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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
City Views, Country Dreams
This new year with the 2013 number is already two weeks old. Any silent resolution I might have made to myself for frequent blog posts has already fallen by the wayside. How does this happen?
My 2013 alibi states that during December 2012 I did have some extra days off, and used them well to celebrate Christmas. 2013 has seen my return to a more familiar work schedule, while still trying to find time for enjoyable off-duty pursuits.
Please allow me to show you some downtown NYC views in the SoHo neighborhood where I work. Up until today, our recent weather has been strangely warm and fog has featured prominently in daily forecasts. If you stare intently at a spot just below the center of the following photo of Thompson Street, you might just make out a shadowy form of the so-called Freedom Tower, under construction as a replacement for the demolished Twin Towers.
Even when the weather is odd, and the sky is grey, we can always count on being cheered up by a visit to the corner of Thompson and Spring Streets, just past the mural-enhanced Metropolitan Lumber hardware store.
Your destination is Ben's! It's a classic NYC pizza place, and has been serving up delicious pizza with lots of laughter for over 30 years.
I usually bring along a home packed sandwich for lunch, but when that is not possible, Ben's is always there to supply a delicious, fattening and reasonably-priced lunch. It a place where you can be called Sweetheart by the cashier and take that as a compliment!
Back uptown at home on my days off, I continue my knitting and crocheting with the notion of eventually accumulating enough items to start up an etsy shop. I have discovered some wonderfully well-designed little gizmos from Japan that help me to create perfect pom poms.
I have also discovered that it is possible to order genuine Shetland wool from Scotland.
With a generous color range of four-ply weight yarns, it is so much fun to play with various fair isle stitch patterns. Even on grey days, color can reign.
Of course, more subtle colorways can also turn out just fine.
Yesterday's weather forecast indicated that we were to have some snow last night. What actually happened was a little snow, followed by some sleet, followed by rain. The fog was banished, replaced by a much, much chillier day today.
It was a good day to meet a friend at The Museum of Modern Art. Aside from MOMA's magnificent own collection, there are currently two very special short-term exhibits. One features the brilliant choreographers Eiko and Koma, performing their Caravan Project on the main floor of the Museum.
The above photo is taken from last Sunday's New York Times, and credited to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center of the University of Maryland. You can find out more about these amazing performers via the MOMA site.
My own little alarm clock symbolizes the other remarkable exhibit we saw today.
"The Clock" is described a a cinematic tour de force, in which thousands of bits from many, many films have been edited to provide a 24-hour long film that runs in real time. Some of the film clips are from silent black and white classics, some are from very recent films. Each five to fifteen second clip features something about a particular sense of time at a very specific time.
It is necessary to queue up waiting for admission to the mini cinema. We waited about thirty minutes, but successfully avoided checking our own watches, preferring to have a catch-up chat as old friends will do. We were granted entry just after noon, and so we missed seeing some of the more obvious clips from High Noon or 12 O'Clock High, but certainly were entertained by many recognizable lunchtime scenes, as well as some other mid-day suspense moments. It's a great concept. Once inside the little cinema, seated on rather uncomfortable sofas, you can stay as long as you like.
Before The Clock ends on January 21, the museum will offer folks opportunities to actually spend a full 24 hours there to see the entire film. Wow. No refreshments are allowed.
I do hope that you all have enjoyed seeing some of these January city views. I am so glad that you enjoyed the New Year's sugar cookies and thank you for your visits and comments.
59 comments:
What a delightful post Frances. It's so much fun to look at the places close to your work. I also enjoy your tour of the museum – with your words I can imagine what you see and, in New York, there is always so much to see. I like your knitting – very creative with colors. Now, about staying 24 hours to watch a show on real time – without refreshment – well I am not quite sure that I would last…ReplyDelete
As ever it is lovely to see your city views Frances and I love the little peek at your knitting. The blues are especially beautiful.ReplyDelete
Hello Frances:ReplyDelete
We are always so inspired and uplifted to read your posts, not least for the ways in which they give insights into your own life but also into the greater picture of New York and all that is going on in that most exciting of cities.
We really do envy you the galleries and museums on your doorstep and how much more creatively innovative they appear to be when in comparison with those here where exhibitions are still curated in the manner of the 1950s.
Alas, where knitting or crocheting are concerned we very much take a back seat!
I enjoyed catching up with you Frances, I am very impressed with your knitting and curious as to how the pom pom maker works... it looks complicated. Always love the NY snippets, my resolution is to come back this year! Take care and stay warm xReplyDelete
I always love your tours Frances, and feel I know New York better than I once did.ReplyDelete
Lovely knitting wool. I'll be interested to browse. in your Etsy shop!
I thought at first, Frances that it was your alarm clock showing these pictures! And I thought that must be clever, except there would be sad bits when you would never want to look at the clock. And what if the clock ran slow? Would the film run slow too?ReplyDelete
What is an Etsy shop?
- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2013 at 3:44 AM
It is always interesting to see where other people live and work, especially when the contrast between that and your own neighbourhood is so very marked.ReplyDelete
I live in a village in rural Norfolk, which today is blanketed with two inches of snow, two days ago it was nearer five inches. There is brilliant sunshine, blue skies and after a night of -13, the trees are sugar-frosted and stand out brilliantly against the blue of the sky. It is barely above freezing, too cold to stand around taking photos, country lanes untreated and too treacherous to drive along, or walk along, to get the finest shots. More snow expected tomorrow..... thank goodness for central heating and double glazing!
Your world couldn't be more different from mine, but I thoroughly enjoyed sharing it! Lovely post.ReplyDelete
Dear Frances,ReplyDelete
Loved your post with lots of interesting stuff.
Good luck with your plans of starting an Etsy shop. The Japanese gadget looks great.
The film at MOMA also sounds interesting. Our son made a film a few years back for his BA in Film and Television Production. While we spent some time in NYC he filmed clocks around Manhattan showing his day from sunrise to sunset in one minute. Of course he called it "NY Minute".
