I had a wonderful day today visiting with Oakland University Distinguished Professor Emerita Jane Eberwein! Dr. Eberwein is an internationally renowned scholar of Emily Dickinson's work, and we are so fortunate that she has been willing to share her expertise and enthusiasm for our garden.
I also had the distinct pleasure of working with Oakland County Master Gardener DaniAnn Connolly, who volunteered her skills to help us obtain a cutting of a Harrison's Yellow rose bush from Emily Dickinson's Homestead garden in Amherst, Massachusetts. To the best of our knowledge, Emily Dickinson planted the rose bush herself.
DaniAnn worked diligently to choose the perfect cuttings. We are so incredibly grateful for her care and consideration for this historical plant.
As I am an Oakland University graduate (GO GRIZZLIES!), it was a special honor to work with such an acclaimed OU professor in this capacity. I was honored that Dr. Eberwein made the time to collaborate with us. Emily Dickinson once referred to herself as "a Lunatic on Bulbs," and "identified with the orange tiger lily... [she] sometimes called herself Daisy, for a flower that symbolized innocence. She associated certain richly scented flowers, like roses and jasmine, with men and women to whom she formed emotional attachments." As Dickinson's passion for flowers helped to inspire my original idea for the garden, she absolutely should be represented in the West Bloomfield High School Literary Garden.
DaniAnn has planted the cuttings, and now we are trying to cultivate patience as we wait for the roses to develop roots!
Please join me in thanking Jane Eberwein and DaniAnn Connolly for all of their help and guidance!
If you would like to donate to our Literary Garden, please click here.
Hemingway and Faulkner Join the Literary Garden!
I am so excited to share that we have two more American literary legends on board for the garden!
Ernest Hemingway will be represented in the garden in a special MICHIGAN connection. Hemingway's Nick Adams stories are based on his boyhood summers in northern Michigan, especially in the Horton Bay and Petoskey areas. Chris Struble, President of the Michigan Hemingway Society, has offered to send a mint plant mentioned in "Summer People," as noted by Phillip Greene, author of the book and blog "To Have and Have Another:"
In October of 2013, while presenting at the Michigan Hemingway Society's annual conference, I visited Horton Bay, and was fortunate enough to talk with Jim Hartwell, proprietor of the Hartwell & Co. Bookshop, part of the Red Fox Inn. Jim's grandfather Vollie Fox is said to have tutored the young Hemingway on trout fishing in Horton's Creek. Jim directed me to the very spring mentioned in the story, 'halfway down the' now-paved road toward the lake. Sure enough, mint still grows around the spring. I took a few cuttings, and now I have some of that very mint growing at my home. Kinda neat, in an admittedly geeky way."
Mr. Greene, I feel exactly the same way!
Another literary legend is headed our way - William Faulkner! William Griffith, the curator of Rowan Oak, Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi, has offered to send a cutting of a rose bush. This is a perfect choice for our 10th grade American literature students who read Faulkner's most famous short story, "A Rose for Emily."
We are still looking for donations of pea gravel and plant mix (topsoil and compost) for the garden. Please contact me here if you can help.
Plants from The Mark Twain House and The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center!
On June 29, 2015, Professor Melissa Talhelm of Southern Connecticut State University and I ventured to The Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut to secure plant cuttings for the Literary Garden. I was beyond excited!
Jacques Lamarre, the Director of Communication and Special Projects, quickly greeted us and grabbed a pair of hedge clippers so that we could get our cuttings. He led us out in front of the house to cut some wisteria that was planted there in the early 1900s.
Jacques was also kind enough to take us next door to The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center so that we could add another American literary legend to our garden!
The gardens feature Connecticut's largest Merrill Magnolia - isn't it gorgeous?
We definitely had a good time, as Mark Twain graciously welcomed us to his home.
Twain also heartily approved of our plant selections.
It was nerve-racking to have these plants entrusted in our care!
We stopped at Lowe's to pick up some powdered rooting hormone using gift cards that were donated by a former student. Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson say thank you for all of your support for the garden!
Jacques was also kind enough to post about our project on The Mark Twain House FaceBook and Twitter pages!
After extensive research, Melissa and I set up a greenhouse for the wisteria cuttings. Now, we wait!
Next week, I will be soliciting donations of pea gravel and soil for the garden. If you would like to donate to the WBHS Literary Garden, please click here.


This spring, 36 students and 13 volunteer presenters from a variety of organizations, faiths, backgrounds, and states across the country gathered at Trinity International University outside Chicago to learn about immigration law and discuss how to serve the vulnerable immigrants living in all of our communities. This month on our website we are going to feature blogs, stories, and pictures from some of the staff and students involved in IMMIGRANT PATHWAY Institute (IPI) 2012. Before we get to that, though, you could probably use some background.
IPI is a 40-hour immigration law class specifically designed for people who work with low-income immigrants through churches and non-profit organizations. It was created by Immigrant Hope and World Relief to train the staff at our faith-based immigration resource centers, but we hope that it will serve hundreds of people from other organizations as well. We have had two sessions-July 2011 and May 2012-with 74 total students.
Why did we create IPI?
Immigrant Hope, and World Relief for that matter, have plenty of work to do just offering legal services, why are we spending type and resources training legal staff? Doesn't anyone offer the training you need already?
Well, the answer is a little bit involved, but I think it's important to understanding what we're trying to accomplish here, so bear with me. When normal (read: non-attorney) people like me want to offer immigration advice, we need a specific certification that requires a certain level of training. It needs to be much less expensive/intensive than law school; churches and non-profits don't have anything near the kind of time and money necessary for that. It needs to cover every kind of case that we might encounter, but should focus on the simple, family-based cases that we will typically see serving low-income clients. It needs to cover legal ethics and how to run a law office. Very few trainings met all of those requirements. Only one covered all of them in a single, week-long class, and it fills up quickly.
Equally important is the biblical component; only IPI is designed for faith-based organizations, includes daily devotional speakers, and features discussions on biblical ethics in immigration practice.
Ultimately, it is fruitless to set up church-based legal counseling centers if the workers cannot easily get the training they need to flourish. IPI has met that need, and given us a great venue for identifying and developing future leaders and partners.
Stay tuned through September for more blog posts from me and Alex (our Executive Director) about the class, stories from some of our favorite students, and more!


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module AngularSprinkles
  class FormBinder
    class Default < Base
      private

      def augment_args
        binding = { "ng-model" => @attribute_binding }

        @args.tap do |args|
          # Assume that optional params default to {}
          # This is a safe assumption for all helpers except check_box
          (non_block_parameter_count - args.count).times { args.push({}) }

          # The last argument is always the one where ng-model should be appended
          args.last.reverse_merge!(binding)
        end
      end

