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Paul Beaufait on 14 Mar 11"Japan lies on the cusp of the Pacific-Philippine-Eurasian triple plate junction, where the complex interactions of three tectonic plates is unpredictable and loaded with potential activity" (¶1, 2011.03.14).
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Paul Beaufait on 14 Mar 11Worldwide earthquakes with M4.5+ located by USGS and Contributing Agencies. / (Earthquakes with M2.5+ within the United States and adjacent areas.)
Paul Beaufait on 21 Aug 14The USGS has a new set of maps here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
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Wendy Windust on 11 Nov 09Our goal is to transform school systems by developing professional communities of teachers and school leaders with interactive online courses and on-site support programs that enable schools to cultivate the critical learning students need for the 21st century world. Research-Based. WIDE World professional development programs are based on Teaching for Understanding, a classroom-tested framework developed through research at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Online. WIDE World courses are conducted online and are asynchronous. This allows for flexible, adaptive, and convenient learning for all participants, regardless of location or schedule. Job-embedded. Through our courses, WIDE World learners integrate research-based strategies in their own workplace. Online coaches support cycles of learning, applying, and reflecting as teams of educators improve lesson plans, instruction, and data-driven action projects. Team-Based with Coaching. Systemic change requires coordinated effort from all stakeholders. Expert coaches help teachers, leaders, and specialists work in teams to develop a common language for defining and achieving shared goals. Tailored for Local Impact. WIDE World works with you to design professional development programs adapted precisely to address the needs of your school, program, district, or system and build local capacity for continuous improvement. Global Learning. In the online environment, participants collaborate with innovative educators from across the US and around the globe.
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Ebey Soman on 14 Sep 09In 2005, New York Times published an article titled "The Lethal Water Wells of Bangladesh" by David Rohde and this raised the interests of Dr. Graziano and his team to investigate the arsenic poisoning in the Bangladeshi wells that World Health Organization called the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history."
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Ebey Soman on 14 Sep 09With a dwindling population and an out of control HIV infection rate in Russia, the future looks bleak. Estimates place Russia on the forefront of the battle against HIV and in a worse position than Africa. Largely ignored by the media and the government, HIV has become the rapidly spreading epidemic in Russia, especially among the youth who are supposed to be future of the country.
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Ruth Howard on 03 Apr 09Students can ascertain carbon footprints of various entities including their own.
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Ebey Soman on 25 Jan 09There are a few paradigms used in the formation of the foreign policy. You may have heard of liberalism or realism, but do you have any clue as to what those terms mean? These are just a few paradigms and their sub-paradigms that help shape Foreign policy around the world.
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Ebey Soman on 25 Jan 09The Israeli and Arab relations and their wars between 1967 and 1973 and how that is continuing to this day. This is a quick analysis of this time period.


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The Associate is a fast-paced lawyer/spy novel in classic Grisham style. After reading East of Eden by Steinbeck, the difference between good literature and 'mind candy' could not be more striking. This book certainly isn't going to make you think deeply about life… but it was fun, intriguing, and fast-paced nonetheless.
In this novel, Grisham paints quite a picture of what it would look like to begin work as an associate in one of the largest law firms in New York City… In a word – miserable. The fast-paced, overworked greed machine that is corporate law firms devour their new associates with 100 hour work weeks, constant pressure to "bill more hours", and bilk the Fortune 500 clients.
Kyle McAvoy, the main character, has no desire to live such a life, but he's forced to through blackmail from an incident in his early college days. The person blackmailing Kyle is seeking military secrets from a company the firm Kyle is forced to work for and spy on against his will.
The story line is intriguing throughout the book and it keeps one's attention… I kind of felt like I was reading a mix between a David Baldacci spy thriller and a typical Grisham lawyer novel… ***spoiler alert*** my only complaint was the ending… I felt like it had potential to end with a bang, but instead seemed to fizzle out…

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Office Manager/Executive Assistant
Joni Hogue began her career in the administrative field over 30 years ago. She currently is an executive assistant at SpawGlass, a Texas-based, employee-owned commercial and civil contractor, where she supports the chairman/CEO, CFO and COO. Joni will celebrate 17 years with SpawGlass at the end of November 2017. In addition to supporting the top executives of SpawGlass, Joni also coordinates the company's annual shareholders' meeting and quarterly board meetings; and mentors other executive assistants within the company.
Why I love the Office Dynamics Conference: I love attending the Office Dynamics Conference because Joan and her team take pride in choosing a great group of speakers. I can always count on the conference being an action-packed learning experience, and there will be some fun built in, too. I always leave with great information and tools I can use every day.


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The software, called the
The move is likely to sharpen the already intense competition between Google and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system controls the basic functions of the vast majority of personal computers.
"Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS," said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, engineering director, in a post on a company blog. "We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the Web in a few seconds."
Mr. Pichai and Mr. Upson said that the software would be released online later this year under an open-source license, which would allow outside programmers to modify it. Netbooks running the software will go on sale in the second half of 2010.Continue reading the main story
The company likely saw netbooks as a unique opportunity to challenge Microsoft, said Larry Augustin, a prominent Silicon Valley investor who serves on the board of a number of open-source software companies.
"Market changes happen at points of discontinuity," Mr. Augustin said. "And that's what you have with netbooks and a market that has moved to mobile devices."
But while Google has deep pockets and a vast reach, it is in for a difficult battle when it comes to challenging Microsoft in the operating system market. Many companies have tried this over the years, with little success.
Google's plans for the new operating system fit its Internet-centric vision of computing. Google believes that software delivered over the Web will play an increasingly central role, replacing software programs that run on the desktop. In that world, applications run directly inside an Internet browser, rather than atop an operating system, the standard software that controls most of the operations of a PC.
