text: Page ContentIn Wakelam v. Wyeth Consumer Healthcare/Wyeth Soins de santé Inc., a unanimous division of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia restricted the ability of plaintiffs to claim disgorgement based on statutory causes of action found in the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act ("BPCPA ") and Competition Act. In so doing, the Court of Appeal reversed the certification of the Wakelam class proceeding by the trial court.This result continues the development of a line of authority that will be important to manufacturers and distributors, limiting any claims to actual losses sustained; non-injured plaintiffs will not be able to claim under these statutes.The Wakelam CaseOn December 18, 2008, Health Canada reversed a longstanding policy that had permitted the sale in Canada of certain non-prescription cough and cold medicines for use by children, requiring manufacturers to re-label the medicines to instruct consumers that they should not be used in children under six years of age. This reversal was based on new scientific findings that these medicines were ineffective for use by children. The defendant cold medicine manufacturers complied with the re-labeling. Ms. Wakelam, the proposed representative plaintiff, brought claim against several defendant manufacturers purportedly on behalf of "all persons resident in British Columbia who purchased Children's Cough Medicine for use by children under the age of six, that was supplied, offered for sale, advertised or promoted by the defendants between December 24, 1997 to present". The Court noted that Ms. Wakelam did not give evidence that she gave the cough syrup to her son, nor (if her son took any) that the cough syrup was not effective or caused him injury or harm. Ms. Wakelam's claim was that in marketing the medicines for use in children under six, the defendant manufacturers engaged in "deceptive acts or practices" contrary to the BPCPA and made representations to the public that were false or misleading in a material respect, contrary to the Competition Act. She sought the disgorgement of any benefits received by the defendants as a result of their alleged contraventions of the two statutes.In reasons indexed as 2011 BCSC 1765, the certification judge certified the proceeding as a class proceeding on substantially the terms sought. The defendant manufacturers appealed the certification to the Court of Appeal. Reasons were released by the Court of Appeal on 30 January 2014.Doctrine of Paramountcy Considered by Court of AppealThe defendants argued both at certification and on appeal, under the second branch of the paramountcy ("frustration") constitutional doctrine, that the purposes of the federal Food and Drug Act, administered by Health Canada, would be frustrated if the BPCPA were to apply to the packaging, labelling and sale of the medicines in question. The certification judge rejected this argument, finding that applying the BPCPA merely added an "additional layer of protection" for the consumer, rather than creating a conflict between the two statutes or "rendering inoperative" the federal statute. The Court of Appeal agreed with the certification judge, noting that while there was no inconsistency between the statutes in the facts of this case, a future argument about inconsistency (on appropriate facts) was not foreclosed.Disgorgement Remedies Rejected by Court of Appeal: BPCPAMs. Wakelam sought recovery under restitutionary principles (for "unjust enrichment, waiver of tort and constructive trust") premised on breach of the BPCPA. The remedy specifically sought was the restitution or disgorgement of money received by the defendants as a result of the alleged statutory breach.The facts of these sought remedies required the Court of Appeal to revisit its 2012 decision in Koubi v. Mazda Canada, a decision not available to the certification judge in Wakelam. In Koubi, the plaintiff complained of a defect in the door locks in certain Mazda vehicles that she alleged made the vehicle susceptible to a break-in. Her vehicle was not broken into but she became concerned about its security. Soon after, she was notified that she could have a reinforcement installed at her local dealership, which she did in September 2007. Nevertheless, Ms. Koubi initiated a class action on the basis that Mazda Canada's representations as to the quality of its components, including door locks, were "deceptive acts" by a "supplier" contrary to ss. 4 and 5 of the BPCPA. She sought restitutionary remedies, on the basis of "waiver of tort". In considering the BPCPA and whether a claim of waiver of tort was available for alleged "breach" of the statute, the Court of Appeal in Koubi held that the statute provided an "exhaustive code regulating consumer transactions" and that there was nothing in the BPCPA to indicate that the Legislature intended to augment the statutory remedy by permitting consumers to mount restitutionary actions.The Court of Appeal in Wakelam found Koubi to be on point, and applied it to Ms. Wakelam's claim. Madam Justice Newbury wrote: [66] In my view, the reasoning in Koubi applies not only to the allegation of waiver of tort advanced by Ms. Wakelam but also to her claims for unjust enrichment and constructive trust insofar as they are based on breach of the [BPCPA]. Although I might not have used the phrase "occupying the field" (which has constitutional connotations), I see no legislative intent to create restitutionary causes of action arising from or based on breaches of the [BPCPA]; nor has the plaintiff sought to argue that the [BPCPA] provides only 'ineffective enforcement'. Disgorgement Remedies Rejected by Court of Appeal: Competition ActIn the alternative to her claims under the BPCPA, Ms. Wakelam also asserted breaches of the Competition Act. The defendants contended that just as the BPCPA is a "complete code" for consumer transactions, the Competition Act deals comprehensively with anti- competitive and unfair trade practices. The Court of Appeal, after reviewing the statutory scheme and several decisions, agreed with the defendants and reversed the certification judge: [90] Section 36 [of the Competition Act ] clearly limits recovery for pecuniary loss to "the loss or damage proved to have been suffered" by the plaintiff, together with possible investigatory costs incurred by the plaintiff. I see nothing in the Competition Act to indicate that Parliament intended that the statutory right of action should be augmented by a general right in consumers to sue in tort or to seek restitutionary remedies on the basis of breaches of Part VI. It follows in my view that the certification judge did err in finding that the pleading disclosed a cause of action under the Competition Act for which a court might grant restitutionary relief; and that accordingly, paras. 34-38 of Ms. Wakelam's statement of claim do not disclose a cause of action.Impact on Manufacturers and DistributorsCritically, the Court of Appeal decision restricts the ability of plaintiffs to bring consumer protection- based claims for disgorgement of profits of manufacturers and distributors under both the BPCPA and the Competition Act. This decision, along with the Court of Appeal's decision in Koubi, is of significance to any manufacturer or distributor, especially in cases where no losses are suffered by consumers. The Court of Appeal decisions in Wakelam and in Koubi will likely be applied to other consumer protection laws across Canada. Expect restitutionary remedies, especially waiver of tort, to be more carefully scrutinized on a summary basis without the need of a full trial. The full decision in Wakelam v. Wyeth Consumer Healthcare/Wyeth Soins de santé Inc. is available online, and is indexed as 2014 BCCA 36. Please feel free to contact the authors for further information on this topic or to provide comments or questions. Both acted as counsel for Mazda Canada Inc., at all levels of court, in Koubi v. Mazda Canada Inc., 2010 BCSC 650 and 2011 BCSC 59, rev'd 2012 BCCA 301, leave to appeal to Supreme Court of Canada denied with costs (January 17, 2013). AuthorsBrad W. Dixon firstname.lastname@example.com T. Maniago email@example.com ActionsLitigation and Arbitration Back to top


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Since autumn 2017, she has been mandated by the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) to serve as Researcher - CONACYT at the Center for Global Change and Sustainability in the Southeast, C.A. (CCGSS) in Mexico. At the CCGSS she is working on the research project entitled "Towards Sustainable Management of Water Resources in the Southeast of Mexico and adjacent areas of Central America".
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Nava LF (2017). Peer review report 3 on "Economic Effects of a Reservoir Re-operation Policy in the Rio Grande/Bravo for Integrated Human and Environmental Water Management". Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 9: p. 152. DOI:10.1016/j.ejrh.2016.12.048.
