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I have volunteered to participate in a program of physical exercise under the instruction of a Beyond Body Fitness trainer. Training may include, but is not limited to, weight and/or resistance training, cardiovascular training, and floor mat exercises.
Beyond Body Fitness agrees to instruct, assist and train me in a safe and professional manner.
A large portion of your success will be based on your commitment to follow instruction, changing your lifestyle, and your attitude towards the fitness program. Unfortunately, because so much depends on what you do on the days you are not training, Beyond Body Fitness cannot guarantee results; however, your willingness to work hard and follow instruction will improve the opportunity of success.
Beyond Body Fitness works on an appointment-based schedule to allow you the time required for your personal training session.
Sessions will generally be 60 minutes. Please be on time for your appointments. If you are late for a session it will still end at the scheduled time. If you are more than 15 minutes late for a session, it will be considered a no-show and you will be required to pay the fee for the session or have it subtracted from your package. If your trainer chooses to extend the training session or wait for you past the 15 minutes, that is to be considered a courtesy and in no way shall be taken as a modification of the above paragraph.
Due to this schedule it is important that you give us sufficient notice when you need to cancel or reschedule an appointment. This means a cancellation or reschedule should be made at least 12 hours before the scheduled appointment. Failure to cancel a training session within this time will result in you being charged for the session unless you choose to pay a reschedule fee of $20.00.
We understand that emergencies happen, so we provide every client with one free short-notice cancellation. You will not be charged for your first cancellation with less than 12-hour notice. The free short-notice cancellation only applies if we are notified prior to the session start time. You will not be able to cancel or reschedule a session with less than 12-hour notice from the training calendar. If you need to cancel or reschedule with less than 12 hours' notice, you must notify your trainer. No-shows are not eligible for the free cancellation.
If Beyond Body Fitness (BBF) must cancel a day, the following will apply. BBF will notify you at least 12-hours prior to the cancellation. If BBF must cancel with less than 12 hours notification, your session will be rescheduled, and you will be given an additional session Free.
Packages are groups of sessions purchased at a discounted rate. Generally, the larger the package, the greater the discount. Since training is about consistency and commitment, all sessions have expiration dates based on the package purchased. Packages less than 16 sessions expire after 3 months, 16 session packages expire after 4 months, 32 session packages expire after 8 months and 48 session packages expire after 12 months. Package expiration dates can and usually will be extended for special circumstance as well as injury or illness if needed.
Once you purchase a package you are assigned a code in the scheduling software that will allow you to schedule your sessions without having to put down a deposit. You will be given access to our training calendar where you can schedule your sessions on any of our open time slots. Sessions must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance and any cancellations or rescheduled sessions must be done at least 12 hours prior to the appointment per the cancellation section above. If you have a need to schedule a session with less than 24 hours' notice, you may contact your trainer and see if they have anything available. Sessions may be scheduled up to 2 months in advance. You may choose to switch over to the Scheduled in Advance option at any time provided we have the days and times available. You will need to contact your trainer to discuss availability and have them make the switch for you.
If you have a set schedule and want to make sure you have the same training days and times, you can set up all your sessions in advance. You can pick the days and times that are best for you based on what we currently have available and we will schedule all your sessions on those days. You will still be able to cancel or reschedule sessions based on the above stipulations listed in the Cancellation Agreement. You may also choose to switch over to the Schedule as you go option at any time. You will need to contact your trainer to make that switch so they can remove your remaining appointments from the current schedule. Your trainer has the sole discretion to change you from a Scheduled in advance client to a Schedule as you go client if they feel there have been an excessive amount of cancellations or reschedules. We always try to discuss options and work with you as much as possible before making any changes. Our only goal is for you to succeed.
This Agreement is entered into between personal trainer Mandi Haynes ("Trainer") and the undersigned ("Client") . The provision of personal training services by Trainer to Client, and Client's use of any premises, facilities or equipment are contingent upon this Agreement.
You agree that if you engage in any physical exercise or activity, including personal training, or enter our premises or use any facility or equipment on our premises for any purpose, you do so at your own risk and assume the risk of any and all injury and/or damage you may suffer, whether while engaging in physical exercise or not. This includes injury or damage sustained while and/or resulting from using any premises or facility, or using any equipment, whether provided to you by Trainer or otherwise, including injuries or damages arising out of the negligence of Trainer, whether active or passive, or any of Trainer's affiliates, employees, agents, representatives, successors, and assigns.
Your assumption of risk includes, but is not limited to, your use of any exercise equipment (mechanical or otherwise), sports fields, courts, or other areas, locker rooms, sidewalks, parking lots, stairs, pools, whirlpools, saunas, steam rooms, lobby or other general areas of any facilities, or any equipment. You assume the risk of your participation in any activity, class, program, instruction, or event, including but not limited to weightlifting, walking, jogging, running, aerobic activities, aquatic activities, tennis, basketball, volleyball, racquetball, or any other sporting or recreational endeavor.
You agree that you are voluntarily participating in the aforementioned activities and assume all risk of injury, illness, damage, or loss to you or your property that might result, including, without limitation, any loss or theft of any personal property, whether arising out of the negligence of Trainer or otherwise.
You agree on behalf of yourself (and all your personal representatives, heirs, executors, administrators, agents, and assigns) to release and discharge Trainer (and Trainer's affiliates, related entities, employees, agents, representatives, successors, and assigns) from any and all claims or causes of action (known or unknown) arising out of the negligence of Trainer, whether active or passive, or any of Trainer's affiliates, employees, agents, representatives, successors, and assigns.
This waiver and release of liability includes, without limitation, injuries which may occur as a result of (a) your use of any exercise equipment or facilities which may malfunction or break, (b) improper maintenance of any exercise equipment, premises or facilities, (c) negligent instruction or supervision, including personal training, (d) negligent hiring or retention of employees, and/or (e) slipping or tripping and falling while on any portion of a premises or while traveling to or from personal training, including injuries resulting from Trainer's or anyone else's negligent inspection or maintenance of the facility or premises.
You expressly agree that the foregoing release, waiver, assumption of risk and indemnity agreement is intended to be as broad and inclusive as permitted by the law in the State of Texas and that if any portion thereof is held invalid, it is agreed that the balance shall, notwithstanding, continue in full legal force and effect. You acknowledge that Trainer offers a service to his/her clients encompassing the entire recreational and/or fitness spectrum. Trainer is not in the business of selling weightlifting equipment, exercise equipment, or other such products to the public, and the use of such items is incidental to the service provided by Trainer. You acknowledge and agree that Trainer does not place such items into the stream of commerce. This release is not intended as an attempted release of claims of gross negligence or intentional acts.
