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President Reagan, giving a speech at his alma mater, Eureka College, renames the US-USSR SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) negotiations START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks). The renamed negotiations reflect profound dissension within the administration for and against arms limitation talks (see January 1981 and After and Early 1981 and After). State Department official Richard Burt, formerly opposed to arms negotiations, wants to ramp up the SALT talks and seek reductions in warheads and launchers. Defense Department official Richard Perle, the neoconservative who is working to block another arms limitation with the Soviet Union (see September 1981 through November 1983), wants to focus on payloads and "throw weight." The administration's compromise between the two positions—START—"ma[kes] no sense whatsoever," according to author J. Peter Scoblic. Initial Proposal Unacceptable to Soviets - START's initial position—reducing each side's deployment to 850 nuclear missiles and 5,000 warheads, of which no more than 2,500 can be on ICBMs—sounds like a significant reduction on paper, but many experts on all sides of the nuclear arms issue worry that such an agreement, putting so many warheads on so few missiles, would actually encourage each side to consider a first strike in a crisis. Arms control proponent Paul Warnke says, "If the Russians accept Mr. Reagan's proposal, he'll be forced to reject it himself." But because of the disparity in missile configurations between the US and the Soviets, such an agreement would require the Soviets to drastically reduce their nuclear arsenal by 60 percent, while the US would lose almost nothing; therefore, the Soviets would never agree to such a proposal. Scoblic will note that as an opening gambit this proposal might be successful, if the Americans were prepared to back down somewhat and give the Soviets something. But the US negotiators have no intention of backing down. The Soviets are keenly interested in the US agreeing to reduce the number of cruise missiles it has deployed, but Reagan signs a National Security Directive forbidding US negotiators from even discussing the idea until the Soviets made significant concessions on "throw weight," essentially tying his negotiators' hands. Chief US Negotiator Insults Soviets - The negotiations are made more difficult by the US team's chief negotiator, Edward Rowny. Rowny, a former national security adviser to hardline Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), does not believe in diplomacy with anyone, particularly the Soviets. According to Scoblic, Rowny believes in "telling it like it is" to his Soviet counterparts, which Scoblic calls "insulting one's negotiating opponents." As he has no real negotiating latitude, Rowny's diplomacy consists of little more than insults towards his Soviet counterparts. He tells them they do not understand the issues, boasts of his own Polish (i.e. anti-Russian) heritage, even stages walkouts over the seating arrangements. Rowny feels that he is opening a new era in negotiations, but in reality, the START talks are making no progress. [Scoblic, 2008, pp. 123-124]
Entity Tags: Paul Warnke, Edward Rowny, J. Peter Scoblic, Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan, Richard Burt, Richard Perle
Timeline Tags: US International Relations
The Reagan administration ignores the recommendations of a panel of experts named, at Congress's behest, to provide alternatives to the stalled START arms reduction talks with the Soviet Union (see January 1983-April 1983). Spurred by hardliners in the administration, President Reagan instead instructs his negotiators to offer, not one unacceptable alternative, as initially offered to the Soviets (see May 1982 and After), but two unacceptable alternatives: either accept drastic limits on "throw weights," or payloads, of their nuclear missiles, or accept harsh reductions in the number of ICBMs they can deploy, which will also reduce Soviet throw weight. The Soviets retort that the US is again trying to force them to disarm without agreeing to any reductions in their own nuclear arsenal. One Soviet official observes, "Your idea of 'flexibility' is to give a condemned man the choice between the rope and the ax." 'Firing' the Executive Branch - Congressional leaders have had enough of the administration's obstructionism, and brings in panel leader Brent Scowcroft to craft an alternative. In his 1984 book Deadly Gambits, future State Department official Strobe Talbott will write, "The Legislative Branch had, in effect, fired the Executive Branch for gross incompetence in arms control." Scowcroft writes a proposal that enables both the US and USSR to reduce their nuclear arsenals with a measure of equivalence, taking into account the disparities between the two. Misrepresenting the Proposal - The administration accepts Scowcroft's proposal with some minor amendments, but the Soviets balk at the agreement, in part because chief US negotiator Edward Rowny, a hardliner who opposes arms negotiations on ideological grounds, misrepresents the proposal to his Soviet colleagues. The "basic position of this administration has not changed," Rowny declares. In turn, the Soviets declare, "Ambassador Rowny is not a serious man." When the talks come to their scheduled end in December 1983, the Soviets depart without setting a date for resumption. More 'Sophisticated' Obstructionism - In 2008, author J. Peter Scoblic will write of the negotiations: "The conservative position had by now become far more sophisticated. By never rejecting negotiations outright, the administration could always claim that it was pursuing them with vigor, and if critics complained that its proposals were nonnegotiable, it could simply, if disingenuously, claim that it wanted to substantively reduce nuclear arsenals, not just perpetuate the status quo." [Scoblic, 2008, pp. 124-125]
Entity Tags: Reagan administration, Ronald Reagan, Strobe Talbott, Brent Scowcroft, Edward Rowny, J. Peter Scoblic
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, following up on the successful "fireside summit" between himself and Ronald Reagan (see November 16-19, 1985), sends Reagan a letter calling for drastic reductions in US and Soviet nuclear weapons. He proposes the complete eradication of all nuclear weapons by the year 2000. He proposes cutting strategic arsenals by half, banning space-based weapons outright, and halting nuclear testing. He also proposes the complete dismantlement of all intermediate-range systems in Europe—in essence accepting the US's "zero option" that was such a sticking point in earlier negotiations (see September 1981 through November 1983). [Scoblic, 2008, pp. 139-140] One administration hardliner, chief arms negotiator Edward Rowny (see May 1982 and After), warns Reagan that the Soviets are inherently untrustworthy and begs him "not to go soft on this." Instead of giving Rowny what he wants, Reagan launches into what Rowny will later recall as a Martin Luther King-like speech: "I have a dream. I have a dream of a world without nuclear weapons. I want our children and grandchildren particularly to be free of those weapons." [Scoblic, 2008, pp. 143]
Entity Tags: Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Edward Rowny
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Where do you store your application secrets?
That's the first question I ask many of our clients at ProdOps.I usually get one of two answers, either they thought I was talking about a user password manager like 1Password or LastPass, or I get really weird answers like Google Drive, AWS S3, environment variables in the code etc.
So I sharpen my question, asking where are API tokens are stored, RSA encrypted keys, and any other authentication methods our applications use to interact with external services like GCP, AWS, NPM, etc etc etc…
The untold truth is that 85% of the software companies store their application secrets hardcoded, or the better solution — a secret store in their CI server e.g TravisCI, Jenkins, Drone and the like.
The few saints that do take care of their security like pros, do it with Hashicorp's Vault, which is an awesome product, and a most suitable solution for this exact use case.
But, Vault is somewhat tedious, to begin with, it requires a lot of API work to configure it so that it's really compartementalizing your services from one another while using slim access policies that only allow read permissions, and from the single location that the application really needs.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in for Vault. I think it's the best at its field of encrypting secrets and integrating with software applications. I wrote about it myself and I still stand behind my words. However, Vault requires to work to deploy it correctly and to configure it with its internal policies and access management. I recently found out that AWS provide it as a free service of their own as part of their Systems Manager. It's called "Parameter Store". Being an AWS oriented shop, we decided to implement a solution that is natively integrated to IAM, allowing us to control access from one central place, not only to users and cloud deployed services but to applications' secrets as well.
Rumor has it that the AWS SSM Parameter Store is actually based on Vault, and when the guys over at Hashicorp heard about it, they obviously were not too excited about a competitor running their application as a service.
So? I still need to interact with an API, define roles and policies, how is that any better?
