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Article 210 Branch Circuits
Article 250 Grounding
Article 310 Conductors for General Wiring
Article 320 Armored Cable: Type AC
Article 404 Switches
Derating Cables
Q: Is it necessary to derate types NM-B, AC or MC cables where these cables are bundled to enter a branch-circuit panelboard?
A: Generally, where cables are bundled for more than two feet without maintaining spacing between them, derating of the contained conductors is required.
For NM-B cables, derating factors in Table 310.15(B)(2)(a) may be applied to the ampacities shown in Table 310.16 under the 90 C column provided the adjusted ampacity does not exceed the value shown in the 60 C column. This is what part of 334.80 allows: "The 90 C (194 F) rating shall be permitted to be used for ampacity derating purposes, provided the final derated ampacity does not exceed that for a 60 C (140 F) rated conductor."
There is also an exception to 310.15(B)(2) which allows bundling of Types AC and MC cables. This exception No. 5 allows these cables to be bundled without derating, where each cable has not more than three current-carrying conductors; conductor size is 12 AWG copper; and there are not more than 20 current-carrying conductors in the bundle. Cables with four wires (three-phase wires and a neutral) may be used provided that the conductors are connected to a three-phase, four-wire wye connected panelboard, and the branch circuits supply single-phase linear loads. The point being emphasized is that the cable assembly may contain more than three wires provided that not more than three wires are current-carrying conductors.
Metal Faceplates for Switches
Q: Is there a requirement to ground metal faceplates that are used on dimmer switches, paddle-fan speed controllers and spring-wound timer switches?
A: Yes, there is. The rule for grounding switches is found in 404.9(B). This is what it says: "Grounding. Snap Switches, including dimmer and similar control switches, shall be effectively grounded and shall provide a means to ground metal faceplates, whether or not a metal faceplate is installed." An exception allows a snap switch without a grounding connection as a replacement where there is no grounding means in the switchbox and a nonmetallic faceplate is installed.
Load Calculations for a Refrigerator
Q: How much load [volt-amperes (va)] should be added to the service calculations for a one-family dwelling where the refrigerator is connected to a dedicated 15-ampere branch circuit? Should I use 180 va or the nameplate rating on the refrigerator?
A: Don't use either one. The load calculation of 180 volt-amperes for each receptacle outlet applies to nondwelling units. You are required to add 1,500 volt-amperes for each small appliance branch circuit to the calculations for feeder and service-entrance conductors. This is required by 210.16(A). An exception to 210.16(A) indicates no load for the refrigerator is required even though a separate circuit is provided for it.
Because the Code permits connecting the refrigerator to one of the small appliance branch circuits without adding this load to the calculations for the appliance branch circuits, a separate circuit for the refrigerator does not increase the load on the service-entrance conductors.
Supporting Type AC Cable
Q: The National Electrical Code allows AC cable to be run a maximum of six feet from the last point of support to a luminaire in an accessible ceiling. Is an AC cable connector at an outlet box or a luminaire considered to be the last point of support?
A: Part (B)(3) of 320.30 uses the words, "…from the last point of support …," for allowing six feet of armored cable to be unsupported. These are the words: "Type AC cable shall be permitted to be unsupported where the cable: (3) Is not more than 1.8 meters (six feet) from the last point of support for connections within an accessible ceiling to luminaire(s) [(lighting fixture(s)] or equipment."
The words "… from the last point of support …" caused interpretation problems. Does a cable connector provide any support for the cable? This is the question. A revision for the 2005 edition of the NEC clears this up. It reads like this: "For the purpose of this section, Type AC cable fittings shall be permitted as a means of cable support."
In my opinion, a Listed, properly sized AC cable connector provides support for the cable. Therefore, I consider a connector as an acceptable means of support, and the 2005 edition will make this clear.
Grounding Parking Lot Lighting Poles
Q: An electrical contractor has a job to install 20 metal lighting poles on a car parking lot at a shopping center. The electrical designer has specified a ground rod be driven at each pole. He said an equipment-grounding conductor run with the branch circuit conductors is not necessary because of the ground rod at each pole. I do electrical plan review and have turned the job down because of the lack of an equipmentgrounding conductor. An elected official is putting pressure on me to approve the plans and specifications as submitted. Will you provide me with some information that will support my position?
A: Yes, improper grounding as described could result in serious electric shock or electrocution to anyone who contacts a lighting pole that has an internal phase-to-ground fault caused by an insulation failure on an ungrounded branch-circuit conductor. An uninsulated phase conductor in the pole or luminaire in contact with the pole or luminaire will energize the pole to line potential whenever the branch circuit is energized. The pole will remain energized until it is touched by someone, the incident is reported and repairs are made.
Let's assume the eight-foot rod has a resistance to earth of 20 ohms. This is actually a low resistance for a single ground rod. The branch circuits supplying the parking-lot lighting are 120 volts protected by 30-ampere overcurrent devices. The maximum current will be (120 divided by 20) six amperes should a ground-fault in a lighting pole occur. Because the load is continuous, not more than 24 amperes of lighting is permitted on each circuit. Add six amperes to this figure and a total current of 30 amperes results. If 40- or 50-ampere branch circuits are used, the total current during a phase-to-ground fault while the circuit is energized would be 38 amperes on a 40-ampere branch circuit or 46 amperes on a 50-ampere branch circuit. These figures assume that the branch circuits are not loaded to more than 80 percent of their ampere ratings as required by 210.20(A).
There are at least two places in the NEC that contain these words: "The earth shall not be used as the sole equipment-grounding conductor or effective ground-fault current path." [See 250.4(A)(5).] Part 250.54 is new in the 2002 edition and covers grounding as described in the question. The title is "Supplementary Grounding Electrodes" and points out these grounding electrodes must be connected to equipment-grounding conductors. Here again is the phrase, "… the earth shall not be used as the sole equipment-grounding conductor."
Construction requirements for metal poles that support lighting fixtures are in 410.15(B).
Bathroom Receptacles in Hotels and Motels
Q: Is a bathroom receptacle required where part of a sleeping room is in a hotel or motel? Does a bathroom receptacle have to be protected by a GFCI? Must this receptacle be on a separate 20-ampere branch circuit?
A: All 15- and 20-ampere, 125-volt single-phase receptacles installed in bathrooms in other than dwelling units must be protected by ground-fault circuit-interrupters. This is required by 210.8(B)(1).
There is no requirement for a receptacle in the bathroom in the NEC. Therefore, the ampere rating of the branch circuit could be 15, and other loads in the guest room could be supplied by the circuit that supplies the bathroom receptacle(s).
