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Let's face it: The grid can be unreliable. Evergreen, Colo.-based Research Reports International estimates that nearly 20% of underground transmission is more than 30 years old, and overhead lines are constantly compromised by extreme temperatures, the weight of ice, and strong winds and storms. Overburdening during peak hours causes periodic voltage swings, frequency changes, and intermittent outages due to brownouts. Even more alarming, the National Electricity Reliability Council predicts that more than 35 states will be operating with capacity margins less than 10% by 2009.
All of these conditions can cause costly downtime for commercial businesses, manufacturing, and industry. Energy Power Research Institute, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based independent, nonprofit center, estimates that U.S. businesses lose up to $30 billion a year from power interruptions. In addition, researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., report that electrical power outages and blackouts cost the nation close to $80 billion a year, with the commercial sector accounting for $57 billion of the total, and the industrial sector accounting for almost $20 billion.
It's no wonder the sale of power quality products is on the rise. In fact, Norwalk, Conn.-based Business Communications Company, Inc., predicts that the U.S. market value of major power quality-related products is poised to jump from $3.8 billion in 2000 to $7.1 billion through 2006, an average annual growth rate of 11% — with uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems comprising the bulk of that revenue. Palo Alto, Calif.-based industry research analyst firm Frost & Sullivan projects that revenue from the sales of UPS systems will grow from $5.29 billion in 2001 to $6.29 billion by 2007.
UPS systems provide a finite source of electrical power to support selected critical loads during a loss of normal power. Their backup times range from seconds to hours, or at least enough time to switch over to an on-site generator in the case of extended outages. Most UPS systems generate independent power with the use of batteries, but recent breakthroughs in energy storage technology and renewable resources may change that in the future. For the last decade, designers and manufacturers have been working to reduce the cost, maintenance, and footprint, as well as increase the energy density, of battery alternatives, such as flywheels, compressed-air systems, and ultracapacitors. Compatible with most energy generation and consumption systems, including renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, these devices can be used to ensure good power quality, as well as store energy during times of low demand, thus helping reduce power system loads by providing off-grid energy during peak demand.
"The two biggest problems that customers tell us they have with batteries is reliability and cost," says Joe Pinkerton, chairman and CEO of Austin, Texas-based Active Power. "In 3-phase UPS markets, in essence, you're putting a minimum of 40 car batteries in series — any one of which goes down bringing the whole thing down — so the mean time between failure is really measured in months."
Reliable battery performance depends heavily on adequate maintenance. Lack of proper maintenance may lead to premature replacement and high lifecycle costs. However, there is some resistance to the leap from batteries to the use of these other devices. Facilities managers and engineers are comfortable with battery-based systems and may have a difficult time justifying the change in power quality products to their management. "No one ever really lost their job because they replaced a room full of batteries again," says Mike Everett, chief technology officer for San Diego-based Maxwell Technologies. However, given time and further improvements in technology, newer power quality products may one day replace battery-based systems altogether.
Batteries included. Since their introduction in the mid-19th century, batteries have been the most commonly used devices for storing electrical energy. Of all battery types, the most frequently used is lead-acid, made up of plates, lead, and lead oxide submerged in a 35% sulfuric acid and 65% water electrolyte solution, which is the catalyst for the chemical reaction that produces electrons. Similar to lead-acid, flow batteries also use an electrolyte solution, which is stored in external containers — as large as needed and placed where most convenient to the end-user — and circulated through the battery cell stack.
Variations to the lead-acid design are valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA) batteries, which are sealed and don't require topping off with water, and gel-type lead-acid batteries, filled with a gel instead of liquid, making spilled battery acid a less likely occurrence. Advanced battery technologies include lithium-ion, lithium polymer, nickel metal hydride, and sodium sulfur. These battery types have a much smaller footprint than their lead-acid counterparts, but currently are typically too expensive for large-scale cell applications.
Batteries require frequent maintenance and safety checks, as well as room for their footprint, depending on how much energy needs to be stored. For example, the average telecom application requires multiple redundant strings of 24 cells, but a data center uses batteries in 240-cell strings, so the risk of failure is high because failure of any one battery cell brings the entire string down. Premature failure can also result from heavy cycling loads and fast rates of charge and discharge. Lead-acid batteries also require proper disposal and recycling due to their lead content.
It's these drawbacks that provide the impetus for alternative devices for energy storage. However, batteries are in no danger of becoming obsolete any time soon. "Wherever you need long-term energy, a battery is going to find a home," Everett says.
It's with this in mind that most designers and manufacturers have engineered their new products to be compatible with the traditional power quality standby or to replace them only on a case-by-case basis.
The "mechanical battery.". One technology used to either extend the life of batteries or altogether replace them is the modern flywheel. (See sidebar below.) The earliest flywheels, such as the potter's wheel, have been in existence for thousands of years. The devices have also been a part of engine designs for hundreds of years. Since the late 1990s, modern flywheels became a commercially viable device for overriding momentary voltage and frequency changes, as well as bridging energy sources — from grid to backup generator — during extended power outages. Used in parallel with VRLA batteries, flywheels can "harden" battery banks, taking hits from the short-term discharges and step loads, thus extending battery life.
The relatively short backup times have put flywheels in a specific position within the power quality field. They are most successful in applications, such as manufacturing, where customers want a reliable transfer of the critical load to the backup genset. But even in these "bridge" applications, some customers feel more comfortable keeping their batteries. "At the end of the day they still need to report to their management and make sure that they made wise choices," says Jean-Philippe Poirrier, director of marketing at Chatsworth, Calif.-based Pentadyne.
Poirrier agrees that there are two types of customers for flywheels: end-users who use flywheels to extend the life of their battery systems and those who use the flywheels as a bridge to their genset. "If it's really critical, you are going to have gensets," he says.
If you have a genset, you only need about 10 seconds for a seamless transition. Because of this, the objective for flywheel R&D isn't necessarily extending the device's storage times. According to Poirrier, customers with gensets are realizing that a full 15 to 30 minutes of bridge time isn't necessary. They are the first group to forge ahead without batteries. The flywheel's current run time is sufficient to bridge the gap between an outage and switching to a genset.
Replacing batteries with a flywheel that has a significantly smaller footprint also makes a lot of sense. "When you get a facility manager that can report to the top management, 'You know guys, we can rearrange the setup and recover footprint space,' that rings a bell for people who need expansion but don't have means to go someplace right away," Poirrier says.
Running hot and cold. There are facilities, such as mid-sized data centers, that don't see the need to invest in an on-site generator for backup power. In the absence of a genset, the typical flywheel storage time isn't adequate to ride out longer power outages. Finding it impossible to build a bigger flywheel or concoct a system out of several flywheels to extend the run-time to 15 minutes — the equivalent of a battery system — designers at Active Power came up with the thermal and compressed-air storage (TACAS) system, combining elements of both the flywheel and compressed-air energy storage. (See sidebar below.) "Customers were demanding it," says Pinkerton. "We pounded our heads for several years trying to figure out a way to provide them what they wanted."
The system can compete minute-for-minute with batteries, but without the hazardous materials or environmental issues associated with the acid and lead contained in batteries. A single module can provide up to 15 minutes of backup power at full load or can be configured to provide up to several hours for lighter loads. The cool-air system also has an added advantage for datacom applications.
"We're working on a device that will literally measure the temperature of the room that it's in, and if it senses that things are getting hot, it can create more and more cool air," says Pinkerton. "Even to the extreme that if it's supporting an 80kW load, it literally can produce enough cold air to absorb 80kW of heat during the discharge."
