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This Privacy Policy applies to the information Keurig Green Mountain, Inc., or its affiliates* (referred to in this policy as "we", "us" or "our") collect on Keurig.com, Keurig.ca, kgm.com, timothys.ca, vanhoutte.com, baristaprima.ca and any other websites, including mobile sites, that are owned and operated by us, that display this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy describes:
*Our affiliates include Keurig Canada Inc., Keurig UK Limited, Keurig Asia Pacific Pty Limited, Keurig Korea Ltd., Brewing a Better World Foundation, Keurig Singapore Pte Ltd., Green Mountain Hong Kong Limited and other companies that may be added from time to time and that are controlled by or under common control with one of the companies listed here
This Privacy Policy describes:
- What information we collect
- How we use and share your information
- The choices you can make about how we collect, use and share your information
*Our affiliates include Keurig Canada Inc., Keurig UK Limited, Keurig Asia Pacific Pty Limited, Keurig Korea Ltd., Brewing a Better World Foundation, Keurig Singapore Pte Ltd., Green Mountain Hong Kong Limited and other companies that may be added from time to time and that are controlled by or under common control with one of the companies listed here
- Information we collect?
- How we use and share your information?
- Cookies and other similar technologies
- Online tracking
- Links to third parties
- Protecting your information and payment security
- Storing and processing your information
- Children's Privacy
- Individual choice and access
- Changes to our Privacy Policy
- Questions? How to reach us.
Information we collect?We collect information about you and your use of our sites in different ways:
- Some information you provide directly to us, such as when you register your brewer or provide account information.
- Other information we collect about you through Cookies and Other Similar Technologies. to help us operate our sites effectively and provide you the best products, services and site experiences that we can.
- We also collect information about you from other companies (for example by purchasing demographic data about you or through social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter).
- When you access our sites through any means, including a mobile device or smartphone, we may collect information about you, including your geographic location.
Personal information is information that can be used to identify you as an individual. This includes information like your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, full date of birth, credit card number, geographic location, etc.
If you are a resident of Canada, personal information may also include information such as your IP address (this is a unique number called an internet protocol address which is assigned, usually based on country location, to your computer) and any other information that identifies you as an individual.
Information that, by itself, cannot be used to identify you as an individual is not considered personal information. We refer to this type of information as 'non-personal information', such as a favorite or bookmarked site, your language setting in your browser, or what site you came from when visiting our sites.
Information You Provide: You give us information when you use our sites to do things like place an order, or participate in a promotion, or contest. We collect information like your name, address, telephone number, your credit card information, full birth date, the content of your communications like survey responses or product review comments, purchase order information, including your purchase order history, job application information, shipping information of people you send products to, your username and password, and information about your brewer. When you access our sites through a mobile device or smartphone, we may collect information about you, including your geographic location.
You can always choose not to provide some or all of this information, though some of the features or services on our sites may not function properly as a result, such as processing an order or responding to your request.
How we collect this information: You provide us information when you do things like:
- place an order
- create an account
- register your brewer
- give reviews on our products and our sites
- communicate with Consumer Care
- participate in an online forum or community
- apply for a job
- contact our investor site
- participate in promotions, surveys, or contests
- use other functions or services available on our sites such as "sharing" content or our refer-a-friend program
- access our site through any means, including your mobile device or smartphone
- shop in our retail store
We use technologies like cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies to automatically collect information about you when you visit our sites and through advertising that may appear on our sites and other companies' sites. Cookies collect all sorts of information, such as device-specific information including capabilities, your unique device identifier (if you are accessing our sites through a mobile device or smartphone), your IP address, your browser type, time zone and language settings and operating system. Cookies also collect clickstream information like how long you spend on our sites, what pages you view, any search queries and what other sites you visited before and after coming to our sites.
Please read our section on Cookies and Other Similar Technologies to learn more about what information is collected, and how it is used and shared.
Information We Collect From Other Sources: We also collect information about you from other sources. This information includes things like your name, address, email address, date of birth, telephone number, demographic information about you or your household, purchasing behavior, the content of any message or posts on our social media pages like Facebook and Twitter or other online public forums.
If you use social media platforms like Facebook, depending on your privacy settings with these social media sites, we will collect information about you that you have made available through the social media privacy setting choices. We also collect information from social media sites through plug-ins, like the Facebook "Like" button, and our social media pages. When you post a comment on our social media page or if you "Like" one of our products or promotions, depending on your privacy settings with these social media sites, we may receive information about you, such as your name, email address, gender, birthday, interests, and friend network. In addition, if you have chosen to connect your social media accounts, such as your Facebook page, with our social media pages, they may give us information about your social media profile and activity depending on your privacy settings with those companies. Be sure to read our section on Links to Third Party Sites and to review your social media account's privacy settings and the privacy policies of these social media sites so you understand how other companies are collecting and using your information.
How we collect this information: We collect this information by doing things like:
- purchasing or renting demographic information about you from other companies
- collecting publicly available information about you and information that you make available from social media sites
How we use and share your information?We use and share your information for many purposes, such as:
- personalizing your experience on our sites
- improving our sites
- providing our products and services
- and communicating with you about promotions or products and services that we think you may be interested in
We partner with other companies who collect and process some of the information we collect about you and your use of our sites for us. We also use other companies to provide us services and so may also share information about you with them. We refer to these other companies as our Third Party Partners. Depending on the service a Third Party Partner may be providing, they may be collecting personally identifiable information about you while you are on our sites.We, our affiliates, and our Third Party Partners use your information to do things such as:
- fulfill your orders and other requests in connection with the operation of our sites
- provide you Consumer Care and service your account
- create and maintain your consumer profile, correcting and updating your information
- combine information we collect about you with information you provide
- display or send you information and advertisements that we believe match your interests and profile
- facilitate updates to our sites, improve the working of our sites, and compile statistics about our users and your use of our sites
- better personalize your experience on our sites
- administer surveys, contests, and promotions
- process payment information
- administer our email communications
- organize, administer, process, or provide advertising services
- analyze data on our behalf to help us provide more relevant offers and advertising to you and to eliminate the delivery of duplicate offers
- administer our promotions, surveys or contests
- manage our referral and loyalty programs
We share aggregated information about you and your use of our sites with other companies for industry benchmarking, consumer analysis, market research and analytics. This information does not identify you personally.
When Required by Law or to Protect Our Company
There may be times when we have to disclose your information in order to comply with applicable law or government requests, to assist in fraud protection and investigations, to enforce the terms of any of our notices or if we think it is appropriate and necessary in order to protect the rights, property, or safety of our employees and customers.
