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Desiring to grow things is surely in humans' DNA, planted at least 10,000 years ago in our genetic code, not as old as the impulse to gather wild food, but tenured. As a boy and young man haunted by the loss of our family farm, I devoured back-to-the-land literature for years; then I farmed commercially for over a decade; and I'm now up to my eyeballs in writing my own memoir of rural life. Almost burned out on the genre as a reader, and fairly post-agrarian as a recent suburbanite, I wouldn't have looked twice at Jim Minick's memoir The Blueberry Years if Brevity hadn't asked me to review it. I'm so glad.
The book is interesting, well done, and was helpful to my own work. Whereas I used to read farm memoirs to fuel my farming fantasies, The Blueberry Years inspired me as a writer who is trying to tell a similar story. Minick shows a young couple throw themselves earnestly and joyfully at organic farming. Their pick-your-own blueberry farm became a thriving exemplar of eco- and human-friendly family farming. It wasn't their fault that America has a cheap food policy. This makes "farming the system" of federal ag subsidies mandatory for almost all farms—about half of farm income in America comes indirectly from taxes through the government—but the Minicks went their own way.
Minick is honest about how almost impossible it is in farming on a small scale to do more than break even; that admission in itself struck me as rare. And admitting the financial failure of a cherished romantic dream—one successful in many ways, including as a way of life—isn't easy. Second, he struggles manfully to address the inexplicable: then why did you do it, and why did you stop? I admired that he tried to answer these questions, even if doing so must have been vexing at some level. And even if his reasons escape logic because the impulse to farm, by anyone with other options, is seldom logical.
A teacher of writing and literature at Radford University in Virginia, Minick and his wife, Sarah, now live on another farm where they garden, hike, and work in the woods. He's the author of a collection of essays, Finding a Clear Path, and two books of poetry, Her Secret Song and Burning Heaven. According to his web site, he's at work on a novel about fire, healing, and Pennsylvania Dutch folklore.
As a fellow ex-farmer and a current memoirist, I emailed Jim Minick some questions, below, followed by his replies.
The structure of the book is interesting. Your story opens with the arrival of your 1,000 potted blueberry bushes, then you go back to show the hard work that had to happen— of clearing an overgrown field—before the overwhelming job of planting them. In a note you also acknowledge that you compressed about a dozen years into a round decade for the purposes of storytelling. Could you discuss the reasons for such major structural decisions?
Poet, essayist, memoirist
It took me several years of trying to write The Blueberry Years before I found the "leading edge"…that place where I wanted the reader to experience the whole story with Sarah and me as we chased this blueberry dream. That edge, I finally realized, was when the blueberry bushes arrived on April 1, 1995—a fitting day. So, I started there, then had a whole big chunk of the story that happened before this moment still to tell. I kept that part in past tense, and the rest in present, but then I still had the problem of too much time. How do you make a story that covers over a dozen years readable? For me, it was to compress these years, combine them into just a few, but to also be honest with the reader about this compression up front.
I was struck by how scenic your memoir is. You employ expository sidebars about blueberry history and culture, but the book's heart is watching you and Sarah in action—clearing, planting, mulching, managing pickers. You're a poet, and your love of language shows, as in your evocative prologue on the blueberry pickers. But was your dramatic, cinematic writing here natural, or a skill you had to learn or develop for this book?
One of the hardest, most important skills I learned in writing The Blueberry Years was how to make the whole of it have a strong dramatic arc. I had written three other books, one a collection of essays, and two poetry, but none of these three required me to figure out how to tell a story over a 300-400 page span. All writers are gods playing with time on many levels. As a poet, I learned to play with time (and image/metaphor) on the micro-level—with each word and sentence. And now, with this memoir (and a novel I'm currently working on), I've learned (and am learning) how to play with time on the macro-level…how to weave all the many scenes into a coherent, richly layered, whole.
You write frankly about your feeling of exile in the country and about your failed attempts to join a larger community in rural churches and other venues. Your relationship with your close neighbor, Joe, a know-it-all conventional farmer, is both prickly and affectionate, and one of the book's most appealing threads, as are the picker portraits. What were some issues you faced in presenting yourself, temper and all, as a character? Did you have any concerns about portraying the customers and other civilians who walk through the book's pages?
One of my favorite essays is Edward Hoagland's "The Courage of Turtles." At the end of it, he portrays himself in an unfavorable way, and by doing so, he magnifies both our human ineptitude and the turtle's amazing courage. So, I took that as a model. Also, for me, the truly great memoirs strive to understand that individual writer's past, the personal history as it intersects with others' personal histories. So for me to shy away from the issues of community and loneliness seemed dishonest to myself and the reader. I wanted to understand why I have this pull for the company of others while also having this desire for lots and lots of solitude.
In The Blueberry Years, I write about Thoreau a few times, mainly because I love his work, even if curmudgeonly, and also because he loved blueberries. But a friend had this interesting observation after reading my memoir: he said that Thoreau often wrote about solitude while he went into town for dinner every day, while I often write about searching for community, while I go for a solo hike into the woods every day. And he's probably right. So, if any memoirist can identify these central conflicts, pull them out and analyze them in an artful way, I think the world is a better place.
Portraying other people is always tricky, even if you like them and try to capture them in a positive light. My editor suggested changing all the names, so this I did, and now I have readers asking if so-and-so in the book is so-and-so in real life. And even the neighbors or pickers who treated us poorly had redeeming qualities, if you look hard enough (sometimes it takes a flashlight and a magnifying glass!). Even your villains, in fiction or nonfiction, have to be loved, so I try to make that understanding undergird all of my work.
How long did The Blueberry Years take you to write, and what were the key writing lessons it taught you?
Roughly 8 years, off and on, with my three other books coming into existence in that time period, and years of full-time work as well.
A. Playing with time (what I said above).
B. Persistence (just keeping at this project—writing regularly for sanity's sake).
C. And More Persistence (the book was rejected by umpteen agents. When it finally found one, it was still rejected by umpteen more editors before finally finding a home at Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's.).
D. Gratitude. None of us are here without the communities of families, friends, teachers, other writers, and readers who support us. And Sarah, my wife, put up with a helluvalot both in the field as we chased our blueberry dream, and now, in the world, as people read about her in The Blueberry Years. I'm lucky to call her my best friend.
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Scribbly Jane says:
What a helpful and honest interview. I'm in the midst of the struggle — figuring out the structure of my memoir. I think I've finally landed on the theme: money vs. values and how it played out in our journey from the US to Australia and back again, but it has taken so much time! I'm going to take Minick's lessons to heart, particularly letter C. Thanks Richard.
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Jerry Waxler says:
Fantastic interview. Thanks for this. I too struggle with all these issues of how long should a memoir be. Is it really true that we can't tell good stories that span a dozen years? I'm trying to decide if that is some sort of dogma that snuck into publishing circles. I explore my own response to stories and agree I don't like movies that cover too much time, but books are different. Books luxuriate in the passage of time, during which I feel the gradual transformation of the protagonist. Life is like that too. The evolution of character takes time. Most, perhaps all Coming of Age memoirs cover a decade or more. Frank McCourt's "Teacher Man" (one of my favorite) covered his whole career. John Robison's "Look Me in the Eye" and Andre Dubus III's "Townie" cover practically a whole life time. When I honestly explore my feelings as a reader, I am fine with an extended period, and I wonder if I'm the only one.
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Q: Does each thread run it's own interpreter loop?(CPython) When we run one thread application it's looks easy. CPython interpreter run one by one bytecode instruction and execute it immediately. But if we start another thread from the first one does it have its own loop consuming bytecode and they share some common memory for synchronization(GIL, etc) or somehow loop from first(main) thread delegate instructions for second? Thing I can't figure out how second thread gets instructions what it need to execute if need to be constantly interpreted.
  I understand that it won't run in parallel because of GIL, but question about interpreting instructions, does it happens in both threads?
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in which thread print(value) will be interpreted(main or child)?

