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Key elements of a HIPAA compliance checklist
Putting together a HIPAA compliance program can be fraught with difficulty and unseen challenges. Richard Mackey reviews four best practices that can help you avoid common pitfalls and pass an audit.
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In March 2007, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services audited the information security practices of Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital to determine whether the facility met HIPAA requirements. The audit revealed several areas in which the hospital failed to comply. That was just the beginning; recent HIPAA-related fines imposed on Providence Health & Services and CVS Caremark Corp. have caused many organizations, hospitals, healthcare clearinghouses and business associates to take HIPAA compliance more seriously.
However, for a great many of these organizations, whose main business is health care and not information technology, building a set of processes and systems that enable the business to meet the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act can be a challenge. This tip discusses the important organizational and technical steps health care companies can take to achieve compliance.
The importance of data governance
The difficulty most organizations have in complying with HIPAA results from the lack of well thought-out IT governance. In other words, many companies do not establish clear organizational responsibility for ensuring the security of the protected health information. According to requirements, there must be an individual assigned the responsibility for HIPAA compliance. Furthermore, NIST's guidance on the subject suggests that the individual be authorized to establish controls and accept business risk. This means that management must have ownership of both the sensitive information and the policies defined to protect it. Once a clear business owner is established, HIPAA compliance requires coordination of a cross-disciplinary group, including business and technical management, legal departments and human resources to ensure that the policies are defined appropriately, implemented correctly, disseminated to employees and enforced. While technology plays a significant role in compliance, organization and governance can either support or undermine the best technical controls.
Transparency and accountability
HIPAA, like all regulations, requires transparency, and all activities associated with the regulated data and systems are subject to an audit. By establishing the appropriate policies and organizational structure, companies can put the controls and the associated checks and balances in place to comply. Simply put, the overall goal is to ensure that electronic protected health information (EPHI) is:
- Only accessible to those who have a business need
- Stored and processed on systems that are strictly controlled and backed up
- Monitored during all access
- Only moved to authorized locations and is encrypted in storage and while transmitted on unprotected networks
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The requirements above reflect four security principles respectively: identity and access management, system and environment configuration, monitoring and information flow control and encryption. These practices are central to HIPAA compliance and give rise to many critical process and technical controls, including network configuration, data loss detection and backup. The key to remember is that each of these important elements of compliance is part organizational process and part technology. Technology, by itself, cannot succeed. Let's take a closer look:
Identity management and access controls
A good example of the need for process and technology is evidenced when ensuring appropriate access controls. The organizational process requires that information owners, custodians and supervisors be involved in approving access to EPHI. While there is no explicit requirement for a technological remedy to this problem, many organizations address the need by deploying identity and access management tools. Without such technological help, it is difficult to maintain the discipline necessary (and the records of requests and approvals) to ensure that only appropriate users have access. These systems also can automate account and privilege recertification, a requirement in HIPAA and many other regulations.
Conversely, lack of discipline and formality in access management is one of the most common reasons for compliance failures. Interestingly, even if there is no inappropriate access allowed, the lack of formality in and of itself is a compliance violation.
System and environment configuration controls
Systems that store protected data must follow strict configuration guidelines. The underlying principle in controlling configuration is the need to know the state of the critical systems in the regulated environment at any time. This involves more than just monitoring; it requires control. The requirement for tight systems control suggests that an organization should isolate each of them, configure them strictly for their purpose, maintain strict vulnerability controls and software version controls, and ensure that the systems are administered securely.
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In an interview, Dick Mackey talks about how organizations can be prepared as HIPAA regulations toughen up.
There are several organizational and design processes involved in achieving these goals. First, the organization must establish responsibility for managing the systems and networks. Second, the organization should establish a clear demarcation separating systems containing EPHI from those that do not. This isolation reduces the number of systems to tightly manage, cuts down on the monitoring burden, and demonstrates good practices to an auditor. Third, the organization needs to establish strong vulnerability management practices for the environment.
Once the organizational processes are in place, technology can be a real boon. Firewalls can establish boundaries, vulnerability management systems can track operating system and application versions and help to deploy fixes, while change control systems can keep tabs on all the administrative activities affecting the regulated environment.
An important part of maintaining control over PHI is knowing who has had access to the information. HIPAA requires that all access to protected information be monitored. This means that systems and applications that provide the access need to be instrumented to capture access events. Further, an organization needs to look at its captured log information regularly.
Here again, establishing that someone is responsible for monitoring and log review is of primary importance; deploying technology is secondary. The one additional requirement is that the responsible party be separate from those entrusted to use or manage the systems. One need only look at the failures in compliance to understand why monitoring is so important. Many organizations look at logs only as a forensic tool, inspecting them solely after a suspected breach has occurred. This approach does not meet the intent of the security rule. The goal should be to know, at any time, who exercised the privilege to access sensitive data.
While smaller organizations may be able to manage log and event review with manual processes, event correlation and consolidation tools can help facilitate this difficult job tremendously. They can combine events from multiple systems, applications and environments, enabling the enterprise to concentrate on critical activities that might otherwise be lost in the noise.
Information flow control and encryption
The fourth element of compliance described above involves ensuring that protected information only moves to safe locations, and only moves when authorized. It is just as critical for the data to be protected in motion and at rest.
Of course, there must be assigned responsibilities for controlling the data and a process for authorizing its movement. HIPAA also requires deployment and administration of a variety of technologies.
Organizations should assemble a data catalog, detailing the type, sensitivity and assigned owner of all protected information. Processes should also be defined to track where information moves. The procedures can aid in identifying when encryption will be necessary and provide guidance when employing technologies where appropriate. Technologies like data loss prevention (DLP) can catch information with a defined signature if it moves over the network to some unauthorized location. DLP tools can also help catch when data has been copied to unapproved devices like thumb drives. While also being good for key management, encryption products, too, can help meet the in-place data encryption requirement.
Achieving HIPAA compliance is no easy task. Keeping in mind the fundamental elements of compliance, however, can make the goals understandable and help your organization meet the challenge more effectively. Remember to establish the organizational processes first and then employ technology to facilitate them. You can refine both your processes and your technology practices as you go, but be sure that your organization is clear on who's responsible, what needs to be protected, and how it needs to be protected.
