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Moon over Biloxi
by Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Entitled "Moon over Biloxi", this screen print by Shepard Fairey (Obey) is an edition of 400. Made in july 2010, it is signed and numbered by the artist. Format : 18 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm).
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Artists | Shepard Fairey (Obey) |
Type of work | Screen print |
Edition of | 400 |
Format | 18 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm) |
Signed by the artist | Yes |
Year of edition | july 2010 |
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The artist
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Shepard Fairey, also known as Obey, was born in 1970 in Charleston (US). Between 1989 and 1992, he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, specializing in illustration. In the meantime, with friends of his, he started making stickers of the French wrestler André Roussimoff (a.k.a Andre the Giant), always bearing an epigraph: "Andre the Giant Has a Posse". He pasted so many stickers and posters that he was threatened with criminal prosecution.
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Does Britney Spears Have a New Album Coming Out?
Britney Spears made a surprise appearance on The Ellen Show today (Oct. 12), to make a big announcement...of an announcement.
Spears told Ellen DeGeneres that while she can't share the big news is yet, it'll be revealed on Thursday, October 18. DeGeneres also revealed she has news of her own: Spears will share her announcement on DeGeneres' YouTube channel.
Does this mean Spears is releasing a new album? Her last album—Glory—came out in 2016, so it's about time for a new one. Plus, since ending her Las Vegas residency this year, she'll have plenty of time to continue touring. Spears isn't giving us any clues though, so we'll just have to wait until next week to find out.
Spears' news wasn't the only big thing about her Ellen appearance. The singer also reunited with her Mickey Mouse Club co-star Ryan Gosling, who dropped by the show as a guest, too. Gosling told DeGeneres that it had been a while since they had reunited, but that he fondly remembers his time in the Mickey Mouse Club, noting how "freakishly talented" Spears was since the beginning of her career. They unfortunately didn't share screen time, but DeGeneres shared a backstage picture of them on Twitter.
Watch Spears' visit to The Ellen Show, below.

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Failure is the most important step to reaching success, but it can still feel like it's crushing your soul. To make failure your friend and not your enemy, you must overcome it. Here are some strategies for moving on after a tough break.
Pictures: Kevin Necessary, Lloyd Morgan, Harald Groven, Gareth Williams, Roger Casas-Alatriste
What Is Failure?
Failure is defined as a lack of success, but its true definition is really up to you. Small things can be failures. Maybe you blew an easy sale today at work, or forgot to grab something important when you were at the store. We all make mistakes, and the mistakes we make that have some weight to them — big or small — make us feel like we've failed.
Normally, we reserve the word failure for the bigger things. The times when we've let others down, and, more importantly, ourselves. Trying your hardest to do something important and failing is when it really stings and shakes your confidence. Maybe your startup business idea failed, you lost the big game, or you let someone you care about down. Sometimes failure can leave a mark — but it doesn't have to.
Feel What You Need to Feel
Failure can take a hefty emotional toll, and that's OK. What's important is getting the negative feelings you have out of your system so you can regroup and tackle what's next. Don't keep how you feel trapped inside of you like a shaken up soda. Bottling your emotions can lead to two things:
- An emotional outburst: Eventually the pressure will build and it will be too much for you to contain. In a moment of weakness, everything you've kept inside could explode and set you back even further. This not only affects your mental state, but it can affect your relationships too. When you have an outburst, the people you care about often end up in the crossfire.
- Creeping negativity: If you only loosen the cap, the negativity will slowly and persistently enter your mind. You need to openly confront the mistakes you made and give yourself the chance to feel it all. Otherwise, anxiety will start to linger in the back of your mind and the soft hiss of failure will continue. Constant anxiety is incredibly unhealthy and can lead to even more problems.
So, how do you let it all out? There are a few ways to get the bad, and — most importantly — retain the knowledge you gained:
- Set aside some time: It's ok to feel like you've hit rock bottom. Completely ignoring what happened isn't helpful, so set aside a specific amount of time to wallow as much as you want. Take some time to be angry, upset and frustrated so you can get it all out. If it's something small, all you may need is an hour to pace around or cry in a pillow. For something larger, give yourself a full 24 hours to let it all out and wake up the next day with a clean slate. If you need more than a day, that's OK, but make sure it's an amount of time set by you and that you stick to it. You get that time to be as mopey as you want, but when it's over, move on.
- Talk about it: Talk to somebody you know about how you're feeling. It's well known that just talking about something can make you feel better. Take a load off and express yourself. Chances are whoever you talk to will try to make you feel better, but even if they don't, saying how you feel out loud puts that information out somewhere besides your brain.
- Don't let it become a part of your identity: Failure is something that happens, not something you are. Susan Tardanico at Forbes explains that just because you haven't found a successful way to do something doesn't mean you are a failure. Be careful not to blur the lines between making mistakes and being someone who only makes mistakes. Our actions may define us, but our failures do not. The actions you take to move past failure and reach success will define you in the end.
Failure can leave an open wound and it's unwise to ignore it. Without acknowledging it, your wound will continue to hurt, take longer to heal and possibly get infected.
Look at the Failure of Others
Don't think for a second that you're the only person on the planet to nose dive. Often we look at other's success and assume they have everything together when the reality is that they encounter failure just as much as anyone. Some are better at hiding it than others, but failure is universal. Before you start bashing yourself for not hitting the mark, explore the world of failure and see how vast it truly is.
What successful person do you look up to? Take a look at the failures they have encountered in their lives and work. Read biographies, blogs, and listen to speeches. Successful people talk about failure just as much as they talk about success, and it's because they respect how important it is to embrace it. Even the greatest people in our world have fallen, and fallen hard at one point or another.
Your friends and family fail too. Think about the failures they have encountered, and remember that you're not alone. It's not to point and laugh, but to show yourself that failure is ok. You're human, just like everybody else.
Change Your Definition of Failure
Have we mentioned that failure is good? It can be hard to think that way, but changing your definition of failure can help you cope. Failure is a learning and growing opportunity that is necessary for growth.
Robert Spadinger at Pick the Brain has a list of truths that can help adjust your own definition of failure:
#1: Failure is an integral part on the way to success and self realisation.
#2: Whenever you step outside the comfort zone and whenever you try something new, failure becomes inevitable.
#3: Each failure brings you one step closer to reaching your goals.
#4: Failure is a great teacher and it allows you to learn some of the most valuable life lessons.
#4: Each failure makes you stronger, bigger and better.
#6: Making mistakes is not a big deal as long as you learn from them and avoid repeating them.
#7: Failure teaches you that a certain approach may not be ideal for a specific situation and that there are better approaches.
#8: Successful people will never laugh at you or judge you when you fail, because they have already been there and they know about the valuable lessons you can learn from failure.
#9: No matter how often you fail, you are not a failure as long as you don't give up.
#10: Each time you fail, your fear of failure becomes smaller, which allows you to take on even bigger challenges.
Every mistake is a learning opportunity, and after you've moved past your emotions, it's important to revisit your mistakes with a new perspective. Look at what you did that went wrong, but also look at what you did that was right, and what you can do better next time. Failure is rarely so black and white.