A: I think reading CPython code will be helpful.
You will find all details required in ceval.c
I am pretty new to CPython as well. I will try to share my understanding.

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*main loop (run forever or python interpretation loop start at line 1184, for(;;)

*you could try dis module and understand how python code is converted into bytecode

*interpreter will take byte code and execute one by one

*how thread switches? line 1233-1250, threads switch

You could imagine that once you call threading.Thread, bytecode for creation of thread object and its target function will be added to current instruction list.
When interpreter handle this bytecode, it will notice that a new thread is created(this step I am not really sure. You could check ceval.py and threading module to verify).
Now you have two list of bytecode for python interpreter to consume.
It will take turns according to its own rules (i.e. per thread per 100 instructions then decide whether to switch, special signal handling or others)
Hope it answers your doubts.
Seeking deep understanding and not taking anything for granted is great!
Hope you could have good time exploring cpython.

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### This is still a work in progress
Axonode is an open-source keylogger written in C++ to display the posibilities of what can be done with the language. The keylogger is for Windows systems only.

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## Installation

TODO: Describe the installation process

## Usage

TODO: Write usage instructions

## Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: `git checkout -b my-new-feature`
3. Commit your changes: `git commit -am 'Add some feature'`
4. Push to the branch: `git push origin my-new-feature`
5. Submit a pull request :D

## History

TODO: Write history

## License

See LICENSE file in the repo. MIT License.

