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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation held a day-long public hearing with industry leaders, public interest groups, and victims of vehicle backing accidents to hear their views on government proposals on safety measures to help eliminate blind zones behind vehicles that can hide the presence of pedestrians, especially young children and the elderly.
"Every year, nearly 300 people are killed and 18,000 more are injured when someone, often a parent or grandparent, backs over them," said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "To put an end to these tragedies, we have proposed a new safety rule and are seeking further public feedback."
In December, the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed a rearview visibility safety regulation to reduce back-over fatalities and injuries. The proposed rule was required by Congress as part of the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2007. Two-year-old Cameron Gulbransen, for whom the Act is named, was killed when his father accidentally backed over him in the family's driveway.
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Work to install a permanent single lane traffic system at Halling railway bridge is due to begin in August. A temporary system using traffic lights, barriers and signs has been in place for the past few months. It was installed after an inspection revealed the bridge was not suitable for vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tonnes except as part of an alternate-lane system. Medway Council's temporary solution has allowed buses to continue to serve the village while the permanent plans were being drawn up. The new scheme, with high kerbing and properly-installed traffic lights, will take about six weeks to complete. While the work is being done, the bridge will be closed to all traffic, including buses, but pedestrians will be allowed to cross the bridge. School buses have continued to operate under the temporary single-lane arrangements by turning in Low Meadow. Since the work will be carried out during the school holidays, the bus companies will be using that same manoeuvre to continue to serve Halling while the permanent system is installed. To reduce the amount of traffic from Low Meadow and prevent conflict with reversing buses, Ferry road will be opened outside the medical centre - in one direction only - to allow cars to leave the estate. Heavy goods vehicles will be prevented from using this route by reducing the width of the road and there will be no entry into the estate along Ferry Road. For further information contact Medway Council's Customer First team on 01634 333333.
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My name is Holly Norwood, and I'm part of a coalition of concerned parents called the Nikiski Area Student Achievement Interest Group (NASAIG). Are you aware that the school district's central office administration is under the impression that you don't care if Nikiski Elementary is shut down and the students are combined with North Star Elementary?
The coalition is interested in measuring the accuracy of this impression. Preliminary action plans are being discussed to shut down the school, but my friends and I think we have a more effective plan for education dollars. And this plan does not increase your taxes one cent.
We believe that reconfiguring the schools into kindergarten through third grade and fourth through sixth grade levels will give Nikiski students the best chance at increasing their achievement. Does this talk sound familiar? We've favorably discussed this reconfiguring plan over the past three years. Now recent research is available that indicates a concentration of grade levels as planned can translate into increased student achievement.
An alternative way to look at this is that there's no reason to believe that combining the schools will result in improved student achievement. By the way, Homer and Kenai already divide their elementary schools into younger and older primary configurations and Soldotna elementary schools will follow suit next school year.
We freely admit to being laser-beamed focused on the priority of student achievement because it is only through higher student achievement that the following outcomes are possible:
a) Our children will be competitive in future employment opportunities.
b) Our residents will desire to enroll or maintain their children in a Nikiski brick-and-mortar school instead of choosing on a charter or distance alternative.
c) Our residents will feel more compelled to support our teachers.
To us, efforts to close budget gaps by shutting down this needed school are equivalent to balancing the borough's books on the backs of Nikiski children's futures. The very minimal fiscal gains of closing the school show a lack of understanding of its relationship to what would have been the far more beneficial, long-term rewards that student achievement brings.
We also think that most Nikiski residents want these perfectly good schools with perfectly good classrooms and perfectly good little desks to remain as perfectly good schools. It's very enlightening (and extremely discouraging!) to get involved with a public awareness campaign like this. One learns of rumors that the Nikiski Recreation Center has already expressed interest in expanding into the building or that some obscure behind-the-scenes conversations are taking place regarding turning the school into a Nikiski Community Center. Isn't a better plan for the rec center to use the school building after school hours and rent the Nikiski Senior Center for $50 for a community-style event? That saves the rest of us increased taxes for upkeep.
My friends, we are notorious for our independence and inability to gel as a community. If you are in agreement with the statements above, please find and sign a petition. The time to act is now. We need your signature by April 4. If there are not sufficient signatures, then there's no need to make an argument against closing the school at the April 7 school board meeting.
You can find a petition (and position statement) at the Nikiski post office, M&M Market, the senior center, Great Northern Video, Nikiski Pre-School, Nikiski Recreation Center, or call me at 776-5593 and I'll get one to you.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Coincident Peak Notice
7:23 AM | Posted by GEPB | | Edit Post
E.P.B. Electric Customers on the Variable Price Rate- We predict the POSSIBILITY for March's peak electric demand to occur on Wednesday, March 14th between 7am & 1pm. This is only a prediction based upon our best guess as to what the combination of all customers in Glasgow will demand from T.V.A. A peak demand hour can occur during any of the maximum of 24 hours of each month during one of our predicted peaks. This is our forecast which is provided as a convenience for E.P.B. customers who wish to receive forecasts. If you want to move to a fixed energy rate without coincident peak demand charges, please contact us at 270-651-8341.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Coincident Peak Notice
7:13 AM | Posted by GEPB | | Edit Post
E.P.B. Electric Customers on the Variable Price Rate- We predict the POSSIBILITY for March's peak electric demand to occur on Thursday, March 8th between 7am & 1pm. This is only a prediction based upon our best guess as to what the combination of all customers in Glasgow will demand from T.V.A. A peak demand hour can occur during any of the maximum of 24 hours of each month during one of our predicted peaks. This is our forecast which is provided as a convenience for E.P.B. customers who wish to receive forecasts. If you want to move to a fixed energy rate without coincident peak demand charges, please contact us at 270-651-8341.
Friday, February 23, 2018
February 27, 2018 Board Meeting
10:48 AM | Posted by Billy Ray | | Edit Post
TO: Members of Glasgow Electric Plant Board
FROM: William J. Ray, PE
SUBJECT: Board Meeting Information
February is the shortest month of the year, but it finds us trying to accomplish a staggering array of objectives. We completed an expedited application for PEER certification at the behest of the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet (we are waiting to hear on that application's success), we completed the promised analysis of all of our retail rates (you'll see all of that at the meeting), and we worked with TVA to get approval for the promised $5 customer charge reduction for the residential customers. That is a lot for one month, especially February!