Grounded Service Conductor for a Fire Pump Service
Q: A fire pump controller listed for use as service equipment is supplied by a 208Y/120-volt service lateral from a utility transformer. Is a neutral conductor required even though the only load is a three-phase fire pump motor?
A: Yes, four conductors are required for this service even though there is no load connected to the neutral. The neutral must be included with the phase conductors to provide a low impedance path to clear phase-to-ground faults.
The size of the grounded conductor is based on Table 250.66 until a ungrounded service-entrance conductor size exceeds 1,100 kcmil copper or 1,750 kcmil aluminum, then the grounded conductor must be at least 12.5 percent of the area of a phase conductor. This information is in 250.24(B) and (B)(1).
The grounded service-entrance conductor is terminated on the neutral bus in the controller, and a grounding-electrode conductor sized according to Table 250.66 grounds the neutral to a metal cold-water pipe and other available electrodes.
Grounding and Bonding at Service Equipment
Q: A rigid-metal conduit nipple is installed between a meter socket and a weatherproof service-disconnecting means. The conduit nipple is screwed into the top of the disconnect switch. The service neutral is grounded in the service disconnect. Since the neutral terminal in the meter socket is bonded to the enclosure, the conduit nipple and neutral conductor are in parallel. Is this a violation of the National Electrical Code?
A: Some people in the electrical industry may say this arrangement causes objectionable current flow and violates 250.6 of the NEC, but I don't think so. The grounded circuit conductor may be used to ground equipment on the supply side of the service-disconnecting means by 250.142(A). Bonding of services is required by 250.92. Parts IV and V also contain various rules for grounding and bonding of service equipment. EC
FLACH, a regular contributing Code editor, is a former chief electrical inspector for New Orleans. He can be reached at 504.734.1720.
About The Author
George W. Flach was a regular contributing Code editor for Electrical Contractor magazine, serving for more than 40 years. His long-running column, Code Q&A, is one of the most widely read in the magazine's history. He is a former chief electrical inspector for New Orleans and held many other prestigious positions in the electrical industry, including IAEI board of directors and executive committee. He passed away in August 2009.


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Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, the "telecom cowboy" who spent 13 years in federal prison for his involvement in a notorious $11 billion accounting scandal, died Sunday. He was 78.
A federal judge had released Ebbers from prison in December — short of his 25-year sentence for fraud — because his health had deteriorated.
A former Mississippi basketball coach who preferred cowboy boots and jeans to suits and ties, Ebbers was one of the most colorful and successful executives to emerge out of the telecommunications revolution.
He created a small long-distance company called LDDS and then relentlessly expanded it through a series of debt-fueled mergers and acquisitions.
In 1998, the company, renamed WorldCom, stunned the industry by acquiring MCI, the second-largest U.S. long-distance carrier, for $47 billion. A subsequent attempt to buy the third-largest carrier, Sprint, was blocked by regulators.
Ebbers became personally very wealthy, buying hotels, golf courses, a trucking company and a large ranch in Canada.
Everything began to unravel in 2000, when MCI WorldCom's stock price fell, during the dotcom bust. It soon emerged that MCI WorldCom had personally lent Ebbers some $400 million to cover loans he'd made against his own shares of stock.
A subsequent investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed the company had been disguising operating costs as capital expenses,
and Ebbers was fired as CEO in 2002.
MCI WorldCom declared bankruptcy and was later acquired by Verizon for $8.5 billion.
Former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, who was hired by a federal bankruptcy court to examine WorldCom's finances, reported that the company engaged in "a smorgasbord of manipulative schemes designed to cook the books to falsely state the earnings and sustain the price of the stock."
"There appeared to be a breakdown in all of the checks that were designed to ensure the integrity of the operation, its transparency and its responsiveness to shareholder interest," Thornburgh wrote in his report.
Ebbers maintained that he was unaware of the fraud and that it was engineered by Scott Sullivan, the company's chief financial officer.
"I believe that no one will conclude that I engaged in any criminal or fraudulent conduct during my tenure at WorldCom," Ebbers said at a 2002 congressional hearing, where he nevertheless pleaded the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions.
But a federal jury found Ebbers guilty in 2005 and he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Sullivan, who cooperated with prosecutors, received a five-year sentence.
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Vermont rainscapes
It was just a year ago around this time that I was writing some summer columns about beautiful Vermont sunsets enjoyed on evening canoe trips around various Vermont lakes, especially Dunmore and Champlain. This summer, instead of enjoying the bright colors of sunsets over distant landscapes, I am enjoying many shades of gray rain clouds. Let's call them rainscapes.
This evening (Tuesday), for example, I enjoyed a rainscape while canoeing on Lake Champlain in the area of Button Bay. The rainscape was accompanied by rain, of course — something between a drizzle (at the start of the trip) and just a plain old steady summer rain (at the end).
Fortunately, it was nothing like the pounding rain of the many thunderstorms that have torn through Addison County this summer, making this June roughly 50 percent wetter than the average Vermont June.
One can learn to enjoy the outdoors in all sorts of weather. I learned this many years ago on a 10-day bike trip. The third or fourth day of biking, after we'd left Vermont and New Hampshire and were into Maine, we had to bike through a steady day-long rain.
I spent much of the first couple hours of that day hunched over my bike trying unsuccessfully to stay dry. Failing to stay dry, I began to feel miserable and grumbly. Then it dawned on me that there wasn't anything particularly unpleasant about being wet. The previous day, which had been hot, I'd taken a mid-day swim when our group stopped for lunch by some town pond. It had actually felt good to be wet. And once I stopped trying to stay dry, I was able to enjoy the rain.
I've had the same experience on hiking trips and canoe trips. Once you get over trying to stay dry, and just enjoy the rain, it can be very fun. At some point, you have to be able to enjoy weather of all sorts if you are going to enjoy the outdoors.
Of course I've never hiked the Appalachian Trail from start to finish. Last summer, several friends of mine — recent alumni of Middlebury College — hiked the trail from north to south. Last June, which was about as rainy as this June, saw them going through some of the rough terrain of the White Mountains. The trails there are perpetually wet, even during dry seasons. Last June, trips on the northern AT were more like wading trips than hiking trips. I am fully sympathetic with through-hikers complaining about ten straight days of rain, when they have little option but to keep hiking.
When our friends finally neared Vermont and took a couple days off to visit us and sleep in our home in real beds, every clothing item they owned was mildewed. They were very glad to use our laundry facility.
I've also had fishing trips like that. Five straight days of steady rain. I have discovered that it is impossible to dry clothes in a tent in Maine in May. Still, the fishing can be good.
