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Pipe Bursting – A Last resort To Pipe Lining
Sometimes a pipe is in such bad condition that modern sewer pipe lining is not possible. Examples would be when extensive sections of the pipe are partially collapsed which is common for Orangeburg pipe, or large sections of pipe are missing which is common for cast iron pipe, or a customer is unfamiliar with pipe re-lining, which is the more modern method used in trenchless pipe rehabilitation. In such cases pipe bursting technology is used.
The pipe bursting technology involves pulling a cone-shaped "head", with a new high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe attached, through an existing pipeline. As the head moves through, it breaks the old pipe and pushes the pieces back into the surrounding soil. The head also expands the bore diameter slightly larger than the outside diameter of the new pipe it is pulling in. This reduces friction, but it also makes it possible to replace an existing pipeline with one of a larger diameter. Of course very powerful winches and strong cables have to be used for this type of sewer pipe rehabilitation.
A bursting head with no other attachment is called a static head, and it depends entirely upon the power of a winch to pull it through an existing pipeline. In some cases, a bursting head is equipped with a cutting blade or an internal pneumatic hammer. The cutting blade concentrates all the pulling force into one area, making the initial opening of the pipe easier. In hard, dry soils, or when heavy pipe fittings are encountered, the driving force of a hammer aids penetration.
As the HDPE pipe is pulled into the old sewer pipe that requires replacement, new sections of HDPE pipe are fused together using a plastic welding technology. This makes a seamless pipe that will prevent root intrusion, water infiltration and exfiltration.
There are some limitations to using the pipe bursting process:
- The first is the line has to be in good enough condition for the cable to be pulled through the line.
- Pipe Bursting will not fix a sag, or, belly. The bursting head and new pipe follows the path of the old pipe.
- Rocks, ledge and some other conditions may jam the bursting head preventing it from passing and still require excavation to complete the job.
- Some bend configurations may not allow pipe bursting as the bursting head may exit the pipe and get stuck requiring excavation.
The Villages Hospital in Leesburg, FL:
An unusual event occurred at this hospital one day when they discharge boiling water down a drain waste line that was only designed to convey cool water. The resulting heat softened the pipe which subsequently collapsed along 400' of its length:
Pipe relining was not an option as this type of trenchless pipe rehabilitation requires the host pipe to be repaired to be in a round or oval form. In this case, some parts of the collapse were so bad the winch cable could not be strung through that area, which had to be excavated and replaced before pipe bursting could begin. But once the process began, the old pipe was pushed aside and the new pipe took its place:
The City of Sarasota Lateral Replacement Test Program:
"Since the beginning, we have proceeded methodically, proving one step before we took the next. Then, we didn't know how much infiltration was coming into our system through the service laterals. And until we discovered the pipe bursting process, we didn't know service laterals could be replaced cost-effectively."
Bill Hallisey,
PublicWorks Director
City of Sarasota, Fla.
The City of Sarasota had been experiencing increased flow at their sewage treatment plants that correlated strongly with the advent of rain. So when it rained, somehow there was water infiltration into their sewage pipes that had already been relined!
Upon further study they discovered that the infiltration was most likely coming from residential sewer laterals that had not yet been relined. The city found that 52 percent of the private sewer laterals were cast iron, 6 percent were Orangeburg, 19 percent were vitrified clay pipes (VCP), and 23 percent were polyvinyl chloride (PVC).
All of the Orangeburg and most of the cast iron pipes were badly tuberculated, so their flow capacity was restricted. All lining technologies reduced the capacity of the laterals even more, and some were prohibitively expensive for the application. However, pipe bursting overcame both those concerns, and actual bids revealed that the pipe bursting technology was affordable using lightweight, modular equipment and small crews to replace the existing sewer laterals. The location of each drain line had already been established in an earlier phase of the program.
Since Sarasota is a coastal community with populated barrier islands, so it has a very high water table which is a challenging environment for pipe bursting as some excavation is required for access points. As a result, well points are necessary at some locations. When used, the well points are established the day before the lateral is replaced and are allowed to run until installation and backfilling are complete.
The City of Sarasota uses white HPDE pipe for its lateral replacement pilot project, providing excellent visibility during video inspections.
Each installation starts with excavation of a small pit (about two feet by three feet) at the property line and another where the service line enters the house.
Vacuum excavation is used to open the pits because many utilities are clustered near the property lines. The soil is cut with a water jet, then vacuumed out by a Vactor truck with a 6-inch tube. Usually, the pits can be excavated in less than an hour.
City code in Sarasota requires that a cleanout be installed every 75 feet in new service laterals. For laterals over 75 feet long, pits are sometimes dug for the extra cleanouts, and the new pipe is pulled from one pit to the next. At other times, the entire length of the new line is pulled first and the cleanouts are installed later. We used small, modular equipment manufactured by Tric Tools, Inc. (www.trictrenchless.com) to install the new lateral lines. Normally, the pulling equipment is set up in the pit at the property line because it is deeper, and therefore offers more head wall surface to pull against. The Tric hydraulic puller can produce a pulling force of 60,000 pounds.
The white, 4-inch SDR 17 HDPE (high density polyethylene) pipe is supplied on 800-foot reels. The color enhances video inspections, and the length greatly reduces the need for onsite pipe fusion.
The replacement pipe for Sarasota's pilot project is supplied on 800-foot reels. This greatly reduces the need for
onsite pipe fusion.
When the pits are ready, a cable is strung through the existing service line from the property line to the house. There, the cable is attached to a 4-inch bursting head, which has a special blade to help crack or cut the old pipe. In turn, the bursting head is fused to the new pipe. In the pulling pit, the cable runs through a resistance plate and metal frame before it attaches to the hydraulic puller. A diesel-powered Vermeer high pressure pump supplies hydraulic power to the puller. Once the pull begins, the new HDPE pipe is pulled into place at 5 to 10 feet per minute, depending upon the power of the hydraulic pump.
The small hydraulic puller used in Sarasota's pipe bursting project generates up to 60,000 pounds of pulling force.
When the new lateral line is in place, a double-sweep tee and cleanout is installed at each end, and in any intervening cleanout pits. The tees are then reconnected to the original line at the house and at the property line.
During lateral replacement, cleanouts are installed every 75 feet to comply with city codes.
Restoration work is usually limited to backfilling the pits with dry soil and replacing the original sod or mulch at the surface. Any specialized work such as replacement of brick or tile is usually subcontracted to specialists. The pipe bursting process allows new pipe to be installed under existing driveways, mature landscaping, and even add-on buildings without destructive excavation.
High wet-weather flows Sarasota's system experiences substantial peak flows during wet weather.
Average dry-weather flows are 7.5 million gallons per day (mgd), but monthly averages of 13.2 mgd and daily spikes as high as 22 mgd have been recorded at the 25 mgd wastewater treatment plant. Dan Castorani, Wastewater Program Manager for the city, explains that before the project began, some lift stations in the project area would surcharge any time the water table rose to less than 2.5 feet below grade. "We believe that's the level at which large volumes of groundwater start to enter our system through customer service lines," says Dan.
If, as a result of replacing all the leaking customer service lines in the project area, wet weather flows are greatly reduced, many benefits to the city will follow:
• Reduced system operating and maintenance costs.
• Improved environment from reduced or eliminated sanitary sewer overflows (SSO).
• Elimination of SSO-related fines from regulatory agencies.
• Extra capacity for transportation and treatment of wastewater, allowing more development without expansion of treatment facilities.
"If we prove that customer service lines are the source of most of our wet weather I&I, we can take the next step," says Bill Hallisey, Public Works Director for the city. At that point, the city may decide to replace more customer service laterals at public expense, or require customers to pay for the replacement.