Xoxo Ingrid
Dear Frances, I love your fair isle patterns and color combinations.ReplyDelete
Have you tried my special little Mouse stitch...single crochet backwards? It makes a beautiful finishing edge. ox, Gina
Hello Frances, how funny that a new year needs new resolutions ;-). Love your wool and am happy that you seem to have well started January. Never heard of that 'clock' what an amazing idea!ReplyDelete
I love your knitting.Such lovely colours.And I love the NY photos.I would so love to come again.It is my favourite place I have visited.ReplyDelete
I love seeing the city through your eyes! I want to see The Clock and also to have lunch at Ben's.ReplyDelete
The wool and your knitting are beautiful.
I love your posts. On all topics. But when you happen to post about your knitting projects I like this best.ReplyDelete
Greetings from Berlin, Germany - Heidi
i think we will order pizza now for dinner. love the 'sweetheart' and the city views, the museum visits and friends. LOVE shetland wool (it's what i made the mushrooms out of on my blog right now). although i thought, when i ordered the wool, wouldn't it be a lot more fun to go pick it up instead? your knitting is beautiful!ReplyDelete
i hope you have a lovely weekend dear frances.
I love your FairIsle experiments - I love Jamison and Smith yarn and have many colours scattered amongst my stash from 30 yrs of ordering wool for projects from their amazing colour range - I was a child knitter, Frances ;-)ReplyDelete
Yesterday was the most glorious sunny day which made the frost sparkle. Today the whole of the UK waits for snow... then we will moan because the country can't cope ... Or we will moan because the forecasters cried wolf!
I'm liking the idea of the 24hr film, although I'm less sure about the 24hr showing! Presumably at the moment one can dip in and out and over a period of days and see it all?ReplyDelete
I hope it's warmer there than it is here today because it's jolly cold outside in Wales! I think I need one of those pizzas as bodu fuel!
Or maybe I mean *body* fuel!ReplyDelete
The hardware store mural has the designer in me reeling. This is what attracts me so much to NYC...there is the work of talented people everywhere you turn. It's so inspiring.ReplyDelete
Your colorwork looks fabulous! Please show us more soon!
Hello Frances Thank you for this lovely post, I learn so much about NY on these trips with you! I enjoyed the different views of the places near to where you work, and the museum sights too. Your Shetland knitting is beautiful, both the bright and the subtle colourways.ReplyDelete
Wishing you a happy week, enjoying the city and your crafty pursuits as well.
Helen x
Thanks for sharing your SoHo area. It looks like fun. And I loved the description of the clock exhibit at the museum. What a fun and clever idea.ReplyDelete
I hope you've had a happy New Year, Frances, and wish you all the best in 2013.
This post gives me a glimpse of life in your neighborhood, and all it offers, both food and museums. Glad to meet you.ReplyDelete
Some very familiar sights!ReplyDelete
Yes, the weather has been dreadfully dreary!
Your knitting impresses me to bits.
Buster sends greetings!
My favourite sort of post, Frances. I love the little glimpses of your working world and home life. It's good to know that a sophisticated New Yorker is happy, once in a while, to have a slice of pizza for lunch!ReplyDelete
I look forward to when you open your Etsy shop - I have long admired the things that come off your fingers.
I am intrigued by the new building you mention, the Freedom Tower and wonder what it will be used for?ReplyDelete
You sound very upbeat with lots of activities and look forward to adding your Etsy shop to my circle!
Dear Frances, I read this at the weekend and enjoyed it very much, but didn't leave a comment - sorry! Like you, I'm finding my New Year note to myself to write and read more posts is proving harder than I'd thought, but it is a sheer joy to visit here. cxReplyDelete
Dear Frances, thank you for taking us with you round about New York! I really have the feeling that you've just come back home, hurrying to tell us what a fantastic day you have had!ReplyDelete
That 24 hours movie sounds so intriguing! I like the theme and the concept, but I doubt - no, I'm sure, I could not bear to sit down for so many hours...:D.
I didn't know you are so skiful in knitting - I'm sure your Etsy shop will be a success!:)
Your choice of entertainment gives such a wonderful picture of the lady you are, cultured, civilised, active, lively and in tune with nature, and all that in the big city.ReplyDelete
I think your life is quite enviable, I hanker after similar opportunities, which will never come my way here in the depths of the countryside.
I am looking forward to seeing what you can do with the Scottish wool, I am sure your products will be wonderful.
I do like taking these walks with you. On my one trip to New York I was unable to go into MOMA because there was a picket line which I didn't like to cross. Such bad timing!ReplyDelete
Dear Frances,ReplyDelete
Thank you, lovely to take that walk with you in New York city. Love your knitting Frances and gorgeous colours too. Let us know about your Etsy shop when you can, so looking forward to browsing for your lovely crafts Frances.
Wonderful to take that tour of the Museum, it has been such a long time since I visited a Gallery or Museum here in England.
I've used that wool a few times, the colours are lovely, and I had to google how to make a Pom Pom as I'd completely forgotten!!!!! XxxxxReplyDelete
Daffodils on a dull day - I just can't help but smile at the sight of them. I must bring some into the house this weekend.ReplyDelete
Outside is cold and foggy, inside warm and cosy. I guess that's how it should be in winter - though I'd be very happy to have a wonderful gallery through which to wander, coat-less and hat-less.
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28 February 2008: Getting the Facts to Make the Change: the International Violence against Women Survey
The Division for the Advancement of Women organized this event in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations and the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations, during the fifty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
The International Violence against Women Survey (IVAWS) is an international comparative survey which has interviewed over 53,000 women in Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Mozambique, the Philippines, Poland and Switzerland about their experiences of gender-based violence. The panel presented comparative results of the IVAWS as well as specific findings made in Mozambique and Costa Rica. The panel also focused on how the survey was conducted in each country, and the contribution of the results of the survey to the development of national policies and advocacy for the prevention of violence against women.
28 February 2008: Joint dialogue between the Commission on the Status of Women and the Statistics Commission to consider the development of indicators on violence against women

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American Corporate Law: What International Lawyers Need to Know
Organizing Businesses in the U.S. - Things you need to know
- The importance of disclosure and transparency
- Freedom of agreement and freedom of contract - the right to make bad decisions
- Fiduciary responsibility
- Regulating against harm - good faith and reasonable care
- Protecting shareholders and the public - profit vs. public interest
- Risk management
The Role of the Lawyer
- Counsellor, draftsman and corporate planner
- Advising the corporation and its directors - Duty to whom?
