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Miriam De Dios has been named CEO of Coopera, a subsidiary of the Iowa Credit Union League.
De Dios joined Coopera at its inception and most recently served as vice president. She will fill the position previously held by founder Warren Morrow, who passed away unexpectedly in February.
Since helping to launch Coopera alongside Morrow, De Dios has overseen the company's client operations, managed the innovation of Coopera products, and led the company's marketing and public relations efforts. She has become a thought leader in the credit union movement, speaking across the country on the importance of outreach to underserved Hispanics.
"Miriam's personal background, professional skills, and unmatched talents make her the perfect fit for Coopera's CEO," says Patrick Jury, president/CEO of the Iowa Credit Union League. "Credit unions have an outstanding opportunity to serve the Hispanic community, which is today the fastest-growing, youngest, and most underserved group in our country. With leadership from Coopera, I am confident our movement will increase its commitment in reaching this deserving community."
A native of Jalisco, Mexico, De Dios has significant experience in the financial services arena, having worked with State Farm Insurance Companies and John Deere Credit prior to Coopera. Witnessing her own parents' struggles to navigate the U.S. financial system, she is passionate about furthering Coopera's mission of connecting more Hispanics—both immigrant and U.S.-born—with the financial mainstream.
Credit unions, she believes, are the answer.
"Although this is a bittersweet time, I'm excited for the future of Coopera," says De Dios. "We have an immense opportunity to continue providing dignified financial services to the Hispanic community through credit unions. Although the need for Hispanic growth in the credit union industry is greater than ever, I see it being met with increased motivation and momentum by credit unions."
"At CUNA, we have the utmost respect and confidence in Miriam and applaud her promotion," notes Mark Condon, CUNA's senior vice president of business and consumer publishing. "We look forward to continuing our strategic alliance with Coopera to help credit unions grow through the underserved Hispanic community."
De Dios is a member of the national Network of Latino Credit Unions and Professionals and the World Council of Credit Union's Global Women's Leadership Network.
She also serves on the board of directors for various Des Moines area non-profit organizations, including the Iowa International Center, Hispanic Educational Resources, and Latinas para Un Nuevo Amanecer.


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Jefferson CountyIllinois
Family Account of Jesse M. and Mary (Chambliss) Clark
Family Account for Jesse M. and Mary (Chambliss) Clark taken
from Grace Marlowe's family records, her great grandparents
Jesse M. Clark was born in Virginia April 2, 1804. He died in 1876 in Jefferson county Illinois.
He married Mary Chambliss also a native of Virginia. A romantic story is told about how
Jesse met Mary Chambliss. The Clark's decided to move to Tennessee and camped along the way
in a covered wagon or by a campfire. One morning their fire was out and they sent Jesse to a
nearby house to get some coals. When he arrived with his kettle, the door was opened by the
prettiest brown-eyed girl he'd ever seen. The Chambliss and Clark families got acquainted and
the Chambliss' decided to move to Tennessee also. They settled near Nashville, Robertson County
Tennessee. Jesse married the girl he borrowed the coals from. Jesse came to Jefferson County,
Illinois in about 1855.
Jesse M. Clark was the father of 17 children by two marriages. His first wife died in Tennessee.
His wife's sister-in-law was a widow of Mary Chambliss' brother. Her name was Sarah "Sally" (Connell)
Chambliss. After Mary Chambliss' death - Jesse M.Clark married Sarah "Sally" (Connell) Chambliss.
Sarah Chambliss had two children by Joseph Chambliss, Joe and Wiley Chambliss.
Sarah's mother was also still living (Granny Connell - buried in Clark Cemetery near Harmony) and
when the Clark's came to Illinois, Granny Connell came with them.
There are old records in Tennessee to show that Jesse Clark and the Chambliss' sold their land
before moving to Illinois. The Chambliss' were excellent carpenters, blacksmiths and many things
in the mechanical line.
Submitted By: Julie Lusby
Please send additions & corrections to
Jefferson County Coordinator Cindy Ford
© 2005-2016 by Cindy Ford
All rights reserved


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Selecting the right EMR/EHR vendor can be a challenge. Understandably you want to at least comply with the medicaid EHR incentive program and ideally select an EMR/EHR that significantly improves your operations and patient care. It's an important decision that will affect the efficiency and viability of your practice.
By following these simple best practices, you can craft an EHR RFP, or request for proposal, that helps select the best-fit EHR system for your organization. And regardless of the type of EHR software you're selecting, whether it's an ambulatory or inpatient EHR, an open source EHR or some other niche EHR technology, these EHR RFP steps are all applicable.
Step 1: Internally Compile and Prioritize EHR Requirements
Before you do an EHR implementation, you must identify your organizational requirements. These requirements include specific prices — you already have an estimated price for software and hardware — but now you need a summary of costs for items such as implementation, training and support.
Other requirements may be interoperability and customization. You should list which clinical data systems you already have in place, and how much customization you may need. Your data and patient security is of extreme importance, so make sure to focus your requirements in this area. This is especially important for hospitals, which oftentimes own the most sensitive patient data.
System scalability and functionality are also key requirements that should be mentioned in your EHR RFP. Your practice will ideally continue to grow, and you want to ensure the vendor you select can handle that growth.
Involve your internal stakeholders in prioritizing your electronic health records software requirements, which helps save you money and headaches down the road.
Step 2: Create the EHR RFP
After you've defined and prioritized your specific EHR solution requirements, integrate them into the EHR RFP. This ensures vendors respond to your detailed requirements, know exactly what you need and are precise when they draw up their proposals. A RFP should include a timeline showing important deadlines for various actions by the vendor; make sure your RFP is well organized and looks professional. If need be, look-up some RFP examples to get an idea of what your deliverable is.
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Step 3: Shortlist and Solicit EHR Vendors
Once your EHR requirements have been imported into an EHR RFP template, select a shortlist of EHR systems, especially looking for certified EHR technology. Qualities to look for when deciding on your shortlist include overall impressions of professionalism, such as timeliness of response and transparency during initial contacts, whether the estimated costs are within your practice budget and what support the vendors offer. Check references to ensure they deliver the services they claim.
Submit the RFP to the selected vendors, and remember that using an RFP management tool to submit your requirements makes it easier for vendors to reply.
Step 4: Evaluate RFP Responses
Internal stakeholders involved in drawing up your health care practice's requirements should come together to evaluate RFP responses. Use a standardized matrix to compare vendors, since this tool allows your team to weight certain requirement criteria and aggregate evaluators' scores. The matrix may include EHR usability characteristics and functions such as clinical tasking and messaging, health record management, decision support, laboratory and results management, prescriptions and charting. Also ensure EHR vendors offer software that guarantees your practice complies with meaningful use principles.
Step 5: Request any Additional Vendor Information
Before selecting finalists for further evaluation, review the vendor applications to make sure you have all necessary information, and submit any final requests for additional information needed to help your decision. You don't want to pass on a potentially excellent candidate just because you don't have sufficient data.
Step 6: Post-Evaluation
Let your evaluation team undertake on-site visits, along with finalist vendors, to organizations that use the relevant software and match closely the size and configuration of your practice. You may also request vendors to provide proof of concept to further ensure their systems are suitable for your organization.
Once you've selected a vendor, you'll negotiate a contract and definitive pricing and finally execute the agreed-upon contract with the vendor.
When choosing any type of health information technology, be it an EHR/EMR software or medical practice management system, SelectHub offers a formalized request for proposal process, including expertise and support to help you select the right vendor for your practice.


