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Once upon a time, in the early twentieth century, publicly owned companies provided electricity to people across the US. These companies provided electricity at lower cost and with better service than their privately owned competitors. Then, along came Samuel Insull. Mr. Insull was the Kenny Lay of his day, and he constructed a financial house of cards to control the electricity industry, just as Mr. Lay did with Enron.
In order to crush his lower cost publicly owned competitors, Mr. Insull had to come up with a scheme that would provide privately owned electric companies shed their reputation for exploiting their customers. So Mr. Insull, along with J.P. Morgan and other speculators, pushed the concept of publicly regulated monopolies in the electricity business.
In the 1980s and 1990s, having vanquished public ownership of electric companies (with some exceptions), Kenny Lay and Enron and the modern day speculators, including JPMorgan Chase, pushed hard to eliminate the system of state regulation that Mr. Insull had engineered. The result has been the systematic destruction of state control, even in the states where regulation still exists in state law.
Federal laws passed in the Clinton and Cheney administrations allowed the creation of national holding companies that were not regulated by any government agency. These holding companies, which WV PSC Commissioner Palmer compared with Samuel Insull's fraudulent financial empire in the recent FirstEnergy Harrison power plant case, are now free to play accounting games with assets like power plants and transmission lines, while the adding of profits and costs to customers' bills is hidden by growing layers of bureaucracy.
In this situation, state PSCs can either roll over and play dead, or they can fight for their states and their states' citizens. For the most part, the WV PSC has failed in its job of protecting our state.
In the TrAIL transmission line case, the WV PSC bought the bogus arguments of PJM (one of the needless bureaucracies created by the Enron deregulation program) that electricity demand was rising steadily and that the East Coast electrical system was facing imminent collapse. In the PATH case, the PSC appeared to be again grovelling before out of state corporations and PJM's ridiculous claims that have since proven to be groundless.
The other shell game of the modern era is unloading obsolete generating plants on captive rate payers. This happened in California during that state's deregulation process when CA power companies unloaded all their stranded nuclear power plant costs onto rate payers. Most recently, in WV, we have seen two Ohio holding companies, FirstEnergy and AEP, unload obsolete coal burners onto WV rate payers, with the blessing of most of our PSC commissioners.
Mergers play a key role in all of these shell games. As we saw in the Harrison power plant case, mergers allow companies to inflate the value of assets using bookkeeping tricks, just before those assets are "sold" in phony transactions to rate payers. In the case of FirstEnergy, the WV PSC had the power to block the merger of Allegheny Energy and FirstEnergy in 2011 when the companies needed Commission approval for their merger.
One of the primary duties of the WV PSC is to ensure the adequacy of billing and service to WV electric customers. This duty provides a clear criterion for approving any merger deal that comes before the Commission. Power companies promise all of the usual BS in their merger cases: synergies, win-win situations, greater efficiency, cost savings for rate payers, blah, blah, blah. The job of the commissioners is to cut through the crap, so to speak, and make a determination based on reality.
In the case of the FirstEnergy/Allegheny Energy merger, the WV PSC has failed miserably. Two of the commissioners, Chairman Mike Albert and Commissioner Jon McKinney, even went so far as to negate the heart of their own merger order when they allowed FirstEnergy to pass on the cost of the merger to WV rate payers. And FirstEnergy's current billing mess in WV grew directly out of the companies cost cutting and scrimping on service that they executed following the Allegheny merger. The WV PSC could have done its job and blocked the merger, but the Commission didn't even see fit to enforce the restrictions it put in place in its own merger order less than two years ago.
To see a real PSC taking decisive action to protect its rate payers, we have only to look at the decision of the Mississippi PSC shortly before Christmas. The MS PSC rejected a plan by multi-state holding company Entergy to sell all its MS transmission lines to a merchant transmission company, ITC, based in Michigan. The MS PSC blocked the deal, even though two other supine PSCs in other states had approved the deal. Why did the MS PSC stop the Entergy/ITC deal?
Brandon Presley, a member of the Mississippi Public Service Commission, said Entergy's move to MISO should benefit consumers, but ITC was unable to demonstrate the financial advantages of the sale.
"The evidence in the MISO case showed a benefit of a minimum of $242 million over 10 years for Mississippi rate payers," Presley said in an interview. "There was not any evidence in this case that showed any financial benefits to Mississippi rate payers, either quantitatively or qualitatively."
Presley said testimony indicated customers would pay $348 million more over 30 years under ITC ownership because ITC can earn a higher rate of return under federal regulation compared to state regulation.
Loss of state authority to regulate transmission and set rates also goes against Mississippi law, Presley said.
"Federal regulation would lead to Mississippi rate payers paying higher rates for the same service, provided by the same people, using the same assets," a result prohibited by state law, the commission order said.
As we often say here in WV, but for different reasons, thank goodness for Mississippi.


