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Vinson said the holes were also used to feed in grout to help shore up the embankment. |
The plan is to continue filling the holes with grout, likely adding even more holes, and to eventually also build a “grout curtain.” A slit will be cut into the embankment along its entire length and grout will be poured into it to make the curtain. |
Vinson said that curtain won’t have to be as thick as a free-standing dam because it will have the ground and the grout-filled pillars around it for support. |
TVA is using a lot of grout, which Vinson described as a substance like concrete except without the gravel or rock element – only sand, cement and water. More than 240 truckloads of grout have been used to fill in the holes so far. |
Somewhat unique to this project, Vinson explained, is that the usual project model has been adjusted a bit. |
The strategy has led to successes along the way. A rock berm planned to help stabilize the embankment had originally been planned as a finishing touch, but Vinson determined it was better to add it now. |
The work period has required some adjusting. A popular sand beach had to be shut down; a new one was added at another spot. In addition, one boat ramp was added and another was adjusted. Some temporary roads were added. A sound and light barrier was constructed to mitigate noise and light coming from the constant const... |
The entire project is planned to be finished by 2022. |
The earth-and-rockfill dam, completed in 1950, is still doing fine. Even its turbine, in place well more than 50 years, was operating like a Swiss watch despite the many nicks that had to be repaired through the years. |
Finally, TVA decided that it was time for some new machinery. The turbine and parts around it are being replaced. The old turbine sits on the dam parking lot now, like a battle-scarred veteran getting a much-needed retirement. The new one is being constructed off site. |
Frank Barber, the project’s lead construction manager, walks around the power station like a proud papa, showing where new equipment including the turbine will go. The whole mass of machinery when put together will stand 40 feet tall with much of that length submerged into the floor of the power station. |
“This is a work of art,” Barber said. |
“This is 150 tons of machinery that works with a variance of 5,000th of an inch,” said plant manager Allen. |
In addition, TVA is also replacing the transformers in the site switch yard. |
Barber said 70 workers are involved in the turbine project. A crane inside the powerhouse had to be refurbished to be of better use in the project. |
Allen said the one turbine will produce 49 megawatts of power, which will be up from 40 megawatts the plant has been producing. |
The project, which began in July, is expected to be finished next summer. |
Stephanie Callihan is the Vice President and General Manager for Entercom in Austin. She started her radio career as an assistant to an account executive and worked her way up to NSM, GSM, DOS and then finally market manager. Her colleagues says she is a true radio professional. |
iHeartMedia's Dave Carwile has worked in every position in radio sales and sales management over the past 23 years. He's been an AE, Team Leader, GSM, DOS, NSM, Market Manager, Market President, Regional Market President, and now Region President over 53 radio stations in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. C... |
Eric Mastel has taken what we are told was a struggling cluster for Cumulus and turned it into one of the company's top performers. You cannot do that without getting people to follow you into battle. |
Phil Zachary started his radio career on the air at WAAF in Boston. His 40-year journey in radio included positions as Program Director, Sales Manager, National Sales Manager, and GM/Market Manager. He took over the Entercom New England cluster in October 2013. And, according to one employee we spoke to, Zachary has le... |
Michael Dudding is the owner and General Manager of Mikadety Radio Corporation on Denison, Iowa, which he purchased in 1993. It's home to KDSN-AM and FM. Dudding is also on Radio Ink's 2016 Best Managers in Radio list, set to be released on October 24th. Those that nominated Dudding for our list said, "he is the licens... |
CBS Radio DFW is having one of its best years ever, with both ratings and revenue up nicely. At the helm is Market Manager Brian Purdy. According to people who work for him, Brian is more than a numbers manager, he truly cares about his employees. One of the ways he keeps his team motivated is by holding breakfasts or ... |
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LONDON (ICIS)--Covestro’s first-quarter net profit rose 37.6% year on year to €644m as strong foams and plastics pricing offset currency headwinds and a weaker performance from paints and coatings operations, the Germany-headquartered chemical major said on Thursday. |
Sales for the three months to March 2018 were up 5.4% year on year at €3.78bn, as a 1.7% decline in volumes were offset by a 14.3% increase in prices, the company said. |
