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At their Summit in Strasbourg / Kehl on 3 and 4 April 2009, NATO's Heads of State and Government tasked the Secretary General to develop a new NATO Strategic Concept. This exercise should be completed by the time of NATO's next Summit, which is expected to take place towards the end of 2010.
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As the European Security Strategy recognises that predicted global climate change will have increasing impact on stability and security in many regions around the world and more particularly in Asia and Africa, and in the context of the forthcoming new NATO strategic concept, the set up of an environmental security strategy is more than needed.
It is important to analyse commonality of assessment between the EU and NATO of predicted global climate change as a factor of instability and insecurity in the most vulnerable places in the world, especially in terms of climate change as a driver of current or future conflicts. Climate change consequences like resource depletion, drought and floods, famine and mass migration, might have a direct impact on EU and NATO security interests.
The adequacy of existing NATO and EU capacities to respond to climate change driven catastrophes and the extent to which existing civilian, policing and military capabilities and assets could be deployed or adapted to meet these future challenges should be assessed.
It would be necessary to recommend measures and modifications to training – through NATO's ACT described above – and to procurement policies, necessary to improve the EU and NATO's ability to respond to such crisis.
Existing command and control structures and policies in the context of their applicability to the long-term nature of likely climate-driven crisis and conflicts should be reviewed.
The potential for burden-sharing and specialisation between the EU Member States and NATO allies to optimize resource allocation, civilian, policing and military assets which are required for crisis response and conflicts, whether climate driven or not should be explored.
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User:Pranav Rathi/Notebook/OT/2012/09/21/Fiber light for Olympus microscope
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Motivation
- 3 Design & Construction
- 3.1 Components
- 3.2 Design
- 3.3 Construction
- 4 Alignment
- 5 Demonstration
I have invented a fiber-light system for Olympus microscope IX71. This system is compatible to Olympus power supply TH4-100. The system has 4 parts: Olympus power supply, Dolan Jenner fiber bundle, fiber-feeder and illuminator & fiber plugin adapter. Fiber plugin adapter can be directly mounted on the illuminator and the whole system can be controlled through Olympus power supply. I designed it such that it requires least amount of machining with regular tools and components available in any optics lab.
Why fiber-light when Olympus illuminator works fine? Following reasons why fiber-light becomes important:
- DNA experiments are really sensitive to temperature (thermal energy) even few degrees make a big difference.
- Microscope (optical trap) is enclosed inside an enclosure (to avoid airborne noise and currents), so within few hours temperature of the microscope wall rises almost twice due to the halogen lamp used for illumination, this heats up the entire enclosure with the sample.
- Temperature hike may make two similar data sets which are taken some time apart different.
- Fiber light solves the problem of temperature hike by providing clean light and removing heat production through the lamp and conduction through the microscope skin.
- With fiber light temperature inside the enclosure goes from 23.7 to 25.5 total 1.8 degree Celsius hike in comparison to halogen lamp where temperature goes from 23.7 to 49 total 25.3 degree hike over a period of 10 hours (see slide 3).
There are many good fiber-light feeder available in market by Dolan Jenner . The reason I made my own is the following:
- Olympus power supply is better designed to feed the illuminator and I wanted something which I can control through Olympus hardware. The feeder I designed can be directly controlled through Olympus power supply or microscope.
- I used Dolan Jenner fiber-feeder (fiber-lite model 3100) but it was not good enough for two reasons: For intensity I could only choose 3 settings in comparison to Olympus where I can choose any intensity, Flickers; fiber-lite probably uses half rectifier because I was seeing flickers in the camera in comparison to Olympus where the intensity was smooth and constant.
- Design and construction: I designed the system such that I would have to do least amount of machining with all the components available in normal size optics lab just as mine, takes less time to make (it took me around 10 hours to make it work including troubleshooting all the bugs) and costs be around $400 including my time.
- Optical trap is very sensitive to mechanical vibrations; I wanted to have something which does not have fan inside. Fan vibration can travel through the fiber bundle to the microscope and to the sample. In this design I mount an external fan above the optical table so no physical contact to the fiber-feeder.
Design & Construction
For more information please see the slide-show and web-album.
Fiber-light system has four parts (sees slide 5):
- Olympus power supply model TH4-100
- Dolan Jenner optical fiber bundle
- Fiber-light feeder
- Illuminator & fiber plugin adapter
Please see the slides; all the components are labeled with their part number and company. Power supply is from Olympus and fiber bundle is from Dolan Jenner.
Illuminator & fiber plugin adapter
- Illuminator & fiber plugin adapter has 2 parts. Illuminator is from Olympus and it comes with all the microscopes in some form or other based on the design.
Fiber pluging adapter
- 2 X ER2-thorlabs 2 inches cage assembly rod
- 2 X S1TM08-thorlabs lens cell adapter
- 2 X CP02-thorlabs cage plate
- 1 X AD11F-thorlabs adapter
- 1 X SM1L03-thorlabs lens tube
- 1 X (2.5 X .5 inches) aluminium metal plate
- some 4/40 screws.
- Fiber-feeder has 4 parts:Box, Lamp mount, lens assembly and fiber outlet adapter.
- I used 6X3X2.5 inces aluminum box, 4 rubber legs and 2 banana connectors and 2 leads. Any size box can be used with any mind of connectors.
Lamp Mount
- Halogen lamp came out of Olympus illuminator
- PCB plates (ceramic is better for this purpose, but i couldn't find any)
- Aluminium plates (have to be machined to fit the lamp)
- Some 3/8 nuts and bolts
Fiber outlet adapter
- 2 X CP02T-thorlabs cage plate. Use 2 cage plates back to back, do not use wood.
- 2 X SM1T2-Thorlabs coupler
- 2 X SM1A1-Thorlabs adapter
Lens assembly
- 2 X CP02T-thorlabs cage plates
- 2 X ER2-thorlsba 3'' cage assembly rod
- 1 X LA1951-A thorlabs f25mm lens
- 1 X TR2-thorlabs post
- 1 X RA90-thorlabs post clamp
- 1 X TR075-thorlabs pos
- Some 1/4 and 3/8 screws
Some parts i might have missed to list so go to the slides for more information. I have not included the tools considering no special tools are used besides normally available tools in the lab.
Illuminator & fiber plugin adapter
The plugin adapter is designed such that it can fit inside the illuminator, so the illuminator optics can be used without putting any external optics for the fiber. The plugin is designed such that the fiber can be inserted or removed by the screws and the whole adapter can be installed or removed without making any changes to the original form of the illuminator, for an example If i do not want to use the fiber-light I can remove it through the holding screws, install the lamp and housing back and restore the original illuminator in seconds. The two cage plates provide the z-adjustment to put the fiber outlet in the focus to the lens.
