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I was gonna write about the Crazy Palins (which is what they should've called that show on TLC), but I figured you're probably just as tired of hearing about them as I am. And, I wouldn't think about them that often, except they have saturated the media market with their ubiquity and they're like an honest-to-God train wreck. You can't look away. And, even if you could look away, you'd still want to know what happened, so you'd try and find more about it.
So, I decided to ask my wife what to write about. And, to "paraquote" the brilliant Aaron Sorkin…"I must tell you my wife warned me … And nearly every time I don't listen to her, I get in trouble for it." As it happens, we were sort of on the same wavelength regarding this evening's post which concerns the anticipation of films and the culture that has changed that anticipation.
First off, let me say this, we're going to see Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 tomorrow evening and I'm looking forward to this film like I haven't any other in quite some time. Once I accepted the challenge of reading the Harry Potter books, I became a disciple of Rowling and devoured them quickly and with much haste. I have a favorite character (Nymphadora Tonks) and while I don't dress up, I think I'd look pretty awesome in a Hogwarts uni. Anyway, the point of this is to say that we're both excited about going. But, anticipation of films has changed over the years.
I remember back in 1997, I got up before dawn and took the day off work to go stand in line to see Star Wars on the big screen at Showcase Cinemas. I was at least 35 people from the front (which means there are about 34 nerdier people than me in this city), but we all raced in when the door opened and got our favorite seats. By the time Attack of the Clones rolled around 5 years later, the Internet was in full swing and, in addition to the websites and chat room rumors, the theatres had added midnight showings. I was still getting up at dawn to go see the films, while all the real nerds had seen it the night before, plus, I was getting the day off work. I was even on TV before Revenge of the Sith because I was a one-man line before the sun came up for that film. I guess they thought that there would be a bigger crowd. Now, with Harry Potter, we went to the midnight show of the first one, The Sorcerer's Stone, but since then we've tapered off and gone to a more reasonably timed showing sometimes not even on opening weekend *gasp!* Also, my wife has assumed the nerd mantle for the Harry Potter films by re-reading each book before the movie comes out. Even at this very moment, she is frantically attempting to finish at least the first half of the book before tomorrow's show. I'd call her out on it, but I totally understand.
Certainly the culture surrounding impending films has changed. Websites, multiple movie trailers that are practically mini-films themselves, midnight showings, leaks on the Internet, etc. all of these are things that just simply did not exist a few years ago. Yet, somehow, I think maybe the anticipation of films has heightened in some way. It's as though with access to more information and the possibility of spoilers, it makes the film that much more exciting, which seems to be a contradiction of itself, but still, somehow, true.
Anyway, are you excited to see Harry Potter? Could you care less, maybe? Is there a film you can't wait to see, particularly this holiday season which is usually a great time for film releases? Was there a film that you couldn't wait to see and then when you did were not as excited as you might have been? These are burning questions that the Conspiracy of Happiness seeks answers to so don't be shy…let me know.
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Category Archives: road trip from hell
On the road again…
I m in St George Utah. It's a beautiful place. The rocks, the canyons, we were oohing and awwing all the way through the state yesterday afternoon.
Day one of the roadtrip did not go as planned. It started off with me locking my keys in my house. Nothing like having to break into your own abode just so you can get the hell outta town.
And it went downhill from there.
I will tell more later..got to get on the road as we did not drive very far yesterday and our schedule is all hosed up at this point in time.
Keep us in your thoughts..please. We can't take any more bad luck. seriously..


text: The kidney is one of the most important and complex organs in the humanbody with the task of filtering hundreds of litres of blood daily. It is responsiblefor the salt and acid/base balance in the body, as well as secretinghormones important for red blood cell production and blood pressure regulation. Kidney disease is one of the fastest growing causes of death in the modern world, and this motivates extensive research for better understandingthe function of the kidney in both health and disease. Kidney failure or end stage renal disease (ESRD) is irreversible and requires treatment with dialysisor transplantation. Some of the most important cellular structures for blood filtration in the kidney are of very small dimensions (below 200 nanometers), and thus electron microscopy has previously been the only method with high enough resolution to study the morphology and topology of these minute structures. In three studies included in this thesis, we show that the finest elements of the kidney can now be resolved using different light microscopy techniques. In study 1, we show that by combining optical clearing with STED microscopy, protein localizations in the slit diaphragm of the kidney can be resolved, with widths around 75 nanometers. In study 3, a novel sample preparation method, expansion microscopy, is utilized to isotropically expand kidney tissue samples in space. Expansion improves the effective resolution by a factor of 5, making it possible to resolve podocyte foot processes and the slit diaphragmusing diffraction-limited confocal microscopy. We also show that by combining expansion microscopy and STED microscopy, the effective resolution can be improved even further (<20 nm). In our most recent work, study 5, we apply a simplified, moderate tissue swelling protocol which together with optimization of the confocal imaging provides sufficient resolution to resolve foot processes and parts of the filtration barrier. This new protocol is fast and technically simple, making it ideal for routine use, such as for future clinical pathology. In collaboration with kidney researchers, we have applied both STED microscopy and expansion microscopy to various disease models, showing that these tools can be used to both visualize and quantify pathologies occurring in different parts of the glomerular filtration barrier (GFB). In study 2, STED microscopy in combination with optical clearing is used to study the localization of Coro2b in secondary foot processes in both mouse and human tissue. In two ongoing studies with preliminary results presented in the thesis, we use STED microscopy and optical clearing to study the pathogenesis of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) by the use of genetic mouse models. Based on STED images, we extract different morphological parameters from foot processes and the glomerular filtration barrier (GFB) at different stages of the disease. In study 4, we apply a tissue expansion protocol to answer questions about the phenotype seen in podocytes where the mediator complex subunit 22 (Med22) is inactivated. By inactivating Med22 in a transgenic mouse line with cytosolic expression of tdTomato in podocytes, we saw strong indications that the vesicle-like structures seen in EM micrographs were indeed intracellular vesicles and not dilated sub-podocyte space. In summary, the work presented in this thesis has contributed to the development of a new toolbox for imaging renal ultra-structure using light microscopy, a field previously reserved for electron microscopy.


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26 September 2017 is a holiday for Thimphu as the capital city will be celebrating the one day festival known as the Thimphu Drubchen which is also commonly known as Thimphu Dromchoe . The day long festival dates back to the 17th century. It was first introduced by Kuenga Gyeltshen in 1710, who was recognized as the reincarnation of Jampel Dorji, son of Zhabdrung Nawang Namgyel. The dromchoe is celebrated 3 days prior to the Thimphu Tshechu.
