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14 Ions and Ionic Compounds
Know how ions form.
Learn the characteristic charges that ions have.
Construct a proper formula for an ionic compound.
Generate a proper name for an ionic compound.
So far, we have discussed elements and compounds that are electrically neutral. They have the same number of electrons as protons, so the negative charges of the electrons is balanced by the positive charges of the protons. However, this is not always the case. Electrons can move from one atom to another; when they do, species with overall electric charges are formed. Such species are called ions. Species with overall positive charges are termed cations, while species with overall negative charges are called anions. Remember that ions are formed only when electrons move from one atom to another; a proton never moves from one atom to another. Compounds formed from positive and negative ions are called ionic compounds.
Individual atoms can gain or lose electrons. When they do, they become monatomic ions. When atoms gain or lose electrons, they usually gain or lose a characteristic number of electrons and so take on a characteristic overall charge. Table 3.6 "Monatomic Ions of Various Charges" lists some common ions in terms of how many electrons they lose (making cations) or gain (making anions). There are several things to notice about the ions in Table 3.6 "Monatomic Ions of Various Charges". First, each element that forms cations is a metal, except for one (hydrogen), while each element that forms anions is a nonmetal. This is actually one of the chemical properties of metals and nonmetals: metals tend to form cations, while nonmetals tend to form anions. Second, most atoms form ions of a single characteristic charge. When sodium atoms form ions, they always form a 1+ charge, never a 2+ or 3+ or even 1− charge. Thus, if you commit the information in Table 3.6 "Monatomic Ions of Various Charges" to memory, you will always know what charges most atoms form. (In Chapter 9 "Chemical Bonds", we will discuss why atoms form the charges they do.)
Table 3.6 Monatomic Ions of Various Charges
Ions formed by losing a single electron
Rb+
Ag+
Au+
Ions formed by losing two electrons
Mg2+
Ca2+
Sr2+
Fe2+
Co2+
Ni2+
Cu2+
Zn2+
Sn2+
Hg2+
Pb2+
Ions formed by losing three electrons
Sc3+
Au3+
Al3+
Cr3+
Ions formed by losing four electrons
Ti4+
Ions formed by gaining a single electron
F−
Cl−
Br−
I−
Ions formed by gaining two electrons
O2−
S2−
Se2−
Ions formed by gaining three electrons
N3−
P3−
Third, there are some exceptions to the previous point. A few elements, all metals, can form more than one possible charge. For example, iron atoms can form 2+ cations or 3+ cations. Cobalt is another element that can form more than one possible charged ion (2+ and 3+), while lead can form 2+ or 4+ cations. Unfortunately, there is little understanding which two charges a metal atom may take, so it is best to just memorize the possible charges a particular element can have.
Note the convention for indicating an ion. The magnitude of the charge is listed as a right superscript next to the symbol of the element. If the charge is a single positive or negative one, the number 1 is not written; if the magnitude of the charge is greater than 1, then the number is written before the + or − sign. An element symbol without a charge written next to it is assumed to be the uncharged atom.
Naming an ion is straightforward. For a cation, simply use the name of the element and add the word ion (or if you want to be more specific, add cation) after the element's name. So Na+ is the sodium ion; Ca2+ is the calcium ion. If the element has more than one possible charge, the value of the charge comes after the element name and before the word ion. Thus, Fe2+ is the iron two ion, while Fe3+ is the iron three ion. In print, we use roman numerals in parentheses to represent the charge on the ion, so these two iron ions would be represented as the iron(II) cation and the iron(III) cation, respectively.
For a monatomic anion, use the stem of the element name and append the suffix -ide to it, and then add ion. This is similar to how we named molecular compounds. Thus, Cl− is the chloride ion, and N3− is the nitride ion.
Name each species.
This species has a 2− charge on it, so it is an anion. Anions are named using the stem of the element name with the suffix -ide added. This is the oxide anion.
Because this species has no charge, it is an atom in its elemental form. This is cobalt.
In this case, there is a 2+ charge on the atom, so it is a cation. We note from Table 3.6 "Monatomic Ions of Various Charges" that cobalt cations can have two possible charges, so the name of the ion must specify which charge the ion has. This is the cobalt(II) cation.
the phosphide anion
the strontium cation
Chemical formulas for ionic compounds are called ionic formulas. A proper ionic formula has a cation and an anion in it; an ionic compound is never formed between two cations only or two anions only. The key to writing proper ionic formulas is simple: the total positive charge must balance the total negative charge. Because the charges on the ions are characteristic, sometimes we have to have more than one of a cation or an anion to balance the overall positive and negative charges. It is conventional to use the lowest ratio of ions that are needed to balance the charges.
For example, consider the ionic compound between Na+ and Cl−. Each ion has a single charge, one positive and one negative, so we need only one ion of each to balance the overall charge. When writing the ionic formula, we follow two additional conventions: (1) write the formula for the cation first and the formula for the anion next, but (2) do not write the charges on the ions. Thus, for the compound between Na+ and Cl−, we have the ionic formula NaCl (Figure 3.5 "NaCl = Table Salt"). The formula Na2Cl2 also has balanced charges, but the convention is to use the lowest ratio of ions, which would be one of each. (Remember from our conventions for writing formulas that we don't write a 1 subscript if there is only one atom of a particular element present.) For the ionic compound between magnesium cations (Mg2+) and oxide anions (O2−), again we need only one of each ion to balance the charges. By convention, the formula is MgO.
Figure 3.5 NaCl = Table Salt
The ionic compound NaCl is very common.
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For the ionic compound between Mg2+ ions and Cl− ions, we now consider the fact that the charges have different magnitudes, 2+ on the magnesium ion and 1− on the chloride ion. To balance the charges with the lowest number of ions possible, we need to have two chloride ions to balance the charge on the one magnesium ion. Rather than write the formula MgClCl, we combine the two chloride ions and write it with a 2 subscript: MgCl2.
What is the formula MgCl2 telling us? There are two chloride ions in the formula. Although chlorine as an element is a diatomic molecule, Cl2, elemental chlorine is not part of this ionic compound. The chlorine is in the form of a negatively charged ion, not the neutral element. The 2 subscript is in the ionic formula because we need two Cl− ions to balance the charge on one Mg2+ ion.
Write the proper ionic formula for each of the two given ions.
Ca2+ and Cl−
Al3+ and F−
Al3+ and O2−
We need two Cl− ions to balance the charge on one Ca2+ ion, so the proper ionic formula is CaCl2.
We need three F− ions to balance the charge on the Al3+ ion, so the proper ionic formula is AlF3.
With Al3+ and O2−, note that neither charge is a perfect multiple of the other. This means we have to go to a least common multiple, which in this case will be six. To get a total of 6+, we need two Al3+ ions; to get 6−, we need three O2− ions. Hence the proper ionic formula is Al2O3.
Write the proper ionic formulas for each of the two given ions.
Fe2+ and S2−
Fe2S3
Naming ionic compounds is simple: combine the name of the cation and the name of the anion, in both cases omitting the word ion. Do not use numerical prefixes if there is more than one ion necessary to balance the charges. NaCl is sodium chloride, a combination of the name of the cation (sodium) and the anion (chloride). MgO is magnesium oxide. MgCl2 is magnesium chloride—not magnesium dichloride.
In naming ionic compounds whose cations can have more than one possible charge, we must also include the charge, in parentheses and in roman numerals, as part of the name. Hence FeS is iron(II) sulfide, while Fe2S3 is iron(III) sulfide. Again, no numerical prefixes appear in the name. The number of ions in the formula is dictated by the need to balance the positive and negative charges.
Name each ionic compound.
AlF3
Co2O3
Using the names of the ions, this ionic compound is named calcium chloride. It is not calcium(II) chloride because calcium forms only one cation when it forms an ion, and it has a characteristic charge of 2+.
The name of this ionic compound is aluminum fluoride.
We know that cobalt can have more than one possible charge; we just need to determine what it is. Oxide always has a 2− charge, so with three oxide ions, we have a total negative charge of 6−. This means that the two cobalt ions have to contribute 6+, which for two cobalt ions means that each one is 3+. Therefore, the proper name for this ionic compound is cobalt(III) oxide.
Sc2O3
AgCl
scandium oxide
silver chloride
How do you know whether a formula—and by extension, a name—is for a molecular compound or for an ionic compound? Molecular compounds form between nonmetals and nonmetals, while ionic compounds form between metals and nonmetals. The periodic table (Figure 3.2 "A Simple Periodic Table") can be used to determine which elements are metals and nonmetals.
There also exists a group of ions that contain more than one atom. These are called polyatomic ions. Table 3.7 "Common Polyatomic Ions" lists the formulas, charges, and names of some common polyatomic ions. Only one of them, the ammonium ion, is a cation; the rest are anions. Most of them also contain oxygen atoms, so sometimes they are referred to as oxyanions. Some of them, such as nitrate and nitrite, and sulfate and sulfite, have very similar formulas and names, so care must be taken to get the formulas and names correct. Note that the -ite polyatomic ion has one less oxygen atom in its formula than the -ate ion but with the same ionic charge.
Table 3.7 Common Polyatomic Ions
Formula and Charge
ammonium NH4+ hydroxide OH−
acetate C2H3O2−, or CH3COO− nitrate NO3−
bicarbonate (hydrogen carbonate) HCO3− nitrite NO2−
bisulfate (hydrogen sulfate) HSO4− peroxide O22−
carbonate CO32− perchlorate ClO4−
chlorate ClO3− phosphate PO43−
chromate CrO42− sulfate SO42−
cyanide CN− sulfite SO32−
dichromate Cr2O72− triiodide I3−
The naming of ionic compounds that contain polyatomic ions follows the same rules as the naming for other ionic compounds: simply combine the name of the cation and the name of the anion. Do not use numerical prefixes in the name if there is more than one polyatomic ion; the only exception to this is if the name of the ion itself contains a numerical prefix, such as dichromate or triiodide.
Writing the formulas of ionic compounds has one important difference. If more than one polyatomic ion is needed to balance the overall charge in the formula, enclose the formula of the polyatomic ion in parentheses and write the proper numerical subscript to the right and outside the parentheses. Thus, the formula between calcium ions, Ca2+, and nitrate ions, NO3−, is properly written Ca(NO3)2, not CaNO32 or CaN2O6. Use parentheses where required. The name of this ionic compound is simply calcium nitrate.