The are many good ways to design the fiber-feeder. I designed it such because i did not want to buy any hardware, i want to use the hardware available in my lab. A better design might be using a parabolic mirror/retro reflector setting over lens setting where most of the light is not collected. In current setting i loose most of the light but what ever light i collect (with high NA lens) i can focus it very tightly and still have more than enough light. I have to blow the lamp hardly over 50% to get enough brightness in the sample plane. In current settings the lens assembly works like 3-D stage and let me focus the spot over the fiber opening with great accuracy. There are no fans so in any optical setup where vibrations are killer this setup is ideal, even though i would still recommend a fan installed externally like I did with no physical contact.
Fiber-feeder is connected to the power supply with banana connectors and uses the same lamp as the illuminator. Fiber outlet adapter is on a xy translation cage plate for the last little adjustments. The fiber can be inserted through the opening.
I apologize not to discuss every little detail considering the fact that those detail are not necessary because of design specificity. Any good designer only needs an idea not the very gory details.
Power Supply
I start with Olympus power supply slide 5. Identify and label the ground and +12ve pins with multimeter and turnoff and unplug the power supply wait few minutes. Prepare 1 to 2 meter long banana connector wire depending on the requirement. Insert the open ends into the pins identified and tape it (keep the power supply off and unplugged all times).
Illuminator & fiber plugin adapter
Prepare fiber plugin adapter first.
Fiber plugin adapter
Get all the components and arrange them as shown in the slides 9 & 10.
Remove the illuminator from the microscope very carefully and remove the housing and lamp; slide 8. For directions go to user manual of you microscope section (how to replace the lamp?). Do not touch the optics at any time.
Measure the length between the cage plate rods; see the slide 9 (the white arrow). Now go to slide 11 the long white 2-sided arrow shows that the center hole on the little stage is in the center of the lens. Measure the half of the length of the cage plate rods on each side of this hole (little stage) over wall and make a notch to fit 4/40 screw completely like showed in slide 11 (you can use hack saw). Now cover the lens with a cloth and drill a 4/40 size hole on the wall roughly 3/4 cms from the top-edge and from the notch; see slide 12. Next prepare a thin aluminum restoring-plate as shown in the slide 13. The hole and the big notch should align the holes on the wall and the little stage; see slide 14. Now mount the plugin adapter as shown in the slide 15, 16, and 17. Insert the fiber through the opening; a rubber cushion can be used for the extra space and between the screw and the fiber bundle skin slide 18.
Any size box can be used I used 6X3X2.5 inches aluminum box. Legs are optional; any kind of legs can be used remembering that box gets enough hot to melt plastic, rubber or wood if in direct contact. On one side make holes for banana connectors horizontally and make 3/8'' holes for screws vertically; slide 20 of lamp side. On other side make 1'' hole for fiber outlet at the center; see slide 20 fiber outlet side. In the bottom make 3/8'' hole at the center of the small side of the box roughly .25'' away; slide 20 bottom sides. Do not make any other holes yet.
Lamp Mount
This is the trickiest and most important part. This part depends on what materials you use, if you ceramic besides PCB then the procedure would be little different. I used PCB because the ceramic was not available in my lab. Get a plane PCB plates cut them in size of 1.5X2 inches get 6 of them and stack them together; slide 21 and 22. Make 3/8'' through holes in all the plates on long side to align the holes made on the box-wall on lamp side vertically. Prepare two peace of 1/4 inch thick metal (choose you own dimensions) as shown in the slide 22. Make 2 3/8 holes on each side of each plate. Drill one through hole on each plate to fit the lamp connector pins (this is important to be very careful). Take 3 PCB plates and make 4 4/40'' through holes to align the 4 holes on the 2 metal plates. Take 2 PCB plates and make 4 4/40 screw's head size holes to fit the 4/40 screw heads. Leave the left over PCB plate alone. Now stack them in this order: put 4/40 screws in 3 (4/40'' size hole) PCB plates in front, 2 (4/40'' screw's head size) plate after that and the leftover PCB plate in the end. Now put the metal plates on the 4 screws and tight the nuts. Since the holes on the metal plates are bigger than screws you can use washers now. Mount the PCB plates on the vertical holes on the box. Mount the lamp on the metal plates, to fit the lamp connectors you can now slide the plates in and out because the plate holes are lot bigger than the screws, once find the right setting (lamp should not be loose) tight the nuts and solder the banana connectors to the plates. Check the lamp if it works.
Fiber outlet adapter
See the slides 23 and 24; arrange the components as shown, do not use wood use 2 extra cage plates, couplers and adapter and arrange them back to back. I used wood because I did not have enough hardware available in my lab. If you use wood make sure you cover the wood with aluminum plate not in contact with wood, otherwise it will burn. Mount the adapter through the 3/8'' hole at the bottom slide 25.
Lens assembly
Assemble the lens assembly as in slide 26. Mount it on the box as shown. The location of the hole on which it is mounted depends on the focal length of the lens roughly. The hole might be 2f (f=focal length of the lens) length away from the lamp mount side. In this case I have 1/4 inch hole 50mm from the lamp side and .5'' inches away from the side wall; slide 27. Once this is mounted the focal spot can be aligned by adjusting the lens assembly; slide 28, 29 and 30. Since there is no fan inside, I made some jumbo size holes in the cover; slide 31. The feeder can be mounted with fan as shown in the slide32. The fiber can be inserted through the fiber outlet side.
Once the system is ready the illuminator can be installed back on the microscope slide 34.
Do not touch the box when the lamp is on for a while it can be very hot. To optimize the light through the fiber do following:
- Like in slide 27 put the fiber through the fiber outlet, turn on the lamp and keep it low (avoid looking direct into the lamp).
- Adjust the cage plates for focus and adjust the 90 deg clamp for xy adjustment of the focal spot over fiber opening; slide 28. Once the spot is on the fiber like in slide 29 you can further adjust the fiber outlet cage plate.
- To bring the fiber in focus on illuminator adjust the cage plate setting on the fiber plugin adapter like in slide 18 and 30 ( DO NOT look into the illuminator if it is too bright). Keep adjusting until you see the fiber crispy and big.
I an using fiber-light for months now. Below is the video I recorded: DNA-ethering in D2O sample. {{#widget:YouTube|id=ihl45JssNTA}}
For detailed pictures view the album:
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Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
Utah women today might be surprised to learn their grandmothers' views on feminist issues, according to Maxine Hanks. LDS Relief Society co-founder Sarah Kimball referred to herself as "a woman's rights woman, " while Bathsheba Smith was called on Relief Society mission in 1870 to preach equal rights for women.
The society editorialized that females belonged not only "in the nursery" but also "in the library, the laboratory, the observatory." Sisters sent east to study medicine were assured that "when men see that women can exist without them, it will perhaps take a little of the conceit out of some of them." Temple officiators were called "priestesses, " Eliza R. Snow the "prophetess, " and women were discouraged from confessing to bishops on grounds that personal matters "should be referred to the Relief Society president and her counselors." Women were set apart as healers "with power to rebuke diseases."