My rainy paddle on Lake Champlain, by contrast to a through hike on the AT, was only a little over an hour long. Then I got back into a car, drove home, took a hot bath, and got in dry clothes. And so, knowing in advance what awaited me, I could appreciate the beauty of the scene a little bit more and not be too bothered about the rain.
Though there was no visible sunset to speak of, the rainscapes, and what we could see of the landscapes, had a particular beauty of their own. We could barely see the far shore, the New York side, but the hills on the nearer Vermont shoreline faded in a gorgeous understated array through many layers of blue to gray-blue, to gray, and thence to the gray "hills" of clouds above actual hills made of dirt and grass and rock and trees. It's amazing how many textures one can get out of gray-blue and gray, and how stunning those textures can be.
It's also amazing how nice a dry shirt can feel, and just how much, on a summer like this one, an avid outdoors lover can fall in love with the in-doors.
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Atmospher Sci & Global Chg
Research Highlights
September 2008
Using Mother Nature to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
GtC = gigatons of carbon
Ppmv = parts per million by volume Enlarged View
Results: New research suggests that adopting low-cost land management practices that naturally sequester carbon dioxide could contribute up to 20% of the carbon mitigation needed worldwide in the first half of this century.
For the first time, scientists included terrestrial sequestration options in computer simulations of the cost and technology options necessary to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere by 2100. Under various land management scenarios in this century, global terrestrial sequestration could keep between 84 and 150 gigatons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. Land management changes included reducing tillage on crop land, changing grassland grazing patterns, and converting land to forests.
The scenarios illustrate that carbon mitigation is a multi-technology, multi-sector challenge for which there is no single solution. Many different options must contribute to emissions mitigation, and each one lowers the overall cost of mitigation. Terrestrial sequestration is one of these options.
Why it Matters: Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and a major contributor to climate change due to enhanced emissions produced by combustion of fossil fuels and land use change. In undisturbed terrestrial ecosystems, there is usually a balance between the carbon dioxide that gets exchanged via photosynthesis and respiration, a process in which plants release carbon dioxide. However, when deforestation, overgrazing, or poor soil management practices occur, the balance is upset, resulting in an excess release of carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere. Reforestation and applying improved grazing and soil management practices, such as no till, have the capacity to recover some of this carbon lost to the atmosphere and retain it as organic matter in vegetation and soils. To be effective, however, terrestrial carbon sequestration needs to occur on a global scale. By valuing the carbon in terrestrial ecosystems and adopting land management practices that sequester carbon, terrestrial carbon sequestration can be a low-cost option for climate change mitigation.
Methods: Scientists developed models to estimate the potential for terrestrial carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, reforestation, and pasturelands based on ecological and geographic information. These estimates were then used in MiniCAM, a computer model developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists. MiniCAM is an integrated assessment model that projects greenhouse gas emissions under various climate change policies and mitigation technologies. The resulting data showed cost and technology options for stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.
What's Next: The methods described here provide a foundation, which will be improved on and more fully integrated into future MiniCAM scenario analyses.
Acknowledgments: PNNL advances scientific frontiers for U.S. competitiveness by transforming the nation's ability to predict climate change and its impacts. The research team is from the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a partnership of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland. This research was performed under the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program, building on research supported by DOE's Office of Science, Integrated Assessment Research Program, Climate Change Research Division; and NASA.
Reference: Thomson, A.M., R.C. Izaurralde, S.J. Smith, and L.E. Clarke. 2007. "Integrated estimates of global terrestrial carbon sequestration." Global Environmental Change, 18:1, 192-203.


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Discovery of key link between circadian rhythms and metabolism may lead to new therapies for sleep disorders and diabetes
Discovery of key link between circadian rhythms and metabolism may lead to new therapies for sleep disorders and diabetes
LA JOLLA, CA—The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize food may lead to new drugs to treat sleep problems and metabolic disorders, including diabetes.
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Ronald M. Evans, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory, showed that two cellular switches found on the nucleus of mouse cells, known as REV-ERB-α and REV-ERB-β, are essential for maintaining normal sleeping and eating cycles and for metabolism of nutrients from food.
Satchidananda Panda, Associate Professor, Regulatory Biology Laboratory and Ron Evans, Professor, Gene Expression Laboratory
Image: Courtesy of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
The findings, reported March 29 in Nature, describe a powerful link between circadian rhythms and metabolism and suggest a new avenue for treating disorders of both systems, including jet lag, sleep disorders, obesity and diabetes.
"This fundamentally changes our knowledge about the workings of the circadian clock and how it orchestrates our sleep-wake cycles, when we eat and even the times our bodies metabolize nutrients," says Evans. "Nuclear receptors can be targeted with drugs, which suggests we might be able to target REV-ERB-α and β to treat disorders of sleep and metabolism."
Nurses, emergency personnel and others who work shifts that alter the normal 24-hour cycle of waking and sleeping are at much higher risk for a number of diseases, including metabolic disorders such as diabetes. To address this, scientists are trying to understand precisely how the biological clock works and uncover possible targets for drugs that could adjust the circadian rhythm in people with sleep disorders and circadian-associated metabolic disorders.
In mammals, the circadian timing system is orchestrated by a central clock in the brain and subsidiary clocks in most other organs. The master clock in the brain is set by light and determines the overall diurnal or nocturnal preference of an animal, including sleep-wake cycles and feeding behavior.
Scientists knew that two genes, BMAL1 and CLOCK, worked together at the core of the clock's molecular machinery to activate the network of circadian genes. In this way, BMAL1 acts like the accelerator on a car, activating genes to rev up our physiology each morning so that we are alert, hungry and physically active.
Prior to this work REV-ERB-α and β were thought to play only a minor role in these cycles, possibly working together to slow CLOCK-BMAL1 activity to make minor adjustments to keep the clock running on time.
However, genetic studies of two genes with similar functions can be very difficult and thus the real importance of REV-ERB-α and β remained mysterious.
The Salk scientists got around this hurdle by developing mice in which both genes could be turned off in the liver at any point by giving them an estrogen derivative called tamoxifen. Now mice could develop normally to adulthood, at which point the scientists could turn off REV-ERB-α and REV-ERB-β in their livers—an organ crucial to maintaining the correct balance of sugar and fat in blood—to see what effects it had on circadian rhythms and metabolism.
"When we turned off both receptors, the animal's biological clocks went haywire," says Han Cho, first author on the paper and a postdoctoral researcher in Evan's laboratory. "The mice started running on their exercise wheels when they should have been resting. This suggested REV-ERB-α and REV-ERB-β aren't an auxiliary system that makes minor adjustments, but an integral part of the clock's core mechanism. Without them, the clock can't function properly."
