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South Carolina plutonium plant plagued by cost overruns, poor planning
Scattered among the pine forests of this 310-square-mile federal reservation are five mothballed nuclear reactors where tens of thousands of people once worked feverishly to create as much plutonium as they could.
By the time production ended in 1988, the site was a horrendous mess. Today, about 36 million gallons of radioactive liquid wastes sit in underground tanks, and most federal spending at the site is devoted to nuclear-related cleanup, not production.
So when U.S. and Russian officials in 2005 helped turn the first shovels of dirt for a new plant to produce reactor fuel from weapons-grade plutonium it seemed like an entirely new industry with a vital international purpose was coming to Savannah River.
Eight years later, that optimism has given way to exasperation.
The cost of the plant has ballooned, while its goals have contracted. After a federal expenditure of $3.7 billion, the incomplete facility is on the brink of being canceled. "Cost growth and fiscal pressure may make the project unaffordable," according to the Energy Department's latest budget proposal to Congress.
The initiative for the Savannah River plant had the most altruistic of motives – to secure plutonium left stranded by the end of the Cold War and keep it out of the hands of terrorists. The plant was meant to transform 34 metric tons of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium – 40 percent of the U.S. stockpile – into commercial reactor fuel that could be burned to provide electricity for homes, schools and factories. A similar plant in Russia would do the same.
But that noble goal has now turned into a classic Washington disaster.
A close look at the history of the project reveals major planning errors, little Washington oversight and shoddy contracting practices. The plant's piping may be flawed, and the customers once projected for its plutonium-laced fuel may not exist.
In 2002, the Energy Department said the plant would cost $1 billion to design and construct. It was to start operating in 2007.
In August 2012, the lead contractor, Shaw AREVA MOX Services LLC, told the Department of Energy that the true cost was likely to be $7.37 billion – a fact that the Energy Department kept hidden from the public for months.
Since then, the Energy Department has told auditors the construction cost will be at least $7.7 billion and the plant won't begin operations until 2019, about 12 years late.
The process the plant is designed to use, known as mixed oxide or MOX, also is expensive – $243,000 a pound to take shredded plutonium and mix it with uranium oxide, according to Matthew Bunn, a nuclear expert at Harvard University. The resulting powder would be compressed into pellets, baked and hardened in furnaces, then machined into nuclear fuel rods. Those rods would then be loaded into nuclear reactors where the plutonium would help heat water to run steam turbines as it burned.
The cost of doing that for 15 to 20 years is likely to be another $8 billion to $12 billion, bringing the total price to $20 billion.
Energy officials told Congress in 2002 that the design of the plant was 60 percent complete, and that its technology had been proven by decades of operations by two MOX facilities in France. AREVA, which owns 30 percent of Shaw AREVA, is a French government-owned, nuclear behemoth with more than 46,000 employees that has a huge financial stake in pushing related technology.
But building the plant turned out to be far more complicated than its supporters predicted.
By the time of the 2005 groundbreaking, the MOX project was already in deep trouble.
Its designers had discovered that using weapons-grade plutonium instead of reactor-grade plutonium to make fuel posed special challenges. Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman's review of the MOX plant construction that year disclosed that the project had eaten up 45 percent of its budget while the design was still only 70 percent complete.
According to his report, the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration had assigned only one technical person to the project. No one from headquarters was stationed at the site until around 2003, although the contractor was spending $13 million a month. Progress reports were misleading and budgets lagged months behind the actual work, Friedman said.
A $39 million cost ceiling on part of the project somehow was set 15 months after the contractor had already spent $47 million to complete the work, his report said.
The design, moreover, proved flawed: The facility needed nearly 1,400 miles of electrical cabling, not 735 miles; it also required engineering supports that were stronger and more costly to install than anticipated.
In April 2007, the estimated cost had jumped to $4.8 billion, according to an internal Energy Department memo. Meanwhile, the government began scaling back the project's scope.
The anticipated cost more than doubled for a related factory that would tear apart and grind up plutonium weapons cores, so it was canceled and the work spread among existing DOE facilities. The Senate Appropriations Committee supported cancelation but expressed frustration that Energy Department administrators had spent $700 million before "determining that existing facilities could be used to meet mission needs."
Kelly Trice, president of Shaw AREVA MOX Services, a partnership between AREVA and the Shaw Group that manages the MOX construction work, blamed the cost overruns primarily on the difficulty of finding and retaining qualified workers at a time when other nuclear plants were being started in the Southeast, and on the need to get regulatory approval for "every piece of equipment, every piece of pipe, the concrete, even the dirt under the facility."
Speaking at an industry conference on Feb. 22, he also cited the rising cost of fuel and materials, including a spike in the price of concrete caused by the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
But some of the project's problems resulted from cutting corners, according to an April 2009 report by Friedman, the Energy Department's watchdog.
When someone at the construction site tried to hammer a steel bar into a needed shape, it broke when it should have bent. That incident led to AREVA's return of 935 tons of rebar, supplied by a subcontractor whose work had not been inspected and didn't meet federal standards for nuclear construction.
Another 135 tons of improper rebar were diverted to other uses, while 14 tons embedded in concrete were allowed to remain in place after special inspections by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Fixing the problem cost more than $680,000.
Three years later, Shaw AREVA fired construction supervisor Jeffrey Derrick of South Carolina after he complained about inconsistent or missing instructions for the installation of the plant's 80 miles of piping. In a whistleblower complaint Derrick filed with the Energy Department, he alleged that half of the work might have to be ripped out and redone.
"This will be costly and time consuming. . . . We can not (sic) continue to ignore this issue," Derrick told a Shaw AREVA vice president on March 15, 2012, six days before Derrick says he was fired. DOE's Office of Hearings and Appeals, in a ruling in October, rejected Shaw AREVA's bid to have the complaint dismissed. Derrick declined to discuss it, and the Energy Department did not respond to a request for comment.
Last month, Friedman faulted the project's managers again, this time for approving millions of dollars in "temporary living expenses" for workers who did not qualify.
AREVA declined to address the construction problems in detail, but spokeswoman Kelly Cousineau said in a statement that "MOX is one of the first NRC-regulated, new nuclear construction projects in the U.S. in over 20 years; helped to revive a dormant nuclear industry by standing-up a national supply network; (and) has reached nearly 60 percent completion of major facilities."
Neither the contractor nor the Energy Department have been able to resolve another problem: Although the plant is supposed to make nuclear fuel for power plants, no utilities have agreed to buy it. That could leave the plutonium in unused fuel rods, where it could be more readily diverted to dangerous uses.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke Energy was interested in using the plutonium-based fuel until 2005, when it was granted a license to burn French-made MOX in a trial run at its Catawba Nuclear Station in York County, S.C. The company abandoned the testing after part of the structure holding the fuel in the reactor core expanded more than expected.
Since then, Shaw AREVA has been unable to find a utility committed to buying the MOX plant's product.


