Rate your factory firmware. Devices with microcontrollers or embedded CPUs. (Personal computers excluded) e.g. Tablets, Cameras, Smart Phones... Official firmware from the manufacture only, no third party or hacks. e.g. DD-WRT, Canon CHDK are excluded A Outstanding, above and beyond the devices original firmware. Supported by free, continuous firmware updates that added new features for at least three years. e.g Apple iOS, Synology B Good, got one update that added new features. e.g. Canon Camera 7D got a firmware update that added new features. C Fair, firmware updates spotty but eventually came out after a newer model replacement. e.g. Denon 2112ci, Harmony Remotes, I have no idea what difference the firmware updates make but they appear now and then. D Obsolescence, device evolved but left previous models in the dust. Firmware is never more than a patch. e.g. Canon Camera S90,95,100,110 series, Sony NEX Cameras, most HDTVs D- Forgotten, good hardware that needed a firmware patch but it never came. e.g. 2007 Samsung 32” LCD TV (sound glitch) Grade F Fail, never seen a firmware update or never should have seen the light of day. Notes: Grade D was tough and a very specific problem with companies that are mostly hardware based. They willfully abandon almost identical excellent hardware devices in favor of selling the latest thing but make zero effort to update last years device. This practice does not inspire brand loyalty as you’re pretty sure this years device won’t be updated period.


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The LCPS district Board of Education announced that the Class of 2021’s last day has been changed from June 3rd, to May 27th.
The change comes after many months of seniors voicing their opinions about the late final day.
“I’m very excite about the last day being moved up because it feels more like a regular senior year and it feels like we are getting a real senior experience rather than getting out in June with everybody else,” voices Senior Faith Andrzejewski.
The change was also brought about by the worry of being quarantined for graduation.
“The quarantine period has been changed back to 10 days, and this allows enough time in between the last day of school and graduation, to prevent students from not participating in Commencements, should they be quarantined from a classroom.” States the LCPS district in a recent school messenger.
The district initially picked the final day for seniors as June 3rd as a result of starting the school year a week late. This was in an effort to give teachers time to adjust to the new block schedule. The district argued that extending the school year by a week allows for the same amount of days in a school year.
Because of COVID rates affecting multiple areas differently, the State of Michigan allowed each school district to choose how they wanted to schedule their school year – virtual, block, hybrid and more – according to state regulations. However, because of the various plans among districts, the State of Michigan is not mandating the minimum number of days students are required to be in school. Thus, the amount of days that seniors are in school isn’t important, and keeping them for an additional week is entirely a district decision.
While many students are excited for one week less of school, teachers are scrambling to send off their pupils. With the A/B block schedule, students now go from seven to five days left of both A and B days. On top of this, many students have AP exams that will make them miss an entire day as well.
“In the beginning it kind of freaked me out, but now I’m kind of excited. Because I thought I’d have a whole extra week of blow off classes after my AP tests, and now I take my AP tests and I’m pretty much done with high school,” says Senior Allie Thomas.
While the end of the school year has been moved up, all other senior events have not. Prom, Honors Convocation, Senior Barbeque, Senior Class Trip and Graduation are all still the same dates.

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GALLERY MAGAZINE WHITESPACE CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
EmotionalFusion is a collection of abstract works by Thai artist Anan, being exhibited for the first time at White Space in Jersey. The works meld striking and bold statements with muted allusions to Asian and European influences. They are visually powerful and demand attention, offering multiple interpretations to the viewer, yet never disappointing. The use of gloss and acrylic paint on large swathes of canvas has allowed Anan to freely express his new-found inspiration.
"The intensity of culture clash within Europe fascinates me" says Anan, explaining his influences behind EmotionalFusion. "Not only of the many differing European nationalities, but of all of the world's races and creeds." It is this fascination which drove Anan to create a body of work highlighting the positive aspects of cultural juxtaposition within Europe. Energetic setpieces are thus balanced with understated observations to allow for completion.
WhiteSpace, Jersey's newest and freshest gallery, provides the ideal backdrop for Anan's exhibition - the space acts as a large blank canvas, allowing Anan to maximise the effect of his largest works. A brilliant white environment, flooded with natural light, perfectly balances the vibrant images presented, and offers multiple perspectives. The building's industrial character blends into lush greenery, adding to the sense of paradox. Eschewing more traditional galleries, Anan loves the freedom WhiteSpace offers to the artist. "I appreciate the clean lines of WhiteSpace, as they frame the pieces perfectly without creating distraction" says Anan

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The most beautiful mother in the world lives in Russia
A Russian woman has become Mrs. Globe-2011. Alisa Krylova has won the beauty contest in the USA.
Among other contests of the kind, this one differs in a way that only married women can take part in it. This contest has been held for 15 years already by the Women in Need charity foundation which raises money for women with children who happen to get into a difficult life situation. The foundation motto is “a saved woman is a saved family”.
Alisa Krylova from Russia became Mrs. Globe-2011, leaving 39 rivals behind. The second and third places were won by Kotive Sachdev from India and Melanie Stemler from Guatemala. The Russian participant was also proclaimed Mrs. Charity and Mrs. Fame. In the contest final the participants walked before the jury wearing national costumes of their countries and carrying national flags. Alisa walked in a unique dress designed by Vyachslav Zaitsev. “This folk dress was specially chosen for the event,” the Russian fashion designer, who is called Red Dior in the world of fashion, told The Voice of Russia:
“I offered her several dresses and she chose one from the collection named “Looking Forward to Change – 2008”. It is a wedding dress worn with a Pavlovo-Posad scarf. It is the only dress of its kind: of a tender grayish-blue colour, with a full white silk skirt trimmed with lace. This dress is a work of art”.
The winner herself believes that this unique dress helped her to be the best in the contest. Vyacheslav Zaitsev believes that she was the only one who deserved the title. “This woman deserves the highest praise, there is no one like her”, he says:
“I met her at a Moscow film festival and was struck by her out-of-this-world face. I went up to her and asked for her name. I said I was happy to meet her because I treasure women with unique features. We exchanged phone numbers and one day her producer gave me a ring. He said that Alisa was going to take part in a contest and wanted a dress. They came together and I took them to the stock-room where they chose this dress. I was delighted because it is one of my best dresses. The result was wonderful: a luxurious woman in a luxurious dress”.
28-year-old Alisa Krylova is a happy wife and mother of two children, and a successful businesswoman. In 2010 she was called the most beautiful mother in the country when she won the Mrs. Russia contest. When she was leaving for the USA to take part in the Mrs. Globe contest she promised her husband to win, and she was as good as her word. “For me my victory means an opportunity to change and improve laws protecting the rights of women and children all over the world,” Alisa says.