Digging more deeply into the clockworks, the Salk scientists mapped out the genes that the REV-ERBs control to keep the body operating on the right schedule, finding that they overlap with hundreds of the same genes controlled by CLOCK and BMAL1. This and other findings suggested that the REV-ERBs, act as a break on the genes BMAL1 activates.
"We thought that the core of the clock was an accelerator, and that all REV-ERB-α and REV-ERB-β did was to pull the foot off that pedal," says Evans. "What we've shown is that these receptors act directly as a break to slow clock activity. Now we've got a accelerator and a break, each equally important in creating the daily rhythm of the clock."
The scientists also found that the REV-ERBs control the activity of hundreds of genes involved metabolism, including those responsible for controlling levels of fats and bile. The mice in which REV-ERB-α and REV-ERB-β were turned off had high levels of fat and sugar in their blood—common problems in people with metabolic disorders.
"This explains how our cellular metabolism is tied to daylight cycles determined by the movements of the sun and the earth," says Satchidananda Panda, an associate professor in Salk's Regulatory Biology Laboratory and co-author on the paper. "Now we want to find ways of leveraging this mechanism to fix a person's metabolic rhythms when they are disrupted by travel, shift work or sleep disorders."
Other researchers on the study were Xuan Zhao, Megumi Hatori, Ruth T. Yu, Grant D. Barish, Michael T. Lam, Ling-Wa Chong, Luciano DiTacchio, Annette R. Atkins and Michael Downes, from the Salk Institute; Christopher K. Glass, of University of California San Diego; Christopher Liddle, of University of Sydney, Australia; and Johan Auwerx, of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Switzerland.
The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies:
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probe fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology, and related disciplines.
Faculty achievements have been recognized with numerous honors, including Nobel Prizes and memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1960 by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, M.D., the Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural landmark.
Han Cho, Xuan Zhao, Megumi Hatori, Ruth T. Yu, Grant D. Barish, Michael T. Lam, Ling-Wa Chong, Luciano DiTacchio, Annette R. Atkins, Christopher K. Glass, Christopher Liddle, Johan Auwerx, Michael Downes, Satchidananda Panda and Ronald M. Evans
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Most tax-season-preparation checklists include updating software, reviewing tax law changes, earning continuing professional education credits, and training seasonal staff. Creating or updating a written information security plan (WISP) is one often-overlooked item that should make everyone's list. After all, tax professionals are required by the Federal Trade Commission's Safeguards Rule to have one of these plans in place to protect client information.
Tax pros seeking help with a security plan for their office are in luck. The Internal Revenue Service announced the publication of a 29-page sample WISP by the Security Summit. Issued during the Summit's "Protect Your Clients; Protect Yourself" educational outreach campaign, this document is the culmination of a months-long effort by the IRS, state departments of revenue, and tax industry.
Drake Software Director of Government Relations Jared Ballew currently serves as co-lead of the Security Summit Tax Professionals Working Group and is the incoming chair of the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee. In the IRS news release, Jared explains that the Summit's sample is an excellent resource for tax pros who need help creating a written information security plan for their office.
"There's no way around it for anyone running a tax business," he says. "Having a written security plan is a sound business practice—and it's required by law. The sample provides a starting point for developing your plan, addresses risk considerations for inclusion in an effective plan, and provides a blueprint of applicable actions in the event of a security incident, data losses, and theft."
It is important to note that this is not a one-size-fits-all document, and—as the WISP itself states—"it is not intended to replace your own research, to create reliance, or serve as a substitute for developing your own plan based upon the specific needs and requirements of your business or firm." That said, the sample is written in plain language and designed to be flexible, so tax pros can easily adapt it for their office.
In addition to the download, the IRS recommends referencing documents like Publication 4557, Safeguarding Taxpayer Data; Publication 5293, Data Security Resource Guide for Tax Professionals; Identity Theft Central; and Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals.
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THEMIS camera yields best Mars map ever
The best Mars map ever made is now available online for planetary scientists and armchair astronauts alike. And citizen scientists are invited to help make it even better.
Websites developed recently at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility, in collaboration with NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Microsoft, make it easy for anyone to trek the craters, volcanoes, and dusty plains of Earth's small red neighbor world.
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Valles Marineris
Valles Marineris, the "Grand Canyon of Mars," sprawls wide enough to reach from Los Angeles nearly to New York City, if it were located on Earth. The red outline box shows the location of the second, full-resolution image (below)
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Earth's first great predator wasn't
The meters-long, carnivorous "shrimp" from hell that once ruled the seas of Earth a half billion years ago may have been a real softy, it turns out. A new 3-D modeling of the mouth parts of the Anomalocaris, along with evidence that these parts were not hard like teeth, but flexible, shows that the famed predator could not have been munching on the hard shells of trilobites and other such creatures of the early seas.
What's more, there is no evidence from fossilized stomach contents or feces that Anomalocaris ate anything hard enough to leave a fossilized trace. In fact it was this lack of fossil evidence backing any dietary preference — right alongside other animals that do show fragments of what they ate in their gullets — which inspired the investigation, said paleontologist James "Whitey" Hagadorn of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Hagadorn will be presenting his team's discoveries about Anomalocaris on Monday, 1 Nov., at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver.
"It was supposed to roam around the Cambrian seas gobbling up trilobites and everything else," said Hagadorn. But the pineapple-like whorl of mouth parts and the associated whisker-like appendages ofAnomalocaris all appear to have been bendable, in the fossil remains, he said. They are not mineralized like the exoskeletons of the trilobites they were supposedly eating.
His suspicions prompted Hagadorn to develop a 3-D, finite element analysis model of the Anomalocarismouth. This allowed for testing just how the mouth worked and how much force it could create – in other words, how strong a bite it had. The model turned up some surprises.
"It couldn't even close its mouth," said Hagadorn. And there was no practical way these mouth parts could create the force needed to break open a modern lobster shell nor a shrimp shell, which were used as analogues for a trilobite carapace in the model.
Another interesting discovery made along the way came from studying more than 400 Anomalocarismouths. In none of them did Hagadorn find any signs of wear. That's strange because if they were genuine teeth there would be chips, scratches and other signs they were being used to munch on hard-shelled animals.
The model, gut contents, feces, and wear all suggest Anomalocaris was not a trilobite eater. But they fail to help explain what this impressive beast from the Cambrian was eating.
