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Assam, Tripura kick off balloting with high turnout

Guwahati/Agartala/New Delhi

India went to the polls Monday, with nearly six million people casting their vote in five constituencies in Assam and one of two seats in Tripura. The chief ministers of both the northeastern states dismissed any "Modi wave" and expressed happiness at the high voter turnout of at least 72.5 percent in Assam and as high as 84 percent in Tripura.

The nine-phase Lok Sabha election, the world's largest democratic exercise involving 814 million eligible voters spread across 28 states and seven union territories, began Monday and ends May 12. The results will be out May 16.

The Election Commission in New Delhi said the voter turnout in Assam was 72.5 percent and was expected to go up as "people were still in queue to vote" while, in Tripura, it was 84 percent till 5 p.m.

"Till 5 p.m., voter turnout was 72.5 percent...It might cross 75 percent," said a poll panel official.

Brisk polling was seen in five of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Congress-ruled Assam and one of the two in Marxist-ruled Tripura. Voting for only these six seats, out of a total 543 in the country, was held Monday.

An estimated 6.4 million people were eligible to vote for the five seats in Assam.

In Assam, polling was peaceful even as the day coincided with the 'Raising Day' of insurgent outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA).

As balloting began at 7 a.m., people queued up at polling stations in Tezpur, Jorhat, Kaliabor, Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur. Polling was briefly delayed in a few of the 8,588 booths due to technical snags in the electronic voting machines (EVMs).

The political fate of 51 candidates were sealed in the EVMs in Assam's first phase of polling. Three constituencies will go to the polls April 12 and the remaining six April 24.

Prominent candidates whose electoral fate was sealed Monday include the chief minister's son Gourav Gogoi, outgoing Congress MP Bijoy Krishna Handique, BJP state president Sarbananda Sonowal, and union ministers Ranee Narah and Paban Singh Ghatowar.

In Tripura, over 80 percent of the 1.2 million electorate cast their votes till 5 p.m. in Tripura West constituency, as polling was held for one of the two seats in the Left-ruled state, an official said.

"Long queues of people were seen in most of the 1,605 polling stations. Clear sky with excellent weather encouraged voters to come to the polling booths early," Tripura Chief Electoral Officer Ashutosh Jindal told IANS.

Voting was delayed for a while in some polling booths due to technical snags in the EVMs but engineers either replaced or rectified the machines, he said.

Jindal said no major complaint of wrongdoing was received from any party.

Polling in the tribal reserved Tripura East constituency will be held April 12.

In Agartala, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar questioned a wave in favour of BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.

"Where is the Modi wave? There is no Modi wave not only in Tripura but also in the entire country. The corporate media has created this so-called wave," Sarkar said.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi spoke on similar lines in Jorhat after casting his vote: "Modi magic will not work here. It is Tarun Gogoi's magic that will work here."

"We earlier had problems like insurgency and lack of development (in Assam). The performance of my government is better than Gujarat's in many aspects."

In the last polls in 2009, the voter turnout was 84.45 percent and in 2004 it was 67.39 percent across Tripura. - IANS


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Karthikeyan to race in Japan for next two years

Sandip Sikdar   |  New Delhi

Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan has found a new lease of life in the highly competitive Super Formula, formerly known as Formula Nippon, and will continue racing in Japan for the next two years.

India's first Formula 1 driver said Thursday that he is enjoying the challenging series, where he drives for Team Impul. The cars use a Dallara SF14 chassis, two-litre, 550 bhp turbo-charged engines -- similar to the F1 regulations.

"I will be staying in Japan for the next two years. The level of competition is quite high with many top drivers here who have been champions in several other forms of racing. There are some top European guys who have been here for 8-9 years," Karthikeyan told IANS from Japan Thursday.

"Super Formula is similar to Formula 1. Obviously the cars are not as fast but it has the Drag Reduction System (DRS), pit and tyre stops, the technology and so on. The format is a little bit different but overall very similar to F1," said Karthikeyan, who last year had five wins in AutoGP.

The 37-year-old's season this year, however, hasn't been up to his expectations. Out of the five races completed so far, the Coimbatore-born has had one sixth position finish, two sevenths and two retirements.

"We started out strongly but after that it has not been great as I have had some problems with reliability and so on. Our best finish was sixth in the third race at Fuji Speedway. But the cars are fun to drive and the racing is fantastic," said the Indian.

He said what makes the races more challenging is that there is little time to learn the tracks.

"There is very little time to learn the tracks and then race on it too, so it becomes quite challenging. Exposure to the circuit is a lot less which makes it difficult. Plus, there is very limited traction so changing the tactics etc also comes into play. Challenges also include looking after the tyres and how to maximise their utility," Karthikeyan said.

"They are not the the modern kind of circuits -- very old school which are very fast and traditional. Some are bumpy too so you need to know a few tricks to get around them."

The next round of the series will be held at Autopolis in Oita Prefecture Sep 14. The race will be shown live on Star Sports.

"Autopolis is another good track. I have driven a road car around here so I have an idea of the layout. The Autopolis circuit is very fast. The tracks in Japan are very technical," said Karthikeyan, who has had three (2005, 2011 and 2012) seasons in Formula 1.

Karthikeyan is also following the intriguing battle between Mercedes drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton for the drivers' title in the ongoing F1 season. The Indian picked Rosberg to take home the championship which looks going down to the wire.

"It is fantastic for the fans and more interesting than last year. If Rosberg finishes all the races it will be tough for Lewis to fight back with the current points difference which is quite high now," said Karthikeyan.

"But there are many other factors at play. They have had reliability issues too. Also, the last race at Abu Dhabi has a double points finish. I think that will decide the title but its going down to the wire, that's for sure." - IANS

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Has Rahul Gandhi shot himself in the foot?

Amulya Ganguli

Unlike the Biblical tale of a prodigal son, the return of a foot-loose family member may not be a cause of great joy to his relatives. In Rahul Gandhi's case, it can be a source of embarrassment and misgivings.

The embarrassment is likely to be caused by speculation about where the not-so-young prince was for nearly two months, what he learnt during the days away from the madding crowd, and whether his ruminations - he is supposed to have taken a course in meditations (vipasana) - have eased the tensions caused by the setbacks suffered by his party from 2013.

Rahul Gandhi meeting farmers at his residence in New Delhi today (Photo: IANS)

On the other hand, the misgivings will be the result of the belief that the heir-apparent has played his last card and that there will be nothing new up his sleeve if the Congress fails to recover from its present dire straits.

It is clear that there is no scope for any more dramatic, if peevish, antics. Rahul Gandhi has to either deliver, which means playing a palpable role in reviving the party's fortunes, or fade away.

That the first task will not be easy is evident from the humiliating defeat which one of the Congress's top guns in Maharashtra, Narayan Rane, has suffered in a Mumbai by-election which cannot be glossed over by the party's success in an Uttarakhand contest.

After all, both Rane's stature and the importance of India's financial capital make the Mumbai outcome a special case.

It can also seem odd that one of Rahul Gandhi's first public appearances will be at a farmers' rally on the land acquisition law since he was expected to lead the party's charge on the issue when parliament was in session. Instead, he disappeared from sight.

For the farmers, therefore, his act of returning to the fray not long after getting off a flight after a long stay abroad can seem like that of a fly-by-night operator who cannot be taken seriously.

Apart from Rahul Gandhi's curious travelling habits, what may seem like an uphill task to his supporters are the dissenting voices in the Congress which show that there are party members who have begun to look at him more as a liability than as an asset.

Till now, it was an occasional relatively unknown politician calling him a "joker" or another urging mother and son to take a two-year break, which made news. But now, partymen of much greater importance have begun speaking out.