Well, not exactly. Yes, you still need to handle access management, but it's done via IAM. So assuming you're already handling your cloud resources' access via policies and roles, you can apply these with Parameter Store.
The encryption is done using AWS KMS, so you get the encryption out of the box too.
And the API interaction to fetch and store parameters and secrets?
Good question! For that, I give you… "Chamber"
"Chamber is a tool for managing secrets. Currently it does so by storing secrets in SSM Parameter Store, an AWS service for storing secrets."
- github.com/segmentio/chamber
Chamber is a very convenient tool, that gives you very easy access to the Parameter Store, and it structures your work with KMS. It requires a KMS key and an alias (which takes around 50 seconds to set up) and you've got yourself a read/right abstraction layer on top of the API; it's as easy as:
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\n <\/td>\n $ chamber read <service> <key><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n
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Many other options are available but these are the core of the ability to easily interact of the system securly.Assuming your services are attached to IAM roles, you simply add permissions to read/write values to SSM Parameter Store, here's an example:
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I'll handle this as if my two options are Vault and SSM. Both are great, each has it's own pitfalls and advantages.
The SSM Parameter store is a free managed service, it means that financially you don't have a reason not to use it, it requires no running resources except the KMS key, it's basically free. On the other hand, it's a service, so in case of cloud migration, you'll have to migrate your keys to a new system. Now, Hashicorp users tend to make the argument of "not being vendor locked" when using Vault / TerraForm and other tools. I can't agree with this argument due to two major factors; 1. You're vendor locked to Hashicorp, I'll take Amazon any day.2. Cloud migration is something done very rarely. Your secrets will be the least of your concerns if that's the case.
Yet, if you're on the edge case of running a hybrid setting of cloud providers, or use on-premise resources then 1. I feel for you, and 2. You can still use the SSM but you'll have to manage your authentication less natively, e.g using one-time rotated access keys by AWS Cognito.
But generally, if that's the case then yes, Vault maybe the better option.
"But Vault has IAM backend access as a feature, even EC2!"Yes, that argument is valid, however, setting it up is no fun. You'll need to create internal Vault policies allowing the access to a certain role to read and write using this backend authentication method, and then attach the role to your relevant resources. Again — no fun.Which is why if you're AWS oriented, SSM is the more obvious solution, with easier safe access management.
Tools like chamber exist for Vault, one of them is our own vault-get, but it still constitutes a single point of failure in the form of an injected token/key/password/whatever method is used to authenticate and pull data.
For these reasons, I chose SSM+Chamber as the AWS "native" alternative to Vault, and currently the cheaper alternative to the new AWS secret manager.
On the day of writing the last word of this post, AWS had announced their new secret manager. I don't think it makes the parameter store obsolete since it's de-facto the best way of running AWS oriented secret managing service for free.
The new secret manager is a great solution, but for $0.40 for secret per month, not to mention the API calls that read them, parameter store finds it's place.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below, or connect with me directly on Twitter @omergsr.

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An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is defined as, "A device that provides battery backup when the electrical power fails or drops to an unacceptable voltage level. Small UPS systems provide power for a few minutes, enough to power down the computer in an orderly manner, while larger systems have enough battery for several hours." (Source: PC Magazine Encyclopedia.)
This is the classic definition as applied to the protection of individual computers and other relatively small load demands. Uninterruptible power supplies can range in size from the surge strip that your computer is plugged into to a large commercial or residential emergency backup system. But this is not to confuse a UPS with microturbines, emergency generators, or gensets. Unlike standard backup power systems, a UPS will provide essentially instantaneous protection from power failures.
Also, while gensets are designed for continuous, long-term operation (provided they are properly fueled), a UPS may only operate for a very short period of time. This is especially true of battery UPS systems which can sometimes be designed to operate for only a few minutes. This may seem insufficient, but the buffer or time allotted by a UPS is sufficient for the system to perform a shutdown properly to prevent damage to the powered equipment.
As such, standard UPS are typically used to protect critical systems (telecommunications, emergency systems, data storage, air traffic control systems, commuter rail controls, and operating computers). The surge strip that your computer is probably plugged into is a small-scale example of a UPS. A large example would be the behemoth Battery Electric Storage System (BESS), in Fairbanks, AK. This 46-megawatt battery UPS can power the entire city and surrounding communities in the event of a power outage.
But what about distributed energy and renewable energy sources? How do uninterruptible power supplies work within their operations? How are they used to protect the local grid against power failure from a photovoltaic cell (PVC) array or wind turbine? And what exactly is a failure that would trigger a UPS?
How Energy Supplies Can Fail
A UPS is installed to protect the electrical system from short-term power supply system failure or when the energy supply becomes erratic. In addition to their primary function, uninterruptible power supplies can also smooth out or otherwise compensate for other power failure modes:
- Voltage spikes and surges. These are sudden increases in electrical supply voltage. Increases that last for more than 3 nanoseconds are referred to as surges. Those that last less than 3 nanoseconds are spikes. Voltage spikes can be caused by lightning discharge during thunderstorms, a spark from static electricity, applied magnetic fields and electronic devices, or appliances that turn themselves on or off.
- Brownouts. These are momentary or sustained reduction in input voltage. The opposite of a voltage spike or surge, these also have many potential causes. Local causes include increased voltage applied to the output side and triggering voltage surge protection, or incorrect input voltage not compatible with the electric loads operational setting. System-wide brownouts could result from physical damage or disruption to the grid or be deliberately imposed by the system operator to avoid a worse situation—a blackout with complete failure of the power grid.
- Noise vibrations. These are defined as a high-frequency transient or oscillation, usually injected into the line by nearby equipment. This is electronic noise, not acoustical noise, and is simply a random fluctuation in an electrical current.
- Grid Instability. This is defined as variability between electrical service and electrical load. There is an ongoing debate as to the amount of grid instability created by renewable energy sources linked to the grid.
- Harmonic distortion. This is a temporary distortion of the ideal sinusoidal waveform (sine wave) of the electrical power frequency for alternating current (AC). Linear (constant) load draws current in relation to the sine wave voltage. Non-linear (variable) load, on the other hand, only conducts current near the peak of the sine wave. When these loads are turned on and off, they create non-sine wave current pulses that alter the wave form. This further results in reflective (harmonic) currents being propagated back into the electrical supply distribution system.
UPS units are defined by the category of potential failure mode they are designed to address. Certain types of UPS are designed to manage multiple potential failure modes. The majority of installed UPS capacity is intended to manage localized failure modes by protecting specific valuable assets from the effects of voltage irregularity. For such assets, the effects of failure cannot be tolerated.
However, the saying "failure is not an option" does not really apply to renewable energy sources. Renewable energy sources do not fail so much as they are inherently discontinuous and variable. Some of the conditions that would be considered failure in a standard power supply system are inherent to renewable energy. As such, the UPS systems intended for commercial- and community-scale renewable energy sources tend to be large-scale and regional instead of being for a specific application.
Uninterruptible Power Supplies—Standard Battery Technology
The batteries used to provide uninterruptible power vary in size and capacity in accordance with their specific applications. They are rated according to their total capacity which is a function of their rate of discharge, maximum available charge, and the efficiency of their inverter. This last item is critical to the entire function of the UPS. Batteries generate direct current (DC) electricity. However, electronic equipment, computers, and appliances use alternating current (AC). The inverter converts DC produced by the battery into useable AC. This ability to convert DC into AC combined with the ability to detect failure in electrical power supply is required for those systems that utilize batteries as either emergency backup power or uninterruptible power sources.
Individual batteries and combinations of batteries come in many sizes and capacities. These can be used to provide uninterruptible power to loads as small as an individual laptop computer to large-scale buildings and small communities requiring power in the megawatt range. Batteries are considered to be stationary forms of UPS in that they have no moving parts like a rotary flywheel. In addition to its size and capacity, a battery UPS can be classified according to functionality, operational layout, and complexity. There are four such categories: off-line, line-interactive, on-line, and true.