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Two sides to minimum wage debate, expert says
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
As is typically the case in national politics, the two main political parties are split on President Obama's call for a higher minimum wage.
Democrats, including the president, argue that raising the minimum wage to $9 per hour from $7.25 per hour would boost the economy and help reduce the number of people living in poverty.
Republicans, including Speaker of the House John Boehner and 2012 vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, argue that a higher minimum wage could hurt the economy by costing jobs for those at the bottom of the pay scale.
So, who's right? According to Pittsburg State University economics professor Chuck Fischer, the answer is, both parties are.
"There's not a simple answer to that," Fischer, who specializes in labor economics, said. "When you're talking about raising the minimum wage, it cuts both ways. Where you stand probably determines how you view the issue."
While there are solid arguments on both sides of the debate, Fischer said the downsides likely outweigh the positives while the national economy remains fragile.
"Right now, with so much focus on small business and job creation, this probably isn't the best time to raise the minimum wage," he said.
Fischer said there is merit to the Republican argument that raising the minimum wage could hurt low-wage workers.
"You very well could see those workers lose their jobs because employers may not want to pay the higher wage," Fischer said. "If jobs aren't cut, those workers' hours could be. So, while their hourly rate may be higher, they could still end up making less per pay period. The only workers it will definitely help are those who keep their job and don't have their hours cut."
Fischer said businesses "cringe" when the minimum wage increases because their labor costs increase.
"And in the end, someone has to pay for that," he said. "That's another potential downside to raising the minimum wage. It's possible that companies will pass those added expenses on to the consumer."
He also said that raising the minimum wage will not substantially reduce poverty in the United States.
"Most of the minimum wage earners are teens living at home," he said. "Most of them don't come from households living in poverty."
Fischer there are valid arguments in favor of raising the minimum wage.
"The minimum wage has lost a lot of its purchasing power since it was implemented in the late 1930s," he said. "It has not kept up with inflation, so raising it would help in that regard.
"It's also a good thing to do politically," he said. "It has a lot of political mileage because, at face value, it sounds like a good thing to do. Who doesn't want to help people make more money?"
In today's economy and political climate, however, Fischer thinks the nay votes will carry the day.
"I don't think it will pass," Fischer said. "It would be more successful if we had a more robust economy."

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chrisjwmartin wrote:This. It always amuses me how many hipsters have taken the ludicrously contrary view that alien contact could only ever be a good thing. My theory is that it is connected to the weird liberal tic whereby, in understandable moral rejection of cruel conservative racism, every single immigrant is asserted to be a pacifist, ideologically moderate heart surgeon with seven degrees and a puppy.
By "hipsters", do you mean people like Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, who, despite having written an extremely popular alien-invasion novel (Footfall), find the whole idea ludicrous. Note, these are guys who are famous for doing the research. They made the aliens in Footfall quite stupid, because the idea that intelligent aliens might attempt such a thing was simply too ridiculous for them. And even so, they admitted afterwards that they hadn't even managed to convince themselves that such a thing was plausible.
Dr. Pournelle once described himself as "somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan", and was good friends with Newt Gingrich--I don't think anyone could reasonably describe his reactions as "a weird liberal tic".
The supply-line problems are many orders of magnitude greater than those faced by the Europeans who invaded the Americas. Even factoring in the benefits of much greater technology. But beyond that, there's the question of motive. You don't have to be a pacifist peacenik to want to avoid wasting your time and money on incredibly stupid things. To justify the expense and trouble of an invasion of Earth, you need to have some sort of benefit. The Europeans were looking for resources and slaves, and found plenty of both. The aliens can find more easily accessible resources pretty much anywhere they look, and if they're sophisticated enough to build interstellar vessels, will almost certainly have robots which can outperform humans, so slavery would be stupid. So...why on Earth would they bother to invade?
They might want to wipe us out, for religious or philosophical reasons, but sending down troops to attack us toe-to-toe is about the stupidest imaginable way to achieve that goal. If they want our biome (unlikely but possible), a few dinosaur-killers will take care of that pesky human problem without inflicting too much damage to said biome. They don't have to exterminate us immediately; pounding us back to the stone age should make it easy enough to mop up the pitiful remainder.
So, yes, alien contact (if it were to happen while we're still here on Earth) is almost certainly going to be a good thing, because if the aliens aren't good, they'll probably wipe us out without bothering to contact us. Hence, my lack of fear at the idea of a xenobiologist on TV.
eta: of course, Grey Goo is a notable exception to the above, but I'm not sure a xenobiologist is who they'd call if grey goo were discovered in the wild.


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CUPERTINO — Apple (AAPL) on Tuesday invited media members to an event next Tuesday that is expected to include the launch of two new models of the iPhone, the company's iconic smartphone.
The media invitation included several differently colored bubbles behind an Apple logo and a single tagline, "This should brighten everyone's day." The event will take place at the company's Cupertino headquarters at 10 a.m.
Apple is expected to announce a lower-priced iPhone model at the event, rumored to be called the iPhone 5C, that will be housed in a plastic case that can be offered in a variety of colors. The production of such a device was confirmed by a human-rights group that secretly infiltrated a Chinese factory working on the assembly and reported on labor-rights violations in July.
Many analysts say Apple must offer a cheaper version of its iconic iPhone to stake out a position in the midrange of the smartphone market as sales of its higher-priced flagship model continue to slow and rivals introduce their own lower-priced gadgets. In the past, Apple has chased that value-seeking consumer by selling its older-model phones for $100 or $200 less than the latest and more expensive model, but it seems to be switching gears: Last week, the tech giant confirmed a new trade-in program that will allow users to surrender older models of the iPhone for discounts on newer models at the Cupertino company's retail stores.
Apple is also expected to introduce a new higher-end model, which many predict will be dubbed the iPhone 5S, similar to the iPhone 4S, which upgraded several components from its predecessor. The most intriguing rumor floating around that model is the possible inclusion of a fingerprint sensor: Apple purchased a company, AuthenTec, last year that specialized in fingerprint sensors, and multiple reports have pointed to the "Home" button on the iPhone 5S doubling as the biometric sensor. Multiple colors are also expected for the higher-end model, including a gold color aimed at the Chinese market.
Apple last introduced a new iPhone on Sept. 12, 2012, with CEO Tim Cook helping to launch the iPhone 5 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. When the new iPhone debuted in the United States and several other countries Sept. 21, Apple stock hit an all-time high of $705.07, but the company has experienced a long Wall Street fall since, dropping as low as $385.10. Apple's share price has rebounded to top $500 recently but closed Friday at $487.22 before rising about 1 percent in morning trading Tuesday following the long weekend. Analysts say the company needs to show a strong hand in its next hardware introduction.
"Investors, along with the rest of the world, are waiting with increasing impatience, for Apple to wow them once again," IDC analyst John Jackson recently told the Mercury News, later adding, "the next event will arguably be the biggest product launch in Apple's history because it will tell us about the future of the company as a true innovator."
Staff writer Patrick May contributed to this report. Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/jowens510.


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A D.C. police officer was charged Tuesday with money laundering in connection with an alleged drug-trafficking scheme in the Pittsburgh and Baltimore areas. Federal authorities say more than $2 million in proceeds from cocaine was hidden.
Officer Jared K. Weinberg, 28, was taken into custody Monday at the 4th District police station, according to a department spokeswoman. The charges in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh allege a broad conspiracy that includes meetings in which prosecutors say large amounts of cash were exchanged at apartment buildings in Howard County and at the Mall in Columbia.
Authorities said the allegations predate the officer's time on the D.C. force. The investigation appears to have begun before Weinberg was hired in February 2012.
Gwendolyn Crump, a D.C. police spokeswoman, said information about the investigation was kept confidential by federal authorities, so it did not surface in background checks made during the hiring process. The officer does not have a criminal record in Maryland or the District. Neither he nor his lawyer could be reached for comment.
Crump said Weinberg has been put on administrative leave and his police powers have been suspended. He was released on his own recognizance at a hearing in federal court in Washington on Tuesday and ordered to report to the federal Pretrial Services Agency in Pittsburgh by Friday.
Weinberg, who at the time time of the allegations in 2010 and 2011 earned a $6,500 salary as a lifeguard at a fitness club in Elkridge, is one of more than a dozen defendants named in a drug- and money-laundering case that includes his father, according to court documents.
Federal prosecutors allege that Weinberg helped hide profits from the operation by setting up accounts at 29 banks in Baltimore, Chicago and New York in which 305 deposits were made totaling $1.8 million. In addition, officials say, alleged drug money was used to pay for apartments in Columbia, Elkridge and Pikesville for members of the group, including Weinberg.
Some of the defendants have been charged with drug counts, while others face money-laundering charges. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania said all the cases are pending. Some of the charges were filed months ago, and those cases are in the pretrial-motion phase.
The criminal complaint says the suspected drug supplier enlisted the help of the Weinbergs and others to "rent apartments in the Baltimore, Maryland area . . . used during his frequent trips to Baltimore to conduct the business of his cocaine enterprise."


