According to our database1, Victor R. L. Shen authored at least 37 papers between 1998 and 2018.
Automatic Detection of Video Shot Boundary in Social Media Using a Hybrid Approach of HLFPN and Keypoint Matching.
Petri net modeling and analysis of an iPad manufacturing system.
Application of Petri nets to deadlock avoidance in iPad-like manufacturing systems.
A Stock Market Prediction System Based on High-Level Fuzzy Petri Nets.
Cost Optimization of a Path Protection System with Partial Bandwidth Using Petri Nets.
A novel blood pressure verification system for home care.
A Time-Bound and Hierarchical Key Management Scheme for Secure Multicast Systems.
A smart home management system with hierarchical behavior suggestion and recovery mechanism.
The implementation of a smartphone-based fall detection system using a high-level fuzzy Petri net.
Automatic video shot boundary detection of news stream using a high-level fuzzy Petri net.
An automatic calibration system for Chinese karaoke lyrics based on high-level fuzzy Petri nets.
Weighted fuzzy interpolative reasoning systems based on interval type-2 fuzzy sets.
A novel reduction approach for Petri net systems based on matching theory.
Application of High-Level Fuzzy Petri Nets to fall detection system using smartphone.
Analysis of the problem description in the Algorithm for Inventive Problem Solving using Petri nets.
Application of high-level fuzzy Petri nets to educational grading system.
Verification of problem-based learning systems using modified petri nets.
The Evaluation of Two-Stage Mobile Learning Guidance of Math in an Elementary School.
Application of high-level fuzzy Petri nets to investment decisions of stock markets.
A time- bound hierarchical access control for multicast systems.
Similarity measures between intervals of linguistic 2-tuples and the intervals of linguistic 2-tuples weighted average operator.
Supervised and Unsupervised Learning by Using Petri Nets.
PAPR Reduction in the OFDM Systems with Signal Space Expansion Scheme.
A novel application of grey system theory to information security (Part I).
Verification of Knowledge-Based Systems Using Predicate/Transition Nets.
A Problem-Based Learning System with Website Assistance.
Knowledge Representation Using High-Level Fuzzy Petri Nets.
A PN-based approach to the high-level synthesis of digital systems.
A Web- and Problem-Based Learning System in Artificial Intelligence.
A novel cryptosystem based on grey system theory and genetic algorithm.
Using Agent Technology to Improve the Quality of Artificial Intelligence Instruction.
Reinforcement learning for high-level fuzzy Petri nets.
Requirements specification and analysis of fault-tolerant digital systems.
A Novel Key Management Scheme Based on Discrete Logarithms and Polynomial Interpolations.
Correctness in hierarchical knowledge-based requirements.
Requirements specification and analysis of digital systems using fuzzy and marked Petri nets.


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There are 3 layers of sediment. The top layer is silt, middle is sand, and the bottom is gravel. List 2 things you can infer about the sand layer.
Today we turned in the Earth Unit Packets worth 60 points and took the Earth Unit Test worth 100 points.


