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Digest of In re Orbital Tech. Corp., No. 2014-1298, -1299 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 20, 2015) (non-precedential). On appeal from P.T.A.B. Before Reyna, Clevenger, and Wallach.
Procedural Posture: Patent Owner appealed from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's ("PTAB") decision affirming an examiner's rejection of the claims of two related patents directed to a method and apparatus of lighting an open-top marine habitat using an LED lighting system as obvious during ex parte reexamination. The Patent Owner also appealed the examiner's use of a machine translation of the key prior art reference that was not provided to the Patent Owner before the close of reexamination. CAFC affirmed.
- Waiver: Substantial evidence supported the PTAB's determination that the Patent Owner waived its argument that it was improper for the examiner to use a machine translation of a Japanese patent publication when finding that there was a substantial new question of patentability. While the Patent Owner was not provided with a copy of the translation while reexamination was pending, it declined the examiner's offer to reopen prosecution after an appeal was filed. In doing so, it chose to appeal the substance of the examiner's findings and waived any objection it had to the use of the translation. The Patent Owner was also wrong to argue that the examiner's offer to reopen reexamination was "conditional" and thus cannot give rise to waiver. While reopening prosecution could result in the mooting of some of Patent Owner's current grounds for appeal, this does not mean that the offer to reopen prosecution was conditioned on Patent Owner's waiving these grounds.
- Obviousness: The PTAB's determination of obviousness was also supported by substantial evidence. Each of the elements required by the claims was taught by a prior art reference ("Tomofuji"), except for an element requiring the use of LEDs rather than fluorescent lamps as the light source. The CAFC held that it would have been obvious to one skilled in the art to modify Tomofuji by replacing fluorescent bulbs with an LED light source, as taught in two other prior art references. The Patent Owner argued that substituting LEDs into Tomofuji's system would not result in the claimed invention, that one of ordinary skill would not have combined the prior art, and that the machine translation of Tomofuji was too unclear to support a rejection. First, the prior art did teach all the required claim elements. In arguing to the contrary, the Patent Owner was interpreting the claim requirement that the bulbs be "mounted to" or "disposed on" a housing too narrowly. The claims were broad enough to embrace indirect attachment of the bulbs to the housing with an intervening reflector. Second, it would have been obvious to utilize LED bulbs with Tomofuji's cooling system. While LED bulbs do generate less heat than fluorescent lamps, they nonetheless do generate some heat. Thus, the Board was correct when it found that the cooling system of Tomofuji provides an obvious benefit even when used with LED bulbs. Third, while the machine translation of Tomofuji was poor (and there may be cases where a machine translation will not be sufficient to provide evidence of a reference's content), the translation in this case was adequate because the technology was simple and the reference included accompanying teachings in its figures.


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BOSTON — Dennis Seidenberg doesn't lose his temper often.
Tuesday night in Toronto, the Bruins defenseman showed why opponents would be wise to keep it that way.
Seidenberg engaged in a rare fight that night against the Leafs, but his lack of experience didn't prevent Seidenberg from laying quite a beating on Toronto forward Colby Armstrong. It was a sight Seidenberg's teammates were still marveling at two days later as they prepared to face the Sabres on Thursday.
"I've seen him fight a couple times, he kind of knows what he's doing," Bruins resident enforcer Shawn Thornton said after Thursday's morning skate. "I don't know if that's from experience. I have no idea how he knows [how to fight], but he was pretty good. Obviously he won."
Seidenberg's victory didn't require any judges' cards. He dropped Armstrong with a series of hard rights that left the Toronto winger with a broken nose. Armstrong did not return to the game and also missed Toronto's game in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
Not a bad showing for just the fourth fighting major in 520 regular-season games in the NHL for Seidenberg, who also picked up a fighting major in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final last year for a wrestling match with Rayn Kesler.
The veteran defenseman may not be a frequent pugilist, but he is among the Bruins' strongest players, weighing in at a solid 6-foot-1, 210 pounds.
"I mean, look at the size of him," Thornton said. "It's not hard to tell that at the very least he'd be able to defensively take care of himself, so I wasn't too worried when he was getting [the gloves] off."
Seidenberg didn't exactly take a defensive pose in this bout though. "No, he was just angry and on the offensive," Thornton said with a laugh.
Seidenberg's rare foray into fisticuffs came about in response to a hit from Armstrong that caught Seidenberg as he was falling along the boards. Seidenberg took exception, but also had to take a number as he wasn't the only Bruin trying to get at Armstrong. The headliner in the bout was nearly Adam McQuaid, who came flying in with the gloves off to take on Armstrong, only to be beaten to the punch, literally, by Seidenberg.
"It was just kind of a reaction to the play," McQuaid said. "I wasn't sure he was going to get up right away like he did. He obviously did a really good job and stuck up for himself. It was good to see him do that in that situation."
