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The electrical power grid that powers Northern America is not a single grid, but is instead divided into multiple wide area synchronous grids. The Eastern Interconnection and the Western Interconnection are the largest. Three other regions include the Texas Interconnection, the Quebec Interconnection, and the Alaska Interconnection. Each region delivers power at a nominal  frequency. The regions are not usually directly connected or synchronized to each other, but there exist some HVDC interconnectors. The Eastern and Western grids are connected with 1.32 GW.

History
In the United States in the 1920s, utilities formed joint operations to share peak load coverage and backup power. In 1934, with the passage of the Public Utility Holding Company Act (United States), electric utilities were recognized as public goods of importance and were given outlined restrictions and regulatory oversight of their operations.

From 1967, the East and West interconnections were directly connected together. However, the AC ties did not have high capacity and were subject to oscillations, and so their connection proved unreliable. In 1975 the AC ties were disconnected, because DC ties were found to work more reliably.

The Energy Policy Act of 1992 required transmission line owners to allow electric generation companies open access to their network and led to a restructuring of how the electric industry operated in an effort to create competition in power generation. No longer were electric utilities built as vertical monopolies, where generation, transmission and distribution were handled by a single company. Now, the three stages could be split among various companies in an effort to provide fair accessibility to high voltage transmission. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 allowed incentives and loan guarantees for alternative energy production and to advance innovative technologies that avoided greenhouse emissions.

Description
There are two major wide area synchronous grids in North America: the Eastern Interconnection and the Western Interconnection. In addition, there are three minor power grids in North America: the Alaska Interconnection, the Texas Interconnection, and the Quebec Interconnection. The Eastern, Western and Texas Interconnections are tied together at various points with DC interconnects allowing electrical power to be transmitted throughout the contiguous U.S., Canada and parts of Mexico. The transmission grids are operated by transmission system operators (TSOs), not-for profit companies that are typically owned by the utilities in their respective service areas, where they coordinate, control and monitor the operation of the electrical power system. TSOs are obliged to provide nondiscriminatory transmission access to electricity generators and customers. TSOs can be of two types: Independent System Operators (ISOs) and Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs). The former operate within a single state, and the latter cover wider areas crossing state borders.

In 2009 there were four RTOs in the U.S.:
 ISO New England (ISO-NE, which is an RTO despite its name);
 Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO);
 PJM Interconnection in the Mid-Atlantic region; and
 Southwest Power Pool (SPP) covering Oklahoma, Kansas and parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and New Mexico.

There are also three ISOs:
 California Independent System Operator (California ISO);
 New York Independent System Operator (NYISO);
 Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT, an ISO).

RTOs are similar but not identical to the nine Regional Reliability Councils associated in the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a nonprofit entity that is in charge of improving the reliability and security of the bulk power system in the U.S., Canada and the northern part of Baja California in Mexico. The members of the Regional Reliability Councils include private, public and cooperative utilities, power marketers and final customers. The Regional Reliability Councils are:
 Eastern Interconnection
 Florida Reliability Coordinating Council (FRCC)
 Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO)
 Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC)
 ReliabilityFirst Corporation (RFC)
 SERC Reliability Corporation (SERC)
 Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
 Western Interconnection
 Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC)
 Texas Interconnection
 Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

The FERC distinguishes between 10 power markets in the U.S., including the seven for which RTOs have been established, as well as:
 Northwest
 Southwest (covering Arizona, most of New Mexico and Colorado)
 Southeast

ISOs and RTOs were established in the 1990s, when states and regions established wholesale competition for electricity.

North American Electric Reliability Corporation

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a nonprofit corporation based in Atlanta, Georgia, and formed on March 28, 2006, as the successor to the National Electric Reliability Council (also known as NERC), which formed in the wake of the first large-scale blackout in November of 1965. The original NERC was formed on June 1, 1968, by the electric utility industry to promote the reliability and adequacy of bulk power transmission in the electric utility systems of North America. NERC's mission is to "ensure the reliability of the North American bulk power system."

NERC oversees eight regional reliability entities and encompasses all of the interconnected power systems of the contiguous United States, Canada and a portion of Baja California in Mexico.

NERC's major responsibilities include working with all stakeholders to develop standards for power system operation, monitoring and enforcing compliance with those standards, assessing resource adequacy, and providing educational and training resources as part of an accreditation program to ensure power system operators remain qualified and proficient. NERC also investigates and analyzes the causes of significant power system disturbances in order to help prevent future events.

Interconnections

Eastern Interconnection

The Eastern Interconnection is one of the two major alternating-current (AC) electrical grids in North America.

All of the electric utilities in the Eastern Interconnection are electrically tied together during normal system conditions and operate at a synchronized frequency operating at an average of 60 Hz. The Eastern Interconnection reaches from Central Canada eastward to the Atlantic coast (excluding Quebec), south to Florida, and back west to the foot of the Rockies (excluding most of Texas). The USA part has 700 GW of generating capacity.

Interconnections can be tied to each other via high-voltage direct current power transmission lines (DC ties), or with variable-frequency transformers (VFTs), which permit a controlled flow of energy while also functionally isolating the independent AC frequencies of each side. The Eastern Interconnection is tied to the Western Interconnection with seven DC ties (ca. 200 MW each) in the US and one in Canada, to the Texas Interconnection with two DC ties, and to the Quebec Interconnection with four DC ties and a VFT.

In 2009, the Tres Amigas SuperStation was planned to connect the Eastern, Western and Texas Interconnections via three 5 GW superconductor links.  it has not started construction.

Western Interconnection

The Western Interconnection is the other major alternating current (AC) power grid in North America.

All of the electric utilities in the Western Interconnection are electrically tied together during normal system conditions and operate at a synchronized frequency of 60 Hz.  The Western Interconnection stretches from Western Canada south to Baja California in Mexico, reaching eastward over the Rockies to the Great Plains. The USA part has 250 GW of generating capacity.

Interconnections can be tied to each other via high-voltage direct current power transmission lines (DC ties) as well as containing internal DC connections such as the north-south Pacific DC Intertie, or with variable-frequency transformers (VFTs), which permit a controlled flow of energy while also functionally isolating the independent AC frequencies of each side. There are seven DC ties (ca. 200 MW each) to the Eastern Interconnection in the US and one in Canada. There are proposals to add four additional HVDC ties.  It is not tied to the Alaska Interconnection.

Texas Interconnection

The Texas Interconnection is one of the three minor alternating current (AC) power grids in North America.

All of the electric utilities in the Texas Interconnection are electrically tied together during normal system conditions, and they operate at a synchronized frequency operating at an average of 60 Hz.  The Texas Interconnection covers most of the state of Texas.

Interconnections can be tied to each other via high-voltage direct current power transmission lines (DC ties), or with variable-frequency transformers (VFTs), which permit a controlled flow of energy while also functionally isolating the independent AC frequencies of each side.  The Texas Interconnection is tied to the Eastern Interconnection with two DC ties, and has a DC tie and a VFT to non-NERC systems in Mexico. There is one AC tie switch in Dayton, Texas that has been used only one time in its history (after Hurricane Ike).