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Building Non-Functional Requirements Framework - Requirements Categories
I'm planning on documenting a framework that we built for managing non-functional requirements. This is post #2 of the series.
In Post #1, Last In - First Out: Building a Non-Functional Requirements Framework - Overview I outlined the template and definitions for our Non-Functional Requirements.
We also had to address outstanding audit findings that pointed out the lack of enterprise-wide security standards. Blank templates weren't going to cut it. The next steps were to create a generic set of Non-Functional requirements within each category, applicable to any system that we'd likely encounter. We then followed up with a structured, objective framework for applying the requirements to a particular system. The next few posts will cover these topics.
To make the NFR's re-usable and applicable to as many systems as possible, we created multiple Metrics within each NFR. Systems for which requirements could be relatively simple would be required to meet a lower Metrics, while systems for which requirements needed to be higher/stricter would meet the higher Metrics in the NFR. The Metrics were designed so that the very lowest level would be applicable to a single personal computing device with no stored confidential data, the highest Metric would be applicable to our largest system with the most confidential or financial data, and the in-between Metrics would be applicable to systems of varying levels of security and availability requirements in between the extremes. This allowed us to create a single Requirement applicable to many (or any) systems proportional to their relative value, and without subjecting low value systems to rigorous requirements.
Note that Availability, Performance and Reliability requirements found in other models are not requirements categories in our model. We determined that if a system met a set of Resiliency, Recoverability and Security requirements, the system would also meet an appropriate level of availability and reliability as a byproduct of the Resiliency, Recoverability and Security Requirements. Likewise, the system would be able to meet Performance requirements as a byproduct of scalability and maintainability requirements.
Usability, Portability and Compatibility are common requirement families in other models, but as the model was driven by short-term infrastructure and security needs, they were left out in the early phases
Keep in mind that these categories and requirements were designed to be usable in our environment - a public College and University system.
The categories and a high level description of the requirements in each category follow:
Category: Resiliency
Resiliency requirements describe the ability of the system to continue to function during common failure modes. A resilient system continues to work after routine failures (disk, server, OS or process). Resiliency is necessary to meet availability requirements and usability requirements. A resilient system may use technologies such as redundancy, clustering, load balancing, error handling, and error recovery to function after component failure. Resiliency encompasses the concepts of availability, reliability, robustness, fault tolerance and exception handling as described by other authors.
Our model references three Resiliency requirements - Hardware Resiliency, Software Resiliency, and Environmental Resiliency. Each requirement may have multiple levels with each metric.
Resiliency-Hardware Requirement: The ability of the system to continue business functionality upon physical failure of hardware components that make up the system.
Incorporates traditional concepts of Redundancy, Clustering, Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance. A systems 'Availability', RPO and RTO are derived from this and other requirements.
This requirement is intended to force the designer to leverage high availability technologies for systems in which the impact of an unavailable system reaches certain thresholds.
Resiliency-Software Requirement: The ability of the system to continue business functionality upon logical failure of software components that make up the system.
In general, the designer should consider Resiliency – Software, and Resiliency – Hardware NFR's as a unit and engineer for both NFR's in concert. In particular, the software must be designed so as to gracefully manage both software and hardware failures using robust transaction management and error handling. Failure modes and failure domains must be well understood.
Resiliency - Environmental Requirement: They ability of systems to continue business functionality upon physical failure of site environmentals, including power, cooling, and related components.
Incorporates redundant power, cooling, uninterruptable power, generator backup. A systems 'Availability', RPO and RTO are derived from this and other requirements.
This NFR specifies that the facilities-related components that support the system have the appropriate level of recoverability and resiliency.
Designers should engineer for routine power and cooling failures and have appropriate back up power, alternate cooling, as necessary. Facilities failure domains such as power supplies, power distribution units, air conditioning units, etc. should be considered.
Category: Recoverability
Recoverability requirements that describe the ability to recover from failed states and return the system to its as-built condition. Using the example of a failed unit of hardware, a resilient system will continue to function after failure, while a recoverable system will have a simple and predictable method for recovering from the hardware failure. Data backups, data replication, hot-swap hard drives, and automated operating system and application deployment tools may be technologies or techniques to recover a failed component.
Our model references four Recoverability requirements: Component Recovery, Site Recoverability, Configuration Recovery and Logical Recovery. Each requirement may have multiple levels with each metric.
Recoverability-Component Requirement: The ability to repair or replace system components predictably, with minimum work effort, and with no loss or disruption of business functionality.
Incorporates traditional concepts of Configuration Management and Maintainability. Assures that components can be brought on line without maintenance windows.
While the resiliency NFR's cover the behavior of systems when components fail, the recoverability NFR's assure that the design of systems includes the ability to restore the system to its original, pre-failure state in a predictable manner.
To assure component recoverability, the designer needs to assure that the configuration of all system components is known, and that a means exists to create new components that are identical to existing components.
Recoverability-Site Requirement: The ability of the system to resume business functionality upon physical or logical failure of the site housing components of the system.
Incorporates traditional concepts of Disaster Recovery, site failover, site replication, off-site backups. A systems 'Availability', RPO and RTO are derived from this and other requirements.
This NFR sets the minimum Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) that systems must meet under site related failures, such as data centers, buildings and campuses.
Recoverability - Configuration Requirement: The ability of the system to resume business functionality upon logical failure of system metadata or system configuration information.
Incorporates traditional concept of change management (portions of), configuration management, test and back-out plans for planned configuration changes.
The intent of this NFR is to provide assurance that the system is designed and managed such that if any portion of the configuration of the system is modified for any reason, intentionally or not, the system can be recovered back to the state that it was in pre-modification. This is intended to discourage systems in which the configuration is ad-hoc, unstructured, or 'mouse driven', as compared to template or script driven configurations.
Recoverability - Logical Requirement: The ability of the system to resume business functionality upon logical failure of application managed business data.
Incorporates traditional concepts of database 'point in time recovery', file system snapshots and daily backups. A systems RPO is derived from this and other requirements.
This NFR is intended to assure that the system is designed so that after the data in a system has been modified outside of normal business practices (I.E logical file system or database corruption, poor configuration management, unauthorized data modification by either internal or external entities) the data managed by the systems can be recovered to a state at a point in time prior to the modification.
Category: Scalability:
Our model has a single Scalability Requirement. The requirement may have multiple levels with each metric.
Scalability requirements describe the ability to add and remove capacity to the system without affecting the availability of the system, while maximizing maintainability and constraining costs.
Scalability - Component Requirement: The ability to dynamically and cost effectively add or remove capacity by adding or removing hardware or software components.
Incorporates the traditional concept of 'Horizontal Scalability', load balancing and dynamic capacity management. Assures that systems are compatible with cloud technologies.
The intent of this NFR is to force systems into a horizontally scalable architecture, and to limit or prohibit designs that depend on large-scale hardware upgrades to scale to additional capacity. I.E systems must be designed to scale out, not scale up.
Category: Maintainability:
Our model has a single Maintainability Requirement. The requirement may have multiple levels with each metric.
Maintainability requirements describe the ability to maintain the system over its operational life. Among other attributes, a maintainable system can have routine hardware upgrades and application deployments without user affecting outages, it will have monitoring, logging and auditing sufficient for routine troubleshooting, it will have a low operational cost. Maintainability encompasses manageability, upgradability, deployability and flexibility as described by other authors.
Maintainability-Component Requirement: The ability to maintain the hardware, software and environmental components of a system without disrupting business functionality, and with minimal or no planned system outages.
Incorporates traditional concepts of Service Management, Change Management (portions of), Maintenance Windows and Continuous Maintenance. Assures that effect of system maintenance on users will be minimized.
This requirement forces the designer to consider the maintainability of the system as a part of the design process. The designer should select and configure components such that:
Routine maintenance can be conducted on-line, using common technologies such as load balancing and clustering or equivalent.
Application patches and upgrades can be implemented on-line.
The release of new application functionality, including database schema changes, can be done on-line in many or most cases.
Category: Security:
The ability to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of a system and the data contain in or controlled by the system. Requirements related to system access, system integrity, system confidentiality and system configuration.
Our model references five Security Requirements - Configuration Integrity, Configuration Assessment, Data Classification, Data Encryption, and Awareness and Training.
Security - Configuration Integrity Requirement: The ability to determine the source of modifications to the logical and physical configuration of a system. Logging and auditing of configuration information and changes. The ability to prevent or detect unauthorized changes to configuration or data. The ability to respond to unauthorized access or modification of system configuration or data. The ability to determine the configuration of a system at an arbitrary point in time in the past.
Incorporates the traditional concepts of Configuration Management, Change Management (portions of), security auditing, Business Activity Logging, Intrusion Detection/Prevention and Malware Detection/Prevention, and security incident handling.
The intent of this requirement is to ensure that the system is designed so that:
The system can support/enable least privilege and role based system configuration.
Configuration changes are detectable. This implies that technologies such as routine, scheduled, continuous, or near-continuous configuration auditing.
Auditing of changes in configuration creates an immutable audit trail, and the audit trail is properly secured.
The configuration of a system can be recovered back to the state that the system was in prior to the modification.
Security - Configuration Assessment Requirement: The assurance that the initial configuration of the system is appropriately secure, that the system configuration is maintained in an appropriately secure state over the life of the system and that the state is verified and tested.
Incorporates the traditional concepts of system hardening, code review, Vulnerability Management, Pen Tests, Patch Management and least privilege for access and modification of system configuration.
The intent of this requirement is to ensure that systems are initially configured to a secure state, and that they remain in that state over the life of the system.
The initial condition of the system is 'hardened' consistent with this requirement.