      def non_block_parameter_count
        @method.parameters.count { |parameter| parameter.first != :block }
      end
    end
  end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The material of technology—the hardware—that each performer uses to engage with Code X becomes emblematic of the variant and variable reading practices provoked by the work. Obviously, there is a marked difference between Code X's appearance in the Scratch exhibit and the way that I use it with my personal computer at home. But, there is also a significant difference in my playing of the piece on my PC desktop with a sizable monitor over high-quality computer speakers and my playing of the same piece (even pressing the same letters in the same order) over my much smaller MacBook Air 11.5" through earbuds. Despite Dutton's earlier insistence on the immateriality of the virtual world through which we engage with Code X, his essay nonetheless places a good deal of significance of the tools through which we experience the work. He writes that it is "With these tools [that the performer] enters a vocoverbovisual CD-ROM environment, where he [sic] may play an intricate, non-competitive, temporally liberated (because theoretically perpetual), phonic, patterned, linguistic game—or simply witness the game being played by the machine in exponentially varied, non-repetitive random mode" (np).
At this juncture, it is necessary to speak for a moment about this randomized mode that Code X will revert to if left inactive. The information page on the web-based version explains the random mode quite clearly. Sutherland writes, "If the computer keyboard is untouched for 30 seconds Code X will begin to operate in random automated-mode. Code X will replicate interactivity producing sound and visual poems until the keyboard is touched and the interactive program is re-engaged" (np). The fact that the poem reverts to an automated mode suggests, on one level, that perhaps the individual performer isn't as central to this work as I have suggested throughout this case study. If the activity of the performer can be and is performed by an automated algorithmic function that continues indefinitely and does not repeat itself, then this demonstrates that our engagement with the work as performers is still integrative, but it's not really interventionary insofar as we do not alter the text. The terminus of the full paragraph and the automated function suggests a "truth" or a "fact" of the text that is initially hidden from the viewer. Nonetheless, for Dutton "the text remains, for the most part, tantalizingly imminent. It can be viewed in its entirety by an undisclosed method that can be gradually arrived at, and kept on screen with another trick that has to be discovered. … In any case, it is neither directive nor didactic" (np). While we might argue that the fact that there is the implicit endpoint of the full paragraph that results after the "exhaustive" (alphabetical) use of the work, it is important to realize that this paragraph can never be formed by leaving Code X on random automated mode. The automated function reveals letters too slowly—and this cannot be changed because the work is presented in uneditable Flash—and thus letters fade into the black background before every letter is revealed. Unlike the individual performer, the random automated function of Code X will never reveal the paragraph in full and can only be achieved by an individual knowingly typing each letter of the alphabet at least once in a short enough time-span.
This final paragraph, then, is telling. Here, the performer is presented and addressed, though in the third person and is interestingly gendered female. Just as in the title, as Dutton points out in the observations I quoted earlier, the word "ode" is revealed as red text in "code" with the letter "C" remaining in white, almost every word of the final paragraph uses the differentiation of red and white to reveal words within words. In what can only inaccurately be called the first sentence of the paragraph, because there is no punctuation throughout, a number of words within words are revealed. Sutherland writes, "while staring at the computer the abecedarian catalogued every key," an obviously self-referential statement of the paragraph itself which contains every letter of the alphabet and is a kind of catalogue of all potential buttons to be pressed, sounds to be initiated, and letters to be arranged on the screen. It is also obviously self-referential for Sutherland as the producer of the text who also "star[es] at the computer" while coding the word, though this reading is discouraged by the feminine gendering of the pronouns throughout. This opening is also clearly self-referential for the performer who reveals this paragraph, producing the alphabetic work and performing the act of "catalogu[ing] by pressing the keys themself.
The red words within other words that are revealed in this paragraph gesture towards the multiple readings and permutations that are individual-specific and are contained within the arbitrary "whole" of this final paragraph. The performer is invited into this multiplicitous and radically free postanarchist reading practice by way of the "hi" salutation hidden within the first word "while." Here a reader is addressed and invited as one might be in a colloquial conversation, altering the poetic address to the reader (as one might see in an ode) slightly. Then the reader is invited to see hidden words within the words of the paragraph: the "tar" in "starting"; the "he" in "the"; the "put" in "computer"; and, my personal favourite, the "cedar" in "abecedarian." While the final paragraph in full makes more or less cohesive semantic sense, despite the occasional disjunctive poetics or awkward syntax, the red words contained within other words do not unite to form semantic sense in any way. That same first sentence only in red would read "hi tar he put he cedar cat log eve." Despite the suggestions of arriving finally at "form and meaning" in the quotation from this paragraph that I used earlier, these words-within-words suggest the arbitrariness and inadequacy of the sense at which we have arrived. This final paragraph instead positions the creative engagement of its performers as standing at the crossroads of sense and nonsense, a temporary autonomous zone where any permutation of these letters can and should be used, but any permutation would result in the same outcome: the dissolution of those larger structures that typically govern meaning-making and reading processes.
Rather than cohesion and closed narrative, this final paragraph presents itself as "the husk of a paragraph" that reveals not narrative but rather "the fossilised body of an involuted codex." This final image, of the codex form curled in on itself, warped at the edges, and fossilized from disuse and disinterest, presents the born-digital, integrative work as a radical new format. The "vo," then, that is hidden within "involuted" leaves us with a new form in obsolesced, obscure language: "vo" can be used both abbreviation of "volume" used for parts of print texts in a longer series and as an adverb it served as an archaic abbreviation of "voce," as in publishing, "under the word or heading" with an obviously etymological root in the Latin vōce, the ablative of vox or voice (Oxford English Dictionary). "Involution" reveals its indebtedness to the codex even as it obsolesces it; it reveals the incoherence and piecemeal nature of the semantic "whole" and the uneasy relationship between aural and written language.


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	#error "include 'stdafx.h' before including this file for PCH"
#endif

#include "resource.h"		// main symbols
#include "AddInDemo_i.h"

// CAddInDemoApp
// See AddInDemo.cpp for the implementation of this class
//

class CAddInDemoApp : public CWinApp
{
public:
	CAddInDemoApp();

// Overrides
public:
	virtual BOOL InitInstance();

	DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
};


In 2008, I took a trip to the bookstore that altered the course of my career.
I was working as a freelance tutor and had recently been hired to help prepare a student for the Writing (grammar) portion of the SAT. In need of practice material, I went down to my local Barnes & Noble and began flipping through the standard prep books. As I read, I grew increasingly frustrated: in some, the questions were too easy, in others too hard. Some of them targeted concepts that were not tested, or omitted concepts that were tested. And overall, the tone and style seemed somehow…off.


Three main focuses for Week 48.
Firstly, bringing Sore into land. This week, that meant sourcing a few last elements for the installation, and working on a short film to promote the project. So a week of ordering books, composing music, and stitching a short film together. That'll be out very shortly.
I also spent a day wrapping up Muncaster: decommissioning various services we no longer needed, and then spending the rest of the day analysing some data from the project. Nothing vastly complex, but useful to get a better picture of how people played with Hello Lamp Post, and also to be able to express more stories about the project to our partners.
Week 48. Week 49 next: time to launch new work.


Due to popular demand (and this webmaster's lazyness after answering the same question more than once), we have added a short description/history of RIBNAG.
Status - "Ok" with a date means that, as of that date, a RIBNAGer personally verified the box as alright. Question marks indicates that we have an unconfirmed report of the box missing. "Gone" shows that we have confirmed a box as missing. "Replaced" means that the box had vanished, but we have put out a new box with the same image and location.
Carver - The person who carved the stamp. "bought" means we simply puchased a pre-carved stamp. "custom" indicates that we designed a stamp and had it manufactured. "RIBNAG" means that more than one member of RIBNAG contributed to the stamp(s) on that hike.


Lecturer at St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI".
training leak detection specialists of enterprises.
1) Nolek AB, Stockholm, Sweden - course "leak test equipment". Pressure decay, vacuum and electronic leak detectors (2014).
2) Ulvac Gmbh, Munich, Germany - course "Development of automated systems based on mass spectrometry leak detectors. Maintenance"(2015).
1) Patent "Sniffer probe for mass spectrometry leak detectors"
2) Patent "Portable helium leak detector"
Current research: Vinogradov ML et al. Gas Permeation through Vacuum Materials // Vakuum in Forschung und Praxis. - 2015. - V. 27. - №3. - P. 26-29.
1) Refresher course: "Fundamentals of vacuum technology and leak detection"
For specialists of enterprises, R&D institutes, using non-destructive quality control methods.
2) Practical training course: "Operation of leak detectors, vacuum pumps and systems"
The program is intended for users of the vacuum equipment, technical services and the heads of relevant enterprises.
3) University course "Vacuum and plasma instruments and devices"
The course is a series of theoretical and practical trainings for the students of the first year master program "Electronics and Microelectronics".
2. Grant of the President of the Russian Federation for the state support of leading scientific schools of Russian Federation 6886.2010.8, researcher, 2010-2011.
3. Grant of the President of the Russian Federation for the state support of leading scientific schools of Russian Federation 5822.2012.8, researcher, 2012-2013.
4. NS/EPA-55 "Development of theoretical bases of formation and transport streams plasma beam containing nanocluster particles", researcher, 2010-2012.
5. NSH/EPA-59 "Investigation of generation and transport streams of fast neutrals in low-pressure discharges," #1.7.11, researcher, 2011.


