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A Florida House committee signaled its willingness Thursday to make official what has already happened in practice and passed a bill that will end the future development of nuclear power plants in Florida.
The House Energy and Utility Committee approved PCB 13-01 to prevent utility companies from charging customers for the development of nuclear plants before they obtain a license and precludes any new power plants from being eligible to collect the nuclear fees.
"This is only a start but, it should not go unnoticed this is a big start,'' said Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, R-Miami, chairman of the committee.
Since the nuclear cost recovery statute was passed in 2006, Progress Energy has charged customers more than $1 billion to expand the now shutdown Crystal River nuclear power plant and to start developing a new nuclear power plant in Levy County. The company terminated the Crystal River project, does not have a permit for the Levy County project, but has kept $150 million of the money in profits.
Florida Power & Light collected $511 million and used the money to finance expansions to its existing power plants at Turkey Point and in St. Lucie County. It has also proposed building two new reactors at Turkey Point but has not yet obtained a permit from the federal government to do it.
Now that FPL's last expansion project is about to go online, the company is publicly objecting to the bill but not engaging its lobbyist might to kill it. The bill does not repeal the law until 2025, but limits utilities from collecting the money.
The bill is similar to a measure that passed a Senate committee early this week and is the first time in eight years that lawmakers have stood up to pressure from the powerful utility industry which has resisted any change to the 2006 law.
The House bill, however, is not only disliked by the utility industry, it also received a lukewarm reaction from consumer advocates who say it doesn't go far enough to cap the costs of speculative nuclear development and fails to encourage cost-efficient options to expensive power plant construction.
"Unfortunately, what is being proposed doesn't fix the problem,'' said Susan Glickman of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Florida's utility regulation "rewards capital expenditure. Not only do we need to fix past mistakes, we need to avoid future ones."
Consumers groups for years have complained that the ability of Progress Energy and Florida Power & Light to charge customers for nuclear plants that never may be developed was corporate welfare. The utility companies have said that customers will save money in the long run if they are charged for the development of the expensive nuclear plants before the projects are constructed.
The House bill imposes new restrictions that utility companies say will remove all incentives for them to develop nuclear options.
"This bill puts an end to nuclear power plants,'' said Jerry Paul, a former nuclear reactor engineer with the Energy Information Center. Since nuclear power provides 73 percent of the nation's no-emissions energy, he believes "a vote for this bill is a vote against cleaner air."
But for Mary and Lee Wilkerson, small business owners who operate an upscale resort in Indian Rocks Beach near Clearwater, the legislature's support for expensive nuclear power is out of step with the public.
"At Gulfside resorts, we spent roughly $40,000 with the power company annually,'' Mary Wilkerson told the House committee. "We want reliable, cost effective and clean power, but we do not support buying the most expensive power. We can't afford it. And we do not support paying for the plants that we do not believe will be built."
She said she has no idea how much of her bill goes into paying the nuclear fee. She urged legislators to change the incentives that now encourage utility companies to build expensive power plants to they can earn a guaranteed profit and get all their costs recovered.
"We desperately need you, our representatives, to keep the plans fair and balanced and in the interest of the consumers," she said.
Lee Wilkerson said after the meeting that he and his wife took three days off of work to come to Tallahassee to encourage legislators to shift the debate. He said he believes companies like his should have the option of using the nuclear fee to invest in roof-top solar production rather than give the money to the utility giants.
"We aren't having that conversation because decentralized power production sounds the death knell or the big power producers,'' he said. "The power producers are not inclined to want to produce any less energy and legislators listen to them because of where their money comes to get them elected."
For years, legislative leaders have refused to schedule any hearings on bills to repeal or modify the nuclear fee when they were filed by Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel-Vasilina, D-Tallahassee, and Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey.
The House hearing Thursday, and the fact that a similar bill is moving in the Senate, signals a change of face for the legislature. Lawmakers from both parties have accepted millions in campaign contributions from the giant utilities companies as they have rejected calls from consumers and alternative energy groups to modify the nuclear fee.
Despite the effort, utility companies don't like either the House or Senate bills but have not aggressively fought them either.
Susan Clark, a former utility regulator who now represents the state's four largest electric companies, told the committee that the law allowing utilities to collect the nuclear costs ahead of construction was to encourage energy diversity and save customers money.
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Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I confess. Each Sunday, as the lector proclaims the Scriptures in the Liturgy of the Word, I am distracted.
The people in the congregation distract me — in this sense. My eyes fall on that couple who so earnestly wished to begin a family. Finally, they rejoiced to learn that a new life was on the way, but, after premature birth, the baby died. Then, I look at the man, not yet 60, losing mobility each day due to multiple sclerosis. He no longer can work, and this presents difficulties. Yet, he is at Mass each and every weekend with his stalwart wife.
I see an elderly couple. He fought in the Pacific in World War II. I know how proud they are of their five children — and of that grandson who is in the seminary. Their pride comes from their faith. All across the church are familiar faces, the countenances of good, faithful Catholics who are familiar simply because they never miss a Sunday Mass.
I have no authority to canonize saints, and certainly not the living, but along with so many other priests, blessedly and thankfully, I have some nominations for sainthood to make.
Sunday Mass is an edifying and indeed spiritually challenging experience. Pray God that I, in my priesthood, may be worthy of the task of shepherding those children of God that the Lord puts in my path.
All this inspiration admitted, I cannot allow myself to forget that, for each person devoutly praying in the pews before me, two or three or maybe more are not present, are disinterested and even may be disappointed in the Church, for whom the Gospel, and dare I say it, what they know of the Lord Jesus, is not refreshing and not engaging.
This rather dark observation is not at all unique to the parish where I serve. It is a national phenomenon, even in those geographic areas of the United States, the South and the West, where religion is doing well.
This statistic is mentioned. After Americans who identify themselves as Roman Catholics and show some interest in the practice of their religion, the second largest religious group in the country is composed of baptized Catholics who are inactive or who, bluntly, have left the Church.
Think about it. There are more "fallen away" or former Catholics in America than there are Baptists, or fundamentalist Protestants, or Presbyterians, or Lutherans, or United Methodists, or Episcopalians, or Mormons, or Disciples of Christ, or Seventh-day Adventists.
Then, increasing in number, are the unchurched Americans. Polls always show that the majority of Americans are theists. It is institutional religion that is on the decline. The inevitable pattern is that when institutional religion loses ground, belief in a Supreme Being, or in an order of life founded in such a belief, begins itself to diminish.
