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We have more empty pews at church than we used to. It didn't happen suddenly or under the leadership of any one pastor or group of leaders. It's been a gradual thing over several decades.
My wife and I joined First Baptist Church shortly after moving to Vienna in December of 1975. We've been worshipping there ever since. Reverend J. W. Wallis was our pastor for a few of those early years. He was young and dearly loved by our church family as well as the community. J.W. was soon called to serve a bigger church.
Another young minister, Al Cadenhead, followed J.W. Al was good behind the pulpit and great with people. He was clearly destined to lead much larger congregations. There were times during both of those pastorates when we needed more seating capacity. Our goal for high attendance Sunday would be 200 and we'd make it. It was not unusual to watch people smile as they squeezed into an already crowded pew.
There's not any one reason for the sparsely occupied pews at First Baptist today. I wouldn't mention it in a column except that it's more than a local problem. And it's a concern that's not limited to Southern Baptists. Mainline Protestant denominations are dealing with declining numbers. Congregations that were once vibrant and growing now face uncertain futures.
Part of the issue in rural America is demographics. My father was one of seven children. Six of them spent most of their adult life in Dooly County where they faithfully served in local churches. Four of them remained at Harmony Baptist Church where they were baptized during their youth. With my generation the families were smaller and more likely to relocate. With my children's generation most of them moved away.
But when children leave an area, that's only critical to the local church. It's leaving the faith that is more problematic. Empty pews across America give evidence of a transition away from organized religion. Faith and religion are separate matters, but faith without religion often goes unnourished. In John 15:1-17 Jesus talked about the branches not bearing fruit unless they are connected to the vine. Religion, when functioning properly, offers a way to strengthen our connection to the vine.
Being connected to the vine seems less urgent today. Faith seemed more critical when we occasionally heard a message on hell. I don't remember ever having a dreadful fear of fiery torment, but hell was occasionally mentioned in the sermons of my youth. It was depicted as a foreboding place. That wasn't just the preacher's opinion. He quoted from the Bible. A one-way ticket had little appeal to any of us.
Not many children today, or even young adults, have ever heard a sermon on hell. Perhaps it still needs to be brought up once in a while. Or maybe we've quietly decided it's best to avoid subjects that might be offensive. In Matthew 22:13 Jesus said, "there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Since Jesus spoke plainly about hell, it seems we shouldn't completely ignore it.
Even with decades of pleasant sermons, attendance has faltered in many churches. Part of that may be due to priorities that have shifted towards convenience. The earliest family vacations that I remember were for two nights in Jacksonville, Florida, where we stayed at the aqua colored Seahorse Motel. Daddy made sure that a pleasure trip didn't cause us to miss church on Sunday. He wasn't legalistic about it. He just felt it was important for his family to worship together each week. That was a common approach toward Sundays among the church members I knew during childhood.
Sunday worship today has dropped several lines down on the priority list. Church is often relegated to a backup role. It's the place where we go when it won't interfere with other plans.
There are no easy solutions for filling empty pews. The problem, I believe, goes far beyond demographics, sermon topics, or misplaced priorities. It's possible that the vacant places in our sanctuaries reflect vacant spaces in our hearts. That's something worth having an honest discussion about. But let's don't talk about it today. Let's wait until some more convenient time. After all, it's just another empty pew.
It's been my observation in attending churches from Albany to Louisville in the 30 years that I've left Vienna that churches have gotten away from preaching the gospel….the ENTIRE gospel. Ministers, afraid of turning people off, mostly leave out the bad stuff like going to hell and the reasons behind it. They don't preach that the ONLY way to heaven and to be able to sit at the right hand of God is to believe in Christ, and accept him as your savior. Churches now preach that if you be a good person, you'll get to heaven. Watch a Joel Osteen sermon to see an example.
Many churches have stopped outreach ministries. They no longer participate in the Great Commission from Christ to make us fishers of men. Because they don't want to "offend" anyone. Christ was not politically correct in his time, neither should the church be.
There are some churches that are more show. I attended a service at one of the mega churches in Louisville a few years back. I would have sworn I was at a Grand Old Opry show or Garth Brooks concert instead of a church service. The sermon was an incidental part of the show. Don't get me wrong, I agree with you that demographics are playing a part in the small church struggle. I also believe that churches getting away from God is a contributor, too.
BTW, I remember several FBC services under Bro Cadenhead that y'all deacons had to put folding chairs in the isles for folks. If you didn't get there early enough, you were banished to sitting in the pews at the very back under the stained glass windows. My fuzzy memory seems to recall having to run audio from the sanctuary into the chapel at times for the over flow.
My dad used to love to tell the story of such a time as this when Bro Cadenhead was preaching and mentioning Gabriel's trumpet, I proceeded to roll up a nearby bulletin and commence to demonstrate, in my best 8 year old way, what the trumpet might sound like during the service to a packed sanctuary. That afternoon wasn't a pleasant one in the Cason household.
The first Preacher I recall was when we moved from Unadilla to Perry, GA was Brother James Teresy. He was the Pastor at the First Baptist Church. Talk about Fire and Brimstone, He did not shy away from letting you know what the Bible said about Sin and what happened to Sinners who did not repent not so much so that I felt like I went home every Sunday with singed eyebrows. Some feared that his sermons could be too gruesome for the younger ones of the Church and He would say "Am I not being your Pastor if I don't warn you of the punishment that lies ahead of you if your path is not with Jesus?
I was a small child then and I still get chill bumps when I think of Hell to this very day!
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever!
Such a sad journey we're heading down!
Neil, you are right on the mark with this article. Times certainly have changed for whatever reason. It seems that hate has taken the place of love and our country has become divided in so many ways. However, God is still in control and will have his way with the world. As I get older I am reminded just how very short life is and eternity is a very long time. We just may need to take a closer look at our priorities. I grew up on Church Street in Vienna (Methodist Church on one corner and Baptist Church on the other corner) and they were both full most Sundays. As you noted, things have certainly changed over time.
Just read the birth announcements in the Houston Home Journal printed this same day. That will tell you where our society is heading.
Probably one of the best written articles on a problem that is crippling our nation! Great insight Neil!


At one level you can, and probably should, dismiss this as more silly posturing and insecure boasting on the part of President Trump. That said, in absolute terms he's right: the US nuclear arsenal is bigger and more powerful than not just North Korea's, but pretty much everyone else's as well. And as I said on the radio this morning, the logic of nuclear deterrence is still operable and neither side seems irrational enough, at least not yet, to purposely initiate a nuclear exchange.
Last year ended with all kinds of dire warnings and predictions of the odds of war (including nuclear war) between the US and North Korea. But to close this post on an optimistic note, North Korea today reactivated the border hotline with South Korea, restoring a direct line of communication between the two governments and gesturing toward a possible thaw in relations.
Let's hope that has more lasting impact than Trump's juvenile missile envy tweet.


Updated: Dec 05, 2018 at 8:30 p.m.
Two men who allege they were sexually assaulted over three decades ago won't have to testify at the preliminary inquiry of the man they have accused of committing the assaults.
Herbert Penney Flynn, 73, a former Corner Brook resident now living in Toronto, is charged with six offences — sexual assault; indecent assault on a male; buggery; gross indecency; administering, or causing to be administered, a noxious thing; and administering, or causing to be administered, a stupefying or overpowering drug.
Five of the charges are in relation to one victim and are alleged to have occurred in 1982 and one charge involves the second male and is alleged to have occurred in 1988.
There is a publication ban in place that prevents the identification of the alleged victims, who were in their teens at the time and are now in their 50s.
During a hearing in provincial court on Monday the Crown asked to present evidence at the preliminary inquiry through the presentation of witness statements from the complainants. The application contained copies of the audio recorded statements and transcripts of the statements and an affidavit from the investigating officer.
Penney-Flynn opposed the application and requested that if the statements are admitted he should be able to cross-examine the complainants at the preliminary inquiry.
On Wednesday, Judge Wayne Gorman released his written decision granting the Crown's application and denying Penney-Flynn leave to cross-examine.
Gorman said he decided the statements are admissible because the Crown has established that they are credible and trustworthy.
He said cross-examination is not a right at a preliminary inquiry and to grant the leave to cross-examine the complainants would render his decision on the admissibility of the statements meaningless.
He said the proposed questioning is of a general nature and concluded it has not been shown that it would affect the issue of committal.
Penney-Flynn has already elected to be tried by judge alone in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, should be committed to stand trial.
His preliminary inquiry will take place on Dec. 21.


