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Mayor Jim Naugle is right. That's why I presented him with the "Protector of the Family" award this week.
Faith2Action President Janet Folger presents Mayor James Naugle with the "Protector of the Family Award" for his "courageous defense of children and the laws of decency in the face of hostility."
What isn't right is for his stand against illegal public sex and homosexual porn in the public libraries, he's being targeted, picketed and asked to resign.
Instead of asking whether the laws against sex in the public restroom should be obeyed (as the mayor and the people of Fort Lauderdale would like) The Sun Sentinel, a pawn for the homosexual lobby, asked if the mayor should resign for his stand against this illegal activity. He also voted against pornography in the public libraries. And for that, he's being protested against at Fort Lauderdale City Hall today.
Mayor Naugle has also come under fire for saying "Rev. D. James Kennedy is a great man." He was right about that, too. And as Dr. Kennedy stood with Anita Bryant when she was railroaded by the homosexual lobby, we stand with Mayor Naugle now.
I thank God for this mayor who is sticking up for children who, after playing a game of soccer, may wander 50 feet into the library to ask the following questions:
- Q: "Mommy?" Why is that part of our library closed off?
A: Well, Johnny, Fort Lauderdale Commissioners Cindi Hutchinson, Charlotte E. Rodstrom, and Carlton B. Moore voted to take out the books that everybody can read and replace them with homosexual pornography. (Call them at 954-828-5004)
Q: Mommy? What's homosexual pornography?
A: It's what you saw in the public restroom earlier.
Q: Mommy? Why are those people so angry at the nice mayor?
A: Because he wants to protect you from all of it.
Romney Rogers, past president of the greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce, in a letter to City Commissioners Hutchinson, Rodstrom, and Moore, stated: "If this material was being offered for sale it could not legally be housed in this location. Since Holiday Park and residentially zoned property is within 500 feet of the library, City Ordinance C-04-55 would prohibit it. The fact that it can be viewed for free makes the situation worse."
It used to be that people would picket those seedy porn theaters. Now we invite them into the public libraries and picket those who try and stop them. Only Mayor Jim Naugle and Commissioner Christine Teel voted against library porn. You can e-mail them a note of thanks by clicking their name.
But first, I have some questions of my own.
- Q: Why do they arrest the Gideons for handing out Bibles on the Florida public sidewalk and, yet, give the homosexuals their own section in the public library for gay porn?
Q: What would happen if we tried to put a nativity scene on that public property? Would they even let those who are 18 and older see it?
Q: If homosexuals aren't having illegal sex in the public restrooms why are they so upset about a mayor trying to stop it?
Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, president of National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, reports the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Woodhull Freedom Foundation have joined together to fight what they describe as "archaic" laws prohibiting public sex in restrooms and parks. As far as I know, they won't be wearing yellow T-shirts outside city hall this afternoon, but I wouldn't be surprised.
The problem is worse than they are willing to admit, and it's not just in Fort Lauderdale.
You can see it on their "cruising" websites. Atlanta police made 30 arrests in three months, in the Hartsfield airport restrooms, without even targeting it. But the message was sent. A homosexual website that had previously listed this airport restroom in personal ads, changed their tune after the arrests:
Do NOT do anything at the airport. If you want to hook up, do it outside the airport! Have fun, but be smart about it. It's not worth going to jail for the night and having your face put on the news.
What do you know? The mayor is right. Enforcing the law changes behavior.
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle is right. I not only stand by him. I want to see him run for governor and then for president.
Hear the mayor on my Faith2Action radio program or at the Faith2Action website.
Special note: In the original version of this column, there was a sentence where I referred to some research conducted by a Dr. E. Fields.
It has come to our attention that Dr. Fields subscribes to a number of racist views of which our Faith2Action ministry was unaware. The research had been previously cited by some seemingly unchallenged sources, which I'm sure were also unaware of his racist views and writings.
We sincerely apologize for this mistake. As Christians, we disavow all racism as sinful and would never knowingly promote an advocate of racism.
Faith2Action maintains that the problem of sex in public restrooms is a very serious one that Fort Lauderdale and other cities have every right and duty to confront. In the future, however, we will not refer to any research by Dr. Fields.