By signing below I agree that I have read and consent to the terms in the Contract as well as the Liability Waiver.


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Q&A With Matthew Epperson, Ph.D.
A number of your current research projects focus on the development of community social capacity in addressing place-based risk factors for criminal justice involvement. What are common social capital needs that drive behavioral health and justice involvement issues in communities?
My work over the last few years has developed from the idea that if we are concerned about social and environmental determinants, we can't just have individual-level interventions.
Promote Smart Decarceration was chosen as one of the 12 Grand Challenges for Social Work of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. As director of the Smart Decarceration Project, what can you tell us about current innovations in the social work field that are helping to reduce rates of incarceration for individuals with mental and substance use disorders?
As a social worker by training, I'm very excited about this initiative. [Social workers] have historically been in a place of influence in the criminal justice system, but in more recent history, in the age of mass incarceration, we have moved away from that as a tough-on-crime approach took over. But in the past decade or so, as more specialized approaches that look at a wide array of needs have been explored, social workers have played a valuable role again.
and maximizes public safety and promotes public well-being.
This work launched 3 years ago as part of a 10-year effort to plan and engage the profession about how the work should be carried out.
As part of this project, Amy Blank Wilson (University of North Carolina, Chapel HIll) is studying how a typical criminogenic risk intervention can be adapted to meet the unique needs of people with mental illnesses.
Amy Watson (University of Illinois at Chicago) is a leading expert on crisis intervention teams. She explores how interventions can enable people like social workers to better respond to people with mental health crises.
I am doing work focusing on prosecutors and how prosecutor-led diversion programs can divert people from being charged if they meet program requirements, which are often quite minimal. Can we divert folks with behavioral health disorders earlier rather than having them go through a two-year drug court program, while also sparing them from having a criminal charge and the collateral consequences that come with it?
What do you think are the most critical person- and place-level risk factors for communities to address to reduce criminal justice involvement among people with mental illness?
The most common person-level risk factor is substance use, which, combined with mental illness, is indicative of higher risk for greater levels of criminal justice involvement. In addition, there are many other needs that put folks at risk of interacting with the police, who are the gatekeepers of the criminal justice system. In my work as a clinician and researcher, a primary issue that has come up repeatedly is housing. If folks don't have stable and supportive places to live, they are more likely to be out on the street and have higher levels of interaction with police. They may or may not be doing something illegal, but that likelihood of justice involvement is still higher. Once someone enters the criminal justice system, the chances of them going back into the system are very high if they don't have safe and supportive housing.
I conceptualize place-level factors as social disadvantage and environmental disadvantage. They're very interrelated; social disadvantage is the notion of downward drift. Those with serious mental illness without sufficient family or community supports tend to drift into poorer neighborhoods and neighborhoods with fewer resources. This disadvantage is related to mental illness but not a direct result of the mental illness.
Environmental disadvantage refers to the idea that if you are in a lower-resource community with less access to services, you and others around you are exposed to more heightened risk. Being in an environment that has fewer resources, combined with having a mental illness, leads to higher risk.
These disadvantages are not unique to people with mental illness. If you look nationwide at the spatial concentration of these social and environmental disadvantages, they are almost always concentrated in low-income communities of color. Therefore, if you have a mental illness and are in one of those communities, you are at a greater risk of justice involvement by virtue of your environment.
What personal or professional experiences motivate you in your work in this field?
I was a fairly new [Master of Social Work] graduate in the mid-nineties. I had worked a bit in mental health, but ended up working as a full-time crisis mental health social worker in a jail in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was my exposure there during the height of mass incarceration that really opened my eyes. I started a jail diversion program, started doing assessments with the drug court, and tried to explore more program interventions to divert people with behavioral health issues out of criminal justice system. That work motivated me to go back for a Ph.D. In my personal life, I know people who have been caught up in the system. Rarely do I find someone who doesn't know someone that has. That combination of personal and professional experience is what motivates me.
One of your roles as a professor is educating the next generation in your field. For students whose future work will focus on criminal justice involvement among those with mental and substance use disorders, what is one main takeaway message that you hope your students will carry with them into the field?
I hope my students carry with them the idea that they are not limited by what currently exists in the system. All new interventions come about because of people working to make a change. I hope my students take away a commitment to not maintain the status quo and to utilize evidence in order to make a difference. It gives me a lot of hope that there are many bright and dedicated young people working on these issues and I'm very proud to be a small part of their impact.
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Q: Select Values with lowest date i have table Rates
Key   Rate      Dt
1      2      201401
1      2      201402
1      3      201403
2      1      201308
2      2      201309
2      1      201301

and i want to select the Key and rate that has the lowest Dt.
so the result should look like :
   Key   Rate      Dt
    1      2      201401
    2      1      201308

I tried this :

select Key,Rate,Dt from Rates where Dt = ( select MIN(dt) from Rates
  group by Key)

but its not selecting the lowest date only for the specific key... Can you help me please?
Thank you

A: You can use a CTE to get the relevant records...
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WITH    cteLowestDate
          AS ( SELECT   [Key]
                       ,Rate
                       ,Dt
                       ,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY [Key] ORDER BY Dt) AS 'rownum'
               FROM     Rates
             )
    SELECT  [Key], Rate, Dt
    FROM    cteLowestDate
    WHERE   rownum = 1

I have added a SQL Fiddle

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       Rate,
       Dt
FROM   (SELECT KEY,
               Min(dt) dt
        FROM   Rates
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       JOIN Rates B
         ON A.KEY = B.KEY
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A: I think you meant this:
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Take On Payments
Take On Payments , a blog sponsored by the Retail Payments Risk Forum of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, is intended to foster dialogue on emerging risks in retail payment systems and enhance collaborative efforts to improve risk detection and mitigation. We encourage your active participation in Take on Payments and look forward to collaborating with you.
What Does Generative AI Mean for Payments?
When the latest news in natural language processing (NLP) hits the newspaper comics on a Sunday, you know you've got a phenomenon on your hands. Perhaps you, like me, are asking yourself some questions: What the heck is ChatGTP ? What does it mean for payments? How can I think about the risks? And what new ideas will the capabilities of NLP inspire?
