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A county in North Carolina is expanding its municipal Wi-Fi network outdoors using unlicensed space on the broadcast spectrum, Government Technology reports.
New Hanover County, N.C., is the first municipal government in the nation to win Federal Communications Commission approval to use the white space spectrum — the area of the broadcast spectrum between channels freed up when television stations made the transition from analog to digital — for what the FCC has dubbed "Super Wi-Fi."
The FCC says the lower-frequency white spaces that can travel greater distances are ideal for mobile devices.
New Hanover County will be using those white spaces to expand its wireless network to more locations outdoors. It is set to deploy the Super Wi-Fi network at three public parks in the county beginning Jan. 26. The county will also make the network available to the town of Wilmington, N.C.
County Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Jason Thompson said the expansion of the wireless network, which New Hanover is already offering in its public libraries, was a natural move given people's technology consumption habits. "As more and more people carry smart phones, tablets and things, we want to provide them some high-speed access like we do indoors now at our libraries," he said.
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Partial answer: this makes it possible to extend the reach of regular wi-fi hotspots.
Horsecop makes a good point. One more reason to reject the myth that corporations are innovation at its' best. Time to leave them behind, and make the U.S. first in the world again, as we were before Bush was elected.
My rural Minnesota community could certainly benefit from adopting Super Wifi, as New Hanover County, NC, has.
What good does this do have WiFi outside of the spectrum normally used for WiFi? No smartphone or any other WiFi is made for this spectrum.
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"We're in the break where we have the record we wanted and how we wanted to be on the floor," said Cimarron head coach David Ediger. "The one thing our girls have to learn is to come out of the locker room ready to play. The girls are working extremely hard, but sometimes they think a game is going to be easy. That comes with a young team that is getting used to the varsity level."
The Bluejays lead 28-22 at halftime over the Wildcats as Cimarron looked at a box-and-one defense as Elkhart made sure to have a player on Morgan Ediger at all times. The plan backfired as Ashtynn Burns scored 11 points in the second quarter and eight in the third to lead the Cimarron attack.
Cimarron's defense also clamped down after intermission, allowing only two field goals as the Bluejays outscored Elkhart 23-6 in the third quarter.
"We played defense and better care of the ball. That was the difference between that and the first half," Ediger said. "We played as bad as we could in the first half. We turned it over too much and didn't play defense that well. I think some of it was that we have played so many games and part was we didn't come ready to play and I think our girls thought it would be an easier game to play."
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ELKHART (46) -- Kali Hoskinson 10, Victoria Fullerton 14, Keyah Richardson 2, Miranda Brewer 11, Dannah White 5, Jentry Strothman 4. Totals 16 11-23 46.
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Three-point baskets -- Cimarron 4 (Burns 2, Blattner 1, Ediger 1), Elkhart 3 (Hoskinson 1, Fullerton 2). Records -- Cimarron 6-0, Elkhart 3-2.
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ELKHART -- Stewart Fairbank scored nine of his 11 points in a 26-point final quarter as the Bluejays beat the Wildcats to complete the Hi-Plains League basketball sweep.
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CIMARRON (64) -- Caleb Fischer 8, Christian Fischer 10, Ted Boersma 13, Stewart Fairbank 11, Alex Neuschafer 11, Ty Clark 2, Tanner Toothaker 1, Josh Meis 8. Totals 22 15-27 64.
ELKHART (56) -- Brendan Carter 12, Izzy Barco 9, Alex Gomez 19, Braden Harbour 6, Wes Higgins 10. Totals 20 11-16 56.
Cimarron 14 14 10 26 -- 64
Elkhart 18 7 12 19 -- 56
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The guns likely arrived in Colombia from Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, as collateral for shipments of coca, according to El Tiempo.
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Transform Your IT Staff Into Business Contributors
Today, it's not enough to oversee a department of strong tech performers. CIOs must learn how to transform their IT people into indispensable business contributors. The book, The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership (Bibliomotion/available now), focuses on many inconsistencies that CIOs must address. Among them: Why is technology getting better, but the job is getting harder? Why do so many CIOs' successes go unnoticed, while their mistakes are so highly visible? One section focuses strictly on the paradox of hiring people as tech talents and then asking them to develop into business-minded contributors. "We don't say 'sales and the business' or even 'HR and the business,'" writes author Martha Heller. "Why is it that IT alone is treated like an outsider?" By adopting the following eight best practices from the book, your department could shed this outsider stigma. Heller is president of Heller Search Associates, a firm that specializes in recruiting CIOs and other IT executives.


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Title: Hearts of Fire
Author: Kira Brady
Publisher: Zebra
May Contain Spoilers
From Amazon:
In the prequel to a stunning new paranormal series, one woman's desire for a forbidden man will spark a centuries-long supernatural conflict–and a love nothing can destroy.
