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T 1170/03 () of 7.2.2006
Decision text in EN (PDF, 72 KB)
Energy/matter conversion methods and structures
MILLS, Randell Lee
Requirements Article 84 EPC (no) - main request
Request aimed at revision of ratio decidendi of decision of remitting board rejected as inadmissible, Article 111(2) EPC - first and second auxiliary request
Referral of question to Enlarged Board of Appeal - rejected
I. European patent application 92 901 743.2 (publication Nos. WO-A-92 10838 and EP-A-0 561 967) was refused pursuant to Article 97(1) EPC by a decision of the examining division dispatched on 30 June 2003, on the grounds of Article 84 EPC.
II. The applicant (appellant) lodged an appeal against the decision on 18 August 2003 and paid the appeal fee on the same day. The statement setting out the grounds of appeal was received on 4 November 2003.
III. Oral proceedings, requested as an auxiliary measure by the appellant, were held on 7 February 2006.
IV. The appellant requested that the decision under appeal be set aside and a patent be granted on the basis of the following documents:
Main request:
Claims: 1 to 21 filed with letter dated 6 January 2006 with the insertion of the term "ion" after potassium and rubidium, respectively, and the correction of the term "milliamps" as requested in the oral proceedings of 7 February 2006;
Description: pages 1, 2, 2a, 3 to 16 filed with letter dated 6 January 2006;
Drawings: Sheets 1/3 to 3/3 filed with letter dated 6 January 2006;
First auxiliary request:
Claims: 1 to 22 filed with letter dated 6 January 2006, with the insertion of the term "ion" after potassium and rubidium, respectively, and the correction of the term "milliamps" as requested in the oral proceedings of 7 February 2006;
Description and drawings as for the main request.
Second auxiliary request:
Claims, description and drawings as originally filed.
Moreover, the appellant requested that the following question be referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal:
"Is a previous decision of an Appeal Board, and in particular the reasons for said decision, binding for a later Appeal Board if this would force applicant to introduce new subject-matter which extends beyond the original disclosure even if the previous Appeal Board stated without basis and incorrectly that no new matter was added in conflict with facts showing the contrary?".
V. The decision under appeal follows the remittal of the case to the examining division for further prosecution by the board of appeal (in a different composition) as per decision T 1032/97 of 6 December 2000 in a prior appeal lying from an earlier decision of the examining division dispatched on 28 April 1997 refusing the application under Article 97(1) EPC for lack of clarity (Article 84 EPC).
The appellant's requests for re-opening of the appeal proceedings and for modifying the reasons for the decision T 1032/97 of 6 December 2000 were refused as inadmissible in a decision of the board of appeal of 5 September 2001.
VI. Independent claims 1 and 15 according to the main request read as follows:
"1. An electrolytic cell operated with a cathode current density in the range of 5 to 400 milliamps per square centimeter comprising:
a vessel containing at least one cathode, at least one anode, and an electrolytic solution connecting the cathode to the anode;
a source of hydrogen atoms; and
a source of potassium ion or rubidium ion as catalyst."
"15. Use of an electrolytic cell according to any one of the preceding claims for the production of heat."
VII. Claim 1 according to the first auxiliary request contains the following additional feature at the end of the claim: "for catalyzing the reaction of hydrogen atoms to lower-energy hydrogen and release energy from the atoms".
Furthermore, a new claim was added which reads as follows:
"22. Use of an electrolytic cell according to claim 15 comprising catalyzing the reaction of hydrogen atoms to lower-energy hydrogen and release of energy from the atoms."
VIII. Independent claims 1 and 4 according to the second auxiliary request read as follows:
"1. A method of releasing energy, comprising the steps:
selecting an element of matter having a nucleus and at least one electron comprising an electron orbital;
determining the resonance shrinkage energy of the electron orbital and the energy hole which will stimulate the electron to undergo a resonance shrinkage transition to relax to a quantized potential energy level below that of the ground state, providing an orbital of smaller dimensions forming a shrunken orbital of the element of matter;
providing an energy hole substantially equal to the resonance shrinkage energy of the element of matter;
juxtaposing said element of matter and said energy hole, wherein;
energy is released as the electron of the element of matter is stimulated by said energy hold [sic] to undergo at least one shrinkage transition."
"4. Apparatus for providing the release of energy, comprising:
means for providing an element of matter in a selected volume, said element having a nucleus and at least one electron comprising an orbital having a resonance shrinkage energy; and
a means introduced into said selected volume for providing an energy hole in juxtaposition with said element of matter, said energy hole having magnitude substantially equal to said resonance shrinkage energy, wherein:
energy is released from said element of matter when the orbital of said element of matter is reduced due to removal of orbital energy by said energy hole permitting the electron of the element of matter to be stimulated to undergo at least one shrinkage transition providing the release of energy."
1. The appeal complies with the requirements of Articles 106 to 108 and Rule 64 EPC and is, therefore, admissible.
2. Main request
2.1 The present application was refused by the examining division for a first time with the decision dispatched on 28 April 1997 refusing the application under Article 97(1) EPC for lack of clarity (Article 84 EPC). Against this decision the appellant filed an appeal resulting in decision T 1032/97 of 6 December 2000.
In decision T 1032/97 of 6 December 2000 the board ruled that the claims 1 to 21 as amended, which correspond to those presently on file as main request, complied with the requirement of clarity according to Article 84 EPC. However, the board found that the description had to be adapted to the claims so as to fulfil all the requirements of Article 84 EPC (see Reasons for the Decision, 3.4) and remitted the case to the first instance for this purpose.
In particular, the board held that, based on its dictionary meaning, the term "catalyst" in the expression "a source of potassium ion or rubidium ion as catalyst" in claim 1 defined the role of the elements potassium and rubidium, which contributed to and increased the rate of the electrolytic reaction in the cell without being consumed or chemically modified in the reaction. Moreover, the expression in claim 15 "for the production of heat" was held to relate to the well-known ohmic heat which was produced when a current flowed through an electrolytic cell (see Reasons for the Decision, 3.2 and 3.3).
Any other meanings attributed to the term "catalyst" in the originally filed application documents was regarded as speculative and not in conformity with the subject-matter of claim 1 for which protection was sought.
Furthermore, as far as the expression "for the production of heat" referred to the speculative and controversial phenomenon described as "excess heat" in the original application, the description was not considered to be in conformity with the subject-matter of claim 15.
Moreover, the board was satisfied that the amendments to the claims were admissible under Article 123(2) EPC and that the skilled person would be able to carry out the invention as specified in claims 1 and 15 so that the requirements of Article 83 EPC were met.
In summary, the claims on file were considered to comply with Articles 3, 84 and 123(2) EPC. However, their subject-matter had not yet been examined with respect to all other requirements of the EPC, in particular with respect to novelty and inventive step. Furthermore, the description still contained references to speculative subject-matter which needed to be deleted during the further prosecution of the case to bring it in conformity with the claims in order to comply with all requirements of Article 4 EPC (see Reasons, 5).
2.2 According to the description as originally filed of the application in suit, based on a novel atomic theory, energy was released from hydrogen atoms by stimulating their electrons to relax to a quantized potential energy level below that of the ground state and to thereby shrink to smaller dimensions by providing an energy hole resonant with this transition (see in particular "summary of the invention" and "detailed description of the invention", section "theory"). The energy hole was provided by an electrocatalytic couple with an appropriate redox energy. Furthermore, by repeating this shrinkage reaction controlled nuclear fusion was caused. The energy which was released produced excess heat in an electrolytic cell.