Armstrong may have thought he was getting off easy by taking on Seidenberg instead of McQuaid, who has earned a reputation as a fearsome fighter with 21 fights in his first three seasons in the NHL. But that plan worked about as well as Armstrong's efforts to tie up Seidenberg's right.
"Armstrong had the choice and I don't think either pick was going to be a good pick for him," Bruins coach Claude Julien said after Wednesday's practice. "Seids is not a real fighter, but it was a hit when he was falling down. I don't think it was anything dirty, but as a player you get hit when you're going down and you react. Mac [McQuaid] was being Mac and going in to protect his teammate, but Seids decided to take it upon himself and I thought did a decent job."
The Bruins have prided themselves in recent seasons on their willingness to stick up for one another, with Thornton (NHL-leading 18 fighting majors this season), McQuaid, Gregory Campbell, Milan Lucic or Zdeno Chara usually ones coming to the aid of their teammates. But not every Bruin needs defending, and Seidenberg certainly impressed his teammates with both his willingness to stand up for himself and his ability with the gloves off.
"He did well, he did really well," Thornton said. "I liked the fact that he stood up for himself. Obviously Quaider came flying in, maybe a little too quick because he missed the guy on the way through. The fact that Dennis took it into his own hands to stand up for himself is a positive thing."
McQuaid agreed.
"We all know he's a big, strong guy," McQuaid said. "Usually he's playing such big minutes that we don't necessarily want to see him in the box for five minutes, but it was nice to see him stick up for himself and he certainly handled himself well."
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Deron Bilous is the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the Deputy Government House Leader.
Deron Bilous was sworn in as Minister of Economic Development and Trade on October 22, 2015. Prior to this, he served as Minister of Municipal Affairs and as Minister of Service Alberta.
He was first elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview on April 23, 2012, and again on May 5, 2015.
Mr. Bilous was born and raised in Edmonton and is very proud of his Ukrainian ancestry. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a bachelor of education degree in 2001.
Prior to his election in 2012, Mr. Bilous taught and mentored students at Edmonton's Inner City High School and was active in his community of Beverly Heights.
Between 1995 and 2005, Mr. Bilous was involved in a number of projects with the Canada World Youth program, a volunteer youth program focusing on international development. His work with Canada World Youth took him to Quebec, Tunisia and China.
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Sunrise at 06:50 and Sunset at 16:58. It's light
Latitude. 35.5169°, Longitude. -92.1308° , Elevation. 140m
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- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Miller (historical) (1.6km)
- Shiloh (historical) (2.8km)
- Budd Creek (5.5km)
- Lake Ridge (7.3km)
- South Shore Park (7.4km)
- Lone Pine (8.1km)
- Driftwood Shores (8.3km)
- Post Oak (9.3km)
- stream;
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Shiloh Creek (2.5km)
- Cove Creek (2.5km)
- Budd Creek (3.9km)
- Rocky Branch (7.5km)
- Hurricane Creek (7.7km)
- Drip Creek (7.9km)
- Salt Creek (9km)
- Local Feature;
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- Upper Ferry (historical) (0km)
- Shiloh Marina (3.6km)
- Eden Isle Marina (4.3km)
- Lower Ferry (historical) (4.5km)
- Heber Springs Marina (8.4km)
- Narrows Marina (9.5km)
- church;
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- Shiloh Church (4.3km)
- Mount Olive Church (5.9km)
- Pleasant Ridge Church (6.4km)
- Lone Pine Church (8.2km)
- Post Oak Church (9.4km)
- island;
- a tract of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.
- Taylor Island (2.7km)
- Eden Isle (3.5km)
- Goat Island (5.1km)
- Scout Island (6.7km)
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- cape;
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- Millers Point (1.2km)
- Goff Point (6.6km)
- Bean Point (8km)
- Silver Ridge Peninsula (8.3km)
- park;
- an area, often of forested land, maintained as a place of beauty, or for recreation.
- Shiloh Recreation Area (3.3km)
- Heber Springs Recreation Area (7.6km)
- Cove Creek Recreation Area (7.8km)
- Cherokee Recreation Area (8.5km)
- cemetery;
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- Pleasant Ridge Cemetery (6km)
- Cove-Kendall Cemetery (6km)
- Bailey Cemetery (9.6km)
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- Wildcat Hollow (5km)
- Sweet Suck Hollow (7.1km)
- Sulphur Springs Hollow (8.6km)
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- Rodgers Lake Dam (5.2km)
- Dunaway Lake Dam (9.2km)
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- Lake Eden (4km)
- Rodgers Lake (5.2km)
- Dunaway Lake (9.2km)
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- Tannenbaum Airport (9.5km)
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- Giles, Township of (6.6km)
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JOE G. on 10/09/2014
Brought in my truck guy says 2 hours labor then I look at the bill and it shows 295.00 for labor.My question is, are you charging 150.00 per hour.Very disappointed with them . Never again.Must say that I was refunded for the first visit charges.That was appreciated.But 295.00 labor charges for 2 hours quotes.That I think was to much. I don't mind paying for labor of course but I was given a quote.
