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Barbora Klímová, WORK programme, Tranzitdisplay 2010–2011
The project is geared toward examining active and creative approaches to the recent past. It seeks parallels to the academic model of writing history. It focuses on peripheral phenomena, neglected events and figures whose work I feel has not been adequately reflected upon.
The basis of the work consists of the mapping of private archives and cooperating with artists active from the 1970s to the 1990s. The work of the selected artists is intermedia art in the sense of crossing the boundaries of different art disciplines as well as the boundary between art and everyday life. Selections (subjectively and individually selected in communication with the artists) from their personal archives in many cases will not easily be identifiable as definitive artefacts (correspondence, personal notes, concepts, documentary photography, etc.).
The selected artists are for the most part key figures for a certain area, group of people or community. The project maps through their work and influence the local art scenes and social level of art, among other things.
The programme then experimentally tackles questions related to the mediation of artworks, of documents, of the legacies of past events, including unrepeatable circumstances, the context of creation.
Vladimír Ambroz, Pavel Büchler, Josef Daněk & Blahoslav Rozbořil, Jiří Havlíček, Vladimír Havlík, Marie Kratochvílová, J. H. Kocman, Marian Palla, Miroslav Sony Halas, Jiří Valoch, Petr Váša, Aleš Záboj and others.


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Hello everyone! I have a friend who is in the burn unit of our trauma hospital. I made this card to send to her in hopes that she knows she is being prayed for and thought of.
Here are the supplies/materials used in this project:
Card Stock: GKD Pure Luxury White, Innocent Pink, Grass Green
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Dies: Cheery Lynn French Lattice, Memory Box Prim Poppy, Poppy Stamps Pointed Oval Frame (used the middle cut out)
Other: adhesive, dimensional tape
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Greentraveller's travel guide of Zagori is here
Last June, in the framework of promoting Zagori abroad and turning it into a leading tourist destination, we invited reporters from greentraveller.co.uk to visit Zagori. Greentraveller.co.uk is United Kingdom's most popular website for ecotourism. During their stay, they visited the stone built hotels of Zagorohoria, tasted traditional dishes at local taverns and restaurants, went sightseeing and participated in various activities both in the area of Zagori and the Epirus coastline. They describe their journey in the travel guide posted on their website.
In order to communicate Zagori and Epirus coast more effectively, they filmed a fascinating video of their journey.
"The main focus of our strategic planning is to promote Zagori as well as the coastal Epirus area abroad. In order to be successful, it is crucial that we develop synergies and establish rapport with the foreign media. Considering that English citizens constitute a vital audience for the area, the visit of greentraveller.co.uk was an essential step toward achieving our goal. The support of the GNTO office in London was of utmost importance for the arrangement and realization of the trip", states Mr. Vassilis Katsoupas, president of ZEN.


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Fan Theory: I think this is what really happened. Alright so Danny is innocent with Tara and Regina. Regina is obviously dead but Tara is not. The P.I. that Cheif Masterman gets is Tara. I'm positive. And Tess calls Vickram in the finale. Something is going on between them. Tara is trying to take down the whole Desai family and I think it's over the fact that someone tried to kill her. I think Tara killed Regina because look at all the evidence. When Pheobe had a flashback with Lacey, Regina stepped out of the car with a scratch from Tara. The lisence plate was the same as the P.I.'s which is tara!
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Quote:I see alot of new age JKD practitioners discard there trapping skills. Even Burton Richardson says he doesnt really focus on any trappings anymore.
Quote:As for me I love trapping as I have sparred with grapplers and my trapping skills work on them because they are not familair with this technique
Quote: after the grapplers want to learn trapping but they cannot because they cannot grasp or comprehend the concept of chi sao or sensitivity drills to them its all about brute force.
Quote:Also trapping skills takes alot of practice and training to keep them up to par. Although training on a wing chun dummy for your trapping is great once again its not really realistic as the dummy is not attacking you and you cannot feel his energy (sensitivity)the best way is with a live partner and with many different multiple partners so you can feel that eveyones energy is different instead of just practicing with the same person everyday.
Quote:Tough call for me. I put yes, as I use Chi Sao and checks in sparring, but probably not in the same sense that many JKD folks do.
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This morning as we all face a President Trump, Democrats across the nation are trying to understand how this happened. And who to blame.
For the past year, I have been pleading daily on social media and elsewhere – anywhere people might listen – for inclusiveness and empathy for the many struggles and experiences that were taking place. But it never happened. In fact, social dialogue moved even more deeply in the opposite direction.
You can't fight fascism by trying to silence or diminish people. You fight fascism by listening to the people, by hearing them. The Democratic Party has a long history of not being able to read the room, of seeming incapable of feeling the temperature of the country and act accordingly.
This election, the DNC, Hillary, and many of Hillary's most vocal supporters, chose to spend their time telling people to shut up. By painting pictures of them as deplorable or selfish, irresponsible, or simply getting in the way.
Until Democrats can recognize and comprehend their own vast role in the creation and perpetuation of Trump and Trumpism – and ultimately for this Trump presidency – we stand no chance of breaking our own destructive cycle.
The massive movements that came into being this election cycle didn't happen in a vacuum. They weren't subtle, underground movements. They rallied and inspired millions of voters. When movements like this come into being, they do so as a reflection of public discontent. They are a flashing neon signpost. They are not to be shrugged off or ignored. At the vey least, they should raise appropriate questions, much like the one Jake Tapper so responsibly and poignantly asked of Jen Psaki the day before the election:
"It's quite obvious that white working class voters seem to feel abandoned, in large numbers, by Washington D.C. In any way do you see the fact that so many of them––this constituency that used to be a Democratic constituency so many years ago––the fact that they have turned away and they are looking towards Donald Trump, is that in any way a failure of President Obama and the Democratic party?"
It's an important question and one Democrats never dared ask themselves when they decided to pick a status quo candidate to represent them. They didn't even want to consider it. The Right, on the other hand, couldn't squelch their movement (try as they might) and were forced to hear them. The DNC and the corporate media, and Hillary herself, worked diligently to silence and marginalize that equally popular group on the Left and to frame the question itself as insulting and absurd. Daily.
