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Bergaro is a Village in Birni Taluka , Giridih district and Jharkhand State. Bergaro village Pin code is 825324. Bergaro Village Total population is 449 and number of houses are 56. Female Population is 49.0%. Village literacy rate is 43.7% and the Female Literacy rate is 16.5%.

Census Parameter Census Data
Total Population 449
Total No of Houses 56
Female Population % 49.0 % ( 220)
Total Literacy rate % 43.7 % ( 196)
Female Literacy rate 16.5 % ( 74)
Scheduled Tribes Population % 0.0 % ( 0)
Scheduled Caste Population % 0.0 % ( 0)
Working Population % 44.8 %
Child(0 -6) Population by 2011 101
Girl Child(0 -6) Population % by 2011 47.5 % ( 48)

Location and Administration

Bergaro Village Gram Panchayath name is Jaridih. Bergaro is 12 km distance from Sub District HeadQuarter Birni and it is 42 km distance from District HeadQuarter Giridih. Nearest Statutory Town is Giridih in 42 km Distance . Bergaro Total area is 13.25 hectares, Non-Agricultural area is 9.78 hectares andTotal irrigated area is 3.01 hectares

Govt Primary School is available in this Village. Nearest Govt Engineering College is in Ranchi. Nearest Govt Arts and Science Degree College is in Giridih. Nearest Govt Senior Secondary School is in Birni. Nearest Govt ITA College is in Hazaribag. Nearest Private Pre Primary School is in Kubri. Nearest Govt Disabled School, Govt Medical College, Govt MBA college and Govt Polytechnic College are in Dhanbad. Nearest Govt Pre Primary School and Govt Secondary School are in Jaridih.

Rice is agriculture commodities grow in this village. Total irrigated area in this village is 3.01 hectares from Boreholes/Tube wells 2.5 hectares and from Lakes or tanks 0.51 hectares are the Sources of irrigation.

Drinking-Water and Sanitation

Treated Tap Water Supply all round the year and in summer also available. Untreated Tap Water Supply all round the year and in summer available. UnCovered Well and Hand Pump are other Drinking Water sources.
Open Drainage System Available in this Village. There is system to Collect garbage on street. Drain water is discharged into sewer plant.

Mobile Coverage is available. There is no Internet Centre in less than 10 km. No Private Courier Facility in less than 10 km.

There is no Public Bus service in less than 10 km. There is no Railway Station in less than 10 km. Tractors Available in this Village. Animal Driven Carts are there in this Village.

No Nearest National Highway in less than 10 km. No Nearest State Highway in less than 10 km. Nearest District Road is in 5 - 10 km.
Pucca road, Kuccha Road and Foot Path are other Roads and Transportation within the village.

No ATM in less than 10 km. No Commercial Bank in less than 10 km. No Cooperative Bank in less than 10 km.

Other Amenities

ASHA is the other amenities in the village.

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This Teen Builds Lightest Ever Satellite And It's Being Launched By Nasa Next Month

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Indian teenager Rifath Shaarook has designed and built what is thought to be the world's lightest satellite - and it's due to be launched at a Nasa facility in June.

The 64-gram device is made from 3D printed carbon fibre, and was the winning entry in Cubes in Space, a design contest for young inventors organised by education company idoodle, with backing from Nasa and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.

Rifath has named his creation KalamSat, after former Indian president Abdul Kalam. It will be launched from Nasa's Wallops Island facility in the US next month, entering into a four-hour sub-orbital flight. For 12 minutes of the flight it will be operating in a micro-gravity environment.

Rifath, who is lead scientist at Chennai-based science education organisation Space Kidz India, said: “We designed it completely from scratch.

"It will have a new kind of on-board computer and eight indigenous built-in sensors to measure acceleration, rotation and the magnetosphere of the earth.

"The main challenge was to design an experiment to be flown to space which would fit into a four-metre cube weighing 64 grams”.

Rifath, who comes from a small town in Tamil Nadu, previously built a helium weather balloon as a part of a competition for young scientists when just 15 years old.

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Joining Turtle Shells

When you hear the word organic chemistry, the first thing that comes to your mind might be the turtle shell-shaped molecule of benzene ring (Figure 1). The hexagonal benzene molecules can assemble in many different ways into interesting molecules.

