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How much should we hold in cash? Does the term cash only refer to money in a bank account? With incredibly low interest rates and such a good stock market, it's not clear how much to set aside. This is the question I ask myself as a married and retired person.
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Your question is often asked by people of all ages. Even with low interest rates, security accounts – I don't like to call them emergency funds – are indispensable. Married, single, or in some form of partnership, you need fallback to meet basic needs.
How much this amount should be is personal and depends on your expenses and responsibilities. A rule of thumb is three times the cost of living, but if you own a home, move it closer to six months. This money should be kept in an account separate from your daily money and any savings for your next car, big trip or celebration. Savings are independent of the mix of stocks, bonds, and cash you have in your investment accounts.
If you are retired, you will still need a safety account. Even if you have a stable monthly retirement income or a payout strategy for your 401 (k) account, financial surprises can arise: think about a new oven or air conditioner, storm damage, condo reviews, car repairs, doctor and dentist bills.
Income from the stock market is not guaranteed. Ask retirees who lost the value of their investments in the dot-com crash of 2000 or the financial crisis of 2008 or March 2020. They may even have sold out of fear and permanently reduced their net worth when prices recover. These assets are difficult to replenish in retirement. Cash gives you time, clearer thinking, and allows you to stick with your long-term investment strategy.
Cash is an asset that you can access quickly and predictably. That is why we start with cash, be it in a savings account, a money market fund or a certificate of deposit. Check if the account is insured by the FDIC (money market accounts are not.) Don't let better interest rates sway you as these are only part of the story.
Of course, you can sell other assets – from your home to your car to jewelry, even stocks and bonds – for cash to make them liquid. But the dollar value is unpredictable. In some cases time is also involved. And don't forget the additional cost of capital gains taxes on investments and, in some cases, your home.
Read: This can save you money on capital gains tax when you sell your home
No matter when you need it, cash keeps the same price; Investments don't.
A home equity line of credit, or HELOC, is not a security account, although some claim. It's a backup option that's easy to get, but once tapped, it's a loan that must be paid back with interest. No matter how tempting the option is, you are taking a risk. Paying off debt is not easy in retirement, especially given inflation. And getting into even more debt when you stop working creates stress.
Withdrawing money from an investment account – whether it be 403 (b), 401 (k), or IRA – is smart with a plan. But without one, the effects wreak havoc financially. A retiree built her dream home and blown her budget. She withdrew $ 10,000 from her IRA to make the final payment to the contractor and get fixtures she wanted in a closet. However, she was only 59 years old. She had to pay an early withdrawal penalty of $ 1,000 – on top of the income tax due – (withdrawals from traditional retirement accounts are taxed as normal income). Deciding and acting in the blink of an eye cost her extra money.
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CD Moriarty is a certified financial planner, MarketWatch columnist, and personal finance speaker. She blogs at MoneyPeace.
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Children getting fatter, younger29th November 2011
Pre-school children brought up in the 1970s and 1980s weighed less, and had less risk of becoming overweight or obese, than children of the same age today, according to a recent US study.
Study author Ashlesha Datar, a senior economist at RAND Corporation in California, said that children who were already overweight were getting more and more so, and that there seemed to be a shift toward weight gain across the board.
He said that even children of normal weight were gaining weight.
Albert Rocchini, a professor of paediatrics at University of Michigan Children's Hospital, who was not involved in the study, said that the finding reinforced people's suspicions about what appeared to be an ongoing trend.
He said that the fact that there was so much weight gain among children was a little discouraging, and that the incidence of obesity was going up simply because everybody was getting heavier.
For the study, the researchers made an analysis of data on nearly 6,000 US children.
The children were from a mix of ethnic backgrounds, and seemed to represent a cross-section of the US population.
The children all had their height and weight measured while still in pre-school, as well as at regular intervals afterward, until puberty.
The researchers found that nearly 40% of the children were already at least in the 75th percentile for body mass index, or BMI.
On the other hand, three or four decades ago, when US scientists first began to measure the BMI of growing children, the same children would have been mostly in the 25th percentile.
Datar said that although the 75th percentile was still 'normal', there was still an increase, and that the difference between being in the 75th percentile and being overweight was not much.
US dieticians classify being in the 85th or 95th percentile as being overweight, and being above the 95th percentile as being obese.
At the same time as the average child's weight seemed closer to overweight than in previous decades, the scientists observed an increase in the number of children who are already overweight or obese.
In the current study, the researchers found that about 12% of children across the US may be obese, compared to 5% in the 1970s or 1980s.
Much of the weight gain seemed to take place between pre-school and the third year of compulsory education.
After Year 3, children seemed to stop gaining weight on the whole.
Datar said that, if a parent found their child was in the 75th percentile, they should be aware that such a child could become obese.
He said that, in such cases, families needed to reform their eating habits, food intake, and exercise routines.
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Nature has given us some of our best medicines; it’s thought that as many as half the drugs we have used are derived from natural products, including aspirin, penicillin, and morphine, among others. Researchers are now learning more about the compounds generated by the Kava plant, which has been used in the customs of the people of Polynesia for thousands of years. It has been gaining widespread attention recently for its reputed anti-anxiety and pain-relieving qualities, because of the kavalactones it makes. These medicinal compounds seem to be non-addictive.
Kavalactones may represent a good alternative to opioid-based pain relievers, and appear to impact the body in a different way. Kava supplements can already be found in stores, and may be poised to enter a wide market. However, growing Kava plants, which can only be propagated with cuttings, takes time. Kavalactones are difficult to obtain in large quantities, hindering research on the molecules.
Work from the team of MIT associate professor of biology Jing-Ke Weng and postdoctoral researcher Tomáš Pluskal, which was reported in Nature Plants, outlines a method for creating large quantities of kavalactones and variants that aren’t found in nature. These variants could be safer, or more effective.
“We’re combining historical knowledge of this plant’s medicinal properties, established through centuries of traditional usage, with modern research tools in order to potentially develop new drugs,” Pluskal said.
While a protein could be potentially be made by a bacterial factory if the gene encoding for the protein is delivered into a bacterium, there is not one single kavalactone gene; the molecules are made through a series of chemical steps that add or remove bits to make the final product. The researchers had to decipher the chemical process, and the enzymes that make it happen, in order to produce kavalactones.
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“There’s a very urgent need for therapies to treat mental disorders, and for safer pain relief options,” Weng said. “Our model eliminates several of the bottlenecks in drug development from plants by increasing access to natural medicinal molecules and allowing for the creation of new-to-nature molecules.”

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The processor architecture will allow computing power to be scalable based on mission needs, which will significantly improve overall computing efficiency for exploration missions. The design will also make the processor more reliable, enabling spacecraft computers to perform calculations up to 100 times faster than today's state-of-the-art space computers, according to NASA.
"Our current spaceflight computers were developed almost 30 years ago," said Wesley Powell, NASA's principal technologist for advanced avionics. "While they have served past missions well, future NASA missions demand significantly increased onboard computing capabilities and reliability. The new computing processor will provide the advances required in performance, fault tolerance, and flexibility to meet these future mission needs."
Microchip Technology will take three years to design and deliver the HSPC processor. During this time, the company will contribute significant research and development under a $50 million firm-fixed contract with NASA. Microchip Technology said it is pleased to be selected as NASA's partner in developing this technology.
