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Spain's two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has been nominated by race favorite Chris Froome as his biggest threat for this year's edition, which gets under way on June 29 in Corsica.
Froome, Kenyan-born but brought up in South Africa and who has ridden with a British license since 2008, had Contador well behind him in the Criterium du Dauphine, an influential warm-up race earlier this month, but he believes that will count for nothing once they start the Tour.
"I think there is quite a big group of competitors who could be looking to go for the yellow jersey this year, maybe six, seven guys who could be competitive there," the 28-year-old said. "However, Alberto Contador is still the biggest threat at the moment. He's won many grand tours in the past and he'll certainly be ready for this year's Tour de France."
Froome, who finished second in the Tour last year to Sky Pro Cycling teammate Bradley Wiggins after working tirelessly for his compatriot throughout the race, admitted that he was feeling nervous ahead of the start, but he drew a positive message from that.
"Definitely nervous, ahead of a three-week race like the Tour de France it's probably a good thing to feel a little bit nervous, but I do feel confident that I've done all the correct preparation up until now and I'm going into the Tour de France with a really strong team behind me," said Froome, who has been virtually unbeatable this season.
Froome, who also won Olympic time-trial bronze last year while Wiggins took gold, admitted that not having Wiggins on the team would make a difference, although it is widely believed that their relationship has deteriorated, especially after Froome was chosen to be team leader for this year's Tour.
Wiggins has since pulled out of the Tour with a knee injury, although that has not prevented him from training in Mallorca, Spain, as he prepares for a late season challenge at the world championships, having said he does not want to contest the Vuelta a Espana.
"We no longer have the strength that Bradley could have brought to the Tour team," Froome said. "He would have been a really big asset to have supporting me in the mountains and also in the team time trial, could have been a really strong addition in the team, but I do believe we have a strong team without Bradley."
Froome, who Sky are keen to see extend his contract with other teams reportedly preparing to try and lure him away come the Aug. 1 deadline when official bids for riders are permitted, said that the idea was not to try and take the yellow jersey too early and then hold onto it.
"If I can get into the yellow jersey at any point, that would be, obviously, the objective for me, but I wouldn't say we have to try and go for it as soon as possible," he said. "I think the first three stages in Corsica are going to be very tricky and to avoid any crashes or anything happening there is going to be the main objective."
Froome, who has also won the Tour of Romandie and the Criterium International this season, rubbished reports that he had said he wanted to win the Tour de France on several occasions, especially as he was yet to win one.
"I've never said that I want to win the Tour several times, I would love to win it once even," he said. "I know to win it once is going to be a really hard objective to fulfill, but this year we are in a good position to go for it and we will certainly give it everything."


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Charlotte Storrs makes functional stoneware, pots and dishes which can be used on a daily basis. She prefers to use muted, natural colours or white glaze. Decoration is limited to combing, faceting or using patterned ceramic rollers on the clay. Since visiting potters in Japan she likes to incorporate akebia vine in her work, imported from Japan.
Domestic stoneware in white glaze with surface decoration. All pots and dishes are dishwasher and oven-proof, apart from those with akebia vine handles. Pots are fired to 1250 degrees in an electric kiln using green electricity.
Work available at:
Workshop Living, 13A Prince Albert Street, Brighton BN1 1HE., www.workshopliving.co.uk Bilston Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton WV14 7LU.
Bir Nokta Gallery, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey.
Blenheim Palace Craft Gallery, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Evie & Me Interiors, Market Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1HF.
Fortnum and Mason, Piccadilly, London
FROM, 16 Cornmarket, Thame, Oxfordshire OX9 2BW. www.fromroundhere.com
Mydeco Design Boutique. mydeco.com
Newlyn Art Gallery, New Road, Newlyn, Penzance TR18 5PZ.
Olivia & Marie Boutique, Belgium
Petersham Nurseries, Richmond, Surrey TW10 7AG
Swanky Maison. www.swankymaison.com
The Gallery, Waterperry Gardens, Waterperry, Oxfordshire OX33 1JZ
Wells Stores, Peachcroft Farm, Twelve Acre Drive, Abingdon OX14 2HP
July 2013: Art in Action Market, 19-22 July, at Waterperry, Oxfordshire OX33 1JZ. www.artinaction.org.uk
July 2012: Art in Action Market, 19-22 July, at Waterperry, Oxfordshire OX33 1JZ. www.artinaction.org.uk
June 2012: Pottery Open Days, 2,3,4 June, from 2pm to 5pm, 8 The Green, Culham, Oxfordshire OX14 4LZ.
May 2012: Exhibition including Oxfordshire Art Weeks, from 1 to 31 May, at The Gallery, Waterperry Gardens, Waterperry, Oxfordshire OX33 1JZ.
May 2012: ARTSPACE 2012, from 11 to 27 May, at Barn Galleries , Aston, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire. www.barngalleries.com
December 2011: Oxfordshire Craft Guild Christmas Exhibition, from 6 to 23 December at the Old Fire Station, Gloucester Green, Oxford.
December 2011: Primrose Hill Designer Sale, 10 December, 10am to 6pm, at St Mary the Virgin, Elsworthy Rd, Primrose Hill, London.
May 2011: Pottery open days Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd May.

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In Between the Numbers: Cutting Through the Cloud
My colleague Bharat Popat and I just published a perspective on Cloud computing for retail that we think will help retail technologists cut through the cloud around Cloud.
Our hypothesis is that Cloud basically consists of custom combinations of four IT best practices:
- Virtualization.
- Network-centric enterprise and store ICT architectures.
- The acquisition of services – ranging from enterprise applications to infrastructure to complete business processes.
- The pursuit (and use) of new financial models.
All of which are in rapid adoption throughout developed world retailing (and enterprises in general.)
In the paper, we argue that Cloud computing is important not just because of the operational and financial flexibility that it offers. It's important (actually, it's essential) because of how the retail business is changing, and where it's going:
Driven by shoppers whose behavior is cross-channel. Whose expectations are for a common brand experience in every physical space and to every possible screen.
Shoppers who want associates to know more than they do. Shoppers whose attention span is increasingly measured in milliseconds, not minutes.
It's no surprise that a large number of major retailers have implemented one or more of the four best practices. A significant number are combining them to one degree or another.
But an even larger number – according to what we see from analysts and in meeting rooms – are still thinking about it.
Which is cause for concern. Rather frightening, actually.
