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Today's post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher, Senior Archivist at the National Archives at College Park, MD.
In January 2002, I met Duval A. Edwards, an Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) veteran of World War II in the Pacific and learned that he had been involved in the capture of Japanese records, beginning in Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, with the 41st CIC during the spring of 1944. Because of my interest in the disposition of the captured Japanese records I asked him what he did with the captured records. The answer was that they were turned over to ATIS, Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (SWPA), under General Douglas MacArthur. With this information I began a search of the National Archives' holdings of ATIS records to learn more about the capture and exploitation of Japanese records.
Quickly I learned that during World War II, the United States and its Allies established numerous organizations throughout the Pacific Theater to translate captured records and to conduct interrogations. There was, among others, the Southeast Asia Translation and Interrogation Center (SEATIC), the Sino Translation and Interrogation Center (SINTIC), and the Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area (JICPOA). Perhaps most important in terms of organizational size and quantity of captured records was ATIS. The records of these organizations are located at the National Archives and Records Administration, in various Record Groups, and provide a wealth of information to researchers about Japanese activities and Allied knowledge of these activities.
Established on September 19, 1942, and headquartered in a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, ATIS eventually would grow to include more than 2,500 personnel. ATIS worked closely with the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) and Allied military forces in obtaining documents and interrogating prisoners of war.
There were two major components of the work of ATIS. Interrogation was one. ATIS produced 779 interrogation reports, based upon information elicited from more than 10,000 Prisoners of War. The other major component was translation and publication. Documents flowed from military operations to Brisbane, where a document conference was held to discuss the importance of every document in terms of priority and degree of translation. Based on these discussions the form of dissemination of the newly gained intelligence was determined.
ATIS produced numerous types of publications and these were widely distributed to Allied military and intelligence organizations. There were ATIS bulletins, more than 2,000 of them, issued two or three times a week. They highlighted newly acquired documents, often with a brief translation, and what ATIS planned to do with the information. Detailed translations followed weekly in the form of "current translation and enemy" publications. ATIS also produced research reports, based on documents related to a single subject. Among them: Report No. 84, dealing with The Japanese and Bacterial Warfare; Report No. 117, Infringement of the Laws of War and Ethics by the Japanese Medical Corps; Report No. 119, on the Japanese Military Police Service; Report 133, The Palawan Massacre; and Research Report No. 72, Japanese Violations of the Laws of War.
In the United States there were also several units translating captured Japanese documents. The Washington Document Center (WDC), jointly run by the Navy and War Departments, began in 1943 and became a major center of translation. Work also took place at the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, the Far Eastern Unit of the Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington, DC, and at the Pacific Area Command Military Intelligence Research Service (or PACMIRS) at Camp Ritchie, Maryland.
Because of the multitude of translation agencies, the increasing quantity of captured Japanese documents, and the high demand for translators in the Pacific Theater, a Japanese Document Conference was held at the Pentagon from December 1944 to January 1945 to sort out the division of labor. Based on conference recommendations the WDC became, on February 14, 1945, the central agency for initially handling the lower priority captured Japanese documents and it was tasked with passing on material to PACMIRS and Navy Intelligence as necessary. Although a joint-service operation, the WDC ultimately reported to the Director of Naval Intelligence. Higher priority documents, those of often-immediate tactical or strategic purposes, continued to be translated and exploited in the Pacific Theater.
In early 1945, the floodgates opened with thousands of documents being sent to the WDC. During the period March 4, 1945 through October 21, 1945, the WDC received, processed, and disseminated 146,324 Japanese documents ranging from military records to encyclopedia sets. By the time of the Japanese surrender, ATIS itself had processed more than 350,000 captured documents, or an estimated 4.2 million pages or about 1,500 cubic feet.
The surrender of the Japanese did not bring about the end to the work of WDC, ATIS, or PACMIRS. One major focus was war crimes prosecution assistance. On August 29, 1945, a second Japanese Document Conference was convened in Washington, D.C., where it was agreed that an advanced echelon of WDC be established in Japan to assist in the scanning, screening, and transferring of selected Japanese documents to the United States. Full-scale operations for the WDC Advanced Echelon began on December 24, 1945. The Echelon processed documents from various ministries, shipping some to the United States. The documents or reproductions of them were available to theater agencies, with priority given to the urgent work of the International Prosecution Section and the Army Counter Intelligence Corps.
Around the same time, ATIS War Crimes Echelons were established in both Manila and Tokyo to supply information needed in the prosecution of Japanese war criminals. And in the United States PACMIRS was also quite busy. During the spring of 1946, the unit produced some 20 PACMIRS War Crimes Information Series publications.
By the end of March 1946, the main work of the WDC Advance Echelon was completed and it returned to Washington. A newly organized ATIS Document Section continued its work. By November 1946, 477,894 documents (some 2,000 cubic feet of records) and numerous books and periodicals were shipped from Japan to the Washington Document Center (WDC).
When the records got to WDC, detailed accessioning lists were prepared and widely distributed. Some of the documents were translated and published. By mid-1947 the work of the WDC, then operated by the Central Intelligence Agency, was completed, and in 1948 the records were transferred to the National Archives. The WDC also sent the Library of Congress a substantial quantity of books, newspapers, and periodicals, some of which were subsequently sent to the National Archives. The records the National Archives acquired were returned to Japan a decade later, with the approval of Congress and the military and intelligence agencies that had either captured them and/or might have further need to exploit them.
During the wartime and postwar periods the U.S. Government certainly knew what captured or seized Japanese records its agencies had and that these records were exploited for a variety of purposes. There is also no doubt that these records were available and exploited at the time for war crimes prosecution efforts. Many of the captured documents were used in the trials and these records, which were not introduced into evidence, now reside at the National Archives.
Although the National Archives does not have the original Japanese documents received from the WDC, the agency does have microfilm of some of the records and copies of the WDC accessioning lists. The Library of Congress has microfilm of that portion of the WDC/National Archives collection that was filmed by the historians before the records were returned to Japan.
