A real tanker never enters a battle without carrying out a full set of checks. Security is a crucial issue in the battlefields, and we have one especially for World of Tanks.
You may have already taken part in our security program by binding your game account to your phone number. If you haven't done it yet, we want to remind you that every day there is a risk to your account. The time for procrastinating is over.
To make it even more appealing, we are holding a contest! In order to be eligible to enter the contest, you must have secured your account by binding it to your phone. What are you waiting for? Click the button to get started! Binding your account to your phone is completely free, and we even give you 100 gold to say thank you!
Now, are you ready to start accumulating the medals? This contest is all about achievements – get ready to start collecting them!
The 50 top scores will be rewarded with 2,000 each.
That's a lot of chances to win! Have you already made a list of what you will go out and buy with this much gold? Then it is time to read the contest rules, grab your favourite machine and get started!
For this contest, you must play a battle between December 21th and 4th of January, 24:00 CEST (11:00 pm GMT). During this battle, your aim will be to score the most points as you can, by earning as many Battle Achievements as you can. Remember that only one battle can be taken in account, so choose carefully the replay you want to send us.
Only random battles can be counted for the contest. Tank companies, clan wars and training battles are not eligible.
In case of a draw, the amount of experience earned in the battle is deciding factor.
One entry per player is allowed.
The points you have to count are listed in the table below.
Of course, you only count your points in one single battle.
Once you have played a battle and scored your points, you need to send us an email before noon (11:00 GMT) on Saturday 5th January.
A screenshot of the team result page (please make your screenshot while hovering your cursor over the medal list on the team result page, so that the achievement list is clearly visible).
So to recap, that's one replay file and two screenshots that need to be attached.
In the email body, you also need to include the list of achievements and a calculation of how many points you have received for them, as per the table above.
Remember, we won't be able to count any submissions which do not meet these requirements. Also, don't forget that you have to link your phone to your account in order to participate.
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Protest groups in the aftermath of mass protest campaigns
Contentious politics in civil wars
Right-wing populism in germany
Religion in conflicts
Peace agreements and conflict management
Johannes Vüllers
Raise Your Voices! The Occurrence of Nonviolent Campaigns in Civil Wars
funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (volume: EUR 310.000,00)
Civilians are influential, often pivotal, actors in civil wars. They are not only passive or victims of violence, but rather use the public to raise their voices. Paradoxically, civilians voice their interests often in an organized and nonviolent way. Such nonviolent campaigns address both the government and the rebel group(s) in civil wars, as shown by examples from different violent intra-state conflicts.
The project makes the following contributions: (1) The project aims to contribute to the growing research on nonviolent campaigns by widening the theoretical perspective to nonviolent campaigns in the context of civil wars, to the occurrence of campaigns and to campaigns below the threshold of 1,000 participants. (2) By collecting geo-referenced data, the project aims to account for spatial variations within civil wars and nonviolent campaigns. (3) The project findings could be relevant for policy advice. Nonviolent campaigns are signals showing the willingness of civilians to take responsibility for their own future and they increase the likelihood of future activism. Thus, former campaign activists will very likely take responsibility for local developments in the post-conflict period. Communities that have experienced nonviolent activism therefore should be promising settings for development projects in the post-conflict period.
The project will use quantitative and qualitative methods on different levels of analysis to study the proposed mechanisms empirically. We will conduct in-depth studies of two civil war cases to identify civilian nonviolent activism in civil wars.
2021. Vüllers, Johannes. Revolutionary Actions and Constitutional Crisis. Oxford Research Encyclopedia.
2020. González, Belén & Johannes Vüllers. The Value of Sub-National Data: The Dynamics of Contentious Politics in Nepal.International Area Studies Review 23: 3, 307-322.
2020. Vüllers, Johannes & Roman Krtsch. Raise Your Voices! Civilian Protest in Civil Wars. Political Geography 80.
2019. Vüllers, Johannes & Elisa Schwarz. The Power of Words: State Reactions to Protest Announcements. Comparative Political Studies 52: 3, 347-381.
2019. Krtsch, Roman & Johannes Vüllers. Unintended Consequences of Post-conflict Power-Sharing: Explaining Civilian Activism. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 8: 2, 239-260.
2019. Haer, Roos, Johannes Vüllers & Nils B. Weidmann (Hrsg.). Studying Microdynamics in Civil Wars. Special Issue in Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 8: 2.

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The Cell Therapy Process Validation Scientist will lead activities for development, scale up, optimization, and validation of Orchard Therapeutics' innovative gene-modified cell-based therapeutic products. Such activities will include process and assay development, cell therapy intermediate and final drug product formulation and stability evaluation, raw material evaluation, process scale-up / scale-out, and validation of manufacturing processes and controls to support company's product programs from pre-clinical research through to commercial.
Provide SME review of executed batch, records, test records and associated documentation for release of gene-modified cell therapy products. Support investigations.