- What does an ideal corporate lawyer look like?
Cross Border Issues
- Problems of language and substance
- Differences between jurisdictions
- Is standardization realistic?
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New York University School of Law
Professor Siegel is a graduate of the NYU Stern School and Harvard Law School. Following three years with the Air Force General Counsel's Office, he joined the University of Michigan Law School faculty. There he was the draftsman of the Michigan Corporation Law and later served as a partner of a major law firm. He returned to the academic world as a professor at UCLA Law School, and came to NYU School of Law in 1986. At the Law School, Professor Siegel introduced the course in Corporate Finance, one of the first such courses centered on contemporary financial theory offered in a law school curriculum in the United States. In 1993, he joined the newly-established Central European University in Budapest as one of its founding faculty members. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford, the University of London, the University of Konstanz, and Tel Aviv University. As an active member of both the legal and accounting professions, Professor Siegel serves as the liaison on international accounting matters between the American Bar Association and the FASB.
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Director, Southwestern Institute for International and Comparative Law and Vice President, The Center for American and International Law
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A new study set to be published in the Psychology of Popular Media Culture (via NYMag) suggests that failed romantic plotlines in sitcoms like How I Met Mother and Big Bang Theory subconsiously affect our ability to love. We internalize these flawed romances and, as a result, stop believing in true love, unless the object of our desires makes cupcakes because TED SHOULD'VE MARRIED CUPCAKE GIRL ALL ALONG.
The study, at least what was provided to NYMag, does not delve into how finding our true love only to lose her to death a few years later affects our perceptions of love, although apparently, it makes us all 44 percent more attracted to Cobie Smulders.
On the other end of the spectrum, those who watch rom-coms and romance-based reality shows like The Bachelor report a much higher belief in true love. "For romantic reality TV fans especially, the more they watched, the more strongly they believed in romance," the study says.
This makes sense, although is it The Bachelor that bolsters romantic idealism, or are dippy romantic idealists more likely to watch The Bachelor and Katherine Heigl movies? Because I seriously doubt that cynics would suddenly be transformed into romantic idealists by a few episodes of The Bachelor (in fact, a few episodes of The Bachelor may turn some of us into serial killers). Methinks the study has it backwards: Romantic idealists seek out those shows which support their beliefs, while cynics watch How I Met Your Mother and complain because Barney and Robin's divorce was dumb.
I also call bullsh*t on the study because Lily and Marshall's marriage was basically the most romantic relationship on television.
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Oregon's leg of a "West Coast Electric Highway" is nearing completion, with a new electric car charging station expected to be up and running in Madras by the end of the month and one in Warm Springs not far behind.
Shelley Snow, a spokeswoman with the Oregon Department of Transportation, said her agency expects to complete all of the 43 charging stations by the end of the year.
Once completed, the network will allow drivers of electric vehicles to drive Interstate 5 from border to border, Interstate 84 from Portland to The Dalles, the Oregon Coast from Astoria to Brookings, and Mount Hood and Santiam passes between Central Oregon and the Willamette Valley.
Each of the stations includes a quick charge that can power up a vehicle in 10 to 25 minutes, and a slow charge option that takes two to four hours.
Central Oregon already has two ODOT charging stations, one in Sisters that opened in mid-2012, and one at the Redmond Fred Meyer completed last year.
Construction of the Madras station, at the Dairy Queen, is set to begin shortly, Snow said.
As electric cars are still relatively rare in Central Oregon, the stations have not been heavily used. As of last September, the Sisters station had provided 145 charges in a little over a year in operation, Snow said.
One of the more crucial charging stations for travelers going between Central Oregon and Portland was formally dedicated in late February at Mt. Hood Skibowl in Government Camp. Snow said it's believed to be the first fast-charging station installed at a ski area anywhere in the country, and bridges a long gap between existing stations.
"Skibowl is really key to getting over to your area," Snow said.
Bend isn't on the list of cities under consideration for an ODOT-funded charging station, Snow said, as a handful of privately run stations are already open and the funding is earmarked for smaller communities.
"We've got network stations over there, but not down into Bend," Snow said. "That doesn't mean there aren't options in Bend, just not our stations."
The charging station in Warm Springs is moving ahead more slowly, Snow said, with ODOT continuing to negotiate with the tribal government on a lease of a site along U.S. Highway 26 near Indian Head Casino.
Separately, the city of Madras is continuing to explore putting in a charging station at its new City Hall.
Jeff Hurd, public works director for Madras, said the city has been mulling a charging station for about a year, as a way of complying with a state law requiring local governments to spend at least 1.5 percent of the total cost of a new facility on green energy technology.
Hurd said the private company the city has been dealing with has encountered some obstacles, which will be discussed at the Tuesday meeting of the Madras City Council.
Snow said ODOT is hoping its network of charging stations will make it easier for drivers to make the switch to electric and hybrid vehicles.
"We're in the early stages of new technology," she said. "It's that whole thing where … if you build it they will come — but they can't come until you build it."
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[NDSS 2016] It's Free for a Reason: Exploring the Ecosystem of Free Live Streaming Services
Posted in Publications on October 28, 2015
Abstract: Recent years have seen extensive growth of services enabling free broadcasts of live streams on the Web. Free live streaming (FLIS) services attract millions of viewers and make heavy use of deceptive advertisements. Despite the immense popularity of these services, little is known about the parties that facilitate it and maintain webpages to index links for free viewership. more
Coverage: WashingtonTimes BBC Fortune Wired ITProPorta TechWeekEurope BoxCryptor, Anonymous Trusted Reviews Advanced Television After Dawn Dream Team FC Anonymous Headquarter KU-Leuven
Clarification on media quoting me:
"[To watch the stream] users are typically asked (or lured) to install the browser extensions, and once the user installs the extension, it can potentially change any website inside the computer browser (e.g., through ad injection etc.).
So, if a person installs an extension while watching a stream, and then visits a site like BBC.com (or any other site), these extensions can potentially change the contents of BBC.com *in the user browser* and can include malicious links."