Because when the business is changing rapidly, you've got to be able to react-adapt-innovate at the same speed – or faster.
Read the white paper today and use the comments below to let us know what you think.
P.S. You can watch the replay of the Cisco Cloud Cloudverse for retail webcast featuring myself , Bart McGlothin and Peggy Casey by clicking here
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The three Rs – DNA replication, recombination and repair – are at the heart of proliferation, evolution and maintenance of genomes. Impairment of these processes results in genome instability and mutations that lead to cancer and other diseases. The four stimulating sessions in this year's theme will focus on homology-directed repair of DNA damage, the interplay between replication and other fundamental cellular processes, and the special challenges associated with the maintenance and protection of chromosome ends.
The first session, "Mechanism and Regulation of DNA Repair," focuses on various molecular aspects of the DNA homology-directed repair of damaged chromosomes.
Lorraine Symington (Columbia University) works with budding yeast to study the genetic mechanism of homologous recombination that is mediated by the RAD52 gene group and the involvement of recombination in DNA double-strand break repair, the maintenance of genetic stability and meiosis. She will discuss her recent work, which has shed light on the multifaceted role of several DNA helicases and nucleases in the early and late steps of the homologous recombination reaction.
Hiroshi Iwasaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) will describe his biochemical reconstitution of homologous recombination reactions with recombinase proteins and their accessory factors from fission yeast. The detailed analyses of these reconstituted reactions have provided considerable insights into the mechanism and regulation of the early steps of homologous DNA repair and the resolution of DNA intermediates made by recombinase proteins.
Sua Myong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has been at the forefront of applying single-molecule methodologies to examine the mechanism of action of DNA repair proteins and how the activities of DNA repair complexes are regulated. She will describe her recent work, which makes use of fluorescently labeled biomolecules and fluorescence cell imaging to define the mechanism of helicases and other enzymes involved in DNA repair and replication.
The second session, "DNA Replication Mechanism and Context," highlights recent advances in our understanding of the assembly and regulation of replication complexes and explores the intricate interplay between replication and other nuclear processes.
John Diffley (Cancer Research UK) uses budding yeast and human cells to decipher the mechanism of DNA replication and its regulation at multiple levels. Biochemical reconstitution of initiation complexes has advanced significantly our understanding of replication origin choice, licensing and replisome assembly. He will discuss recent findings from his lab, including molecular studies that elucidate how checkpoints regulate origin firing.
Mike O'Donnell (Rockefeller University) studies DNA replication and its coordination with other nuclear processes, such as transcription, recombination and repair in E. coli and human cells. Recent advances at his lab have shed light on how replication forks survive collisions with transcribing RNA polymerases and how the replication machinery directly participates in diverse repair events.
Prasad Jallepalli (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) is broadly interested in the mechanisms that control the fidelity of chromosome segregation. Orderly progression through mitosis requires intact sister chromatid cohesion, which is established during and influenced by DNA replication. Single-molecule analysis has revealed that replication, in turn, is profoundly affected by cohesion, with defects in post-transcriptional modification of cohesin subunits compromising fork progression and leading to the accumulation of DNA damage.
The third session, "Coupling of DNA Repair and Replication," concerns the dependence of DNA replication on DNA repair and checkpoint pathways and how this functional linkage helps maintain genome stability.
Antony Carr (University of Sussex) uses fission yeast as a model to delineate the genetic mechanisms of DNA replication-restart and replication-fork repair pathways. His laboratory has developed a replication-fork arrest system that entails a replication termination sequence and an inducible protein factor that binds this sequence. He will discuss results showing a major involvement of homologous recombination in the restart of stalled DNA replication forks at the expense of frequent gross chromosomal rearrangements.
Fanconi anemia is a chromosomal instability syndrome that predisposes patients to cancer. The FA proteins function together to promote DNA damage tolerance and repair during S phase. Angelos Constantinou (French National Center for Scientific Research) will discuss his recent findings, which implicate the DNA translocase FANCM, mutated in FA patients of complementation group M, in the processing and remodeling of stalled DNA replication forks and in linking replication-fork restart and repair to checkpoint signaling.
Catherine Freudenreich (Tufts University) is interested in understanding the cellular mechanisms of triplet DNA repeat maintenance. The expansion of trinucleotide repeat sequences is the cause of a number of inherited diseases, including Huntington's disease (a degenerative neurological disease), Fragile X syndrome (the most common inherited mental retardation) and myotonic dystrophy (a type of muscular dystrophy). She will discuss how her work in the budding yeast sheds light on the mechanisms that cooperate to maintain DNA repeat length.
The final session, "Telomeres and Telomerase," will focus on the challenges associated with the maintenance and protection of the ends of linear chromosomes.
Julie Cooper (Cancer Research UK, London) uses fission yeast to decipher the roles of telomeres in maintaining genome integrity and in guiding chromosomes through meiosis. Her recent work has uncovered a novel mechanism of chromosome end capping in cells that lack functional telomerase.
Madalena Tarsounas (Cancer Research UK, Oxford) studies how proteins involved in homologous recombination contribute to telomere replication and the establishment of protective cap structures. She will discuss results that implicate the tumor suppressor BRCA2 and the Rad51 recombinase in the maintenance of telomere integrity.
Telomerase has long been viewed as an attractive target for anti-cancer drugs, yet we still know little about the regulation of this enzyme. Peter Baumann (Stowers Institute) is interested in how the activity of this ribonucleoprotein complex is controlled at multiple levels from transcriptional regulation and complex assembly to posttranscriptional modifications and recruitment.
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Casual movie poster collectors know that Polish one-sheets almost always turn out to be classics – not because they have anything to do with the actual film they're meant to promote, but because they are interpretive concept-art mish-mashes that often take years to figure out how on earth they relate to the feature. Google search "Polish movie posters." You'll waste the afternoon staring at some truly bizarre movie-marketing imagery.
In honor of Halloween, a sample of horror-movie Polish posters have been posted to Vulture, and they're as surreal as you could have hoped. We'll try and translate them below:
The last one, which pretends to be for the corpse-dragging comedy Weekend at Bernie's, is the absolute "WTF?" of the entire group. I can't even begin to pretend that the two eyeballs on Peter Parker's Web-shooting hand have to do with Ted Kotcheff's 1989 movie. I even had to squint at the credit listing on the bottom of the poster to find Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman's names to make sure this really was supposed to be for Weekend and that wasn't a mistake at the top of the one sheet.