Fig 1 structure of benzene

The Discovery of Benzene Ring
Although the hexagonal structure of benzene is taught in high schools today, it was a big mystery for the chemists in the nineteenth century. It had been expected from the known empirical formula C6H6 that benzene wasn’t made of single bonds alone, but there was the fact that it was much more chemically stable than other compounds containing double and triple bonds. To explain, the chemists came up with various structural formulas. For example, James Dewar proposed the structure shown in Figure 2, and Albert Ladenburg claimed it was a triangular prism (Figure 3).

Fig 2 Dewar benzene Fig 3 Ladenburg benzene

In 1865, the currently used structural formula was proposed by a Czech-native chemist Friedrich August Kekulè (Figure 1.52). The legend is that he thought of the structure after having a dream of six snakes biting the tails of each other in a circle. He reasoned that the single and double bonds of benzene were exchanging so rapidly that they couldn’t be distinguished.
His idea was close but slightly different from the current understanding of benzene, in which the pi electrons are distributed uniformly throughout the six-membered ring and each of the six bonds is considered to have both single and double bond character. Nevertheless, the Kekulè formula (six-membered ring with alternating single and double bonds) is still used today because it is useful for understanding chemical structure and reactivity. The “turtle shell” of benzene is technically called an aromatic ring, and the molecule containing aromatic ring(s) is called an aromatic compound. This is because compounds that contain a benzene ring often have pleasant smell.

Fig 4 equilibrium of benzene

For the six pi electrons to spread out on a benzene ring to stabilize the molecule, the six carbon atoms should ideally be in a single plane as an equilateral hexagon. When this plane is distorted for whatever reason, the interactions among the pi electrons are weakened and the molecule becomes destabilized with lowered aromaticity. The reason that the molecule of fullerene, which essentially consists of twenty benzene rings, shows higher chemical reactivity than other aromatic compounds is because its round shape prevents the rings from staying in one plane.

Joining Turtle Shells
The molecule made by joining two benzene rings is called naphthalene, which is a famous insect repellant (Figure 5). It is a member of aromatic compound family, and you can think of the whole molecule being stabilized by ten pi electrons.

Fig 5 naphthalene

There are longer molecules with more benzene rings added linearly, but they are known to become less and less stable as the length increases (Figure 6, 7). By drawing the structure of these molecules, you can see that only two of the six-membered rings can have three double bonds and it’s not possible to give the rest more than two. Because of this reason the aromaticity decreases gradually and the molecule starts to lose stability.

Fig 6 anthracene Fig 7 tetracene

When benzene rings are connected in zigzag fashion instead, all the rings can accommodate three double bonds. Zigzag aromatic molecules are therefore relatively stable even when they get longer (Fig 8, 9).

Fig 8 phenanthrene Fig 9 chrysene

Isn’t there a triangular molecule made of three benzene rings? The answer is actually no (Figure 10). It becomes clear by drawing that one of the carbon atoms ends up without a double bond, so this triangle doesn’t qualify as an aromatic molecule as a whole. This is, by the way, an example when the aforementioned Kekulè structural formula helps your analysis.

Fig 10 triangular molecule

You can make a larger hexagon by connecting six benzene rings. This molecule is called coronene, after the solar corona (Figure 11). It’s a perfectly flat molecule.

Fig 11 colonene

So far I’ve kept saying that aromatic rings are flat and made of equilateral hexagons. Now, what happens when a large cyclic molecule is formed by joining five hexagons as shown in Figure 1.60? In this case the equilateral hexagons will break if you try to maintain the planarity, and they will be bent out of the plane if their shapes are kept intact. The actual synthesis of this compound corannulene revealed that it has the shape of shallow bowl. This is also a cut-out portion of the soccer ball molecule fullerene and inspired the original idea of fullerene skeleton.

Fig 12 corannulene

Conversely, what if you use seven benzene rings? Joining seven hexagonal papers will show you that the resulting molecule doesn’t fit in a plane, but has a bent shape like a saddle (Figure 12). These cyclic structures consisting of n benzene rings are called [n]circulenes. They are the partial structure of the new popular material carbon nanotubes, and are considered to be a big factor determining their property.

Fig 13 [7]circulene

There is an aromatic molecule that honors Kekulè, who I mentioned earlier as the chemist who elucidated the structure of benzene. It is kekulene, shown in Figure 14.