We will welcome D.T. Froedge to the board this month. I will be prepared to do another rate design review, if anyone wants to hear it again. If not, we will jump straight into the many slides it is going to take to display the findings of our 2016 and 2017 rate effectiveness reviews. When this is done, and when you deal with our recommendations for the $5 customer charge reduction, our list of promises to the Advisory Council and the Glasgow City Council will be complete.
The meeting might be a bit long, depending on the level of questions that you have about my rate presentation, so try to grab a snack before you arrive. Now, let's move on to this month's agenda!
March 1 FCA
As we continue the third year of our new retail rate designs, March 1 will bring us a large increase in overall power cost due to an increase in the FCA. The FCA calculation always trails actual TVA fuel expenditures by a couple of months, so March will see us all paying for the extra fuel TVA had to purchase to cover the demands of the extremely cold weather. The March 2018 FCA is going to increase to 2.175 cents per kWh, and that increase, when blended with our other wholesale costs, will bring about a roughly 4% increase in overall energy costs to us and our customers. As usual, I am attaching the narrative on the FCA from the TVA portal. On March 1, the energy component of our retail rates will be adjusted to reflect this decrease to the wholesale cost of energy.
Rate Design Fundamentals
We went over this last month as a review of our rate design work over the last several years. Since we are contemplating a significant alteration of the rates as a part of our agreement with the City and the Advisory Council, it seemed wise to get everyone on the same page.
Since we recorded that meeting and gave D.T. access to the recording, you all may feel it unnecessary to spend time on that material again. I am fine with that, but I will be prepared to delve back into the subject if anyone thinks it worthwhile.
Retail Rate Effectiveness
At the meeting we will present our findings on the effectiveness of our electric power retail rates for the last year. It is very clear that this sort of review needs to be conducted annually. We found some issues that have now existed for two years, simply because we didn't get the chance to conduct the review after 2016 ended. We were consumed with the attacks on us, and the need to defend ourselves, during much of 2017, and that relegated the rate review to a lower priority. To complicate matters more, the board acted to create and offer an optional rate which created a new volumetric variable into the equation. As a result, two years elapsed before we got to accomplish the review.
It is not fair to ask board members to become rate design experts, so the presentations we will have at the meeting will not be highly technical. Rather, we will use graphics to illustrate the bottom line findings relative to each of our retail rates. This will still take a considerable number of slides, because we have six retail rates (not counting the outdoor lighting tariff) to review.
I will not be asking you to take action on curing the deficiencies we found in the analysis, yet. We still need to understand what the Kentucky Legislature's pension reform decisions will do to our need for revenue, along with TVA's decision on wholesale rates to become effective in October. Action on updating the rates in a way that will produce more revenue will have to come later in the year, when more of the variables are known. However, I do want you to see the kind of changes that will be necessary later in the year as you approach the decision that will be in front of you at the meeting – dealing with the last element of our agreement with the Advisory Council and the City Council – that of reducing the residential customer charge by $5. It is clear that you need to weigh these issues together so that everyone understands the likely flow of rate changes which will occur in 2018 if we are to meet our promises and respond to our fiscal realities.
The $5 Customer Charge Reduction
Last month we thoroughly discussed the tough question of where to collect the revenue necessary to provide the $5 per month customer charge reduction benefit promised in our agreement with the City Council. This month I will present an actual tariff, approved by TVA, to accomplish the directive you gave me at the January meeting.
After considering all of the options, you directed me to create, and seek TVA approval, for a tariff change to our RS and TRS rates, that would collect the revenue necessary to fund the reduction, from the same class of customers that will get the benefit. The vehicle we have chosen to accomplish that task is to increase the kWh adder for delivery by an amount sufficient to collect $5 more through the kWh charge from the average consumer in the RS and TRS residential rate customers. Copies of the first pages of the proposed tariff sheets, showing the proposed changes, are included at the end of this narrative.
The good things about this solution are that it collects the revenue from the same class that enjoys the benefit, so no cross-class subsidy is required, and very low kWh usage customers will pay in less than $5 but still get the full $5 reduction in customer charge.
The unattractive elements of this solution include the fact that this move adds even more volumetric risk to our rates (the very thing we recognized as a danger and took steps to eliminate) and, for customers who use higher levels of kWh, they will pay more in additional kWh cost than the $5 customer charge reduction that they will receive.
These good and bad elements of this decision seem to be necessary for us to finally accomplish each of the elements of the agreements we reached last year. We will discuss the details of this at the meeting, but if you implement the recommendation, everything is in place to effectuate this change on April 1.
To meet the new Kentucky law regarding municipal utilities, I will need to deliver a written report on the rate change to the City on the day after our meeting. Further, I will need to appear at the next meeting of the Glasgow City Council to give a verbal report on the rate change, although the council will not have the power to approve or disapprove of the change.
The Finance Committee of the City of Glasgow asked us to solicit proposals, using our usual RFP process, for an independent audit of Glasgow EPB for the next three fiscal years. We issued the RFP and got proposals from Alexander, Thompson, Arnold and from Carr, Riggs & Ingram. We forwarded those proposals to Brad Groce, the committee chair, and are awaiting their decision on the chosen firm.
Well, that ought to be more than enough to set your head to spinning for this month. Let me know if you have any questions before the meeting.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Coincident Peak Notice
7:16 AM | Posted by GEPB | | Edit Post
E.P.B. Electric Customers on the Variable Price Rate- We predict the POSSIBILITY for February's peak electric demand to occur on Friday, February 2nd between 7am & 1pm. This is only a prediction based upon our best guess as to what the combination of all customers in Glasgow will demand from T.V.A. A peak demand hour can occur during any of the maximum of 24 hours of each month during one of our predicted peaks. This is our forecast which is provided as a convenience for E.P.B. customers who wish to receive forecasts. If you want to move to a fixed energy rate without coincident peak demand charges, please contact us at 270-651-8341.