Start the Next Project to Occupy Your Mind
Once you've had your grieving time, try again or move on to the next thing. Fill your head with thoughts on the next task at hand so there's no room for negativity to slither in. You don't want to completely block out the mistakes you've made — you won't learn that way — but you also don't want to dwell on them either.
Get started on your next project and really focus on it. Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki suggests having your next project ready so you're always equipped to carry on. Nothing takes your mind off of things like hard work. If you need some time away from work, find a hobby. There's bound to be something you enjoy and are good at that will keep your mind moving forward. The key is to switch your focus and give yourself time to remember that failing isn't the end of the world.
The best part about failure is that you often get another chance. Angel Chernoff at Marc and Angel Hack Life points out that mistakes are simply a form of practice:
Every great artist was once an amateur. The sooner you get comfortable with practicing and making mistakes, the quicker you'll learn the skills and knowledge necessary to master your art. You'll never be 100% sure it will work, but you can always be 100% sure doing nothing won't work. So get out there and try again. Either you succeed or you learn a vital lesson. Win — Win.
It's OK to fail at something over and over, but as soon as you give up altogether — that's the real failure.
Remember, failure is inevitable, but it's not something that has to define you. It's actually good for you, and setting yourself up for it can be good for you too. Make failure a tool, a stepping stone, to get you where you want to go. It's OK to feel defeated when it happens, but losing the battle never means losing the war.


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Plenty of moms can tell you that breastfeeding isn't always easy or cheap, but one woman went ahead and proved it — and she has the receipts.
Reddit user Crock-pot-of-doom tracked her expenses during the first year of her daughter's life. The bill came to $598 for all of her breastfeeding supplies and devices for the year.
That's pretty far from "free," which is a frequent selling point for breastfeeding over formula feeding. Crock-pot-of-doom notes that she's a working mom who travels for work, meaning she had to make the extra investment in pumps and milk storage containers. She did get one pump for free from her insurance company but bought two more — including a hand pump that didn't work — over the course of the year.
"I bristle whenever anyone says breastfeeding is free and there are no bottles to wash, because for me (and I'm guessing a lot of other working mothers) it certainly isn't free and I have bottles and pump parts to be washed everyday," wrote the user in her post. "Do I think it is worth it? For me, yes. For anyone else? They have to do their own math and decide."
Other moms have pointed out the true costs of breastfeeding in the past. In a piece for Forbes, Kavin Senapathy pinpoints five ways that breastfeeding isn't free, including less-measurable costs like lost work opportunities and a temporary loss of bodily autonomy. Glamour's Sarah Bregel wrote about the expensive "must-haves" that overwhelmed her in the early days of nursing her first child — many of which turned out to be unnecessary.
I also found myself spending money on various devices and potions when I nursed my first kid, searching desperately for ways to make it all easier.
Clearly, breastfeeding is a cheaper option than formula feeding. The price of formula adds up, especially in the first months of life when babies eat heartily and often. But with breastfeeding, while the food itself is free, it has other costs that perhaps don't get counted appropriately.
"Now with the experience of actually doing it, the message of 'free' and 'easy' really rubbed me the wrong way," the Reddit writer told Parents. "Don't get me wrong, I love breastfeeding. I just wish there had been more realistic talk about what one may need."
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Checkout Simplemost for other great tips and ideas to make the most out of life.


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Sam Moran is the man. When I saw him singing the National Anthem at tonight's State of Origin, I thought 'finally, a contender'. To the crown. Julie Anthony's crown, that is.
When I was growing up, Julie Anthony was Australia's anthem singer. No matter what the occasion, no matter what the crowd, she'd be there. She knew the rules – you sing it straight, you sing it loud, you allow enough time between notes for the people in the cheap seats to catch up.
Somewhere around about the time that Gen X realised that the idea of 'jobs for life' was no longer viable, singing the anthem went from being an honour to being a 'marketing opportunity'. And so began a long and varied parade of 'personalities' giving us their version of what is, essentially, a not very exciting song. Important, but not that exciting.
The ones I particularly dislike are the vocal gymnasts, more interested in showing us what they 'got' than delivering the song. And you often get the impression that they couldn't launch into the second verse if, by some strange twist of fate, an encore was demanded.
Julie wasn't like that. She could have sung that song backwards, sideways and upside down, through as many choruses as there are (only two officially now, though it began life with four). She knew the original version ('Australian sons etc') as well as the current, more inclusive version ('Australians all etc').
And now we have Sam. As the lead singer of The Wiggles, Sam knows how to deliver a tune to a packed, squirming stadium. He knows that his audience wants to sing along, not be sung at. He knows that a fast game is a good game, and his audience suffers from the modern syndrome known as 'Short Attention Span'.
He and Julie have a lot in common. The same ringing, bell-like tone to the voice (though his is admittedly considerably deeper). The dark hair. The serious expression softened with a smile. He's even promoting a grown-up album of love songs, a genre which Julie made her own.
The decisive point, however, is the fact that both work/ed with large, green faux animals, albeit one a dragon and one a dinosaur. (I just don't know that Julie married hers.)


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Indie filmmaker David Schock didn't listen to more than the first few minutes of the odd, unlabeled tape in the box full he'd received for his film that day in early 2008. He was collecting audio of performances by poet and theatrical performer Herbert Woodward Martin for his film Jump Back, Honey, and that extra tape clearly wasn't one Schock needed for his project.
He was a little curious about the tape, of the old reel-to-reel format. It started out with someone noting that it was taped at the University Dayton in November of 1964, and introduced Dayton City Commissioner Don L. Crawford, and Charles Wesley, the president of Central State College. He set the tape aside and went on with his work.
Over a year later, the project was finished, and Schock attended a well-received premiere at U.D. But he remembered that odd, unmarked tape he still hadn't listed to, so he dragged out his equipment and gave it a listen – this time, to the whole thing. Sure enough, it started with opening remarks by president Wesley and Commissioner Crawford, who was the first African-American to be elected to that office. Then the featured speaker came on: Dr. Martin Luther King.
Calls to U.D.'s archivist confirmed that Dr. King had, indeed, visited Dayton on November 28, 1964, and had given a speech at the U.D. Fieldhouse to a crowd of 6,200. In his usual, eloquent style, King addressed how "we've come a long, long way" in terms of racial equality, but noted that we still had a long way to go. He advocated peaceful protest and using the ballot box as the way to effect change, and highlighted the need for legislation to abolish discrimination. The tape cut off fifty minutes into his speech. The rest of his talk remains lost, the whereabouts of any other, complete recordings of it – if any exist – are still unknown.
Schock contacted Mr. Martin, the subject of his film, who'd provided him with the box of media. Martin had no idea where the tape had come from, or how it came into his possession. He hadn't listened to it, nor was he aware of its contents.
Later newspaper articles about King's speech surfaced, and revealed how, while King spoke to an enthusiastic crowd, there was a different scene outside the Fieldhouse, where protesters gathered, bearing signs with racial epithets and calling Dr. King a communist.
Despite this, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize just a few weeks later, and gave almost the same speech there as the one he'd given in Dayton.