Currently, the base product provides 85kW, so it's used mostly in commercial applications. In the future, there may be a 10kW version, which could possibly be used in residential applications or — the more probable scenario — in the telecom industry. But the R&D won't stop there. With the relatively new product — the beta units shipped in the last year — there are many avenues to explore. "You could go up in power," Pinkerton says. "It might be cost-effective if we develop a 1MW system that could be applied both to backup power and to these utility load leveling applications where people want to store cheap energy at night and deliver it during peak demand times in the afternoon. So it's go up in power, go down in power, and add features."
Burst power. Supercapacitors, or ultracapacitors, are considered power devices, whereas batteries are energy devices. Power devices are most frequently used in applications that require burst power, or burst energy — strong, short spurts of energy to get you through a step load or bridge power to a generator startup. (See sidebar below.) The devices also can be suitable partners to batteries by taking hits from surges, thus extending the life of the batteries.
"An ultracapacitor module that's built around a 48V telecom central office station can provide up to a minute and a half of backup power while you transition from the grid to the microturbines or gas generators," says Mawell Technologies' Everett. "It can replace a room full of batteries."
The most convincing selling points of ultracapacitors are a lifecycle lasting 10 to 15 years and little to no maintenance because they're hermetically sealed; not allowing air or water in or out. Theoretically, ultracapacitors may be charged and discharged millions of times, compared to a mere thousands of times for batteries. In addition, ultracapacitors have a low-temperature operating capability — as low as -40°C, which makes them ideal for harsh environments.
Other than adoption, the biggest challenge for ultracapacitor manufacturers right now is cost. "We're all working hard to get the cost of these devices down to where any manufacturer in any market won't think twice about using them," Everett says. "Only in the last five years have ultracapacitors started to come down in cost for manufacturers to build them — and down enough in price to find a way into applications."
The second motivation for ultracapacitor designers and manufacturers is to improve the energy density of the devices. Energy density for ultracapacitors is measured in similar terms as batteries: You want to get higher voltage capability out of the capacitors. Currently, ultracapacitors are limited to 2.7V operation. For a 15V system, designers and engineers have to put six ultracapacitors in series. So the cost of system implementations is also directly proportional to the operating voltage.
"The facility managers need to be attuned to the fact that it's a lifecycle cost asset rather than a short-term cost benefit," Everett says.
But facilities and plant managers may have deeper-rooted reasons against replacing their batteries. "There are historical reasons why people are reluctant to adopt a new technology," says Everett. "Lead-acid battery backup systems have been around forever. If they put some ultracapacitors in there, they're taking a risk. So it's really a kind of a risk adversity that's the stumbling block between adoption and the choice not to."
Sidebar: Building a Better Flywheel
Flywheels are cylinders that spin at high speeds, storing kinetic energy. The faster the flywheel spins, the more energy it retains. Energy can be drawn off as needed by slowing the flywheel. They can be combined with a device that operates either as an electric motor that accelerates the flywheel to store energy or as a generator that produces electricity from the energy stored in the flywheel. Flywheels can discharge their power either slowly or quickly, allowing them to serve as backup power systems for low-power applications or as short-term power quality support for high-power applications. They are relatively temperature insensitive, take up little space, have lower maintenance requirements than batteries, and are durable. You are also able to predict with accuracy the amount of energy remaining in the system.
High-speed flywheels (25,000 rpm to 80,000 rpm), use composite rotors made with carbon-fiber materials. The rotors have a very high strength-to-density ratio and rotate in a vacuum chamber to minimize aerodynamic losses. The use of superconducting electromagnetic bearings can virtually eliminate energy losses through friction. Once charged, the discs will spin, without losing any energy to friction, almost indefinitely. A power electronic rectifier/inverter, necessary to correct the large volume swing at the generator terminals over the speed range, is connected at the output of the generator. At this point, the energy is injected into the DC link circuit of the system.
Low-speed flywheels (2,000 rpm to 10,000 rpm) are made of steel and use conventional bearings with magnetic support, which is used to support the rotor weight. Only a partial vacuum is necessary to maintain low frictional losses. These losses, combined with the excitation losses, result in a float charge that's roughly double that of typical high-speed storage systems. Low-speed flywheels use either a single-stage insulated gate bipolar transistor or a rectifier/inverter for power transfer, which can be used to correct for changing rotational frequency. Some flywheels operate with an induction or mechanical coupling instead of this DC interface, which must compensate for this through power electronics that act as a 3-phase exciter winding in the generator.
Sidebar: Building a Better Compressed-Air Energy Storage System
Compressed-air energy storage (CAES) is a hybrid storage/power-production system. Off-peak electricity is used to power a motor/generator that drives compressors to force air into an underground storage reservoir, such as a rock cavern or abandoned mine. When the demand for electric power peaks, the process is reversed. The compressed air is returned to the surface, heated by natural gas in combustors, and run through high-pressure and low-pressure expanders to power the motor/generator/turbine to produce electricity.
As of mid-2004, only two CAES plants have been completed and placed in operation. One limitation is that the system requires an unused empty salt dome, aquifer, or abandoned mine. In addition, the system is not self-contained but depends on a pipeline to supply natural gas for the combustion chamber. Because of these disadvantages, installation has only been attempted on utility-scale generating plants, typically over 100MW.
The thermal and compressed-air storage (TACAS) system overrides the limitations of the CAES system by combining thermal and flywheel technology. Compressed air and thermal energy drive an expansion turbine for long-duration outages while a small flywheel system gives instantaneous response to step loads and short outages. Compressed air is stored in conventional gas cylinders or pressure vessels at 4500 psi or more. The air is then routed through a thermal storage unit, a stainless steel core maintained at 1300°F, to transfer heat to the to compressed air. The heated air spins a turbine-alternator to produce electric power. Air that exits this turbine is below room temperature and can be used to cool the protected load. Tanks that store the compressed air become cold during discharge, absorbing heat from the ambient environment and ultimately converting the heat into additional backup power. The system is self-contained — no connection to a combustible gas source — and has a 20-year life expectancy.
Sidebar: Building a Better Supercapacitor
Supercapacitors, also known as ultracapacitors, are electrochemical storage devices that work like large versions of common electrical capacitors. Unlike batteries, they store energy in an electrostatic field rather than in chemical form. The energy is stored as a charge or concentration of electrons on the surface of a material. They are capable of fast charges and discharges and can typically be recharged hundreds of thousands of times. Their power is only available for a short duration, and their self-discharge rate is much higher than with batteries. In power systems, they are most likely used as bridging power sources for UPS systems.
To charge the ultracapacitor, you add electrons to the carbon layer. One of the electrons becomes positively charged, and one becomes negatively charged. The ions migrate through the separator to their respective spots. When you discharge the capacitor, they all move back the other way.
The devices consist of two electrodes made from a conductive alloy containing metal oxides, carbons, and conducting polymers; a separator; and an electrolyte, which can be solid state, organic, or aqueous, depending on the type of application. The separator is a membrane that allows mobility to charged ions but restricts electronic conductance. This is rolled into a double layer called a "jellyroll," and then placed into an enclosure. The size of the jellyroll depends on how much energy is going to be stored in the device. If the ultracapacitor cell measures 3,000 farads, the jellyroll will be approximately 4 inches long by 3 inches in diameter.
Like a battery, the operating voltage of a cell is about 1.3V to 2.5V. By combining parallel strings of supercapacitors, hundreds of volts can be achieved. Because of their chemical inertness, expected performance vs. reasonable cost, and technical maturity, the device shows promise for industrial applications.


