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Chitrakoot. Bitto Singh, from Kasahai in Karwi town, has been a dancer in the local Ramlila performance since the age of five. 33-year-old Bitto tell us, 'When I was living in Baberu, in Banda district, an artist from Rajasthan, by the name of Sanju Gupta used to come for the Ramlila performance. His dance made my imagination race. When I told my family of my decision, all hell broke loose. They said, you are from a Thakur family, you can play some other role. But I only wanted to dance. My family saw my perseverance and said, do whatever you like. It took me six years to learn dance from my guru. Now I travel to different corners of the country to perform. When I dance, I dress as a woman, I make myself up like a woman. This is why I started to be known as Bitto Rani. Thousands of people await my performances. I want to go on to teach others to dance, so that my memory stays forever in people's lives.'
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|Min Min-hong, right, executive vice president for international tourism at the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), shakes hands with Steven Chang, Tecent's corporate vice president, at the KTO's Seoul office, Tuesday, after signing a business agreement to increase Chinese visitors to Korea. / Courtesy of Korea Tourism Organization
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The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) has teamed up with China's largest IT firm Tencent to increase Chinese visitors to Korea.
The two sides reached the business agreement at the KTO's Seoul office, Tuesday.
Under the agreement, they will cooperate on a variety of businesses designed to promote Chinese tourists to Korea and help them travel Korea easily.
In addition, the Chinese company plans to encourage their employees to visit Korea and enjoy shopping and eating _ two favorite activities of Chinese tourists to Korea.
Tencent, whose market capitalization is $470 billion (507 trillion won), is mainly doing business in the fields of social media messengers, games and online payment services.
It operates China's top social media app WeChat with 1 billion active users.
In that respect, the KTO plans to take advantage of Tencent's big data collected on Chinese travelers' overseas trips and improve ways to cater to Chinese tourists.
The tourism body expects the new deal to bring Chinese tourists back to Seoul.
Angered by Korea's decision to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system here, the Chinese government banned travel agencies from selling Korea travel packages in March 2017 _ a move hitting the nation's tourism industry that was heavily dependent on Chinese tourists.
The KTO will release summer season-specialized ads through WeChat Moments and other video platforms. It also plans to offer promotion for 48,000 executives and employees of Tencent.
"Tecent is China's largest IT firm that operates various online platforms and owns an incredible amount of users. It is the best company to promote our tourism within China," a KTO official said.
"We are seeing positive signs and improvements in our tourism market with Chinese tourists. However, we still have a few more barriers to overcome. We hope the new deal will increase momentum in recovering our relationship with Chinese tourists."


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The back-to-school rush can incur all kinds of trivial cost – be it pens, pads, protractors – the list goes on. However don't panic: it's not a prerequisite as blogger Tak Sato will attest to. Writing for the Bay Village Observer, he recognised how 'Bring Your Own Device' (BYOD) is becoming the norm in classrooms, with a device for every student. "As digital world tools such as computers and tablets continue to be commoditised," pen and paper be phased out as impractical alternatives.
We work closely with a host of schools – local and international – and Sato's evaluation chimes with our experience. Tech is now an essential part of the classroom and according to Sato, is producing "digital-world citizens equipped with the highest aptitude of digital literacy". While social media is already a cornerstone of everyday life, so too will cloud computing become second nature in schools.
We'll take this opportunity to extoll the virtues of Google Apps for Education (GAFE) for which Chromebooks are purpose built. Sato stresses, "GAFE is very budget friendly, because the suite of productivity software is available for free in 'the cloud', and can be accessed by any device. Schools only have to supply the connection to the internet."
So you have the internet sorted; what about the BYOD? We suggest the ASUS C202 (coming soon to Chromebooks for Work). It's tailored for use in school with an easy grip and the fact it only weighs 2.65lbs; it's also built to last with a spill-resistant keyboard and a reinforced rubber guard. By investing long-term in a device like the C202, back to school spend can be minimised as well as preparing students for the digital landscape ahead of them.


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The Democratic National Convention has come and gone. Pope Francis passed through, trailing the World Meeting of Families in his wake. While much of the central action of these events took place away from the Pennsylvania Convention Center, in both instances the space was packed to bursting with forums, conclaves and various other types of gatherings. Miracle of miracles – or, in the case of Pope-a-palooza, a typical occurrence – everything went off without a hitch. There have been no complaints, thus far, of overcharging or labor strife.
This blissful state of affairs is a far cry from three years ago, when City & State PA columnist Tom Ferrick called the Pennsylvania Convention Center "a dud. With a capital D-U-D." At that time, two years after the completion of a $780 million publicly funded expansion project that effectively doubled the size of the facility, the city's ability to attract meaningful convention business seemed in peril. When the expansion was proposed, it was projected to grow the business by about a third. But as Ferrick reported in 2013, major conventioneers were instead abandoning the city.
The poor performance of the Pennsylvania Convention Center was blamed squarely on the building trades members who set up, take down and maintain the ever-shifting programming within the center's 679,000 square feet of exhibition space. At the time, there were six unions working within the institution, but it was the Carpenters – whose then-president, Ed Coryell Sr., sat on the board of the Pennsylvania Convention Center – who took the heat for being difficult to work with and expensive to hire.
In the years following, the Carpenters were definitively booted from the center, with much of their work taken over by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). Then, three weeks before the DNC, which would make extensive use of the site, City & State PA discovered that top IATSE executives were involved in an overbilling scheme. The labor coalition that staffs the convention center moved quickly to punish those responsible – no one wanted anything remotely similar to 2013 again.
"No matter how minor or how severe, we're definitely committed to policing ourselves to the max," John Dougherty, business agent of IBEW Local 98, said three weeks before the DNC. "We're guaranteeing the transparency and cost effectiveness, and none of the past nonsense. We worked real hard to make this the No. 1 hospitality destination in America. We're killing it production-wise at the DNC."
Dougherty's opinion was echoed by John J. McNichol, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. "We have great labor harmony now," says McNichol. "The place is really firing on all cylinders."
But the Pennsylvania Convention Center still doesn't seem to be living up to what was promised when the public was convinced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars
expanding it.
For Heywood Sanders, a nationally recognized expert on convention centers, the problem was never just the Carpenters or high labor costs more broadly. The bigger issue is a bit like what Atlantic City's casinos are facing today: There's too much competition elsewhere. In 2000 there was 52.1 million square feet of convention space in the United States; today, that number is 71.2 million square feet. There simply aren't enough shows to go around.
"Almost every time questions have arisen about the performance of the Philadelphia center, the argument is made that unions are the problem," says Sanders, the author of "Convention Center Follies: Politics, Power, and Public Investment in American Cities," and a professor of public administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio. "The overall nature of the market right now is that convention center space in this country is seriously overbuilt. The result is that every seriously sized center is seeing performance issues. The idea that the problems are because of unions, in light of that larger market context, just doesn't wash for me."
To illustrate the extent of the exhibition space glut, consider that in Pennsylvania alone there is the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh (313,000 square feet), the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie (145,000 square feet) and the Lancaster County Convention Center in Lancaster (90,000 square feet). However, the Pennsylvania Convention Center, which features more exhibition space than the previous three combined, is more likely to be classed with other behemoths like the Jacob K. Javits Center in Manhattan, the Las Vegas Convention Center, or McCormick Place in Chicago.
But as convention center saturation sets in, all of these heavy hitters have suffered, whether they experienced labor strife akin to Philadelphia (like McCormick Place) or not. In 2000, the Javits Center saw 1.25 million convention and trade show attendees. By 2015, that number dropped to 672,300, despite an expansion and renovation. Meanwhile, room nights, which are the most reliable metric for convention center success, fell as well – from 668,000 in 2003 to 478,000 in 2014.
In Las Vegas, the king of convention cities, similar pressures are being felt. In 2002, the Las Vegas Convention Center underwent an immense expansion, doubling in size to 3.2 million square feet. This huge project did nothing to expand the number of out-of-town visitors, though. In 2001, the convention hall saw 1.29 million visitors, already a slight dip from 1999. Last year, despite the center's increase in size, its attendance was still under 1.3 million.
The Pennsylvania Convention Center can be grouped with these other big-league institutions in terms of size, the ability to lure big shows – and disappointing attendance numbers. In 2003, when the expansion project was under consideration, the consultant group Conventions, Sports & Leisure International projected that when completed, the super-sized convention center would attract 1.49 million non-local attendees a year. The group estimated the pre-expansion attendance levels at an average of 976,000 between 2000 and 2002. Both those figures were probably inflated, but nonetheless the numbers in the last few post-expansion years are vastly smaller. According to the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau (PCVB), in 2015, when the pope visited, the center hosted only 297,792 attendees. But that year was arguably still in the shadow of the labor troubles. By the end of 2016, the number of attendees is expected to grow to 377,268.