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It just seemed like I turned 40, now 50 is here. What happened to the time? It's like those mornings when you wake to the first nip of Fall in the air. I love Fall, the air ripe and sharp with the smell of burnished sun on dying leaves, while the faint wisp of chimney smoke from that first fire is melancholy. I listen longingly for the sound of a train from beyond the cornfields, and look up for the comfort of a vapor trail in the cold sky, letting me know I'm not alone. Autumn is almost upon us, and with it the end of another year.
As I open the door to let Barkley out, the warm air rushes out, set loose in a sudden gush and I think about how quickly time gets away from us. Shadows stir, the season shifts and before you know it, another year is behind you. The summer is past, with days on the run, and still evenings aloft, and all too soon you're herded inside walls, the routine of chilled mornings and dark nights, cold absolution for the time you spent out in the sun in months past. The days themselves were unchanged, but what you were able to do in them was, with mornings and nights passing in the immaculate intervals of quick daylight and long nights in front of the fire wishing for the cold to pass and Spring to arrive. Yet, when Spring does start, you think again of how quickly another season flew away, and of the last months you ask yourself - did you really accomplish anything to warrant the passing of precious time?
I remember one cold night in front of the fire pondering over Joseph Conrad's story "Youth", an old man's story of his perilous experiences as a young seaman on a storm-wracked coal liner. Having always been a headstrong girl, taking on one dangerous job after another, I empathized with what he said. "I remember my youth and the feeling that I will never come back anymore, the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men".
How easy as a child, a teen, even into your 20's to think you are invincible. Certainly some of my adventures would indicate that I too subscribed to this vision. But with adulthood, not only comes responsibility, but loss. Suddenly, for myriads of reasons, aging, illness, war; the people around you, as reliable as the sunrise, leave. Someone I knew casually through work was ill, and terminally. All of us had been trying to visit and as I passed through the door after our last time together, she said. . "when will you be back?". I said, brightly, "soon" and the moment it was out I knew that I'd never see her again, and that we both knew it. We simply refused to give voice to it, as to do so, would be to admit our own mortality.
If I had the chance to be 20 again I wouldn't. Time and memory is what has made me who I am. Events in my life, even the ones I'd rather not repeat, all served to awaken within me a stranger who was strong enough to survive it, to grow, becoming someone forged new, honed sharper and stronger. I've moved past the deception of Conrad's youth, to a place where my soul is still, my heart is full and when I leap from a runway with the wind in my hair, I know I will not live forever on this earth and it doesn't bother me, it just makes me treasure what I have.
I got up early this morning and after opening up the curtains to the outside, I went in and looked in the mirror in the morning light - closely. Start with the body. OK, it's not 20 any more, there's those extra pounds that set up base camp somewhere low and safe and never hiked out, my knees can't climb K2, and there's quite a few small scars - that time I fell off a ladder refueling a tanker, the tiny hairline one where I fell off my bike on a hill, the almost invisible one on my knee where I had a mid air with a hurdle in high school track. Yet what is there serves me well, taking me where I want and need to go, seeking and finding my life.
Now I look at my face. Thanks to good Scot/Irish/Norwegian genes and sunscreen there's not much in the way of lines around the corners of my eyes, but those there when I smile simply map the laughter, including the best laughs, the one you share with those you hold dear. The few little wrinkles? Earned them. Every damn one of them. Finally I look at my eyes. Still green, edged with blue. The eyes can be serious. Like others who do what I do, I've seen a lot. Blood, senseless violence, and careless tragedy. I have learned the hard way that there is danger and dangerous souls in the world and I'm not one to shy away from it. My reaction to attack is to defend, not give in. It's not a cognitive thing, but a visceral reaction. Hit unawares, I have ducked, turned, and struck back, ending up tired, and emotionally bruised and wondering how I got there.
But I do it, for to me there is hope in it, there is order.
No it's not youth, but it's a vast intangible strength we call "soul" that's going to persevere for a long time to come. I wouldn't trade that; exchange the sense of who I have become, the self that is secure in its structure, the self that is loved, for any chance to be a firm, pert 20 year old again. So, content, I will start my day as a singing bird erupts into sweet song in my back yard. What I know now; now that I am considered "old" by my daughters generation, is not how to be dead, which I know too well how to do from all I have witnessed, but how to be alive. Living and breathing, growing and loving, as the trees in my garden and the liquid tranquility of a rushing river or a mere small red-winged songbird, who truly believes that in this moment, he's eternal, and for an instant, may very well be.
When I was a teen and looking at my parents I thought 50 was ancient, now I realize that to survive to middle age is to be slowly born.
I wouldn't trade this moment in time for anything.


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Surveying the opportunities and risks facing investors in 2013, the Chief Investment Office of UBS Wealth Management expects the global economy to continue to improve, albeit at a sub-trend pace, with growth rising to around 3.0% in 2013 from 2.5% in 2012. Growth in emerging markets should be supported by an expanding middle class and increasing consumption, and better fiscal profiles than in the developed world. CIO-preferred-investment themes offer investors exposure to such trends: for equity investors, "Western winners from emerging markets growth" focuses on one such opportunity, as does "The case for an underappreciated asset class" for emerging market currency investors.
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It's such a shame to read things like this because even though most of these types of articles say that it's not the wife's fault, it always makes me feel like I have done something wrong. My husband says that it wasn't me...and that it doesn't have to do with me. However, I can't believe that. I understand our situation is different from someone else's but at the same time, I am not going to deny that our marriage was perfect. We fell into the common trap of taking care of the kids before taking care of each other. We grew distant...and the distance between us (due to military deployments) didn't help that along with one of the most devastating moments in my husband's life while he had to be away.
I did like the part where he says, "And here's the bottom line that a woman has to understand if you're going forward in this relationship and he's confessing and he's remorseful, and that is he was screwed up before. He made a mistake. He knows that. ... But right now he's saying, 'I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I really messed up." ...That is very comforting.