What is ChatGPT? Like a lot of people in the past few weeks, I asked ChatGPT to tell me. The answer: "ChatGPT is a large language model that has been trained to generate human-like text. It can be used for a variety of natural language processing tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text generation."
Let's unpack this answer. "Large" means that the model is trained on vast amounts of data—that is, text created by humans. A "language model" is designed to understand written or spoken text. "Generate" means create content, which is a key capability to think about in the context of payments. Large language models like this one, using a massive amount of computing power and human training, are taught to pretend to be human in responding to written or spoken text.
How successful is this charade? A lot depends on the questions you ask and how you ask them. Your human input is still important. When you give the model a prompt, you are "programming" it to give you a list of Alfred Hitchcock's most famous movies or the ingredients for coq au vin. When you "program" a search engine by asking such a question, you see a list with links (that is, sources for the information). When you program a natural language model, you get sentences and no source for the information. The lack of sourcing is a critical distinction when it comes to assessing accuracy or bias.
Setting accuracy aside, the answers I got sounded human enough to me, maybe a bit stilted. Let's look at the opportunities and risks for payments.
Opportunity. Generative AI has the potential to make customers feel like they are chatting with a person when they are interacting with a bot. For customers like me, that could cut down on trudging through FAQs to get an answer—or even a hint to an answer—depending, of course, on how well trained the bot is. Chatbots could become more responsive to me personally.
Risk. Generative AI has the potential to enable fraud. New tech = new fraud, as we learned with new tech for making remote payments . The ability to create plausible content and mimic human conversation is chilling in the context of phishing—for example. ChatGPT already can pretend to be an ATM information screen.
Opportunity. Generative AI has the potential to prevent fraud. NLP tools can find patterns in data, perhaps leading them to detect fraud created with these very same tools. We've seen this pattern before in payments, with innovations in fraud followed by innovations in fraud prevention and detection, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. As previously pointed out by the Federal Trade Commission, however, AI is no silver bullet in fighting fraud.
When I asked the model, "What practices are most important to prevent payments fraud?," I got an error message. Too complicated? Too dependent on common sense? Too speculative? Therefore, without AI assistance, here are this earthling's thoughts about ways to prevent payments fraud in the era of generative AI:
Keep your tech and tools up to date.
Share information across the payments industry.
Educate employees and end users.
Use dual controls when possible.
Practice password hygiene.
Always keep an eye out for The Next Big Thing.
To learn more, check out two podcasts I found informative:
"Did Artificial Intelligence Just Get Too Smart?"
"Exploring Large Language Models with ChatGPT"
By Claire Greene, a payments risk expert in the Retail Payments Risk Forum at the Atlanta Fed
Webinars Address ATM Crimes, Financial Exploitation
ATM attacks don't generally appear in the news, despite their growing threat. As we've written before, these attacks can be both cyber and physical, and the physical attacks can be against both machine and the personnel servicing the machine. Another disturbing crime that may not appear enough in the headlines is the financial exploitation of senior adults. Two upcoming events in our Talk About Payments webinar series will give you the opportunity to learn more about these issues from the experts. The first, on November 3, covers ATM attacks. The second webinar takes place the following week, on November 10, and addresses the exploitation of seniors and community-based approaches to help mitigate vulnerabilities. More details about these webinars, as well as registration links, are below. We hope you will join us for both events.
November 3: ATM Attacks and Defenses
Because many financial institutions have closed or reduced the operating hours of many of their banking offices since the start of the pandemic, customer withdrawals of cash from ATMs have increased significantly. Unfortunately, the criminal element has shifted some resources to attacking ATMs and the personnel servicing them, including those who make currency deliveries. More than half of all ATM attacks in the United States involve thefts of the ATMs themselves, according to ATM Security Association data. The growth in dispenser jackpotting is also troubling. Because the methods of ATM crime can vary from city to city and month to month, it is critical that that ATM operators stay informed about current trends.
A panel of ATM experts join moderator David Tente, executive director of the ATM Industry Association, in discussing trends in cyber and physical attacks against ATM terminals and service personnel along with measures that can mitigate the risks. The panelists are:
Brenda Born, supervisory special agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Brad Moody, executive vice president of operations, Lowers & Associates
John Toneatto, vice president of security and investigations, Loomis
The webinar takes place on November 3 from 1 to 2 p.m. (ET). To participate in the free webinar, please register .
November 10: Financial Exploitation of Aging Adults
Did you know that more than 10,000 US adults turn 65 every day, and that many of them will be victims of financial fraud? Elder financial exploitation is a growing problem, according to the National Council on Aging , which estimates financial losses of at least $36.5 billion dollars a year. With the rapidly aging population, we must identify and protect elderly citizens exposed to financial exploitation risks.
In the November 10 episode of our Talk About Payments webinar series, Drs. Thomas Blomberg and Julie Brancale, criminologists from Florida State University, describe the current research, theory, and policy responses associated with this growing social problem. They also address the patterns and variations of financial exploitation of older adults and discuss why some older adults may be more or less vulnerable than others. The presentation concludes with a discussion of areas in need of additional research and policy attention. Scarlett Heinbuch, a payments risk expert at the Atlanta Fed, moderates the discussion.
The webinar takes place on November 10 from 1 to 2 p.m. (ET). To participate in the free webinar, please register .
We encourage financial institutions, retailers, payments processors, law enforcement officials, academics, and other payments system stakeholders to join us for these informative webinars. You will be able to submit questions during the webinar. Please let your colleagues know about these webinars!
By David Lott, a payments risk expert in the Retail Payments Risk Forum at the Atlanta Fed
October 17, 2022 in
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Not-So-Common Scams Result in Large Losses
We often write in this blog about the scams that criminals seem to favor at the time and describe defenses that targeted individuals or companies can use to thwart these scams. The most popular continues to be the broad category of advance fee scams. I thought it would be helpful to review two other types of financial scams that are not so frequent but that can result in large losses for victims.
Cashier's check fraud
A genuine cashier's check is a direct obligation of the bank that sells it. In a more innocent time, cashier's checks were viewed "as good as gold." Regulation CC generally requires a bank to make the funds of a deposited cashier's check available the next business day, but a fraudulent cashier's check could take several days or weeks to be returned to the bank of first deposit.