The others kind of make sense. A green, morphed Gremlin terrifies Santa on the sheet for Joe Dante's classic monster comedy. The robotic hand stroking the cheek of Igor on the Young Frankenstein poster challenges me, but not as much as the red (for some reason) creature on the Alien poster. Click the above link to see a few more. And if you have a favorite, bizarre Polish movie poster that you know about, share it with us below.


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Question: Can I configure Ubuntu so that an applications open to 1/2 of the screen width by default, and use 1/2 of the screen for 'full screen mode'?
I would prefer a solution that does not depend on Unity, although any solution would be welcome.
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DAL NH 16-03: Unsafe Wandering
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Re: DAL NH 16-03 Unsafe Wandering
Please remind your staff to be especially diligent in preventing unsafe wandering behavior.
It is recommended that a review be conducted of your facility's wandering behavior management program. The program should promote time for outside activities that can be therapeutic and helpful to the resident's health status and quality of life, while also including mechanisms that reduce the risk of unsafe behaviors and adverse outcomes that can result.
In order to better familiarize yourself and staff with your facility's wandering/elopement policies and procedures, please re-examine your security systems to ensure that adequate safeguards are in place.
Special attention should be given to the following:
- The desire of residents to spend time outside.
- Changes in resident health or mental status. Ensure residents are reassessed for risk of unsafe wandering behavior when any significant change in status occurs and modify the resident's care plan accordingly.
- Assignment of staff (as a result of increased staff vacations) who are not familiar with all residents and their special needs.
- Increased number of visitors who are unfamiliar with facility procedures/operations and residents. Staff who monitor building egress locations should be especially vigilant during times of the day when visitor traffic is high.
- Weather related conditions that might impact alarms or other environmental features of the facility.
- Functionality of door and wander alarm alerts (including all bracelets). Please ensure that all alarms are functioning and that they are tested frequently.
It is important that your facility remain attentive to prevent negative resident outcomes associated with unsafe wandering. ALL staff should be aware of the facility's systems, policies and procedures for identifying, managing, preventing, and responding to unsafe behaviors.
Additionally, to ensure ongoing resident safety, leadership should communicate with staff when back-up systems are implemented due to non-functioning primary alarm systems.
Please note per 42 CFR 483.13 and 10 NYCRR 415.4 reports of elopement should be submitted to the Department within 24 hours after discovery of the incident.
Please consider posting this letter at all nursing stations, staff rooms and security areas.
Thank you in advance for your efforts to provide our residents with a safe environment that allows them to enjoy a meaningful and satisfying quality of life. If you have any questions, please call the Bureau of Quality Assurance and Surveillance for Nursing Homes at (518) 408-1267.
Shelly Glock, Director
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Happy New Year! Similar to fashion, wedding trends are constantly changing. Most of our couples opt for a traditional wedding and ignore the fad, but for those of you that want a contemporary and trend driven wedding see the below for 2013 wedding trends – I'm loving them!
Coloured wedding shoes
This trend has been going for a while now and I don't see it stopping anytime soon.
Leopard print, zebra stripes, and Chevron are big 2013 wedding trends
Crystals and bling were a big part of weddings in 2012. I haven't seen this trend fade in the UK, which I'm glad of as I love a bit of sparkle.
Art Deco
I predict Art Deco weddings to be a big wedding trend for 2013. Think lace, pearls, fur, feathers, gorgeous jewelery, and silky materials.
Over the past few years weddings have become much more personalised than they used to be. Couples have monograms, they name tables after personal places, people, or things, and they're hands on with DIY projects. This year we will see even more personalisation in every wedding across the globe.


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Survey: Why Facebook, Twitter, Mobile Apps Will Score Big During March Madness
March 8, 2011: The 2011 NCAA Men's Division I basketball tournament will be coming to tens of millions of people beginning next week via a first-year alliance between CBS and Time Warner's Turner Sports division, which will combine to air games on four networks.
However, even with hoops available on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV, a significant number of people will either use as their main source or as an important added source of information such venues as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and mobile applications.
According to a new survey from IMRE Sports, 23% of those polled said they would be using some form of social media to follow this year's men's NCAA tournament. The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive for the Baltimore-based marketing and research firm, showed that among the 23% who would be using social media, 31% would be using YouTube and 27% would utilize a mobile application.
Among the top reasons for using these venues: 62% said they would use social media channels specifically to check the scores, 44% would use them to watch the games, 44% would use them to follow their favorite team/college, 40% would use them to follow their own bracket/other gaming purposes and 19% would utilize social media channels to follow their favorite player/coach.
The survey is in line with a recent poll conducted by research firm Burst Media, Burlington, Mass., which showed that more than 25% of self-described avid sports fans use the Internet as their primary source for scores and sports information and that an equal percentage have or currently follow their favorite athletes via such venues as Facebook and Twitter.
According to the IMRE Sports survey, the popularity of social media channels among men's college basketball fans extends year round. More than two in five of those surveyed (42%) follow men's college basketball throughout the year. Of the 42%, the study showed that 44% use social media tools to interact with the sport; that Facebook is the most popular way to follow/interact with the sport (25%), followed by Twitter (13%), blogs (13%) and 11% interact via online forums; that Facebook pages (18%) and Twitter accounts (10%) hosted by sports or news networks are the most popular; and that 13% follow/interact with a team/college Facebook page and 7% follow/interact with a player/coach Facebook page.
The research shows that men will be more likely than women to use social media to follow March Madness, by a margin of 3 to 1 (32% men vs. 14% women). The study also revealed that those with higher household incomes ($75K+) and college graduates are more likely to be planning to use mobile applications and Twitter.
"There are more opportunities for brands to share their messages with the very targeted demographic that lies within sports fans."
"As more fans continue to engage in social media channels to view sports and follow their favorite teams and players, there are more opportunities for brands to share their messages with the very targeted demographic that lies within sports fans," Kelly Nowlan, research director at IMRE Sports, said in a statement.
This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive on behalf of IMRE Sports from February 24 to 28, 2011 among 2,366 adults ages 18 and older.
The NCAA tournament begins March 15 with the newly formatted "First Four" and runs through the Final Four, April 2-4.


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NADP funding ensures that Canada's documentary heritage is both preserved in local communities and made available to the broader researching public.
There is an online petition asking that the National Archival Development Program not be cancelled as cancelling it puts the documentary history of Canada in jeopardy. (Anyone in any country can sign this petition - if you have Canadian ancestors, you will be affected by these cuts.)