The convention center isn't living up to expectations in room nights either. The 2003 report estimated that the expansion would generate 786,000 room nights for the local hotel industry. It also showed a yearly average of 503,000 room nights between 2000 and 2002. But in 2015, there were only 312,563 room nights that the PCVB directly tied to the convention center, although that number is expected to grow to as much as 390,000 in 2016.
In both cases – attendance and room nights – not only are the best-case scenario 2016 projections lower than the projections of the boosterish consultants hyping the $780 million expansion, they're also lower than the attendance rates and room nights that Conventions, Sports & Leisure International reported before the convention center was expanded. A 2013 report on the local hotel industry by PCVB and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation confirms this, showing declining convention-related room nights since 2002. Convention-related hotel nights haven't surpassed 500,000 since that year. Indeed, the rosiest projection for this year – 390,000 room nights generated – is still less than the number for 2014, the year of peak labor troubles, when 397,051 room nights were generated.
From the perspective of Julie Coker Graham, president and CEO of PCVB, the reasons for these numbers are manifold. In particular, she notes that the numbers of hotel rooms weren't up to the task of accommodating traffic from the expanded convention center. But the competition is certainly a factor, too.
"The increased inventory across the nation is definitely going to have an impact on your performance," says Graham. "You are also handicapped with a union perception and reputation so when you add that kind of inventory, everyone has to be on their game everything has to be operating on all cylinders including the amount of
inventory hotels."
Graham expects to reach the goals of the early 2000s. "Barring any unforeseen issues, we look very strong after 2019," she says. "After 2019, we have the ability to generate over 700,000 PCC-related room nights."
There can be no doubt that the Carpenters union was a thorn in the side of conventioneers, management and their counterparts in the labor movement. As the Inquirer and Ferrick noted at the time, there were specific big conventioneers – like the American Academy of Neurology – that were actively avoiding the city as a result of their experiences.
Now many of these conventioneers are on their way back. Immediately after the DNC, the American Association for Clinical Chemistry started setting up shop for a five-day conference. The latest infraction on the part of a couple IATSE executives seems like small beer in comparison with the endemic labor troubles of earlier years. But it appears that these are all micro-level problems and that the Pennsylvania Convention Center is haunted by a macro-level problem that affects the whole industry.
The Pennsylvania Convention Center is clearly a priority for Pennsylvania's elites. The board of the institution includes some of the most powerful people in the state, from Democratic attorney general candidate Josh Shapiro to the head of the Philadelphia Laborers union Ryan Boyer to Drew Crompton, the right-hand man of Republican state senate president Joseph Scarnati. Everyone City & State PA talked with seemed happy with the way the center is trending, although they acknowledge that the industry is tougher than ever these days.
"From what it sounds like from the stats, there's more cities competing for conventions," said Crompton. "It takes a lot of work to be on the list of competitors. It's not as fierce as being the host city of the Olympics, but it's incredibly competitive. Some states subsidize more so than we do. It's like the film tax credit in Pennsylvania. Other states have it, too."
Like the film tax credit, convention centers have become an arms race of state-sponsored incentives that are bringing in diminishing returns. But even though that oversaturation is a problem, it's still a huge repository of work where union members can make decent wages and get benefit contributions. In an economy where such boons are increasingly hard to get, that's nothing to sneeze at. The question is whether the public money expended during the expansion was worth it. ■


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I found the coolest spot in my house last night. Fergus (one of my cats…the smart one) has been sleeping there quite a bit…so I should have known.
If you lay (lie?) on my bed with your feet in either corner and your body at an approximately 52 degree angle you get all the lovely fan action. It's not too cold, but it a nice addition to the AC. It's sort of an odd position on the bed, but it's worth it.
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With Bowling Green's 48-27 win over Maryland from the Big Ten, the MAC has won a regular season game vs. Big Ten opponents in each of the last nine consecutive seasons (2007-2015), the longest streak in MAC history. In 2014 the MAC had three wins vs. Big Ten opponents — Purdue, Northwestern and Indiana — and had an overall 3-8 record in 11 regular season games. The most wins in a single season by the MAC over Big Ten opponents is four games (2008). During this nine year stretch, MAC teams have defeated 10 different Big Ten teams—Illinois (1); Indiana (5); Iowa (1); Maryland (1); Michigan (1); Michigan State (1); Minnesota (2); Northwestern (1); Penn State (1) and Purdue (4). A total of 18 wins during this stretch.Arkansas coach Brett Bielema, who left Wisconsin for the dubious charms of the Southeastern Conference, may have been worrying more about his conference being disrespected than about his game (Arkansas having to take a page out of the Mid-American book and scheduling a game off campus in a big city??)
Toledo's 16-12 win at No. 18 ranked Arkansas marked the MAC's first win vs. an SEC opponent since 2004 (Ohio 28-16 win at Kentucky on Oct. 2, 2004). The last time Toledo defeated a top 25 ranked team was in 2012 with a win over Cincinnati at the Glass Bowl.
Kent State kicker April Goss (Aliquippa, Pa.) became the second female ever to score in FBS game during the Golden Flashes' 45-13 win over Delaware State. Goss kicked a successful PAT with 4:30 left in the second quarter after running back George Bollas' five yard touchdown run for a 29-6 Kent State lead.
In taking a shot at Ohio State's schedule earlier this week, Arkansas' Bret Bielema touted the fact that his Razorbacks still had eight ranked teams left on their schedule and that the top-to-bottom strength of the SEC is "unprecedented." Ummm, whoops?A CBS Sports pundit, Jerry Hinnen, noted that Toledo received a $1m guarantee for the game. That, and the Little Rock attendance, will go a long way toward compensating for those empty stadia on chilly school nights in November. Then there's good advice about preparation.
In one of the most karmic turn of events in recent sports history, Toledo — not one of the eight ranked teams of which Bielema spoke, incidentally — went into Little Rock and stunned the Hogs, with the Rockets of the MAC heading back to Ohio with a 16-12 win. It was the Rockets' first-ever win over a current SEC team in four attempts.
Bret Bielema should maybe focus on the team from Ohio his team is actually playing. No one outside of Toledo proper is happier about watching Bielema's team go down than Ohio State fans, who've seen Urban Meyer targeted by public jabs from the former Wisconsin coach for years. The most recent came just last week, when Bielema pointedly complained about the number of ranked teams on the Buckeyes' schedule when compared to the number on Arkansas'.Ohio State will be hosting undefeated but currently unranked Northern Illinois on Saturday.
A tip for Bielema: Maybe next time, don't take a shot at the unranked teams on someone else's schedule when your team isn't prepared to handle the ones on its own.


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The surname Gossnay was first found in Suffolk where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the 13th century.
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[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 142 (Monday, July 25, 2011)] [Notices] [Page 44355] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2011-18774] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [LLCAN01000.L10200000.XZ0000] Notice of Public Meeting Cancellation: Northwest California Resource Advisory Council AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice of public meeting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA), and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Northwest California Resource Advisory Council Meeting is cancelled. DATES: The meeting was originally scheduled for Thursday and Friday, August 11 and 12, 2011, at the Bureau of Land Management Ukiah Field Office, 2550 North State Street, Ukiah, California. A new meeting date will be announced later. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Haug, BLM Northern California District manager, (530) 221-1743; or Joseph J. Fontana, public affairs officer, (530) 252-5332. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 12-member council advises the Secretary of the Interior, through the BLM, on a variety of planning and management issues associated with public land management in Northwest California. All meetings are open to the public. Members of the public may present written comments to the council. Each formal council meeting will have time allocated for public comments. Depending on the number of persons wishing to speak, and the time available, the time for individual comments may be limited. Members of the public are welcome on field tours, but they must provide their own transportation and meals. Individuals who plan to attend and need special assistance, such as sign language interpretation and other reasonable accommodations, should contact the BLM as provided above. Dated: July 15, 2011. Joseph J. Fontana, Public Affairs Officer. [FR Doc. 2011-18774 Filed 7-22-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-40-P


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Problems mount for Ayr
Ayr United's promotion push has fizzled out but manager Mark Roberts is looking for a strong performance against Arbroath, despite having Adam Hunter and Chris Smith suspended.