"We are making a joint investment with NASA on a new trusted and transformative compute platform. It will deliver comprehensive Ethernet networking, advanced artificial intelligence/machine learning processing and connectivity support while offering unprecedented performance gain, fault-tolerance, and security architecture at low power consumption," said Babak Samimi, corporate vice president for Microchip Technology's communications business unit.

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As the global aerospace industry continues to grow with constantly increasing numbers of flights, the onus falls ever more closely on safe air traffic control systems and carefully coordination. ATNS SOC Limited is responsible for air traffic control in approximately 10 per cent of the world’s airspace and operates from head offices located in Bruma, Gauteng.
“Our services extend further than the familiar air traffic control service, into the provision of vitally important aeronautical information used for all flight planning purposes as well as search and rescue coordination activities and the maintenance of a reliable navigation infrastructure,” describes the corporate website.
Among the company’s key services are: the supply of aeronautical information services, technical maintenance and aerodrome services; alert, search and rescue co-ordination services; management of the flexible use of airspace through the Central Airspace Unit (CAMU); support for special events and special requirements such as test flights, demonstration flights, etc; the implementation and maintenance of a terrestrial-based navigational structure and the training of licensed air traffic controllers and technical staff through the Aviation Training Academy (ATA).
The ATNS Training Academy is an important element of ATNS and is renowned for providing a wide variety of Air Traffic Services, Technical Support and Related training.
“It is our vision to be a major contributing partner towards ensuring aviation safety in Africa, through our training efforts. We are committed to world best practices and we undertake to give each client the skills and knowledge to successfully take on the challenges faced by providers of Air Traffic Control and technical services,” the company says on its website.
The Academy employs instructors with outstanding credentials and operates highly modern equipment and facilities. The organisation’s motto is “LEARN TO SUCCEED” and ATNS certainly lives up to this mantra.
There is a co-operation agreement in place with the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City which provides the opportunity to reciprocally present courses on each organisation’s behalf and accredit each other’s international ATS courses.
“With a view to playing a more meaningful role in the global aviation arena, we are in the process of being accredited by the ICAO Trainair Unit.
“We continue to enter into MOU’s with other similar providers, such as the MOU with ASECNA, Algeria Enna, Sudan CAA, IATA and SACAA which is already in place,” the corporate website explains.
The success of the Academy can partly be measured by its status and the organisation’s Quality Management System operates in accordance with the ISO 9001:2000 Code of Practice, with certification attained back in November 1998.
The influence of ATNS was further illustrated in early February, when it hosted a 3 day Southern African Development Community (SADC) Air Traffic Management Coordination Summit (ATM/CM) near OR Tambo International Airport.
The meeting was held under the auspices of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and had the primary objective of addressing Air Traffic coordination and related safety and efficiency issues between adjacent airspaces in which various SADC States are responsible for the provision of Air Traffic Navigation services.
Late last year, ATNS requested the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional (ESAF) Office to convene an ATM/CM similar to those held in 2013 in Swaziland with a view to address several issues related to strategic and tactical coordination of air traffic, as well other incidental issues. This has resulted in the convening of the ATM/CM-SAF in Johannesburg 3-5 February 2015.
Due consideration was given to the issues that have been highlighted from various stakeholders concerned with the safety, efficiency and environmental protection in the air navigation activities. ATNS presented a number of Discussion papers, which amongst others, called for the discussion on the ongoing occurrences of Air Traffic Management (ATM) co-ordination failures between South African and adjacent Flight Information Regions (FIRs) that are impacting aviation safety.
Issues relating to Air Traffic Service routes were also discussed. It has been agreed that industry players should continue to develop efficient Air Traffic Services (ATS) route trajectories through the AFI ATS Route Catalogue based on efficiency, preferred profiles and environmental protection to support airspace optimization and Performance Based Navigation (PBN) implementation in the AFI Region. These routes will be implemented in May 2015.
The Chairperson of the SADC ATM/CM and ATNS ATM Senior Manager, Jeoffrey Matshoba, is confident that most of the safety issues identified will be resolved by the next meeting. “The meeting resolved that practical remedial solutions should be implemented as a matter of urgency. The estimated coordination risk could be considerably lower if all the African States
could implement certain critical safety initiatives”, said Matshoba.
Much of the future success of aerospace within Africa will depend upon collaboration and ATNS can be seen as a unifying entity. Last October saw the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) Africa Conference.
Africa Office Chairman and ATNS CEO, Thabani Mthiyane told delegates attending the event in Zambia that they have realized the importance of increasing collaboration and cooperation among member states, thereby accelerating progress towards a safer, more efficient and cost-effective Air Traffic Management (ATM) system in the Africa Region.
“Obviously no single region of the world has monopoly on development. As a collective, we have taken cognizance of the fact that humanity’s struggle for growth and wellbeing is universal and calls for analogous solutions everywhere, although it is important that they be closely adapted to the countries in which they are applied. A region such as ours cannot have growth as its sole aim. Globalization offers a new spectrum of new essential services: the fight against climate change, aviation safety, security and stability; and of course the fight against poverty – to mention but a few” he said in his welcome speech.
He further went on to say that “it is no more a question of job creation or social equity but that infrastructure development, regional balance and cooperation were perfect examples of the economic and societal changes that aviators are championing”.
ATNS is already delivering excellence within the aviation industry and continues to create a road map for safe future growth.


Over $1.7 million in grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been awarded to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to support research, management and outreach campaigns for Steller sea lions and Cook Inlet beluga whales.
The funds, announced by Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska on Aug. 9, are being dispersed under the Species Recovery Grants to States Program, through the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019, which is designed to support conservation of wildlife listed as endangered species. “The funding will not only help us better understand foraging ecology and habitat disturbances but will also assist the Department of Fish and Game in the development of a long-term strategy for population recovery,” Young said.
The grants, each spread over a three-year period, include $443,579 for research on habitat use of adult female Steller sea lions in the endangered western distinct population segment; $850,642 to enhance and strengthen Cook Inlet beluga conservation and management strategies, and $409,802 for strengthen estimation of Cook Inlet beluga whale rates of reproduction and survival.
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Landscaping is often an exercise in problem solving: we may have an ideal plant in mind, only to find that it won’t thrive in our yards because our site or soil isn’t suitable. Fortunately, plants are wonderfully diverse and adaptable, so you’re guaranteed to find beautiful, landscape-worthy shrubs that withstand most any of Mother Nature’s curveballs. Think of the plants listed below as the landscape equivalent of the old saying, “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!” – they tolerate and even thrive under the difficult conditions commonly found in backyards everywhere. This means less work for you and a better performance from your plants!
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Just like humans, deer have favorite foods (roses, arborvitae) and some foods that they simply don’t care for. No plant is completely deer-proof, though: deer may sample nearly anything, particularly if other food sources have been exhausted. They may also eat just the flower buds of some plants, like hydrangeas and rose of Sharon. That said, you can count following plants to be low on their list of preferred snacks:
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Don’t let their cuteness fool you: rabbits are definitely one of the most destructive garden visitors. They can mow down a plant in no time, and often cause the most damage in winter, when they gnaw on bark and break the flow of water and nutrients through the stems. You can protect prized plants with a scent repellent; you can also try these varieties that they typically avoid munching on. (Note that most deer resistant plants are typically avoided by rabbits as well, with the notable exception of elderberry):
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Yes, I'm aware of this, but if I can't get Tor to scale up to even 300Mbps on a single instance, adding another instance on the same hardware isn't going to magically make it reach saturation. It might improve things, seen from the network scaling it from 120Mbps to 250Mbps, but it's certainly not going to push it to 700Mbps. First, I want to find _why_ I'm not peaking either CPU usage, or bandwidth usage. That the network is a stochastic and semi-random limiter, I'm quite aware of, and adding more resources to pool that up is doable. ( Though I can't add more ipv4 addresses right now, ipv6 is plentiful, sadly, tor doesn't do very well on ipv6. ) //D.S.