Quebec Interconnection

The Quebec Interconnection is one of the three minor alternating-current (AC) electrical grids in North America.

The Quebec Interconnection covers all of the Province of Quebec and operates at an average system frequency of 60 Hz.  It connects 18 systems in the US and Canada to one electric utility company: Hydro-Québec.  It is operated as an independent AC grid for physical reasons.

The Quebec Interconnection is tied to the Eastern Interconnection with four high-voltage direct current power transmission lines (DC ties), and with one variable-frequency transformers (VFTs) line, which isolate the unsynchronized AC frequencies of each side.

Alaska Interconnection

The Alaska Interconnection is one of the three minor alternating-current (AC) electrical grids in North America.

It is composed of two grids isolated from each other and from the rest of North American grids.

Proposed improvements

Thirty-seven states plus the District of Columbia took some action to modernize electric grids in the first quarter of 2017, according to the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center. The states did so to make electricity systems "more resilient and interactive". The most common actions that states took were "advanced metering infrastructure deployment" (19 states did this), smart grid deployment and "time-varying rates for residential customers".

Legislatively, in the first quarter of the year 82 relevant bills were introduced in different parts of the United States. At the close of the quarter, most of the bills remained pending. For example, legislators in Hawaii introduced a bill that would create an energy storage tax credit. In California, the state Senate had a bill that would "create a new energy storage rebate program".

In August 2018, Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) and Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum (CRES Forum) published a policy paper that gave five recommendations on ways to modernize the U.S. electric power grid. These recommendations are to streamline the federal permit process for advanced energy projects; encourage grid planners to consider alternatives to investment in transmission; allow energy storage and energy efficiency to compete with additional energy generation; allow large customers to choose their own sources of electricity; and allow utilities and consumers to benefit from cloud computing software.

In 2019, NREL calculated that new transmission between the grids could benefit consumers by a factor of 2.5 relative to the transmission investment.

A 2022 study by National Grid plc and Hitachi Energy indicates that installing charging infrastructure for fleet electrification will require location-specific upgrades to the US electrical grid.

See also
 Rural Electrification Act

References

External links
 Hourly electric grid monitor, a real-time dashboard displaying the electricity flow in the 48 contiguous states.

Electric grid interconnections in North America
Electric power transmission systems in the United States
Proposed electric power transmission systems