"Maybe it ingested things and then spit them out," Hagadorn speculated. Another possibility is that it somehow broke down the food it was eating into very fine particles before ingesting it. At this point the only thing that appears certain is that the famed biggest predator of the early Cambrian is more mysterious than ever.


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Can a Writer Retire?
Thursday, February 27th, 2014Philip Roth, long one of my favorite writers, recently announced his retirement. In his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side there's reportedly a post-it note stuck on his computer screen that says, "The struggle with writing is over."
But how does a writer retire? Particularly one as single-mindedly devoted to his craft as Roth.
For more than fifty years Roth wrote constantly, turning out book after book from the novella Goodbye Columbus in his early twenties in 1959 to his last, Nemesis published in 2010. More than thirty books, some better than others, but all with legitimate literary merit.
According to a piece by David Remnick in the New Yorker, "Roth's writing days were spent in long silence-no distractions, no invitations entertained, no calls, no e-mails. After I wrote a Profile of Roth, around the time of the publication of "The Human Stain," we would meet every so often, and he told me the story of how a friend had asked him to take care of his kitten. "For a day or two, I played with the cat, but, in the end, it demanded too much attention," he said. "It consumed me, you see. So I had to ask my friend to take it back." Four years ago, he told me that he was interested in trying to break the "fanatical habit" of writing, if only as an experiment in alternative living. "So I went to the Met and saw a big show they had. It was wonderful. Astonishing paintings. I went back the next day. I saw it again. Great. But what was I supposed to do next, go a third time? So I started writing again."
My question is what will he do this time? Go back to the Met over and over and over?
Nevertheless Roth claims he has already said what he had to say. In Remnick's piece, Roth quotes the boxer Joe Louis "'I did the best I could with what I had.' It's exactly what I would say of my work: I did the best I could with what I had… I don't think a new book will change what I've already done, and if I write a new book it will probably be a failure. Who needs to read one more mediocre book?"
I repeat my question, what will he do this time. Keep returning to the Met? He's not young. He turns eighty this year. But his mind is still sharp. His skills have barely diminished, if at all. And writing a book is not an effort that demands physical strength like mining for coal or loading heavy furniture onto a moving van to help a still-active crime writer move from his island home to Portland. Most writers, with some obvious exceptions, are not people who worked simply to make money, to amass a fortune and, having amassed it, now want to spend the rest of their days doing something more fun like chasing potential trophy wives. Or doing something more noble like helping hungry children in Africa or starting a foundation.
Philip Roth is and I believe always will be a writer. Being a writer requires a certain turn of mind. To sit (or in Roth's case stand) at a desk and dream what it is like to live someone else's life. Whether you're Roth who, no doubt, will be long remembered for his best works or James Hayman who almost certainly won't, a writer writes. And both Roth and I are writers.
Somebody once asked Mel Brooks who is 87, when, if ever, he planned to retire. He reportedly responded "Retire? Retire from what? I sit in a chair with a pencil and pad and when I think of something that makes me laugh, I write it down."
I'm considerably younger than either Roth or Brooks. I've still got most of my hair, though now it's mostly silver instead of its original black. And I'm certainly not as obsessive or disciplined about my writing as Roth. I do go to parties. I do go to movies and museums. I do have lunch with friends. But at the end of the day, or more accurately, at the beginning of the next day, I go back to my writing. I feel pretty much the way Brooks does. There's never any reason to retire from a writing career other than Alzheimers , the horrible disease that felled British writer Iris Murdoch.
Harper Lee wrote one book. She published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1961. And, as far as anyone knows, has written little, if anything since. Like Mel Brooks she's now 87. I don't know how she did it or how she spends her days. But I think she's an anomaly.
Some retirees play golf. Others do good works. Or take care of their grandchildren. Or travel. I'm not a golfer and at this point have no grandchildren. I have enough money not to be forced to put on a blue jacket and welcome people to Walmart. While I've served on a few boards, I'm not very good at it. I'd like to be able to travel but nobody ever said you can't travel and still write. In fact, writers have the unique luxury of legitimately being able to deduct the cost of travel from their taxes as research or reading tours. Even Amtrak is reportedly offering writers free train rides as "fellowships," to write and I for one love writing on trains.
Having recently completed and survived a move from our island home to a house in Portland, I've started, after an enforced hiatus, to get back to writing my fourth McCabe/Savage thriller. I'm 17,000 words in and I like what I've got so far and, more importantly, I'm enjoying the days I get to spend inside my characters' heads. It's where I want to be.
I hope, like Elmore Leonard or Mel Brooks, I'll still be at it when (and if) I hit 87. I just hope that if I am, someone will want to read about the people I bring to life inside my head and on my computer.


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> The Unit Test Framework > User's guide > Fixtures > Generic model |
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struct <fixture-name>{ <fixture-name>(); // setup function ~<fixture-name>(); // teardown function };
In other words a fixture is expected to be implemented as a class where the class constructor serves as a setup method and class destructor serves as teardown method. The UTF opted to avoid explicit names in fixture interface for setup and teardown methods, since is considered most natural in C++ for tasks similar to RAII and coincides with the pure C++ solution discusses earlier.
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Chief town of the department of the Drome and former capital of the county of Valentinois in the ancient province of Dauphiné, France. Several Jewish families that had been expelled from the Comtat-Venaissin in 1323 sought refuge in Valence and its territories. Guillaume de Roussillon, Bishop of Valence, also brought a number into his diocese in 1330, and granted them important privileges. In 1441 there were eighteen Jewish families in Valence, each of which paid to the bishop, John of Poitiers, an annual pension of one gold florin ("R. E. J." ix. 238). The same prelate compelled them to wear the badge of the wheel (Jules Ollivier, "Dissertation Historique sur la Ville de Valence," p. 301).
The dauphin Louis showed much good-will toward the Jews of Valence and its territories. He confirmed the privileges which his predecessors had granted them, and invited all the Jews who wished to do so to settle within his dominions, promising them immunities and protection similar to those enjoyed by their coreligionists in other localities of Dauphiné, on condition that they paid the same dues. An anonymous writer of Valentinois in the fifteenth century composed a commentary on the astronomical tables of Immanuel Jacob Bonfils.
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Grind Café is reopening as Maryann's restaurant
Wading River's popular Grind Café has been reinvented as a sit-down American restaurant called Maryann's, owner Maryann Iacono said Monday. A soft opening is planned for Jan. 2.
"My two daughters and I opened the Grind together," said Ms. Iacono, a real estate agent who lives in Wading River. "My oldest daughter now has an 8-month-old baby and my youngest daughter just went back to school, so I'm doing what I always wanted to do, which is open up a real, grown-up restaurant."