About the author:
Richard Mackey has advised leading Wall Street firms on security architecture, VPNs, enterprise wide authentication, and intrusion detection. Prior to joining the consultancy SystemExperts, he was the director of collaborative development for The Open Group. Mackey is an original member of the DCE Request for Technology technical evaluation team and was responsible for the architecture of the Distributed Computing Environment Releases 1.1 and 1.2. Mackey has been a frequent speaker at major conferences and has taught tutorials on developing secure distributed applications.


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The Scottish Information Literacy Project comes to a close at Glasgow Caledonian University after five very successful years, having worked in partnership with cross sector partners in secondary and tertiary education, the world of work and the wider community, relevant non governmental agencies such as Learning and Teaching Scotland, the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework, Scottish Qualifications Authority, Skills Development Scotland, Ofcom Scotland and professional bodies.
During this time the project successfully gained funding to work on research and development projects including the creation and development of a National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland). The project was asked to speak on many occasions at conferences, meetings and seminars plus successfully organised and ran three open meetings for the project partners and interested parties bring together cross sector organisations.
Discussions are taking place to keep the project blog and website at the university as they are a record of the projects work plus a valuable resource and move the National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland) to a new home so that the framework can continue to develop.
We would like to thank the project partners, interested parties and colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian University who generously gave their time, expertise and support to the project in their efforts to gain funding and then deliver the objectives.
Whilst the project at Glasgow Caledonian University has come to an end our involvement in information literacy has not. We are currently co-writing a book chapter on information literacy in the workplace and plan to co-author a book based on the project work and experience. There are also articles to write about the project work and we will continue to contribute to the Scottish Government Community of Practice Creating an information literate Scotland. For anyone interested in joining the CoP email firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
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2014 BMW X6: New Car Review
Editor's note: If you're looking for information on a newer BMW X6, we've published an updated review: 2018 BMW X6 Review.
The 2014 BMW X6 is a vehicle that car critics love to hate. We'll save you the Google search and sum up the complaints: "BMW calls it a coupe, yet it has four doors!" "It's based on the X5, yet it has less cargo capacity and no third-row option!" "It costs how much?!" "It's just so...silly!"
You get the idea.
Now let's look at the X6 from a more realistic perspective. It's expensive, yes, but that just means that prospective buyers have a different set of car-shopping criteria.
First and foremost, they're looking for something out of the ordinary, and the X6's unique hatchback-on-stilts design certainly delivers. They're probably looking for speed, too, and the X6 has plenty of that, especially with the xDrive50i model's twin-turbocharged V8.
If they're sensitive to the way a car handles, they'll be blown away by the X6's athleticism. And if they want an urban assault vehicle with an elevated ride that stays above the fray, well, the X6 can play that role, too.
Look, haters are going to hate, right? But unless you actually need the versatility of a true crossover, don't listen to their rants. Go drive an X6 for yourself and see if it's the right fit. See the 2014 BMW X6 models for sale near you
What's New for 2014?
The X6 is mostly unchanged, receiving only two new standard features: a universal garage-door opener and a compass for the rearview mirror.
What We Like
Great engines; impressive handling; premium interior; rich feature set
What We Don't
Older and less practical than the latest X5
How Much?
Fuel Economy
The X6 xDrive35i employs a turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-6 rated at 300 horsepower and 300 lb-ft of torque. The Environmental Protection Agency rates the xDrive35i at 17 miles per gallon city/24 mpg highway.
The X6 xDrive50i features a twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter V8 rated at 400 hp and 450 lb-ft. Fuel economy checks in at 14 mpg city/21 mpg hwy.
An 8-speed automatic transmission and xDrive all-wheel drive are standard on every X6.
Standard Features & Options
The 2014 BMW X6 is available in two trim levels: 6-cylinder xDrive35i and 8-cylinder xDrive50i. The high-performance X6 M is reviewed separately.
The xDrive35i ($61,725) comes standard with 19-inch alloy wheels, adaptive xenon headlamps, LED taillights, fog lights, a sunroof, a power lift gate, keyless entry with push-button ignition, leather upholstery, 10-way power heated front seats with lumbar support and driver memory, two rear bucket seats with a center armrest, dual-zone automatic climate control, iPod/USB and Bluetooth connectivity, a 10-speaker audio system with dual subwoofers and the iDrive infotainment system.
The xDrive50i ($72,325) adds perks such as different 19-in alloy wheels, chrome exterior trim, 20-way Multi-contour front seats and a navigation system with hard-drive-based operation (including digital music storage).
Most of the xDrive50i model's extras are available as options on the xDrive35i. Other add-ons include quad-zone climate control, 3-person rear seating, sport seats, adaptive dampers, 20-in wheels, adaptive LED headlights and a 16-speaker 600-watt audio system.
In terms of cargo space, the X6 may pale in comparison to the boxier X5, but it actually stacks up well on paper against smaller crossovers such as the X3. In the real world, however, the X6's sloping rear roofline makes its cargo bay more like that of a big hatchback than a true SUV.
The 2014 model comes with standard stability control, 4-wheel anti-lock disc brakes and six airbags (front, front-side and full-length side-curtain). Also standard is BMW Assist, which includes four years of enhanced roadside assistance, stolen vehicle recovery and more. A lane-departure warning system is optional.
Neither the government nor the independent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has crash-tested the X6.
Behind the Wheel
Compared to the X5's driving position, the X6's is definitely more low-slung, so BMW got that part of the coupe equation right. It's a pleasantly strange sensation to be sitting higher than in a regular car, yet within the intimate confines of a coupe-like cabin. The standard 10-way power front seats are no slouches, but the xDrive50i model's phenomenal 20-way Multi-contour seats (optional on the xDrive35i) are without question the way to go.
The gauges are standard BMW-spec, employing classic white-on-black numerals that change to orange-on-black at night. The interior materials are mostly high-quality, though the X6's dashboard is largely shared with that of the previous-generation X5, which means it's older than most current BMW dashboards (and perhaps not assembled to quite the same exacting standards).
The X6's standard rear bucket seats are more comfortable for two passengers than the X5's rear bench, in our opinion. BMW raised the hip point of the back row for X6 duty, which means you sit up higher, with better thigh support. There's an available middle seat that you can specify in place of the standard center armrest, but we wouldn't recommend it. The X6 is comfier and frankly cooler with the Porsche-Panamera-style rear buckets.
