Thanks for your question, Austin. You've chosen a sector with lots of opportunity available. The good news is that local, state, and federal governments operate much like private sector businesses, so there are jobs in virtually any industry area you can imagine from administrative, human resources, IT, planning, management, and much more.
Many working in the government sector report enjoying the stability, flexibility, and benefits generally offered through their employers. You might like these perks too, of course. Below are a few things you can do to land your first job in government.
A 2016 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) survey of over 200 employers found 3 candidate attributes ranking higher in value with these employers than a candidate's GPA. The top 3 ranking candidate attributes include: (1) student major, (2) held leadership position, and (3) involved in extracurricular activities / clubs. Additionally, this same survey found employers value leadership, teamwork focus, and communication skills as the top 3 candidate attributes on a resume. Knowing what employers in today's job market value is powerful information. While this information is not specific to jobs in municipal government, it is still relevant and valuable as to what employer's value in candidates.
Jobs in this sector can include positions like firefighters, policemen, and administrative clerks up to leadership/management positions (jobs like Mayor and City Manager at the city level). As in general industry and business, there are jobs in every field including finance, accounting, administration, parks and recreation, planning, and much more. If you have an interest in working in government, then there is likely a job that fits your interests, background, experience, and skills.
If your degree program allows for it, pursue an internship in municipal government as this will help you gain experience, build your skills, strengthen your resume, and enhance your professional network. Additionally, your internship could lead to a full-time job upon graduation. If you are finding it hard to find internships, consider volunteering within your field to get your foot in the door. Volunteer experience can be just as valuable as an internship or paid job experience.
If your academic plan doesn't allow for any internship electives for credit, then complete a non-traditional "internship" (internship-like experience) by volunteering or working part or full-time within a municipality. Even without receiving credit, these experiences can help you build important connections, enhance your resume, learn new professional skills, and position you for employment upon graduation. Obviously, a non-traditional "internship" can offer you the same benefits as a real internship except for course credit. Additionally, your on-the-job experience will help solidify your career choice and get you more excited about the rest of your college journey.
Another way to build your network, reputation, and circle of influence is to join a professional association in your industry. This is a great way to connect with leaders in your industry (municipal government) and learn of employment opportunity. Don't just become a member and do nothing either. Get involved and volunteer for a board or steering committee. This will provide you with the opportunity to showcase your skills and ability to produce results.
Official municipal websites – Select any high interest municipalities and visit the official website to visit their careers/jobs section. Most municipalities have detailed application processes so you'll be able to get a handle on what information is required along with how to officially apply for suitable jobs.
Municipal league website – Each state has a municipal league that municipalities (cities and towns) can join. The league provides a variety of services including legal, legislative and training services to its members. Also, some leagues may have career centers where members can post job openings. The advantage to searching a municipal league's career center is that you are not limited to positions within one municipality; rather, you are limited to the positions within that specific state. Visit the National League of Cities website to see if your state's municipal league has a career center.
Professional association websites – Some municipalities turn to various professional associations to help them find suitable candidates for specific jobs. There are numerous professional associations so look for the ones targeted to your career interests.
Other employment websites – Visit various websites promoting government jobs. These include sites like Govtjobs.com and Governmentjobs.com.
Most job seekers mistakenly assume employers post all jobs online through various job boards and company sites. Jobs won't always be posted online. So, I suggest that you reverse this thinking by targeting employers. Don't wait for employers to post available jobs. Develop a list of 25-50 prospective employers in your area that may have opportunity in line with your skills, experience, education, and interests. Do some additional research and determine a decision maker to whom you'll address your letter and resume. This is a great way to get your value proposition into the hands of the person with the power to start a dialogue and ultimately hire you. Companies are always hiring. The downside is that they may not always be hiring on your timeline. Get to the employer before everyone else.
Today's job market is the best it has been in almost 17 years, so it is a good time to be looking for employment opportunity. While the government sector may have some different application and eligibility standards, you'll need to apply the same kind of effort and strategy to land jobs in this sector as you would within the private sector. Work hard, be creative, network like crazy to move your value proposition forward. Before you know it, you will have landed your starting point within government. Good luck and best wishes!


Aitken and Lilburn - The Loch Line of Glasgow.
The company was started in 1867 by Wiliam Aitken and James Lilburn, who used the business methods of bygone years (visiting intending shippers daily and personally supervising the loading and dispatching of vessels) to great effect long after other had given up the practice. The Loch Line clippers were held up by seamen as examples of what well run and comfortable ships could and should be. The Line carried first, second and third class passengers The usual route was to load general cargo and passengers at Glasgow and then sail to Adelaide. The ships then sailed to Melbourne or Sydney where they loaded wool or grain, generally for London. Fares charged at the end of the 19th century were £40 to Melbourne, £42 to Sydney and £76 for a return trip.
In 1873 a second company, the General Shipping Co., was formed with a different group of investors, but also managed by Aitken and Lilburn. Originally, the Glasgow Shipping Co. was intended to serve Melbourne and the General Shipping Co. to serve Sydney but over time the two companies merged and were only distinguished for shareholding purposes. The company never changed to steamships but persisted with sail and from 1900 consistently ran at a financial loss. The ships usually managed one round voyage to Australia per year and half of this time was unprofitably spent in port, loading, unloading or waiting for cargoes. Experimental homeward voyages via San Francisco, South Africa and New Caledonia proved unprofitable, the service finally closed in 1911 and the remaining ships were sold.
Despite the excellence of the standard of maintenance of the fleet and the skill of the masters and crews, the 'Loch Line' had a reputation for misfortune, with no fewer than 14 of its 25 ships being wrecked or lost without trace. Some of the 'Loch Line' vessels were sadly more famous for the manner of their demise than for their careers. At the end, only 5 ships remained under the Loch Line flag - the Lochs Garry, Torridon, Broom, Etive, and Carron.
It should be noted that there were also in fact two other, arguably less famous, 'Loch Lines' - one based in Dundee and one in Liverpool - beware of confusion!