Friday, January 19, 2018
January 23, 2018 Board Meeting
8:48 AM | Posted by Billy Ray | | Edit Post
4. REPORT ON iPAY MATTERS
We begin another year with much the same intensity that we've maintained over the last two years. Though it would be nice to settle in for a bit and give our newer board members more time to learn more about our work, that peaceful period just isn't in the cards right now. This month we have been battling Mother Nature, and changes to our cable television lineup, right along with our work to accomplish the terms of our agreement with the Advisory Council and the City Council, and all of these tasks have been quite difficult.
We are doing the annual review of the effectiveness of our retail electric rates and working to present them to you, along with recommendations on how to also achieve the $5 reduction to some Customer Charges, at this meeting. While it would be nice to wait for D.T. Froedge to arrive before we delve into that, the schedule, if we are to accomplish this by April, is unforgiving. We need to go over this in January, present actual, fleshed out, rate designs in February for your approval, and then get a number of TVA required tasks completed before April 1. There is no slack time in the schedule.
The meeting might be a bit long, depending on the level of questions that you have about my rate presentation, so try to grab a snack before you arrive. Now, let's move on to this month's agenda!
February 1 FCA
As we continue the third year of our new retail rate designs, February 1 will bring us a small increase in overall power cost due to a small increase in the FCA. Since energy sales have been off slightly (that will change dramatically when January is accounted for), compared to what TVA anticipated, and hydro generation was considerably lower than anticipated, fuel costs were a bit higher, and that is the root cause of the smallish FCA increase. The February 2018 FCA is going to increase about 0.5% to 1.844 cents per kWh. As usual, I am attaching the narrative on the FCA from the TVA portal. On February 1, the energy component of our retail rates will be adjusted to reflect this increase to the wholesale cost of energy.
Report on iPay Matters
The iPay system is a way for customers to pay in advance for their EPB services such that they can establish an account without needing to pay a deposit. We are able to offer this product because our meters give us real-time readings such that energy usage can be rectified against the credit balance established by an iPay customer every hour. To date, about 800 of our customers are using this product, and they enjoy the benefit of not having to place a deposit, as well as more direct monitoring and control of their usage.
The product delivers these benefits to the customers, and EPB benefits as well. The progress we have made of the last couple of years in reducing our bad debts written off is largely attributed to the iPay product reducing our exposure. However, weather events like what we have experienced this month, threaten to decrease the benefits we are getting from the creation of the iPay product.
We will discuss this more fully at the meeting, but issues have arisen due to the very nature of the pre-pay product. According to the rules we set forth for the product, the customer accepts full responsibility for monitoring their credit balance on their account. They accept the terms which include automatic termination of the services covered by their iPay account, whenever the balance in the account falls below zero. Obviously, this is the nature of pre-pay, and it is the only way that EPB can hope to protect its fiscal status when there is no deposit held with respect to an account. If one is on pre-pay, and they do not pre-pay to purchase their services, then the services are terminated.
The severe weather has brought many surprises to many of the iPay users. First, their energy usage has been dramatically higher, requiring more money deposited to the accounts to maintain a positive balance. Next, even though we strongly advise customers not to do so, many come by nearly every day to place a small amount of money on their account. When road conditions are such that these daily visits become impossible, they are faced with a negative balance on their account, which, by our rules and their agreement, results in service termination. If the weather is frigid, those terminations could have many negative results to health and property.
Though we have stepped in many times over the last two weeks to keep services active, even though the customers have agreed to automatic termination, we are breaking our own policies and exposing our other customers to new bad debt risk. While we understand that one side of this problem is a simple monetary one, we also recognize that the other side of the issue deals with health and welfare of many customers. There is no clear proper response to the conditions that have developed this winter. We can discuss this further during the meeting.
Programming Committee Member Replacements
The terms of Terrell Alexander and Beverly Vance expire at the end of January. Terrell is finishing his first full term. Beverly was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Janice Crenshaw, so she hasn't served two full terms yet. The board has been limiting these appointments to two full terms, so you have some options, and, of course, the two full terms limitation is one previous boards have created and can be modified. Both of these folks have been great members of the committee, but you should be pondering their replacement, or reappointment now.
Retail Rate Effectiveness and the Path to the $5 Customer Charge Reduction
The only recommendations of the Advisory Council, empaneled last year to come up with recommended changes to EPB's policies and retail rates, which have not been addressed are on the agenda this month. We finally have sufficient data to complete the first annual recommended analysis of our retail rates. We are also now able to make recommendations on how to implement the requested $5 reduction to the Customer Charge for low kWh usage residential customers. The discussion of these two matters will be somewhat lengthy and detailed.
I will start the discussion by giving everyone a refresher course on retail electric rate design, and the forces acting upon Glasgow that led the board to approve our sweeping rate changes two years ago. I have new graphics that should help refresh the experienced board members and help the newer members catch up on what transpired.
After the refresher, we will move into the review of the effectiveness of the existing retail rates. This will satisfy one of the Advisory Council recommendations and it will also provide a good foundation for recommended adjustments to our rates that should be before you at the February meeting.
Finally, we will use the refresher course and the presentation on existing rate effectiveness, to open the discussion on methods that might be used to produce the $5 Customer Charge reduction. This is the last outstanding Advisory Council recommendation that we have yet to address, and it is one of the toughest. Since we are a not-for-profit municipal corporation, we cannot simply finance a benefit, that will cost about $30,000 per month, by reducing dividends to stock holders. Rather, we will have to harvest that $30,000 per month from somewhere else to be able to provide the $5 reduction to all residential customers.
So, the tough question before you will be the decision on where to collect the revenue necessary to provide that benefit. Should we raise some rates to commercial and industrial customers and use that to provide benefits to the residential customers? Should we, instead, adjust residential energy rates so as to collect an average of $5 more from each customer so that money can be used to reduce the Customer Charge?
The third part of the presentation will attempt to allow you to see the impacts of these options, so you can render a decision on which route you feel is best for us to pursue. My team will have a lot of work to do after your decision, as we will need TVA approval, and I will have to present our recommendation to the City Council as well. We want to get all of this done such that we can make whatever changes you deem necessary for implementation on April 1. That means every day will count throughout the upcoming months.