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Raddon Report
5 Key Takeaways – Performance Analytics Workshop
Thursday, December 22, 2022 | Marcus Rothaar, Data Analytics Development Manager
Raddon recently hosted our final workshop of the year for participants in the Performance Analytics program, to review this quarter's financial, profitability and growth results. With over 500 financial services executives registered for the event, it was a great opportunity to reflect on the year and look forward to what 2023 has in store. Over the course of two days, we polled those in attendance on a wide variety of topics. The results below offer insights into what is top of mind for financial institutions as the calendar rolls over to 2023.
1. Economic Outlook
All eyes continue to focus on the Federal Reserve as it tries to navigate safely between avoiding recession and curtailing inflation. As evidenced by the poll of workshop attendees, the results of which are shown below, most financial services executives are concerned about the prospect of a recession in 2023 because of the impact this could have on both consumers and financial institutions. While the annual inflation rate decreased for the fifth consecutive month in November, the latest reading of 7.1% is still significantly higher than the Fed's goal of 2%. The resulting volatility and economic pressure on interest rates will shape a softer economy in 2023 and will force financial institutions to address earnings pressures.
Level of Concern Regarding a Potential Recession in 2023
Source: Raddon Performance Analytics Workshop Attendee Poll, December 2022
2. Top Earnings Growth Challenges
When asked to identify the top challenge to earnings growth in 2023, effective deposit pricing was cited most often by the workshop attendees. Generating loan volume and growing non-interest income were also key issues for the group.
Top Challenge to Earnings Growth in 2023
The financial metrics we reviewed during our session support these concerns, with margin income remaining relatively flat over the last year. With loan growth exceeding deposit growth for the first time in three years at most institutions, the pressures to retain and grow deposits without decimating cost of funds is higher than ever. This sets up a sizable challenge in 2023, as all earnings levers are likely to be under significant pressure. Our Performance Analytics data has consistently shown that more effectively growing share of wallet and deepening accountholder relationships are two of the key differentiators of high-performing institutions; these differentiators can help insulate and mitigate some of these earnings challenges expected in 2023.
3. Gaining Relevancy With Younger Consumers
With more than 180 million millennial and Gen Z individuals in the U.S., accounting for 55% of the U.S. population, attracting and engaging with younger consumers is critical for growth. This criticality is highlighted by recent Raddon Research Insights data showing that four in five consumers in these younger segments name one of the largest six banks as their primary financial institution (PFI). For contrast, the same major bank PFI share is closer to four in 10 among Baby Boomer consumers.
To address this disconnect, financial institutions participating in our workshop highlighted numerous tactics being used to attract and engage with Gen Z. A common theme among many of the tactics shown in the chart below is meeting Gen Z where they are. Nearly one-half of Gen Z is using TikTok and Instagram to search the internet instead of using Google, so it is unsurprising that the No. 1 tool cited by workshop attendees to attract Gen Z was social media. As highlighted in this previous Raddon Report article, consistent innovation and embracing these new ways to engage younger consumers are keys to success.
Tactics Used to Attract and Engage With Gen Z
4. Targeting Opportunities for Loan Growth
The majority of those in attendance reported home sales activity declining in their local markets over the last six months, while home values have begun to stabilize or even decline from their 2021 peak. Rising interest rates are of course influencing these trends, but the large swath of millennial homebuyers has helped maintain at least some level of demand and new purchase activity. This is likely to be the theme in 2023 as well, assuming affordability constraints can be tamed.
As highlighted in this Raddon Report article, a confluence of factors point toward home equity growth opportunities for financial institutions. Annual growth results from institutions participating in Performance Analytics bear this out, with equity lending accounting for the largest year-over-year balance growth among any retail loan product, beating out direct and indirect auto lending, first mortgages, credit cards, and general consumer loans. With the aforementioned mega-banks showing a continued decline in home equity balances within their loan portfolios, a significant opportunity exists for community banks and credit unions to steal market share.
Housing Trends in Local Markets in Last Six Months
5. Short-Term and Long-Term Deposit Challenges
After two years of strong deposit growth largely uncorrelated with deposit pricing (deposits just kept rolling in the door without much prompting), increased loan-to-deposit ratios are an indication that the era of easy deposits is coming to an end. Within the last three months, online banks have raised the base rate on savings accounts from the 1.7% range up to more than 3.0%. Competing on price alone is not a financially viable option for most traditional financial institutions with different expense structures and business models from these online competitors, so many in our poll reported using more surgical methods for deposit growth as opposed to across-the-board rate increases. Developing new higher-rate products or tiers targeted to high-balance depositors, or using relationship pricing strategies to reward accountholders who have more substantial business with the institution are just some of the ways institutions are addressing the deposit challenge.
Quantifying the long-term deposit attrition risks is critical as well, as our Performance Analytics data shows that 68% of all deposit balances are held by individuals older than 58 at the typical financial institution. Making wealth management central to the brand value proposition is key to positioning your financial institution for success as generational wealth transfers occur.
Deposit Product and Pricing Changes Since Fed Rate Increases Began in March
That's a Wrap on 2022
As the Federal Reserve looks to achieve the coveted soft landing and avoid recession in 2023, financial institutions will be battling for a soft landing of their own. They will juggle rising expenses, tight margins and challenges to non-interest income, all while finding ways to continue growing the franchise. We look forward to reviewing and discussing the Performance Analytics results with everyone next year at one of our future sessions to see how it plays out.
From everyone at Raddon, have a safe and wonderful holiday season!
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There are pressure washers for all your unique cleaning needs.
The key to efficient cleaning using your pressure washer is the nozzle and the regulator. There are special nozzles designed to clean certain materials and angles. For those who are cleaning their house or garage vinyl sidings, a nozzle that makes the water flow jet out like a thin, straight line would surely remove the dirt that is deemed irremovable with plain brushing or scraping. Also, having the right amount of pressure in cleaning your siding will ensure squeaky clean results without breaking or destroying its delicate vinyl material. An extended handle would also help control the washer wand to hit that hard dirt stuck on the siding for long.
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You can buy pressure washers in hardware stores or easily grab yours online.
Although the competition in the pressure washer market is tight, Sun Joe believes that the patronage of their customers gives them their sales leverage as they continue to make good sales every year, with fewer return rates and warranty defects claims. For household cleaning, Sun Joe's SPX3000 would surely be your best pressure washer buddy. It comes with different quick-connect nozzles in different pressure angles which can be helpful in cleaning every nook and cranny of your vinyl sidings and has a Total Stop System (TSS) feature included should you forget to turn off the power washer, saving it from major electrical problems and water wastage.
Choosing your spray nozzle for your special type of pressure cleaning gives you more leverage in removing the impacted dirt and dust on any surface.
People are deeply relying on pressure washers for their cleaning needs. However, there are those who are not well aware of the special uses and adjustments to be made in every type of cleaning and washing. Not every jet of water sprayed on the pressure washer cleans the surface evenly and properly. At some point, this becomes the most common complaints in buying pressure washers. Although there are versatile pressure washers available in the market, it's best to know a trick or two in making use of your current pressure washer to clean special and delicate areas of the house, especially with vinyl and aluminum sidings.
Also, not all car pressure washers work with every surface material. It is best to be careful about it, read through some guides online on how to effectively use your pressure washer for cleaning, and you're all set to make your house surfaces as squeaky clean as it can be.
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Doubting Thomas Book
A Fresh Evaluation of Thomas Jefferson's Religious Views
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Despite Some Doubts, Jefferson Was Generous to Christian Causes
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Thomas Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic…although later in life, he privately expressed some doubts about core Christian doctrines. Our book, DOUBING THOMAS, shows that he went through several phases of belief or the lack thereof through his long life. The book also shows that he did not believe in the "naked public squre"—he was fine with Christian expression in the public arena. So, for example, when he was president, he did not have a problem with Christian worship services taking place at the U.S. Capitol building. In fact, he attended these services! Furthermore, he was very generous to Christian causes, throughout his life.
Jefferson on January 31, 1814, wrote in his account book: "Inclosed to Samuel Greenhow an order…for 50 Dollars for the Bible society of Virginia [$1200 equivalent today]." Indeed, as correspondence with Greenhow shows, Jefferson's $50 made him a "member for life" of the Virginia Bible Society. This society was started in 1813 mainly through the leadership of Presbyterian Rev. John Holt Rice to distribute Bibles "…to the poor of our country, and to the Heathen [i.e., the Indians]." Jefferson wrote to Greenhow: "…Your letter on the subject of the [Virginia] Bible Society arrived here while I was on a journey to Bedford,… I therefore enclose you cheerfully…fifty dollars, for the purposes of the [Virginia Bible] society, sincerely agreeing with you that there never was a more pure and sublime system of morality delivered to man than is to be found in the four evangelists…" The four evangelists, of course, refers to the four Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Greenhow in turn wrote to Jefferson again saying that he was: "…gratified, that my Application has been successful as to it's Object, because that Success assures me that you approve our Association…"
Despite some private reservations about the reliability of the Scripture texts…it is important to remember that at that very moment, Jefferson, nonetheless, believed in the benefit of knowing the whole Bible and supported its distribution. That in fact was all that the public knew of him at this point, and the other speculations and opinions to John Adams and other friends was in confidence that it would stay private.
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A Burger King customer, who was simply craving a Whopper, was in line at the fast food restaurant after he "hadn't had the greatest of days" and could feel "a headache coming on." Sadly, the situation was only made worse by an obnoxious child in line behind him. Waiting patiently in the "very long long," the man's attention was soon drawn to the "woman yapping on her cell phone with a little monster of a child." His patience quickly began to wear thin.
According to the unnamed customer, the kid was completely out of control. He was screaming, punching his mother, and throwing around a handheld video game whenever something didn't go his way. Making matters worse, the child's mom didn't seem to pay any attention to her disruptive child, who began to continuously yell, "I want a pie!"
After standing in line and enduring the rude mom and her obnoxious kid for about 5 minutes, the man was at his wits' end, according to Metro. "I had gone from a headache to a full on migraine, but nothing was going to stop me from getting those burgers," he recalled about the incident, titled "Am I a bad person for this?"
Not able to take much more, he calmly turned to the mother and asked her nicely to please calm or quiet her child. "Immediately she gets up in my face telling me I can't tell her nothing about raising her child and to mind my own business. I nod and turn around, she's still yelling at the back of my head when the child cries out again how he wants a pie, the mother consoles him, calling him sweety and ensuring they'll get pies for lunch because she loves him so much," the annoyed Burger King customer wrote.
As the situation continued just as it had been with the child screaming and yelling in line, the frustrated customer is forced to endure the chaos for another 5 minutes before he's finally at the front of the line. As he stood at the counter ready to order, all he could think about is how the mom and her monster ruined his Burger King experience and gave him a headache. That's when he decided to ruin their day.
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Heide Dienst (* 27. Juli 1939 in Wien) ist eine österreichische Historikerin. Sie lehrte von 1987 bis 2007 als Professorin für österreichische Geschichte am Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung in Wien. In der Fachwelt trat sie mit Veröffentlichungen und Editionen zu den Babenbergern hervor.

Leben und Wirken
Dienst studierte Geschichte, klassische Philologie und Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Wien und erwarb 1965 das Doktorat der Philosophie. Sie wurde 1965 mit der Arbeit Studien zur österreichischen Landesgeschichte und ihren Quellen in der Zeit Markgraf Leopolds III. promoviert – publiziert unter dem Titel: Babenberger-Studien. Niederösterreichische Traditionsnotizen als Quellen für die Zeit Markgraf Leopolds III. Dienst habilitierte sich 1984 mit der Arbeit Regionalgeschichte und Gesellschaft im Hochmittelalter am Beispiel Österreichs und wurde 1987 Professorin für österreichische Geschichte am Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung der Universität Wien. Im Jahr 2007 wurde sie emeritiert.

Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Historische Hilfswissenschaften wie Quellenkunde und Diplomatik, sowie Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit, Frauenforschung, feministische Mediävistik, Landeskunde und Verfassungsgeschichte. Ihr wurde 1984 der Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis für Geisteswissenschaften und 2001 der Wissenschaftspreis des Landes Niederösterreich verliehen.

Schriften (Auswahl)

Editionen
 Mitarbeit bei Heinrich Fichtenau: Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte der Babenberger in Österreich. Band IV/1: Ergänzende Quellen 976–1194. Verlag Oldenbourg, München/Wien 1968.
 mit Christian Lackner: Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte der Babenberger in Österreich. Band IV/2: Ergänzende Quellen 1195–1287. Verlag Oldenbourg, Wien/München 1997, ISBN 3-486-56291-6.

Monographien
 Agnes. Herzogin-Markgräfin, Ehefrau und Mutter. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Wien 1985, ISBN 3-215-05911-8.
 Die Schlacht an der Leitha 1246. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Wien 1986, ISBN 3-215-02786-0.
 Regionalgeschichte und Gesellschaft im Hochmittelalter am Beispiel Österreichs. (= Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung Ergänzungsband. Bd. 27). Böhlau, Wien u. a. 1990, ISBN 3-205-08414-4.

Herausgeberschaften
 mit Edith Saurer: "Das Weib existiert nicht für sich." Geschlechterbeziehungen in der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Wien 1990, ISBN 3-85115-123-2.
 Hexenforschung aus österreichischen Ländern. Lit, Wien/Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-7000-0904-7.

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Market-Making is not a term exclusive to security trading and financial exchanges. Rather, it is increasingly used to describe the functions and environment needed to create a market. Increasingly, the Internet has come to be known as a Market-Making platform, with new industries being made through its unique ability and efficiency of coupling supply and demand. The social media industry, and the explosion of Facebook and Twitter, would not exist but for the Internet!
And yet in the cyber market, no calamitous event has changed behavior, even though cyber attacks occur through the Internet. Not the statistically high percentage of small businesses that go under after experiencing a data breach. Not the state actor attack on Sony. Not massive data breaches. Not even attacks on elections and Western democracies. There remains very little appetite down-market to incur costs to address cyber risks. We are not alone in observing the need to "Fix Cyber".


Space for the Journey is a place to share my journey as a way of encouraging others to find voice for their own journeys in life. Stories, wisdom from others, poems, and reflections on life are important parts of making connections to that creative space that exists in each one of us. The very essence of the One in whose image we are all created is "Creator". Connecting to our creativity is one way of connecting to God. For some it may be the only way this connection happens; for others it is one of several other ways that they experience that relationship with God.
Whatever it is for you, I hope that this blog will be a place where you find that "space" and are encouraged to explore your creative spirit along your journey.
About the blogger: My name is Martha Honaker. I am a retired Episcopal priest, and registered nurse. Sparta, North Carolina is where I live with my dog, Bella, and cat, Pumpkin. My heart is solidly set in the culture of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I love the music, stories and people of these mountains.


Business data management software is an integral need for any business. Built with robust security settings, this software just not help in proper organization and management of documents but also keeps it safe and secure all the time. When implemented and used correctly, it also ensures superior level of operational efficiency in the business or organizational setup. The list of benefits of a document management system in a business is unending.
Data management systems can be seen as a type of electronic filing cabinets. These systems provide a systematic framework to organize all types of paper and digital form of documents. Data management systems are capable of working in association with scanners and for conversion of hard copy documents to their digital format. This way of storing data in a sophisticated way allows for quick and easy access to any files or document.
What type of functions can be performed by data management software?
Once the electronic document management system is deployed in your existing business set, then you easily access your business data from any location in the world, securely and whenever you want it. Some of the other benefits of this system include ease of compliance with law and regulatory terms and efficient disaster recovery assistance that gives confidence when storing critical documents.
When you install data management solution in your business, you can see an improvement in the operations of an accounting department of a company. It is more likely to get you high success and ROI (return on investment). Due to this advantage, most of the businesses have opted to begin the deployment of their electronic document management software in the accounting department.
Document management system is proven to create extreme apparent efficiencies inside a conventional business that comprises of a series of traditional processes. These processes involve paper based for performing transactions. These transactions include purchase order in request of a service or a product that goes through several approval stages and levels of payment checks by a bank. Thus, manual form of processing can cause a lot of delay in the processing of the entire task.
With the installation of automated data management system in the company's business network, the entire process gets completed in a record time. All it takes is an entry of data and its distribution to all managers that are connected to the network.
Automatic notification of the arrival of documents in their respective mailboxes helps them to quickly review it and take necessary purchase action immediately. This assures that the entire procedure happens in a rapid and efficient manner.
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Linksys CIT310 Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice Announced
Yahoo! Messenger and Linksys Join Forces to Offer New Cordless Phone With Low-Cost Internet Voice Calling; New Dual-Mode Cordless Phone Provides a Convenient and Fun Way to Make and Take Internet-based Calls and Traditional Phone Calls Anywhere in the Home
Yahoo! Messenger, a leading instant messaging service globally, and Linksys, a Division of Cisco Systems, Inc., the recognized leading provider of voice, wireless and networking hardware for the consumer and small business user, today announced the availability of a new dual-mode cordless phone. The Linksys Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (CIT310) gives consumers the flexibility to make and take low-cost Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice(a) as well as place and receive phone calls using their traditional landline/PSTN connection.
The dual-mode cordless phone provides Yahoo! Messenger users with a convenient and fun alternative to make free Internet-based calls to friends and family on their Yahoo! Messenger Contact List. People subscribing to Yahoo! Phone Out can use the cordless phone to make an Internet-based call to any traditional or mobile phone at very low rates. With the use of the USB base station, the phone gives people the freedom to take their Yahoo! Messenger with Voice calls away from the PC and into other rooms, just as they do with mobile or cordless phones. People have the flexibility to instantly switch over from VoIP to a traditional landline phone service with the touch of a button.
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"The CIT310 is our first product to couple the Yahoo! Messenger with Voice experience and access to Internet services like Yahoo! Local Search," said Tarun Loomba, senior director of product marketing for the Linksys Consumer Business Organization. "We share the same vision with Yahoo! of not just improving the experience of internet phone calling, but also offering a valuable combination of internet-enabled features and services that customers will use and really want."
"Yahoo! Messenger and Linksys are giving consumers the flexibility to make and receive free Internet calls from the same phone they use for their home line," said Jeff Bonforte, senior director of Real Time Communications, Yahoo! Inc. "The CIT310 cordless phone is also embedded with the industry-leading Yahoo! Local Search service, to provide consumers with an easy way to find local restaurants and businesses and quickly make a call with one touch."
The Linksys Dual-Band Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice includes a handset with color display, and a USB base station that plugs into a computer's USB port and a port for a traditional landline/PSTN connection. Initial customers purchasing the Linksys Dual-Mode Cordless Phone will receive 100 free minutes to make Yahoo! Phone Out calls to any traditional or mobile phone. The dual-mode cordless phone also includes a number of convenient features:
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Phone In: Phone-to-PC calling
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Yahoo! Local Search based on city zip codes
Weather search (get 2 days of weather info on the display, based on the zip code entered in the phone)
Yahoo! Messenger Status Message (available, online, busy, etc.)
Yahoo! Address Book access
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A full charge on the battery enables up to 100 hours of standby time and up to 10 hours of talk time
The Linksys Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (CIT310) is immediately available through Amazon.com and will be available through other leading online retailers later this month. The Estimated Street Price is $99.99.
About Yahoo! Messenger:
As one of the most popular instant messaging services on the Internet, Yahoo! Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com) makes it easier than ever for people to express themselves, interact and manage relationships with friends and family. Yahoo! Messenger has a unique and proven history of innovation in instant messaging as the first to offer Webcam functionality, the first to introduce an interactive and shared experience with IMVironments, and the first to introduce animated emoticons. Yahoo! Messenger continues to lead the marketplace by integrating with leading Yahoo! services including games, music, photos and search, and providing the greatest choice for consumers to stay connected to one another through text IM, PC-based calling, e-mail, video and mobile text messaging.
About Linksys
Founded in 1988, Linksys, a Division of Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is the recognized leader in Voice, Wireless and Ethernet networking hardware for consumer, SOHO and small business users. Linksys is dedicated to making networking easy and affordable for its customers, offering innovative, award-winning products that seamlessly integrate with a variety of devices and applications. Linksys also provides award-winning product support to its customers. For more information, visit http://www.linksys.com.
Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc.
Linksys is a registered trademark of Cisco Systems, Inc.
(a)PLEASE NOTE: 911 and other emergency service numbers currently cannot be accessed through Yahoo! Messenger with Voice services. Users must use a traditional phone or mobile phone to access 911 or other emergency service numbers.
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We saw Ines Basic and Sam Ball's affair blow up on Married At First Sight, but it seems another couple are set to embark down the same path – and they may just last the test of time.
The teaser for tonight's episode hints that things between Jessika Power and Daniel Webb are about to heat up, and now photographs have emerged that show the pair kissing and cuddling.
Jess and Dan were spotted together on the Gold Coast last month, putting on a serious public display of affection while on the beach.
Both Jess and Dan are currently married to other people on MAFS – Jess is with Mick, and Dan is with Tamara – but both relationships are strained.
In a short teaser for tonight's show, the pair are seen snuggling up on the couch together.
The 27-year-old told Dan, "You're a good looking guy," and later admitted, "I'm like nervous around you, but like in a good way".
While Dan, who has been having serious doubts about his connection with wife Tamara, said, "Sometimes you've got to go with your gut".
On last night's episode, we saw Jess and Mick's relationship go up in flames when he used some pretty awful words to describe her family. The aftermath was ugly to say the least, and the pair arrive separately at tonight's dinner party.
Meanwhile Dan's mum raised concerns about Tamara, saying she didn't believe the couple were showing enough affection for each other and surmising that Tamara isn't the right woman for her son.
Tune in tonight for all the drama at 7.30pm on Channel Nine.


