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I made my own 'Top Of The Pops' 1970's LP cover (as found at car boot sales now for 5p) to use for my music XLS spreadsheet I sell on CD. Yes, it's Kylie Minogue.
It lists all number one albums & singles, both Live Aid acts+tracks, Brit award winners, TV and radio programme music poll results, plus lists every track on every Now album.
DJ's love it as they can find that track on the 100+ Now albums quickly and find out what was number one on any day since 1950's incl sheet music number ones! I've sold 100's with many return customers (for updates) and word of mouth sales. I was the first to ever produce this and sell it in early 2004 (mainly on ebay) yet people have copied my idea and now also do it but mine is still the original, biggest and best. On the official NOW website I even got it/me mentioned (google .. bobasonic spreadsheet ). A bargain for £1 to £5 depending on it's contents (one list to all lists)! It's took me 100's of hours of work.
Nikon D750 with 24-120mm f/4G - JPEG, straight from camera.
Falmouth Auto Show, Cape Cod, Mass. - 1966 Ford Mustang GT Fastback.
Example images from Nikon D750 Experience
Setup your Menu and Custom Settings with my Nikon D750 Setup Guide Spreadsheet
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Detail of the body and controls of the Nikon D500.
Example Images from Nikon D500 Experience guide to the D500.
Setup your Menus and Custom Settings, for various shooting situations, with help from my Nikon D500 Setup Guide Spreadsheet:
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#Reto 18. Optimismo. Familia Fotera
Si quereis ver más fotos de este reto aquí.
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In truth my friends, it's natural, no need for material, you focus on the 6th dimension of the underworld and directly in dimension 9 on the pleroma, it's childish ... but who said that the wu wei, this famous idea of "let it go" in intuitive mode and in the idea that you can connect directly to the matrix. We recognize, today, that the magnetism of buildings exists. Until then we explained the functions of architecture or other gardens by rules based on criteria of profitability, or worse, architectural mode. We realized that a building generates electrical impulses and both chemical and electromagnetic reactions occur. We are now making devices that measure very small amounts of electricity. This allows electroarchitectographies. By means of pendulums, we can study the reactions of a facade when we look at it, when we observe its rhythm or study its singularity. We were able to draw real images on Photoshop and we realized that human architecture generates both electricity and magnetism.
According to the feng shui concept of the east, the north of the residence is in the old factory of ETAM , which is not good, thus we sealed off and designed a garden here, this allows all the functional space behind the building there. The view is very good, private, quiet, relaxing while avoiding cold winds in the winter.
While both buildings required to face to the South by the client Quartus and his Feng-Shui master, the design of spacious cantilever winter garden and bow-window for each unit has been proposed by the architect Bruno Couratier, to prevent the strong direct sunlight and create enough shading during the late afternoon.
The involutive circulation of the invisible matter coming from the reverse movement of the magma with the iron and silica core put together in the state of plasma, and well, this movement causes tensions in geobiological mode that Tesla understood very well and undergoes under a very human form.
The invisible forces cross the earth's mantle until they become a multitude of networks that the masters of Fengshui call the school of the compass. You can use a pendulum to locate yourself but the famous dragonvein is located by connecting you to intraterrestrial dimensions. It is a fatra of inaudible information for a brain with an IQ limited by academic information generally distributed in schools, "less is more" said A Loos, or loose?
The Compass School focuses on the eight mansion, or eight cardinal directions. Each of these directions has its own Qi energy, which a designer must take into account. To do this, they use the Luo Pan. This is a disc that’s built around a Feng Shui compass. There are several concentric circles on the face of this disc, each of which has its own formula. The Luo Pan specifically refers to the Earth's electromagnetic field. Feng Shui practitioners note that this field holds all matter together.
The Form School focuses on the environment’s shape . A typical street of the time when the industry had not yet formatted buildings with mice and copy and paste functions, in order to find a location that has good Qi energy.
It takes several things into consideration. These include the important events that relate to a space or structure and the concept of yin and yang. This school also incorporates the Five Elements Theory. It examines the relationship that the following elements have to the space:
Fire
Earth
Wood
Water
Metal
The positioning of these elements makes a huge difference. You could create either a constructive or destructive cycle based on your choices.
In the destructive cycle, these elements cancel each other out. Water extinguishes flame, metal slices through wood, and so on.
On a constructive cycle, these elements create a harmonious environment. Water becomes the source of moisture that wood, in the form of trees, needs to grow. This wood becomes the fuel that fire needs. The ashes of the fire fuel the earth, and so on. We know that two magnets with which two identical poles are brought together repel and mate north-south. We also know that the needle of our compass points us north. We know, again, that the geographic north and the magnetic north are neighbors but not superimposable, and that their small distance varies regularly. This is not sensitive to our scale, and we will admit that the two directions are confused. We have, therefore, on our compass, a magnetic needle whose north side indicates the geographic north pole to us but, since two magnetic norths repel each other, we are obliged to note that the geographic north is, in fact, the magnetic south ( which therefore attracts the needle of the compass). It is necessary, from this, to conclude that the lines of force of the Earth magnet pass, internally, from the geographic north to the south and, externally, from the geographic south to the north.
There are two consequences for everyday life:
- insofar as man himself is a magnet, the head as the north pole, this head is attracted by magnetic south or geographic north. Sleep being a state of physical weakness in which the receptivity to outside influences is greater than in the waking state, the logical position of a bed is that the head is directed towards true north.
- the lines of force of the terrestrial magnetic field having a geographical south-north direction, it is necessary to place all the earths to the north of our houses. Without this, all the electromagnetic pollution that we evacuate in this way crosses the place of life and the earth connections are ineffective. Better to be south of a power line than north.
All current statistics show an upsurge in cancer in urban areas, at the same rate as electrical equipment. Knowing that the mental level and the physical level of the body are related to electromagnetism, we can easily understand that, if we find ourselves placed in a particular electric field like that of a high voltage line, our organism will react. on both counts. Even if, currently, scientists have not been able to demonstrate the correlation between electric fields and cancer, the statistics seem to speak for themselves.
Modern man lives in an increasingly high and permanent electromagnetic field. At home: microwave oven, electric dryer, machines of all kinds, television, metro and electric trains to go to work, computers, elevators, etc. All this has, inevitably, an impact on the heart and on the mind, which will lead to a change in the functioning of thought and a change in behavior with others, hence aggressiveness. The energetic body being disturbed, there is immediate repercussion on the physical body with production of stress, psychosomatization, organic or nervous diseases.
Achieving a constructive cycle is the main aim in the Form School.
Architects who try to do Feng Shui combine these two schools of thought in this facade. Bruno, in all modesty, told me that the less he tries to understand and the more he acts with his clear feelings, in short, the less his ego works, the better it pulses, well, it matches with the energies, I mean ... More academically here, it takes into account the three fundamental principles of the practice:
Qi energy. this is a good trick that works even with unbelievers, it is the energy that flows through all living things. It is still flowing, a bit like water. However, just like water, it is possible to block the flow of Qi. If this happens, the blocked Qi can have a negative effect on the environment. The goal is to ensure an unobstructed flow of Qi at all times.
The natural elements. We've covered most of them by explaining the form school. However, there are other elements, such as air and space. Each of these elements has its own set of attributes. These include color, texture, and shape. Achieving balance between them creates a flow of positive energy.
The Bagua. This is a concept that is not as closely related to architecture as the other two principles. Instead, it's about the placement of objects that represent your life's journey through space. A Bagua is a table that maps your energy centers in relation to a space. It is based on a grid, with each part of the grid representing an aspect of your life. These include things like the position of the street in the city, or even the height of neighboring buildings, among many other aspects. You are using the Bagua to achieve the balance between all of these things, thus allowing you to lead a happy life.
Although it all sounds somewhat esoteric, many modern designers follow these principles in their work.
This covers some of the basics. They are entire study schools devoted to Feng Shui. The Bagua also comes into play with the placement of two bronze roofs at the top desk . These symbolically guard the building as well as symbolising prosperity.
The design choices allow the flow of energy in a clockwise direction. And that benefits Quartus.
In the northern hemisphere, water moves counterclockwise. When Qi energy reflects this flow, you create a comfortable atmosphere.
The building on rue M overturns this concept. It encourages Qi to flow clockwise to encourage confusion. This confusion can lead people to make more individuation, and to feel less interdependent, even, even downright free to not resemble each other, well, if it is still possible and desirable .... It can also make them more sensitive to the needs of creating a vegetal environment and to cultivate the taste of returning to the origin of the village. The idea is to prevent people from thinking logically. In this state, they make more decisions according to their wishes, which is a good thing for the future of our beautiful city.
It seems to work too. The building has won a lot of sympathy, and, the commercialization will not pose any problem for the bankers, they will even realize that beautiful equal profitable, and, that the fengshui could even be materialistic, which seems really incredible.
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A Photo from Day 6 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record but unfortunately I didn't get any journeys on this day.
The Severn Valley Railway (SVR) runs trains along a 16 mile Heritage line from Kidderminster station to Bridgenorth station .Highly is one of the stations along the line and there is The Engine House Museum there.