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TPWD Opens Deer Season in Metro Dallas Counties, Approves Silencers
AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved opening a hunting season for deer in Dallas, Collin, Rockwall and Galveston counties as part of changes to the 2012-13 Statewide Hunting Proclamation.
Under the new regulations, the current season structure in Grayson County will be altered to allow full-season, either-sex whitetail harvest. The amended Grayson County archery-only deer season structure will also be implemented in Dallas, Collin, and Rockwall counties. In addition, the Commission approved implementing the current Harris County season structure in Galveston County.
The deer season in Collin and Rockwall counties has been closed since 1976 after agricultural development had virtually eliminated deer habitat. Since that time, agriculture has been gradually displaced by the extensive urban, suburban, and exurban growth of the Metroplex, which has resulted in highly fragmented habitat and minimal populations of white-tailed deer, mostly in riparian areas surrounding lakes and streams.
The Commission also adopted rules permitting the use of firearm silencers for the take of alligators, game animals or game birds.
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Georgia-Florida fans line up for RV City | News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- We are six days away from Georgia-Florida weekend but fans are already lining up for the big game.
"You can never come out too early," Bulldogs fan Charles Leveretter said.
Bright and early Sunday morning, more than 40 RVs were already lined up off Talleyrand Avenue, waiting to get into RV City when it opens 8 a.m. Wednesday.
"We got here yesterday about 3 o'clock," Leveretter said.
Folks up early let us check out some of their pre-tailgates. Jacksonville native Jennifer Leggett and her husband come out for every game but they're trying something new this year.
"We've been excited all year," Leggett said. "It's a huge tailgate. It's a lot of fun... but I've never camped on Talleyrand Avenue before."
It's their first time camping out at RV City.
"We're newbies going into the craziness," she said.
Peter Wells is setup nearby. His son just got his masters from University of Florida and is now an engineer at Eglin Airforce base. Since he's stuck at work, Wells came out to get the RV in line.
"He's already rented the space," Wells said. "He's going to have like 10 people in here I think."
Wells said his son is excited to see the game. "He's quite happy with their performance yesterday."
The 6-0 Gators' beating on the gamecocks was a hot topic.
"After the South Carolina game last night, who could be more excited?" one Gator fan said. Georgia fans naturally wished for a different outcome. "I would've much rathered South Carolina won last night but that's the way it goes," Leveretter said.
Also celebrating a win, the 4-1 Bulldogs who took out Kentucky, making the Georgia-Florida rivalry all the more intense this year.
"It always comes down to this game," Leveretter said.
But things are just heating up.
"So far it's still early in the week, just feeling each other out," Leggett said. "So we haven't started the barking or the chomping but something tells me it's gonna come."


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City council puts sewers on hold
- Written by Don Mann
Tackles budget, a market study, the five dollar frank
Ordinance No. 550, regarding a proposed zoning code amendment to clarify sanitary sewer regulations in Woodinville, apparently needs more clarification.
The Woodinville City Council passed first reading of the ordinance at its October 9, 2012, meeting by a 5-1 vote; second reading and adoption was on the docket for its November 6 meeting.
But late correspondence from the Concerned Neighbors of Wellington group indicated dissatisfaction with some of its wording, particularly related to the R-1 neighborhoods, regarding potential forced sewer hookups in new development.
By unanimous consent, after assurances from City Manager Richard Leahy and City Attorney Greg Rubstello that there were no time pressures — and no sewers presently in R-1 zones, the council agreed to revisit the item in January 2013.
The council was then presented with the city's proposed 2013-2014 biennial budget.
In an overview, Leahy stated the two-year budget anticipates $73 million in available sources (including a beginning balance of about $27 million combined with projected revenues of about $36 million) and $54 million in uses (including projections of about $21 million in operation costs, about $21 million in capital projects, about $1 million in debt repayment and about $10 million in "other uses.") After a slide show of balance sheets, bar graphs and pie charts, Leahy provided a budget summary with the following six bullet points:
The budget is balanced within existing revenue streams; does not propose any new tax increases or new taxes; does not use reserves to fund ongoing operations; adds one police officer (at $90,000 annually); maintains city staffing at current levels; and provides a "modest" general fund operating surplus.
Next, the council received a presentation of the results of a market demand study produced by Buxton, a Texas-based market research firm retained by the city to assist in its ongoing quest to attract and retain retail development.
Using marketing buzzwords like "psychographics," "leakage" and "segmentation," Buxton Vice President Lisa Hill, after a lengthy presentation filled with analytical data, concluded that the city could do better in three retail areas: clothing and clothing accessories, general merchandise, and restaurants and bars.
Buxton is also offering the city unlimited access to its data research team, as well as a seat at its booth at marketing conventions where, Hill said, there was an opportunity to speak to 30-40 retailers over one given weekend.
(Responding to a group email, Mayor Bernie Talmas later said he thought the city paid $50,000 for the consultant, though neither Leahy nor assistant Alexandra Sheeks immediately responded to the query for confirmation.)
News and notes: The city introduced David Kuhl as its new development services director. Kuhl previously worked in Arlington.
It was also announced that G & G Dogs, home of the $5 frankfurter, would operate concessions at Wilmot Park this summer.
Mayor Talmas mentioned that Value Village would be moving into the old QFC building.
In her council member report, Susan Boundy-Sanders said she heard the Woodinville Village property had sold and asked the name of the buyer. Said the city attorney: "What we know is that Union Bank has assigned its note — which means somebody paid a price — and there's an LLC … it's part of a capital equity group that appears to be headed by the son of the Value Village stores. What their intentions are at this point … we don't know. They have not contacted the city yet. Both the bank and the Woodinville Village Association folks have been relatively silent about what's going on … So we're going to be doing some additional inquiring to make sure we know what is going on … We really don't have anything else to report at this time."


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Educator Resources for MolesDon't you wish there were one simple word that you could use to describe trillions and trillions of tiny particles? Oh, wait, there is! In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby get up close and personal with the mole, one of the most important concepts in chemistry. Learn why the mole is ideal for counting tiny particles like atoms and molecules. See how scientists like Amedeo Avogadro saw beyond the transient nature of gases to discover the properties that define the mole. And discover the mole's many practical applications, both in the chemistry lab and the real world. You'll never confuse this mole with a furry underground creature again!
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Azure Cards
Sample card deck API demonstrating API Apps
This is a simple example of how to build an API App for deployment into the Azure App Service. This example API App uses a Web API back end and a simple HTML/AngularJS client to communicate with the API.
More Information
You can learn more about API Apps on the Azure.com home page. This Todo List sample is similar to the Contact List API App Sample used throughout some of the articles outlining the process of creating, deploying, consuming, and debugging API Apps. Whereas the Contact List example goes further by providing a separate Web App that serves as a client to the API App back-end, this Todo List sample is self-contained, without a separate client Web App.
Helpful Links: - API App - Create an API App in Azure App Service - Convert an Existing API to an API App - Remotely Debug an API App - Protect an API App - Deploy an API App in App Service


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The report includes a rounded analysis of the global market to identify key drivers and challenges across the globe, while the regional analysis helps identity key factors on a micro level. Cost analysis, industrial chains, sourcing strategy, marketing strategy, distributors, and upstream and downstream trends of the China Ebikes Industry are covered in this market report.
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Group: Inquiry ordered into lost IRS emails
The group suing the Internal Revenue Service in federal court to obtain the emails of former division head Lois Lerner celebrated Thursday a judge's decision to open an inquiry into the matter.
"In an extraordinary step, U. S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan has launched an independent inquiry into the issue of the missing emails associated with former IRS official Lois Lerner," Tom Fitton, president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, said in a statement. "Previously, Judge Sullivan ordered the IRS to produce sworn declarations about the IRS email issue by August 11. Today's order confirms Judicial Watch's read of this week's IRS' filings that treated as a joke Judge Sullivan's order."
In filings with Judge Sullivan in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia earlier in the week, the IRS repeated what its top officials have told congressional investigators, that Lerner's hard drive crashed and was later erased after it was determined that no information could be retrieved.
The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee has interviewed some IRS tech officials who worked on Lerner's hard drive. But the panel has not made public transcripts of those interviews. Sullivan now apparently wants to look for additional answers too.
Lerner headed the Exempt Organizations division of the IRS, and has been at the center of scandal since admitting last year in a staged setting that the agency had inappropriately subjected conservative and tea party organizations to extra scrutiny when determining if they were to get tax-exempt status.
Adding to her woes, Lerner went before the House Committee on Government Oversight, declared she had done no wrong, then invoked her constitutional protections against having to testify. The Republican-led House of Representatives earlier this year found her in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify under oath, determining that she waved her protections when she made a statement of innocence.