The Drubchen showcases the sacred dances dedicated to the chief protective deity of Bhutan, Palden Lhamo. Legend has it, that the deity Pelden Lhamo appeared before Kuenga Gyeltshen and performed the dances while he was in meditation. Based on these dances, Kuenga Gyaltshen initiated the Dromchoe.
During Thimphu Drubchen the mask dances known as cham and folk dances are performed to bless onlookers, to teach them the Buddhist dharma, to protect them from misfortune and to exorcise all evil. It is believed that merit is gained by attending these festivals. The dances invoke the deities to wipe out misfortunes, increase good luck and grant personal wishes.
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Digitalization is for the Poor
"Human contact is now a luxury good," Nellie Bowles claims in her famous article published in the New York Times. Until recently, everyday online communication has been a privilege of the wealthy, but today the situation reverses: the wealthy prefer personalized services involving the emotional labour of living people. The specificity of the new trend is that automation and digitalization become a destiny of the poor, while human contact becomes a luxury good and an item of conspicuous consumption.
At first sight, the situation resembles a well-known process described by Robert Allen, Professor of Economic History, as it applies to the industrial revolution in England: long-term demographic effects of the depopulation caused by the St. Sebastian's disease in the 14th century resulted in driving up wages. The employable population had declined, which led to a reduction in competitive pressure in the labour market and an increase in wages. In turn, too much expensive human labour made the introduction of technologies not only possible but indeed beneficial.
Tamagotchi Comes Back
Nowadays, the use of electronic gadgets, mostly smartphones and pads, is being actively promoted as a means of cutting costs, first of all, in the operation of some sectors such as education and public healthcare. We may recall recent discussions about the adoption of online education in Russia.
Technology startups in the USA, such as Care.Coach, supplying nurse programs, allow health care providing institutions saving substantial amounts of money. Bowles briefly describes in her article the principle of operation of the program: it is some kind of Tamagotchi, an electronic toy children of the 1990s are very familiar with: a virtual character living on a pad. The user can keep company with the program approximately in the same mode, in which it can talk with personal digital assistants in smartphones; the difference is that employees hired by Care.Coach via outsourcing 'play' for the virtual cat.
Patricia Richards and her digital pet Bella / Source
Yet, the main function of programs like Care.Coach is to satisfy the users' need for contact and emotional attachment. Bowles writes with reference to the company founders that the virtual pet allows health care providing institutions saving up to 90,000 US Dollars because the patients, who came to the urgent admitting office just to get moral support, stay now at home with their pads. In terms of financing, the hospital staff should not perform 'unrelated' functions to be performed by care workers; and in theory, the programs like Care.Coach remove them from the burden of additional time and financial expenditures.
Digitalization is for the Poor
Care.Coach is just one example of the use of digital technologies to substitute the labour of care and medical workers. However, this example is illustrative because it prominently demonstrates the basic features of the trend:
Firstly, technologies save time and power of social workers, so the emergence of a commercial niche for similar startups in the long run is the result of the neoliberal reforms aimed at cutting social expenditures of the state.
Secondly, the simplest technologies are used for this purpose. Contrary to the rhetoric accompanying the implementation of such programs, the startups like Care.Coach have little relevance to high technologies; in other words, it is in actual fact just a pad with a cam connected to a technical support which employs low-skilled workers with paltry wages.
Thirdly, this kind of 'digitalization' is initially focused on the most vulnerable segments of the population: poor, single, elderly people who do not have access to any attractive niche in the labour market or to the active life within their community or their district. The British film of 2016 'I, Daniel Blake' is a good illustration of these processes.
At the same time, the rich and the super-wealthy people strive for exactly the opposite: they spend big money to be able to return from the 'digital' world to 'analog' one. According to Bowles, today the technology elite of the Silicon Valley increasingly appreciates the possibility of 'disconnecting' digital networks (the need to be online around the clock has become part of the compulsory labour discipline for employees of middle and lower echelon of the corporate hierarchy), and, in particular, the schooling with the minimum use of digital technologies for their children.
Human Being Sounds…Expensive
Bowles wrote that that dynamics was in some measure explained by the pursuance of the conspicuous consumption, i.e. a response to the intrinsic democratic nature of digital technologies: computers and smartphones are relatively cheap, and belonging of certain gadget models and ranges to the luxury good segment is not connected with their features, most online services are for free and do not make it possible to demonstrate the social status.
The second reason is moral panic related to studies of psychologists and specialists in learning processes, which indicate the negative impact of gadgets on cognitive abilities of children at a young age.
In addition, the transformation of human interaction, involving emotions and contributing to the socialization of children and adolescents, into luxury goods may be related to the fact that in an era of rapid development and reduction of technologies in cost 'human' qualities and abilities, which cannot be automated, yet become more important and more expensive.


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Triennial 2021 — Saint Paul, MN
We are excited to announce that Saint Paul, Minnesota, will be the host city for the 2021 Triennial. Located on the rolling banks of the Mississippi River, Saint Paul is the capital of Minnesota. With some twenty-six miles of Mississippi riverfront, Saint Paul boasts a scenic environment with all the metropolitan amenities. Together with its sister city of Minneapolis, Saint Paul forms the Twin Cities. Travel to Saint Paul is made convenient by a modern airport located a short twenty-minute drive from the Saint Paul downtown district. Driving travel is made easy as US I-35 and I-94 intersect the Twin Cities.
The Triennial main sessions will be held at the Saint Paul RiverCentre, a stunning convention center with comfortable space and outstanding guest services. Honored twice as the region's "Best Convention Center" by Minnesota Meetings + Events magazine, the meeting space will be perfect for allowing the NAB family to gather for worship, receptions, and breakout sessions.
The host hotel will be the InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront, situated just a short walk from the convention center, as well as museums, live theater, restaurants, and the riverfront trail system. As a major hotel situated in the heart of downtown and atop the bluffs of the Mississippi River, the InterContinental will provide not only comfortable guest rooms but also beautifully appointed spaces for various Triennial receptions and meetings.
Among other reasons, Saint Paul was selected because of its convenient location for many of our US and Canadian churches. Within about a one-day drive, NAB churches can be found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
Plan to Join us July 8–11, 2021!
Thank you to all who joined us in Edmonton, Alberta, for the 52nd Triennial Conference. It was a fantastic time of connection and worship, and we cannot wait to see how God will use this event as a catalyst for years to come.
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Five into three simply doesn't go, and it shouldn't come as a huge surprise to see Melbourne Victory's French winger Fahid Ben Khalfallah and Brazilian midfielder Gui Finkler omitted from the club's Asian Champions League squad.