As a result, "Stronger Together" never actually transcended being just a campaign slogan. It was never taken literally. Its ideal was never embraced. Hell, it wasn't even welcomed.
The DNC made their choice. And they all-too hastily and selfishly acted on it. And not in a Democratic fashion as Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Donna Brazile so haplessly publicized for us.
Hillary, all-too-often on the wrong side of life and death decisions, actively chose to court moderates and conservatives, even to the point of normalizing war criminals, while simultaneously alienating and mocking Progressives and Independents, all those voices saying loud and clear what they wanted, what they needed, and what they were tired of. And while Sanders and Trump offered them a chance to be heard and the possibility of actual change, Hillary offered more stultifying incrementalism and elitist disregard.
As GB Burford – who is a college graduate with three degrees and describes himself as "a disabled dude in a flyover state" – shared in his eloquent and revealing post-election writeup:
"You won't find many people more disenfranchised than me. My adjusted gross income was less than $4,000 last year. I think the total cash I survived on in 2015 was around $8,000. I lived on food stamps. I've been trying to find work, but there just aren't that many jobs I can do around here, especially in the blue collar sector.
"I'm sick, but I can't afford health care. Obamacare actually made my life worse — insurance was actually more affordable before it showed up..
"People [are] as mad and scared and afraid as me, because the establishment keeps ignoring them, because it literally renamed their home to "the rust belt," because it sits there and mocks them because it thinks poor must be stupid.
"Hillary came along with her "basket of deplorables" remark, and a bunch of people who've been hoping that Obama or Bush or Clinton or someone would listen to them, just listen and try to make things better, and what do you think happened?
"We're dying out here and nobody cares about Kansas…
"I don't want to spend a ton of time talking about how my life sucks, though, but suffice it to say, when I looked at Hillary Clinton, the person I saw was "… a candidate who enthusiastically backed NAFTA, seems most at ease in a room of Goldman Sachs bankers and was almost certain to do nothing for these towns other than maybe setting up a local chapter of Rednecks Who Code." (Huffington Post)
"I live in Kansas. Nobody cares about Kansas."
In the Primaries, the Republicans nominated the head of their biggest and most vocal movement, the person who was hearing these voices and responding. The DNC and Democrats, however, voted against the head of their own most vocal movement – the one who was listening and responding – and, instead, chose to nominate the one person most-likely to lose to Trump. They voted for a candidate who was considered the second-most disliked presidential candidate in all of American history, a scandal-plagued candidate who had absolutely no message and didn't inspire hope or trust in an overwhelming percentage of the population, instead of the person who polled as one of the most-liked presidential candidates in all of American history and who had a very clear and overwhelmingly popular message.
We nominated the one person most-disliked by Republicans, the vast majority already painfully vocal about never being able to vote for her, that they would rather not vote at all than cast their vote for Hillary. Or to see Bill Clinton back in the White House. In any capacity. We nominated the one person who most embodied all the things both massive political and social movements vigorously spoke out against, a candidate who is seen as the poster-child for (and most likely to benefit from) all the worst elements of status quo elite corruption. And she did so while exhibiting absolutely no awareness whatsoever that taking $250,000 checks from Wall Street and major corporations for secret speeches, or in accepting millions from tyrants worldwide, would only add to people's perception of her and her party as hopelessly corrupt and tools of the elite. You couldn't have asked for a more damning message or representative in our post-2008 recession era.
But we still could have pulled this off. If only Hillary and the DNC and all those vocal supporters had chosen to heed their campaign slogan. Instead, they chose to shame people for having different experiences. They became the embodiment of everything they claimed to be fighting against. They exhibited mass intolerance, tried to silence people, to delegitimize their concerns and grievances, they were condescending, insulting, they diminished and dismissed other liberals en masse along with the bulk of right wing voters. They became bullies. Women berated other women for being critical of Hillary Clinton, claiming they didn't even deserve to be called "women." When faced with people who were struggling with the option of Third Party votes, Dems grouped together to belittle and shame those people instead of showing compassion and understanding and using that opportunity to reach out, to have conversations, to let people know that their experiences were also valid and that their struggle was recognized. Instead of offering compassionate alternatives or suggestions, Hillary's most-vocal supporters – individuals, the media, the DNC and Hillary herself – placed them all in a basket of deplorables and cast them as Putinites or Trump-supporters, as troglodytes and trouble-makers or pathetic idealists. They painted them as being ignorant and selfish. Yet nothing is more selfish in a Democracy than assuming a presidential candidate doesn't need to actually win votes. Or that people in a Democracy should "be quiet" and keep their opinions and feelings to themselves. Or, as one person wrote to me last night, "Your feelings are irrelevant."
The result is, as The Los Angeles Times' Vincent Bevins pointed out, "Both Brexit and Trumpism are the very, very wrong answers to legitimate questions that urban elites have refused to ask for 30 years." And yet there were so many begging to have those questions heard. So many pleading for people to push Hillary to embrace the Progressive base, not alienate them. And they were told to be quiet. Hillary and the DNC couldn't have been more removed from the needs of the actual people who would decide this election. Instead of trying to understand, they showed self-elevating contempt and became tangible proof of the disenfranchisement and voicelessness in this country, even within their own party. We were told that Hillary's strategy of courting the center (and to surround herself with neocons), to completely ignore the rust belt (where Bernie found so very many supporters), was the smarter way to go; that that's where the votes and support were. They weren't. They never were. They were in the groundswell of enthusiasm and excitement – of change – that Bernie Sanders tapped into (not unlike Obama before him). And that Donald Trump tapped into, albeit in his own fraudulent and bigoted way.
But Dems were bigoted, too. Oftentimes against their own. When Progressives spelled out in detail the importance of committing to the promise of at least some Progressive voices in her administration, Clinton chose to ignore them and go in the opposite direction. When Hillary could have picked a Progressive VP, she chose not to. When she could have stepped up and defended the rights of the protestors/protectors at Standing Rock who were being beaten and stripped and placed in pens and shot with rubber bullets and pepper-sprayed to the point of brutal incapacity, when she could have shown voters that she was genuinely NOT in the pocket of the big moneyed interests, she did nothing. She remained silent. As did the media who preferred people not see too much of what was going on there lest they start demanding a response.