Fig 14 kekulene

As you can see, kekulene is a large hexagonal molecule composed of twelve benzene rings. The synthesis was completed after the tremendous effort by François Diederich and his coworkers in 1978. The high crystal density due to the molecular symmetry makes the compound high melting (>620°C) and poorly soluble in organic solvents.
Even larger molecule has been synthesized recently. The leading chemist in this field is Professor Klaus Müllen, who has been introducing a number of massive polycyclic hydrocarbon molecules (Figure 15). Extending this sheet of carbon atoms infinitely would make graphite, so it will be interesting to see at which point these molecules begin to show characteristics similar to graphite.

Fig 15 Müllen's giant polyaromatic compound

We have seen a lot of planar molecules, so I think I’m going to introduce a three-dimensional molecule too (Figure 16). By connecting six benzene rings you get a coronene after a full circle, but you should get a helical structure if you twist the molecule in a way that the two ends miss each other. The laboratory of Professor Melvin Newman at Ohio State University synthesized this molecule in 1955 and gave it a perfect name helicene based on its shape. Not surprisingly, the molecule can exist as either right- or left-handed spiral, and it is even possible to separate the two isomers. This was a historical achievement that showed the existence of a chiral molecule having no stereogenic carbon center, but with the crowding within the molecule.

Fig 16 helicene

Benzopyrene: A Carcinogen
I will finish with a little scary story. Some of the aromatic hydrocarbon　compounds are potent cancer-inducing agents. Among them, benzopyrene, which is found in things like coal tar and over-scorched fish, is known as the most powerful carcinogen (Figure 17).

Fig 17 benzopyrene

Human body tries to excrete foreign substances with low water solubility by adding oxygen atoms (oxidation) to make them more soluble. Benzopyrene too is oxidized to become the substance shown in Figure 18, but ironically this is a highly reactive chemical species which reacts with nearby DNA molecules to cause damage. Cells with damaged DNA start abnormal growth and eventually develop into cancer cells. Biological defense mechanism is extremely well designed, but this is an unfortunate case when it backfires.

Fig 18 oxidized benzopyrene (potent carcinogen)

The first evidence for the carcinogenicity of these chemical substances was provided in 1915 by Professor Katsusaburo Yamagiwa of Tokyo Imperial University (now Tokyo University). Back then there were many different theories as to what caused cancer. Yamagiwa’s idea that it might be the chemical substance contained in coal tar was based on his observation that chimney cleaning workers had high rate of developing cancer. Despite public criticism, he patiently carried out the experiment in which he smeared coal tar on the ears of rabbit and finally succeeded in artificially inducing tumors after three years.
Around the same time, a Danish scientist Johannes Fibiger reported his research result to claim that cancer was caused by a parasitic organism, and for this he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1926. Fibiger’s result, however, was later found to be applicable only to certain types of rat and not to other animals including people. Contemporary oncology is clearly based on the extension of Yamagiwa’s work, but he never received the credit he deserved.
The awardees couldn’t be changed because when it was clear who should have won the prize, both Yamagiwa and Fibiger had already been dead, and the case has remained as the biggest mistake in the history of the Nobel Prize. I have to say Yamagiwa was just so out of luck, missing the opportunity of becoming the first-ever Japanese Nobel laureate. Benzopyrene was isolated as the main carcinogen from coal tar in 1930, and its cancer-triggering mechanism of action was elucidated in 1977. Sometimes it takes a long time for a fact to be recognized.
I’ve gone through the molecules containing the chains of benzene. When Kekulè established the correct structure of benzene, people supposedly said that there was nothing left to solve in organic chemistry, but the history has proved them wrong.
Benzene rings become graphite by flat and endless expansion, and you can turn it into carbon nanotube by rolling or into fullerene by making it a sphere. They are still one of the front runners of science. The chemistry of this organic chemistry icon that began in the nineteenth century will remain as the protagonist in the twenty first century.

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Long wait for warring parents

By Deborah Gough
Social Affairs Reporter
October 4, 2004

Estranged parents are waiting up to 15 months to see their children in a supervised setting because there are not enough contact centres in capital cities.

Family Services Australia executive director Libby Davies said she believed the difficulties facing parents was contributing to resentment, which were manifesting itself in right-wing men's groups, such as the Blackshirts.

Blackshirt leader John Abbott was given a suspended jail term last week for stalking a divorced mother.

There are just 35 accredited contact centres nationally that provide supervised child contact visits ordered by the Family Court. Supervised contact is needed in cases of domestic violence, alleged abuse, psychiatric illness or substance abuse, but can also include cases where a parent has no experience of playing with children or handling a baby. They also provide disputing parents a neutral place to pick up and drop off.