Satoh Y, Kahil T, Byers E, Burek P, Fischer G, Tramberend S, Greve P, Flörke M, et al. (2017). Multi-model and multi-scenario assessments of Asian water futures: the Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative. Earth's Future 5 (7): 823-852. DOI:10.1002/2016EF000503.
Wiberg D, Satoh Y, Burek P, Fischer G, Tramberend S, Kahil T, Flörke M, Eisner S, et al. (2017). Water Futures and Solutions: Asia 2050 (Final Report). Knowledge and Innovation Support for the Water Financing Program of the Asian Development Bank (RETA 6498). IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria (Submitted)
Nava LF (2017). Water Security through Institutional Resilience in the Transboundary Paso del Norte Region. In: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, 21-25 May, 2017, Sacramento, California.
Nava LF, Brown C, Demeter K, Lasserre F, Milanes-Murcia M, Mumme S, & Sandoval-Solis S (2016). Existing opportunities to adapt the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin Water Resources Allocation Framework. Water 8 (7): e291. DOI:10.3390/w8070291.
Burek P, Satoh Y, Fischer G, Kahil MT, Scherzer A, Tramberend S, Nava LF, Wada Y, et al. (2016). Water Futures and Solution - Fast Track Initiative (Final Report). IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-16-006
Eaton D, Niemeyer S, Lander A, & Nava LF (2016). Towards an English-Spanish version of the Comprehensive Transboundary International Water Quality Management Agreement. In: World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, 22-26 May 2016, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Nava LF (2016). Realidad o quimera de los futuros conflictos hídricos: el caso de la cuenca del Río Grande/Bravo. In: Seminario Permanente: Fronteras Teórico-Conceptuales y Metodológicas en los Estudios Urbanos, del Medio Ambiente y el Territorio, 14-16 March 2016, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexiko.
Tramberend S, Wiberg D, Wada Y, Flörke M, Fischer G, Satoh Y, Yillia P, van Vliet M, et al. (2015). Building global water use scenarios. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-15-014
Gandin J & Nava LF (2015). Geopolitica del medio ambiente: Cambio climatico y recursos hidricos. Aproximacion al caso de Canada. Revista Abaco 3 (85): 121-131.
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CBS got a head start on all of the convention frenzy sure to dominate TV this week. The network aired the first interview with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and his VP pick Mike Pence on 60 Minutes.
Lesley Stahl's exclusive sit-down ahead of Monday's RNC kickoff in Cleveland, Ohio, was on par with last week's episode, a repeat, though it did rank as the night's most-watched telecast. Fast Affiliate ratings from Nielsen give 60 Minutes 7.85 million viewers and a 0.8 rating among adults 18-49. That's down from the typical showing of an original 60 Minutes, though much-improved from its typical Sunday showing.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Cam Ward has beaten the Montreal Canadiens plenty of times during his long career — but until now, never in a shutout.
Ward stopped 27 shots in his second shutout of the season, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat Montreal 2-0 on Thursday night.
Brett Pesce and Brock McGinn scored to help the Hurricanes win their third straight, sweep the season series from Montreal and keep themselves in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race. Carolina entered two points out of a playoff spot and has opened an eight-game homestand with consecutive victories.
"It's crunch time. All you've got to do is look at the standings, and we've kind of preached that this is our playoffs," Ward said. "We've got a lot of games here at home, you want to kind of build some momentum, get some fans into the building and reward them with some wins."
Carey Price made 28 saves for the Canadiens, who have lost three in a row and fell to 2-5-2 in their last nine games.
"You don't like losing, and it is frustrating, but I think there was an effort there tonight," coach Claude Julien said. "But I'd like to see desperation add to that effort, because that's what we need to turn things around."
McGinn made it a two-goal game with 5:09 remaining, taking a smooth pass from Justin Williams and slipping the puck past Price.
That gave Ward some breathing room, and he finished with the 27th shutout of his 13-year career — but his first in 36 games against the Canadiens while improving his lifetime record against them to 20-12-4. He previously blanked defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh 4-0 on Jan. 4.
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Ward outdueled Price for the third time this season. The teams' final meeting of the season bore little resemblance to their last one a week earlier — a wild 6-5 win by Carolina in Montreal.
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Gray wolves were removed from the endangered species list in 2011. That same year, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources estimated there were about 700 gray wolves in Michigan.
Wolf hunt supporters have maintained there is a need to control the population in the Upper Peninsula to avoid damage to private livestock and unwanted human interaction. Farmers can apply for permits to kill wolves currently as a predatory nuisance, but the bill's backers believe that method falls short.
"You're shifting the burden to the farmer. He's got to figure out a way to stay up all night and keep a visual on animals to legitimately shoot a wolf," primary sponsor state Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, told the News-Review in November. "We're looking for a balance, and one of the ways to get there is to allow the wolf to become a game animal, to use the hunt to balance it out."
The wolf hunt has drawn opposition from Native American tribes in Michigan, as well as animal rights groups.
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Under the HB 1350 wording a special advisory committee will be established to make non-binding recommendations to the Natural Resources Commission and Legislature. Because the cultural significance the wolf has to Native Americans, state Rep. Frank Foster, R-Petoskey, attempted to expand the number of tribal members on the committee Tuesday through an amendment, but failed to get enough supporting votes.
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In this issue of the Newsletter we will look at this most fundamental of all questions:How do we perceive life, and how deeply do we understand this energy that lies at the very heart of human existence? How we answer these questions affects how we think about the many issues that arise today:the beginning and ending of life, birth and death, the right to life, the right to a good death, when to sustain life, and when – or if – to terminate life.
These questions are no longer discussed only in the hushed tones of the physician's office; they are now dealt with in the public square and everyone is invited to state their opinion. World Goodwill, however, does not take a specific position on many of these issues like abortion or euthanasia. But we do try to provide a deeper, esoteric perspective on the nature of life. More than ever there is a need to deepen our understanding of these issues so that the opinions of each of us are based on what we believe to be closer to the truth as it is revealed today. But all of these questions stem from the most basic question of all: What is Life?
To be honest, and given our present general level of consciousness, we human beings may never be able to understand this question with absolute truth. All we can do is try to bring together what some of the leading minds and traditional teachings have revealed about life down through the centuries. To advance our understanding about what life is, we would like to turn to the metaphysical teachings presented in the books of Alice Bailey. They offer a perspective beyond the generally accepted materialistic view that prevails today. These are not dogmatic assertions, but are offered as ideas for pondering. If they ring true to your intuition then let them enhance the depth and quality of your mind and your decision-making.
From a metaphysical perspective, then, what is Life? This view sees life as a distinct, all-pervasive electrical1 energy that interpenetrates and animates all forms – from the minute atom of substance to a human being to the planet as a whole. "Life is one and naught can ever take or touch that life". Life, from this perspective, does not arise or originate from a particular form. It is given to form by God; it is the one Life that breathes into all forms. Even when forms such as human or animal forms are destroyed and die, life remains. Life exists quite apart from forms of any kind. Thus the energy of the one Life is the same life expressed through a diamond, a rose, an oak tree, a dog, a horse, a human being or a human soul, all are expressions of the creative activity of Life.
