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One hot day of the infamous Delhi Summers, as i hurried from Subroto Park to attend a meeting at the Indian Air Force HQ, Vayu Bhawan, in Delhi, my mind raced through the strategic importance of the meet that I was chosen to attend.
Cautioning me with a cynical smile he added, “We know you are enthusiastic and a strong protagonist of indigenisation, but let me tell you that aircraft manufacturing is an altogether different ball game” In the same tone he went on to add, “So don’t go overboard with your suggestions and your timelines. Let the MOD representatives decide the pace“. It was the last sentence that kept me thinking.
To elaborate, the Year was 2001 and the aircraft proposed to be indigenously developed and manufactured in India was a medium haul transport aircraft with a capacity of 100 to 120 passengers.
The planning was indeed visionary and if implemented could have changed the course of Indian Defense Manufacturing in the coming decades.
A prototype was to be readied by approx 2008-2010 that could go into active production by 2012. Though sitting in 2001, 10 years of advanced planning was still late for the design to manufacturing cycle of an aircraft, but the excitement of India building a transport aircraft was all over me.
‘We will be able to even export it to many other countries and thus tide over the perennial foreign exchange problems’, I muttered to myself. The news of the often dwindling forex reserves worrying the govt’s, that I grew up knowing till 2001, were fresh in my mind.
The need and criterion to zero down on these broad guidelines had risen from the impending requirement of replacing the already ageing fleet of An-32’s that were slated to be finishing their first leg of calendar life by the year 2008 – 2010. So the entire effort was to match this phase out of the Antonov’s with the induction of the indigeneously developed MTA’s.
The Soviet-origin Antonov 32 aircraft are the tactical short haul transport workhorse of the Indian Air Force and have been vital in maintaining and supplying troops in the far eastern and northern borders. Totalling about 104 and stationed at squadrons located across the length and breadth of India, the 80’s purchase by the IAF had become the aircraft-on-call for most IAF transport, disaster-relief and special operations missions.
The meeting started late, waiting for the quorum to complete, even though it didn’t till the end. While most of the Air Force and Army guys could reach in time, it was the MOD’s civilian representatives that were missing.
As we waited and chatted informally, I remember our Director, an Air Vice Marshal ranked officer, also exuberating the same enthusiasm as a much younger me, telling the HAL and the DRDO reps, “How lucky can we be that while the aircraft hasn’t even been designed, the nation has already placed faith in us with a confirmed order of approx 80-100 aircraft from the Indian Air Force alone.” Everyone agreed and even came up with the names of several civil airlines, like Sahara that were sure to place orders within the country.
As the meeting started and reached its conclusion, I could feel the enthusiasm in me, ebb a bit. The conduct of the highly reverred and most senior of persons seemed to have been not at par with my personal expectations. The hush talks of the MOD representatives deliberately not making it to the meeting confused me. The very next moment, the reasons for this behaviour by some of us started unravelling.
Not that I wasn’t aware of all that went into, behind the scenes in decision making, It was just that I started experiencing it first hand as an upright Squadron Leader then.
Many doubts further got cleared over the next couple of meetings that were fixed, only to be either cancelled or postponed like the dates in an Indian Lower Court Judiciary. Every possible effort to meet up for such an important project for the nation, only got scuttled with a brilliant circumstantial burial.
The AN-32’s in the meantime, started approaching their phase out dates. The intelligentsia came up with one brilliant idea after another requiring appropriate overhauls and life extensions in steps, of the entire fleet. The same were already there in the overhaul manuals supplied by the vendor. This was projected as a saving to the exchequer of millions of dollars as it could extend the life of the aircraft by another two to four decades without going into the need for the fleet replacement.
However, in the process, the very idea to get an indigenous aircraft manufacturing plant in India took a temporary back seat.
Entire teams went to and fro to Kiev deciding on the workscope of the life extensions, the extra stocks of spare parts needed for the interim etc etc. Many others, from the MOD and signatories to these arrangements also seemed happy about the way things moved.
As I realized, everyone seemed to have shut the Indigenised production and manufacturing out of their mind. It was here that one got to understand the disinterest shown from the top to bottom, in raising any aircraft production line in India. As one of the senior guys, having become familiarized with me from the MOD confided, “Look man! Visiting Kiev or Brazil, will remain your dream forever, if India starts manufacturing its own aircraft.” Embraer happened to be from Brazil and was also then, being evaluated for the IAF’s Com Squadron based out of Palam for limited VIP activity. Awestruck, I had no words to reply back. These were the people in whose hands the future of a glorious dream, that was India rested. The realities of life came dancing back to me and the mystery of the cynical smile of my CO stood explained.
No wonder, no eyebrows go up as its common knowledge in the corridors of Power, to hold back crucial decisions for seeking favours, varying from as low as a treat in a 5 Star to as big as multi crore untraceable transfers to the safety of bank a/c’s located in other countries that become a part of the darkness that often shrounds such deals forever.
An indigenous manufacturing, thus finds few nationalistic facilitators as it will eventually seal the sweet nothings mentioned above that most in the decision making process start claiming as a matter of right. No less than a scam, this.
Coming back to our topic, having once lost on the opportunity of developing and manufacturing an aircraft indigenously, the requirements over the next few years got diluted and instead of going for the design and production independently, India ended up signing a joint design and production of the Multi-role Transport Airplanes (MTAs) that were originally envisaged.
Even this served as a ‘saving grace’, keeping in mind the limited design capabilities that India had and that it did indeed need some hand holding for such an ambitious project being undertaken for the first time.
Still a cause to celebrate, the agreement was signed in May 2012 under the aegis of the UPA Government, between United Aircraft Corporation of Russia and India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. The aim was to co-develop and produce a new multi-role aircraft, referred as the UAC/HAL II-214 Multi-role Transport Aircraft by the year 2019.
Both UAC and HAL were 50:50 partners in this aircraft project and a new company Multi Role Transport Aircraft Ltd. was registered. The company would have had manufacturing facilities in both the countries. Both countries also earmarked $300 million each for the first phase of the project.
Initially the plan was to make 205 aircraft some of which can be exported to other countries. While Russia will take delivery of 100 aircraft so produced jointly, India will have 45 as per initial plans.
Come 2015, with BJP government at the centre, both sides bogged down, unable to agree on a detailed design of the new transport plane and the project stalled. One of the major stumbling blocks was the Russian selection of the engine for the aircraft with UAC insisting on PS-90A turbofan as the better solution, whereas HAL wanting a new powerplant that included Fadec. A trivial matter that couldn’t be resolved to save a bilateral agreement between two giant nations boasting of half a century of military cooperation and strategic ties. Ironical indeed.
Thus in January 2016, the deal was considered to be as good as dead. While the Russian side did issue a statement, none from the Indian side admitted officially and the final report of the deal being scrapped was published on 28 March 2017 which read “India-Russia Aircraft Deal Terminated”.
To overcome the embarrassment of a bungled up project, that could raise many an eyebrows, with some even demanding an investigation, the Chief of the Indian Air Force Air Chief Marshal B. S. Dhanoa immediately announced that the Ministry of Defense will begin contract negotiations for the purchase of 56 Airbus Defence and Space (DS) C295 medium transport aircraft with European defense contractor Airbus. This statement drove the final nail into the coffin of the MTA deal and was to be taken as an official confirmation. However critics continue to question the intent of the govt at the hush hush nature of scrapping a national dream project.
