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Today @NCCapitol (7/2): Familiar Medicaid, coal ash, budget items mark agenda
Posted July 2, 2014
Raleigh, N.C. — Good morning and welcome to Today @NCCapitol for Wednesday, July 2. Here's what's going on at the General Assembly and around state government.
NEXT VERSE, SAME AS THE FIRST: Lawmakers continue to find themselves deadlocked over the state budget, with the state House and Senate exchanging a few barbs Tuesday rather than plans on how to reach a compromise.
After senators on Monday swatted away a "mini-budget" endorsed by Gov. Pat McCrory and unanimously backed by the state House, House leaders shoved it right back to the Senate on Tuesday. Rather than bridging the gaps between the two chambers, the plan to raise teacher salaries while bypassing the thorny issue of Medicaid has stirred rancor between the two chambers.
"They simply failed to follow their own rules," House Rules Committee Chairman Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, told his colleagues Tuesday.
After the Senate returned the bill to the House "for further consideration," the House did likewise, insisting that the Senate give it a look.
"I don't know what we'll do with it," said Senate Rules Chairman Tom Apodca, R-Henderson. "I just might put it in the trash can."
In the middle is McCrory, who insisted Tuesday that senators should give the attempted compromise a vote.
"We shouldn't be playing parliamentary maneuvers to disallow senators from ... a transparent and open vote on a very, very important issue, especially for teachers and educators," McCrory told reporters following the monthly Council of State meeting.
With a stop-gap fix all but dead, attention once again returns to the main budget for the fiscal year that began Tuesday. While government operations won't stop because lawmakers passed a two-year budget last summer, key priorities like pay raises for teachers, reforming the Medicaid health insurance system for the poor and disabled and adding back some lost environmental positions won't happen unless the House and Senate can come to some understanding.
For his part, McCrory dolled out raises to a select group of 450 teachers Tuesday. Funded by federal Race to the Top money, the raises went to teachers who create professional development resources, lesson plans and classroom materials to help other teachers. The group makes up the new Governor's Teachers Network.
During the announcement, McCrory urged teachers to lobby on behalf of his budget proposal, specifically a boost in salaries for all teachers.
"We need you to get them to vote on it," he said.
Democrats, meanwhile, have decried the Republican leadership's handling of the budget.
There could be some movement on the budget Wednesday. The Senate members of the House-Senate conference committee are scheduled to hold an open meeting to roll our their latest budget proposal. Conference committee proceedings are generally closed to the public, but little has followed the typical script during this ongoing set of negotiations.
"This is an open meeting of the Senate Conferees to present an offer to the House. We want to extend an invitation to House conferees to attend this meeting and discuss our offer tomorrow at 10:00 AM in Room 544 of the Legislative Office Building," read a note distributed over the legislature's meeting notice system.
TODAY'S SCHEDULE: The General Assembly publishes a daily legislative calendar online. Here are items @NCCapitol will be keeping an eye on:
House Appropriations (8:30 a.m. | 643 LOB): The House plans to take up its proposal to reform the state's Medicaid health insurance system for the poor and disabled. The plan will be much the same as one rolled out in committee last month, but those who have seen copies of the draft bill to be heard Wednesday morning say a controversial provision that would have turned the physical health care over some mental health patients over to a LME/MCO – a group set up to manage mental health care – will be turned into a study.
House Environment (10 a.m. | 643 LOB): After reviewing the Senate's plan to clean up coal ash ponds around North Carolina, House members are due to take up their own version of a clean up. The draft proposed committee substitute – along with a formal explanation of that draft – circulated to committee members and others on Tuesday would still give Duke Energy more time to clean up 14 coal ash pits around the state. However, the new draft extends a moratorium during which the company could not ask rate payers to help with the cleanup costs to March 2017 and requires the company to act more quickly in the case a well is found to be contaminated by coal ash.
The measure is expected to be heard on the House floor Wednesday afternoon after a quick dip into the Finance Committee at 1 p.m.
Senate Budget Conferees (10 a.m. | 544 LOB): Senate budget conferees hold a open meeting to make their latest budget offer to House budget negotiators.
Black Caucus Presser (10:30 a.m. | News conference room): Members of North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus hold a news conference to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
House Finance (1 p.m. | 544 LOB): In addition to several items already on the calendar, the committee is expected to review the coal ash bill and send it to the House floor.
Senate Session (2 p.m. | Senate Chambers): As of Wednesday morning, only one relatively low-profile bill is on the Senate calendar.
House Session (2:30 p.m. | House Chambers): House leaders have said that, in addition to measures already on their calendar, the chamber plans to take up the coal ash bill that is moving through committees.
THE GOVERNOR: McCrory is in Wilmington. He is scheduled to take a health center tour and speak to a roundtable of health care providers regarding Medicaid around 1:30 p.m.
NCTRACKS: Among the items that may come up during that Medicaid roundtable is NCTracks, the troubled computer system that is designed to pay doctors, hospitals and others who provide services to Medicaid patients. One year after the troubled launch of North Carolina's new half-billion-dollar Medicaid billing system, the state's health department says the system is effectively paying medical providers for patient treatment. But not everyone is pleased with the progress of NCTracks, a complex technology project meant to streamline reimbursement to providers and make it easier for policy-makers to track Medicaid costs. Some doctors, clinics and other providers say they're still having trouble getting the money they're owed.
RECORDS: House lawmakers took a step back Tuesday from requiring cities and counties to remove law enforcement officers' personal information and addresses from online records. The measure, Senate Bill 78, was sponsored by Rep. Chris Malone, R-Wake. He argued that it would make it more difficult for criminals to find and threaten or harm court officials and officers who've arrested or prosecuted them. Although spurred by a local case in which a prosecutor's father was kidnapped, lawmakers ran into technical issues that made the current bill unworkable. Making it a study could help jump-start the measure next legislative session.
BEEP BEEP: State senators gave unanimous approval Tuesday to an omnibus bill authorizing interstate ramp meters, ads on ferries and sponsorships of Department of Transportation operations. The measure, House Bill 1025, would allow the DOT to sell ad space and even naming rights on ferries and at ferry terminals and sponsorships of rest stops and other DOT facilities or projects to raise revenue for ferries and maintenance work, respectively.
WORKPLACE PROTECTIONS: McCrory on Tuesday defended an executive order he signed this week that granted workplace protections against discrimination to a number of state workers but left out those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. | <urn:uuid:6070ca49-ba99-4658-9cf7-3aa8ada9e406> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wral.com/today-nccapitol-7-2-familiar-medicaid-coal-ash-and-budget-items-mark-today-s-agenda/13781717/ | 2017-01-21T18:08:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00409-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956835 | 1,645 |
On Friday, we were lucky to have a drama expert come in and run workshops with each class. The aim of these sessions was to introduce and explore the concept of “systems”, provoke thinking, develop understanding and to have fun.
“What did you notice about the different systems you made today?”
Following the drama session, we had a quick chat about what they had noticed. I was blown away by the depth of their understanding of systems that resulted from the different tasks.
On Monday I decided to try a new thinking routine “One word, phrase and sentence” to assess individual understanding of systems following Friday’s drama provocation. Once we had clarified the difference between a phrase and a sentence they got on with it. Wow! Drama is definitely a great way to explore concepts and build conceptual understanding!!
This is how a few different students responded to the thinking routine:
Phrase: parts rely on each other
Sentence: The parts rely on each other to make the system work.
Phrase:need parts to work other things
Sentence:A system needs parts to work with other parts to make something.
Phrase: connected parts
Sentence: All the parts connect and then they work all together.
Phrase: depending on each other
Sentence: Every part of a system relies on each other to be able to work properly.
I rarely use drama as I feel “unqualified” to run a session, but after observing and participating in this session I have realised the power that drama has for promoting learning. I also realised that not using drama is depriving learners who learn in this way of an opportunity to build conceptual understanding. Finally, I also realised that I don’t need to be an expert. All I need to be able to do is give clear instructions and hand over to the kids. | <urn:uuid:0d7d582b-6421-42e7-8888-8dd09a7c93cf> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://noticereflectact.wordpress.com/category/drama-promotes-learning/ | 2017-05-22T21:31:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607120.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522211031-20170522231031-00128.warc.gz | en | 0.965144 | 386 |
Dealing with high blood pressure? You’re not alone. In fact, 85 million Americans fight high blood pressure (hypertension) on a daily basis according to the American Heart Association. And it is not all genetics to blame. Diet and lifestyle are crucial factors to maintaining a healthy blood pressure that powers good blood circulation and heart performance. Check out these surprising but effective ways to lower blood pressure.
5 Unexpected Ways to Fight High Blood Pressure and natural ways to lower blood pressure
Perhaps you expect your doctor or a home health nurse to keep your blood pressure on track? Empower your own heart health by taking control of your blood pressure treatment with these helpful steps to fight High Blood Pressure.
- Understand why blood pressure is important
The blood flowing all through your body’s circulatory system has a pressure, or force, at which it pumps based on your heart’s makeup, function, and the rate of your heartbeat. It’s important to maintain a healthy blood pressure to make sure your body is getting the oxygen and energy it needs to subsist. When your blood pressure is too high, it puts added strain and pressure on the walls of your arteries and heart, which can lead to heart attacks and strokes.
- Buy a monitor
You can purchase a variety of blood pressure monitors at local pharmacies or online. A classic cuff with pump (or sphygmomanometer) can do the trick if you have a stethoscope and learn how to read the systolic (pressure in blood vessels when your heart beats) and diastolic (pressure in blood vessels when your heart rests) numbers – this chart from org helps. Or you can buy a digital arm or wrist cuff monitor. Just remember to follow the directions for use closely and test your monitor’s accuracy every 6 months or so against your doctor’s.
- Track your daily blood pressure
Track your blood pressure by checking it daily at roughly the same time of day and writing down the results. Bookmark changes to your diet or exercise routines along with your blood pressure recordings to pick up on positive changes you’re making that are helping lower blood pressure. Also use daily self-monitoring to recognize possible causes or spikes in your blood pressure like drinking coffee or talking to your mother-in-law on the phone.
Drink Beet Juice to Fight High Blood Pressure
Sweet, earthy beet juice is a popular choice of drinks that lower blood pressure. The velvety, beautifully purple beet contains naturally occurring nitrates that have been shown in multiple studies to ease blood pressure, sometimes even within a day of drinking a glass. As well, 1 serving size of beets (or beetroot) has over 10% of your daily value of potassium, an electrolyte vital to keeping your heart beating at a normal rhythm.
Find fresh beet juice at a juicery or whole foods store, or buy your own beetroot at the grocery and simply roast in the oven until tender – eat as is, or add to a fresh salad.
Try Yoga to Fight High Blood Pressure
Not only do the meditative and relaxing components of yoga help you de-stress and relieve back pain, but they have been proven to lower blood pressure as well. The gentle, flowing muscle stretches of yoga combined with deep breathing techniques are great for relieving anxiety that may be pushing up your blood pressure.
When your body’s own stress hormones elevate renin, an enzyme in your kidney that raises blood pressure, yoga and regular deep breathing can help reduce the levels of those stress hormones. Gentle yoga and beginner’s yoga classes can be found near you using sites like YogaFinde, or you can livestream instructional yoga videos on Youtube from the comfort of your own home to fight high blood pressure.
Stay Hydrated to lower blood pressure
Healthy hydration is one of the most important, but often overlooked, natural ways to lower blood pressure. Having trouble getting your full 8 glasses of water a day? This could have a serious impact on your blood pressure. Water essentially helps power your body’s blood flow, and when you are not properly hydrated, your body’s blood vessels, arteries, and muscles have to work that much harder to circulate blood and keep your organs and muscles working.
Your body also purposefully retains sodium if you are chronically dehydrated which in turn increases blood volume, and thus blood pressure. Incorporate simple water reminders into your daily schedule by doing things like setting alerts on your phone, drinking a glass of water each time you go to the restroom and with each meal.
You heard that right – giving back and helping others can help prevent hypertension, especially in older adults. A Carnegie Mellon University study published in Psycology and Aging revealed that adults over the age of 50 who routinely volunteered were less likely to develop hypertension than their non-volunteer counterparts.
Volunteering is known to have emotional and mental benefits like promoting positive moods and feelings, but its physical perks are just as exciting too. Volunteering can involve increased physical activity which helps lower blood pressure, as well as helps combat stress and anxiety which can contribute to hypertension as well.
Lowering high blood pressure takes work, but with daily, small steps towards a healthier lifestyle, you’ll be surprised how manageable it is. Helping others, remembering to drink water, self-monitoring, and trying new, proven activities like yoga are just a few simple ways to get started. The more you know and the more body-aware you become, the better equipped you are to tackle hypertension for good. | <urn:uuid:b6574a06-2e46-424e-a5ef-39cbf33bd005> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://www.healthlogus.com/ways-to-fight-high-blood-pressure/ | 2020-04-01T07:28:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370505550.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20200401065031-20200401095031-00287.warc.gz | en | 0.931005 | 1,144 |
When online shopping, how do you reduce your final costs? Must I spend every waking hour searching for deals? If you hate doing that, take heart. All you need to do is read the tips in the article below and start saving money with online shopping.
When buying online, search for coupon codes that could apply to your purchase. A quick look online should reveal a number of applicable codes. Do an Internet search for manufacturer’s coupons to help you get the best deal. This strategy can help you save a lot of money.
If you want the best deals, consider registering for the newsletters offered at your favorite stores. New customers often get the best deals. Anyone who remains loyal will likely get even more deals, especially if they sign up for a newsletter.
Read all product information before deciding to buy. You can be fooled by online photos of products. The products can look much smaller or bigger than they really are. Be sure that you read the product description so you will be sure of what you are really buying.
A lot of sites give you a discount if you have a coupon code. Just Google “(retailer) coupon code” to find them. They could offer free shipping or percentages off just by entering these codes that only require a couple minutes searching.
If you shop with a particular online site often, you need to think about registering with that site. This saves time during checkout and offers ways for you to save money. When you create an account, you can subscribe to emails that will alert you to deals before people who are not registered. Getting an account will also let you track down your orders as well as your returns more easily.
If you plan to shop online, be sure to use a secure connection every time. Those public Wi-Fi connections are being targeted by hackers so your personal details will not be safe for long on them.
Review the product page associated with the item you wish to purchase. Check the specific details and the item’s size to ensure you get what you really want. Be aware that the product pictures used on the website might not be indicative of the exact item you’re buying.
Every time you shop online, give your purchases a thorough review before you click “buy”. Pages may be set up oddly, causing you to be confused about the style, color, or size you want. Go over everything in your shopping cart carefully and make sure you are buying exactly what you think you are buying.
Some sites provide tools to help you shop smarter. You should ensure you are checking out online reviews from customers who personally bought the item from the retailer. These reviews can help you make the decision whether or not you should purchase the item.
If you have not noticed the padlock when shopping before, make a note to search for it on your next visit. This is a sign that this company has ensured the security of your information. It isn’t guaranteed to keep you safe, but it is a huge help.
Coupons.com is a great first stop before shopping. They have coupons for brands or online retailers, all of which will provide huge discounts. The thing to remember is to visit them first to get the coupon before you shop online.
Never pay full price online. Many shops put their merchandise on sale on specific days or on a certain schedule. If you strike at the perfect time you can save anywhere from ten to even fifty percent off the regular retail price. Postponing your purchase can yield great savings.
When you’re buying something online, see if the site of the manufacturer has any coupon codes or deals. It is important that you always check the deals page before an item is purchased. Remember that free shipping coupons can save you lots of money, especially if you make a large purchase.
If you are new to online auctions, make sure you understand how disputes are resolved before you make the purchase. Some websites will help work out disputes. Others play host, and they refuse to get involved when issues arise.
When ordering a costly item online, be safe and pay extra by using a carrier like UPS, FedEx or another reliable company. Paying for faster shipping and package insurance can be a very good investment. If you won’t be home when it’s supposed to arrive, ask your neighbor to get it for you.
Coupons.com is a great first stop before shopping. They have coupons for brands or online retailers, all of which will provide huge discounts. Just be sure to visit first so you will know what discounts you hold in your hand.
Look for HTTPS in the address bar before giving personal information or payment information. The S stands for Security. Additionally, many stores places a lock icon at the bottom of the webpage to tell you the site is secure.
Use various online shops. Each site will offer a different variety of items and services. You have the ability to narrow your search to find exactly what you want. Purchase the product from the most affordable store as long as this store has a good reputation. In addition, you may be able to receive free shipping on the product.
Join some online shopping forums to get the drop on the best deals of the web. They provide information on great deals all over the web. You may stumble across bargains that you never knew about, so make an effort to look into these forums.
There are discount websites you can visit to get the deals you want. But the old adage still applies, if it looks too good of a bargain then you are right to be suspicious. Checking into online reviews of the particular retailer will help you to decide if they are okay to do business with or not.
Know the taxes you will need to pay when you shop online. In many states, you don’t face sales tax for online purchases, unless the seller is based in the same state you are. If they’re based in your state, they have to charge sales tax by law. These costs are sometimes added at the billing stage.
Get in the habit of checking your bank account after any major online transaction or purchase. The amount that you are charged needs to be exactly what you spent. Check your credit card statements for any unauthorized charges. Contact the store initiating the charges immediately. In addition, call your bank and attempt to cancel the charges if you wish to have your order cancelled.
When the season ends, great deals appear online. Online stores are like actual stores. They seek to rid themselves of excess seasonal merchandise to make room for new seasonal merchandise. Because of this, the vendors will significantly decrease their prices.
Conduct research on online auction sites. These kinds of sites allow you to shop for items at a good price. Most of these auction sites also offer expedited shipping. You can even set up auto-bid for many of these sites. It’ll auto-bid up to a set price for you.
If you shop online, keep the data from credit cards safe. Make sure that every site you shop on is secure. To make sure you are on a secure site, look for the small padlock icon. This is typically located in the URL bar of the browser.
If you shop online and want to avoid having the email account you use frequently flooded with spam and other unwanted promotional material, then you should consider opening a separate email account specifically for online shopping. Depending in the privacy policies of the retailer, your email address may be sold to others, and they may send you a lot of correspondence. Just go to websites that offer free email so you can use them only when you’re shopping online.
When you look for products, pick stores that are on the first pages of search results. Stores on subsequent pages may not be as good. Stores that you’re familiar with are more likely to be trustworthy and provide a high level of customer service.
A lot of retailers online allow you to get something shipped from site to store. If your area features a store from an outfit also online, see if there’s free shipping to that store. Delivery cost are significant, so you’ll save money of you pick it up at the store rather getting it shipped to your home.
You are liable for taxes when shopping online. In many states, you don’t face sales tax for online purchases, unless the seller is based in the same state you are. If you are both in the same state, you have to pay sales tax on purchases. Be aware that these kinds of charges may not be immediately apparent when you place an online order; sales tax may only appear after you’ve been billed.
Many people are reluctant to shop online, fearing identity theft or fraud. However, technology is getting better and better, and your information should be safe on most major sites. If you’re still unsure, start by shopping at big-name companies that you already trust.
Do not buy anything from suspicious looking websites. There is no reason to assume they’re legit. If you notice misspellings or other oddities, keep on searching. There is nothing like buying something and realizing that you’ve fallen for a scam, so use good judgment and avoid unprofessional sites.
Before submitting your order, look to see if you can find a coupon. There are lots of websites that provide coupon codes for many retailers. Search the site’s name to see if there’;s any codes you can use for your order. This is a quick and painless way to save money you didn’t even know about.
Getting a great deal is good, but you should also purchase from a reputable retailer. There isn’t anything more aggravating than having an issue that the merchant takes a long time to correct. There are times when it is worth it to pay a slightly higher price to a retailer who has a reputation of good customer service.
Shopping ahead of time can help you avoid steep shipping costs. If you have lots of time available to wait for an item you arrive, you can use the cheapest shipping method. Giving yourself plenty of time allows you to choose less expensive or even free options.
Avoid sites that claim to give you a free iPhone or a similar expensive product if you sign up. You have probably run into free scams on social networks. If you receive an email about this type of promotional offer, make sure it comes from a reliable store.
Use a wish list to save items you want to buy for later. Not only will you be able to wait to buy an item later when you have a couple stacked up to save on shipping, you can also see if the price drops while you wait.
Purchase all your items at the same time to save money when shopping online. For instance, on Amazon, if your purchase totals at least $25, shipping is often included. Many merchants will waive the shipping charges if you order a certain amount in the same shopping session.
Sign up if you want to get special offers. It is free to join mailing lists. This lets you get email alerts when there are deals, promotions, and sales that go on and regular shoppers don’t know about. When you opt into a retailer mailing list, you will get special online savings.
If you find several items you would like to buy, build a wishlist to refer back to later. You can hold off making a purchase until you have several things on your list, which will save you lots of money on shipping and allow you to monitor potential price drops in the interim.
Be certain to do your research so you know you have found the best deal. There are several websites that compile excellent deals in one easy-to-find location; CyberMonday.com is one example. Another option is conducting Google searches on products you’re interested in and searching for the best deal possible.
Online shopping is scary at first, but this fear dissipates rather quickly. If you have doubts, pick websites from stores where you usually shop in the brick-and-mortar world. By doing this, you will be more knowledgeable on the store policies, allowing you to enjoy a better online shopping experience. As you become more confident shopping online, you can branch out to other stores.
Apply the tips in this article for a better online shopping experience. Use these tips to help you save lots of money. By working hard on utilizing these tips, you can save more money and enjoy a better online-shopping experience.
When you compare prices, always include the shipping costs. While you may find free shipping sometimes, other retailers will charge you a fee. See what your order really costs before deciding that it’s the best online deal on your items. Shipping costs a lot of money if you have to pay for it on everything. | <urn:uuid:03e3c656-0756-444a-850a-ee88a0ea11df> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | http://oj-auktion.dk/tag/shopping-experience/ | 2019-02-23T15:32:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249504746.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223142639-20190223164639-00153.warc.gz | en | 0.94514 | 2,622 |
My right hand is lot better, but I still can't work on gunpla. Meanwhile, a great tasty candy appeared in my mail! Elyn Hobby version of Kshatriya in 1/100 scale arrived just this Friday. It took Elyn Hobby a long time to release this one and there has been a lot of hype and gossips about it on the way. Those included a threat of legal action by Bandai — as a result this kit is available outside of China only via resellers. I got mine at Hobbymate.
Kshatriya is a rather unusual design in Gundam world; while the main body looks like overgrown Zaku it's the four gigantic trouts... err... wings (or binders, as they call them in-universe) that make this kit unique. Despite its bulk it's moving with grace through the space, and it's absolutely deadly to anyone who's foolish enough to stand in its way. I liked this design even before I saw it in action — and after seeing it in Gundam Unicorn I fell in love. Bandai made only HG 1/144 version of this kit, stating that making a MG 1/100 version would be problematic due to weight and high price of the completed kit. This of course didn't stop a number of companies from China to make a bootleg kits of varied quality. This guy is Elyn's first kit ever — so in a sense, it's a kit which will position their company on the market of unofficial kits.
I wasn't really silly enough to do proper unboxing photoshoot, as there are other sites who did that quite well. I just wanted to add some information and my opinion of the kit — hopefully it'll help you answer a question whether you want to buy it or not.
The packaging is extremely well done. Detailed up to the point of absurd, shiny and elegant. Good art and consistent design — for example the icons in the manual mimicking Bandai's. Pop-out lettering, color inset in the box, full color manual, all of it adds up to a lot of initial bling.
All of the parts arrive in trays, already cut from the sprues. Truth be told, it's more of a gimmick than anything else. Initially I thought that this kind of packaging means that they've used some extra post-processing to get rid of the pesky nub marks. In reality, there's no magic — it is injection molding, and someone cut out the parts from sprues for you. As a result you still need to deal with nub marks, and yes, you should expect spending significant amount of time on cleanup. Furthermore, the tray packaging is... fancy, but annoying. Screwing translucent covers in is one thing, but some of the parts are very small and light — and will happily fly off their trays if you tilt the tray or take of the cover too fast. As a result you have to be really careful when handling those trays. This will be a PITA during the assembly... don't have any idea yet how to handle those parts without trays taking up entire working space. If you decide to get the kit, be very careful with handing those plates. Keep them straight and flat and don't apply too much force when taking off the cover, or you'll be picking your parts from all over the floor.
And on a separate note: seeing those uneven cut marks,and remembering how long does it take to remove the parts on your own... It makes you painfully aware that a worker on low wage slaved to package it up for you :|
Now, a lot of people were wondering about quality of the kit. It's a curious thing; there's definitely a bit of step down once you're through this impressive packaging. I've mentioned nub marks; as you can see below, some of the surfaces have some production marks too. In my opinion, they're not something that should put you off; just keep in mind that you'll need to spend some time cleaning them up. Most of the surfaces are OK, and there didn't seem to be any brittleness to the plastic. If you plan to paint it, you don't need to worry at all, as primer + paint will smooth things out. If you don't plan to paint it... well, it depends on how easily annoyed are you.
Right now, my opinion about the quality is "acceptable". You can clearly tell it's not Bandai-quality, but it's not that much worse. Of course there might be design problems that will become annoying during the assembly... but I can't tell any of that yet.
Hobbymate did a quality check before sending the kit to me. I've done my own sweep through the tray and found exactly one misplaced part. Instead of getting 4 left and 4 right H18 parts, I got 5 left and 3 right. I thought that I'm missing more parts, but upon closer inspection it turned out that they simply moved around into other slots on the tray, or popped completely out of the tray during unboxing. Which drives the point I've made earlier home again: you need to be careful around those trays.
The manual is shiny, of course. Some art, a rundown of parts, and assembly, everything in color. They don't seem to rotate the assembled pieces in any way in the instruction, which immediately prompts me to wonder how much problems this will cause. Oh well.
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Emmys Certify CBS's Tiffany-Net Comeback
By Paige Albiniak -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/28/2003 8:00:00 PM
When Everybody Loves Raymond premiered in 1996, executive producer Phil Rosenthal was chided for making a sitcom that was so, well, so much like a sitcom, a throwback to the days when comedy on television was not necessarily sexy, bawdy or exclusively populated by swinging, single twentysomethings.
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|Source: Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
*Totals comprise the Creative Awards, which were handed out prior to the broadcast, and the prime time awards.
It may have sounded radically retro, but Raymond, introduced in the first full year that Leslie Moonves controlled the network's prime time schedule, was crucial. He spent years chiding critics for overlooking it even as viewers were finding it. Eventually, though, that thoroughly normal sitcom and a weird little show named Survivor became the cornerstones in rebuilding the beaten-down and Tisched-out CBS.
Two Sundays ago, Moonves finally witnessed what might be the culmination of a long journey: His network won seven major prime time Emmys. (The nearly iconic HBO won just one more than that.)
"What we saw with CBS for the most part was recognition of shows that have been on the air for a while," says Bill Carroll, vice president of programming at Katz Television Group. "That underscores the fact that the network has been able to rebuild and reestablish its credibility as the Tiffany network. The consensus, and the Emmys are reflective of that, is that CBS has had a renaissance," he added.
"Eight years ago, CBS had no respect. It was considered a network that was not even a competitor," Moonves said. "But once you achieve the branding of a quality network and establish yourself as a quality place to be, that helps with the perception of all your shows. That's certainly helped HBO over the years."
Said Chris Ender, CBS spokesman, "It's been a sort of domino effect. First we got the viewers, then the advertisers, and now the Emmys."
CBS was the top network among viewers last season, taking the crown from NBC, which won in 2002 with help from the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The CBS victory was partly fueled by CSI: CrimeScene Investigation, TV's most-watched show, with a weekly average of 26.2 million viewers.
The turnaround also helped CBS haul in $3 billion in upfront advertising commitments, still $1.1 billion behind NBC and $400 million behind ABC, networks that cater to the advertiser-friendly adult 18-49 demographic, in which CBS is not so strong.
Still, on Emmy night, Rosenthal and Raymond star Ray Romano were coy about whether the show would be back for a ninth season next year, saying a decision will be made in January.
But aside from salary disputes, is there a more buzzless show than Raymond? Even Moonves seems inclined to defend it, despite its proved success. "Raymond's not the hippest or the coolest show on TV, but it may be the funniest," he said after Emmy night. "It's almost like people resisted going to the show, but, once they got there, they really liked it."
CBS's renaissance continued with Survivor in summer 2000.
Like much of the rest of the world at the time, Moonves thought the show was the craziest idea he had ever heard. "The first two times I heard it pitched to me, I almost threw [CBS's head of alternative programming] Ghen Maynard out of my office. I told him, 'This is CBS; this isn't some cable network.' But Ghen had the fortitude to keep pushing me."
Survivor—which was beaten out of Emmy's first-ever award for best reality program by another CBS reality show, The Amazing Race—went on to revitalize CBS, with 58 million people tuning into the finale of that first go-round of the now veteran reality show.
That fall, CBS premiered CSI, and it was an instant hit on Friday nights. Moonves and his team saw an opening, and that spring pitted Survivor against NBC powerhouse Friends at 8 p.m. ET and CSI against NBC's Will & Grace at 9 p.m. Both shows survived and thrived in the tough time slots.
Last fall, CBS added Without a Trace at 10 p.m. and, by last winter, began beating NBC on the night, sometimes even in the key 18-49 demographic, making it the first time in years anyone had touched NBC's Must-See Thursday.
CSI spinoff CSI: Miami made CBS's Monday unbeatable, and suddenly the network was winning weeks and dominating in viewers.
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It’s clear. Samsung is killing its own J-series and replacing it with new A-series. There’s a continuous launch of these A-series in the form of Galaxy A10, A20, A30, A40, A50 and now A80. And there are plans for filling up the rest too.
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Running on Android Pie with its One UI, it’s processed by Snapdragon’s 730G SoC and Adreno’s 618 GPU.
Memory stuff includes an 8GB of RAM with 128GB of ROM and is not expandable through MicroSD slots! Has a 3700mAh battery with 25W support for fast charging and is equipped with Dolby Atmos features for enhanced audio output.
Ending with the cameras, the most interesting part of the phone:
A80 has a triple rear setup of 48MP (f/2.0) as the primary lens, an 8MP (f/2.2) for ultra-wide imaging and a TOF 3D lens. The mechanism if this camera system is interesting as it has only the rear setup which rotates to serve as a front camera too.
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My husband never learned to swim. The main reason, he says, is because there was no swimming pool where he lived, a small town in Iowa. And he says he almost drowned in a neighbor’s pond when he got tangled in some undergrowth. His fear of water was so intense that he insisted that all of our children learn how to swim.
I can remember as a kid taking swimming lessons from the American Red Cross. I don’t remember the lessons, but I remember carrying a card stating that I was a junior lifesaver. Thank God I never had to save anyone.
Swimming is not like riding a bike. Once in a pool, it DOESN’T come back to me. Floating is the only thing I can do well. When our kids were young, we kept our dirty little secret from them. I’d always make excuses as to why Dad wasn’t swimming. And for a while they bought it. When they first started lessons, they wanted to race Mom. “Ready, set, go” I’d say, and we’d race to the end of the pool. I’d let them win by just a fraction and they’d be delighted that they had beaten me. By the time they were 9 or 10 I wasn’t faking it, they did beat me.
Then our kids took up a crusade to teach us to swim. First, they started with dear old Dad. One excuse he used was that he couldn’t see without his glasses and that was why he had never put his head under water. The kids took up a collection and presented him with a pair of prescription goggles for his birthday. You should have seen his face when he opened his gift. He looked like a cornered mouse.
After weeks of working with him, my husband was able to swim across the pool, not the length of the pool, mind you, the 20 feet across. He was never going to improve, so they turned their attention to me.
Before my lesson, I was asked to show my stroke. Confidently, I got in my racer stance, which is tough when your holding your nose, and dove into the pool. Actually, it was more like a belly flop. Then I began beating the water with my arms, moving my head from side to side. Minutes (several) later I completed one lap and gasped my first breathe. The kids were smirking, but none dared to laugh.
“Just as I thought,” one of them shouted. “You don’t know how to breathe.”
Yes I do. I just can’t do it when I swim.
“And you’re pounding the water, you need to relax your fist,” another offered.
“OK,” the oldest daughter said. “We need to begin at the beginning.”
And for the next hour, several of my children tried to help “poor Mom.”
We began with blowing bubbles. In addition to feeling stupid, I didn’t see the point.
“When your head is under the water you should blow out. And then when your head comes out, you take a breath in,” she said.
I thought it was much easier just to hold my breath, but I said nothing.
Next we worked on my “stroke.” Standing in shallow water, I bent over and worked on cupping my hands as I was instructed. Then we went to the side of the pool and, hanging on to the edge, I learned the proper way to kick.
The problem came when I tried to put it all together. The last thing I was told was to relax. If I concentrated on breathing, I forgot to move my arms. Once I got the arms going I didn’t kick. The result was me moving my arms and head but going nowhere.
I wanted to learn. But the more I concentrated the worse it got. After 15 minutes, I was so tense I had a raging headache. I think I heard one of my kids say something about “she can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.”
Every summer, one or more of the kids would try to give me a refresher course. And every summer they’d give up in defeat (and disgust). Then, thank God, they started having kids and the mission to teach Mom was abandoned.
Today I have 12 grandkids who swim like fish and two guppies who are well on their way to join the ranks of their cousins.
The tiny ones look like baby buoys as they bob in the water with their water wings. Thank goodness they don’t make them for adults or I think Papa would have gotten a pair for his latest birthday.
Now I’m content to sit on the sidelines and watch as they show me the butterfly or the breaststroke. Occasionally, I will be asked to join them in the pool. Gladly, I hold my nose with one hand and jump in.
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If you follow my blog, you know my male cat, Mack, just loves a pink chenille bed I brought home over a year ago. He doesn't care that it is pink. It is just a warm, soft circle of snuggle for him.
Just this weekend I discovered just how much he loves his pink bed and how he seems to think I am not doing a good enough job keeping it clean. Apparently he has some elevated cat view of how clean clean really is.
Once a week I take the monster (aka vacuum) out of the closet and take extra care to remove cat hair out of the bed. I even plump up the cushion to make it even more comfortable for him.
Well why then do I think Mack does not like my cleaning job?
I caught him giving his pink bed a bath. He was thoughtfully cleaning the inside walls of his bed. Dragging his raspy cat tongue across the chenille. Yup - it was making a nerve shuttering gross sound.
Try as I might to convince him the bed was clean and please could he stop, he just closed his kitty eyes and went right on with his methodical task.