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In this page, I will post images of astronomical objects taken with various cameras and telescopes. Some of the images, like the star trails, are so easy to take and do not even need a telescope. Most of them were taken from my backyard in Penang, Malaysia. However, there are some images that I have taken while I was on job assignment in the United States.
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Leading RAG's de-addiction initiative
Nov 2021 Rasheeda Bhagat
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Rtn Yogesh Zaveri, with the VTT group, attending the Unplugged programme at the Ghent University, Belgium.
Two clubs that have really taken the bull of substance abuse by its horns are Rotary Club of Mumbai Ghatkopar (RCMG), RID 3141, and RC Hyderabad Midtown, RID 3150.In Mumbai, a cause-based hybrid club titled RC Addiction Prevention has been sponsored by RCMG, with 30 members, and 20 more in the pipeline. It has also started a de-addiction centre at Spandan Hospital in the metropolis.
Yogesh Zaveri, a member of RCMG, who is passionately involved in fighting substance abuse for many years says this de-addiction centre was started by their club about a year ago and OPD services are available here for all four types of addiction. Meetings are held here in partnership with the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), and "about 25 people, in the age group 35–40, attend these meetings."
An electrical engineer by profession, Zaveri is a charter member and past president of RCMG. He says at these meetings in Spandan Hospital, "people share stories of how they are not respected by their family members because of their alcohol addiction, and are counselled by people who have successfully quit."
The counselling sessions are very effective and "two doctors from the hospital were so impressed by this programme that they have both been made Rotarians and are now members of the cause-based club RC Addiction Prevention." The new club has already established three OPD clinics for treatment, counselling and awareness for all types of addictions, including Internet addiction.
People share stories of how they are not respected by their family members because of their alcohol addiction, and are counselled by people who have successfully quit.
Himself a college teacher, Zaveri says that initially, concerned about the manner in which youngsters were getting addicted to tobacco, gutka and alcohol, "our club initially started working against substance abuse through street plays done by youngsters on addiction. When Johan Maertens visited India in 2008, I was our district's TRF chair, and he said if you are interested, we can organise a VTT (vocational training tour) to Belgium's Ghent University. The VTT materialised in 2012, and I took two faculty members from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and one from the
Bombay University."
The group of four underwent Unplugged, a beautiful, school-based intervention programme to tackle substance abuse among adolescents. It is a comprehensive social influence programme for addiction prevention, and is compulsory for all schools in Belgium. "Since then RCMG has trained over 200 teachers for this Unplugged programme," says Zaveri.
His club has also conducted training programmes for family physicians in combatting substance abuse, and treating the addicted. "This project is being undertaken under a global grant, and so far, over 1,000 family physicians have been trained." Other activities done by the club include holding AA meetings at a hospital in a Mumbai suburb, and at the Spandan Holistic Mother and Child Care Hospital in the metro.
The club has also developed a programme for training post graduate Psychology students to be school counsellors for addiction prevention conducted by the SNDT University, Mumbai.
RID 3150 has been one of the active districts in combating substance abuse, and has already conducted a mental health awareness seminar for a joint Rotaract club meeting, where addiction awareness formed an important topic of discussion. RC Hyderabad Midtown has been in the forefront of the RAG work for tobacco cessation, and at a multi-district conference organised by the club, 'Ican' care programme for tobacco de-addiction was introduced.
A joint meeting was conducted by the Bareilly International University, Gujarat University and RC Hyderabad Midtown (host club) with eight co-host clubs. This club has also been conducting joint meetings with clubs across Rotary districts in the Punjab, Odisha, Himachal, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu. Eighteen meetings with 30 participating clubs have been held and distribution of tobacco cessation booklets has begun.
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Growing Cannabis For Personal Use To Become Legal In Luxembourg, A First In The E.U.
Cecilia Rodriguez
Oct 22, 2021, 12:45pm EDT |
Luxembourg will become the first country in Europe to allow home-grown cannabis.
For the first time in Europe, Luxembourg has passed laws that will allow residents aged 18 and over to grow up to four cannabis plants legally in their house or garden exclusively for personal use.
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg joins only two other countries in the world — Uruguay and Canada — and 11 states in the U.S. that have legalized the cultivation and distribution of cannabis.
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A European milestone
According to the Luxembourg government's announcement on Friday, the new legislation is intended to address the problem of drug-related crimes by introducing fundamental changes in the country's approach to recreational cannabis use and cultivation.
The decision by the small but financially powerful European country to legalize the production and consumption of the drug is a milestone on the continent where even the Netherlands — which paradoxically allows cannabis sales and consumption in authorized 'coffee houses' but bars its possession and sale.
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"Luxembourg will tolerate the cannabis culture" blared The Luxembourger Wort, the country's main daily newspaper.
"A first in Europe! The Ministers of Justice and Internal Security announced on Friday morning that each Luxembourg household will be able to have four cannabis plants," the paper adds.
Consumption will only be legal within the household, although fines for the possession of maximum three grams in public will be reduced considerably from the current fine of up to €2,500 to as little as €25.
The selling of cannabis seeds will also be possible in shops and online without limits on the level of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component of cannabis.
The current coalition government's more ambitious cannabis decriminalization project had been rejected numerous times in the past, mostly due to international pressure, according to the local media.
Paving the way to state-regulated production
The official announcement was made on Friday by the Minister of Justice, Sam Tanson, during a press conference on reducing drug-related crime.
The new measures on domestic production and consumption, according to the minister, are the first steps on the way to state-regulated production and distribution, the revenues of which would be used for addiction prevention, education and health care.
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This is "a first step in our project to legalize recreational cannabis," Tanson said. Further measures will be taken in 2023.
"We thought we had to act," she said. "We have an issue with drugs, and cannabis is the drug that is most used and is a large part of the illegal market.
"We want to start by allowing people to grow it at home. The idea is that a consumer is not in an illegal situation if he consumes cannabis and that we don't support the whole illegal chain from production to transportation to selling where there is a lot of misery attached. We want to do everything we can to get more and more away from the illegal black market."
The legislation still faces a vote in the Chamber of Deputies and is expected to take effect in early 2022.
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Despite 337 wins in baseball, Anderson fired by Nebraska
Written by Doc McElroy	on 23 May 2011
Mike Anderson (courtesy of Nebraska athletics)
In a shocking move, the Nebraska Cornhuskers have fired baseball coach Mike Anderson.
The Cornhuskers were 30-25 this season, but were only 9-17 in the Big 12 Conference.
Anderson was very succesful, with an overall record of 337-196-2 in nine years with Nebraska. The Cornhuskers won two Big 12 titles and appeared in the 2005 College World Series under Anderson.
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Missouri lures Haith from Miami to lead basketball program
Written by Nancy Mason	on 06 April 2011
Frank Haith (courtesy of Miami athletics)
When head basketball coach Mike Anderson left Missouri to coach in the Southeastern Conference at Arkansas, the Tigers athletic administration tried to lure Purdue coach Matt Painter, but he stayed put and signed a lucrative contract extension.
Missouri turned their attention to Frank Haith of the University of Miami Hurricanes and he accepted the offer to be the head coach. Haith is familiar with the Big 12 Conference.
Haith spent three years as an assistant at both Texas and Texas A&M and also was a Wake Forest assistant before leaving to coach at Miami in 2004 for his first head coaching position.
Tags: Arkansas., Big 12 Conference., Frank Haith., Matt Painter., Mike Anderson., Missouri., Purdue., Southeastern Conference., Texas A&M., Texas., Tigers., University of Miami Hurricanes., Wake Forest.
Anderson moves from Missouri to take Arkansas job
Written by Baron von Froehlich	on 24 March 2011
Mike Anderson (courtesy of Missouri athletics)
Mike Anderson is returning home to Arkansas to become the new men's basketball coach.
Anderson leaves the Missouri Tigers program that he revived five years ago to return to the school where he was an assistant to Nolan Richardson for 17 seasons. He takes the place of John Pelphrey, who was fired 11 days ago on March 13.
Anderson, who also revived the basketball program at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, was 111-57 at Missouri, including an appearance in the Elite Eight in 2009. The Tigers were 23-11 this year, losing to Cincinnati in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Anderson assured Missouri fans that he was going to stay put just six days earlier when rumors surfaced that he was the favorite to take the Razorbacks job.
Since the popular Nolan Richardson left in 2002, Stan Heath and John Pelphrey have not made Arkansas fans have with their double-digit losses in the Southeastern Conference.
compiled from Arkansas athletics news
Tags: Arkansas., Cincinnati., Elite Eight., John Pelphrey., Mike Anderson., Missouri Tigers., NCAA Tournament., Nolan Richardson., Razorbacks., Stan Heath., University of Alabama-Birmingham.