Write the proper formula and give the proper name for each ionic compound formed between the two listed ions.
NH4+ and S2−
Al3+ and PO43−
Fe2+ and PO43−
Because the ammonium ion has a 1+ charge and the sulfide ion has a 2− charge, we need two ammonium ions to balance the charge on a single sulfide ion. Enclosing the formula for the ammonium ion in parentheses, we have (NH4)2S. The compound's name is ammonium sulfide.
Because the ions have the same magnitude of charge, we need only one of each to balance the charges. The formula is AlPO4, and the name of the compound is aluminum phosphate.
Neither charge is an exact multiple of the other, so we have to go to the least common multiple of 6. To get 6+, we need three iron(II) ions, and to get 6−, we need two phosphate ions. The proper formula is Fe3(PO4)2, and the compound's name is iron(II) phosphate.
NH4+ and PO43−
Co3+ and NO2−
(NH4)3PO4, ammonium phosphate
Co(NO2)3, cobalt(III) nitrite
Food and Drink App: Sodium in Your Food
The element sodium, at least in its ionic form as Na+, is a necessary nutrient for humans to live. In fact, the human body is approximately 0.15% sodium, with the average person having one-twentieth to one-tenth of a kilogram in their body at any given time, mostly in fluids outside cells and in other bodily fluids.
Sodium is also present in our diet. The common table salt we use on our foods is an ionic sodium compound. Many processed foods also contain significant amounts of sodium added to them as a variety of ionic compounds. Why are sodium compounds used so much? Usually sodium compounds are inexpensive, but, more importantly, most ionic sodium compounds dissolve easily. This allows processed food manufacturers to add sodium-containing substances to food mixtures and know that the compound will dissolve and distribute evenly throughout the food. Simple ionic compounds such as sodium nitrite (NaNO2) are added to cured meats, such as bacon and deli-style meats, while a compound called sodium benzoate is added to many packaged foods as a preservative. Table 3.8 "Some Sodium Compounds Added to Food" is a partial list of some sodium additives used in food. Some of them you may recognize after reading this chapter. Others you may not recognize, but they are all ionic sodium compounds with some negatively charged ion also present.
Table 3.8 Some Sodium Compounds Added to Food
Sodium Compound
Use in Food
Sodium acetate preservative, acidity regulator
Sodium adipate food acid
Sodium alginate thickener, vegetable gum, stabilizer, gelling agent, emulsifier
Sodium aluminum phosphate acidity regulator, emulsifier
Sodium aluminosilicate anticaking agent
Sodium ascorbate antioxidant
Sodium benzoate preservative
Sodium bicarbonate mineral salt
Sodium bisulfite preservative, antioxidant
Sodium carbonate mineral salt
Sodium carboxymethylcellulose emulsifier
Sodium citrates food acid
Sodium dehydroacetate preservative
Sodium erythorbate antioxidant
Sodium erythorbin antioxidant
Sodium ethyl para-hydroxybenzoate preservative
Sodium ferrocyanide anticaking agent
Sodium formate preservative
Sodium fumarate food acid
Sodium gluconate stabilizer
Sodium hydrogen acetate preservative, acidity regulator
Sodium hydroxide mineral salt
Sodium lactate food acid
Sodium malate food acid
Sodium metabisulfite preservative, antioxidant, bleaching agent
Sodium methyl para-hydroxybenzoate preservative
Sodium nitrate preservative, color fixative
Sodium nitrite preservative, color fixative
Sodium orthophenyl phenol preservative
Sodium propionate preservative
Sodium propyl para-hydroxybenzoate preservative
Sodium sorbate preservative
Sodium stearoyl lactylate emulsifier
Sodium succinates acidity regulator, flavour enhancer
Sodium salts of fatty acids emulsifier, stabilizer, anticaking agent
Sodium sulfite mineral salt, preservative, antioxidant
Sodium sulfite preservative, antioxidant
Sodium tartrate food acid
Sodium tetraborate preservative
The use of so many sodium compounds in prepared and processed foods has alarmed some physicians and nutritionists. They argue that the average person consumes too much sodium from his or her diet. The average person needs only about 500 mg of sodium every day; most people consume more than this—up to 10 times as much. Some studies have implicated increased sodium intake with high blood pressure; newer studies suggest that the link is questionable. However, there has been a push to reduce the amount of sodium most people ingest every day: avoid processed and manufactured foods, read labels on packaged foods (which include an indication of the sodium content), don't oversalt foods, and use other herbs and spices besides salt in cooking.
Food labels include the amount of sodium per serving. This particular label shows that there are 75 mg of sodium in one serving of this particular food item.
Ions form when atoms lose or gain electrons.
Ionic compounds have positive ions and negative ions.
Ionic formulas balance the total positive and negative charges.
Ionic compounds have a simple system of naming.
Groups of atoms can have an overall charge and make ionic compounds.
Explain how cations form.
Explain how anions form.
Give the charge each atom takes when it forms an ion. If more than one charge is possible, list both.
a) K
b) O
c) Co
4. Give the charge each atom takes when it forms an ion. If more than one charge is possible, list both.
a) Ca
b) I
c) Fe
a) Ag
b) Au
c) Br
a) S
b) Na
c) H
7. Name the ions from Exercise 3.
9 Name the ions from Exercise 5.
10. Name the ions from Exercise 6.
11. Give the formula and name for each ionic compound formed between the two listed ions.
a) Mg2+ and Cl−
b) Fe2+ and O2−
c) Fe3+ and O2−
a) K+ and S2−
b) Ag+ and Br−
c) Sr2+ and N3−
a) Cu2+ and F−
b) Ca2+ and O2−
c) K+ and P3−
a) Na+ and N3−
b) Co2+ and I−
c) Au3+ and S2−
a) K+ and SO42−
b) NH4+ and S2−
c) NH4+ and PO43−
a) Ca2+ and NO3−
b) Ca2+ and NO2−
c) Sc3+ and C2H3O2−
a) Pb4+ and SO42−
b) Na+ and I3−
c) Li+ and Cr2O72−
a) NH4+ and N3−
b) Mg2+ and CO32−
c) Al3+ and OH−
a) Ag+ and SO32−
b) Na+ and HCO3−
c) Fe3+ and ClO3−
a) Rb+ and O22−
b) Au3+ and HSO4−
c) Sr2+ and NO2−
21. What is the difference between SO3 and SO32−?
22. What is the difference between NO2 and NO2−?
Cations form by losing electrons.
a) 1+
b) 2−
c) 2+, 3+
b) 1+, 3+
c) 1−
a) the potassium ion
b) the oxide ion
c) the cobalt(II) and cobalt(III) ions, respectively
a) the silver ion
b) the gold(I) and gold(III) ions, respectively
c) the bromide ion
a) magnesium chloride, MgCl2
b) iron(II) oxide, FeO
c) iron(III) oxide, Fe2O313.
a) copper(II) fluoride, CuF2
b) calcium oxide, CaO
c) potassium phosphide, K3P
a) potassium sulfate, K2SO4
b) ammonium sulfide, (NH4)2S
c) ammonium phosphate, (NH4)3PO417.
a) lead(IV) sulfate, Pb(SO4)2
b) sodium triiodide, NaI3
c) lithium dichromate, Li2Cr2O719.
a) silver sulfite, Ag2SO3
b) sodium hydrogen carbonate, NaHCO3
c) iron(III) chlorate, Fe(ClO3)321.
SO3 is sulfur trioxide, while SO32− is the sulfite ion.
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They Said 'Yes'
by Hugh McQuaid August 16, 2011, 3:00 pm January 21, 2021, 6:40 pm
Union members said Tuesday they feel the tide has changed and are confident that when the votes are tallied Wednesday night, their fellow state workers will have approved a clarified agreement.
Speaking with reporters at the CSEA/SEIU Local 2001 Union Hall in Hartford, members offered different reasons why they felt the sentiment that killed the first $1.6 billion agreement has shifted.
Click here to read about why the first vote was defeated.
The requirements for ratification are lower this time around after union leaders voted in July to change the number of unions that it needs to ratify the agreement from 14 to 8 and reduces the threshold of voting members from 80 to 50 percent.
Many attributed it to the more than 3,000 layoff notices and program cuts Gov. Dannel P. Malloy called for in the wake of the vote to reject the original package.
SEIU 1199 member Charlene Bell, a Department of Developmental Services employee at Southbury Training School, said older employees who haven't been at the department that long were unhappy with an additional three years tacked on to the retirement age.
But a strong education effort by union leaders and some layoffs put things in perspective for members, she said.
"They realized that any paycheck is better than no paycheck," she said.
While the layoffs may have contributed to the change of heart on the agreement she's expecting, they have taken an emotional toll on members, Bell said. Even though many expect the agreement to pass Wednesday, laid off workers are feeling down, she said.
"Now it's a matter of getting the morale of members who received slips back up. It's a tough thing," she said.
Many state workers have said they felt bullied by Malloy as the number of layoffs grows each week. Tom Long, an English professor at the University of Connecticut, was not among them. When asked, he laughed at the question.
Long said another state employee told him that he felt Malloy was shoving the agreement down the throats of union members.
"I told him, 'My friend, if you want to see shoving down the throat go visit Wisconsin,'" he said.
Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker led a widely publicized and successful effort to eliminate the collective bargaining rights of some state employees, while limiting the rights for many of the others.
By contrast Malloy avoided hostility and has been largely respectful of Connecticut's workers, Long said. He cited a growing awareness of the differential between Connecticut's situation and that of labor unions in Wisconsin and across the country as a reason more folks are likely to vote to approve the package.
"I think they are more alert to the larger dimensions of the issue. The eyes of the nation are on us and we have a chance to show America that there is an alternate way for public workers to be partners with governors," he said.
Long said he's seen the alternative first-hand. A recent addition to Connecticut's payroll, he spent 20 years working in Virginia as at a community college. Virginia is a right-to-work state where employees cannot be required to join a union and there are no public employee unions.
Not having a voice was demoralizing, Long said.
"In Virginia they treated us like beggars and field hands," he said.
Year after year he said he saw huge increases in healthcare co-pays and monthly premiums. He said he understands the concerns of workers regarding changes in the agreement that require them to contribute 3 percent to their healthcare plans over 10 years. But to Long it was a compromise that reflected the current healthcare situation in the United States.
Judicial marshal supervisor and president of their unit within CSEA SEIU Local 2001 Mark O'Brien said that he's encouraging his members to vote yes even though one could argue that his unit would benefit by not adopting the agreement. His is the only union in the state that has another year of its contract. He said it's not about individual benefits; it's about saving the jobs of fellow state employees in rough economic times.
"It's a very simple, straightforward motivation of benevolence, of caring about your fellow state employee, of trying to get this state back to where it needs to be and the labor movement of this country," he said.
O'Brien said state workers were fortunate the governor was willing to negotiate with unions and give them a second opportunity to ratify an agreement.
State workers are expected to finish the voting process by Wednesday night and the 15 members of the State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition will cast their votes on Thursday morning, SEBAC spokesman Matt O'Connor said.