My skin shuttered at sound produced by the barbs on his tongue catching on the bed's material.
He was ignoring my pleas and commands to stop, forcing me to extricate him from his bed just to save my sanity from that horrible sound. Not to mention the thought of cat spit wet chenille.
I moved him to the scratch post, all the while telling him what a good boy he was.
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This is copied from my Reddit post. I've noticed since the carrier rework has been announced that there are a few posts floating around asking if the Japanese hybrids could possibly be coming soon. The prospect of them being added using the new CV UI concerns me.. The Ships So first of all, I'd like to draw attention to the fact that these ships didn't have flight decks. They couldn't launch and retrieve planes like real CVs. The Tone-class were designed as scout cruisers and had a compliment of 6 float planes. Mogami post-refit carried 11 float planes. The Ise-class post-refit could carry 22, 11 float planes(scouts) and 11 D4Y dive bombers. In was actually surprised to find out they carried the D4Ys, because since these were not float planes, they would have to return to a real aircraft carrier or a land base to rearm, and the ship's aircraft compliment would be cut in half until they returned to port and got new planes loaded. My Concern Let me go ahead and say I would love to see these ships in the game. They are very unique ships that definitely deserve some recognition and I think people would enjoy them. However, let's not forget these are still surface ships. This game can get pretty intense at times and commanders that don't have their full attention on what is going on around them, they could suffer a "paddlin'." Therefore, coupling surface ship action with the new CV UI could lead to a few different problems. Players will focus too much on controlling the aircraft, in which their ship strays into enemy fire and is lost, thus they also lose control of the planes they were controlling(pending changes to the current effect of losing a ship with planes). Players will focus mostly on their ship, in which the planes are either used ineffectively of not at all. This would be the least of all evils as far as I can tell. Players treat the ship like a CV, sail it way out of the way of danger, where it can't contribute it's main armament to the battle and the team effectively starts a ship down. My Solution My proposal would be to create a new, "advanced" scout plane consumable, that sends out 6 or so planes in an arc of 45-60 degrees, the increments between the flights spaced evenly. As far as picking the direction the planes search, an arc similar to that of the torpedo indicator should be easy enough. To make it simpler, but less intuitive imo, would be to have them search with the centerline being the heading of the ship. Search distance could change depending on tier to make it reasonable, I feel 15 to 20 km should be a good area to start. Once they reach the limit of their searches, they return. Irl, searchers tended to avoid conflict with other planes or AA fire, so changing some stat to make them harder targets to shoot down is reasonable to me, though I don't think they should be invulnerable. To me, this is something unique that gives these ships the chance to show that they are unique without detracting from their gameplay as surface ships, which SHOULD be their primary focus. What about Ise's larger compliment? This is a bit more challenging to work around. She was intended to carry actual dive bombers, so I think in game she should be able to do that also. My idea is something similar to the scout function, but launch a single flight of 3-5 planes, with the ability to have 2-3 flights sent out successively without need for a cooldown. If the planes come within a certain distance of an enemy ship, such as a 3km radius, the planes automatically attack. Since it is an auto attack, players shouldn't be cheated by a large drop spread, so I think at least one to two hits should be guaranteed each time, with a fairly high chance to cause a fire. This can allow a player with good timing to get DoT damage on a target. I want to stress that the planes on these ships should be secondary in terms of their use. Players need to focus on causing damage with gunfire and torpedoes if carried, not worrying about juggling being a surface warship and a aircraft carrier. Please feel free to discuss this with me. | <urn:uuid:b855bfc1-078e-4205-beb7-d309e56285a8> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://forum.worldofwarships.com/tags/tone/ | 2020-08-14T05:51:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439739177.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20200814040920-20200814070920-00104.warc.gz | en | 0.978039 | 893 |
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Minimum Order & Delivery
ThaiCrate delivers to Delhi, Noida & Gurgaon. The minimum order value is Rs 500/-. Delivery charges vary from Rs 50 to Rs 200 for Noida & Gurgaon.
Delivery within Delhi in 45 minutes, Noida and Gurgaon up to 90 minutes.
5 PM to 11 PM Monday to Saturday
12 noon to 11 PM on Sunday
ThaiCrate.in is all about quick delivery, easy eating and hassle free storage.
Must Try: Clear Bean Curd Soup, Thai Green Curry, Yellow Curry Prawn, Fried Rice Chicken
- ThaiCrate is a Delivery Only Option.
- They provide on-site cooking with ‘chefs on site’ for parties with over 50 people
- You can order via phone or online at their site here.
- The ingredients are exotic and each bite has an authentic Thai Taste.
- It’s convenient, it’s hassle free and it’s worth it!
I always believe that let the experts do their work and one should spend the time while eating and enjoying the food. And if awesomeness can arrive at home, why not? Ditch that traffic and parking mess and let authentic flavours reach your home. Call a friend or surprise your mom with Thai Food this time because it takes two to tango! And no food is enjoyed alone.
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* Obama says law would complicate relations with Uganda
* U.S. sends more than $400 million a year to Uganda
* Homosexuality a taboo in many African countries
By Elias Biryabarema
KAMPALA, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Uganda on Tuesday dismissed U.S. president Barack Obama's call to its leader Yoweri Museveni not to sign an anti-homosexuality law, saying the U.S. was trying to blackmail the east African country.
On Sunday, two days after President Museveni said he would sign the law widely criticised abroad as harsh and unjust, Obama warned that would complicate United States relations with Uganda and be a "step backward for all Ugandans."
A senior Obama administration official said Washington - a major aid donor sending more than $400 million a year - would review U.S. relations with Uganda, a key regional ally in the fight against Islamic extremism in Somalia.
But Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo said aid should not be tied to Uganda's stand on homosexuality.
"We don't like to blackmail others. It's very dishonest, very irresponsible and unfriendly of persons to attach behaviour of another community to their sharing resources," Lokodo told Reuters TV in Kampala.
Homosexuality is taboo in many African countries. It is illegal in 37 nations on the continent and activists say that few Africans gays dare to live their sexuality openly, fearing imprisonment, violence and loss of their jobs.
In one of those countries, Gambia, President Yahya Jammeh called homosexuals "vermin" on Tuesday and said his government would fight them like malaria-causing mosquitoes.
RIGHT TO MARRY MICHELLE
Museveni has not yet said when he plans to sign the law.
The anti-gay bill was introduced in 2009 and initially proposed a death sentence for homosexual acts, but was amended to prescribe jail terms including life in jail for what it called aggravated homosexuality.
That category includes gay sex with a minor, where the victim is infected with HIV and where the victim is vulnerable such as a disabled person.
Lokodo said that were he to meet Obama, he would tell him that he had made the right choice in marrying a woman.
"I would tell him point-blank that he chose the right direction and this direction was to marry Michelle," he said.
"They have produced children, why does he encourage and promote others, men and women of same sex, to live together and have no offspring like him?"
Obama, a Democrat who has lobbied to expand rights for gay Americans and supports same-sex marriage, and has urged African nations to end discrimination against homosexuals.
In a statement, UNAIDS, the United Nation's agency on HIV/AIDS, also warned that the law would make more gay people shun HIV testing and treatment when faced with prosecution or jail. (Editing by James Macharia and Tom Heneghan) | <urn:uuid:55543cb8-b266-47e9-a8d1-234b6fb06c01> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://news.trust.org/item/20140218191418-w99go/?view=quickview | 2017-01-18T06:05:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280239.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00505-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973128 | 609 |
Egyptian security forces had got information of an imminent attack several days before Saturday's devastating blast in Sharm el-Sheikh that left 88 dead. But they believed casinos would be targeted, so security was increased around those sites, not hotels.
The officials wouldn't say where the tip came from but said headquarters in Cairo told security forces in Sharm el-Sheikh to be on alert and to step up measures around key locations. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the information wasn't authorized for release, Detroit Free Press reports.
One bomber hit the Ghazala Gardens reception area, leveling the lobby. A second headed for another hotel but got caught in traffic and blew up before reaching the target. A third explosive device went off minutes after the Ghazala blast at the entrance to a beach promenade. As many as 88 people were killed in all.
Egyptian officials said five Pakistanis wanted for questioning had nothing to do with the attacks and that it appeared the bombings were carried out by Egyptians.
"No Pakistani national was involved in the terrorist attacks that rocked Sharm el-Sheik late last Saturday," the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad was quoted as saying by CTV.
Meanwhile, an Egyptian man connected to Islamic militants has been identified as one of the suicide bombers in Saturday's attacks, after police had earlier suspected a group of Pakistani men.
An anonymous police source said Youssef Badran was responsible for the truck bomb that destroyed the Ghazala Gardens Hotel, according to the Associated Press. Badran was identified using DNA tests.
Officials say they are questioning Badran's family to find his associates.
There has so far been no direct link between the wanted men and Saturday's three pre-dawn bombings, which killed up to 88 people.
At least 140 people have been arrested for questioning, and some are believed to have been released.
Investigators are pursuing a possible connection to October's bombings in two Sinai resorts farther north, Taba and Ras Shitan, that killed 34 people, including many Israelis.
Islamic militants have frequently attacked Egypt's tourism centres in the past, targeting a $6.6-billion industry, a crucial source of government revenue. However, the culprits were always domestic groups opposed to Mr. Mubarak's regime, which is seen as pro-American and which has cracked down hard on Islamist groups.
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Dr. Sandra Signorelli Coelho initially had aspirations to become a nun. Under the instruction of her parents, she was informed to wait until she reached adulthood to finish college and then consider if that particular path was still right for her. Marrying her late husband Walter in 1964, Dr. Coelho was inspired by his profession as a teacher, as well as her parents’ roles in the educational realm. Between their influences, as well as her past experiences babysitting, she decided that teaching would become her calling.
At the inception of her career in 1962, Dr. Coelho was a teacher for the Torrington Board of Education for three years before becoming a K-12 technical and mathematics coordinator at the East Windsor Board of Education, a position she held for the subsequent 37 years. Retiring from that role in 2002, she then became a consultant for the Connecticut Academy, Enfield Town Hall and Project to Improve Mastery in Mathematics and Science (PIMMS) at Wesleyan University between 2003 and 2008, for which she was also an associate director of mathematics for four years and a presidential advisory committee advisor at Addison-Wasley Connect Mathematics Services for one year.
Dr. Coelho notably earned a PhD from Richmonds University in 2006. Alongside her primary endeavors, she is a past Assistive Technical Task Force member of the State of Connecticut, former presenter for C.A.B.E. and past president of the Connecticut Council of Leaders of Mathematics. Civically involved as well, she is a past chair of the East Windsor Technical Committee and former chair of the town-wide curriculum committee for East Windsor, Connecticut.
As a testament to her success, Dr. Coelho was nominated for the Golden Apple Award in 1998 and was named an Apple Computer Scholar in 1996. In the late 1980s, she was also recognized as a PIMMS fellow at Wesleyan University. However, the proudest moments of her career were influencing her students in a positive manner. She recalls one particular moment when a former student, with two children of his own, approached her to recognize her for her influence on him growing up. Additionally, she was praised by a former female student who wrote a book titled “Crash Course: AP Computer Science Principles,” who in a note to Dr. Coelho wrote, “Thank you for encouraging me to be better than I thought was possible.”
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I have finished painting my newest work and posted it on my website.
I hope that everyone likes it…
Anyway, it is now Friday! This means I have two whole days following tonight to work more on my Portfolio- ahh, the never-ending challenge!
I am excited because I may be getting a bit of money from some work that may afford me a spot on childrenillustrator.com… which in turn, hopefully, will get me more work, and possibly, more people visiting my website.
In any case, I am excited, too, because I have been seeing so many inspiring pieces on Flickr and JacketFlap. I really appreciate the Art Community… these websites are so helpful… I wonder how illustration worked before the computer?? I’m sure it was much more challenging and daunting for artists wanting to get their foot in the door. | <urn:uuid:6726213e-f08a-4551-8045-5bcc8099b504> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://maiskemble.com/2009/03/27/its-painted/?replytocom=47 | 2021-12-05T17:37:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363215.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20211205160950-20211205190950-00444.warc.gz | en | 0.968146 | 184 |
Canada - Chile Free Trade Agreement
Second Additional Protocol to the Free Trade Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Republic of Chile
The Government of Canada and the Government of the Republic of Chile ("the Parties");
- Considering that the Parties signed a Free Trade Agreement on December 5, 1996, the fundamental objective of which is to establish a free trade zone, gradually lowering their tariffs in order to facilitate the movement of goods and services between their territories; and
- In view of the Government of Chile’s adoption of a safeguard measure with respect to wheat imports, and since Chapter F of the Free Trade Agreement requires that when a safeguard measure is applied, mutually agreed upon trade liberalizing compensation must be granted in the form of concessions having substantially equivalent effect upon commerce;
- Have agreed as follows:
To eliminate from Chile’s Tariff Reduction Schedule the following goods identified according to the tariff classification established in the same Annex:
0713.10 (dry peas and dry beans);
2004.10 (potatoes); and
2309.10 (pet foods).
Accordingly, importations of originating goods from Canada corresponding to the tariff classifications listed above shall be exempt from duties upon entry into force of this Protocol.
The present Protocol shall constitute an Implementation Agreement under the Free Trade Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Republic of Chile, and shall enter into force after the last notification in which one of the Parties communicates to the other, via diplomatic Note, fulfillment of its internal requirements for such entry into force, but no later than November 1, 2001.
In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorized by their respective governments, have signed this Protocol.
Done in two original copies in Ottawa, this 25th day of October 2001, in the English, French and Spanish languages, each version being equally authentic.
Pierre S. Pettigrew
For the Government of Canada
Don Alvaro Zuniga Benavides
For the Government of the Republic of Chile
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The Washtenaw County Health Department launched an “All Are Welcome Here” campaign to make sure everyone knows it is safe to walk through our doors and participate in our many public health services. Messaging in seven languages has been put up throughout our buildings to affirm that all are welcome.
“Our programs and services are available to everyone in Washtenaw County, regardless of immigration status, language, race, ethnicity, sexuality, or gender identity,” says Ellen Rabinowitz, health officer at the health department. “It would be devastating to the health of our entire community if individuals were afraid to seek services or participate in prevention or protection programs.”
The Washtenaw County Health Department’s mission is to assure, in partnership with the community, a healthy community in which every resident enjoys the best possible state of health and well-being. This goal is impossible to reach if we are unable to serve every member of the Washtenaw County community, especially those who are most marginalized. | <urn:uuid:78532945-e6a0-4965-8eff-135c9af12be3> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.washtenaw.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=145&ARC=269 | 2023-02-09T05:21:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764501407.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20230209045525-20230209075525-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.969241 | 225 |
Today Aimee from It's Overflowing is guest posting here at 52 Mantels to share with you her Autumn Whimsical-Nature Themed Mantel! I am so honored to have her here! Aimee and her hubby (the man behind her incredible photographs!) are in the process of remodeling their mid century ranch style home. If you aren't following her blog, do so!! Not only is she a supermom extraordinaire, she's also a baker, chandelier restorer, trash to treasure maker and savvy home renovator. She gave her pink fireplace a new life with inspiration and a little paint and I'm sure that gave a lot of people the courage to try it out on their own time-warped fireplaces! Basically, Aimee's blog is truly overflowing with know-how, vision and inspiration. And, then mix in a whole lot of love!
Here she is:
Thank you so much Emily for letting me Guest Post here at 52 Mantels, where every Monday there's a wonderful new mantel inspiration ~ and lots of other projects all week long!!! I'm Aimee, from It's Overflowing-- mommy to three sweet B's and married to my studly Photographer. We're remodeling our 1950s original rancher and we'd love for you to join us each day as we share a little more about our DIY adventures.
I was so excited when Emily asked me to share my Fall Mantel on her blog!!! Now that the crisp wind has finally hit and apple crisp is baking in my oven! It is officially Autumn --- I have the mantel to prove it! If you've visited my blog before, you know that my girlie girl -- little B and I totally love ALL things birds! She chose to study,Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day for science this year and her passion seems to be growing! Little B's been asking for a pet bird for quite some time, but cleaning the fish bowl and keeping the dog bowl full is my limit! Instead we choose to accessorize accordingly!
A touch of feather, especially of the Peacock variety are interspersed throughout our home! Wreath, Tablescape, Mantel...you get the idea!!! After all, filling your home with the things that you love is what makes your home warm and inviting!
Beautiful iridescent peacock eye feathers is like eye candy! I love the brilliant teals, emeralds and golds! They're just so whimsical!
This is a vase I found on Potterybarn clearance for $8ish several months ago. I dressed it up by placing a dot of hot glue at the top and attaching jute string to the glue and then wrapping and then continuing with another loop around the vase. I didn't glue more then a row at a time because the glue dries so quickly. I continued the jute until I felt the vase had the perfect amount of accent! So Simple!
This little bird, was found long ago at a garage sale with a price tag of 25 cents. He is one of my favorite pieces and is perhaps partially responsible for my slight obsession with birds!
As we were pulling out of the farm where we'd taken our pumpkin patch pictures last month, I begged and pleaded for my Photographer (my hubby) to turn around and pull over! I had instantly fallen in love with the fence (pictured above) and HAD to take a picture of my three sweet B's with it!! Compliments my Autumn Whimsical-Nature themed mantel perfectly!
The antlers are actually from my neighbor's house. Her hubby is a hunter and as I watched my kids riding their bikes up and down the street the other day, I'm surprised that a car didn't hit one of my kids because I could hardly keep my eyes off of the pile of antlers that my neighbor had left on his driveway near the garage where he'd been fiddling with them earlier. Guess what's #1 on my Christmas Wishlist!?!? Yep, ANTLERS and the great thing is my Photographer (hubby) has a connection and I think I'm going to get some!!!
This boa was in the newly revamped fabric section at my local Walmart. I was impressed, six feet of a thin-ish boa for a $1something! My mind is twirling around all the possibilities for future uses, but for now, my dog is looking GREAT!
There you have it, an Autumn Whimsical-Nature themed mantel from It's Overflowing! When you come visit me, would you pretty please leave me a comment with a link so I can visit your Autumn Mantels, too!?! I hope you'll follow along as we update you daily on our DIY adventures!
Thanks, Emily for letting me share some of my ideas with your readers as they start warming their home for this chilly weather!!!
Thanks, Aimee! I love how your Autumn-Whimsical Nature Themed Mantel turned out! Peacock feathers? Antlers? Birds? Yes, please! | <urn:uuid:4c2e4abf-f73f-4551-ac8a-7b737a41c19c> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://www.52mantels.com/2011/11/guest-mantel-its-overflowing.html | 2017-02-24T17:09:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171629.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00500-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967619 | 1,055 |
Bridge of Sighs – Frank McNally on the contrasting role of two Dubliners in an infamous battle of the second World War
Cornelius Ryan: launched a phrase still used whenever people overreach themselves with disastrous results: “a bridge too far”
It’s 75 years ago this week since the battle that launched a phrase still used whenever people overreach themselves with disastrous results: “a bridge too far”. The expression was first uttered by Frederick Browning, the British officer usually blamed for the debacle at Arnhem, part of an allied attempt to break through into northern Germany and end the European war in 1944.
But that the phrase entered popular use is largely thanks to a Dubliner, Cornelius Ryan, who made it the title of his last best-selling book, published in 1974, which in turn became a big-budget Hollywood film.
Born in 1920, Ryan went to school at the famous Synge Street CBS around the same time that another future writer, Brian O’Nolan (aka Flann O’Brien), was starting there (mainly because O’Nolan – who was a decade older – did not enter formal education until age 11).
Thereafter, the two men had at least one other thing in common: they both became journalists in 1940, O’Nolan as a humour columnist with this newspaper, Ryan as a war correspondent, at first for the Daily Telegraph.
It was his war reportage that laid the foundation for Ryan’s vastly successful literary career, launched in the 1950s, by which time he was a naturalised citizen of the US, with his account of the Normandy landings, The Longest Day.
He always saw his books as just a more in-depth form of journalism, adding to his own wartime experiences by carrying out thousands of interviews with others who had been in or near the action.
His mastery of minutiae was not to everyone’s taste. A military correspondent for the New York Times once derided it as the “Fifi-Dupont-was-washing-her-drawers-when-the-American-tanks-arrived” style of war history. But Ryan was also called the world’s “most brilliant reporter”. And along with selling books in the tens of millions, he was arguably the true founder of New Journalism, the school of writing for which Tom Wolfe and Hunter S Thompson were later credited.
As for the doomed Operation Market Garden itself, launched on September 17th, 1944, aimed at seizing of a series of bridges on the Dutch-German border, Browning’s authorship should be shared with Bernard Montgomery, its overall commander.
In the months after D-Day, the big debate on the allied side was whether to proceed on a “broad front” – moving slowly east while mopping up all resistance – or a narrow one, pushing through dramatically somewhere and finishing the war early. Dwight D Eisenhower was in the former camp, Montgomery the latter.
In his eagerness for the bold, decisive thrust – and some final British glory at the expense of the Americans – he badly underestimated the German defences.
Browning, however, who commanded the airborne assault, had been given photographic evidence that two Panzer tank divisions were in waiting at Arnhem.
He should have tried to talk Montgomery out of it. But he either didn’t want to or, after many previous delays, didn’t dare. Instead the officer who supplied the inconvenient intelligence was sent on sick leave and the assault at Arnhem Bridge went ahead, catastrophically. Of 12,000 mostly British and Polish troops who took part, almost 1,500 died and another 6,500 were wounded or captured or both.
According to one historian of the battle, the Polish Parachute Brigade was scapegoated for the debacle: “a shameful act by the British commanders”.
And yet, even so, Montgomery afterwards insisted the operation had been a qualified success: an opinion that lingered thanks to war censorship until posterity, with help from Ryan, delivered a more damning verdict.
Among the heroes of Arnhem, by the way, was another Dubliner, Dr Martin Fallon, a high-ranking medical officer with the British army, subsequently awarded an OBE for his services to the wounded. And which school had he attended here, before going to Trinity College? Yes, inevitably, it was Synge Street CBS.
In later years, Fallon moved to Scotland (where his son Michael went on to become an MP and defence minister until a somewhat farcical downfall in 2017, begun by newspaper revelations that, during a dinner once, he had repeatedly touched the knee of broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer).
But Arnhem was only part of Fallon snr’s eventful war. It was he also who, in May 1945 removed a bullet from the hip of Lord Haw Haw, William Joyce, after the latter was shot while being arrested.
In a letter home to Ranelagh, Fallon joked grimly that Joyce was compensation for the loss of another celebrity patient, Heinrich Himmler, who days earlier had swallowed a cyanide capsule “and was being sown together in his blanket when I called at his house nearby”. | <urn:uuid:f220ca97-fe6d-4361-a774-fb82dd068307> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/bridge-of-sighs-frank-mcnally-on-the-contrasting-role-of-two-dubliners-in-an-infamous-battle-of-the-second-world-war-1.4021341 | 2020-01-22T15:02:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250607118.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20200122131612-20200122160612-00527.warc.gz | en | 0.97942 | 1,097 |
Reasoning » Of paul from the scriptures
But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, "Go away for the present, and when I find time I will summon you."
And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.
And according to Paul's custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
They came to Ephesus, and he left them there Now he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. | <urn:uuid:0daa7a74-0eb4-4c35-9ab7-a98044d8bce5> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/themes/Of+paul+from+the+scriptures | 2018-10-19T12:03:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583512395.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20181019103957-20181019125457-00307.warc.gz | en | 0.983544 | 117 |
This chapter discusses the post-event system restoration and the learning phases of the resilience model laid out in Figure 1.2. The committee first introduces a general model for electricity system restoration after a large-area, long-duration outage and then discusses restoration for several classes of disruptions based on the type of damage caused. This organization is based on the recognition that restoration activities proceed differently based on different types of outages—following some events, utility operators will have no situational awareness to guide their deployments; whereas other events may leave monitoring systems intact but overwhelm stockpiled resources. The chapter includes recommendations for improving the restoration process and for improving post-incident investigation to better learn from each experience to improve future performance.
Following a large-area, long-duration outage, electricity system operators set priorities and work across organizational boundaries to bring the system back online as quickly as possible through a series of restoration activities. While the exact steps and procedures for restoration vary depending on the nature of the outage and the damage incurred, electricity providers follow four general restoration steps:
- Assess the extent, locations, and severity of damage to the electricity system;
- Provide the physical and human resources required for repairs;
- Prioritize sites/components for repair based on factors including the criticality of the load and the availability of resources to complete the needed repairs; and
- Implement the needed repairs and reassess system state.
As shown in Figure 6.1, these general processes are carried out simultaneously by different organizations operating at different scales across all elements of the power system. Many of these organizations have their own restoration plans, spanning those from individual distribution cooperatives such as Cuivre River Electric Cooperative in Missouri (CREC, 2016), to large investor-owned utilities such as New York State Electric and Gas Corporation and Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation (NYSEG and RGEC, 2016), to independent system operators such as PJM (2016). Organizations frequently involved in electricity restoration include not only electricity system operators (i.e., distribution, transmission, and generation utilities and independent system operators), but also emergency management officials from city, county, state, and federal organizations, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Energy (DOE), state emergency management agencies, the National Guard, and in some cases even the Department of Defense. Depending on the circumstances, organizations that operate far afield of the utility sector may be called on when they offer special capabilities—for example, the deployment of the U.S. Air Force to transport bucket trucks by air from California to New York in response to Superstorm Sandy. Effective restoration rests on the collaboration and cooperation of myriad organizations and individuals of different skills. Various mutual assistance agreements provide additional resources to extend the reach of the restoration across geographic and organizational boundaries. The restoration work itself is dependent on the skills and resources of the line and electrician crews deployed by the local utilities.
Coordination and communication among these groups is challenging, in part because each group has different responsibilities and boundaries within which it operates. Knowledge of local conditions and needs is greatest at the site level and diminishes with increasing scale, whereas understanding of systemic risks and critical needs may be greater at the regional scale. Thus, information must flow in both directions, and, while prior agreements can help considerably, communication channels specific to the actors and hazards involved are often established in an ad hoc manner.
These communications must be agile and flexible, evolving in response to changing conditions and the shifting composition of the restoration team. Communication is partly a technical issue and partly an organizational issue—for example, determining who should have access to information. In recent storms such as Superstorm Sandy, coordinating the dispatch and routing of crews through damaged and flooded areas was a challenge, and crews were sometimes delayed because they could not reach affected areas.
Beyond identifying a specific threat to the electricity system, key utility CEOs and federal decision makers meet through the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council to plan for national-level incidents and maintain open communication channels (ESCC, 2016). This lays a good foundation for restoration activities, but an agile approach is necessary to deal with specific circumstances. Exercises are critical, although exercises alone will not address an actual event in all regards. Nonetheless, practice and associated learning will improve reactions during actual response.
During a major disaster, the states coordinate all first responder and restoration activities. For large incidents, when federal resources are warranted and mobilized, the National Response Framework provides the organizational structure, FEMA coordinates federal assets, and DOE is appointed the energy-sector lead agency (DHS, 2016). In preparation for or response to major outages, DOE will staff local and headquarters operations centers to coordinate federal actions that expedite electricity system restoration, working closely with the electricity organizations involved and other responders. Examples of DOE action include waiving federal transportation regulations on the time trucks can drive continuously so as to bring necessary equipment to the affected area more rapidly.
When a physical disruption of the power system occurs, it is important that utility repair crews be able to gain rapid access to damaged substations and other facilities so they can safely isolate and de-energize hazardous components, retain and gain access to emergency communication equipment and supplies, promptly assess damage, and start the process of restoration. In that context, the issue of working with law enforcement to gain access becomes critical, both for reasons of safety and because supplying power can be a key component of disaster recovery and avoiding further risks and damages.
One possible strategy could be to designate selected utility personnel as “first responders.” While there have been efforts to move in this direction, they have become stalled because doing so could raise potential issues of liability, perhaps placing crews under state control or even requiring crews to divert their efforts away from electricity-related activities. The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and others have been working at high levels to reach informal agreements
about achieving access. One problem with such an informal approach is that, without official credentialing, other first responders on the ground may not be aware of such arrangements and serious delays in access can occur. The situation could become even more complicated in the event of a major terrorist attack on substations or other critical grid facilities that might be designated as “crime scenes.” A similar situation could arise in the wake of a cyber attack where affected systems might be considered evidence.
Finding: When major physical damage occurs in the power grid, it is important that utility repair crews be able to gain rapid access. Due to a lack of standing arrangements with law enforcement and other first responders, this is not always possible; informal high-level agreements about access do not always result in smooth operations among key personnel on the ground.
Recommendation 6.1: The Department of Homeland Security in collaboration with the Department of Energy should redouble efforts to work with utilities and national, state, and local law enforcement to develop formal arrangements (such as designating selected utility personnel as “first responders”) that credential selected utility personnel to allow prompt utility access to damaged facilities across jurisdictional boundaries. Such agreements should address issues such as indemnity, liability, and the risk of diverting the mission and assets of utility crews to other non-power system objectives.
Utility Planning for Restoration from Major Disruptions
Utilities are well practiced at recovering from localized damage to the grid and helping to restore the system outside their service areas following large events. From line crews to executives, utilities are familiar with recovery from regional natural hazards; they have developed restoration plans and allocated resources for recovery operations. Some utilities equip bucket trucks with mobile generators and communications equipment that allow line crews to maintain contact and proceed with repairs even when the bulk grid and communications infrastructures are down. When damages to the physical system exceed the hardware or human resources of a single utility, mutual assistance agreements (MAAs) are used widely throughout the industry to expedite sharing of crews and equipment among utilities. For larger events, crews and equipment are often brought in from thousands of miles away to aid restoration efforts in affected areas. Following Superstorm Sandy, the EEI developed a National Response Event framework for coordinating regional MAAs across the United States (EEI, 2016). Although the National Response Event framework has not yet been tested, it is designed to help prioritize and expedite dispatch of line crews and resources on a national scale with a comprehensive understanding of damages and restoration efforts.
Utility restoration plans emphasize advanced planning, communication, training, and continual refinement and improvement. Restoration plans are drilled by utilities and externally reviewed by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and regional reliability organizations. One recent voluntary review found that participating organizations maintained system restoration plans that were thorough and highly detailed; however, opportunities for improvement remain (NERC, 2016a). For example, restoration plans may make key assumptions about the availability of certain assets (e.g., that a pre-identified black-start transmission corridor is operational) that, depending on the extent of damage, may not hold true.
Depending on the hazard, it may be possible for utilities to strategically deploy assets and for state and federal agencies to be mobilized in advance of the event. For example, utilities operating along the Gulf Coast have a long history of anticipating and recovering from large storms that cause extensive damage, and their restoration plans and activities reflect this history. In the week before Hurricane Katrina, Southern Company and its operating subsidiaries in Mississippi and Alabama spent more than $7 million pre-staging personnel and supplies, including catering and amenities for restoration workers, many of whose families were directly impacted by the storm (Ball, 2006). The arrival of Superstorm Sandy was preceded by a large mobilization of assets by utilities and the federal government (Fugate, 2012; Lacey, 2014). Vermont Electric Power Company’s Weather Analytics Center provides highly accurate weather forecasts that the utility uses to pre-position restoration crews and assets (NASEM, 2016). Developing additional technologies and strategies to improve pre-positioning of restoration assets remains an important area for additional effort.
The process of electricity system restoration begins long before a specific event or threat is identified, through extensive planning, training, drilling, and pre-positioning of assets, and continues after all service has been restored, through continual refinement of a utility’s restoration plans. Fundamental to all restoration planning is an unresolvable uncertainty: the exact nature of damage cannot be known before an event occurs, and restoration plans must simultaneously be specific and actionable for utility personnel yet general enough to accommodate diverse potential scenarios. Thus there is no uniform, repeatable process for restoration that extends beyond a single event. There are many post-action reports from major outages that describe the event, how it was addressed by whom, and lessons learned. By systematically evaluating previous experiences and more openly sharing information about recovery from major outages, utilities have an opportunity to identify and share best practices. While such analysis is conducted on behalf of transmission utilities at the North American Transmission Forum, these assessments do not cover distribution utilities.
Recommendation 6.2: With support and encouragement from relevant state and federal regulatory agencies, the Department of Energy and utilities should continue to work together to analyze past large-area, long-duration outages to identify common elements and processes for system restoration and define best practices that can be shared broadly throughout the electricity industry. The committee notes that progress has been made with the ongoing efforts of the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council, which provides a good framework for expanded coordination and sharing of best practices.
Black-Start Recovery Plans
Large generation and transmission operators maintain restoration and recovery plans for energizing the high-voltage transmission system following a large-area, long-duration outage. Most generation facilities require electricity for operation, so if generators have gone off-line, these plans begin by starting selected “black-start” generators that do not require power from the larger grid to function. There are almost always functioning areas of the grid adjacent to the area experiencing an outage, and service can be most effectively restored from the edges of the blacked-out areas. If this is not the case, then black-start generators must first supply power to nuclear plants for safe shutdown before providing power to other generating stations. While black-start plans are difficult or impossible to practice (because doing so would require shutting down the grid), restoration plans provide detailed information on black-start resources in a utility’s service area, identify the priority loads and transmission corridors that the utility will bring power to first, and provide operators with key contact information. The priority loads for restoring the electricity system are other non-black-start generation plants—particularly nuclear plants that require external power—as well as natural gas pumping stations that maintain pressure in pipelines and provide fuel for natural gas generators to come online.
As generators and transmission corridors become energized, power is provided to distribution circuits—with priority given to known critical loads such as hospitals and repairs that restore service to the most customers. As restoration progresses, more generators are connected and resynchronized until service is restored to more loads. In some cases, this restoration may involve forming “islands” of electrical service: multiple smaller regions maintain balance of generation and load independent of the remaining grid and are then subsequently synchronized to the remaining system (PJM, 2016). Depending on how quickly generators are restored, some low-priority loads may need to remain off-line as the electricity providers will ration available supply to meet prioritized demand requirements. The time required to complete this process depends significantly on the damage to the infrastructure, the amount of data and information available, and the availability of restoration resources.
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has developed generic restoration milestones as well as a comprehensive methodology for power system restoration based on these milestones. It is also developing and demonstrating a prototype decision support tool for evaluating system restoration strategies (EPRI, 2010). The Optimal Black-Start Capability tool can be used by utilities to evaluate the suitability of available black-start capable units and plan optimal locations and capacity levels for new black-start units.