Off-line UPS is the simplest configuration and is used for small applications such as individual computer and home appliances in the event of a power loss. Being off-line, it is not directly connected to the inverter that converts its DC power into AC power. It needs a power transfer switch to make this connection. In contrast, an on-line UPS is always connected to the inverter and therefore does not need a power transfer switch. If there is a loss of power, the rectifier drops out of the circuit, allowing for unsteady and unchanged power transmission. When the power is restored, the rectifier resumes carrying most of the load and simultaneously charges the batteries.
A line-interactive UPS can function as both an off-line and an on-line UPS. Utilizing a bidirectional AC-DC converter, it can either recharge the battery or convert the current from the battery to power the electrical load. During normal operations, the line-interactive UPS goes into on-line mode and can act to adjust voltage and keep it level. If regulating the voltage is not required, the line-interactive UPS goes into off-line mode and electricity flows freely to the load from the power grid. Should complete power failure occur, a static switch disconnects that grid and the system being protected by the line-interactive UPS goes into islanding mode. This refers to a situation where the local load will continue to receive electrical power from the battery.
A true UPS (a.k.a. "delta conversion") utilizes two bidirectional converters—one in series and one in parallel with the main power line. Both converters can be used to charge the battery while the parallel converter can transfer power to the local grid when general grid power fails and the system being serviced by the UPS goes into islanding mode. While this is similar to line-interactive UPS operations during a power failure, a true UPS is more suited to loads that use a lot of energy (such as large data centers).
The batteries themselves can be as varied as their configurations: lead-acid, lithium-ion, sodium-sulfur, nickel-cadmium, nickel-metal hydride, and sodium-nickel hydride. Battery UPS systems can be constructed in less than 12 months with flexible locations both inside and outside the building being serviced. Lead-acid is the oldest battery technology and the most widely used, with good efficiencies (from 63% to 89%) and low costs ($50 to $600 per kW). However, they need thermal management during operation. Lead-acid battery systems tend to be used for smaller applications with relatively few utility-scale facilities. Lithium-ion batteries are usually considered for systems that require fast response times, small dimensions, and limited weight, due to their relatively high energy density. They have high operating efficiencies (97%) but often require an on-board computer to manage its operations.
Uninterruptible Power Supply and Distributed Energy
The basic question concerning UPS applications to distributed energy systems is the size of the system. Distributed/renewable energy systems are classified as residential, commercial, or utility in size. Residential-scale applies to individual homes and buildings receiving electrical power from a relatively small dedicated distributed energy system physically attached to the building in question (rooftop solar, e.g.). Commercial-scale encompasses larger business, industrial, and apartment complexes with multiple users but within a well-defined area. This would include factories, stores, shopping malls, campuses, and office buildings that receive power from a local but structurally independent renewable energy source. Utility-scale renewable energy serves as an adjunct to or a replacement for standard utility power sources. These systems are large enough to service entire communities and even municipalities. Entire nations have pledged to achieve 100% renewable energy within the next few decades as they replace older power systems with utility-scale renewable energy sources.
However, unlike standard electrical systems supplied by continuously operating power plants (such as hydroelectric, nuclear, combined-cycle natural gas turbines, and old-fashioned coal fired boiler generators), distributed energy systems produce electricity when available—which is not always when it is needed. By its very nature, renewable energy is variable to a degree that would not be tolerated in a standard steady, continuously operating power source. The sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow. Not only does the sun go down at night, but its intensity varies throughout the day as it traces an arc across the sky, generating less power at dawn and dusk, and peak power at noon. Furthermore, sunlight varies with latitude, cloud cover, and season. Wind speeds are highly variable, as is the resultant power output. The resultant power supply curve resembles a parabola matching the sun's location in the sky that is zero at sunrise and sunset and peaks at noon. Wind power is proportional to the wind speed cubed. So, doubling the wind velocity results in an eightfold increase in output power. Such highly variable power cannot be used directly by a supply grid with consistent load demands. However, unlike failure in a standard power grid, these variations can often be anticipated and planned for as part of daily operations.
Demand also determines the nature of the required energy storage and its use as a UPS for a renewable energy system. Industrial and commercial demand can be relatively steady over a work shift when stores are open, offices are occupied, and factories are running production shifts. Commercial and industrial use peaks at about 2:00 in the afternoon to match business activity and the use of environmental controls (heating and cooling). Once they close or shut down, demand drops to almost nothing. Residential use is more variable, at its lowest from midnight to about 6:00 a.m.; it increases at the start of the work day and peaks at about 7:00 in the evening. Combining the two daily power demand curves results in an overall wave that resembles a sine wave, with its peak in the late afternoon and a trough in the early morning hours. Individual use can vary wildly but aggregate demand from a large number of customers remains fairly consistent (with allowances for season changes such as increased heat demand in winter or air conditioner use in summer).
Comparing and overlapping the power supply's parabolic curve and the energy demand's sine-like wave shows that power supply typically exceeds aggregate demand from about mid-morning to late afternoon. It is this excess power supply that needs to be stored for later use when demand exceeds power availability, or the renewable power is not available at all. While battery UPS can be integrated into distributed energy operations (certainly for individual home use at the residential scale), most large-scale commercial and utility renewable energy sources often rely on large-scale methods of storing excess solar or wind energy for later use. Given the diffused nature of renewable energy, solar arrays and wind farms can cover a very large area. The electrical energy storage (EES) systems utilized as uninterruptible power supplies at the commercial- and utility-scale levels are often proportionally large as well.
Pumped Hydroelectric Storage (PHS) is the simplest, oldest, most widely used, most efficient, and cheapest means of providing uninterruptible power supply to commercial- and utility-scale electrical power systems. This is a mature, proven technology with PHS plants installed worldwide with power rating ranging from 1 MW to over 3,000 MW. During peak supply hours, the excess renewable energy is used to pump water from a lower reservoir to a pond located at a higher elevation. The available power from the upper stored water is a function of the elevation difference between the two pond surface elevations and the amount of water in the storage pond. The rated power of a PHS facility is a function of the water pressure and the flow rate through the turbines. When the renewable energy supply drops below the demand curve, water is released from the upper pond and used to drive an electrical turbine to generate enough electricity to compensate for the shortfall.
PHS systems can achieve 70 to 85% efficiency, making them the most efficient EES system currently available. However, these systems only make economic sense at very large scales. Studies have been performed with individual buildings utilizing buried reservoirs and storage tanks located on their roofs. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be the necessary economies of scale to make small PHS systems economically viable. Since they are dependent on topography, their available locations are limited. They also have high capital costs and long construction times.
Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) is also a mature, economically viable EES technology. Excess energy from the renewable energy source is used to drive an air compressor engine to pump high-pressure air into a storage tank. It later uses the compressed air to spin a turbine and drive a generator to create electricity during times when demand exceeds production. Connection to the grid is via an AC-DC-AC converter to control power quality. It can operate in power ranges in excess of 100 MW. Advanced systems include liquid air energy storage (LAES) and advanced adiabatic CAES which is integrated with a thermal energy storage system.
Flywheels (a.k.a. "rotary UPS") are a mechanical means of storing renewable energy. As such, there is no need for an electrical motor or generator to act as an intermediary and the actual source of emergency power. They utilize the inertia (mass x momentum) of a high-density spinning flywheel to provide the power to turn a generator and create AC power should a power loss or interruption occur. They can compensate for short-term power spikes or losses without significant reduction in its rotational speed. Given its high inertia, short-term applications don't have a significant effect on its rate of spin. Since it is continuously spinning, it is considered to be already on-line and can engage near instantly should it be called upon to do so. However, should its full capacity be required, a flywheel UPS typically operates for only a few minutes before the flywheel is slowed to a stop. Yet this is usually sufficient for a backup generator or engine to begin operating and restore electrical service. In short, flywheel technology is mainly used in applications that require a great deal of power but for only a short period of time (minutes or seconds).