In the frenzy and panic to see her elected, far too many people made excuses for Hillary's actions, for her questionable behavior as exhibited via leaked emails and other sources. They showed people, in no uncertain terms, that they would NOT hold Clinton's feet to the fire, that they would default to the side of trying to justify her actions and choices instead of demanding accountability. Or at least an explanation.
Hillary had a million opportunities to embrace the groundswell movement and enthusiasm that Bernie Sanders had helped build, that he had all but handed over to her. She not only squandered it, she showed open disdain for it in her speeches to the big banks and elsewhere ("There's just a deep desire to believe that we can have free college, free healthcare, that what we've done hasn't gone far enough, and that we just need to, you know, go as far as, you know, Scandinavia, whatever that means…").
People can blame (and they will) Third Party Voters or those openly critical of Hillary (including those like myself who voted for her), or those who asked for some measure of empathy and understanding from their fellow liberals for the myriad experiences that were taking place, those who actually believed in the words "Stronger Together." But Trump isn't the president because of them, though I'm certain many people will keep punching down instead of up. But at some point they're gonna have to look in the mirror, look at the country around them, and recognize why this actually happened. That is, if they don't want to repeat the same mistakes. It's gonna take a while. But I hope that as the dust settles, more people will be able to look inward instead of pointing their finger elsewhere.
As Glenn Greenwald so observantly noted this morning, "When a political party is demolished, the principle responsibility belongs to one entity: the party that got crushed. It's the job of the party and the candidate, and nobody else, to persuade the citizenry to support them and find ways to do that. Last night, the Democrats failed, resoundingly, to do that, and any autopsy or liberal think piece or pro-Clinton-pundit commentary that does not start and finish with their own behavior is one that is inherently worthless."
Pointing the finger of blame at people who are not responsible is Trump's response. It's kind of his thing. And we will never find a way to pull the Democratic Party or this country together, to move forward, if we behave more like him rather than embrace the qualities that once brought us together as the liberal imaginings and desires of this country fighting for equality and inclusion, for compassion and understanding. If we never allow ourselves to live the true meaning of "Stronger Together."


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ArcoLinux and ArcoLinuxD are based on ArchLinux. ArchLinux can have many desktop environments. As a result so can ArcoLinux or ArcoLinuxD.
ArcoLinuxD has the advantage of being minimal. We install ArcoLinuxD with a graphical tool. In essence we are skipping Phase 1 and 2 from this article.
We do a clean installation following the guide on this website.
Go the the menu "Start here – Installation". We have laid out a learning path for you. Follow the numbering as much as possible.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ten suspected Mexican drug cartel leaders and 33 alleged drug traffickers have been indicted in New York and Chicago -- accused in illicit drug sales of more than $5 billion, federal authorities said Thursday.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, left, and Attorney General Eric Holder announce the indictments Thursday.
"These indictments are among the most significant drug conspiracy charges ever returned in Chicago," U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald was among several officials who joined Attorney General Eric Holder to announce the indictments at a Justice Department news conference.
A Justice Department news release said eight of the 43 people indicted had been arrested during the past week in Chicago and Atlanta, Georgia, but the alleged cartel leaders remained at large.
But later department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney told CNN, "Approximately half of the 58 have been arrested in either the United States or Mexico. ... The number is literally changing as we speak."
She said some already had been freed on bond.
Authorities said 10 additional defendants who were couriers or customers of the cartels were charged earlier in Chicago. Five others also have been charged previously, bringing the total to 58 defendants, they said.
Along with the indictments, the U.S. government is seeking the forfeiture of more than $5.8 billion that federal authorities said has been shipped to Mexico from drug cocaine sales in the United States and Canada.
More than $22 million in cash bound for the cartel, known as "The Federation," was seized during the investigation, federal authorities said.
Officials said three of the suspected leaders of the Sinaloa cartel and The Federation are among those indicted. They are identified as Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman-Loera, Ismael "el Mayo" Zambada-Garcia and Arturo Beltran-Leyva.
Those three are "allegedly among the most powerful drug traffickers in Mexico," the Justice Department news release said.
"The indictments announced today are the result of a sweeping national and international effort to stem the flow of drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border and into our communities," said Benton Campbell, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York.
The news release said all but one of the defendants, if captured and successfully prosecuted, would face a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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Auckland War Memorial Museum – Gallipoli in Minecraft® Exhibition
Flooring Project Description: Create and install customised carpet tiles for a special exhibition as part of the museum's WW1 centenary education programme. Alfriston College students had worked with the museum to create a digital version of Gallipoli in the interactive Minecraft® game. One of the goals of the project was to help students of this generation to learn about this historical event and the site of significance to NZ's military history.
Client: Heritage Carpets
Dates: 10 April 2015
Work Completed:
- Generating three different custom carpet tile designs to reflect the water, sand and grass of the Gallipoli Peninsula
- Designs needed to appear pixelated to match the Minecraft® game, with very specific colours and sharp definition
- Laying the carpet as a non-permanent installation
Flooring Project Highlights
|Meeting a Tight Deadline
|We organised the printing of the customised carpet tiles in a very short timeframe and carried out the installation in just one day to meet the client's deadline.
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We have completed numerous commercial flooring projects together, including various tasks at Auckland War Memorial Museum, for example.
Big or small, jobs are executed with professionalism, skill and integrity.
We are very pleased to have them as one of our partners and have confidence that our products will be installed according to specification, by contractors willing to take extra care when required."
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Teamwork is one of the biggest common goals employees and employers in most workplaces share. However, competition sometimes gets heated as employees feel the psychological and social pressure to perform better than our peers at work. Almost everyone wants to be the one to really impress their supervisors and maybe land a promotion or other desirable change.
As an employer, you are generally expected to want your employees to work well as a team. So, how do you keep the teamwork dynamic strong while encouraging a little bit of competition? If you are feeling stuck, give the following five ideas some consideration and adapt them as needed to fit your unique work environment.