She's the heiress to Seattle's most powerful shifter clan. Her destiny is as controlled and certain as moonrise. However, from the moment Alice Corbette encounters the man known as Brand, she will defy all constraint and break every rule to make this dragon-shifter hers. Brand is determined to repay the clan leader he owes his life to. But one taste of Alice's exquisite spirit will make him question his loyalty–and plunge them both into the middle of a ruthless power play. Their only chance at freedom is a gamble that could risk the future of humans and shifters alike. . .
20,000 Words.
This teaser novella worked its magic to get me totally invested in the release of Hearts of Darkness, the kickoff to Kira Brady's Deadglass series. The world building is fascinating, and the chemistry between Alice and Brand zinged from the pages. The ending was like hitting a brick wall, though, and left me more than a little frustrated, because I wanted more. NOW!
The first novel hits stores in August, and it's at the top of my wish list.
Grade: B/B-
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A healthy acid-alkaline balance
The Alka® acid-alkaline nutrition guide by AlkaVitae® will provide information about a healthy acid balance, on the basis of your every day diet in combination with active alkalization.
Acidification in the body, muscles and joints is caused to a great extent by taking in an excess of acid-forming food every day. Acid-forming foods, once they have been burnt up by the body, leave acid waste behind such as uric acid, lactic acid and acetic acid. The body is unable to completely remove this excess acid, which means that the surplus acids are stored inside the body either in liquid or solid form. The more acid waste is stored in the body, the greater the chance of developing chronic symptoms.
For a daily diet alone to produce a good acid balance, the guideline is that it should consist of 80% alkaline products and 20% acid-forming products. In practice, however, it is generally the case in modern society that we take in just 30% to 40% alkaline products and over 60% to 70% acid-forming food every day.
The body requires sufficient alkaline buffers in order to function properly, and you can help build these up by following the guidelines of this alkaline nutritional diet. People
suffering from health problems should eat a ratio of at least 80% - 20% (4 units of alkaline food to every 1 unit of acid acid-forming food).
It is important to maintain a varied diet because the body draws nutrients from the full spectrum of food types. If you follow only a partial diet for an extended period your body will ultimately develop a deficiency in certain nutrients.
You can achieve a healthy acid balance without the risk of running out of essential nutrients by maintaining a ratio of 60% alkaline to 40% acid-forming food, as long as you combine it with active alkalization on a daily basis.
You can actively alkalize your body every day using the Alka® products by AlkaVitae®. They provide the alkaline counterbalance you need to enjoy a healthy and varied diet. Alka® neutralizes acid waste and equalizes your acid balance.
Dietary Tips
Tip 1.
Eat plenty of vegetables.
Vegetables are very good for the body. They contain many organic vitamins and alkaline minerals. The best method is to steam vegetables al dente and not to prepare them in the microwave.
Tip 2.
Keep sugars to a minimum
Sugars, and refined white sugars in particular, are highly acidifying. If you consume too much of them it increases the chance of chronic acidification. You could substitute white sugar with unrefined cane sugar, or with the plant sweetener Stevia.
Tip 3.
Fruit in moderation
Fruit contains many healthy foodstuffs like vitamins, minerals and fiber, but also a lot of fructose which can form acid too. Two pieces of fruit a day is still a sensible guideline!
Tip 5.
Meat and fish in moderation
Meat, and red meat in particular, contains a large amount of purines. This is a substance that releases uric acid. Excess uric acid can ultimately lead to joint problems amongst other things. Fish contains a lot of purines too, meaning it also has an acidifying effect. Fish does, however, also contain lots of good, essential fish oils. As long as you are actively alkalizing on a daily basis, then it is a great idea to have fish once or twice a week!
Tip 4.
Avoid soft drinks and sweetened packaged fruit juices
Soft drinks contain enormous quantities of sugar. A bottle of cola or orange soda contains on average 33% sugar! And "diet" soft drinks containing artificial sweeteners are also extremely acidic for the body. In addition, by taking soft drinks the body is burdened by carbonic acid which is added for the "sparkling bubbles". Packaged fruit juices are highly acidic because of the way they are produced. It is better to stick to occasional hand-squeezed fruit juices, with all their organic vitamins, minerals and fructose.
Acid-Alkaline nutrition list
On the next page you will find an overview of the different food types. They have been divided up according to their alkalizing or acidifying effects on the body. The figure shown next to the food is an indication of the extent to which each food has an acid-forming or alkaline-forming effect (i.e. it is not the pH value).


