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How industry can move toward a low-carbon future
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July 14, 2018 Anand Gupta
Cutting industry's carbon emissions will require significant investment and coordinated effort among businesses, governments, and other stakeholders.
The industrial sector is a vital source of wealth, prosperity, and social value on a global scale. Industrial companies produce about one-quarter of global GDP and employment, and they make products and materials that are integral to our daily lives. Their activities, like those of most businesses, also take a toll on the environment. Roughly 28 percent of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions came from industry in 2014. Unless industry can lower its emissions, the world will struggle to reach the GHG reduction targets of 80 to 95 percent that governments set under the Paris Agreement of 2015.
Lowering industrial GHG emissions won't be easy, but it is possible. A new report from McKinsey, Decarbonization of industrial sectors: The next frontier (PDF–21MB), finds that ammonia, cement, ethylene, and steel companies can reduce their carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions to almost zero with energy-efficiency improvements, the electric production of heat, the use of hydrogen and biomass as feedstock or fuel, and carbon capture. The decarbonization of these sectors will cost between $11 trillion and $21 trillion through 2050 and will require accelerating the build-out of renewable-energy capacity, to provide four to nine times as much clean power as industry would need in the absence of any effort to reduce emissions.
The challenges to reducing industrial CO2 emissions
The vast majority of industry's GHG emissions, 90 percent, consists of CO2. Half of industry's CO2 emissions result from the manufacture of the four industrial commodities—ammonia, cement, ethylene, and steel—that are the focus of our report.
Abating CO2 emissions in the focus sectors is more difficult than it is in most others for four technical reasons (Exhibit 1). First, the 45 percent of CO2 emissions from these sectors that result from feedstocks cannot be abated by a change in fuels, futureonly by changes to processes. Second, 35 percent of emissions from these sectors come from burning fossil fuels to generate high-temperature heat (in the focus sectors, process temperatures can reach 700 degrees Celsius to more than 1,600 degrees Celsius). Reducing these emissions by switching to alternative fuels, such as zero-carbon electricity, would be difficult because this would require significant changes to the design of furnaces. Third, industrial processes are highly integrated, so any change to one part of a process must be accompanied by changes to other parts of that process. Finally, production facilities have long lifetimes, typically exceeding 50 years with regular maintenance. Changing processes at existing sites requires costly rebuilds or retrofits.
Economic factors add to the challenge of abating emissions. Ammonia, cement, ethylene, and steel are commodities, so cost is the decisive consideration in purchase decisions. Companies that increase their costs by adopting low-emission processes and technologies will find themselves at a price disadvantage to rivals that do not.
Options for industrial decarbonization
Despite the challenges described above, companies in the four focus sectors could bring their CO2 emissions close to zero with a combination of approaches. The most promising are energy-efficiency improvements, the electrification of heat, the use of hydrogen made with zero-carbon electricity as a feedstock or fuel, the use of biomass as a feedstock or fuel, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) or usage (CCU). The optimum mix of decarbonization options will vary from facility to facility, even within the same sector, because local factors determine which ones are most practical or economical. Companies must evaluate their options on a site-specific basis by closely examining these factors.
The most important factors are the availability and cost of low-carbon energy sources—specifically, zero-carbon renewable electricity and sustainably produced biomass. Access to storage capacity for captured CO2, along with public and regulatory support for carbon storage, will affect the possibility of implementing CCS. The regional-growth outlook for the four focus sectors matters, too, because certain decarbonization options are cost effective for existing (brownfield) industrial facilities while others are more economical for newly built (greenfield) facilities.
The following observations, which reflect current commodity prices and technologies, can help industrial companies focus their efforts (Exhibit 2):
Improving energy efficiency is a cost-effective way to lower CO2 emissions by 15 to 20 percent. That would be a good start, but it is far from enough to achieve the deep GHG reductions that many Paris Agreement pledges call for. And because energy-efficiency improvements can have longer financial-payback times than companies will accept, many businesses will not pursue these improvements to the extent required for 15 to 20 percent emission cuts.
Where carbon-storage sites are available, CCS is the lowest-cost decarbonization option at current commodity prices. It is also the only technology that can fully abate process-related CO2 emissions from cement production. Otherwise, CCS is still expensive, at least for now. Further innovation could make other decarbonization options, such as electricity-powered production, cost competitive.
When the wholesale price of zero-carbon electricity is no greater than $50 per megawatt-hour, using electricity to produce either heat or hydrogen would be more economical than CCS in many situations. (Electricity prices at this level have been attained in some places and will probably become more widespread.) As noted above, a variety of circumstances will dictate the price at which zero-carbon electricity becomes the more cost-effective decarbonization option. Below $35 per megawatt-hour, for example, it's cheaper to use hydrogen for fuel at newly built ammonia or steel plants designed around hydrogen than to use CCS.
Switching to biomass as a fuel or feedstock is financially attractive at cement factories and newly built steel plants because mature technologies are available for biomass in these settings. Biomass can also replace fossil-fuel feedstocks for ethylene and ammonia production. Although this approach costs more than electrification or hydrogen usage, it abates emissions from both the production process and from end-of-life product disposal (for example, incinerating plastic made from ethylene). One big challenge: sustainably produced biomass is scarce at the global level, though it is abundant in some regions.
Investment pathways toward low-carbon industry
Almost irrespective of which decarbonization option a company chooses—except for energy-efficiency improvements—decarbonization leads to an increase in demand for electricity. To decarbonize, the four focus sectors will need a reliable, low-cost supply of approximately 25 to 55 exajoules of zero-carbon electricity per year—about four to nine times the amount they would need in the absence of any special effort to reduce CO2 emissions (Exhibit 3). Achieving such an increase in the supply of zero-carbon electricity would require a significant and costly transformation of the energy system. The industrial sector can help lower the cost of this change in certain ways, such as providing grid-balancing services.
Even so, the investments needed to fully decarbonize the ammonia, cement, ethylene, and steel sectors will be substantial: $11 trillion to $21 trillion through 2050—0.4 to 0.8 percent of global GDP—depending on the price of zero-carbon electricity. Operating expenses constitute 50 to 60 percent of the cost, and capital expenditures, mainly for decarbonizing the cement sector, make up the rest.
Achieving the dual transformation of the energy and industrial sectors will require coordinated efforts across the economy. Governments can develop road maps for industrial decarbonization on the local and regional levels to create a more certain outlook for industrial and power companies and unlock investments with longer payback times. Governments can also adjust regulations and incentives to support decarbonization—for example, encouraging investment in renewable-generation capacity by altering the financial requirements on utilities and other companies involved in generating and distributing energy.
Industrial companies should prepare for decarbonization by conducting a detailed review of all their facilities and looking at the availability of low-cost electricity, hydrogen, biomass, and carbon-storage capacity. They can also engage other stakeholders in finding opportunities for collaboration: co-investing in a shared carbon-storage infrastructure, for example, or supporting research and development for promising decarbonization technologies.