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Understanding and love among all is the only way the planet will eventually find peace. How will such a thing happen? Not by God doing it for us or by some other magical means. It must be achieved little by little and one person at a time. It will only happen when you and I change. When such a change becomes apparent to our family and neighbors, they will wonder what it was that changed us! Then the virus of love and understanding can spread to them and eventually to all we touch, which is the entire planet! This is the prescription for love, peace and happiness that we all seek!
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import logging
import os

from test import LisaTest

import trappy
from bart.common.Analyzer import Analyzer

TESTS_DIRECTORY = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
TESTS_CONF = os.path.join(TESTS_DIRECTORY, "smoke_test_ramp.config")

class STune(LisaTest):
    """
    Goal
    ====

    Verify that a task in a SchedTune cgroup is boosted

    Detailed Description
    ====================

    The test runs a ramp task that has increasing load as time passes.
    The load increases from 5% to 60% over 1 second.  It is run in
    four different configurations: no boost, 15% boost, 30% boost and
    60% boost.

    Expected Behaviour
    ==================

    The margin of the task should match the formula

    .. math::

          (sched\_load\_scale - util) \\times boost

    for all configurations

    """

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls, *args, **kwargs):
        super(STune, cls)._init(TESTS_CONF, *args, **kwargs)

    def test_boosted_utilization_signal(self):
        """Tasks in stune groups are boosted"""

        for tc in self.conf["confs"]:
            test_id = tc["tag"]

            wload_idx = self.conf["wloads"].keys()[0]
            run_dir = os.path.join(self.te.res_dir,
                                   "rtapp:{}:{}".format(test_id, wload_idx),
                                   "1")

            ftrace_events = ["sched_boost_task"]
            ftrace = trappy.FTrace(run_dir, scope="custom",
                                   events=ftrace_events)

            first_task_params = self.conf["wloads"][wload_idx]["conf"]["params"]
            first_task_name = first_task_params.keys()[0]
            rta_task_name = "task_{}".format(first_task_name)

            sbt_dfr = ftrace.sched_boost_task.data_frame
            boost_task_rtapp = sbt_dfr[sbt_dfr.comm == rta_task_name]
            ftrace.add_parsed_event("boost_task_rtapp", boost_task_rtapp)

            # Avoid the first period as the task starts with a very
            # high load and it overutilizes the CPU
            rtapp_period = first_task_params[first_task_name]["params"]["period_ms"]
            task_start = boost_task_rtapp.index[0]
            after_first_period = task_start + (rtapp_period / 1000.)

            boost = tc["cgroups"]["conf"]["schedtune"]["/stune"]["boost"]
            analyzer_const = {
                "SCHED_LOAD_SCALE": 1024,
                "BOOST": boost,
            }
            analyzer = Analyzer(ftrace, analyzer_const,
                                window=(after_first_period, None))
            statement = "(((SCHED_LOAD_SCALE - boost_task_rtapp:util) * BOOST) // 100) == boost_task_rtapp:margin"
            error_msg = "task was not boosted to the expected margin: {:.2f}"\
                        .format(boost / 100.)
            self.assertTrue(analyzer.assertStatement(statement), msg=error_msg)