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Mars 2 Mission to Launch in 2018, Says Isro
Mars-2 Mission to Launch in 2018, Says Isro
By Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: 30 October 2014 16:10 IST
Riding on the recent success of its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India plans to revisit the planet in 2018, possibly with a lander and rover to conduct more experiments, a space official said Wednesday.
"We plan to launch a second mission to Mars in 2018, probably with a lander and rover, to conduct more experiments for which we have to develop new technologies," Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) satellite centre director S. Shiva Kumar told reporters in Bangalore.
The state-run space agency successfully inserted its spacecraft (MOM) September 24 in the Martian orbit with five scientific instruments to search for life-sustaining elements on the planet over nine months after it was launched November 5, 2013 from its spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh and about 90 km northeast of Chennai.
"We will be able to take the Mars-2 mission after launching the second mission to the moon (Chandrayaan-2) in 2016 with our own lander and rover, which will help us develop a separate lander and rover for the red planet," Kumar said, ahead of a three-day 'Engineers Conclave-2014' by the space agency with the Indian National Academy of Engineering in Bangalore.
As missions to Mars can be launched only at an interval of two years, the space agency is looking for a slot in 2018 and by which it hopes to have a heavy rocket fully operational to carry a lander and rover with scientific experiments as additional payloads.
"We hope to have fully operational heavy rockets over the next two-three years for carrying communication satellites weighting two-three tonnes into the geo-stationary orbits around the earth," Kumar said.
The space agency has developed the geo-synchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-Mark I-III) with indigenous cryogenic engine to launch heavier satellites weighing more than two tonnes and three tonnes into the geo-orbit at 36,000 km above Earth.
"GSLV-Mark I-III will be used for Chandrayaan-2, which will have heavier payload than its predecessor (Chandrayaan-1) and later for Mars-2 mission, as both will have a lander and rover in addition to scientific experiments," he said.
The space agency launched January 5 a GSLV rocket with an indigenous cryogenic engine from the spaceport and placed a communication satellite (Gsat-14) in the geo-stationary orbit.
Chandrayaan-1 was launched October 22, 2008, using a polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV-C11), a four-stage rocket.
The 475 kg Mars Orbiter was also launched onboard a polar rocket.
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This ensemble (shown above) includes approximately 60 musicians who perform as a full wind symphony and also as smaller chamber wind groups. The Wind Symphony comprises the most outstanding wind and percussion majors in the College of Music and other gifted nonmusic majors who are selected by audition. The group is dedicated to the performance of the finest wind repertoire, regardless of period or disposition of instrumental forces. Using the player pool concept, the ensemble—consisting primarily of graduate and upper-division undergraduate students—performs music ranging from works requiring as few as six players to personnel who form a full wind band. Flexible instrumentation and player rotation provide members of the ensemble with a variety of responsibilities, challenges, and playing experiences.
Symphony Band
An auditioned ensemble of approximately 80 musicians, the Symphony Band consists primarily of upper-division undergraduate music majors and performs a broad range of full ensemble and chamber repertoire, representative of all historical periods and styles. The Symphony Band maintains an active on-campus performance schedule and performs several off-campus clinic concerts. Flexible instrumentation and player rotation provide members of this ensemble with a variety of responsibilities, challenges, and playing experiences.
Concert Band is an auditioned ensemble of approximately 80 musicians, consisting primarily of undergraduate music majors and talented non-majors. This ensemble performs full band and chamber wind literature ranging from traditional to contemporary styles. Flexible instrumentation and player rotation provide members of the ensemble with a variety of responsibilities, challenges, and playing experiences.
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ECB will 'remain alert' to risk of inflation
Headline interest rate on hold for 21st month; Trichet says implementation of Irish bail-out is 'essential'.
By Simon Taylor
February 3, 2011	6:53 am
Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), today said that the bank's interest rate was appropriate, but that "very close monitoring" was warranted.
Trichet was speaking in Frankfurt after the ECB announced that it was keeping its headline interest rate on hold at 1%, the 21st month without a change.
He said that although the annual eurozone inflation rate had risen to 2.4% in January, the ECB was convinced that "price developments will remain in line with price stability". He said that the ECB would "remain alert" to the risk of inflation. "Very close monitoring is warranted," he said.
The ECB's mandate is to maintain annual eurozone inflation at or close to 2% over the medium term. Recent inflation rate rises have increased speculation that the ECB will raise interest rates.
Trichet said that there was "short-term upward pressure on overall inflation" owing to energy and commodity prices. He said that while there might be a "hump" from time to time, what counted was that the bank delivered an inflation rate "in the medium term less than or 2% close to 2%".
"We will continue to do that with great determination without being tied to pre-commitment," he added.
Temporary increases
The ECB president said that the increase in the eurozone inflation rate in January had been "broadly anticipated". Inflation rates could temporarily increase further and were likely to stay at slightly above 2% for most of 2011, he said.
Trichet said that recent data confirmed "the positive underlying momentum of economic activity in the eurozone". Eurozone exports should benefit from the recovery in the world economy, he said, while the high level of business confidence in the eurozone could "provide more support to economic activity" than expected.
Risks for the economy included tensions in some parts of the financial markets, recent increases in oil and other commodity prices, and protectionist measures.
Trichet stressed that governments should "fully implement their fiscal consolidation plans" in 2011 to improve prospects for growth and job creation. He called on countries to carry out "substantial and far-reaching structural reforms", especially those countries that had lost competitiveness or were suffering from high fiscal and external deficits.
He denied that the ECB was putting a stronger emphasis on structural reform measures than before, saying that the bank had been urging eurozone countries to carry out reforms before the economic crisis started.
Asked to comment on a recent halt to the ECB's programme of buying eurozone bonds to provide liquidity, Trichet said that the bank had "not intervened for five days" but stressed that the programme was "ongoing". Asked whether the ECB wanted the eurozone rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, to take over from the ECB in buying bonds, he repeated comments made in previous months that the bank was calling for "the utilisation of the present stabilisation fund to be as flexible as possible".
Irish bail-out terms
Trichet was asked several times whether Ireland might be able to renegotiate the terms of its €67.5 billion bail-out package from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as some Irish opposition politicians are requesting. "Implementation [of the programme] is essential in the opinion of the ECB for the credibility of the country," Trichet said, adding that the bail-out package had been agreed with the EU and the IMF.
Replying to a question about whether holders of Irish bank debt might be asked to take losses as part of a renegotiation of Ireland's bail-out, Trichet said: "The plan has been approved by the European Commission in liaison with the ECB. Let's apply the plan."
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K-pop is not just for teenage girls….
March 22, 2014 March 24, 2014 vdruker1
It seems as though the Empire building of Korea continued on days 4 and 5 of our trip
Some people wonder what the best way to follow up a night singing Karaoke is, actually no one wonders that but I could not think of a better way to start this post. One thing I can tell you is that grabbing a bullet train at 7 in the morning is not that way. I think most of us still had songs ringing in our ears and may be some other after effects. That being said, all of us could not wait to get to our destination of Ulsan to see Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hyundai Motors.
Hyundai Heavy Industries is another example of a company that may not be known out West but is a global leader in its industry, Ships, really really big Ships, like the biggest Ships in the world. Hyundai Heavy is the worlds largest ship builder, among many other business lines, and we got the rare opportunity to visit their ship yard. This was really one of the more surreal moments of the trip because we got to see the scale of this ships in dry dock. Fun fact: Just to feed their workers at the ship yard it takes 60,000 chicken for a single lunch. Hopefully, that provides some scale of the man power that is present in this operation. One cultural quirk that occurred during our visit was the gift provided by Hyundai Heavy a small towel. We were informed later that is quite common to receive a little towel, often with a company logo, as a present.
After visiting Hyundai Heavy, we took a short trip to the home of Hyundai Motor Company where operations class came in handy. After a brief presentation and tour of the visitor center at Hyundai Motor we got the rare opportunity to see a live production line. We got to see Kaizan in action and how they measure productivity on their line. I think we all truly believe that in a few years Hyundai cars will catch up to the other leaders in terms of quality after seeing the attention to detail put into their manufacturing process. Another interesting aspect of our trip was seeing the loading of cars onto ships for transportation to markets abroad. Fun fact: These ships have 15 levels for storing 7,500 cars which are all individually driven onto the ship by professional drivers.