Australian clubs can only field three visa players in their ACL squads, so two were always going to miss out.
Victory coach Kevin Muscat has opted to go with French defender Matthieu Delpierre, Albanian striker Besart Berisha and Kiwi international Kosta Barbarouses.
The latter has been linked with an off-season move to Wellington Phoenix, his home-town club, which has, according to the industry rumour mill, been making a major financial play to attract Barbarouses back to NZ.
But even if he were to move, Victory could replace him with Ben Khalfallah in the second phase of the competition should Muscat's men qualify for the knockout rounds.
In Finkler's case the omission is a double blow, as he was one of the unlucky players who failed to make the cut in 2014, the last time Victory took part in the continental showcase competition. At that time he was recovering from a serious knee injury.
Whether he will want to remain at the club when his current deal expires in the light of this development is a matter for conjecture.
Some have expressed surprise that Delpierre, who turns 35 in April, has been included, but Muscat has made it clear that he would do everything he could to have the cultured central defender in the group.
Muscatrates the ex-Bundesliga-winning captain as one of the best defenders he has coached or played with, and, given the plethora of attacking talent that Victory will face from cashed up Chinese, Japanese and South Korean clubs, the Victory boss was always keen to ensure Delpierre was in the squad.
Muscat believes that if his ageing body is not up to the rigours of regular midweek games and A-League matches on a quick back-up he has sufficient cover for the veteran with youngsters like Thomas Deng, Jason Geria, Nick Ansell and Giancarlo Gallifuoco as options in the middle of the defence.
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text: Star Trek: Lost Scenes Think you know everything about the Original Series? Think again. Star Trek: The Lost Scenes is packed with hundreds of never-before-seen color photos of the world's ultimate sci-fi series. Professionally restored images are used to chronicle the making of the series, reassemble deleted scenes, and showcase bloopers from the first pilot through the last episode. Whether you're a new Star Trek fan or a seasoned veteran, this book is a must-have. Release Date:August 21 2018Genre:Filming, Genres, ShowsRating:T - TeenDeveloped By:Curt McAloney, David TilottaPublisher:Titan Books Share this:TwitterFacebook


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Property Location With a stay at Karczma Chelminska in Chelmno, you'll be minutes from Church of St James and St Nicholas and Chelmno City Hall. This hotel is within close proximity of Chelmno History Museum.Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 26 air-conditioned rooms featuring LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones and desks, and you can also request irons/ironing boards.Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Make use of convenient amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access, gift shops/newsstands, and tour/ticket assistance.Dining Enjoy a meal at a restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include a business center, express check-in, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Planning an event in Chelmno? This hotel has facilities measuring 1076 square feet (100 square meters), including meeting rooms. A shuttle from the airport to the hotel is provided for a surcharge (available on request).


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A big part of what defines lifestyle design, is having the freedom to work anywhere at any time. In order to accomplish this, I've been making use of some great web based apps that allow this freedom. Because hey, who wants to be tied to their PC?
The tools I've chosen are able to be used on multiple platforms (Mac, PC, iPhone) and are available no matter where I am.
Dropbox is like a virtual hard drive. It puts all your files into the cloud, accessible anywhere! I use it mainly for transferring files between devices - it works on Mac, PC and iPhone so I always have access. You get 2gb for free, which is more than enough to store all my documents (which aren't on Google Docs). I don't use it to store photos, as I think that would just chew up the space.
Google Docs
Honestly I can't imagine using Microsoft Word again. After using Google Docs for a good year, I love the reduced feature set (you don't use 90% of the stuff in Word - nobody does!) and the ability to have access to documents anywhere and on any machine is a killer feature for me.
Sharing documents is also a hell of a lot easier than having to email a word document (which is probably in the wrong format) and the revisions is much, much better than Words'. If you're still using Word, give Google Docs a try. Its free so you've got nothing to lose.
I use SkypeIn so I can give people an international number instead of my local mobile number. I also use Skype to make international calls and to call home when travelling. With WIFI access being available pretty much anywhere in the world, Skype is a much cheaper option to those international calling cards.
Before you start travelling, get the people you are going to call onto Skype. That way you can call Skype-to-Skype for free.
Evernote is a hugely popular note taking application. I use it to store all kinds of paper documents, which I scan into Evernote. You can also clip web pages, spreadsheets, docs etc, or take a picture of a document and have it saved. I'm on a quest to live with as little paper as possible and Evernote makes it easy.
My note taking process, usually involves a paper notepad and then saving the page to evernote. The advantages of this is; 1, you don't need to lug around a stack of paper as you always have digital access to your notes and 2, evernote will actually recognise words within your notes so they can be searched.
So these are a few tools I have been using on a daily basis for the last year. Which tools can you not live without?
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Green communications is the practice of selecting energy-efficient communications and networking technologies and products, and minimizing resource use whenever possible in all branches of communications. Green networking practices include: Implementing virtualization.
Energy crisis and rising concerns on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions have always been crucial issues faced by the development of wireless communication techniques. As a more energy-efficient network architecture, green communications and networks (GCNs) have recently attracted significant attention from academia and industry. In particular, the newly designed GCN not only can alleviate the greenhouse effect and decrease the operational expenditure, but also can attain sustainable development due to the descending independence from fossil fuel and the exploitation of renewable energy resources. In order to enable the technical and economical GCNs, several emerging techniques have been proposed including energy-efficient and energy harvesting techniques. Although these emerging techniques have drawn considerable attention and have been studied recently, there are still many open theoretical and practical problems to be addressed. Specifically, most of the existing works have focused on optimizing a single objective of GCNs, such as energy efficiency. Since there are multiple conflicting objectives in GCNs (e.g., spectral efficiency and energy efficiency), multi objective strategies are required to be considered in order to achieve a good trade off among the conflicting objectives. Moreover, since non orthogonal multiple access techniques have advantages in energy efficiency and massive connectivity, how to apply non orthogonal multiple access techniques into GCNs needs to be further investigated. Furthermore, the conventional linear energy harvesting model is ideal in practice. How to design GCNs under practical nonlinear energy harvesting models is required to be focused on.