One Sydney father has waited 15 months for supervised access to his children at a Parramatta centre, while in Melbourne's north-eastern and southern suburbs waits of up to nine months are common. A service in the west has a short wait.

Ms Davies said delays had got so long that some lawyers had stopped suggesting the centres when the Family Court made supervised contact orders and some parents gave up on waiting and either access was denied or other arrangements made.

Berry Street chief executive officer, Sandie de Wolf, said there was a nine-month wait at its Watsonia centre which was unacceptable.

"It just creates an incredible stress for parents and kids and a lot of anxiety for parents and kids about what might happen and when," Ms de Wolf said.

She said there was no funding to help parents move to unsupervised contact when the time was right.

Ms Davies said the 30 per cent increase in funding announced earlier this year by Prime Minister John Howard would only allow services to maintain their waiting lists because there had been no other increases for three years.

Gordoncare for Children executive director Julie Gummersall said demand was so great that it ran a philanthropically funded centre in Mentone as well as its federally funded Frankston service.

Ms Gummersall said many people were upset by the waiting times. "They are very distressed. People are in a very raw emotional state and often very angry. Sometimes they have gone through a divorce and haven't seen their children for some time."

Family Services Australia has assessed that there is a need for at least five additional centres in Victoria and at least seven in NSW.

A federal Attorney-General spokesman said the Prime Minister in July had committed to implement the findings of a report due out soon. The report comes after a House of Representatives inquiry into family law.

Family Services Australia president Jo Cavanagh said the organisation was unconvinced by the assurances, saying there had been no dollar commitment to funding, and service levels and more details from the report were needed.


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By Vilis Ozols, MBA, CSP

 This article appeared in the California Collectors Association monthly magazine; Collectors Ink, in the Texas Collectors Association  monthly magazine and in the CRS News quarterly newsletter in 2005.(click here for information about reprinting these articles)

Warren Dedrick, the founder and owner of CR Software, Inc., states that “The only person who really makes money for a collection agency…is the collector!”

But what happens if your agency is constantly losing collectors? What can you do about high employee turnover?

One of the sessions I facilitated at the annual CR Software User’s Conference was an interactive workshop on call center management. As the facilitator, I had anticipated that the audience of collection agency owners and managers would promulgate content on such topics as workflow automation, call load balancing, outbound calling strategies and predictive dialer management. Instead the audience almost immediately started a spirited discussion on employee turnover. Imagine my surprise when every attendee agreed that the secret to collection agency call center management is really managing employees, and more specifically managing employee turnover and attrition.

Our group then voluntarily shared the annual turnover rates of their employees at their collection agencies. Interestingly enough the group admitted turnover rates from as low as 0 percent (no employees leaving their organization over the past year) to as high as 50 percent (half of their employees leaving over the course of the past year). This should prompt a very good question for anyone reading this article: what is your turnover rate?

You might guess at what it is, or you might know down to the decimal; pinpoint what it is. One of my favorite sayings from the world of Total Quality Management is this: “Replace Opinion with Data!” This is a very serious indicator of how your agency is doing. Do you know what your turnover rate is? But let me pose an ancillary question that might be even more telling: What is the cost of employee turnover to your organization?

I always liked Mark Twain’s quote: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics!” But let me share some of the statistics in the area of employee turnover. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) states that the voluntary turnover rate across the board this past year in the US was 20.2 percent. Just in case you are wondering how to calculate your numbers, the standard method the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses to compute net monthly turnover rates is the number of separations during the month, divided by the average number of employees on the payroll during that month, times 100.

In a recent survey concerning employee turnover statistics and retention, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest human resource (HR) management association, provided insight into the reasons employees quit. Interestingly, “better career opportunities” and “more competitive salary and benefit packages” were the top reasons for employee resignations.

Employee Turnover Costs You Money

If you are trying to calculate the cost of employee turnover, employee retention consultant Sam Geist, of KEi, states that the cost of replacing an hourly worker is 0.25 to 0.5 times the person’s salary plus benefits; the cost of a manager or supervisor is 1-1.5 times salary plus benefits; replacing an executive or top manager is 3-5 times annual salary plus benefits. Replacing a top-producing sales executive is often even higher.