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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov plans to meet his US counterpart Rex Tillerson for the first time on Thursday in Germany, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday. "The meeting with Secretary of State Mr Tillerson has been planned and is being prepared" on February 16, when both diplomats will be in Bonn for the G20 ministerial talks, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was quoted by Russian agencies as saying.
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Lavrov will also hold his first meeting with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who was appointed last month.
The first meeting between US and Russian senior diplomats comes as Russian officials appear increasingly concerned at the shift in rhetoric coming from Washington which dampens hopes that President Donald Trump will drop sanctions and initiate other policy changes toward Moscow.
It also follows the resignation of Trump's national security advisor Michael Flynn over his contacts with Russian officials. Zakharova said Lavrov will "discuss bilateral relations, which were taken into a dead end by the previous administration".
"The plan is to discuss the main international crises which our countries have cooperated on and must cooperate," she said. "Of course, regional issues will be examined."
Trump's spokesman Sean Spicer on Tuesday said the new US president "has been incredibly tough on Russia" and "expects the Russian government to de-escalate violence in the Ukraine and return Crimea."
Asked to comment, Zakharova said "We don't give back our territories."
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Information about the Ariegeois
The Ariegeois is a breed of dog from the département of Ariège in the Midi-Pyrenées region of southern France. It is a medium-sized pack-hunting scenthound deriving from crossing of Grand Bleu de Gascogne and Grand Gascon Saintongeois hounds with local Briquet dogs. It is used both as a courser and for driving game to waiting guns. While most successful with hares, it is also used for hunting deer and boar. It is distinguished by its friendly nature with other hounds and affection for human companions.
This breed originated in France in 1912, making it a fairly new breed. It is not yet well known outside of its own region. The breed is registered with the Fédération Cynologique Internationale.
The Ariegeois normally weighs approximately 28-30 kg. Males should stand 52-58 cm tall, and females 50-56 cm. The coat is smooth and short, white with clearly defined black markings; it is sometimes mottled, and there may be tan points at the head. The head of the dog is lean and elongated. There are no wrinkles. The eyes are dark and gentle. The ears are very soft and medium-length. The muzzle is of medium length, and the nose is black. The neck is slender and arched slightly, to the chest which is narrow and deep. The ribs are well-sprung with a strong, sloping back. It should have straight forelegs and strong, powerful hindlegs. The feet are hard and foxlike. The tail is slightly curved.
Overall, the Ariegeois is a talented scenthound, and affectionate and serene in the home. The Ariegeois is now being bred in Italy and used to hunt wild boar, performing well in this endeavour under Italian conditions.


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I rise to briefly contribute to the debate on the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014. I have serious concerns about this bill. Firstly, I worry that this federal Liberal Party legislation, just like Campbell Newman did in Queensland, seeks to deliberately destroy and undermine basic civil rights. In this instance, it is the right to silence for working Australians, while potential white-collar criminals in the corporate world are allowed to enjoy the freedoms, rights and privileges of all who live in a democratic society. On page 75, in division 6, the offences section of the bill indicates that a person being questioned faces a penalty if that person fails to answer a question. Former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman would have been proud of that destruction of a basic civil right: the right to silence. My question for the Liberal Party is: if a banker were being questioned over a crime that had been committed within their organisation, would their right to silence also be suspended?
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I almost can't believe I'm doing this… I've been considering it for about three months. A friend of mine did 12 months, a whole year, of compacting which is where I first heard of it.
Compacting – The Compact has several aims more or less prioritized below:
- To go beyond recycling in trying to counteract the negative global environmental and socioeconomic impacts of disposable consumer culture and to support local businesses, farms, etc. — a step that, we hope, inherits the revolutionary impulse of the Mayflower Compact.
- To reduce clutter and waste in our homes (as in trash Compact-or).
- To simplify our lives (as in Calm-pact) . (Copied from Mama's on the Compact)
I have decided to Compact as part of an on-going project to declutter our home, to make it easier to keep clean, find things, be more organised. As part of a simpler way of living, because we are all so caught up in buying 'stuff' rather than being frugal and reducing, reusing and recyling. Our world can't handle the affluenza that is overtaking it. We are also as a family starting a "Money Makeover" and paying in cash for any purchases, keeping to a strict budget, and concentrating on clearing our debts. This Compact will support that.
So I am pledging that for the next six months, with the exceptions below, I will not purchase anything new. I will reuse, recycle, buy second-hand or go without.
My Compact starts from today, 20 Oct 07, and is for six months which ends 20 Apr 08.
My exceptions are: I can purchase thread, notions etc to complete craft and sewing projects, provided I already have a minimum of 80% of the items required here already. This includes paying for framing of some of my embroideries that will be completed in the next few months.
I can purchase my normal magazines, two quarterlies and one monthly craft mag, plus one environmental gardening magazine. These are used regularly as resources and inspiration, and read constantly!
I can purchase the fabric to make a skirt that I have been planning for the last two months. I saw a gorgeous skirt in a shop, priced at just under $200 and decided that I could make it easily. I haven't had time yet, so I'm giving myself permission to buy the fabric (probably under $30!) when I have enough time to make it.
Christmas presents. In the interest of saving my sanity, I am making an exception for buying Christmas presents. At this time, Christmas is two months away, I am completing assessments for a course I am graduating from in early december, working part time, looking for full time work for next year and preparing for an interstate move in early january. I will attempt to buy from Fair Trade, Cottage Industry and Local Artisans. I also have several presents already purchased, which does make this a bit easier!
When I start work next year (assuming I find work) I can purchase up to two pairs of suitable shoes.
I should also add that Eddie and Dian are NOT compacting. They can still buy new. This will be an interesting six months!


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Gillette Venus #SubscribeToSmooth 30 Day Shaving Challenge : #Day 30
Hello WiseShe Beauties, Today I am here to share my extensive thoughts on the Gillette Venus #SubscribeToSmooth 30 Day Shaving Challenge. I took it up when I attended the Gillette Venus #SubscribeToSmooth Event in August. Now its already around 30days, so I am here to share my Gillette Venus 30 Day Shaving Challenge with all of you. I will also acquaint most of you with how great method of hair removal this has been keeping in mind the busy schedule!
Gillette Venus has been a pioneer name in introducing a wide range of products meant for shaving for women. It also promises to give an effortless smooth shaving experience to make it a complete fuss free method of hair removal in women. The range of products includes shaving appliance like razors, cartridges, shaving foam and many such products which altogether lead to give a smooth and hair free skin at your own convenience!
Well, after this period of 30days I am completely a fan of shaving for hair removal and have given up on all the other options as I find this the easiest and fuss free way to remove those unwanted body hair!
Gillette Venus 30 Day Shaving Challenge
The Gillette Venus shaving kit is probably on of the most economical hair removal kits available in stores and I think I am going to recommend it to everyone for its ease in usage, hair free smooth skin and no wastage of time waiting in the salon! The shaving experience is made easier because of the easy to use razor and cartridges which come along in the complete shaving kit! Even a novice can do it easily without any skin damage and it leads to baby soft and hair free skin since the first usage itself!
Well, talking about myself, shaving has surely become my most preferred method of hair removal not to mention how it saves me during time of emergency! Just a 15 min session with the Gillette Venus shaving kit and I am free from unwanted hair on my hands and legs!
The best part about shaving has been that there are no side effects which we get to hear so often! It turns out that after personally using the shaving kit I can conclude that the side effects one refers to for shaving are those who do not use the right products and then blame this hair removal method to be faulty!
