deposition of IgG, IgM and C3.
Adoptive transfer of plasmablasts results in homing of long-lived plasma cells in spleen and bone barrow. Autoantibodies secreted by long-lived plasma cells can cause nephritis. This supports the suggestion to consider long-lived plasma cells refractory to conventional immunosuppression and B cell depletion as candidate targets for future therapeutic strategies.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Cheng, Quingyu, Mumtaz, Imtiaz M., Hoyer, Bimba F., Radbruch, Andreas, Hiepe, Falk; Adoptive Transfer of Long-Lived Plasma Cells from NZB/W Mice Causes Immune Complex Nephritis in Recipient Rag1/ Mice. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2010;62 Suppl 10 :1414
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Kevin Ozer, a technology expert who previously had conducted these informal classes at the Wallingford Senior Center, will answer your toughest questions. You'll expand your computer knowledge not only from the answers to your own questions but also from those of the other attendees. No registration is required. Bring your laptop or gadget if you have one.
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Puscifer Add Dates to Upcoming Tour
Puscifer, led by Tool and A Perfect Circle's Maynard James Keenan have added two dates to their upcoming North American tour. The band will now play in San Francisco on March 16 and in Riverside, California, on March 17. Tickets for the San Francisco performance will go on sale on January 13, while details for the Riverside show will be revealed shortly. You can view the full list of dates below.
The eclectic music-meets-comedy group released their sophomore album, Conditions of My Parole, last October.
Puscifer Conditions of My Parole Tour dates:
02/23 Austin, TX, Long Center for the Performing Arts
02/25 Baton Rouge, LA, River Center Theatre
02/26 Memphis, TN, Orpheum Theatre
02/28 Nashville, TN, Andrew Jackson Hall
02/29 Louisville, KY, Brown Theatre
03/01 Pittsburgh, PA, Byham Theatre
03/03 Cincinnati, OH, Taft Theatre
03/04 Indianapolis, IN, Murat Theatre
03/06 Kansas City, KS, Kansas City Music Hall
03/07 Omaha, NE, Omaha Civic Auditorium
03/10 Edmonton, AB, North Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
03/11 Calgary, AB, Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee, I am pleased to appear with Ambassador Peter Scher
to discuss the two topics of today's hearing: the U.S. goals for the next round of multilateral
trade negotiations under the World Trade Organization and the importance of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and other international organizations to U.S. agriculture.
U.S. Goals for the Next Round
The next round of WTO negotiations, which will be launched on November 30 in Seattle, Washington, is our best hope for a more open, comprehensive, transparent, and strong world trading system. Although the Uruguay Round was a landmark agreement for agriculture, we recognize that agriculture still has a long way to go to complete its reform and be fully integrated into the world trading system.
Our goals for the next round, while easily stated, will not easily be achieved:
Cut--and where possible eliminate--tariffs on farm products. Under the Uruguay Round, developed countries cut their tariffs by an average of 36 percent, but the tariffs most U.S. products face remain too high -- about 50 percent on average -- compared to less than 5 percent for products entering the United States. High tariffs encourage inefficient producers and drive up consumer prices. In the global trade market of the future, we cannot afford to allow tariffs to staunch the free flow of goods and distort trade. High tariffs insulate domestic producers from the international marketplace and result in inefficient industries. This is not the way to prepare for the new agricultural era.
Substantially increase or effectively eliminate tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) by cutting the out-of-quota duty. Seek improved market access opportunities for products under TRQs and negotiate improvements in TRQ administration.
Eliminate export subsidies. Under the Uruguay Round, developed countries cut expenditures for export subsidies by 36 percent and subsidized quantities by 21 percent. By the year 2000, under the Uruguay Round, the European Union (EU), for example, would still be allowed to outspend the United States by more than 10 to 1 ($8 billion vs. $600 million).
Reform state trading enterprises (STE's). These monopoly importers and exporters can distort trade and provide an unfair advantage. Their operations must be made much more transparent.
Clarify rules on domestic subsidies. Protective tariffs and unfair export subsidies frequently are used because domestic subsidy regimes distort the production incentives facing farmers. Generous subsidy programs that encourage farmers to produce as much as possible without regard to efficiency or environmental costs can only be sustained by keeping out the competition and having the luxury of dumping surplus production on world markets.
By telling farmers what to produce, these subsidy programs interfere with comparative advantage and farmers' ability to adjust to the demands of consumers. In the WTO, we have already agreed that this support should be allowed only when it does not distort trade. More work needs to be done to ensure that domestic support programs are truly non-trade distorting. Existing trade-distorting support also needs to be cut.
In the last round of multilateral trade negotiations, countries began the process of dismantling protection and delinking farm support from production decisions. Consequently, reforms have been undertaken by some countries. The United States has delinked the bulk of domestic support from our farmers' production decisions. We have retooled most of our farm programs to rely on market forces to determine farm prices. To help our producers make a transition to this new system, we have supplemented farmer income through direct payments delinked from a farmer's volume or type of production so as not to distort production incentives. However, many of the reforms recently approved by the EU in Agenda 2000 do not meet our minimum expectations for the upcoming WTO negotiations. To meet budgetary concerns, the final Common Agricultural Policy reform portion of Agenda 2000 was watered down from the original proposal. The result reduced the original proposal's price support cuts and further delayed reforms. Under Agenda 2000, some sectors, such as dairy, will continue to be subject to production and price distorting policies that will almost certainly ensure dependence on export subsidies.