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Huijing Lu
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences
Emailhuijing.lupolyu.eduhk
Disease History and Life History Predict Behavioral Control of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lu, H. J., Liu, Y. Y., O, J., Guo, S., Zhu, N., Chen, B. B., Lansford, J. E. & Chang, L., 23 Mar 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Evolutionary Psychology. 19, 1
Hand movement improves word memory of Grade 1 students
Tsang, T. W. & Lu, H. J., 22 Jan 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of School and Educational Psychology.
Life History-related Traits Predict Preferences for Dominant or Prestigious Leaders
Zhu, N., Chen, B., Lu, H. J. & Chang, L., Sep 2021, In: Evolutionary Psychological Science. 7, 3, p. 284-297 14 p.
Trust as social investment: A life-history model of environmental effects on ingroup and outgroup trust
Zhu, N., Lu, H. J. & Chang, L., 1 Jan 2021, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 168, 110303.
Well-Being and Health of Children in Rural China: the Roles of Parental Absence, Economic Status, and Neighborhood Environment
Zhou, Q., Guo, S. & Lu, H. J., Oct 2021, In: Applied Research in Quality of Life.
Collectivistic norms facilitate cooperation but not prejudice during a pandemic
Zhu, N., Lu, H. J. & Chang, L., Dec 2020, In: Psychology. 11, 20
Meta-analysis of direct and indirect effects of father absence on menarcheal timing
Guo, S., Lu, H. J., Zhu, N. & Chang, L., 28 Jul 2020, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 11, 1641.
Understanding the Diversity and Fluidity of Human Morality Through Evolutionary Psychology
Zhu, N., Lu, H. J. & Chang, L., 1 Oct 2020, In: Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 14, 4, p. 404–409
Aggression and risk-taking as adaptive implementations of fast life history strategy
Lu, H. J. & Chang, L., 19 Mar 2019, In: Developmental Science. 22, 5, e12827.
Development of undergraduate university students: A 4-year longitudinal case study in Hong Kong
Shek, T. L., Chai, W., Lu, H., Yu, L., Chan, K., Ho, W. W. L., Ma, C. M. S., Wu, K. Y. F., Leung, H., Lin, L. & Law, Y. M., 1 Mar 2019, In: International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health. 12, 1, p. 109-122
Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries
Chang, L., Lu, H. J., Lansford, J. E., Skinner, A. T., Bornstein, M. H., Steinberg, L., Dodge, K. A., Chen, B. B., Tian, Q., Bacchini, D., Deater-Deckard, K., Pastorelli, C., Alampay, L. P., Sorbring, E., Al-Hassan, S. M., Oburu, P., Malone, P. S., Di Giunta, L., Uribe Tirado, L. M. & Tapanya, S., Apr 2019, In: Developmental Psychology. 55, 4, p. 890-903 14 p.
External environment and internal state in relation to life-history behavioural profiles of adolescents in nine countries
Chang, L., Lu, H. J., Lansford, J. E., Bornstein, M. H., Steinberg, L., Chen, B. B., Skinner, A. T., Dodge, K. A., Deater-Deckard, K., Bacchini, D., Pastorelli, C., Alampay, L. P., Tapanya, S., Sorbring, E., Oburu, P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Di Giunta, L., Malone, P. S., Tirado, L. M. U. & Yotanyamaneewong, S., 18 Dec 2019, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286, 1917, 20192097.
Reciprocity Among Preschoolers in Relation to Resource Allocation Toward Siblings, Friends, and Strangers
Lu, H. J. & Chang, L., 1 Jul 2018, In: Evolutionary Psychology. 16, 3, p. 1-11
Resource and extrinsic risk in defining fast life histories of rural Chinese left-behind children
Chang, L. & Lu, H., 1 Jan 2018, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 39, 1, p. 59-66 8 p.
Good genes, good providers, and good fathers and mothers: The withholding of parental investment by married couples
Chang, L., Lu, H. & Zhu, X. Q., 1 Apr 2017, In: Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 11, 2, p. 199-211 13 p.
The association between life history strategy and mate preference in men
Lu, H., Wong, K. C. & Chang, L., 1 Oct 2017, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 116, p. 157-163 7 p.
The development of undergraduate university students
Shek, T. L., Chai, W. Y., Lu, H., Yu, L., Chan, K. H. W., Ho, W. W. L., Ma, M. S., Wu, K. Y. F., Leung, H., Lin, L. & Law, M., 1 Jan 2017, University Students: Promotion of Holistic Development in Hong Kong. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., p. 155-176 22 p.
Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Chapter in an edited book (as author) › Academic research › peer-review
Adaptive malleability of memory : involuntary memory in executing interpersonal self-deception
Lu, H., 2016, In: International journal of psychological studies. 8, 3, p. 17-25 9 p.
Resource allocation to kin, friends, and strangers by 3- to 6-year-old children
Lu, H. & Chang, L., 1 Oct 2016, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 150, p. 194-206 13 p.
Behavioral activation for dementia caregivers: Scheduling pleasant events and enhancing communications
Au, M. L. A. M. G., Gallagher-Thompson, D., Wong, M. K., Leung, J., Chan, W. C., Chan, C. C., Lu, H., Lai, M. K. & Chan, H. W. K., 26 Mar 2015, In: Clinical Interventions in Aging. 10, p. 611-619 9 p.
Good genes, good providers, and good fathers: Economic development involved in how women select a mate
Lu, H., Zhu, X. Q. & Chang, L., 1 Oct 2015, In: Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 9, 4, p. 215-228 14 p.
Religious priming increases help if requesters dress poorly : effects of dress, priming, and task difficulty on helping behaviors
Lu, H. & Chan, K. Y., 2015, In: International journal of psychological studies. 7, 2, p. 164-173 10 p.
The influence of teachers' preferences on children's social status in schools
Lu, H., Fung, Y. K., Farver, J. A., Chen, B. B. & Chang, L., 2015, In: Journal of educational and developmental psychology. 5, 1, p. 57-73 17 p.
Deceiving yourself to better deceive high-status compared to equal-status others
Lu, H. & Chang, L., 1 Jan 2014, In: Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior. 12, 3, p. 635-654 20 p.
Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution
Mesoudi, A., Chang, L., Murray, K. & Lu, H., 12 Nov 2014, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282, 1798, 20142209.
Cultural adaptation to environmental change versus stability
Chang, L., Chen, B. B. & Lu, H., 1 Oct 2013, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 36, 5, p. 485-486 2 p.
Research output: Journal article publication › Review article › Academic research › peer-review
Parenting and socialization of only children in urban china: An example of authoritative parenting
Lu, H. & Chang, L., 1 May 2013, In: Journal of Genetic Psychology. 174, 3, p. 335-343 9 p.
Using students response system via mobile devices in large introductory psychology classes
Chan, H. W. K., Brown, I., Chung, I. C. B., Lu, H. & Luk, G. W. T., 1 Jan 2013, 8th International Conference on e-Learning, ICEL 2013. Academic Conferences Limited, p. 76-81 6 p.
Automatic attention towards face or body as a function of mating motivation.
Lu, H. & Chang, L., 1 Dec 2012, In: Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior. 10, 1, p. 120-135 16 p.
Pathogens promote matrilocal family ties and the copying of foreign religions
Chang, L., Lu, H. & Wu, B. P., 1 Apr 2012, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 35, 2, p. 82-83 2 p.
Self-deception : deceiving yourself to better deceive others
Lu, H., 2012, In: 心理学报 (Acta psychologica sinica). 44, 9, p. 1265-1278 14 p.
Cultural Adaptations to Environmental Variability: An Evolutionary Account of East-West Differences
Chang, L., Mak, M. C. K., Li, T., Wu, B. P., Chen, B. B. & Lu, H., 1 Mar 2011, In: Educational Psychology Review. 23, 1, p. 99-129 31 p.
Self-deceive to countermine detection
Lu, H. & Chang, L., 1 Feb 2011, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 34, 1, p. 33 1 p.
The association between self-deception and moral self-concept as functions of self-consciousness
Lu, H. & Chang, L., 1 Nov 2011, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 51, 7, p. 845-849 5 p.
The face that launched a thousand ships: The mating-warring association in men
Chang, L., Lu, H., Li, H. & Li, T., 1 Jul 2011, In: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 37, 7, p. 976-984 9 p.
Patrilocal residence and father-child resemblance beliefs in relation to paternal investment
Chang, L., Lu, H., Lee, L. N. Y., Li, T. & Sui, S. S., 1 Oct 2010, In: Parenting. 10, 4, p. 274-285 12 p.
Kinship effect on subjective temporal distance of autobiographical memory
Lu, H. & Chang, L., 1 Oct 2009, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 47, 6, p. 595-598 4 p.
Talking About Others Facilitates Theory of Mind in Chinese Preschoolers
Lu, H., Su, Y. & Wang, Q., 1 Nov 2008, In: Developmental Psychology. 44, 6, p. 1726-1736 11 p.
Relationship between talking about others while reminiscing and the emergence of theory of mind in Chinese preschoolers
Lu, H. & Su, Y., 1 Nov 2007, In: Beijing Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis. 43, 6, p. 847-854 8 p.