2.3 According to the above decision T 1032/97 of 6 December 2000 of the board of appeal, all references in the description to the speculative and controversial phenomena described as "excess heat" as well as to speculative meanings of the term "catalyst" had to be deleted.
Accordingly, from the above decision it follows that all parts of the description relating in particular to the underlying novel atomic theory, the relaxation of electrons to energy levels below the ground state and the shrinkage of the atoms, the absorption of energy holes (or emission of energy), the electrocatalytic couple and the nuclear fusion should be removed.
This finding forms part of the ratio decidendi of the above decision, ie the reasons for the decision. Following remittal, the first instance was bound by this ratio decidendi as prescribed in Article 111(2) EPC, and so is the present board which can only act within the constrained competence of the first instance, the facts of the case having remained the same.
The necessity to delete the speculative subject-matter constitutes res judicata for these proceedings as it is matter finally judged by the previous board of appeal in the course of the examination proceedings. Such a final judgment constitutes an absolute bar to any subsequent legal action involving the same matter in the same proceedings (see Case Law of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO, fourth edition, 2001, VII.D.10).
2.4 Considerable parts of the description as amended according to the main request, eg the section providing the summary of the invention and the theory section of the detailed description of the invention, still contain the speculative matter which should have been deleted. Accordingly, the description is not in conformity with the claims of the main request, contrary to the requirements of Article 84 EPC, in keeping with the above decision T 1032/97 of 6 December 2000.
2.5 The appellant argued that the doctrine of res judicata was not applicable under the circumstances of the case in suit. An underlying premise in applying res judicata with regard to a particular issue was that the party against whom that doctrine was asserted had a full and fair opportunity to discuss that issue. In the present case the previous board misconstrued the claims in its decision T 1032/97 contrary to an agreement that had been reached with the applicant during the Oral Proceedings held on 6 December 2000, in which the previous board agreed to withdraw all pending objections against the claims as amended, no contrary amendments to remove references to lower-energy hydrogen being agreed to or even discussed. The previous board then denied the applicant the opportunity to request correction of the reasons for the decision. The possibility of a correction of the reasons of a decision was discussed in the G 1/97 decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal, see in particular EPO Journal 7/2000 page 340, 4th paragraph.
Given the denial of a full and fair opportunity for a hearing on the applicant's objections to the previous board's T 1032/97 decision, the issues raised by those objections, regarding the interpretation of claims 1 to 21 and the requirement to amend the description in conformance with that interpretation, were not subject to res judicata. On the contrary, those issues were still highly relevant to the present appeal and, having never been given a fair hearing, should be heard in the present appeal.
In submitting the present application, the applicant expressly disclosed and claimed his invention based upon novel hydrogen chemistry forming lower-energy hydrogen. It was a violation of the applicant's right to disclose and claim what he considered to be his invention for the previous appeal board to require unintended and in fact undisclosed amendments to his application changing the very nature of that invention. Indeed, the proposed amendments would introduce new matter into the case, violating Article 123(2) EPC. From the application as originally filed it was absolutely clear that mere ohmic heating and the presence of a catalyst in the classic sense was never intended and indeed never disclosed.
Accordingly, it was requested that the present board set aside the unwarranted demand of the previous board that the applicant amend the description contrary to the agreement reached during the oral proceedings of 6 December 2000.
2.6 It is to be considered in this connection that, in the present case, both the first instance and the present board are furthermore bound by the ratio decidendi of second decision T 1032/97 dated 5 September 2001 of the previous board inter alia refusing the appellant's request for modification of the reasons for the decision T 1032/97 of 6 December 2000 as inadmissible. The absence of any obvious mistakes in the decision for correction under Rule 89 EPC has, thereby, been finally settled as well. The appellant's renewed request for correction of the reasons of the decision under Rule 89 EPC, accordingly must be refused as inadmissible, the above second decision being final on this matter and having the force of res judicata. It should, furthermore, be noted in this respect that the passage cited by the appellant of G 1/97 makes it clear that a legal error, if any, no matter whether it concerns substantive or procedural aspects, cannot be corrected under Rule 89 EPC.
Incidentally, it is noted that as far as the appellant's contention is concerned that the previous board by its decision of 6 December 2000 breached an agreement reached during the oral proceedings, despite the fact that the appellant may have gained the impression to have convinced at least part of the members of the board to abandon a previously raised objection, this cannot constitute an "agreement" of any binding nature. Decisive is only the decision of the board as a whole reached after due deliberation. The decision as notified leaves no doubt that the description then on file (consisting of pages 1 to 8 and 10 to 16 as originally filed with an amended page 9 filed with letter of 18 August 1995) was still considered to be deficient. Furthermore, clearly, the decision was based on the text submitted by the appellant (Article 113(2) EPC).
2.7 For the reasons given above the main request is not allowable.
3. First and second auxiliary request
The amendments to the claims according to both the first and the second auxiliary request re-introduce subject-matter relating to the phenomena described as "excess heat" in the application and attributing a meaning to the term "catalyst" at variance with its conventional, generally recognised meaning, and thus re-introduce subject-matter considered speculative and requiring deletion according to the preceding decision T 1032/97 of 6 December 2000. These requests, therefore, are aimed at a revision of the ratio decidendi of the decision of the remitting board (see point 2.3, supra). Since the present board is bound by this ratio decidendi, the facts of the case having remained unchanged, these requests have to be rejected as inadmissible, Article 111(2) EPC.
4. Referral of a question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
In accordance with Article 111(2) EPC in combination with Article 111(1) EPC, second sentence, a previous decision of a board of appeal in examination proceedings has a binding effect on a later appeal board in case the facts are the same. The EPC does not provide for a revision of the previous decision. This applies to cases in which an error of judgement on the facts of the case is alleged as well as to cases in which a violation of a fundamental procedural principle is alleged, as confirmed by decision G 1/97 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (see paragraph cited by appellant above).
As far as the applicability of the above legal principles in the particular situation described in the appellant's question is concerned, it is noted that in the board's view no fundamental conflict as implied by the appellant arises as a matter of fact. Where a previous appeal board decision in the examination proceedings finally states that no new matter would be added by a given amendment, making that amendment cannot, in the same proceedings, be questioned by any organ of the EPO as a violation of Article 123(2) EPC by virtue of the binding effect of the ratio decidendi of this decision. Furthermore, such a decision of an appeal board cannot be said to force the applicant/appellant to make an amendment, the decision whether to make an amendment or not still resting, according to Article 113(2) EPC, with the applicant/appellant.
Finally, the fact that the previous board may have stated without basis and incorrectly that no new matter was added, is immaterial at this point as it constitutes res judicata not open to revision as already pointed out.
The referral under Article 112 EPC of the question submitted by the appellant to the Enlarged Board of Appeal, therefore, is not considered to be required in the circumstances of the present case. The request for referral is, therefore, rejected.
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The request for referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the question filed at the oral proceedings is rejected.
2. The appeal is dismissed.