Very likely, unless something happens, in a generation the majority of Americans will not profess belief in any supernatural, eternal being.
Absolute morality as a standard of behavior already is in free-fall.
In June, I joined the priests of my own Nashville diocese and the priests of the Diocese of Knoxville for a weeklong conference on young Catholic American adults, held in the convention center in Sevierville, Tennessee, at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains.
The presenter was Dr. Timothy O'Malley, a theology professor from the University of Notre Dame with a special interest in young adults (defined as 18 to 28 years of age) and a son of the Knoxville diocese. (It was heartwarming, but not unexpected, to hear him speak of the influence upon him exerted by the priests whom he knew in his own youth. Dr. O'Malley is a strong Catholic. This was clear. What an opportunity comes to us priests in the youth whom we encounter — to whom we are sent by the Spirit!)
I found the lectures fascinating — but not uplifting. Challenging they were, but they were not uplifting. Although there may be laudable fervor in many places, religious practice among young Catholic Americans is on the way down.
By chance, packing for the conference, I had included a copy of "Young Catholic America. Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church," by Christian Smith, Kyle Longest, Jonathan Hill and Kari Christofferson (Oxford University Press).
Since I found the sessions with Dr. O'Malley so interesting, and since the television in my room was always on the blink, I spent much time with "Young Catholic America." It makes clear that the picture that I painted above of the devout and the reliable in the parish in which I serve on weekends is not complete.
The overall culture has laid a deep imprint upon the lives of all Americans, including Catholics. For example, divorce is a way of life. All too many young Catholic Americans are reaching adulthood after spending some years at least in one-parent homes.
Cohabitation before marriage, or no thought of marriage, is now virtually the norm. This practice, of course, has important moral considerations, but sociology suggests, all religious values aside, that it is not a good thing. It will leave scars all too often on those persons involved, and as it is condoned, or actually preferred more and more, young people will feel great pressure to forget any inhibitions and go with the flow.
Pornography, so easily located online, is another problem, and I use the word problem casually. And its harmful effects are growing by leaps and bounds. Popular entertainment, music and cinema do not help, to say the least. All these factors, and others, entrap our youth.
A Catholic asked me not long ago, "Cannot the Church do something about all this?" Well, the Church is trying to do something about it, but it is easy to feel that we are swimming upstream.
Nobody has the silver bullet to kill all these villains, it is easy to say. Or do we Catholics, we priests?
The Gospel will prevail. It brings life and joy that proceed from nothing else. So, the first step in molding that silver bullet is faith.
The second is to look beyond the holy people seated in our church pews week after week, at times day after day. Of course, priests must minister to these good souls, from a variety of perspectives. Not many of the priests I know these days can complain of having too much time on their hands. The opposite is true. But we priests must look outward and away from what is familiar. As Pope St. John Paul II urged, we must cast the nets wide.
This will require stamina and creativity, alertness and thought. Here is where faith, nourished by prayer, is the tonic that changes work for the sake of work into a cause.
Next, practically speaking, we must look directly at parish educational programs. Many forms are needed, schooling for youth, parochial schooling in some cases, religious education for the young, training to receive the sacraments, and so on. This must be organized and funded.
My pet peeve is that we priests relent, albeit unthinkingly, when it comes to adult Catholic education. Maybe the answer is a parish program. Maybe it is encouraging readership of the Catholic press. Maybe it is promoting Catholic radio and television. Maybe it is developing an effective use of social media. The possibilities are many. Just make adult education a priority. These potential processes are steps toward an end.
Constantly, I am convinced that while all our techniques must be well considered and well presented, and in this effort priests cannot be slow or halfhearted, the best lesson of the majesty of Christianity is in the example of believers.
Here priests have a chance, frankly unavailable to others or at best to a few. The very structure of Church communities makes it so. Still, despite all the pressure the other way, people are apt to see priests as bearing the message of something good or well intentioned, if nothing else.
One result of this culture, however, is that this image of priests is not automatic. We must earn trust and regard. We do this only by being priests, by being in persona Christi.
Lord, your kingdom come!
MSGR. CAMPION is editor of The Priest and associate publisher of Our Sunday Visitor. He is a former president of the Catholic Press Association and the Vatican's ecclesiastical adviser for the International Catholic Union of the Press.
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Rep. Peter King: 'No doubt in my mind that this is a terrorist attack'
This is a RUSH transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," April 15, 2013. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
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I'm Bill O'Reilly, this is a special edition of The Factor. Here are the facts. The cowardly attack happened just before 3:00 this afternoon. A bomb exploded on Boylston Street on the marathon route in the Back Bay section of Boston. A few seconds later a second bomb exploded about 100 yards away from the first.
There are reports that authorities disarmed two other improvised explosive devices or IEDs the kind that are used in Afghanistan or Iraq. That report from the Associated Press.
Also there are reports that police are investigating a man who was hurt in the explosion. We don't know more than that at this juncture except that he is in the hospital.
President Obama has addressed the nation and promised justice. But he made one mistake. The President called the attack a tragedy. It was not. It was a vile act of violence designed to kill innocent people, including children.
I was just in Boston yesterday and this makes me sick. So far no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Perhaps it's a coincidence but this week marks the anniversary of attacks in Oklahoma City, Columbine, Colorado and Virginia Tech, also the WACO assault in 1993.
Joining us now from Washington Congressman Peter King, a Member of the House Homeland Security Committee. So, Congressman, what can you tell us tonight?
REP. PETER KING (R-NY), MEMBER OF HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE: Well, as you said, Bill, this is absolutely horrific. It's detestable and it has only the marks of a terrorist attack. In fact, the way it was carried out and to me there is no doubt in my mind that this is a terrorist attack. I know there is a person of interest I guess they are calling him now.
But to me, this -- this reminds me very much of the attack on Times Square in 2010 by Shahzad. And also we have to remember "Inspire" which is the magazine for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has called for terrorist attacks on athletic events in the United States, on iconic events.
And this is both, the Boston marathon on Patriots Day is the -- almost the ultimate as far as an iconic, athletic all-American event. And also mass -- mass killing of civilians.
Again, I -- we don't know for certain but, to me, I think we have to be looking toward either al Qaeda or an off shoot of al Qaeda or a self- starter here in the United States, a home-grown terrorist.