All in all, industrial companies can drastically lower their carbon emissions, but only by collaborating with other stakeholders. Joint planning and timely action can accelerate the development of low-carbon technologies for industry and help to coordinate the dual transformation of the energy and industrial sectors. For industrial companies and other organizations, the time to begin the transition is now.
Source: mckinsey
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New FCC Rules Regarding Broadcast and Communications Towers; Further Steps Taken to Protect Migratory Birds
By Brendan Holland on January 29, 2012
Posted in Tower Issues
With the recent publication in the Federal Register, several new Commission rules and policies regarding communications towers and migratory birds are now on the books, however, they are not yet effective as the collection of information still requires OMB approval. The Commission's new rules are an outgrowth of a decision from the Court of Appeals in 2008 in which the court found the FCC's tower registration procedures to be inadequate. In its Order on Remand released December 9, 2011, the Commission revised its rules governing the review and registration of proposed broadcast and communications towers to provide greater opportunity for comment by the public and interested parties. In addition, while this Order does not resolve the ongoing FCC rule making regarding the impact of towers on migratory birds it does adopt interim policies regarding certain tower proposals. The Commission's new rules require the following:
Prior to the filing of an antenna structure registration for a new tower or antenna structure, members of the public must be given an opportunity to comment on the potential environmental effects of a proposal. Thus, an applicant for a new tower that requires antenna structure registration, or a modification of a registered tower that would have a significant environmental impact, must initially submit a partially completed tower registration form (Form 854) and give local notice of the proposed tower through a local newspaper or local zoning public notice process. After local notice has been provided, the FCC will post the partially completed registration form on its tower website for 30 days notice. Members of the public may then file comments or to request further environmental review of the proposed tower. The FCC staff will consider any comments received from the public to determine whether an Environmental Assessment is required for the tower. Notably, this additional period for public review and comment will be required for all towers requiring registration in the FCC's ASR database, even if the applicant has determined that the proposed tower will not have a significant environmental impact and that a complete Environmental Assessment is not required.
Environmental notice will also be required if an applicant seeking to register an antenna structure changes the lighting of an existing tower to a less preferred lighting style.
Proposed towers that require an Environmental Assessment must file such assessments with the antenna structure registration application and the Environmental Assessment will be considered in the context of the tower registration, rather than considered with a service-specific license or permit application. Previously, some environmental assessments were filed with the license application and considered by the FCC Bureau issuing the service license or permit (for example, by the Media Bureau as it issued a radio or television station construction permit.)
Institute an interim procedural requirement that an Environmental Assessment must be filed for all proposed registered towers over 450 feet in height. FCC staff will review the Assessment to determine whether the tower will have a significant environmental impact. This processing requirement is an interim measure pending completion of the ongoing programmatic environmental analysis of the FCC's antenna structure registration program to determine what changes, if any, are necessary to consider the impact of towers and tower lighting on migratory birds.
Once OMB approval is received for the collection of information required by these new rules, the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau will issue a further Public Notice establishing the date on which these new environmental notification requirements will become effective. According to the Order, antenna structure registration applications that are pending on the effective date ordinarily will not be required to complete the new environmental notification process. Given the new requirements for public notice and the ability for interested parties to file comments electronically through the FCC's tower registration database, these additional procedures will add add more time to the process of proposing and building a new broadcast or communications tower. Stations or parties interested in building new towers are advised to review the Commission's new procedures carefully and plan on additional lead time when considering new construction.
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We finally had the chance to visit the Manila Ocean Park Oceanarium earlier this month. The entrance fee at 400 pesos is a bit steep, but the park offers discounts for the city residents and senior citizens. I am also happy to note that in spite the high ticket price, there were still a lot of people going to the park.
The park has several species of sea life, including a spider crab which can only be found in the cold waters of Japan.
Highlight of the display is a huge tank and a tunnel where the people can immerse themselves in the abundant creatures from the deep.
There are still a lot of construction work going in the park so we expect it to get even better in the future.
I just read this morning that Olive Riley, considered as the oldest blogger in the world, died over the weekend at a New South Wales nursing home after an illness. She was 108 years old.
Ms. Riley's posts contained a lot of childhood memories, such as how going to school was like 100 years ago. Her blogs give her followers a glimpse of what like was before the Internet, satellite and other modern means of communication made this world a global village. For that alone, she deserves a permanent place in the blogging world. In one of her latest posts, she wrote about how she regularly sing happy songs, with "Happy Days Are Here Again" as her favorite.
Others contend that Ms. Riley is technically not a blogger because she doesn't type her entries herself. She has someone else type her posts for her. But that did not diminish the importance of her posts in the blogging world. She reportedly receives a lot of communication from as far away as Russia.
108 years. With the way I live my life, I don't even expect to live until 80. Hopefully I would live until my retirement and enjoy it for sometime. However, to live as long as Olive did would be like hitting a jackpot of heavenly blessings!
Warning: Earthquake Coming this July!
I haven't received it yet but there's so much buzz about an email circulating in Philippine cyberspace about a prediction of a very strong earthquake that allegedly, will hit our country on July 18. The "prophecy" says that it is so strong, 8.1 in the Richter scale, it will level Metro Manila and will bring about tsunamis in various parts of our islands.
It must have been so widespread because last Sunday, we had a jolt and the Philippine Volcanology and Seismology Institute had to advise the public that the 5.4 earthquake has nothing to do with the prophecy.
What really troubles me about this whole episode is not the prophecy itself but that people actually believed it. Wasn't it only three years ago when a similar prophecy was allegedly made by a visionary nun? Everybody was so concerned that our boss even sent us home early to be with love ones in case the tremblor actually struck.
When will people learn that nobody could know when an earthquake will hit. Not even science, with all the strides it has made, could tell us when the ground beneath us will shake.
Interestingly enough, there's a group of people who believe that one can actually know when an earthquake is imminent by looking at clouds. They say that clouds will take a different pattern before the ground starts shaking. These clouds were there, according to them, before the great quake in China but nobody took notice.
So should we start looking skywards more often from now on? If everybody does that, I think the chances of getting killed looking at clouds will be greater than dying in an earthquake. Why? Because one might get hit by a car or slam on a wall while looking for earthquake clouds!