The Honest Men are also missing Michael McGowan and Martyn Campbell due to knee injuries, while ankle problems keep David Sinclair and John Robertson sidelined.
Roberts has recalled Jackson Longridge and Darren Brownlie.
Roberts said: "Our biggest problem has been inconsistency, but when we play well we are a good side. It has been a frustrating season but we can end it on a high.
"Arbroath still have something to play for but I want us to end our season at home with a win. Some players will be playing for new deals and hopefully that will see them play to a high standard."
Arbroath have control of the final play-off berth and want to keep it that way by defeating Ayr, and Colin Hamilton is available after suspension to help.
The Gayfield side are without injured goalkeeper Scott Morrison (finger) as well as Mark Baxter (foot), Stuart Malcolm (shin) and Brian Kerr (knee).
Player-manager Paul Sheerin said: "We are a point ahead so everything is in our own hands and we want to make sure that it stays that way.
"We had to put in a gritty performance against Stranraer last week to win 1-0 and it may well be that we have to do the same in this one.
"Ayr have good players who will be out to make up for a disappointing season, so we are well warned."
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You can read the nuts and bolts of what happened to the City of Anna last week in Ken Gaidziunas' excellent chronicling of events on Page 1A. Here, I want to take a look behind the scenes at a four-day headache for Anna leaders, staff and volunteers.
The city's water main breakage on Wednesday afternoon was compounded by two additional events which put the city into a four-day tailspin of sorts. Well, it might have put lesser city staff's into a tailspin but Anna was up to the challenge. The water main break, then the subsequent re-repair of said water main and then a completely separate incident involving an Atmos contractor and yet another water line meant that many residents were entirely without water for a time while all residents were without drinking water from Wednesday afternoon until Sunday morning.
The city had several big problems on its hands then — finding and fixing the break, re-supplying and re-charging the lines, getting clean and tested drinking water back into residents' taps and organizing backup water for fire department vehicles should an emergency occur.
First, the break. City crews located the break at FM 455 and Hwy. 5 and immediately set to work on repairing it. That work — not to mention the additional repair when water began seeping in the same spot — required public works crews to work well into the night and the next day. Around the clock shifts are no one's idea of a good time but the work had to be done and done quickly. Once the work was done it would just be a matter of time before the system could be recharged and tested for consumption.
In the meantime, city leaders had to figure out how to get drinking water to residents. Fire Chief Tim Gothard is also the city's Emergency Management Coordinator so much of the burden was placed on his shoulders.
"Our number one concern was getting some water here," said Gothard.
Gothard and staff began to organize, and within hours of the original water main break had a fire engine and staff in the parking lot of Brookshire's handing out free bottled water to any resident who wanted some. Preparations were also made to deliver water to the homes of those who couldn't leave the house. During this time, Gothard put out an "all-call" to round up as many volunteers as he could to aid in this endeavor and was genuinely pleased with the response.
The biggest part of getting that bottled water into resident's homes. however, was procuring the water. So as not to deplete Brookshire's resources, city staff and volunteers hit up Walmarts and Sam's Clubs in McKinney and Sherman for all the bottled water they could haul back. Oh, and the city spent more than $3,300 on all that water.
Now that the water was in Anna, crews had to man the station at Brookshire's 24 hours a day to get it to residents. This meant that an already-thin crew was being stretched to the breaking point.
"From an emergency management standpoint, you realize you're running out of resources," said Gothard.
Gothard contacted Collin County's emergency management team and was rewarded with the Medical Reserve Corps, which assists local municipalities in times of emergency. The Corps came in and worked the day shift handing out bottled water while city crews and staff members worked through the night. Anna Police Chief Kenny Jenks and his wife, Gothard and his wife and Chief Administrative Officer Jessica Perkins among others all split time during the night to make sure residents' needs were met.
Speaking of Perkins, she deserves a shout-out from us here at the Tribune for a very well coordinated media response to the situation. Anna residents got emails, texts and Code Red alerts with constant updates of the city's progress during the repairs. And a shout-out goes especially to all those who worked in that dank water main hole for hours on end and those who worked throughout the day and night to hand out water. Your effort and diligence have been noted and it is much appreciated.
"It was an eye-opening experience, and you learn from it," summed up Gothard. "When you have city leaders and staff who genuinely care about the city then you're in a good spot…and we are."


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I Am Very Busy and Important
Okay, so I'm really not. I've been been writing for a while like I've been reading this blog but the truth is that I've just been busy with a new day job, just like everyone else.
That said, the work has started to pile up so I thought it might be time to compile a few nice pieces that have come out lately, thanks to Kirkus Reviews.
Kirkus is evolving into more of a hybrid print/web model with a focus on the reader, which has led to some fun assignments lately.
First, you can enjoy "The Dirty Dozen: Killer Mysteries and Thrillers for 2011." Get in early on great new books from the likes of Larry Block, Andy Diggle, Cara Black, Paul Doiron and Denise Hamilton, all of whom graciously sent along their appreciation this week. See, they're not always thinking about killing people. Just most of the time.
Next, you can enjoy the piece I should label "Jamie Fraser Fans Want to Kill Me." Actually, it's a well-meaning piece called "Reboot! Five literary franchises that deserve the Hollywood nip-tuck treatment."
Also featured on the front page today was my interview with the great Andre Dubus III, the talented author of The Garden of Last Days and The House of Sand and Fog. Andre also graciously opened up about his memoir, Townie, a remembrance of the culture of violence in small-town New England. It's a tremendous book and a great interview.
Also on the slate is my Q&A with Dr. Jonathan Gill about his history of Harlem, a groundbreaking historical survey that traces the life and times of one of America's greatest cultural epicenters.
And finally, you can call this one a warning bell. If you're an online junkie, you'll want to steer well clear of Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality by Dr. Elias Aboujaoude. Read more in this interview with Dr. Aboujaoude about how technology affects our behavior, whether we know it or not.
I think next month it's a chat with Marcia Clark, and then we get into the robots.
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I purchased Acrobat 9 Pro back in October 2008 from the Adobe website after a trial version expired, and I never got the thing to work cause it kept asking me for a serial # of a previous version. I never did anything with it till now trying to get it to work (shame on me). Adobe support team is telling me I bought the Upgrade version of Acrobat 9 Pro and I need a serial # of an older version which I explained to them my older version was a trial order and it doesn't supply me with a serial #. They tell me I need 1 version of the last 3 releases which are no longer available or I can buy another version Acrobat X Pro for $199 or the full version for $499 and that would solve my problem. I already forked out $170 for a version that never worked, why would I pay another $200+ is beyond me. They should of never let me download a version that was evidently missing a prior version, this is shame on them. Does this backward policy work for me for this situation where it doesn't cost a lot? I don't mind paying $30 or $40 to fix a mistake of my own, but $200+ is unrealistic. Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks for your time
Hello Leanette, sorry you've had some difficulties… What Adobe Support told you sounds right – you accidentally bought an Upgrade version instead of the Full version. The Upgrade version costs less but always requires the presence of a prior release to install. Adobe can't restrict you from buying those because it's possible you had owned a prior release from other sources. When you do buy an Upgrade version, the system asks you which prior release you already own – but since you never owned the free trial version, that couldn't count.
Typically when something like that happens the buyer contacts Adobe Customer Service and then returns the product within 30 days for a refund or exchange. Since you didn't do that, it may be past the window of Adobe doing that – but that's something only they can tell you.
We unfortunately can't offer much advice except to buy the Full version, like Acrobat Standard (less expensive) or Pro. We definitely do not recommend trying to find a "cheap" prior release on someplace like eBay – that will likely end you up with an even bigger problem than you have now. And the technique outlined in the article above won't help in your particular situation.
Anyway, hope that helps at least a little – take care and good luck!
I clicked the link that is supposed to enable you to download a trial version of Adobe Premiere CS4 directly from Adobe but when it redirects to Adobe it says "sign in to resume download" and only brings me to the CS5 downloads page. What do I do?
Hey there Gaby, have you followed the step-by-step instructions on that page for the CS4 direct downloads?
I am trying to buy Adobe CS5 Design Standard. I need the older version to be compatible with the company I design for. I do qualify for an education discount, but don't understand from this post how to do so. I tried calling Adobe directly and the person I talked to told me he could sell me CS5 and I actually bought it. But it's CS 5.5 not CS5.
:( please help. I guess I don't fully understand how to purchase the license and which one to buy.
No problem Tracy. We'll square that up right away.