Under the hood, its acceleration is satisfactory with the xDrive35i model's turbo six, and refinement is high. However, the X6 is a roughly 2.5-ton beast, so 300 hp really isn't all that much. We'd be sorely tempted by the xDrive50i model's V8, which transforms the X6 into a veritable muscle car. The xDrive50i surges forward effortlessly when you give it the spurs. It's a combination of speed and civility that few engines can match.
On the road, the X6 has great genes that trace back to the nimble previous-generation 5 Series sedan. Not surprisingly, it's one of the most athletic crossover SUVs we've ever driven. Due to its lower center of gravity and some suspension tweaks, the X6 is sharper than the X5 in corners, and exhibits a degree of poise that's scarcely believable given the car's roughly 5,000-lb curb weight. Nonetheless, the ride quality somehow remains thoroughly civilized. We'd only ask for less steering effort at parking-lot speeds.
Other Cars to Consider
BMW X5-- The recently redesigned X5 is a more practical and up-to-date package.
Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 -- Jeep hasn't quite cracked into the X6's refinement bracket, but who's going to argue with 6.4 liters of pure American V8 muscle for thousands less than even the 6-cylinder xDrive35i?
Land Rover Range Rover Sport - With a supercharged V8 under the hood, the sleek new Range Rover Sport can keep up with the X6 on the pavement and run circles around it on off-road trails.
AutoTrader's Advice
If you're looking for an X6, you've already decided to go all-out on this purchase, so why not pick the xDrive50i? Here's another way of looking at it: You'll be getting most of the epic X6 M's performance for considerably less.


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Minute Memes: Reframing Copyright One Idea At a Time
Minute Memes are supported by a generous grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and donations from supporters like you. We're planning on making many more memes and anything you can give will help; so if you like the Minute Memes project, please consider making a directed donation.
What are the Minute Memes?
The Minute Memes project is a series of one-minute videos about copyright restrictions and artistic freedom, made by award-winning animator Nina Paley.
|Copying Is Not Theft
|All Creative Work Is Derivative
|EFF Tribute
|Credit Is Due: The Attribution Song
The series counteracts widely-available videos from the recording and publishing industries that seek to frame copyright as natural property right. The Minute Memes build a new frame of reference to supplant received rhetoric about copyright -- such as:
- the notion of "balancing" the needs of creators and the public, which assumes that the two are in opposition;
- the idea that copying is a form of stealing; and
- the idea that control of copying must be bound up with questions of attribution.
The Minute Memes use visual storytelling, music, lyrics, and high production values to show how art, artists, and audiences can thrive in a permissive and non-monopolistic environment. Several have been completed and are already widely shared on the Internet. Please consider donating to this project to support the production of more Minute Memes.
Motivation: Why Minute Memes?
Due largely to ubiquitous, professionally-made public campaigns by the recording and publishing industries, many people — even those who share music online — identify unauthorized copying with stealing and with plagiarism. Before a new way of thinking can be presented, then, the issues must be reframed. We must enable the viewer to feel that formerly unquestioned terms and assumptions deserve a fresh look. Only after crossing that emotional barrier will someone be willing to consider copyright in a new way. But crossing that kind of barrier requires rhetorical tools that go beyond plain expository argument. For someone to consider ideas they may have previously felt were unrealistic or even immoral, they need to first give themselves permission — they must feel it's safe to go there.
To donate to the Minute Memes Project, please use our regular donations page. If you choose the PayPal option, remember to write "Minute Memes" in the notes field.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Only just found this post. It sounds fantastic to me.
Particularly the first two I could see spreading incredibly well (as so many people are so fed up with the monopolists' framing, but aren't sure how to think things through further).
Not sure I like the idea of using actors to do a fake strangers on the street section. Seems contrived and like it would annoy people. Perhaps just short clips of people in the street interviewed, saying something along the industry lines, and then pausing to explain (in a very fact - maybe even statistic - centric way) why this isn't how things actually work.
Perhaps it would make sense for Creative Commons to help fund this? What are your plans re: funding? Donations can certainly play a role, but are you looking at other grants / similar? Glad to see you're planning to apply for the Warhol grant.
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Thanks for reading over these!
We're applying for grants, yup (one application in so far, and we plan to have the Warhol app in before September 1st). But we can *always* use help with grant applications. Grantwriting turns out to be incredibly time consuming. I had no idea until I started doing it, whew :-).
We talk to Creative Commons about a lot of stuff, and (I hope) may be able to work with them on the Creator-Endorsed Mark. This sort of ground-up reframing isn't what they're about, generally, but there is some overlap. They're very much about broadening the choice of licenses artists have and getting artists to see the benefits of loosening restrictions (yay); they're not so much about reframing the entire rhetoric of "choice" as opposed to "restriction", etc.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Look, what I'm suggesting is something like your first MM, CINT, only with maybe 6 mice this time, and they start out different iconic critters and then borrow body parts as before but don't end up looking like the Red Army marching through Red Square (like the current one does, at the end), and instead you have one with a mustache, one with big hair, one that looks like Rembrandt, a Mona Lisa, a Dali, a Picasso cubist, whatever (I think you can do this without paying for the rights to cartoonize, right??) and they mix and match, like a mustache on the Mona Lisa mouse. So that in the end they are ALL richer and different still.
And you could have one guy who is a constant character throughout all the MMs, who represents the content CREATOR, who is creating his stuff off to the side, and people can identify with him, he could become the mascot of MMs. But I think the idea of uniformity is not so good, strikes the wrong nerve somehow. Somehow, we have to get the idea of copying a-la "candles" spreading light -- it's subtle and yet anyone can understand that more light is better and actually we all benefit if we can each contribute a little bit. And duh, if it's illegal to spread the light, then we're all in the dark, which also perfectly illustrates the Moguls M.O. -- and hey, maybe the mascot could be a candle[1]. That hints at "light bulb" going on, at Prometheus, and enlightenment...
[1] beware infringement on "Lumiere" in Disney's rendition of the French fable "Beauty and the Beast".
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Submitted by Terry Hancock on
Regarding Nina's comments in her recent "Command Line" interview about not receiving "muse guidance" on "Copying Is Not Plagiarism" and also "The Problem is Monopolies (Not Commerce)" and the idea that the memes might not all get funded...