I've noticed this a handful of times, where a node like Get Data isn't found in the preset manager. Clicking the Update button always fixes it for me.
The last time this happened, instead of clicking Update, I started Process Monitor and did a few more searches in the preset manager. In my case, Softimage searching only the compounds, not the presets in %XSI_HOME%\Data\DSPresets\ICENodes. That's why nodes like Get Data weren't found.
Clicking Update forced Softimage to search both the compounds and presets.


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The poll, which is meant to lead to Congo's first democratic transfer of power, was mostly peaceful, but many Congolese fear that a disputed result could spark unrest, as was the case after the 2006 and 2011 elections.
The government of President Joseph Kabila, who is due to step down this month after 18 years in power, says it cut access to the internet as well as Radio France Internationale (RFI) and some local media this week to prevent fake results from circulating.
It now faces mounting pressure from the European Union, the United States and others to restore the internet signal and keep the peace after a contentious and disorganised vote that the opposition said was fraudulent but that the government said was fair and went smoothly.
Both the opposition and Kabila's handpicked candidate claim they have won, without posting specific figures.
The national electoral commission (CENI) was scheduled to announce provisional results on Sunday, but said that could be delayed because compilation centres are still waiting for most local vote tallies.
Any dispute over the results could further destabilise Congo's volatile eastern provinces, where wars around the turn of the century resulted in millions of deaths, most from hunger and disease, and where dozens of militia remain active.
The United States on Thursday called on CENI to produce accurate results and threatened sanctions against anybody who sought to undermine the process.


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Science Alert
Mysterious 'gene within a gene' found in the coronavirus
By Peter Dockrill
Researchers have uncovered a mysterious gene in the genetic code of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 – a segment virtually hidden from view in the virus's genome, and largely overlooked until now.
The newly identified gene – called ORF3d – is an example of what's called an overlapping gene: a kind of 'gene within a gene' that's effectively concealed in a string of nucleotides, because of the way it overlaps the coded sequences of other genes.
"In terms of genome size, SARS-CoV-2 and its relatives are among the longest RNA viruses that exist," explains bioinformatician Chase Nelson from the American Museum of Natural History.
"They are thus perhaps more prone to 'genomic trickery' than other RNA viruses."
Viruses are actually quite prone to hosting overlapping genes, so it's not exactly a shocking discovery. Whether ORF3d truly represents genomic trickery remains to be seen, but in any case, it's certainly tricky to see.
Overlapping genes are difficult to identify in genetic sequences, as genomic scan systems can often miss them when running through strings of genetic code: programmed to pick up individual genes, but not necessarily seeing overarching instructions shared between the nucleotides of adjacent genes in a sequence.
In the context of viruses like SARS-CoV-2, that could make for a serious blind spot. Scientists have been racing to understand as much as possible (opens in new tab) about this devastating virus since early this year, and while some aspects of its genetic make-up have been elucidated (including the firm consensus that it was not 'made in a lab' (opens in new tab)), much remains that we just don't know yet.
"Missing overlapping genes puts us in peril of overlooking important aspects of viral biology," Nelson says.
"Overlapping genes may be one of an arsenal of ways in which coronaviruses have evolved to replicate efficiently, thwart host immunity, or get themselves transmitted."
As for ORF3d, there's much yet to learn about why it's there, lurking in the genome and straddling other genes.
Scanning through genomic databases, the researchers found the gene has been identified before, but only in one variant of coronavirus that affects pangolins (found in Guangxi, China).
It has also previously been misclassified as an unrelated gene, ORF3b – which is present in other coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV – but they are not actually the same thing.
"The two genes are unrelated and encode entirely different proteins," Nelson says. "This means that knowledge about SARS-CoV ORF3b should not be applied to SARS-CoV-2 ORF3d."
One thing we do know about the mysterious gene, based on previous blood work with human COVID-19 patients, is that ORF3d does elicit a strong antibody response.
As for whether T-cells would also be triggered – or what other viral purposes the overlapping ORF3d might have – we're still in the dark. It might be relatively benign. It might not be.
"We don't yet know its function or if there's clinical significance," Nelson says.
"But we predict this gene is relatively unlikely to be detected by a T-cell response, in contrast to the antibody response. And maybe that has something to do with how the gene was able to arise."
One thing's for sure. In a virus that only has about 15 known genes, the discovery of another one – let alone an overlapping gene – is a significant development. Just how significant, scientists will now try to find out.
The findings are reported in eLife.
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Peter Dockrill
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The Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, the European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn and the Regional Governor of Vidin Eng. Tsvetan Asenov inspected the building of Danube bridge 2
The Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, the European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn and the Regional Governor of Vidin Eng. Tsvetan Asenov inspected the building of Danube bridge 2.The Prime Minister was accompanied from the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Lilyana Pavlova, Minister managing EU Funds Tomislav Donchev and Minister of Communications and Information Technologies Ivaylo Moskovsky, the deputies Lyubomila Stanislavova and Vladimir Toshev. In the delegacy team from Romanian side was His Excellency Anton Pakuretsu- Ambassador of Romania in our country and the Minister of Administration and Interior of Romania Johan Rus.
The official guests, who were on a one day visit in Vidin have seen the building progress of the bridge and the adjacent infrastructure, which performance at the moment is respectively 82 % and 92 %. An establishment of a common Bulgarian- Romanian Company for management and exploitation of cross- border installation is pending.
The Prime Minister, Ministers and the Regional Governor of Vidin inspected "Panonia" Boulevard and the roundabouts.
In the Conference Center of the Regional Administration of Vidin was held a work meeting- a discussion about the EU Strategy on the Danube region. The Regional Governor welcomed the meeting and greeted the official guests. The Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Lilyana Pavlova showed the Bulgarian progress on implementing the EU Strategy for the Danube Region and Roadmap for the Joint Bulgarian- Romanian project for the development of navigation on the river. Minister Pavlova is a National Coordinator of the Danube Strategy for Bulgaria. Also attended the Eropean Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn, Minister of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Minister managing EU Funds Tomislav Donchev. During the meeting was shown the Bulgarian progress in the priority axis 11 "Safety" and priority axis 3 "Tourism" from the Bulgarian coordinators- Chief Commissioner Kalin Georgiev and Deputy Minister Ivo Marinov.
At the Ferry Complex in Vidin was held a National full- scale training "Protection 2012", organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There were tested the opportunities for cooperation and coordination between Bulgaria and Romania, Serbia and Austria, under the Danube Strategy.


