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If you are a hiker, you can turn a "standard" visit to Masada into a memorable and unique Hiking Experience. Climb up the mountain on the ancient "Runners" path, visit the Masada site, then get back down via Elazar mountain. You will visit the ruins of several Roman siege camps and get amazing views of Masada from different angles. You will also enjoy true desert atmosphere away for the crowds.
To get the most out of this route we suggest to learn a little about Masada and especially about the Roman siege.[ Masada (Wikipedia) / Siege on Masada (Wikipedia) ]
Important note: If you want to combine the hike with a visit to Masada Archaeological site, you need to but the entrance ticket at office before you start!
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- For the short version finish the tour at Masada site and descend with the Cable Car.
- Starting point – parking area at Masada National Park (1). (entrance fee required)
- Follow the signs to the "Snake Trail" on an unmarked dirt road for about 500 m until the junction with the ‡Red‡ marker. (2)
- On your right you can see the ruins of a roman siege camp.
- Turn right and follow the ‡Red‡ markers for about 1.3 Km until he junction with the ‡Green‡ marker. (3)
- Turn left and follow the ‡Green‡ markers. You are now on the "Runner Trail". This trail was used by the Roman messengers (runners) to pass information between the camps.
- You climb steeply about 200 m. As you gain height you get good views on the Northern palace of Masada and the Roman Ramp.
This is the Perfect Spot for and extended break to enjoy the view and learn about the story of Masada.
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- At the top of the cliff the trail curves left. Continue with the ‡Green‡ markers until you reach the back (West) entrance to Masada. (4).
- Turn left and ascend to Masada on the Roam Ramp trail.
- Tour the site and walk down back to (4). (Or descend with the cable care if you choose the short version)
- Turn Left and follow the ‡Red‡ markers into the Masada Wadi.
- After about 750 m you will notice that the Wadi makes a sharp left turn.
- Leave the trail and follow the Wadi shortly until the big dry waterfall.
- Enjoy the dramatic cliff and the great view down to the dead sea.
- Continue with the the ‡Red‡ markers now into a short steep climb to the saddle of Elazar mountain (5).
- Turn left on the ‡Black‡ markers to reach the top of Elazar mountain near the Ruins of the Roman Siege camp H.
- Enjoy the view and imagine the Roman soldiers standing at the same spot.
- A perfect location for a long break.
- Continue for about 1.7 Km with the ‡Black‡ markers down steeply all the way to the starting point (1).
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5 Tips for a Well-Behaved Dog in Dog-Friendly Hotels
No doubt your dog is the perfect companion at home or during your walks, but how would that turn out in a completely new environment?
More hotels than ever do accept pets and count on your training skills to make sure your dog behaves in public, but also in the hotel room.
We've got five actionable tips for you to make sure your dog behaves amazingly well during your next pet-friendly hotel stay.
#1 — Spend Hours in Cafes and Crowded Places
At home, try to include a couple of weekly sessions at the mall or at new local cafes. You want to get your dog used to experiencing completely new environments so they don't freak out next time you go away with them.
Another name for it is socialization, or generalization. Simply put, it is about making your dog behave the same regardless of the environment, including:
- very new smells (the cafe's cakes, erm)
- a lot of unknown faces (entrance of a big store, for example)
- loud and scary noises (anywhere with works or a lot of activity)
Socialization and generalization are much easier at an early age but you can and should keep on doing it throughout your adult dog's life. Oh and keep pushing the boundaries, too!
#2 — Reward Your Dog's Attention
When you are out on a walk, say your dog's name and reward him as soon as he is paying attention to you. Do it in random places, at random times, using a random tone. Indeed, you won't be able to yell in your hotel's lobby.
Rewards can be seconds of intense cuddles, or a treat, or both at different times. Just shuffle things up so your dog wants to always impress you.
Avoid punishing your dogs by yelling at him or even worse, hitting him. You'll end up with an anxious dog that will react unpredictably. The last thing you want is a dog chewing the hotel's furniture because of an accumulation of stress.
#3 — Ask Your Hotel For Exercising Spaces
Each dog has his own specific exercising requirements — some breeds only need their daily walks while others need a lot of running. If you don't fulfill these needs, you expose yourself to an agitated and hyperactive dog.
Email your dog-friendly hotel ahead of time and ask for suitable areas close to the hotel for you to play with your pooch. Then simply wake up half an hour earlier and start the day with a tiring outing so you can have a quiet rest of the day!
#4 — Buy an Interactive Dog Toy
Also called dog puzzle toys, these will keep your dog's brain active for a long time. Indeed, interactive dog toys are designed to challenge your dog in order to receive a treat.
The most common one is a regular ball with a hole inside delivering treats randomly. But other smart toys will require your dog to move pieces around to get what he wants (ie. a tasty piece of treat.)