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Elaine Sawyer is a Co-Managing Partner and Secretary at Hewson & Van Hellemont, P.C. She graduated from Oakland University and then attended Thomas Cooley Law School where she achieved her Juris Doctorate degree. Ms. Sawyer was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in 1997. She was the President of the Sanilac County Bar Association for three years. She was nominated as the legislative representative to the 24th Circuit and sat as the Governor-appointed board member for the Sanilac County Department of Human Services and the Sanilac County Medical Care Facility. Currently, she is a member of the National Association of Professional Women.
Ms. Sawyer worked for a Plaintiff's personal injury firm where she obtained vast experience in analyzing and handling auto-related claims for both first and third party litigation and workers' compensation. She was also a partner in a general practice law firm for seven years that handled both civil and criminal cases. It was here that she gained her jury trial experience. With her eagerness to take cases to trial she obtained the best possible results with either better settlement offers or favorable awards from both juries and judges for clients.
In keeping with the firm's Mission Statement, Ms. Sawyer's no-nonsense approach and proven ability at trial to aggressively defend her client promotes the guiding principles that valid claims will be paid promptly, while fraudulent, inflated or contrived claims will be met with the most aggressive defense possible.
Welcome to 2018. We look forward to what this New Year will bring here at Hewson & Van Hellemont, P.C. for our employees individually and for the firm. I want to thank Hewson & Van Hellemont employees for last year's successes and for embracing changes to make this a great firm. Let me reflect a bit on what was accomplished in 2017.
In 2017, we had the opportunity to bring Greg Hoelscher and his group of highly dedicated professionals into the fold of HVH. Not only were we able to increase our attorney based expertise in the area of No-Fault, but continued to increase our diversity in Bodily Injury, Property Protection and some Plaintiff work. As our firm continues to grow we still have an extended family environment with unending comradery.
Part of our growth included many changes with an increase of Partners and Shareholders. This helps the firm move into the future with a solid base and hopefully a clear succession for our younger associates moving forward. We were able to identify in 2017 that we need to continue our goal of diversification and worked toward that goal with our expansion. We need to forge ahead and provide support to our sister offices in both Grand Rapids and Florida. While we saw great expansion and additions of new talented attorneys in Grand Rapids we want to encourage that same expansion in Florida. At the end of 2017 we saw improvements in our billing numbers that we are carrying over to 2018.
Your hard work ethic has earned HVH accolades from clients who have expressed appreciation for our hard work and dedication that ensures success for them. For us this is the daily way of working here and we at HVH appreciate your vision and concentrated efforts as we move forward.
So we start 2018 looking different than we did in January 2017. We are a stronger, a more diverse firm that persists and presses on toward cementing our reputation in the legal community and with our clients. Our 2018 goals continue to include, diversification, reputation for great trial attorneys, and hard work. We would like to expand in areas of business, workers' compensation, property, estate planning and subrogation, just to mention a few.
For our new attorneys in the profession, you have selected a firm that offers a tremendous array of different expertise in the profession. From research and writing to trial advocacy the opportunities for mentorship are unending. There is not one attorney, I've had the pleasure to work with at this firm, that isn't willing to offer advice or answer any question. If you want to be a true litigator, this is the firm.
I ask that each employee continue to reflect on how their daily work is a piece of the puzzle that meets the firm's mission and provides the best service possible to our clients. As we progress into 2018 please look at ways to improve how you work, be efficient, how you deal with clients, be courteous and prompt, it is our personnel that make HVH synonymous with excellence in legal results and client support.
Staff Spotlight:
Words from Jason Jones
Jason is a Paralegal for Jim Hewson. In this capacity he does a lot of Trial preparation. It is very challenging because there are so many pieces to a file by the time it gets to trial, that it can be a daunting task to organize the file in a way that makes sense both to the attorney and to himself. Trials are always very fluid as there are so many moving parts. Anything from the judge's ruling, the opposing counsel's objection, the witness's statement, or the jury's reaction to testimony can quickly change the tenor of the case or the traction of a particular argument. Therefore, it is impossible to anticipate how a trial will progress day to day. That being said, anticipating where the trial is going is exactly what the paralegal must do. The paralegal must try to ascertain what exhibits, records, transcripts, or specific testimony the attorney needs a moment before he or she needs it. Juries and judges do not have patience for the attorney who is fumbling through an enormous stack of documents on their time. It is my sincere hope that I can help to mitigate the need for this so that the attorney can focus on presenting his or her case. Jason grew up in Troy, Michigan but went far from home to earn his Master's Degree in Dublin, Ireland. Then he taught English in Krakow, Poland. His travels have taken him to Spain, France and the British Isles. Jason still has a lot of places in Europe he wants to see, and he has always dreamed of traveling to India. Jason claims he likes "Lowbrow humor" as his wife would probably term it. He loves slapstick comedy the likes of Monty Python, Mel Brooks, and Chevy Chase. The Blues Brothers is his favorite movie. He also has an affinity for really dumb jokes. He keeps busy with his hobbies, which include, traveling, gardening, camping, hiking, and fishing. But he is most passionate about art, music — with The Rolling Stones as his favorite band, and literature — his favorite book is Blindness by Jose Saramago. His family is very important to him and he is very involved with his daughters' schools. He helps when he can chaperoning field trips, attending class events and volunteering time as a WatchDOGS (Dads of Great Students) at the school.
Laura Helderop
Laura Helderop is originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan. She received her undergraduate degree from Hope College in Holland, Michigan in International Relations and Spanish. After receiving her bachelor's degree, she moved to Seattle, Washington to complete an AmeriCorps VISTA term at the American Red Cross. In 2014, Laura moved to Cleveland, Ohio to attend Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She graduated with honors in 2017, and was admitted to the Michigan State Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan in 2017. In her free time, Laura enjoys playing tennis, watching college basketball and gardening.
Ashleigh Russett
Ashleigh Russett graduated from Central Michigan University with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and French in 2013. She then attended Michigan State University College of Law where she earned her Juris Doctorate in 2017. While attending law school, Ashleigh competed in national and international moot court competitions and was published in the Michigan State International Law Review in 2017. Before joining Hewson and Van Hellemont, P.C., Ashleigh served as a Legislative Aide and Policy Specialist to State Representative Tom Cochran in the Michigan House of Representatives.
Dylan Stec
Dylan Stec graduated from the University of Michigan in 2013 where he received a B.A. in History. Dylan then attended Wayne State Law School and received his Juris Doctor in 2017.
During law school, Dylan served as a law clerk at GKN Automotive, at the insurance defense firm Mellon & Pries and the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Dylan also was elected as Litigation Supervisor of the student-run Free Legal Aid Clinic, which provides free family and elder law legal services to indigent residents of Wayne County. While at Wayne State he also participated in Wayne State's Mock Trial competition. Prior to working at Hewson & Van Hellemont, Dylan worked as a litigation clerk for the City of Detroit.
Dylan joined Hewson & Van Hellemont, P.C. in January 2018. He was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 2017.
2018 Blog Team Addition
Stephen Wezner
Stephen Wezner has joined the HVH BLOG team for 2018. Watch for his blog posts on Workers' Compensation.
Check out the latest posts by the team:
"New Changes in 2018 for Gifting Taxes and Exclusions" –Bruce Rice
"Water, Water, Everywhere: Juliana, Public Trust, and the Environment" –Austin Probst
"Tapestry and Legacy: Estate Plans and Copyright" –Austin Probst
"Can a Personal Representative or Trustee Change or Ignore the Terms of a Trust or Will" –Bruce Rice
"The Green Initiative: Necessary or Trendy?" –Melissa Clark
"Ancillary Estate Administration for Michigan Property" –Bruce Rice
You can find the Hewson & Van Hellemont, P.C. blog at: https://vanhewpc.com/attorney-blog/
Don't forget to join HVH on LinkedIn
Diane Hewson — Congratulations
Named as one of the "Leaders in the Law" by Michigan Lawyers Weekly Class of 2018
The honorees have made outstanding contributions to the practice of law in Michigan and set an example for other lawyers. They have demonstrated tremendous leadership and offer a wealth of expertise in many areas of the law.
Recently reported in the Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyers journal, the following are questions actually asked of witnesses by attorneys during trials and, in certain cases, the responses given by insightful witnesses. The following are things people actually said in court, word for word:
Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July 15th.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
Q: And where was the location of the accident?
A: Approximately milepost 499.
Q: And where is milepost 499?
A: Probably between milepost 498 and 500.
Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year old, how old is he?
Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?
Q: Was it you or your younger brother who was killed
in the war?
Q: Did he kill you?
Q: How far apart were the vehicles at the time of the collision?
Q: You were there until the time you left, is that true?
Q: How many times have you committed suicide?
Q: She had three children, right?
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?
Q: You say the stairs went down to the basement?
Q: And these stairs, did they go up also?
Q: How was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?
Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
Q: All your responses must be oral, OK?
What school did you go to?
A: Oral.
Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
Q: Did you check for breathing?
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.


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Q: Sharepoint 2010 Notifications not working I'm trying to set up notifications in a production enviroment. I have already set up the notifications in a test enviroment which contains the same SMTP-adress that I need to use in production.
The problem is the following:

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*I get no initial mail when I set up the notification.

*When I look in the ImmedSubscriptions table, in the sharepoint database, it's empty.

I have cheked the following:

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*SMTP adress

*Exchange configuration

*Sharepoint timer jobs

Any suggestions for how I can further troubleshoot this problem ?
UPDATE:
It turned out that the network wasn't configured correctly on the production environment. We ended up solving it by writing the IP-adress directly in the Central Administration instead of the SMTP address on both the farm and the Web Application.
The production environment has since been configured correctly.
If anyone else is experiencing this problem I can recommend trying to use Telnet. That lead me in the correct direction.
By using telnet I got "530 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated".
In short, if you can't send an e-mail with telnet then Sharepoint can send mail either.
If in doubt how to use Telnet to send an E-mail, here is a guide:
http://www.rdpslides.com/webresources/FAQ00035_Send_Email_via_Telnet.htm

A: Email configuration
Note that there are 2 places to configure the SMTP settings. Have you set the SMTP values for the Farm, or the Web Application?
Farm: http://NotReallyMyCompany.com:MgmtPort/_admin/globalemailconfig.aspx
WebApplication: http://NotReallyMyCompany.com:MgmtPort/_admin/WebApplicationList.aspx

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*select web app

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*General settings (in ribbon)

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*Outgoing Email

User Configuration
Does the user information list show the email address of the user that you are creating these alerts with? (Sometimes there is a delay in getting this info from the User Profile Service- if you are using that)

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*Click on your user name

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*My Settings

Alert Configuration
Can you create alerts manually from the GUI?
What do you see in the manage my alerts area for the user who is supposed to be getting the alerts?
Randomness Reduction
Have you created custom alert templates?
Have you created alerts by script or by code?
Are your production servers black/white listed with your SMTP relays?

