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Discussion in 'Developer Preview Archive' started by FPires, Aug 26, 2012.
First of all, I'd like to thank the Unity crew for their amazing work.
I would like to know if anyone's managed to get compute shaders working, as they don't appear to be functional here. I opened a Bug Report Ticket (486962) including a sample scene.
I'm currently using a GeForce GTX 460 which, as far as I'm aware (from NVidia website and NVIDIA Control Panel) supports DX11 as it states my current DX version is 11.1; Driver version 304.79; Windows 8 64-bits. Unity 4.0 is set to support DX11 in the Preferences and in the Windows Build settings.
1) Windows 8 has some crazy compatibility issues. Unfortunately I do not have a DX11-ready W7 machine here at the moment (as I'm using the other computer to test compatibility with Intel integrated video cards), hence why I'd like to hear from your experiences.
2) A human-made error. Either the documented shader code doesn't work or I'm not initializing the .compute files correctly (probably).
3) Compute Shaders are simply not active right now.
4) There's some odd compatibility issue with my video card.
//Using compute.FindKernel returns 0 as the correct Kernel.
The Editor creates a standard Texture2D (a blank image with light grey color) when you hit "Play", but once you stop the scene it displays a standard RenderTexture (dark grey with darker edges) in the material. This doesn't happen if you build (it will display a generic RT during Play), which means at some point a ComputeShader is being dispatched, but using a native RWRT instead of a T2D doesn't fix the issue either. If you've got Compute Shaders working, could you tell me where is the error here?
I spent 30 mins messing around with them a couple of days ago and wasn't able to get anything working. I too tried the FillWithRed with render texture similar to you and didn't see any expected result. I also wrote a couple of compute shaders to test simple setting array values with RWStructuredBuffer instead of RWTexture2D, but couldn't see any way to retrieve returned values in script. ComputeBuffer class had no methods to return data from what I could see.
I think the compute shaders were compiling and working fine since it would report compile errors when I'd intentionally add errors. Hopefully we're either missing something or full support will be added in an upcoming Beta version? Either way some more info would be good so we can start testing things out.
Glad to see I'm not crazy! I tried playing with the buffer too, to no avail. I feel like I'm missing something here.
Hmm, I've been playing with this as well. I'm new to compute shaders anyway, but I can't get it to work either.
However, making a extremely heavy compute shader lags the game, so it must be dispatched somewhere. This leads me to think that there's just not a way yet to get the data from the GPU to the CPU.
However, with Graphics.DrawProceduralIndirect we might be able to do something? No clue how that works though. Also Graphics.SetRandomWriteTarget seems intresting.
Also, any clue on how to bind buffers to data in a pixel shader?
Hmm, let's hope there's some docs soon.
The docs are lacking, aren't they?
Here's a very small example project to get you started. Does not look fancy, but shows how to use (most of) new APIs: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1119248/DX11Examples-4.0.0b7.zip. There's a scene per "scenario of DX11 stuff".
To answer the above questions: writing into a texture (RWTexture2D) from a compute shader requires a render texture with "random write" enabled (which makes it into an Unordered Access View in DX11 lingo).
Thanks Aras. Checked them out and they all work fine. Now to see what I was doing wrong .
Is it possible now or will it be possible to retrieve non-renderTexture results from compute shaders? For example passing some array of ints to the compute shader to operate on and then have the result returned to system ram to be accessed via script?
Not right now. So I guess you'd be looking at adding something like ComputeBuffer.GetData?
Yeah that's what I was scouring intellisense for . Probably not going to be overly useful typically, but one of the projects I'm working on at the moment has a large number of systems/objects that update in parallel in threads and it'd be cool to have compute shader variations of the update functions and see what gains can be made.
I've taken a functional programming approach to these systems so it should port into compute shaders easily enough and I'm looking forward to having a thread job manager that can arbitrarily fire off compute shaders and cpu threads interchangeably. Whether it ends up being viable or fast enough to be worth doing or not remains to be seen, but if "GetData()" functionality is added then that'd be awesome because it's something I'd like to check out.
I tried creating a RWRT but since it's new I've probably initialized it wrong then. This should help me pinpoint the problem.
Thank you very much, Aras.
I too am not seeing anything except unshaded objects. (pics below) I am using a similar card to FPires, a NVIDIA GeForce GT 440. I basically went out and bought what I figured a gamer on a budget would buy - something in the $120-$160 range that supports DX11.
One curious thing I found though, when poking around in the editor log...I found the below happening (note it says Version: Direct3D 9.0c [nvd3dum.dll 9.18.13.282]) hmm...not sure how that is coming up when I believe I've done everything correctly with my DX11 setup. Thoughts?
Loading GUID <-> Path mappings ... 0.017318 seconds.
NOTE: I'm using Windows 8...as is releasing in oct.
Did you set DirectX 11 as the graphics device in editor preferences (Edit -> Preferences), and restart the editor? This is confusing and we want to fix this, but for now you have to do this.
When you're in DX11 mode, editor's window title has "<DX11>" appended.
I'll add ComputeBuffer.GetData that lets you read back the contents of it into system memory.
However, if you want to use compute shaders for job-like small tasks outside of actual rendering and with a CPU readback, then I think that won't be very efficient. Unless your tasks take a really long time on the CPU and going to GPU would make them much faster. Why? Because GPUs are very good at throughput, but quite bad at having small latency. Typically when you tell GPU to do something, you have around 100 milliseconds or so latency until you get fetch back the results to the CPU.
If, for example, you'd do compute shader dispatch, immediately followed by compute buffer data readback to the CPU, you'd be stalling until GPU actually gets to execute the shader transfer the results back. Just worth having to keep this in mind.
Ah, I thought Unity deferred all render-to-texture activity until the end of the frame - is that not the case then? I can't remember where I read this - perhaps in the Unity 4 release notes, but I can't find a link to those online any more.
If we perform compute on one frame, can we read the results back on the next? Do you perform any internal buffering of staging buffers etc in order to avoid stalls?
Thanks so much for the examples Aras I'm experimenting with compute shaders. Damn, amazing!
Is a bug report required?
Thanks Aras for yoyr answer.
The next question is, can we do efficient watertight adaptive tessellation without adjacency information or the midpoint calculation? The answer is yes! If we calculate the tessellation factors from the vertices themselves, then we can guarantee that the surrounding quads will use the same factors (because they are using the same vertices).
I have a quite specific problem. I need multiple compute shaders doing the same thing, just to other buffers. However, the buffers between all compute shaders are shared. I tried to use Instansiate to create a clone, but that doesn't seem to work.
Any way to duplicate a compute shader?
How about just setting different buffers on the same shader before you want to do something?
Had some trouble getting it to work, but turned out to be my own fault, woops!
Thanks for the examples Aras, very much appreciated.

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1 Locating Affordable Dental Implants in La Paloma Ranchettes, Texas– Why So Costly?
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The highly-regarded Chrysalis Day Nursery in Cheshire has been sold off an asking price of £1.3 million, to an experienced regional operator, in a deal brokered by specialist property adviser Christie + Co.