That vision challenges not only Microsoft's lucrative Windows business but also its applications business, which is built largely on selling software than runs on PCs.
Google said Chrome OS will have a minimalist user interface, leaving most space on the screen to applications.
"All Web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite Web technologies," the company said.
Google has already developed an open-source operating system called Android that is used in mobile phones. The software is also being built into netbooks by several manufacturers.
But Google has not encouraged netbook makers to use Android. The company appears to be positioning Chrome OS as its preferred operating system for netbooks, though it said competition between the two systems would likely drive innovation.
"It makes total sense," Mr. Augustin said. "Android wasn't really meant for netbooks."
Google had planned to unveil the project on Wednesday but moved up the announcement after receiving inquiries from
Google released Chrome last year, describing it as not only a Web browser but also a tool to let users interact with powerful Web programs like Gmail, Google Docs and online applications created by other companies. Since then, Google has been adding features to Chrome, like the ability to run such applications even when a user is not connected to the Internet.
Google said Tuesday night that it still had work to do to develop a full-fledged operating system. In a recent interview, Marc Andreessen, who created the first commercial Web browser and co-founded Netscape, said Chrome itself was already well along that path.
"Chrome is basically a modern operating system," Mr. Andreessen said.
The first wave of netbooks relied on various versions of the open-source Linux operating system, and major PC makers like
To combat these efforts, Microsoft began offering its older Windows XP operating system for use on netbooks at a low price. In addition, the company has vowed that its upcoming Windows 7 software, due out this fall, will run well on the tiny laptops, which have stood out as the brightest part of the PC market during the global economic downturn. Microsoft's current Vista operating system is designed for more powerful machines.Continue reading the main story


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Exciting News!!!
I am giddy with delight! Smiling from ear to ear! Today I am headed to Boston to live out a dream of mine. New England Home has chosen to publish one my projects! I will be working with the fabulous stylist, Stacy Kunstel of Stacy Style and photographer Michael J. Lee. I can't share the sight details, but follow me on twitter for a behind the scene look at preparing (Tuesday) and shooting (Wednesday) a house for a magazine. A big big thank you to Kyle Hoepner, editor in chief of New England Home, Stacy of Stacy style and Michael Lee! I am so honored to be working with you all! And last but not least, thank you to my dear client. Thank you for giving me the gift of your home!
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Seconds after American Airlines Flight 11 passed overhead, another Franciscan brother ran to Father Mychal Judge's room in the friary to let him know the World Trade Center was on fire.
The veteran chaplain quickly changed out of his simple brown habit and into his fire-department uniform — pausing only to comb and spray his hair. Judge was heading into danger, but he was also ready to face the cameras. Soon, a photographer captured unforgettable images of firefighters carrying the priest's body out of the rubble and his name was on the first Ground Zero death certificate.
"While he was ministering to dying firemen, administering the Sacrament of the Sick and Last Rites, Mychal Judge died," said Father Michael Duffy, at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in New York City.
"… Look how that man died. He was right where the action was, where he always wanted to be. He was praying, because in the ritual for anointing we're always saying, 'Jesus come,' 'Jesus forgive,' 'Jesus save.' He was talking to God and he was helping someone. Can you honestly think of a better way to die? I think it was beautiful."
Anyone who wants to know how to deliver a eulogy should study this poignant section of Duffy's remarks at the funeral of his close friend, said Cyrus Copeland, a former advertising executive who edited "Farewell, Godspeed" and the recent "A Wonderful Life," two collections of famous eulogies. The new book includes a chapter focusing on Judge and three other men who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
This one anecdote reveals two sides of the same man, mixing humor — the final ritual of comb and hairspray — with a vision of a faithful priest's willingness to risk his own life to provide comfort to his unique flock.
These days, said Copeland, the loved ones who gather at a funeral want to hear a celebratory toast to a life well lived, just as much or more than they want to face spiritual issues involved in their loss.
"People want honesty," he said. "They don't want to hear about the saint that nobody knew. They want to hear about the real Father Mychal, a man who loved the human soul, but also knew a good photo opportunity when he saw one. ? They want to hear about life, more than they want to hear about eternal life. Eulogies today are more human and they are becoming less religious."Copeland is convinced there are several reasons that the art of the eulogy has changed so radically in recent decades.
For starters, most people alive today have grown up in a video age, surrounded by celebrity news and, more recently, the tightly edited rush of "reality television." They have seen their share of high-profile funerals. Millions wept as Lord Edward John Spencer spoke at the funeral of his sister, Lady Diana. Many watched as superstar Cher laughed and cried her way through a eulogy for her former husband, Sonny Bono.
Clergy rarely command the spotlight during these rites.
"It's important to remember that the celebrity memorial service was the first kind to be secularized," said Copeland. "So you expect to hear about heaven in a eulogy for Father Mychal Judge, with a priest in the pulpit. But eulogies for celebrities like Marilyn Monroe may not mention heaven at all. That's just the age we live in."
There's another practical reason that eulogies have changed so much. Friends and relatives are taking control of the microphone.
In the past, loved ones asked the family's pastor, rabbi or priest to deliver the eulogy. Today, it would be hard for most people to name such a person. Most modern families are scattered across the nation, divided by career choices and, far too often, broken relationships. Family members may not even share a common faith and they certainly have not spent most of their lives in the same neighborhood in the same city.
Clergy used to deliver about 90 percent of all eulogies. Today, "that number is about 50 percent and it's falling," said Copeland.
"So for many people a memorial service simply isn't a religious event anymore. It offers us a chance to say our good-byes to the dearly departed, but many people no longer think of this event as a bridge between this life and the next."