When it opens Thursday, Maryann's will only serve lunch, Ms. Iacono said. Dinner service will be added at some point in the future and she'd like to eventually offer weekend brunch. Menu offerings will include a "little bit of everything," Ms. Iacono said, including burgers, chops, fish and sandwiches.
The Grind Café, which opened on North Country Road in August 2011, sold specialty breakfast sandwiches, gourmet coffee and catering. Located in the site of the former Wading River Post Office, The Grind Café sits a few doors down from Amarelle, an upscale restaurant that closed in January 2012.
Over Labor Day weekend, The Grind Café suddenly closed its doors, leading some to speculate it was going out of business. At the time, multiple attempts to reach Ms. Iacono by phone and e-mail were unsuccessful.
But while The Grind Café did halt activity at the front of its storefront this fall, business at the eatery didn't cease completely.
"The Grind never closed," Ms. Iacono said. "We were always doing catering out of the back [of the building]. I just didn't like the way the front of the building looked, so we painted and refinished the floors completely."
The refurbishment took around four months to complete, Ms. Iacono said.
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Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine will kickstart the biggest vaccination effort in American history at a critical juncture of the pandemic that has killed 1.6 million people.
The first trucks carrying a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States pulled out of a Michigan manufacturing facility Sunday, with the shots that are critical to stopping the nation's coronavirus outbreak destined to reach states a day later.
Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine will set in motion the biggest vaccination effort in American history at a critical juncture of the pandemic that has killed 1.6 million and sickened 71 million worldwide.
Initially, about 3 million doses were expected to be sent out, and the priority is health care workers and nursing home residents as infections, hospitalizations and deaths soar in the U.S. With numbers likely to get worse over the holidays, the vaccine is offering a bright spot in the fight against the pandemic that's killed nearly 300,000 Americans.
Federal officials say the first shipments of Pfizer's vaccine will be staggered, arriving in 145 distribution centers Monday, with an additional 425 sites getting shipments Tuesday, and the remaining 66 on Wednesday. The vaccine, co-developed by German partner BioNTech, is being doled out based on each state's adult population.
Pennsylvania health care giant UPMC has chosen staff who are critical to operating its facilities as among those getting the first round of vaccinations, said Dr. Graham Snyder, who led the center's vaccine task force.
"It's very exciting. I will be thrilled, that moment when we administer our first dose," Snyder said Saturday. "That will clearly be a watershed moment for us."
Snyder said the UPMC system estimates that half its employees are willing to get the vaccine as soon as it's offered to them.
The vaccine is heading to hospitals and other sites that can store it at extremely low temperatures — about 94 degrees below zero. Pfizer is using containers with dry ice and GPS-enabled sensors to ensure each shipment stays colder than the weather in Antarctica.
Doses should be delivered to all vaccination sites identified by states, such as local pharmacies, within three weeks, federal officials said.
The 40-hospital Oschner Health System in Louisiana and Mississippi expects to receive more than 9,000 doses in the coming days, said Dr. Sandra Kemmerly, medical director of hospital quality.
Employees approved for the first round are getting texts and emails directing them to schedule their initial injection, she said.
"I would say there's enthusiasm," Kemmerly said Saturday. "There's that thought that maybe they don't have to be so afraid to come to work if they can be vaccinated and be immune."
The rollout will ensure there is enough vaccine to give people the two doses needed for full protection against COVID-19. That means the government is holding back 3 million doses to give those vaccinated in the first round a second shot a few weeks later.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of the vaccine Friday, saying it is highly protective and presents no major safety issues. While U.S. regulators worked for months to emphasize the rigor and independence of their review, they faced political pressure until the final stages.
Concerns that a shot was rushed out could undermine vaccination efforts in a country with deeply ingrained skepticism about vaccines. The head of the FDA said the agency's decision was based on science, not politics, despite a White House threat to fire him if the vaccine wasn't approved before Saturday.
While the vaccine was determined to be safe, regulators in the U.K. are investigating several severe allergic reactions. The FDA's instructions tell providers not give it to those with a known history of severe allergic reactions to any of its ingredients.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Actual Secrets of a Sommelier
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- Marcia Macomber said...
Loved the Dept. of Defense / Lockheed Martin bit. And what makes it so, so funny is it's absolutely true!
Not so sure about the whole T-bone steak / by-the-glass thing though. Made me think about buying a whole cow to eat. Or drinking a whole vine instead of a bottle. I know, weird...
If these are "Actual Secrets" will you be doing a piece on "Fake Secrets"? Perhaps something on the sommelier's ashtray, er, tastevin secrets? - February 21, 2012 at 1:19 PM
- John M. Kelly said...
I was so excited when the title of this post turned up on my eu-Googly machine! Here I thought Hose was going to take us even farther down the dark path, and tell us details of personal hygiene - like how he sprinkles Gruner Veltliner in his crunders before going on a big date. Or maybe one of those insider somm initiation rituals - like being made to play La Marseillaise using a Vinturi as an ass trumpet. But no - it's just "secrets of reading a wine list." Way to channel Raj Parr. Weak.
- February 21, 2012 at 5:56 PM
- Joe said...
i like to sit in a tree-stand at a Monday-morning, industry-only tasting group to observe sommeliers in their natural habitat. Taciturn, yet jejune.
I make sure to bathe my hipster camouflage in a mixture of Vin Jaune and Gaulouises so they don't detect my presence with their hyper-sensitive nostrils. - February 21, 2012 at 7:15 PM
- Mockingbird said...
Wow! This is like reading a Karl Lagerfeld interview.....
- February 22, 2012 at 8:33 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Long ago I learned from Tom Wark that the way to get more hits was to have titles that would come up in Google searches, so when I finished this admittedly stupid post, I ripped off the title from Raj Parr. Seems to have worked.
You're talking a different post altogether--you're thinking of the MW exams, most of which involve stirrups. I just may get to them in a later post. "Weak?" Yeah. You're right. Maybe it's time to walk away again.
Sommeliers are used to being observed in the wild, sort of like Dian Fossey's mountain gorillas. They nonchalant it when observers are around, but once you're gone the mating rituals commence. Sadly, due to deforestation and the fact that the Chinese value their horns, sommeliers are quickly vanishing from the wild. Soon the only ones left will be in zoos, like New York and Las Vegas. - February 22, 2012 at 9:02 AM
- Man About Wine said...
The top 10 lists were much better. Should have stoppe while you had a , oops, I mean, while you were still, a head.
Man about wine, DR - February 26, 2012 at 9:49 PM
- Marc the Wine Guy said...
