The Tearless Trauma Technique was first developed in a group setting with impressive results and, although it continues to be effective for groups, it is presented here as another alternative for minimizing pain in individual sessions.
I generally use this when a client has an event to address that they know will be big on the intensity scale. It combines a semi-global approach with some dissociation to allow you to "sneak up" on the event without diving headlong into something that may be traumatic. With this semi-global approach, I can usually provide enough relief to follow it with the Tell the Story Technique or Movie Technique for more complete results. It is even possible that this tool may release all the intensity on the event. Even so, I often follow up with some form of testing to make sure.
1. Ask your clients to identify a specific traumatic event from their past. The instructions for choosing an event are the same as that of Tell the Story and Movie Techniques. In addition, ask that it be at least 5 years ago to minimize any complications from the dynamics of a current event.
An example might be, "the time my father punched me when I was 12." By contrast, the phrase "my father abused me" would be too broad because, chances are, the abuse took place over many, many incidents. Please note that you may need to instruct your clients to stay on their original issue because many of them will shift to other issues as they bring the original one down.
2. Next, ask your clients to take a GUESS as to the intensity they MIGHT feel if they were to imagine the event. Delivering the instructions for this step are important because the better they are followed, the more you can minimize the emotional pain.
Despite your instructions, clients will often close their eyes or go inward in an effort to be accurate regarding their GUESS. In this case, feel free to stop their process and check to see if they are indeed accessing the event. If so, clarify the instructions for them again.
This GUESS is a surprisingly useful estimate. In my experience, it is almost always close to the true number ... and ... it serves to minimize emotional pain. By making a GUESS about what intensity they might feel, you are dissociating your clients from the event and addressing it "from afar" which significantly reduces the possibility of extreme emotional pain.
Once you get a 0-10 guess for their intensity rating, record it and move forward.
Tip: When a client gives you a title for their movie it will usually describe the most intense part of the event. We are trying to stay away from the big intensity here, so think twice before using a movie title that will take them straight into the pain. To be safe, use "Even though I have this movie, I deeply and completely accept myself" until the guess comes down and then try using the actual title.
4. After this round, ask them to GUESS again and compare that guess to the original one. Typically, it will be a noticeably smaller number, and by now they should be better at just giving a guess.
5. Perform more rounds of EFT and keep checking in with new intensity guesses.
In my experience, a total of 3 or 4 rounds will bring just about everyone down to GUESSES of 0 to 3.
6. Once your clients are down to an acceptably low GUESS of 3 or below, then ask them to actually imagine the incident and see how accurate the GUESS was. Notice that this is the first time you are asking them to do this. All previous times have been relatively painless GUESSES.
7. If the GUESS was not so accurate and the actual intensity goes back above a 3, then continue with global rounds on the outskirts of the event until that actual intensity on the event as a whole is a 3 or below.
8. Continue with either the Tell the Story Technique or the Movie Technique, depending on your situation. Once you bring the intensity down to zero, finish it up with Vivid Visualization and/or other appropriate methods of testing to be sure you have addressed all aspects of the event.
The following video is a basic demonstration of the Tearless Trauma Technique.
Obviously, the Tearless Trauma Technique is most useful when dealing with severely traumatic events like sexual abuse, physical abuse, war memories, etc. However, there are plenty of other events with high intensity, so you may choose to use this technique regularly.
As you might guess by now, the global nature of this approach makes it potentially less thorough than the other tools. The details are not only hidden from you, but typically, they are hidden from the client as well, so it is even more of a challenge to identify new aspects (or other events) as they appear. For that reason, always be sure that you test your results. Further, always be aware that when you are dealing with an event this intense, your testing methods should be on the conservative side until you are confident that all aspects have been addressed.
By adding the Tearless Trauma Technique to your repertoire, you can start addressing yet another class of Specific Events and expand your EFT horizons.
In this article you learned The Tearless Trauma Technique which will allow you to minimize emotional pain before addressing a Specific Event.
We keep the client detached from the highly intense event in two ways. First we instruct them not to go through the details of the event, but consider it from a distance. Second we ask them to GUESS about their intensity rather than giving a more complete answer.
Choose Setup and Reminder language that will keep the client's focus on the outskirts of the event rather than the painful details within.
Tap with this detached approach until the client's GUESS is at a 3 or below.
When the GUESS is at a three or below, instruct the client to tune into the details of the event to see how accurate the GUESS was. If the intensity goes higher than the 3, continue with additional global rounds, staying on the outskirts of the event until actual intensity is 3 or below.
Once the actual intensity report on the event as a whole is below a 3, then continue through the details of the event with Movie Technique or Tell the Story Technique.
Remember that whenever the client keeps the details of an event to themselves, Aspects could be missed, and that is certainly a challenge with Tearless Trauma Technique.
As always, follow up with additional testing methods to find any remaining Aspects.


AVZ Antiviral Toolkit is a comprehensive security solution that comes with lots of tools designed to help you keep the computer in perfect shape and protect it against malicious files.
Besides the fact that it's able to scan your drives and detect viruses, adware, spyware, dialers and other malware components, AVZ Antiviral Toolkit comes packed with so many great features that it's almost impossible not to stay away from virtual threats.
For example, AVZ Antiviral Toolkit has a process manager to give you control over the running processes, but also special search utilities to have a look in the registry or into the cookies stored on your system.
Of course, there's a dedicated function for managing the programs that boot alongside the operating system, as well as tiny tools to organize IE extensions and control panel applets.
Although the whole application relies on the scanning process that could let you know if there's something wrong with your computer, AVZ Antiviral Toolkit Crack has to offer much more than that.
Even if everything goes quite smoothly, it's recommended to close the other running processes before starting AVZ Antiviral Toolkit. It doesn't stress up the computer too much, but it's best to try and avoid working on your machine while the app is still scanning the drives to ensure every bit is checked.
All in all, AVZ Antiviral Toolkit is one of the best tools of its kind and since antivirus solutions, firewall and antispyware tools are no longer enough to keep you on the safe side, this one is on the list of must have utilities.


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This year, the young buds are sprouting about one week later than last year, when we had a particularly warm winter. We are now praying for good weather so that the young buds continue to grow well. Don't miss this chance to pre-order your shincha!


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Q: ActionListener set on an EpandableListView Adapter is Ignored I have an ExpandableListView adapter that I use as Navigation Drawer Menu
In my main class to initialize the drawer I use something like
   ...
   mAdapter = new NavMenuExpamdableAdapter(this, items);
   mDrawerList = (ExpandableListView) findViewById(R.id.drawer);
   if (mDrawerList != null)
        mDrawerList.setAdapter(mAdapter);
   mDrawerList.setOnItemClickListener(new DrawerItemClickListener());

Since the ExpandableListView is used as navigation drawer, I cannot invoke the listener from the adapter class, so I use mDrawerList.setOnItemClickListener(new DrawerItemClickListener()); to add a listener in the main class of the App.
The problem is that: in the main the method
private class DrawerItemClickListener implements
            ExpandableListView.OnItemClickListener {

        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position,
                long id) {
            mDrawerList.setItemChecked(position, true);
            String text = "menu click... should be implemented";
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, text, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            mDrawer.closeDrawer(mDrawerList);
            System.out.println("OK");

        }

    }

seems completely ignored
How could I solve this problem?