Though it is difficult to say with certainty, what led to the death of such an aspiring project that had taken almost 10 years of hard work, time and resources to fructify into a deal and that was slated to change the destiny of India Defense Manufacturing.
To throw more light on the developments. The deal for the joint design and development of the MTA was signed in 2012 under the then UPA govt. However with the Narendra Modi govt taking charge in 2014 and the subsequent disagreements over the issue of finalising a Engine as mentioned above and the stalemate that followed, that could not be resolved, all point a finger at some amount of political complicity that led to the deal going dead.
In the meanwhile, the Indian Air Force’s fleet of Antonov AN-32 transport aircraft continued to undergo a major midlife upgrade extending their service lives by 20 to 40 years.
While it can be argued that the AN-32 upgrade did reduce the urgency to replace the fleet and introduce new transport aircraft, but it will be a folly to deny the nation the once in 70 years opportunity to develop the capability to manufacture transport aircraft indigenously. More so this could have opened the possibility of exporting the surplus and earn forex. Furthermore the MTA project had the advantage of mitigating the risks of failure as the Russia’s UAC was an experienced partner that was to see us through till the end and thus was making the project ‘Fail safe’.
The cost for the upgrade of 104 AN-32 transport aircraft is about $400 million and includes fitting the aircraft with “improved avionics, modernization of the cockpit, and a payload capacity increase from 6.7 to 7.5 ton. This laid bare the possibilities of kickbacks and what was feared comes closer to reality with the recent Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau investigating alleged kickbacks to the tune of $2.6 million (Rs 17.55 crore) in India’s purchase of spares for An-32.
The agency suspects the involvement of Indian Defence Ministry officials and through the Indian evnoy in Kiev had approached the Ministry of Home Affairs seeking help for the identification of the Defence Ministry officials who participated in the negotiations, development, signing and implementation of the contract.
As the row with Ukraine gets nastier, charges of Indian MOD Officials having taken kickbacks worth Rs 17.5 crores, fly high. The latter on its part insisting that terms of acknowledgement having not been fulfilled, the mud slinging goes on.
No wonder the Scam that it was since the beginning, had just been waiting for the right spark to blow up, and the spark came from nowhere other than our own partner in arms, Ukraine.
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Now it´s ready: All outside passenger displays, financed by the project and placed at selected stops and stations between Rostock port and City centre/ main station, show intermodal cross-border real-time information. This is special in two respects. The real-time information is provided for four different means of transport (bus, tram, city train and ferry) and three different transport operators (RSAG, Deutsche Bahn and Scandlines). As a prerequisite for this, a significant technical upgrade of the real-time passenger control centre of Rostocker Straßenbahn AG (Rostock´s local public bus and tram provider) was necessary. The running test operation is used to finally check functionality of the system and to eliminate technical shortcomings. Moreover partners take this opportunity to further improve the service with regard to special needs of (foreign) visitors (bi-lingual information, comprehensibility of provided information).
By bringing intermodal real time information on screens, one further element of passenger information system could be successfully implemented. Already since June/ July 2014 intermodal real-time information is available via mobile application, internet and inside screens at the passenger terminal of Rostock port.

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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Grass Valley's Dale Peterson launches the official paper boats during Saturday's Wolf Creek Alliance boat races.
The Wolf Creek Community Alliance paper boat races take to the waters of Wolf Creek Saturday behind Wild Eye Pub. The organization gathered to raise funds during the annual "Know Your Watershed" month.
Tom and Kate Ivy catch the paper boats at the finish line, Tom acting as the judge of the event. Biodegradable boats were used in the case of one escaping.
Boat racing placements are tallied during 5 separate heats before a final heat was tallied.
The paper boats re numbered and sold off to their hopeful participants of Saturday's boat race.
Max and father Rich Stowe are ready to participate in the boat races Saturday to help raise funds for the Wolf Creek Community Alliance, which spends its money on water quality monitoring among other things.
The biodegradable paper boats are held down with rocks and numbered before being launched in the waters of Wolf Creek Saturday behind Wild Eye Pub in Grass Valley.
Tom Ivy, the acting admiral and judge of the event, catches the paper boats as the float down Wolf Creek Saturday.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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More than 130 jobs will be created when Toowoomba’s revolutionary new aged care facility opens next year.
Ozcare’s 150-bed facility near completion at Glenvale, in Toowoomba’s west, is incorporating state-of-the-art design features as demand for residential aged care shifts towards more privacy and staying connected.
Ozcare, a not-for-profit organisation, this month starts a recruitment process for full-time, part-time and casual staff that will include roles in clinical care, hospitality, domestic services, maintenance, gardening, administration and diversional therapy for dementia patients.
Ozcare’s Head of Aged Care, Lanna Ramsay, said a predicted increase in the prevalence of dementia in the Toowoomba region in the next seven years was set to have a significant impact on services.
New figures show more than 3000 people living with dementia in the Toowoomba region – this is expected to grow by one-third over the next 10 years.
“The national, state and local trends are driving the need for flexible aged care services in the Darling Downs region,” Ms Ramsay said.
“We’re now on the cusp of the ageing baby boomers - the largest generation of growth in the nation in the post war period.
University of Canberra statistics show the Federal seat of Groom has 3108 people living with dementia in 2018. This figure is expected to increase to 4062 in a decade and to double in 40 years.
The predicted increase in the prevalence of dementia in the Toowoomba region will have a significant impact on services.
Eight per cent of Toowoomba’s population is currently aged 75 or more.
Ms Ramsay said Ozcare currently provides home support for 862 people and their carers in the Toowoomba region and a further 158 people access the organisation’s dementia advisory service.
She said the new Glenvale facility would be staffed with clinical and registered nurses, care assistants, chefs, cooks, kitchen hands, servery staff, cleaners, gardeners, rostering and maintenance staff.
A free information session will also be held in February to invite volunteers to be part of the new facility. They will undergo police checks and trained as concierges, helping with the day-to-day activities within the facility and coffee shop.
“Our commitment is to employ as many people as we can from the local and surrounding areas,” Ms Ramsay said.
February 2019 – Building commissioned. Volunteer information sessions.
Early April 2019 – Open Weekend.
April 2019 – Doors open to first residents.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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From estate planning to caring for elderly parents, the legal plan covers members for many common personal legal issues they face throughout their life. We receive feedback from our members regularly about the ways in which the legal plan has helped them with events in their life. Here is one story we received from a legal plan member about how an attorney helped her with family issues she faced.
“The Hyatt legal plan allowed my husband and I to establish a will (after procrastinating four years). We now have more comfort knowing that our four-year-old will be taken care of if something were to happen to us.
1. Plan member had additional legal plan coverage for her parents’ legal issue. Standard plans do not cover drafting estate planning documents for the member’s parents.
2. Example based on the average amount of hours it would take, using the average hourly rate of $338.00/hour based on years of legal experience, National Law Journal and ALM Legal Intelligence, Survey of Law Firm Economics (2016).
3. Rates may vary. This cost is based on the average monthly rate for a plan that covers employee and parent.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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This statistic shows the number of examinations with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) per a 1,000 population in selected countries. In South Korea, some 34 exams magnetic resonance imaging examinations per 1,000 inhabitants were performed.