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Q: Find partial membership with KMeans clustering algorithm I can calculate cluster membership with KMeans pretty easily:
open System
open System.IO
open Utils
open Accord
open Accord.Math
open Accord.MachineLearning

let vals = [|
    [|1.0; 2.0; 3.0; 2.0|]
    [|1.1; 1.9; 3.1; 4.0|]
    [|2.0; 3.0; 4.0; 4.0|]
    [|3.0; 3.1; 2.0; 3.0|]
    [|2.0; 4.0; 3.0; 6.0|]
    [|1.0; 5.0; 5.0; 7.0|]
    [|4.0; 3.0; 6.0; 8.0|]
    [|5.0; 4.0; 3.0; 6.0|]
    [|6.0; 4.0; 8.0; 7.0|]
    [|5.0; 6.0; 5.0; 9.0|]
    [|4.0; 2.0; 7.0; 8.0|]
    [|8.0; 9.0; 3.1; 2.2|]
    [|8.0; 9.0; 2.0; 2.0|]
    [|10.0; 2.0; 3.0; 2.0|]
    [|10.1; 1.9; 3.1; 4.0|]
    [|20.0; 3.0; 4.0; 4.0|]
    [|22.0; 7.0; 2.0; 3.0|]
    [|21.0; 4.0; 3.0; 6.0|]
|]

let kmeans = new KMeans 5
let clusterModel = kmeans.Learn vals
let clusters = clusterModel.Decide vals

Can I calculate partial membership with the standard KMeans algorithm?  A coworker suggested using the mean and variances of the cluster members to determine proportional membership and today I've been looking into fuzzy sets and their implementations for F#.  For example, here is some documentation for the Accord.net implementation for fuzzy sets.  I can translate/run the example for F# but at first glance, I don't see an easy way to get the data from my Kmeans run above to fit the format of assigning partial membership.
Questions:

*

*How would I use the mean/variance of cluster members to calculate partial membership?

*Is there an easy way to calculate partial membership with KMeans clustering with the Accord.net library?

*The KMeans algorithm in Accord.net is simple to implement; should I spend some time trying to learn this method of clustering/membership to suit my problem rather than try and force Kmeans clustering to suit my needs?

A: You should be able to use Accord.NET to get the "centroids" of the clusters that the K-means algorithm finds. Those are essentially the centres of the individual clusters. You should then be able to calculate the distance between your new data point and each of the centroids to see which of the centroids are close to your point. (The Decide method returns just the first one.)
I have not tried this, but it seems that KMeans exposes Clusters, which is a KMeansClusterCollection and has the Centroids property (see the docs). It also exposes the Distance property which returns the function for calculating distance between the data points.
Using these, you should be able to compare the distance of your data point with the centroids of all the clusters and decide how close the point is to individual clusters.
Implementing k-means from scratch is not that hard (there is a nice post from Mathias Brandewinder on this), but it seems that Accord.NET exposes all the information that you need in this particular case - so perhaps that's all you need (getting all the details right in custom implementation is always the hardest part...).

A: As mentioned by Tomas, Accord.NET already gives you many of the building blocks. In particular, calling clusterModel.Scores gives you the (negative) distances to the cluster centroids, see source code
From the negative distances, you can compute an approximate class membership score by taking exponentials, similar to what you would do to compute a Gaussian PDF. In F#, that would look like:
// Scores returns the negative distances between each point
// and the cluster centroid
let negDistances = clusterModel.Scores vals
// Compute an estimated cluster assigment score
let clusterMembership =
    negDistances
    |> Array.map (fun distances ->
        // Take the Exponential of the (negative) distances,
        // as in computing a Gaussian pdf
        let expDist = distances |> Array.map Math.Exp
        let total = Array.sum expDist
        expDist
        |> Array.map (fun d -> d/total)
    )

There are a couple of caveats here:

*

*Standard KMeans in Accord uses Euclidean distances, meaning that each direction carries the same weight. Depending on the nature of your data, this may not lead to reasonable results (picture 2 clusters, each shaped like a long cigar)

*The above class membership calculcation is not taking cluster covariance into account either. To be closer to truth, you would have to compute Bhattacharyya distance, exponentiate, and then scale by inverse det of the covariance matrix. This will fail for singleton clusters.

Regarding your third question: I would not re-implement. It may seem easy initially, but there are usually plenty of corner cases and stability issues that you only run into after some time.

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This crock pot baked potatoes recipe is also perfect during the summer barbeque season.
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Did you miss one of the other January Weekly Meal Plans?
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Q: How to standardize the data matrix before applying SVD for PCA? I am trying to enhance the contrast in the images I get after scanning a surface using Thermography (Principal Component Thermography ~Rajic, which is basically an application of Principal Component Analysis) to see the defects clearly.
I have some 20 images and all having 180*180 pixels. I am following a paper in which they first put each image in a column and it forms a matrix of 32400*20  as shown in the figure below.

SVD is used to decompose matrix A into U, R, and V.
But before applying PCA you have to standardize the matrix and they are doing it according to these equations.

I have two Questions here;

*

*In PCA, do we have to always center rows (i.e. subtract mean from each row) or
we have to actually center our variables(=pixels of an image) which can be
along a row or column depending how we put our sample (=images) in the matrix
A. Or it depends on what we are actually trying to do? It means in some cases.

*And the standard deviation equation mentioned here, isn't it wrong (I think we
should be subtracting mean of row not column here? Also I have the same
question that does the standard deviation should be along row or column in
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Q: A method of getting the value of fields without using reflection I've been given a class with some 200 fields in which their values are read using reflection. It looks basically like this
for (Field f : this.getClass().getFields())
        {
            try
            {
                Object o = f.get(this);

                if (f.getType() == String.class)
                {
                    //do things with the string
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                logger.error("Cannot get value for field. {}", ex.getMessage());
            }

        }

This works very well for such an unwieldy amount of fields as I suppose is the point of reflection. I've been asked to refactor it because it's slow (is it?).
So far the only method I can come up with his an ungodly amount of hard coding, is there another quick method?

A: First you should verify with a profiler that it indeed is slow. Reflection is slower than accessing variables normally, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's the source of slowness.
Provided that you're using setters to modify those values, you can refactor the class to update a Map<String,Object> whenever a setter is called. This provides faster access to the fields than reflection, but may not be possible depending on your use case.