Tighten rules on technical barriers that unjustifiably restrict trade. Unfortunately, current world trade rules do not adequately discipline countries from erecting cumbersome or prohibitive non-tariff barriers to trade. This trend threatens to short-circuit the entire process of globalization in agricultural trade. The upcoming negotiations need to ensure that countries neither hinder nor prohibit imports of new products unless they have legitimate scientific concerns. Too often these actions are merely a guise to protect domestic agriculture from import competition and fail to adhere to the WTO principle that such measures be grounded in sound science. We will continue to work through the WTO to further encourage the adoption of international standards that facilitate trade while giving full protection to consumers' health and safety. Consumers have the right to insist on such safeguards, and farmers have the right to a level playing field. Our most important concern is to ensure that sound science governs the establishment of sanitary and phytosanitary measures.
Address scientific innovation as it relates to trade in agricultural products. The products of scientific innovation have become the focus of increased trade tensions, especially with the EU, but also to a lesser extent with Japan and developing countries. It remains to be seen whether the SPS and the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreements provide enough guidance to settle the disputes raised by these new products. That is why the upcoming negotiations need to address and clarify this area. We must ensure that trade and regulatory frameworks encourage the development and transmission of these technologies from laboratory to market. Creating a supportive environment for the propagation of yield-enhancing products of biotechnology is critical for meeting the food needs of the world in the new millennium.
Address special needs of net-food-importing countries. Finally, for the next round to be truly successful, full participation by developing countries is essential. We are encouraging developing countries to participate in the upcoming negotiations and also in the preparatory process by identifying issues of concern. For example, next week, under the Cochran Fellowship Program, we will host a workshop in Washington for 40 delegates from 20 African countries to discuss the importance of the next round of the World Trade Organization and Africa's role in implementing food safety and other sanitary- phytosanitary international standards.
In addition, we recognize that some countries may require technical assistance to adjust to, and take advantage of, the new global trading system. In Brazil, for example, we are working with the government and private sector to train several thousand animal and plant health inspectors. Our country has a long history of providing such assistance and we will work to ensure that the concerns of developing countries are not overlooked in the next round of the WTO negotiations.
Another key to a successful negotiation will be whether WTO members come to the table prepared to make a serious commitment to reform. As part of our preparations for the new round, USDA and the U.S. Trade Representative will hold a series of listening sessions around the country to hear first hand what our producers, exporters and others believe that our trade priorities should be. These joint sessions will be in California, Florida, Montana, Texas, Kentucky, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin and other states over the course of the next three months.
In addition, we are working with other countries on preparatory issues -- identifying areas of
concern, defining the specific negotiating mandate -- to ensure that serious negotiations begin on
time. As part of this process, Secretary Glickman will be attending the Quint Agricultural
Ministerial in Vancouver, Canada, this summer. The five members of the group -- the United
States, Australia, Canada, the EU, and Japan -- are key players in world agricultural trade. It is
important to use this gathering to advance the necessary preparatory work in support of the WTO
Ministerial Conference next November. The focus of the 1999 Quint discussions should be to
move the preparatory process forward and further develop the decisions that need to be made at
the WTO Ministerial Conference, so that substantive negotiations on agriculture may begin in
early 2000 as mandated by the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture.
International Organizations and U.S. Agriculture
I would now like to turn to the second topic of today's hearing: the importance of international organizations to U.S. agriculture. One need only to recall last year's newspaper headlines to realize the importance of international organizations to American agriculture. When the Asian financial crisis was at its worst and there was near panic in Asian financial markets, we wanted to respond in the way that would best preserve our agricultural exports to that region, and give the countries access to needed imports of key commodities from the United States. That meant use of our GSM-102 export credit guarantees. But GSM-102 has a strict, legislated creditworthiness criterion that must be met before we can make allocations. We need to verify that there is a strong probability of repayment.
In the face of the financial turmoil, there was no way we could make this determination based only on what we knew of the dwindling foreign exchange availabilities and other problems in these economies. But the quick actions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in negotiating stabilization packages gave us the confidence we needed to go forward with our program. With the additional resources made available by the IMF and the World Bank, and the economic reforms negotiated with each country, we had a reasonable assurance that the credits by U.S. banks that we were guaranteeing would be repaid when due. We could then move forward as we did with more than $2 billion in credit guarantee allocations.
As a result, last year U.S. exporters registered sales of nearly $1.7 billion to five Asian countries. That figure is the measure of how much more U.S. agricultural exports could have fallen to the affected countries had we not been able to use the GSM-102 program. And, over the longer term, the structural reforms that the IMF has negotiated will advance our trade agenda by increasing competition and transparency within each country.
This combination of IMF efforts and our export credit guarantees also was used successfully during Mexico's economic problems in 1994. Today Mexico is our third largest single country market, estimated to buy a record $6.7 billion worth of U.S. agricultural products in 1999.
The Congressional passage of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1999, which provided much needed funds to the IMF, was an acknowledgment of the important role the IMF plays in ensuring worldwide financial stability. These funds are helping Brazil stabilize its financial situation. While Brazil is not a major market for U.S. agriculture, it does play a strategic role in the overall financial situation in Latin America, and Latin America is developing into an important market for our farmers.
These are just two examples of how international financial institutions helps preserve valuable foreign markets for America's farmers and ranchers. But the importance of international organizations extends beyond the balance of payments support. International Banks and organizations also help U.S. agriculture by addressing scientific and technical issues that affect agricultural production; undertaking efforts that facilitate trade; and promoting economic development.
Through the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and other international research efforts, international organizations bring multilateral resources to bear on problems that would be impossible for one nation alone to resolve. International research institutes were instrumental in fighting numerous destructive pests and diseases, such as the Mediterranean Fruit Fly, African Swine Fever, Desert Locusts, and African Screwworm to name just a few.