A: Try with powershell email configuration
http://mikefrobbins.com/2011/08/04/configure-sharepoint-2010-outgoing-email-settings-with-powershell/

A: Try this troubleshooting guide
http://sharepointalert.info/troubleshooting-sharepoint-alerts/

(source: sharepointalert.info)
Start with the simple stuff - can you use an SMTP test tool to send an email from the SharePoint server successfully? I suspect you will find that your email server isn't configured to 'trust' (aka relay) emails coming from your SharePoint server.

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The Newstart Allowance provides financial assistance to eligible 21 to 63 year olds who are looking for work or participating in approved activities to increase their chances of finding a job.
WHO RECEIVED NEWSTART ALLOWANCE?
4% of Australians aged 21 to 63 received Newstart in 2011.
59% of recipients were men. 41% of recipients were women.
The average age of people receiving Newstart: 40 years.
WHO DID THEY SUPPORT AND CARE FOR?
Almost 50% had dependent children.
18% were lone parents (73% mums, 27% dads).
14% cared for a person with a disability.
HOW DID HOUSING AFFECT THEIR LIVES?
Around 50% rented. Of these, 69% rented privately and almost 25% were public housing tenants.
Those renting privately were more than twice as likely to have changed address in the past year than those in public housing.
WHAT HAD THEY STUDIED?
Almost 40% had a non-school qualification (compared with 58% of Australians of the same age).
Most common qualifications:
17%: Certificate Level III & IV (compared with 20% of Australians of the same age).
7% had a Bachelor degree (compared with 18% of Australians of the same age).
2% had a Postgraduate degree (compared with 7% of Australians of the same age).
Study interests:
People on Newstart were twice as likely to have studied the Creative Arts, but around half as likely to have studied Education compared with other Australians of the same age.
WHAT WORK WERE THEY DOING?
Voluntary work in 2011
The mutual obligation requirements for people on Newstart encourage those aged 55 or more to do voluntary work and support those under 55 years to volunteer where it will help them to find work.
Overall, 20% of people on Newstart in 2011 did voluntary work. Of these 36% had also volunteered in 2006.
Volunteering increased with age:
15% of 21 year olds volunteered, increasing to 43% of 63 year olds (twice the Australian average).
Looking back: Paid work in 2006
52% of people on Newstart in 2011 were employed in 2006.
The most common occupation for men was Factory Process Workers (6%).
Women were most commonly Sales Assistants and Salespersons (13%).
WHERE DID THESE NUMBERS COME FROM?
A joint project between the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Department of Social Services, resulting in the integrated dataset; 'Microdata: Australian Census Longitudinal Dataset with Social Security and Related Information, experimental statistics, 2006–2011 (cat. no. 2085.0).
Figures in "Who received Newstart Allowance?" are from the DSS Social Security and Related Information (SSRI) linkage dataset, Sep 2011; and Australian Demographic Statistics, Sep 2011 (cat no. 3101.0).
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Shakti offers a rare opportunity to discover compellingly beautiful and remote regions of the Indian Himalaya, combining an honest and sustainable approach with refined simplicity and style. Shakti's village walks & journeys in the regions of Kumaon, Sikkim & Ladakh are designed for sophisticated travellers, who appreciate privacy, authenticity and deeply beautiful vistas combined with comfort, style and fabulous food. A Shakti journey is designed to be flexible, private & fully-inclusive, whilst immersing the traveller, non intrusively, into the heart of the communities in which Shakti operates.
Shakti was founded in 2004 by Jamshyd Sethna, whose love of the mountains began during his schooldays in Darjeeling. A Parsi from Bombay, Jamshyd's own personal travel style, love of food and art, combined with a passion for the Himalayas, is the creative force behind Shakti.
As one of India's best known travel professionals, Shakti is born out of Jamshyd's understanding of the sophisticated traveller he has spent his career catering to. Creating sensitive and private experiences in remote regions without compromising on authenticity or comfort was unparalleled at the time of conception and continues to be so today.


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A proposed bill would expand the mission and focus of the 1952 charter for the Mackinac Bridge Authority, giving it the ability to take ownership of a tunnel housing Line 5 for Enbridge, should be scrapped.
The bill, dropped in early November into the state senate by Senator Tom Casperson — long known for his dislike of anything that protects the environment — is being fast-tracked through the legislature in hopes that it will be a done deal before the end of this year, when current Governor Rick Snyder leaves office.
— It would change the focus and responsibility of the bridge authority, compromising the effectiveness of the authority to manage the Mackinac Bridge.
— The authority would be required to defend Enbridge and the agreement in court, which could require a significant investment of money that could be otherwise used on bridge operations.
— The authority would subject to appropriations by the Legislature to fulfill its responsibilities related to the tunnel. This would subject the authority to political pressure and partisan politics, something it has always been immune to. It could also greatly impact the finances of the authority.
— Bridge assets and revenues are dedicated to the bridge operation and maintenance, but bonds are not. Bonds meant for the Mackinac Bridge could be diverted for the tunnel.
Everything about this plan, part of a backroom deal between Snyder and Enbridge, stinks. It could hurt the Mackinac Bridge Authority and the Mackinac Bridge. The Snyder administration and its supporters are putting all their energy into seeing this deal through to end, including appointing four new members to the Mackinac Bridge Authority who would rubber stamp the plan for the outgoing governor.
But some members of the board are fighting back against Snyder, Casperson, Enbridge and their supporters, such as board vice chair Barbara Brown. Brown has been a vocal opponent of the authority taking ownership of this tunnel.
Brown has been critical of the notion for involving the bridge authority in the tunnel plan, calling it a "shotgun wedding" between Enbridge and the bridge authority. As she sees it, adding extraneous responsibilities to the bridge authority would make the body less effective at its primary objective — maintaining the bridge.
Former chair of the authority and Charlevoix resident, Bill Gnodtke, is also speaking out. He is a member of the group called Friends of the Mackinac Bridge, who are fighting against Casperson's proposal in the senate.
"We strongly urge all those in Lansing and elsewhere to protect the Mackinac Bridge and to end attempts to significantly expand the Authority's role by assigning it responsibilities that have absolutely no relationship to the fundamental mission it has successfully carried out for 68 years," Gnodtke said at a press conference recently.
Brown said it is important the people of Michigan speak up about Casperson's and Snyder's proposal now.
"When that bill is passed I would anticipate an emergency meeting pursuant to the Open Meetings Act would convene. Anybody thinking we have until February is mistaken. Time is of the essence to convince the legislature and the governor that this is not in the state's best interest," Brown said.
While we wish Snyder best in his "retirement" as Michigan's governor, the State of Michigan and the Mackinac Bridge could do without his going away present.


