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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius threw herself on a live political grenade Wednesday, taking full responsibility for the problem-riddled rollout of the federal health insurance marketplace and the decision not to delay the Oct. 1 launch of its troubled website.
"Hold me accountable for the debacle. I'm responsible," Sebelius testified at a packed hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
It was a theme the embattled Sebelius would repeat often during the three-and-a-half-hour grilling. Time after time when Republican lawmakers sought answers about the flawed marketplace portal, Healthcare.gov, Sebelius took the heat personally, shielding President Barack Obama, her staff and the project information technology contractors who played a large role in the ongoing problems.
"The contractors who we had as our private partners told us and told this committee that they had never suggested a delay, and that was accurate," she said. "Our (HHS) team felt we were ready to go. I told the president that we were ready to go. Clearly I was wrong. We were wrong. We knew that in any big, new, complicated system there would be problems. No one ever imagined the volume of issues and problems that we've had. And we must fix it."
But the health secretary was not helped by the fact that the Healthcare.gov website was down throughout the hearing, and Republican critics on the panel constantly reminded her.
A SWAT team of government and private industry technical experts has been detailed to fix the malfunctioning marketplace and website, which serves 36 states and helps the others verify information about health insurance applicants on their state-run marketplaces.
Sebelius said she expects the federal website to be fully operational for the vast majority of users by the end of November. But she acknowledged her credibility has been damaged by months of glowing reports – from herself, her staff and the private contractors – about the progress of the operation, even though government reports cautioned that problems loomed.
"The assessment that we have made is that it will take until the end of November for an optimally functioning website," she testified. "I know that the only way I can restore confidence that we'll get it right is to get it right. So I have confidence, but I know that it isn't fair to ask the American public to take our word for it. I've got to fix this problem, and we are underway doing just that."
Wednesday's hearing marked the first opportunity for lawmakers to formally question Sebelius since problems first emerged shortly after the marketplace began enrolling people for 2014 coverage on Oct. 1.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., offered a familiar complaint about constituents having their old policies canceled because they don't meet the new coverage and consumer protection standards set by the health care law.
"Some people like to drive a Ford, not a Ferrari, and some people like to drink out of a red Solo cup, not a crystal stem," Blackburn told Sebelius. "You're taking away their choice."
Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., who opted out of the congressional health plan and uses a private insurer, told Sebelius his plan had likewise been canceled. Gardner told Sebelius that she, too, should have to purchase coverage on the problematic marketplace.
A former governor and state insurance commissioner of Kansas, Sebelius remained calm throughout the morning as she weathered a torrent of pointed questions from Republican lawmakers who frequently cut her off in midsentence as they blasted the website's poor performance.
Never a shrinking violet, Sebelius held her ground. Citing sketchy data, she refused numerous requests from several lawmakers to disclose how many people had enrolled in marketplace health plans until mid-November.
She likewise rejected a request by Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, to ask for the resignation of one of her top lieutenants, Gary Cohen, over conflicting committee testimony he gave about the status of the website's construction.
She declined a request, as well, by a Democrat, Rep. Bruce Braley of Iowa, to extend the marketplace open enrollment period by two months to May 31, 2014.
And while she testified she gave the president "regular updates" on the development of the marketplace, Sebelius refused to say that Obama was ultimately responsible for the website failures, despite repeated pressure by GOP lawmakers for her to do so.
The bungled health care rollout has prompted 32 House Republicans to call for Sebelius' resignation, and the problems have appeared to weaken support for many of the Affordable Care Act's main provisions among some congressional Democrats.
But White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Obama has "complete confidence" in Sebelius.
"She took responsibility for many of the problems that are evident with the website," Earnest said of her testimony, "but she also deserves credit for the other aspects of the Affordable Care Act's implementation that have gone well."
Obama was in Boston on Wednesday, touting the health law in historic Faneuil Hall, where former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney signed that state's universal health care law in 2006, which served as a model for Obamacare. Despite the problems, Obama vowed to "grind it out" on the health care law, noting that the GOP-sponsored Medicare prescription drug program had similar problems when it was first introduced.
"There were even problems with the website," Obama recalled.
He said Democrats had opposed much of the prescription drug legislation, but "once it was the law, everybody pitched in to try to make it work. Democrats weren't about to punish millions of seniors just to try to make a point or settle a score. So Democrats worked with Republicans to make it work."
Obama called on Congress to do the same thing with the Affordable Care Act.
"Both parties working together to get the job done – that's what we need in Washington right now," he said. "If Republicans in Congress were as eager to help Americans get covered as some Republican governors have shown themselves to be, we'd make a lot of progress."
That doesn't appear likely, however. While Republicans still support repeal of the law, they now are moving to change what they don't like in the health law piece by piece. Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are pushing new legislation that would allow Americans to keep their health plan, even if it doesn't meet new standards set by the health law.
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Lesley Clark and David Lightman of the Washington Bureau contributed.

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I'm a 6th grade Social Studies teacher. The topic of religion as a part of culture comes up all the time. Today during a discussion of Greek myths, a student (a 12 year-old girl with a sweet smile) asked me if I believed in god. I paused and said, "Well, sure."
I felt that I was having a discussion with a child about Santa or the Easter Bunny. I didn't want to be the one to tell the child that all the adults in her life have been lying to her.
This has been bothering me all day. When this comes up again - I'm sure it will - should I lie as I did today, or should I tell the truth?
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A school teacher is hardly a position of authority in all matters. Ouside of the subject he/she teaches, his/her views may influence, but are hardly considered authoritative even by the students that age.
In any case, the conclusion, belief or lack of it in a God, is much less important than the process of arriving at it. If the students are looking to pick one authority figure over another in order to choose what to believe, that is really unfortunate. If they instead learn a critical reasoning path to choose their beliefs that is a job well done.
Im in a similar state. Im British but Im working in Thailand in a Christian school, ironically. I teach to 10 year olds and when I ask them if they enjoy bible classes (taught by a maniac Indian girl) they all say they hate it apart from the singing. My kids are very intelligent and I can see that some of em have already made their minds up about the falseness of god. If Im right and they can see through all the bullshit and they come to me and ask the question you have been asked, Im not gonna lie. Im just gonna tell them I believe in only what is proven, and me being here today is enough to tell me that believing in myself is all I really need to get me through this life. And if I get sacked, so what. At least Ive been true to myself, and honest to my children.
Why are you working in a Christian school? Is it by choice or because of the lack of it?
The latter. Christian schools are regarded as the best schools in Thailand, even though Buddhism (which is a much cooler religion considering) is considered the main medium of faith in the country. I didn't even know it was a private school til I got here. I had a skype interview and they hired me straight away. I moved locations, over 400 miles within 2 days. The joy of travelling overseas. Most of the teachers are ok with their beliefs, but then we'll have a staff meeting and join our hands for prayer and I cant help thinking how retarded we must all look. I dont grasp my hands or close my eyes, I just look around the room pitying them. I can live with that, but if they ever ask me to say grace, something will be said that they wont want to hear!
I think your analogy to Santa and the Easter Bunny speaks volumes to the predicament that you find yourself in, and the attitude with which you are approaching it. Further, it's presumptuous to believe that you would be breaking her grip on reality by revealing that "all" adults had been lying to her. These are sixth grade students, not first grade students. They are old enough to understand the connotations of saying "It isn't really important what I believe." You are not in a position where your only options are to lie or speak truthfully, you are in a position of responsibility that requires you to speak moderately and in a deflecting tone. Try not to let it bother you too much, and just take the opportunity when asked the question again to instill in your students the idea that an instructor's personal beliefs do not have any bearing on the material at hand.
FOR TEACHERS in the south it can be dicy, to say the least. My heart goes out to this teacher because I can imagine the fallout. "Mom, I asked the teacher if he believed in god and he said no/evaded the question/etc." some parents can make it a living nightmare for a teacher in that case. I have seen my own wife get fired under dubious circumstances from a school. The nudge-wink-good ol boy connections are stronger than blood. Sewing circle church ladies are more powerful than politicians in some towns. Hate to be so doom and gloom about it, but there you have it from a sincere person in North Carolina anyway. Best of luck to everyone in these difficult situations.