Perhaps another way to illustrate the one Life is through its relationship to the divine Trinity which can be expressed in many ways, such as Father, Son and Holy Spirit; or Spirit, Soul and Matter. Life in this case is described as "that fourth something which hovers behind all manifestation and behind all objects, all qualified expressions of divinity and which is hinted at in the Bhagavad Gita in the words: 'Having pervaded this whole universe with a fragment of Myself, I remain'"(Esoteric Astrology, p. 592, emph. added).
When does Life begin?
There seems to be much uncertainty about the answer to this question. The prevailing opinion seems to be that as far as human life is concerned it begins at the moment of conception. And where consciousness is focused and identified at the dense physical level, life would seem to begin when the development of the human form begins.
But in view of the above metaphysical perspective, life—whether expressed in a human form or not—would have no beginning, or for that matter, no end either. Life is. It is always present and cannot be taken away. The energy of the one Life is present before conception—in the egg and in the sperm and in the very atoms that make up the molecules and cells. When the egg and the sperm join together, the life energy they carry is passed on in the process of cell formation, which, if allowed, will eventually grow into a human form, or the form of an animal or a plant, as the case may be. There is only the beginning of a new form.
It is important to understand the differentiation between the energy of life and the substance of the form. Life is a constant flow of electrical energy, while forms are temporary expressions through which life manifests at the dense physical level. So for example, when we use the term "human life", we are describing a human form with a consciousness provided by the soul and both are animated by the energy of the one Life.
The Rights of Human Life.
The sanctity and rights given to a human life are of a particular value bestowed by human societies. But it is a value determined by a limited understanding of what a human being is. If life has no beginning or end, as posited by the metaphysical view, then does this affect the value given to life? To answer this question more fully we have to provide a more complete picture of thehuman being by including the factor of the soul and the part it plays in the creation of human life.
With all the discussion today about human life, the beginning and ending of life, and the purpose of life, there is little mention of the existence of the human soul and the direct part it plays in the life of a human being. Here again the metaphysical perspective is helpful. Without the inclusion of the soul, human life is incomplete. In fact, it is the very presence of the individualised soul that makes one human. Our humanness doesn't arise out of the physical cells in the body. The soul, incarnating in the body, provides much of all human intelligence. The soul, it is said in the Bailey writings, takes possession of the fetus only during the fourth month of pregnancy, at the time of the "quickening". Before then, the heart and the brain of the fetus are not sufficiently developed for life and consciousness to be anchored in the head and in the heart, respectively. The soul needs to wait for the "vehicle" to be made ready by the creative process before it can begin to think and act as a recognised human.
The soul stands as a mediating agent between God as Spirit and physical man or woman. It represents the middle position in the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit or Spirit, Soul and Matter. The soul endows a human being with the capacity for consciousness. From a metaphysical perspective that incorporates a belief in reincarnation, it is the soul that incarnates in a particular human form, lifetime after lifetime. It has a particular purpose to work out in line with the Plan of God in each life experience. The soul is essentially the individualised self that enters into the physical body at the time of birth and leaves the body at the moment of death. The body is simply the "vehicle" through which the soul expresses a certain quality of consciousness during its time in the physical world.
In view of this factor of the soul, how does this affect the question of when does life begin? Life as pure electrical energy, it seems, has no beginning or end, it is ever present. And the soul is the immortal being, immortal self, that provides continuity from life to life in a physical body. That being is you, who never really dies, who has "everlasting life", and has experienced the transition of birth and of death many times. If this is the case, if this esoteric perspective provides some degree of truth, then wouldn't this alter the way one thinks about the very controversial issues surrounding birth and death?
The Rights of the Unborn
Do these rights start at the moment of conception, or at the moment of birth, or sometime in between? This is a question that we cannot truthfully answer because the question of rights differ from society to society. There are no universal rights attached to a developing fetus.
What is universal, however, from the spiritual perspective, is the fact of the one soul and the creative process set in motion at the moment of conception. If unimpeded, these forces will play out automatically according to spiritual law and will usually result in a live human being. But the inherent right for that fetus to develop and come to birth is often the choice of the soul, and sometimes, we are told, if the "vehicle" is not developing according to the plans of the soul for that particular life, it may terminate the process and the fetus will be still-born. So the issue of "rights" from the point of view of the soul may not be so firmly fixed. It sees each individual life as a brief experience in a long series of lives and is more influenced in its decision by karma and the divine Plan than by rights. We might say that the soul is an agent of the divine evolutionary impulse, but each soul has the right of choice in determining when, where and how to incarnate in a human body.
There is a similar choice at what is called the end of life as well; another issue that needs more insight today. In the natural course of living, the moment of death may be the choice of the soul. The withdrawal can be slow or rapid. But whatever the timing, the results are the same even in the case of an accident or suicide or in war or by execution—the self, the soul is released from the hold of the physical form. It returns to its overshadowing source. That immortal self crosses into a greater measure of life. Death is but a transition from one state of consciousness to another.
How does this affect the strongly held belief in the sacredness of life? Isn't this belief focused more on the sacredness of the body and the close identification we have with the outer personality? Yes, there is a sacredness to this personal expression of life. As an individualised creation of the soul, the personality existence has a certain plan and purpose related to the divine Will. This greater sacredness of God's Will within Creation should enable us to expand our focus of thought to include this greater purpose. This view demands of us a far more inclusive identification with the underlying purposes of life.
One might ask here, in view of the widespread destruction of human, animal and vegetable forms by so called "acts of God"—hurricanes , tornados, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, etc.—are these forms held in the same sacred esteem as we give to "human life"? The question is often heard, Why does God allow the death of so many people? The ultimate answer may be beyond our ability to understand. But, here again, from a metaphysical perspective, all forms within Creation are temporary and constantly evolving. With the cyclic actions of the soul, the human body may not be given the same degree of priority as we tend to give it. As we exist in time and space, this is the only personality life that we know; but not so to the soul. To the soul, if the physical body is terminated or dies "prematurely", then that is not such a tragedy; it may simply mean an interruption in the plan the soul has for that particular life—a plan and purpose that can be continued in the next life, in another body.
All this may sound rather sterile, unloving and uncaring, given the way we value human life today with the strong, affectionate relationship we have with loved ones, born and unborn. But with the spiritual, metaphysical way of understanding human life—towards which human consciousness is evolving—we are challenged to grow into and express a new depth of life where the greater love of God prevails. It is a love that we must eventually know and serve.
As it stands today, birth, death and life itself seem to be imprisoned in a dense tomb. All existence seems to begin and end at the dense physical level. This view has created a situation in which a strong focus on the form has led to a total control of human thinking by the material forces—forces which tend only to separate and divide. This imprisoned view needs to be liberated, and the all-inclusive love of the soul is the liberating force. If human consciousness and identity can shift upward to align with the soul, then we will see that human beings are much more than just a physical body; they are creative agents through which the soul radiates divine glory.
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His own view is that many truths knowable per se by the wayfarer can be known, not only a posteriori but also a priori, "under the aspect of deity by a form of cognition that is superior and more noble than any knowledge by faith". He proves one part of this by saying that an intellect able to understand a subject under the aspect of a subject [ie the subject of a science] can understand a principle virtually included in the subject, and further conclusions contained in a principle, because as the term of the subject is the cause of the principle so is the principle the cause of a conclusion. The object of the science of theolgy Scotus thinks can be known by means of abstractive cognition (as distinguished against intuitive).