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The Mindframe gaming headset will feature integrated thermal-electric coolers to keep your sweaty ears cool.
HP's Mindframe headset will feature active cooling to keep your ears from sweating through gaming sessions. Repeat: This new HP headphone has active cooling. For your ears.
The Mindframe is just the most innovative of a host of gaming accessories HP announced Wednesday. The company is also introducing its Sequencer keyboard with optical mechanical switches, and the Reactor mouse with an aluminum cable designed to stay flat. The Reactor mouse will cost $79, while the Sequencer key board will set you back $179. Both should be available in June.
HP says the Mindframe features thermoelectric coolers (TEC) integrated into the ear cups. TECs work by using an electrical charge to create a Peltier effect, which can radiate or absorb heat.
The upcoming HP Mindframe headset features thermoelectric cooling to keep your ears comfortable while gaming.
TECs have been used for many years to cool computers and cute little six-pack refrigerators, but this would appear to be the first time it's been used to cool a headset. It may seem silly, but HP's research says 46 percent of gamers cited discomfort from heat as an issue with gaming headsets.
HP said it's obtained a patent on the concept, so don't expect it from competitors. HP added that the feature can be controlled from the Omen Command Center software.
Besides the cooling, the new Mindframe features 7.1 surround sound, RGB LEDs, DTS Headphone: X surround sound, headset-mounted volume, and a flip-to-mute microphone feature. All of this, and the power for the TEC, comes through a USB Type A connector. HP said the headphones should also be compatible with most mobile devices.
The bad news: HP hasn't said how much the Mindframe will cost when it's released later this year. So if you're suffering from Hot Gamer Ear Syndrome, you'll have to hang in there for a little while longer.
HP's Sequencer keyboard features optical mechanical switches which are "10x" faster than traditional mechanical switches.
If you're a gamer who's so good that the "nanoseconds of a traditional mechanical" might cost you the game, HP's Sequencer keyboard could be the answer. It uses mechanical switches with optical sensors. Typical mechanical switches register contact by bending a small piece of metal into another piece of metal. The Sequence's optical mechanical registers contact by breaking a beam of light. HP says an optical mechanical switch has 10 times' faster response than a metal switch.
Of course, 10X is just a few nanoseconds, so are you going to be able to tell? No. But you'll still get bragging rights over your friend's non-optical keyboard.
HP's RGB sequency keyboard will feature optical mechanical switches.
HP's use of optical switches extends to the new Reactor Mouse, which offers it for the primary and secondary buttons as well as a 16,000-dpi optical sensor. The mouse is fully adjustable, too.
The new HP Reactor mouse features a metal sleeved USB cable so it will lie flat.
The true first for the Reactor mouse, though, is its aluminum cable. According to HP, it lays flat rather than curling up and knocking over your Diet Coke.
HP's Omen gaming accessories have made a big leap from me-too models to these truly innovative products announced Wednesday. We'll tell you more if we have a chance to test them.