As a Brit, I find that completely and utterly staggering. If a teacher here were sacked under those circumstances, it would be a national scandal, and front page news. But actually, it just wouldn't happen.Even the most religious of parents don't expect their kids' teachers to be religious.
I never fail to be surprised how backward 21st century America can be.
Mike, Religion is mostly a matter of geography.Here in 'the states' & throughout the world. When someone 'comes on strong' about the late J.C., I might ask him / her wghat do they think they'd believe had they been born in the Middle East to Muslim parents. Then quietly wait for an answer. The same for India to Hindus, etc. Slowly but surely, it's changing here in the states. Even in 'the bible belt' there are many younger apostates. I was lucky, I read that dumb book over 66 years ago. It's the best cure for Xianity. I will die rather soon - a proud atheist.
Anyone who calls a book "dumb" deserves to die proud. This is an unconscionable position to take.
It sounded to me like William was referring to the Bible when he said "that dumb book". How is calling the Bible dumb an "unconscionable position to take"?
- Not right or reasonable
- Unreasonably excessive
It doesn't seem unconscionable by definition to refer to that book of fables as 'dumb".


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CLICK FOR SLIDESHOW. "The Waiting Room," from the Saved by Science series by Justine Cooper.
A natural history museum is really two museums, and when you're in one of them, you can hardly imagine the other. I don't know how many times I've wandered around the halls of the American Museum of Natural History, among the armored fish and the stegosaurs. But it wasn't until I was a 26-year-old science writer that I had the chance to pass through to the other side. I wanted to learn about pterosaurs, those stork-faced, bat-bodied reptiles that soared for 150 million years. I found out about a Brazilian man named Alexander Kellner who was getting his Ph.D. at the museum, studying new fossils of pterosaurs from the Santana Formation. Kellner invited me to the museum, to take a look at the bones and talk about his ideas about what pterosaurs had actually been like in life.
I followed his directions and came to the Grand Gallery. I waited by the Great Canoe, and eventually a gangly paleontologist emerged from the acoustic fog of school groups on field trips. He led me through exhibit halls, and then, between two dioramas, he stopped. At first I thought he was lost in thought, and then maybe that he had forgotten something. There was no reason, after all, to stop by a dim wall between a pair of displays. But then I heard keys ringing in Kellner's hand. He slipped one into an invisible lock, and the wall swung open. We slid through and Kellner locked the door behind us. I was in the other museum.
"You've never been back here?" Kellner asked. The answer was obvious; I was staring like a gob-smacked tourist at the rows of storage cabinets, which loomed overhead like wardrobes for giants. I knew that natural history museums kept fossils and other objects in storage, but I assumed that most of their material was on display, back in the other world. As we walked down long hallways, with drawer after drawer pressing in on either side, I realized how wrong I was. We could look into rooms as we passed, most of them with cabinets and drawers of their own. Kellner reached out to a hallway drawer and opened it. A hip bone from a dinosaur sat inside, knobbed and flared like a Calder sculpture.
It was the first of many journeys I've since taken to the other side of museums. Scientists love to show off their collections by pulling drawers open at random, the way Kellner did — exposing me to an army of flies from Peru neatly pinned to slips of paper, or a flock of lyrebirds lying on their backs as if dozing in a collective nap. I've gawked at fossil whale feet and jars of tapeworms, at leeches and Mesozoic ferns. But Justine Cooper's photographs at the American Museum of Natural History take me back to that first shock. They capture the crowded stillness of those halls, the unexpected treasures. The seals in the attic.
Cooper's photographs belong to an artistic tradition that reaches back over four centuries, to the origins of natural history museum collections themselves. In the 1500s, illustrators began to publish engravings of "cabinets of wonders" — where Renaissance monarchs housed personal collections of exotic oddities, like bizarre deep-sea fish, glittering crystals, exquisitely geometrical shells. Kings and queens would retire to these cabinets to contemplate nature, or just use them to dazzle their visitors.
Gradually, royalty's cabinets of wonders turned into libraries of flesh and rock, where scholars could research the workings of the world. Ole Worm, a 17th-century anatomist, became famous for his collection of narwhal skulls, stuffed lemurs, dried armadillos, and other natural specimen. Museum Wormianum, an illustrated catalogue of Worm's collection, was published posthumously in 1655, and what makes his illustration so mesmerizing is the strange way in which nature's fractal beauty appears so unnaturally organized. It's the same jarring effect seen in Cooper's photographs of modern natural history collections.
Museum collections may have their roots in the obsession of collectors and the public's love of oddities, but they've always served much greater ambitions. Worm used his collection to teach his students: "Let us take off the spectacles that show us the shadows of things instead of the things themselves," he wrote. In the 1700s, a worldwide system for naming species arose, which depended on museums to preserve the original type specimens that naturalists used to name them.
By the mid-1700s, naturalists were using collections of fossils to study the history of life on this planet, discovering dynasties of diatoms and conodonts that gave way to revolutionary new assemblages of species. Charles Darwin had some of his deepest insights into evolution while spending years studying fossils of barnacles from the British museum. And Ernst Mayr, the German ornithologist, developed the central explanation for the origin of species while curating a collection of bird skins at the American Museum of Natural History. As he studied the plumage of the birds and charted them on maps, he began to develop a theory for how new species arose through geographic isolation.
Cooper's photographs show how, over the course of centuries, museum collections grow into their own cumbersome beasts that require much care and feeding. It is no simple task to conserve these collections. Their information remains embodied in tissue and stone, even in an age in which we prefer our information abstracted and digitized, coursing without mass along fiber-optic cables. Earlier this year, a team of scientists unveiled the Encyclopedia of Life, an online repository of knowledge that they hope will someday contain data on every species that calls this planet home. One could imagine that each species page might someday include a DNA barcode, high-resolution photos of its exterior, MRI scans of its interior, and movies of it in the wild. On the morning of its launch this past February, the Encyclopedia of Life attracted 11.5 million visitors — so much traffic that it crashed the servers. That's more than twice the number of people who visit the American Museum of Natural History in a year.
Yet it would be a catastrophe if museums offloaded their pickled fish and stuffed lizards every time a species made its Internet debut. We can never declare a collection of walking sticks or kangaroo rats exhausted of all its secrets. In 1856 quarry workers in Germany unearthed some mysterious fossil bones that became the type specimen of Homo neanderthalensis — the Neanderthals. Naturalists made drawings of the bones and carefully compared them to humans, but were unable at that time to conclude whether Neanderthals were human or belonged to another species. The bones were moved to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, which has cared for them ever since. A few years ago researchers managed to extract DNA from the bones — a molecule that was unknown when the fossil was discovered. After analyzing the DNA, scientists concluded that Neanderthals are a separate lineage from our own, sharing a common ancestor with us that lived some 600,000 years ago.
Museum collections also uniquely capture nature's variety across space — a tray of butterflies can reveal the flow of genes across a river basin, the rise of new mutations, and the effects of genetic drift and natural selection — as well as time. The collections at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, include a trove of mice, gophers, and other small mammals collected in Yosemite National Park in the early 1900s. A century later, scientists from Berkeley went back to those exact sites and trapped for mammals once more. It was not an exercise in redundancy. The scientists discovered that mammals have moved up the slopes due to climate change. They are an ominous reminder that the collections that Cooper so lovingly portrays are not just a repository of the past, but a stake in our future.
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Part of the 3 Action range, along with the Titanium Misy version tested a little while ago, the steel railed Arte Selle Misy AX 3 Action saddle here is cheaper, heavier and more padded.
Just to recap, the 3 Action idea is one that separates the saddle design into three parts. A raised rear for climbing, a flat section for the less lumpy stuff and a dropped nose for when you're head down giving it the beans.
In practice it all works rather well. Being able to ease back against the elevated tail when climbing provides a good solid platform to push back against providing power. It also relieves some lower back pressure.