Criminals use this time gap to their advantage. In some cases, the check is for the exact amount of the item being purchased, and the criminal departs with the goods. For remote purchases, the criminal may send the seller a cashier's check for an amount in excess of the purchase price: $1,500 instead of $1,000, for example. Then the criminal claims the amount was a mistake and asks the seller to send the merchandise as well as refund the overpayment. When the fraudulent check is returned, the seller is out not only the merchandise but also cold hard cash.
Fraudulent cashier checks can be very difficult to spot given the advanced technology of printers and graphics software. Here is some fraud prevention advice:
Accept a cashier's check only from someone you know or trust.
Never accept a cashier's check with an amount higher than the purchase price.
Consider using an escrow service instead of a cashier's check, where the goods are held by a trusted third party until the payment funds are fully verified.
Be aware of the difference between when funds from a cashier's check become available versus when the check finally clears.
You can find more information about cashier's check fraud on the website of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
High-yield investment fraud
In this type of scam, a fictitious financial institution or company, often located outside the United States, offers a risk-free, guaranteed return on a savings or investment instrument that is substantially above the market rate. The scammer claims to be able to achieve these returns by using sophisticated trading techniques involving "prime bank" financial instruments in foreign markets. Often, there is a promise that the funds are insured by a country's financial oversight agency or by the World Bank, a claim supported by certificates that look legitimate.
These scammers target their victims through advertisements in national and financial publications. They may also solicit victims with executive phishing attacks that have obtained contact information of high-net-worth individuals. The criminals assert that the victim will be part of an exclusive group and therefore should not discuss the investment with others, sometimes even requesting execution of nondisclosure agreements.
My prevention tip for this scam is to follow the old adage that "if it's too good to be true, it probably is."
If there are other financial scams that you think we should address, please let us know by leaving a comment.
The Ransomware Threat Continues to Grow
For more than five years, this blog; federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies; and multiple industry associations have continued to warn businesses about the threat of ransomware attacks. Nevertheless, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center's (IC3) 2021 crime report shows that in 2021, IC3 received 3,729 ransomware complaints, representing losses of $49.2 million. These numbers reflect a 51 percent increase in the number of victims and a 69 percent increase in losses. The report notes that these figures are likely higher as the crimes are underreported, and that these financial losses don't "include estimates of lost business, time, wages, files, or equipment, or any third-party remediation services acquired by a victim." According to the report, the industries most frequently targeted were health care, financial services, information technology, critical manufacturing, and government but water systems, energy, and transportation networks were also attacked.
In the beginning, criminals carried out ransomware attacks by gaining network access to a company's computer system, which they would accomplish by getting an employee to unknowingly load malware or load it themselves by exploiting an operating software vulnerability or using a remote access channel. The malware would then encrypt the targeted files so the company could not access them, and the criminal would demand a ransom and promise a decryption key once it was paid.
Last year saw an evolution of the attacks, when criminals began to seek higher payouts. In addition to making the regular ransomware demands, criminals threatened to release sensitive information they'd gathered before encrypting the files unless the victims paid an additional ransom. Regardless of any promises they make and money they get, criminals often sell this information on the Dark Web for even more money.
The defenses against a ransomware attack remain the same:
Conduct employee training and phishing tests to educate and increase awareness. • Implement a process for employees to report suspected phishing emails and investigate them immediately.
Make frequent offline data backups and regularly test the backup process.
Install security patches and software updates as soon as possible.
Monitor remote desktop protocols, if they're used, and carefully review access controls.
What defensive measures has your company implemented to defend against a ransomware attack? Let us know I've missed any.
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The Year of the Mobile Payment—Really!
Consumer Research Finds an Association between BNPL and Overdrafts
Open Banking's Slow March Advances
Our Payments Wishes and Resolutions for 2023
Digital Divide Trickles Down to Payment Account Adoption
The Battle over Consumer Liability for eP2P
What's Had Your Attention in 2022?
When Speed and Acceptance Collide
More Highlights from the CFPB BNPL Report
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Major cities like Philadelphia can be a dangerous place for pedestrians. In 2010 alone, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation reported that there were 148 pedestrian deaths in the state. Of these, 30 occurred in Philadelphia County, more than doubling the next highest county (Allegheny with 13 pedestrian deaths).
Accidents of all kinds are dangerous, but those involving pedestrians can be particularly devastating. If you've been involved in an accident where you were a pedestrian, speak with a pedestrian accident lawyer in Philadelphia at Cordisco & Saile LLC.
Pedestrian accidents are typically associated with a collision between a person who's walking and a motor vehicle, such as a car. However, pedestrian accidents include any type of accident that occurs to a person while they are walking.
Some common types of pedestrian accidents are listed below.
Accidents involving any type of motorized vehicle, such as a car, truck, commercial vehicle, bus, van, motorcycle, or ATV.
And, injuries caused from falling debris or construction site materials.
While each of the accidents listed above are very different from one another, they all have one thing in common: they are accidents that are caused by the irresponsible actions of another person. For example, an accident involving a motor vehicle may occur because of impaired driving, distracted driving, or aggressive driving.
A slip and fall may be caused by an uneven or poorly maintained surface. An injury caused by falling debris may be attributed to a lack of proper adherence to safety protocols or regulations on the part of a construction company.
Oftentimes, these injuries can have a long lasting impact on a person's life, and greatly impair a person's quality of life. If someone else's negligence caused your pedestrian accident, you may recover damages.
Review the damages you may recover and which parties may be liable with a pedestrian accident lawyer in Philadelphia. Each case is unique and the type of claim and liable party can vary depending on the circumstances of your accident.
If you or a loved one has sustained a serious injury in a pedestrian accident, the time to take action is now. In Pennsylvania, the statute of limitations for pursing a personal injury case is two years from the date of injury, as detailed in Pa. Const. Stat. Sec. 5524.
Pennsylvania law is complex, and the assistance of an attorney is essential in navigating its many intricacies. At Cordisco & Saile LLC, a pedestrian accident lawyer in Philadelphia can answer all of your legal questions and help you understand your rights after a pedestrian accident.
To get started on filing your claim immediately, call Cordisco & Saile LLC today at 215-642-2335 or use our online contact form to set up a free consultation with a lawyer.