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“Riley, do you have any friends that are girls?” asked Nana. Riley dreaded that question. She didn’t know how to go about making new friends. Spring in central Idaho mean birthing season on a cattle ranch and with Grandpa sick and Delly pregnant, Riley is up to her knees in mud, blood and babies. To top it off, the new friend Riley has chosen isn’t making life any easier.
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Riley made the mistake of getting attached to a calf she hand raised. She even gave it a name, Bella. The problem is, on cattle ranches most all the calves go off to auction, sold for beef. This is a tough reality for a city girl. People that grow up on ranches and farms have more exposure to birth and death than those of us in cities.I had the joy and sorrow of experiencing these things on my grandparents farm. But for Riley, it will take awhile to get used to the fact that some things have to die for others to live and to guard her heart appropriately. In this scene, Riley realizes she will have to sell her calf for beef for breeding. There are no other good options.
“Sierra says I can sell Bella on Craigslist to a family who wants a milk cow.” She smiled at the idea.
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That is a lot happening in a relatively short period of time!
I was exactly like that until I joined Overeaters Anonymous.
Good luck finding what will work for you.
I'm still fighting the bulge and think, "GEEZ, has it really been almost 7 years and I still haven't lost the weight?" I'm still HERE, so that's something, but it doesn't count for much until I get my head in the right place for losing weight. I have GOT to do something different to keep myself on track, but I don't know what the trigger will be.. Each time I think THIS TIME I'm GOING to do it!! --Then I don't stick with it! UGH!
I am just coming back and starting over again. Glad to see there are a few that are still here.
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I am at a healthy weight for the first time in over 20 years.
I have joined OA (Overeaters Anonymous) and am in recovery for my unhealthy behaviours and disordered thinking with food.
I'm not sure if anybody checks in on this team anymore but I thought I would drop by to say hi, and to see how everyone is doing with their weightloss since joining in July 2007 or what changes have happened in their life.
I have lost weight and gained weight over and over. I got married in July 2010, had a baby boy Oct 2010 and then a baby girl Oct 2011. They are both now 3 and 2. Time flies by but my aim is to get shifting the weight again.
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Representation from Government servant on service matters – reiteration of instructions – regarding.
To put the facts straight, the joint platform of central trade unions have been pursuing with successive governments at the centre with their basic demands since 2009 and observed three rounds of countrywide general strike since 2010, the last being for two days in February 2013. In the two rounds of meeting between the CTUOs and the Group of Minister, nothing transpired in concrete terms except vague statements by the ministers on steps to be taken or being taken on some of the issues, that too not in the justify direction.
The steps taken by the Govt on Labour Law amendments, are meticulously designed to throw out more than 70% of the workers on industries and other establishments from the purview and coverage of almost all basic labour laws and also to eliminate almost all components/provisions of justifys and protections of the workers. This was supplemented by more aggressive steps already taken by a good number of state governments to already amend the labour laws in the similar lines. On this issue, the Govt stated only that they will hold tripartite consultation before taking such steps. The trade unions demanded scrapping of such proposals by the central govt and also not to give assents (through President) to the unilateral amendments made by the state governments. Even in all the tripartite consultations held on some of the proposals of the Govt, the trade unions’ unanimous suggestions has been ignored by the Govt in favour of loud supportive applauds of the employers. Once these retrograde changes in labour laws totally dismantling the justifys and protection measures for the workers and also throwing more that 70% of the workers out of the purview of labour laws are enacted, thereby rendering the almost entire working people a justify-less entity in their workplace, what would ensure even payment of minimum wage and other social security benefits for them, even if those provisions are improved ? Can any trade union, worth its name accept such a machination designed to impose conditions of virtual slavery on the working people ?
Despite repeated insistence by all the trade unions, the Govt refused to concede to the demand for recognizing the Scheme workers, viz., Anganwadi, Mid-day meal, ASHA, Para-teachers and others as “worker” with attendant justifys of statutory minimum wages and other benefits in gross violation of the unanimous recommendation of the 45th Indian Labour Conference in 2013, reiterated again by the 46th ILC in 2015. These workers and all the schemes have been put to further crisis threatening their existance owing to drastic cut in budgetary allocations for those schemes. In such a situation, does the assurance of the Govt to “extend social security measures” and “working out ways” for the same carry any meaning?
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2. This would be applicable to all Drivers irrespective of the type of vehicle they drive.
3. These orders will t e effect from the date of issue. Past cases, will, however, continue to be dealt with under provisions of letter No.F(E)I/2006/AL-28/15 dt. 12.03.08.
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The Seventh Pay Commission set up by the government to revise remuneration of about 48 lakh central government employees and 55 lakh pensioners will submit its report next month, said its chairman Justice A K Mathur.
The Union Cabinet, according to sources, is expected to extend the term of the Commission by two months until 31 October at its meeting on Wednesday. The term of the Commission ends this month.
“The Commission will submit its report by the end of September,” Justice Mathur told PTI.
The Commission, which was set up by the UPA government in February 2014 to revise remuneration of central government employees, defence personnel and pensioners, was required to submit its report by August-end.
The Commission has already completed discussions with various stakeholders, including organisations, federations, groups representing civil employees as well as Defence services. It’s now in the process of finalising its recommendations.
The recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission are scheduled to come into effect from 1 January 2016.
The other members of the Commission are Vivel Rae, Rathin Roy and its secretary Meena Agarwal. The Sixth Pay Commission was implemented with effect from 1 January 2006, the fifth from 1 January 1996 and the fourth from 1 January 1986.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is handling One Rank One Pension or OROP himself now and “positive movement” is expected on the issue this week, sources have told NDTV.
One veteran on hunger strike, Col (retd) Pushpender Singh, was taken to hospital yesterday after he took ill.
The veterans have repeatedly reminded PM Modi that OROP was one of his key promises in the run-up to the national election last year.
OROP is expected to benefit more than three million retired servicemen. It will give equal pension to servicemen retiring at the same rank regardless of when they retire. At present, a soldier who retired many years ago is paid far less than someone several ranks junior to him retiring now.
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Health Benefit Empowered Committee (HBEC) constituted under Rule 4 of the Rajasthan Civil Services (Medical Attendance) Rules, 2013 in its meeting dated 04-06-2014 decided that empanelled hospitals shall be bound not to charge from State Govemment employees, more than the rates as fixed by the State Government.
"Hospital shall be bound not to charge from the State Government employees and pensioners, more than the rates as may be fixed by the State Government from time to time for approved private hospitals for various inpatient and outpatient treatments, investigations and implants."
Accordingly, Finance Department issued order number F. 6(2) FD/Rules/2013 Pt-ll dated 27-06-2015 to adopt the rates of CGHS, Jaipur, as may be amended from time to time, as maximum chargeable rates.
As Saket Hospital, Jaipur has now denied to provide treatment as per FD Order dated 27-06-2015 (mentioned above), in violation Of the affidavit submitted by it, the State Government in exercise of the powers conferred under rule 4 Of the Rajasthan Civil Services (Medical Attendance) Rules, 2013 hereby terminates the empanelment of Saket Hospital, Jaipur as an approved hospital in the rules with immediate effect, Appendix-I to these rules is amended accordingly.
Extension of CGHS facilities to the retired employees of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan – regarding.