The middle section has a cut-out to remove numbness and the slightly increased level of padding over the titanium version is much appreciated. The Misy is a comfortable saddle while the narrow nose is ideal for the larger thighed rider. The slightly dropped nose helps when you're really going for it taking a bit of pressure off of the sensitive bits as you're flying over rough surfaces.
The sacrifice of the extra padding and a change to steel rails sees an increase of 50g over the titanium but at 225g its still a relatively light saddle especially for its £39.99 price tag.
Day-long comfort is good with an ideal balance of padding - meaning it's supportive enough without being squidgy. A few 4-5 hour rides were carried out in comfort with no numbness or hot spots.
Build quality is okay but not quite up to the standard you'd expect for forty quid. The material is stapled to the saddle shell and in places it was coming away and puckered in others. Thankfully the man-made upper looks good from above and should prove to be pretty hardwearing.
A decent, comfortable saddle with a pretty good weight, but average build quality.
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Make and model: Arte Selle Misy AX 3 Action saddle
Size tested: Red
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
A performance saddle on a budget.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
3 Action design which gives different positions for changing terrain.
If the build quality was better it would be worth the forty quid.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
It's comfortable, looks good and the 3 Action design works.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The 3 Action concept.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Poor build quality.
Did you enjoy using the product? It was okay.
Would you consider buying the product? No.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? No.
About the tester
Age: 34 Height: 180cm Weight: 76kg
I usually ride: Ribble Winter Trainer for commuting, Genesis Flyer My best bike is: Sarto Rovigo
I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, club rides, sportives, fixed/singlespeed,
With 20 years of road cycling and over 150,000 miles in his legs it's safe to say Stu is happiest when on the bike whatever the weather. Since writing his first review for road.cc back in 2009 he has also had a career in engineering including 3D-CAD design and product development, so has a real passion for all of the latest technology coming through in the industry but is also a sucker for a classic steel frame, skinny tyres, rim brakes and a damn good paintjob.
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Franklin County Sheriff Dennis Pike retires after 46-year career in law enforcement
FARMINGTON, Maine (AP) � One of Maine's longest serving law enforcement officers has retired after 46 years in a police uniform.
Franklin County Sheriff Dennis Pike retired Friday.
Pike is 74 and wanted to continue contributing, but in November lost his bid for a fourth term as sheriff.
Still, Pike tells the Morning Sentinel (http://bit.ly/ZOyvfy ) he has been blessed.
He says all he ever wanted to do with his life was be a police officer.
After six years in the U.S. Army Reserve, Pike started his career as an officer in Farmington, worked part time as a sheriff's deputy, and was eventually elected sheriff.
He says his greatest professional accomplishments include boosting deputy training, starting the dog unit, bringing anti-drug messages into local schools and working with Canadian authorities for tighter border control after 9/11.
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Finally, my family is hereTuesday, December 15th, 2009
My parents are finally in Australia!!! After 14 hour delay, no luggage anywhere to be found and a broken suitcase after all, we are all in Sydney, safe and sound. And together!
I cannot believe they gathered the courage to travel to the other side of the world without having travelled much before or speaking a word of English (except a few rude words). But here they are and we're planning to get to know Sydney as much as possible in these few days we will be spending here.


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I received this cookbook to review in the mail a week or 2 ago. Things have been crazy here, so I have just really had a chance to read it this week. Gluten-Free Every Day is written by Robert M. Landolphi. Robert is a 1991 graduate of Johnson and Wales University with a bachelor of arts degree in culinary arts & food service management. His website has a lot more information about him, the book and other fun stuff.
I am very impressed with the recipes in this book. There are over 100 easy recipes. I have yet to make any of them, but plan on doing that this coming week. The ones that really jumped out at me to put on my must make list are:
- Cheddar & Sour Cream Chicken Strips
- Smoked Gouda Polenta (remember my dinner out at Aqua Terra?)
- Chocolate Oatmeal Peanut Sqaures
- Raspberry Coconut Bars
- Almond Cookies
- Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits
- Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
If I had the time today, I would have made the Carrot Cake. I have all the ingredients on hand, so you never know. 😉 I will make sure to update & share my results once I make these recipes.
A bonus in this book is an explanation on gluten-free flours, nut meals & starches; how-to toast, caramelize & zest; using prepared gluten-free foods and some brands; links to gluten-free resources.
This book would be a wonderful addition to your cookbook collection.
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SAN DIEGO & MILPITAS, CA, June 13, 2007 - DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) and SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced a licensing agreement allowing SanDisk to include DivX® technology in SanDisk's Sansa® line of video-enabled products.
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SanDisk expects to announce plans later this year for DivX support in its product lines.
About SanDisk
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
About DivX, Inc.
DivX creates products and services designed to improve the experience of media. Our first product offering was a video compression-decompression software library, or codec, which has been actively sought out and downloaded over 220 million times since January 2003, including over 70 million times during the last twelve months. We have since built on the success of our codec with other consumer software, including the DivX Player application, which is distributed from our website, www.divx.com. We also license our technologies to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing, advertising and content distribution.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute "forward-looking statements." Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations for new product introductions, applications, markets, and customers that are based on each company's current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. These factors include, but are not limited to, market demand for products may grow more slowly than expectations or there may be a slower adoption rate for these products in new markets that are being targeted, product introductions may be delayed, the products may not perform as expected, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in each company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, each company's Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, such as DivX's quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 15, 2007. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Each company is providing this information as of the date of this release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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For DivX:
Bruce Lidl
DivX, Inc.858-882-0815
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Usability Studies and Feedback
For us to be a success, we must reach our audience at the point of need, with the content they need, in the form they need it. This is an ambitious goal, given that we have not yet clearly identified our audiences. We believe that they include researchers primarily in the humanities, undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Alabama, and patrons in the University of Alabama community.
To succeed, we must connect with our users and obtain feedback, and then modify our content and its delivery methods appropriately. This must be an iterative effort, as our user base and our offerings are continually morphing.
Cabaniss Study
Donnelly Lancaster Walton (Archival Access Coordinator) developed a proposal for a user study in late 2008: http://www.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/images/f/f4/User_study_20081110.docx
Some of the questions she posed include:
- Do our researchers want to do their own searches and pull together the letters written by individuals and place them in their own order?
- Do they want us to present them to them in the order in which they are arranged physically at the Hoole?
- Do they want us to present the collections folder-by-folder and allow them to virtually open the folder and view the contents?
- Do they want to look at the archival finding aid and view the digital items within the context of the finding aid?
We attempted to address these points with the Cabaniss Usability Study in late 2010.
Metadata Comparison Study
A second usability study evolved from the concern over the lack of staffing support for archivists to create item-level descriptive metadata, against the burgeoning need for content to feed the digitization machine. This usability study is currently underway and more information on this effort is available in the Metadata Comparison Test.
Our experience with these studies clarified for us that we need to better understand the metrics for testing learnability of interfaces and how to best select questions and perform tests to ensure valuable results for analysis. Prior to development of the next tests, we studied Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing and Presenting Usability Metrics by Tom Tullis and Bill Albert, Morgan Kaufmann publishers, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-12-373558-4
Acumen Access Study
A third usability study held in January 2012 pointed out some problems our patrons are having with the Acumen interface. Amanda Presnell, who carried out this study with the assistance of Jeremiah Colonna-Romano, then presented the results to the Digital Planning meeting. Her presentation is available here: http://www.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/images/6/6a/Presentation.pdf
As a result of these findings, Digital Services then developed two videos to link into the left side of the Acumen interface. One is "How to use Acumen" and the second is "What's in Acumen?" -- the Hoole curators provided the text and examples for the second video. Our next step is to determine how useful these videos are in meeting the need they attempt to fill.
Faculty Researcher Study
In late 2012, we began a qualitative user study to understand how faculty researchers access primary source materials online. Our research questions are: What aspects of current online primary source materials are most useful for faculty researchers? What aspects are most problematic? What gaps exist between the needs of these researchers and the current methods of online delivery? Eleven interviews took place December 2012 - February 2013. The study findings were presented in a panel discussion at the Society of American Archivists 2013 meeting, and an article analyzing the results was published in D-Lib in July 2014.