Another substantial and significant body of records held by the National Archives is the thousands of boxes containing the documentation created by ATIS, the WDC, and the other agencies. These records are based on information from the Japanese documents as well as translations of all or part of many of the important files.
The vast majority of the National Archives holdings relating to the exploitation of captured Japanese records were declassified long ago but were not fully utilized by researchers. This can be explained in part because many of the records are scattered throughout many Record Groups and are frequently difficult to locate.
To help researchers better locate records relating to the capture/seizure and exploitation of Japanese records during and after World War II, as well as to records relating to Japanese war crimes and war criminals, I prepared a 1,700 page special finding aid for the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG). It can be located online at the IWG web page on the National Archives and Records Administration web site.
Related Text Message Blog posts:
From Rabaul to Stack 190: The Travels of a Famous Japanese Army Publication
Researchers may find interesting Mr. Edwards' book Spy Catchers of the U.S. Army in the War with Japan (The Unfinished Story of the Counter Intelligence Corps). Gig Harbor, Washington: Red Apple Publishing, 1994.


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The Meizu X8 is slated to be launched alongside the Meizu 16 series. An image of the alleged phone has leaked and looks like the X8 will be Meizu's first notched phone. According to ITHome, the Meizu X8 will be launched with the 16 series in a launch conference that is scheduled for 8th August in Bird's Nest, Beijing.
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The image showcases a device with thin bezels across and a notch on top. The chin takes up a little bit of space on the bottom. There are no physical keys up front. Navigation keys are on-screen and the phone's running Android 8.1 Oreo. There's no sight of a mBack button either. Meizu had confirmed that the mBack button would make a comeback in the form of gesture navigation. Maybe the X8 will allow users to choose the mode of operation between virtual navigation keys and gesture navigation.
The Meizu X8 will be powered by the Snapdragon 710 chipset and cost anywhere between 1500 to 2000 Yuan ($221-$295). Other reports say that the phones are pegged to be launched on the 26th of August. An 8th August launch date is right before the 9th Agust launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9. It will be interesting to see whether Meizu manages to steal more attention than the Galaxy event.

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Emily Oppliger grew up in a world of adventure tucked away at the very top of Michigan – the Keweenaw Peninsula. Her parents, both incredible athletes, introduced her to many adventure sports, including cycling. She started working at the local bike and ski shop, Down Wind Sports, and credits the shop for growing her passion and success in the cycling industry.
Today, Emily is a professional downhill racer and coach.
Kira: When did you start riding bikes?
Emily: I started riding cross-country mountain bikes when I was 8 or 9. While I did not like cross-country mountain biking right away, my favorite memories from the early days are riding with my dad, and racing with him in high school.
KM: When did you fall in love with bikes?
EO: I started working in a bike shop when I was 16. That's when I started riding with the "bike shop bros", transitioned to longer travel bikes and started riding more gravity trails. That's when I truly started to love riding mountain bikes. I felt I had more freedom and was able to have more fun when I started riding more .
KM: Did you always think you would work in the bike industry?
EO: Not sure. I definitely wanted to when I was racing, but never thought it would actually happen based on my degree, since it is not directly related to the bike industry. I just started applying and found out that people were actually interested in hiring me anyway. If you want to make it happen, you just have to go for it. If you don't apply, you'll never get the chance.
Emily fully immersed herself in the downhill scene when she got to college. She raced professional downhill and enduro all over North America, where she gained incredible experience and built quite the network in the outdoor industry.
KM: What got you into racing?
EO: My dad got me into cross-country mountain biking in high school, but I feel like I started actually racing when I started with downhill. I got into racing the same way most other fast females get into racing – I wanted to keep up with the shop guys. When I started riding shuttles with them, I realized I only liked going downhill.
KM: Tough one…narrow it down the best you can. What is your favorite race?
EO: I can narrow it down to two: Port Angeles Pro GRT and Showshoe DH.
My favorite part about the Port Angeles race is the community. This is the first race of the Pro GRT circuit, and everyone goes. It's like a big downhill reunion with great energy. The track is fun too – classic, raw downhill with steep technical sections. There are not many man-made features or jumps on this one. You shuttle up in rented U-Hauls. There are about 30 people and bikes crammed into the back with no lights. The U-Haul takes everyone up a super sketchy dirt road, and everyone does their best to hold onto bikes in the dark without falling over.
My favorite part about the Snowshoe downhill race is the track. This race is a good mix of tech and man-made obstacles. Overall, the course is technical and rocky with some big drops and jumps mixed in.
KM: What was your most epic day on the bike to date?
EO: Honestly, any of the days in the Trans BC race could be considered the most epic, but of all the days, stage 3 at Panorama Mountain Resort was the most difficult. We climbed 4800 feet, descended 11,000 feet, and covered 20 miles total that day. One particularly hard transfer included a 3-hour hike-a-bike up a very exposed cliff. This was one of six total stages for the day.
KM: Yikes. Would you do this race again?
EO: I am very glad to have finished this race, but I will never do that again. This race was six days long with six stages each day. The stages were hard on their own, and made more difficult since we were racing blind, and had to complete some very physical transfers to even get to the top of each stage. There was very minimal lift help throughout the week. We only got to ride chairs twice the whole week, and the lift basically just got us to the start of the up trail.
Emily always thought her passion was in racing, but things changed when she started working with Lindsay Richter. She started coaching for Liv Ladies All Ride, and her passion shifted.
KM: How did you get into coaching, and why do you keep doing it?
EO: Lindsay Richter of Ladies All Ride came up to Houghton, MI to do a clinic. She needed some locals to help out, and she contacted me through the shop I was working at.