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The Northerner
Pick your coffee bean scene
Amy Ehrnreiter|November 2, 2006
It's tall, dark, skinny and a hot date: it's a type of espresso drink from a coffee shop.
More than 100 million Americans drink about 350 million cups of coffee each day, according to the National Coffee Association.
"Going out for coffee has grown as an alternative for people who don't go to bars," said Erec Reichardt, owner of Lookout Joe's coffee shop in Mt. Lookout, Ohio. "There isn't a smokey atmosphere and you're not being accosted by drunk people."
Though millions of people now buy coffee daily from coffee shops, some people still don't understand what the buzz is all about or don't know where to start to find their perfect cup.
Finding your cup has more to do with how it tastes. A perfect cup combines history, atmosphere and personal preference.
First, you have to know what you're buying into.
Know the history
You can't pick your drink without knowing the basics.
"Historically, it's always been this way in Europe, where coffee shops started. In Italy, coffee shops were on every corner," Reichardt said. "Sound familiar?"
The popularity of coffee shops came across the pond to the United States about 25 years ago with the introduction of Starbucks Coffee Co.
"I think coffee has gone around like all things gourmet," Reichardt said about its popularity. "You can't really serve a great cup of coffee for 50 cents like in the diners in the 1940s."
Though Starbucks wasn't the first of its kind to sell gourmet coffee, it was, however, the first to bring it to the masses.
"It just introduced people to a good cup of coffee," said Jodi Ferner, a Northern Kentucky University professor who taught a "World of Coffee" class to honors students during spring 2006 and traveled with them to a coffee farm in the Dominican Republic.
"A good cup of coffee allows for face-to-face contact with connections between people," she said.
Finding your perfect cup of joe can be difficult, but finding the place where you want to purchase it from – well, that's a task in and of itself.
"The coffee shop is the perfect place for people who need to be alone, but need the company of others to do it," said B.J. Harpe, one of the NKU students who completed the "World of Coffee" class.
Most coffee shops have multiple sub-cultures within them. These vary by the location of the coffee shop and are usually based on atmosphere. According to Reichardt, smaller coffee shops can have a more intimate, cozy atmosphere and larger shops tend to focus more on technology than personal relationships with customers.
Also, the type of cup a person carries may mark their affluence in society.
"Carrying a cup of Starbucks shows a person has reached a certain level of making money that they can afford to spend $4 a day on a cup of coffee," Reichardt said.
Carrying a Starbucks cup has become more of a fashion symbol than someone actually wanting a cup of coffee.
For people who don't want to be part of "Starbucksization," the independent shops offer refuge for those who prefer a good cup of coffee over an accessory.
Defending the Starbucks drinker, Ferner said most people prefer that company because it offers a sense of sameness, no matter where a person travels.
"Your latte will still be your latte, no matter where you go in the world if you order at Starbucks," Ferner said.
But, if you want to find a coffee shop to fit you, shop around.
"If you're looking to pick a coffee shop, go to lots of different ones to see which one fits your lifestyle," Reichardt said.
The benefit of finding a coffee shop, if you're looking outside the realms of Starbucks, will be the local angle it brings – from local artists' artwork on the walls to even selling pastries and food from other area independent businesses.
But for the virgin coffee shop visitor, walking into a shop can be intimidating.
"It's like going to a party where no one knows you," Ferner said.
Regulars can walk up to a counter and the barista already knows their orders. People talk with one another and know all about the coffees offered on the menu and how to order them.
"Every coffee shop strives for a good relationship with regulars, where they are more than just customers," Reichardt said. "Most people prefer to be regulars than just customers."
Jada Windham, also an NKU student who completed the coffee class, said her first time in a coffee shop was "kind of scary."
She said she stood in line, listening to other people order their drinks and waited until she was comfortable enough to order her own.
"A tall, skinny, double something or other," Reichardt said. "Some coffee shops you have to learn the lingo, but hopefully it would be opening and inviting from the beginning.
"I never had that awkwardness," Harpe said. "My friends used to take me to coffee shops before I even liked to drink coffee."
Windham and Harpe said after taking the coffee class, they feel like coffee snobs-since they know so much about the culture, history and types of coffee.
"I really feel comfortable going to any shop now," Windham said.
Learn the bean
So, you think you've found your shop based on atmosphere and how comfortable you are while in it? Wrong.
"In layman's terms, you want to find someplace that serves a high quality bean," Reichardt said.
Didn't know that not all beans are good to the last drop?
Coffee beans can be compared to wine grades, where there are different levels of quality, usually sorted by price – the more expensive, the higher quality.
This being said, there are two types of beans: arabicas, or cheap, inexpensive beans like those used in Maxwell House and Folgers coffee and robustas, or high quality beans used in most coffee shops.
Quality isn't the only difference though. Robusta beans contain about 45 percent more caffeine than arabicas, according to Pendergrast.
Other factors, such as how they are grown and processed, also affect the quality of the beans.
For the person who isn't familiar with processing, Reichardt listed a few tastes to avoid when trying to find a good cup of coffee: "There shouldn't be any sour or grassy notes to the flavor. It should be intense and smooth, but not too bitter."
He said everyone will have a different taste of what's good and what's not, but if your coffee tastes burnt, then your cup is no good.
The roast, its origin and if it's blended – or mixed with other types of beans – greatly change the taste of coffee.
"Roast is like a steak – how well done do you want your bean?" Reichardt said.
A lighter roast has a smooth, mellow taste with more caffeine, whereas a darker roast has a bittersweet taste, he said.
"If you get something you don't like, the best thing to do is sample," he said. "Ask a barista. They'll help you."
Coffee also tastes different depending on where it is grown, therefore when different roasts or origins are blended together, the product yields an entirely different taste than the original.
Are you froofy?
Froofy, fru-fru, girly or poser drinks – whatever name people give them, the espresso drinks at a coffee shop are sweet.
If you walk into a coffee shop for the first time, you'll see a list on a board of espresso drinks – most with steamed milk combined with syrups such as chocolate and caramel as sweeteners – these are the froofy drinks.
"Most people can tell you if they prefer their coffee black or not," Reichardt said. "If they want it with lots of cream and sugar, they might want a froofy drink."
He said, in general, women lean more toward the sweetened milk-based drinks, whereas men tend to prefer intense, black coffee or straight shots of espresso, which is made by qu
ickly forcing very hot water through finely-ground coffee and has a much stronger taste and more caffeine than regular coffee.
After beginning to drink coffee at 23, Harpe said, "I found that I like my coffee like I like my men: tall, strong and black."
Unlike Harpe, about 62 percent of coffee drinkers enhance the taste, texture and color with additives such as sweeteners, according to the National Coffee Association.
Reichardt said younger coffee drinkers usually choose the espresso drinks because that's what they've learned to drink, while people who are in their 30s and above tend to drink black coffee because that's what they've grown up with.
"They just aren't used to a latte," he said. "Espresso has only really been popular the last 25 years or so."
In those last 25 years, Starbucks has invented and perfected more than 19,000 different ways to serve a cup of coffee, according to the company's Web site.
"When I go to a coffee shop, I tell them I want 'real coffee' and they usually just look at me," Harpe said. "I only drink black coffee."
Regardless of opinions on froofy vs. black or small shop vs. Starbucks, one fact about the coffee world remains: it's growing.
With the Starbucksization of the United States leveling off, the company is percolating into other countries such as Japan, France and Britain, where it opened more than 500 coffee shops by 2003, according to Pendergrast.
"What we see here is coffee shop as communal place," Reichardt said. "A place where people talk, read paper and drink a good cup of coffee. I don't think that's going anywhere."
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Binh Duong: The Pioneering Smart City in Vietnam
By Joe Appleton on Sep 1, 2021 10:50:34 AM
The southeast Asian country of Vietnam is evolving at a rapid pace. In recent years, the country has transformed into one of the fastest-growing economies in the region with booming industries in a wide range of sectors, and a tenacious business-oriented culture. In a short time, Vietnam has been able to grow from a low-income country into a lower-middle-income country, with analysts predicting that it could achieve upper-middle-income status as quickly as 2035. This is no mean feat, but with a large and booming population, with a young median age of 32 years, Vietnam has the drive, determination, and passion for innovation to make its dreams come true. A perfect and ambitious example is the Binh Duong Smart City project.
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Smart City Taoyuan: Digital Infrastructure as Success Factor
By Lisa Smith on Jun 1, 2018 6:21:20 PM
ICF Top 7 Intelligent Communities – Taoyuan City
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) releases an annual selection of seven different communities which it considers to have achieved a certain level of intelligence in the way they respond to the challenges of globalization and urbanization or, as the ICF prefers to call it, the Broadband Economy. The selection of communities for 2018 was released in February, and can be found listed on the bee smart city website. The Intelligent Community of the Year was chosen from among the Top 7 and announced at the ICF Global Summit in June.
Taoyuan City, Taiwan - Creating The Asian 'Silicon Valley'