INVITE of Death and Network Dialog Minimization (New Vulnerability in VoIP Server)
Posted in Vulnerabilites on September 30, 2014
Network dialog minimization is the problem of given an original dialog that satisfies a goal, producing a minimized dialog comprising the smallest subset of the original dialog that when replayed still achieves the same goal as the original dialog. In essence, the minimized dialog provides a shortcut to the goal, removing all connections and messages in the original dialog unrelated to the goal. A minimized dialog enables understanding what parts of a dialog really matter for the goal e.g., determining which messages and fields are really required to exploit a network server without expensive code analysis. We use our dialog minimization technique to replay an INVITE of Death attack on the OpenSBC SIP server. The minimization reveals another, previously unknown, attack on the OpenSBC server OSVDB 86607. The attack input is shown in Figure below.
Experiment: To obtain the original dialog we deploy a test OpenSBC server, configured in UDP stateful proxying mode without authentication, and use SIPp to simulate both a SIP user agent client (UAC) and a SIP user agent server (UAS). Then, we use the available attack tool against the test server, producing an attack trace with INVITE of Death packet in it.
New Vulnerability: The 3-level minimization outputs that a single 74-byte SIP INVITE request is needed to crash the server (Figure 1). However, the minimized input does not contain the Via header, whose flawed processing created the original vulnerability (aka. INVITE of Death). Replaying the minimized input against a version of OpenSBC that patches the original vulnerability, still crashes the server. We have reported the new vulnerability to the OpenSBC author, who has confirmed that it corresponds to a null-pointer dereference in the parser. The details on vulnerability can be found here. This example illustrates that the dialog minimization is useful for capturing the essential constraints to reach and exercise a vulnerability, without expensive code analysis.
Conclusion: Dialog minimization and replay is a useful capability in vulnerability analysis. Minimizing a network attack dialog enables understanding the conditions leading to exploitation without expensive code inspection, and the minimized dialog can be used as an exploit signature. Furthermore, minimization is fundamental to isolate the real attack when the input is a network trace (e.g., captured at an IDS) that contains an attack on a vulnerability but also much other traffic unrelated to the attack. In this case we applied network dialog minimization technique to minimize an attack on the OpenSBC SIP server. More details on dialog minimization and its different security applications can be found here.
author = {M. Zubair Rafique and Juan Caballero and Christophe Huygens and Wouter Joosen},
title = {{Network Dialog Minimization and Network Dialog Diffing: Two Novel Primitives for Network Security Applications}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference},
address = {New Orleans, LA},
month = {December},
year = {2014},
[GECCO 2014] Evolutionary Algorithms for Classification of Malware Families through Different Network Behaviors
Posted in Publications on April 23, 2014
[RAID 2013] FIRMA: Malware Clustering and Network Signature Generation with Mixed Network Behaviors.
Posted in Publications on March 11, 2014
FIRMA: Malware Clustering and Network Signature Generation with Mixed Network Behaviors.
The ever-increasing number of malware families and polymorphic variants creates a pressing need for automatic tools to cluster the collected malware into families and generate behavioral signatures for their detection. Among these, network traffic is a powerful behavioral signature and network signatures are widely used by network administrators. In this paper we present FIRMA, a tool that given a large pool of network traffic obtained by executing unlabeled malware binaries, generates a clustering of the malware binaries into families and a set of network signatures for each family. Compared with prior tools, FIRMA produces network signatures for each of the network behaviors of a family, regardless of the type of traffic the malware uses (e.g., HTTP, IRC, SMTP, TCP, UDP). We have implemented FIRMA and evaluated it on two recent datasets comprising nearly 16,000 unique malware binaries. Our results show that FIRMA's clustering has very high precision (100% on a labeled dataset) and recall (97.7%). We compare FIRMA's signatures with manually generated ones, showing that they are as good (often better), while generated in a fraction of the time.
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Date: Fri May 12 2000 - 02:18:54 EDT
The edition mentioned by Rod Decker is not available anymore.
But hey, there is a new one out:
Bibliorum Sacrorum Graecorum : Codex Vaticanus B.
Place and publisher: Roma : Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato
Year of publication: 1999
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A new preparation of an omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid found naturally in fish, offers hope for thousands of patients at risk of developing an inherited form of bowel cancer, a new study shows.
A team of investigators, led by Professor Mark Hull from the University of Leeds, studied patients diagnosed with a rare inherited condition called FAP (familial adenomatous polyposis), thought to be responsible for about one in every 100 bowel cancers. FAP causes a large number of polyps to form in the lining of the large bowel. Patients usually undergo bowel surgery but remain at risk of developing polyps and cancer in any remaining bowel so that regular endoscopic (camera test) checks are required.
In a small randomised, placebo-controlled trial (involving 55 individuals), scientists observed a significant reduction in the size and number of pre-cancerous growths, known as polyps, during a six month trial of the omega-3 preparation.
Now Professor Hull and his team say that further research is needed to find out if this new agent, EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) could help prevent the non-hereditary form of bowel cancer, which is the third most common cancer in the UK, diagnosed in around 37,000 people each year.
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In speaking of the war Mr. William A. Andson who was born and reared in Howard County, Missouri, tells the following incident that occurred at Glassgow. "While General Price was making his raid through Missouri in October, 1864, there were six or seven hundred union troops fortified on the east side of town and while they were being attacked by the confederate forces under General John B. Clark the southern troops tore down fencing and paling in the town in their preparations for the assault on the federal works. Just before the attack was made General Clark sent in a flag with a message to the commandant of the fort by the bearer of the flag. "You are old, home boys and I do not want to hurt you." and requested the officer in command to surrender. He refused at the start but after a little fight the garrison gave up but not before the federals had lost eight or ten men killed and wound, one of which was shot through the temples. The ball passed in at one side and out at the other, but not withstanding this, he finally recovered. On the following Monday after the fight occurred the confederates burned a government boat loaded with supplies of clothing and provisions for the union troops. But before it was set on fire, the citizens and boys of the town and country were told to take what they wanted off of the boat. A number of men and boys went onto the boat and took off all they could carry such as federal uniforms and other things that were easily taken away. Some of the wiser heads remonstrated and begged the people not to carry off anything that belonged to the boat, not touch it even for it would cause serious trouble. My father and we children were at Glassgow while this was going on and my father instructed us not to touch the least thing on the boat and we obeyed him. Soon after the departure of the southern troops, the federal soldiers took possession of the town again and many of them scattered over the country collecting the goods that were carried off the boat by some of the citizens and killed three men who were found in possession of some of the uniforms. One of the citizens who was killed was Arthur Bramam who they met carrying some of the clothes back to Glassgow that he had carried away. They shot this man on the spot where they met him. The confederate soldiers who were at Glassgow were well-behaved."