Subject: Extension of CGHS facilities to the retired employees of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan – regarding.
a. CGHS facilities shall be extended to the retired employees of KVS only in Delhi/NCR. They will be entitled to OPD facilities and medicines from CGHS dispensaries in Delhi/NCR only on the same lines as is being done in case of serving employees of KVS.
b. They may avail treatment from CGHS empanelled hospitals at CGHS approved rates. The medical expenses for IPD/hospitalization treatment will be borne by KVS and they will not be eligible for cashless medical facilities.
c. The pensioner’s card will be issued to those pensioners who have been recommended by KVS and on payment of service charges on cost to cost basis in advance on yearly basis at the rates determined by Department of Health and Family Welfare in consultation with O/o the Chief Advisor (Cost), Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.
d. The CGHS membership card will have to be renewed annually by KVS in advance for both serving as well as retired employees (wherever applicable). Failure to renew the CGHS membership within the specified time period will lead to de-activation of the CGHS card.
e. There is no provision for issue of life-time CGHS cards to the pensioner beneficiaries of KVS.
*. The retired employees of KVS residing in Delhi/NCR and whose serving counter parts are covered by CGHS medical facilities in Delhi/NCR can opt for this scheme. The details of such posts covered by CGHS medical facilities are given in Annexure – I.
*. The willing retired employee(s)/family members (if otherwise eligible) may submit their application in prescribed proforma (Available on CGHS website msotransparent.nic.in with link Circulars) along with Demand Draft of his/her own subscription, self attested copy of relevant documents to the respective authority from where the terminal benefits were settled (Pension Sanctioning Authority of KVS HQ/Deputy Commissioner, Regional office as the case may be applicable).
*. The Deputy Commissioner of the Region concerned, after detailed cross verification and examining the case will forward such duly completed application(s) to the joint commissioner (pers.) KVS, Headquarters along with prescribed contribution in the form of Demand Draft/Cheque equivalent to one year CGHS subscription in favour of “Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (HQ)”.
*. In respect of officers/employees of KVS, HQ, such request applications will be processed by the Deputy Commissioner (Finance) who looks after the pension section and who will forward the same with all necessary documents to the joint commissioner (Pers.), KVS.
*. The payment of Fixed Medical Allowance will be discontinued by the concerned pension sanctioning authority in KVS/Regional Office from the date of receipt of CGHS card in K.V.S. on case to case basis, after due verification.
*. The reimbursement of medical claims of beneficiaries, if any, will be done by respective Regional Office as per rules. It will take effect from the date of issue.
Honourable Finance Minister Shri.Arun Jaitely had spoken about the possible impact of 7th CPC recommendations in Parliament.
The Speech is critically reviewed by Comrade Elangovan of DREU.
1. The Medium Term Expenditure Framework statement has not yet been uploaded in Finance Ministry’s website.However I have taken the figures provided by print media including The Hindu.As per their statement the expenditure on salaries will rise by 9.56% in the fiscal 2015-16 as a result of 7th CPC implementation over the normal estimated expenditure in the 2015-16 budget to Rs.100619 crores. This means that the expenditure projected was Rs.91,839cr which if increased by 9.56% becomes Rs.100619 crores.
3. As per the estimated strength and provision there of statement laid as part of finance budget,the normal projection as PAY was Rs.60731 cr and so DA is Rs 31,108 as deducted from Rs 91 839 cr. The budget document does not give the DA expenditure separately. It gives the total expenditure on all allowances. I have therefore arrived at the figure based on calculations. However I have sought the expenditure on DA, HRA, and Transport Allowance separately through RTI.
4. The increase proposed is Rs.100619 cr from Rs.91,839cr which means that there will be an increase of Rs.8780 cr. There won’t be any DA after 1-1-2016 up to 31-3-2016 in the fiscal 2015-16. Therefore the whole increase is on basic pay in this fiscal.
5. As we have already seen that the basic pay is Rs.60731 cr. the increase of Rs.8780 cr. is over this Rs.60731.This increase is 14.45% only.The expenditure projected for 2016-17 is Rs.1,12,000cr which is Rs.11,400 more over 2015-16 which works out to 11.32%. This is due to Increment, DA,HRA, TRA etc.The projection for 2017-18 is 1,16,000 cr.
6. If 40% of Basic Pay is to be given,the increase of expenditure in the fiscal 2015-16 must be Rs. 24000 cr as against the Rs. 8780 cr. The demand of JCM Staff side is that there must be an increase of 371% of basic pay as on 1-1-2016. With the 119% DA we would be drawing 219% already. The real increase demanded is 152% of Basic Pay.So not the 152% or 40% of 5th and 6th CPC is intended to be given to us. Only around 15% is going to be given.As The Terms Of Reference of 7TH CPC directs them to recommend only what is‘FEASIBLE AND DESIRABLE’ to the Government.Now the Government In Parliament states only 15% is FEASIBLE AND DESIRABLE. ARE WE TO ACCEPT IT.? Some PSUs got 15%. But that is for 5 years. But for Central Government Employees it is for Ten Years.Are We To Accept?
ARREARS Rs 26084 cr. For three years mostly on Pay and DA regular PAY Increase per annum: Rs 8685 cr. These are actual figures. The 219% of Rs. 8685 cris Rs.19000 cr. EVEN THIS IS NOT GIVEN.
10.We must issue a warning to the government afresh demanding acceptance of our demand.I recall my earlier note where in I had quoted BibekDebroy’s report that the 7th CPC will not be that destabilising to the Government as that of 6th CPC. GOVERNMENT PROVES THAT.
Office of the principal controller of factories has been envisaged to control the functioning of forty one branch AO under 9 Group controllers. The following PAO comes under purview of this office as being pr.PAO so far as NPS is concerned. The main aim/objective behind the creation in factory organization is to render efficient, correct, prompt accounting and payment services besides financial/expertise services to factory management and OFB Authorities.
Government of India has introduced a New Pension Scheme replacing the defined benefit pension scheme. The New Pension Scheme comes into operation w.e.f from 01.01.2004 and applicabel to all new entrants of Central Government Service on or after 01.01.2004. The New Pension Scheme is working on defined contribution basis and will have two tiers-Tier-I and Tier-II. Tier-I is mandatory for all Govt. Servants/employees of autonomous institutes. In Tier-I government will have to make a contribution of 10% of the Basic pay, DP and DA which will be deducted from his salary bill every month. Government will make equal matching contribution and will deposit the same in non-withdrawal pension Tier-I account.
Under NPS system Branch Accounts Offices are termed as “Pay Accounts Offices (PAO)”, As a Central Govt. Office, the correct and timely deposit of contribution in Tier-I account by the respective Branch Accounts Offices (PAOs) is the prime concern. As a part of PFRDA (Redressal of Subscriber Grievance) Regulation, 2015, every intermediary is required to follow the Grievance Redressal policy. Accordingly, the below stated Grievance Redressal policy (GRP) is made for prompt redressal of the grievances arising out of various services offered by the Branch Accounts Offices in the capacity of intermediary. The scope of this GRP is restricted to redressal of grievances raised against intermediary.
(iii) Communications seeking guidance or explanation.
(v) complaints that are subjudice (cases which are under consideration by court of law or quasi-judicial body) except matters within the exclusive domain of the PFRDA under the provisions of the Act.