All values are for 2016 or latest year available.


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The cables we all rely on for high-speed Internet access can also form part of an early-warning system for earthquakes.
The earlier an earthquake can be predicted, the more chance there is of people getting to safety and avoiding serious injury or death. But implementing an early warning system on a scale big enough to protect whole cities is extremely expensive. However, researchers at Stanford University believe they have a cheap solution. It's cheap because we already installed it!
Stanford geophysics professor Biondo Biondi is leading a research team developing a continuous earthquake monitoring system using optical fibers. Those are the same fibers already present throughout every major city allowing us all to enjoy high-speed Internet access.
Biondi's group have been experimenting with a three-mile loop of optical fiber installed at the Stanford University campus. Importantly, there is nothing novel about this loop. It's optical fiber sitting inside a plastic cable under the ground, just like commercial cabling.
The earthquake detection works thanks to acoustic sensing. Light travelling along an optical fiber always encounters impurities and some of the light bounces back. This is known as a "backscatter signal." What Biondi's team realized is that "vibration or strain" on the fiber changes the backscatter signal and this can be monitored.
By understanding how the backscatter signal varies it is possible to detect seismic events at a scale and precision we haven't seen before. So sensitive is this so-called "fiber optic seismic observatory," it even records man-made events. The Stanford loop felt the recent Mexico earthquake as well as detecting two local small earthquakes measuring 1.6 and 1.8 in magnitude.
The system can also detect P and S seismic waves. P waves are particularly important to detect as they arrive before S waves and are typically the first waves felt from a seismic event. Detecting P waves means knowing earlier that an earthquake is imminent.
Scaling Biondi's system up, it's easy to see the benefits. Take any major city, hook into the existing optical fiber network, and you have an instant network of earthquake sensing cabling without having to install anything new.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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How To Find A Job ASAP!!!
Go online, search LinkedIn, Indeed.com, Monster board, job bird, jobrapido, student jobs. There are millions of job opening out there, you have to use the right key word. For example, lets say you need a cleaning job in Milan. You have to search on Google, ‘cleaning job Milan’ or student jobs Milan, got it?
Create a decent c.v. There are several examples of decent cv you can emulate from online.
submit your c.v. personally to company’s or organizations you are interested in. Lets say you like to do house keeping jobs, you may want to print several cv and submit to all the hotels close to you. you can do some research online too and submit your cv to their email address. if you do have call credit, call the company, ask them if they need personals first before sending in your cv.
Attend job workshop at your school.
dress neatly when going for an interview and wear good makeup and lovely outfits. you can buy some cool cloths from Zara, H&M, Esprit.. watch You tube videos to get inspired on how to look formal for a job interview.
body language is also important as much as verbal language, have the right posture and gestures during your interviews.
If you do succeed to acquire the job, endevour to do your best during your probational period which is usually 3 to six months before you earn your permanent contract.
So here you have my awesome tips for a job interview.
I wish you all the very best my lovelies.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Lung aeration loss can be measured via lung ultrasound, it is a non-invasive, bed side procedure, which can be performed rapidly and facilitates a dynamic assessment of lung aeration. Aim of the work: is to determine the role of lung ultrasound score as one of the predictors of successful weaning from mechanical ventilation in ICU patients.
Patients should be assessed daily for their readiness to be weaned from mechanical ventilation, sedation must be withdrawn and all patients will be put on a spontaneous breathing trial (SBT), via T-piece, for 60 -120 minutes period, when they fulfil the weaning criteria. Patients who succeed to tolerate SBT will be extubated and monitored for signs of respiratory distress.
The ability of maintaining a respiration rate of less than 35/min, and keeping oxygen saturation more than 90%.
Arterial blood gases (ABGs) will be done 30-60 minutes after SBT and after extubation.
To detect signs of respiratory distress: diaphoresis, tachypnea (RR> 35/min), increase activity of accessory muscles of respiration, tachycardia (heart rate > 140 beats per minute), systolic blood pressure > 180 mmHg or <90 mmHg, appearance of new arrhythmia, or alteration in mental status (drowsiness or anxiety). ABGs: PaO2 ≤ 60 mmHg or oxygen saturation < 90% on FiO2 ≥ 0.4, PaCO2 > 50 mmHg, or an increase in by ≥ 8 mmHg, pH < 7.32 or a decrease in pH by ≥ 0.07 pH units.
Clinical assessment will be done by an intensivist who will be blinded to the LUS score results.
Lung ultrasound (LUS): will be performed while patients in supine position, with a curved probe on B- mode, using longitudinal view, to assess the amount of lung aeration. Each lung will be divided into anterior, lateral and posterior regions, each part will be divided to upper and lower zone, with total of 12 zones to undergo examination. Examination will be done by an expert physician in US.
Lung US score : The 12 scanned regions will be summed to calculate the LUS score, which ranged from 0 and 36. In each zone, the worst ultrasound form will considered to be descriptive of the entire region.
Score of 0: Normal aeration is signified by the presence of horizontal A lines, lung sliding, or less than 3 vertical B lines.
Score of 1: moderate loss of aeration is characterized by multiple regularly or irregularly spaced B lines that originated from the pleural line.
Score of 3: Complete loss of aeration, as detected in lung consolidation or atelectasis, is characterized by tissue echogenicity, which is similar to liver or splenic tissues.
The score will be performed before starting and at the end of SBT (before extubation), or on developing respiratory distress during SBT.
Successful weaning: patients who will not need re-intubation within 48 hours after extubation.
SBT failure: which will be diagnosed by the appearance of signs of respiratory distress during SBT and patients will be connected again to the ventilator. Extubation failure: will be defined as patients who developed signs of respiratory distress after extubation within 48hs and need reintubation or non-invasive ventilatory support.
patients who will not need re-intubation within after extubation.
50 adult patients over 18 years, mechanically ventilated via an endotracheal tube for more than 24 hours, whom will have an improvement in the underlying cause of respiratory failure. Fluid balance will be recorded for 48hours before start of weaning and any cardiac dysfunction detected by Echocardiogram will be documented.
patients with tracheostomy, spinal cord injury above than T8; arrhythmias and or haemodynamic instability; patients having pneumothorax, or pneumomediastinum, chest tube or chest injuries, after thoracostomy, and pleural lesions or pleurodesis, also patients having severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with forced expiratory volume less than 50% of predictive value will also be excluded.


text: For as long as I can remember I wanted to SCUBA dive. I remember being fascinated by my dad�s cylinders of air with yellow flaking paint and belts of lead weights that lay around the house, and the promise of what lay beneath the surface of the sea. As luck would have it, by the time I seriously started thinking about diving I had been diagnosed with adult asthma.


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There are many ways to train people to use complicated new software. You could sit down with each new user individually and show them what to do. Because you have 300 people on staff full-time to do that. The training might be a live demo of some of the processes, or one of those movies. It could be a series of online modules that take the user through various steps of various workflows. There might be a quiz at the end. Everybody likes quizzes.
We chose a variety of training approaches. This is a nice way of saying we didn’t really have a coordinated training approach. Our training started out with the best of intentions, of course. Unfortunately, our system was pressed into service before it was really finished, so the training program was REALLY not really finished.