The elimination of this Program appears to put LAC in contravention of the Library and Archives of Canada Act which empowers and obliges the LAC to
"7(f) to support the development of the library and archival communities", as well as compromising the role of the Librarian and Archivist of Canada to "8 (i) provide professional, technical and financial support to those involved in the preservation and promotion of the documentary heritage and in providing access to it."Olive Tree Genealogy has received emails from concerned genealogists. Here is one of the emails recently received:
I have been reading with some considerable concern about theI think the writer is correct. Genealogists are going to be adversely impacted by these cutbacks. Can we do anything about it? I'm not hopeful but I have signed the online petition and written to my local MP.
government's plans to make changes to Library and Archives Canada and wondering how this is going to affect genealogical research. I haven't seen it much discussed, and wondered if you have any thoughts about it. Here is one recent story, from the Tyee News. I can't see how this is not going to affect people researching their family history.
For those who may have missed this - Parks Canada and other Federal employees have been ordered not to criticize the government or discuss these budget cuts with anyone. The official letter states, in part, that they are being reminded of their "obligations regarding public expression, whether through the media (including social media), large meetings or in other forums"
So now we have budget cuts being made that will adversely affect Canadians and others seeking historical or genealogical information, and Federal employees are being hit with what amounts to a gag order. I understand loyalty to one's employer but what about freedom of expression?
What are your thoughts on this? Do you have suggestions on the best way to express support for the Archives and the NADP?
I think it's very sad that there are only 6,000 signatures on the petition. Is this our typical Canadian apathy hitting us in the face? I am quite convinced that there are more than 6,000 genealogists and historians in Canada who will be affected by these cuts.
American friends - you can sign the petition too! I know that many of you have Canadian roots. So please take a moment to add your name to the 6,000.


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Employment in water and sewage systems is projected to grow, while other segments of the industry are projected to decline.
Because the utilities industry consists of many different companies and products, skills developed in one segment of the industry may not be transferable to other segments.
Production workers' earnings are significantly higher than in most other industries.
Nature of the Work
The simple act of walking into a restroom, turning on the light, and washing your hands, uses the products of perhaps four different utilities. Electricity powers the light, water supply systems provide water for washing, wastewater treatment plants treat the sewage, and natural gas or electricity heats the water. Some government establishments do the same work and employ a significant number of workers; however, information about them is not included in this statement. Information concerning government employment in utilities is included in the Career Guide to Industries statements on Federal Government and State and local government, except education and health. Each of the various segments within the utilities sector is distinctly different.
Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution. This segment includes firms engaged in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power. Electric plants harness highly pressurized steam or some force of nature to spin the blades of a turbine, which is attached to an electric generator. Coal is by far the dominant fuel used to generate steam in electric power plants, followed by nuclear power, natural gas, petroleum, and other energy sources. Hydroelectric generators are powered by the release of the tremendous pressure of water existing at the bottom of a dam or near a waterfall. Scientists also are conducting considerable research into renewable sources of electric power—geothermal, wind, and solar energy.
Legislative changes and industry competition have created new classes of firms that generate and sell electricity. Some industrial plants have their own electricity generating facilities, capable of producing more power than they require. Those that sell their excess power to utilities or to other industrial plants are called nonutility generators (NUGs). A type of NUG, termed an independent power producer, is an electricity generating plant designed to take advantage of both industry deregulation and the latest generating technology to compete directly with utilities for industrial and other wholesale customers.
Transmission or high voltage lines supported by huge towers connect generating plants with industrial customers and substations. At substations, the electricity's voltage is reduced and made available for household and small business use via distribution lines, which usually are carried by telephone poles.
Natural gas distribution. Natural gas, a clear odorless gas, is found underground, often near or associated with crude oil reserves. Exploration and extraction of natural gas is part of the oil and gas extraction industry, covered elsewhere in the Career Guide to Industries. Once found and brought to the surface, it is transported throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico by gas transmission companies using pressurized pipelines. Local distribution companies take natural gas from the pipeline, depressurize it, add its odor, and operate the system that delivers the gas from transmission pipelines to industrial, residential, and commercial customers. Industrial customers, such as chemical and paper manufacturing firms, account for nearly half of natural gas consumption. Residential customers who use gas for heating and cooking, electric utilities, and commercial businesses—such as hospitals and restaurants—account for most of the remaining consumption.
Water, sewage, and other systems. Water utilities provide about 100 gallons of fresh, treated water every day for each person in this country, or close to 40 billion gallons per day nationwide. Water is collected from various sources such as rivers, lakes, and wells. After collection, water is filtered, treated, and sold for residential, industrial, agricultural, commercial, and public use. Depending on the population served by the water system, the utility may be a small plant in a rural area that requires the occasional monitoring of a single operator or a huge system of reservoirs, dams, pipelines, and treatment plants, requiring the coordinated efforts of hundreds of people. Sewage treatment facilities operate sewer systems or plants that collect, treat, and dispose of waste from homes and industries. Other utilities include steam and air-conditioning supply utilities, which produce and sell steam, heated air, and cooled air.
Utilities and the services they provide are so vital to everyday life that they are considered "public goods" and are typically heavily regulated. Formerly, utility companies operated as "regulated monopolies," meaning that in return for having no competition, they were subject to control by public utility commissions that ensured utilities acted in the public interest and regulated the rates they were allowed to charge. However, legislative changes in recent years have established and promoted competition in the utilities industry. The electric utilities industry, for example, is currently restructuring in an effort to promote efficiency, lower costs to customers, and provide users with an increased number of service options.
Many utility companies are municipally owned. For example, of the roughly 2,000 gas distribution companies in the United States, about 1,000 are municipally owned. In general, utilities serving large cities have sufficient numbers of customers to justify the large expenditures necessary for building plants, and are operated by private, investor-owned companies. In rural areas, where the small number of customers in need of services would not provide an adequate return for private investors, the State or local government funds the plant construction and operates the utility.
The various segments of the utilities industry vary in the degree to which their workers are involved in production activities, administration and management, or research and development. Industries such as water supply that employ relatively few workers employ more production workers and plant operators. On the other hand, electric utilities generally operate larger plants using very expensive, high technology equipment, and thus employ more professional and technical personnel.