A:
ActionListener set on an EpandableListView Adapter is Ignored

If you want to register click events for ExpendableListView, you should use methods:

*

*OnChildClickListener to handle child click events

*OnGroupClickListener to handle group click events

for handling click events. OnItemClickListener is not working here (item clicks are captured by the list itself to open child elements so listener never be called), sorry.

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Because our lives have an ever-increasing dependence on science and technology, the public needs a better understanding of science and how deeply the outcomes of research impact their everyday lives. I aim to increase the accuracy and reach of scientific knowledge throughout society. Through storytelling, I can do this in a clear, compelling, accessible manner.
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On any given day, you can find Arielis Estevez busy doing research in a sixth-floor lab in the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy. Estevez, a second-year student in the Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD program, has been chosen as one of four students campus-wide for the newest cohort of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program, one of the oldest such programs in the country. Estevez, who researches in the lab of Assistant Professor Jiaoyang Jiang, is the second School of Pharmacy student this year to be chosen for the traineeship.
Graduate student Arielis Estevez (right) researches in the lab of Jiaoyang Jiang, assistant professor in the School's Pharmaceutical Sciences Division.
"Arielis has a strong desire to pursue research, and her extensive undergraduate experiences are especially uncommon from a woman in science," says Jiang. "I'm very proud of what she's accomplished and the new perspective she brings to my lab."
Before coming to the School of Pharmacy, Estevez earned her bachelor's degree in the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Department of Chemistry, where she built strong research skills, gained chemical knowledge, and received the essential biological training necessary for her work in the Jiang Lab.
"I am very grateful for the PharmSci program, Dr. Jiang, and the CBI Training Program for giving me an opportunity to grow as a scientist and demonstrate what I have to offer," says Estevez.
With the CBI traineeship, Estevez will continue her research developing chemical probes that modulate protein glycosylation levels. Although protein glycosylation is a critical and common post-translational modification, upregulation in this function is linked to most cancer types. Previously reported inhibitors of O-GlcNAc transferase, a glycosyltransferase enzyme that promotes protein glycosylation, often suffer from insufficient potency and/or specificity. The Jiang lab aims to develop more potent and specific inhibitors that could function as potential therapeutic treatments for cancer in the future.
"Through the CBI program, I'm excited to obtain more systematic training on synthetic chemistry and learn a variety of new techniques in chemical biology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, and mass spectrometry," Estevez says. "My ultimate research interest is to integrate various chemical and biological approaches to develop pioneering solutions for biomedical problems."
Department of Chemistry Professor Helen Blackwell, the current director of the NIH CBI Training Program at UW–Madison, describes the traineeship as "a community of like-minded graduate students who are excited about research that bridges chemistry and biology. We are trying to build on and grow scientists who can attack questions right at the interface; either biologists who want to study more chemistry, or chemists who want to study more biology."
Estevez will be a part of this community for the duration of her time at UW–Madison. As part of the program, she will complete graduate-level coursework in chemical biology and attend seminars highlighting research at this interface, all while polishing her own scientific communication skills. Additionally, Estevez will receive two years of funding to continue her research and partake in a 12-week internship at a site of her choice. Trainees commonly complete their internships at large pharmaceutical companies, smaller biotech start-ups, or national laboratories with the intention of immersing themselves in a laboratory culture vastly different from their research group at UW-Madison.
Estevez is untiringly motivated, infinitely curious, and wholly collaborative, notes Jiang. "She has attended many diverse training programs in Puerto Rico and in the United States and, as a result, has developed a unique breadth and depth of skills in analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, and chemical biology."
Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate student Arielis Estevez.
This broad skillset fits in well with the distinct experience found in Jiang's lab, which is composed of students and postdoctoral scholars with training ranging from organic chemistry and proteomics to structural and cell biology.
It's this type of diversity that Jiang says strengthens her lab and allows researchers to ask the most important and most interesting questions. "I'm not limited to what kind of techniques we are going to use to answer those questions," she says. "If we don't know the techniques then we will learn them." This outlook is exactly what propels Jiang's research program forward and promotes the constant professional development of her students.
UW–Madison, and especially the School of Pharmacy, has longstanding ties to the CBI program. School of Pharmacy Professor Dan Rich, now emeritus, instituted the program in 1992. Today, the program goes beyond scientific research and also emphasizes the importance of being able to communicate that effectively to the public, through participation in events like Expanding Your Horizons, a conference held in Madison each fall to expose young girls to the STEM disciplines, which is supported in part by the School of Pharmacy Fund. Estevez volunteered at the conference this year to design and supervise an organic chemistry experiment for 11- and 12-year-old girls.
"It was important for me to participate because I have not seen enough people like me in the sciences," Estevez says. "I felt that underrepresented minority girls would identify with me and realize that it is possible for us to participate in STEM and succeed."
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The Origin Instruments Corporation Sip & Puff Switch is a head mounted accessory used to actuate a two position switch by a simple sip or puff. It consists of a head frame with attached mouth tube and a switch box connected to the head frame by a second plastic tube. Sips and puffs are converted to switch closures inside the Switch Box. These switch events are made available on two connectors labeled "Sip" and "Puff."
The Sip/Puff Switch is ideal for accessing electronic devices such as the Headmouse® Extreme or other mouse emulators, augmentative communication devices, and devices accessed or controlled by scanning.
Comfortably holding the supple mouth tube is a padded head frame that slips over the ears and behind the neck. The replaceable mouth tube is held next to the mouth with and integral stainless steel forming wire. In addition to bending the plastic mouth tube and wire they can be cut to facilitate individual users. A second pliable tube runs from the head frame to the switch box where it attaches with a simple twist connector.
The metal switch box contains the pneumatic devices that convert sips and puffs to electrical switch closures. These switch events are accessed from the 1/8" (3.5mm) microphone connectors on the end panel. The switches are designed for low current electronic loads.
The Switch Box, padded Head Frame with attached Mouth Tube, additional Mouth Tubes, interconnecting tube between Head Frame and Switch Box, and two 1/8" (3.5 mm) microphone cables.


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This July, I hope you can feel more childlike and that summer brings you a lot of happiness and a lot of fun and makes you forget about your grown-up life and brings happiness to you. The World is filled with nice people, if you can't find one, be one. Whether you have political views, your morals, your stance in the World – we need to remember to be nice to people, to make an effort, to find some happiness and good in people. The smallest gesture of kindness might make all the difference to someone having a crappy day and you wouldn't know it.
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With as much as Darby loves the combination of cold weather and water, I suspected that if you added another element to that concoction, it was bound to be successful. So when I got home from work (early), Darby and I went to Black Creek Park, where I'm pretty sure she had the best time of her life, which is saying quite a lot, because I've never known this dog not to have a good time. When we got to the park, I just unleashed her (my apologies to a couple of runners whom she may have spooked) to let her romp and stomp and snort and run and cavort all she pleased, which was quite a lot.