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Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know
Katy Börner
Winner of the 2011 ASIS&T Best Book Award
Cartographic maps have guided our explorations for centuries, allowing us to navigate the world. Science maps have the potential to guide our search for knowledge in the same way, helping us navigate, understand, and communicate the dynamic and changing structure of science and technology. Allowing us to visualize scientific results, science maps help us make sense of the avalanche of data generated by scientific research today. Atlas of Science, features more than thirty full-page science maps, fifty data charts, a timeline of science-mapping milestones, and 500 color images; it serves as a sumptuous visual index to the evolution of modern science and as an introduction to "the science of science"charting the trajectory from scientific concept to published results.
Atlas of Science, based on the popular exhibit "Places & Spaces: Mapping Science," describes and displays successful mapping techniques. The heart of the book is a visual feast: Claudius Ptolemy's Cosmographia World Map from 1482; a guide to a PhD thesis that resembles a subway map; "the structure of science" as revealed in a map of citation relationships in papers published in 2002; a periodic table; a history flow visualization of the Wikipedia article on abortion; a globe showing the worldwide distribution of patents; a forecast of earthquake risk; hands-on science maps for kids; and many more. Each entry includes the story behind the map and biographies of its makers.
Not even the most brilliant minds can keep up with today's deluge of scientific results. Science maps show us the landscape of what we know.
About the Author
Katy Börner is the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science and Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. She is a curator of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit. Her research focuses on the development of data analysis and visualization techniques for information access, understanding, and management. She is particularly interested in the study of the structure and evolution of scientific disciplines; the analysis and visualization of online activity; and the development of cyberinfrastructures for large scale scientific collaboration and computation. She holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Leipzig, 1991 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern, 1997.


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Among five seniors, the Marion High School boys' basketball team lost its top two scorers in Jacob Harper and Jordan Hett from the 2012-13 season.
Last year, the Warriors finished the season with a 16-6 overall record, losing in the second round of sub-state to Sacred Heart High School.
Head coach Jeff McMillin said the team has high expectations regardless of what it lost from last season.
"We lost a lot of scoring last year, but we have a good nucleus from that team back," he said.
McMillin said he believed returners on the team that were more passive in the past would be able to adapt to a aggressive mentality to take more shots.
He also mentioned returning senior guards Taylor Heidebrecht and Zach Robson and forward James Jones will take on more leadership responsibilities after playing smaller roles last season.
Jared Hague and Tim Knolla also will provide leadership as seniors, and juniors Jacob Baldwin and Brett Voth will contribute as well.
"The chemistry is really good," McMillin said. "We have a team that'll play hard, and have good depth up top and in the post."


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Brunner on the Buller - Roadside Stories
A Manatū Taonga audio guide to the Buller Gorge.
Check out the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's audio guide to the Buller Gorge in the Video tab.
In late 1846, with his Māori guides Kehu and Pikewate, surveyor Thomas Brunner set off on an epic journey down the Buller River and to the West Coast. The group battled hunger, illness, injury and terrible weather, and it was 18 months before Brunner encountered another European.
Thomas Brunner, Nelson and the West Coast
Brunner's West Coast journeys, 1846–48
Thomas Brunner
Buller valley
Archival audio sourced from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives. Sound files may not be reused without permission from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives (Reference number sa-d-02422-su01-s02-pm).
Roadside Stories is a series of audio guides that follow major road trips in New Zealand. The stories cover the places you'll pass along the way – their people, their history, their cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit http://www.mch.govt.nz/roadside/


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It's what you call irony.
National Rifle Association lobbyist Wayne LaPierre was still talking, telling us we need more, not fewer guns, that armed teachers are the solution to mass shootings in schools, as a man walked up and down a street just outside of Altoona, Pa., shooting people, killing four, according to early reports.
Among the injured are three —armed — state troopers. These are people whose job it is to stop people with guns and he shot three of them. We don't know yet whether any of the dead are troopers.
It seems to me that something is trying to tell us that LaPierre and his ilk are full of shit. More guns is not the solution to gun violence.
Do we put guns on school buses next? Do we arm crossing guards? Remember, this latest shooting was a man walking up and down the street.
Where does the arming cease? Do we provide Sunday school teachers with an arsenal, just in case?
I'm tired of the killing, aren't you?
I don't think we should spend another moment listening to the NRA. I don't even care of you're a responsible gun owner who loves target shooting and hunting. If you believe more guns will stem the violence, you are wrong. Period.
I have tried to respect other opinions because I have a lot of friends who are responsible gun owners, but we need to control guns. We need to stand up to the bullies in the NRA and tell them where they can put their guns and ammo.
I have listened to the "other side" of the gun debate and I have reached the conclusion that they no longer deserve our time and respect. The NRA represents gun manufacturers, not gun owners. I don't even care of we repeal the damned Second Amendment. Our gun "laws" now have nothing to do with the founders' intentions anyway.
We have the Second Amendment because George Washington didn't believe we needed a standing army; that well-regulated militias would suffice. It wasn't meant for every person to have an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. That was the totally twisted interpretation by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
As my husband says, "Piss on your Second Amendment rights! What about the rights of innocent people to live their lives?"
It's time to regulate guns. It's well past time, actually.
To those who disagree that increased regulation will help stem the tide of violence, with all due respect, piss off. I'm tired of listening to it as people die by the tens of thousands in this country.