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This lovely white mantel scarf is not only a great holiday accent, it's a nice accent for the entire winter. Order an extra to use as a table runner! Made in the USA
19" x 65" white polyester lace
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I'm surprised nobody brought up the Indiana Jones trilogy yet, because when thinking about the tone of the movie, that's what I thought of first. It's not a comedy, but it's a great lot of fun and quite humorous. The threats feel real and the bad guys can be really frightening, but they aren't totally unbeatable or infallible either. The laughter and the scares are well-balanced for the most part. There's even a nice balance between realism, impossible feats and supernatural fantasy (although MOTU obviously needs a whole lot more fantasy).
As for colors, I think they have to tone down the flashy plastic look a bit. Unless they make it a CGI feature, they'll risk it looking unreal in the wrong way. By this I mean e.g. giving Man-At-Arms bronze armor instead of bright orange, or making Trap Jaw's and Skeletor's skin bluish grey. The key to bringing a fantasy world succesfully on screen is versimilitude. Once you find the tones that feel real, you can make even quite outlandish color schemes work.


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CAO Reopenes until July 1st at 5.15
| general news, Guidance Counselling News, News| Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 September, 2016 03:53
May 9, 2014
The CAO Change of Mind facility has reopened. This service is free of charge & students may change their choices from now until July 1st at 5.15pm.
Click www.cao.ie for further details.


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Debbi Moore Book Folding CD ROM340760
With a whole host of widely applicable Book Folding patterns in beautiful designs, this CD ROM from Debbi Moore is sure to enhance not only the design options available to you, but your skillset!Read the full description
This Debbi Moore Book Folding CD ROM is a must for any Book Folding fans who like to create craft projects for friends and family. With concise and easy to follow instructions included, this CD ROM is perfect for crafters of all experience levels!
There are over 12 superb, timeless patterns and lovely papers for you to use again and again, plus a video tutorial - let Debbi inspire and guide you through this unique art. This truly is great fun for creating a new dimension to your crafting projects that can be enjoyed by beginners or advanced crafters alike.
- The CD has an easy to use program that's more than suitable for people who are introducing themselves to computer-aided craft design for the first time.
- The CD is simply inserted and the welcome screen will pop up. You can then find the section you like, open in an Adobe Reader format and print to your heart's desire.
- Minimum System Requirements: PC running Windows XP and higher. MAC and Linux compatible. Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.
- 1 x Book Folding Pattern CD ROM Vol 1:
- 1 x Book Folding Pattern on Love (with a heart instead of o)
- 1 x Book Folding Pattern on Mum
- 1 x Book Folding Pattern on Dad
- 1 x Book Folding Pattern on Inspire
- 1 x Book Folding Pattern on Dream
- 1 x Book Folding Pattern on Imagine
- 1 x Book Folding Pattern on Baby Footprint Image
- 1 x Book Folding Pattern on Son
- 1 x Book Folding Pattern on Daughter
- 1 x Book Folding Pattern on Believe
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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Gagan Mehra from Commercial Technical Support]
Remote Web Access file sharing is the new feature added to the Small Business Server 2011 family. It allows users access shares and the files they contain on SBS server remotely. With file sharing in RWA you can:
File Sharing – Share List Exclusion
RWA will display every share on the server unless the share meets one of the following criteria, in which case they will be hidden. This list is not user modifiable:
* Note: In SBS 2011 UR1+, RWA no longer checks user permissions and will display shares you do not have access to. You cannot open them, but you will see their names.
Remote Web Access file sharing provides a tree view feature with which you can see the files and folders inside a share without even accessing it.
Easy File Upload Tool
The easy file upload tool streamlines the process of uploading files to your SBS 2011 server . With the easy file upload tool, you can drag and drop files to upload them to the Shared Folders in a single batch.
You can install the Easy File Upload Tool by clicking the Upload button and then click Install the easy file upload tool option as seen below.
File Sharing Permissions
Shares which are visible on the Remote Web Access page can be controlled via Sharing and NTFS permissions. Share-level permissions allow you to see the share on the RWA but do not guarantee you have access to interact with it. In order to access the share, the user must have both share-level and NTFS-level permissions to it.
Note: Due to interaction between RWA and UAC, built-in administrative accounts do not work as expected.
If you have a share that is restricted to a built-in admin only (i.e. Administrators), you will not be able to access the share, even while logged on as an administrator. If you need this functionality, create your own custom admin account and lock permissions down on the share to that account.
Note: Network Service account must have read access to the folder or the parent folder in order for documents to appear.
File Sharing Limitations
Uploads are restricted to 2 GBs.
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For businessmen working across borders, often the need arises to present details or even the entire project to an audience from other countries during an international project. At the beginning, the key question is whether English is spoken as a native or as a third language. This article reveals how to give a presentation abroad that is well received by the audience. Please find more information on this topic on the homepage of the NZZ: (in German language): https://jobs.nzz.ch/news/13/ratgeber/artikel/269/auf-internationalem-parkett-richtig-prasentieren-teil-1; https://jobs.nzz.ch/news/13/ratgeber/artikel/285/auf-internationalem-parkett-richtig-prasentieren-teil-2
You need well-trained, committed employees, but don't have the financial leeway of a corporate group? How to develop an attractive salary scheme is described by Maria Smid on Port41 (in German language): https://www.port41.at/artikel/kleinunternehmen-welches-gehalt-soll-ich-meinen-mitarbeitern-zahlen.
How do I successfully implement proven expertise/solid experience internationally? This includes, in particular, a living corporate culture, proper communication in an international environment, the recruitment and retention of suitable people and the conclusion of international business. This guide provides practice-oriented answers to many questions. By means of/On the basis of concrete case studies and specific country examples, you will learn how to master different challenges in the context of internationalization/in terms of internationalization. You could almost say that the know-how provided in this book is the prerequisite for your success abroad.