A: Most of the time is spent in obtaining the Field objects (and possibly filtering them) The actual lookup can be pretty fast. I use ClassValue to cache this information and speed it up.
public enum StringFields {
    INSTANCE;

    final ClassValue<List<Field>> fieldsCache = new ClassValue<List<Field>>() {
        @Override
        protected List<Field> computeValue(Class<?> type) {
            return Collections.unmodifiableList(
                    Stream.of(type.getFields())
                            .filter(f -> f.getType() == String.class)
                            .peek(f -> f.setAccessible(true)) // turn off security check
                            .collect(Collectors.toList()));
        }
    };

    public static List<Field> getAllStringFields(Class<?> type) {
        return INSTANCE.fieldsCache.get(type);
    }
}

A:
So far the only method I can come up with his an ungodly amount of hard coding, is there another quick method?

You can use reflection to get the getters of those fields and generate code which reads out those getters.
The code generation can then be part of a build step.


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Why The 'Astra' Missile Is More Than Just Another Weapon For India
December 1, 2020 - by [email protected] - Leave a Comment
When the flight trials of India's indigenously produced 'Astra' missile on the domestically developed Tejas jet fighter start soon, it will mark a huge leap for the country's armaments industry. It will propel India into the exclusive league of a handful of nations that have been able to fit domestically produced fighter jets with indigenous 'beyond visual range air to air' (BVRAAM) missiles.
Apart from the boost to the country's pride and self-confidence, Astra will give India's fighters a definite edge over China's PLA Air Force (PLAAF) and the Pakistan Air Force (PAF).
That's because Astra compares favorably with the United States-made AMRAAM AIM-120C BVRAAMs that the PAF's prized F-16s are weaponized with.
What's more, Astra is operationally superior to China's PL-15 BVRAAM that the PLAAF inducted just four years ago.
The physical parameters of the Mark 1 (Mk1) version of Astra being produced now is similar to those of the AIM-120C. Astra, in fact, can travel at 4.5 Mach while the AIM 120C has a top speed of 4 Mach.
astra mk1 during testing
The range of the Astra Mk1 is also more – 80 to 110 km in a head-on chase – whereas the AIM 120C has a range of only 80 km in a head-on chase. Being smoke-free and equipped with a two-way data link, the Astra Mk1's stealth capabilities are also more than the US-made BVRAAM.
Indian Air Force (IAF) sources said that the ground trials of the Astra Mk1 have been completed successfully. The missile, which has all-weather day-and-night capabilities, has been successfully tested on Sukhoi 30MKI.
The Defence Acquisition Council, headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, has already granted 'acceptance of necessity' for an initial order of 248 Astra Mk1 missiles that will be delivered by July 2021.
Commercial production of the Astra Mk1 at the defence public sector undertaking (PSU) "Bharat Dynamics" will start once the flight trials on Tejas fighters is completed by next month.
The missiles will cost Rs 7.5 crore apiece, a fraction of the cost of Russian, French, and Israeli BVRAAMs that IAF fighters are now armed with.
Meanwhile, defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will get an order for producing 83 Tejas Mk1 fighter jets at a cost of Rs 37,000 crore. This deal will be inked within this fiscal, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria has said.
The IAF has already started getting 40 Tejas Mk1 fighters under two contracts valued at Rs 8,802 crore that were signed earlier.
The Astra Mk1, say defence industry experts, will be capable of detecting, tracking, and destroying highly agile supersonic fighters armed with anti-missile measures at long ranges.
The Astra Mk1 will also be equipped with advanced electronic counter-counter measures to negate jamming by hostile aircraft.
The Astra Mk1's active radar terminal guidance and other features enable a very high single-shot kill probability in both head-on and tail-chase modes.
The Astra Mk1, a fifth-generation missile, will replace the Vympel R-77 and Matra Super 530D missiles that the IAF fighters are equipped with now.
The Astra Mk1 has already been integrated with the Sukhoi 30MKI and MiG-29 fighter jets with the IAF.
The Astra Mk1 can be launched from different altitudes: from an altitude of 15,000 metres, its range is 110 km; when fired from an altitude of 8,000 m, its range is 44 km, and from sea level its range is 21 km.
Since the Astra Mk1 compares favourably with the US-made AIM-120C, the sunlight superiority that PAF fighters enjoyed over the IAF will be effectively negated.
On 27 February last year – a day after the Balakot air strikes – F-16s of the PAF tried to enter Indian airspace and fired five to six AIM-120Cs at IAF fighter jets.
The IAF fighters – Sukhoi 30MKI and MiG-21 Bisons – successfully dodged the AIM-120C missiles, but did not engage with the PAF fighters since they were equipped with the inferior R-77 and MICA missiles.
The PAF shot down one MiG-21 and the IAF also shot down an F-16, but that claim was strongly contested by Pakistan.
But that encounter hit the Indian defence establishment hard and drove home the strong message that the IAF needs the latest BVRAAMs for its fighters.
The decks cleared for quicker acquisition of the French Rafale fighter jets along with the Meteor missiles developed by MBDA, a pan-European consortium comprising the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and Sweden.
The Meteor is superior to the AMRAAM AIM-120C. Apart from its longer range (120 km), it is the Meteor's unique propulsion system that makes it superior to the American missile that Pakistan uses.
The AIM-120C is powered by rocket engines that deliver a uniform thrust for the duration of the flight, after which the motor burns out.
The missile then glides at high speed to its target, but the longer the distance this missile travels to its target, the lesser the energy it has for its critical terminal phase of flight.
This allows the target aircraft to engage in steep maneuvering and to deploy counter-measures to confuse the missile. This is exactly how the IAF's Sukhoi 30MKI fighters dodged the AIM-120C missiles in February last year.
The Meteor missile, on the other hand, has a miniature supersonic jet engine called the "ramjet" that allows the missile to throttle back its engine during the cruise, thus saving fuel, and throttle up when it approaches the target.
This allows the Meteor to achieve its highest energy state during the critical terminal stage of the attack, making it nearly impossible for the target aircraft to successfully dodge it.
MBDA (the Meteor's manufacturer) asserts that the missile has the largest 'no escape zone' (NEZ) of any air-to-air missile. The NEZ is the zone in which an aircraft cannot rely on manoeuvres to evade an incoming missile.
The Meteor's NEZ is estimated to be three times that of the AIM-120C. Also, since the Meteor weighs just 190 kg, a Rafale fighter jet can easily carry up to four of those missiles at a time.
China's PL-15 BVRAAMs, which have a range of 200 km, are propelled by rocket motors like the AIM-120C. That makes the Meteor superior to the PL-15.
Future Versions of Astra
"The successful integration of the Astra Mk1 into IAF fighters has given our confidence levels a huge boost and ignited a passion among our scientists at DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) to quicken the pace of development of the Mark 2 and Mark 3 versions of the BVRAAM," said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
Astra MK2 scale model
A top IAF officer told Swarajya that the DRDO is only a short distance away from developing the Astra Mk2, which will have a longer range of 160 km and will be powered by a dual-pulse solid rocket motor.
This motor is a cheaper version of the ramjet (which powers the Meteor). Its design allows the motor to be burned in segments (pulses) and thus achieves the same effect as the ramjet engine.
This will increase the NEZ of the Astra Mk2 to much more than that of both the AIM-120C and the PL-15.
The Astra Mk3, which is also being developed by the DRDO and whose prototype will be out soon, will have the newly developed solid fuel ducted ramjet (SFDR) technology with a range of 350 km, at par with the Meteor.
The Astra Mk3 will impart a huge edge to the IAF over both the PAF and PLAAF and enable the IAF to fight a 'two-front' war.
As of now, the Astra Mk1 and the Meteors that have come with the Rafale will give the IAF a major boost and overcome the advantage the PAF and PLAAF had come to enjoy over it of late.
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Alternative views from the Global South
Tag: Dagga
by davidrobertlewis - January 3, 2020
Cannabis & Canapax: healing not dealing?
WHILE THE Canadian state of Ontario was removing the cap on the number of marijuana shops in the province, South Africa's drug enforcement agencies were busy taking down a dagga dispensary franchise operation known as Canapax. News of cannabis operations being opened to the public overseas were met by stories of SAPS beating up on local dagga activists. The death of Rastafarian Jan de Bruin at the hands of law enforcement, is a particularly galling example. De Bruin's crime, having the audacity to grow weed in the small town of Wellington.
The country's inability to deal with the ramifications and nuances of the end of prohibition follows a groundbreaking ConCourt ruling last year which allows use of the herb in private, yet expressly forbids dealing, while granting Parliament a period in which to review regulations.
Canapax, a going concern was ostensibly rolled out in terms of the 'Traditional Health Practitioners Act of 2007' (THP). The result was a tragic case of magical thinking. Franchisees sincerely believed that Canapax had all its papers in order, and was operating as a registered entity under the act.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire, to put it mildly. Since in terms of the law, it is still an offence to practice as a traditional healer without a licence — health practitioners may not prescribe nor examine patients without authorisation under a regime, which is essentially based upon a medical model.
Fields of Green a website published by Julian Stobbs and Myrtle Clarke maintain that the real reason was that THP precludes healers from prescribing any 'dependence producing or dangerous substance or drug."
The statement were supposedly backed up by a briefing issued by SAPS and comes after a directive was issued by the NPA on the subject calling upon officers to obey the ConCourt decision.
That both law enforcement and the so-called Dagga Couple had it wrong can be seen by the fact that our apex court had already ruled that dagga was no longer a dangerous , dependency causing substance but rather could be used in private. The law in this respect had yet to be confirmed by parliament.