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Two-time killer Scott Dozier leaves the courtroom after his hearing at the Regional Justice Center on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)@bizutesfaye
Death row inmate Scott Dozier appears before Judge Jennifer Togliatti during a hearing about his execution at the Regional Justice Center on Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in downtown Las Vegas. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Death row inmate Scott Dozier appears before District Judge Jennifer Togliatti during a hearing at the Regional Justice Center on Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in downtown Las Vegas. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
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As a prisoner awaits a decision on his death wish, the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments on whether the state Department of Corrections should proceed with an untested method of lethal injection.
"It is a very important subject," Chief Justice Michael Douglas said after more than an hour of statements from Scott Dozier's federal public defender and attorneys for the state.
David Anthony, a lawyer for the 47-year-old death row inmate who was scheduled to be executed in November and has said he wants to die, argued for a two-drug cocktail that did not include a paralytic drug called cisatracurium, which could mask suffering. Dozier, a twice-convicted murderer, has not wavered from a desire to have his sentence carried out, which he first expressed in a letter to District Judge Jennifer Togliatti in late 2016.
"When we talk about Mr. Dozier and what he wants, there are also larger issues at stake here, which is how are we going to execute people in the state of Nevada," Anthony said. "And if it's not humane for us, shouldn't it be the province of our courts to say whether something is cruel or not? We should have humane executions in this state."
Last year, prison officials concocted a three-drug mixture that included the paralytic, anxiety drug diazepam and pain reliever fentanyl. While the state's diazepam has since expired, Assistant Solicitor General Jordan Smith told the Supreme Court that under the suggested protocol, Dozier would not suffer.
"There is no substantial risk here," Smith said, suggesting that officials could still find the drugs to carry out the execution, without saying how. "When the protocol is carried out as written … Mr. Dozier is not at risk of awareness, air hunger, pain, panic."
Justice Michael Cherry openly contemplated the sincerity of Dozier's desire.
"If we approve the three-drug protocol, is he going to withdraw his request to die?" Cherry asked.
Anthony said Dozier has indicated that he would not.
"I don't want to be played in this by Mr. Dozier or by the attorney general or by the district attorney," Cherry continued. "I want to know exactly what's going to happen if we rule in favor of the AG and the district attorney, or we rule in favor of the federal public defender."
Dozier's death was postponed after Togliatti denied the use of the paralytic drug and granted a request from the lawyers for the Department of Corrections to stay the execution as the lethal injection process is reviewed by the high court. The justices gave no indication Tuesday when a decision would be made.
Dozier would be the first inmate executed in Nevada since 2006.
A Clark County jury convicted Dozier in September 2007 of killing 22-year-old Jeremiah Miller at the now-closed La Concha motel. In 2005, Dozier was convicted in Arizona of second-degree murder in another case.
Justice Ron Parraguirre pointed out that Dozier has remained steadfast, questioning whether the federal public defender was in conflict with the condemned man.
"It seems you're looking to the future to set a protocol for future clients, but this client specifically doesn't want this method challenged from what I understand," the judge said.
Anthony argued that Dozier wanted a "less painful" death.
"His first priority was his own execution," the lawyer said. "And his second priority was to find out about the facts, and if he had the preference, he would prefer a humane execution. That has been a consistent position by Mr. Dozier."
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Nevada's last execution, by lethal injection, was in 2006, when Daryl Mack was put to death for the 1988 rape and murder of a Reno woman, Betty Jane May.
Nevada has executed 12 inmates since capital punishment was reinstated by the Legislature in 1977.
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Rogelio Guedea, born in Mexico in 1974, is considered one of Mexico's most important young authors. He studied law and literature in Mexico and Spain and has already received countless prizes, among others the highly respected Premio Adonáis de Poesía. Guedea had lectured at the University of Otago in New Zealand for several years.
The Last Breakfast ("El último desayuno") is a detective story based on real facts: the murder of a student on a university campus serves as the thread of the plot. Roque, the protagonist, is a Mexican professor at a New Zealand university. He has the impression that the police and his colleagues think he is responsible for the crime. In this situation, it does not help that after separating from his wife he is going through a period of mental instability, nor that he cannot remember the details of his relationship with Sara, the murdered student. While Roque tries to hide his fear and discomfort, he concentrates on finding a solution to all his problems and circumstances: the relationship with his ex-wife and children, his lovers, his role as resident in a foreign country. The author weaves a story of intrigue extending far beyond the detective story, where the real conflict is human frailty itself.
It reads in one gulp and stays in the memory.
Rogelio Guedea's latest novel Secret Lives ("Vidas secretas") tells the story of a perfidious scheme. The Mexican Roque de la Mora teaches Spanish at a university in New Zealand. Although very attracted to his student Natasha, he resists her obvious advances – until he gets a nasty surprise.
The Crime of Los Tepames ("El crimen de Los Tepames") is the last part of the captivating Colima trilogy. Two brothers are brutally murdered in the usually quiet town of Los Tepames. Abel finds out that some mining companies were quite interested in their land. As he digs deeper, he finds himself in a swamp of murderous corruption from which there is no escape.
Once again, Guedea fascinates the reader with his strong language and his outstanding style. The book was among the bestselling books in Mexico's most important bookstore, Librería Gandhi.
Colima/Mexico: in the heat of an election campaign, the governor's brother is found assassinated with a 41-calibre bullet. Has he fallen victim to a serial killer or is the opposition party behind it? Based on a true story, the novel 41 paints a merciless picture of present-day Mexico.
With this book, Guedea is consolidated as one of Mexico's best narrators.
In The Brothers Corona ("Conducir un tráiler"), the young Abel Corona goes looking for his girlfriend, taking a lift from a truck driver who is involved in the drugs trade. When he steals money from him, Abel starts fearing for his life. Then his brother Ismael is found dead, and Abel is confronted with an old family feud: a fight over land ending in death. Is he being lured into a trap, to fall victim to revenge?
Fresh and modern, this is an important work of fiction.
Excellent. A great novel, I really did enjoy it.
It will not be long before the writer of this book is recognised by critics as a key and refreshing force in contemporary Mexican narrative.
Driving a Trailer Truck opens new paths within the contemporary narrative.
Reading is a highly enjoyable craft, as Guedea shows in his narrative essay Business: reading ("Oficio: leer"). In the form of short fictional pieces based around the works of well-known writers such as Cioran, Bolaño, Greene, Pessoa, Kafka and García Márquez, he awakens our desire for turning pages.
Mexico City: Random House Mondadori 2016, 159 p.
Mexico City: Ediciones B 2012, 139 p.
Mexico City: Random House Mondadori 2013, 320 p.
Mexico City: Random House Mondadori 2010, 240 p.
Mexico City: Random House Mondadori 2008, 214 p.
Mexico City: Editorial Lectorum 2016, 240 p.
Córdoba (Spain): Arcopress 2014, 160 p.
Mexico City: Aldus 2008, 133 p.
Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2007, 150 p.
Mexico City: Universidad de Colima 2006, 244 p.
Tlaqupaque/Guadalajara: Mantis 2003, 103 p.
Antología poética 2001-2010, Madrid: Rilke 2010, 84 p.
Madrid: Ediciones Rialp 2009, 90 p.
Mexico City: Instituto Sonorense de Cultura 2006, 87 p.
Mexico City: Instituto de Cultura de Nayarit 2006, 63 p.
Spain: Follas Novas 2001, 86 p.
Palencia: Menoscuarto 2010, 96 p.
Mexico City: Ficticia/Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes 2007, 130 p.
Mexico City: Colibrí 2005, 164 p.
Barcelona: Thule 2004, 94 p.
Mexico City: Harper Collins 2018, 152 p.
Argentina: Castillo (Macmillan) 2017, 128 p.
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"Congress shall make no law …"
In a story in yesterday's Washington Post
"Supreme Court seems to seek narrow w:ay to uphold cross that memorializes war dead"
By Robert Barnes
It is indicated that
A majority of the Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed to be searching for a way — a narrow way, most likely — to allow a historic cross commemorating World War I dead to remain where it has stood for nearly 100 years.
Two of the court's four liberals suggested the unique history of the Peace Cross in the Washington suburb of Bladensburg, Md., may provide a way to accommodate its position on public land in a highway median.
But more than an hour of oral arguments showed the difficulty the court faces when it must decide whether government's involvement with a religious symbol has an allowable sectarian purpose or is an unconstitutional embrace of religion.
This is a contentious issue that has been with us for a long time. But I think it is absurd for jurists and interest groups to be splitting hairs over such questions. It calls for a satirist such as Jonathan Swift to show the absurdity of this kind of public debate.
My former therapist, Dr. Ralph Colp Jr. (not an arrogant or haughty person, it should be noted) once remarked to me, in a completely different context, that human stupidity would always be very much part of humanity, very much with us.
Here's food for thought.
The Constitution should not be taken literally. The Founders, schooled in Enlightenment thought, were wiser than that: Their intention was to produce a document the underpinning of which was clear, rational thinking.
Some of the "original intent"/strict constructionist types — including supposedly eminent judges and jurists, and legal scholars — are, to put it bluntly, idiots. Who read and interpret the words of the Constitution over literally, without any context or nuance, and without using common sense.
So are the citizens who, in reading the words of the First Amendment, think that it was intended to prohibit public exercise of religion. The Founders would have been horrified to see it interpreted that way.
The freedom of religion clause did not bar exercise of religion, or display of crosses, Christmas trees, or creches, for example, either in public or private. This would have been unthinkable to the Founders.
In making convoluted, tortuous arguments, the litigators do a great disservice to the public and threaten the common weal. Someone shouldn't feel anxious about, or have to explain or defend oneself about, erecting or preserving a monument with a cross to honor war dead. To maintain the converse is the worst type of sophistry. And, by the way, it's also a good example of a form of perverse presentism. Believe, me, when the Bladensburg Peace Cross was erected in 1925, it was done with good intentions. It was meant to show honor and respect. And, the Founding Fathers would be turning in their graves to be told there was something wrong about erecting a monument with a religious symbol on it.
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Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life Writing Spirituality and the Promise of America; as told to Horace Traubel
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Pull out your clean swipes. Clean swipes are great for cleaning bath toys especially if you do not have much time on your hands. Alternatively, you can also use a damp cloth and some soapy water to do the trick.
Throw in one part bleach and 10 parts water in a bucket. Allow the toys to soak for about five minutes before thoroughly rinsing them with soap and water. Do this about once a monthly only as bleach is not too mild.
Get rid of bath toys with holes in them. These can present as a danger because your child might end up sucking the toy and drinking some soap while he is at it. Having said that, check his or her toys on a regular basis.
Of course, you can also opt to hire a cleaning service to get the job done quickly and thoroughly and have the rest of your home tidied up as well. This is a convenient option for those who are very busy with their schedules or are faced with an insurmountable mess.