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Albany – Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-88) and Senator Andrew J. Lanza (D-24) will be hosting a press conference on May 13 at 11:30 a.m. in the LCA Pressroom to promote the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act (TVPJA), the legislation they have championed that toughens penalties in New York against those who buy and sell young women, men and children to fuel the massive $32 billion sex trafficking industry.
The press conference will serve to urge the passage of the TVPJA as well as to highlight May 13 as Human Trafficking Awareness Day in New York State.
"The effort to bring those who engage in human trafficking to justice and raise public awareness of this heinous exploitation of vulnerable children and adults has been a long journey," Paulin said. "Slowly, we are bringing out of the shadows the trafficking of young men, women and children.
"By listening to these courageous survivors we begin to understand the depth and complexity of the circumstances that led to their victimization so that we can implement effective means not only to prevent human trafficking but also to eradicate it altogether, and provide victims with the critical services they need to escape from their traffickers and rebuild their lives."
Paulin and Lanza, outspoken in their fight to end human trafficking and sexual slavery in New York, introduced the TVPJA last year. One portion of the comprehensive bill was signed into law earlier this year. The new law allows criminal courts to treat 16- and 17- year olds charged with prostitution and loitering for purposes of prostitution as Persons In Need of Supervision (PINS) and provide those youth with specialized services. The remainder of the TVPJA passed as a stand-alone in the Senate last year and as part of the 10-Point Women’s Equality Agenda in the Assembly. Paulin hopes to have the TVPJA voted on in her house as a stand-alone.
"Here in New York, thousands of innocent people are bought and sold like property each year," Lanza said. "Human trafficking is a modern version of the slave trade and a devastating human rights violation that is occurring in our own backyards. It is urgent that we pass the long awaited Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act to enhance protections for trafficking victims and hold those who exploit them accountable."
Key provisions of the TVPJA include increasing the accountability of traffickers and buyers by raising the penalty for sex trafficking to a class B violent felony, creating the felony sex offense of "aggravated patronizing a minor," and aligning the penalties for patronizing a minor with those of statutory rape. The bill will also strengthen the investigative tools to make a case against traffickers. Sex trafficking will be an affirmative defense to prostitution and the term "prostitute" will be eliminated from the Penal Law, as that term stigmatizes defendants who are in fact victims of sex trafficking. Nowhere else in the Penal Law are individuals identified by the crime they allegedly committed.
"The victims in these crimes are most often young women who have had their childhood stolen and their lives left in ruin because of greedy, depraved individuals," Paulin said "The goal of the TVPJA is to help all those who have been commercially sexually exploited and provide them with the tools they need to rejoin society and recapture as normal a life as possible."
"We need to pass the TVPJA in its entirety. By coming here today and lobbying to pass the TVPJA and proclaiming May 13 Human Trafficking Awareness Day in New York, we will keep a light shining on this intolerable offense against humanity and continue to remind the people of this State that this vicious and vile practice of trafficking human beings for the purposes of sex must be permanently stamped out. Remember, People Are Not For Sale."
Members of the New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition, comprised of 140 organizations throughout the State, including NOW-NYC, Sanctuary For Families, and The New York State Public Affairs Committee (NYSPAC) of the Junior League, will be in attendance. Distinguished guests include the Honorable Judy Harris Kluger, executive director of Sanctuary For Families, Denise Murphy McGraw, co-chair of NYSPAC of the Junior League, Lauren Hersh, director of Anti-Trafficking Policy and Advocacy for Sanctuary for Families, and Janmarie Brown, director of Residential Gateways Program.
Several survivors are expected to speak at the conference, including a young Ukrainian woman who was trafficked by her boyfriend while she was in college and girls from Gateways’ Project Impact. In addition, survivors who are part of an all-girls teen trafficking network will perform an excerpt from a play created by the ArtsEffect performance group about their commercial sexual exploitation.
The 104 other Assembly Members who have signed onto the bill have been invited to attend.
"Human trafficking is a scourge on all communities and all walks of life," said Lisa Hofflich, co-chairwoman of the Junior League NYSPAC. "The 8,000 women of the Junior League, representing 17 communities throughout New York State decided to come together to help tackle this atrocious issue because we are mothers and sisters. We know this is happening in upscale towns and inner city neighborhoods. It has to end in New York now."

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The President Condominium, the only non-GW building along a chunk of I Street, has for 71 years watched the University spend hundreds of millions of dollars razing and erecting new buildings. But owners and residents there say tensions with University construction have reached a tipping point.
As the University prepares to seek approval from the city’s zoning board Nov. 15 for its next big project – a multi-million dollar office complex along I Street and Pennsylvania Avenue – residents at the condominium say it could collapse their company and push tenants out of Foggy Bottom. They plan to testify against the project at a city hearing next month.
The proposed design is about 18 percent bigger than original plans laid out in the 2007 Campus Plan – a gripe residents plan to bring to the city. The 11-story structure would total 250,000 square feet, and also include 6,000 feet of retail, a loading dock and a 179-car garage.
Construction would begin in 2014, ripping down an office building, two University townhouses, Froggy Bottom Pub, Thai Place, Panda Cafe and Mehran Restaurant along Pennsylvania Avenue.
The condos, on the corner of 22nd and I streets, are also less than a block away from the construction pit that will become the Science and Engineering Hall in 2015, and the recently completed Avenue complex.
Anthony Cook, who has rented out space in The President Condominium for a decade, said noise and traffic from a proposed alleyway outside residents’ windows would turn them away for good.
“My tenants will move out. There’s no doubt in my mind,” Cook said at a Foggy Bottom and West End Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting Wednesday. “There will be too much noise, too much traffic. The air won’t be clean. It won’t be healthy.”
A lawyer for the condominium, Martin Sullivan, said residents will air their concerns at the zoning hearing and try to halt approval unless GW “proposes some suitable mitigation measure.” He said they are waiting for a serious offer from the University to cut down on the alley’s immediate impacts to the condos, including sound and traffic.
“Rarely does a project have such a concentrated impact on one property,” Sullivan said.
University spokeswoman Michelle Sherrard said the University has discussed the project with community members – including representatives from the condos – for a year, and would continue “with a goal of addressing concerns as best as possible” before next month’s zoning hearing.
Jeff Barber, a University architect working on the project site, said the new building would be 10 feet farther away from The President than the existing structure. But he said the alley would need to be widened to 24 feet to accommodate traffic flow and loading needs.
The University will not calculate project costs until after the zoning process, Sherrard said. GW will add 40,000 square feet of affordable housing on F Street to compensate for the complex’s increased space.
Asher Corson, an alumnus and commissioner on the local group, called for the University to provide community amenities in exchange for the expanded property plan.
“It provides no direct amenity or benefit to the people who are going to be living near the site that will be impacted by it,” Corson said.
The group’s chair, Florence Harmon, said the University and Foggy Bottom neighbors would have a “philosophical difference of opinion” regarding the project, and it would be in the hands of the D.C. Zoning Commission to work out a solution.
“I think you all are going to take the position that the retail and the affordable housing will be enough for amenities,” Harmon said to the University officials at the meeting. “I think we will take a different position.”
Harmon was set to present a proposed list of amenities, gathered with community input, at Wednesday’s meeting. But when Corson said he had not yet seen the proposal, Harmon slammed her gavel down and ended the meeting early, before running through its full agenda.
Corson, who unwaveringly opposed the project during the University’s initial presentation on its plan last November, said moving the alleyway further from the condos would be the best solution to tone down the noise.
He also suggested that GW add a park near the space and donate to community organizations to give back to the neighborhood in return for additional space.
This article appeared in the October 22, 2012 issue of the Hatchet.