Flywheels tend to be simple in design with operational lifetimes of 30 years or more with regular maintenance (primarily ball bearing replacement and recharging of lubricant). This simple design consists of five components: the flywheel itself, a pack of ball bearings, a reversible electric motor/generator, a vacuum chamber with pump, and the axle on which the flywheel rotates. This last item gets the flywheel starting with the application of electrical power. Once engaged, the spinning flywheel drives the reversible motor/generator to create electrical power. Working in the opposite direction, the reversible generator/motor accelerates the flywheel by imparting electrical energy to its rotation. Flywheels are classified into two categories: low speed flywheels which use steel as the flywheel material and rotate below 100 rpm, and high-speed flywheels that use advanced composite materials (typically carbon fiber) for the flywheel and can run up to about 150 rpm.
Biofuels fill a very important niche. Not only does solar energy need to be storable, it often needs to be transportable as well. Biofuel, being liquid or gas, is easily transportable via an existing network of pipelines and fleets of tanker trucks—just like gasoline, diesel, and natural gas. Utilizing microbial and plant processes for production, biofuels include: biodiesel, ethanol, biogas, and algae oil. They have the same energy density that makes traditional fossil fuels so useful. Gasoline and diesel, for example, have an energy density of approximately 46 megajoules per kilogram (MJ/kg). By comparison, a rechargeable lithium-ion battery has an energy density of only 0.4 to 0.9 MJ/kg.
Hydrogen can be considered a fuel when generated by renewable energy. Utilizing sunlight, artificial photosynthesis, via catalysts, splits water into oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen is then utilized to power fuel cells that generate DC power like a battery. These catalysts, however, tend to be rare expensive materials. Furthermore, the catalyst chamber requires intensely focused sunlight from multiple heliostats to generate the reaction.
Latent heat sinks function as a thermal energy storage (TES) units. Typically, heat from concentrated solar power (CSP) systems is stored in insulated repositories. However, electrical from wind and solar power sources can be run through resistors that radiate heat into the storage media. These are, in effect, "heat batteries." Economically attractive with low capital costs, TES systems can store large amounts of energy. Various media can be used to store heat, including water, rock, ceramics, and concrete. The stored heat can be extracted via a heat exchanger to vaporize steam to drive a turbine and generator.
What is the difference between true UPS and backup power systems for renewable energy sources? This is something of a gray area. In many respects, even the largest backup power system for a renewable energy source (think very large pumped hydro storage lake) acts like a UPS supply. But the difference is in response time. A true UPS is designed to respond quickly, often in mere milliseconds. Backup power sources don't quite work that way, even though they are designed to compensate for loss of power when the sky gets cloudy or the wind stops blowing or the sun sets. There is also a size limitation, with true UPS often relegated to commercial-sized and smaller applications (a large data bank would fall into this category). And there is rarely a UPS acting as a bridge between the main renewable energy source and its backup energy storage system. Yet even though a backup energy storage system is not technically a UPS, it can be treated as such for planning purposes, provided that its limitations and characteristics are taken into account.
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Trojan Battery Company is a leading manufacturer of deep-cycle batteries of many types (flooded, AGM, and gel) for a variety of applications. Trojan's factory sales locations support various battery-powered applications including automotive, floor machine, golf carts, industrial, marine/RV, motorcycle, mobility, renewable energy, and utility vehicles. Early applications for their batteries were in golf carts. Their current product line includes a series of flooded, AGM, and gel batteries for solar energy applications. Their Reliant AGM line of US-made absorbed glass mat (AGM) batteries are the only true deep-cycle AGM batteries on the market today. Reliant is engineered with an advanced technology feature set that provides outstanding sustained performance and total energy output, delivering exceptional quality and reliability. Trojan also offers both Solar Flooded and Solar AGM battery models for the renewable energy market that are designed specifically for solar and other renewable energy applications. Trojan's Flooded solar batteries are tested up to a 17-year design life under IEC 61427 standard for solar batteries. Trojan's Solar AGM are true deep-cycle AGM batteries tested to an eight-year design life under the same IEC 61427 standard.
Trojan's Smart Carbon formula addresses the impact of partial state of charge (PSOC) on deep-cycle batteries in renewable energy, inverter backup, and telecom applications, and is a standard feature in Trojan's Industrial and Premium flooded battery lines. Smart Carbon provides improved performance when the batteries operate in PSOC, enhancing overall battery life in applications where the batteries are under-charged on a regular basis.
"With batteries being one of the most expensive components of a battery-based solar system, it is critical to maximize the life of the battery bank to reduce the total cost of ownership of a system," says Elke Hirschman, senior vice president of North American sales and corporate marketing for Trojan Battery. "Trojan's new Solar AGM line illustrates the company's commitment to offering reliable energy storage solutions for a wide range of renewable energy market segments. Trojan continues its focus on being an innovative leader in the energy storage space." Applications include the City of Joy Solar Community center, solar powered tiny houses, and solar powered remote microgrids serving indigenous people in Choco, Columbia. This last project will provide clean energy to 431 homes for the next 20 years.
Schneider Electric is an international leader in renewable energy management. Their advanced microgrid solutions seamlessly integrate with their portfolio of software, hardware, controls, and engineering services. Their integrated, scaled approach across all disciplines allows Schneider Electric to deliver innovative and economically feasible microgrid solutions with greater speed and precision. In doing so, they provide flexible microgrid designs featuring a scalable set of grid components designed to efficiently manage renewable energy infrastructure, including distributed energy resources, storage, and load demand. In addition to this holistic approach, they also provide UPS integration for large-scale applications such as data centers for critical healthcare facilities.
A leading innovator in battery technology, Saft is on the cutting edge of research, advanced manufacturing techniques, and battery design. The company specializes in advanced technology battery solutions for industry, in space, at sea, in the air, and on land in remote and harsh environments from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert. Saft batteries are widely used throughout the health sector in buildings, equipment, and small medical devices. Saft offers an unrivaled portfolio for medical applications and hospital buildings, including a full range of nickel and lithium technology batteries. Saft SBLE, SBM, and SBH ranges of block batteries provide optimum solutions where power is required for an uninterruptible power supply, switching and transmission, emergency and security systems, industrial fire monitors and alarms, process control installations, substation switchgears, and signaling systems. The SBLE blocks are designed to be a reliable source of energy over relatively long discharge periods with current discharges that are relatively low compared to total stored energy or when discharges are infrequent. The SBM blocks sustain electrical loads for between 30 minutes to three hours while providing mixed loads involving a mixture of high and low discharge rates. Saft's SBH blocks discharge relatively high current over short periods—usually less than 30 minutes of duration.
Not every renewable energy source is natural in origin. Philadelphia's transit authority (SEPTA) benefits from Saft's ability to tap the renewable energy source provided by the braking wheels of its commuter trains. Using a technology similar to that used by hybrid vehicles to recapture the energy of braking, their Intensium Max 20P containerized lithium-ion battery recovers up to 10% of SEPTA's energy costs. It is the world's first system to capture the kinetic energy of braking trains and store it in a battery system for later use. The storage system, in conjunction with Viridity Energy's optimized energy recapture system, reduces the grid energy SEPTA consumes by 1,500 MWh, reduces annual costs by $170,000, and provides power insurance against emergency outages. The five train stations that use this system manage 400 stopping trains each workday. This rate is enough to generate over 1,200 MWh annually. Indirect benefits include reduction in greenhouse gases, NOx emissions, and mercury emissions.