Other organizations, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and a number of smaller international organizations dealing with food and agriculture are particularly important in helping to expand world agricultural trade. For example, FAO's Codex Alimentarius and International Plant Protection Convention help increase U.S. agriculture's competitiveness and profitability by harmonizing sanitary and phytosanitary standards and by establishing internationally accepted grade and labeling guidelines for agricultural commodities. A decision of the Codex Alimentarius Commission affirming the safety of growth hormones in beef production has strengthened international recognition of U.S. arguments that the European Union has no valid scientific basis for restricting sales of U.S. beef.
International organizations also support U.S. agricultural interests by promoting economic development, world food security, and the proper use of scarce resources. The World Food Program is distributing over one million tons of U.S. food aid to needy people around the world. The World Bank finances long-term development projects that help improve nations' economic situations and help them move from aid recipients to cash customers. It has also helped the Asian countries in crisis coop with shorter terms problems, such as unemployment, by focusing immediate assistance on the social sectors. International financial agencies & organizations provide fora for discussion of critical issues affecting the future of world food security, including new technologies, bio-diversity, and protection of genetic resources.
As you can see, the actions of international organizations can have far-reaching consequences. That is why it is we at USDA are fully engaged with these banking organizations. Doing so keeps U.S. agricultural interests in the forefront of discussions as international organizations develop programs and policies that can affect U.S. agriculture.
Mr. Chairman, the IMF and other international organizations play important roles in fostering global financial stability, economic growth, and trade. Participating in these organizations is clearly in the best interests of U.S. farmers, ranchers, and exporters.
Mr. Chairman, that completes my statement. I would be happy to answer any questions.
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Department of the Army Historical Summary: FY 1970
Research and Development
The Army conducts both basic and applied research. In fiscal year 1970, the commitment in Southeast Asia gave direction to much of the research effort, but long-range projects also retained a share of the funding.
In fiscal year 1970, the Army's approved research and development program totaled $1,631.9 million, some $30 million less than the figure for fiscal year 1969.
A restrictive clause of the 1970 Defense Appropriation Act (Public Law 91-171) stated that funds for research, development, evaluation, or testing, when unobligated for periods longer than two years, should be proposed for recission. To insure maximum use of available resources, the Army established a recoupment objective of $33 million from unobligated balances to fund high priority fiscal year 1970 requirements. The Army was able to recoup $28.8 million and submitted formal requests for approval to reprogram $24.4 million. By June 30, 1970, the Congress had approved reprograming of $12 million to finance civilian pay raises. Other actions were withdrawn by the Army for further consideration.
During fiscal year 1970, it was necessary to obtain additional emergency funds for accelerated research and development in support of Southeast Asia operations. Of the $34.1 million in emergency funds requested, the Office of the Secretary of Defense released $23.3 million.
On June 30, 1970, the $1,631.9 million allocation for Army research, development, test, and evaluation was broken down as follows: $1,596.8 million from the fiscal year 1970 appropriation; $12 million brought forward from prior-year accounts; $23.3 million from OSD emergency funds; and $0.2 million transferred to the General Services Administration.
In the President's Budget for fiscal year 1971, $1,717.9 million was requested for research and development activities: $80.1 million for research; $232.7 million for exploratory development; $397.4 million for advance development; $140.7 million for engineering development; $300.3 million for management and support; and $566.7 million for operational systems development. As fiscal year 1970 ended, neither authorization nor appropriation bills had
passed the Congress. A joint resolution authorized the continuance of the research and development program for fiscal year 1971.
Research Programs
In addition to funding problems, other considerations led to curtailment of some Army research programs.
In Section 203 of the 1970 Military Procurement Authorization Act (Public Law 91-121), the Congress supplied guidelines for expenditure of funds on research projects:
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be used to carry out any research project or study unless such project or study has a direct or apparent relationship to a specific military function or operation.
Although Army policy on research has generally conformed to this principle in the past, the inclusion of the provision in the new legislation prompted a review of the current research and development program. Employing a detailed interpretation of the regulation by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Army research and development community examined 4,000 projects and studies for compliance with Section 203. Of these, fourteen did not meet the requirement, less than 0.35 percent of the total. Because of the obvious benefits of continued research in the areas covered by the fourteen projects, the Army recommended that they be continued under the auspices of other federal agencies.
As a result of the President's decision to renounce biological warfare, a biological research program was developed to attain a defensive capability against biological warfare. In the chemical areas, research and development continued on offensive materials necessary to maintain a deterrent retaliatory capability. Defensive research and development continued on the detection and warning of chemical agent attacks, individual and collective protection, medical therapy, and decontamination materials and equipment.
Research facilities excess to the needs of the Army as a result of the President's decision were identified, and planning began for their disposal. Considerable interest in these facilities was evidenced by other government agencies that participated in the planning.
The work done in the life sciences yielded some especially encouraging results in the past fiscal year. Army researchers isolated in tissue culture an agent which may be a cause of viral hepatitis, and intensive studies to characterize this agent were in progress. Thirty-four thousand volunteers received inoculations with a new type of meningococcal vaccine that has reduced the incidence of infection caused by one type of meningococcus in a controlled study. The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in a co-
operative project with the National Institute of Health's Division of Biological Standards and a number of university contractors, developed an attenuated strain of human measles discovered in a basic virological study.
An advance came in the control of influenza with the improvement of methods of producing influenza vaccine and assaying its potency. Since an epidemic can be halted by the swift production of immunizing agents, new techniques which the Army helped to develop are of particular benefit; they allow the production of vaccines more rapidly after the isolation of the individual strain of flu virus.