Gillette Venus Shaving Challenge
If you use the right products, I am sure shaving doesn't leaves any instances of ingrown hair, hard regrowth, dry skin or anything like that! Use the right products and you can see the difference clearly!
So far, shaving has only done good for my skin and made it hair free whenever I opted for it! And I didn't have any painful experience with shaving so girls, I would say go for it and ditch those inhibitions which has compelled you to stay away from this fast and easy hair removal method which results in baby soft and hair free skin as per your wish!
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For the past month, I have been going on runs.
I know… I know. Patricia and running? Those two things do not go together. However, I started running with a friend near the lake and it's been exhausting, fun, and insane. It was only two weeks ago that I decided to run by myself…and I nearly died, but I didn't.
Then, on one of my runs, I started thinking about all the circumstances you're in while you're running. In fact, life is very similar to running.
The following lessons from my runs definitely apply to life:
1. Pace yourself
This seems pretty obvious, but it's true. You rush your run, specially when you're a first-timer, and you will feel like death itself. That was not a hyperbole. The same applies to life. You need to pace yourself in whatever situation you're in…whether you want certain things to happen and they don't, or you can't find a job, a boyfriend/girlfriend…just calm down, breathe in slowly, pace yourself and push forward. You'll get there.
2. Keep good company
To be honest, running with a friend is always much more fun than running by myself. My friend, Bridget, keeps me simultaneously entertained and focused on this arduous activity. In life, you need to surround yourself with good people that will do the same for you. Friends should support you and be good influences in your life. It's not that hard to find a good support system. Seek these people out! They're worth it!
3. Sometimes you just have to be alone
Yes, running by yourself is such a liberating experience. You will find a way to focus on yourself, enjoy your surroundings, and pursue self-improvement through running. You should expect the same out of life. You can't always be surrounded by friends. Sometimes you need to cool off, stay home, and treat yourself…just you, no one else.
4. Hydrate
Just….really? Just drink plenty of fluids in life, when you exercise, whenever. Just do it.
5. Stay away from attacks
FUN anecdote: I went on a run to a park nearby. Wings flapping, bawking, and BAM! A bird attacked me. It pecked my head consistently and it was angry at me. Sure, it doesn't sound like a "real attack", but it was a little too "Hitchcock" for my taste and it was really scary in the moment.
On another fun note, every single time I go for a run, there are creepy men available for catcalling. Yes, the infamous disgusting tale of random creeps "complimenting" a young woman from afar instead of minding their own business. As scary as the bird attack was, I am NOT a fan of catcalling. It is really terrifying to feel like no matter what, there will always be a creep yelling "compliments" at you.
My point is that, in life as well as in running, you need to stay away from these kinds of attack. However, sometimes they are completely inevitable. My advice is to keep your cool, calm down, and ignore the attacks from birds, catcallers or anyone, really.
Running, like life, doesn't always have to be a pain. In short, you may feel like giving up or dying, but you can do it! Keep your focus, pace yourself, and enjoy life!


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In today's modern world, there is more of a need for ghostwriters than ever before. Unfortunately, most people think of ghostwriting as a way to get around writing your own work. While this is somewhat true, many of today's ghostwriters are also published authors. This article will show you how to find ghostwriting work.
Do your research. Quickly you will see that ghostwriting is not just limited to a novel or other book. It can be in the form of short stories, articles, and even web page content.
Be able to write effectively. This is really important. If you have trouble with sentence structure, grammar, spelling, or punctuation, you might consider taking a refresher course.
You can find several websites online that are dedicated to helping ghostwriters find work and to helping those how have work find ghostwriters. Many of this work similar to an online auction site. Ghostwriters bid on projects and the buyers will choose whom they feel is best suited for the work. Elance and Guru are two notable places for ghostwriters to find work. You can find links to these places in the Resources section below.
Check your local classifieds. You can often find people who are looking for writers advertising here. Be sure to check the online advertisers as well, as many websites will state openings for ghostwriters or freelancers right on the website.
Check with your local library. Many times the librarians will know of some employment opportunities for writers.
When freelancing, check with your past employers for any possible leads for ghostwriting work. You will also need recommendations, so this can be beneficial as well.
You will need to put together samples of your writing ability. Be sure these are the best you have to offer. Proofread each carefully and correct any mistakes. If you are able to, write on different subject matter. This way you'll be able to offer samples based upon the field that buyer needs.
Invest in a computer, if you do not already have one. Not only will this make it easier to for you to locate work, you will also have access to word processing programs, spell checkers, and other tools to make writing easier for you. If you are using ghostwriting or freelancing as a full-time job, you can write off your computer as a tax deduction in most cases.
Do not copy material from other sites. This is imperative to the quality of the work your turn in. There are many programs available to see if your writing work is original and most buyers use them regularly, especially Copyscape. In fact, you may even want to use Copyscape (link provided below) yourself to check your writing before turning it in to your client.
Be patient. It takes time to break into the freelance world of writing. You will need to get your name out there and have some good feedback, as well. However, there is a very large market right now for ghostwriters and other freelancers. So jump in and see what you can find.
Start out writing on subjects that you are most comfortable with. It will make getting used to writing easier and more enjoyable for you.
Avoid ghostwriting scams. Also make sure your writing is original so you are not dubbed a scam writer yourself.


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Match corresponding to the 10th Round of the Gibraltarian Second Division and played on Sunday 21st December 2014 at the Victoria Stadium
Gibraltar United Football Club 3 -0 Lincoln Red Imps
Lowe (OG)
Sean Gilbert
Gibraltar United Football Club
1 Kyle 'Chino' Goldwin
11 Jared Buhagiar
3 Kenneth Chipolina
4 Aaron Collado
7 Justin Collado
6 William Gracia
8 Dylan Mañasco
14 Stefan Cumbo
5 Steven Gilbert
10 Andrew Lopez (C)
9 Shane Howe
Carl Thomas on for Jared Buhagiar
Sean Gilbert on for Shane Howe
Brad Power on for William Gracia
A momentous week in the Second Division! Europa Point dropped 4 points in a draw vs Gibraltar Scorpions and a loss in a thrilling 4-3 midweek encounter with Mons Calpe. We did our bit by beating Mons last weekend and setting up a 2 point cushion with Europa Point. If our boys got the job done we'd all be home at Christmas 5 points clear at the top. Aldorino seems to have come across a settled group of players that are adept at playing in either a 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 formation. As such it was this solid group that was entrusted to deliver this most important of victories. On the bench we had two of our 'international' players Sean Gilbert and Brad Power who are completing their studies in the UK and are home for Christmas. It was great to see both get a run out and indeed Sean got himself on the score sheet. Indeed we had both Collado brothers and both Gilbert brothers on the pitch at the same time, can't say I remember that happening very often! Unfortunately there is no match report for this week as your usual reporter was away at a wedding yet the boys delivered and top of the pile we sit! It was also very gratifying to see 22 locally developed players fight it out on the pitch, a rare occurrence in Division 2 these days.


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- Length – 1 Day
- Type – Hands On Training
- Prerequisites – None
- Location – TBD
- Cost – $150
Firearms handling is an inherently dangerous activity. An accident can happen anytime at a range or elsewhere. We all need to have a basic understanding of trauma injuries and how to treat them. This is a hands-on class. We will be demonstrating basic trauma management using the MARCH protocol as per USSOCOM military guidelines.