Move over, ugly Christmas sweater parties. This year's holiday bash will include more of the big screen than big fashion mistakes. For your winter festivities, throw a holiday movie-themed soiree to celebrate the season.
This might be the hardest part, since there are so many great movies. Try picking the feel you want for the party first. Want elegant gowns and tasteful décor? Go with A White Christmas. Secretly looking for a reason to wear your bunny pajamas? Go with A Christmas Story. There are as many holiday movies as there are moods, so don't be afraid to sit down for a marathon with a few friends to brainstorm.
To get the most for your money, send an e-vite. Paper invites almost always get lost, but e-vites sit in an inbox until the big day. Regardless of which format you choose, look for something that encompasses the feel of the movie. You should invite guests to dress up in theme, whether it's their best holiday frock or as a character.
Theme your dinner by eating something similar to what people in the film eat (rare roast beast might not be feasible for a Grinch party, but roast beef certainly is). Be sure the elegance of the food matches the formality of the event. Don't set out canned biscuits when you've asked your friends to wear evening gowns, and don't bother with foie gras when your nephew is dressed like a snowman. You can use shaped cookies as a nod to theme as well, such as a bell-shaped cookie for the famous line in It's a Wonderful Life.
By hosting a themed party, you might be signing up for theming your entire Christmas season with that particular movie. The good news is you're picking a movie you enjoy, so that shouldn't be a problem. If you're having a Charlie Brown theme, decorate the room with lots of artificial Christmas trees. Otherwise, use ornaments that bolster the theme, whether it's through a set of colored bulbs or even themed ornaments. Don't forget that you can spread the cheer throughout the house evenly. It's impressive to carry a theme into your living room — it's astounding if you manage to also carry it over into your bathroom, entryway, kitchen and dining room. Be creative, and don't forget that you can always DIY!
Movie themes lend themselves well for entertainment purposes. Though you should always leave room for natural conversations, you can add a variety of games and activities. For a laid-back, small crowd, you can watch the movie that inspired the evening. More active crowds can participate in movie trivia games. Games can also just take a piece of a movie and put a new spin on it. A Christmas Story theme can play a version of pin the tail on the donkey with cutouts of poor Flick they have to pin to an illustrated pole.
Your holiday party doesn't have to be boring and have the same old theme as always. Give your next Christmas party a movie theme to revitalize the standard dinner format. Happy celebrating!
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A New Step Up Set-Up
New equipment will offer stability and accuracy
Ricky Carmichael sails above his likeness. And the older, much less stable Step Up bar. XG '08.
The competition in Moto X Step Up has become more serious. Bike set-up has become more specific. The amount of emphasis placed on this event by the riders, fans and promoters has increased. For years the Step Up course builders have made adjustments to the lip and landing, constantly searching for a better hit, reaching for bigger heights. For 2009, builder Dane Herron decided to pay more attention to accuracy in measurement.
Step Up is simple. It's a motorcycle high jump, or pole vaulting with a motorcycle instead of a pole. Riders hit a 12-foot vertical wall to catapult body and machine over a rod that loosely rests upon a set of uprights. The PVC pipe-based set-up that's been in use by XG for years wobbles and sways when a rider clips the bar. Adjustments are difficult and putting the bar back on the uprights has always been a clumsy—and sometimes comical—chore. Herron knew there must be a better way, so he called up UCS Inc., a premier manufacturer of track and field equipment and suppliers of four Olympics. Their equipment has also helped break many pole vaulting world records. Herron wanted uprights (called "standards" in the pole vaulting biz) that were solid, more stable and that could provide more accurate measurements.
"I also wanted something I could move horizontally," Herron said. Having this ability allows Herron and his crew to change the horizontal position of the bar riders jump over as well as the vertical position. This will mean a proper placement of the bar no matter how the lip is constructed.
In the old design, the uprights were simply drilled into the sides of the lip/landing. Herron's stability wishes were fulfilled when Chris Chappell of UCS built him a set of aluminum-alloy standards that weigh 400 pounds each and will rest flat on the ground on either side of the dirt hit with a support cross piece connecting them just a few feet off the ground. "We just took our basic design for pole vault and more or less beefed it up," Chappell said. "Dane's request presented very unique challenges, as this is the only event in the world of its kind. The most challenging part was to create something with such height while maintaining stability. We had to come up with a design that would be stable and secure while allowing adjustments for multiple setup locations depending on venues, etc."
Having such stability will allow for a more pure measurement because there won't be any sway in the standards. As for the crossbar that the athletes will jump, UCS's design employs the same strict regulations as pole vaulting. "It can only have two millimeters of sag when it's sitting idle and it has a good bounce to it when struck," Chappell said.
When the bar does fall to the ground, the course crew will be able to replace it more quickly. They will also be able to raise the height in six-inch increments with perfect accuracy because the grooves are machined into the standards.
The set-up is elaborate and may not allow riders to jump any higher, but it gives Herron better control of a key component in a competition that already has enough challenges for both organizers and athletes.
Written By: B.J. Smith of ESPN
Original Article: http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/xg15/countdown/blog?post=4354925
The 15th annual action sports competition will be held in Los Angeles July 30—August 2, 2009, and will feature the world's best athletes competing in BMX, Moto X, Skateboarding and Rally Car Racing. Tickets for X Games 15 will be available for purchase beginning June 25 at the STAPLES Center and Nokia Theater box offices as well as online at Ticketmaster.


The development has been approved by Tower Hamlets Council. Picture: Mike Brooke.
Controversial plans for almost 600 homes on the Isle of Dogs have been given the green light.
Tower Hamlets Council approved the Skylines Village development in Blackwall and Cubitt Town ward last week.
The plans consist of five buildings ranging from three to 48 storeys in height and include 579 homes, a two-form entry primary school with nursery facilities, commercial space, car park and landscaped open space.
Developer Strong Drive said 35 per cent of the housing would be affordable.
"The proposal would deliver a high quality residential led mixed use redevelopment of an important site allocation within an opportunity area where significant housing and employment growth is expected," documents submitted to the council state.
However, councillor Andrew Wood who represents nearby Canary Wharf, argued local transport, particularly the South Quay DLR station, would be 'overcrowded' if the development went ahead.
He said: "I was disappointed that the committee did not look at the capacity of the local public transport network to support this very dense and tall development.
The development was passed with four votes for and two against.


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Q: Problem involving drawing a diagram with belts and elevators and specific directions on a given floor/belt Today, while reading A Practical Guide to Problem Solving in Mathematics by Carol Meyer and Tom Sallee, I came across a problem I was unsure of how to solve except by brute forcing possibilities and eliminating them if they did not fit the given criteria.  I was wondering if there was possibly a diagram or something else that could explicitly show/help show the route one needed to take.  It seems to be a much more efficient strategy, but I was not able to draw a diagram that was of very much use.  The problem in whole is listed below:

"Most Hrunkla lived in giant, $12$ story apartment houses, and their
  homes were large square rooms bounded on four sides by corridors. Each
  room had a single door which opened halfway along the corridor. On
  even numbered floors: the doors opened onto the east corridors; on odd
  numbered floors, the doors opened onto the north corridor. At each
  intersection of corridors, there was something like an elevator which
  could be ridden up or down. Half of the corridors had moving belts on
  the floor, and no self respecting Hrunkla would walk if they could
  ride the belts. The belts were so arranged that those on floors $1$,
  $5$, and $9$ ran to the east; those on floors $2$, $6$, and $10$ ran
  to the south; those on floors $3$,$7$,and $11$ ran to the west; and
  those on the floors $4$,$8$, and $12$ ran to the north. Describe how a
  Hrunkla who lived on floor $10$ could use these moving belts and
  elevators to visit a friend who lived in the room directly below his."