Studies have shown that mental stimulation tires dogs as much as physical activity. So you get it: get your pooch's brain working and you'll have a sleepy dog all day!
#5 — Bring Your Dog's Bed and Soft Toys Along
Cats and dogs are extremely focused on their smell. This is how they recognize each other and express themselves.
By bringing your dog's own bed from home to the hotel, as well as some plush toys, you will create that homey feel and streamline the transition. Nine times out of ten, your dog will know his or her place is where their bed is. Your dog will feel safe and reassured.
No need to bring rubbery toys because they don't keep smells as well as soft toys. It would simply make much less of an impact.
Wrapping Up!
Overall, making your dog feel at home is the mission for you. Be it through toys, exercise or feeding schedule, you can't afford breaking the routine because you are on holidays.
Luckily, you are staying in a dog-friendly hotel so you can make sure your dog is part of everything you do. But don't forget one thing: dogs do not know what holidays are! They love their routine and want to stick to it as much as possible.
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Japanese lawmakers, JFTC edge towards agreement on antitrust penalty review
11 April 2017. By Sachiko Sakamaki and Toko Sekiguchi.
Lawmakers from Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party have launched a final push to expand companies' defense rights in antitrust investigations, putting them at odds with the Japan Fair Trade Commission, MLex has learned.
The move by the LDP comes as a regulator's panel prepares to announce its final proposals on the country's antitrust penalty system later this month.
Yoshiaki Harada, chief of the LDP's competition policy research group, told MLex that the party's desire to expand corporate defense rights in antitrust investigations was likely to be reflected to some degree in the final report the panel is preparing. That report is likely to recommend that the regulator be given the flexibility to determine the size of fines according to the extent to which companies cooperate with investigations.
The biggest source of disagreement between the politicians and the regulator concerns the defense rights of companies suspected of antitrust violations. Harada and other legislators say Japan's weak defense rights — embodied in practices such a ban on note-taking and lawyers during questioning, and a lack of attorney-client privilege — are out of step with international standards.
"[Investigation] procedures must become more transparent and democratic," said Harada in an interview today, adding that the ban on note-taking during interrogations may be eased.
A draft report on proposals presented to the panel in January said that additional defense rights were unnecessary as employees being questioned could take notes and contact their lawyers during breaks. Allowing more defense rights would undermine the regulator's ability to unearth the truth, the report said.
Harada's group supports the general direction of JFTC's expert panel, which has suggested granting the regulator some discretion to determine the level of penalties according to the degree of cooperation shown by companies, and increasing the size of fines to bring them more into line with those in other jurisdictions.
A group of LDP lawmakers are demanding an urgent expansion of defense rights in antitrust probes to allow Japanese employees access to their lawyers, as is granted in other countries.
Harada said he shared their view that more defense rights would contribute to effective fact finding.
He said the LDP was trying now to iron out its differences with the JFTC to ease the legislative process for amendments to the Antimonopoly Act, which are likely to be submitted to parliament next year. Negotiations between the party and the watchdog over wording are in their final stages before the JFTC panel releases its final report, sanctioned by the lawmakers.


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The Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, in 2020 under the patronage of Monika Grütters, German Minister of State for Culture and the Media, will investigate from 29.2. to 26.4.2020 how photography became a symbol for the excesses of contemporary society under the title The Lives and Loves of Images. With his concept, David Campany, the curator of the Biennale, concentrates his attention on the contradictory feelings which photography can evoke – from passionate affection to strong skepticism. In six exhibitions at six houses in Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, contemporary and historical works by around 70 international artists and photographers will be shown.
David Campany focuses on contemporary fine-art photography and places it in a historical continuity. The Lives and Loves of Images consists of six thematic exhibitions: The exhibition Reconsidering Icons at the Museum Weltkulturen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim, will showcase contemporary works that employ various strategies to offer the audience a second glance at photographs we all think we know. Some of the artistic projects go back to the place where these iconic images were taken, while others reconstruct them using new technologies such as virtual reality and 3D modeling
Reconsidering Icons at the We are all acutely aware of the phenomenon of the iconic image. Newspapers and news websites regularly describe photographs as 'iconic'. And if a photograph does become well known, news outlets are quick to capitalize by running secondary stories about its fame, which only serves to extend the image's reach and cultural domination. It is an echo chamber of the image, and a hall of mirrors. Of the billions of images in the world, just a few have become iconic. The exhibition Reconsidering Icons contains no iconic images, and yet it is full of them. It draws together various projects from recent years that use strategies of remaking, revising and redefining. Some projects return to the site where iconic images were made. Some reconstruct them. Some track iconic images across their various media manifestations. Some use new technologies such as virtual reality and 3D modeling, to return us to images made in earlier epochs of photography. Whatever the strategy, the iconic image is approached as a complex form of cultural commons to be looked at critically, philosophically and playfully. If iconic images belong to the public imagination, we must have an imaginative relation to them.