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Joe, thank you for your kind words about mentioning the refund. As you know, the water pump was bad after we diagnosed the clutch incorrectly the first time. As you said, we made it right.
Unfortunately, you aare not reading your bill correctly. The water pump was 2 hours labor at $104.00 per hour. The remaining labor is the "Cooling System Flush" which was an added $69.07. for a total labor of $277 .07, not $295.00 as you claim.
I hope you can reconsider your review since you were pretty harsh on us calling us dishonest, when we are not, as I have proven, multiple times for you.


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First stop on our Rotorua trip was to visit the Agrodome, a working farm with awesome interaction experiences available for kids (and big kids).
The Agrodome is around 15 minutes out of town and we caught the local bus which was super easy and efficient, the bus drops you right outside the gate of Agrodome and on the way back collects you on the other side of the road.
We were really keen to see some of New Zealand's famous farming country and meet the farm animals.
The Agrodome offers a stage farm show which was the highlight for us. The show includes sheep shearing, cow milking, the sheep dogs and even a sheep auction. There are plenty of laughs and opportunities for audience participation so get ready to put your hand up.
The absolute hands down highlight for the little guy was getting to go up on stage to feed a young lamb from a bottle.
After the stage show there is a sheep dog demonstration held outside.
Next we joined a tractor pulled farm tour around the working farm. We stopped to feed the sheep and the Alpacas which the little guy loved! This experience is a must for city kids that haven't had much exposure to farms and farm animals.
There are also stunning views over Rotorua and the lake from the Alpaca paddocks
Before the tour concluded we were able to taste Kiwi juice from the farm and the local honey.
My son thought the farm show was HILARIOUS and would have gone back for another show if permitted.
Definitely stop by and check out the Agrodome on your Rotorua trip.You can get great deals if you combine your Agrodome ticket with a Rainbow Springs ticket so you can visit the Kiwi birds too.
The Agrodome is simple to get to whether you are driving or on public transport.Bring a jacket with you, it was a little cloudy on our trip and we felt chilly while on the tractor tour.
We really loved this experience and I would urge families to check it out. Thanks to the Agrodome for hosting us, as always all opinions are my own.


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sexta-feira, 15 de abril de 2016
A Euphonious Wail - Psychedelic Prog Rock
Heavily influenced by San Francisco bands (Big Brother and the Trucking Company and The Jefferson Airplane quickly come to mind), the Santa Rosa, California-based A Euphonious Wail was roughly five years behind creative and popular tastes. Not that it seemed to matter given a financially struggling Kapp Records went ahead and signed the quintet to a recording contract. Built around the talents of drummer Doug Hoffman, keyboardist Bart Libby, singer Suzanne Rey, singer/guitarist Steve Tracy and bassist Gary Violetti, the band's self-titled 1973 debut teamed them with producer Brian Ingoldsby (Lowell Levinger of Youngbloods fame reportedly also helped out). While "A Euphonious Wail" had a couple of nice moments, for the most part the LP was surprisingly lame and uninspired. As lead vocalists Rey and Tracy had decent, if unexceptional voices (though Rey tended to screech in the higher registers). The same type of limitations were true of the band as songwriters (all but Hoffman contributing material). Taken individually guitar and keyboard propelled rockers such as 'Pony', 'We've Got the Chance', 'When I Start To Live' and 'F#' weren't bad, but stretched over an entire album, there simply wasn't much that really stood out. The band were even less successful when they tried slowing things down - check out the lame ballads 'Did You Ever' and 'I Want To Be a Star'. (The Michael Hawes cover drawing was interesting. Depending on how you looked at it you saw something completely abstract, or possibly obscene.) Needless to say, the album vanished without a trace, followed in short order by the band.
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i got me a new toy—an alesis micron. little brother (or sister) to the alesis ion. thanks again to eric for letting me borrow the ion for a few days last month; that was what inspired me to get the micron. it's pretty cheap and small, which is a strong selling point for me, because i need to conserve all the space i can around here, and spending money is about as much fun as…spending money. but this thing packs a lot of sound and tweak-ability into a small package. needless to say, if it wasn't already the case, it's now a pretty safe bet that there will be a lot of synth and general sonic wankery on the next album. i don't know what it is, but something about new synth sounds always inspires a torrent of songs to come pouring out of me in short order…it happened in the past with the likes of GROWING SIDEWAYS and WHO YOU ARE NOW, and now i expect it'll probably happen again. i wish i had this thing a few weeks ago for the show at the fm lounge…could have made some pretty wild sounds when max and i went to hell at the end of "capricorn cloves". i guess there's always the next show, which will probably take place in 2011.
also got me a ridiculously cheap no-name banjo from the 1920s. the tuners are a little weird, but the intonation doesn't seem to be all that wonky, and the thing sounds better than it has any right to, given its price and no-name pedigree. what is it about funky old instruments that makes them funky? maybe it has something to do with old wood. i'd be hard-pressed to find a new acoustic guitar that really speaks to me, even in the several-thousand-dollar price range, and yet i can find a guitar that's two or three times my age at a fraction of the price, and it sounds and feels so much better and more inspiring, it's hilarious. old wood: it's not just getting a second lease on life thanks to the likes of viagra anymore.