The second part of his position, that the cognition the wayfarer has of God under the aspect of deity is more perfect and more certain than all cognition of faith, Scotus supports with the claim that whatever God can do by means of a second cause, he can do per se efficiently without it. But God by the mediation of some object can cause certain knowledge and certain assent so that the will is not able to dissent. Therefore God can do this per se without a medium (Scotus is thinking of the prophets here, who couldn't dissent from what was revealed to them. apparently).
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"From this I infer two conclusions. The first is that in the cognition of God there are five grades. The first is to know truths intuitively, truths which are knowable about God and knowable distinctly by the notion of the subject known intuitively and distinctly, and that grade is not commonly possible to the wayfarer. The second grade is to know something certitudinally in something representatively distinctly known, and that grade is possible for a wayfarer. The third grade is to know something with certitude so that its certitude is not subject ot an actof the will, and that grade was in the prophets. The fourth grade is to know explicitly those things which are contained in the Scriptures by which brings pious aid and defends agains the impious by knowing how the solve the doubts of others and to fortify them with good arguments, and that grade is of the great ones in the church ['maiorum':Wolter translates this as elders]. The fifth grade is to know those things which are necessary for salvation, which is of the simple ones, because they are not able to search through all things contained in scripture."
The second conclusion he derives is that the light Henry talks about is not something that comes with extended study, but is there by a supernatural infusion who possesses it as a free gift to the intellect. Which is about as much as I've seen Scotus ever grant to the notion of divine illumination.


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Eyewear, the blog therefore had to read it to see.
Well, one sentence - and suggestion - is probably best construed as offensive, sexist, rude, and borderline libellous - the suggestion that the Eliot judging panel gave the prize to a debut collection by young poet Sarah Howe because she is good-looking, and half-Chinese. I say probably because Private Eye is a well-known satirical rag, and Wheatley, an Irish poet and scholar with expertise in Beckett's works, will know better than I that satire is sometimes meant to be like that. In short, they may well have meant to get a reaction.
Eyewear placed this winning book among its best of 2015, and Private Eye is surely incorrect in suggesting it won because of the looks or nationalities of the author- its merits as poetry are evident enough to speak for themselves.
However, David Wheatley went further (possibly because he rightly dislikes sexism, even in satirical magazines) and suggested Private Eye has no right to question the judging panel, and how this famous prize is adjudicated. Wheatley went on to ask if the writer of the Private Eye squib had any knowledge of poetry more generally, and suggested they probably didn't.
Here is where Eyewear has a subtly different perspective on this sort of intervention from the outer world. We do not welcome sexism and chauvinism, and that part is wrong and should be apologised for. However, ill-informed commentary on poetry in mainstream widely-read magazines is precisely what poetry needs more of.
The current problem with British poetry - well one of them - is that it is impossible to express an opinion on a poet, poem or collection these days in public without triggering a cavalcade of storming PhDs and profs who all know more than enough to fight their various corners, immediately suffocating the fun of dumb opinionated blather which is the oxygen that fuels most fandom.
Poets often wonder why ordinary non-poets don't become poetry fans more often - it is because they feel you cannot be ill-informed and join the conversation. And sadly, they are made to feel that way.
For instance, if I say I like a movie like Star Wars, I say this as an ignorant joker. Same thing if I say I like The X-Files TV show. I am not an expert in these shows, or sci-fi, or film-making (though I have some experience). I am a fan of boxing precisely because I cannot box and barely understand a left hook. I like Miles Davis because I am not a cool jazzer. I read War & Peace safe in the knowledge I will not be asked to speak Russian. I go to the ballet happily unsure of how to dance; I watch rugby unsure of how to enter a scrum. I loved David Bowie exactly because I am not a singer-songwriter.
I have long argued we need disinterested, ill-informed poetry fans, who feel safe to express dumb opinions, biased views, and half-baked theories on prizes, books, poets, contests, and publishers, JUST LIKE FANS DO FOR EVERY OTHER POPULAR ART FORM.
No, we must not too-carefully police commentary on poetry events - however dumb, rude and morally repugnant these comments may be - on the grounds that we poets know more than our readers, our potential wider audience. Of course we do - we are Practitioners, we are IN THE KNOW. We are the ones who need to keep our mouths shut, and let our work generate shit-storms of tweets, posts and other social media nonsense, in our absence. Otherwise, the lunatics will be policing the poetry prison-house of language.
But, in this case, yes, Private Eye went too far, and owes Ms Howe and the judges an apology. She won because her book was judged the best of the ten. Eyewear felt the book was probably second-best of the ten (we preferred Citizen by Ms Rankine) but we think Ms Howe's book is still a fantastic book. It should be okay to say this. Just as our blog loved Bridge of Spies this year, but thinks The Big Short is a little bit better.
We must be less afraid to express opinion, and to not have to back it up. Oh, and we love reading Larkin, Dylan Thomas and Wendy Cope - get stuffed!


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Qi Hardware makes innovative projects. Here are a few highlights.
[edit] Copyleft Hardware
- copyleft hw = hardware built only with freely available knowledge.
- the first computer built out of Wikipedia
[edit] What makes copyleft hardware superior?
Well you know the long laundry list, question is what sticks
1. no vendor lock-in 2. you can max out software upgradability, drive the actual physical bits to their maximum lifetime 3. dramatically lowers the amount of capital/people needed to improve upon the piece of hw, distributing the innovation burden on more shoulders 4. foundation for software continuity, i.e. you can make investments into or on top of software, and not be worried that your foundation is gone one day 5. will be cheaper than proprietary hardware once the amount of reusable copyleft hw reaches a critical point that makes investing to replace it prohibitively expensive at that point (#5), it should really take off btw. but I think it's quite a way out, especially because proprietary hw can be subsidized with proprietary content or ads, better than copyleft hw
[edit] Ben WPAN, akak SLoWPAN
[edit] First Open Processor
Milkymist1 is the first open source system-on-a-chip. The software that runs on our FPGA is completely GPL'd.
- We democratize IC design
- Make it accessible to anybody
IC design is where the innovation in the next 20 years will come from OS design is maxed out application design (whatever model-view-controller stuff or similar you want) languages - bah - we have enough compiled, interpreted, jit, etc. IC design is the forgotten child, huge potential once it is pulled into the software equation
speaking about that - what innovation have you seen in the Linux kernel in the last 10 years?
Its mature, Its polished!
IC design is also the entry door to DSP (digital signal processing), which is the entry door to many applications, RF protocols being one of them also ultrasound, microwaves, radar, etc.
imagine if your smartphone would also be an ultrasound device, the implications for global health would be unimaginable
in order to reach those applications, we need to look beyond what we have in software right now like I said above, beyond 1) OS design 2) application design 3) programming languages those things are all maxed out database design all digital stuff MAXED OUT if you wait 10 years, don't expect innovation to come from there object-oriented databases? come on UML - unified modeling language
Sebastien, the Linus of IC design, made the first steps
you can also say with IC design, we can marry the digital world with the analog world that's innovation in itself, and more once it is used in actual applications
[edit] Rapid Design
- Over the weekend you can hack up something cool
[edit] Hardware is Much Cheaper than Equal System
As pure hardware, one innovation is that it is cheaper than other systems that can do the same thing especially if you want to control DMX, MIDI as well
[edit] What applications can FPGA and Milkymist be used for?