The day I went during the sort of main summer holidays, there were 4 steam Locomotive running on various Steam Excursions where due to Covid19, Compartments were being sold to families and there were some tables for groups of 2 or 4 people but nothing really suitable for the solo traveler.
Here, in The Engine House museum very near Highley Station I took this photo of 600 Gordon, a 2-10-0 locomotive built by North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow as Works Number 25437 for the Longmoor Military Railway (LMR).
Later 600 Gordon was renumbered WD 73651.
For More info about WD 600 - "Gordon" - see ...
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Wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa) is a native flower - It looks great at this time of year in flower under the trees at Rowallane.
Popular with the bees collecting pollen. Cream coloured pollen load very clear in this picture.
A new one for my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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Attention, downtown office workers: Pigeons don't care that your Excel spreadsheet isn't formatting right. This one made it to Explore.
Christmas rose. - pure white flowers.
I have this in a pot on the patio. In full flower at present and great to see the bees on it.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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And some music, just if you like:
Velvet Underground -Run Run Run
Detail of the body and controls of the Nikon D500.
Example Images from Nikon D500 Experience guide to the D500.
Setup your Menus and Custom Settings, for various shooting situations, with help from my Nikon D500 Setup Guide Spreadsheet:
blog.dojoklo.com/2016/05/24/nikon-d500-setup-guide-spread...
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equipped with 2 bullpup anti-personnel auto pistols designed for "crowd control" at point blank range.
mechaton attachments:
- Armor Plating and bulky ( defense )
-backpack sensor pod ( targeting )
-auto pistols x2 ( Hand to hand x2 )
Gear available for purchase is listed here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zrBzcCe2moh0CvZkhUuWSKXi2...
As an ongoing fascination with making fake map-looking things in Excel via formatted pivot tables, here's one showing global earthquakes.
All about the process at: uxblog.idvsolutions.com
Well, its not quite Miffy or Maisy mouse...but for a bbq for friends in our shareclub, a cake depicting a spreadsheet showing the share value for one year . Look how well we did - it is accurate and representational.
As I was cutting it up, Treasurer, Mark, requested the top right corner!!!
Drawings in the Detail Section of the MWS&DB
Had a long phone chat with Phil Halcrow 24-11-24 about the old days and 60 years of life since we last saw each other. I introduced him to caving and SUSS and share a few trips. He went onto many years of mapping, surveying and early IT in drilling and NSW Water Management....
Some sheets were plotted in pencil from Surveyor Field books @ 1:9600, and took a week or two. using 80ch scales, if I remember correctly, still have them with the Darmstadt Slide rules and 7 figure log tables, see below..
other dwgs were inked in from other workers plots, with careful STAEDTLER® lettering guides for street names and title blocks, and hand lettering elsewhere..
Not as great a collection as the ..
But seems a lot, and needs sorting and indexing, that is why I'm putting it on Flickr..
Gear available for purchase is listed here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zrBzcCe2moh0CvZkhUuWSKXi2...
VisiCalc was the first electronic spreadsheet for personal computers. it was introduced in 1979 for around $100. It ran on the Apple II and was the main reason Apple was able to penetrate the business market. This is a 1983 version of VisiCalc running on my Apple IIc. The Apple IIc was introduced on April 24, 1984.
APPLE IIc brief history.....
In the summer of 1981 someone proposed a portable Apple II, a book-sized computer. It wasn’t until Steve Jobs became interested in it as engineering challenge, well after Macintosh was under way, that anything came of the idea:
…one day late in ’82, Paul Dali showed him [Jobs] a photograph of a Toshiba portable and they started fooling around with the idea of an Apple II that would look like the Toshiba but come with a built-in disk drive. They took out a IIe circuit board and a disk drive and a keyboard and played with them until they arrived at a promising configuration-keyboard in front, disk drive in back, circuit board in between. What got Jobs excited about this idea was the engineering difficulty of squeezing it all into a package not much bigger than a notebook. And a machine so small wouldn’t have the expandability that characterized all the other Apple II models. Like Macintosh, it could be taken out of the box, plugged in, and put to work-no extra parts to buy, no cables to figure out. It was the II reinvented as an appliance.
As with all Apple projects, the IIc went by various code names during its development, for the sake of internal communications and to keep outsiders from knowing what was going on. The various names used included VLC (Very Low Cost), Yoda, ET, IIb (for “Book”), and Teddy (which stood for “Testing Every Day”). Also, following a long standing tradition at Apple, some of the code names assigned to the project at various times were names of children of people at Apple: Chels, Jason, Lolly, Sherry, and Zelda. These names persist in the source code for the firmware for the IIc as later printed in the technical reference manual; the serial port driver is called a “Lolly” driver.
During the time the IIc was under development, Apple was working on a change in the look of their products. They planned a more European styling, and a color scheme called “Snow White.” The IIc would be the first product with the new appearance and color.
Since 1957, when the USSR launched Sputnik 1 into orbit, thousands of satellites have been launched into space. Whilst some of them are operational, many have failed over time remaining in orbit as floating junk... and potentially devastating debris. European Infrastructure news online consider the implications that such space junk could have on today's society.
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Spreadsheet used to compile, sort and map keywords for page level search engine optimization of websites.
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Meanwhile, at the family reunion, one of the cousins uses a large spread sheet to keep track of everyone's physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. It was a big task!
Over the past few years, we've been using the What To Withdraw Tool from ITHAKA to weed our print serials that are in the JSTOR archive. Not all of the volumes are already in the archive, and some titles we continue to receive in print for one reason or another (although we moved as many as we could to online-only). I maintain a spreadsheet that I use to track which volumes need to be withdrawn every year, and where we are in the process of having the whole run fall into the JSTOR archive coverage. I've spent most of today gathering data, adding 51 new titles to the list, creating reports for Stacks Maintenance and Serials staff, and updating holdings data in our OpenURL knowledgebase.
Martin Welman agreed, the way A.R.G.U.S had become, bloated, slow, and ineffective, was nothing compared to what it could be. It disheartened him to think about. He felt, in a way, that he had helped the organization find its’ wings when it was but a fledgling. He was there Just after the beginning, and always thought he’d be there to see it end.
But that was not the case. Temple and Lyman had bigger plans. Better ones. They had designs that would cause A.R.G.U.S’s extinction, and soon that once mighty organization would be leveled to the ground.
And he wouldn’t have it any other way.
In a high-rise in Keystone City, A well-dressed man clinks a glass together, and look over the handful of faces at the table in front of him.
Temple: I want to thank you all for joining me. I know it wasn’t easy leaving your positions, your lives. But I promise you, this was worth it. You’ve made the right choice.
He sets the glass down, then takes a step to the right. Another man, across the wall to his left, nods and hits a button on a remote, triggering a screen to spread out on the wall, showing complex spreadsheets.
Temple: As you can see, A.R.G.U.S’s productivity has plummeted in recent years. What once was one of the most influential and thorough agencies for terrorism and Metahuman defense, has been reduced to pencil pushers, shiftless drones who only jump when the shiftless drone above them tells them to. But you are not shiftless drones.
The people at the table all nod their heads in agreement and look at each other earnestly. Martin Welman pounds a fist on the table and cries “hear, hear!”
Temple smiles and points at Martin, then indicates to the man with the remote, who presses the next button. Another slide goes by.
Temple: Now, with your funds, your cooperation, and your willingness to do good, I believe we can change all of that.
The slide changes.
Temple: Now, there are two methods of thought here, and at first, I was going to make the decision myself. But I am not above any of you, we’re all in this together, so I think, rather than me decide, we should cast this to a vote. All agreed?
Martin and the others murmur in agreement.
Temple: Splendid. Now, the first method of thought, is that we all pool our resources, and work to build our own agency to counteract A.R.G.U.S, show them up, humiliate them; and eventually render them obsolete.
The others and Martin murmur their interest.
Temple: And the second method of thought, is that we pool our resources and hire ourselves some contractors, then go through and . . . eliminate every A.R.G.U.S agent we find and rebuild from the ground up.
There are nods and smiles and conversation of approval.
Now, I will give you a few minutes to think it over, then, we shall vote.
He returns to the table and pours himself a glass of water. He sees Martin Welman, sitting in his seat, with a look of panic spreading through his face. Welman begins to sweat, to loosen his tie and shift uncomfortably in his seat. He’s become visibly pale, and jumps a little when Temple says,
Temple: Let us see the verdict. Now, all in favor of Option A, raise their hands.
The room is still. Temple smiles.
Temple: Now, all in favor of option B –
Hands raise unanimously. He outstretches his arms and smiles.
Temple: This is splendid, I’m glad you all wish for the same things. Now, I know of an agency outside of the law that can be a boon to us. I will review my connections with them. They’re an organization you may have heard of. They call themselves K—
Martin, suddenly standing: I apologize, Dan, but uh, I can’t be party to this. I only thought we would all be going into business together, starting a new firm. I didn’t realize we would resort to . . . to murder . . .
Dan Temple smiles and motions to the man with the remote control: Well, now you don’t have to, Martin.