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animals at our unique petting zoo. Meet Doc and Frodo,
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Visitors to Maui's Winery do more than just taste wine: they actually stroll back in time! When you enter the Tasting Room on the winery grounds, you are entering the former guest cottage of King Kalakaua, Hawai'i's "Merrie Monarch." As a frequent visitor of the Makee family at Rose Ranch, he was known to host parties and poker games and enjoy the finest champagne.
Located on the western slope of the Kohala Mountains, 3000 feet above sea level. This 8,500 acres of private ranch land provides a variety of landscapes. From grazing cattle, sheep and horses to vistas of ocean and coastal shoreline - Visitors enjoy getting off the beaten path and embarking on a variety of exciting Activities
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Annie Idibia’s Emotional Revelation
In a recent episode of the reality TV show “Young, Famous and African,” Nigerian actress Annie Idibia broke down in tears as she opened up about her struggles in her marriage with Afrobeats legend, 2baba Idibia. Annie expressed that she feels her husband fails to understand what life is like for her, and the challenges she faces in managing their home.
In a video that has since gone viral, 2baba was seen comforting his wife, wiping away her tears, and reassuring her of his dedication. This emotional moment has sparked conversations about the couple’s relationship, which has been in the public eye for many years.
Public Reaction and Impact on Annie
Annie has faced criticism and backlash from the public in recent times, with some referring to her as a “disgrace to womanhood.” She has stated that these scandals have personally affected her, causing emotional distress.
Despite the challenges, Annie continues to navigate her personal and professional life. Her openness about her struggles is a reminder of the pressures and difficulties faced by public figures, even as they maintain a brave face for the public. As the conversation around her relationship continues, fans and followers are hoping for the best for Annie and 2baba.


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Sex-Specific Differences for Outcomes in TAVR
What are the sex-specific differences in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in the PARTNER (Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves) trial?
This was a secondary analysis of the randomized and nonrandomized portions of the PARTNER trial. Twenty-five hospitals in the United States, Canada, and Germany participated in the study. High-risk and inoperable patients (1,220 women and 1,339 men) were enrolled and underwent TAVR. Demographic characteristics, cardiac and noncardiac comorbidities, mortality, stroke, rehospitalization, vascular complications, bleeding complications, and echocardiographic valve parameters were measured. To assess the association between sex and all-cause mortality at 1 year, Cox multivariable regression analyses were performed.
At baseline, women had lower rates of hyperlipidemia, diabetes, smoking, and renal disease, but higher Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Predicted Risk of Mortality scores (11.9% vs. 11.1%; p < 0.001). After TAVR, women had more vascular complications (17.3% vs. 10.0%; difference, 7.29 percentage points; 95% confidence interval [CI], 4.63-9.95 percentage points; p < 0.001) and major bleeding (10.5% vs. 7.7%; difference, 2.8 percentage points; 95% CI, 0.57-5.04 percentage points; p = 0.012), but less frequent moderate and severe paravalvular regurgitation (6.0% vs. 14.3%; difference, −8.3 percentage points; 95% CI, −11.7 to −5.0 percentage points; p < 0.001). At 30 days, the unadjusted all-cause mortality rate (6.5% vs. 5.9%; difference, 0.6 percentage point; 95% CI, −1.29 to 2.45 percentage points; p = 0.52) and stroke incidence (3.8% vs. 3.0%; difference, 0.8 percentage point; 95% CI, −0.62 to 2.19 percentage points; p = 0.28) were similar. At 1 year, all-cause mortality was significantly lower in women than in men (19.0% vs. 25.9%; hazard ratio, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.61-0.85; p < 0.001).
The authors concluded that despite a higher incidence of vascular and bleeding complications, women having TAVR had lower mortality than men at 1 year.
The principal finding of this analysis was that women undergoing TAVR had a lower mortality at 1 year despite having higher 30-day incidence of vascular complications and major bleeding. Unadjusted and adjusted results showed that female sex was independently associated with lower 1-year mortality. This is in contrast to aortic valve surgery, in which female sex has been shown to be an established risk factor for adverse prognosis after surgical AVR, and is reflected in the STS risk model of aortic valve surgery. Furthermore, with newer devices requiring smaller sheath sizes for implantation, the incidence of vascular complications will probably decrease, making this modality even more attractive for appropriately selected women needing AVR.
Clinical Topics: Cardiac Surgery, Dyslipidemia, Invasive Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention, Noninvasive Imaging, Prevention, Valvular Heart Disease, Cardiac Surgery and VHD, Interventions and Imaging, Interventions and Structural Heart Disease, Echocardiography/Ultrasound, Smoking
Keywords: Cardiac Surgical Procedures, Diabetes Mellitus, Echocardiography, Heart Valve Diseases, Hemorrhage, Hyperlipidemias, Mortality, Risk Factors, Sex Characteristics, Smoking, Stroke, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Vascular Diseases
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The Metal Shark 90 Endurance is a welded aluminum pilothouse catamaran with a crew-friendly layout optimized for visibility, protection, crew movement, payload capacity, and functionality. In DSV configuration, the vessel shown here has been equipped with a full complement of highly specialized systems supporting the mapping, inspection, and repair of subsea oil and gas pipelines using dive teams. The Metal Shark design team worked extensively with the client to create a design that mitigates inherent hazards associated with live-boating, which is the practice of utilizing a mobile, as opposed to anchored, vessel in support of dive operations. Endurance-class catamarans may be configured for a wide range of mission profiles including military command and control, law enforcement, port security, and fire rescue.
Each Metal Shark Endurance-class catamaran features a proven Metal Shark hull design that has been engineered and built to precise tolerances. To achieve its superior hull life rating of 30+ years, the vessel’s hull, deck, and pilothouse structure are composed entirely of heavy, welded plates of premium-grade 5086 aluminum alloy. A key component of the Endurance class vessels are their wide beams which offer tremendous stability. The 90 Endurance features a beam of 24′ which results in tremendous stability while at rest or underway. Endurance vessels may be equipped with inboards, water jets, or pod propulsion systems.
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To get a better idea of the future direction of Parallel Infrastructure, just look to see who it appointed as the new president of telecommunications infrastructure. It is Yannis Macheras, and his experience will likely help the company add to tower portfolio growth.
Before this post, he worked in telecom for 15 years, having been in management at American Tower (News - Alert) Corporation (AMT). His experience there includes work in back-office operations, experience in the integration of SpectraSite into AMT in 2005, work as a vice president and general manager, and work on rooftop business and tower development in Latin America. He is a graduate of Tulane Law School and Columbia University.
“Yannis’ global leadership experience will be an invaluable asset as we accelerate our pace and fill the market need for increased capacity and coverage in the wireless communications arena,” Frank Chechile, CEO of Parallel Infrastructure, said in a statement. “He will continue to foster Parallel’s focus on speed and agility in the tower development space.”
Overall, Parallel Infrastructure provides communications infrastructure and asset management services to businesses and government offices. Among its services are helping organizations acquire land, build a telecom site and lease towers. It also invests in and manages underutilized assets alongside railroads and highways. The company calls many of its services “right-of-way” (ROW) third-party management and infrastructure development. It offers real estate management, telecom, energy and outdoor advertising infrastructure development, and ROW services that generate income.