Recent trends in the drug discovery area have seen a variety of companies focusing on quality rather than quantity of compounds, instrumentation and data, which means the market demands high-quality compound synthesis for focused libraries; robust and easy-to-use compound storage; reliable transportation and compound handling across multiple sites; and information-rich assays such as those used for cell-based screening.
Automated combinatorial chemistry can now synthesize a near-infinite number of compounds. The problem is narrowing down the possibilities to a reasonable subset to synthesize and screen. Many off-the-shelf options exist for creating library subsets, but these are often limited in scope. Improved integration interfaces mean that multiple organizations now offer solutions that combine existing products to automate parts of a laboratory process. However, when processes change, existing products do not necessarily adapt and can be throughput limiting. Companies that provide custom automation and are able to develop technologies to fill gaps in the process are therefore seeing an increased demand for bespoke automation solutions. More flexible systems can be produced if the automation is tailored to the needs of the chemist, rather than the other way around, and throughput requirements can be built in from the start.
Once the required compound subsets have been synthesized, sample storage needs to be considered. This combines two fundamental issues: storage format (plate or tube) and maintaining sample integrity. Whilst there are many good automated storage solutions for plates, tubes or multiple formats, maintaining sample integrity during processing and long-term storage is still an issue.
Until recently, only large automated stores were available, such as systems from REMP and The Automation Partnership. These can require significant capital outlay, plus the expense of investing in custom built rooms and the equipment needed to maintain a suitable environment. Modular stores, such as TTP LabTech's comPOUND, are extremely popular because they are easy to expand, require less investment to set up and are self-contained, facilitating long-term frozen storage under an inert gas for increased sample protection. Some modular stores also offer the advantage of parallel processing, which can source samples from multiple stores at the same time. Thus, as new storage modules are added to increase the library size, sample throughput actually gets faster to keep pace.
Careful handling of precious stocks is also essential. Incorporating the latest liquid handling technologies into the drug discovery process has been vital to keeping pace with the demands for ever increasing throughput and miniaturized assay volumes to reduce costs. Systems must be designed to cope with the sheer number of assays and new chemical entities (NCEs) being developed. Furthermore, screening can be very costly as the testing of valuable compounds can result in substantial wastage. With this in mind, compound handling scientists should consider high-precision dispensers such as LabCyte's ECHO 555, TTP LabTech's mosquito HTS and Caliper Life Science's Sciclone inL10 workstation for reducing assay volumes and dead volumes from plate preparation.
Another valuable component in the early stages of drug discovery is high-content analysis (HCA), primarily due to its ability to resolve fluorescence assays temporally and spatially at sub-cellular resolution. This analytical capability differs significantly from conventional HTS readouts by reporting multiple fluorescence measurements on a per-cell basis rather than an average for each test well. In many instances, HCA also permits differentiation of sub-populations of cells within a given sample based on fluorescence, morphological and sub-cellular localization. Again, there are multiple technical options in this area including CCD imaging (e.g., Cellomics' ArrayScan VTI), flow cytometry (e.g., BD Biosciences' FACSAria) and microplate cytometry (e.g., TTP LabTech's Acumen eX3).
Amidst the new enabling screening technologies, cell-based approaches such as GFP- or RNAi-based technologies have emerged as being the most applicable for target validation and lead optimization, especially for intracellular therapeutic targets. HCA provides an unparalleled compound profiling ability across a vast range of cellular models. Given its accepted benefits, researchers are now seeking to expand the use of HCA into the HTS arena to increase drug discovery performance. Unfortunately, the marked increase in compound throughput required to achieve this goal does not merely involve replication of existing experimental workflows and instrumentation, but poses significant challenges for most existing technologies.
In short, the goal over the next 10 years will be to turn the existing 70 percent compound failure rate into a 70 percent success rate. Technologies are available to challenge this paradigm in the areas of focused compound synthesis, storage and handling of compounds and information-rich assays, however, these will continue to present both excitement and challenge for those engaged in the discovery of new drugs for some time to come.
Dr. Matthew Cook is part of TTP LabTech's commercial development team within the Integrated Custom Automation (ICA) business, and has also worked in product marketing for LabTech and SHARP Electronics.