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What are Row Level Permissions?
An example of row level permissions would be: "User A has read-access to article 234" or "User D has read, write access to article 234".
Why do we need this?
An example of where this would be useful is a forum or message board. With the current permission system, a user is capable of editing all the posts or unable to edit any posts. After implementing a row level permission, it can be modified so a user is capable of editing only their own personal posts.
Current Status
Row level permissions is now working, it should still be considered beta but it can be used. Please see below for more details on how to utilize row levle permissions.
- More unit tests
- Tidy up the admin interface
- Caching the row level permissions when checking
Using Row Level Permissions
Basic Idea
There are a few things you need to know about row level permissions before working with them:
- Row level permissions use the permissions table to determine an objects possible permissions, you need to create permissions in the permissions table before using them in row level permissions.
- Row level permissions can be negative, this is determined by an attribute called "negative".
- The order of checking permissions will work in the following order: User Row Level Permission -> Group Row Level Permission -> User Model Level Permission -> Group Model Level Permission. The checking will stop either at the first positive or negative, and if no permission is found will return a negative.
Enabling Row Level Permissions
Enabling row level permissions is done by using the Meta class, you enable row level permissions by setting the "row_level_permissions" attribute to true. By default, row level permissions are assumed to be disabled.
Example: To enable row level permissions for the mineral model, the model would look like:
class Mineral(models.Model): name = models.CharField(maxlength=150) hardness = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField() class Admin: pass class Meta: unique_together = (('name', 'hardness'),) row_level_permissions = True def __str__(self): return self.name
Accessing Row Level Permissions from a Model
The relation name for row level permissions from a model is "row_level_permissions", this will return all row level permissions related to the instance of the object. For example, this will return all row level permissions related to the object quartz:
... rlp_list = quartz.row_level_permissions.all() ...
Accessing the Owner and Model of a Row Level Permission
To return the owner of a row level permission use the attribute "owner". For example:
... user = row_level_permission.owner ...
To return the instance of a row level permission use the attribte "model". For example:
... object = row_level_permission.model ...
Creating a Row Level Permission
There are two helper methods to create row level permissions. These can be accessed by using the Row Level Permissions manager (e.g. RowLevelPermission.objects)
The first is create_row_level_permission:
def create_row_level_permission(self, object_instance, owner_instance, permission, negative=False): ...
The permission parameter can either be the codename of the permission or a permission instance. The negative param is optional and will default to false. You must pass an instance of the object and owner to this method.
The second is create_default_row_permissions:
def create_default_row_level_permissions(self, object_instance, owner_instance, change=True, delete=True, negChange=False, negDel=False): ...
This will set up a row level permission with the default permissions set up for an object. The default permissions are: add, change and delete.
An example of it's use is, this creates a change row level permission on the quartz object:
... RowLevelPermissions.objects.create_default_row_level_permissions(quartz, user, delete=False) ...
Checking Permissions
In the next week, GenericAuthorization and row level permissions will be merged. Therefore, I have shown two different methods of checking for permissions, one using the generic authorization and the currently implemented technique.
The current method uses the has_perm method in the User model. Note: The object parameter is optional, this is to allow backwards compatibility, so if you do not want to check for row level permissions do not include the object parameter.
... user.has_perm("can_mine", object=mineral) ...
This will return either True or False depending on if the user has the correct permission. It will return false if the user has a negative row level permission on the object.
This will also check group row level permissions. If the user is in two groups, the first having a positive row level permission and the second having a negative row level permission, it will take the positive row level permission over the negative.
Second method using GenericAuthorization will be written after the merge. It will follow the documentation written on GenericAuthorization
Checking Permissions in a Template
In a template, you can use the tag if_has_perm to check for permissions. The tag has the following syntax: {% load auth %} {% if_has_perm [not] (permission codename) [object] %} ... {% else %} ... {% end_if_has_perm %} The parameters in square brackets are optional and the normal brackets are required. The else statement is optional. The permission codename should be in the format: app_label.codename.
You can set up row level permissions to be created automatically by the admin interface when a user creates an object by using the options: grant_change_row_level_perm and grant_delete_row_level_perm. By default these are turned off. An example:
... class Mineral(models.Model): ... class Admin: grant_change_row_level_perm=True grant_delete_row_level_perm=True class Meta: row_level_permissions = True ...
Implementation Notes
Please see RowLevelPermissionsDeveloper for more information on how row level permissions are implemented.
Known Bugs
- Connecting more then one "owner" to the RLP model causes a M2M conflict, this is a bug with the generic relation code. Work around for now is to rename the related_name for each different owner.
- Row level permissions can not have row level permissions enabled
- Error message in admin interface is displayed with a checkmark not an error icon
- When doing "Apply Selected" in the admin interface any errors caused do not show, only the "good" messages
Row Level Permissions are currently hosted in a branch on Django SVN. Please use: svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/per-object-permissions to download the current code.


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Black sand and burnt feet: be careful on Auckland's West Coast
Just a short drive from central Auckland hail some beautiful black sand beaches. Here are some tips to enjoy this area safely.
Black iron-rich sands are found along much of the Western Coast of the North Island. Because of the high percentage of iron oxide (titanomagnetite), the sand tends to heat up to very high temperatures which have been known to give unsuspecting beach goers 3rd degree burns!
Something else to consider is the unpredictable and often rough water. Even the most seasoned swimmers can have a hard time when the West Coast decides to pull a mood swing. Rips are the most common and dangerous phenomenon; having claimed the lives of many unsuspecting paddlers. Enough to warrant its own TV series: Piha Rescue!
A rip current is a narrow, powerful current of water running perpendicular to the beach, out into the ocean. These currents may extend 200 to 2,500 feet (61 to 762 m) lengthwise, but they are typically less than 30 feet (9 m) wide and move at up to 5 miles per hour (8 kph) or faster.
Rip currents move along the surface of the water, pulling you straight out into the ocean. Although it is a surface current, it may still knock you off your feet in shallow water and if you thrash around and get disoriented, you may end up being pulled along the ocean bottom. But if you relax your body, the current should keep you near the surface.
When you're at the beach, keep an eye out for narrow, muddy streaks in the ocean where there aren't any wavesbreaking. This is an indication that a rip is present.
If you get caught up in a rip, do not swim against the current. Either try to swim sideways, parallel to the beach or let the rip take you our past the sandbar where it will be much calmer. You can then head back in.
The most important thing to do is not panic. You need to conserve your energy and as soon as you can, raise your hand high so that the life guards can see you. They will soon be out to get you but not if they can't see you so make sure you SWIM.
Another thing about the West Coast waters are the big waves. Depending on the tide, you can be standing in knee deep water one minute and over your head the next, as huge waves push vast amounts of water towards the shoreline. If you happen to stand in a little ditch that a wave has made, then you can be in over your head in seconds. This is especially dangerous for little children and the pull of the current can be incredibly strong and no fun if you have little legs!
On the upside though, the big waves and strong current enable many to partake in a favourite West Coast pastime: boogie boarding! Never tried it? Then you are definitely missing out! This is the final must bring item to a West Coast beach. It's easy, great exercise and can be done at any age. Just grab a board and jump on an incoming wave. Oh…take a top to swim in though as a boogie board rash can be extremely uncomfortable (as will be losing your swimsuit in the waves)!
Here's some basic safety tips in a nutshell:
- Swim only at lifeguard patrolled beaches
- Always swim between the red and yellow flags
- Listen to advice from lifeguards and heed safety signs
- Never swim alone and don't leave children unattended
- Never run and dive into the water. Check water depth first.
- Avoid alcohol – it affects your judgment and the ability to hold your breath
- Don't depend on flotation devices, such as boogie boards, as you can lose them in large waves
- Be aware of rips. Regularly check your position against a landmark, such as lifeguard flags, to help maintain a fixed position and alert you to dangerous currents
- Don't wear street clothes in the water
- If you get into trouble, raise your arm for assistance, float and wait for help
- Stay out if you are not sure about the surf conditions or your own ability