Please find further information on the book (in German language) here.


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When it comes to children's party invitations, I try to stay true to my style. I don't do a lot of illustrations, so while I know that's what a lot of party invitations have, I like to give these themed parties my own take on them. As all the little babies I know become little kids, I am doing more and more. It's always a challenge, but am enjoying how they are turning out.
Now, a few years ago, I didn't know that they have party venues with bounce houses, but at this party, I was going down the slides with the kiddos. I mean, with this adorable little guy, says 'again! again!', well, you go again!


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PlayStation Store purchases show on your credit or debit card statement as 'Sony Ent Network'. Any payments debited from your credit or debit card before mid-February 2012 appear as 'Sony Online Services'.
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GET THE FACTS: In the 2015-16 school year, 59% of reporting CPS elementary schools met the 120 minutes of weekly arts instruction recommendation, up from 47% two years ago.
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Teach Like a Champion
Technique #48
Explain Everything
As a result of Explain Everything: "Students understand the logic behind decision making and will be more likely to both believe that the systems are in their best interests and make rational choices on their own."
KEY IDEA: Deliberately make expectations clear, rational, and logical. Constantly remind students why you do what you do and grounds explanations in the mission: this will help you get to college; this will help you understand how to be responsible.
· "I'd love to spend more time talking about this, but there's a lot we've got to do."
· "Do you understand that if you go to the nurse, you're not going to participate when we have recess?"
· "Please put your hands down. I know that you all have questions, and I love it when you say intelligent things, but we have a lot to do, and right now there's not time. We still need to read our story and do workshop."
A Caution: Explain Everything should happen either in a calm moment well in advance of behavior that needs fixing or else after "fixing" has resulted in the meeting of expectations.
· In advance - "When I ask for your attention, I'm going to expect from every one of you every time. That way I can be sure you know everything you need to know to be successful and happy in my class!"
· After "fixing" - "Thank you. The reason I need you to be all the way silent like that is . . .
From Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemove (Jossey Bass, 2010)


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[ plee-see-uh-sawr ]
/ ˈpli si əˌsɔr /
any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
Words nearby plesiosaur
pleonosteosis, pleopod, pleoptics, plerion, plerocercoid, plesiosaur, plessimeter, plessor, plessy versus ferguson, plethora, plethoric
Origin of plesiosaur
OTHER WORDS FROM plesiosaurple·si·o·sau·roid, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for plesiosaur
In the popular mind, perhaps, the Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur are the typical representatives of that extinct race.The Story of Evolution|Joseph McCabe
The Plesiosaur, on the other hand, had a small and delicate head, with slender teeth and small eyes.The Story of the Earth and Man|J. W. Dawson
British Dictionary definitions for plesiosaur
/ (ˈpliːsɪəˌsɔː) /
any of various extinct marine reptiles of the order Sauropterygia, esp any of the suborder Plesiosauria, of Jurassic and Cretaceous times, having a long neck, short tail, and paddle-like limbsSee also ichthyosaur Compare dinosaur, pterosaur
Word Origin for plesiosaur
C19: from New Latin plēsiosaurus, from Greek plēsios near + sauros a lizard
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Science definitions for plesiosaur
[ plē′sē-ə-sôr′ ]
Any of various large, extinct marine reptiles of the genus Plesiosaurus and related genera of the Mesozoic Era. Most plesiosaurs had a small head on a long neck and a broad body with paddlelike limbs; one group had a large head on a short neck. The exact relationship between plesiosaurs and other reptiles is not known.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.


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Holly DecoLeaves
Holly DecoLeaves are beautiful additions to your holiday festivities! Made of food safe parchment these are also referred to as cheese leaves. DecoLeaves are a beautiful way to decorate cheese plates or other dessert plates. They work beautifully as coasters on end and coffee tables. Place them on charger plates for your holiday table. Put name tags on them for seating places at your dinner party. Hang these holly DecoLeaves from chandeliers for an instant holiday mood! They are a beautiful way to line dessert plates.
Imagine the impressive look of your special cake on a cake plate lined iwth these beautiful holly DecoLeaves! Tuck them into centerpieces or on wreaths. Come up with your own creative uses! We like to tuck DecoLeaves under candles all along the buffet table and on the kitchen island as easy party decorations! Decorate any party beverage table, bar, or food spread.
Our holly DecoLeaves are perfect for winter wonderland themed events. Holly DecoLeaves immediately provide a visually stunning and mood setting experience for your home!
You receive a pack of 20 holly DecoLeaves in a resealable storage pack.
Other DecoLeaves styles are available on our site!
Mix and match with our poinsettia DecoLeaves and our snowflake DecoLeaves!
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Dark Waters
A legal thriller in the tradition of The Verdict and The Insider.
A legal thriller in the tradition of The Verdict and The Insider.
A typically beguiling and heartfelt guide to the films of the late Agnès Varda, by the director herself.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
A video essay celebrating Antonia Bird's maligned masterpiece, Ravenous.
A celebration of Yasujiro Ozu, as written by a Far Flung Correspondent from Egypt.
A Far Flung Correspondent weighs in on the MCU controversy.
A review of Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding, now available for the PS4.
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SpongeBob, like all sponges I suppose, has a thing about cleanliness, and to watch him take a shower is inspiring. First he eats a cake of soap. Then he plunges a hose into the top of his head and fills up with water, exuding soap bubbles from every pore, or would that be orifice, or crevice? Then he pulls on his SquarePants and hurries off for what he expects to be a richly deserved promotion.