They range from former Congress M.P. Sandeep Dikshit, who had earlier blamed "elitists" for bringing the party to its present pass, to former Punjab chief minister Amrinder Singh, who believes that the time is not ripe for Rahul Gandhi to take charge because he is not experienced enough.

Similarly, former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit's assertion that the cadres' comfort level with Sonia Gandhi is still high is an indirect endorsement of Amrinder Singh's reservations about the heir-apparent.

Therefore, if Rahul Gandhi thought that by absenting himself, he will jolt the party into realizing his indispensability, he may be in for a surprise because what has happened is that his Houdini act has emboldened those in the party who had never thought much of him but had refrained from speaking out.

It is these tremors which appear to have persuaded the Congress to put off Rahul Gandhi's coronation for a later date - probably September - when it was earlier expected that he will don the party president's mantle by April.

The expectation among his supporters probably is that over the next few months, the shock and awe as well as the amusement caused by Rahul Gandhi's vanishing trick will subside.

It is also possible that a rejuvenated vice president will come out with all guns blazing, starting with the farmer's rally, and a more active role in parliament.

Unfortunately, what cannot be discounted is that the chances are that such a proactive role will expose his limitations rather than establish his leadership credentials. If his one major pre-election TV interview is taken as an example, the Congress vice president has a few set ideas beyond which he can get lost - as he sometimes does with his written notes.

His ideas revolve round the belief that India is a poor country which makes it necessary for the government to play the role of the nanny. As his intervention in a Congress conclave, where he called for raising the cap on cooking gas cylinders from nine to 12, showed, Rahul Gandhi favours the politics of doles and subsidies.

If this is contrasted with the "reformer-in-chief" - in Barack Obama's words - Narendra Modi's appeal to the well-off to surrender their gas cylinders, then it is obvious that Rahul Gandhi inhabits a different world from that of the prime minister. To the Congress vice president, economic reforms have little meaning.

Since Rahul Gandhi's views reflect those of the Left, it has to be seen where he will meditate over a possible link between the decline of the communist parties and of the Congress.

What cannot but engage Rahul's attention in the coming days, therefore, is not only the matter of those who think that he is not ready for the top job but also the need to clarify his economic ideas. Lessons in oriental mysticism may not of much help in this respect.

(Amulya Ganguli is a political analyst. The views expressed are personal.) - IANS


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Hyderabad school student dies after fight with classmate

In a shocking incident, a Class 10 student died on Wednesday after a clash with his classmate at a private school here, police said.

Amir Siddiqui, a student of St. Joseph's Public School, died of brain injury at a private hospital on Wednesday, police said.

The incident occurred in the school during lunch hour on Tuesday but it came to light only after Siddiqui died.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Kamalasan Reddy said Siddiqui and another student Shariyal had a fight in the school ground.

The two rained blows on each other. Siddiqui fell unconscious after one of the blows hit his head.

After first aid at the school, Siddiqui (15) was taken to Kamineni Hospital, where doctors on Tuesday night performed a surgery to remove a clot in his brain. However, the boy did not recover and died on Wednesday morning.

The incident shocked Siddiqui's parents, who demanded immediate action against the student responsible for their son's death.

Police registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Police visited the hospital located in Abids and gathered information from the school management and teachers.

Police officer Reddy said they were analysing the footage from CCTV cameras installed in the school before taking further action.

However, police were not likely to take immediate action as the boy involved was a minor and the death appeared to be accidental.

Police were trying to find out what led to the fight between the two boys, who were from two different sections of the same class.

The shocking incident revived the memory of the death of a teenager in a WWE-style fight between two boys in the old city of Hyderabad in May this year. - IANS


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Fashion for a cause

New Delhi

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As yet another example of fashion with a cause, international footwear brand Crocs, Inc. has donated 5,000 pairs of shoes to migrant families in Cheeta Camp, Mankhurd, Maharashtra in partnership with CRY and S4S. The donation aims to provide relief to vulnerable families impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, by providing easy-to-clean and comfortable shoes.

The initiative is carried out by Jeevan Dhara, a project supported by CRY, works at the grassroots level and has deep connections to those at Cheeta Camp. The donation brought ease of mind and overall wellbeing during this unprecedented time.

Talking about why such initiatives are crucial at these unprecedented times, Kreeanne Rabadi, Regional Director (west), CRY (Child Rights and You) says, "While all sections of society are facing the brunt of this on gong crisis, there are considerably worse issues in the slums. Living in congested homes with narrow alleys, there is no prospect of social distancing leading to higher chance of getting infected and a constant lurking fear of the disease. With children, unable to go to school not only has their education come to a standstill as they do not have access to devices and internet, the threat of child labour and early marriage are very real. With the parents losing livelihoods, the children battle with the increase in violence in their own homes."

She adds "In terms of nutrition and health, what used to be a malnutrition issue is now exacerbated by hunger and starvation and parents not taking the children for regular monitoring and immunizations leading to an increase in health problems. With these extremely critical circumstances the families are not feeling any cause for hope and are living day to day. An association with Crocs provides the community a ray of hope ï¿½ while everyone is providing food, the families are using their old footwear some in rather deplorable condition. With the distribution of high quality, all-weather footwear the families are not worried about purchasing shoes. These shoes work wonderfully well to protect the feet walking through the narrow lanes of the slums."

Buddy Teaser, President & CEO, Soles4Souls said "We are thrilled to continue our global partnership with Crocs. Helping to distribute thousands of pairs around the region to more than a half dozen countries is another great example of how for-profit and not for profit companies can solve business challenges while helping those in need"

Earlier in the year, the brand and Priyanka Chopra Jonas joined forces to support the frontline workers by donating 10,000 pairs of shoes in India and US under the global donation program "A Free Pair for Healthcare". Under the program, Crocs has donated over 860,000 shoes across the globe to healthcare professionals. Crocs has always been a brand that encourages everyone to be comfortable in their own shoes. In the face of adversity and the coronavirus pandemic, many individuals needed that support more than ever.

Sumit Dhingra, Managing Director of Crocs India said, "We know that doing the right thing is the right thing for Crocs. That's why are pleased to join hands with CRY and support the society by donating 5,000 pairs of shoes to women and children in Cheeta Camp. We are hopeful that this donation will add comfort to the lives of migrant families. We will continue to work relentlessly and serve the community to ensure we reach out to those in need." - IANSlife


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Generic Vehicle Architecture

In the last few years there has been a quiet revolution in the Ministry of Defence, the first of two key elements that have delivered Foxhound is a more realistic approach to trading off requirements against time and cost.

I think Foxhound is a genuinely innovative vehicle that has the potential for great export success. If it lives up to the expectations then its manufacturers have a bright future but we should also recognise the sensible approach the MoD took to requirements and the overall acquisition strategy. Of course there were baseline requirements such as protection, weight and mobility and the final competition for the LPPV resulted in only 2 vehicles making the cut but this was different to many previous projects where inflexibility on specification has led to cost and time into service increases.

The second key element is called Generic Vehicle Architecture, a revolutionary standard that no one has ever heard of.

GVA, or Def Stan 23-09 is an open standard designed to place information at the heart of a vehicular system. The objective of GVA is to create a single, standard digital electronic and electrical architecture for UK vehicles

DefStan 23-09 defines physical and communications interfaces on a vehicle to allow interchange of equipment and provides definitions of the Human Machine Interface.