This special issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in theory and practice for realizing GCNs, which will bring together researchers from academia, industry, and governmental agencies to promote the research and development needed to address the major challenges that pertain to this cutting-edge research topic.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Multi objective resource allocation strategies for GCNs
- Multi objective optimization theory for GCNs
- Multi objective energy-efficient techniques for GCNs
- Energy-efficient cooperative techniques for GCNs
- Energy-efficient non orthogonal multiple access techniques for GCNs
- Practical energy harvesting models for GCNs
- Resource optimization for GCNs under practical nonlinear energy harvesting models
- Physical layer security techniques for GCNs
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With the data traffic expected to grow nearly exponentially, concerns regarding excessive energy consumption in wireless networks have been also raised for home and enterprise environments. These two types of networks are discussed here jointly due to many similarities they exhibit, namely, similar propagation environments (dominantly indoor scenarios, high diversity of building structures with many obstacles, both due to wall construction and due to the used equipment), similar basis of a network structure, i.e., usually consisting of an Ethernet-based backbone and a wireless last hop where many different wireless technologies emerged. To complete the overview also the most important differences and future perspectives for both networks are pointed out. Then, the "green context" of the discussed environments is brought up. To this end, first the important metrics used in context of green networking in wireless scenarios are introduced, and using these metrics an initial evaluation of the potential energy savings in both scenarios is performed. Next, the energy savings that are possible to achieve in the current state of home and enterprise networks are surveyed. We start with an overview of what can be done, including hardware (room for possible hardware improvements) and network-level solutions, with a conclusion that the latter approaches have much more potential. Then, an overview of most important challenges and limitations in current home and network environments is provided. Next, a detailed survey of the network-level solutions applicable in dense WLAN scenarios is given, followed by an outlook on the deployment of photocells and their most important challenges in near-future perspective home and enterprise deployments.


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As a millennial, I have come to notice typical behavior of my generation that was not passed down from that prior. We are the generation who grew up still playing outside, the ones who did not play on iPads at three years old, and the generation that has completely destroyed dating.
When I decided I was going to write this article, I had full intentions of writing an eloquent article, giving my opinion, and pleading on behalf of the emotions of both girls and guys, who have fallen victim to millennial dating habits. However, I don't know how refined I can be when I am talking about a subject matter that I never dreamt could become this much of a problem.
Instead of asking a girl on a date, we get asked to "hang out". Instead of dating, people are "talking" (does anyone even know how to clarify what that means, because it's still beyond me). Instead of chivalry, people have begun "ghosting". Instead of being straightforward with your intentions, you get people caught up in deciphering "mixed signals" and being too afraid to ask what their significant other wants out of the arrangement.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one who has noticed. There are terms that we as a collective have come up with, and I still don't fully understand what they mean, nor do I know who on earth decided it was okay. For example, ghosting. If you're unfamiliar with this term, so am I. From what I've gathered, it's something along the lines of dating someone, and then disappearing on them, dropping all forms of communication and acting as though the relationship never happened.
REALLY? Who decided they would put up with that and since when did being utterly disrespectful to even basic human feelings become a norm? Where is the respect for others' emotions? Where is the desire for true, honest to God human connection and true love?
I'm not saying we need to go full-on "Notebook" style, with 365 days straight of handwritten letters (Although, I don't think that would be a bad idea), but we at least need to regain a sense of decency and respect for one another.
If you only want to be friends, be honest. Promising more, and then disappearing is no way to treat a fellow human. You don't have to date everyone you go on a date with- you do need to understand that they have feelings and are worthy of an explanation. If you think a girl is cute, tell her and ask her on a date for goodness sake. Don't send her "you up?" snaps or act indifferent because you don't want to come on too strong.
I know dating is hard, and it can be scary. It gets messy, sure. Feelings get hurt, hearts get broken, but we can assuage that and lessen the blow if we choose honesty and compassion for one another over selfishly keeping our intentions to ourselves, whether it be for fear of hurting someone's feelings, or just not wanting to "deal" with a break-up.
Be honest, be kind, and be straightforward with what you want. It will be much easier finding someone who shares the same views and desires if we just outright say what we want instead of hiding behind text messages or running away.
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Spoiler Alert! If you're in my Quilting Friends group, you shouldn't read this post until Sunday 12/13. In fact, if you've read this far, it may be too late. Sorry.
I'm totally finished with the Thou Shalt Not Steal Pecans quilt. My right thumb looks a little like hamburger meat. I was trying to hurry my hand quilting yesterday and I kept poking myself. It was truly difficult to continue to work on it today. Thankfully, I had very little quilting left. Then all I had to do was put the binding, label and the hanging sleeve on. And it only took me until 11:30 PM to do it all.
I have to admit that I love this quilt. I don't know if anyone else really does, but I really do. This is my second totally original quilt. Black Cat was the first. Black Cat was donated to my quilt guild's live miniature auction last year. Pecans will be given as a gift in our Quilting Friends Christmas party. It's going to be difficult to give up Pecans. I'll miss it.


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Reasons to Convert Photos Into Oil Paintings
Oil paint ranks among the so-called great classic media. Its popularity can be traced to centuries back, standing the test of time with its steadfast color and overall durability.
Oils are particularly well-loved by artists for a variety of reasons, the most common of which is versatility. They can be totally opaque or transparent in varying levels with the application of solvents. It also takes a while before the paint dries, so the artist has enough time to make corrections as needed without causing unwanted changes.
One question many people have about oil paints is, what are they are made of? Oil paints are basically suspensions, with pigments held together by a binder, such as linseed oil. Depending on the manufacturer, other substances like stabilizers or dryers may also be added in the mix.
When it comes to support, linen, boards, heavy papers and canvas all make good options. The support should of course be able to carry its own weight, including the weight of the paint. The support also needs to be prepared correctly for the paint to adhere. The oil paint should be separated from its support through a tooth and absorbency combination that depends on the individual artist.
Here are the most popular oil painting methods used by artists through time:
Direct Painting
Direct painting involves a single layer application of paint. The can be accomplished in one sitting and does not need waiting time before the addition of the next layer.
Indirect Painting
This is a more complicated and traditional approach, in which the painter applies more than one layer of paint, adjusting transparencies until the intended result is produced. Indirect painting can produce tones and colors with high luminosity.
Fat Over Lean
This is an old, fundamental rule of painting: fat paint contains more oil than lean paint. With the addition of more medium, artists often add fatter layers than those under. The more oil there is in paint, the more flexible it is.
Impasto Painting
The impasto technique uses thicker paints with physical dimensionality. This should be done with caution however, as thick layers of paint tend to crack while they dry. For better results, knowledgeable and experienced painters integrate smaller areas of the technique.
Protecting Your Oil Painting
A coat of protective varnish can be all it takes to prolong the life of a finished painting. But it can take six months to a year for a painting to dry completely, making it safe to add this finishing layer. Of course, at the end of the day, it is still the artist's expertise and the quality of materials used, that dictate the longevity of a painting. A good artist isn't only concerned about doing art, but also about immortalizing his works.