> What types of applications could you think of for writing verilog code > for the milkymist soc fpga that could be interesting out side > ofgraphics? Hmm, let's see. First of all, the FPGA is useful for all sorts of "self-referential" work. E.g., to prototype new peripheral interfaces in the Milkymist product line. We don't make much use of this at the moment, but that may change. Candidates for such interfaces could also include unusual things like those GPS chips. Second, the FPGA can act as a universal coprocessor. This could range from all sorts of codecs to crypto, and so on. Since our system is already FPGA-centric, we may have more flexibility in how we integrate that coprocessor. Third, and that's where I see the main interest beyond the VJ station, the Milkymist project provides a basis for advancing the state of the art when it comes to openness in FPGA use (from a developer's point of view). It's hard to predict what will come out of "opening" FPGAs, but I think there's a lot of potential. Directions currently completely unexplored include on-the-fly synthesis of subsystems (think classifiers for network packets), or instrumentation like my hack that brings out FPGA-internal signals (and that is severely limited by the bugs in unsupported Xilinx tools). What the Milkymist project can contribute there is not only the opening of the core processes, but also provision of a reference platform. One problem with Free FPGA work is that a lot is centered on development boards. These boards have only a very limited lifetime and aren't nicely integrated boxes. A Milkymist platform that with a long-term evolution could make a big difference there. Of course, at some point in time, the VJ focus would become a burden. But if we could, say, spin a MilkyNote off Milkymist and NanoNote, that could go a long way towards that goal. > Some guys were asking me about writing optimized code for doing big > data crunching and more, just want to have some far out thoughts on > what milkymist could be bent to do for some investors/high level > thinkers to crunch on... Not so sure about data crunching. The M1 isn't the fastest machine when it comes to raw processing power. So you may run into limits there (memory bandwidth, I/O bandwidth, CPU core speed). Perhaps it's better not to try to sell the M1 as a box that can do all sorts of marvellous things, but the Milkymist line, with the M1 as the box that unlocks the secrets that today keep us from making that box of marvels. Cheers, Werner
From Wolfgang:
> Perhaps it's better not to try to sell the M1 as a box that can > do all sorts of marvellous things, but the Milkymist line, with > the M1 as the box that unlocks the secrets that today keep us > from making that box of marvels. Yes, Milkymist and M1 today are about flexibility beyond what the current computing architectures offer. Not more raw computing power, but flexibility to take computing into completely unexplored and un-optimized for use cases. It's hard to narrow it down more at this point, but fpga and ic design are the enabling elements.
yeah I am wondering myself about that a lot too :-) Werner, please correct... 1) graphics acceleration 2) digital signal processing, that is the processing of radio protocols, or radar/sonar/ultrasound 3) more parallelism, like 10 cameras Let's see what Werner says...


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I know, this is late. It is due to drunkenness and a hangover.
I had lots of fun with my friends at the bar before the game. And also at the bar after the game. But the game itself, not really.
I gave it about twenty minutes before I asked a guy at one of the concession stands if there was anywhere in the stadium I could get a newspaper. He just laughed and then called over the girl by the register to tell her what I asked. I think that meant "no." So my sister and I spent the rest of the game watching and critiquing the cheerleaders.


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Mclaren M1B Early Season Variant
Posted Jan 31 2018 - 03:24 PM
Any ideas why this is happening? Is there a mod .ini file that I can manually modify to get either variant? In the larger scheme of things it doesn't really matter. I just prefer the cleaner look of the early-season car.
Posted Jan 31 2018 - 03:32 PM
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Posted Jan 31 2018 - 07:17 PM
Edited by gliebzeit, Feb 01 2018 - 07:28 AM.
Posted Jan 31 2018 - 07:30 PM
gliebzeit, on Jan 31 2018 - 07:17 PM, said:
NO! Not yet!
Michael, are you using one of the 60fps patches with the '66 CanAm mod? If yes, is it the "60fpsaiv1" patch? If it's a different one, then I think this might be your problem.
I had problems with the 1967 F1 Historic mod when it was first released. I was trying to see which of the 60fps patches to use, and at first I tried the "60fpsv2newmod" as it seemed to be the latest. At first, everything seemed to work fine, but then I realised that if I wanted to drive the Brabham BT19/20, I could only select the BT20 body style. If I selected "BT19" in the graphics drop-down, I still got the BT20 graphics. I then tried switching to the "60fpsaiv1" patch, and this fixed the problem.
I've just tried the "60fpsv2newmod" patch with the '66 CanAms, and it causes the problem you describe. So if you're using any patch other than "60fpsaiv1", then I suggest you switch to that one and see if that fixes things. That's the patch I normally use with the '66 CanAms, and I can select both versions of the M1B bodywork.
I hope that helps.
Posted Jan 31 2018 - 09:38 PM
Yes, I was using one of the 60fps patches.
Yes, I was patching with the 60fpsv2newmod.
And yes, it was that patch that was causing the problem! It appears that the 60fpsaiv1 patch is the one to use with the CA66 mod! (And now that you mention it, I had earlier run the CA66 first in 36fps, then using the 60fpsv1 patch. I tried the 60fpsv1 patch first because somewhere on this forum, you [Saiph] say that it works best with CA71 [but no mention of CA66, which probably hadn't been released by that time], so I reasoned that it was the one to try. Then, because obviously I'm an idiot, I changed it to 60fpsv2newmod and subsequently forgot about it. Fortunately you're memory is better than mine!)
Thank you for the solution! The depth of GPL knowledge here is astounding.
Edited by MGL66, Jan 31 2018 - 09:45 PM.
Posted Feb 01 2018 - 06:43 AM
Generally speaking, it's always best to default to using the "60fpsaiv1" patch for any new mod, at least for offline racing. For some reason, it seems to be less "intrusive" than the other patches and therefore is less likely to cause side-effects when it's used. I rarely race online, so there's no real need for me to try any other patches.
Edited by Saiph, Feb 01 2018 - 06:51 AM.
Posted Feb 01 2018 - 08:26 AM
There are many GPL goodies that I have not tried after all of these years. A few being the 60fps patch and the 66Mod.
Edited by gliebzeit, Feb 01 2018 - 08:27 AM.
Posted Feb 01 2018 - 08:59 AM
gliebzeit, on Feb 01 2018 - 08:26 AM, said:
There are many GPL goodies that I have not tried after all of these years. A few being the 60fps patch and the 66Mod.
May our Lord Bernie Ecclestone bless your Puritan soul! You'll definitely go to GPL Heaven when the big Chief Marshal shows you the black flag!
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A Bit of Bag MakingIt's amazing how easily life gets busy and next thing you know it's five weeks into the school term and we're half way out to the next school holidays!
Friday just gone was my last sewing lesson for this term. Maybe you remember the bag I talked about making with the girls in class? It was a fantastic pattern to use with them and there was great satisfaction in having a cool bag they'd made themselves. Thanks, Meg! (The pattern was kindly donated to me by Meg McElwee of Sew Liberated for use in class. Make sure you ckeck out her website for more great patterns!)
This is my bag in it's current everyday-use state (you might notice I changed it a bit from when I first made it - I swapped the front and back around and shortened the body so it wasn't as deep.)
I decided to give the girls a bit of a challenge (and save the parents money on fabric) and told them to find old clothing and sheets to use for the bag. I wanted to encourage the idea of re-using materials for projects.