I didn't really know how to come at it at first. Previously, I had only ridden with guys, and had a bigger ego than I should have had. I thought I was above coaching beginner skills clinics until I realized what I didn't know. This experience really showed me that there is correct technique, and I had a lot to learn. I realized that there were a lot of people that did not know these basics, especially fast women. So many women start riding by chasing the guys or their significant others around and skip the fundamentals. They just try to keep up. I wanted to open people's eyes the same way this experience opened mine.
I continue coaching now because it is so fulfilling to see people light up when they tackle and ultimately conquer features they never thought they could. I love giving people the tools to confidently ride the types of trails they want to ride.
KM: What is your favorite setting to coach in?
EO: I really like smaller skills parks, especially ones with pump tracks. The smaller skills parks are nice because you can keep an eye on everyone, and it's easier to always be working on something. These clinics can get kind of boring if there is too much standing around, so it is nice to have a place where everyone can be working on different skills at the same time. Inevitably, there is going to be a wide range of skills in these clinics, so it is nice to have varying levels of features in close proximity.
KM: How have bikes influenced your life?
EO: Bikes, bikes…they've brought me to a lot of places and connected me with a lot of rad people. I've seen so many places by bike. I've met so many people all over the world that I almost always have someone to ride with when I go back to visit my favorite places.
Bikes also gave me something positive and healthy to focus on. I am a competitive person who likes to progress, and I found myself getting bored with the XC skiing and running that I grew up racing. With biking, I can always progress, the progression never ends. As most high schoolers do, I did not always make the best choices or hang out with the best people, but cycling drove me towards a more motivated, positive crowd. Cyclists are weird, so we only truly fit in with each other, ya know?
KM: Do you have any advice for girls who want to start racing?
EO: You have to get rid of your ego. You can separate being competitive with having an ego. When you have the extra ego, it can cause blockages, and at the end of the day, we all need to support each other. There are so few female mountain bike racers, and even fewer female gravity racers. While you do want to beat your competitors and are capable of doing so, it doesn't mean there has to be an ego attached to it.
Another important piece of advice is to set smaller goals along the way. Your ultimate goal may be to race and do the best you can, your goal can be to win every race, but be sure to set smaller goals so you're not always setting yourself up for failure. You can't let losing get your mood down. You can stay positive by achieving smaller goals, even if you might not have reached your ultimate goal.
Check out more on Emily Oppliger at www.emilyoppliger.com
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Kira Maicke has been an avid cyclist since 2010. She started racing road bikes in college for the University of Georgia and switched over to mountain biking after graduating and moving out west. When she's not on one of her bikes, she's out playing in the mountains with her husky, Semenuk.


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The Swiss Army Knife of Manufacturing
June 22, 2020
We promised not to leave you hanging on the second half of the amorphous vs. semi-crystalline thermoplastic polymers discussion, and we meant it. That previous post, Materials Monday: Amorphous Thermoplastics, was a fun read, to be sure, so feel free to cruise on back to that if you missed the chance to dig into the details of polymeric structures and transition temperatures. We also have additional resources for each thermoplastic subcategory with our Amorphous Thermoplastics datasheet and our Semicrystalline Thermoplastics datasheet. You might also be interested in our blogs on injection molding which describe the processes of plastic injection molding and rapid injection molding.
Today, though, get ready to delve into the assorted types and applications of semi-crystalline thermoplastics.
Simply put, semi-crystalline is synonymous with strong. These polymers might be a bit more susceptible to a hammer blow or random drop than their amorphous cousins, but many are considered "engineering grade" materials. As a rule, they are very well-suited for use as wear surfaces and components that see high structural loads. And as you'll see with many of the semi-crystalline materials we're about to cover, they are resistant to solvents, as previously mentioned, which means that they also have excellent chemical resistance.
Along with all these desirable properties, however, come some drawbacks. That's because all that hardness and tensile strength make them a bit more challenging to process. As our machinists at Prismier can tell you, plastics like Nylon and Delrin aren't especially difficult to cut (although the latter is a bit smelly), but the folks in the plastic injection molding department might complain that semi-crystallines' sharp melting point and "anisotropic flow" characteristics make them more challenging to mold.
None of this is a real problem—we handle these materials regularly—but you should be aware of potential impacts to the mold design, dimensional accuracy, and final piece price. Don't let that dissuade you from considering these polymers for your next project, however, as semi-crystalline polymers positively rock in certain applications.
That said, PEEK and its 260 °C (500 °F) continuous service temperature rating and exceptional resistance to wear and fatigue, creep under heavy loads, and chemical attack (but not acids) make it an ideal choice for all manner of mechanical components. These include gears, pistons and valves, vacuum plates, electrical insulators, and a good deal more.
PEEK is a member of the polyaryletherketone (PAEK) clan. Its brothers are polyetherketone (PEK), polyetherketoneketone (PEKK), polyetheretherketoneketone (PEEKK) and the mouthful polyetherketoneetherketoneketone (PEKEKK). Though none have very original names, each is robust like PEEK and carries its own distinct properties. PEEK, however, is the star of the show, seeing broad use in the nuclear industry, chemical and food processing equipment, oil and gas extraction, and similarly demanding industries.
Delrin's maker is DuPont, which claims it is "the ideal material in parts designed to replace metal." Whatever the maker, acetal (or POM, if you prefer) offers many of the same properties as PEEK. It isn't especially biocompatible, however, so you won't find it inside the human body (although it is FDA approved), and its working temperature range is roughly half that of PEEK. Think industrial and automotive parts, jigs and fixtures, and any application requiring a strong, stiff, lubricious, and wear-resistant material suitable for both wet and dry environments. That's acetal.
For such a soft, almost squishy material, PTFE has an exceptionally high melting point at 327 °C (621 °F). This attribute makes it practically impossible to injection mold, although it is readily machined and stamped. It does tend to creep under pressure, though, so if using Teflon as a load-bearing surface such as a washer, bearing, gasket, or seal, it should be mechanically constrained somehow.