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AlphaBEST Education, Inc., a leading provider of afterschool programs with locations in 10 states, has launched its redesigned website at http://www.alphabest.org. The clean, modern design better represents AlphaBEST's commitment to cutting edge curriculum and innovative expanded learning programs for students.
The new features include new and enhanced content, including information about AlphaBEST's unique program model as well as a revamped registration portal that simplifies the enrollment process for families. Using the new interactive map, parents can now search for AlphaBEST locations in their area. The new website also allows school districts, vendors and other partners to easily access information about AlphaBEST's curriculum and program offerings. With the new responsive design, the website is optimized to be viewed on any size/resolution screen.
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As an active member of the visual effects and animation community, Nick is passionate about cross-industry collaboration and innovation. As part of the Visual Effects Society's Technology Committee Nick helped found, and still actively leads, the VFX Reference Platform initiative which drives software harmonization and interoperability across digital content creation software.
Nick has a computer science degree from Royal Holloway, University Of London, and is a member of ACM SIGGRAPH, the Visual Effects Society, BAFTA, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Claire Huchet Bishop (1899 - 1993) was a children's novelist and librarian. She was the winner of the Newbery Honor for Pancakes-Paris and All Alone, and the Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten. The Five Chinese Brothers won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1959.


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Isaac Herzog
Say goodbye to the fantasy of peace
Op-ed: Herzog's statement about the non-viability of peace these days is a big step in the right direction for the Labor party. If only it can let go of fantasy and embrace reality, it can improve Israeli politics on both sides of the aisle.
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog's comment saying there's no chance of peace in this era is the most dramatic event to happen to Israel's Labor party in the past decade. After the elections, Herzog was accused of going to bed instead of following the results. In retrospect, it seems that he's the only one who's actually staying alert in the party. This is the first time since the days of Ehud Barak that the Labor party has contended with the difficult reality of the Middle East. For the first time, one of its leaders has acknowledged the shortcomings of peace, not just those of war.
Things weren't always so for the party that built the State of Israel. Yigal Alon was the first person to understand, following the Six Day War, that it was impossible to return to the old borders. He understood very well that a peace accord with the Palestinians is different from planning peace with Arab nations that have a well-defined topographic border, and so he planned for an internal separation that would mean annexing large parts of the area, and leaving the rest under Jordanian control. Israel Galili, who served as the chairperson of the Ministerial Committee for Settlement (unlike the parody-like committee that was formed on Monday), built towns according to the lines Alon drew on the map.
Former PM Barak with former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Barak later understood Israel has no partnet for peace. (Photo: Israel Hadari)
Rabin, who found himself promoting mid-way agreements, made sure to say he would not agree to a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders. Finally, Ehud Barak was the one who said loud and clear that there was no one with whom we could make peace, after the failure of the Camp David talks in 2000.
There was something about these people that marked the old Israel, and the Labor party – for good and for bad. They had the idea of peace in them, with the complete package of prayers and sentimental songs, and at the same time they had their hand tightly on the grip of their weapons. Rabin used means like expulsion and home demolition at a rate no right wing government would dare reach today. He spoke of peace and exercised power, because he knew that words also have their limits.
All of this has been abandoned by the Israeli Labor party in the past decade. Instead of handling the reality of a peace accord's absence, they kept babbling mantras about searching for good will. There were those who slid diplomatic matters to the side, dealing with economic problems instead. Some made sure to emphasize the idea of striving for the non-existent. The bottom line is that Amram Mitzna, Amir Peretz, and Shelly Yechimovich lost their ability to create an alternative. Not because the party's leaders all got taken down quickly, but because the idea of a peace agreement itself was taken down.
Yigal Alon (left). Understood from the start that the pre-1967 borders were irrelevant. (Photo: Shalom Bar Tal)
And what about the Likud, you might ask. It, like the Labor party, has been making promises it has no chance of keeping for a while now. Starting with Netanyahu's promise to defeat Hamas, and ending with a clear right-wing policy (and as the recent Hebron homes controversy shows, the only thing that's clear about it is that it's no different than previous governments' policies). Yes, the Likud also acknowledges the limits of reality, while at the same time promises things for the sake of promising.
The difference between the Likud and Labor – between the Labor's preposterous platform and the Likud's non-existent one, between Netanyahu and Herzog, is their different beliefs. The Labor party demands its voters believe in the miracle that the Palestinians will become partners for peace, and the Likud asks that its voters believe that other parties will be worse than them. Belief in what can be seen.
Back to Herzog: The attacks against him for saying that we can't achieve peace at this time shows us the difficulty of contending with the world of political ideas. His critics prefer that he lie and promise the if only he was given a mandate and placed in a room with Abbas – he'd bring peace. They want him to say whatever he wants – but not the truth.
Isaac Herzog. Could be the first Labor leader in a while to shape the political discourse. (Photo: Motti Kimchi)
I have nothing against the Labor party. I've been voting for its rivals from a young age, and still I want to see it get back on the combative political path. Why? Because if its leaders make their positions clear regarding a Palestinian Authority that incites people to commit terrorist acts, and regarding a people who have no will or ability to sign agreements, then this will also pressure the Likud to clarify its own positions. The bland argument of the past few years will be gone if we were to know what each party is proposing on the diplomatic front. If Herzog doesn't back down, he'll be the first Labor party leader in years to actually shape the political discourse as opposed to dragging along behind it.
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HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar launches the Grand Finale of the Smart India Hackathon 2018 (Software Edition).
The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar at the inauguration of the Smart India Hackathon 2018, in New Delhi on March 30, 2018.
New Delhi: The Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar launched in New Delhi today the world's largest event is its kind- the two day grand finale of Smart India Hackathon 2018 (Software Edition) being held at 28 nodal centres across the country simultaneously. Addressing the participating students at New Delhi Institute of Management (NDIM in New Delhi), Shri Javadekar said that more than 1 lakh students of more than 1200 colleges are participating in this second edition of the Smart India Hackathon 2018, which is a record. He said that more than 8000 students at 28 different centres will work on their final innovations for the next 36 hours. These students will codify their innovations in a group of six, on which they are working hard since last 4 months.
the Smart India Hackathon 2018 this evening.
Shri Prakash Javadekar said that 27 innovations made by students during the last year Smart India Hackathon are in the final stage and ready for deployment. He said that this year, with the participation of more students and more teams, 100 more innovations will come out this year. He said that this is an open innovation challenge and students will also derive satisfaction for solving the real problems of the people and country by their innovations. Shri Javadekar said that this Smart India Hackathon 2018 is aimed to encourage the spirit of innovations among the student.
Shri Prakash Javadekar also appealed to the students to come out with the solution for making examinations leak proof. He said that this problem is not a subject of this year's Smart India Hackathon, but asked students to accept this challenge and work on the solution of full proof examination after this Smart India Hackathon-2018. He said that though we are IT Super Power, but Google, Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter etc are not invented in India although there are India brains behind all these innovations. He said that there are many such digital innovations which are wealth creators and India too needs to come out with such innovations.
Shri Prakash Javadekar informed that for SIH 2018, we have received participation from 27 Central Ministries/Departments and 17 State Governments who have sent more than 900 problem statements. After scrutinizing these problem statements, 408 problems (340 for Software and 68 for Hardware) were finally selected for the Hackathon and were put out on MyGov platform. The Minister added that for SIH - 2018, we have received 17400+ teams with participation of around one lakh students of Engineering, Management and MCA. These entries were scrutinized and now 1296 entries are selected for the Grand Finale.
Shri Prakash Javadekar further said that SIH-2018 comprises of two competitions - Software Hackathon and Hardware Hackathon. The final round of Hardware Hackathon competition will be conducted in the month of June 2018.
Shri R. Subrahmanyam, Secretary (Higher Education), of Ministry of Human Resource Development also addressed the participating students. He said that all the students connected with this event, physically or digitally, are the future of this county. He said that the event has generated so much enthusiasm in the students that participation has increased more than double.