First step, return what you bought under Adobe's Return Policy to get your money back refund rolling.
Then go to Adobe's online Volume Licensing Store (for Education here, for regular or Commercial here) – and order the same CS5.5 product – but this time it will be a volume license. (Don't worry, even individuals can buy a volume license and just one copy.)
Now that you have Design Standard in a volume license, you can take advantage of Adobe's Backward Licensing Policy… Follow the instructions in the grey box in the article above, and then Adobe will send you the older version software instead – the CS5.0 that you need.
Does that help clear it up?
Ok I got my product returned. Now I just need to get the license so I can finally use CS5.
But I have a couple more questions. First, is it really that much more to get a license over the software? I believe it says the license for Design Premium would be 600 with the education discount, but the regular software was just $320? (im poor).
Also when I buy the CS5.5 license , but get a serial # for CS5 do I have the ability to upgrade later for free? Thanks for all your help!
Welcome back Tracy. The volume pricing for education customers in the U.S. shows as follows:
CS5.5 Design Standard suite – $449
CS5.5 Design Premium suite – $599
See the difference between these, which applications those suites have. You could get either one, and either could be 'downgraded' to CS5.0.
Not 100% positive, but we believe you can later move back up to your original version if you want (i.e., 'upgrade' back from CS5 to CS5.5)… You might want to double-check with Adobe about that though.
The CS4 links do not work any more at Adobe. Any other places to get the software as my disc is damaged.
Sure Alan, all the original CS4 trial direct download links are actually still available… You should be able to download your product there and activate it with your valid purchased serial number.
Hope this helps!
Ok sorry, follow the instructions. Got it, downloading now.
Thanks very much.
Yes, this trick will work, but Adobe isn't so keen on it. Got the huge run-around from Adobe. I finally gave up.
Soon after purchasing Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium one year ago, I was eligible for a free upgrade to CS5.5. I did not download my free upgrade in time, not realizing there would be a time limit, which in turn creating this future problem.
They are selling only CS6. This is a problem as I only have Mac OS 10.5.8 on my desktop and my daughter's laptop. CS6 needs OS 10.6 to run. I did the Business Volume License and created an account, put the correct CS5.5 in shopping cart, purchased it for $20. It states Serial Number Required. I then called to purchase the CS6 upgrade, which I wanted to Downgrade the serial number to CS5.5, as desired. They wanted me to pay $749 for the upgrade! They did also mention that if Adobe comes out with a revised version of CS6 in the near future, the Volume License people will not qualify for special pricing. A full version will need to be purchased.
I was not able to purchase it from the Educational site either, as I had established a Business License, although I qualify for Educational pricing.
I am having an awful time when people send me IDML files. I often cannot open them. Adobe was no help. I had three service calls. There was no resolution. The IDML files all opened on the demo version of InDesign CS5.5 and CS6 no problem, but not in my CS5. I opened the file and exported as an IDML just as requested. I did all the troubleshooting they recommended. Going from school to home should be seamless!
After many, many hours (three days!) of trying to get this to work, I finally just purchased a full Educational version on Amazon.com. Much cheaper, and the correct version. All I wanted was to buy the correct version from Adobe so my kids won't have trouble opening their files from school. You'd think that they don't have any old boxes laying around! Geesh!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Kristen. Yes, it's true that Adobe will not sell you an old box of prior software – what's outlined above is really the only way to do it if you want to buy an older release from the company.
They will also charge you the regular cost to buy or upgrade to CS6, even if you want to downgrade back to a previous version… So that's why the price was $749 – because that's the normal cost of an upgrade from CS5 -> CS6 Design Premium.
But it sounds like you could definitely have done what's described in the article if you wanted, Adobe wasn't really stopping you from doing this – they were just following the standard guidelines.
Lastly, as far as trying to find safe/legitimate old Adobe software from other sources – it's highly problematic and we very strongly advise against unauthorized places like eBay, Amazon Marketplace, Craigslist, and the like. You probably should read this related story if that's the route you tried.
Maybe should have read your "related story" thoroughly first. Maybe if the package is unopened, I can return it. I didn't think of Malware being embedded on it. Ugh! I just hoped there'd be an easier way. I paid the traditional cost for the Educational version, but that would not be worth the price if my computer gets screwed up.
Oh that's good news Kirsten, it sounds you haven't actually tried to install it yet… Did you purchase it from a "Marketplace" vendor, or from Amazon itself? That is a critical distinction.
Usually you can't buy older Adobe versions from Amazon themselves – only from random and untrustable third parties via the Amazon.com site, which is why we so strongly recommend against it… Adobe is trying to address this with their new policy that upgrades can only be purchased direct starting with CS6.
Sorry there isn't an easier and safer solution! Here is a list of authorized resellers if you want to try to find an guaranteed authentic older version from anywhere else besides Adobe. It's a bit like finding hen's teeth though.
Note that if you do upgrade to CS6 via Adobe and then request a downgrade to CS5.5, you should be able to jump back up to CS6 gratis in the future at your discretion, if you ever wish or need to. Good luck!
I also bought Design Creative Suite in 2009, I have a new computer and I am getting a licensing Error. I have my serial number, I need to download the Creative Suite again but your link does not work.
I have the serial number but I don't have the CD.
Hi Suzanne, are you referring to Adobe direct download links? Have you carefully followed the instructions on the page for the version you're looking for?
If you have any difficulties with those links, please see the comments and suggestions there… Then once you get the right trial downloaded and installed, entering your valid purchased serial number should convert it into a permanent version.
Hi, my daughter recently bought a new Mac Pro laptop with Lion on it and tried to install CS4 Design on it, but it would not even load on her computer.. she was told at Apple store that she would need to get onto Adobe and download a driver for it… is this right, and if so how does she go about doing it please.
Greetings Dida, what message is she getting exactly when she tries to install it? We don't know anything about a driver – never heard of that before… But this article on Adobe CS2, CS3, CS4, and CS5 software compatibility may help:
Looking for an InDesign CS program, or something that will allow me to open my InDesign files transferred to my new computer, using Windows 7. I understand that InDesign CS will not work on 7, so what other InDesign program would work, thanx
Hey there Kenn, InDesign CS6 (the latest and current version) should be able to open your older files – see this guide:
How Backwards Compatible is Adobe CS6 Software with Earlier Versions?
I have my active serial number for CS5 Production Premium but I no longer have the CD (thanks to a not so honest friend) and Adobe no longer shows a download for it. I tried to download a trial version and then I would just add my serial number, but I can't seem to download it. It goes through the motions, but after an hour there is nothing on my computer.
Any help is appreciated.
Hello Sonya, did you try our direct download links for CS5, the original trials from Adobe's servers? Just carefully follow the instructions there and you should be OK.
I have CS4 working on two systems. I recently changed to a Mac and installed the CS4 on Parallels desktop. I deactivated one of the CS4 copies running on the PC systems to activate it on the Mac. It did for the first time I ran it. However the next time I ran Dreamweaver it tells me I need to deactivate on one system as my licence is only for 2 systems. I have tried reinstalling and I cant get it to change its mind. Can you help?
I wish we could help Sade, but the only people who can fix these types of licensing issues are Adobe themselves…
But it's easy enough – just contact them directly (their Customer Service online chat is usually the fastest/easiest) and ask that they remove all the activations they have for your serial number. Then their database will be reset, and you can reactivate or install on whatever two machines you like.
Hope this helps!
I know this is an old post and all but I have a few questions…
Firstly, I have Creative Suite 2 Premium (student if that matters) and want to upgrade it to the highest available level due to the fact that I have a 64-bit Windows 7 laptop and NOW am having problems with the software. It worked fine up till I had to recently re-install my OS due to a faulty driver download from Windows that crashed my computer, but now with Photoshop CS2 especially, it will start up fine and work for a little while then something happens and it won't let me open ANY menu options, it won't let me save either from keyboard shortcuts or from the Menu (due to the menu drop-down won't open at all), when I try to close the program via the 'X' it just gives me a Windows error sound and the 'X looks greyed out, I use a Wacom tablet and when i right-click to get a tool option half if not most of the option window is COMPLETELY blocked out by the BG colour of the main program, and when I try to re-size a document in the window the scrollbars don't resize, instead they stay put and the space to the right of them turns a light grey and the widow doesn't resize. I figure my problem is the programs' incompatibility with Windows 7… It just confuses me due to the fact that my computer was Vista before the upgrade to 7 and my Creative Suite worked just fine and after the upgrade it worked too! But then I had the reinstall of the OS and now I have this problem…
Secondly, can I upgrade to a normal version of CS5 or 5.5 even though I have CS2? Or do I have to start new and buy CS in full…again? or do I HAVE to stay with Student software?