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Nanea Golf Club
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
Course Details/History
- Architect Name – David McLay Kidd
- Regulation Length Holes – 18
- Twitter – https://www.pga.com/
Golf.com Editorial
Nanea has been ranked as one of the top courses in the U.S. and the World by Golf Magazine's panel of experts.
The brainchild of financial wizards Charles Schwab and George Roberts, this hideaway on the Big Island of Hawaii just up Mount Hualalai from the Four Seasons Resort in Kailua-Kona is carved from a mountainside with views of the Pacific on every hole. One of most exclusive clubs in the world, Nanea spreads out to 7,503 roomy yards, courtesy of Bandon Dunes architect David McLay Kidd, but they could shorten it by 3,000 yards and you still wouldn't see anyone else. Says CBS broadcaster Peter Oosterhuis, "You feel like it's just you and the golf and nothing else."
Bandon Dunes architect David McLay Kidd etched a links-style layout from the side of a mountain atop volcanic lava. The result is a firm, fast track with elevated views of the Pacific from every hole. At 7,503 yards, par 73, it's enough golf to test anyone, but the real challenge is solving Kidd's pay-me-now-or-pay-me-later puzzles that come in the form of ornery bunkers, clever angles, significant slopes and hard-to-read greens. For more information, go to dmkgolfdesign.com.Design - Golf Course at Nanea
- Year Built: 2003
- Designer: David McLay Kidd
- Greens Grass Type: Not Available
- Fairways Grass Type: Not Available
- Water Hazards: Yes
- Sand Bunkers: Not Available
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The diagnosis of cancer can spark fear in the lives of patients, families, and friends. A variety of resources exist to help you cope during this time of treatment and recovery. To learn what is available, call our Cancer Resource Center at 425.656.4002.
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Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/14/2014 -- Darius Allen, founder of CRBT Inc. announces being named as contributing technologist for SIRIUS XM and BYU Radio.
Allen will produce a series of 5-minute spots called "Tech Beat with Darius Allen" which will showcase innovation and evolution in technology. Allen expects to interview up-and-comers as well as established authorities in a variety of fields and disciplines.
Allen's introduction to SiriusXM Programming was on the Kim Power Stilson show during an interview about Allen's new product the Siam Smartphone. Later, after the interview Stilson and Allen had several conversations about the current evolution of technology.
"Darius seems to be uniquely tuned-in to the tech world, and it's not often that you find someone with the enthusiasm to research and dig-up the 'real scoop'. Aside from that, he really made me and my staff laugh. We are glad to work with him." – Kim Power Stilson (BYU Radio)
BYU Radio has an impressive worldwide reach with over 32 million listeners, showcasing sports talk, politics, music, healthcare, education, movies, faith and learning. Programming is 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on SIRIUS XM 143.
"I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to BYU Radio and Sirius Programming. My friends laughed because there is actually someone who wants me to talk about Technology – usually they try to change the subject back to sports. I hope Tech Beat brings inspiration to those of us obsessed with innovation and life improvement." -Darius Allen
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August 06, 2003
Los Angeles — Motivating Performance Through Rewards. That's the slogan of a new consulting firm co-founded by Susan Schroeder. It may well also be the best way to describe Schroeder, who seems to motivate herself by helping others — something she clearly finds rewarding. As one of The Anderson School's most loyal and dedicated alumni, Schroeder has a lot to teach everyone — in and out of Anderson — about getting involved and "giving back" to one's school and community, while simultaneously propelling one's professional career to grander heights of their own making.
"She does everything at 100 percent," said Ardena Bartlett, executive director of The Riordan Programs and a friend and colleague of Schroeder's. Schroeder has volunteered her time with The Riordan Programs, an Anderson School outreach initiative that fosters diversity in the business community by encouraging and preparing individuals from diverse and sometimes disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue higher education in management.
At Anderson, Schroeder, who received her MBA in 1988, has held numerous volunteer leadership positions within the Anderson Alumni association and its board of directors. She co-chairs various events and reunion committees, and speaks at alumni events and to current students. And just last November, Schroeder helped organize The Riordan Programs' first Basketball Extravaganza, a fundraiser that enabled Los Angeles area youth to participate in a basketball clinic with members of the UCLA Bruins basketball team.
In business, Schroeder has more than 15 years of broad-based experience in finance, human resources and strategy execution in both management consulting and corporate environments. She was a principal consultant at SCA Consulting, a management-consulting firm acquired by Mercer Human Resource Consulting in 2001. Prior to joining SCA, Schroeder spent 12 years in the financial services industry specializing in finance and real estate lending.
Currently, Schroeder is a partner and co-founder of Vivient Consulting, an El Segundo-based consulting firm started last October as an entrepreneurial venture. Schroeder and her two partners utilize exacting financial analysis and a deep understanding of their clients' businesses to implement compensation and performance measurement programs for executives and employees, as well as board advisory services.
Vivient recognizes each company's unique perspective and desires to impact all those they represent, especially with compensation and incentive pay. The firm aspires to be what Schroeder and her fellow female partners, Bertha Masuda and Bonnie Schindler, call "change-agents."
To be change-agents in a male-dominated field — furthermore, in a man's world — is no small feat. A female founder at SCA provided support for Schroeder early on, teaching her that women can be entrepreneurs, company founders and just plain and simply successful. As someone who has reinvented her professional career in competitive fields several times, Schroeder has spoken and shared her experiences at a recent Anderson Days Tea held for female MBA students admitted to the class of 2005.
Operating mostly in California for public, private, and non-profit clients, Vivient's partners have advised organizations across many industries including financial services, high technology, consumer products, professional services, manufacturing and energy. Thus far, Vivient has extended its business and "given back" to the "middle-market" companies usually underserved by the big consulting companies.
A networker at heart, Schroeder has encouraged other professional service providers amongst Anderson alumni to recommend Vivient Consulting to their own clients, thereby "giving back" to the extended Anderson family once again. These clients have been impressed by Vivient Consulting's value added and quality results.
Vivient represents a major change in the career path for Schroeder, a path brought into being through her time at Anderson. During her time pursing her MBA degree at Anderson, Schroeder says she learned how to always take the initiative and pursue exactly what she wanted.
"Anderson teaches its students to be team-focused. When I attended Anderson, the school had limited resources and many activities had to be student-run if they were to be run at all," Schroeder said. This experience encouraged and taught Schroeder and her fellow classmates to be very entrepreneurial.
As the committee chair for her 15-year reunion this fall, Schroeder looks back on numerous classmates who have since started their own businesses or done something entrepreneurial after first gaining experience by going the more corporate route. She finds the sheer numbers of those types striking.
"Anderson produces these great leaders who simultaneously have a philanthropic bent too. They want to give back to their community," said Schroeder. "Anderson MBAs aren't the typical self-focused MBA stereotypes you may hear about."
As a philanthropist herself and an Anderson School MBA mentor, Schroeder should know what the school produces. She always finds top-quality candidates for the MBA program, noted Linda Baldwin, director of admissions for the Anderson School. Schroeder answers any-and-all questions simply "because people did that for [her]," Baldwin said.
Schroeder writes recommendation letters, exudes patience, and basically does whatever it takes to enhance incoming classes, said business partner Bonnie Schindler, who has witnessed first-hand Schroeder's Anderson School efforts while working with Schroeder at Vivient and SCA.
When she worked at SCA, Schroeder managed a lot of students' first projects out of college and just saw that they had what it takes to be good future managers, or Anderson material.
"Sue knows what Anderson requires and wants; she has the best recruiting track record I know of," Baldwin added.
Click the highlighted link to learn more about Schroeder's recent entrepreneurial venture, Vivient Consulting LLC.