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Since picking up the fiddle seven years ago, Judy has played on a restored Pullman train, Pete Seeger's Sloop Clearwater, and stages in Chicago and beyond. With her band, the duo The Wren & The Whistler, she took first prize in the Midwest Fiddle Championship (Group Division) and co-founded the Old Time Jamboree (a monthly open stage and community event). In 2014, Judy received a grant from the Illinois Arts Council to study Midwestern Fiddle Traditions with Master Fiddler Paul Tyler (aka Dr. Dosido). She plays tunes from the Midwest and around the world and composes her own fiddle tunes.
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Judy founded Union Design in 2008, where she helps non-profit organizations do the important work of communicating through graphic design. She has done award-winning work for the Poetry Foundation, University of Illinois at Chicago, Perkins and Will and Women of the ELCA. Other current and past clients include: Gallery 37, Chicago Housing Authority, Ounce of Prevention, Safer Foundation, Strategic Management Society and Northwestern University.
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Here we are in the Coromandel which is so beautifully described as sunshine capital of the world. Yesterday afternoon we had a bit of rain but nothing too unusual. However at night it was a bit of a different story. All of a sudden a storm started above us. Rain started flowing underneath our camper in which we were sleeping. Then the lightning started. Each lightning created an echo which was continuously bouncing between the mountains. This took place during the entire night. In the morning we woke up and stood outside our camper which was now standing in a large pool of water above the grass. Luckily enough we could still drive away without any problems.
After leaving our campsite we decided to grab some coffee at a local place. While ordering we heard some man talking about how the first floor of his entire house flooded. He still had a positive attitude but by the looks of it that might just be him trying to stay strong. After drinking our coffee we decided to go to an I-Site, a place were tourists (like us) can go to get some information. As this was our first time visiting New Zealand we didn't know if this kind of weather is normal. This was certainly not the case, in fact this was the worst storm that has hit the island in hundred years. The woman at the I-site informed us that many roads had been flooded. Out of 3 roads which you can leave the Coromandel 2 are not save anymore. She told us the best thing to do is to leave as soon as possible as weather only will become worse. So we decided to go to a little village called Raglan which lies to the south of where we were.
We step in our car, turn on the radio and search for a station which talks about the weather. We hear all different kind of story's. Cars that drifted away, roads that are blocked, tree's that fell over, houses that flooded, you name it. And things will only become worse. This is because in a couple of hours it will be high-tide. I'm already in New Zealand for a couple of weeks and I've seen how much the difference can be. We keep listening to the radio station while driving next to a river. It's incredible to see how a river, yesterday so clear and so blue, now is brown through all the dirt and sand. The tree's and bushes in the banks were already underwater.
We keep driving and leave the river behind us. Now we are somewhere more south between loads of flooded grasslands. Everywhere are leaves and tree trunks on the road. While driving the wind keeps pushing us with all its force. Often we have to steer to stay on the right side of the road. Even traffic signs are lying on the road. We do notice the further we go south the better the weather is. After driving for a while in these conditions we enter a small village called Aroha.
It was not raining anymore but the wind was still strong. We parked our car in the center of the village and searched for a café. Again we order some coffee and sit down somewhere close to the entrance. Not even a minute later the weather alarm goes off. We see firetrucks and police cars leaving the city in the direction we came from. While sitting in the café we hear from some locals that there is a huge power failure which effected thousand of houses.
Never have I been in these kind of weather. In the Netherlands, were I'm from, we complain a lot about the weather but never is it like this. I've heard people say that designers need to travel a lot. This is because you will be introduced to new experiences, cultures and meet different people. It's was a unique experience and one that will stay with me after the vacation. I would have never been able to design a storm with this much depth, and you never know, maybe someday I can use this experience in a game.


The Cavaliers left the NBA draft with three second-round picks, but it seems Cleveland will begin the season without any of them.
The Cavs traded Rakeem Christmas to the Pacers, and Cedi Osman will remain overseas.
The third, Sir'Dominic Pointer, is headed to the D-League.
Sir'Dominic Pointer, the Cleveland Cavaliers' 53rd pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, will play for the Canton Charge of the NBA Development League, a league source informed Northeast Ohio Media Group.
Pointer, 23, will not attend training camp with the Cavaliers and instead will report to Canton once its camp opens up, the source said.
The Cavaliers have 13 players with guaranteed salaries plus Tristan Thompson, Jared Cunningham and Quinn Cook. On a max contract or qualifying offer – or maybe even something between – Thompson will almost certainly be in Cleveland next season. That'll give the Cavs 14 guaranteed salaries.
By declining to take the required tender – a one-year contract, surely unguaranteed at the minimum, a team must offer to retain rights to a second-round pick – Pointer is doing the Cavaliers a favor. He's allowing them to keep his rights for a year without having to pay him or find him a roster spot. He's even going to their D-League affiliate, accepting piddly wages rather than pursuing a more-lucrative deal overseas, to give Cleveland greater control of his development.
Perhaps, Pointer agreed to play in the D-League on a condition of being drafted. Maybe the Cavaliers promised him a better-than-tender contract next summer.
But if Pointer had forced the issue and taken the required tender, he surely would have gone to training camp with Cleveland. There, he would have competed with Cunningham and Cook for the final regular-season roster spot. Pointer would have been the underdog, but maybe he would have beaten those two. If not, the Cavaliers would have waived him, which still would have put him in better position. He could negotiate with any NBA team for a contract at that point.
As is, he can negotiate with only Cleveland – which doesn't have room for him.
That could change next season, or Pointer might be wasting a year helping a franchise that's not paying him now and might not ever.
The Pelicans waived Toney Douglas before having to guarantee the rest of his contract.
The Pacers didn't submit a claim, but now that he has cleared waivers, they'll take him.
Recently waived by the Pelicans, guard Toney Douglas will sign a deal with the Pacers, I've been told. Already there working out.
The Pacers probably got a couple advantages by signing Douglas rather than claiming him. If it's a one-year minimum contract, the NBA will pay a portion of it. That wouldn't have happened by claiming him, because he was on a two-year deal, even though that was for the minimum. Indiana can also negotiate a new guarantee date rather than Aug. 1 – and that's particularly important.
The Pacers have 15 players with guaranteed salaries, and their four lowest-paid players – Shayne Whittington, Joseph Young, Rakeem Christmas and Glenn Robinson III – signed this offseason. It's hard to see Indiana making room for Douglas on its regular-season roster.