Outside of the 17th African Union Summit.
This year's African Union (AU) January summit, appropriately themed around the potential of the continent's youth, sought to position the continental body to meet the challenges of the coming decades – an era during which the continent, having fallen behind its global peers, is pursuing a decisive developmental breakthrough.
A laudable aspiration, certainly, but one that the AU and its predecessor have long espoused. Is Africa poised to make its transition, or is this yet another false start?
The trajectory that Africa hopes to follow is set out in two initiatives. The first is Agenda 2063, the AU's blueprint for revolutionising Africa's political and socio-economic circumstances. Within 50 years, it envisages the continent as democratic, prosperous and peaceful, and its people as healthy, well-educated and economically productive.
The second is the Sustainable Development Goals, an initiative of the United Nations. The goals aim to provide minimum living standards for all – in nutrition, education, healthcare, environmental protection and so on – by 2030.
These are vast, ambitious visions. But putting them into action demands that governments and, increasingly, regional and continental bodies design and implement effective policies. These measures must be analysed and evaluated, weaknesses identified, errors corrected and successes replicated. It is imperative to understand what in Africa's developmental journey is working, and what is not.
For this reason, the AU's decision to assign monitoring and evaluation responsibilities of these initiatives to the continent's homegrown governance evaluation system – the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) – is to be welcomed.
The APRM, founded in 2003 as an offshoot of the New Partnership for Africa's Development, was explicitly intended to address Africa's governance deficiencies. It aimed to encourage policies and governance practices that 'lead to political stability, high economic growth, sustainable development and accelerated sub regional and continental economic integration'.
To this end, reviews of participating countries' governance would be held, blending participatory domestic review processes and country review missions composed of experts from across the continent. The findings would be recorded in 'country review reports' and then be discussed at high-level forums of heads of state of the participating countries. Mutual assistance and peer learning in dealing with problems would be encouraged, while those countries that refused to address their shortcomings would be disciplined by their peers.
Conceptually, the APRM is well placed to act as a monitoring agency for Africa's progress under Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals. It has established valuable expertise in governance evaluation, having completed reviews and published reviews on 17 countries so far. (A further four countries were reviewed in January and their reviews are expected shortly).
These reports have been highly regarded, and commended (generally) for dealing with sensitive issues forthrightly. The APRM has an established infrastructure which could be applied to these tasks, and is suited for the long-term monitoring that Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals demand. Over half of the AU's member states (accounting for over three-quarters of its population) have joined the APRM.
More importantly, like Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals, the APRM is a process focused on governance and development. It shares their ideological assumption. They seek not only generic 'development', but development that benefits ordinary people, opening up their life possibilities and giving them agency regarding their own fate. They demand democracy, inclusion, accountability and the rule of law.
Furthermore, the APRM is enjoined to promote peer learning. How well it has done so over is lifespan is unclear, but officials within the APRM system argue that it is indeed happening, albeit often out of public view. For example, Algeria has reportedly offered help to Uganda in developing its hydrocarbons sector. This has great potential for the Sustainable Development Goals in particular, where countries with similar conditions are similar problems.
However, challenges abound. Measuring progress in the developmental objectives will require new data gathering strategies – the APRM will need to gather and analyse information far more rapidly and frequently than has thus far been the case. Its mandate has become altogether more extensive, and it remains to be seen how it is executed.
Critics of the APRM can point to a list of failings. Reports of financial and administrative weaknesses over the years have made for disturbing reading – something that the APRM's expanded mandate cannot afford and will need to address.
Indeed, the APRM is only now moving out of an extended period of near-paralysis. While Chad, Djibouti and Senegal – and Kenya for the second time – were reviewed at the APRM Forum on the margins of last month's AU summit, these are the first to have been done since January 2013 – a lapse of nearly four full years.
Much of this has been due to indifference by many of the participating governments. Perhaps most notably, many have been remiss in paying their annual subscriptions. Meetings of the forum are poorly attended by the participating countries' leaders.
But African civil society, activist groups and intellectual bodies must share some of the blame. Few African initiatives have offered the possibility for participation and impact on policy conversation quite to the degree that the APRM has, but the will to exploit it has sometimes been found wanting.
Good governance will not be provided unless it is demanded.
Placing the APRM into the heart of Africa's developmental plans thus represents a major opportunity. It demands rejuvenation, certainly. It has not lived up to the hopes that it may have inspired at its founding. But it can point to a solid institutional design, and a brand identity signifying good governance.
An imperfect tool it may be, but one to be improved, and the best one that the continent possesses for seizing this once-in-a-generation chance.