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Year 10 Visit Oxford University - February 2017
A group of Year 10 students recently visited Oxford University for a taste of Uni life. Year 10 student Megan Hill has written an account of the day below:
'A group of Year 10 students were recently invited to Oxford University for a pathways taster day. They were introduced to some of the things that you would expect from a university, such as new found independence. They were also informed as to why is it beneficial to go to university (it allows you to study your favorite subject in much more depth.)
They then spilt up the 5 schools and sent two groups to St Johns, one to St Mary's and two others to Wadham. DSLV went to Wadham which is one of the older colleges. 3 workshops then took place which taught them about academic life (the types of learning that occurs in a university), social life (the types of things you can do outside of classes) and the transition to university. They learnt the pros and cons of a lecture and the different societies you can join. A great day was had by all'
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Valentine's Day was a lot of fun this year as we joined our fellow Arc members downtown at the Capitol Building distributing valentines to the state legislators who represent us.
As The Arc of Greater Indianapolis, Noble provides advocacy services for individuals and families in Marion and Hamilton counties. That translates into 35 legislators to connect with as well as Gov. Holcomb, Lt. Governor Crouch and several other state officials.
This year, the artists served by Noble turned blocks of wood cut from a 2 x 4 into pieces of art with the message, "DSPs: The Heart of It All." These valentines brought a smile to people's faces while reinforcing our top legislative issue: We must increase wages for our Direct Support Professionals who work directly with the people we serve.
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AT&T Park's grounds crew is preparing for the National League Championship Series as the battle to reach the World Series shifts to San Francisco.
The San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals split the first two games at Busch Stadium.
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Meanwhile, Giants fever is sweeping the city. Boxes of postseason gear and merchandise were being unpacked at the ballpark and filling up sales stands and stores.
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She worked on a farm as forced labour during world war II. When the war was over she chose to depart to England, where she met her husband Juan Jurgel (who fought in the Polish war, captured by the Germans asked to fight for ther Germans, escaped and fought for the Polish war).
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Today I found out that one of my co-workers lost her mother Monday night. So sorry. I lost my own mother over 20 years ago and I was a mess. She was only a week shy of turning 60. But, as I've related here, I now dream about her all the time. We were very close and still are, in a sense.


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Just as a follow up — my position is that no animal is meant for eating. But surely the non-vegetarians can acknowledge that eating live animals is pretty fucked up. You can call it a delicacy all you want but I think it's downright evil. I have not been this infuriated by a BuzzFeed post in a long time.
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I'm headed out of town this morning to help some people move. Moving is always fun.
I'm helping my grandparents move. Not quite like helping my bachelor friends move. I won't be handling any futons or neon signs. And none of the furniture will be made of particle board.
It's a big day. I don't think my grandmother wants to move all that much. But it's too late now. Here's why the day is so unbelievably huge.
Forty-Five Years
That's how long my grandparents have lived at their house in the Ozarks. Wow. This is the house my Dad grew up in. That's how long my grandmother has played the piano and organ at church! Talk about perseverance. It's been four years since I've moved, and that's a long stretch compared to the rest of my twenties. I can't imagine sticking with something for four decades. Talk about a life that's hard to break away from.
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The day is also big because we're not just moving my grandparents up to the town where my family lives. We're moving them in with my parents. Yup. We built an addition on the house and everything (by "we," I mean "contractors.") It's pretty awesome. But there are no delusions that this will be easy for anyone. My grandmother does not want to leave home. But being in your eighties isn't easy. And living with your elderly parents isn't easy either. But it will be good.
The interesting thing is that my mother has gotten nothing but cross-eyed looks from people when she says she's moving her in-laws into her home. No one does that. It would certainly be easier to keep my grandparents at arm's length in a nursing home four hours away, rather than build a new apartment onto the house and move them in. I hope my parents are planning on using the new addition when they are elderly, because I can't guarantee I want them moving in with me in twenty years.
Life Done Right
I haven't inherited a prominent family name, but it's a good one. My grandparents are leaving behind four decades of goodwill from the community. When they moved in, they bought the town grocery store and immediately jacked the price of meat up by 300% (from nine cents to twenty-seven cents a pound.) People were outraged, until they took their new expensive meat home and found it no longer had stale cracker crumbs and water mixed into it like dog food. My grandparents gave away tens of thousands of groceries to people who could only afford imitation bologna. (That was a real product, and I have no idea how such an unholy sounding product existed.) They lived life right.
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New York City is brimming with abandoned, hidden, and forgotten spaces. Besides a select group of men who make their living discovering their hidden value, few people are aware these places exist. We put our boots on and went exploring.