Martin Welman crumples to the floor with a bullet in his brain.
Temple: Now, where were we? Ah Yes ---
But Temple can’t find it in himself to finish that sentence either. He finds himself blissful all of a sudden, restful even. He hadn’t even realized it until it happened, but now here he was, nearly falling asleep in front of his new partners.
His partners, likewise, have begun to feel drowsy, stretching out on the floor, and resting their heads on the table.
Unbeknownst to them, Hypnota stands in the doorway, doing what she does best.
Answer, behind her: Would you look at that. Better than Opium.
Hypnota: If you’d please, Mister Answer, I am nearly finished.
Answer: ‘Course, ‘course, knock em flat.
Behind them, Sonar fidgets impatiently. Though he was bred with many things, royal patience was not one of them, and there is something he’d like to get done soon. Bend notices, but says nothing. At both ends of the hallways, Danton Black stands watch, the blues insets of his suit glowing faintly.
Sonar’s attention rests finally on Agent Orange, jittering worse than Sonar. Agent Orange’s goggles look up at him,
Orange: Who is in that room I wonder.
Bend, also growing impatient: Why, I reckon it’s good old American President Richard Nixon, wouldn’t you, Wladon?
Sonar: I thought your president’s name was Donald?
Orange, standing and snarling ferociusly: NIXON. It’s because of that fucking Satanist my unit all died face down in the muck by the Viet-Cong’s hand! I’ll napalm him, just as he napalmed my entire division!
He fires a gas canister over Hypnota’s shoulder then charges forward. Answer slams her out of the way just as Orange barrels through, spraying napalm and chemicals in all directions. His attacks are met with the sounds of horrified and pained screams as Dan Temple and other clutch at their melting faces, appendages and bodies.
Then silence.
Agent Orange stands in the middle of the room, panting and giggling. Hypnota just stares at the carnage. It’s a stare that’s horrified, but not unfamiliar.
Answer: WHAT IN THE NAME OF COLONEL KURTZ JUST GOD DAMN HAPPENED.
Bend, casually: Waller said to eliminate the targets. She didn’t say how.
Answer: WHAT DID YOU THINK WE WERE DOING, HAVING A CLAM BAKE?
Bend, smiling: I’m sure what you and that sand-flea were doin’ would work fine, this just seemed faster.
He looks at Bito and grins. Wladon raises a hand to his mouth, and smiles behind it.
Answer slams Bend against the wall and jabs him rapidly and forcefully in the stomach with his cane, effectively destroying his smile.
Answer: I DON’T GIVE A BAT’S ASS. This was MY DAMN MISSION you worthless, whimpering, fingerless, d-grade moron. You do as I command or so help me I will shove this cane up your ass and whirl you around like a flag. You got that?
Bend slumps to the floor: Yeah . . . yeah I got it.
Answer: Good.
He strikes bend in the head with his cane. It’s one solid, ringing blow.
Answer: And don’t you ever refer to Ms. Bhatia in a racist manner in front of me ever again.
Bend: Y-yes . . . sir.
Answer: Doubleplusgood. Now stand up and take us home. Everybody gather around the asshole.
Sonar steps forward: Actually, dear leader, I have other plans.
Answer: Eh?
Before he can say anything else, there’s a furious ringing, followed by a few loud, staccato beeps. Little lights appear in each of the Squad Member’s necks, save for Answer’s. They each glow red once, then green, then wink out. Wladon stays where he stands, and holds aloft a tiny device that resembles a sort of detonator.
Hypnota: What is happening?
Sonar: I am glad you asked. When we were graced with the
presence of Mister Luthor, he assembled a device to deactivate his nanite and escape. Having studied that device, I had bits and pieces smuggled in, and, over time, made a little one of my own. Each and every one of you, save for our fearless leader of course, are now under my control.
Answer: You filthy bastard. I’ll tear your lungs out.
Sonar: Unlikely. Mister Black, if you’d be so kind to restrain him.
Multiplex’s dupes close in around Patten. One takes his cane, three more grab his arms and wrap their own around his chest. Answer is swearing a blue street and thrashing like a maniac, but it does no good.
Multiplex: Sorry, boss.
Multiplex: Sorry, boss.
Multiplex: Sorry, boss.
Multiplex: Sorry, boss.
Answer: I’ll find where you live, Wladon, and I’ll toss a fucking bomb in that place!
Sonar smiles: It is funny you should mention my home, Answer. Bend? If you’d please?
Bend stands, grinning widely: You got it, 'your highness', it’s about damn time we pulled this off.
He begins to create a green, angular portal around himself, Bend, Multiplex and his Dupes, Answer, still struggling, Hypnota with her hand on her mouth, and Orange, shivering in anticipation.
Sonar grabs the bottom of Answer’s mask, and lifts it up to expose Patten’s four-day stubble and reddened eyes.
Sonar: I say it is funny you should mention my home, Answer, because that is precisely where we are going.
There is the inevitable flash of green, leaving nothing but the charred bodies of the A.R.G.U.S agents. Martin Welman, his body charred through no fault of his own, soaks the carpet in red regret.
Reto #39 de la Familia Fotera: Reto Lectura.
Aquí los enlaces a los participantes en el reto
www.facebook.com/groups/retosfamiliafotera/
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In my garden
Pollen load clearly visible- light brown or caramel coloured. Handy mid-winter forage for the bees on a mild January day like today
for my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
www.cjr.org/feature/a_see-through_society.php?page=all
Excerpt:
People are eager for access to information, and public officials who try to stand in the way will discover that the Internet responds to information suppression by routing around the problem. Consider the story of a site you’ve never seen, ChicagoWorksForYou.com. In June 2005, a team of Web developers working for the city of Chicago began developing a site that would take the fifty-five different kinds of service requests that flow into the city’s 311 database—items like pothole repairs, tree-trimming, garbage-can placement, building permits, and restaurant inspections—and enable users to search by address and “map what’s happening in your neighborhood.” The idea was to showcase city services at the local level.
ChicagoWorks was finished in January 2006, with the support of Mayor Richard Daley’s office. But it also needed to be reviewed by the city’s aldermen and, according to a source who worked on the project, “they were very impressed with its functionality, but they were shocked at the possibility that it would go public.” Elections were coming up, and even if the site showed 90 percent of potholes being filled within thirty days, the powers-that-be didn’t want the public to know about the last 10 percent. ChicagoWorksForYou.com was shelved.
But the idea of a site that brings together information about city services in Chicago is alive and kicking. If you go to EveryBlock.com, launched in January 2008, and click on the Chicago link, you can drill down to any ward, neighborhood, or block and discover everything from the latest restaurant-inspection reports and building permits to recent crime reports and street closures. It’s all on a Google Map, and if you want to subscribe to updates about a particular location and type of report, the site kicks out custom RSS feeds. Says Daniel O’Neil, one of EveryBlock’s data mavens, “Crime and restaurant inspections are our hottest topics: Will I be killed today and will I vomit today?”
EveryBlock exists thanks to a generous grant from the Knight News Challenge, but its work, which covers eleven cities, including New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., offers a glimpse of the future of ubiquitous and hyperlocal information. EveryBlock’s team collects most of its data by scraping public sites and spreadsheets and turning it into understandable information that can be easily displayed and manipulated online.
It may not be long before residents of the cities covered by EveryBlock decide to contribute their own user-generated data to flesh out the picture that city officials might prefer to hide. EveryBlock founder Adrian Holovaty tells me that his team is figuring out ways for users to connect directly to each other through the site. Forums that allowed people to congregate online by neighborhood or interest would enable EveryBlock users to become their cities’ watchdogs. If city agencies still won’t say how many potholes are left unfilled after thirty days, people could share and track that information themselves.
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A See-Through Society
HOW THE WEB IS OPENING UP OUR DEMOCRACY
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review
Micah Sifry
January 15, 2009
It may be a while before the people who run the U.S. House of Representatives’ Web service forget the week of September 29, 2008. That’s when the enormous public interest in the financial bailout legislation, coupled with unprecedented numbers of e-mails to House members, effectively crashed www.house.gov. On Tuesday of that week, a day after the House voted down the first version of the bailout bill, House administrators had to limit the number of incoming e-mails processed by the site’s “Write Your Representative” function. Demand for the text of the legislation was so intense that third-party sites that track Congress were also swamped. GovTrack.us, a private site that produces a user-friendly guide to congressional legislation, had to shut down. Its owner, Josh Tauberer, posted a message reading, “So many people are searching for the economic relief bill that GovTrack can’t handle it. Take a break and come back later when the world cools off.”
Once people did get their eyes on the bill’s text, they tore into it with zeal. Nearly a thousand comments were posted between September 22 and October 5 on PublicMarkup.org, a site that enables the public to examine and debate the text of proposed legislation set up by the Sunlight Foundation, an advocacy group for government transparency (full disclosure: I am a senior technology adviser to Sunlight). Meanwhile, thousands of bloggers zeroed in on the many earmarks in the bill, such as the infamous reduction in taxes for wooden-arrow manufacturers. Others focused on members who voted for the bill, analyzing their campaign contributors and arguing that Wall Street donations influenced their vote.