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Q: Не приходят ообщения из формы обратной связи PHP не знаю, к сожалению. Пытаюсь прикрутить к сайту готовую форму, код которой нашла в сети. И сообщения не приходят, увы. Было только тестовое сообщение с сайта-источника, подтверждающее, что все работает. Это мозга мне не хватает.
В html пишу:

  <form name="MyForm" action="http://baseflat.ru/mail.php" method="post" >

<input class="input" name="name" type="text" style="width:35%;min-width: 140px; max-width: 350px;" /> Ваше имя*

<input class="input" name="phone" type="text" style="width:35%;min-width: 140px; max-width: 350px;" /> Телефон*

<input class="input" name="email" type="text" style="width:35%;  min-width: 140px; max-width: 350px;" /> Эл. почта*

Текст сообщения:
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<input id="submit" value="Отправить" type="submit" />

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В файле mail.php такое содержание:
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<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<?php
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?>

Подскажите, что нужно исправить? Сервер поддерживает php. А я пока - нет :(
Спасибо!
P.S. Никакого сообщения об ошибке/отправке и т.п. не получаю. Просто обновляется страница, и всё.
Файл.log я, таки, нашла. Его сюда копировать?
Error.log - пустые файлы. access.log - много каких-то данных, в которых я ничего не понимаю.
В папке "Спам" тоже нет писем.

A:

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<input class="input" name="name" type="text" style="width:35%;min-width: 140px; max-width: 350px;" /> Ваше имя*

<input class="input" name="phone" type="text" style="width:35%;min-width: 140px; max-width: 350px;" /> Телефон

<input class="input" name="email" type="text" style="width:35%;  min-width: 140px; max-width: 350px;" /> Эл. почта*

<input class="input" name="sub" type="text" style="width:35%;min-width: 140px; max-width: 350px;" /> Тема сообщения*

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  $mes = "Имя: $name\nE-mail: $email\nТелефон: $phone\nТема: $sub\nТекст: $body";
 }
 else
 {
  $mes = "Имя: $name\nE-mail: $email\nТема: $sub\nТекст: $body";
 }

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 $mailheaders .= "From: $email <$email>\r\n";
 $mailheaders .= "Reply-To: noreply\r\n";

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 {
  mail($address, $sub, $mes, $mailheaders);
  echo "Сообщение отправлено успешно, через 5 секунд Вы будете направлены на главную страницу сайта <a href='http://www.baseflat.ru/,где сможете продолжить просмотр.";
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 echo "Вы заполнили не все поля, вернитесь назад и заполните необходимые поля";
}
?>

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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has opened seven new Visa Application Centres in China to support a spurt in applications by students, visitors and temporary workers.
Canada is the favourite study destination of international education agents and their clients, according to a new survey that polled agents in 107 countries around the world.
International students will soon pay less for their BC health plans, but are excluded from steeper discounts offered to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. The monthly cost of BC's MSP (health insurance) plan will drop by 50 percent on January.
One in every six students in Atlantic Canada is an international students, but the rates vary a lot by university and by province. New Brunswick is losing foreign students, but Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador are gaining international students.


Why Stopping families from breaking is very important?
Families are important.Well,it seems like it's not.
But the ideal Society we want to make must begin with good and stable families.
How can a Society filled with broken families will make a healthy and stable one?It's not possible.
All improvements we wish to make on our Society must begin with families.
Broken families are everywhere.What are we doing about it?
Education won't help us.Crime control of any kinds won't help either.Or any other improvements won't create an ideal Society we all wish to make.
Happy families are needed.When we have families that are strong and stable we have strong and stable children.Good and strong families impact the quality and condition of our Society.
Attention is needed towards this.
To begin with,let's first care our own family and spread awareness to others in our Society.


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Boats & Rivers
Sometimes I sit and think, sometimes I just sit
By markontour, May 18, 2015
Courtney Barnett won my musical heart last year with her witty tale of a horticulturally-induced asthma attack (Avant Gardener) and now she's back with an equally punchy LP, 'Sometimes I sit and think, sometimes I just sit'. Offering wry musings on moving to the suburbs, palmistry and new-found environmentalism, amidst jagged guitars and continuing references to breathing difficulties, this is an early contender for markontour's album of the year – but for now it is Album of the Week.
Opening track 'Elevator Operator' gets things off with a bang and appears to find the singer saving a young man atop a tower block: "Don't jump little boy / Don't jump off that roof / You've got your whole life ahead of you / You're still in your youth / I'd give anything to have skin like you." But the tables quickly turn and find the apparently suicidal subject retorting: "I think that you're projecting the way that you feel / I'm not suicidal just idiling insignificantly / I come up hear for perception and clarity / I like to imagine I'm playing Sim City / All the people look like ants down there". It turns out his dream is to be an elevator operator.
That's about as dramatic as it gets, because 'Sometimes I sit and think, sometimes I just sit' is mostly concerned with squeezing the funny and unique out of the mundane. Inded track 6, 'Aqua Profunda!', almost enters Half Man Half Biscuit territory in this regard, and chronicles Barnett trying, and failing, to impress a fellow swimmer. "Dead Fox' recalls the singer's introduction to organic vegetables and offers an environmental manifesto of sorts: "We should consider culling cars instead of sharks". It also marks the return of the breathing problems humourised on her debut EP: "Sometimes I think that a single sneeze could be the end of us / My hayfever is acting up / Just swerved into a passing truck".
Best of all is track five, 'Depreston', my live favourite last year that has now been thankfully saved to vinyl. Detailing Barnett's move to a dull Melbourne suburb (no offence to my Melburnian friends – I'm just following the singer's lines), the song turns from a shrug about saving a few dollars through avoidance of the enticements of hipsterville, to a delicate observational story about the deceased former owner of her new home. You really have to listen to it, but to end this homage to a new star of the story-song here's a flavour:
"You said we should look out further / I guess it wouldn't hurt us / We don't have to be around all these coffee shops.
Now we've got that percolator / Never made a latte greater / I'm saving $23 a week.
It's got a lovely garden / A garage for two cars to park in / Or a lot of room for storage if you've just got one.
Then I see the handrail in the shower / A collection of those canisters for coffee, tea and flour / And a photo of a young man in a van in Vietnam
And I can't think of flooroards any more / Whether the front room faces south or north / And I wonder what she bought it for."
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One Response to "Sometimes I sit and think, sometimes I just sit"
David May 19, 2015
Having bought a house in (De)Preston quite a few years before Courtney Barnett decided to pen this song (and a beautiful song it is) and, having had all of the anxieties about falling off the edge of the earth when it came to the lack of culture and coffee that moving north of Bell Street would surely bring, I find it quite ironic that Courtney should be singing about these issues now. While I have since moved on from Preston I return most Saturdays to shop at the market and let me say that these days you don't have to look too hard to find a reasonable coffee.
As you know, Melbourne is a rapidly growing city, and with that come many examples of short sighted, inappropriate development. City of Cool's Vacant Brain is a critique of the shallow thinking of too many developers, told from the perspective of someone talking to a killer who may have chosen the wrong place to bury a body: soundcloud.com/cityofcool/vacant-brain and http://www.cityofcool.org/lyrics