This piece about New York's forgotten and historic aspects while after the jump the footage/mini-doc is about London's pirate radio phenomenon. I couldn't decide which piece was more interesting so I put New York first and London second, kinda like NYLON.
Pirate radio is everywhere in London, born in the 60's from rusting anti-aircraft towers in the mouth of the Thames. Today's broadcasts are hidden in plain sight, transmitting from secret tower block studios via homemade rooftop antennas. We put our boots on and went exploring.
Tags: Exploration, London, New York City
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BUDAPEST, March 30 (Reuters) - Profits at Central European banks are set to rise faster than at Western rivals over the next two years thanks to improving loan portfolios, rising interest rates and stronger economic growth, analysts said.
While margins at most banks in Western Europe are coming under pressure, their rivals to the east are seeing profits pick up as political pressures on the sector abate following a series of tax increases.
Central Europe's largest independent lender, Hungary's OTP Bank, as well as Poland's PKO and Romania's Banca Transilvania have outperformed the STOXX Europe 600 banks index, as this graphic shows: (reut.rs/2opUyHw)
Analysts say there is room for further outperformance in the coming years given the relatively benign backdrop.
"Compared to the Western-EU peers ... CEE banks offer good quality for the long term," said Norbert Harcsa, an equity analyst at Ipopema Securities.
Banks in Hungary have recorded the biggest turnaround. In 2016, the sector reported pre-tax profits of half a trillion forints ($1.7 billion), nearly 10 times the level in 2010, when Prime Minister Viktor Orban imposed a huge windfall tax.
The government started cutting bank taxes in January 2016, the economy is set to expand by 3-4 percent over the next two years and non-performing loans have fallen to 13-15 percent of overall lending.
The upswing in the economy has also enabled banks in Hungary to sell distressed mortgages and project loans to private investors seeking higher returns. That could further reduce the overall rate of bad loans this year.
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In Poland, bank profits are also improving as economic growth accelerates, allowing lenders to find ways to shift some of the costs of a new annual bank tax worth 0.44 percent of assets to clients by raising fees.
The economy grew at its fastest quarterly rate in the last three months of 2016 since late 2007 and the government expects growth this year to be at least 3.6 percent, up from 2.8 percent last year.
Poland's Alior Bank reported net profit of 618.3 million zlotys ($157 million) for 2016, almost double the level in 2015, while PKO, the biggest lender in the country boosted profits by 10 percent.
In Romania, the banking system got a boost from a court ruling rejecting a potentially costly conversion of Swiss franc loans into the local currency at historical rates.
Two of its top three banks posted double-digit profit increases last year and the economic landscape there is also a positive factor. The economy grew 4.8 percent last year and analysts expect growth of 4.1 percent this year, while the government is predicting an increase of 5.2 percent.
The generally positive economic backdrop is also raising expectations central banks in the region will increase interest rates, which should help lenders improve their margins after years of downward pressure.
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NEW YORK - Five soldiers at Fort Jackson, S.C., have been investigated on suspicion of making threats against fellow service members, but officials have found no substantive evidence of misconduct, U.S. military spokesmen said early Friday.
The Christian Broadcasting Network, founded by evangelist Pat Robertson, has reported that soldiers were suspected of plotting to poison the food supply at the Army base. The report said the soldiers were part of an Army translation program that includes Arabic speakers.
Army investigators have been conducting an investigation since December, but "we have not found any credible information to substantiate the allegations," said Christopher Grey, a spokesman for the Army Criminal Investigation Command.
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A court roster published Friday shows Cate, who has served on the family court bench for eight years, will preside over the final divorce hearing set for Friday.
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Over the last two weeks a local group, with ever mounting, incredible support from so many through word of mouth and social media, raised funds and collected priority items to take to the Calais 'Jungle' and Dunkirk camp. We filled 3 large vans and a car with men's clothes, blankets, tents, pallets and food parcels. We left on Saturday morning and got back last night. The conditions in Dunkirk are particularly horrific.
First we went to the Calais warehouse and met with Care4Calais volunteers, amazing people all helping to sort donations, make up food parcels and then distribute them. There is no warehouse or storage in Dunkirk.
In Calais one of the main problems – apart from all the other obvious grim realities – is the police brutality.
There are some 6,000 people there and no recording system of any kind. If something happens, no one will know. No lawyers, no safeguards, no human rights monitors, nothing, apart now from Marianne Humbersot, an inspiring and incredible lawyer from Lawyers for Migrants. Marianne has just opened a law clinic in the centre of The Jungle, built by Carpenters without Borders, on 11 January this year as a result of Appel de Calais. With a few volunteers she is trying to provide advice to the 6,000 in desperate need and is looking to build a network of lawyers from all over Europe. She told me about the use of tear gas and a number of cases of serious police brutality.