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I’ve lived like a landlocked landlubber in Delhi for over 40 years now – and still, especially at this time of the year — I sorely miss the sea. My childhood and adolescence were spent in coastal metros — Madras and Bombay (as they were then known), where, without even realising it, you kind of imbibed the sea. If your mind got overcrowded or you ever felt claustrophobic, you could always wander down to the beach or the sea’s edge and feel your mind open up as wide as the horizon in front of you. It gave you a sense of freedom that no other landscape could provide — the mountains have you gasping in awe, forests make you tense and twitchy with excitement and arid plains desiccate you. Perhaps, its only true rival would be the vast rolling desert, provided you had enough drinking water and didn’t die of heatstroke.
But to fill yourself with sheer exultation, there was nothing to compare with the beach on a monsoon day. Not only you, it affected our Boxer, too. Well before we reached the beach for the weekend, she would be a quivering mass of excitement in the car, happily treading on your toes and drooling copiously into your lap. Out on the beach, she would freak out — flying so fast her feet barely touched the ground. Gentle to a fault, in sheer, unbridled joy, she once chased a rheriwalla onto his rheri, where he stood among his clinking multi-coloured soft-drink bottles, yelling for help. Back home after a lunatic weekend, she would spend the next two days sleeping it off on the sofa, her paws twitching as she chased crabs in her dreams. (They always befuddled her.)
As for you, you could walk for miles on the varnished sands at low tide, wading through shallow tide pools, keeping away from the purple bottle-cap-like stains the stranded Portuguese men-of-war left on the beach, but eyes skinned for a gleaming cowrie or stranded starfish. It was astonishing to think that some of the most beautiful shells provided homes to some of the most venomous sea creatures in the world — step on them and you would never forget the experience unless it killed you. There’d be tiny fish and shrimps twisting this way and that, crabs which would scuttle sideways. The wind would buffet you in the back like a friend meeting you after ages and silver bullets of rain would make you head for cover.
When it calmed down, you could make your way gingerly over the rocks — serrated and scalpel-sharp — which could viciously lacerate you the moment you touched them unthinkingly. Sometimes, you would hear a clattering amongst the rocks — giant green crabs making their way around ponderously. If you were exceptionally daring (or silly), you could settle on a rock right near the edge to brood but it would be wise to keep an eye on the great bruised purple front of the next battalion of clouds advancing across the horizon. Ignore it at your peril. Suddenly, you’d be sent staggering back by an explosion of shrapnel, as a giant wave barreling in like an express train, and rearing up like a wall of glass would commit harakiri on the rocks just ahead of you, all thunder and boom. Time to retreat, on the double.
Certainly, the ocean and the beach cast a strangely magnetic pull on you. Back home in Bombay after a surgery that kept me away for three months, the first place I wanted to go to was the beach. Every time I visit Goa and take my first draw of the briny, fishy air, it’s like a homecoming (even though I’ve never lived there).
On calm sunny days (in summer), you could sit at the tideline and watch the wavelets wash up to you, all lacey, as a cool breeze fans your face. Suddenly, you are aware of a deep truism: the briny sea air does make you hungry very quickly. And there is always a bounty from the sea — baskets heaped with fresh prawns conjured up into delicious curries for lunch (washed down with beer, naturally, and followed by a nap). Of course, you weren’t the only one thinking of lunch! Perched high up at the top of a casuarina tree, a majestic white-bellied sea eagle contemplated her realm and kept an eye out for her lunch. Beach-brown sandpipers scuttled back and forth, deftly picking up their fare while trying not to get their feet wet! Stock-still amid the rocks, patient as the best fisherman, an Indian reef heron, in smart ashy grey waited in ambush.
Especially today, in these corona-riddled times, the beach seems like an ideal place to escape to. Perhaps, the wind would whisk any signs of the virus to kingdom come and enable you to shout with exultation. But be respectful. Regardless of who you are — billionaire or beggar, crook or saint, prime minister or pretender — a single wave can send you and your dignity tumbling head over heels in a welter of froth and mirth.
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Here is what is being said about freeway fighting this week. If you come across any articles, feel free to share and please let me know if you have any questions.
The City of Seattle released an RFQ for consulting services for the Reconnecting Communities Pilot grant for the Reconnect South Park project. The full RFQ and submittal information is available here: https://consultants.seattle.gov/2024/02/23/planning-and-mobility-studies-for-reconnect-south-park. All submissions due Thursday, March 28, 2024.
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Cost of Trenching I-345 Balloons to $1.6 Billion
D Magazine March 5, 2024
On Wednesday, the Texas Department of Transportation will deliver its first briefing to the Dallas City Council since the body last year approved a plan to remove and trench I-345, the presently elevated highway between downtown and Deep Ellum.
Air pollution concerns haunt TxDOT’s I-45 highway expansion
Chron March 5, 2024
Air quality advocates found several “gaps” in how the Texas Department of Transportation measures air quality around one of the segments of the I-45 expansion project, raising several questions about whether the project and construction will increase air pollution.
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Funds Have ‘Overwhelmingly’ Gone to Highway Projects
Planetizen March 5, 2024
When it was passed in 2021, the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was touted as a once-in-a-generation investment in the nation’s infrastructure, from ports, airports, rail, and roads to clean water, internet, and public transit — all with a focus on climate mitigation and resilience, equity, and safety.
Reconstruction plans for I-345 roll on though no funds sought for new study
Dallas Morning News March 7, 2024
Dallas officials say they didn’t seek outside funds to pay for a new study looking at alternatives to reconstructing Interstate 345 despite requests from City Council members last year to do so.
Estimated cost of I-345 plan rises to over $1.6 billion while Dallas officials call for more review
KERA News March 7, 2024
The estimated costs of remodeling the decades-old Interstate Highway 345 that runs through downtown Dallas have increased over $500 million.
Rethinking I-94: Two Meetings, Two Steps Forward
Streets.mn March 7, 2024
The Rethinking I-94 process advanced last month with two public meetings updating us on the project.
Metro’s Orwellian Take: Adding Miles of New Lanes to the 710 Freeway Is Not Expanding …
Streetsblog LA March 8, 2024
After the community caught Metro and Caltrans defying federal clean air law, Metro radically pared back its 710 Freeway expansion plans.
Rethinking I-94 with the help of Our Streets
The Oracle March 8, 2024
Our Streets, a grassroots organization based out of Minneapolis, is working to reimagine what I-94 could look like to better serve the community on a local and global scale.
MnDOT designs for Olson Memorial Highway aim to improve sense of community in north Minneapolis
Sahan Journal March 8, 2024
Minnesota transportation officials on Tuesday debuted new design options to remake a state highway that runs through north Minneapolis into a better place to walk, bike, and take transit.
People vs. cars: The I-94 debate is more important than you think
Minnesota Reformer March 8, 2024
What if I told you the Minnesota Department of Transportation is quietly considering the biggest Twin Cities policy decision of this century?