A process or method must be implemented to ensure that the system is maintained in that state over its lifetime.
The condition of the system is verified periodically, depending on the Level within the requirement, for example by using vulnerability scans of systems and application code.
The application code is written and tested in accordance with a formal software development practice.
Technologies, tools frameworks and libraries are implemented in a consistently secure manner.
Security - Data Classification Requirement: The classification of data consistent with State and Federal regulations and the assignment of data ownership.
Security - Data Encryption Requirement: The conditions under which data must be transported, transmitted and stored in an unreadable, encrypted format.
Incorporates the traditional concepts of protecting data using encryption such that the data is only readable by authorized individuals.
The intent of this requirement is to ensure transport layer security is implemented for data that is transmitted over a less trusted network, and that encryption is implemented for data at rest. Encryption of data at rest may include full disk encryption, database encryption, and/or encryption of backup media.
Security - Data Access Requirement: The ability to limit logical and physical access to systems and data to authorized individuals, the ability to limit modification of systems and data to authorized individuals, the logging and auditing system and data access, and the ability to alert on unauthorized access.
Includes traditional concepts such as account provisioning and management, account credentials, authorization, least privileged based data access, business activity logging and audit logging, security perimeters and perimeter controls.
The intent of this requirement is to limit access to data based on need-to-know to perform job duties and to alert on inappropriate access, and/or have an audit trail of access or activities (i.e. read, write, modify, delete) that can be traced to an individual.
Security - Awareness and Training Requirement: The assurance that system administrators are adequately skilled and knowledgeable in information security and the implementation, management and maintenance of systems for which they are responsible.
The intent of this requirement is to ensure system administrative personnel have the skills, knowledge and/or experience to effectively implement requirements defined by Federal or State law, regulations, contractual agreements, Policies, Procedures or other non-functional requirements.
Checkpoint:
I've described templates, categories and a high level view of our Non-Functional Requirements. Next up - a series of posts describing each requirement, followed by a framework for applying the NFR's to an IT system.
Building a Non-Functional Requirements Framework - Overview
A pain point for our infrastructure and security teams was a lack of useable, consistent availability and security requirements for our internally developed applications. The business analysts worked with the organization to create requirements for the functionality of the application but ignored most of what infrastructure, identity management, and security would need until the end of the development process. By the time these teams got insight into the application it was too late to wedge in new requirements. The net was that the organization was promised an applications or enhancements, but because no consideration had been made for non-functional requirements, deadlines were often missed. The worst example was the pending release of a major new application that allowed manipulation of financial information, but for which no consideration had been made for authentication, authorization requirements, or database & application hosting security. Retrofitting that project added a year to the timeline.
Additionally, we had a series of outstanding audit findings related to the lack of enterprise-wide standards for securing systems. We tended to build secure and available systems because we knew what we were doing - not because we built to an objective, measurable standard. Auditors would prefer that we built to a standard that ensured a secure, available system - and of course we agreed.
When I had a few months of down time (approx. 2012-2013) I decided to see what the state of art was in creating and maintaining non-functional requirement (NFR's). I looked at the obvious - FURPS+, ISO-9126, ISO-25010 and a handful of University published research papers. My biggest issue with the various existing models was that they were software specific. I felt that NFR's should apply to entire systems, not just the software running on the system.
As far as I could tell at the time, the various sources, authors, consultants and Gartner didn't really agree on much other than that NFR's are not Functional Requirement's and that you need to have some. I found that:
Many web sites have lists and examples of NFR's.
Some try to define NFR's, few succeed.
Others admit that NFR's are difficult to gather.
Few apply NFR's to systems (vs. software)
FURPS+, ISO-9126, ISO-25010 and similar didn't treat security as a first class citizen, nor did they address legal requirements.
What I did find though, were a couple of sources that I thought I could use to build a set of generic non-functional requirements.
Erik Simmons and John Terzakis (Intel) each have a fair bit of good information in various presentations that are readily searchable.
Tom Gilb's 'Planguage' seemed like a valuable tool, and both Simmons and Terzakis describe how to use Planguage for requirements writing.
Specifying Effective Non-Functional Requirements, John Terzakis Intel Corporation June 24, 2012 ICCGI Conference Venice, Italy
21st Century Requirements Engineering: A Pragmatic Guide to Best Practices, Erik Simmons, Intel Corporation
These sources were close to being adaptable, but rather than try to adopt an existing framework as-is, I thought that it'd be best for us to come up with something usable by borrowing from various existing sources, primarily borrowing bits and pieces from Simmons, Terzakis, and Gilb.
Into the Non-Functional Requirement Abyss
We agreed that Requirements are not designs and should not specify a particular technology or configuration. Requirements should specify an end result, not the path to achieve that result. We tried to keep this in mind as we worked out our framework.
Our starting point (and first disagreement…) was on the definition of non-functional requirements. Here's what we used:
Functional Requirements describe the intended behavior of the system (or software), or what a system should do.
Non-functional Requirements describe how well the system does whatever it does and under what constraints the system must operate. NFR's describe operational characteristics, performance, availability, etc.
We decided to leverage a permutation of the common 'S.M.A.R.T' framework as a requirement for writing the requirements. By placing bounds on the requirements writing process, we hoped that we'd end up with requirements that would have a chance of being valuable to the organization.
S.M.A.R.T.
Our version of 'S.M.A.R.T':
Specific: Requirements will be clear, concise, unambiguous, with consistent terminology, and with detail sufficient such that designs based on the requirements will meet operational goals.
Measurable: A test can be devised that verifies the requirement using a bounded measurement.
Attainable: The requirement is technically feasible within the constraints of current technology, and for which there is at least one design and implementation.
Realizable: The requirement is fiscally and manageably implementable within the constraints of organizational budget and staffing.
Unambiguous: The requirement will have a single, non-conflicting interpretation.
Traceable: The source of a requirement will be traceable to stakeholder need. The requirement is traceable to business strategy or roadmap. The life cycle of the requirement is traceable from its conception to its current state.
Specificity and Measurability were considered important because we hoped it would keep us from writing vague requirements or requirements for which there were no means of measuring attainment.
Attainability and Realizability were intended to prevent the implementation of requirements for which there was no solution possible, or no solution that was actually implementable in our environment with our limited capabilities.
Traceability was desired to prevent the imposition of requirements for which there was no business need (requirements for the sake of requirements, or requirements to give us an excuse to buy shiny new resume-building technology) or requirements that appeared out of nowhere or were modified outside of a formal process.
Requirement Categories
Be cause we like putting things in neat buckets, we created broad categories of NFR's for which we thought we'd have an immediate need. The various industry models have categories (Maintainability, Reliability, Portability, etc.) but our thinking at the time was that those categories didn't work for us. So we started from scratch and ended up with the following:
Resiliency - The requirements that describe the ability of the system to continue to function during common failure modes. A resilient system continues to work after routine failures (disk, server, OS or process). Resiliency is necessary to meet availability requirements and usability requirements. A resilient system may use technologies such as redundancy, clustering, load balancing, error handling, and error recovery to function after component failure. Resiliency encompasses the concepts of availability, reliability, robustness, fault tolerance and exception handling as described by other authors.
Recoverability - The requirements that describe the ability to recover from failed states and return the system to its as-built condition. Using the example of a failed unit of hardware, a resilient system will continue to function after failure, a recoverable system will have a simple and predictable method for recovering from the hardware failure. Data backups, data replication, hot-swap hard drives, and automated operating system and application deployment tools may be technologies or techniques to recover a failed component.
Maintainability - The requirements that describe the ability to maintain the system over its operational life. Among other attributes, a maintainable system can have routine hardware upgrades and application deployments without user affecting outages, it will have monitoring, logging and auditing sufficient for routine troubleshooting, it will have a low operational cost. Maintainability encompasses manageability, upgradability, deployability and flexibility as describe by other authors.
Scalability -The requirements that describe the ability to add and remove capacity to the system without affecting the availability to the system, while maximizing maintainability and constraining costs.
Security - The ability to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of a system and the data contain in or controlled by the system. Requirements related to system access, system integrity, system confidentiality and system configuration.
These can be mapped back into FURPS+, ISO-9126 & ISO-25010 and ISO-27002, NIST 800-53, etc.
Note that Availability, Performance, Reliability are not requirements categories in our model. We determined that if a system met a set of Resiliency, Recoverability and Security requirements, the system would also meet an appropriate level of availability and reliability as a byproduct of the Resiliency, Recoverability and Security Requirements. Likewise, the system would be able to meet Performance requirements as a byproduct of scalability and maintainability requirements.
Non-Functional Requirements Form & Format
Following the work done by Simmons & Terzakis (Intel) we decided to implement a modified template and Planguage-like structured language for the NFR's. Each NFR exists as a single document.
The Non-functional requirements template and definitions that we settled on are:
Category: A text field representing the category that the requirement is classified under in the Minnesota State Model. The Category and Context are equivalent to the 'ID:' in Planguage or 'Ambition' in (Simmons/Intel 2011).
Context: A text field representing the requirement, unique within a category. The Category and Context are equivalent to the 'ID:' in Planguage or 'Ambition' in (Simmons/Intel 2011).
Goals: Natural language description of the intent of the requirement and how it supports one or more of the general goals. The Goal is equivalent to 'Gist:' in Planguage or 'Ambition' in (Simmons/Intel 2011).
Rationale: The reason that the requirement exists. Expressed in natural language.
Requirement: The requirement to which the system will be held, expressed in constrained natural language. Requirement will be written in a constrained natural language meeting Minnesota State Non-Functional Requirements Attributes.
Metric: Measurement used to determine if requirement has been met and the process or device used to locate the measurement on the scale. Metric must include 'Minimum', the minimum acceptable measurement, and may include 'Target', the measurement to which the system must be designed.
Scale: The scale of measure used to quantify the requirement.
Stakeholders: Persons who stand to gain or lose by implementation of requirements. Expressed as roles, not individuals.
Implications: Implications to the stakeholders if these requirements are not met.
Applicability: Systems or categories of systems to which requirement applies.