It's easy for me to think we've come a long way, since I wasn't around at the time King gave this speech, but one only need to watch the news to see that there's still a long way to go, even now, almost 50 years later. You can hear Dr. King's speech, digitized by David Schock, on the Jump Back, Honey website, as well as read a transcript of it.
What do you think? And can you imagine finding a treasure like that tape in a box of stuff you'd obtained for something completely different?
More at the My Town Monday blog
Reel-to-reel tape photo via ehow.com
Dayton Daily News photos by Bill Koehler via jumpbackhoney.com


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A life well lived, a death journey unexpected
By David Swanton
Posted Friday, 6 November 2015 in ON LINE opinion - Australia's e-journal of social and political debate
Posted Monday, 2 November 2015 in the Canberra Times, p. Times 1
I am exasperated, devastated, and relieved.
I've experienced these emotions during the recent death of my mother. She said, in one of her last phone calls to me, that 'I was told that it would be painless, and I'm so cranky'.
My mum, Bet to her friends, had pancreatic cancer. From her diagnosis in April until her death in September there were some bright moments, but we all knew there would ultimately be a downward slide. Even though she was told that her death by cancer would be made painless, she interpreted that as meaning that there would definitely be no pain or suffering, and was confident that would be the case. Unfortunately, she was wrong.
Her brother had recently died of the same disease, and had had significant surgical intervention. After medical advice, mum opted against major surgical intervention (though a couple of stents were inserted), chemotherapy or radiotherapy, not that those were really options for someone who was otherwise healthy, but was in her eighties and somewhat frail.
The reason I am exasperated, when mum was just cranky, is because my disposition is not as uplifting and indomitable as hers. Nobody's could be. She never once asked 'why me', and she never complained about her situation. When we asked mum about her pain level, and hoping she had no more extreme pain flare-ups (a fact of life for many cancer patients, but she could not recall being forewarned), she would give a thumbs up, and try to manage a smile. She didn't want us to feel down. She left a message in April to inform me of her diagnosis and said 'Darl, it's all OK, just calling to let you know I've got the results back and I've got pancreatic cancer. No need to call back. Bysie Bye'. It is easy to be exasperated when a person of such wonderful spirit had expectations of a painless death that could not be met.
Her poor quality of life in the last months was not the fault of her palliative carers. Her doctors and nurses at her hospital were professional, compassionate, and according to mum, 'excellent'. All staff were committed and sensitive to the needs of patients in pain and suffering. However, more money is needed for the palliative care hospital system. Mum's needs have always been simple, but she couldn't use a phone or TV because, apparently, three quarters of the phones and televisions in the hospital didn't work. We had to buy and teach her how to use a mobile phone in her last month (so she could call us as required). In the absence of a working TV that would have taken her mind off things, she existed to think, breathe and stare at a ceiling when we weren't there. We can do better for our terminally ill in contemporary Australia.
Perhaps it is now moot, but it is interesting to speculate what mum would have done if she knew that she would eventually have two episodes of excruciating breakthrough pain: one requiring dramatic ambulance attendance, and the other while in palliative care. As well as these pain events, there is also a lack of dignity associated with this disease. She was toileted and showered, there was a cocktail of pills and suppositories, ongoing and frequent injections of painkillers and antiemetics, cannulas, little vomiting episodes, dryness, artificial saliva sprays (because drinking was nil or minimal), lack of appetite, nil food for the last week, emaciation, and gurgling respiratory infections. And that was in addition to the bowel blockage, the appearance of being six-months pregnant, the threat of possibly vomiting fecal matter, and knowledge that she would not be sedated so that scenario could never arise. And perhaps she should have buzzed the nurses every half an hour for extra pain relief, rather than waiting…
Until the last three days she still had a bit of spark. At that stage she indicated she would be happy to die then. She was then consumed by the disease, her optimism and vitality overrun as she drifted in and out of light sleep, signalling the onset of the inevitable. There was lots of hand-holding, lots of support, and distress at the discomfort of our loved one.
After her many pain events (minor events though were well managed in palliative care) and suffering, she died in the company of a nurse, while her loving husband and I, her eldest son, were but ten minutes away from being with her. She would have preferred dying in the company of her loving family and relatives, and preferably at home. Who wouldn't? If she could have chosen her time of death, then the family could have been there for her. The extended family has been devastated.
Bet suffered more than I could or would wish to endure. I am a chapter coordinator for Dr Philip Nitschke's voluntary euthanasia organisation, Exit International. Exit members, mainly your average grandparents, have access to information that would allow them to, for example, procure drugs that lead to a peaceful death. Such processes are currently illegal in Australia, despite overwhelming public support. Nonetheless, thousands of Australians have procured and are procuring their illegal drugs, just so they have the option of dying before their pain and suffering becomes unbearable.
Many patients would benefit if increased funding were made available for the palliative care system, which is more likely if voluntary euthanasia were a legal option. If I were in my mum's position, I would have chosen, intentionally, to die earlier, rather than suffer as mum did. If mum had been better informed and had chosen that option, she would not have suffered as much. Given the cost of doctors, nurses, medications, hospital beds, leave from work for visiting relatives and friends, there is a substantial cost to keep patients alive and in a relatively pain free state. This is a cost society chooses to bear, humanely, for those patients who wish to hang on to the natural end, such as my mum. We wouldn't want it any other way.
On the other hand, there are better opportunities for governments to expend scarce health budget funds rather than where they are not wanted, especially in these times of austerity. Many patients don't want excessive funds spent on them and would rather, if legal options were available, choose voluntary euthanasia rather than pain and suffering.
I want the option—I hope I will have the legal option—of voluntary euthanasia. Bet chose not to have euthanasia. Whatever her choice was, it was her individual choice about her life, and it needs to be respected, as everybody's choice should be. Bet is no longer suffering, and for that we are relieved. She had a great life. She loved and was well loved. She might have joked that mums are always right, but on her chosen end-of-life journey, I suspect even she would say it didn't meet expectations.
Dr Swanton is director of Ethical Rights and ACT chapter coordinator for Exit International.


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Were getting to a size where its worth really taking a careful look at what are all the things that we can do to make social media the most positive force for good possible, Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox told TechCrunch about the companys new milestone. Thirteen years after launching and less than five years after hitting 1 billion, Facebook now has 2 billion monthly active users.
Facebook wants people to celebrate with a personalized Good Adds Up video they can make and share here. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg played it cool with this briefannouncement message.
Two billion makes Facebook the largest social app in terms of logged-in users, above YouTubes 1.5 billion, WeChats 889 million, Twitters 328 million and Snapchats estimated 255 million (extrapolated from its December 2015 ratio when it had 110 million daily and 170 million monthly users). Beyond YouTube, only Facebooks other apps have more than 1 billion, including WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, with 1.2 billion each. Instagram might soon join that club as it recently rocketed past 700 million.
Facebooks growth the last half decade has been fueled by the developing world. The company has relentlessly optimized its app for cheap Android smartphones and low-bandwidth connections. Its added 746 million users in Asia and the Rest of World region since hitting 1 billion users total. Meanwhile, it only added 41 million in the U.S. and Canada.