Thirdly, I can't find the programs on Adobe's site and the links I find are for CS6. I don't want to go to Amazon.ca to buy the programs…I would PREFER Adobe but I can't find the programs, or the pricing!
Fourthly, I know I'm probably too late but, is Adobe still offering the option to upgrade for free to CS6 when you purchase the CS5 or 5.5? I didn't have internet for majority of the year from Oct last year to about June of this year due to me moving around and now FINALLY settling down here in Saskatchewan. So, I have just heard about these offers from Adobe about the 20% off and 50% off when you purchase an older version of the program (CS5 or CS5.5) and get a free upgrade to CS6.
Any help will be GREATLY appreciated…I have been battling with this for a while now.
Welcome Lee, CS2 is almost eight years old and apparently Windows 7 does have issues with it, and whether you can get yours working we cannot say.
But as you read in our article, Adobe will only sell earlier versions of Creative Suite software when purchased as described above – basically buying CS6 through the Volume Licensing program and then 'downgrading' it. Outside of that, you will only ever see the current release mentioned and sold on their site.
Regardless, CS2 is too far back to qualify for discounted upgrade pricing any longer – that ended when CS6 came out… and the grace period for free upgrades that you mention also finished at that same time.
(The reason is Adobe's Upgrade Policy which goes up to three versions back from CS6 – although this is about to change to only one version back.)
So you're thinking, maybe I can still locate an older upgrade somewhere else? Well, trying to find legitimate prior Adobe software like CS5 is difficult and dangerous, and we emphatically recommend against it.
But there's good news. It sounds like you're still a student – and while you can never upgrade to later Adobe education versions, you can still purchase full new CS6 academic editions for up to 80% off the regular price. So that would definitely be your best option in our view – and you will like CS6 a lot better than CS2.
Anyway, hope this helps – and answers all your questions!
Almost 8 years old! Wow I didn't think it was that old…definitely time for an upgrade!
Anyway, thank you for all your help, I will take it into consideration and head to Adobe and get the upgrade.
Thank you again for everything!
Sure, you bet Lee – glad to help and we doubt you'll regret it.
So I am teaching some technology classes at my school and would like to buy either the Design Standard or Design and Web Premium. The prices I'm seeing for education (for CS6) are $350 and $450, respectively. According to your article, though, I'm able to get a downgraded license key and save even more money? I wouldn't mind getting CS5 or even CS4. I have two questions…
1) How much money would it save? Is there any way to find out before actually buying it?
2) At what point do you downgrade… after you "buy" it or beforehand?
Thanks in advance!
Or I'm assuming it doesn't save any money…?
Hi Chris, thanks for your questions. Here are the answers:
a) The prices you quoted for the CS6 Student & Teacher Editions sound right.
b) By downgrading the release as described above, you don't save any money – you just get an older version instead, if that's what you need to be compatible with your office configuration or classroom setup.
c) Trying to see if you can save a few bucks by looking for old Adobe software is fraught with peril and definitely not recommended.
d) If you want to get the prior version product per the procedure above, then you would order the downgrade after you buy it from Adobe.
Hope this clears it up – if you have any further questions then just post back!
If I already have a serial number and all I need are the discs to load CS4 on my new computer, just as long as I'm sure the disc sold on Craigslist or eBay or a garage sale is the correct media, won't my old serial number be able to activate CS4 if I still have 1 license activation available?
Greetings Michael, you should never ever try to buy Adobe software on eBay or Craigslist – it's extremely risky…
If you have your valid purchased serial number but no longer have your discs, then just use our Creative Suite direct links to download the free trial.
And yes, generally your CS license entitles you to activation on up to two computers.
From what I understand, CS6 Student & Teacher Editions are now subscriptions, rather than a one-time purchase. I would prefer to have CS5 or CS5.5. While I'm still a bit unclear about the process of buying the software and downgrading it, if I managed to do that, would I still have to make subscription payments to keep CS5?
To further complicate matters, I have one Mac and one PC that I would want to install the software on. Since one license purchase comes with at least two activations, is there any way to buy a multi-platform version instead of buying two different versions and paying twice the price?
Thank you for your help.
Hey there Christina, this is a common misconception – it's not true that CS6 is now a subscription. In fact, you can still buy all of last year's original CS6 versions direct from Adobe with traditional/perpetual licensing, either for students and teachers with the standard education discount, or for regular commercial home/office customers…
What is true is that the all-new Adobe CC release (which follows CS6) is now available only via Creative Cloud membership or through a Single-App subscription. And there are also academic or student/teacher editions of CC offered which receive 60% discounts on the regular price.
Which you choose is up to you – and here is a very helpful comparison chart of the two options (with all the pros & cons) that should assist in making your decision.
Importantly, you do get two machine activations in each case. Note however that with CS6, you cannot run on both Windows and Mac systems and would have to buy two copies; however with all CC apps and Creative Cloud you can install and use on both operating systems with a single purchase.
Hope this helps, and if you have any further questions then just post back!
PS – In any event, you do not want to try to find older versions like CS5 or CS5.5 – it's highly problematic, unsafe, and you will likely be ripped off (or worse).
I manage a team consisting 11 employees and we are currently using CS3 standard. A team of two whom we work with uses CS4 Standard. This totals 13 people. Is it possible to get the CS5 Standard software or CS5.5 Standard software as user licenses for 13 people? Or buy the full version of CS5 or CS5.5 and 12 licenses?
No, sorry Debbie – CS3 is seven years old now, and CS4 is almost six years old. Adobe simply doesn't sell old software like that anymore, not even CS5…
Check CS6 volume licensing or better yet, Creative Cloud for Teams.
Hi there, hope you can help! I have CS3 Premium on my Mac, and a friend just discovered they have an un-opened upgrade pack to CS5.5 Design Standard which I'd love to be able to use because I want to take some courses and require at least CS5 for them.
Thing is, the box says it is an Upgrade from 4 to 5.5 and I must have CS4 – "To install the following, you must have one of the following: Adobe Creative Suite 4 -Design Standard, Design Premium, ..all the various permutations to.. Master Collection)." Is this strictly true? I've seen a lot of forums talking about jumping straight up from CS3 to 5 and nothing about there being an enforced stepped upgrade, where you have to have CS4 to get to 5. Adobe, predictably, just wants to sell me CS6 and isn't very creative in helping me continue using their products the way I'd like….
It's a full version, not an edu/student one and it's plastic wrapped, so I need best guess info – because if it's not right for me, my friend would like to try to sell it. What say you??
PS: The product is real – the packaging checks out against your posted images with the hologram
Hello PJ, thanks for your questions. First off, just because it looks real doesn't mean it is… But if your friend is sure he bought it from a known, reputable vendor then it's probably safe.
However, if it's an upgrade from CS4 to CS5.5, but you only have CS3, then you can't use it. Adobe codes and prices their suite upgrades based on how far the distance is between the versions. So, a CS4 to CS5/CS6 upgrade would cost less than a CS3 to CS5/CS6 upgrade.
Your friend could try to sell it, but probably won't have much luck on eBay, which is terrible for Adobe software.
So what are your other options?
For you, personally, you'd need a specific CS3-coded upgrade – or just upgrade to CC where you still get a discount because you're a CS customer.
I have a copy of indesign cs3, but no key code. I have it installed on my desktop, but need to put it on my laptop. Can I get a code to install this program. I don't need a later version for what I do with this program as i don't use it all that often.
Sorry Sharon, we don't sell license key codes here, but actually you can still buy the CS6 version direct from Adobe – or if that still costs too much, then the latest CC 2014 release can be more affordable on a monthly plan.
Hi, is it possible if i have adobe CS6 and want to use an earlier version like CS5 or CS4 ?
because the older version is more lightweight and i only use the brush tool all the time.
if it's possible, how to do it – do I ask for the serial number from customer service?
in the article above it says, "These members can contact Adobe Customer Service to request a serial number for the earlier version if they do not already have one"
Welcome Rick, things have changed a bit with backwards licensing recently – and downgrading to an older version of Adobe creative software will only work now if you have current Adobe CC release…
In that case, you can freely choose to run CS6 or CC 2013 instead of CC 2014 if you prefer, for any or all applications that you have.
Essentially, all those full releases are kept in a permanent online archive for all CC subscribers to access and run as/when needed anytime.