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Rajesh Kochhar
JC Bose became the first Indian mainstream modern scientist in 1895 with the publication of his first experimental paper on mm-wave radio waves. I discuss 12 decades of Indian pursuit of science by identifying three sequential stages: nationalist phase(1895-1945); international phase (1945-(say) 1990); and the current global phase. The year 1945 is important because this is the year Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bombay was established.
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1. Talk given at Cal. Univ. Physics Centenary Celebrations 7 Jan. 2016 Rise and Decline of Modern Science in India Rajesh Kochhar Mathematics Department Panjab University Chandigarh Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali rkochhar2000@gmail.com
2. India was the first country outside the Western world to take to modern science, with Calcutta as the science centre. In the closing years of the 19th century, two UK-trained Presidency College Calcutta professors, the physicist JC Bose and chemist PC Ray, became the world's first non-White modern mainstream scientists. A generation later, MN Saha at Calcutta University (in 1920) and SN Bose at Dacca University (in 1924) published epoch-making Nobel Prize-level theoretical work in physics.
3. Finally, CV Raman's 1930 physics Nobel Prize became the first ever to go out of the Western world. It is noteworthy that Raman almost missed the Prize. Chronologically speaking, two Soviet physicists, Leonid Mandelstam (1879-1957) and Grigory Landsberg (1890-1957) observed what came to be known as Raman Effect a week before Raman did. However, because of bureaucracy, the discovery announcement was delayed. If these two researchers had been West European or North American rather than Soviet, their publication would have preceded Raman's and the Prize gone to them.
4. In retrospect, it would perhaps have been better for Indian science if Raman had missed his Nobel. The freak individual honour has raised false hopes, blinded us to the inherent shortcomings of Indian science, and made a clear- headed analysis well nigh impossible.
5. • Normally an activity begins modestly, reaches the peak, stabilizes and then slowly declines. Modern science in India however began at the top and has had no place to go except downward. On the other hand, for China the present situation is an improvement over the past.  India's expenditure on R&D remains a lowly 0.9%.  China is taking its science very seriously. Since 1999 it has been increasing its R&D spending by 20% every year so that in 2012 it stood at an impressive 2% of GDP.
6. World share India World share China World share USA Papers % Relative Citation Index Papers % Relative Citation Index Papers % Relative Citation Index 1996-2000 1.89 0.57 3.14 0.41 27.88 1.69 2008-2012 3.45 0.63 14.58 0.64 22.93 1.71
7. While India consistently ranks low in all merit-based international listings, it does have a dubious distinction to its credit. Recent years have seen an alarming growth in new, obscure open-access online journals ('predatory' journals) where there is no quality control. In a span of five years, 2010-2014, the number of papers published in these journals rose 800% to reach the figure of 420,000. Of these, the biggest chunk came from India which accounted for 34.7% of the output. In USA, for every 100 papers in reputed journals, only six were published in dubious journals. In sharp contrast, for every one good Indian paper, there were three in low-level journals.
8.  Permit me to narrate a personal anecdote which provides valuable insight into official Chinese thinking. In 2005, the Chinese Deputy Science Minister with his team visited us at NISTADS ( National Inst of Sci. Tech & Development Studies, New Delhi). A short time previously, Business Standard had published a long article arguing that just as China had become the world hub for manufacture, India should become the hub for services.
9. • I wrote a short letter ( Business Standard, 5-Oct-2005) saying that the prescription is wrong. China has become the hub for low-skill manufacture; India should become high-skill manufacturing hub. I gave a copy of this letter to the Chinese Minister who took my permission to keep it. Then he made a very significant statement in English:
10. 'We know we cannot compete with the West on today's technologies. We are therefore making money from yesterday's technologies and investing it in the technologies of tomorrow.' • In contrast to China, India has wrongly viewed science as an intellectual activity rather than as an economic tool. • It is pertinent to recall that many celebrated British scientific names whom we know from text books ( Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle) all worked to advance the cause of East India Company.
11. It will be instructive to look at the past 12 decades of Indian science with a view to understanding • how we have ended where we are and • where we go from here.
12. INDIAN PURSUIT OF SCIENCE can be discussed in terms of three sequential phases:  (i) Nationalist Phase (1895);  (ii) International Phase(1945); and  (iii) Globalization Phase (c. 1990). - The first phase can be assigned a precise beginning, 1895, when Bose's first paper on radio physics appeared. - The second phase can nominally be taken to begin with the 1945 setting up of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore/Bombay , by Homi Bhabha. - The third phase, now on, began with the onset of globalization.
13. • As we move down the phases, there is a general decline in the quality of Indian science and in its impact on the world. • I would argue that there is a striking correlation between these three phases and the stages in the diminishing role perceived by the middle class for itself in the national scheme of things.
14. NATIONALIST PHASE: PRE-HISTORY • Nationalist phase has a very instructive pre-history. Although Dr Mahendralal Sircar failed to initiate scientific research under Indian auspices at his Indian Association for Cultivation of Science (estd 1876), he succeeded in achieving two things. • Sircar's campaign compelled the colonial administration to induct science into its education system.
15. • It introduced science culture in Bengal. Thanks to Science Association, career in science became an attractive option for Bengalis. Of all Gilchrist scholars sent by the Government to London and Edinburgh for higher studies, only the Bengalis opted for science : Aghornath Chattopadhyay (1871), Pramatha Nath Bose (1874), and Prafulla Chandra Ray (1882).
16. Generally speaking, the British were not interested in creating laboratory or research facilities in India. A small exception however had to be made in the case of chemistry for reasons of administration and good governance. Alexander Pedler was appointed Professor of Chemistry in Presidency College in 1874. 'Under instruction from the Government', he 'came with a considerable supply of chemical apparatus' and started practical classes in 1875.
17. • If today India has very successful chemical and pharmaceutical industries, the roots go back to Pedler. Pedler can truly be called founder of modern chemistry education in India. - • Accounts of early institutional history of IACS have been coloured by the circumstance that 25 years after its establishment, it became Raman's workplace. • The following points from the pre- and early history of IACS are important for understanding later developments.
18. • For his own reasons, Lieut.-Gov. of Bengal Richard Temple was keen to set up polytechnics in Bengal, but support from the Indians was not forthcoming. The upper- caste dominated leadership did not want a nation of mechanics (why not?); it rejected science application in favour of the more glamorous science speculation.
19. • Hindu Vidyalaya was set up in 1817 as a private body, but chose to become government-aided in 1823. In contrast, IACS began in 1876 as a government-aided institution but opted to become private in 1881. • If Sircar had accepted the status of a government-aided science college and focused on the laboratory rather than the lecture theatre, modern scientific research might have taken roots in India in the 1880s itself.
20. • Sircar himself could easily have become a discoverer. But he preferred to be a high-profile demonstrator. The high point of Sircar's social life was an invitation from the Viceroy to display the spectacle of the newly invented Crookes tube . It was a toy for India but a research tool in Europe. It was later used by JJ Thomson in England to discover the electron. In 1897 Father Lafont assisted by a Tagore boy (Maharaja Jotindro Mohan Tagore's son Pradyot Kumar) took the X-ray image of the Viceroy Lord Elgin's s hand decorated with a ring and won a photography prize for the effort .
21. • Sircar bitterly complained about the failure of the native community to shell out enough funds for instituting professorships. May be in the first flush of excitement he spent the collected money on buildings hoping that the inflow would continue. His hopes were badly belied. The upper classes were ready to financially support Sircar in his pursuits because he was one of them. But they were not ready to give money for creating employment for others.
22. • The Indian wealthy owed nothing to science; there was no reason for them to support science. • Eventually it was left for the colonial establishment to provide a forum for scientific research by Indians.
23. NATIONALIST PHASE • Although creativity-wise, Bose's personal research ranked higher than Ray's, the over-all impact and long-time influence of Ray was far greater. • Bose carried out his experimental studies on the optical properties of mm-length radio waves in his personal lab, did not train any students or assistants and gave this research up altogether in 1900 or 1901. He chose to devote the rest of his life to a study of the living and the non-living which work at the time was considered to be pseudo-science.
24. • Bose could have made millions from royalty on his radio work, but he did not. • If he had done so, India would have learnt to appreciate science as a producer of wealth and physics-based industries would have been started. • As it turned out, industrial physics never ever took roots in India.
25. • Tagore wrote to Bose (who was then in Europe) on 4 June 1901: "I bow my heart at the feet of the God who has chosen you as the instrument of removal of India's shame". Those indeed were the days when God operated through the West. Even 100 years later, our aim still is to get a pat on the back from the West
26. • In 1901 itself Tagore wrote a poem in Bengali, titled To Jagadishchandra Bose, which dramatically opened with the lines: "Young image of what old Rishi of Ind/Art thou, O Arya savant, Jagadis? • Pre-independence India chose to Brahminize science, just as after independence we have Kshatriya-ized it. Artisanisation of science, which gave Europe its power, never took off in India
27. • In contrast to Bose's personal lab, Ray carried out his chemical researches in the College lab, and set up a flourishing school as well as industry. • While the driving force in Calcutta was nationalism, it needs to be appreciated that Dacca University emerged as a strong training centre under a British chemist Edwin Roy Watson (1880-1926) who remained there from 1906 till 1921 excluding the war years when he returned home for war-oriented research.
28.  The spectacular achievements of the Nationalist Phase were made possible by a fortuitous combination of circumstances. (i) Modern science was young then. It was just a short step ahead of, or rather a continuation of, M. Sc.- level studies. -Thus Raman could publish research papers in international journals while still a student and establish his credentials as a world-class experimentalist working part-time. - There was hardly any difference between a classroom textbook and a research journal. -
29. • Saha and Satyen Bose as young lecturers produced the first ever English translation of Einstein for use as course material. • Saha and before him Jagadis Bose could identify research problems by reading popular accounts. (ii) Another very important feature of this phase was that the caliber of teachers was exceptionally high. Teaching was the best career option after the civil service.
30. - Surendra Nath Banerjee after being unfairly dismissed from ICS became a college professor (He taught P.C. Ray English literature). - Since Saha could not enter civil services because of his pronounced nationalist leanings, he became a university lecturer. Raman left a cushy civil job to become a professor. (iii) As J.C. Bose noted, in his time the Presidency College Calcutta was among the best equipped anywhere in the world. The infrastructural and technological requirements of experimental research were very modest and easily available at the level of college teaching.
31. J. Bose set up his radio lab with the help of atraditional tinsmith. Ray had a B.Sc. - failed assistant, Jitendra Nath Rakshit, who "Out of a few bits of rejected glass - tubing" "could improvise an apparatus, which hitherto could be had from a firm in England or Germany after months of anxious waiting".
32. • Raman used to boast that his equipment cost only 200 rupees. Raman missed the point completely. What is important is not the cost, but the fact that at the time world-class research could be carried out in a college practical lab. (iv) The take-off stage of modern physics coincided with the enhanced sense of Indian nationalism. Making scientific discoveries requires a certain amount of defiance. The suppressed semi-articulated resentment against the colonial rulers provided that defiance.
33. - Paradoxically, while Indian achievements in science were perceived as part of the nationalist movement, at the same time honours bestowed by the colonial rulers were coveted and even flaunted. • In the early days when India was new to modern science, it was natural that recognition be sought from the West. A very serious shortcoming of Indian science has been and still is that it never became self-assessing. Scientists have continued looking toward the West for guidance, encouragement, support and recognition.
34. • In the pre-Gandhian years, the nationalist movement was strictly a middle class affair, with the leadership still making appeals to the Empire's sense of noblesse oblige. • In this scheme science and public affairs reinforced each other. Things changed with the emergence of Mahatma Gandhi on the scene. • Leadership remained in the hands of the middle class but its constituency became more broad-based.