We will continue to alert the nation to this reckless, immoral behavior that puts families, children and unknowing spouses at risk.


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Craven Says There Has Been No Movement on Scream 5
For those holding on to the idea that Scream 5 might happen, Wes Craven took to Twitter to update his fans on Sunday. The director broke a rather long Twitter silence to inform his followers that he would try to provide more updates.
Craven wrote: "No news on Scream 5 yet. You guys really want another one?"
Scream 4, which hit theaters in April of 2011, grossed $97 million worldwide. That film starred Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Marielle Jaffe, Rory Culkin, Nico Tortorella, Erik Knudsen, Marley Shelton, Anthony Anderson, Adam Brody, Alison Brie, Mary McDonnell, Anna Paquin, Kristen Bell and Brittany Roberts.
Would you like to see another installment?

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April 16
4:41 a.m. — Marion ambulance took a woman in her 80s with difficulty breathing and who had vomited earlier from the 100 block of West 6th Street in Florence to St. Luke Hospital. Florence ambulance was called but had no responders.
7:32 a.m. — Marion ambulance took a man in his 30s with severe lower back pain causing him to shake from the 2000 block 175th Road to St. Luke.
April 17
2:07 a.m. — Marion ambulance responded to the 500 block of North Freeborn Street for a woman in her 80s who had fallen out of bed and was unable to get up.
No dispatches.
7:27 a.m. — Peabody ambulance took a man in his 20s who possibly aspirated from Peabody Care Center to Newton Medical Center.
11:45 p.m. — Peabody Fire Department checked a report of a natural gas smell in the 500 block of North Maple Street.
No dispatches.
7:51 a.m. — Hillsboro ambulance responded to the 1500 block of K-15 for a woman who had a seizure and stopped breathing. She had regained breathing and consciousness before the ambulance arrived. She was taken to Newton Medical. Goessel first response also responded.
10:03 a.m. — Goessel Fire Department checked a fire alarm at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church.
7:38 p.m. — Peabody ambulance made an advanced life support transfer from St. Luke to Newton Medical.
9:10 p.m. — Marion ambulance took a man feeling weak from the 1500 block of East Lawrence Street to St. Luke.
No dispatches.


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Fox News Whitewashes Reality To Smear Holder With Perjury Accusations
Blog ››› ››› BRIAN POWELL
Fox News distorted the testimony of Attorney General Eric Holder to claim that he committed perjury before the House Judiciary Committee last week.
It was recently revealed that the Justice Department obtained a search warrant for the communications records of Fox News reporter James Rosen in an effort to track down a leaker who provided him with classified information on North Korea in 2009. On May 15, during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) asked Holder about the warrant and the potential for prosecuting journalists accused of publishing classified information that they obtained from government sources. Holder responded (emphasis added):
With regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material. That is not something that I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be a wise policy.
On May 24, the Justice Department released a statement clarifying Holder's involvement in the approval process for the warrants in question (emphasis added):
"The Department takes seriously the First Amendment right to freedom of the press. In recognition of this, the Department took great care in deciding that a search warrant was necessary in the Kim matter, vetting the decision at the highest levels of the Department, including discussions with the Attorney General. After extensive deliberations, and after following all applicable laws, regulations and policies, the Department sought an appropriately tailored search warrant under the Privacy Protection Act. And a federal magistrate judge made an independent finding that probable cause existed to approve the search warrant."
Fox News' Special Report on May 24 argued that these statements were inconsistent and concluded that the Attorney General had previously lied to the Judiciary Committee and thus had committed perjury. Host Shannon Bream began the show stating, "It's his story, but he's not sticking to it," claiming that Holder has "chang[ed] his tune" on his involvement in the scrutiny of journalists. Contributor Steve Hayes claimed that Holder's two statements were "incongruent" and Charles Krauthammer speculated that it may be "a case of perjury."