Once the visits were done we hoped back on the train to Ulsan to try to get some sleep before another amazing night out in Seoul. The organizers set up a Royal Dinner for us at one of the top restaurants in Seoul. The dinner consisted of somewhere between 30-40 dishes of every type of food imaginable. One thing I did not realize was how much the Royals drank because the beer and soju never stopped flowing…ok that last part may just have been our interpretation of a Royal Dinner. We went straight from the Royal Dinner to B One Lounge where we planned to kill sometime until the highlight of the night occurred. At 2 am, we left the lounge, a little wobblier than we started, for the Seoul Fish Market. I think he wobbliness was necessary to sturdy our constitutions for what the organizers had planned. We walked around the market and were guided towards a restaurant area where we got served fresh flounder and live octopus that the organizers had selected for us. Live octopus is really a pain to eat because it suctions onto the bowl so you can't even pick it up and when you put it in your mouth you just hope it doesn't get stuck on your tongue. One final surprise awaited us at the fish market. Our press tour continued with a photographer from a local paper coming to watch us viewing a fish auction.
Waking up I was pretty sure there was still octopus roaming my stomach but it would soon get replaced with the amazing tastes provided by our next company visit, CJ Foodville. CJ foodville manages 14 restaurant chains in Korea and abroad like Tous Les Jour and Bibigo. In their headquarters they have a gigantic food court area with test restaurants for all of their brands and we got to experience bibigo. After eating there the first question we asked was when they would expand beyond LA, more specifically Columbia's campus. We followed up lunch with a tour of their R&D and Cooking Labs. This company seems more like a hip fashion line than a food business. Everything in their offices was cool from the way people dressed to the layouts and designs of the floor. This hip factor translated into their restaurant designs and were places any western could feel comfortable.
CJ Foodville was just the first stop on our CJ group tour. You may notice that in Korea most businesses are far more diversified than in the states and I will discuss that in a later post. We went over to CJ Entertainment and Music which is sort of like the MTV, American Idol, ABC, and Universal all rolled into one. They manage movie theaters (leaders in 4D future cinemas), produce their own movies (check out Snowpiercer coming soon to the states, their first all english production), produce the biggest Music Awards show in the world, and the most watched music countdown show. Of course when we arrive the first thing we see is a TRL flashback with about 100 teenage girls crying while watching a taping featuring their favorite K-pop band. After a brief tour of their building we got to go to their private screening room which was outfitted with 4D seats and side video panels (the seats move, spray you with hot or cold air and water based on the environment of the movie). We got to watch clips from their latest movies and got to test out the 4D technology which will be coming to the states soon.
You would think that this would be enough but CJ had one more surprise up their sleeve. We got escorted into M-Countdown, the biggest Music countdown show in the world. We got to see about 20 K-pop bands perform including megastars 2ne1, BTS, and 4 Minutes. Mind you we are all in suits/ties and a foot and half taller than the surrounding audience which is mostly teenage girls who are sobbing when their favorite bands wave to them. So we blended right in, I am pretty sure we threw some of the bands off when we started jumping and screaming at all the wrong times but we had a blast nonetheless.
Once we had been converted to K-pop fans we got the amazing honor and privilege to be hosted by the Korean Alumni Association at Yonsei University for a dinner to connect Alumni, current students, and future Korean Admits. This was another one of those wow moments of how connected the CBS community is globally. Everyone was so gracious and the spread was top notch (pretty much all you can eat sushi and Korean Food). I think the new admits got to experience a little bit of orientation already when we made them go up to the front and introduce themselves as we did not stop cheering.
Takeaway from these days:
These two days were dramatically different in terms of the types of companies we visited but one thing that stuck with all of us is that Korea is moving up in the world. All of us can see the transition from a manufacturing economy to one that provides service and is a leader in global trends. Going on this trip has given us a small window into that transformation and I think has opened our eyes to the possibilities of working with and or for Korea in the future
Until next time this is Slava Druker Seoul '15 reporting in
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March 19, 2013 March 19, 2013 A broad Abroad
One of our most highly anticipated company visits, today we spent the day at Lotte Co. LTD, specifically visiting the Lotte Home Shopping Network HQ, the Lotte Confectionary factory, and one of many Lotte hypermarkets. We had the honor of being hosted by Chairman Dong-Bin Shin, Chairman of Lotte and CBS alumnus, class of 1981.
Chazen Korea student organizers with Mr. Shin
Mr. Shin joined us for tours of 2 (out of 60+) Lotte business units, which culminated with a presentation on the current state of the conglomerate from the Chairman and Q&A.
CBS Students taste Ice Cream at the Lotte Confectionary Factory
Our visit made the digital front page of the news, which can be found here.
Photo Credit: Yonhap News
The Chazen Korea participants would like to express gratitude to Mr. Shin for generously hosting us in Korea this week and at Lotte Co. today.
Yael Silverstein, CBS '13
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Countdown until Chazen Korea
March 13, 2013 April 5, 2017 A broad Abroad
Annyeonghaseyo (Hello)!
On Sunday the 17th of March, 30+ Columbia Business School students will arrive in Seoul, South Korean for a weeklong experience of Korean business and culture. Organized and led by 4 of our Korean classmates, we will visit with companies such as Samsung and Hyundai, meet with the Chairman of the Lotte Group (CBS '81), enjoy Korean BBQ and Karaoke, stop in at SM Entertainment – home of many K-Pop sensations, and visit the Joint Security Area (JSA) and Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) at the border with neighboring North Korea. We will spend most of our time in the capital city of Seoul, with an overnight visit to Ulsan and Busan in the south.
Much of the above includes familiar brands/experiences to those living in New York: Samsung devices, Hyundai cars, karaoke, etc. It will be interesting to see where the familiarities end and blend into new and foreign experiences. For many of us who have been traveling this week prior to the Chazen trip, I know we will be excited to have our local classmates to help translate both language and culture.
Until next week,
Yael Silverstein, CBS '13
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THE UNSUNG WARRIOR TANAJI MALUSARE.
IF U ARE INTRESTED IN BUYING A BOOK OF THE UNSUNG WARRIOR TANAJI MALUSARE .
SUBEDAR TANAJHI MALUSARE :
SUBEDAR TANAJI DADOJI MALUSARE is TANAJI'S full name { father }- Kaloji Malusare { mother }-Parvatibai Malusare.Tajanji was born at Godoli , Satara 1626.Tanaji Malusare was a military assistant of Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and local poet Tulsidas, wrote a powada describing Tanaji's heroics and sacrifice of life in the Battle of Sinhagad which has since made him a popular figure in Marathi folklore. According to David Hardiman, he came from a Hindu Koli family.
NAME OF TANAJI'S LIZARD :
Tanaji Malusare is the celebrated warrior who is said to have won the battle of Sinhagad in 1670 in which the Mughal was defeated by scaling an impregnable fort with the help of his domesticated Bengal monitor lizard (ghorpad) nicknamed Yashwanti to which they were said to have tied ropes and sent crawling up top to the precipice of the fort. After two failed attempts, Tanaji and his men successful ly scaled the steep hill fortess.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Tanaji Malusare :
Tanaji was a legendary warrior in Maratha Empire. He hailed from Malusare clan and fought serval battels along side Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj . Tanaji is mostly famously known for his valour in the battel of Singhagad in 1670 A.D .
In 1665, as per the Treaty of Purandar, Shivaji had to give up the fort of Kondana (located near Pune) to the Mughals. The fort was considered almost impenetrable as it was one of the most heavily fortified and strategically placed fort.
The fort was commandede by Udyabhan Rathod ,a Rajput warrior ,appointed by Mughals Army Chief Jai Singh I.
Descendants of Tanaji Malusare take objection to release of Tanaji :
The descendants of the Maratha warrior Tanaji Malusare have taken strong exception to scenes in the Ajay Devgn-starrer upcoming film Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, they have warned of not allowing the film to release unless "objectionable" scenes are removed as depicted in the trailer. The descendants hailing from 65 villages in Maharashtra have formed an organisation Subhedar Narveer Tanaji Malusare Sanstha last year. They have also sent a legal notice to the film director Om Raut and actor-producer Devgn. The film is scheduled to be released on January 10, 2020.
The sanstha holds various programmes in memory of Tanaji Malusare.
Rayaba Malusare :
Tanaji was born into a Maratha family. His father's name is Sardar Kaloji and mother's name is Parvatibai. He had a brother- Sardar Suryaji. He got married to 'Savitri Malusare,' and their son's name is Rayaba Malusare.
WHO IS SHELAR MAMA :
There actually are simple… Kondaji Ramji Shelar Was Commander In Maratha Army Of Shivaji Raje Bhonsle Who Was Founder Of Maratha Empire. Kondaji Ramji Shelar Was Born In Koli Family Of Shelar Clan. He Brother Of Mother Of Sardar Tanaji Rao Malusare.
Is Tanaji Barhim :
Malusare can be a Maratha clan. It may also be used as a last name in the Koli community. Iravati Karve noted that in the Godavali village of Satara all marathas belonged to this clan. … Tanaji, who used Malusare as a last name, came from the Koli caste.
DEATH OF THE UNSUNG WARRIOR TANAJI MALUSARE :
The battle was fought fiercely and Tanaji was killed by Udaybhan. His uncle, Shelar, took command of the battle after Tanaji's death and killed Udaybhan. Finally, the fort was captured by the Marathas. Ultimately, the Marathas won due to Tanaji's bravery and hoisted the saffron flag on the Kondhana Fort.
The fort was captured because of Suryaji malusare Tanaji's real younger brother after the death of Tanaji in ongoing fight on Kondhana the Maratha soldires were depressed knowing Tanaji's death marathas were running back leaving the ongoing war Suryaji was the one who cutted the ropes of returning back he said either fight or jump form the Kondhana and die . The great maratha soldires choosed to fight and finally woned the Kondhana Fort .
Veer Shivaji To Tanaji :
The fort was eventually conquered but in the process brave Tanaji was gravely wounded and died fighting on the battlefield. Upon hearing the demise of Tanaji, Shivaji Maharaj was struck with grief and expressed his sorrow by uttering
Eventually, Shivaji Maharaj renamed the fort of Kondhana to Sinhagad in memory of Tanaji.
Gad ala,pan sinha gela ( "The fort is captured,but we lost Lion")
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Pedro Ruiz Torres (Elche, 1951) es un historiador español. Catedrático de Historia Contemporánea de la Universidad de Valencia, desempeñó el Rectorado de esta en el periodo 1994-2002.