Status: One of Draft, Approved, Revised, or other constrained choice of statuses matching the requirements implementing process.
Author: Person responsible for authoring and maintaining requirement.
Revision: Sequential number representing approved revision of requirement.
Date: Date of last revision of requirement
The NFR's have a structure and format that could be adapted to metadata driven requirements tooling.
At this stage we had a handful of Non-Functional Requirements categories and a template for writing the NFR's, but no actual requirements.
Next up: Part #2 - A high level description of each Non-Functional Requirement
Thirty-Four Years in IT - Why not Thirty-Five?
After I was sidelined (Part 10) we had another leadership turnover. This time the turnover was welcome. I ended up in a leadership position under a new CIO. This allowed me to take advantage of some topics that I studied while I was sidelined. My new team took on a couple of challenges. (1) Introducing cloud computing to the organization, and (2) attempting to add a bit of architectural discipline to the development and infrastructure teams and processes. The first was somewhat successful, the later was not.
I had been slowly working to get a master agreement with Amazon - a long, slow process when you are a public sector agency. When our new CIO mentioned 'cloud' I did a bit of digging and found out that Microsoft had added the phrase 'and Azure' to our master licensing agreement. Microsoft's foresight saved me months of contract negotiations. They made it trivial to set up an enterprise Azure account. So Azure became our default 'cloud'.
I had been running the typical nerdville home servers. Moving them from in-house Mac's to Linux in Azure was trivial - a weekend of messing around. I affirmed to our CIO that we had a fair number of apps that could be hosted in IaaS, and picked a couple of crash-test dummy apps for early migration.
Myself and one of my staff spent a few months creating and destroying various assets in Azure, and came to the conclusion that the barriers to cloud adoption would be found mostly in our own staff, and not the technology stack. Infrastructure staff would have to re-think their jobs and their roles in the organization, and development staff would have to re-think application design. Both would challenge the organization.
I also did a few quick-and-dirty demonstrations to get some ideas on how we might architect an enterprise framework for moving to Azure - such as hiding an Azure instance behind a firewall in our test lab to show that we could create virtual data centers that appeared to be in our RFC-1918 address space, but were actually in Azure IaaS. We also presented quite a bit of what we learned to our campus IT staff at various events and get-togethers, hoping to build a bit of momentum at the campuses.
On the down side, I ran into significant barriers within our own managers and their staff. A quorum of managers and staff were cloud-adverse and/or firmly committed to technologies and vendors that had no cloud play. We had to fight FuD from within.
The Architecture activity was not successful. We had been running 'seat-of-the-pants' for years, resulting in many ad-hoc and orphaned tools, technologies and languages, and we were thinly staffed. So the idea that by adding rigor and overhead up front we'd end up with better technology that was less work to maintain was not well accepted. The entire concept of design first, then build was a tough sell, as the norm had been to start building first and figure out the design on the fly (if at all). Modern architectures such as presenting and API to our campuses were rejected outright. And of course the idea that two development teams or two infrastructure workgroups would agree on a tool, language, library - much less an architecture, was an even tougher sell.
The team (and any semblance of a formal architecture) was disbanded through attrition, and the body of standards, guidelines, processes, and practices are no doubt still in a SharePoint site, unmaintained and unloved.
Why did I leave when I did?
As time went on, I found myself in fundamental disagreement with how the organization treated its people. Leadership was making personnel decisions that I could not support, that caused the loss of several of our best people, and that placed other staff in places where they could not succeed or by happy.
That leadership would move staff into positions in which they had no interest, and do it without the concurrance of their manager (me) was unacceptable. To pile on work that was outside the core skillset of an employee, and then try to destroy their career when they were failing, is unacceptable. I don't want to work for an organization like that, and because of financial decisions I made years ago I do not have to work for an organization like that.
I did the math, got my ducks in a row, and retired.
My only regret is that I was unable to influence the disposition of the staff that I left behind.
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I run two different camps for kids with different needs, including a resident camp for kids with autism. A concerned parent called to talk about how she wanted her son to be "mainstreamed" in the camp environment. By definition, there is no mainstreaming at my camp; they are all living with similar challenges.
She elected to send her son anyway. She was pleasantly surprised at the end of the week to find he had learned a lot about himself, become more confident with new routines and environments, and made two new friends (and has confirmed this has lasted well into the school year).
She recently e-mailed me to tell me that he picked up a habit at camp — using (almost obsessively) a written schedule that he gets to control by adding to it, scratching things off, and moving things around. About a month ago, he proudly came into their kitchen and announced that he had outsourced his new talent for scheduling to the rest of the kids in his class. For one of the first times she felt that "typical" kids were learning something from a technique her son used to be successful.
That is the essential truth about what we often talk about as "best practices" for working with kids with special or different needs: They are techniques that almost everyone can benefit from.
Beyond labels and diagnosing, at camp it is easier to define special or different needs in terms of what we know and what we see. To say a camper has ADHD (while factually correct) can often lead to diminished expectations for his or her behavior. It's easy to think he or she is going to be out of control, won't listen, and will disregard specific directions. However, to say that a camper may feel anxious so he or she is having a hard time paying attention will lead to a much more productive approach and mindset.
If you can see every camper on a spectrum or continuum of anxiety (because every experience is different and the environment is new) and with various levels and skills of communication, you can set yourself up for more success. You'll be pointed towards better solutions, interactions, and techniques — and your expectations will stay high.
When you frame kids' behavior this way, all of a sudden, just about everyone fits into the definition of "different needs." And that's the key. If all the kids are different, with varying levels of abilities and skills, then our approach to working with each of them should be customized. We can start with the same set of ideas and expectations (i.e. camp is fun, we all need to treat each other kindly, we want to try new things, etc.) and then use our "tools" as necessary for each camper interaction.
Following are some useful ideas and tools for great camper interactions that help everyone decrease anxiety and increase their ability to communicate clearly.
I don't intend to be disrespectful with this next statement, but camp is weird! Many camps have created an environment and culture that are very foreign to most kids. The living space, the general enthusiasm of the adults, the fun and interest-based approach to programming — and the fact that almost everyone sings, dresses up, and pretends a lot — that's not the average experience for a 12-year-old.
Providing some structure and clear expectations creates a solid foundation for the environment you are trying to create for kids. Explain what is going on and create some repetition in the schedule. This will give kids a sense of control, something to ground them, so they can let loose and get creative or enthusiastic about what is happening. I'm not advocating so much repetition that camp feels stale, but enough so kids can trust that things happen in a predictable way. In fact, most of you have this kind of structure and repetition built into your culture. Think about it like this: Structure and repetition are the building blocks for understanding camp and the culture; make sure you are sharing that with the kids in explicit ways.
There are several ways to work on making your expectations clear. First, make sure there are a manageable number of rules. There probably shouldn't be more than three in any given situation. Three or less means people will have a better chance at remembering them. Second, write them down. It is always better for learning and retention to see or read something and hear it; or do something then talk about it; or make up new things, review them out loud, then write them down; or any other iteration of hearing, seeing, and doing. Combining these ideas helps everyone understand better. Finally, make sure you are always talking (and writing) about what campers should be doing and avoid discussions that are solely about what not to do. It's fine to have rules, but nothing could be less clear than a bunch of no's, stops, and don'ts without anything else.
Ask group questions, make up a group story, sing camp songs, play follow the leader, etc. Do something as you go that helps with your goals of transitioning without incident and keeping track of everyone while being engaging and getting to know your campers.
Talk about what just happened and what is about to happen. This will help campers articulate what they liked and didn't (which isn't always obvious from their behavior) and help you understand what they are excited for and anticipating about what is coming up. This is also a fantastic way to get to know your kids better.
Talk about what will be happening during the next big block of time. If it is the morning, talk about some things happening during the afternoon. If it's the afternoon, talk about that evening or the next day. You can create excitement for things to come and create a predictable set of events for the kids.
Give them a written schedule.
There is something very empowering about having a schedule in your pocket. You feel more in control and have a sense of routine, and so much more. Giving kids a written schedule decreases most of the anxiety they feel.
Offer two to three realistic choices.
"Realistic" is the key word. Can they actually do what you just offered?
This creates the expectation of time and sets you up for the next round of choices.
It's okay to give different choices to kids if they need them.
A side note about choices: Sometimes we aren't actually giving choices, but we make it seem that way because we end statements with the word "okay." "It's time for lunch, okay?" Seems silly when you read it, but pay attention next time you are around kids. Ending a statement with the word "okay" automatically turns it into a question. This is not only confusing, but it is also a setup for a power struggle if they don't want to do the activity.
Ask a lot of questions, observe their behavior, pay attention to what they do during their down time, take note of what they bring to camp, etc. The better you know each camper individually, the easier it will be to redirect them.
Be aware of their behavior in the present moment.
This one seems obvious, but it is harder than it sounds. You typically have more than just a couple of kids, so many need your attention. Also, your brain naturally wants to think about what's going to happen next (future) or review what just happened (past), and is rarely just aware of right now. Train yourself to ask, "How can I make this situation better?" whenever you are with kids. It helps you to see what is happening and brings your awareness into the present moment.
Most camp counselors are terrific at this. Use all of those creative ways to get a group's or individual's attention, and then introduce the thing you are redirecting them to.
Ignore it when you can, and come back to it later when the camper isn't as embarrassed about it.
Just choose one or two things to talk about or correct. When a camper makes a bad choice there is often a laundry list of things that probably should have been done better. The more you add to the list during the conversation the harder it will be to effectively change the camper's behavior.
Always discuss what can or could be done instead.
These techniques come straight out of the playbook for adults working with kids with different needs. Most of them have to do with getting to know kids individually and then working to customize your approach to working with them. That seems like a winning strategy no matter who you are working with. Instead of always trying to get different kids to be more typical, let's admit that typical kids are all very different.
Scott Arizala is a trainer and consultant in summer camp. He is the owner of Camp Tall Tree, for kids with autism, and the executive director of Dragonfly Forest, a camp for kids with serious illnesses. He is also the author of S'more Than Camp and the creator of The Insider, an online staff training resource. Contact the author at scott@thecampcounselor.com.