In fact, the statements are not "incongruent" whatsoever. Holder's comments to the Judiciary referred to the possibility of prosecuting journalists for publishing classified information, but that is not the crime the Justice Department's warrant accused Rosen of committing. DOJ investigators were concerned with Rosen's solicitation of classified information, not any subsequent publication of it. Wired explained (emphasis added):
According to the affidavit (.pdf), FBI Agent Reginald Reyes told the judge there was probable cause to believe that Rosen had violated the Espionage Act by serving "as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator" in the leak. The Espionage Act is the same law that former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning is accused of violating when he leaked information to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks.
To support his assertion, Reyes quoted an email exchange between Kim and Rosen, in which Rosen told him that he was interested in "breaking news ahead of my competitors" and had a particular interest in "what intelligence is picking up." He also told Kim, "I'd love to see some internal State Department analyses."
The suggestion was that Rosen broke the law by soliciting information from Kim, something that all journalists do routinely with sources.
Nonetheless, the federal judge found there was probable cause to believe that Rosen was a co-conspirator and approved the warrant.
In other words, Holder's on-the-record denial of involvement in any prosecution of news organizations for publishing classified information in no way conflicts with any knowledge he may have possessed or action the DOJ may have taken against reporters for soliciting said information. Fox's perjury accusations simply don't align with the facts.


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I have just released PBXT 1.0.11, which I have titled "Pre-GA". Going by our internal tests, and all instances of PBXT in production and testing by the community this is a GA version!
However, although PBXT has 1000's of instances in production, it is not used in very diverse applications. So I am waiting for wider testing and usage before removing the "Pre" prefix.
You can download the source code from primebase.org, or pull it straight from Launchpad. Here are instructions how to compile and build the engine with MySQL. PBXT builds with MySQL 5.1.46 GA, and earlier 5.1 versions.
If you don't want to compile it yourself, PBXT 1.0.11 will soon be available in the 5.1.46 release of MariaDB. And, for the more adventurous, PBXT 1.1 is included in Drizzle.
A complete list of all the changes in this version are in the release notes.
If you are testing PBXT and have any questions send me an e-mail. I will be glad to help.
And, oh yes. If you are looking for development or production support for MySQL/MariaDB and PBXT then please write to: support-at-primebase-dot-org.
We are working together with Percona and Monty Program Ab to provide the service level you require.


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Chapter 6
Glossary and Acronyms
AB 1890: Assembly Bill 1890, which was signed into law as Chapter 854 of the Statutes of 1996 by Governor Pete Wilson on September 23, 1996, provides the legislative guidance for restructuring the electric industry in California.
Analytical maximum: The level at which it is assumed, for purposes of the impact analyses in this EIR, the divested plants would be operated by the new owners; it is also sometimes referred to as "A-Max." The analytical maximum capacity factors for the four plants represent the highest capacities at which the plants could operate, taking into account limiting factors such as the rated capacities of the units; scheduled and forced outages of units for maintenance; contractual limitations, including must-take contracts that favor power generated by qualifying facilities (QFs); and demand constraints (i.e., the finite demand for electricity at any particular time on any given day). The 1999 Analytical Maximum Scenario also assumes for the fossil-fueled plants that natural gas could be purchased in unlimited quantities at a 25 percent discount from the least expensive supply of gas assumed to be available to fuel California power plants (i.e., the natural gas supplied for the Cool Water plant). Although it is extremely unlikely that such a reduced gas price could be obtained, this assumption strengthens the conservative nature of the impacts analysis. The 1999 Analytical Maximum Scenario for the Geysers plant assumes the minimum level of modeled operations for the Geysers units since such lower operations may result in environmental impacts from steam stacking and the resulting unabated steam releases.
Ancillary service: the services needed to maintain system reliability and meet WSCC/NERC operating criteria, including spinning, non-spinning, and replacement reserves, regulation, voltage control and black start capability.
Baseload: a manner of power plant operation such that a unit is run at a more or less constant output level, regardless of changes in loads. For most plants the most efficient level is at a maximum design output level (in contrast to "load-following" or "cyclical" operation).
Bioaccumulative: pertaining to a chemical (e.g. a toxic substance such as lead or arsenic) that gradually builds up in living body tissue after prolonged or repeated ingestion, inhalation, or other exposure.