Alas, the job goes to Squidward Tentacles (Rodger Bumpass), who has no rapport with the customers but does have seniority. A kid can't handle the responsibility, Eugene Krabs tells SpongeBob. This is a bitter verdict, but meanwhile intrigue is brewing in Bikini Bottom. Plankton, who runs the spectacularly unsuccessful rival food stand named the Chum Bucket, plans to steal Eugene's famous recipe for Krabby Patties. As part of this plot, Plankton (Mr. Lawrence) has King Neptune's crown stolen, and frames Eugene Krabs with the crime, so it's up to SpongeBob and his starfish friend Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke) to venture to the forbidden no-go zone of Shell City (which is no doubt near Shell Beach, and you remember Shell Beach). There they hope to recapture the crown, restore it to King Neptune (Jeffrey Tambor), save Mr. Krabs from execution, and get SpongeBob the promotion.
All of this happens in jolly animation with bright colors and is ever so much more entertaining than you are probably imagining. No doubt right now you're asking yourself why you have read this far in the review, given the near-certainty that you will not be going anywhere near a SpongeBob SquarePants movie, unless you are the parent or adult guardian of a SpongeBob SquarePants fan, in which case your fate is sealed. Assuming that few members of SpongeBob's primary audience are reading this (or can read), all I can tell you is, the movie is likely to be more fun than you expect.
The opening, for example, is inexplicable, unexpected and very funny, as a boatload of pirates crowd into the front of a movie theater to see SpongeBob. These are real flesh-and-blood pirates, not animated ones, and part of the scene's charm comes because it is completely gratuitous. So, for that matter, is the appearance of another flesh-and-blood actor in the movie, David Hasselhoff, who gives SpongeBob and Patrick a high-speed lift back to Bikini Bottom and then propels them to the deeps by placing them between his pectoral muscles and flexing and popping. This is not quite as disgusting as it sounds, but it comes close.
I confess I'm not exactly sure if the residents of Bikini Bottom are cannibals; what, exactly, is in Eugene H. Krabs' Krabby Patties if not ... krabs? Does the Chum Bucket sell chum? No doubt faithful viewers of the show will know. I am reminded of the scene in "Shark Tale" when Lenny, the vegetarian shark, becomes an activist and frees a shrimp cocktail.
One of the stranger scenes in "SBSP" comes when SpongeBob and Patrick get wasted at Goofy Goober's nightclub, where ice cream performs the same function as booze. This leads to the ice cream version of a pie fight, and terrible hangovers the next morning; no wonder, as anyone who has ever used a sponge on ice cream can testify.
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- Maurice Adams30 January 2017 at 10:05
It is not only Muskrat's cost estimate that may have been contrived.ReplyDelete
How about the argument that ---- "we need the power"?
Nalcor repeatedly claimed that because the 40 year average island load growth was 2.2% annually, its forecast load growth of 0.8% annually was therefore ---- "conservative"
Nalcor stopped describing their forecast as conservative after it was pointed out that 99% of that 40-year historical 2.2 % annual load growth was during the first 20 years of that 40 year period (from 1979 - 1999), and that for the 20 year period after 1999 our average annual load growth has been near ZERO.
A contrived demand forecast? You be the judge.
- Anonymous30 January 2017 at 10:32
The allegations of dishonesty in this post are very serious with no supporting evidence to back them up presented. If true these are allegations that should be filed with PEGNL as a complaint, otherwise this post is essentially slanderous.ReplyDeleteReplies
No way in hell there'll be a legal action for slander!! .. as that would cause the proof to actually show up on public record. I can't speak for the blogger, but generally speaking I say "Bring it on" !! ... Filing to PEGNL may be of some use, unless the nepotism and corruption has infected that body too.Delete
- Anonymous1 February 2017 at 11:24
@10:32 There is more than enough evidence that an inquiry is needed just by looking at the current state of the project. Everything is wrong with it. Those of us within Nalcor and Government cannot publicly release embarrassing evidence without getting fired. There is no effective whistle blower protection. PEGNL would do nothing. If a professional engineer filed a complaint against another member or co-worker at Nalcor it would be obvious via the investigation who had lodged the complaint. That persons career would be in big trouble.Delete
If you look at the PEGNL board of directors you will see that Nalcor has influence. A random example: Jennifer Williams was appointed Vice President, Production with Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro in August 2016. Jennifer is a member of the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador, where she has been an active volunteer in many different capacities, including as a previous member of the Board of Directors of PEGNL. There is no way that the board of PEGNL is not aware - they just choose to be silent.
- Anonymous1 February 2017 at 15:57
The current PEGNL chair elect is the manager of project execution at Nalcor. I think it is unlikely that anyone working at Nalcor would have the guts to file an official complaint to PEGNL over aspects of Muskrat Falls given the potential employment consequences. These professional organizations are supposed to be self regulating but in a small province like Newfoundland and Labrador, it ends up being a tangle of perceived and real conflicts of interest. The only solution I can think of is to be regulated by something farther away like APEGA (Alberta).Delete
Muskrat Falls was a testament to sleaze and incompetence from the outset. It was apparent from the lies and distortions put forward in the EIS like "least cost", the rosy future demand projections when every utility in North America knew demand was flat to declining, that MF was all about sleaze and corruption .ReplyDelete
Watching Gil and his crew of "experts" that included Perry Trimper justify the need for and the dismissal of the alternatives to Muskrat was sleazy at best.
Watching with horror as provincial specialists giving evidence were tightly controlled by a Justice lawyer, rewriting parts of their testimony with clumsy changes to the evidence and in one case testifying on the record that the price of testifying would be their employment (he declined to give evidence). Watching federal scientists give constrained but terrifying testimony on the instability of the entire valley, the north spur in particular, was particularly chilling.