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"Put Out into the Deep"
In the missionary community of which I am a part, one of our charisms is receptivity. Why is that? At the beginning of this new millennium, Pope St. John Paul II told us, "a new stage of the Church's journey begins, our hearts ring out with the words of Jesus… 'put out into the deep' (Lk 5:4)" (Novo Millennio Ineunte). It is for just this reason that we strive to foster an open, receptive and disposed spirituality: that we may go "deep" as we invite Christ into our hearts, and we strive to enter into His.
As we entered into the year 2000, John Paul II encouraged us to move beyond the shallow waters and enter into the deeper waters of life and of our hearts. Christ is calling forth His Bride the Church to become ever more receptive to His love and grace, that we may become ever more the Spotless Bride, the New Jerusalem spoken of in Revelation 21.
Receptivity and Vulnerability
But how do we become receptive to all that He longs to bestow upon us? By being vulnerable and "humble of heart."
The message is clear as we look to devotion to the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary. What is the first thing we see as we gaze upon a statue or picture of either, but a heart exposed.
"Remove the foreskins of your heart!" Scripture tells us. (See Jeremiah 4:4 and Romans 2:29.) Just as in the Old Covenant the Israelites were called to remove the foreskins of the most sensitive part of their body, in the New Covenant we are called to remove the foreskins of the most sensitive part of our whole being.
But how are we personally being called to expose our hearts to God today, especially as we enter into this Lenten Season?
It can be scary to be vulnerable. It certainly was for me when I first began realizing the need to open rooms and areas in my deeper heart where I felt insecure, ashamed or hurt, or where I had deep aches and longings that could seem disordered.
I was afraid of being rejected, not being accepted, being reprimanded or told I shouldn't feel that way or have such struggles. "Get over it," "Pull yourself up by your boot straps," and "You are weak" were negative thoughts that could come to mind. Well, now I understand so much better St. Paul's words, "In my weakness I am strong" (2 Corinthians 12:11).
For, our weakness and brokenness is the magnet which draws us to God. As a persistent lover, He knocks continually in hopes that we will invite Him into our deeper heart, especially into those areas we are most afraid to face or of which we are most ashamed.
The True Longing of the Heart
Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body and other writings encourage us to move beyond both over-spiritualizing ("spirit good, body bad") and under-spiritualizing ("if it feels good, do it") and toward an integrated spirituality that fosters being transformed from within, where our humanity is receptive to Christ's Divinity. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and now Pope Francis have continued to further this true spirit of Vatican II which John Paul II sought to cultivate.
At the core of all of us is an eros longing for love. This is a key part of the "deep" which we are called to put out into. At times we, especially as Christians, want to cap off or repress this eros desire as though it is not holy, and we take on a prudish or lifeless spirituality which can tend toward being judgmental and self-righteous, looking to blame or call out what is wrong with others, instead of seeking first to "get the board out of [our] own eye."
Yet Pope Benedict tells us in Deus Caritas Est: "eros and agape—ascending love and descending love—can never be completely separated. The more the two, in their different aspects, find a proper unity in the one reality of love, the more the true nature of love in general is realized." Benedict goes on to say: "Eros, at its deepest level, is the desire within us that 'seeks God. '" [God's love] "may certainly be called eros, yet it is also totally agape." So, "Be overtaken… by God's 'crazy' love for us."
The Year of Mercy
What better way could Pope Francis foster a "put[ing] out into the deep" than by establishing this Jubilee Year of Mercy? In his Holy Year Prayer he writes, "You willed that your ministers would also be clothed in weakness in order that they may feel compassion." Elsewhere, he tells his priests, "be Shepherds with the smell of the sheep." And how can one have the smell of the sheep unless they are first in touch with their own smell (and at times stench)? In his recent visit to Africa, Pope Francis reiterated John Paul II's message: "May you look to the future… to set out toward new horizons, to put out into the deep."
May we all have the grace during this Jubilee Year of Mercy, and in particular this Lenten Season, to have the stance of St. Mary Magdalene, the penitent woman and the humble tax collector who gave all that they had to Christ, and invited Him into their deep rooms of disorder and longing. For when Christ's redeeming graces enter in, we come to realize a legitimacy in our longing that, when rightly ordered, can be sated by love and communion with Him for whom we really long. For our deepest eros can never be sated by the finite, but only the infinite love of God Himself.
"Some seed fell on fertile ground and produced 30, 60 and 100 fold. He who has ears, let him hear." (Matthew 13:8-9)


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A person desiring to inspect or receive a copy of a public record must give written request for the public record to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Coordinator or Public Safety Records Coordinator. A written request may be made by facsimile, electronic mail, or other electronic transmission, but it is not considered to have been received by the FOIA coordinator until one business day after the electronic transmission is made. In order to inspect or receive a copy of a public record, please complete and submit the Request for Public Information Form and return it to the City Clerk's Office or Public Safety Records Office.
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Barrons weekend update: Positive on OAK, WFM; cautious on CAB
Cover story: Private tech companies such as Uber, Dropbox, and Airbnb have legitimate business models that are disrupting mature markets; venture capitalists are funding them, but investors aren't showing much interest, creating a major lull in initial public offerings-but the bad news for IPOs could be a bullish sign for the market.
1) Female financial advisors face a number of challenges, and "remain a distinct minority in an industry many view as especially well-suited for them";
2) Positive on WFM: Shares of market chain have strong potential for upside as it cuts costs, offers more competitive pricing, and launches a value chain that could open up new markets;
3) Positive on OAK: Shares have gone down since February, but if new initiatives led by chief executive Jay Wintrob bear fruit, they are likely to head back to the $60 range from today's $45;
4) Cautious on CAB: Shares have climbed to $52 from $33 since October after Elliott Management took a stake, but the retailer still faces many challenges, and investors should consider taking their profits now;
5) Positive on JNJ: Company tops Barron's annual ranking of the world's most respected companies, displacing AAPL, which dropped to No. 3, while Berkshire Hathaway holds the second spot.
Tech Trader: Positive on GOOGL, AMZN: Companies are starting to look like INTC and MSFT at the end of the 90s: they're focused less on constant disruption and more on strong products that allow them to thrive and provide investors with healthy returns.
Trader: Jim Bianco of Chicago-based Bianco Research is on high alert for "giant asymmetric risk," and is concerned that after the jobs report, markets put the probability of a rate hike at 4%; +/- KORS: Investors have turned the beaten-down stock into a star performer, but they're clearly looking beyond the gloomy outlook for the current quarter; Positive on ATSG: Company's relationships with AMZN and DHL are giving it a boost, and shares could see 43% gain during the next 12 months.
Advisor Rankings: Kimberlee Orth of Ameriprise Financial, Shannon Eusey of Beacon Pointe Advisors, and Stephanie Stiefel of Neuberger Berman hold the top three spots on Barron's list of the Top 100 Women Financial Advisors.Interview: Ivy Zelman of Zelman & Associates, one of the few analysts who predicted the housing crash, is bullish on the sector, though she is wary of the real estate markets in New York and Miami.
Profile: Michael Cornelius, manager of the T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond fund, takes a contrarian approach, aiming to minimize risk despite a preference for second-tier and frontier countries (top 10 country exposure: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Russia, Venezuela, Turkey, Ukraine, South Africa, Serbia).
Small Caps: Positive on HMHC: Textbook and educational-content firm is a market leader in a sector with high barriers to entry; despite a weakening sector, company stands to benefit from the growth of its digital business; Cautious on MPW: REIT invests only in acute-care hospitals, giving it a competitive advantage, but investors may want to pare holdings after a boost following the sale of an equity stake in Capella Healthcare.
Follow-Up: Cautious on MON: Bayer is unlikely to come up with the capital to entice the company into a deal; shares are up, but its growth prospects have eroded and investors should take their profits.
International Trader: Should the U.K. vote to leave the European Union, "it could take two years of negotiations to untangle the country from the EU apparatus, but the impact could be more immediate," including a steep drop in sterling.
Asian Trader: Overview of the Sohn Conference Hong Kon; speaker Yuet Wei Wan of Wei Capital Management said supply and demand for oil is pretty balanced at recent levels, though disruptions in places like Nigeria could tip the markets into deficit.
Emerging Markets: With the Federal Reserve preparing to raise rates, investors may find opportunities in Pakistan, India, and Romania, as well as central and eastern Europe; caution is warranted in Argentina.
Commodities: Iron-ore prices are down by almost 30% since late April, but investors hoping to pick a bottom in the volatile commodity should proceed carefully.
Streetwise: Companies with the highest ratios of free cash flow to debt have outperformed those with the lowest by about five percentage points, which is why investors shouldn't worry about MCD, HD, HSY, and UPS; Companies with low leverage ratios and low interest coverage include MU, MRO, and ODP.