The restoration process is highly dependent on the topology of the transmission and distribution networks, which determine the sequence of restoration starting from the black-start generators. If in the future the generation resources are more decentralized and placed on the distribution feeders, the topology of the grid, and hence the restoration process, becomes more complex. However, the smaller generation resources closer to the loads can make the generation-load balance easier during restoration, provided that these generators (and even responsive loads) have adequate controllability. With the higher penetrations of distributed energy resources (DERs), the restoration process will need to be rethought.
Opportunities to Include Distributed Energy Resources in Restoration and Black Start
Traditionally, black-start plans have focused entirely on large, centralized utility generation assets. As the grid evolves to include larger amounts of DERs more broadly, it becomes important to consider the role these resources might play in the context of black start. The benefits and impacts of DERs will vary by geographic region because some distribution utilities have a higher penetration of DER assets than other areas. Additionally, some distributed generation and other assets are monitored and controlled by third-party entities other than the utility or grid operator because state policies do not allow these utilities to operate behind the meter. At low levels of penetration, DERs should simply be operated in ways that do not interfere with any needed black-start operations. As noted in Chapter 5, with appropriate system upgrades and institutional arrangements, microgrids and DERs could provide islands of power during outages; they could also provide local generation for utilities to restore from the distribution system outwards by connecting such small islands, as opposed to bringing power in from the bulk power system. While it may be possible to configure such resources to speed the process of supplying power to some priority loads, that would also unburden the primary black-start restoration process. At high levels of penetration, there may be an opportunity to factor DERs into black-start restoration plans. For example, multiple islands in the system formed by microgrids could be connected to form larger islands. Doing that might give the utilities more assets and more flexibility in their black-start planning.
Finding: The presence of a significant amount of DERs could provide a limited amount of local power during outages and could also be factored into black-start and
emergency planning if appropriate system upgrades have been made and utility operators have visibility into their operating status and controllability of their performance.
Recommendation 6.3: The Department of Energy and utilities should evaluate the technical and contractual requirements for using distributed energy resources as part of restoration activities, even when these assets are not owned by the utility, to improve restoration and overall resilience. Emergency management and restoration plans should include the owners of distributed energy resource assets, including owners with generation, storage, or load-control capabilities.
Monitoring and Control
The monitoring and control of the power grid is accomplished through the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system and other supporting technologies, as described in previous chapters. At the control center, software tools aggregate diverse data to provide situational awareness and support operator decision making (e.g., energy management systems [EMS] on the transmission system and distribution management systems [DMS] on the distribution side). These systems gather measurement data from sensors deployed throughout the transmission and distribution systems and send out control signals. Additional sensor technologies exist for monitoring the health of circuits and components during and after restoration, which can confirm to repair crews that damage has been corrected; however, to the committee’s knowledge, these have not been licensed or developed as commercial products. SCADA systems utilize robust, low-latency communications and are extremely helpful in assessing the state of damage to the system and identifying the centralized and distributed resources available for restoration. The communication networks enabling this monitoring and control are often dedicated infrastructure under the direct jurisdiction of the operating entity but are sometimes leased or provisioned by third parties.
DERs could also be monitored and controlled using the same SCADA system, in which case it would be easier for the DER to assist with restoration activities. If the DER is dispatched through a different monitoring and control communications infrastructure, it may be more difficult to provide restoration services due to the complications of coordinating among different systems. After a major disturbance, the status of the DERs, as well as the rest of the grid components, can only be known if the sensors and communication networks are not damaged or shut down by the disturbance. Electric power operators must restore power control systems and supporting communications systems concurrently with, and as an integral part of, grid restoration. Restoration of control systems and their associated communications infrastructure must remain an integral part of resilience planning.
Recovery Depends on the Type of Damage
Beyond the generalized description of the recovery process, the details of restoration activities can be very different for different types of events and resulting damage. For example, a cascading blackout can cause a large area to lose power, but recovery may be relatively rapid and straightforward if no significant physical damage has been done to system components. Likewise, restoration—and specifically damage assessment—is considerably easier when the grid’s cyber monitoring and control systems are intact and operational, compared to a potential cyber attack that diminishes a utility’s situational awareness. In contrast, a strong, slow-moving hurricane can cause destruction and flooding over hundreds of square miles of coastal community, making post-event access very difficult. The following sections describe opportunities to improve recovery to outages with different types of damage, as categorized in Figure 3.2.
Perhaps the most difficult disruptions to recover from are those that simultaneously cause damage to the physical components of the electricity system, the cyber monitoring and control systems, and critical supporting infrastructure. Damages of this sort can result from major natural disasters such as hurricanes and tropical storms, floods, winter storms, and earthquakes. Table 6A.1 provides details for each of these hazards in terms of the six stages of the outage life cycle—plan, prepare, event, assess, restore, and recover. Table 6A.2 lists two additional events, tornado and geomagnetic disturbances (space weather), that can also cause widespread damage.
While all of these events involve physical damage to the power system, there can be considerable variation in the extent of damage to other supporting infrastructures and the community. For example, damage from a major hurricane is typically widespread, inflicted on transportation and other critical infrastructures, and can greatly diminish local electricity consumption. In contrast, as Table 6.A1 notes, the spatial extent of damage from flooding depends significantly on local topology: in some cases much of the community may be unaffected, whereas communities and infrastructure in flat and low-lying terrains may be entirely destroyed. Clearly these two situations result in dramatically different restoration environments. Restoring a system from nearby dry ground that has all facilities intact and working is far easier than operating in an environment where everything for miles around has been submerged. Utilities generally know what sort of circumstance they will face in the event of a disaster and plan accordingly.
In some situations, there is sufficient warning time to assess whether critical system components will be at risk and, when possible, take preventative actions. While utilities
strive to maintain electrical service at all times, sometimes taking steps that will speed recovery after an inevitable outage should take precedence over keeping power on as long as possible before an outage. For example, a utility will know which substations are exposed to high flood risk and may preemptively power down certain parts of the system to prevent more substantial damage from flooding energized facilities. There are circumstances in which de-energizing vulnerable components before an event occurs could better protect them from damage and make recovery much faster.
Recommendation 6.4: Electric service providers should identify those components and corresponding events for which pre-event de-energizing of selected assets is the lowest risk strategy and develop regulatory, communication (especially with customers), and other plans that allow such protective action to be implemented.
Assessing System Damage
As Figure 6.1 notes, the first step in restoration is to assess the state of the system. Where the monitoring and control system is still operating, it can be used to perform a rapid assessment. More monitoring and control is available at the transmission level, but SCADA at the distribution level is also being deployed, driven in part by the increase in DERs and other advanced technologies. This monitoring is also extending to the customer level with advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and distribution technologies. Rather than depending on customer phone calls, some outage management systems (OMSs) receive direct telemetry from AMI and other sensors to develop a comprehensive view of customer outages.
Where the communications network supporting the SCADA system or other measurement telemetry is damaged, the traditional strategy is to send crews out to do on-site inspections. At the transmission level, aircraft are often used to locate downed lines, towers, and other damage. Normally aircraft would be operating directly under the jurisdiction of the electricity utility operator, as their assets are also used for routine right-of-way patrols. If necessary, electricity operators are able to acquire additional aircraft through leasing or other arrangements. During large national-level events, other government agencies can provide aerial surveillance capabilities if they are not directly involved in search and rescue operations. The Civil Air Patrol,1 a civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, has also been leveraged to provide aerial photographic sorties following disasters.
A new option coming into serious consideration is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones (Olearczyk, 2013; Miller et al., 2014). Such vehicles can systematically survey damage to a system using both visible light and infrared imagery. Some UAVs have a fixed-wing design, but others are more maneuverable and can hover over problem areas for a long duration. The results of UAV inspections will be most useful if a utility has previously built a geocoded baseline of its entire system. This allows new imagery to be compared with baseline imagery and combined with asset management tools and workforce management systems to establish and coordinate repair priorities and progress (Miller et al., 2014).
The operation of UAVs in the United States is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has been adopting new rules governing the commercial application of UAVs. However, these regulations have not kept pace with the rapid technological advancement of these systems, and there remains uncertainty surrounding the viability of UAVs for this application. In July 2016, Congress passed the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016.2 Section 2207 of that law requires FAA, no later than 90 days after enactment, to “publish guidance for application for, and procedures for the processing of, on an emergency basis, exemptions or certificates of authorization or waiver for the use of unmanned aerial systems by civil or public operators in response to a catastrophe, disaster, or other emergency to facilitate emergency response operations, such as firefighting, search and rescue and utility and infrastructure restoration efforts.” As of this writing, that guidance has not yet been issued. A system that relies on temporary FAA authorization creates barriers to adopting this technology for electricity service restoration, since the capability to use UAVs for damage assessment needs to be developed, exercised, and refined in advance of a disaster rather than cultivated during the incident.
A continuing problem with the use of UAVs, both for post-disaster assessment as well as for routine surveillance and maintenance of transmission and distribution systems, has been the FAA restriction that such vehicles can only be used within the UAV pilot’s line of sight. In the event of a large-scale disaster, such a restriction seriously limits how useful UAVs can be. Several utilities have been experimenting with the use of UAVs and have obtained FAA 333 permits.3 Some limited use of UAVs for post-disaster surveillance has also
1 The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a congressionally chartered, federally supported non-profit corporation that serves as the official civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force. CAP is a volunteer organization that performs three congressionally assigned key missions: emergency services (e.g., search and rescue and disaster relief operations), aerospace education for youth and the general public, and cadet programs for teenage youth. In addition, CAP has recently been tasked with homeland security and courier service missions. CAP also performs non-auxiliary missions for various governmental and private agencies, such as local law enforcement and the American Red Cross.
2 Public Law No. 114-190 (2016).
3 FAA Section 333 “grants the Secretary of Transportation the authority to determine whether an airworthiness certificate is required for a unmanned aircraft system to operate safely in the National Airspace System.” As of 2015, the number of FAA 333 exemption permits granted to Duke was 16; San Diego Gas & Electric was 8; Pacific Gas & Electric was 5; Southern Company was 4; and NextEra Energy was 4.
occurred under FAA Part 107 waivers following Hurricane Matthew, which aided in damage assessment and expedited recovery. However, both Section 333 and Part 107 permits require pilots to maintain line-of-sight operations, and any operation beyond line of sight requires additional FAA authorization. At the time of this writing, very few waivers for granting operation beyond line of sight have been granted, and these have been primarily to specialized testing and research organizations. While FAA can grant exceptions on an ad hoc basis, this takes time. It would be far better to have standing arrangements for the use of drones in emergency situations.
Recommendation 6.5: With convening support by the Department of Energy, the electricity industry should proactively engage the Federal Aviation Administration to ensure that the rules regulating unmanned aerial vehicle operation support the rapid, safe, and effective applications of unmanned aerial vehicle technology in electricity restoration activities, including pre-disaster tests and drills.
Data Fusion to Enhance Restoration Activities
In addition to the OMS that tracks customer outages and correlates these data with geospatial feeder data to determine where repair crews should be sent, other available data from various sources such as weather forecasts and news reports are being used to aid restoration activities (Figure 6.2). An area for research is the use of additional, underutilized information such as social media—Internet resources and social media are widely used to distribute information to consumers during a disaster. It is also possible to make use of information from consumers; however, systems are not generally in place to accomplish this. For example, during and immediately after Superstorm Sandy, many individuals sent images of downed lines, trees, and damaged equipment to utilities. If this information were automatically geotagged and time stamped, it could have provided valuable information to aid in restoration activities. Unfortunately, at the time, utilities struggled to make use of the information as it arrived in high volumes over non-traditional channels. Additionally, there was a need to ensure that public messaging was consistent,
such as continuing to advise the public never to approach downed electrical equipment.
Access to Replacement Parts, Particularly Large Transformers
While line crews are able to repair downed power lines, towers, and poles, and repair or replace low- and medium-voltage distribution transformers, damage to large substation equipment can be much more problematic. These substations contain high-voltage transformers, circuit breakers, and other large equipment that, if damaged, can be difficult and expensive to replace. Extra-high-voltage transformers (i.e., 345 kV and above) are especially problematic. These are large devices that are expensive, have long manufacturing lead times, and are hard to move. In many cases, the electrical properties of high-voltage transformers have been customized to fit the specific locations in which they are installed. It has long been understood that these transformers are an especially vulnerable element of the grid (OTA, 1990; NRC, 2012; DOE, 2015; Parfomak, 2014). While spare transformers can become a major issue in outage events that cause broad physical damage, they are especially important in the context of terrorist events where they could become the focal target of intentional attack. Indeed, as far back as 1990, the Office of Technology Assessment concluded that, if a terrorist group wanted to attack the U.S. power system, the obvious target would be a carefully selected set of high-voltage power transformers. Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System explained the following:
The large power transformers in generating station switch yards and major substations are vulnerable to terrorist attack and could take months or years to replace. Options for bypassing damaged substations to bring power from remote generating stations to load centers are very limited because the grid is already stressed during peak demand. The result of a coordinated attack on key substations could be rolling blackouts over a wide area until the substations are repaired. Under such conditions, the availability of compact easily transported recovery transformers would be invaluable (NRC, 2012).
The report went on to recommend that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cooperate with DOE to “complete the development and demonstration of high-voltage recovery transformers and develop plans for manufacturer storage and installation of these recovery transformers” (NRC, 2012). In a demonstration program called RecX (for “recovery transformer”), the DHS Science and Technology Directorate teamed with ABB and the power industry to manufacture three single-phase 345 kV transformers in St. Louis, Missouri, and move them to Houston, Texas, in March 2013 (Figure 6.3), where they were installed and operated in a substation. The entire move and installation was completed in less than 1 week (DHS, 2014).
Regulators, policy makers, and utilities recognize the need to stockpile spare equipment, especially large equipment that can be difficult and expensive to replace. As summarized in a recent Congressional Research Service report (Parfomak, 2014), the industry has made some progress in constructing a catalogue of spare high-voltage transformers. DOE recently released a request for information to gather input on setting up a national transformer reserve, and eight private energy companies have launched Grid Assurance,™ an independent company that will stockpile transformers
and other critical equipment.4 A central issue with respect to developing a stockpile of replacement transformers is how to cover the cost. The approach taken by Grid Assurance,™ in which participating utilities have helped finance the founding of the company, and in return the company will sell stockpiled equipment to participating utility companies who need them during emergencies, was recently given a boost when FERC allowed participating utilities to recover their costs associated with purchasing sparing service and spare equipment.
Given the inherent challenge to knowing in advance where the need might arise to replace multiple transformers, some argue that building a modest stockpile is a collective national asset that should be covered, or at least partly subsidized, with federal tax dollars. Congress is contemplating the creation of a national strategic transformer reserve (DOE, 2017). However, if federal resources are invested in building such a stockpile, clear policy must be developed to limit its use to well-specified disaster scenarios. Without such policy, there is a risk that industry could become overly reliant on the stockpiled equipment and reduce investment in its own spare equipment stockpiles and programs. Such an outcome could result in negligible net improvement of spare equipment capability for the nation, rather than just shifting from industry-purchased stockpiles to government-purchased stockpiles.
In its 2015 Quadrennial Energy Review (QER), DOE noted that “the use of smaller, less-efficient, temporary replacement transformers may be appropriate for emergency circumstances. In 2006, [EPRI] suggested building compact ‘restoration transformers’ that would fit on large cargo aircraft and trucks. Since then, DHS’s Recovery Transformer Program has developed and tested a flexible transformer that is transportable by truck [see Figure 6.3] and can be installed within several days of an incident. These technologies could help address logistical concerns with moving large transformers in the event of disruptions” (DOE, 2015). The QER concluded that high-voltage transformers “represent one of [the grid’s] most vulnerable components. Despite expanded efforts by industry and federal regulators, current programs to address the vulnerability may not be adequate to address the security and reliability concerns associated with simultaneous failures of multiple high-voltage transformers” (DOE, 2015). The 2017 QER also discusses this issue, noting the following:
There are currently three key industry-led, transformer-sharing programs in the United States—NERC’s Spare Equipment Database program, Edison Electric Institute’s Spare Transformer Equipment Program, and SpareConnect. Another program, Recovery Transformer, developed a rapidly deployable prototype transformer designed to replace the most common high-voltage transformers, which DHS successfully funded in partnership with Electric Power Research Institute and completed in 2014. . . . As of December 2016, three additional programs—Grid Assurance, Wattstock, and Regional Equipment Sharing for Transmission Outage Restoration (commonly referred to as RESTORE)—are in development. . . . In December 2015, Congress directed DOE to develop a plan to establish a strategic transformer reserve in consultation with various industry stakeholders in the FAST Act. To assess plan options, DOE commissioned Oak Ridge National Laboratory to perform a technical analysis that would provide data necessary to evaluate the need for and feasibility of a strategic transformer reserve. The objective of the study was to determine if, after a severe event, extensive damage to [large power transformers] and lack of adequate replacement LPTs would render the grid dysfunctional for an extended period (several months to years) until replacement LPTs could be manufactured. DOE’s recommendations will be published in the report to Congress in early 2017 (DOE, 2017).
Over the next two decades, the grid will see increasing use of solid-state transformers and other solid-state power electronics, though penetration at present is nascent. The durability and resilience of this technology will have to be established over time and restoration plans adjusted accordingly. Solid-state power electronics will offer greater operational flexibility than traditional technology, which may be useful when the grid is being operated in non-standard ways. This technology will likely see its first widespread use in lower-power distribution systems. Recently, DOE has been supporting the development of advanced designs for LPTs. Specifically, they have been working to do the following:
Stimulate innovative designs that promote greater standardization (i.e., commoditize LPTs) to increase grid resilience (i.e., faster recovery) in the event of the loss of one or more LPTs. To this end, new designs must maintain high efficiencies, have variable impedances, accommodate various high-side and low-side voltages, and be cost-effective compared to traditional LPTs. Projects would be expected to involve modeling, analyses, and exploratory research to assess the performance and economics of proposed designs (DOE, 2016). A critical value of [this] research, beyond the development of advanced designs, is increased standardization of components improving agile allocation during disasters (DOE, 2016).
The committee recommends a dual strategy: On the one hand, the nation should push forward to improving the availability of conventional and replacement transformers for use in the event of physical disruption. At the same time, DOE should continue to explore advanced LPT designs that, in the longer term, could lower cost and improve the efficacy of emergency replacements. The vulnerability to grid operation posed by accidental or intentional damage to high-voltage transformers has been understood for decades. While limited progress has been made to reduce this vulnerability, it continues to pose a serious risk to the power system.
Recommendation 6.6: The Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy, the U.S. Congress, and the power industry should be more aggressive in finding a way to address the issue of manufacturing and stockpiling flexible, high-voltage replacement transformers as an important component of infrastructure investment initiatives. If federal funds are used to help in doing this, policy will be needed to limit stockpile use to major disasters. Otherwise, utilities might face incentives to reduce their stockpiles for dealing with more routine events.
Finding: Development of innovative approaches for making LPTs with greater operational flexibility (e.g., variable impedances, accommodating multiple voltages) while maintaining high efficiency and cost effectiveness relative to traditional LPTs is promising. If such devices can be developed with standardized components, they could play an important role in expediting restoration of the grid when physical damage has occurred to LPTs.
Recommendation 6.7: The Department of Energy should continue to support research and development of advanced large power transformers, concentrating on moving beyond design studies to conduct several demonstration projects.
A second restoration case is recovery from damage to the cyber monitoring and control system as a result of a cyber attack that leads to a major service disruption. Restoration from such disruptions is structured around the process shown in Figure 6.4, which contextualizes active restoration within the larger process that begins with planning for cyber restoration in much the same way as utilities plan for physical restoration. Active cyber restoration begins with detecting a breach and follows the same sequence of activities introduced above: assess, provide, prioritize, and repair. This section focuses on the steps that occur to restore power after a cyber detection that has resulted in a major service disruption.
One important difference between a cyber failure and a physical disaster is the tightly defined nature of the cyber attack. The impact of a hurricane is expressed in maps as well as in lists of damaged equipment and lines. In the case of a cyber event, the cause is usually more singular than that of a natural disaster. It would be a rare event that would involve the simultaneous breach by two disparate organizations in two different ways, although a well-prepared mal-actor
may seek to create exactly this situation. The analysis of a cyber event typically focuses on understanding a specific bit of malware and how it affects communication, and the countermeasures are similarly focused and technical unless the impact extends to the point of requiring replacement of substantial equipment.
A breach of a utility industrial control system (ICS) can be obvious after the system it is controlling malfunctions, but this malfunction may not occur for a long time after the initial breach. For example, in the well-covered breach of the Ukrainian power system, the actual disruption occurred 9 months after the initial breach. Mandiant (2016) reported that the average time from breach to detection in a typical information technology system is 140 days. This time delay is important and pernicious as it allows attackers to locate and master critical systems, find valuable or restricted information, and develop a strategy for exploitation. Adversaries lacking detailed knowledge of a system do not know a priori how to inflict damage even if they have accessed the ICS; they need this time to learn how to damage the breached system. The first step in cyber restoration is to detect the breach quickly, so that the adversary does not have time to develop sufficient understanding of the ICS to disrupt operations. Utilities need to develop reliable mechanisms to verify that their systems are running only the expected software and, if this is not the case, to allow remote resetting of systems.
Finding: Breaches of utility industrial control systems may persist for an extended period prior to causing disruptions to operations or service. A breach alone is not sufficient to gain control of a system, to compromise its operation, or to steal or corrupt valuable information. It takes time for attackers to learn about the system they have breached.
The problem of breach detection can be addressed by anomaly detection, although this approach has not been shown to work as well in more general enterprise settings. In part, this is because complex and distributed systems of large enterprise systems are difficult to monitor, as the variety of communications is immense (e.g., from e-mail to web site configuration management and integration with multiple systems) and varies over time. However, electric utility ICS systems are different. The boundaries of the system are more clearly defined and slower to change, the network architecture is more consistent, the communications are more structured (i.e., using well-defined protocols), and the values communicated fall into definable ranges and patterns. For example, residential meters typically report every day, hour, or 15 minutes, depending on configuration; they always use a message structure defined by the brand of meter (frequently based on an open standard), and the voltages they report are almost always in the American National Standards Institute band.5 Using another protocol, reporting a value substantially outside the American National Standards Institute band, issuing a different message type, or reporting too often could indicate that the meter has been compromised or is malfunctioning. Another example of the potential for anomaly detection is reclosers, which control the connection to a lateral power line and do not open or close very often. Too-frequent cycling could indicate an attempt to damage the system.
Beyond these patterns, the electricity system is governed by the physics of its electrical flows. Information from the numerous and diverse sensors must present a coherent model of the state of the conditions on the grid. Reported values which deviate from the physically possible can indicate either a broken sensor or a cyber issue. For these reasons, anomaly detection methods that are not effective in general enterprise systems can work well in utility control systems. Anomalies can be detected based on rules derived by various means, including those that are (1) specified by operators, (2) derived from network mapping, (3) derived through machine learning, and (4) based on physical modeling. The first two of these are based on established technology (e.g., The Bro Project6 and the Essence Project7). There is much potential for progress in the latter two. Machine learning could combine support vector machine estimation for classification with neural net methods for training. While good physics models are available (e.g., OpenDSS and GridLab-D for distribution systems), there are challenges in making them fast enough for use in real-time anomaly detection.
Finding: Tools for physics models and ICS network modeling are not well adapted to use in anomaly detection or cyber testing. Any discrepancy between the physics of the grid and the telemetry can indicate a system or component problem or a cyber compromise. The challenge at present is that physics models of power flow are generally too slow for real-time monitoring, and the track record for calibration is spotty.
Recommendation 6.8: The Department of Energy should develop the ability to apply physics-based modeling to anomaly detection. There is enormous value in having real-time or better physics models in deriving optimal power flow and monitoring performance for more accurate state estimation. Such systems should also provide a powerful tool for verifying the integrity of telemetry systems—that is, verifying that observed conditions are consistent with model conditions—and if not, then there is a problem with knowledge of state, presuming the model is accurate.
5 American National Standards Institute Standard C84.1 defines the acceptable range of voltage within which a utility can deliver power to customers.
7 The website for the Essence Project is https://www.controlsystemsroadmap.net/Efforts/Pages/Essence.aspx, accessed July 11, 2017.
Once a breach of the ICS has been detected, the next step is to assess the extent of damage. At this point, power may still be flowing to part or all of the grid; however, the system has failed fundamentally because the ability to determine system state accurately and control component behavior is likely compromised. Work should begin immediately to determine what part of the system (including the ICS, all connected components, and communications in either direction with external systems) has been compromised and how. At the simplest level, this involves examination of all components for indicators of compromise. Examination can include the following:
- Inspection. Scanning the memory and storage of each device looking for malware (i.e., “blacklisting”) and checking that only approved software is running (i.e., “whitelisting”).
- Challenge. Exercising devices to verify that they are communicating and operating correctly (e.g., flip a switch electronically to verify that it can be reached, acts as directed, and can confirm its action and state).
- Diagnostic model. Network and physics-based modeling of the grid to map anomalous behavior, although currently the models that would be used for this are not yet ready to support near-real-time restoration.
The first steps in assessment are to assemble the necessary tools if they are not present, make sure that the tools and their underlying databases are up-to-date, and then systematically and completely examine every software object in the broadly defined system to determine whether and how each has been corrupted. The assessment should be undertaken with a sense of the system connectedness, first emphasizing components that are linked to and dependent on systems known to be compromised, within the same security domain, or accessed in similar ways.
The provisioning phase of restoration focuses on marshalling human and other resources necessary to bring the ICS back to operation, perhaps in stages. Based on the assessment, the restoration team derives a list of skills and artifacts necessary to restore each component and the integrated system. In instances where replacement is either necessary or more efficient, these lists will include hardware (e.g., servers, smart components). For example, if a server is corrupted, it may be possible to restore it to safe operation, but it may be quicker and easier to build a new server from scratch and return the original sever to inventory at a less hectic time. Restoration may also require software and data: reference disks of software, often termed “gold disks,” are typically required, as are backups of the most current state data. Large transmission organizations are generally scrupulous about maintaining “gold disks,” but this practice has not been promulgated throughout the entire industry. Restoration can be slowed by something as simple as not having license information, not patching backups to current levels, or not having internet access when it is required for activation or download of current patches. The provisioning plan should take all of these activities into consideration. The provisioning plan, overlaid on the assessment, provides a map of what components and subsystems can be restored and with what effort.
Based on the assessment, a plan must be developed to restore the system. The challenge is to coordinate the activities of specialists with the available physical and digital resources in a sequence of steps. Restoration of a specific computer could range from something as simple as running a virus removal tool to something as complex as writing new code for a virus removal tool. It could involve re-flashing a build image, replacing a drive or even a whole computer, or rebuilding a software configuration step-by-step. There may be hundreds of steps, and it may be impossible to determine in detail all of the steps needed in a particular case. Initially, the plan may state only that a network engineer will look at an infected switch and determine what needs to be done to repair it. As the restoration proceeds, knowledge of state and the efficacy of restoration options improve, and the plan becomes more specific.
A critical issue is the affected utility’s ability to marshal appropriately skilled resources. The design and documentation of utility ICS systems is insufficiently standardized; outside experts cannot quickly become effective in another organization. They can be tasked with routine tasks like imaging a disk, but their ability to contribute more strategically requires more detailed knowledge of affected systems. Priorities to achieve cyber resilience include establishing a common design and technical lexicon, training and working across organizations, and establishing common practices and formats for supporting artifacts. These need not be accomplished across the nation in a single push; rather, they can develop in groups of related or associated organizations, such as the group of distribution cooperatives supported by the single generation and transmission cooperative North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation. This model should be broadened to include other peer groups, perhaps organized around regional transmission organizations and regional reliability coordinators.
Another major barrier is that, to date, organizations have not been transparent about cyber events, in part owing to risk of embarrassment and liability. Furthermore, mechanisms to share resources for cyber restoration and compensate for their use—that is, cyber mutual assistance agreements analogous to traditional MAAs—are nascent. Working with
EEI, the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council is developing such a cyber MAA program (ESCC, 2016); however, the configuration of local systems can differ so substantially across utilities (i.e., when comparing a small cooperative to a major independent system operator/regional transmission organization) that it may be prohibitively difficult for loaned workers to contribute significantly to cyber restoration, even if they are experts. Through a separate program, the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) disseminates risk information to utilities; its further development should be encouraged, but the emphasis to date has been on sharing information rather than labor and primarily directed at protection rather than restoration.
One final issue to consider is funding; cyber restoration, like physical restoration, can be costly. Means must be made available for utilities to hire outside assistance when useful and buy new equipment as needed to restore power quickly. A utility may look at its limited resources and plan restoration over a long period, but there may be a social advantage to using resources beyond the utility to restore over a shorter period.
Finding: To date, there have been no large-scale power outages in the United States caused by cyber attacks, but there have been many instances in which components have been compromised. Utilities have experience in fixing these minor cyber problems by rebuilding components and databases. However, cyber restoration is not a routinized process, and different organizations follow different approaches based on the nature of the event.
Recommendation 6.9: The Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security should work with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, independent system operators, and regional transmission organizations to develop a model for large-scale cyber restoration. This should be done in collaboration with utilities and leading utility organizations such as the Edison Electric Institute, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the Electric Power Research Institute, and the American Public Power Association.
Actual repairs are accomplished in three steps: (1) containing the breach, (2) restoring components that can be saved, and (3) replacing those that cannot.
The first step after detection is to contain the malware by isolating it and preventing its spread to other internal or external systems. Taking an infected component off-line can adversely impact grid operations; thus, expert decisions must be made about how to operate without the impacted components. Operations without compromised or degraded digital control may be possible; if not, a portion of the grid may be operated instead. For example, if the problem impacts voltage control at a particular substation, the feeder may be disconnected from central control and either operated with fixed typical control points or shut down temporarily. In this case, potentially no service will be lost. It is critical to keep safety and the long-term reliability of the grid in mind; operation should not be attempted unless it can be verified that the grid and customers are not put at risk. If digital telemetry is lacking, this may require dispatch of crews to verify switch settings manually, determine voltage and current, or confirm whether a line is energized. Fortunately, protective relays and fuses provide some protection against egregious misoperation.
Another aspect of containment is to communicate with other utilities. Sharing details of the attack—particularly information on the types of components impacted, the IP addresses of the attackers if known, and any identified malware signatures—may help others identify an ongoing attack. The E-ISAC has taken on the role of intermediary in this action; nonetheless, these systems must be strengthened, extended, accelerated, and exercised. The Cybersecurity Risk Information Sharing Program, initiated by DOE with E-ISAC support, is currently monitoring the majority of transmission systems and sharing such information with automated machine-to-machine communication. This has led to substantial improvement in the situational awareness of real-time cybersecurity risks in the electricity industry.
Restore and Replace
With the spread of malware contained to the extent possible, the work shifts to restoring components to a clean state or replacing them if repair is too difficult or time consuming. As practice in cyber restoration moves beyond improvisation, restoration will eventually proceed by following a plan that is developed in advance, updated, and refined for specific circumstances. Implementing the plan requires the following: (1) Executing the outlined steps, (2) Adding detail as necessary and possible, (3) Testing, (4) Monitoring progress and failure, and (5) Providing feedback to update the plan.
At each point in the restoration, the engineer must determine the correct strategy: restore or replace. The trade-offs include cost, time, and the relative risk of a repaired component still hiding malware or being otherwise compromised versus possible errors in the configuration of new components. The choice is specific to the circumstances at hand. For example, the time required for repairs depends critically on whether there is a tested and trusted tool available on hand to remove malware and whether complete and correct backup data are available.
Highly competent staff are key to effective execution of restoration and replacement plans. While a utility may
have excellent general support staff, it is unlikely that they will have experience in large-scale cyber restoration. Their skills, experience, and confidence must allow them to innovate and improvise beyond their current skills. Government teams experienced in cyber restoration and similarly skilled staff from other utilities, software vendors, and cybersecurity firms can provide valuable support to the utility teams, although they are still limited by their lack of experience with the particular system being restored.
Finding: There has been a tendency among utilities and other commercial entities not to share information about cyber breaches and to look inward rather than seeking help, which limits potential for collaboration across organizations. Most utilities are not likely to have adequate internal staff directly experienced in large-scale cyber restoration. Furthermore, the ability of outside entities to help a utility with cyber restoration is limited by unfamiliarity with the configuration of the impacted system and by the lack of agreed-upon standards or shared practices. The ICS architecture at one utility may have little in common with the ICS at another utility, independent of the physical differences in the electrical system. This lack of commonality in utility ICS system designs and documentation makes rapid and efficient use of staff from other organizations very challenging, as an engineer at one utility may face a steep learning curve at another utility.
Recommendation 6.10: The Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security should work with the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council and utilities to enhance the sharing of cyber restoration resources (i.e., cyber mutual assistance agreements) including personnel, focusing on peer-to-peer collaboration, as well as engagement with government, industry organizations, and commercial cybersecurity companies. Practices that allow shared personnel to more quickly come up to speed on restoration plans will increase the value of cyber mutual assistance agreements. This should include dissemination of best practices for the backup of utility industrial control systems and operational data.
Finding: Though the basic systems are in place for sharing cyber threat information, practices can be improved with more emphasis on speed. There are organizational systems in place for sharing cyber information (e.g., E-ISAC), but the lack of a common ontology and design patterns make the shared information more difficult than necessary to put to use.
Recommendation 6.11: The Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, the electricity sector, and representatives of other key affected industries and sectors should continue to strengthen the bidirectional communication between federal cybersecurity programs and commercial software companies.
Effective documentation strategies are also critical for effective cyber restoration. System documentation must be complete, accurate, and up-to-date so that the restoration teams have the information they need to proceed and additional staff can be brought up to speed quickly. Industry experience has shown that the only way to keep documentation up-to-date is to connect it to operational production systems. For example, the network should be mapped periodically and continuously using automated tools, and then the discovered reality can be compared to the documented theory. Documentation should include backup copies of every critical system, including the data and software and all critical keys, passwords, and licenses. Such backup information should be available through a secure system with an expert in the loop.
Finally, cyber restoration workers need the best possible tools to facilitate their collaboration. At a minimum, telephones should be supplemented with shared drives, online screen sharing, and remote disk access. Cloud options should be available to provide backup if local systems are compromised to the extent possible and vice versa. Such cloud systems must be as secure as possible and potentially open only to utility operators. Furthermore, these teams must practice with either real systems or high-fidelity models. (It is possible to construct virtual systems that would allow training and practice.) Strategies for this sort of simulator are being pursued by DOE, with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the lead, and by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, with its Simba project.