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Bexar County Sheriff calls proposal to shift positions an effort to defund his agency
Atlanta mayor: Don't know how you defund or abolish police 'unless somebody is going to abolish crim
Terry McAuliffe is touting endorsements from extreme groups that want to defund the police


Ecosystem services are the benefits that functioning ecosystems deliver to people. Restoration projects often aim to revive ecosystem services.
A recent Blog by Richard Coniff presents a critical view to ecological restoration projects, claiming that they often provide an excuse to developers to build over natural habitats, while restoring (often unsuccessfully) secondary sites and at high cost. The author asks critical questions about ecological restoration projects. We are interested to know your opinion!
Restoration practitioners sometimes pioneer into new unchartered territory where they may face unexpected difficulties. One such area is the genome of species they work with and the way this underpins ecology.
What is the role of genetics in ecological restoration?


Rong Xin Liao, 84, reveals how he was attacked while waiting for the bus in San Francisco, California牙，真的。 一年以前的事拿来现在说，居心啊。 挺可怕
An 84-year-old Asian man has spoken out after he was kicked out of his walker by a random attack one year ago.
Rong Xin Liao was waiting at a bus stop in the San Francisco, California, suburb of Tenderloin on the morning of 20 February when he was viciously attacked, he revealed to ABC 7.
"I didn't do anything to him," Mr Liao told the publication from his assisted living facility.
Surveillance footage shared by ABC 7 shows Mr Liao sitting in his walker on the sidewalk while he waits for the bus to arrive. A young man then appears and starts running towards Mr Liao before jumping to kick the elderly man in the shoulder.
Mr Liao and his walker fell to the ground from the kick and footage shows his head hitting the sidewalk.