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Real Stories from People Switching to the NetBeans IDE!
Many developers are migrating their applications to the NetBeans IDE from
other IDEs.
Kalvin Osborne, Lead developer for XIPOLEC, Northern British Columbia, Canada
I have used almost all, if not all, the IDEs that have looked good enough to try. My top two: Notepad++ and NetBeans. I would never use NotePad++ for C/C++/Java, and that's why I use NetBeans. I used to use Code::Blocks, it's a great IDE, don't get me wrong, but pretty soon, a certain error and how it acts just hit the wrong nerve. VC++... well, I don't like Microsoft Products to begin with, so this was a natural disaster waiting to happen, and guess what... it happened...
Pete, KP Direction
I've been developing websites since 1999, and at kpdirection since 2001, starting with Macromedia Dreamweaver Ultradev. I stayed with the DW tools until version 8, when I got fed up with the continual costs of upgrading and the traditional bugs on release 1 of any version.
Werner Vesteraas, Norway
I got fed up with Eclipse after four years. It has become a sluggish beast. NetBeans is now my weapon of choice.
Doug Puchalski
Free software is great. But it feels odd that I don't have to pay for this one!
Daniel Noz
Excerpt from blog entry: NetBeans IDE 6.7 Refcard
Adam McMahon
No crazy configuration necessary. It works right away!
Josh Eckerman, Eventux, LLC
I just wanted to say that NetBeans 6.7.1 has blown myself and my team away. Eclipse and Aptana Studio Pro were our standbys. After using this, we've begun a migration to NetBeans, and everyone is hitting the ground running. I shouldn't really call it a "migration" either. Just import, and off you go. Excellent work, and praise for all involved.
Jamie P
I switched to NetBeans about 6 months ago, after using just about every IDE out there for the past 9 years. Never going back...
Alan Stanley
I love NetBeans. I work in a development and support shop. I've managed to convert a number of die-hard Eclipse guys over to NetBeans.
Excerpt from blog entry: A Few Software Recommendations for PHP/Javascript
Travis Walters
Excerpt from blog entry: The second coming of NetBeans
[...] I hate to say it but... Three strikes and you're out Eclipse! I'll be using NetBeans for all of my Ruby, Groovy, and eventually Scala development. I also plan to try NetBeans on my next Java gig to see how it holds up in an enterprise development environment. If you haven't used NetBeans in a while I'd strongly encourage you to check it out.
Excerpt from Zend Forum: NetBeans 6.5....Zend Studio please pay attention
Kevin Yank
Excerpt from blog: PHP support in NetBeans 6.5
Long dismissed as a "toy Java IDE", NetBeans—Sun's open source Integrated Development Evironment (IDE)—has really grown up in recent years. No longer is it just for Java, either: for web developers, NetBeans 6.5 now supports Ruby and PHP out of the box. Surprisingly, that support is so good that it now compares favourably to more established competitors like Eclipse, Komodo IDE, and Zend Studio.
Audience member at Java Day 2008, Bratislava
Why would I pay $250 for IntelliJ when I can get NetBeans for free?
Excerpt from blog entry: NetBeans 6.5 PHP Edition
...There are few features I expect my IDE to have. Code completion is one of them, and in NetBEans it looks awesome. ... I'm officially in love with NetBeans for now. I've been using NuSphere PhpEd for some time, it also has similar feature but does not write the require statement like NetBeans. It's the small things that make people happy. Another thing, and the most important one, NetBeans is free. There are few other things in which NetBeans stands out of the crowd, like XHTML code completion and so on. This post is not intended to be some detailed review of a product. It's a merely an personal observation. I'm just saying I feel more comfortable now, today, using NetBeans than using Zend or NuSpere; not to mention the cost of each of them. If you have some spare time, give it a try.
To NB team:
Rob Eastman
I have been a Microsoft Visual Studio user for quite some time. I have mostly programmed in C#. I downloaded the Netbeans IDE to program a peer-to-peer networking course project for my graduate studies. I am very impressed with the functionality of the Netbeans IDE for java programming! I just want to say "great job"! I will use NetBeans IDE for my remaining Graduate level courses in computer science at the University of Florida.
Excerpt from blog entry: NetBeans: Why it Matters
... The fact that NetBeans offers a full-fledged IDE that runs on multiple platforms is enough in itself. The fact that it has support for every language you could ever want (or need) to write code in is nearly unprecedented. The fact that it does all of this better than any IDE I've ever seen is teetering on goofy. The fact that it's open source is down right nuts. ...
Rob Dempster, South Africa
Excerpt from blog entry: Java and NetBeans - Finally a Brew that I am Able to Enjoy
Ryan Penn
I love the Ruby and Ruby on Rails support in NetBeans! I believe it's the best Ruby IDE out there. Please keep up the good work. I've abandoned RadRails for NetBeans.
David Heffelfinger
Excerpt from blog entry: Eclipse Veteran Switches To NetBeans
James Carr
Excerpt from blog entry: NetBeans is Now My Favorite Java IDE
Scott Carpenter, Senior I/T Professional, Minnesota, USA
Excerpt from blog entry: Moving to NetBeans (from Eclipse)
Maciej Wegorkiewicz, Software Consultant
I want to thank the team for the best IDE I use for six years for development of personal finance application ePortfel (www.eportfel.com).
John Blanco, JSF Developer, Colorado, US
Excerpt from blog entry: Eclipse Hits The Mat...NetBeans New Champ!
Levan Dvalishvili
Here is the top 5 features that pulled me to NeatBeans from Eclipse:
David Saintloth, Chief Software Architect, Apriority LLC
I have been using NetBeans since the time it was called Forte, way back in 2001. I enjoyed the ease with which I could get my project going and really liked the color coding. That was about it, I used it for about 6 months before I was forced to work with JBuilder in early 2002.