Taoyuan City is positioning itself to be a hub for business and innovation in Taiwan. Located in the north of the island, not far from the nation's capital of Taipei, Taoyuan City can count a third of Taiwan's top manufacturers amongst its 47,000 companies, including the largest number of logistics companies on the island. Knowing that strong logistics systems and their supporting infrastructure are a necessary component to attract new businesses and encourage economic growth, the city took things a step further and established the Taoyuan Aerotropolis, and designated its international airport a free trade zone. It has also developed its transportation systems to swiftly and reliably connect its two million citizens both with one another and with their neighbors: as many as 261 bus routes criss-cross the city, and high-speed rail networks link it with Taipei and New Taipei City to the northeast and Hsinchu and Miaoli to the southwest.
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A Portrait of the Smart City Winnipeg
By Lisa Smith on May 28, 2018 1:56:35 AM
ICF Top 7 Intelligent Communities – Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Driving the Smart Economy
The Forks, the number one tourist destination and historic site in Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba, overlooks the crossing of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, where humans are said to have gathered for at least 6000 years. When Winnipeg had its first council meeting as an incorporated city in 1874, it had a settled population of just 3700. It is now larger by around 300,000 people than Hamilton, its fellow Canadian city on the ICF's Top 7 shortlist for the 2018 Intelligent Community of the Year.
Over the next 20 years, Winnipeg anticipates a growth of around 200,000 people to reach a six-figure population. In order to accommodate that change in an inclusive and citizen-centric way, the city introduced OurWinnipeg, a 25-year holistic development plan based on survey feedback from its residents that covered city services, health and quality of life, transportation and mobility, and all aspects of sustainable growth management.
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A Portrait of the Smart City Tainan
By Lisa Smith on May 22, 2018 12:15:16 AM
ICF Top 7 Intelligent Communities – Tainan City (Taiwan)
Intelligent Community Tainan City, Taiwan
Taiwan's oldest city dates back to 1590, when the area of what is now known as Tainan City was first settled by the Chinese. After being retaken from Dutch settlers in 1662, it became the seat of government and remained Taiwan's capital until 1885. Today, it is still a major political, economic and cultural center for the country. But while Tainan City celebrates its rich past, it is also looking forward, investing in the future of its roughly 1.9 million citizens by placing a strong emphasis on their quality of life and their ability to participate directly in their city's development. Like Chiayi City to its north, Tainan City, Taiwan, has been recognized as one of the most intelligent communities of 2018. Building its sustainable industries, offering free digital education, and demonstrating a strongly citizen-centric focus are what is putting it on the smart city map.
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Ipswich Smart City: A Holistic Smart City Program for Growth
ICF Top 7 Intelligent Communities – Ipswich (Queensland, Australia)
Ipswich, Australia - Following a Holistic Smart City Program
The city of Ipswich is young – that is to say, it has the youngest population on average in all of Queensland, Australia – and it is also growing faster than any other city in the state. Currently boasting around 200,000 inhabitants, its government projects that almost another three hundred thousand people will call the city home within the next twenty years, more than doubling its population and ensuring a need for an estimated 120,000 new employment opportunities. In preparation for this expansion, the Ipswich City Council created a twenty-year plan for the development of the city. Now in 2018, seven years later, the council has decided to extend its original plans by setting up a Smart City Program to direct the city's growth. This kind of carefully guided development is possibly the reason it has been on the radar of the ICF since 2010, and is now in the running for Intelligent Community of the Year 2018.
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Smart City Hamilton: The Steel Capital of Canada
By Lisa Smith on Apr 29, 2018 11:14:55 PM
ICF Top 7 Intelligent Communities – Hamilton (Ontario, Canada)
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - Creating a Smart Future
At the western end of Canada's Lake Ontario nestles a city of almost 540,000 culturally diverse people. Once handling 60% of Canada's steel production and earning the title 'the Steel Capital of Canada', its steel operations are now waning and the industrial city of Hamilton is looking for a new foundation for the future of its inhabitants.
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Smart City Espoo: Intelligent Community of the Year 2018
By Lisa Smith on Apr 19, 2018 11:53:54 AM
ICF Intelligent Community of the Year 2018 – Espoo
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) releases an annual selection of seven different communities which it considers to have achieved a certain level of intelligence in the way they respond to the challenges of globalization and urbanization or, as the ICF prefers to call it, the Broadband Economy. The selection of communities for 2018 was released in February, and can be found listed on the bee smart city website. Espoo was recognized as the Intelligent Community of the Year 2018 at the ICF Global Summit in London.
Intelligent Community Espoo, Finland
Second in size to Helsinki and its neighbor on Finland's southern coast, Espoo boasts a population of around 270,000 people – a significant increase from the 22,000 who called it home just a generation ago. Having transformed from a regional municipality into an industrial city with a large number of residents working in electronics and engineering, Espoo is now being recognized for its developments as an intelligent community.
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A Portrait of the Smart City Chiayi, Taiwan
By Lisa Smith on Apr 8, 2018 9:10:42 PM
ICF Top 7 Intelligent Communities – Chiayi City
Chiayi City, Taiwan - an incredibly 'smart' city!
In Chinese, 'Chiayi' means 'awarded for loyalty'. The city was given this name in 1787 by the Chinese emperor after a 10-month siege, to reward the bravery of its citizens during that time. Chiayi City, now a provincial city of around sixty square kilometers in south-central Taiwan with a population of roughly 270,000 people, is being recognized once again for a very different sort of achievement.
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To amend sections 122.075, 125.831, 125.832, and 4511.101, to enact sections 122.861, 125.834, 125.836, 125.837, 125.838, and 5735.40 of the Revised Code and to amend Section 203.99.45 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly and to amend Section 203.99 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly as amended by Am. Sub. S.B. 236 of the 126th General Assembly to create diesel emissions reduction grant and revolving loan programs, to revise the alternative fuel transportation grant program, to establish certain requirements related to the use of alternative fuels, and to make an appropriation.
(1) "Alternative fuel" means blended biodiesel or blended gasoline.
(2) "Biodiesel" means a mono-alkyl ester combustible liquid fuel that is derived from vegetable oils or animal fats, or any combination of those reagents, and that meets American society for testing and materials specification D6751-03a for biodiesel fuel (B100) blend stock distillate fuels.
(3) "Diesel fuel" and "gasoline" have the same meanings as in section 5735.01 of the Revised Code.
(4) "Ethanol" has the same meaning as in section 5733.46 of the Revised Code.
(5) "Blended biodiesel" means diesel fuel containing at least twenty per cent biodiesel by volume.
(6) "Blended gasoline" means gasoline containing at least eighty-five per cent ethanol by volume.
(b) The difference in cost between blended biodiesel and diesel fuel containing two per cent or less biodiesel at the time that the blended biodiesel is purchased.
(B) For the purpose of improving the air quality in this state, the director of development shall establish an alternative fuel transportation grant program under which the director may make grants to businesses, nonprofit organizations, public school systems, or local governments for the purchase and installation of alternative fuel refueling or distribution facilities and terminals, for the purchase and use of alternative fuel, and to pay the costs of educational and promotional materials and activities intended for prospective alternative fuel consumers, fuel marketers, and others in order to increase the availability and use of alternative fuel.
(e) Entities that will be purchasing or installing facilities or terminals for both blended biodiesel and blended gasoline.
(5) Any other criteria, procedures, or guidelines that the director determines are necessary to administer the program.
(D) An applicant for a grant under this section that sells motor vehicle fuel at retail shall agree that if the applicant receives a grant, the applicant will report to the director the gallon amounts of blended gasoline and blended biodiesel the applicant sells at retail in this state for a period of three years after the grant is awarded.
The director shall enter into a written confidentiality agreement with the applicant regarding the gallon amounts sold as described in this division, and upon execution of the agreement this information is not a public record.
(E) There is hereby created in the state treasury the alternative fuel transportation grant fund. The fund shall consist of money transferred to the fund under division (C) of section 125.836 of the Revised Code, money that is appropriated to it by the general assembly, and money as may be specified by the general assembly from the energy efficiency revolving loan fund created by section 4928.61 of the Revised Code. Money in the fund shall be used to make grants under the alternative fuel transportation grant program and by the director in the administration of that program.
(a) It has been certified by the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency or the California air resources board.
(b) It meets or is rebuilt or remanufactured to a more stringent set of engine emission standards than when originally manufactured, as determined pursuant to Subtitle G of Title VII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-58, 119 Stat. 838, et seq.
(c) In the case of a certified engine configuration involving the replacement of an existing engine, an engine configuration that replaced an engine that was removed from the vehicle and returned to the supplier for remanufacturing to a more stringent set of engine emissions standards or for scrappage.
(2) "Section 793" means section 793 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-58, 119 Stat. 841, et seq.