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Rockslide on I-70 causes major traffic delays
September 13, 2013
Craig — A rockslide occurred late Thursday on Interstate 70 near Exit 167, causing closures on the road that lasted until about 11 a.m. Friday.
Two hundred tons of rocks crashed into the roadway and crews will work throughout the day to ensure the safety of the road by removing debris and doing rock-scaling activities.
At about 10:30 a.m., only one lane of eastbound and westbound I-70 between U.S. Highway 6 and Hidden Valley is open with all traffic running on the eastbound lanes, according to a press release. Traffic on westbound I-70 at Beaver Brook is being detoured to the U.S. 6 exit where they will be routed onto eastbound I-70. This configuration will be in place until the rock scaling on westbound I-70 is complete.
In addition, motorists on eastbound and westbound I-70 between Beaver Brook and Hidden Valley can expect intermittent 20-minute traffic stops for the scaling operations, according to the release. Crews will close I-70 for 20 minutes at a time for scaling operations and then reopen the highway for 20 minutes to clear traffic. Due to the unpredictable conditions, it is unknown how long the scaling will take. Major delays are expected. If motorists must travel, alternate routes such as U.S. Highway 285 are strongly advised.
"We believe we're going to be opening one lane in each direction at the Beaver Creek exit," said Colorado Department of Transportation Public Relations Officer Emily Wilfong.

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Technical disputes over minor, marginal issues conducted while more serious ones are being overlooked. The implied image is of people arguing over what color to paint the bicycle shed while the house is not finished. (jargon file)
I'm not pointing fingers as I get sucked into those discussions just like everyone else, but the bikeshedding-to-action ratio is fabulously high.
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In this article, you will find:
- Standing your ground
- More than saying "No!"
- Over using the 'No' tactic
- Redirecting baby's attention
Over using the 'No' tactic
Ain't Misbehavin'
Another reason to avoid explicitly punishing your baby is that his misbehavior, strictly speaking, is seldom really misbehavior. Although throwing food might warrant punishment in an older child, for example, an infant cannot help doing it. A preschooler knows what will happen when he drops or throws mashed potatoes on the floor; an infant has to do it to find out.
Similarly, most actions that your infant takes that might deserve punishment later are things that he cannot help doing now. Your baby is becoming increasingly curious. He wants to explore his world and experiment with the objects in it. That's how he learns about the world.
If your baby bites you or pulls your hair, he doesn't intend to hurt you. He does it because he wants to discover more about you, just as he explores the other objects in his world. How does he find out about a new toy? He grabs it, pulls it, pokes it, scratches it, bangs it, kicks it, and bites it. When he does this to another person, don't assume the worst. He wasn't being mean-spirited. He was just being a baby. And punishing a baby just because he behaves like a baby isn't fair.
"No!": Don't Overuse It
Once your baby has begun to crawl, she needs the opportunity to explore her environment. Exploring and acquiring knowledge adds to her growing independence and confidence. But to make the most of these adventures, she needs the freedom to roam (within limits, of course) wherever her interests take her. She needs to be able to make discoveries and experiment with the objects in her world on her own.
Without intending to do so, you can easily douse the flame of your baby's passion for exploration and discovery. All you need to do is say "No!" 20 or 30 times a day. Saying "No!" discourages your child from exploring her environment, or at least parts of it.
The more often you use the word "No!", the less effective it becomes. Your baby will quickly tire of hearing that word all the time, and it will lose its shock value. Your child may end up ignoring your repeated prohibitions.
Beware of turning "No!" into a game, which it can easily become if you overuse the word. If your baby starts to challenge your authority, you may admire her spunk, but try not to let her see your admiration. Your baby needs to know that this is serious business, that you only say, "No!" when you mean it. For all of these reasons, try to use "No!" only for the most serious offenses--those that represent an immediate danger to your baby or to others (and perhaps to your property as well).
Constantly saying "No!" not only discourages your infant from exploring her world and gradually strips the word of its effectiveness, it may also damage your baby's sense of security, acceptance, and self-confidence. To your baby, displeasing you feels dangerous. Your baby naturally equates any expression of disapproval on your part with rejection. This sense of rejection, in turn, heightens any abandonment fears she already has.
So do whatever you can to cut down on the number of times you say "No!" to your baby. Whenever you do say it, make sure to follow up your expression of disapproval with expressions of warmth and affection. Comfort your child, who may be devastated at the thought of having done something wrong (although she may not quite understand what she did). Above all, emphasize that even when you get angry at her, even when you don't like what she's doing, you still love her.
Infants, thoroughly anchored in the present moment, often have a hard time realizing that someone can shout at them and still love them. Your baby does not yet know this fact through either instinct or experience. Because she cannot separate a person from his or her behavior, you have to show her how to do it.


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John Winthrop, (born January 22 [January 12, Old Style], 1588, Edwardstone, Suffolk, England—died April 5 [March 26], 1649, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony [U.S.]), first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the chief figure among the Puritan founders of New England.
Background and early life
Winthrop's father was a newly risen country gentleman whose 500-acre (200-hectare) estate, Groton Manor, had been bought from Henry VIII at the time of the Reformation. Winthrop thus belonged to a class—the gentry—that became the dominant force in English society between 1540 and 1640, and he early assumed the habit of command appropriate to a member of the ruling class in a highly stratified society.
At age 15 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. At age 17 he married the first of his four wives—Mary Forth, daughter of an Essex squire—and the next year the first of his 16 children was born. Like many members of his class, Winthrop studied law, served as justice of the peace, and obtained a government office; from 1627 to 1629 he was an attorney at the Court of Wards and Liveries. For more than 20 years Winthrop was primarily a country squire at Groton, with no discernible interest in overseas colonization.
He was an ardently religious person. From his early teens Winthrop threw himself into scriptural study and prayers, and gradually he trained himself into a full-fledged Puritan, convinced that God had elected him to salvation—or, in Puritan terms, to "sainthood." His religious experience reinforced his elitist outlook, but it also made him a social activist. Like other prominent Puritans, Winthrop dedicated himself to remaking, as far as possible, the wicked world as he saw it, arguing that "the life which is most exercised with tryalls and temptations is the sweetest, and will prove the safeste."
During the late 1620s, Winthrop felt increasingly trapped by the economic slump that reduced his landed income and by Charles I's belligerent anti-Puritan policy, which cost him his court post in 1629. When, in 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Company obtained a royal charter to plant a colony in New England, Winthrop joined the company, pledging to sell his English estate and take his family to Massachusetts if the company government and charter were also transferred to America. The other members agreed to these terms and elected him governor (October 20).
Journey to America
As Winthrop sailed west on the Arbella in the spring of 1630, he composed a lay sermon, "A Modell of Christian Charity," in which he pictured the Massachusetts colonists in covenant with God and with each other, divinely ordained to build "a Citty upon a Hill" in New England, with "the eyes of all people" on them:
If we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world; we shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God and all believers in God; we shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us, till we are forced out of the new land where we are going.
Some critics have seen Winthrop as a visionary utopian while others have seen him as a social reactionary, but most obviously he was urging his fellow colonists to adopt the combination of group discipline and individual responsibility that gave Massachusetts such immediate and lasting success as a social experiment.