Despite Facebooks size and age, at 17 percent its user count is growing as fast or faster than any year since 2012. And people arent using it less either. In fact, 66 percent of Facebooks monthly users return each day now compared to 55 percent when it hit 1 billion. If the teenaged social network isnt as cool to teenagers any more, its not showing in the big metrics.
But neither does the colossal impact Facebook has had on society, which its now trying to bend toward positivity with its new mission statement toGive people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.
Theres definitely a deep sense of responsibility in every part of the company, Cox told TechCrunch. Were getting to the scale where we have to get much better about understanding how the product has been used. Thats why hes been traveling around the world doing user research. And its why Mark Zuckerberg has been crisscrossing the country on a listening tour that many people cynically assume is the start to a run for president, despite the CEOs denials.
Perhaps stewarding a 2-billion-person community is responsibility enough to get out of Silicon Valley and figure out how Facebook impacts peoples lives.
There are the big, newsy things like suicides on Facebook Live and fears that fake news got Donald Trump elected. But deeper down, there are even more complex ramifications of a near ubiquitous social network. It can propel internet addiction that alienates people, and facilitate the filter bubbles that polarize society by reinforcing our opinions. Facebook has largely conquered its competitors, giving it the slack to finally address the modern sociological challenges that stem from its popularity.
Cox says an important pattern Facebook is adopting is When you think about very complex systems that are affecting humanity, just being open about whats happening. And then for example in the case of something like suicide or bullying, going and working with subject matter experts, getting the research on whats the best possible thing that we can do, and then talking to the world about it. To make the discussion about these tragic moments as accessible and productive as possible, Facebook has taken to publishing transparency reports and explainers about its policies and procedures.
I live with the constant goal of understanding, for every single thing that we do, how do we maximize all that goodness, and curtail any way that it can be misused or turned into something sad Cox solemnly concludes.
If getting to 1 billion was about building a product, and getting to 2 billion was about building a user base, Facebooks responsibility is to build empathy between us as it reaches for 3 billion.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/


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I am out the door early in the AM on my way to NJ for Ranger U! I'll be driving this trip instead of flying (Ranger offices are only 4.5 hours drive from DC!) and I am ecstatic about not having to go to the airport. yay!! I'll see you from the road, still so much left to do and not enough time!
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For my solo show at Vykhod, the center for media art in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, I produced a new batch of "17 Sekunden Kunst" video pizzazz. These boxes were served fresh to attenders of the private view, who had the choice between "Making friends", "Once around the block", "Bowing takes practice", "Artist in residence" (my trilogy on crazy artists in weird residencies), and more.
I'm adding here the curator's statement on this series [original title: "17 Sekunden Kunst"], written by Paolo Bianchi on the occasion of the premiere of these films at Linz09:
When dizzying changes regularly put the vulnerability of people and citizens to the test, Lena Lapschina's work is precisely in this gap between surprise and imposition. For years she has been taking video material at international venues of art.
Lena Lapschina creates short videos from her material, which she gives an aesthetic form under the title "17 Seconds Art". By this exact limitation in time, the films produce the effect of decoupling from reality. Through the radical sequencing, the recordings on the other side achieve a compaction, which becomes a curious and impressive image microcosmos of the social environment. The shots seem like a witty puzzle game that oscillates in content and thematically from absurd to banal. This humor does not present itself supercilious and does not have better knowledge. It appears in the gap between the sensible and the senseless.
Lena Lapschina has chosen the short time span of 17 seconds, as it is worth it to stay tuned.


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Pope Francis, marking Palm Sunday in a packed St. Peter's Square, ignored his prepared homily and spoke entirely off-the-cuff in a remarkable departure from practice. Later, he continued to stray from the script by hopping off his popemobile to pose for "selfies" with young people and also sipping tea passed to him from the crowd.
In his homily, Francis called on people, himself included, to look into their own hearts to see how they are living their lives.
"Has my life fallen asleep?" Francis asked after listening to a Gospel account of how Jesus' disciples fell asleep shortly before he was betrayed by Judas before his crucifixion.
"Am I like Pontius Pilate, who, when he sees the situation is difficult, washes my hands?"
He sounded tired, frequently pausing to catch his breath, as he spoke for about 15 minutes in his homily during Palm Sunday Mass, which solemnly opens Holy Week for the Roman Catholic Church.
"Where is my heart?" the pope asked, pinpointing that as the "question which accompanies us" throughout Holy Week.
Francis seemed to regain his wind after the 2 ½ hour ceremony. He shed his red vestments atop his plain white cassock, chatted amiably with cardinals dressed more formally than he at that point. Then he posed for "selfies" with young people from Rio de Janeiro who had carried a large cross in the square.
He had barely climbed aboard his open-topped popemobile when he spotted Polish youths. They, too, were clamoring for a "selfie" with a pope, and he hopped off, not even waiting for the vehicle to fully stop, to oblige them. In another moment in the pope's long tour of the square, the Vatican's security chief poured herbal mate tea from a thermos, thrust toward the pontiff by someone in the crowd, into a mate cup, also held out by an admirer, and passed the cup to Francis for a sip.
In a crowd of around 100,000 Romans, tourists and pilgrims, people clutched olive tree branches, tall palm fronds or tiny braided palm leaves shaped like crosses that were blessed by Francis at the start of the ceremony.
Francis used a wooden pastoral staff carved by Italian prison inmates, who donated it to him. The pope wants to put people on the margins of life at the center of the church's attention.
Francis wore red vestments, symbolizing blood shed by the crucified Jesus.
Holy Week culminates next Sunday with Easter Mass, also in St. Peter's Square. Many faithful will remain in Rome, while others will pour into the city for the April 27 canonization of two popes, John Paul II and John XXIII. Francis noted that John Paul's long-time aide, now Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland, had come to Rome.
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Cool article! What about the entry door to the room? A standard interior door is going to let out a bunch of sound from the gap between the bottom of the door and the floor. Do you add a soundproof entry door?
Soundproofing 101: How To Keep Your Home Theater Quiet
Sound familiar? Ever wonder what it would take to soundproof a home theater/media room/man cave? Or maybe you're building a new home or planning an addition to accommodate the theater of your dreams and want to include proper sound isolation as part of the plan.
We called on home theater guru Anthony Grimani and asked him to walk us through the basics of soundproofing. Grimani is president and founder of Performance Media Industries (pmiltd.com), a Novato, California–based firm that designs and engineers world-class home theaters and professional studios. PMI's specialty is architectural acoustics, which involves everything from selecting bassfriendly room dimensions to adding acoustical wall treatments to managing construction projects and building soundproof rooms. Grimani is also co-founder of MSR Acoustics (msr-inc.com), which supplies acoustical tuning systems and specialty construction materials based on PMI's designs.
As a veteran of Dolby Labs and Lucasfilm THX, he was instrumental in developing standards for home theater and is credited with developing the Surround EX format for introduction with Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace in 1999. Grimani is also a longtime instructor for the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA), which runs an educational program for professional electronics installers and technicians.