Black Start Capability: the ability of a generator to start operations independent of any outside electrical power source. Most generation units require external auxiliary power to start.
Bundled service: the provision of all services associated with the production and delivery of electric energy to an individual customer – including generation, transmission, distribution, and ancillary services – under one rate charged to the customer.
California Energy Commission (CEC): the state agency responsible for assuring the adequacy and reliability of electric and natural gas supply within the state and for overseeing programs that promote research and development of alternative power technologies and other public purpose programs. It is overseen by an appointed five person board.
California Public Utility Commission (CPUC): an independent agency responsible for regulating investor-owned electric, natural gas, water and telecommunications utilities, and some transportation service industries. It is also the change agent responsible for restructuring the electric utility industry. The CPUC is overseen by five commissioners appointed by the governor.
Capacity factor: the ratio of power actually produced by a generating unit to the maximum power it could possibly produce (that is, its rated generating capacity) in the same time period. The annual capacity factor of an individual unit (or, collectively, a plant) is a function of both the amount of time that the unit is operating and the level at which the unit is operating. For instance, if a hypothetical unit were on and operating 100 percent of the time at 50 percent of its rated capacity, it would have a 50 percent capacity factor. Similarly, if a hypothetical unit were on and operating 50 percent of the time, but at 100 percent of its rated capacity, it would also have a 50 percent capacity factor. Combining these concepts, if a hypothetical unit were on and operating 50 percent of the hours of the year and at a 50 percent level for each of the hours it was on, it would have an annual capacity factor of 25 percent.
Cogeneration: A type of power plant that produces electric energy and heat energy simultaneously from the same fuel(s) in the same facility. Cogeneration facilities typically produce both electricity and steam or heat that is used for industrial processes.
Combustion turbine (CT): essentially a permanently mounted jet engine (which works by continuously burning a mixture of fuel and compressed air in a combustion chamber to produce a jet of hot exhaust gas that spins the turbine blades) used to turn a generator. CTs are usually used to meet load during peak demand times; also called gas combustion turbines, or GTs.
Competitive Transition Charge (CTC): a non-bypassable charge on each customer of the utility distribution company, including those who are served under contracts with non-utility suppliers, for recovery of the utility's uneconomic, or stranded costs. (In the past, utilities made investments in power plants or contracts to ensure they had adequate supply of electricity to meet customer's demands. In some cases, standards imposed by state government or regional electric reliability councils obliged utilities to make investments that exceeded actual demand, to ensure a margin of safety. Stranded costs are the costs from such investments that the utility may not be able to recover in the competitive market, due to technological changes and other factors.)
Cost-of-service regulation: the method of regulation used to set rates for utility services prior to restructuring. Rates under cost-of-service regulation were based principally on the costs of generating and delivery electricity, with an allowable profit margin.
Criteria air pollutants: air pollutants that are pervasive in urban environments and for which state or national ambient air quality standards have been established.
Decibel (dB): a standard unit of sound energy intensity. Sound waves, traveling outward from a source, exert a sound pressure level (commonly called "sound level") measured in dB. An A-weighted decibel (dBA) is a decibel corrected for the variation in frequency response of the typical human ear at commonly encountered noise levels
Direct access transaction: a contract between one or more electrical generator(s), marketer(s) or broker(s) of electric power and one or more retail customer(s) providing for the direct purchase and sale of electric power or any ancillary service(s).
Direct connect: service arrangement in which a customer receives electricity through a conductor that connects directly to a given power plant, rather than through a transmission and distribution (T&D) system, thus avoiding T&D charges.
Dispatch: the operating control of an integrated electric system to: (1) assign generation of specific generating units and other power sources to maintain the most reliable and economical supply as area loads rise or fall; (2) control operations and maintenance of high-voltage lines, substations and equipment, including administration of safety procedures; (3) operate the interconnection; and (4) schedule energy transactions with other interconnected electric utilities.
Dispatching protocol: the method used in determining when to operate a particular generating unit. Utilities primarily follow an economic dispatching protocol, which requires operators to first use the least expensive unit available, then the second least expensive unit, and so forth. However, some units are operated under a different dispatching protocol because of unique environmental or permitting conditions. For example, a thermal discharge requirement under a Waste Discharge Requirement Order or an NPDES permit may require operators to dispatch certain generating units in order to minimize the thermal impacts of the combined operations, even when other, less expensive units are available.