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Next check out the way it was hidden. What are the warning signs of paint around the rubber lines, fabric or round the trims etc? Look lower and find out it's and panels, an excellent auto body repair needs to be level and also have no warning signs of swells or ripples. When it isn't level it isn't done appropriately.
A skilled auto repair professional ought to employ a sanding block whatsoever occasions. Investigate paint work, to look for any fine scratches or small pin openings. These are classified as mapping out, and when they are present then your job has not been done correctly.
It's also wise to check out the overall composition from the paint work, does everything match? A specialist auto body repair professional will attempt his/her better to coordinate the feel from the spray work just like a replacement. This ought to be thanks to altering wartrol pressure or altering the mixture of the paint, yes, it is a bit difficult task to complete, but bear in mind that poor repairs will modify the resale price of your auto.
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Atrial fibrillation is an irregular heartbeat, occurring when the two top chambers of the heart atria beat out of rhythm with the two lower chambers of the heart the ventricles. If left untreated, this type of rapid, chaotic heartbeat can stretch and weaken the heart muscle. Atrial fibrillation also may restrict blood flow to other parts of the body, increasing the risk for strokes, heart attacks, and heart disease. Although it is a serious medical condition, most people diagnosed with atrial fibrillation can lead healthy, active lives. Treatments may include a combination of lifestyle changes and medication, and in some cases surgery or a pacemaker may be required. You will be cared for by regional and world leaders in the treatment of heart arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, ventricular tachycardia, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, atrioventricular re-entrant tachycardia, and other heart rhythm abnormalities. Our physicians evaluate the newest treatments and technologies and author professional publications that advance the field of arrhythmia treatment. Their extensive experience and academic backgrounds ensure that they are familiar with all types of heart rhythm disorders. Our academic medical center performs more than heart rhythm-related procedures each year, and our success in treating all types of complex arrhythmias is well-documented.
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The heartbeat is controlled by the electrical system of the heart. This system is made up of several parts that tell the muscle of the heart when to contract. The SA node starts the heartbeat, causing the atria, or upper chambers of the heart, to contract. The signal then travels through the AV node, bundle of His, bundle branches, and Purkinje fibers. This causes the ventricles, the lower chambers of the heart, to contract. This flow of electrical signals produces a normal heartbeat. Normal heartbeats can be seen in an Electrocardiogram or ECG. Ventricular fibrillation is a very fast, irregular heartbeat that is caused by abnormal firing of electrical signals in the ventricles of the heart. The ventricles quiver uselessly instead of pumping blood.
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Atrial fibrillation is an irregular heartbeat, often times a rapid heart rate that can increase your risk of stroke, heart failure and other heart-related issues. Already, at least one person has benefited from it. Yesterday, a person on Reddit shared how their Apple Watch notified them of an abnormal heart rate. This probably saved you. I read about this last night and thought we would see an upswing this week. The patient says they proceeded to go to a cardiologist the next day, who did an exam and confirmed the AFib diagnosis.
Fibrillation refers to a situation where there is total disorganization of depolarization. These rapid rhythms shorten the diastolic interval to such an extent that adequate filling of the effected cardiac chambers cannot take place, resulting in reduced cardiac output. In addition, they often also accelerate the ventricular rate, and thereby impair ventricular filling, further reducing cardiac output. Ventricular fibrillation results in a drop of cardiac output to essentially zero, and is life-threatening if not quickly terminated. Each small box is 40 msec. Reproduced from wikipedia commons.
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Focus on Explicit Disparities Instead of Implicit Biases
by Richard Ford | August 2014
The theory of implicit bias will not help us understand or reverse patterns of segregation. It will only mire us in all-too familiar, intractable controversies over mental state. Rather than trying to sell a skeptical public on a novel theory of prejudice, we should focus on the institutionalized conditions that produce and sustain inequality and segregation.
Professor Kang argues that the concept of implicit bias can reveal ongoing discrimination of which most Americans are unaware and this revelation will inspire a sense of moral urgency to address the problem of segregation. But this assumes that most of the bias responsible for segregation is unconscious and unwitting, as opposed to deliberate but concealed. Suppose that although most Americans abhor the type of discrimination they associate with unrepentant bigots, many believe that they are justified in considering lamentable but undeniable racial dynamics. A classic example of such a soft form of discrimination is Reverend Jesse Jackson's notorious admission that even he worries when approached by a group of young black men on a deserted street at night. Many people who would not consider themselves bigots and would not discriminate in other areas of their lives probably have similar reactions. A showing of implicit association can't distinguish unconscious bias from this kind of concealed bias. In fact, the implicit association research began as a way of smoking out such concealed bias: the original concern that inspired implicit association research was that as prejudice became unacceptable, test subjects would try to conceal their biases from researchers. We won't be able to stir up moral urgency about racial generalizations that many people are aware of and believe are justified.
Consider one of Professor Kang's examples in this light: studies show that many people perceive minority neighborhoods to be more dangerous and disorderly than objectively similar white neighborhoods. Is the problem here that people are unaware that they are making race dependent evaluations, or is it that they are unwilling to admit that they are making race dependent evaluations? The idea of a poor, high crime minority neighborhoods is so pervasive in our society that I suspect many people consciously believe that it's reasonable to presume that a minority neighborhood is more likely to be dangerous and disorderly than a predominantly white one. When forced to make a high stakes decision (like purchasing a home—the largest investment most people will ever make) under conditions of uncertainty, most people will consider any available information, even if they know the information is imperfect. Race is a highly imperfect proxy for crime or disorder, but sadly there is some correlation. A rational person could believe that considering race is justified, (although, given anti discrimination laws and social mores, she may be unwilling to admit it.)
Even people who do not credit such racial generalizations may well think it prudent to take account of the likelihood that other people will act on them, driving down real estate values and making investments in minority neighborhoods less reliable. It's easy to imagine the vicious cycle that will result: unstable property values make the neighborhood a bad risk, causing banks to withhold prime mortgages; property owners faced with unattractive loan terms are more likely to default; higher foreclosure rates lead to higher numbers of abandoned properties, which are easy marks for vandals, squatters, and illegal enterprises; and, of course, these activities make the neighborhood more dangerous and disorderly than it would otherwise have been, vindicating those who associate minority neighborhoods with crime and disorder. This kind of downward spiral can get going with only a relatively small number of people directly acting on racial stereotypes, supplemented by a larger number of people responding to the risk that other people will act on racial stereotypes or acting on the objective differences created by downward spiral once it gets going.
In the case of individual buyers, this type of bias is not actionable and even in the cases of real estate agents, landlords and lenders subject to antidiscrimination laws, it is very hard to prove. Moreover, bias is far from the only cause of discriminatory practices: non-biased people will contribute to the problem when they react to racially unequal market dynamics such as unstable property values in minority neighborhoods. Focusing on implicit bias will only reinforce the widespread and misguided idea that inequality demands redress only if it is caused by a specific prejudiced mental state, conscious or unconscious.
Eliminating racial injustice will require us to attack the institutional practices and structural incentives that now make racial discrimination rational. Instead of focusing on a subjective and ultimately unknowable mental state, we should focus on objective inequalities and the objective circumstances surrounding contested decisions. We don't need an account of the cognitive mechanism that produced a race or sex dependent decision—it is sufficient to demonstrate objectively that the decision is in fact race or sex dependent. Here the social science developments that are most promising are not in psychology, but in econometrics and empirical analysis, which can offer increasingly refined techniques to isolate race, sex and other variables and determine which decisions depend on them. An objective approach to questions of inequality would blur, if not eliminate, the distinction between disparate treatment and disparate impact, and look for unexplained and unjustified disparities in workforces, renter populations, mortgagees, and other groups covered by anti discrimination laws. Most importantly, a focus on objective unjustified inequality would lead us to look beyond individual cases to broad, institutional solutions that would improve the fairness of housing, financial and labor markets generally. These solutions will not involve convincing individuals that they are unwittingly prejudiced—instead they will involve institutional changes and incentives for socially constructive behavior.
Richard Ford is the George E. Osborne Professor at Standford Law School. Prior to Stanford, Ford was a Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, a housing policy consultant for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Commissioner of the San Francisco Housing Authority
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This webinar will include three case studies of streams in the Rocky Mountain Region and the ways that local governments, watershed groups, and others are planning and designing infrastructure to minimize the effects of urbanization on streams. Case studies will be presented of master planning efforts for the Big Thompson River through Loveland and portions of Larimer County, the Roaring Fork River through Aspen, and the Fountain Creek watershed from Colorado Springs to Pueblo. Case studies will speak to the unique conditions of each of these watersheds and streams including effects of hydrologic changes from diversions, urban runoff and other factors; water quality; fluvial geomorphology; and historic and future community uses of stream corridors. The goal of the webinar is for attendees to appreciate how differences in watersheds and stream types lead to different approaches in master planning and to understand that a first step in any master planning effort has to be understanding the unique characteristics of the coupled watershed-stream system.
Storm water channels are an important factor in the design of both small-scale urban renovations and large-scale rural construction projects. Collecting the storm water and moving it efficiently offsite is required, while limiting lifetime maintenance costs is highly desired. Typical solutions such as large riprap, gabions and articulating concrete blocks (ACBs) are expensive to procure and install, can require significant maintenance, as well as be safety hazards, and are unattractive nuisances. The modern approach to channels uses 3D geocelluar confinement technology to protect the chosen infill materials and provide erosion control and resistance to hydraulic conditions. Using a geocell channel protection system, stormwater channels can be created with vegetation, stone or concrete infill, for virtually any size of channel. Flexible solutions for limited flow swales for flooding mitigation to continuous flow drainage channels are possible, including control of high flow situations through the use of energy dissipation.
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100 new homes for Williamsburg, Corentyne, as $750M in contracts signed
The site at Williamsburg, Corentyne, where 100 housing units will be constructed
The Housing Ministry is injecting three-quarters of a billion dollars to construct 100 new houses at Williamsburg, Corentyne, Region Six.
Contracts for this $750M project were awarded to 13 contractors and were signed this morning at the Berbice Chamber of Commerce office in Rose Hall Town.
These contractors are Cardinal Enterprise, S.A.H Construction & Supplies, A.A. Construction, Singh and Sons Construction, Vickram's Contracting Services, JS Engineering Services and Supplies, N. Ramnarine Construction, Rasheid Construction, SAWA Investment Inc., Ramsarran & Sons Construction, Triple A Construction, E.C.S Construction and General Supplies and Feroze Construction Services.
The new scheme will be at Williamsburg, and the contractors will have three months to complete the houses.
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One of the 13 contractors at the signing
The houses are being categorised as low-moderate. Each house will cost $5.5M and will be similar to those being constructed in Region Four for which persons are required to pay $7.5M.
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According to Minister Croal, in two weeks' time, electricity and water will be installed in the new scheme after which the contractors commence works immediately.
Currently, roads are being constructed in the scheme.
In Region Six, there are 400 persons on record who have indicated that they prefer completed houses as against just being allocated a house lot. The distribution will be done on a first come first serve basis.
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Excess sensitivity of high-income consumers
Lorenz Kueng*
Using new transaction data, I find considerable deviations from consumption smoothing in response to large, regular, predetermined, and salient payments from the Alaska Permanent Fund. On average, the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is 25% for nondurables and services within one quarter of the payments. TheMPC is heterogeneous, monotonically increasing with income, and the average is largely driven by high-income households with substantial amounts of liquid assets, who have MPCs above 50%. The account-level data and the properties of the payments rule out most previous explanations of excess sensitivity, including buffer stock models and rational inattention. How big are these "mistakes?" Using a sufficient statistics approach, I show that the welfare loss from excess sensitivity depends on the MPC and the relative payment size as a fraction of income. Since the lump-sum payments do not depend on income, the two statistics are negatively correlated such that the welfare losses are similar across households and small (less than 0.1% of wealth), despite the large MPCs.
Quarterly Journal of Economics
https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjy014
Published - Nov 1 2018
10.1093/qje/qjy014
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Kueng, L. (2018). Excess sensitivity of high-income consumers. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(4), 1693-1751. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjy014
Kueng, Lorenz. / Excess sensitivity of high-income consumers. In: Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2018 ; Vol. 133, No. 4. pp. 1693-1751.
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abstract = "Using new transaction data, I find considerable deviations from consumption smoothing in response to large, regular, predetermined, and salient payments from the Alaska Permanent Fund. On average, the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is 25% for nondurables and services within one quarter of the payments. TheMPC is heterogeneous, monotonically increasing with income, and the average is largely driven by high-income households with substantial amounts of liquid assets, who have MPCs above 50%. The account-level data and the properties of the payments rule out most previous explanations of excess sensitivity, including buffer stock models and rational inattention. How big are these {"}mistakes?{"} Using a sufficient statistics approach, I show that the welfare loss from excess sensitivity depends on the MPC and the relative payment size as a fraction of income. Since the lump-sum payments do not depend on income, the two statistics are negatively correlated such that the welfare losses are similar across households and small (less than 0.1% of wealth), despite the large MPCs.",
author = "Lorenz Kueng",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
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journal = "Quarterly Journal of Economics",
Kueng, L 2018, 'Excess sensitivity of high-income consumers', Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 133, no. 4, pp. 1693-1751. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjy014
Excess sensitivity of high-income consumers. / Kueng, Lorenz.
In: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 133, No. 4, 01.11.2018, p. 1693-1751.
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Kueng L. Excess sensitivity of high-income consumers. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2018 Nov 1;133(4):1693-1751. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjy014