As a supposed wine professional, a major wine buyer for a large retail chain, a former sommelier at a very nice french bistro, a graduate of the advanced WSET program (and if I donate my kidney and sell my children to medical science to free up time and budget, I will enter the diploma program) and have seen the costs from vine to glass, I can say you are dead on correct. Wine lists, prices and supposed professionals are a joke. The margins at restaurants are disgusting and the growth of BYOBs and entertaining at home can be attributed to the greed. There was a time when it was reasonable, but I found before I left Hospitality for other parts of the business that they were covering food cost issues with liquor and those mark ups got worse and worse. People often ask me for a suggestion when I'm out, because I'm supposed to know, but what I often know is the real cost and I lose my appetite.
- February 27, 2012 at 8:46 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Thanks for the show of support. As the job of sommelier becomes more of an avocation, that can only spell bad news for wine consumers in restaurants. When I started as a somm in 1987, in the entire city of LA I think there were only 6 of us that did the job exclusively (that is, we weren't actually a dining room manager, we were sommeliers). We were vestigial organs even then. I have no idea how many there are now, since I live in Sonoma. But in SF, wow, there are more sommeliers than there are dentists--and I think I dread them more too. - February 27, 2012 at 9:03 AM
There are good sommeliers out there that are in the business because they love wine and want to share that love with other people and aren't looking to rip people off. It's too bad you've never encountered one and apparently weren't that type when you were one.
- February 27, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Hose Master, you sound like Glenn Beck. You're spouting over-the-top gross generalizations, one after the other. Get some help.
- March 5, 2012 at 5:48 PM


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When professional pianist Alexandra Costin was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 30, it shook her to her very core.
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In order to get a constant supply of food and feathers, I decided to set up a simple semi-automated chicken farm, but for some reason, my chickens keep dying. Why is this? Here are the details:
The dispenser is triggered by a rapid pulsar. This way, approximately every 16 seconds a new chicken is spawned, until I run out of eggs. The chickens float on a 1-layer thick water surface to allow collecting eggs:
As you can see the floating area is about 2x10 blocks large.
There used to be many chickens in these containers, dropping an egg every few seconds. Then, they all died (I could collect meat instead of eggs). Luckily, I had a batch of eggs, so I refilled the dispenser and got around 20 chickens out of it. Leaving the farm for a while and coming back left me with just 2 chickens.
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This sermon was a video sermon given by Adam Hamilton. Watch the sermon here.
This series is based on Adam Hamilton's book by the same title Making Sense of the Bible.
Adam invites us into an honest conversation about the Bible with foundational questions such as, How and when was the Bible written? Who decided which books made it into the scriptures and why? How literally must we read it? And, Is the Bible ever wrong?
From there, we will consider the real questions people frequently ask that continue to divide Christians and denominations alike, including:
- Were Adam and Eve real people?
- Why is God so violent in the Old Testament?
- Why would Paul command women to "keep silent in the church?"
- Is Jesus the only way to salvation?
- How does God view same sex relationships?
- Is the Book of Revelation a guide to the End Times?
We hope to address these often misunderstood biblical themes leading readers to a deeper appreciation of the Bible so that we might hear God speak through it and find its words to be life-changing and life-giving.
Sermon Series
Sept. 8- Making Sense of the Old Testament
Sept. 15- Making Sense of the New Testament
Sept. 22- How to Understand the Bible
Sept. 29- Violence and God in the Bible
Oct. 6- The Bible and Science


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New Roger Waters Album, Is This The Life We Really Want?, Set For Global Release Friday, June 2
Roger Waters, the creative power and song writing force behind Pink Floyd, announces his first rock album in 25 years, Is This The Life We Really Want?. The album will be available for pre order tomorrow, April 21 and released globally on Friday, June 2 on Columbia Records.
Additionally, Waters will launch his North American Us + Them Tour in Kansas City, MO on Friday, May 26. The Us + Them Tour runs through October 28, concluding in Vancouver, BC. See full list of dates below.
Roger Waters' last studio album, 1992's Amused To Death, was a prescient study of popular culture, exploring the power of television in the era of the First Gulf War. The long-awaited follow-up, 2017's Is This The Life We Really Want?, is an unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times. Waters' forthcoming LP serves as a natural successor to classic Pink Floyd albums such as Animals and The Wall.
Produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Beck, U2, "From the Basement"), Is This The Life We Really Want? includes 12 new Roger Waters musical compositions and studio performances.
The physical album release includes a double 180-gram vinyl LP in a gatefold jacket and a 4-panel soft pack CD. All album formats, physical and digital, are available for pre-order starting April 21.
The musicians on Is This The Life We Really Want? are: Roger Waters (vocals, acoustic, bass), Nigel Godrich (arrangement, sound collages, keyboards, guitar), Gus Seyffert (bass, guitar, keyboards), Jonathan Wilson (guitar, keyboards), Joey Waronker (drums), Roger Manning (keyboards), Lee Pardini (keyboards), and Lucius (vocals) with Jessica Wolfe and Holly Proctor.
Tracks on Is This The Life We Really Want? include: "When We Were Young," "Déjà vu," "The Last Refugee," "Picture That," "Broken Bones," "The Life We Really Want," "A Bird In A Gale," "The Most Beautiful Girl," "Smell the Roses," "Wait For Her," "Oceans Apart," and "Part of Me Died." The lyrics for 'Wait for Her' were written by Roger Waters and inspired by an English translation by an unknown author of "Lesson from the Kama Sutra (Wait for Her)," by Mahmoud Darwish.
Is This The Life We Really Want? Tracklist
- When We Were Young
- Déjà Vu
- The Last Refugee
- Picture That
- Broken Bones
- Is This The Life We Really Want?