(3) "Verified technology" means a pollution control technology, including a retrofit technology, advanced truckstop electrification system, or auxiliary power unit, that has been verified by the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency or the California air resources board.
(B) For the purpose of reducing emissions from diesel engines, the department of development shall administer a diesel emissions reduction grant program and a diesel emissions reduction revolving loan program. The programs shall provide for the implementation in this state of section 793 and shall otherwise be administered in compliance with the requirements of section 793, and any regulations issued pursuant to that section.
The director of development shall apply to the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency for grant or loan funds available under section 793 to help fund the diesel emissions reduction grant program and the diesel emissions reduction revolving loan program. Upon the request of the director of development, the director of environmental protection shall assist the director of development to the extent necessary to develop diesel emission reduction plans, goals, or methods, including the role of certified engine configurations and verified technologies, and to prepare the application for federal grants or loans available under section 793.
(C) There is hereby created in the state treasury the diesel emissions grant fund consisting of money appropriated to it by the general assembly, any grants obtained from the federal government under section 793, and any other grants, gifts, or other contributions of money made to the credit of the fund. Money in the fund shall be used for the purpose of making grants for projects relating to certified engine configurations and verified technologies in a manner consistent with the requirements of section 793 and any regulations issued under that section. Interest earned from moneys in the fund shall be used to administer the diesel emissions reduction grant program.
(D) There is hereby created in the state treasury the diesel emissions reduction revolving loan fund consisting of money appropriated to it by the general assembly, any grants obtained from the federal government under section 793, and any other grants, gifts, or other contributions of money made to the credit of the fund. Money in the fund shall be used for the purpose of making loans for projects relating to certified engine configurations and verified technologies in a manner consistent with the requirements of section 793 and any regulations issued pursuant to that section. Interest earned from moneys in the fund shall be used to administer the diesel emissions reduction revolving loan program.
(7) Any fuel not described in divisions (A)(1) to (6) of this section that the United States department of energy determines, by final rule, to be substantially not petroleum, and that would yield substantial energy security and environmental benefits.
(B) "Biodiesel" means a mono-alkyl ester combustible liquid fuel that is derived from vegetable oils or animal fats, or any combination of those reagents that meets the American society for testing and materials specification for biodiesel fuel (B100) blend stock distillate fuels and any other standards that the director of administrative services adopts by rule.
(C) "Blended biodiesel" means a blend of biodiesel with petroleum based diesel fuel in which the resultant product contains not less than twenty per cent biodiesel that meets the American society for testing and materials specification for blended diesel fuel and any other standards that the director of administrative services adopts by rule.
(D) "Diesel fuel" means any liquid fuel that is capable of use in discrete form or as a blend component in the operation of engines of the diesel type.
(E) "E85 blend fuel" means fuel containing eighty-five per cent or more ethanol as defined in section 5733.46 of the Revised Code or containing any other percentage of not less than seventy per cent ethanol if the United States department of energy determines, by rule, that the lower percentage is necessary to provide for the requirements of cold start, safety, or vehicle functions, and that meets the American society for testing and materials specification for E85 blend fuel and any other standards that the director of administrative services adopts by rule.
(F) "Law enforcement officer" means an officer, agent, or employee of a state agency upon whom, by statute, a duty to conserve the peace or to enforce all or certain laws is imposed and the authority to arrest violators is conferred, within the limits of that statutory duty and authority, but does not include such an officer, agent, or employee if that duty and authority is location specific.
(B)(G)(1) "Motor vehicle" means any automobile, car minivan, cargo van, passenger van, sport utility vehicle, or pickup truck with a gross vehicle weight of under twelve thousand pounds.
(2) "Motor vehicle" does not include, except for the purposes of division (C) of section 125.832 of the Revised Code, any vehicle described in division (B)(G)(1) of this section that is used by a law enforcement officer and law enforcement agency or any vehicle that is so described and that is equipped with specialized equipment that is not normally found in such a vehicle and that is used to carry out a state agency's specific and specialized duties and responsibilities.
(C)(H) "Specialized equipment" does not include standard mobile radios with no capabilities other than voice communication, exterior and interior lights, or roof-mounted caution lights.
(D)(I) "State agency" means every organized body, office, board, authority, commission, or agency established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any governmental or quasi-governmental function of state government regardless of the funding source for that entity, other than any state institution of higher education, the office of the governor, lieutenant governor, auditor of state, treasurer of state, secretary of state, or attorney general, the general assembly or any legislative agency, the courts or any judicial agency, or any state retirement system or retirement program established by or referenced in the Revised Code.
(E)(J) "State institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code.
(1) Approve the purchase or lease of each motor vehicle for use by a state agency. The department shall decide if a motor vehicle shall be leased or purchased for that use.
Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(1) of this section, on and after July 1, 2005, each state agency shall acquire all passenger motor vehicles under the department's master leasing program. If the department determines that acquisition under that program is not the most economical method and if the department and the state agency acquiring the passenger motor vehicle can provide economic justification for doing so, the department may approve the purchase, rather than the lease, of a passenger motor vehicle for the acquiring state agency.
(2) Direct and approve all funds that are expended for the purchase, lease, repair, maintenance, registration, insuring, and other costs related to the possession and operation of motor vehicles for the use of state agencies.
(B) The director of administrative services shall establish and operate a fleet management program. The director shall operate the program for purposes including, but not limited to, cost-effective acquisition, maintenance, management, analysis, and disposal of all motor vehicles owned or leased by the state. All state agencies shall comply with statewide fleet management policies and procedures established by the director for the program, including, but not limited to, motor vehicle assignments, additions of motor vehicles to fleets or motor vehicle replacements, motor vehicle fueling, and motor vehicle repairs.
(C) The director shall establish and maintain a fleet reporting system and shall require state agencies to submit to the department information relative to state motor vehicles, including motor vehicles described in division (B)(G)(2) of section 125.831 of the Revised Code, to be used in operating the fleet management program. State agencies shall provide to the department fleet data and other information, including, but not limited to, mileage and costs. The data and other information shall be submitted in formats and in a manner determined by the department.
(D) All state agency purchases or leases of motor vehicles are subject to the prior approval of the director under division (A)(1) of this section.
(E) State agencies that utilize state motor vehicles or pay mileage reimbursements to employees shall provide a fleet plan to the department as directed by the department.
(F)(1) The fleets of state agencies that consist of one hundred or less vehicles on July 1, 2004, shall be managed by the department's fleet management program on a time schedule determined by the department, unless the state agency has received delegated authority as described in division (G) of this section.
(2) The fleets of state agencies that consist of greater than one hundred motor vehicles, but less than five hundred motor vehicles, on July 1, 2005, also shall be managed by the department's fleet management program on a time schedule determined by the department, unless the state agency has received delegated authority as described in division (G) of this section.
(b) Fleet management performance, as demonstrated by fleet data and other information submitted pursuant to annual reporting requirements and any other criteria the department considers necessary in evaluating the performance.
(2) The department may determine that a state agency is not in compliance with this section and direct that the agency's fleet management duties be transferred to the department.
(2) If the motor vehicles were originally purchased with moneys derived from the general revenue fund, the proceeds shall be deposited, in the director's discretion, into the state treasury to the credit of either the fleet management fund created by section 125.83 of the Revised Code or the investment recovery fund created by section 125.14 of the Revised Code.
(I)(1) The department shall create and maintain a certified fleet manager program.
(2) State agencies that have received delegated authority as described in division (G) of this section shall have a certified fleet manager.
(J) The department annually shall prepare and submit a statewide fleet report to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate. The report shall be submitted not later than the thirty-first day of January following the end of each fiscal year. It may include, but is not limited to, the numbers and types of motor vehicles, their mileage, miles per gallon, and cost per mile, mileage reimbursements, accident and insurance data, and information regarding compliance by state agencies having delegated authority under division (G) of this section with applicable fleet management requirements.