- Coach Healthy Conflict and Conflict Resolution Skills
Jealousy is a widely-experienced human emotion that often occurs when there is some sort of competitive conflict. Of course, jealousy can result in petty actions and attitudes, so it is important that, as an employer looking for healthy competition among employees, you coach healthy conflict and conflict resolution skills in the workplace.
Work is done best when co-workers stop negative comparing themselves to one another. By simply dividing employees up into smaller teams and having them compete to meet a company goal within a certain amount of time, you can create camaraderie by turning work into a game. Before you do this, however, you should hold a team training on conflict resolution so that employees can negate tensions among themselves easily and effectively without any pettiness.
- Place Emphasis on Individuality and Creativity
Humans do not function in the same way that robots do. We are not machines and cannot be expected to work like they do. Who is going to want to engage in healthy competition when they feel that they are simply a cog in the machine? Employers can expect better input and output from employees whose individuality and creativity are honored. Additionally, employees will likely feel more inclined to participate in healthy competition when they feel that their talents and uniqueness are valuable assets to the company.
- Provide Constructive Feedback
Constructive feedback from an employer to the employee is absolutely essential in encouraging teamwork through healthy competition. How is an employee supposed to inherently know that they are meeting or exceeding expectations from their management?
Negative feedback is not helpful and can destroy an employee's will to perform. Empty praise is likewise ineffective since it offers no suggestions for continued improvement or incentives to do better. Constructive feedback provides a healthy balance of critique and encouragement in a structured, future goal-oriented manner.
- Keep Competition Fun
Companies like Google are now finding that their employees perform better at work if they are allowed to take time out to have fun by playing sports or video games. Allowing a brief 10-15 minute game of foosball or a round of poker (with snacks instead of chips) can actually go a long way in boosting employee morale and keeping competition among employees healthy and engaging.
- Keep Raising the Bar by Setting Stretch Goals
Competition is not just about outperforming a co-worker; it is about improving employee performance on an individual way. Basically, this means that the employee does their best to outperform their previous performances. Encourage your employees to improve their individual performances by setting stretch goals that keep raising the bar. Achieving better performance rates at work by setting incremental goals helps to keep healthy competition a long-term facet of the work environment. When an employee is doing well at meeting their goals, they are better equipped to encourage and help their fellow co-workers meet their goals and the company meet its overarching goals. Another way to help with raising the bar is to involve gamification in the workplace so that your employees can see their feedback.


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In June 2016, golfers from The First Tee participated in the 5th Annual Perfect Sense Pro-Am at Congressional Country Club. Joined throughout the week by Special Olympics athletes and wounded veterans, these golfers competed in two rounds of golf, including the inaugural Brightspot Unified Challenge, toured the monuments and museums of Washington, DC, visited Perfect Sense headquarters, and celebrated at Top Golf.
Here is a look at the 2016 tournament from the kid's point of view!
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Celebrate the legacy of Dr. King and the power of the Civil Rights Movement this Monday, January 15 at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Free and open to all, the Martin Luther King Jr. Open House features a full day of special programs and activities designed for all ages.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts MLK Day Celebration
Open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the museum will offer a unique collection of interactive events, including:
- Keynote address by Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh at 11:45 a.m.
- Teen-created, interactive mural based on themes of social justice, equality, and unity
- "Wilson/Cortor" exhibit highlighting two contemporary artists, John Wilson and Eldzier Cortor, whose works explore the African American experience from divergent paths and with disparate styles.
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- Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
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When an exhaust, coilovers, front lip, JDM interior trim or even power provided via ITBs or boost become standard fare, where do we go next? When all's been done and there's seemingly nothing more to do, might we suggest less as the new more? We speak, of course, of introducing weight reduction to your car's repertoire. Such a concept is not new since there's scarcely an aspect of vehicle performance that can't be improved upon by mass reduction. Indeed, a major reason why Hondas are such great cars is its favorable power-to-weight ratios. Removing interior bits and swapping items for lighter equivalents has become standard procedure, but only recently have we seen the compact, lightweight battery go mainstream.
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The car battery: A necessary evil for enthusiasts of all walks. Every car needs one and, given their size, they're inevitably heavy. Lead is the main ingredient here, which the periodic table tells us is rather heavy. Smaller batteries contain less lead and are therefore lighter but are less capable of discharging electricity. So it becomes important, before choosing a lightweight battery as a means of performance gains, to better understand them and their implications. Are you interested in the pros and cons of lightweight batteries and your Honda? Read on.
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Batteries are simply energy-storing power units called upon for operating electrical devices. They're made with lead plates that directly contact an electrolytic sulfuric acid solution. Lead-acid batteries use a liquid solution while dry cell, gel cell or absorbed glass mat (AGM) batteries use a liquid suspended within a solid medium. When a battery is connected to a circuit, electrons transfer between the plates, flowing electricity through the circuit to perform work.
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The starter is the car's main electrical device in terms of power draw. The amount of power the starter requires to initially turn the engine over is related to the engine's size, compression ratio, number of accessories being driven, internal weights and friction. Each factor emits a greater mechanical resistance and that translates into electrical resistance within the starter system. To overcome it, a battery of adequate power potential must be selected. Likewise, in a car that has been modified in such a way that resistance has been reduced a smaller battery can be used.
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Monaco, January 10th, 2018
Monaco's VENTURI Formula E team will be in Marrakesh (Morocco) this weekend for the third E-Prix of the season. Following its fine performance in Hong Kong, the team has pulled out all the stops as it looks to keep the successful start going.
The VENTURI Formula E team found itself back on the podium five weeks ago. In the Sunday race, Edoardo MORTARA's second place finish and Maro ENGEL's fine comeback drive (which saw him gain 7 places) took the motivation up another notch. Since then, and after a short winter break, the feeling in VENTURI Monaco's headquarter is more positive than ever.
"On the opening weekend, we showed that we have the potential. To maintain the momentum, we have been working closely with Edoardo and Maro. I believe in my team and our chances of achieving good results", Gildo PASTOR, President of VENTURI FORMULA E TEAM.