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Born and raised in West Baltimore, Devin Allen has rapidly emerged as a leading political and human rights photographer. Armed only with his trusty Leica camera, Allen became a key documenter of the cultural landscape surrounding the death of Freddie Gray and the Baltimore Uprising.
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The Deli is proud to premier a new single from San Francisco's own The Campbell Apartment. Campbell is like a loveable mutt: a Doctor Dog mixed with a Sonny and the Sunsets and maybe a Ween. Well aren't mutts the healthiest breeds? "Saltwater & Sunburn" is a great example of the group's variations in style. Saltwater is a lovely stray from the group's previous songs, laced with humming echoing vocals over the story of an ending affair. Beachy vibes are high on this one. Always with a touch of tongue n cheek, Campbell Apartment is just fun to listen to, and they're killer fun live. Keep an eye out for their upcoming shows. -Michelle Kicherer, Associate Editor
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US: MAPPS has accepted an invitation from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to be a member of the UAS Registration Task Force (RTF) Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC). The task force aims to develop minimum requirements for a UAS registration process for safe integration of UAS into the National Airspace. The company has tapped John Perry, Founder and CEO of Altavian based in Gainesville, Florida, to represent the association on the task force.
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4PB Private Client Conference: Contemporary Issues in International and Domestic Family Law4PB Private Client Conference: Contemporary Issues in International and Domestic Family Law
Radicalism Cases in the Family CourtRadicalism is a challenging and increasingly prominent issue facing family practitioners in all areas of work. This seminar will consider, in detail, this fast developing area of law and explore the Presidents Guidance 'Radicalism in the Family Courts' and the legal and practical implications to be drawn from the judgements that are now being disseminated by the Family Division.
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|July 21, 1868
|LUZERNE, Pennsylvania
|Labor, Strike
|"Civil War and Reconstruction," Juniata College
|No votes.
On July 21, 1868 a group of miners from the Empire Colliery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania started a strike in the region protesting hours and wages. Similar, and fairly successful, strikes in Schuylkill County inspired this particular strike. An article in Philadelphia's Daily Evening Bulletin described the spreading of the cause as, "…inflammable material so susceptible to the slightest touch of the torch is kindling into a broad blaze." The Empire Colliery's strike is an example of this.
The creation of the Workingmen's Benevolent Association, founded by John Siney worked as a labor union for miners in the region. Earlier in the year the association played an integral role in the passing of a new state law on July 1 that decreased the length of the standard work day from ten hours to eight. The members of the association and laborers remained unsatisfied with the lack of implementation of the new law and the decrease of salary based on the new hours. These dissatisfactions prompted the strike.
Just before midday on July 21, 1868 the miners at the Empire Colliery stopped their work for the day and began to march. The miners marched to neighboring mines recruiting more support. The Daily Evening Bulletin describes the men as marching with "military enthusiasm" armed with bludgeon and pistols in case of opposition. They met some opposition at the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad Shop, however, and responded by unscrewing the bolts of a locomotive and allowing it to fall down the tracks. The miners encouraged the prison workers and employees of the Gas Company to join them. The superintendent of the gas company eventually gave in to the demands and was met with threats to keep his word. By nightfall the strikers had shut down all of the neighboring collieries and considered it a successful day.
While the strikers where satisfied with the work they had accomplished on July 21, in the end their actions proved to be unsuccessful and the strike disbanded. This particular strike in Wilkes-Barre ended without the laborers demands being met, but strikes simultaneously happening in Schuylkill County proved to be more successful. Nevertheless, all of the strikes happening in the Anthracite region of Pennsylvania foreshadowed the Great Coal Strike of 1902 that occurred decades later.


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Central City Opera Features CARMEN, COSI FAN TUTTE and More
Central City Opera's 2017 Summer Festival, which runs from July 8 to August 6, 2017, features Bizet's Carmen and Mozart's Così fan tutte in repertory, along with Benjamin Britten's The Burning Fiery Furnace, Douglas Moore's Gallantry, and Amy Beach's Cabildo in shorter runs. Celebrating the company's 85th season, the festival's productions offer a diverse and broad gamut of styles and time periods."Our productions last season of The Ballad of Baby Doe and Tosca were spectacular and so well received that we couldn't be more excited about putting up Carmen and Così," said Pelham (Pat) Pearce, the company's general and artistic director. "These two operas are perfect works for our company and our historic opera house where we can showcase both great singing and great storytelling." Complementing the two mainstage productions, Central City Opera is featuring three one-act operas to be performed in smaller venues in Central City. "The popularity of these one-acts continues to grow since we introduced them in 2015," said Pearce. "They draw opera goers who are looking for something new to see as well as those who are new to the art form and curious about experiencing something that's shorter, less expensive, and feels more accessible," said Pearce. In addition to the two mainstage operas and the three one-acts, the Central City Opera four-week summer festival offers pre-performance lectures, opera scenes, and post-performance socials with the artists. Thursday evening performances have returned to the mix of matinee and evening performances throughout the festival, making it possible to see all the productions during an extended weekend. New subscriptions are available December 1, 2016, and single tickets will go on sale April 1, 2017.