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September 26, 2019 / 4:50 PM / KCAL News
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The parents of 4-year-old Palmdale boy Noah Cuatro who died in July under suspicious circumstances were arrested Thursday, officials confirmed.
Jose Cuatro and Ursula Juarez were arrested for the murder of their son, Noah, on September 26, 2019, at approximately 8:00 a.m., the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Dept. announced.
The two were booked at Palmdale Sheriff's Station and a search warrant was served at their residence in an attempt to recover any additional evidence related to Noah's murder.
Noah had been ordered by a court back in May to be removed from his parents' custody over concerns about abuse.
He was never removed from the home and placed in foster care and on the afternoon of July 5, Noah's parents called 911 to report that he was drowning in a pool at an apartment complex in the 1200 block of East Avenue S, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department reports.
Noah was rushed by ambulance to a local hospital. He died the following morning, on July 6.
Hospital staff found signs of trauma on Noah's body and determined there were issues with his parents' explanation for his cause of death.
Noah's three siblings had since been removed from the home and the sheriff's department launched an investigation.
DCFS had previously investigated several reports of abuse in Noah's home. Noah's maternal great-grandmother Eva Hernandez told CBSLA that he was in and out of foster care his entire life.
"DCFS has blood on its hands," said Hernandez's attorney Brian Claypool. "Even though we're talking today about the arrest of his parents, we will be back some point in the future to hold that agency accountable for the death of this little boy."
In 2016, according to the Times, Noah was removed from the home and placed in foster care for two years. He was returned to his parents' custody in November 2018.
Hernandez said she often cared for her great-grandson.
"He begged me, 'grandma, let me stay, don't do this to me, don't send me back,'" Hernandez said. "It's hard because I remember every word he used to tell me."
Noah's parents are being held on $1 million bail each and are due in court Monday, Sept. 30.
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(HealthDay News) — Minor infections appear to have a strong, but short-lived, effect on pediatric stroke risk, according to a study published online August 20 in Neurology.
Nancy K. Hills, PhD, from the University of California in San Francisco, and colleagues evaluated data from 102 children with arterial ischemic stroke (AIS) and 306 age-matched controls identified from a large integrated health care plan (1993–2007). All medical visits for minor infection within the two years prior to AIS or index date for pairwise age-matched controls were abstracted. Severe infection (e.g., sepsis, meningitis) were excluded.
The researchers found that the strongest association between infection and AIS was seen for infectious visits no more than three days prior to stroke (odds ratio [OR], 12.1; P=0.002), after adjusting for known pediatric stroke risk factors. Most case infections (80%) were respiratory infections. For all time periods of four or more days prior to the stroke, cases tended to have more infectious visits. The risk of AIS was not increased with a greater cumulative number of infectious visits over two years.
"The transient effect of infection in children may suggest a greater role for a prothrombotic mechanism," the authors write.