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Lyon have apologised for an apparent anti-Semitic attack which hospitalised three Tottenham fans in the French city.
Around 50 masked thugs, some of whom were reportedly making fascist salutes, attacked a group of 150 Spurs fans who had gathered in the Smoking Dog pub in Lyon ahead of the Europa League game between the two sides on Thursday night. Eyewitnesses say the group of attackers smashed doors and threw cast-iron chairs, wooden objects, and a lit flare into the pub.
The French club issued a strongly-worded statement, condemning the "inadmissible" actions of the thugs who terrified the visiting fans. "Olympique Lyonnais deplore the incidents overnight in the Saint-Jean district between the supporters of Tottenham and the 'pseudo' supporters of Lyon who absolutely do not represent the club," a Lyon statement read.
"Olympique Lyonnais apologises to Tottenham and its supporters for the inadmissible acts which degrade the image of the town of Lyon. Olympique Lyonnais call on the French justice system to impose severe sanctions for these reprehensible acts."
Lyon, who are looking to overcome a 2-1 first-leg deficit in the last 32 tie, urged fans to behave themselves at the second leg, which kicks off at 6pm GMT.
"Olympique Lyonnais will welcome Tottenham supporters this evening at (Stade de) Gerland and calls for all the supporters, those from Lyon and the English fans, to support their team with respect and fair play," the statement continued. Tottenham confirmed that three fans sustained "minor injuries" in the attack, and that arrests had been made.
Eyewitnesses inside the Smoking Dog said the thugs attacked the bar at 10.18pm on Wednesday night and then returned shortly after to launch another assault on the pub, which had its front five doors smashed.
Far-right thugs were blamed for the knife attack on Tottenham's supporters in Rome and eyewitnesses Liam Kirwan from Harrow claimed the attack could have had an anti-Semitic motive. "It was neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic," he said. "I have never seen anything like that before.
"This was premeditated. Three people walked past earlier in the night and saw that the pub was full of Tottenham fans. Then a group of 50 came back to attack, and then 25 did shortly after. It's a pretty scary thing when you're confronted by people doing Nazi salutes.