Biografía
Nacido en Elche en 1951, es desde 1988 académico correspondiente en Valencia de la Real Academia de la Historia.
Ocupó el cargo de rector de la Universidad de Valencia desde el 20 de junio de 1994 hasta abril del 2002.

En 2004 le fue otorgada la Creu de Sant Jordi. Es autor del volumen 5 de la Historia de España de Marcial Pons, titulado Reformismo e Ilustración (2005), que aborda el siglo XVIII en España.

Obras
 Estudios sobre la revolución burguesa en España (1979)
 Señores y propietarios. Cambio social en el sur del País Valenciano, 1650-1850 (1981)
 España en el siglo XVIII
 Història del País Valencià. Època contemporània (1990)
 La época de la razón
 Europa en su historia (1993)
 Reformas y políticas agrarias en la historia de España
 Nacionalismo e historia
 Universitat i compromís social
 Discursos sobre la historia
 The Political Uses of the Past
 La Ilustración y las ciencias. Para una historia de la objetividad

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

Historiadores de España del siglo XX
Catedráticos de la Universidad de Valencia
Académicos correspondientes de la Real Academia de la Historia
Rectores de la Universidad de Valencia
Doctores honoris causa por la Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
Nacidos en Elche

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Op-Ed: Mighty Moms Across the U.S. Are Standing Up and Speaking Out for Children
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By Melissa Martin, Ph.D. On Nov 25, 2022
This mom had an epic response to the school board's decision to host a Halloween 'Queerfest'. – The Western Journal – YouTube.com
"I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood." –Lance Conrad
PORTSMOUTH, OH – Throughout the Bible, there are numerous stories of mothers. Eve is the first mother recorded in the Bible, and the first woman to conceive and deliver a child. Hagar, Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, Rachel, Naomi, Jochebed, Hannah, Manoah, Bathsheba, Elizabeth; more mothers that played important roles in the Bible.
And of course, Mary, the mother of Jesus.
"Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever; his kingdom will never end." (Luke 1:31, NIV)
Mothers of the modern day are uniting and organizing to speak up for the rights of parents. These mighty moms are fed up with Woke culture in schools, the entertainment industry, and in politics. And Conservative moms are a mighty force to be reckoned with.
Mighty Moms for Kids the Educational Arena
Moms for Liberty is dedicated to fighting for the survival of America by unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.
Watch videos of moms speaking out across the country on their website or on their YouTube channel.
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Moms for Liberty started with just the two founders, Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, from Florida. Today the organization has over 100,000 members.
Moms for Liberty backed the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina, according to NBC News. "Within two hours, the school board had voted to fire the district's first Black superintendent, terminate the district's lawyer, ban critical race theory and set up a committee to decide whether certain books and materials should be banned from schools."
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— Scarlett Johnson (@scarlett4kids) November 17, 2022
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One Million Moms is an online division of the Christian, conservative organization, American Families Association.
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Walt Disney has cast a drag queen industry superstar in an upcoming Marvel superhero series "Ironheart" and protectors of children can sign a petition to oust the show at the One Million Moms website.
The mighty moms requested that the NFL and Fox pull a Super Bowl ad from Sabra Hummus featuring drag stars. "Sabra Dipping Company LLC is choosing to push an agenda of sexual confusion instead of promoting its actual product," they asserted. "Normalizing this lifestyle is contrary to what conservative, Christian parents are teaching their children about God's design for sexuality."
Moms Against Drag Queens Sexualizing Children
Watch on YouTube: Moms Go to War Against School Boards Over 'Drag Queen' Shows.
Parents are Uniting and Fighting
"American Parents Reject Randi Weingarten and Leftist Schooling," is an article at Liberty Nations News. One of the nation's largest teacher's unions just got a stern rebuke from voters.
The Supreme Court has ruled that Maine violated the First Amendment with its plan to keep public dollars from religious schools in the case Carson v. Makin. The Court held that Maine could not discriminate against religious schools.
"As a mother, let me explain why Trump's reelection is essential – for those who care about America's past and future, Bill of Rights, and giving our kids the chance to strive, fail, start again, and succeed. We know life is not a straight line but stops and starts. We needed the freedom to explore, live, learn, and finally succeed. Our children deserve that same freedom. Trump makes that possible; Biden could care less – as his client is the government," notes a 2020 opinion piece in Townhall.
Momma Bears And The Midterm – Don't Mess With Our Kids And Education
Should Parents Have A Say In Children's Elementary School Education Curriculum? YES
No Drag Queens In Schools – Parents Must Stand Up And Speak Out To Protect Kids
"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." – Abraham Lincoln
Biden States that "Semi-Automatic" Firearms are "Sick" and Should Be Banned
Op-Ed: The Reason for the Season is Jesus – Not Drag Queens in Places of Worship


