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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) adds various new requirements that hospitals must meet to qualify for § 501(c)(3) status. These requirements—which are found in new subsection 501(r)—also mandate that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) review each exempt hospital's community benefit activities at least once every three years. Furthermore, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, must report to Congress annually on levels of charity care, bad debt, and unreimbursed costs in government programs and must submit no later than 2015 a report on trends in these figures (See ACA § 9007(a), (c), and (e)).
The IRS formed a special group in March 2011 to conduct these statutorily required "stealth audits," so called because, according to the 2012 IRS Work Plan, "these reviews are not examinations and the group does not expect to contact hospitals while conducting the reviews." Instead, the IRS will merely "use the information gathered from the reviews for research, reporting and compliance purposes, as well as to identify areas where additional guidance, education or Form 990 changes are needed."
In addition to complying with new tax-exempt requirements, hospital finance and compliance leaders need to stay on top of how IRS stealth activities and reports may affect future tax rules and laws in their states and at the federal level.
The Work Plan promised that the IRS would work with the Treasury Department to develop guidance on the new requirements, and indeed proposed regulations were published in June of last year (77 Fed. Reg. 38148, Jun. 26, 2012). According to Kurt J. Bennion of the accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen, an IRS official provided some details about the regulations at an American Health Lawyers Association conference in October 2012. Based on that presentation and his own analysis, Bennion summarizes the requirements that a hospital must meet as follows:
Bennion says hospitals must be vigilant to document their compliance with all existing community benefit standards. Policies and procedures should be reviewed, and tax advisors should ensure that IRS Form 990 and Schedule H are properly completed.
Access related checklist: Checklist for Community Benefit Activities
For nearly two years, the IRS has been using Form 990 and its Schedule H, other IRS returns, and public records to gather information on not-for-profit hospitals' community benefit activities. The new reviews required by the ACA will provide additional information, and they will be conducted at IRS facilities, rather than at hospitals. A hospital will be notified if the IRS determines that further examination is warranted. As the old adage goes, "no news is good news."
Bennion believes the term "stealth audits" is especially apt, and we are not likely to hear much about the topic for the next couple of years. This is because section 501(r) did not change the fundamental requirements for exempt status, it only added some new administrative burdens in the form of paperwork and documentation. As a result, "the audits will be a quiet data-gathering effort by the government, at a time when hospitals have other pressing issues to deal with," such as ICD-10 and meaningful use compliance.
Although other issues might be of more immediate concern, those relating to § 501(r) remain important and ought not to be overlooked. For example, consider these questions:
"As we review the literature and the results of needs assessments that have already been completed, we don't see great variations across the country," Bennion says. "Every community, however you define it, has essentially the same issues: access to care, poverty, obesity, smoking, diabetes, substance abuse, mental health, and so forth."
Although the relative incidence may vary little from place to place, the process of assessing the community's health needs can be valuable for many hospitals. Given the costs involved, Bennion recommends considering a joint study with other organizations such as metropolitan or state hospital associations.
The greatest significance in these developments may be in how the information from the stealth audits may be used, says Bennion. The results might serve as a foundation for a change in the section 501(c)(3) exemption rules and state tax laws.
A clear definition of the word "charity" has always been elusive, especially as it applies to health care. The tax exemption of hospital corporations has been under attack for more than a quarter century—at least since the famous case of Utah County v. Intermountain Health Care, Inc. (709 P. 2d 265,Utah. 1985). Bennion says another reexamination of tax exemption may be in the offing given the amount of potential revenue at stake. He estimates that the elimination of hospitals' federal tax exemption would produce around $140 billion in revenue annually, and if state exemptions were eliminated the total would be much higher.
"When the government's summary of hospital information is released to the public, state governments could use it to modify their laws on exemption from income tax, property tax, and sales and use tax." But Bennion is quick to add, "I'm not saying this would be good policy or would be politically popular, but the justification for hospitals' exempt status is an issue that won't go away."
The Treasury/HHS report to Congress is scheduled for 2015, the year before the next national election. Given that such volatile issues tend to be addressed only in a President's second term, it seems unlikely that § 501(c)(3) will be substantially amended until at least 2021, if at all. "But in the meantime, Bennion says, "the states will certainly be looking at property tax exemptions and other sources of revenue."
J. Stuart Showalter, JD, MFS, is a contributing editor to HFMA's Legal & Regulatory Forum.
Interviewed for this article: Kurt J. Bennion, CPA, CliftonLarsonAllen, Minneapolis, Minn., and a member of HFMA's Minnesota Chapter ( email@example.com).
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Publication Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013
Jason Williams, vice president for strategy and business analytics, Change Healthcare, discusses the importance of technology and technology-enabled services in reinventing the revenue cycle.
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Judson Ivy, president of Ensemble Health Partners, discusses the value of revenue cycle outsourcing and the importance of selecting the right partner.
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This white paper, written by Apex Vice President of Solutions and Services, Carrie Romandine, discusses the importance of patient segmentation and messaging specifically related to the patient revenue cycle. Applying strategic messaging that is tailored to each patient type will not only better educate consumers on payment options specific to their billing needs, but it will maximize the amount collected before sending to collections. Further, targeted messaging should be applied across all points of patient interaction (i.e. point of service, customer service, patient statements) and analyzed regularly for maximized results.
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Faced with a rising tide of bad debt, a large Southeastern healthcare system was seeing a sharp decline in net patient revenues. The need to improve collections was dire. By integrating critical tools and processes, the health system was able to increase online payments and improve its financial position. Taking a holistic approach increased overall collection yield by 10% while costs came down because the number of statements sent to patients fell by 10%, which equated to a $1.3M annualized improvement in patient cash over a six-month period. This case study explains how.
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Health care is a dynamic mergers and acquisitions market with numerous hospitals and health systems contemplating or pursuing formal arrangements with other entities. These relationships often pose a strategic benefit, such as enhancing competencies across the continuum, facilitating economies of scale, or giving the participants a competitive advantage in a crowded market. Underpinning any profitable acquisition is a robust capital planning strategy that ensures an organization reserves sufficient funds and efficiently onboards partners that advance the enterprise mission and values.
The success of healthcare mergers, acquisitions, and other affiliations is predicated in part on available capital, and the need for and sources of funding are considerations present throughout the partnering process, from choosing a partner to evaluating an arrangement's capital needs to selecting an integration model to finding the right money source to finance the deal. This whitepaper offers several strategies that health system leaders have used to assess and manage capital needs for their growing networks.
Announcements from several commercial payers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) early in 2015 around increased efforts to form value-based contracts with providers seemed to point to an impending rise in risk-based contracting. Rather than wait for disruption from the outside in, health care providers are now making inroads on collaborating with payers on various risk-based contracting models to increase the value of health care from within.
Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) is a not-for-profit hospital serving a population of roughly 200,000 in Yuma and the surrounding communities.
Before becoming a ZirMed client, Yuma was attempting to manually monitor hundreds of thousands of charges which led to significant charge capture leakage. Learn how Yuma & ZirMed worked together to address underlying collections issues at the front end, thus increasing Yuma's overall bottom line.
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How Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford increased payments received within 45 days by 20% and reduced paper submission claims by 70% by using ZirMed solutions.
The reasons claims are denied are so varied that managing denials can feel like chasing a thousand different tails. This situation is not surprising given that a hypothetical denial rate of just 5 percent translates to tens of thousands of denied claims per year for large hospitals—where real‐world denial rates often range from 12 to 22 percent. Read about how predictive modeling can detect meaningful correlations across claims denials data.
Emergency Mobile Health Care (EMHC) was founded to be and remains an exclusively locally owned and operated emergency medical service organization; today EMHC serves a population of more than a million people in and around Memphis, answering 75,000 calls each year.