Not-So-Good Vibrations
When you think about it, there's not much to the walls in a typical American home: sheets of half-inch-thick drywall screwed or nailed to 2-by-4 studs. Rap your knuckle on the wall, and it sounds hollow, which explains in part why standard walls don't do a very good job of containing sound. If the kids are clowning around in the room next to your home office, you hear the ruckus. If they're playing Call of Duty or watching The Avengers—subwoofer cranked up to 11—you hear and feel the sonic mayhem.
Standard drywall construction has what acousticians call a sound transmission class (STC) rating of 40 decibels; the higher the number, the better the material is at blocking sound. When you crank up your system to experience Jimi playing "Voodoo Child" at concert volumes, it's easy to hit a very loud peak sound-pressure level of 110 dB. An STC of 40 means a person on the other side of the wall will definitely hear Jimi jamming, and if you were to measure the volume with a sound meter, it would register about 70 dB, which is loud enough to be bothersome. You begin to have an appreciation for how the phrase paper-thin walls came into being.
Grimani likes to compare the walls and ceiling of a home theater to a giant sail. "Think of the drywall as a big tarp that collects the air displaced by your speakers," he says. On a boat, the sail transmits energy from the wind through a mast to the hull and propels it forward. In a home theater with standard construction, the drywall collects the air and vibrates; that vibration is transmitted through the studs to the wall on the other side or the floor above. (Good luck if either of those spaces is a bedroom.) So most of the sound you hear in the room above, below, or adjacent to a home theater actually travels through the studs that connect the two walls or the joists that connect the ceiling to the floor above. Sound also leaks through electrical outlets, lighting fixtures, and other openings that aren't properly sealed. And then there's just shoddy construction with materials that don't line up, leaving gaps, seams that aren't caulked, etc.
"Sometimes people think, Well, I'll just add a second layer of drywall, and that will get rid of the problem," Grimani observes. "It helps a little but not much. It's like the difference between using a light sail and a heavy sail—it still pushes the boat forward." People also believe that putting fiberglass or other forms of insulation in the wall will improve the sound isolation, but it barely does because sound transmits through the studs, not the air. "Air is not a very good transmitter, so shoving a bunch of fiberglass in there won't make much of a difference," Grimani says. He notes that you'll get about the same minimal improvement you get by doubling up on the drywall (more on that in a moment).
Another common misconception is that putting foam or acoustic panels on the walls and ceiling will somehow stop sound from going into the room next door. "That would be the equivalent of putting wood blocks in front of your sail to stop the boat from moving," Grimani says. "Insane! The wind is going to get around those blocks, hit the sail, and move the boat forward." Sound absorber panels are intended to control echoes inside a room, not block sound.
Soundproofing 101
It seems there are plenty of approaches to soundproofing that either don't work or don't work well, so what does it take to successfully soundproof a home theater?
The science of soundproofing boils down to three things: mass, damping, and decoupling. You can achieve varying degrees of soundproofing by adding mass, damping wall surfaces so they don't vibrate, and most important, decoupling structures so they aren't physically connected. "Ideal sound isolation is a combination of all three," Grimani explains. "The right mass, correctly damped with sufficient decoupling, will give you very good separation between spaces." And isolation is what you want when it comes to sound systems that pump out enough bass to send shockwaves throughout the house.
Let's take a closer look at those key ingredients.
Mass. The most common way to add mass to a wall is to double up on drywall, the idea being that the heavier the wall, the less it's going to transmit sound. But, as noted earlier, simply slapping on a second layer of drywall barely moves the sound isolation needle. Technically speaking, you'll get an additional 3 dB of sound isolation, which is like barely nudging down the volume on your A/V receiver. In other words, it's game over when Optimus Prime and Megatron start duking it out an hour after your kids go to sleep. "Mass on its own doesn't quite cut it," Grimani says. "Damping and decoupling go a lot further."
Damping. The idea behind damping is to reduce vibration in the ceiling and walls of a room, which in turn will mitigate the transmission of sound through studs and joists to an adjacent room. There are a couple of options, starting with specialty drywall that's made for soundproofing. "It's internally damped with a viscoelastic compound that absorbs sound and vibration," Grimani explains. "When you rap on it with your knuckle, it's much more dead sounding than regular drywall, which kind of goes bink bink bink."
Acoustically engineered drywall is available from several companies in thicknesses ranging from half an inch to more than an inch and includes the Sound-Engineered Drywall (SED) line from Supress, National Gypsum's Gold Bond SoundBreak XP Gypsum Board, and Serious Energy's QuietRock line. As you can see in Figure 1, sound-engineered drywall with insulation does a respectable job of impeding sound transfer in the middle frequencies but won't prevent bass from permeating an adjacent room; in the example shown, the Transmission Loss (TL) at 63 hertz—or how much sound is attenuated at that low frequency—is only 16 dB. "Lowfrequency vibrations just push right through to the studs," Grimani explains.
Damping and Mass. The mass-loaded vinyl barrier used in the soundproofed walls shown in Figures 2, 3, and 4 is an eighth-of-an-inch-thick rubbery sheet filled with weighty metal particles that professionals use to add both damping and mass to walls and ceilings. Whereas drywall is a rigid mass that vibrates and resonates, a mass-loaded barrier is what acousticians call a limp mass, which means it's floppy and doesn't vibrate; it's also surprisingly heavy, weighing about a pound per square foot, which makes it tricky to work with. Vinyl barrier is typically stapled to wood studs (or screwed to metal studs) prior to adding the drywall or sandwiched between plywood and drywall as in Figure 3. Just about every company that sells acoustical products offers a version of vinyl barrier; Acoustiblok, made by a NASA spinoff company of the same name, is one of the most common forms of vinyl barrier and comes in eighth- and quarter-inch thicknesses.
Decoupling. Adding mass to walls and ceilings and reducing vibration through damping provide a good start for soundproofing, but you'll need to go further if your mission is to contain larger-than-life movie soundtracks. "You need to literally separate, or decouple, the drywall from the studs, preferably on the theater side of the wall so sound doesn't transmit through the house," Grimani explains. "It's a complicated process. You have to literally build two walls, one in front of the other, with two sets of studs." The drywall on the inside is mounted on one set of studs, then there's a gap and another set of studs with drywall on the backside to keep the walls totally separate (Figure 4). "Creating a decoupled structure is the only way to really kill the bass," Grimani stresses. "Adding mass with layers of drywall or even installing damped drywall is just not going to stop bass very much at all."
The main goal of double framing is to create an air gap between the outside and inside layers of drywall. "That air gap is what prevents the bass from going through," Grimani explains, "so it's really important that there are no intermediate layers of drywall."
Double framing works exceptionally well and is still the preferred approach for what Grimani calls "great soundproofing." But it is a formidable undertaking—especially if done as a retrofit—and you lose about a foot of your room's dimensions. Still, it's a worthwhile investment that offers clear-cut benefits. In addition to excellent sound isolation, you'll enjoy the unintended consequence of a better-sounding home theater space. "The walls on the theater side are less rigid than standard single-frame walls, so they absorb bass instead of reflecting it, which substantially reduces standing waves," he explains. "So the problem of bass being really loud in one seat and really quiet in another is eliminated, or substantially reduced, and you end up with a room that has tight, punchy bass just because the walls are not acting as strong reflectors. That's a nice benefit."