Purchase or Sale of Businesses
If we, or one or more of our affiliates, are involved in a corporate transaction such as a merger, consolidation, sale, reorganization or other change in corporate control, divestiture or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy, your information may be transferred as part of the transaction.
We do not rent, sell or share your personal information with other companies except as described in this privacy policy.
Cookies and other similar technologiesWe use various internet technologies to:
- collect and share information about you and your use of our sites
- distinguish you from other users of our sites:
- administering and facilitating your access to and use of our sites
- understanding your behavior on our sites and analyzing usage behavior
- measuring the effectiveness of advertisements
- target advertising to you
Some cookies (or other similar technologies as described below) are set by us when you visit our sites and others may be set by third parties both on our sites and on third party sites. This is because we have contracted with that third party to provide these services to you on our behalf (such as analytics) or because the non-Keurig sites you are visiting contain content or ads from third parties delivered by ad networks. When your browser connects to those third party links (and therefore third party cookies), they may be collecting information about you and your online activities that is not governed by this privacy policy. See our section on Links to Third Party Sites for more information.
A cookie is a small browser specific file of letters and numbers that is sent to your browser and stored on the hard drive of your computer (or internet enabled device) when you visit our sites. We use the following cookies on our website:
Strictly necessary cookies - These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our sites and use its features, such as remembering what products you placed in your cart. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.
Analytical or Performance cookies - These cookies collect information in an anonymous form about how our site is used. They allow us to do such things as recognize recent activity and content consumed, count the number of visitors to our sites and see how our sites are navigated.
Functionality cookies - These are used to recognize you when you return to our sites. This enables us to do such things as personalize our content for you and remember your preferences and settings.
We use cookies for many reasons, including:
- Analytics to help us manage and operate our sites and improve their functioning by analyzing how users interact with our sites.
- Remembering you so we can personalize your experience on our sites, including storing your preferences and settings, such as what language your browser is set to our sites or from what country your computer is visiting our sites.
- Targeted advertising to do things like promote products and services that we believe may be of interest to you and ensuring that you don't see the same advertisement repeatedly. Because we have advertisements on our own sites as well as sites of third parties, we are able to gather information over time about the types of pages, content and ads that you, or others who are using your computer, have visited or viewed. We do this to help us select and display targeted advertisements and promotions that we believe may be of interest to you.
- Account Sign-In so you can move around our sites without having to re-enter your account information.
- Combining information about you that we collect from cookies (and other similar technologies) with your consumer profile.
Opt Out Controls for Advertising: : We understand that not everyone wants to receive behaviorally targeted advertising. Here are a few sites you can visit to learn how to opt out from receiving this kind of advertising: (Note that opting out does not mean you will stop seeing ads, it just means those ads won't be behaviorally targeted and while we will still collect information about you, we cannot use that information for the purpose of behaviorally targeted advertising.)
Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
You can learn more about cookies, by going to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies
Other Similar Technologies
- Web Beacons: Web beacons, also known as clear GIFs or pixel tags, are transparent image files embedded in our sites, advertisements, or emails and are used to deliver cookies. Web beacons collect generic information about your navigation through a single site or a series of sites to help us compile statistics about the effectiveness of our sites and promotional campaigns. They can also let us know things such as whether or not you opened or acted upon an email or newsletter or other advertisement we sent you.
- Local Shared Objects: Local shared objects, also known as "Flash cookies," are data files placed on your computer when you visit a site. Local shared objects are similar to cookies and track your online activity.
Online trackingSome browsers have a "Do Not Track" feature. When you turn this feature on, it sends a signal or a preference to the sites you visit indicating that you do not want to be tracked. There is not yet a uniform understanding of how to interpret this signal so our sites do not currently respond to a Do Not Track setting in your browser. This means that we will continue to collect, use and share information about you as described in this Privacy Policy even though you have turned on a Do Not Track feature.
Links to third partiesSome of our sites may link to pages on sites that are maintained by other companies. These other sites are not governed by our Privacy Policy and we are not responsible for their information collection practices. The privacy policies of other companies may differ from ours and you should review their privacy notices.
Protecting your information and payment securityWe use a variety of physical, electronic and managerial procedures and technologies to help protect and safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Although we use standard industry practices to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee that your use of our sites will never be unlawfully intercepted, or that your personal information will never be unlawfully accessed by third parties.
When you make a purchase through our sites, you provide payment information, such as your credit card number (or Pay Pal information), your name, billing address, shipping address and the security code associated with your credit card. Our third party payment processor collects this information for us and uses it only to complete your transaction, or store your payment information if you choose to enable that function. Our payment processor shares this payment information with associated banks and other entities to process payments, as well as for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction.
Storing and processing your informationYour information may be collected, accessed, processed and stored in the United States as well as in any other country where we, our affiliates, or our Third Party Partners maintain facilities. The privacy laws in these countries may not offer the same level of protection as those in the country where you reside.
Children's PrivacyWe do not knowingly sell or ship any products ordered on our sites to anyone we know to be under the age of 13, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information on our sites from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13, you should only use our sites with parental or legal guardian consent and supervision.
Individual choice and accessIf you do not wish to receive marketing and promotional communications from us, please follow the opt-out instructions provided in our communications, or, if you have an account with us, you can access your communication options here. Alternatively, you can contact us as described below and speak directly with a Consumer Care representative who can answer any questions you may have and update your account accordingly. Please know that we will still contact you for transactional purposes (for example, to communicate with you about an online order).
You can also access and edit your account information online, including your name, email address, postal address, and phone number. To help prevent others from viewing your account information, you must first sign into your account.
You may request access to personal information we have about you by contacting us as described below.
Changes to our Privacy PolicyWe reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy as business needs require. If we decide to do so, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we are collecting and how we might use and share that information. All changes to this policy will be posted on this site prior to the time they take effect.
If we make material changes to the way we use personal information, before they take effect, we will notify you by posting a notice of these changes prominently on our sites or notify you via email if you have provided us that information. Please review our Privacy Policy periodically to learn how we are collecting, using and sharing your information.
Questions? How to reach us.To contact Consumer Care, please use the following:
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: Call us toll free at 800-361-5628 Mailing Address:
For the US:
Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.
33 Coffee Lane
Waterbury, VT 05676 USA
For Canada:
Keurig Canada Inc.
3700, Jean-Rivard
Montreal, Quebec H1Z 4K3 CANADA
If you have questions about our privacy practices contact us firstname.lastname@example.com or at the phone numbers or addresses above.


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SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (BP) — A Baptist leader is seeking prayer for his wife who was upgraded to serious condition today (Aug. 18) after drinking iced tea accidentally laced with lye at a Utah restaurant a week earlier.