A unique feature of the utilities industry is that urban areas with many inhabitants generally have relatively few utility companies. For instance, there were about 53,400 community water systems in the United States in 2002 serving almost 268 million people. The 45,000 small water systems served only 25 million people while the 8,400 largest systems served more than 242 million. Alaska, with a 2002 population about 10 percent of that of Massachusetts, had about 3 times more electric generating plants than Massachusetts. These examples show that economies of scale in the utilities industry allow one or two large companies to serve large numbers of customers in metropolitan areas more efficiently than many smaller companies. In fact, some utility companies, predominately serving large metropolitan areas, offer more than one utility to their customers.
Unlike most industries, the utilities industry imports and exports only a small portion of its product. In the natural gas industry, for example, this reflects the fact that the country has a sizable, proven resource base that can be used economically to meet the country's needs. This is the result of a National policy that utilities should be self-sufficient, without dependence on imports for the basic services our country requires. However, easing trade restrictions, increased pipeline capacity, and shipping natural gas in liquefied form have made importing and exporting natural gas more economical. In 2002, about 18 percent of the natural gas consumed was imported, mostly from Canada. A small portion of natural gas is exported in liquefied form, primarily to Japan.
Working Conditions
Electricity, gas, and water are produced and used continuously throughout each day. As a result, split, weekend, and night shifts are common for utility workers. The average workweek for production workers in utilities was 40.9 hours in 2002, compared with 33.6 hours for all trade, transportation, and utilities industries, and 33.9 hours for all private industries. Employees often must work overtime to accommodate peaks in demand and to repair damage caused by storms, cold weather, accidents, and other occurrences. The industry employs relatively few part-time workers.
The hazards of working with electricity, natural gas, treatment chemicals, and wastes can be substantial, but generally are avoided by following rigorous safety procedures. Protective gear such as rubber gloves with long sleeves, nonsparking maintenance equipment, and body suits with breathing devices designed to filter out any harmful fumes are mandatory for work in dangerous environs. Employees also undergo extensive training on working with hazardous materials and utility company safety measures.
In 2002, the utilities industry reported 5.0 cases of work-related injury or illness per 100 full-time workers, compared with an average of 5.3 cases for all private industries, and 7.2 cases for manufacturing industries.
Utilities employed about 600,000 workers in 2002. Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution provided almost 3 in 4 jobs.
The diversity of production processes in the utilities industry was reflected in the size of the establishments that made up the industry. For example, the electric power and natural gas distribution sectors consisted of relatively large plants. In 2002, electric power generation, transmission, and distribution plants employed an average of about 55 workers per establishment. On the other hand, the water, sewage, and other systems sector employed an average of only 8 workers per establishment (table 2).
Although many establishments are small, most utilities jobs were in establishments with 100 or more workers (chart 1).
About 227,000 jobs—almost 38 percent of all wage and salary jobs in the utilities industry—were in production or installation, maintenance, and repair occupations (table 3). About 23 percent of jobs were in office and administrative support occupations; almost 14 percent were in professional and related occupations; and about 13 percent were in management, business, and financial occupations. The remaining jobs were in construction, transportation, sales, and service occupations.
Workers in production and installation, maintenance, and repair occupations install and maintain pipelines and powerlines, operate and fix plant machinery, and monitor treatment processes. For example, electrical powerline installers and repairers install and repair cables or wires used in electrical power or distribution systems. They install insulators, wooden poles, and light-duty or heavy-duty transmission towers. First-line supervisors and managers directly supervise and coordinate the activities of production and repair workers. These supervisors ensure that workers use and maintain equipment and materials properly and efficiently to maximize productivity.
Production occupations include power plant operators, power distributors, and dispatchers, and water and liquid waste treatment plant operators. Power plant operators control or operate machinery, such as stream-driven turbine generators, to generate electric power, often using control boards or semi-automatic equipment. Power distributors and dispatchers coordinate, regulate, or distribute electricity or steam in generating stations, over transmission lines to substations, and over electric power lines. Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators control the process of treating water or wastewater, take samples of water for testing, and may perform maintenance of treatment plants.
Industrial machinery mechanics install, repair, and maintain machinery in power generating stations, gas plants, and water treatment plants. They repair and maintain the mechanical components of generators, waterwheels, water-inlet controls, and piping in generating stations; steam boilers, condensers, pumps, compressors, and similar equipment in gas manufacturing plants; and equipment used to process and distribute water for public and industrial uses.
General maintenance and repair workers perform work involving a variety of maintenance skills to keep machines, mechanical equipment, and the structure of an establishment in repair. Generally found in small establishments, these workers have duties that may involve pipefitting, boilermaking, electrical work, carpentry, welding, and installing new equipment.
Office and administrative support occupations account for about a quarter of jobs in the utilities industry. Customer service representatives interview applicants for water, gas, and electric service. They talk with customers by phone or in person and receive orders for installation, turn-on, discontinuance, or change in service. General office clerks may do bookkeeping, typing, stenography, office machine operation, and filing. Utilities meter readers read electric, gas, water, or steam consumption meters visually or remotely using radio transmitters and record the volume used by residential and industrial customers. Financial clerks, such as bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. They perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records.
Professional and related occupations in this industry include engineers and computer specialists. Engineers develop technologies that allow, for example, utilities to produce and transmit gas and electricity more efficiently and water more cleanly. They also may develop improved methods of landfill or wastewater treatment operations in order to maintain compliance with government regulations. Computer specialists develop computer systems to automate utility processes; provide plant simulators for operator training; and improve operator decision making. Engineering technicians assist engineers in research activities and may conduct some research independently.
Managers and administrators in the utilities industry plan, organize, direct, and coordinate management activities. They often are responsible for maintaining an adequate supply of electricity, gas, water, steam, or sanitation service.
Utilities provide career opportunities for persons with varying levels of experience and education. However, because the utilities industry consists of many different companies and products, skills developed in one segment of the industry may not be transferable to other segments.
High school graduates qualify for most entry-level production jobs. Production workers may start as laborers or in other unskilled jobs and, by going through an apprenticeship program and gaining on-the-job experience, advance into better-paying positions that require greater skills or have greater responsibility. Substantial advancement is possible even within a single occupation. For example, power plant operators may move up through several levels of responsibility until they reach the highest-paying operator jobs. Advancement in production occupations generally requires mastery of advanced skills on the job, usually with some formal training provided by the employer or through additional vocational training at a 2-year technical college. Additional formal education from an outside source is sometimes needed.