Nylon is good for much more than oral hygiene, however. While Prismier doesn't make tents or rope (two common uses of Nylon), we do produce all manner of injection molded parts. Nylon is often the first choice for sports and recreation equipment, automotive components, sprockets and gears, and similar parts that require a blend of high strength, toughness, and temperature resistance. These qualities can be further enhanced via mineral or glass fillers, while Nylon's resistance to sunlight (it's prone to cracking and "chalking") gets a boost from UV blockers or stabilizers.
Let's start with polypropylene, which falls into two distinct classes, homopolymer and copolymer. There's no time for a full science class here; just know that the latter is softer but tougher, more impact-resistant, and unsuitable for food contact. The list of potential applications, however, is nearly identical.
Polypropylene is the top dog for products such as plastic lawn furniture, car bumpers and battery casings, kids' ride toys, and packaging materials. It's flexible and can be used to make living hinges (the tops of shampoo bottles, for instance). Thanks to its elasticity and chemical resistance, it often finds its way into containers for various liquids, such as cleaning agents. And because it's also resistant to steam sterilization, PP is a favorite for many medical uses, including sutures.
Then there's polyethylene. The online plastics database Omnexus states that more than 6,000 grades of PE are available. For those who are interested, it also dives into the chemical nitty-gritty of these two ubiquitous polymers, noting that PE falls into a handful of broad classes defined by its density—high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), and so on. Regardless, the uses are many, and for anyone looking for a low-cost, easily processed, lightweight and durable polymer, PE or PP (and all their many variants) might very well fit the bill.
And thermoplastic polyimide (TPI) maker DuPont (which sells it under the brand name Vespel) claims that TPI is a "high-performance solution for the toughest sealing, wear, or friction challenges." The polymer database mentioned earlier gives TPI equally high praise, calling it "one of the most heat resistant engineering thermoplastics available that can be melt-processed by injection molding with great precision."
Then there's PET, or polyethylene terephthalate, a notable relative of polyethylene. Most know PET as polyester, the stuff of stretchy pants, although it's also found in electrical connectors and numerous automotive applications. Sharp-eyed Manufacturing Simplified Blog readers might have noticed that PET is listed in the Materials Monday: Amorphous Thermoplastics post referenced earlier, where it was described as a suitable (but amorphous) choice for soda bottles and peanut butter jars. What gives?
PET is one of those polymers that can exist in either state. Actually, there are many others as well. In fact, most polymers contain regions of both amorphous and semi-crystalline polymer arrangements, and based on their processing, are made to fall into one camp or the other. Don't worry about it, though. What's most important is to select the one that best meets your requirements, a task that the experts at Prismier are well-qualified to help with. Feel free to nudge us if you want to shoot the polymer breeze some more.
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Every year, we see dozens, if not hundreds, of new platformers pop up on every game platform around. Some of those tinker around the edges of the familiar platform structure; some using that familiarity as a jumping-off point to push boundaries of the types of stories games can tell. Most are content to just take a timeless formula and remix it with new characters, new worlds, and new challenges.
But every now and then, along comes a game like Etherborn: a game that reimagines the very foundations of what makes platformers tick, and turns the whole genre on its head in doing so.
Jumping and falling lie at the heart of any platformer: you jump over gaps between platforms; you jump over (or on) enemies; you jump to climb obstacles, solve puzzles, and reach new areas. Etherborn, too, is all about jumping and falling, but the key difference here is that gravity is relative. So long you're running along a surface, you jump and fall as though that surface is the ground—even if it's a vertical wall, or the side of a bridge, or the underside of a rocky outcrop beneath a toxic waterfall.
In practice, it works like this: you start on a flat surface, perhaps with some ledges to climb up or gaps to jump over, as you would in any other platformer. As soon as you run into any hard edges, that's as far as you can go—you can't jump from floor to wall, and stepping off a ledge will see you fall, usually (but not always) to your death. But when two perpendicular surfaces are connected by a smooth curve that you can run across, that's when gravity will come with you. Suddenly, what looked like a wall becomes the floor, and any jumping and falling you do is relative to that.
It's tricky to explain, but deceptively simple in how it all works—a curved surface means you can change gravity, and probably should; a hard edge means you can't. Etherborn's surreal levels always make it clear what is a hard edge and what is a gravity-bending curve, and the camera is surprisingly good at keeping up with the constantly changing perspective, preventing the sort of disorientation you might expect into a non-issue. Instead, you can simply focus on using this changing gravity to your benefit as you navigate MC Esher-like mazes in search of the exit.
And this simple concept lends itself to some ingenious puzzles, too—though, thankfully, not overly abstract or obtuse ones. Things start of fairly simple, like finding a curve that leads you from the floor to the wall, then drop off the edge of that wall to reach another wall that you couldn't get to while gravity was pointed to the ground. But by the third level, you'll be running around the many surfaces of a complex geometric abstraction, looking for different ways to climb and jump off different sides, until you finally reach the goal. You'll be retracing old steps in new ways, finding that what was once impassable obstacle suddenly becomes the way forward, so long as you find a way to get onto a different side of it.
Indeed, changes of perspective seem to be at the core of what Etherborn is trying to achieve. The game is full of little sparks of inspiration, not just from figuring out the solutions to puzzles but from little things like seeing how the level all fits together; it's a fascinating moment when you realise that a level has brought you right back to where you started, but on a different face and seen from a different point of view.
That idea flows into Etherborn's narrative, too. Obviously, a preview build isn't enough to get the full picture, especially for something dealing very much in surrealism, but the early cutscenes begin to weave a story that wants to challenge the way we process information and try to understand our own existence. "Unable to fathom everything there was, humanity began to name everything they feared … and thanks to that, what threatened to crush them submitted to their ego and was reduced, without thinking about it, to language."
With its clever twist on the classic platformer formula and its MC Escher-inspired levels, it's clear that Etherborn wants you to see the world in new ways. If that's the takeaway from an hour-ish long preview, I can't wait to see what the full game has to say when it launches later this year.