Jan Harding, 67, was admitted to the University of Utah Hospital burn unit after taking one sip of the tainted tea Aug. 10 at a Dickey's Barbecue Pit in South Jordan, Utah, and had been in critical condition a week with severe chemical burns in her esophagus. She is the wife of Jim Harding, an extension professor at the Utah campus of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and former executive director of the Utah/Idaho Southern Baptist Convention.
"God's got us. He's got us. We have absolute, confidence in our God," Jim Harding said in an Aug. 14 FOX 13 interview after doctors removed his wife's breathing tube. "When the breathing tube came out, we all smiled and then I think we cried. … I keep telling our kids God's got us."
Jan Harding spoke her first words Aug. 17 since the accident, longtime family friend Dan Walker told Baptist Press.
"We actually physically heard her voice yesterday for the first time, though it's … not her natural voice yet, but she was as of yesterday morning able to speak," said Walker, executive director of the Salt Lake Baptist Association. "Beyond that, I really need to accommodate the family's wishes and not make a lot of other comments."
The Harding family, Walker and friends are requesting prayer.
"Our big concerns and our prayer requests at this time are really around these things. First of all, she so desperately needs some good rest. Secondly, we're praying for the healing of her esophagus because … there is risk of perforated esophagus and that would be disastrous," Walker said. "On Wednesday of this week they're going to be doing another endoscopy to check out the healing and we're just desperately praying that that would have favorable results."
Walker also requested prayer that the family would gain strength and be able to rest.
The Hardings held a press conference today with TV's "Inside Edition" but has suspended all other interviews until an Aug. 21 press conference, preliminarily at 2 p.m. Mountain Time in the office of their attorney Paxton Guyman in Salt Lake City.
A former Dickey's employee, identified as Rebecca Rackley, said Dickey's knew about the toxic substance used to sweeten the tea.
About a month ago, Rackley said, she mixed a crystalized cleaner that resembled sugar into a vat of sugar. She told news outlets including the local FOX 13 station that she realized her error and tried to empty the mixture in the trash but was prevented from doing so by company regulations. She quit her job for undisclosed reasons before Harding was injured and has expressed sorrow that the substance was used to sweeten the tea.
"It's bad, because I'm the one that messed up the sugar, but I didn't give her the tea or put it in the tea," Rackley said in a FOX 13 interview. "But I still feel bad because I messed up the sugar."
Dickey's expressed sadness in an Aug. 16 official press statement and requested prayer for the Hardings.
"The entire Dickey's family is saddened by the events that occurred in Utah and takes this incident very seriously. We are keeping the entire Harding family in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time," the company said, describing the case as isolated and expressing the location owner's deep sadness. "Dickey's appreciates all of the messages of support. We ask for your prayers for the Harding family."
Diana Chandler is general assignment writer/editor for Baptist Press, the Southern Baptist Convention's news service. BP reports on missions, ministry and witness advanced through the Cooperative Program and on news related to Southern Baptists' concerns nationally and globally. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).

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Bracero Washing Clothes
Bracero Washing Clothes
- Description
- Photograph: A bracero does laundry at an outside water spigot while others stand nearby at a camp in California.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- negative
- date photographed
- 1956
- photographer
- Nadel, Leonard
- Place Made
- United States: California
- ID Number
- 2004.0138.46.29
- accession number
- 2004.0138
- catalog number
- 2004.0138.46.29
- subject
- Immigration
- Bracero
- Mexicans
- Migration
- Migrant Workers
- Bracero Program
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- Archives Center: Archives
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Work
- Photography
- Agriculture
- Leonard Nadel
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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In GOP Presidential Field, Science Finds Skeptics
Republican presidential hopefuls gather Wednesday at the Ronald Reagan presidential library in California for perhaps the first critical debate of the primary election season.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has publicly doubted the science of climate change and says creationism should be taught alongside evolution, is the new front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. He's not alone in these views. If the topic of science comes up during the debate, the views of all of the GOP presidential candidates will be on display before a national audience.
Two unusual things happened on the East Coast a couple of weeks ago. First, there was an earthquake that rumbled from Virginia to New York. Then Hurricane Irene drove past the usually stormier states in the South to hit the Eastern Seaboard, including Washington, D.C., Maryland, New York and Vermont.
At the time, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who started her political career fighting for creationism to be taught in schools alongside evolution, said at a campaign rally that perhaps God was sending signals to politicians in Washington.
"You'd think by now they'd get the message," Bachmann said. "An earthquake, a hurricane ... are you listening?"
When asked about that by reporters, Bachmann said that clearly she was joking. But she's made similar comments before. In April 2009, she talked to a conservative news website about the recent outbreak of swine flu.
"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then, under another [Democratic] president, Jimmy Carter," she said. "And I'm not blaming this on President Obama; I just think it's an interesting [coincidence]."
The outbreak she's talking about actually began in 1976 — under President Ford. But the message is clear — Bachmann believes something other than physical and biological processes drives events on planet Earth.
Perry does, too.
At a campaign stop last month, a child asked Perry what he thinks about evolution. He told the boy, "It's a theory out there that has some gaps in it."
At a voter breakfast in New Hampshire, Perry was asked about the overwhelming scientific evidence that shows human actions are a substantial cause of global warming. While he did agree that the climate was changing, he said that it's been changing since the Earth began.
"Scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change," Perry said.
As for how Perry would fund environmental actions if he were president?
"I don't think, from my perspective, that I want America to be engaged in spending that much money on [a still] scientific theory that has not been proven," he said, "and from my perspective is being put more and more into question."
Now, these comments from Perry and Bachmann do not describe the beliefs of the Republican Party as a whole. There are many in the GOP who strongly support scientific research and evidence-based policymaking. In fact, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, another candidate for the nomination, sent this tweet after Perry's remarks on global warming:
"To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy."
But the comments do show which wing of the GOP is driving the primary process right now: socially conservative, religious Republicans.
A Temporary Boost
Rich Galen, a GOP analyst not working with any campaign, says the comments by Bachmann and Perry could give them a boost — at least for a while.
"It will help them in the early stages, up to the point, I think, the time when people actually begin to vote," Galen says.
Galen predicts that Republican primary voters will decide these candidates are too far to the right to beat President Obama in the general election.
Princeton professor Julian Zelizer agrees that challenging science has a certain appeal for some conservatives, but says it won't play so well among independents and fiscal conservatives.
"The Republican Party was once the party of business and market — and now they could become the party of anti-science," Zelizer says.
That could be catastrophic for the party, says Zelizer, because in order to be relevant, a political party eventually has to attract many more voters than just its base.