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Detail from: The People Work - Evening, 1937, Lithograph Courtesy of Print and Picture Collection, The Philadelphia Free Library, Catalogue #143
Organized in conjunction with the University's sesquicentennial celebration, this exhibition of prints by Philadelphia artist and former Beaver College professor Benton Spruance (1904-1967) provides a contemporary platform from which to survey the evolution of mid-twentieth century Modernism. Grounded in social realism, Spruance's prints chronicle an expansive range of American experience, increasingly employing abstraction and graphic stylization as they encompass more literary and mythological themes. Spruance's belief in the democratic possibilities of lithography, as well as his technical innovations in the medium, join his advocacy towards securing Philadelphia's groundbreaking One Percent for Art ordinance as part of his enduring legacy.


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Krasnyi Kut () is an urban-type settlement in Rovenky Raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. Population:

Demographics
Native language distribution as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:
 Ukrainian: 88.29%
 Russian: 11.55%
 Others 0.16%

References

Urban-type settlements in Rovenky Raion

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This past year has been incredible for me. Do you want to know one of the main reasons why? I have educated myself. I have educated myself on our planet, on my life and what it can mean in this world, and I have educated myself on what I want from my future and my life. There have been numerous resources I have used to help me on this journey and I wanted to share them with you. And I guess, these resources have changed my life. That sounds super cliché I know, but it's true. They have allowed me to decide what I want for my future, and I'm using them to help me shape it.
My top resource has been Netflix. So many people I know have this service and it's filled with so many amazing documentaries that a truly incredible. I have numerous documentaries I think everyone should watch, but below are just a few of the very best.
This is the most pivotal one for me. It was the first one I really watched and it kickstarted my desire to watch more. It looks at the agricultural industry and the environmental impact that it is having. Never before had I realised the sheer amount of water needed to raise cattle for beef. Just like I hadn't had any thought about all of the toxins we consume in fish on a daily basis. This documentary talks about how a vegan diet can help correct many environmental problems. But it also addressing the serious flaws in American agricultural policy. As a Brit, this doesn't highlight flaws in my native agricultural policy, however, it makes me realise that there almost definitely is some!
On their website there are plenty of resources and facts on sustainability. There are even ways to watch the film if you don't have Netflix already.
If you're interested in how veganism helps the environment let me know and I'll do a post on it in the future! I'm not saying people have to go full vegan BUT cutting down on dairy products or having a "Meatless Monday" can have big impact! Or even take part in Veganuary in January next year! Not only is it good for the environment but it's good for your health too!
Another game changer. A film that starts off showing a group documenting whales, begins to show how polluted the oceans really are. Looking primarily at single use plastics (straws, water bottles etc), the film shows the devastating effects plastics have on oceans and ocean wildlife.
Plus there's even Sir David Attenborough so you can't go wrong there!
I wrote about this documentary in a little more detail back in a previous post on plastic free living!
This is a film I watched with Josh onboard our overnight train to Chiang Mai and wow. As you know, I am not a fan of the sea but that doesn't mean I don't care about it. Chasing Coral shows the effects of global warming on the coral in our oceans and how mass bleachings are happening more and more frequently and of larger scales. This is an area that I admittedly have never paid much attention to. It's easy to forget about the coral reefs when you live in England miles away from any coral, but that doesn't mean I should! I seriously recommend this documentary as it makes for a very emotional and interesting view!
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Trash Is For Tossers – Learn how to live a zero-waste lifestyle!
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Watch Foo Fighters and Dave Chappelle Cover Radiohead's 'Creep'
Foo Fighters and Dave Chappelle at Madison Square Garden (Still via YouTube/Jeffrey Cohen)
Dave Chapelle joined the Foo Fighters during their gig at Madison Square Garden last night (June 20) for a cover of Radiohead's 'Creep'. Chapelle has sung the Radiohead hit multiple times in the past, including one time with Ed Sheeran. Check it out below.
Last night's live performance marked the first full-capacity event at Madison Square Garden since the start of the pandemic. All attendees were required to provide proof of vaccination, leading to protesters gathering outside the venue.
Chappelle hosted the Saturday Night Live episode where Foo Fighters were the musical guests. The band's most recent album, Medicine at Midnight, came out in February. They recently announced a new disco album under the moniker The Dee Gees, Hail Satin, set for release on the second Record Store Day drop on July 17.
The Foo Fighters just brought out Dave Chappelle to sing "Creep" for the first concert at Madison Square Garden since covid. Incredible.
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"He's beside himself," according to one partygoer who knows Simpson.
Willis won a lawsuit in 2012 allowing him to reclaim publishing rights on many of the band's hits including "YMCA," "Macho Man" and "In the Navy."
Last year, Willis reached an agreement with French producer Henri Belolo, who created the Village People, giving him rights to the band's name and image too. Willis immediately replaced the tribe's cowboy, native American chief, construction worker, soldier, and leather-clad biker. That left Simpson and his bandmates fighting for their livelihoods.
"We wanted to use 'Formerly Village People,'" according to Simpson, who plans to challenge Willis' and Belolo's arrangement in court. His band — which includes two original Village People — played a show recently in Philadelphia under the name "The Kings of Disco." That's also how they'll be billed when they perform Village People songs in Melbourne, Fla. next month. He said fans at that performance recognized the group right away, but claimed it's hard to promote their shows under the new name.
The former and current incarnations of the group have been warring online for months with the deposed members warning fans that Willis' current version of the band isn't the Village People they've known over the past 38 years. Willis has taunted back, even issuing an "imposters alert," reminding fans it's his voice that recorded the band's biggest hits.
Simpson's wife, Leslie, who also attended the "Chicago" after-party, along with singer Freddie Jackson, points out that her husband was on duty when the disco hitmakers celebrated their 30th anniversary by getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008. She says appearances on TV commercials as well as "Oprah," "The Wendy Williams Show," and "Family Feud," as well as collaborations with Cher, Kool & the Gang and KC & the Sunshine band have earned Simpson's band a fan base of its own.
Also attending Monday's performance of "Chicago" was "The Cosby Show" star Phylicia Rashad, who was married to Willis from 1978 to 1982.


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Die Dickelsbachsiedlung in Duisburg-Wanheimerort entstand zwischen 1925 und 1927. Sie ist die erste der vier Typenhaussiedlungen in Duisburg. Benannt wurde sie nach dem südlich vorbeifließenden Dickelsbach. Entworfen wurde sie von den Architekten Heinrich Bähr und Hermann Brauhäuser.

Geschichte
Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg herrschte vielerorts Wohnungsmangel. Vor allem die kinderreichen Familien der Arbeiter waren davon betroffen. Um diesen Zustand Herr zu werden, beschloss das Duisburger Stadtbauamt den Bau von 363 Reihenhäusern. Für jedes Wohngebäude waren 5000 Reichsmark vorgesehen.

Die Architekten Heinrich Bähr und Hermann Brauhäuser nahmen die Herausforderung an und entwarfen den Grundriss der zweigeschossigen Einfamilienhäuser. Gestaltet wurden sie als einheitliche Backsteinbauten mit Flachdach im avantgardistischen Bauhausstil. Ausgestattet wurden sie mit mindestens drei Schlafzimmern, einer Wohnküche mit Kochnische sowie einem Spülraum, einer Toilette und drei Kellerräumen. Das Ganze auf einer Grundfläche von 4,30 × 7,85 Metern und einer Wohnfläche von ca. 57 m². Zu jedem Reihenhäuschen gehörte ein Garten, in dem die Familien Obst und Gemüse anbauen und Kleintiere wie Geflügel und Kaninchen halten konnten.