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NO unbiased observer would deny that the economic situation in India is indeed frustrating. Nor would anyone say things were any better in the past. More than 60 years have been spent blaming this or that economic model/strategy and this or that political party/coalition for this sordid state of affairs. Is it not high time we recognised it as a grave systemic problem basically caused by internal deficiencies and distortions and further accentuated by the global economic turmoil? And searched for a real solution – radical but practicable, difficult and time-taking but achievable step by step?
Well, this search could be facilitated if we spared some time looking at the recent international experience. Since the Indian context is very different from those of the world’s richest countries like the US and Germany, it would be of little help discussing their cases. As for troubled countries like Greece, Cyprus, Iceland etc., the central lesson is that stringent austerity measures imposed in these countries under pressure of international finance capital have proved absolutely counter-productive. These economies have been contracting for years together as a result of expenditure cuts while people’s hardships are growing, compelling them to overthrow governments – even recently elected ones like the pseudo-left government in Iceland in April last year – and staging powerful street protests (as in Turkey and Brazil very recently). If anything, the experience in these countries can only teach us what we should not do.
Positive lessons can of course be learnt from Latin America. Led by Cuba and Venezuela in particular and ably supported by other countries like Bolivia and Ecuador, the Bolivarian Alliance for our Americas (ALBA) is building an alternative to the US dominated trade with the aim of regional economic integration based on cooperation for mutual social welfare, bartering and economic aid. To further deepen Latin American integration and challenge American domination, ALBA has been followed up with CELAC (the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) comprising 33 sovereign countries in the Americas excluding the USA and Canada. These are highly inspiring and instructive collective endeavours; something which countries in the Indian subcontinent could perhaps try and emulate, with the largest among them taking the lead.
Again, we can gain some useful insights from the experience of our major northern neighbour. Both India and China are ancient Asian nations with close cultural and economic ties spanning centuries; currently both are poster boys of globalisation, economic reform and high-speed capitalist development. Yet, as we shall just see, apart from structural differences there are subtle but vital differences in the political attitudes and economic policies of the two governments, which account for very different results of reform.
Everybody knows that our country attained independence two years before China did. It was in a better situation at that time in terms of industrialisation and availability of cultivable land as well as several mineral resources like coal and iron. Pranab Bardhan, however, gives us some more interesting information:
“India was slightly ahead of China in 1870 as well as in the 1970s in terms of the level of per capita income at international prices, but since then, particularly since 1990, China has surged well ahead of India. India’s per capita income growth rate in the past two decades has been nearly 4 percent. China’s has been at least double.”
In other words, the strategy of opening up and reform in the era of globalisation has been incomparably more successful in China than in India. There are many important reasons, not the least being the much stronger fundamentals built up in China in the pre-reform decades despite many mistakes and the disastrous economic impact of the Cultural Revolution.
There is a common misconception that China’s spectacular growth in recent, i.e., post-reform decades have been export- driven from the very start. Bardhan, however, has shown that “in terms of growth accounting, the impact of net exports on China’s growth in the period 1990-2005 has been relatively modest compared to the impact of domestic investment or consumption. Second, China had major strides in foreign trade and investment mainly in the 1990s and particularly in the subsequent decade; yet already between 1978 and 1993, before those strides, China had a very high average annual growth rate of about 9 percent. ...much of the high growth in the first half of the 1980s and the associated dramatic decline in poverty happened largely because of internal factors, not globalization. These internal factors include an institutional change in the organization of agriculture, the sector where poverty was largely concentrated, and an egalitarian distribution of land-cultivation rights, which provided a floor on rural income-earning opportunities, and hence helped to alleviate poverty. Even in the period since the mid-1980s ... domestic public investment in education, agricultural research and development, and rural infrastructure has been a dominant factor in rural poverty reduction in China.”
Thus, right up to 2005 domestic investment and consumption, with state spending leading the way and great emphasis laid on agriculture and rural economy, played the major role in both poverty alleviation and GDP growth, the two – unlike in India – marching hand in hand at least to some extent. This, together with the decisive non-dependence on foreign capital, is an important lesson to be drawn from the Chinese experience.
Secondly, Beijing did concede many conditions or demands of the WTO and imperialist finance capital to integrate itself more and more closely with the global capitalist economy and to lure MNCs to relocate part of their manufacturing operations to China. But all this was done with a long-term vision of strong economic nationalism (whether this could be construed as part of building socialism is an entirely different debate) that stands in complete contrast to the blatantly comprador attitude of successive Indian governments. Often enough the present PM and FM speak and behave like agents/ apologists of imperialism
Third and most relevant in the current context is the prompt, flexible and independent (in relation to the constant flow of sermons and allegations from Washington) policy decisions the Chinese government has been taking in the national interest. In a way this was much more difficult for China than India because the degree of integration with the global (especially American – so much so that the two economies came to be described as “Chin-American”) capitalism was considerably higher.
James Petras wrote about a “revolving door from Wall Street to the Treasury Department to Wall Street”, with top bosses in private financial institutions joining the US Treasury to ensure that everything Wall Street needs are easily granted and then return to the private sector in higher positions. We witness in our country a variation of such “revolving door” between the Breton Woods Institutions and the economic apparatus of the Indian state.
The trend became conspicuous since 1990s, when aping America in almost everything became standard practice with Indian policy-makers. Manmohan Singh himself was Alternate Governor for India, Board of Governors, IMF, during 1982-85. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an Oxford graduate who worked in the World Bank under Robert McNamara in early 1970s and for some time also with the IMF, was appointed Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs under Finance Minister Manmohan Singh, before becoming Finance Secretary in April 1993 despite protests by IAS officers who were annoyed that such a post was given to a non-IAS officer. He served as a member of the Planning Commission from 1998 to 2001 and went back to IMF in July 2001. Three years later, he was brought back to India as Vice-Chairman of the Planning Commission. In recognition of his exemplary service in helping impose IMF-inspired neoliberal policies – by fabricating figures (recall how he scaled down the poverty line) and other means – he was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2011.
Another high profile appointment was that of Raghuram Rajan, who served as Chief Economist at the IMF from October 2003 to December 2006. In November 2008, Manmohan Singh appointed him as an honorary economic adviser and in August 2012 he was appointed as Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to the Government of India. In September 2013, he became the governor of Reserve Bank of India.
Not that there is no reverse flow. Kaushik Basu, who was CEA before Rajan, has taken up the same position which Rajan had previously occupied: Chief Economist at the IMF. Then there is Dr. Rakesh Mohan, previously Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and also Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, who has recently assumed charge as Executive Director on the Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In addition to India, Dr. Mohan will also be representing Sri Lanka and Bhutan on the Board of the IMF.
Thus in 2008 Beijing launched an economic stimulus package worth $585 billion. But unlike the bailout packages for the greedy banks responsible for the crisis in America and Europe, here the stress was on vastly improving domestic infrastructure (which served to ease, to some extent, the unemployment caused by closure of export-oriented industries while laying a broader base for future development) and lowering the currency exchange rate (to make Chinese exports more competitive in a tight market, ignoring threats of retaliatory action from the US and EU). The result was apparently brilliant: facilitated by an easy credit policy, the growth rate rose from 6.6% in the first quarter of 2009 to 12.1% in the first quarter of 2010.
But soon the government noticed symptoms of overheating, such as consumer price inflation and a housing price bubble. It took steps like curbing bank credit, and investment expenditures by public sector corporations. But such measures had only short-term effects. Moreover, much of the newly built roads, bridges etc. were lying largely unutilised. The government then opted for a major change in policy framework: a shift of emphasis from investment to consumption. For this purpose various measures were taken, e.g., tighter control on property speculation, including the revival of a 20% capital gains tax. As a result the contribution of investment to China’s growth came down from over 50% to about 30%, with a corresponding rise in the contribution of consumer spending. The Chinese government has expressed its readiness to accept some reduction in the “quantity of growth” for the sake of “improving the quality and efficiency of growth”.