After quite a while, I found a solution that works:
a. Ride belt to SE corner.
b. Ride to eighth floor (or fourth or twelfth).
c. Ride North to NE corner.
d. Ride to seventh floor (or third or eleventh).
e. Ride W to NW corner.
f. Ride to ninth floor
g. Ride E to friend's floor.
I assume there are many different routes possible, but I was not sure if I found the shortest route possible (even though the question does not ask for that).  I am mainly looking to see if there is an "easy" way to solve the problem via a diagram or something of the sorts, so when I come across future problems such as this, I have a better plan of attacking it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: The first step has to be riding the belt south to the southeast corner of the 10th floor,
and the last step has to be riding the belt from the northwest corner of the 9th floor to the friend's room.  To go from a southeast corner to a northwest corner, you need to go north (on floor 4, 8 or 12) and  west (on floor 3, 7 or 11), using the elevators to go to floors that have belts heading in the proper direction.  You could either do it as you did, or go west first and then north.

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Leaving Reykjavík on a mystery filled tour hunting for the Northern Lights in our 4×4 Super Jeep. We take you away from the city lights into the wild nature surrounding Reykjavík in the search for this fascinating phenomenon. In the dark of the clear cold night, we are hoping to witness the Northern Lights dance across the sky. These sightings can occur from late autumn to early spring.
Please note that this tour depends on favorable weather conditions and we reserve the right to cancel the tour in case of unfavorable conditions. Cancellations will be done before 17:00 on the day of the trip. If we do not encounter any Northern Lights on your tour, we will be happy to reschedule you for another tour free of charge.
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Word for Word Winter Poetry with Knopf
With Word for Word Poetry extended into the winter months, we have added a collection of guest blogs, as we report for the summer series. They capture a first-hand account of the poetry readings, as well as help to interpret the work of the talented poets who present in the Bryant Park Reading Room sponsored by HSBC.
Phillip F. Clark for Word for Word Winter Poetry, March 17, 2015
Featuring the poets of Knopf
As a native New Yorker and daily commuter on the No. 1 line every day, I had noticed a beautiful small poem called "Heaven" posted as part of the Poetry In Motion series. It is a disarmingly simple, yet mesmerizing work by the poet Patrick Phillips. In full, it reads:
It will be the past
and we'll live there together.
Not as it was to live
but as it is remembered.
It will be the past.
We'll all go back together.
Everyone we ever loved,
and lost, and must remember.
And it will last forever.
I had never met Patrick Phillips before, but had heard his name mentioned enthusiastically in more than a few conversations with poet friends. When I was asked by Paul Romero to blog for The Bryant Park Reading Room's "Word By Word" poetry reading series on last month, I was thrilled to finally be able to hear and meet Patrick and two other acclaimed poets whose works I have read and loved for a long time: Sharon Olds, and Edward Hirsch — a veritable heaven of poets. And as it turned out heaven was a perfect idea and symbol for the evening's extraordinary readings by all three: the works read that evening, though often about loss and absence – a father, a son, a mother; a husband, and poet colleagues recently lost – the readings were proof that the elemental inspiration for poets is life and living it to the full in the face of loss. Which is what poetry provides us: that bridge on which to cross adversity and meaninglessness over to a sure ground of hope and renewal. All three poets led us once again over that bridge with their words.
There is nothing that compares to the camaraderie of poets when they gather – or the poetry lovers and readers who gather with them. A particular good humor, avuncular and generous seems to pervade poetry gatherings everywhere – large or small – and on this evening it was palpable. Held at the Kinokuniya Bookstore and sponsored by Knopf Books (which publishes all three), a crowd had gathered enthusiastically to hear them. All three of the poets happily greeted each other, jocular and warm. One couldn't help but be glad to be next to their vibrations. For me, having these three poets in the room together was especially exciting, as I'd been reading their work in the past week and was still filled with so much of their voices.
Paul Romero welcomed the audience to the evening. As the director of the Word for Word Poetry events at the Bryant Park Poetry Reading Series, Paul has garnered a faithful and large following. In the spring and summer, there is nothing more wonderful than sitting under those tall billowing trees in Bryant Park and listening to poets read with each other to us. It is one of the truly magnetic ways to spend a couple of hours after work, and if you haven't participated, check out the link below for more information on the program.
Edward Hirsch, the first reader of the evening, is one of our great poetic voices. Generous in encouragement to poets and students, and welcoming to friends and colleagues, he is an example of the poet as mentor and teacher. His awards are many, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, among many others. I came to his work through his book, Special Orders, in which the poem "Branch Library" so appealed to me as a librarian at the time of my finding it. The poem seemed so open and vibrant with memory and life – two subjects that Hirsch is extraordinary. But I was that boy – I felt that someone knew me, in that poem:I wish I could find that skinny, long-beaked boy
who perched in the branches of the old branch library //
I'd give anything to find that birdy boy again
bursting out into the dusty blue afternoon
with his satchel of scrawls and scribbles,
radiating heat, singing with joy.
Thanking his colleagues and welcoming them and the audience to the evening, Hirsh read a series of poems from The Living Fire: New and Selected Works, as well as some new pieces, and from Gabriel, his newest work which is an elegy poem for his son, whose death at a young age indelibly led Hirsch to examine his grief, and in the end, to celebrate and actualize his son's life. And he does so, in that book, with such intimacy and candor, that one indeed is led to think of the line from Donne, "Death be not proud,". Many of Hirsch's poems confront faith and disbelief, and the evening's reading included poems from The Living Fire in which these things are explored inimitably. But Hirsch is the poet of the observed life – as the best poets are – and his ability to reconcile what we desire and what we have. In "Self-Portrait, he brings himself up against the dualities of a life's choices, and the vagaries of marriage and divorce:
I lived between my heart and my head,
like a married couple who can't get along.
I lived between my left arm, which is swift
and sinister, and my right, which is righteous.
I lived between a laugh and a scowl,
and voted against myself, a two-party system.
In "A Partial History of My Stupidity", he confronts the way we live in a world in seeming comfort, while somewhere else in the world, horrors abound. How does one connect the daily falsehood of safety to the daily reality of war:
I felt that I was living the wrong life,
spiritually speaking,
while halfway around the world
thousands of people were being slaughtered,
some of them by my countrymen. / /
Forgive me faith, for never having any.
I did not believe in God,
who eluded me.
I had recently read the article "Finding The Words," a review and essay on Gabriel, in the New Yorker, and having re-read sections of Gabriel before the evening, I was still unprepared for the visceral hit in the gut that this poem gives me. It is at once something so transparent and yet completely filled with stark and clear vision. As Hirsch read it, I again understood why this poet has held us in thrall in so many ways, but particularly with this human and loving lament:
The funeral director opened the coffin
And there he was alone
From the waist up
I peered down into his face
And for a moment I was taken aback
Because it was not Gabriel
It was just some poor kid
Whose face looked like a room
That had been vacated
And in a call to life through grief, the poem continues:
Poor Sisyphus grief
I am not ready for your heaviness
Cemented to my body
Look closely and you will see
Almost everyone carrying bags
Of cement on their shoulders
That's why it takes courage
To get out of bed in the morning
And climb into the day
Sharon Olds, the second reader, was first brought to my attention in what still remains a seminal work of hers as I tried to find a way to poetry: The Dead and the Living is a book that encounters every aspect of family, love, heartbreak, and mortality. Its compact yet dense poems tackle its subjects with unswerving attention and absolute acceptance. Olds is also one of the poets who has made a commitment to writing poems about the politics of war and race and the aftermaths of those subjects. She has never shied away from the difficult idea, or the most desperate sadness. Her poem "The Death of Marilyn Monroe" still raises the hair on my neck with its surgical yet blatantly beautiful depiction of the iconic star's mortuary ceremony and the men who it changed forever. Her volume, Stag's Leap, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. It is a raw and ironic look at the dissolution of a marriage, and yet always as the mark of her work, there is the urge to go on from the past to grow, towards life.Also welcoming with a vivacity her colleague poets, Olds set a palpable joy starting to clock in the room. The evening found her in no less than what I find to be her usual state: warmth and embrace. She has a wonderful sense of the serendipitous and the evening's first moment of wit and humor was due to her stopping mid-speech at one point as she looked and noticed a man going slowly up the escalator to the second floor in the bookstore, "Oh, look, yes, there he goes, up to Heaven," to the smiles of all of us as we turned to look.
Among her readings was one of my favorite of her poems, "Wonder As Wander", in her mother is remembered. It has always had the quality of a psalm to me, with its touches of faith and the unseen as a woman wanders the rooms of her heart and mind; it begins:
As dusk, on those evenings she does not go out,
my mother potters around her house.
Her daily helpers are gone, there is no one
there, no one to tell what to do,
she wanders, sometimes talks to herself,
fondly scolding, sometimes she suddenly
throws out her arms and screams—high notes
like bodies touched by a downward wire,
she journeys, she quests, she marco-polos through
the gilded gleamy loot-rooms, who is she.
That poem alone I could take with me to the ubiquitous desert island if asked to pare my life down to one. Bringing us back to grimmer realities, her reading of "What Are Stress Marks and How Are They Used", put a face on young black lives lost to violence—a most recent violence that we in the room knew too well.
And perhaps with a nod to another idea of heaven and its camaraderies, Olds paid tribute to two great poets who had recently left us: Galway Kinnell, and Philip Levine. For Galway, who she remembered so wonderfully in her telling, she read "An Allergy – An Ode for Galway", in which the strength of a great friendship was evident. Reading from Philip Levine's "They Feed They Lion," she again riveted the room: It's powerful ending:
From my five arms and all my hands,
From all my white sins forgiven, they feed,
From my car passing under the stars,
They Lion, from my children inherit,
From the oak turned to a wall, they Lion,
From they sack and they belly opened
And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth
They feed they Lion and he comes.
Tribute to brother poets indeed, and poetry's great line of continuity.
Patrick Phillips
And as the evening welcomed the last reader, Patrick Phillips, I and I think all of us in the room were struck by his ebullience and his lanky, handsome good nature. The youngest of the poets, and one who has written two acclaimed previous collections, Phillips is the voice that continues so much of what Hirsch and Olds present in the best of their work: an eye for the human and fragile, and the ability to verbalize and transfigure acts of our simple endeavors, our grief, our loves; the particular way we have of coming to these things as a reconnaissance of sorts, to be examined, reflected upon and paid forward. His newest collection, Elegy For A Broken Machine, is a stunning work that centers on his father's illness and death. The opposite but compliment to Hirsch's Gabriel, its poems fittingly brought full circle the phrase, "The son is father to the man." These poems articulate the corporal body as well as the corporeal soul:
"Elegy Outside the ICU":
They came into
the cold white room
and shaved his chest
then made a little
purple line of dashes
down his sternum,
which the surgeon,
when she came in,
cut along, as students
took turns cranking
a tiny metal jig
that splits the ribs / /. . .
so that by almost every definition,
my father died
there on the table
and came back in the body
of his father,
or his mother at the end, / /. . .
With an acumen for hope, Phillips' poems in this volume allow ghosts to sit at the table and in the bedroom with the present. And it is the machine, which we all are, that he celebrates; if broken, it is never absent of love. To listen to this man recite was to have heard all three voices in concert—and that was a thrilling and wonderful component of the readings: the connection that poets share, and the fact that each feed one another through a long line. For me indeed, a heaven of poets. If you do not know the Bryant Park Poetry Word For Word Reading Series, do look at their schedule for upcoming events, at the link below.
My sincere thanks to Paul Romero, and each of the poets, and Knopf publishers for an extraordinary evening of readings.
Bryant Park Poetry Word For Word Reading Series:
http://bryantpark.org/plan-your-visit/wordforword.html
Phillip F. Clark
PHILIP F. CLARK'S poems have been published in Assaracus Journal, and in the anthology, Between: New Gay Poetry; his work was also recently published in Lyrelyre, The Good Men Project, and Poetry in Performance. His is completing his MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry at Ciy College, New York. His poetry reviews and interviews have been published in Lambda Literary Review, and The Conversant. His poetry blog is The Poet's Grin, at https://philipfclark.wordpress.com
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Q: Absolute Positioning without overflowing into another div I am trying to create a full screen slider with a footer on the bottom. Making the slider full screen is easy, but adding a "footer" to it doesn't seem to be (for me). For instance the slider will have a photo and the div below it will have details about the photo, which all should be shown as the "landing page" without scrolling at all, on all devices.
My brain is telling me to create a wrapper container that is 100vh to fill 100% of the views height, and then create the footer - for this example - at a set height of 150px and then have the slider fill the remaining difference left over in the wrapper container, which in theory seems to be right, but I just can't seem to figure out how to actually do it without using scripting. I'm ok with scripts, just wondering if there is a pure css way of doing what I am trying to accomplish.
In this specific example I've tried absolute positioning on the footer div with bottom 0 to hug to the bottom of the main wrapper, which works, sort of (wonky on mobile especially iPhone due to the bottom navigational bar), but naturally due to the way position absolute seems to work, setting 100% height on the slider div will ignore the footer div and set its height to 100% of the wrapper container.
Is it possible to set bottom: 0, yet have the slider div to not overlap the absolute positioned footer div?
Is there a better way to do this all together using pure css? Have I lost my mind?
Here is a diagram of what I am trying to accomplish