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Australian-American Literary Connections
Paul Giles
Within the literary connections between Australia and the United States, the more traditional notion of "influence" gained a different kind of intellectual traction after the "transnational turn." While the question of American influence on Australian literature is a relatively familiar topic, the corresponding question of Australian influence on American literature has been much less widely discussed. This bi-continental interaction can be traced through a variety of canonical writers, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles Brockden Brown, through to Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Henry Adams, and Mark Twain. These transnational formations developed in the changed cultural conditions of the 20th and 21st centuries, with reference to poets such as Lola Ridge, Karl Shapiro, Louis Simpson, and Yusef Komunyakaa, along with novelists such as Christina Stead, Peter Carey, and J. M. Coetzee.
To adduce alternative genealogies for both American and Australian literature, Australian literature might be seen to function as American literature's shadow self, the kind of cultural formation it might have become if the American Revolution had never taken place. Similarly, to track Australian literature's American affiliations is to suggest ways in which transnational connections have always been integral to its constitution. By re-reading both Australian and American literature as immersed within a variety of historical and geographical matrices, from British colonial politics to transpacific space, it becomes easier to understand how both national literatures emerged in dialogue with a variety of wider influences.
Australian Fiction, the 1980s, and the U.S. Trade Paperback
Nicholas Birns
The emergence of the trade paperback in the 1980s crucially transformed the way in which Australian literature was received in North America. The publication history of Patrick White on the one hand and Glenda Adams and Peter Carey on the other shows how younger writers actually made more of a cultural impact, despite White's Nobel Prize, because the form in which they met the reading public was one freed from the modernist binary between high and low culture. The 1980s saw the emergence of a more globalized and more culturally pluralistic world—though also one much more pervaded by multinational capital—in which Australian writers flourished.
Australian Poetry, 1940s–1960s
Peter Kirkpatrick
When situating 20th-century Australian poetry within world literary space, critical histories often map it against the Anglo-American tradition and find it wanting. In particular, and despite the strong reputations that poets such as Judith Wright and A. D. Hope continue to enjoy, there is a tendency to regard Australian poetry from the Second World War until the mid-1960s as variously complacent, insular, or retrograde: representative of what John Tranter in his introduction to The New Australian Poetry in 1979 called "a moribund poetic culture." Certainly, there was a turning away from avant-garde experimentalism in the immediate postwar period (as there was in Britain and the United States), but in Australia, this has been linked to a discrediting of modernism as a result of the Ern Malley hoax. In the Malley "affair," as Michael Heyward dubbed it, two conservative poets hoodwinked the editor of the avant-garde journal Angry Penguins with a suite of poems written by a wholly invented working-class surrealist. As a result, according to Wright (among others), Australian poets became less adventurous in favor of more traditional forms. On top of this, recent revisionist accounts of the hoax have virtually canonized "Malley" himself as a bona fide modernist and so exacerbated a sense of lost opportunity after the mid-1940s. Yet modernizing impulses may take many forms, and it is an overstatement to suggest that innovation had ceased, or that the poetry of this period was somehow disengaged from the rest of the world or from international literary-political debates. A reassessment shows that Australian poets were keenly engaged with the questions of their time but also dealt with the persistent, unresolved problem of how to become "unprovincial," overcoming a cultural cringe that now gravitated away from Britain and toward America. In fact, for Australian literature prior to the emergence of Patrick White, poetry, rather than beating a retreat, actually led the way forward. It is time, then, to reconsider the poetry of the postwar era within its own cultural ecologies, acknowledging that Australian poetic modernism, while it remains contested, may also be distinctive.
Australian Travel Writing, 1900–1960
Anna Johnston
Travel writing has been an important form through which Australians learned about their own culture and their place in the world. Indigenous cultures of place and travel, geographic distance from the imperial metropole, and a long history of immigration have each made travel a particularly influential cultural practice. Nonfictional prose narratives, based on actual journeys, have enabled travelers in Australia and from Australia abroad to explore what was distinctive and what was shared with other cultures. These are accessible texts that were widely read, and that sought to educate and entertain their audience. The period from the inauguration of the Australian nation in 1901 to 1960, when distance shrank because of technological innovation and new forms of identity gained ascendance, shows the complex ways in which Australians defined their country and its global contribution. Writing about travel to Britain and other European locations helped authors to refine the Anglophone inheritance and a sense that Britain was Home. Northern-hemisphere travels also made some writers intensely feel their national identity. Participation in global conflicts during this period shifted Australian allegiances, both personal and governmental. At the same time, a new tourist industry encouraged Australians to travel at home, in order to learn more about remote areas and the Asia-Pacific region. Travel writing both abroad and at home reveals how particular forms of emotional allegiance and national identity were forged, reinforced, and maintained. This has been a particularly influential genre for a nation based on colonial migration and indigenous displacement, in which travel and mobility have been crucial.