First-quarter polyurethanes earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) rose 36.1% to €637m on the back of continued strong pricing for methyl di-p-phenylene isocyanate (MDI) and toluene di-isocyanate (TDI) due to supply tightness and production shutdowns. |
Polycarbonates EBITDA rose 30.6% over the same period to €303m on higher selling prices, while coatings, adhesives and specialties earnings fell 15% year on year to €136m on the back of lower sales, higher raw materials costs and currency headwinds, the company said. |
Some of the tightness seen in the European TDI market is expected to loosen following the anticipated restart of BASF’s flagship Ludwigshafen, Germany, TDI plant during the second quarter of 2018. |
Issues at the 300,000 tonne/year facility since its start-up in 2016 have been instrumental in maintaining supply tightness in the market and driving up pricing. |
Acute supply issues across many of Covestro’s core markets have buoyed the company’s performance over the last year, with 2017 net income rising 2.5 times to €2.01bn year on year. |
Outgoing CEO Patrick Thomas described the surge in TDI profits as “fly-up margins”, beyond the level of the profitability that can be reasonably be expected from a greenfield facility. |
TDI fly-up margins added €500m to group revenues in 2017, he said earlier this year, which will halve in 2018 on expectations of normalising prices in the second half of the year. |
Despite some anticipated supply slackening in key markets, the company is on track to deliver continued strong results in 2018, according to CCO and CEO-to-be Markus Steilemann, who projected that EBITDA in 2018 would be commensurate with 2017. |
“We got off to a successful start in the first quarter and are well on track for the whole year,” Steilemann said. |
“While maintaining core volumes on a high level, we’ve again significantly improved all other key figures compared to the excellent results of the prior-year quarter,” he added, noting that second-quarter results are likely to be stronger than in the previous year. |
The company completed the first tranche of its €1.5bn share buy-back programme during the quarter, with around 4.5m shares with a value of €400m repurchased, equivalent to 2.2% of the company’s capital stock. |
The second phase will commence soon, the company added. |
Better-than-expected pricing helped the company exceed equity chemical analysts’ EBITDA forecast, according to Swiss investment bank UBS, and the company remains an affordable investor target despite the sharp increase in its stock price since the firm split off from former parent Bayer in late 2015. |
“On our estimates, Covestro's shares remain one of the cheapest in the sector, trading on 2018E EV [enterprise value]/EBITDA of 5.1x [times],” UBS said in a note. |
The company’s shares were trading down nearly 3% from Wednesday’s close as of 12:00 London time, and have fallen by nearly €6 apiece since 20 April. |
Settling for a limited view of God and a mortal, despairing view of ourselves is wrong. It's right and natural to yearn for something better. And we can find what is ``better, higher, holier'' in an understanding of our true nature as God's wholly spiritual offspring. |
Experiencing more of the fullness of this spiritual birthright requires us to grow spiritually -- to look beyond a simply material view of existence. When we are willing to see something of man's true, sinless being, we are able to treat others more compassionately. And as we daily seek to know more about God, we begin... |
When we ``lift up [our] eyes'' to behold spiritual reality -- God's ever-present, imperishable abundance that sustains and satisfies us all -- I've found that we are blessed right here in practical, healing ways. We begin to see the fields that are ``white already to harvest,'' just as Jesus promised. |
*John 4:35. **Luke 11:13. The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 258. |
Over the past year or so, a Finnish factory owner has garnered more than 1.6 million YouTube subscribers by introducing them to the wonderful world of destroying things like golf balls, diamonds and even a piece of paper folded seven times (it’s damn near impossible to fold more than that, go try it) with a hydraulic p... |
More than 176 million views later, Lauri Vuohensilta is taking on the most outrageous challenge he’s ever encountered: Crushing Adamantium, the indestructible metal alloy fictionalized in Marvel comics and fused into the claws and skeleton of the X-Men character Wolverine. |
As you’ve probably worked out by now, it’s a promotional clip for the upcoming movie Logan, which arrives in theaters on March 3 – but it’s a clever and entertaining one, and it’s great to see a huge brand like Marvel team up with a fun niche channel to create something fun. |
Protip: Do not try this at home – unless, of course, you have spare hydraulic presses. |
Birmingham Mail editor Steve Dyson has given a spirited defence of Trinity Mirror Midlands’ radical re-organisation of its Birmingham, Coventry and weekly newspapers. |
Dyson explained the thinking behind the changes on Tuesday and has weathered some rather strong criticism in the form of mostly anonymous comments. |