Carmen (George Bizet/Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac)
The 2017 festival opens with one of the world's most popular operas, Carmen, with its memorable melodies and its electrifying story of love, jealousy, and murder. Last performed in Central City in 2011, this remounted production is directed by Jose Maria Condemi, making his company debut, and features Emily Pulley (Julie LaVerne/Showboat, 2013) as Carmen, Adriano Graziani (company debut) as Don José, Angela Mortellaro (company debut) as Micaëla, and Michael Mayes (Scarpia/Tosca, 2016) as Escamillo. Adam Turner (Man of LaMancha, 2015) conducts.Matinees at 2:30 p.m.: July 12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 26, 30; August 3 & August 6
Evenings at 8:00 p.m.: July 8, 20, 28; August 1
Performed in French with English supertitles
Così fan tutte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Lorenzo Da Ponte)
The second mainstage production at the Central City Opera House is Mozart's Così fan tutte, with exquisite arias and ensemble singing, and its zany story about two sisters, their betrothed, a bet, and two scheming troublemakers.
(Dr. Bartolo/Il barbiere di Siviglia, 2013) as Don Alfonso. Music Director John Baril (Tosca, 2016) conducts. Matinees at 2:30 p.m.: July 19, 23, 25, 29; August 2 & August 4
Evenings at 8:00 p.m.: July 15, 21, 27
Performed in Italian with English supertitles
Central City Opera House
The Burning Fiery Furnace (Benjamin Britten/William Plomer)
Central City Opera presents The Burning Fiery Furnace, one of the three Parables for Church Performances by Benjamin Britten. The other two church parables, Curlew River and The Prodigal Son, were performed by Central City Opera in 2008 and 2015 respectively. The Burning Fiery Furnace tells the story of Nebuchadnezzar and the three Israelites who were thrown into a furnace for their refusal to worship Nebuchadnezzar's image of gold. Tenor Bille Bruley (The Tempter/The Prodigal Son, 2015) sings the role of Nebuchadnezzar with additional principal roles performed by artists of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program. Ken Cazan (The Ballad of Baby Doe, 2016) directs; Christopher Zemliauskas (The Prodigal Son/Don Quixote and the Duchess, 2015) conducts.July 26 and August 2 at noon
July 27 at 5 p.m.
Performed in English
St. James United Methodist Church in Central CityGallantry (Douglas Moore/Arnold Sundgaard)
Far less known than The Ballad of Baby Doe, Douglas Moore's one-act opera Gallantry is a parody of a television soap opera set in an operating room. Artists of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program will sing principal roles. Alison Moritz, the assistant director for Tosca in 2016, directs; Christopher Zemliauskas conducts. August 3 and August 4 at noon
Performed in English
Williams Stables in Central CityCabildo (Amy Beach/Nan Bagby Stephens)
The only opera written by American composer Amy Beach, Cabildo is a sentimental tale, told in flashback, of the pirate Jean Lafitte, unjustly imprisoned in the Cabildo (governor's palace) but released in time to help Andrew Jackson save New Orleans from the British. Artists of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program will sing principal roles. Alison Moritz, the assistant director for Tosca in 2016, directs; Christopher Zemliauskas conducts.
Cabildo can only be seen in the double feature with Gallantry:
Evenings at 8:00 p.m.: July 26, 29; August 2
Performed in English
Williams Stables in Central City
About Central City Opera
Central City Opera is the second oldest professional opera festival in the country, located just 35 miles west of Denver in one of Colorado's official National Landmark Historic Districts. The company continues to present artistically excellent professional opera in its annual summer festival; to offer career-entry training to young singers; to produce education and community engagement programs and to preserve and maintain the Central City Opera House, and 30 other Victorian-era properties. For information, visit www.centralcityopera.org. For tickets, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (303) 292-6700.


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Welcome to Tooning Japanese, a podcast where three dudes in their 30s talk about Japanese anime!
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5:43 PM Wednesday . A small chain of natural pet food stores is growing too quickly for its own good, according to Marc Lemonis, of CNBC's The Profit. The flagship store is located at Sigwalt Street and Evergreen Avenue in Arlington Heights. In the business reality TV show The Profit, the star of the show (Lemonis) risks his own money by giving business owners a boost. In return, Lemonis gets a percentage of equity in the business.
In the 2015 season premiere (aired Oct. 28) of "The Profit", entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis takes a look at a pet food store that focuses on healthy food. Lemonis offers a $400,000 equity check for 25% of equity to Giovannis and Lisa Senafe, co-owners of Bentley's Corner Barkery.