Since the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) introduction, CMS has paid more than $100 million in bonus payments to participants. However, these bonuses ended in 2015; providers who successfully meet the reporting requirements in 2016 will avoid the 2% negative payment adjustment in 2018, so now is the time to act! Included in this whitepaper are implications of increasing patient responsibility, collections best practices, and collections and internal control solutions.
Getting paid what your physician deserves—that's the goal of every biller. Yet even for the best billers, achieving that success can be elusive when denials stand in the way of success, presenting challenges at every turn. Denials aren't going away, but you can learn techniques to manage and even prevent them.Join practice management expert Elizabeth W. Woodcock, MBA, FACMPE, CPC, to: Discover methods to translate denial data into business intelligence to improve your bottom line, determine staff productivity benchmarks for billers, and recognize common mistakes in denial management.
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Read more about factors contributing to the changes in the post-acute marketplace and what it means for manufacturers, physicians, clinicians, patients, and post-acute facilities as they anticipate the transition to the second curve.
HSG helped the physicians and executives of St. Claire Regional in Morehead, Kentucky, define their shared vision for how the group would evolve over the next decade. As well as, develop the strategic and operational priorities which refocused and accelerated the group's evolution.
The client was a nine-hospital health system with 14 clinics serving communities in a multi-state market with very limited access to care, poor economic conditions, high unemployment, and a heavy Medicare/Medicaid/uninsured payer mix. In most of these communities, the system was the sole source of care.
Though the clinics were of substantial size (they employed 98 physicians) and comprised of multiple specialists, the physicians functioned as individuals and the practices lacked any real group culture.
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Virar-Dahanu route might get local trains by month-end
Discussion between WR and its motormen bears fruit; railways sets itself deadline of March 31 to operate first local train on this stretch
As the last-minute talks between the Western Railway (WR) officials and the motormen about operating local trains between Virar and Dahanu bore fruit, there is likelihood that services would be up and running by March 31, the deadline set by the WR.
For the past few days, the two parties were in discussions over who would be manoeuvring local trains on the Virar-Dahanu stretch. While the WR authorities were keen on hiring motormen working on long distance routes, drivers running locals said they were capable of operating trains on this 60-km-stretch as well. A WR official said, "Motormen operating long-distance trains know the entire stretch well and so it makes sense for them to run trains between Virar and Dahanu too. But now we have started training local motormen and are making them familiar with the extended route."
As a part of their training, motormen operating local trains will be travelling with motormen operating long distance trains. A motorman said, "The process of learning on the road is being given to four motormen, so that they get a fair idea about the entire route." Some of the issues discussed during the meeting by motormen comprised placement of signals next to the railway tracks, curves and turning on the stretch, speed restrictions at various spots, number of platforms and their length between Virar and Dahanu, and other such technicalities.
Officials claimed that the motormen were familiar with the distance between two signals about 700 metres on the Churchgate-Virar stretch, which on the Virar-Dahanu route is substantial. There are seven stations between Virar and Dahanu and the total length of the stretch is 63 km. WR Divisional Railway Manager (Mumbai) S Silas said, "We are working on the schedule for operating local services and necessary training will be given to the motormen."
Sources claimed that two services might start between Virar and Dahanu initially and if the initiative receives a positive response from commuters, authorities plan to increase the number of trains. The proposal to extend local train services uptil Dahanu was first made in 2002. WR officials claimed that though they have for long considered Virar-Dahanu as a suburban section, they would not be able to operate end-to-end trains between Churchgate and Dahanu due to technical reasons. Presently, 10 shuttle services ply on the Virar-Dahanu stretch and would continue to operate alongside local train services.

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text: From: "David Schwartz" <firstname.lastname@example.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:46:39 -0700 There is an end of packet character. It consists of 27 idle bit times.Ha, ha. Very funny.The problem with detecting the idle time is that at 9600 bps, an idlebit is just a little bit over a 1ms; and at high baud rates, the bittime becomes an even smaller fraction of a clock tick.This means that in order to measure the inter-character arrival time,you need to use a high-resolution timing source; and while we have oneon the i386 (the timestamp instruction, on modern chips), it's notportable --- and remember, the serial driver has to work onarchitectures other than the i386: the alpha, PA-RISC, etc. (Sure, onsome of the other architectures the clock tick is 1/1024 instead of1/100, but that still isn't fast enough for baud rates higher than 9600bps).If the protocol had used an explicit ASCII character (with some kind ofobvious escape mechanism) it would mean that the OS wouldn't have to dotiming measurements at the interrupt receiver. It's easy enough to dohandle the timing in hardware with a one-shot, but it's much more of amess to do that in software. - Ted-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to firstname.lastname@example.com read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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EXHIBITION LIFEwww.exhibitionnews.co.uk 43PEOPLE MOVESNew events managers at English and Scottish venues plus a host of recruits in the contractors market dominate this month's appointmentsarls Court and Olympia Venues has appointed James Skillen as event manager. He joins from the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh where he spent the past six years working as an event manager. Nick Coffey (1) joins Lee as its new sales manager. Palacios has joined Chris Wright, Jamie Calder James Shelley have recently to SO Group.Rachel CowdreyMarketing manager,Brand Licensing Europe, AdvanstarBEST THING ABOUT EXHIBITIONSBeing onsite when you see all the months of hard work come together. Exhibitors are happy, halls are buzzing and visitors are enjoying the show. TOP FRUSTRATIONVery little; I have learnt to be very patient over the years. CROWNING MOMENTGetting where I am today, looking after the marketing for an exciting and successful exhibition, particularly after being told, years ago, that I would never make it as a marketer.DREAM JOBMarine biologist (unfortunately biology was not my strong point at school).INDIVIDUAL YOU MOST ADMIREIf I had to pick one it would be my fountain of knowledge, Anthony Calvani, print and production manager at UBM. MOST UNUSUAL EVENTHaving worked on exhibitions in quite 'sensible' industries (security, safety and health) in the past, I would have to say the show I am currently working on, Brand Licensing Europe. It's not often you see Bananas in Pajamas or Peppa Pig walking down the aisles. BEST PIECE OF ADVICEHonesty is the best policy. If you make a mistake, take responsibility and do something to put it right. SONG THAT SUMS YOU UP Being an 1980s child, it would have to be Together in Electric Dreams by Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder. FUNNIEST WORK MOMENTBeing asked to shave 100 tennis balls so a show logo could be stamped on them. There was such a look of dismay on my face when I was handed a razor and realised it was a serious request.2 MINUTES WITH...Chris Mooge and Michael Jones (3) have joined Etherlive to support the wireless technology provider's London Media Centre activities during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Former Harrogate International Centre head of marketing Alison Griffi n (4) has become the new sales and marketing director at Telford International Centre. Michael Ritchie has joined event organiser Teamwork Professionals as projects director. His brief is to seek new opportunities in the exhibition and conference arenas.Stoneleigh Park has expanded its catering team with new catering manager, Sue Hargreaves. Brintex Events has hired former Fresh Montgomery marketing executive Clare Barker as a marketing manager.Temporary structures supplier De Boer has appointed Arnout de Hair as its CEO to replace Lucas Covers. De Hair has been working for De Boer for 14 years and held different management board positions in logistics and IT. Since 2001, he served as chief logistics offi cer.Showplace has employed Adam Jalowiecki as head of internal exhibitions. The new recruit follows the recent appointment of Steve Salt from Timberland and Wedgewood.Audiovisual supplier TechPro has hired Mick Gregory as sales director. Grass Roots EventCom has boosted its sales team with two new recruits, Michelle Banks and Dominic Marder. Banks joins Grass Roots after running her own event management company in Ireland (MSB Events). Marder returns to Grass Roots from his position of MD at DriveSense.Gala Tent has made three seasonal staff permanent. Peter Cunningham, Douglas Young and Darren Haywood are now full-time in the warehouse. Gala also recently hired Nicola Chambers in its customer services department.Skillen will work across both Earls Court and Olympia and will assist clients such as Cruise Show, The Great British Tattoo Show, HR Softworld, The 50+ Show, The Golf Show. Excel London has added a new account manager to its exhibition sales team. from Clarion Events, where he was show manager on the organiser's retail portfolio. Prior to joining Clarion, Nick worked at UBM for nine years on the Interiors portfolio.The MCM Group has recruited Miah (2)Lee will be working on MCM's popular videogame, movie and comics events including MCM Expo London Comic Con, Britain's biggest pop culture festival, and the UK collectors' show Memorabilia. Miah was most recently with Centaur Exhibitions working on the In Store Show, part of the Marketing Week Live portfolio. He has also worked for Tarsus Group and IPC Media.Borja Gonzalez PalaciosAztec Event Services as a marketing assistant. He previously worked as an intern for Spanish street theatre company Carros de Foc and will now help develop Aztec's profi le in the digital sphere.SO Group has expanded its team. and joined the fi rm as account managers managing a portfolio of exhibitions and events. Wright will join the contractor's Manchester division, while Calder is rejoining SO Group after a short stint with eForce. Shelley has worked for P&O Exhibitions and Opex previously and is also returning E2341
GALLERY44 www.exhibitionnews.co.ukInternet World turns 20uBM staff and exhibitors from this year's Internet World trade show at earls Court took time out from the show floor to celebrate the brand's 20th birthday and its ongoing influence in the changing technology landscape. the celebratory bash took place at the Collection in Chelsea, london on 25 April. Right: The celebration is held in the brick and metallic environs of The CollectiveCentre: Internet World group event manager Andy Kiwanuka (left) and eKomi's Borge GrothmannFar right: Guests hear about the history of Internet World and plans for the show's next growth phase Right and above: Exhibition and event organisers including Clarion Events, George P Johnson, Virgin Media and Jack Morton headed to Silverstone to test the new facilities and race trackevents In the fAst lAneMore than 70 representatives from the exhibition and events industry donned their driving gloves to head up to a special open day at the new silverstone Wing in northamptonshire. Guests took part in a welcome ceremony and networking lunch before testing out their skills in racing cars on the track, the home of the British Grand Prix.