- Hemorrhage control
- Airway management
- Patient stabilization
- Patient movement and transport
- First aid kits
What to Bring
- Pen and Paper


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The Dublin large clip bag flapover or foldover framed Brown Scrunchy leather bag measures 36x31cm, fully extended 46.5cm, the clipframe measures 27cm from the outside and 24.5cm from the inside and opens out to 14.5cm, the zip under the flap and the zip at the back measure 22cm, the base of the bag is 9cm by 29cm, the internal zip is 18cm and the handle extends to 128cm and minimises to 64cm, the width of the handle is 3cm. The lining is waterproof, the fittings are made of brass and the bag is a very versatile leather bag which can be worn across the body or as a shoulder bag.
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With each coming new year, the San Diego Brewers Guild elects new leadership. For 2018, local craft beer's trade association will be led by Rip Current Brewing cofounder, Paul Sangster.
1. What are the top agenda items for the San Diego Brewers Guild this year? For this year, we will continue promoting our local beer community as the 'Capital of Craft,' by raising awareness for craft beer and making sure San Diegans know how to identify a brewery that is truly independent. Plus, we plan to create more opportunities for our members to get together, collaborate and share their knowledge.
2. In 2018, several out of town beer companies have already opened, or announced plans to open properties within San Diego, including Absolution Brewing, The Bell Marker, Cismontagne Brewing, and Melvin Brewing. Will these new arrivals be eligible for San Diego Brewers Guild membership? Yes. The guild has an open brewery member policy as long as the candidate meets the requirements in our bylaws. For this, we are following the independent craft beer direction of the Brewers Association and California Craft Brewers Association. More specifically, the brewery needs to be 'small,' so produce less than 2 million barrels of beer per year, and be 'independent,' meaning less than 25% ownership by a large beer producer.
3. Last year saw no fewer than eight breweries go out of business. Is there concern among guild members about the rising competition in the San Diego beer market? Competition is a good thing for the craft beer market in San Diego. It gives customers more options to taste and vote for their favorites with their dollars and buying power. San Diego has incredible beer being made and this is reflected in our yearly haul of awards. San Diego craft brewers welcome the opportunity to have our best beers available on tap next to the new breweries incubating in San Diego, along with those joining us from other regions.
4. There are rumored to have been discussions about re-admitting Ballast Point to the Brewers Guild, after it was removed due to its sale to Constellation brands. Have members expressed interest in reinstating Ballast Point? The San Diego Brewers Guild's leadership reviewed its goals, mission statement and bylaws, and we feel the organization is going in the right direction by promoting small and independent breweries in the marketplace. This was discussed and voted on by the Guild's leadership team, so we are confident that we're doing the right thing for the craft beer movement in San Diego.
Additionally, the San Diego Brewers Guild added a new membership tier—Brewing Industry Professionals, which allows for individual brewing professionals in San Diego to join our organization. This means, whether or not the headquarter brewing company is a member, they are able to individually join the Guild and take advantage of all networking and educational events available to members. Given the current beer landscape and frequency of acquisitions taking place, we wanted to develop a membership that would be inclusive to all talented brewing individuals residing in San Diego County versus penalize those that have no control over decisions made by their brewery.
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OMSI Solar Canopy
Livermore Architecture & Engineering, Inc. joined in a collaborative effort with InSpec Group, Sanyo North America Corp and Portland General Electric to design and construct the first publically-accessible solar canopy in North America at Portland's Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). This multi-modal structure provides shelter and recharging capability for up to three EV automobiles and electric-assist bicycles while also providing weatherproof lockers with integrated electrical outlets for its users. In total, the Sanyo-provided solar array can generate up to 10,000 killowatt hours of renewable power per year.


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Do I need a new meter to participate in the scheme?
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two is the number of head on collisions (bike to bike) I've been in over the last few years. The most recent one was today. The less recent one was... not sure... a few years ago or thereabouts.
Both head on bike collisions followed the same basic pattern. Sudden obstacle, little time to react, just enough reaction to avoid serious injury. Each rider checking to see if the other rider's okay. Then each rider checking to see if each other's bikes are okay. Then you smile. And then you ride off. The emotional diagram of the event goes something like: shock, fear, concern, relief, amusement.
Okay. Topic change. But it's all related, you'll have to trust me.
In Derrick Jensen's latest book, endgame: vol II, he credits Ward Churchill with having told him that the GNP (Gross National Product) is just a scorecard of how fast the nation converts life into death. Living trees into dead paper, living animals into fast food commodities, living plants into textiles and the like. Personally, I had never really thought about the GNP very much before, but I see where they're going with that. I think it's more than that though. I think that's one major component of it, and another major component is changing the earth's chemical equation (converting inorganic things into products (which also has catastrophic consequences (consequences, like turning the living into the dead I suppose (but that's a little too indirect for me)))). Anyway, the powers that are go around converting all kinds of non living things into products: water, rocks, gases, whatever else. Things like carbon and coal and oil and radioactive elements that are supposed to be buried under the ground are now out and just hanging around with us on the surface, changing our atmosphere, making us sick, doing whatever all else.
In book I'm presently writing, the Problem With Earthlings, I talk a lot about the battle I've been waging against the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for most of my adult life.
When I was little there was a framed quotation on our wall that said "Live Simply, So that others may simply live". I figured it was just there, like all of the other things on the wall that meant little. Something to walk past. But it was seeping into my brain a little bit every day. Live simply.
These days I take my anti-consumerism to a ridiculous extreme according to many of my friends. According to me I'm just living my life. I am pretty zealotous about it though. Around this time every year I sit down and calculate how much money I did not give to Altria corporation by not smoking? And how much money I did not give to McDonald's by never ever going to McDonald's? How much money is Anheuser Busch lacking due to my not drinking? And it goes on and on and on.
For the last eight (almost nine) years now I have had another calculation to make. The car savings. How much money am I not giving to auto manufacturers? How much interest on the loan? How much money am I not giving to GEICO in auto insurance (a total legalized racket)? How much in gas to these HUGE petrol corporations? How much evil would they have done with my money had I given it to them? They're good at multiplication of evil, I know they are.
And then a day like today happens. Head on collision on a bike. Maybe I would drive more carefully than I bike. Actually I'm sure I would since I do drive once in a while. But a head on collision in a car does NOT end with amusement. Not at all. Quite the opposite.
The bike accident I got into a few years ago was at the apex of a bridge. The other rider and I actually did exchange names. We didn't have to. But I felt it only fitting since we'd bumped into each other. His bike had been undamaged. Mine was nearly undamaged. My insurance is still zero. Had I chosen to get my bike repaired the bill would have been under twenty dollars.
Living simply does allow others an opportunity to simply live. But more than that... living simply makes life really, really simple sometimes.
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Melt, of Deanna M. Witman
Maine, USA
I propose to exhibit the ephemeral images from Melt, a project that deals with climate change. I have travelled the earth via the internet to visit the world's historic snowiest peaks to satisfy my obsessive understanding of ephemeral and dynamic states. From satellite imagery, I have created photographs printed in the 19th century salted paper photographic process. These new landscapes serve as document and memory, sometimes with views obscured.
A selected number of the exhibition images are created to be ephemeral, fading over the course of the exhibition invoking a sense of change and drawing attention to the dynamic states that surround us.
During the exhibition of these images, the public is invited and encouraged to view the fading snow peaks over time to experience the shift, drawing awareness to changes in world climate.