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Easter Basket 2012: How do you eat your Cadbury Creme Eggs?
For some of us, spring isn't spring and Easter isn't Easter until we've had that first bite of a Cadbury Creme Egg. We've already talked about how you can enjoy your eggs deviled or in salad form, but what if you just want to eat one straight up and factory fresh?
It turns out there's more than one way to eat a Cadbury Creme Egg. After some careful analysis at Serious Eats HQ, I've identified what I believe are the three major styles of creme egg consumption. I've included the procedures below. You may want to take notes—this isn't easy stuff, and it will be on your Easter final.
The Lateral-Diagonal
This method maximizes isolated chocolate enjoyment while keeping the yolk and white largely intact. It's best performed by those with great incisor control—too much pressure will crush the shell before the filling is fully extracted. The steps:
- Make a lateral incision across the top of the egg with your teeth, just enough to expose the white.
- Take a diagonal bite from the top of the shell outward toward its equator, thus exposing the greatest amount of white while keeping the shell intact.
- Lick out filling in one to two swipes.
- Crush empty shell in mouth.
The Longitudinal
Unlike the above method, which separates the chocolate and filling into separate bites, this maneuver severs the egg hemispherically, with a slightly higher ratio of filling to shell. It's best performed by wide-mouthed individuals who can wrap their teeth around the whole egg. Aligning with the natural fault line in the egg is critical to your success; failure to do so will likely result in structural collapse (more on that below). The steps:
- Align whole egg pole to pole against your top and bottom teeth, making sure that the egg's natural fault line matches your dental axis.
- Hold egg in place with two fingers while biting down cleanly.
- Chew and swallow half of egg, lick filling out of remaining half, then eat empty shell.
The Cobra
Rare, exceptionally talented individuals can eat their eggs whole, much like a snake devouring an egg several times larger than the natural dimensions of its mouth. This move is best performed by experienced egg eaters only. Reckless whole-egg eating has already claimed too many lives.
Structural Failures to Avoid
Amateur egg eaters may be tempted to bite the egg in half along its equator. Let it be known that this technique almost certainly invites disaster. The egg will split along its longitudinal axis, getting filling all over the user's hands. And let's be honest: the filling, while delicious, is also a little gross.
Room for Future Research
This is what I'd consider a reasonably authoritative field guide to the different procedures for eating Cadbury Creme Eggs, but there's always room for future growth in the literature. How about you, Serious Eaters—how do you eat your eggs?
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Each time Hudson's Jim Grillo drives by the home located at 410 Main St. in his hometown he sneaks a peak at the property and shakes his head.
Each time Hudson's Jim Grillo drives by the home located at 410 Main St. in his hometown he sneaks a peak at the property and shakes his head.
A longtime resident, Grillo is on a personal mission to get an anti-blight bylaw passed in town to clean up properties like 410 Main St., which has several old lawnmowers, chairs and knickknacks stored on the front lawn.
"There is no reason for all that," said Grillo. "You're making the town look like crap. It's common sense. Take care of your property. It's not hard to do."
Health Agent Sam Wong has visited the home in the past and asked the homeowners to place the old lawnmowers, which the homeowner collects, in a steel container in the front yard. Attempts to contact the homeowner were unsuccessful.
Grillo, who has unsuccessfully petitioned Town Meeting to pass a bylaw because of concerns about personal property rights, recently asked selectmen again to discuss creating a bylaw.
"My thing is there is nothing positive about it," he said of blighted property. "It has to offend everyone."
Recently, selectmen approved forming an anti-blight committee consisting of Building Inspector Jeffrey Wood, Police Chief David Stephens, Wong and six residents who will review the previous anti-blight bylaws that Town Meeting shot down and come up with one a future Town Meeting will vote on.
Grillo, who plans to apply for a spot on the committee, is against issuing significant fines for violations and would rather see the violations fixed.
"We don't need to send people to the poorhouse over common stuff," he said.
Grillo does hope, however, that Hudson follows the footsteps of Marlborough, Framingham and Milford in passing a bylaw.
Framingham passed a nuisance bylaw in 2001 to prevent blight, which Framingham Building Commissioner Mike Tusino defined as any condition that impairs the value of real property, such as dangerous or overgrown vegetation, old furniture left outside or old construction materials left on a property.
Framingham Town Meeting also approved a task force that walks neighborhoods with problem properties to issue violations to homeowners of properties such as 31 Fountain St. where the vegetation around the home is significantly overgrown and a dilapidated Newton Park Road home, said Tusino.
"It speaks for itself," Tusino said of the Newton Park Road home.
The task force will issue a warning providing the homeowner seven to 10 days to fix the complaint. If the complaint is not corrected a $25 a day fine is levied. That increases to $100 a day after seven to 10 days and could rise as high as $300 a day if the issue is not corrected, said Tusino.
Like Framingham, Milford and Marlborough's aim is not to fine residents, but have the blight corrected.
"We want the nuisances to go away," said Milford Building Commissioner John Erickson. "It just gets out of control. At some point it becomes a nuisance and unacceptable."
Marlborough Code Enforcement Officer Pamela Wilderman has investigated 109 blight complaints in the past year and said 90 percent of warnings for violations, including overgrown vegetation, dirt and wood piled on a front lawn and large amounts of trash left outside, are corrected quickly.
"It's a good starting point," Wilderman said of the warnings. "It's a way to start communication. The intention is to look at obvious issues."
Having a bylaw allows inspectors in all three communities to take steps to work with homeowners, specficially edlderly residents, to clean up their properties.
"It absolutely positively has helped," said Erickson.
Several other towns, including Northborough, Ashland, Medway and Hopkinton, do not have anti-blight restrictions and many have not had the issue come before Town Meeting.
Medway Building Commissioner John Emidy uses the International Property Maintenance Code, which regulates the minimum general maintenance requirements for existing buildings.
"The code deals with general property maintenance of accessory structures, sheds, pools and other fixed structures, interior and exterior maintanance, egress and other habitation requirements," said Emidy. "The International Property Maintenance Code is a better enforcement tool in my opinion."
Grillo hopes that with an anti-blight bylaw, the issue will not come up in the future in Hudson.
"We want to make a nice community that everyone can be proud of," he said.
Jeff Malachowski can be reached at 508-490-7466 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Egypt's prominent belly dancer Fifi Abdou has asked the Egyptian Taxation Authority (ETA) to reduce a LE15.5 million ($2.5 million) tax bill levied against her claiming that the government should not count "customer tips" to belly dancers as part of night clubs' profits, Ahram Arabic-language news website reported on Saturday.
Abdou's defense team has brought a suit against the ETA to lower taxes imposed on her from 1999 until 2004. The team argued if tips (Noqta) that Abdou received from her night club's visitors are not counted as taxable-income, she would only owe LE2500 for the five year pertiod in question.
A Cairo lower court will listen to legal arguments in the case on 24th November.
The tax authority has estimated Abdou owed LE1.8 million ($294,000) in taxes in 1999 reaching LE3.3 million ($541,000) in 2004.
Abdou, 59, dominated the scene of belly dancing in Egypt for two decades until she retired dancing in 2006 to focus on acting.
She also starred in several films and TV soap-operas since the 1970s.


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Second-tier systems replace legacy controls
Got an old control system? Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt looks at a few case histories where companies chose products and services from second tier vendors to replace their legacy control systems.
PERIODICALLY, we cover the Second Tier of process control system vendors. As you will see in the accompanying "The Industry's Top 50 Suppliers" article, the hierarchy of control system vendors consists of a clumping of eight Big Boys at the top (Emerson, Honeywell, Invensys, ABB, Siemens, Rockwell, Schneider and Danaher) followed by a huge gap to the Second Tier companies gathered below. Last year, the gap was $400 million in annual sales.