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The aftermath of peaceful pro-democracy protests by Burmese Monks is reported to have brought about the sad and sickening events of the carnage and the slaughter of those Monks and other freedom loving people in Burma. There are reports of people being corralled like animals into monasteries and slaughtered, and their bodies dumped into the jungles by the military junta. Those not yet murdered are being rounded up and sent to prisons.
British papers say that this action is supported by China too - the very same China which is selling their cheap trinkets and electronics in our stores. The very same China who is gearing up for the Olympics. Think about that the next time you see "Made in China" stamped on an item.
People all over the world are standing by silently while Burma conducts this massacre of their people.
Where is the global outrage?
And what is the United Nations doing about this?
A whole lot of nothing - just like they have been doing for Darfur.
Personally I am tired of the U.S. being the world's policeman...but when will we as a planet work together to stop this type of oppression and murder? What countries, what leaders, will step up to the plate?
Their eyes are on the international community, their only hope is that the world will see their plight and help themAnd really folks...here is a lesson our Founders knew all too well:
- A Buddhist activist
This is precisely why we need the right to keep and bear arms.
This is why we need to protect freedom of speech
This is why we need all of the Bill of Rights - intact and operational.
This is why our rights are important enough to fight for and to die for.
This is why we need to be aware and keep watch over our government and what it does as well as what it does not do.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. – Thomas Jefferson


text: Ian Bicking wrote: > I don't think changing distutils to improve error output would be hard > at all. It looks like there's a line in distutils.core that catches > these exceptions (and doesn't look like it actually catches all > exceptions?), and that can just be fixed. I agree this is one of the thing which can be improved without unintended consequences. > > Another topic that has come up: I do agree subclassing makes it really > hard to have multiple lines of development (specifically something > like Setuptools or Distribute, along with ad hoc development in > setup.py files). But I think that can be resolved. Perhaps, for > instance, Distribute can have implementations of commands like build, > that can easily be customized or extended without subclassing (e.g., > by pre-build or post-build functions). In numpy's case, we subclass the Distribution class mainly to add new data which are shared within commands (for example, to build pure C libraries made available to 3rd parties, or to keep track of the scons scripts). I have myself tried the pre/post hooks for commands (for numpy.distutils), but I did not go very far: the problem was almost always linked to commands which need to share knowledge from each other. OTOH, I tried this when I started pocking into numpy.distutils 2 years ago, maybe I could go further today. Some things are fixable in distutils: for example, to build things, you should be able to get rid of the imperative operations, and have instead of registry of extension -> action (ala scons/waf). This would make adding new tools (cython, assembly, etc...) easier, as you would add tools through a registry instead of overriding build_ext as currently done by e.g. numpy.distutils or cython.distutils. Doing so while keeping backward compatibility would be hard, though. > I'd really be shocked if a > rewrite of distutils was necessary, or even necessary to simplify > things. That's the opposite of my own experience. I think I have given several reasonable examples of shortcomings of distutils: I would be glad to hear that each of them has a simple solution which is backward-compatible in distutils. But another way to look at it is to ask: What is there in distutils that you would consider important to keep ? It is important that people who maintain packages do not have to rewrite their setup to a new hypothetical system: asking thousand of developers to rewrite their setup would be insane. But this can be done without being tied to distutils API. David


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Hello darlingzzz :D
Last year Lotus herbals launched their skin care range called "Lotus white glow range"
Product description:
WHITEGLOW Oatmeal & Yogurt Skin Whitening Scrub exfoliates the skin gently, removes dirt, impurities, whiteheads and blackheads leaving your skin brighter and healthier with a shining glow. The gentle exfoliating action works on skin discoloration, dull and uneven skin tones and softens the skin giving you a firmer skin texture. Oatmeal exfoliates gently, restores the natural moisture balance of skin and yogurt moisturizes and lightens the skin reducing imperfections giving you silky, smooth and brighter skin.
Key Ingredients: Oatmeal and milk yogurt
Usage Directions: Gently apply the scrub on moistened skin with brisk circular movement on the face and neck. Rinse thoroughly and pat dry. Use twice a week for brighter skin. Follow with yogurt radiance mask for best results.
Price and Quantity:145 for 100gm
Shelf life: 36 months
My Experience
Packaging: The product comes in a pretty white tube with a metallic cap but this tube is not at all travel friendly as the cap is loose and the tube tends to break easily in case if it fell down.
Colour, Consistency and Fragrance: This scrub is creamy white in colour and thick in consistency. It has a very artificial smell which is very disturbing for my sensitive nose.
How it works: I have a love and hate relationship with Lotus Herbals. Some of their products (Berry Berry scrub and 4-1 sunscreen)suits me well but some make my skin dry (there face packs including fruit pack which is meant for dry skin). Okay let me concentrate on this product. I didn't have a good experience with this product. This scrub just adds a lil glow to my skin after application which lasts hardly for 10 minutes. I am using this scrub regularly twice a week for more than two months to see the effect but to be frank it does nothing to my skin. I did not expect any whitening and brightening results from this scrub because I know nothing can change our original skin color apart from some heavy bleach like kojic acid and hydroquinone. It did not help me in removing acne scars, black heads and white heads. Wanna know more? It is harsh on my sensitive skin! :( but the only good thing about the product is it does not dry our my skin or broke me out. Overall, this is an average-good scrub for normal-dry skin types. If you're skin is skin is extra sensitive, then do not go for this.
- Affordable
- Available easily
- Its not drying; hence dry skins will love it
- Does the exfoliation part well
- Adds a little glow to the face after usage
Does not break me out
- Works good as a foot scrub :p
I am really sorry I cant think of any other pros :(
- It claims too many things but delivers nothing
- It's not at all a gentle product for sensitive skin types.