The explosion of public engagement online around the bailout bill signals something profound: the beginning of a new age of political transparency. As more people go online to find, create, and share vital political information with one another; as the cost of creating, combining, storing, and sharing information drops toward zero; and as the tools for analyzing data and connecting people become more powerful and easier to use, politics and governance alike are inexorably becoming more open.
We are heading toward a world in which one-click universal disclosure, real-time reporting by both professionals and amateurs, dazzling data visualizations that tell compelling new stories, and the people’s ability to watch their government from below (what the French call sousveillance) are becoming commonplace. Despite the detour of the Bush years, citizens will have more opportunity at all levels of government to take an active part in understanding and participating in the democratic decisions that affect their lives.
Log On, Speak Out
The low-cost, high-speed, always-on Internet is changing the ecology of how people consume and create political information. The Pew Internet & American Life Project estimates that roughly 75 percent of all American adults, or about 168 million people, go online or use e-mail at least occasionally. A digital divide still haunts the United States, but among Americans aged eighteen to forty-nine, that online proportion is closer to 90 percent. Television remains by far the dominant political information source, but in October 2008, a third of Americans said their main provider of political information was the Internet—more than triple the number from four years earlier, according to another Pew study. Nearly half of eighteen-to-twenty-nine-year-olds said the Internet was their main source of political info.
Meanwhile, we’re poised for a revolution in participation, not just in consumption, thanks to the Web. People talk, share, and talk back online. According to yet another study by Pew, this one in December 2007, one in five U.S. adults who use the Internet reported sharing something online that they created themselves; one in three say they’ve posted a comment or rated something online.
People are eager for access to information, and public officials who try to stand in the way will discover that the Internet responds to information suppression by routing around the problem. Consider the story of a site you’ve never seen, ChicagoWorksForYou.com. In June 2005, a team of Web developers working for the city of Chicago began developing a site that would take the fifty-five different kinds of service requests that flow into the city’s 311 database—items like pothole repairs, tree-trimming, garbage-can placement, building permits, and restaurant inspections—and enable users to search by address and “map what’s happening in your neighborhood.” The idea was to showcase city services at the local level.
ChicagoWorks was finished in January 2006, with the support of Mayor Richard Daley’s office. But it also needed to be reviewed by the city’s aldermen and, according to a source who worked on the project, “they were very impressed with its functionality, but they were shocked at the possibility that it would go public.” Elections were coming up, and even if the site showed 90 percent of potholes being filled within thirty days, the powers-that-be didn’t want the public to know about the last 10 percent. ChicagoWorksForYou.com was shelved.
But the idea of a site that brings together information about city services in Chicago is alive and kicking. If you go to EveryBlock.com, launched in January 2008, and click on the Chicago link, you can drill down to any ward, neighborhood, or block and discover everything from the latest restaurant-inspection reports and building permits to recent crime reports and street closures. It’s all on a Google Map, and if you want to subscribe to updates about a particular location and type of report, the site kicks out custom RSS feeds. Says Daniel O’Neil, one of EveryBlock’s data mavens, “Crime and restaurant inspections are our hottest topics: Will I be killed today and will I vomit today?”
EveryBlock exists thanks to a generous grant from the Knight News Challenge, but its work, which covers eleven cities, including New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., offers a glimpse of the future of ubiquitous and hyperlocal information. EveryBlock’s team collects most of its data by scraping public sites and spreadsheets and turning it into understandable information that can be easily displayed and manipulated online.
It may not be long before residents of the cities covered by EveryBlock decide to contribute their own user-generated data to flesh out the picture that city officials might prefer to hide. EveryBlock founder Adrian Holovaty tells me that his team is figuring out ways for users to connect directly to each other through the site. Forums that allowed people to congregate online by neighborhood or interest would enable EveryBlock users to become their cities’ watchdogs. If city agencies still won’t say how many potholes are left unfilled after thirty days, people could share and track that information themselves.
Such a joint effort is no stretch to young people who have grown up online. Consider just a couple of examples: since 1999, RateMyTeachers.com and RateMyProfessors.com have collected more than sixteen million user-generated ratings on more than two million teachers and professors. The two sites get anywhere from half a million to a million unique visitors a month. Yelp.com, a user-generated review service, says its members have written more than four million local reviews since its founding in 2004. As the younger generation settles down and starts raising families, there’s every reason to expect that its members will carry these habits of networking and sharing information into tracking more serious quality-of-life issues, as well as politics.
Cities Lead the Way
Recognizing this trend, some public officials are plunging in. In his “State of the City” speech in January 2008, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg promised to “roll out the mother of all accountability tools.” It is called Citywide Performance Reporting, and Bloomberg promised it would put “a wealth of data at people’s fingertips—fire response times, noise complaints, trees planted by the Parks Department, you name it. More than five hundred different measurements from forty-five city agencies.” Bloomberg, whose wealth was built on the financial-information company he built, says he likes to think of the service as a “Bloomberg terminal for city government—except that it’s free.”
Bloomberg’s vision is only partly fulfilled so far. A visitor to the city’s site (nyc.gov) would have a hard time finding the “Bloomberg terminal for city government” because it’s tucked several layers down on the Mayor’s Office of Operations page, with no pointers from the home page.
Still, the amount of data it provides is impressive. You can learn that the number of families with children entering the city shelter system is up 31 percent over last year, and that the city considers this a sign of declining performance by the system. Or you can discover that the median time the city department of consumer affairs took to process a complaint was twenty-two business days, and that that is considered positive! Another related tool, called NYC*scout, allows anyone to see where recent service requests have been made, and with a little bit of effort you can make comparisons between different community districts. New York’s monitoring tools still leave much to be desired, however, because they withhold the raw data—specific addresses and dates-of-service requests—that are the bones of these reports. This means the city is still resisting fully sharing the public’s data with the public.
Compare that to the approach of the District of Columbia. Since 2006, all the raw data it has collected on government operations, education, health care, crime, and dozens of other topics has been available for free to the public via 260 live data feeds. The city’s CapStat online service also allows anyone to track the performance of individual agencies, monitor neighborhood services and quality-of-life issues, and make suggestions for improvement. Vivek Kundra, D.C.’s innovative chief technology officer, calls this “building the digital public square.” In mid-October, he announced an “Apps for Democracy” contest that offered $20,000 in cash prizes for outside developers and designers of Web sites and tools that made use of the city’s data catalog.
In just a few weeks, Kundra received nearly fifty finished Web applications. The winners included:
* iLive.at, a site that shows with one click all the local information around one address, including the closest places to go shopping, buy gas, or mail a letter; the locations of recently reported crimes; and the demographic makeup of the neighborhood;
* Where’s My Money, DC?—a tool that meshes with Facebook and enables users to look up and discuss all city expenditures above $2,500; and
* Stumble Safely, an online guide to the best bars and safe paths on which to stumble home after a night out.
The lesson of the “Apps for Democracy” contest is simple: a critical mass of citizens with the skills and the appetite to engage with public agencies stands ready to co-create a new kind of government transparency.
Under traditional government procurement practices, it would have taken Kundra months just to post a “request for proposals” and get responses. Finished sites would have taken months, even years, for big government contractors to complete. The cost for fifty working Web sites would have been in the millions. Not so when you give the public robust data resources and the freedom to innovate that is inherent to today’s Web.
The Whole Picture
So, how will the Web ultimately alter the nature of political transparency? Four major trends are developing.
First, the day is not far off when it will be possible to see, at a glance, the most significant ways an individual, lobbyist, corporation, or interest group is trying to influence the government. Here’s how Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation and a longtime proponent of open government, sees the future of transparency online: “If I search for Exxon, I want one-click disclosure,” she says. “I want to see who its pac is giving money to, who its executives and employees are supporting, at the state and federal levels; who does its lobbying, whom they’re meeting with and what they’re lobbying on; whether it’s employing former government officials, or vice versa, if any of its ex-employees are in government; whether any of those people have flown on the company’s jets. And then I also want to know what contracts, grants, or earmarks the company has gotten and whether they were competitively bid.”
She continues: “If I look up a senator, I want an up-to-date list of his campaign contributors—not one that is months out of date because the Senate still files those reports on paper. I want to see his public calendar of meetings. I want to know what earmarks he’s sponsored and obtained. I want to know whether he is connected to a private charity that people might be funneling money to. I want to see an up-to-date list of his financial assets, along with all the more mundane things, like a list of bills he’s sponsored, votes he’s taken, and public statements he’s made. And I want it all reported and available online in a timely fashion.”
This vision isn’t all that far away. In the last three years, thanks in large measure to support from Sunlight, OMB Watch (a nonprofit advocacy organization that focuses on budget issues, regulatory policy, and access to government) created FedSpending.org, a searchable online database of all government contracts and spending. The Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org), meanwhile, has developed searchable databases of current lobbying reports, personal financial disclosure statements of members of Congress, sponsored travel, and employment records of nearly ten thousand people who have moved through the revolving door between government and lobbying. Taxpayers for Common Sense (Taxpayer.net) is putting the finishing touches on a complete online database of 2008 earmarks.