Our first attempts at training involved the time-honored “live demo in front of a group of people” technique. I wonder if there’s anything more useless. Imagine a group of 20 people who don’t really know what’s going on, in a darkened room, staring at a projection of a completely foreign UI, listening to some dork (me) droning on about “tagging” and “attributes” and whatnot. For an hour. And at the end, being told to go back to their desks, and the software would be installed within the next couple weeks, and there are no handouts or manuals, but when you get the software, start using it all day as this is now your new way of working. We didn’t even offer snacks.
So that having predictably failed to impart all the vital skills they needed, the next step was to sit down with them individually or in very small groups and, with one of the users driving, talk them through the tasks they needed to do. “Click on the File menu . . . no, the Documentum file menu, not the Netscape file menu . . . good!” This actually worked pretty well. The only downside is the “trainer” has to spend all day doing it. And the trainer is never really “the trainer”, they’re more like the project manager who’s dropping everything to train people as they have questions.
To try to organize the random training and ensure that everybody in the group was getting the same information, we decided to hold weekly meetings to go over any questions that came up. Emergencies would still be handled as they occured (an emergency being an “I can’t do any work until you explain to me how to do this” situation). Unfortunately, or maybe inevitably, no questions ever came up in these meetings. I’m not kidding. “So how’s everything going?” “Fine.” Then an hour later 15 phone calls come in asking for individual help.
Then there’s the problem of “rogue training.” There’s always somebody who kind of gets it, assumes they totally get it, then trains their colleagues on their own. It is, after all, easier to ask the person sitting next to you than calling the person who caused all this pain and inconvenience in the first place. This caused no end of issues for everyone involved. Someone determined a simple 35-step procedure for creating a page and printing it out for further editing. The problem: the same thing could be accomplished in 3 steps, which had of course been covered in the original dark-room demo, but everybody forgot about that. And even better, the page didn’t really need to be printed out every time as it was after all a PDF file which could be viewed onscreen. But that rogue trainer had shown everyone their technique, everybody started doing it, and hours upon hours were wasted waiting for pages to process and print. And even after we discovered this and showed everyone the “right” way, many people still did it the “old” way because that’s what they were comfortable with.
When it finally became obvious that our ad hoc training program wasn’t going to cut it, we assigned someone to be a trainier and come up with a hands-on training program. And it wasn’t me. That was one of the happiest days of my career. It was one of the users, who knew what the users were going through, and spoke their language, and had credibility within their ranks. O joy! I just peeked in on the first couple sessions to make sure they weren’t talking crazy talk. And they weren’t. And everything went pretty smoothly from then on. Imagine that.


text: Waitrose Okehampton is a shop belonging to Waitrose corporation. It is open on: Monday 08:00 - 21:00, Tuesday 08:00 - 21:00, Wednesday 08:00 - 21:00, Thursday 08:00 - 21:00, Friday 08:00 - 21:00. At weekends its working hours are: on Saturday 08:00 - 20:00, on Sunday 10:00 - 16:00. This store's address is: School Way, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 1WL. In order to reach the customer service directly please dial the number 01837 659008. Waitrose Okehampton is frequented by many people inhabiting neighbouring towns like Okehampton Hamlets.

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IRVING, TX – All Medical Personnel (AMP) has announced the promotion of Tracey Dewar to Division Vice President of Recruiting for its Healthcare Staffing Division.
Tracey began her career with AMP in 2009 and established herself as one of the top recruiters in the organization culminating in her winning the prestigious Recruiter of the Year award in 2013. Since that time, Tracey’s responsibilities expanded to include leadership roles in both recruiting and account management where she was overseeing many of the company’s largest clients.
In her new role, Tracey will now oversee the entire recruiting team for the company’s Healthcare Staffing Division and play a key role in the continued growth of this division.
Since its founding in 1990, All Medical Personnel has steadily increased its presence in local, regional and national markets. From the start, All Medical Personnel has focused solely on providing workforce solutions to the healthcare staffing sector, offering per diem, project and permanent placements and temporary staffing, as well as permanent physician staffing through its affiliate, Palladium Search Partners. Today, All Medical Personnel is a national leader, serving clients throughout the United States. For more information, go to www.allmedical.com.


text: 2014 World Masters of Junior Golf, Champion, 65/63/67, at age 12. 2014 US Kids World Championship, Champion, 69/77/71, at age 12. 2014-2015 All FCWT, First Team, Girls 13-19 Division, at age 13.


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I have ZTE MF669 USB modem.
I've read, that that my modem must be switched from mass storage mode to modem mode.
I have new Raspbian (downloaded 1 week ago), it has kernel 3.12.22+.
I have usb_modeswitch installed today from Raspbian repository (current version?).
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# usb_modeswitch -v 19d2 -p 0154 -V 19d2 -P 0117 -M "5553424312345678000000000000061b000000020000000000000000000000"
When I run lsusb - device remains unchanged, it's still 19d2:0154. In /dev directory there is no /dev/ttyUSB0 device.
My modem USB power pin is connected directly to 5V/2A power supply.
When I was installing this modem it 1 year ago on old Raspbian everything just worked. Now im reading one USB modem tutorial after another and... it doesn't work.
New kernel is not supporting that modem or something like that?
I still have no idea why usb_modeswitch is not working, but I found that flash drive can be turned off in ZTE modems.
I did it and it worked. Now my modem is seen as 19d2:0017 and some ttyUSBx devices appeared in my system.
Connect to modem (COM port) with terminal (PuTTY or other) (115200bps, Data bits: 8, Parity: None, Stop bits: 1, Flow Control: None).
I will not accept my own answer, I still don't know why mode switch is not working.
There is a very good description of how to switch various usb modems with usb_modeswitch at https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/USB_ModeSwitch/. The list mentions the ZTE MF637 modem, so it might work for your modem too.
In my case the solution was to just use the -v, -p, and -M parameters for usb_modeswitch. Before, I used also -V and -P and that did not work.
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The Communication of a company is expressed not only through its marketing, but also and above all, through its visual communication. For this reason the contribution of the graphic designer is crucial in research and the creation of a custom identity, consistent, easily identifiable, unifying and revealing of the values of the company. A strong visual sense that is appropriately targeted leads your brand to be clearly identified and stored in memory.
Myriam Cohen Studio is a graphic design agency based in Jerusalem. Listening to your desires, your needs and your beliefs, we anticipate your desires, sometimes overturning your codes, and innovate while respecting the values that represent your brand.
We assist your company in all your creative projects, the outline of a first visual identity, such as the establishment of a marketing launch or the revitalization your brand. Our areas of expertise range from packaging for all types of products and logos, through posters, presentation brochures, new commercial space, and other media related to visual communication of a company that is dynamic and looking to the future.
We propose a custom tailored creation to your brand or your business, constant monitoring of projects, and constant availability. We take care of your communication and from its conception to its realization.
Powered by the highest professionalism, Myriam Cohen Studio brings concrete results for its achievements and supports its clients in a relationship based on trust and efficiency.
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Myriam Cohen studied Graphic Arts in Paris in 1996 at the prestigious ESAG - Penninghen (Higher School of Graphic Arts) and then continued her studies by specializing in visual communication at the Ecole d'Art Maryse Eloy (newly renamed "Paris School of Visual Arts") where graduated in 2000. She has worked in the largest agencies in Paris as a freelance before joining the department cosmetic Hotshop agency that specializes in packaging.