- Smell bad and artificial.
- Tube breaks easily and not travel friendly
- Contains a big list of chemicals.
- Pareben is present. How could Lotus herbals says it's a herbal product? :O
Makeup and Beauty Home Rating: 2/5 (Because it is working well as a foot scrub :p)
Recommendation: If you have sensitive nose cum sensitive skin then please don't waste your money on this product.:( However normal-dry skinned people may find this scrub good on their skin because it isn't drying and moreover, it doesn't break out skin.


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Heaven's Gate
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Heaven's Gate is Visconti-like in its evocation of a world in transition.
(M, 230 minutes).
From today for two weeks at the Astor
Until now, the only version of Michael Cimino's 1980 western epic screened in Australian cinemas has been a severely truncated one, perfunctorily released here about a year after its box-office failure in the US. Some have argued, erroneously, that its production history is far more interesting than the film itself. Nevertheless, the making of Heaven's Gate is a classic tale of Hollywood extravagance, studio mismanagement and the curious phenomenon that finds critics and journalists vying with each other over who can be most scathing about the latest example of Tinseltown's notorious excesses.
This has nothing to do with the film's quality and everything to do with its status as a commodity to be bought, sold and evaluated in the terms of the marketplace. Originally budgeted at about $US12 million ($A16.4 million), it ended up costing about $US44 ($A273 million in today's money). It recouped less than half of that worldwide and set in motion a chain of events that led to the sale of United Artists, the Transamerica subsidiary that produced it, to MGM. In his 1985 book Final Cut, Steven Bach, the then-head of production at UA, provides an insider's account of what took place.
The original cut, which Cimino screened privately to studio executives in June 1980, ran at 325 minutes. The version that premiered in New York five months later, cut by Cimino, ran for 239 minutes, including an overture and eight minutes of closing credits. This is the one (minus the overture) that was released on DVD a few years ago by MGM, but the New York premiere was the last time it was seen theatrically. When the film was released in the US and abroad, the running time had been slashed to 149 minutes.
Heaven's Gate is certainly no masterpiece, but it's an adventurous, hugely ambitious and finally moving portrait of modern America in the throes of being born.
The new print screening at the Astor isn't exactly a director's cut, but it does give local audiences a chance to decide for themselves whether or not The New York Times' Vincent Canby was right when he described the film he saw at the New York premiere as "an unqualified disaster". He wasn't alone in that opinion, but, in my view, he was wrong.
Beautifully shot by Vilmos Zsigmond, Heaven's Gate is certainly no masterpiece, but it's an adventurous, hugely ambitious and finally moving portrait of modern America in the throes of being born. It begins with a flourish of idealism at Harvard University in 1870 and ends more than 30 years later, at Newport, Rhode Island, pervaded by a sense of waste and loss. In between, it's set in Wyoming, where it immerses the story of a sexual triangle - between lawman James Averill (Kris Kristofferson), whore-with-a-heart-of-gold Ella (Isabelle Huppert) and hired gun Nate Champion (Christopher Walken) - inside events leading up to what became known as the Johnson County War.
On one side are the territory's wealthy cattlemen, led by Nate's employer Frank Canton (Sam Waterston), who is acting within a chain of authority that leads all the way to the President. On the other are the farmers who've been obstructing their free access to the land, most of them emigres from Europe. As Averill finds himself on their side, fighting those who had been his classmates at Harvard, Cimino depicts the cattlemen's campaign as a mixture of greed and xenophobia.
He allows all this to emerge gradually, attentive to the moment rather than rushing on to what happens next. And even if the war scenes don't work as well as they might have, the film boasts several dazzling sequences, the most notable being the exhilarating waltz on the Harvard lawns, with hundreds of couples swirling to Strauss. It and what follows are almost Visconti-like in their evocation of a world in transition.


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A Most Extraordinary Pursuit by Juliana Gray
February, 1906. As the personal secretary of the recently departed Duke of Olympia—and a woman of scrupulous character—Miss Emmeline Rose Truelove never expected her duties to involve steaming through the Mediterranean on a private yacht, under the prodigal eye of one Lord Silverton, the most charmingly corrupt bachelor in London. But here they are, improperly bound on a quest to find the duke's enigmatic heir, current whereabouts unknown.
An expert on anachronisms, Maximilian Haywood was last seen at an archaeological dig on the island of Crete. And from the moment Truelove and Silverton disembark, they are met with incidents of a suspicious nature: a ransacked flat, a murdered government employee, an assassination attempt. As they travel from port to port on Max's trail, piecing together the strange events of the days before his disappearance, Truelove will discover the folly of her misconceptions—about the whims of the heart, the motives of men, and the nature of time itself…
Publisher and Release Date: Berkley, October 2016
Time and Setting: 1906, England and various locales in the Mediterranean
Genre: Historical mystery with paranormal elements
Heat Level: 1
Reviewer Rating: 3.5 stars
Review by Lady Blue
The beloved Duke of Olympia is dead, and his great-nephew and heir is nowhere to be found. The duke's grieving duchess calls upon Emmeline Truelove, the late duke's secretary, to travel to the Mediterranean, find the heir, and bring him home to his new dukedom. The duchess has also arranged for the Marquess of Silverton to accompany Emmeline, which does not make her happy, as her first impression of him is that he's a shallow wastrel. The marquess (Freddie) is, in fact, a rakish, witty man, but he's also an excellent fighter and a trained agent. Emmeline, who is called by her last name "Truelove" for most of this story, is not at all delighted with this situation, but agrees to travel with Freddie to find the missing Mr. Haywood, now the new duke. Truelove's agreeing to go on this quest is also against the advice (demand) of the deceased Queen Victoria, who regularly appears to have conversations with her. Yes, Truelove communicates regularly with the former monarch, as well as with her own deceased father.
During the course of their travels, the prickly Truelove fends off any flirtatious attempts by Freddie with biting remarks, which he happily volleys. It soon becomes apparent that Haywood has not just gone off on his own – there is some nefarious plot afoot. The current events happening are directly related to a mythological tale (or is it?) from the past – and even involves the future.
This adventurous story is certainly a departure from previous books by Juliana Gray, and I give her credit for this intricate and detailed plot. A Most Extraordinary Pursuit undoubtedly held my attention and entertained me, but I did not become invested in the protagonists and their almost-sort of-romance. When I don't find myself rooting for the characters to be together, or truly care for their future, the book doesn't touch my emotions, and isn't my preferred type of read. There are many unanswered questions, which I'm sure will be addressed in future books featuring Emmeline Truelove. If you enjoy a rollicking adventure with a bit of time-travel, some paranormal elements and plenty of witty banter, I believe this might well hit the spot.
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I've been looking at this series and thinking if I should give it a go….
I enjoy this author and have this book sitting on my Kindle. I'll see if my take is like yours Caz.


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So i want to buy a new headset and after reading the reviews here i was settled on the corsair vengeance 1500 which i planned to order off amazon
but then i noticed 2 headsets in stores here in Egypt so i am wondering if there is any grounds to choose those over the 1500 ?
the 2 mentioned are
ASUS ROG Orion Pro
Cooler Master CM Storm Sirus
The purpose is to have a decent headset (really dk much about them ) with in the range of 1500 budget which was woot 70ish pounds on amazon uk(with shiping for meh ) , if it is 1 of the 3 mentioned or a completely different one makes no difference just looking for best performance for the money
the usage for the headset , mostly during long hours of gaming (wow/bf3) ,
i also dont own a dedicated sound card , since that adds to the choice i think ?
thanks for the help in advance .


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Aamir Khan's most awaited release of 2016 – Dangal is finally here and there aren't enough words to praise this masterpiece. A directorial venture of Nitesh Tiwari and Piyush Gupta the movie takes viewers on a roller coaster ride of emotions as the story of father-daughter relationship unfolds. The movie, inspired by the real story of Geeta and Babita Phogat captures the tremendous journey and their historic win.