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University of EssexSeeSome pictures of Essex University that I have so far not seen on YouTube: especially the "underworld" beneath the Squares, where I found myself on my first day wondering seriously if this was to be the place I would...
University of StrathclydeNeil Campbell (Student President 2008/09) and Fran Shepherd (Head of Alumni & Development) talk about the University
Brunel UniversityGetting ready to come to Brunel in a few weeks? We've made a campus tour video to help you get your bearings when you arrive.
Oxford Brookes UniversityOxford has a long history of academic excellence. Find out what our students think about life in the city
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Swansea UniversitySwansea University offers a great range of courses and a fantastic environment in which to study. Take a look at this short film to give you an idea of some of what is on offer at the University
Stirling UniversityVoted the second nicest university campus in Britain (after Roehampton)! The University first opened its doors in 1967, and the buildings surround the attractive Airthrey Loch
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Wa-ter Your Thoughts?: Lessons Learned in Tena, Ecuador
Karla Feeser, Public Health Intern: Closing out my third week in Archidona, I've had a little time to adjust, readjust, and reflect on my internship thus far. As a Public Health Intern with both Water Ecuador and Runa Foundation, I've been working on a study to determine the quality of water that is bottled and distributed here in Archidona and also in the neighboring city of Tena. Additionally, we've been conducting surveys to better understand


text: When Bethany learned how to screenprint and dye fabric, she knew that the newfound skill was way more than a casual little hobby. In short order, she's made a full-time trade of printing original designs and dyeing painterly hues onto linen fabrics, then stitching them into eye-catching bags. While there's an artful precision to the printing piece, the dyeing allows her to trust her instincts instead, custom-mixing colors using her eye rather than a formula. And all that fabric wizardry and careful stitching happens in a 10-foot by 10-foot studio.


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Firstly, The humidifier leaks. Every morning there is a significant amount of water around the heating plate in the base of the humidifier. Every night, I take the resivoir out and fill it to the max level. In fact it appears to be impossible to overfill by design.The problem persists after my supplier has already replaced both the humidifier unit and the resivior.
Secondly, The bluetooth connection fails every other day and requires either repairing unplugging / rebooting the CPAP to reestablish the connection.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 132415
Add &DRAFTNOTICE; entity to CVS for FDP
Last modified: 2009-07-07 00:08:41 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Description of problem:
Created "draftnotice" entity for use with FDP draft documents.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put draftnotice.xml in common dir
2. put approriate line in XML file
3. use &DRAFTNOTICE; entity to indicate draft status of document
Additional info:
Created attachment 103776 [details]
CVS diff patch for draftnotice entity
Followed Karsten's instructions for creating the patch.
Created attachment 103777 [details]
Actual draftnotice.xml for the comon directory
actual file which is referenced in patch/entity.
I think you meant to have this bug block the docs in progress tracker
instead of the docs ideas without owners tracker since you submitted a
patch for it already.
I have some suggested changes for the text in draftnotice-en.xml. I'll
bring it up on the mailing list.
Seems like we have a concensus to use the following instead, where
&BUG-NUM; is defined in the parent file of the draft document:
This is a draft version of the document. It is subject to change
at any time and may not have been tested for technical accuracy
yet. If you find any errors, please report them via Bugzilla in
bug &BUG-NUM;.
I have committed this to CVS.
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35 Cool But Easy Drawing Tutorials For The Artist In You
Are you a talented Illustrator? Or a frustrated sketcher? Either way, I think it is safe to say that we all drop our jaws at a wonderful, perfectly flawless drawing however simple or complicated it is. So we came with an idea of having a list of the coolest drawing tutorials for all our folks there that loves illustration as much as we do here at DIY Projects for Teens.
If you are a starting talent, you can really get really cool stuff from the projects we've listed below. From 2D to 3D cartoons, comics or geometric drawings, here are step-by-step tutorials you can study and make a version for yourself.
1. How to Draw Caricatures: The 5 Shapes
Caricatures are one of the cooooollllessst illustrations. Imagine you can make this in 5 steps.
2. How to Draw a Wildcat
This one is for our novice. Want to try to draw a wild cat? Here's how!
3. How to Draw Anime Body – Female
I think one of the most interesting part of drawing is how you are able to draw a perfect body.
4. How to Draw a Car
Ooo! To be able to draw this will be totally cool!
5. Traditional Sketch Rendering
Do you want to know how to do the traditional sketch rendering? Me too!!!
6. Draw a Fashion Design- Pleated Skirt
If you're feeling like a fashionista, then here you go!
7. How to Draw Baby Dory from Finding Dory
Oh yes. This irresistibly cute Dory is for sure a drawing material.
8. How to Draw Dragons: Step-by-Step Instructions from Tooth to Tail
Or try to do this fierce dragon, it will be so cool!
9. Clothing Tutorial
Learn how to draw an epic wardrobe and become an anime clothes master!
10. How to Draw a Lips
Drawing perfect lips will never be difficult again with this tutorial!
11. Hair Drawing Tutorial
12. Eye-Drawing Tutorial by Sarah
13. How to Draw a Realistic Eye
14. Dance of Spring Tutorial
15. How to Draw a Ninja
16. How to Draw a Mouth and Teeth
17. Drawing Hands and Feet
18. Draw a Rose
19. Comic Story Step by Step
20. Evil Skull Drawing Tutorial
21. How to Draw Pikachu from Pokemon
22. How to Draw a Feather
23. How to Draw a Marble
24. How To Draw Water Droplets
25. How to Draw a Cat
26. How It's Drawn – 3D Maze in Two Point Perspective
27. Create a Mind Map
28. Shading Techniques – How to Shade with a Pencil
29. How to Draw a Face from the Side
30. How To Draw An Impossible Hexagon
31. How to Draw an Ear in 5 Easy Steps
32. How To Draw A 3D Hole Optical Illusion
33. How to Draw Kero-Chan, Cardcaptor Sakura
34. How to Draw a Nose from the Side
35. How To Draw An Impossible Heart


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Most Beautiful Kitchens in the World: Practical and Modern
Kitchen should be a focal point in any home. Kitchens are a place of family get-togethers and are usually an unavoidable room to pass through when going to other rooms of your home. Because of that, most homeowners value the appearance of the kitchen and are willing to pay a lot of money to upgrade…Read more