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As part of any significant information technology project, it is very important to identify and incorporate information security requirements at the early planning stage. In doing so, the risk of new security and compliance problems being introduced into the University environment is greatly reduced. It also minimizes the risk of project schedule delays and cost overruns when security requirements must be retrofitted into systems and/or contractual agreements late in the process.
help minimize risks associated with planned outsourcing of mission critical IT services.
acquire ongoing vendor IT services (e.g., application software hosting, hardware/software infrastructure, data storage facilities, staffing, etc.) considered mission critical by the project sponsor.
Describe plans, if any, for use of vendor IT services.
Describe planned user access methods.
Describe planned data input/output processes.
Describe plans for data storage and destruction.
Review University Data Protection Standards.


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I had a registry tweak for Windows XP that made it shut down faster. Is there a shutdown tweak for Vista?– Chilion F.
The popular Fast Shutdown tweak for Windows XP was used to change the default timeout for programs and services that would not end. This allowed hanging programs to be closed sooner making for a faster shutdown experience.
This is controlled by a series of registry entries. Ironically enough, the same XP tweak also works in Vista so let's take a minute to revisit it.
We're going to be making four changes to the registry. If any of the following entries do not exist, create them with the supplied value. Open up the Registry Editor and lets get started.
In the right pane, locate the WaitToKillServiceTimeout value. This is the time in milliseconds that Windows will wait before ending a non-responsive service. Change the default from 20000 to a more appropriate 5000.
Now navigate the key below.
Here you will need to change or add three values. The first is AutoEndTasks. Typically when there is a non-responsive program at shutdown, Windows will prompt whether or not to end the task or to wait for it to close. Setting this value to 1 will instruct Windows to end the task without user intervention. The default value of 0 tells Windows to prompt the user.
The second value under this key is HungAppTimeout. When a user clicks the End Task button in Task Manager, Windows will wait a specified amount of time for the application to end before notifying the user that the instruction was unsuccessful. This value sets that threshold in milliseconds. Change the default 5000 to 1000. Changing this value is mostly optional for this tweak. However, it can speed up the process if a problem arises forcefully ending a process.
The final value we need to change is WaitToKillAppTimeout. When user chooses to shut down the computer or log off, this is the default time in milliseconds that Windows waits for a user process to end before displaying the End Task dialog. If you changed the AutoEndTasks value above, then the process is simply ended instead. Change the default value of 20000 to 5000.
This should help streamline the shutdown process. If you are still experiencing long shutdown times, make sure that you have not chosen to clear the page file at shutdown. This can increase shutdown times dramatically.
If you have not chosen to clear the page file and you are still experiencing slow shutdowns, this may indicate another problem altogether. There is an entire section in Nilpo's Ultimate Windows Troubleshooting and Security Guide dedicated to shutdown problems.
If you are uncomfortable editing the registry, download and run the file below.
Same here!. My system was always taking forever when I sut it down and now everything work so much better!


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Das Wappen Malaysias besteht aus einem mehrfach gegliederten Schild, in dem die malaysischen Bundesstaaten repräsentiert sind. Über dem Schild finden sich der goldene vierzehnzackige Stern über einem liegenden goldenen Halbmond aus der Flagge Malaysias. Schildhalter sind zwei Tiger, unter dem Schild befindet sich ein goldenes Spruchband mit dem malaysischen Staatsmotto Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu (in Latein- und Jawi-Schrift), zu Deutsch "Einheit ist Stärke". Das Wappen wurde nach der Gründung Malaysias 1963 angenommen; durch die häufigen Änderungen der Wappen einiger Bundesstaaten und den Austritt Singapurs aus dem Bund im Jahr 1965 wurde auch das Staatswappen mehrfach modifiziert. Es ist auch Bestandteil der Flagge des malaysischen Königs.

Der Wappenschild

Der Wappenschild besteht aus sieben Feldern, die alle 13 Bundesstaaten Malaysias sowie den Staat selbst repräsentieren und großenteils den Wappen der Bundesstaaten entnommen sind:
 Im Schildhaupt in Rot fünf goldene Krummdolche (Kris), sie stehen für die fünf ehemaligen Unföderierten Malaiischen Staaten Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis und Terengganu.
 Im zweiten Feld in Weiß eine natürlich dargestellte Betelpalme, darunter in Gelb eine schwarze Hängebrücke (für die Penangbrücke, die die Insel Penang mit dem Festland verbindet), darunter blau-weiße Wellenlinien, das Feld steht für Penang.
 Das Feld an der Herzstelle ist senkrecht schwarz-rot-weiß-gelb gestreift. Die Farben stehen für die vier Föderierten Malaiischen Staaten und befanden sich bereits in Flagge und Wappen der Föderation: Rot, Schwarz und Gelb für Negeri Sembilan, Schwarz und Weiß für Pahang, Schwarz, Weiß und Gelb für Perak sowie Rot und Gelb für Selangor.
 Im vierten Feld in Weiß ein natürlich dargestellter Melaka- oder Amlabaum (Phyllanthus emblica) auf grünem Grund für Malakka.
 Das fünfte Feld rechts der Spitze steht für den Staat Sabah, es zeigt in Weiß das Staatswappen:
 Im mittleren Feld in der Spitze in Weiß eine rote Hibiskus-Blüte; der Hibiskus ist die Nationalblume Malaysias. Bis zu dessen Austritt aus der Föderation von Malaysia stand das Feld für Singapur.
 Im letzten Feld links der Spitze in Weiß ein Rhinozerosvogel (Buceros rhinoceros), das Wappentier von Sarawak.