“Building on our reputation to deliver carrier-grade infrastructure and under Macheras’ leadership, Parallel is well positioned to establish itself as a leading wireless communication infrastructure owner and operator in the United States,” Chechile said.
Also, the timing of the appointment comes as there is strong demand in the marketplace for wireless services – and commercial need for cell towers. As of November, it was estimated there were 190,000 cell phone towers in the United States, according to Airwave Management.
Parallel Infrastructure prides itself on speedy construction and deployment of tower sites. In addition, it has specialization in the zoning and permitting issues related to tower development. The company’s goal is to get its clients to market quicker “with greater pinpoint coverage and higher customer satisfaction.” Often, there can be local opposition to cell phone tower development, despite the commercial need for the towers.
“In many cases, our ROW land portfolio provides exclusive access in high-demand locations,” the company adds in a statement. “We offer targeted coverage in areas that were inaccessible during the initial build outs, and are now exclusively available through our right-of-way partners.”
Parallel Infrastructure, which is owned by Florida East Coast Industries, has a portfolio which now includes more than 2,100 miles of ROW across 22 U.S. states. It is also expanding relationships with carriers, and is working on new leases.

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In the rugged Northern Alberta environment, installation of conventional Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) produced water treatment systems can be challenging. SAGD is a technique to recover bitumen from the oil sands formation. The oil is recovered by further processing and upgrading the recovered bitumen which are called Oil Sands. As the bituminous resource is mixed with sand in the formation the liquid that is brought to the surface is a mixture of oil and water. The oil and water are separated in a deoiling process.
The water is then sent to Aquatech’s produced water treatment system. Once water is purified, the water is used as feed to the boiler for generation of steam for injection into the formation and the cycle continues. SmartMOD is an advanced water recycle solution for produced water treatment in the SAGD process. Innovative design transforms tall, thermal evaporator vessels into smaller modular sections that maintain vertical falling principles in addition to enhancing system performance and reliability.
SmartMOD At a Glance
- Reduces total installed costs (TIC)
- Compresses overall project schedule
- Increased availability with lower downtime
What SmartMOD Delivers to Oil Producers
- Elimination of concrete foundations
- Cost and schedule certainty
- Overall project schedule reduced by 25%
- Optimized logistics
- Minimized field labor
- Modules and building integration
- Field installation costs reduced by > 75%
- 99% process availability
- Guaranteed drum boiler distillate quality
- Integrated online cleaning system ensures continuous production
Modular, flexible and redeployable, the SmartMOD evaporator system is the lowest CAPEX and life cycle cost evaporator system available today. It utilizes vertical tube falling film evaporator design, a proven technology for treating difficult produced water sources. Benefits over conventional evaporator systems include 10% lower power consumption. Its multiple section design ensures ASME distillate quality, and on-line washing allows for continuous distillate production at >75% of design capacity during washing.
The SmartMOD evaporator system is also engineered to minimize field installation labor and costs. With its dramatically reduced center of mass and evaporator weight, the SmartMOD module and vessels eliminate the need for building a large evaporator building or expensive foundation labor and materials. Its innovative design also reduces freight costs for transportation of the complete system to site.
SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) is an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology for producing heavy crude oil and bitumen. It is an advanced form of steam stimulation where high pressure steam is injected into the formation, heating the bitumen in the formation, which lowers its viscosity and allows the mixture of bitumen and water from condensed steam to be pumped out.
The liquid that is pumped to the surface is a mixture of oil and water. The mixture is separated to a predominantly oil and water fractions in the de-oiling process. The water fraction (or Produced Water) is sent to the Aquatech system for treatment and reuse in the facility. In addition to the evaporator technology, Aquatech has supplied conventional systems that include Walnut Shell Filters, Warm Lime Softening, Afterfilters and Ion Exchange softening. Once purified, the produced water is used as feed to the boiler for steam generation and injected into the formation, and the cycle continues.


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China log markets triple log export volumes from Australia
Nov. 7, 2017 - Lucrative log markets in China have resulted in a tripling of softwood log export volumes from Australia the past four years, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
November 7, 2017 By Hakan Ekstrom Wood Resources International LLC
Australia has rapidly become a major exporter of softwood logs and was the world’s sixth largest log exporter in 2016. During the 1H/17, the upward trend continued with shipments being 17 per cent higher than in the 1H/16. In 2012, Australia’s annual exports totaled only 1.2 million m3. Just four years later, in 2016, exports had tripled to a record high of 3.6 million m3, of which 96 per cent was destined for China. If the upward trend seen this far in the first six months of 2017 continues, export volumes will end up totaling over four million m3 in 2017, which represents approximately 25 per cent of the total softwood timber harvest in Australia.
Obviously, exportation of logs has become an attractive alternative to domestic sales for timberland owners in Australia. Wood Resource Quarterly reports that in 2012, there were minimal price premiums for exported logs over domestic logs, but by 2016 and 2017, premiums had surged to between A$35-50/m3. Despite these recent price increases, Australia is still considered to be a low-cost log supplier in the Chinese market as compared to other suppliers such as New Zealand, Russia and North America, mainly because of higher domestic sawlog prices in those markets.
Higher log export volumes have occurred at the same time as domestic log demand has gone up over 20 per cent in four years, from 3.6 million m3 of lumber in 2012 to an estimated 4.4 million m3 in 2016. Although sawmill production fell slightly in 2016 from the previous year, the output from the Australian sawmill sector reached record high levels the past two years thanks to healthy domestic demand for softwood lumber.
Global lumber, sawlog and pulpwood market reporting is included in the 56-page quarterly publication Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). The report, which was established in 1988 and has subscribers in over 30 countries, tracks sawlog, pulpwood, wood chip, lumber and pellet prices, trade and market developments in most key regions around the world. To subscribe to the WRQ, please go to www.woodprices.com
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The fight to unionize Amazon is the most important labor story of this century
Editor's Note: The Moral Economy is a new series that tackles key economic topics through the prism of Catholic social teaching and its care for the dignity of every person. This is the third article in the series.
The campaign by Amazon workers to unionize in Alabama, with a vote that concludes on March 29, marks a new age in a 500-year history of labor struggle in the United States.
Historians say it was an enslaved colonial workforce who launched the labor movement. The first uprising was a slave revolt in 1526. The Industrial Revolution sparked a second chapter. Organizing in steel mills, coal mines and meat-packing plants, modern unions won the weekend, the vacation, the pension and the eight-hour workday.
In the third era, warehouse workers for companies like Amazon are seeking the right to bargain collectively in a heavily automated, postindustrial service economy that relies on their low wages. On March 29, the results will be announced of a mail-in vote organized by the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., that employs almost 6,000 workers.
“They treat us like we’re just a number—like we’re nobodies,” Dale Richardson, an employee in Bessemer, told Voice of America.
The most ambitious attempt to unionize in Amazon’s 26-year history has been widely endorsed, including by Senator Marco Rubio.
The most ambitious attempt to unionize in Amazon’s 26-year history has been widely endorsed, including by Senator Marco Rubio. And it could mark the beginning of a new chapter for unions. In 2020, only 10.8 percent of Americans belonged to a union, compared with one-third 50 years ago. “The Alabama vote is exciting because it shows no company is untouchable, which people thought Walmart and Amazon were,” J. D. Wilson, a United Steelworkers representative based in West Virginia, told me. “People don’t just need jobs,” Mr. Wilson added. “They need good-paying jobs.”