The official objective is;

The purpose of this Def Stan 23-09 is to enable the MOD to realise the benefits of an open architecture approach to Land platform design and integration, especially in regard to platform infrastructure and the associated Human Machine Interface (HMI) in order to improve operational effectiveness across all Defence Lines of Development (DLOD), reduce integration risks and reduce the cost of ownership across the fleet. This is achieved by mandating and applying the appropriate interface standards

Taking a list from the standard itself;

The nine basic principles of the GVA approach and Def Stan 23-09 are that they must:

  1. Take account of previous MOD investment;
  2. Be applicable to current and future systems;
  3. Use open, modular and scaleable architectures and systems;
  4. Facilitate technology insertion (upgrade, update, replace, repair, remove and addition);
  5. Not needlessly implement in hardware any functionality that can be implemented in software;
  6. Take a ‘whole platform’ systems view, though life (including cost);
  7. Be done in conjunction with industry and all relevant MOD stakeholders;
  8. Be MOD owned and maintained
  9. Specify the minimum necessary to achieve MOD’s desired benefits avoiding unnecessary constraint in implementation.

Advantages of GVA include;

  • Vehicle availability and reliability will be improved , instead of wasteful time based maintenance intervals, conditions based maintenance will be possible
  • Availability based contracts will be possible as vehicle usage data will be available on which to negotiate against
  • Vehicle running costs can be reduced because condition based information will again be available
  • Processing and storage can be shared across multiple systems
  • Vehicle capability can be increased as sensors could be shared and intelligence automatically gathered and presented
  • Costs will be reduced by avoiding supplier lock in, increasing competition and lowering the barriers to entry for smaller manufacturers
  • Weight and power requirements will be reduced as equipment specific cabling will be eliminated
  • Reduced training
  • Reduced space for ‘systems equipment’
  • Vehicles can be quickly re-configured for different roles
  • New sensors can be quickly fitted to vehicles to counter developing threats, this can be done quickly, in essence, plug and play for sensors

In 2008 the Force Protection and Mission Systems Working Group was formed by the MoD and industry with the objective of addressing the increasingly difficult challenges of vehicle power management, man/machine interfaces and the vehicles system architecture.

Building on other projects including Vehicle Systems Integration (VSI) and Vehicle Technology Integration Demonstrator (VTID) GVA is big on open standards. The VSI group has been led by QinetiQ since 1997 so some of these programmes have a depth of knowledge that supported the rapid evolution of GVA, especially the vetronics aspects.

The MoD, QinetiQ and IBM, in conjunction with a range of collaborative partners including Selex , IVECO, Supacat; Raytheon, RTI, L3 Communications, Paradigm, MaxOrd Ballistics, Aeroflex, Hypertac, Polar Com,  Smiths Detection, Allen Vanguard, Britannia 2000 , GE Aviation and many others published the standard in August 2010, with an agreed 18 month revision cycle.

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Generic Vehicle Architecture compliant display

Available here for all to read it is also important to understand the difference between GVA and the standard, GVA is the approach and the standard is one output from this.

Although the physical and electrical connectors form a fundamental part of the standard it is the use of a middleware model that enables equipment A to exchange data with equipment B, both from different manufacturers. The Data Distribution Service (DDS) middleware system was chosen and the Land Data Model subsequently released.

The Land Data Model has been published (apart from certain restricted elements) and is freely available for suppliers, it is what is defined as a System Data Dictionary, published in standard Object Management Group (OMG) UML notation.

Thales are the design authority for GVA on the first fully compliant vehicle, the Foxhound, this is of course a relatively simple vehicle but it is a confidence building evolution and therefore eminently sensible.

GVA also addresses legacy issues with a well thought through transition model, GVA compliant equipment can be used with legacy equipment through the use of gateways, firewalls and adapters. Mastiff and Panther have GVA compliant equipment integrated into a non GVA compliant system.

The current version addresses mechanical standards, power infrastructure, video, human machine interface, health usage and monitoring (HUMS) and the electronic infrastructure but future versions might also cover communications, high voltage power and electric drives.

The three network types of safety critical (TTP), deterministic (MilCAN) and high speed (Ethernet)

Other manufacturers are beginning to offer ‘GVA Compliant’ products, a clear sign of the standards maturity.

GVA is also being joined by the Generic Base Architecture and Generic Soldier Architecture, more open standards.

Although this may seem a rather dry subject, its importance should not be underestimated.

Not all of the stated benefits may ultimately be realised but the MoD should be roundly congratulated for sticking to its guns on GVA and seeing it through, it creates a baseline for innovation and competition, avoids supplier lock in and provides an enabling core for future expansion.

Shame no one outside the defence industry has ever heard of it.

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Michael (Civ.)
Michael (Civ.)
September 27, 2011 8:08 pm

I read this and the comparision/analogy i thought of was the IBM-Compatable PC.*

My very first PC was a second or third hand DX4-100.

Nearly two years ago i bought an overclocked AMD Phenom II. From one to the other in the space of 11 years. Could this sort of standard have the same effect for the architecture of Military vehicles?

If it could, where are we going to find the money that will be needed to keep up with the pace of change?

*not sure if it’s a relevent analogy, it’s just the first thing that came to mind

Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones
September 27, 2011 10:15 pm

Very interesting TD.

Could something similar be used for ships/aircraft or are they simply too complicated?

September 28, 2011 9:23 am

Hi GJ,

Data connectivity of course involves protocols and other “stuff” at the logical level. Interestingly I looked at IPO’ing a solution where power and data share cabling, data including not just transfer/ broadcasting but automatic, continuous monitoring and diagnostics. So this would be a physical-layer enabler for a[ny] data architecture, or quoting from the leading-in article “Although the physical and electrical connectors form a fundamental part of the standard it is the use of a middleware model that enables equipment A to exchange data with equipment B, both from different manufacturers.”

An aircraft/ helo manufacturer or a shipyard could dramatically reduce their production and fitting out costs, but they have umpteen clients who all have their own (legacy) standards to support. So only an informed customer, buying in bulk, can enforce these types of standards. Hats off for the MoD!They are spending (here saving) our money, after all.

Here’s my penny’s worth of the potential for just one subsystem of what is being addressed; as you can see from the figures, this quick-look assessment was undertaken a while ago:

The aircraft market can be divided to commercial and military aircraft markets. Both of these markets consist of a large number of distinct submarkets, which are differentiated according to size, range and the type of the aircraft. The total aircraft market size will average USD 90-110B annually between 2000-2019 (calculated from Boeing and EADS estimates). The estimate is that wiring sub-market will make up approximately USD 1B of this. Weight saving benefits and saved labour from reduced cabling and standardised connections have been calculated for Airbus models [NB This was before the CAD/CAM fiasco that caused all cabling to be done by hand on the new flagship model; the costs of that and the commercial liability have been widely published.]

The global helicopter markets are largely dependent on military demand because military helicopter sales generate over 80 % of the global helicopter markets. These are estimated to be approximately USD 8B annually (CSFB estimate). The helicopter markets have historically proved to be highly cyclical due to variations in military helicopter delivery schedules. The wiring markets for helicopters are estimated to be approximately USD 80M annually.The integrated solution is particularly attractive for these markets since it offers significant weight reduction *as well as higher EMC*.

The ship building sector consists of a large number of highly distinctive markets: cargo vessels, cruise ships & ferries and naval vessels. The overall ship market is estimated to be USD 100-150B (excluding naval vessels and calculated from Clarkson Research Studies/World Shipyard Monitor). Of this (the same exclusion applies) the wiring/electronics market is expected to make up approximately USD 1Bn (Standard & Poor’s 2000 estimate).

Dangerous Dave
Dangerous Dave
September 28, 2011 1:05 pm

I’ve actually had a skegg at the DefStan, due to an earlier article on TD (CVRT 2.0). I realised that this would allow highly modular interior fits to standards compliant vehicles (i.e. re-rolling crew stations).
But also, the GVA also includes power and weapons station specs, not just data/comms/MMI. Thus it should be possible to retrofit and upgrade weapons mountings and power-packs much more easily.