The purpose of this policy is to set forth the policies and procedures to be followed in receiving, handling and responding to any grievance against the concerned PAOs in respect of the services offered by them. The following are broad objectives for handling the customer grievances.
1. To Provide fair and equal treatment to all employees of respective Factory/Branch Offices without bias at all times.
2. To ensure that all issues raised by employees are dealt with courtesy and resolved in stipulated timelines.
3. To develop an organizational framework to promptly address and resolve employees Grievances fairly and equitably.
4. To Provide enhanced level of satisfaction.
5. To provide easy accessibility to the employees of respective Factory/Branch offices for an immediate Grievance redressal.
6.To put in place a monitoring mechanism to oversee the functioning of the Grievance Handling Policy.
By raising a grievance in writing – in the specified format/letters/representation addressed to the Grievance Redressal Officer,PAO/Chief Grievance Redressal Officer, pr.AO.
The grievance will be resolved by concerned PAO and then appropriate reply will be sent to the complainant by the PAO/Pr.AO.
Every grievance has to be disposed – Off by the PAO within a period of thirty days of its receipt at both the redressal tiers.
10-A S.K.Bose Road, Kolkara – 700 001.
Phone No. (033) 22484341 Fax No. (033) 22480991.
10-A S.K.Bose Road, Kolkata – 700 001.
4. Shri Rajesh Kumar, Sr A.O.
Phone NO. (06112) 257105 Fax No. (06112) 257102.
If the complainant is not satisfied with the refressal of his grievances or if it has not been resolved by Grievance Redressal Officer, concerned PAO by the end of thirty days of the filing of the complaint, he/she may escalate the grievance to the chief Grievance Redressal Officer (CGRO).
The record of grievances will be maintained by the concerned Redressal Officer.
A8. AFD Items like Refrigerator, TV, Washing Machine etc can be purchased after every three years by all categories.
A9. Entry into any URC will be purely Smart Card based by personal appearance. In case a particular Offr/JCO/OR/Equivalent is unable to present himself personally due to valid reasons like old age or acute medical problem, a permission, signed by the Chairman/ CO/OC of the unit/ establishment running the URC must accompany the Smart Card with photo of the authorized person carrying it. Validity period and genuineness of requirement of such permission will be decided by the Chairman of the URC on case to case basis.
The special counters are being organized to facilitate smaller tax payers having salary/pension income, to file paper returns. Taxpayers may note that for the assessment year 2015-16, corresponding to the financial year 2014-15, e-filing of return of income is mandatory for persons whose total income exceeds Rs. 5 lakhs or if the return contains a claim for refund. Paper Returns in such cases will not be accepted.
However, the income limit of Rs. 5 lakhs and claim of refund will not apply to taxpayer over the age of 80 years deriving salary/pension income. In such cases paper returns will be accepted.
· For PCIT-22 Charge (Government salary)-‘B’ Block, Ground floor of Civic Centre, Minto Road, New Delhi.
· For PCIT-23 Charge(PSUs/Bank employees/School and College employees)-‘C’ Block, Ground floor, Civic Centre, Minto Road, New Delhi.
· For PCIT-24 Charge (Private salaries)- ‘C’ block, Civic Centre, Minto Road, New Delhi.
There will be special facilitation counters for senior citizens and differently abled persons.
Facilities like a Helpdesk, assistance of Tax Return Preparers (TRPs), UTI/NSDL counters, banking, tax payment facility, PAN verification counters, drinking water, and emergency medical aid will be available at the venue.
Similar facilitation counters are being set-up in other metropolitan cities based on the local requirement.
Subject: Free Health Check-up Camp for the benefit of Central Government Employees and their dependents at Samaj Sadan, Grih Kalyan Kendra, Peshwa Road, New Delhi on 22nd August, 2015 (10.00 AM to 2.00 PM).
1. Health Check-Up Rockland Hospital, New Delhi.
BMD, PAP Smear & ECG.
2. All are requested to avail the facility of free Health Check-up and Eye Check-up Camps.
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government today announced a six per cent hike in the Dearness Allowance (DA) of its employees with effect from January this year.
The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed here.
“This is in fact for the first time that the government employees are getting DA without resorting to agitation,” Akhtar, who was also flanked by Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu, said.
He said it was a practice here that the DA was not released till there was an agitation.
“Today as part of its duty, the government had taken a decision, which also belies the rumours about money not coming (from centre) and also gives out a message that the system is getting streamlined in the state,” he said.
Drabu said the idea behind the decision was to keep pace with the centre announcing DA for its employees.
“We have announced DA from January 15 to July 15 (and will be paid to the employees) through Provident Fund route, post that it will in cash, thereby we are moving to a system whereby the nearest amount will be given in cash,” he said.
He said the large part will be in cash.
“In respect of employees who are at the new pension scheme, the installments will be in cash. Financial implications is about Rs 285 crores for the year. Of that Rs 240 crore is salary and the rest is pension. We have made provision for that in the Budget.
“The idea is to build system. In the last three-four months, we have got a lot of liabilities at various levels and we are trying to work out a system wherein there will be a transparency and finance will not be a constraint for development activities,” the finance minister said.
2. Government of India has decided to extend the CSD Canteen facilities to the Retired Defence Civilian Employees vide MoD letter No. F.No.8(14)/2015-D(Mov) dated 31 Jul 2015.
(a) Ministry of Defence including those working in their respective attached offices and those working in lower military formations.
(e) Indian Defence Accounts Services.
(f) Secretariat Border Roads Development Board and HQ Director General Border Roads.
(g) Retired employees of Canteen Stores Departments who are getting pension from CSD Fund.
4. Entitlement : They will be entitled for only Grocery Stores. No Liquor will be authorised.
5. Validity : The cards will have a validity of 10 years, from the date of issue and will be renewed every year.
6. Process for applying for Retired Defence Civilian Employees Card : All Retired Defence Civilian Employees will apply for the Smart Card to the URC through which they want to avail the Canteen facilities after authentication of the application.
7. Authentication : The application form will be authenticated for its correctness by the Department from which the employees has retired. The form will be countersigned by an officer not below the Rank of Under Secretary or equivalent.
(a) Application for Canteen Smart card duly countersigned by the competent authority.
(b) Govt order for Retirement.
(d) Address Proof and Copy of PAN card.
(e) Payment of Rs.135 to the URC.
(a) Each concerned department should appoint officer authorised to countersigned and promulgate orders and forward details to this office.
(b) Countersigned officer will verify that all columns are filled correctly prior to countersigned.
(a) That application is filled in all respect and no column is left blank.
(b) Signature of Countersinging authority.
(c) All personal particulars are checked for correctness with PPO and other supporting documents.
(d) In case an application is rejected the same will be informed to the applicant.
(e) New card will be sent by M/s. Smart Chip Ltd to the URC for issue to applicant. URC will check details with individuals Departmental retired identity Card prior to issue of new Canteen Smart Card.
(f) Since large number of applications are likely to be received initially at the URCs, the URC Manager must exercise due diligence while scrutinising and verifying the applications.
(a) All applications are sent by CCTS to M/s. Smart Chip Ltd, at the earliest.