Support for MELT is provided by SPACE Gallery through The Kindling Fund and The John Anson Kittredge Fund.
Place: Fàbrica de Cal Garbat. Mossén Jacint Verdaguer, 8. Vilassar de Dalt


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The main event of the past two or three years [this article was written in 1982 - MH], as far as the New York art world is concerned, has been the "rebirth" of European art mainly young, German and Italian, expressionist in mode and flirtatiously eclectic in tone. The spectrum of achievement runs from mere operators like Salome to deeply serious artists of the caliber of Anselm Kiefer. The fact that an American audience is paying attention to European painting once more comes as a relief, but before attention gets wholly stylized as fashion, it is worth remembering that England is part of Europe and that some English painters have more to offer than other, more loudly promoted figures of the day. One of them is Howard Hodgkin, whose exhibition is now at Knoedler & Company.
Hodgkin is fifty this year: a diffident man with a tough, discursive mind and a long background in art history, collecting and teaching. His work comes directly out of the French tradition known as Intimism, which coincides with the rise of middle class life as the cultural norm and runs (roughly) from Chardin in the eighteenth century to Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse in the early twentieth. It assumes that the ordinary, day to day relationships of an artist's domestic life - his family, his parlor, his cook, his cat, the almond tree that can be seen in flower if you crane your neck a little bit to the left of the studio window on this particular day in early May - is deeply interesting as a subject for painting. Not because it is lent grandeur by being part of the stage of an artist's life - that kind of egotistical silliness is quite alien to the Intimist tradition - but rather, because it shows that life obliquely, in its ordinary quality, just like yours or mine, and then slightly transcends its commonplaceness, thus giving us hope of meaning, by analogy, in our own lives.
Hence, Intimism shuns the grandiose. It argues, without getting polemical about it, that painting can reasonably leave the demands of public declamation the world of David or Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, of Ingres's Apotheosis of Homer or Picasso's Guernica or, in our day, the reflections of Kiefer on German romanticism and German guilt out of the picture. It has no need for allegory or moralizing. It wants to get one thing right at a time. The subjects of the artist are all around him, in his private life. Quite a small corner of that life can be enough. The scale is rarely big because you don't need bombast in the Intimist context - all heroics look forced - and the merits are closeness of feeling, modesty of scale, and a witty accuracy about place and character. Intimism likes the interior view. It is apt to see the world from inside the house, through a window a frame within the frame. Objects tend to take on the role of characters, which appear over and over again: the dusty bottles and rustling bouquets of paper flowers in Morandi's studio, the striped wallpaper in Vuillard's sitting room, Matisse's curly black iron balcony, the funny little dachshund on his mat in Bonnard's bathroom. By the same token, people have the permanence of objects: Bonnard's wife, Vuillard's invalid aunt.
Intimism is sociable art. But it does not take off from society at large. Now all these characteristics are part of Howard Hodgkin's work. Its special aura is an intimacy that verges on voyeurism, whose details are somewhat muffled by abstractness and generalizing, but whose sense of place and even social ambience comes through quite clearly once you have grasped the general drift of the work. Hodgkin grew up in libraries and gardens. His family was related on one hand to the intellectual clan of the Huxleys, and on the other to Roger Fry, the great English critic who gave Post Impressionism its name when holding the first English show of Cezanne, Matisse, van Gogh and others at the Grafton Galleries in London in 1910. One of Hodgkin's most vivid childhood experiences was being taken to visit Fry's sister Margery, whose house was full of brightly painted furniture from the Omega Workshop: this had a deep effect on the tablets of painted wood that constitute Hodgkin's grown up work. His grandfather was a medical scientist after whom Hodgkin's disease is named. His father was a garden designer. In dealing with Hodgkin we are not dealing with a naif, a painter with a self made culture, but rather with a highly sophisticated man in whom the pastoral and the empirical mingle in sometimes rather unpredictable ways. And a literary background led him to think visually in terms of a certain scale: the page of a book. For Hodgkin a very big picture is three feet square. There is not a more educated painter alive, and it would be hard to think of one whose erudition was more exactly placed at the disposal of feeling. His paintings look abstract but are full of echoes of figures, rooms, sociable encounters; they are small, "unheroic" but exquisitely phrased. The space they evoke is closed, artificial, without horizon or other legible reference to landscape. One seems to be looking into a box full of colored flats and wings - a marionette stage, behind whose proscenium the blobs and cylinders of color glow with shivering, theatrical ebullience. "Curious," as English art historian Lawrence Gowing remarked in a recent essay on Hodgkin's work, "that no one has recognized in Hodgkin a God-given stage designer, a man with a mission to the theater of enrichment and augmentation."
Because Hodgkin's type of abstract flatness admits the eye some way into the picture and identifies the surface as an imaginary opening, it has nothing to do with the idealized flatness of sixties American color field painting. It hovers on the edge of scenic recognition, tricking the viewer into the thought that just one more clue might disclose a particular room or restaurant, a familiar scene. Sometimes it will. The most spectacular painting in the current show, In the Bay of Naples, 1980-82, presents itself as a soft hive of colored blobs, blooming and twinkling in rows, against a dark ground. Lit windows? Strings of restaurant lights? A view from a terrace? Then more specific things appear: a pinkish vertical, another stage flat, turns into a stucco wall; a cobalt patch at the center, where the vanishing point would be if there were any perspective, resolves itself as a glimpse of sea; the S of creamy green paint that lights the whole painting with its contradictory glare, leaping against the more tentative and modulated speckling of the rest of the surface, is the wake of a speedboat, tracing its phosphorescent gesture on the night water.
There is a strongly private, autobiographical element in Hodgkin's work; it refers to friendships one does not know about, to conversations in rooms long since quitted. But it resists transmission as anecdote. "The picture," Hodgkin says firmly, "is instead of what happened. We don't need to know the story; generally the story's trivial anyway. The more people want to know the story, the less they'll look at the picture." Likewise, the paintings are full of references to other art, usually of a rather arcane sort. But they seem casually, even inattentively deployed, coming out not as formal homages to this or that master but as a function of temperament. Like Bonnard, whose work he reveres, Hodgkin is a fidgety peeper into secular paradises and controllable realms of pleasure. But as befits a painter who makes no bones about his belief in the continuity of past and present, part of the pleasure lies in the conversation between his work and its sources.
One of the main sources (a parallel text, as it were) is Indian miniature painting, of which he has long been a collector. The jeweled colors and flattened space of the court miniature, the way all natural detail is filtered by artifice, and above all the sense it provides of looking past the edge of the ordinary world into a privileged domain all this is echoed and modified in his own small paintings.
But such influences are melded into a wholly modernist idiom. Hodgkin does to the Indian miniature what Matisse did to Islamic decoration; the source is not simply quoted but also transformed. The miniaturist's precision of edge and line is replaced by a fuzzy, affable kind of formal system nursery toy versions, almost, of the sphere, cube and cylinder, those intimidating platonic solids of programmatic modernism. His pigment, however, has an extraordinary range of effect. His work sports in the transparency, density and sweet pastiness that only oil paint can give. Surfeited by color, twinkling with fields of dots (like enlarged details of a Seurat, betokening light), its casual surface can look clumsy; but that is only Hodgkin playing with the idea of clumsiness, extracting an educated pleasure from the babyish joys of daubing. In fact, his taste rarely fails, and his talent as a colorist is unsurpassed among living painters. Both place his paintings squarely in the tradition whose praises they modestly sing.