For the remaining 19 years of his life, Winthrop lived in the New England wilderness, a father figure among the colonists. In the annual Massachusetts elections he was chosen governor 12 times between 1631 and 1648, and during the intervening years he sat on the court of assistants or colony council. His American career passed through three distinct phases. On first arrival, in the early 1630s, he did his most creative work, guiding the colonists as they laid out a network of tightly organized towns, each with its church of self-professed saints. Winthrop himself settled at Boston, which quickly became the capital and chief port of Massachusetts. His new farm on the Mystic River was much inferior to his former estate at Groton, but Winthrop never regretted the move, because he was free at last to build a godly commonwealth.
Opposition against him built up after a few years, however, as dissidents kept challenging Winthrop's system in the mid- and late 1630s. He was nettled when the freemen (voters) insisted in 1634 on electing a representative assembly to share in decision making. He found Roger Williams's criticism of church-state relations intolerable, though he secretly helped Williams to flee to Rhode Island in 1636. And he took it as a personal affront when numerous colonists chose to migrate from Massachusetts to Connecticut.
Conflict with Anne Hutchinson
The greatest outrage to Winthrop by far, however, came when Anne Hutchinson, a mere woman, gained control of his Boston church in 1636 and endeavoured to convert the whole colony to a religious position that Winthrop considered blasphemous. It was he who led the counterattack against her. His victory was complete. Hutchinson was tried before the general court—chiefly for "traducing the ministers"—and was sentenced to banishment.
Winthrop wrote about the event in his journal in 1637:
The Court…charged her with diverse matters, as her keeping two public lectures every week in her house…and for reproaching most of the ministers (viz., all except Mr. Cotton) for not preaching a covenant of free grace, and that they had not the seal of the Spirit, nor were able ministers of the New Testament; which were clearly proved against her….And, after many speeches to and fro, at last she…vented her revelations; among which…that she had it revealed to her that she should come into New England, and should here be persecuted [presented], and that God would ruin us and our posterity, and the whole state, for the same. So the Court proceeded and banished her.
Later Hutchinson was tried before the Boston church and formally excommunicated. She established a settlement on Aquidneck Island (now Rhode Island) in 1638 and four years later, after the death of her husband, settled on Long Island Sound. Winthrop sanctimoniously noted her tragic misfortunes—her deformed stillborn baby and her murder by Indians—as proof of God's judgment against heretics.
By 1640 Winthrop had become the custodian of Massachusetts orthodoxy, suspicious of new ideas and influences and convinced that God favoured his community above all others. In 1641 Winthrop went against the recent trend of accepting Native Americans and Africans into the church (an outgrowth of the Great Awakening) and helped write the Massachusetts Body of Liberties, the first legal sanctioning of slavery in North America. Indeed, Winthrop owned at least one Native American slave, taken during the Pequot War (1636–37). (As slavery grew in New England, it was more typical for Native American slaves to be sent to the West Indies, where they were exchanged for enslaved Africans.) With the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, many New Englanders returned home to fight against Charles I. Winthrop, however, stayed in America, and he criticized the course of the Puritan Revolution. His own political philosophy was best summed up in a speech of 1645, in which he defined the magistrates' authority very broadly and the people's liberty very narrowly.
But Winthrop was never a petty tyrant, and the colonists respected and loved him to the end. His tender side is best revealed by the loving letters he exchanged with his third wife, Margaret, who was his helpmate from 1618 to 1647. The most notable of his sons, John Winthrop the Younger (1606–76), was a talented scientist and governor of Connecticut. Later descendants have figured prominently in American politics, science, and business.
After struggling six weeks with "a feverish distemper," he died, age 61, in the spring of 1649. By force of character Winthrop had persuaded the colonists to adopt many—though by no means all—of his pet social and political ideas. The detailed journal that he kept during his years in America is a prime source for the early history of Massachusetts, and his copious file of correspondence and memoranda gives an exceptionally full impression of his activities and personality.Richard S. Dunn


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Vancouver Whitecaps FC Blogger C-Mac is back with his matchday preview between the Seattle Sounders FC vs. Whitecaps FC in the first game of the Cascadia Cup series. With Eric Hassli in his best form of the season, highlighted by two spectacular goals in the past two weeks, Vancouver can feel confident striding into this game. Fredy Montero will be the one to watch for Sounders FC.
MLS Matchup Report: Seattle Sounders vs. Vancouver Whitecaps
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By Ben Jervey • Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 07:23
Earlier this month, John Cook of Skeptical Science and his team of volunteers at the Consensus Project released the latest definitive study of global warming scientific consensus, revealing that 97 percent of peer-reviewed papers with a clear view on the subject agree that global warming is occurring and that humans are the primary cause.
Ever since, we've seen the predictable pushback from fossil fuel industry apologists and climate deniers.
The loudest response comes from the Alberta-based Friends of Science, a shadowy non-profit with a history of Canadian oil company ties, which DeSmogBlog has covered extensively over the years.
Friends of Science Challenge the Cook Study for Bandwagon Fear Mongering on Climate Change and Global Warming
Detailed analysis shows that only 0.5% (65 of the 12,000 abstracts rated) suggest that humans are responsible for more than 50% of the global warming up to 2001, contrary to the alleged 97% consensus amongst scientists in the Cook et al study. Citing fear mongering and faulty methodology Friends of Science reject the study and President Obama's tweet as careless incitement of a misinformed and frightened public, when in fact the sun is the main driver of climate change; not human activity or carbon dioxide (CO2).
Friends of Science hasn't responded to DeSmog's inquiries about their methodology, and how they came up with that 65 paper number. But we do know a lot about Friends of Science's history and how they've long been closely connected to the fossil fuel industry, including tar sands giant Talisman Energy.
Six years ago, the organization came under intense scrutiny and criticism as it was revealed that its largest donor was Talisman Energy, funneling money through a since-shuttered "Science Education Fund" at the University of Calgary in order to work with then APCO flack and Heartland-tied Tom Harris on a disinformation video that was later condemned by the University.
The SourceWatch profile of Friends of Science explains the origins of the organization, as well as its dubious funding, in great depth. Similarly, Canadian journalist Mike de Souza has explored the connections between Alberta oil interests and Friends of Science.
(Also see Richard Littlemore's post about de Souza's reporting here on DeSmogBlog.)
For the past half decade, it has proven increasingly difficult to identify the main sources of Friends of Science funding, though their newsletters and website claim that the majority of funds are raised through private donations and supporting memberships.
For what it's worth, that 65 paper figure is gaining traction in the deniersphere. ClimateDepot links prominently to a similar assessment by Brandon Schollenberger.
The problem with these evaluations is that Schollenberger and Friends of Science (assuming they used the same methodology to get the same number) only count the papers if the abstracts (not the body of the paper) explicitly state that "that human activity is a dominant influence or has caused most of recent climate change."
Skeptical Science and the Consensus Project were prepared for these types of gripes. From the FAQ of the study:
What is the significance of the papers that express no position on human-caused global warming?
Naomi Oreskes predicted in 2007 that as human-caused global warming became settled science, fewer papers would see the need to explicitly endorse the consensus. For example, no research papers on geography currently need to state that the Earth is round. Our results confirm this prediction: As the field progresses, scientists feel less and less need to waste the valuable real estate of the paper's abstract with an affirmation of settled science.
Moreover, most of papers that expressed "no position" in the abstract went on to endorse the consensus in the full paper. We determined this by asking scientists to rate the level of endorsement of their own papers - a way of rating the full paper rather than just the abstract. More than half of the papers that were rated as "no position" based on their abstract were self-rated as endorsing the consensus.