The movie begins when Mahavir Singh Phogat (Aamir), a wrestler from Haryana trains his daughters Geeta (Fatima) and Babita (Sanya) to make wrestling history, thus breaking the taboo of Indian women participating in a sport dominated by men.
The brilliant tongue in cheek dialogues, father-daughter scenes, and earthly music keeps the audience hooked till the end. Bollywood critics are going gaga over the movie calling Dangal the best movies of 2016 and naming it Aamir Khan's best performance till date. Not just critics, but even Bollywood celebrities can't stop praising the movie.
Check out what they have to say about Dangal.
Devoted to the religion that is cinema…
Passionate to an unparalleled degree…
With an awe inspiring honesty…@aamir_khan #Dangal
— Ranveer Singh (@RanveerOfficial) December 22, 2016
What a film #dangal is !!! Such an important event for the women & sports in our country @aamir_khan inspires us again, spellbound & in awe.
— Arjun Kapoor (@arjunk26) December 21, 2016
So it's confirmed by my friends who watched #Dangal today that it will be a biggest ever hit film in the history of Bollywood.
— KRK (@kamaalrkhan) December 21, 2016
@aamir_khan All the very best for #Dangal. Looking forward to it tomorrow.
— Govinda (@Govinda_HeroNo1) December 22, 2016
@aamir_khan #Dangal 1 of the finest films ever made,in the https://t.co/g6k6ayH6vC geeta got the gold.Aamir can get the oscar #bestfilmever
— kunal kohli (@kunalkohli) December 19, 2016
Review: #Dangal
Rating: 5/5@radiochatter's take: @aamir_khan has done it again. Dangal is the best film of 2016.https://t.co/XWrK2iE8of
— Filmfare (@filmfare) December 22, 2016
#Dangal is a rousing spectacle w beautifully wrought emotions. It's moving & empowering! Walked out feeling I can also wrestle w anything!
— Anupama Chopra (@anupamachopra) December 19, 2016
Beautifully emotional, realistic & oh so suspenseful, a feat rarely achieved by a sports film of human spirit! Epic! #Dangal
— Tusshar (@TusshKapoor) December 20, 2016
Take a bow team #Dangal. Outstanding screenplay, music & performances by @aamir_khan & cast. What's verdict on @starwars #RogueOne tweeps?
— Milind Deora (@milinddeora) December 20, 2016
#Dangal Landmark performance by Aamir,hats off 2the girls& Nitish 4 a nuanced layered emotional experience
— Prasoon Joshi (@prasoonjoshi_) December 20, 2016
#Dangal is the best film I've watched in a long time. And in all probability, will remain so for a very long time. Salute, @aamir_khan Sir!
— Shirish Kunder (@ShirishKunder) December 19, 2016


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On May 26, I caught a massive 30-inch, 12-pound snakehead right here in Lusby. I took it home and filleted it. I fish for snakehead every chance I get because not only do they taste excellent but also are, in my opinion, the best fight in freshwater around my area.
–Robert Oyaski, Lusby
When every ounce is a drag on speed, how to provision for 5,500 calories per sailor per day?
In the nine brutal legs covering the 38,739 nautical miles of the Volvo Ocean Race, every ounce matters with the evenly matched, one-design boats. Sailors have been known to shave down their toothbrushes, and drinking cups often double as dishes.
So what would the grocery list on a Volvo-65 look like on one of the longer legs, say from China to New Zealand?
Widgeon grass has made itself a 13-acre bed around South River Farm Park, reports Riverkeeper Diana Muller, from her June 4 reconnoiter with the Underwater Grass Expedition Kayak Team. That expansion "is exciting news in water quality," Muller says.
A species native to the river, the underwater grass has great value for waterfowl, listed in the authoritative Life in the Chesapeake Bay as one of two "of the most important."
Citizen scientists can reverse the decline
Too many species to count are losing their habitat as native plant communities disappear because of human land management changes and occupation by invasive species. Hundreds of native insects, including many solitary native bees and other critical pollinators, have already vanished.
Latest push to save honeybees
Plants pretreated for insect resistance with neonicotinoids will no longer be on the shelves at Ace Hardware. That's good news for any bees in the area. A relatively new class of pesticides, neonicotinoids have come under scrutiny as a possible cause of the collapse of honeybee colonies. The chemical pesticide targets an insect's nervous system, causing paralysis. Bees are apparently as susceptible as pesky bugs.
Special Olympics athletes set their sights on the summer games in Los Angeles
Brandan Ehrmantraut of Prince Fredrick loves being part of Special Olympics. "It shows we aren't different even with our disabilities," the 20-year-old says. "We can compete like everyone else."
Sometimes stubborn hope pays off
Almost the whole of the week had been lost to high winds and rain. With the marine forecast calling for five-knot winds at dawn and only a 30 percent possibility of light, scattered showers, I rose early and was ready to go at 6am.
Winds were still gusting out of the northeast at over 20 knots, showing no signs of abatement. Then came the rain, not just the predicted light shower but a torrent.
Big strides toward a healthier planet
48 Days of Blue made waves. By the time the National Aquarium campaign to protect the environment (started on Earth Day) concluded on June 8, World Oceans Day, it had proved that small changes can help to protect the oceans that cover 71 percent of the earth's surface.
Blooms are bigger, badder
The Bay is being overrun by algae. Billions and billions of the tiny creatures are making life harder on the rest of the ecosystem. The three most common algae in the Bay have been blooming more frequently over the last 20 years, according to researchers at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
Mahogany tide, formally known as Prorocentrum minimum, doubled its average number of annual blooms between 1991 and 2008.
From derelict ruins to still-active beacons, these fixtures of the water continue to light up the imagination
Chesapeake lighthouses have marked safe passage for sailors since the 1800s. Many stand still, reachable by land or water, and welcome your visit.
Turkey Point Lighthouse, built in 1833 near the head of the Bay, is the tallest — at 35 feet — of the 74 Chesapeake lighthouses. Located in Elk Neck State Park, it was built by noted Bay lighthouse builder John Donohoo.
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Best Answer fexo45 , 09 July 2014 - 09:27 PM
Here is something to check.
Press and hold the VIEW button to bring up the system setup options. Use the right nav button to go to page 4 "outputs". To get the best sound when recording through USB, be sure the output is set to Studio/Direct. If it is set to one of the combo or stack options, the 500x will sound strange through your computer.
Likewise, when you hook it back up to your amp, be sure to set this option back to to the Combo or Stack option for whatever type of amp you are using, because Studio/Direct setting might sound strange through your guitar amp as well. Hope this helps!
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This 4 relay dc rf wireless memory remote control system operates in toggle, momentary, latched, toggle + momentary control mode (set the mode as you like freely). With function of memory, if the power is cut off, the relay will return automatically to the previous status after the power is restored. Widely used to control lights, motors, fans, electrically operated doors / locks / windows / blinds / cars or other appliances with voltage AC110~240V or DC0~28V.
Application: It can be used in industry automation, agriculture automation and home automation, such as factory, house, farm, pasture, vehicle, ship, offshore operation, aerial vehicle, field call, etc. It can remote control equipments on land, water and air, such as remote control lights, sirens, locks, motors, fans, winches, blinds, linear actuators, doors, windows, electric solenoid valves, security alarm, business signs and various devices.
Wireless control, easy to install.
Function of memory: The power is cut off, and then the power is restored, the relay will return automatically to the previous status.
Relay Output: This receiver is relay output, it can be used to operate both DC and AC equipments. The terminals are NO / NC (normally open / normally closed), which serves as a switch. That means you should also connect a separate power supply to equipments.
You can turn on/ off the receiver with transmitter (remote control) from any place within a reliable distance.
Wireless RF signal can pass through walls, floors, doors or windows.