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China says fossil fuels should only be 'replaced' when renewable energy supplies become 'reliable'
Via Carbon Brief on Feb. 17, 2022: China releases 'top-level' document for energy transition - WHAT: China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and National Energy Administration (NEA) – the state economic planner and energy planner, respectively – jointly published a set of "opinions" to guide the nation's energy transition.
The document emphasizes that fossil fuels should only be "replaced" when renewable energy supplies become "reliable" – a message Chinese officials have repeatedly stressed since power shortages occurred late last year.
By: Admin - Climate DepotFebruary 27, 2022 7:02 PM
https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing-17-february-2022-new-energy-transition-guidance-five-coal-plants-approved-energy-efficiency-targets-raised
Five large coal-fired power projects have been given the go-ahead for construction since the beginning of the year, according to an article on the Chinese news portal Sohu. All of the newly approved projects would use highly efficient units that could save on energy and coal consumption, the article said. The piece was originally published by the Beijixing Electricity Net, an outlet focused on the energy and power sectors. Carbon Brief has tracked down the official announcements for the approval of all five projects.
WHERE: The approved projects will be situated in three provinces. All of their units are expected to use the ultra-supercritical technology. In Zhejiang – a populous and economically developed province on China's eastern coast – two projects with a combined investment of 13bn yuan (£1.5bn) will be constructed, the local government announced last week. One of them will have two units – each with a capacity of one gigawatt (GW) – and the other will have two 660-megawatt (MW) units. Meanwhile, a company statement said last Tuesday that the authorities of Hunan – a landlocked province in southern China – had greenlighted a project containing two 1GW units. Furthermore, a £1.3bn project with four 660MW units was approved by the government of Guangxi – which borders Vietnam – its operator stated last month. A separate project with two 660MW units also received the authorisation in Guangxi in January and is already under construction, according to company statements.
WHEN: The news came as many small coal-fired power units had been closed down to protect the environment and reduce emissions, the Beijixing article noted. It added that their production capacity was expected to be replaced by "large-scale, clean coal-fired power projects". Take Shandong province, for example. The eastern region had the largest installed coal power capacity in China as of the end of last year. But in the second half of 2021 alone, the local authority shut down 141 small coal power units, and the capacity of most of them was lower than 50MW, according to China Energy News. (This continues a trend that has been going on for several years across China.)
WHEN: The news also came as China's State Council – the country's administrative authority – showed its support for coal-fired power generators this week. According to state news agency Xinhua, the State Council instructed at a meeting on Monday: "Coal supply will be increased and coal-fired power plants will be supported in running at full capacity and generating more electricity, so as to meet the electricity needs for production and residential consumption."
SIGNIFICANCE: Commenting on why China is still approving coal-fired power projects, Dr He Gang – assistant professor in the Department of Technology and Society at the Stony Brook University in the US – pointed to the "inertia" from the mentality of "coal power or no power" and the "impulse" of "local investment for the economy".
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Humana Pharmacy Moves to Sustainable Packaging for Temperature-Sensitive Shipments
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), a leading health and well-being company, has announced that Humana Pharmacy customers have started receiving temperature-sensitive medications in new environmentally-friendly, cold-insulated packaging.
The packaging is made from molded biodegradable expanded polystyrene (EPS) resins, which means it is designed to decompose more than 90% over four years in most landfills. Additionally, inside each new package, customers will now find long-lasting refrigerant gel packs, which are filled with a non-toxic biodegradable gel that can be washed down the kitchen sink.
"At Humana, we recognize the undeniable link between our physical health and the health of the environment. We have a strong commitment to environmental sustainability and are investing our time and resources to help make a difference for our planet," said Michael Taday, Humana Pharmacy President of Prescription Home Delivery, Retail Pharmacy, and OTC. "Many of our Humana Pharmacy customers receive medications that require storage at a certain temperature range, and we look forward to providing our customers with this new eco-friendly packaging."
Customers recently started receiving the new packaging.
About Humana
Humana Inc. is committed to helping our millions of medical and specialty members achieve their best health. Our successful history in care delivery and health plan administration is helping us create a new kind of integrated care with the power to improve health and well-being and lower costs. Our efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.
To accomplish that, we support physicians and other health care professionals as they work to deliver the right care in the right place for their patients, our members. Our range of clinical capabilities, resources and tools ? such as in-home care, behavioral health, pharmacy services, data analytics and wellness solutions ? combine to produce a simplified experience that makes health care easier to navigate and more effective.
More information regarding Humana is available to investors via the Investor Relations page of the company's web site at www.humana.com, including copies of:
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Most recent investor conference presentations
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In an effort to be different (and use up some of my cupcake batter that was in the freezer) I formulated a plan to make mini cupcake kebabs for a gathering sponsored by "Cupcakes Take The Cake".
Based on the batter I had, I chose Neapolitan as my combo of flavors, then I had to figure out spacers. My original thought was Strawberries dipped in white and milk chocolate. But they don't stay nice for very long so my thought turned to dipping marshmallows. I know I had seen strawberry marshmallows before, but where?!
So my search began for marshmallows. And as I searched I began to pick up alternatives if I couldn't find them. Little Debbie Strawberry Shortcakes cut up and partially dipped in chocolate was an idea. I picked up sugar wafers and inspected them closely to decide if I thought they'd hold up to a kebab skewer and then my last stop – there they were! Strawberry Marshmallows!!!
By the time I got home on Friday, my original vision for the kebabs had been altered. Now I would combine the use of strawberry marshmallows – dipped in white chocolate & chocolate cookie crumbs (inspired by the Neapolitan ice cream sandwiches) and the sugar wafers. With careful twisting and guidance the skewer went thru the wafers just fine!
Once I got my minis baked and frosted, my marshmallows dipped and my wafers sliced up it was time to assemble!
I found that the key (besides keeping the skewer centered on whatever you are putting on there) is to make sure you wipe off the skewer as you go! No premature mixing of flavors that way!
Once I got them assembled I was a bit stymied as to how to store them w/out the frosting looking flat on one side but then I decided to balance them on the edge of a casserole dish for overnight storage in the fridge and it worked out just fine…until it was time to pack them up.
went over extremely well! So well in fact that apparently I've given people lots of ideas and was blogged about!
Since I've been in the process of starting my own online baking company, this little niche of a product has been inspiring and I can't wait to try out new flavor combos- that will hopefully be made available to you all soon!