The VENTURI Formula E team arrives in Marrakesh lying 4th in the overall rankings. The aim in Morocco will be to consolidate and perhaps even improve that position. To that end, Edoardo MORTARA and Maro ENGEL have clocked up hundreds of laps in the simulator, accompanied by the VENTURI Formula E team's engineers. A range of different energy strategy scenarios have been tested, with Marrakesh among the circuits where the cars spend longest at full throttle and maximum load.
"We'll be trying to confirm our competitiveness by exploiting the car's capabilities to the full. We could have taken even more points in Hong-Kong. So more than ever, the aim now is to get as high up the field as we can", Maro ENGEL, VENTURI FORMULA E TEAM .driver
"Hopefully we'll be among the front-runners again in Marrakesh. Obviously it will be difficult as there are plenty of drivers capable of achieving good results. I think we should be able to cause an upset", Edoardo MORTARA, VENTURI FORMULA E TEAM driver.
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Madame Xanadu was a mysterious Mistress Of The Mystic Arts who ran a spooky curio shop in Greenwich Village, just around the corner from Doc Strange's place.
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Originally crammed into lower tier DC mystery book The Unexpected alongside a bunch of other homeless horror hosts, she got her own short-lived series in 1978, welcoming travellers into her store of mystery, and reading their fate in the Tarot cards she invariably had to hand.
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Monday, November 8, 2010
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1. Choose a time to give them a basic rundown and then give them "the talk." This can be spread out over several "talks" as a child matures
2. Wait until they ask questions, then give them honest, straightforward answers that tell them enough, but not more than they really want to know at the time. In this way mete out the information as they are naturally curious.
(I have ruled out the option of just setting my child in front of a lot of R rated movies until she figures it out. Of course, R rated movies wouldn't necessarily teach her about reproduction.... just idealized sex)
My husband and I seem to be going with option 2. I mean, if we don't actually sit down and have the talk, then I guess we're waiting for her to ask questions. And of course we hope she asks us, and not her friends on the playground.
I think my parents went with #1. I don't remember any conversations, but clearly remember the book Where Did I Come From?, and even picked up a copy at a library book sale years ago thinking I might use it when the time is right. And maybe I will. But when I looked at it a year or so ago it seemed like a LONG way to go about it.
Last night we were reading Nuts at bedtime, and there was a bit about squirrel mating. At the end of the chapter I asked The May Queen if she knew what mating was. She didn't.
"Mating is how animals make babies."
She seemed uninterested in knowing more, so I left it there.
How about you? Have you chosen an option? Tell me your stories!
7 comments:
- Magpie said...
mine is fascinated with "it's not the stork". it's a good book - buy it and let her take a gander at it. i did a blog post about it...
- November 8, 2010 at 7:56 PM
- Mary G said...
I chose option 2, but I also left books around the house (on my bookshelves, mostly), adding more informative stuff as they got older. Neither of my daughters could resist raiding my bookshelves.
The only 'talk' I had with them that was not in response to questions was the lecture about how not to get pregnant, delivered to both of them at once at ages 14 and 13, because the precocious YD was getting very chummy with a rather unsavoury boy. Oh, and asking to make sure they were on do ahead birth control when they left for university. The YD took to carrying condoms so as not to risk STD on her own initiative.
In our household, while both kids thought up questions, the YD was usually the one who asked. The what is pregnancy short answer arose from a question about the stretch marks on my belly, as I recall. It is a long time ago, though, but I think they were maybe 7 and 6 at the time.
- November 8, 2010 at 8:40 PM
I'm glad Maggie commented first, because I am going to refer to her post.
Perhaps because I have a girl and a boy (who share a bathroom), we've had questions. I went with your option two and hAve told them the basics. Fiona actually said, to my never ending amusement, "you and dad did that twice?!". When Maggie recommended the book, I borrowed it and made some copies, but neither kid wanted to look at or discuss it, so I let it go. I dis tell the parents of Fiona's classmTes that she knew the scoop, and so far I was the only one who had told.
I never had the discussion with my pArents, as far as I can remember. Kerry from down the road told me when I was seven or eight.
- November 8, 2010 at 8:46 PM
- imbeingheldhostage said...
We do option 2. It's amazing the difference between the kids on HOW MUCH they want to know. I worry about embarrassing them, but I don't think that's possible with my boys.
Since I suffer from Menorrhagia, my boys have been well-informed of the female reproductive system so that I don't get any back talk when I say, "we have to go--NOW" (they've also been taught how to protectively shield a girl who has bled onto her clothes and then beat up any boy who tries to embarrass her).
You think I'm kidding.
- November 9, 2010 at 4:32 AM
- Kat said...
We are going with option #2. I thought that with me having baby after baby the questions would start, but they really don't have any interest in knowing about it yet. I'm sure I'll be the one to give the talk. I am fairly comfortable using all the correct language and talking about it in a matter of fact way that makes my hubby squirm. So I actually would prefer to handle it.
I think every kid is so different in when and what they want to know, so I am taking their lead and watching for clues that they want to know. And like you said, praying they don't learn anything from their friends first. ;)
- November 9, 2010 at 8:35 AM
- kaye said...
Option 2 is probably the best, but my husband was an administrator at a Junior High School for most of his adult life. He was adamant if they didn't know before Jr. High it was to late and somebody in school had probably already informed them in some crude manner. It's always best if the information comes from the parent. I agree with having a good book around. I actually used my "what to expect when you're expecting" book with my kids. Great information, great pictures presented positively. I also used the picture book from "Life Magazine" on the development of the fetus. Kids natural curiousity will get them asking questions. I remember one funny incident with my youngest daughter. She and her cousin were having an argument (at the age of 5) about how far back their first memories went. Cousin said he could remember before he was born. My youngest exclaimed, "You mean when you were as small as a thumb and looked like an alien?"
I'm sure with your natural openess you will have no trouble educating the May Queen.
- November 9, 2010 at 11:17 AM
- Susanne said...
I'm going with No.2 as well. ItÄs really interesting how much he's not interested in the subject. We have a book called "You and your body" or something (actually there were two versions of that, on for toddlers, and one for preschoolers) that we used to read to him, and that had pictures of pregnant women where you could open a flap and see the baby inside. I don't know if he ever asked how the baby got in there.