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The Senior Gaelic Football team broke new ground over a week in early March. Having already qualified for the North Leinster final, the team were convincing winners against Mullingar. The team then qualified for the Leinster play-off against Baltinglass. In a much tighter encounter, the team displayed admirable grit and teamwork to eke out a two point win and a semi-final place.
The All-Ireland semi-final against Boherbue Comprehensive School of Cork was the team's third game in six days (with many players representing their club sides during the week as well). A slow start saw the team fall seven points behind, but the team showed the fight, determination and skill that has characterised their campaign to fight their way back into the match. However, they were unable to draw level, and lost narrowly. Congratulations to the team on a fantastic season as they progressed further than any previous CNI team.


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B.C. has lots to choose from when it comes to Pinot Gris
Look, I know orange wine is all the rage these days. And don't get me wrong, I'm right in there with the fad. White wines made with skin contact (that is, not removing the skins immediately from the juice of crushed white wine grapes) can lead to some delicious aromas and flavours, not to mention ample character.
But way before the term "orange wine" began appearing on fashionable wine lists there was plain old Pinot Gris, and the reality is that when making Pinot Gris winemakers have long utilized skin contact. The grape takes naturally to making skin-contact wines, the skins lend both an engaging salmon/blush/amber hue as well as enticing texture and tannin. Well as luck would have it, given the preponderance of local Pinot Gris we have a number of skin-contact B.C. PG!
Rocky Creek Winery 2017 Pinot Gris, Vancouver Island ($20, limited availability through the winery and select private liquor stores)
Billed by the winery as a "Red wine drinker's white wine," Cowichan Bay's Rocky Creek Winery sources Pinot Gris from three of their southern and western-sloped estate vineyards for their onion skin-coloured Pinot Gris. The grapes are de-stemmed and see 16 hours on skins before being pressed and fermented in stainless steel, and the result is redolent with nuances of apple, herbs, and citrus pith. This wine has a very dry style overall, and serves as a nice foil to roast pork or butternut squash ravioli.
Bottom line: B+, Made for food
Nichol Vineyard 2017 Pinot Gris, Naramata Village (from $23, limited availability through the winery and select private liquor stores)
Nichol's Pinot Gris has been 100 per cent Naramata Village-grown since 1993, which puts the wine (and winery!) square in the Naramata Bench pioneer category. Indeed Nichol's PG has developed a loyal following who patiently await the release of each vintage. True to form the latest release is made with care and attention to detail: hand-picked grapes farmed within 900 meters of the winery, gently crushed and left on skins for up to 36 hours, followed by fermentation in open top fermenters and neutral French oak barriques.
Bottom line: A, Great overall intensity and balance
Kettle Valley 2017 Pinot Gris, Okanagan Valley (from $24, limited availability through the winery and select private liquor stores)
Sticking to both the pioneer and Naramata Bench themes we arrive at Kettle Valley Winery. Established in 1991, it actually holds the third license granted on the Bench to a small, land-based winery. Fast-forward to today and Kettle Valley's latest Pinot Gris features grapes grown in Okanagan Falls, Summerland, the Similkameen Valley, West Kelowna, and Penticton vineyards. But it's still very much a hands-on affair: hand-picked grapes crushed and left on skins for three days lend pronounced rose colour highlights, and partial barrel fermentation supports a rich, almost oily texture.
Bottom line: B+, Robust, rosy skin-contact PG.
The Swirl: Bitter Truths
Hosted by the Stanley Park Ecology Society, the "Bitter Truths" series of events delves into artisanal alcohol infusions by crafting bitters from ethically-sourced plants native to Stanley Park. The next event takes place from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday at Stanley Park Nature House on Lost Lagoon (712 Lost Lagoon Path, Vancouver). Led by Tailored Spirits, participants will learn about the rich tradition of bitters as medicines and flavouring agents while preparing and sampling bitters-based libations. Tickets are $25 for Society members and $28 for Non-members (plus fees), and for complete details head to stanleyparkecology.ca.
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text: John Fuggin Dough & Jay-Von Put a 2018 Twist on "Money Ain't A Thang" | @JohnFugginDough @Vonzilla @DJMoSama Bradford J. Howard January 30, 2018 MP3s, Music 2 Comments "Money Ain't A Thang" but these raps might be on a new freestyle from John Fuggin Dough, featuring Jay-Von. Back in 2016, as part of the build-up to his 'F*ck A Title' EP, Jay-Von embarked on a personal mission to drop a freestyle over as many classic beats as he could. With DJ MoSama at the helm, the Mo. City emcee tackled everything from The Clipse and Snoop and Dre, to hometown go-to's like "Oochie Wally." If the freestyle is an art, then consider Vonzilla Picasso. In 2018, Jay-Von is sharing the freestyle baton, it seems. To close out the first month of the new year, John Fuggin Dough – the man who's made it a personal mission to push the Harriet Tubman 100-dollar-bill as the new "Benjamin" – stood alongside Jay-Von on a new freestyle, "Money Ain't A Thang." The freestyle serves as track 5 in Dough's "10 Days of Play" Soundcloud series, where he dropped a track a day. "Me and John actually recorded 'Money Ain't A Thang' with Relli ages ago," Jay-Von told Day & A Dream via email. "When I made the artwork, too, I kept in mind (John's) vision as far as really pushing Tubmans. Then DJ MoSama got on board and that's when things really aligned." Relli is on the boards for "Money Ain't A Thang," doing his damnedest to revive Jermaine Dupri's timeless production with a few of his own flourishes. But the beat does what it's supposed to do: it rolls out the red carpet for John Fuggin' Dough and Jay-Von. The two men are solid sparring partners, exchanging bars and even hyping each other up between the verses. JFD compares himself to Nat King Cole, hilariously references "PaRappa The Rapper," and insists that him not rapping is "like hell froze over." Jay-Von's wordplay is at peak, as well; his verse at the 1:50 mark alone linking sex and women continually, is maybe the most clever he's been to date. Take a listen to John Fuggin' Dough's "Money Ain't A Thang" with Jay-Von, presented by DJ MoSama and produced by Relli, for yourself down below. You can also listen to John Fuggin' Dough's '10 Days of Play' project down below, which features from Relli, Le'Sean Wayz, and Sequoyah and Rob Gullatte (the latter two of whom shine beautifully on "Civil"). Share this:TweetShare on Tumblr


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Feel like back from doors of death: MP train mishap survivor
The Harda train tragedy in Madhya Pradesh shocked many. A survivor, Rajkumar Sundarani still shudders to recall the day even 18 hours after the accident which left 29 dead.india Updated: Aug 08, 2015 18:14 IST
The Harda train tragedy in Madhya Pradesh shocked many. But, Rajkumar Sundarani, who is one of the survivors, shudders to recall the day even 18 hours after the accident which left 29 dead. "I feel like back from the doors of death," he says.