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What a great evening in the Roger D. Malkin Gallery! We had a crowd of 60 and we got to taste 7 wines! Thank you so much to the DeAngelo family at Chillie's Package Store on Hwy 82 for all their support, Norm–the amazing sommelier, and Jack Jackson, The Pantry and Nan Hines for all the help with food and set up. All in all, it was a great evening, we can't wait for next year!


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House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., listens during a hearing on the Washington Commanders' workplace conduct, Wednesday, June 22, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Representative James Comer (R-Ky.) has asked the secret service to turn over all the information it has on visitors of President Joe Biden's Delaware home on Monday.
🚨@RepJamesComer is calling on the U.S. Secret Service Director to provide all documents, communications, and visitor information maintained for President Biden's Wilmington, Delaware residence.
The White House's lack of transparency is concerning.
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— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) January 23, 2023
Comer, the new chair of the House Oversight Committee, made the request after the White House said that visitor logs from the Delaware home do not exist.
He had previously requested the visitor logs be turned over, but the White House had labeled the Delaware home as a personal residence, therefore visitor logs do not exist.
The request for the information was made to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday.
"Given the White House's lack of transparency regarding President Biden's residential visitor logs, the Committee seeks information from the Secret Service regarding who had access to his home since serving as Vice President," the letter from Comer said.
This request is part of the House Oversight Committee's investigation into the discovery and mishandling of the classified documents by Biden.
The Secret Service "does generate law enforcement and criminal justice information records for various individuals who may come into contact with Secret Service protected sites," Comer stated in his letter.
This is not the first request that the Republican has made. Last week he had written a letter to the president of the University of Pennsylvania, requesting visitor information on anyone who had met with Biden at his office there.
This latest letter by Comer requests the Secret Service to provide the requested information by February 6th in order to proceed with the investigation.


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Google Maps' Waze-like incident reporting shows up for many, doesn't work yet
Google Maps' incident reporting feature has been a long-time coming. After the company bought Waze in 2013, everyone thought Google Maps would get its popular crowdsourced reporting feature in no-time, but years have passed it's only a few months ago that we started seeing hints of it in our teardowns of Maps. The first real signs started showing up in the app after that, with users spotting confirmation prompts for reported incidents and, recently, a button to report crashes and speed traps. Now, the latter is showing up for many under a new look, but it doesn't work at all.
Google Maps now showing Waze-like incident confirmation prompts for some
2018/06/29 2:49am PDT Jun 29, 2018
One of the main differentiators that Waze has over its competitors, including Google Maps, is user interaction. Wazers can report accidents, road closures, police car sightings, and so on, all of which helps other users out. It's what makes the app so popular. Google Maps has already pulled data from Waze for many years, though it looks like more features from it are coming.