Most computer, engineering, and technician jobs require technical education after high school, although opportunities exist for persons with degrees ranging from an associate degree to a doctorate. These workers are usually familiar with company objectives and production methods which, combined with college education, equip them with many of the tools necessary for advancement to management positions. Graduates of 2-year technical institutes usually fill technician positions. Sometimes, graduates of engineering programs will start as technicians until an opportunity to advance into an engineering position arises.
Managerial jobs generally require a 4-year college degree, although a 2-year technical degree may be sufficient in smaller plants. Managers usually can advance into higher-level management jobs without additional formal training outside the workplace. Competition is expected to be keen for management positions, as industry restructuring is forcing utility companies to shed excess layers of management to improve productivity and competitiveness in the new deregulated environment.
Job Outlook
Wage and salary employment in utilities is expected to decline 6 percent between 2002 and 2012, compared with an increase of about 16 percent for all industries combined. Projected employment change varies by industry segment, as shown in table 6. Although electric power and natural gas are essential to everyday life, employment declines will result from improved production methods and technology, energy conservation by consumers and more efficient appliances, and a more competitive regulatory environment.
Reorganization of electric and gas utilities has increased competition and provided incentives for improved efficiency. For example, nonutility generators of electricity, such as a major industrial plant operating its own power generators, are permitted to sell their excess electricity to utilities at competitive rates. Also, independent power producers can build electric power generating plants for the sole purpose of selling their power to utilities. These producers generally build gas-turbine generating plants, which have lower construction and environmental costs, employ fewer workers, and usually can sell electric power more cheaply than the coal-powered steam-turbine generator plants.
In the gas transmission and distribution industry, regulatory changes now allow wholesale buyers to purchase gas at competitive rates from any producer and to use the gas pipeline transmission network to transport the gas. This process also is occurring at the distribution level. These changes have caused an increase in gas and electric utility mergers, workforce reductions, and the redesign and reallocation of job duties in a process that will continue through the 2002-12 projection period.
New and continuing energy policies also provide investment tax credits for research and development of renewable sources of energy and ways to improve the efficiency of equipment used in electric utilities. As a result, electric utilities will continue to increase the productivity of their plants and workers, resulting in a slowdown in employment opportunities. However, highly trained technical personnel with the education and experience to take advantage of new developments in electric utilities should face good prospects for employment.
In the water and sewage systems industries, regulatory changes have had the opposite impact. Regulations in these industries have not been designed to increase competition, but to increase the number of contaminants that must be monitored and treated and to tighten the environmental impact standards of these industries, resulting in increased employment.
Water and sewage systems services are projected to be the only growing segment of utilities, with employment projected to increase 46 percent from 2002 to 2012. This segment is expected to grow as a result of an increase in the amount of waste generated from a growing population. Also, newly constructed housing developments are more likely to have community water supplies and waste treatment facilities, increasing demand for these services.
Technology and automation will adversely affect natural gas distribution utilities employment. Although natural gas is an increasingly popular choice among homeowners, businesses, and electric utilities, the efficiency of natural gas furnaces has increased considerably, thereby reducing average home consumption. These energy-conserving technologies will likely continue to minimize the relative use of natural gas by most industries and by individual homes. In addition, utilities in colder climates have increasingly automated their meter reading and billing procedures. Combined, these developments are projected to result in a decrease in employment in natural gas distribution services.
In general, persons with college training in advanced technology will have the best opportunities in utilities industries. Computer systems analysts and network systems and data communications analysts are expected to be among the fastest growing occupations in the professional and related occupations group, as plants emphasize automation and productivity. Some office and administrative support workers, such as utilities meter readers and bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, are among those affected by increasing automation. Technologies including radio-transmitted meter reading and computerized billing procedures are expected to decrease employment.
Overall, production workers in the utilities industry had average weekly earnings of $978 in 2002. Earnings varied by industry segment within utilities (table 4). Average weekly earnings for production workers were highest in natural gas distribution ($1,009) and electric power generation, transmission, and distribution ($1,000); and lowest in water, sewage, and other systems ($689).
Earnings in utilities were generally higher than earnings in other industries. The hourly earnings for production workers in utilities averaged $23.94 in 2002, compared with $14.95 in all private industry. This was due in part to more overtime and weekend work—as utility plant operations must be monitored 24 hours a day—which commands higher hourly rates.
Sources of Additional Information
General information on the utilities industry and employment opportunities is available from local utilities and from:
American Water Works Association, 6666 West Quincy, Denver, CO 80235. Internet: http://www.awwa.org
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 1125 15th St. NW., Washington, DC 20005.
American Public Gas Association, 11094-D Lee Hwy., Suite 102, Fairfax, VA 22030. Internet: http://www.apga.org
American Public Power Association, 2301 M St. NW., Washington, DC 20037-1484. Internet: http://www.appanet.org
Detailed information on many key occupations in the utilities industry, including the following, may be found in the 2004-05 edition of the Occupational Outlook Handbook:
Computer systems analysts, database administrators, and computer scientists
Construction laborers
Electrical and electronics engineers, except computer
Engineering technicians
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers, except millwrights
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Nuclear engineers
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Most mechanical bolted joints and connectors come with the appropriate hardware, but what happens when you have to provide your own?
What's in a bolted joint? This seems like a simple question. You obviously need a bolt, a nut and some washers. But, there's more to it when it comes to joining different conducting materials. Depending on the kinds of materials you're joining, you may need some special hardware. Let's walk through a set of steps that will help you choose the right hardware for your joint or connection.
Step 1: Verify bus bar conducting metals. Typically, you'll find these conducting metals used for bus bars:
- Tin-plated aluminum;
- Silver-plated copper; and
- Bare copper.
In switchyards, you may also find steel used at certain connection points.
Step 2: Verify connection composite. Based on the types of conducting metals you're connecting, you'll need specific hardware. Therefore, you must verify the connection composite. Typical scenarios include copper-to-copper; copper-to-aluminum; and aluminum-to-aluminum. As a general rule, you're less likely to have a copper-to-steel or aluminum-to-steel connection, but it's possible.
Step 3: Choose hardware materials. Using the proper hardware material for the specific connection composite helps ensure the connection's integrity will last. Your choices include silicon bronze, aluminum, stainless steel and galvanized steel.
- For copper-to-copper joints, you should use silicon bronze or stainless steel hardware.
- For copper-to-aluminum joints, use tin-plated silicon bronze hardware or stainless steel hardware.
- For aluminum-to-aluminum joints, you should use aluminum or stainless steel hardware.