Lemonis also offered $1.3 million to fund the acquisition and the conversion of the location to be compliant with his successful retailing expertise.
In the reality TV show episode, Lemonis wants 40 percent ownership in the business for his investment in the business.
If the Senafe's pay back the $1.3 million and interest, then Marcus Lemonis drops his ownership to 25 percent.
So in total, Lemonis is paying $1.7 million for 40% of the business.
Bentley's Corner Barkery motto was to be product loyal and not brand loyal. Lemonis breaks down that thinking to be more open-minded and forgiving to pet food suppliers. Lemonis found some foods that were being overlooked by the Senafes.
Lemonis also changed warehousing operations and the IT operations. Lemonis also suddenly closed the flagship Arlington Heights store for remodeling. The new store re-opened as a brighter, graphic-enhanced store with better traffic flow toward profitable items, and improved merchandising.
The TV episode is being replayed tonight on CNBC (Comcast 63/266HD). Viewer can also watch the show on CNBC's website.
The Profit is an American reality television show broadcast on CNBC. On each episode Marcus Lemonis offers struggling small businesses capital investment and his expertise in exchange for an ownership stake in the company. The series premiered on July 30, 2013.
Marcus Lemonis is described as a serial entrepreneur and a philanthropist
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City Approves $1,635,307 Park Renovation – City Manager & Council Leave Public Out of Process
Project estimate over-budget by $600,000
Posted January 20, 2016 12:15 pm
LAKE CITY, FL – Last night in City Hall, Wendell Johnson's Wilson Park/Darby Pavilion plan came to fruition as the Community Redevelopment Authority (CRA) gave its stamp of approval on a $1,635,307 cost estimate by one of the City's contract engineers, Tetra Tech. There remain two pieces of property in the Project area that have not been purchased, both of which impact the proposed renovation plan.
The Project plan as approved last night. See the Atta property below. Click to enlarge
On April 4, 2015, the City borrowed $1,311,250 for what was known as the "Project." According to the documents approved by the City Council the Project means: the costs to finance, refinance and/or reimburse the acquisition, construction and equipping of certain capital improvements consistent with and in furtherance of the Issuer's Redevelopment Plan.
Specifically, the Project was defined as:
(i) The redevelopment
of the Lake Desoto waterfront and expansion
of the Wilson Park recreation area, which
will include pavilion upgrades, constructing
an underground stormwater retention system,
constructing and equipping a playground,
constructing a band shell, constructing
parking improvements, constructing a walking
trail, constructing a seawall and
constructing a natural gas fire light system
(ii) community policing innovations within the crime prone industrial and residential segment of the Redevelopment Area, which innovations may include but are not limited to renovating, improving and equipping a neighborhood storefront police substation and thereby establishing a police presence featuring citizen patrols, foot patrols, field interrogation, intensified motorized patrols and/or on-site evidence processing and storage.
The Lake DeSoto/Wilson Park expansion was anticipated to cost about $1,000,000, with the rest going to community policing.
Lately, there has been no talk about the policing innovations as the price of the park renovations has ballooned 50%.
City Councilwoman Moses
She did not reach out to the community
While City Councilwoman Moses always graciously accepts comments from anyone wishing to contribute, she appears to have made no effort to have City Manager Johnson reach out to the community for input into the downtown renovations.
On December 8, during the Community Redevelopment Advisory Board meeting City Manager Johnson addressed the issue of public participation: "This meeting is publicized. My suggestion is if anybody's got any interest they should be here."
The notice was a small block ad in the local newspaper. There was no outstanding mention of the importance of the Project or the need for the public to be involved.
January 12, 2016
The CRAC meets: project over budget
The Community Redevelopment Advisory Committee (CRAC) met on January 12, 2016.
City Manager Johnson introduced another "revised" plan to the CRAC. He told the committee, "All the changes requested by the committee have been incorporated. The cost projections that Mr. Reardon [Tetra Tech] has projected have jumped up to 1.6 million. Those are cost projections only. They have told me they went to very extreme estimates to be on the safe side.... I will tell you that the city does not have that amount of funds to do what it says here."
Lake Shore Hospital Authority Manager, Jackson P. "Jack" Berry said he would be attending the CRAC meeting. The Lake Shore Hospital Authority is in or very close to the Project area. The Atta Property, a piece of property that was bought from the Authority for medical office space and has not been developed, has been an area of concern for the City Manager. He wants the City to buy it; the property doesn't belong to Dr. Atta; the property owner is registered in Las Vegas. The Governor's Hospital Authority Board approved that deal.
Your reporter asked City Manager Johnson, "What's with the Atta property? Did the City get a hold of that? I know Jack (Berry) was supposed to be here tonight?"
The City Manager replied, "Well, Jack ain't here tonight. So, if you want to know about the Atta property, you might want to talk to him. I have reached out to Dr. Atta."