Now, *that’s* an interesting thing to ponder . . .

September 28, 2011 7:11 pm

From an engineering perspective I have to fully applaud what this document is about especially it wide availability failure to release this type of information early enough is a constant issue. The ability to cement interfaces for your major component at the earliest possible stage and stick to them is a extremely important first step. It allows supplier confidence and ensures the customer knows any change here will involve a serious cost penalty (this is not always well understood).

ACC “This was before the CAD/CAM fiasco that caused all cabling to be done by hand on the new flagship model” This was not the sequence that played out the cad bit was a problem but there was a number of steps and major decisions taken or not before the by hand bit.

Brian Black
Brian Black
September 29, 2011 12:44 pm

GVA sounds like a great idea!

And it only took a financial meltdown and a major budget crisis for this type of common sense thinking to emerge.

Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith
October 5, 2011 3:32 pm

GVA is being covered in quite some detail at this event, for those that are interested, along with a number of other Open Architecture in the US and Europe:

October 5, 2011 6:14 pm

Ahh, IQPC. Never, ever, let them get your details or they will hound you until the ends of the Earth.

Plus their events tend to be pretty weak as well.

June 19, 2012 12:48 pm

Agreeing standards are vital of course to interoperability, but single/centralised approaches are not the only way to do this. There are significant costs to agreeing and maintaining agreed standards, not least of which is the time it takes to negotiate what happens when new components or interfaces need to be added. Are they added without agreement, or delayed until agreement? These costs need to be traded against the supposed advantages listed above, not lost.

To get around these problems, such standards can rapidly become too watered down or abstract to be of any practical use, and simply act as another layer of trivially-fulfilled requirements as, say, frequently happens with MODAF.

Or they are bypassed as we see with the situation awareness descriptions that require descriptive text, because the land data model is insufficient even in Helmand.

As an exercise in discussing and working through the integration problems: Good. As an output requiring prescriptive compliance: Bad.


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curry with tofu & grilled vegetables

this curry is delish! mom wasn't here for dinner so it was my turn to make something. brown rice had been cooking and i figured some spicy curry with broccoli, leftover grilled veggies and tofu would hit the spot; since it has been raining all day here.

everyone said it was really great, in fact - jasper used the word "addictive". can't argue with that. we all took seconds. i'm glad it was so tasty because i didn't use any conventional curry recipe. i didn't even have curry paste. so if you're in the mood for warming curry, crispy tofu, tender veggies and rice; try out this funky recipe!

yellow curry with tofu, veggies & rice: makes a big ole pot

1 onion
4 garlic cloves
1 head broccoli
1 grilled red pepper
2 grilled zucchinis
2 packages tofu
1 can coconut milk
6 cups vegetable broth
3 tablespoons raw sugar (or other sweetener)
3 tablespoons tamari (or soy sauce)
3 bay leaves
3 tablespoons curry powder
1 tablespoon each of coriander, paprika, cumin, turmeric, garlic, and onion powder
1 teaspoon each cinnamon, chili flakes, and dill
1/2 teaspoon chili powder

prepare the tofu: sautee it on med-high heat with a bit of olive oil, rice wine vinegar and tamari (soy sauce) until it browns. set aside.

chop all the veggies. in a large pot, sautee the onions, garlic and all the spices together with 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 tablespoon of rice wine vinegar until they're translucent and softened. add the remaining ingredients, including the tofu and veggies. let simmer on low heat for 30 minutes or so, until the broccoli is cooked enough for you. see you if you like it! curry is easy to change.

serve with whole grain brown rice in bowls with chives, hot sauce, sweet basil, and gypsy kings. yeah man!

oh and i have some news: I GOT TWITTER! it's mainly to get my blog out there more (by "there", i mean the world wide web). so follow me, please! it's so weird that i have a blog and a twitter account now. i feel like such a participating member of my generation, a feeling that is rare for me. i'm a bit of an enigma... if you haven't noticed.

trailblzer said...

I made it tonight, I suggest adding fresh lemongrass, takes me back to my days backpacking in Thailand!! Dont panic, it's organic!!!!! peace

www.whatdoyoueatthen.wordpress.com said...

Damn this looks tasty. making it for dinner tonight with purple carrots, purple sweet potato and beetroot...will be a bit of a purple twist on things!! Thanks for the inspiration!

Gabby @ the veggie nook said...

Wow this just look so fresh and amazing! I love the addition of the dill! I definitely have to try this :)

Em von Euw said...

hahaha yeah! i really wish i had had some to add. my dad said the same thing (he lived in Thailand for years). thanks!

Em von Euw said...

great idea! i have beets but didn't think to add them. mmm that earthy flavour will definitely improve the dish. thank YOU!

Em von Euw said...

thanks, gabby ;) hope you like it!

smbp said...

WOW so amazing - I love that you made the curry from scratch!

Em von Euw said...

thanks :D it's really not that difficult!

Stephanie said...

Just made this for dinner. SO DELICIOUS!! I added diced sweet potato, brussel sprouts and lemongrass. Thanks for such an amazing recipe!! I also want to thank you for validating my feeling that I really shouldn't force myself into a dietary box. I'm gluten intolerant and vegan but I eat honey as well and try to do a lot of raw. I get hard on myself if I don't strictly follow specific ways of eating. My husband likes to tell me he's going to alert the VGF police! :) Anyway-- I'm excited to try more of your recipes!!!

Jocelyn and Kristijan said...

Love it! I did eggplant, pepper, cauliflower, broccoli, carrot, lemongrass, and kafir lime leaves, mmm so tasty and spicy! Thanks lady!

Em von Euw said...

oohh yum! :D anything to do with curry + eggplant = LOVE <3
thanks, guys

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banana orange sofa said...

Fantastic recipe. I've made a few things on your blog so far; everything fantastic! This was the recipe that moved me to comment. Thanks so much for sharing and please keep them coming.

Unknown said...

Hi, I am brand new to the raw diet and looking into it. So I was under the impression that one cannot cook things over 40 C. If so, then how would one cook the rice or grill the veggies in this recipe? thanks!


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I'm inviting others to join me. Dates indicated here are the actual start dates of the tour. Dates aren't changeable as I've already confirmed this trip. I'll share my flight plan if anyone is interested.

Day 1 Sept 26. LIMA – no meals today
As you arrive into Lima airport just after midnight and exit customs and baggage, you will be warmly welcomed and assisted with your luggage before driven to your hotel, the Tambo 2.

After breakfast at 09.15 -09.30am group visit of colonial and modern Lima, starting in the centre of this vibrant, metropolis. The tour will include a visit of the cathedral, dating from 1654 which still houses the remains of the conquistador Pizarro in the foyer; the Main Square, with the original bronze fountain built in 1650, the Government Palace where the President has his official residence and the San Francisco Convent, with its famous catacombs. Lima, known as the city of the kings, was founded in 1535 by Pizarro and after several devastating earthquakes was rebuilt in 1991; the same year that UNESCO declared

Lima a world heritage site. Return to your hotel at 12 noon.

Day 2 Sept 27. LIMA - CUZCO (Breakfast)
After breakfast, with boarding passes in hand, you will be driven to the airport(about 7am) for your quick-check-in and brief one hour flight to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital of the Incas. In Cuzco, you will be warmly welcomed and assisted with your luggage before your short drive to your hotel, the Imperial.