The wildcard weekend was arguably the best weekend of football (bar maybe the snowstorm Sunday) this season. The Colts completed a surreal comeback from 38-10 down against the Chiefs to win 45-44. The Chargers upset the pathetic Bengals, the Saints finally got a road win against Philly and The Niners pipped the Packers 23-20 with a field goal in the dying seconds.
If this season has taught us anything, it is that being a favourite by no means guarantees the win and I wouldn't be surprised if there were few more shocks this weekend.
The Saints surprised me by beating the Eagles on the road. The more I look back at that win, the less and less shocked I am, because Philly have one of the worst home records in the league and on paper, New Orleans are a better side. However, this week they travel to Seattle, the best side in the league on all fronts. Sean Payton has even had a Seahawks logo painted on their practice field to acclimate his side to Saturday's conditions. Unless he has a few thousand hostile fans to watch their practice, it might be a waste of time. I admire the Saints and their philosophy. They're an attractive side to watch but I can't look past a home win this weekend. I think Brees will test the Seahawks defence like few have done this season and redeem himself for his earlier performance against the Hawks this term.
As I said before, I expect a few more upsets and while the Colts are considered underdogs here, I think their momentum from that comeback against the Chiefs could give the Patriots a problem. I feel like we'll see another high scoring game. Brady has lead an injury ridden squad to the second seed and won games where many pundits didn't expect them to win this season. Here's where this game will be decided; The Colts defence. If the defence that allowed 38 points in the first half against the Chiefs shows up, Brady will eat them alive. If the side that pulled it back to 45-44 in Indianapolis on Saturday night shows up, we'll have another great game to look forward to. Luck has proven he can carry this side and he has weapons too, even without Reggie Wayne. I think the Colts defence will have some confidence breathing through them and Andrew Luck will feel like Superman coming into Foxbourough.
I've been saying for a while that I expect the Niners to go far. On top of this, I think the Panthers haven't had the toughest schedule this season. Thats not to take credit away from one of the best defences in the league, but the Niners defence is equally as impressive recently, for me. Aaron Rodgers had some joy against them in the wildcard weekend, but even then, only managed two touchdowns and he's arguably the best QB in the league. Kaepernick armed with Boldin, Davis and a resurgent Crabtree have enough in the tank to win here and I think they'll do it comfortably, too. One concern for San Francisco might have is how tired they might be after the slug-fest in Lambaeu, although they shouldn't need to worry about sub zero conditions this Sunday.
San Diego: The Chargers beat the Broncos all of four weeks ago in Denver.
Won their past five games, including a road trip to Cincinnati on Sunday.
Held five of their last six games opponents to under 20 points.
Denver: Peyton Manning holds a reputation for not playing well in the playoffs or in the cold.
Missed Wes Welker in 27-20 loss to San Diego, he's available this time out.
You can read into past records, omens and reputations all you want but when it comes down to it, Denver have been the AFC's best side consistently throughout 2013. A few blips, sure, but a home game to a 9-7 San Diego shouldn't worry too many Broncos fans, except for all the stigma attached to Peyton's playoff records. Does this play on his mind? His managers mind? San Diego's mind? If the answer is yes, then I wouldn't be surprised to see a San Diego upset here. However, more importantly than all the records is Peyton Manning's legacy. In all his years of success and completion rates, he has but one championship to his name. With only a year or two left, rings are few and he knows this could be his best chance for a second Superbowl. Denver take this for me, but as I said, be weary of those Bolts.


Every help desk includes tags among its features, which help customer support teams categorize conversations, monitor trends, and trigger workflows that automate certain actions. But how do you determine what those tags should be and keep everything organized?
Bill Price, former Global VP of Customer Service at Amazon, wrote in his book The Best Service is No Service that he worked on getting Amazon's list of codes down to fewer than 30. In the process, he reorganized how they used contact codes — otherwise known as "tags" — so the Amazon customer service team could quickly notice trends and provide more organized support.
1. Are we organizing with arbitrary categories?
If you've ever used a bookmarking app, you know tags like "interesting" and "cool" quickly turn into meaningless catch-all buckets. The same is true for support.
Begin with this question: If this tag were trending up, could we tell if it was due to an increase in good conversations or in bad conversations? A good example is "Payments" — if your "Payments" tag started to spike, could you quickly identify if it was due to productive contacts or unnecessary ones? Would you want to have more, or less? Contrast that to a "Payment failed" tag, where it's obvious.
2. Do we need to know what, or why?
When companies organize conversations, it's common to list what the customer emailed in about but not why they needed to make contact in the first place. Price argues that "shipping issue" isn't all that useful as a category; wouldn't it be better to distinguish further with tags such as "late by shipper" or "warehouse delays"?
3. Do our identified problems have clear owners?
When a problem doesn't have an owner, it's far less likely to be fixed. Price recommends categorizing by the MECE principle: using groups that are Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive. This ensures problem categories have one "owner" whose department caused the contact in the first place.


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There are many folks in San Carlos who are considering moving up one level from their entrance level home of 800K-1.2M, to the 1.3M-1.7M price range. The problem is that the 1.3M-1.7M price zone is turning out to be a zone that some homes go into, but never come out. Of course, there are very good buys that do pop up in this range. Generally, buyers do recognize these homes and the sellers are spared from trying to navigate their way out of this very tricky price zone.
(1) Flatlands or Hills. Most buyers either want the hills or the flatlands. In general the flatlands are more expensive. Expect to get more house for your money in the hills. In any event, by selecting one or the other you can start to thin out a very crowded price zone.
(2) Attend Open Houses. There are some buyers who attend all open houses in San Carlos……which is probably not necessary for most buyers. However, if your target range is 1.4M to 1.6M….I would suggest widening the price criteria. Attend open houses for homes priced 1.3M to 1.7M. It is educational and will help you determine a good deal when it finally does come along.
(3) Get Specific. Don't compare the home against other homes in that particular area of San Carlos. Compare the prospective home against other homes on the particular street. Have homes on that specific street kept pace with the market over the years, or has it underperformed on resale? Your realtor should be able to supply the data necessary to make these comparisons.
This price zone demands more time, patience and education….more than any other price zone in San Carlos.
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Q: Do you skip a rack unit between servers? It seems like there's a lot of disagreement in mindsets when it comes to installing rackmount servers. There have been threads discussing cable arms and other rackmount accessories, but I'm curious:
Do you leave an empty rack unit between your servers when you install them? Why or why not? Do you have any empirical evidence to support your ideas? Is anyone aware of a study which proves conclusively whether one is better or not?