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Another refashion! My daughters and I absolutely LOVE Lil Blue Boo dresses. They are made of the softest knit with a cute drop waist, twirly skirt, and fun screen print designs. I am pretty bummed that the owner Ashley has closed up shop, but I am excited to follow her on her new adventure, but that is another story and I am getting off track.
Miss B has a favorite LBB dress that is a racerback. She wore it constantly last summer and she would put it on herself by stepping through the neck hole. No matter how I tried to get her to put it on over her head, there's not much you can do to stop a stubborn two year old. Anyway, she stretched the neckline out really bad, the dress was becoming unwearable and I couldn't bear to let it go just yet so I gave it new life as a skirt.
Lay your dress out flat and figure out where you will cut. Make sure to leave about two inches for the waist band. Click here for a more detailed tutorial on the tranformation
I also cut out the skull silk screen because I had plans for that as well. I ended up ironing interfacing to the back of the cut out and sewing it on to a t-shirt to complete the outfit.
Yay for another quick project!
Now, ready, set TWIRL!
Cheers to another KCW project! What are you working on?


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2015 PINOT NOIR, Los Carneros
Wine Specs
100% Pinot Noir
Los Carneros, Napa Valley
Harvest Date
August 29 - September 14, 2015
5.8 g/L
10 months in Burgundian French oak barrels
Bottling Date
August 24, 2016
Residual Sugar
0.3 g/L
Alcohol %
2015 PINOT NOIR, Los Carneros
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Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
Crafted in the New World style, this luscious, fruit-forward wine reveals notes of juicy bing cherries and raspberries. On the palate, it continues its rich, dense style while exhibiting a touch of dustiness from the legendary Los Carneros terroir.
Vineyard Notes
Los Carneros is the southernmost AVA in the Napa Valley, and is the only Napa County AVA that overlaps into Sonoma County. Its close proximity to the San Pablo Bay allows for much cooler climates compared to the rest of the valley, making it a perfect growing location for Burgundian varietals such as Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Food Pairing Notes
This balanced and supple wine will compliment a variety of dishes from shellfish to lean grilled meats and vegetables.
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Writing. Word weaving. Storytelling. It is an art form, one that is not easily mastered nor is it for the faint of heart. Words hold power that is far greater than any other creating medium in all creation. If you are a fellow Believer in Christ then you know all creation was born from Words and words alone.
So when we as creative beings take up the mantle of weaving words like a glassblower before a fiery furnace we must act with the same depth of care that said artisan takes when handling the molten medium. One wrong move and not only is the piece they are working on ruined but they just might burn a hole through themselves in the process…neither are good outcomes.
It only makes me wonder, as an aspiring author myself, why so many published authors act so carelessly when handling the wordy flames as if we, the reader, are just not going to notice.
News flash…WE DO! And it's infuriating!
And yet, even with this knowledge, some authors still choose to insult our intelligence with sloppy character behaviors and plot "twist". Truth is they twist something far beyond their plots, they twist our last nerve!
Here are a few examples of this sinful, insulting behavior:
- Example 1: A young woman with a wounded past, one that involves the abuse of men and a fear of being abused again would not, and I mean NOT, seek to use the toilet in a seedy strip club filled to the brim with drunk men. She's just not going to do it.
- Example 2: A knight who is the lead of a large regiment of men, who knows that there is a price on his head and a handful of his men have gone missing while out on their own, is not, I repeat, NOT GOING TO GO OUT ALONE JUST BECAUSE HE IS 'THE GUY!!!' Thinking that he, by himself can capture his foe. He knows better.
- Example 3: A seasoned detective who is known for having an uncanny sixth sense will not ignore the nagging itch that something might be wrong at home but because he needs eggs for breakfast in the morning he heads to the corner store for a quick stop.
What happens with this scenarios?
- Example 1: Girl gets attacked and just barely gets away, but her boyfriend whose trust she is trying to win sees her and becomes suspicious of her secretive life and ways.
- Example 2: The knight is attacked but though wounded he manages to get away but not before grabbing a clue of who his enemy is.
- Example 3: While waiting in the line at Walgreens (or Boots if you are in Europe…I love me some Boots) our discerning detective's wife is being attacked by the very person he is tracking.
Someone PLEASE insert eye-roll!!!! All three of these "tension building plot twist" have not done the story any favors. In fact its made us either chuck the book across the room while we rant about the ridiculousness that just took place; made us erase the offensive tome from our tablet while we rant about the ridiculousness that just took place, or makes us write blogs ranting about the ridiculousness that just took place. Or maybe we just cry about the betrayal to our friends…all of them…on Facebook and WordPress and beyond.
Hey, I get it. You need to create a scene. You need to get from plot point A to plot point C, but don't do so at your readers expense by creating a rickety bridge called B, and then think we are going to be okay with it. If we've dedicated time to your written piece then you, the writer, should dedicate thrice as much in making sure that we won't feel betrayed 100 or so pages in.
We've gotten to know the characters. We are invested. If we recognize that what you are making this person do is just not believable to the point we are grinding our teeth, then the odds are that you felt that itch of shame while you were writing it, because you knew better!
Just as the glassblower has a final vision for his work, so too do writers, but it seems to me that writers tend to lack the same level of patience to work through their creative piece insuring that it is indeed at the pinnacle of quality it deserves.
Some works are so carelessly thrown together that it leaves the reader with a throbbing headache and a poor attitude. Almost as if they'd gone on a date with someone who held promise who only turned out to be a complete turd in the end. And this, only because they simple didn't care.
All stories need tension. There is always the pause that takes place when a writer must figure out how to carry their plot from point A to point C while B remains a mystery.
What happens when B is a mystery and the writer refuses to take their time? We the reader find the characters doing things that not only DON'T make any logical sense, but is so incredibly ridiculous that the story-even a great one- becomes infuriating.
Why? Because we the reader are left as witness of a writer's crime scene that never should have happened.
It's tough bridging one's story into literary perfection. There are always going to be issues with word count, rambling, in excess of unnecessary scenes, grammar issues and so on. (Gosh, I am sure there are several in this blog post alone.) These things are expected and mostly forgivable. But ludicrous, inexplicable behaviors that are beyond out of character with your characters is absolutely not.
What it is is insulting to your readers. It breaks down our trust and willingness to give you another chance in the future.
Moral of the story? If you are an aspiring author, take time with your stories, don't insult your reader's intelligence by making a joke of once respectable characters. It just ain't right, ya hear.
Til we meet again…
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New Delhi, June 29 : India seeks a secure Asia free from the threats of terrorism and proliferation, a senior diplomat said here Friday.
"We seek a peaceful and secure Asia free from the threats of terrorism, proliferation, piracy and conflict between states. There is common commitment to maintaining freedom of the seas, combating terrorism and promoting inclusive economic growth," Sanjay Singh, secretary (East) in the ministry of external affairs said.
He was speaking at the inaugural India-Japan-South Korea Trilateral at defence ministry-funded think tank Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses here. The trilateral had been mandated in the joint statement by India and South Korea during the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Seoul in March.
"In India today there is wide ranging support for the strategic partnerships with Japan and Korea and it is indeed noteworthy that we have been able to constantly re-invent and re-invigorate the relationships," Sanjay Singh said.
Noting that India, Japan and South Korea depend heavily on the sea lanes of communications for their energy security, he added: "Our expectation is to see this process (trilateral) generating ideas that will influence the wider relationship existing amongst the partners both at governmental level or at the people-to-people level and how we view our region and emerging Asian architecture. This impact will be good measure of the success of this process."
Japanese ambassador Akita Saiki and South Korean ambassador Kim Joong-Keun also participated in the trilateral.
Welcoming the scholars from Japan and South Korea IDSA Director General Arvind Gupta said India's policy was to encourage and participate in cooperative approaches which would enable all countries in the region to counter traditional and non-traditional security challenges and to ensure that the critical sea lanes in the region are kept open, secure and free for navigation and trade.
The security situation in East Asia over the years has been a matter of some concern, and rightfully there has been some initiative to build trust and confidence, he added.
About 10 scholars from Japan's Tokyo Foundation and South Korea's Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security participated in the day-long trilateral, which deliberated on issues such as the evolving Asian security and economic architecture, non-traditional security issues, including maritime security cooperation, and prospects of the India-Japan-South Korea trilateral.
China's rise in the evolving security architecture was discussed in the context of the US pivot and re-balancing to the Asia-Pacific region and developments on the Korean peninsula. Scholars noted a disconnect between Asia's security and economic architecture.
A range of views were expressed on the role of ASEAN and Russia in the Asian structure. Both Japan and South Korea rely on their respective alliance with US but they also engage with China. The role of Japan, South Korea and China trilateral summits were discussed.
The conference also came out with a set up recommendation for collaboration and cooperation among the three countries in areas such as developing and strengthening the security architecture in Asia-Pacific engaging China thoughtfully fighting the menace of piracy in the sea and mitigating natural disasters like earth quake, tsunami etc. There was also agreement for joint study and research on issues of mutual interest.
Subsequent editions of the trilateral will be held in Seoul and Tokyo. (IANS)
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Voie de la Liberté map 105 (scale 1/500 000)
Product Code : 9782067002654
Scale (cm): 1:500,000
Pub Date : 1 dec 1997
Size (mm): 247 x 110
Format: map
Pub Date : 1 dec 1997
Size (mm): 247 x 110
Format: map
Michelin's Road to liberty Map 105 covers the region associated with France's liberation between June 1944 and January 1945, at a scale of 1:500,000. This is a reprint of the 1947 map to commemorate the liberation of France. The map shows the route of the Allied Forces across northern France, from the Normandy beaches to Alsace. Also shown are liberation dates against individual places and the location of American war cemeteries for both World Wars. Text is included on the map sheet which describes key events and actions on the road to liberty.