Progress on Advisory Council Recommendations
This seems a bit redundant since many of the paragraphs above already deal with this subject, but just to keep our consistency on including this in our discussion until all items are completed, here it is. I won't repeat all here in their entirety, but will use shorter summary terms for each item. The information presented here will be repeated and expounded upon at the meeting for your consideration.
1. Tiered Customer Charge Based Upon Usage. This is the toughest one of the recommendations for us to make progress on, but we did discuss it enough to target a $5 reduction in the customer charge for the lowest usage "tier," as recommended by the Advisory Council. I'm afraid that this decision has been misinterpreted by some as a promise to lower all customer charges by $5. The Council asked for a tiered customer charge with reduction for the lower kWh usage customers. That is the job we are working on as directed to my team at the August Board meeting. Additionally, TVA is going to start charging us a new wholesale customer charge, and since our present rate architecture collects all of the money we need to operate the grid from the customer charge, the base customer charge will have to cover this new expense. That is not even recognizing the possible $400,000 annual cost increase that Kentucky Retirement might saddle us with. A $5 credit would soften those increases and provide the gradualism, as we slowly reduce that credit over the next few years, but that credit will have to be funded by an increase somewhere else. Please remember, the EPB is a non-profit corporation which does not have the financial resources to simply reduce any charge without offsetting that reduction with an increase to another charge to balance the ledger. As discussed extensively above, we are about to address this item.
2. Revisions to Variable Rate. The requested revisions have already been implemented, effective August 1. The council asked us to limit our peak predictions to a maximum of 4 days per month. Accepting that recommendation causes us to move away from the technically elegant architecture of the former infotricity rate, wherein everyone pays their pro-rata share of the monthly peak hour, no matter when it occurs. The new limitations we accepted create risk of paying TVA for a peak hour which is not properly predicted and shared among all customers. That risk is monetary and we must create a fund balance to use when those missed predictions occur, because TVA must be paid regardless of the accuracy of our predictions.
3. Alternative Rate Considerations. This is one of the most unusual recommendations from the Council. The suggestion here is that we poll our customers (we assume just those actually using the Alternative Rate - TRS and TGSA1) to ascertain their interest in modifying the rate to introduce time-of-use elements to the rate. This feels odd because everyone we know that went to the Alternative Rate, did so because they sought the solace and simplicity of an old-style kWh rate with fixed kWh charges. Still, we agreed to pursue each of the recommendations, so we sent out first class mail survey to about 1,500 folks on the alternative rate. We got the forms back from 14 customers. Most of those responses asked for the alternative, or "flat" rate, to be altered by adding a time-of-use element to the rate. As a result of this response, I believe we can count this recommendation as satisfied and that the rate design, as it stands, is preferable to an overwhelming majority of those using it.
4. Improvement to RoundUp Product. The recommendation here was quite simple. We were asked to modify the product such that anyone interested in participating could choose a fixed amount to be automatically added to their monthly bill and then donated to Community Relief. The objective here seems to have been to gather more funds for the use of Community Relief, by increasing the amount donated by a participant beyond the sub-one dollar amount achieved by simple rounding up of the bill to the next highest even dollar. We found that the software could easily be adapted to do this and we have already accomplished this change. We still need to create marketing to better inform the customers of this change, and that is in process.
5. Annual Rate Review. The recommendation was that we conduct an annual review of the effectiveness of all retail rates, and recommend changes based upon that review. This is a great suggestion that is already on-going. This month we will have a presentation on rate effectiveness based upon data from 2017 consumption and billing.
6. Expand Education Initiatives. This recommendation is the one which surprised us the most. The Council recommended that we use multiple media outlets and create a speaker bureau which would allow us to provide energy usage and savings advice to a wide variety of meetings and groups throughout Glasgow. Honestly, we felt we were already doing that, and, a lot of the feedback we have been getting has been negative as many folks feel they do not need to be educated. However, since we accepted this recommendation, and since you instructed me to redouble our efforts to educate our customers, we are on the case. We have already conducted, two full blown educational sessions lead by Jeff Christian, a former director from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and someone considered to be an expert in the energy efficiency field. The event was heavily advertised with special arrangements for transportation via city bus and individual transport for those with transportation needs. Mr. Christian did a fantastic job speaking at the two forums on August 31, however, less than 30 total customers attended. Other educational efforts will continue.
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We have been buying our Workers' Compensation and General Liability insurance coverage from Kentucky League of Cities for several years. Every so often we have solicited competitive bids for our coverage, but we have never gotten a competing offer that was attractive compared to the coverage and the service we get from KLC (they are represented locally by Pedigo-Lessenberry).
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January 15, 1966: The role of Major Hassan Usman Katsina
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As is well known, following a signal sent from Lagos to Kaduna by Major Adewale Ademoyega giving the all clear for H-Hour, Major PCK Nzeogwu, leader of the northern theater of operations along with his accomplices struck on the night of January 14/15 1966 (Exercise "Damisa"). In a wave of forced entries into family homes, critical elements of the political and military leadership based in Kaduna were murdered or arrested between 2am and 4am, effectively giving the Major control of the city and to some extent the Northern region.
By 10 am, however, there were signs that all was not well. First, Nzeogwu confronted Captain Isong, then second-in-command at the 1 Recce Squadron, on account of a rumor that Isong was allegedly spreading in the barracks about the ethnic coloration of the unfolding events. Shortly thereafter, at a quick press conference Nzeogwu had called to announce that he was authorizing Ali Akilu to take charge of the civil service, an information officer pointed out to Nzeogwu that there had been no radio broadcast announcing the coup or its objectives on Radio Nigeria. (Indeed the only available radio reference as of this time originated from a French news clip in Brussels about a vague one-time announcement on Lagos radio which has never been clarified even to this day.)
The chance tip from the civilian, taking together with absence of any communication from Majors Ifeajuna or Ademoyega in Lagos, is what initially prompted Nzeogwu to head for Radio Kaduna to make his now well known "Extraordinary Order of the Day" speech at noon in which he declared martial law over the Northern provinces. Shortly thereafter, for reasons that have never been clarified, the commander of the 5th battalion in Kano, Lt. Col C. O. Ojukwu, invited the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero to make a broadcast on Kano radio. (This action, among several others, including the seizure of Kano airport and interception of an aircraft sent by Nzeogwu to collect money from the Central bank in Kano, created suspicion between Nzeogwu and Ojukwu which was to last until Nzeogwu met his death in July 1967 at Obollo-Eke near Nsukka).