And while we're here, it's worth taking a closer look at the Consensus Project methodology, especially in terms of how each abstract was rated by 24 volunteers, and many climate scientist authors who self-rated their work.
How did you independently check your results?
Nobody is more qualified to judge a paper's intent than the actual scientists who authored the paper. To provide an independent measure of the level of consensus, we asked the scientists who authored the climate papers to rate the level of endorsement of their own papers. Among all papers that were self-rated as expressing a position on human-caused warming, 97.2% endorsed the consensus. This result is consistent with our abstract ratings, which found a 97.1% consensus.
We adopted several methodologies to eliminate the potential of bias in our abstract ratings. We developed a strict methodology (see the Supplementary Material for more details) specifying how to categorise each abstract. In addition, each abstract was rated by at least two separate raters, with any conflicts resolved by a third reviewer.
The entire database of 12,464 papers is available in the Supplementary Material. We have also published all our abstract ratings, which are also available via a search form. However, we have not published individual self-ratings from the authors of the papers as the "self-rating survey" was conducted under the promise of confidentiality for all participants.
We have also created an Interactive Rating System, encouraging people to rate the papers themselves and compare their ratings to ours. We welcome criticism of our work and we expect that further scrutiny will improve the reliability of our results. By encourage more interaction, we hope people will come to appreciate the diversity and richness of climate research.
So if you happen to read in some contrarian headline somewhere that "only 65" of the papers in Cook's 97-percent study really confirmed manmade global warming, consider the source.
Feelings... Nothing more than Feelings..
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The public are largely goldfish in a bowl,who learned nothing after the smoking debates and simply cannot recognise product defense when they see it.
lara jorgensen replied on Permalink
Not one word about the Climate scientists who contacted John Cook to say that their papers were misrepresented in this study??
Yes, that's balanced reporting =/ Thank you Desmog!
caerbannog666 replied on Permalink
Not one word about the Climate scientists who contacted John Cook to say that their papers were misrepresented in this study??
And what climate scientists might those be? (Aside from one economist who didn't bother to read the methodology documentation very carefully…)
lara jorgensen replied on Permalink
A partial list...
Here is a partial list of scientists. I'm sure some of the names (ie; Willie Soon, for instance) will draw howls from the Desmog faithfull, haha!
Please understand; John Cook and Dana Nuticelli are about as fringe as you can get on the warmist side of the Climate battle. I would put them right up the with Marc Morano (from the skeptic side), So this "Study" is not being taken very seriously on either side.
No howls... just derision...
Its amazing how you rely on being loud and ignorant.
In your own words, you don't need any evidence to back your position. Ergo you're a feelie. Watch this video to get a better understanding of your position;
In any case I look forward to you digging up a statistically significant contribution to the discussion.
Brendan DeMelle replied on Permalink
Patience wearing thin
We've been extraordinarily lenient with your comments here because, well, you've been a frequent voice attempting to offer a contrarian perspective, and not been overly caustic.
But seriously, citing PopTech? Quoting Willie Soon just generically dismissing the study, without any substantive response or evidence at all from him or Tol or anyone else?
That's all you've got? It's growing tiresome, and we're not going to continue to allow this kind of inane banter and denialist link-bait you're so fond of lately.
So here it is, your final invitation: put up, or, well, you know… all things in moderation.
Cite something substantive, something, anything to counter what is clearly an overwhelming majority view in the scientific community.
Otherwise, please, just, stop. Or we'll sadly have to show you the door. You've been here long enough to know the comment policy, and we've been extremely accommodating….
You'll howl censorship, I know, but honestly, you're grasping not at straws here, but the splinters of straws.
lara jorgensen replied on Permalink
Ok, Brendan....
Brendan, I do appreciate the patience you and Desmog have shown over the last couple of years. Clearly I have attempted "stir the pot" on occasion here. But it has not been as a troll but as a person who cringes at the 'deniers' of both ends of the Climate discussion.
To 'deny' that there is an ongoing debate is just illogical. Clearly Cook and Nuticelli's paper is just another attempt to establish the dubious authority that many believe comes from a statment of "Consensus". This has not worked in the past and isn't working now.
I urge all here to look at both sides of the debate and all that that involves; ie, reading skeptic blogs and scientific papers that don't conform to YOUR idea of Climate change. At the very least you will learn a lot, at best you hone your critical thinking skills and form your own opinions, not blindly accept what someone wants you to believe.
Finally, to Brendon; Something I've never undersood about the comment policy is how so many people here get a pass with the ad hom attacks (this thread is an excellent example) but others get scolded for basically posting contrarian views.
In any case, feel free to 'show me the door' if needed. I will continue to visit and read at Desmog and many other blogs because that's what I like to do.
climate criminal replied on Permalink
The irony of Denial
A truthful description of your so-called experts might well sound like an ad-hominem, but that problem is yours and theirs, the ironic consequence of their actions.
The trouble with your so-called experts' numerous incompatible versions of bastardised parodies of climate science, is that they are also incompatible with oceans of coherent, peer-reviewed evidence.
As for debate, there is no significant debate in the peer-reviewed literature about the basis for the recent anomalous warning, or many other aspects of the science. The scientific debate is limited to minor details. Where as your so-called experts are primarily focused upon producing disinformation for the Public, which creates the illusion of scientific-debate, while being nothing of the sort, and intended to bamboozle a credulous audience.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
lara jorgensen does not understand what "ad hom" means or is
In typical AGW denier fashion lara jorgensen shows that she is incapable of understanding what "ad hominem" means. When someone points out to a denier that they are wrong, lying or just being plain stupid it is not "ad hominem" if it is obvious to anyone that the comments are in fact true. It may be rude, it may be insulting but it is not "ad hominem".
There is a simple solution for deniers who do not like to be referred to in such a way: become honest, do a bit of reading so you don't post rubbish and behave like an adult rather than a spoiled two year old child.
Can you mange that lara?
There is no other side.
Lara, all you've ever done is Troll. Its like a sad half witted version of Monty Python's arguement sketch.
I've willingly looked at all the counter evidence you've offered, and that isn't much. Your last link was to a lot of PR agents hired by oil companies. Are you aware that many of the journals that cover your kind of material also cover UFO landing sites, and and Dog Horoscopes?
As an engineer who works in oil companies, let me assure you that we spend no money researching climate science. Not a single penny.
I think you belong with your high school buddy Anthony Watts and his fellow conspiracy theorists. I think you deserve the punt.
climate criminal replied on Permalink
Reading for Lara
climate criminal replied on Permalink
Willie Soon et al.?
Willie Soon et al.? Co-author of the Petition document.
Dr Morner of tilted sea-level graph fame?
What a group of
liars experts!
caerbannog666 replied on Permalink
Don't forget about dowsing....
Morner of the tilted graph fame is even more famous for his claims of having scientific evidence that dowsing really works. A quick Google search will confirm this.
The global-warming "skeptic" community is a distinguished team indeed.
"What a group of liars
"What a group of
liars experts!"
Liars and deniers for hire.
Oh the irony Lara.
Oh the irony Lara.
1) Cook and Nuticelli have science degrees…..Andrew (Poptech) does not.
2) Everything at skeptical science is referenced with high quality references, Poptech does not. And even when it does, because of his lack of science training and degree in armchair expert, he doesnt realise that much of what he references either doesnt support his argument, or is so low in quality, it can hardly be considered to have run the gauntlent of high level peer review.
3) Cook and Nuteicelli use their own names and have nothing to hide. Even a hack on their site yielded no goodies for deniers. Poptech operates under a pseudonym and has previously demonstrated that he will go to any lenghts to smear an opponent, as happeed to one of the commenters here. What has he got to hide?