A new and highly effective vaccine against epidemic typhus was tested in epidemic conditions in Burundi with gratifying results. In a similar case, the Army provided immediate assistance to Guatamala and El Salvador upon the outbreak of an epidemic of Venezuelan equine encephalitis. The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases had developed the vaccine for this disease, which is potentially dangerous to humans, during work on the defense against biological agents. The U.S. Agency for International Development delivered large amounts of the serum, which checked and eradicated the danger.
In other projects, taxonomists have described a new species of mosquito from Thailand that may carry dengue fever. One species of mosquito was completely eliminated on an island in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida by sterilizing the male. A subhuman primate was discovered which regulates its body heat by sweating, a valuable model for Army research into the mechanics of perspiration.
Malaria remains an obstacle in U.S. Army operations in tropical areas. Previously unknown strains of malaria parasites have appeared in recent years. Many are resistant to previously standard methods of prevention or treatment developed during World War II. Over 250,000 compounds have undergone examination in a concerted effort to control the disease. Programs of drug testing now include Aotus monkeys infected with drug-resistant strains of human malaria, as well as tests involving human malaria parasites in isolated blood cells.
The Army continued to search for new insect repellants that will stay on the skin longer, even under extreme conditions of heat and sweating. An improved chlorine test for the potability of drinking water also contributed to the protection of the combat soldier. The incidence of bacterial and fungal skin diseases in Vietnam led to the development of a new method for studying them, and for the first time, controlled human studies in the pathenogenesis and
treatment of fungal infections are possible. The prophylactic use of griseofulvin has reduced the number of cases of skin infection of all kinds. Research into the causes of prickly heat revealed that it is a form of heat exhaustion due to a temporary malfunction in normal sweat glands. New media for culture development have improved the laboratory analyses of infections and have reduced their cost.
The Army has found that by adding adenine to stored blood, the shelf life of the blood is increased. This formula is now used in Southeast Asia.
The Army also investigated the adverse effect of smoking on operations at altitude. Tests documented a decrease in the ability of hemoglobin to transport oxygen to the tissues in man after smoking. Although this effect is already known, the Army remains interested in how smoking may impede the performance of mountain troops and aircraft pilots.
Dental research developed a new technique for a quickly applied splint for simple jaw fracture, which was used successfully in Vietnam and in the United States. The Army maintains a comprehensive program to apply decay-preventive fluoride to each soldier's teeth. Though a large proportion of men in the service receive this treatment from a dentist, most soldiers have been supplied with fluoride toothpastes in an effort to extend this protection to the whole service.
The analysis of food staples used by the Army determined that the eight sugar and sugar phosphate compounds found in such common vegetables as fresh carrots offer possibilities for the development of safe and natural additives to improve the taste of rations. Work on beef revealed that the aroma of the meat derives from certain intramuscular lipids. These studies and one on moisture and vapor in dehydrated experimental foods led to new packaging concepts for military rations and produced fresher tasting food with a longer shelf life.
Operational testing of a helicopter-borne crash rescue and fire fighting system which had been proposed as standard equipment revealed that the system could not be deployed rapidly enough after a crash to promote crew survival in fires that most often accompany helicopter mishaps. In a related area, the Army adopted a new helmet for air crewmen which is lighter, affords better sound attenuation than older models, employs an unbreakable sun visor, and has an improved suspension for better retention on impact.
Several new items of medical equipment were tested and developed. A dispenser which does not influence the flight character-
istics of helicopters is now mounted without modification to the airframe to disperse insecticide dust and granules. Medical officers in the field are using a new wet bulb temperature kit to determine when conditions might cause heat casualties among trainees. The Special Forces have received a prototype portable surgical lamp designed to assist in bringing medical treatment to cases in remote areas. A dental hygienist set and a mobile X-ray stand are now standard equipment. A study has shown the feasibility of a lightweight automatic lens-fabricating machine that will produce new safety eyeglass lenses in the field, thus eliminating the delay encountered in having spectacles replaced at fixed rear area support bases.
In the field of animal husbandry, the Army organized a breeding experiment for the German Shepherd stock that has served so well as scout dogs in Vietnam. Studies identified the micro-organism which caused the hemorrhagic disease that killed 175 dogs in Southeast Asia, and researchers are now attempting to develop a vaccine.
Advanced Ballistic Missile Defense Program
The Advanced Ballistic Missile Defense Agency (ABMDA) of the Office, Chief of Research and Development, manages a program to continue the work begun under the Nike-X Advanced Development Program and the Advanced Research Project Agency's Project Defender, transferred to the Army after the decision to deploy the Sentinel (Safeguard) system. The ABMDA is responsible for advanced system and component development necessary to counter the Soviet threat to U.S. strategic offensive forces and their command and control centers; development of new system concepts and components which result in increased ballistic missile defense effectiveness; development of technology to counter a sophisticated threat to American cities from the Soviet Union or from Communist China; and the use of experimental facilities to assist in evaluating the effectiveness of American strategic offensive forces by the acquisition of data from re-entry and penetration tests employing U.S. missiles. To meet these requirements, the ABMDA pursues technology developments in radar systems, interceptor missiles, optics, data processing, target discrimination, re-entry physics, and nuclear effects.
The Army is now working on new systems concepts and components to defend the Minuteman system and to counter a postulated larger and more sophisticated Soviet force than the current U.S. Safeguard system can accommodate. This Hardsite defense system would supplement Safeguard with a larger number of
defense modules, each defending a small portion of the Minuteman force. The radars of this system would be smaller, simpler, and cheaper than the Safeguard radars, and the system would be less costly than the proliferation of Safeguard components.
The Army has contributed to the research and development of high speed computers needed to assure that their data-handling capacity is adequate for the more severe threats.