Do you ever mess up a recipe and then decide that you liked it so much you couldn't have it any other way? Well, that's what happened to this Warm Farro Salad with Charred Corn from the July/August Food Network Magazine. It turned out to be a happy mistake.
So I'm going to tell you how I made the Warm Farro Salad coz I will make it every time this way. I made a few other changes, too: I typically down play the grains and up the veggies in a salad like this. What I got was a bright and fresh salad full of all the goodies: charred corn, cherry tomatoes, & Kalamata olives.
The biggest surprise was how the lemon really stood out in this salad, which I loved; maybe that's because I cut back a little on the basil. I don't know if it's because I grow my own herbs and they're fresher than what you buy at the grocer's but sometimes the amount in recipes really just bowls me over.
Anyway, when you buy Farro, check and see if you can't get it from the bulk area of the store or a health food store rather than paying a ton of money for those little packets you find near the rice. You're likely to find corn (see how to pick a good ear) and tomatoes on special all summer long; just make sure to use that corn asap when you get it home.
The red cherry tomatoes are usually less than the "heirloom" mixed but Aldi is a great place to pick up either on the cheap. (I think they even have farro there, now.) Even less, although not as pretty, is a regular sized tomato. Chunk and strain it for a few minutes.
I love cutting my corn over a bundt or angel food pan – it makes the job so much easier! Thanks to Real Simple for the photograph.
Preheat a grill to high, then start cooking the farro on the stove-top. While the farro cooks, you'll grill the corn.
After the farro has rested for the five minutes, add about 3/4's of the vinaigrette, and gently toss with a fork. If the amount looks overly generous, don't worry, the farro will absorb it. Hold about 1/4 of the vinaigrette back in case the salad needs to be moistened a little or needs to be punched up before serving.
While the farro is cooking, brush the corn with a tablespoon of oil. Season with salt and pepper. Cook on the hot grill, turning with tongs, until slightly charred, 8 to 10 minutes. Cut off the kernels.
Add the corn kernels, tomatoes, olives, red onion and chives to the farro. Gently toss to combine; add more vinaigrette if desired and season with a good amount of salt and pepper. Garnish with the basil.
I'll be taking this recipe to Angie's Fiesta Friday , hosted this week by Liz @ spades, spatulas & spoons and Jenny @ Jenny Is Baking. If you have a minute, click over to Fiesta Friday & see all the link ups, or Liz & Jenny's blogs.
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Hi Mollie!! I just like to hear from you whenever you can squeeze it in!! We are still in Wisconsin for about a week– hanging out with kids and friends here. The wedding was big fun– pics soon!! Hugs!!
I hate cutting corn, that's a great tip! I haven't tried farro but I do have a bag of kamut that I have no idea what to do with. I think I just like the name. Maybe I can use that? But of course I don't know if they taste similar or not.
You could try it. I haven't used kamut (and it is a cool name) in anything but my Muesli. It has (to me) a very sweet taste.
I think this would be great with barley or quinoa, though!
ps – I thought you were supposed to be on vacay, girl!!
My kinda salad 😀 Looks great!
Thanks Sonal! Yes, we've been missing you!
This is my kind of salad! It looks so good and perfect for summer.
Thanks, Carlee – it just kept getting better. It made a lot so I had leftovers so I think it would be a perfect potluck or picnic dish and perfect to make a day ahead.
Looks so delicious, makes my mouth water just at the sight of it!
Like the simplicity of this recipe and would add lemon too!
An amazing refreshing salad! And a great corn trick. Loved it!!
Great corn trick Mollie…. The salad looks so satisfying. And that charred corn, wow! Been making a few salads like these myself, I've only cooked with farro once, I like the idea of upping the veggies.
I bought Farro a couple of weeks ago and didn't do anything with it. This looks like a great way to use it. I love the trick about the corn!
Hi Ronit! That was sweet! I'll be right over to check yours out – still have more farro, lol! Update: I just stopped by and if anyone reads this, click on Ronit's name and go right over to her blog right now and see what deliciousness she's prepared! What a lovely salad – I can imagine eating this on a restaurant deck for brunch.