Sundarani, a resident of Sindhi Colony in Bhopal, had boarded the Kamayani Express on Tuesday night on his return journey from Jalgaon in Maharashtra after attending his maternal uncle's funeral. He was resting on his berth in the S-4 coach and suddenly at around 11.15pm, he felt a big jolt which made passengers fall off their berths. Before he could make out that the train had derailed, he found the bogie filled with water up to the neck.
But, he somehow managed to keep himself still by catching hold of the alarm chain as he was on the upper berth. He said he saw two men find the emergency exit in the light of their cellphones, open it and jump out. Finding others following them, he too jumped out of the exit but found himself in water.
Sundarani said, "There was nothing but water outside the bogie. I saw a man far away standing in the waist deep water. I started walking in the water and somehow reached near a bridge after half an hour."
Soon a rescue team reached there and helped him out. "I thanked God that I survived," he said, adding that around 11.30 pm he made a phone call to his friend Ratan from somebody's cellphone and "asked him to inform my family members about the accident and that I am safe. The next day I reached home safely," he said.
Sundarani has sustained some minor injuries. But, the trauma of the accident is still visible in his eyes.


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The Great Electric Bike Challange is a Scavenger Hunt through Sulphur Point, the Lakefront & around Government Gardens on Electric Bikes - BYO Ebike or hire an Ebike through us! This event will be run from the Electric Bike Rotorua Shopfront at 1265 Fenton Street, Rotorua.$20 pp including Ebike hire, $10 entry for BYO Ebike riders
Held in 2hr time blocks from: 10am -12pm, 12pm - 2pm, and 2pm - 4pm on Saturday 26th October 2019 as a part of the Rotorua Bike Festival!
The winner will be drawn from the "correct entries" pool at the end of the challenge and will be announced on the "Electric Bike Rotorua" Facebook page!
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After 4 years of trying to lock him down for a date to perform in Westport Town Hall, Irish actor-writer Mikel Murfi finally brings enormously big-hearted, ridiculously energetic one-man show "The Man in The Woman's Shoes" to Westport on January 16th and 17th. Shortlisted for the Irish Theatre Awards, and following rave reviews from the New York Times, The London Times and The Sunday Times – this is a one-actor show that is not to be missed. For 75 minutes, Murfi talks pretty much non-stop, making real the inner voice of his character, Pat Farnon – a rather animated cobbler. Other characters come thick and fast as Murfi acts out the endless folk who Pat meets during the day or who he remembers on his travels.
We meet Pat carrying out an odd task. It's late 1978, and he's walking into town from his house wearing a pair of women's shoes. Why? He's breaking them in for Kitsy, a woman who he admires and who's coaching a football team in the park that afternoon. En route, Pat meets friends and acquaintances; he stops in a cafe; he ponders the Catholic church and his relationship with God; he laughs about the recently deceased Pope. The chat is so relentless that it's hard to keep up at times. But the words, language and rhythms of everyday speech all carry a sharp ring of truth to them. It helps that so much of this is very funny, a carnival of the everyday.
Murfi's play, which has toured to record-breaking demand in Ireland, UK and the USA was commissioned by the Sligo Arts office for a festival celebrating creativity among older age groups; while writing it he drew on the stories and memories of people in his home country of Sligo. On a journey that faintly recalls Maddy Rooney's walk to the station in Samuel Beckett's All that Fall – though Murfi's play has only hints of the darkness and complexity of Beckett's drama – Pat meets a collection of eccentric local characters, recalls old customs such as notifying the bees of a death, and considers whether Pope John Paul could become an organ donor (the play is set in October 1978, months after he had died). Described as Extraordinary physical performance steeped in sharp observational comedy – this is a play not to be missed in Westport. For tickets please see www.westporttheatre.com or call 09828459
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Pearsons Helping to Raise Money for Leo's Life Changing Operation
Leo is a lovely 13 year old local boy, he was born with Cerebral Palsy, Spastic Diplegia - this causes him to have spasticity in all of his muscles in his legs meaning they continually contract. This condition has always interfered with Leos life stopping him doing so many things that any other able bodied child could do - for example riding a bike, playing tag, joining in on sports day without feeling so embarrassed because he wasn't able do do even the bean bag race without falling over. He was unable to walk until he was 3, unable to dress until he was 5, the list goes on...
We have recently found out that as Leo gets older, the spasticity in his muscles are going to put his body under a lot of pressure and he is going to suffer from extreme pain, possible bone deformities, premature ageing of his muscles which could then result in Leo needing permanent walking aids or a wheelchair.
THERE IS HOPE - Leo can have an operation called SDR (selective dorsal rhizotomy). This involves a very intricate operation done on the spine cutting nerves that send messages to the brain telling the muscles to contract, therefore the spasticity will almost be eradicated. Leo will then need tolearn to walk again and will need to have months and months of intensive physiotherapy.
Unfortunately Leo is unable to have this operation funded by the NHS so his family are therefore looking to raise £40,000 to enable him to have this life changing treatment. This operation would give Leo the opportunity to lead an independent, pain free and active life.
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As you probably know, the Romans and the Carthaginians fought several wars in Antiquity, that ended with Rome winning, and eventually destroying Carthage.
But what would have happened if the Carthaginians had won over the Romans? Very speculative, but I can guess a little.
First of, from what I understand, the Carthaginians were not much into conquering lots of territories to create a large empire. Rome was a militaristic society where it made economic and political sense to expand and conquer, whereas the Carthaginians were mostly into trade. The Carthaginians had trade links to lots of close and distant peoples. They didn't even have much of a standing army, instead relying a lot on mercenaries in times of need, paid for by their vast trade income. I can see the Carthaginians conquering Iberia and Sicily, where they had colonies and interests, but maybe not much beyond that. Conquered territory meant having to pay for more mercenaries.
In this scenario, Gaul and the British Islands would have remained Celtic. Overall it seems we would have a Europe that was more heterogeneous than what happened after the Roman conquests.
As the Carthaginians were into trade and sea travel, perhaps they would have "discovered" the Americas much earlier than 1000 CE or 1492 CE. History could have taken lots of different turns, I guess. If so, as the Carthaginians were not much into great military conquests, I guess they would have founded a few trading cities in the Americas, but otherwise not conquering the continents.
I realize that I make it sound as if a Carthaginian victory over Rome would have given history a nicer turnout than it took. Which maybe it would?
I know this is all very speculative, but I think some interpolations can be done based on what we know about the ancient Carthaginians.