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Tony Campbell commanded the paint on Monday night and led Ohio to a 65-58 victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff (2-11). The junior forward earned his sixth double-double of the young season with 26 points and 12 rebounds in Ohio's fourth consecutive win.
Campbell's 26 points were a career-high. The double-double is his fourth in as many games. Ohio coach Saul Phillips thinks his forward's boosted performance has something do with Ohio being on winter break.
"A lot of (Campbell's play) coincided with finishing up some classes that he was struggling in," Phillips said after the game on the Ohio IMG Sports Network. "It's part of the maturity process. It's part why I love to coach at this level. There are still chances to learn and grow up."
Campbell also played a part in Ohio's dominating defensive effort. He and the other Bobcat big men limited Arkansas-Pine Bluff to just over 25 percent on 2-point field goals. The Golden Lions countered by sinking 11 of their 20 3-pointers.
The Green & White's night was a sharp contrast from its' opponents. Ohio (8-3) sank 47 percent of its shots from the field, but only hit two of its 14 3-point attempts.
The Bobcats never trailed in the contest and held a 35-20 rebounding advantage over the Golden Lions.
Treg Setty aided in the winning effort with 13 points and seven rebounds. Jaaron Simmons finished with six points and six assists.
Ghiavonni Robinson led Arkansas-Pine Bluff with 21 points, including four 3-pointers. Trent Whiting added eight points and four assists.
What's Next
The team gets a four-day break to celebrate Christmas with their families before returning to Athens on Saturday, the 26th. The Bobcats will return to the court for their final contest of 2015 on December 30, hosting UC-Riverside at 7 p.m.
"I told the guys in the locker room afterwards, 'We need to get home, refresh, have a merry Christmas and celebrate the fact that we're 8-3,'" Phillips said. "Our body of work overall has been really really good."


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The road to a safer street - The Boston Globe
Nice community event in Dorchester on Saturday:
In Dorchester, Ridgewood Street is a residential sliver of mixed signals.
Attached to gates, and above the doors of the shingled three-deckers, signs say ``Keep Off' and ``Private Property.' But yesterday afternoon neighbors sat on one another's porches and left their gates open listening to reggae music and munching on chicken, macaroni and cheese, and Cape Verdean dishes.
It was the street's second annual block party. Almost 100 people, including Mayor Thomas M. Menino, came out for the food and stayed for the fellowship, taking pride in the positive aspects of a community historically plagued with gangs and violence. Children danced, drummed on overturned buckets, and created Father's Day cards and glittery butterflies, while adults soaked up the sun.
The road to a safer street
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It's hard to believe, but it is in fact time to begin creating your 2012 business plan. In working the last several years with Realtors across the country to develop their business plans, we have have developed a PRE-BUSINESS PLAN checklist.
Block a little time in October to gather the information you will need to develop your Success Plan for 2012.
Year-to-date numbers:
- How many total units have you closed? This is buyers closed and sellers closed.
- What is the total volume on those closed units? This is sum of the closed sales prices.
- How many total closed units were buyers? Sellers?
- How much of the total closed volume was from buyers? Sellers?
- How many listing have you taken in 2011?
- Source each closed transaction. Where did it originate? Be specific.
~ Referral (from whom)
~ Past client
~ Open house
~ Ad call
~ Sign call
- What was you your total GCI (gross commission income)? The commission that was paid to your brokerage from the sale.
- What was your net GCI? The commission that you personally received from your brokerage for the sale (your split).
- How many listings did you take year to date. How many expired/closed/withdrew?
- How many transactions did you contract on that did not close? An actual contract was created but for some reason it never made it to closing.
- If you have buyer's agent(s) or listing agent(s) know their production.
- What are your total business expenses for the first 9 months of 2011?
- What are your total personal/household expenses for first 9 months of 2011?
- Compare your budget for 2011 with actual expenses? Are you over or under in any areas? Which ones?
- If you haven't already done so, categorize your expenses.
- How many people do you have in your MET database (people you know and have a relationship with).
- How many in your farm area or niche market database?
Things to be thinking about for 2012:
- Do you need to hire an assistant or add people to your team?
- Do you need to topgrade your current staff member(s)?
- Is your spouse or other family member going to be joining you in the business?
- Do you need to focus on balancing your personal relationships? Which ones?
- What vacations will you take?
- Do you have any major infrastructure upgrades or equipment purchases you need to make?
- What training, education, and coaching will you commit to for personal and professional growth?
This is just a PRE-BUSINESS PLAN checklist. It is about knowing your current reality.
After completing this, you will be ready to move into the business planning phase. Stay tuned for more information on business planning tools and tips from Nikki and Chris!


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Brexit, US elections, a slowdown in China and US economic concerns have increased levels of uncertainty, but volatile periods are not new and successful IPOs still happen
Even in the most volatile times, IPOs still get done successfully and there are a number of examples of successful listings in tumultuous times. Indeed, in the midst of the 2007/2008 Financial Crisis, Visa went to market with what was then the biggest IPO in US history, raising US$17.9bn for the financial services giant. On the day of launch, in March 2008, shares in the company rose by as much as 28%.
While it may seem to have been a curious time to undertake an IPO, the fact Visa was able to do so successfully highlights the fact that company fundamentals are often more important than market conditions when choosing to list. A strong brand, a recent rate cut and high growth prospects all helped to convince investors to take part.
More recent times have also generated success stories, with many of the larger IPOs launched between Q4 2015 and Q1 2016 emanating from China and Japan, such as Japan Post Bank and China Huarong Asset Management. In Europe, wind turbine maker Senvion first announced it was dropping plans for an IPO in March 2016 because of a lack of investor appetite, only to re-launch a week later, having dropped its target price – from between €20 and €23.5 to a final offer price of €15.75. Realistic pricing was a factor in this case, but so was a determination to list.
The first half of 2016 saw many IPOs pulled, with 17 companies globally shelving their plans to list by the end of Q1 alone – this is the highest proportion of pulled deals (10%) since 2007, according to Dealogic data. The number of deals pulled or still on hold is likely larger, but the complete data is unavailable because confidential filings with the SEC are permitted.
US-based Petco abandoned a listing after receiving an offer from private equity investors, led by TPG. Wayne Farms also announced it was no longer planning to list – for the second time in less than a year – in March 2016.
Yet despite this, quality offerings are still getting traction this year. DONG Energy, 2016's largest IPO so far, listed on the NASDAQ OMX for US$2.6bn in June, while MGM Growth Properties — the real estate investment trust behind MGM Resorts International — raised over US$1bn after its April listing on the NYSE. And with a bulging IPO backlog, the market could be set for a busy period in the coming months.