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Course Title: Store and retrieve basic spatial data
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2010
Course Code: LIBR5007C
Course Title: Store and retrieve basic spatial data
School: 130T Vocational Engineering
Campus: City Campus
Program: C3259 - Certificate III in Spatial Information Services
Course Contact: Thierry Demathieu
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 8359
Course Contact Email: email@example.com
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Thierry Demathieu - spatial teacher - (03) 9925 8359 - firstname.lastname@example.com
Nominal Hours: 30
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Course Description
This unit of competency specifies the outcomes required to collect basic data through a range of methods. It requires the ability to work with others in performing set task requirements within deadlines. Functions would be carried out under supervision and within organisational guidelines.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title:
CPPSIS3002A Store and retrieve basic spatial data
1 Store basic spatial data.
Performance Criteria:
1.1 Data index is created for the storage and retrieval of
2 Access and retrieve basic spatial data.
Performance Criteria:
2.1 Indexing system is used to locate basic spatial data
3 Implement contingency plans.
Performance Criteria:
3.1 Contingency plans for spatial data retrieval are
Learning Outcomes
Refer to Elements
Details of Learning Activities
Teacher led :
Classroom &/or tutorial instruction in surveying theory and tasks associated with the topics above including the use of computers and relevant software/s, capabilities of survey methodologies and technologies in a simulated workplace environment.
Instruction in the operation of surveying equipment in a simulated workplace environment.
Student managed:
Maintain client relations using written, oral and electronic communication
Develop data management strategies to prepare for work in the spatial information services industry to industry standards.
Participation in group activities based on simulated workplace exercises.
Individual exercises carrying out research, computations, data compilation and appraisal.
Compilation of Portfolio of examples of work, client reports, management reports and data management records.
Teaching Schedule
Session1 Day1: Enrollment and Induction, Literacy and Numeracy test, survey computations, preparation for field day
Session1 Day2: Survey annexe induction, 3dr order levelling theory and practice, reductions
Session1 Day3: compilation and presentation of data, survey computations
Session2 Day1: Project survey control network, Levelling revision, Chain surveying theory and exercises, preparation for field day
Session2 Day2: OH&S risk assessment, 3rd order levelling and chain surveying, reductions, data collation and compilation
Session2 Day3: Complete worksheet, surveying computations, control and coordinate systems, maintain OH&S
Session3 Day1: Respond to Client Enquiry, 3rd order levelling, volumes and contours, Standards and Practices for Control Surveys, Total Station Angle & Distance Measurement, preparation for field day
Session3 Day2: OH&S Toolbox Meeting, Equipment Selection, Issue, Use and Checks, 3rd Order Levelling Exercise, Total Station - Angles & Distances Exercise, 3rd Order Levelling Exercise, Total Station - Angles & Distances Exercise
Session3 Day3: Data Management, Quality Plan Implementation, Complete Data Compilation, Checks & Worksheet/s, Surveying Computations (Closures, Adjustments & Coordinate Geometry), Plan Preparation, Survey Mark Sketchs & Control Network
Session4 Day1: Survey computations - coordinate transformations, 3rd orrder levelling and traversing, preparation for field day
Session4 Day2: Levelling exercise, travesing exercise, field checks and compilation
Session4 Day3: Worksheet preparation, survey computations (MGA and AHD datum), CAD plan preparation - sketch marks
Session5 Day1: Surveying Computations - Area of a Closed Traverse and Irregular Figures, Offsets & Radiations, Control Surveys, Cadastral Boundaries and Geographical Information Systems (SMES), Introduction to Acts & Regulations, preparation for field day
Session5 Day2: OH&S Documentation, JSA, Process Improvement, Provide Field Support Services, Equipment Operation and Handling, Connecting Control & Traverses to Cadastral Marks, Field Exercise
Session5 Day3: Control & Cadastral Surveys, SIS Quality Plan, Survey Practice Handbook & Directives, Finalise Control Network, Worksheet/s, Computations, Checks and Closures, Abstract of Field Records,Plan and Report
Session6 Day1: Revision, Traverse Closures and Adjustments, Datum Computations and Coordinate Transformations, Data Management, Quality Plan Implementation, Surveying Computations - Examination, Control Surveys and Global Positioning Systems, DGPS & Asset Mapping, preparation for field day
Session6 Day2: GPS Surveying Exercises and Assessment, Rapid Static GPS & Asset Mapping, GPS Surveying and Angles by Rounds Fieldwork, Download and backup GPS data files
Session6 Day3:DGPS Rapid Static - Control Baselines (Process, Correct, Adjust & Export) Transformations (MMBW), Surveying Computations Finalise Control Network Plans, Fieldnotes and Report, Statistics, Errors & Accuracy resection
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Recommended texts:
Web resources:
Other Resources
Engineering Surveying [electronic resource] Schofield, W.: 6th ed.: Burlington : Elsevier, 2007.
Online access: Available on EBL : Ebook Library
3 print copies at 526.9 S367 Carlton Library
New Aspects of Quantity Surveying Practice [electronic resource] Main Author: Cartlidge, Duncan
2nd ed. Burlington : Elsevier, 2006.
Online access: Available on EBL : Ebook Library
1 print copy at 692.5 C327 Carlton Library
Print books:
Advanced engineering surveying: problems and solutions / Shepherd, F. A.: London : Edward Arnold, 1981.
Swanston Library 526.902462 S548 3 copies
(The above title was cited in the previous implementation plan for Cert III in Spatial Information Services in 2004. However this is a fairly old title (1981) and it seems to be out of print)
Elementary surveying: Elfick, Michael. and Brinker, Russell: 9th ed.: London: HarperCollins, 1994.
1 copy at 526.9 E38 Carlton & Swanston Library
(The above title was cited in the previous implementation plan for Cert III in Spatial Information Services in 2004. However this is a fairly old title (1994) and there isn't an updated edition of it.)
Elementary surveying : an introduction to geomatics / Wolf, Paul R.: 11th ed.: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice Hall, 2006
Elementary surveying: an introduction to geomatics, Ghilani, Charles D, 12th ed., Upper Saddle River Prentice Hall Ptr, 2008
1 Copy Ordered 25-07-2008 for Carlton
Swanston Library at 526.9 W855
Guidelines for surveying soil and land resources /: 2nd ed.: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2008.
2 copies Carlton Library at 631.4794 G946, 1 at Swanston.
Principles of geospatial surveying / Allan, A. L.: Caithness, Whittles Pub. ; Boca Raton, FL : Distributed in North America by CRC Press, c2007.
1 copy Carlton and Swanston Libraryat 526.9 A417
Surveying : principles and applications / Kavanagh, Barry F.: 8th ed.: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2009.
2 copies on order, previous 7th edition held at 526.9 K21 (1 copy Carlton and Swanston)
Surveying and engineering: principles and practice, Paul Watson et al, Oxford, Blackwell, 2008
1 copy at Swanston 690 S963
Surveying for engineers.: UREN, J: 4TH ED.: BASINGSTOKE PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2006:
Location: Bundoora Library
Order Information: 2 Copies Ordered 25-07-2008
Already ordered for Carlton Library.
Surveying with construction applications
Carlton Library 1 Copy Ordered 13-06-2008
Swanston Library at 526.9 K21
Surveying for construction ,Irvine William, Maidenhead, McGraw Hill , 2006
2 Copies Ordered 25-07-2008
(This was in the previous implementation plan)
Overview of Assessment
A person who demonstrates competency in this unit must be able to provide evidence of:
• applying data security and backup measures
• dealing with contingencies
• storing and retrieving basic spatial data
• using an index system.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment 1: 11 Vertical Control Data - Local Datum
Assessment 2: 12 Risk Assessment & Job Safety Analysis
Assessment 3: 13 Geographic Information Systems - Units 1 & 2
Assessment 4: 21 Horizontal Control Data
Assessment 5: 31 Maintain Horizontal & Vertical Control - Magnetic & Local Datums
Assessment 6: 32 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems - Units 3 & 4
Assessment 7: 33 Respond to Client Enquiry - Position Application
Assessment 8: 41 Horizontal & Vertical Survey Control to MGA and AHD datums
Assessment 9: 42 Client relationships
Assessment 10: 43 OH & S in the field and toolbox meeting
Assessment 11: 51 Horizontal Control Data - Cadastral
Assessment 12: 52 Workplace Relationships - Online Course
Assessment 13: 61 Statistical Terminology Task
Assessment 14: 62 Analysis of Angles by Rounds
Assessment 15: 63 Final Report to Client
Assessment 16: 64 Computation exam
Assessment Matrix
Element: 1. Store basic spatial data. = Assessment 13, 14, 15, 16
Element: 2. Access and retrieve basic spatial data. = Assessment 13, 14, 15, 16
Element: 3. Implement contingency plans. = Assessment 13, 14, 15, 16
Other Information
The assessment for this course requires students to maintain and present on request a Training Record Book that details their participation in both simulated and workplace assessment activities and achievement of the units or elements of competence which underpin delivery of this course.
Assessment dates.
Assessment due dates will be issued on commencement of the course. Submission of all prescribed assessment tasks by the due dates is expected.
Students are required to participate in the OH&S induction program for this course and at all times follow the occupational health and safety policies and procedures demonstrating appropriate behaviours to ensure the safety of self and others.
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