Australian Women's Poetry and Feminism
Ann Vickery
"Women's poetry" as a marketing and pedagogic category emerged in the 1970s alongside second-wave feminism. To map the emergence of women's poetry in and of Australia requires exploring the role of gender in poetic authorship and how the field of Australian poetry has changed in light of feminist movements and theories. Women have used poetry to cross between public and private spheres, to assert an individual and often collective voice, and to critique gender's intersection with other constitutive identities such as nation and race. While poetry has provided a highly significant means of linguistic transformation and social activism, it has sometimes been viewed as too limiting for feminist writers. Similarly, while the category of "women's poetry" was strategically empowering in particular periods, it has also been viewed as generating exclusions and marginalization. Feminism has developed both historically and culturally, with the valency of various feminisms in Australia being tested through processes of institutionalization and social change at both a local and global level.
Australian Women's Writing in Mid-Century Modernity
Susan Sheridan
Women seem barely visible in the lively Australian literary scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Popular wisdom has it that after the war women were sent home and imprisoned in domesticity, but this was not entirely true. Significant numbers earned a living, and gained popular success, writing historical fiction, children's stories, feature journalism, and radio and television scripts, but the growing separation of literary from popular writing meant that their work lacked serious critical attention, and still does. Others did not achieve publication for years, while those who did were rarely recognized as significant artists. As a writing generation, these women, in particular the novelists, were eclipsed from view, both at the time and in subsequent histories. One reason for this is that they tended to be detached from prevailing debates about national identity and from traditional Left-Right oppositions. Their sense of the social responsibility of writers led them to explore topics and ideas that were outside the postwar political mainstream, such as conservation, peace, civil liberties, and Indigenous rights. Four case studies offer some illustration of the range of literary activities undertaken by these women writers, and allow a consideration of the ways in which they engaged with their social and cultural milieux: Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), Nancy Cato (1917–2000), Judith Wright (1915–2000), and Kath Walker/Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993).
Climate Fiction in English
Caren Irr
In the 21st century, a new genre of Anglophone fiction has emerged—the climate change novel, often abbreviated as "cli-fi." Many successful authors of literary fiction, such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, T. C. Boyle, Michael Crichton, Ian McEwan, Amitav Ghosh, Barbara Kingsolver, Ursula Le Guin, Lydia Millet, David Mitchell, Ruth Ozeki, Nathaniel Rich, Kim Stanley Robinson, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Marcel Theroux, have contributed to this new genre's efforts to imagine the causes, effects, and feeling of global warming. Together, their work pulls the issue-oriented and didactic approach of activist fiction into contact with the intensive description and site specificity of Romantic nature writing. Cli-fi knits these tendencies together into a description of the effects of a dramatic change in the Earth's climate on a particular location and a vision of the options available to a population seeking to adapt to or mitigate those effects.
Although cli-fi is resolutely contemporary and dedicated to creating new narratives adequate to current conditions, criticism devoted to the genre has carefully documented the persistence of national, masculinist, and anthropocentric tendencies in some of its major works. The dependence of cli-fi (and the environmental activism that inspires it) on capitalist visions of social progress has also received scrutiny. Some of these habits of representation have been inherited from literary predecessors such as Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, Ernest Callenbach, and J. G. Ballard. Ballard's Drowned World has proved an especially complicated source of inspiration for this new genre of the novel. In their efforts to update the motifs of these predecessors to the needs of the present, 21st-century cli-fi writers have experimented with the temporality, central figures, and mood of their fiction. These efforts have brought distinctive types of speculative and science fiction, as well as satires of climate change activism and new hybrid realisms, under the cli-fi umbrella. Although the genre still wrestles with inherited limitations, in every permutation, cli-fi novelists have prized innovation, experimentation, and creativity. Finally, all of their varied efforts involving cli-fi unite around an expectation that humanity and the planet can survive the changes associated with the Anthropocene.
Colonial Australian Gothic Literature
Ken Gelder
Frontier colonial Gothic literature in Australia gives expression to the experience and aftermath of violent encounters between settlers and Indigenous people on the frontier. This includes "hut literature" about shepherds in remote locations and the way in which these stories worked toward the establishment of colonial settlement and authority. Colonial development distances the Gothic from the frontier, to which it returns in belated and spectral ways. The post-frontier colonial Gothic can be considered in these terms, in stories by Francis Adams, Hume Nisbet, and Marcus Clarke. Clarke also provides examples of convict Gothic literature in colonial Australia, in particular with the serialization of His Natural Life (1870–1872). In Gothic bushranger narratives and some colonial Gothic poetry, the symbolic distance from the frontier brings with it an increased "occultization" of the bush. Marcus Clarke's famous account of "weird melancholy" evokes spectral Aboriginal presences linked to the Lemurian novel in Australia, a popular version of the post-frontier Gothic. Some narratives by Rosa Praed, including the novel Outlaw and Lawmaker (1893) and "The Bunyip" (1891), offer images of frontier violence that produce a range of effects among settlers, from excitement to disorientation. "The Bunyip" in particular throws a shadow over the prospect of a settler colonial future; this is typical of the kind of melancholy project represented in later examples of the colonial Australian Gothic.