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I could see that some of the girls would finish with time to spare so had asked them to bring along some extra fabric to whip up a quick and simple bag using the basic concepts they'd learnt with the first bag. It was encouraging to see how much they'd taken in and that I only needed to point them in the right direction or ask "What do you think you do next?"
I don't have any photos of the other two girls' bags - one finished the week previous and the other hadn't finished by the end of the lesson as she'd had two lessons off sick.
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As promised, here are a few books that influenced me as I wrote The First Tycoon.
Some of these books included essential information, of course. I'm thinking, for example, of James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, his splendid one-volume history of the Civil War era, or Maury Klein's The Life and Legend of Jay Gould. But I'm not speaking at the moment of sources, but rather literary influences. McPherson combines narrative momentum, contextual discussions, and character sketches in such a marvelous manner that (as one reviewer put it) you read this book rather breathlessly, as if you don't know how it will all come out. Klein's elegant work matches tremendous research and scholarship with crystal-clear explanations of business matters and, again, a brisk narrative pace. He balances Gould's private and business lives wonderfully, creating a real model for a biography of a business figure.
In the realm of nonfiction, Robert Caro, too, sets the standard. I read Master of the Senate when I was writing The First Tycoon, and I was overwhelmed by his ability to create real, believable characters from his research. More than that, he brings to life secondary characters, an overlooked component in many biographies, so that the reader clearly sees the interplay of egos, emotions, and agendas in Lyndon Johnson's life.
I believe in reading fiction as nourishment for my writing. I've written elsewhere of Tolstoy's riches, so visible in his two giant novels. Let me add here that Conrad is a favorite as well. I re-read Nostromo when writing The First Tycoon. It almost seems to be a fictionalization of Vanderbilt's Nicaragua venture, for one thing. For another, it, too, creates a rich, believable world, immersing the reader in seemingly real people, scenes, places, businesses, and cultures. The fast-paced plot and the range of characters (from the stevedore Nostromo to political kingpins to a San Francisco financier) inspired me.
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Hi Guys,
Hope everyone is doing well.
Welcome back to another Fashion Fridays post.
Today video is just a casual shopping outfit of the day I wore on bank holiday monday.
I'm wearing my Diamond studded blouse from Oasis €47
Blazer: Primark €20
Boots €25
Skirt Primark (old)
tights €4
I decided to recycle my old floral skirt as Ive seen so many floarl items coming back into stores. I wore it with my on trend collar blouse and added a blazer to give a more dressy feel. This would also look great with a oversized cardigan and pumps or why not wear a vest top and add a long or statement chain or even a sparkle black/while or nude top and killer heels for a more dressy look.
Also a tulip floral skirt would look Amazing if you want a more structured or dressy look esp if you are curvy just like Kim K.


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This year I made two batches so far, hoping to have another one done by the time this post gets published. It's basically just lots and LOTS of butter with sugar that gets cooked in a skillet until you reach the perfect toffee consistency, then you pour it onto a baking sheet (lined with paper), wait a minute or so, add chopped bittersweet chocolate, let it melt and add toasted chopped almonds. Leave to set overnight, break into pieces and you're done.
In theory. If you read the comments on the Kitchn post, you'll see that this can be tricky. It can turn out beautifully on the first try. And it can be ruined the third time you make it. Here's what I've learned:
- STIR. When they say stir constantly, they mean it.
- don't lower the heat too much or increase it - basically, don't change it too much. I've found that this can lead to the issue where the butter separates, which can lead to either a very greasy caramel or a burned one as you try to cook it longer to incorporate the butter again.
- If the butter separating thing happens to you, take it off the heat and stir, stir, stir. A few tablespoons of very hot water can also help. Don't heat it before it has come back together or it will burn.
- cook it long enough. Ideally, use a candy thermometer and make sure you hit something around 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The recipe says you should cook it until it is a deep golden brown, but that can be tricky. Been there... Just tossed a batch in the trash the other day because I didn't cook it long enough and it didn't really turn a caramel (it was maybe a soft ball stage, but nowhere near cracking...).
But, oh, if it all works out miraculously, oh, it is sooooo good. Almost too good to give away, although it does make the perfect gift. So I hope I didn't discourage you. I know I'll be making more batches. And standing there, stirring and silently telling the caramel to please, please be nice and turn a deep golden brown...
Anyone out there with more sophisticated candy making experience?


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(CBS News) CBS News Political Director John Dickerson dissected the Romney campaign's recent attacks against President Obama for saying business owners "didn't build it" on their own.
Wednesday on "CBS This Morning," Dickerson said Romney is trying to portray the president as someone who doesn't understand small business owners.
"Romney has been talking about the president's remarks about small business, saying he just doesn't understand what you're going through - he doesn't understand the entrepreneurial spirit, no wonder his policies won't work. It's a way to get at fundamental views of America saying the other guy doesn't understand.
"It is working. A couple weeks ago, there were a lot of Republicans fidgety about Mitt Romney. This puts him back on offense. It allows him to bring in small business owners and point to them. They have passionate stories about pulling themselves up by their bootstrap. And those are the kinds of stories Romney's not very good at telling. We don't know how this will play out in the polls but it certainly has the president's campaign back on their heals. The president has an ad that says, 'Of course he supports small businesses.' So this is the Romney campaign back on offense after being on defense for a few weeks."
Dickerson noted that the president says his remarks are being taken out of context.
"Exactly and what the president is saying is that it takes a village, essentially, to use a cliche from a previous campaign, that no matter what you've done you've been helped bin you life whether it's by a teacher, by roads or by the policeman on the corner. What the Romney campaign is saying is that the president - if you look at the totality of his remarks - he said small business owners have an inflated sense of what got them there and that's what the Romney campaign is playing on."
Dickerson also talked about Romney's overseas trip to London, Israel and Poland, where he said he would not criticize the president while overseas.
"It allows him to go in front of people and look presidential. Even when he says he's not going to be critical of the president, that's being diplomatic on the foreign stage showing he can play the role of stagecraft that the president needs to play. (Watch Dickerson's full analysis in the video player above.)


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I am 63 years old and have been married to my Roomy for 31.5 years. Yep, that's half my life. So for half my life I have been Jo Heroux. For the first 17 years I was Jo Settle. Then for 10 years I was Jo Ballard. Then for 2 years I was Jo Haueisen.
Each of those women were different. As I look back at who I was and why I became her, I realize the life I was living created the woman I became. I liked Jo Settle, but I like Jo Heroux much more. She is a nicer person. A less selfish woman. A woman who gives without expectation. A woman who knows the blessings bestowed in her life and is grateful and has not forgotten the heartaches and pain of the younger woman she once was.
Half of my life I have shared with the man who made the most horrendous move in the history of moves on the night that we officially met. I have raised my own children with him and helped to raise a couple of his. I have opened my heart to his children as if they had come from my body because they came from his. He has fathered my children because he was the only father they knew who didn't go away and forget to come back. He was the only father who would never get so mad at them that they couldn't be forgiven. Oh, he got mad at them, but never forever. He always remembered who the adult was. His heart has never closed to anyone who once lived in it. He loves forever.
Half of my life I have been the wife of someone I like. That is so much more important than I ever knew. Lust and hotness are lessened with age, but like is capable of simply growing. He's my buddy and he's my Roomy and he's the love I have never for a second doubted. He's the man who still warms my heart when he smiles at me. Still makes me want to be my best self because he thinks I am much better than I really am. I am the best wife I know how to be. I see my shortcomings, but I also know that he is happy so, I think I'm doing okay.