4) Andrew (Poptech) has a list of papers he believes support his/your argument, yet it has been shown many times that scientists on his list have a) either asked to be removed from his list, or b) said their paper does not respresent what poptech thinks it does. Going by your self imposed criteria of legitimacy, do you now believe poptech to misrepresent the truth and his views are fringe and worthless like you do of Cook and Nuticelli?
5) Marc Morano does not have a science degree and is a politician. No expertise whatsoever. You are comparing apples with oranges.
caerbannog666 replied on Permalink
Howls of laughter indeed
So you've got a tiny handful of the usual suspects (who have a history of being so ideologically blinded wrt climate change that they have no credibility in that field).
And as for folks like Soon eliciting howls? Howls of laughter, certainly. You are righto on that one. Soon may be competent within his own field of expertise, but every time he has wandered into paleoclimate/climatology he has morphed into a hapless, incompetent crank.
For an example of Soon's climate-science incompetence, Google up "Soon Baliunas 2003". Read through the methodology section of the paper that comes up in that search. If you have a lower-division college-undergraduate understanding of basic Earth science and statistics, you should easily be able to flag at least a couple of "howler" whopper blunders there, blunders that would seriously ding an undergraduate student's GPA at any reputable university.
BTW, anyone who would consider Cook and Nuticelli to be in any way equivalent to Morano has to be at least a few French-fries short of a Happy Meal.


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Wayzata earns a long awaited trip to the state tournament with a 5-2 victory over Benilde-St. Margaret's in the section 6AA final. Photo by Brian Nelson
His postgame television commitments now complete, Wayzata coach Pat O'Leary was momentarily done with the interviews.
Time to give a speech.
He entered the Trojans' locker room with a resounding "whooo hooo!" After that, well, what else needed to be said?
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Joseph Barnes was with the Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR) from 1931 to 1934, after which he joined the New York Herald-Tribune, serving as Moscow correspondent, then in Berlin, and from 1939 to 1948, as foreign editor. Herald-Tribune to become co-publisher of the pro-Communist newspaper called the New York Star. Barnes was an extreme pro-Communist on Chinese affairs. Whittaker Chambers stated CPUSA underground apparatus head Josef Peters informed him Barnes was a member of the Communist underground.[1] During World War II Barnes worked for the Office of War Information.[2]
See also
- ↑ Tanenhaus, Sam (1997). Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Modern Library, p. 456-457. ISBN 0-375-75145-9.
- ↑ While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It, John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, pgs. 73, 79 pdf.


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Monday, July 13, 2009
Gina's Meatloaf and Tyler Florence's Garlic and Chive Mashed Potatoes
Ever get a craving for something and you can't get it out of your mind? Of course you do! If you're reading this then you're most likely a foodie and you are very familiar with that feeling. Well last week I was craving meatloaf. I know, it's summer, not really a summer food but that's what happens with a craving. It can be most inappropriate but that's okay. Just go with it.
I used my friend Gina's recipe and I'm sorry but I can't link you to her because she doesn't post recipe on bakespace (but she is a member!) and she doesn't have a blog! I know, it's very rare for one of my friends! :-) Anyway, I've made this recipe many times. In fact, we may have even come up with it together one day but she put it together and made it so she totally gets the credit. I've done it with the peas but this time I did it without. No reason. Just too lazy to go in the freezer and open up a new bag of frozen peas. Ha! At least I admit it! I also added some fresh parsley because I had it on hand. Recently, I've been reading on blogs about air baking where you put your food on a cooling rack and then bake it so the bottom gets crispy and the fat drips away. That would have been great for this. Too bad I didn't think about it until it was too late. I had a lot of fat accumulated around the meatloaf which I removed for the photo.
The mashed potato recipe I used for the first time but OMG! It's a keeper! I've made garlic mashed potatoes before but this was certainly the best. It had a subtle taste of garlic, not overwhelming and I never used yukon golds for mashed potatoes before. What a difference! I didn't use cream but used the skim plus milk I had on hand and I used a potato masher instead of a ricer. I'm sure mine were a little chunkier than intended but Steve and I both thought they were great. I forgot to take a picture of the potatoes on their own. Sorry!
These dishes went very well together and I think from now on they'll be paired together.
Gina's Meatloaf
1½ lbs ground beef (I used about 2 lbs this time)
1 onion, chopped
4 garlic cloves, chopped
1 cup grated cheese
I used 4 slices of panella bread (or any bread you have on hand)soaked in milk and then squeezed of the liquid
2 eggs
3 handfuls of frozen peas (defrost before you add to mixture)
2 tablespoons of olive oil
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
Coarse salt
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in pan. Sauté onions and garlic until onions become translucent. Remove from pan and cool.
Mix all ingredients together.(I added some of the milk from the bread like I do my meatballs.) Transfer mixture to a baking dish and form a loaf.
Bake @ 350° for 1 hour. Let cool for 10 minutes and then slice.
Tyler Florence's Garlic and Chive Mashed Potatoes
6 to 8 large Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and quartered
1 tablespoon salt
4 bay leaves
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) butter
4 cloves garlic, lightly crushed
3 sprigs fresh thyme
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped chives
Put the cut potatoes into a large pot, cover them with cold water, and add salt and 2bay leaves. Bring to a boil and simmer until the potatoes are fork tender, about 20 to 30 minutes. Drain well and remove the bay leaves.
Meanwhile, in a small pot heat the cream, butter, garlic, thyme, and remaining bay leaves. While the potatoes are still warm, press them through a potato ricer or food mill into a mixing bowl. Add the warm cream, straining out the solids, a bit at a time until the potatoes are fluffy. Season with salt and pepper and gently stir in the chives. Serve immediately.
14 comments:
- Bob said...
Oh man, that sounds wicked good. I love Yukon golds for mashed 'tatos, they have a great flavor for it. Now I want meatloaf...
- July 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM
- Culinary Alchemist said...
Yum Yum and More YUM!!!! I am starving for Thanksgiving loaf now...
- July 13, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...
Yummy! There is something so satifying about meatloaf and mashed potaoes!
- July 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- teresa said...
They both look so good! I'm going to have to try that airbaking technique!
- July 13, 2009 at 9:13 PM
- Danielle said...
man...I'm not even a fan of meatloaf and I want some! and of course I'd take seconds of those mashed potatoes. btw...what kind of cheese did you use in the meatloaf?
- July 13, 2009 at 11:53 PM
- Mary at My New 30 said...
That is a comfort meal for sure! I'm like you, I don't believe in all that seasonal recipe stuff. If I'm craving it, I'm fixing it - spring, summer, winter, fall .. I don't care! This looks delicious and I wish I had a plate myself!!
- July 14, 2009 at 12:58 AM
- Patti T. said...
This is one of my hubby's favorite meals, meatloaf and mashed potatoes. I have never "jazzed up" my mashed potatoes quite like that though, I definitely will next time.
- July 14, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- Zoe said...
Im not a big fan of meatloaf in general but I do love your potatoes!! Creamy and delicious!
- July 14, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- Bridgett said...
Perfect comfort food. This is hard to beat
- July 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM
- Karine said...
I love the way you added flavors to your mashed potatoes! They look delicious!
- July 15, 2009 at 12:02 AM
- Lynda said...
This is a real comfort meal-love it! I've been thinking about meatloaf, but it's been close to hundred this week, so I'mm putting it off untill the temps drop some. But, I love meat loaf and yukon gold potatoes are awsome with their creamy, buttery flavor!