BREAKING NEWS: "Angiamo", the high-profile 2003 140′ Feadship, has just taken a $2 million price cut down to $15.99 million. For a yacht that is massively appealing on so many different levels, this is, without question, a "newsworthy" development.
Those who value pedigree need only look at Angiamo's builder – Feadship, the gold standard in yachting since the 1860s. Her Lloyd's 100 A1 Classification and history-making status as the first Feadship-built expedition yacht provide whatever additional pedigree is even possible.
For prospective buyers seeking a heavy-duty, globe-trotting vessel, we would simply refer you to her ice-strengthened steel hull, 4700 nm range, and host of redundant systems.
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A commander of Bosnian Croat forces during the Bosnian War has died from drinking what he claimed to be poison at the war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
The death on Wednesday was first reported by Croatian state TV and later confirmed by the tribunal's spokesperson.
The judge suspended the hearing and called for a doctor.
The incident happened when the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was handing down its last judgment in an appeal by six Bosnian Croat political and military leaders, who were convicted in 2013 of persecuting, expelling and murdering Bosnian Muslims during the 1992-1995 war.
Speaking to Al Jazeera from Sarajevo in Bosnia, Denis Dzidic, deputy editor for the Detecor project, said policemen and an ambulance were ordered to the tribunal building.
"Slobodan Praljak had his first instance verdict confirmed, in which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison," Dzidic said.
"He said that he did not accept the verdict, that he was not a war criminal and then drank the substance.
"The judge then paused the proceedings and ordered the glass [from which Praljak drank] not be taken from court.
Later on Wednesday, the judges continued reading out the final verdict, also upholding the jail terms against the other three defendants.
All six – including Jadranko Prlic, the former prime minister of the the breakaway Bosnian Croat statelet, known as Herzeg-Bosnia – had been sentenced in 2013 to a total of 111 years in prison.
The tribunal on Wednesday confirmed that there was an internationally armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that Croatia – by controlling the Bosnian Croat armed forces, the "Croatian Defence Council" (HVO) – had held Herzeg-Bosnia's eight municipalities "under occupation".
"There are numerous indications that, acting through the Croatian Defence Council, Croatia had real authority," said presiding Judge Carmel Agius.
The original conviction had also said that Franjo Tudjman, the late Croatian president, was a key member of a plan to create a Croat mini-state in Bosnia.
The ICTY upheld the 2013 ruling that the six officials, along with Tudjman, were part of the Croatian "joint criminal enterprise", which aimed for a "unification of the Croatian people" and persecuted Bosnian Muslims from areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to create a "Greater Croatia".
Edin Batlak, of the Association of Concentration Camp Survivors of Mostar, said the verdict had "met his expectations".
"I'm satisfied," he said. "I believe these kind of verdicts will help in relations between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia," added Batlak.
"Bad politics received its verdict. Croatia needs to be completely honest towards Bosnia and Herzegovina … and to protect and respect its sovereignty and integrity.
Wednesday's hearing was the final case to be completed at the ICTY before it closes its doors next month.
The tribunal, which last week convicted former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic of genocide and other crimes, was set up in 1993 while fighting still raged in the former Yugoslavia.
It indicted 161 suspects and convicted 90 of them.
With reporting by Mersiha Gadzo in Sarajevo, Bosnia.


A reader asked me the other day if they should ditch their original Google Pixel or Pixel XL for the Essential Phone, since there are always so many good deals on the Essential Phone. I told them, no. I did that because they wanted a great camera and there still aren't many phones that can best even the original Pixel phones in that department.
So if you want a great camera and don't have a ton of cash to spend, we've got a great deal for you today. Woot is offering up both the smaller Google Pixel and larger Pixel XL with huge discounts. The discounts are likely there because each is refurbished, but I don't know that that would deter me if I had a $300 budget and wanted a phone this good.
Woot's deal includes the Pixel with 32GB or 128GB and in any color (black, white, blue), starting at $279.99 (32GB) and topping out at $314.99 (128GB). If you want the bigger Pixel XL, they've also got 32GB or 128GB versions and all colors. The 32GB model is $299.99 and the 128GB model is $329.99.
These phones are listed as being the US variants that work on all carriers, including Verizon. In the box you'll get the phone, an AC adapter, and Type-C cable.
Come on, those prices are nuts.


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Pre-K class has the privilege to walk to the public library once a month to enjoy storytime with Mother Goose. It is filled with fun, laughter, learning, and excitement! Thank you Mother Goose for helping us instill a love for learning at an early age.


What could be wiser than keeping your baby close, secure, and safely carried? These sweet, wide-eyed and colorful owls agree, and are sure to bring a smile to your little one's face. The best of both worlds, this versatile hybrid is ready for whatever comes its way. Featuring an exclusive temperature-control panel that easily zips-up for warmth and zips-down to expose cool, breathable, 3D mesh. It's lightweight, road-ready and built for daily use—be it in the brisk fall winds or blazing days of summer.
My nephew has a disability that receives him to be carried. The 6-in-1 Baby Carrier allows us to remove him from his stroller so that he can be included in activities instead of always being in his stroller. It also gives him another view of the world – eye level with everyone else.
The carrier seems very comfortable with ample padding and lumbar support as this will be needed.