You might want to approach this from the direction of what you feel inspired about first, rather than what you think is "most important". Someone else may feel inspiration about the ones that don't work for you.
It's possible that they may want to step up to the plate on some of the memes.
I had originally imagined that Question Copyright was going to have an open call for Minute Memes and that Nina was just going to do some of them. That's still a possible model you might want to consider -- maybe you don't have to do them in strict order of "social importance". (This seemed natural to me, because it's the "community-based" approach, which is what I'm used to).
Personally, I would _love_ to see something that clears the mystery over what "NonCommercial" really means (because I personally find that is one of the biggest challenges). I've felt for some time that "NC" was deceptively misnamed -- since the only time it makes sense if you want to sell copies of your work commercially (i.e. in the old/proprietary model). Perhaps "Commercial Monopoly" or "CM" would've made more sense? :-)
(Nina mentioned this as a possible meme in her interview and I think it's a good one. Or at least that we need some meme that addresses the myths around "non-commercial" licenses -- I don't see it here, though, so it's new).
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Well, I think most of the public doesn't know about the non-commercial licenses -- it's inside baseball, really.
Our goal is just to see to it that the Minute Memes get produced, and are high quality. Hence working with Nina Paley! Of course, if someone has a great meme, neither Nina nor QCO would object -- we'd happily use it. But we don't want to count on crowdsourcing in this case -- you've got to have someone who really cares about the issue and has the skills to do it right. The intersection of those two sets is not large.
Nina is approaching them in order of inspiration, it turns out. We just change the series order after the fact to reflect whatever order she does them in :-).
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I like the idea of using actors to do a fake strangers on the street section. Seems contrived and like it would annoy people. Perhaps just short clips of people in the street interviewed, saying something along the industry lines. Thank you.
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when's the next video coming out? i saw the three that are currently there and they are excellent
looking forward seeing what the adaptions of 'How Artists Really Make Their Livings', 'What Rights Clearance Actually Looks Like', '"You do what you want with your copies, I do what I want with mine."', 'Audiences Are Active — Culture Is Something We Do Together' and 'Copying Is Not Fraud' will be like.
i just cant wait to have those at my disposal to link in game modding communities and art websites where this topic is ripe with myths and corporate brainwashing and "permission culture" is king
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
On the off chance of throwing grist into Nina's mill...
I wonder if "copying is not fraud" as described is covering too much ground. I could imagine a one-minute cartoon of what conflating the two would really look like; say, someone uses a public domain work and everyone knows it but gives them credit anyway (they become valedictorian, Nobel laureate or something) because hey, plagiarism=copyright infringement and there's no copyright! I think such an approach could really expose the underlying absurdity.
I had also wondered, related to censorship, about a mashup of Murnau's Nosferatu, remixing the images with new intertitles to tell the story of how the film was nearly destroyed by the Stoker estate. Public domain cuts of the movie might not be of good enough quality, tho.
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I like the idea of using actors to do a fake strangers on the street section. Seems contrived and like it would annoy people. Perhaps just short clips of people in the street interviewed, saying something along the industry lines. Thank you.


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MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says two deer have testified positive for chronic wasting disease — one each in Portage and Juneau counties.
It's the first time wild deer have testified positive for the disease in both counties.
DNR regional wildlife program manager Kris Belling says neither of the positive cases was unexpected. Juneau County is near the CWD management zone boundary, and the DNR has been sampling in Portage County for 10 years after the disease was discovered on a former game farm.
Gun hunters harvested the two deer on Nov. 18. The sampling results do not change the remaining days of the late archery hunting season, nor do they change the current management zone boundary.
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From the early 18th to the mid-19th century, dynamic transformations in European art mirrored turbulent political and social changes, including revolutions, imperial conquests, and the emergence of the modern industrial age. The refined, decorative aesthetics of Rococo art mirrored an aristocracy engaged in the pursuit of pleasure prior to the French Revolution of 1789. Neoclassicism, the severe style embraced by the revolutionaries who did away with France's monarchy, was grounded in ancient Greek and Roman culture and was often used to reinforce political messages. After the fall of the short-lived empire of Napoléon Bonaparte, Romantic artists of the early 19th century focused more keenly on exotic and turbulent themes, often executed with loose and colorfully bold brushwork. Later in the century, proponents of the newer Realist movement turned to sober depictions of working people as the Industrial Revolution swept through Europe. Some Realists turned to nature, using landscape to convey a sense of direct experience of a specific place and time.
The movements from Rococo to Realism flourished extensively in France but were international in scope—as demonstrated by artists such as John Constable (England), Francisco Goya (Spain), and Giovanni Tiepolo (Italy). Thanks to the patronage of local collectors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Field, the Art Institute of Chicago has developed an extensive collection of works from these critical chapters in the history of art.