As the US military makes a deeper commitment to the use of alternate fuels and renewable energy, Saft has developed a UPS battery system specifically for these needs. At Fort Hunter Liggett in Monterey County, CA, Saft has installed a Supervisory Controller for PV and storage microgrids. This project demonstrates the feasibility and practicality of a system that employs day-ahead optimization and real-time controls to coordinate charging and discharging for a 1-MWh electric storage system servicing a 2-MW photovoltaic generation facility. The system performs energy shifting, storing surplus PV energy for later use. Release energy from the storage system can perform load leveling and reduce the costs of tariff demand charges. It also performs PV integration and mitigates the harmful effects of islanding on the grid. Once a proven success, this system will be expanded to other bases in California.
Falcon Electric Inc. is a leading manufacturer of online UPS systems and backup power for critical applications, including the recent addition of their Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) battery option to its award-winning SSG Industrial UPS family. Falcon's SSG UPS with a hot-swap LiFePO4battery represents a major technology advance with many user benefits. The online rackmount UPS models (1.5 to 6kVA) provide a longer service life, longer backup times, lower weight, and higher safety than UPS with lead-acid batteries or other LiFePO4 batteries. In addition, the SSG UPS lowers total cost of ownership by dramatically reducing costly battery replacements and downtime. Their primary advantages include: long service life (10 years compared to only 4 years for lead-acid batteries), long run times between recharges, a smaller physical footprint with almost half the weight of lead-acid batteries, a wide range of operating temperatures, improved safety, and overall lower lifetime costs.


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When you exit the North Exit of the Shimokitaza station and walk down the back street, you will find a spacious with a courtyard which is unusual around here. Upon entering the shop, you will be surprised at the height of the ceiling and the calm and mature atmosphere like that of an antique shop. They say the height of the ceiling is over 4 m.
Little Trip to Heaven offers a selection of European and American vintage clothing from the 50's -70's and original and imported items based on the trends. They also have a wide range of accessories including vintage accessories for adults.
The left side of the shop displays women's clothes and the right side showcases men's clothes. The further you go into the shop, the deeper the atmosphere becomes and you will find fashionable and showy items which you can wear to parties.
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Contact Information:
- Office Location: FH 335
- Phone Number: (216) 687-2513
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Personal Website: http://academic.csuohio.edu/stankovica/
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade,Serbia, 1982
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade,Serbia, 1989
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998
Research Interests:
- Electric Machines
- Power Electronics
- Digital Control Systems
Honors and Awards
- CSU Faculty Merit Award 2006
- CSU Faculty Merit Award 2008
- Fenn College of Engineering Teaching Award 2008
- Best MS. Thesis Award-2009 – Ke Chen
- CSU Faculty Merit Award 2012
- CSU Faculty Merit Award 2013
- 2013 IEEE APEC Best Presentation Award
Classes Frequently Taught
- EEC 361 Electromechanical Energy Conversion
- EEC 470 Power Electronics I
- EEC 471 Power Electronics and Electric Machines Lab
- EEC 473/571 Power Systems
- EEC 474/572 Power Electronics II
- EEC 673/773 Power Electronics and Electric Machines
Recent Publications (List of publications)
- W. Xiong, A.V. Stankovic and L. Nerone," Modeling and Design of L-Complementary Self-Oscillating Class D Inverter with Output Voltage Clamping", IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications,Vol.49, Issue.2, pp. 731-738, Marc/April 2013.
- A.V. Stankovic, L. Nerone and P. Kulkarni", Modified Synchronous Buck Converter for Dimmable HID Electronic Ballast",I EEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,Vol.59,No.4,April, 2012.
- N. Scheidegger, A.V. Stankovic, "DC/DC Converter for Commercial Refrigeration LED Lighting", LEUKOS,Vol.7, No 2, October 2010.
- Ana Vladan Stankovic, D. Schreiber and Shuang Wu, "Control Methods for Grid Side Converters under Unbalanced Operating Conditions in Wind Power Applications", Modeling and Control of Sustainable Power Systems: Towards Smarter and Greener Electric Grids, Springer pp.127-153,2012.
- Ana Vladan Stankovic, Dejan Schreiber and Xiangpeng Zheng," Grid-Fault-Ride Through Control Method for a Wind Turbine Inverter,' Chapter 17,SMART POWER GRIDS,Springer,2012.
- W. Xiong, A.V. Stankovic, "Program Start Fluorescent Ballast with Clamped-Q Resonant Filament Heating Circuit", to be presented at 2014 IEEE IAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, October 5, 2014 t0 October 9, 2014.
- W. Witt, A.V. Stankovic, "Forecasting Electrical Parameters of Mass-Produced LED Luminaire using the Monte Carlo Method", to be presented at 2014 IEEE IAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, October 5, 2014 t0 October 9, 2014.
- W. Xiong, A.V. Stankovic," A True Parallel Lamp Operation Universal Program Start Dimming Ballast Platform Based on Decoupled Half-bridge Inverter", to be presented at 2014 IEEE IAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, October 5, 2014 t0 October 9, 2014.
- A.V.Stankovic, Y. Rutkovskiy," A Novel Control Method for Grid Side Inverters Under Generalized Unbalanced Operating Conditions", Proceeding of IEEE APEC 2013, Long Beach, CA,pp. 2302-2309. (TECNICAL PRESENTATION WINNER)
- W. Xiong, A.V. Stankovic," A Universal Programmed Start Dimming Ballast", Conference Proceedings of IEEE IAS 2012 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, October 6-11,2012,pp 1-8.
- Developed State of the Art Power Electronics and Electric Machines research infrastructure with THREE Lab-Volt, FOUR DSPACE and ONE Wind/Solar Test Bench (2004-present)


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"The wine was summer caught and stoppered."
The book is childhood caught and stoppered.
And more.
Ray Bradbury takes his readers through a summer in 1928 in a small Illinois town as seen through the eyes of 12 year-old Douglas Spaulding. Douglas is teetering on the edge of life-awareness. As his physical senses sharpen to the natural, burgeoning world, he awakens to a sense of mortality as well. Green Town is a community of grandparents, a retired army colonel, spinsters, ladies-of the-club, magic shows, a junkman, children playing Statue and Hide-and-Seek, front-porch gatherings, firefly chasing, a trolley, a shop that sells Royal Crown Cream-Sponge Para Litefoot Tennis Shoes, hand-dipped ice cream store, hand-pushed lawn mowers and long, hazy days that savor them all.
At the edge of this idyllic town is the Ravine – an area of untamed vegetation and cool, dark, hidden places. The shadows of this forbidden place seem to reach out ominously throughout the story. Rumors of The Lonely One, an unnamed force of evil, waft from chapter to chapter, culminating in death by sewing scissors! Though seemingly at odds with much of the lush pleasure of Bradbury's little town, the Ravine, with its icy spew, serves to hone the edge of innocence and forewarn the reader of ultimate loss.
But Bradbury has as much fun as sorrow.
Elderly Miss Fern and Miss Roberta cower in the attic, hiding out, fearful that they have bumped off Mr. Quartermain while recklessly "speeding" in their electric Green Machine, waiting for the evening paper to seal their doom.
A 91 year-old woman meets a young man at the ice cream store, and they fall in love – the real kind that meshes spirit with spirit and for weeks they frolicked through their dreams of faraway places and times with the unbridled delight, despite the inequity of age and space.
A well-meaning Aunt Rose sweeps into Grandma's gastronomically-delightful, albeit chaotic kitchen and attempts to straighten out the mess creating orderly disaster.