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Pacific Rim: Uprising
03/04/2018 02/04/2018 / t0msheff
Directed by: Steven S. DeKnight
Starring: John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Burn Gorman
Written by Rhys Bowen Jones
Guillermo Del Toro's 'Pacific Rim' is, unashamedly, a favourite of mine. Taking the craftsmanship and dedication of the man behind genuine classics like 'Pan's Labyrinth' and 'The Devil's Backbone' and applying it to a giant monsters vs giant robots film just worked. Del Toro loves Japanese culture and their obsession with kaiju, and that comes across in every beautiful, neon splashed frame of 'Pacific Rim'. You can imagine my, and the rest of the world's, hesitation when a sequel was announced, but sadly Del Toro wouldn't be in the director's chair. That hesitation, as it happens, was not wrong.
'Pacific Rim: Uprising' takes place 10 years after the events of the original. They cancelled the apocalypse and restored order to the world after closing the portal at the bottom of the ocean at the end of the first film. Jaegers are being built again, but with less need than previous given the lack of kaiju around the place. Corporations, though, are hell bent on making Jaegers AI-operated in order to be mass produced, eliminating the need for drift-compatible pilots. When a rogue Jaeger attacks a demonstration of this, it's up to the John Boyega's Jake Pentecost, son of Idris Elba's Stacker, and the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps to find out who is behind the defected Jaeger.
Immediately, red flags begin to rear their heads. The allure of the first one was the kaiju and their immaculate designs. The second film near enough removes kaiju from the equation entirely. Monster vs robot action is replaced by robot vs robot action, ultimately moving the Pacific Rim franchise towards becoming a little too similar to 'Transformers'. Thankfully, the robot vs robot action is frequently great and isn't painful to look at like in 'Transformers'. For all the problems 'Pacific Rim: Uprising' has, the action isn't one of them.
One major change between the first and second film is, genuinely, the time of day. Where 'Pacific Rim' kept all the major action sequences at night, using neon to its advantage and allowing the colours on screen to truly dazzle the audience, 'Uprising' keeps all the action in the day. This was an intentional move by director DeKnight because of what Del Toro managed to achieve with his night-time sequences; DeKnight wanted to try something different. I fully respect that move from a novice director, a man who has largely been known for working on the 'Daredevil' Netflix series and 'Spartacus', making his directorial debut with a $150million film.
Where the action scenes falter compared to the original is in its weight. Every punch in 'Pacific Rim' had weight to it, you really felt like these were two giant beasts going at it and making huge amounts of damage to each other. In 'Uprising', while the action scenes are fun, they feel almost completely weightless. The punches and sword slashes don't have the same impact as the original; the scale of the fights simply isn't there. A stand-out shot from the first film is Gipsy Danger, carrying a tanker as a baseball bat, walking over the camera looking up from the ground, you saw these robots were literally the size of a skyscraper. In 'Uprising', it just felt a little like action figures going at it. That didn't stop certain Jaegers making an impression (Saber Athena was my personal favourite of the new Jaegers), but the impact of the fight wasn't as strong.
For a big action blockbuster, you don't expect to see Oscar-worthy performances, and this remains true here. The acting is serviceable, but given the majority of the cast is young and new to the whole acting game, it isn't surprising. Scott Eastwood, known for being an actor not understanding that 'The Fate of the Furious' is meant to be a fun film, continues to be entirely wooden on screen, lacking any sort of charisma you'd expect from a man who literally fights monsters for a living.
Fortunately, John Boyega is on hand to pick up the pieces left by Eastwood and charisma the hell out of us. Boyega, having won everyone over with his great performances as Finn in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' and 'The Last Jedi', is able to slip back into his natural accent for a change. Back to being a boy from East London for the first time since 2011's terrific 'Attack The Block', Boyega is out there just having fun. His charm and humour elevates this film so much because he's a man that everyone can root for given his outright cool demeanour. Everyone either wants him or wants to be him, and 'Pacific Rim: Uprising', whatever you think of the film, is yet another example of his talent on his meteoric rise to stardom.
All told, I enjoyed 'Pacific Rim: Uprising'. The action was solid if unspectacular, it was visually impressive, and John Boyega sells the film with everything he has. I found the film fun and enjoyable, and when the action finally kicks in against the kaiju the film becomes even better in the final act. It's just a shame it takes so long to get there.
Rhys' Rating: 6.2/10
2018, Action & Adventure, Reviews, Sci-Fi
Burn Gorman, Cailee Spaeny, Charlie Day, John Boyega, Pacific Rim, Pacific Rim 2, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Rinko Kikuchi, Scott Eastwood, Steven S. DeKnight
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Home ▶ Vol 42, No 1 (2021) ▶ Kavusa
Original Research - Special Collection: African Hermeneutics
Towards a hermeneutics of sustainability in Africa: Engaging indigenous knowledge in dialogue with Christianity
Kivatsi J. Kavusa
Verbum et Ecclesia | Vol 42, No 1 | a2263 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ve.v42i1.2263 | © 2021 Kivatsi J. Kavusa | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 16 April 2021 | Published: 18 June 2021
Kivatsi J. Kavusa, Department of Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; Chair for Systematic Theology and Hermeneutics, Faculty of Theology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Department of Ancient and Biblical Studies, Faculty of Protestant Theology, Free University of the Great Lake Countries, Goma, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
Today there are a number of ecological hermeneutics, such as the Exeter project (UK), the Earth Bible project (Australia), the anti-ecological readings and the eco-feminist readings. Whilst these trends provide Christianity with valuable ecological insights, they tend to be more global than specific. The Exeter project claims even to search for the 'universal' eco-meaning of the scriptures. Thus, every community should learn from them and try to develop its ecological hermeneutical framework, which can sustainably address its contextual issues. This article explores whether elements of traditional Africa can be transformed into a valuable hermeneutical framework of ecological sustainability for Christianity in Africa. African traditional societies were built upon a threefold worldview, namely (1) the sacredness of all life (moral or spiritual dimension of nature), (2) the pre-eminence of the community over individual interests and (3) the cosmological dimension of the chieftaincy (governance). In the process of the Christianisation of Africa, this framework by which African people make sense of the world became so impaired that the Africans ceased to understand their world through their own cultural systems. With a proper re-configuration in dialogue with a sound biblical green theology, this triad can be turned into an effective hermeneutical vehicle of African churches' engagement for a sustainable life in Africa.
Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article explores whether elements of traditional Africa can be transformed into a valuable hermeneutical framework of ecological sustainability for Christianity in Africa. It draws on ecological hermeneutics that exist in the theological disciplines. It involves the disciplines of biblical exegesis and ecological hermeneutics, African hermeneutics and insights from sustainability theories.
sustainability; African ecological hermeneutics; traditional Africa; African cosmology; indigenous knowledge; African Christianity