Restoration of the ICS culminates with energizing the grid, shown at the top of Figure 6.4. There needs to be rapid iteration and tight integration between the plan and test steps, but ultimately the real-world test in the grid cannot be achieved digitally and virtually. Utility ICSs have switches and other controls that set machines in motion and power flowing. Some of these actions can be dangerous to line crews and could cause damage to utility and customer equipment as well as to other infrastructures. Also, a compromised control system may incorrectly alter limits on a fault protection relay or send signals to a generator that crews on site in the plant know are incorrect, resulting in dangerous system operations.
The scale and importance of utility operations dictate validation in many aspects of cyber restoration. The physics of the grid must be considered in all cyber decisions. Expert judgment is needed to determine when physical contact and observation are needed and when the benefits outweigh the risks. The training of utility personnel ensures a culture of safety.
Analyze and Refine
After the grid is re-energized, the final step is to examine what was accomplished and gather lessons learned. The goal
TABLE 6.1 Summary of Selected Recommendations Made by the National Research Council in Its 2012 Report Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System, Together with the Committee’s Assessment of Where Things Now Stand
|National Research Council Recommendation||Assessment of Present Situation|
|6.1: The Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) [NERC] should require power companies to re-examine their critical substations to identify service vulnerabilities to terrorist attack. Where such vulnerabilities are discovered, physical and cyber protection should be applied. In addition, the design of these substations should be modified with the goal of making them more flexible to allow for efficient reconfiguration in the event of a malicious attack on the power system. The bus configurations in these substations could have a significant impact on maintaining reliability in the event of a malicious attack on the power system. Bus layout or configuration could be a significant factor if a transformer, circuit breaker, instrument transformer, or bus work is blown up, possibly damaging nearby equipment.||The industry has made progress on this issue.|
|6.2: The ERO and FERC should direct greater attention to vulnerability to multiple outages (e.g., n-2) planned by an intelligent adversary. In cases where major long-term outages are possible, reinforcements should be considered as long as costs are commensurate with the reduction of vulnerability and other possible benefits.||Some progress has been made on these issues, but additional effort is warranted.|
|7.6: State legislatures should change utility law to explicitly allow microgrids with distributed generation. [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers] should revise its standards to include the appropriate use of islanded distributed generation and microgrid resources for local islanding in emergency recovery operations. Utilities should re-examine and, if necessary, revise their distribution automation plans and capabilities in light of the possible need to selectively serve critical loads during extended restoration efforts. Public utility commissions should consider the potential emergency restoration benefits of distribution automation when they review utility applications involving such investments.||There has been some progress on this. Some states are considering whether and, if so, how to support the development of microgrids as well as the role of the local distribution utilities and other entities in the process of developing such systems. But additional effort is warranted.|
|8.1: The Department of Homeland security and/or the Department of Energy should initiate and fund several model demonstration assessments each at the level of cities, counties, and states. These assessments should examine systematically the region’s vulnerability to extended power outages and develop cost-effective strategies that can be adopted to reduce or, over time, eliminate such vulnerabilities. These model assessments should involve all relevant public and private participants including public and private parties providing law-enforcement: water, gas, sewage, healthcare, communications, transportation, fuel supply, banking, and food supply. These assessments should include a consideration of outages of long duration (≥ several weeks) and large geographic extent (over several states) since such outages could require a response different from those needed to deal with a shorter duration events (hours to a few days).||To the best of the committee’s knowledge, no such demonstrations have been undertaken.|
|8.2: Building on the results of these model assessments, DHS should develop, test, and disseminate guidelines and tools to assist cities, counties, states, and regions to conduct their own assessments and develop plans to reduce their vulnerabilities to extended power outages. DHS should also develop guidance for individuals to help them understand steps they can take to better prepare for and reduce their vulnerability in the event of extended blackouts.||To the best of the committee’s knowledge, no such activity has been undertaken.|
|8.3: State and local regions should use the tools provided by DHS as discussed in Recommendation 8.2 to undertake assessments of regional and local vulnerability to long-term outages, develop plans to collaboratively implement key strategies to reduce vulnerability, and assist private sector parties and individuals to identify steps they can take to reduce their vulnerabilities.||While not following the strategy that the committee recommended, some limited progress has been made.|
|8.4, 8.5, and 8.6: Congress, DHS, and the states should provide resources and incentives to cover incremental costs associated with private and public sector risk prevention and mitigation efforts to reduce the societal impact of an extended grid outage. Such incentives could include incremental funding for those aspects of systems that provide a public good but little private benefit, R&D support for new and emerging technology that will enhance the resiliency and restoration of the grid, and the development and implementation of building codes or ordinances that require alternate or backup sources of electric power for key facilities. . . . Federal and state agencies should identify legal barriers to data access, communications, and collaborative planning that could impede appropriate regional and local assessment and contingency planning for handling long-term outages. Political leaders of the jurisdictions involved should analyze the data security and privacy protection laws of their agencies with an eye to easing obstacles to collective planning and to facilitating smooth communication in a national or more localized emergency. . . . DHS should perform, or assist other federal agencies to perform, additional systematic assessment of the vulnerability of national infrastructure such as telecommunications and air traffic control in the face of extended and widespread loss of electric power, and then develop and implement strategies to reduce or eliminate vulnerabilities. Part of this work should include an assessment of the available surge capacity for large mobile generation sources. Such an assessment should include an examination of the feasibility of utilizing alternative sources of temporary power generation to meet emergency generation requirements (as identified by state, territorial, and local governments, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations) in the event of a large-scale power outage of long duration. Such assessment should also include an examination of equipment availability, sources of power generation (mobile truck-mounted generators, naval and commercial ships, power barges, locomotives, and so on), transportation logistics, and system interconnection. When areas of potential shortages have been identified, plans should be developed and implemented to take corrective action and develop needed resource inventories, stockpiles, and mobilization plans.||Limited progress has been made on selected items.|
|National Research Council Recommendation||Assessment of Present Situation|
|9.1: Complete the development and demonstration of high-voltage recovery transformers and develop plans for the manufacture storage and installation of these recovery transformers.||A demonstration has been successfully conducted. Considerable work is still needed on developing and implementing an adequate program of funding and other support for recovery transformers.|
|9.2–9.6: Continue the development and demonstration of the advanced computational system currently funded by the Department of Homeland Security and underway at the Electric Power Research Institute. This system is intended to assist in supporting more rapid estimation of the state of the system and broader system analysis. . . . Develop a visualization system for transmission control centers which will support informed operator decision making and reduce vulnerability to human errors. R&D to this end is underway at the Electric Power Research Institute, Department of Energy, Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, and Power System Engineering Research Center, but improved integration of these efforts is required. . . . Develop dynamic systems technology in conjunction with response demonstrations now being outlined as part of an energy efficiency initiative being formed by EPRI, the Edison Electric Institute, and DOE. These systems would allow interactive control of consumer loads. . . . Develop multilayer control strategies that include capabilities to island and self-heal the power delivery system. This program should involve close cooperation with the electric power industry, building on work in the Wide Area Management System, the Wide Area Control System, and the Eastern Interconnection Phasor Project. . . . Develop improved energy storage that can be deployed as dispersed systems. The committee thinks that improved lithium-ion batteries have the greatest potential. The development of such batteries, which might become commercially viable through use in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, should be accelerated.||Limited progress has been made on selected items.|
NOTE: NRC (2012) was undertaken for the Department of Homeland Security. Progress has been limited on a number of the recommendations that are listed on page 6 of that report.
SOURCE: NRC (2012).
is to refine the process, further moving cyber restoration from an ad hoc exercise to an engineering process.
Recommendation 6.12: The Department of Energy should develop a high-performance utility network simulator for use in cyber configuration and testing. There is, to date, no flexible, peta-scale utility industrial control system simulator that offers sufficient fidelity for testing intrusion detection, anomaly detection, software defined network controls, and other aspects of utility operations. The closest systems to date take a “hardware-in-the-loop” approach. While this offers some apparent advantages in terms of fidelity, it is too time consuming and expensive to test a wide range of scenarios in such a system. A purely virtual system is necessary.
There are few hazards that cause only physical damage to the electricity system. Of principal concern is the threat of a well-coordinated and executed physical attack. This was the subject of a 1990 Office of Technology Assessment report (OTA, 1990) and a more recent National Research Council report, Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System (NRC, 2012). While distribution and transmission equipment have been the target of attacks internationally, the Metcalf incident (described in Chapter 3) is one of the few cases in the United States, although the event was modest in scale and did not disrupt electricity service.
A terrorist attack on the towers and poles of the transmission infrastructure could disrupt service over a large area. However, utilities are well practiced at rebuilding lines and replacing poles, and it is unlikely that such an outage would be of long duration. The situation is very different for an attack on substations and especially high-voltage transformers. As noted in Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System, a terrorist attack carried out in a carefully planned way by people who knew what they were doing could “deny large regions of the country access to bulk system power for weeks or even months. An event of this magnitude and duration could lead to turmoil, widespread public fear, and an image of helplessness that would play directly into the hands of the terrorists. If such large extended outages were to occur during times of extreme weather, they could also result in hundreds or even thousands of deaths due to heat stress or extended exposure to extreme cold” (NRC, 2012).
Table 6.1 revisits the recommendations made by that report and summarizes the present state of affairs. Unfortunately, the ubiquity of grid assets and their inherent vulnerability make it too costly to achieve a comprehensive high level of security. Resources are prioritized on those assets where improved security will yield the greatest improvement. Efforts to improve security at key assets should proceed alongside efforts to stockpile replacement equipment and develop and deploy temporary recovery assets.
Finding: The power system continues to be vulnerable to physical attack by terrorists. Some progress has been made in making the system more resilient in the face of this hazard—for example, through physical security standards such as NERC CIP-014—but much remains to be done. Several
strategies (e.g., high-voltage replacement transformers) that reduce vulnerability to terrorist events also reduce the system’s vulnerability to a range of natural hazards.
Recommendation 6.13: Efforts by the Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and the electric industry, should be redoubled to reduce the vulnerability of the power system to terrorist attacks (paying particular attention to topics in Table 6.1 that have not yet been adequately addressed).
Restoration of electric service from a system that has sustained both physical damage (e.g., a damaged transformer) and compromised monitoring and control systems (e.g., SCADA and EMS disrupted) will require greater reliance on manual inspection and operation, which can slow the pace of damage assessment and recovery. Thus, recovery from a coordinated cyber-physical attack may proceed slowly if operators suffer diminished situational awareness and have to dispatch linemen to assess damage. The principal concern across the industry is the potential for a well-informed state actor or terrorist group to execute a coordinated cyber-physical attack, the so-called structured adversary. Both cyber and physical attacks can be combined, targeted toward system components that cause the most damage or are most difficult to replace, and carried out repeatedly and perhaps with the explicit intent of hindering restoration.
EPRI has developed scenarios of coordinated cyber-physical attacks targeting generation, transmission, and distribution systems that can be used by operators and asset owners to test their readiness and improve planning and drilling (EPRI, 2012). More recently, NERC coordinated more than 100 participating organizations in the biennial distributed-play exercise GridEx III, which practiced response and recovery from a series of hypothetical cyber and physical attacks (NERC, 2016b). Such planning and drilling exercises are a valuable industry practice; however, the level of sophistication of attacks may continue to grow along with the number of vulnerable cyber and physical targets.
Recommendation 6.14: Utilities, with support from federal and state government, should continue to expand joint cyber-physical recovery exercises. These should emphasize, among other things, the maintenance of cyber protection during the chaotic period of physical restoration. The need to reconfigure electrical systems during a disaster requires changes to the industrial control system. It is frequently necessary to disable elements of the cybersecurity systems while the state of the gird is in flux. Research should be done on how to maintain a higher level of security during this period. This may involve operation in default modes or with analog controls to some extent until cybersecurity can be reestablished.
Other Technologies and Operations That Improve Restoration
Though many of the technologies discussed in Chapter 4 are intended to reduce the likelihood and extent of outages, many of these technologies also directly aid in the restoration stage. Improvements from advanced sensing, controls, and analytics have reduced outages and quickened restoration. In particular, distribution system automation and adaptive islanding are examples of where these technologies can play a role in improving restoration. Further, while these technologies help in the resilience of the electric system, these technologies also improve the reliability of the system to small, localized outages.
Improving Resilience by Learning from Past Events
The final step in restoration is to reflect on and analyze the experience to improve future restoration efforts. Often restoration from a large-area, long-duration outage is viewed as a unique effort. Nonetheless, it is certain that, even in the midst of a great disaster, another similar outage will follow. In 2005, Katrina seemed a nonpareil event, but Superstorm Sandy followed a mere 7 years later. The industry can and must plan for disaster recovery, but only real disasters stress the plans and expose their gaps and weaknesses. Disasters provide a genuinely unique opportunity to learn.
For most large-area, long-duration outages, there is an after-action report that, for the most part, reads like a historical piece rather than a technical study aimed at process improvement. These reports accurately describe what occurred and what was done (when, where, and by whom) as well as contain a number of short narratives related to particular successes or failures. While this information is useful, even essential, the idiosyncratic approaches make it difficult to identify more general process improvements across multiple events. Outside of the electricity industry, other sectors have developed sophisticated investigation procedures and even maintain full-time, well-trained staff whose only job is to investigate major incidents. The National Transportation Safety Board Investigative Process8 is solely focused on improving safety and since the Board has no regulatory or enforcement powers, its conclusions cannot be used in litigation. The committee believes that the electricity sector can improve its own investigations by learning from the National
8 The National Transportation Safety Board Investigative Process is described at https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/process/Pages/default.aspx, accessed July 11, 2017.
Transportation Safety Board and potentially creating a similar institutional structure.
Part of the problem is the lack of a general restoration model to provide a common framework for learning. A simple, initial framework was proposed earlier in this chapter, and extension and elaboration of that framework could be very useful in structuring the learning process. Two additional problems are as follows: (1) There is no national process or organization to systemize the integration of studies, and (2) there is insufficient rigor to data collection. The following sections describe a general process for collecting information on the failures and shortcomings in disaster restoration.
Step 1: Compile High-Level Facts That Describe the Event
Step 1 is performed by the study team. A summary should be prepared detailing the essential known facts, including a description of the event, high-level summary of known impacts (e.g., where power was lost and for how long), the grid-level drivers of power loss, the organizations involved with restoration and their activities, a timeline of restoration activities, notable successes and failures, and a list of questions raised. From these facts, a series of maps, organization charts, and information flow diagrams should be prepared. This will provide a guide for the research and a common understanding of the event that can be shared among all of the participants in the research.
Step 2: Conduct Interviews
Beginning with the above summary, a series of interviews with a large number of individuals from all organizations involved in the restoration should be undertaken by the study team. The interviews should focus on what the organization did, as well as its inputs and outputs.
Step 3: Perform Synthesis
The synthesis phase is conducted by the study team and supplemented by subject-matter experts as needed. The synthesis phase extends the event summary by using information from the interviews. The results are summarized in a narrative that incorporates a number of graphics. The graphics include an “entity relationship diagram” (ERD); diagrams of material flows, equipment flows, and information flows; and any other charts the study team deems necessary. The ERD is crucial, as it lists all of the entities involved in restoration, from government, utility, and other private sector groups, and documents their interactions through arrows. For example, the governor’s office (entity) may direct (relationship) to the National Guard (entity). The actual flows of material, equipment, and information overlay the ERD. The reduction of the narrative to these artifacts ensures rigor in and understandability of the analysis.
Step 4: Conduct Special Engineering Studies
Special engineering studies are conducted by technical teams assembled for each study. Electrical disasters and remediation are, to a large extent, studies in organization, communication, and coordination. They are at root, however, serious exercises in engineering. Much of the process described here is directed at organizational and process improvement, which is important because it underpins the response to all disasters, but it is just as important to learn about the design and operation of the grid. These elements must be part of the learning process. Based on the recommendations of the interviews, special engineering studies should be initiated. An example that is particularly important is in understanding the transmission grid. Despite its immense scale, it is a precision machine that requires careful harmonization. The studies may look at things like cyber and physical black start, the repair of analog versus digital components in flooded substations, repair of underground laterals in flooded areas, structure failure mode and possibly the need for redesign, and a host of other subjects. Special subjects should be defined in the study phase when they are essential to understanding the restoration or when the restoration presents an opportunity to learn about the grid and how to improve it. Superstorm Sandy provided an unparalleled opportunity to study grid physics at a large scale, and Katrina provided may examples of restoration of flooded substations.
Step 5: Review and Distribute Widely
All parties involved in grid restoration should be involved in review and socialization. This includes individuals and organizations not impacted by the disaster or involved in its restoration. The synthesis report should be widely distributed and reviewed at meetings in a process of improvement and refinement. This will likely span several months.
Step 6: Generalize and Integrate
This step is conducted by a team developed specifically for this purpose but should involve a few members of the study team. The purpose of the final step is to take the specific analysis that comes from Step 5 and use it to improve the general restoration model, asking which lessons have value beyond simply understanding what occurred.
Special Studies—Cascading Failures on the Bulk Power System
The reliability of U.S. electric power systems has been high enough that the rare occurrences of major blackouts have been prominent national and even international news items. Often, the circumstances leading up to a major system failure include multiple individual factors, each of which alone would have little or no significant impact but when
combined conspire to impact the integrity of the system. In the past, such combinations have resulted through coincident occurrence of unrelated events. For example, during the August 14, 2003, blackout, there were four root causes identified (UCPSOTF, 2004). In the future, events could also be brought together through malevolent synergy. The job of an outage investigation team is to sift through all of the evidence to determine the root causes of the larger system failure and extract lessons for future improvement.
The first step in investigating an incident is to accurately reconstruct the sequence of events. Determining the sequence of events can be a time-consuming process. The first step is gathering all of the data to support the investigation team’s evidence-building process (Dagle, 2006). Myriad data sources can provide useful information to support this phase of the investigation. Among the most valuable sources of information are operational logs, records of sequence of events, digital fault recorder output, protective relaying event information, synchrophasor data history, and other similar records of real-time information. The accuracy and precision of these event logs can be critical during cascading events, allowing investigators to sift through the initiating actions and subsequent responses. In the past, significant difficulties have arisen in gathering the data to support the investigation team (Dagle, 2004). The good news is that with the advent of modern power system measurement technology, it is becoming much easier to collect data with microsecond-class measurement accuracy, which is often of ample temporal resolution to be able to accurately determine the sequence of events.
Once the sequence of events is organized, it is valuable to separate it into slower events leading up to the cascading failure and faster events that are occurring during the cascading failure itself. Normally the role of human operators is only relevant during the slower events, and automatic controls are involved in the faster sequences associated with the later stages of the cascading failure.
Particularly with the automated controls, it is necessary to understand the relationship among the various steps in the sequence of events. Characterizing the reason behind any automatic control action helps to develop a deeper understanding of the sequence of events and the chain of events that led up to the cascading failure sequence. This often involves a detailed assessment of protection and other control devices to determine why they operated as well as how their operation contributed to subsequent actions in the sequence of events.
Finally, after considering the sequence of events, and earlier actions that contributed to later actions, the process of root cause determination can be made. It is important in this process to understand that actions taken in advance of the event could be a key root cause finding. For example, inadequate vegetation management, rather than a ground fault to a tree, might be a root cause.
Another important consideration is the degree to which infrastructure damage will prevent rapid restoration of electricity service. As disruptive as widespread blackouts can be, much worse events are possible. Under several different types of circumstances, electric power systems could be damaged well beyond the level of normal design criteria for maintaining reliability (OTA, 1990). The threats of terrorism, severe storms, and other phenomena, such as geomagnetic disturbances, have increasingly become major concerns to the government and the commercial utility industry. The regulations and policies to mandate how the nation would respond to such an event, or even define who is in charge, are still evolving.
Finding: Analysis of large-area, long-duration outages requires an enormous amount of high-precision data. Provision for the collection of these data could be in place before an event. Fundamentally, it is the responsibility of each organization involved in operating the system to conduct event investigations, gather lessons learned, and apply those lessons to minimize the likelihood of subsequent similar events. NERC has jurisdiction and responsibility to conduct investigations of outages involving the bulk power system. Particularly for events that involve multiple organizations, NERC brings tremendous value to the process by assembling outside expertise that cuts across organizational boundaries.
Recommendation 6.15: The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and relevant regional- and state-level organizations should improve the investigation process of large-scale losses of power with the objective of disseminating lessons across geographical and jurisdictional boundaries. Experiences from outside organizations such as the National Transportation Safety Board should inform this work. To further improve the investigation process, the committee recommends that organizations involved in electricity system operation improve restoration through the following:
- Better and more uniform calibration of recording instruments, including precise time synchronization.
- Pre-defined data requirements to support incident investigations using standard data formats.
- Pre-work logistical details (e.g., prior establishment of confidentiality agreements).
- Infrastructure to support centralized blackout investigations.
- Creation of a data warehouse with servers and databases to store and process the incoming data, support the investigation team, and manage data inventory.
- Defined data categories (to readily track and follow-up on data gaps).
- Automated disturbance reporting.
- Routine collection of transmission and generation events.
- Improved mechanics of data formats, exchange protocols, and confidentiality issues that can be worked out and tested on an ongoing basis.
- Blackout data that are collected in a matter of hours rather than a matter of days or weeks.
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TABLE 6A.1 Variation in Restoration Activities Across the Six Stages of the Life Cycle of an Outage Characterized by Damage to Physical Components, Monitoring and Control Systems, and Supporting Infrastructure, As Indicated in the Upper Right Corner of Figure 3.2
|Hurricanes and Tropical Storms||Floods|
|Area impacted: Typically very large||Area impacted: Typically very large|
|Damage to aboveground assets: Poles, towers, substations||Damage to aboveground assets: Poles, towers, substations|
|Damage to customer assets: Extensive||Damage to customer assets: Extensive|
|Limits to access and mobility: Major blockage||Limits to access and mobility: Major blockage|
|Event warning: Days||Event warning: Days|
|Risk assessment: Can be identified beforehand||Risk assessment: Can be identified beforehand|
|Rate of propagation: Slow||Rate of propagation: Slow|
|Plan||Individual utilities plan for hurricanes and tropical storms based on their experience and historical hurricane tracks, although these tracks may be trending more northerly in the Atlantic, placing the Mid-Atlantic states and New England at greater risk than in the past. Utilities are experts in identifying their specific vulnerable assets. During this phase, utilities should establish and refresh mutual aid agreements, create owned and shared inventory, train crews, conduct exercises, and communicate with customers regarding emergency preparedness.||More than any other disaster, floods are subject to statistical analysis, and utilities plan based on FEMA flood maps. Some adjustment should be made if there has been substantial reduction in forest cover or if there has been substantial development in the impacted watershed. Consideration should also be given to how, in light of climate change, future flood risk may be different from historical risk. To the extent possible, critical assets should not be located in identified flood plains, but there are numerous legacy assets exposed to flood risk. Floods in major river basins tend to be slow rising and slow receding, with lesser hydrostatic force. In contrast, canyon flooding (largely in western mountains) tends to be fast rising with short notice, forceful, and quick to recede. In either case, assets at risk can be identified and measures taken to reduce risk such as elevating them above the flood or building coffer dams. Plans should be made to replace assets in flood plains.|
|Prepare||Hurricane wind and rain forecasts with high uncertainty are available up to 1 week in advance, which is sufficient time to elevate or downgrade risk. When risk is elevated, staffing for the emergency can be refined, and mutual aid agreements can be activated. Flood forecasts are available only 3 to 4 days in advance, and peak flooding frequently follows the event.||River basin flood forecasts are available 3 to 4 days in advance. Many flash floods occur with effectively no warning; however, if major rain events are forecast for canyon areas, utilities may place crews on standby. When a flood is forecast in a river basin, it is possible to forecast which areas and assets are most likely to be affected. General restoration plans can be made more specific, and mutual aid agreements and emergency operations centers can be activated. Lists of materials, supplies, and equipment can be developed, procured, and staged.|
|Event||Relatively little can be done on distribution systems during the comparatively short duration of the event. Transmission systems must be adjusted as loads, generators, and transmission lines drop off the grid. Utilities develop an understanding of the extent of damage and customer outages and develop specific plans for remediation, building on the general planning. Government support organizations monitor conditions and establish and exercise lines of communications with utilities and with each other. Limited actions should be taken by utilities only when safety is an issue.||Major river floods are long-duration events that move down a river basin. Restoration can start upstream while the event is still evolving downstream, and some protective measures can be undertaken as water rises. Before restoration begins in an area, the plans can be improved and refined with emphasis on the temporal sequencing. Communications and coordination should be established and exercised.|
|Hurricanes and Tropical Storms||Floods|
|Endure||The endurance phase is the period from when the storm passes to the start of restoration. Unless there is flooding, restoration can begin immediately. If there is a delay, the time should be spent moving crews into position to the extent that the condition of the roads and safety considerations allow. Effort should also be made to improve the assessment of the state of conditions, to refine plans, and to refine requests for support from and coordination with other organizations, including other utilities and government organizations. This involves the high level such as governors’ offices, but also the crews on the ground, as per informing police and fire departments about the utility staff who will be working in their area. If specialized equipment is needed, arrangements should be made for acquisition and staging for deployment.||The endurance phase for a flood at one point can be very short in areas where the grade of a river is steeper or long in low-lying flat areas. Work begins in an area as soon as the water recedes, allowing restoration.|
|Restore||Restoration is the most visible phase of the event. Crews are on the streets working. While this is a difficult and costly phase, it is one that most utilities are familiar with and good at. If there are many trees and other obstacles in the street, they must be cleared to gain access to facilities. Utilities and the linemen know how to clear access, set poles, erect towers, string conductors, and clean and repair substations. The goal of management and support organizations (including governmental) is to ensure that the line crews are used effectively. They must be dispatched to the areas where their work will have the greatest impact, considering what is doable, and placed in a sequence of restoration activities. Management should work the supply chain to be sure that crews have the equipment, parts, and supplies (including fuel) they need to execute the necessary repairs. Crews must be provided with provisions, including food and housing, and amenities, such as electrical and phone service and access to health services for the injuries that are inevitable in this dangerous physical work. Experience has shown that taking care of the families left behind when crews are deployed is an important factor in enabling them to work effectively.||Flood restoration can take a very long time. In the absence of wind, poles and towers are not typically damaged; nonetheless, the ground can be softened and some distribution and transmission failures may occur. Manholes are flooded and must be pumped out. Underground lines and associated gear sometimes survive intact but often are damaged to the point of needing costly and time-consuming replacement. Flooded substations are difficult to restore. Analog equipment can sometimes be cleaned, dried, and returned to service, but digital devices typically need replacement. Underground vaults are problematic as they are difficult to drain and dry, can accumulate deep mud, and are more difficult to move equipment in and out of. All of this, however, is work utilities know and are well equipped to manage. The key, as noted in the discussion of hurricanes, is to provide broad support to the crews.|
|Recover||Hurricanes damage communities, not just utilities. Utilities must be part of the community restoration, perhaps lasting years. Rebuilding is an opportunity for improving.||Floods damage communities, not just utilities. Utilities must cooperate with other entities in the restoration as, for example, in repairing or replacing civil and safety infrastructure.|
|Area impacted: Limited to extensive
Damage to aboveground assets: Poles, towers, substations
Damage to customer assets: Limited to extensive
Limits to access and mobility: Major blockage
Event warning: Seconds to minutes
Risk assessment: Difficult
Rate of propagation: Fast
|Area impacted: Regional
Damage to aboveground assets: Lines, poles, towers
Damage to customer assets: Limited
Limits to access and mobility: Potential blockage
Event warning: Days
Risk assessment: Straightforward
Rate of propagation: Slow
|Plan||Earthquake risk is well mapped, and utilities routinely consider earthquake risk in siting and planning processes. Methods for earthquake-survivable construction are well researched. Major plants (e.g., North Anna Nuclear Power Station) have survived earthquakes with no damage, though safety considerations have taken them off-line for an extended period. Planning consists of maintaining adequate parts inventories.||Utilities operating in regions subject to winter storms often design systems components, such as transmission towers and lines, to be able to withstand greater amounts of precipitation and wind compared to other areas.|
|Prepare||There is work on developing a near-term warning capability for earthquakes, but presently most occur with no useful warning.||Winter storm forecasts provide several days’ warning that allows for arrangement of mutual aid.|
|Event||Earthquakes are of short duration. No action during the earthquake is practical.||Some final preparation is possible during the event as outages are mapped. Transmission system operators must rebalance to accommodate failing loads and distribution systems.|
|Endure||Restoration can begin immediately.||Delay in the start of restoration is possible if the roads are blocked or ice-covered.|
|Hurricanes and Tropical Storms||Floods|
|Restore||Restoration consists of familiar utility construction but can be severely hampered by damage to supporting infrastructure. Roads and bridges can be blocked or torn away, natural gas pipelines can break, and fuel storage can rupture. Electricity system restoration is executed as part of a broader restoration effort, and coordination among federal, state, and local government, as well as utility decision makers, is essential. Shortages of materials and equipment may result in competition for scarce resources, and availability will vary geographically. Even access to food and water may be a challenge in some remote areas. There is substantial risk that the homes and families of crews may be impacted or imperiled, undermining their ability to commit to utility restoration activities. Mutual aid from unaffected areas is essential.||Restoration following winter storms is standard utility work. Mutual aid is beneficial, and due to the generally smaller geographic extent of such storms, there are fewer issues in supporting the crews or marshalling supplies than are faced during restoration from hurricanes and earthquakes. Cold temperatures do reduce effectiveness of line crews.|
|Recover||Utility restoration can be completed well in advance of the general commercial and civil infrastructure. Utility capabilities are enablers of recovery.||Winter storms do not typically inflict lasting damage on infrastructure and enablers of economic recovery.|
|Area impacted: Limited to clustered||Area impacted: Very large|
|Damage to aboveground assets: Poles, towers, substations||Damage to aboveground assets: Transformers, substations|
|Damage to customer assets: Serious but contained||Damage to customer assets: Limited|
|Limits to access and mobility: Minor blockage||Limits to access and mobility: None|
|Event warning: Seconds to minutes||Event warning: Minutes to days|
|Risk assessment: Regionally known||Risk assessment: Costly|
|Rate of propagation: Fast||Rate of propagation: Very fast|
|Plan||Utilities in high-risk areas are aware of the peril and have likely dealt with tornadoes in the past. The focus in planning is on inventory of aboveground assets and mutual assistance. Unlike some other causes, transmission and generation assets are at risk of damage from tornadoes.||Risk assessment is nascent and based on highly uncertain estimates of frequency and intensity, but methods to harden the grid are available. Replacement transformers and other vulnerable components can be stockpiled but may be too expensive to be forward deployed.|
|Prepare||The incidence of weather conditions likely to spawn tornadoes can be provided 1 day to several hours in advance. There is little time to prepare, except to bring crews to a state of readiness and fully man response centers.||Solar weather warning systems can provide some notice, allowing for minimal preparation, but there is generally insufficient time to move crews.|
|Event||Events are of such short duration that there is no practical action during the event, except that transmission operators may have to adjust to limit impact.||The building up of current on long lines can trigger operational changes to protection systems, particularly shedding load to desaturate transformers.|
|Endure||Restoration can generally begin immediately after the event passes.||Restoration can begin immediately.|
|Restore||Customer property may be destroyed alongside utility assets, which means that there may be no immediate need to restore power to the affected area. Nonetheless, the tornado may damage a transmission corridor or section of the distribution grid essential to providing service to unaffected areas. The work is familiar to utilities and, in the case of tornadoes, the impact is sufficiently localized that there is less difficulty in provisioning and supporting crews. There are likely to be intact facilities within a few miles or tens of miles of the worksite.||There is no precedent for a large-scale geomagnetic disturbance event. If the impact is very large, there may be shortages of major components, particularly large transformers due to the long lead time in building and acquiring these.|
|Recover||Tornadoes do very serious damage to the impacted community so that the recovery period can be extensive after the immediate restoration is completed. Utilities must participate in planning this recovery.||Recovery is not a factor. Extensive damage beyond the grid is unlikely since long lines are needed to build damaging current level.|
|Area Impacted||Feeder Level to System Level|
|Damage to aboveground assets||Cyber assets will certainly be compromised, perhaps beyond restoration. Control actions initiated by the pernicious actor may create a wide range of physical damage up to and including generators. In addition, “smart” components may be compromised in a way that they are no longer controllable. Such damage may be irreversible or compromise trust in the device so that it may not be used safely. This damage to the electronic aspects of a device is functionally equivalent to physical damage.|
|Damage to customer assets||Limited except, possibly, to smart meters. Meters are owned by the utility but are associated with a specific customer. If the meter includes a local wireless connection for home automation, there are potential attack strategies which may do damage to customer systems, but no such Internet of Things attack has been successful.|
|Limits to access and mobility||None.|
|Event warning||Potentially months.|
|Risk assessment||Cyber N-1 and N-2 analyses should become standard practice.|
|Rate of propagation||Slow from breach to first action, very fast from first action.|
|Plan||Planning for cyber attack is a routine part of utility operations. It tends to focus, however, on prevention rather than restoration. The emphasis in restoration is on reestablishing the operational capability of sensor, computational, and communications assets; reestablishing state; and gaining confidence in the integrity of the systems and the information they manage. Planning for cyber restoration should be planned and practiced.|
|Prepare||Systems must be improved to react more effectively to new threat information. Updated threat information is provided daily, but the systems to move this information into quick action at a utility cannot make immediate use of the information. Much of it must work its way through cybersecurity software and service providers.|
|Event||A cyber event may last several months. During the period from breach to action, the utility may be able to sever access by malicious actors, preventing damage.|
|Endure||Restoration can begin immediately on detection.|
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Mobile Tools, Build modes and ImageCache: let's play together
Yesterday I blogged shortly about the new Mobile Tools integration with Context.
I currently updated the support for Build modes, and would like to illustrate this with an example using ImageCache.
First of all if you want to use build modes, you have enable the Mobile Tools module to provide build modes:
Let's say I have a content type for a Brand that contains an image and a logo.
The goal of this example is, to show the logo and image on both desktop and mobile site, but with different sizes. We will use ImageCache to resize the images for the different platforms.
First of all, have a content type that contains images.
Secondly create two mobile imagecache profiles. One for the logo and one for the image. In this case we just show the logo settings, where we set the image to have a max width of 100px
So eventually you end up with two imagecache profiles
The next thing you need to do is to go to the configuration page of your content type and choose "Display Fields". Here you can configure which fields need to be displayed on the node page and which formatter you want to use.