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Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Nick Petrie, The Runaway (Putnam) "Nail-biting …Shifting points of view serve to heighten the suspense. This adrenaline-fueled ride will keep readers turning the pages." Publishers Weekly Lisa Gardner, One Step Too Far (Dutton) "It's not often that a thriller so deeply casts us into the darkness of both nature and the human heart…Terrifying, primal, and very, very tense. Read it with your heart in your throat—but read it." Kirkus Reviews, starred review Marie Rutkoski, Real Easy (Henry Holt) "This is a story about flawed people just doing the best they can to live their live…
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The three men came stumbling into town shortly after ten a.m., babbling of dark shapes and eerie screams and their missing buddy Scott and other missing buddy Tim. Yesterday, the five of them had headed into the woods for a bachelor party weekend. All friends since college, four of them wouldn't have minded a golf weekend or quality time at a casino/resort. But for future groom Tim, the woods were his happy place, so into the mountains they'd gone. Fully equipped, packs, tents, sleeping bags, , cans of beans and franks, and yeah, as much beer and Maker's Mark as five fit young men could carry. Which was to say, a lot. But they weren't total idiots. As an experienced backc…
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16 Horror Novels To Look Out For in 2022
Friday at 09:10 AM by Admin_99
Last year, dear crime friends, I got super into horror—what other genre could be better at capturing our current doom-laden era, or our numerous discomforts and accommodations with modern life? It turns out that horror and crime fiction often enough aren't so different after all, and like last year, 2022 brings with it a host of crossovers perfect for readers of either genre. As a service that perhaps will reveal my own ignorance of the wider genre, I bring to you 12 upcoming horror novels sure to please fans of thrillers, noir, and psychological suspense. (Notice something missing? I want your recommendations too! Please leave a comment with any other titles you want us…
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The Tragedy of Macbeth is a Breathtaking Exercise in Transformation
In the flawless, stainless neo-noir Blood Simple, the 1984 directorial debut of Joel and Ethan Coen and the acting debut of Joel's soon-to-be wife Frances McDormand, a character clandestinely commits a murder in the back room of a Texas bar—an act which sets off a chain reaction of suspicion, guilt, and brutal cover-ups. In the background, on the bar wall, hangs a clever prop which will reappear numerous times throughout the film: a sign mandating that all employees wash their hands before returning to work—a bit of realistic décor as much as a harbinger of the ramifications to come, for its calling to mind the futile hand-washing hallucinations of Lady Macbeth after she …
The Five Michael Douglas Thrillers You Meet in Heaven
Here's a fun exercise that illuminates various generational and communicational chasms: go find someone under the age of twenty-nine and try explaining Michael Douglas to them. I mean, really explaining him. I'm not presuming you know the man personally. (Or that you have seen The Kominsky Method.) Who among us could claim to know what fires his soul? No, I'm saying try explaining to someone who wasn't necessarily around to witness the phenomenon just what a massive, extravagant star Michael Douglas really was. It's a little difficult, no? It had something to do with his charisma, I'm pretty sure, but that charisma was rather of-its-time: that moment from the late 80s int…
How New Advances in Genetic Genealogy—And a Worried Phone Call from a Friend—Inspired One Crime Novelist
It all started when a close friend who grew up near me in the forests of northern Wisconsin shared how she had received a phone call out of the blue that led to the discovery that her late father had led a secret life: fathering at least three illegitimate children with three different women. Her father had been very wealthy and my friend was one of his three heirs. She and her siblings had one question: Did this mean those illegitimate children were also his heirs? At her request, I called an estate lawyer who said that if they had not been specifically excluded by name in her father's will that the answer was "yes." My friend was upset with this news as were her sibli…
Remembering Joseph Hansen's Groundbreaking Dave Brandstetter Series
Thursday at 12:18 PM by Admin_99
Fadeout, originally published in 1970, introduced Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator based in Los Angeles, in the first in a series of twelve crime novels the Los Angeles Times would hail as "groundbreaking" in the 2004 obituary of its author, Joseph Hansen. Why groundbreaking? They were beautifully written and dexterously plotted, but that wasn't the reason. Brandstetter himself, rich, white and blessed with movie star good looks—a far cry from his hard luck noir predecessors like Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer—doesn't seem, at first glance, to be much of a groundbreaker. But the adjective is justified because Brandstetter is by nature what Marlowe and Archer w…
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Vampire noir came into its own 50 years ago with The Night Stalker
Thursday at 09:10 AM by Admin_99
We know this story: A hard-bitten, oft-fired reporter, looking for a fast track back to a big-city newspaper job, hopes to milk a sensational story for everything it's worth. In the process, he shakes things up in a tough desert town. Yep, that's the plot of Ace in the Hole, the 1951 classic directed by Billy Wilder and starring Kirk Douglas as the unethical reporter. But of course, as you know from the headline, we're here to talk about The Night Stalker, which has everything Ace in the Hole has, plus police corruption and vampires. The basic premise—a hard-luck loser, whether he's a reporter or cowboy or private eye or drifter, runs up against the powers that be in a…
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The Torso Murderer: Jack the Ripper Wasn't the Only Serial Killer Stalking London in 1888
London, September 11, 1888. The noise of hammers and steam engines filled the air in Whitehall, the construction site of the New Scotland Yard headquarters. Little did the architect of the red-and-white brick Gothic castle on the bank of the river Thames know that its site would become a crime scene investigated by the police force's detectives. Frederick Moore, a laborer at the site, spotted an object lying on the mud. When he picked it up, he made a horrifying discovery. It was a woman's arm, neatly amputated from the body. In the following days, the victim's torso and leg turned up at the site. This was most certainly murder. It wasn't the first such case in that peri…
Twentysomething Spies: A Rare Breed in the Annals of Espionage Literature
If you came to espionage fiction knowing nothing about spying, you would assume from reading the great spy novels of the last 100-odd years that the secret world was populated almost exclusively by white, middle-aged men. There have been innumerable female spies throughout history yet very few stories written about them – and even fewer female spy novelists. Similarly, while many notable real-life spies have been young men and women in their twenties, youthful protagonists rarely make an appearance in the classic spy novels of yesteryear. Of course there are any number of young adult novels about teenage secret agents – Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider sequence springs to m…
The New Killers in Climate Disaster Thrillers
The usual killers are easy to spot. They can be uninhabitable, dystopian futurescapes of planet Earth: deserts with salt flats, unbreathable air, or submerged ruins of cities. These settings could become a reality in our lifetimes, but tomorrow's threats are not always today's concern. Killers of the present can take the shape of extreme weather: superstorms, tornadoes, and tsunamis. They act like deadly assassins sent by vengeful mother nature—but was she miscast in this role? What if the killers in a climate change/disaster thriller were also the architects of their unsustainable circumstance—us? The Effort begins when a large comet is spotted on the edge of our bli…
The Wild Boy Gangs of Weimar Berlin
Wednesday at 09:12 AM by Admin_99
Today, if you visit the wooded parks and lakelands that hug Berlin, you'll find them filled with hikers, cyclists, and mushroom hunters. But less than a century ago, this suburban wilderness was the haunt of feral children who had renounced the adult world for one forged of their own primal fantasies. They were known as "wild gangs" or "wild guilds," and in the late days of the Weimar Republic and into the early Nazi period, there were some six hundred of these gangs roaming the city's woodlands— largely made up of 14-to-18-year-old boys, most of them gay, dedicated to a life of sexual freedom, criminal enterprise, and fresh forest air. Rejecting the society that rejecte…
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12 Historical Mysteries To Look Forward To In 2022
When I recommend historical fiction to people, I always feel a bit like Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny talking about being raised in the autoshop: my sister reads historical fiction, my historian father reads historical fiction, my medievalist mother read tons of historical fiction, and also, I know historical fiction very very well. It is in this spirit that I bring to you a list of historical mysteries coming out in 2022 that I think you, dear reader, as someone who also enjoys historical mysteries, will enjoy. I do have my favorites, so you'll see World War II settings somewhat over-represented on the list below (although this is partially due to the the proliferatio…
10 Classic Crime Stories That Have Just Entered the Public Domain in 2022
As of January 1st in this year 2022, many copyrighted works produced in the year 1926 have entered the public domain in the United States, which means they are totally free and legal for anyone to use, without paying for usage. This is slated to happen on the first of every year (except it didn't for twenty years starting in 1998, when Congress passed the Copyright Extension Act, lengthening then-active copyrights from 75 years to 95 years, meaning that the earliest date for works to enter the Public Domain was January 1st, 2019). But, for the last few New Years Days, we've rejoiced in the newfound availability of many classic stories. There are books, songs, films, and …
Alafair Burke: An Appreciation of Female Friendships in Fiction
Ask any woman: We love our men, both partners and friends, but our female friendships are simply different. Female friendships are infinitely complex. Some are love at first sight, like instant sisterhood, falling into easy rhythms. Some are hard earned, the surprising result of initial conflicts that ultimately give way to respect, acceptance, and—after sanding down some of the rougher edges—true appreciation. I probably shouldn't admit that I have at least three close friends who…let's just say, we didn't necessarily set the best first impressions for each other. A few of my friends remain in constant contact with hundreds of messages a week, a constant conversation. I…