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Chalet Girl
A 19-year-old skateboarding champion gives up the sport as she struggles to support herself and her father. She gets a job working in a ski resort, where she feels out of her comfort zone in high society and is attracted to her boss's elusive son. She puts her old skills to good use competing in a prestigious snowboarding competition.
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Dr. Nicki Kindersley is a contemporary historian, and currently the Harry F. Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. Her work centres on postcolonial African political education and popular intellectual cultures. She is a specialist on the modern history of South Sudan and its north-east and central African borderlands and migrant paths. Nicki teaches on modern Global South history, transnational and migration studies, and African politics.
Based on research in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan, over 2013-2015, Nicki completed her PhD thesis on the political activity of Southern Sudanese residents in Khartoum, 1969-2013, at Durham University in 2016. The thesis – now a book project – is a history of South Sudanese political thought, debate, resistance and rebel activity in Khartoum during the second civil war. It focuses on the work of self-taught educators and community organisers, running nationalist civic education programmes, youth work and cultural activities – without NGO intervention – in the face of Sudan state violence and community displacement; the project is based on personal histories and private archives of refugee and displaced persons' political writings.
Nicki's academic and policy research career spans displacement and migration studies, African political history, contemporary justice systems and conflict studies. Her research currently focuses on peace building and conflict dynamics in South Sudan and the wider region; the history of colonial and post-colonial counter-insurgency practices; and on hybrid military / customary authority justice systems on the edges of South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Uganda. Her most recent publications can be found here.
Nicki is currently the European fellow on a Volkswagen Stiftung and University of Khartoum project 'Identity, Nationality and Citizenship for South Sudanese communities', with Dr. Mohamed A. G. Bakhit: her sub-project focuses on ideas of good governance, borders and civic rights on the South Sudan-Uganda borderlands over the long twentieth century to present.
Nicki has worked on several projects with Dr Øystein H. Rolandsen and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) since 2012, including the project Dynamics of State Failure and Violence. With Dr Rolandsen, she was lead author on the African Affairs briefing paper 'Prospects for Peace and the UN Regional Protection Force in South Sudan, with other journal articles under review. With PRIO, Nicki is a researcher on the project 'Enhancing South-South Cooperation: Promoting African responses to peacebuilding in Africa,' a partnership project with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the Center on International Cooperation (CIC), funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As an independent researcher with PRIO, she co-convened the conference 'The Diversity of Violence in Eastern Africa' in Nairobi, and presented at a project workshop on military interventions in Africa. With Dr Rolandsen, she is currently completing a political economy analysis of South Sudan for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to be published by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Since 2017, Nicki has acted as a director for the Rift Valley Institute Sudan and South Sudan Field Course. The course provides critical grounding for newly-posted diplomatic and humanitarian heads of mission in the Sudans; it examines the political economy behind patterns of violence, macro- and micro- economic logics informing rulers and ruled, and their respective means of survival, with a team of leading international and regional experts. Nicki has also worked on a variety of research projects with the International Law and Policy Institute, the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, and the British Council for the European Union.
Over 2012-2013, Nicki was the co-ordinator of the South Sudan National Archives project for the Rift Valley Institute (RVI) and South Sudan Ministry of Culture. She led emergency reclamation and the establishment of on-going digitization work with government staff, on a rotting and termite-ridden repository of unique material from 1901 to 1985. With the RVI, she organised and ran a public lecture series on constitutionalism and political culture in Juba, South Sudan, 2012. A podcast and publication of the debate are available here.
Before starting her PhD research, Nicki was a legal representative for asylum seekers in the UK Immigration and Asylum Tribunal system, representing international refugees in torture, rape and human rights cases.


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One of the potential topics for essay one is the story about the time when I decided to study abroad. The story takes us back to when I was in middle school. First year of middle school, I was really really in good shape. My academic record was above my parents' expectation, and my advisor was telling me I would be able to attend one of the best high school in Tokyo. I was also popular among people in school. I thought I was cool, and I started to slack off gradually. By the time everyone start to think about their decision of high school, my record was nothing compared to one from first year. My GPA was 3 (equivalent to 2.5 gpa in the U.S), and I was hanging out with my friends everyday until the sun goes down. I kept on having meeting with my advisor with my parents , and my advisor told us that I would not be able to get into the school I wanted to go to. This is when I realized how much of a mess I was. When thinking about my potential new school, my parents thought it was their fault I was slacking off, because they took it too easy on me, so they were like "oh let's put him in an all boys boarding school in Chiba." (about two hours away from my house) My reaction to this suggestion was "Hell nooo. I am not going to all boys school." Then my parents asked me if I wanna study abroad in the U.S, I was like oh that actually sounds good. At the time I was all about catching attention, so this suggestion really fitted my aspiration. Therefore, I decided to study abroad, but my parents did not let me pick where I want to go, so basically they sent me to Maine, where nothing fun exists. Now that I think about that time, I am pretty proud of myself having guts to go in the new environment. I should have been scared, but I was brave and outgoing.
- I tend to use same words over and over, so have variety.
- Talk about summer school experience
- Some of the struggles I faced coming to U.S
- Some of the memorable moments
first year middle school ( how I was good all around)
time when I was slacking (Kept on hanging out with my friends and not putting in work)
High School Decision( How I got told I can not make it to school I wanted to go)
My parents' suggestion(Chiba or U.S)
summer school (Wyoming seminary)
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Plus, we will update you on the latest publicly released news from major energy companies and, with golf weather covering most of the country, provide the extended temperature forecast for the next few weeks from the National Weather Service, too.
According to the US Energy Information Administration, working gas in storage was 1.462 Tcf as of Friday, April 26, 2019. This represents a net increase of 123 Bcf from the previous week.
Natural gas in storage is now 316 Bcf (approximately 18%) below the five-year average.
NRG Energy, Inc. expects to return to service its inactive 385 MW Gregory natural gas plant in Corpus Christi, Texas. The Gregory plant ceased operations in late 2016 when its cogeneration partner, Sherwin Alumina, filed for bankruptcy and discontinued operations. Following resolution of certain issues resulting from the Sherwin Alumina bankruptcy, the Gregory plant is expected to return to service as a combined cycle facility in early June 2019.
"I am pleased to announce the return to service of this highly efficient natural gas plant," said Mauricio Gutierrez, President and CEO of NRG. "The Public Utility Commission of Texas' recent actions to further strengthen the ERCOT market reinforced our decision to return Gregory to service ahead of summer, providing additional reliability to our customers and Texas' growing economy."
At full power, the Gregory plant can meet the needs of approximately 77,000 homes on the hottest days of the year.