Mobile Tools add two new display modes:
- Mobile Groups: configure the fields per device group (iphone/android/ipad/...)
- Mobile Type: configure the fields per device type (mobile/desktop)
Now you can easily select the mobile logo and mobile image in the dropdown boxes as default formatters for these fields on e.g. mobile devices.
After clicking save, you are all set!
Now you just have to look at your site from a desktop browser and a mobile browser.
The mobile version shows the smaller image... Simple and easy.
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ICE AGE COLLISION COURSE
“Scrat’s epic pursuit of the elusive acorn catapults him into the universe where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the Ice Age World. To save themselves, Sid, Manny, Diego, and the rest of the herd must leave their home and embark on a quest full of comedy and adventure, traveling to exotic new lands and encountering a host of colorful new characters.”
There’s also a new poster:
Is this the same flying saucer we saw in the ice cavern in the first film?
Anyway, do you think Scrat will ever get to eat his precious acorn?
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A weakness in the main security mechanism that protects wireless networks may not be fixed for several weeks, depending on the software a device is running. But its ramifications will be felt for much longer than that.
The WPA2 security protocol has been a mandatory requirement for all devices using the Wi-Fi protocol since 2006, which translates into billions of laptops, mobiles and routers. The weakness identified by Mathy Vanhoef, a digital security researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) in Belgium, lies in the way devices running WPA2 encrypt information.
Each time a device joins a network, it exchanges messages with the router in what is known as a “four-way handshake”. Vanhoef, who will present his findings next month at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Dallas, Texas, found it is possible to interfere with this handshake.
That allows a hacker to gain access to any sensitive information sent over a network – credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails and photos – regardless of passwords or encryption.
“Any device that uses Wi-Fi is likely vulnerable,” says Vanhoef. He alerted technology firms to the vulnerability in July.
Fixing the problem is a matter of a straightforward software update, but while Microsoft has already released a patch to fix the problem on devices running its software, Google and Apple have still to release updates that will do the same.
However, among the most vulnerable devices are those running Google’s Android 6.0 or later – Vanhoef estimates that 41 per cent of the world’s 2 billion Android devices are susceptible.
That’s because the problem is not in devices – it’s in the Wi-Fi standard itself. That means how vulnerable a device is depends entirely on how closely it adheres to the standard. Android adheres strictly. Apple and Microsoft products, on the other hand, don’t do it as much, so are only prone to unusual variations of the attack.
The good news is that there are some barriers to exploiting this vulnerability. “The attacker’s computer needs to be close to the victim, probably within 100 metres,” says Steven Murdoch at University College London. “Also, the code that implements the attack has not been published, so it is going to take quite a lot of work to re-implement it based on the description in the paper.”
That still means someone sat in a cafe or outside a home, for example, could access information being sent over its Wi-Fi network. Alan Woodward, a computer security expert at the University of Surrey, UK, thinks that with appropriate antennas, the range from which an attack is possible “can be further than you might think”.
After alerting technology companies, in August Vanhoef notified the US Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). But he agreed not to publicly release the details for several months to allow the firms to fix their software. “Sadly not all vendors have been quite as swift [as Microsoft] at producing the patches,” says Woodward. “There are still many device manufacturers who have yet to say whether they are vulnerable and if they have been patched.”
Apple has patched the issue in beta versions of its current operating systems that will be released in a few weeks. Google says it too expects to release an update soon.
Even after everything has been patched, however, this vulnerability will have a huge impact on other wireless devices connected as part of the internet of things, says Andrew Martin at the University of Oxford. That includes everything from smart light bulbs and thermostats to home assistants. “We can be sure a lot of these devices won’t be patched,” he says. “Whether that matters for this attack or only for some future attack is yet to be seen.”
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Something big happened in the world’s workplaces while Laura Boisvert was at home raising kids: The internet. From 1999 to 2011, while Ms. Boisvert was a stay-at-home mom in Toronto, the internet went from a fast way to send letters to the ubiquitous backbone of most workplaces.
She had used computers in her previous job at the Sears Canada head office, but so much had changed that she was way behind.
“I felt stupid,” said Ms. Boisvert, 52, describing her first attempt back into the work force, doing administrative tasks part-time at a friend’s law office. She had to learn so many new technical skills that she felt like a drag, and says she never really settled into the role. “It was challenging and frustrating.”
Toronto startup ThinkData Works has made it a priority to help women in this situation and is challenging other companies to do the same. Co-founder Bryan Smith said his data analysis firm is offering a “returnship” – a short-term paid placement aimed at helping women relaunch their professional careers after extended stints at home.
“We’re looking to provide the opportunity to people who may be more senior and experienced in the world they’re coming from but who require short-term, contract or part-time work as they transition back to work,” he said, noting there is no specific job description, salary or term because they will develop a role around a successful candidate’s skills. “We want to respect the knowledge of people applying.”
It’s not just the new employees who will benefit, Mr. Smith says. He sees it as a way to attract skilled senior people to the startup world while addressing the significant gender gap in tech at the same time. Shortly after posting the opportunities on the ThinkData Works’ website in April, the company began to hear from potential applicants, even though it has not advertised the positions at all, Mr. Smith said.
“A lot of the initial feedback [from applicants] is, ‘Is this really real?’ We have to say, ‘Yeah, it’s something real!’ ”
In the United States, returnships have become an increasingly popular option for women looking to brush up on skills and ease back into the work force, particularly in the startup world of Silicon Valley. Large companies such as IBM, Goldman Sachs and Deloitte all offer such back-to-work programs.
Toronto’s most prominent returnship is Women in Capital Markets’ Return to Bay Street, which works with a broad group of financial institutions to help women relaunch careers. In four years, the initiative has placed 42 women back in the industry.
Critics of returnships have said slotting experienced female workers into internship-type roles can undermine their skills or delay their search for a permanent job. But sometimes a taste of success is just what a woman needs to feel confident and ready to commit long-term, says Beatrix Dart, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
She believes a truly helpful returnship involves meaningful work and could lead to a permanent position.
Dr. Dart, who teaches strategic management, says when women are out of the work force for a long time, they often experience the collapse of their professional networks, which can make it harder to find the right opportunity. Other common hurdles include doubts that employers would hire someone who has been off for so long, guilt over stepping back from family responsibilities, and uncertainty about what types of jobs to pursue.
“Many women say, ‘I know what I don’t want to do, but what is it that I do want to do, and am I good enough for it? Can I prove that I have a skill set that is relevant for today’s world?’ ”
Dr. Dart is the executive director of the Rotman Initiative for Women in Business, which runs a Back to Work training program that gets hundreds of applications for 35 spots available each year.
“You have to allow women to work through all of those issues,” said Dr. Dart, adding the program concludes with participants giving a professional presentation to representatives from real businesses, which often leads to hires. “[These workers] have a different level of maturity and experience that shows very quickly, but might need some extra support finding their niche.”
For Ms. Boisvert, that niche was a multifaceted role at recruiting firm TalentMinded, which initially hired her for a short-term project that rolled into a permanent position, which she still holds.
TalentMinded is now helping ThinkData Works recruit for its returnships. Co-founder Kim Benedict has done a lot of thinking about the best ways to increase female participation in sales and tech, and says one solution is to address the language used in job postings. She says terms such as “rock star,” “ninja” and “relentless” can give the impression of a male-focused office culture, as can phrases like “don’t take no for an answer.”
Several mothers who recently returned to the work force have found employment at TalentMinded, which offers flexible hours and allows staff to work from home.
Ms. Benedict is excited about ThinkData Works’ returnships and hopes other firms offer similar positions. She cautions that increasing a company’s gender diversity takes conscious effort. Employers should start by thinking about how a woman with a family might feel about working there. Are the hours flexible? Is part-time work an option?
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EVENINO BULLETIN,. HONOLULU. T. H SATURDAY, OCT, 8, 1910.
Mr, W, N, I'nttonyi)urcliaRoila,llnlck
Moilul 10 runabout from 'The vo'il
Hamm-Young. Company this week,
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Tho Cadillacs which, arrived tills
week nro to be dellyereji to Mr. W.ill.
Crnw, Judge A. Perry ami others.
Tlio vonhlamm-Young Coniiiariy re
ports a very bu'syw'pek In all, Its varlj
uu:b departments. .Several cars have
been received this week, among them
being bIx Overlands-arid .four Cadlb
The von 'lamm-Young Company re
ports tho salo of an Overland road
Rter to Mrj Jas. 1'. Lynch; another
to Mr. Congdun of tho Mutual Tele
phone Company, and a deml-tonneau
to Dr. P. Ft "Hedemann; also the shlp
meiit of an' Overland .demltonnenu to
the VolcandlStnbles, ,' ' '
Mr. Prank) Aherton returned on tho
Wllhetmina''Ahl4 Veelc, rind. Immediate
ly took delloryiof;hls handsomo 1911
Cadillac tourlnjf"1:ar.; These,' cars nro
attracting a great deaf,, ( nttcntlon
here at prjjBcntJVnn'tl; owing jo tjiclr
wonderfully!! smolf ujike'dpf many peo
ple are buying these' fara who would
Hover previously thlrAjofJaJIordlnE. a
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The Balcppf- tho Overland car show
not only Its.unprltubutj'alBO ttio stay
ing qualities, of theso wonderful little
.Tars. It was only seven 'months ago
' that tho first Overland was brought
to these Islands and today thero are
over forty In um. Another shipment
Is. expected right' aVayaiid Tho von
Hnmm-Yoimg rjbmpnny.flud It Is al
most Impossible to keep these, cars In
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.' Note. Touring, clo.ie-eoupled, suburban and landau bodies nro Interchangeable ou this
Proteoted Five-Passenger, Touring Car. ,
Note. This chassis will also tnko, miniature tonnenu and runabout bodies.
Regular Equipment- ' '
Includes' caVo, top and glass front on all open car's, gear,-drlvfln flower air pdrnp, foot accelerator,-
Prestolite tank, Veeder odometer; nil lamps, Including combined oil and electric side
uud .tall .lamps and' an additional electric light for rear llconse number; trunk ruck,- foot rest,
coat rull, extra tiro carriers, tools, horn, Yale locks on hood niut lockers, also on doors of
DEALERT IN MOTOR CARS
"fVl , .
Within the past few months, over
ll6,liQ0 worth o'ftnbvv hiachlncW 1ms
been, Installed and 9',i acres, of new
floor space occupied Work on, itho
new 306o-liorn'o-power engine. In the
main power plant and on n now pow
er plant for the foimdry Js belnu push
ed. Within two'iWeekB Ihe machinery
for Hie recently completed drop forge
plant will be received and another big
addition to the pay-roll will be made.
Packard Increasing 'Force.
DETHOIT, Mich., September 21.
In view of widespread rumors' of trou
blesome times In tho automobile trade,
the following advertisement which is
appearing dally In both morning and
evening Detroit papers Is of special
WANTED Automobile workers In
all departments machlno oper
ators of all kinds, assemblers,
body makers, painters and fin
ishers, Packard Motor Car Company,
This week 528 men were added to
tho Packard pay-roll, and nbout BOO
mora will be employed ,wlthln another
week. In fact, men nro being, taken
on at the rata of a' hundred a day.
During -August, tho Packard, com
pany ' shipped 4Sl cars' 'and ' sixty
trucks,; This Is. tho b'Bgcst month's
deliveries In tho history of the com
pttnyvA,.comparlson of, the first thrco
months of this season with last year
Is ns follows:
1910 June, 142; July, 335; August,'
151'; total 928.
1J09 Juno, 25; July, 178; August.
321; total 621.
Each one of theso shipments means
a car sold to a user, becnusa under
1911 48 H.P.
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the' Packard plan of doing business,
ovcry car shipped has been actually
.purchased b'y' an Indldivldual and Is
paid for on delivery. No cars are
consigned to dealers or sold to dealers
as stock t be carried for future sale.
When asked about conditions, Gen
eral Manager Alvan Macauley saldi
"We are pounding the factory for full
capacity output. Our new buildings
are now About finished and we are
ridding evdry day-to But force'df,ovor
5.000 men! .Itiu'tosta from Packard
dealers for .delivery dates Indicate a
Very healthy condition of trade, and
orders are Increasing each week. We
see nothing ahead but an Increase In
both the Icar nnd' truck branches of
Manager Seymour Halt of the As
sociated garage reports that tho
Hudson roadster car Is giving great
satisfaction everywhere, and that a
delighted .customer wrote the other
day In the following strain: "I've
used a Hudson for a long time, and
I must say It Is the best machine
t have seen. Please send me some
data and' price lists of new cars."
"(he demand for the 1910 Hudson
touring enrs has been so great that
absolutely no dlfforencojn the build
of the machines Is planned for 1911.
The 1910 model will come along as
usual(i and It Is only by Bpeclal de
mamtfof the public that thrs Is so.
Tho cars have given universal sat-
Isfnction and It Is a untquo event to
have , n factory stay with Its first
The1 next thing to arrive at the
Associated garage will be the 25
horsepower pony-tonneau, torpedo'
style-Hudson, This car Is reported
to be' a beauty and the motor has
been .declared by President Coffin to
ho the best, ever built.
Two Pierce Arrow cars of, 48
horsepower have been sold to nr.
rive. One goes to Francis flay and
tt'o' other to a well-known business
man. A Chalmers "40," 1911, wis
shipped from the factory, and, two
"30" of tho same make are, also com-
log.. A Hudson touring tar was soldi
to Mrs. Castle Colenlan.,
Manager Hall took six passengers
and some baggage up the Pacific1
Helhta Innt week, and the Hudson '
rtir did not show any signs of stall-
Ing at any time.
At, the Schumnn Oarage the de
mand for the E. M.-P. automobile re
mains unabated and all the cars of
that make have been sold to arrive.
The popular machine Is going very
strong stll( aUj It is, to be seen every
Tho Locomobile Is another machine
that Is very often enquired for, and
the people who have Invested In these
cars swear by them, .Some people
who' urti using other makes of cars
have become Irifatuated "with the lo
comobile, and 'have decided to dis
pose of their old cars and go In for
the "runs like a. watch" automobile.
The repair shops, at. the Schumnn
have been kept busy anil the Btaff has
been hn,rd, put to It to. keep up with
New Plttiburg. Philadelphia Record.
One hour and ten minutes was
knocked off the Plttsburg-to-Phlladel-phla
ovqrland record last Tuesday,
September 20, when 8. D, Waldon,
vice-president of the' Packard Motor
Car Company, driving a 1911 Packard
"Thirty1' touring car, covered tho 303
miles over the mountains between tho
two cities In 12 hours, 51 minutes.
The trip was made with just one stop
eloven minutes nt McConnollBburg
for gasoline and oil. Tlio previous
record of H, hours, 1 mlnuto was mado
by Mr. Waldon, Soptcmber 12, 1908.
Tho first '175 mtlos of this trip Is
entirely- over mountains, and the road
Is n particularly difficult one ou ac
count, oft the worn condition of the
road, which Is an old stage route,
from which, the surface dirt has long
since been washed away, leaving bare
rock and loose stones on the shelf
like course which winds 'ovor tho
many ridges. Water breakers, or, as
they are familiarly known in automo
bile circles, "thank-you-ma'ams," aro
about 75 yards apart for the entire
distance, even, on tho tovoler and
smootlicr highway oast of Gettysburg.
On tho trip last week, Mr. 'Waldon
started from Pittsburg at 3:45 a. m.,
reaching Bedford at 8:20. (Hidden
tourists of three years ago who went
over this part of tho trip will appre
ciate what It- means 'to' cover this
.distance In 4 hours, 5' minutes, with
out a stop. McConnelsburg was reach,
od at 10 o'clock, 21 minutes ahead of
tho previous time, no stop having
been mado unjll then. After refilling
yith gasoline and oil, the flying trip
vraB taken up and the car sped' on
to Philadelphia without a' stop, reach
ing tho North Ilroad- Street garage of
the 'Packard Motor Car'Company of
Philadelphia at 4:3C p. m. At McCon
nellsburg. Mr. Waldon was handed n
telegram from J, M. Murdock, of
transcontinental fame, who wired from
Hlladelphla that he had made tho
run from McConnellsburg to Philadel
phia In C:48 the, day before, and In
viting Waldon to beat It If he could.
This trick was turned nlcoly, Mr. Wal
don doing that part of ,tho run In
The original purposo of the run was
to glvo several Packard dealers a
Mountain tour, the Packard Company
having promised a trip of this kind
to tho leaders In truck selling pro
portionate to tho pleasure car busi
ness of tho respective Packard deal
ers. The winners of seata for tho
lour were B. H. Ooloy, of Dayton; C.
II Morton, of the Standard Auto Com
pany, Detroit; L. C. Long, of the Chi
cago Motor Cor Company and B. P.
Morlarty, of Kansas City, Morlarty
backed out at the last time, having
recollections of a previous bouncing
over the mquntalns and his place was
filled by E. R. Estep, Advertising
Manager of the Packard Company,
On tho two'succeedlng days, a leisure
ly return trip was made via the Na
tional Pike, through llaltlmoro and
Following the Important announce
ment by the Hudson Motor Car Com
pany of Its merchandising- depart
ment, which la the path-flnder for the
motor trude, now comes from that
same concern the announcement of
u new kind of service department fur
ther tp usalst dealers In "taking care"
The latest Hudson Innovation. la ex
pected to solve the greatest question
In automobile merchandising. It utms
to ndvunce and uplift the cuuse of
tho nutomobllo generully; to make
buyers the best udvertlsers of the
cant of their choice and to make, mo
torists students of the gasoline en
glue that It my, U put to performing
othor services besides transporting
OWclaU of the Hudson Company
bavo been studying for Borne time
ways aud means of showing tho gen
eral ipubllo tho automobile's Import
ant place lu our economy. Dealers
In all makes of cars have thauked
the Hudson Company for the service
It bus rendered the trade with Its
merchandising department and they
have usked for the particulars of tho
The service department points out
the Hudson's noted trlangulur rela
tions between consumer, dealer und
maker. Those are the three great
forces n the automobile world which
must work In hurmony, according to
the Hudson doctrines, to muke sat
isfied owners, contented dealers and
the Hudson service dopartmont
alms to put a stop to the habit of
deulera losing their Interest In cus
48 Shaft Drive 6 Cylinder
68 Actual Horse Power
With the 191 1 features is the recognized car for the coming
yea , arid will maintain its reputation as the . .
Best Built Car in America X
: ' .;.
There are many
TENSION DUAL IGNITION SYSTEM. ;
In body styles there is a wide range
Five or Seven Passenger . U' "
Touring Body " Torpedo
There are front doors, but so constructed that they can be rei!
moved. There is a finish in any color you select. With
every model' there s .a Cape ToJ,rEJectrfc "Lighting Equip
ment, and Demountable Rims. These" without extra charge.,'
Schuman Carriage Co.
tomers after they buy 11 cur. That,
Is one thing the Hudson Company, has.
never allowed its agents to do, but It
has been done by others and has hurt
the whole auto trade. If dealers fol
low the Hudson's principles they will
preserve the friendship of buyers by
treating them with every courtesy
after buying. The Idea Is to kill that
spirit of Woll-I've-sold-hlm-a-cur-now-I-donH'huvo-to-bothor-w'lthl-hlmt'
anj-rnoro. New motorists .will nnd
increased pleasure In owning cars
when the Hudson's service depart
ment will have Inculcated Its spirit
Into the relations of all auto dealers
and consumers. '
Mr. Frank II, Trego bus, charge. of
the Hudson service department Mr,
Trego for yeurs enjoyed the reputa
tion of being one of the foremost
technical luminaries In the automo
bile business. Important automobile
events In the history of the motor car
In America could not be mentioned
without recalling the part. Mr. Trego
has played In them. Mr. Trego bus
, u stall of mechanics scattered all
over the country whose sole duty Is
to Instruct dealers und owners how
to get' the utmost, of service out of
V. T. McDrlde of Portland, Oreg6n,
formerly of Ilutto, Montana, claims
the stability record for long-dlstanco
automobile driving. With flvo pcoplo
in nis slx-cyllnder, forty-two-horsc-power
Franklin motor car ho Went
trom' Ithuca, N. Y., to Iluttcf taking
flvo weeks for tho trip and traveling,
with sido tours, about 100 miles. Tho
entire run was made without difficul
Mr. McIIrldo's son, J, II. Mcllrldo,
is a student of Cornell University at
Ithaca, Ho drove tho car tho ontlro
distance. The putty consisted of 'Mr.
nnd Mrs, Mcllrldo nnd their son, with
Den Hurwood and J. V, Ilecd. They
went first to Now York city and
thence up tha Hudson river and across
Now York state to Uuffalo. Although
the trip was only for pleasure an aver
ago of thirty miles per hour of actual
running time was mode,
Alt tlio pussongcrs Imvo stories to
tell of their oxperieucea uud tho beau-
new features among which- is the HIGH
ty df tha country. The younger Mc
Drldo after the trip said Iho western
part of tho tour was hard op the Car
but that, tho latter had novor faltered.
"Near Pocatello, Idaho," said he,
"we encountered five miles of sand
that almost proved our undoing. Fly
flattening the tiros, howover, wo went
through tho flvo-mllo stretch In about
"It has 'taken some cars almost as
many hours to go through tho same
place. It la absolutely necessary to
flatten the tires.
"Near .Idaho Kalis tho roads pass
through sand, sago brush and lava
rock, whlcl( mako. tho traveling very
strenuous. Near Duliols wo had to go
'through a large swamp."
The distance by rail from Now York
city to Ilutte Is SSG9 miles. Tho side
trips and hlghwny turns mado by the
nutomobllo Increased this mileage
Tho Mcllrldos own n ranch at Dutte
and nudq a Btop there, shipping their
car to Portland, where Mr. MclirUle
Is building a residence. His son chosa
tho trip both for vacation nnd educa
Towns and cities passed through
west of DultMlo wero: Erie, Pa. Cleve.
laud and Ducyrus, Ohio; Fort Wayno
and South Demi, Ind.; Chicago and I
Oalesburg. 111.; Hannibal, Mo.; Clln-I
ton and Centralis. In.; Cheyenne and'
I.arnmlo, Wyo.; Montpeller and Poca
tello, Idaho; and Moulda, Mont.
An'outconio of tho recent gathering
of Cadlllaq dealers at tho factory In
Detroit was the formation of the "Old
Guard." To this organisation no deal
er. Is cllglblo unless he has been sell
ing Cadillac cars 'continuously for at
least five yoars; and tho chatter meifl-1
bcrshlp numbers 38.
Tho chief object ot the dealers In
bringing themselves Into closer bond
Is one of mutual benefit. Each year,
when the current season's: business
has been cle.anod up, the Cadillac
Ldealera gathor at the factory to learn
or tno pians tor mo louowing year,
This will bo made ona of the occa
sions for a meeting of the Old Quard,
and again nt th'u Now York nnd ,Chl-
cago shows thoy will get together to
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company notes and exchango experi
ences and Ideas. .,
As the man who has been Joajreii'-
In the Cadlllao sales service, his coo:,
ncctlon having been unbroken slac
1902, George B. Dlaicesleo of 3ntjt
City was elected president of th Ote- -
fluard; and Inglts M, Uppercua, the'
Cadillac representatlto In NsiK-Jort-
Clty, was made secretary, j. '
Through twcnry-l(ht cotmUtsj . of
California J. A. Graves, a' Loi Xat' '
les banker, has recently taken aa .afr
tomoblle party of six over a IJ7t-ml(s)''
route which, he proclaims as a dHcbt-,
fill discovery for motorists, ,u Fobs!,
weeks were spent In the pleasures 0',
touring through some of tha .wildest
nn-tn nt ttiA ttfltA
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The morning of tha- start Of tha) '
trip the Graves automobile, a stx-cy'
Under, forty-two-horse-power Franklli'
touring car; demonstrated IU super-lr','
orlty over a railway locorootlva ln'
mountaln climbing. Although tha.par-' ,
ty did not attompt speed tha motor '
car's air-cooled engine mado It" easy'
to keop ahead ot a train, which -.,-making
a grade by a tortuous route-.
At one point amid the helkntsOf .
n,e sierra Nevada an aneroid teV
showed an elevation of 5500 feat'froiV''''
eea level. This was reached oyer V .
ainily marked wagon road through", A
mountain forest .' . J ,
In tlia Ban-1 Miguel tallty the. 'dtafK I'll
tnnco between ailfoy and Ban JJ?!
thirty miles, was made In forty-lT'iVi
mlnutrv because the travelers, wphedV
to mako that town before dark,, an i
0110 day 235 miles waa travaUd. bat . .
ordinarily the travelers averaged nliiC ; V
teen miles an hour. For two' days, tkpgi j
route lay along tha blutfa QTerlooklBsS yri
tho Poclflo ocean; as far aa tha eyAS ' '
could soo along the coast there wsjJ '
only a barren, rocky beich.i l1,xA
Near aarbecsjHIe the gaaollne wa4? .' 5
exhausted, and the engine was ruin
several miles on two gallons ot codli
oil purchased from a mountaineer. Ii
Duty determine dttiln'7.
ter, Lart chance today.
There's no place like home.
If It Is a homely place.
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Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, announced today four new “program directors” for the Department at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. These positions are integral in assisting incoming Department Chair Doug Bartlett in enhancing our overall education endeavors.
Mike Landry has been commended for serving as vice chair of the Department for the past three years. Landry has provided invaluable service to Scripps education on all levels and is now returning to his active research projects and sea-going activities.
The four new program directors appointments are:
T. Guy Masters
All four will continue in their current research positions, in addition to taking on these added responsibilities of serving Scripps’ overall education efforts.
Through the Scripps section structure, Hastings, Masters, and Severinghaus will focus on undergraduate and graduate teaching as Scripps continues its proactive advancement in cross-institutional education programs. Lisa Tauxe will remain as the Earth sciences undergraduate director. Hendershott will assist with academic personnel files and coordinate transition issues. | <urn:uuid:aaa53519-42b6-49a9-bcac-8da73d6fa9d4> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/1758 | 2015-07-28T13:21:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042981921.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002301-00035-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937895 | 222 |
USF's Jones misses cut for U.S. hoops team
USF guard Dominique Jones, who has spent the last three days in Colorado Springs trying out for the U.S. entry in next month's World University Games, was not among the 12 players chosen for the team.
Here's the official release from USA Basketball's official site.
"All 16 players at trials are very good players," said head coach Bo Ryan from the University of Wisconsin. "Everybody that competed worked very hard against one another at a very high level. The toughest part was getting down to the 12 players. I don't want to take anything away from the guys who didn't make it, but the 12 who are on the final list are the ones that if you look at the overall picture -- offense, defensive, rebounding, things like that, this was the 12 that stood out."
Four players didn't make the squad -- Jones and fellow guard Nic Wise of Arizona, Iowa State power forward Craig Brackins and Purdue center JaJuan Johnson.
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Gold Market Update
originally published December 23rd, 2012.
After gold's losses of the past couple of weeks there is increasing talk about its bullmarket being finally over. In this update we will use long-term charts to determine whether these claims have any substance.
On its 12-year chart, which goes back to the start of the bullmarket, we can see that the top boundary of the uptrend from 2006 is defined by the line drawn across 3 important peaks, and it is from this line that the parallel supporting trendline beneath is derived. While there is no law stating that the lower trendline has to be parallel, it is nevertheless likely, and it is regarded as no coincidence that the strong support at recent lows, which needs to hold, and this lower trendline are more or less coincident at this time - if the current reaction continues this is where it should stop and reverse, although as we will see later on the 6-month chart it may not drop back any further than where it is now.
Having gotten a perspective on the entire bullmarket, we will now look at the action from the 2006 peak in more detail on a 7-year chart. On this chart we can see more clearly where gold will arrive at a 'buy spot' if the current reaction continues, in the green oval. Since the August 2011 peak, gold has mostly been trading in a horizontal box or rectangular trading range bounded by the clear lines of support and resistance shown. On a further dip into this support, which will bring it close to the major supporting trendline, gold will be a buy, and as this important support above $1500 is so clearly defined, the point to set stops will be a little below $1500. This mechanical approach affords a highly favorable risk/reward ratio, as positions would be closed out for a minor loss if the support fails, while upside potential from this entry point is obviously very considerable.
A lot of traders were upset last week when gold dropped below its early November lows, in the process dropping below its 200-day moving average, and grumbling about the dastardly cartel and their 'dirty tricks department' bubbled up again. On the 6-month chart we can see recent action in detail, and it might not be anywhere near as bad as it looks at first sight. On the contrary we could be at a buy spot right now - for what we might just have seen is the completing C-wave of a 3-wave A-B-C correction to the strong upleg in August and September, which still looks like an impulse wave (advance in the direction of the primary trend). The price has now arrived at the bottom of the parallel channel shown and at a zone of significant support in an oversold condition. Also, last week's selling looks rather panicky and capitulative, the sort of thing you associate with weak hands.
The latest Hulbert Gold Sentiment, courtesy of www.sentimentrader.com shows that the sentiment pendulum has swung from being very bullish a few months ago, and thus a sign of a top, to getting bearish again, which increases the chances of a reversal to the upside soon.
Gold's COT charts did call the retreat of recent weeks, with high Commercial short and Large Spec long positions having built up ahead of it, as the latest COT chart below shows. The chart is now less useful, as readings have moderated into middle ground, and thus don't give much of an indication one way or the other.
What about the dollar? - a dollar plunge would be 'just what the doctor ordered' for gold's convalescence and swift return to ruddy cheeked health would it not?
The dollar index chart looks dire. On its 18-month chart we can see that a large Head-and-Shoulders top appears to be completing. While these patterns can sometimes abort, it indicates a high probability that the dollar will break lower soon, and if it does it can be expected to drop quite rapidly to the next important support level in the 73.50 - 74 area. Clearly such a drop is likely to drive a substantial rally in gold and silver. The fact that gold and the dollar dropped together over the past week or so is regarded as a temporary anomaly.
At the same time, the broad stockmarket look like it about to roll over and head south. On the 15-year chart for the S&P500 index we can see how its big bearmarket rally has been steadily decelerating as it has approached the massive resistance at its 2000 and 2007 highs, with the uptrend approximating to a bearish Rising Wedge, but more accurately defined by the large bearish 'Distribution Dome' shown on the chart. While the pattern could abort, with a breakout to new highs - possible if the dollar craters - by itself this chart points to a potentially severe decline. One horrifying possibility is that the dollar and US stockmarket drop in tandem as the US economy, finally overcome by its massive debt burden with the eventual threat of runaway interest rate hikes, plunges into the abyss.
If the Head-and-Shoulders top in the US dollar were to abort, and it rallies as a result of a 'dash to cash' as in 2008, then it is easy to see how the US stockmarkets could then plunge, which they look set up to do. In this situation what would happen to Precious Metals stocks, which have recently looked really lame?
Our 5-year chart for the HUI index shows that the sector looks vulnerable to a brutal decline if the broad stockmarket plunges, as a large potential Head-and-Shoulders top is completing in this index. In this situation quality junior mining stocks which have typically lost 80 - 90% of their value over the past couple of years, might only lose another 50 - 75% of their current value, so that a stock which has dropped from say C$2.00 to C$0.20 over the past 2 years, might only drop to say C$0.07, where needless to say, it will probably be a great bargain.
In conclusion it is a complex and messy picture, but at least we have the clear parameters that are set out in this update. Gold could reverse and take off higher from here, and is viewed as a buy on any further retreat back into the support above $1500. Failure of the key $1500 level would be a bearish development that would call for the closing out of positions or at least protecting with hedges. The dollar looks set to break down, but so does the stockmarket, which is an extraordinary situation as normally when the dollar drops, stocks rally to compensate.
To finish on a supremely positive note, at least we survived the Mayan prophecy for the world to end on 21st December. After that 2013 should be a cakewalk!...
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It’s that time of year. When the weather starts getting colder and the days shorter and darker, it makes it harder for me to get off the couch!
Overall I consider myself to have ‘high-functioning anxiety.’ I know some people struggle with much more severe anxiety, so I feel really lucky that mine’s manageable without medication.
It still effects my relationships and my daily life. Meditation, positive affirmations and, more recently, essential oils are all things I use to cope with my anxiety.
I learned a lot about oils from friends and did a ton of google research, but I still had so many questions about how they can help with anxiety. That’s why I reached out to a certified aromatherapist, and I’m sharing all her tips here with you. I hope they’re helpful!
Meet Sammi Boerner!
Sammi owns her own aromarapy, health and lifestyle coaching business in Minnesota. (Do you even need to know more? A midwest girl? I love her already!)
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I came across her book while researching essential oils for myself, and when I reached out she quickly agreed to do an interview.
Today I’m sharing all her knowledge about essential oils and anxiety. So turn on your diffuser, and if you don’t have one yet keep reading anyways, because she’s about to help you relax like you’re somewhere on a beach, even though you’re probably not.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE AS AN AROMATHERAPIST AND HEALTH COACH, HOW DID YOU GET HERE?
SAMMI: About 3 years ago, I had reached a breaking point and knew something needed to change. I was overweight, unhappy, struggling to deal with anxiety, OCD, insomnia, and panic disorder, as well as in a toxic job. I quit my job and started working at my dad’s appliance business while I worked on improving myself.
I started working with a chiropractor and initially had a goal of just losing 5 pounds (which I thought was unrealistic). About 6 months later, I had lost almost 50 pounds, decreased my anxiety medication, discontinued my insomnia medication, improved my cholesterol, and realized how good I can feel! After that, I knew I wanted to help others. I started health coaching and aromatherapy training so I could help others. And I wrote a book called Essential Oils for Promoting Weight Loss! I love sharing my story and being able to help others realize they can reach their goals.
DO YOU TREAT PEOPLE FOR ANXIETY?
SAMMI: Essential oils, flower essences, and coaching do not treat or cure conditions; however, they can reduce symptoms that come with anxiety and create balance in the body.
HOW DO YOU HELP PEOPLE WHO HAVE ANXIETY PROBLEMS?
SAMMI: Essential oils and flower essences are great at helping people cope with anxiety. They can quiet the mind, calm the nervous system, reduce excessive worrying, release muscle tension, improve sleep, and more! All of this helps the nervous system out of ‘fight or flight’ mode and into ‘rest and digest’ mode.
WHAT ARE THE BEST PRACTICES FOR USING ESSENTIAL OILS?