More primary school principals are dealing with high levels of stress, with some now showing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Results from this year's Health and Wellbeing Survey - carried out by the NZ Educational Institute and Australian Catholic University - so far show up to 37 per cent (32 principals or senior school leaders) of participants answered questions that had led to a red flag.
Under the system, answering questions that led to red flags being raised means a teacher or principal is displaying a significant degree of distress.
The red flags are generated in three ways - either a high combined score across the survey categories, a series of quality of life indicators that are concerning or a teacher has indicated they are thinking of self-harming.
Researcher associate professor Dr Phil Riley said those school leaders were in need of "urgent attention".
Dr Riley said similar survey results from primary school principals and leaders in Australia and Ireland indicated that there is something wrong with the role, not the individual.
In the New Zealand survey in 2016, the final red flag percentage of answers stood at 20 per cent.
Although a further 174 partially completed surveys are due to be finished, this year's initial survey results showed the problem was getting worse.
NZ Principals' Federation president Whetu Cormick said the trends showed "grave concerns'' to the federation and that the teacher shortage was adding to stress and the workload for principals.
"Teacher supply issues are directly impacting principals' ability to lead learning and manage the day-to-day operation of their schools.
"The challenges are everywhere. I've recently heard from four Invercargill principals who have been teaching full-time in the classroom for the past eight weeks.
NZEI Te Riu Roa president Lynda Stuart said there was a real concern for the wellbeing of principals and senior leaders in the sector and the institute felt that needed to be acted on immediately.
"We have made long lists of recommendations. But so far, nothing has changed much. In fact, it has become worse - as this shows.
"Some are not even filling out the survey. I have principals say to me they are waiting to be less busy or feeling better before they fill it out so that it looks less negative."