With reverse power protection and over current protection.
Reliable control: The receiver only works with the transmitter which use same code.
One/several transmitters can control one/several receivers simultaneously.
You can use two or more units in the same place.
Receiver Parameters:
Model No.: S4MC-DC06 / S4MC-DC09 / S4MC-DC12 / S4MC-DC24
Power Supply (Operating Voltage): DC6V (S4MC-DC06), DC9V±1V (S4MC-DC09), DC12V±1V (S4MC-DC12), DC24V±2V (S4MC-DC24)
Output: Relay output (Normally open and normally closed)
Working Voltage Range of Relay: AC110~240V or DC0~28V
Working Frequency: 315MHz / 433MHz
Channel: 4 CH
Control Modes: Toggle, Latched
Static Current: ≤6mA
Maximum Working Current: 5A / each channel
PCB size:
Case size:
Work with Fixed code transmitters or Learning code transmitters.
Transmitter Parameters:
Model No.: 0021003 (C-4)
With Sliding Cover: Slide up when it doesn't work (to protect the button). Slide down the button will appear.
Shell Color: Wood Color / White/ Black
Channel/Button: 4
Button Symbol: 1, 2, 3, 4
Operating Voltage: 12V (1 x 23A -12V battery, can be used for 12 months)
Operating Current: 6mA
Operating Frequency: 315Mhz / 433Mhz
Encoding Chip: PT2262 / PT2264 / SC2262
Encoding Type: Fixed code by soldering, up to 6561 codes
Transmitting Distance: 100m / 300ft (theoretically)
The distance of 100m is a theoretical data, it shall be operated in an open ground, no barriers, no any interference. But in the practice, it will be hindered by trees, walls or other constructions, and will be exposed to some interference by other signals. Therefore, the actual distance may or may not reach 100m.
If you stretches the telescopic antenna, it can have a further working range, which is twice as much as it used to be.
Modulation Mode: ASK
Operating Temperature: -20 ° C to +70 ° C
Unit Size: 58mm x 39mm x 16mm
Weight: 30g
Uses: garage doors, motorcycles, car alarm products, home security products, wireless remote control products, industrial control products.
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i dont know why the body field is not displayed any where.
When i create any new article, i can enter the body content.
But i cant view the body content as well as when i edit any nodes with body field, i cant edit the body either.
Comment #1verynic CreditAttribution: verynic commented
Me too,at the beginning,I have thought it due to the Advanced Forum module,but after i post a blog,the same error happened.
Comment #2verynic CreditAttribution: verynic commented
Me too,at the beginning,I have thought it due to the Advanced Forum module,but after i post a blog,the same error happened.
Comment #3droplet CreditAttribution: droplet commented
can you post more info, what modules do you installed.
Comment #4Vasu CreditAttribution: Vasu commented
I had this problem after installing organic group. When I disabled 'og-field access' all the body fields were back.
Comment #5Berdir CreditAttribution: Berdir commented
|» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
#4: Sounds like a feature to me then ;) Are others using any field access modules?
The body is a field. If you have field access modules installed, then you need to grant access to the body.
Comment #6verynic CreditAttribution: verynic commented
#4,You digged it. I follow you and then it's ok.
Comment #7droplet CreditAttribution: droplet commented
|Drupal core
|» Organic groups
|» 7.x-1.x-dev
|field system
|» og_access.module
|Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
|» Active
I've never use it, not sure it's a bug or user conf mistake, move to OG.
Comment #8amitaibu CreditAttribution: amitaibu commented
|» og.module
|» Normal
|» Closed (duplicate)
Comment #9ThomFlash CreditAttribution: ThomFlash commented
Had the same issue and disabling Organic Groups, Entity, and Profile2 did the trick. FYI: I disabled the modules, loaded a page, and then re-enabled them hoping to have both the content display and ability to add user profiles. Unfortunately, a no-go. Any idea for getting user profiles working without losing content?
Comment #10Vasu CreditAttribution: Vasu commented
I would suggest that you try enabling or disabling one at a time, starting with og-field-access rather than disabling all three at the same time and see which one is the culprit. Remember to flush the cache after each change.
Comment #11Rob C CreditAttribution: Rob C commented
Subscribe, granting access to non-group node types from og to see the body? sounds a bit odd. disabling the 'og-field access' submodule makes it all work again.
Comment #12Jooblay.com CreditAttribution: Jooblay.com commented
We had the same issue with (Organic groups field access 7.x-1.0) as above, in all content types, be it basic page, webforms, books, articles. Any content type totally collapsed after enabling the above Organic groups field access. Disabling it immediately restored the content type, body, summary and file fields.
The Fix: After disabling the Organic groups field access then hammering cashe about 4 times and then enabling (Organic groups field access 7.x-1.0) all the content types are restored and Organic groups is functioning proper.
In closing it seems this could be from enabling Organic Groups in the wrong order and/or multi-enabling of more then one mode in Organic Groups Module.
good luck:)
Comment #13Aamuktha CreditAttribution: Aamuktha commented
Hi, I'm also having this problem.When I create a new node (drupal 6) of contnet type article, it doesn,t show the body field in IE (all versions) alone only for site admin role.When an authenticated user creates a node of article content type, the body field is showing in all versions of IE browser.Other then IE browser the body field displayed for both site admin and authenticated user.
Can anyone help me in this?
Thanks in advance.


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Read the statements below to determine what options (001 and 002) you are eligible to apply. You must enter at least one code.
001 - Merit Promotion: I am eligible to be considered under merit promotion procedures because I am a current or former Federal employee working in a permanent competitive service position; or I am a veteran with preference; or I am a veteran who has been honorably discharged and substantially completed at least 3 years of continuous active duty service. (You must submit documentation to support your eligibility.)
002 - Noncompetitive: I am eligible to be considered under this specialty code because I meet the requirements for a noncompetitive appointment. Examples of non-competitive appointing authorities may include but not limited to: 30% or more compensable disabled veterans, Persons with Disabilities (Schedule A), PHS Commissioned Officer, Veterans Recruitment Appointment (VRA) [for positions up to the GS-11 Federal level], Peace Corps employees, current/former Federal employees who currently hold or previously held a Federal competitive position with promotion potential at or above the full performance level listed for this position, and a current Federal employee working in an excepted service position covered by an Interchange Agreement. (You must submit documentation to support your eligibility for noncompetitive appointment).
1. Please select the response below that best indicates how you meet the Basic Requirement for this position.A. I possess a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy from a school in the United States or Canada approved by a recognized accrediting body in the year of my graduation and have had at least 1 year of supervised experience providing direct service in a clinical setting, i.e., a 1-year internship or the first year of a residency program in an institution accredited for such training.
2. Have you completed at least one year of supervised experience providing direct service in a clinical setting(i.e., a 1-year internship or the first year of a residency program in an institution accredited as such training)?
Include only those internship, residency, and fellowship programs that are approved by accrediting bodies recognized within the United States or Canada.
3. Do you have a permanent, current, non-temporary, full, and unrestricted license to practice medicine in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States?A. Yes (you must submit a copy)
4. Do you have at least one year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-14 level in the Federal service, that included: developing policy and guidance for a maternal health related industry or program; managing public communication activities relating to maternal health; monitoring compliance activities for a maternal health program; and providing administrative and technical supervision or leadership to employees.
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And the answer is: maybe.
[Hat tip: Instapundit.]
And the answer is: maybe.
[Hat tip: Instapundit.]
IIRC, Bush wanted to upgrade the N. E. Grid but Democrats protested that Bush/Cheney cronies benefit. Haliburton!!!!
the North East should be disowned.