SAMMI: They’re highly concentrated liquids created with aromatic plant material. Plant materials—such as flowers, woods, grasses, leaves, roots, resins, twigs, fruits, and needles—are harvested and put through either the process of distillation or expression to produce essential oils. The number of essential oils is constantly growing, and researchers continue to learn more about which oils are useful as remedies. When using essential oils, always remember, less is more!
HOW SHOULD I GO ABOUT USING ESSENTIAL OILS?
SAMMI: I recommend using essential oils topically and aromatically. Internal use of essential oils is a controversial topic. I do not recommend internal use unless you consult with an aromatherapist who specializes in internal use. Due to the high concentration of plant material, use extreme caution when using internally. Essential oils can be used topically when diluted with a carrier oil or added to products such as lotions, gels, and salves. Essential oils can be used aromatically by adding to a diffuser, taking deep breaths holding the bottle near your nose, putting a couple drops in your palms and taking deep breaths, or adding them in an aromatherapy inhaler.
WHAT OILS DO YOU RECOMMEND FOR ANXIETY?
SAMMI: Anxiety affects each person differently so it totally depends on the goal and symptom. Here are some that I like to use:
- Clary Sage – Calms the nervous system, reduces anxiety, calms anger/agitation, improves depression, and provides mental clarity.
- Frankincense – Reduces anxiety, relieves tension, helps you feel protected, heals emotional trauma, and improves focus.
- Lavender – Soothes anxiety, helps you feel balanced, improves depressive thoughts, calms the mind, and releases tension in the mind and body.
- Vetiver – Grounding, clears the mind, slows racing thoughts, provides a sense of security, calms the mind, prevents mental burnout, and boosts confidence.
- Ylang Ylang – Soothes anxiety, reduces anger/agitation, boosts self-confidence, relieves nervous tension, improves depression, increases self-love, and improves the mood.
CAN I JUST USE THEM WHEN I’M STRESSED OR SHOULD I USE THEM EVERY DAY?
SAMMI: Either/or depending on your goals! I love to use essential oils daily to create balance in the mind and body, which in turn reduces stress and anxiety. I also love to use essential oils as needed for anxiety, digestive upsets, excessive worrying, headaches, etc.
WHY DO THEY WORK?
SAMMI: Plants have numerous healing properties! Essential oils are created with plant material to offer those healing properties with ease.
ANY OTHER ADVICE FOR REALLY STRESSFUL DAYS?
SAMMI: Take deep breaths, practice grounding, focus on the now (NOT the past or future), and always have essential oils on hand!
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This webinar will address the top ten challenges CSPs face when automating for the first time or when increasing and optimizing their existing automation efforts. The presenters will provide expert tips on how to identify and overcome these challenges, while simplifying management of a wide range of network automation tools and orchestrators.
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When: April 4, 2018
Where: Dallas, TX
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This flaky frozen sweet Italian treat – the Granita, is perfect to beat that scorching summer heat. Its light, airy and super refreshing, and to pack a bit more punch and aroma I added two twigs of dill leaves.
You can use the fruit of your choice, but do adjust to sugar quantity depending of your taste and also the sweetness of the fruit.
You need –
- Pineapple cubes (peeled and cored) – 750 grams
- dill – 2 small sprigs
- Sugar – 1/3 cups
- water – 1/2 cup
- Ice cubes – 1 cup
How to –
- In a sauce pan, add the sugar, dill, water and heat until the sugar has completely dissolved. Set aside to cool. Discard the dill sprigs.
- Place the pineapple, sugar syrup, ice cubes in a blender and blend until smooth.
- Pour the mixture into a 9 inch freeze safe/baking pan and freeze for an hour.
- Using a fork scrape the granita . Freeze for about 2 hours or until set.
- Scrape into serving bowls and enjoy! | <urn:uuid:80194903-446a-4473-868d-80a171d546af> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://foodoliciouspictured.com/2016/02/01/pineapple-and-dill-granita/ | 2018-03-19T22:05:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647153.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319214457-20180319234457-00128.warc.gz | en | 0.881099 | 241 |
Seattle animal rights activist Jon Batchelor is free after 94 days in the Fairfax Co, VA jail! His felony charges from actions at an animal rights demonstration, carrying a possible sentence of 10 years, were dropped. He was found guilty on a misdemeanor charge of assault and fined $2,700, bringing his total expenses to $14,000. He still needs our support paying off the bullshit.
During the demo, he ‘unarrested’ a woman from a suspected undercover cop. The cops apparently got his name from undercovers at the demonstration, and he was arrested on the warrant months later in Seattle, WA. His trial was fraught with state repression: a metal detector was set up, somebody reported seeing a sniper on an adjacent building, and a van of supporters was harassed by police.
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It’s January and time to get to work on our off-season training. Where do we start? At the beginning.
In the real world and the virtual world, the Skid Pad is a great place to practice some fundamentals. We’ll use the Skid Pad 0.5 track, which isn’t included with Assetto Corsa, so you’ll have to download and install that first. The car is the NA Mazda Miata that comes with the game, so there’s nothing to download there. For all the exercises, we’ll be leaving the car in 2nd gear.
Enter a practice session and turn right at the sign post to get to the skid pad. Start circling the skid pad on the 50m radius. Go as fast as you can while staying on the 50m line. Once your tires are warmed up, you should be able to maintain 44 mph.
Max Corner Speed
While circling on the 50m radius, try to add throttle slowly and get up to 48 mph. You can briefly, but it can’t be maintained. In fact, when you try, you end up on a larger radius. While this may seem an obvious circumstance, it’s worth studying. Every radius has a maximum cornering speed. It is impossible to go 48 mph when the maximum is 44. You cannot bully your way to a faster corner speed. Precision is the name of the game.
Go back to circling at 44 mph. Try steering more. A lot more. It doesn’t work. Once you’re cornering at maximum speed, adding a bunch of steering input doesn’t make you turn more. That’s because you can’t get on a tighter radius when your speed is 44. The speed of the tighter radius might be 40, so you’ll have to get down to 40 before you can maintain a tighter radius. Adding steering will slow you down some, but it’s not an efficient way to turn or decelerate.
Steering with Feet
Let’s get circling at max speed again. What happens when you add or remove throttle? Adding throttle makes you go outwards. Removing throttle makes you go inwards. Braking gently also makes you go inwards. When you’re cornering a maximum speed, deceleration is a great way of steering. In fact, when you decelerate, you do 3 things: (1) add traction to the front tires (2) slow down (3) remove traction from rear tires. Adding traction to the front makes the steering wheel work better. Slowing down allows you to get to a tighter radius. Removing traction from the rear lets the car rotate (slide) to contribute to turning. Win, win, win.
You can also steer with the throttle pedal. But should you? Let’s say you’re cornering at maximum speed and decide you want to turn outward. Should you (a) turn the wheel (b) press the throttle? If you add throttle, the car will naturally change to a larger radius. But this is a form of understeer. The wheel will feel heavy as you fight for lateral grip. You’ll go faster if you just reduce steering lock.
In a RWD car, you can use the throttle to steer with the back wheels if you use enough to get the tires spinning. Massive oversteer looks cool, but is slow. Why? Because you’re sharing turning and accelerating. You’re also reducing the overall grip of your tires. If you want to go fast, you have to keep as much grip as possible, and drifting reduces overall grip.
Let’s say you’re headed down a straight and about to enter the corner. Your goal is actually really simple. You need to get down to 44 mph (or whatever the maximum corner speed is). What happens if you end up above or below 44 mph?
If you’re too fast for your target corner speed, you will end up on a larger corner radius than you want. You want to go tighter, but your speed makes you go wider. You turn the wheel and nothing happens. That’s understeer.
If you’re too slow for your target corner speed, what will you do? Probably add throttle in the middle of the corner. What happens when you add throttle? Weight shifts off the front tires making them less grippy. In other words, understeer. Let’s write this in stone.
You can get understeer from entering a corner too fast or too slow.
Lots of people blame a car or its setup for understeer. But most of the time it’s the driver creating understeer.
Of course, you can create your own oversteer, and that’s a really great car control skill. But we’re saving that for another day.
Regardless of your current habits, you should practice more than one way of holding the steering wheel. On a racetrack, you’ll be using 9-n-3 most of the time. But off road you’ll need more steering lock than that. So it’s a good idea to practice several hand positions.
- 9-n-3 – put your hands on the sides of the wheel and don’t move them ever
- Shuffle – don’t let your hands cross the middle of the wheel (right hand stays on right side, left hand stays on left side)
- One-handed – use your left or right hand only regardless of whether the turn is left or right
- Hand-over-hand – mimic the driver animation in Assetto Corsa
The skid pad has some numbers marked on it at intervals (10, 25, 50, 75, 100, etc.). Use those as cones and do a slalom, weaving in and out of the numbers as fast as you can. Use all of the hand positions. Which hand position works best for slalom? For me, it’s 9-n-3.
Use two 50m markers as cones for a figure 8 drill (cross over in the middle). Go around one side turning left and then the other side going right. Use all of the hand positions. Which one works best for figure 8? For me, it’s hand-over-hand, although one-handed is also good.
One of the best ways to wreck your car (real or virtual) is to drive off track. The skid pad is surrounded by dirt. Drive around the skid pad and then go for a spin in the dirt. I mean that literally. Try to spin. Also try to recover from a spin. One of the most important things you can learn from sim racing is how a vehicle behaves when it goes off course. While the dirt model in AC isn’t perfect, it’s good enough to demonstrate the dangers of off track excursions.
Let’s spend a moment reflecting on the concepts in this post.
- Speed affects radius and vice-versa
- You can steer with your hands as well as your feet
- Turning is often accompanied by deceleration
- Unwanted understeer is often created by the driver
- Different hand positions work for different situations
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By late morning/early afternoon, you should be ready to start applying the decking treatment. Work in the direction of the grain along the length of each board to avoid overlap marks, and follow the manufacturer’s instructions carefully. By late afternoon/early evening, the first coat should be dry (allow about four hours between coats, depending on the product), so you can apply a second coat.
:: Unless further coats are required, you should be able to enjoy your decking from Sunday morning onwards - weather permitting. For a step-by-step guide to sprucing up your decking, download the All Decked Out podcast at www.sadolin.co.uk/homeowner
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Bosch has launched a really useful cordless cutting tool for DIY and more - the new and improved Xeo 2. Easy to manoeuvre, because it’s small and light, the Xeo 2’s also super simple to use - just take off the safety catch, grip the rubberised handle and press the trigger.
It’s brilliant for lightweight cutting tasks, such as cutting wallpaper ready for hanging, and it powers through carpet (up to 6mm thick) and vinyl flooring in seconds. The blade’s self-sharpening, there’s a safety guard to protect your
fingers, and it’s easy to see where you’re cutting, which isn’t always the case with power tools.
The new Ask a Designer app on B&Q’s Facebook page offers a free bathroom design service, with a detailed rundown of how to recreate the look you want within the space, budget and time available. You simply submit pictures of your bathroom and include details of what you’d like to achieve. B&Q’s team of experts will choose the rooms most in need of a makeover and then come up with a design to fit the brief. From August, the app will be available for kitchen makeovers as well. Submit your pictures to B&Q’s page at www.facebook.com | <urn:uuid:76f06085-a296-4ffe-8a41-3dde633ad646> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://www.offalyexpress.ie/news/features/146572/Deck-it-out-this-summer-.html | 2020-05-26T16:09:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347391277.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20200526160400-20200526190400-00184.warc.gz | en | 0.9239 | 437 |
A paper released by Nic D'Alessandro reviews research on this topic and examines these questions in detail. The paper also discusses how PC-based sims can be used more effectively to improve aspects of aviation training. This will be of interest to desktop simmers who dream of flying for real one day, right through to flight instructors and commercial/IFR pilots who use simulators to support their work.
Nic D'Alessandro is an elearning / educational design professional, has a Private Pilots License, and has been using desktop simulators for over 20 years. He has recently completed construction of a full-size fixed-base Boeing737NG simulator and is an active member of cockpit building and VATSIM online communities.
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Vetro Glassblowing Studio & Fine Art Gallery
Centuries ago, Italian artisans created the art form of glassblowing. It involved using various techniques to form and shape hot molten glass, resulting in fine art glass that captured the attention of the entire world. Today, Vetro (Italian for “glass”) is a nationally-recognized, full-scale working studio and art gallery located in Grapevine, Texas that specializes in this celebrated art form. Come by, contact us or shop online because you deserve fine art glass in your life. | <urn:uuid:590c9c1a-7615-4232-842d-a30e0f97ed9f> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | http://www.vetroartglass.com/ | 2019-09-24T09:54:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514572896.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20190924083200-20190924105200-00361.warc.gz | en | 0.937149 | 115 |
BEAVER FALLS, Pa. - The Genevans, Geneva's student choir, will offer fine entertainment and dining with its annual banquet in Alexander Dining Hall at Geneva College on Saturday, Nov. 1. Hors D′oeuvres will be served at 6 p.m., and the dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m.
The theme of the banquet is "An Evening in Vienna." Students will perform during the hors d′oeuvres, and the choir will sing several Vienna-born and related music following the meal.
Proceeds will help the Genevans to fund its annual spring tour. This year, the choir will travel to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.
The Genevans banquet is open to the public. Tickets are $17 for adults, $12 for children under 12, and $8 for college students. A reservation is required by October 28.
For more information, call the Geneva College Music Department at 724-847-6660.
Geneva College is a comprehensive Christian college of the arts, sciences and professional studies. Founded in the tradition of the Reformed Christian faith, Geneva prepares students to serve Christ in all areas of society: work, family and the church. Geneva is a founding member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU). | <urn:uuid:efbb9549-8094-44b6-bc13-6913c3e99c79> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.geneva.edu/news/2008/10/nr_genevans_banquet_10_08 | 2015-03-30T20:05:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131299877.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172139-00288-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932978 | 280 |
This fine privilege sceptre has a honeyed patina. It is carved from a single piece of heavy dark wood and has, as its finial, a finely carved, typically square- form female head. The head demonstrates all the traits of the idealised Ovimbundu woman’s face: prominent eyes, a fine nose and a slightly gaping mouth. Her facial expression is tranquil and elegant.
Her coffee-bean eyes, are deeply set. Her prominent forehead is characteristically Ovimbundu. Such a prominent forehead is supposed to suggest intelligence, thoughtfulness and sensibility.
Her face is separated from her coiffure by a finely incised fringe. The coiffure is elaborately detailed. It rises from the top of the head and sweeps back. It is decorated with triangles of cross-hatching.
The back of the head has been carved with a domed section surrounded by finely carved concentric circles, as part of the elaborate coiffure.
The coiffure is also styled with a bob or tier, with the lower section being similarly carved.
Sceptres such as the example here were prestigious items owned by Ovimbundu chiefs in what is now Angola. Their forms represent the positive qualities the chiefdoms would wish to cultivate within. Typically such sceptres were presented to the sons of chiefs during their transition to adulthood.
Ovimbundu carvings, particularly of the female figures, were aesthetically influenced by Chokwe carvings. (The Chokwe are another of Angola’s important ethnic groups). Ovimbundu carvings were also influenced by the royal art of the neighbouring Luba kingdom in the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo.
All these influences were cultivated along trade routes that penetrated the region during the 19th century. The Ovimbundu, Chokwe, Luena and related tribal groups in the region all have similar sceptres with the particularly striking characteristic of elaborate hairstyles or headdresses that adorn both male and female finial heads.
The Ovimbundu are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group living in southern Angola, which comprises over 20 indigenous chiefdoms. The Ovimbundu were the main coastal link to the Portuguese-sponsored trade routes with Central Africa. The merchants and chiefs became wealthy through this trade and would often commission objects of art to illustrate their political and financial status. The authority of an Ovimbundu chief was not hereditary – a council elected a sovereign, but he was chosen only from among the members of the royal clan.
The example here is in fine condition. There is one shallow and stable age and shrinkage-related crack to one side of the head, and with an overall honeyed, glossy patina.
Bacquart, J. B., The Tribal Arts of Africa, Thames & Hudson, 1998.
Ginzberg, M., African Forms, Skira editore, 2000.
Pethica, T., Klopper, S. & Nettleton, A., The Art of Southern Africa: The Terence Pethica Collection, 5 Continents, 2007.
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City offers thousands to lure mixed-income buyers; State offers down payment help
A slow housing market means sellers everywhere are trying to lure buyers into purchasing a home.
The Chicago Housing Authority is no different.
If you purchase a home in one of the Plan for Transformation’s new mixed-income communities, you could save up to $118,000, according to a press release from Find Your Place in Chicago, a marketing campaign from the city of Chicago and The Partnership for New Communities.
That huge sum comes from three different ways to save:
- discounts from the developer between $20,000 and $100,000
- cash gifts of $10,000 for owner-occupied units
- federal income tax credit of $8,000 for first time home buyers
The deals are only good for the next two weeks. More information at Find Your Place in Chicago. Deals like this have been offered all year long, trying to get homebuyers to purchase units in the agency’s Plan for Transformation mixed-income sites, which have been stalled because of the lagging economy and housing crisis.
In addition, Governor Pat Quinn launched a new program giving first time homebuyers and veterans access to low-interest loans for down payment assistance.
The program, which began Friday, gives home buyers that qualify for the Illinois Housing Development Authority’s 30-year fixed-rate mortgage a second loan for three percent of the purchase price, up to $6,000.
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A bunch of times I’ve heard this song being described as about a botched “sex change operation”. Whoever thinks that obviously wasn’t listening very closely and doesn’t know their queer history very well. It is indeed about a botched surgery that was often performed on trans women once upon a time. But it’s not about SRS.
It’s about a botched lobotomy.
April Gardner, aka Slignot, offers some interesting insights into Die Cis Scum, in the wake of a twitter debate with an old cis pre-transition friend of mine that followed the arrival of this:
(made as a custom birthday gift by LD Originals and Custom Couture)
My first time wearing it was met with a cis guy running up behind me to catch up and say “I LOVE your jacket. And someday I eventually will.”
I told him that unless he’s also scum it doesn’t apply to him.
Cross-Dresser Success Stories has been re-initiated.
A seventy-eight year-old pensioner in East Sussex is set to become the oldest trans woman to ever have SRS under the NHS (insulting, archaic language in the article, btw).
Janet Mock offers an important rallying cry for asserting that the lives of trans women like CeCe McDonald, Paige Clay and Brandy Martell do count.
A trans student teacher in Ohio was fired for discussing his being trans in class, which apparently is some kind of “violation of code of ethics and professional conduct” or something. God I’m sick of cis people’s ethics and codes of conduct.
Violate the hell out of them.
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CALL. 07.08.2018: International PhD Student Conference Laetae segetes VI - Brno (Czech Republic)
The Department of Classical Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, formally announces the International PhD Student Conference Laetae segetes VI, an opportunity for beginning researchers to present their work. This event is a continuation of similar colloquiums held in 2005, 2007, 2012, 2014 and 2016. On these occasions, young scholars from various universities submitted their contributions, the majority of which were published in the conference proceedings or in the journal Graeco Latina Brunensia.
FECHA LÍMITE/DEADLINE/SCADENZA: 07/08/2018
FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 12-13-14/11/2018
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Petra Mutlová ; Irena Radová
INFO: web - firstname.lastname@example.org ; email@example.com
Abstracts of papers to be presented in English, German, Italian, or French are invited for consideration by the Conference Academic Committee. Please submit your abstract (up to 200 words) until August 7, 2018 via e-mail to the following address: firstname.lastname@example.org or email@example.com. Acceptance notification will be sent to you until August 20, 2018.
Individual 20-minute paper presentations will be followed by 5 minutes of discussion.
Parallel sessions and panel discussions will be scheduled over four days; papers will be grouped by sessions (Ancient Literature; Classical Languages; Ancient history; Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies; Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies). The conference programme will be available at http://classics.phil.muni.cz
Standard registration fee is 60 EUR/1 500 CZK.
Payment should be made by bank transfer until October 15, 2018.
The participation fee includes: conference proceedings, reception meal (as specified in the conference programme), and refreshments during coffee breaks.
The participation fee does NOT include: hotel booking and payment, and excursion.
The organizers recommend Hotel Continental, where university guests get a price reduction, or University Hotel Garni.
All papers will be considered for publication in Graeco Latina Brunensia (articles published in this journal are covered by the following databases: Lʼannée philologique, Medioevo Latino, Poiesis, ERIH, and SCOPUS).
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The beginning of August sought an issue that I would never have dreamed of going through — or understood the rigor of. Journeying into the US college admissions journey as an international student that only knew of universities like Harvard and Stanford from western TV shows, Legally Blonde, and obscure chick flicks (Sydney White, etc.) is definitely, without a doubt, one of the most stimulating challenges I’ve faced thus far. As shallow as that may sound, being thrusted into a season with the potential for the entire course of your life to change is exhilerating, frightening, and quite frankly, nerve-wracking. Last week kind of marked the beginning of literally nightly existential crises — of which I deeply apologize to all my friends for having to witness, as well as my organization mates, and slowly but surely, everyone around me as well — like the dawn of the end.
I still have dreams; the kind where I picture myself in full-fledged comfort, where ambition is synonymous to reality and all the ideas I have can be made in a reality. These are the usual daydreams and all — but as for any outright grasp on what the future holds — I remain at a loss. The only thing I’m sure of is that I won’t have to worry about financing thanks to the student loan I’ll be getting from SoFi. | <urn:uuid:527771db-75fc-4106-808c-6330331a48ae> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://chias.blog/2017/09/ | 2021-08-05T21:06:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046157039.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20210805193327-20210805223327-00096.warc.gz | en | 0.973432 | 285 |
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It never occurred to Hannah that she might actually lose the slave for a day bet to Charlie. A silly little wager on a silly little game turns into an adventure in the bedroom for them both. Hannah has been interested in exploring her submissive side for a while but she's been too timid to tell her boyfriend Charlie. He takes the opportunity to dominate her when it presents itself and their relationship may never be vanilla again.
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A pair of tiger shark earrings beautifully detailed with the distinctive stripes that give this shark it’s name. As apex predators, tiger sharks are essential to the health of our marine ecosystems. Sadly they are considered a near threatened species due to excessive finning and fishing by humans. This necklace was designed to show off the incredible power and grace of these beautiful creatures and inspire love and respect for them rather than fear.
For a matching set, check out our Tiger Shark Necklace.
- Materials: 100% recycled sterling silver
- Length: 30mm
- Width: 10mm
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World Treasure grew out of a simple love for the ocean. A love for its wild expanse and untamed beauty. For vibrant reefs teeming with life and colour. The soothing repetition of waves crashing on sand. The magic of its blue silence.
Their collection of fine, ocean-inspired jewellery is an expression of that love, designed and handcrafted with the highest standard of attention and care. It is designed to celebrate and protect the beauty and diversity of the world’s oceans.
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We all know that scrambled eggs is a popular breakfast; people even go to McDonald's just for the scrambled eggs. Well, have you ever thought have making really tasty scrambled eggs yourself? This is a set of instructions that will guide you through the steps of making scrambled eggs! This is a 2 people serving. Good luck!
- 4 eggs
- 2 tablespoons of cooking oil
- 100 milliliters of water
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3Whisk the eggs with a whisk or a fork until the egg yolk and egg white are evenly mixed.
4After whisking, use a measuring cup to measure 100mL of water, and add it into the whisked eggs.
5Now that you have added water into the eggs, whisk it again for 30sec.
6The eggs are ready to be "scrambled", so pour the egg mixture into the heated wok.
7Now mix the eggs in the wok with a spatula.
8Keep mixing the eggs till they start to have a lighter color and look solid.
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- It is better to add the salt and pepper to your egg before it is cooked, preferably while in the bowl. This gives it a more recessed but delicious flavor; when you add it after, all you taste is salt and pepper, no egg.
- The key to tender eggs is by adding water while whisking the eggs.
- Don't leave the stove on if you have been whisking for more than ten minutes.
- Avoid burning your eggs. Take a close eye on them.
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- Measuring cup
- Whisk or fork
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Retirement usually raises the following question “What will I do with my time?”. Sometimes the question doesn’t get much consideration until after you retire and your daily schedule becomes more clear. After all, you still have your daily routines, responsibilities and time with family and friends. However, wanting to “keep busy”, “make a difference” or “give back” are very common retirement goals. Here are some suggestions on how to find the right volunteer fit for you.
Choosing a volunteer role is a match-making process. It is about finding a balance between your abilities/talents/interests and needs in your community. You may wish to use the following outline to research and find a successful match for you.
- What’s important about volunteering for you?
- Do you want to “make a difference”? To whom? Be specific.
- Define your goals. What you do want to get out of volunteering?
- How much time you are willing to contribute per day/per week/per month?
- What time of day you are available (morning, afternoon, evening)? Does this vary by day-of-the-week?
- What distance you are willing to travel? How will you travel? (Car, transit, walk.)
- How long do you see yourself volunteering? (1 year, 2 years, etc.)
B. The Volunteer Position
- Do Research within your own circle of friends and contacts in volunteer roles and organizations they are familiar with.
- Expand your research to include online resources.
- Contact possible organizations to get more information about specific volunteer positions*.
- Visit the organization, person or event to do your own check.
- Do a “trial run” to see if your choice is a real fit.
Make a final decision. If you don’t find a match, repeat steps 4 and 5 until you find one.
*Additional criteria to consider for certain volunteer roles:
Some volunteer organizations use additional criteria that go beyond most other volunteer situations.
Q. Will you need some form of health check or criminal record check? (Example volunteering in a hospital.)
Q. Do you need personal liability insurance or additional insurance? (Example as a volunteer driver.)
Here are some online resources you may find helpful in conducting your own research. All of these searches are based on the volunteering in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Other communities may have similar resources, depending on the size of the municipality.
Another way to conduct research is to look for organizations that are a good fit for retiring or retired people based on your experience and interests.
Here’s another one:
An In-Depth Guide to Volunteering in Mississauga
Eventbrite does a good job of summarizing volunteer fairs:
Summary of Volunteer events at Volunteer Fairs
Have fun finding your ideal volunteer role!
By the way, remember to leave time for continuous downsizing, after you retire. It’s an on-going process, even after retirement.
* You may notice some Canadian spelling in these posts. The words may look odd but that’s how we spell them. We’re used to it.
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Nursing shoes are the most comfortable shoes any person would appreciate wearing if they were working long tiring hours attending to the needs of the people.
Nursing shoes are more convenient to work in and they come in different varieties of style which include; slip resistant nursing shoes, lace up or slip on sneakers and slip on nursing clogs to meet the individual need, colour and style needs. A great pair of these shoes can also ensure your safety in the workplace and most importantly they can keep you and your wallet smiling with their reasonable prices.
Nursing shoes are great because they are suitable for both women and men in the medical industry. No one needs comfortable and quality made shoes like our nurses who work more than 12 hours in a day, running around the hospital floors attending to people’s needs. Imagine if they were to work in these conditions wearing tight fitting shoes with no space for your feet to breathe. How would you feel? When nurses wear shoes that are poorly made and tight fitting, they can suffer from back pains, shin splints, numbness and other physical aches. If our nurses are in pain how can they serve our needs? This would make their jobs very difficult and unpleasant.
The nurses’ bodies need support for them to function properly and focus on serious life situations that comes with their job. Their feet need to be properly cushioned and their ankles, knees, hips and back have to be fully comfortable as well.
Nursing shoes have certain qualities that make them so great and set them apart for the packs. They weigh less than other any other shoe and in this way when the nurses walk around in them they don’t weigh them out. This makes a huge difference in how they feel at the end of a long day. The quality of the material protects from spills and other damages. The soles are particularly made to take the stress of the knees and spin, moreover they have specially grips designed to keep the body stable even in slippery surfaces.
With some many options to choose from when nurses buy their gear, they should keep a look out so that they don’t confuse women’s shoes for men’s shoes. The difference is that women’s shoes are narrower and smaller and thy might have more details like patterns and flowers. And the men’s shoes on the other hand are more basic and simple with options of basic colours like white, blue, black and brown.
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A new study out today may reassure parents about a preservative once used in vaccines their children got.
The study found that children given higher and lower levels of thimerosal with their whooping cough vaccines had only small differences in brain function a decade later. Researchers found small variations in only two of 24 measurements, and say those "might be attributable to chance."
Critics have linked thimerosal to autism, but the only autism case that appeared in the study involved the lower amount of the Mercury-based preservative. The study is the latest in a number to dispute a connection between thimerosal and autism. | <urn:uuid:8d59f15a-133f-4c6c-9be1-80e104a49cd4> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.witn.com/news/sunrise/headlines/38318134.html | 2015-03-03T00:45:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936463103.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074103-00134-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958713 | 124 |
School marketers can use timed Page Pops to promote fundraisers on donation pages; open houses on application pages; movie nights and field days on event pages; alumni retreats on the alumni homepage; and unique events that aren’t a part of the regular school year schedule, such as special guest speakers and award celebrations.
Don’t be afraid to use your school’s homepage to promote events that are important enough to warrant that prominent placement. Have a now-famous alumna returning to speak at the school for a one-day special presentation? Use your homepage to make sure the most people register to attend.
Schools can use timed Page Pops to offer a better user experience through valuable content offers. For example, you could offer a free ebook download for people that visit your school’s summer camp page to provide a quick and easy way to learn more about your many summer camp programs and activities.
We know that the visitor is clearly interested in the content of that summer camp page if they stay on the page for more than 30 seconds. They are also likely interested in learning more if they are offered a more engaging user experience. | <urn:uuid:b955a7e3-da21-4ece-845c-6294215feacb> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.finalsitesupport.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026906131-Best-practices-Timed-Page-Pops-for-marketing | 2022-05-24T21:07:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662577259.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20220524203438-20220524233438-00515.warc.gz | en | 0.957135 | 235 |
The cornerback position has long been played by men who exude confidence, and Josh Norman fits right in.
Norman, the Panthers cornerback who has been hit with the franchise tag this offseason, appeared on ESPN today and was asked to list the Top 5 cornerbacks of all time. Norman put himself on the list, in a tie for No. 5:
1. Dick “Night Train” Lane
2. Mel Blount
3. Deion Sanders
4. Charles Woodson
5. Josh Norman/Darrelle Revis
“That’s just where I’m at right now and my mindset. I want to be the best. If you’ve got a problem with that, so be it,” Norman said.
The top of the list isn’t bad, and it’s actually rather impressive that the 28-year-old Norman thought to put Lane, who played from 1952 to 1965, at No. 1.
“Most picks in an NFL season,” Norman said, referring to Lane’s record 14 interceptions in 1952.
But while Norman’s confidence and knowledge of NFL history are both impressive, we should pump the brakes on any thought that he’s close to an all-time great. Maybe years from now he’ll be viewed that way, but right now he’s a guy who had one good season. | <urn:uuid:369bfecc-a59a-49f6-adb0-9da19770bce4> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/03/03/josh-norman-puts-himself-on-list-of-all-time-top-5-cornerbacks/ | 2017-10-19T00:25:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823168.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018233539-20171019013539-00219.warc.gz | en | 0.947914 | 296 |
Kings split weekend home games against Niigata Albirex BB
Golden Kings encountered Niigata Albirex BB in a paid of home games over the weekend. Albirex BB is in the 3rd place of the B. League Central Conference, and the weekend contests ended in a split for the Kings.
On Saturday, the Kings started the game reasonably with Shuhei Kitagawa and Shouta Tsuyama working well. The first quarter ended the teams almost even with 22-23, and much of the same continued with both squads scoring one after the other. At the half-point the score was even 38-38, and still almost even after the third at 57-60.
In the final quarter, the Kings gave seven points to Niigata in the first two minutes, but caught up to be only 3 points behind when there was only 1 minute 22 seconds left. However, the Kings had not been able to turn over the game through the whole match, and finally lost 74-82.
Head Coach Tsutomu Isa analyzed the game afterwards saying, “Although we did not have many turnovers, we missed big with our timing which we should not have to.”
On Sunday, the start of the game was not good with the first quarter ending 15-21. But the margin did not spread in the 2nd quarter with especially Naoki Tashiro working hard scoring 13 points in the quarter. Tashiro continued in the 3rd quarter scoring 10 more points,
The game finally turned over, and ended with 61-59 victory for the Kings. In the final quarter, Nigata caught up with just one point behind, but the Kings could hang on to the game.
After the game, Tashiro said, “I played exceptionally well tonight, but I feel very relieved I was able to do my work.”
Isa agreed. “Tashiro contributed very much to our game tonight, and I expect he should be a big plus for the team in future also.” | <urn:uuid:2bdc591d-a47e-48f9-a2d5-c204964f2641> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | http://www.japanupdate.com/2017/02/kings-split-weekend-home-game-against-niigata-albirex-bb/ | 2019-09-21T01:44:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514574159.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20190921001810-20190921023810-00243.warc.gz | en | 0.976368 | 420 |
Thursday, May 31, 2012
However, my hometown is just across the river from the state of Ohio. I came close to being an Ohioan, and not just due to my proximity to the border. My father’s family spent time living in Ohio during the Depression and World War II (my grandmother served as a “Rosie the Riveter” building F-4 Corsair fighter planes in Akron), but thankfully they came home to West Virginia after the war. Had they stayed in Akron, my parents would have never met and I’d never have been born. Some other version of my father’s son would have likely been born in the Buckeye state.
Indeed, the industrial base of Akron was a prime destination for West Virginians looking for work for the first half of the 20th century. In my grandparent’s era, there was an old adage that the “Three R’s” taught in West Virginia schools were “readin’, ‘ritin’, and Route 21”--which was the road that led north to Akron and Cleveland. Once the northern part of I-77 was finished in the '70s, old two-lane U.S. Route 21 was demoted from being a U.S. Route, and became West Virginia Route 14 from Charleston to Parkersburg, as well as Route 821 in Ohio. [I saw a form of this same outward migration during my lifetime. After the completion of the southern part of Interstate 77 (and with air conditioning making the south more hospitable), Charlotte became a prime destination for West Virginians wanting better jobs.]
Ohio has some good things about it, and I certainly enjoy visiting and doing things there. Athens is a cool college town little more than half an hour away that reminds me of Morgantown (before the expansion WVU has experienced since I graduated). There are lots of interesting restaurants and stores, a top-notch film festival each spring, plus an ice rink and a hockey team. Halloween is a huge holiday there—we went once just to observe the creative costumes. I also wrote in my blog last fall about my first Ohio University football game and the talented Marching 110 band. As with any major college campus, there are always tons of interesting activities going on there.