Amazon belongs at the center of the conversation because Jeff Bezos’ $1.6 trillion company has wired itself into almost every part of the U.S. economy. Its workforce of 1.3 million, second only to Walmart, includes over 500,000 individuals sorting, picking and packing in 800 warehouses across the country. It is the new U.S. Steel, General Motors and Pennsylvania Railroad wrapped into one smiling face-stamped truck delivering your emergency toilet paper.
And during the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become even more dominant. Amazon added $9.7 billion in profit to its bottom line in 2020, as it persuaded a nation of its virtuous utility. In the war against Covid, “Amazon was our troop carrier,” Alec MacGillis writes in his new book Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, which chronicles how Amazon thrives by dividing America into rich places, where it finds office staff, programmers and its best customers, and poor communities, who sort and deliver.
Workers on the Margins
The new labor movement seeks a better life for the people like Courtenay Brown. The 30-year-old works at an Amazon Fresh warehouse in northern New Jersey that delivers food to New Yorkers. There are millions of people like Ms. Brown, working silently on the margins of winner-take-all cities, delivering apples, soda, phone chargers and thousands of other essentials to white-collar workers. Because this one-click prosperity is not easily available to people like her, “the American Dream is like a magic trick to me,” she said.
Joining a union would give Ms. Brown and others the right to bargain collectively for better pay, protection against arbitrary dismissal and a more humane work environment. Workers at companies with a strong union presence, like U.S. Steel, can make over $100,000 a year with overtime. But a broad pay hike would cut into Amazon’s jaw-dropping profits, which is why the company has aggressively pressed workers to resist unionization—by firing or furloughing workers who promote unions and publicizing a website that tells workers to “be a DOER, stay friendly and get things done versus paying dues.”
Joining a union would give workers the right to bargain collectively for better pay, protection against arbitrary dismissal and a more humane work environment.
At Amazon, the issue is not just compensation. The company has instituted a $15-an-hour starting wage. The problem is a dehumanizing work culture that includes tracking bathroom breaks during 11-hour shifts, pitting workers against each other as they sort and pick through hundreds of items an hour and dismissing workers for minor insubordination. And it is dangerous. The injury rate at 23 Amazon warehouses that were studied was double the national average for the warehousing industry. Amazon did not return a request for comment for this story.
For Ms. Brown, a veteran without a college degree who started at around $13 and now makes around $19 an hour, “I feel like it’s a con because you’re told to want all these things, like college, but they’re all too expensive for people like me.”
That “con” stands in deep tension with Catholic social teaching, which insists that every person be able to afford to participate fully in society. A living wage and support for unions are also core to Catholic social teaching, which emphasizes the dignity of every worker and is inspired by the story of God coming to dwell in a working-class refugee family. “There is no good society without a good union,” said Pope Francis in a speech to labor leaders in 2017.
‘Communities in the Workplace’
Almost two-thirds of Americans approve of unions, including President Joe Biden, who draws his philosophical inspiration from Catholic social teaching. “Unions lift up workers, both union and non-union, and especially Black and brown workers,” said President Biden, who is the most pro-union president since F.D.R., according to every historian I interviewed.
In the landmark 1891 papal encyclical “Rerum Novarum,” Pope Leo XIII wrote that it is “a ‘natural impulse’ for human beings to form communities in the workplace so that they can pursue their God-given purpose together with others.” He also “correctly saw unions as necessary for protecting the dignity and rights of workers and their families given that capitalists, who hold an imbalance of power over workers, often do not give workers their just due,” Gerald Beyer, a professor of Christian ethics at Villanova University, wrote in an email interview.
In “Rerum Novarum,” Pope Leo XIII wrote that it is “a ‘natural impulse’ for human beings to form communities in the workplace.”
To be sure, unions are not perfect. They collect pools of money that can tempt leaders to embezzle. They make it harder for companies to stop and restart plants, and trickier to fire an incompetent worker. And unions are not the only way to protect workers. In Europe, strict labor laws are also effective.
But overall, unions are one of the best ways to push back against the capitalist imperative of maximizing profits at the expense of people, especially when the balance between capital and labor has fallen out of whack. From 1973 to 2016, productivity per worker-hour rose six times faster than compensation per hour, according to Beaten Down, Worked Up, Steven Greenhouse’s history of the labor movement. The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is 37 percent lower than its 1968 level, given inflation. Chief executives of the 350 largest corporations make 320 times the pay of the average private-sector worker, up from 21 times in 1965. Not coincidentally, “We have the weakest unionized labor force in the industrialized world,” Mr. Greenhouse told me.
When Unions Lost Their Mojo
That was not the case in the middle of the 20th century, when unions commanded the allegiance of millions and attracted national attention with frequent strikes. They showed up in the music of singers like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson, movies like “On the Waterfront” and Broadway hits like “The Pajama Game.”
But in the 1970s, unions lost their mojo. American industry had reigned supreme for decades, so the U.S. government saw no problem letting in foreign imports with low tariffs. Germany shipped Volkswagens, Japan sent Toyotas and Sonys, and the whole world, it seemed, sent steel to the U.S. market. Struggling U.S. manufacturers fell like dominos, taking unions with them.
Over the course of the 1980s, the number of steelworkers fell to 170,000 from 450,000. And the Reagan administration, which famously defeated a strike by the air traffic controllers union, championed bosses over workers.
In the age of weakened unions, companies fled to so-called right-to-work states, which allowed workers to opt out of joining and paying union dues.
Struggling to survive, unions narrowed their focus on preserving wages and work conditions for their members, stepping away from their role as political bloc on par with the media, the business community, and the government.
In the age of weakened unions, companies fled to so-called right-to-work states like Alabama, which allowed workers to opt out of joining and paying union dues. Reality TV helped undercut actors’ unions in Hollywood. Temp agencies morphed into billion-dollar companies. The Uber-led gig economy exploded. In the new postindustrial economy, dominated by companies like Walmart, Amazon and McDonald’s, unions were a nuisance to be avoided. Public-sector unions have fared better. Their unionization rate is 34.8 percent, compared with 6.3 percent for the private sector.
That is the world that Courtenay Brown and her two sisters grew up in. Children of a Jamaican mother and a Black American father in Brooklyn, they first found work at Macy’s and Home Depot. In the end, they gravitated to the new kid on the block, Amazon. For a while, all three were employed there at the same time. Courtenay now works from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., directing traffic on the loading dock. Like many at Amazon, she does not have a car. The commute takes half an hour, so she works her first hour to work off the carfare.
An Unseen Power
Ironically, Amazon workers have more leverage than they realize, because they operate key structural nodes. Like coal miners and steelworkers in the middle of the 20th century, they can disrupt American life. Ms. Brown, after all, helps feed New York City. In places like the Inland Empire, the warehouse center east of Los Angeles that processes goods coming from China across the Pacific for the rest of the country, workers “have tremendous power to impose demands on federal government and the state,” said Erik Loomis, author of A History of America in Ten Strikes. “It was unions using that leverage who helped build the American Dream.”
‘People across society recognize that it’s absurd to work full-time and be poor. That’s a bad economy that’s not working.’
The Amazon push has boosted the movement Fight for $15, which was launched after the 2008 financial crisis inspired sporadic strikes and protests, and later buoyed Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns. Although the Biden administration has failed to raise the federal minimum wage to $15, it has made it mandatory for federal contractors.