O'REILLY: Well, I mean, I think the FBI fairly soon will ascertain exactly what the profile is. In fact, there is a press conference coming up around 8:30. We'll go to that immediately.
KING: Right.
O'REILLY: And the FBI and the Boston authorities in a combined press conference. But at this point, we don't want to speculate, but we do know that it was designed to kill and maim -- and maim.
KING: Right.
O'REILLY: See this is a very disturbing part. The reports are there were shrapnel and ball bearings and things like that. Other eyewitness reports have limbs being blown off in horrific way.
So this wasn't designed to do anything other than create chaos and pandemonium as 9/11 was. It's the same MO. Now as you said both domestic and foreign terrorists use this kind of stuff.
When something like this happens, you being on the homeland security committee, do you guys do anything in Congress? I mean, do you get on the phone with the FBI and/or with your fellow members of the committee? How does that work?
KING: Well, speaking for myself, I have been on the phone all afternoon with police and fire officials, with sources I have in the federal government. I'm on the intelligence committee also. We will be getting a briefing on this tomorrow. But no, this has to be a full-court press.
And Bill, I hope this is a wakeup call to members of Congress. We've had people in the Senate, in particular, talking about reducing aid, for instance to the New York City Police Department and its counter terrorism efforts. Somehow the feeling is just because we haven't been successfully attacked in 11 years that we have nothing to worry about.
Well, if anything good can come out of such a horrible event as today maybe it will be a wakeup call. We have enemies out to destroy us. They never let up and in many ways they are more treacherous than they were before. Since September 11th because they metastasized they've morphed. And they are -- and many are under the radar screen.
And that's why we have to be so aggressive. We have to be on top of this because once somebody arrives at an event with explosive device it's very difficult to stop them. You can have all the security and all that's essential but the real way to stop it is by intelligence beforehand and by going out into communities.
O'REILLY: Sure.
KING: And finding out what's going to happen. Not waiting for it to come to us.
O'REILLY: Yes informers -- informers hear something. Now remind people what happened in Times Square when the guy from Connecticut drove down with a car and was going to park it and blow Times Square up. Just remind people what the modus operandi was and how the authorities stopped it.
KING: Well it was -- he actually put together his own device. He had been trained in Pakistan. He came over here and he drove down from Connecticut. And he crashed on Saturday night in May 2010. Fortunately the bomb didn't go off; it burst into fire it did not explode.
But the reason for that was this guy knew what he was doing. But he also knew that if a certain devices are purchased, especially in New York that the NYPD monitors it. They know the types of explosives, they know the types of fuses, they know the types of fireworks. They know what to go into a homemade bomb.
And because of that he purchased everything just below the level that had to be reported. And in doing that he ended up putting together a bomb that didn't work. Ironically enough, I was meeting with a high ranking FBI official today in New York before this happened. And he was saying that one of the most unfortunate lessons that people got from the 2010 attack is because the bomb didn't kill anyone, people somehow thought the al Qaeda threat was gone. That bomb came within inches of mass destruction.
Today, in Boston, unfortunately this was -- I have heard everything from two to five bombs up there, explosive devices they were there and at least two of them went off and it's absolute devastation.
And I just think of an 8-year-old boy, an 8-year-old child being killed at an ultimate all-American event. I mean, the cradle of liberty, Boston, the marathon, Patriots Day. What can be better than bringing an eight-year-old child to that and have a young man or a young girl killed at an event like that. It shows how horrible and despicable these people are and we can never let our guard down.
O'REILLY: right and there's no doubt about it. And I don't want to be quibbling with the Commander-in-Chief because the President did his job today. And I trust that he will get to the bottom of it and order all the resources to do it. But it's not a tragedy. I mean these are well, thought-out military campaigns, directed against civilians.
KING: Right.
O'REILLY: This is what the Nazis did. All right? And people do have to be aware. Now, we understand that the 8-year-old was a girl, a little girl who was killed.
KING: Wow. Horrible.
O'REILLY: And there's eight other children that the "Boston Globe" reporting that they are injured. And a lot of these injuries are horrific. I mean you have been to the theater of war in Afghanistan and in Iraq as have I. And you know the Wounded Warrior situation. When these things go off, they are so intense and -- and it just makes me really angry.
This whole thing makes me really angry that these people, in a free society you know we can't stop -- we have been fortunate to stop it for 12 years. But now they -- one of them got through and this is what happens.
KING: And requires an all-out intensive effort, Bill. And that's why we cannot be cutting back on police, we can't be stopping the police the way people try to do in New York from being aggressive. They have to be aggressive this enemy is despicable.
O'REILLY: No I know, I mean they don't want to stop and frisk. They don't want this. They don't want that. And you're absolutely right. Now, maybe this will recede as it did in the -- in the first attack on 9/11.
KING: Right.
O'REILLY: People said, you know what? Safety first. Protection first and now this crazy madness at the CPAC.
Final question, when the -- when you talk to the FBI. You say you're going to get briefed tomorrow. Who's -- who's going to do that briefing, Congressman? Who's going to tell you and will they tell you it's an active investigation, they don't like to put a lot of stuff out in the media because they want to chase down a whole bunch of people. They catch one. They want to know who their friends are but will you get a pretty good idea tomorrow of what happened?
KING: Bill, I think we have to. And we have to push for it. If we don't get it up front, we have to push for it. I think we will. In view of this, I mean, in view of the fact that it's right here in the homeland.
O'REILLY: What time is your meeting, what time is your briefing tomorrow?
KING: I think it's late morning.
O'REILLY: Will you come on, will you come on tomorrow night here on this program?
KING: Sure. Absolutely.
O'REILLY: All right. So I'm going to book the Congressman now for tomorrow. He'll tell us about the briefing. Because, look, I mean, we really need to act quickly here and get as much information to the people as possible. Congressman, we can't thank you enough for taking the time this evening in a very terrible situation.
KING: Bill thank you. Thank you, Bill.
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SAP publicly scheduled classroom and virtual classroom cancellations and rescheduling will only be processed by calling our registration department directly at +1-888-777-1727.
SAP will confirm all cancellations or rescheduling requests by fax or e-mail. If the customer does not receive a confirmation of cancellation or rescheduling within three (3) business days of the request, the customer should call +1-888-777-1727 to reconfirm. Financial responsibility remains with the customer for all class fees unless a proper cancellation or rescheduling request is received and confirmed by SAP prior to the start of the class.