- For copper-to-steel joints, you can use silicon bronze, stainless steel or galvanized steel hardware.
- For aluminum-to-steel joints, you can use tin-plated silicon bronze hardware, as well as stainless and galvanized steel hardware.
See Table 1 on page 28F for a list of recommended hardware materials for connection composites.
Step 4: Choose bolted joint configuration. According to Framatone Connectors International (FCI), Manchester, N.H., you have two choices of bolted joint configurations, as shown in Fig. 1. Your choice depends on the connection composite, as mentioned above. Note that both configurations (Fig. 1A and Fig. 1B) include a bolt, nut and flat washer. However, Fig. 1B also includes a Belleville washer.
Use the Fig. 1A configuration for copper-to-copper joints. Depending on the type of metal in the hardware, you can also use this configuration for aluminum-to-aluminum and copper-to-steel joints.
Use the Fig. 1B configuration for copper-to-aluminum and aluminum-to-steel joints. Depending on the type of metal in the hardware you're using, you can also use this configuration for aluminum-to-aluminum and copper-to-steel.
See Table 1 on page 28F for joint configurations, per connection composites.
Throughout the industry, opinions vary as to what the "correct" method is to install Belleville washers. According to FCI, the following is a successful, time-tested procedure (refer to Fig. 1B):
- First, place a flat washer between the concave side of the Belleville washer and the surface of the member you're joining. By doing so, you capture the Belleville between the bolt head and large flat washer. (Make sure you use a flat washer having an outside diameter greater than that of the flattened Belleville so there is no overhang. Also, choose a flat washer that's twice the thickness of the Belleville.)
- Second, fit the assembly (bolt, Belleville and flat washer) into its hole. (Make sure there's no interference with washers of adjacent bolts and no overhang over surface edges.)
- Third, tighten the nut (with a washer of its own) onto the bolt until you feel a sudden and noticeable increase in torque. The Belleville is now flat; it's not necessary to "back off" the nut after you've tightened to this point.
Step 5: Apply correct torque. Probably the most important task in making a bolted joint is applying the correct torque to tighten the components. Remember, every field termination (from the smallest low-voltage screw terminal to the largest lug) has an optimum torque value that produces the most reliable, low-resistant joint. See optimum torque values for the most common materials and sizes of hardware used in making electrical connections in Table 2 on page 28F.
One common question is: "Does torquing a bolt beyond its optimum torque value make for a better connection?" The answer is an emphatic "NO!" The only effect is possible damage to the bolt and connection itself. The better practice is to initially install hardware to the recommended torque values, and then periodically check for signs of loosening or overheating before making any adjustments.
So, how does the tightening of a connection affect contact resistance anyway? Let's say you torque a bolt to produce a contact force of F1. By doing so, you reduce the contact resistance to a lower value, R1. But, through creep and temperature cycling, the connection materials may relax and result in a different contact force (F2).
Looking at Fig. 2, on page 28D, you can see that the relaxation curve differs from the tightening curve. Although the materials relax to a contact force of F2, the contact resistance remains relatively constant. This indicates a stable connection throughout the F1-to-F2 contact force range.
If you make sure you have the right hardware for your particular joint or connection, you can keep bolted joints and connections from getting you uptight.


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Winter has arrived in Alaska. While Alaska's coastal villages got pounded with winds and storm surges in the last few days,Southcentral received a significant amount of snow recently.Temperatures have been well below freezing at night and the rivers are starting to freeze up. Lakes are freezing over and Alaskans are getting excited about winter travel.
" Ice on the large lakes means that winter has come to Alaska. Ponds become meadows, lakes are landing strips and our rivers return to being highways." I am quoting John Schandelmeier, longtime Alaskan here in a recent article in the ADN.
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/11/07/2159580/ice-on-lakes-means-winter-is-truly.html
And he is right. Winter time is the time to travel to places in Alaska otherwise out of reach in the summer months.
It is also the time we have our race on the Iditarod Trail. And with the arrival of winter we are getting excited about the race. For about two months of the year this imaginary line in the Alaskan landscape comes alive with mushers, racers,bikers, skiers, runners,dogs and snowmobiles on the trail. We are looking forward to this time of year.
The race roster has been full with a long list of qualified racers.
We still hava spaces left in our winter training camp from January 23-27, 2012.
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Bicycle Nova Scotia is proud to announce the names of the BNS 2013 CG Core Team that will be racing as a team at the 2012 Canadian National MTB XC Championships in St Felicien, Quebec, on June 16th. The BNS 2013 Core team attending the 2012 National MTB XC Championships is made up of some of the athletes that will be competing for spots to represent Nova Scotia at the 2013 Canada Games in cycling. The team includes:
Tyler Darcy - Elite U23
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In this interview with Director's Talk, Graham Bird, Managing Director of Gresham House Strategic Public Equity provides an overview of the recent year-end update for Gresham House Strategic plc, covering GHS's strong performance, the pipeline for 2019 and the Joint Venture that was announced last month with Aberdeen Standard Investments.
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Indie Film's Future To Be Decided Today/
If your ability to earn a living as an Indie Filmmaker is not a big enough issue to catch your attention, how about considering that your freedom is at stake? What if you knew that the principal and practice of free speech was at risk, would that wake you up? How about if you knew that corporate interests were once again being favored over those of the people? Well, today is the day that all those things are happening, so whachagonnnado? The FCC meets today and proposes regulations that could seriously undermine net neutrality. It generally appears that corporate interests are being looked after, and we are headed towards a tiered internet where providers can favor some content over others. Prepare to get really upset. Prepare to do something to fight back and protect a free and open internet.
Al Franken says it is the most important free speech issue of our time. VC fund, Union Square Ventures, recommends prohibiting "application-specific discrimination", and that seems to make good sense.
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Okay, i didn't JUST choose this version of the dress woman's painting because all three of you liked it best,
*i* sorta liked it better too. Sometimes i actually develop an opinion of my own sometimes, just for kicks.
Course THEN i go and water down (literally) with white paint the background page... so now it's even *softer* a background than it already was...
..which may defeat the contrast of pretty vs. rough. but whatever.
Btw... it's been a while since i've replied to any comments, don't worry, i WILL... this week too.
There a lot of interesting points made and sometimes just cool jokes or interesting things people say i wanna hit reply, but get distracted...
Okay, so here we are. Cody asked if this is for a story - HELL Yeah!!! Every time you see a painting of Dana, there's a whole graphic novel it's part of... three of them actually. I just need to compile it all.