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"Superbly cast and beautifully conducted by James Conlon...The young cast was as good as any the Met has fielded for Britten in years, led by Iestyn Davies, calmly commanding as Oberon... Mr. Davies is fearsomely eloquent and velvety in the middle and low parts of his voice...Kathleen Kim sang Tytania, the fairy queen, with fresh, sensuous lyricism."
"The quartet of misbegotten human lovers was wonderful: the tenor Joseph Kaiser as Lysander, the baritone Michael Todd Simpson a resonant Demetrius, the soprano Erin Wall bright-voiced as Helena and, most memorably, Elizabeth DeShong as Hermia, her mezzo-soprano creamy and her acting memorable in slapstick and heartache."
"The mechanicals, too, were excellent, particularly the rich-toned, thoughtful bass Matthew Rose as Bottom and the agile tenor Barry Banks as Flute. Riley Costello brought a provocatively bitter edge to Puck, which Britten wrote for a nonsinging acrobat."
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"The performance is crisp, lithe and vivid...Iestyn Davies brings a charismatic, animated presence to the vengeful king Oberon...Kathleen Kim handles her high-flying part with cool-toned ease...The children's chorus is exacting and energetic in percussive interludes...Matthew Rose is spot-on with his voluminous bass, his adroit physical presence and his embrace of the character's self-aggrandizing tendencies."
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reading and reflecting on the book The Power of Play by David Elkind.
Chapter 4 - Child Play and Parent Angst
We hear a lot today about parents and their investment (or overinvestment) in their children. David Elkind addresses parents in today's society and how things have changed in ways that impact children's lives and their play.
Dr. Elkind notes that parents feel pressure and stress today that contribute to this angst: Am I doing enough for my child? Parents are worried about what others think of their children and their parenting skills. Parents may choose to do something that they don't really believe in...because society or a certain group has labeled that thing as "the right thing to do." They may feel parent peer pressure to do or not do certain things. Because families are smaller, parents are often more invested in each child's activities; they feel responsible for the child's successes and failures. Parents concerns may also be hyped by the discussion of threats in the media. Often the media will overinflate incidents and cause parents to be more concerned about risks to physical or emotional well-being.
The angst that arises from these pressures can lead to hyperparenting, overprotection, and overprogramming. Each of these things impacts a child's relationships and his play. In hyperparenting, children are overly involved in a child's activities. They may try to dictate the child's success and even work to minimize any "negative" experiences in a child's school, sports, or other activity. A child does not have the opportunity to develop skills to deal with issues or failure because parents do it for him (or eliminate the possibility for dealing with it).
Overprotection is a hyperfocus on physical well-being. Parents today are less likely to allow risky play or risky behavior of any type. Children have less free play, less play that is self-directed, more "play" that is controlled by adults. Free play encourages innovation, imagination, and conflict resolution. Overprotection denies these opportunities to children.
Parents want to give children lots of advantages to learn and grow, so they tend to overprogram the child. More and more activities can be added to a child's schedule. While each of these may provide some benefit, they are directed by adults and do not allow the child to play and explore on his own. Too many activities reduce any time for play. And often children are "forced" to continue these activities even if they lose interest or want to stop.
Parenting angst leads to an atmosphere of less free play, less opportunities for children to explore and discover on their own. It also tends to lead to less experiences for children to develop social skills, coping skills, relationship skills.
This chapter helped me think about parents and not just what they do but why. I think we can help parents know they can relax a little. We can encourage parents to do what they know is right for their kids and not worry about what is the "right thing to do." Children will learn; we don't need to force-feed letters and numbers and so forth into them.
I liked this particular story at the beginning of the chapter. A parent came to David Elkind, questioning the play-based approach of her son's classroom. In part, David answered her: "Play is what young children do and, while we adults may be concerned only with an activity's long-term benefits, children are playing for the fun of it."
Play is what kids do. Play is who they are. Play is how they learn and develop. We adults must stay out of the way and not impose our "adult sensibilities" onto the children.


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"This is why my athletes do almost no "conventional" aerobic training. All of our aerobic work is a by-product of our anaerobic work. My athletes or clients can get their heart rate in the recommended aerobic range for 15 to 20 minutes, yet in some cases, they do only three minutes of actual work.".....Mike Boyle
It is gratifying that coaches are finally accepting what weightlifters have known for several decades. Consider a weightlifter with a heavily loaded barbell across his shoulders about to do squats. He draws a deep breath, holds it and descends all the way down. The breath holding or "Valsalva" maneuver is necessary to maintain spinal stability when using heavy weights. Anyone who says a lifter should inhale smoothly on the way down and exhale smoothly on the way up has never had anything heavier than a broomstick across his shoulders.
As the lifter rises from the bottom of squat he continues holding his breath. At the halfway up point, where improved leverage makes the exercise easier, he will slowly expel the breath until he reaches the top position. The lifter pauses, takes several deep breaths to partially recover, holds the final big breath and repeats the movement.
I once asked an old timer how many repetitions I should do. He said; "It depends on how GD long you're willing to stand under the SOB as it crushes you." That's why someone coined the phrase, "Stand there long enough and you can do another." As the heart pumps like mad for several seconds between each rep, our lifter recovers enough of his leg strength, endurance and "wind" to do another. High repetition squats were called "breathing squats" in past decades. The old timers discovered how effective they were for improving aerobic capacity. No labs. No scientists. Simple observation. And these old timers grew big and strong as they increased their "wind" rather than emaciated and joint damaged as so many runners do. These old timers breathed pretty hard during most of their workout. If they spent an hour in the gym, their pulse was always elevated. In effect, cardiovascular conditioning was an accident of weight training.