- From Robert Hughes, Nothing If Not Critical
Further reading on Howard Hodgkin:
- Howard Hodgkin Paintings, by Michael Auping
- Howard Hodgkin Large Paintings 1984-2002, by Robert Rosenblum
- Howard Hodgkin, by Andrew Graham-Dixon.
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Some Dummkopf broke into our garage earlier this week. Luckily, no one was hurt and there was minimum damage. It still really blows chunks.
The idea that someone took it upon themselves to break into our personal space, go through our things and help themselves really pissed me off.
I just keep telling myself that eventually their lifestyle choices will catch up to them. In the meantime, it was like CSI around our place. There detectives going door to door. Finger prints and foot prints were being processed and cataloged. The little man was able to speak with police officers and see a cruiser up close and not from the back seat or in the rear view mirror.
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I love saving money, but as a parent, I find it really hard to rein in my spending. There is always something; pre-school uniform, new shoes or just food to keep the cupboards full. So here's my top five books that have helped me save a few pounds here or there, and make being a parent a tiny bit less of a financial strain.
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Based on the popular TV show, this book is fab if you want to start cooking basic food from scratch. I found this book a life saver when I first had The Kid, as I never had to meal plan or even cut my costs before! This book is more than just a recipe book, trust me. It has lots of information including preparation, hygiene and integrates the modern way of storing food such as frozen, using and storing leftovers as well as how to sneak in your five a day.
This book took away the scare factor of cooking from scratch and meal planning, something that I think is vital when you're trying to save money!
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This book is my bible. It's a practical money saving guide for those of us with zero time. No sacrifices are needed, as Lewis gives simple advice on how to pay less for items you normally buy. The amount of research that has gone into this book is amazing; I can honestly say that we've saved a lot of money by doing some of the simple things that are suggested.
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Making the ONA conference MY ONA conference
Greetings from Chicago, where I'm hanging out for a bit after a whirlwind few days at the Online News Association conference in San Francisco! I had a fantastic time re-connecting with many of my friends and colleagues across the United States and the world. It was great to see so many of you.
In a typical conference wrap-up post, I like to write about the great sessions I attended, and what the panelists had to say. Just one problem. I DIDN'T ATTEND A SINGLE ONA PANEL AS AN ATTENDEE.
Hacking the typical panel structure
Wait, what??? Did you just slip away and tour San Francisco? Maybe hit up Fisherman's Wharf for the first time in a decade? No. Not quite.
I've been doing this journalism thing for three years now, and I don't really love the status quo. Last year, at this conference, Chicago Tribune developer Heather Billings and I held a session on Django and programming in a hallway, on the floor. We tried to pitch it as an official unconference, and lost by a slim margin. I still maintain it was one of my best ONA experiences. I learned about what the struggles were in the community. I felt like we really helped and encouraged some folks, on a much smaller scale than a larger session. I proposed two official unconferences this year, and was prepared to hold them both in the hallway. (One was voted in, and held in a room, and one wasn't, and we held it anyway.)
A few days before the conference, I learned there would be a new section called "The Midway", a large space with booths for awesome projects (including AP's Overview Project, which I should write about sometime), and large sprawling tables. Dear ONA, this MADE my conference! Thank you! To me, the main awesomeness here was — chairs in which to hold off-agenda sessions! No more sitting on the floor!
I've always said the strength of our community is the community. Panels are successful because of good people. When all those people are in one space, that is one of the greatest things about the conference. I love the official reasons for these get-togethers, but sometimes you get what you want, you must take what you want.
So, a new type of conference began for me. I would run into someone who wanted to know about how to brainstorm data stories, I'd pick a time, tweet it, and gather some quick examples. One of my official unconfs wasn't picked and I did the same thing. Some people couldn't make the time, I reran the session. When I wasn't running sessions in the midway, I would MEAN to head to a panel, but get caught in a side conversation. It literally NEVER ENDED.
Accessing panels after the fact
My friend Greg Linch streamed most of the sessions anyway, and I've been watching them now. While they're meaningful, I feel I got twice as much out of the conference. I feel a little distanced from the main sessions, but am okay with that. I wish I had attended Jen LaFleur's data session, the slides for which are unbelievably awesome, but that's just Jen being great. Also, I truly enjoyed soaking up Dave Wright's design presentation. But I am content accessing this content via video.
My point here, I guess, is that in journalism school — we're told to do things one way, and I didn't really listen. There is a default way to do things, and a way to push the envelope. USC professor Robert Hernandez will recommend you take control of your education. No one tells you that you must go to panels when you are at a conference, but we all do. Why not bust that system open?
A number of people come up to me and ask if they should learn programming, if they are doing it the right way. I'm trying to help all of you, but as with so much, you know what's even better than asking if you can do something? Just doing it.
Key learnings, even if vague
So, with this experience, what did I learn?
-Talking in small groups can be more effective than larger panels.
-A lot of us are struggling to figure out how to do this work.
-Often, we are given large datasets, but figuring out what the story is can be hard.
-We can and should do better at combining data and narrative.
-Heard amazing examples of how others combined data and narrative
–How to embrace crowdsourcing when it's useful, and how not to do it for a buzzword's sake (also brainstorming how to apply such principles across our system at AP)
-Using D3 with IE can be hard, and I learned about ten ways NOT to do it
Balancing hacking and embracing the system
Don't get me wrong, I love ONA. But I think our organization has a great struggle. The field of digital journalism is so incredibly broad right now. And I, even at my age, have fallen into a specialized niche. Not all the sessions can serve my needs at any time. I would love to see more mainstream coverage of various aspects of data and programming at the conference. And not just in unconference sessions, or as a separate paid pre-workshop. We are no supplementary sidecar!! So, while I try to help along, and yearn for, a new day, in the meantime there are two options. I could wait, or I could grab the opportunity by its head and take it on NOW. I chose the latter.
Next year, I want to find a happy medium — I do want to make it to some panels that I'm not speaking on, but will feel free to skip to have important convos/learnings/teachable moments. I'm still learning how to manage so much, including my conference attendance.
Conferences are really about education
The primary point of the mission is to pay it forward. AP's Social Media Editor Eric Carvin stopped me in a hallway and commented, "You're really in your element — you love to educate!" But, of course. I learn a bunch of stuff during the year, and ONA and NICAR are my opportunities to learn and share with you. That's what journalism is to me, a way to share knowledge with our readers and users, as we produce content, and with others, as we determine HOW to produce that content.
People of the Internets: Know this. Just because something is where it is, doesn't mean you can't make a difference now. In conferences or in your organizations. Because, to quote Apple's Think Different slogan, which hangs in my bedroom in my DC apartment:
"Here's to the crazy ones. The rebels. The troublemakers. The ones who see things differently. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."


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Cassettes Won't Listen Introduces Animal Collective to Cannibal Ox on New Mixtape
First The Grey Album, then Girl Talk, and now this. Bi-coastal producer Jason Drake (a.k.a. […]
First The Grey Album, then Girl Talk, and now this. Bi-coastal producer Jason Drake (a.k.a. Cassettes Won't Listen) prepared this meeting of seemingly disparate musical entities between studio sessions for his forthcoming new full-length album, and is now unleashing Animal Ox, a meeting of Animal Collective and Cannibal Ox. Whether this is a "hipster's wet dream" or not, the basis for the idea has interesting roots. To paraphrase the press release, Cannibal Ox's 2001 album, The Cold Vein, was a highly influential release that launched both El-P's group and label into the underground hip-hop spotlight when it came out. Hundreds of miles away at the same time, Animal Collective came together and started slowly climbing the ladder to indie stardom. Animal Ox joins the genre-defying nature of Animal Collective's discography with Cannibal Ox's singular opus in what Cassettes Won't Listen hopes is a respectful and interesting way—he's essentially paying homage to some of indie music's most unparalleled icons. Check out the album's artwork and tracklist below, and download the whole thing for free here.