In addition, Mormon theology spoke reassuringly of a Mother God of the divinity of Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Eve. No wonder Relief Society president Emmeline B. Wells could write with confidence: "Let woman speak for herself; she has the right of freedom of speech. Women are too slow in moving forward, afraid of criticism, of being called unwomanly, of being thought masculine."
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JIBAO, Samuel S; SCHOEMAN, Niek J e NARAIDOO, Ruthira. Fiscal regime changes and the sustainability of fiscal imbalance in South Africa: a smooth transition error-correction approach. S. Afr. j. econ. manag. sci. [online]. 2012, vol.15, n.2, pp.112-127. ISSN 2222-3436.
In addition to the conventional linear cointegration test, this paper tests the asymmetry relationship between fiscal revenue and expenditure, by making a distinction between the adjustment of positive (budget surplus) and negative (budget deficit) deviations from equilibrium. The analysis uses quarterly data for South Africa. The paper reveals that government authorities in South Africa are more likely to react more quickly when the budget is in deficit than when in surplus, and that the stabilisation measures used by government are fairly neutral at low deficit levels; that is, at deficit levels of 4 per cent of GDP and below. We conclude that the assumption that adjustment towards equilibrium is always present and of the same strength under all circumstances, is not valid in the case of fiscal data on South Africa; and that that fiscal sustainability in South Africa has been attained at the expense of a reduction in the ratio of expenditure to GDP on education, and a relatively constant ratio of expenditure to GDP on health. The paper noted that a priori one would expect that such a decline in the allocations to sectors which could stimulate growth and which in turn could generate future revenue, may pose a threat to the accumulated fiscal space. In South Africa the main fiscal challenge, therefore, is to find ways through which the recent gains in fiscal solvency can be consolidated.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 23, 2012) - Feronia Inc. (TSX VENTURE:FRN) ("Feronia" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned arable processing, storage and distribution division, Kimpese Agro Industries Sprl ("KAI"), has achieved practical completion of its rice mill in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The rice mill has a five tonne per hour capacity which, allowing for downtime and maintenance, can process up to 30,000 tonnes of paddy rice per annum to produce approximately 20,000 tonnes of finished rice.
The Company expects to make its first commercial sales of rice by December of this year.
Bill Dry, CEO of Feronia Inc., commented: "Completing the rice mill is a major milestone in the development of Feronia's arable farming business. The current installed capacity at the mill allows us to expand our rice production substantially once we have proven commercially compelling yields.
"This is the only large-scale mill in the region and allows us to process, not only our own crops, but those grown by local small-holder farmers. We believe that providing access to agricultural processing will encourage local farmers to increase production of staple crops for the benefit of all."
About Feronia Inc.
Feronia operates large-scale commercial oil palm plantations and has commenced an arable farming operation in the DRC. The Company, through its subsidiaries, holds concessions on land which is owned by the DRC government and on which its oil palm plantation and farming operations take place. The Company uses modern agricultural practices to operate and develop its oil palm plantations and arable farming. Feronia believes in the immense agricultural potential of the DRC for high-quality edible oils, oil derivatives and foodstuffs given the suitability of its climate and soil and the availability of a skilled workforce. The Company's management team is comprised of experienced administrative executives and senior agriculturalists with extensive experience in managing both plantations and large-scale mechanized farming operations in emerging markets. Feronia is committed to sustainable agriculture, environmental protection and providing jobs and economic growth for local communities. For more information please see www.feronia.com.
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Except for statements of historical fact contained herein, the information in this press release constitutes "forward-looking information" within the meaning of Canadian securities law. Such forward-looking information may be identified by words such as "plans", "proposes", "estimates", "intends", "expects", "believes", "may", "will" and include without limitation, statements regarding the stated use of proceeds; plan of operations and comparative advantages; and benefits of this investment. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate; actual results and future events could differ materially from such statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, among others, regulatory risks, risks inherent in foreign operations, commodity prices, competition, and investments having no history of operations. Most of these factors are outside the control of the Company. Investors are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking information. Except as otherwise required by applicable securities statutes or regulation, the Company expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Not to be outdone by those crazy Danish bastards out on the isle of Samso, Science Daily reports an equally crazy group of Missourian bastards in Rock Port now generate all their electricity using wind turbines. Rock Port went completely wind-powered last week, making use of the 75 wind turbines spread out across three Missouri counties, and local experts are excited about the potential for wind power throughout the state. However, PopSci thinks it won't be so easy to make this a widespread trend in the US.
For starters, Rock Port only has 1300 residents, which is much easier to power using renewable energy than most places. Wind power currently accounts for 1% of total power consumption, and the US government only sees it providing around 20% of the power needed to run the country in the future. And even for that to happen, turbines need to become dramatically more efficient. But I'm not trying to rain on Rock Port's parade (which I'm sure every eco-freak would have gathered for, had it not added to their carbon footprint). [Science Daily via Popular Science]


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Symbian needs to cut to the chase and sort out its user interface, the organisation has been warned.
The call comes from Gartner "distinguished" analyst Nick Jones who points out that while Symbian's still colossal market share is vanishing at an ever greater rate, the organisation behind the operating system still doesn't appear to have figured out why.
It's the UI, stupid, to coin a phrase.
That's Jones' argument, at any rate. Apple and Android deliver much better user experiences, and while Symbian 3 is a step in the right direction, phones equipped with Symbian 4 won't be out until well into 2011.
Apple is making a virtue out of touchscreen ease of use. Android is trying to do the same, and if it's slightly less good at this kind of thing than Apple is, at least it has many more manufacturers lined up to not only promote Android-branded handsets but also add alternative GUIs to it.
The Symbian Foundation, on the other hand, appears more obsessed with what's going on under the hood, says Jones.
He's right. Symbian the OS grew separately from the UI, a conscious plan to allow phone vendors to differentiate their devices at the user interface level but have a single, well-developed OS underneath. That made sense when the only serious rivals were basic proprietary OSes in feature phones and Windows Mobile - say no more; look how its clunky, old fashioned UI has sunk it - and allowed Symbian the OS to develop without worrying about then unnecessary things like visuals.
Now that approach has turned round to bite it on the rear end. As Symbian's roadmap shows - it talks about audio policies, cloud integration, better multitasking, multiple personalised home screens, HDMI and Wi-Fi - the Symbian Foundation is stuck thinking about what's going on behind the screen not on it.
But it's largely what's on the screen that, at the moment, is selling handsets, smartphones in particular.
Jones reckons that this inability to move beyond the methodology of the past will be Symbian's undoing, and likens the Symbian Foundation's tinkering to "re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic".
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1. News Story: Workers at a car-manufacturing plant in Flint, Michigan are laid off because the economy is weak and GM cars aren't selling well. GM isn't sure when the plant will reopen. What type of unemployment describes the workers' situation?
- Frictional unemployment
- Structural unemployment
- Full unemployment
- Cyclical unemployment
2. Globalization that allows governments to pursue expansionary policies can be dangerous because it can lead to:
- A reduction in the debt ceiling
- Goods price inflation
- Asset price inflation
- Goods price deflation
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3. Macroeconomics is:
- The study of aggregate economic relationships.