(b) On receipt of application check for correctness with existing records through old Grocery Card Number.
(d) Ensure previous card of applicatin is hotlised prior to handing over of new card for Retired Defence Civilian Employees.
12. The application form (Blue Color) for Retired Defence Civilian Employees attached as Appendix will be made available in the URCs at the earliest by M/s. Smart Chip Ltd.
13. This letter be given vide publicity by displaying at prominent places like URSs, Station HQs, CAO and other controlling HQs.

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COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – The eyes of the high school lacrosse world will turn to Patterson Field this weekend as Ursinus plays host to the semifinals and finals of the inaugural National Prep Championship.
Sponsored by Victory Events Series, the National Prep Championship is an invite-only event showcasing the top private school lacrosse programs across North America. The field for the first and only true high school national invitational championship includes eight schools: Academy of the New Church (Bryn Athyn, Pa.), Culver Academy (Culver, In.), Hill Academy (Vaughan, Ontario, Canada), The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.), The Hun School (Princeton, N.J.), IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.), The Kiski School (Saltsburg, Pa.), and Lawrenceville School (Lawrenceville, N.J.).
Culver is No. 1 in the latest Inside Lacrosse Top 25, while Hill Academy is No. 6.
The quarterfinals will be played at The Hill School on Wednesday, with the semifinals shifting to Ursinus on Friday. The winners of those seminal contests – scheduled for 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. – will face off back at Patterson Field at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets are $10 for adults (18+), $7 for students (13-18), and $5 for kids 12 and under. LAX SPORTS NETWORK will air the semifinals and final live from Ursinus.
For more information on the National Prep Championship, click here.
SEMIFINALS – May 18, Ursinus College, Patterson Field (Stadium), 5 and 7 p.m.
FINAL – May 20, Ursinus College, Patterson Field (Stadium), 12:30 p.m.

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Not so long I go I was speaking with one of my clients and they did ask me what CMS is. I realized that this will be a helpful blog post for other people. Well, I write down all information you should know about CMS and hope this helps you.
There are many different types of websites from simple introduction sites, news portals, online shops, blogs, forums… Most of them use CMS, system that helps manage and edit page. There are a lot of different CMS that offer and provide different functionality.
Online bussines card – introductinal website is the website with the contact information and introduction of company/individual.
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CMS or long Content Management System is the system that support the creation, management, distribution, publishing, and discovery of websites information.
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The full list of all existing CMS you can check on Wikipedia.
WordPress and Magento. I am mainly specialize for Magento and WordPress: WordPress for websites, blogs, news, for online shops I use Magento. Why? Because they offer the most and (when the page is set up) they are easy to use.
If you are planning to become big and your offer expand (eg. if now you are planning a small store, WordPress may be sufficient, but if you are planning to expand offer, it may make more sense to think about Magento).
Which functionality do you need (eg. for shops: a detailed system inventory management, invoicing, promotion, discounts, customer management).
Who will manage the site – the editor and what are his / her abilities (the system must be easy to use?).
What kind of upgrades do you plan and what this system allows.
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Why do you feel that it is important that commercial fiction receive critical attention?
Jodi Picoult: Because historically the books that have persevered in our culture and in our memories and our hearts were not the literary fiction of the day, but the popular fiction of the day. Think about Jane Austen. Think about Charles Dickens. Think about Shakespeare. They were popular authors. They were writing for the masses.
Appreciation! Recognition! is Jove appreciated? Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of his great allegory--the world? Then we pigmies must be content to have our paper allegories but ill comprehended.
Yesterday, the day of sad news and the giant Winnebago stuffed with yipping dogs (alas, parked directly in front of my house, which stands, like many old village houses, rather close to the street) is done. Heralded by two hungry cats kneading my prone and possibly edible body, one barking dog and many cheeping sparrows hopping about from the dripping giant rugosa to the hunch-backed lilac, the new day has begun. It's full of little creatures not bothering to think about matters of death and life, not worrying their brains about selves or fictional worlds (or, if one makes sub-worlds, whether the world-building is properly established) or even (save us!) genres or marketing and promotion.
I'm feeling a little obsessed with Myers because he makes remarks that have little thorny hooks that catch and stick in the mind. He has no business latching onto my brain that way--or maybe that is exactly his business, maybe that's what he's for... at least in part.
There's much that is interesting in that passage and about the bond between writers and the idea of exile, but what I'm thinking about right now is "exile" as starting in early childhood. For a while, I was going to call The Throne of Psyche after a short poem, "The Exile's Track," and I have had a strong feeling of being exiled since about the age of four. First there was a feeling of exile from family, of things being sigodlin, askew because of a death. Then there was the constant ripping away, at least every three years, from the place I knew and where I had made friends. And this was particularly acute in my second and third moves, when I was dragged out of fairyland, as I conceived it, in the form of crawfish and Cajun playmates and tropical blooms and shrimp and alligator turtles and moonvines. We moved from Gramercy to Baton Rouge, but there was much that I loved there as well. But after second grade I was dragged entirely out of Louisiana and the South. I wept with relief and joy when, at almost 13, they told me we were moving to North Carolina.
After a while, one is always a little uneasy, or balanced somewhere between a past and a future uneasiness. And that's not what Myers is talking about, but it's related.
If a writer ever felt completely at home in a tale and satisfied, he would then have found home and would never need to progress again. Instead, writers are all melancholy around the edges, even the happiest of them, because they can never pluck the silver apples of the moon and the golden apples of the sun and are condemned to go on wandering with Aengus, endlessly searching, endlessly almost capturing, endlessly letting go.
Or perhaps we are like Odysseus, wandering on, creating a kind of archipelago of islands, temporary stays. Maybe we are Penelope, endlessly working over her strange warp and weft, throwing the shuttle--always tearing down, never satisfied, never quite at home even though at home.
1. When you buy a gigantic cauliflower, no one will notice and so somebody else will buy another gigantic cauliflower, and then there will be no room in the fridg inn.
2. When hippos poop in the water, they twirl their tails in circles and attract fish. (This sort of thing is what you learn when your husband goes to Mozambique for a month and then comes back.) Perhaps Mattel would be interested.
3. I no longer have any patience for lists that tell me something like what should be in a narrative poem and give cleverish advice. I've written a long narrative poem that's soon to come out, and I'd rather somebody read it than read a list, just as I'd rather read a writer's narrative poem than his/her lists about what they want in narrative poems. Is it that I'm beginning to think that people read these clever lists about a piece of art and then don't encounter the art? Meanwhile, I am committing a list. Woe is me.
4. To clarify, although primarily to two or three concerned parties: although at times I am ensnared by genre terminology because it's the way so many people look at books, I'm really just a Sendakian divider of books into good and not-good. I don't care about genre and sorting and classification. Just give me the good.
5. Sinyavsky quote plucked from an Amazon review: "In principle only miracles are worth writing about--as the fairy tales knew. And if we ever decide to tell about ordinary things, we should show them in a supernatural light. The art of narrative is to see things like this."
6. Another Sinyavsky: "Art does nothing but convert matter into spirit."
7. Me, one minute after midnight: One reason that poetry is a higher art (when it is a higher art) than the novel is that one can approach perfection with a poem, whereas a novelist is doomed to throw in a wrench and the kitchen sink.