- July 15, 2009 at 11:05 AM
- Maria said...
Classic comfort food!
- July 15, 2009 at 11:39 AM
- Teanna DiMicco said...
I'm not a big food network person, but I truly believe that Tyler Florence can do no wrong! Oh, and you'll appreciate this - for lunch today, my boyfriend made me a mock Millburn Deli Sloppy Joe! I can't wait to eat it! haha!
- July 15, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- Bella Vita said...
I love a meatloaf any time of the year, just like you...mmmm! I make them in HUGE batches and freeze them so when I come home from work, all I have to do is re-heat. Thanks for Tyler's potato recipe too!
- July 15, 2009 at 2:31 PM


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Mayor Chris Beutler today said the use of tax increment financing (TIF) for 17 projects completed in downtown Lincoln has increased the City's valuation base by more than $200 million. That has resulted in $25 million in additional tax revenue to help local governments provide important quality of life services. The Mayor said the 17 projects are an example of the payback the community is receiving on its TIF investments.
"These additional tax revenues support kids in our classrooms, public safety, County and City roads and a host of other important services," Beutler said. "The projects also represent tens of millions of dollars in new investment and new jobs in the private sector. Our use of TIF is creating a more vibrant community and a strong economy."
TIF is used to help improve underutilized property and increase its value. The higher taxes generated by the higher valuations are used for a number of years for public improvements and infrastructure that help the development occur. After a designated number of years, the higher tax revenues go back to the community.
The 17 projects used as examples are Cornhusker Square; Haymarket Square/8th Street; Lincoln Station; the Grainger Building; the Apothecary/Ridnour buildings; Block 35/Embassy Suites; University Square; Que Place; "O" Street Skywalk; Gold's Galleria; Centerstone; Hardy/Buck's; 12th Street Theater; Eagle's/Runza; Ambassador/President; Crossroads House; and North Haymarket.
The total initial valuation on the projects was $15.1 million. The total current valuation on the completed projects is $165.3 million. The annual taxes on the properties have increased from $347,000 to about $3.3 million. Since the end of the TIF period, the properties have generated $28.4 million in tax revenue. If the properties had not been improved they would have generated only $3.2 million over the same period, a difference of about $25 million.
"A judicious and careful use of TIF builds Lincoln's future," Beutler said. "TIF is often misunderstood and maligned, but in reality it is a smart, effective tool for the private and public sector to partner together for the greater good of our community. Together, we are making an impact."


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W-G hosts day with the arts
WAYNESFIELD — A new twist on Waynesfield-Goshen Local Schools' career day proved to be an overwhelming success Friday at the school.
After a career day was held in the morning, several classrooms hosted presentations of a variety of skills and were well-received by student for its first annual "A Day With the Arts."
"This is the first year we have hosted this kind of an event," school technology coach Leah Fullenkamp said. "It has been well-received by the students. They were having a good time."
Fullenkamp said many of the presentations showed forgotten skills, such as cross-stitching, crocheting, and quilting. Many other presentations also were available, from wood carving to to double dutch, from silk art to photography, and from quick snacks to hip hop dance.
Students were allowed to pick four different presentations to attend during the event. Students had 26 presentations to choose from.
"We have always done a career day in the past, but a lot of people have forgotten the arts," Fullenkamp said. "A lot of kids don't realize what goes into making a blanket or taking a picture.
Fullenkamp said the most popular presentations included the martial arts and beauty presentations. The presentations were put on by a variety of local business owners, teachers, musicians and other experts in the fields.
The day closed with a dramatized program presented by Wapakoneta High School students on bullying.


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Founded in 1997, Unto Ashes are among the foremost purveyors of "blood-lit" music, by which they seek to explore the beautiful and terrible currents that weave themselves through our lives. Their highly original music is informed by Medieval dirges, Apocalyptic Folk, Black Metal, Spinning and Harvest chants, and German Romantic sensibilities. Epic and exalted; claustrophobic and suffocating; vital and menacing; glorious and impenetrable: Unto Ashes is all - and none - of these.
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German Catholic Colonies at the Black Sea: A Bessarabian
Colony, Krasna
By Josef Malinowsky
Die Deutschen katholischen Kolonien am Schwarzen Meere: Berichte
Gemeindeaemter ueber Entstehung und Entwicklung dieser Kolonien
in der
ersten Haelfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, herausgebeben von
Dr. J.A. Malinowsky, Ausland und Heimat Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft,
Stuttgart, Deutschland, 1927, 36 pages, photocopy. Institute Room
from Russia DK509.D38 1984 (not available on interlibrary loan).
Translation from German to English by Father Johanathan Fischer,
St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota
Emigrating from Germany and Settling in Poland in the Years 1800-1803
The first settlers of the colony of Krasna, of the Roman Catholic religion, were subjects of the electorate--now the kingdom--of Bavaria in the Minker (Munich) district. In the years 1800--03, because of the ravages of war caused by the French Revolution many Germans left their fatherland intent on searching for a new home in some other countries. An appeal from the king of Prussia invited the colonists to come to the Prussian area of Poland. Upon this invitation the present inhabitants of Krasna came into the duchy of Warsaw where until 1814 they remained settled in a colony not far from Warsaw.
Settling onto the present-day site
The completely devastating military campaigns of the French
against Russia which led through Poland pretty well cost the colonists
all they owned. Since they felt that this war-torn Poland could
no longer offer them protection and security for their future
the colonists accepted a timely invitation from the Russian government
to settle in Bessarabia. Proclamation of the Russian Government
from the year 1813:
I. The Russian government receives the emigrating colonists of the Duchy of Warsaw under her special protection, and extends to them the right to enjoy all the comforts as well as the privileges and protections of the laws that are prescribed for native-born Russians.
II. It will be expected of the emigrants that they concern themselves primarily with agriculture: the planting and care of orchards and vineyards, and in particular being concerned with silk culture. [raising silk worms!] Whoever is qualified in these things, especially if he can handle them all, should do them, as is fitting for a good farmer and a new resident standing under the protection of his monarch.
Promised Rights:
1. Freedom from all taxes and land obligations for a period of 10 years from the day of their arrival in Russia, with the exception of a small fee to the Bessarabian land lords.
2. Poor families will receive from the crown , by way of a 10-year loan, 270 Rubels Banko. The others will be paid as much as their situation demands based on the original arrangement made at the time of arrival.
3. Each family will be allotted 60 Dess. [162 acres] as a permanent and inheritable possession.
4. In addition, all those who have no provisions are to receive for each soul a daily food stipend of 5 Kop. up until the first harvest.
5. So too they and all their descendants are free once and for all time from the military draft and the billeting of soldiers, with one exception, namely when the military must pass through the villages. And even this would happen only briefly, as for an overnight or for a rest day.
6. Further, the colonists are free to build churches according to their own religions, have clerics, and to observe their own religious customs.
7. After the passage of the 10 years following their arrival in Russia another 10 years shall be designated, during which period all those funds which were received from the crown by way of a loan must be paid back. Following this proclamation, in 1814 the above mentioned settlers, 133 families in poor and pressing circumstances, joyfully looking forward to a better future, left their Polish settlements of Orschokowin and Schitonia. They were under the leadership of Matthias Mueller and Peter Becker, some of them traveling on their own miserable carts, some on rented wagons and many others came on foot. When they had crossed the Russian border at Utschiluk they were given quarters in some Moldavian villages. Many also found places in Kitschinew. A large number of them remained in Vender from September 1814 till June of 1815, and some till the spring of 1816.