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Monday, September 09, 2002
My New Old 555
I get my new PC, it's an old Compaq DeskPro 5166 with Pentium 166, 32 Megabytes of EDO DRAM, 2.1 Gigabytes hard drive, CD-ROM, Floppy Drive, 1 Megabytes Display Adapter, Sound Card, and costs 555 thousand rupiahs!
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Friday, May 31, 2002
My First Blog : Living without PC
At my 27th birthday, last Monday, someone (or a bunch of crooks) has stolen my CPU and my inkjet printer. Beside that, he (or she or they) stole my brother's too. That's just gave me a shock. Now I try to live without PC, at least for a while.
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Salvation Mountain
Niland, California
Update: Salvation Mountain creator Leonard Knight passed away on Feb. 10, 2014. He was 82.
Leonard Knight has been painting and repainting his bright Biblical messages on the sides of Salvation Mountain since 1985. On the arid flats east of San Diego, his mountain pokes up into the bright sun. Odds are you'll get excellent photos, and Leonard will be busy repainting faded parts of his vision. He requests that all donations be in the form of paint, preferably acrylic.
Leonard is a classic lone dreamer, intent on feeding his vision. But he's friendly, welcoming all who visit. He sleeps in the Salvation Truck, a decorated vehicle with a house on the back. The truck, like the mountain, is lettered with biblical quotations and a large "REPENT" warning. The sight of Salvation Mountain -- his three story tall, 100-foot wide riot of concrete, adobe and paint -- greets him each morning.
A few years back, environmental fanatics stirred up the local government. Samples were drilled and tests were done -- Salvation Mountain was declared a "toxic nightmare" by county officials. Signs went up warning about "Hazardous Waste," and Imperial County was on its way to hosting a veritable Superfund cleanup site. Plans were laid to treat it like nuclear waste -- haul it away in trucks and bury it in Nevada.
We imagined a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" scenario: the first bulldozer cleaves into the sacred mound, and out bursts a blinding light. One by one, the bulldozers and environmentalists burst into flame, poisonous smoke filling the air. Soon, nothing is left of the troublemakers save for some greasy stains. Leonard pops out of his truck-house and starts incorporating the stains into his living masterpiece.
This is not what happened. Actually, we don't know what happened, but maybe townspeople rallied to defend the important local attraction.
Niland, along the Salton Sea, is the gateway to Salvation Mountain, and two other post-apocalyptic sights: Bombay Beach(a half-submerged wasteland of derelict buses and vehicles), and Slab City(or "The Slabs," a WWII-era Marine facility where squatters and seasonal snowbirds live in RVs and vehicles among the concrete remnants, a "great place to spend the winter."). Salvation Mountain is now part of the cultural landscape, like the Watts Towers, or Carhenge. Salvation Mountain continues to thrive and grow. Steps carved into the mountain allow visitors to ascend to the upper terraces. You can pretty much climb anywhere you like for a photo opportunity. Just bring some paint.
February 10, 2014: Leonard Knight is reported to have passed away -- a giant among Salvation Mountains.
December 2011: Kelly Ludwig let us know that Leonard Knight has just been moved into a care facility, and Salvation Mountain will need someone with a good idea on how to preserve it.


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Everyone who has ever watched a movie, read popular crime fiction or who has even a layperson's knowledge of the criminal justice system has probably heard the phrase "being sent up the river." Its origin is a reference to Sing Sing Prison, north of New York City on the Hudson River.
The phrase evokes images not only of being imprisoned, but of being dispatched to a place that is distant, and very different from home. The removal and isolation of the convicted served several purposes: They could reflect on their crimes, be reformed and rehabilitated or have punishment meted out far from scrutiny. This isolation, as we know, sometimes led to abuses of power by correctional systems, and later made it much more difficult for incarcerated men and women to reintegrate into society.
Today, by and large, we still remove and isolate men and women from their communities when they have been convicted and sentenced to serve time. And, frankly, most of us in society prefer it that way. The preservation of our quality of life and our safety seems to demand it. Unfortunately, in juvenile justice, we have largely followed this trend, even though in most circumstances taking children out of their communities and sending them far away is neither humane nor effective.
Distant placements promote inequity
Sending children far from home complicates and exacerbates inequities in the administration of justice. In most states, the "feeders" of the juvenile justice system tend to be urban centers where a disproportionate number of minorities often live. For various reasons, juvenile justice facilities also reflect this disproportionality. Yet, those facilities are often located in communities that are very different racially, ethnically and culturally than most of the young people who are sent there. This can make it challenging for staff to understand, empathize and work with the population in their care.
Anecdotally, defense counsel, advocates and practitioners report that urban youth often have difficulties acclimating and assimilating to rural or semirural settings, schools and sensibilities. Many in limited secure placements run away, others wrack up multiple infractions for failure to conform to highly subjective standards for "appropriate behavior" or "compliance." As a result, stays and ultimate system involvement for minority youth can be prolonged.
The data also show that black and brown children are placed in secure confinement at a greater rate and for longer periods of time than their white counterparts, even though in more than two-thirds of cases, their placement is for nonviolent offenses, or technical violations of probation. Given this, their confinement and the distance from their home communities serve no public safety purpose.
Distant placements don't help prepare for success
Distant out-of-home placements are also ineffective from a restorative or reformative standpoint. For example, system-involved children are often disconnected from schooling, a fact that becomes significant when one considers that educational attainment can be predictive of future delinquency and criminal justice involvement in adulthood. Some estimates place at 70 percent the justice-involved young people who have educational disabilities, be they emotional disturbances or learning disabilities, making appropriate educational services crucial.
Yet, in many jurisdictions, the schooling received in facilities is sporadic and may be unrelated to the curriculum requirements of the young people's home districts. It is not uncommon in Pennsylvania, for instance, for Philadelphia's young people to return home to find that credits obtained while incarcerated are nontransferable to the School District of Philadelphia. The consequences for youth — who already find school challenging — of this kind of motivational setback are immeasurable.
Placements far from home may also make it difficult after incarceration for young people to reconnect and reintegrate in a positive and prosocial manner. Difficulties with their families, for example, cannot be adequately addressed through Functional Family Therapy and similar interventions if family members find it cost- or time-prohibitive to visit. This can make a return home filled with anxiety and tension for the young person and their family members.
Distant placements are cost-ineffective
Placing children out-of-home and far from home is also significantly more expensive than community-based programming. In Pennsylvania, juvenile justice placements can cost upwards of $300,000 per year per young person. Nationally, the cost to incarcerate young people is in the billions of dollars even though there are fewer than 50,000 children nationally being held in juvenile facilities. And, as previously mentioned, most are there for nonviolent offenses and arguably, did not need to be placed out of home at all. Comparatively, according to the Justice Policy Institute ("The Costs of Confinement: Why Good Juvenile Justice Policies Make Good Fiscal Sense") community-based programs can yield up to $13 in benefits to public safety for every dollar spent.
Distant placements don't rehabilitate
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, confinement of young people, particularly far from home, is ineffective. The outcomes for children placed in juvenile justice facilities are far worse than those who are allowed to remain in the community. Some estimates place recidivism of young people who were confined at 75 percent within three years after their release. Recognizing the failure of incarceration to address the root causes of juvenile delinquency all across the country, jurisdictions have begun to explore new approaches, alternatives to old-style, up-the-river incarceration.
The Close to Home framework
In 2012, the New York State Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo authorized one such new approach, an initiative called "Close to Home." Close to Home was designed to ensure that the state's juvenile justice system implemented practices consistent with the best research on how to effectively work with young people. The core principle of the approach was simply a recognition that justice-involved youth fare better when they remain connected to their families and communities.
From that principle sprung seven others: 1) public safety; 2) accountability; 3) evidence-based and evidence-informed treatment; 4) educational continuity and achievement; 5) community integration; 6) family engagement and collaboration, and 7) permanency.
After several challenging years, during which the state struggled to develop a continuum of services and placements in the Greater New York area as a replacement for far-flung facilities, Close to Home has succeeded in its two principal goals: 1) removing New York City's youth from large, dangerous, expensive and ineffective facilities far from their homes; and 2) bringing the majority of New York City's justice-involved youth home to the city, or the immediate area. Between 2016 and 2017, the state also saw other significant accomplishments, including a 41 percent decrease in AWOLs from limited secure placements, a 38 percent decrease in physical incidents, a 93 percent academic achievement rate and a 91 percent participation rate in community supervision programs.
The New York experience is by no means a template. It does however provide a framework for other jurisdictions to begin with the proposition that rather than sending them up the river, we might improve outcomes for our young people by keeping them closer to home.
The path was not an easy one, however. In the first two years of the program, as providers and young people struggled to adjust to the new reality, there were more than 1,000 AWOLs and even one high-profile crime in which a man was tragically killed. Facilities reported physical altercations resulting in the use of restraints and there were hundreds of arrests. But New York stayed the course. By 2016 — 2017, the state saw significant progress, including a 41 percent decrease in AWOLs from limited secure placements, a 38 percent decrease in physical incidents, a 93 percent academic achievement rate, and a 91 percent participation rate in community supervision programs.
Still, the state legislature opted not to fund the program going forward, contending that New York City, rather than the state, should bear the responsibility of funding it. This raises questions for other jurisdictions considering an approach such as this, including how localities might push for language in authorizing legislation committing the state not to punish success with reduced appropriations.
The New York experience is certainly a mixed bag, and by no means is their path a template. It does, however, provide a framework for other jurisdictions to begin with the proposition that rather than sending young people up the river, we just might improve their outcomes by keeping them closer to home.
Marie N. Williams, J.D., is senior program officer at the Stoneleigh Foundation. Before that she was immediate past executive director of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice and a longtime advocate for social justice causes.