In langen Reihenhausblöcken säumten sie die Straßen nördlich des Dickelsbach. Mit Spielplätzen, einem Bolzplatz und Ladenlokalen für den täglichen Bedarf sollten die gleichförmigen Hausreihen familienfreundlicher wirken. Das freistehende Gebäude an der Düsseldorfer Straße, die alte Polizeiwache, diente sozialen Zwecken. Hier befand sich die Wohnungsverwaltung, eine Arztpraxis und ein Aufenthaltsraum für Arbeitslose. Um den Kindern einen erfolgreichen Start ins Leben zu geben, wurde 1929 eine Volkshochschule, die heutige Karl-Lehr-Realschule, eingeweiht.

Dennoch kritisierte man die eintönigen Wohnzeilen mit den kleinen grünen Fenstern, da sie mehr an ein Gefangenenlager als an eine Arbeitersiedlung erinnerten. Für ihre Bewohner erfüllte sich trotz der beengten Wohnverhältnisse der Traum vom Eigenheim. Das Konzept war so beliebt, dass in den Folgejahren drei weitere Wohngebiete entstanden: Siedlung Ratingsee in Meiderich (1927/1928), Siedlung Parallelhafen in Neuenkamp (1927/1928) und die Einschornsteinsiedlung in Neudorf (1927/1930).

Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges fielen 39 Gebäude den Bombenangriffen zum Opfer. Von den 363 Häusern stehen heute noch 324. Sie wurden größtenteils von der GEBAG modernisiert und an heutige Ansprüche angepasst. Manche Familien wohnen hier schon in der 3. Generation. Die meisten Gärten dienen heute nur noch zur Erholung.

Seit 1993 steht die Dickelsbachsiedlung unter Denkmalschutz. Die kleinen Reihenhäuschen sind noch immer als bezahlbarer Wohnraum sehr begehrt und werden von ihren Bewohnern liebevoll gepflegt. Vor manchen stehen Gartenbänke und Blumenkästen mit Kunsthandwerk. Meist sind die engen Straßen jedoch mit Fahrzeugen und Mülltonnen zugeparkt.

In der alten Polizeiwache hat der Kreisverband der Sozialistischen Jugend Deutschlands – Die Falken (SJD – Die Falken) Quartier bezogen.

Die Siedlung ist Bestandteil der Themenroute Duisburg: Industriekultur am Rhein der Route der Industriekultur.

Sonstiges
Architekturgeschichtlich gehört die Dickelsbachsiedlung zum Stil des "Neuen Bauens". Sie wird mit der 1925 von J. J. P. Oud für Rotterdam entworfenen Siedlung Kiefhoek (1926/28) und den Wohnungsbauten Ernst Mays in Frankfurt sowie Bruno Tauts in Berlin in eine Reihe gestellt.

Die Dickelsbachsiedlung wird im Volksmund wegen der roten Backsteine "Blutwurst-Kolonie" genannt, aber auch, weil sich ihre Bewohner von ihrem Lohn selbige des Öfteren leisten konnten.

Der berühmteste Bewohner der Siedlung war Toni Turek, der "Fußballgott" und Weltmeister von 1954. Im Frühjahr 1927 bezog der Achtjährige mit seinen Eltern und seinen drei Geschwistern das Haus Zum Lith 57, wo er längere Jahre lebte.

2007 war die Dickelsbachsiedlung Kulisse für den Kurzfilm "Bonanza" von Florian Schönherr.

Das Haus der ältesten Freiwilligen Feuerwehr in NRW steht ebenfalls in der Dickelsbachsiedlung. Die Freiwillige Feuerwehr Löschgruppe 102 Altstadt wurde 1859 gegründet.

Siehe auch
 Wanheimerort
 Liste der Baudenkmäler in Duisburg-Mitte

Weblinks

 Dickelsbach-Siedlung. In: Metropole Ruhr.
 90 Jahre "Blutwurst-Kolonie". In: Der Westen.
 Sozialbau in der Dickelsbach-Siedlung – Hübsch und historisch. In: Der Westen.
 Beschreibung aller Standorte auf dieser Themenroute als Teil der Route der Industriekultur

Einzelnachweise

Stadtteil von Duisburg
Siedlung (Städtebau) in Duisburg
Bauwerk der Moderne in Duisburg
Route der Industriekultur (Duisburg)
Duisburg-Mitte


Patricia Clavin is the Zeitlyn Fellow and Tutor in History, and Professor of International History at Jesus College, University of Oxford. Clavin studied at King's College London, obtaining a BA Hons in Modern History and her PhD. She was a Reader in Modern History at Keele University before joining Jesus College in October 2003. She is an editor of the Oxford History Monographs series, and serves on the editorial board of Past and Present. In 2008-09, she held the British Academy 'Thank-Offering-to-Britain' Senior Research Fellowship, and in 2015 was awarded a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society, and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
In 2015, Patricia was awarded the British Academic Medal, which recognizes a 'landmark achievement that has transformed understanding' for her book Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946 (Oxford, 2013).