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Once the order for Online Products is received, there are no refunds or cancellation. All sales are final.
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- Customer" means the entity whose employees or contractors are licensed to access the Online Products hereunder.
- "Online Products" means any e-learning or other information covering SAP solutions provided under this license. For example, SAP Education e-learning courses, learning maps, SAP library documentation, installation guides, implementation guides, release notes, scheduled workshops, e-learning units, self tests, or other sources.
- "Online Products Registrant" mean employees of the Customer who are licensed under these terms and conditions for Online Products.
- "SAP Software" means the SAP software products licensed to customers by SAP.
- "SAP" means SAP America, Inc. or SAP AG.
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Access to Online Products is only available online via an Internet connection. Online Product participants must have an appropriate user ID to gain access, and all names must be provided to SAP as needed.
Delivery shall be considered to be complete when SAP provides the Customer confirmation of access by fax or e-mail ("Delivery"). The quoted net license fees or prices do not include customs duties, taxes, cost of warehousing, or any other official import charges.
The Customer shall check the Online Products for completeness and notify SAP immediately in the event the Online Product is incomplete.
If the Customer experiences difficulty in accessing the Online Product, all support services are provided as stated in the access notification documentation.
Customer acknowledges that Customer requires Internet access. Certain Online Products, not all, may provide a restricted download capability. As soon as the Customer opens the file through the Customer's PC, the copy protection key is validated through the Internet, and Customer can access the Online Products. Customer acknowledges that once the key is validated, the file cannot be copied to another PC.
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Every person using Online Products Material or SAP Software must be licensed under these terms and conditions for accessing, downloading, or using the Online Products or SAP Software. Employees and others who have access to the Online Products or SAP Software must be informed of SAP's copyright and rights of authorship and their duty to conform to the copyright laws. Customer shall carefully safeguard the Online products that have been made available to the Customer or Online Products Registrants, to prevent their misuse. Customer is permitted to use the Online Products and SAP Software only for its own internal training purposes and only for those who have licensed the Online Products. The SAP Software and Online Products are confidential and proprietary information of SAP and customer agrees not to disclose this information to any third party or use such information except as expressly permitted herein.
Customer acknowledges that SAP shall be entitled to seek injunctive relief for any breach of this agreement by Customer from which irreparable harm would ensue.
Customer acknowledges that it is illegal and a violation of this license agreement to copy or distribute Online Products, SAP Software download/online products, links, S-Users, or passwords among non-licensed persons.
In the event Customer breaches any provision of this agreement and fails to cure such breach within ten (10) days after receipt of written notice from SAP, SAP shall have the right to immediately terminate this agreement and Customer's license to use the products licensed hereunder. Upon any such termination, Customer shall immediately cease use of such products, delete and destroy any tangible or electronic embodiments of such information in its possession, and certify in writing to SAP that the foregoing has been completed.
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SAP reserves the right to change the Online Products from time to time due to obsolescence or to correct known issues with the product. The Online Products may be updated with new products or new solution releases. The Customer's license is provided for the Online Product in effect at the time of order placement. The Customer is not entitled to any future product releases but can elect to repurchase the new product for an additional fee.
Support is available as per the access confirmation in the event an Online Products Participant is having difficulty with accessing the content only, but not for questions about the SAP Software or other consulting/training type advice. Coaching, training, or ask-the-expert type support on SAP solutions or solution releases is available separately from SAP and may be offered for an additional fee.
The Online Products do not include access to development or sandbox systems.
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Delivered SAP Software and Online Products remain the property of SAP and all title to the SAP Software and Online Products content remain with SAP. Customer only receives a license to use the Online Products pursuant to the terms hereof.
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SAP does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of Online Products, any links or the information, text, graphics, links, or other items contained within Online Products available through access. SAP AND ITS LICENSORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT ANY WARRANTIES IMPLIED BY LAW CANNOT BE VALIDLY WAIVED.
SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the Online Products. It is the Customer's duty to verify such information.
SAP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFIT OR OTHER FINANCIAL LOSS, THAT MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OF THE ONLINE PRODUCTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL SAP'S LIABILITY TO CUSTOMER OR ANY OTHER PARTY EXCEED, IN THE AGGREGATE, THE FEES PAID FOR THE USE OF THE ONLINE PRODUCTS. Where SAP's liability is excluded or limited, this also applies to the personal liability of SAP's employees, representatives, and people performing duties on SAP's behalf.
With respect to material defects in the Online Products, and as Customer's sole remedy for any material defect in the Online Products, SAP in its sole judgment, may decide to eliminate such material defects or make a replacement delivery or, by indicating a reasonably acceptable way to avoid the impact of such material defect.
All claims against SAP are barred after a period of one year from the date the claim arose.
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SAP uses secure technologies to protect Customers' personal data. The Customer agrees to the collection, processing, and use of its personal data to the extent necessary for processing the order. SAP may use Customers' postal and e-mail addresses for promotions (for example, invitations to events, product news, and registration in SAP's customer database).
However, SAP uses opt-in procedures for its promotions where the receiver expressly agrees in advance to receive information. In any case, SAP allows the recipient to opt out of a mailing list at any time.
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The applicable law and place of jurisdiction stated in the SAP and Customer's end-user license agreement shall govern. In the event no license agreement exists, the country location of the SAP office providing this license shall be the applicable law and place of jurisdiction.
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These general terms and conditions, along with any payment terms and license term contained in an order form for the Online Products Materials, constitute SAP's and Customer's entire and complete agreement concerning the subject matter hereof.
SAP Education reserves the right to cancel, and/or reschedule any published scheduled class. The customers or student's sole remedy shall be the refund of prepaid course fees. SAP is not responsible for airfare, lodging, or other related expenses including any airline penalties incurred. Under no circumstances shall SAP be liable for any direct, or indirect, consequential, or special damages. SAP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND RESULTING FROM ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE TRAINING MATERIALS NOR SHALL SAP BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE TRAINING MATERIALS OR OTHER INFORMATION CONVEYED AT AN SAP COURSE.
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Students and other course participants must make their own arrangements for accommodations. A list of hotels is provided for most locations.