Displacement oil: a lighter grade of oil used to displace comparatively heavy fuel oil in pipes and tanks, generally used when power plant operators switch fuel sources; also used to remove fuel oil from unused fuel pipelines so the fuel oil does not form tar-like plugs that block the lines.
Distillate fuel oil: a power plant fuel similar to Jet A fuel oil used in airplanes. Distillate fuel refers to a class of fuels that is more refined (less crude) and remains fluid over a wider range of temperatures than residual fuel oil, which generally must be heated before it can be pumped through a pipeline or into a boiler.
Distribution system: a network of comparatively low-voltage lines used to deliver electricity from a substation to the retail customer's home or business.
Divestiture: the transfer of title or disposal of assets or interests, such as physical property or stock in a company. In the case of utilities, it is the stripping off of one utility function from the others by selling (spinning off) or in some other way changing ownership of the assets related to that function. Most commonly associated with spinning-off generation assets so they are no longer owned by shareholders that own the transmission and distribution assets.
Electric capacity: the maximum continuous load-carrying ability of electric equipment, including transmission lines, generators and substations, expressed in watts.
End-use customer: a residential, commercial, industrial or agricultural customer that buys electric power for consumption as a final product (i.e., that does not resell the power to another entity).
Electric Service Provider (ESP): an entity registered with the CPUC that provides electric products and services to a retail or end-use customer but does not fall within the definition of an electrical utility under Section 218 of the state utility code.
Entrainment: the process of aquatic organisms passing through cooling water intake screens.
Excess cancer risk: the individual cancer risk calculated for a particular source of toxic air contaminants. "Individual cancer risk" is the likelihood that a person exposed to concentrations of toxic air contaminants over a lifetime will contract cancer, based on the use of standard risk assessment methodology established for AB 2588.
Force majeure natural gas curtailment: As defined by BAAQMD Regulation 9, Rule 11, §9-11-208, an interruption in natural gas service, such that the daily fuel needs of a boiler cannot be met with natural gas available, due to one of the following reasons:
208.1 An unforeseeable failure or malfunction, not resulting from an intentional act or omission that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) finds to be due to an act of gross negligence on the part of the owner or operator of the boiler; or
208.2 A natural disaster; or
208.3 The natural gas is curtailed pursuant to CPUC rules or orders; or
208.4 The serving utility provides notice to the District that, with forecasted natural gas supplies and demands, natural gas service is expected to be curtailed pursuant to CPUC rules or orders.
Fossil fuel: burnable fuel created through the fossilization of organic matter; includes coal, oil, and natural gas.
Generating capacity: the maximum amount of power a generating unit can produce for a sustained period of time.
Generating facility: a power plant, normally consisting of several generating units, that produces electrical energy.
Generating unit: generally refers to the combination of a steam or combustion turbine and an electrical generator, which together produce electrical energy.
Generator: entities that own, operate, and maintain generation assets to supply energy and ancillary services. (An electrical generator is also a piece of equipment that produces an electric current.)
Geothermal plant: a generating facility that utilizes geothermal heat to produce electrical energy.
Geothermal power: a renewable power resource that utilizes the internal heat of the earth to create steam (or, in some cases, other pressurized gaseous fluids, such as iso-butane) that spins turbine-generators.
Green power: generally refers to renewable power resources, including thermal and photovoltaic solar, hydro-electric, wind, geothermal and biomass power plants.
Grid: a system of interconnected power lines and generators that is managed so that the generators are dispatched as needed to meet the requirements of customers connected to the grid at various points. The grid is interconnected to ensure reliability of the system when generating units fail.
Hazardous air pollutants: air pollutants that occur at relatively low concentrations and are believed to have carcinogenic or other health effects, but for which no ambient air quality standards have been established under federal law. Similar to state toxic air contaminants.
Hydroelectric plant: A generating facility that uses the kinetic energy of flowing water to produce electrical energy.