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Net Zero Watch: Biden's climate plan in free fall ... and so are his approval ratings
Labels: Benny Peiser, Net Zero Watch
In this newsletter:
1) Biden ready to invoke 'domestic mobilization' against climate crisis after Congress failed
The Washington Times, 19 July 2022
2) Biden's poll numbers prove it: A Democratic apocalypse is drawing near
Eric Garcia, The Independent, 19 July 2022
3) The 'Executive Beast Mode' Presidency?
Editorial, The Wall Street Journal, 19 July 2022
4) Noah Rothman: The 'Climate Emergency' trumps democracy
Commentary Magazine, 19 July 2022
5) Sean Hannity: The climate cult alarmists are waging a war on the American people
Fox News, 20 July 2022
6) Rishi Sunak pledges not to build more onshore wind farms
The Daily Telegraph, 20 July 2022
7) Connor Tomlinson: The windfall tax epitomises the Tories' energy muddle
Net Zero Watch, 20 July 2022
8) Net Zero costs will make cooling homes unaffordable for millions of Britons (never mind heating their homes)
Bloomberg, 20 July 2022
9) Benny Peiser: Why are we building wind turbines hoping they will do anything avoiding heat waves?
Talk TV, 20 July 2022
10) And finally: Weather 'too hot' for solar panels
Full details:
US president won't announce a climate emergency on Wednesday but may do so in the future, said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
President Biden is prepared to announce executive actions to combat the threat of climate change, say lawmakers who have spoken to the president and are urging him to act unilaterally now that Congress' negotiations on green energy legislation have fallen apart.
Mr. Biden is expected to announce steps he will take to reduce carbon emissions as soon as Wednesday when he visits the shuttered Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, to talk about what he is calling a climate crisis.
"I don't know the exact words the president is going to use, but I think that Joe Biden is poised to use his commander-in-chief authority to invoke a domestic mobilization against the climate crisis," said Sen. Ed Markey, Massachusetts Democrat.
Senate Democrats are urging Mr. Biden to act unilaterally now that Sen. Joe Manchin III, West Virginia Democrat, has dropped his support for new clean energy tax breaks in a party-line spending bill, killing any chance of legislative action on a climate bill.
The Massachusetts power plant, formerly one of the largest electricity producers in New England, is undergoing a conversion from coal to wind power and will serve as a backdrop for Mr. Biden's call for more renewables in the power grid.
Democrats have been urging the president to not only act on reducing carbon emissions but also to declare a climate emergency, which would give him the power to implement significant changes to energy production and consumption.
The president won't announce a climate emergency on Wednesday but may do so in the future, said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
"Everything is on the table but it is just not going to be this week on that decision," she said.
Biden's dismal performance is a sign that Democrats should probably prepare themselves for a catastrophe in the midterm elections this November — one that could make the Blue Wave of 2018 and the Republican "Shellacking" of 2010 look like, well, a Tea Party.
A new poll conducted by SSRS and released yesterday by CNN puts Joe Biden's approval rating at a dismal 38 per cent. To put that in perspective, the president's numbers are worse than every other president since the second half of the 20th century, even clocking in one point lower than Donald Trump around July 2018.
Even more devastatingly, the survey showed that nearly 7 in 10 people say that Biden hasn't paid enough attention to the nation's biggest problems; only 30 per cent approve of how he's handling the economy, and only 25 per cent of how he's handling inflation. This comes after the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed last week that inflation jumped a stunning 9.1 per cent, a 40-year high.
Some polling shows that Democrats hold an advantage in the generic ballot, which shows whether voters would prefer Democrats or Republicans to lead Congress, and Democrats have generally started to hold an advantage since the Supreme Court's Dobbs v Jackson decision overturned the right to abortion. But the nation's overall sentiments do not reflect how individual districts, let alone swing districts, are leaning. Many voters in hotly contested races might feel compelled to make a change and let the GOP take the reins in Congress.
For now, Biden's dismal performance is a sign that Democrats should probably prepare themselves for a catastrophe in the midterm elections this November — one that could make the Blue Wave of 2018 and the Republican "Shellacking" of 2010 look like, well, a Tea Party.
All of this indicates why some are saying that Biden should step aside in 2024 for the good of the party. But that only raises the question of who should replace him at the top of the ticket.
Declaring a climate emergency would flagrantly circumvent Congress. The President may do it anyway. But thanks to the High Court's recent West Virginia v. EPA decision, lower courts will be well-equipped to decapitate the executive beast.
Democrats denounced Donald Trump as a dictator for invoking emergency powers to build his border wall after he was blocked in Congress. Well, now they're demanding that President Biden declare climate change a national emergency to advance their anti-carbon agenda that Congress won't pass. Apparently dictators are in the eye of the beholder.
Progressives are furious at West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin for scuttling a big climate spending bill. "With legislative climate options now closed, it's now time for executive Beast Mode," Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse tweeted last week. And now the White House is leaking that the President may declare a national climate emergency as soon as this week.
This would be an even greater abuse of power than Mr. Trump's repurposing of military funds for the border wall. We criticized Mr. Trump at the time and warned that a Democratic President might use the precedent to declare a climate emergency. And here we are.
While a President may sometimes need to act with dispatch during an emergency, climate change isn't close to such an event. Climate change is neither sudden nor unexpected. The world has warmed by 1.1 degree Celsius since the late 19th century, and the pace of future warming is uncertain and depends on multiple variables.
In any case, nothing progressives want Mr. Biden to do will affect the climate or even reduce global CO2 emissions. China and India will continue to build coal plants that offset all of the West's climate sacrifices.
But that isn't stopping progressives from demanding that Mr. Biden roll over the Constitution's separation of powers. One irony is that Congress passed the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to limit abuses of executive power. The law requires the President to activate his powers under one of 130 or so statutes that authorize emergency actions.
Here are some of the ways progressives now want Mr. Biden to impose his climate agenda without democratic assent:
• Halt oil exports. A 2015 legislative compromise by Barack Obama and Paul Ryan lifted the decades-old ban on crude exports in return for extending green-energy tax credits. This helped unleash U.S. oil production, especially in the Permian basin.
Progressives want to end shale fracking. But banning U.S. exports would drive up global oil prices, and the U.S. would still have to import refined products and crude to meet demand. In the name of meeting a climate emergency, they'd create a bigger energy emergency.
• Stop oil and gas drilling in the outer continental shelf. Mr. Biden has already imposed a de facto moratorium on new offshore leases, but progressives want him to suspend existing leases. This would reduce U.S. production by about 1.8 million barrels a day—about two to three times as much as Russian output has declined owing to Western sanctions.
Progressives want Mr. Biden to self-sanction the U.S. oil and gas industry while they prod him to lift sanctions on Venezuela and Iran. Canceling active leases would abrogate contracts and presumably require compensation, which would require money from Congress.
• Use the Defense Production Act to build green energy. This Cold War-era law lets the President marshall domestic industry for national security. Mr. Biden has already invoked the DPA to boost manufacturing of solar panels, lithium-ion batteries and heat pumps.
While Mr. Biden could try to command manufacturers to make more green products, logistical snags would abound. Auto makers couldn't easily convert factories into making solar panels or even electric vehicles. A shortage of critical minerals such as cobalt and lithium would also limit production, and it takes years to develop new mines.
• Repurpose funds as Mr. Trump did.The climate left wants Mr. Biden to use funds for disaster relief or military construction to build green energy systems. Americans whose homes are destroyed in wildfires or hurricanes won't be happy if Mr. Biden raids disaster funds to build solar plants.
The most serious harm with all this would be to the rule of law. The Supreme Court in its landmark Youngstown Steel (1952) decision blocked Harry Truman's attempt to nationalize steel mills during the Korean War. Justice Robert Jackson famously explained in his concurrence that a President's authority is "at its maximum" when he "acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress," while it's weaker when acting "in the absence of a congressional grant or denial of authority."
The failure of the people's elected representatives in Congress to empower the executive branch has apparently convinced Joe Biden to seize and exercise new authority.
Have you ever gotten the sense that Democratic concerns about the threat to American democracy aren't entirely sincere?
Perhaps it's the efforts of party strategists to boost conspiracy-curious, MAGA-flavored Republican candidates in the primaries only so they can mourn the GOP's authoritarianism. Maybe it's Democrats' claim that the Supreme Court is making "a mockery of democracy" by remanding divisive social issues to the various legislatures, to which Democrats have responded by doing exactly what the Court recommended in seeking to codify those rights in legislation. Or it could be that the party responds to legislative setbacks by threatening to usurp the powers it isn't specifically granted by Congress. At least, that's how the president reportedly plans to respond to congressional lethargy on one of the many exigencies of our time: the "climate emergency."
For months, progressive activists have lobbied the Biden administration to declare a "climate emergency" and to impose restrictions on private enterprise commensurate with the crisis. The president is reportedly listening to these enthusiasts and is prepared to do just that. It was not, however, any event or statistic that allegedly convinced Joe Biden to act. The failure of the people's elected representatives in Congress to empower the executive branch has apparently convinced him to seize and exercise new authority.
The president's forthcoming power grab was reportedly inspired by the breakdown of negotiations over new federal spending initiatives designed to support green technologies while making it more expensive to produce power through conventional means. Owing to the worsening economic climate, Sen. Joe Manchin refused to support this measure. This act of prudence led prominent Democratic influencers to label him the "man who single-handedly doomed humanity," consigning us all to a future dominated by "barren croplands, flooded homes, and incinerated communities."
It is precisely Congress's explicit refusal to authorize the executive branch to execute new climate change regulations that has convinced Democrats the president must exercise those undelegated powers. "This also unchains the president from waiting for Congress to act," said Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley of the still very fettered president. "Free at last," Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse declared. "With legislative climate options now closed, it's now time for executive Beast Mode." And yet, the value proposition associated with declaring a "climate emergency" seems to be primarily in the declaration itself. What the president is supposed to do remains vague.