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General Assembly For Taekwondo Instructors
The head instructors and national instructors are going to collaborate this year for the general assembly at Ninoy Aquino Stadium. The programme for the year 2015 will be discussed where the General Assembly for Instructors will take place between Philippines and Smart Communications. Almost 500 heads from all over the world is going to attend as stated by the Chief Executive Officer of PTA and Sung Chon Hong, the Grand Master.
Reports based on the performance of 2014 are going to be discussed and the competitions for the year 2015 are going to be discussed. Among the competitions- Philippine Taekwondo League, South East Asian Games, World Cadet, World Championship and Asian Junior Championship.
The accomplishments of the previous year are going to be discussed. Registration is going to be a one day programme. Performers have always been a part of taekwondo and to help them sponsors have also been credited to a high extent. As far as the year of 2014 is concerned taekwondo has got great results. The academy of taekwondo is based on Thornton Heath. Stephanie Allan is working all the more hard after stepping down from the academy. Her aim is to win more competitions in 2015.
Some others are participating at national level and at the college level to win laurels. The academy is producing more and more performers so that they can realise their potential. The potential is to break the boundary at all levels. They want their performers to do well in 2015. Achievement is what the performers yearn for. The management tries to teach all their students equally well so that the training helps them at all levels. The discussion that is going to take place is for a fruitful year ahead. The instructors are going to be hugely benefitted from the event.