You don't need to do anything special to get them, just be a paid CC member. Then you can decide very easily whether you want to have the latest-and-greatest software (with ongoing upgrades included), or use a prior version instead.
[Note however that the CS4 and CS5 you mentioned didn't make the cut into the collection; they were too old.]
Hope that helps!


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BOSTON – Representative Jennifer Benson joined her colleagues in the House this week to pass legislation providing added protections and resources for consumers in the event of a data security breach that impacts a credit agency or other business.
Under this legislation, credit freezes, lifts or removals must be provided to consumers without a charge. Credit agencies or businesses must provide one year of free credit monitoring after any breach.
"This legislation includes many powerful consumer protection tools that also modernize the way we do business," House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said. "I thank Chairman Chan for his exhaustive study into this complex problem and Chairwoman Benson for her ongoing commitment."
"As an advocate for consumer protection, I filed legislation to make it easier for consumers to freeze their credit reports so that victims of identity theft and fraud could more quickly regain control of their credit," said Representative Jennifer Benson (D-Lunenburg). "In the wake of the Equifax breach last year, I worked with the Attorney General and advocates to strengthen the bill with additional language offering further protections. I'm proud of my colleagues in the House for coming together to pass this important legislation to protect and empower Massachusetts consumers."
The legislation updates the framework for the implementation of a freeze and related communication including:
- Modernizes the current law by allowing consumers to request credit freezes electronically or by telephone.
- Requires clear and accurate disclosure to consumers of basic information about credit freezes.
- In the event of a security breach, mandates credit agencies place a security freeze on a consumer report within one day of an electronic or telephone request, and within three days of receipt of a written request.
- Credit agencies must send confirmation of the security freeze within three days.
- Credit agencies must lift a security freeze within three days of a written request and 15 minutes of an electronic/ phone request.
- When a consumer requests a freeze, national credit reporting agencies must inform consumers of other reporting agencies that may have files on the consumer. They must also inform consumers of appropriate websites, toll-free numbers and mailing addresses that would permit the consumer to place additional freezes.
For the first time in Massachusetts, this legislation establishes specific guidelines for parents and guardians to freeze accounts of children under the age of 16 and incapacitated individuals.
The legislation also updates notification guidelines for breached entities and third party affiliates.
- Breached entities must provide consumers with immediate notice and timely updates.
- Upon receiving notice of a breach, the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation must post notice online within 24 hours.
Additionally, the Attorney General must provide information online to consumers regarding the breach. This bill also updates current law to require companies and organizations to obtain consent before running a credit report.


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This glossary explains some terms found on the PWSRCAC Web site. Definitions may vary depending on how the term is used elsewhere.
Activated Carbon
Highly absorbent from of carbon used to remove odors and toxic substances from liquid or gaseous emissions. In waste treatment it is used to remove dissolved organic matter from waste water.
A process which promotes biological degradation of organic water. The process may be passive (as when waste is exposed to air) or active (as when a mixing or bubbling device introduces the air).
Air Pollution
Presence of contaminant or pollutant substances in the air that do not disperse properly and interfere with human health or welfare, or produce other harmful environmental effects.
Ballast Water
Water carried in vessel tanks for stability.
- dirty ballast: ballast water that contains residual oil. When seawater is introduced into empty cargo tanks, residual oil mixes with the water and requires special handling at sea or treatment at a specialized facility before being discharged into the sea. Dirty ballast consists of seawater contaminated with approximately 1% crude oil.
- clean ballast: ballast water that is essentially free from oil. Does not exceed 15 ppm total recoverable oil and grease (TROG) and does not exceed 15 ppb benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX).
- segregated ballast: ballast water that is in tanks designed and used exclusively for that purpose.
Benthic Region
Bottom layer of a body of water.
To gradually accumulate organic compounds in living tissue, typically from ingestion and/or absorption of food or water.
Substances that increase in concentration in living organisms (that are very slowly metabolized or excreted) as they breathe contaminated air, drink contaminated water, or eat contaminated food.
Biological Treatment
Treatment technology that uses bacteria to consume waste. This treatment breaks down organic materials.
A floating barrier that extends above and below the water's surface and is designed to prevent the passage of or contain oil floating on water (also called containment boom).
Contingency plan—an action plan with guidelines for what to do in case of an oil spill.
Command Post
Facility located at a safe distance upwind from an accident site, where the on-scene coordinator, responders, and technical representatives can make response decisions, deploy manpower and equipment, maintain liaison with news media, and handle communications.
Crude Oil
Petroleum in its natural state prior to any refining process. Main elements are hydrogen and carbon.
Current Buster
Oil spill containment device capable of collecting, containing, and separating oil at tow speeds and currents up to five knots.
Process by which one liquid is dispersed into another in the form of small droplets.
Enhanced Tractor Tug (ETT)
A very powerful tug boat with cycloidal drive (Voith-Schneider) systems, fire fighting system, and towing winches. The cycloidal drive system consists of revolving vertical blades having a variable pitch that can produce a propelling force in any horizontal direction. An ETT is capable of applying a greater than its maximum propulsion force when it uses its keel to skeg. The Nanuq and Tan'erliq are the two ETT's used in Prince William Sound.
Entrapment Booming
Setting boom to guide oil into a confined area to prevent it from reaching another area.
Environmental Assessment
Written environmental analysis that is prepared pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act to determine whether a federal action would significantly affect the environment and thus require preparation of a more detailed environmental impact statement.
Environmental Impact Statement
Document required of federal agencies by the National Environmental Policy Act for major projects or legislative proposals significantly affecting the environment. A tool for decision making, it describes the positive and negative effects of the undertaking and lists alternative actions.
Exclusion Booming
Placing boom to prevent oil from entering a specific area, such as a small bay.
Geographic Response Strategies (GRS)
Oil spill response plans tailored to protect a specific environmentally sensitive area from impacts following an oil spill.
Organic chemical compound composed mainly of carbon and hydrogen. Hydrocarbons are the main constituents of crude oils.
Nautical mile—a unit of length used in sea and air navigation, based on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle on the earth's surface, especially an international and U.S. unit equal to 1,852 meters (about 6,076 feet).
Non-Indigenous Species
A species that is non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration.
Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon. PAHs are the most common smaller and more volatile compounds found in oil.
A state of becoming more poisonous when exposed to ultraviolet light.
Place of Refuge
A safe refuge (such as a protected bay) for leaking or disabled vessels.
Prevention Response Tug (PRT)
A very powerful tug boat with z-drive systems, fire fighting system, and towing winches. The z-drive system consists of ducted-propellers that can be oriented in any horizontal direction. A PRT is not capable of applying more than its maximum propulsion force. The Attentive, Aware, and Alert are the three PRT's used in Prince William Sound.
When oil that's been broken apart by a dispersant re-coagulates and pops back to the water surface.
Risk Assessment
Qualitative and quantitative evaluation performed in an effort to define the risk posed to human health and/or the environment by the presence or potential presence and/or use of specific pollutants.
Tanker of Opportunity
A tanker that is in transit and is the closest and most available for storage use in the event of a spill.
Tanker Vapor Recovery System
A system installed on the berths at the Alyeska terminal that captures hazardous air pollutants from tanker loading operations. Vapors are incinerated or are burned in a power generation boiler.
Technological Disaster
Catastrophic event caused by humans that results in the toxic contamination of the environment.
Theriot Class Tug
(theriot is pronounced tare-ee-o) tug boat that includes towing winches, shock line/surge gear, crane, and ground tackle.
Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)
Organic compound, typically a liquid, that forms a vapor. Many VOCs are harmful. Specific VOCs, also classified as hazardous air pollutants by the U.S. EPA, of concern when released into the atmosphere from operations at the Valdez Marine Terminal include benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX).
Wave Tank
A specialized tank that simulates wave action, used for testing oil spill clean-up methods.


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Laboratory plasticware are equipment made up of polymers having variety of applications with respect to laboratory or research centers. The laboratory plasticware market has significantly evolved itself in past few decades in terms of material composition, design and application. Laboratory plasticware encompasses number of advantages such as being unbreakable in nature enhances its applicability with respect to handling radioactive isotopes, hazardous and carcinogenic chemicals or substances. The inherent characteristics of the equipment include environmental friendliness, reusability, thermostability and safety of laboratory personnel in case of accidents has upsurge the global market for laboratory plasticware as compared to the global glassware market in past.