Original Code before suggestions
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  <meta charset="utf-8">

  <title>test page</title>
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UPDATE / EDIT
Additionally, as suggested below, calc(100vh -150px) on the .slider works better. It works perfectly well on the desktop, but when pulled up on my iPhone, not so much.
Updated Style Code

The iPhone seems to be automatically adjusting the view because of the lower navigation buttons of safari on the device. It looks like it stretches the .page-wrapper down further than it should. I tried to prevent this by adding a max-height: 100vh to the .page-wrapper, but that didn't seem to do anything at all
Here is what the page looks like on the iPhone

Things look perfectly fine, just the way they should...
Until you scroll down

Thats when things get a little weird...
It seems like, on safari on iPhone at least, 100vh is taking into account the bottom navigation bar, yet the absolute positioning of the slider.footer is ignoring it and setting it self to the top of safari's bottom navigation bar. I get why apple would do that, because the navigation bar is always there by default until you scroll down, but it is clearly causing an issue with what I am trying to accomplish...
Am I correct to think this is an iPhone / Safari problem, or are my html/css skills just that far off?

A: I'd do something like:
.slider {
    height: calc(100vh - 150px);
}

Hope this helps :)

A: You could try this:
body {
    margin: 0px;
    margin-bottom: 150px;
}

A: Another approach would be:
.page-wrapper { position: relative }
.slider {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 150px;
}

Hope this (finally) helps :)