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District of Columbia Expected to Legalize Sports Betting Tuesday and Hand Monopoly to Greek Lottery Operator
The District of Columbia stands on the cusp of legal sports betting, with DC Council expected to pass a bill regulating the market on Tuesday.
DC Councilman Jack Evans' bill would hand create a sports betting monopoly for lottery operator Intralot, despite the company proposing a high-hold sports betting model. (Image: Main Street Alliance)
But despite the best efforts of an unlikely lobbying alliance of operators and sports leagues, the DC sports betting bill favors a single-operator model and would hand the monopoly for all wagering within the district to its lottery operator, Intralot.
The bill's sponsor, Councilman Jack Evans, has said he wants to go with the monopoly because he believes it will bring in more money for the district. According to documents seen by LegalSportsReport, Intralot has claimed that it would generate up to 30 times more for the state than an open model could.
DC Sports Betting Bad Deal for Bettors
But Intralot's calculations are based on a high-hold model in which it would retain 20 to 30 percent of all wagers, rather than the roughly five percent of Las Vegas and other newly regulated markets.
This model is not competitive and will offer bad odds to bettors. That might not normally be a problem in a monopoly, until you consider Evans has expressly said he wants the DC market to compete with the casinos of West Virginia, Maryland, and others — as well as the black markets.
Virginia — like DC a casinos-less state — is also looking at legalizing sports betting, and so may soon have a golden opportunity to capture DC's market. Evans claims there is value in DC having first-mover advantage on its neighbors, but that means little to bettors when there is a competing market next door that can offer better odds.
Moreover, LegalSportsReports suggests that Intralot's projections are disingenuous — even when they're adjusted for the souped-up vig — because they contain no outlay for marketing expenditure. That's something that should send alarm bells ringing in the ears of DC's esteemed councilmembers.
Evans is currently under investigation by DC's Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA) for alleged links to a lobbying firm that counts among its clients a company called DC09, a local outfit that installs and maintains lottery terminals and communication lines.
On Tuesday, the DC Council will hear a second reading of the bill, and so there is — at least theoretically — scope for a change in its direction. Meanwhile, the language of the bill allows for the possibility of moving to an open-market model in the future if the Intralot partnership does not prove to be successful.
As all DC bills, this one will have to be signed off by the mayor and then ratified by Congress — a process which could take 60 days. But an emergency measure is also on Tuesday's agenda which would make the bill become law almost immediately.
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Pandemic has revealed weaknesses in Church culture, Francis Chan says
CP Current Page: Church & Ministries | Thursday, September 03, 2020 | Coronavirus →
By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter Follow | Thursday, September 03, 2020
Pastor and author Francis Chan delivers remarks as part of the Q Commons event, broadcast internationally on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. | Courtesy of Q Ideas/Parker Young
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed weaknesses in western Church culture that can be addressed by using restrictions as an opportunity to go deeper with God, says Francis Chan, the founder of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California, who now lives in Hong Kong.
Speaking at a Q Session where several high profile evangelical leaders such as John MacArthur, Samuel Rodriguez and Tim Keller shared their thoughts on the pandemic and how the Church should respond to issues such as restrictions and the ongoing debate on religious liberty, Chan said he believes God is using the crisis to wake up Christians.
"I love this season we are in and I think every true believer does because we look at kind of the status quo and we're just hoping for a time when we were forced into action. It's almost like you're training, training, training, for something and here it is. Are we prepared or not? And it's a time where I look at it like the time when the Israelites were in the desert," Chan told Gabe Lyons, moderator and founder of Q Ideas, a learning community that mobilizes Christians to advance the common good in society.
"There are those who are like, 'Ah let me just get back to Egypt, you know? Back to the way it was when I knew what was gonna happen tomorrow.' I'm going, 'Oh man, you're missing out. You're being led by a ball of fire. Never in history has that happened. Never will it happen again. Don't miss this," he said.
Chan explained that while he believes the ongoing debate about religious freedom and whether churches should be allowed to gather as they have traditionally done before the pandemic, he questioned how effective the Church has been with religious freedom when compared to places like China where the Church is persecuted.
"When you look at the places where there is religious freedom and you compare those places to where there is not religious freedom, what have we done with the freedom? It's just weakened the Church," he said.
"I'm not saying don't fight for it, especially if that's something God has called you to. I'm grateful for the people who fight for religious freedom. I'm grateful to have it. At the same time, I'm not really afraid of losing it because I look at how the church is flourishing and how it actually looks like the Church of Scripture where there is persecution. And again, I'm not saying I'm wanting that or desiring that. But what I am wanting is to see a pure Church where people are devoted, they're serious and they understand what it means to really follow Jesus. Then we can really be a light to the world," Chan explained.
The Cornerstone Church founder said he believes God has given the Church an opportunity in the pandemic to grow and become "deeply intimate" with Him.
"God does not put us in a situation where we can't be deeply, deeply, intimate with him and growing with one another. Man don't miss this," he said, noting that it's a great opportunity for parents to become more hands one with the spiritual development of their children.
"I think about parents. I hear in a lot of churches they've got to meet together again because of our kids. And I'm going, 'Man, God should wake you up right there. Parents are supposed to be teaching their kids.' It's a great opportunity for you, dads, to step up and believe the Spirit of the living God is inside of your body and you can lead that family. And if they're not equipped, then figure it out and man up. Parents, you're supposed to lead your kids," he said.
"We've weakened all these gifted godly people because we do everything for them. We'll teach your kids and so now it's just kind of chaotic. What do we do? No one is teaching my kid," he said, pointing to the complaints he has been hearing.
"I say, 'No. Take advantage of this time.' I really believe this is of God. This is a time where we realized we were not ready for this. So if we get another little break, let's do everything we can to equip and prepare people for times like this because I really don't believe this is the end of it," he added.
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