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text: Omar Edmison: Who the Hell Does This Guy Think He Is? By Omar Edmison In this age of websites, magazines, blogs, TV shows and a vast myriad of other such social networking venues the tattoo world has shrunk. There are lots of super-talented kids out there tattooing who are doing mind-bending work that everyone knows about. Their names are talked about in excited conversations in tattoo shops springing up on every corner in every town with a population larger than 200 all over the world. Some are even being spoken in hushed reverent tones as the new "legends" of tattooing. There are more people tattooing now than ever before. They are more widely recognized than ever before the age of the "tattoo celebrity" is upon us. The possibilities are seemingly endless for a young up-and-coming kid with talent and ambition... With that being said, who am I to chime in? Will my voice be heard among the din of the clanging and banging, the buzzing of uncountable tattoo machines the world over? Who Am I? My name is Omar Edmison, I have been tattooing for 20-plus years. I came up in real (dis)honest street shops under the "legends" that only the really initiated have ever heard of. I use the term legends loosely because that was never their intent. These men were just tattooers... real professional tattoo men, they were not in it for the glory or the awards. There was no TV deal in their future unless it was trading a color television for a tattoo. I hope to go into the histories of some of these men who I was blessed to know and work with over the years in future writing, but for now I figured I would give you a bit of understanding of who I am and why it is that I do what do and how I do it. When I started tattooing it was different. How many times have we heard that Omar? Plenty I am sure, but bear with me here. I am sure I will throw in a "back in my day," as well as a "kids these days" I will even mean them from time to time. It's all part of getting to be the "older" generation of tattooer I suppose. My mentors and heroes will be laughing at me because to them I am now and for all time -the kid. Just a youngster still damp behind the ears. That is still how I see myself, but the years and miles tell a different story. Compared to them I still am "THE KID," I love that. Seems like they keep getting older but I stay the same age. I am the same way when I meet a young tattooist. My uncle Bob had served his country for 37 years in the US Navy, he had traveled the globe many times over and had collected seven tattoos in his journey. As a small kid I was blown away by them. They were all fairly large especially for the time period. Most of his arms were covered in tattoos. They ranged from a panther (a cover up of a Death Before Dishonor dagger he got on drunken shore leave) to a large geisha angel that covered his forearm (that he had gotten in Japan when he was stationed there). I spent many a summer afternoon staring at these magical markings as the danced on my uncle's skin while he sighted in a rifle, casted a fishing pole or wrenched on an old car. I knew I wanted them, I just didn't have the first clue as to how you did that. For a poor kid who grew up with nothing, tattoos were appealing. Just the mark, the fact that it never went away. It couldn't be stolen, pawned, traded or given away, which was stability in a very unstable world. Those tattoos were talismans for me to keep myself grounded and focussed. They were also war-paint. They kept the people I was afraid of more scared of me than I was of them. The tattoo marks kept me safe, they showed me that I could hold onto something (so long as it was etched into my skin) that everything was going to be okay. I started putting crude tattoos on my buddies in junior high and high school. I grew up in a small town where if you didn't have a nickname and a bunch of shitty tattoos it meant no one liked you or at least that is what we believed anyway. I knew that the marks weren't good... I knew they didn't look like the ones I had seen on the arms of the people in my life with real tattoos. So I stopped hacking up my friends for fun and profit for a time. Back when I first started getting tattooed you were old enough to get tattooed when you had the balls enough to walk in and hand the guy your money. Once I started I became every tattooers dream. A kid who didn't have the ability to not go get new tattoos, who was out hustling as hard as he could to get some dough just to spend on tattoos. I was crazy about it. I would walk in and look at the wall of flash point and say, "I want that one." They would reply ,"Which one?" "I don't know I have $60 bucks, which one can I get?" You could get a lot for $60 bucks back then. It was there, in those shops, that I started falling in love with the whole process. The larger than life guys who ruled the world behind the counter. Again not to beat a dead horse but I grew up a poor kid and the sight of a bunch of really well dressed guys with gold and diamonds on all their fingers, a pocket full of money, a bitchin' low-rider or motorcycle parked out on the curb, a pretty girl bringing them lunch everyday was VERY appealing. I didn't want to be an artist, I wanted to be one of those guys. I'll let y'all in on a little secret... I still just want to be one of those guys. So I set about to dig myself in like a tick, to become indispensable, someone they needed to have around or at least what I perceived as a need. In all honestly, it was voluntary slave-labor. I swept up, I ran for coffee, I cleaned the bathroom whatever it took. Until one day I was accepted by them, brought into the fold, so to speak. I didn't begin tattooing because I wanted to set the art world on fire, I didn't walk into a tattoo shop in hopes of finding a way to dazzle the world with the pretty pictures I created. Heck, I couldn't draw a stick figure with a nickel and a ruler back then. Some could say my drawing hasn't improved all that much over the years to be honest. I don't honestly know what I was looking for when I walked into that tattoo shop all those years ago. I can state unequivocally that what I found there was far greater than anything I had hoped for. What I found there was magic. Those shops had a magic to them. I didn't start tattooing to be an artist, I started tattooing because I wanted to be magic. I just wanted to be one of those guys behind the counter. I learned what I could from everyone I have ever worked with. Sometimes the lesson is what not to do. Sometimes the lesson is learned the hard way. I began to travel with it. Bouncing around from shop to shop, state to state. Following the money, any place you heard through the grapevine was jumping off, that's where you went. I did it partially because that is how I make a living. I am a professional tattoo man, that means far more than JUST doing tattoos for money. Part of it is, however, that I do tattoos for money, so following the road, chasing the money is part of the game. I should say "was" part of the game, there are lots of people who do very pretty pictures sitting in their home towns in big fancy tattoo shops, art galleries, fusion spaces, whatever it is they call them these days. These are guys and gals who have never left, never gone anywhere, never tasted the road. Bully for them, that just isn't how I came-up. A big part of the travel was learning. We didn't have TV shows or YouTube videos telling us how to do things. We had the road and trying to impress the old guy who owned the shop enough to say we could cover the 12-6 shift Sunday thru Wednesday. We had the other travelers on the road trying to do the same thing. We had our heroes too, they didn't have TV shows or magazine articles or websites or awards, they had their reputations, they had their word and they had their shops. Some of these guys (who for the most part) are forgotten to the history books of tattooing. It was those guys who brought me in, brought me up, taught me to be a tattoo man. If there is any interest in it I would be willing to share some of their insight. It was pleases me to know their names will not fade away, just like their tattoos didn't. There were magazines back then... Easyriders did a tattoo issue once a year, Outlaw Biker did something too. Those early publications gave me my first "celebrity" tattooers to look up to. Guys I STILL look up to. Guys like Lyle Tuttle, Jonathan Shaw, Jack Rudy, Randy Adams, Roy Boy Cooper, Famous Leg Greg, Ace, Ernie Gosnell, Mark Mahoney, Freddy Negrete, Gill "The Drill" Montie, Doc Dog and many more. My lil' brother reminded me of something I said while looking at one of those early magazines. I showed him a picture and said, "That is Gill Montie, I am going to be good enough to work for him someday." He reminded me this after I had not only started working for Gill but was managing Tattoomania in Beaumont, Texas. You see, I understand the need to have heroes to have those people to look up to. I understand why my apprentice comes in excited asking me if I have watched the new Tattoo Age [Vice Magazine] or the Gypsy Gentleman [Marcus Kuhn's traveling documentary project] or any of the other Internet or television-based shows that are available these days. I haven't seen them by the way. Not because I don't think they are important or worth my time but because they aren't showing my heroes they aren't telling the tales I want to hear. I imagine I will watch Freddie Corbin's Tattoo Age soon. He was among the younger crowd that I got to look up to. Freddie, Marcus, Aaron Cain, Dave Waugh, Little Vinnie, Scott Harrison, those were the young Turks who I was chasing. I see a lot of very pretty pictures at conventions or the occasional tattoo magazine that gets dropped off at the shop. I see a lot of very talented people with awards covering the walls of their studio/gallery/art fusion spaces. That is awesome, I am stoked for them. That part of tattooing has never much appealed to me in all honestly. My awards are things you can't hang on walls or put in a case. I got to do a tiger tattoo at Roy Boy's shop on Broadway in Gary, Indiana at his station with his machines... I have had Diamond Glenn sleep on my couch... I did Fat Cat's last tattoo before the cancer took him... I have played dice with Doc Dog in several states and get to call him more than a friend... I managed Tattoomania and had Gill look at a skull tattoo I was doing and say, "You're paying too close attention." I have laughed and joked with Randy Adams in elevators... I have gotten to hang out in Lyle's garden... I get to hang out with Scott Harrison and get surly... I get to call Bobby Love my brother, and I have gotten to play my trade to the best of my ability for the last 20-plus years, providing a service to the small group of people who choose to have their bodies decorated in one way or another. I have people who will not let their kids get tattooed by anyone but me. THOSE are my awards, my trophies... Things are different now gentle reader, but very much the same. You see, when I started we didn't have the things the kids starting out have today, but we had our ways. We didn't have the Internet... We had the road. We didn't have television... We had working in a street shop until 7 a.m. We didn't have fortune unless it was a payday weekend. We didn't have fame... We had respect... So who am I? Just a simple scab-vendor, your friendly neighborhood tattoo guy, Omar Edmison: Professional Tattoo Man. (Omar Edmison is a tattooer and contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine. Omar can be found at All American Tattoo in Salem, OR.)