I've had a book dedicated to me . . . but never have I had a podcast dedicated to me. I didn't know podcasts were dedicated to people! But this one is fascinating, focusing on writer Andrei Sinyavsky's A Voice from the Chorus. John Wilson, editor of Books and Culture, is probably the most well-read man on the continent, and if he says this book had a great impact on him, I'm going to read it. I suspect you should too.
Michael-my-husband has been having some difficulties in exiting Africa by way of Maputo and then Johannesburg. Evidently he had a Kafkaesque passage when accused of gun smuggling in Mozambique... Eventually he did fly off. But then he and hundreds of others were turned back to the airport when someone on board the plane suffered a heart attack. I hope that victim survived and is feeling better and that the rest of the passengers are safely in the air, going home or leaving home, each as wished. Evidently my Mozambique adventurer may be home by Sunday night.
So today I shall tinker with The Book of the Red King, exercise, go to the farmer's market, clean up my house, and generally make ready for the return of the wanderer. I hope you are having a good adventure, out there in the world.
"Show us what he does and how"
Clip from Ruth Franklin's acceptance speech for the 2012 Roger Shattuck Prize in criticism: It’s obvious why the reviewer needs the novelist—not just any novelist, but a good novelist, even a great one, to challenge us to rise to his or her level. But the novelist also needs the reviewer: not just as a vehicle for advertisement, but as an enforcer of standards. If we speak only to praise—and my children can vouch that I’ve never been guilty of that—then praise itself becomes cheapened, and ultimately meaningless. Not all books are worth reading; some are dull, some are poorly written, and others can actually have a pernicious effect on our culture. It’s the task of the critic to champion books that deserve to be championed, and to take a stand against those that have the power to harm. And anyone who doesn’t believe that books have the power to harm is not taking them seriously enough.
Yesterday I finished the work on a long judging stint. I celebrated by taking a nap, and when I woke, I sat up in bed and wrote a poem. It felt like magic. And even a morning of autumn rain and "Goldengrove unleaving" can feel like the first day of summer. "Nature is never spent / There lives the dearest freshness deep down things..." I'm in a Hopkins sort of mood, it seems.
Or perhaps it is a Yeats mood of tragic joy, alive in a world where "irrational streams of blood are staining earth." Yet from the darkness springs again "The workman, noble, and the saint, and all things run / On that unfashionable gyre again."
Skimming around the web a few moments ago, I was struck all over again by old, simple truths--that we rarely know what matters, that we mistake straw for gold, that we could be better to one another. Have I lived this long only to know what a child learns, navigating the world? I feel like a child, eager to play with paint or to push words around on a scrap of paper. So let me go. I will make something.
And thanks to Nancy Olson of Quail Ridge Books for recommending A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer, 2012) on Tom Kearney's radio show at WPTF-Raleigh.
This is a no-post day. It is a day to kickstart the children, read many books for a deadline, and wrangle on contracts. Probably I'll throw in a little self-doubt and considerable ditheration and a few fantods. Have a good one, passers-by!
Have I said that I very much like Joseph Epstein? I feel sure that I've mentioned his wonderful essay on Isaac Bashevis Singer. Here's a new essay of his that is in part a review of Andrew Delbanco's College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be but is also a frank, interesting response to the current state of the liberal arts on campus.
Clip: The death of liberal arts education would constitute a serious subtraction. Without it, we shall no longer have a segment of the population that has a proper standard with which to judge true intellectual achievement. Without it, no one can have a genuine notion of what constitutes an educated man or woman, or why one work of art is superior to another, or what in life is serious and what is trivial. The loss of liberal arts education can only result in replacing authoritative judgment with rivaling expert opinions, the vaunting of the second- and third-rate in politics and art, the supremacy of the faddish and the fashionable in all of life. Without that glimpse of the best that liberal arts education conveys, a nation might wake up living in the worst, and never notice.
Clive Hicks-Jenkins is judging the Fox Open Art Competition on the Channel Islands, and concurrently having a solo show of new art work (including images from The Foliate Head and forthcoming Thaliad.) It's called The Greening, and will be at the Jersey Art Centre. On the wrong side of the puddle? You can take a peek here.
It's the wee hours, and I am grief-struck by catching sight of an image of our ambassador's murdered, dishonored body dragged through the streets while terrorists snap photos on their phones . . . The beautiful idea of the emissary and his permission to walk safely in alien lands has been a part of civilization for a long time.
I consider my blog mainly a place for news about books--mine or otherwise--and sometimes for more personal comments. It is a politics-free zone. But there is something about sorrow for others never known and for a human ideal crushed under foot that can feel personal. I feel it so.
get together in my Cooperstown kitchen and make cake!
Little hamburgers, all cake and icing and dyed coconut.
Trinity College, Dublin as a freshman.
"May the road always rise to meet you . . .
Awash in driving lessons, NBA reading, Scouts, company, and more... So here's a tiny poem from the just-out The Foliate Head (UK: Stanza Press.) Originally published in Angle. More poems here.
Like rain shot through by sun.
Update: Book designer John Coulthart just sent me a link to this piece, in which he says Jacobson is more nuanced about genre. "The best fiction doesn't need a label." It looks interesting, and I'm going to read it now and then get back to work. Thank you, John!
High school started here on Thursday. The three children and I watched The Lord of the Rings trilogy in celebration of the start of the youngest's sophomore year in high school (the hallways of Orcs! the all-seeing principal Eye! the young women sharp as a blade!) and finished the last bit last night, finally obliterating the sign of sin and overreaching power in the volcanic flow of Mount Doom. Of course, the movies are nothing so complex as the book in three volumes that was praised by Auden and has been dearly loved and reread by many, but it got me considering that curious man, Tolkien, off and on all week. Last night I was thinking about how interesting it is that he disliked Macbeth and yet clearly does more than nod to it with his moving forest on Ent-march and his "no man" oracular prophecy and plot twist.
This morning I read Howard Jacobson's interview in the Guardian, where he says he is "contemptuous of genre things...." Not books but things. (I tend to be with Sendak in thinking that there are "good books" and then the others, but we live in a world where people like to categorize.) Jacobson goes on to reference without naming the Twilight series and then to cite 50 Shades. Ridiculously easy potshots! I'd like to see what he thought of Crowley's Little, Big, for example. He is also contemptuous of the term "literary fiction." He writes "fiction," he insists, while others write "crap." I know a lot of these attacks are a clever, Amis-like use of a media that desires column inches with sharp teeth and blood and hair. No doubt they are good publicity for the new book.
Those of us who write what is called "literary fiction" evidently want to be acknowledged as writing the only fiction that matters; that's why we desire that simple label, "fiction." What we do, we believe, matters more. But it ain't necessarily so. What I learned in writing two fantasies for young readers and a number of fantastic stories for anthologies is that our "literary fiction" worldview is provincial. Writers in other genres believe strongly that we write in simply another genre, one often less vital than their own. Sometimes they are right--depends on the book. It always depends on the book. Likewise, a book in another genre can clamber up to the heights. Entertainment may fly up into the realm of art. Why not? There are no rules, only the force and heart and skill of the mind behind the keyboard. What is The Tempest if not a romance of first love and a fantastic tale of a wand-wielding and -breaking wizard intended to please both the ruled rabble and the ruling classes?