Radar research has concentrated on the high-powered phased array radar with multibeam capability and a low susceptibility to countermeasures. Increased reliability and efficiency are being sought through the development of solid state radar components.
Advances have also been made in terminal interceptor technology areas offering accurate control under the stress of high speed and acceleration, in order to deal with highly maneuverable re-entry vehicles. Advanced studies continue on the feasibility of a long-range homing interceptor that destroys, through nuclear or nonnuclear means, re-entry vehicles in mid-course before they can endanger the United States.
Concurrently, effective schemes are being developed to discern a warhead from various penetration aids an attacker might use. This feat is accomplished by measurement and analysis of radar and optical data obtained during missile tests.
The Safeguard System Office and the ABMDA retain interrelated but separate research and development programs, the latter organization being charged with the development of components and technology to counter threats that will be beyond the capability of Safeguard. The work on more advanced systems is intended to provide options in the event that defense officials find themselves pressed to improve upon Safeguard in the face of new and increased threats from abroad.
Research and Development and Vietnamization
Until recently only limited channels existed through which the Army could determine the research and development requirements of the South Vietnamese. In December 1969, procedures were arranged between the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), and the U.S. Army, Vietnam (USARV), command structure to permit the U.S. Army to extend research and development support to the South Vietnamese Army.
The USARV organization known as ACTIV (Army Concept Team in Vietnam) was designated as the nucleus of the research and development effort in Vietnam under the Vietnamization program, to handle those requirements for the Vietnamese Army while
continuing to perform the combat developments and materiel evaluation mission in support of U.S. forces. ACTIV provides technical assistance to host country units and their advisers concerning hardware requirements. New equipment developed for U.S. use and potentially suitable for use by the Vietnamese Army is evaluated by units of both countries.
In March 1970, two channels were developed through which the Military Assistance Command may gather information on which to base decisions for Vietnamese Army requirements. The first channel centers on requests coming from U.S. advisers and South Vietnamese elements seeking answers to specific problems that would require new designs or modifications. Requests arising from these sources move through regular advisory channels to MACV headquarters. The second channel works in reverse, forwarding new equipment designed for the U.S. Army to South Vietnam for combat evaluation. These items are evaluated by ACTIV and the Vietnamese at their Combat Development Test Center; the results of the combined evaluations are forwarded to MACV headquarters and then through routine U.S. Army, Vietnam, and U.S. Army, Pacific, channels to the continental United States.
With these procedures, American and Vietnamese operational forces can readily determine their requirements, and the Vietnamese receive the same research and development support as the U.S. Army.
STANO Systems
The Army has given high priority to surveillance, target acquisition, and night observation devices and techniques. In November 1969, a separate division was established in the Office, Chief of Research and Development, to manage developments in this high priority field. The surveillance, target acquisition, and night observation (STANO) division manages programs in night vision, radar, special purpose detectors, and unattended ground sensors.
Two night vision devices have already been successful in operations in Vietnam. The first is a system mounted aboard a helicopter gunship which allows the pilot to search out targets at night and to engage them with his standard armaments. More of these units will be sent to Southeast Asia by the end of fiscal year 1971. A second night vision device is the hand-held infrared viewer. Designed primarily as a target acquisition device, the viewer has shown an unexpected ability to detect newly placed mines.
A laser target designation system has proved itself doubly valuable in solving the navigation problem in attempts to find small landing or drop zones during field operations. Landing zones now
can be marked with laser beams on the ground, and supporting helicopters and troop lift ships identify the zone by laser-seekers mounted on the aircraft.
The Army is procuring test models of an eighteen-pound ground surveillance radar for use by forward troops. With miniaturized and integrated circuitry, the AN/PPS-15 is operated by one man and is well suited to small unit patrol action. For base defense, the Army is building a radar system capable of penetrating dense foliage and of scanning an entire perimeter. A new German- and French-developed long-range radar is being modified to replace the ten-year-old U.S. Army surveillance set, AN/TPS-25. Work continued on the mortar-locating radar, AN/TPQ-28, and a longer range counterbattery radar. Similar projects have defined specifications for artillery counterbattery radars.
Based on experience in Southeast Asia, the Army has studied the possibilities for worldwide use of unattended electronic sensors and is exploring alternatives for a system capable of worldwide deployment. The direction of this program will be more fully determined by the end of fiscal year 1971.
In the area of conventional weapons, several of the Army's current programs underwent extensive review for the reduction of production costs or for contract defaults. In spite of some difficulties, the programs in new ordnance yielded data and engineering knowledge on which to base new developments in the future.
The joint effort with the Federal Republic of Germany, under which the main battle tank 70 (MBT-70) has been developed, was modified to a co-operative program in the middle of the fiscal year. Changes in the U.S. design were recommended to decrease production costs and increase the reliability of the vehicle; sacrifices in combat effectiveness were minimal. In December 1969, the new program was reviewed in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and in the following month the recommended changes were approved. The design changes have thus reduced the estimated unit cost of the tank by almost 30 percent. With the modification of the program and of the co-operative features of the engineering effort, the tank received a new designation, XM-803; the composite nomenclature MBT-70/XM-803 is to be used until February 1971.
The program to develop the novel AH-56A Cheyenne attack helicopter faltered amid contract difficulties in this fiscal year, but technical progress continued. The fire control and weapons subsystems met specification accuracy in aerial firing, and with an
improved rotor control assembly, the vehicle demonstrated a true air speed of 186 knots. A night vision system for the aircraft was bench tested satisfactorily, and the aircraft weapons system was demonstrated for Defense Department officials during April 1970, when its complete design armament including the TOW missile was fired. The prime contractor, Lockheed Aircraft, appealed to the Secretary of Defense for relief after experiencing financial difficulties following the proceedings for contract default brought by the Army (see chapter 8; see also the 1969 annual report). As the fiscal year ended, the secretary was still considering these requests.