This information is provided for your convenience. Please be advised that SAP does not control, promote, endorse, or assume any liability of any kind for or relating to any aspect of the services provided by these hotels, including, without limitation, their shuttle bus or other transportation services or the acts or omissions of their officers, employees, contractors, or other agents. Any use of the hotel services including, without limitation, their shuttle bus or other transportation is a personal decision and solely between you and the hotel or transportation provider.
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CPE credits are offered for courses that conform to NASBA guidelines.
If CPE credits are requested for an on-site class, the request must be submitted to your Education Support Services Group representative prior to the delivery of the class. This is necessary so that SAP Education can confirm that all appropriate NASBA requirements are satisfied at the time of delivery. Any CPE credit requests after the delivery cannot be honored. For complaints or issues relating to the application of CPE credits, please contact Central Registration at +1-888-777-1SAP, option 1, or the Education Help Desk at +1-877-TRN-SAP1.
Please note: CPE credits are available only for publicly scheduled courses delivered at SAP locations and our authorized partner locations. CPE credits are not available for our Virtual Live Classroom (VLC) deliveries or E-Learning/On-line Training.To receive a CPE Completion Certificate please email email@example.com with: Name, Email, S#, Course Code and Title, Dates, Course Location. (SAP NASBA Sponsor ID#: 103835)
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Every person using E-Learning Products or SAP Software must be licensed under these terms and conditions for accessing, downloading, or using the E-Learning Products or SAP Software. Employees and others who have access to the E-Learning Products or SAP Software must be informed of SAP's copyright and rights of authorship and their duty to conform to the copyright laws. Customer shall carefully safeguard the E-Learning Products that have been made available to the Customer or Registrants, to prevent their misuse. Customer is permitted to use the E-Learning Products and SAP Software only for its own internal training purposes and only for those who have licensed the E-Learning Products. The SAP Software and E-Learning Products are confidential and proprietary information of SAP and customer agrees not to disclose this information to any third party or use such information except as expressly permitted herein.
Customer acknowledges that SAP shall be entitled to seek injunctive relief for any breach of this agreement by Customer from which irreparable harm would ensue.
Customer acknowledges that it is illegal and a violation of this license agreement to copy or distribute E-Learning Products, SAP Software download/online products, links, S-Users, or passwords among non-licensed persons.
In the event Customer breaches any provision of this agreement and fails to cure such breach within ten (10) days after receipt of written notice from SAP, SAP shall have the right to immediately terminate this agreement and Customer's license to use the products licensed hereunder. Upon any such termination, Customer shall immediately cease use of such products, delete and destroy any tangible or electronic embodiments of such information in its possession, and certify in writing to SAP that the foregoing has been completed.
Consumption of E-Learning and OKP Titles
For the E-Learning and OKP titles listed in the Subscription Sale E-Learning Products Ordered section the customer is responsible for identifying or assigning employees to each E-Learning title purchased on this Subscription contract. Once the assigned employee registers for the course the E-Learning or OKP title may not reassigned to or used by another customer employee.
Consumption of E-Learning through Bulk Access Code
By confirming registration to E-Learning products through the use of a bulk access code, the Customer represents and warrants that it has ensured with all persons or employees accessing the E-Learning products through the use of a bulk access code, e.g. by having obtained necessary consents, that their access activities and history may be stored by SAP and provided to Customer as contemplated herein. Which means that customer before having procured said consent - has informed the respective persons or employees that their E-Learning access activities and history may be included in reports which can be run by those persons or employees of customer who have been nominated as access code administrators for the customer. E-Learning access information in the reports will be confined to the aforementioned company access code administrator and will not be shared with any other party. Access code reporting will only include user information linked to the access code, and will not include any user access information related to personal education or purchases made outside the terms of the access code(s).
Site License Download Grant and Access
E-learning products licensed via the site license will be delivered via secure electronic download. Information on accessing the E-learning products for download will be sent via e-mail to the Ship (Deliver) To Contact Name designated on the E-Learning order form.§ SAP will enable the customer to perform the electronic download for a period of 30 days from the date the e-mail notification is sent.§ Upon downloading the files it is the Customer's responsibility to maintain backup copies of the files for future use by their organization.§ If there are difficulties in the download, the Customer must notify SAP immediately so corrective actions can be taken.§ Delivery shall be considered to be complete when SAP provides the Customer access instructions for the secure electronic download.
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SAP grants to the Customer a site license to use the E-learning products for the intended purpose for internal use only as detailed below. The Customer has no rights beyond those stated and contained in this Order Form agreement. Customer may not assign, delegate, pledge, or otherwise transfer the E-learning product, or any of its rights or obligations under this Order Form agreement to any third party, whether voluntarily or by operation of law, including by way of sale of assets, merger or consolidation.
Customer Use of Third-Parties to Host Site Licenses
The Customer may contract with a Third-Party to provide the technical infrastructure necessary to make the E-learning products licensed available internally. In doing so the customer is responsible to ensure the Third Party safeguards the E-Learning products in a manner consistent with the requirements outlined in these Terms and Conditions.
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- Promotional code must be presented at the time of registration in order to be applicable to your booking.
- Promotional code cannot be used in conjunction with other coupons, discounts, or other special offers including the use of an SAP Preferred card for payment.
- Promotional codes are non-transferable, not valid on past purchases, not exchangeable for cash, cannot be applied toward taxes, or outstanding balances owed.
- All bookings are subject to SAP Education North America standard terms and conditions inclusive of cancellation policies.
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Once the order for Curriculum Products has been processed there are no refunds, cancellations or replacements of the confirmed student. All sales are final.
Replacement of the confirmed student is not permitted for any portion of the curriculum elements including but not limited to: elearning, virtual, classroom and exams.
A confirmation of the order will be provided to the registrant and identified purchaser.
If you have any difficulties with the access, follow the instructions contained in the confirmation letter.
Refer to the acceptable payment terms listed in the Training Policies under Payment Options.
SAP Learning Hub
All orders of Education Offerings are governed by the SAP Cloud Services General Terms and Conditions and the SAP Education Offering(s) specific Supplement Terms. Copies of the most current SAP Cloud Services General Terms and Conditions are found under SAP Cloud Agreements at http://www.sap.com/company/legal/index.epx and the SAP Education Offering(s) specific Supplement Terms are found under Education Agreements at http://www.sap.com/company/legal/index.epx and made a part hereof.