Columbus has always been the closest major city to my hometown, and I can remember a few trips there back in the ‘60s. I also remember Dad listening to radio WTVN 610 AM (I think it was one of those 50,000 watt radio stations that could be heard in West Virginia) in the car sometimes. In my adult life, it has become a favorite weekend destination, with tons of interesting activities. Our favorite, of course, is the good folks at Shadowbox Live, which is hard to describe, but a bit like Saturday night live, except with more music between the skits (www.shadowboxlive.org). Other favorite landmarks include COSI, the Columbus Zoo, the Santa Maria, the Art Museum, the Franklin Conservatory, etc. Ameriflora in 1992—a celebration of Columbus’s voyages 500 years earlier—was phenomenal.
Cincinnati and Cleveland are a longer drive, but each of these two metropolitan areas has their own unique attractions, such as the Underground Railroad Museum and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (just to name one—of many—from both). Dayton (Air Force Museum), Akron (Inventors Museum), and Canton (Football Hall of Fame) are other interesting cities. Put-in-Bay gives a tropical island feel even though it has Lake Erie weather. Although not located in major cities, the outdoor dramas “Blue Jacket” and “Tecumseh,” as well as the Ohio Renaissance Festival, the Hocking Hills area, and “the Wilds,” have been very entertaining. Finally, the sports fan inside me has to mention that I’ve been to Browns, Reds, and Blue Jackets games, in addition to races at about a dozen oval tracks around Ohio as well as NHRA events at National Trail Dragstrip.
What I’m trying to say is that Ohio has a lot going for it. If nothing else, at least people know it really is a state (some folks are too dumb to understand that West Virginia is its own state). Despite Ohio’s current economic problems (that everyone seems to be facing), it is still a prosperous and progressive state. Ohio often figures prominently in national politics and was the home of several presidents. It has always been a powerful state, with major league sports teams, and a perennial NCAA championship contender with the Ohio State Buckeyes. It seems that OSU has hardly ever suffered a losing season, especially in football.
While all of these things are wonderful, and the list should be even longer, the fact remains that I am glad I am a West Virginian. I am so thankful that the strong bonds to family and to these hills called my father’s family back to West Virginia after the war. Plus, I’m thankful that my mom’s side of the family had long been entrenched here—and it is through her that I have the two ancestors who fought for the Union Army during the Civil War to help create the state of West Virginia. Had the Confederates been victorious, the fledgling state of West Virginia would no doubt have been given back to the politicos in Richmond.
Much of my personality—my inner psyche—is tied to my native state, and the lack of full respect I feel it deserves. How many times do we have to be the punchline for a TV comedian, or be lumped into Virginia by some clueless sportscaster? I don’t know what it would have been like to have been raised in a state like Ohio that was seen as an important state. I’m especially glad I didn’t grow up in the flat regions of Ohio—flat land still makes me a bit nervous. Give me some hills for security!
I’m glad I grew up in a rural state, with lots of scenic beauty. If I want metropolitan areas and the cultural diversions they provide, they can be driven to when needed. In the meantime, I’ll stick to the West Virginia hills and the comfort they provide. Our citizens may not be the most educated or the most affluent, but there is an innate goodness within the vast majority of them.
And I’ll keep cheering for the Mountaineers, whether they are winning or losing, because that WV logo represents me. Losing seasons just make you appreciate the winning ones even better. There are good life lessons that come from the pain of defeat (or of disrespect), and I feel I had the chance to learn a lot over the years. It is just part of that "chip on the shoulder" that most of us carry. West Virginians have always had to fight a little harder than everyone else to prove we belong, going all the way back to our birth as a state (see my previous essay at http://inquisineer.blogspot.com/2011/05/not-bastard.html). It is who we are—and I am glad I am one, instead of a Buckeye.
Monday, May 7, 2012
One of my favorite rides is West Virginia Route 16 (although this trip also can be fun in the right car). This highway transverses the state, from the majestic Ohio River at St.Marys to the Virginia border beyond Coalwood (the company town made famous in the book “Rocket Boys” which became the movie “October Sky”) in McDowell County.
St. Marys in Pleasants County is just the first of many county seats that this highway connects. Following soon thereafter as one proceeds south is Harrisville in Ritchie County, Grantsville in Calhoun County, and Clay in—where else—Clay County.
In Clay County, Route 16 runs along the Elk River. If you have only seen the Elk River near its terminus in Charleston where it joins the Kanawha River, you can’t truly appreciate the Elk. It is a beautiful mountain river tumbling over the rocks as you run beside it, before crossing a bridge and heading up the hill to cross a ridge into another watershed.
Soon you enter the Gauley River drainage area, and eventually run alongside it until it meets the New River at Gauley Bridge. The Gauley is famous for its rafting, especially in the fall when water is released from the Summersville Dam. It is the most thrilling whitewater rafting in the eastern United States! [Indeed, I have rafted many rivers, but none compare to the mighty Gauley in the fall.]
At the end of the Gauley, Route 16 turns left and joins U.S. Route 60 (known as the Midland Trail highway) for an assault on Gauley Mountain. If you have the time, you may want to take a diversion to the right, past the little town of Gauley Bridge and through the adjoining hamlet of Glen Ferris (home of the historic Glen Ferris Inn, which has been in operation since 1839), and visit the park just below Kanawha Falls. The Kanawha is formed by the merger of the New and Gauley Rivers, and shortly thereafter tumbles over about a twenty foot cataract spanning the broad width of the river. The whole Kanawha Falls and Gauley Mountain area saw a lot of action in the Civil War, and future U.S. Presidents Hayes and McKinley served stints here.
If you skip Kanawha Falls and make the left turn, you still get a shot at a different type of waterfall—smaller, but taller rather than wide. Just a mile or so after Route 16 joins Route 60, the highway jerks left, crossing the railroad tracks, and directly ahead is a pull-off area on the left for Cathedral Falls, where a small stream tumbles down the rocky hillside heading towards the nearby New River. If there have been recent rains, this view can be spectacular.
Soon you are climbing away from the New River and up the legendary Gauley Mountain. The twists and turns over the next 15 miles or so are absolutely incredible, as are the views from several pull-off areas. Just after the tightest hairpin turn at Chimney Corner, Rt. 16 splits away from Rt. 60 and heads down to cross the New River over the low Cotton Hill bridge, before climbing up out of the gorge and into Fayetteville (the county seat of Fayette County). By the way, Fayette County has become quite the tourist destination in recent years, with lots of interesting shops and activities—too many to list here.
Another option is to veer left at Chimney Corner and follow Rt. 60 up the hill to Hawks Nest State Park, with its iconic overlook of the gorge (if you stop, be sure to read about the tragedy involved with the New River tunnel). Continuing on past Ansted, you can get on U.S. 19, and cross over the famous New River Gorge Bridge (as pictured on the back of the West Virginia quarter). Each year on the third Saturday in October, this four-lane highway is closed down for Bridge Day, as pedestrians flock to watch the parachutists jump off the bridge. Route 16 can be easily rejoined on the south side of the gorge at Fayetteville. Before leaving Fayette County, you pass through the town of Oak Hill—it was along Route 16 here that country singer Hank Williams died.
The next county is Raleigh County, and its county seat of Beckley, the only large town along this trip. After crossing under the West Virginia Turnpike, Rt. 16 continues south past Sophia, which was known as the hometown of former U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, and then through Mullins, the hometown of former NBA coach Mike D’Antoni.
The final two county seats are Pineville in Wyoming County and Welch in McDowell County. It is easy to see how populated and prosperous the southern West Virginia coalfields were in their glory years. Unfortunately, these areas are struggling to cope with the changing economic situation. Below Welch is the little town of Coalwood, the furthest south I’ve traveled on this trans-West Virginia jaunt.
By staying on just one highway and taking this cross-state road trip, traveling through eight county seats, it is easy to get a sense of rural West Virginia. The views are beautiful, and the driving is much more interesting than the typical interstate superslab. There are lots of intriguing roadside attractions along the way. We truly live in a wild, wonderful state!
I can remember my college years (late ‘70s through early ‘80s), and the sadness that entailed with each graduation. In those days, the only way to keep in touch was by phone numbers (often through your parents’ number). Long distance phone calls were expensive—can you remember the excitement in the mid-‘80s when MCI first started advertising their lower cost long distance alternative? The days of watching the clock when calling a long distance friend (or the shock at a monthly bill when you made a few long distance calls without watching the clock) are pretty much a thing of the past. Heck, today lots of folks don’t even worry about long distance charges, because long distance calls are included in their billing format.
Another difference is that back then, even if you would decide to try making a long distance call to a friend, there were no answering machines or caller ID to let them know you had tried to reach them while they were out (at least the phone company—often referred to back then as Ma Bell—didn’t charge you for unanswered calls). Even if you had a current roommate in a shared apartment who took a message from a distant college friend who had tried to call you, there was disappointment that you missed the call that they had tried to make to you (knowing that now you would have to pay for the return call). Keeping in touch was hard to do in the old days, especially in the early stages of a career, when folks were often changing their address. Today, there is no need to worry about changing phone numbers if you move, because phone numbers are “portable” now.
Back then, we really were saying goodbye on graduation day. One had to be strong in those days. The incredible friendships we had built in the dorms, classrooms, and campuses were coming to an end, as we each took our separate and tentative steps into the wind that would carry us into adulthood and career. It didn’t take long to lose track of all but your very closest friends (your absolute “besties” or “BFFs” in today’s lingo).
On occasion during the decades following graduation, I would pass through the city of my alma mater, sometimes shopping at the mall or revisiting the campus, always looking for faces that might resemble an aged version of a college acquaintance. I can remember my excitement about ten years ago, when a brief stop at a large grocery store there resulted in a glimpse of someone who looked like a pretty girl I knew at least twenty years earlier at college. I discreetly maneuvered around the aisles of the store in the hopes of getting a better angle to determine if that face could actually be the woman I thought she was. I finally got up the courage to walk up and introduce myself, and even before I spoke, she recognized me as well, despite the decades that had passed. It was a moment similar to what Dan Fogleberg sang about in his 1980 ballad “Same Old Lang Syne,” as we stood there in the grocery store getting caught up on the past few decades. This was an example of the exceedingly rare reunions in the days before Facebook.
Fortunately, Facebook came along and now lots of folks from my generation are no longer dependent on chance meetings at a grocery store to find out how we are doing. Facebook may have been originally designed for undergrads to get to know each other, but it has evolved into a great way for those of us in older generations to reconnect. After departing as the annual graduating class diaspora which occurred on campuses everywhere each spring, we have finally found each other again, and it is wonderful. So don’t expect much pity from me about current graduates lamenting their departures—they have no idea what the older generations experienced.
I just returned from another alumni reunion weekend at the University of Charleston, and it was fantastic. Facebook has truly made a difference the past few years in getting folks from my era to attend. Those who make the effort to return to campus are rewarded with sore throats from all the talking, sore facial muscles from all the smiling, and aching sides from all the laughing. I love the way we love each other, whether or not we were “besties” or merely acquaintances; whether we dated or merely wanted to date.
It seems we all appreciate each other simply because we were contemporaries, and throughout life’s trials and tribulations, we have survived thus far. It isn’t important what we have accomplished—the important part is that we are together again. Age is catching up to us, but we can look at each other through our 18-22 year old eyes, and see us as we once were. Ponce de Leon’s “Fountain of Youth” turns out to be our own imprinted remembrances, and gathering us together in a group at our old campus brings a flood of good memories.
One of my nearest and dearest friends had a close coronary call this past year, but after a six-way bypass operation, he seems to be doing well. His experience made many of us realize how much we would have missed him, and why we need to take advantage of these alumni “get togethers” whenever we can—who knows how many more we have? I hope that those who have not joined us will attempt to do so in the future. Those who have done so will tell you it is a blast! A blast from the past! Just like Dan Fogelberg’s hit song:
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In August of 2019, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the “Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act” (House Bill 2557) which will provide rights to jobseekers undergoing an application process that involves video interviews and artificial intelligence or AI analysis. The law takes effect on January 1, 2020.
House Bill 2557 (HB 2557) requires employers that ask applicants to record video interviews and use an artificial intelligence analysis of applicant-submitted videos shall do all of the following when considering applicants for positions based in Illinois before asking them to submit video interviews:
- Notify each applicant before the interview that artificial intelligence may be used to analyze the applicant’s video interview and consider the applicant’s fitness for the position.
- Provide each applicant with information before the interview explaining how the artificial intelligence works and what general types of characteristics it uses to evaluate applicants.
- Obtain, before the interview, consent from the applicant to be evaluated by the artificial intelligence program as described in the information provided. An employer may not use artificial intelligence to evaluate applicants who have not consented to the use of artificial intelligence analysis.
An employer may not share applicant videos, except with people with the expertise or technology that is necessary to evaluate an applicant’s fitness for a position. Upon request from the applicant, employers must ensure the deletion an applicant’s interviews within 30 days after receiving the request.
Employers and screening firms conducting background checks will feel “pressure” to ensure information security and will be “interested in how artificial intelligence technology will improve the screening experience in 2019,” according to an article from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
In the article – “Handling Candidate Data Will Be Under the Spotlight in 2019” – SHRM Online Manager and Editor for Talent Acquisition Roy Maurer interviewed background check experts including Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Employment Screening Resources® (ESR).
“The massive data breach suffered by nationwide credit reporting agency Equifax in September 2017 that impacted more than 145 million Americans – almost half of the country – was a wake-up call for all industries to improve their information security,” said Rosen, author of ‘The Safe Hiring Manual.’
“The need for background screening firms that handle the personal data of job applicants to ensure information security has become mission critical,” Rosen explained in the SHRM article, the second in a two-part series with the first installment detailing trends that included social media screening.
Rosen also told SHRM that employers should consider using background check firms that undergo an annual Service Organization Control (SOC 2) audit “to ensure high standards for the protection of privacy, security, and confidentiality of consumer information used for background checks.”
While there is no doubt artificial intelligence can increase productivity and reduce turnaround time in the screening process, “background checks still need a guiding human touch until sufficiently nonbiased AI algorithms can be created to ensure that discriminatory hiring decisions aren’t made,” Rosen added.
The increased focus on the information security of screening firms – as well as the need for the human touch with artificial intelligence – were both named by Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) to be included on the list of the 12th annual “ESR Top Ten Background Check Trends” for 2019.
Video interviewing is gaining widespread acceptance for hiring and talent acquisition (TA) but some employers may have concerns over potential discrimination issues. However, the advantages of video interviewing far outweigh unsubstantiated risks and concerns about potential discrimination issues.
“Video Interviewing & Discrimination: What Talent Acquisition Leaders Need to Know” is a white paper by Rosen sponsored by leading video interview provider Montage that can help employers enjoy the operational and strategic benefits of video interviewing while reducing exposure to discrimination laws.
Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) – a leading global background check provider – has successfully completed a SOC 2® Type 2 audit for 2019 that confirms ESR protects the privacy, security, and confidentiality of consumer information. To learn more, visit www.esrcheck.com/Why-ESR/SOC-2/.
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(ca. 500ca. 428 BC). Gk. philos.; b. Clazomenae, ca. 20 mi. W of present Izmir, Ionia, Turkey, Asia Minor; brought philosophy* from Ionia to Athens either 480 or 456 BC; held that mind arranged all things; investigated and explained many natural phenomena; influenced Euripides (see Religious Drama). Charged with impiety and banished from Athens perhaps ca. 450, others say shortly before his death. Wrote Peri physeos.
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First Full Day of Morton County Fair Begins Today
The Morton County Fair is officially under way in New Salem.
The 56th annual installment of the event began adjacent to Salem Sue on Wednesday night (Aug. 3) with the 4-H Horse Show and a full slate of events is planned for Thursday.
The 4-H General Achievement Day judging will begin this morning at 8:30am with another 4-H Horse Show at 10:30am.
The day will also consist of 4-H exhibits and a Rabbit and Poultry show.
The Morton County Fair continues through Sunday evening. Admission for the Morton County fair is $9 for adults and $6 for seniors and children. Kids under 5 get in free. Wristbands are also available for purchase which will allow you to get into the fair every day. Those are $24 for adults and $15 for kids.
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Also, Apple downplays Masque Attack, Where To Watch TV, become an Amazon drone test pilot, and 20 years of PlayStation.
Amazon & Hachette Bury Hatchet
Amazon and Hachette have resolved their long-running dispute by signing a new multiyear deal which will see the online retailer and book publisher work together again from early 2015. The details of the deal are being kept secret, but both sides have publicly expressed satisfaction with the terms agreed.
Hachette CEO, Michael Pietsch, said, “This is great news for writers. The new agreement will benefit Hachette authors for years to come. It gives Hachette enormous marketing capability with one of our most important bookselling partners.”
David Naggar, Amazon’s Vice-President for Kindle, said, “We are pleased with this new agreement as it includes specific financial incentives for Hachette to deliver lower prices, which we believe will be a great win for readers and authors alike.”
The dispute, which has been running for most of 2014, revolved around the pricing of eBooks, with Amazon strongly believing that eBooks should be cheaper than physical copies. Amazon went as far as discouraging people from buying Hachette titles by adding lengthy shipping delays. Things should now start getting back to normal for customers.
Microsoft Promises Windows 10 Upgrades
@Kalars07 We plan to upgrade all Windows Phone 8 devices to Windows 10 in the future :)
— Lumia (@lumia) November 13, 2014
Good news for Android and iPhone users eager to switch to Windows Phone: Microsoft has promised that all Lumia devices running Windows Phone 8 will be upgraded to Windows 10. This also suggests other devices running Windows Phone 8 are in line to be upgraded to Windows 10, but Microsoft is only willing to commit to its own brand.
It was already assumed Windows Phone 8 users would get Windows 10 upon release, but with Windows Phone 7 users denied Windows Phone 8 upgrades back in 2012, an official confirmation is good news. Why Microsoft isn’t shouting this from the rooftops rather than quietly revealing it on Twitter is anyone’s guess.
Apple Dismisses Masque Attack
Remember, just because it’s Apple doesn’t mean it’s invincible. Always be careful what you click on & install: http://t.co/nLLjMkJREY
— Adam (aka Ogie) (@thelifeofadam) November 10, 2014
Apple is downplaying the threat posed by a hacking technique called Masque Attack. This technique is very similar to the WireLurker malware discovered last week. Both require users to download third-party apps from the Internet which look legitimate but which actually harbor malicious software.
Apple issued a statement saying, “We designed OS X and iOS with built-in security safeguards to help protect customers and warn them before installing potentially malicious software. We’re not aware of any customers that have actually been affected by this attack. We encourage customers to only download from trusted sources like the App Store and to pay attention to any warnings as they download apps.”
In other words, this isn’t a big problem, and anyone who has been hit by Masque Attack has not only downloaded a dodgy app but ignored all warnings not to install it to their iOS device. So there.
MPAA Tells You Where To Watch TV
MPAA’s new tool to find TV shows & moves on Amazon, Hulu, etc. has unintended effect of being guide to cord-cutting. http://t.co/rxhXMENgX0
— Joe Flint (@JBFlint) November 12, 2014
A new website has launched detailing where you can watch your favorite movies and TV shows online. And this particular one, WhereToWatch.com, has been put together by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), those crazy cats who protect the interests of Hollywood.
As you may expect, Where To Watch only features legal sources for movies and TV shows, such as Netflix and iTunes. It also doesn’t have any advertising, which should win it some imaginary Internet points. As Re/Code points out, its one failing is a lack of pay TV listings, which actually makes it perfect for cord-cutters.
Amazon Is Recruiting A Drone Pilot
Amazon is forging ahead with Amazon Prime Air, its plan to deliver packages via drones. One year on from the original announcement, the company is recruiting test pilots, suggesting this is a real service rather than just a publicity stunt.
Being an Amazon drone test pilot sounds like a fun job, but the online retailer is only looking for the best of the best. Still, if you have 5 years of flight test experience and a degree in engineering, this may just be the job for you.
Sony Celebrates 20 Years Of PlayStation
And finally, the PlayStation is 20 years old, almost, with the PS One having first been released in Japan on Dec. 3, 1994. To celebrate this unbelievable milestone, Sony has released a video charting the course of its gaming platform.
This video contains nostalgic nuggets dating back two decades. For anyone like myself who has owned all of the PlayStation consoles released that time, this will likely a) make you feel old, and b) make you realize how many hours you have spent gaming over the years.
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While addressing issues like teen drinking, it’s important to remember that drinking alcohol is socially acceptable. Drinking has been part of the American culture throughout most of its history. The primary reason there are drinking age restrictions is that lawmakers decided anyone handling the effects of alcohol needed a certain level of maturity. So, why do teens drink? We are going to explore the answer to that question in the following sections. If you have any questions about teen alcohol addiction treatment, please reach out to Destinations for Teens today at 877.466.0620
Why Do Teens Drink?
No matter where a teenager lives, that individual will encounter a lot of stimuli in their everyday life. On a daily basis, the individual will see people drinking and having a good time. That same individual also sees a constant barrage of fun alcohol advertising on TV. It is also possible their parents have parties where alcohol is available. By the time someone confronts them about having a drink, curiosity is at peak levels.
This curiosity can lead many teens to drink. As of 2019, over 7 million people between the ages of 12 and 20 reported drinking alcohol, according to the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. That brings us to the question, why do teens drink? Here are a few of the primary reasons teens start drinking:
- Experimentation and curiosity
- Trying to fit in and be part of a social group
- Escape from the pressures of being a teen
- Out of defiance towards authority
- To mask emotional problems
- How to Deal With Teen Alcoholism
Without intervention, some teens end up with a drinking problem. As a parent, it’s your responsibility to be aware of their issues and take steps to help them when necessary. If addiction is possible, you’ll want to get them into alcohol addiction treatment at a facility like Destinations for Teens.
During their time in rehab, your teen will get an opportunity to detox and work with counselors. Their primary objective will be learning about their addiction and the dangers of continuing down the path of alcoholism. At the end of treatment, your teen will hopefully walk away with a good start to recovery and a solid set of coping skills.
Dual Diagnosis Conditions in Teens
When you start to talk about why teens drink, it is important to remember why they might develop mental health issues. In fact, conditions such as depression and anxiety can increase adolescents’ likelihood of turning to alcohol when feeling distressed.
The prevalence of these dual diagnosis conditions is why it is important to look closely at why teens drink. There are reasons why teens from healthy mental health backgrounds may start drinking, but an underlying mental health condition can influence their choices. Alcohol and other drug use do not happen in a vacuum. To avoid teen alcohol and substance use, we need to help teens who struggle with mental illness and addiction problems. The road to recovery will be more challenging for those struggling with both. We offer a variety of mental health treatment options, including:
- Mood disorders
To learn more about how we can treat your child’s alcohol use and mental health concerns, please reach out to Destinations for Teens today.
Find Treatment at Destinations for Teens
Our Los Angeles facility strives to help teens recover from addictions like alcoholism. The secret of our success lies in our menu of progressive treatment options we have developed specifically for active teens. Of course, as a parent, we want you to participate in the process. Destinations forTeens’’ current menu of treatment services include:
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- Dual diagnosis treatment
- Holistic therapies such as art or yoga therapy
- Aftercare programs for alumni
- Inpatient and outpatient treatment
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It feels like time stopped.
While my immigration papers are being processed, I cannot work. It's like a year ago all over again, except maybe this time I dont feel like the end of the world is coming at the thought of not passing the bar. I'm not gonna exaggerate and be honest: nothing feels scarier than waiting for the bar result.
Still, more than 3 months have gone by since I've gone off work. Last month, the feeling of uselessness and aimlessness started creeping upon me. Everyday, I did the same things: waking up, walking Bagel, cooking, eating, surfing the internet, knitting a little, napping, walking Bagel again, cooking, eating, cleaning up, walking Bagel again, then off to bed.
It was seriously agonizing. Things are only a little better now that Marty and I started studying Spanish, and I'm spending more time by myself figuring out. Since I don't want to waste any more time, I'm forced to sit down and define what I want from my career in the future. I can't just "try different things and see IF I like it." I'm also seriously considering going solo, at least until the economy gets better and I see more opportunities in transactional law. This will probably be better than just waiting on my butt until I get an interview and having to explain why I have several months of gap in my work experience.
Knitting-wise, it's official; I have more knitting patterns than I know what to do with. I could probably knit for the next 2 years, everyday, with just the patterns I already own. That is quite overwhelming, seeing that new patterns, new and PRETTY patterns at that, come out EVERYDAY. Almost every other blogs I stumble upon are of knitting pattern designers. And what about those new magazines every month?
For a while I didn't want to knit anything at all, feeling so useless. I put more passion into my hobbies when I know I had a productive day. I started knitting a bit more starting last month as my thought of going solo became more of a possibility than just an option. I started looking through my stash of knitting magazines and patterns, and was overwhelmed by my re-kindled passion for the designs.
That is good. Now I know I'm slowly waking up from my mental hibernation. And it's good for both work and knitting. Christmas is coming up! | <urn:uuid:1f6636ad-2ac9-4f20-ae0f-c58d87feee4a> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://www.candyandbagel.com/blog/2010/10/23/hibernation | 2019-05-22T18:45:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256948.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522183240-20190522205240-00315.warc.gz | en | 0.974402 | 501 |
Move over DNA, its RNA’s time to shine. A revolutionary RNA-editing tool promises to transform our understanding of RNA’s role in our growth and development, and provide a new avenue for treating infectious diseases and cancer.
RNA was once thought to be a mere middleman, carrying genetic messages from the DNA in the nucleus out to cellular structures called ribosomes, where it directs the production of proteins. In recent decades we have learned that it does much more, from controlling what form a protein will take to influencing whether a particular gene is able to generate a protein.
In other words, although we might think that we are governed by our DNA, it is really RNA that pulls the strings. So people are understandably keen to develop tools to study, track and even manipulate RNA inside living cells.
In 2013, a team led by Feng Zhang at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard – and another team working independently – figured out how to manipulate a genetic bacterial immune system that can identify and attack an invading pathogen by snipping up sections of its DNA. This CRISPR-Cas system from the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes is now being used to target and cut up DNA sequences – including those in human cells.
Now Zhang’s team has discovered another version of the CRISPR-Cas system in a bacterium called Leptotrichia shahii. Only this one, called C2c2, selectively cuts up RNA.
To show its promise, Zhang’s team inserted C2c2 into E. coli bacteria, where it silenced a gene by cutting up a form of RNA that carries the gene’s information to the ribosomes.
Silencing genes with C2c2 could make pathogens harmless, says John Rossi at City of Hope medical centre in Duarte, California, who is leading efforts to use RNA molecular tools to fight HIV.
C2c2 should be able to do more than silence genes. It can also be modified so it binds to RNA but doesn’t cut it up, says Zhang. This means that it could conceivably form part of an editing system to tag RNA so that its movement in the cell can be tracked. This would allow us to alter RNA in a living system and track what effect those alterations are having on the cell or animal as a whole.
“RNA is the blueprint through which genes regulate cellular processes,” says Oliver Rackham at the University of Western Australia. “The exciting thing about this study is that it now opens up the RNA world to the ease of experimental design afforded by CRISPR.”
Rackham is interested in how using C2c2 to target a specific E. coli RNA led to “collateral damage” – RNAs that looked a little like the target molecule were attacked too. Although it might be useful to reduce that collateral damage for some applications, he says it could prove beneficial in others – in a cancer treatment, for example, wiping out “bystander” RNA as well as target RNA might offer a more effective way to fight a tumour.
The tool shop
There is such a hunger for RNA tools that earlier this year, Gene Yeo at the University of California, San Diego, and Jennifer Doudna at the University of California, Berkeley, used some hefty synthetic modifications on the existing CRISPR-Cas system to make it target RNA rather than DNA.
Doudna and Yeo’s tool can already track RNA in mammalian cells, whereas the C2c2 system has so far only been tested in bacteria. But Zhang is confident that with further development C2c2 will be able to bind to mammalian RNAs without cleaving them too.
Both RNA editing tools will be useful, but C2c2 might be more versatile because it is based on a natural RNA targeting system rather than an engineered one.
One thing is clear, says Yeo. “This is the decade where RNA rears its head as being very important for understanding cellular behaviour and disease.”
Journal reference: Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf5573
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The 4,300-passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground off the Italian coast on Friday. At least 11 people are confirmed dead, and more remain missing. Some passengers say there was chaos during the evacuation, with no respect for the tradition of women and children first. The Italian Coast Guard reportedly ordered the captain, who had abandoned ship, back onto his crippled vessel to assist in the evacuation, but he refused. Are there laws governing how to abandon ship?
Yes, but they say nothing about gender or age. The International Maritime Organization has issued fairly extensive rules about the location and size of lifeboats a cruise ship must offer, and how quickly a company should be able to clear its ship. If an evacuation alarm sounds, cruise-ship passengers are supposed to proceed to the loading area and board a lifeboat that was assigned to them based on their cabin numbers. Some evacuations are far more chaotic than that, and the crew just loads whoever is ready to go. In those emergency situations, men sometimes step aside for the women to go first, but it’s not a matter of maritime law, nor is the tradition observed in many parts of the world. Similarly, the captain has no obligation to go down with the ship, and he or she doesn’t have to be the last person to step into a lifeboat. (In many cases, like the Costa Concordia incident, people go unaccounted for, so requiring the captain to be the last person off would be a death sentence.) Nevertheless, it’s possible that Captain Francesco Schettino failed in his duty to his passengers. The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea requires the captain to exercise his professional judgment to protect passenger safety, and most maritime experts would agree that presence on the ship is a prerequisite for fulfilling that obligation. Some nations, such as Italy, Greece, and Spain have laws requiring the captain to remain on the ship to evacuate passengers, although these are rarely enforced and don’t specify exactly when the captain is permitted to leave.*
In her book Women and Children First: 19th-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity, English professor Robin Miskolcze chronicled the origins of our maritime evacuation priorities. Until the second half of the 18th century, it was widely believed in England and America that God decided who would survive a shipwreck, so no one criticized men for climbing over whoever stood between them and safety. However, as Enlightenment thinkers began to emphasize human agency, and women came to be viewed as the holy protectors of the family, news reports grew critical of men who survived shipwrecks that killed female passengers.
Three disasters solidified the principle of women and children first in Britain and America. When the HMS Birkenhead went down in 1852, the soldiers reportedly stood at attention while the women and children were loaded into life boats. The overwhelming majority of the men died in an act that contemporary writers called “a piece of pure and exalted manhood.” Two years later, there was a mad scramble on the decks of the American ship SS Arctic as it foundered near Newfoundland. The press branded the male survivors cowards for failing to save even a single woman or child. American morality was redeemed in 1857, when the crew and male passengers of the SS Central America loaded women and children onto lifeboats at the expense of their own lives. Media reports glorified the gold-rush men who sacrificed their new wealth and their lives in a final act of chivalry. The image of captain William Lewis Herndon calmly smoking a cigar as he went down with his ship became a symbol of American seagoing bravery.
Bonus Explainer: What’s going to happen to the capsized cruise ship? They’ll move it off the reef, very slowly. A salvage company will have to right the Costa Concordia, patch it, and pump out the water before attempting to tow it away. It’s not an easy job under any circumstances, but this will be a particularly tough rescue. Salvagers have to place a bulkhead against the ship to steady it while winches pull it upright. In this case, it will be difficult to find a place to set the bulkhead on the jagged rocks nearby. Air bags might be placed under the hull and inflated to give the ship a boost, but they can’t right the ocean liner on their own. The salvage process will likely take months, and possibly more than a year. If the operation is too difficult, the owners may decide to cut the ship up, take it away on barges, and sell it for scrap.
Got a question about today’s news? Ask the Explainer.
Explainer thanks Lee Adamson of the International Maritime Organization, Mike Lacey of the International Salvage Union, and Robin Miskolcze of Loyola Marymount University.
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TmaxSoft Brings Its World-Class OpenFrame Mainframe Re-hosting Solution to Canada
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Toronto, ON, May 9, 2016 – TmaxSoft, the global provider of agile and robust mainframe software solutions, has made available its intelligently developed OpenFrame re-hosting solution in Canada.
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Review Summary: Aussie Favourites Make there first album in 5 years. And It's Well worth The Wait
"I guess what we're trying to do is make a big album, something like U2 would do."-Daniel Johns, Rolling Stone January 2007.
I read that qoute with interest the first time i saw it. And when i heard "Straight Lines" I thought it would be true. Young Modern's First track "Young Modern Station" even has similarities to "Zoo Station" off the irish classics 1992 album Achtung Baby (Not just the name). To My surprise i looked in the liner notes for Young Modern, Silverchairs first album since 2002's Diorama, and saw that Daniel Johns had thanked Bono. But after having listened to Young Modern i see that Silverchair have once again created there own unique sound.
Every album Silverchair has made since 1995's Frogstomp has been a departure from there last album. 1997's Freak Show saw there first ballad, Cemetery, and featured Sitars & violins. 1999's Neon Ballroom was an even bigger step with Aussie Dance artist Paul Mac featured for the first time. Then came Diorama, where silverchair lost old fans and gained new fans and sharing a new status with Powderfinger as the best and most important Aussie Band since Acca Dacca (AC/DC for non-aussies).
So it's no surprise that Young Modern is a change yet again. More Keyboards, Guitar & Paul Mac. Opener "Young Modern Station" is a cracker tune, with less melody than you would expect from The Chair. Daniel Johns sings lines like "I'm So sick of Getting Sicker" over Ben Gillies Awesome drumming & Chris Joannous thumping bass. First single "Straight Lines" is only Silverchairs 3rd #1 single in Australia (Tomorrow & Freak also topped the charts) and you can see why. It's an epic track starting with Paul playing a synth line with Daniel's typical Vocal acrobatics then it begins to rock out & into an uplifting chorus. 3rd track "If You keep losing sleep" is as weird, if weirder, as anything My Chemical Romance have done recently. Genre Hopping all over the place it goes from weird to weirder.
2nd single "Reflections Of A Sound" is nothing groundbreaking like the 1st and 3rd tracks but is insanely catchy. Next up is the epic 3 parter "Those Thieving Birds (Part 1) / Strange Behaviour / Those Thieving Birds (Part 2)" The thieving bird parts are soft violin laced tinklers that sound like something off of Diorama, but the middle piece is a Funky pop song. "The man who knew to Much" is not unlike "Strange Behaviour" with it's funky rythym section. Obviously Ben Gillies love of the Funk has rubbed off onto Young Modern.