She also told me that I just needed to wait for it to get dark and I would see for myself. As it happened, our car drove out of the Jungle as it was getting dark. There were more and more people walking alongside us, peacefully, with some running. 20-30 police vans with their blue lights on must have passed us driving towards the entrance to the Jungle. We then faced straight ahead of us the cabin of a large truck with its headlights on, which we later found out was a water cannon. As we approached the front of the truck, we faced a line of black uniformed, helmeted police holding batons across their chests. They allowed us to pass. The extent of the police presence was frightening.
They warned us in Calais on Saturday that Dunkirk made Calais look like a holiday resort. In Calais they have been there so long, they have built shops, there is now the legal clinic, and even a theatre, although living conditions are still dreadful.
We arrived in Dunkirk with blankets and food parcels, and were told by volunteers in the camp to simply distribute them directly to people ourselves. There were no systems in place. We had to remove the tents, groundsheets and pallets before entering the camp as we were told by the police these were contraband. In the camp we then found a distribution tent for blankets and gave the food parcels to the kitchen tent. Little children were walking around completely vulnerable in heavy mud and open sewers. When I was told to deliver the food parcels directly to people, a volunteer pointed out parts of the camp where he said families lived and then to another part, where he said we would find families with disabled children.
A group of wonderful clowns from Bristol and Wales were with the children, and there were so many there, and so many little ones. I met families with babies and a man who showed me his British passport and said he was with his wife and baby in the camp. As soon as I started talking to parents with children, more joined holding children or telling me of unaccompanied children and teenagers in their tents. Then a man using a crutch came up to us with others saying he had to be helped out of the camp. A lot of them said they had relatives, family in the UK. They had their names and contact numbers. It was horrific. We were told that on the night one of the babies had arrived at the camp, its heart stopped, it was taken to hospital, resuscitated and then returned to the camp.
No lawyers in sight – whether French or UK or any others (apart from Marianne in Calais). No aid agencies Red Cross, Unicef, Save the children or others. We were told that MSF had doctors there during the week. No one to know if children were taken from the camp or not. No one to protect them.
A volunteer told me that Dunkirk had about 300 people in October, now there are 3,000, mostly Iraqi Kurds. Calais is made up of different quarters of Afghans, Iraqis, Eritreans, Somalis, Sudanese and others.
It just can't go on like this. Please help Marianne raise funds to recruit more help, secure accommodation and be able to help all these desperate people.


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A pendulum oscillates with a frequency of:
g is gravitational acceleration
R is the length of the pendulum (pivot to center of mass)
Frequency does not depend on weight of the Bob
g = 32 ft/s2 on earth
Freq. = 0.9 cycles/sec. = 9 cycles/10 sec.
g = 32 ft/s2 on earth
The torque of the gears keep the pendulum going.
The gears get energy from the potential energy of the weight or spring in the clock.
Winding the clock raises the weight or tightens the spring.
The escapement ensures that the energy is released in small increments over a long period of time (e.g. daily or weekly).
The pendulum length determines the frequency of the tick-tocks.
When watching this animation, notice that the gear's tooth gives a little push to the pendulum so that the pendulum continues to oscillates.
The escape tooth slides across the pallet, exerting a small force on it. This small force exerted each cycle keeps the pendulum moving.
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http://www.geocities.com/mvhw/anchor.htmlEnergy is allowed to "escape" each time a tooth is released.
This is a clock with only a second hand:
This axle is rotating
Or 5.2 times slower.
Every 5.2 minutes
the Weight wheel rotates once.
The pendulum oscillates at two cycles/sec
Period = ½ second.
Second hand is directly connected to the
Escapement gear
Replace pendulum with a small hair spring and balance that oscillates at a certain frequency if regularly energized.
The hairspring coils and uncoils. The hairspring and balance are made to oscillate at a specific
frequency. The hair spring is made from
an alloy that can take the constant coiling and uncoiling.
Watches are Energized with a main spring instead of weights.
Springs store energy:
F = k * x
PE spring = ½ k * x2
k is spring constant (stiffness)
x is the amount of displacement or how tight the spring is wound
As the spring slowly is allowed to unwind, it does very small increments of
Work on the clock.
An Oscillating Weight moves as the wearer's wrist moves.
The mainspring is automatically wound.
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After a long run of busy schedules over the past several days, the NBA is slowing things down a bit tonight with just four matchups on tap. That said, there's a lot of good basketball out there, so let's take our daily look around the league and see who's in the news.
Heat-Sixers: The Heat have run into some difficulties lately, but for at least one night things turned out well. They got a home win over the Sixers 119-108 last night, with Luol Deng going 11-of-14 for 29 points. Goran Dragic posted 23 points and 10 assists for his new team.
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Rockets-Timberwolves: James Harden is having quite the year, and it continued last night against the Timberwolves. He posted 31 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in the 113-102 victory, which was his second triple-double this year.
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Minnesota can take a little solace in the fact that young Andrew Wiggins led the team back from nine points down at the start of the fourth. The comeback eventually fell flat, though.
Nets-Nuggets: Brook Lopez had a solid night against the Nuggets in Denver, leading the team to a 110-82 victory. He posted 19 points along with six other Brooklyn players who were in double-figures.