Sometimes he asks about words that are connected to sexuality, usually when we're in public or I'm in the middle of something and I have to confess that I have sometimes answered, "I'll tell you when you're older."
He's only seven now. If he were really interested I'd probably try and get a book about it.
I remember my mother one day gave me a book (totally out of the blue, I hadn't been curious or anything) with very tasteful line drawings that didn't really explain anything. My husband's parents went the book-route as well, and he says he found it very confusing as well.
I think, I just explain those things the same way I explain everything else, as good as I can.
- November 13, 2010 at 1:54 PM


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American Goldfinch, these little birds go through a significant change in plumage as the seasons change and its mating and nesting habits begin.
Goldfinches indeed molt twice a year where most birds molt once in the fall and this can cause problems for novice birders, as they wonder where their yellow birds went.
Feeding goldfinches year round will give you a chance to witness this change will give as the males change to a brilliant yellow color in late winter and early spring.
The reverse takes place in late summer and early Autumn.
Choosing a good feeder will help keep the cost of nyjer to a minimum.
About 5 inches in size, the male winter colors a yellowish brown(almost drab olive green)
with light yellow on the face and chin, wings black with white bars.
In late winter/early spring he begins to molt and has the looks of a patchy quilt.
when he is done, he will be a bright yellow with black wings and white wing bars. He will be dressed with a distinctive black cap.
The female goldfinch is yellowish green with black wings and tail during summer, changing to a grayish brown with very little yellow and dark brown wings with white wing bars in winter.
Attracting American goldfinches to your backyard in winter can be as easy as placing a feeder filled with nyjer seed or hulled sunflower seed.
Be sure to keep your feeder stocked well into spring so that you can see the bright yellow of the male.
Mating Habits:
Long before the nesting season, the mating habits of the American Goldfinch begin. Usually there are several males vying for one female.
While there are short flutter flights high in the air between males, the most common behavior includes males chasing after the female. Several male birds may chase the female for twenty minutes or more over a large area.
Actual mating doesn't occur until late summer, generally late July through early September.
In the meantime these birds remain relatively quiet.
In the western range the American Goldfinch may nest as early as May or June. Typically, in the East, these birds don't begin nesting until August.
As late summer approaches, these seed eating birds can count on a plentiful supply of thistle seed to feed their young.
The American Goldfinch prefers an open habitat with some shrubs and trees and are likely found on farms and in backyard gardens.
The nest is made of strands from weeds and vines. Downy filaments such as the thistle disperses and caterpillar webbing are used to weave the cup shaped nest. The nest can be so tightly woven as to hold water (often eggs rot and babies drown after a heavy rain).
Once the nest is built, both male and female goldfinches leave the area. This may give the appearance that they have abandoned the nest. In a few days they both return and the female begins laying eggs.
In some cases this can be two weeks after nest completion.
The nest is located 4 to 20 feet above ground in a shrub or tree. The female lays from 3 to 7 light blue eggs which are incubated for 12 to 14 days.
The female may spend ninety five percent of her time incubating the eggs. The male will feed her during this time allowing her to stay on the nest.
The young birds leave the nest in about 11 to 15 days after hatching.
The female goldfinch builds the nest by herself. A second nest may be built by her while the male continues to feed the first broods fledglings. 2 broods may be raised each season.
Feeding Habits:
Goldfinches are 99.9% seed eaters
These birds are easily attracted to bird feeders all year by supplying nyjer/thistle sunflower seed for them to eat.
Specially designed thistle feeders are required, as nyjer seed is tiny.
When feeding their young, the parents fill their crops with seeds and maybe small aphids or caterpillars and regurgitate them part by part to the young birds.
This method allows them to feed each of the young birds each time they visit the nest.
In winter, the American Goldfinch form flocks and feed together with little aggression towards each other.
If you plant sunflowers, cosmos, coneflowers and other seed producing flowers and your late summer yard will be filled with the flits and sounds of juvenile goldfinches begging to be fed.
Lifespan in the wild averages 3 - 6 years. Maximum Recorded - 11 years.
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A heterogeneous mixture is a mixture that composes of components that aren't uniform or they have localized regions that all have different properties. Despite the term appearing to be highly scientific, there are various common substances that are heterogeneous mixtures. In fact, you've probably seen heterogeneous mixtures in your daily life without even realizing it. These mixtures are common and the idea behind them can be simple to understand. If you want a more extensive overview of heterogeneous mixtures and other similar concepts in chemistry, then you should check out the Udemy courses Chemistry 101 – Part 1 and Chemistry 101 Part 2. The first course teaches you about the principles of chemistry and the second goes into further detail by teaching you about the chemistry behind elements.
The concept of heterogeneous mixtures is a basic part of chemistry. Whether you are simply interested in chemistry or you are preparing for a major examination in the subject, such as the Chemistry Regents Exams, which you can prepare for on Udemy, this is something that you will need to know about in detail.
The Properties of a Heterogeneous Mixture
If you're unsure how to define a heterogeneous mixture, you can begin by exploration some of their most basic properties.
For example, as stated before, in a heterogeneous mixture the substances are not in any sort of fixed ratio. If you were to have a bottle of large bucket of water, and then you were to add sand to it, the mixture would simply be a mixture of both sand and water. At no point, no matter how much sand or water you add to the mixture, does the mixture itself change.
Another property is that the substances in the mixture maintain their own individual properties. Looking at the sand and water example again, when you mix the two together the sand still remains sand, and the water still remains water. The properties of the two substances never change. The same thing can be said for something else, such as soup. If you were to make a soup and have various ingredients in it, then the different ingredients would remain the same despite being mixed into the soup.
The final property of a heterogeneous mixture is the ability to separate the substances through a physical means. Separating something physically simply means that you can remove the two substances without changing them on the chemical level. For the process of removing sand from the water, you can easily just filter the water out and leave a bucket full of sand. For the water that the sand has absorbed, you can let that water evaporate and you will eventually get pure sand and water again. The same thing can be said about the soup. You can separate the components of the soup after it has been mixed.