- Bird In A Gale
- The Most Beautiful Girl
- Smell The Roses
- Wait For Her
- Oceans Apart
- Part of Me Died
Roger Waters Us + Them North American Tour 2017
05/26 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
05/28 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
05/30 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
06/01 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
06/03 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
06/04 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
06/07 San Jose, CA SAP Center at San Jose
06/10 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
06/12 Sacramento, CA Golden 1 Center
06/14 Phoenix, AZ Gila River Arena
06/16 Las Vegas, NV T-Mobile Arena
06/20 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
06/21 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
06/24 Seattle, WA Tacoma Dome
06/27 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
07/01 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
07/03 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
07/06 Houston, TX Toyota Center
07/08 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center
07/11 Tampa, FL Amalie Arena
07/13 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
07/16 Atlanta, GA Infinite Energy Arena
07/18 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum
07/20 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
07/22 Chicago, IL United Center
07/23 Chicago, IL United Center
07/26 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
07/29 Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center
08/02 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
08/04 Washington, DC Verizon Center
08/08 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
08/09 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
08/13 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
09/07 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
09/11 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
09/12 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
09/15 Uniondale, NY The New Coliseum
09/16 Uniondale, NY The New Coliseum
09/19 Pittsburgh, PA PPG Paints Arena
09/21 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
09/23 Albany, NY Times Union Center
09/24 Hartford, CT XL Center
09/27 Boston, MA TD Garden
09/28 Boston, MA TD Garden
10/02 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
10/03 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
10/06 Quebec City, QC Videotron Centre
10/07 Quebec City, QC Videotron Centre
10/10 Ottawa, ONT Canadian Tire Centre
10/16 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
10/17 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
10/22 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
10/24 Edmonton, AB Rogers Place
10/28 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena


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"Se parla nel mio cor" from Giustino
About this Piece
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) started his career in 1702 as a church organist in the central European city of Halle, but a visit to Berlin sometime before that (his first biographer, John Mainwaring, dates the visit to 1698, arbitrarily it seems) introduced the composer to opera, the pursuit that would dominate four decades of his professional life. On February 24, 1711, Handel's first opera for London, Rinaldo, opened at the Queen's (King's after George I's accession in 1714) Theatre in the Haymarket. Rinaldo was the first Italian opera composed specifically for the London stage, to a libretto by the theater's librettist, Giacomo Rossi, based on the story of the crusader-knight Rinaldo and the sorceress-queen Armida from Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Liberated). Handel composed the work in a mere two weeks, partly by raiding many of his earlier scores - fifteen of the arias come from operas and oratorios he had written for Hamburg and Italy - but for his leading man, the castrato Nicolini, Handel composed only new music. The aria "Cara sposa," Rinaldo's lament over his lost love Almirena, who has been kidnapped by Armida, adds an emotional depth to a character that otherwise would run the risk of coming off as a two-dimensional hero. The minor key, the rich, contrapuntal string part, and Handel's use of chromaticism all reflect the sense of loss and longing in the text.
The other two arias on tonight's program come from much later in Handel's operatic career, when his fortunes in London had begun to change. Competition between operatic troupes (itself tied to perpetual infighting between the George II and the Prince of Wales), a dwindling audience for opera, and Handel's new-found success as a composer of English-language oratorios all contributed to this decline. Handel premiered his last opera in 1741.
Heard side-by-side, Giustino and Serse show Handel striking out in interesting new directions even as his operatic career was drawing to a close. Handel infuses the heroic dimension of many of his earlier works, Rinaldo included, with new life in Giustino, partly by breaking up the stream of arias characteristic of those earlier works with several choruses, a technique borrowed from oratorio. The aria "Se parla nel mio cor" comes from Act I of the opera, as Giustino (Justin, a peasant who rose through the ranks to command the armies of the Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius and eventually succeeded him in 518 A.D.) heads off to battle against the rebel Vitalian. This is just the first of his many heroic deeds over the opera's course, during which Justin rescues one woman from a bear and another from a sea monster. Serse, on the other hand, is remarkably anti-heroic, a wholly comic opera with an undercurrent of satire. We meet Serse (again, like Justin, a historical figure, in this case, Xerxes, King of Persia, whose defeat by the Greeks at the Battle of Salamis Herodotus describes in his Histories) in his introductory aria "Ombra mai fu," probably the most famous number from any of Handel's operas. The aria's rarefied atmosphere is meant ironically, as Xerxes sings of his profound, heartfelt love not for a woman, but for a tree.
- John Mangum holds a Ph.D. in history from UCLA. He is the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Program Designer/ Annotator.


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The Guardian has an entertaining account of John Bolton's speech before a Conservative Party gathering in England. The article is titled "Bolton calls for bombing of Iran," and it sounds like that's more or less accurate:
"I don't think the use of military force is an attractive option, but I would tell you I don't know what the alternative is.
"Because life is about choices, I think we have to consider the use of military force. I think we have to look at a limited strike against their nuclear facilities."
He added that any strike should be followed by an attempt to remove the "source of the problem", Mr Ahmadinejad.
But this seems like an exercise in wishful thinking:
"If we were to strike Iran it should be accompanied by an effort at regime change … The US once had the capability to engineer the clandestine overthrow of governments. I wish we could get it back."
Bolton told a questioner that he is not a neoconservative, or even a Reagan conservative, but rather a Goldwater conservative. Maybe he was referring to Goldwater's suggestion that we lob a bomb into the men's room at the Kremlin.
Via Power Line News.
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Insanely Popular Powerball Meme (Falsely) Claims Jackpot Can End All Poverty
File this under "whoops."
A Facebook post claiming the next Powerball drawing could end poverty in the United States has gone viral, except there's one not-so teeny-weeny little problem: it's wrong.
The jackpot is expected to be around $1.4 billion, but when it had reached $1.3 billion a meme began circulating claiming the money divided among all Americans would total $4.33 million per person. Well, before you hail the end of homelessness, you should make sure the decimal is in the right place because, as it turns out, it totals about $4.33 per person -- a fact that is noted in several of the comments.
Even though the math is way off, the meme has spread like wildfire on Facebook, with some 870,000 shares.
Just imagine if the person responsible for this wins. He'd definitely need to hire a financial adviser who's better with numbers than he is.


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Dear Incoming Members of Congress from the Tea Party,
Do you like clean tap water? How about our scenic and toll-free interstate highways? Do you think 911 service and the fire department are neato?
Then you like taxes! Because taxes pay for all those things, and without taxes, we can't have them. That's not socialism–that's civilization, built up over centuries of debate and experimentation in solving the problems that human societies face.
Have you considered what it would be like to return to a world in which your home would be allowed to burn down if you didn't display a placard over your door indicating that you'd purchased the right kind of private fire insurance? Do you know why we don't do that anymore? Because we tried it, and it didn't work. Some problems cannot be reduced to individual property and individual risk—they can't be privatized away.
Taxes aren't a conspiracy to deprive you of your wealth. They pay for a lot of stuff you use. And don't go all squidgy over the redistribution of those taxes to the poor. If you find them all undeserving, then remember that programs originally intended for them, like Social Security and Medicaid, are increasingly providing economic lifelines for middle- and upper-middle-class people too.
In fact, the richer you are in the United States, the more you make out like a bandit in terms of the benefits you enjoy versus your share of tax burden. Take it from a guy who is much, much richer than you will ever be:
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
Now that we've got that cleared up, please send in the social conservatives. Salt N Pepa want to have a little chat with them about Don't Ask Don't Tell.