Since 2005, Myriam moved to Israel where she worked for larger agencies (Neogroup, Adlai & Partners, and Adler Brands of the advertising group Grey Israel), absorbing the language, culture, and local graphics.
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Call me crotchety and old fashioned, but Personal watercraft (PWC) have never appealed to me. I regard them as noisy toys that immature males use to impress young ladies. Upon entering my 30s I have never given them serious consideration.
A decision my father recently made forced me to think differently about PWCs. Sitting together enjoying coffee on his back porch, he flippantly announced that both he and my mother were moving to a lakefront cottage and that they were purchasing two PWCs. The goal was to explore the Trent Severn waterway, the water system their new cottage was located on. My father was 70 years old when he announced their sudden lifestyle change, and envisioning my aging parents on PWC made me uneasy. It didn’t compute. I tried to talk him into something more practical, a pontoon or a runabout, but his desire to have something “sporty” was difficult to circumvent. My parents were not moving to a lakefront cottage to die, he explained, they were moving there to live. His wisdom prevailed and I conceded to his logic.
I am somewhat knowledgeable about powersports, and like a good son, wanted to help my father make the right choice. I did not want him to end up with a lemon or something inpractical. I dutifully began my internet research.
My first stop? I wanted to know if others were using PWC's as transportation. Certainly there had to be something online about PWC as a cottage transportation device. That is when I stumbled across a man who refers to himself as the Intrepid Snowmobiler. Craig Nicholson is a freelance journalist who prolifically blogs about his snowmobiling adventures. He has been blogging for years and has built up a valut of knowledge about snowmobile touring. When the snow melted and he started spending time at the cottage, he did what came naturally; he started using a PWC like a snowmobile and started writing about his waterway adventures. In the summertime, he morphs into the Intrepid Cottager.
Reading Mr. Nicholson’s blogs about PWC touring in Ontario not only sparked my own imagination, but created newfound respect for my father’s idea of PWC's as an vehicle for adventure and exploration. Whether my father knew it or not, he was thinking out of the box. The Intrepid Cottager’s prevailing PWC adventures reinforced my father’s ideas and won me over.
With countless hours of internet research and a myriad of conversations with my dad, we eventually decided on Yamaha Waverunner products. Without getting into agonizing detail, we each had trusted powersports friends who had many years of experience with Yamaha products. They all felt that Yamaha products would be both reliable and suitable for touring.
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One of the biggest games in the world is now available on smartphones around the world thanks to Tencent. The Chinese company’s official port of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is now available on iOS and Android worldwide.
We tried PUBG on iPhone X when it released in China last month and came away very impressed. It successfully squeezed much of the PC and Xbox game down to a much smaller screen -- and in places looked even better than the Xbox One version of the game.
It comes a week after rival Fortnite began inviting players to test its own mobile version. Unlike PUBG, Fortnite will allow players to play across platforms -- meaning iPhone players can kill or be killed by gamers on PC or PlayStation 4.
Fortnite recently surpassed pioneer PUBG in popularity. Both games feature 100 players landing on a deserted island filled with weapons, with everyone fighting to be the last person left standing. While PUBG adopts a realistic setting, Fortnite has a more cartoon-like look -- and an emphasis on building structures sets it apart from its rival.
But Tencent may find its main competition for PUBG on mobile could come from other Chinese companies. NetEase was quick to copy PUBG and released similar games for smartphone while the original was still on PC. NetEase says just one of its clones, Knives Out, has over 100 million registered players -- far more than the 40 million playing PUBG on PC and Xbox.

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text: In May 2011 as Chair of Cross Keys Homes Angus Kennedy attended a conference organised by the Housing Associations in Peterborough. The speakers included Marco Cereste, Peterborough City Council Leader, and David Orr, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation. The conference was chaired by the Chief Executive of Cross Keys Homes, Mick Leggett.

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I don’t keep up a lot with celebrity gossip, and I’m not invested in any of it. I get a general idea of almost everything happening in Hollywood from Twitter. I like short, synthesized summaries and occasional links to articles on the off chance something isn’t explained to my satisfaction in 140 characters. So as someone that doesn’t follow Taylor Swift – or any celebrity for that matter – very closely, I could be completely off base. But yesterday as the hot takes and hysterical tweets from both her stans and detractors flooded my timeline, I realized something.
If you’ve never watched Gossip Girl, it’s the story of young rich kids from New York’s Upper East Side with the occasional “middle class” kid from Brooklyn thrown into the mix to keep things interesting and highlight how exorbitantly wealthy everyone else was. It follows the ridiculous soap-opera level betrayal and drama from high school to college. I suspect that rewatching it at the age of 23, it would seem predictable and stupid, but at the time it always kept you guessing.
The two main characters of the series were best frenemies Blair Waldorf and Serena Van Der Woodsen. Blair Waldorf was the ruthless, elitist, life-ruining C U Next Tuesday that was easy to hate, and made no apologies for it. Serena Van Der Woodsen was the happy-go-lucky blonde that liked to think of herself as kind and down to earth because she hooked up with kids that didn’t have trust funds. On the surface, she was much more likable than Blair. But any viewer with an IQ above that of a toaster knew that Blair was better than Serena because she was honest about who she was. Serena always found a way to become the victim. No matter how blatantly wrong her course of action was or how obviously responsible she was for what happened, we were supposed to feel bad for her and find someone else to blame.
So following the teasers of Taylor Swift’s new album I realized two things. First, I realized that Taylor Swift is Serena Van Der Woodsen. I also realize that for a long time, she made music for victims. I thought about how much I listened to her in middle school and high school and my mentality back then. I realize that while I don’t care about who she dates or how many people she dates, I haven’t heard a single song where she takes any responsibility for anything that goes wrong in her life romantically or otherwise. But back to the issue at hand.
A quick recap for any grown straight man that may be reading this that still has no idea what I’m talking about. Last year, Kanye West released “Famous.” A line in the song sparked controversy.
According to Kim and Kanye, Kanye brought the lyric to her attention before the song was released and she approved it. In a series of videos that Kim released on Snapchat it appeared that Taylor Swift was completely on board with it, and even vowed to back him up knowing that the line would cause controversy. Taylor Swift fans argued that the videos were manipulatively edited. But instead of backing him up as she said she would, she played the victim card. She stood before us in an acceptance speech and positioned herself as a feminist icon who’s accomplishments were being undermined yet again by big bad Kanye. After Kim releasing the videos it was as if she was wearing a scarlet S for snake. On everything she posted online there were dozens and dozens (maybe hundreds and hundreds?) of snake emoji comments, leading to her eventual social media black out. And like Serena, she fled the scene when the kitchen got too hot for her. She comes back this summer, posting videos of snakes and as her fan base jumps to conclusions about what this means, I can’t help but become annoyed. Once again, Taylor Swift is the victim.
Second, I realized that Taylor Swift is Beyonce. The Beyonce effect is something I articulated during the primaries of Election 2016. It’s when you come to hate something not because of the thing itself, but the thing’s fans. Think of crossfit. Think of veganism. Policy aside, Marco Rubio is actually a very likable person. But between his supporters that acted like he was the second coming of Jesus and like everyone that didn’t like him was a hypocrite and a liar, I hated him with a passion between September of 2015 well into the summer of 2016. Before any Lil Marco alum get in their feelings, I acknowledge that there were people like this behind every major candidate, including my boy Teddy. Cult like followings are both a blessing and a curse to celebrities, because they provide an impenetrable core of support but their rabid, obsessive tendencies tend to turn otherwise indifferent people against whoever the celebrity is.