Oh, I have sympathy for Jacobson's past situation, and am glad he has been lifted into light where he is visible. I know all about his "working away at the edges for years." No doubt the stacks of sold copies for A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and Catherwood and all the rest are but very little hobbits compared to the giant cave trolls of a Booker winner or a NYT bestseller. But hobbits are sturdy, lovable storytellers and song-makers. And the hinterlands and the edges have their advantages. From the edge, you can reach out into space that has no chart, building a world outward as you will. From the edge, the trends and bubbles of the day are only white noise, lost in the distance, and what matters from the past stands like a great field of monuments where a writer can lose and find himself in wandering.
Any of us "at the edges" would trade something for visibility, for a greater number of readers. But it's an old story; I imagine that Melville, say, would have been willing to give up a limb and hobble like a peg-leg sailor to keep the readers he had with Typee and gain a few more. Poe certainly wrote wild attacks with teeth and hair and gave up everything in search of a wider audience. Dickinson ventured out and then back, sealing the door. Yet they and others like them--some remembered, some not--had their painful, joyful, austere reward, just as Stephanie Meyers and the writer of 50 Shades of Gray have a reward of another kind. Let's look to Jacobson's "genre things" for what we must do about the strange ways of the world. As Gandalf says, what comes to those in a time "is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Thanks to Damien Walter, Guardian columnist, for the Jacobson interview link.
Three of The Book of the Red King poems are at the 2012-2 issue of David Landrum's Lucid Rhythms: "The Fool, the King, and the Fox-Fall," "The Yellow Fool," and "The Red Fool." The latter two are little poems based on alchemical colors (some others of these have appeared in At Length), and the first is a narrative. I need to think more about the first one, whether it will stay as is, whether it will go in the final version of the sequence--in the book, that is.
And I hereby nominate the Red King for President. In accordance with tradition, the Fool will play veep. Both promise not to bombard you with bombast, make promises, zap email, send mail, or commit any other botheration. In return: governance rising to perfection through alchemical stages. And perfect Fooldom.
My husband is the Man of Hobbies.
Some years he takes up beer-making. Some years he decides to dedicate himself to the perfect homemade sausage. During med school and training he did a great deal of hand-piecing and quilting. He used to repair key-wound toys. A few years ago he wrote a novel to see what that was like (I think it's lying around somewhere, almost finished.) Among other pursuits, he cooks, bakes, volunteers as a neuromuscular neurologist in Viet Nam, goes fishing, leads a Boy Scout troop (just back from clambering up Mt. Katahdin in Maine and headed for the Grand Canyon some time next year), teaches a confirmation class, and was recently a Senior Warden at Christ Church (where James Fenimore Cooper was once Senior Warden), travels whenever he gets the chance (lately: Cambodia, Thailand, Sweden, Yukon, Morocco, Egypt, Greece, Turkey), and hunts.
Right now he is hunting in Mozambique, accompanied by our friend Jack, who is packing a camera. Yesterday Michael killed a Cape Buffalo, and I am wondering what on earth one does with a powerful and short-tempered but dead Cape Buffalo, and also thinking about the mischief and fun there could be in becoming a vegetarian... Thanks to a certain person's hobbies, I have eaten antelope (spicy, as if it had been eating mesquite, maybe), caribou, mule deer, white tail, and innumerable other four-legged and two-winged creatures.
Michael and I have been married for 25 years. We eloped and had a sheriff's deputy for a bridesmaid. He was packing a gun but didn't mind holding the bouquet, my one symbol of the usual way of doing things. Flowers and a gun: it seems like a key to how things have gone... I never would have guessed that Mike would sew as well as cook (I knew he could cook), or that he would crave traveling to places like the Crazy Mountains and the Yukon and Mozambique to hunt.
More than most lives, his is an adventure. I do hope he is not eaten by lions.
Today is the first day of high school in the Village of Coopertown, so lark-rising season begins for me and my youngest. Tomorrow I tote my two eldest to driving school as well, as it is time for one young man and one young woman to learn how to navigate the world. My husband seems to be having a fine time in Mozambique, and has not been eaten by lions or trampled by hippos.
Yesterday I finished the first stage of the reading that has occupied my time since early June. The guest room floor is impassable, a city with skyscraper stacks of books. And each volume is a separate world with its own angle of vision and laws and dreams. Lately I have read some good books, particularly novels, that I will not forget and that will no doubt lure me on in some dream of winning those "silver apples of the moon." As Henry James said of novels, "the good subsists and emits its light and stimulates our desire for perfection."
But now it is time to catch up on all the things I have left undone, from my garden to promised writing and contracts to be reviewed and house repair.
Whenever I look out the front windows, I can see a house with three ghosts... four, if you count one in the stone wall. And I not long ago heard a ghost story about my federal era house. But I've written about those and other Cooperstown ghosts before. Here's a brand new one. Last week I was sitting outside on a bench when S. came by, walking a dog. She told me that her youngest son had been dog-sitting at a house down the street, one that had been a medical clinic in the late nineteenth century.
The day before, her son G. had walked the dog and taken it back in the house. But as he turned away from the dog in the shadowy entrance hall, he realized that a woman was standing close behind him. Alas, he bolted for the door and did not engage her in cross-species chitchat.
Judy Jensen asked me for an August poem for Float Press.
when bread would be blessed at church.
And in return I have three "postcards,"
Thank you, Judy and Float Press!
I'm still immersed in reading, so no new writing for a while longer. Shall post some more pieces from the Tinies, perhaps.
But mostly I am thinking about how I do not want my husband to be eaten by a lion.


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Everybody is waiting to die. Somebody told somebody that there is a better place to go, after life. So, Why bother? So said the subconscious mind.
Well, I’m not here to dispute where you go, though I repeat a famous quote, a bird in hand is more than two in the bush. Personal belief is a good thing to have. Because that’s yours, and nobody else’s. You own your own mind.
The problem I personally owned in the past was that I just was too absorbed in beliefs that virtually excused myself of living the life I NOW HAVE, for fear of being disqualified from an afterlife that I DO NOT now have.
In the course of my work day, I drove past neighborhoods while thinking of all those people with their resigned demeanor: It appears they wait all their lives to die! Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.” How about learning more of the potential spoken by the living, breathing life in our possession NOW. Do with life what opportunity presents NOW, and after that should take care of itself.
Some consider Jesus the first Neothinker. We are even to this day cracking the code of the Christ-likeness, especially in his mind, in how he applied honesty to come up with new concepts that seemed to them outlandish, and proved to be quite ahead of his time, and valid today.
Mark Hamilton has appropriated the honesty contained in that Christ-mind, and has applied it to every thought that could pass through a human mind. He’s been better than thirty years at this process, coming up with profoundly apropos solutions for our world, today. I, myself studying the literature he has written, have learned over time to put together my own system of thought: I cannot see how anybody else could have done exactly the same. Like other Neothinkers, I long to share concepts I have developed with the rest of the world, who do not oppose the prime law. And I will earn more than I need for my obligations.