It's a political waste land. Move to Texas.
they would love the power grab of having to evict people all along the line so as to dig… eminent domain lawyers would squeal and sacrifice to their lords for the gift of such bounty.
of course… repair time and locating a problem and fixing it will be exponentially more expensive, and destructive…
I can say that our underground wires certainly make the neighborhood look nicer. But as the article points out, almost inevitably your system has to go above ground somewhere. We were fine this year with Sandy, but Irene blew up an above-ground transformer last year and we were in the dark.
just an off topic reminder given how we forget, and the news looks the other way..
Poland found explosives on wreckage of president's plane-report
President Lech Kaczynski and political and military leaders died in the crash. this was the crash that someone also posted video to youtube as to gunshots, and who was stabbed to death.
Footage of Polish air crash 'shows Russians executing survivors'… but is it a vile propaganda stunt?
we return to a thread asking to spend billions we dont have to do projects to replace what we have (and such a replacement will have to be replaced again given future trends in power). 🙂
Hmm, above ground – trees get in the way; below ground, water and other utilities digging causes problems.
Here's an idea – how about, no matter where you put the wires the utilities do proper maintenance on them?
Or is it just cheaper to not do maintenance and have the feds pay for emergency repairs after thousands are left without power for days/weeks on end?
As long as the end users pay for the work to place power underground…..I'm all for it.
I don't want to fund another another Boston "BIG DIG" cost overrun debacle.
The left-handed electrical engineer's position is yes- in a lot of places they currently are not, they should be. The article raises some good points, but proper engineering can mitigate a lot of the downsides associated with underground cables. I followed the links back through the Con-Ed story about the outages in Queens. The Popular Mechanics article implies that the fact the cables were underground had something to do with the problem; but reading the the Con-Ed explanation, the failure(s) were classic SNAFU for a grid. They got an overload and/or short, and their protective systems were improperly coordinated to clear the fault. This happens above ground too when the engineers screw up. But Con-Ed went on to blab about all the money they invested in upgrades and so on; the problem wasn't money, it was bad engineering.
That said, I agree it's not a great idea across the board – there are definitely places it doesn't make sense — like long distance HV transmission. Too expensive and the return on investment isn't that clear. Those are seldom taken down by this type of weather anyway.
Anyway my reading of the article and the links doesn't convince me there is much more than cost as a barrier, except in built up areas, where it's most definitely a major challenge. But it's not impossible.
My opinion is the US grid badly needs an upgrade, and this should really be on the top of the list in many areas.
The cost of installation is on the utlities who pass it on to the consumer; the cost of downtime is on the cusumers. The cost to businesses who lose power for a couple of weeks over a massive area is surely something, but it's not factored into the studies.
If you're going to spend billions on stimulus, upgrading your power grid is a reasonable investment in public infrastructure, but I guess it doesn't buy many votes.
As a resident still currently without power in CT, I don't think burying lines is a practical solution. It would just cost way too much.
My experience is that most of our problems stem from the utility company not maintaining the lines; which includes tree trimming. On my road (very rural area) after Irene, the lines were fixed by installing some obviously temporary spreaders on the poles. I expected during the spring and summer CL&P would come back and replace those…. Nope, never happened.
CL&P is becoming a pariah here if the comments I am seeing on the newspaper and TV websites concerning the restoration effort reflect the general Ct consensus. AND, all of us get to pay $0.20/kwH here
Above ground wires are cheap, quick, and easy to repair. As the article makes clear, moving wires underground in established neighborhoods is expensive and messy. The recent storm is a once in 200 years event and yet half the people have had power restored already. What drives this discussion is the inability of people to deal with inconvenience. If your house is destroyed, access to power is not your biggest problem. Behind this discussion is the idea that the government is going to pick up the tab. New York and New Jersey are very wealthy states.
This comes up in my small coastal town every time we have a hurricane, usually in a sort of "why haven't these idiots done this?" tone. This is followed by a discussion of what would be required for such a conversion, revealing the question to be Not That Simple, and things quiet down again. If we ever get tree-felling winds out of the north, as we do when a big hurricane strikes to the east of us, my downstream neighbors are going to be pretty mad at me, because I have a big sycamore that will take down the lines if it falls that way. It's 15 feet away from them but it's at least 50 feet tall. Power company trimming doesn't help scenarios like that. I believe it was Hurricane Dennis that laid a pine tree a good four feet in diameter across our street, and the power lines. though it had not been impinging on the lines at all.
Only place I ever lived where there were underground cables was Hamden, Connecticut, just above New Haven — and there were power outages all the time, almost monthly. Not sure exactly why, but I think mostly they were due to accidents of one kind or another.
Hmm, Mr, Frank:
"What drives this discussion is the inability of people to deal with inconvenience."
Don't you think "inconvenience" is something of an understatement? A lot of folks need that power grid to work as that is their heat source, that is their water source. Not to mention, not all of us in "wealthy" NY & NJ can afford to have (or are even allowed, as I rent) to have a back-up generator. What about those who have health conditions that require electrical medical devices such as oxygen concentrators? "sorry, you cannot breathe? well, just suck it up and wait 10 days"?"
What about those who cannot get to work, and therefore don't get paid?
Two family members, living in two separate towns, have both experienced 2 (Sandy might make it 3) power-outages that have lasted more than two weeks in just the past two years – hardly a once in a 200 year event.
Yea, that the real problem, we don't like the "inconvenience."
Why don't we try this: let the people and the utility companies in the Northeast make that decision for themselves? If the people want it and are willing to pay the cost and the utilities agree then let it happen. Sometimes, you just have to say, "This ain't none of my business." and let the other folks control their own lives without putting our two cents in.
Meanwhile, the natural gas infrastructure just keeps on working.
In some places, it may make sense for people to generate their own power, along with heat and hot water, from natural-gas-powered generators. Honda (I think it is) sells a very quiet system in the 2KW range for this purpose.
Generating power in central stations, stepping it up to 768,000 volts or so, transporting it over long distances, then stepping it back down in stages and delivering it locally, while keeping the entire affair in perfect balance….while basically wasting the substantial heat which is thrown off by the generation process…all that makes sense IF, and only if, there are huge economies of scale in generation. If small-scale generation becomes sufficiently efficient, maybe localized is the way to go.
You make a number of valid points. There are some critical differences between the NE and more common hurricane and tornado country. The need for heat can be very serious. Many people rent in tall buildings with elevators where generators are not an option. Planning for medical emergencies must be done in advance.
For those looking at the video of the transformer arc explosion:
It's in stages because after the first blow the utility's circuit breaker tripped — went open.
Then, by design, an automatic 'recloser' reset the circuit breaker after a short pause. This triggered the second, larger blast.
The blast was larger because the fault absorbed even more of the energy available from the high voltage grid as things went south.
Eventually, the circuit breaker tripped to 'final open' and the blast promptly stopped.
Automatic reclosers stop the power company from having to reset their primary loops every time a branch falls across the wires. Most all such incidents will blow clear before the third and final 'trip out.'
The cost estimates provided are mostly false: in the last ten years the very same scheme that permits fracking/ whipstocking/ horizontal boring in the oil fields has been wholly adopted for the fibre cable revolution.
Hence, a Ditch Witch can bore and pull fresh URD cable ( underground residential distribution ) without any serious digging to speak of.
The above is but a single machine in a sea of alternatives.
The typical speed of boring is remarkable: far beyond what you'd think. One man and one machine can bore about a mile a week — stitch by stitch — if the soil is not brutal.
I would believe those numbers if you're talking about pipe and wire in a light commercial zone.
BY FAR the majority of outages are due to faults in distribution circuits ( aka Primary Loops ) due to everything from tree branches to automobile collisions with power poles.
THAT'S why the outages to end users drop so severely with underground power distribution.
( BTW, Edison's first grid was underground. He was forced to follow the same means as the gas-light company. )
Blert – agree. The costs have been inflated to discourage the discussion altogether.