The Second Tier companies are not separated from the Big Boys just by sales figures: Their philosophies are different, their approach to marketing is vastly different (because of their often amateurish attempt at marketing, you probably never heard of some of the lower 42 in the Top 50), and their product offerings tend to be narrower and more niche-oriented.
The Big Boys tend to spread out across the product continuum, offering everything from field instruments to process controls to asset management software, while the Second Tiers appear to concentrate on doing a few things very well. This can consist of serving specific industries such as power or paper, providing specific kinds of HMI/SCADA software, adding on capabilities to other systems, or providing general-purpose, lower-cost solutions.
It also may consist of exploiting chinks in the armor of the Big Boys. For example, when it comes to supporting legacy systems, the Big Boys are vulnerable. Some big companies are notorious for dropping support of certain products, charging a fortune for parts and service of legacy systems, and otherwise making it very difficult for end user companies to continue using the same brand for control. In contrast, the Second Tiers offer interesting, useful and often less expensive approaches to legacy system replacement.
This article describes case histories where products and services from Second Tier vendors replaced legacy control systems. Our purpose here is to demonstrate that elegant, useful and cost-effective systems are available for process control from second-tier vendors. Be sure to consider the Second Tiers when shopping for a control system.
A Waterfall of Savings
When it costs less to replace a legacy system than it does to maintain it, that legacy system is history. So it was in Upstate New York.
The Water Resource Department in the town of Tonawanda, N.Y., just north of Buffalo, operates and maintains hundreds of miles of water and sewer lines. Each year millions of gallons of water drawn from the Niagara River are treated, distributed, collected and cleaned to serve the towns 80,000 residents.
Software from Iconics replaced software from Intellution when the cost of supporting the legacy system got too high.
The town installed Genesis32 Enterprise edition and Web HMI software from Iconics at both the Water Department and the wastewater treatment facilities. The two locations have a total of five Genesis32 servers and five Web HMI servers. Iconics software is also deployed at 13 remote pumping stations connected over leased lines back to the control room.
Workers in all locations can view displays on standard Internet browsers. Other Iconics software being used includes GraphWorX32 for operator screens, TrendWorx32 for real-time trending, and AlarmWorX32 for distributing alarms and events to the appropriate people.
The system was installed by town employees, with sales and technical support from BCS, a systems integrator in Buffalo, N.Y.
OPC technology and redundancy both play a significant role in the application. Kepware OPC drivers connect Genesis32 to Modicon PLCs and various industrial control devices. The system has approximately 4,000 I/O points, and redundancy is built in at several levels. There are redundant servers in each location and each location works as a backup for the other. A wireless Ethernet between the locations runs over a Cisco backbone, while DataWorX32 software keeps the plants in sync. Redundant OPC drivers and redundant Ethernet are used, with a recovery time after a failure of less than 300 msec.
Switching to Iconics paid for itself in the first year, says Rick. For the price of one year of support on the old system, we installed Genesis32 and WebHMI on 32 bit platforms, and gained more technology, such as the ability to have true thin client viewing via standard Internet Explorers. Why didnt the town simply upgrade to the latest version of FIX? Rick says the Intellution solution would have cost 25% more than the Iconics system.
Iconics was able to reduce our operational cost while providing us with technology we can grow with, says Rick. In addition to lowering the support cost for maintenance contracts, supporting the system internally is now minimal. With WebHMI, all the administration and licensing is done on the server.
Windows Woes Cured at Canner
The legacy control system at McCall Farms in Effingham, S.C., was based on whitebox PCs and an older Microsoft Windows 95 operating system that was no longer supported by Microsoft or the control system vendor. It tended to crash when operators entered production line changes, causing process data to be lost and production to stop. Legacy systems that crash usually get replaced.
McCall Farms produces a variety of canned fruits and vegetables under the Margaret Holmes brand, and distributes them throughout the southern U.S. in major national retail stores and major supermarket chains. Its canning process is continually moving with minimal allowances for equipment downtime and wasted product. Plus, according to a McCall Farms mandate, all products must be canned within ten hours of harvest.
The canning process starts with fresh fruits and vegetables bought from farmers across the southeastern U.S. Each type of produce has its own unloading area where it goes through a series of wash tanks for thorough cleaning before being sent to a blancher.
|Touchscreens allow operators all over the plant to request data, see trends, and change parameters.
The assorted can and pouch types McCall Farms uses require up to four line changes a day. An on-line change would sometimes cause computers to lock up, stopping the process and generally causing us to lose any food in production at that time, Jason Durant, McCall Farms electrical engineer said. Obviously, this was not a good situation and made us reluctant to make changes unless absolutely necessary.
Fortunately, part of the solution was already on hand. Several years ago, as part of a project to fully automate its 500,000 square foot plant, McCall Farms installed 4,000 feet of Profibus I/O wiring, numerous touchscreen HMIs, and racks with 70 nodes of Beckhoff IP 20-rated I/O.
Unfortunately, the canning process was still being run by the clunky legacy system, and software had become a source of nagging problems. "We were programming with our previous software, but it was continuing to cause process errors that we could no longer tolerate," he said. "Complicating things even more, the program had been discontinued four years earlier and would only run on an outdated Windows operating system."
The company bouight Beckhoff TwinCAT control software and Beckhoff Industrial PCs to replace the legacy system. The buy part of the equation wasnt very difficult, says Durant. TwinCAT licensing was about 25 percent less expensive than other offerings we looked at and, even better, there arent yearly upgrade fees.
Durant was able to expand to as many Profibus drops as required in an area and could easily add or retrofit drops as needed. There are currently three Profibus trunks each using a separate Beckhoff C3640 PC running TwinCAT for plant-wide process control. At present, the Profibus trunks have a combined total of just over 100 drops.
The software changeover was not difficult. "Our process has programming with a lot of sub-routines. Beckhoff worked with me for a couple months to figure out the best route for making a painless conversion to TwinCAT."
The User Defined Function Block (UDFB) capability of TwinCAT turned out to be a major timesaver. "There was a lot of repetitiveness in our programming and the rungs were exactly the same with just different bits on them," he explained. "I made a UDFB, copied the block and changed the bit rather than having to create entire rungs over and over again. There were several operations that previously took three rungs to get one function done. Instead of using three rungs, I used the UDFB. It cut hundreds of rungs worth of logic down to 70 rungs, and amounted to about a 30 to 40 percent savings in programming time.
TwinCAT adheres to the IEC-1131 environment. We used three of the programming languages and tailored them to the area of the facility we were controlling. These are Sequential Function Chart, Structured Text and Ladder Logic programming. As a person with no formal programming experience, I found TwinCAT to be very easy to use.
The change-over has been so seamless that McCall Farms machine operators dont know that theyve switched to TwinCAT. It has been business as usual for all involved without any major problems, Durant said. We upgraded our existing HMI program, which directly links into TwinCAT via an OPC Server connection, but the operators didnt notice any difference with the possible exception of some improved graphics.
Recently, McCall Farms avoided considerable expense from potentially wasted product because TwinCAT runs in the Microsoft Windows kernel, and is independent of other operating system processes. A whitebox computer in their cook room locked up and Durant was unable to make an immediate corrective action. But, because TwinCAT runs in the kernel mode, the process was able to complete without problem, resulting in zero loss of product.
With the old system, all five of the rotary cookers and all four of the pot cookers would have went down, Durant said. This saved us several thousands of dollars that we definitely would have lost had we still been using our previous software.
Looking back at how much progress McCall Farms has made, Durant sleeps a bit easier at night, "We don't have crashes any more and we feel a lot more confident that the equipment will be running when we come to work in the morning."
New System Ups Power Plant Performance
St Johns River Power Park (See Figure 3 below), located on a 1900-acre site in northeast Jacksonville, Florida, is a coal-fired generating station owned jointly by Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) and Florida Power & Light Co (FPL). It has two 640MW units, each with a Foster Wheeler drum boiler and a General Electric tandem compound steam turbine-generator. The plant uses a variety of domestic and foreign coals, as well as 20% petroleum coke.
Legacy control systems at Units 1 and 2 at St Johns River Power were both upgraded.