The Washington Post noted that activists believe the usurpation they envision "would allow the president to halt crude oil exports, limit oil and gas drilling in federal waters, and direct agencies including the Federal Emergency Management Agency to boost renewable energy sources."
The Biden administration has thus far balked at restricting oil exports because America's European allies depend on U.S. energy exports to offset Russian supplies. The White House already produced a plan to limit federal leases offshore for the next five years and has canceled three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and off the Alaskan coast even in the absence of emergency powers. Reorienting FEMA away from disaster response and toward social engineering would expand the agency's remit, sap it of authority, and commit it to tasks it cannot perform while sacrificing its core mission.
Moreover, as the Supreme Court recently ruled in West Virginia v. EPA, the executive branch has been assuming authority that "Congress had conspicuously declined to enact itself" for years. That decision put an end to that agency's apparent presumption that "Congress implicitly tasked it, and it alone, with balancing the many vital considerations of national policy implicated in the basic regulation of how Americans get their energy" when there's "little reason to think Congress did so." These constitutional impediments do not dissolve simply because Democrats believe the Constitution is unequal to the imperatives of the moment.
But the activists are angry. They demand action, regardless of whether that action is effective or backed by the imprimatur of America's democratic institutions. And the president needs those activists. In their absence at the polls in November, the defeat Democrats expect to endure could turn into a rout. The mechanisms of self-government have become an obstacle to realizing Democratic goals, so those mechanisms must be stilled.
It's enough to make you wonder if left-wing laments about "the death of American democracy" are genuine.
This is nothing but a giant Trojan horse for big government socialism. They want to fundamentally change this country, even if it means your life gets a lot worse.
Over the past 18 months, you may have noticed that Joe Biden and The climate cult alarmists who control him sometimes pretend they feel they have a monopoly on compassion. They feel your pain. In fact, they want you to feel the pain. They want it, which was promised. is delivering. They want you to pay more at the pump. They want your energy bill to be higher. They want food prices to rise.
They want you to do the least. All in the name of climate change. Now, according to him, the administration should take extreme measures from now on to save Mother Earth from the impending doom. Now, after all, this is nothing more than window dressing. In other words, a giant Trojan horse for big government socialism. They want to fundamentally change this country, even if it means your life gets a lot worse.
Now, climate cult alarmists are waging war on the American people, over our budget. They are adversely affecting the poor, middle class, people with fixed income, elderly in this country. But don't take my word for it. Listen to Pete Buttigieg, the small-town mayor and genius, man of all experience, Transportation Secretary.
Rishi Sunak has pledged to keep the ban on building any new onshore wind farms if he wins the Tory leadership race and becomes the next prime minister.
The former chancellor would reverse Boris Johnson's plan to relax the rules and let local communities agree to host turbines in return for cheaper electricity bills.
Speaking to The Telegraph, he vowed to introduce a legal target to make Britain energy self-sufficient by 2045 by overseeing a massive expansion in offshore wind.
David Cameron introduced the de facto ban on new onshore wind farms in 2016 by excluding them from government subsidies for green electricity.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, has been pushing for it to be overturned but more than 100 Tory MPs have privately lobbied No 10 against a change.
Mr Sunak is the frontrunner in the Tory leadership race and is all but certain to make the final two candidates put forward by MPs to the party membership.
"Wind energy will be an important part of our strategy, but I want to reassure communities that as prime minister I would scrap plans to relax the ban on onshore wind in England, instead focusing on building more turbines offshore," he told The Telegraph.
There is hostility towards wind farms in many rural areas because of the noise they generate and the fact some people consider them to be a blight on the landscape.
Turbines placed out at sea are more efficient and reliable than those on land, but they cost significantly more to build and maintain.
Last month, the price of electricity from offshore wind fell to its lowest ever point and it is now four times cheaper than that from gas power plants.
Making the UK 'energy independent'
Mr Sunak has also pledged to re-establish the separate Department of Energy, which was subsumed into the Department of Business in 2016.
He would also create a new Energy Security Committee ahead of the winter tasked with keeping the lights on and reforming the market to cut future bills.
"As energy bills skyrocket in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it has never been more important that our country achieves energy sovereignty, so that we're no longer reliant on the volatility of the global energy supply," he said.
"That's why as prime minister I would introduce an ambitious new plan to make the UK energy independent, investing in vital new technologies.
"I am committed to Net Zero by 2050, but that can't mean neglecting our energy security. So although the legal target for energy sovereignty will be 2045 and I will work night and day to ensure we beat that target, securing a safer future for the next generation."
If the government wishes to allay the electorate's concerns that the government are sabotaging their quality of life for a utopian green dream, he must slash the taxes placed on the fuels we need.
With eleven percent inflation on the horizon, the cost of filling a family car exceeding £100, and Ofgem's price cap set to rise again in October to £2,800, former Chancellor Rishi Sunak insisted the Treasury was 'using all the tools at [its] disposal to bring inflation down'.
But as tax cuts languished untouched on his conceptual workbench, the government reversed its aversion to Labour's proposed windfall tax on oil and gas profits. Sunak insisted his windfall tax would collect £5bn in revenue for £400 in compensatory measures for consumers. Labour lauded the then-Chancellor's change of heart, but said their £6.6 bn plan would do more to reduce average household bills by £200.
But as last Monday's Parliamentary debate on the bill demonstrated, the windfall tax is regarded as a plaster for internal hemorrhaging in our energy sector — and that wound was self-inflicted.
A windfall tax is a one-off tax imposed by governments on business profits, designed to take additional income from disproportionate profits earned from unprecedented events. Critics have condemned the policy as punishing success, for circumstances created by generations of poor government energy policy. Britain has been a net oil and gas importer since 2005; sourcing most imports from Norway and the United States. Russia provided a fraction of our annual supply, before sanctions severed ties.
However, the reliance of our European neighbours on Nordstream 2, and our dereliction of duty to use reserves both beneath the North Sea and our feet, leaves us vulnerable to global gas market price hikes. Hence, the Treasury's interest in pursing measures to lower fuel costs.
But a windfall tax is not the fix-all the government hopes for. Even with an investment allowance and sunset provision, Offshore Energy UK chief executive Deirdre Michie warned that unexpected taxes cause businesses to recalculate the size and safety of their investments in emerging technologies. Even those best equipped to absorb the costs, BP and Shell, have stated that intention to review the impact of the tax on their £18bn investment plan, and expressed concerns over it introducing 'uncertainty' in the energy sector.
As with Joe Biden axing Keystone XL Pipeline construction, a hostile regulatory market deters fossil fuel companies from investing in the supposedly sustainable technologies that the Energy Security Strategy purports to care about. Prices will also increase due to speculation of scarcity, meaning consumers experience escalating costs for longer periods. Sunak's proposed £400 energy rebate will be a drop in the ocean compared to the ongoing impact of inflation.
Cool air for 24 hours can set back cash-strapped UK consumers more than £18 ($22) as energy costs soar. And with the country experiencing temperatures in excess of 40 degrees for the first time in its history, those extra expenses may become more frequent.
The cost of operating a 2.7 kilowatt air-conditioning unit has surged 45% over the last two years, according to data provided by Uswitch.com. Running a 40-watt desktop fan, while significantly cheaper at 27 pence for 24 hours, has also increased by about that amount since 2020.
Mother nature couldn't have picked a worse time for a heat wave in Great Britain. A cost-of-living crisis is already squeezing household budgets, while Russia's war in Ukraine keeps energy bills rising. Cranking up the air conditioning to beat the scorching temperatures will only put more pressure on consumers and businesses.
"Energy prices have rocketed in the past year, increasing the cost of keeping cool for households," said Sarah Broomfield, energy savings expert at Uswitch.com.
Households can save around 50% by running air ventilation at night, as some suppliers offer special electricity rates during off-peak hours. Smaller air-conditioning units or larger fans would also affect the relative running costs.
Still, this doesn't seem to stop people from spending on ventilation equipment. As of Friday, Argos sold 2,420% more air-conditioning units compared with the week before. Sales at hardware store Robert Dyas have also spiked since the beginning of the heat wave. Most of those were in-store purchases suggesting customers "wanted to immediately beat the heat," a company spokesperson said.
"Why are we building wind turbines hoping that they will do anything for us avoiding or dealing with heat waves?... The real problem we have are the winters and people struggling to heat their homes."
The weather was too hot for solar panels on Tuesday as soaring temperatures reduced their efficiency.
As the heatwave pushed the mercury above 40C for the first time ever in Britain, solar output remained well below the levels usually reached at peak times in spring.
Modelling data from the University of Sheffield suggests that solar energy provided an average 2.8 gigawatts of power on Tuesday.
Meanwhile in spring, when the weather is cooler and generation peaks, it typically accounts for 3.3 gigawatts, according to Josh Jackman, researcher at The Eco Experts.
Solar panels become less efficient when temperatures rise above 25C, meaning energy generation drops off, with efficiency decreasing by around 0.35 percentage points for every degree above this level.
Professor Alastair Buckley, of the University of Sheffield, said: "We never see peak output in mid summer.
"The temperature of the actual solar cell depends on a combination of the ambient temperature and the radiative heating from the sun and also cooling from wind. We saw cell temperatures of 70 degrees yesterday on our test system. Normally it would be between 40 degrees and 50 degrees."
The London-based Net Zero Watch is a campaign group set up to highlight and discuss the serious implications of expensive and poorly considered climate change policies. The Net Zero Watch newsletter is prepared by Director Dr Benny Peiser - for more information, please visit the website at www.netzerowatch.com.
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