01 A B-Boys Alpha
02 Battle For Asgard
03 The F-word
04 Vein
05 Real Earth
06 Raspberry Fields
07 Atom
08 Scream Phoenix
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This section provides practical advice for preparing for an imminent massive solar storm, one that is likely to produce a major blackout.
This preparation should help you get through the first few days of the crisis.
1. Extra Batteries – Obtain fresh batteries for flashlights and radios.
2. Gasoline – During a blackout the majority of service stations will be unable to pump gasoline because pumps are powered by electricity. Fill up all your vehicles (automobiles, trucks, motorcycles) with fuel. At the same time, fill up all your spare gas cans.
3. Cooking Fuel – During an electrical blackout, many of the appliances in your home including your cooking stove and range may become inoperative because most require electricity to operate. Determine your non-electric cooking options. For most individuals this will be an outdoor grill. Ensure that you have adequate supplies of charcoal for your outdoor grill along with matches and lighter fluid. If your grill runs off from propane, ensure that you have full propane tanks.
4. Prescription Medicine – Access to prescription medicine will be very limited during power blackouts because most pharmacies are very automated for logging and dispensing prescriptions. Those who have chronic conditions that require regular refilling of prescriptions should work with their doctor to obtain a 3-month supply of medicine prior to the onset of the massive geomagnetic storm.
5. Liquid Cash – A major electrical blackout can deprive individuals from access to their funds. Credit card processing, bank transactions, ATM machine withdrawals, electronic banking, check validation, payroll disbursement and even cash registers are dependent on the availability of electrical power.
This problem can be compounded by the loss of key satellites that form part of the conduit for transmitting financial data. Having available cash on hand can be extremely important during this type of crisis. Obtain funds in the form of cash or traveler's checks.
6. Water – The loss of electricity may affect city water pumps and water treatment plants that supply individuals with drinking water, along with water for washing dishes and clothes, flushing toilets, bathing and other household needs. Therefore it is important to store as much water as you are able prior to the onset of the geomagnetic storm. The least expensive water is right from the kitchen tap.
Fill up clean kitchen containers and available buckets with water. Fill up your bathtub with water. Bathtub water can
be used to flush toilets and for washing needs. At a bare minimum, you should have enough water to last for three days per person. Generally this will equate to one gallon of water per person per day. A fallback option is to buy bottled water from the stores.
7. Bleach – Access to clean drinking water may become a problem during a major blackout. Purchase several gallons of bleach for use in drinking water purification. Obtain only non-scented regular liquid bleach (such as Clorox) to disinfect water. Avoid purchasing bleach that contains perfumes, dyes, cleaners or other additives.
8. Food – Ensure you have adequate supplies of food available that does not require refrigeration or cooking (e.g. breads, peanut butter, jams, small tins of tuna fish etc.). These are foods that let you fix a decent meal without electricity.
9. Can Opener – If you have stocks of canned foods, ensure that you have a mechanical can opener available. Electric can openers will not work without electricity.
10. The Morning Commute – At the onset of an electrical blackout, most individuals will want to return home before nightfall. Their main obstacle will be global gridlock. Electric commuter trains and subways will grind to an immediate halt. Automobile, taxis and bus traffic in cities will be gridlocked due to inoperative traffic lights. Also the volume of pedestrian traffic will increase and spill over onto the streets further blocking motor vehicle traffic.
Tunnel managers will close down some traffic lanes within tunnels. Generally, tunnel ventilation systems require an extensive amount of electrical power and as a
result many are not connected to electrical backup system.
Therefore, tunnel operators will have to reduce the number of cars allowed through at any given time in order to minimize the threat of carbon monoxide poisoning. Without electricity, rail traffic will be affected by inoperative railroad crossing signals and railroad stations blackouts. In large cities, many commuters will face reality and simply decide to walk home with some traveling over 160 city blocks on their journey.
If you commute by subway, train, bus or taxi or if you live or work in tall buildings, then I recommend that you either wear or take along a pair of comfortable walking shoes or sneakers to work.
Also carry a flashlight, a couple bottles of water and a small portable radio.
Discuss the potential for an electrical blackout with your children and determine what course of action they should take during a major blackout. It may be difficult to pick up children from school or day care or even communicate with either the school or your children during a blackout.
Work with the school and provide them with written directions, if necessary.
11. Elevators – At the onset of an electrical blackout, people will be trapped in elevators, in underground mines, on roller coasters (some dangling from rides in midair), and inside commuter trains. (Some of these commuters will need to be evacuated from trains stopped in tunnels and between stations.
It can take more than 2 hours for transit workers and emergency personnel to reach some of these trains. Those stranded in tunnels may be in pitch blackness.)
As a general rule, I advise that individuals should not ride on elevators whenever there is a threat of a massive geomagnetic storm. If at all possible take the stairs. If an electrical power outage of this magnitude occurs, you may be stuck in a dark elevator for a very long time, cutoff from the outside world.
12. Airlines – Avoid flying during a massive solar storm with a similar intensity to the Great Solar Storm of 1859. If you chose to fly, you will expose yourself to higher levels of nuclear particle radiation and the electronics within the aircraft will also be subjected to greater failure rate due to this radiation exposure.
The solar storm will adversely affect aircraft communications and navigational signals. On top of this, a major blackout induced by a geomagnetic storm will severely affect operations at multiple airports over vast regions. Aircraft may fly at lower altitudes below 25,000 ft embedding their craft in the shielding afforded by the thicker lower atmosphere and alter their course away from Polar routes to minimize the radiation threat. But the magnitude of this type of solar storm is so great that the threat will be global.
So the question here is "How much do you value your life?" It is best to just avoid traveling by aircraft until the solar storm has run is course and avoid this unnecessary risk.
13. Communications – All types of communication (telephones, cell phones, radio transceivers, and television) may be down for awhile. So before you lose communication, call family and friends and let them know where you are and your plans should a major electrical power outage occur. Also try and hunt down a corded telephone that doesn't require electricity to be used as an emergency backup.
14. Radio – Battery powered or hand crank radios ar e a vital communication/ informational link during a major blackout.
If you don't own one, I recommend that you buy one. Hand crank radios will continue to operate during a long duration power outage; long after the battery died in other radios. There are a variety of hand crank radios on the market today to choose from.
15. Rechargeable Batteries – In a blackout, it is better to start out with a fully charged set of batteries. Charge all rechargeable batteries (e.g. cell phones, portable computers) that you might need during a blackout.
16. Disconnecting Power – Unplug home electronics (e.g. computers, televisions, radios, satellite receivers) as much as possible. Induced voltage spikes during geomagnetic storms may damage electronics. (Voltage transients have been the death of many pieces of electronics within my home.
As a result, I am a firm believer in voltage line conditioners/regulators.) It just makes common sense to unplug sophisticated electronics during an extreme solar storm.
If you live out in the country and use well water, then I strongly suggest that you also unplug the power line to the well pump. Deep wells make strong earth grounds and you don't want to take the chance of induced current burning up the pump electronics.