عندما تزور جوام, ستشعر أنك في بيتك في Oceanview Hotel & Residences الذي يقدم لك إقامة متميزة و خدمات عظيمة. يقع مركز المدينة المثير على بعد 1. Km فقط. يضفي محيط الفندق اللطيف وقربه من منطقة تارزا للمغامرات السحرية والحديقة المائية, JP Super Store, American Dialysis Center سحراً خاصاً على هذا الفندق.
استمتع بالخدمات الراقية والضيافة التي لا مثيل لها بهذا الفندق في جوام. يمكن للنزلاء الاستمتاع بالميزات التالية: واي فاي مجاني في جميع الغرف, مرافق مخصصة لذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة, واي فاي في المناطق العامة, خدمة صف السيارات, صف السيارات أثناء إقامتهم في هذا المكان الرائع.
يمكن للنزلاء الاختيار من ضمن مجموعة من الغرف المصممة بعناية لتعكس جواً من الراحة، والتي يتجاوز عددها 124. يمكنك الاستمتاع بالأجواء المريحة التي تقدمها حمام سباحة خارجي, حديقة طوال النهار. إن كنت تتطلع إلى إقامة مريحة وهادئة في جوام، فستجد في Oceanview Hotel & Residences بيتك الثاني.
يوفر العقار خدمة الانتقالات بالحافلة، التي تمر على فندق بايفيو (Bayview Hotel) وفندق أوشنفيو (Oceanview Hotel) وتي جليريا (T-Glleria) وجوام بريمير أوتليت (Guam Premier Outlet) وكيه مارت (K-mart) وميكرونيزيا مول (Micronesia Mall). يجب على النزلاء إبراز مفاتيح غرفهم للسعاة من أجل الحصول على خدمة الانتقالات بالحافلة.
This hotel is very good for money ! But it was located at high hill in the Tomonbay, and was not good to walk wth the luggages, and inconvenient not to provide the free shuttle to go to the shopping mall, providing only three times (morning, afternoon, evening). It is difficult to look at the view of ocean in the window, if you are not lucky. The facilities are normally satisfactory and the staff was friendy.
Traveled with kids. Room is spacious. Clean room/bathroom.
First thing i did, i called the hotel and spoke to one of their staff, she just said "hello", i asked if this is the oceanview hotel and asked for their room rate for the specific dates, then she told me "pls stay on the line".. for more than 10mins, i could just hear her talking (doesnt seem like work related) laughing. So i hanged up. I called again the next day, same thing happen, i was just on the line waiting, after 7 mins i hanged up.. i called the hotel before the check in day, spoke to a nice staff about hour early check in request, i was instructed to call the hotel3hrs early of the time i wish to check in, i called past 8am, spoke to a different lady (japanese/korean english accent), i was asking nicely if can i request an early check in but she responded by getting mad saying they dont have enough housekeeping etc etc etc. I just hanged up after telling her i get that you dont have enough staff etc etc and not to get mad on me.
clean and tidy room, I believe they renovated the hotel and the facilities are new. the only thing needs improvement is the air con is really old and not strong enough, we set it at 55F but the room temp keeps 80F.
Hotel was close to restaurants and shopping areas. Has decent views of the ocean, but the best thing about the hotel is the condo style setup. If you are traveling with a big group this will be a good hotel to stay in.
The hotel's location is on a hilly part. I would recommend a good pair of walking shoes to start with. The lobby is not that big, but spacious with a European touch. We got a standard room, used solely for sleeping is ok. With two big beds, clean sheets and most of all, no stinky smell in the entire room. The bathroom is not bad either. It's clean, with hot and cold shower, a set of shampoo and conditioner. You have to bring your own toothbrush and toothpaste. Overall, their standard room would fit any "traveler", just looking for place sleep, after a day of exploring the island of Guam. However, if you are a "tourist' and not a "traveler', (one that looks more comfort and relaxation), then this place isn't the one.
The staff were very accommodating up to the restaurant.
the airport shuttle was a plus and a savings for us. the rooms were clean and the bathroom was recently renovated so it was very neat and tidy. the hotel staff were very accommodating and helpful to what ever problems you have on our stay. the lam-lam bus stops at the adjacent hotel (bayview) which is also manage by same staff. the street was a little too far to the hotel. elderly might have a problem on the coming to the hotel. the location is very near the clubs and malls about 5 to 10 minutes. the rate is affordable and reasonable. the restaurant at the hotel also serves good authentic native food as well. the choices of breakfast was okay.
this is a cute little hotel, with great help from the staffs. even we arrived at 7am, they gave us a room and even offered us free ride service on the returning date. however, hotel public area maintained very well, but inside needed lots of maintanence. water sink was clogged, curtains needed cleaning. coffee pot was a bit dirty. otherwise, everything was fine.
The room was huge but everything inside is either old or broken. Even the bathroom fixtures are falling apart and sinks are overflowing. We requested for housekeeping every day; on the first day, there were no bath soaps; on the second day, there were no shampoo; and on the third day, there were no TOWELS! We have to call reception and follow-up our request twice or thrice before they deliver them to the room. The corridors and elevators are old and dirty; broken doors and ceiling lamps, walls full of stain, dirty floors are around us. Even the extra key to our room was not working and had to be replaced thrice but still not working. This hotel is bad and would not recommend it even to my enemy. We will definitely NOT stay in this hotel and even at Bayview Hotel because they have the same management. And one more thing, there's no ocean view in this hotel but ugly view.....believe me!
Much less expensive than the chains down by the shore, and just a short walk. The rooms are large with microwave.
Hotel is clean & smells good. The room is wide for three occupants complete w/ microwave & dining table. The staffs are courteous & friendly and I like it that they are mostly Filipinos. Except for the Wi-fi inside the room, I like everything the hotel offered. I would gladly recommend it to my friends & relatives!
The shower and sinks didnt drain properly and the bathroom outlets didn't work. That was probably the most disappointing thing but I thought I was getting a 1 bedroom room and it turned out to be two bedrooms a total of 2 double beds and 2 single beds so that was a nice surprised to have friends stay over and be comfortable. There are silverware and plates in the kitchen. A rice cooker, microwave, a big fridge. Everything seemed great for what it's worth. I would recommend coming here.
they dont have bell service. you have to literally carry your luggage on your own. the staff didnt even tell us where to go. you have to eat breakfast on another building way far from your room's building so if it rains good luck to you. just a disaster for me.