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I was out at the Rally to Restore Sanity yesterday and it was an amazing experience.
I have never been in a crowd that was just so genuinely pleased to be there. Everybody was so friendly... and only a few tempers frayed.
Anyways, let's see what I missed while I was out enjoying the day!
* Aishwarya Rai is still shining bright at 37! Her birthday is tomorrow.
* Read a rundown of celebrity feuds:
Farah Khan v/s Deepika Padukone
They kept denying a rift but the air was thick with reports of a cold war between the hit-producing director and her protégé. They claimed to be in touch with each other but were reported to turn away their faces whenever they happened to meet. In time, little Miss Deepika has realised it doesn't make any business sense to ignore Farah whose films make waves even before release. When she was not even considered for Farah's Tees Maar Khan, Deepika decided it was best to kiss-and-make-up sooner than later. We hear that Farah's husband Shirish Kunder is planning to cast her in his next film Joker starring Akshay Kumar. So surprising, isn't it?
* Kareena Kapoor is as charmingly unmodest as always in an interview with Rajeev Masand.
"Everyone knows that I am a good actor. I have proved it time and again. I can always come back to those kinds of roles," Kareena replied without a trace of humility.
* MEOW! Sonam Kapoor nominates Shobha De for the 'wicked witch' of Bollywood. Apparently, Sonam hasn't been reading my blog.
* Karan Johar wants to invite Ram Gopal Varma to Koffee with Karan!
* Asin has declined a role opposite Salman Khan.
* Rakhi Sawant's latest reality television show is in trouble!
"The show is highly objectionable and an unpardonable mockery of law and justice, judges, litigants and their relatives, police machinery, woman welfare associations and courts of law," observed Kunjuraman, who is also a human rights activist. The PIL that is likely to come up for hearing within a couple of weeks, states that the show "should be banned immediately."
* Vivek Oberoi's wedding was a family affaif.
Although many from Bollywood were invited for the wedding that saw 1500 guests, few turned up. "From the film industry, only actors Sushmita Sen, Sangeeta Bijlani, Chiranjeevi and film-maker Mani Ratnam were present," said a guest, not wishing to be named.
* Emraan Hashmi has mouth ulcers - from kissing too many co-stars?
* Akshay Kumar has roped in Ludacris for Breakaway.
* Narmmada is still trying to stay in the game.
The young actor has learnt the ropes of acting from the London Film Institute and talking about her debut she says, "It's weird that it [the film] got delayed, but sometimes I feel that a little delay is better than doing something wrong. I am working on a movie which will go on the floors in January. It is a romantic comedy."
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A few months ago I read Grant Morrison's Animal Man series, in which the title character, after a suffering a series of Job-like tragedies, comes face to face with -- Grant Morrison. Further, he learns that he is only a comic-book character and that not only has Morrison put him through hell, but Morrison can also put everything back the way it was and make him forget all the horrors he has gone through. The catch, however, is that another writer may come along later, even many decades later, and put Animal Man through even worse hell! In other words, in Animal Man's world, Morrison is only a god, not the god.
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you have two choices above as to where i would like to be teletransported today. i felt like giving you options might make it easier on you. also, while your at it. can you shave 15 pounds off of my body so i might look totally awesome in my bikini. oh, and if you wouldn't mind wiping my memory clean of all of the things that i am supposed to do today, all of the things i was supposed to do yesterday and all of the things that i know i am going to have to do tomorrow? that would make it a lot easier for me to relax and as you can see by the photos, these are very relaxing places. i think that's all. oh, and could you be sure that they have a drink with a cute little umbrella waiting for me and cheese . . . lots and lots of cheese.
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- Amanda Waltman - Art of Subtlety Photography said...
i <3 this dyptic (or however it's spelled). it puts a huge smile on my face. can i come with you if i promise to bring cheese? :)
- January 27, 2010 at 4:56 PM
- the purcells said...
I'll take a warm weekend at the Parker right about now please! Although the cheese & wine we just had for dinner instead of me doing a yoga DVD, isn't helping that bikini look any better!
- January 27, 2010 at 6:23 PM
- slinny said...
Just found your blog--it's great! I will definitely keep checking!
- January 28, 2010 at 1:15 PM
- angela said...
This makes me wish all the beautiful places I have been.
- January 28, 2010 at 11:19 PM
- Damedelotus said...
cheese on the beach what an amazing ideam but it's not helping with the bikini
pictures are just like a dream
- January 29, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- Damedelotus said...
cheese on the beach what an amazing ideam but it's not helping with the bikini
pictures are just like a dream
- January 29, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- deb Mc Lean said...
You have a lovely playful way with words as well as picture .
- January 30, 2010 at 11:49 PM
- Zane Wooder said...