George Hill, Monta Ellis, Rodney Stuckey, Joseph Young can all play point guard or some proximity to the position. If Indiana makes a trade, Douglas could provide depth – especially because some of those other players will see most of their minutes on the wing. Otherwise, Douglas probably gets squeezed out in late October.
But at minimum, the six-year veteran will have training camp to make his case. Maybe a point guard-needy team with a roster vacancy will be watching.
Rakeem Christmas, Pacers reached agreement on four-year, $4.5 million deal, league sources tell @clevelanddotcom. Two years guaranteed.
Christmas will have a bigger opportunity to get minutes in Indiana than he would have in Cleveland, and the Pacers clearly think highly of the rookie if they were willing to guarantee his first two years as a second-round pick.
The Cleveland Cavaliers executed a minor trade with the Indiana Pacers on Thursday, helping set up a larger deal that will involve Brendan Haywood, sources told ESPN.com.
The Cavs sent center Rakeem Christmas, the No. 36 overall pick in June's draft, to the Pacers for the Los Angeles Lakers' 2019 second-round pick, which is owned by Indiana. The trade gives the Cavs roster flexibility and an asset they can use to move Haywood and create a large trade exception in the next week.
The Portland Trail Blazers and Philadelphia 76ers are the only teams with enough cap space to absorb Haywood and create a trade exception for Cleveland. The Utah Jazz are also close but would have to trade or cut several players with non-guaranteed contracts to do so.
The Cavs will likely make a deal with one of these teams, and then Haywood would be immediately waived before his salary is guaranteed. To rent out this cap space, even for just a few hours, the Cavs might need to surrender a draft pick. Until last month, the Cavs didn't own any second-round picks until 2020 but have acquired two 2019 second-rounders over the past months. They also have the rights to a handful of overseas players.
With their options limited, this move makes perfect sense. Creating a trade exception gives the Cavs some flexibility in being able to take back a player from another team without having to match Haywood's large salary. Now, they're in a position to get a player in a straight salary-dump trade. Who will be out there for them to get between now and the trade deadline is another matter, but they'll have options.
Rakeem Christmas was not going to be part of the Cavaliers roster — they are win-now, he is a guy in need of development.
Indiana has time to develop guys, so they have traded for him. The Pacers announced the move, saying they gave up the future second-round pick they acquired in the Roy Hibbert trade.
Christmas showed flashes of good defense and shot blocking, plus a little offense, at Summer League. However, he shot 33.3 percent and didn't exactly blow any doors off. He's a guy who spent four years at Syracuse and still needs to develop his game.
Christmas is 6'10" and incredibly long — a 7'5" wingspan. He was a shot blocker camped in the middle of the Syracuse zone in college, but he has the body to defend in the NBA post. He seemed to struggle against more athletic, smaller players.
For a Pacers team that just moved Hibbert from the middle of their defense, taking a flier on Christmas makes some sense. We'll see if he can make the roster behind Jordan Hill, Myles Turner and Ian Mahinmi. That seems a long shot, but he's got a better chance there than Cleveland.


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A Cavan man has been found guilty of murdering a mother of one by stabbing her to death on the front lawn of her home a day after she gave evidence in court against a friend of his.
A jury of eight men and four women found Brendan McGahern (aged 28), with an address at Corlismore in Co Cavan, guilty of murdering Amy Farrell (aged 21), at Glenlara, Cavan, on January 20, 2006.
It took the jury hearing the case in the Central Criminal Court at Dublin just over one hour to return their verdict.
Miss Farrell's family openly wept as the foreman read the verdict.
Mr Justice Paul Carney sentenced McGahern to the mandatory life term and excused the jury members from having to do jury service for the rest of their lives.
"These cases are distressing for everybody concerned," he said.
Miss Farrell's father addressed the court after the verdict saying he did not want to sound like an angry or grief stricken parent but he is all of those things.
"I am angry and I am heartbroken," he said.
During the seven-day trial the court heard Miss Farrell, a mother of one, had moved to Cavan from Leixslip in November 2005 to live with her best friend Sharon Cosgrove.
During the six weeks she lived in the town she became associated with Brendan Kelly, who was friends with McGahern.
On January 19, the day before McGahern killed her, Miss Farrell gave evidence in the Virginia District Court against Kelly who had assaulted her and stolen two of her cars.
McGahern was at court with Kelly and his girlfriend Stephanie Cahill and Kelly was sentenced to 16 months to be served in Castlerea Prison.
Gardaí gave evidence during the trial indicating that they suspected Kelly had a part to play in Miss Farrell's demise after mobile phone records showed a phone registered to Miss Cahill was being used in the Castlerea area and the number corresponded with a contact named "Brendan" in McGahern's phone.
McGahern has strenuously denied Kelly had any involvement or influence in what happened and Kelly refused to answer gardaí questions about the mobile phone, the court heard.
Her father told the court Miss Farrell had not been in Cavan long enough to make friends there.
They had taught their daughter to treat everyone the way she wanted to be treated.
"Even if someone was bad Amy saw the good in them. She wore her heart on here sleeve. On reflection this is probably the worst advice we gave her," Mr Farrell told the court.
His daughter was a breech birth and he said the family had been lucky to have her at all.
She had been born with a birthmark on the left hand side of her face and was bullied throughout her school life.
"To push on to the last weeks of Amy's life, Amy did what she was brought up to do and what she would have wanted to do, she saw a crime and reported it," he said.
He said the horrendous crime had broken their hearts.
The court heard McGahern had been at Miss Farrell's home earlier on January 20 and he had accidentally locked her out of the house when she had left him inside to go and get babysitting money for her niece.
She had called him an "idiot" and they had laughed the court heard.
Miss Farrell went into town to get another set of house keys off Miss Cosgrove.
McGahern returned to her home later that evening and sat in the lounge asking her what she was doing that evening, a Friday night.
Anthony Gerard Smith was at the house when McGahern was there.
He said McGahern asked to speak with Miss Farrell outside and moment after they left the house he heard Miss Farrell screaming and went outside to see her on the ground, McGahern standing over her.
"I saw him strike her but it was only when he stood back that I realised what he was doing," Mr Smith said during the trial.
He saw a knife in McGahern's hand.
"During the time he was standing over her 'don't f*** with us' he was saying that," Mr Smith said.
Mr Smith told Mr Alex Owens SC for the director of public prosecutions he saw McGahern run off towards Cavan town, as Miss Farrell lay motionless on the ground.