Recently I was in downtown Asheville to pay my property taxes. The traffic was horrific, and parking was a nightmare. It is extremely frustrating to live in a city that has become nearly impossible for taxpaying citizens to navigate or enjoy because of tourists. My compliments to the staff of Buncombe County Tax Department; they were doing an awesome job serving a long line of people.
I know tourism is important to the local economy, but considering the low wages generated by tourism, I think City Council should do more to improve the lives of Asheville citizens. Every election cycle, we hear promises of change, yet our quality of life decreases every day. Why? When are our elected officials actually going to work to represent the needs of everyone, versus a few developers and business owners?
I have two ideas. I would like to see City Council designate parking that is reserved for taxpaying citizens. This could be accomplished by purchasing a yearly parking sticker and color-coded parking spots.
And, develop the "pit of despair" across from the civic center as an eco-friendly hub for a park-and-ride service. The city could purchase or lease empty lots along Tunnel Road and the River Arts District for parking. The buses would run every 10-15 minutes, help bridge downtown and the River Arts District, reduce traffic congestion, provide easier access for folks employed downtown and supply a few new jobs.
What say you, City Council?
Driving and parking in downtown Asheville can be a little vexing or irritating — but, "horrific" and "a nightmare" seems a little over the top.
Anyway, does the writer know about the city's parking app – showing in real time how many spaces are available in the various city garages? It can be accessed online or from an app on a smartphone.
Again, it's mostly not a parking problem, it's a walking problem. If the city were to designate spots for residents in, for instance, the Civic Center deck, would the letter-writer park there and walk to the South Slope? I'm all for better signage and even a downtown shuttle, but "cheap ample parking right next to wherever I want to be" is not a solvable problem.
Tunnel Road is already full of parking lots, most operating well under capacity, and some of them serve as de facto park and rides. If the city wanted to formalize that by leasing spots, that's fine, but it doesn't need any new lots.
Why not have more street signs with a BLUE "P" to help indicate to residence and visitors alike where the "City Garages" are located like many other cities do? While they are at it they could also put signs on downtown "light poles" at all intersections showing directions for lane changes…the specific intersection that comes to mind is Lexington and College heading north(downhill)…the left lane is a turn only but the only indication is painted on the street so most folks driving down the hill do not know that going straight requires being in the right lane and the left lane is a TURN ONLY…a BLUE "P" sign would be great along with a directional indicator as to which lanes go what way…just a thought to help that intersection in particular.
The sign and space indicator at College and Rankin for the Civic Center and Rankin Ave decks was a good first step, and there is some signposting at the I-240 exits. (It's an orange-circled P.) No amount of signage is going to persuade people to use the city and county decks if they're determined to find a free or even a metered space 100 yards from their intended destination.
Free for the first hour and $1.25 per hour for additional time is enough for me to use the garage…ain't no such thing as FREE LUNCH or FREE PARKING in this specific case. Unless of coarse you call driving around for 20 minutes, wasting gas, hoping to score a spot within a football field of the desired destination, is somehow FREE…walking around town isn't all that bad…cold this time of year but most restaurants are small enough to keep a dining room warm for customers.
The funny thing is that the "Pit of Despair" used to be a private parking garage that paid taxes and brought some revenue to the City. The City of Asheville bought the old parking garage and tore it down with the promise of building a larger and more useful garage with multi-use businesses who would presumably pay rent and taxes. It was even part of a budget pitch one year.
From that budget pitch, the City spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.5 million to study the site and develop a proposed design. After that project was canned from political pressure, the City then spent more tax money putting up retaining walls to create the "Pit". Fast forward ten years and taxpayers are probably out $3 million (expenses and missed revenue) and still have nothing to show for it.
Truth is, just like with the I-26 project, the City can't figure out how to appease everybody, so they just throw money at it on studies and half-thought out solutions and continue to do nothing meaningful.
I'm neutral on what happens with the "Pit", but for goodness sake, please stop wasting taxpayer money on temporary solutions to permanent problems.
You are so right about "The Pit." But ya' gotta love the multi-million dollar "community garden" that produced a dozen tomato plants and some flowers (now an unmaintained eyesore throughout the winter), not to mention the swell food truck lot (which almost no one is utilizing) which sits within a stone's throw of more than a dozen places to eat, serving all kinds of food, doing business in ways that actually contribute to the tax base.
I'm sure the Assistant City Manager would say that $250,000 per tomato plant is a good investment in our food shortage area like downtown. After all, she's the same person who bought the old garage, directed that it be torn down, hired the $2.5 million study, and then had the "Pit" built, and now commissions more studies on what to do with the property.
It seems like a cycle that she's using to keep herself employed making $200,000 per year while citizens are still writing letters wanting the same thing they did ten years ago. She's going to make a career out of the same darn project, and still not build anything.
Alas, Asheville keeps putting up with it by electing the exact same Council makeup year in and year out. Like I said earlier, I'm neutral on the "Pit", and I honestly don't care if they are "D's" or "R's", but please, please, stop wasting my tax money on the same thing over and over again.
You mean bureaucracy isn't efficient by definition and handing out these "study" contracts to political cronies on bullsh*t inconclusive research is a waste of taxpayers money? I really should get out more….LOL! I'm completely with you and find myself swallowing my utter disdain on a daily basis for the complete lack of respect our city/state/federal governments have for it's tax revenue base…we are all just numbers to help them continue filling personal bank accounts, giving themselves raises, and electing more political cronies to keep the system the way it has always been.
Do not ask city council to do anything . They are totally inept, unworthy and an evil embarrassment to the whole city. They all need to resign and get the hell out of city hall. They are elected criminals.
Actually, the City used to have that too. In the 1970 and 80's, you'd go downtown and pay your fee (I believe it was $6), and the City would give you a sticker that was legally required to be placed on the windshield of your car. With that sticker, you had access to things non-residents didn't (like on-street parking).
What politician got bought to do away with that!!?
The best way to reduce downtown traffic congestion is to make downtown parking inconvenient and expensive. We need to get people out of their cars any way we can. That's the logical future. As a traffic expert told us on Finance Committee during my last year on Council: you don't want to be the last city to build a parking deck. Driverless cars are going to radically change parking demand over the next decade.
There's your answer letter writer. An actual member of the Council who canned the originally proposed project wants to, "make downtown parking inconvenient and expensive". At least he's honest, and now we know; downtown parking is inconvenient and expensive by design.
The only question I would have for Mr. Bothwell is; Why buy the property, why tear down the buildings, and why, oh why, would you approve and pay for the studies and expenses if it was never intended to be built? This project reduced the number of parking spaces, reduced occupied buildings (with their rent and tax revenue), and has done nothing but cost taxpayers money.
I appreciate Mr. Bothwell's conviction, but as a representative of the people who elected him; at some point in time you need to put your constituents needs ahead of your own desires.
Mr. Bothwell's response seems kind of arrogant in that citizens have been asking for increased and improved parking since the Grove Arcade and Haywood Park were redeveloped, but all of those previous requests are irrelevant now based on his own opinion.
There is the Wall Street deck. There is on-street parking around the Grove Arcade and on Otis Street; the Rankin and Civic Center decks and the Cherry Street spaces are all within a quarter-mile. The private lot now occupied by the Pit of Perpetual Consultation Exercises was not the potential savior of downtown parking, not least because downtown has grown southwards, but also because residents driving into downtown are allergic to paying private lot rates.
I suppose knocking down the Grove Arcade would free up space for more parking in that area.
A "driverless "car" is still going to need a place to park when the user wants to go downtown.
Not going to retread old ground on the robot car future, or what private companies will demand from cities to accommodate it. "Inconvenient and expensive" is one way to approach parking provision; there's a less radical approach that removes most on-street parking to disincentivize circulating and consolidates it in a few places.
Those who complain about a lack of parking downtown and want designated spaces need to spell out (honestly) where they want them, how much they'd be willing to pay, and how far of a walk is too far. It's staking a timeshare claim on 180 square feet of downtown.
LOL Bothwell is pushing his driverless car narrative because then he can consume heavy amounts of booze and not get a DUI. I guess Bluebird Taxi is beneath him.
You do realize those same pesky tourists subsidize your tax dollars and therefore government services, don't you? If it weren't for tourist this city would crater. It would be the same back-water, soulless suckhole as Weaverville, Slyva, Bryson City, Marshall, Marion, etc.
But yes, let's give up a better overall quality of life for more parking spots. Who wants to make the effort of walking or downloading an app to aid in parking. So exhausting!
I am making a poster now, let the protests begin! More parking for the xenophobes! More parking for the xenophobes!More parking for the xenophobes!
Do they? Yeah, I guess to a certain extent, but the TDA has been adamant that absolutely 0% of the hotel room tax go to help locals pay for services that tourists use. Instead it must go to the TDA so it can fill up all the hotels in town with more tourists who use services that locals must pay for. And, oh, by law the TDA must be made up of a majority of hotel owners, thus setting up an inbred system determined to feed at its own trough. Then they get dismayed and wonder why there is a backlash to the tourism industry.
simply decades of democrackkk NON leadership have brought us to this point of despair, even in good times, in the most pathetically run city known in the nation…we do not have a mayor and city council that represents all the people. They REFUSE to demand accountability from the biggest problem in AVL, the Housing Authority. Gary Jackson, the pussified city manager will not do his job of imploring council to do this – which is the RIGHT thing for the city. WHY would any mayor, city council or city manager NOT want oversight of the biggest problem we have ? there is no reason.
email city council and manager and ask them why?