On November 4, 1969, the Senate and House Armed Services Committees Conference Report directed the Army to re-evaluate the Shillelagh and TOW missiles with an eye toward substituting the Shillelagh for the TOW in order to meet the Army's requirement for an antitank weapon for both the helicopter and infantry.
The re-evaluation for the infantry application, completed in March 1970, addressed the cost, schedules, and operational effectiveness of the two systems. The findings were that the substitution of Shillelagh for TOW would delay the fielding of an acceptable heavy antitank-assault weapon for at least four years, result in no dollar savings, be less satisfactory from an operational viewpoint, and introduce the inherent risk of any development program. (Shillelagh was designed to be fired from a closed breech in an armored vehicle; in infantry and helicopter roles, an open breech launcher and miniaturized guidance and control components would have to be developed and tested.) The Army therefore recommended to the Congress that the TOW program be continued and that no further consideration be given to Shillelagh as a basic heavy infantry weapon. As the fiscal year closed, the re-evaluation of the Shillelagh and TOW missiles as helicopter-borne armament remained under study.
The first tactical communications satellite has been in a synchronous orbit for over a year, and all the services continued to test its performance with a variety of super high frequency (SHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF) terminals of advanced design. The Army remained the lead service, procuring prototype tactical terminals from the prime contractor, Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
During the past fiscal year, the Army completed tests with ten UHF and eight SHF terminals. These terminals are constructed in five basic types: a one-man back pack for listening only that plays out printed alert or address messages; a three-man team pack which transmits and receives; a jeep-mounted version with an alert mes-
sage receiver; a transceiver; and a teletype. A larger shelter-installed terminal can be transported by a 1 ¼-ton truck, a larger helicopter, or a cargo aircraft. As the year closed, the Army was testing a UHF terminal in a UH-1 helicopter.
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Vitamin B17
Vitamin B17 is not necessarily a vitamin, but rather refers to a chemical known as either amygdalin or laetrile. The confusion stemmed from Ernst T Krebs, who promoted the chemical as a cancer cure. He then named the glycoside "Vitamin B17" – and the name has stuck along with its link to cancer. Studies, however, have not proven the effectiveness of this 'vitamin'.
Vitamin B17 actually refers to two separate chemical compounds – amydalin and laetrile.
Vitamin B17 Benefits
Since Vitamin B17 is not truly a vitamin, it is not considered essential. This means that your body does not require Vitamin B17 in order to function. Perhaps the most notable (yet controversial) benefit of Vitamin B17 is its effectiveness in treating cancer. It was historically used in Russia in the 1800's for cancer treatment, and again made its appearance in the United States in the 1920's. Some studies have shown amygdalin/laetrile to be beneficial in cancer treatment, and some have shown it to have no efficacy. People who have tried everything else tend to persuade themselves to try amygdalin as a treatment. Many travel to Mexico for treatment.
Here is a short list of some of the claimed benefits of 'Vitamin B17' or amygdalin/laetrile:
• Cancer – claimed by some to help prevent and treat cancer. In particular, the most favourable studies linking vitamin B17 to cancer are the ones involving prostate cancer.
• Arthritic Pain – claims have been made that amygdalin/laetrile can help in dealing with pain of arthritis
• High Blood Pressure – some studies have shown that vitamin B17 can lower blood pressure; however it was much less effective than other safer alternatives.
Vitamin B17 Food Sources
Vitamin B17 is most commonly taken as a supplement or from a supplemental product. However, B17 can be found in a variety of foods including:
• Beet tops
• Alfalfa, bamboo, and fava sprouts
• Spinach and Watercress
• Sweet potatoes and yams
• Bitter almonds, cashews and macadamias
• kidney beans, lima beans, garbanzo beans, green peas and black-eyed peas
• apple seeds, apricot seeds, cherry seeds, flax seeds, millet seeds, nectarine seeds, peach seeds, plum seeds, pear seeds, prune seeds and squash seeds
• Wild blackberry, boysenberry, wild crab-apple, cranberry, elderberry, gooseberry, huckleberry, raspberry, mulberry , loganberry
Vitamin B17 Deficiency
Vitamin B17 is not truly a vitamin, and therefore, as expected, its deficiency symptoms are rather few. Probably the biggest case for Vitamin B17 is its suggested effects in treating cancer. Along the same lines, many people who swear by Vitamin B17 believe that a vitamin B17 deficiency can lead to a greater risk of cancer.
Research has not shown this to be true, and has not entirely discredited the claim. Many smaller studies have shown findings on both sides of the coin. Further research is needed. For the time being, there does not seem to be any immediate, adverse effects of Vitamin B17.
Vitamin B17 Overdose
Although you cannot overdose on Vitamin B17, there are dangers in some food sources that contain Vitamin B17, where if taken in excess could cause poisoning. For example, apricot seeds, one of the most popular forms of B17, also contain trace amounts of cyanide. If taken in excess, poisoning could occur resulting in severe illness.


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10 Famous Artworks in Public Spaces
Amidst the public spaces of the metropolis that enormous billboards, towering buildings, and busy streets dominate, are some of the most astonishing masterpieces of famed Filipino visual artists. These excellent works of art serve not only as decoration or display but also as timeless showcases of Philippine culture and history.
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Green-certified buildings aren't just for treehuggers anymore. They now include a surprising mix of frat houses, gas stations, fast-food stores, discount retailers, casinos, gas stations and prisons.