Markel Brown managed 10 points and 11 rebounds for a double-double in his first start this year, while Deron Williams managed 16 points and 12 assists.
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part of the MNREGA next level implementation, the Government of India has already been placing a strong
focus on the use of information communication technology (ICT) to promote
timely wage payments and instill transparency at every level. At present there
are 12 crore Job Cards and 9 crore Muster Rolls uploaded on the Management
Information System (MIS); all MIS information is available in public domain.
For FY 2011-2012, more than 90% of the total expenditure is available on MIS
(including details of beneficiaries, wage payments, person days generates etc.)
ICT-based end-to-end solutions are also being piloted for capturing
attendance, preparing electronic Muster Rolls (e-muster rolls), disbursing wage
payments, etc. This will also enable real time data capture on the MIS and
provide information at the panchayat,
block, district and state levels. The government is also working with the
States to move towards an Electronic Fund Management System (e-FMS) that will
ensure timely availability and transparent usage of MNREGA funds at all levels.
Integration of MNREGA with UID through Aadhar is also being piloted in 51 districts across India[i].
Aadhar has the potential to institute
efficiency and reduce leakages across the MNREGA life cycle including,
capturing of real time attendance at work sites (which would lead to reduction
in the number of ghost workers), reducing delay in wage payment, creating
greater transparency and accountability in payments in general, etc. The
Ministry has commissioned a study to analyse challenges, feasibility for scale
up, where it is already being implemented.
Aadhaar in fact, has the
potential to be superior to other biometric solutions for four reasons. First,
it allows for interoperability among banks and Business Correspondents (BC),
i.e., the same Aadhaar biometrics can
be used by any bank or BC that the worker may use. Second, it allows for
uniformity of biometric standards across the country and across applications.
Third, it is a single biometric service available across all government schemes
and beyond, vitiating the need to do the biometric enrolment separately for
different programmes. Fourth, Aadhaar
is a mobile identity that travels with the resident even when he/ she moves or
Anderson, S., Francois, P. and Kotwal, A.
(2012), "One Kind of Democracy", UBC Mimeo.
Certainly, Information
Technology can play a big role. MNREGA
website gives a glimpse of that. There are two ways in which this is possible.
First, IT can be used for increasing transparency. Second, IT can speed up the
whole process and reduce the delays in implementation and wage payments.
However, a number of
improvements are warranted if
'transparency' and 'speeding up the whole process' are the goals. For greater
transparency, the MNREGA website needs to be made more user friendly so that
the NGOs or other stakeholders can download the data they require and use it to
improve accountability. Second, an appropriate use of IT can bring about
greater efficiency in all phases of implementation. The repetitive tasks can be
made less cumbersome using IT; the measurements of the work performed by a team
of workers (e.g. how much soil has been dug out) can be done by barefoot
engineers with the help of better technology, thus obviating the need for
engineers to visit the site every week.
Once these measurement records are available regularly and timely then using
the MB software can generate the Payment Sheet with speed and accuracy and this
can then be shared with banks to make payments. Moreover, using IT
automatically puts all data in public domain and time stamp of each task can
provide the valuable information to the administration about the bottlenecks in
the implementation cycle.
Delayed wage payment to the
poor labourers is the most worrisome aspect of MNREGA implementation The delay
occurs in every stage of the project: the evaluation of work done by the
labourers; preparing payment sheet; depositing payments into the accounts of
labourers through a post office or a bank. Of these, the first three reasons
can be addressed effectively using IT, as explained in earlier paragraph. To
ensure that the wages do reach the intended recipients, UID linked bank
accounts can potentially do the trick. The Banking Correspondent model needs
some kind of identification of the account holder and creating their biometrics
requires additional investment for the Banks. Banks are reluctant to put in
this kind of investment since these no-frill accounts of rural labourers'
funds' float in and out of their account too fast for the banks to make any
profit. Here the UID can provide the identification protocol and induce the
banks to participate. Hence this route becomes beneficial and labourers can get
bank accounts and banking services in the village with Banking Correspondent
Readers' Comments
There has been mixed experience. There are examples of both creation of good assets and creation of assets of questionable quality. We need to understand causes that are leading to such issues. The reason for creation of assets of questionable quality may lie both in the design of MGNREGA program and its execution. Majority of works are earth related which has short durability and are difficult to monitor. Further, more often than not, the emphasis to build assets of good quality has been put on the back burner by the implementation and monitoring agencies on the pretext that objective of MGNREGA is to provide employment. Poor planning, corruption, lack of monitoring and attempts to befit the scheme in labour/material ratio of 60:40 are major practical causes. Solutions can be on following fronts:1. Making it mandatory to monitor earth related works within six months of its execution.2. Making it mandatory to upload pictures of completed assets.3. Regularly monitor work completion rate, and works running behind schedule. The scheme left incomplete must be explained and suitably entered in MIS. There must be threshold level of work completion below which fund must not be released.4. Assets created under MGNREGA to be transferred to line departments for convergence. For example, boundaries of farm ponds created under MGNREGA can be taken up for forestry by forest department; brick swelling roads can be upgraded to PCC roads. List of completed assets since inception as reflected in MIS can be very useful for this purpose.5. There should be exercise done at least half yearly to check the maintenance status of completed assets.