The first half of my life I was finding my way. I was getting ready and growing into the woman who would be right for Roomy. This half of my life I am learning and becoming his other half.
Starting very soon, I will have been with my husband for longer than I was without him. That is how life is suppose to unfold, I think. You are supposed to be with your other half, your better half most of your life.
Marriage is not easy for anyone long term, but with the right one, it's so doable. It's also so worth it. The effort of the early years have paid high dividends for me. I hope he feels the same. The most he has really every verbalized to me about this was during an anniversary celebration when he said, "I have no complaints. I'd do this thing again."
Smooth talkers always get me!
Half my life was climbing and now half my life has been relaxing on the top of the hill.


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Proper Care and Maintenance of Fuel Pumps
We don't often think about helicopter in-tank and in-line (auxillary and boost) fuel pumps until they fail. Fuel pumps do their job day in and day out – but they don't last forever. This article will provide some tips to ensure you are properly maintaining and inspecting the fuel pump and fuel system to get the most out of your fuel pumps.
Pump Design
Many auxillary and boost type fuel pumps are direct current (DC) motors. 12V or 24V DC electrical power is applied to the pumps and this power transfers to carbon brushes that ride against a commutator. The electrical charge sent through the commutator to the armature causes the copper windings in the armature to act as electromagnets. The resulting attraction/repulsion of the magnetic fields between the armature and fixed magnets in the pump housing causes the armature to turn.
There are two basic types of fuel pumps (plus a combination-type pump):
Constant displacement. Constant displacement pumps are in-line pumps such as boost pumps and transfer pumps, depending on the airframe application. "Constant displacement pumps have a metal rotor with four slots where carbon vanes sit in," says Barrett (Bart) J. Briggs, vice president and general manager for Monroe, WI-based Fleet Support Services, Inc. (an FAA Repair Station that overhauls fuel pumps and is affiliated with Rapco, Inc.) "The vanes spin around in an elliptical cavity. Fuel comes in through the larger portion of the cavity, and as the carbon vane pushes it though the narrow portion of the cavity, it is pushing the large volume of fuel through the narrow portion under pressure. For every revolution, there is a constant displacement of fuel pushed through the pump."
Centrifugal. Centrifugal pumps are what we would call cartridge pumps. They use a disk-like impeller to pump the fuel. The cavity where the impeller sits in is round. The impeller has openings towards its center where the fuel is picked up. As the impeller spins, the fuel is pushed by centrifugal action through channels inside the impeller, and exits through outlets on the impeller's edges. "This is high-flow, but low-pressure pump," explains Briggs. "Centrifugal pumps don't generate a lot of pressure. They move a lot of volume, but at minimal pressure because there is not a lot of pressure pushing the fuel like the vanes in constant displacement pumps."
Duplex. There are also duplex pumps that are a combination of constant displacement and centrifugal pumps. They have both centrifugal impeller and a rotor with carbon vanes.
Now that we know some basic fuel pump theory, we can cover some scenarios where the pumps can be damaged.
Corrosion can cause external and internal damage to fuel pumps. Externally, corrosion can build up on the pump housing and on the electrical terminals and wiring. Helicopters operated in coastal areas like we see in offshore oil operations are more susceptible to corrosion because of the high-salinity in the environment. Corrosion on the housing won't necessarily cause a pump to fail, but the corrosion should be removed and the area treated during scheduled inspections. Corrosion on the terminals or in the wiring can affect electrical conductivity, and any damaged wiring or terminals should be repaired or replaced as necessary. "Corrosion will build up an electrical resistance in the circuit," says Briggs. "So you have to push more current through the wire to get the pump to produce same power. With voltage being a constant, if you have a resistance problem in the power or ground, you start increasing current and this increases heat (Ohm's Law). So look for indications of heat-damaged wiring and terminals when you are inspecting corrosion."
"It helps to apply a good corrosion preventative such as ACF-50 to the external surface of the pump to prevent any potential problems corrosion can cause," adds Mike Lotzer, national sales manager for Hartland, WI-based Rapco, Inc.
Internally, the biggest cause of corrosion is water. This is especially true with jet fuel, where microbes like to thrive in the boundary area between the water and the fuel, creating a corrosive sludge by-product. Regular and proper fuel sumping will help reduce internal corrosion issues. "You also need to know you are getting good fuel to begin with," says Briggs. "Fuel trucks should incorporate proper fuel filtering, regular sumping, and treatment with additives such as Prist or Biobor in the recommended mixture ratios."
In constant displacement pumps, the carbon vanes are relatively soft. Briggs demonstrated to us how "soft" these vanes are as he rubbed a carbon vane against a sheet of paper, and a soft grey shading appeared on the paper. "The carbon in these vanes is about as hard as a hard pencil lead," explains Briggs. "These carbon vanes are spinning in the pump at several thousand RPM. If any foreign object debris (FOD) is introduced, such as rag pieces, paint chips, ect., it can damage the vanes. The edges of the vanes will break and the pump will lose pressure."
Centrifugal pumps don't have floating carbon vanes that can be damaged. But the impeller disk is not immune to degraded output from FOD. If there is FOD in the fuel system, it can be sucked up though the openings in the center of the impeller. If these openings or the internal vane channels in the impeller become blocked, fuel cannot flow out through centrifugal force, and a loss in pressure results.
How do you prevent FOD damage? Keep it clean! "You would be surprised how even a small piece of debris can damage your fuel pump," says Lotzer. "If you are doing fuel cell work, make sure the area is clean before closing it up. Also, use clean, lint-free towels to wipe down the fuel cells. Even small chunks of debris left behind from a worn out red rag can damage a fuel pump."
Debris left behind from worn out red rags can damage fuel pumps
Briggs adds, "I've been there. In my 35 years of fixing and flying aircraft, I've been in fuel tanks. It's an ugly job. But you need to have the mindset right off the bat that you are going to take your time. Cleanliness is next to Godliness when it comes to fuel system maintenance. If you introduce any debris to a fuel tank and don't get it back out, it's going to end up going down the tube and will eventually end up in the pump or somewhere else and that's never a good thing."
Also be mindful of proper fuel tank repair and the age of your fuel lines. Debris from sloppy fuel tank repairs or from deteriorating linings in old fuel lines can also contribute to FOD damage.
Briggs tells Helicopter Maintenance magazine that there was a technical bulletin issued for Bell Jet Rangers in the '80s that addressed potential fuel pressure indication surges at altitude. "An operator of an older Jet Ranger contacted us up and asked us if we knew anything about fuel pressure indication surges at altitude," he says. "He was operating at 4,000 feet field elevation, so he was starting off pretty high. But he said when he got to around 6,000 feet AGL, he started getting a fuel pressure light. I told him there was a bulletin published by Bell addressing the issue. With the centrifugal fuel pump, when the helicopter got higher, the engine fuel flow went lower because the engine would operate more efficiently at altitude – it would burn less fuel. Meanwhile, the fuel pump cartridge was still trying to pump the same amount of fuel to the engine when the engine wasn't demanding it any more. When that starts to happen, if the impeller can't continue to push fuel out, it gets back pressure on it and then it goes into cavitation."