The National Institute on Money in State Politics, headed by Ed Bender, is filling in the picture at the state level, aiming to give the public “as complete a picture as possible of its elected leaders and their actions, and offer information that helps the public understand those actions,” he says. “This would start with the candidates running for offices, their biographies and their donors, and would follow them into the statehouses to their committee assignments and relationships with lobbyists, and finally to the legislation that they sponsor and vote for, and who benefits from those actions.”
The incoming Obama administration, meanwhile, has expressed a commitment to expanding government transparency, promising as part of its “ethics agenda” platform (change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda) to create a “centralized Internet database of lobbying reports, ethics records, and campaign-finance filings in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format,” as well as a “ ‘contracts and influence’ database that will disclose how much federal contractors spend on lobbying, and what contracts they are getting and how well they complete them.”
To insure that all citizens can access such a database, we can hope that Obama pushes universal Internet access as part of his investment in infrastructure. As Andrew Rasiej and I argued in Politico in December, “Just as we recognized with the Universal Service Act in the 1930s that we had to take steps to ensure everyone access to the phone network, we need to do the same today with affordable access to high-speed Internet. Everything else flows from this. Otherwise, we risk leaving half our population behind and worsening inequality rather than reducing it.”
3-D Journalism
A second trend propelling us toward a greater degree of political transparency is data visualization. The tools for converting boring lists and lines of numbers into beautiful, compelling images get more powerful every day, enabling a new kind of 3-D journalism: dynamic and data-driven. And in many cases, news consumers can manipulate the resulting image or chart, drilling into its layers of information to follow their own interests. My favorite examples include:
* The Huffington Post’s Fundrace, which mapped campaign contributions to the 2008 presidential candidates by name and address, enabling anyone to see whom their neighbors might be giving to;
* The New York Times’s debate analyzer, which converted each candidate debate into an interactive chart showing word counts and speaking time, and enabled readers to search for key words or fast forward; and
* The Sunlight Foundation and Taxpayers for Common Sense’s Earmarks Watch Map (earmarkwatch.org/mapped),which layered the thousands of earmarks in the fiscal 2008 defense-appropriations bill over a map of the country allowing a viewer to zero in on specific sites and see how the Pentagon scatters money in practically every corner of the U.S.
The use of such tools is engendering a collective understanding of, as Paul Simon once sang, the way we look to us all. As news consumers grow used to seeing people like CNN’s John King use a highly interactive map of the United States to explain local voting returns, demand for these kinds of visualizations will only grow.
Little Brother Is Watching, Too
The third trend fueling the expansion of political transparency is sousveillance, or watching from below. It can be done by random people, armed with little more than a camera-equipped cell phone, who happen to be in the right place at the right time. Or it can be done by widely dispersed individuals acting in concert to ferret out a vital piece of information or trend, what has been called “distributed journalism.” In effect, Big Brother is being watched by millions of Little Brothers.
For example, back in August, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was having coffee at a Starbucks in Malibu when he was spotted by a blogger who took a couple of photos and posted them online. The blogger noted that Newsom was “talking campaign strategy” with someone, but didn’t know who. The pictures came to the attention of San Francisco Chronicle reporter Carla Marinucci, who identified that person as political consultant Garry South. Soon political bloggers were having a field day, pointing out that the liberal mayor was meeting with one of the more conservative Democratic consultants around. This is sousveillance at its simplest.
The citizen-journalism project “Off the Bus,” which ultimately attracted thousands of volunteer reporters who posted their work on The Huffington Post during the 2008 election, was sousveillance en masse. Much of their work was too opinionated or first-person oriented to really break news, but Mayhill Fowler’s reporting of Barack Obama’s offhand remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser about “bitter” blue-collar workers at least briefly changed the course of the campaign. And there are numerous examples of bloggers and their readers acting in concert to expose some hidden fact. The coalition of bloggers known as the “Porkbusters” were at the center of an effort to expose which senator had put a secret hold on a bill creating a federal database of government spending, co-sponsored by none other than Barack Obama and Tom Coburn. Porkbusters asked their readers to call their senators, and by this reporting process, discovered that Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was the culprit. Soon thereafter, he released his hold. Likewise, Josh Marshall has frequently asked readers of Talking Points Memo to help him spot local stories that might be part of a larger pattern. It was this technique that helped him piece together the story of the firings of U.S. Attorneys around the country, for which he won the Polk Award.
The World’s A-Twitter
The final trend that is changing the nature of transparency is the rise of what some call the World Live Web. Using everything from mobile phones that can stream video live online to simple text message postings to the micro-blogging service Twitter, people are contributing to a real-time patter of information about what is going on around them. Much of what results is little more than noise, but increasingly sophisticated and simple-to-use filtering tools can turn some of it into information of value.
For example, in just a matter of weeks before the November election in the U.S., a group of volunteer bloggers and Web developers loosely affiliated with the blog I edit, techPresident.com, built a monitoring project called Twitter Vote Report. Voters were encouraged to use Twitter, as well as other tools like iPhones, to post reports on the quality of their voting experience. Nearly twelve thousand reports flowed in, and the result was a real-time picture of election-day complications and wait times that a number of journalistic organizations, including NPR, PBS, and several newspapers, relied on for their reporting.
Nothing to Hide
The question for our leaders, as we head into a world where bottom-up, user-generated transparency is becoming more of a reality, is whether they will embrace this change and show that they have nothing to hide. Will they actively share all that is relevant to their government service with the people who, after all, pay their salaries? Will they trust the public to understand the complexities of that information, instead of treating them like children who can’t handle the truth?
The question for citizens, meanwhile, is, Will we use this new access to information to create a more open and deliberative democracy? Or will citizens just use the Web to play “gotcha” games with politicians, damaging the discourse instead of uplifting it?
“People tend not to trust what is hidden,” write the authors of the November 2008 report by a collection of openness advocates entitled “Moving Toward a 21st Century Right-to-Know Agenda.” “Transparency is a powerful tool to demonstrate to the public that the government is spending our money wisely, that politicians are not in the pocket of lobbyists and special-interest groups, that government is operating in an accountable manner, and that decisions are made to ensure the safety and protection of all Americans.” In the end, transparency breeds trust. Or rather, transparency enables leaders to earn our trust. In the near future, they may have to, because more and more of us are watching.
AFRICA -Dr.C.K.Atal, United Nations consultant - Africa,1993
INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
41.INTERNATIONAL BASE – He has resided in USA (1954 to 1958) as a US resident (status green card), worked as Chairman/associate Professor grade at Nebraska, USA, and migrated to Indian citizenship, going against the trend of brain drain. He has worked for about 8 -9 years internationally as UN consultant (including 7 years in field south East Asia, base Vietnam, 1985 - 92). He has extensively travelled to 30-35 countries internationally as UN consultant, as CSIR consultant or mission consultant to major organizations in countries in Asia, SE Asia, Europe, USA, Africa etc.
42.INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCIES-(Serial no 43-65, MISSION CONSULTANT to world organizations, also See countries traveled Serial no 68). The various scientific interactions are for Eli Lilly-USA, Polish Academy of Sciences, British Council, Organization Of African Unity (OAU), West Indies, Burma Government, Vietnam Government, Bangladesh Government, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), USFDA, Soviet Academy of Sciences, University of Texas, USA (lecture at Pharmaceutical Sciences department), UK University of Exeter (Commonwealth Foundation, Univ. Grants Commission), University of Munchen, Germany, SAARC scientific conference (Sri Lanka), France, Bulgaria etc.
43.UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCIES- See details in mission consultant, UN Passport records (laissez passer).
A.WHO (Bangladesh), WHO (USA), FAO (non wood forest products), APPOINTED/SELECTED FOR UN PROJECT IN AFGHANISTAN (project postponed for technical/safety reasons due to instability in the region), UN HEADQUARTERS (VIENNA, AUSTRIA) for formulating UN projects in Vietnam,UNITED NATIONS -AFRICA (for identifying viable projects in Africa),
B.UNDP, UNIDO-VIETNAM - five United Nations projects costing approximately about 10 to 13 million US dollars.
•HERBAL-MEDICINES.
•ESSENTIAL-OILS.
•DYES-&-PIGMENTS.
•AROMA-CHEMICALS.
•HIGH VALUE ROSIN & TURPENTINE.
MISSION CONSULTANT TO MAJOR INTERNATIONAL WORLD ORGANISATIONS
CONSULTANCY, ADVISOR, PROJECT LEADER, IDENTIFYING AND IMPLEMENTING PROJECTS, TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION, SCIENTIFIC INTERACTION, FELLOWSHIP, LECTURES, CHAIRING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ETC
44.USA (1957-58,) - ELI LILLY SUMMER FELLOWSHIP, USA - on selection & development of high yield strains of Clavicaps purpurea and submerged culture of Clavicaps purpurea .Other visits in 1974, 1981, 1992, 2004.