The new approach to growth is also conducive to reducing inequality. According to figures released by the Chinese government, inequality rose when growth was high and fell when it slowed. To quote from an article in the online edition of People’s Daily, “China’s first release of the Gini coefficient for the past decade demonstrated the government’s resolve to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor.” Although the Gini has been falling, at 0.474 it is still well above the red line of 0.4 set by the United Nations. Drawing attention to this fact, Ma Jiantang, director of the National Bureau of Statistics, said, “the statistics highlighted the urgency for our country to speed up income distribution reforms to narrow the wealth gap.”
All this does not make China, with its rampant corruption and many other vices, a model for India to emulate. But of course we can criticality assimilate certain aspects or features of the ever-changing Chinese economy in keeping with our own conditions and priorities. The foremost among these is an independent economic policy geared to the people’s interests, a policy based on the concerned state’s autonomy in relation to global finance capital.
Periodic crises, we learnt from our brief dialogue with Marx in Crisis of Neoliberalism and Challenges before Popular Movements (see second and third covers of the present pamphlet), are an integral, organic, necessary part of capitalist accumulation. So the only way to really get rid of crises is to get rid of capitalism itself, to move towards socialism. Yes, socialism sans all dogmatic presuppositions, socialism conceived as a system where all means of production are socially owned, where everyone enjoys equal rights and opportunities, while free all-round development of each is a condition for development of all.
Well, this is our long-term goal. But we cannot leap-frog to that height from the abysmal depths of human degradation (partly hidden though by the glitter of a superficial and distorted capitalist growth) that our country finds itself in. We have to first unfetter the productive forces, especially in agriculture which still employs more than 50% of Indians, so as to create the material conditions for building socialism as a higher, more efficient form of economic organisation; and at the same time achieve genuine, participatory, people’s democracy as distinct from the parliamentary farce we are now treated to. For that we need nothing short of a people’s democratic revolution with agrarian revolution as its axis. The primary aim of this democratic revolution will be to sweep away all feudal remnants, abolish imperialist domination, restrain and control big capital by effective taxation, nationalisation and other means, and democratise the entire apparatus and mechanism of governance. It will usher in the rule of workers, peasants, progressive sections of middle classes and intelligentsia – i.e., a people’s democratic state – which will take care not only of our economic problems but attend to a broad spectrum of organically interlinked tasks ranging from thorough democratisation of society and polity to progressive cultural transformation. Victorious democratic revolution will in this way build the material and cultural prerequisites for an uninterrupted socialist transition.
With this general orientation, we can now try and jot down some of the basic points of a People’s Alternative to the official policy frame.
1. Overcome foreign capital fetishism and rely instead on generation of domestic demand and capital formation, for such a course alone can augment inclusive – and therefore sustainable – economic development. The reason behind the government’s craving for more foreign capital inflow is to be located not just in the top policymakers’ personal inclinations, though that is not unimportant. At a deeper level, it is the essential logic of the growth trajectory chosen by the Indian state with full concurrence of the monopoly bourgeoisie, both of which betray a comprador mindset of the globalisation era. The overall experience of the last two decades confirm that the long-term ill effects of depending on enhanced inflow of foreign capital as a growth steroid far outweigh the temporary and superficial benefits. So it is high time India got rid of this drug-addiction-like-syndrome. The latest decision of further relaxing the cap on foreign investment in a whole range of sectors including insurance, public sector banks, commodity and stock exchanges etc. must be revoked.
2. Let there be a development model that is people-centric and not geared to the interests of indigenous and foreign big capital. Reject the monetarist orthodoxy imposed by finance capital and the rating agencies. Stop arguing that all government spending must be indiscriminately reduced
3. Rather than imposing austerity on the working people, whose incomes stimulate demand and therefore the economy, curb the enormous wasteful expenditure on foreign trips, five-star living etc. of our ministers, MPs and top officials. As President of India Pratibha Singh Patil spent Rs. 206 crore on foreign tours (the highest ever), Rs.6 crore on a newly-fitted car, and after retirement, got a sprawling bungalow built for herself on military land in Pune. Again, as against Rs.47 crore budgeted for their tour expenses in 2011-12, Central ministers spent Rs.400 crore, compared to just Rs.56 crore in the previous year. The ruling politicians in our country have a special knack for innovating ways to fatten themselves on taxpayers’ money. When the penchant for jumbo ministries was sought to be curbed by statutory restrictions, leaders left outside the ministries began to be ‘adjusted’ as heads of newly floated paper corporations and in other lucrative positions. Such practices must be stopped. The ever-growing military budget and the huge expenditure on largely non-urgent space programmes must be curtailed to release funds for pro-people productive investments. And rather than fighting the CAG and the Supreme Court to save corrupt persons and practices, the government must take matching measures to punish the guilty and plug the loopholes in law and governance.
4. Stop behaving like a US agent and regional hegemon in South Asia, develop genuine friendship and closer economic relations with neighbours in particular and third world countries generally. Discard high-cost, high-risk atomic energy projects imposed on the nation by imperialist countries and the atomic energy lobby in India; stop handing over national resources to the likes of Mukesh Ambani and increase production/generation of energy in the public sector under effective workers’/public surveillance; ignore US pressure and access cheaper energy sources like Iran.
5. Scrap anti-farmer legislations like the SEZ Act and the new Land Acquisition Act, pass agricultural land protection legislation to stop the agony of eviction ‘for development’, introduce effective land reform measures and urban land ceiling Acts – to name a few measures that will promote inclusive development. Public investment in agriculture (irrigation, storage and marketing infrastructure etc) and allied sectors like poultry, dairy and pisciculture must be enhanced several times to strengthen the base of the Indian economy and ensure affordable healthy diet for all Indians.
6. Adopt a time-bound phased programme of regularising casual/contractual labourers, starting with those employed in government/semi-government undertakings, such as construction workers, honorarium-based workers in the social sectors, and so on. Such measures will go a long way in boosting the home market and thereby countering stagflation.
An alternative economic programme, incorporating but certainly not limited to the above proposals, needs to be formulated through open, broad consultations, widely propagated and fought for. While uniting with progressive and democratic forces in this struggle, the Left should try and leave its imprint on the democratic movement by consistently connecting every single issue of immediate concern to the broader, higher agenda of comprehensive social transformation. Take one instance – the issue of corruption.
In the foregoing pages we saw that with a distinct role reversal of the state from a regulator of private investment to its servile facilitator, with the rise of corporations too big to control, and the accelerated influx of predatory finance capital, we now have in place a new model of almost legalised, institutionalised corruption. Even there are instances where government officials and ministers collude with private interests to economically undermine PSUs, so that private players can expand their market share at the cost of the latter. The example of BSNL readily comes to mind – a case comparable to the KG basin gas reserve, which was discovered by ONGC with public money and then transferred to RIL for private plunder of these invaluable public resources.
In a situation like this, where political and corporate corruption feed on each other, the gang of four – neoliberalism, corporate plunder, cronyism and corruption – must be fought together, because they exploit and oppress us together. In other words, fighting corruption is not merely a matter of good governance and punishing guilty individuals. More important, it is about relentless struggle for basic course correction in policy, for a paradigm shift in the very orientation and mechanism of development and governance, with people’s economic and political empowerment at its core. We must therefore put forward concrete demands like protection of agricultural, forest and coastal land, and comprehensive rights of gram sabhas over these; confiscation of black money and illicit wealth; and nationalisation of mineral resources, extraction of which have proved to be the main breeding grounds of corruption and corporate plunder.
Then again, the movement should be directed not only against mega scams and macro issues, but equally against the all-pervasive everyday corruption at the micro level, such as in PDS, municipal and panchayat affairs, various schemes like the NREGA, and so on. This is crucial for building up the struggle from the grassroots, for involving the broad masses in this movement on the basis of their lived experience. Equally important, this must not remain a single issue struggle but advance as part of a broader movement informed by a vision of comprehensive change.
To conclude, the economic crisis is, and increasingly will be, leading to all kinds of social and political turbulence. Disillusionment, frustration and anger are developing among all but the most privileged. This is the time to push for an alternative development discourse. The Left must, rather than merely criticising the governments and ruling parties for the economic mess they have created, make full use of the situation for this purpose. The ongoing struggle for economic justice and thoroughgoing democracy must be led to its consummation.