- An analysis of economic reality that proceeds from the parts to the whole.
- The study of pricing policies of firms and the purchasing decisions of households.
- The study of individual choice and how that choice is influenced by economic forces.
4. Which of the following types of unemployment is considered to be the most controllable through demand-side macroeconomic policy?
- Frictional unemployment
- Cyclical unemployment
- Structural unemployment
- Natural unemployment
5. If banks hold excess reserves whereas before they did not, the money multiplier:
- Will become smaller
- Will become larger
- Might increase or might decrease
- Will be unaffected
6. Using the expenditure approach, gross domestic product equals:
- The sum of consumption, investment, government purchases, and net exports
- Gross national product minus net exports
- The sum of consumption, investment, and government purchases
- Gross national product
7. How do investment in technology and investment in capital differ?
- They have similar effects on output so they have no important differences from an economic point of view.
- They have the same effects on output but investments in technology are much more closely tied to the level of saving than investments in capital.
- They have different effects on output because of the positive externalities associated with investments in capital.
- They have different effects on output because of the positive externalities associate with investments in technology.
8. The interest rate is the price paid for use of a:
- Real asset.
- Financial liability.
- Financial asset.
- Real liability.
9. If the reserve requirement is 20 percent, and banks keep no excess reserves, an increase in an initial inflow of $100 into the banking system will cause an increase in the money supply of:
- $50
- $100
- $500
- $20
10. Suppose farmers can use their land to grown either wheat or corn. The law of supply predicts that an increase in the market price of wheat will cause:
- Farmers to substitute wheat for the production of corn.
- Farmers to raise the production of corn and wheat.
- Farmers to lower the production of corn and wheat.
- Farmers to substitute corn for the production of wheat.
11. According to Keynes, why might deflation create problems for an economy?
- In expectation of increased spending, too many entrepreneurs would begin businesses and most would fail.
- The cost of repricing goods would increase costs, and therefore reduce profits, for businesses and they would cut production.
- People would drop out of unions because unions would become ineffective at keeping wages of members high.
- Consumers might expect prices to fall further and cut back consumption now.
12. When interest rates rise, people are:
- More likely to borrow, that is, purchase a financial asset.
- More likely to borrow, that is, sell a financial asset.
- Less likely to borrow, that is, sell a financial asset.
- Less likely to borrow, that is, purchase a financial asset.
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13. According to the Classical growth model, an economy that increases its saving will grow:
- Quickly since the increase in saving will permit greater investment.
- Quickly since the increase in saving will permit more rapid technological progress.
- Slowly because interest rates will fall, causing investment to decline.
- Slowly because consumption and aggregate demand will be reduced.
14. Suppose that consumer spending is expected to decrease in the near future. If output is at potential output, which of the following policies is most appropriate according to the AS/AD model?
- A reduction in government spending
- An increase in taxes
- An increase in government spending
- No change in taxes or government spending
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- The effect of a drought on the price of corn
- The decision by Apple to produce fewer Macintosh computers
- The effect of an increase in federal spending on the unemployment rate
- The choice a student makes in selecting college course
16. If income increases more rapidly than expected, then:
- Estimates of the target rate of employment are likely to increase.
- The budget is less likely to be in surplus.
- Tax revenues will be lower than expected.
- Spending on income-support programs will likely be lower than expected.
17. In which of the following situations is a budget surplus most likely to occur?
- When fiscal policy is contractionary and the economy is expanding
- When fiscal policy is expansionary and the economy is contracting
- When fiscal policy is expansionary
- When the economy is contracting
18. The largest expenditure component of GDP is:
- Government spending
- Net exports
- Investment
- Consumption
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- Money down implies interest rate up implies investment up implies income down.
- Money down implies interest rate down implies investment down implies income down.
- Money down implies interest rate up implies investment down implies income down.
- Money down implies interest rate down implies investment up implies income down.
20. As a country develops economically, what changes usually take place in the goods it exports?
- There is little change because comparative advantage does not change.
- Exports go from being diversified to being specialized in whatever the country finds to its comparative advantage.
- Services and manufactured goods decline in importance and are replaced by raw materials and agricultural products.
- Raw materials and agricultural products decline in importance and are replaced by services and manufactured goods.
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21. What would make foreigners want to buy more from the United States?
- Higher tariffs
- Higher interest rates in the United States
- Inflation in the United States
- A fall in the value of the dollar in the foreign exchange market
22. The depreciation of currency will:
- Balance a trade surplus.
- Have no impact on a country's comparative advantage.
- Worsen a country's comparative advantage.
- Improve a country's comparative advantage.
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- Currencies in its official reserves
- Commodities
- Goods and services from the current account
- Transfers
24. If a country wants to prevent its exchange rates from falling, it could:
- Place restrictions on imports
- Pursue easier monetary policy
- Remove any subsidies on exports
- Remove restrictions on imports
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- Both monetary policy and fiscal policy
- Monetary policy but not fiscal policy
- Neither monetary policy nor fiscal policy
- Fiscal policy but not monetary policy
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- Never have the same effect on imports and import prices.
- Have the same effect on the price of domestically produced goods if they are set appropriately.
- Yield the same amount of tax revenue if they are set appropriately.
- Both increase international trade by the same amount if set appropriately.
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27. between 2007 and 2009, the U.S. unemployment rate rose from under 5 percent to over 8 percent. A Keynesian economist would most likely blame this increase in unemployment on:
- An increase in the minimum wage.
- An increase in the bargaining power of labor unions.
- A decline in the level of aggregate demand.
- A decline in aggregate supply.
28. U.S. imports involve an:
- Inflow of foreign currency from foreigners to the U.S. economy
- Inflow of dollars from foreigners to the United States economy
- Outflow of foreign currency from the United States to foreigners
- Outflow of dollars from the United States to foreigners
29. The law of demand states that quantity demanded of a good is inversely related to the price of that good. Therefore, as the price of a good goes:
- Up, the quantity demanded goes down.
- Down, the quantity demanded stays the same.
- Up, the quantity demanded also goes up.
- Down, the quantity demanded goes down.
30. According to Keynes, market economies:
- Never experience significant declines in aggregate demand.
- Are constantly experiencing significant declines in aggregate demand.
- May recover slowly after they experience a significant decline in aggregate demand.
- Quickly recover after they experience a significant decline in aggregate demand.
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COLLEGE STATION – Should No. 22 Texas A&M pull off another close victory on Saturday night against No. 23 Louisiana Tech in Shreveport, the Aggies will again celebrate like crazy in the locker room. This time camera-free.
A&M coach Kevin Sumlin said this week he's putting the kibosh on any filming of post-game goings on, even by A&M's own video crew.
"There won't be any more cameras in the locker room," Sumlin said. "That's not going to happen again."