Mr. Johnson then lashed out at Barbara Lemley who was sitting quietly and listening in the audience of two.
Your reporter followed up, "I was just wondering about the status."
Mr. Johnson replied, "There is no status, he still owns it."
A few moments later, the CRAC approved the plan. The public had been completely left out of the loop.
Councilwoman Moses commented, "We have us a plan."
Last Night: The Project's Expanded Budget Approved
Tetra Tech's final cost estimate. Click to enlarge
The CRA met last night. City Manager Johnson explained, "The document in your packet from Tetra Tech showing $1,635,000 is the engineer/architects estimate. A lot of this work shown in this description -- task items here -- some of that stuff has already been done."
Mr. Johnson did not explain why the engineer/architects appeared not to know this or if this was a scheme to pad the ballooning Project budget.
Mr. Johnson explained the proposed buyout of the Houston Property: "They're not willin' to negotiate reasonable terms for sale of the property."
The Atta property
The Atta property, which is a key piece in the City's Project plan, is still in limbo. Mr. Johnson told the CRA, "We got an appraisal out on Dr. Atta's property. Once we get that in here in couple -- three weeks -- then we will contact him and I will sit down with Mr. Darby and Dr. Atta and we will come to -- hopefully -- acceptable terms to acquire that parcel. That piece of land is really important to this project."
As reported earlier, Dr. Atta doesn't own the property.
Resident Sandra Smith, the only resident to appear at the CRAC meetings to comment on the Project was concerned about the trees in the Project area. She had previously e-mailed the City and got returned messages that said her e-mails were blocked. According to Ms. Smith, the City denied that it had blocked her e-mails.
Ms. Smith was concerned about the proposed concrete walkways killing the trees.
City Manager Johnson responded (as spoken), "Didn't I tell you at the meeting that there was no plans to remove any trees over there other than the ones that's diseased. They've already been cleared -- pruned -- those kinds of things. I don't think that there is going to be any kind of the zone and infringement that is going to kill the tree. We have an architect that is certified to understand horticulture."
Ms. Smith said she was concerned about the drip zones.
Mr. Johnson shot back, "I didn't know you was an expert on drip zones."
The CRA approved the over-budget plan.
After the meeting, City Manager Johnson called out Ralph Kitchens for recording the meeting, claiming that Mr. Kitchens was recording it for the Observer, which he was.
A witness to the conversation, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, told the Observer, "After the meeting Mr. Johnson called Mr. Kitchens over to him. Mr. Johnson's microphone was on. He was particularly nasty to Mr. Kitchens. I couldn't understand why."


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Producing high grade biodiesel from waste
When they said would you like to visit a distillery in Scotland I was definitely up for it. Perhaps there'll be samples to try I thought. OK, so it wasn't what I might have expected but meeting up with Dickon Posnett, Development Director of Argent Energy and seeing round their Motherwell facility, was definitely worth the trip. No, they don't make whisky; what Argent distills is very clean biodiesel from waste products.
There is a very long history of manufacturing diesel fuel from substances other than crude oil or shale, indeed when Rudolph Diesel first invented the diesel engine he ran it on a fuel derived from vegetable oil. What Argent does is take waste fats, whether from tallow, sewage treatment plants, acid oils, cooking fat, out of date mayonnaise or some other form of fat yielding waste and put it through a series of industrial processes before, in most cases, blending with standard diesel stocks to produce a diesel that can be used rear round in diesel engines without amendment to the system. The pure 100% biodiesel they produce (B100) can also be used in buses and trucks to achieve the greatest environmental benefits though this does require alterations to the vehicle in order for it to work efficiently throughout the year.
There are sound environmental reasons for using biodiesel produced from waste rather than fossil fuels and also some operational advantages. In terms of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions, waste derived biodiesel is between 80-90% better than fossil based fuel.
Waste based biodiesel is low in particulate matter, which means that a DPF filter will block more slowly, in addition to which, because it burns slightly hotter, the DPF system should trigger more efficiently. Biodiesel is slightly less dense than normal diesel but has a high cetane value, so it burns more thoroughly and creates significantly less particulate matter.
Tallow based biodiesel is also high in lubricity which reduces engine wear. Furthermore, it is low in water content, which makes the combustion process more efficient.
Biodiesel is fully interchangeable with fossil based diesel at blends of up to B30 and beyond in some circumstances. Unlike many alternatives to fossil derived diesel fuels, there is no requirement to make any significant change to maintenance regimes at blends of up to B30, although considerable changes would be needed if burning pure biodiesel B100. Furthermore pricing is more or less the same as standard diesel and ex-plant it can be cheaper.
A further advantage of the waste based biodiesel Argent supplies is the customer support representative system. Under this the company inspects tanks, takes fuel samples and reports back to the customer, always happy to help with ensuring the integrity of a customer's fuel system.