SNC used the same playbook in NL it has used at Site C in BC and many places overseas. It involves bypassing regulators like the PUB, take or pay contracts that makes ratepayers solely responsible for costs and total secrecy keeping the "chumps" in the dark.
Why was this on its face a sleazy arrangement not challenged by government or "independent" media? A local strongman bullied all concerned, government employees, political opposition and media alike. An outfit indicted for fraud and bribery internationally and at home remains at the helm for MF. Yet no one even yet has the balls to ask the obvious questions about the integrity of SNC.
If not for this blog even the facts of the incompetence in every phase of this nightmare would not be public information. It rests on the conscience of insiders to keep us informed of the ongoing sleaze and corruption. This is not good enough. It is high time a successful opposition to the sleaze materialized. Your future as a viable provincial entity is at stake.
Standing with and for the Land Protectors, fighting for their lives, is a start.
- Anonymous30 January 2017 at 13:15
The government lies,Nalcor lies,it's all about saving face,the Premier,MHA'S,never give the real facts.For some reason they believe that lying will some how relieve the fear that we ( the citizens of Newfoundland and Labrador) will undoubtedly be engulfed with when this project is finished. The Ball government hopes it doesn't until they get their 4 years in and another party gets the nightmare. This government will never sleep peacefully nor Danny Williams because they're the deliverers of this evil that will be living for decades to come. I pray for the people,as for the fore mentioned they can all go to hell. ��ReplyDelete
- Anonymous30 January 2017 at 13:32
Read this piece about 9 am, then tuned in about 9:45 to Pat Daley, and caught the end of a conversation, I think with Des Sullivan. One might think this information would cause a concern with listeners,,,,,,but not one called over the next 2 hours except the very last call, as the show was winding up. Daley said there will be no inquiry, and did not himself seemed to concerned.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous30 January 2017 at 15:36
As to Maurice`s comment about the demand forecast.....don`t forget that Nfld Hydro forecasts for industrial growth that was more or less nothing, and Nfld Power forecasts for residential and commercial. Residential, especially electric heat growth was the rationale for Muskrat. Now it is also Nfld Power that is lowering forecast which is not materialising as they predicted. The chant WE NEED THE POWER by politicians can be traced back to Nfld Power to some extent...... Although Nfld Power I believe predicts for just 5 years out, and there was growth for a few years during the housing boom here, but to predict long term growth, perhaps that was Nalcor`s call.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous30 January 2017 at 16:10
Well,I know nuttin'about nuttin',but even I knew from the get go that this was gonna be a "boondoggle".Every large project in Nl that has been done or tried has been the same.Corruption,nepotism,on and on.Politicians lie about everything,former politicians lie and exaggerate,and we know who that is.Nl will never again be outta the hole,ever.ReplyDeleteReplies
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I'm not really aware of the level of gvt corruption in Nfld, but minimizing corruption / maximizing accountability require a certain level of effective internal controls (or "red tape"), and to some extend, this might cause an heavy/complex burden, especially for a smaller population.Delete
I'm wondering how PEI (or NS by example) performs in term of minimizing corruption/maximising accountability? What was the optimal level of internal controls implemented?
In the Canadian Government, smaller Departments are regularly audited by the "Auditor General of Canada". ( www.oag-bvg.gc.ca )Delete
This process is mostly efficient and effective; you get the real picture (whether you like or not), and it comes with a set of recommendations to rectify a situation (like in a "boondoggle").
With the amount of $ Billion guaranteed by the Feds here, Canadian / Nfld voters can technically demand/pressure the Gvt of Canada to perform an audit of the loan, and the MF collaterals. The OAG possesses the means, the competence and the independence to perform such an Audit.
- Anonymous30 January 2017 at 17:04
I said from day one this project would bankrupt NL not going to be far off the mark on that one, we have been lied too and then lied too again and again with this project by previous government and present government....we will be in a financial mess we will never see the end off....I predict before it is completed this project will cost us Newfoundlanders about 17 to 18 billion, cause you know more cost overruns are gonna happen...I don't know how we will ever afford our electric bills, especially seniors and people on fixed incomes who live paycheck to paycheck!! Nalcor had no accountability and did what they wanted, only in NL would they get away with that!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous30 January 2017 at 23:20
Its seems that the engineering profession in Nfld is on the path to shame and ridicule, as has happened to the clergy. Muskrat Falls may be a political blunder, and Danny Williams may be largely responsible, but that we have a 12 to 15 billion boondoggle is above all a engineering failure. There are many engineers in the know of false or unethical actions that that got this thing sanctioned and have have stayed silent. Sure, to expose this may be losing your job and putting your family at financial risk, but otherwise there is no evidence to support wrongdoing. Does confidentality agreements prevent disclosure ...... surely if there is criminal actavity it should be disclosed to authorities. Then again, who to disclose to,,,,,,,if all in the system, including the justice system ate party to this boondoggle. Surely it weighs heavy on the conscience of engineers who are in the know, and good that they unload on Uncle Gnarley. Perhaps there will be an overwhelming number of engineers that will find the courage to disclose to the this site, such that eventually the public will demand an inquiry.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous31 January 2017 at 12:04
`How are we supposed to Churchill Falls power to market`, asked Danny Williams, `in a pickup truck!`ReplyDelete
This line went over good at the Board of Trade. It generated laughter. It brought ridicule to critics who would question the necessity of the transmission line from Muskrat and the link to the Nova Scotia.
Roger Grimes, in a letter to the Telegram, has recently stated that the capacity of the Upper Churchill cannot be handled by that line from Muskrat, suggesting it would cost billions more to transmit such power, but Grimes did not put a figure on it.