Replacing two complete control systems is a challenge at any plant of this size. Further, it required that planning, contract award, engineering, testing, installation and commissioning be done in about ten months.
A modernization of this scope usually requires extensive up-front planning to develop project guidelines, requirements and vendor specifications. St Johns management initially considered hiring an architect engineer for this work and to oversee the project, but realized the time involved would preclude startup according to their schedule.
They chose instead to have Metso Automation do a thorough study of the existing systems and propose a solution to meet schedule and performance requirements. Based upon the study, Metso Automation and St Johns personnel decided to modernize the plant with two Metso maxDNA automation systems. Metso Automation provided a turn-key solution, taking prime responsibility for design, installation and commissioning of the new control systems and field equipment.
It was agreed to emulate hard control schemes that were familiar to plant operators. Further, St Johns wanted Metso Automation to implement the latest generation of Leeds & Northrups original D-E-B coordinated control, which assures parallel control of the boiler and steam turbine generator.
Plant operators were included on the project team. They provided extensive input to the design of operating graphics. The team worked together to determine standards, display layouts and functions. Another goal was to make the transition to the new system as smooth as possible. To that end Metso Automation designed the control strategy configuration to match the existing system wherever possible. Plant Manager Paul Smith said, for the most part, the control sequences, indicators, alarms, operator response sequences, etc. of the new system were designed to mirror what our unit operators have been familiar with for the last ten or twenty years.
Data base parameters from the existing system were imported into the new maxDNA system and tuning constants were imported to speed automatic operation on startup.
Unit 2 was upgraded first, during the annual Spring outage. The new maxDNA system, which had already arrived, was installed as the older cabinets, cables and consoles were removed. Within four days of startup, Unit 2 was operating in automatic mode and within two weeks the unit was responding to automatic dispatch commands.
While the new system was being installed, plant operators were being trained four hours per day on a maxDNA-based simulator (See Figure 4 below). The plant-specific simulator included all of the startup and shutdown sequences, plus a variety of situations that could lead to a unit trip, from auxiliary failures to process upsets. The simulator was one of our cornerstones of success with the project and I would strongly recommend including a simulator with any planned upgrade, says Smith.
|Operators at St. Johns were trained on a simulator supplied by Metso Automation.
This industry is all about reliability today, Smith said. So we dont put any system on automatic until completely tested. Debugging a new control system can take months and I am aware of some plants that had new control systems and still didnt have all bugs out after two years. During our startup we performed extensive testing. Our system dispatchers were pleasantly surprised we were able to control in less then two weeks.
After the successful startup of Unit 2, St Johns upgraded Unit 1 in the spring of 2005 with another Metso maxDNA system.
Software Replaces PLCs
Even the biggest PLCs can run out of steam, and need to be replaced or upgraded. At Bonlac Foods Ltd., a food processor in Tasmania, Australia, a PLC-5 was running at its capacity, and could not expanded to handle more equipment.
Bonlac processes milk arriving by tanker from dairies and produces a range of powdered milk products. The plant was controlled by a network of Allen-Bradley PLCs communicating with each other via a DH+ link. The plant also has a number of large Profibus valve networks.
The wet process area was originally controlled by a PLC-5/80E that was out of memory and I/O capacity. The ladder program consisted of over 12K rungs of ladder code, comprising control of drives, valves, 17 PID control loops and 200 control sequences. All these were controlling routing and cleaning of milk lines and silos, where each line must be rinsed, caustic washed, rinsed, acid washed and rinsed again before use.
The plant required the addition of 30 more Profibus-linked valves and associated equipment. Since the existing PLC-5/80 --the largest Allen-Bradley PLC-5 model-- was completely full, no simple expansion was possible.
After reviewing the possible upgrade/replacement options, including adding another Allen-Bradley PLC and dividing the logic between two controllers, SoftPLC was chosen. The SoftPLC offered the choice of a drop-in large capacity single PLC replacement that would easily interface with all the existing equipment, networks, PLC controllers and Citect SCADA system. Another huge advantage was that the configuration of all the other equipment did not need to be changed in any way.
Using tools supplied by SoftPLC, the Allen Bradley ladder logic was imported to SoftPLC with minimal user intervention. Then, the new 30 Profibus valve controls were added to the system, along with the existing seven racks of SLC-500 I/O. The system was upgraded with minimum disruption to the process; in fact, the plant continued production throughout the upgrade.
From Homebuilt Controls to PLCs
Exopack is a manufacturer of plastic bags located in Tomah, Wisc. Its production line evolved over the years, using a variety of different equipment and controls. The setup to run a new product was very time consuming and wasted a lot of bag material. If the line was stopped, it was difficult to restart and wasted more material in scrap. Industrial Automation, a systems integrator in LaCrosse, Wisc., was asked to come up with a solution to consolidate the varied controls and make the line easy to setup and run.
The bag making process starts with large pre-printed rolls of plastic film. The web is threaded from the stock roll over a pressure sensing roll and then to a web guide and folding device. After leaving a folder, the folded material enters a fin seal system where the open side of the web is heat and pressure bonded. The seal is inspected as it leaves the fin sealer and defects are marked with an ink spray unit. The web then travels through the first nip roll and dancer system, and is directed to the bag gusset forming sections of the line. Here the bag web is rotated 90 deg. as it proceeds to the gusset forming section.
To facilitate the twist, the bag web is filled with air that is trapped between two web nip points.
Near the end of the bag twist section the bag sides are heated and then the bag pleats (gussets) are formed on either side of the bag tube. Upon leaving the gusset section final nip the bag web is again collapsed with gusset folds formed on both sides of the web. Next in line is the pull roll nip and drive system that is used to pull the bag stock tube to this mid point in the production line.
The auxiliary equipment section includes a mixture of electromechanical devices that create the gusset tacks, corner tacks, and vent holes in the bags. This system requires eight temperature controlling PID loops.
The last section of the production line is the bag bottom seal and cutoff machine. This machine serves as the master speed and timing reference for all upstream devices. Freshly cut bags exit the machine by a conveyor that empties to a second perpendicular conveyor for bag stacking. By manipulating the exit conveyor speeds, good exiting bags are stacked in groups of 10. Any bags identified as defective earlier in the process are stacked together with different conveyor spacing.
Because the production line is very long, and required many PID loops, we chose to divide the control system into two control enclosures, says Herb Burfield, manager of Industrial Automation. We used two Automation Direct D2 PLC systems to control the line, a 10-in. EZ-Touch touch screen as the primary point of operator interface, and a 6-in. EZ-Touch touch screen as a secondary point of operation.
The primary HMI includes operation prompts, alarms, setup screens, maintenance screens, device test screens, and graphical history display screens. The secondary HMI contains normal run operation screens and limited device setup screens.
The end result of the above applied automation is a production line that can be setup and run from a cold start in minutes with very little scrap material. Previously, startup could occupy most of a shift and waste rolls of material, notes Burfield. Once started, the line can now be stopped and restarted at will without creating any scrap. Depending upon product the production speed is 30% to 50% faster than possible prior to the automation and bag quality and consistency is improved.
Legacy DCS to Redundant Controls
Crawfordsville Electric Light & Power in Crawfordsville, Ind., wanted to replace its legacy Bailey Network90 DCS because it was old, parts were hard to come by, and it could not support CEL&Ps increased need for operation and performance data.
CEL&P called upon Advanced Boiler Control Services in Orland Park, Ill., to help them put together an integrated system to control two 21 MW turbines. They decided to install a fully redundant Matrix control system from MTL-Most.
The Matrix system has a backup controller for redundancy, connects to third-party devices via Modbus Ethernet TCP/IP, and uses a Wonderware system for the HMI and plant historian.
An integrated, centralized development environment in Matrix coordinated control engineering development for process control and IEC 61131-3 programming languages, including design implementation, documentation and maintenance. Project documentation is automatically maintained in an as-built state from the initial engineering phases through subsequent system modifications.