McGahern had pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but the DPP refused to accept the plea.
Mr David Kennedy SC for McGahern said his client was labouring under a mental illness at the time that substantially diminished his responsibility for the killing.
McGahern parents, Eileen and Brendan senior told the court during the trial their son was illiterate, had been bullied as a child and was always different.
He was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and they had tried to get help for their son but there were no facilities in Ireland to take him.
Evidence was given McGahern had a learning disability but psychologists who gave evidence told the court they did not believe it had impacted on Miss Farrell's death.
Before the jury retired just after 11am yesterday Mr Justice Paul Carney had reiterated it was on the defence to prove McGahern was labouring under a mental illness that substantially diminished his responsibility for killing Miss Farrell.
He said if they found the defence had done enough to prove that, McGahern would be guilty of manslaughter.
In returning a verdict of guilty of murder just after 12pm the jury rejected that defence.
After Mr Farrell finished addressing the court Mr Kennedy said McGahern wanted Miss Farrell's family and the court to know he was sorry for what he did and he regretted what happened.
Mr Justice Carney backdated McGahern's life sentence to January 20, 2006 and refused leave to appeal.


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Games that are played traditionally during Makar Sankranti.
Festivals are all about love, religion, and community. Therefore, let Makar Sankranti be a representation of that. Read on to learn more.
Traditional games played on Makar Sankranti.
Makar Sankranti is considered a festival of harvest, it marks the end of the winter solstice and the beginning of longer days. It is a time to give thanks for the bountiful harvest, and to make offerings to the gods and goddesses for their blessings. But more than that, it's a celebration that unites people, honours their traditions and beliefs, marks the passage of time and the changing of the seasons, and offers people a chance to take a break from their regular schedules and spend time with family and friends.
Therefore, on the festival of Makar Sankranti, numerous games are held in order to accomplish this. Different games are played to bring people together and to enthusiastically and cheerfully enjoy the festival. The games are also viewed as a means of fostering community bonds and building relationships with friends and family.
KNOW MORE ABOUT MAKAR SANKRANTHI.
Every 12 years, the world's biggest Hindu pilgrimage — the Maha Kumbh — starts on the day of Makar Sankranti.
FLYING KITES
During Makar Sankranti, flying kites is a common sport. As a representation of the victory of good over evil and of hope over despair, it is often used as a symbol. In Gujarat, a state in India where kite flying is a prominent hobby, the event is also known as Uttarayan.
During the event, people fly kites of all various colours, sizes, and designs. There are also kite-flying contests where participants compete to see whose kite can soar the highest or cut the most kites. It helps people connect with one another and strengthens bonds throughout the community.
14th and 15th January is celebrated as International Kite days.
JALLIKATTU
Jallikattu is a traditional sport that is played during Makar Sankranti in the state of Tamil Nadu, in India. It is also known as Eruthazhuvuthal, it is a bull-taming event that is held as part of the Pongal festival, which is the local name for Makar Sankranti.
The sport is played by young men who attempt to tame and control a bull by clinging onto its hump for a certain distance or for a certain amount of time. Jallikattu is considered to showcase the bravery and strength of young men and it is seen as a way to honor and pay respects to the bulls and their role in the community. The bulls are considered sacred animals and are honored and respected in the culture.
Jallikattu is an ancient sport that has been passed down through generations, it is an important part of the cultural heritage of Tamil Nadu and it is a way to keep the tradition alive. The event is held in different villages and towns and attracts thousands of participants and spectators.
Due to safety and animal welfare concerns, jallikattu has been banned in India since 2014 by the Supreme Court.
DHAAK-DHAAKI
In the Indian state of West Bengal, Dhaak-Dhaaki is a popular game that is played on Makar Sankranti, also known as Poush Sankranti. It is used as a musical instrument throughout the event. It consists of two drums that are played in tandem to produce rhythm. The drums are made of clay, and they are played by striking them with sticks.
A group of people participate in the game by singing along to the old tunes and taking turns playing the drums. The songs are often chanted in adoration of the gods and goddesses and are devotional in tone.
Additionally, it serves as a means of perpetuating the custom and transferring songs, dances, and stories from one generation to the next.
The clay is shaped and molded into the drums, and then dried in the sun. After that, it is coated with a mixture of tamarind seed paste and cow dung, this process is what gives the dhaak its distinctive sound.
TEKELI BHONGA
Tekeli Bhonga is a traditional game that is played during Makar Sankranti, also known as Magh Bihu, in the state of Assam, India. The game is similar to kho-kho, and it is usually played by two teams of 12 players each, with one team sitting in a line and the other team trying to touch each player in the sitting line.
It is seen as a representation of the virtues of togetherness, collaboration, and sportsmanship as well as the value of teamwork and the competitive spirit. The game is typically played in an open field, and it's the ideal opportunity to take in the breathtaking scenery and spend time with loved ones.
The game also promotes physical activity and fitness, and is a great way to keep people active and healthy, which is important in today's sedentary lifestyle.
Tekeli Bhonga is not only limited to Assam, it is also played in other parts of India, such as West Bengal, Odisha, and Maharashtra, where it is known as different names like Tekeli, Tekel, and Tuptul.
"India's festivals are not just an expression of faith, but an expression of its people's unity and diversity" - Jawaharlal Nehru, India's First Prime Minister.
As mentioned above, festivals are all about love, religion, and community. Therefore, let Makar Sankranti be a representation of that. Try to be as joyful as you can during this festive season, and thank God and the farmers for ensuring that we won't go to bed hungry.
P.S- Happy Makar Sankranti!


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TMBP Extra: All that lies ahead
As I write this, it's Friday, Jan. 31. About three-and-a-half weeks ago was Jan. 7. Check your own personal calendars, news headlines and the like. It's not that long ago. That matters to me, and this blog, because this is where the Beatles come in.
Flip (or click) back several calendar pages – 45 in fact – and we're at January 1969, dominated by the Get Back sessions. Jan. 31 marked its final day, a short day dedicated to nailing for film and for tape usable takes of Paul's non-rooftop-suitable "Two of Us," "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road." (The clips appeared in the movie prior to the rooftop show, but were in fact filmed the next day).
What of Jan. 7? That's where we left off last in the session timeline, at a genuine pivot point. George suggested the group "have a divorce," Paul said he'd thought about that, too. The Doldrums. It hung over the band.