Examples of Heterogeneous Mixtures
You've probably encountered more forms of heterogeneous mixtures than you've realized. For example, outside if you were to take a handful of dirt from the ground, you would find that there are various types of plants, soil, and other substances spread unevenly throughout the soil. This makes that soil a heterogeneous mixture.
On a more delicious note, different types of foods are great examples of heterogeneous mixtures. A bowl of Fruit Loops consists of various types of colorful cereal in a mixture. The same thing can be said with pizza. When you eat a pizza, the toppings aren't evenly distributed throughout the pizza, neither is the cheese or sauce, which means that it too is a heterogeneous mixture.
The same thing can be applied to a bowl of candy or mixed nuts. The mixture is heterogeneous because the substances are different. Every different colored Skittle or M&M that you find in the bowl is a part of the mixture and it makes it heterogeneous. Of course, food provides only way you can look at the different types of heterogeneous mixtures out there. There are mixtures that take up large parts of the Earth.
If you've been to the beach, then you've literally seen two very large examples of a heterogeneous mixture. The sand beneath your feet is a heterogeneous mixture since it has various rocks, and even animals, that very in shape size and composition. The same thing can be said about the ocean, which is one of the largest heterogeneous mixtures out there. The ocean has a very uneven distribution of animals, plants, and other components that make it heterogeneous.
These are just a few examples of mixtures that you can find in your everyday life. This should give you a great understanding of the term heterogeneous mixture.
The Different Types of Heterogeneous Mixtures
You've seen examples of different heterogeneous mixtures, which mean that you can now start to learn about the way that these mixtures are classified. Heterogeneous mixtures are classified based on the phase of matter that they are in. There are three phases of matter – solid, liquid, and gas – and all heterogeneous mixtures involve some combination of one or two of these phases.
For example, two liquids that are mixed together is not the same as a solid and liquid being mixed or even a gas and a solid being mixed. All of these mixtures are given a special name to represent their type.
- Emulsion is a heterogeneous mixture that involves the combining of two liquids. A good example of this is oil and water.
- When a solid and liquid are mixed together, it's called suspension. A great example of suspension is the solid earth and the liquid water, which creates muddy water.
- A gas and solid mixture is called aerosol, which can be the most apparent in fizzy drinks. Yes, even soda is considered a type of heterogeneous mixture.
- The final mixture is a gas and a solid. The name for this mixture is commonly called smoke. An example of smoke is smog.
By dividing the different forms of heterogeneous mixtures in such a way, it is possible to identify the substances that make up these mixtures.
The Importance of Mixtures
Heterogeneous mixtures are one of the most specific classifications of matter. The way that matter is classified is first either as a substance, which is pure or a mixture, which as you understand now is the combination of various substances. Those substances can be broken down into either elements or chemical compounds and those elements can be broken down into metals, non-metals, metalloids and noble gases. All of which have the potential to be broken down into various mixtures, whether they are the heterogeneous mixtures you've just read about or the other varieties, which are homogeneous mixtures and colloids
It's important to get a firm grasp of heterogeneous mixtures, since they can become a large component of understanding both matter and chemistry.
Delving Deeper into Chemistry
Heterogeneous mixtures are just one simple concept in chemistry, but there are many more. You must also be able to understand the concept behind heterogeneous mixtures and other forms of matter. Chemistry is a subject that requires a great deal of exploration, and you should try to delve deep into it if you want the most out of your studies.
Check out the Udemy course 15 Concepts to Know for the Chemistry Regents. This course breaks down some of the most important concepts you will need to master in chemistry – not just for the exam, but for your future endeavors in science as well.


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Cold weather construction projects come with winter-specific complications. Cold can throw a number of kinks in your productivity and affect the safety of your workers.
In order to keep your project functioning smoothly, it is vital that you properly heat your construction site. For more information about options we have available, visit our temporary heaters page.
Cold Weather Weakens Concrete as it Sets
As concrete dries, a chemical reaction changes the structure from liquid to solid. The concrete's temperature strongly impacts how quickly that transformation occurs. To yield a durable finish, concrete needs to dry as quickly as possible, so it needs to be protected from colder temperatures that can slow drying time.
It's important to protect your concrete from freezing temperatures. If it freezes before drying, concrete's structure is damaged, reducing the durability beyond repair. Since water expands as it freezes, the concrete needs to develop enough strength to resist the pressure.
Finishing Drywall in the Cold
If you try to use spackle or joint compound on drywall in temperatures below 60°F, you will find that it becomes brittle and doesn't adhere to the wall properly. You'll also run into trouble when it comes time to paint the wall. Because cold temperatures slow evaporation, the colder the environment, the longer paint takes to dry. Once you factor in the drying times between coats, this can really add to your total project time and take away from your productivity.
You also have to consider how cold changes the chemical structure of your paint. As paint gets too cold, it will become thick and nearly impossible to spread.
Cold Conditions Can Cause Health Problems
According to OSHA, in cold weather, construction workers are commonly subject to health conditions like frostbite and hypothermia. These conditions occur when blood leaves extremities to protect internal organs and when the body loses heat faster than it can replace it. The risk factor goes up in colder weather and is exacerbated by damp conditions.
Taking Action Against the Cold
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Using Pig with BYOH
The external Hadoop system includes an Apache Pig Client that you enable through BYOH.
The external Hadoop system includes an Apache Pig Client that you enable through BYOH. Pig is a high-level programming environment for MapReduce coding. Using Pig under BYOH is straight-forward. You start the Pig client through BYOH. On the grunt command line, access Pig using the same data access commands, CQL pushdown filter, and URL-encoded prepared statements as used by DataStax Enterprise integrated Hadoop. Store Pig relations to Cassandra in the same manner also.
Generally, Pig examples work as shown in the documentation of DataStax Enterprise integrated Hadoop. For example, to run the Pig library demo, the only change to the steps is how you start Pig. To start Pig, use the byoh preface. On Linux, for example:
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New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo reportedly fired his emergency management chief after learning that the official sent public employees to his house to clear a fallen tree in the driveway in the middle of Superstorm Sandy.