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Baby Signs & Kid Signs
Our family signs include a wide variety of baby signs and kid signs!
Celebrate a new arrival with a sign for the baby room, or brighten up a kids' room with a playroom sign! Choose from signs specifically for girls or boys, or we have plenty that are neutral as well. With over 40 colors to choose from, your solid wood sign from Sawdust City will look great anywhere!


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DDB1: damage-specific DNA binding protein 1, 127kDa
Chromosomal Location: 11q12-q13
Predictive Analyses
SIFT/PolyPhen Data
Putative functional changes in a candidate gene's protein function were assessed by taking the nonsynonymous coding SNPs (cSNPs) for each gene and using both SIFT and Polyphen. Generally, each nonsynonymous amino acid change is analyzed in the context of other evolutionarily similar proteins to determine the likelihood of the polymorphic nonsynonymous change, and then statistically classified. Each of these programs classifies each coding SNP as tolerant or intolerant (SIFT), or benign, possibly damaging, probably damaging (Polyphen). For literature references detailing the specific algorithms implemented by SIFT and Polyphen, see:
Ng and Henikoff, "Accounting for Human Polymorphisms Predicted to Affect Protein Function", Genome Research, 12:436-446, 2002
Ramensky, et al., "Human non-synonymous SNPs: server and survey", Nucleic Acids Research, 30:17:3894-3900, 2002


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Commercial lighting for spaces like offices, hospitals, institutions and government buildings demands functionality first and foremost. A long lamp lifespan, better durability and improved energy saving are of primary importance, and the lighting design must consider the type of activity undertaken to ensure that the resulting lux levels provide optimum comfort.
LED lighting offers tremendous advantages over traditional fluorescent fittings. Indeed, it is no coincidence that the move to LED has been one of the fastest technology shifts in the world: without doubt, it is the future of illumination. LED lights last longer - often well in excess of 20,000 hours. They also use significantly less power and their use is contributing to the considerable dent that improved efficiency is making in the UK's energy demands. And, since hidden technology dissipates any residual heat, they do not affect the ambient temperature.
Furthermore, there are now no downsides to LED luminaires, with warmer white lights being readily available.
Downlights and panel lights form the core of commercial lighting products and, once more, Collingwood lead the market. The entire collection of commercial downlights are colour switchable, offering a choice of 3000, 4000 and 6500 Kelvin in one luminaire which may be selected at the point of installation in according with client preference. They are mains dimmable and provide market-leading efficiency of up to 117lumens/watt, and with an IP54 rating, they may be fitted throughout, including in bathrooms. Plug and play connectors ensure quick and easy installation, and their unique heatsink design ensures a truly impressive lamp life of 50,000-hours endorsed by a five-year extended warranty.
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- Table Top Thickness: 1.65 inches
- Douglas Fir Planks
- Table is completed with a smooth matte finish.
- Choose between multiple stain options.
- Choose either raw gun-metal or flat black pipe table base.
- By their nature, wood planks may be somewhat uneven, and may cup or bow slightly over time, further enhancing their rustic unique character; cracks may be present but they do not reduce the strength and longevity.
- Each table is handmade. Given its handcrafted and hand-finished nature, variations in the wood grains are to be expected and admired. Every table is unique and no two are exactly alike.
- Simple assembly and tools required (attach base with a power screwdriver).
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Temporary Food Service
The City of Garland Code of Ordinances defines a temporary food service establishment as an entity "which operates at a fixed location for a period of time of not more than five (5) consecutive days in conjunction with a specific event." Each separate event shall require a separate temporary food establishment permit. An event may occur at a given site only once during a 30-day period. An application for such permit shall be filed at least 48 hours prior to the scheduled event.
DETERMINING IF A temporary FOOD PERMIT is needed
- Is the general public invited to the event?
- Can persons other than members of the organization and their family members attend?
- Have you advertised the fundraiser in newspapers, on the radio, posted bulletins, mailed out flyers?
- Have you sold tickets to persons other than organization members?
If one of these answers is "yes", then you likely need a temporary food service permit. The Health Department recognized that many instances of non-profit organization food service functions do not involve the public. We refer to these activities as
closed party functions in which organization members, their families, and invited guests are the only persons present. Examples of closed party functions include church dinners, regular meetings of civic organizations and clubs, and certain sales of baked goods at schools during school hours, etc. The average children's neighborhood beverage stand does not require a permit.
If you are unsure whether your group's planned food service requires a permit, please call the Health Department at 972-205-3460.
A temporary food service permit shall be obtained from the health department. Only approved, non-time/temperature control for safety foods may be sold at bake sales. Cream or custard-filled pies and home-canned products are prohibited. Non-perishable baked items may be prepared in the home, but all food portions must be individually wrapped and protected from contamination.
lEMONADE STANDS
The average children's neighborhood beverage stand does not require a permit.
farmer's markets and Cottage food
Fee Schedule and application
- $100 per booth or trailer per event
- Permit fees are waived for non-profit groups
- Temporary Food Service Permit Application (PDF)
- Permitted Kitchen Authorization Form (PDF)
The Garland Health Department may inspect temporary food service establishments at any time, but typically the event is inspected prior to permit issuance. All temporary food service facilities that have sampling or food preparation onsite requires a certified food handler to be onsite for the duration of the event.