Catch up on all the latest spa news.
June 13, 2018 By Goodall Staff - s.h.
Apart from being a fun activity for the whole family, a swimming pool or spa is a great place to get some exercise! One of the most beneficial workouts that you should take advantage of is water yoga.
Interested? You should be! Read on to learn more.
Essentially, water yoga works by performing yoga poses in your swimming pool or spa to get a low-impact, full-body workout that helps to improve your strength, balance and range of motion. If you choose to do yoga positions that submerge your head underwater, then you'll also be able to strengthen your lungs as you hold your breath.
By focusing solely on your body's movements and breathing, you can achieve a deep sense of relaxation and inner peace.
Water yoga exercises, especially if performed in warmer water, trigger the natural release of your body's happy hormone, endorphins, which help to melt away the stress of the day – leaving you feeling relaxed and rejuvenated!
Incorporating water yoga as part of your regular exercise routine can help to strengthen and tone your muscles, improve range of motion, boost endurance, enhance your immune system and even improve cardiovascular function.
Especially true for warm water yoga, the low-impact exercises combined with the natural buoyancy of the water can help to relieve tight muscles and joints, while also helping to increase your flexibility by stretching out sore muscle groups. The warm water can also help to increase blood circulation and reduce inflammation in your joints and muscles.
The whole-body relaxation and calmness gained from regular water yoga workouts can help to improve sleep patterns, boost energy levels, encourage detoxification, and promote a healthy well-being.
Now that you've learned all about water yoga and the benefits that come with it, it's time to dive in and try it out for yourself! Depending on your experience level, we've put together three yoga poses for beginners, intermediates, and advanced yogis to get you started.
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Moving out of our aparement is going to be finishid soon.
The last harvest of the summer & our own garden. And some peppers even turned red in the end!
I really need some days off. One would be enough.
Had a little accident with my boy's car. It's got a really dramatic sound now. Ups!
from the date you are booking - early is cheap, short-term is the double.
Not much healthy eating this week, little fruit and veggies. Lots of coffee. Graving for a big bowl of veggie pasta.
Loveliness! Hope you have a great week.
Hope you have a lovely start of the week. It would be nice if you find a day off, just to get your energy back.
I am so glad to find your blog. Lovely picture, it make me smile.
i am freezing tooooo. maybe some spicy veggie pasta would help!
enjoy your vege pasta. the one i had today, i really like it, it is very simple and easy, quick one but satisfied with it.
Barbara, in your new apt(place), do you have a garden or balcony that you can grow plants?
I hope you get a day off soon - those are so necessary! pretty photos as always!
worth knowing about Germany's train pricing. i so want to visit Berlin. i've only been to the south of Germany.
Ich friere auch! Und wenn ich dran denke, dass es noch nicht mal richtig Winter ist, brrrrrrr!!!
Hoffe, du hast bald wieder mehr Zeit für dich selber!


I have seen several bank owned listings in which there is a owner occupied priority period. How is a bank able to enforce this? Does anyone know if it is occupied by an adult child of the owner if that is acceptable?
No, the Buyer must be the owner occupant. And yes, there can be severe penalties for trying to play the system.
As Wayne said, yes. Severe penalties. Especially if the loan was Fannie/Freddie/HUD, or any other numerous GSE's (Sounds like it with that language in the agreement).That's defrauding the Federal Government and usually, also defrauding a state/federally regulated institution. Can you get away with it? Sure. People do all the time but for the guy that gets caught, fighting over spare blankets and pillows with your bunk mate in prison is not my idea of a fun time.
There are tons of court cases available at your fingertips to show the penalties for those innocently (Or not so innocently) thinking it wasn't any big deal to hide the true intent of occupancy at purchase.
Not trying to get away with anything. Just wondering if this is common. I understand with government loans, HUD properties, etc., but this is a bank owned prop. is this a common practice with bank REOs as well?
Very common, not all lenders do it. Wells Fargo, HUD and Fannie Mae just about always do.


An East Isles youth homeless shelter is opening a wing exclusively for young people who are pregnant or parenting.
The nonprofit Bridge for Youth will house five 16- to 20-year-olds — and their children — in the new space, which will open April 1. It is calling the facility Marlene's Place in honor of its first executive director, Sister Marlene Barghini.
Young people living in Marlene's Place will have access to employment training, on-site health care, parenting education and life-skills coaching, associate director Christina Woodlee said. The facility won't have on-site child care, she said, but the young people will have help in identifying child care options.
Each family in Marlene's Place will get a room of its own, though most will share a bathroom with another family. The facility also includes a shared room where kids can play, a kitchen and a dining room.
The families in Marlene's Place will be able to stay up to 18 months and will be required to pay 30 percent of their monthly income as rent, Woodlee said. The Bridge for Youth will give priority to parents ages 16–18 when finding residents.
The nonprofit won't necessarily expect youth in the program to work, Woodlee said, but "there's an expectation they need to be productive." That may mean going to school, training for a job or joining the labor force.
The facility will serve both moms and dads, as long as they fit the required age range. The Bridge for Youth will allow for one parent and up to two kids between the ages of 0 and 3.
Woodlee said the organization already has more requests to live at Marlene's Place than it has spaces available, though it hasn't officially started to accept referrals yet.
The Bridge for Youth serves homeless, runaway and abandoned youth ages 10–17 at its East Isles shelter, which has 14 beds. The organization also operates Rita's House, an affordable-housing facility across the street for young people ages 18–21.
Marlene's Place is occupying the space that used to be the Bridge for Youth's transitional-living program for 16- and 17-year-olds, according to Woodlee. She said the organization saw a need for site-based programs that serve homeless pregnant mothers and their children.
She added that youth in the transitional program were often leaving the Bridge for Youth for programs that offered increased independence.
More than 6,000 youth experience homelessness each night in Minnesota, about a third of whom are pregnant or parenting, according to a press release from the Bridge for Youth. The state has fewer than 200 emergency shelter beds for youth, and fewer than 10 site-based units designated as age appropriate and safe, especially for homeless teen parents.


The Kah San Two is an 835 SF unit that can be coupled and stacked with other units. The spacious living area has a kitchen on one end and room for a dining table. Bedrooms are well-sized, carpeted and have large windows and closets. Mini split heat pumps can be added to maximize energy efficiency. The Kah San Two can be used for affordable or market-rate housing.
Kitchen designs are similar for the Kah San One and Kah San Two units. They are efficiently designed to maximize storage and usability, but still control cost. A washer dryer, refrigerator and pantry are located along the 'white wall'.
The paddles on the wall were made by 16 year old Native girls. Indigenous Art was generously lent to the project by Quintana Gallery in Portland, Oregon.


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Getting Media Right: Marketing in Motion
If you don't have access to all the data you need to create actionable insights, you're not alone. Only eight percent or less of marketers think they have all the data they need. That's according to our latest study, Getting Media Right: Marketing in Motion, which highlights that advertisers are struggling to use data to effectively guide media investments.
Why do brands abuse customer relationships with email marketing?
I recently bought a new Subaru Crosstrek. The Crosstrek is a good vehicle, far slower than my old R32 for sure, but I expected that. What I did not expect was the barrage of emails that followed the purchase and it is rapidly undermining my positive feelings toward the Subaru brand.
Using experiences to turn loyalty to a show into loyalty to a media brand
'How will the end of Game of Thrones impact HBO's subscriber base?' was a question frequently heard over the last few months as the show wrapped up its final season. It isn't an unusual question. Channels often face a wave of cancellations when a big show ends – or even after a season finale.
ends – or even after a season finale.
Are CEOs responsible for the decline of brand-building campaigns?
My colleague Daren Poole pointed me to a study by the Financial Times (FT) and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) designed to understand why the balance of marketing spend has shifted from brand-building to performance campaigns. It suggests that poor knowledge of how brands create value over the short and long-term may be at fault.
Is sustainability simply too important to be a selling point?
I bought my favourite moisturiser last week out of habit, only to discover that Simple had made a packaging change. Not one that impacts how I used the product or makes the pack more beautiful, but one that makes me love the brand a little more. Simply discovering that your brand has done the right thing can be more powerful than being told it has.
Corporations hate chaos, but creativity originates from it
This title sums up the premise of a talk held by WARC at Cannes Lions 2019. The talk was given by Martin Weigel from W+K Amsterdam and Rob Campbell from R/GA London who promoted chaos as an enabler of creativity.
Are we creating ads doomed to drown in the digital melting pot?
As I sat patiently through another irrelevant YouTube ad recently, I reflected on why so many ads fail to grab my attention or create a lasting impression. But in a world where marketers can create content for a few thousand dollars and 'noise' supersedes quality, why should they exercise caution? Everyone else is doing it so why shouldn't they?
Brand learning from a successful, artisan cheesemaker
What can you say when one of the founders of a company says, "My job is to create meaning for others"? I think you must give them a round of applause and admire what they have achieved because adding meaning is what turns a company into a strong brand.