Despite warmer weather across much of the United States, there are still several critical postings coming from the electronic bulletin boards of the major interstate natural gas pipeline transporters. Let's review the latest news:
Algonquin Gas Transmission:
In order to maintain the operational integrity of the system, Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC (AGT) is issuing an Operational Flow Order (OFO) pursuant to Section 26 of the General Terms and Conditions of AGT's FERC Gas Tariff effective 9:00 AM CCT, May 2, 2019, to all parties, with the exception of those Operational Balancing Agreements required by FERC regulations, on the AGT system.
This OFO does not affect the ability of AGT to receive or deliver quantities of gas for scheduled nominations to any customer or pipeline.
During the effectiveness of this OFO, all parties must be balanced such that actual deliveries of gas out of the system must be equal to or less than scheduled deliveries. The penalty shall apply to each dekatherm of actual delivery quantities that exceeds the greater of 4,000 Dth or 104% of scheduled delivery quantities. The penalty will be equal to three times the daily Platts Gas Daily "Daily Price Survey" posting for the High Common price for "Algonquin, city-gates" for the day on which such violation occurred as indicated in AGT's General Terms and Conditions Section 26.8. In addition, AGT will not permit retroactive nominations to avoid an OFO penalty.
AGT may be required to issue an hourly OFO pursuant to General Terms and Conditions Section 26.7(d) to impose further restrictions in order to maintain the operational integrity of the system.
As previously posted AGT, requests that customers/point operators on AGT be aware of the impact non-ratable hourly takes from the system may have in causing delivery pressures reaching lower than desired levels. As a reminder, AGT's system is not designed to sustain delivery pressures above contract levels while making non-ratable/accelerated deliveries above scheduled quantities for more than 6 consecutive hours, to be followed by flows below scheduled quantity for the balance of any 24 hour period.
Furthermore, if customers/point operators don't manage hourly takes from the system, 1) delivery pressures will be impacted and /or 2) AGT may be required to impose further restrictions or courses of action in order to maintain the operational integrity of the system.
This OFO will remain in effect until further notice.
ANR Pipeline:
Bridgman Northbound Capacity Reduction (Updated 05/01/19)
ANR will continue planned pipeline and compressor maintenance along its Michigan Leg North Segment located in the Northern Fuel Segment (Zone 7). This will reduce the total Bridgman Northbound (Loc ID #226632) capacity by the following:
Bridgman Northbound (LOC #226632):
375-MMcf/d – (leaving 1,226 – MMcf/d available) 5/1 – 5/3
65-MMcf/d – (leaving 1,536 – MMcf/d available) 5/4 – 5/6
375-MMcf/d – (leaving 1,226 – MMcf/d available) 5/7 – 5/20
40-MMcf/d – (leaving 1,561 – MMcf/d available) 5/21 – 6/2
325-MMcf/d – (leaving 1,276 – MMcf/d available) 6/3 – 8/12
Since the last posting, the end date of the first maintenance period has been extended from 5/2 to 5/3, and each subsequent outage period has been adjusted accordingly.
Based on current nominations through Bridgman Northbound, it is anticipated that this posting may result in the capacity allocation reduction of IT and Firm Secondary. This posting will be updated as more information becomes available.
Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG):
Effective May 5, 2019, Colorado Interstate Gas Company, L.L.C. (CIG) is removing the limitation on Transportation Service (NNT) requests for NNT authorized withdrawals declared in Notice Number 118466.
No limit is currently placed on requests for NNT authorized injections or withdrawals.
Dominion Energy Transmission:
Due to integrity issues affecting LN-24 and LN-541 (Notice ID 213991), effective ID1 cycle for gas day May 2, 2019, Dominion Energy Transmission, Inc (DETI) will not accept any increases in Secondary or IT transport for delivery to the following meters:
Location Names: 20600 ROCHESTER GAS AND ELECTRIC; 20900 NATIONAL FUEL; 30005 SITHE ENERGIES (LOWER LEROY-SENECA); 23600 FILLMORE
Effective gas day May 3, 2019 the above meters will be limited to Primary Only deliveries until further notice. Please note that "Unauthorized Overrun Charges – Daily" rate of $10.00/dth will apply to deliveries made in excess of FT and FTNN entitlements while these restrictions are in place.
Gulf South Pipeline:
Hall Summit Expansion Compressor Station Maintenance:
Begins: May 19, 2019 Ends: May 27, 2019
Expansion Receipts Upstream Vixen Scheduling Group – Capacity could be impacted by up to 300,000 dth/d for the duration of the maintenance. Please contact your customer service representative if you have any questions.
Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL):
Natural has experienced horsepower issues at Compressor Station 167 (CS 167), located in Lea County, New Mexico that require Natural to shut-in CS 167 for the duration of this restriction. This is a Force Majeure event that will limit Natural's throughput capacity from receipts south of CS 167 and just north of CS 167 (from LOC 908135 Targa Saunders Plt).
The scheduling constraint will be north of CS 167; therefore, any gas received south of CS 167 from either Segment 7 or Segment 9 receipt points for delivery north of CS 167 will be impacted for the duration of the restriction. Additionally, transports associated with storage injections will be impacted. The Permian Pool (LOC 25077) is located south of the constraint.
As such, effective for gas day Thursday, May 2, 2019, Intraday 1 Cycle, and continuing until further notice, Natural will schedule Primary Firm and Secondary in-path Firm transports to no less than 74% of contract MDQ through CS 167. Actual nomination levels and changes in pipeline conditions could result in changes to the percentages scheduled (lower or higher) on subsequent gas days. AOR/ITS and Secondary out-of-path Firm transports continue to not be available for the duration of this restriction.
Southern Natural Gas:
Based on current milder temperatures and resulting lower demand on Southern's system, SNG is currently experiencing high line pack on the system. SNG encourages all shippers to manage their system requirements to maintain balance between actual receipts and deliveries. An Operational Flow Order for long imbalances could be required to help ensure system integrity as Southern's Tariff provides that a Type 6 OFO can be implemented on four hours' notice or less prior to the start of the gas day.
Deliveries with actual flows less than scheduled daily volumes are subject to reductions of nominations to demonstrated daily volumes. Receipts should not exceed scheduled daily volumes.
We request that all Shippers/Poolers monitor the balance between actual receipts and deliveries to ensure that a daily out-of-balance situation does not occur. Additionally, SNG requests all payback be nominated.
The latest six-to-ten day temperature forecast from the National Weather Service for May 8 – 12 reveals that warmer than average May temperatures will be seen along both the East and West coasts of the US. For the midsection of the country, though, cooler than average temperatures will prevail from Texas northward into the Northern Plains during the second week of the month.
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