- Inspection Guidelines (PDF)
- Inspection Checklist for Food Booths (PDF)
- Inspection Checklist for Mobile Food Trucks (PDF)- grease-intercepting hoods must have current inspection
- Frequently Asked Questions (PDF)
- Accredited Food Handler Online Training Courses
- Texas Food Establishment Rules on Temporary Food Service (PDF)
- City of Garland Temporary Food Service Amendments (PDF)
- Texas Cottage Food Law


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ktrace(2) [freebsd man page]
KTRACE(2) BSD System Calls Manual KTRACE(2) NAME
ktrace -- process tracing LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/uio.h> #include <sys/ktrace.h> int ktrace(const char *tracefile, int ops, int trpoints, int pid); DESCRIPTION
The ktrace() system call enables or disables tracing of one or more processes. Users may only trace their own processes. Only the super- user can trace setuid or setgid programs. The tracefile argument gives the pathname of the file to be used for tracing. The file must exist and be a regular file writable by the calling process. All trace records are always appended to the file, so the file must be truncated to zero length to discard previous trace data. If tracing points are being disabled (see KTROP_CLEAR below), tracefile may be NULL. The ops argument specifies the requested ktrace operation. The defined operations are: KTROP_SET Enable trace points specified in trpoints. KTROP_CLEAR Disable trace points specified in trpoints. KTROP_CLEARFILE Stop all tracing. KTRFLAG_DESCEND The tracing change should apply to the specified process and all its current children. The trpoints argument specifies the trace points of interest. The defined trace points are: KTRFAC_SYSCALL Trace system calls. KTRFAC_SYSRET Trace return values from system calls. KTRFAC_NAMEI Trace name lookup operations. KTRFAC_GENIO Trace all I/O (note that this option can generate much output). KTRFAC_PSIG Trace posted signals. KTRFAC_CSW Trace context switch points. KTRFAC_USER Trace application-specific events. KTRFAC_STRUCT Trace certain data structures. KTRFAC_SYSCTL Trace sysctls. KTRFAC_PROCCTOR Trace process construction. KTRFAC_PROCDTOR Trace process destruction. KTRFAC_CAPFAIL Trace capability failures. KTRFAC_INHERIT Inherit tracing to future children. Each tracing event outputs a record composed of a generic header followed by a trace point specific structure. The generic header is: struct ktr_header { int ktr_len; /* length of buf */ short ktr_type; /* trace record type */ pid_t ktr_pid; /* process id */ char ktr_comm[MAXCOMLEN+1]; /* command name */ struct timeval ktr_time; /* timestamp */ intptr_t ktr_tid; /* was ktr_buffer */ }; The ktr_len field specifies the length of the ktr_type data that follows this header. The ktr_pid and ktr_comm fields specify the process and command generating the record. The ktr_time field gives the time (with microsecond resolution) that the record was generated. The ktr_tid field holds a thread id. The generic header is followed by ktr_len bytes of a ktr_type record. The type specific records are defined in the <sys/ktrace.h> include file. SYSCTL TUNABLES
The following sysctl(8) tunables influence the behaviour of ktrace(): kern.ktrace.geniosize bounds the amount of data a traced I/O request will log to the trace file. kern.ktrace.request_pool bounds the number of trace events being logged at a time. Sysctl tunables that control process debuggability (as determined by p_candebug(9)) also affect the operation of ktrace(). RETURN VALUES
The ktrace() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
The ktrace() system call will fail if: [ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a directory. [ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. [ENOENT] The named tracefile does not exist. [EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. [ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. [ENOSYS] The kernel was not compiled with ktrace support. A thread may be unable to log one or more tracing events due to a temporary shortage of resources. This condition is remembered by the ker- nel, and the next tracing request that succeeds will have the flag KTR_DROP set in its ktr_type field. SEE ALSO
kdump(1), ktrace(1), utrace(2), sysctl(8), p_candebug(9) HISTORY
The ktrace() system call first appeared in 4.4BSD. BSD
October 10, 2011 BSD


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Airline Stock Metrics for Investors
Post on: 31 Март, 2015 No Comment
There are several metrics unique to the Air Transport industry that may be utilized to evaluate airline stocks. Some of these, including Load Factor and Gross Equipment per share can be found on the Value Line page. The industry can also be broken down into two subsets. Large, traditional (legacy) carriers operate through a hub-and-spoke system, whereby many flights go through one of their main hubs dispersed throughout the United States Smaller players may utilize a point-to-point system, serving leisure destinations from smaller airports.
Factors to Consider
Airfares fluctuate according to the seating supply/demand balance and are generally similar across competitors. The average fare is also affected by the mix of business to leisure passengers. This metric rises during healthy economic periods, but in a weak climate travelers are apt to trade down to less expensive seating, thus restraining pricing. Along those lines, excess seating capacity (measured in available-seat-miles) can force airlines to discount ticket prices. "Load Factor" is a figure included in the array of most Value Line Air Transport company reports. This is a measure of aircraft occupancy, indicating the carrier's efficiency in adjusting capacity to meet demand. Due to the seasonality of air travel, load factors are typically higher, and airlines' bottom lines better, in the second and third quarters. On that note, "Gross Equipment per share" can also be found in the array. Aircraft purchases will lift this figure, though carriers also reduce the amount to boost efficiency.
In March, 2008, the U.S./EU open skies agreement became effective, allowing carriers to operate between any two points in the two regions.This deregulation has facilitated the expansion by airlines into foreign markets and enhanced competition on transatlantic routes.
Cyclical Influences
Air carriers' prospects are closely tied to the domestic and global economies, which effects demand for business and leisure air travel. Results can hinge partly on the particular geographical markets serviced; one may have more exposure to the East Coast, West Coast, TransAtlantic, or Pacific regions. Oil prices are another important factor, as fuel is currently the industry's biggest cost. When these two variables are favorable, profits can be sizable; however during an economic slump, or when oil prices have skyrocket, carriers tend to post losses.
In the airlines' favor, over the past decade an increasingly-globalized economy has boosted the need for international air travel, providing new avenues for growth. Carriers have bulked up their overseas presences and realized improved pricing in growing markets.
Generally, revenues from ticket sales rise and fall with air traffic (revenue passenger miles). The airlines also derive a small portion of revenue, 3%-4% of the total, from cargo transport, and another modest amount from other items, such as bag checking and flight change fees. Carriers can aggressively increase these ancillary charges as a means of offsetting the impact of elevated fuel costs and other negative trends. Margins are hard to predict and depend on the carrier's cost structure. After fuel, labor is the largest cost outlay. Strong unions often set wage rates and scheduling rules that may be incongruent with the current operating climate. In response, carriers can take cost-cutting and revenue-boosting steps, such as tacking fuel surcharges onto fares, hedging fuel prices, and furloughing employees to some extent.
Competitive Atmosphere
The domestic airline industry is relatively concentrated, due to the large capital investment necessary to launch a new company. But, it is also increasingly characterized by rising competition from smaller point-to-point carriers that are able to undercut the average airfare. On major routes, there may be several other competing airlines, possibly departing from different airports, and pricing competition has become fierce. Additionally, on foreign routes, competition from local carriers can constrain revenue yields (revenues-per-available-seat-mile).
Rising competition and the growing need by travelers to reach multiple destinations has encouraged the formation of global alliances, of which currently there exist three major ones. These groupings of carriers allow airlines to retain their market shares by offering access to markets not served directly. Furthermore, the desire for horizontal integration increases when conditions sour. For example, last year two of the five largest U.S. airlines merged, creating the biggest industry participant.
Risks and Rewards
Those considering Air Transport stocks should be wary of the significant risks that accompany them. Foremost, their earnings profiles are volatile and usually highly unpredictable. As such, we recommend examining an airline's Earnings Predictability score as well as its Safety rank. Given that they often also have sizable capital spending requirements, cash levels may decline precipitously, especially during the seasonably slow December and March quarters. Accordingly, most airlines often issue new shares, carry a sizable debt balance, and may be at risk of credit defaults if conditions worsen severely. For that reason, we advise reviewing each carrier's long-term debt-to-capital ratio.