Contemporary Australian Literary Culture
Beth Driscoll
Contemporary Australian literary culture is formed through networks of institutions that support writing and reading. This infrastructure, itself shaped by Australia's history as a former British colony and its current status as a medium-sized market in a global book industry, creates specific conditions for the production and reception of Australian literature. Institutions do not comprise the whole of Australian literary culture, and many individuals and groups position themselves as outsiders, or as members of counter-networks. Nonetheless, the work done by literary organizations enables significant acts of writing, access to reading, and debates about the role of literature in contemporary Australian society.
Six networks are key to Australia's literary culture. First, publishing in Australia is structured by a mix of local offices of multinational companies and independent presses, whose list building—and consequent effects on Australian authors and readers—is influenced by their market position and capacity for digital innovation. Distribution of books in contemporary Australia occurs through libraries and bookshops; book retail is predominantly a mix of online bookshops, independent bookstores, and discount department stores, following the closure of many Australian big-box bookshops and chain stores in 2011. Australia has a growing network of literary festivals, including flagship events that attract tens of thousands of readers as well as focused events that nurture particular genres or groups of writers. Australia's calendar of literary prizes also supports writers, builds canons, and maintains the visibility of literary culture. These expansive networks are complemented by the smaller, though influential, readerships of Australian literary magazines, which foster new writing and drive cultural debates. Finally, schools and universities institutionalize Australian writing through their curricula and increasingly provide training and employment for writers. Together, these active networks provide an outline for the form of contemporary Australian literary culture.
Contemporary Literature from Singapore
Weihsin Gui
Literature in Singapore is written in the country's four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. The various literatures flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the rise of print culture in the British colony, but after independence in 1965, English became emphasized in both the education system and society at large as part of the new government's attempts to modernize the country. Chinese, Malay, and Tamil were seen as mother tongue languages to provide Singaporeans with cultural ballast while English was regarded as a language for administration, business, and scientific and technological development. Correspondingly, literatures in other languages than English reached a plateau in terms of writerly output and readership during the 1970s and 1980s. However, since 1999, with the state's implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the country itself and on an international scale. Translation plays a key role in bridging the linguistic and literary divides wrought by the state's mother tongue policies, with several works by Cultural Medallion winners in different languages translated into English, which remains at present the shared language in Singapore. Literary anthologies are also invaluable forms through which the concepts of a national literature and national identity are expressed and negotiated. A number of anthologies involving Singaporean authors and those from other countries also highlight the growing international presence of and interest in Singaporean literature. Several anthologies also focus on the topic of urban space, city life, and the rapid transformation of Singapore's physical environment. Writings about gender and sexuality have also become more prominent in single-author collections or edited anthologies, with writers exploring various inventive and experimental narrative forms. A number of poets and writers are also established playwrights, and theater has historically been and continues to be an extremely vital form of creative expression and cultural production. Graphic novels, crime and noir fiction, and speculative and science fiction publications are also on the rise, with the awarding of the Singapore Literature Prize to Sonny Liew's The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye signaling that these genres merit serious literary consideration. A number of literary publications and materials related to Singaporean literature can be found on the Internet, such as the journal Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, the website Singapore Poetry, and the database Poetry.sg. Various nonprofit organizations are also working toward increasing public awareness about literature through events such as Singapore Poetry Writing Month, the Migrant Worker Poetry Competition, the Singapore Writers Festival and National Poetry Festival, and also through projects that exhibit poetry in train stations and on public thoroughfares.
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Basically, its when you shit in a bowl without your asscheeks making contact with the bowl because it looks dirty or its in a grimey spot, like the subway. You're ass must hover over the bowl to take said shit.
There was piss all over the seat so I had to drop a hover bomb.
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In their article, The Emerging Open Market Customer, Clark Gelling, P.E., vice president of client relations at PERIL, and Ken Grudger, principal at Ken Grudger & Associates, explore the subjects of market-smart customers, new suppliers and new products, and how they will all combine to shape and form the new energy industry.
The authors identify four energy periods, the first being the infant energy industry of 1880 to 1910. The second period, from 1910 to 1970, was marked by a turn toward regulation as a means to control perceived excesses of the electric utility industry. This time period brought technological progress and consolidation, and it extended service to all but the most remote locales.