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Food-wise, I got to taste a few things. I had a bite of a prosciutto-wrapped Digby scallop, on a Pecorino peashoot purée and balsamic gastrique. It was good, but a bit squishy for a scallop. My mom's bacon-wrapped scallops were better in my opinion. My wife had a beet and goat cheese salad with baby spinach, pecans & balsamic fig dressing. It was most excellent. My main was the Thistle's Bigger Burger. It is a beef patty topped with a BBQ'd Sweet William's Italian sausage, peppered Havarti, lettuce, tomato, red onion & dill pickle. Overall, it was good. The burger itself was outstanding... fall-apart juicy and flavourful. We ended off with a sampler tile for dessert... it had homemade vanilla ice cream, a chocolate wedge the consistency between a ganache and a mousse. It was the favourite. It also had a great whipped cream that tasted like it had some peach juice or something mixed in. There was also a brownie on the plate, as well as a bread pudding, with some mint leaves and strawberries thrown around for good measure. Not a bad deal at $12!
First, I started off with a glass of INK'D, an India Black Ale or Black IPA. It was, indeed, very dark / black. Towards the bottom, it had a brown, port-like hue. The head was creamy and somewhat tan in colour, with good retention. It laced from the top to the bottom. The smell was very fruity, like my favourite IPA's. There was orange peel, grapefruit, and date in the nose... and a bit of evergreen. The taste was more of the same... orange peel, and especially the grapefruit. There was a bit of a roasted quality to it. It was as bitter as some stronger IPA's, but the bitterness didn't linger too long. It drank smoothly with a medium body and light carbonation. Overall, very good! Easily drinkable, and pretty light.
I finished off with a glass of 90 Degree IPA. It pours a foggy amber (just like the Halifax Harbour outside the window), with a bit of a rose tint (don't let the dark pic fool you). The head is low and white, and is gone fast. However, lots of solid lacing is given. There are smells of grapefruit, orange, and, if I'm being honest, a hint of something funky. The flavour is bright and citrusy, with flavours of grapefruit, lemon, and orange. There is a bit of a "burn" from the bitterness, but it's not overwhelming (84 IBU). It's airy, and has a nice aftertaste that doesn't linger for too long of a time. It was a very drinkable brew!
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My Halifax acquaintance in beer, Chris, was there, as we arranged to meet up. I also ended up meeting his friend Brian, who won Garrison's first brew-off with "Harvey's Bitter", another chap, who he got the Garrison Spruce Beer from for me, and the H&T's brewer himself, Nash (also once brewer for Garrison, Pump House, etc.). A nice bunch of coincidences.
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with the AT%SLEEP=0, AT+CFUN=1, AT+COPS=0 sequence.
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Altcoins Gain 90% In The Last 7 Days.
By editor Last updated Jun 27, 2022
Bullish price action is returning back to the cryptocurrency market alongside the U.S. stock market as the 16.54% rally in Bitcoin, has seen the altcoin market post gains as high as 90% in the last seven days.
Although we saw a bullish price action during the week, the sentiment in the cryptocurrency market still remains bearish because of the dovish U.S. inflation data that sparked an increase in monetary policy rate by the U.S Federal Reserve. The Feds, through its Chairman, announced a 75-basis point interest rate hike (0.75%) in a bid to tame the ever-increasing inflation rate. This is the biggest hike in the U.S. since 1994.
Asides from the U.S., the Swiss National Bank surprised the market by raising its key rate by 50 basis points. Also, during the week, the Bank of England increased its interest rate, hiking for the fifth straight time by 25 basis points. These actions from central bankers still leave a stain of bearish sentiment for the cryptocurrency market as on-chain data from Glassnode still shows minimal participation in the market compared to last year.
The rally in the market also came despite the $100 million hack of the Harmony Network that also brought about fear in investing in the market. This is why many are calling the current bullishness a dead cat bounce, a term used to describe a short-term bullish action which is followed by a deep and intense market sell-off.
Here is a look at the top five gainers of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization:
Compound (COMP) 91.88%
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Karen Lucille "Lucy" Hale is an American actress and singer probably best known for her role on the ABC Family series "Pretty Little Liars."
Lucy Hale grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and made her first appearance on TV in the reality show "American Juniors" in 2003. As part of a vocal quintet, she placed in the top five. That launched her into the business, and she had parts in shows such as "Drake & Josh," "Wizards of Waverly Place," and "How I Met Your Mother." Her other credits include "nic Woman " "Privileged," "Scream 4" and "CSI: Miami " among other projects.
Though she acts, she calls music her first love and calls Faith Hill and Shania Twain early influences. In 2010, Lucy Hale signed a deal with Hollywood Records and a country album is expected soon. She said, "I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do." She said in a separate interview, "I love music so much and that kind of takes away from the fact that I am missing out on some things."
Lucy Hale said, "I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight As." She's never had a "normal job" – only acting gigs.
She moved to Los Angeles when she was 15. She said about "Pretty Little Liars," "To prevent leaks, the production staff only gives us scripts the day before we film. It's crazy!"
For fun, Lucy said, "I feel like I'm still a kid at heart, so I do lots of the same things - I go bowling and to the movies and shopping."
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About living in Los Angeles, Lucy Hale said, "There's jealousy everywhere and tons of politics. The problem is that people in L.A. never really have to grow up. Everyone needs to chill out. There's room for us all."
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The Viarco Vintage Collection
February 21, 2017 February 20, 2017 / Andy Welfle	/ Leave a comment
Whoa — it's an actual pencil review! I haven't reviewed an actual pencil since October, with the Baron Fig Archer. Of course, with the new renaissance of pencil blogs, you don't need me anymore — I'm talking about impassioned publications like Lead Fast and, of course, the re-launch of Pencil Talk, which I'm very excited about..
However, there are some fantastic pencils out there that I want to explore.
Sometime last year, one of my favorite places on earth, CW Pencils, started selling a series of pencils from Viarco. They're a manufacturer in Portugal that often flies under the radar here in the US (though among our pencil community, people are getting hip to them).
Making pencils since 1907, Viarco is a small but quality pencil brand that makes good quality HBs like the Premium 2001, or the Desenho 250 H (a dark, smooth pencils that CWP recommended for left-handers).
This series, the Viarco Vintage Collection, has six varieties of boxed dozens:
1951: multicolored HB hex pencils with white stripes on the edges
2000: Pearlized multicolored HB hex pencils with a bright stripe and cap on the end
3000: Similar to the 2000s, but round instead of Hex
3500: Red HB hex pencils with white stripes on the edges
272D: Blue copying pencils with violet ink (originally used to transfer ink to other paper decades ago
What's really remarkable about this collection is not how exceptional the pencils are in themselves — it's the level of detail to which they recreated the originals. From the packaging to the paint on the barrel, they look incredibly similar.
As a fan of vintage aesthetics (I know, I'm a dirty hipster), I knew I wanted to try them. But, at $15 a dozen, I knew I didn't want to pick them all up. I went for the multicolored packs; the 3000 and the 1951 sets.
I won't spend a lot of time talking about how well they write — I honestly don't think that matters as much. They're not particularly remarkable. But they're not terrible either. I would say they write dark and maybe a little on the scratchy side, like a General's Cedar Point #2 or a Baron Fig Archer. The 1951 seemed to be the scratchiest of the two, though they were really similar. It really felt like what I usually expect a vintage pencil to feel like, if that makes any sense.
Construction and Aesthetics
It really seems like they went all out to replicate the vintage feel. The paint looks like it was really painted on, and the foil stamp on the barrel feels like it was really stamped — the 3000, for instance, had a deeper imprint in the center of the stamp than the edges, like like a round pencil barrel would dictate. The end-dip is just a little uneven, like maybe it was dipped by hand.
I actually have no idea if that's the case — if Viarco actually dipped and stamped their pencils by hand. But if they don't, they replicated it perfectly.
The cores are perfectly centered in the barrel — a look through both sets of 12 pencils shows that that's the case for all of them. And the wood looks like it's real cedar — it's a bit darker and more fragrant than many modern pencils.
I'd love to get hold of an actual vintage Viarco so I can compare the two. If I can do that, I'll report back here.