Air Transport stocks' performances generally mirror the broader market, but can also move sharply on oil price changes. They typically trade at low P/E ratios, and, depending on the airline, stock prices may rise more than the market average when operating conditions improve or oil prices drop.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


text: The Active Record Helper makes it easier to create forms for records kept in instance variables. The most far-reaching is the form method that creates a complete form for all the basic content types of the record (not associations or aggregations, though). This is a great way of making the record quickly available for editing, but likely to prove lackluster for a complicated real-world form. In that case, it's better to use the input method and the specialized form methods in ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper


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Cat Gets Woman Pregnant... Kind Of
By Dave Basner
July 16, 2021
Cats can make for wonderful pets and loving companions, but anyone who has spent some time on YouTube knows that cats can also be jerks. Clearly our feline friends are pretty smart, but one man is calling his family pet an "evil genius" because the cat caused his wife to get pregnant.
The man wrote about what happened on Reddit, explaining that he and his wife just had their first child last year. It was a challenging pregnancy that saw his wife on bed rest for weeks, then his son was born two months early, though the boy has grown to be happy and healthy. After that, they chose to wait at least two years before attempting to get pregnant again. While his wife started on birth control, it made her sick so they instead decided to use condoms. That's where the cat comes in. The man wrote:
"Our cat is an evil genius. I seriously think the greasy orange little s**t is still smarter than our nearly one-year-old. He gets into everything, and I do mean everything. No door, drawer, or cabinet can stop him, and if he knows where something he wants is he WILL find it. It's so bad that for weeks after adopting him I thought there was poltergeist in the house because each morning I'd wake up to find every single cabinet door in the kitchen wide open!"
It's the cat's curiosity that led to the issue. See the cat loves to shred Q-tips and the man, somewhat foolishly, stored his condoms in the same drawer as the Q-tips. He noticed later that the cat got to the cotton swabs because there were chewed straws and fluff everywhere. The condoms also got strewn aside. The guy thought nothing of it, cleaned up the mess and returned the condoms to their box. Later that night, he still didn't think much of it when he and his wife used one of the condoms.
Weeks later, she started to feel nausea and her breasts were tender - two symptoms she had the last time she was pregnant. They took some pregnancy tests and they all came back positive. The man wrote, "That damned cat," explaining, "I ran over to the bathroom drawer where I kept the condoms, dumped out the box on the counter and started to inspect each miserable little foil square. Sure enough, several had noticeable scratches, teeth marks, and even full blown punctures in them."
He ended his post writing, "Can't wait to explain to my new son or daughter one day that they owe their existence to the family cat!"


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"AND MY AXE!" shirts are discounted in the HE store!
Here we are, gentle traveler of the seas, at the end of of our JoCo Cruise Crazy 2 Fancy Photo Comic journey (SPOILERS: This is not the end. There is at least one more). After David, Rob and I were guests on the Paul and Storm Podcast (listen here), we were also the chorus line in Molly Lewis, Marian Call and Vi Hart's (Molly's head is obscured by a music stand) version of the Schoolhouse Rock classic "Conjunction Junction." Spelling "but" wrong was a last minute idea of mine that seemed to play pretty well for the audience. David's usual "I don't know what's going on" facial expression really sold it. He did wear that sign for at least a few hours after the show.
During our Advanced Drinking And Drawing session, there was an old (non JoCo Cruise) dude that kept slipping rob shots and demanding that he draw dogs. Within a span of 20 minutes, Rob went from a sane, rational human being to just completely worthless. By the end of it Rob was significantly destroyed with alcohol and this dude was bating him with cries of "YER SPOSE TO DRAW ME A PUG!" Rob was (and I offer ZERO exaggeration here) completely incapable of drawing the circles and rectangles that typically make up his characters, much less a particular breed of dog. I chipped in by finishing a few of his "commissions" and eventually he was coaxed back to his room for non-alcohol based rest. The old dude eventually slipped me a tequila shot as well. I think he was trying to get us to go back to his stateroom. Rob, David and I all collaborated on a piece for Wil entitled "Dude getting his dick kicked off while throwing a butt-taco." It was a masterpiece.
Nerds tend to sit down or stand relatively still during "nerd-rock" concerts. They are certainly appreciating the music, but they don't seem to feel the need to shove each other for two hours like the typical concert goer does. Of course these rules of etiquette are thrown out the porthole immediately when the headlining acts starts playing a song about zombies. Then they're ambling and shimmying and moaning and… well, doing the closest thing they do to forming a mosh pit. It was a sort of moosh pit. Speaking of acting like zombies, please read this Sea Monkey's account of one of my favorite moments of the entire cruise, in which I was part of a spontaneous theatrical production and bit a stranger on the leg.
Have I ever mentioned that Paul F. Tompkins is a delight? Well he is. He is also one of the sharpest and quickest minds in stand up comedy today. His speech about Han and Chewie's particular bromance is something that he told me backstage way back during w00tstock Dallas. I found it an incredibly fitting and insightful metaphor for a "nerd-adjacent" among the super nerds. Listen to his podcast. It is among my favorite things.
By the end of the final night our host, Jonathan Coulton, said something like, "I don't think I even need to show up next year. It will all just keep running on its own momentum." Not to disparage him or belittle his contributions to the cruise (hell, it DOES have his name on it), but I think he was right. I never got the sense that JoCo was the glue that was binding everyone together on the JoCo cruise. It was a deeper sense of community and belonging (for many, FINALLY belonging) that brought these people together. JoCo just put them on a boat so they could have incredible amounts of excellent fun together. It is a safe bet that each and every person in our group was a fan of Jonathan's music, but I believe they were even bigger fans of each other. This wasn't a concert. It was a gathering of like minded people that support independent creators, create great things themselves and strive to uplift and improve the world they live in, the people they appreciate, themselves and each other. Jonathan was the match, but the Sea Monkeys were the flame.
[panels 1 and 2 feature some photos that I found on Facebook or Flickr, but I don't remember from whom. If they are yours, please let me know so I can credit you]
COMMENTERS: If you were ever awkward or any type of outcast, when was the first time/place/group setting that you knew you belonged and why?


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The Town Council had a full plate of resolutions and other matters at its April 9 meeting, from awarding a $2.1 million contract for the renovation of the town's most historic firehouse to warning residents about possible phony charity clothing bins.