35. • As a strategy, Mahatma Gandhi put the West on the defensive on ethical grounds. Since modern science was largely seen as a part of the Western civilizational baggage, it went out of focus during years of Gandhi's ascendancy. • Science returned centre stage with the emergence of Jawaharlal Nehru as the undisputed leader of independent India.
36. Second World War and Independence • At the time of the Second World War (1939-1945) there were two mutually exclusive streams in Indian science: routine science under the government, and nationalism-inspired research activity by the Indians in the universities. • The twain met during the war.
37. The government needed the help of Indian academics in its war effort. And it was a foregone conclusion that the British would leave India after the war. Indians were already in important positions in government. Though still working under British auspices, they sought to dovetail their country's post-independence interests into the British exigencies of war'.
38. CSIR • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was set up on 12 March 1942.( There is no reason for CSIR to celebrate its foundation day on 26 Sep.) Its scientific head was Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar who had been brought two years previously from Punjab University Lahore into the government as Director Scientific and Industrial Research.
39. Two years later, in 1944, CSIR sanctioned the establishment of five research laboratories the foundation stones of which were laid between December 1945 and April 1947 and which were opened between January and November 1950.
40. • In the enthusiasm for science, too many labs were opened in too short a time. Since there was no felt need for them and they were being opened for the sake of opening, extraneous arguments were proffered and accepted for their establishment and location. • National Chemical Lab was located in Poona to be near Bombay which was already a major hub for chemical industry. ( It was funded by the House of Tata which even wanted it to carry their name.)
41. • In contrast, there was however no obvious venue for the Physical Lab. It was decided to locate it in Delhi rather than Calcutta on the irrelevant ground that this would enable the laboratory 'to keep in touch with the government'. • Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute was opened in Pilani on the personal request of Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894-1983 ) whose birth place it was.
42. • Central Electro Chemical Research Institute was set up at Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu because a wealthy local landowner (Alagappa Chettiar) offered 300 acres of land and 15 lakh rupees provided it was located there. The 1957 chemistry Nobel laureate, Alexander Robertus Todd, who attended the inauguration, has recorded that For the distinguished guests assembled for the opening ceremony, Chettiar hosted a lunch where 'plates and goblets used were silver or gold'.
43. • The research carried out by Indians in the universities was basic in nature. Sudden creation of national labs without creating a pool of trained personnel beforehand robbed the universities of talent. It also blurred the distinction between applied and basic research. • Without linkage to economy, a laboratory would merely be an office. Government science in general is likely to be more government than science.
44. • The first Indian research Institute ( as distinct from colonial government establishments and the personal Bose Institute Calcutta) was Tata Institute of Fundamental Research set up in Bangalore in 1945 and shifted to Bombay before the year end. It was the result of Homi Bhabha's initiative whose father's sister was married to Sir Dorab Tata.
45.  Apart from TIFR two more laboratories were opened: Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad (1947) and Bangalore-based 'Research Institute of the Indian Academy of Sciences, directed by Sir C.V. Raman' (1948).  CSIR supported all three. Though legally private entities TIFR, PRL and (post-Raman) RRI became for all purposes national facilities, funded by various departments: DAE, DoS, DST.
46. • Nehru had a soft corner for persons with an aristocratic background. He thus was more comfortable with a Bhabha than with a Saha. • On his return to India from Cambridge in 1939, Bhabha held temporary appointments in the Tata-owned Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.
47. • Bhabha turned down offers of regular appointment from Allahabad University as well as Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Calcutta, because he was 'only interested in research and not in teaching', which to him constituted 'routine duties'. • And yet, before leaving for India, Bhabha had applied for a Reader's position at Liverpool, but was not selected. Bhabha was willing to teach in England, but not in India.
48.  He was a beneficiary of the British University system and was ready to become part of it. But he would not extend a similar courtesy to an Indian University. • As TIFR director, Bhabha could comfortably deal with people whom he had inducted into his own social club. • It would be tempting to speculate on the impact an aristocratic Bhabha would have made on the rank and file of Indian students in a classroom and vice versa.
49. • Incidentally, we have it on the testimony of a leading nuclear scientist of the time, Otto Robert Frisch (1904-1979), that at the time of his return to India in 1939 Bhabha did not know how to use a Geiger counter, the most elementary gadget in experimental nuclear science. • He however knew the significance of the new emerging field. • Early 1946, CSIR set up an advisory Atomic Research Committee under the chairmanship of Bhabha, which eventually led to the formation of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
50. • Bhabha is important on two distinct fronts. • He initiated India's foreign-policy related big science, and he changed the social setting of fundamental research. • Bhabha headed both TIFR and AEC which thus enjoyed a symbiotic relationship. And yet, they were guided by different philosophies.
51. • While the atomic establishment was to be self-contained with its own rigorous manpower training programme, TIFR was to be integrated socially and intellectually with the West. • It is as if the Trombay Bhabha was distinct from the Colaba Bhabha
52.  Bhabha insisted at least with the TIFR senior faculty that they come in a tie. Those without it were expected to avoid high visibility.  Two separate canteens, aptly designated the west canteen and the east canteen, were constructed for the upper crust and the lower crust respectively. The European cuisine of the west canteen immediately became the talk of the town.  In Bhabha's time chapati and rice were banned from the west canteen. In a minor concession after Bhabha's death, rice has been permitted, but chapati still remains forbidden.
53. • At the professional level, TIFR had some very constructive features. • Bhabha believed in identifying persons and building institutions around them. • In contrast, CSIR first built buildings and then scrambled to fill the posts. • At least in the early years, TIFR offered higher salaries than elsewhere in India.
54. • Bhabha's greatest asset however was that he lay outside the caste hierarchy and beyond regional or linguistic parochialism. • He could thus build a truly Indian institution. • Contrast this with the situation in the sisterly Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, where 'early in 1943, there was a serious agitation by students against the construction of a common dining hall, since they preferred the already existing four different messes which were run almost on a regional basis.'
55. Mentoring • An important difference between the university system and the lab/institute system needs to be mentioned. In the pre-career advancement era, once a person became professor, there was no professional peak left to be scaled. A professor could happily take up the role of mentoring students and junior colleagues.
56. • In the lab/institute system, a scientist has always a higher pay scale to aspire for. He may thus be more interested in strengthening his own cv rather than that of his junior colleagues.
57. INTERNATIONAL PHASE • During this phase, at least in the earlier part, nation building was a recurrent theme. Attempts at industrialization, reverse engineering, irrigation dams, agricultural production, strategic science, health-care and desire for expansion of science and engineering all placed science (including technology and engineering) in a pivotal place. • This rubbed onto basic scientific research also.
58.  Generally speaking, research in the International Phase was of lesser quality than in the Nationalist Phase.  This is understandable because in the interim science had developed faster than India had.  Indian science depended on foreign collaboration and visits; and had an eye on the man-power needs of post-war West.  Yet, it fitted in with the national desire to harness science for economic development and as an instrument of national prestige.
59. • Although political power now vested in elected representatives, the distance between them and the middle class was still small. • The distance has since increased to such an extent that middle class has largely lost whatever sense of national obligation it had cherished earlier.
60. GLOBALIZATION PHASE  Globalization has transformed Indian economy as well as the Indian middle class. Acting short-sightedly, India has neglected agriculture and manufacture and focused on service sector.  Since the service sector is manifestly science-less, the value of science in education and daily life has declined.
61. • Thus paradoxically while our dependence and fascination for new technology has gone up, respect for science itself has gone down. If the economy of a country becomes derivative, so will its culture. • Globalization has introduced Upper Class India to a consumerist lifestyle that is beyond the intrinsic strength of Indian economy. This lifestyle can only be maintained by servicing the Western economy. Upper-class children therefore will generally be not interested in a career in science, at least in India.
62. • Our state education system should rigorously train boys and girls coming from socially disadvantaged sections, for whom a science-related career in universities, defence, national labs, public sector undertakings, etc., would be a social step upward and would therefore be enthusiastically accepted.
63. • Personally, I would like to judge a country not by the quality of its researchers but by the quality of its teachers. • As things stand, a typical Indian B.Sc. does not know enough science to be able to teach it at school .
64. • Science cannot flourish in a society whose economy does not require science. The purpose of science is to produce wealth and improve quality of life. The purpose of this wealth is to support science. • This symbiotic relationship needs to be established because a country cannot sustain science as a purely cultural activity for an extended period of time.
65. • If science is to survive, leave aside flourish, in India, it must play a leading role in GDP. • At the same time, fruits of rigorous state education should be made available to those whose parents did not enjoy these fruits.
66. Science belongs to its harnessers not its worshippers.
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DOD preps smart card roll out
By Dan Caterinicchia
The Defense Department prepares to deploy its Common Access Card program departmentwide
Defense IT
"Army orders smart card readers"
The Defense Department is about to launch departmentwide deployment of its Common Access Card program, after issuing more than 84,000 smart cards during the last year as part of a beta test.
The CAC program uses secure, multi-application smart cards for physical identification, building access and network access. DOD's goal is to have the 4 million eligible personnel, including those in active duty, selected reservists, DOD civilians and some contractors, to be issued their unique card from more than 900 issuance centers within 15 months, said Mary Dixon, director of access card programs at DOD.
Among the initial applications for the card are public-key infrastructure functions, including authentication, encryption, decryption and digital signing, said Ken Scheflen, director of the Defense Manpower Data Center. Applications with the defense travel system and warfighter support are other short-term goals, with biometrics, logistics and medical functions possible future uses, he said.
The cards will act as "the passport to the electronic world" for users, and the digital signature capability will help DOD's "business and commerce move away from cumbersome paper-based systems," said David Chu, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
John Stenbit, DOD chief information officer, said the goal of the program is to "move toward a network-centric world." He said he had not heard of any privacy concerns from DOD personnel because the information on the cards includes the cardholder's name, picture, fingerprint and a personal identification number, which are "conveniences, not intrusions."
Chu and Stenbit were issued their cards —in a process that takes about 15 minutes —during an Oct. 29 event at Electronic Data Systems Corp. in Alexandria, Va. EDS is the prime contractor on the CAC program and is working with a number of other vendors, including SchlumbergerSema, which is providing the smart card readers, and Infineon Technologies AG, which is providing the secure microcontroller chips.
The cards are good for a maximum of three years and can hold 32K of information, with a technology refresh built into the contract to keep DOD from falling behind as advancements occur or applications are added, Dixon said.
"What we're committed to doing is whatever we do in the future won't obsolete what we did in the past," she said, adding the three-year life cycle is similar to how most agencies treat their PC purchases. "The same thing will happen with the cards."
Paul Beverly, a vice president at SchlumbergerSema, North America, said his company already has a 64K card and a 128K model on its roadmap, but that memory isn't really the issue with DOD. "It's really [about] the policies and procedures of what information will go on the card."
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Q: Collectionview and paging I want to use collection view for show user's instagram photos like Tinder. I placed a collectionview and enabled paging. But i don't know how to show 6 photos for each page. How can i do this?
This is what i want:
First page:

Second Page:

I used all spacing settings zero because setting spacing from storyboard problem for different screen sizes.
My collection view's settings and result:

Result:

So i want to show 6 photos per page. How to achive this?

A: To show the specific number of cells you want, you have to calculate the size of the cells. Something like this:
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, sizeForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGSize {
    let numberOfRows = 2
    let numberOfColumns = 3

    let height = collectionView.frame.size.height / numberOfRows
    let width = collectionView.frame.size.width / numberOfColumns

    let cellSize = CGSize(width: width, height: height)

    return cellSize
}

Since your layout configuration is static you can calculate it just once to make it faster:
class MyVC: UIViewController {

    private let cellSize: CGSize = CGSize(width: collectionView.frame.width/numberOfColumns, height: collectionView.frame.height/numberOfRows) // or create a computed property

    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, sizeForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGSize {
        return cellSize
    }
}

This code is untested, maybe you have to add some padding but you get the idea. Another option would be to implement your own UICollectionViewLayout subclass

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Ecitophya — род мирмекофильных коротконадкрылых жуков из подсемейства Aleocharinae (Ecitocharini, Staphylinidae). Неотропика.

Распространение
Центральная и Южная Америка.

Описание
Мелкие жуки (около 5 мм) красновато-коричневого цвета. Ассоциированы с кочевыми муравьями рода Eciton.

Систематика
6 видов. Род Ecitophya включён в мирмекофильную трибу Ecitocharini из подсемейства Aleocharinae.

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Ссылки
 Munetoshi Maruyama and Joseph Parker. (2017). Deep-time parallel evolution of myrmecoid syndrome in rove beetle symbionts of army ants. Current Biology. Volume 27, Issue 6, pp.920-926 (1—17), 20 March 2017. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/076315 (есть рисунок)
 tolweb.org: Ecitocharini
 biolib.cz: Aleocharinae Fleming, 1821

Алеохарины
Мирмекофилы
Роды жесткокрылых

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Trent Lott International Airport  is a county-owned public-use airport located in Moss Point, Mississippi  north of the central business district of Pascagoula, a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. The airport is named for Trent Lott, a former United States Senator from Mississippi.

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Trent Lott International Airport is assigned PQL by the FAA and PGL by the IATA. PGL was formerly assigned to Jackson County Airport in Pascagoula which closed sometime between 1982 and 1989.

DayJet provided an on-demand jet air taxi service from this airport to Jacksonville, Lakeland, Tallahassee, Pensacola, Gainesville, Boca Raton, Opa-Locka/Miami Dade County, Naples, Sarasota/Bradenton, Savannah, Macon, and Montgomery. This service ended in September 2008.

Facilities and aircraft
Trent Lott International Airport covers an area of  and has one runway designated 17/35 with an asphalt pavement measuring .

For the 12-month period ending June 2, 2016, the airport had 52,213 aircraft operations, an average of 143 per day: 86% general aviation, 10% air taxi and 4% military. At that time there were 32 aircraft based at this airport: 25 single-engine, 3 multi-engine, 2 jet and 2 helicopter.