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This column is archived at: https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2019/0515.shtml
Is Ms Ardern really just bewildered and confused -- or are her attempts to bathe in the global limelight more likely to be stereotypical political exploitation of a tragedy?
Why is Ms Ardern hell-bent on righting the world's wrongs when she seems to have failed so miserably to address issues such as child poverty in her own country, as she promised she would when she ran for election?
Are Ms Ardern's actions being driven by a slick personal PR team who've seen a golden opportunity in what was the Christchurch mosque shootings... or am I just too damned cynical?
And why are our deep-rooted social problems getting nothing more than a fresh coat of paint instead of the concerned efforts required to actually sort them out properly?


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25 Jul 2010
more participants here at Robin's Around the Island
I decided to take a little break from the Weekly Winners during summer and join Summer Stock Sunday. As soon as the summer is over I will be back.
Last week I and my friend went to the Belgian coast again. We have decided that each time when it will be very hot we will spent the day at the beach where at least there is some air. Inside the country when it is above 30°C (89 F) it's very sticky. We only have 1 1/2 h drive and we are there.
These are the famous Cuistax which you can rent only at the Belgian Coast, I haven't seen them anywhere else in Europe
Holland is just around the corner
It's so nice to walk through the dunes
the beach is very long and has a lot of space, therefore you still can find places where you are not sitting one on the other ! Especially when you take your own material alsong, such as an ombrella a beach chair and a pic nic.
As you can see we were very well equipped !
On this side of the Belgian coast (towards France) the buildings along the beach are not too high, only 5 to 6 floors. In other parts they are far higher and the coastline is very ugly.
Mr. Beach Watcher had not a lot of work, the water was still quiet cold !
People played all kind of beach games
a helicopter watched over us
and in the evening some thunderstorm clouds came up, but by then we had left.
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Beautiful beach and great shots of the place as well.
I'm trying to save Fun Monday and just posted themes 'til end of August. I am inviting you to join Fun Monday again. See you!
- 25 Jul 2010, 07:13:00
- Mimi said...
Lovely beach, so long and not at all crowded.
I like your plan to go to the beach when it's too hot to be inland!
And those cars to rent? well I'd just love them!
- 25 Jul 2010, 14:57:00
- Tinsie said...
Not the prettiest coastline, but there's lots of sand, and I love the photo of you and your parasol! How was the water?
- 25 Jul 2010, 18:02:00
It's So nice to be able to see people spending time and doing the same things on similar beaches and yet so far away in other parts of the world.
How wonderful. And You look GREAT!!!!
- 25 Jul 2010, 20:40:00
- Robin said...
What a great series - perfect for Summer Stock Gattina :).g
I can't get over how uncrowded your beach is - we were at the Tel Aviv beach this afternoon and just finding a few square centimeters to put your blanket can be a challenge! Our water was quite warm though, almost like being in the bath (well, except for the waves, which were quite strong today).
My photography is available for purchase - visit Around the Island Photography and bring home something beautiful today!
- 25 Jul 2010, 21:32:00
- Dimple said...
The beach is a great place to spend a hot, sticky afternoon. How wonderful that it wasn't crowded!
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So Dubya's new book thingie is set to be released next Tuesday, but the NYT has the review today. I'm sure the review makes for better reading than its subject.
Certainly it's the most casual of presidential memoirs: how many works in the genre start as a sort of evangelical, 12-step confession ("Could I continue to grow closer to the Almighty or was alcohol becoming my god?"), include some off-color jokes and conclude with an aside about dog poop?
The prose in "Decision Points" is utilitarian, the language staccato and blunt. Mr. Bush's default mode is regular-guy-politico, and his moods vacillate mainly among the defensive and the diligent — frat boy irreverence, religious certainty and almost willful obliviousness.
I was one of the lucky few given the opportunity to get a sneak preview of the draft of a chapter, posted in its entirety here.