Taylor Swift kind of reminds me of vanilla ice cream. It’s good. It’s basic. Most people like it, but some people don’t. But seeing hoards of people online so obsessed with vanilla ice cream is off putting, and starts making me question the ice cream itself.
Crossfit is the perfect example of hating something that you don’t really hate but fans have ruined. I am a Taylor fan and love the new song but I think this reference seems pretty accurate.
Nice read! Agree with the name of her next album.
I’m tired of hearing about all of her drama, honestly. I wish she would release music just for the sake of releasing music. Not because she’s holding a grudge, or getting revenge on an ex boyfriend, or trying to prove herself in any kind of way. But I mean, without all of the drama, she might not be as popular as she is. She could be playing us all.

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Tim Harford quotes Campaign for Social Sciences, Sharon Witherspoon, in his piece on the need for number and data skills. (Note: The opinion piece is behind the Financial Times paywall, please contact FT or the Author directly to get full access).
Parents of “boomerang” children who move back into the family home are more likely to be miserable than “empty nesters” whose offspring achieve independence, new research has shown.
Helping out your co-workers isn’t customarily seen as a path to power.
Most of what we know in the fields of sociology, psychology, political science and medicine is derived from tiny experiments in controlled environments.
Tomorrow’s immigration statistics are likely to show a further fall in net migration, especially from the EU. If so, they will get the same reaction as last time.
The argument against echo chambers is well documented: helped by social media algorithms, we are increasingly choosing to interact in safe spaces, with people who think and act like us - effectively preaching our opinions to the converted.
Britain’s universities are one of its greatest strengths.
It takes a long time to do history. In the US, graduate students spend an average of three to four years researching and writing their dissertations, the longest stretch in the humanities.
Computing has long been perceived to be a culture-free zone — this needs to change.
We know that children who grow up in areas of high social deprivation face challenges and that, unless well supported, they are less likely than their more advantaged peers to be successful in later life.
Arts and social science students could see their tuition fees slashed in a new “value for money” deal, the Education Secretary said.
Sir Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Alliance Manchester Business School, says: “Thirty years ago the psychological contract was if you [work hard] for us we’ll give you career development.
Just as archaeologists back here on Earth take interest in the remains of decades past beneath us, some in the industry have started pursuing a similar curiosity in what's above our pale blue dot.
It is estimated that 17,000 children every year are affected by maternal imprisonment in England and Wales.
Although they are the go-to metrics for scientists and politicians, global temperature targets or atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are unlikely to be understood or seen as personally relevant by a majority of the public.
The number of people officially recorded as sleeping on the streets of England rose from 1768 in 2010 to 4751 in autumn 2017.
The UK’s Office for Students was launched this month, with more headlines about its mission to crack down on universities that permit the “no platforming” of controversial speakers.
The vast streams of data generated through social media platforms, when analyzed responsibly, can offer insights into societal patterns and behaviors.
Our “confirmation bias” — an elementary part of social psychology — explains how we seek comfort in every piece of evidence that confirms we are right and find a way of excluding anything that suggests we are wrong.
While many of us believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, the research on the virtues of the morning meal are less certain.
Claims that robotics will wipe out millions of jobs, from car manufacturing to banking are all too common.
These days many academics like to talk and write about public scholarship. In my discipline, anthropology, there is no shortage of essays, books, and blogs about public anthropology.
When asked about immigration in the abstract, opinion surveys suggest that a majority of the British population want numbers reduced.
Each year, around this time, I find myself marking essays by students who are thousands of miles away and whom I have not seen since last summer.
North Carolina is so narrowly and deeply divided that, last November, voters ousted a conservative governor in favor of Democrat Roy Cooper – but elected a Republican lieutenant governor as his partner.
A group of researchers, led by the University of Exeter, have contributed to a special issue of the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolutionto examine commonly used social science techniques and provide a checklist for scientists to follow.
Since the advent of so-called big data, much has been written about the possibilities and challenges of making the most of the multiple digital traces created online.
Landlords have spoken of their dismay at problems caused by Universal Credit as its revealed 73% are still hesitant to rent to those enrolled on the flagship programme.
Children can be left confused and unable to write accurate sentences because of "uncertain" grammar teaching, experts have warned.
If kids spend hours a day speaking to digital personal assistant Alexa, how will this affect the way they connect to real people?
England has one of the biggest gaps in the developed world between high and low achievers in maths, analysis shows.
Questions about value for money for university students and the heated debate about Vice-Chancellors’ pay challenges the reputation of our world-leading university sector.
Britons should “embrace an android” and welcome the rise of robots in the workplace, deputy Labour leader Tom Watson has declared.
It’s also important that the government does not neglect the social sciences, humanities, arts and education in favour of its apparent emphasis on Stem subjects.
These are sobering times to mark the Beveridge report, which was published 75 years ago today.
Before World War II, there was no welfare state as we know it today.
Next week the government will finally publish its long-awaited white paper on industrial strategy.
Why not manage public data like water — a public resource required for all life?
Modern day science and research thrives on national and international collaborations.
The world is witnessing a series of extraordinary revolutions in how thought happens.
Around the world, Americans have a reputation for working longer hours than almost anyone else.
Whether you like it or not, almost every step you take online is recorded: the websites you visit, the purchases you make, the songs you listen to, the messages you post or read on social sites, and the pages you follow on Facebook.
STEM programs are critical components of universities’ curricular and research missions, but so, too, are the liberal arts.
Two studies – the first of their kind – conducted by YouGov in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Conspiracy and Democracy project, one in February 2015 and the other in March 2016, show that Brits are just as likely to believe in conspiracy theories as Americans.
Over the last year, many companies have ended their liberal work-from-home policies.
Ofsted's report Getting Ready for work provides a bleak prediction: "The nation's economic prosperity is at risk because the majority of schools are failing to prepare pupils for the world of work."
Mamie Phipps Clark would go on to study psychology and develop valuable research methodology that combined the study of child development and racial prejudice— helping her field incorporate the felt experience of childhood racism.
Productivity is no higher now than it was just before the 2008 financial crisis, in stark contrast to the average annual growth of 2.1 per cent recorded during the decade before the crash.
Researchers in the fields of social science and medicine are debating how to fix an increasingly recognized problem: A lot of their findings are either outright wrong or can't be replicated.
UK universities generate £95 billion for the country’s economy and support more than 940,000 jobs across the nation, according to an analysis from Universities UK.
When Hillary Clinton’s new book What Happened debuted on Amazon’s Web site last month, the response was incredible.
In the early 1990s, Amartya Sen, the Indian economist, raised concerns over “missing women”, most notably in Asia.
When you come for the social sciences, you’d better come correct.
For students choosing careers, data science presents an opportunity to be in demand.
In recent months, warning voices have grown louder as the digital assets known as cryptocurrencies have attained record valuations.
In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological change and productivity improvements would eventually lead to a 15-hour workweek.
Much of the argument concerned various statistical tests for identifying extreme gerrymandering.