Later that afternoon, separate phone calls came in to Kaduna from Lagos by Lt. Colonels Patrick Anwuna and Victor Banjo confirming the failure of operations in the federal capital and seeking information about events in Kaduna. At about 4 pm Lagos time radio Nigeria finally broadcast an announcement that there had been a mutiny the night before in which key functionaries had been kidnapped, and that efforts were being made to crush it. But just before midnight on January 16, following a complex series of events, the GOC of the Army, General Ironsi, preceded by a short statement by acting President Nwafor Orizu, announced that he was taking over the country following an "invitation" from the Council of Ministers. He subsequently named military governors for the regions - including Major Hassan Usman Katsina, son of Alhaji Usman Nagogo, then Emir of Katsina, for the Northern Provinces.
On Monday January 17, 1966, having recalled a military task force he had initially dispatched to the Jebba and Makurdi bridges on the Niger and Benue rivers, Major Nzeogwu announced in Kaduna that he had reached a 5-point surrender agreement with Major General JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi in Lagos. However, until his bosom friend, Lt. Colonel Conrad Nwawo, then Nigeria's Defence Attache in London was later flown into the country as a confidence building measure, Nzeogwu refused to travel to Lagos to turn himself in.
While all this was going on in the background, on Tuesday January 18, Major Hassan Katsina addressed a Press conference in Kaduna. He said:
"Fellow country-men and women. I, Major Hassan Usuman Katsina, having been appointed by the Supreme Military Commander as the Military Governor for the Northern Provinces of the Republic of Nigeria wish to address you all on the responsibilities falling on all of us and the new philosophy we intend to follow.
It is our intention to build the nation on the foundation of honesty and hard work and to bring about unity among all Nigerians living in whatever part of the country with respect, love and understanding towards one another. Everyone must realize that we are one nation irrespective of the tribe from which each of us originates. At our present stage of development we need not be divided by tribal unions, political parties or trade unions. It is our experience in the past that such bodies had not worked for the common good but for sectional interest. I do not need their greetings or congratulations as this is not the time for jubilation or flattery but for hard work and selfless service. This is the way to reach our common goal in satisfying the aspirations of the common man.
My assumption of office does not change the administrative structure, and machinery set up by my colleague, Major Nzeogwu at the end of the last Government. Civil servants will continue to run the civil administration under my authority. I warn them, however, that they must be honest and show in everything they do concern for the rights of the common man. They are not masters but servants of the public.
In local administration the Native Authority system will continue but reform will be introduced. Native Authorities must cut down on unnecessary expenses, do away with redundant staff and use public funds correctly and efficiently. Misuse of authority will not be tolerated. Administrative Officers who are charged with advising Native Authorities in the Provinces and seeing to it that Government directives are carried out must wake up to their duty with vigour and zest.
The new Government will support private initiative in industry, commerce and agriculture. However we must wipe away immediately the attitude of the past when it was regarded that Government money could be borrowed with no intention of repaying. In future the Government will only help businessmen who are serious and honest. The Government will also see to it that past debts arising from loans by public corporations are repaid
according to the terms of the loans. Those who refuse to pay will have to face the consequences.
Public funds must be spent wisely and honestly. The new Government has no intention to be vindictive but it will at the same time watch closely the activities of people who had in the past engaged in corrupt practices. Any subversive activity on their part will be severely dealt with. The Military Command will maintain vigilance.
Public funds must be spent wisely and honestly. The new Government has no intention to be vindictive but it will at the same time watch closely the activities of people who had in the past engaged in corrupt practices. Any subversive activity on their part will be severely dealt with. The Military Command will maintain vigilance.
I said at the beginning that I need your support. I expect this from those in the public services whether Government or Native Authorities or the private sector but what I particularly pray for is the support of the ordinary private Nigerian citizen.
Jama'a Allah shi ba mu alheri"
Finally, on January 19, 1966, with Nwawo now present, Major P. C. K. Nzeogwu formally "handed over" power in the northern region to Major Hassan Usman Katsina.
Note, however, that Hassan had already addressed a Press conference a few days before that as the Governor. It is not clear, therefore, exactly what Nzeogwu was 'handing over' at that stage.
Note, however, that Hassan had already addressed a Press conference a few days before that as the Governor. It is not clear, therefore, exactly what Nzeogwu was 'handing over' at that stage.
Hassan, who was appointed by General Ironsi as Governor on January 17th, and was somewhat deferent to Nzeogwu ("my colleague") during his first press conference on the 18th, even accompanied Nzeogwu to the Airport on January 19th and arranged a quarter-guard for the "send-off" ceremonies. On arrival in Lagos, Nzeogwu was welcomed and then whisked off into detention at KiriKiri prison before later being transferred to a Prison in the eastern region.
These confusing sequences of events in addition to some comments made by Hassan himself have prompted questions about his role in the events of January 15, 1966. For example, at a question and answer session during the Press Conference in Kaduna on January 19, 1966 as Nzeogwu was leaving for Lagos, Hassan said "I have been able to help Major Nzeogwu with some of his problems during the past few days. I am his good friend and I am sure that he will now help me."
Who was Major Hassan Usman Katsina and what was the timing of and context in which this 'help' to Major Nzeogwu was rendered?
Hassan Usman Katsina was born in Katsina on March 31, 1933. After education at the Kankinya Elementary and Katsina Middle Schools, he attended the Kaduna College and Institute of Administration in Zaria. He later enrolled at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria, before joining the Army in 1956. Following an initial six months officer cadet training at Teshie, Ghana, Hassan underwent an array of courses
at the MONS officer cadet school, Aldershot, the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, the Small Arms School in Kent and the School of Infantry, Warminster.