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Friday, 9 February 2007
Paucity of pilots triggers aviation war
Broadsword February 09, 2007 Civil aviation, Indian Air Force,
Business Standard: 02 Feb 2007
When Wing Commander Rajiv Kothiyal resigned in 2002 as one of the most qualified test pilots in the Indian Air Force (IAF) and quickly found a flying job in a start up airline, Deccan Airways, he felt he had won a jackpot. With no new airlines and no new aircraft, India's dormant aviation landscape was strewn with young, newly licensed pilots from India's flying clubs who couldn't get a job. The four established airlines --- Air India, Indian Airlines, Jet and Sahara --- already had their quota of five co-pilots and five commanders for each aircraft they owned. Just four years later, Kothiyal, now Chief Pilot of Deccan Airways, shakes his head ruefully at how much things have changed.
Deccan Airways has expanded from a single aircraft to 41; four hundred pilots are on the rolls to utilise the fleet optimally. Jostling for pilots with Deccan are equally aggressive start-ups like Kingfisher, GoAir, Spicejet and Paramount. Today, India's 14 scheduled airlines operate more than three hundred aircraft between them. Every month the figure rises, and each aircraft that comes in brings along a demand for ten more pilots. Compounding the pilot shortfall are another 350 aircraft owned by non-scheduled airlines and private entities.
In this sellers' market, a Commerical Pilot's Licence (CPL) and a DGCA certification is enough to land a job that pulls in three to four lakh rupees a month. The requirement of junior co-pilots is largely met through a growing supply of newly trained pilots from Indian flying clubs (see graphic), supplemented by increasing numbers training abroad. At a premium, though, are the senior pilots needed to captain airline flights. Filling this gap are foreign pilots with 1000-1500 hours of flying experience, mostly from East Europe, Australia and Latin America. Deccan Airways alone has hired more than a hundred foreign pilots, paying them a package of 10,000 dollars a month, 50% more than their Indian counterparts.
Observing this situation is Wing Commander Devesh Kakar (name and location changed on officer's request) handling flight administration at an IAF base in Allahabad. Although Kakar has logged 1200 hours on IAF aircraft, some 19 years of incident-free flying, that alone does not guarantee career progression in the steep promotion pyramid of the defence services. Kakar needs only to pass a simple DGCA conversion exam, for a civil license that could translate into a ten-fold jump over his IAF salary. He is exactly the person that Indian airlines are desperate for: experienced in flying in Indian conditions, adept at dealing with Indian situations and people, and considerably cheaper to employ than pilots from abroad.
But there's a hitch. Facing its own shortfall of over 200 pilots, IAF boss Air Chief Marshall SP Tyagi has clamped down on letting pilots leave service. After his predecessor, Air Chief Marshall S Krishnaswamy let an unprecedented 250 pilots leave in the period before he handed over charge, IAF pilots today have been effectively locked in. Before Kakar's resignation is accepted, he will have to be rejected for further promotion by three separate promotion boards. Unlike any other employer, the Indian military can refuse to allow its personnel to resign and the courts have always upheld its decision. Flight Lieutenant Shakul Tyagi, a decorated pilot represented by top-gun lawyer Abhishek Singhvi, recently took the air force to court, effectively alleging violation of fundamental rights. The Delhi High Court ruled in favour of the IAF.
For the airline industry, keenly aware of the benefits of a lower pilot wage bill, this is bad news. The civil aviation administration, searching feverishly for managers, instructors and pilots to support India's burgeoning aviation growth, tip-toes around the Air Chief's decision, but continues to eye this manpower pool. Civil Aviation Secretary, Ajay Prasad, who recently employed a retired air force officer to run the prestigious Sanjay Gandhi National Flying Academy, says. "We need pilots as of yesterday… We are saying that pilots who are available to be released from the air force, we should be able to give them a greater role in civilian traffic. We can fly a person who is medically fit up to the age of 65 and air force people retire much earlier, so we can certainly use them as instructors and… even as online pilots."
But Air Chief Marshall SP Tyagi points out that if civil aviation is expanding, the IAF is as well. The air chief told Business Standard, "Pilots are not a commodity that gets produced at short notice. I can get a civilian pilot from the market; the same is not true of a combat pilot. He's an officer, a highly trained military leader. If he's got ten years of service it will take me ten years to produce another
one."
Adding to the demand for Indian pilots is the language problem that many expatriate pilots face in talking to Indian air traffic controllers (ATCs). With instructions being snapped out in a variety of regional accents, ATC commands often have to be repeated, leading to loss of time. In at least one case, the mid air collision in 1996 near Delhi between a Saudi Arabian Airlines and a Kazakhstan Airlines aircraft, it has led to disaster. The Ramesh Chandra Lahoti commission that probed that crash found that the Kazakh pilot's inability to understand the directions of the ATC placed him on a collision course with the Saudi airliner.
Deccan Airline's Chief Pilot, Rajiv Kothiyal, who guards against this by putting all his airline's expatriate pilots through extensive familiarisation training, says it is this reason why he always prefers an Indian pilot, whether civil or military. "The accent is different and there is bound to be some communication gap between the controllers because the controllers in India speak very fast, and if they speak fast this (expatriate pilot) may not understand."
The IAF's inability to release its pilots may be infuriating for civil airlines today, but aviation consultant Tulsi Kesharwani believes that this could work well for pilots in the long term. "If just one airline folds up today and returns aircraft that have been taken on lease, you could quickly have a situation where there are more pilots than are needed."
But for an aviation industry that is grappling with the problems of today, and for air force pilots who feel aggrieved by the IAF's unwillingness to let them go, this is an entirely hypothetical situation. The problem is today.
India's pilot factory: ramping up production
Pilots needed: 3000-5000 (over next 5 years)
Annual supply: (from Indian flying institutions: DGCA figures)
2003 : 386
2006/07 : 1147
Indian Air Force pilot shortages
Authorised : 3278 pilots
Presently posted: 3068 pilots
Shortfall : 210 pilots
Released from 2003-05: 246 pilots
Released in 2006: 19 pilots
Tags # Civil aviation # Indian Air Force
Posted by Broadsword at February 09, 2007
Labels: Civil aviation, Indian Air Force
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Kęty est une gmina mixte du powiat de Oświęcim, Petite-Pologne, dans le sud de Pologne. Son siège est la ville de Kęty, qui se situe environ  au sud d'Oświęcim et  à l'ouest de la capitale régionale Cracovie.

La gmina couvre une superficie de  pour une population de .

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Outre la ville de Kęty, la gmina inclut les villages de Bielany, Bulowice, Łęki, Malec, Nowa Wieś et Witkowice.

La gmina borde la ville d'Oświęcim et les gminy de Andrychów, Brzeszcze, Kozy, Osiek, Oświęcim, Porąbka, Wieprz et Wilamowice.

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Liens internes
 Liste des gminy de Petite-Pologne

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Gmina dans la voïvodie de Petite-Pologne
Powiat d'Oświęcim