In the early afternoon, at about 13.30 enjoy an incredible tour of Cuzco including the Qoricancha temple or temple of the Sun, the Inca fortress of Sacsayhuaman overlooking Cuzco city, Qenko, Tambomachay and Puka Pukara. Return to the hotel ay 17.45

Day 3 Sept 28. CUZCO - MACHU PICCHU (Breakfast)
Today you will have an early start and enjoy breakfast before your 07.30 am Vistadome train to Aguas Calientes train station, gateway to the lost city of the Incas.

As you disembark, about 11am you will be assisted with your luggage and check-in to your hotel, El Sanctuario.

Shortly after, your guide will again lead you on a guided tour of Machu Picchu, the most spectacular ancient city in the world at about 12 noon. Built by the Inca Pachacutec, and comprising stone blocks fitted with masterful precision, Machu Picchu harmoniously blends into the mountain landscape. There are many theories as to the origins behind Machu Picchu but three of the most popular ideas include a temple to the sun, a fortress against the jungle inhabitants or a sanctuary for the Incas. This fabulous city has houses, temples, warehouses, a large central square, all connected by narrow roads and steps, and is surrounded by terraces cut into the mountain side which were used for agriculture.

The tour will end at about 15.00.

Day 4 Sept 29. MACHU PICCHU – CUZCO (Breakfast)
Today you will have an opportunity to return to Machu Picchu with your guide for an opportunity to see the site at sunrise at 6am. Take any of the several paths around various parts of the site. Visit parts not visited yesterday and let Machu Picchu unfold all its mysteries for you, take in the breathtaking cloud forests and jagged mountains, or marvel at the extraordinary Masonic precision of the ancient Incas. Return to Cuzco in the afternoon at 15.30, arrive at 19.30 and transfer to your hotel.

Day 5 Sept 30. CUZCO – PUERTO MALDONADO-TAMBOPATA JUNGLE (Breakfast, lunch & dinner)
After breakfast, transfer to the airport for the 9am flight to Puerto Maldonado. Reception and transfer (about 10am) to the Tambopata River port in Puerto Maldonado for the canoe trip to your jungle lodge. After arrival (about 12 noon)a short orientation and a complete briefing on the lodge before visiting a 35 metre scaffolding tower for a spectacular view of the river, the surrounding forest and an opportunity to observe birds from the canopy including parrots, toucans and macaws. Return to the lodge at 17.00

Day 6 Oct 1. TAMBOPATA JUNGLE (Breakfast, lunch & dinner)
Early wake at dawn 5am for a visit to the Tres Chimbadas oxbow lake. Here we will take a long, easy canoe ride around the lake looking for giant river otters, turtles, hoatzin, and wading birds. The giant river otters that are seen in Tres Chimbadas belong to a resident family of nine. Return to the lodge for lunch at 11.30am before embarking on your afternoon outing to the community’s ethno botanical center. We will hike the trails around the centre with one of the residents who will explain the everyday uses of forest resources in medicine, construction, food and fiber. Return to your lodge at 17.30

Day 7 Oct 2. TAMBOPATA JUNGLE – CUZCO (Breakfast)
After an early breakfast departure by boat at 6am back to the city of Puerto Maldonado, directly to the airport, for your return flight to Cuzco. Transfer to your hotel, the Imperial. Free day.

Day 8 Oct 3. CUZCO – PUNO (Breakfast & lunch)
After early breakfast, 07.00 transfer to bus terminal for the tourist bus to Puno at 08.00. This trip will begin by ascending gradually out of the Cuzco Valley until arriving at the town of Andahuaylillas where you will visit the “Sistine Chapel of the Andes”. This colonial era Chapel features mainly interesting canvasses which illustrate the use of Andean Symbology being incorporated into traditional Catholic images. From here you will travel further to Raqchi which is the tallest set of Incan Ruins.
The road from here climbs slightly to La Raya which is the highest point at 4200 m. There will be a brief stop here and there are views across to the snow-capped mountain peak.
From here the road gradually descends to Pukara where you will visit the museum and ruins of this pre-incan civilisation. This civilisation was said to be at its peak around the same time as Mesopotamia and Egypt and the leader was known as the “Great Beheader”.
From this visit you will continue to Puno, arriving at 17.00, situated on the edge of Lake Titicaca. Lunch will be buffet at a restaurant during the trip. Lying on the shores of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake. Transfer to your hotel, the Casa Andina Classic.

Day 9 Oct 4. ISLANDS OF LAKE TITICACA (Breakfast only)
After breakfast, pick-up at 07.00 to start your full day’s excursion to the islands of Uros and Taquile. Your first stop will be to the communal islands of Uros, otherwise known as the reed islands, whose islands are made entirely of tortora reeds and home to a small community dating back to a pre-Inca culture. You will appreciate how these people toil out an existence on such a remote setting complete with its own school. After the visit, boarding of the yacht as you continue your trip to the Island of Taquile whose inhabitants are more closely related to the Aymara people of Bolivia than the Quechua Incas of Peru. You will enjoy a walk on the islands before returning to Puno at 16.00 on-board your yacht and return to your hotel.

Day 10 Oct 5. PUNO – COLCA CANYON (Breakfast only)
After breakfast, at 08.00 take the tourist bus to the Colca Canyon. You will pass through the National Reserve of Pampa de Cañahuas (3,800m), where groups of alpacas, vicuñas and sometimes guanacos can be seen. After several more hours, the descent to the Colca Valley starts until we arrive at Chivay, about 11am, the most important town of the valley. This trip will be with other passengers on the bus. Arrival, reception and transfer to your hotel.

Day 11 Oct 6. COLCA CANYON – AREQUIPA (Breakfast only)
Early breakfast at the hotel at 06.00. Then an early departure to Cruz del Condor viewpoint, a few kilometers before Cabanaconde, where the Colca Canyon starts. Here one gets a fine view of the flight of the condors as well as of the depth of the canyon. In the afternoon return to Arequipa at about 16.00 and to your hotel.

Day 12 Oct 7. AREQUIPA – LIMA - GUAYAQUIL (Breakfast & in-flight lunch)
After early breakfast, we bid farewell to Arequipa and take a short drive in a private car to the airport in time for your return flight to Lima and your connecting international flight to Guayaquil. In-flight lunch. As you arrive into Guayaquil airport and exit customs and baggage, you will be warmly welcomed by our representative. You will be assisted with your luggage before escorted to your hotel.

Day 13 Oct 8. GUAYAQUIL – GALAPAGOS ISLANDS (Breakfast & dinner) Itinerary subject to change
After breakfast, at 06.00 with boarding passes in hand, you will be driven to the airport for your quick-check-in and flight to Baltra Island on the Galapagos Islands. Arrival, reception and welcome. Your Galapagos fee will be collected here. You will collect your luggage before you take your transfer to the port and boarding of the Eden Vessel or similar at 13.30 for an unforgettable wildlife adventure. After an introductory talk, your Galapagos expedition begins with a visit to La Galapaguera to observe giant turtles. The day is concluded with a visit to the Loberia highlands at 17.00.

Day 14 Oct 9. SANTA FE – SOUTH PLAZAS ISLAND (All meals)
A visit today to Santa Fe at 07.00, home to a beautiful turquoise lagoon with two small beaches and where you can view numerous sea lions. Taking a trail along the coast and through an Opuntia Forest where these prickly pear cacti are the largest on the Galapagos. We will also see Santa Fe land iguanas. After the hike, a swim or snorkel in the bay in the company of sea lions. Continue onto South Plaza, one of the smallest islands and only 130 metres wide and just 800 metres long. Here there is a large colony of sea lions, with over 1,000 occupying the smooth rocks. The small cactus forest is populated by land iguanas, where they can be seen sunning themselves or feeding on Opuntia pads and fruits. Along the cliff edge nesting swallow-tailed gulls are the predominant seabirds, along with tropic birds.