On A&M's own 12thManTV Youtube site, Sumlin is seen reprising his role as a solid Purdue linebacker back in the day by nearly bowling over a few of his players in celebration of the Aggies' 30-27 comeback victory at Ole Miss.
I'm with Sumlin on this one. He always gives plenty of credit to the opponent in interviews, and carries himself in a dignified way in public. A locker room should be the fellas' sanctum, and a chance to escape the public eye. And a chance to show your true emotion following a wild victory – minus any probing lens.


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Huygens begins its final journey into the unknown
ESA PR 67-2004. ESA's Huygens probe was successfully released by NASA's Cassini orbiter this morning and is now on a controlled collision course toward Saturn's largest and most mysterious moon, Titan.
On 14 January, Huygens will descend through one of the most intriguing atmospheres in the Solar System to an unknown surface.
The separation occurred at 02:00 UTC (03:00 CET). A few minutes after separation, Cassini turned back to Earth and relayed information about the separation. This signal then took one hour and eight minutes to cross the 1200 thousand million kilometres separating the Cassini spacecraft and Earth.
"Today's release is another successful milestone in the Cassini-Huygens odyssey," said Dr David Southwood, ESA's Director of Science Programmes. "This was an amicable separation after seven years of living together. Our thanks to our partners at NASA for the lift. Each spacecraft will now continue on its own but we expect they'll keep in touch to complete this amazing mission. Now all our hopes and expectations are focused on getting the first in situ data from a new world we've been dreaming of exploring for decades."
Final stage of a seven-year odyssey
The Cassini-Huygens mission, jointly developed by NASA, ESA and ASI, the Italian space agency, began on 15 October 1997, when the composite spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop a Titan 4B/Centaur vehicle. Together, the two probes weighed 5548 kilograms at launch and became the largest space mission ever sent to the outer planets.
To gain sufficient velocity to reach Saturn, they had to conduct four gravity-assist manoeuvres by flying twice by Venus, once by the Earth and once by Jupiter. On 1 July, Cassini-Huygens eventually became the first spacecraft to enter an orbit around Saturn.
On 17 December, while on its third orbit around the ringed planet, the Cassini orbiter performed a manoeuvre to enter a controlled collision trajectory towards Titan. As planned, a fine tuning of the trajectory took place on 22 December to place Huygens on its nominal entry trajectory. While Huygens will remain on this trajectory till it plunges into Titan's atmosphere on 14 January, the orbiter will perform a deflection manoeuvre on 28 December to avoid crashing onto the moon.
Today's separation was achieved by the firing of pyrotechnic devices. Under the action of push-off springs, ramps and rollers, the probe was released at a relative velocity of about 0.3 metres per second with a spin rate of seven revs per minute. Telemetry data confirming the separation were collected by NASA's Deep Space Network stations in Madrid, Spain, and Goldstone, California, when the telemetry playback signal from Cassini eventually reached the Earth.
The Huygens probe is now dormant and will remain so for its 20-day coast phase to Titan. Four days before its release, a triple-redundant timer was programmed in order to wake up the probe's systems shortly before arrival on Titan.
Exploring Titan's atmosphere
Huygens is scheduled to enter Titan's atmosphere at about 09:06 UTC (10:06 CET) on 14 January, entering at a relatively steep angle of 65° and a velocity of about 6 kilometres per second. The target is over the southern hemisphere, on the day side. Protected by an ablative thermal shield, the probe will decelerate to 400 metres per second within three minutes before it deploys a 2.6-metre pilot chute at about 160 kilometres.
After 2.5 seconds this chute will pull away the probe's aft cover and the main parachute, 8.3 metres in diameter, will deploy to stabilise the probe. The front shield will then be released and the probe, whose main objective is to study Titan's atmosphere, will open inlet ports and deploy booms to collect the scientific data.
All instruments will have direct access to the atmosphere to conduct detailed 'in situ' measurements of its structure, dynamics and chemistry. Imagery of the surface along the track will also be acquired. These data will be transmitted directly to the Cassini orbiter, which, at the same time, will be flying over Titan at 60 000 kilometres at closest approach. Earth-based radio telescopes will also try to detect the signal directly.
After 15 minutes, at about 120 kilometres, Huygens will release its main parachute and a smaller three-metre drogue chute will take over to allow a deeper plunge through the atmosphere within the lifetime of the probe's batteries.
The descent will last about 140 minutes before Huygens impacts the surface at about six metres per second. If the probe survives all this, its extended mission will start, consisting in direct characterisation of Titan's surface for as long as the batteries can power the instruments and the Cassini orbiter is visible over the horizon at the landing site, i.e. not more than 130 minutes.
At that time, the Cassini orbiter will reorient its main antenna dish toward Earth in order to play back the data collected by Huygens, which will be received by NASA's 70-metre diameter antenna in Canberra, Australia, 67 minutes later.
Three playbacks are planned, to ensure that all recorded data are safely transmitted to Earth. Then Cassini will continue its mission exploring Saturn and its moons, which includes multiple additional fly-bys of Titan in the coming months and years.
A probe deep into space and time
Bigger than Mercury and slightly smaller than Mars, Titan is unique in having a thick hazy nitrogen-rich atmosphere containing carbon-based compounds that could yield important clues about how Earth came to be habitable. The chemical makeup of the atmosphere is thought to be very similar to Earth's before life began, although colder (-180°C) and so lacking liquid water.
The in situ results from Huygens, combined with global observations from repeated fly-bys of Titan by the Cassini orbiter, are thus expected to help us understand not only one of the most exotic members of our Solar System but also the evolution of the early Earth's atmosphere and the mechanisms that led to the dawn of life on our planet.
Europe's main contribution to the Cassini-Huygens mission, the Huygens probe, was built for ESA by an industrial team led by Alcatel Space. This 320-kilogram spacecraft is carrying six science instruments to study the atmosphere during its descent. Laboratories and research centres from all ESA member countries, the USA, Poland and Israel have been involved in developing this science payload.
The Huygens atmospheric structure instrument package (HASI) will measure temperature and pressure profiles, and characterise winds and turbulences. It will also be able to detect lightning and even to measure the conductivity and permittivity of the surface if the probe survives the impact. The gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS) will provide fine chemical analysis of the atmosphere and the aerosols collected by the aerosol collector and pyrolyser (ACP).
The descent imager/spectral radiometer (DISR) will collect images, spectra and other data on the atmosphere, the radiation budget, cloud structures, aerosols and the surface. The doppler wind experiment (DWE) will provide a zonal wind profile while the surface science package (SSP) will characterise the landing site if Huygens survives the impact.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a co-operation between NASA, ESA and ASI, the Italian space agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, is managing the mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington DC. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter.
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Dave Matthews Band's Boyd Tinsley Joins Twitter
What's it like playing violin in the Dave Matthews Band? Now DMB fans can find out, 140 characters at a time, thanks to Boyd Tinsley's recent decision to join Twitter.