Impingement: the process of aquatic organisms colliding with, or being pinned to, cooling water intake screens.
Independent System Operator (ISO): a state entity created by AB 1890 to provide nondiscriminatory transmission access, the ISO is responsible for the operation, control and reliability of the statewide transmission system under restructuring. The ISO maintains instantaneous balance of the grid system by controlling the dispatch of flexible plants to ensure that loads match resources available to the system. It is regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
Inframarginal: describes plants that have operating costs below the market clearing price and therefore their operations are insensitive to how the market clearing price might change.
Investor-owned utility (IOU): an electric utility company owned by individual and institutional stockholders, such as Pacific Gas & Electric, as compared to consumer-owned utilities, which are owned by public entities, such as the City of Santa Clara's municipal utility.
Islanding: the term used to describe a temporary separation or isolation of transmission grid areas caused by system disturbances, such as outages or current fluctuations. Islanding can occur automatically or manually by the operator. Islanded areas must generate their own electricity as long as they remain cut off from the grid.
Kilowatt-hour (kWh): a measure of electric energy, equivalent to the energy created by generating 1 kilowatt of power for one hour, or 10 kilowatts for 6 minutes, etc.
Load (electric): the amount of electric power delivered or required at any specific point or points on a system. The requirement originates at the energy consuming equipment of the consumers.
Load-following: (or "cyclical") a manner of power plant operation that roughly follows the daily and seasonal electrical demand; i.e., at highest output levels during daytime peaks, and at lowest or zero output levels during nighttime lows (in contrast to "baseload" operation).
Market power: the ability of one or a few entities to manipulate or control the market by, for example, withholding generation from the market in order to artificially inflate the price of power.
Mitigation measures: actions that would eliminate or reduce environmental impacts.
Must-run: the designation given to a power plant or generating unit that must remain on-line during specific times in order to maintain the reliability of the grid in a given geographical area. Prior to restructuring, the CPUC determined must-run designations; in the restructured electric industry, the Independent System Operator (ISO) now has the authority to determine which generators are designated as must-run. A must-run unit is subject to a contract between the unit owner and the ISO that, in return for certain payments, entitles the ISO to call upon the owner to run the unit or to provide ancillary services when needed to maintain electrical system reliability
Must-take: refers to generation that, for a variety of reasons, must be purchased by the local utility. Reasons are generally contractual – such as the mandatory purchase by utilities of power produced by qualifying facilities (QFs) under PURPA – or because of the nature of the power plant, such as nuclear plants that run at full power 24 hours per day because of physical limits that prevent rapid increases or decreases of power levels.
Net generating capacity: the amount of power a generating unit can put into the electric grid; a plant's net generating capacity is equal to the rated generating capacity of the generators in the plant minus the amount of power needed for the various electric components of the plant, such as pumps and heaters. For geothermal power plants, net generating capacity may also be limited by the capability of the geothermal reservoir that supplies steam to the generating units.
Non-spinning reserve: the portion of idle generating capacity (controlled by the ISO) capable of being loaded in 10 minutes and operated for at least two hours, or load that can be interrupted (de-energized) in 10 minutes.
Non-utility generator (NUG): a generation facility owned and operated by an entity that does not meet the definition of a utility company in Section 218 of the state utility code.
North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC): an organization made up of electric utilities and other electricity providers that promotes the reliability of the electricity supply for North America by coordinating operations of utilities and other suppliers, reviewing the past for lessons learned, monitoring the present for compliance with policies, standards, principles and guides, and assessing the future reliability of the bulk electric systems.
Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA): an independent division within the California Public Utility Commission that represents residential ratepayers in proceedings before the commission.
Operating reserve: the combination of spinning and non-spinning reserve required to meet WSCC and NERC requirements for reliable operation of the grid.
Phase I Environmental Assessment: a field study that depends upon existing records and site documentation to determine whether a property or parcel might have impaired environmental conditions. Typically performed prior to, or as due diligence for, a transfer of ownership or refinancing.
Phase II Environmental Assessment: a field study that employs sampling and testing of soils, water, or other materials to determine whether a property has impaired environmental conditions. Typically performed as a follow-up to a Phase I Environmental Assessment.