Yet, despite studies which confirmed the above, the aerobics and medical community turned up their noses at heavy weight training. They classified weight training as anaerobic - oxygen deficient. They ignored the point the heart pumps hard to restore oxygen to the muscles and carry away waste products both during and after anaerobic exercise. When someone can grasp the idea that how one keeps the heart rate elevated and whether the blood is momentarily oxygen deficient doesn't matter, all sorts of opportunities for workout efficiency present themselves.
The Soviets never bought into the long, slow aerobic training concept. Pavel Tsatsuline called aerobics "an insult to the body", and he is recognized as one of the fittest men around. He popularized the use of kettlebells which have since become the favored tool for MMA training. Long used by the Soviets and Europeans, kettlebells addressed several areas of conditioning simultaneously - explosiveness, muscular endurance, and cardiovascular capacity. Check the heart rate of an old farmer as he tosses bails of hay for an hour. Total functionality. Maximum efficiency. John Deere does not sell running shoes.
The intent of the first Petie article was to show how a time pressed person can manipulate his or her karate program to develop good cardiovascular fitness. The father of aerobics, Dr. Kenneth Cooper actually advised one do no more than 30 minutes of running three times a week. He stressed beyond that range, it is more about ego than fitness and is damaging to the joints.
Before anyone mis-interprets what I am writing, I am not condemning aerobics. Stand alone aerobics may be appropriate for the general population, but for the serious martial artist there should be little need for a separate aerobics program if one trains at a pace which is challenging for the individual. Not brutal, just challenging. Karate, although composed of technically "anaerobic" explosive movements is essentially aerobic because of pacing, although the way some go about it makes me wonder. Why drag one's feet during the karate practice only to later do "aerobics?" Why add additional wear and tear especially for older trainees? If it were possible to combine strength training with karate, my weights would be in the next garage sale. I do not like lifting but I have never found an adequate replacement since the legs, back and hips are so strong
Over the years I have owned and used every training device imaginable. Besides a Tunturi Ergometer exercise bike I have owned for over forty years, Nordic Trac, Total Gym, Air Dyne, speed jump ropes, running shoes, a full set of kettlebells, exercise bands, medicine balls, pulleys, suspension training and other items sit in corners of my gym. I occasionally play with them, but it is always the same conclusion; refine what I already do, don't add more. Train efficiently.
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At some point in the near future, we wouldn't be surprised if James Corden auctions off his Range Rover for charity.
Hidden in the depths of its passenger seat is the DNA of a potential musical supergroup: Justin Bieber, One Direction, Stevie Wonder, Chris Martin, Adele - and now the Rocket Man himself, Elton John.
In a decidedly more mature roadtrip than some of Corden's previous outings, John shares stories into writing some of the biggest songs of his career and relives some of his more flamboyant costume moments - all without removing his sunglasses (despite the torrential rain on the windscreen).
It's a joyous 10 minutes of confessions, anthems and camp antics.
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What goes on behind the scenes
For the litter to be AKC registered, records must be kept.
About the AKC, and do my dogs Papers mean they are a good dog?
AKC Registered and Quality
All required records must be made immediately when dog is acquired and delivered, and at time of mating, whelping or death. Records must be kept on forms devoted to that exclusive purpose and must be consecutive, accurate, up-to-date and maintained for at least five (5) years after the dog has died, has been sold or has been given away.
a. Records to be kept by owners and breeders.
1. The owner (and the lessee if a dog is leased) shall keep a record of each dog owned (or leased) which will show:
Registered name and number (or litter number if not registered)
Sex, color and markings
Date of birth
Names and numbers of sire and dam
Name of breeder
Name and address of person from whom directly acquired
Date of acquisition
Date and duration of lease, if any
in addition, the owner (or lessee, if dog is leased at that time) shall keep the following breeding records:
2. Whenever dog is mated to another dog:
Date and place of mating
Names of persons handling mating
Registered name and number of dog to which mated
Name and address of its owner
3. and (if a female) when resulting litter is whelped:
Date of whelping
Number of puppies whelped by sex and by color and markings
Litter registration number
Date of sale, gift or death of each puppy so described
Name and address of person acquiring each puppy so described
Kinds of papers and date supplied
Registered name and number of each puppy registered by breeder
You may or may not know, Gabby was leased by me for this litter. A lease agreement was filled out and filed with the American Kennel Club prior to breeding.
V. Leasing a Bitch
Note: It is important that the owner and lessee should each have a written copy of the complete lease agreement signed by the other party.
I fill out the litter registration application with the Date of birth, number of puppies. Sire's name and registration number, Dam's name and registration number. Signatures of owner of sire and dam. (or lessee of dam) Send in the appropriate fees. This does not register each pup individually. I will be sent individual registration forms for each pup that must be filled out. The AKC imposes a late fee ($65) if the litter application is not made out in the timeline they give. The litter registration fee is $25.00 plus $2 per puppy. The individual dog registration will be $15.00. Again, a later fee is charged if the dog is not registered within the year, and it climbs if the dog is registered after 24 months.
These are not the only kinds of records that need to be kept. I also keep records of the birth. Weights of the puppies. Color Sex, when the dewclaws are removed. Dates they are wormed, and worming medication used. When shots are administered. When they have veterinary care and check ups. What food they are eating. When Gabby weaned them. Then there are the breeder notes. How the pups look and act.
Back to puppy diary!
(10/8 - 10/9) Countdown, and the pups are born
(10/10 - 10/11) dewclaws, loss of liver girl
(10/12 - 10/13) Bio Sensor pictures
(10/14) A picture album
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Wed, 28 August 2013
This week, Kristine Simpson and Julia Kent talk about Gini's Dietrich blog post about Six Tips for Better Public Speaking.
Julia starts with her pet peeve: death by power point. Julia stresses the important of less text and more images on your slides. Kristine shares her advice that each slide should represent one idea. She encourages professionals to look at their presentation and figure out what the main messages, or the key take aways. Then make sure to have a slide per take away. It is okay to have only three slides for a 45 minute presentation.