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There is a conceptual fascination to the way the premise of Time Lapse plays out. The script holds you engrossed as each of the photos appear and we see what they show, the reactions to them and then the fascination as events start to play out up to that point. This latter becomes the pleasure of the script, which loves pulling surprises on everything we expect. And marvellously contorted things get, before the arrival at the wonderfully twisted and sardonic ending.
The film is made with a superbly tight economy of concept. The location never moves beyond two adjoining apartments (and a few other scenes in a storage area), while the entire cast is condensed down to the three principals for the greater part of the running time (with one or two others who come in and out at various points). It is a perfect example of a film being carried by the ingenuity of its concept and script.
Director Bradley King had only previously made a handful of short films. The cast are all relative unknowns, with the exception of Danielle Panabaker, who has had a modest career, most recently as a regular on tvs The Flash (2014 ). The most well-known performer the film has is John Rhys-Davies, although ironically all of his scenes were cut and he does not appear in the film except for a photograph we see of the dead professor (despite which Rhys-Davies still receives credits billing). Certainly, all three leads Matt OLeary, Danielle Panabaker and George Finn give excellent performances.
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Scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said it required "more detective work" to find Chandrayaan-I after they spotted Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
Chandrayaan-1, which was launched on October 22, 2008, by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), got lost in space on August 29, 2009, after the power system on the spacecraft failed, ending all communication between ground station and the spacecraft. A new technological application of interplanetary radar by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab could be a major boon in solving the problem seeing as it just found a lost spacecraft orbiting the moon.
The space agency has historically had a lot of trouble detecting objects that are orbiting around our own moon, something that becomes essentially impossible when referring to small objects in the moon's bright glare. The radars have been used by scientists to locate distant asteroids still, there was a doubt about finding the Chindrayaan which is nearly as far as the Moon. "Ground-based radars could possibly play a part in future robotic and human missions to the moon, both for a collisional hazard assessment tool and as a safety mechanism for spacecraft that encounter navigation or communication issues". At that time, ISRO had come to the conclusion that the spacecraft must have developed some malfunction and crashed into the Moon. The only lead they had to go on was the spacecraft's last known orbit from 2009, which was a polar orbit, so the beam was focused on the moon's north pole hoping the spacecraft would pass by. But less than a month later, Indian space scientists had lost all contact with the country's first lunar probe.
Nasa's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of the 11 instruments onboard Chandrayaan-I, and Isro's Moon Impact Probe (MIP), discovered water on the lunar surface.
Using this data, scientists updated the orbital predictions for the silent satellite.
"It turns out that we needed to shift the location of Chandrayaan-1 by about 180 degrees or half a cycle from the old orbital estimates from 2009", Ryan Park, manager of the JPL's solar system dynamics group, said in the release. The dormant Chandrayaan-1 was predicted to complete one orbit around the moon every two hours and 8 minutes and when the signature of a small spacecraft crossed the beam, the team knew they had found what they were looking for.
It is hoped that this new method of object detection using multiple ground-based radar antennas can be put to good use in the future.
The father of India's moon mission, Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, said, "To be declared lost and then found after eight years is a great accomplishment". The orbiter is a cube about five ft (1.5 m) on each side, which makes it a very tricky target. "Hunting down LRO and rediscovering Chandrayaan-1 have provided the start for a unique new capability".


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Restaurant employs people with Dementia: You never know what you are going to get
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Japan's new pop-up restaurant raises awareness of dementia
A new pop-up restaurant in Tokyo has a very unusual concept: They've hired only waiters with dementia, and everyone goes into the restaurant knowing there's a good chance their order will be wrong.
According to Bored Panda, the pop-up is called The Restaurant of Order Mistakes, and it was located inside Maggie's Tokyo, the Japanese version of the UK's Maggie's Centers, which are support centers for cancer patients and their families. From June 2 through June 4, however, Maggie's Tokyo temporarily turned into the Restaurant of Order Mistakes.
The point of the pop-up restaurant was to raise awareness of dementia and to change the way people think about and relate to dementia patients. When a waiter in a regular restaurant mixes up an order, it can be an annoyance. But at the Restaurant of Order Mistakes, everyone knows going in that an order mistake is likely, and customers take that sort of mix-up in stride. It's a similar concept to Hugs Cafe in Texas, which employs staff with mental and developmental disabilities to help them have a sense of purpose and contributing to their environment, while also raising awareness of people with special needs.