If anyone out there has anything to add, feel free to jump in.
We have lab tested each of our doors in single hung and communicating assemblies. The communicating assemblies are more common in home theaters or recording studios that require a real high level of isolation within a tighter space.
Our doors open and close with a 1/2 pound of force for our heaviest doors (on a smooth operating continuous hinge) and about 2 pounds of force for our standard door (on ball bearing hinges).
The difficult you had closing those doors was likely caused by the sealing system and not the fact they were sound doors. If they were communicating doors (doors installed back to back), then you must relieve air pressure between the two jambs for the doors to close normally.
Anyway, just saying that sound doors are not inherently difficult to operate. They should open and close like a standard door if they are sealed properly and prepared properly for the type of isolation required.
Check out our doors at http://www.soundisolationdoors.com if you want.
Very informative. I had no idea sound proofing took so much effort. Thanks! Reilly
So the problem of bass being really loud in one seat and really quiet in another is eliminated, or substantially reduced, and you end up with a room that has tight, punchy bass just because the walls are not acting as strong reflectors. That's a nice benefit. Thanks! kmec
What some ways you can sound proof a commercial space with really high ceilings? I have had a few clients that had retail spaces with high ceilings who have issues with it being echoey. Thanks for the post! Nathan Smith
My home theater is in the prestress under the garage. it has 14 inches of cement poured on all side (except the floor, which is 4, but there is just dirt there. So, not too worried about the sound traveling through out the house, except through the duct work, is there any sort of solution for that?
I guess windows and doors also made of the same materials, or perhaps they are also built for sound proofing. I actually seen some sound proof door at caldwells.com/, they have office in Bay Area, San Francisco. It is a glass door type, but this one I know been using at many studio.
Since we need, and want, insulation in the walls what are the pros and cons of spray-foam insulation? It's quite common now, even DIY, and will fill every nook-and-cranny easily. Is thicker better or will the foam act like the studs and actually help transmit the audio to the rest of the house?
I've would have to disagree on this article. Adding mass on the walls will cause echoes in the room. Doubling up on the walls is not feasible for remodeling job and doesn't do more than aid in sound transmission but not complete eliminate it. If you go this route as the article states then you would need to add some sort of wall sound absorbance to it like acoustical panels which you can make at home. Sealing off the home theater complete will create another problem. Air circulation. You would have to put in a return air for your HVAC but it must be running all the time you are in the theater.
I may be buying a new constructed house that has an upstairs bonus room that I want to convert to a dedicated HT room. If the builder has to sheet rock the room, is there anything I can do or have he builder do prior to sheet rock being installed to the studs?? I'm just trying to help decouple the room from the rest of the house with any kind of process to help silence the room once complete. Thanks for any help
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Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of midterm reports submitted by the 2014-15 Plumas County Civil Grand Jury.
Early in the morning Nov. 25, 2014, a Union Pacific freight train derailed in the Feather River Canyon just east of Belden, sending 11 railcars full of corn off the tracks and down the steep embankment. In a press statement shortly afterward, a State Office of Emergency Services official was quoted as saying, "We dodged a bullet" because the train was only carrying corn.
Based on a rash of recent derailments and spills of hazardous materials happening throughout the United States and Canada, "a bullet" in fact grossly underestimates the potential devastation, magnitude and scope of the consequences left from these horrific incidents. Luckily, it was only corn that spilled. With the recent surge in crude-by-rail domestic crude oil transports between oil fields in North Dakota, Texas, Colorado and Pennsylvania and Bay Area refineries through the Feather River Canyon, the aftermath could have wrought far-reaching disaster had it been the high-flammable Bakken crude in the tanker cars.
According to sources, the number of crude-by-rail trains passing through the Feather River Canyon has tripled in number within the past three years. With developments in hydraulic fracking technology coming about in domestic oil fields, the petroleum market has seen a profound shift from importing foreign oil to extracting it in domestic oil fields in the United States. As a result, thousands of jobs have been created and oil prices have plummeted since this recent boon in domestic oil production. In addition, other hazardous chemicals are transported throughout the United States by rail and by truck. According to the Federal Railroad Administration, only the railroads are required to know what's in the cars they're shipping.
The grand jury found it extremely important to examine the recent corn derailment other recent crude-by-rail disasters in the U.S. and Canada to determine whether Plumas County agencies and private transportation operators are adequately prepared in "worst-case" scenarios. In respect to the Plumas County corn derailment, because the corn was relatively harmless and could be immediately dealt with without invoking hazardous material protocols, local, state and railroad officials and crews did an excellent job in containment of the spill and clearing and repairing the tracks within the impact area.
As a result of a quick and well-coordinated response, the Feather River Canyon rail route was restored and passing rail traffic three days after the initial derailment. Nonetheless, the grand jury has found the incident to be a practical review for a county hazardous material spill and useful opportunity to compare and contrast the corn spill with other recent more disastrous spills. Plumas County did indeed "dodge the bullet," and from this incident the grand jury believes it will provide valuable findings and recommendations which may in turn act as a catalyst and cast fresh perspectives and insights on dealing with future potential spills and hazardous material disasters.
In review of the Feather River Canyon corn spill Nov. 25, 2014, a total of 11 cars full of raw corn derailed and spilled down a steep embankment near Rich Bar. Luckily, the spill was only tons of kernels and husks, and the incident proved to have had only a minimal impact, environmentally speaking.
The corn spill turned out to be good opportunity to test the Plumas County emergency response system. The incident was first reported by Union Pacific Railroad Dispatch in Omaha, Nebraska, to the Plumas County Warning Center, stating, "12 rail cars close to Rich Bar at Hwy 70 MPM 265 on the Canyon Sub," and that "12 rail cars loaded with grain derailed, it is unknown whether the cars are upright or on their sides, and that the derailment occurred in a canyon next to a stream or river and it is unknown at this time if the waterway was impacted."
According to the after-action report on the incident, the State Warning Center notification included the Plumas County sheriff, California Highway Patrol, Plumas County Environmental Health, State Water Quality Board, State Department of Toxics, State Drinking Water, Cal Office of Emergency Services, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The accident occurred around 3 a.m. Nov. 25. By 8 a.m. Union Pacific had placed containment booms 100 feet down the Feather River. Fortunately, none of the cars landed in the river and only a small amount of corn spilled into the river.
One of the important facts that should be emphasized here concerns containment supplies and where they are located. It took roughly five hours for the railroad to have containment booms in place. According the Plumas County officials, Union Pacific does not have any spill containment kits in Plumas County. A formal request from the grand jury was emailed to Union Pacific safety representatives asking about the whereabouts of containment kits — according to their response (the grand jury received a very quick email reply that day), Chico, Roseville and Reno, Nevada, were the closest railroad facilities that had emergency containment kits.