Tinsley found an eager audience waiting to hear from him; despite only joining on Monday (June 18) and tweeting a mere six times throughout the week, he's already amassed more than 13,500 followers — something he took notice of with his second tweet, saying "thanks for all the love" and noting, "it's cool to have so many followers so soon."
Promising on Tuesday that he has "a lot to say," Tinsley asked for a little patience because he was headed for a Phish concert. The following day he checked in again, saying "Phish was awesome" and adding, "I missed the first set, just like I missed my flight this morning."
Finally home and Phish-free, Tinsley got down to business, exhorting fans to check out his new film, 'Faces in the Mirror.' Promising "it's a beautiful movie," he shared the URL for the film's official site and asked fans to "Check it out, pass it along."
That's all from Tinsley for now, but we're sure the best is yet to come from the latest DMB-affiliated Twitter account, especially with the group on the road this summer and prepping a brand-new studio album for the fall. Keep an eye on @bt_dmb for more updates.


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This is the second layout I created at the scrap party. The challenge took 30 minutes: we started to create the layout and after 10 minutes we were told to pass our page to the woman sitting next to us, and she was supposed to continue the page... All the women in our table decided that each of us continue to work on her own page... :-)
Anyway, this is mine:
The title says: My First Point
The journaling says: First lesson in dance class, with Nirit.
I used: DCWV patterned paper, Sonburn cardstocks, Unity Stamp, Judy Kinz Diamond Glaze, bling, Scrappy Cat Journaling blocks clear stamp, ribbon, Sizzix - Girl in Ballerina Costume die, Cuttlebug, Sharpie, Kesem Art - Hebrew letters, Dew Drops.
Friday, November 13, 2009
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Last night's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, 90210 featured the bachelorette party for Lisa Vanderpump's daughter Pandora and like any sensible group of women on such a night would do, they flew to Vegas and saw a Chippendale's show. (I know, I was surprised that it took this many seasons of this many housewife shows on Bravo for a cast to attend a Chippendale's show, too.) Let me just warn you now: it was kind of a mess.
The ladies, of course, were seated in the front row. They had both the best view in the house and the privilege of having the sweaty shirts of the dancers thrown in their faces. Taylor Armstrong, maker of ridiculous faces, absolutely lost her shit throughout the performance; she was grabbing Lisa so much the Brit turned and said, "You're hurting me! What is wrong with you? Calm down, woman." Lisa followed that up with the extra-sad query: "Have you never seen a grown naked man before?" (Maybe that's something Taylor and Russell are working on in therapy?) The night went on; Brandi and Camille grinded up on each other (to the distaste of Adrienne Maloof) and by the end of the evening, Pandora, Taylor, and Lisa were whisked onto the Chippendale's stage for a competition. The task at hand? Giving a lap dance to the men — the "Chipmunks," as Lisa kept calling them — and no surprise, Lisa won.
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Society's Child
A look at different versions of Meredith Kercher's death
Associated Press
Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:07 UTC
A Perugia court convicted Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito of Kercher's murder on Dec. 4, 2009, and sentenced Knox to 26 years and Sollecito to 25 years. An appellate court overturned their convictions on Oct. 3, 2011, and Knox returned to Seattle a free woman.
On Tuesday, Italy's high court ordered a new trial for Knox and Sollecito, overturning their acquittals.
Here's a look at the various versions of events the night of Nov. 1, 2007 in Perugia.
Italian prosecutors allege that Knox and Sollecito, then 20 and 23, killed Kercher in a drug-fueled sex assault involving a third man, Rudy Guede of the Ivory Coast. They maintained the murder weapon was a large knife taken from Sollecito's house and found there by investigators. Prosecutors said the knife matched the wounds on Kercher's body and had traces of Kercher's DNA on the blade and Knox's DNA on the handle. The prosecutors depicted Knox as a sex-obsessed, manipulative "she-devil."
Defense Lawyers:
Her defenders portrayed Knox as an innocent girl caught up in an Italian judicial nightmare, brow-beaten into saying things she didn't mean during a 14-hour interrogation by dozens of police. They claimed inept Italian police contaminated the Kercher crime scene and produced DNA evidence that was not scientifically sound.
Appellate Court Ruling:
The appeals court that acquitted Knox and Sollecito in 2011 said there was no murder weapon and determined that the DNA evidence used to convict them was faulty. It also poked holes in the motive described by prosecutors. The court said the lower trial court failed to prove the two were in the house when Kercher was killed and that the guilty verdict wasn't corroborated by any evidence, but rather based on an improbable scenario: ''The sudden choice of two young people, good and open to other people, to do evil for evil's sake, just like that, without another reason."
The three-judge panel stopped short of saying what actually might have happened the night of Nov. 1, 2007 - or if the one man whose conviction has stood - Guede - acted alone.
Knox said she spent the night of the murder at Sollecito's house. She maintained they smoked a joint, watched the French film ''Amelie" and made love. Knox at one point told investigators she was home the night of the murder and had to cover her ears against Kercher's screams while she was attacked by a Congolese man who owned a bar where Knox worked. That accusation formed the basis of the slander verdict against Knox, which was upheld Tuesday. Knox said she was manipulated into the statement during a lengthy police interrogation and later said she hadn't been back in her apartment that night.
Sollecito told the appeals court that he was completely smitten with Knox, a new love he had known for less than a week. The night of Kercher's death, Sollecito said the two were together at his apartment. At one point he told investigators that he couldn't recall if they spent the whole night together, but in his memoir published last year he said he was ''exhausted and scared" when he signed a statement saying Knox had been out working until 1 a.m. and that he hadn't realized he was ''depriving Amanda of the only alibi she had."
The Ivorian was convicted in a separate trial of sexually assaulting and stabbing Kercher. His 16-year sentence, reduced on appeal from 30 years, was upheld by Italy's Supreme Court. Guede claimed during his appeals trial that he heard Kercher and Knox argue over money minutes before the Briton was slain. Guede claimed he had fallen ill and had gone into the bathroom with his iPod when he heard ''a very loud scream" coming from Kercher's bedroom. He rushed to the bedroom, he said, where he saw an unidentified man who tried to attack him. Backing into the hall, Guede said he heard the man say, ''Let's go. There's a black man in the house." Guede, a small-time drug dealer, fled Italy after the killing and was extradited from Germany to face trial.
Reader Comments
Very poor reporting. Too general, hence highly biased.
When one reads all the details of the investigation, Amanda Knox and her boyfriend are the victims of a truly horrendous miscarriage of Italian justice.
If this is an example of Italian justice, one should never even consider travel to Italy, for any reason.
Read the police interview.She got away with murder I think !


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Pilot Incapacitation
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Pilot Incapacitation is the term used to describe the inability of a pilot, who is part of the operating crew, to carry out their normal duties because of the onset, during flight, of the effects of physiological factors.
Death is the most extreme example of incapacitation, usually as a result of a heart attack, but is not necessarily the most hazardous. Although most recorded deaths of operating pilots in flight have been found to be due to cardiovascular disease, by far the most common cause of flight crew incapacitation is gastroenteritis.