The third period began in the 1970s, when OPEC oil embargoes triggered a worldwide energy crisis. Compounding these shocks were the growing environmental criticisms of electricity production as the root of environmental evil. Nuclear power suffered the double blows of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
The fourth period, beginning in the early 1990s, grew out of a growing impatience and frustration with the third period's reliance on regulation and centralized planning. The fourth period envisions the energy industry as one governed by market forces instead of pricing regulation, resource planning, and energy acquisition.
With that as a backdrop, the authors offer up ten ideas about the future of the fourth period as it continues to spin forward. As a reader of Power Quality magazine, we thought you might want to review and reflect on their predictions. How do their ideas measure up against the current realities and the marketplace as we now know it? Do their writings have a ring of, I told you so? We think they do.
Technologies that convert energy to services will go through a resurgence of research, development, and successful commercialization. Energy/environmental systems and energy/process systems have historically enjoyed a high growth rate of development and implementation. Lower energy prices will significantly improve the cost-effectiveness of many energy process technologies compared with nonenergy industrial processes (mechanical, chemical, etc.). As sales of these technologies increase, state and federal regulators may be more inclined to mandate technologies for environmental improvements, further reducing equipment prices.
Energy efficient lighting and heating/ventilating/air-conditioning (HVAC) technologies have benefited from utility rebates. While rebates will be drastically reduced, other forces will foster new developments, such as 1) renewed energy services industry by the retail affiliates of energy companies; 2) the "public purpose programs" that are developing in more states as regulators cling to the efficiency ethic; and 3) continued federal and state interests in appliance and building standards.
The quality of energy could become a significant price and service differentiator. Some electric utilities were surprised by the robust customer response to interruptible tariff offerings. At the same time, other customers were paying for facilities to ensure uninterrupted service. This demonstrates potential demand for a wide variety of power quality services and a ready market for interruptible power, firm power, standby power generation, cogeneration, uninterruptible power systems, clean power technologies, and similar offerings.
The open energy marketplace will unite with the information management and telecommunications industries to produce dynamic new products and services. One of the more exciting opportunities in the open market customer energy industry will be the monitoring, management, and integration businesses area. Data management, computer control systems, and telecommunications media (microwave, fiber optic, power line modulation, etc.) will provide almost unlimited opportunities in residential, commercial, and industrial marketplaces alike.
Customers' multisite locations across the United States will have instant monitoring, management, and integration capabilities that will allow them cost and service enhancements that are unfathomable now. Residential appliances could transmit data through house wiring to smart meters and then over the Internet, providing information on appliance usage, maintenance, and replacement opportunities. Knowing when and for how long refrigerator doors are open could suggest food use patterns and help supermarkets target certain products. Such information would have more value to equipment manufacturers, distributors, and marketers than it would to the customer who used the energy.
The energy metering business area will experience dynamic growth and renewal. One of the most important and growing business areas will be the energy metering function. The right to provide this primary interface between the upstream commodity supply and downstream energy services is heavily contested in industry restructuring. Not only has hourly pricing created a demand to replace millions of meters, the aggregation of multisite customers, electronic billing, and smart meters that choose the best supply options will spawn many more advances in technology. It seems that the days are numbered when the American home will continue to have separate meters for electricity, gas, and water.
Customers will devote greater attention to the management of their energy infrastructure. Like metering, this area lies at a critical juncture in the integration of all energy and energy service solutions. Sound management practices will give large energy users greater flexibility to operate upstream and downstream. Onsite generation will grow because of 1) customers requiring on site reliability; 2) customers wanting to sell into the energy market; and 3) efficient small generation systems and new technologies.
Suppliers will use innovative marketing strategies to sell into the open marketplace. The open market customer will benefit from some of the same innovative marketing strategies used by other deregulated industries, particularly in residential and small commercial and industrial markets where mass marketing prevails. Customers will be able to choose a wide variety of options.
More energy consumers will take advantage of energy and energy service outsourcing. Customers with a greater variety of choices will experience frustration from a lack of familiarity with energy and energy service issues. Residential and small commercial and industrial businesses will be more inclined to look at outsourcing energy services. This will lead to significant bidding and selection of energy partners with groups of small customers.
A plethora of financial offerings will creatively respond to financial and investment challenges. The amount of funds expended and invested by the open market customer will be an incentive for the financial business to develop new financial offerings. These will be designed to attract residential and small commercial and industrial energy customers. Creative financing could involve packaging energy procurement expenses with energy capitalization. Financial arrangements also could involve new forms of packaged energy services, such as end-use metering.
Mergers, partnerships, and collaborations will be commonplace throughout the industry. Various product, service, and information companies will come together to offer specific customers and/or projects the technologies that best meet their needs.