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Brazilian national team defender Marquinhos spoke about the recovery of his teammate Neymar.
Recall that Neymar injured his ankle in a collision with Serbian defender Nikola Milenković in the first round of the group stage of the World Cup.
Neymar spends 24 hours a day at the physical therapist. It shows how much he wants to come back. We don't know when that will happen, but we hope he will be back with us as soon as possible. I'm sure he'll be back. He's very focused on getting back in the group.
Marquinhos is quoted as saying by AP
The Brazilian national team will play Switzerland in the second round of the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar. The match will take place at the 974 stadium on November 28, beginning at 19:00 GMT+3.
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Arshine takes you through the digestive system of ruminants
Ruminantlivestock include cattle, sheep, and goats. Ruminants are hoofed mammals that have a unique digestive system that allows them to better use energy from fibrous plant material than other herbivores. Unlike monogastrics such as swine and poultry, ruminants have a digestive system designed to ferment feedstuffs and provide precursors for energy for the animal to use. By better understanding how the digestive system of the ruminant works, livestock producers can better understand how to care for and feed ruminant animals.
Based on the diets they prefer, ruminants can be classified into distinct feeding types: concentrate selectors, grass/roughage eaters, and intermediate types. The relative sizes of various digestive system organs differ by ruminant feeding type, creating differences in feeding adaptations. Knowledge of grazing preferences and adaptations amongst ruminant livestock species helps in planning grazing systems for each individual species and also for multiple species grazed together or on the same acreage.
Concentrate selectors have a small reticulorumen in relation to body size and selectively browse trees and shrubs. Deer and giraffes are examples of concentrate selectors. Animals in this group of ruminants select plants and plant parts high in easily digestible, nutrient dense substances such as plant starch, protein, and fat. For example, deer prefer legumes over grasses. Concentrate selectors are very limited in their ability to digest the fibers and cellulose in plant cell walls.
Grass/roughage eaters (bulk and roughage eaters) include cattle and sheep. These ruminants depend on diets of grasses and other fibrous plant material. They prefer diets of fresh grasses over legumes but can adequately manage rapidly fermenting feedstuffs. Grass/roughage eaters have much longer intestines relative to body length and a shorter proportion of large intestine to small intestine as compared with concentrate selectors.
Goats are classified as intermediate types and prefer forbs and browse such as woody, shrubby type plants. This group of ruminants has adaptations of both concentrate selectors and grass/roughage eaters. They have a fair though limited capacity to digest cellulose in plant cell walls.
On high-forage diets ruminants often ruminate or regurgitate ingested forage. This allows them to “chew their cud” to reduce particle size and improve digestibility. As ruminants are transitioned to higher concentrate (grain-based) diets, they ruminate less.
Once inside the reticulorumen, forage is exposed to a unique population of microbes that begin to ferment and digest the plant cell wall components and break these components down into carbohydrates and sugars. Rumen microbes use carbohydrates along with ammonia and amino acids to grow. The microbes ferment sugars to produce VFAs (acetate, propionate, butyrate), methane, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon dioxide. The VFAs are then absorbed across the rumen wall, where they go to the liver.
Once at the liver, the VFAs are converted to glucose via gluconeogenesis. Because plant cell walls are slow to digest, this acid production is very slow. Coupled with routine rumination (chewing and rechewing of the cud) that increases salivary flow, this makes for a rather stable pH environment (around 6).
High-Concentrate Feedstuffs (Grains)
When ruminants are fed high-grain or concentrate rations, the digestion process is similar to forage digestion, with a few exceptions. Typically, on a high-grain diet, there is less chewing and ruminating, which leads to less salivary production and buffering agents’ being produced. Additionally, most grains have a high concentration of readily digestible carbohydrates, unlike the more structural carbohydrates found in plant cell walls. This readily digestible carbohydrate is rapidly digested, resulting in an increase in VFA production.
The relative concentrations of the VFAs are also changed, with propionate being produced in the greatest quantity, followed by acetate and butyrate. Less methane and heat are produced as well. The increase in VFA production leads to a more acidic environment (pH 5.5). It also causes a shift in the microbial population by decreasing the forage using microbial population and potentially leading to a decrease in digestibility of forages.
Lactic acid, a strong acid, is a byproduct of starch fermentation. Lactic acid production, coupled with the increased VFA production, can overwhelm the ruminant’s ability to buffer and absorb these acids and lead to metabolic acidosis. The acidic environment leads to tissue damage within the rumen and can lead to ulcerations of the rumen wall. Take care to provide adequate forage and avoid situations that might lead to acidosis when feeding ruminants high-concentrate diets.
Two sources of protein are available for the ruminant to use: protein from feed and microbial protein from the microbes that inhabit its rumen. A ruminant is unique in that it has a symbiotic relationship with these microbes. Like other living creatures, these microbes have requirements for protein and energy to facilitate growth and reproduction. During digestive contractions, some of these microorganisms are “washed” out of the rumen into the abomasum where they are digested like other proteins, thereby creating a source of protein for the animal.
All crude protein (CP) the animal ingests is divided into two fractions, degradable intake protein (DIP) and undegradable intake protein (UIP, also called “rumen bypass protein”). Each feedstuff (such as cottonseed meal, soybean hulls, and annual ryegrass forage) has different proportions of each protein type. Rumen microbes break down the DIP into ammonia (NH3) amino acids, and peptides, which are used by the microbes along with energy from carbohydrate digestion for growth and reproduction.
Excess ammonia is absorbed via the rumen wall and converted into urea in the liver, where it returns in the blood to the saliva or is excreted by the body. Urea toxicity comes from overfeeding urea to ruminants. Ingested urea is immediately degraded to ammonia in the rumen.
When more ammonia than energy is available for building protein from the nitrogen supplied by urea, the excess ammonia is absorbed through the rumen wall. Toxicity occurs when the excess ammonia overwhelms the liver’s ability to detoxify it into urea. This can kill the animal. However, with sufficient energy, microbes use ammonia and amino acids to grow and reproduce.
The rumen does not degrade the UIP component of feedstuffs. The UIP “bypasses” the rumen and makes its way from the omasum to the abomasum. In the abomasum, the ruminant uses UIP along with microorganisms washed out of the rumen as a protein source.
Importance ofRuminant Livestock
The digestive system of ruminants optimizes use of rumen microbe fermentation products. This adaptation lets ruminants use resources (such as high-fiber forage) that cannot be used by or are not available to other animals. Ruminants are in a unique position of being able to use such resources that are not in demand by humans but in turn provide man with a vital food source. Ruminants are also useful in converting vast renewable resources from pasture into other products for human use such as hides, fertilizer, and other inedible products (such as horns and bone).
One of the best ways to improve agricultural sustainability is by developing and using effective ruminant livestock grazing systems. More than 60 percent of the land area in the world is too poor or erodible for cultivation but can become productive when used for ruminant grazing. Ruminant livestock can use land for grazing that would otherwise not be suitable for crop production. Ruminant livestock production also complements crop production, because ruminants can use the byproducts of these crop systems that are not in demand for human use or consumption. Developing a good understanding of ruminant digestive anatomy and function can help livestock producers better plan appropriate nutritional programs and properly manage ruminant animals in various production systems.