Leo Auffman creates a Happy Machine, which causes his wife to at first weep with delight as she views Paris and Rome and then weep with despair when she realizes all she has missed. (Thankfully the machine burns up, and they return to true happiness within their four walls which shines through the ordinary daily routines.)
The Honeysuckle Ladies Lodge nearly collapses with the weight of hexes and counteracting magic potions.
Summer through the lens of Douglas Spaulding's heart ends, but a new cycle begins. "Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife, and the triangle eye and singeing candle." Life was moving on. And as methodically as the children picked the dandelions to be pressed into wine to peer at on winter days and "color sky from iron to blue," Bradbury seems to be murmuring over the hum of crickets and the flash of fireflies that it's prudent to store, in our dark cellars, memories to brighten, strengthen, sustain, enrich and nourish from June to August and all the way to eternity.
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Ongoing Via Trinità 161 there is a difficult definition.
The most correct is perhaps that of community: of spaces, precisely, of projects, a community that has a precise idea about the city.
We have a seat, not by chance, in the historic center of Sassari, overlooking the historic walls and the Rosello Valley: we could not escape the vitality of a beautiful and abused area.
We are so many and well-intentioned, and that is why we do so many things.
There is a bar / library / cultural center that, in addition to giving you the opportunity to drink and eat in a built environment to feel at home – literally the furniture of our parents, our aunts – will allow you to buy books (in collaboration with the Koinè bookstore), participate in the cineforum, see book presentations, study and more, but really much more.
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It's time for New York City to revamp its regulations regarding parking by fire hydrants. Because of several factors, including the work done by the FDNY to educate the public about fire safety and prevention, there are fewer fires than before.
There are more than 100,000 hydrants in the city, which translates into as many as 200,000 parking spots that can't be used. That's a huge number of lost spots because of the chance that a hydrant might be needed to put out a fire.
We need to reduce the 15-foot distance on either side of a hydrant to three feet. Officials also need to paint the curbs to indicate this distance. Make it known that if the hydrant beside your car is needed, that the city will not be responsible for any damage to your car. It's a risk many would take.
The upside of these changes would be tremendous. People driving around looking for parking add to the traffic congestion in the city. The reduction in pollution would be dramatic, and ultimately this would get traffic off the streets, easing congestion.
Laws need to be reconsidered to meet the changing times.
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Small businessman Rick Weiland stopped in Brookings for a second time campaigning for the senate position on Tuesday, Jan. 28. Weiland and his team have been to 271 towns across the state so far and plan on attending 361. For the rest of this week their next stop is Pierre and Fort Pierre and eventually going west to Cheyenne River, Timber Lake and towns north of Bell[e] Fourche. Weiland has also been to several college towns including Vermillion, Madison and Aberdeen. He believes that college students have a huge stake in the election. He wants to spend more time on college campuses in hope to get more student votes. In order to gain student votes, Weiland said that he wants to make education more affordable. Also he claims students should be able to get a good job after completing their education. "That is the way it is supposed to be … cost is frightening and there's a mountain of debt that comes with higher education, where's the incentive in that?" Weiland said. This is Weiland's 81st public meeting. Already, nine tribes endorse his campaign. [Sara Bertsch, Democrat candidate familiarizes with Brookings community, SDSU Collegian]
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Now that (fantasy?) football season is here you need… um, pretty much the same thing you always need: a sweet spot where you can drink a few beers while the game's on. Or maybe you really need a sweet spot where you can drink a shton of beers if you lose the bet you made on the game. Either way, you're gonna want to check out our list of the best sports bars in Sin City...
Public House
One of those spots on the Strip that seems draw both tourists and locals, Public House has a location all to itself, tucked in the corner of the check-in lobby at the Luxor. There's lots of beer on draft and a deep bar area with a lounge, where you catch the game from pretty much any angle on the myriad TV screens. Happy hour is especially popular with half-off appetizers like the short rib tacos, and mac n' cheese squares.
Lagasse's Stadium
Not only do you have better-than-average bar food thanks to celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse, you can also place a wager on your favorite team at the sports book inside the restaurant. The all-in-one hangout is like a massive man cave with more than 100 TV screens, couches scattered throughout the venue, and an outdoor patio. There's also stadium seating in front of the big screen, which is the next best thing to being at the game itself.
Born and Raised
As the name suggests, this is a place for local fans to cheer on local teams. And until we finally secure that NHL franchise, that pretty much means the Rebels from UNLV. It's a tough burden to live with, but at least the football team has a new coach that… oh, who are we kidding? Still, the atmosphere at B.A.R. remains optimistic and energetic even in the worst of times, and is so contagious, a second location recently opened in Henderson.
Sporting Life Bar
It's easy to label this place a sports bar for foodies, but this neighborhood hangout is about more than bacon-wrapped dates and pork belly. There's also plenty of space, a bar made with wood from a 1920s basketball court, and individually controlled TVs so you don't have to watch the Lakers if you don't want to (and why would you?). The bar also takes pride in its craft beer selection -- even the mac n' cheese is made with a brown ale from local brewer Tenaya Creek.
Blue Ox Tavern
As the home away from home for fans of the Minnesota Vikings, you can find plenty of bar food prepared with a Midwestern touch, like the cheese curds or 10,000 Lakes Fish & Chips. The decorations include an electronic sign by the entrance that lists the daily specials and the kind of wood paneling you'd find in the basement of your grandmother's house in the Minneapolis suburbs.
The Pub
The Pub may be hidden in the back of the Monte Carlo, but it is one of the most complete and gratifying sports bars you'll find in a town that specializes in indulgence. There is seating on two levels, lots of space, tall ceilings, hundreds of beer choices, giant TV screens, and in case something was missing, dueling piano players. Don't overlook the $1 sliders on the happy hour menu.
This joint just happens to be connected to the Las Vegas Ice Center, which means you can sit back, order a beer, and check out the hockey through the dining room windows, all while munching on some of the best bar pizza in Vegas. (Go with the ricotta-heavy Great White.) Brooksy's even gets to feed Wayne Gretzky each year when the legend himself hosts his annual fantasy camp at the venue. If it's good enough for The Great One, it's good enough for you.
Probably the best sports bar you'll find in the middle of a shopping mall, Blondies has more than 40 big screens, including one that's 12ft long. The late-night happy hour is especially good, with a $20 all-you-can-drink special on domestic drafts and well drinks from 10pm-1am. There has to be some kind of game on at that time, right?
The Pint
There are more than 100 beers to choose from (give or take) on any given day at the P, including 25 on draft, plus one of the best burgers you can find off the Strip. The place is designed for socializing with a patio and large community table, and even a fireplace. Or you can stay on your feet and enjoy games that range from billiards to Pac-Man.
Step off the casino floor of the MGM Grand and into one of the newer and brighter sports bars on the Strip. The walls are decorated with memorabilia that includes boxing gloves from championship fights and a hockey stick used in the Stanley Cup Finals, while the bar serves local and seasonal craft beers on tap, and the kitchen turns out fun stuff like Philly cheesesteak sliders and fried s'mores.
Scooter's Pub
As the unofficial Las Vegas home for Seahawks fans, this sports bar draws a fun and rowdy crowd that rivals the most hardcore Seattle spots, but good news -- there's a separate dining room for those looking to escape the roar of the crowd next door, where even *gasp* Niners fans can enjoy chicken Parm sliders, nachos loaded with Angus beef chili, and a wicked pastrami burger buried in mozzarella cheese.
Yeah, there's a Hooters in every town, so what makes this one so different? Well, it's literally the largest Hooters in the world, which is even more impressive when you realize there's already an actual Hooters Casino less than a mile away. This new location totals more than 15,000sqft, including an outdoor deck that overlooks the pool at The Palms, and it seats more than 500 people who are totally just there for the wings. Seriously, why else would they be there?