The council also approved a resolution seeking aid in getting Verizon to offer Fios internet and cable TV to a wider part of town, in order to offer competition to Comcast, which has had the monopoly in the town for decades.
Using a change in state law, the Town Council voted to allow collection agencies to go after ticket scofflaws and to permit suspension of driver's licenses for those who do not pay after multiple attempts to collect.
Clothing bins are sprouting up like mushrooms
Town officials warned residents not to be fooled by the crop of clothing bins that have popped up at various locations, saying that an investigation of some has been unable to verify that they are legitimate charities.
"My guess is that those who own these are sifting through the clothing donated, selling off the best and selling the rest for rags," said an official..
For years, Secaucus had two bins near the Little League Field in the Plaza section of town, owned by legitimate charities. That number has swelled to more than 40 in other areas, and have become an unsightly mess that town officials have moved to license or remove.
"We looked to find the owners and found addresses for some of them that were fraudulent." — Councilman Jim Clancy
Unpaid fines mounting to municipal court
With more than $185,000 in unpaid fines owed to the municipal court – of which nearly $82,000 would go to the town – the council approved allowing debt collectors to pursue scofflaws.
Mayor Michael Gonnelli said this comes after the state approved a change of law that would allow towns this option.
He said people who get tickets receive a notice after 30 days. If unpaid, a second notice on the ticket is issued requiring a 20 percent late fee. Upon third notice, scofflaws can be pursued by debt collectors. Unpaid tickets can also result in a loss of driving privileges under state law.
Historic firehouse gets face lift
With 10 bids to choose from, the council voted to award Three Sons Restoration a $2.1 million contract to upgrade Washington Hook and Ladder fire house, located on County Avenue.
Last month a bond ordinance was adopted for capital improvements to the firehouse with a $213,000 down payment estimating the cost at $4,450,000. The 10 bids received for the work ranged from $2.1 million to just over $3.5 million.
Washington Hook & Ladder Company is the oldest of the fire companies in Secaucus, founded in 1905.
A water truck given to Secaucus last months by the County of Hudson was used in a out of town swamp fire in Ridgefield Park, said Clancy.
Buchmuller Park improvement questioned
Tom Troyer, in public comment period, questioned what he thought was an excessive cost to relocate bocce courts as part of the upgrades to the Buchmuller Park area.
In March, the council authorized the payment of slightly more than $31,000 for the moving and reconstruction of courts with an option that would have brought the cost up to just short of $40,000.
One of the three bocce courts had to be relocated because of improvements being made to the Little League Field. Gonnelli said $1.6 million in improvements to Buchmuller Park and the ball field were being paid for by a grant from the Hudson County Open Space Trust Fund and not local taxes. But he said the cost of the bocce court renovation was high because of footings and other work that had to be done.
The park improvements are being done in phases, he said, with the playgrounds already completed, the ball field just completed, the bocce courts next, and other areas including the basketball and walkways due next. A new fountain is also slated to be included in front of the park.
Troyer later said he didn't care where the money was coming from to pay for the bocce relocation just as long as it wasn't being wasted or the town over charged for the work.
Bocce is a very popular activity in the park, and along with moving the one backup court, the two active courts have been upgraded with new rot-resistant wood, Gonnelli said.
More training
Meanwhile, the town has begun to train crossing guards as part of the Safety Net for Schools, said Councilman William Mc Keever, noting that this adds another layer of security for school kids.
"This provides one more set of eyes outside our schools looking for someone that might not belong there," he said.
Al Sullivan may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Obama Administration Grade on Coal Ash: Failing
Yes, failing … just like the coal ash ponds along the Dan River.
What Put the Stuff on the Map
Despite being a political football [pdf] that had been tossed around Capitol Hill, the coal industry and EPA headquarters throughout the '90s and early aughts, coal ash was rarely a topic of dinner conversation around most American supper tables I suspect. But in December 2008 coal ash got America's attention, and especially so for people like Tennessean Deanna Copeland. That was when the retaining wall of a coal ash pond gave way and sent more than a billion gallons of the toxic stuff into the surrounding area of the Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, Tennessee, toppling homes and fouling surface water. Copeland told the New York Times, "There are huge health concerns. It's going to get in our house. We're going to breathe it in. It would be like walking through a dust bowl, and we don't know what's in the dust." (See related story: "Seeking a Safer Future for Electricity's Coal Ash Waste.")
Now, more than five years after the Kingston spill, and as the ranks of Americans affected by coal ash spills continue to grow, coal ash is still the stuff of legislative and regulatory wrangling [pdf]. (See also: "Largest U.S. Coal Ash Pond to Close, but Future Rules Still Undecided.")
Coal Ash Refresher Course
Each year coal-fired power plants in the United States produce more than 120 million1 tons of coal ash, 40 percent of which gets placed in retention ponds and landfills. As outlined in Statistically Speaking: Coal Waste, this stuff is loaded with toxic material. There are lots of folks who believe it should be regulated as hazardous waste, and there are those, many aligned with the coal industry, who disagree, arguing it should instead be treated as non-hazardous waste and largely left to the states to regulate. (See previous post for details on hazardous vs. non-hazardous classification.) The net result, as with so many other critical issues facing the nation, has been a stalemate and default to the status quo, which in this case means no new regulations. More on this history here and here.
A Pledge to Break the Deadlock
On January 14, 2009, just weeks after the huge spill in Tennessee, EPA Administrator-designate Lisa Jackson thought the issue of coal ash important enough to explicitly address in her confirmation hearings. In her testimony Jackson made two notable pledges to reconsider the question of regulation and the methods used for storage of coal ash. And then on March 3, 2009 the agency announced a plan
"to gather critical coal ash impoundment information from electrical utilities nationwide, conduct on-site assessments to determine structural integrity and vulnerabilities, order cleanup and repairs where needed, and develop new regulations for future safety."
In the same news release ("EPA Announces New Action to Prevent Coal Ash Releases") the agency "anticipate[d]" a proposed rule by year's end and pledged "appropriate remedial action at any facility that is found to pose a risk for potential failure.
So, Four Years Later, How Well Did EPA Follow Through?
1. "Develop regulations for future safety"– I'd say Jackson's pledge to move forward on regulation has received the most attention. And I think it's fair to say the performance on this front has been lacking.
First EPA missed the December 2009 deadline. Finally, more than a year and a half later on May 4, 2010 EPA proposed a rulemaking procedure. The agency followed that with the June 2010 publication of proposed rules [pdf] with options to regulate coal ash as either a hazardous or a non-hazardous pollutant, and opened a public comment period for input on the proposals. That 90-day period came and went, but a final ruling was not forthcoming. Presently, despite a lawsuit [pdf] and a court order [pdf] (more here), a final rule has still not been issued.