This is always a difficult number to come up with, but some of the factors to consider are cost of finding, hiring and training a replacement; cost of lost productivity in the process of the attrition; cost or affect on the rest of the employee base as your organization goes through employee attrition; cost to your organization in terms of customer satisfaction and potential lost clients; and the administrative costs of stopping payroll benefit deductions, benefit enrollments, COBRA notification and overall administration costs.

Employee Turnover Costs You Client Satisfaction

In an interesting study, researchers Estelami and Hurley with the Marketing Science Institute showed that employee turnover predicts customer satisfaction levels very well. Also, employee turnover statistics can serve as the equivalent of customer satisfaction surveys. They also showed that when levels of employee turnover are low, improvements (that is, decreases) in turnover rates yield big improvements in customer satisfaction. When employee turnover is high, the improvements in turnover rates have less impact on customer satisfaction.

What this means to you as a collection agency is that if you are already effective at employee retention, any improvement will yield high results in increasing your client satisfaction ratings! Conversely, if you are bad at employee retention, your customer satisfaction ratings are probably already hurting badly and improvements in customer satisfaction are not as likely to be tied to your turnover rate until you dramatically improve it.

Reasons for Quitting Are Not Surprising

Why are workers leaving their jobs? According to the SHERM study, “A better career opportunity” is the primary reason cited by 78 percent of exit interview respondents. Money is the second most cited reason, as 65 percent of employees leave because they were “dissatisfied with salary and benefits.” “Poor management” was a distant third (at 21 percent), followed by “moving to follow a relocating spouse” (18 percent).

Employee Retention Tools

The collection agency owners at the CR Software conference workshop offered many real-world collections industry solutions to their employee turnover challenges. They stated that fair and competitive salaries and benefits were very important. They also cited many examples of “improving workplace quality” as being important, including employee recognition plans, fun events and contests at work, and comprehensive communication strategies with their employees to make sure that employees felt valued and appreciated. Comprehensive training, both for new collectors and ongoing training for all employees, was also suggested as a powerful retention tool.

One of the most effective employee retention plans suggested was to improve the initial hiring and interviewing process. Experienced collection agency owners and managers found that if they put more time and effort into the hiring process, the organization experienced lower employee turnover rates.

Now we can also compare the collection agency suggestions with the Human Resource study findings. The SHERM study also asked the HR professionals to rank the effectiveness of several retention tools. Traditional benefits apparently work the best: the respondents ranked health care benefits as the most effective retention tool, followed by competitive salaries, competitive salary increases, and competitive vacation and holiday benefits.

Interestingly, some of the newer and trendier benefits did not fare as well. Concierge services (where a hotel-type concierge arranges personal services like dinner reservations and personal shopping) ranked as the least effective retention tool, and telecommuting and special severance protection packages also ranked in the bottom five. Based on the survey findings, the best action for employers trying to boost their retention rates is to analyze salary and benefits packages to determine if they measure up to the competition.

Remember, the only person who really earns money for a collection agency is the collector. If your collectors are constantly leaving you for another job, your agency is losing its most import asset. If you are to listen to the suggestions of some of the smartest collection agency owners and managers in the industry, maybe your best call center management technique should be a concerted effort at employee retention!

Vilis Ozols, MBA, CSP, ( president of the Ozols Business Group in Albany, NY is a motivational business speaker and leadership consultant. He is the author of 3 books, he’s a former pro beach volleyball player and he has spoken to businesses in all 50 U.S. states.


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Amarna - Out of Print's date today is:Mar 25th c. 1365BC