Incapacitation may occur as a result of:
- The effects of Hypoxia (insufficient oxygen) associated with an absence of normal pressurisation system function at altitudes above 10,000 ft.
- Smoke or Fumes associated with an Fire in the Air or with contamination of the air conditioning system.
- Gastro-intestinal problems such as severe Gastroenteritis potentially attributable to Food Poisoning, or to Food Allergy.
- Being asleep.
- A medical condition such as a heart attack, stroke or seizure, or transient mental abnormality.
- A Bird Strike or other event causing incapacitating physical injury.
- A malicious or hostile act such as assault by an unruly passenger, terrorist action or small arms fire, or possibly malicious targeting of aircraft with high powered lasers by persons on the ground.
Unless the incapacitation occurs on a single pilot operation, incapacitation of one pilot may not be immediately obvious, become only progressively evident, or escape notice altogether until an unexpected absence of response or action occurs.
Clearly, if the single pilot of a small aircraft becomes incapacitated then the safety of the flight is liable to be severely compromised and Loss of Control may result. However, for the two pilot case typical of larger transport aircraft, incapacitation of only one of the pilots is unlikely to present a significant risk given the attention which pilot training, especially for low minima precision approaches, is usually required to give to the implications of single pilot incapacitation.
Loss of Separation may be a secondary effect of total crew incapacitation or side effect of the additional workload imposed upon the remaining crew member(s).
The key to avoiding serious problems from the incapacitation of one pilot in a multi crew aircraft is the availability of appropriate SOPs and recurrent training which includes practice in their use.
Correct control of both the aircraft pressurisation system and, if necessary, use of the emergency oxygen supply will both prevent Hypoxia and protect the crew from the effects of Smoke and Fumes. Therapeutic Oxygen supplies can also alleviate the condition of a crew member or passenger suffering a medical condition. Staggering crew meal times and ensuring that each pilot eats different meals both prior to and during flight, will usually prevent both pilots becoming incapacitated due to Food Poisoning and is currently common practice. Intentional sleep whilst on the flight deck may be relevant on long haul flights but should only take place if an appropriate SOPs exists and is followed.
The first indication that a controller might get of total flight crew incapacitation is Loss of Communication. Having tried all means, without success, to contact the aircraft, it is extremely difficult for a controller to ascertain what is happening on an aircraft. If the aircraft autopilot is engaged then it will be likely to follow the flight plan route towards the destination. Conforming with standard loss of communication procedures, military aircraft can be tasked to intercept the aircraft and inspect it visually but there is little that a controller can do other then ensure the safety of surrounding traffic by maintaining separation.
Accidents & Incidents
Events on the SKYbrary Database which list Incapacitation as a causal factor:
- A319, vicinity Glasgow UK, 2018 (On 30 September 2018, an Airbus A319 Captain had to complete a flight into Glasgow on his own when the First Officer left the flight deck after suffering a flying-related anxiety attack. After declaring a 'PAN' to ATC advising that the aircraft was being operated by only one pilot, the flight was completed without further event. The Investigation found that the First Officer had been "frightened" after the same Captain had been obliged to take control during his attempted landing the previous day and had "felt increasingly nervous" during his first 'Pilot Flying' task since the event the previous day.)
- A320, vicinity Abu Dhabi UAE, 2012 (On 16 November 2012, Captain of an A320 positioning for approach to Abu Dhabi at night became incapacitated due to a stroke. The First Officer took over control and declared a MAYDAY to ATC. The subsequent approach and landing were uneventful but since the First Officer was not authorised to taxi the aircraft, it was towed to the gate for passenger disembarkation. The investigation found that the Captain had an undiagnosed medical condition which predisposed him towards the formation of blood clots in arteries and veins.)
- B733, en-route, northwest of Athens Greece, 2005 (On 14 August 2005, a Boeing 737-300 was released to service with the cabin pressurisation set to manual. This abnormal setting was not detected by the flight crew involved during standard checks. They took no corrective action after take-off when a cabin high altitude warning occurred. The crew lost consciousness as the aircraft climbed on autopilot and after eventual fuel exhaustion, the aircraft departed controlled flight and impacted terrain. The Investigation found that inadequate crew performance had occurred within a context of systemic organisational safety deficiencies at the Operator compounded by inadequate regulatory oversight.)
- B738, en-route, south east of Marseilles France, 2011 (On 6 July 2011 the First Officer of a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 was suddenly incapacitated during a passenger flight from Pisa to Las Palmas. The Captain declared a 'medical emergency' and identified the First Officer as the affected person before diverting uneventfully to Girona. The subsequent investigation focused particularly on the way the event was perceived as a specifically medical emergency rather than also being an operational emergency as well as on the operator procedures for the situation encountered.)
- B738, en-route, south west of Beirut Lebanon, 2010 (On 25 January 2010, a Boeing 737-800 being operated by Ethiopian Airlines on a scheduled passenger flight from Beirut to Addis Ababa in night IMC disappeared from ATC radar soon after departure from Runway 21 and was subsequently found to have impacted the sea in an unintentional out of control condition some five miles south west of the airport less than five minutes after getting airborne Impact resulted in the destruction of the aircraft and the death of all 90 occupants.)
- B738, vicinity Porto Portugal, 2015 (On 5 September 2015, a Boeing 737-800 was about to commence descent on a non-precision final approach at Porto in VMC when a green laser was directed at the aircraft. The Pilot Flying responded rapidly by shielding his eyes and was unaffected but the other pilot looked up, sustained flash blindness and "crew coordination was compromised". Subsequently, the approach became unstable and a go around to an uneventful approach to the reciprocal runway direction was completed. The subsequent Investigation noted the use of increasingly powerful green lasers in this way and that such use was not contrary to Portuguese law.)
- B744, vicinity Dubai UAE, 2010 (On 3 September 2010, a UPS Boeing 747-400 freighter flight crew became aware of a main deck cargo fire 22 minutes after take off from Dubai. An emergency was declared and an air turn back commenced but a rapid build up of smoke on the flight deck made it increasingly difficult to see on the flight deck and to control the aircraft. An unsuccessful attempt to land at Dubai was followed by complete loss of flight control authority due to fire damage and terrain impact followed. The fire was attributed to auto-ignition of undeclared Dangerous Goods originally loaded in Hong Kong.)
- B763, Atlanta GA, USA 2009 (On 19 October 2009, a Boeing 767-300 being operated by Delta Airlines on a scheduled passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro to Atlanta inadvertently made a landing at destination in night VMC on parallel taxiway 'M' instead of the intended and ATC-cleared landing runway 27R. None of the 194 occupants were injured and there was no damage to the aircraft or conflict with other traffic or vehicles. The third rostered crew member had become incapacitated en route with the consequence that neither of the other pilots had been able to take any in flight rest.)
- B763, en-route, Atlantic Ocean, 2008 (On 28 January 2008, the first officer on a B767, flying from Toronto to London, became incapacitated and the captain elected to divert to the nearest airport, Shannon, Ireland.)