The Upper Churchill has a capacity of 5400MW. The DC line now from Muskrat has capacity of 900MW. This gives the Upper Churchill 7.1 times more capacity. The DC line to the Avalon is some 3 billions dollars which probably includes the cable under the Straits. The line from the Upper Churchill may be about 0.3 billion. The Maritine Link is 1.5 (or 1.7) billion. This only gets power as far as Nova Scotia. A new proposed DC line from Nova Scotia to Boston is estimated at 2 billion. So to get 900MW to Boston would be in the range of 3 + 0.3 +1.5 +2.0 = 6.8 billion in transmission costs for 900MW. Since the Upper Churchill is 7.1 billion more capacity this suggests 7 times this cost ,so about 48 billion.
Now Quebec gets the UC power out on 3, I believe, 735kv lines, not 7.
With higher voltage DC, via the Maritime route, it may be possible to have fewer than 7 lines. But I cannot imagine a cost for transmission to Boston for less than 30 billion. This is a quick approximation, and I invite others to comment on these figures.
Now I suppose if one was to store the power in these new Tesla storage units and have a fleet of pickup trucks continuously travelling overland from Churchill Falls to Boston, it may not cost more than 30 billion to do that. Point being, that Williams` silly remark was meant to influenece the uninformed (which includes the Board of Trade) to think that this single Muskrat DC line is the solution to get the upper Churchill Power to market, without huge additional debt to pay for it. And reliability for that route is yet in question.
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- Anonymous31 January 2017 at 19:43
If Bruno and Winston go away , do you think that we could stay on topic and attract some intelligent comments?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 February 2017 at 05:47
The whole muskrat falls thing was based on many false premises. First, the need for more power is a misconception. We are wasteful. And a lot of our wastefulness is not on purpose. Some of it is a building code issue. Standards like energuide for homes, R-2000, Passive house, are elective. You can choose if you want. Countries like denmark have mandated passive house as their building standard for any new homes and retrofits. This alone decreases energy consumption for heating by up to 90%. Passive conservation measures are the first step to lower energy consumption. Through insulation, air sealing, triple glazed windows, and good design we can reduce energy consumption by more than 60%. beyond this, good air-to-water heat pumps exist for our climate that have coefficients of performance of greater than 2.5 on average year round. canadian families use about 60 gallons of hot water per day on average. It takes about 14 kWh to heat that much water. Now multiply that by 155000 detached households. Now multiply that by 365 days a year. A total of about 800 GWh!!! just to put that in perspective, Holyrood power plant would have to run continuously for 66 days supplying a demand of 500 MW to heat all that water! A heat pump water heater with a coefficient of performance of 2 could decrease that demand by at least 50%. At $4000 for a heat pump water heater, the government could have given each household a heat pump water heater for the total cost of $620M. This would free up a massive amount of energy. The take home story here is that there were other more short term solutions that could have been explored...but we NEEDED more power!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1 February 2017 at 09:39
Anom....you are right ....agree with most everything. Codes should apply for all new housing. However heat pump water tanks will reduce winter peak load at -15C about 100MW, mini split heat pumps for space heating at COP of 2 (at-15C) would reduce winter peak load about 325 MW, COP of 3.0 (at -15C) would reduce winter peak load 433 MW. Nova Scotia lists many models rated at COP 3.0 at -15CReplyDelete
Commentators like you who know we did not need this power should not be anonymous.....people like you should help shape our energy policy for a green future. Is you job at risk if you identify yourself!
Winston, I meant to say that in a low energy home (ie which uses 10% of the heating energy required for a code built home) concentrating measures on water heating is the next thing in line to take care of and the best option in that case would be a split heat pump water heater. Not one of those that have the heat pump attached to the tank. They typically rob the space of heat which needs to be made up in another way. They work great in summer but make your house cold in the winter. I agree with your comments. We must attack the largest consumer of energy first: heating. Hot water second. For our existing infrastructure, heat pumps will have to pave way forward if the codes don't change. Ultimately the root of the problem is that we are most of us are ignorant of being wasteful because we live in energy inefficient homes and don't know it. The homes are built to code but the code is not adjusted to the climate so we have to add mechanical/electrical technology to overcome issues with building standards. My job will not be at risk for identifying myself! and here is a link to my blog which I am using to document my passive house build https://flatrockpassivehouse.blogspot.ca/Delete
the general public is in the dark about how this will effect us, exactly, in the future, how will it affect the pocket books of newfoundlanders, and this is a gradual thing, Newfoundlanders want to fight for justice and protest. Its difficult to protest something so gradual, and unseen, - just a thought - there is not much urgency - especially with the middle and upper class,ReplyDelete
"Evil" Bloc Quebecois member of parliament Marilene Gill asked sensible questions about the MF federal loan guarantee. She got straight forward answers, again not very rosy for Nfld electricity consumers...ReplyDelete
https://bondpapers.blogspot.ca/2017/02/no-market-research-required-nlpoli.html#more (thanks to Ed Hollett for bringing it forward)
At some point obviously, this kind of collaterals (rate increases) will not be sufficient/capable to repay this mess.Replies
"Evil" (again) Bloc MP Marilene Gill fielded further questions on MF.Delete
FWIW, it might show some of the concerns Quebec has on the project.