Opening the upstream to the open market customer will open the downstream end of the marketplace. After energy customers exercise choice in energy procurement, their remaining decision will involve energy use. As costs on the front end come down, costs on the back end proportionally will be more significant. A host of agents will emerge to educate users about methods to control energy consumption. Potential profits will spur product offerings for design, construction, operations, maintenance, and financing services for downstream equipment systems.
Now that you've read and thought about these ten fearless predictions, let us hear from you. What are your hopes and dreams about the brave new energy world we live in?
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Kylie Minogue says she suffers bouts of "mini-depression" when she finishes a world tour.
Minogue's 2011 global trek, to promote her 11th studio album Aphrodite, pulled in more than US$50 million and was ranked in 21st place in a poll of the top 50 world tours.
But the Australian star says life on the road rarely has a happy ending as she is always left feeling low when the thrill of nightly performances ends - and she's now determined to slow down her hectic schedule.
"As a performer, it's go-go-go-go-go, then stop, and stay indoors and do nothing, almost have a mini-depression," she tells Britain's The Sunday Times Style magazine.
"You go from an adrenaline high of working and travelling and performing all the time, so when you stop you have this tension in your body from your adrenal glands pumping.
"[I want to] spend more time at cruising altitude... For the first time, my lungs can breathe, and I am expanding, broadening my horizons sideways, filled with new experiences, rather than just simply going forward on that treadmill. And it feels brilliant. It feels fantastic."


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L&L needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 123 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
Leaves & Loaves
We're a fast-casual lunch restaurant located in a large metropolitan area that serves salads, sandwiches, wraps, soups, etc. We need to re-brand our image and come up with a logo that's both elegant and classy while still conveying what's inside. When you come through our doors, you order your food and take a seat. We make the food, bring it over, and take care of the rest after you're done. The staff is always friendly and we host everything from people on the run to casual meetings between business men and women.
Our bread and butter consists of our lunch crowd and catering business. Our clientele consists mostly of white collar working professionals that are health conscious and educated. The atmosphere is friendly and relaxed. Our food is always fresh.
We're not looking for anything psychedelic or cartoonish. Rather, we would like it to come off as natural, healthy, and organic while at the same time being in-style. The leaves in our name imply salad lettuces while loaves imply sandwich breads. Incorporating this into the logo would be a plus. Please no tacky clipart.
Keep in mind that the logo you are being asked to create will serve as our new identity and we will be doing business under it. You must visualize it on everything from a huge facade sign hanging outdoors to advertisements to menu boards. You are free to experiment with the color palette, although keep in mind we will be incorporating it in all of our business material. It should be easy on the eyes while conveying our message in a warm, refreshing way. That's not to say it can't have a hint of boldness.
Please be ready to provide all source and vector files which you create. The logo will primarily be used on print material, so it must be compatible with accepted standards of most printing and sign making companies. I must have everything I need to have said materials created. This means all vector and pixel files, including: .ai CMYK files and original layered .psd files. I will also need the web and PMS color codes for all colors used. The logo will be trademarked and must not be infringing in any way.
To put you in the right direction, please think something along the lines of a fusion between Panera Bread (http://www.panerabread.com/) and Whole Foods (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/)
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RiverView's Dr. Mirza Baig says early screening is key
Cancer of the colon and rectum – called colorectal (colon) cancer – is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among men and women in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year about 140,000 Americans are diagnosed with colon cancer, and more than 50,000 die from it. Yet statistics show that if everyone who is 50-years-old or older were screened regularly, as many as 60 percent of deaths from this cancer could be avoided. March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
Colon cancer develops from non-cancer polyps called adenomatous polyps, according to RiverView Health Gastroenterologist Dr. Mirza Baig. A polyp is a grape-like growth on the inside wall of the colon or rectum. Polyps grow slowly over three to ten years. Most people do not develop polyps until after the age of 50.
"It is very common to find precancerous polyps,'' Dr. Baig reported. "Some polyps become cancerous, others do not. In order to prevent colon cancer, it is important to get screened to find out if you have polyps, and to have them removed if you do. Removal of polyps has been shown to prevent colon cancer."
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The risk of getting colon cancer increases with age. More than 90 percent of cases occur in people who are 50-years-old or older. And if you think you are safe from colon cancer because you are a woman, think again. Men and women are equally affected by colon cancer. In fact, colon cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death in women. About 67,000 women are diagnosed with this cancer each year and more than 40 percent of them – 28,600 – die from the disease. So no matter your sex, if you are 50 or older, getting screened for colon cancer could save your life.
Your doctor may advise you to get screened at an earlier age if you have a family history of colon cancer or adenomatous polyps or have a personal history of inflammatory bowel disease, such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's Disease. There are several inherited disorders that greatly increase your risk of colon cancer.