Queensland Kathmandu Aran
The Kathmandu line has been a best seller at Atelier for 20+ years. When they brought back their popular Aran weight, we were overjoyed. It’s our go to alternative for scratchy Aran tweed alternatives and our customers keep coming back for it.
One of the only bases that contains merino, cashmere and silk, Kathmandu Aran is in a class of it’s own. Great for all things including sweaters and blankets. Everything feels good made out of Kathmandu.
Length: 208 yards
Skein Weight: 100g
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Skin Pigmentations, also known as Hypopigmentations are caused by a very low amount of melanin being produced by the cells and it makes the skin lighter than normal. Apart from primary pigmentation disorders, hypopigmentation can also result from injuries to the skin such as burns, ulcers, chemical exposure, or skin infection. Papillon Bleu Aesthetics has treatments specifically to help fade away from your skin imperfections and rejuvenate the overall appearance of your skin!

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Inflation in Developing Member Countries of ADB
The paper is a comparative descriptive analysis of inflation in the Asian region. It looks at the level and movement, as well as the causes, of inflation in each ADB member country. The inflation rate is found to be generally low and double-digit levels occurred only intermittently due to external shocks and climatic changes that adversely affected agricultural output. Monetary variables appear not to be cause of the inflation spurts experienced. China and Vietnam's high inflation experience is taken to be temporary and results from the structural transformation of their economies.
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Reuters: Iranian presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi has ruled out suspending uranium enrichment but would work to verify Iran was not diverting its nuclear programme for weapons, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
LONDON, April 14 (Reuters) – Iranian presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi has ruled out suspending uranium enrichment but would work to verify Iran was not diverting its nuclear programme for weapons, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
Prime minister during Iran's 1980-88 war with Iraq, Mousavi, 67, is seriously considered by many moderates and even some conservatives as their main presidential candidate and a strong rival to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June's election.
"No one in Iran would accept suspension," he was quoted as telling the paper on its website.
Iran, the world's fourth-largest oil producer, says its nuclear programme is aimed at generating electricity and not covertly building nuclear weapons, as the West suspects. It has repeatedly ruled out halting its enrichment programme.
However, chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was quoted as saying on Monday that Iran would welcome constructive dialogue with six world powers, including the United States.
The Obama administration has offered a "new beginning" of diplomatic engagement if Iran "unclenches its fist".
Mousavi told the FT a solution to the nuclear dispute did not only depend on Tehran. "It will also depend on the discourse the Americans use and the issues they pursue. The more realistic they become and recognise Iran in this issue, naturally the better the ground will be prepared to find solutions.
"No one will retreat. But we have to see what solutions or in other words what guarantees can be found to verify the non-diversion of the programme into nuclear weapons," the paper's website quoted him as saying.
A solution could be reached by "technical negotiations".
When he was prime minister, Mousavi, who has stayed away from politics and the public eye in the past 20 years, defended a state-controlled economy, although he told a news conference this month Iran needed privatisation, the creation of jobs and foreign investment.
He told the FT he believed in the "strong presence of the private sector", adding his economic priorities were "inflation, unemployment and the improvement of business".
Ahmadinejad is criticised by reformists and even some of his conservative backers for his economic policies, blamed for fuelling inflation, which reached a peak of nearly 30 percent last year, and wasting petro-dollars.
Inflation would be curbed "through monetary policies, imports, making the private sector active and increasing production", the paper quoted Mousavi as saying.
He said subsidies should be targeted. "The most important one is the energy subsidy and we have to gradually work on it," he said, saying it could probably be achieved in 10 years.
He also said he would consider restricting imports.
"I have to see which sections should be restricted and over what period of time," he was quoted as saying.
"We have gone too far in opening up to imports. This has to be revised. We have to take bigger steps to support our national economy." (Writing by Alison Williams; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)


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Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have witnessed increase in tiger population slightly. While tiger population in 2014 in combined AP was 68 it has increased to 74 according to 'Status of Tigers co-predators and Prey in India-2018' report based on the fourth cycle of All India Tiger Estimation. Telangana has 26 tigers with a range of 23 to 30 and Andhra has 48 tigers ranging from 40 to 56.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released the tiger census on Monday in Delhi. Andhra Pradesh is in the league of the states along with Madhya Pradesh where tiger population has increased.
Number of Tigers in AP in 2006 were 95 and it was decreased to 72 in 2010 and further to 68 in 2014. After bifurcation of the State Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve was divided and Amrabad tiger reserve was formed in Telangana. Kawal tiger reserve is also formed in Telangana.


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text: Perception vs. Reality There’s an alarming difference between perception and reality for current and future retirees. Share | Have A Question About This Topic? Name Email Address Question Thank you! Oops! Related Content Self-Employed Retirement Plans Estimate the maximum contribution amount for a Self-Employed 401(k), SIMPLE IRA, or SEP. The Real Cost of a Vacation Home What if instead of buying that vacation home, you invested the money? What Is My Life Expectancy? Estimate how many years you may need retirement assets or how long to provide income to a surviving spouse or children.

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Ukrainian Grain Association forecasts grain harvest at 60-62 mln tonnes
Ukrainian Grain Association estimated the grain harvest in Ukraine in the current year at the level of 60-62 mln tonnes, against 63.3 mln tonnes in 2013, declared Vladimir Klimenko, President of the Association, on May 29 at the press-conference "Grain market of Ukraine: problems and solutions. Forecasts of grain production and exports in 2014/15 MY".
According to him, the general grain harvest will not exceed the last year results. V.Klimenko forecasted the grain exports from Ukraine in 2014/15 MY within 30-32 mln tonnes, whereas in the current season the index may reach 33 mln tonnes.
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Ukraine received the quotas for supplying of flour to the EU - Millers of Ukraine
Ukraine to keep the crops planted areas for the harvest-2016 at the last year level – O.Pavlenko
Ukraine: in the first week of February, the seaports increased grain exports
In 2015, Ukraine increased agricultural products exports to Asia, Africa and the EU – O.Pavlenko
Ukraine exported 45% of agricultural products to Asia – O.Pavlenko
In the first half of 2015/16 MY, PJSC SFGCU exported 1.5 mln tonnes of grains
For 25 years, Ukraine fundamentally changed the structure of crop planted areas - APK-Inform
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In 2015, Ukraine increased the exports of flour, despite some reduction of its production - Millers of Ukraine
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I don’t read a lot of golf books. I get sleepy two pages into the read, regardless of how good the book is. It must be genetic. As a result my book review queue could fill up a small library.
But a book like Golfweek’s 101 Winning Golf Tips (Second Edition) I can and did read, because it isn’t a book that has to be read from front to back. This book is more of a reference which can be accessed for specific shots, situations or techniques. This is a great book to leave at your desk and just read a tip or two every day, or even better keep it handy in the bathroom…
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is known for its varied cuisine. It doesn’t stop at Philly cheesesteaks, as other quintessential American fare such as hoagies and soft pretzels trace their origins to this city. While there’s nothing wrong with indulging in these delectable foods, it has to be supplemented with daily brushing and flossing to prevent tooth decay.
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Oral sedatives, on the other hand, produce varied effects, depending on the specific drug. Triazolam is used as an alternative to IV sedation, and can induce anterograde amnesia, or the inability to remember events while under the influence of the drug. Diazepam produces mild levels of amnesia and drowsiness, and will take effect about an hour after it is ingested. The average dose of valium for an adult patient is 5 to 10 mg.
IV (intravenous) sedation, while commonly marketed as ‘sleep dentistry’, can be more accurately described as deep sedation, as patients are induced into a state of deep relaxation without really falling asleep. With so many different options, patients are sure to receive the dental treatments they need without suffering acute pain throughout the procedure.


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Alan Lovell, aged 64, is the go-to man for construction businesses in distress. He first made his name as finance director of steelwork contractor Conder Group and was chief executive at the time of its collapse in 1992. He then moved to Costain, initially as finance director then chief executive. Costain was eventually rescued by Malaysian investors. After a few years running Dunlop Slazenger, Alan Lovell’s next big challenge in the construction industry was Jarvis, 2004-06.
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