Day 15 October 10. ESPAÑOLA – GARDNER BAY – PUNTA SUAREZ (All meals)
A visit to the isolated Española at 07.00 where there is a high percentage of endemic fauna. Gardner Bay, on the eastern shore has a magnificent beach. The beach is frequented by sea lions, and is a major nesting site for marine turtles. Around the small islets nearby, snorkelers will come across many species of fish, turtles and perhaps even sharks. On a trail leading to the western part of the island, several nesting sites of the waved albatros will be encountered. These huge birds nest here from April to December. Finally at Punta Suarez, along with many nesting seabirds there are mockingbirds, Galapagos doves and Galapagos hawks. Several types of reptile, including the marine iguana and the lava lizard, are also inhabitants of the island. Here you may also see a spectacular blowhole, which shoots spray 30 metres into the air.

Day 16 October 11. SAN CRISTOBAL – GUAYAQUIL (Breakfast)
The last day, we follow in the path of Charles Darwin and navigate close by Kicker Rock, a small islet whose cliffs are home to many sea birds. A visit to the Interpretation Centre at Puerto Baquerizo Moreno before arriving to Puerto Baquerizo Moreno for the transfer to the airport and return flight to Guayaquil. Arrival and transfer to your hotel.

Day 17 Oct 12. GUAYAQUIL (Breakfast only)

After breakfast transfer to the airport for your return flight home.

Tour Price based on standard 3 star hotels, Expedition train, some meals and group tours: US$8150.00 in a single room
The price will be lower if we share room.

Accommodation at indicated hotels or similar
Meals as indicated
All airport/train station transfers based on private service
Tours as per itinerary with English speaking specialist guides in group service
All internal flight tickets in economy class including the international Lima – Ecuador flight
Train tickets include the Expedition train
All entrance fees excluding the Galapagos Fees (US$120) payable directly in cash only
Gratuities for guides and drivers

International flight to Peru and from Ecuador
Personal expenses such as telephone bills, laundry expenses, beverages, etc
Insurance against theft, loss, illness and/or accident etc
Airport Baggage porterage and other extras not specified
Galapagos Fees (US$120) payable directly in cash only

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Audience favourite Patrick Monahan blends a high energy comedy style with hilarious and engaging topical and observational material. Known for working a room, Patrick is adored by his audiences with whom he makes an effortless connection. He moves around the stage like a boxer working a ring, covering all angles and staying light on his feet. He is a walking advert for world harmony. Hearts will be broken, socks will be laughed off. Winner of the 2011 ITV1 series ‘Show Me The Funny’ this led to the release of his debut DVD ‘Patrick Monahan Live’. Subsequent TV credits include Splash!, Celebrity Squares, Fake Reaction, Man Up, Not The One Show, Jongleurs Live!, Daybreak, Loose Women and The Wright Stuff.
He also took part in Let’s Dance for Sports Relief on BBC, won Best Newcomer at the Loaded LAFTA Awards and Forth Radio Best Stand-Up People’s Choice Award for his hit show ‘Hug Me I Feel Good’.
Monahan's humour travels well. He not only engages the audience with charming banter about local affairs and universal issues, but also combines animated story telling style that draws on his own experiences of growing up in Teesside, (North East of England) of Irish and Iranian Parentage! A comedian with truly global appeal or as the Daily Telegraph puts it, "a one man ethnic melting pot, a star in the making".

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As seen on Channel 4's 'Slam' and ITV's 'Comedy Café' and a regular guest on Radio 4's 'Shappi Talk' as well as a sought after festival performer, Duncan is an internationally renowned act. He's known for being very naughty and really quite rude, at least on stage; but this cheerfully childish behaviour belies his credentials as a seasoned professional show off. He'll blow you away as he powers out a deft blend of stupidity and truly impressive musicianship (he's rather nifty on a guitar), and you'll quickly warm to his easy confidence and good natured banter.
Ably assisted by his loyal band of imaginary friends and anthropomorphised instruments - most notably the lovely Maurice the Fender Strat - he'll take you on an exuberant and educational rock 'n' roll journey, exploring with relish the horrors and delights found in, on and around the human body and beyond, on a ceaseless quest to find your inner child. He'll locate it for you, guaranteed, and entertain it with a quick song.

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Clad in a sartorially edifying manner, like a dapper and dandy funeral director, Anthony cuts a unique on-stage presence with humour blacker than a raven that's slammed it's claw in a coffin lid. And not the merest hint of profanity. The overall effect is both perversely hypnotic and wholly original, leaving the audience zealously hanging on to every syllable like turncoat lemmings on a rockface. Jongleurs/Metro "Stand & Deliver" Award winner and former BBC New Comedy Award Runner-up he is a regular contributor to Radio 2's "The Arthur Smith Lectures".

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What is You Neek? You Neek is the latest clubbing brand to hit the shores of the UK. Bringing clubbers a concept designed to focus completely on the artists and the music they play. We aim to bring you a mix of the best and most exciting established, current and breakthrough artists blowing up their individual music scene.

What music styles should you expect? You Neek’s focus is all about the artist performing. We have no intention of closing off amazing talent by labelling ourselves a ‘house’ night or ‘drum and bass’ night. We want all our events to be ‘unique’ and because of that we only make 1 promise… Good music! We will be showcasing a huge selection of the most talented artists from a wide range of genres bringing you the best in house, garage, tech, deep, dnb, breaks to name just a few, but will also ensure on high energy events by adding live performances and vocalists to give you that ‘unique’ night that only ‘You Neek’ can.

Who are You Neek? You Neek is brought together by four friends, all worked in the music industry for a large part of their lives. Their shared passion for good music performed by artists who bring that something extra to their performances led them along very different paths but all with the same destination, the music scene. Whether it was organizing events for, looking after or DJ´ing along some of the biggest names in the industry, they all worked hard to establish themselves as major players in their own right, before deciding it was time to combine their skills to create something truly ‘unique’ that would bring enjoyment to all that stepped through their doors.

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Those who pop along here regularly will know that I do enjoy the occasional horrific challenge, such as an Ironman triathlon or running up and down mountains.  I do it for fun.

I also do it for charity, and this year I’m raising money for DKMS (Delete Blood Cancer) in memory of a dear family friend we lost last Christmas.  I’m aiming to raise £2,000, and I’m almost halfway there.

So, here’s what I’ve done so far…

I started off in January with a 50 mile bike ride.  It doesn’t sound much, but coming out of the winter it was hard, cold, and it got dark very early!  A tough one because of that.  Job done.

In February it was time to hit the trails for the Hoka One One trail half-marathon in Margam Park, South Wales.  A lovely race, the weather was nice, if a bit misty.  It’s by no means a PB course, with lots of climbing and muddy trails, but that’s the sort of running I love.

In March, I went off-piste a bit and undertook a mountain (almost) marathon.  Only 22 miles, but tough enough to warrant the term!  I undertook the local Monmouthshire 3 peaks, a 22 mile route taking in the Blorenge, Skirrid and Sugarloaf mountains.  It was really tough, but it was great doing something a little different, including navigating and carrying enough food and water for the whole challenge. I loved every minute of it, and hope to do it again soon.

April was a full month challenge, in which I rode 400 miles on the bike throughout the month.  I must admit, the final weekend was a long ride on Saturday, and then a 30 miler on Sunday to make up the miles!  Good fun, and good for my triathlon training.

And May was the first tri of the season, the epic Blaenafon Triathlon.  It’s the longest running triathlon in the UK (about 34 years now, I believe), and it’s renowned for being really, really hard.  The easy bit is the pool swim, then it’s on the bike for 28 miles of mountains roads.  Once off two wheels and onto two feet, it’s a 9 mile run all the way to the top of the Sugarloaf mountain and back down again.  A scorcher, painful, hard work, and damn right I’ll do it again next year!