In terms of sustainability, waste derived biodiesel is not only much better than fossil based diesels, it is also superior to vegetable based oils, many of which fall foul of the food versus fuel debate. Dickon explained that, when biofuels started being commercially available, they were all generally seen
as good, but then it was appreciated that palm oil for fuel was being grown on land that had
previously been forest and opinion went the other way. It resulted in a reappraisal and an emphasis on true sustainability.
Under the European Renewable Energy Directive a calculation has been developed that shows the carbon emissions of any biofuel against any carbon based comparator in terms of greenhouse emissions on a well to wheel lifecycle analysis. Against a standard diesel GHG figure of 83.8gm, B100 biodiesel from waste has a well to wheel GHG emission figure of 10gm. In comparison, wheat derived ethanol, rape seed biodiesel, soybean diesel and palm oil diesel all have GHG figures well in excess of 40gm and even sugar cane ethanol creates more than twice the emissions.
To reflect the differing sustainability of different bio-fuels, Europe has studied the effects of an Indirect Land Use Charge (ILUC). Under this, if you grow wheat or rapeseed fuel on land that was growing food or feed there is an ILUC factor applied. As a result, Member States will have to cap the amount of bio-fuels made from crops and from 2020 the intention is to ban them, though Dickon says this may not happen. Waste based bio-fuels continue to be encouraged under EU legislation.
Furthermore, TfL has said that it wants all diesel buses running in the capital to be using waste-based B20 by 2020.
Dickon also pointed out that bus operators using high blend biodiesel in Scotland can benefit from an enhanced BSOG rate relative to the amount of biodiesel that is added to their standard diesel. Apart from Stagecoach, one Scottish operator using it already is E&M Horsburgh.
Asked about fuel economy, Dickon said that it depended a lot on the work cycle. Tests show that with blends of between B20 and B30 there is a small improvement in fuel efficiency because the fuel has a higher cetane level. This drops off as the blend level is increased to 100% and below B20 the advantage is less marked. Dickon believes that, in practice, you are likely to see the best improvements on longer routes rather than on shorter stop/start cycles.
Disadvantages and myths
It should be remembered that by law there is a small amount of biodiesel in all UK diesel stocks. B30 high bio-blends act as a direct fossil based diesel replacement. In pure B100 form vehicles do need to be modified for year round operation because B100 does not flow in colder temperatures. For this reason, buses running on B100 also have a small fossil diesel tank used for starting the bus and the bus switches to biodiesel once the system has warmed up. There is obviously a cost to fitting and maintaining the additional tank.
Some operators do run buses fuelled with 100% biodiesel. An example is the Kilmarnock depot of Stagecoach where they have been using it since 2008. A scheme which saw the operator take in people's used cooking oil in return for a travel discount continues to operate there. 'They are genuinely saving huge amounts of carbon by using renewable rather than fossil based fuel,' said Dickon.
Another issue is that there are not many suppliers doing it at present. As well as supplying Stagecoach throughout Scotland and Northern England, Argent supplies B20 into London, both B100 and B20 to Kent and the South coast and B20 to Scotland, Merseyside, Manchester, the Midlands, Cumbria, the North East, Cambridge and Oxford, and forthcoming changes will expand this availability.
Dickon admitted that some vehicle manufacturers have been slow to review warranty issues for
high blends diesels in the light of recent developments, although this should rapidly become less of
an issue.
There have been instances in the past of fungal growth in storage tanks caused by higher levels of water, either in the diesel or biodiesel. The water limit in biodiesel is 500ppm, compared with 200ppm in fossil derived diesel, but because of the distilling process used, Argent's waste based biodiesel is normally between 60ppm and 90ppm. On the day of my visit it was 79.9ppm, Dickon told me. In addition, when the company starts supplying it arranges for the tanks to be cleaned to ensure a clean, dry storage facility.
Though there is no denying the raw material used does, waste based biodiesel does not smell, even in B100 form. It is also completely biodegradable and non-toxic. As Dickon put it, 'it is regarded as biodegradable as sugar and as toxic as salt.'
Argent Energy
The history of the plant is that there were once a number of linked companies in the food and meat industries with a rendering plant near Motherwell. In search of a better use for the high energy animal fat (tallow) Argent worked with an Austrian Company, BDI, to develop a method of converting it to biodiesel. The BSE crisis meant the waste tallow started to be sent to landfill, helping spur Argent to build its plant next door to the rendering facility. This had not been done anywhere else before, though it had been done with vegetable oils. It became the demonstration plant for Europe for the technology. Since 2005 distilling has been undertaken at the site and since 2008 Argent has concerned itself solely with the manufacture of biodiesel and related products.