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Aadhaar not necessary to avail the first instalment of newly announced farmers scheme
It is clarified that beneficiaries do not need to present their Aadhaar numbers to avail the first instalment of the newly announced farmers scheme, which offers every farmer who does not own more than two hectors of farm land a central financial assistance of Rs 6,000 per year.
It is learned that from the second instalment onwards that luxury will not be available. That means no person without a proper Aadhaar number will be able to completely enjoy the benefits offered by the central government.
The central government cannot be blamed for that. The present central government is of the belief that to ensure zero leakage of welfare fund the policy of fund transfer through Aadhaar is necessary. It is on that plank the present government has defended their position in the top court when it has been challenged there. So, it cannot be expected that the centre will dilute their policy in this matter.
The Aadhaar matter was one of the biggest confusions around the newly announced Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. Not all confusions have been successfully addressed yet. It is hoped that the centre would clear the air around the policy in few days.
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- Amit Sadh, Amrita Puri, Rajkummar Rao, Sushant Singh Rajput
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- February 22, 2013
- Hindi
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The story goes around the three friends who start a business, also providing coaching classes and tuition. Omi asks for help with his uncle, who is also a political leader, to start this business. Govind provides tuition classes to some children and Ishaan gives cricket coaching. They come to meet a boy, Ali who is gifted with hyper-reflex. Ishaan then starts special coaching for the boy so that the country gets a new star player. But unexpected things happen suddenly and the story takes a turn.


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Sep 30, 2010 - Issue 395
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Sep 30, 2010 - Issue 395
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Cover Story
: The Bishop Has No Clothes By David A. Love By David A. Love, JD
Political Cartoon: Forgiveness By Carlos Latuff, Brazil
Progressive Mobilization - Washington DC on October 2 By UnitedforPeace.org
This is a Secular, People's Struggle for Justice - Not a Religious One By Larry Pinkney
The Messology of Bishop Eddie Long - Inclusion - By The Reverend Irene Monroe
Racism & Islamophobia By Dr. Horace Campbell, PhD
The Washington Redskins and the NYC Mosque By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Put Your Hands Together for the Whiners! - Leftward-Ho By Peter Gamble
Update: So Go the Days in the Lives of Women of Color By Suzanne Brooks
Constitution and Bill of Rights Threatened - Solidarity America - By John Funiciello
Public Schools and the African Centered Curriculum By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD
Political Cartoon - Obama's Job Creation Plan By David Logan, Denton TX
Joblessness, Discrimination, and Black Poverty - By Algernon Austin
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Marvel's Iron Fist episode 1 viewing notes: Snow Gives Way
Our Iron Fist episode-by-episode viewing notes kick off with a look at the season premiere, Snow Gives Way. Spoilers...
These viewing notes contain spoilers.
1.1 Snow Gives Way
Iron Fist, the fourth and final member of the Defenders, has finally made his debut. As with previous Netflix series, we'll be reviewing an episode a day highlighting the characters, reference points and easter eggs we spotted. Feel free to read along as you watch too, but please don't spoil future episodes for anyone in the comments!
So. It's kind of difficult to talk about Iron Fist without first addressing one of several elephants in the room. Which do we pick first? The bad reviews? The unfortunate colonial overtones? The troubling speed of the production despite a 3 year lead time? You could write an essay covering any of these topics.
Personally, I think better writers than I have written more extensively about them, and I don't want to front-load these viewing notes with them (which isn't to say they won't come up). I'm keen to judge the show as a viewer for what it is rather than what it could, or should have been, and certainly not before problems become apparent in the narrative. I'll put it upfront: I'm going into this with an open mind. If I didn't think I could give it a fair review, I wouldn't be doing it at all.
That said, this first episode is a struggle. The series opens when Danny Rand, the rightful inheritor of the multinational company Rand-Meachum, walks into the company's office and declares himself back from the dead, much to the surprise of its current owners: Joy and Ward Meachum. With all of his living relatives dead and an insistence on spending his time barefoot, beating up security guards and making claims to large multinational companies without proper legal representation, people are understandably suspicious of Danny. He also attempts to befriend martial arts instructor Colleen Wing, but she's having none of it. Eventually Ward, on the advice of his father (who is secretly still alive and living in seclusion), convinces Joy to help him throw Danny in a mental institution.
I find it hard to believe that even a guy who'd spent fifteen years living with monks would be so naïve as to turn up and think his word would be enough to convince people he was back from the dead. It's not inconceivable that things could happen that way, but the show doesn't do enough to convince me Danny is disconnected from modern life to that extent. It just makes his choices seem unrealistic throughout, and that makes him a frustrating lead.
This might be okay if Danny's fight scenes were impressive, but broadly, they're not. In fact there's not much fighting in this episode at all, and what we do see is quite generic brawling with very little in the way of visual style – which is about the opposite of what you'd expect for a show that's literally about doing kung fu. It's one thing for Jessica Jones or Luke Cage to not have elaborate choreography, but this should be on another level.
On the plus side, I like the dynamic of Joy and Ward as the show's sibling antagonists. Their relationship is an interesting one which sets them apart from the other Netflix villains. They're far more relatable and grounded, though that does have the side-effect of making them also less iconic. Colleen Wing is unambiguously great, at least – though if anything she's too jaded to Danny's plight.
Unfortunately, everyone spends time doing things that don't make a lot of sense. Danny explains stuff to people who he thinks already know it. Ward refuses to call the police on someone he thinks is an imposter and a threat, and then later gets into a car with him for… some reason. I could go on.
In terms of characters…
The origin story is a rework of the comics Iron Fist origin. In that story Harold (the senior Meachum) is on the business trip with the Rand family, and betrays them, leading to the death of Danny's parents. The story of Iron Fist's origin is told in Marvel Premiere #15 (1974), which is also the first appearance of Danny Rand, his parents Heather and Wendell, and Harold Meachum.