$6.4 billion. That’s how much candidates, political parties, and interest groups spent on federal elections in 2016, according to the Open Secrets project at the Center for Responsive Politics.
This month the world’s first “archaeology coin” launched to fanfare from a small community; however, it might be part of a coming social science data revolution.
In late 2014 and early 2015, escalating tensions in New York City led to the NYPD staging a slowdown in which the department performed only its most essential duties.
Wikipedia is one of the world's most popular websites, but scientists rarely cite it in their papers.
Researchers have a great deal of flexibility in determining how to report data, which results to report or whether to report them at all.
It is a political practice nearly as old as the United States - manipulating the boundaries of legislative districts to help one party tighten its grip on power in a move called partisan gerrymandering - and one the Supreme Court has never curbed.
On 18 September 1997, the Welsh people just about voted to create a National Assembly.
For years the number of stay-at-home dads has been rising, as more men take on responsibility for looking after the home and family.
People read science fiction and fantasy as a form of escapism.
Universities can stem the tide of polarisation between the higher education elite and the wider public by introducing “inclusive internationalisation” strategies that benefit the whole of society, according to a leading international relations scholar.
Britain’s parks risk being left empty because of dog mess, broken glass and drugs paraphernalia.
STEM disciplines are a discrete set of methodologies, whereas the humanities and social sciences are a separate set of interpretative skills that are of equal value.
The great Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter, writing in the 1940s, predicted the eventual demise of capitalism.
As we get older, our thinking skills often deteriorate: we get slower, more forgetful, less good at learning new things.
Four in five British adults are proud of the work they do, while two thirds enjoy going to work most days, research suggests.
People are astonishingly capable of making sense of language, even though it is often ambiguous.
Chew Jetty in Malaylsia’s George Town attracts tourists by the boatload. Historic homes are now commercial stalls branded with neon signs; one-time fishermen peddle T-shirts, magnets and postcards.
Cities have always done a pretty good job of keeping track of property sales.
Laws prohibiting blasphemy are “astonishingly widespread” worldwide, with many laying down disproportionate punishments ranging from prison sentences to lashings or the death penalty, the lead author of a report on blasphemy said.
To most people, an economist is the chap interviewed in newspapers or on the television uttering acronym-laced incantations about 0.3 per cent this or 10 per cent that.
What led to the violence in Charlottesville? Here’s what social science says.


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Rocky Mountain Over the Hill Gang is a group of hikers/bikers/skiers and, most importantly, friends over 50. In other words, a bunch of folks “of a certain age” (definitely NOT old) who love to get out and do and prove we don’t have any feet in the grave yet! In addition, food ranks high on our priority list so most activities include eating one way or another. In the past we have sponsored everything from ethnic dinners to raft trips, to castle visits, as well as our outdoor activities.
Over the Hill Gang, International disbanded all its chapters in the Fall of 2005. We, as the Rocky Mountain (Front Range area) Chapter, feel very lucky to have found the CMC and a real opportunity to not only survive, but thrive as we continue with the CMC. My favorite description is that this is a marriage made in Colorado, which, we all know is almost heaven! Be advised that since most of us are retired, a majority of our activities are during the week in an attempt to avoid crowds.
We look forward to meeting you and welcome those over 50 who would like to join us in our quest for outdoor fun and the elusive fountain of youth. We think we may have spotted it on any number of ski, bike and hiking trails in and around nearby mountains. Ergo, it is our mission to get out there and capture the moment, if not the fountain itself! Come join us!
From May through September interested members usually hike on Wednesdays and bike on Fridays. Where each week‚ events will be going is published in our newsletter each month and updated via e-mail.
The electronic newsletter detailing our activities and any words of wisdom needing dissemination is published monthly View the Over the Hill Gang Newsletters. If you don‚Äôt have electronic access, you can pay an additional $10 annually for snail mail delivery of the newsletter. Contact Wayne Tomasello, editor, for the details (720) 344-8932. Also in the newsletters are contacts for various activities to get more info.
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A few people lately have been asking me about my Assistent Original mixer and how it has fared since I got it 6 months ago. Well, what to say?
Effortless. For any bread maker it really is effortless. The fact that I can put the ingredients in, dial up the timer and walk away from it, is truly a miraculous thing.
Not only that, it also does well with mixing non bread ingredients. Whipping two egg whites is a breeze, just as well as the bigger amounts of bread dough.
To date, I still haven’t put the mixer to the 5kg test that it apparently can go up to with bread dough. The most I’ve put in there would be about the 3kg mark in any one time (about 6.6 pounds.) With the larger amounts of my sourdough it does ride up the hook a little initially, but it should, that’s a whole lot of dough in there. The lowest setting is more than adequate for mixing the bread dough, and (quietly) mixes it really well. Even with a lower hydration dough and mixing the salt in after a fairly lengthy autolyse period- this dough still gets a good even work over.
So have there been any problems with the machine, and any peculiarities or tips worth noting?- The only tip vaguely worth mentioning is that when making bread, the machine likes the majority of the liquid in at the beginning, and sitting at the bottom, rather than the flour first. I always hold back my liquid a little, as flour, starter and other ingredients all have a factor in how much water is needed. (eg. If 625mls are needed, I’ll put 500mls in the initial dough mix, and then slowly add the remaining, in the first minute or two of mixing.
Other Attachments- I still haven’t purchased any of the extra attachments that you can buy for the mixer. (Basic model comes with- dough hook, double whisk, cake beater, bowl scraper, dough roll, and lid.) I’d be very curious to know how some of the extra attachments work also seeing them in action, but at this stage I haven’t needed any. As the basic model suits all my baking needs.
So would I recommend one?- Yes. In a heart beat. I will wax lyrical to anyone that vaguely mentions the word ‘mixer’ to me. Kenwood, Sunbeam, Kitchenaid, Thermomix are all fine and dandy, but if you are serious about baking, bread making in particular and want more oomph in your kitchen, this mixer really is the bees knees.
For more details on how I came to this mixer, what kitchen requirements I had, other reviews, and various other links, please see my original post on this machine.
* I don’t get anything by writing this review, this is purely to help out anyone that might be in a similar position, looking for a new mixer and unsure of what to get for their baking needs. Would I recommend it?… Yes, it’s still awesome.
* If anyone has any specific questions that I might be able to help with, please do ask in the comments.
It, being the mixer I had decided on nearly three months ago. After writing this post. I researched, and researched what was going to be best suited for me. Which one to get… which one to get?
So why did I need a new mixer?
I make all our bread, and although my kids are still quite small, we go through a LOT of bread, so it’s only going to increase. Sourdough being the bread of choice or a sourdough/commercial yeast blend. I quite often use a fairly stiff dough that needs a bit of effort behind it incorporating the salt. While I have no problem with kneading, my kitchen has a problem with bench space… it’s very minimal!
With baby crawling around- getting in to things she probably shouldn’t be, four year old holding on to a leg singing me a sad sailor song, six year old trying to read out his homework, and a dinner pot on the stove probably close to burning. Even just the simple process of kneading salt into dough (in a very small kneading space) can be a little frustrating.
A good mixer, eases this. It really does.
Over the past few years, I had been using a Sunbeam Professional. I was really happy with it and it suited most of my cooking. Although it wasn’t until researching new mixers did I realise just what a flogging I was giving it. At the most I was mixing a little over 3kg of bread dough. The sunbeam recommended amount was less than half that. Lasting two solid years of sourdough making, (plus general kitchen baking 2 years before that.) I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did.