Australia's first community battery trial will see a bulk Tesla battery integrated into existing grid and owned and operated by Western Power and Synergy.
The launch of Australia's first shared community battery.
A 105 kW (420kWh) Tesla battery in the Mandurah suburb of Meadow Springs will allow 52 local families to store excess power they generate during the day from their solar PV systems, and then draw down on it during the peak evening period.
The $200,000 PowerBank trial will be run by Western Australia (WA) grid operator Western Power and state-owned retailer Synergy.
It will be the first time in Australia that a utility-scale battery is integrated into an already-established major metropolitan network and made accessible for individual customers.
Under the scheme, customers will be able to use a maximum of 8kWH of virtual storage at the cost of $1 per day without having to outlay upfront costs.
The 8kWhs storage, which is enough to power the average suburban home for over one hour during peak time, will be available any time after 3 pm each day .
PowerBank trial participants will be given greater access to their usage patterns and daily storage data online via the Synergy website, while maintaining reliability of supply from their Western Power grid connection during overcast days.
The 24-month shared storage service trial was unveiled by WA Energy Minister Ben Wyatt on Wednesday.
"PowerBank is an 'in front of the meter' storage trial which allows invited local customers to store excess electricity from already installed solar PV systems to then use it during peak times," Wyatt said.
Indeed, Western Australia has the third highest rooftop solar penetration figures nationwide, with 26.7% of households with installed solar panels, and the missing piece has been in battery storage.
In the Meadow Springs battery trial, Synergy will draw on its previous experience with a 1.1 MW community-scale lithium ion battery in the new Alkimos Beach estate, which it has been trialling since 2016.
Households taking part in the trial will not be locked into the program and will receive a quarterly activity statement showing the money saved and energy used.
The recruitment of participants for the trial will start today (October 17) with Synergy contacting those eligible by mail.


Artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing are the most anticipated potential disruptors to the data center business over the next 3-5 years. The majority of colocation providers are seeking sustainable power options for their data centers.
These are just two insights shared by attendees during our recent Innovation Day: Cloud and Service Providers event in May. More than 20 colocation providers and key members of the value chain (electrical contractors and consulting engineers) representing 17 different companies gathered to talk about current market challenges and opportunities. Also discussed were the technologies poised to have the biggest impact in the future.
As rapidly growing markets and fluctuating enterprise needs change, colocation providers' own business requirements are changing as well. This forum offered to connect industry peers and colleagues so they can examine common pain points, hash out resolutions, and strategize to get ahead of the pace. Additionally, directly hearing from our customers allows us at Schneider Electric find new ways to help them innovate.
Most attendees felt that an integrated software dashboard (DCIM, PME and BMS) was extremely important for their businesses.
The majority of attendees said they are deploying LV/MV and UPS skids, with only a third deploying IT modules.
Rack-ready systems designed to deploy IT at scale (such as our HyperPod solution) and intelligent breakers were of great interest to attendees.
Sessions throughout the day focused on our EcoStruxure™ solution for IT and power, along with presentations around microgrid, prefabricated modules, and the future state of UPS.
But the key, opening presentation was led by dual keynotes – David Hall, Senior Director Technology Innovation at Equinix spoke on AI and Kevin Brown, Senior Vice President of Innovation and CTO at Schneider Electric – who presented on the future of data center performance.
Brown considered the progress that's been made in data centers over the past decade — from first hearing about cloud computing to now talking about edge. Performance and efficiency improvements have been tremendous, with UPS advances, containment and economization resulting in about an 80% reduction in losses.
Given that we have increased physical infrastructure efficiency by about 80% through more efficient architectures and products, Brown concluded that on the existing path with current strategies, we're probably approaching the point of diminishing returns.
Watch and listen to Brown as he delves into what it will take to reach the next 80% of improvements. In addition, look for a future blog wherein David Hall of Equinix addresses exactly how AI will continue to disrupt and impact the data center.


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We visited the Webb Elementary School PS22 in Jersey City, NJ, for ideas on how to make learning awesome through school safety and community outreach.
Euan Morton from Hamilton on Broadway Coaches Kids at TECCS!
Lady J Juliet Book Pre-Open...!


Conducted as a "mini" collections needs assessment program for small museums, libraries, and archives, Circuit Riders will discuss various areas of stewardship with you, help identify your specific collections issues, suggest and prioritize basic steps to improve care of your collections, review your existing documents and forms, provide you with templates and suggest site-specific resources.
The Circuit Rider program is tailored to meet the needs of individual sites and offers an opportunity for site staff and board members to meet personally with the Circuit Riders in an informal, supportive and consultative setting. These mini needs assessments are intended to help identify your specific collections issues and set priorities for improving collections care at your institution that staff and board can practicably accomplish in the next one to two years.
Circuit Riders helps small collecting institutions develop preliminary strategies for improving collections care by identifying and prioritizing actions you can practicably take to implement improvements. The program will also help provide templates and identify resources you can use to draft basic collections policies, forms, and procedures for adoption and implementation.
The Circuit Rider program addresses many of the same stewardship areas as the American Association for State and Local History's StEPs program and is based on the American Association of Museum's Collections Stewardship Assessment Program (CSMAP) and Heritage Preservation's Conservation Assessment Program (CAP); consequently, participating in Circuit Riders can help prepare you to pursue the StEPS program or determine your readiness for a more comprehensive CSMAP or CAP.
No preparation is needed. You need only plan for staff who work with collections to meet with the VAM assessment team for a half-day site visit. The visit will include tours of your exhibits and collections storage areas, discussion about your specific collections issues and suggestions to help you address them. Following the visit, the Circuit Rider team will prepare a short report that addresses collections needs, accompanied by recommendations of low-cost steps to help you improve collections care and management over the next 1-2 years, and a list of specific resources to help you accomplish them.
Six-month and one-year follow-ups from VAM will encourage accomplishments by your institution and offer some additional external accountability without any undue pressure.
A new element of the Circuit Riders program is the addition of on-the-spot environmental measurements. The team will be equipped with monitoring equipment to use during the site visits which will provide staff or volunteers with some immediate information about their collections environment.
Also, VAM's new Environmental Monitoring Kit Rental Program will soon be available to offer small museums opportunities for more extended monitoring at their own institutions. Site rental kits will include user-friendly equipment with step-by-step instructions for use plus a supplemental Manual. Contact VAM for rental information.
Applications will be reviewed by VAM's Technical Assistance Committee, which includes collections management experts from across the Commonwealth. The program is competitive. Private institutions and for-profit venues are not eligible.


A Kisan Vikas Patra holder can choose to encash his/her certificate at any point of time starting from the date of issue. For the Kisan Vikas Patra Encashment, you will have to visit the post office that had issued the certificate.
You can invest in Kisan Vikas Patra if you are a citizen of India and an adult; in your own name, or on behalf of a minor. A trust is also eligible to invest in KVP. Two adults can jointly buy KVP.
The facility of Kisan Vikas Patra encashment can be availed only at the Post Office from which it was issued. In case it is not possible to encash at the same Post Office, certain formalities have to be completed before this can be done. The most important document to submit in this case would be the identity slip that the owner must have for Kisan Vikas Patra encashment.
KVP Premature encashment is also possible after the lock in period of two and a half years from the date of issue of the Kisan vikas Patra. The KVP holder is eligible to get the principal amount invested along with interest that is less than the full rate that would normally have been given.


At the Wang YMCA of Chinatown, more than 400 seniors of Asian descent have participated in "Get Fit, Stay Fit for Life," a free six-month program that brings adults 60 or over together for group exercises, counseling services, informative workshops and organized social activities.
Wang YMCA staff speak three Chinese dialects — Mandarin, Cantonese and Toisanese – so they can communicate with program participants. They also understand the cultural challenges their client population faces and their need for trusting relationships with YMCA staff and other members.
This story was published originally in the Tufts Health Plan Foundation's June 25, 2013 newsletter.