As I suggested to Gareth Prince and Richard Kraak, during the period of the High Court trial, your crime is essentially, 'baking bread in a no-baking zone'. Microbrewers of gin don't have the same problem as growers of cannabis in selling their product, nor do bakers of bread, what exactly is going on?
The ConCourt decision essentially shifted weed from the realm of the narcotics and medicines act into the realm of the liquor act, at least insofar as harm was concerned. Ganga is no more harmful than a tipple and in many respects less harmful than alcohol.
Here is another way of looking at this: Under Dagga Prohibition, the law had three pillars; 1) Dagga is a dangerous, dependency causing substance and therefore is prohibited 2) It must follow that no dealing or possession is allowed 3) You cannot grow or produce a prohibited substance.
Along came the ConCourt decision, down went pillar one:
1) Dagga no longer dangerous
2) It read into law the decision, and gave Parliament two years to come up with regulations.
3) It maintained the regime with regard to dealing, but stated that possession and growing in private was allowed.
It doesn't take much further reasoning to show how dagga prohibition came to an end, and how dealing in dagga today, is about as bad as dealing in bread without a licence.
Yet absolutely nobody gets bust for baking bread or distilling alcohol these days. It serves no purpose to continue to claim that dagga is harmful and ergo, must be regulated.
There really is no sense in cannabis culture continuing to pursue a medical model ( ditto patient confidentiality?) and for regulators to continue to pursue a regime which no longer has constitutional validity.
If anything Canapax erred in not seeking proper registration with the THP council. Under THP penalties are imposed on individuals who practice as traditional healers sans registration.
This model was clearly not the best vehicle for a commercial dispensary operation, and yet, significantly, THP does create a system for dispensing ganga which is no longer considered dangerous, but only if you happen to be licensed. No need to read new laws, while we here, may as well state the obvious, ganga has been prescribed for many decades by registered alternative health practitioners, they are not dealing, but healing.
Evidence lead during the ConCourt "trial of the plant' was that dagga had many health benefits, and the evidence is both mounting and persuasive.
Clearly, Traditional Health Practitioners may prescribe cannabis, as a complimentary traditional therapy, but may run foul of the law in calling it a medicine.
It is surely up to our legislature to clarify and refine the regulations.
by davidrobertlewis - December 14, 2018 December 6, 2020
Dagga legalisation, correcting an historical wrong (Round Two)
DEAR older generation. You were wrong about apartheid, you were wrong about same-sex marriage, and you were wrong about dagga. When the Western Cape High Court affirmed the rights of all citizens to the use and cultivation of dagga in the privacy of our own homes, thus suspending the drug laws for two years and allowing Parliament to amend the legislation, it corrected an historical wrong committed by the past regime.
Then when the apex court of our country, the Constitutional Court, affirmed the High Court ruling and extended these protections, it read parts of the decision into law, granted dagga users the right to carry the herb without fear of arrest and opened the door for the 'dagga economy' surrounding the herb.
Thus cannabis (or dagga as it is known in South Africa) was moved from the realms of the narcotics act into the ambit of the liquor licensing regime. Our Parliament is still debating exactly how to go about regulating certains aspects to do with the medicinal and commercial use of the herb, and the sale and commercial exploitation of the plant remains a grey area so far as the law is concerned.
It was thus that a groundbreaking High Court decision this month resulted in serious charges brought some time ago, against a dagga activist and DIY hydroponics expert, being squashed.
While the concourt decision was proscriptive rather than retroactive, the High Court clearly saw the social mores of the time as being more persuasive than the previous period of prohibition. More importantly the decision pronounced upon the role of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act (POCA) in harrassing growers, and thus the proportionality of the 'dagga crimes' in a case which had not yet been proven by the state, and where the state attorney had in effect jumped the gun in seeking forfeiture of the residence of one Richard Kraak.
Several articles appearing in the mainstream online media have appeared to punt the commercial benefits of dagga. One article went so far as suggesting mechanisms for investors keen to get in on the action, and the benefit to the broader economy, while others extolled the virtues of the inaugral Cannabis Expo, an event currently being held in Jozi and set for Cape Town later next year.
How the mighty moral police and their religion-inspired vice squad have fallen upon tough times, one can only remark here that a similar sequence of events followed the legalisation of porn after the end of apartheid — the death throws of the regime in which women's breasts and nipples were only to be seen behind the shiny stars covering them in men's magazines.
In 2015 the first ever Weedstock Festival due to take place on a farm in Bronkhorstspruit was cancelled due to vice squad intervention.
Similar festivals around South Africa appeared to have gone by without a hitch, but expect more information on this topic. Police continue to terrorise the communities of Sedgefield and Knysna. Despite setbacks, Dagga synonymous with the counter-culture surrounding the anti-apartheid movement has certainly returned for good, as has the feel-good vibe which immediately followed our nation's liberation.
Those old enough to remember the likes of James Phillips aka Benoldus Niemand, may recall that the apartheid state pilloried activists as mere 'drug-users' — cannabis hooked social deviants wanting to create mayhem to overthrow the state.
Law and order was thus contingent upon the banning of people's consciousness — our innate rights to freedom of thought alongside the right to privacy. See Thembisa Waetjen's excellent historical appraisal here.
Alongside the Botha government's Bureau of State Security (BOSS), the narc squad and thought police, armed with an ideology supplied by the NGK, decreed race segregation to be divinely inspired by God, Cannabis to be the work of the Devil himself, and the Afrikaner grip over the African hinterland the result of a "Covenant at Blood River".
How times are a changin.
When the ruling ANC finally came into power, there was every indication that dagga-smoking revolutionaries were going to legalise the herb whilst recognising the contribution to the struggle by Bob Marley and the Jamaican Defense Force.
Instead, activists like Trevor Manual exchanged their berets, dashikis and the proverbial stash, for bespoke suits, and the joys of fine champagne and cognac. The transformation of the liberation movement into a political bureaucracy built upon corporate largesse meant that adopting the white man's laws alongside certain UN conventions supporting prohibition was paramount.
All of this toenadering came tumbling down this week, as yes, one Jacob Zuma appeared in the dock.
SEE: Greenlight districts solution to dagga prohibition
by davidrobertlewis - September 20, 2018
Dagga prohibition reaches a final conclusion in privacy ruling?
WHILE South Africans were contemplating the effects of land reform and a technical recession, the country's apex court, the Constitutional Court reached a unanimous verdict. Upholding an earlier ruling by the Western Cape High Court, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo announced a major victory for dagga liberalisation.
"The right to privacy is not confined to a home or private dwelling. It will not be a criminal offence for an adult person to use or be in possession of cannabis in private space," he said on Tuesday.
Parliament has been given time to produce new regulations regarding the details which could see many commercial opportunities surrounding the plant emerging from a 24 month consultation period.
The decision effectively moves dagga out of the realms of narcotics law and under the ambit of the liquor act.
Person falling foul of the law, (dealing in dagga is still a crime) could find themselves pleading a petty misdemeanor. With cannabis on par with alcohol it remains to be seen how the new system will work. Currently bakers and distillers of gin and beer require permits. Township shabeens are often the subject of raids against unlicensed liquor. (see greenlight districts)
The president has the power to grant amnesty to citizens who have found themselves on the wrong side of an apartheid-era prohibition regime that remained in place long past its sell-by-date, and despite the new democratic order. South Africa has been slow to follow the lead taken by the West and has lost out on trade.
Why the ruling party failed to accept the reality in this regard is the cause of much debate on the ground, where ordinary people have long relied on dagga as a cheaper and healthier alternative to alcohol. The NPA is still signalling that it wants to prosecute users and no doubt police will need to be retrained to avoid unnecessary complaints against the Minister of Justice.
Where South Africa was quick to jettison the apartheid regime and its emphasis on morality alongside prohibitions on the possession of pornography, the ANC state dilly daddled on dagga, perhaps out of fear for the strong Christian lobby in the country's rural heartland.
The decision is a significant blow to religious and narcotics police posing as moralists and bolsters the secular state and its separation of powers that uphold the rights of the individual.
Although dagga use was prevalent amongst members of the anti-apartheid movement, both inside and outside the country, representatives in parliament (bar the IFP) have tendered to pass the buck while looking the other way.
Despite the, harm reduction ironically, remains the position of the African Union and our nation's representative in the AU
by davidrobertlewis - April 2, 2017
Dagga legalisation, correcting an historical wrong
The first law prohibiting the sale of dagga was put in motion by the colonial authorities in 1910.
[See Thembisa Waetjen's excellent historical appraisal here]
Following racist campaigns against the plant in America by William Randolf Hearst, who believed the use of dagga resulted in fraternisation between the races, in particular the scourge of white women consorting with black men, the world saw the roll-out of laws aimed at limiting dagga use. South Africa thus became a signatory to various international conventions, each one reducing the scope of the plant's use, until the final scheduling of the plant alongside Heroin and other hard drugs.