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What can I also say, after video review...
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aimee mann, bag dryer, crinkle cut, fish turner, glass dharma, kuhn rikon peeler, kyocera slicer, microplane grater, minimalism, sufjan stevens, thai mortar and pestle, the new fast food, vegan holiday kitchen, vegan slow cooker
(one of the two pairs of jeans I own with holes in the knees)
I love, love, love the idea of minimalism.
There are certain areas of my life where I might fall into the minimalist category:
shoes (I have maybe two or three pairs for winter and the same for summer)
clothes (my two pairs of jeans now have holes in the knees…do I need to replace them, or are they just "in style"?)
home decor (I don't like things hanging out on the floor unless they are in bins)
The kitchen is NOT one of those categories. While I have been culling my cooking gadgets and supplies for a while now (gone are three mixing bowls leaving me with five – huh?), I would never shun the perfect tool to make my life easier – or to support our goal of eating loads of veggies and fruits. After all, the manual work to prep veggies and fruits takes more time than to open a bag so I want all the help I can get to make life easier, and food tastier (as well as save a buck or two on plastic baggies – you'll see what I mean in a minute).
I present to you the five most revered small gadgets in my kitchen that I use regularly (daily?) – all under $25 each.
1. Kyocera Adjustable Slicer – This tool is a gem. It cuts fruits and veggies, almost effortlessly, in the most beautifully uniform way. Sure, a knife works just as well, BUT I'd be hard pressed to find any home cook with average knife skills (i.e. me) who could cut fruits or veggies the same thickness so quickly. This tool is a must for the dehydrator! The best part is that my kids love to eat veggies that are paper thin. There is something fun about dipping discs of cukes, carrots, zucchini.
2. Bag Dryer – In an effort to cut down, or eliminate, the purchase of any plastic and paper products in our house, I acquired this wooden bag dryer. I'm not really a fan of plastic bags, but there are some circumstances that plastic bags just work better than anything else. I store a LOT of produce in my fridge – more than the crisper can hold – so I use green produce bags to keep everything fresh (and, yes, they do work). Not only can I dry my bags on this dryer, I can dry my Glass Dharma straws on it (the drinking hole is the perfect size to fit over the pegs) and also my portable stainless steel or glass drinking bottles.
3. Mortar and Pestle* – We eat guacamole every day (seriously). Although I have made guac using a bunch of ingredients (red onions, cilantro, etc) in my food processor (and I love this recipe), no method (that I have tried) can beat making it in a mortar and pestle (or molcajete). The resulting texture of the guacamole, when made in the mortar and pestle, is so creamy and full of bright flavors. I will post, soon, how we make guac in our mortar and pestle using just fresh garlic, sea salt, avocados and lime. Truly divine. This low-tech tool is something I wish I had added to my collection decades ago. Next project – home made curry paste in the mortar and pestle!
4. The Wide-Mouth Canning Funnel – I have learned to always cook extra for lunch the next day or to freeze for later meals on time-crunched days. After getting messy one too many times trying to transfer my soups, granola and sauces into containers by pouring, I decided to grab one of these wide mouth canning funnels (I don't even can – yet…). This funnel saves time and messes.
5. Crinkle Cut Knife – I know, another tool to chop veggies. The beauty of this tool is that it's a great way to involve your kids in kitchen tasks. My daughter (age 6) uses this tool. Not only does she have fun cutting the vegetables into the wavy pieces, but she is very excited to eat them!
Not listed here, but definitely on the list of small gadget favorites: microplane grater, wooden citrus reamer, vegetable peeler, fish turner (perfect for pancakes or veggie burgers)…
Other things on my mind. I hope everyone is loving this holiday season like we are. We are listening to Aimee Mann and Sufjan Stevens every day, as well as the old Bing Crosby classics.
We made snowflakes this week (thanks Renee and family) and suspended them with some lights in our dining room. So pretty and not so Christmas-like that we can't leave them up the rest of the winter. I prefer longevity in my decorations. 🙂
Oh, and for the cook in your life, I highly recommend The Vegan Slow Cooker Cookbook by Kathy Hester (for vegans and non-vegans). This is the cookbook I have been looking for, for years. Full of more contemporary flavorful recipes, I think I'm going to give my slow cooker a workout! I'm making the hot and sour soup tonight to go with our mu shu over udon noodles. If any elves are reading, there are two other cookbooks on my wish list: Vegan Holiday Kitchen by Nava Atlas and The New Fast Food by Jill Nussinow.
I'd love to hear from you: what are your favorite small kitchen gadgets? How have they helped you save time and/or money?


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Tom Benne and his wife Paula both needed critical medical care and were covered under their MaineCare. Now they're losing access to health care along with thousands of other Mainers because of Governor LePage.
In January we can make this right. Join MPA and our allies in Augusta on January 8th to tell our elected officials to put health care first and accept the federal funds to provide life-saving health care.


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Please note that unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright ©2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
The ESV is my Bible of choice for study, but it is by no means the only one that I use. I try to use it for my blog posts to remain consistent. I recommend reading the same verses, chapters, or book that you're studying from multiple translations as doing so will give you a strong grasp of the passage.
In the argument about the best translation, I believe that this quote by Rick Warren (author of Purpose Driven Life) sums it up:
"I was once asked what the best translation of the Bible is. My answer was, "When you translate it into your life." That's what Bible study is all about. If you're not translating God's Word into your life, you're not studying the Bible the way God intended."


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The bank in Star Trek Online is a universal storage facility for any inventory items. Items placed into any bank will appear in all banks throughout the galaxy and would be available for retrieval no matter which bank was visited.
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For the purposes of item possession for Ship and officer injuries and duty officer assignments, the contents of the bank are available even if they are not in your character's inventory.
Example: A medical assignment that requires 5 Medical Supplies is considered still a plannable assignment even though you have no Medical Supplies in your inventory, but have the minimum amount in your bank. If your ship sustains an injury, Minor components can be used to repair the ship even though you have no Minor Components in your inventory, but have the minimum amount in your Bank. If a rare sample trace is required for an assignment, the same assignment can be planned with the trace still in your bank and not in your inventory, and so on.
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For Gold players, your bank gains more slots as you progress through the game allowing you to store more items.
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|Brigadier General
|Rear Admiral, Upper Half
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|Vice Admiral
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An additional 12 bank slots (character unlock) can be purchased from the C-Store for 300 , up to seventeen (17) times per character.
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An Account-Shared Bank is extra inventory that all characters on a given account have access to unlike normal bank storage. Gold Players were granted free access to 20 slots of Account-Shared Bank storage while silver players must buy initial access to 10 slots of storage. These have a capacity of 1 billion energy credits.
An additional 10 account-shared bank slots can be purchased from the C-Store for 1000 . Gold players can purchase additional access up to ten times to total 120 slots while silver players are granted up to 100 total slots.