A: I don't skip Us.  We rent and Us cost money.
No reason to for heat these days.  All the cool air comes in the front, and out the back.  There's no vent holes in the tops any more.

A: If your servers use front to back flow-through cooling, as most rack mounted servers do, leaving gaps can actually hurt cooling.  You don't want the cold air to have any way to get to the hot aisle except through the server itself.  If you need to leave gaps (for power concerns, floor weight issues, etc) you should use blanking panels so air can't pass between the servers.

A: Google is not leaving U between servers, and i guess they are concerned by heat management. Always interesting to watch how big players do the job.
Here is a video of one of their datacenter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRwPSFpLX8I&feature=player_embedded
Go directly to 4:21 to see their servers.

A: We have 3 1/2 racks worth of cluster nodes and their storage in a colocation facility. The only places we've skipped U's is where we need to route network cabling to the central rack where the core cluster switch is located. We can afford to do so space wise since the racks are already maxed out in terms of power, so it wouldn't be possible to cram more nodes in to them :)
These machines run 24/7 at 100% CPU, and some of them have up to 16 cores in a 1U box (4x quad core Xeons) and I've yet to see any negative effects of not leaving spaces between most of them.
So long as your equipment has a well designed air path I don't see why it would matter.

A: Don't leave space if you have cool air coming from the floor and also use blanks in unused u space.   If you just have a low-tech cooling system using a standard a/c unit it is best to leave gaps to minimize hot spots when you have hot servers clumped together.

A: I have large gaps above my UPS (for installing a second battery in the future) and above my tape library (if I need another one). Other than that I dont have gaps, and I use panels to fill up empty spaces to preserve airflow.

A: Every third, but that's due to management arms and the need to work around them rather than heat. The fact that those servers each have 6 Cat5 cables going to them doesn't help. We do make heavy use of blanking panels, and air-dams on top of the racks to prevent recirculation from the hot-aisle.
Also, one thing we have no lack of in our data-center is space. It was designed for expansion back when 7-10U servers were standard. Now that we've gone with rack-dense ESX clusters it is a ghost town in there.

A: I wouldn't leave gaps between servers, but I will for things like LAN switches - this allows me to put some 1U cable management bars above and below... but it's definitely not done for cooling.

A: I have never skipped rack units between rackmount devices in a cabinet. If a manufacturer instructed me to skip U's between devices I would, but I've never seen such a recommendation.
I would expect that any device designed for rack mounting would exhaust its heat through either the front or rear panels. Some heat is going to be conducted through the rails and top and bottom of the chassis, but I would expect that to be very small in comparison to the radiation from the front and rear.

A: In our data center we do not leave gaps.  We have cool air coming up from the floor and gaps cause airflow problems.  If we do have a gap for some reason we cover it with a blank plate. Adding blank plates immediately made the tops of our cold aisles colder and our hot aisles hotter.
I don't think I have the data or graphs anymore but the difference was very clear as soon as we started making changes.  Servers at the tops of the racks stopped overheating.  We stopped cooking power supplies (which we were doing at a rate of about 1/week).  I know the changes were started after our data center manager came back from a Sun green data center expo, where he sat in some seminars about cooling and the like.  Prior to this we had been using gaps and partially filled racks and perforated tiles in the floor in front and behind the racks.
Even with the management arms in place eliminating gaps has worked out better. All our server internal temperatures everywhere in the room are now well within spec.  This was not the case before we standardized our cable management and eliminated the gaps, and corrected our floor tile placement.  We'd like to do more to direct the hot air back to the CRAC units, but we can't get funding yet.

A: No gaps, except where we've taken a server or something else out and not bothered to re-arrange.  I think we're a bit smaller than many people here, with 2 racks that only have about 15 servers plus a few tape drives and switches and UPSes.

A: No gaps other than when planning for expanding san systems or things like that. We prefer to put new cabinets close to the actual controllers.
If you have proper cooling, leaving gaps will not be beneficial unless the server is poorly constructed.

A: I get the impression (perhaps wrongly) that it is a more popular practice in some telecoms environments where hot/cold aisles aren't so widely used.
It's not suited to a high density and well run datacentre though.