Red Rock Sports Book
There are a zillion sports books in Las Vegas, but the one at Red Rock may be the best place to grab a drink and catch the game. That's because the big screens were recently upgraded and could be the clearest and brightest around. Seriously, there are more than 24 million pixels between three massive 4K Ultra-HD screens, which add up to nearly 32 yards of action. The bar itself serves $2 Buds and Bud Lights on game day and if that wasn't cheap enough for you, ask about the $1 margaritas.
Miller's Ale House
It's not hard to find Miller's Ale House in other parts of the country, but these two are literally the only ones west of the Mississippi. The boneless chicken fingers (also known as "zingers") are a favorite, or you can go fancy with the twin lobster tails. If the game runs long, stick around for dessert and check out Capt'n Jack's Buried Treasure, a chocolate ice cream cake made with Heath bars and Oreo cookies.
Crown & Anchor
This British pub is open 24 hours a day, but really gets exciting when soccer is on… which could be in the middle of the night if it's being broadcast from the other side of the world. Right now there are two locations for fans to cheer on their favorite teams, but a third one Downtown is in the works. Pro tip: avoid eating the Jumbo Yorkshire Pudding before you take a ride on the SlotZilla zip line.
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workshop performance - part of Skylight's UNDERGROUND program
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Inspired by Miranda July's award winning NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU
Running Time: Approx. 60 mins
Skylight Theatre: 1816 1/2 N. Vermont, Los Angeles 90027
AWKWARD ENCOUNTERS is an adaptation of five short stories from NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU by Los Angeles writer, Miranda July. Élan Ensemble interprets the stories BIRTHMARK, SWIM TEAM, THE MOVES, MON PLAISIR and SHARED PATIO through the use of movement, light, and shadow. This devised work-in-progress, featuring graduates of USC's MFA Acting program, explores themes of belonging, loss and community with a touch of feminism, masturbation - and three clowns.
Élan Ensemble: "Élan" is the extraordinary energy that animates body and soul. A deeply diverse ensemble of actors bring their individual élan to the collaborative process of devising theatrical works and adaptations, unified by a common understanding of physical theatre techniques gained in the USC MFA Acting Program. Rooted in Los Angeles, Élan Ensemble pushes the limits of naturalism and brings life to text through the human body to create a surprising and deeply felt collective experience.
More about Miranda July: A filmmaker, artist, and writer, her most recent book is The First Bad Man, a novel. July's collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, and The New Yorker; It Chooses You was her first book of non-fiction. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know — winner of the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. July's participatory art works include the website Learning to Love You More (with artist Harrell Fletcher), Eleven Heavy Things (a sculpture garden created for the 2009 Venice Biennale), New Society (a performance), and Somebody (a messaging app). She is the recipient of a 2016 USA Artist fellowship award and is a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Raised in Berkeley, California, July lives in Los Angeles.
'Awkward Encounters' artists: Kendall Johnson, Abe Martell, Tarah Pollock, Elmira Rahim, Deedee Stephens
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When you are working through something that has negatively affected your life on a level that perhaps you don't even fully comprehend yet, your core beliefs are shaken and many times completely twisted so much that you don't even remember who you once were. Or, you have very little idea, if any at all, of being any other way than what you've been groomed to believe and accept.
Changing those negative core beliefs is an essential part of healing, and if we're being honest, it's vital to our healing. If we don't learn to transform the very way that we see ourselves in all aspects of life; healing becomes exponentially more difficult. Essentially we are fighting to change something that we aren't willing to or don't know how to change, because it's been so ingrained into our minds over years, decades even.
My guest on the podcast today, Christy Maxey, talks about the importance of changing negative core beliefs with 3 key components of healing and transformation.
Christy Maxey, MC, LPC, is based out of Arizona, and works with clients locally and virtually in the areas of depression, anxiety, relationships, trauma, self-esteem issues, divorce, and PTSD. She has also branched out into personal development coaching, which you can read more about on her website.
Christy utilizes a method she created and developed, called the Maxx Method, which helps manage emotions, identify the inner critic and find ways to change negative core beliefs, solve the wounds that keep you stuck, give yourself permission to dream and learn how to take action now on your own behalf. You can learn more about her Maxx Method by clicking here.
During our chat on the podcast, Christy talks further about the essential components of healing:
As you listen to Christy share about these 3 key areas, you'll learn not only the importance of each and why, but ways that you can implement them into your life. After all, it's good to know about something but it's even more important to learn how to do it.
In addition to those key components, we also chat about topics including:
The 3 areas that we are all driven by in daily life and in healing
Why we can get stuck in one or more of those areas
More on the negative core beliefs and how to change them
How we judge ourselves, and why that makes it uncomfortable to revisit feelings and events of the past
How we are all born valuable, but along the way in life we learn to devalue ourselves
There's so much more I could tell you, but hey I don't want to spoil the podcast for ya before you even listen to it, so why not click that play button right here in this post, or listen on your favorite podcasting app and learn more about Christy's work in counseling and coaching, and about the importance of changing our negative core beliefs in order to heal.
Don't forget to follow Christy Maxey on Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin as well as her website, MaxxMethod.com
- Matthew Pappas, CLC, CPNLP
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Thousands enjoy talks, tours and music in great outdoors
THE third English Country Garden Festival attracted more than 4,000 visitors to The Bishop's Palace.
The festival, which took place from June 9-11, was opened by celebrity gardener Matthew Biggs.
He praised the quality of the gardens, on what was his first visit to the site. His talk, Lessons From Great Gardeners, was packed out and very well received.
Visitors were treated to expert garden tours throughout the festival by the experienced team of gardeners from the Palace, and an array of 45 stalls with nursery plants, garden tools and gadgets, gifts and food.
Other celebrity gardener talks were given by Anne Swithinbank, Tamsin Westthorpe, Alan Power, Jane Moore and Cleve West.
The South Lawn was the centre of activities with live music from The Somerset Levellers on Saturday afternoon, traditional Morris Dancing from the Cam Valley Morris Men on Sunday, and a stunning performance from The Longest Johns on Sunday afternoon.
There was also a demonstration by Georgie Newbery from Common Farm Flowers, who wowed the crowd with her wealth of knowledge on growing and arranging flowers.
The visiting garden experts all commended head gardener James Cross on the skilful development and presentation of the 14 acres of RHS Partner Gardens, with the Phelps Rose Garden taking particular praise.
Festival sponsors included Harris & Harris solicitors, Stihl Power Tools, Griffin Glasshouses, Pilgrim Finance and Chalmers HB.
The Palace plans to continue this event for a fourth year next June and is currently in discussions with a range of celebrity gardeners about next year's appearances.


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Part of a politician's job is earning the trust of the constituents. This is often a challenge, especially when working against the tactics of the opponent and the zeal of the press. During an election, it seems as if every moment of a politician's life is under a microscope. That is not always bad since citizens who contribute to political campaigns have a right to know how their candidates are spending the money. Otherwise, there may be investigations into public corruption.
Congressman faces charges of public corruption
Civil litigation is an option for breach of partnership contract
In California and across the country, business partnerships are often compared to marriages. They include many similar characteristics in the way partners run the business together, and they may end in civil litigation if the partners are no longer able to get along. Just as one marital partner's actions can cause broken trust between spouses, so too can the actions of a business partner breach the verbal or written agreement the partners share.
Fraud accusations: Can you trust your company's lawyer?
If your company is under investigation for fraud and they have a lawyer on staff, take a step back before sharing any information with them. While a company lawyer could be working to assist you, their primary responsibility is to protect the interests of the company with which they're in contract with.