Dagga use was thus synonymous with the counter-culture surrounding the anti-apartheid movement, in turn the apartheid state pilloried activists as mere 'drug-users' wanting to create mayhem to overthrow the state. Law and order was thus contingent upon the banning of people's consciousness and our innate rights to freedom of thought. Alongside the Botha government's Bureau of State Security (BOSS), the narc squad and thought police, armed with an ideology supplied by the NGK, which had decreed race segregation to be divinely inspired by God and the Afrikaner grip over the African hinterland to be the result of a "Covenant at Blood River".
When the ANC finally came into power, there was every indication that dagga-smoking revolutionaries were going to legalise the herb whilst recognising the contribution to the struggle by the Jamaican Defense Force. Instead, activists like Trevor Manual exchanged their berets, dashikis and the proverbial stash, for bespoke suits, champagne and cognac. The transformation of the liberation movement into a political bureaucracy built upon corporate largesse meant that adopting the white man's laws alongside those UN conventions supporting prohibition was now paramount.
All of this toenadering came tumbling down this week, as the Zuma administration revealed itself to be nothing more than a personal fiefdom without the support of the party, and as the President fired half his cabinet, retaining the controversial Bathabile Dlamini, the burial of struggle stalwart Ahmed Kathrada turned into a platform for criticism, then private dagga use was suddenly given the greenlight.
It was thus a momentous moment on Friday which saw the supporters of the Dagga Party and Gareth Prince, celebrating outside the High court. The ruling by three judges overtook political events and removed the wind from of the sails of those kind souls hoping that a parallel legislative process surrounding the use of medical marijuana would finally lead to a new regulatory environment, albeit over the slow pace of the coming decades.
The Medical Innovations Act, whose regulations are still being discussed, certainly opens the door, moving the plant from the domain of criminal law to that of public health, but the decision of the Western Cape High Court meant that constitutional considerations and private use, in particular harm reduction, will be paramount. It is merely a formality that the decision will be confirmed by the ConCourt. The ruling does not allow for the sale of the plant and only affects private use.
SEE South African attorney here, I'm here until 11 am to answer any questions you have about the new marijuana situation in our country
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by davidrobertlewis - July 3, 2013
Dagga Couple Video
Paris Hilton saga – time to legalise alcohol alternative
Pot Princess
THE arrest of a Paris Hilton over the weekend for alleged possession of dagga, has focused world attention on South Africa's outdated and petty anti-marijuana laws. For starters, the crime is a misdemeanor, the result of the ruling parties inability to deal with calls to end drug prohibition and the legacy of apartheid. It is also a failure of successive ANC administrations to implement the cognitive rights and liberties guaranteed by our constitution.
Consumption of dagga, zol, boom, mary jane, weed was always a factor at Mass Democratic Movement rallies. The intoxicating fumes of cannabis infused meetings held by the United Democratic Front and End Conscription Campaign. It was the staple ice-breaker when alcohol was difficult to come by and informed the lives of so many struggle activists, from Trevor Manual to Walter Sisulu himself.
Veteran journalist Dennis Becket recently confessed to smoking the herb, while the province of Mpumalanga gave a presentation on the benefits which might be gained from creating an industry based upon cannabis and hemp production.
The policy of the present government has been hypocritical at best. While officially South Africa supports prohibition, there is a mixed message which goes out to its citizens. Foreigners like Jennifer Rovero who on Saturday admitted the dagga cigarette being smoked by Paris Hilton belonged to her, are treated with disdain. Rovera was slapped with a R1000 fine or 30 days in jail and faces deportation.
In 1994 the ANC was elected on a broad social platform that included reform of the country's repressive drug legislation. Within the space of a few short years, issues such as legalisation and decriminalisation were swept away under pressure from the World Bank and the USA which attached drug prohibition requirements to financial loans and market guarantees..The public debate on ending prohibition, such as instituting harm reduction strategies and taxation ended with securocrats at the United Nations.
Yet South Africa stands alongside the Czech Republic, Mexico, Portugal and Spain as a place where the law tends to favour tolerance of small amounts of what is essentially a natural substance, a plant if you will. Surely now is the time to gain clarity on whether our nations policies are one of decriminalization or legalisation? Should dagga be decriminalised for medical purposes? What about the vast body of evidence which suggests the plant assists in the relief of pain and can even cure cancer?
A proposal to put the legalization of marijuana in California to a vote this November for instance is causing some growers of the plant in the state to worry about a sharp drop in the value of their crop if the measure succeeds..
If it is okay for Paris Hilton to toke on a joint, but not okay for Rovera to flash a cannabis cigarette around in Port Elizabeth, where is the justice system and our shared values? Surely Rovera was merely sampling the local brew and partaking in a South African tradition which is at least 20 000 years old. The Khoisan word for marijuana, "dagga" and our idiosyncratic use of the term, is not just another example of linguistic differences down South, but a word which reveals something special and innate about ourselves.
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10 Facts about the controversial Freemason Albert Pike
by J. Paul Gomez June 20, 2020
Albert Pike has the rare distinction of being the only Confederate member to have a monument in Washington DC. His statue was torn down and set ablaze by protesters on Juneteenth for his strong ties with the confederates and his alleged sympathy for slavery.
I have quoted and featured Brother Pike on many of my Masonic artworks but I realized that there's just so much that I do not know about him. Who is he? How can a man who once wrote, "One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature." be called a racist and so reviled by some? Here are 10 facts about Albert Pike that I gathered from the internet (sources included).
Born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 20, 1809 to an alcoholic father, a cobbler named Benjamin pike, and to a mother Sarah Andrews who tried hard to push him into ministry.
In 1825, Pike was sent to live with his uncle who discovered that Albert had a photographic memory and was able to recall large volumes at will.
He mastered several languages and passed the examination required for entry into Harvard when he was sixteen. Pike chose not to attend Harvard when the college requested payment of tuition fees for the first two years. Owing to financial difficulties, he opted for self-education and wrote several legal subjects.
He organized the Know-Nothing Party (Order of United Americans), a reactionary political movement opposed to foreigners and came to see the continuance of slavery as better for the country than farmers importing foreign labourers.
At the same time he was pro-Indian, and as the representative of several tribes of Native Americans before the government, won some large settlements.
Pike was commissioned as a brigadier general at the beginning of the Civil War (1861-65) and given a command in the Indian Territory. After the Battle of Pea Ridge, Pike was faced with charges that his Native American troops had scalped soldiers in the field- a charge later found to be considerably lacking in evidence.
Pike first joined the fraternal Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1840 and joined a Masonic Lodge next. He became extremely active in the affairs of Freemasonry. In 1859 he was elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction. He remained Sovereign Grand Commander for the remainder of his life (a total of thirty-two years), devoting a large amount of his time to developing the rituals of the order.
His monumental textbook, Morals and Dogma of Freemasonry, appeared in 1872. Since Pike had dumped so much material acquired from his memory (see fact no. 2), he refused to claim authorship as he could not determine what was his own contribution.
In 1899 the Scottish Rites erected a statue of Pike in Washington. Ninety years later, civil rights activists brought up the old accusation of Pike having written the rituals of the Ku Klux Klan and demanded that it be removed. Lacking clear evidence of their accusations, they were unsuccessful.
Protesters toppled Pike's statue in the nation's capital and set it on fire on Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in the US.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/albert-pike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Pike
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/albert-pike-1737/
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/st-johns-college-3584/
https://meaww.com/confederate-leader-albert-pike-treason-kkk-freemason-slavery-lawyer-harvard-statue-washington
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/20/protesters-statue-washington-dc-albert-pike-juneteenth-us
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Here in the northeast the first hatches of the year are just around the corner. With warming air and water temperatures combined with a forecasted period of low precipitation, things could heat up quickly.
At this time of year it is important to be patient. Most hatches won't occur until the afternoon or even early evening. And with spring hatches the bug activity does not necessarily need to be heavy to bring fish to the surface so always be on the search for risers.
The Hendrickson hatch is the first major occurrence of the year and can get some of the largest trout in the river or stream looking up and feeding aggressively. A trout's senses are not as finely honed at this time of year as compared to later in the season. This provides a great opportunity to fool the fish of your dreams. But it will still require a careful approach, accurate casts, and a drag-free presentation.
I carry a variety of patterns to represent every stage of the insect cycle and even a few alternatives of each stage for some variety. For me the thrill of going one-on-one with a large feeding trout seems to embody the very essence of fly fishing.