"Initially a platoon commander in the 2nd Battalion, he was later reposted to the demonstration platoon at the NMTC in Kaduna, as commander. " In 1961, he served in the Congo as an Intelligence officer. The following year, in 1962, he underwent further advanced infantry training in the United States after which he became company commander in the 5th Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Kano. When the Recce unit of the Army was created, Hassan was
among the earliest Nigerians to be trained in Britain on the use of "Ferrets" in armored reconnaissance warfare, the others being Majors Christian Anuforo and John Obienu. As of the night of January 14/15 1966, Hassan was commanding the 1 Recce Squadron in Kaduna, while Obienu was commanding the 2 Recce squadron in Abeokuta, and Anuforo was the staff officer representing Recce interests at the Army HQ in Lagos.
"Initially a platoon commander in the 2nd Battalion, he was later reposted to the demonstration platoon at the NMTC in Kaduna, as commander. " In 1961, he served in the Congo as an Intelligence officer. The following year, in 1962, he underwent further advanced infantry training in the United States after which he became company commander in the 5th Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Kano. When the Recce unit of the Army was created, Hassan was among the earliest Nigerians to be trained in Britain on the use of "Ferrets" in armored reconnaissance warfare, the others being Majors Christian Anuforo and John Obienu. As of the night of January 14/15 1966, Hassan was commanding the 1 Recce Squadron in Kaduna, while Obienu was commanding the 2 Recce squadron in Abeokuta, and Anuforo was the staff officer representing Recce interests at the Army HQ in Lagos.
Neither Hassan nor any of the soldiers in the 1 Recce squadron were deployed on the night of "Exercise Damisa". According to Nzeogwu himself, Hassan's first knowledge of the coup was early after daybreak on Saturday when Nzeogwu, having already killed or directed the killing of the Sardauna, the Brigade Commander and the 2/IC at the NMTC, went to Hassan's house with a sterling Sub Machine Gun in his hand and asked: "What side are you on? Are you with me or with them?" Hassan's response was "Don't bother, I am on your side."
However, what subsequently happened was that Major Hassan (along with Major Alexander Madiebo (of Artillery in Kaduna) and Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Ojukwu in Kano with whom he was in touch by phone and signals) began playing a very cunning game of isolating Nzeogwu, while appearing to cooperate by assisting in sending out some signals and making troops available for odds and ends. Indeed, it was the undercover role played by Ojukwu and Hassan in support of Ironsi during this stand-off that got them both the military governorships of the East and North respectively.
Although Hassan, faced with a gun and the fait accompli of the mutiny, gave Nzeogwu an affirmative response early on Saturday January 16th, he did not show up at the meeting of Officers with civil servants at 1 Brigade HQ later that day. Thus, an angry Nzeogwu ordered a team of soldiers led by Captain Isong to have Hassan arrested and "dealt with". Plans for Ojukwu's arrest were also made. Both of these moves were, however, subsequently thwarted by wise counsel from Major Alexander Madiebo who also refused to travel to Lagos to negotiate with Ironsi on Nzeogwu's behalf, preferring to stay in Kaduna to steady the somewhat impulsive young Major. That is how Major Olusegun Obasanjo, Nzeogwu's friend who had just returned from a course abroad, got chosen instead to go to Lagos. After this incident, Hassan became very cautious in dealing with Nzeogwu - until Nzeogwu was "safely" airborne on his way to prison a few days later.
Hassan Usman Katsina was subsequently promoted to Lt.Col. by General Ironsi, eventually rising to the rank of Major General under General Gowon. He was a key participant during the Aburi meetings in Ghana. His recorded comments during that conference describe some very difficult and dangerous days facing the mutiny of northern troops, particularly in Kano, in July and August 1966. During the civil war he was at one point the
Chief of Staff, Army. At the time he was retired by Brigadier Murtala Mohammed, following the July 29, 1975 coup, he was deputy Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters and Federal Commissioner for Establishments. On the basis of an alleged off-hand comment made while playing Polo, he was briefly mentioned in connection with the Dimka coup of February 1976, invited to then Brigadier Yar'Adua's office in Lagos for questioning, and then released.
He stayed away from the public limelight during most of the rest of his days.
He stayed away from the public limelight during most of the rest of his days.
Major General Hassan Usman Katsina (rtd) is deceased.
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No, we should be able to add armor, bulletproof tires, and add performance parts to Emergency Vehicles. Allow repaints on Unmarked Police Vehicles.


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Last update: 2006-01-07
Warning: /proc/acpi is being replaced
by interfaces in /sys and new software should not
look in /proc.
Note: This documentation is incomplete and lacks information specific to GNU/Linux.
ACPI allows OSPM to be proactive in its system cooling policies. With OSPM control of the operating environment, cooling decisions can be made based on the application load on the CPU and the thermal heuristics of the system. Graceful shutdown of the OS at critical heat levels becomes possible as well. ACPI describes the thermal objects available to OSPM to control platform temperature. ACPI expects all temperatures to be given in tenths of degrees Kelvin. The ACPI thermal design is based around regions called thermal zones. Generally, the entire PC is one large thermal zone, but an OEM can partition the system into several thermal zones if necessary.
You can find the complete text in the ACPI specification on page 277 ff.
Within the directory each thermal zone has its own subdirectory, usually there is only one of these, often called THRM or THR1 by your OEM (builder of your BIOS). Each of these subdirectories contain the following files:
A robust OSPM implementation provides the means for the end user to convey a preference (or a level of preference) for either performance or energy conservation to OSPM. Allowing the end user to choose this preference is most critical to mobile system users where maximizing system run-time on a battery charge often has higher priority over realizing maximum system performance. For example, if a user is taking notes on her PC in a quiet environment, such as a library or a corporate meeting, she may want the system to emphasize passive cooling so that the system operates quietly, even at the cost of system performance. A user preference towards performance corresponds to the Active cooling mode while a user's preference towards energy conservation or quiet corresponds to the Passive cooling mode. ACPI defines an interface to convey the cooling mode to the platform. Active cooling can be performed with minimal OSPM thermal policy intervention. For example, the platform indicates through thermal zone parameters that crossing a thermal trip point requires a fan to be turned on. Passive cooling requires OSPM thermal policy to manipulate device interfaces that reduce performance to reduce thermal zone temperature.
Either cooling mode will be activated only when the thermal condition requires it. When the thermal zone is at an optimal temperature level where it does not warrant any cooling, both modes result in a system operating at its maximum potential with all fans turned off.