"With regard to the involvement of the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Muskrat Falls project:
(a) does the Minister intend for the government to become the owner of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric facility, its high voltage power lines and its underwater cable if it has to make good on the loan guarantee;
(b) has the Minister analyzed the constitutionality, especially as regards section 92(a) of the BNAA, of a situation where the government would own or operate a facility to produce electricity on provincial land and, if so, what were the findings of this analysis;
(c) has the Department considered the possibly that, if the loan guarantee were called upon and the government of Canada takes possession of the facility, it could dispose of the Muskrat Falls assets, including transferring them to another province or one of its Crown corporations, without the approval of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador;
(d) if the answer to (c) is affirmative, what were the Department's conclusions;
(e) has the Department assessed the consequences for Quebec of its involvement in the Muskrat Falls project, in particular the arrival of a new competitor for the export markets sought after by Hydro-Québec in the Atlantic provinces and the northeastern United States;
(f) if the answer to (e) is affirmative, what were the Department's conclusions;
(g) have the Minister or the Department contacted the Government of Quebec regarding this file, and what have they done to address the issues identified by the Quebec National Assembly in its unanimous resolutions of April 6, 2011, and November 30, 2012; and
(h) has the government discussed with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador the possibility of authorizing infrastructure to transport electricity across Quebec's territory?
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Do we need a new political party with Des and Dave leading it? How do we move beyond this blog and educate the general population so that change is possible?
The very institutions that should protect the public by speaking up, like the PUB, AG, PEGNL, courts, independent journalists, MUN and political parties have been captured by special interests and neutered. What now?
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RE comment by David J Goodyear on Passive House:ReplyDelete
I spent a couple of hours reading your blog...good read and useful for others considering this.
You mention that heat pumps are the solution to existing houses, agreed.
However the combination of heatpumps with R2000 seems much more cost effective than passive. I assume passive design and build may cost you some 30 to 40,000 dollar premium.
You say you need to achieve ability to heat with 2600 watts for 2000 sq ft., which is 1.3 kw per sq ft. We are heating 4000 sq ft at -17C at 3200 watts with minisplits, which is 0.8 watt per sq ft. And this included the garage which has a lower insulation standard than the rest of the house. So it the cost of passive cost effective.
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With current construction methods, these houses are coming in at 5%-8% above the cost of a code built home once you factor in the difference between the cost of framing lets say to the cost of less trim, and the fact that air sealing/ vapor retarder is done in continuous layer sandwiched in the wall creating a service cavity where no effort has to be dedicated to air sealing around receptacles, pipes, adding vapor barrier to the ceiling of separate rooms like a patch work quilt, etc. One cost often offsets the lack of another. So 5-8% is what people are seeing in Atlantic Canada.
I think that we concentrate alot on talking about being cost effective with respect to payback of the effort put into the thermal envelope of a house. The fact of the matter is that insulation (depending on type) is fairly cheap, and you can only get air sealing right at the time of build. It's really too late once the drywall is up. Once that air sealing and insulation is achieved, savings are perpetual beyond the mortgage.
As for heating. That part on the blog should have mentioned source energy factor and those heaters would have been oversized....The Passive house standard uses a model that goes back to energy used at the source of production which takes into account the efficiency of the energy source. North American grids are (on average) about 30% efficient, canada is better but the phius model assumes north american average. THe production of electricity is notoriously inefficient. Thermal losses, turbine inefficiencies, transmission line losses all compound to give large losses in the grid. Passive house concentrates on the global warming potential of said losses and making a difference to global warming at the source of generation. So my understanding is that those quoted numbers are inclusive of those inefficiencies. In which case, that peak load of 1.3 W/sqft is after being multiplied by a factor of 3 (source energy factor related to the grid inefficiency). So the power use on the house meter would be more like 0.4 W/sqft if you want to meet the standard. Anything electric is essentially penalized by a source energy factor. Electric baseboards are still possible but a designer needs to concentrate on maximizing solar gains during the winter and calculating internal gains like cooking, dishwashing, etc. After this calculaiton is done another calculation is carried out to determine the size of the heat source required. As long as you are below the requried energy use after multipling by the energy factor, you're good to go. Otherwise you'll need to find another energy source. So in the end, if you install a single minisplit, with a COP of 3 (for argument sake) it counter acts the source energy factor and the two factors cancel in the energy equation so your minisplit would be using 0.4 W/sqft. This is typically done using a single minisplit 12000 btu/h rating.
0.8 W/sq ft is a great number. And because you're using a heat pump, it means that you're basically getting a 1:1 return on oil burnt to electricity delivered as the heat pump COP basically factors out the source energy inefficiency.
The name passive house can be a little confusing as people often think about passive solar but it is so much more. its the lights, the people walking around the house, doing laundry, all the things that we do in our daily lives adding to gains inside the home. Capturing them and the solar gains along with heat recovery can be maximized in order to minimize the energy source. Ultimately, a simple home is possible depending on the climate. Maybe two base boards, no need for in floor heat, large thermally windows with lots of light, optimized plumbing and duct work all add to the efficiency.
I feel that heat pumps are definitely the way forward for retrofits. and much cheaper than trying to air seal a home after its already been attempted. A deep energy retrofit would be much more expensive than adding a split heat pump, but a deep energy retrofit should be considered when one considers adding new windows, siding, etc. Deep energy retrofits would add considerably to the internal gains of the home which would decrease heating loads in the winter and cooling loads in the summer.
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I've just GOT to draw her.
Zap out the palmtop, and start sketching. She notices me almost immediately, which is really rare. Most people are oblivious.
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She says, "See you around then?"
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She walks away. And how the hell am I ever going to see her again??? Eish.
This is something I've noticed in myself. If I feel attracted to someone in a non-trivial sorta way, I find it quite hard to make a move. This is exactly how it was with Jacqui. We were attracted to each other for at least three years before we made moves on each other. Ugh! And here's this blonde woman who could really be out of a dream catalogue of Babes-Made-For-Roy. And I don't even know her name!
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