June brought an easier, flatter triathlon, the brilliant Cotswolds 113.  It’s a half ironman, almost completely on the flat, and I was thrilled with a time of 5:27 (I’d aimed to go sub-5:30).  Great fun, and wonderful support from my friends in the might NEWT (Newport and East Wales Triathlon) club.

So that’s the first 6 months of my Year of Challenges done.  Looking to the future, the next six months will bring the Velothon Wales, the Brutal Half (a half ironman … with a run up and down Snowdon), as well as other events I have yet to decide upon.  But at least one of them will be a trail marathon to round off the year.

Here’s when I ask for your help.  I admit that I’m doing these events because I love them, but I’m also very keen to raise money for worthy causes. I’m still determined to raise £2,000 for DKMS, so if you’d be kind enough to donate you can visit my page here and do so.

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Tipperary TD appeals to HSE chief to reopen palliative care beds at Carrick-on-Suir hospital

St Brigid's Hospital in Carrick-on-Suir

Independent Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath has written to HSE CEO Paul Reid pleading with him to urgently re-consider the continued closure of the Palliative Care Beds at St. Brigid’s Hospital in Carrick on Suir following his engagement with him at a meeting of the Special Oireachtas Committee on Covid-19.

He issued the call during National Palliative Care Week, which aims to raise awareness of the difference palliative care can make to people with life limiting conditions, carers and families throughout the island of Ireland.

St Brigid’s Hospital normally provides convalescent, respite and palliative care but was redesignated as a step down care facility for people recovering from the Covid-19 virus in April. The hospital is currently closed as there are currently no Covid-19 patients requiring step-down care. The Minister for Health has assured local politicians that St Brigid’s will reopen as a community hospital but hasn’t given a date as to when this will happen because of fears over a second wave of Covid-19 infections.

Deputy McGrath, however, said the continued closure of 3 out of 7 of the palliative care beds in South Tipperary as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic is a shocking indictment on the mismanagement of our health critical services, which he claimed have been severely undermined as a result of continued closures and cut backs in services for those living with disabilities or terminal illnesses.

“There are just seven Palliative Care beds serving all of South Tipperary. Three out of the seven hospice beds are located at St. Brigid’s Hospital in Carrick-on-Suir with two further beds located at both St. Theresa’s Hospital in Clogheen and Cluain Arann in Tipperary. Since the designation of St. Brigid’s Hospital as a Covid-19 Step down facility, the hospital has remained shut since mid April with no access to the palliative care facilities for those who require end of life care.

“It is absolutely shocking that these beds remain closed. The people of Carrick on Suir and South Tipperary and into Waterford and South Kilkenny fundraised to put these important beds in place and now they lie closed and unavailable to those who require care at a very difficult and sensitive time,” deputy McGrath continued.

He raised the issue of St. Brigid’s Hospital directly with the HSE CEO Mr. Paul Reid during a recent meeting of the Special Oireachtas Committee on Covid 19.

Mr. Reid responded this week in writing but has repeated the HSE’s stance that “during the ongoing Covid-19 public health emergency, there are no plans in the short term to resume St. Brigid’s customary usage for convalescent, respite and palliative care beds”.

Mr Reid continued that service resumption was dependent on the management of Covid related activity within the region along with the need to be assured that services can safely resume in a manner which is compliant with prevailing public health guidance and Health Act regulations.”

Deputy McGrath has again pleaded with Mr. Reid to re-consider this position particularly in light of the much-needed palliative care beds and reopen this section of the hospital immediately.

“We have a situation where absolutely nobody is taking accountability for this decision. We ask the Minister for Health and he refers it to the HSE and HSE management just repeat the mantra that it will remain closed for the foreseeable future.”

“The hospice beds in St. Brigid’s are located in a separate part of the hospital so it would be entirely possible to bring these much-needed beds back into operation in the immediate term. All it takes is a little ingenuity from the HSE. To keep these beds closed while we celebrate the important work of our palliative care teams across the country is a matter of huge irony and despair.

“Regrettably the people of South Tipperary continue to require hospice beds as they face their end of life care regardless of Covid 19. That these much-needed beds remain closed is utterly appalling and I am again appealing to the HSE to reopen this facility as a matter of urgency,” he concluded.


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NaNoWriMo: Week 1 Update

We are one week in to National Novel Writing Month and I am already behind. Hahahahahaha. Of course I am. Despite my best efforts - and my super organized notebook - I have fallen behind the daily word goal. However, I'm not going to let that get me down and here's why; since last Friday, I have worked out some character issues I had - with my book characters, not myself. I am exactly the same as I was last Thursday. - I have finished and formatted a Lynx & LeRoux Christmas collection with my writing partner, and I have written every day. And, after all, isn't that really the point of National Novel Writing Month? I have also made progress. I began my book at 9,555 and at the time of this writing, I am at roughly 13,000. So, yeah, no where near my goal of 23,000. But here's the thing, I don't really care about word count. I believe books should be however long they need to be; no more, no less.

When I went into this month, I didn't really care the end word count. I cared about getting the characters correct and telling their story. And, because it's a psychological thriller, adding in a fun twist or two. So, really, word count isn't, and never was, my goal.

Jessica and I have other obligations; we're attending Ozark Book Con this Saturday as vendors, and we're setting up a small retail spot inside Rags 'N Roses Collective. What does that mean? Well, it means our books, candles, cross stitch, knit and crochet items will be for sale year round inside a lovely little shop in Greenwood. It also means some of that writing time is now being allocated to getting the booth ready, arranging and rearranging the space until it meets my Virgo specifications, and probably moving everything once more just to be sure.

All of that said, my goal for week two is to write a little more each day. I may not hit that arbitrary 2000 words, but every word gets me closer to my actual end goal - a finished first draft.

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Searching for Leviathan, Part 4: Active Galaxies and Jets

In this series of articles, we've discussed what we know about black holes—how we can find them, how old they are, what their masses are. Now, we'll describe jets that we see coming from the center of some galaxies, where we think black holes are the source.

Finally, we'll recap how technology has helped us so far in our search for leviathans, we we'll look ahead to describing how TMT will help us fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge of black holes.

Why Do They Spout?

[...] the whale was now seen some mile or so ahead, at every roll of the sea revealing his high sparkling hump, and regularly jetting his silent spout into the air. [...] his spout is a big one, like a whole shock of wheat, and white as a pile of our Nantucket wool after the great annual sheep-shearing.

Whales spout to expel air. Water vapor in the expelled air meets the colder surroundings, and condenses into the plume we can see. Believe it or not, a black hole and its host galaxy sometimes have their own version of a spout.

You can imagine the gravitational vortex of a black hole as a kind of giant vacuum, or drain, that attracts nearby dust and gas, creating a disk of material that revolves round and round the black hole like a funnel going down the drain. As the dust and gas swirl down into the black hole, their gravitational potential energy changes into kinetic (moving) energy. When things move, they generate friction, and friction causes heating, as you already know. It’s why you might rub your hands together to warm them on a cold winter morning.

Heating material up strips away charged particles (ions) from the atoms and molecules that make up the material. So as the gas and dust spin downward toward the black hole and get heated up, their ions get separated from them. Those ions are also part of the stream of material and along with it, they too move. As they do, their movement creates magnetic fields. In some instances, these magnetic fields are so intense they generate very fast outward-streaming jets made of ionized gas, scooped up from close to the black hole. This is the supermassive black hole’s version of a spout, which we call the jet of an active galactic nucleus.