January 11 by Admin_99
A cramped room in a rundown mountain lodge, and on the desk a manuscript, left open to page one, as if it had been waiting here for ages to be read. The only other piece of furniture a simple bed. The wood floor creaked with every step. The slight breeze was enough to set the thin glass of the tired window rattling. My thoughts went to the various forms of identification in my bag. An insurance card, a certificate of residence, even a pension booklet, all under the name Ryodai Kozuka. Born in 1977, he was two years older than me. Japanese standards for applying for IDs are a joke. None of these cards had a photograph of me, but I could use them to apply for a passport t…
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Life and Death Among the Vanished in the Himalayas' Parvati Valley
It's not the deaths that make the Parvati Valley unusual, it's the disappearances into forest or mountain or valley with little trace. And there are more accounts than those noted in police registries and written into headlines that make the news, shared as stories and desperate pleas from family members posted on online message boards and travel forums with scattered details. Communication with loved ones and friends ends abruptly, with a final letter, phone call, or email before blinking out, leaving faint trails for heartsick families to follow. Some blame the mountains. As in any range, there are gorges and cliffs that can trouble inexperienced, and even some seaso…
How to Take Down An International Sex Trafficker
With the success of our first Thorn operation, we did another operation but in reverse. Using a credit card, which we'd later trace to Backpage's bank account, we posted a picture of an undercover law enforcement agent, included her phone number, and put the ad on Backpage. It was quite an ordeal to get a picture to use. We couldn't use a picture from the internet, because we would be contributing to that person's exploitation or possibly violating copyright law. We also needed something that looked realistic, young, and sexy enough that people would call. No one wanted to volunteer to put their picture up, myself included! But eventually, an undercover officer from anot…
Why T. Jefferson Parker Traded in the Current Day for the Psychedelic Thrills of 1968 Laguna Beach
I wrote the first line of A Thousand Steps in early 2020. I intended to set this coming-of-age thriller in Laguna Beach, California, in 1967, the so-called Summer of Love. That year seemed like the obvious choice, given the blossoming of the boomers/flower children, the "free love," the proliferation recreational drugs, the British Invasion in music giving way to Dylan and other American artists, and, of course, the explosion of counterculture fashion and big hair. It seemed to me in 2020 retrospect – and certainly to my 13-year-old's wide eyes back in '67 – that everything in the world had changed. The old was gone and the new was taking form. But as I began writing A…
I Wrote A Book. It Was Adapted Into a Movie. Everything Went Really Well.
I know that writers often feel that the screen adaptation of their work is an inferior—sometimes even an embarrassing—take on the original. Writers say: I told myself that a novel and a film are two different things. Once you sign that contract with Hollywood, let it go. It's out of your hands. So here's something you'll rarely hear a novelist say: The first time I saw the film of my first novel, A Simple Favor, I felt like someone had turned on all the lights in the house and uncorked a bottle of something fizzy and delicious. In one of the film's most memorable scenes, two suburban moms celebrate the pleasures of the afterschool martini. But to me the effect of watchin…
Do People Really Know What They Think They Know about Cornell Woolrich?
People think they have the lowdown on the down-low life of mid-century American writer Cornell George Hopley Woolrich (1903-1968)—author, primarily during the Thirties and Forties, of over a dozen crime novels, including his celebrated series of "Black" mysteries (The Bride Wore Black, The Black Curtain, Black Alibi, The Black Angel, The Black Path of Fear and Rendezvous in Black) and more than two hundred pieces of short crime fiction, including such classic tales as "After Dinner Story," "The Night Reveals," "Three O'Clock," "Momentum," "Marihuana," "Guillotine," "Post Mortem," "Murder, Obliquely" "The Living Lie Down with the Dead" and "Speak to Me of Death." Cornell W…
I Rewatched Foyle's War. The Last Two Seasons Are Shockingly Bleak.
During the summer of 2020, when we were coming to grips with the reality of pandemic—how little we knew about it, how fearful we'd become, how many lives had been lost, and how everyone's life had changed overnight—I re-watched all eight seasons of Foyle's War, the absorbing and carefully crafted detective series set in England during World War II. Created by Anthony Horowitz (Midsomer Murders) and starring Michael Kitchen as the quiet but unstoppable widower, Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle; Honeysuckle Weeks as Samantha "Sam" Stewart, his bubbly and resourceful driver; and Anthony Howell as Foyle's assistant, Detective Paul Milner; most of the series ta…
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Elizabeth George, Something to Hide (Viking) A skillfully spun yarn of murder and mayhem." Kirkus Reviews Hope Adams, Dangerous Women (Berkley) "A historical episode artfully adapted in a bleak tale that offers glimmers of hope for women discarded by society." Kirkus Reviews Laura Joh Rowland, Garden of Sins (Crooked Lane) "Rowland's portrait of Victorian London is so immersive . . . A Grand Guignol treat, dazzling and lurid." Kirkus Reviews T. Jefferson Parker, A Thousand Steps (Forge) "As much sensitive coming-of-age novel as it is edgy thriller…Parker juggles his d…
Research Station Noir: Crime Fiction in Antarctica
From the top of the world to the bottom. Last time we visited the Arctic, the North Pole, and so, in the interests of planetary equilibrium, it's now time for the Antarctic, the South Pole. Of course, the Arctic is a virtual bustling metropolis compared to the far scantier population of the South Pole – barely four thousand cold souls live in the 5.4 million square miles of Antarctica. To get a sense of the isolation of Antarctica perhaps Jon McGregor's Lean Fall Stand (2021) is a good place to start. The men of an Antarctic field station at the South Pole start to find things going seriously wrong. Robert "Doc" Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues …
City of the Dead
January 7 by Admin_99
Four fifty-three in the morning was too early for anything. Alfie had said so to Donny back when it was four eighteen and they were still on the freeway. But at least they'd be early, maybe catch a nap before unloading. Donny, as usual, had smiled and said nothing. Which was fine with Alfie. If you had to be sharing the cab on a long haul with someone, a guy who didn't talk much was a good deal. They'd spent the last five days together, hauling a big house full of stuff from Pepper Pike, Ohio, to La Jolla, California. Rich doctor moving stuff from one dream palace to another. In La Jolla, the guy was waiting for them, smiling and waving like they were old friends. Big …
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Power Shutoffs: Playing with Fire
Oct 17, 2019 5:45 pm GMTOct 17, 2019 5:44 pm GMT
By Denise Fairchild and Kim Evon
California's fire season is back. Yet if this past week is any indication, our emergency response remains woefully inadequate. When disaster strikes we are far from being energy resilient, ensuring reliable access to electricity for our most vulnerable communities.
Climate fires are California's new normal. Dangerous combinations of high (20-60 mph) sustained winds and tinderbox drought conditions wreaked havoc throughout the state last week. Massive evacuations from the Saddleridge fire in northwest Los Angeles and the Reche Fire in Moreno Valley spared life, if not property, from thousands of acres of burning land.
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) took pre-emptive measures. They shut off power in over 30 counties in northern California. In this way, they avoided a repeat of the 2018 fire season, the state's deadliest, in which electrical equipment was blamed for conflagrations that killed 85 people and destroyed 19,000 homes.
But the shutoffs were a disaster of another kind. They left close to a million people and more than half the counties in the state without power, or recourse, for nearly a week.
The PG&E power shutoffs were a colossal failure, according to utility and elected officials, local agencies, and residents. The disruption was widespread: accidents caused by failed street lights, schools closed, businesses idled, food supplies and basic services – public transit and water – compromised. And as premeditated as this emergency response was, residents were left in the dark; not just from the power outage, but from the lack of information. No one could get information about what to expect or what to do in a power emergency. PG&E's communication and computer systems crashed, their website went down, their community resource centers were underprepared and useless. The shutoff prevented fires, but not the burn; everyone fumed.
There must be a better plan for power outages, and emergency response in general, to prepare for recurring natural and manmade disasters. This is especially important for vulnerable communities. Life and death hangs in the balance. Financially strong families and businesses were inconvenienced, but managed. Early reports indicate that hospitals and nursing homes were protected by backup generators. Isolated and helpless, however, were the countless families and their caregivers who rely on ventilators, respirators and refrigeration for medical reasons. SEIU2015, the California Long Term Care Workers' Union that represents over 400,000 caregivers across the state most of whom provide in-home care to seniors, children and adults with disabilities say most of these caregivers and their patients are stranded whenever there is a blackout.
The utility sector needs to proactively engage and support the home health sector in its energy and emergency management strategies. A recent focus group study of home health care and nursing home workers by Emerald Cities Collaborative and SEUI2015 found the lack of communication a common theme.
Most facilities have a communications plan. They are required to call families informing them that they can take their family resident home. But often families can't, especially if they require life support equipment… feeding tubes, breathing tube, etc.
Moreover, it was a rare exception in which evacuations were well-executed
I live in Santa Paula with the Thomas fire. They shut off our electricity. My son is on a feeding tube/respirator. I was holding his head to make sure he didn't stop breathing. Trying to move his head to help with breathing. I have no back-up generators. I talked to FEMA, but no one could help me. He is 190 lbs. There was no evacuation plan or help. I can take care of his medicines and other things, but I can't move him. I had no info on where to take him.