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Can a Slim Wallet Really Help Your Back?
Can Sitting on a Wallet Really Cause Back Pain?
All jokes aside, putting a wallet in your back pocket has been proven to put stress on your hip joint and lower back, says Stuart McGill, Ph.D., professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo.
This phenomenon was first described in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1966 and the condition was referred to as "credit-carditis." According to chiropractor Dr. Arnie Angrist, this "creates an asymmetry or imbalance that distorts your pelvis and hips," which can lead to all sorts of issues, like pain, degeneration, and agitation of the nerve in your backside (the sciatic). Over time, burdening these joints can even cause degeneration, leading to more pain.
Stuffing a wallet in your back pocket tilts your pelvis to one side, which puts more stress on your spine. Instead of sitting upright, you actually round your lower back. The bigger the wallet, the more lopsided you sit resulting in more pain.
The simple solution is to move your wallet to your front pocket. However, most leather billfolds are too bulky to comfortably fit in a front pocket. So a slim wallet that holds only the essentials is ideal.


This paper analyses and upgrades taxonomies of strategies and structures for the speech act of suggesting based on existing taxonomies and classifications in the pragmatics research literature. Previous studies have focused mainly on linguistic structures used to perform the speech act of suggesting. Thus, there seems to be a need to provide a more comprehensive set of taxonomies for structures as well as strategies that can be used in EFL/ESL classrooms and for research on the speech act of suggesting. To this end, the speech act of suggesting is defined first and the features of this speech act are discussed. Second, the most recent classifications proposed for structures and linguistic realization strategies for suggestions were analysed and contrasted and a more comprehensive taxonomy of structures and linguistic realization strategies is provided, based on previous taxonomies. Finally, taxonomy of politeness strategies in making suggestions are provided, based on recent studies in cross-cultural pragmatics research.