One of our fellow member of the EEC sent us this article few days ago. Remember you can do the same and talk about whatever you want, even yourself!
Transformers are devices that change (transform) the voltage of power supplied to meet the individuals needs of power consumers. It uses the principle of electromagnetic induction to change the voltage (alternating difference) from one value to another whether smaller or greater.
A transformer is made of a soft iron coil with two other coils wound around it, but not connected with one another. The iron coils can either be arranged on top of another or be wound on separate limps of the iron core.
The coil to which the alternating voltage is supplied is known as primary winding or primary coil while. The alternating current in the primary winding produces a changing magnetic field around it whenever an alternating potential is supplied. An alternating current is in turn produced by the changing field in the secondary coil and the amount of current produced depends on the number of windings in the secondary coil.
There are two types of transformers, namely: Step down and Step up transformers. Generally, the difference between them is the amount of voltage produced, depending on the number of secondary coils.
In a step-down transformer is one who secondary windings are fewer than the primary windings. In other words, the transformer's secondary voltage is less than the primary voltage. So, the transformer is designed to convert high-voltage, low-current power into a low-voltage, high current power and it is mainly used in domestic consumption.
A common case of step-down application is in the case of door bells. Normally, door bells use 16 volts, but most household power circuits carry 110-120 volts. Therefore, the doorbell's step-down transformer receives the 110 volts and reduces it to lower voltage before supplying it to the doorbell.
Step-down transformers are mostly used to convert the 220 volts electricity to the 110 volts required in most domestic equipment.
A step-up transformer is the direct opposite of a step-down transformer. There are many turns on the secondary winding than in the primary winding in the step-up transformers. Thus, the voltage supplied in the secondary transformer is greater than the one supplied across the primary winding. Because of the principle of conservation of energy, the transformer converts low voltage, high-current to high voltage-low current. In other words, the voltage has been stepped up.
You can find step-up transformers located near power plants that are designed to operate megawatts of power. Apart from the power plants, step-up transformers can also be used for local and smaller applications such as x-ray machine which requires about 50,000 volts to work. Even a micro-wave oven requires a small step-up transformer to operate.
Tip: The type of metal winding used is one of the considerations used in determining the efficiency of transformers. Copper coils are more efficient than many other coil metal choices such as aluminum. However, copper windings tend to cost more, but you can expect to save the initial cost over time as the efficiency of the material will save on electrical cost.
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Thanks for pointing out that a transformer is what changes the voltage of power supplied to meet the needs of power consumers. You also said that a transformer is made of a soft iron coil with two other coils wound around it. I think it's good to use a transformer winding company so that your transformer has a less likely chance of blowing or shutting down.


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Home Elections - 2016
Guess Which Billionaire Is Pouring Cash Into Pro-Hillary Groups
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Money makes the world of politics go 'round. Sad that that is the case, but it is. And in the 2016 presidential election, a whole lot of money is going to get spent trying to either defend Hillary Clinton from her detractors or pump her up to her own base.
Enter the "SuperPACs," the "non-profit" Political Action Committees that are doing the advance work for their own candidates separate from the official campaigns run by the candidates and the political parties themselves. These organizations, thanks to the 2010 Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court, can raise as much money as they want to help any one candidate.
Donors to these groups get no particular tax breaks since they are what the non-profit industry calls 501(c)(4)s, or the nonprofits that don't have to publish their donor list. (On the Republican side, these are the groups that Lois Lerner and the IRS were holding hostage by not giving them non-profit status.) The tax break is off-set by the world not knowing which horse any one person is backing. That also means that the people doing the donating at the major gift level have money to burn.
Enter George Soros, the billionaire who has been known to drop eight figures on presidential campaigns and the man other Democratic donors look to for who to support. This time around he's backing Hillary Clinton. According to Politico, Clinton operative David Brock's American Bridge 21st century is set to report to the Federal Elections Commission $7.7 million raised with a cool $1 million of it from Soros.
In addition to the American Bridge fundraising, the American Bridge 21st Century Foundation – related, but not the same – has raised an additional $1 million, with Priorities USA, a Clintonian attack dog group, raising $12 million. As Politico put in a headline, that's $20 million, and a full five percent of it from George Soros. (Even money that he drops more cash in the coming months.)
Hillary Clinton's campaign itself raised $45 million in the first quarter of the year. Not bad for someone scandal ridden and facing multiple felonies. Plus, she's not taking questions from reporters and every time she actually appears in public her poll numbers drop. The billionaire club must know something we don't.
Lest anyone think that only Democratic billionaires and rich people seek to influence elections, the Koch Brothers really are intent on raising almost $900 million to influence the 2016 election, and Republican presidential candidates are all working with their own SuperPACs and raising cash from Republican billionaires.
The super PACs supporting Clinton's prospective GOP rivals like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas are raking in huge checks or commitments from their side's billionaires. New York hedge fund manager Bob Mercer is the leading backer behind a network of pro-Cruz super PACs that boasted of raising $31 million while Miami businessman Norman Braman is considering donating as much as $25 million to a super PAC backing Rubio.
That's a lot of money tossed into politics to back candidates who aren't even confirmed nominees. SuperPAC purposes are multi-fold, but in Hillary's case the majority of the groups are really there to counter "attacks" on her and her record.
While super PACs are still barred from coordinating their spending strategies with the campaigns they're trying to help, operatives in recent years have pioneered techniques for ensuring complementary efforts.
American Bridge 21st Century, for instance, in 2013 launched a project called Correct the Record, that has been filling many of the functions of a traditional campaign rapid-response operation, providing real-time pushback against GOP attacks on its website and via email for use by Clinton's defenders. The group became a stand-alone super PAC in May, splitting off from American Bridge, and hinting at plans to work even more closely with Clinton's campaign.
And thus, the need for billionaires like George Soros to back the candidate most likely to help him or her in the coming years…and the one that most closely reflects a chosen political ideology. What is interesting, though, is that he his one of the few willing to drop serious cash at the billionaire level – as in seven figures or more – on political campaigns. That $7.7 million that David Brock's campaign raised? 22 donors with the average gift being $140,000. Still a lot of money to those who don't have it, but for a lot of wealthy donors, not that much at all.
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Cypress trees are coniferous evergreens with fine, needle-like foliage. They vary greatly in size and shape, from towering swamp giants to small, shrub-like trees. Many of these hardy trees are popularly used in landscapes and home gardens. Their fast rate of growth, up to 2 feet per year, according to the University of Illinois, makes cypress trees an attractive choice for home gardeners who want a tree that will make an instant visual statement.
The rare MacNab cypress is found only in the state of California. The needles lie in a form unusual to most cypress trees, according to the Gymnosperm Database. Instead of lying in all directions, they lie on the same plane, facing the same direction. The foliage is dense on these cone-shaped trees. The trees themselves can be shrub-like in form, especially when used in home landscapes. In the wild, MacNab cypress trees can grow to a maximum height of about 40 feet.
Leyland cypress trees are popular for their rapid rate of growth and pleasing, conical shape. They are often planted in rows and used as windbreaks or screens. These are the fastest growing of all cypress trees, growing as much as 4 feet in 1 year, according to the University of Florida. Leyland cypress trees can grow even when planted in poor soil and can reach a maximum height of about 50 feet if left unpruned. The rapid rate of growth of these trees causes a number of problems, however. Leyland cypress trees easily split in ice or windstorms. They are also prone to suffering from Bagworm infestations, which can be serious. These insects can completely defoliate a tree in one growing season, and there is no way to prevent the infestation.
Italian cypress trees have a tall, very slender profile that lends themselves well to formal landscapes and architecture. These trees can reach a maximum height of 60 feet, with a width of only 3 feet. Italian cypress trees are often planted in rows, lining a driveway or border. Although visually striking, they can sometimes grow to be too large in scale for many home gardens and should be used with caution, according to the University of Florida. These trees do not like overly wet soil and can suffer from fungal diseases.
Kashmir cypress trees have a graceful, weeping form. The foliage is an attractive blue-green in color. Kashmirs are considered the be the most attractive of all the cypress trees, according to the Gymnosperm Database. The cones add even more visual interest to the tree, being perfectly round in shape and a rich, shiny copper in color. Kashmir cypress trees make excellent specimen trees.


There are total 6 letters in Masjid, Starting with M and ending with D.
Masjid is a scrabble word? Yes (16 Points) Masjid has worth 16 Scrabble points.
There are some words list based on poppularity created by adding extra letters to Masjid, These may helps in word games like scrabble and word puzzle.
In Masjid M is 13th, A is 1st, S is 19th, J is 10th, I is 9th, D is 4th letters in Alphabet Series.