17. Automatic Backup Generators – Some homes, businesses and hospitals have fixed electrical backup generators. Ensure these generators are fully fueled and operational.
18. Aspirin – About 50 years of medical research has shown that geomagnetic storms directly correlate with an increase in heart attacks and strokes. Furthermore these effects appear to be concentrated among the elderly. Anyone over age 35 should take aspirin during the first week following a solar storm.
Unless you have a medical condition that restricts you from using aspirin, I think it may be beneficial to take an aspirin a day. The FDA has approved the use of aspirin to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in people who have had a heart attack, those who have suffered an ischemic stroke, and also those who have had either stable or unstable angina.
19. Buckets – Strong plastic buckets or pails can be very useful to haul water in the event an electrical blackout affects access to clean drinking water. Consider buying some if needed.
20. Vitamins – During a long duration blackout, access to the wide range of foods may become fairly restricted. Your diet may become stressed and deficient in important vitamins and minerals. I recommend purchasing a three month supply of multipurpose vitamins in preparation.
21. Toilet Paper – One day back in the 1970's, I stopped off at the grocery store on my way home from work. As I entered the store, I noticed something was amiss. The aisles of toilet paper were almost bare and there were a large number of elderly ladies with shopping carts filled with toilet paper in the checkout lane. When I returned to the car, I turned on the radio.
There was a report of a major shutdown at a toilet paper manufacturing facility which was leading to a run on toilet paper. The television news that night showed grannies in the checkout lane battling over rolls of toilet paper. The stories of the plant shutdown turned out to be only false rumors. And life returned back to normal.
Toilet paper is a luxury item that we take for granted. Who am I to argue with thousands of grannies who treat it as a staple of life! So in the run-up to a major blackout make sure that you have sufficient
22. Reading Books – During an extended blackout, you may have plenty of spare time on your hands. I would advise picking up a few good books to read or to read to your children. This may be a good family
bonding experience. Visit a nearby library or bookstore.
23. Pets – If you have pets, you might want to ensure that you have adequate supplies of pet food available.
24. Cold Weather – Imagine your house or apartment without electricity for weeks or months during the winter. In general, this will also equate to a lack of heat because most furnaces need electricity to operate.
In cold climates, during the winter months, this can present a major problem.
Individuals will need warm clothing during the day and warm bedding during the night. This may take the form of wearing multiple layers of clothing. If you are not prepared for this possibility, it may be important to obtain additional warm clothing, blankets (preferably down) or sleeping bags rated for the outdoor temperature range you might potential experience in your neck of the woods.
25. Garage Door – During a blackout, the electric garage door will no longer work. Know how to manually disengage the garage door opener. Hunt down the owner's manual if you need to or ask a neighbor for help. If you use the garage door as the main point of entry into your home, make sure you carry keys to your front door.
26. Aurora – Experience the power of a Great Aurora. It is definitely beyond a once in a lifetime event, a wonder to behold for both young and old. Expect an early appearance at dusk and then for it to die down but around 3 o'clock in the morning expect a really great explosion of fireworks to light up the sky. Don't miss it.
27. Power Grid – Several steps are currently employed to respond to moderate solar storms. These protective measures include disconnecting the links between power grids, desensitizing automatic control systems, reconfiguring to provide extra grounding, less switching, fewer large-scale power swaps, and delaying power station maintenance.
But these measures may be insufficient for a massive solar storm.
One other step may be needed called load shedding. It has become accepted and in some cases the preferred practice should be to shut down parts of the system to protect the whole system when there is a danger that operators might well lose the whole system.
Voluntary loading shedding can produce a major inconvenience, but it also protects all kinds of crucial equipment and makes the restoration of power much smoother and quicker.
If a massive solar storm approaches Earth, it seems logical to place most of our entire electrical infrastructure into a safe mode.
It is wiser to take down the power grid in an orderly controlled manner than to allow the grid to be subjected to two days of Geomagnetic Induced Current (GIC) abuse and damage.
This would necessitate major blackouts in this country but the damage from a planned blackout will be significantly less severe than suffering major transformer damage that might take years to recover and place back on-line.


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Gordon Adams
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Gordon Adams is a Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center and professor in the U.S. Foreign Policy program at the School of International Service, American University.
He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and, for seven years, a professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and director of the school's Security Policy Studies program. For five years he was associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, the senior White House budget official for national security. He has been an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.
Adams' most recent book (with Cindy Williams) is "Buying National Security: How America Plans and Pays for Its Global Role and Security at Home" (Routledge 2010). He has published books, monographs and articles on defense and national security policy, the defense policy process and national security budgets. He appears regularly in the media and has testified numerous times before the Congress on defense spending and national security issues. He writes regularly for the National Journal, Foreign Policy and The Will and the Wallet.
Selected Publications
Buying National Security: How America Plans and Pays for Its Global Role and Safety at Home (Routledge Press, 2010) - with Cindy Williams
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "Afghanistan and Pakistan: The Graveyard for U.S. Foreign Policy Planning?" October 2009.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "Strategic Planning Comes to the State Department" July 2009.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "Budgeting for national security" June 2009.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "Evaluating the Obama adminstration's national security budget and planning process" April 2009.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "Obama's test: Bringing order to the national security policy process" January 2009
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "Stablizing US stablization and reconstruction efforts abroad" October 2008.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "Establishing the Next President's National Security Agenda: Part 1" June 2008.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "Getting U.S. Foreign Assistance Right" May 2008.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "The True Cost of U.S. Defense Spending" April 2008.
American Security Project, "Iraq: Lessons Learned," February 2008.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "New Funds for Foreign Aid," February 2008.
Strengthening Statecraft and Security: Reforming U.S. Planning and Resource Allocation (MIT Security Studies Program, 2008) - with Cindy Williams
Transforming European Militaries: Coalition Operations and the Technology Gap (with Guy Ben-Ari), London: Routledge Press, 2006.
Foreign Service Journal, "Fear vs. Hope: America and Global Security," June 2005.


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Alaska's Inside Passage is one of the coldest places on the earth, so it's a surprise to find the abundance of wildlife that calls this place home.
Here are Quentin Long's faves, which he spotted cruising on Lindblad's National Geographic Seabird.
1. Sea Otters
These animals have to eat 35 per cent of their entire body weight a day. To achieve this considerable task they will use a rock tucked into the folds of their fur to bash open shellfish or clams. And they're great parents: they blow air into their young's fur to make sure they are buoyant and can float while they go off and dive for food.
2. Pacific wren
This tiny bird (not related to our Australian wrens that I am reliably informed are not 'true wrens') has the most complex bird song in the world. In its nine-second song it hits more than 200 different notes.
3. Common murre
These birds look a bit like a flying penguin. What makes them peculiar is that they don't build nests, but lay eggs on the cliff edge; their eggs have evolved a pointy shape to make them roll in tight circles so as to lessen the threat of rolling off a cliff. Even more astonishing is that the shell has tiny Velcro-like hooks that help to stabilise it on a precarious ledge.
4. Killer whales
There are two species in the Inside Passage, the 'Resident' and 'Transient' or Bigg's. The Resident eats mostly fish, has larger pods of about 20 to 30 with a complex language system that means different pods of Resident killer whales would not understand each other. The Bigg's killer whales' diet, meanwhile, is made up of sea mammals and the pod size is far smaller – about four to eight animals. They have a far simpler language system and do not vocalise very much.
5. Sunflower seastar
Not quite the largest star fish in the world, it is still pretty huge reaching one metre in diameter and can have up to 30 arms.
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