45.USA,National science foundation,1974-two months
46.POLAND (Nov,1972) – POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES/ INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - headed by the Polish Director, Dr. Kocor (pronounced as kochur) invited Dr. Atal for lecture (Chemistry of Natural Products) & technology demonstration in several institutes of Poland in 1972. www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6506006811/
47.WEST INDIES- CARRIBEAN AREA (1979) - (expert on behalf of COMMON WEALTH RESEARCH COUNCIL-BRITISH COUNCIL, TRINIDAD TOBAGO)-, Distillation techniques & technology demonstration, lectures, introduction of lemon grass oils etc.
48.GERMANY (UNIVERSITY OF MUNCHEN /MUNICH)-(Nuclear research institute) invited Dr. Atal as a solar energy consultant, visited Germany in 1978 & 1985.
49.FRANCE (1980) - STRASBOURG INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONGRESS -to chair the international conference “International Research Congress on natural products as medicinal agents”, on July, 6-12, 1980.
50.BULGARIA (1981) - SOFIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, -to chair a session on the international conference on “Chemistry and Biotechnology of biologically active natural products” and Rose oil, on 22 Sept, 1981.
51.GREECE-delivered a special lecture at international symposium on Aromatic plants.
52.BURMA (1981) – GOVERNMENT OF BURMA (Rangoon), (presently Myanmar): To set up Menthol distillation plant , transfer of technology for production of bold crystals of Menthol from Mentha arvensis, setting up a menthol pilot plant & demonstration unit (Menthol extraction plant) and training techniques. The Pharmaceutical research Department of Central Research Organization (CRO), Burma was provided Diosgenin – Progesteron plant at Hmaw-Bi, Rangoon. www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6824106944/in/photostr... www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6970421821/in/photostream
53.USA (Oct 1981) FOUR WEEKS –He was appointed as international consultant to USA in his capacity as one of the leading world authorities on Crotalaria.
A.WHO (WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION)- World Health Organization was the primary agency to appoint him as WHO expert consultant on toxicology, particularly on Crotalaria and its toxicity and sent him to USA as consultant to other agencies.
B.USFDA (BUREAU OF FOODS, US FOOD & DRUG ADMINISTRATION) – USFDA-Division Of Toxicology as consultant on toxicology, for division of chemistry and physics, & division of toxicology, bureau of foods, USFDA , regarding toxicity studies / human toxicity particularly by Crotalaria mixed in food chain/ Pyrrolizidine alkaloid containing seeds.
C.PAHO (PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION) - WHO appointed him as consultant on toxicology for PAHO as well as USFDA simultaneously.
54.RUSSIA AND TASHKENT, (1981) - Soviet academy of sciences: invited Dr. Atal for lecture and technology demonstration.
55.WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION
A.USA CONSULTANCY - as noted above.
B.BANGLADESH CSIR- as noted below.
56.SELECTED FOR UN PROJECT IN AFGHANISTAN (around 1983-84) –due to prevailing instability, project was suspended/postponed for safety reasons.
57.BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT (1984) - for helping Bangladesh CSIR, for technology demonstration to upgrade/modernize their Pharmaceutical formulations, like Chavanprash. (See NEXT HEADING-WHO below).
58.WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) 1984 – (Refer to Bangladesh Govt. Above) appointed him as consultant to help establish technology institutes for Bangladesh Govt. (CSIR). (See above topic).
59.UNITED KINGDOM (1984) -University of Exeter (Commonwealth Foundation / University Grants Commission) invited Dr. Atal for lecture tours. A Holland tour also was included in this tour.
60.UNITED NATIONS (VIENNA, AUSTRIA) (1984 /85) for identifying projects in developing countries like South East Asia, Vietnam. Project was handled by Mrs. Cheknovorian who offered Dr. Atal to implement these projects in Vietnam as UN chief consultant and which was soon accepted by Dr. Atal.
61.UNIDO/UNDP,VIETNAM ( BASE S. E. ASIA - seven years, 1985-1992)- For peer reviews on UN contributions by a distinguished international UN consultant, www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/5737077185/in/photostream Dr. Atal was Chief technical advisor (Chemical Technologist in UN roster) for five projects funded by United Nations costing about 11-13 million US dollars implemented and commissioned in Vietnam ( field area South East Asia). He implemented the projects successfully, on time schedule and within budget.
•PROJECT-DP/VIE/80/032-HANOI-VIETNAM,(HERBAL-MEDICINES).
•PROJECT-DP/VIE/84/010-HANOI-VIETNAM,(ESSENTIAL-OILS).
•PROJECT-DP/VIE/85/001-HO CHI MINH CITY-VIETNAM(DYES & PIGMENTS).
•PROJECT-DP/VIE/86/033-HO CHI MINH CITY - VIETNAM(AROMA CHEMICALS).
•PROJECT-DP/VIE/TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH VALUE ROSIN & TURPENTINE. This resulted in high quality production of several natural plant based products, with huge socioeconomic and industrial benefit. The projects were successful socioeconomically. For example, in the very first year of its production, the sales of Eucalyptus oil crossed the million dollar mark in international market due to its strict quality control. Other examples include Bixa orellana (butter yellow) Berberine factories, Curcumin/ turmeric factory, dyes, essential oils, aroma chemicals, cultivation techniques, field’s establishment, and many other projects. More projects were offered to him but he returned to India
62.VIETNAM GOVERNMENT (1985-1992) Institutes of Vietnam ,examples like Institute of Materia Medica (Hanoi) headed by Madam Knu were upgraded with latest technology and scientific infrastructure at both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, all funded by UN. (Serial no 42, UNIDO/UNDP 1985-1992). He developed large cultivation farms and factories for medicinal and aromatic plants at Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), for projects like berberine from Berberis, curcumin from rhizomes of Curcuma longa / haldi and many other projects for Vietnam government. . (See above topic).
63.USA-HOUSTON TEXAS UNIVERSITY (1992) - Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences for lecture on biologically active molecules at the University institute.
64.POLISH HERBAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY “HERBAPOL” (post 1992) for identifying joint ventures with India, complimentary task.
65.UN - AFRICA CONSULTANCY-- FOR UN PROJECTS (1993) –See OAU BELOW www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6506000399/
66.AFRICA-ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY (OAU-1993) - to help in development of Africa by formulation of United Nations funded developmental projects in Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Maputo.(see above topic).
67.UNIDO / FAO (FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION) PROJECT - ON NON WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS - SIX MONTHS PROJECT FOR, UNITED NATIONS (1994) (FAO UN PROJECT TF/GLO/94/009/11-01) –assigned as international expert to prepare UN project lead paper /keynote address on non wood forest products for “International Symposium on Forestry” on occasion of World forestry day at Djakarta, Indonesia. The compilation is published by UN/FAO-Viale dells Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. (International Expert Consultation on non wood forest products, 1995), article 4.2.1 (Processing, refinement and value addition of non wood forest products –T. De Silva and C.K. Atal)).
A.http://www.fao.org/docrep/v7540e/v7540e00.htm
B.http://www.fao.org/docrep/v7540e/V7540e18.htm
68.SAARC SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE (COLOMBO, SRI LANKA)–MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL DELEGATION OF EXPERTS FROM SAARC COUNTRIES HELD AT SRI LANKA , 1995- international experts scientific conference of SAARC countries at SAARC Colombo scientific Conference held in 1995,third week of October.
OTHER SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
69.WORLD AUTHORITY ON CROTALARIA –
A.Solving the outbreak of mysterious Phoolan bimari disease (epidemic of swelling of body in Sarguja district in Madhya Pradesh, India). Several teams investigated this baffling disease, including All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. It was being attributed to some new disease of infectious etiology. This was solved by Dr. Atal when the cause was suspected and subsequently found to be toxicity by crotalaria seeds as food adulterant .It was covered in the national news. A team under Dr. Prabhay Singh Jamwal was deputed to the affected area with the instructions to collect all weeds in the fields particularly focusing on suspect Crotalaria. The team returned with several specimens but was unable to find Crotalaria. However on closer scrutiny the rogue plant was identified by Dr. Atal based on examination of unusually tiny but typical seeds of the plant among the sample specimens brought. Further research confirmed the toxicity due to Crotalaria plant.
B.Numerous serial research publications on Crotalaria have been published.
C.On the basis of these numerous publications , WHO appointed Dr. Atal as expert on Crotalaria toxicity and deputed him as consultant to USA, (Oct, 1981) for division of Chemistry and Physics and Division of Toxicology, Bureau of Foods, Food & Drug Administration (FDA) USA / and Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO-USA). Dr. Atal then conducted several lecture tours all over USA (wherever Toxicology work was going on) for toxic plant residues and adulteration in foods and cereals, isolation, detection of hepatotoxins in food chain, especially Crotalaria toxin which had caused morbidity / mortality in USA.