A new deadline for the issuance of a final rule has been set for December 2014. I'm not holding my breath, but at least this one is different. Holding EPA's feet to the fire is a consent decree [pdf] stemming from the lawsuit, which orders binding action.
"The EPA Administrator shall, by December 19, 2014, sign for publication in the Federal Register a notice taking final action regarding EPA's proposed revision of RCRA subtitle D regulations pertaining to coal combustion residuals."
We shall see.
2. "Conduct on-site assessments to determine structural integrity and vulnerabilities, order cleanup and repairs where needed" – While this aspect of EPA's pledge seems to have received less attention than the one to promulgate regulations, it is arguably just as important if not more; especially so if you happen to live near one of the country's approximately 676 impoundments for wet coal ash and 300 additional landfills for dry coal ash. (See map of coal ash waste sites.)
EPA initiated an assessment of existing impoundments in March 2009, requesting information from companies that dispose of coal ash (see this letter [pdf] for example), the results of which have since been released and published on EPA's website. However, these assessments did not address structural integrity per se, as promised, but instead focused on rating "the potential hazard" for each storage unit should a failure occur, using criteria which assign dams "high," "significant," "low," or "less-than-low" rating based on the risk that a dam failure would harm people, property and/or the environment. The report listed 45 storage units at 27 locations as "high hazard" coal ash ponds meaning a failure would threaten human life.
The agency then followed up with a safety/integrity study on the high and significant hazard units. The evaluations, carried out by contractors, rated the impoundments as "satisfactory," "fair," "poor," or "unsatisfactory," terms commonly used in the field of dam safety. The results of those assessments, released on EPA's website, seemed, at least at first blush, to be most reassuring. According to EPA, based on the assessments it supervised,
"Expert experience has shown that only impoundments rated as 'unsatisfactory' pose immediate safety threats. None of the impoundments assessed so far have received an 'unsatisfactory' rating."
Really? No "immediate safety threats"? Not quite.
And Then the Dan River Spill
On February 2, one of the two containment ponds at Duke Energy's Dan River Steam Station, a retired coal-fired power plant in Eden, North Carolina, leaked, sending 50,000 to 82,000 tons of ash into the Dan River, putting the coal ash issue back on the front pages (see here, here and here) — and sending the political football back in play. (See here and here.)
The cause of the spill is pretty clear: a stormwater runoff pipe located beneath the main pond collapsed allowing coal ash sludge to leak into the pipe and flow into the river. While there's lots of finger-pointing, with subpoenas flying and political maneuverings — and now concern that a second stormwater pipe may be leaking — the environmental impacts have yet to be fully understood.
Last week state officials issued two health advisories recommending people 1) avoid contact with the water or the river sediments and 2) avoid eating fish and shellfish from the river. On Tuesday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service warned of a huge coal ash pile
"about 75 feet long and as much as 5 feet deep … on the bottom of the Dan River near the [spill] site…. Deposits varying from 5 inches deep to less than 1 inch coated the river bottom across the state line into Virginia and to Kerr Lake, a major reservoir."
And there have been reports of dead turtles on the banks of the river, animals that normally hibernate in the river sediment this time of year. As for what impact the spill will have on drinking water, it's too early to tell. At least one study suggests that the impact looks to be minimal, while others note that hazardous chemicals are still being leaked into the river. (See here, here and here.) Bottom line: we have a long way to go before the impoundment is fully secure and the coal ash is cleaned up. (See updates from the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources here.)
The Thing Is … The Dan River Was Part of the Assessment
While all that plays out, it behooves us to harken back to EPA's assessments on the integrity of coal ash impoundments. You see, the funny thing about the Dan River facility — because its two two coal ash storage ponds were deemed to pose a "significant hazard potential" [pdf], they were included in EPA's safety/integrity study [pdf].2 And how did the Dan River facility fare in that study? Despite the fact that one impoundment failed, they were not rated "unsatisfactory" or even "poor." Dan River's two ponds received a rating of "fair." And in this context "fair" means: "Acceptable performance is expected under all required loading conditions… in accordance with the applicable safety regulatory criteria." (See Duke Energy's response to the study's final report [pdf].) Hindsight, as they say is 20/20, but from this vantage point the "fair" rating has clearly proven to be far too forgiving of those stormwater pipes beneath the ponds.
In the EPA-commissioned report [pdf] (conducted by Paul C. Rizzo Associates), which gave the Dan River ponds a "fair" rating, the existence of the stormwater pipes beneath the ponds was noted. In retrospect, if the contractors had deemed the presence of stormwater pipes beneath the ponds a design flaw3 and given the ponds an unsatisfactory rating, this might have compelled Duke Energy to seal up those pipes and the Dan River spill could have been avoided. Instead, they just recommended that Duke Energy monitor the drainage from the pipes for turbidity — which Duke Energy says it did. Such monitoring can catch a slowly developing leak but not a catastrophic collapse like what apparently happened in this case.
Five-Year Grade
So here we are, more than five years since the Obama administration promised movement on coal ash. To date, regulations flounder and, given the Dan River spill from an impoundment whose integrity was rated "fair," the work on the structural integrity side looks to have barely scratched the surface (pun intended).
With regard to the structural integrity assessments supervised by the EPA, a rating of "poor" pertains to cases when "remedial action is necessary … when further critical studies or investigations are needed to identify … deficiencies." That sounds about right for this administration where coal ash is concerned. So let's be charitable and give the administration a grade of poor instead of failing.
Coal-Fired Power Plants and Water Bodies
From the Google map of the Dan River steam plant you can clearly make out the two coal ash ponds right next to the river. Given their need for large quantities of water, most coal-fired power plants are located on rivers, lakes or other water bodies. Coal ash spills often mean the release of toxic sludge directly into surface waters that are often times also sources of drinking water for downstream communities.
End Notes
1 These numbers from 2012, the latest year available, are significantly lower than the recent average — on the order of 110 million tons [pdf], reflecting the drop in coal-fired electricity. (In 2008 for instance, approximately 136 million tons of coal combustion residue [pdf] was produced.)↩
2 Using different criteria, the state of North Carolina rated the Dan River impoundments as having "high hazard."↩
3 The News and Observer reports that no other Duke Energy coal impoundments in North Carolina or South Carolina have stormwater pipes running underneath the impoundments.↩


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My guest on today's "A Book and a Chat" is award winning author Mike Faricy . His novels are an addictive combination of mystery and suspense woven together with a rich strain of humor and a bit of romance.
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