The Settling of Krasna 1815-1816
Upon official orders 90 of the families moved to the place designated for the settlement in the Kugelnik valley. The other 43 families followed them there in the spring of 1816. The Steppe-prairie they were about to settle was overgrown with high grass and "Burian", devoid of all human habitats. The land was leased out to three Bulgarians named Iskro, Loto and Karpp. (Every now and then there was also a carpenter to be found.) Each settler received the required wood for building a house: four corner beams, doors, a window and a piece of lumber for a bench along with 8 Rubels "Banco". Whatever else was needed had to be provided for by the settlers themselves. As household equipment each complete family received a wooden wagon, for the repair and upkeep of which, a year later, they were provided with some iron. They also received a harrow, 2 scythes, 2 sickles, one iron shovel, one hoe, one whetstone and a few other smaller tools. By way of draft animals each family got a pair of steers (oxen) and a cow. For seeding they received 4 Tschetwert [about 2.9 bushels] wheat and 2 Tschetwert potatoes [about 1.5 bushels]. In addition, for a period of one and a half years each soul received monthly one Pud flour from the storehouse in Tarutino. And now although on the one hand the Russian government was laying out millions [of Rubels] in advance to provide support for the colonists, so on the other hand they were very often being cheated by the suppliers, especially by a certain Pollners [This seems to be a proper name, not a crack at the Poles]. The provided cattle were often very skinny, the tools and equipment very poorly made, the flour spoiled and the promised 5 Kopek daily stipend was hardly ever received. For these reasons, to keep their families from starving, the settlers were forced to hire themselves out as day laborers. Because of the scarcity of draft animals the agriculture was very poorly carried out. Sometimes 2 or 3 would team together in order to get their acres plowed. Many just loosened the ground with the hoe and planted their bit of seed. At the beginning the colony was called "Elisabeta" and then "Konstantinschutz". Later, following orders from the highest authority, the village was named Krasna.
Splitting up the Krasna Colony and Why - In the Year 1825
Among the 133 families that settled in Krasna were 19 Lutheran [Evangelische] families. Now, since both the Catholics as well as the Protestants had their own specific holy days and religious customs there arose during the nine years they lived together, if not exactly fighting and hatred, at least a certain amount of friction. For that reason the community agreed to petition the higher authorities that the Lutheran families be allowed to move to the recently established colony of Katzbach. The petition was granted in 1825.
Description of the Valley and the Environs of the Colony
The river Kugelnik flows from the east towards the south. The village, situated in the middle of the valley, is made up of two rows of houses. Krasna lies at a distance of 100 Werst [c. 66.3 miles] from the government city of Kischenew, 90 W. [60 miles] from Akkermann and 90 W. from Ismail. Early on most of the houses were 'gestampft' [most likely made of sod]; there were also a few made of air dried bricks [probably like adobe] and roofed with 'Rohr' [The word means pipe, tube or reed. Clay pipe (half pipe) might not have been available. Perhaps it is another word for Strohdecke or thatch .] On both sides of the village, back behind the yards, orchards were planted. In 1818 48 householders planted vineyards on a slope one Werst [c. one half mile] from the village, and these soon proved to be very profitable. Another 56 householders planted their vineyards on the other side of the village, each of them nursing along 1500 grapevines. By the year 1847 there was already a rich wine [grape] harvest. In 1818 a stone church was built and roofed with 'Rohr' [again, perhaps clay half pipe or thatch]. The parish house was built out of sod and stands 8 'Faden' from the church. In 1836 a pretty little school house was built in the center of the village. In 1844, not far from the schoolhouse, they built a commodity storage house of stone with a tile roof ['Rohr'!]. The total amount of land occupied by the colony of Krasna amounted to 6688 Dess. and 844 Faden [about 18,060 acres]. The land surface of the colony is crisscrossed by several lakes and valleys. The soil in the valley is 2 feet of black top soil; then comes a nitrous layer. On the slopes there is also two feet of black soil but it is mixed with sand. The soil produces good winter wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, corn (maize), legumes and potatoes. Types of grasses present are: Schmellen, vetch, melilot, hairgrass, Zwecken and others. Artificial feed plants had not yet been introduced.
During the Russian-Turkish war of 1827 the colonists experienced troop billeting and had to provide lots of transport . [It's not clear if they thus lost their wagons.]
Crop failures occurred in 1830, '32, '33, '34 : years when they could harvest hardly enough for seed.
Field mice caused great damage in the years 1822, '23 and '24.
Locust infestations occurred in 1825, '26, '27, '36 and '47.
Hail stones caused the community much damage in 1843.
Cattle epidemics took place in the years of 1827, '34, '39 and '44.
Horse epidemics came in 1847 and '48.
The colony is grateful for its welfare not only to God and the government but also to the industriousness in the cultivation of land, vines and animals. But especially appreciated are the women and girls who work in the winter: spinning wool and flax and making cloth and a variety of blankets (at 6 K. a piece).
Mayor Mueller
1st Assessor Soehn
2nd Assessor Bonakowsky
School teacher Caspar Matery


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The new version of the Pork Quality Assurance Plus (PQA Plus) program incorporates the 10 Good Production Practices to align more closely with the We Care initiative and an online recertification option for participants.
"While the focus remains on animal care and producing safe food, the new PQA Plus program also highlights the importance of protecting public health, safeguarding natural resources and providing a safe work environment," says Bill Winkelman, vice president of producer and industry relations for the Pork Checkoff.
PQA Plus was first introduced in 1989 and has been revised every three years. The new version debuted at World Pork Expo.
"Updates to the 2013 PQA Plus program strengthen its credibility and address the changing needs of the pork industry," says Phil Borgic, an Illinois pork producer.
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Enhancements to the latest version of the PQA Plus program include:
Participants must pass a 25 question test related to the 10 Good Production Practices focusing on animal well-being and pork safety. Participants can miss no more than three questions on the open-book test.
"While PQA Plus remains an education program, producers wanted to take it to the next level," Winkelman says. "Adding a testing component reinforces the learning objectives, similar to the Pork Checkoff's successful Transport Quality Assurance (TQA) program."
Online Certification
Recertification is available online after receiving face-to-face training with a PQA Plus advisor or trainer for first-time certification. Participants can contact their PQA Plus advisor to review the training and take the test electronically.
Site Assessments
After completing a site assessment, producers may need to submit a corrective action plan for non-compliance items and follow up with their PQA Plus advisor to receive site assessment status.
Trainer/Advisor Certifications
PQA Plus program trainers and advisors are receiving more extensive instructions and information to assist producers more effectively. Trainer/advisor certifications will continue to be conducted in person.
"All advisor certifications expire in August of 2013," says Dinah Peebles, manager of certification programs for the Pork Checkoff. "Trainers and advisors will need to be trained on the new, revised PQA Plus program."
More information on the revised PQA Plus program is available at www.pork.org/certification.
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"Veronica Mars," the movie, is just so Veronica Mars.
The teenage private eye from the 2004-07 TV series starring Kristen Bell has grown up. But like fans of the show, a.k.a. marshmallows, it is quickly clear that while Veronica may have left her life in Neptune, Calif., behind, she hasn't moved on.
Director Rob Thomas, creator of the prime-time show, and series executive producer Diane Ruggiero, finally do what they refused to do when "Veronica Mars" was canceled in 2007 — deliver a script that ties up a lot of loose ends and opens up a new can of worms.


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