A: I usually leave a blank RU after around 5RU of servers (ie 5x1ru or 1x2ru + 1x3ru) and that would be dependent on the cooling setup in the data centre your in. If you have cooling done in front of the rack (ie a grate in front of the rack) the idea is that the cool air is pushed up from the floor and your servers suck the cool air through them. in this circumstance you would typically get better cooling by not leaving blank slots (ie use a blank RU cover. But if you have cooling done through the floor panel in your rack from my experience you get more efficient cooling by breaking up servers from being piled on top of each other for the entire rack

A: In a situation where we had our own datacenter and space wasn't a problem, I used to skip a U (with a spacer to block airflow) between logical areas: web servers has one section, database, domain controller, e-mail, and file-server had another, and firewalls and routers had another.  Switches and patch panels for outlying desktops were in their own rack.
I can remember exactly one occasion where I skipped a U for cooling reasons.  This was an A/V cable TV looping solution in a high school, where there were three units that were each responsible for serving the cable TV system to one section of the building.  After the top unit had to be replaced for the third time in two years due to overheating, I performed some "surgery" on the rack to make mounting holes so I could leave 1/2U of space between each of the three units (for a total of 1 U total space).
This did solve the problem.  Needless to say this was thoroughly documented, and for extra good measure I taped a sheet to the top of one them in gaps explaining why things were the way they where.
There are two lessons here:

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*Leaving a gap for cooling is only done in exception circumstances.

*Use a reputable case or server vendor.  Be careful of buying equipment that tries to pack 2U worth of heat into 1U worth of space.  This will be tempting, because the 1U system may appear to be much cheaper.  And be careful of buying an off-brand case that hasn't adequately accounted for air-flow.

A: I have them stacked in the one rack I have. Never had any problems with it, so I never had any reason to space them out. I would imagine the biggest reason people would space them out is heat.

A: Leaving gaps between servers can affect cooling. Many data centres operate suites on a 'hot aisle' 'cold aisle' basis.
If you leave gaps between servers then you can affect efficient airflow and cooling.
This article may be of interest:

Alternating Cold and Hot Aisles Provides More Reliable Cooling for Server Farms

A: I've left 1/3 of a RU between two switches before, mostly because they were 1 1/3 RU high each.
Had I put them hard-together then the gear higher up would have been out of position by 1/3 of a U.
Other than that, I've never left space purely for cooling, only for future growth.

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Senegal's Trial of 31 Alleged Jihadists Nears Verdicts
Sofia Christensen
DAKAR —
Over the past month, many people in Senegal have been following the trial of 31 people accused of trying to set up a local jihadist network loyal to the Islamic State militant group. The verdicts in the case are expected as soon as early June.
A Facebook post on July 7, 2015 caught the eye of the Senegalese authorities.The post paid tribute to Senegalese jihadists who died in battle after joining ranks with Islamic State in Libya.
It was traced to Matar Diokhané, a man already known to authorities, who say he attacked a mosque in the town of Diourbel in 2012.
An investigation was opened. Over the next two years, Senegal's intelligence services uncovered a ring of nationals who they believe were trying to set up a local Islamic State network.
Thirty one suspects are now on trial, on charges that include criminal conspiracy, terrorist acts and money laundering, as well as advocating terrorist activity.
Abdou Cissé, a reporter for the popular local news outlet Dakaractu, says Senegal has already tried people over terrorism, but this is the first time so many people all at once are suspected of links to a single terrorist operation.
News from the trial often lands on the front page of local papers. Much of the coverage is focused on the controversial imam Alioune Ndao.
FILE - A view of the mosque that was used by Imam Alioune Badara Ndao in Kaolack, Senegal, on Nov. 20, 2015.
Ndao and Diokhané are accused of recruiting young boys and sending them to train with jihadist groups in Nigeria, Mali and Libya.
Investigators say the 11 of the 31 suspects spent months with Boko Haram in Nigeria before returning to Senegal to set up local terrorist cells in the south and east of the country.
Maitre Mounir Ballal, one of Ndao's attorneys., maintains his client's innocence. He says Ndao never set foot in Nigeria and was only "implicated in this case because Matar Diokhané approached him to gather his views on the interpretation of Qur'anic verses."
The state prosecutor has requested forced labor in perpetuity for Diokhané and 30 years for Ndao. He has also asked for eight of the 31 suspects to be acquitted. Those remaining would face possible penalties ranging from five years in prison to hard labor for life, if convicted.
Security experts like Pierre Lapaque have watched the proceedings closely. He is the regional representative for the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Organized Crime. He says the trial shows that the investigation has been thorough and that the risk of terrorism in Senegal is being taken seriously.
Concerns over criminal code
But rights groups have expressed concern. In 2016, the authorities amended Senegal's criminal code and widened the scope of offenses considered terrorism-related.
"We have concerns about the conditions of their arrest and the conditions of their detention," said François Patuel, the West Africa Researcher for Amnesty International. "So for instance, Imam Ndao was arrested in 2015. He's been held in pre-trial detention for about two years and a half. That's a very long period of time."
Last year, a court in northeast Nigeria began a mass trial of 1,600 Boko Haram suspects. The trial was initially held behind closed doors. As a result of those proceedings, there have been at least 205 convictions and another 526 suspects released so far, mostly for lack of evidence.
When asked about the ongoing case in Dakar, local human rights lawyer Senghane Senghor points to the Nigeria example.
He says at least in Senegal, the trial is taking place in public. Everything is being debated publicly, and there are people allowed into the courtroom every day.
Senegal has so far been free of terror attacks.
But experts say the country is at risk. It bears strong ties to France and shares a border with Mali, which continues to grapple with an ever-evolving myriad of violent extremist groups.