Eager to lower utility bills and earn eco-friendly cache, businesses and local governments of all stripes are constructing facilities to meet the private U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standard.
Among those, as the Huffington Post notes, are an increasing number of casinos in Las Vegas, including the Venetian Hotel and Sands Expo Convention Center, which have solar panels, efficient lighting and a recycling program that sends food waste to a pig farm to be reused as feed.
Also LEED-certified, it reports, is a BP gas station in Los Angeles, the corporate offices of Anadarko Petroleum in Woodlands, Texas, dozens of discount retailer Kohl's stores, the Phi Kappa Tau frat house at Georgia Tech and the Coyote Ridge Corrections Facility in Connell, Wash.
More fast-food outlets are going green, too, including some of those in the Starbucks, McDonald's, Chipotle, Subway and Arby's chains. In St. Petersburg, Fla., The Daily Green reports, a LEED-certified Dunkin' Donuts store has an earthworm casting facility that houses 80 pounds of earthworms charged with eating food waste. It also donates leftover baked goods to a local shelter.
Wendy Koch has been a reporter and editor at USA TODAY since 1998, covering politics and social issues. She's begun a quest to build the most eco-friendly home her budget allows. She'll share her experience and give you tips for greening your home. More about Wendy


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The day of reckoning that so many have talked about for so many years is here.
Today, America's elderly are living longer and the cost of health care is rising dramatically. Those two factors are going to make it incredibly expensive to take care of all of these retiring Baby Boomers.
Meanwhile, the sad truth is that the vast majority of Baby Boomers have not adequately saved for retirement. For many of them, their home equity was destroyed by the recent financial crisis. For others, their 401ks were devastated when the stock market tanked.
Meanwhile, company pension plans across America are woefully underfunded. Many state and local government pension programs are absolute disasters. The federal government has already begun to pay out more in Social Security benefits than they are taking in, and the years ahead look downright apocalyptic for the Social Security program.
If we are not careful all of these Baby Boomers are going to push us into national bankruptcy. We simply cannot afford all of the promises that we have made to them.
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Archives for August 5, 2008
This is Michael Shermer Wow, that was cool. Now since you are in the mood, check this out if you have not already seen it:
Two follow-ups on Sizzle. From Almost Diamonds, "Stereotypes in Comedy"… and from Uncommon Ground, "The crisis in science literacy" And then, this. If you are a US citizen living abroad you MUST click this picture:
Its all about selection for flight distance. (Oh, for plants, that's dispersal distance!)
Food for thought from On the Media: Recently there's been a bit of a backlash against the angry commenter, especially the anonymous angry commenter. Newspapers around the country have had to disband comment sections because of racist content, ad hominem attacks and vulgarity. The Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, Eddie Perez, actually staged a protest outside…
So if you have a CD r/w machine in your computer, there is a LOT more than you had previously imagined going on inside there. Wow!
South Korean Scientists (so, this may be entirely made up) claim to have cloned a pet dog for the first time. This was paid for by Bernann McKinney, of California, clearly a person with too much money on her hands, who paid $50,000 for five copies of his bet Booger.
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Mistakes don't matter when the literary magazine class has given me and my colleague, their project managers, as we prefer to refer to ourselves, the title in the masthead as Editor & Chief. We kind of like our new sense of selves, and thus, in future literary magazine classes, I imagine that Paul and I will introduce ourselves as the editor and chief. A pun is born that will carry forward.
At times I believe I should record myself at the end of the semester, a reminder that when I grow tired and a wee bit jaded (which fortunately is not often), I need to remember to celebrate student successes. Because it is during those moments that I am so grateful for the cool ass job I have.
At the end of the semester, I finally allow myself time to reflect, even if I profess I am so stressed because I have no time. It's like I can't help that voice inside that sees the rest ahead, that knows that I have worked so hard and am ready to just shake it all off, that voice that keeps reminding me of all the wonders I have experienced this semester.
- I had a student I've known for a couple of years come out to me as trans, watching his face feel finally complete and relieved at being able to take a step into the body and being he sees himself as.
- I watched a group of students who have spent most of the year hanging out in the GLBT Resource Center, shooting the shit, talking some nasty sometimes, laughing, hugging each other every day when they leave and sometimes enter, articulately convey to the school's President and Vice President of Student Success their needs regarding a new GLBT Resource Center. They were passionate, approachable, genuine, and made an impression--on the administrators They left their impression lingering on me.
- I stood in front of a literary magazine class with my colleague and told the students at the start of the semester that in 15 or so weeks, they would produce a literary magazine from start to finish. When we broke down all the work, they looked daunted, not believing this could be. When they opened the boxes of the printed journals yesterday, they looked so proud at what they had accomplished, as a team, on their own. Tomorrow we celebrate with a publication party and an open mic.
- And I anticipate tomorrow, when I get to watch groups of students put on dramatic presentations of plays they've remixed, showing me through their scripts and performance that they understand elements of drama, celebrating all their learning. Not paying attention to any mistakes.


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SOUTH Sydney are back at the top of the premiership ladder. And regardless of the result of Sydney Roosters' clash with Gold Coast on Sunday, they will have the chance to end the season there.
The Rabbitohs' victory over Wests Tigers, fighting back from an 18-0 deficit after 14 minutes, hands the NRL what they dearly wanted: a final-round blockbuster between the Rabbitohs and the Roosters for the minor premiership.
It's advantage South Sydney right now. The Roosters are still to play this weekend and the Rabbitohs will have a home crowd on their side at ANZ Stadium next Friday night.