70.INTERNATIONAL IMPACT OF WORK-. Dr. Atal, a student of internationally acclaimed Pharmacognosist Prof. A.E. Schwarting (USA), has been one of the leading International multidisciplinary Pharmacognosists. He was a based internationally as green card US resident and as UN consultant for several projects internationally for about 12-13 years. He served as international multidisciplinary consultant to numerous major international organizations, world bodies, several countries and several United Nations organizations. Multiple multimillion US dollars UN projects successfully implemented/formulated by him have resulted in significant international socioeconomic benefits for the developing world like Vietnam. His drug development projects (Serial no 92-104, drug discovery) include internationally marketed formulations like Sallaki by Gufic (India, Europe, other countries) and Debelysin by Herbapol (Ukraine, Byelorussia, Poland etc). He has several “first reporting’s in the world” and new pioneering concepts in science, like discovery of plant immunomodulators (from rasayanas) and concept of bioenhancers in medical science. It has led to official launching of world’s first bioenhanced TB drug Risorine on world TB day 2011, which was also presented to world dignitary Mr. Bill Gates (Chairman, Microsoft), by Government of India at Delhi. As a world authority on Crotalaria he was invited as consultant to USA (by USFDA, PAHO, WHO) on Crotalaria toxicity. He has also held many international patents. He has also taught internationally in department of biosciences, Nebraska, USA and U. Conn, USA. His international reference books are inevitably found in libraries globally in plant research institutes and extensively quoted internationally in research studies. These are also used in post graduate Pharmacy teaching institutes all over India (refer author writer). His numerous research articles in prominent international journals are also extensively quoted internationally as references. He has been on panel of the prestigious “International Journal of Ethno-Pharmacology”, by Elsevier, Ireland. (Serial no 184-211, author, writer).He has delivered lectures in several countries, chaired international conferences and his UN compilation was presented on world forest conference at Indonesia.
COUNTRIES TRAVELLED FOR INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIONS
71.COUNTRIES TRAVELLED- Conferences, Consultancies, Lectures, Advisory, Collaborations, Travel tourism –(about 30-35 countries travelled, in alphabetical order, passport data) are Austria /Vienna-(1983, 1984, 1986, and more visits), America (USA-1954-57, 1974, 1981, 1992, 2004), Africa, Mozambique , Swaziland, Maputo, Britain (1974,1984, 1979,1992), Bulgaria / Sophia-For Rose Oil,(Sep, 1981), Burma/Rangoon(Myanmar)-(1981), Bangladesh (1984), Belgium (1958) , Canada (1974, 2004), Czechoslovakia (1978, 1981, 1993??), Cambodia / Ankorwat (1992), Egypt /Cairo-Port Said-(1954), France (1980) , Greece (1981), Germany / Munchen, Deutschland-(1978, 1985), Hungary / Budapest (1972), Hong Kong (1986, 1988), Holland (1978, 1984, 1985),Italy, Indonesia / Bali, Djakarta , Jogjakarta(1992), Lebanon , Macau (Portugal Island 1988), Marseilles /Azure Blue Coast, Philippines /Manila – (1991), Poland (1972, 1978, 1981, 1993) Pakistan- (Place Of Birth), Rome, Sri Lanka (1995), Singapore (1987, 1992), Sudan, Switzerland (1993), Tashkent, Thailand - (Multiple Visits) ,USSR / Tashkent (1981), Vietnam (Multiple), West Indies (Trinidad And Tobago-1979),Andaman Nicobar islands(India).
72.INTERNATIONAL LECTURE TOURS, KEYNOTE ADRESSES Examples include lectures in five cities and various institutes of Hungary / Warsaw, Poland on invitation from Polish academy of Organic Chemistry headed by the Director Dr. Kocor, (pronounced kochur),lecture on biologically active molecules in 1992 in Houston University, Department of Pharmaceutical sciences, Houston, Texas, USA on invitation by Dr. Vishnu Das Gupta of same department, lectures in Vietnam (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh) and in 1991 he accompanied Vice Minister, Ministry of Health, Vietnam Government, on a trip to India on educational, scientific tours. On 7th Feb 1991, he was a resource speaker on fractional distillation of essential oils with Mr. Salvador Fanaga and Mrs. A. Punruckvong at the Second UNIDO workshop on essential oil industry at Manilla, Philippine. He conducted several lectures in USA, Germany, UK, USSR, France, and West Indies (on essential oil distillation technology and solar drying). SEMINARS – he has organized, attended, participated and lectured in national and international seminars. Dr. Atal’s compilation/monograph on non wood forest products under UN consultancy was presented as a key note address on the World Forestry conference at Indonesia (delivered by Silva). He delivered keynote address at RRL, Jammu on event of Workshop on Radioimmunoassay, silver jubilee celebrations of RRL, Jammu, Dec, 1-6, 1982, inaugurated by Prof. J. S. Bajaj, HOD (Medicine), AIIMS, Delhi, and delivered keynote address on the first National symposium on Survey and Cultivation of edible mushrooms in India, the welcome keynote address was delivered by him. Jamia Hamdard, 2003 - Delivered keynote address at ‘Pharmacy week’ in Nov 2003 at Jamia Hamdard (newsletter , Jamia Hamdard “spreadsheet” march 2004 issue) –Theme of the week was “Pharmacists for the promotion of future free of Tobacco(page 2 Para 2- flashback). www.jamiahamdard.edu/PDF/News Letter_JH.pdf He has delivered multiple lectures on History of India, particularly Punjab history.
INDIA-SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
INDIA- Tea, Hops, Rural Development Projects, Xanthotoxins, Essential Oil Industry, Mint, Agro Industries, Pharmaceutical industry, Calcium gluconaterutin, Solid herbal extracts, vanillin, liquor lignin, straw/mill board, trisodium orthophosphate, turpentine, cellulose derivatives, solar dryers, borax plant, fruit vegetable processing, chhang technology, Fisheries, aquaculture , Sericulture, Leather , Fur ,wool, suedes, chamois, Tanning, Chinchilla / rabbit farming , rabbit wool, fast growing tree species , mass forestation , large scale plantation of fast growing tree species, Willow, Cash crops, paper pulp/board technology, pine needle , pine wool, pine boards, Mushroom farming, ethnopharmacology studies, food technology, J&K Mountain Cheese (maash kalari), termite control , eradicating superstition.
In India, he has established new industries or helped transform the import dependency in some existing industries into mass production and export, leading to generation of wealth for the country, including rural society and rural based industry. This has been achieved through science and technology research and development, agro industries, drug discovery/drug development, essential oil industry, award winning work in economic transformation of rural masses, rural and industrial technology development, utilization of waste into viable useful industry with added ecological benefit, resultant benefit to the industries based on plant and rural sciences, discoveries, processes development, all plant sciences, breeding and propagation technology ,turnkey jobs etc. Rural development projects resulted in socioeconomic transformation of the rural masses which won recognition like the FICCI award presented by the honorable President of India, UN grants and several other awards. Several plant based drugs like Xanthotoxin and many others helped India become self sufficient in technology and saved the precious foreign exchange reserves, particularly in the financially stressful seventies and eighties and beyond till date. Research in Essential oils from plants particularly Mint, Ocimum, Cymbopogan, etc used in health formulations, food industry, and essential oil industry helped change the socioeconomic status of the industry as well as rural masses. Developing technology for bold crystals of mint for the first time in India and introducing high mint yielding plants resulted in a sort of green revolution in mint which is now a massive thriving industry today. Introducing and establishing expensive Hops successful in India for the first time changed the socioeconomic status of the rural people of the hills. Implementations of recommendations of Sadasivan committee, of which Dr. Atal was a core member, helped the struggling tea industry from international competition. Projects on submerged fermentation initiated in June 1975, won the Andhra Pradesh prize (Serial no 7, award section) at the import substitution competition for developing process for production of Gibberellic acid.
161.TECHNOLOGIST, SADASIVAN COMMITTEE FOR REVIVING THE INDIAN TEA INDUSTRY- appointed as a prominent member and Technologist of Sadasivan committee (1976), Ministry of Commerce, Government of India to prepare report and give recommendations for improving tea production cost effectively in the face of rising global competition (especially from countries like Kenya, Sri Lanka & Indonesia).Implemented recommendations had a very good boosting effect on the sagging tea industry, thereby rescuing the tea industry from international competition.(See Current science, Vol 81, No. 7, October 2001, page 845, last paragraph- T. S. Sadasivan - A tribute, www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/oct102001/845.pdf www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6506102687/in/photostr... www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6970444265/in/photostream
162.ESTABLISHING NUMEROUS INDUSTRIES IN INDIA-Numerous pilot plant scale and commercial factory scale industries were established all over India based on the numerous technologies developed by RRL Jammu. (Serial no 152-159, processes developed).
163.CONSULTANCIES BY RRL ALL OVER INDIA -Examples include Calcium gluconate by fermentation (through NRDC-at Srinagar), plantation of rutin bearing Eucalyptus spp. at Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, manufacture of solid herbal extracts units (Delhi based Alok pharmaceuticals), vanillin from sawdust(Bombay), straw/mill board unit(Taran Taran, Punjab), cultivation of Clocimum and Jamrosa, downstream end products eugenol, geraniol (Jammu), cellulose derivatives esp. microcrystalline cellulose carboxymethyl cellulose (Amritsar and also Bombay), bolder crystals of menthol (Delhi), trisodium orthophosphate (Jammu), turpentine fractionating unit, liquor lignin waste from paper pulp industry (Madras), modification of resin refining kettle (Jammu).