Meanwhile, check these out for yourself! CW Pencils sells all six varieties for $15 a boxed dozen, or if you can't make up your mind, you can just buy the full set for $75.
My father-in-law's old notebooks
April 2, 2014 April 2, 2014 / Andy Welfle	/ 8 Comments
My wife and I recently stayed at her parents' house for a few days while the first floor of our place was being re-ceilinged. While a disruption in one's life like that is never particularly fun, I did enjoy a change of scenery—there's something that can be reinvigorating in changing the stuff that surrounds you. I was amongst a collection of belongings accumulated over decades, but weren't our belongings.
This fact was never as apparent as when I closed myself in my father-in-law's office to record Episode 3 of Erasable (have you heard it yet?).
My father-in-law reminds me a lot of Ron Swanson from Parks & Rec. He's very libertarian, fairly private and extremely independent. He's a civil mechanical engineer by trade with lots of interesting hobbies—he builds boats, he makes wine in his basement and he collects antique guns.
And while not an official collection, he has lot of interesting notebooks—old notebooks—laying around.
Keuffel & Esser Field Book
My favorite is this one, which caught my eye right away:
K&E Field Book by Keuffel & Esser
Look how cool this is! Made by Keuffel & Esser, a US-based drafting instrument and supply company. It was founded in 1867, the first of its kind in the US, and lived on until 1987 when it was bought by the AZON Corp in 1987.
So this notebook is at least 27 years old, right?
Let's look at the inside cover:
This A5-ish notebook is filled with data tables, formulas, conversions, and other useful data for engineers. I can't imagine how handy this kind of thing would have been to someone like my father-in-law in a day before this information was available through a smart phone. Some more reference goodness from the back of the notebook:
The back pages of the Keuffel & Esser Field Book are filled with data tables, conversions, formulas, and other information an engineer would find useful. Forgive my fingers in the shot — this book has difficulty staying open.
My favorite thing about it? The grid paper:
I'm not entirely sure of the particular function of this paper (a coworker suggested it's for lots of tabular data, much like an Excel spreadsheet is now), but the grid on the left is separated into six columns by pink lines, which I believe are three times wider than the horizontal line hight. The right side of the spread is separated into two columns by a pink line, with smaller vertical blue lines that make a grid that's twice as tall as wide.
Boorum & Pease Memo Book No. 6565
As I mentioned earlier, my father-in-law built a boat. We all thought it was an improvised affair; with PVC pipes lashed to two-by-fours and duct tape. But he's apparently been planning it for quite a while. In fact, he has a whole notebook where he planned it out and documented his project:
Boorum & Pease Memo Book
I blurred out my father-in-law's name because I assume he wouldn't want to that out floating around on the internets.
This notebook is branded with the "Boorum & Pease" name, which sounds to me like something Click and Clack from "Car Talk" would come up with. The Boorum & Pease Co (Blank Books and Loose Leaf Devices) has been around since, it looks like, the 1870s (as this 1904 ad boasts, "for more than half a century"). They sold specialized notebooks for laboratories, ledgers for accounting, receipt books, et cetera.
A close-up of the cloth binding on the Boorum & Pease memo book.
I'm a fan of the binding on this book — it's cloth-bound, reminescent of old, mid-20th century hardcover books. How handsome would the cover be with a big foilstamped signet or simple illustration?
The paper is nothing to write home about, but it's a nice, plain college-ruled page. It's thin, but not too thin. Since this isn't my notebook, I wasn't able to test it with pencil and fountain pen, but I imagine it might handle a dry to medium fountain pen without too much bleeding.
In fact, the still around, though it's unclear to me who owns that brand name. I don't think they are their own company. They still make columnar books (kinda gaudy looking, if you ask me), and while this particular model is not still in production (#6565), they still make something that looks reallllly close, #6559. I doubt it's cloth-bound, though.
Here's a pretty great history of Boorum & Pease by Walter Grutchfield.
Other old vintage memo books
I've seen lots of great memo books like these over the years that just seem like they're made better than your typical notebook serving similar purposes. Sure, there are small independent ventures that produce great ones now, but these were in mass production, and no doubt costed much less than indie craft notebooks now.
Do you have any interesting ones to share?
Extended Field Notes Letterpress Footage
November 3, 2010 / Andy Welfle	/ 1 Comment
I think me and the Coudal Partners are soulmates. They always know exactly what I like to see. Last month, I posted the video they made about the assembly of the Raven's Wing black Field Notes packs, and today, they published a 7-minute long video about the guy who runs the presses:
As I've said many times before, I love this stuff. Dan from Freeport Press is someone who knows his letterpressing, and it's clear that he takes a lot of pride in his work. I think it definitely shows in the product.
If you have seven minutes to spare, check it out. If you don't — well, come back and watch it later!
Andy is a co-host of The Erasable Podcast, a bi-weekly podcast by and for those who love wooden pencils. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts.
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Hello, everyone, my name is Ron Brinkman. I'm an architectural designer with Leo A Daly. Today I'm gonna be talking about an elementary school remodel here in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Project specifications are very unique in our industry. The really-- The opportunity for us to really hone in and refine and legally define what we're actually intending to use in the building, and they can tend to show a lot of information, which is the kind of primary goal, is to incorporate all the information that you can't possibly incorporate on a drawing sheet, nor would that be terribly beneficial to a contractor, seeing all of the information in one place.
It's good to have it is multiple places and formats, on a drawing sheet or in a specification. So, the example here I'm gonna show you on the right is a specification, very specifically for the paint on this metal canopy. Now, it sounds very uninteresting, but it's actually a really kind of fascinating spec, and kind of fascinating situation because of the amount of effort that we had to go through to make this very appropriate and right paint system for this project.
So, there's a couple things at play that we knew about going into this. First off, it's not actually what most people would consider a traditional paint. It's actually a high-performance coating, which means there's three or four layers of material that are applied to the finishes of this, this is just steel, just red steel, applied to the finishes of this to make it really water-tight and rust-resistant, primary goal of which being to have it weather with very little maintenance needed over the seasons.
It's a school, there's lots of maintenance. They have lots of other priorities to maintain, more critical areas of the building, so we don't want them to worry about this hopefully really minimalist canopy. So, what makes this spec so interesting is that it's not a typical spec that you would see, or that you would use, in a lot of applications.
Most high-performance coatings that you would use aren't necessarily in reference to steel when we're making a building. It's a lot more common in bridgework and things where there's a lot more exposed steel outside, so for this particular spec, this is a three-part spec, first part being kind of the fee of conditions, existing conditions, and kind of installation requirements for the product. The second part being information about the product itself. This particular product we used a basis of design strategy, which means we did a lot of research on a lot of different products and we picked, as our basis of design, one very specific product, very specific series of products, actually.
It's like a three-part application process, so it's a very, very specific product, and then with that it is a public school, so we include comparable alternates as well so that contractors certainly aren't handcuffed to that particular product, but it is the product that we wanted, and we did have a lot of validity and research into trying to get them to use that product, all of which we defined in this spec, very hopefully clearly, so that we would get that product installed.
And then this last part, this third part is all about execution and the means by which we required contracting teams to apply and install this particular paint finish, high-performance coating finish. Again, this is kind of a unique thing.
Most paints are applied in the field, so you put it, you install it in place, then you paint it with spray paint or whatever other system you're gonna use. This particular one was all factory applied, so they literally painted everything like you would an automobile or a car in the factory, and then with a very large crane brought it off a truck and placed it in place when it was all finished and done. The benefit and the reason we showed that in our spec was that we were concerned that at all the welded joints it would cause some cracking of the normal finish and rusting, ultimately, which that's kind of our number one enemy at this site in Minneapolis, Minnesota.