What is inspiring about the current struggle, said Christine Firer Hinze, chair of the theology department at Fordham, is that it carries “a spirit of solidarity” that hearkens back to pre–World War II labor movements that swept society. As unions evolved, they focused more intensely on their own workers and companies and less on society as a whole. But that is changing back “because people across society recognize that it’s absurd to work full-time and be poor,” said Dr. Hinze. “That’s a bad economy that’s not working.”
Amazon has based its business strategy on the inequality baked into our economy, carving the country into rich markets like Seattle, New York and Washington, D.C., where its best customers and white-collar workers live, and more rural places, especially in the Rust Belt, where it is easy to find people willing to work for $15 an hour.
The problem of inequality is often cast as an economic demand problem. In the 1950s, when a Ford auto executive was giving United Automobile Workers president Walter Reuther a tour, the Ford man pointed to new robotic machines. “How are you going to collect union dues from these guys?” he asked. Mr. Reuther responded, “How are you going to get them to buy Fords?”
It is also a moral problem. Amazon has penetrated the lives of many more people than Ford ever did. (Literally: The company has sold over 100 million of its Alexa home robot companions.) And, unlike Ford, it does not have to wonder if we will keep buying what it is selling. It has become part of the fabric of our lives, even if we have no idea what life is like for the people who deliver the MacBook, the Monopoly game and the macaroni to our door.
Telling us, and standing up for those workers, might be something only a union can do.
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Los Andes Copper Ltd (CVE:LA) (OTCMKTS:LSANF) (FRA:L41A) told investors Wednesday that refining the potential processing method at its flagship Vizcachitas project in Chile could improve recoveries of copper and molybdenum.
Further metallurgical work on the ore from the project has shown that altering the flotation conditions could improve recovery of both metals.
READ: Los Andes Copper advancing flagship Vizcachitas project, which is set to be Chile's next copper mine
In 2019, a sample from the upper zone of the orebody was sent to the lab for a rougher flotation assessment, and showed copper and moly recoveries, compared to the preliminary economic assessment (PEA) formula, were improved by 3% and 6% respectively, the firm noted.
"The ongoing PFS metallurgical test work in 2020 has confirmed these improvements," it added.
"A new composite sample from the first 12 years of the mine plan was tested using both the PEA and PFS flotation formulas. The PFS formula shows an improved rougher recovery of 2.8% for copper and 7.8% for molybdenum over the PEA formulas." The improvement was achieved by decreasing pH, lowering the solids percentage of the slurry and adding a stronger frother.
Executive chairman of the copper mine developer Fernando Porcile added that the test work had further enhanced "the project economics of an already robust project".
He added that the ongoing pre-feasibility study for the asset had already also confirmed the use of high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) technology (as opposed to SAG or ball mills) and validated the use of dry-stacked tailings.
"These technologies put the Vizcachitas project at the forefront of the environmentally responsible practices being adopted for the future of sustainable mining globally," he said.
The Vizcachitas copper-molybdenum porphyry project in Chile is set to become the country's next copper mine. It has good infrastructure links and already hosts a measured and indicated resources of 11.2 billion pounds of copper, 400 million pounds of molybdenum and 43.3 million ounces of silver.
The project is currently at pre-feasibility stage (PFS) after a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) in 2019 showed the project's compelling economics.
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Dr. Frank Turner is a Senior Research Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He also supports the DARPA Tactical Technology Office.
Dr. Turner provides a broad technical and programmatic background to the Institute, with experience in the physics of high energy laser systems and nuclear weapons effects, systems engineering and integration, and both developmental and operational test and evaluation. He comes to the Institute from the Northrop Grumman Corporation where he held increasingly responsible positions in technology and business development.
He began his career in the United States Air Force, specializing in research, development, test, evaluation and acquisition. He served as a Research Program Manager, Underground Nuclear Weapons Effects Test Technical Director and was responsible for all Air Force related testing associated with ballistic missile defense. Upon leaving military service, he joined industry and worked on both classified and unclassified satellite remote sensing architecture and development programs. Prior to joining Northrop Grumman, he was at SRI International where he pursued the United States Antarctic Program with the National Science Foundation and management and operations of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory with the Department of Energy.
Dr. Turner holds Biology and Physics degrees from Georgia Tech. He received his Master of Science degree in Lasers and Electro-optics from the Air Force Institute of Technology and his MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix. He completed his doctoral work in systems engineering at Pacific University, devising a test and evaluation methodology at the system of systems level. He is a member of the Air Force Association, National Defense Industrial Association, Association of Old Crows, and Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association.


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“I transform an image into an hourglass, where reality is mixed with emotions” stated Italian landscape photographer Francesco Gola in an interview with Hahnemühle about his long-term exposure photography. The emotions in the viewer triggers an excellent print on his favourite Hahnemühle paper Francesco Gola is convinced. Read here what paper he favoured and why.
Since I was young I had a great interest in photography, but it’s only from ten years now that I can consider me a really passionate, that is when I bought my first DSLR camera with my first paycheck! It was like if someone gave to me the keys to the whole world!
How did you come to the world of landscape photography?
When you buy your first camera you start taking pictures of everything, because it’s like being a child who sees the world for the first time. The more time passed, however, more I realised to be incredibly fascinated by the wonderful landscapes in which I loved to wander in my leisure time. In the nature I found the peace I was looking for, and photography allowed me to transform my emotions into images.
Which of your projects/motifs opened the door to the art market/professional market?
Among landscapes, I’m sure that seascapes allowed to express myself at best. I was lucky too, because for three years I had the chance to live in the wonderful Gulf of Poets, near the town of La Spezia, in Italy. Here I had the possibility to train constantly improving my skills. After some time I got the first contact with some big companies, and they literally opened to me the doors of of professional market.
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At the beginning of my photographic activity I was inspired by those that are considered the sacred monsters of photography, like Steve McCurry or Sebastiao Salgado, but to be honest I found the true inspiration attending the online photographic communities.
So I fell in love with the travel photography of Elia Locardi, the perfect light control of Dimitry Ageev, the incredible black and white world of Nathan Wirth, the maniacal study of the geometry of Joel Tjintjelaar…and I could go on for hours.
I found my world in seascapes, and in long exposures my style. I love this technique, because working with long exposures I realised that you don’t freeze just a moment, but an entire period of time. You can transform your picture in an hourglass, where the reality is mixed with emotions.
What is most challenging about shooting landscape photography?
I believe that the most challenging aspect of landscape photography is that you have to live together the idea that you cannot control everything. You can have the perfect gears, you can plan every detail of your trip, you can find the perfect composition, but you’ll never be able to control weather condition or, in other words, the light. For a great shoot, everything has to be perfect. Unfortunately photo shoots don’t always turn out fine all the time. Indeed, they are definitely more times that it goes wrong, but it’s the nature of the beast, and it’s ok. At the end the most important thing is to enjoy the moment and the nature that surrounds us.
How important is the printed presentation of your works of art?
As I’m a “digital native”, when I started with photography I have not even considered the possibility to print a picture. After I had the possibility to look at some high end printed pictures, I reconsidered my position as I understood the incredible potential of prints: a new world’s door was opened to me! Today I’m no more able to think about an image if not in the printed version, because prints in my opinion are literally the third dimension of photography. For the images up to A3+, I print them by myself. For bigger sizes I rely exclusively on Hahnemühle certified laboratories.