"Waiting All Day" is like "Reflections" with Daniel Johns sharing the songwriting credit with backing musician Julian Hamilton. "Mind Reader" has been described to me as Elton John on Acid. Hmmm. That's Debatable. It's a glam rock song, which moves into an almost Rolling Stones like Chorus. "Low" sounds like Geoge Harrison and starts off well but moves into a broing verse and chorus. It's not disimilar to something that The Sleepy Jackson would do.
Speaking of which. Luke Steele from TSJ features on "Insomnia" a song about, you guessed it, Insomnia. Slightly like Mind Reader and is another lower point. Closer "All Across The World" sounds like another Diorama track with some weird backing vocals in the chorus.
It's so good to have silverchair back that it's damn near impossible to pick up on the bad things on Young Modern.
As Daniel says in "Young Modern Station" :
'The Band Is Back, Allergic & In The News'
Well, silverchair just in general are a pro.
Young Modern Station
Paul Mac & Julian Hamilton
It's been to long!!!
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Update, Wednesday, June 20, 3:25 p.m. EST: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday that legalization will go into effect on October 17th, 2018.
The bill will allow Canadian provinces to control and regulate how marijuana can be grown, distributed and sold, and it’s likely that sales will begin by the end of the summer. The Cannabis Act makes Canada the first Group of Seven nation, and the second country in the world (after Uruguay) to legalize marijuana for adults nationally.
The Cannabis Act still needs Royal Assent – the final step the Canadian legislative process – to become law, but that is expected to happen later this week. Built into the bill is an eight-to-12 week buffer period that will allow provinces to prepare for the recreational sale of marijuana. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet will set the official date on which the law will actually go into effect.
Trudeau made legalizing cannabis part of his campaign platform in 2015, and in 2017 he introduced legalization legislation. On Twitter, the Prime Minister marked the passage of the Cannabis Act, writing, “It’s been too easy for our kids to get marijuana – and for criminals to reap the profits. Today, we change that. Our plan to legalize and regulate marijuana just passed the Senate.”
The Cannabis Act will make it legal for anyone over 18 to possess up to 30 grams of marijuana, while adults will also be allowed to grow up to four marijuana plants at home. While the bill establishes a national framework for how the cannabis market will operate, each province will be allowed to set their own system of licensing and regulation.
Canada legalized medical marijuana in 2001, though the law required patients to grow their own plants or designate another individual to grow it for them. A 2013 legal challenge broadened the law to create a system of federally licensed producers, but that ruling was itself challenged three years later on the grounds that it unreasonably limited access and increased costs. Though the 2016 ruling didn’t explicitly make dispensaries legal, it encouraged the idea that such a business could operate so long as it was for strictly medical reasons. In the years since, a gray market of sorts sprouted up in various Canadian cities, with many dispensary operators growing increasingly comfortable as legalization approached. | <urn:uuid:9ad09204-0065-4956-af64-5261828296d3> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/canada-legalizes-recreational-marijuana-use-665948/ | 2019-06-27T09:18:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560628001014.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20190627075525-20190627101525-00303.warc.gz | en | 0.962347 | 465 |
It all started in the early 1980’s when a dedicated group of people had a vision for a listener supported Christian radio station in the Hudson Valley. The radio station’s mission was to support and encourage people to know God, and to reach out to those who wanted to know him. Now as we near three decades later, The Sound of Life Radio Network has grown to covering much of eastern New York and parts of five other states, as well as our internet and digital media presence. God allows us to be a voice of encouragement and hope for the Hudson Valley and beyond, thanks to dedication of that original group of people and all those who have contributed over the years and continue to.
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A quadruple dose of investment paved the way for the rapid expansion of a Durham University spin-out company and its eventual flotation on the Alternative Investment Market.
Applied Graphene Materials secured a combined £1.7m over four investment rounds from the Technology Fund and Proof of Concept Fund – providing the springboard for a £26.2m flotation in November 2013.
The company was launched three years earlier by Professor Karl Coleman, with its operations and processes based on technology that he initially developed at Durham University. The company’s board of directors put together an experienced management team who established a commercial-scale production facility capable of producing high-purity graphene at the Wilton Science Park on Teesside.
The company then teamed up with commercial partners to develop applications for graphene, specifically in coatings, composites and lubricants.
Since the flotation, Applied Graphene Materials has progressed well in commercialising the technology and expanded its infrastructure to exploit its technology on a global basis. According to the January edition of Money Week, AGM is one of the best prospects for growth in this exciting sector.
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If President Bush thought that House passage of the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act would set off a round of rejoicing in farm country, he is likely to be disappointed.
The administration reportedly was “extremely pleased” with the one-vote victory (215-214) for the legislation formerly known as Fast Track Authority. After all, the president achieved a feat that eluded Bill Clinton during his last six years in office.
Farm Bureau and the National Corn Growers issued statements praising the House action. But many rank-and-file farmers, jaded from years of promises that exports would bring prosperity, were less than enthusiastic in their response.
“I'm not sure that more trade is the answer,” said a producer who contacted Southeast Farm Press. “I think it's much more important that we get a new farm bill.”
Other farm organizations were more restrained. “Every time we start new trade negotiations, we seem to spend a great deal of time doing damage control,” said the National Cotton Council's Mark Lange, speaking at Uniroyal's Cotton College in San Antonio.
“When they were in Doha last month, our own trade negotiators were saying that we have to reduce ‘trade-distorting’ farm subsidies in the new round of the WTO,” he noted. “That could mean lower supplemental payments and loan deficiency payments for our producers.”
Even Rep. Larry Combest, the House Agriculture Committee chairman who threw his support behind the bill before the vote, seemed apprehensive about its long-term effect.
“The president met with me last evening and expressed his personal commitment that America's farmers and ranchers will be the beneficiaries of trade promotion authority,” he said on Nov. 30. Still, Combest said, he remained concerned that USDA “does not always have farmers' best interests in mind.”
Last June, Combest said he would not work for the legislation after Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced that the United States had made $10.4 billion in trade-distorting “amber box” payments in 1998.
“USDA's announcement is the equivalent to a unilateral disarmament that cedes ground and gains nothing in return,” Combest said. “The USDA finding creates a precedent for classifying assistance that will apply to payments also made in 1999 and 2000 and restrict our ability to make those in the future.”
Combest also questioned comments by European Union officials following passage of the House farm bill in October. EU officials said the bill's provisions did not square with what U.S. negotiators has been telling them about U.S. farm policy.
“The concern continues to grow among members of Congress that our government is willing to capitulate a lot faster than the EU or other countries on behalf of its farmers,” Combest. “I want to see our government as tenacious to make agreements work as they are in getting agreements. I don't see that happening.”
With the House passage, the legislation now goes to the Senate, which is said to be more favorable to the bill. Majority Leader Tom Daschle has said he won't bring the legislation up until next year. If Daschle had rushed to pass trade promotion authority legislation ahead of a new farm bill, that would be the last straw for many producers. | <urn:uuid:8a24e26d-84da-44a0-b62b-7467d9842018> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | http://southeastfarmpress.com/farmers-lawmakers-suspicious-trade-policy | 2015-10-10T17:05:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443737958671.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001221918-00174-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976107 | 702 |
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Good design affects your content and credibility, and visuals play a big role in a reader’s decision to stay…or go. Make sure yours are helping, not hurting.
Your houseguests will be here in two hours. Does that send a mild wave of panic over you, too?
Today, make sure your new branding shines — give your online home a cleaning spree to make sure it’s ready for visitors, and focus on easy modifications that make a quick (and big) impact: themes, fonts, colors, headers, and backgrounds. A lot of you started that yesterday — let’s keep going.
Today’s assignment: experiment with visual changes and see whether you can refine your brand further and add more dimension to your posts.
Bonus points: make a test blog to use as your personal playground for testing changes.
Why do this?
- Because good design affects your blog’s credibility, and can play a big role in a reader’s decision to stay…or go.
- Because your design choices aren’t just about appearances — the colors, fonts, and layouts you choose have a big impact on your words and photos. Good design makes good content even better.
Even if you’re happy with your look, we encourage you to experiment and preview new themes, colors, and fonts. They can drastically alter the feeling of your text and photos, and you may discover that a design tweak is just what you needed to make your posts pop. Pick at least one of these, and give it a try.
(By the way: if you think customizing means spending money, think again. Lots of modifications don’t require an upgrade; you can use a free site with a free theme, make your own header image or custom widgets with free images and fonts, and upload a free background image. If you do purchase Custom Design, more design options become accessible.)
Try on Themes
Tip: When you’re looking at your site, your blog name, top left, includes a dropdown menu. From that menu, your dashboard, the Customizer, and your theme’s support page are a click away.
Every theme can be used for websites, blogs, or both. Choose one that has the structure you’re looking for, and make it your own with images and widgets. Try a theme you hate, too — just to see what it does to your content. You might not use Vertigo for a daycare center or Lens if you don’t have a lot of photos…but you might.
For inspiration, check out this series of posts on how some of our most popular themes have been completely transformed with custom touches. When you’re inspired, head to the Appearance → Themes section of your dashboard and click Preview under a theme to see your blog wearing some new duds. Click Cancel to drop it, and Purchase or Activate to switch to the new theme.
Be a Type Nerd
Fonts say a great deal — they can scream, whisper, or purr. They can be elegant or punchy, playful or stern, modern or ornate. They add color and depth to your words and set a mood.
Whether or not you have Custom Design, you can experiment with fonts in your header image. Try choosing and pairing typefaces, matching them to your brand’s personality, like these sites have:
If you have Custom Design, head to the Customizer to try different fonts for your post and page titles and regular text. (You can preview these even if you don’t have the upgrade, to see what you like.)
Paint the Picture with a Palette
If you have Custom Design, you can also change the colors of your theme beyond the background, or enter custom CSS to go beyond that.
Create a pleasing color palette that matches your brand’s intent. Colors can be warm (reds, yellows, oranges) or cool (blues, greens). Some colors, like purple or gray, can go either way. Colors can also be saturated and bold (a deep crimson, a rich midnight blue) or soft and washed-out (a pale pink, a barely-there yellow). Think about yesterday’s assignment, and figure out which colors complement the brand you’re trying to build.
The need for color also varies with your content. If you’re an artist or photographer, consider a neutral palette to let your work stand out. Longer-form posts need a simpler palette to keep from distracting the eye; shorter posts can handle bolder color.
Brand your Header from the Beginning
What does your header say about you? Is it legible? Can visitors tell what your site is about just from looking?
A great header doesn’t require a graphic design degree and expensive image editing software. You can create a custom header completely free using images you already have and easy-to-use online tools like PicMonkey — here’s how.
Background Wins for Best Supporting Role
Think your background is just that — in the background? Take a look at how different the same site feels just by varying the background color.
Choose a background that doesn’t overwhelm your content, whether a solid color or a small repeating image. You can find free patterns and images perfect for backgrounds at sites like Subtle Patterns, Background Labs, and bgpatterns.
A few background caveats:
- Beware of using photos where the most important part of the image ends up hidden behind your posts — it looks messy, and doesn’t allow the image to communicate anything about your blog.
- If you’re not sure where to start, pull a color or two out of your header or another image on your home page.
- Animated GIFs: just say no.
If you want to try all of this on a test site, so your blog’s appearance isn’t constantly changing, here’s a tutorial to get you started.
Chat more over on The Commons.
Now, go play!
Editor’s note: We know there’s a lot here! We don’t expect you to try all of these, nor do we expect you to finalize every element of your brand, theme, and design in one afternoon. We do want you to start exploring how each element of your theme influences your brand and the perception of your blog, so that by the end of this challenge you’ll be able to make some design choices with confidence. | <urn:uuid:55fb6175-cd68-49ff-99e8-26a2b3d2dd0c> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_assignment/201-get-the-look/ | 2014-10-25T21:09:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119650516.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030050-00299-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895274 | 1,362 |
Anna was supposed to spend her 50th birthday dancing with friends, not laid up in bed. The Texas grandmother was only 49 when she suffered from a stroke in her spine, a rare, sudden condition that can leave its victims paralyzed without warning.
That was five years ago. Now, Anna can stand and walk slowly with the aid of a walker, but otherwise she is mostly confined to a wheelchair, she tells ConsumerAffairs. As she began her recovery and adjusted to her new life, doctors put Anna on a daily regimen of hydrocodone pills. The prescription drugs relaxed her muscles and controlled clonus, a series of involuntary
muscle spasms caused by her spinal injury. “My leg starts jumping like I’m going to a hoedown,” she says.
The pills worked at stopping the spasms, but Anna didn’t like taking them. Throughout her life, she says she abstained from taking pills or drinking alcohol, instead preferring to use marijuana recreationally. So in 2014, two years after suffering the life-altering stroke, Anna naturally worked
in a visit to a dispensary while visiting her daughter in weed-friendly Colorado. Anna explained her symptoms, and the local doctor gave her a selection of products that were lower in THC and higher in CBD, or the non-psychoactive component of cannabis thought to have more medicinal
The visit, Anna says, marked a new beginning in her medicine routine. Now, she uses marijuana whenever the clonus returns, and says it seems to control the spasms by relaxing her muscles. She has never had to take hydrocodone pills again, she says. Though she is still living in Texas, where even legal, medical marijuana is difficult for patients to get if they want to follow the law, Anna finds a supply through her own channels. She never noticed any negative side effects from the prescription pills, but she is relieved to be free from them. “I don’t like taking pills at all,” she explains.
The medicinal benefits of cannabis for many specific medical issues -- spinal cord injuries or opioid dependence are just two of many conditions whose patients may benefit from cannabis -- are not all well studied or understood. But the anecdotal evidence from patients like Anna, who did not want her last name printed, is slowly gaining support from university research and even the federal government.
Feds see cannabis as potential treatment for opioid abuse
The federal government’s website for the National Institute on Drug Abuse in April 2017 updated its page on marijuana to describe several recent studies that found a trend between access to marijuana and decreased opioid use. “Medical marijuana products may have a role in reducing the use of opioids needed to control pain,” DrugAbuse.gov now states. The site
MassRoots first noted and reported on the change on Monday.
A record amount of Americans are now hooked on opioids, and overdoses from heroin, fentanyl or a number of prescription opioids killed an estimated 33,000 people here in 2015. Recently-confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, meanwhile, has remained adamant despite the evidence that softening federal laws against marijuana will not curb America's opioid epidemic.
“I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana -- so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that’s only slightly less awful,” Sessions famously told reporters in March.
Medical weed linked to less opioid addicts in the hospital
In fact, research published just several weeks after Sessions made that claim found that opioid overdoses may actually be decreasing with the legalization of marijuana.
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego aimed to study hospitalization rates in the 28 states that have legalized marijuana, because “its impacts on severe health consequences such as hospitalizations remain unknown.” But the researchers did not find an epidemic of marijuana-related hospitalizations in their research. They found the opposite.
While hospitals continue to see an enormous amount of opioid overdose and opioid addiction cases, the researchers found that opioid dependency-related hospitalizations decreased by 23 percent in states where medical marijuana is legal, and that opioid overdose cases decreased by 13 percent in those same states.“Medical marijuana policies were significantly associated with reduced OPR-related hospitalizations,” or opioid-related hospitalizations, the researchers concluded, “but had no associations
with marijuana-related hospitalizations.”
"This study and a few others provided some evidence regarding the potential positive benefits of legalizing marijuana to reduce opioid use and abuse, but they are still preliminary," the lead researcher later explained to NBC.
Marijuana and Medicare savings
Another recent study, cited on the the federal government’s National Institute on Drug Abuse website, used Medicare data to track the effect that medical marijuana had on the use of pills, including opioids.
Overall, access to medical marijuana corresponded with an estimated $165.2 million in savings on prescription drugs, as the federal government acknowledges.
Patients who credit medical marijuana with improving their quality of life still face hurdles, even in states where recreational or medicinal possession of cannabis is legal. Because cannabis remains illegal under federal law, employers are still allowed to drug test employees and fire those who test positive for cannabis, which is known to stay in a person’s system well after ingestion and after the psychoactive effects have worn off.
Telecommunications giant Dish, for example, seven years ago fired telephone technician Brandon Coats from their Colorado offices after he failed a drug test. Coats, a quadriplegic, similarly said that cannabis controlled the muscle spasms he suffered as a result of his spinal injury. He filed a high-profile lawsuit that ended several years ago in Dish’s favor, with the judges saying that Dish and Dish’s employment policies were protected because of federal regulations classifying cannabis as an illegal Schedule 1 substance. Since getting fired for failing a drug test, Coats has been unable to find a steady job in his field since then, he told ConsumerAffairs last month. | <urn:uuid:d595946d-a237-43a6-bc41-654a1ef1a229> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/feds-admit-marijuana-may-reduce-opioid-use-050417.html | 2021-10-18T23:30:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585215.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20211018221501-20211019011501-00111.warc.gz | en | 0.966217 | 1,242 |
Carrie Underwood and Peyton Manning will appear on NBC’s Saturday Night Live on March 24. Underwood will perform several hits from Some Hearts. Manning will serve as host. Underwood is only the fifth country artist to perform on the show in the last 20 years, joining Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban. Underwood is currently recording her follow-up album to be released later this year. | <urn:uuid:81030ab7-231e-4cd3-a68d-194bb1e9858f> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://www.cmt.com/news/1554478/snl-invites-carrie-underwood-peyton-manning/ | 2015-11-25T12:57:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398445142.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205405-00262-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963207 | 90 |
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For the stories I will use examples of the stories on the “Story and Sing” Nursery page https://www.highfieldhall.derbyshire.sch.uk/story-and-sing/,
but you can use any story!
- Find your favourite story and share it with a grown up.
- Read your story to your grown up. Don’t worry if you can’t read all the words! Tell the story from the pictures!
- Dress up as your favourite character in the story and ask a grown up to ask you questions (we call this “hot seating”).Your grown up could ask you questions such as
-how you are feeling during a particular time in the story
-why you did something in the story
-what you did at some point during the story
Eg Hot seating “Sharing a Shell”
Pretend to be the crab. Your grown up could ask
“how did you feel when the gull was chasing you?”
“why didn’t you want to share your shell?”
“what else was in the rock pool with you?”
“what did you think when you saw that new shell?”
- Read the story again and make up a different ending. Make it a sad ending, or a surprise ending. What else might happen in the story?
Eg “Hairy MaClarey’s Bone”-make up an ending where one of the other dogs gets the bone!
- Act out parts of the story and video it
- Make puppets with card and lolly sticks or just paper. Make a puppet show and act out the story
Eg make four owl puppets and act out “Owl Babies”
- Make masks from the story and act out
Eg make dinosaur masks for “Dinosaur Roar” and be the different dinosaurs
- Draw your favourite part of the story
- On a walk or in the garden, find different places where you can be the different characters
Eg in the garden act out “It’s the Bear” with a picnic
- Read stories in lots of different places! In the garden, in the bath-“There’s a Dinosaur in my Bath Tub” would be a good one here! Or “Barry the Fish with Fingers”!
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Roxana García Lorenzo, Andy’s sister, and her partner, Jonatán López, with the letter delivered to the governor of Villa Clara this Wednesday. (Facebook/Roxana Garcia Lorenzo)
14ymedio, Havana, 19 January 2022 — The family of Andy García Lorenzo, one of the prisoners for the July 11 (11J) demonstrations in Santa Clara, delivered this Wednesday a letter addressed to the governor of Villa Clara, Alberto López Díaz, to denounce the “damages” that he is causing them. the “systematic harassment” to which he is being subjected.
Signed by Roxana García Lorenzo, Andy’s sister, her partner, Jonatán López Alonso, and her parents, Pedro Osvaldo López Mesa and Yenia Alonso Melgarejo, the letter, to which 14ymedio had access, says it is based on the “right to complain ” enshrined in Article 61 of the Constitution “and as a preliminary step in the face of a possible lawsuit and subsequent access to competent human rights organizations.”
The family members insisted that Andy García is “a peaceful protester” of the 11J protests and that he is deprived of liberty due to the “combat order” issued by Miguel Díaz-Canel. “It is in our ethical principles as well as in the exercise of freedom of expression, a human, universal and inalienable right, to defend it and denounce violations against it,” they say in the text.
In their letter, they complain to Governor López Díaz that they are being victims of “harassment by the operational officers of Section 21 of the General Directorate of Counter-Intelligence.” As an example, they cite the most recent altercation: being arrested on January 14 by an agent when they were going “peacefully” to the headquarters of the People’s Provincial Court of Villa Clara, where Andy García and other defendants were being tried.
“It happens that we were intercepted on public roads by an operational officer, dressed in civilian clothes and without identifying himself, on his motorcycle license plate B58394,” they detail, “who without an arrest warrant and without informing the reasons for the arrest made us get off the means of transport and led us to a patrol car of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), which took us to the Provincial Criminal Processing Unit.”
There, they continue, they were held for about ten hours and were “interrogated in a coercive manner, without recording equipment and without legal representation.” Roxana García, Jonatán López and Pedro López were fined 3,000 pesos under Decree Law 370 of 2018, known as the “scourge law.” The first two, in addition, and by the same rule, had their mobile phones confiscated.
With regards to this they will present “the claims before the competent authority,” says the family of Andy García, who asserts that the harassment by the State Security “is causing us serious damage, harm and affecting our mental health.”
As reported by Roxana García on her Facebook wall , the authorities received the letter assuring that they would give a response.
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Had a good BWCA trip. I have been doing BWCA/Canada trips since the 1960s and it is still something special. The Boundary Waters trip changed from a fishing trip to a travel trip and I completed the loop faster than expected but I still had a great time.
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My impression of the Wenonah Prism is that it is a fast solo boat that is extremely easy to portage. If your plan is to travel it is stable while under paddle. I would suggest however that if a person is going to do much fishing that it is not the best platform for that. My suggestion would be for a solo canoeist who wishes to do a lot of fishing to find a tandem alternative. The same suggestion would apply to a single taking a large dog ( does that happen much??). As long as we were moving forward we were fine but just like a bicycle it gets more unstable when moving very slowly.
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Robert Gagnon’s treatment of my own work in his book The Bible and Homosexual Practice is anything but irenic. “Wink’s analysis has all the theological sophistication of a math test or football game: sixteen sexual policies in the Bible we no longer heed versus just four that we do.
It was inevitable that the antihomosexual lobby would develop something equivalent to a neutron bomb designed to wipe out the homosexual lobby without (it is hoped) altogether destroying the church. I refer to a tendentious study by Robert A. J. Gagnon of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
For those trapped in the Twin Towers or the Pentagon, that fiery hell must have seemed apocalyptic. In the fleeting moments before they leaped from windows or were crushed under melting I-beams, what passed through their minds? | <urn:uuid:bd2958e1-8bd0-4f86-a992-215898e9011d> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.christiancentury.org/contributor/walter-wink | 2015-04-18T15:31:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246635547.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045715-00257-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960241 | 170 |
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In 1971, I was a 32-year-old advertising copywriter for the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., working in the department responsible for attracting businesses to Cleveland.
Part of my job was checking out the competition, so to speak, so I received magazines from cities like New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. I loved those magazines – they made the cities seem so vital, something that, at the time, Cleveland was not. Something was always happening in New York and Washington. It sounds crazy now, but I began to wonder whether, if Cleveland had a magazine, things would start happening here too.
I can almost pinpoint the moment when Cleveland Magazine was conceived: My wife and I were driving to Florida to visit my parents, and I’d brought along three or four of these city magazines as reading material. I turned to my wife and said: “Cleveland needs a magazine.”
She just shrugged and said it was worth considering. I’m sure she thought I’d forget the whole scheme as soon as we’d passed through Georgia.
But not long after that trip, I started asking people what I’d need to do to start a magazine. “You have to have a prototype,” they said. I wasn’t sure what a prototype should look like, but with the help of an artistic CEI coworker, we transformed an issue of New York magazine into Cleveland Magazine. Sort of. We actually just changed every story by putting “Cleveland” in place of “New York” in the headlines.
My next step, I was told, was to raise money, and the man to see was Oliver Emerson, whose Emerson Press printed CEI’s monthly magazine and annual report. I called him up and said, “Mr. Emerson, you don’t know who I am, but I wondered if I could meet with you to tell you about an idea I have.” Ollie and I met a couple of weeks later. I told him about my magazine idea, and almost immediately he said, “Great! Let’s do it.”
“What?” I exclaimed.
“Let’s do it,” he said again. “What we need is a business plan.” I had no clue what a business plan was and had no more idea of how to write one than I did of how to design a magazine prototype. But while I sat there wondering whether Ollie was serious or just goofing around with an idealistic kid, he was talking about getting some people together at the Union Club. “You stand up, and you pitch ’em,” he said. “If you pitch ’em right, you have yourself a magazine.”
This was November 1971. The next month, my wife and I headed off for a brief Christmas vacation. I thought it would be months, if then, before I’d hear from Ollie Emerson about the Union Club kaffeeklatsch. But when we got to my parent’s house in Florida, the phone rang — it was Ollie. He’d set up a meeting for Dec. 27.
“Twenty of the most influential people in Cleveland are coming to hear you pitch,” he said. If I ever doubted Ollie’s influence and connections, when he started rattling off names like Del DeWindt from Eaton Corp. and Nick Mileti of the Cleveland Cavaliers, there wasn’t a shred of doubt in my mind that Ollie had meant what he’d said to me a few weeks earlier. These people were friends of Ollie’s — seriously heavy-hitters, prominent people I never would have met in a million years if not for him.
I had no idea how to plan this presentation, still hadn’t figured out how to write a business plan and certainly had no idea what should be included in it. But what choice did I have? I sat down and wrote a plan, hired a typist and worked for two days and two nights to finish the thing. Then I flew up to Cleveland, walked into the Union Club not having slept in the last 48 hours and made my presentation. When I was done, I asked if there were any questions.
Nick Mileti raised his hand. “This is never going to work,” he said.
Some of the others said, “Nick, go easy on the kid. Why do you say it won’t work?”
He said, “Here’s this business plan” — and I had used Nick as an example of what could be done in Cleveland with a little initiative and money — “and the kid spelled my name three different ways.”
Thank goodness he laughed, and everybody relaxed. Before I left, I had one check in my pocket. We went on to bring in about 20 investors, huge names from companies like Bonne Bell; Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue; and American Shipbuilding — the common bond being that they all knew Ollie. They probably owed him something, for all I know, but at the time all that mattered was that they were interested in helping a thirtysomething kid with no publishing-industry experience start a city magazine.
After Christmas break, I went back to work at the Illuminating Co. I didn’t know what else to do, really, because the magazine was still in a dream stage as far as I was concerned. I hadn’t been back more than a couple of hours when Bob Bridges, the vice president of CEI’s advertising department, who I never would see in the normal course of my day, said he wanted to see me.
Bob sat there with this package on his desk, a plain yellow envelope, drumming his fingers on it. “Lute Harmon. Lute Harmon. How many Lute Harmons do you think there are in Cleveland, Ohio?”
I said, “I doubt, Bob, that there are any other Lute Harmons in Cleveland.”
“That’s what I figured,” he said. “And I’ll be a son of a gun, but I’ve got this plan for a magazine here, Cleveland Magazine, and it’s got your name on it. Do you think somebody’s using your name?”
I said, “Gee, Bob, no. That’s me.”
“Well,” he said, “I guess you have a decision to make, don’t you?”
I ran back to my office and called Ollie, who said: “Cut loose.” I’ll never forget those words.
Keep in mind that we didn’t have all the money committed at this point. We had no staff, no offices, not much except a prototype blatantly copied from New York and a handful of interested movers-and-shakers. I also had an infant son at home. This was really scary.
But for whatever reason — confidence? Egotism? Stupidity? — I quit my job. We bought a few used desks and opened Cleveland Magazine on the Emerson Press building’s second floor, which had been used for storage.
The magazine needed people to do everything — and I do mean everything. I think we even advertised for writers/secretaries. When Brigitte Straubs — who became our first editorial assistant — came to interview, my only remaining question after she’d convinced me of how great she was, was whether she owned a typewriter. She did, she got the job.
Our offices were hardly luxurious — they weren’t even holding together. Plaster flaked from the ceiling, which we didn’t realize until the editors noticed that their old manual typewriters weren’t working so well. Our solution was to cover the typewriters with newspapers before we left at night.
We didn’t have salespeople until the second or third issue, so at first I sold all the ads, going on calls with copies of other city magazines because we didn’t have out own yet. I sold the dream, which was something I don’t think I could do today. The dream was that by having a first-class city magazine, we were going to be a first-class city. That perception was extremely important to Clevelanders at the time. The magazine wanted to create excitement in a town that was headed nowhere.
And we did create excitement, I think, although it was tough those first few months. We had maybe six people on staff, and we all worked seven days a week. Our standard joke was to leave on Sunday afternoon and say, “Have a nice weekend.” After about nine months, our editor, Gary Griffith, who’d come to us from Case Western Reserve University and was responsible for our first cover story on Dennis Kucinich, said he’d had enough. He needed a break, and I needed a new editor.
As I look back at the history of the magazine, one of the most significant moves was hiring Mike Roberts. We became an important publication almost overnight. Here was a guy who’d been city editor at The Plain Dealer, a correspondent in Vietnam, a guy who really knew journalism — lived it, breathed it. He brought that to the magazine.
Not long after Gary left, Mike Roberts and I went to dinner at the Keg and Quarter. We talked about everything that was wrong with Cleveland. The more we talked, the more we drank, and the more we drank, the more we talked. I told him I wanted him to be editor, of course, but we somehow never quite got around to discussing the idea in detail.
Mike called me the next day and said he was sorry, but he couldn’t remember everything we’d discussed the night before. I saw my opening, “Well, Mike,” I said, “you accepted the job as editor of Cleveland Magazine.” But to this day neither of us is sure what we really talked about that night at the Keg and Quarter.
This city had such an inferiority complex then. Nothing good was happening. Or maybe I should say nothing was happening — period. I wrote in my first publisher’s column that Cleveland was “a slum-ridden, financially poor, ethnically divided city filled with stubborn people,” and I mean it.
In the early years of the magazine, we tried to elevate that image. As part of that, we pulled stunts like naming Dayton the armpit of the nation — we sent the city’s mayor a toilet plunger in a gift box. But a larger part was what Mike Roberts did for our editorial content. The first thing he did was bring in star politics reporter Ned Whelan, which gave us a one-two editorial punch unmatched anywhere at any city magazine.
Mike also brought in his wife, Pat Weitzel, to do restaurant reviews, which in retrospect is a large reason Cleveland Magazine is here today. Pat had been a food editor at The Washington Post and had impeccable credentials. She also said exactly what she felt. We had people running to newsstands to get their magazines and read her reviews. It got to a point where I’m sure Pat was the most feared woman in Cleveland. Mike and I were constantly going out and talking to restaurant owners about what we were doing and why, and of course they just claimed that we were putting them out of business. I would say that Pat Weitzel, just by herself, brought in 10,000 subscribers. No exaggeration.
But in the 1970s, we didn’t have to rely on stunts or tricks or even much promotion — the restaurant reviews and our stories got plenty of attention. Like the cover story we did in 1978, “Sex in the Suburbs” — nobody was doing that kind of thing. It truly was controversial. In fact, one of the women on the cover was a part-time model who lost her full-time teaching job because she posed for that picture. No one had dared write about the East Side/West Side rift, and when we did, this city was talking for years.
Another story that got people interested was a George Steinbrenner article we’d sat on for months, then ran the month Steinbrenner was indicted for illegal political contributions. Mike used to call them potboilers: We’d keep an eye on names popping up in the news, get the background information and when the issue came to a boil, we’d pop that story in the magazine. We’d bring everything together and make a whole story out of it.
Meanwhile, of course, we were trying to drum up even more interest — we needed more subscribers and more advertisers, like any start-up publication. One thing we did in the early years was send out a subscription offer around October saying that we’d guarantee that if you gave a subscription for Cleveland Magazine as a present, you would have a gift card by Christmas day.
Two days before Christmas, we had 300 gift cards that we couldn’t put through the mail in time. So on Christmas eve — it was snowing — my wife and I got in the car and went door to door delivering gift cards on the West Side, while one of the other staff people took the East Side. You should’ve seen the look on people’s faces when we’d knock on the door and say, “Here’s your Cleveland Magazine gift subscription.”
It was too easy starting the magazine. The tough part was keeping it going. Within a few years, we were viewed as one of the models of success in city magazines. We kept growing, year after year. In retrospect, this was probably as much a bad thing as it was good.
In 1978, we opened a magazine in Detroit, and two years later we started one in Tampa. By 1982, we’d added a magazine in Milwaukee. We had four magazines and thought we were going to conquer the world. The problem was that while everything might be fine in Cleveland on Monday, things in Detroit would be falling apart. Then on Tuesday, Detroit might be great, but Milwaukee would be having a crisis. There was no gain — financial or otherwise — to having four magazines in four different cities.
What we found is that city magazines are not widgets. You can’t manufacture them automatically, and they are very, very people intensive. Magazines are only as good as their people. It’s very difficult to have good people in two cities let alone three, let alone four.
As I think about Cleveland Magazine and its history, and everything the industry and the city have been through, I wonder about city magazines. Where are they going? What place do they have?
When we started, we were an alternative to The Plain Dealer, which didn’t want to tackle a lot of the stories we were doing about the Mafia and politics and government corruption and controversial social issues. We were providing stories that people couldn’t get anywhere else.
Things started changing as people moved to the suburbs and took their hearts and mind with them. Downtown was a workplace and occasional recreation area, period. They were far more interested in what was happening in Bay Village and Rocky River and Shaker Heights.
What we did in the 1970s and early ’80s wouldn’t fly now — there are so many other outlets for the same type of information. If we announced right now that we’re going to write an expose every month, people would ask “why?” Everybody does them.
On the other hand, there is still room for in-depth reporting in a city magazine. That’s a different type of journalism. People don’t go to a newspaper for a beginning, middle and end — they go there for what happened today. A city magazine can put the pieces together and flesh it out. We have the luxury of being able to come in every day and ask ourselves what we want to do to best appeal to our readers. We can concentrate our efforts on what they really want to read — not just what they have to or should read — or the kind of nuts-and-bolts data like weather and obituaries and sports scores that they can get elsewhere.
Hard to believe we’ve been around for 25 years. Even though things happened so fast in the beginning, and we grew so quickly, there were plenty of times that like any entrepreneurial organization, we felt that Cleveland Magazine days were numbered.
People ask me how we did it. I’m sure a part of it was just being too young to know better. But I’ve talked to a lot of people who’ve started things. You know what it is that makes them successful? You have to be a certain type. You have to be a little on the edge. You can’t be so security-conscience that you’re not willing to take a chance.
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