Brian Souter's Souter Investments organisation once held a stake in Argent Energy but along with the other stakeholders sold out in 2013 to the Swire Group. Today it is part of the Green Division John Swire & Sons Ltd, a family company with vast and varied interests in the property, aviation, beverage, maritime services and trading and industrial sectors, including stakes in well known companies such as Cathay Pacific and Akzo Nobel.
The different waste products arrive at the plant in tankers or in containers of varying sizes and are unloaded. I'm not going to pretend to you, it is pretty smelly and I think I was lucky because a lot of what was being used on the day I visited was not the most smelly material. The oils are then pre-treated in cleaning, sterilisation and filtration processes. With such a huge spectrum of wastes used, this pre-treatment is very important to obtaining a high grade final product. This stage of manufacture is carried out in a large building to the left hand side of the site, beyond the office complex.
The next stage is a chemical process known as transesterification and for this the pre-treated oils are pumped to the biodiesel plant to the south of the site. This turns the oils into esters which gives them the correct structure for burning as diesel. In order to obtain the most thorough reaction possible, the transesterification process is undertaken twice.
After transesterification, the final stage in producing Argent's biodiesel is purification through a distilling process. At the end of this there are three products. By far the majority, something around 95%, is very clean, very pure, biodiesel that fully meets the EN14214 standard. It is so pure, that were you to freeze it, it would return to exactly the same state once thawed. Also produced are glycerol, which goes to water treatment works to help the anaerobic digestion process at their plants and Potassium Sulphate K2SO4 which is used as a fertiliser in agriculture.
Between the pre-treatment and biodiesel production plant is a towering tank farm where raw materials, glycerol, standard diesel for blending and finished biodiesel is kept. The all important blending processes are also undertaken in these tanks. Dickon stressed how important the blending of the different additives is to ensure that what goes to the operator and into the fuel tank is of the same specification throughout. Failing to blend thoroughly can cause filter blocking. The company will blend in other additives for a customer if requested which ensures that they are far more thoroughly mixed than can possibly be achieved if you are pouring something into a tank at a depot. It also ensures that the quantities mixed in are correct. Additives such as Envirox can be used in conjunction with biodiesel as long as they are blended and dosed correctly.
Supporting the operation are laboratories where every ingredient is analysed and every batch produced is also checked thoroughly at various heights within the tanks to ensure thorough blending.
Recently, a new test for filter blocking has been introduced into the British Fuel Standard. The maximum FBT (filter blocking tendency) permitted is 2.52. Dickon said that standard diesel from a good refiner will be around 1.1. He checked the biodiesel in the three tanks on site (using an app on his telephone) and the readings were 1.04, 1.05 and 1.04. He told me that day to day readings are typically 1.03 to 1.06. He also believes that some imported diesel has had relatively high FBT figures, as has some imported biodiesel if it has not been distilled.
Whilst always complying with British Standards, the labs have to predict what the exact fuel formulation needs to be by analysing conditions such as the weather in advance. Nothing is released for use until the laboratories have tested and approved it.
Another key role for the laboratories is in helping operators check out problems they have with fuel, whether or not they are related to Argent supplied products. 'We work really closely with customers on fuel,' said Dickon. I also met James Bennett, one of Argent's Customer Support representatives, who visits operators every day, talking about fuel and taking samples that go to the lab to be analysed. 'We monitor every tank,' he said.
Annually, the Motherwell plant produces 60m litres of waste based biodiesel. This gives it the theoretical capability of supplying 240m litres of B25 biodiesel annually, although it doesn't actually do this because some of the unblended biodiesel produced goes directly to other oil companies for incorporation in their products.
Producing biodiesel from waste is considerably more expensive than producing biodiesel from other sources because it requires so much more infrastructure to do it. It would not be viable doing so were it not for the incentive of RTFO, the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, which makes it a requirement that all fuel companies ensure a percentage of all fuel they supply is from renewable sources. Currently up to 7% of standard diesel is already biofuel. It is the RTFO certification mechanism (which enables Argent to sell certificates granted in respect of some of the biofuel it produces to oil companies) that enables it to offer B25 at competitive prices.
As well as the manufacturing plant at Motherwell, Argent already has a blending facility on the Thames in London to help it serve London and the South East. To increase capacity it is constructing a new biodiesel plant at Ellesemere Port that will be 50% bigger than Motherwell. Dickon told me, 'Argent is increasing its production of waste based biodiesel. We have blending and distribution there already and next year phase one will see a pre-processing plant added. Then, in 2017, we will open a distilling function which will have a capacity of 75,000 tonnes of biodiesel. So our capacity to supply across the UK is going to be increased.'
Argent already operates a fleet of 25 articulated tankers. With the new developments the current workforce of 75 people will rise substantially in the coming year.
Summing up the companies aims, Dickon said, 'We are focussing on being a good supplier of diesel fuel to the bus and truck industry, supplying direct to fleets nationally. We are developing our supply points across the UK and helping companies reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, cost effectively and in a sustainable way.'


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