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Docks began as a way to prop up your shiny devices in all its glory, a way to turn your gadgets into a piece of décor for your work-desk. We all know of the classic Apple Dock for the iPhone and iPad, but at $30 per dock, it is tough to justify purchasing too many of those. Quirky, a start-up website similar to Kickstarter, has brought Jin Chai's docking station, the Converge, to life. Capable of docking up to four devices, you can show off all of your prized gadgets in one place. Check out the full review after the cut!


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When you�ve called, the area�s first responders have answered despite the cold and hazardous road conditions that have blanketed Onslow and Carteret counties over the past few days.
When you�ve called, the area�s first responders have answered despite the cold and hazardous road conditions that have blanketed Onslow and Carteret counties over the past few days.
Onslow County Emergency Services Director Norman Bryson said the weather has not and will not keep them from responding to emergency calls, but it has taken a little longer for responding agencies to reach their destination due to the hazardous driving conditions.
�The snow and ice has increased response time and we want people to understand that if they call it make take us more time but we will be there,� Bryson said.
Bryson said Onslow County Emergency Medical Services responded with other agencies to 17 automobile collisions the first night of the storm and 10 on Wednesday and the response times were up significantly.
EMS response time typically averages 9 to 14 minutes and Bryson estimated that time has about doubled during the storm days.
�The roads are an issue and drivers have to take caution and use due diligence,� he said.
With the dangerous conditions of the ice-covered roadways, response to auto collisions have been frequent but they haven�t been the only calls.
There have also been slips and falls as area residents have ventured outside their homes and calls from residents using alternative heating sources to stay warm during the extremely cold days for Eastern North Carolina.
Swansboro Public Safety Chief Bob Ritchie said their agency, which includes the town�s fire and police departments, has taken a winter storm readiness position, with extra patrol and fire crews in place to assist on calls.
On the fire side, he said, they�ve been concerned about public health and safety issues such as hypothermia and frostbite from overexposure in the cold, carbon monoxide and other issues related to heating.
�People are using generators and space heaters and turning up the heat in the cold, and those are all potential fire hazards,� he said.
Ritchie said they haven�t had any fires, but they have had calls from residents concerned about the smell of smoke or possible fires.
Police officers have been out watching businesses and buildings for security and watching neighborhoods to see how they can assist. Fire and police officers have joined in patrolling the town to help residents as needed.
Ritchie said there have been a lot of stops to help motorists who have pulled or slid off the side of the road due to ice.
Ritchie said they have used the Town of Swansboro�s Facebook page to keep residents informed of road conditions and continue to urge residents to stay off the roads until conditions improve.
He said keeping the public informed has also helped to keep call volumes down.
Jacksonville Police Department said many of the department�s calls are from motorists sliding off of icy roads.
�Of course there have been some wrecks, but many more calls are for assistance due to cars sliding off the road or becoming stuck on small embankments of snow,� said JPD spokeswoman Beth Purcell. �North Carolina Department of Transportation has been out clearing snow from the roadways; however, there is still a coating of slippery ice below that. We have had several crashes in which motorists were unable to stop at a sign or traffic signal and slid into another vehicle. We are asking people to stay off the roads unless it is absolutely necessary.�
Overall, agencies in Onslow and Carteret counties were fortunate to see only a handful of serious calls.
While no serious injuries were reported, wrecks on bridges in Swansboro and Morehead City each took several hours to clear.
Officials in Newport are investigating the cause of a house fire that occurred Wednesday night.
Emerald Isle Police Department primarily dealt with typical reports during severe weather, including falls, checking homes for damage, and careless and reckless driving, including a driver doing �doughnuts� in a parking lot.
But officers were also out in the inclement weather responding to a call from an impaired driver who wrecked his car near N.C. 58 and Mallard Drive.
The dangerous conditions don�t just affect area residents. Law enforcement and first responders also face challenges driving in ice and snow.
Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said the public looks to them for help and they will always be ready to respond in an emergency.
�Regardless of the weather, for people�s security and safety we are going to be there,� Brown said.
However, he said, his deputies aren�t taking unnecessary risk on hazardous road for non-emergency calls.
�For calls that were not life-threatening, we did not respond (in person),� he said. �We took a report and will respond as soon as we can.�
Police and fire departments are often where the public turns for information in a storm and agencies have fielded a lot of non-emergency type calls for information as well.
�The types of calls we are getting on the non-emergency line are mostly about the county curfew and road condition questions.� said Charlotte Rodden , City of Jacksonville 911 communications supervisor.
Ritchie said they have gotten a lot of calls for information on road conditions. He and other emergency response agencies stress that 911 should only be used for emergencies.
General questions can be made to business lines or residents can call 511 for road information from DOT or use their online Traveler Information Management System at tims.ncdot.gov/tims /.
Bryson said that during events such as the winter storm, they keep personnel at the Emergency Operations Center to help answer questions from the public at 910-347-4270.
He said they anticipated closing the EOC at 5 p.m. Thursday.
Contact Daily News reporter Jannette Pippin at 910-382-2557 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit JDNews.com to comment.


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You know bottled water has a bad rap when politicians want nothing to do with it.
Such was the case recently in Russia, where politicians denied a connection with bottled water, according to an article in the Moscow News. Apparently bottled water bearing the logo of the United Russia brand name — the Russian Federation's ruling political party — was being sold online. No big deal, right?
Well, it wasn't until a correspondent from one of Russia's newspapers confirmed that the bottled water was being made near Moscow, under a signed agreement by the ruling party. United Russia has been met with much criticism regarding its new Clean Water program. This Clean Water program's intentions sound admirable — to provide clean water to public institutions (i.e. schools and hospitals) in a country that is notorious for having very poor quality tap water.
Critics of the Clean Water program, however, say that many companies will benefit from the public's money through the program. An article in the Moscow Times notes that inventor Viktor Petrik and United Russia head Boris Gryzlov hold a patent for cleaning radioactive waste. More suspicion regarding the program arose when water filters made by Petrik's company "Golden Formula" were chosen for one of the program's pilot projects.
Despite this criticism, Gryslov maintains that the patent he and Petrik share is not related to the program, and that the water filters were chosen by experts in the field.
Likewise, officials said there was no agreement between the water bottler and the party. Petrik's "Golden Formula" website also mentioned the United Russia party, but in recent weeks any mention of the United Russia party has been taken down from both the bottled water site as well as the Golden Formula website.
Vodovoz says that the party name must have been on the website by accident and it was just a coincidence, the company's employee told the newspaper. "The employees' task is to sell the product, maybe, that is why they told you about the agreement with the party," he said. The company has not made any official comment.
Earlier the Golden Formula filters to be used in the Clear Water programme also mentioned United Russia on their website. However, after a media storm, all mention of the ruling party disappeared within hours.
Clean Water in Russia? Time will tell..


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Comfortable to wear and incredibly sophisticated, Manolo Blahnik footwear is a must for every fashion-forward woman. From low-heel booties and lace-up sandals, to fabric pumps and suede oxfords, each shoe is made from high-quality materials and is in sync with the latest fashion trends. The heels are designed to last and are perfected by Manolo Blahnik himself, who makes sure that each shoe is produced flawlessly and with precision.
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HiI am using the yellow geared motors which come with the 2WD arduino chassis.I am having a problem with my motor control. I am using an L293E motor driver with 4 flyback diodes, and a 100nf capacitor accross the motor input. The flyback diodes are to prevent the high inductance voltage spike and the capacitor blocks out high frequency noise.I wrote a simple program where i press a push button, and the motor runs for 5 seconds then stops. The motor works beautifully when i set the enable pin to HIGH, but when i apply PWM on this pin, the motor gives this weird "whistling" noise and it does not spin at all. I am using a single power supply of rechargeable batteries with 2700mah capacity (6.5V). This is more than sufficient i believe. I have two LM317 regulators connected to the battery. One is used to produce 5V for the microcontroller, and the other 4.2V for the motor. (The motor driver drops 1.2V so the motors see 4.2 - 1.2 = 3V).Any idea what the whistling noise is and how i can eliminate it and get the motor to spin?I'd be interested to know how any of you guys are controlling the speed of these motors? Best Regards,Yuveer
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It seems like the right hand side of my chip is faulty.