The Birmingham Post & Mail and the Sunday Mercury are to have a merged reporting team writing to one converged web and print production desk, much like at Trinity’s Media Wales centre in Cardiff, home of the South Wales Echo. |
But, as a result of the changes, 65 jobs will go across Trinity Midlands and 300 staff will have to reapply for the changed roles. Incidentally, Post editor Marc Reeves says that many staff with changed jobs will be get more money. |
Dyson admitted it was “a sombre day indeed for me as an editor in having to announce changes that will require fewer journalistic staff”. |
Dyson’s response this afternoon is worth quoting at length: “I understand yours’ and others’ anger. I expected it…I’m under no illusion that some of the changes that are taking place are unpopular. And I realise some affected will need a target, (Fire away. It’s good for me soul). |
“What I’m focused on is the staff who want to develop their roles …those who want to the smartest media in the UK and those who want a future in UK journalism in 2009. |
On October 27, 1962, the captain of a Soviet submarine ordered a torpedo with a ten-kiloton nuclear warhead to be launched at a U.S. aircraft carrier. One man's decision prevented that order from being carried out—and his story is a cautionary tale about what could still happen in today's world. |
An article published on the website of the Arms Control Association, describes the sequence of events that nearly led to nuclear war. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a U.S. destroyer dropped depth charges to force a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine to surface, even though it was in international waters. The submarine ha... |
But, regulations dictated that the top three commanders had to agree before implementing the order—and one refused. His name was Vasili Arkhipov (photo, top). |
While the United Kingdom, the United States, and France have well developed command and control systems in place that guard against accidental launch or the captain taking matters into their own hands, it is worth it, for the sake of global security, to question whether other nations who deploy or seek to deploy nuclea... |
In the case of both China (which does deploy nuclear-armed submarines), India (which plans to deploy such submarines), and Israel (which is rumored to be deploying such submarines), control of nuclear weapons is split between military and civilian control, with the military in charge of delivery vehicles and the civili... |
If one considers that due to the range and depth of the patrol of a nuclear-armed submarine a technological glitch is not out of the range of possibility, and that such submarines are beginning to cruse through very troubled waters, the probability for very alarming scenarios increases. It is imperative for the interna... |
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A recent study found that most teens do not think critically about news stories they read online. |
Today’s teens have grown up online. They socialize online. They do homework online. And they definitely get their news online. But because young people are so comfortable with the internet, it often doesn’t occur to them to question the sources or motivations behind the stories they are reading—and passing along to the... |
Most middle school students in the study could not tell the difference between an ad and a news story, and most high schoolers did not question data that came from a political action committee. Even college students found highly partisan websites to be trustworthy just because they had a URL that ended in “.org”. “In e... |
Some of the pointers that Colglazier offers his students include: moving off the site to find more information about the site and/or the author’s motivations; looking past the first hits in a google search, even going so far as to look at the second or third page of results; and going beyond the “About Us” page on a we... |
Colglazier has tips for parents as well. He says its a good idea for parents to be “friends” with their kids on social media to see what stories they are sharing. He also suggested parents watch their teens as they search for something online and ask questions like, “Why did you click on that?” and “Do you trust this i... |
Colglazier shared some of his curriculum with teens nationwide in a recent Teen Vogue story. He joked that he hopes the story buys him “some street cred” when he passes out difficult assignments, but more seriously he would like his students to see the article as a model for expressing their own opinions about the topi... |
CLARKSTON, Mich. - Dec. 30, 2014 - PRLog -- Clarkston, Michigan - Clarkston Michigan Based US Small Business Lending, a leading online lender to small and mid-sized businesses that are seeking operational and growth funding, has announced that Clarkston, MI now has a dedicated lending source for businesses in the area ... |
"We have kicked off our new lending site with a very specific focus on companies located within the local community. The success of these companies is vital to us – as we are part of this community ourselves, and we want our neighborhood businesses to be long-term successes that enhance our community and add to the tax... |