So what happened between Jan. 7 and Jan. 31, 1969, to recast the sessions? Well, I'm not going to give it all away at once. What else would I blog about, the recording of Sentimental Journey? (That actually seems like an interesting, star-studded, intercontinental story, but I digress.) Three and a half weeks is such a short period of time, in relative terms, and we know that the group was on the brink Jan. 7. By Jan. 31 so much memorable musical output was in the bank and in the works. Factor in that there's 10 ½ days without George after his walkout and more than a week without any rehearsals at all, and I'm left grasping at superlatives.
To wit: From Jan. 7-13 and Jan. 21-31, 1969 (18 days, and that includes weekends not spent in the studio):
Paul wrote the majority of "The Long and Winding Road," "Let It Be" and "Get Back" and debuted future solo tracks "Another Day," "Teddy Boy" and "Back Seat of My Car"
George wrote: "I Me Mine," "Old Brown Shoe" and "Something," as well as "Wah-Wah" at home during his break from the band.
Everything you hear on "Let It Be," plus "Don't Let Me Down" was recorded.
We saw the birth – and if not the birth, than at least the studio debut – of Abbey Road's "I Want You," "Oh! Darling" and "Octopus's Garden."
We have the rooftop show, too.
The Beatles even found time to meet with Allen Klein for the first time.
And I feel like I'm understating what happened.
So, there's just a little bit of food for thought before I return to the timeline (soon!). Context is everything, and with January here and now gone, it provided the perfect chance to put into focus how much these guys got done throughout the madness they, for the most part, created themselves.
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when are you coming back?
Soon! New post on "I've Got A Feeling/Maxwell's Silver Hammer" already in early stages of a draft, and I'm targeting to post it before the end of the month (so, in the next week or so).
I've been burning to do more these last few months, but events having absolutely nothing to do with the blog have kept me away. Now that things have settled down in my real world, I'll be returning to January 1969 imminently!
OK, slight overstatement about before the end of the month, since that's today. But a rough draft is done, and I'm hoping to get something post-able by the end of the week or latest the weekend. Thanks for your patience!
thanks Dan…take your time…looking forward to your narrative combined with great, unheard versions of songs…can't get enough….
Yeah man. Awesome blog.
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Midwest wind farms follow in the wake of new transmission lines
Written By Karen Uhlenhuth January 23, 2017
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Wind farms are cropping up close to a network of transmission lines coming to fruition in several Midwestern states, bearing out the wisdom that where there is transmission capacity to spare, wind farms will follow.
MidAmerican Energy recently announced the siting of the first two wind farms that are part of its massive $3.6 billion, 2,000-megawatt wind project known as Wind XI. Both locations are near regional transmission Multi-Value Projects (MVPs) now underway. A 500-megawatt wind farm being developed by Alliant Energy, Iowa's other major investor-owned utility, sits very close to one of the lines now under development.
In an attempt to articulate the relationship between transmission expansion and the siting of wind farms, Nathaniel Baer, energy program director for the Iowa Environmental Council, created a map highlighting the locations of recent and planned wind farms, along with the locations of MVP lines now under development.
"Wind farm development has followed as these lines have been approved and built," he said. "And at the end of the day, that's the point."
Lu Nelson, a policy program associate with the Center for Rural Affairs in Nebraska, concurred that the map makes clear that "new wind is being built around new transmission and where new transmission is planned."
In fact, the response from wind-farm developers to the new transmission coming online has been overwhelming, according to Felix Friedman, the head of development for RPM Access. RPM began developing a wind site near an MVP line under development in south-central Iowa. The line runs south into Missouri, then east through Illinois to the Indiana border. RPM recently sold that project to MidAmerican. It is one of the two initial projects in the Wind XI portfolio.
"As we get closer to these being built, I see a lot of wind projects getting into the queue — too many," Friedman said. "There's thousands of megawatts coming in. I'd say more than half will not get built, because there isn't enough transmission, even after the new lines are built."
Transmission often is cited as a major factor limiting the growth of renewable energy, particularly wind energy. That's one reason why, in 2011, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) approved the construction of 17 transmission projects across its footprint, which encompasses all or part of about 10 states from Indiana and Missouri on the east to the eastern edge of Montana.
The Multi-Value Projects were laid out with the aim of enhancing reliability, providing significant economic benefits, as well as better access to renewable energy in the region served by MISO.
'The most limiting'
Mike Fehr, MidAmerican's vice-president for resource development, said that while several factors such as landowner and community support and wildlife considerations enter into decisions about where to locate wind turbines, transmission "is probably the first thing we look at. It's the most limiting."
Both of the recently announced wind farms are located within about 30 miles of an MVP line now under development.
Wind farms don't have to be located directly on new transmission lines to benefit from their additional capacity, Fehr explained. As long as the new line is close enough to relieve transmission congestion in the general vicinity of a new generating facility, he said, it provides avenues for additional electricity to move freely out of the region.
Transmission capacity can even trump the quality of the wind resource. That's the case with the project that RPM Access began developing in south-central Iowa before selling it to MidAmerican recently.
"When developers select a location, often they go for the windiest locations," RPM's Friedman explained. "But the windiest locations usually have the worst access to the grid. It's a funny thing. The most congested part of Iowa, the northwest quarter, is the windiest, which is why I have projects away from that. The wind is not as good, but at least I can connect to the grid and deliver the power."
And the sacrifice of wind quality is not all that important in a state like Iowa, where the wind resource ranges "from good to great," according to Fehr.
The expanded transmission in Iowa and across the MISO region clearly has tapped into a market, said Beth Soholt, executive director of Wind on the Wires, a nonprofit with the mission of creating a "road to market" for wind energy.
"The transmission that was planned — the 'build it and they'll come' idea — really was a good investment," she said. "It's being utilized, and states are seeing this tax base flow in because the region invested in infrastructure. It was hard to get consensus among stakeholders, and it's paid off really well."
MISO is now planning a second round of transmission projects similar to the Multi-Value Projects now being developed "because there really is a demand for the wind energy," Soholt said. "And that is not appearing to slow down."
About Karen Uhlenhuth
Karen spent most of her career reporting for the Kansas City Star, focusing at various times on local and regional news, and features. More recently, she was employed as a researcher and writer for a bioethics center at a children's hospital in Kansas City. Karen covers Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.
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