Other revelations from the after-action report revealed that the Union Pacific Railroad Dispatch Center could not pinpoint the exact location in the Feather River Canyon to the Warning Center. In addition, dispatch was not "forthcoming" on what was spilled, although the center did state that the Plumas County Sheriff's Department was notified that "there were no injuries, no hazardous materials released, and that no assistance was needed." The corn spill after-action report in its conclusion posted its "corrective actions from railroad incident" review. Some of the recommendations are summarized here:
—Push Union Pacific dispatch for better initial report information.
—Use GPS to pinpoint incident location.
—Coordinate with the U.S. Forest Service and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for any incident in the Feather River Canyon.
—The incident commander for any hazardous materials incident is designated as the primary law enforcement authority.
—Follow Plumas County Hazardous Materials Response Plan.
—The Office of Emergency Services will try to find a local Union Pacific dispatch contact person.
Evidently, the cause of the corn derailment was a section of the railroad track breaking or separating. Ironically, Union Pacific reported that all railroad ties along the Feather River Canyon were replaced in 2013. Union Pacific conducts track inspections at regular intervals and reportedly it conducts Feather River Canyon inspections every three months. Nonetheless, the corn derailment exemplifies that rail accidents can happen at any time.
In respect to the other crude-by-rail spills, the same results were concluded. Train speed was not a factor and rail and bridge inspections were documented before the incidents occurred. The crude-by-rail derailments were all on relatively flat landscapes. The Feather River Canyon route, with its rocky and unstable terrain, is much more prone to outside factors that can lead to derailments.
According to 2013 Plumas County Hazard Mitigation Plan, in 2007 and in 2012 a rockslide struck and derailed passing trains. The 2007 slide derailed 22 rail cars; 20,000 gallons of peanut oil ruptured from several cars and 30,000 gallons of highly flammable denatured alcohol also spilled down the embankment. The 2012 incident was caused by a large boulder that fell onto the tracks and was struck by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train. Over 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled from the train into the Feather River.
The recent crude-by-rail spills throughout the U.S. showcase the dramatic rise in domestic oil production and rail shipments to coastal refineries. According to railroad data, in 2008 there were reportedly about 10,000 oil cars carrying domestic crude. In 2014, there were over 400,000 crude-by-rail train cars, representing a 4,000 percent increase. Furthermore, the type of crude oil coming from shale deposits from Bakken oil fields (commonly referred as "light crude") is high combustible. In almost every instance in which trains carrying Bakken crude derail and tanker cars are punctured, fiery detonation results. First responders and emergency service crews can merely watch it burn and concentrate on containment perimeters rather than extinguishing the oil fire. Without sensationalizing a disaster that occurred in another place, had any of the recent oil tanker disasters happened along the Feather River route, particularly at locations near population areas including downtown Portola, Blairsden, Twain and Keddie, where the railroad tracks are relatively close, the extent of the damage could have been far different.
The grand jury would first like to acknowledge as a matter of fact that hazardous chemical hauling is an integral part of our economy. As potentially dangerous as they are, crude oil, gasoline and chemicals are used safely every day. Without them our economy and all the things we do, all the products we require in our daily lives, the way we move would be changed; just about everything revolves around the consumer and the safe use of chemicals and their byproducts.
That being said, the vital role of both the national carriers of hazardous materials and our public safety officials at each level is to make safety the No. 1 priority. Safety, defined here, entails the complete processing of any particular product, from its extraction and refinement to transportation, delivery and ultimate usage.
Railroads carry over 40 percent of our nation's freight. When conducted safely and securely, commodity transport over rail is proven to be economically the best and most efficient mode of transportation in terms of fuel efficiency, supply chain costs and safety. Intermodal traffic refers to the transport of goods on trains. Today, two major rail companies, Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe, transport intermodal goods through Plumas County. According to the Union Pacific Railroad, chemical transport is roughly 17 percent of total payload being carried. The breakdown of goods, however, is not representative of actual train payloads. In other words, trains passing through the county could have any number of railcars full of one particular commodity or another and the cars may be full or empty.
The grand jury has found that the mission statements, top priorities, primary focus and action plans are remarkably similar in commitment, scope and language between hazardous material producers, transport carriers and government officials at every level. In other words, everyone directly engaged in the production and distribution of everything delivered over rail, by air or on pavement — as well as their overseers — share a common pledge to make safety their top priority in the public domain and the environment.
In addition, the grand jury has studied the after-action reports of many of the most recent crude-by-rail derailments and public highway chemical transport accidents and learned that in nearly every case, there were inspections completed days or weeks before the incidents, rail and highway speeds were under the mandated limits and handling of the volatile payloads were properly done according to federal safety mandates.
According to official published reports, there has been more oil spilled from trains in the past two years than in the previous four decades. Between 1975 and 2012, around 800,000 gallons of crude oil was spilled in the U.S. By comparison, according to data from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration data, over 1.5 million gallons of crude oil was spilled from rail cars.
As a result of the series of ruptures and fires that have recently plagued the U.S., federal regulators are considering higher safety standards and further upgrades such as thicker tanks, rollover protection for chemical carrying tanker cars, electronic braking systems on individual rail cars and increased track inspections.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a notice for crude oil and high-hazard flammable trains tanker cars, calling for a phaseout of the older CTC-111A tanker car (commonly known as the DOT-111). Currently there are still around 300,000 CTC-111A cars still being used throughout the U.S. These tanker cars each generally carry between 20,000 and 30,000 gallons of oil. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation the older CTC-111As have the following safety flaws:
—Thin skins: Upon derailment, tanks often rupture.
—No head shields: Shields on both ends of tanker cars can prevent puncturing during collisions.
—Poor protection over valves and fittings.
—Lack of pressure relief devices for boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions.
In short, the older CTC-111A tanker cars were not designed for hauling flammable materials.
The new replacement tanker car, called the CPC-1232 (CPC is a railroad industry standard that stands for casualty prevention circular), features new standards for hazardous material railway transport. As of November 2011, all new tank cars built for transporting crude oil and ethanol must follow new standards, including half-height shields, thicker tank and head material, normalized steel, top fitting and gauge protection and recloseable pressure relief valves.
As of March 2015, there are reportedly 60,000 of the newer CPC-1232 tanker cars hauling crude in the U.S. In response to all the recent crude-by-rail derailments, Union Pacific, CSX and Burlington Northern Santa Fe have all stepped up in increased safety inspections and adapting new safety standards. The railroads are now relying on distributed power units, which place locomotives in the middle and/or both ends of the trains. Studies show that placing power locomotives on both ends and in the middle enhances safety because it even spreads physical forces on the train.
This revelation is significant — the 1991 Dunsmuir toxic chemical derailment was caused by this very reason. The power locomotive was placed in the rear of a 97-car train and light and empty cars flanked a full tanker car filled with 19,000 gallons of metam sodium. The investigation of the Dunsmuir disaster found that because all the power was placed at the rear of the large train, the uneven power distribution caused the train to buckle.
Metam sodium is a soil fumigant. When it spilled into the upper Sacramento River — because of poor containment action and the nature of toxicity of the chemical — it killed every plant and fish for approximately 40 miles downstream.
Railroads also use wayside electronic detectors to monitor railroad tracks. New safety detecting technology is also being used in their prevention and risk reduction process that features use of lasers and ultrasound to identify rail defects.