In the comics, Ward Meachum is Harold's brother rather than son. He first appeared in Marvel Premiere #19 (1974). Joy, who is Harold's daughter in both versions, first appeared in Marvel Premiere #18 (1974). And Colleen Wing, who is Danny's some-time love interest, first appeared in Marvel Premiere #19.
So those are the basics. What did you think of episode one?


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Scientists led by Warwick University in the UK investigated the effect of ambient atmosphere exposure during production or storage on nickel-rich cathodes, finding that keeping the materials free of moisture is key to getting the most out of the battery they will ultimately be used in.
Largely due to concerns and instability in the supply chain for cobalt, battery manufacturers are increasingly turning to either cobalt free or 'nickel rich' designs, typically utilizing 80% nickel, 10% manganese and 10% cobalt (NMC 811). And since moisture is a problem for many cathode structures, researchers at Warwick University set out to investigate the mechanisms it could trigger within the NMC-811 material and to define the ideal conditions for manufacture and storage of the cathodes before being built into batteries.
A group at Warwick exposed cathodes to varying temperatures and humidity and then analyzing their battery performance using a range of testing and imaging techniques. The research is described in the paper The effects of ambient storage conditions on the structural and electrochemical properties of NMC-811 cathodes for lithium-ion batteries, published in Electrochimica Acta.
Compared to a control sample, both cathodes left 'as exposed' and others that were oven-dried after exposure to moisture showed reduced initial capacity and inferior cycling performance. The group puts this down to the formation of oxides and carbonates in the materials following exposure to the atmosphere, which then irreversibly reduces both ionic and electrical conductivity.
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"Whilst moisture is well known to be problematic here, we set about to determine the optimal storage conditions that are required to mitigate unwanted, premature degradation in battery performance," explained Melanie Loveridge of Warwick University. "Such measures are critical to improve processing capability, and ultimately maintain performance levels. This is also of relevance to other Ni-rich systems e.g. NCA materials."
While battery manufacturers are well aware of the need to shield cathode materials from moisture and atmospheric conditions, understanding the mechanisms that cause the problems will be valuable in developing moisture stable materials, or defining the ideal conditions for storage and manufacture of NMC-811 cathodes.
Cathodes in this research were left exposed for a period of 28 days, which the researchers say is aligned with practical periods of storage that would be seen in manufacturing facility. However, the next stage of their research will focus on the effects of short term moisture exposure, bringing more potential for optimization of both processes and materials in NMC battery manufacturing.
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Readers' Choice 2022 Services winners announced
Published 4:15 pm Wednesday, September 28, 2022
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The Andalusia Star-News is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Readers' Choice Awards.
This year's contest began with 5,711 reader nominations and ended with 46,409 votes.
"We would like to give a special thank you to everyone who participated and made the 2022 Readers' Choice Awards a huge success. Congratulations to all of our winners," Star-News Publisher Robert Blankenship said.
Winners in the "Services" category are listed below.
Barber Shop
Winner – Wiggins Barber Shop
Second Place – The Urban Lounge
Third Place – Charlotte's Barber Shop
Best Hotel
Winner – Holiday Inn Express & Suites Andalusia
Second Place – Best Western Andalusia Inn
Third Place – Quality Inn
Best Veterinarian
Winner – Andrew Nichols
Second Place – Toby Atkinson
Third Place – Troy Jones
Best Veterinarian Office
Winner – Covington Veterinary Care
Second Place – Andalusia Animal Clinic
Third Place – Jones Veterinary Hospital
Funeral Home
Winner – Foreman-Brown Funeral Home
Second Place – Wyatt Funeral Home
Third Place – Keahey Funeral Home
Hair Salon
Winner – The Urban Lounge
Second Place – Oasis Fitness Spa & Salon
Third Place – Utopia Salon + Boutique
Make Up Artist
Winner – Lauren Greathouse
Second Place – Jessica Walker
Third Place – Studio 101 by S1
Manicure & Pedicure
Winner – Magnolia Jane Nails
Second Place – The Urban Lounge
Third Place – Lavi Nails
Best Customer Service
Winner – Golden Rule BBQ & Grill
Second Place – Magnolia Jane Nails
Third Place – Piggly Wiggly
Pet Grooming
Winner – Mae's Mutts
Second Place – Andalusia Animal Clinic
Third Place – Pretty Paws Pet Grooming
Photography Business
Winner – Vicki Popwell Fine Portraits
Second Place – Lisa Eisenberger Photography
Third Place – New Life Photography by Emili
Self Storage Company
Winner – Bass Mini-Storage
Second Place – All Safe Storage
Third Place – O'Neal Storage
Sign Company
Winner – Pirate Graphics
Second Place – SignMan
Third Place – DigiPrint
Stationery, Invitations & Engraving
Winner – Walker Business Machines
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(No, not today. But in April!)
I don't feel my age. I feel like I have the same vigour, sharp mind, and fieriness as I had when I was 18 — 20 years old. Like, come at me, Imma take on the world!
I want that fire within to keep burning bright even in old age. There's so much to experience, so much to learn, so much to conquer. But it's not just about living life fully and boldly.
If not for this fierce drive — in a way, killer instinct — I don't know where I'd be.
"Many people die at 25 but are not put in the coffin until 75. The learning stopped for them early." ~ James Altucher
I joined the civil service right after graduation, only to leave a year later. I don't think I make an ideal civil servant.
I had to forge a new path for myself from scratch. My Honours degree in International Relations, my stellar university grades, my experiences studying overseas, my work in public policy implementation, my internship at another government body … very few people in the private sector cared about those! Some harsh post-graduation truths all students will learn:
- The only employers who care about good grades when they hire are the Singapore civil service and some MNCs
- Internships are no big deal these days; almost every student has internship experience
- Even if you studied a relevant subject, most of what you studied will be outdated by the time you graduate
Anyway, I realised that I must reinvent myself or stare down the abyss of unemployment forever. But what sort of niche should I carve? I had some vague idea that I wanted to work in "communications", whatever that entailed. Because I thought I had the strong language skills needed to "communicate"? Because working in "communications" just sounded fun?