''Without a doubt, you think about it,'' Souths coach Michael Maguire said of the minor premiership. ''For us, that's something we'd like to achieve along the way, but the boys are pretty focused about what's in front of us over this next month.''
They will need to improve on their performance against the Tigers. Lock Sam Burgess's early sin-binning handed the Tigers an early advantage and they struck three times while the Englishman was absent. Still, that the Tigers' only points of the contest were confined to that period will please them.
''It's a great opportunity for the club, the players,'' Maguire said. ''It's an important game, the last opportunity to practice before … the finals.''
The Tigers will finish next week. And that was clear, as five-eighth Benji Marshall broke down during the presentation, after his final home match for the Tigers.
''It's been a disappointing year and a tough year for everyone involved in the club, but I asked the boys to play with some pride, and I can't fault the effort.''
Most observers would have felt the Tigers needed a numerical advantage to beat the Rabbitohs. And after four minutes, that is what the Tigers got, after Burgess stripped the ball from centre Tim Simona.
''It was an unusual one,'' Maguire said. '' ''I'll have to talk to Daniel [Anderson]. I was quite unsure of why he was sent off.''
The Tigers made their opponents pay with three tries - Simona, fullback James Tedesco and back-rower Ben Murdoch-Masila scored to give the match an old-fashioned ambush feel.
But once the numerical order was restored, the match settled down. Souths eventually hit back through halfback Adam Reynolds, just before the half-hour mark, sparked by a dart from hooker Issac Luke.
The Rabbitohs were well off their game in the first half, but they were still in it with a try just before the break. Tigers winger Lote Tuqiri's air-swing gave his opposite Dylan Farrell the try from Reynolds' kick.
Seven minutes into the second half, the Rabbitohs were level. And it was the man who had been off the field at the same stage of the first half, Sam Burgess, who produced the try.
The Tigers did well to hold the Rabbitohs out for much of the second half. Their toil was highlighted by Tedesco's wonderful tackle on a flying Nathan Merritt.
But four minutes later, a penalty against Marshall after the officials ruled a strip on five-eighth John Sutton gave the Rabbitohs their chance to lead. Reynolds made no mistake. Four minutes later, Luke's bust handed Merritt what he thought he had earlier, and Luke Burgess finished the contest off in the dying minutes. That gave the match another first; after the four Burgesses took to the same field on the same night, the oldest brother scored his first try in the NRL.
After full-time, a fifth Burgess was on the field - mother Julie. ''To be part of a bit of history - from 103 years, it's quite amazing to think, to have four brothers, particularly of that size, play in one team,'' Maguire said.
Next week, the Rabbitohs will push for another first.
SOUTH SYDNEY 32 (L Burgess S Burgess D Farrell N Merritt A Reynolds tries A Reynolds 6 goals) bt WESTS TIGERS 18 (B Murdoch-Masila T Simona J Tedesco tries B Marshall 3 goals) at Allianz Stadium. Referee: Phil Haines, Henry Perenara. Crowd: 14,891


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This is just a random mangekyou sharingan i accidentally created and think it looks freaking epic.
Its the 6 paths sharingan!
definitely an epic. awesome job. i wish i could get mine to look that good. the ones i do suck. great job.
xD they are hard to make. harder than they look. just gotta experiment with different stuff. this one sucks cus it's too simple xD
still somehow looks cool though
still somehow looks cool though
i'll keep trying. maybe i'm going too hard straight off. i'll try to go simple and work up to it. like i said though its simple, its epic and unique. great job.
Actually considering that its got six points instead of the three in a unique mangekyo sharingan this would be an eternal mangekyo sharingan.
but that's just me fanlore(ing) :3
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It's a 1,661-mile-long oil pipeline that would connect the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada with oil refineries in Texas. If it's built, it means more climate disasters, more destructive fracking and more dirty oil spills. To convince Obama to stop the pipeline, over 2,000 people have volunteered to risk arrest in Washington D.C. by participating in non-violent civil disobedience.
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The delivery men are most likely bonded. This means they are insured in case something gets damaged or turns up missing in their dealings with customers. The insurance company would pay for the damaged/missing item if a claim is filed.
Contacting the police and contacting the delivery company will accomplish two different things. The delivery company can file a claim with the bonding company to hopefully get you reimbursed for the amount of your necklace. Calling the police, on the other hand, might result in criminal charges against one or both of the delivery men, and it may or may not result in getting you reimbursed for your missing items (depending on whether there is a conviction, and if so, if the judge orders restitution).
If I were in your shoes, I would probably call both the delivery company and the police, just to cover all bases.
Hope this helps. Good luck.


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Lee failed to get going in the Bangalore Test and was in a much-publicised row with his Captain Ricky Ponting over the skipper failing to use him during a crucial session in Mohali, the thing that hurt the 31-year-old fast bowler most was the inference his family situation had affected his performances.
''I try to keep to cricket; I don't try to mix things. I take it to heart if someone puts the emotional things in, especially if stuff is written in the paper about my emotional side, so I try to stick to the cricket,'' Lee was quoted as saying by Sydney Morning Herald today.
''It has been tough. There's been a lot of things in the last three or four months that have gone on, but I'm here to play cricket and ready to play. I wouldn't have come on this tour if I wasn't ready,'' he added.
Even Ponting dismissed the Bangalore Test confrontation with Lee and said he was pleased with his strike bowler's improved performance in the drawn Test in Delhi, despite a return of three for 167 from 47 overs.
His ball to dismiss Rahul Dravid in the second innings, a fierce inswinging yorker, suggested he was back in his groove.
Lee said hitting the streets of Delhi between the second and third Tests helped him make up for missing the one-day series against Bangladesh.
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