SAP Flat Rate Bundle
Public Classroom and Virtual Training as scheduled on the Training & Certification Shop for SAP Education North America only deliverables in the United States or Canada;
One subscription to the Certification in the Cloud or three certification attempts for non-Certification in the Cloud certifications to be taken at a Pearson Vue facility.
The start date of the SAP Education Flat Rate bundle will be the date of registration unless otherwise specified. All products included in this bundle will be available for a period of 12 months (1 year) from this date.
An SAP Education Flat Rate bundle applies only to a specific user. It may not be used by several persons or transferred from one person to another. SAP reserves the right to audit subscriber data.
This contract is concluded for a fixed term of 12 months from the date of registration and cannot be terminated early.
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Freshman Earns Internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC
New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to 2 million pieces of art covering nearly 5,000 years of history. It's widely considered the largest and most diverse museum in the Western Hemisphere. And it's where freshman Marit Lhotzky will spend her summer.
Lhotzky was one of only eight students from around the globe selected for the nine-week internship program at The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of the Met devoted to the art of medieval Europe. It's filled with architectural elements that, according to the museum's website, "largely date from the 12th through the 15th century."
A double major in History and Classics with a minor in Art, Lhotzky has focused her concentration at Augustana on medieval studies.
As an intern, she'll receive intensive training on the museum's collection to share with day camp and adult visitors. She'll also take part in seminars, meetings and workshops to acquire a broad knowledge of the artwork and architecture of medieval times, such as stained glass and reliquaries, containers for storing sacred relics.
In addition, she'll attend lectures, visit other art institutions, and research art history topics of interest, which she will eventually convert into a public tour and present to visitors, staff and The Cloisters director at the conclusion of her internship.
Lhotzky, who is interested in a career in museum work, is also looking forward to learning about the inner workings of a modern-day museum. According to its website, the Met has "2,000 full-time staff and 950 volunteers working on a variety of collections; like a small university with many departments."
College officials say Lhotzky's sense of where she wants to head professionally will continue to open doors for her as she progresses through her college career.
"Marit is a unique freshman in that she knew what vocational goals she wanted to strive toward from the moment she stepped foot on campus. She has been taking advantage of everything that Augustana and Sioux Falls has to offer," said Dr. Lindsay Twa, assistant professor of Art and director of Augustana's Eide/Dalrymple Gallery. "She has tailored her research papers within her courses to focus on medieval studies and art history, and has already begun volunteering at the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery on campus and, off campus, at the Washington Pavilion Visual Art Center and the Siouxland Heritage Museums."
"By being able to work closely with her professors, even as a freshman, she is already honing the writing, research and communication skills that will allow her to achieve her ambitions. Working so closely with several faculty is something that she probably would not have been able to do so early in her academic career if she had picked a larger university with majors in art history or museum studies," Twa said.
After submitting her official application, Lhotzky interviewed with museum staff while in New York this spring as a member of Dr. Twa's spring break course, "Art History Viewing Laboratory: New York City."
"Marit was the only freshman who came along on the New York spring break trip," Twa said. "It was great to see how the group rallied around her while she was preparing for her interview. Many of the upperclassmen gave her interview tips shared from their own interviewing experiences. And we all waited anxiously in the Cloisters's galleries while she was interviewing. It was great to be able to celebrate that moment with her."
A graduate of Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, Lhotzky spent time in Berlin and other parts of Germany while growing up. She's fluent in German and also speaks Latin, French and some Dutch. She'll spend the 2014-15 academic year in Germany at the University of Potsdam. For now, she's busy looking for housing in New York for the summer.
"I'm really excited," she said.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Apr. 18, 2012) – Just three days after narrowly falling at Tennessee, the ETSU (16-19, 4-11 A-Sun) baseball team returns home for a key three-game Atlantic Sun series against Mercer (23-16, 6-9 A-Sun) at Thomas Stadium beginning Friday.
First pitch of the series opener on Friday will begin at 7:05 p.m. Game two on Saturday will start at 2:05, while Sunday's series finale will be a 1:05 p.m. first pitch. Each game can be heard online at ETSUBucs.com.
ETSU senior righty John Long (Anderson, S.C.) (5-4, 3.82 ERA) will earn the start in Friday's series opener and will oppose Mercer lefty Brandon Love (5-3, 4.18 ERA).
Long's younger brother Jake Long (Anderson, S.C.) (2-4, 3.18 ERA) will earn the start on Saturday and will be matched up against Dimitri Kourtis (6-2, 4.04 ERA).
Sunday's finale will pit ETSU righty Kerry Doane (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) (3-2, 3.45 ERA) against southpaw David Randall (2-3, 2.62 ERA).
After getting behind 5-1 through seven innings at Tennessee on Tuesday night, ETSU made a late rally with three runs in the eighth to pull to within one. However, the Vols were able to hold on for their first victory against the Bucs in six tries.
The new NCAA statistics were released on Monday and ETSU senior outfielder Matthew Scruggs (Knoxville, Tenn.) now leads the nation with 16 home runs. Meanwhile, fellow senior Dylan Pratt (Johnson City, Tenn.) is sixth nationally with 13 long balls. The duo combined to hit eight home runs over the weekend against USC Upstate. Pratt tied the school record with a three home run performance on Saturday against the Spartans, which included the game tying homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
Sophomore Clinton Freeman (Jonesborough, Tenn.) boasts the highest batting average on the Buccaneer squad at a .353 clip. Freeman has reached base in 29 straight games. He also has six doubles, three triples, five homers and 29 RBI, while leading the squad with a .408 on-base percentage.
Mercer ranks near the top of the Atlantic Sun in most hitting and pitching categories. The Bears rank first in the league in slugging percentage (.472), on-base percentage (.392), RBIs (241), doubles (80), home runs (47) and total bases (625). Meanwhile, the Mercer pitching staff has allowed the fewest earned runs in the league (126).
Redshirt sophomore Nick Backlund leads the Mercer charge on the offensive end as he leads the Atlantic Sun in batting average (.426), slugging percentage (.727), on-base percentage (.500), hits (63), doubles (16), RBIs (41) and total bases (112). Derrick Workman (.350), Evan Boyd (.348) and Chesny Young (.321) are each batting over .320 to lead a Mercer squad that is hitting a solid .298 as a team.
Mercer leads the all-time series against ETSU, 18-7. The Bears have won the season series against the Bucs in two straight years.