It was not so easy to find what now I consider the perfect paper, but thanks to the incredibly useful sample books and some tests, I fell in love with the amazing Photo Rag® Ultra Smooth. I believe that’s the perfect choice for long exposure images: the matt effect, the absence of textures and the deep of blacks are perfectly balanced to create that three dimensionality I told you before. As soon as you try this paper you can’t live without it!
Do you have a dream project you would like to realise sometime?
I have a lot of projects, and even more dreams! Among them one day or another I would really love to be able to set up a personal exhibition in an renowned location, maybe signing for the visitors my pictures on my favourite paper… Yes, fortunately dreaming is still free!
In this moment I’m planning some new photographic trips that will bring me across the north of Europe in the next few months, I really hope to capture new lovely seascapes there! But between booking an airline ticket and another, why not to print some other image?

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Discussions with Devotees and Conversation with Dr. Ghosh , Vṛndāvana , 1977-06-01
Prabhupāda: So our temple is also.
Yaśodānandana: Yes, that is very good.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: In future I think that we can invite scholars even from the West, just like from the United States. Sometimes they have these departments called...
Prabhupāda: We have brain. We are not afraid of anything...
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Jaya.
Prabhupāda: ...that we are preaching something which not is acceptable by scientists or philosophers. He must have to accept.
Bhavānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda, Bhakti-prema Mahārāja is not here now. He's gone out.
Yaśodānandana: There was a discussion today that in some time, after this preaching to the scientists starts, if we get exposed, it will be a very, very big world news item, especially with jagat theory of the universe, to explain how all the planets are exactly together, how life comes from life. It will be a very shocking news to the whole scientific world. They have so many misconceptions which are simply due to ignorance.
Prabhupāda: They are simply making false propaganda to keep their prestige. Useless. Now here is a scientist. He'll confirm it. What do you think?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Er... I think it's going to be very interesting. We are very prepared for it, and it will be a very challenging, challenging field, if all the scientists and all over...
Prabhupāda: We have got some background. They have no background.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, we have Bhagavad-gītā and Prabhupāda, Kṛṣṇa. So we are very prominent.
Prabhupāda: But they have no background. They are simply speculating. In the first place they have no background. Child. Doesn't know what... Do you think they are knowing?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: I saw just little hint. I met an Indian physicist in Emory University. He's quite well known physicist, and he actually liked the idea that we wrote on. He said it's very genuine and very scientific. We have developed this the laws of consciousness from tying ātmā and Paramātmā. The Paramātmā, we say, is the source of all these laws of nature.
Prabhupāda: That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. Mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca [Bg. 15.15]. Jaya. [Bengali] Or if you like, you can travel with him, but your translation must be main work. If you like, you can go to the foreign countries along with him. [Bengali] So that program you planned, he can come.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes. I suggested to Dr. Sharma that first of all we hold that conference in Vṛndāvana and come here. So we can announce some nice topics, so he can also speak. And we can invite some scholars. They can also speak. We can have open discussion, exchange of ideas and philosophy, so that we expose Kṛṣṇa consciousness on this scale. So Prabhupāda wants that Bhaktivedanta Institute is also here in Vṛndāvana along with the Bhaktivedanta Gurukula, an institute for higher studies, and there be one office in the new gurukula building so that...
Prabhupāda: No, I request you all that you keep this building always busy with some conference, with some meeting, with some... It shouldn't remain vacant. And for expenditure, I shall arrange. There is no want.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: And we'll try to attract more Ph.D.s.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: As soon as we go out and preach, I think we can get...
Prabhupāda: [Bengali] You are all qualified. I can give you ideas. Now I am doing. So I wanted to see that you are all busy. That I want. Because now I am becoming invalid. I cannot move very swiftly here and there. But if you move, I take pleasure. There is a Bengali proverb, na pajimane na jamai datta[?]. A old lady, so she has lost her husband. She cannot joke. [chuckles] Husband, wife, they exchange some joking word. So with whom she will joke? Then the grandson-in-law, grandson... So in our society, Bengal, the grandson-in-law... I have got experience also. When I was newly married grandson-in-law, so my grandmother-in-law was joking with me like anything, more than husband. [laughter] And granddaughter-in-law. So we sit down and she talks very openly everything. We remember that. Because she was enjoying. By talking like that, free, with granddaughter and grandson-in-law, she was enjoying. And we were also enjoying. So my position is like that. I cannot move now very swiftly here and there, becoming invalid. So if I see that you are doing these things, that will give me pleasure. Yes. Granddaughter-in-law.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: I also found that in Boston, the Indian communities, they are very interested in this program.
Prabhupāda: Must be. Everyone should be. This is the genuine program. So [Bengali], talk and make program. [Bengali]
Dr. Sharma: That is disease. It has become now plague. [indistinct] on the street.
Prabhupāda: Yes. So both of you are very intelligent boys. I want to see that you are always busy in these affairs. [Bengali] Bhaktivedanta Gurukula and Institute for Higher Studies. [Bengali] I want to see that you are always busy. Busy-ness. That will give me pleasure. Laziness I don't want. Personally I was never lazy. I did not like laziness.
Dr. Sharma: [Bengali] We create in our mind problems.
Prabhupāda: Because sometimes I become morose that I became lazy, so therefore, if I see you busy, this moroseness will reduce. When I see that you are working and the whole thing is busy, oh, that gives me pleasure. Yes
Svarūpa Dāmodara: We're also thinking of writing some books for children, for gurukula.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: For the Bhaktivedanta Institute.
Prabhupāda: Write. That's a very good idea. [Bengali] This is real life. You are all qualified to do this. Idaṁ hi puṁsas tapasaḥ śrutasya vā [SB 1.5.22]. [Bengali]
Yaśodānandana: Śrīla Prabhupāda, this morning, as soon as the children heard that this name was going to be changed and it was going to be that, many of them became eager = "How I can be trained also to know these things?" The children are already very eager to understand all these...
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.
Yaśodānandana: ...the scientific approach.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. [Bengali]
Dr. Sharma: Plus it should be nice.
Prabhupāda: It is already.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: I'm going to have to look tomorrow and...
Prabhupāda: Hmm. You can see, both, and select which room for which quarter. Big, big room... [Bengali]
Dr. Sharma: That [indistinct], he's very nice. [indistinct]
Prabhupāda: He is very intelligent.
Dr. Sharma: [indistinct]
Prabhupāda: He's organizing this, that Poland, communist country. He has accepted hard knock. And knocking. [Bengali]
Bhavānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda, would you like to go upstairs now? Would you like to go up to the roof now?
Prabhupāda: I have no objection. [Bengali] You are all able.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: [aside:] Yeah, tomorrow I'll go and see everything.
Prabhupāda: [Bengali conversation] So? No, I shall go. Utsāhād dhairyāt tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt, sato vṛtteḥ sādhu..., ṣaḍbhir bhaktiḥ prasidhyati. [break]
Ādi-keśava: In your Bhagavad-gītā you explain that to the materialist, he is subject to fear, anger and attachment.
Ādi-keśava: So when someone becomes angry, that anger is frustration due to the fact that he experiences so many frustrations in the material world, and therefore he calls it void. He says, "Rather than experience the difficulties inherent in the temporality of the material world, instead he calls it void and says that it does not exist." Because it is causing so much distress because he cannot become satisfied in material existence, then he says...
Prabhupāda: Whether it has got any value? Whether such statement has any value?
Harikeśa: Whether such statement has any value?
Ādi-keśava: To say that it has no existence, that it is all void?