But I didn't know how to break into "communications". There are no industry-recognised certifications that I can study for, like PMP for project managers or SAP certification for IT professionals. People show that they know "communications" by … doing. But no employer would let me "do" any "communications" unless I had X years of minimum experience. Well I'll get the experience if you would just give me a chance!!!
So 2015 was a challenging year of trying to find my place in the world. I interviewed for many jobs, most of which left me feeling disappointed and inadequate. In desperation, I interviewed for a junior role — an internship, in fact — at a Public Relations agency. I didn't care, I just wanted to get my foot into Public Relations, where I thought my future in "communications" lay. I even agreed to a pay that was a small fraction of what I made in the civil service (whatever it takes to get my foot in, right?). After I got the job, I went out of my way to read about the industry, network, and whatever it took to get up to speed. Unfortunately, things did not work out for various reasons, so after several months, I was back in the job market.
Then, a miracle. A month after I left Public Relations, I clinched a content marketing job at a digital agency. Never mind that I did not even know what content marketing was, I got a job! With a much better pay! Oh and it was a "communications" kind of role where I could apply my strong language skills! That was the beginning of my current content marketing career and an ongoing learning journey. Training or certification is not enough to succeed in content marketing or the wider field of digital marketing. There are so many emerging and evolving digital and technology trends that best practices get outdated fast (case in point: SEO in 2012 versus SEO in 2017) and you just get used to relearning things. An effective content marketer also needs some basic knowledge of other digital marketing fields like SEO and UX, so I learned what I could from colleagues from other departments.
Today, I am doing a stint at a different agency. I don't dare get too comfortable with where I am though. I keep up with the news, I speak to people in the field, I try digital marketing tasks in my personal life, and I seek skills that can augment my knowledge. It helps that I have a genuine love for learning and an unquenchable curiousity about the world.
It's also a survival thing. I know too well how it feels like to be irrelevant and not good enough. I also know that the day I stop learning will be the beginning of a slow slide towards averageness, then mediocrity, and finally, oblivion.
"Do not go gently into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
At first, I didn't understand these lines from Dylan Thomas's famous poem. Why wouldn't Thomas want his father to have a peaceful and gentle death?
Then, one day, I just knew. It's an exhortation to live boldly and fight fiercely against whatever's holding us back in life. Killer instinct raging till the very end.
I live by those words now.
Recently, I got back in touch with a friend. He works in the aviation industry and is currently based in India.
My friend and I are both civil servants who left to carve niches for ourselves in the private sector. That's a rare thing by the way; people who join the Singapore civil service often stay for a very long time. "How did you get to where you are today?" I asked "How did you succeed?" He told me his story, and one thing he said struck me:
"The civil service makes it easy for people in it to stay on and become comfortable over time. Work becomes predictable while salaries increase. Most who have decided to stay on will often remark that they might never be good at anything else apart from what they are doing. I supposed they would never actually know, would they? :)"
So here's to another year of being alive and well, of raging against stagnation, of living life with a burning passion and unquenchable curiosity!
Happy birthday to me.
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Every summer when I was a kid, our family would drive from our home in the Baltimore suburbs out to the country for our annual family reunion at my Uncle George's farm. Uncle George and his wife Betty owned a small farm in Howard County, Maryland, where they raised chickens, pigs, and steer and grew all manner of crops and vegetables. Some of my most cherished childhood memories are of walking around that farm with my Uncle George. He was a big man with a kind soul and an infectious laugh--and he absolutely loved the farm. He'd show us the chicken coop, let us throw slop to the pigs, and take us around the hay fields on his tractor. I remember once watching him feed his favorite bull right out of the palm of his hand. For a kid from the suburbs, Uncle George's farm was an entirely foreign, yet delightful place. And even as a kid, I recognized the great care that Uncle George took with the farm. Vegetables were planted in just the right spot for the proper amount of sunlight and the most nourishing soil. Every inch of the hayfield was used to grow feed for the animals. And the front hall of the great old farmhouse was filled with food shelves and freezer chests, ensuring that none of the harvest would go to waste.
That's why, when I read our Gospel for today, I don't understand why the sower in Jesus' parable is casting his seeds, well, so carelessly. The story goes that a sower went out to sow; and as he cast his seeds, they fall on all manner of terrain: on the path, on the rocky ground, among the thorns, and finally in the good soil--pretty much all over the place. And the seeds that fall on the good soil yield an abundant harvest. But I have to say, I cannot imagine my Uncle George being so reckless with his seeds or anything else on his farm. Seeds cost money and farmers need to make the most of everything they have--land and water, feed and seed, plants and animals--to help the farm achieve optimal productivity. Unlike this sower, Uncle George would have been very careful that his seeds found their mark.
You know, thinking about my Uncle George makes me wonder if we might be reading this parable from the wrong direction. After all, many times, we interpret it in a pretty moralistic way, applying it most directly to ourselves. As the text is read and the preacher preaches, we spend our time trying to decide which kind of soil we are. Are we rocky or thorny or the packed down path? And forget being good soil, we think. That's somebody else, not us. And so this wonderful parable can quickly become about judging ourselves and spiritually comparing ourselves to others. But when I read this parable, especially in light of Paul's assurance in today's epistle reading that in Christ there is "no condemnation," I suspect that Jesus was pointing us in another direction. So how else could we approach this text?
For me, this parable is much more about the character of the sower and far less about where the seeds land or what happens to them afterward. This is, after all, the Parable of the Sower, not the Parable of the Soil.
So who is this sower? We might call him, as I have already, careless or reckless. We might call him foolhardy or wasteful. My Uncle George most likely would have. But what if we think of the sower as generous and hopeful, perhaps even a relentless optimist for believing that life can take root even in unlikely places, even rocky and thorny soil? Maybe the sower wasn't being wasteful or careless at all. Maybe the sower knew exactly what he was doing.