(K) The director shall adopt rules for implementing the fleet management program that are consistent with recognized best practices. The program shall be supported by reasonable fee charges for the services provided. The director shall collect these fees and deposit them into the state treasury to the credit for the fleet management fund created by section 125.83 of the Revised Code. The setting and collection of fees under this division is not subject to any restriction imposed by law upon the director's or the department's authority to set or collect fees.
(L) The director also shall adopt rules that prohibit, except in very limited circumstances, the exclusive assignment of state-owned, leased, or pooled motor vehicles to state employees and that prohibit the reimbursement under section 126.31 of the Revised Code of state employees who use their own motor vehicles for any mileage they incur above an amount that the department shall determine annually unless reimbursement for the excess mileage is approved by the department in accordance with standards for that approval the director shall establish in those rules. Beginning on September 26, 2003, no state-owned, leased, or pooled motor vehicle shall be personally assigned as any form of compensation or benefit of state employment, and no state-owned, leased, or pooled motor vehicle shall be assigned to an employee solely for commuting to and from home and work.
(2) Attempt to reduce the number of passenger vehicles used by state agencies during the fiscal years ending on June 30, 2004, and June 30, 2005.
(N) Each state agency shall reimburse the department for all costs incurred in the assignment of motor vehicles to the state agency.
(a) "Annual motor vehicle cost" means the price of a motor vehicle divided by the number of years an average motor vehicle is used.
(b) "Fuel cost" means the average price per gallon of motor fuel divided by the miles per gallon fuel efficiency of a motor vehicle.
(c) "Insurance cost" means the cost of insuring a motor vehicle per year divided by the number of miles an average motor vehicle is driven per year.
(d) "Operating cost" means the maintenance cost of a motor vehicle per year divided by the product resulting when the number of miles an average motor vehicle is driven per year is multiplied by the number of years an average motor vehicle is used.
(e) "Reimbursement rate per mile" means the reimbursement per mile rate for travel expenses as provided by rule of the director of budget and management adopted under division (B) of section 126.31 of the Revised Code.
(c) Whether or not it makes bulk purchases of fuel for the motor vehicles.
(b) A rationale for either continuing with the fleet management system that the institution regularly uses or changing to the use of those tools and services that the department provides.
(3) The department shall certify within ninety days after receipt of all reports under division (P)(1) of this section a list of those state institutions of higher education that the department determines would save amounts if they were to use the fleet management tracking, fuel card program, and bulk fuel purchases tools and services that the department provides. The institutions so certified then shall use those tools and services that the department provides until the department next certifies institutions under division (P)(3) of this section.
Sec. 125.834. (A) The department of administrative services shall ensure that all new motor vehicles acquired on and after July 1, 2006, by the state for use by state agencies under section 125.832 of the Revised Code are capable of using alternative fuels. A state agency that is acquiring new motor vehicles under division (G)(1) of section 125.832 of the Revised Code shall report annually, in a manner prescribed by the director of administrative services, the number of new motor vehicles acquired by the state agency and the number of those motor vehicles that are capable of using alternative fuel.
(a) The department or state agency is unable to acquire or operate motor vehicles within the cost limitations described in rules adopted under division (D) of this section.
(b) The use of alternative fuels would not meet the energy conservation and exhaust emissions criteria described in rules adopted under division (D) of this section.
(c) An emergency exists or exigent circumstances exist, as determined by the department of administrative services.
(C) Not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, all motor vehicles owned or leased by the state that are capable of using an alternative fuel shall use an alternative fuel if the fuel is reasonably available at a reasonable price. Subject to division (D) of this section, motor vehicles owned or leased by the state shall use at least sixty thousand gallons of E85 blend fuel per calendar year by January 1, 2007, with an increase of five thousand gallons per calendar year each calendar year thereafter, and at least one million gallons of biodiesel per calendar year by January 1, 2007, with an increase of one hundred thousand gallons per calendar year each calendar year thereafter. The director of administrative services, under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules to implement the fuel use requirement of this division, and the directors and heads of all state departments and agencies shall issue a directive to all state employees who use state motor vehicles informing them of the fuel use requirement. The directive shall instruct state employees to purchase alternative fuels at retail fuel facilities whenever possible.
As used in this division, "motor vehicle" has the same meaning as in section 125.831 of the Revised Code and also includes all on-road and off-road vehicles powered by diesel fuel, regardless of gross vehicle weight.
(2) Energy conservation and exhaust emissions criteria for motor vehicles capable of using alternative fuels.
(1) "Biodiesel," "blended biodiesel," and "diesel fuel" have the same meanings as in section 125.831 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Credit" means a credit generated by the acquisition of alternative fueled vehicles in accordance with the "Energy Policy Act of 1992," 106 Stat. 2897, 42 U.S.C. 13257.
(3) "Incremental cost" means the difference in cost between blended biodiesel and conventional petroleum-based diesel fuel at the time the blended biodiesel is purchased.
(B) The department of administrative services shall establish and administer a credit banking and selling program. The department may sell or trade credits in accordance with procedures established pursuant to the "Energy Policy Act of 1992," 106 Stat. 2897, 42 U.S.C. 13258.
(C) There is hereby created in the state treasury the "biodiesel revolving fund," to which shall be credited moneys received from the sale of credits under this section, any moneys appropriated to the fund by the general assembly, and any other moneys obtained or accepted by the department for crediting to the fund. Moneys credited to the fund shall be used to pay for the incremental cost of biodiesel for use in vehicles owned or leased by the state that use diesel fuel. The director of administrative services, after consultation with the director of development, may direct the director of budget and management to transfer available moneys in the biodiesel revolving fund to the alternative fuel transportation grant fund created in section 122.075 of the Revised Code to be used by the department of development for the purposes specified in that section.
(D) The director of administrative services shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that are necessary for the administration of the credit banking and selling program.
Sec. 125.837. The director of administrative services shall designate an employee within the department of administrative services as the state alternative fuel resource officer. The officer shall monitor federal activity for any federal action that affects this state in its use of motor vehicles that are capable of using an alternative fuel. In addition, the officer shall be available to all state departments and agencies to explain the laws that apply to the purchase of motor vehicles that are capable of using an alternative fuel, the laws governing alternative fuels, and any other relevant issues that relate to motor vehicles that are capable of using an alternative fuel, such as the locations of motor vehicle fueling facilities that sell alternative fuels.
If time and resources permit, the state alternative fuel resource officer may assist political subdivisions with any questions or issues relating to alternative fuels and to motor vehicles that are capable of using an alternative fuel.
Sec. 125.838. (A) The department of administrative services shall compile on a quarterly basis all data relating to the purchase by each state department and agency of alternative fuels, including the amounts of alternative fuels and conventional fuels purchased, the per-gallon prices paid for each fuel, and the locations at which alternative fuels were purchased and the fuel amounts purchased at each such location.
(B) Not later than the first day of April of each year, the department shall prepare a report containing all the data for the preceding calendar year described in division (A) of this section. The report also shall list the number and types of motor vehicles each state department and agency owns or leases that are capable of using an alternative fuel and the locations at which these motor vehicles are routinely parked. The department shall submit a copy of the report to the governor, to the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, and to the president and minority leader of the senate.
Sec. 4511.101. (A) The director of transportation, in accordance with 23 U.S.C.A. 109(d), 131(f), and 315, as amended, shall establish a program for the placement of business logos for identification purposes on state directional signs within the rights-of-way of divided, multi-lane, limited access highways in both rural and urban areas.
(B) All direct and indirect costs of the business logo sign program established pursuant to this section shall be fully paid by the businesses applying for participation in the program. At any interchange where a business logo sign is erected, such costs shall be divided equally among the participating businesses. The direct and indirect costs of the program shall include, but not be limited to, the cost of capital, directional signs, blanks, posts, logos, installation, repair, engineering, design, insurance, removal, replacement, and administration. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the director from establishing such a program.
(C) The director, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may contract with any private person to operate, maintain, and market the business logo sign program. The rules shall describe the terms of the contract, and shall allow for a reasonable profit to be earned by the successful applicant. In awarding the contract, the director shall consider the skill, expertise, prior experience, and other qualifications of each applicant.