Various types of laboratory plasticwares that are used in different laboratory or research encompass aspirator bottles, laboratory beaker, Buchner funnel, carrier tray, centrifuges and micro centrifuge tubes. Apart from these equipments laboratory plasticware are gaining lot of acceptance in cell cultures and cryopreservation related studies and experiments. Some of this equipment comprises cryobox, cryo coders, cryovials among others. With the advances in technology different chemical compositions or polymers are used to manufacture these laboratory plasticware equipments.
Some of the polymer used in manufacturing includes Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE). The LDPE based laboratory plasticware can withstand up to 90° C if used for short span of time and can be used continuously for longer period of time between 50°C-80°C. Various organic solvents may soften or swell LDPE but it has excellent resistance to dilute and concentrated acids, alcohols, bases and esters. The ranges of laboratory plastics apparatus manufactured from LDPE encompasses bottles, wash bottles, carboys and storage tanks among others. Similarly, High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) HDPE exhibits higher chemical resistance than LDPE and can be used to handle or work with extremely concentrated or hazardous chemical substances. Polymethylpentene (PMP) is a polymer that is highly transparent in nature and rigid in nature and can withstand up to 180°C- 200°C. PMP is particularly useful in the manufacture of volumetric apparatus such as flasks, beakers and measuring cylinders. Polyvinylchloride (PVC) are primarily used in manufacturing tubing. The characteristic of the polymer makes the final product soft, pliable and transparent. Though PVC are not very resistive to organic solvents yet they posses good resistance to oils and are low permeable to gases.
Given its primary application in research and development activity, the laboratory plasticware market is slightly affected by the fluctuations in the market especially in Europe and the United states due to cuts in funding from government agencies and private companies. Despite of the economic slowdown, the United States market is the largest market because of presence of large number of university and research centers conducting and funding the research. Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing market especially in countries such as China, India, Singapore and Japan among others due exponential rise in economy and emerging focus on the research programs in past decades. The rest of the world market is yet to emerge as a prominent geographical region though the initiatives from regulatory bodies, flooding of top notch research and manufacturing companies in this region will positively impact the growth and demand for laboratory plastic wares.
Some of the major drivers for the global laboratory plasticware market comprises upsurge in demand for plastic based equipments due to longer shelf life, better handling and safety benefits and increase in number of private research centers and training institute for students as well as researchers. The favorable trend is likely to continue in forthcoming years primarily due to rise in living standards and improving healthcare facilities in emerging nations. Environmental testing laboratories are likely to be an emerging and fastest growing segment due to stringent regulations and safety compliances. Some of the key players in market include Eppendorf AG, Kimble Chase Life Science and Research Products LLC, Duran Group GmbH, Mettler-Toledo International Inc., Gerresheimer AG, Thermo Fisher Scientifi, Inc., and Wheaton Science Products, among others.
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I hope you enjoy this Polar Bear. Thanks again to KAT who provided this reference picture. Aren't Polar Bears such a beautiful animal? I thought I should take a moment or two to get to know some of these wonderful creatures better, so I've rounded up some information about this critter:
Even though a polar bears fur looks white it is actually colorless and is made with hollow tubes. The reason the bear looks white is because the rough inner surface of the tubes make light scatter and reflect at many different angles which gives the white appearance.
If you spray an antiseptic spray on a polar bear, its fur will turn purple.
Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do.
Polar bears can smell seal from 20 miles away.
The only predator that polar bears have are humans.
In the last 30 years, only seven people have been killed by a polar bear in Canada.
When a polar bear cub is born, it can not see or hear. It takes approximately a month for the cub to start to see and hear.
The town of Churchill, Manitoba, located in Canada, is known as the "Polar Bear Capitol of the World"
Shadowisdancing – I think I DO have a lion or tiger or leopard tucked away for your girl's 16th birthday, s'long as its not in the next couple of days, but within the week? You know, for her birthday you might also like to create a BIG poster for her??? did you see my earlier link to BLOCK POSTERS? its SO easy to use...imagine how surprized she might be?
How awesome and marvelous is each animal. How unique every single one! I've come to have such an appreciation! Not only did our Father create every creature, but the food that they eat. Every living thing is so connected!
And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
I was browsing the Internet for Easter ideas when I came across an article on how to dye eggs naturally. Here's what ingredients make your eggs certain colors:
Red Onion Skins – soft lavender to red, depending on how long you
boil the skins and how many skins are in the pot
Red Cabbage Leaves – robin's egg blue
Beet Juice or Cranberry Juice – different shades of pink
Dill seeds – brown to gold color
Grape juice – lavender
Strong coffee – different shades of brown
Yellow onion leaves, turmeric, orange and lemon peels, cumin or carrot tops – yellow
Paprika - orange
Spinach - green
Yellow Delicious apple peels - green/gold color
Blueberries – blue
Grass – green
Hard boil your eggs – let cool completely. Set aside.
Meanwhile, add 2 – 3 tablespoons vinegar to 4 cups of water along with whatever natural ingredients you have chosen. If you're using something solid (ie: cabbage leaves, you can use up to 4 cups) For spices use about 4 tablespoons. Bring your mixture to a boil and let simmer for ½ hour. Let cool – strain. Dip your eggs into the dye. The longer you leave them in, the more intense the color. Turn occasionally to keep the color even. Remove and allow to dry!
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Six of the best BME composers you should know about
A short guide to the greatest black and minority ethnic composers of all time
From the 18th-century violin master Chevalier de Saint-Georges to New York's rising star Jessie Montgomery, BME composers have played an important role in the history of classical music. Despite their creative talent and the ability of some to capture rhythms and motifs from different cultures, racial prejudice and discrimination often hampered their careers.
Finally, however, composers from a wider range of backgrounds are being commissioned and are having their works performed. But BME composers are still overlooked by musical history. Here are a few we think you should know about.
Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)
An acclaimed composer and violinist, Joseph Bologne (also known as Chevalier de Saint-Georges) delighted the French court with his orchestral works as well as the pieces he wrote for the violin. He joined the king's guard and was knighted after winning an impossible duel against a French swordsman, a feat which made him known across all of Europe.
Saint-Georges was later given the nickname 'Black Mozart'. The pair met during Mozart's early years in France, and the innovative structure of the Symphonies Concertantes they both composed, doubling the violin solo to obtain two layers of melody, prompted audiences to identify a link between them by the time the younger Mozart's fame had grown.
In fact, historians believe that entire themes from Mozart's Les Petits Riens ballets were borrowed from Saint-Georges' own pieces. Chi-Chi Nwanoku, founder of the BME orchestra Chineke!, assesses the relationship between the two composers' oeuvres in her documentary In Search of the Black Mozart.
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
The American composer is famous for his contribution to the development of ragtime, both an instrumental and vocal style based on the two-step march, which was popular at the turn of the century and played on easily recognised syncopated patterns. However, Joplin also composed several lesser-known classical works.
After his debut as a concert pianist, he found a publisher who agreed to work with him and wrote a ballet infused with the rhythms of ragtime, accompanied by his own choreographic notes.
Again working on more than just the musical score, Joplin wrote his second opera, Treemonisha, along with the libretto and a set of directions for the performers.
While some of his earlier works were lost, Treemonisha is still occasionally performed on larger stages and his rags, like Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer, remain staples in the genre's repertoire.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Not to be confused with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge-Taylor was born to an English mother and a Sierra Leonean father, and produced many acclaimed works. Similarly to Joseph Bologne, Coleridge-Taylor was commonly compared by critics to another (white) contemporary composer – Gustav Mahler in his case, for the modernity and the vivacity of his pieces.
His most famous work is Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, an ingenious three-part musical setting of a series of poems inspired by native American culture. In other works, like his African Suites, Coleridge-Taylor equally blends certain elements of African culture with classical forms.
Florence Price (1887-1953)
Born in Arkansas, Price first had to overcome harsh racial discrimination before her talent could be recognised. Although she described herself as doubly handicapped in the world of classical music by her sex and her colour, she became the first African-American woman to have a symphony performed by a major US orchestra, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave the premiere of her First Symphony.
The symphony was well received and viewed as a cleverly composed work, with rhythmic elements taken from the highly popular spirituals she also wrote. She was an important member of the early 20th-century circles of African-American composers and was supported by performers such as the celebrated contralto and Metropolitan Opera star Marian Anderson.
George Walker (1922-2018)
The West Indian-American pianist and composer was the first black man to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He studied in Paris alongside Nadia Boulanger and later became a professor, teaching in universities across the US and often breaking racial boundaries. He was the first black person to become a faculty member at Smith College in Massachusetts.