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Common Core - English Language Arts 3
Common Core - English Language Arts 3
The SOLARO Study Guide is designed to help students achieve success in school and to provide teachers with a road map to understanding the concepts of the Common Core State Standards.
The content in each study guide is 100% curriculum aligned and serves as an excellent source of material for review and practice. The SOLARO Study Guide introduces students to a process that incorporates the building blocks upon which strong academic performance is based. Every exercise question comes with a detailed solution that offers problem-solving methods, highlights concepts that are likely to be tested, and points out potential sources of errors.
The SOLARO Study Guide is intended to be used for reviewing and understanding course content, to prepare for assessments, and to assist each student in achieving their best performance in school.
Common Core - English Language Arts 3 consists of the following sections:
- Key Ideas and Details
- Craft and Structure
- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- Phonics and Word Recognition
- Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
- Text Types and Purposes
- Range of Writing
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- Research to Build and Present Knowledge
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One (1) pair of replacement nasal pillows for the Resmed Swift™ FX nasal pillow system. Select one desired size from extra small, small, medium, and large. Cushion only, mask sold separately.
Mask cushions should be replaced every 6 months for hygienic reasons and for optimal performance of the mask.
Sizes available:
ResMed's AirFit™ P10 Nasal Pillow is now 50% lighter, 50% quieter and still 100% reliable! The new AirFit™ P10 nasal pillow CPAP mask is Resmed's quietest mask yet! Giving light sleepers (and their bed-mates) a more restful night.
The P10 is a Fitpack and comes with one sized headgear, small, medium and large size nasal pillows.
The QuietAir woven-mesh vent system ensures the exhalation port won't disrupt you or your bed partner. Mask is equipped with dual-wall nasal pillow, technology key-clip nasal pillows and innovative flexi-tube. The mask breaks down to three replaceable parts for easy replacement of worn pieces.
Standard disposable replacement filters for Resmed machines. Filters should be changed at regular intervals. It is recommended to change more frequently if you have house pets. Filter purchase comes in 3/pk or 1/pk, CPAP machine sold separately.
These filters are disposable and are not meant to be reused. Dispose if filter gets wet or if it starts discoloring. Replace filters every 2-6 months or as needed.
Disposable filters compatible for:
The ClimatelineAir™ Tubing for AirSense10™ Climate Control System is a heated tube for use with the Resmed AirSense™ and AirCurve™ 10 series of CPAP machines. It uses a built-in mask temperature sensor to reach relative humidity in the mask. Sensors inside and outside the CPAP machine closely monitor changes in humidity and prevents condensation from forming inside the tube. Heated tubing only, machine sold separately.
The ClimatelineAir™ virtually eliminates rainout (condensation) in the tube, which can occur when the temperature drops during the night. Because the system measures temperature at the mask, it will remain at the preferred setting, regardless of changes in ambient temperature or humidity.
This tubing is only compatible with the Airsense™ and AirCurve™ 10 series of machines by Resmed.
The ClimatelineAir™ heated tubing should be cleansed on a weekly basis with warm water and a mild soap. It is okay to submerge the hose in water. Tubing should be rinsed completely, allow to air dry out of direct sunlight. Tube should only be connected to the machine once completely dry.
The ClimatelineAir™ Heated Tubing Features:
· A 360 degree swivel that will promote freedom of movement while keeping the electrical connection secure.
· Hose length: 78 inches or 6 1/2 feet
· Hose diameter: 15mm
· Lightweight
· Optimal comfort
· Compatible only with AirSense™ 10 and AirCurve™ 10 series
FREE aloe wipes with purchase! AirMini™ is one of the world's smallest CPAP and perfect no-hassle travel partner. AirMini™ makes it simple to bring high-quality CPAP therapy along no matter where life takes you. AirMini™ features Auto altitude adjustment, automatic on/off, data card included, easy breathing, quiet, rain out prevention and app available, Select your setup pack with the AirMini™:
AirMini™ + P10 Setup Pack + Mini P10 mask
AirMini™ + N20 Setup Pack + N20 mask
AirMini™ + F20 Setup Pack + F20 mask (no humidX)
AirMini™ weighs just 300 grams. It comes with the same therapy modes as ResMed AirSense™ 10 devices and offers many of the same popular features including AutoRamp™, Expiratory Pressure Relief (EPR) and SmartStart™. While it isn't required to operate the AirMini™, the AirMini™ app provides convenient control of your machine. Download it to your smart device for access to a range of adjustable comfort settings and your nightly score that tells you how well you slept.
N20 and P10 for AirMini™ users can take advantage of the HumidX waterless humidification system*. Each HumidX works for 30 days to provide waterless humidification for comfort and relief. There's no need to add water every day! HumidX is currently not compatible with F20 full-face masks and will not come with the AirMini™ F20 Setup Pack.
AirMini™ Specifications:
Pressure range: 4-20 cm/H2O
Ramp: Off / 5–45 mins / Auto
Dimensions: 5.4" (W) x 3.3" (D) x 2.1"(H)
Noise Level: 30 dBA with uncertainty of 2 dBA
Warranty: 3 years from ResMed (Singapore and Australian made)
Return Policy: In the interest of hygiene, AirMini™ including all setup packs, AirFit™ N20 & AirFit™ F20 CPAP masks are final sale and may not be refunded or exchanged at any time.
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I've been thinking about Kahneman's remembering self, and how that part of the self needs memories woven into meaningful stories. Joseph Campbell's monomyth structure offers a structure for telling stories to the remembering self. No matter how bad a particular experience is, you can probably make it into a story of struggle and growth, of confronting temptations and trials, of finding support where you thought you had none, of being in the wilderness then finally finding yourself again.
Here is Joseph Campbell on the temptations that a hero (or heroine) faces:
The crux of the curious difficulty lies in the fact that our conscious views of what life ought to be seldom correspond to what life really is. Generally we refuse to admit within ourselves, or within our friends, the fullness of that pushing, self-protective, malodorous, carnivorous, lecherous fever which is the very nature of the organic cell. Rather, we tend to perfume, whitewash, and reinterpret; meanwhile imagining that all the flies in the ointment, all the hairs in the soup, are the faults of some unpleasant someone else.
I do find it difficult that the actual experience of life is often so different than how it seems it should be. Telling stories about the bad experiences makes them make sense, turns the difficulty into something desirable, something that leads to learning and growth rather than something to be avoided or denied.


text: Supporters and opponents of the health care law rallied in front of the Supreme Court Tuesday, as the court considered the constitutionality of the insurance mandate. John Rose/NPR hide caption toggle caption John Rose/NPR Shots - Health News Insurance Mandate A Tough Sell To Justices March 27, 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court appeared split Tuesday on whether the federal government can force people to buy health insurance. "Three of the conservatives are clearly going to vote to strike it down — that would be justices Scalia, Alito and Thomas," NPR's Nina Totenberg reports from outside the court.


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Letterpress Love With Baker Associates
We've worked with BAKER here in Minneapolis on a few really fun letterpress projects over the last year or so. And they've designed some beautiful things for pressing. Most recently, their second installment of the bird themed holiday ornament cards rolled off the press. It is a little bird (a good luck Cardinal) with an ornate frame that die cuts and punches out of thick 60 point blotter stock. It is printed two color each side.
Last years card for Baker was a die cut bird ornament as well. The same production specs, but featuring a punch out owl.
Also in the last few months, we worked through the letterpress printing of the new Baker identity on their business cards. And is was quite the undertaking. They have an interesting post about the process of icon development here. Each employee has their own icon and each card has four color ways. With over 60 employees that was a lot of icons and business cards! They are a custom duplexed 200lbC black and white stock in an undersized narrow card format. (1 x 3.5 inches) BAKER is printed in silver on the black side and the white side receives the four different color variations.
BAKER is a Minneapolis based Branding + Design firm specializing in package design. On the web: bkrdsn.com or tweet: @bkrdsn