The solution for the problem called out in the technical bulletin (206-82-60) was to replace the plug adapter in the fuel pump with a new adapter that would allow for better pressure relief at altitude. In addition, the removed plug adapter could be modified to be reinstalled by drilling two additional holes into the plug adapter as called out in the bulletin.
Complete Pump Degradation, "The China Syndrome"
Mike Lotzer, national sales manager for Rapco, says pump cavitation can lead to an even bigger problem of fuel pump degradation they call "The China Syndrome." "This example isn't a helicopter, but a twin Cessna operator, but it can happen to any fuel pump," Lotzer shares. "Around 15 years ago, an operator was going numerous aux/boost fuel pumps on his older Cessna 402B tip tanks. We had a lot of warranty claims come back from him and they were all burned up – the armatures were melted, the commutators were melted together, and the brushes were smoked. I finally went down to visit him and asked him if I could inspect the aircraft. He operated flights to and from the Bahamas daily. I noticed in the cockpit that the fuel selectors were on "Aux," and the aircraft had just landed. It's normal procedure in the check list on that plane to take off and land with the fuel boost pumps on low. Both fuel boost pumps were on low, but they weren't on the main tanks, they were on the Aux tanks. The Aux/Boost fuel pumps on twin Cessnas with tip tanks are located within the tip tanks (main tanks). These pumps could not push fuel to the engines because of the fuel restriction at the fuel selector valve. The fuel continued to cavitate within the system thus overheating the pumps causing complete pump & armature failure."
"If a fuel pump is running at rated voltage and amperage, and fuel is flowing through the pump, the fuel passing through and around the armature is enough to cool the pump," adds Briggs. "But if you have a scenario where you shut off the engine, or the engine is at minimal power like at idle, and the pump is still running, it cavitates. Other than the relief valve on the pump, there is no way to relieve the pressure. So even if fuel exits through the relief valve, it re-enters the pump inlet and circulates back through the pump components. The pressure builds up, it exits the relief valve again and re-circulates through the pump. The fuel gets hotter through each cycle, causing this "China Syndrome." The copper in the windings gets hot and expands. When the copper expands, it causes spitting the potting compound out between the bars of the laminations and off the ends. The epoxy gets into the pump and causes vane damage, and can even seize up the comp. That pump is done at that point."
The worse-case scenario for the China Syndrome is when the engine is not running, but the pumps are," Briggs adds. "There is absolutely no flow. If the engine is at idle, and the pump is left on for an extended period of time, the damage will still happen, but not as quickly."
Put that Hammer Down!
"Ask an old-timer what the trick he uses when a DC motor doesn't work, and he might say, 'Get a hammer,'" Briggs tells Helicopter Maintenance magazine. "They might think that hitting the motor with a hammer will jiggle the brushes or the dead spot on the commutator. That is NEVER a good idea with a fuel pump. Although the housing on the bottom of the pumps looks thick, it's not, and I have seem some of these come in caved in and cracked!"
"You're going to end up pushing the armature up against the side of the bearing housing," adds Lotzer. "It's not going to work. Don't beat on them!"
If you don't bang on them with hammers, keep your fuel system FOD- and water-free, inspect for any external corrosion and treat it, and prevent operating them in self-destructive "China Syndrome" scenarios, you will go a long way to help ensure you get the most from your fuel pumps!


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Law enforcement authorities detained a young man from Deggendorf, Germany for ordering bulk quantities of amphetamine from the dark web.
According to the police information, the Deggendorf police arrested a 19-year-old man for using the dark web to order narcotics. The investigators stated that the man allegedly purchased 50 grams of amphetamine, along with small amounts of other drugs. Since 50 grams is considered as a significant amount of amphetamine, law enforcement authorities suspect that the 19-year-old may have resold or intended to resell the substance to local customers. Since the arrest happened recently, the police are currently investigating illegal drug trafficking.
Unfortunately, law enforcement authorities did not provide more information in the case, including how they tracked down the suspect. Since there were multiple vendor arrests in the recent years in Germany where investigators found information on the customers of the drug sellers, there could be a chance that police used such info to identify the 19-year-old defendant. The most recent investigations on a dark net vendor's customers in Germany was announced in March, saying that the Public Prosecutor's Office in Koblenz started more than 1,000 investigations against past customers of the Chemical Love vendor shop.
On May 31 evening, the SEK (Special Deployment Commando) was tasked to perform two raids in Aachen, Germany. The first assignment took place on the corner street at about 5:00 pm, however, shortly after 7 pm, there was another police operation in Buschstraße. According to the prosecutor's office in Aachen, both missions were related to drug-criminality. In the law enforcement operation, the SEK units detained six persons.
The men who were arrested were three German nationals at the age of 23, 29 and 34 years. The 23-year-old was arrested at his home in Buschstraße. According to the prosecutor's office, they had a warrant for the arrest stating that the suspects violated the Narcotics Act. In addition, three other men were arrested who are being investigated by the police. In one of the arrests, investigators already released one suspect.
"Later it was reported that two arrest warrants were issued. There seems to be no suspicion against the third person, he was released several hours later," the prosecutor's office stated.
The 23, 29, and the 34-year-old suspect is accused of selling drugs on the dark web. According to the prosecution, all payments were conducted in bitcoins.
The investigation started when Europol provided details on the suspects, which the European agency acquired from seized dark net marketplaces in November 2014. The investigations were first conducted by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), however, later on, it was handed to the Aachen Public Prosecutor's Office. It is assumed that since the autumn of 2015, the defendants alone sent at least 20 kilograms of amphetamine, with the total price of at least 160,000 euros, to their customers using the national postal service. However, where the criminals kept the profits of their drug operation, is still the subject of the investigation.
Law enforcement authorities secured evidence from the suspects, including computers and amphetamine in the kilogram range. There is also a witness in the case, who will be questioned by the police later.
According to the German news publication Zeit Online, the suspects were allegedly members of a militant neo-Nazi group called "Kameradschaft Aachener Land" (KAL). The comradeship was banned in 2012 by Ralf Jäger, the interior minister of North-Rhine Westphalia, for "aggressively combative attitude … against elementary principles of the constitution". Zeit Online claimed that the 34-year-old suspect is a "well-known" neo-Nazi. However, this information was not confirmed by the prosecutor's office in Aachen.
The news outlet also claimed that the arrest exploded the social network, where some members of the German neo-Nazi movement stated that the police action was a conspiracy between the police and the judiciary, while others were "cursing their comrades for doing drugs".
"It is quite clear that drugs have no place in our ranks", neo-Nazi activist, Sven Skoda, wrote after the arrests. However, Zeit Online claimed that Skoda referred to some of the arrested suspects as "comrades, who have always stood with our courage and blood in their hearts, even in troubled times to our idea".


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Professor Merydith has been at the Rochester Institute of Technology since 2002. He is the former chair of the Department of School Psychology (2002- 2010) and a faculty member in the Department of Psychology since 2011. He has published in the area of personality assessment with a focus on investigating the effectiveness of validity scales in detecting the response-taking attitudes of adolescents. Most recently in research focus has been on the history of the mental testing movement in the United States. He is currently at work on a book, The Mental Testing of Ellis Island Immigrants from 1908 – 1918. Dr. Merydith is also a licensed psychologist in the state of New York.
Positions Held:
- Assistant Professor, Florida State University, 1992-1997
- Associate Professor, George Mason University, 1997 – 2002
- Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2002 – 2008
- Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008 - Present