And, when thinking of take aways, Gini Dietrich encourages professionals to think in tweets when they present. Julia says she still remembers key take aways from Gini's presentation about Marketing in the Round because her messages were clear and concise.
And finally, Kristine and Julia discussed the importance of a title and a good description for young or young at heart professionals doing presentations at events or conferences.
What are your tips for the perfect presentation? What do you do to prepare for a presentation?
You can post your comment below or on our Facebook Page, or on our Google+ page, or in our LinkedIn group, or on Pinterest, or send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or send us a message on Twitter @youngprpros, @kristinesimpson or @kentjulia.
Direct download: YPP_65_FINAL.mp3
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Wed, 14 August 2013
What if the rules we've been taught to live and build our careers and companies around were no longer valid?
A heavy and scary question for some, that could mean the complete overhaul of how we look at life as we know it. This week, Young PR Pros hosts, Kristine Simpson and Julia Kent, explore the new life rules with Mitch Joel. Mitch is the author of Control Alt Delete: Reboot your business, Reboot your life, Your future depends on it. Mitch, named the Rock Star of Digital Marketing and one of North America's leading digital visionaries, is also the president of Twist Image, one of the largest independent digital marketing agencies in North America.
We start the episode off by taking about how the way we work and do business is moving faster than most of us can follow. Mitch offers his insight in to how we can navigate and adapt to the fundamental changes in society today.
As a follow up to a question Gini Dietrich asked in an Inside PR episode, where Mitch shared a story about a professional who had it all - the American/Canadian dream - yet she was not happy, Kristine asks if the "American" or in our case the "Canadian" dream dead, what should young professionals do when starting out their careers? Mitch offers some great advice, most notably, don't think lineally. In today's career landscape, the average professional might have five to six career changes in a lifetime. This should not be scary, says Mitch, but an exciting new way to experience lots of different opportunities.
Then we switch gears a bit, Julia asks Mitch about the experience of writing a book. A fascinating tale of unique surprises and hard work. However, Mitch reminds us that any project worth doing, is a project that should be daunting. And if you set yourself up for success, you will be successful.
We end the show with a discussion about the importance of networking and being part of a professional association. Julia asks about Mitch's involvement in the Canadian Marketing Association. Mitch is a huge advocate of getting engaged in your community and your industry. He reminds young professionals to go in to an association not with the mentality of what will "I" get out of this, but what can I bring to the association and to the people I meet.
A most fascinating conversation this week indeed. Thank you Mitch for coming on the show and sharing your insight. If you are interested in reading Mitch's latest book, you can purchases it on Amazon. Also, thank you Gini for making the connection. We love you Gini!
And thank you, as always, to our listeners. We want to hear from you. What do you think of the current world we live in. What fundamental changes have you experienced in your quest for a career?
You can post your comment below or on our Facebook Page, or on our Google+ page, or in our LinkedIn group, or on Pinterest, or send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or send us a message on Twitter @youngprpros, @kristinesimpson or @kentjulia.
Direct download: YPP_64_FINAL.mp3
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Thu, 8 August 2013
This week, Kristine Simpson and Julia Kent welcome William Johnson back to the show as a guest host to talk about morning routines.
William, or better known as @socialeccentric on Twitter, surveyed more than 20 young professionals in the Ottawa, Canada area and asked how the best of us start off are days.
The Results
About 30 per cent of the respondents reported being up by 6:00 a.m. or earlier, as a result of an alarm or perhaps a pet or a significant other. William was surprised to hear that a plurality of them workout first, before anything else when they wake up, including Kristine (when she is not too tired). Julia and Will think Kristine is just crazy!
Consuming coffee, walking dogs, and checking emails and social media also rank first in many of the task lists. Over half made note of specific breakfast dishes they prepare, with eggs, fruit, yogurt and smoothies listed as the food items of choice. And 35 per cent claimed to check their work email before they actually get to work. And as expected over 60 per cent consume coffee or tea.
What is the proper way to wake up then?
The discussion during this week's podcast truly revealed that everyone is different. Despite the countless articles out there that talk about how the right way to start your day and how the top executives wake up, the important thing to remember is to think about your energy and figure out what makes you productive.
Will says that the best way to figure out the routine right for you is to test things out. Luckily, the average person has more than 25,000 mornings to test wake up routines.
Julia was left with just one question at the end of the show... WWGD, which translates as What Would Gini Do. How does Gini start her morning, check it out on Spin Sucks.
We want to hear about your morning routine. How do you wake up? Post your comment below or on our Facebook Page, or on our Google+ page, or in our LinkedIn group, or on Pinterest, or send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or send us a message on Twitter @youngprpros, @kristinesimpson or @kentjulia.
Direct download: YPP_63_FINAL.mp3
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Thu, 1 August 2013
This week, Kristine Simpson and Julia Kent talk about the power of body language and how it can shape who you are.
We pull this week's topic from a TED Talk by Amy Cuddy a social psychologist and a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School, where she studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments affect people from the classroom to the boardroom.
Body language is a powerful thing, says Cuddy. The facial expression of a politician can affect 72 per cent of his or her vote outcomes, emoticons used in online negotiation can lead you to claim more value from that conversation if used properly. But more importantly, our body language affects how we feel about ourselves and then reflects that image back to the world.
First we discuss how your body posture during an interview can make or break your chances of getting a job.
We then discuss Cuddy's concept of power posing. In her TED Talk, she talks about how there is a slight gender gap when it comes to nonverbal cues. Cuddy watches her students walk in to class and see the men try to occupy a lot of space, and stick their hand way up in the air, while the women calapse on themselves. This attributed directly to their marks - those who showed strong power posing had higher marks. So Cuddy asked herself, if you change your posture and fake your posture to a more power posing posture, will your brain interpret that as confidence?
To test her hypothesis, Cuddy had people come in and for two minutes sit in a power posing position. The individual's testosterone level - which is the chemical in your body that increases when you feel more confident or powerful - increased by 20%. Just by sitting in a certain position.
Kristine and Julia wrap up the show by sharing how their posture helps their self-esteem. Julia mentions that it is more than just posture, but there are pre-interview routines you can follow to help you increase your confidence before an interview.