In addition to better communication and emergency planning, the greater need is for energy resilience. It's time to put battery storage technologies into the homes and facilities of vulnerable communities. The Clean Energy Group thinks there is a pathway: Its recent report Home Health Care in the Dark offers suggestions for restructuring California's experimental and underfunded Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) to provide backup power for nursing facilities and home health care. SGIP's focus on accelerating the use of battery storage technologies with renewable (and nonrenewable) energy generation could help medically dependent families during power outages.
The Clean Energy Group's study also suggests changing the focus from carbon reduction to energy resilience, increasing access for non-homeowners and low-income populations, considering portable technologies, and mostly communicating with the home health care sector to access and refine the program.
The new normal requires new strategies, new technologies and new partnerships with America's caregivers to ensure the sick, the elderly and the most vulnerable are climate and energy resilient. Let's be clear: power shutoffs without energy resilience strategies is still playing with fire.
Denise Fairchild is president and CEO of Emerald Cities Collaborative, a national nonprofit organization of business, labor and community groups dedicated to climate-resilience strategies that produce environmental, economic and equity outcomes.
Kim Evon proudly serves as an Executive Vice President of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2015 – California's long term care local representing 400,000 home care and nursing home workers throughout California.
This op-ed was published in collaboration with the Island Press Urban Resilience Project, which is supported by The Kresge Foundation and The JPB Foundation.
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Bob Meinetz on Oct 17, 2019
"It's time to put battery storage technologies into the homes and facilities of vulnerable communities."
Kyler, let's be clear: battery storage, as a reliable source of 120VAC electricity, is not remotely practical for homes or facilities, and even less so for vulnerable communities:
The cost of a system capable of powering the tiny community of Paradise, CA, for example, for more than a few hours would be astronomical
The most expensive component - batteries - would need to be replaced every 10-12 years.
An isolated microgrid powering such a community would be even more vulnerable to destruction by wildfire than PG&E's local distribution network
Any system of isolated microgrids would be far more likely to start a wildfire than PG&E's local transmission
The most cost-effective solution for providing reliable electricity to everyone in society was the system of well-regulated utilities, with well-maintained distribution, which existed 30 years ago. Then someone, somehow, thought de-regulating monopolies might be cheaper, better, or less prone to catastrophe. Obviously, they were wrong.
Matt Chester on Oct 17, 2019
Two questions, Bob:
Is this an estimate that's assuming a constant cycling of the battery? Would the lifetime be different for batteries like this that are intended for emergencies for the described vulnerable communities and so they weren't constantly charging and discharging but more just charging to have the backup ready and then less commonly draining a bit and recharging to maintain the health of the battery/charge?
Isn't the idea here not to create isolated microgrids but to create microgrids that are still attached to the greater grid, simply with the added ability to become isolated if the situation prescribes it? Because if so, that's simply adding more redundancy and would by definition not be more vulnerable to interruptions than the greater grid
"Would the lifetime be different for batteries like this that are intended for emergencies for the described vulnerable communities...?"
That depends on several factors, Matt:
The customer's tolerance for limited capacity
Exposure to temperature/moisture extremes
After ~1000 cycles the battery in my Nissan LEAF has less than 50% of its original capacity.
"Isn't the idea here not to create isolated microgrids but to create microgrids that are still attached to the greater grid...?"
That depends on who you ask. The problem with both emergency and independent microgrids is privatization, and is analogous to the problem with charter education. Do we want a country where
Only rich people living in communities served by microgrids have power when the main grid goes down?
Utilities have even less incentive and funding to maintain transmission lines than they do now?
Utilities have even less capability to respond to emergencies than they have now?
Independent, high-voltage sources of electricity are unregulated?
Thousands/millions of independent sources of emissions are unregulated?
If American disparity of wealth wasn't pronounced enough, microgrids should move us closer to the neo-medieval ideal envisioned by Republicans, where those inside the castle walls have electricity and toss their food scraps to powerless serfs outside. We're halfway there.
On widespread microgrids and distributed generation, I agree there's issue with access based on wealth that needs to be taken seriously-- though the EVs you bring up are a great example where earlier on in the life of the tech the rich are the ones buying into it and that the movement from those purchases will encourage the market to continue and eventually bring the prices down as technology matures. Whereas only a few years ago, Tesla's were only accessible to the ultra wealthy, today you have the Leafs, Bolts, etc. that are more accessible to the middle/upper-middle class. Surely not yet accessible to all, but we're seeing the progress there-- so who's to say this technology can't follow that same trajectory?
EVs (or even cars) are a luxury, Matt. Electricity is essential to get a job, to read a book, to be an educated voter, to use a computer, to charge a cellphone.
Should the rich be entitled to more reliable electricity than the poor? Again - privatizing electricity will be at the expense of those who need it most.
On January 1, 2020 new homes in California will be required to have solar panels installed on the roof, putting expensive housing $30K further out of reach for all but the state's wealthiest. That homeowners will save on their electricity bills only forces those who couldn't afford them to cross-subsidize those who could.
"Progressive" California is going backwards.
Roger Arnold on Oct 18, 2019
There is no quick and easy solution to this problem. The right solution would be to replace overhead AC power lines with buried DC lines, but that's a massive undertaking that could take decades to complete, even if funds for doing it were available.
The default solution that PG&E has been pursuing has been improved maintenance of T&D corridors. Old, weakened power poles are replaced. Trees that might down power lines are cut, but not always promptly cleared away. Without clearing, the dead trunks and branches littering the ground can become fire hazards in their own right. It's at best an ugly solution, not cheap, and not 100% effective in avoiding fires started by downed lines. PG&E has been unable to move quickly enough on this approach to avoid the need for "preventive blackouts" when dry windy conditions threaten.
Microgrids are no panacea either. What you'd need to do is to divvy up the distribution network into pieces that would be labeled microgrids. Each microgrid would need to have a transfer switch to isolate it from the rest of the grid and a backup generator to supply power when the grid was down. But that's a lot of new diesel backup generators that would be needed. Battery banks wouldn't cut it. The cost of batteries to supply power for more than a few hours is prohibitive. High wind and fire hazard conditions can persist for days or even weeks. Even after the threatening conditions have passed, it's unsafe to restore power to disabled sections of the grid until crews have confirmed that all lines are intact.
If I were younger and still working for a tech company interested in such things, there are technical fixes I'd be suggesting. I can think of ways to instantly detect when a line has been severed. Power could be shut off before the severed line hit the ground. That would avoid the need for preventive blackouts, but the detection hardware and signaling system would have to be developed. I don't know of any off-the-shelf products that would do the job. If they existed, I'd expect PG&E to already have deployed them.
Joe Deely on Oct 18, 2019
PG&E has been unable to move quickly enough on this approach to avoid the need for "preventive blackouts" when dry windy conditions threaten.
Just an FYI -
PG&E stated in court filings this year that they didn't know the age of their transmission lines. I am guessing this also applies to poles.
Based on the recent power shutdown it is also clear that PG&E - at least some of their systems - doesn't know which lines serve which streets and/or buildings. Even for major customers.
Basics.
Works also need to be done to better "isolate" fire-prone areas. Would be interested in hearing how many customers lost power even though they were not considered to be in fire-prone area.
Good points, Joe. I didn't know that PG&E's state of knowledge about their own system was that bad. Incredible! Something so basic...
Regarding customers being in fire-prone areas, I don't think the issue with these preventive blackouts is the fire risk of the customer's immediate area. Rather it's that of the areas through which the power feed-in lines pass. That can be quite some distance away.
Makes you realize how much mismanagement has gotten PG&E to this point. Unfortunately, doing a post mortum on the organization doesn't do much to go back and right the wrongs that affected so many people. Hopefully some lessons learned and improvement elsewhere in the sector can come from this, though
Roger - Agreed. I was actually saying this because work should be done to ease this problem... either through strategically placed storage or eliminating "single source transmission" areas as much as possible.
Thank Kyler for the Post!
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On March 16, a Moomin theme park will open in Saitama, Japan. Let's have a peek inside.
Called Moomin Valley Park, it will feature various Moomin attractions, similar to Moominworld in Finland. The beloved Scandinavian characters have long been popular in Japan.
Previously, the park's concept art was revealed, which we can now compare to the real deal.
Image: Moomin Valley Park
You can visit Moomin's house and enjoy the surroundings of nature, which is so important to the world of Moomin. The park's creators did what they could not to cut down trees when building the park.
Visitors in middle school and up are 1,500 yen ($13.40) each while the entrance fee for a child of four years old and up is 1,000 yen ($8.94).
This article was originally published on April 13, 2018 and has been updated.
Originally from Texas, Ashcraft has called Osaka home since 2001. He has authored five books, including most recently, Japanese Whisky: The Ultimate Guide to the World's Most Desirable Spirit.