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Posts tagged with 2013
Baidu's Zeitgeist 2013: stats and trends
Last month we looked at 2013's UK edition of Google's Zeitgeist which always proves an interesting overview of the most popular trends in our search behaviour over the year.
But as China gears up to celebrate the start of its new year, let's turn to Baidu to see how search habits in the east might compare.
These stats and trends, as well as a wealth of Christmas ecommerce data can be found in the latest edition of our Internet Statistics Compendium.
The digital marketing year in quotes
As always, there was lots of comment-worthy developments in the world of digital marketing this year.
Here's my summation of 2013 in quotes, from changes at Google, to acquisitions and mergers, and developments across social networks.
Got other quotes worthy of inclusion? Do leave them in the comments section below.
What were the most significant developments for SEO in 2013?
It's been another eventful year in search, mainly thanks to Google, and the role of the SEO has changed, even in this short time.
We've had Penguin 2.0, the under the radar Hummingbird update, as well as the removal of the last remaining keyword referral data.
I've been asking folks in the industry about their thoughts on SEO in 2013, and the most significant events over the past 12 months....
Stats: Time to reassess and redefine silver surfers?
The beginning of the year is always a fascinating time for stats as numerous analysts look to the data of the preceding 12 months before estimating likely trends on the horizon.
The latest update to our Internet Statistics Compendium reflects this, with major additions from new research by Mary Meeker, IAB and comScore among many others.
Indeed, it is the latest batch of reports from comScore, and particularly its UK Digital Future in Focus 2013, I'm focusing on today.
How to encourage all your employees to use your brand/marketing portal
According to Gartner, marketers are becoming increasingly responsible for buying marketing related technology and services. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2017 the CMO will spend more on IT than the CIO.
Here at Brandworkz, we are seeing a growing trend for marketers to implement online brand management or digital asset management systems.
In line with this trend, marketing and brand teams in global companies are becoming used to using their brand management portal or digital asset management system widely and frequently and probably take its working resources pretty much for granted.
But we believe your brand portal can be a much greater an asset to your business if everyone in the organization makes use of it.
It's true that people working in other departments don't always see themselves as directly responsible for the brand. And yet, if your HR team, sales people and IT department can also be converted to brand evangelism, the outcome can be hugely positive in terms of building your business.
Here are five ways in which you can help make that happen...
Why SMEs should boost their digital marketing strategy now (and how to get started)
In the last year more and more small business owners have adopted new ways of thinking to transform their business strategy with new digital marketing tools, helping them build customer engagement and start to rival the big players.
In this blog post, I'll explain how to get started...
Personalisation and tablets will dominate changes to ecommerce in 2013
At the end of 2012, we saw record numbers in online shopping over the holidays and that is only going to increase as our ecommerce experiences improve.
This will only happen if we increase personalisation and make our shopping experience more relevant.
Also as we increase to use new devices in our day to day lives, those retailers and companies who ensure their sites and shopping experiences extend into tablets and mobiles will be ahead.
This year may see more of this especially when it comes specifically to tablets.
The brand new year: key trends
Marketing automation on the rise, social media going ballistic, location-based marketing ramping up. We certainly saw some major changes in the brand management landscape in 2012.
But what do we predict as the key trends in branding and marketing as 2013 gets under way? Let's have a look.
State of the freelance nation: stats
At the end of last year, David Cameron demonstrated his commitment to boost the British creative economy, announcing plans to invest £50m of funding towards the construction of the Open Institute at the heart of Silicon Roundabout In London.
This busy tech hub is used by many startups where freelancers are often integral to their strategy.
Online magazine Technorati claims the era of the freelancer will kick off in 2013 and last month we released quarterly online employment report that suggests the same.
The future of mobile in 2013
As 2012 is officially over and we've now welcomed in another year, we reached out to a few industry professionals to see what their thoughts are for the year ahead. As we had so many great responses, we have made a series of posts that will come out over the month of January.
To start everything off, we're looking at the future of mobile and what companies need to have in their strategic approaches in 2013.
300+ predictions for 2013
2013 is here and while the global economy has been a source for concern since the global Great Recession, many believe that tech and digital-heavy markets will continue to thrive in the coming year.
That's good news whether you're a digital marketer, developer, designer or entrepreneur, but the devil is always in the details and it's usually easier to capitalize on an opportunity if you can spot it early.


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Orsos Island - the smallest personal floating island yet in a fast growing market• newatlas.com by Mike Hanlon
The Wally Island was a 99 meter (325 feet) "gigayacht" design that dwarfed the vast majority of luxury megayachts and reconceived the yacht as a floating personal island, a mobile address that can be used as a home, an entertaining space or even a moving exhibition or show space.
At an estimated US$200 million, the Wally Island was not for the common man, but the concept appears to have ignited a flurry of activity in the marine industry, with these new designs all more focused on a comfortable movable living space framed as a floating island more than a boat.
It seems that now the naval architectural mold is broken, and has moved outside traditional areas, newer purpose-built, holistic designs have begun to emerge, most notably the work of work of Wally Yachts, Dutch Docklands Maldives and Italian industrial designer Michele Puzzolante.