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Stephen John Demasson (Satch) is a Queensland based artist. He studied art at the James Street art college in Perth Western Australia in 1971, and has recently focused on painting full time after running a successful graphic design business.
In 2006 Stephen did the artist's pilgrimage to France to see first hand the paintings of the great masters, and in Spain learnt portrait techniques from world famous American realist painter Daniel E. Greene.
The principal theme in Stephen's work is the beauty in life and the human form, particularly the portrait. With his distinctive style Stephen conveys a feeling of emotion within the painting. As the artist explains, "it is always the true nature of the subject that shines through that I desire to capture." His desire to express this through his art and the medium of oil is a perfect reflection that allows him to capture the quality of realism and emotion he strives for using the classical style of the old masters.
Stephen's artwork has been shown in exhibitions in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. His paintings are in private collections in Australia and the U.S.A.
You can also contact him for portrait commissions.
"Capturing the the essence of the person is the most important! As a painter of the human form, it is always the being that shines through their eyes that I desire to capture. My inspiration.
This truth of being can transform the figure beyond the painted surface. I strive to convey the true essence of the person by capturing that which is quite often hidden."


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BREAKING: The Latest Episode of the Pulpit & Pen Program (early release) Exposes New LC Documents
In Monday's edition of the Pulpit & Pen Program (released early on Sunday evening) exposes new documents that exonerate Calvinists as the root of controversy at Louisiana College.
In a letter from Tim Johnson to the board of Trustees, the 'traditionalist' (non-Calvinist) executive Vice President of Louisiana College rebukes the Board of Trustees for a manufactured "smoke screen" and scape goat of Calvinism. Johnson explains why this has nothing to do with Calvinism and also documents that Joe Aguillard was far more concerned about the influence of Louisiana Baptist executive director David Hankins than the influence of Calvinism. In the document, he explains that David Hankins was attempting to use Eric Hankins' "Traditional Statement" as a litmus test for employment at LC. Johnson's letter makes things oh, so clear.
Also spelled out is the unjust firing and persecution of Tim Johnson for filing the now-substantiated whistle-blower complaint.
Also revealed is a lawsuit filed by Searcy, who also investigated the allegations of fraud and forgery in SACS documents by Joe Aguillard. Searcy's lawsuit (which was not proceeded with for an unknown reason) gives additional information speaking to alleged facts behind the forgery exposed in LC attorney Armour's document revealed last week.
Also interviewed on the program is Ken Fryer, former Caskey Divinity School Student and Louisiana pastor about the ordeal.
Episode audio is here.
The documents can be found here and here.
As always, the content of this blog and this episode is the opinion of JD Hall, and no claims of fact have been made. View the documents to make up your own mind.
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Chiefs escape Tah pit in Sydney
The Chiefs scored a controversial late match-winning try to keep their semi-final hopes alive with a desperate 28-23 win over the Waratahs in the Rebel Sport Super 14 match at Sydney's Aussie Stadium on Saturday night.
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A deadline is approaching for the city and firefighters union to reach a deal to prevent job losses and cut costs. On Friday, 11 Middletown firefighters received layoff notices in anticipation that no solution will be found in time.
They will be laid off at 7 p.m. Aug. 16 if nothing changes between now and then.
"Middletown Firefighters Union tries to remain hopeful that the city and they will be able to keep from laying off," reads a statement provided by the union. "However, those given layoff notices are already out applying for other jobs to make sure they can support their families at the end of the day."
Public safety cuts are being made to help reduce the city's general fund expenditures by $2.25 million over the next two to three years, officials previously said.
A total of 15 positions are being eliminated from the Middletown Division of Fire's budget. Four positions will be reduced through retirements, said Chris Klug, president of the firefighters union.
Middletown last laid off six firefighters in 2012 but were able to bring back those firefighters when they were awarded a federal grant. That grant runs out on Aug. 6, Klug said.
"We looked at concessions, doing a grant extension, any possible variety of ways to keep this from happening," Klug said.
Assuming layoffs occur, Station 84 on Tytus Avenue will be closed and all other stations will be staffed with three personnel that will cross-staff a fire engine and medic unit, according to the union. When responding to an emergency, crews will take the most appropriate vehicle and leave the other.
The Journal-News was unable reach city officials before deadline late Friday.
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The Andrastian Throne is a throne in Dragon Age: Inquisition. When selecting it from the customization options, it is called the Andrastian Chantry Throne.
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Reward for completing the companion quest Promise of Destruction for Cassandra.
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Steve O'Keefe probably saw India tour as the last opportunity, says junior coach
Steve O'Keefe's years of toil in Australian domestic cricket and his sense of urgency to make an impact made a difference.cricket Updated: Feb 26, 2017 23:34 IST
Australia spinner Steve O'Keefe has outshone everyone in the opening Test in Pune, including the world's top bowler, Ravichandran Ashwin, bowling the visitors to a stunning 333-run win inside three days in Pune.
However, as a junior cricketer Steve O'Keefewas not one who could be spotted easily in the crowd. In fact, former Australia left-arm spinner Murray Bennett, who coached him in his youth, saw him more as a batsman.
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"I did a fair bit of coaching with Steve when he was only a young man, when he was in the under-19s, and during his early days with the New South Wales state squad; when he was starting to develop as a spin bowler.
"From what I remember of him then, he had a good shape in his bowling and was a keen listener and learner, (but) at that stage he was a better batsman than a bowler. But over the years he had developed and his bowling is a stronger part of his game. He is a hard worker," Bennett told Hindustan Times over the phone.
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"I have followed his career with interest, so I am delighted for the game that he had."
Not many spinners come to India and dominate the Indian batsmen. The great Shane Warne will vouch for that.
For all his success, Warne cannot claim to have dominated a game in this manner in his three Test tours to India. And, after O'Keefe's spectacular success in the series opener, the question being asked is whether the Australian selection process erred in spotting his talent.
Read more | Virat Kohli faces early captaincy challenge after Pune rout against Australia
He is 32 and the Pune game was only his fifth Test -- coming in his fifth series.
In fact, it was only from the last season that the Australian selectors started treasuring O'Keefe's skills. The years of grind in domestic cricket, having made his first-class debut in 2005, had finally started to pay off.
However, everything has changed. On Saturday, O'Keefe finished with a match haul of 12 for 70, the best by a visiting spinner in India.
Putting things in perspective, Bennett, who is more known for his work as a specialist spin bowling coach with New South Wales, the spin centre of Australia, than his playing career, says rarely does Australia pick more than one spinner, and after Warne, the first-choice has been Nathan Lyon.
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"He is a good tribesman and has played the game a long time. He has some good success with New South Wales in recent seasons, (but) I think a lot of wickets in Australia are not spin-friendly these days."
The result is not entirely unexpected. For this series, O'Keefe has worked with single-mindedness, sacrificing the lure of the Twenty20 Big Bash League to focus on the series, maintaining a disciplined approach by doing things like staying alcohol-free. And it has paid dividends.
"He probably saw this as the last opportunity to be successful in the Australian side," observes Bennett.
"Nathan Lyon has established himself as the No1 spinner and Australia doesn't play two spinners too often, so he would have thought it is his last chance. He would have seen it as a great opportunity to have some success and make some contribution at the Test level and I am very pleased for him that he has got his opportunity on the big stage in India.
"The delivery he got Virat Kohli out with was a beauty," he said, referring to the India skipper having his off-stump knocked back while shouldering arms.
O'Keefe came into the Pune game as a virtual unknown. However, to be taken seriously, the challenge will be to build on this performance going ahead in the series.
"He is a pretty experienced player (at first-class level), (after Pune) he would believe in himself much more and he will be tougher now.
He has got a fair bit of strong self-belief and this game will help him throughout the series. He can use this as a platform for the rest of the series."