Other factors that increase your risk of developing colon cancer are having a diet that is low in fiber and high in fat, and having a sedentary life-style.
Screenings available
Just because you do not have any symptoms may not mean you are in the clear for colon cancer. Precancerous polyps and colon cancer do not always cause symptoms, especially in the beginning. You could have polyps or colon cancer and not know it. That is why having a screening test is so important.
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Marcus watches The Stath play the big screen version of the Littlest Hobo...
Hummingbird (AKA Redemption or Crazy Joe in other territories) has us following Royal Marine Joseph "Joey" Smith (Jason Statham) while he's on the run from his duties. Living homeless in London, Joey gets into a fight and while escaping finds an apartment that's empty for the duration of the summer that he can live in. Cleaning himself up and joining local the Chinese mob as a "driver" due to his brutal set of skills, Joey befriends local nun Sister Cristina (Agata Buzek) and their friendship begins to change both of their lives.
Hummingbird had been getting some solid reviews during its theatrical run so i was quite up for seeing the new Stath flick but this isn't a straight up Stath flick at all really. For a fair few movies now, this action star has played up the one liners, up'd the ante when it came to stunts and action packed moments but here he seems to have dropped about 80% of that and this more grown up, more level headed film actually felt quite rewarding by the end and not just the popcorn fun I usually have with The Stath.
Director Steven Knight's tale actually manages to outreach the usual London based crime dramas and has a much more European flavour and is much more akin to something that could play to the world audience rather than just British blokes. Joey and Sister Cristina's journey is very much a spiritual one and it feels more personal. That's not to say this is a religious experience but Joey and Cristina's path though this story is one that is forcing them to question their lives and question what the better version of themselves is.
On top of that there's a well told bit of romance here. It's born out of mutual respect and a sense of longing for something better and it never falls into gunfire and saving the girl because the action here is kept to an effective minimum and always plays as a separate part in Joey's life. Speaking of the action, Stath really delivers the blows here. The fights are smaller and less showy than we're used to from him but you feel every precisely laid blow and it really paints his character as a serious bad ass. Hey, sometimes less is more right?
I loved the sense of melancholy here, these lost souls only really functioning within the realms of the choices they've made and that romantic sense that they might actually save each other is played out to the bitter end. Sure Stath, still has a way to go to totally play a convincing dramatic lead but he does a really great job here and gives us a character that feels much more rounded than his usual scowl and growl action heroes. Hummingbird keeps a level head throughout and really manages to balance a whole lot of elements that many a thriller-drama often slip on and it really managed to keep me locked in to its story.
This is a super crisp, bright and stylised image. In fact with the neon lit back streets and a huge use of shadows, London hasn't looked this good in film for a while. With interiors there's plenty of orange and teal and plenty of well placed glowing lighting making everyone glow in nice HD ways and with the sharpness of the image there's a nice bit of depth to it too.
In the well lit but still dark sets, textures and detail on faces are often fantastic. Grime, blood, dirt, wrinkles and stubble can feel almost touchable at times. Weirdly in amongst this pretty bright visuals I found the black levels a bit pale at times, often even hazy. It doesn't really detract from the wonderful depictions of London by night but they are noticeably off pure more often than not. Thankfully this rarely detracts from the great HD presentation here.
The bass levels are immediately delivered in the film's opening flashback as they rumble away and for most of the film these are kept as a subtle but effective element rather than an overpowering one. The busy London streets with their occasional eastern flavours utilize the surrounds well and deliver a well layered audio experience and the occasional but heavily gun play rattles the walls with its power. Dialogue is good and clear, despite Stath's mumbling, sound effects are natural sounding and this is a balanced, well controlled track that ticks all the modern audio boxes to good effect.
Sadly the 'Making of' (04:59 HD) is so short it barely even registers.
I'd probably put Hummingbird at the top of my Stath list of starring role movies. It feels so unlike most of his other almost cartoon actioners (that I'm not putting down – he does them well). The disc here looks fantastic, sounds fantastic and it's really only the blink and you'll miss 'em extras that let the release down.
NOTE: Chris noticed an encode error for the first six mins of the film, but he's notified Lionsgate. I'm sure he'll go into more detail in the comments below.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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I still need to see this one (it is known as Redemption in the USA). I like it when Jason Statham steps outside of the box from his action roles
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
As Marcus mentioned, the fist six minutes of this release contain an encoding error which renders the black levels incorrectly. I notified the relevant people and was told it would be addressed, but it has made it onto the retail discs regardless. If you have an issue with the encoding error I would suggest contacting Lionsgate directly.
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 21st October 2013
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Making Of
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Steven Knight
Cast: Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Christian Brassington, Vicky McClure
Genre: Action, Drama and Thriller
Length: 100 minutes
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