References

External links

 Trent Lott International Airport page at Jackson County website

Airports in Mississippi
Buildings and structures in Jackson County, Mississippi
Transportation in Jackson County, Mississippi


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Browsing Radiocarbon, Volume 32, Number 3 (1990) by Subjects
Radiocarbon, Volume 32, Number 3 (1990)
Intercalibration of Environmental Isotope Measurements: The Program of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Gonfiantini, Roberto; Rozanski, Kazimierz; Stichler, Willibald (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 1990-01-01)
We briefly present here the environmental isotope intercalibration programs of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In fact, the IAEA has implemented two parallel programs during the last 20 years: for stable isotopes of light elements and for a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, tritium. This IAEA activity resulted in the preparation of a number of reference and intercomparison materials of various types, now stored in the Agency and available upon request.
Radiocarbon Dating Reproducibility at the Museo de la Plata Radiocarbon Laboratory
Figini, Anibal J.; Huarte, Roberto; Carbonari, Jorge (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 1990-01-01)
We discuss here the variability, for our laboratory, in counting for radiocarbon dating of replicate measurements of background and secondary modern standard, duplicate measurements of samples provided by the International Collaborative Study, and replicate measurements of the dilution of the 14C-labeled benzene standard. The variability in the measurements of the International Collaborative Study samples suggest the existence of systematic bias.
Routine Checks in the Uppsala Conventional 14C Laboratory to Achieve Reliable Results
Olsson, Ingrid U. (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 1990-01-01)
I describe here a series of routine self-checks that the Uppsala 14C laboratory performs with all measurements. We estimate all uncertainties in the physical measurement of a sample. We study long-term stability, calculate mean values for oxalic acid and background and compare expected and real statistical distributions of uncertainties. To reduce the risk of bias, the samples from each series are almost exclusively run on the same counter. Some samples are, however, run on two or more counters to check the possible bias to achieve reliable activity comparisons with other laboratories. It is always possible to trace which counter is used, since different number series are used for different counters.
Sources of Random Error in the Debrecen Radiocarbon Laboratory
Hertelendi, Ede (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 1990-01-01)
A new high-pressure methane-filled counter system for 14C dating was installed in 1986 when the first stage of the International Collaborative Study (ICS) started. Random errors in the new measuring system and in the process of chemical pretreatment and preparation were checked during the three years of intercomparison. Results show that the most important source of error in our laboratory is gas contamination. This causes variation of the count rate to exceed the statistically expected variability. Other sources of error are also discussed and limits of their contributions are given.
Time-Resolved Liquid Scintillation Counting
Kessler, Michael (Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 1990-01-01)
Historically, scientists who perform low-level measurements of 14C for age dating, and 3H2O for environmental contamination, have purchased or constructed highly specialized instruments to quantitate low-level radionuclides using a general-purpose liquid-scintillation analyzer (LSA). The LSA uses special time-resolved 3-D spectrum analysis (TR-LSC) to reduce background without substantially affecting sample counting efficiency. This technique, in combination with a special slow fluor scintillating plastic, further reduces the minimal detectable limit for the TR-LSC liquid scintillation counter.


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Henning Petri (Petters, Pettersson), död 1702, var en svensk guldsmed.

Olle Källström framlade i en uppsats i Fornvännen 1943 uppgifter om guldsmeden Peder Hemmingsson, vars änka gifte om sig med guldsmeden Valentin Lennartsson Wefwer i Linköping. Peder Hemmingssons son, Heming Pettersson som 1656 var gesäll hos styvfadern, är troligen identisk med Henning Petri. Han var från 1657 verksam i Nyköping där han 1671 blev bisittare i guldsmedsskrået, 1681 ålderman där, en post han avsade sig 1694. Omkring 1680 blev rådman i Nyköping

Han var gift med Maria Christiansdotter och far till guldsmederna Petter Henning den äldre och Christian Henning. Hans produktion omfattar kyrkligt och profant silver med fat som har drivna figurscener, religiösa motiv, mytologiska motiv samt allegoriska och symboliska motiv ofta inlagda i landskapsbilder i en frodig barockstil. Petri finns representerad vid Nordiska museet, Statens historiska museum, Nationalmuseum i Stockholm, Sörmlands museum och Hallwylska museet. Därtill har han tillverkat en vinkanna för Nicolaikyrkan i Nyköping, en vinkanna för Allhelgonakyrkan i Nyköping, en oblatask från 1688 för Råby-Rönö kyrka, ett par ljusstakar från 1697 för Vadsbro kyrka, sockenbudstyg från 1695 för Halla kyrka, Södermanland, en oblatask från 1697 för Barva kyrka, en kanna från 1699 för Vårdinge kyrka, en dopskål för Tyresö kyrka, ett par ljusstakar för Västra Ny kyrka, oblataskar för Gamleby och Gladhammars kyrkor, oblatask i Bunkeflo kyrka i Skåne, ljusstakar för Dalby kyrka, Uppland, oblatask från 1701 för Harakers kyrka, oblatask från 1700 för Hamrånge kyrka, Ljustakar för Jakobs och Katarina kyrkor i Stockholm, ljusstakar från 1692 för Trefaldighetskyrkan i Gävle samt ljusstakar för Säters kyrka, Dalarna.

Tryckta källor
Svenskt konstnärslexikon del IV sid 409, Allhems Förlag, Malmö. LIBRIS-ID:8390296
Svenska konstnärer, Biografisk handbok, Väbo förlag, 1987, sid 422,

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Svenska guldsmeder
Representerade vid Nationalmuseum
Födda okänt år
Avlidna 1702
Män


In this post, 7th Grade Science and AVID instructor, and author of the recent Fueled by Coffee and Love, Mari Venturino, walks us through a simple way to structure student discussions. This is a great technique to help kids review a topic before an assessment or presentation. In this example, Mari's class is studying Natural Disasters. Have students read our units on Extreme Weather, Tornadoes, Volcanoes or Earthquakes before your Walk and Talk if you'd like to use Mari's provided questions!


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Post-16 education and skills
Post-16 planning and funding
Learning & Skills Act 2000 Statutory Approval of Qualifications Under Section 99 for the Purposes of Section 96 & 97 (2006 No.25)
This legislation, made under section 99 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000, provides a list of approved external qualifications for which public funding is available to support learners undertaking these external qualifications. The list is updated regularly, usually once each school term.
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This Back to School Icebreaker Worksheet is the perfect way for your students to get to know each other and have fun during the first days of school.
It's always important to have a fun back to school icebreaker activity that will help make it easy for your students to get to know each other and feel comfortable. This back to school icebreaker will make teaching fun and your students will have a blast asking questions to their fellow classmates.
Your students will ask each other questions about their interests and family to learn more about each other.
If your students are using this worksheet, it's probably the beginning of the school year.
Use this Back to School Scavenger Hunt as another resource to support your students at the beginning of the year.
This icebreaker can be used anytime during the first weeks of school for your students to get to know each other more. Have students ask each other questions about their interests and likes. Once students have learned about their classmates, facilitate a discussion to find similarities among their answers.
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* 2015 Hof International Film Festival (München, Germany)
* Accolade Film Award - Award of Excellence Special Mention
"The film powerfully explores how people say they "love" animals (cats and dogs) but see others just as a food source or byproduct. This film explores the deplorable and inhumane treatment this creates as a result. It makes us take a hard look at ourselves and how we so easily close our eyes to their suffering, unwilling to confront the endless pain and cruelty at our own hands." (Jury Accolade Award)
In the Name of the Animals
Category | Animals, Environment, Human Interest, Social Issues
Country | Germany
Running time | 104' - 52'
Format | HD
Production | Sabine Kueckelmann
Director | Sabine Kueckelmann
The film explores the ambivalent relationship of people and their fellow creatures, animals. The relationship between human beings and animals is ambivalent. The common man see's in animals a creature that can be used for their needs –certain animals, mainly cats, dogs and horses we show a deferred preference toward. Other animals are nothing more than a food source or byproduct, and it shows in our treatment of them. We produce animals in factories, under extreme conditions for our culinary, medical, and experimental or fashion desires. How is it possible that people can think they love animals while at the same time they close their eyes to their suffering, not willing to confront the endless pain and cruelty at their own hands?
This is schizophrenic behaviour and yet we continue to turn a blind eye. The fact that meat, feathers, leather, and fur is the body of an animal, having an individual character and personality, has been produced solely for human needs and wants and was butchered entirely against its will, is continually repressed.
Bernhard George Shaw once stated: "The greatest sin against our fellow creatures is not hate, but their half-heartedness. That is the nature of inhumanity."
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