Walker's Pulitzer-winning piece, Lilacs, was composed for voice and orchestra and belongs to a series of lyrical works among the composer's modernist oeuvre. Although in his interviews he maintained that he intended to focus on writing his own music, rather than reviewing the works of past BME composers, he nevertheless produced an homage to Chevalier Saint-Georges in the form of his Foils for Orchestra.
Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981)
The young composer and violinist grew up in New York during the years which saw the expansion of a more experimental scene in the city. Besides arranging works written by the members of this movement for modern performances, she also composes her own works, primarily for string ensembles.
Her short suite Break Away featured on the programme of last season's contemporary music festival MusicNOW organised by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The piece invites the performers to engage with the score and playfully brings improvisation to the fore.
She is currently a partner of the Sphinx Organisation, a group promoting the music of African-American and Latino composers and musicians, and is also reimagining Joplin's Treemonisha.
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This year's Thanksgiving celebration coincides with the first day Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights. It's a convergence that hasn't occurred since 1888 and which may not occur again for more than 70,000 years.
Jokes about Manischewitz-hued turkeys aside, this is a fabulous opportunity to mingle two great food traditions.
Michael Ruhlman, the James Beard Award-winning cookbook author, has just written "The Book of Schmaltz: Love Song to a Forgotten Fat." Ruhlman isn't Jewish, but worked with his neighbor and "queen of schmaltz," Lois Baron, to develop many of the recipes for his cookbook.
Schmaltz is rendered chicken fat cooked with onions. The schmaltz is used as a cooking oil in all kinds of other recipes, like knishes and kugel: "We basically lost schmaltz in our cooking and so I wanted to bring it back, not just for Jews but for everyone, because it results in extraordinary food that doesn't taste the same any other way except with schmaltz."
For those who may be intimidated by schmaltz, rendering the fat from one's Thanksgiving turkey to make gravy is a vaguely similar process. Although Ruhlman adds, "According to Lois -- who has the last word as far as I'm concerned -- schmaltz must be rendered chicken fat with onion because that onion does give a sweetness and depth to the fat." He says a schmaltz-based gravy would also be terrific on turkey.
For a Thanksgivukkah meal, Ruhlman would set out appetizers of egg and gribenes (chicken cracklings) spread, as well as chicken liver with crackers.
"Potato kugel would be a delicious side dish and appropriate for Thanksgiving," he says. Potato kugel, unlike noodle kugel, is like a giant latke or potato pancake. "You make it in a big skillet and then it's ready. It's every bit as a good as a latke and you don't have to stand there frying it in batches.
"You could even make kishke, which is a kind of stuffing, for the bird if you wanted."
Josh Marcus, the chef-owner of Josh's Deli in Surfside, has an idea for "Thanksgivukkes:" latkes topped with dark-meat turkey and cranberry or "maybe matzoh stuffing inside something else."
Chef Todd Erickson of HaVen Gastro Lounge and Huahua's Taqueria starts his Thanksgivukkah menu with breakfast:
"I would serve cranberry blintzes, latkes with pumpkin butter and salmon lox quiche.
"Then, for the big dinner, I would serve:
Roast turkey with challah stuffing, mashed potato knish with chive creme fraiche, Manischewitz-cranberry gelee, roasted Brussels sprouts with buttered matzoh crumbs, pumpkin cheesecake and cinnamon-pecan kugel with brown sugar caramel."
And, finally, New York chef Josh Capon, who is opening a South Beach branch of Lure Fishbar this winter, suggests "turkey leg and thigh stuffed with herb-roasted wild mushrooms and a potato latke stuffing with roasted apples and chestnuts."
Click here to learn about the history of Jewish delis in Miami and hear an interview with Michael Ruhlman.


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So we have been playing six sessions of EP with the Fate ruleset and I wanted to share some thoughts. I have GMed the intro scenario in the quickstart rules, Mind the WMD, and the first scenario of the Blinding Heights campaign, Chain Reaction. I have a couple of years ago GMed both using the original BRP rules but with another player group. I have also GMed several scenarios with the older versions of Fate in other settings.
* Fate is generally a good fit for playing EP. This is especially true for introing players into the big, deep world of EP. It allows you to jump start everything and just forget alot of hard to grasp ideas. It is also fun.
* One of the things that it lets your group grace is the mesh and its social life. I really miss the social economy of the BRP rules but to be fair, the basic Fate system works fine. I just need to forget about a controlled environment of requests and contacts and accept that I need to discuss with the group what a roll of 1 shift on civ-rep gets a character in this specific case. This is hard though, converting scenarios from using the BRP rules you get a lot of "@-Rep, MoS +30:"-specific guidelines for distributing info to the players. And those are hard to discuss without giving them away. I usually go by
1: Player description, e.g. "I ask the gangster thug we met earlier...". The more specific description the more it will override special networks and MoS if applicable.
2: Character background. If she/he is a scientist a civ-rep roll will primarily target the R-net.
3: 1 shift success: level 2 favours. 2 Shifts = MoS 30 and lvl 3. 3 Shifts = MoS 60 and lvl 4. 4 Shifts: lvl 5.
* Speaking of converting scenarios, this is otherwise fairly easy. Fate is a loose system focused on storytelling so in many cases you can wing it. I only prep NPCs. Would probably be a lot harder going the other way, Fate -> BRP.
* Also, the scenarios have a higher chance to derail (as in the players solving a problem in a way not intended/mentioned in the scenario) I would say. I however like this…
* EP for me always felt very realistic in its way of portraying combat, BRP systems usually are. Not that I actually know anything about that but I mean compared to gamey rules. It is a simulation of reality rather than a minigame. If the player group fights a group of the same number of NPCs with same gear, it's about 50% of TPK? That is not true for Fate if you go by the usual NPC ladder of grunt -> leader -> character -> boss. I started out going by the ladder but decided to make proper characters of all NPCs, including Henchman #3, and rather not defining all the skills if short on time. This may lead to that we introduce weapon damage due to longer fights. We will see.
* I really miss defined gear stunts in the Transhumanity's Fate core book. I understand that this may double the page count of the book, but just some very basic examples. "Saucer bot: +2 notice when outdoors." or something. How about a stunt gear list pdf?
* I still use the normal… physical world of the old core book to determine if stuff is actually possible. As in "do a player character have any chance to spot a hidden enemy that is using an invisibility cloak?", if no then there will be no skill roll. According to Fate rules I think it would be to roll and if the outcome is really good the character would spot the enemy. It just feels wrong to "negate" the scientific feel of a hard sci-fi like EP...
* And also, we are using the morph deck which helps alot. I bought it for the first group and thought it would be nice to have now. And it is :)
We will continue with Dance with the Devil. I will return if brain can has more think.


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I was on Colette's Blog My Simple Little Pleasures and she had pictures of her Easter water marble nail art. They are amazing she is the master of water marbling!!! So I decided to finally give it a shot ... and here is what I came up with. Thinking of doing the blue and green after my Easter design I like the combination of the colors. Would love to see your thoughts on this. :D
My first attempts trying out which nail polishes worked together and could be used.
This is my attempt on my nails.
|Cloudy day so pictures are a little dark.
I had Essie - Turquoise & Caicos painted already on my nails with some lighter mint green sponged and did the marble over it, but I think if I had white base it would have come out much brighter. But not bad for a first try I think. :) I am going to try and redo with white base and see how it comes out since I have a cracked nail I need to repair. :(
Colors used for the marble were
Colors used for the marble were
Sally Hansen - Bubblegum Pink
Sally Hansen - Mellow Yellow
Sally Hansen - Blizzard Blue
Sally Hansen - Blue Me Away
Sally Hansen - Mellow Yellow
Sally Hansen - Blizzard Blue
Sally Hansen - Blue Me Away


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jessicapeaches posted a topic in Yoga Teacher TalkHi everyone! I am looking at doing an intensive teacher training this year but... I don't know that I really even WANT to teach. What I want is a month of intensive learning, but more than just a yoga retreat. I want the knowledge that comes from teacher training, but I don't want to spend time on learning how to manage a class or how land a job ect. Any recommendations of where I can just get deep into yoga for a month? I love Vinyasa flow but I'm fairly open. I don't think Mysore is my style and I'm on a budget anyway so going to India is pretty unlikely! Or, is it worth doing teacher training for the yoga knowledge anyway and the "teacher" knowledge is just a bonus? Right now I'm looking at doing my training with Meghan Currie, I hear that her training is great even for those not looking to teach! But wanted to see if anyone has other suggestions. Thanks!!