Wouldn't it be cool if you could actually teleport.
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- In large bowl, whisk whites until foamy. Whisk in milk, then stir in baking mix.
- Add remaining ingredients. Mix just to blend.
- Heat griddle or heavy skillet over medium heat; coat with vegetable cooking spray. Portion batter onto griddle with ¼-cup measure.
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Before you begin stocking up on cans tuna and jars of peanut butter as food, you should know about the different kinds that may help more.
Different Types of Emergency Food to Consider
As mentioned above, nonperishable grocery store items can work as short-term emergency food. Choose cans and jars for your home coupled with things like energy bars and calorically-dense foods like nuts and dried fruit for on the go.
Other options in emergency food exist. Military style MREs are dehydrated meals with all major food groups that taste quite fine and provide sufficient energy if reconstituted with hot water. Outdoor adventure and survival retailers also sell dehydrated food packets or buckets with everything you need to survive for a longer period of time. Water can always be heated up over a fire if necessary and simply mixed with these meals.
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New Zealand All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has called for an improved performance from his team against Scotland after "letting themselves down" against Australia.
The Rugby World Cup champions start their tour of Europe having not lost a match in their last 17 outings but their last result was a an 18-18 draw with Australia which scuppered their chances of breaking the record of 17 consecutive wins.
Scotland have never beaten New Zealand, losing 26 out of 28 Tests with two draws – the last back in 1983.
But Hansen, who had made 10 changes to the All Blacks XV that kicked-off against the Wallabies, said he expected Scotland to be "very combative".
New Zealand's World Cup-winning captain Richie McCaw and fly-half Dan Carter have both been named in the side, while, Tamati Ellison and Ben Smith make up a new combination in midfield.
Despite all the changes the starting side still boasts 556 caps with an additional 267 on the bench.
Hansen had given notice that he would make wholesale changes, but stressed star flanker McCaw was always going to figure in Edinburgh at the start of a tour also featuring internationals against Italy, Wales and England.
"You always want your skipper on the paddock in the first Test," said Hansen. "We've had a good build-up this week and the key for us has been to get our preparation spot=on so we can put in a performance on Sunday we are proud of."
Hansen explained the introduction of new faces had helped his side avoid any drop in motivation after they won the World Cup on home soil last year.
"Every paper we picked up told us we'd have a hangover and that made us more determined not to," said Hansen, previously an assistant to World Cup-winning supremo Graham Henry.
"There have been a couple of games where we let ourselves down, one not so long ago," the former Wales coach said in a reference to the Australia draw.
"But, when they're on the job, they've got a lot of talent and because they've got a lot of talent they're capable of winning games," said Hansen of a New Zealand side who on their last visit to Murrayfield, in 2010, thrashed Scotland 49-3.
Meanwhile Scotland coach Andy Robinson has challenged Henry Pyrgos to prove he is ready to oust the "old firm" of scrum-halves.
The Glasgow livewire is set to make his Scotland debut as an impact sub when on Sunday.
And the coach wants Pyrgos to show he is the clear heir apparent to the veteran trio Mike Blair, Chris Cusiter and Rory Lawson.
Blair will start against New Zealand but Robinson, thinking ahead to the next World Cup in his native England in three years' time, said: "Henry deserves his opportunity because of the way he has performed for the Warriors this season in the absence of Chris, who is injured long-term.
Meanwhile an elated Pyrgos said: "It's just an amazing feeling. This will be a huge opportunity for me if I get on."
Robinson's line-up shows five changes from the one that pipped Samoa in Apia to complete the a mini southern hemisphere Grand Slam in June after conseutive wins over Australia and Fiji helped banish the memory of a poor Six Nations.
Nick Dde Luca returns for the injured Joe Ansbro at centre, Blair starts for Cusiter and up front, Geoff Cross, Jim Hamilton and captain Kelly Brown are in for Euan Murray, Ally Kellock and Richie Vernon respectively
There are also home-turf debuts for Matt Scott and Tim Visser.
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DALLAS (CNN) -- Some may disagree whether George W. Bush was a "uniter, not a divider," as he liked to say, but he did get all five living presidents together for the dedication of his presidential library.
At Thursday's event in Dallas, Democratic former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton praised Bush for his initiatives in Africa, and Bush defended his record.
"The political winds blow left and right, polls rise and fall, supporters come and go, but in the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold," Bush said at the ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center. "My deepest conviction, the guiding principle of the administration, is that the United States of America must strive to expand the reach of freedom."
Bush has said he is aware that the opening of his presidential library would reopen debates over the Iraq War and the policies he pursued after the September 11 terrorist attacks. History will show, he said at the dedication, that he always stuck by his convictions.
"A free society thrives when neighbors help neighbors and the strong protect the weak and public policies promote private compassion," Bush said. "As president, I tried to act on these principles every day. It wasn't always easy and certainly wasn't always popular ... but when future generations come to this library to study this administration, they're going to find out that we stayed true to our convictions."
Carter told a story of how he asked, on Bush's inauguration day, for a meeting to talk about a civil war in Sudan that was entering its second decade. Bush kept his word and acted, Carter said.
"In January of 2005, there was a peace treaty between north and south Sudan that ended a war that had been going on for 20 years," Carter said. "George W. Bush is responsible for that."
The last time the five living presidents were together was right before President Obama took office. It is a rare and special occurrence when the five gather, Obama said.
"This is a Texas-sized party," Obama said. "When all the former living presidents are all together, it is a special day for our democracy."
The presidents on the stage definitely differed on many policy matters, but they all share one quality, Obama said: They did what they believe is right.
"That's what President George W. Bush chose to do," Obama said.
Bush became a little emotional as he closed his speech: "Whatever challenges come before us, I will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead."
The center's library and museum take visitors through the turning points of Bush's two terms. The first exhibits recall the 43rd president's initial priorities on education, faith-based community initiatives and tax cuts. And they show how the September 11 terrorist attacks changed everything.
At one exhibit, the bright red dress that first lady Laura Bush wore to her husband's first state dinner, just six days before 9/11, stands in contrast to the next, most talked-about artifact in the museum: the twisted hulk of two beams from the World Trade Center.
In an interview with CNN's John King, the former president said he knows that the center's dedication will rekindle the debate about his presidency, and he conceded the library is in part an effort by him and supporters to influence history's verdict.