Life is just a burden, until you learn just how to live it. The LIVING create values for others. It’s just like it was when you were a child, once upon a time. Jesus said it was so. Mark Hamilton in my opinion is also religion neutral, which is a good thing, since religion is everyone’s personal prerogative. I recommend these, Mark Hamilton’s works, as a start in that direction where life is worthwhile. Neothink allows the mind to go anywhere honesty leads.


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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has taken a stand on social media against the temporary US ban on refugees and immigration from designated countries.
In a series of tweets, Justin Trudeau underscored his government’s commitment to bringing in “those fleeing persecution, terror & war”.
Within hours, his tweets had been shared more than 150,000 times.
“Welcome to Canada” also became a trending term in the country.
The prime minister, who gained global attention for granting entry of nearly 40,000 Syrian refugees to Canada over the past 13 months, also sent a pointed tweet that showed him greeting a young refugee at a Canadian airport in 2015.
On January 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending entry to the United States from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen for 90 days.
The US’s entire refugee admissions program has also been suspended for 120 days.
Those fleeing Syria as refugees are banned until further notice.
The executive orders created confusion in airports around the world as immigration and customs officials struggled to interpret the new rules.
The Canadian government is also in contact with the US administration “to get more clarity” on how the executive orders will affect Canadians citizens travelling to the US, said federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau.
According to State Department, all travelers – including those with dual nationality – from one of the seven designated countries will be barred from entering the US.
That includes people with valid immigrant or non-immigrant visas.
Justin Trudeau has refrained from criticizing Donald Trump, despite the fact the two leaders have very divergent political views.
In recent media appearances, Justin Trudeau has focused on the long friendship between Canada and the US and the deep economic ties between the two nations. The US is Canada’s primary trading partner.
Canada plans to allow 300,000 immigrants into the country in 2017, mostly through economic immigration, though that figure includes 40,000 refugees.
Two Iraqi refugees in transit have been detained at John F. Kennedy airport following President Donald Trump’s immigration order.
Meanwhile, rights groups have filed a lawsuit in a New York court to demand their release.
According to the executive order signed on January 27, entry to the US for nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries has been stopped for 90 days. People fleeing Syria are banned until further notice.
The other countries affected are Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
The two refugees detained in New York were in transit when the executive order was signed.
One of them, Haneed Khalid Darweesh, who had worked as a US Army interpreter, was released on January 28.
The other man, Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, remains in detention.
New York Representative Jerry Nadler tweeted that he and fellow Democratic Representative Nydia Velazquez were working to help 11 more refugees still being held.
Several rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), are involved in the lawsuit, filed on January 28.
Other Iraqi passengers and a Yemeni national were prevented from boarding a flight at Cairo airport bound for New York, despite holding valid visas for the US.
According to the White House, President Barack Obama has called for the US to prepare to accept “at least” 10,000 Syrian refugees in 2016.
That number is significantly higher than the 1,500 Syrians that have been permitted to re-settle in the US since the start of the conflict.
The 10,000 figure is still much lower than the 340,000 asylum seekers who arrived in Europe this year.
Since the beginning of the conflict the US has given $4 billion in aid.
The increase in accepting refugees displays a “significant scaling up” of US commitment to accept people from conflict zones and help provide for their needs,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.
Congress would have to make a “significant financial commitment” in order to allow for additional 10,000 refugees to the US, Josh Earnest said.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has registered four million Syrians as refugees, and it has asked governments around the world to resettle 130,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2016.
In May, 14 Senators penned a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to allow 65,000 Syrian refugees to settle inside the US.
Humanitarian aid money remains the most effective way to fight the problem for the US, Josh Earnest said, and it is “not feasible” for millions of Syrians to come to the country.
Asked at a press briefing why the US was not accepting as many refugees as the UK, as a larger country, Josh Earnest said the US wants to meet the “most urgent, immediate needs” of migrants like basic medical care, food, water and shelter.
The security screening migrants must go through when arriving in the US can take 12 to 18 months, and the “safety and security of the US homeland” comes first, he said.
There have been concerns expressed that terrorists could exploit the refugee system to enter the country and carry out an attack, but experts say that fear is overblown.


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A goal from Marcus Marshall gave the Shrimps a confidence boosting win ahead of the big kick off next week.
Marshall scored his first goal for the club on 33 minutes with what proved to be the telling moment of the game.
Andy Fleming provided the telling pass with a long ball over the top which the summer signing took down superbly before slotting the ball past Zander Clark.
The game began with the home side on the front foot as Murray Davidson volleyed wide and A Trialist forced an excellent save from Barry Roche after a neat move.
After a slow start the Shrimps then came into the game with Fleming volleying narrowly wide after a slick interchange with Stewart Drummond and Kevin Ellison forcing a neat save from the home keeper from a well struck free kick.
The second half began with A Trialist forcing another neat save from Roche and Gwion Edwards drilling a shot side of the left hand post after an excellent run into the Morecambe box.
The Shrimps then threatened briefly with Ellison testing Clark with a left foot shot after cutting in from the right win. Substitute Jack Sampson then hot a long range effort that forced Clark into a sharp block.
Joe McGee went close with a delightful curler in the 86th minute and Amond went close a minute later with a lob over the onrushing keeper which sailed just the wrong side of the posts.
Morecambe: Roche (Arestidou 78); Parrish (rep Kenyon 69), Diagne (rep Threlfall 78), McCready, Hughes, Drummond (rep Williams 69), Fleming (rep McGee 69), Wright (Denson 78), Amond, Marshall (rep Sampson 75), Ellison (rep Mwasile 75).


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Data Science is a new area of specialization being offered at Bowling Green State University. This field integrates math, statistics, and computer science to prepare for the rapidly expanding need for data scientists. We have undergraduate, master's, and PhD programs in Data Science. This page is about the undergraduate program. Follow this link to read about the master's and PhD programs in Data Science at BGSU.
The undergraduate program in Data Science is a specialization of the Mathematics major, and is offered by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Undergraduate students seeking to pursue studies in Data Science should declare a mathematics major as entering freshmen, in anticipation of completing the specialization in years three and four.
The development of this program is supported by a the grant from the National Science Foundation: EXTREEMS-QED: Computational Mathematics and Statistics (COMAST) Program with principal investigators Professor Jim Albert and Professor Maria Rizzo from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at BGSU.
Capstone experience to obtain hands-on experience with real-life data from an applied discipline such as geography, biology, computer science, linguistics, geology, etc.
For more information about the master's and PhD programs in Data Science including contact information, please see the page about graduate programs in Data Science.

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text: On our research trip to Moscow we were privileged to meet Andrey Smirnov, author of ‘Sound in Z’. Andrey showed us the Rhythmicon machine built by Leon Theremin in 1931. The machine is also known as the ‘polyrhythmaphone’ and can play up to 16 different rhythms at one time, this was built to produce patterns that it would be impossible for a human being to perform; for example to play triplets against quadruplets. The mechanism includes a fast turning metal wheel with 16 levels of hole cut outs that correspond to different pattern and rhythms. The sounds are produced by the light shining through the holes onto multiple photocell and mirrors. Noise Orchestra were allowed to play and record the mahcine, we will use the recordings for our soundscapes as part of the Light Fantastic Residency.

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