I am going to catch a lot of crap for this comment, but sometimes, when it comes to public utilities, it's not a great idea to let "the people decide". The People have decided nuclear power doesn't belong anywhere, and they also decide there's no good place for an overhead power distribution line (not in my neighborhood) and so on. The problem is majority of The People aren't given all the all the facts to make an informed decision. They're told "your rates will go up", and that is the end of the discussion, whether or not it's true. As long as that is the only criteria, there's never any reason to invest a nickel in anything.
While the routes that roads and bridges and pipelines take are subject to some public input, the standards by which they are designed and built aren't up for a vote. Lets not discuss the Keystone pipeline, another decision by the people in the genreral area.
If the People today were to decide where to put the Transcontinental Railroad, it would never be built.
As blert points out, gas lines are buried. They'd be easier to upgrade and repair, and cheaper to run above ground, but nobody complains about the installation price. And gas utilities don't waste a lot of time warning the public about how much more it costs them to run underground. Powerlines are a hell of a lot safer underground, and every bit as dangerous as a gas line, but people have become used to seeing them strung all over the place, and just accept it. Electrical accidents are far more numerous than gas line explosions, but nobody cares – they're used hearing about the guy in the hang glider that flew into the lines, or the neighbor was painting his house, and his ladder hit the lines and fried him.
I would point out how our network compares with a lot of other Western countries, but I've already ticked off enough of you. Suffice it to say, we're not world class anymore, not close. Our ability to safely deliver power really does affect the way foreign businesses view us when it comes to opening a factory or investing in a business.
Deregulation lowered rates, but this is one case where investment in safety and upgrades has suffered.
A smartass kid can throw a chain over your neighborhood lines and wreak a lot of havoc, not to mention kill himself. A terrorist group could take down a lot of populated areas with not much more. The US took out all of Iraq's power grid in the first Gulf War and blinded their cities dropping aluminum strips on their power lines.
I know I have not convinced any of you, but I hope you will consider some things are worth spending money on. A lot of the arguments against underground cables are based on share price each quarter; not necessarily on what is in the best long term interest of the consumer.
Safe and efficient power distribution is worth investing tax payer money on; solar panels and algae farms, not so much.
For the record, I've got no vested interest public investment other than professional; I design power systems for drilling rigs.
Typical residential distribution line voltage in the US is 7200 volts which is transformed down to 120-240 volts for residential use. That is why you are warned to stay well away from downed power lines. 7200 volt cable for underground use is huge, it looks like a fire hose because of the required insulation. You can't just bore a hole with a ditchwitch and pull that cable thru. That cable is heavy.
Ray: "You can't just bore a hole with a ditchwitch and pull that cable thru. That cable is heavy."
And the NEC tables for amperage are rated differently for air suspension cables vs buried because of the heat that must be dissipated.
So imagine only a 75% fill of that conduit. And the conduit costs money.
My power just came back on.
Did I miss anything?
I live in an area where the residential power lines are underground.
Our substation is about 5 miles away. The high tension lines supplying the substation and the line down the main road is also above ground. The lines go underground as they enter the subdivision and they supply the local 3-house transformers from underground. And of course, each house feed is also underground. (I have one of those step-down transformers in a corner of my backyard.)
We still suffer the occasional power outage, usually whenever some catastrophe happens to either the substation or the power supplying it, or when Cletus gets froggy with his backhoe. (A car crashed into the substation once and that had us down for about half a day.)
We had an ice storm back in January '09 that had power out all over the state for weeks in some places. Ours was down from about 3:00 AM until they got the substation back up at 8:00 PM that same day.
Most of the delay in getting power back up for a lot of people is the power company having to find and correct a lot of little problems. In a widespread disaster, naturally, they will start with the biggest problem – a down substation or a down main power line – and then work their way slowly out to all of the little problems – a tree down in your front yard that took out a transformer supplying 3 houses for example. All of that takes time, especially when manpower is short, as in a major disaster.
I think the fact that my residential area power is underground – and therefore we don't have all of the little problems – is the reason we have not had any major outages since I've lived here.
I say bury them if you can – especially in residential areas.
Here is PECO's page about how they go about restoring power:
Restoring service safely and quickly
Their Outage Map could be more detailed, though. Compare it with ConEd's.
The positive side of an extended power outage is that it gives me an opportunity to thoroughly clean out the inside of my refrigerator and freezer, which I tend not to do otherwise.
An aside: While I know that raw meat and vegetables should be discarded if they thaw out and/or warm up, what about cooked leftovers? I have several sealed Rubbermaid containers of leftovers in my freezer which thawed, but still stayed cool and I didn't open them. Are they safe to eat, or should I toss them?
When the health care system and transportation are stressed, it might be wise to take no chances with old food.
Mr. Frank pointed out that the very expensive choice to bury lines to prevent a once-in-200-years problem makes little sense. Likewise, people who move to Texas from Northern climes are always astonished that we have no snow plows, nary a one. Then, after they have lived here for a decade and never seen enough snow to plow again, they understand. Life is Montessori for grownups.
It's tough to bury lines in South Louisiana so we adjust and handle it .
Power outages are extremely rare in central Russia, where in all urban areas power cables are buried and aerial high-voltage lines have very robust design margin and capable withstand the most terrible weather. In my lifetime there was only one such event five years ago, when short-circuited transformer at a major grid nod caught fire and exploded. This led to a cascade failure, all Moscow region and some near regions had blackout too. This caused complete transport collapse, all railroads halted, all automobile traffic halted too because traffic lights were dead. More than 30 mln people were affected. But nevertheless this 30 ton transformer was replaced in 8 hours, and less than a day all power supply was restored.
Michael Adams says……
"Likewise, people who move to Texas from Northern climes are always astonished that we have no snow plows, nary a one."
We have a similar issue here in the Las Vegas valley. Every flood, transplants from the northeast / rust belt / snow belts wonder why we have no storm drain system, until someone tells them we only get 3 1/2″ of rain annually…
I pee more than that annually.
Actually, John Dough…
Las Vegas DOES have a storm surge drainage scheme.
It relies upon surface level concrete other than a few spots.
It's so impressive that a engineering video spelling it all out was broadcast on one of the cable networks less than three years ago.
Vegas has a history of getting its 3.5″ of rainfall all at once!
Modern methods refute the assertion that you can't pull in URD without an open trench. The oil industry can bore seriously large horizontal holes — whereas a mere 5″ is plenty for URD cables.
Whereas the old HV primary loop cables used to have a braided – naked – neutral conductor on the outside; today's cables come with a sheath around the braid — precisely to permit horizontal pulling schemes.
Depending on the power company, plastic tubing — blue for power — orange for datacom — may be pulled first. Once it is in, the cable is pulled in as if it were conventionally trenched and filled PVC pipe.
There are literally thousands of horizontal drilling machines in use today — a consequence of the datacom boom — all just as suitable for pulling power conductors.
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Good to be Home
Allen shot some video:
POV: Stowe Fun in the Sun, End of January 09 from Allen Taylor on Vimeo.
The roadtrip is over, I'm back in Vermont, and it's been snowing. Still no job, but right now everything is right with the world.
Eric hit the waterfall for the first time, and came up seeing tweety birds circling his head:
Chris, pretty happy he ran into us.
Ben looking at his damn skis whenever he gets his picture taken again…
Chris, hoping that pillow is thick.
That roadtrip made us soft, Allen getting back to his roots
Snowbird got 20in this same day, Wes's gloating text just couldn't make me jealous.
No powder rush for this stash Wes!
Ridgeline treetop skiing.
The back side of a huge face shot:
Ahhh it feels great to be home.
Damn western skiing ruined my form
We missed the thaw, and arctic weather, and returned to the light and fluffy.
Backside of another face shot
th th th th that's all folks!
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Steve411 wrote: would be funny if for the first month of the 360 release we were allowed to trade our old ones for the new ones. BAM!
Do you want me to list all the reasons that wouldnt work? Or just the important ones?
No thanks, I know it won't happen. Though it would be nice.