Steven Kuhr, the head of the New York Emergency Management Office, was responsible for coordinating the response to disasters like Superstorm Sandy, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
Kuhr was appointed by Cuomo in 2011. Before this, he was the CEO at Strategic Emergency Group LLC. Tree clearing crews like the one sent to Kuhr's house have been in high demand in the aftermath of the storm, which killed power to almost 8.5 million homes in 21 states. Almost 200,000 homes are still without power, according to the Long Island Power Authority.
Kuhr was in Albany, New York when he learned that a tree had been knocked down in his driveway during the storm. He called the Suffolk County Emergency Management Office and asked them to remove the tree, according to an aide of Governor Cuomo.
The aide refused to give their name because they were not allowed to publicly discuss the matter. The aide added that Cuomo fired Kuhr after he learned of the incident.
The New York Times notes that before his work with the Strategic Emergency Group, Steven Kuhr spent 20 years working for New York City in various positions including deputy director for operations and planning for the Office of Emergency Management.
State Senator Martin Golden, a Brooklyn Republican whose district still has about 2,000 people without power, believes that the head of the New York Emergency Management Office's move was "definitely an abuse of power." Kuhr was not available for a comment regarding the situation.
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School psychologists
School psychologists play a key role in supporting students, parents, teachers and school administrators in a wide range of areas.
This extends from mental health issues to complex behaviour, learning difficulties and disability, and emergency and critical incident management.
Approximately 400 psychologists work in metropolitan, country and remote public schools, making us one of the largest employers of psychologists in Western Australia. It's rewarding and diverse role with a great starting salary and opportunity for career development, including working in more specialised settings and leadership roles.
Most school psychologists provide services to more than one school, across all year groups. The work might include assessment, consultation and intervention with individuals, groups and at the whole school level with school leaders and staff, students, parents, the community and interagency partners. The diversity found in public schools means that the students and their needs vary considerably and a psychologist's work makes a real difference to the lives of many young people.
School psychologist access to professional resources, collegiate networking and professional learning opportunities is envied by psychologists around the country. Our graduate school psychologists with provisional registration are supported to achieve general registration with the Psychology Board of Australia through one-on-one supervision, a comprehensive program of professional learning and assistance to attend the National Psychology Examination. New employees are also able to access the professional learning component of our program.
Career development opportunities for school psychologists include senior positions and leadership roles. There is flexibility for part-time work arrangements. In some country areas there is support with housing and, in certain locations, travel concessions are available.
Classification and qualifications of school psychologists:
- Senior School Psychologist
- Advanced Skills School Psychologist
- Lead School Psychologist
- Qualifications, eligibility and registration
Senior School Psychologist status recognises the professional skills and competencies of experienced practicing school psychologists, and their continuous engagement in professional learning.
As highly skilled and experienced practitioners, Advanced Skills School Psychologists demonstrate exemplary practice in the delivery of psychological and specialist support services to schools. They contribute to influencing the system and the school psychology profession.
Advanced Skills School Psychologist status recognises expert knowledge and exemplary standards of professional practice. Those who achieve this status are part of a select group of highly skilled school psychology professionals in the Department. School psychologists achieving this status have attained all the competency standards at Phase 3 of our Competency Framework for School Psychologists.
Advanced Skills School Psychologists are eligible to apply for Lead School Psychologist positions in regions across Western Australia. These positions attract increased remuneration and undertake key system roles influencing schools and the school psychology profession. There are 25 Lead School Psychologist positions in regions reporting to regional executive directors and the Department's School Psychology Service.
In Western Australian public schools, we have introduced new pathways to the school psychology profession. You will be eligible to work as a school psychologist if you:
hold an appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which entitles provisional or general registration with the Psychology Board of Australia and hold a recognised qualification in teaching (minimum one year) or
have undertaken a minimum placement of 40 days in the school education sector as part of higher degree studies in psychology
hold an appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which entitles general registration with the Psychology Board of Australia and have worked a minimum of three years full-time (or equivalent part-time) as a school psychologist in other jurisdictions(or equivalent position).
Students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma of School Psychology, offered at the University of Western Australia in 2018 will be eligible to work as a school psychologist in public schools from 2019.
Please refer to the Psychology Board of Australiawebsite for information about:
- approved programs of study in psychology
- overseas qualifications
- eligibility for registration as a psychologist.
You must also meet the Department of Education's eligibility requirements as follows:
- be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, permanent resident or have a valid visa with relevant work rights from the Department of Home Affairs
- meet the Department of Education's pre-employment probity checks.
As part of our eligibility requirements, school psychologists must be registered with the the Psychology Board of Australia. Registration with the Teacher Registration Board of Western Australia is not required to work as a school psychologist.


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BOISE, Idaho – Construction of the new hydroelectric generating unit at Black Canyon Diversion Dam on the Payette River near Emmett, Idaho, will be postponed at least four months from the projected spring 2015 date in order for an independent engineering firm to test and verify Reclamation's cost estimates.
This is a standard practice prior to making the final investment in such a large project. Reclamation's cost estimate indicates that the price of the new hydroelectric generating unit may exceed its financial benefit.
"Throughout the process, all indications were that this looked like a financially feasible project that would boost power generation and provide added benefits by upgrading existing infrastructure," said Reclamation's Project Manager Chris Vick. "The latest cost estimate increased considerably from previous construction estimates; therefore, Reclamation is having an independent engineering firm provide a separate cost estimate."
If the independent estimate indicates the cost of construction is justifiable, work will proceed to complete the National Environmental Policy Act process and secure all necessary permits. Following successful completion of the NEPA process, the specification for the project will be issued to potential bidders.
Although the construction of the additional generating unit is on hold, some construction will still take place at the facility over the next few years. Reclamation and the Bonneville Power Administration plan to move forward with the design and relocation of a new power switchyard, design and construction of a new trashrack and trashrake system, upgrades to control systems at the dam, and construction of a new Administration building.
The proposed 12.5 MW hydroelectric unit will expand the capacity of the two existing 5 MW units to generate 105 million kilowatt-hours (enough to power 9,359 homes a year). The power produced will be integrated into the power grid to serve 10 irrigation districts in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon, as well as the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes.
Black Canyon Diversion Dam was completed in 1924 and serves as a multipurpose facility that provides irrigation water and hydropower.
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