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Missouri teams pull off upset wins at the MIAA basketball tournament in Kansas City
March 5, 2020 By Bill Pollock
No. 9 Lincoln 78, No. 8 Central Oklahoma 69
The No. 9 seeded-Lincoln Blue Tigers defeated the No. 8 seeded-Central Oklahoma Bronchos, in the first round matchup of the 2020 MIAA Men's Basketball Championship, 78-69. It is the sixth time that the No. 9 seed has won a game at the MIAA Tournament.
Lincoln may be the Blue Tigers, but they were red hot from the field shooting a blazing 56.8% from the field, including 52.9% from behind the arc. The Blue Tigers were led in scoring by Marcel Burton with 15, followed by Bansi King with 14 and Cameron Potts with 13. L'Kielynn Taylor led Lincoln with 12 rebounds and Marcus Cohen led the team with seven assists.
Dashon Bell led the Bronchos with 15 points, Colt Savage added 14 and Carson Calavan added 11. Dashawn McDowell led Central Oklahoma with seven rebounds.
Lincoln will advance to the second round of the tournament and will play No. 1 seeded-Northwest Missouri State at 6 p.m. Thursday. The Bearcats eliminated the Blue Tigers in the semifinal game of the MIAA Tournament last season winning 86-69.
No. 10 Northwest Missouri 71, No. 7 Central Oklahoma 67
The Bearcats shot 43.8% from the field and 40.7% from behind the arc. Northwest was lights out from the free throw line making 20-of-22 free throws. It was the Bearcats first victory in Kansas City at the MIAA Tournament since 2011, when Northwest won their last MIAA Tournament Championship.
Jaelyn Haggard led the Bearcats with 24 points on the game, on only 10 shots. Haggard went 5-of-9 from behind the arc. Mallory McConkey added 19 points and six rebounds as Jayna Green led the Bearcats with seven rebounds, she also added eight points and two blocked shots as well.
Kelsey Johnson led Central Oklahoma with 22 points, and was followed by Jaci Littell with 11 points. Johnson added 10 rebounds to give herself a double-double on the day. Shatoya Bronson had six steals for Central Oklahoma.
The Bearcats advance to the quarterfinals and will play Emporia State at 2:15 p.m. in Kansas City at Municipal Auditorium.
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Intra-articular injection of interleukin-4 decreases nitric oxide production by chondrocytes and ameliorates subsequent destruction of cartilage in instability-induced osteoarthritis in rat knee joints
M. Yorimitsu, K. Nishida, A. Shimizu, H. Doi, S. Miyazawa, T. Komiyama, Y. Nasu, A. Yoshida, S. Watanabe, T. Ozaki
Graduate School of Medicine Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Objective: To investigate the in vitro and in vivo effects of interleukin (IL)-4 on mechanical stress-induced nitric oxide (NO) expression by chondrocytes, and destruction of cartilage and NO production in an instability-induced osteoarthritis (OA) model in rat knee joints, respectively. Materials and methods: Cyclic tensile stress (CTS; 0.5 Hz and 7% elongation) was applied to cultured normal rat chondrocytes with or without pre-incubation with recombinant rat IL-4 (rrIL-4). Inducible NO synthase (iNOS) mRNA expression and NO production were examined with real-time polymerase chain reaction and the Griess reaction, respectively. OA was induced in rat knee joints by transection of the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments and resection of the medial meniscus. rrIL-4 (10, 50, and 100 ng/joint/day) was injected intra-articularly, and knee joint samples were collected 2, 4, and 6 weeks after surgery. Cartilage destruction was evaluated by the modified Mankin score and Osteoarthritis Research Society International scoring system on paraffin-embedded sections stained with safranin O. Cleavage of aggrecan and NO production were examined by immunohistochemistry for aggrecan neoepitope (NITEGE) and of nitrotyrosine (NT), respectively. Results: rrIL-4 down-regulated CTS-induced iNOS mRNA expression and NO production by chondrocytes. The intra-articular injection of rrIL-4 gave rise to a limited, but significant amelioration of cartilage destruction, prevention of loss of aggrecan, and decrease in the number of NT-positive chondrocytes, an effect that was not dose-dependent. Conclusion: The present study suggests that IL-4 may exert chondroprotective properties against mechanical stress-induced cartilage destruction, at least in part, by inhibiting NO production by chondrocytes.
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2007.11.006
Chondrocyte
Mechanical stress
10.1016/j.joca.2007.11.006
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Nitric oxide Engineering & Materials Science
Cartilage Engineering & Materials Science
Intra-Articular Injections Medicine & Life Sciences
Rats Engineering & Materials Science
Knee Joint Medicine & Life Sciences
Chondrocytes Medicine & Life Sciences
Interleukin-4 Medicine & Life Sciences
Osteoarthritis Medicine & Life Sciences
Yorimitsu, M., Nishida, K., Shimizu, A., Doi, H., Miyazawa, S., Komiyama, T., Nasu, Y., Yoshida, A., Watanabe, S., & Ozaki, T. (2008). Intra-articular injection of interleukin-4 decreases nitric oxide production by chondrocytes and ameliorates subsequent destruction of cartilage in instability-induced osteoarthritis in rat knee joints. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 16(7), 764-771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2007.11.006
Intra-articular injection of interleukin-4 decreases nitric oxide production by chondrocytes and ameliorates subsequent destruction of cartilage in instability-induced osteoarthritis in rat knee joints. / Yorimitsu, M.; Nishida, K.; Shimizu, A.; Doi, H.; Miyazawa, S.; Komiyama, T.; Nasu, Y.; Yoshida, A.; Watanabe, S.; Ozaki, T.
In: Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Vol. 16, No. 7, 07.2008, p. 764-771.
Yorimitsu, M, Nishida, K, Shimizu, A, Doi, H, Miyazawa, S, Komiyama, T, Nasu, Y, Yoshida, A, Watanabe, S & Ozaki, T 2008, 'Intra-articular injection of interleukin-4 decreases nitric oxide production by chondrocytes and ameliorates subsequent destruction of cartilage in instability-induced osteoarthritis in rat knee joints', Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 764-771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2007.11.006
Yorimitsu M, Nishida K, Shimizu A, Doi H, Miyazawa S, Komiyama T et al. Intra-articular injection of interleukin-4 decreases nitric oxide production by chondrocytes and ameliorates subsequent destruction of cartilage in instability-induced osteoarthritis in rat knee joints. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 2008 Jul;16(7):764-771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2007.11.006
Yorimitsu, M. ; Nishida, K. ; Shimizu, A. ; Doi, H. ; Miyazawa, S. ; Komiyama, T. ; Nasu, Y. ; Yoshida, A. ; Watanabe, S. ; Ozaki, T. / Intra-articular injection of interleukin-4 decreases nitric oxide production by chondrocytes and ameliorates subsequent destruction of cartilage in instability-induced osteoarthritis in rat knee joints. In: Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 2008 ; Vol. 16, No. 7. pp. 764-771.
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It was every parent's worst nightmare. A three-year-old girl had gone missing from her home in Queensland, Australia. By the time the scenario played out, she would have been gone for 15 hours but police discovered that she was never alone during her ordeal.
It seemed as if it was the ideal day to go outside for a little adventure. Aurora, the three-year-old girl, was able to get outside of the home and ended up going back through the brushland nearby, getting lost very quickly. As it turns out, she had a companion that would stay nearby and is now being considered a hero. It wasn't a human that was watching out over Aurora, it was their cattle dog, Max.
It was 3 PM on Friday when Aurora's family contacted the authorities about her disappearance. They spent the entire day and well into the evening looking for Aurora, but heavy rain that moved into the area hampered the efforts. It also destroyed the trail that could be used by a tracker. It seemed as if everything was lost.
They searched for 12 hours and the family began to fear that the worst had occurred. They didn't even know what had really happened. Did someone take their little girl? Was she lost and unable to handle the elements?
Little did they know that she had a devoted companion that remained with her throughout the frightening night in the wilderness. Max refused to leave her side and he stood guard against all of the risks that could have come her way.
As you can imagine, the family was absolutely ecstatic that their little girl was found. After the emotion of the moment began to fade away, they realized exactly how much of a hero Max had been. He could have wandered off into the wilderness but he stayed by Aurora's side and kept her safe.
"SUCH A GOOD BOY, MAX! He stayed with his 3-year-old human who was lost near Warwick last night while we frantically searched for her.


We will officially be selling our bread on Saturdays at Mill Market (https://www.facebook.com/millmarket) in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario starting July 2014! We are really excited about this opportunity as Mill Market promises to be a really vibrant, important addition to the local food economy in Algoma. We look forward to seeing you there!