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Diebold Knew They Broke The Law With Uncertified Voting Machines
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Every time I read another article about Diebold, you wonder what's really going on at the company. They clearly seem to be living in their own little reality where they simply ignore the very important questions people are starting to ask about their voting machines. I wonder how anyone in their right mind could use a Diebold voting machine after these fiascoes. Despite plenty of questions concerning their voting machines over the past few months, Diebold didn't do anything differently and knowingly broke their contract (and the law) with Alameda county by using uncertified software. Diebold's lawyers tried to get them around this by suggesting they claim that the software was "experimental" rather than "uncertified." Despite being clearly told not to do this, Diebold went ahead and used the uncertified and barely tested software which was rushed onto machines for the primary elections in California last month. Even worse, when an employee spoke up to point out that there was poor quality control and an aspect of the voting system was likely to fail, he was quickly fired. When you put together all of the information compiled over the last year concerning Diebold's voting machines, their inability to comprehend why people are upset, and what looks like their outright violation of the law, why would anyone agree to use such a machine during an election?


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October 2010
Shifting Showers
Researchers demonstrate how honeycomb clouds exhibit self-organization
Marine stratocumulus, honeycomb, clouds have open cells (sky in the middle) and closed cells (cloudy in the middle). Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, NASA Enlarge Image
Results: Like shifting sand dunes, some clouds disappear in one place and reappear in another. New work by a team of atmospheric researchers, including Hailong Wang of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, shows why: Rain causes air to move vertically, which breaks down cloud walls, then builds them back up with moist, warm rising air. The air movement forms patterns in low clouds that remain cohesive structures even while shifting about the sky, due to a principle called self-organization. These findings were published in Nature.
Why it matters: Marine stratocumulus clouds—clouds that reduce the amount of solar energy absorbed in the ocean—cover vast areas of the world's oceans. These clouds adopt many different patterns, such as open cells (less reflective) and closed cells (more reflective), that can radically change the amount of sunlight reflected on Earth. The open-cell clouds, which look like honeycombs, have white sections that reflect sunshine back into space, and open sections that let energy through to warm the planet. By understanding how cloud patterns form and evolve, scientists can build better models for predicting weather and climate change.
Methods: The team started with a computer model called the Weather Research and Forecasting model, which scientists developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Wang and others improved the model to study interactions of aerosols and low clouds. They simulated fields of honeycomb clouds sitting below one kilometer over the ocean. The team fed the clouds just enough aerosols to produce rain and create the expected honeycomb shapes.
Though the open-cell clouds always resembled a honeycomb, the individual cells deformed and reformed over a couple hours. To determine why, researchers took the open-cell clouds and examined air flow and rain along the cell walls in the model. In addition, they looked at satellite images of real clouds and observations made by shipborne instruments. The answer lied within evaporation of raindrops and its effect on air motion.
What's next: Scientists are continuing to research the marine cellular clouds, and the interactions between aerosols and clouds to answer questions such as: Where are the aerosols from? Will the cloud patterns shift if we change the atmospheric aerosols in a controlled manner? What are the implications for weather modification and relevant strategy for mitigating global warming?
Acknowledgments: This work was supported by: Hailong Wang of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Graham Feingold and William Alan Brewer of NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory,
IIan Koren from the Weizmann Institute, and Huiwen Xue from the Peking University School of Physics.
Reference: Feingold G, I Koren, H Wang, H Xue, and WA Brewer. 2010. "Precipitation-generated oscillations in open cellular cloud fields." Nature 466:849-852. DOI: 10.1038/nature09314


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Two residents thus far have filed for the April 30 Clayton Town Council election.
Current Councilman Alexander Dias and William R. Carrow II have filed; filing for this year's election closes Tuesday, April 9 at 4 p.m.
There are three two-year seats up for election this year; Mayor Tom Horn, Councilman Alex Dias, and Councilman Robert Lightcap currently hold the three seats.
In order to be eligible to run for an elected office in the Town of Clayton, applicants must meet the following criteria:
*Be at least 21 years old;
*Not have been convicted of a felony as that crime is designated by the State of Delaware for a period of 15 years immediately preceding his/her election;
*Be a bona fide domiciliary of the Town of Clayton.
Nominations for the council election shall be filed at the town office between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The town office is located at 414 Main Street.
The deadline to file is Tuesday, April 9 at 4 p.m.
The Candidate Registration Form can be picked up at the town office or downloaded on the town website.
The election will be on Tuesday, April 30 between the hours of 2 and 7 p.m. at the town office.
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THE MAIN PEDAL DIVISION is unexpressive. It has forty-four stops and wind pressures of five to twenty-five inches.
THE CHOIR is on five inches of wind pressure.
THE GREAT DIVISION is on wind pressures of five to sixteen inches, and consists of unenclosed stops as well as a section enclosed with the Choir division.
IN TWO EXPRESSION CHAMBERS, THE SWELL is on wind pressures of five to twenty-two and a half inches. All are under expression. One of these expression chambers houses the Original String division designed by George Ashdown Audsleythe first independent String organ ever found in a pipe organ.
THE ENTIRE SOLO DIVISION is under expression, on a wind pressure of fifteen inches.
THE ETHEREAL ORGAN IS POWERFUL, rich and full in tone, entirely expressive. It has twenty-one stops, and a wind pressure of twenty-five inches. It is located on the seventh floor.
THE STRING ORGAN is entirely expressive, has eighty-seven manual stops and a wind pressure of fifteen to twenty-seven inches. It has a matching pedal of twenty-seven stops. Its tone is unusually rich and beautiful, producing at full volume a velvety carpet of lush string tone suggestive of hundreds of stringed instruments. Individual tablets enable the organist to reduce the sound to a gorgeous hush with a sweep of the stops. This division, with metal pipework by the famed Kimball company, occupies the largest space of any single organ chamber ever constructed. It is approximately sixty-seven feet long, twenty-six feet deep and sixteen feet high.
THE ORCHESTRAL, also with Kimball metal pipes, has pressures of fifteen and twenty inches and is entirely expressive. It has forty stops.
THE ECHO DIVISION is located opposite the main organ, on the seventh floor. Entirely expressive, it has a wind pressure of five inches.
THE PERCUSSION DIVISION is expressive and operates on pneumatic, vacuum and electric action.