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These paper flowers look like they would be really difficult to make, but
they are really quite easy and make a stunning embellishment for a mini
scrapbook, or the front for a greeting card.
Punch out 11 circles on double-sided paper. I used my 1-1/4" punch, but you could use whatever size you have. Your final flower will just be a bit different in size.
Fold each circle in half.
Open circle back up and flip over. Fold each bottom corner to the center, creating a point as shown.
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The Grand Hotel Principe di Piemonte of Viareggio (Versilia–Tuscany), the destination for business events which is well known throughout Italy and appreciated by the Mice clientele also from abroad, has adapted its specific offer by opening a new room (the "central room") capable of up to 250 seats in its theatre-style configuration.
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Yes, it does seem to be a slow process. I am working on a grandmothers flower garden with hexies. I am doing single flowers ( one hexi surrounded by 6 hexies) I am alternating colored flowers with cream flowers with colored centers.
I am epp and basting around the edges thru the paper, I tried just doing the corners and not piercing the paper but they dont seem to stay together as well. I find that if one day I just baste and another day I stitch together hexies and another day I stitch together flowers I get more done and allows me to see some progress.
I am calling this my "someday project" as in "Someday I will get this finished"
I know that inklingo is supposed to be faster as you are not using papers and glueing the papers works as well but I have not tried those... interested to hear tips as well.
I am epp and basting around the edges thru the paper, I tried just doing the corners and not piercing the paper but they dont seem to stay together as well. I find that if one day I just baste and another day I stitch together hexies and another day I stitch together flowers I get more done and allows me to see some progress.
I am calling this my "someday project" as in "Someday I will get this finished"
I know that inklingo is supposed to be faster as you are not using papers and glueing the papers works as well but I have not tried those... interested to hear tips as well.
I'm not sure if I have any tips to make EPP easier or faster. I print my hexies out and cut them by hand. Sounds time concuming, but it does go pretty fast. When I baste to the papers, I take one fairly large stitch thru the fabric and paper on each "side" and just catch the "corners" but not thru the paper. When I take the papers out, I just clip that one stitch from the front, turn it over and pop the paper out. I don't remove the basting stitch. When you take the paper out, it pulls the thread ends to the back. If I don't do this, I end up having papers fall out, and I also think it stablizes the fabric. Not fun trying to put papers back in if they fall out!! I just sew the hexies together when ever. I'll spend maybe an evening doing the EPP, then perhaps stitch them together the next evening. I don't have a set method. Just what ever strikes my fancy. I am working on filling in the corners of a quilt top now. Two down, and two to go. Not sure how I'll finish it up. I tend to make it up as I go. This is my third hexie quilt, so I have done a hundreds of hexagons. Number 4 is in my head. I have been following a blog where the lady does some really lovely paper pieced hexagons. Her quilts a very nice. I want to do something like that. Oh my. Didn't mean to ramble on so. Have fun doing your hexies.
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For me ... I wouldn't want to do all the sewing at once ... kind of like the easy work of making the hexies as a break in between. So I try to sew them together, as I go, rather than one onerous task later. Though sometimes ... if I am not in the mood, then yes, I make hexies up in advance, then sit and sew later.
For cutting ... I have plexi templates for the papers and fabric. Stack the fabric and cut several with the rotary cutter. For the papers, I have been using old greeting cards, and cut around with the rotary cutter too. Pretty quick and slick work for both. Matched sets of papers and fabric are put into ziplock baggies, with a label as to #s and/or placement in the project ... or whatever details are pertinent.
For a sewing kit ... I have an old CD holder that I have everything I need in ... papers, fabric, needles. A length of gros grain ribbon is tied onto the zipper pull, with the spool of thread on the ribbon, and trimming scissors tied at the end, so the thread does not come off. All zips into the case, with the thread on the outside. Makes for a handy take-a-long kit!
As before ... what works for me ... may not work for you!
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I do lots of epp- hex's and other shapes too- I do not stitch through my papers- and with years of practice am fairly fast (hand stitching gets faster with time) when I first started binding quilts it took *forever* to hand stitch a queen binding- now it's just a couple hours- my ^newest^ hex project the designer included a *tip sheet* with a couple different techniques- prep work is always somewhat time consuming- but she gave a couple different ways to prep your hex's---one is to use your iron...put starch in a lid or small dish- fold the fabric over the template, *paint* with starch & press in place til dry---the starch holds the hex shape. another is to use glue basting.
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Susan, I love making things with hexagons. I buy plastic templates from "Brandy" and gather the fabric around them. (even those tiny,tiny hexagons are easy with the pastic) Do lots at a time, then spray starch and press. Snip a thread and remove the template for reuse. I also make the entire flower, then press and remove the template. You'll only have to remove the center one as you sew the others around it and it's a nice crisp edge for whipping them together. Great travel project, great for watching TV...about anytime because it's such a small take along project.
I cut my hexes from freezer paper, and the fabric hexagon 1/4 inch (approximately) larger than the paper. Lay the freezer paper dull side down on the WRONG side of the fabric hexagon and press the seam allowances on all sides. The seam allowances will stick to the freezer paper It seems even to help when hand stitching the hexes together to have that freezer paper in there to guide the needle very close to the edge. The papers can be used many times again, so you don't have to cut enough for the entire quilt. This is so much faster than basting around each one, then having to remove the basting.
This site won't make doing hexies easier or faster, but I found it interesting, if you would like to calculate how many hexies in a quilt.
I'm trying to do 1/2" hexies by EPP. I printed the hexies on freezer paper, cut them out, ironed them on fabric (note: use pressing cloth to avoid having hexies stuck to iron). That size isn't sticking too well to the fabric. Instead of whipstitching, I'm finding it easier to use the edge of the paper as a sewing line and doing little stitches, being sure to catch one at the corner. I only have a couple of flowers completed at this point. I like the idea of a single stitch to hold the paper to the fabric. I may try that. I'm making a doll house quilt so I don't have that many flowers to make.
I was taught to handsew the hexes using 1/4 seam. I start with fabric cut in hex shape, no paper, no basting. Put two hexes RST and sew 1/4 inch seam. Keep adding hexes to make the pattern as big as you want. No whip stitching so stitches do not show.
It would be worth getting the Go Baby and hex die for one quilt using my method.
It would be worth getting the Go Baby and hex die for one quilt using my method.
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Huntsman's comments came as he was responding to a voter's question about the hidden cost of oil:
Voter: Governor, I'd like to thank you for your bravery in pointing out that we need a new national security strategy. One that's not bankrupting America. One that's indicating that the global policing, nation building approach is not defending national security.
I want to turn to energy. We spend… In New Hampshire we spend about $3 billion a year importing fossil fuels that we can't produce here. We don't have it and we won't have it. My question is, I know you back a level playing field energy, would you back bringing all the hidden costs, the hidden subsidies for fossil fuels that we can't produce here into the cost of fossil fuels, such as lung disease, premature mortality, storm disasters, subsidies, tax subsidies such that our energy sources that we have here, such as wind and biomass, we can produce those and compete on a level playing field.
Would you bring those hidden subsidies into the cost so that all energy sources can compete on a level playing field?
Jon Huntsman: Thank you for your question. My energy policy calls us drawing upon all the energy options we have available to us and we have them in great abundance in this country.
First of all, we need to level the playing field by phasing out subsidies and the corporate welfare. I mean, you kind of got to look at our tax code and look at how bunched up its become over many, many years and what its costs people to comply with our tax code these days.
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We all know that at some point we are going to be drawing a whole lot more from the sun and from the wind. That's inevitable. Everybody wants to do that at some point. But we have made a mistake by trying to subsidize things too quickly when they're not ready for the marketplace. So you force technologies into the marketplace when they're not ready and they fail.
And I'm saying that the business community, science and technology will continue working on technologies that will draw from the sun and draw from… That's inevitable.
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I think we ought to be drawing from that which we have in such abundance.
Voter: But I'm wondering taking the hidden subsidies: the premature mortality, the lung disease – putting those into the price.
Jon Huntsman: If you take out subsidies and as businesses have to deal with the reality of – whether a hypercarbon based economy or what – all those costs are going to have to be factored in at some point. So I say start by taking out the subsidies and let the costs stand on their own. I think that would be a very good place to start.
But the energy policies, we all need to get our heads around. Because for 8 presidents, starting with Nixon, who said, "You know, 38 percent imported oil. This is a carrying shame. We're not let this get any higher."
Carter takes over – 40 percent imported oil. "You know, I'm going to create the Department of Energy to make sure that this doesn't get any higher."
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Once again, Europe's biggest video game expo will open its doors on August 20. in Cologne, Germany. And to keep the tradition, we will bring Anno 1800 back to our Ubisoft UplayLounge, where we show you the newest Anno content and invite you to community QnA sessions. And while we won't have stations to play Anno 1800 this year, we will also hold daily stage presentations on the big Ubisoft stage and rest assured, we will also have some Anno news to share.
We will share the exact times for the daily UplayLounge and stage presentations next week.
But before we can focus on gamescom 2019, we have another small Game Update for you, which will tackle some of the bugs which came with the latest DLC "Sunken Treasures"
Fixed an issue where some piers and trading posts were not correctly registered by trading ships. Ships will now check all available options to unload their cargo when stopping at an island.
All participants of a multiplayer match with the Sunken Treasures content will now receive the discovery expedition when loading a savegame in which the unlock conditions are fulfilled. Previously, it could happen that only the host of a match received the discovery quests when loading a multiplayer match with an existing savegame.
Fixed a minor issue where the Sunken Treasures discovery expedition would still get triggered even after the player declined to start it.
Removed a blocker in the Sunken Treasures "Build Harbor" Quest that occurred when the player built and upgraded the harbor directly before solving the first quest given by the queen.
Fixed a bug that deleted all blueprints in the session when destroying a trading post on a player-controlled island.
Fixed an issue where scrap was selling was sometimes for an unintended high amount of money.
Game Update 4.2 will became available for all players at 6pm CEST.
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We'll also have a very special AnnoAfternoon this Friday, where our Settlers Community Representative Oliver joins Guddy in an (hopefully) epic diving adventure. But beware: It will be in German this time.
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