You can view the entire TED Talk with Amy Cuddy here.
Do you have a pre-interview routine that helps you walk in to an interview with confidence? Post your comment below or on our Facebook Page, or on our Google+ page, or in our LinkedIn group, or on Pinterest, or send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or send us a message on Twitter @youngprpros, @kristinesimpson or @kentjulia.
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I've often wondered what it would be like to be colorblind. How much beauty in the world would pass by unnoticed?
While rare cases of color blindness result in some people seeing everything in black and white, most with the condition are unable to distinguish between green and red. If that doesn't sound like such a big deal, imagine not being able to see the color of grass or brilliant shades of Autumn. Flowers would blend right into their surroundings. You might even think you are wearing a pink hat, for example, when it's really a stunning shade of cobalt blue.
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2008 Vauxhall Zafira Life 1.8 from UK and Ireland
The Easytronic version is a step back in time
In automatic the gear change is appallingly jolting.
On a hill in a traffic queue recently, the car rolled backwards when I tried to move forward! The car behind was startled to say the least!
This happened each time I tried to move forward (twice).
I had to use both feet to hold the brake and gas pedals to move the car forward, as I had tried everything else!
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Having owned an automatic for 12 years before the 'Zafira Easytronic', and having never been let down once, I would never buy an 'Easytronic' again.
In every other respect I like the car very much. It's super comfy, spacious, and a nice ride.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Don't Know
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Why Energy Efficiency and Buildings Don't Mix
By Russ Finley on September 20, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Modern building codes, which are already much more energy efficient that they were a few decades ago, create a diminishing return for anyone wanting to further reduce energy use. It becomes more and more expensive to save less and less.
If I had solar panels on a rental property I'd want a way to charge each tenant for their use so they would retain their incentive to conserve. Not sure my utility would accommodate that.
By The Sallan Foundation on September 25, 2012 at 10:31 am
Building energy systems – like boilers and HVAC – are already sunk costs for owners. Seems like a no-brainer to routinely spend some money to keep these systems in tip-top operating condition. This will yield continous energy savings and avoid utility relation headaches for projects like rooftop solar (although solar has pluses outside the scope of this comment).
And, routine system maintenance is an indisputable operating expense.
With all due respect, I think this statement is silly:
"Additionally, many practices under the umbrella of 'green building' actually undermine energy efficiency, and certain efficiency measures impinge upon occupant comfort. Bringing additional fresh air into a building, for example, requires extra energy to heat, cool, or dehumidify air from outdoors. Occupancy sensors often prompt complaints that the lights turn off at inconvenient times, or that unlit spaces feel unsafe. Therefore, a manager's efforts to 'go green' or cater to tenant comfort can come into direct conflict with efficiency."
Fresh air is imperative for occupant health. THere are simple HRV (heat recovery ventilation) systems that have very real payback value and provide optimal indoor air quality as a well as reduced risk for costly expenses related to mold remediation and building product durability issues.
There are numerous examples of how improved building performance, not just 'roi focused energy efficiency' benefit occupant sense of well-being.
I'll bet that most of these buildings has a chimney poking out of the roof that is connected to a natural gas boiler, that is used to provide building space heating, and maybe even to heat the domestic water, and a swimming pool?
How much wasted energy is leaving those chimney's, blowing HOT exhaust into the atmosphere? Global warming. The technology of Condensing Flue Gas Heat Recovery is designed to recover most of that waste energy, so that it can still be used back inside the building as space heating, or to be used to heat the domestic water, or even to heat the swimming pools. Leaving the buildings chimney's will be COOL exhaust. The US DOE states that for every million Btu's recovered from these waste exhaust gases, and this recovered energy is utilized back in the building or facility, 118 lbs of CO2 will NOT be put into the atmosphere. They also state that if a 60 watt light bulb is left on for 24 hours, it will generate 3.3 lbs of CO2. How many light bulbs have to be turned off or changed HOURLY to keep up with the CO2 reduction happening in the boiler room?
And then there is the WATER that is being created during this Condensing Flue Gas Heat Recovery process. Have you ever seen combusted natural gas irrigate the lawns and flower beds?
I think increasing a buildings energy efficiency is worthwhile, even if it is just for the environment, and reduced utility bills.
In addition to the good suggestions above, the way to reduce the friction points is to take a holistic view that emcompasses the rights and objectives of all the parties in the building and now even the utilities that are building the Smart Grid to serves them. We need to start using the information technology that is a major part of the business and enterprise systems in our facilities to run them better to meet the GREEN, INtelligent, High Performance and now Carbon Neutral objectives. The good ROI of the Bright Green Building is shown in the FREE reprt at http://www.caba.org/brightgreen
If the "in place" so called "energy experts" are allowed to mostly shape how things like this are portrayed to the general public, we're in for a complete real estate industry disaster, relative to the energy efficiency of new and even existing (for retrofits) buildings.
Especially in the case of the medium to large (over 50 units) condo associations…..a simply PPA (power purchase agreement) would allow for saving a full 1/3 of the electrical costs of the building…provided there's a large roof without too many obstructions, to accomodate solar panels. Since a PPA places no financial liability on the association OR the condo owner, there is no reason NOT to get a solar system for the building.
With thousands of dollars shaved off the annual electrical costs….the condo association need not worry about dividing the savings up as the article says….because the association can simply either credit the savings to the annual association fee revenue, or just lower the monthly fee by the corresponding amount. This would, with the former, allow for a better overall level of service and easily "digestable" repairs and maintenance, and/or with the latter, ward off fee increases in the future, and/or make buying the condo units more attractive.
Along with electro-mechanical innovation, there must also be consumer driven components added to the mix…..the innovation of potential and real financial benefits to the ultimate consumer. And THIS is one of the aspects of these newly developed sciences and their advantages the current generation of management doesn't seem to understand.
The UK "Green Deal" might be an answer to a lot of the barriers for energy efficiency in buildings. The tenant can arrange the finance for the energy efficiency upgrade with this scheme and the liability stays with the electricity meter until the improvements have been paid for. If the tenant moves on the payments are transferred to the new tenant.