Just as the sailors looking for Moby Dick could see the spout from much farther away than they could see the whale himself, these “spouting” black holes make it possible for us to detect them even in very distant galaxies. The active galactic nucleus puts out so much energy that it actually outshines the billions of stars in the rest of that galaxy. So we can target these bright spots in the night sky, and use them to track where supermassive black holes might be, even very, very far away. The fraction of galaxies that have jets is small, so this approach can’t show us the locations of most supermassive black holes. Even so, it’s an important complement to other ways of finding these cosmic leviathans.

Even beyond locating supermassive black holes, trying to figure out their origins, and estimating their sizes and ages, we want to learn more about their habitats. For example, what chemical ingredients and physical processes feed active galactic nuclei and their resident supermassive black holes? And how do they interact and develop together over time?

So active galactic nuclei (whether associated with a “spouting” black hole or active for other reasons, which are beyond the scope of this article) are a fascinating area of research because they involve many areas of astronomy, and because they represent an extreme even in the already-extreme context of black holes.

Just to bring this far-flung discussion back home, I’ll share a reminiscence. When I was doing my graduate work in London, a colleague named Ruben was doing research on jets and active galactic nuclei. I pinned a poster on his door of the ever-prescient Frank Zappa's “Cruising with Ruben and the Jets.” I’m not sure if Ruben ever knew what to make of this—so Ruben, if you’re reading, perhaps by now you've become a fan of Zappa.

The Voyage Ahead

Once upon a time, for instance when Moby-Dick was written, whaling was seen as a romantic, even glamorous, avocation pitting man against nature and when successful, heralding the triumph of order over chaos, reason over confusion. Whalers like Ahab made it their business to learn all they could about their massive, yet elusive, quarry to increase the chances of a successful hunt. Today, our reasons for learning about whales have evolved, and instead of wanting to hunt them, we now want to understand more about their place and role in the natural world around us. Yet, even today, whales, with their mammoth proportions and fascinating behaviors—no longer viewed as dangerous enemies or faceless commodities—continue to inspire awe in those lucky enough to see them.

Modern-day black hole science has its own romantic, even glamorous overtones, as it strives to expand our understanding of these mysterious, enormous, light-eating leviathans of our Universe, objects whose origins, composition, mass, and properties defy imagination, and whose very existence was so hard to fathom that for decades, many scientists simply refused to believe in them.

The controversy over whether black holes exist has been put to rest through astronomers’ and engineers’ hard work and ingenuity to find ways to predict and find these objects. Now the focus is changing from proving black holes exist to detecting a wide range of them and learning more about each kind. Despite all the progress we’ve made so far in learning about supermassive black holes, and notwithstanding their gargantuan mass, we've so far directly “weighed” only about 100 of them.

Just as Cetacea science has benefited from advances in technology—autonomous acoustic recorders, tracking devices that communicate with GPS satellites, and so on—so astronomy, too, has benefited from tremendous advances in technology. For example, we’ve been able to link together many different radio telescopes to make The Event Horizon Telescope, and we now have the first image of an event horizon, of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87, a galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.

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First image of emission from a black hole’s event horizon, for supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. - Image Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

In addition, LIGO has now made a handful of detections of mergers of black holes.

With TMT and other next-generation observatories, we expect to increase the black-hole census to several tens of thousands, and expand our understanding of how black holes form, and their ages, locations, masses, and ways of interacting with their environment as they grow. We’ll also try to tackle the question of how the masses of black holes vary through cosmic history. In a future article, I’ll go into specifics of how TMT will help deepen our knowledge.

This current series of articles has only scratched the surface of what we know and don't know about black holes. Let’s end with an extract from the very final paragraph of Moby Dick, which speaks to the profound influence of nature’s leviathans, be they White Whales or a Black Holes:

I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. […] Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick. A Norton Critical Edition. Parker, Hershel, and Harrison Hayford (eds). (2001). Second Edition, New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company.

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Many thanks to my colleagues Matthias Schöck (TMT System Scientist), Warren Skidmore (TMT Instrument System Scientist), and Nicholas McConnell (STEM Workforce Development and Program Manager at The Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators), for helping with this blog entry

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Norway’s Controversial Wind Turbine Plans and Mining Put Nature and Sami Community at Risk

Norway’s indigenous community Sami’s survival is under threat with the government’s controversial mining activities and wind turbines.

The northernmost region of Norway, Finnmark is home to many of 40,000 Sami population in Norway. In the region, the community is mainly occupied with reindeer herding and fishing. The climate change is a challenge for these activities. But climate change is not the only threat to the Sami community and their survival.

Norwegian government’s recent controversial actions opening the arctic for minig activities and aggresively building wind turbines all over the country’s protected natural areas pose a bigger danger for the community.

Samis are fighting plans against a recently approved mine for copper.

Talking to BBC, Nils Mathis Sara, a Sami chief who has been herding reindeer since he was 14, says If the mine becomes a reality, that would make the chance of survival impossible – both economically and mentally.

At my age we can manage, somehow. But the young, they’re in a dark, dark time, says he to BBC.

The chief’s daughter, Inga Anne Karen Sara says the government is just taking more and more lands for mining, power lines, and wind power.

She notes the copper mine and wind turbines mine will seriously damage the reindeer.

How can it be sustainable to destroy nature, she asks.

At my age we can manage, somehow. But the young, they’re in a dark, dark time.”

Nils Mathis Sara

Another danger with the plans is the future of fishing in the region. The waste of mine will be dumped into fjords and it will affect the fish and crab population seriously. They will eather die or escape from the region.

Will Norway destroy its world famous fjords and nature with this project?

Will #Norway destroy its world famous #fjords and nature with one of the most environmentally controversial projects in the country's history? Norwegian government has approved a plan to begin mining for copper in the Arctic, and dumping heavy metal waste in nearby fjords. #environment #Repparfjord Naturvernforbundet Natur og Ungdom WWF

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The copper mining in Arctic is still debated in Norway.

Oystein Rushfeldt, chief executive officer of the mining company Nussir confesses to BBC that there will be “negative impacts” at the bottom of the fjord as well as from noise and dust. Though he believes it will not affect reindeers.

The wind trubines is another hot controversial topic about the future of the region.

Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) presented the draft national framework for wind power to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy this year. The framework has chosen 13 areas in Norway as suitable places to build hundreds of wind turbines.

The areas in the proposal include protected natural areas in Norway such as the regions where the Sami community is living in.

This led many locals, civil society organizations, politicians and academics to react to aggressive wind turbines construction plans.

Norway Marches against Building Wind Turbines in Untouched Natural Areas

The expansion of onshore wind power remains controversial, with many people fearing it could harm both nature and wildlife. The plans of the government are also questioned with the argument that it is not necessary for Norway to develop wind power at all, considering the country’s surplus of climate-friendly hydropower.

Norway has an annual power production surplus of about 5 TWh, and hydropower accounts for around 95% of the country’s electricity generation. Meanwhile, the share of wind power is currently less than 4%, according to the latest figures from Statistics Norway.

Samis in Norway Celebrate Sami National Day

About Norwegian Samis

The Samis are Europe’s northernmost and the Nordic countries’ only officially indigenous people. During the 19th century, Norwegian authorities put the Sami culture under pressure in order to make the Norwegian language and culture universal. A strong economic development of the north also took place, giving Norwegian culture and language status.

On the Swedish and Finnish side, the authorities were much less militant in their efforts, though Sami language was forbidden in schools; strong economic development in the north led to a weakening of status and economy for the Sami. In 1913-1920, the Swedish race-segregation politic created a race biological institute that collected research material from living people, graves, and sterilized Sami women. Throughout history, settlers were encouraged to move to the northern regions through incentives such as land and water rights, tax allowances, and military exemptions.

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