In our first reading, the prophet Isaiah speaks of God as a sower--a sower of the Word, which is God's message of grace and forgiveness. He says that just as the snow and rain come down and water the earth, bringing forth life, so God's Word rains down and accomplishes that for which it is purposed--engendering faith, hope, and love in those who hear it. Here, all manner of terrain, the mountains, hills, and the trees clap and sing and rejoice.
It's not hard to infer in Jesus' parable that God is the sower here too. It is God who casts the Word all about, without regard for where it lands, loving every type of soil, and showering it with the Word, with love, grace and mercy. And God not only sows the seeds and tends the soil; God waters us with rain and snow and brings forth good fruit in us by the power of the Word. While we're sitting here wondering what kind of soil we are, God is showering us with all manner of seed and blessing. Where Uncle George had to be precise and careful where he sowed his seeds, God can of course afford to be generous, extravagant, and without a care about where the Word may fall, take root, and begin to grow.
Here's where something I learned from my Uncle George makes lots of sense as I read the parable from the perspective of the sower rather than worrying about the quality of the soil. Uncle George taught me that that good soil is broken soil. Good soil is broken soil. The good soil is soil that is tilled and turned, soil that has cracks and ridges where seeds can drop down and take root. And we are, each of us, in our own ways, broken soil--turned over and over in all kinds of ways throughout our everyday lives. And this brokenness, which we often so desperately try to hide, this brokenness that we think disqualifies us from God's love--this brokenness is the very thing that allows the seed, the Word, God's love to take root in us.
You know, Jesus spent most of his time with people and in places that would have been considered bad soil in his day. He consorted with despised tax collectors, the ritually unclean, the sick, Samaritans, women, and rough fishermen turned disciples. These were not the spiritual elite. They were not good soil by most any measure. But Jesus walked with them, taught, and healed them. Jesus showered them with mercy and love, and they did indeed bear much fruit.
Just as we can be quick to judge ourselves through the lens of this parable, we can also be quick to judge others--to place them in certain categories because they are young or old, of color or not, whether they are in church every Sunday, periodically, or not at all. It is part of our human instinct, a symptom of our brokenness, to label and to categorize where God does not. We are called to follow Jesus and his example of loving all kinds of people, all kinds of ground, trusting in the power of God's Word and Holy Spirit to transform even what appears to be barren or broken soil.
I still spend most of my time in the suburbs these days. My last call took our family to the suburbs of Boston, right along the Interstate I-95 corridor. And I mean literally right along it. You could see the highway from the church's front door. Everyday when I took the dog on a walk, I would walk underneath the highway. Now, highway overpasses are forsaken places--with their fair share of graffiti, broken glass, and litter, and the smell of car exhaust wafting down from the highway above. And yet, even there, in the cracked concrete overpass, life takes root. For below the rusted metal grate that lay between the two sides of this massive superhighway, to my amazement, plants still rose up out of the broken concrete, growing several feet tall, reaching up toward the sunlight. I don't know what kind of plants they were, but they were green and very much alive--alive in a dark, forgotten, and completely unexpected place.
It was a reminder to me of how persistent life is, how sometimes it only takes a little break, a little crack, a few inches of dirt, for life to take root. And so it us with us. God's love is more potent and more powerful than we think. And though we may feel more like the highway overpass than the dark, rich good soil, even so, God brings life in the midst of our brokenness. God brings life out of death--resurrection in the most unlikely of places--a cross and a tomb. Perhaps, then, it should be no wonder that when Jesus appeared to Mary on that first Easter morning, she first thought him to be the gardener. And maybe, just maybe, he greeted her with the same kind of infectious laugh my Uncle George would let loose when he saw us. For if Uncle George was, by necessity, more careful about sowing seeds than the sower in Jesus' parable, he was certainly carefree when it came to love and joy.
Let us pray. O God, we are so quick to judge ourselves and so quick to compare ourselves to others, but your parable reminds us that your Word takes root everywhere in all places, in all people. Help us to see the ways in which your life is taking root in us and to share that life with others. In Jesus' name, amen.


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Chinese producers of rare earths, a family of minerals essential in a range of commercial and military technologies, were the only winners in a confusing ruling by a Malaysian Government committee reviewing the future of a plant which processes ore imported from Australia.
While approving most aspects of the plant, which generates low-level radioactive waste, it also ruled that a permanent safe storage site must be built by the owner of the plant, Australia-based Lynas Corporation, or export all waste to another country.
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The decision, especially a tight timetable of next September for compliance, was received badly by investors who knocked 25% off Lynas's share price in early trade today (Wednesday) before a modest recovery left the stock down by 23% at $1.20.
The Lynas plant, located in the Kuantan area of east Malaysia, is the world's biggest source of rare earths outside China. Its production of neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and other rare earths is keenly sort in Japan as well as the U.S., two countries trying to ween themselves off Chinese material which accounts for 80% of global supply and 78% of U.S. imports.
If Lynas cannot meet the new requirements of the Malaysian Government the Chinese grip on rare earths will become even tighter, a possible development at a touchy time in the tit-for-tat tariff war being waged by China and the U.S.
Lynas chief executive, Amanda Lacaze, said the Malaysian Government review committee had identified many positive aspects of the rare earth plant, including the fact that operations were based on controlled low-risk procedures and technologies, and that employee exposure to radiation and non-radiation hazards were below permitted levels.
However, the requirement to build before next September a permanent safe storage facility or export all waste took Lacaze by surprise and appeared to be a variation on a process outlined less than two months ago.
"We are surprised with the Ministry's decision to impose a pre-condition that does not follow the process outline in October, and which is inconsistent with the science, inconsistent with the expert review committee's recommendations and is contrary to international best practice," Lacaze said in a statement filed at the Australian stock exchange.