Right now i have a 55 gallon tank for a cage but my Ig just looks to big for it. hes only about a year old. so i was just wondering what kind of cage works best for a growing ig. and if its possible to get a pic of some good cages to help give me some ideas.


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Q: Where does Array get its toList method Through searches, I understand the way (or, a way) to convert an Array to a List is like so:
val l = Array(1, 2, 3).toList

But not only can I not find the toList method in Array's API docs, I can't find it in anything that seems to be an ancestor or inherited trait of Array.
Using the newer 2.9 API docs, I see that toList exists in these things:
ImmutableMapAdaptor ImmutableSetAdaptor IntMap List ListBuffer LongMap
MutableList Option ParIterableLike PriorityQueue Stack StackProxy
StreamIterator SynchronizedSet SynchronizedStack TraversableForwarder
TraversableOnce TraversableOnceMethods TraversableProxyLike

But I can't understand how toList gets from one of these to be part of Array. Can anyone explain this?

A: toList and similar methods not natively found on Java arrays (including our old favourites, map, flatMap, filter etc.) come from s.c.m.ArrayOps, which arrays acquire via implicit conversions in scala.Predef.  Look for implicit methods whose names end with ArrayOps and you'll see where the magic comes from.


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Frink Gets Testy
Season 29 Episode
← 628 "Haw-Haw Land"
"Frink Gets Testy"
"Homer Is Where the Art Isn't" 630 →
Season number:
Production code:
XABF04
Original airdate:
Title screen:
Agnes Skinner as a pterodactyl flies across the screen
Billboard gag:
Moe's Tavern now with ladies room
Chalkboard gag:
Homer writes "Strangling is not an effective parenting tool"
Couch gag:
The couch gives birth to a baby couch, with Dr. Hibbert performing the operation, Homer tries to hold it in his hands but drops it on the carpet. Maggie then sits down on it.
Guest star(s):
Maurice LaMarche as Orson Welles
Valerie Harper as Jennifer Clarkeson
Showrunner(s):
Al Jean
Dan Vebber
"Frink Gets Testy" is the eleventh episode of season 29 of The Simpsons and the six-hundred and twenty-ninth episode overall. It originally aired on January 14, 2018. The episode was written by Dan Vebber and directed by Chris Clements. It guest stars Maurice LaMarche as Orson Welles and Valerie Harper as Jennifer Clarkeson.
SynopsisEdit
"Fearing that the end of the world is near, Mr. Burns tasks Dr. Frink with testing all of Springfield to determine who is worth saving. The results shake the Simpson family to their core."
PlotEdit
The Simpson family are watching The Learning Network, when Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw the Future, comes on and Orson Welles says that Nostradamus' predictions have all come true, except one for World War III, scaring Mr. Burns who asks Smithers to bring the comforting hounds. He rounds up Springfield's greatest minds, at the Mensa meeting, to create The Montgomery Burns Doomsday Ark, and fill it with smart people.
To select the people to get on the ark they suggest an IQ test, but Professor Frink proposes the Personal Value Quotient, or P.V.Q. They organize a mandatory citywide test at the Springfield Convention Center. 6 weeks later, the results are in, and Ralph gets one more point than Lisa, while Bart gets only 1 point.
When Orson appears in Burns' dream, he speeds up the process of the ark's production. While Lisa follows Ralph and studies him, Homer, Marge and Bart go to Professor Frink to confront him on Bart's test, finding out the test was Homer's, due to his hand-writing.
After he tweets about it, Homer tries to go to many places but his stupidity is shown in his face everywhere, including Moe's Tavern, so Marge tries to help him out, while Lisa follows Ralph to the construction site. Since Lisa finds flaws in the test, Frink makes her happier by giving her 10 more points.
At the end, Homer manages to do it, presenting Marge love letters written in a good hand-writing, while Burns flies out on his ark alone, getting strangled by a robot.
ProductionEdit
The episode was intended to air as the 6th episode of season 29,[1] however "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be" aired as the 6th instead.[2]
The episode was going through its fifth rewrite on April 3, 2017. A line was written for Rupert Murdoch to say, "If you're watching this show, I'm getting richer." The line was pitched by Mike Reiss. However, this never made it into the final episode. Jeff Westbrook pitched the line "You're as beautiful as your sisters are hideous." which Homer said in his love letter to Marge. Mike Reiss also pitched the joke "If the sprinkles are moving, don't eat them." for the episode.[3]
International airdatesEdit
Latin America June 17, 2018 Fox Latin America
Ukraine June 18, 2018 NLO TV
GalleryEdit
↑ Al Jean's Twitter
↑ TheFutonCritic.com
↑ Springfield Confidential
Promo videosEdit
Lisa Watches Ralph at YouTube
Homer Sleeps On The Job at YouTube
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MAYBRICK
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MAYBRICK Breakuptheband (independent) Rating: NNN
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Local power pop quintet Maybrick have finally completed their follow-up to their 1998 debut, White Noise. Apparently, they experienced a long run of bad luck that almost convinced them to call it quits; hence the title. There's a lot to like here for fans of Britpop. They seem to be trying to condense the various aspects of alternative pop into one sound, and actually succeed in piecing together a coherent sound for themselves out of the references. Singer Joshua Norton's Smiths fascination is evident in his phrasing and melancholy, but he unfortunately lacks Morrissey's sense of irony, which would have kept some of his moping in check. Maybrick play the Kathedral tonight (Thursday, June 13).
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Q: Could not load type mvc c# Has anyone experienced an issue which the view could not load a type from the assembly since you've moved the type to a different namespace on the same assembly?
The only resolution for this is for me to add a new line on the view to detect the change.
Example:
Assembly: MyProject
Initial: MyProject.View.SomeViewMode, MyProject
View: _SomeView
Moving SomeViewModel to a different folder
Assembly: MyProject
Moved: MyProject.ViewModel.SomeViewModel, MyProject
View: _SomeView
Error Encountered (Could not load type MyProject.View.SomeViewModel from assembly MyProject)
Resolution: add a new line to _SomeView
Model declaration:
@model SomeViewModel
Web.config
system.web.webPages.razor
  namespace:MyProject.ViewModel
Do you have other resolution for this issue?
Thanks for all your help

A: To solve this problem you must stop IIS and clear the Temporary ASP.NET files located here:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root