Usually, it should read something like cooling mode: active.
cooling mode: active
This relates to the optional object called Thermal Zone Polling (_TZP) and evaluates to a recommended polling frequency (in tenths of seconds) for this thermal zone. A value of zero indicates that OSPM does not need to poll the temperature of this thermal zone in order to detect temperature changes (the hardware is capable of generating asynchronous notifications). Notice that the absence of _TZP informs OSPM to implement polling using an OS-provided default frequency.
The use of polling is allowed but strongly discouraged by this specification. OEMs should design systems that asynchronously notify OSPM whenever a meaningful change in the zone's temperature occurs, relieving the OS of the overhead associated with polling.
Usually, it should read something like <polling disabled>, though you can activate it somehow.
<polling disabled>
Usually, it should read something like state: ok.
state: ok
The corresponding control method Temperature (_TMP) returns the thermal zone's current operating temperature in Kelvin. Within GNU/Linux, this file gives you the temperature in Celsius.
cat temperature
temperature: 49 C
There are three cooling policies that OSPM uses to control the thermal state of the hardware. The policies are active, passive and critical:
cat trip_points
critical (S5): 110 C
passive: 105 C: tc1=2 tc2=10 tsp=100 devices=0xdf72e380
active[0]: 48 C: devices=0xc157fec0


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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 749871
Drift alerts continue to fire after re-pinning
Last modified: 2011-11-02 10:48:57 EDT
Description of problem: Drift alerts continue to fire after re-pinning.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a drift configuration
2. create an alert that fires on drift detection
3. add/change some files so that drift detection occurs ... and the drift alert fires
4. pin the drift configuration to snapshot 1.
5. by definition you are in full compliance
6. drift alert continues to fire. <<--bug
Actual results:
drift alerts continue to fire.
Expected results:
drift alerts do not continue to fire because after re-pinning, by defintion, you are in full compliance.
Additional info:
scenario #3 http://jbosson.etherpad.corp.redhat.com/9
I'm not sure about this. Alerts only fire when snapshot reports come in
from the agent. In that case you'd see more snapshots for the
definition (the "config" term is dead). How you could generate alerts
without getting more snapshots is unclear. I'll try it but this may be a
testing issue.
Well, actually, once pinned you can generate alerts without getting
more snapshots. But only when you are out of compliance. In which
case the alert will fire on every detection cycle for the same drift which
is indicating the out of compliance situation.
I could not reproduce this issue. After pinning the alerting stopped, as
it should because, as it states in step 5 of the repro steps, the
system is in compliance. I tried an agent restart just to make sure it
was not a strange sync issue but that did not cause any problem.
As long as the snapshot version after the pinning is "0" then there should
be no alerting. *IF* there was reported drift after the pinning, and the
snapshot version is 1 (or higher) the situation would be as described, as
a file would remain out of compliance.
Also, if the tester had *more than one* definition for the resource, and
did not restrict the alert definition to the one definition being tested
in this BZ, then alerts could have been fired due to drift reported for
the other definitions.
No changes being made, please re-test.
I retested this and got the expected results. There is one thing to consider
that could have led to the reported results. Suppose your definition is pinned,
and then you generate some drift such that you have snapshots 0, 1, and 2. Then
you re-pin against snapshot 1. In this situation you would still generate drift
and alerts after re-pinning because what was snapshot 2 will still get detected
as drift again.
discussed with jsanda and retested. the explanation of pinning against snapshot 1 (when there is shapshots 0, 1, and 2) is plausible. cannot reproduce.


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Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team put themselves in good position for every key move of the day in the 255.2km Ronde van Vlaanderen on Sunday, and the result was Belgian rider Tom Boonen winning the race in a three man sprint, jumping with about 250 meters to go. Alessandro Ballan (BMC Pro Team) and Filippo Pozzato (Farnese Vini) were his break mates, and Pozzato was unable to catch Boonen before the finish line after Boonen jumped. This is a record third win for Boonen at Ronde van Vlaanderen.
"It's always difficult in a race like this, especially in a headwind," Boonen said. "I made a good sprint. I think Pippo was strong. Maybe on the Kwaremont he was stronger than me. But in the sprint he didn't have as much of a chance. Of course I didn't sit down and let them go, the one real thing I had to do was jump on a wheel when Ballan went. I had to chase, and waited for Pippo to push it, but he didn't really push it."
Ballan, 3rd place finisher, was the rider who jumped first in the final sprint before Boonen jumped. Ballan attempted to get away multiple times in the last few kilometers as well, including the 1km marker. Boonen stuck to his wheel each time. The three men worked together for 15km after Ballan initially attacked on the Oude Kwaremont. The gap quickly grew to 15 seconds on a false flat, and Boonen had to fight to stay composed up the final climb of the Paterberg, so he could stick with the two men and conserve his sprinting legs. The trio, once on flatter ground, expanded their gap to more than a minute in the last 10km. Boonen continued to wait on any moves by his break mates, and he successfully kept the race scenario in his favor until the last few hundred meters. It was a watching game, until Ballan decided to jump for the final time.
"For me it's not so important to show up on climbs and try to drop everyone and maybe lose the race," Boonen said. "I have to wait for my moment and count on my sprint."
Niki Terpstra and Sylvain Chavanel also had fantastic races for Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team. Terpstra finished 6th, and Chavanel 10th in a small group of riders who stuck together when the peloton blew apart on the last several climbs. Unfortunately, Fabian Cancellara (Radioshack-Nissan) — one of the race favorites — crashed out of the race in the feed zone before the key moves of the race happened.
"He crashed and I think maybe 10 minutes later we heard the news he wasn't in the race anymore," Boonen said. "We weren't really chasing anything. For us I feel really bad for him, but we just raced and didn't worry about the other guys. I am sad for him, and wish him a fast recovery and I am sure he will come back stronger then ever for the Olympics and for the other big goals he has."
Terpstra, Chavanel and Boonen made a select group of 11 riders with 32km to go, which included riders like Ballan, Pozzato, Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale), Juan Antonio Flecha (Katusha) and other big names. They had more 40 seconds at one point. Vincent Jerome (Team Europcar) decided to attack with 28km to go, and Terpstra worked hard to catch him solo with 23km to go after he and Chavanel took turns at the front setting the tempo high. Terpstra eventually caught him, and, when the peloton caught the select group, Terpstra continued to battle off the front on the Kwaremont. Terpstra was reeled in, and Ballan then attacked. That is when Pozzato decided to join Ballan, and Boonen followed his wheel with less than 18km to go.