The grand jury has learned that many of the hazardous material railcars do not belong to the rail carrier but to the company producing and transporting the product. For example, most of the older CTC-111A and newer CPC-1232 tanker cars are actually owned by the crude oil fracking companies and refineries.
The number of trains carrying crude oil and other hazardous materials is actually based on sheer economics. For example, in 2014, when oil prices hovered around $100 a barrel, the price sent domestic oil production to an all-time high. Crude-by-rail oil shipments though Plumas County increased substantially as coastal refineries in Martinez and Benicia purchased more oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and other domestic oil fields in Texas and Oklahoma.
The grand jury chose a review of several recent U.S. crude-by-rail derailments for comparative reasons. The after-action reports provide valuable findings and recommendations from disasters that can happen anywhere, anytime. The reports are particularly invaluable to first responders, and public safety agencies.
After-action reports detail each incident from the time of the initial report that entails the scope and severity of the incident. In response to the above disastrous incidents, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued a "call to action" in January, calling on "rail company executives, associations, shippers and state and federal agencies to discuss how stakeholders can prevent and mitigate the consequences of rail accidents that involve flammable liquids."
The grand jury also believes that examining the recent corn spill in Plumas County and comparing it with the way other derailments were handled can lead to information and recommendations that enhance and hopefully improve upon the vanguards (prevention, preparedness, response, recovery) of any future local potential disaster.
The tenets from the PHMSA call to action report produced similar recommendations — a strategic approach that promotes "effective preincident planning, preparedness, response, outreach and training." One important point that the grand jury kept hearing was a difficulty and lack of communication between the railroad and local emergency management officials. One of the key elements the PHMSA call to action report specifically addresses is the absolute need for interaction and relevant guidance to first responders and local emergency management teams to "safely and effectively manage incidents."
The report also called for preincident planning and communication with all organizations to learn about what is being transported. Emergency response teams must have the training to safely contain and protect themselves and the contaminate zone affected. The need for a local hazmat team cannot be overemphasized.
The following crude-by-rail disasters summarized in this grand jury report illustrate some of the potential circumstances other public safety agencies have had to deal with. Despite all the mandated safeguards dealing with hazardous material hauling, i.e., safe speeds, upgraded rail cars, railcar and track inspections, specialized training, etc., accidents can happen anytime and anywhere within transportation routes of hazardous materials.
Plumas County and the surrounding 12 counties in northeastern California lie within Region 3 of the State Emergency Services System. At the time of this report, Plumas County has no hazmat team. Upon any need for hazmat response, Plumas County must contact nearby Butte or Shasta teams. In more serious incidents, Plumas County would have to enlist state or federal emergency service agencies.
Lac-Megantic, Canada: In July 2013 a train carrying 72 tank cars full of crude oil exploded after the train braking system released, sending the unmanned train on a downhill run into the Canadian town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec. The runaway train crashed into a crowded downtown pub, killing 47 people and destroying over 30 buildings. According to the National Transportation Safety Board investigation, the train had been idling and unmanned for over seven hours and the emergency braking system disengaged. The train then rolled down the tracks for several miles, picking up speed and eventually derailing into downtown Lac-Megantic. Of the four disaster crude-by-rail spills mentioned in this report, the results from the official investigation determined that sheer neglect (train left running and unattended and braking system released, causing a runaway unmanned train) was the primary factor in the disaster.
Aliceville, Alabama: A 90-car train carrying Bakken crude derailed in November 2013 and exploded. Nearly 750,000 gallons of its 2 million gallon load spilled in wetlands in Alabama. Officials still assail cleanup operations today and report that containment booms and absorbent products were ineffective.
Lynchburg, Virginia: In April 2014 a CSX train carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire, spilling thousands of gallons of oil into the James River. Oil fires from the ruptured tanker cars burned for two days. Reports indicate that the tanker cars were all the new CPC-1232 model.
Casselton, North Dakota: In December 2013 a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train hauling grain derailed and fell across another set of tracks. Shortly after, a crude oil train heading in the opposite direction struck the derailed cars and derailed itself. Several tanker cars exploded. A slow response to the first incident set up the chain of events for the explosive second incident.
Montgomery, West Virginia: In February 2015 a train carrying crude oil in West Virginia derailed sending 27 tanker cars off the tracks. Twelve of those rail cars exploded, not at once, but randomly for up to 12 hours. The cause is still under investigation.
In the event of a local hazardous material disaster, the Plumas County Office of Emergency Services is notified and it determines the scope and magnitude of the incident and then contacts the Plumas County Board of Supervisors. Depending on the incident assessment of the Plumas County OES, the BOS has the authority to officially declare an emergency, which allows the Plumas County OES to request help from relevant local, state and federal agencies.
Through leadership and partnership with all first responders, each incident goes through a foundational process that includes prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. The first three steps of the mitigation process rely on the safe containment of the hazardous material as quickly as possible with a special focus on protecting human life (isolate, deny entry, protect life safely, mitigate). The recovery phase, however, can last for years. The Dunsmuir toxic spill, for example, seriously impacted the area for several years after. At the time of this report, the crude-by-rail spills were all still in the recovery phase. Fortunately, the Plumas County corn derailment had a minimal effect on the environment. The first three phases of emergency services mitigation at the corn spill served as a great training exercise for all agencies and first responders involved.
Recovery, in this case, was at a minimum in terms of environmental impact.
In regard to Plumas County hazmat, the grand jury has learned that the county must rely on local volunteers to devote their time as first responders.
Plumas County has had a difficult time finding enough volunteers to cover the entire county, and retaining volunteers after hazmat certification and specialized training has not worked out. All the local fire districts within Plumas County have been actively seeking volunteers.
F1) The grand jury finds that communication between Plumas County public safety agencies and railroad officials is profoundly inadequate.
F2) The grand jury finds that the lack of spill and containment equipment along rail routes in Plumas County poses a direct threat to public safety and the natural environment.
F3) The grand jury finds that relying on hazmat response teams from surrounding counties compromises response times and threatens Plumas County public safety and natural resources.
F4) The grand jury finds that the lack of training of first responders concerning hazardous materials that they may have to deal with could have profound consequences.
F5) The grand jury finds that population centers within Plumas County that are in close proximity to railroads have grossly inadequate protection resources.
R1) The grand jury recommends Plumas County Emergency Services and the Plumas County Environment Health Agency establish direct local contact with Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe and any hazardous material carrier that operates within the county.
R2) The grand jury recommends that Plumas County negotiate with railroad officials to have spill containment booms and absorbent kits in key strategic storage facilities in Plumas County.
R3) The grand jury recommends that the BOS find the means to provide hazmat training and certification to in-county first responders.
R4) The grand jury recommends more hazardous material training between first responders and all those involved in mitigating hazardous material disasters. Union Pacific, for example, offers tank car safety training in Roseville at the California Office of Emergency Services Specialized Training Institute every year. The training involves practically all aspects of hazardous material incident mitigation.
R5) The grand jury recommends that the BOS and Plumas County OES conduct a "what-if" evaluation for population centers within Plumas County that are within potential "blast zones" of crude-by-rail tanker cars.


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