First I looked at the Kitchenaid Artisan KSM150.
Gorgeous colours, and looks solid. $749, 300watt motor, made in the USA, but only takes 1.3k of dough. Reviews also say it can run a little hot when being put to the test with bread dough, needing frequent cool off periods. It also may have times of creeping up the hook, if there is a larger amount of dough in there.
Kitchenaid Professional has definitely got more grunt and aims higher than the average home baker needs. However, as far as I could see it wasn’t available in Australia.
Next I looked at the Kenwood Premier Major KMM770.
No colour options (silver), 1200watts, 2.4kg dough capacity, 6.7L bowl capacity, and upwards of $700. Originally a British company, and is now all made in China.
The Kenwood Titanium Major was also a contender, with same colour, an increase in the watts- 1500, but no increase in dough capacity or bowl size. I was getting mixed messages as to whether an increased wattage in the different machines actually made any difference or not.
The Varimixer Bear Teddy- 5L I looked at, but the weight was concerning as the spot where the mixer was to go is again quite small. A lone stockist in Sydney was also quite vague.
Throughout my research another name kept popping up, Assistent Original. There didn’t seem to be any distribution in Australia, despite it being available seemingly everywhere else. It certainly didn’t look anything like any of the other planetary mixers I had looked at.
It did however, seem to be exactly what I was looking for.
Not too big, 7L bowl, could handle up to 5kg of dough, came with basic attachments and more if I needed them later.
It sounded good, really good.
But how to get one of these little gems? I didn’t think it would hurt to send an email, which went to a US distributer. That, then got bounced to Sweden, who in turn bounced it back to Australia, to a baking company who just so happened to be starting to import them. One load of ten had already arrived and disappeared into baking land, a second was to be shipped the next week from Germany. Was I interested?
Fast forward several months, now with my Swedish mixer in my hot little hands… what could it do?
First up the instruction manual is not great. I watched the instructional dvd (also available on youtube) and that helped. I basically fiddled until I had worked out what was what,and mostly it was fine, (you do just have to play a bit.) The dough hook took the longest to get the hang of, (saying that, it was probably only half an hour) which worried me a little as this was the one I basically got the whole thing for. Finally I found if I brought the arm just a smidge more forward, the peg sat in fine.
There is an extensive recipe booklet that comes with it. It would be great to explore some Swedish recipes, but unfortunately it’s all in Swedish, and I can read not a word. With distribution of the machine in a handful of English speaking countries, I’m surprised they haven’t done an English language one.
Developed, designed and manufactured in Sweden.
In built timer- this is sooooo handy. Dial it up and go and do other things, come back and viola.
It’s quiet. All you hear is a gentle mixing sound on the lowest setting, which for my bread is more than adequate.
I was curious to know whether it could whisk a couple of egg whites as well as several kilos of bread dough. It could, and did. I haven’t done less than 3 egg whites at this stage, but for those three it worked beautifully.
The mixer has a lot more attachments available, and if I decide I want others down the track I can buy them singularly. For the time being though, the basic attachments suit my needs.
Problems with the machine- none what so ever. I’ll certainly edit this post if I come across any problems, but so far- using it is great. I’m still at the casually polish it as I walk by stage.
It is completely different to the other types of mixers on the market, which initially felt a little daunting on opening the box. I soon shook that off though…it’s good to be different. I’d be quite happy to have a machine like this in my kitchen for the next 20 years.
Have a look here, if you want to see it in action using the dough hook.
Where to buy it from if you are in Australia?
Blackwood Lane– who were very helpful when I had a lot of questions to ask before I purchased.
* I don’t get anything by writing this review, this is purely to help out anyone that might be in a similar position, looking for a new mixer and unsure of what to get for their baking needs. Would I recommend it?… Yes, it’s awesome.
** All food pictured has been mixed in the Assistent Original.
In my kitchen sat my absolute favourite pie in whole wide universe…. lemon meringue. It had been a while since I had made it and Monkey Boy asked ever so nicely if I would. I didn’t want to disappoint, so made it, gave him a small slice, and packed him off to bed. This left me to admire a rather large slice of my own. Lemon meringue pie is one of those lick the bowl when your done kind of moments. Yep, it really is.
And I would have been crazy not to make one, as I had these fat gifted backyard lemons sitting on my kitchen table waiting to be loved.
A trial of a Pear and Ginger Slice. Amazingly enough I actually followed a recipe this time. It wasn’t bad, I would tweak it a little to cater more to my taste buds. But definitely not bad.
The last of my dad’s pumpkins. The orange of the flesh in these pumpkins has been amazing. Nothing like a super market bought one what so ever. I’m still thinking about my pumpkiny options.
In my kitchen, there has been quite a lot of my staple salad. I very rarely tire of eating kale… which is lucky, as there is quite a bit around at the moment.


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Kevin Joseph was allegedly abducted from his relative’s house in Kottayam and his body was found in a stream in neighbouring Kollam on Monday morning.
A day after the newly-married Kevin Joseph (23) was found dead in a stream, Kerala police on Tuesday arrested the brother and father of the wife Neenu from north Kerala while they were trying to flee to Bengaluru.
Neenu’s brother Shanu Chacko -- the main accused -- and her father Chacko -- another accused in the case -- were arrested from Iritty in Kannur district, police said. Out of the 14 accused, five have been arrested and efforts are on to nab the rest, they said.
Amid mounting protests, Kevin’s body was buried in Kottayam on Tuesday evening. Police had to resort to lathi-charge on a number of occasions to control the mourners.
Kevin was allegedly abducted from his relative’s house in Kottayam on Sunday and his body was found in a stream in neighbouring Kollam district on Monday morning. A day before Kevin’s murder, his wife sat on a day-long protest at the Gandhi Nagar police station in Kottayam and pleaded with cops to save her husband. She was reportedly rebuffed by officials who said they were busy with chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s visit.
Kevin, a Dalit Christian, and Neenu (21), a Christian from an affluent family, had married against the wishes of the woman’s parents on Friday. He was working as an electrician and she was studying at a private college in Kottayam. “They were in love for last three years. On Friday, they had registered their marriage at the sub-registrar’s office but they were summoned to the police station after Neenu’s parents filed a missing person complaint,” said Melvin, a friend of Kevin.
He said though Neenu’s parents belonged to different communities (father a Christian and mother a Muslim), they opposed their daughter’s relationship because of Kevin’s Dalit background and poor economic conditions.
Kerala chief minister said the incident was unfortunate because the woman’s parents also belonged to different communities. “Sad because the girl’s parents also had a love marriage and they belonged to different communities. They have conveniently forgotten this. If they kept the spirit alive, this sad incident wouldn’t have happened” Vijayan said on Tuesday.
Kevin’s post-mortem report listed drowning as the main cause of death. Police now suspect that after thrashing him, the assailants might have thrown the unconscious victim into the stream.
“Investigation is at the initial stages. We can’t divulge any details because it will affect the probe,” said Special Investigation Team (SIT) head Inspector General of Police Vijay Sakhara. The government had transferred the Kottyam SP and suspended three police officials in connection with the case that invited enough embarrassment to it.


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