"Every extra guy we have in the final kilometers is important," Boonen said. "It was nice to see that Chava and Niki were there. We controlled the break a little bit, but everything came back just before the Kwaremont, then Jerome went, then we went after him."
The entire team worked tremendously well all race long. Stijn Vandenbergh, playing the role of domestique to perfection, worked the front and then accompanied Boonen in the back of the field as he conserved energy and had his bike examined by a team mechanic earlier in the race. Gert Steegmans, Matteo Trentin, Nikolas Maes, and Dries Devenyns were all visible at the front, contributing during the race. Chavanel threw down the hammer multiple times, and also made sure riders couldn't bridge to Boonen when he got up the road.
Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team has won 29 races in 2012, in three disciplines, and moves up to third place in the UCI WorldTour team classification with 349 points. Boonen is now the top rider in UCI WorldTour individual classification, with 266 points.
"Right now I am happy," Boonen said, but admitted the win hasn't truly sunk in yet. "I've been extremely busy, but maybe in the shower I will have five minute to breathe a little bit, and then it will come.
As far as the new course goes, Boonen hesitated to call the 2012 course more difficult than 2011.
"It's different," Boonen said. "The last few days everybody was talking about how it's much harder, I always said it's not much more difficult. It's just different. There are more hills in the final kilometers. It's a different race and I am happy I won it for the first edition of the new course. I think the next few races, some will race harder in the final, but you saw it. Everyone was tired on the Kwaremont. The first time they pushed it but not hard, the second time riders were getting dropped."
Results - 96th Ronde van Vlaanderen (Brugge - Oudenaarde 256km)
1. Tom Boonen (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quickstep - 6:04:33
2. Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Farnese Vini - Selle Italia
3. Alessandro Ballan (Ita) BMC Racing Team
4. Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team
5. Peter Sagan (Svk) Liquigas-Cannondale
Top American Finishers
52. George Hincapie (USA) BMC Racing Team
77. Edward King (USA) Liquigas-Cannondale
96. Jacob Rathe (USA) Garmin - Barracuda
Photos: OPQS / Time de Waele
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From earlier: The grounds crew is putting the tarp on the field here at Camden Yards. It's getting darker and rain is on the way. We'll see how long before tonight's scheduled game begins.
In the meantime, please leave any comments or questions here starting now on the O's majors or minors and I'll answer as best as I can.
The questions are not pouring in. It's kind of a trickle. Okay, there aren't any yet. But I'm not getting sensitive about it. Bueller, Bueller.
By the way, I just had an interesting conversation with Jim Henneman, the official scorer here. I asked Jim if he knew of any "unwritten rule" in baseball where a player does not run over the mound on his way back to the dugout. Remember the A-Rod and Dallas Braden incident. A-Rod ran over the mound and Braden got all worked up about it.
I asked Jim because he covered baseball for so many years and is very knowledgable. He didn't know of any unwritten rule like that.
I still don't mind Braden's reaction and standing up to A-Rod. He also pitched a perfect game a few days later.
7:20 update: It is now raining very hard at the Yard. This may be a longer delay than some thought, although people in the press box seem confident that we'll get this game started at some point.
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Thor's Hammer, monstrous hoodoos and a Sinking Ship. Bryce Canyon's red-orange-pink amphitheaters stage a Norse myth 70 million years in the making.
Wind, water and time have eroded Bryce Canyon National Park's sandstone cliffs into otherworldly characters plucked from the unconscious of a mad Viking. Rows of humanoid pillars crosshatched by rock strata look almost intentional but perfectly surreal. So silent, eerie and beautiful. So improbable it has to be true. Your first view of the park is a dramatic unveiling. Wind through stands of pine trees until they break at the rim of Bryce Canyon National Park, revealing a panorama of goblins, towers and fins of a color you can't quite name. Read more...
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(What's the Pantone number for "Leif Erikson's Beard"?) The canyon's epic comes alive as you move through the 37-mile circuit — especially as the sun rises and sets.
You can learn a lot about yourself looking into Bryce Amphitheater. Do you see a purgatorial cavern crawling with demons? …beatific angels lining the stadium of heaven? …the Claron Formation's variously dense, variously iron-rich layers of mud-, silt- and limestone, cut up by water and frost in an 800-foot cross section of the Paunsaugunt Plateau that lays bare the geologic record since the last dinosaurs bought the farm? See what you want and interpret accordingly. (It's a shame Sigmund Freud never hiked the Fairyland Loop.)
Speaking of frost, don't pack for Zion when you're going to Bryce, which is a full 18˚F cooler. The rim reaches 9,100 feet above sea level, so July peaks around 80˚F and winter snow sticks around until April. (Yeah, snow. Lots of it. Brian Head Ski Resort is just up the road. Enjoy the desert paradox.) It's a year-round national park: comfortable all summer and snowy hoodoos make for gorgeous cross-country skiing winter to spring.
Bike it, hike it, snowshoe or ride a horse. If you don't want to park, hop on the shuttle and people-watch between viewpoints. Take a cameraful of pictures no one will understand and let the giant yellow-pink monsters haunt your dreams.
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Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah, not far from Zion National Park – just a scenic hour-and-a-half drive away. Below are directions to Bryce Canyon from some notable nearby destinations.
From Zion National Park (72 miles)
Take Hwy 9 east toward Mt. Carmel Junction. Take Hwy 89 north for 43 miles, then turn right and head east on Hwy 12. Follow the signs to Bryce Canyon National Park.
From Salt Lake City, UT (268 miles)
Take I-15 S toward Las Vegas, NV for 213 miles. Take exit 95 and head southeast on Hwy 20 to Hwy 89 south, then Hwy 12 east. Follow the signs to Bryce Canyon National Park.
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Take I-15 N toward Salt Lake City. Take exit 95 and head southeast on Hwy 20 to Hwy 89 south, then Hwy 12 east. Follow the signs to Bryce Canyon National Park.
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