Meanwhile, i figure why not leek it out in little dribbles online, just to get some feedback in advance, eh?
There ya go folks!


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East Market demo: New improved Bob's
You may have noticed that a familiar building on East Market Street is gone–the former Charlottesville Power Equipment building at 919 East Market was demolished yesterday to make way for some new digs for Bob's Wheel Alignment, located right next door, and allow Charlottesville Power Equipment to move into some bigger digs near the intersection of Greenbrier Drive and Route 29. Appropriately enough, demo company Diggs, Inc. did the honors, carefully bringing the building down with a trackhoe, for as Diggs' Mark Spicer points out there was only about a foot between the building and Bob's.
"Using a trackhoe you can reach and grab at it, which makes it easier to take down carefully, " said Spicer, who otherwise described the demo as "pretty routine."
Bob's owner, Bob Archer, who owned the demoed building, as well as his own and two others on that side of the street, says he plans to build a new store front, mechanics bay, office, a "nice waiting room," and the "whole works." He's also going to pick up 19 new parking spaces as well, City planners willing.
"It's going to be pretty nice," says Archer, who has been in business on East Market for 28 years.
Thanks to famous pedestrian Kevin Cox for the photos!
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AMMAN, (Reuters) - Amman bourse fell on Wednesday, May 30, in mostly selling by small investors and local funds of market mainstay Arab Bank, dealers said. The official 70-share benchmark Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) index fell 0.61 percent, closing at 140.72 points in turnover of 3.2 million dinars ($4.5 million), dominated by business in Arab Bank.
Block deals outside the trading floor were concluded in Jordan Steel. Losers outpaced gainers 23 to 18 with 23 shares unchanged.
Investors have been upbeat about the bank's announcement this week that its charismatic chairman Abdul Majeed Shoman, 84, who has effectively run the bank for the last six decades, would hand over the post of CEO to his younger son, Abdel Hamid, 54.
They said it would ensure a smooth transition in top management of the bank that has been run by the Shoman family, who own over 17 percent of its equity. It's balance sheet stood at $28.5 billion at end of 2000.
Arab Bank's price has risen by around 10 percent over the last two weeks even before the management changes, widely expected even before they were publicly announced this week.
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Arab Bank has led a market rally triggered by local fund purchases of undervalued stock, with good earnings prospects that has helped push the official ASE index higher by at least three percent in the last few weeks.
In the second largest deal, International Tobacco rose 2.52 percent to close at 1.22 dinars after shares worth 105,606 dinars changed hands.
Blue chip Jordan Electric Power was unchanged at 2.00 dinars, after shares worth around 37,000 dinars were traded.
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Obama keeps quiet on race — again
America's been waiting five years to hear more from President Barack Obama on race.
The waiting continues.
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Trayvon Martin is dead and George Zimmerman was found not guilty — leaving many looking to the president to lead the thoughtful, national conversation about black-white relations they thought was promised in his 2008 campaign speech on race.
Yes, there's a double standard. No previous president has been asked so often for his personal feelings on race. But for the first black president, that double standard is part of his life, and of his presidency. And black leaders say that, especially after last year's election, the time has come to deliver more than what he has so far.
( PHOTOS: George Zimmerman trial)
"The president is now in his second term. Because of the Voting Rights Act and the Trayvon Martin case" and the disproportionately greater impact on the black community from the recession, said National Urban League President Marc Morial, "I think that the table is set for the president to think about how he can address these issues not just in words, but renew some of the issues that he's championed."
For Morial, that means Obama, with the help of Congress, taking back up the JOBS Act and gun control legislation, and, in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict, doing so explicitly in the context of race.
Some older black leaders admit a sense of resignation after years of disappointment. Though Obama's expected to be asked to elaborate in a series of interviews with Spanish language television stations scheduled for Tuesday, they haven't heard much from the president since the Florida jury returned Saturday night, and they weren't expecting to.
( Also on POLITICO: Hate-crime charges for Zimmerman?)
"It's not unusual for the president to avoid 'black' and 'race' and 'poverty,' but we're pretty much satisfied with his statement as it relates to the Zimmerman verdict," said Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.).
But given the amount of attention the case got in the news and in protests since the verdict means to Obama's close supporters, he may have a new chance now to seize control of the conversation in a way he hasn't to date.
"This is an opportunity for us not to kick the can down the road again, and I think it's a chance for the president to get larger than the regular politics and the racial riffs would dictate," said Cornell Belcher, an African-American and a pollster who worked on both of Obama's presidential campaigns. "It's an opportunity to create an understanding. A lot of white America doesn't seem to understand the hurt that's in the African-American community today."
( PHOTOS: Trayvon Martin rallies)
Whether the president will take that opportunity, Belcher said — "that's a different question."
In this situation, Obama's thoughts aren't much of a mystery. His statement last March that "if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," was one of the rawest moments of his presidency — and one of the rare public comments from the president about his race, and the realities that come with it.
After the verdict, he issued a written statement observing, "I know this case has elicited strong passions," without acknowledging that some of those strong passions had been elicited within him.
He didn't even mention race, nodding only obliquely at the need "to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our own communities."
The White House has largely resisted efforts to dissect the meaning and intent behind the Sunday statement. But pressed Monday for more on Obama's personal reaction, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the president's feelings were apparent in the bland written release.
"I think his statement yesterday reflects how the loss of a young person is a source of great anguish and pain for the parents of that person, for the community where that person lived and for the whole country," Carney said, "because the loss is greater when a young person dies because the potential of that life is so unfulfilled."
Nothing specifically about race. Nothing about policy, beyond the call for better gun control in the president's statement over the weekend and repeated by Carney in the briefing room.
To Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) that's the real issue. There needs to be a national conversation on race, she said, but the president isn't necessarily the one who has to lead it. Moore said that for Obama, the Zimmerman verdict should be another call to put forward policy addressing racial inequality in education, economics and criminal justice — with or without the bigger race in America discussion.
"As far as I'm concerned, he does not have to put a dashiki on, wave a red-black-and-green flag, put up a black power fist," Moore said. "What I need him to do is try to level the playing field to make sure that African-Americans have the same opportunities."
Obama's in a precarious position. The president needed to ensure that the protests didn't become riots more intense than the confrontations in California Monday evening that led to several arrests, said Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, and that the millions of people who might not agree with him about the verdict wouldn't be jolted into polarization by a distorted comment out of the Oval Office.