THE MAJOR CHIMES are usually referred to as "tower chimes" because they were especially made for outdoor tower-chime playing. The largest chime of this set, Note C, is twelve feet long, five inches in diameter, and weighs 600 pounds. It is struck by a leather-topped hammer four inches in diameter, the stroke of which is nine inches. It weighs eighteen pounds and has an impact of seventy-two pounds of pneumatic pressure.
PULSATIONS OF THE TREMULANTS, two for each division, are controllable in ten stages by means of tremolo pulsation levers to the right and left of the music rack on the console. This device was invented and patented in the Wanamaker Organ Shop. It enables the organist to adjust the speed of an individual tremolo or of all the tremolos to suit the performer's taste.
Thirty-six regulators furnish steady wind pressure from five to twenty-seven inches. The organ is electro-pneumatic throughout, requiring seven blowers totaling 168 horsepower.
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24 ranks, 19 stops, 1,452 pipes
58 ranks, 43 stops, 3,634 pipes
71 ranks, 51 stops, 4,361 pipes
51 ranks, 35 stops, 3,640 pipes
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Peter Richard Conte is Grand Court Organist of the Wanamaker Organ at the Macy's Philadelphia department store. Mr. Conte was appointed Grand Court Organist in 1989, and is only the fourth person to hold that title since the organ was first played in 1911.
Mr. Conte is highly regarded as a skillful performer and arranger of organ transcriptions. He has been featured several times on National Public Radio and on ABC television's Good Morning America and World News Tonight. His monthly radio show, The Wanamaker Organ Hour, airs on the first Sunday of each month at 5 pm (Eastern), and can be heard worldwide via the Internet at WRTI.org. In September 2008 he performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra in a Wanamaker Organ concert marking Macy's 150th anniversary that won international acclaim. It featured the premiere of the Jongen Symphonie Concertante with the organ and orchestra for which it had been written in 1925.
He concertizes extensively throughout the United States and Canada under the management of Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, and was a featured artist at the American Guild of Organists' National Convention in 2002, and at the International Organ Festival in Aosta, Italy, in September 2004. He has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, and with the Delaware and Allentown Symphonies. When not touring, he performs on the six-manual, 28,482-pipe Wanamaker instrument twice daily, six days each week.
In addition to his concert career, Mr. Conte serves as Choirmaster and Organist of St. Clement's Church, Philadelphia, where he directs an eighteen-voice professional choir in music of the Anglo-Catholic tradition. That choir has recorded several internationally-acclaimed compact discs on the Dorian label.
Peter Richard Conte is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists, and has served on the executive board of its Philadelphia Chapter. Mr. Conte studied with Larry Smith and Robert Rayfield at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was awarded the prestigious Performers' Certificate in Organ. He returned to Indiana University in 2008 to accept the School of Music's Distinguished Alumni Award. During high school, he studied with Robert Kennedy, while serving as Associate Organist at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York.
Mr. Conte appears on the Gothic, Dorian, JAV and DTR recording labels. His first Yuletide compact disc, Christmas in the Grand Tradition, features the Philadelphia Brass and the Wanamaker Organ.
Like the Organ, the Eagle, also came from the St. Louis World's Fair, where it was part of the German Exhibit of Arts and Crafts. Made by the Armbruester Brothers in Frankfort, Germany, the Eagle is fashioned of Durana bronze from models by Berlin sculptor August Gaul. All of the heavy plates that form the inner structure, as well as the feathers and other surface features, were separately wrought by hand with chisel, file and hammer. Each individual feather on the head and body was carefully modeled and fitted into place. There are 1,600 feathers on the head alone, and 5,000 on the entire Eagle. The sculpture weighs 2,500 pounds and sits on a granite base. When brought to Wanamaker's it became the John Wanamaker chain's corporate trademark. The floor of the Grand Court had to be strengthened with girders to accommodate it. There is an old Philadelphia custom to rendezvous in Center City by saying "Meet me at the Eagle."
The deep-voiced bell that rings from the belfry of the One South Broad building on South Broad Street and Penn Square in Philadelphia was commissioned by Rodman Wanamaker in 1926 as a memorial to his father, John Wanamaker. Consequently, the bell is known as the Founder's Bell. It was also cast to celebrate the Sesqui-Centennial of the United States of America and the 50th Anniversary of The New Kind of Store, John Wanamaker's department store.
The bell was cast by the distinguished Gillett and Johnston foundry in Croydon, England, a firm which had revived a method of tuning bells by shaving off some of the bronze at various places on the bell surface to make their sound more concordant. The completed bell, which sounds low "D," weighs 15 tonsone ton for each decade of American independenceand was the largest tuned bell in the world at the time of its casting. (Subsequently, slightly larger tuned bells were cast for the carillon of New York City's Riverside Church, also by Gillett and Johnston.)
The Founder's Bell was originally placed on the roof of the Wanamaker Philadelphia store. Production delays caused its dedication to be postponed from the Fourth of July until New Year's Eve 1926-27. However, the roof location proved inadequate, and in the 1930s the Wanamaker management provided a belfry where the bell could be fully swung. It was erected atop Wanamaker's new men's store, originally known as the Lincoln-Liberty building and now called the PNB-First Union building. The Founder's Bell, whose majestic tone has been praised by Leopold Stokowski and many others, continues to ring the hours daily from its perch high above the city.
Many people, incidentally, mistakenly believe the sound comes from nearby City Hall. Although there is no official policy, the managers of the real-estate firm that manages the PNB building occasionally take visitors to the belfry on appointment.
THE WANAMAKER GRAND ORGAN now at MACY'S has been thrilling Philadelphia shoppers and visitors every business day since 1911. Eighty years later, in the fall of 1991, an organization of the Friends Society was formed to support the preservation and musical mission of this irreplaceable American treasure.
Friends of the Wanamaker Organ is a world-wide group of sponsors and supporters formed to encourage the preservation and musical mission of this National Historic Landmark. Introductory contributions of $20 entitle the donor to become a Friend and to receive four issues of The Stentor, the Society's quarterly historical newsletter and restoration update. Added tax-deductible donations support Friends programs. Join the Friends now!
The official registration and financial information of the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ, Inc., may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.
The Stentor is published in the Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter, with all renewals taking place at the beginning of the new year. The minimum annual donation is $20 per year special rate for new members. Those joining in the middle of the calendar year who do not wish to receive that year's back issues can pay just for the issues still to be published (at $5 apiece). Kindly make checks payable to Friends of the Wanamaker Organ.
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