"We realize that small business is vital to any community, and even to the nation itself, so we have taken on the challenge of making the difference in our area, and hope that other lenders will follow suit within their own communities." The company's new Clarkston website stands ready and able to process small busines... |
Hassan Salem (Unknown to Unknown): Salem was believed to be the head of AAH’s militia branch in 2012 when the group carried out a series of political assassinations. |
Ali Mussa Daqduq (2006 to Unknown): While not officially a member of AAH, Daqduq is a senior Hezbollah operative who is in charge of coordinating AAH and Hezbollah operations and often has served as a liaison between AAH and the Iranian government. He is also a senior advisor to Qais al-Khazali and was captured by the ... |
May 6, 2006: AAH shot down a British Lynx helicopter in Basra (5 Killed, unknown wounded). |
July 2006: Elements of AAH fought alongside Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli War (unknown casualties). |
October 10, 2006: AAH used mortars to attack American Forward Operating Base Falcon (unknown casualties). |
January 20, 2007: AAH kidnapped and killed five U.S. soldiers (5 killed, 0 wounded). |
January 20, 2007: AAH militants attacked and captured the Karbala Provincial Headquarters, killing five American soldiers in the process. The Khazali brothers and Ali Musa Daqduq, who had helped to plan and lead the attack, were captured by U.S. forces shortly after (5 dead, unknown wounded). |
May 29, 2007: AAH forces attacked the Iraqi Finance Ministry, capturing a British contractor named Peter Moore and his four bodyguards. AAH released Moore in December 2009 in exchange for the Iraqi Government’s release of Qais al-Khazali. However, by the time that Moore was released, AAH had killed his four bodyguards ... |
April 6, 2009: AAH claimed responsibility for a roadside improvised explosive device in the 'Azamiyah district of Baghdad, Iraq. The explosion wounded Iraqi civilians and caused an unknown amount of property damage (0 killed, 4 wounded). |
September 16, 2009: Following a meeting between United States Vice President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, AAH members in the Al Karkh district of Baghdad fired two rockets at the International (Green) Zone (no reported casualties). |
October 28, 2009: AAH allegedly fired four mortar rounds at the United States Consulate in Al Hillah, Babil, Iraq (no reported casualties). |
February 2010: AAH captured U.S. Department of Defense contractor Issa T. Salomi. Salomi was released in March 2010 in return for the release of four of their fighters who were held by the Iraqi government (no reported casualties). |
October 2011: AAH was responsible for a roadside bomb that killed the last American to die before the U.S. withdrawal in November 2011 (1 killed, 0 wounded). |
August 10, 2012: AAH forces captured a Sunni Mosque in the Al-Amin al-Thaniyah district of Baghdad, subsequently converting it to a Shiite mosque (unknown casualties). |
March 2014: According to a Human Rights Watch report, AAH killed 109 Sunni men in the villages surrounding Baghdad between March and April 2014 (unknown casualties). |
March 2014: According to a Human Rights Watch report, AAH killed 109 Sunni men in the villages surrounding Baghdad between March and April 2014 (109+ killed, unknown wounded). |
April 17, 2015: AAH killed Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri in mountains between Kirkuk and Tikrit. Douri was Saddam Hussein’s second in command and subsequently the leader of the Jaysh al-Rijal al-Tariq al-Naqshbandia (JRTN) (1+ killed, unknown wounded). |
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^ Sahran, Amre. “Confirmed: Izzat al-Douri, former Saddam Hussein deputy, Killed by Asa’ib al-Haq forces.” Iraqi News, 19 April 2015. Web. 30 July 2015. |
^ Jawad al-Tamimi. “Iraq: Who are Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq Islamists.” Islamist Gate, 6 March 2014. Web. 20 July 2015. |
^ Cochrane, Marisa. “Asaib Ahl al-Haq and the Khazali Special Groups Network.” Institute for the Study of War, 13 Jan. 2008. Web. 31 July 2015. |
^ Heras, Nicholas. “Iraqi Shi’a Militia Asa’ib Ahl al Haq Expands Operations to Syria.” The Jamestown Foundation, Terrorism Monitor 12(10), 15 May 2014. Web. 31 July 2015. |
^ Mamouri, Ali. “The Rise of ‘Cleric Militias’ in Iraq.” Al-Monitor (trans. T. Huffman), 23 July 2013. Web. 30 July 2015. |
^ “Hostage Peter Moore ‘surprised’ by Asaib Ahl al-Haq apology.” BBC News, 8 July 2014. Web. July 31 2015. |
^ Rayner, Gordon. “Peter Moore: US ‘arranged secret prisoner exchange.’” The Telegraph, 1 Jan 2010. Web. 31 July 2015. |
^ Watson, Julia. “Issa Salomi, U.S. Contractor, Recounts Iraq Kidnapping.” The Huffington Post, 25 May 2011. Web. 30 July 2015. |
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^ Chulov, Martin. “Controlled by Iran, the deadly militia recruiting Iraq’s men to die in Syria.” The Guardian. 12 March 2014. Web. 30 July 2015. |
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