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UEBoom 2
There are bigger and badder Bluetooth speakers, but none match the fun and convenience of the Ultimate Ears Boom 2, WIRED's top Bluetooth speaker for several years running. It comes in every color of the rainbow, has a 2-year warranty, is waterproof for up to 30 minutes, has 15 hours of battery life, and you can use it up to 100 feet away, so you can wander away without losing your jams. On top of all that, it just sounds fantastic, with a pleasant, balanced music signature. The Boom 2 is great for almost any situation.
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BoseSoundLink Revolve
The Bose SoundLink Revolve is nowhere near as endearing as the Boom 2, and isn't waterproof (only splash resistant), but it sounds incredible. You'll be hard-pressed to find a beer can-sized speaker that sounds as clear and deep-throated as the Revolve. Thanks to an omnidirectional acoustic deflector, it also shoots its sound out perfectly in all directions. The controls are easy to use, with verbal audio cues and simple Bluetooth pairing, and the 12 hour battery life is long enough to make it through any party.
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AnkerSoundcore Flare
Anker is known for affordable accessories that actually work, and the Soundcore Flare is the perfect example. It's a perfectly capable soda-can-sized waterproof Bluetooth speaker with a beat-driven LED light ring and 12 hours of battery life. It even has dual drivers and passive radiators for 360-degree sound, and an app with some EQ settings. It doesn't sound quite as good as more expensive speakers, but it's certainly "good enough" for most situations, and at $60, that's damn impressive.
Retro Blaster
JBLBoombox Bluetooth Speaker
JBL's Boombox is comically huge for a Bluetooth speaker, but think of it as the modern equivalent of a 1980s boombox, complete with a handle and some intense bass. Breakdancers from back then would have killed for a speaker that was completely waterproof and had 24 hours of battery life. The Boombox can also connect to a multiple smartphones at a time, so you don't have to DJ by your lonesome. With a 20,000mAh battery onboard, it can also charge your gadgets for days.
Live Long and Party
Cambridge SoundworksOontz Angle 3 Plus
The name may be strange, but the "Oontz" has 30 hours of battery life and sounds good, according to more than 30,000 reviewers on Amazon (across a few similar models), it's hard not to give the Oontz a chance. At the super low price of $35, you practically get an hour of juice per dollar. Maker Cambridge Soundworks, which is owned by audio giant Creative Labs, also likes to point out that the Oontz will fit in a car cupholder, so it's easy to tote along on trips to your friend's cabin or down the street to the community pool.
Cambridge Soundworks
Pool Pal
The Ultimate Ears Wonderboom is a WIRED Gear of the Year award winner, and that's because it's the best pool companion you can have. The 4-inch little ball of joy is more than waterproof: it floats, and pumps out surprisingly potent 360-degree audio while doing it. UE says it's drop tested for up to five feet, but you can honestly play some light catch with it on the lawn and it won't be any worse for wear. Just wash it off when you're done!
The Google Whisperer
JBLLink 20
The JBL Link 20 (WIRED Recommends) is the best portable smart speaker you're gonna find, and probably the most feature-rich speaker on this entire list. It can connect via Bluetooth, but also has Wi-Fi with Google Assistant built in, so you can yell "Hey Google" and get some answers. It's easy to use and has helpful indicators so you know if it has a solid connection and when it's running out of juice. Did I mention it's waterproof, floats, and gets 10 hours per charge? Yowza!
Alexa Inside
Here on the WIRED Gear team, we still like Google Assistant more than Amazon's Alexa, but if you're looking for a great-sounding Bluetooth speaker with full Alexa integration, reach for this tallboy. The UE Megablast (WIRED Recommends) is about the size of a 24 oz can o' your favorite beverage. Think of it like a larger, better sounding, smarter Boom 2. It also made our list of Best Alexa Speakers. Despite its extra large size, it's also waterproof so bring this to your next pool party and let Alexa spin up some tunes.
Adventure Time
JBLClip 2
The JBL Clip 2 is an inch and a half thick and less than 3 inches long, but it's so convenient you might want to take it with you anytime you're headed out on an adventure. It's waterproof and has a little carabiner so you can snap it to your clothing, stroller, or bike, and it has more controls on it (volume, play, Bluetooth, power) than other micro-sized speakers. The kicker is a built-in, retractable 3.5mm audio cable, giving you an easy way to plug in for some quick tunes without fussing with Bluetooth.
Bike Rock
BoseSoundlink Micro
The Bose SoundLink Micro is about the same size as the Clip 2, and has a stretchy silicone strap on the back that's taut enough that it'll stick to bike handlebars or a backpack strap when you're on the move. Thanks to an extra passive radiator next to the main driver, it sounds way better than other tiny speakers, and even pumps out some legitimate bass—all while maintaining a rugged, waterproof design and 6 hours of battery life.
I Just Really Like This One
BoseSoundLink Revolve+
It's not the cheapest, cutest, or most waterproofy, but the Bose Revolve+ makes me smile. It's probably the lantern-style fabric handle. It's completely unnecessary, but makes moving it from room to room a small joy. You can swing it around and spread song anywhere you go. People will like what they hear, too. It sounds better and has deeper bass than the Bose Revolve I recommended above. But is a fun handle and subtle sound boost worth the $100 price bump? I'm beginning to think so.


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The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Education (SOE) is pleased to announce that on October 5 and 6 of 2016, many of the nation's leading educational researchers will gather to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the release of the Equality of Educational Opportunity Report (EEOR)- more widely known as the Coleman Report after lead author James Coleman. Considered by many the most significant sociological study ever conducted in the United States, the report challenged conventional thinking at the time with its finding that what happens in the family matters as much to a child's academic success as what goes on in the classroom. The study helped reframe the national debate over how to achieve equal educational opportunity.
Led by SOE professors Karl Alexander and Stephen Morgan, participating scholars will deliver presentations addressing the questions: How well have its insights held up over the years? ; and what is its continuing relevance to today's educational and social policy debates? Following the presentations, David Steiner, Executive Director of the School of Education's Institute for Education Policy is inviting key policymakers to discuss current implications of the Coleman report. Papers presented at the conference will be included in a special online edition issue of the RSF: The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences dedicated to the Coleman Report.


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Through her mosaic works, Gardner is able to express the complexity of light and the way in which it interacts with glass and the environment. Her panels flicker and seem to move with you. Each sculpture will transform itself depending on the location and time of day. Light becomes an integral and essential aspect of the works.
Continuing her expression of the natural world around her, Gardner has captured the freedom of organic forms in bronze, a combination of natural elements itself. Her textured, delicate vine-like forms coil in and out of each other, as if they are resting in the midst of their growth. With bronze she is able to provide permanence to the creations she witnesses daily in her surrounding landscapes.
Ann Gardner has won numerous awards, and her work is included in numerous major collections, including the National Museum of American Art, the American Craft Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Racine Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of the Arts, and the Seattle Art Museum.
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Constructed of layered shards of tinted concrete and glass on fiberglass molds, Ann Gardner's abstract forms challenge the notion of traditionally architectural mosaics. Working as a mosaic artist before she delved into blown glass works, Gardner experiments with ceramic glassblowing molds. She imprints the glass with the texture of clay and her fingertips and produces ceramic vessels encrusted with the patterned surfaces of kitchenware shards. These experiments led to her freestanding, wall-mounted, and hanging sculptures embedded with pieces of glass. Employing natural light and incorporating existing architectural structures, Gardner's sculptural mosaics transform their surroundings and call attention to the passage of time by highlighting changing light conditions.