(D) As used in this section, "urban area" means an area having a population of fifty thousand or more according to the most recent federal census and designated as such on urban maps prepared by the department.
(2) Make participation in the business logo sign program conditional upon a business agreeing to limit, discontinue, withdraw, modify, alter, or change any advertising or sign.
(F) The program shall permit the business logo signs of a seller of motor vehicle fuel to include on the seller's signs a marking or symbol indicating that the seller sells one or more types of alternative fuel so long as the seller in fact sells that fuel.
As used in this division, "alternative fuel" has the same meaning as in section 125.831 of the Revised Code.
(1) "Alternative fuel" has the same meaning as in section 125.831 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Political subdivision" means a county, township, municipal corporation, school district, or other body corporate and politic responsible for governmental activities in a geographic area smaller than that of the state.
(B) Except as provided in division (B)(6) of section 5739.02 of the Revised Code when levying the tax imposed by that section in conjunction with sections 5739.021, 5739.023, 5739.026, 5741.021, 5741.022, and 5741.023 of the Revised Code, or as provided in section 5739.101 of the Revised Code, no political subdivision shall levy or collect any excise, license, privilege, or occupational tax on alternative fuel or on the buying, selling, handling, or consuming of alternative fuel.
SECTION 2. That existing sections 122.075, 125.831, 125.832, and 4511.01 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
The foregoing appropriation item 195-625, Economic Development Financing Operating, shall be used for the operating expenses of financial assistance programs authorized under Chapter 166. of the Revised Code and under sections 122.43 and 122.45 of the Revised Code.
The foregoing appropriation item 195-654, Volume Cap Administration, shall be used for expenses related to the administration of the Volume Cap Program. Revenues received by the Volume Cap Administration Fund (Fund 617) shall consist of application fees, forfeited deposits, and interest earned from the custodial account held by the Treasurer of State.
The foregoing appropriation item 195-659, Universal Service, shall be used to provide payments to regulated electric utility companies for low-income customers enrolled in Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) electric accounts, to fund targeted energy efficiency and customer education services to PIPP customers, and to cover the department's administrative costs related to Universal Service Fund Programs.
The foregoing appropriation item 195-678, Shovel Ready Sites, shall be used to administer the Shovel Ready Sites Program under section 122.083 of the Revised Code.
The foregoing appropriation item 195-679, Alternative Fuel Transportation, shall be used by the Director of Development to make grants under the Alternative Fuel Transportation Grant Fund Program in accordance with section 122.075 of the Revised Code, and for administrative costs associated with the program.
(A) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Defense Conversion Assistance Fund (Fund 5CV). The fund shall consist of all cash deposited to it pursuant to division (C) of this section.
(B) The foregoing appropriation item 195-680, Defense Conversion Assistance, shall be used by the Director of Development to provide grants to local communities for costs associated with the preparation and redevelopment of military installations in Ohio that are slated for realignment or closure under the United States Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure Program.
(C) Notwithstanding division (A) of section 169.05 of the Revised Code, upon the request of the Director of Budget and Management, the Director of Commerce, prior to June 30, 2006, shall transfer to the Defense Conversion Assistance Fund (Fund 5CV) $1,000,000 of the unclaimed funds that have been reported by the holders of unclaimed funds under section 169.05 of the Revised Code regardless of the allocation of the unclaimed funds described in that section.
(D) On or before June 30, 2006, the unencumbered balance of the foregoing appropriation item 195-680, Defense Conversion Assistance, for fiscal year 2006 is hereby appropriated for the same purpose for fiscal year 2007.
The foregoing appropriation item 195-682, Lung Cancer and Lung Disease Research, shall be used by the Director of Development to promote lung cancer and lung disease research.
The foregoing appropriation item 195-660, Energy Efficiency Loan and Grant, shall be used to provide financial assistance to customers for eligible energy efficiency projects for residential, commercial and industrial business, local government, educational institution, nonprofit, and agriculture customers, and to pay for the program's administrative costs as provided in the Revised Code and rules adopted by the Director of Development.
Notwithstanding Chapters 122. and 4928. of the Revised Code and any other law to the contrary, the Director of Budget and Management shall transfer $2,500,000 in cash in fiscal year 2006 and $2,500,000 in cash in fiscal year 2007 from the Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund (Fund 5M5) to the Industrial Site Improvements Fund (Fund 5AR).
Moneys in Fund 5AR, Industrial Site Improvements, shall be used by the Director of Development to make grants to eligible counties for the improvement of commercial or industrial areas within those counties under section 122.951 of the Revised Code.
Notwithstanding Chapters 122. and 4928. of the Revised Code and any other law to the contrary, the Director of Budget and Management shall transfer $500,000 in cash in fiscal year 2006 from the Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund (Fund 5M5) in the Department of Development to the Rail Transload Facilities Fund (Fund 5CF) in the Department of Transportation.
Notwithstanding Chapter 4928. of the Revised Code and any other law to the contrary, the Director of Budget and Management shall transfer $150,000 in cash in fiscal year 2006 and $150,000 $1,150,000 in cash in fiscal year 2007 from the Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund (Fund 5M5) to the Alternative Fuel Transportation Grant Fund (Fund 5CG).
All payments received by the state pursuant to a series of settlements with ten brokerage firms reached with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Association of Securities Dealers, the New York Stock Exchange, the New York Attorney General, and other state regulators (henceforth referred to as the "Global Analysts Settlement Agreements"), shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the Economic Development Contingency Fund (Fund 5Y6), which is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall be used by the Director of Development to support economic development projects for which appropriations would not otherwise be available, and shall be subject to the submission of a request to the Controlling Board by the Director outlining the planned use of the funds, and the subsequent approval of the request by the Controlling Board.
SECTION 4. That existing Section 203.99.45 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly is hereby repealed.
SECTION 6. That existing Section 203.99 of Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. S.B. 236 of the 126th General Assembly, is hereby repealed.
SECTION 7. (A) As used in this section, "alternative fuel" has the same meaning as in section 125.831 of the Revised Code, as amended by this act.
(B) The Department of Taxation shall study the feasibility of encouraging the use of alternative fuels by reducing the motor fuel tax rate on those fuels, to the extent they are taxed under Chapter 5735. of the Revised Code, to reflect their lower energy content and the need to use more gallons of an alternative fuel to travel the same distance. The study shall examine the British thermal unit ("Btu") of each alternative fuel that may be used in motor vehicles and determine at what rate each alternative fuel may be taxed to result in an effective tax rate that is equalized to conventional fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, according to their relative Btu content by volume. Among any other matters the Department of Taxation determines to be pertinent to the study, the Department also shall consider the experience of other states that have encouraged the use of alternative fuels by reducing their fuel tax rates on those fuels. Not later than one year after the effective date of this section, the Department shall prepare a report regarding its findings and submit a copy of the report to the Governor, the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and the President and Minority Leader of the Senate.
SECTION 8. (A) As used in this section, "blended biodiesel" and "E85 blend fuel" have the same meanings as in section 125.831 of the Revised Code, as amended by this act.
(B) The Department of Development, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce, shall conduct a study evaluating the factors involved in making the production, sale, and use of blended biodiesel and E85 blend fuel a commercially viable and self-sustaining industry in this state so that government intervention and support for the blended biodiesel and E85 blend fuel markets is not necessary. Not later than one year after the effective date of this section, the Department of Development shall prepare a report regarding its findings and submit a copy of the report to the Governor, the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and the President and Minority Leader of the Senate.
SECTION 9. Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 of this act, and the items of law of which the sections are composed, are not subject to the referendum. Therefore, under Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 1d and section 1.471 of the Revised Code, the sections, and the items of law of which the sections are composed, go into immediate effect when this act becomes law.


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Egypt condemns terrorist attack on a hotel in southern Somalia
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 - 10:17 GMT
Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, spokesperson for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs- press photo
CAIRO - 25 October 2022: Egypt condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a hotel in the city of Kismayo in southern Somalia, which killed nine people and wounded 47 others, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
Egypt expressed sincere condolences and sympathy to the government and people of Somalia and to the families of the victims in this "tragic accident", wishing a speedy recovery for the injured, said Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid in the statement.
Abu Zeid reiterated Egypt's call upon the international community to unite to eradicate terrorism and dry up its sources of funding and support.