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2010-02-11 10:44:27 The General Claims a Bride by Lady Mutnodjme
2010-02-16 07:03:26 Challenge by Horemheb
2010-03-13 01:06:01 Sailing Toward Akhet-Aten by Hori RaAmse
2010-03-21 00:11:05 (New Amarna) Rooted in Mourning by Beketaten sat Amenhotep
2010-03-28 00:06:53 Docking In Akhet-Aten by Pamiu Imhotep
2010-04-01 18:50:56 Home Alone by Tiaa Amenhotep
2010-04-03 22:11:49 Disembarking by Hori RaAmse
2010-04-06 00:22:29 (New Amarna) The Tale for the Bored Princess by Beketaten sat Amenhotep
2010-04-15 00:38:58 Early Rise by Tiaa Amenhotep
2010-04-24 21:18:10 Welcome Home by Nefer Mewet
2010-04-30 08:45:52 Someday by Ankhesenpaaten
2010-05-05 23:14:06 Night of Merryment by Hori RaAmse
2010-05-06 23:29:51 Banquet Night by Nefer Mewet
2010-05-08 19:26:58 Entertainment by Tiaa Amenhotep
2010-05-09 01:23:26 Retiring Early by Pamiu Imhotep
2010-05-09 23:43:25 The Day After by Nefer Mewet
2010-05-31 23:08:06 More Than One Marketplace by Hori RaAmse
2010-08-28 00:13:52 (New Amarna) A Visitor by Tjaneferet sat Mentuhotep
2010-10-08 14:41:02 (New Amarna) Baking in the Sun by Kitaneja of Knossos
2011-04-13 07:49:46 Pure of Hands by Ankhesenpaaten
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2010-02-17 11:01:34 RE: DNA Testing To Be Done by Princess Nebetah
2010-02-18 06:13:16 RE: DNA Testing To Be Done by Sitamun
2010-02-18 11:44:35 RE: DNA Testing To Be Done by Lady Mutnodjme
2010-02-22 22:37:57 Tut On Discovery Channel Tonight by Lady Mutnodjme
2010-02-23 06:55:08 RE: Tut On Discovery Channel Tonight by Ankhesenpaaten
2010-02-23 09:38:26 RE: Tut On Discovery Channel Tonight by Neferneferuaten Nefertiti
2010-04-12 13:02:45 Amarna Family Tree by Neferneferuaten Nefertiti
2010-04-12 16:37:15 RE: Amarna Family Tree by Sitamun
2010-04-13 10:41:48 RE: Amarna Family Tree by Neferneferuaten Nefertiti
2010-08-27 21:05:48 RE: Amarna Family Tree by Tjaneferet sat Mentuhotep
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2010-05-08 18:08:23 Happy Birthday Dear Daughter! by Neferneferuaten Nefertiti
2010-05-08 19:54:17 Happy Birthday Royal Daughter by Tiaa Amenhotep
2010-05-09 07:09:55 RE: Happy Birthday Royal Daughter by Ankhesenpaaten
2010-05-09 20:16:23 RE: Happy Birthday Royal Daughter by Princess Nebetah
2010-10-03 14:31:24 I'm BACK! by Neferneferuaten Nefertiti
2010-10-03 18:56:35 RE: I'm BACK! by Ankhesenpaaten
2010-12-31 15:47:42 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year by Takhaet sat Mentuhotep
2011-01-07 20:20:58 Merry Coptic Christmas! by Takhaet sat Mentuhotep
2011-04-13 07:50:30 Pure of Hands -- Discussion by Ankhesenpaaten
2011-04-13 07:53:40 New Thread! by Ankhesenpaaten

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Paragliding Lesson Preparations

The reason that students need to check in is to optimize the time and location for each lesson.   Being at the best training spot for each lesson is one of the most important ways to maximize your lessons.  Bay Area weather forecasting is a tough nut to crack, so last minute tweaking is involved in the check in process.

In the below steps, sometimes a morning check in might be added to further refine the weather realities (there are days where the forecast is dichotomous and for example: we need to see if that 60% chance of rain actualizes into a dry or wet day).   The system also makes it easier for everyone.

  1. Go to my online calendar between 7 and 8 PM, you should have received the password for this.  If not, skip to step 2.   On the calendar there should be instructions including where to meet and or check in on the following day for your lesson.   Sometimes I cannot get to a computer to update the calendar, if the calendar has not been updated, go to step 2.  Another possibility is that you cannot get to a calendar, in this case you can use step 2 to receive the venue and instructions.
  2. Call Jeff at the cell phone 415-310-7411 between  7:00 and 8:00 PM the night before a scheduled lesson day. When you call, you will be briefed on the weather for the day and either be given a time and location to meet, or you will be told to call back to confirm weather at a specific time the next day. Enough time will be provided to allow you to get to the lesson from your location.  Note, if you forget to call before 8 PM, I would rather be called at 7 AM than 9 PM.   I normally am up at 6 or 6:30 AM and am often falling asleep as early as 8:30 or 9 PM.  Better yet, set a reminder for yourself to check in the night before.