Dear sirs/Madams,
After reading your ideas, I have still the question left answered that is there any correlation between the poverty alleviation in the states and implementation of the MGNREGA. The report to people only talks about the fact that it has contributed in the reduction in rural poverty. But this is the case for all the states ? I find no correlation in the money spent and % age of pverty reduction. Please enlighten me.


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John Brodie is a Guardian, a member of a secret network devoted to protecting the psychics in his charge from a ruthless - and virtually invisible - enemy.
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It's sick, the way Americans think about illness.
A disease like diabetes gallops practically out of control, with estimates that 21 million Americans have it and 45 million more could develop it. Yet relatively few people worry about it or alter their behavior to postpone or possibly prevent its onset.
On the other hand, just the mention of flesh-eating disease, a staph infection that affects maybe 1,500 Americans each year, is enough to make many people anxious. And a news report on avian flu, which has yet to affect anyone in the United States, generates calls to personal physicians from patients eager to stock up on anti-flu drugs.
Americans, it seems, are always worrying about the wrong illnesses.
"The risks that hurt people and the risks that upset people are almost completely unconnected," said Peter M. Sandman, a risk-communications consultant based in Princeton, N.J.
The likelihood of being affected by a disease is not the major factor influencing whether a person feels "outrage," as Dr. Sandman calls it. Instead, factors like control and familiarity (or lack of both) and whether the disease invokes dread or disgust are much stronger influences.
Flesh-eating disease, for example, is an exotic illness that can quickly kill. News reports tend to focus on its gruesome aspects. And it often occurs in hospitals.
"You're never less in control of your own life than when you're in the hospital," Dr. Sandman said. "You're wearing PJ's open at the back. You're at the beck and call of orderlies and other people who in your regular life you wouldn't take orders from."
The net effect for many people, when a television news report trumpets a death by flesh-eating disease in a local hospital, may be near-panic. Here was a person who innocently entered the hospital and paid for it with a quick, gruesome death.
A chronic illness like diabetes, on the other hand, which may be dealt with in part through diet and exercise, offers people some sense of being in control.
"It's not whether I actually bother to control it," Dr. Sandman said. "It's whether I feel I can." The factors that influence worry are often linked. Familiarity, for instance, can moderate the sense of dread, said Paul Slovic, a psychologist with Decision Research, a nonprofit research institution in Eugene, Ore. Car accidents, he noted, are as horrific as cancer, yet "we don't have the same sense of dread around cars that we do around carcinogens" because we drive all the time.
Faced with unfamiliar diseases, people rely on other measures to calculate risk. For example, they may unconsciously use prevalence as a gauge, said Howard Leventhal, a professor of health psychology at Rutgers.
"Prevalent events are seen as less serious than rare events," Dr. Leventhal said in an e-mail message. The logic is simple, he said: if lots of people have a disease but are not hospitalized or dying, it must be relatively benign; if it is rare, it might have serious, unknown consequences.
For example, Dr. Leventhal said, bird flu is so far known in the United States only through news reports. This allows the threat to loom larger and more menacingly than it should at this point. Unfamiliarity makes the mind wander, and perhaps imagine the worst.
In this state, people approach health risks with the heart and with the head. "We respond at an emotional level and at a more cerebral or cognitive level," said George Loewenstein, a professor in the department of social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. "It often requires willpower to overcome the emotional response."
This reliance on emotion helped the species survive. "Most of the survival skills we've learned have been based on seeing risk as feelings – is this animal safe to approach, is this water safe to drink?" Dr. Slovic said. "We just used our gut feelings."
But if people view risk emotionally rather than analytically, can they be induced to focus on those illnesses that might actually affect them? The experts disagree.
"You're never going to train people's emotional systems to respond in a rational fashion," Dr. Loewenstein said. You can only hope, he added, that their "cognitive capacity" will moderate their emotional reactions.
Dr. Sandman noted, however, that there were ways to refocus worry. "You can increase the outrage to get people to take certain risks more seriously," he said. Antismoking campaigns use this tactic, with graphic descriptions of the effects of lung cancer.
There's also another approach: helping people engage with high-risk situations that don't provoke outrage. "But there's got to be something for them to do," Dr. Sandman said. "If you want people to take diabetes seriously, you have to have an agenda of things."
That agenda can include one-time actions – like having a blood-sugar test – or longer-term changes in habits.
Of the two approaches, ratcheting up the outrage factor for a "quiet" disease is more difficult, Dr. Sandman said. "If I have to keep getting you upset again and again, that's very hard. You can't keep it high. What you can do is goose it periodically."
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