But he predicted visitors would find it "more objective" than they might have imagined, and he showed little interest in revisiting flashpoints like Iraq, Hurricane Katrina or the 2008 financial crisis, or the scorn with which many look back at the Bush presidency.
"You know, I'm really not that concerned about why people did what during my presidency," he said. "I'm more concerned about being an effective person for the rest of my life.
"I know this: that Laura and I gave the presidency eight years of our life. We gave it our all. Made the best judgment calls I could. I didn't compromise my principles. And I'm a content man. And I am excited about what we're going to do here."
As the son of another former president, Bush said he wouldn't mind seeing his brother Jeb Bush run for the highest office.
If he could make the decision for Jeb, he would tell him to run for president, Bush said.
But in an interview Thursday on NBC's "Today," former first lady Barbara Bush said that while Jeb Bush is able to do the job, she would like to see other families in the White House.
"There are other people out there that are very qualified, and we've had enough Bushes," she said.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Avery(asterisk)Sunshine may be a new voice to some, but the 38-year-old Atlanta artist hopes more fans will be saying her name after her debut performance at the Essence Festival.
Her self-titled first project was released in 2010. Three years later, its singles "Ugly Side of Me," ''All in My Head" and "Blessin Me" have gained a strong following and heavy radio play.
"We're completely independent," said Avery(asterisk)Sunshine, whose real name is Denise White. "It's been one fan, one show, one tweet at a time. And now it's snowballing.
"This is a big deal for us to play Essence," she said. "Most of the country still has no idea who we are. There are so many who haven't heard the material and for me, this kind of invitation to perform means someone is paying attention to what I'm doing. I'm honored to have this opportunity."
She said she's bringing her whole family, including her 75-year-old mother, 13-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son, to New Orleans to see the performance scheduled for 7 p.m. CDT Saturday inside one of the festival's Superlounges ? music venues set up in the Superdome's huge corridors.
On the festival's main stage Saturday are Solange, Keyshia Cole, Trey Songz, Charlie Wilson and New Edition.
Avery(asterisk)Sunshine said she's never attended Essence during its 19 years.
"I'm nervous and excited at the same time," she said. "But honestly, I'm even more nervous about what I'm going to wear."
The accomplished pianist plays the instrument at all of her shows and she said finding an outfit that's eye-catching and comfortable is often an issue.
"I've got to find a way to get up from that keyboard and move around the stage more," she said, laughing. "It'll give fans another visual."
Avery(asterisk)Sunshine has played keyboard with Tyler Perry's productions and has worked on a couple of soundtracks, including "The Fighting Temptations."
"I play OK," she said, modestly. "I'm not Herbie Hancock," she added, laughing.
White said she and her writing partner, Dana Johnson, who's also a guitarist in the band, are "very close" to finishing their second project. It includes a duet with Musiq Soulchild and a song the pair wrote that Musiq produced.
"I'm super excited," she said, though she didn't have an actual release date. "We may do an extended play release. We just haven't decided at this point."
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IEEE's standards board recently approved revisions to an existing circuit breaker standard and gave the green light to work on further revisions to four more circuit breaker and surge protection standards.
IEEE C37.14, "Standard for Low-Voltage DC Power Circuit Breakers Used in Enclosures," incorporates 1,000V and 1,200V maximum voltage ratings. It was updated to reflect comments received on peak current design testing and to adapt it to the metric system.
The four other standards that IEEE will begin revising are:
IEEE PC37.13, "Standard for Low-Voltage AC Power Circuit Breakers Used in Enclosures"
IEEE PC37.27, "Application Guide for Low-Voltage AC Nonintegrally Fused Power Circuit Breakers (Using Separately Mounted Current-Limiting Fuses)"
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company (OTCQB: LJPC) today announced that their July 12th RetailInvestorConferences.com presentation is now available for on-demand viewing.
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Spain's Greenways, rail trails through nature
The Greenways are abandoned railway lines converted to trails, perfect for hiking or cycling in a natural setting. Why? Because they are easily accessible paths, comfortable for walking or cycling at any age or fitness level; no motor vehicles are allowed on them, they go through beautiful landscapes, and bring us to locations rich in culture.
Do you want to find out more about the Greenways? For more information, check the official website: www.viasverdes.com
More than 2,400 kilometres of paths
Vías Verdes
More than 2,400 kilometres of paths
There are over 115 Vías Verdes in Spain, offering a total of more than 2,400 kilometres of paths through natural settings. They can be found practically everywhere in the country (except for the Canary Islands), both inland and near the coast. The routes are very varied, going through both rural and urban areas, and their length can range from just five kilometres to well over 100 kilometres. There are also activities organised around the trails, such as sports events, photography workshops and cycle touring meetings. Routes accessible to all: the trails are all very flat, with slight curves and slopes always less than 3%, ensuring universal accessibility for anyone who wants to enjoy nature. Your age and fitness level are not important, and reduced mobility or any other disability does not have to hold you back.
The rich heritage of the railways
Vías Verdes
The rich heritage of the railways
And there are also over 100 former railway stations that have been restored to provide new services to the new type of traveller: small character hotels and hostels, restaurants and cafés, railway museums and nature centres, tourist information offices and bicycle hire shops. You won't have to go without anything! Another attraction is the wealth of heritage of the old rail routes, with tunnels, viaducts and bridges, turning a walking or cycling trip into a magical experience.
Why choose Vías Verdes for hiking?
Vías Verdes
Why choose them for hiking?
For their comfort, safety, variety, and of course, their natural beauty. However, Vías Verdes offer much more than nature. These former railway tracks have been prepared for sport use and are all clearly signed. Everything has been done with the greatest respect for the environment, integrating the routes in their natural setting. Along the trails, you will find panels explaining the main natural and cultural points of interest. The Vías Verdes website also has a map of all the rail trails in Spain, with detailed information on each one.
Why choose the Vías Verdes for cycle touring?
Vías Verdes
Why choose them for cycle touring?
Because you can enjoy nature as you cycle without the inconveniences of sharing a road with motor vehicles. Motorised traffic is restricted, and in most places where Vías Verdes cross roads, they go over or under them. The tunnels along the routes are also lighted for the convenience of cyclists and walkers, with a good surface and straight stretches for a comfortable transit. On some routes there are also bicycles for hire, and all the trails offer a wide range of accommodation and restaurants.
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