- BA11, en-route, Didcot Oxfordshire UK, 1990 (On 10 June 1990, a BAC 1-11 operated by British Airways, during climb, experienced sudden explosive depressurisation which resulted in loss of the left hand windscreen. The commander was sucked in the windscreen aperture and was successfully secured by the cabin crew, while the first officer executed a safe landing.)
- BE20, vicinity Stapleford UK, 2015 (On 3 October 2015, the pilot of a Beech Super King Air on a business flight lost control in IMC shortly after take-off and the aircraft subsequently impacted terrain at high speed. The Investigation concluded on the balance of probabilities that pilot medical incapacitation was likely to have occurred. It was noted that the aircraft had not been fitted with TAWS nor was it required to be but it was found that alerting from such a system would have increased the chances of the only passenger, another professional pilot, successfully taking over and three corresponding Safety Recommendations were made.)
- D228, vicinity Bodø Norway, 2003 (On 4 December 2003, the crew of a Dornier 228 approaching Bodø lost control of their aircraft after a lightning strike which temporarily blinded both pilots and damaged the aircraft such that the elevator was uncontrollable. After regaining partial pitch control using pitch trim, a second attempt at a landing resulted in a semi-controlled crash which seriously injured both pilots and damaged the aircraft beyond repair. The Investigation concluded that the energy in the lightning had probably exceeded certification resilience requirements and that up to 30% of the bonding wiring in the tail may have been defective before lightning struck.)
Related Articles
- Loss of Cabin Pressurisation
- Fire in the Air
- Accident and Serious Incident Reports: Crew Incapacitation
- Laser Interference in Aviation
- Food Poisoning (OGHFA SE)
Further Reading
- ICAO Doc 8984 "Manual of Civil Aviation Medicine", third edition 2012. Part 1, Chapter 3 concerns Flight Crew Incapacitation.
- Flight Crew Incapacitation, BEA France, Incidents in Air Transport No. 12, Feb 2011
- Diabetes mellitus and its effects on pilot performance and flight safety
- AviAtion LAser exposure seLf-Assessment (ALesA), UK CAA
- UK CAA CAP 1703: Aircrew guide to gastroenteritis, August 2018


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Teen Plane Stowaway Can't Believe He Survived in Wheel Well
Somehow, he survived amid high altitude, frigid temperatures and low oxygen.
-- Yahya Abdi missed his mother.
So the California teen, frustrated with his home situation, hopped a fence at the San Jose Airport April 20, and stowed away in the wheel well of a Boeing 767 that flew to Maui.
Abdi, 15, discussed his journey in an exclusive interview with San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX, his first public statements since the trip.
"I took that plane because it was the closest one I could find that was going to go west," he said over Google Chat.
Somehow, Abdi survived amid the high altitude, frigid temperatures and low oxygen as the plane flew for more than five hours. He says he crouched, covering his ears as the plane took off. The plane reached altitudes above 35,000 feet.
"It was above the clouds. I could see through the little holes," he told KPIX Tuesday.
Teen's Dad Says Son Wanted to Go to Africa
How Did Teen Survive Inside Wheel Well?
Asked whether he can believe that he survived the trip, the teen simply said, "Nope."
Abdi said he was unhappy at home and missed his birth mother, who he hadn't seen since he was 7. She lives in Africa now, although Abdi had no concrete plans for getting there when he randomly picked the flight to Hawaii. He spoke to her on the phone Tuesday.
"I would tell her to live with me in America," he told KPIX.
The teen is regaining his health – and his hearing, too. He says he's staying at a temporary foster home, but plans to soon live with his aunt in the Minneapolis area, KPIX reported
While he survived his journey, Abdi hopes others don't follow his lead to breach airport security.
"They shouldn't run away because sometimes they will end up dying," he said.


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Congrats on the new bike! The sun is shining out here with a balmy 50 degrees, a shame I can't go enjoy it right now. (Recovering from a tonsillectomy). Should be out riding in a week or less. Question, what does DCT stand for?
Congrats on the bike! Love the red! Rode one of the std transmission models in Evansville. Went with a buddy to Clarksville to CC Powersports so he could ride the dual clutch models. I didn't ride that one. The dealership directed him to ride up 65 a couple of miles and turn around and come back. I just hate 65 so I just followed on my son's C14. The new wings are really really nice. Really liked the seat on the 30 mile ride I took. Wondering if that seat is as comfortable after a few hundred miles as it was in 30.
A beautiful bike, good luck with it ride safe and above all ENJOY
Congrats! Nice ride!! Wife wanted a Wing, price steered me to the Connie. Oh well, still having fun.......
Congratulations on the new toy.We gonna see you at any COG events?Ride safe, Ted
Congrats! Jamie', please stick around and give us occasional feedback on the new wing. I know it will be tempting to wander off to new forums and forget your old friends, but please keep us in mind. With the eventual demise of c14 manufacturing and no likely suitable replacement coming from Mama Kaw, there are several of us that may want to follow in your foot steps.
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By Steve Wehrly, Journal reporter
The first section of the long-talked-about boardwalk, from the Port to Cannery Landing, won Town Council approval at its Nov. 15 meeting.
Roger Bennett, owner (since 1980) of the building at 1 Spring Street that houses an ice-cream shop, The Place restaurant, and a whale-watching business, applied in May for a shoreline development permit to build the boardwalk on the water side of his property, and also to improve the deck on the ferry dock side.
"I appreciate getting the permits, but they cost me over $2,000 and took seven months," said Bennett, who expects to start construction sometime early next year.
He's not happy that it took seven months to get the permit because he wanted to open the deck for lunch and light foods during tourist season, and he had to forego a small expansion of his building. Bennett prepared the paperwork for the permit and shepherded the project through the permitting process.
The project is fairly extensive. In addition to the boardwalk, Bennett will put stairs on the Spring Street side of the building, an awning over the ice cream shop ("so the ice-cream won't melt"), a covered porch, with sunroom and a small building with a kitchen on the deck, replacement of waterside pilings and a small boat lift under the building.
Bennett hopes to begin work early next year, but does not expect all parts of the project to be done "for several years" — partly because he will be doing some of the work himself.
The total cost of the project will be about $30,000, according to papers filed with the town.
Marilyn O'Conner, director of the Port of Friday Harbor, said that the 1 Spring Street project fits in with the port's long-term plans for the waterfront.
"Roger's waterfront boardwalk is a subject we've talked about off and on over the years," O'Connor said. "The port commission has had a long-standing interest in a waterfront walkway, to improve and formalize the public's easy access to the shoreline."
The port will begin public discussions about their intentions for the waterfront next year.
The building, constructed in the 1870's, over the course of its lifetime has been a warehouse, the town hall and jail, and Friday Harbor headquarters for the U.S. Coast Guard.
Roger Bennett clearly expects it will have several more lives before he's finished with it.