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Interacting With Interactive CEO Don Brown
Interactive Intelligence company founder dishes on the role in communications he sees for artificial intelligence, analytics, the cloud, self-service, and more.
Dr. Don Brown, CEO of Interactive Intelligence, is a serial entrepreneur with a history of success. His first software company caught the attention of EDS four years after its launch, and his second company, Software Artistry, grabbed IBM's notice in just seven years. Next came Interactive, which he founded in 1994 and took public in 1999. Today Interactive's contact center and UC products are in use at more than 6,000 companies.
Like his previous companies, Interactive is based in Indiana, where Don has lived since the '60s. The company has more than 2,000 employees today.
Don, who is also Interactive's chairman and president, makes for an impressive role model. The "Dr." prefix in his name comes from his 1985 degree from Indiana University School of Medicine. Don has a tech education background, as well -- he holds a master's degree in computer science and a bachelor's degree in physics (both obtained at IU), and is about halfway through a master's program in biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University.
He balances his workday between his corporate and student roles, then presumably enjoys a quiet time at home... with his eight kids, ages 17 to 30. That's a full load, but I don't think Don sees it that way. He tends to look at things differently. That might explain why he enjoys rock climbing and is an instrumented-rated pilot even though he's afraid of heights.
I had the opportunity to converse (or perhaps Collaborate and Communicate) with Don, and it went something like this.
Tell me, how does a doctor of medicine end up founding and running several technology companies?
I actually enrolled in med school as part of an M.D./Ph.D. program intended to churn out medical researchers. I thought I'd end up in a lab someplace. I started off working on a doctorate in biochemistry but really didn't enjoy the laboratory part of it. So I switched to the then-new field of computer science where I fell in love with programming. After earning my master's in CS, I started a little software company with a buddy while finishing up my last two years of med school. After graduation, I started working full time in software and never looked back.
Looking back to when you founded Interactive, which part of your plans did you get right and what did you get totally wrong?
Interactive was my third company, so I applied what I had learned from my many previous mistakes. The first thing we did right was to set out a clear goal -- develop a software-based communications system. I personally was able to fund the company until its IPO in 1999, which meant that we never had to take venture capital. As a result, I'm still the largest shareholder 20 years later, and we have an unusual concentration of internal ownership, which gives us a great deal of freedom despite being a public company.
Our biggest mistake was growing too rapidly before the dot.com crash and then having to work through a couple of painful rounds of layoffs.
In terms of our business plan, we were pretty much spot on. You can always do things better though. In hindsight, I wish we had designed for large organizations from the beginning. We originally intended our product as an all-in-one communications device for small and mid-sized organizations. However, we were quickly pulled into large opportunities and had to grow our way up, which was somewhat painful.
Interactive has gone through several phases, from VoIP to UC to cloud. What's next?
One trend we're excited about is the use of collaboration technologies in customer service. Customers increasingly expect to be able to use video, screen sharing, document sharing, and other collaborative tools when they receive service from a vendor.
Beyond that, I think the next big period is going to involve harnessing [artificial intelligence] (AI) to both become a more intelligent organization as well as to offer more powerful products and services. AI is like a freight train barreling down the tracks. I first worked in AI back in grad school in the '80s. There was initial disillusionment as it failed to yield the grandiose benefits predicted. But steady advances in both hardware and software have brought us to the precipice of amazing capabilities that will also play important roles in internal collaboration as well as in interactions with customers.
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Not a landuse
I suggest only using the proposed subkey logging=* on areas tagged with landuse=forest, landcover=trees, natural=wood and abandon landuse=logging. It makes no sense to see "logging" as a landuse of its own, most forests are logged and it makes (IMHO) no sense to differentiate at the landuse level. --Dieterdreist (talk) 10:40, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
- Fully agree here. The tag describes a part of the forestry life-cycle, and as such it conflicts with landuse=forest. As a forest life-cycle is longer than e.g. on farmland, a sub-tagging would make sense, which can cover the other life-cycle sections as well. The page proposes natural=scrubs for reforestation areas, which is illogical both with the key and the value, there are no scrubs but young trees, and the reforestation is not natural but planted. --Polarbear w (talk) 12:52, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
- Agree that we not use "landuse=logging". In addition to the reasons already cited I would add that logging is transient - in a given area the logging is probably completed within a few months. One might as well tag a farm field "landuse=corn_harvesting". Regarding "natural=scrub" some areas are more or less permanently vegetated with low growing woody plants species that will never reach tree height. In those areas I think "natural=scrub" makes sense. Tekim (talk)
The distinction between trees and other woody plants is by species, not by height. A tree can also be 10 cm high. --Dieterdreist (talk) 19:51, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Weakly defined tag with overlap
This tag wasn't proposed or discussed on the tagging mailing list, and you can see it: there is no good definition and the tag is questionable as a whole (see above) for its overlap with well established tags. I propose to discourage its usage. --Dieterdreist (talk) 10:40, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
This is a duplicate of the existing tag landuse=forest. I'll be blunt - it should be removed, redirected to landuse=forest. Warin61 (talk) 00:37, 6 January 2017 (UTC)


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