Prabhupāda: One, you... Talk on this point. Just like a small animal, rabbit. When he's attacked, he closes the eyes. He thinks, "There is nothing." Now he is devoured. So it is like that. He cannot adjust things, and "That is zero, bās." But that's not the fact. Hmm? Simply by closing your eyes you want to avoid danger? Discuss on this.
Bhakti-prema: When we generalize our senses inwards, it becomes inert. When we go beyond body and senses it becomes inert. But we have to penetrate deep into that state of consciousness, and it can be possible only through Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Prabhupāda: Svarūpa Dāmodara? You also.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: When the goal and the meaning of life is not understood, then people take it as void. So that means life is full of meaning and full of purpose, and it is also a goal, but when that meaning is not understood... That is actually the scientific philosophy, that it is all void because there is no meaning and there is no purpose. That is what the... Especially in the Western scientists, that is the current thought, that, the complete material philosophy. But when one changes that concept by developing proper consciousness, it just becomes the opposite. That means life is full of...
Prabhupāda: [aside:] Give me... What fruit you have?
Kīrtanānanda: Orange. Orange.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: When this philosophy is reversed, then life becomes full of meaning and full of purpose. Actually that is a fact. We give value to life. That's why we go to the..., we send our children for higher studies and we develop so many political and social and ethical and moral problems. That means there is purpose in life. So life is not void. But somehow, when one misses that point, he just comes to that point. But that's not a fact. So it has to be understood that there is..., life is full of meaning and full of purpose, and there is a goal behind it. That purpose is to develop spiritual consciousness, to develop the science of ātmā called ātma-jñāna, the science of the self, and becomes... Life becomes meaningful.
Prabhupāda: That is the statement in Bhāgavata = apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām [SB 2.1.2]. Gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām, they dismiss the case because apaśyatām ātma-tattvam. Just like thieves = "Eh! What is government? What is government? Let us enjoy." That's not the fact. So we have to put all these questions before learned scholars and ask them to make a solution. [Bengali] Why zero?
Harikeśa: In other words, no matter what they come up with, what ideas they come up with, what knowledge they have, it's of no value because it doesn't...
Prabhupāda: Their knowledge has no value. That is our first charge.
Harikeśa: It has no value because it doesn't do anything of any value...
Prabhupāda: There is no conclusion. Zero. Zero? For zero why there are so many varieties? Wherefrom the varieties came?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: We can show that their thinking is wrong completely.
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is the fact.
Harikeśa: And that all their speculations simply end up in their own death. And at that point they have no idea what will happen next. But they have to take another body. Although they may try to say...
Prabhupāda: They are taking. That example is already there. He finishes his childhood; he accepts boyhood. Why he has left childhood? Finish childhood. Finish. That's all. Why again bother?
Harikeśa: Force of time.
Prabhupāda: That means he is under the control of something higher, but he refutes, tries to avoid it. That cannot be avoided. A child must become a boy. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ [Bg. 2.13].
Harikeśa: But the worst thing is that not only are they causing themselves trouble, but they cause it upon everyone else.
Prabhupāda: That is natural. Causing everyone else means the same group. Andhā yathāndhaiḥ. One who is blind, he can be cheated by another blind man. But one who is not blind, if the blind man wants to cheat him, that "I can help you crossing the room," he will laugh, that "This rascal is blind, and he has offered me to help me." We take this, that if a person is... We know that he is defective, his knowledge is imperfect, what knowledge he will give? Immediately reject him.
Harikeśa: He can give us knowledge on how to accelerate death.
Harikeśa: He can give good knowledge on how to accelerate death.
Prabhupāda: That is natural. There is no question of his accelerating. It is already going on in this world. [pause] So many things we have to discuss. Is it not? People are in darkness in so many ways. Therefore we have to take the standard knowledge.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Always comes to the...
Prabhupāda: [aside:] Little cold water. And our mission is to deliver them by giving knowledge. Āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra' ei deśa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. Our mission is not to keep men in darkness. Otherwise, "Let them go to hell, śūnyavādi. We don't..." No. They should not remain in that way. They should come to the real light. This is our policy. [pause]
Bhakti-caru: Śrīla Prabhupāda? Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja [Bengali]. [offers obeisances and leaves]
Harikeśa: When we finish this description, our understanding of this description of the universe, and present it to the scientists and to the world, people will become astounded. [aside = huh?]
Prabhupāda: Yes. [break] [loud fan noise---indistinct] What is that jīva-bhūta? They are living entities. What is that jīva-bhūta? Jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bā... Yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat. Without that these jīva-bhūta, these material elements are developed? Where is that? Find out this verse.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: In Gītā?
Prabhupāda: Read it.
prakṛtiṁ viddhi me parām
yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat
"Besides this inferior energy, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is a superior energy of Mine, which are all living entities, who are struggling with material nature and are sustaining the universe." Purport?
Jagadīśa: "Here it is clearly mentioned that living entities belong to the superior nature [or energy] of the Supreme Lord. The inferior energy is matter manifested in different elements, namely earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego. Both forms of material nature, namely gross [earth, etc.] and subtle [mind, etc.], are products of the inferior energy. The living entities, who are exploiting these inferior energies for different purposes, are the superior energy of the Supreme Lord, and it is due to this energy that the entire material world functions. The cosmic manifestation has no power to act unless it is moved by the superior energy, the living entity. Energies are always controlled by the energetic, and therefore living entities are always controlled by the Lord---they have no independent existence. They are never equally powerful, as unintelligent men think. The distinction between the living entities and the Lord is described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as follows [10.87.30]:
tarhiṁ na śāsyateti niyamo dhruva netarathā
ajani ca yanmayaṁ tad ... [break]
Dr. Ghosh: [Bengali]
Prabhupāda: [Bengali] Begin. [Bengali conversation] [break] [indistinct] What is that?
Bhavānanda: Fruit juice and sabjī, so much of...
Dr. Ghosh: But you'll get your pomegranates? I'll get it.
Bhakti-caru: [Bengali] [Bengali conversation]
Dr. Ghosh: How you'll take care of him?
Upendra: Massage. He's cooking.
Prabhupāda: [Bengali] [Bengali conversation] We have got black cows.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We have black cows.
Dr. Ghosh: [Bengali] [Bengali conversation] I have got my own honey. [Bengali conversation] I'm sorry, he won't [indistinct].
Bhavānanda: Little bit.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Very little.
Dr. Ghosh: [Bengali]
Prabhupāda: He said there is no fear. Everything is [indistinct].
Dr. Ghosh: Tomorrow morning [indistinct] I want, to get him into [indistinct] doctor... [break] [end]

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Delegates also heard from Professor Declan O’Regan (Imperial College London), who spoke of future precision phenotyping and risk prediction in cardiomyopathy, and the added value that machine learning can bring to every stage of cardiovascular imaging. ‘That starts from the point of image acquisition and reconstruction, to image enhancement like super resolution, to labelling images, and also identifying pathology and new imaging biomarkers of disease, such as the concept of radiomics, and also moving beyond conventional diagnosis towards prediction tasks, which really drives management decisions in the clinic.’ O’Regan covered three main topics – how computational imaging can be useful in cardiovascular medicine, ranging from integrating data, and bringing imaging and non-imaging data together; using AI and imaging for discovery science and understanding new mechanisms of heart disease; and for early diagnosis and risk prediction.
Finally, on the vexing issue of overload, Professor Tim Chico (University of Sheffield), questioned and suggested how to cope with the amount of data being generated a in his presentation ‘A cardiovascular digital twin; the brain assist device we need to make sense of data overload?’
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