  • Boots or shoes with ankle support and traction are required! I have some Loaners, but it is preferable that you bring your own for the best fit. I have the following sizes (Ladies 7, Mens 7, 9, 10.5, 12) If you do not have boots, let me know and I can bring the proper pair for you.
  • If you are a member of USHPA, always have your USHPA card on your person when flying at Ed Levin Park.
  • Wear layered clothing and wear full pants (no shorts), the coast can be in the high 50s when other parts of the Bay Area are in the 80s.
  • Fluids to drink and a brown bag lunch are a good idea.
  • If you have your own bike helmet, please bring it and this will give you a perfect fit and eliminate sizing issues.
  • Cameras can be brought, but keep in mind, I will not have time to take pictures while teaching you. If you are coming with another student, you can take turns with the camera.
  • If you bring a pet, a leash and person to watch are required while you are in the air. Animals are not allowed at some of the training areas, consult with me prior to bringing a pet.
  • On some of the lessons, we can include a tandem flight. It will be helpful if you read the Tandem Preparation Page if we should have a tandem included in the lessons.
  • $s or CCs for ratings and club membership and day use fees.   At Ed Levin Park, there is a day use fee of $6 each time you go into the park.   There is a kiosk at the park entrance, sometimes it is staffed, other times you need to pay via the electronic pay station.   You can also buy a season pass for the Santa Clara Parks that includes Ed Levin (in 2012, the fee is $80 for the year).   If you are going to practice and fly after you earn your P2, the pass makes sense if you will go to the park more than 13 times in the year after buying the season pass.  When you earn your P1 rating, USHPA charges $15 for the rating card, so you can pay this via cash or CC.   If it has been discussed that you might be ready for the 300′ hill, you will need to pay this rating fee on that day (you will need to have a USHPA  card on your

  • For pilots joining any P2 or Pay-As-You-Go program, it is necessary to Join USHPA.    To be able to fly from the 300 foot hill at Milpitas ( normally done by the 3rd lesson, but occasionally as early as the 2nd lesson), you need to have your membership processed by USHPA. To get your membership set up, please fill out the above form and make sure to include the waiver on the back.  This must be mailed HARD COPY  to USHPA.  On the front, you should join as a “Pilot Member” and you can pay with CC at the bottom or send in a check.  It must be mailed USPS, not faxed etc. as they need the waiver in original form.  The dues will be $99 for the year and this includes 12 copies of the monthly magazine.   If you are training with a significant other / family member, you can also join as a family membership for the relative.  NOTE: It normally takes about 5- 8 business days for turn-around for a USHPA membership card from the day you send in the application.   Get this sent in immediately after signing up for the Full Program, so you will not have any restraints on training at Ed Levin Park.
  • Please read the lessons noted for the level of lesson you will be coming to.   Students in the intro program should be set up with a login and password for 3 months access to my article section. Students in the full programs will have access to this section for 3 years.   On this page, the articles are sorted into sections that should be read for how many lessons the student has taken.
  • Join the Airtime Pilots Group at Yahoo.  This is not required for 2 day programs, but this is a primary communication channel that Airtime uses for communication about clinics, events, Mtn. Trips and special notices.
  • After you know the site, print out directions and map from my maps page to the training site from Training Site Maps.
  • If possible, prior to your first lessons, come to one of the free groundschools. Yes, they are free, and this will help you understand some of the technical parts of flying in a paraglider. This is not mandatory, but it can really help you make the most of your lesson on the hill.
  • If you are going to do a full program, or are just thinking about it, you will need to log your flights. Students in the full program are provided a physical log book, free of charge.  For those that like digital, a spreadsheet Logbook for Excel is available free of charge as well.   Please begin logging your training and first flights as soon as you begin your program.   For the rating program, you will be asked to show your logbook to the any rating official.   With the physical, just show it, with the digital, you can email a copy or print out the last few pages with summaries, just work with the rating official to see what they need.
  • Plan accordingly to be on time for your lessons.   Traffic can be very bad in the mornings.   I often have breakfast for midweek lesson days in Milpitas because driving a little ahead of the commute will save me almost the amount of time breakfast takes.
  • Possible Carpooling to Milpitas??? – If you are coming from any location on the Peninsula (north or nearby to me), or from San Francisco or Marin, I am willing to carpool with you.   The benefit is that carpool lanes become accessible, fuel costs can be shared.   In addition, the day use fee ($6 / day) for Ed Levin park for you is eliminated.    I ask for a student that carpools with me to chip in by buying me breakfast every other lesson or so to help share the fuel and cost burden.


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