Die anderen Elemente
Das Gelb von Stern, Halbmond und Spruchband ist die Farbe der Monarchie in Malaysia. Die vierzehn Zacken des Sterns symbolisieren die 13 Bundesstaaten und die Einheit Malaysias beziehungsweise die Bundesterritorien. (Ursprünglich war die vierzehnte Spitze für Singapur vorgesehen, das jedoch später die Föderation Malaysias verließ.) Der Halbmond steht für den Islam, die malaysische Staatsreligion. Die beiden Tiger sind alte Herrschaftssymbole und waren bereits Schildhalter des Wappens der Föderation Malaya.

Weblinks

 Beschreibung auf flaggenlexikon.de
 Wappenbeschreibung (englisch)
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 Abbildung und Erklärung des Wappens von Sabah (englisch)

Malaysia
Nationales Symbol (Malaysia)

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I fell in love with this dress once I saw how it fit with an A line cut and the belt was long enough to tie into the cutest bow. This was the first time I got a dress from J.Crew as I have only gotten tops before. I was surprised that I had to go up two whole sizes for it to fit nicely, but none the less I think it a beautiful dress for the Spring and Summer. The fabric is nice weight and it cleans very easily. The tie waist shirt dress comes in a 5 colors and will surely be a go to dress for you.
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The Indian Elections of 2004
by Vijay Prashad
Nobody expected these results. Across the country, the hundreds of millions of Indian voters rejected the economic "reforms" associated with IMFundamentalism. The most dramatic repudiation of these "reforms" came in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, where the Chief Minister and leader of the Telugu Desam Party, Chandrababu Naidu, fashioned himself as the state's CEO. The people refused to allow the TDP any representation in the lower house of the Parliament, the Lok Sabha. The international media, by which we mean everything owned by Fox mogul Rupert Murdoch, anointed Naidu as the favored child of the new world order, being ruthless against small farmers and generous toward information technology. He thought he had renamed Andhra Pradesh's capital, Hyderabad, to Cyberabad. Nothing of the sort.
The right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which led the coalition government (in which Naidu's party played a crucial role), also felt the wrath of the voters. The BJP had relied upon its politics of cruel cultural nationalism against Christians, Muslims and the Left. This did not play well with voters who denied victories to the BJP's most virulently cruel cultural ideologues, including the former Minister for Human Resource Development Murli Manohar Joshi. In Gujarat, where the BJP's Sangh/Jang Parivar had engineered a pogrom against Muslims in 2002 (in retaliation for the murder of fifty-eight of its activists), the BJP could only win half the seats. In Uttar Pradesh, where it played its strongest chauvinist card, all its heavyweights could not win.
But did the people reject the BJP mainly for its cruel cultural nationalism? That might have been the case in some regions, but as far as exit polls and other evidence suggests, what was most on the minds of the voters across the country was the BJP's enthusiastic embrace of IMFundamentalism, the rights of global corporations and the arrogance of the new middle class in the metropolitan areas. Its campaign slogan, India Shining, reflected its craven disregard for the suicides of farmers, the decrease in wages for day workers, the sufferings of the survivors of the Gujarat pogrom, the hardship of the millions who have been put out of work by the "disinvestment" policy to sell the public sector to the most corrupt bidder, and much else. The slogan irked the voter, who saw the reality of their lives mocked by the shallowness of the PR blitz.
The Congress Party is not immune to criticism for these economic "reforms." Indeed, it was the Congress that initiated them, first in the late 1970s and again, with the collusion of the IMF, in 1991. The man who leads the Congress, Manmohan Singh, was the Finance Minister when the Indian government turned to the IMF to conduct the structural adjustment of its relatively self-reliant economy. But, people also remember that the Congress once came to the voters, even if cynically, with the slogan, Garibi Hatao – Remove Poverty. In the main, however, the voters did not so much vote for the Congress as they voted against the BJP and its allies.
That is clear across the country. The Congress benefited from a vote against the last six years of economic harshness. Despite this transparent fact, Manmohan Singh quickly announced that as far as economic policy is concerned, the United Progressive Alliance led by the Congress would alter nothing. Such words portend the suicide of the Congress Party. Even after these reassurances, the gangster brokers at Dalal Street scuttled the stock market so that it registered an incredible decline, and terrified the middle class. This was Big Money's undemocratic way to tell the Congress not to mess with the "reforms" which benefit it, even as it runs the country into the ground.
The main beneficiary of the elections has been the Left. The major Communist Parties won more seats than ever before and will play an important role in the next period. They have decided not to join the government because the Congress has failed to learn the lesson of this election. The Left will support the government from outside, which means that it will be able to offer opposition to the economic policies that the Congress will pursue, give support to the liberal cultural policy that the Congress alliance will most likely implement (given its allies, such as the Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal), and continue to fight against any tacit agreements that opportunists within the Congress might make with the BJP and it allies.
The real lesson of this election is that the BJP faced defeat not just because of its policies, but crucially because the Communists and the social movements generated mass struggles across the country on a number of issues. In Andhra Pradesh, the Communist Parties fought the rise in electricity rates and the starvation of farmers since 2000. In late August 2000, the parties organized a massive demonstration against the Naidu government, put the issues of inequity on the table and faced a barrage of bullets from the police. Two activists lost their lives. Then, the Communists set up gruel centers in the areas where the farmers had been hardest hit by the entry of global agro-businesses, as well as by the rise in prices of fertilizer, water and power. At these centers, the left provided free food as well as analysis of the situation in the state. Such actions pushed the generally turgid Congress Party to get into the act, and because they have a much broader organization, they were able to capitalize on the Left's efforts.
Much the same thing will have to be reproduced across the country. There is no substitute for sustained political struggle to build mass movements. Only a politicized population that backs a progressive government with a genuine program written in the people's interest can make Indian shine. Not the glibness of a PR firm hired to rewrite the ghastly reality of the BJP's six years in office.
2004 is a historic year for the ballot box. Up to May, thirty-three countries have held elections, including El Salvador, Georgia, Greece, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and Taiwan. The right has been defeated in many of these countries, but for Russia, which has an electoral system that is the envy of most authoritarian politicians. India joined Spain in rejecting a political party that slavishly wanted to follow George Bush into the valley of Armageddon. One can only hope that when we go to the polls in 2004, we'll learn from the Indian voters, and we'll landscape the White House and get rid of the Bushes.
VIJAY PRASHAD teaches at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. His latest book is Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare (Boston: South End Press).
Vijay Prashad's most recent book (with Noam Chomsky) is The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and the Fragility of US Power (New Press, August 2022).