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Dear Prime Minister
I write this letter on behalf of the common man who's grappling with skyrocketing fuel prices, while the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas chases its ambitious targets based on ambiguous plans and questionable technologies. While the country is reeling from fuel price shock, in states like Odisha, the fuel blending rate is zero per cent.
In 2003, the Ethanol Blended Petrol Programme (EBP) focused on 5 per cent blending of molasses-based ethanol with petrol. By 2008, it pushed for the blending target of 10 per cent. These targets were not met. Yet in 2009, the National Biofuel Policy (NBP) proposed a target of 20 per cent blending for ethanol and biodiesel by 2017. Fuel blending with ethanol varies from 85 per cent (E85) in Australia to vehicles run on 100 per cent (E100) ethanol in Brazil, where the ethanol blending mandate is 27 per cent (E27). India has an abysmal 2-4 per cent blending rate.
The priorities of the government in implementing the NBP were finding a solution to air pollution, maintaining affordable fuel prices, cleaner fuel options, energy self-sufficiency, and reduced crude oil imports. Unfortunately, precious little has been done.
At a time when there is no defined roadmap for India, it is surprising that the National Biofuel Policy, 2018 is silent about octane, which has direct consequences of air quality and pollution — octane assists in proper combustion of fuels and thereby impacts vehicular emissions. Petrol is blended with cancer-causing imported aromatics to boost octane rating, with negative consequences on health and emissions.
Under the NBP, "a viability gap funding (VGF) scheme for 2G (second generation) ethanol bio refineries of Rs 5,000 crore in six years in addition to additional tax incentives, higher purchase price as compared to 1G (first generation) biofuels," will be provided. The NBP 2018 asks for excessive expenditure from the exchequer for a technology (production of second-generation biofuels) that is untested and has not taken off commercially internationally. The setting up of a VGF, differential pricing for an experiment, is illogical. Why can we not exercise the option of 1G, which is a tried and tested mechanism, and is available?
So far, there's an investment of Rs 10,000 crore to set up 12 2G bio refineries across six states. The foundation stone of a bio refinery — in Bathinda, Punjab — has been laid. Developments on the remaining bio refineries are shrouded in mystery. The government signed six MoUs with oil marketing companies, without any transparent process of selection. The criteria and reasons for awarding these MoUs is unknown.
The irony is the government is willing to spend thousands of crores on building colossal statues, yet is unwilling to spend on developing existing technologies to augment the generation and production of ethanol for a better future. The government needs to roll back the increase of central taxes on fuel, which was more than doubled after 2014. The government also needs to demonstrate clear thinking for increasing ethanol production to reduce oil imports and current account deficit. If necessary, the government should look at importing ethanol in the interim, thereby creating consistency of supply and necessary infrastructure to curb the pollution created by fossil-fuel burning. Facilitating import of ethanol will address the inconsistency in the availability of domestic ethanol and thereby ensure that the target of the present blending mandate of 10 per cent is achieved.
Appropriate blending of consistently available ethanol throughout the country will prevent octane savings to the tune of approximately Rs 3,000 crore. Ethanol, a cost-effective and less harmful oxygenate, can be a substitute for expensive and harmful imported aromatics like BTX. This will additionally contribute to foreign exchange savings worth Rs 1,500 crore. Interim import of ethanol should be considered while the domestic production of 1G is being increased and technology to produce 2G ethanol is still developing and proving its commercial viability.
These corrections in the policy will lead to lower fuel prices, cleaner air, foreign currency savings and efficiency in the oil economy.
The writer, a BJD MP, is a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas
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function weakhash(entity) {
  if (entity.length === 0) {
    // fast-path empty
    return '0-0'
  }

  var len = typeof entity === 'string'
    ? Buffer.byteLength(entity, 'utf8')
    : entity.length

  if (len <= crc32threshold) {
    // crc32 plus length when it's fast
    // crc(str) only accepts utf-8 encoding
    return len.toString(16) + '-' + crc(entity).toString(16)
  }

  // use md4 for long strings
  return crypto
    .createHash('md4')
    .update(entity, 'utf8')
    .digest('base64')
}