164.INTRODUCTION OF TURN KEY SYSTEM FIRST TIME AT RRL, JAMMU -for processes developed, RRL adopted the turn key system, a useful tool to the end user (industry). www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6952344393/in/photostr... Examples are technology of Diosgenin, (Govt. of Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Burmese Government provided through govt. based organization NRDC), Menthol (Burma through NRDC), Hops (J&K and Himachal Pradesh), Pine needle board (Himachal Govt), etc. The turn-key process includes providing all the steps involved to establish a location including the site selection, space utilization, technology, construction, coordination and complete working installation
165.DEVELOPMENT OF FAR FLUNG REMOTE AREAS OF JAMMU KASHMIR, INDIA- difficult or inaccessible areas like Kargil and Ladakh were provided rural training, solar dryers, borax plant, fruit vegetable processing, chhang technology (Ladakh beer),etc. www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6970221243/in/photostr...
166.JAMMU , KASHMIR AND LADAKH, INDIA (FICCI AWARD,UN GRANTS AWARD)- Numerous projects like Fisheries, aquaculture , Sericulture, Leather , Fur ,wool, suedes, chamois, Tanning, Chinchilla / rabbit farming , rabbit wool, fast growing tree species , mass forestation , large scale plantation of fast growing tree species, Willow, Cash crops, paper pulp/board technology, pine needle & pine wool, Indian mint and Hops industry(a major socioeconomic breakthrough in brewery industry), Mushroom farming, solar drying technology especially in Ladakh and far flung areas of Kargil, extraction of Borax in Ladakh (PUGA valley) using geothermal energy, agro technology, ethnopharmacology studies, food technology, J&K Mountain Cheese (maash kalari), termite control , eradicating superstition - oham shikni in some areas of J&K), use of environment friendly alternate energy, forestation drives, environment pollution control (apple pomice was a pollutant , discarded / dumped in the river Jhelum in J&K as a waste which contributed to the environmental pollution. RRL in collaboration with the Army Horse and mule division designed and set up 20 foot tall silos for fermenting the Pomace to produce nitrogen rich feed for the mules and thereby preventing river pollution).For award of UN grants for rural work in J&K, Serial no 8, award section. www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6972288641/in/photostream www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6824267612/in/photostr...
167.ESTABLISHING AND DEVELOPING FIRST HOPS INDUSTRY SUCCESSFULLY IN INDIA (JAMMU, KASHMIR & HIMACHAL)-India developed the Hops technology and established Hops industry successfully for the first time in India. As a result there was a significant saving in foreign reserve (import substitution) which was earlier consumed in import of expensive Hops. See Prof. P. N. Mehra award. www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/5782130675/sizes/l/in/... www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6506235095/in/photostream books.google.com/books?id=Y3Y_AAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_sim...
168.HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA- pine needles Fiber board factories (a first in the world), with turpentine as a parallel by product, establishing CSIR complex at Palampur (now called IHBT) in 1983, appointed as first head this institute , establishing first Hops industry in India, including Lahul area of Himachal Pradesh. Tea industry in Himachal and India was also greatly helped by the efforts of Dr. Atal (See Sadasivan committee).Rutin industry in Himachal Pradesh is mentioned in next point below.
169.BIOFLAVONOID “RUTIN INDUSTRY”- As more and more high yielding species of Eucalyptus as a source for Rutin were discovered in the world, the best raw material source came from dried E. macrorhynea leaves (10-12% w/w yield) primarily used in Australia. The Imported seeds of Eucalyptus macrorhynea were found to perform best in salubrious climate of Palampur in the state of Himachal Pradesh and the leaves were found to give higher yield of Rutin as compared to Australian raw material sources. This was a big commercial breakthrough as Indian species were very low in Rutin content and the high yielding imported variety performed equivalent or better in Indian climate .A factory for production of Rutin was set up at Dhanaulti / areas near Pathankot to supply Rutin to Pharmaceutical industry. Palampur branch of RRL played a leading role in popularizing cultivation of Eucalyptus macrorhynea for the very first time in India. (Serial no 105-112,first reporting in India). Dr. Atal also propagated the coppicing method (including Eucalyptus species) to increase the yield of plant raw material leaves tremendously contributing to further increasing the quantity of finished product.
170.SIKKIM , INDIA 1984-85, Dr. Atal was invited by the Sikkim State as a consultant to identify the raw materials, viable projects from the forest and the state with industrial potential. Several ideas and projects were identified and a project report was handed over to the Sikkim Government / Hon. Hon. Governor Shri Talae Yar Khan for implementation.
171.PIONEERING WORK IN ESSENTIAL OIL AND AROMA CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IN INDIA AND INTERNATIONALLY (AS UN CONSULTANT) - (Serial no 115,essential oils).
172.CONTRIBUTIONS IN SUCCESSFUL MINT INDUSTRY IN INDIA-( Serial no 115, Essential oils). Dr. Atal developed and promoted technology for manufacture of bold crystals of mint / mark into boards, a big boost to the mint industry in India. Japanese mint industry became “Rs 100 million” industry by the beginning of 1980’s, and the Tarai area of UP state alone was a 10 crore per annum industry in the mid eighties. India became self sufficient in mint in mid 1980’s. Today China and India are world leaders in mint after further boosting efforts put in by CIMAP in the nineteen nineties. Japanese mint has become the single largest essential oil crop of the country. He also was appointed as international consultant in mint technology in 1981(Burma).
173.DEVELOPMENT OF MINT INDUSTRY IN BURMA 1981–invited as CSIR consultant to the Burmese Government on the mint technology, Menthol distillation plant, transfer of technology for production of bold crystals of Menthol from Mentha arvensis, setting up a pilot plant / demonstration unit (Menthol extraction plant) and imparting training techniques to Burmese scientists.
174.DIOSGENIN INDUSTRY IN INDIA - Dioscorea deltoidea and solasodine as new source of production of Diosgenin, a steroidal compound which is the feed raw material for synthetic production a variety of many steroidal hormones. Diosgenin ex D. deltoida & D. mexicana for supply of diosgenin as a raw material to Pharmaceutical industry for manufacture of steroidal therapeutic agents –several factories were set up for commercial production of diosgenin with technical knowhow ,establishing turnkey projects with chemical engineering know how, particularly 16-DP technologies were transferred to government of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
175.DIOSGENIN TECHNOLOGY / INDUSTRY IN BURMA 1981- Pharmaceutical research Department of Central Research Organization, Burma was provided Diosgenin –Progesterone plant and technology at Hmaw-Bi, Rangoon. www.flickr.com/photos/13059662@N06/6970421821/in/photostr...
176.UN CONSULTANT TO BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT, 1984 - for helping Bangladesh CSIR, for technology demonstration, for upgrading/modernising their Pharmaceutical formulations, examples like chavanprash. repository.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/14829
177.PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY)- DRUGS IN THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MARKET– Sallaki (Gufic pharmaceutical company -India and international marketing), two Antitubercular formulations Risorine / Risorine kit (Cadila Pharma), Debelysin(Herbapol of Poland, international marketing),Livzone(Hind Chemicals),and others. (see details in drug discovery).
178.CONSULTANT TO UN HEAD OFFICE AT VIENNA, AUSTRIA- 1984 –for formulating projects for Vietnam.
179.CONSULTANT FOR UNDP, UNIDO AND VIETNAM GOVERNMENT –for implementing multiple multimillion US dollars projects in Vietnam.
180.UNITED NATIONS – RRL, JAMMU TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER-pilot plants based on technologies developed at RRL, Jammu under Dr. Atal for distillation and fractionation of Aroma chemicals and natural dyes were later fabricated, Installed and commissioned on turnkey basis under UNIDO projects implemented at Vietnam under Dr. Atal.
181.UN CONSULTANCY FOR PROJECTS IN AFRICA -1993 – for projects recommendations in African countries.
182.ANDAMAN NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA –Prepared a report on viability of large scale herbal farms (medicinal and aromatic) in Andaman Nicobar islands, Port Blair (1993), as a part of consultancy for Khaitan Industries.
183.INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES -many scientific exchange programmes were organized between Vietnam, United Nations, India and many other countries. Similarly these were also carried out in his capacity as director of RRL Jammu, like the Soviet delegation of Pharmaceutical experts under Mr. A. I. Vinogradov visited RRL in March 1982 and appreciated the work done at RRL.
184.SOME SIGNIFICANT TECHNOLOGIES DISCUSSED ELSEWHERE
A.Xanthotoxins from two plant sources – till early 1970s it was being imported into India. After technology was developed by Dr. Atal, it led to a significant savings in import and is being exported to European and other countries. See first reporting in India.
B.Submerged Culture, Gluconates, Giberellins Etc – Significant savings in import, See Award section.
C.Conversions of waste into viable utilizable Industry- Serial no 142-146, environment conservation, See first reporting in the world, See FICCI Award.
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