Photovoltaic energy: electrical energy converted directly from sunlight using solar photoelectric cells.
Power Exchange (PX): the state entity created by AB 1890 that establishes a competitive spot market for electric power through electronic day- and hour-ahead auctions that match generation and demand bids.
Power grid: see "Grid."
Public Utilities Regulatory Powers Act of 1978 (PURPA): a federal law that, among other things, requires utilities to purchase electric power from plants designated as "qualifying facilities" (QFs).
Qualifying facility (QF): a designation under PURPA that allows the designated plant to sell output to the local utility at avoided cost rates. To become a QF, the independent power supplier must produce electricity with a specified fuel type (cogeneration or renewables) and meet certain ownership, size, and efficiency criteria established by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Ramping: changing the loading level of a generator in a constant manner over a fixed time (e.g. "ramping up" or "ramping down"), directed by computer or manual control.
Reliability: electric system reliability is defined by several criteria: the availability of sufficient electric power generation to meet growing customer demand; the time required to restore power to customers following an outage; and the ability of the system to withstand sudden disturbances, such as electric short circuits or unanticipated loss of system facilities (which relates to the degree of built-in system redundancy to handle such unexpected problems).
Renewable energy or power: any source of electric generation that uses naturally replenishable resources. They are virtually inexhaustible in duration but limited in the amount of energy that is available per unit of time. Some (such as geothermal and biomass) may be stock-limited in that stocks are depleted by use, but on a time scale of decades, or perhaps centuries, can probably be replenished. Renewable energy resources include biomass, hydro, geothermal, solar, and the wind. In the future they could also include the use of ocean thermal, wave, and tidal action technologies.
Repowering: the process of replacing or refurbishing an existing power plant unit using new or updated technology.
Risk Assessment: a formal study that assesses the human health risk of a potential hazard.
Special status species: several species known to occur within the general region of the project area are accorded "special status" because of their recognized rarity or vulnerability to habitat loss or population decline. Some of these species receive specific protection in federal and/or state endangered species legislation. Others are designated as "sensitive species" or "species of special concern" on the basis of adopted policies of federal, state, or local resource agencies. These species are referred to collectively as "special status species."
Spinning Reserve: the portion of unloaded but running generating capacity (controlled by the ISO) that can be loaded in 10 minutes and run for at least two hours.
Steam stacking: the term used to describe the controlled release of unabated steam at a geothermal generating unit or its associated piping system, usually done to alleviate a buildup of steam pressure caused by a temporary slowdown or disruption of steam flow from the steam field supplying the unit.
Stranded costs: investment costs that a utility cannot recover in an open, competitive market because of technological changes or other factors.
Substation: an electric utility system component generally consisting of one or more step-down transformers, which convert the high voltages carried over the transmission system to the lower voltages used in the distribution system, and switching equipment that isolates problems and routes electric energy to the desired portion of the distribution system.
Synchronous condenser: an electrical device that increases the power factor on the grid by reducing circulating currents. (Circulating currents are created by the expanding and collapsing of magnetic fields within electric motors and transformers, and do not produce real work. They are called circulating because they merely run back and forth between generators and loads, creating heat and limiting the amount of real power than is transmitted over a conductor.) A synchronous condenser generally consists of a generator that has been converted to a motor by disconnecting it from the turbine shaft. Operators reduce circulating currents by adjusting the field excitation to the condenser.
Thermal discharge: waste heat from power plant operations that is released into the environment. Usually refers to water that is pumped from a nearby body, such as the San Francisco Bay or the San Joaquin River, for use as condenser cooling water, where it picks up heat and then is discharged back into the water body. The heated water thus adds thermal energy to the water body, which may have an effect on the local ecosystem.
Thermal plant: a generating facility that uses a heat source to generate electrical energy.
Toxic air contaminants: air pollutants that occur at relatively low concentrations and are believed to have carcinogenic or other health effects, but for which no ambient air quality standards have been established under State law. Similar to Federal hazardous air pollutants.
Transformer: an electrical device with many coils of wire around a solid core, used to reduce (step-down) or boost (step-up) voltages for use in transmission and distribution systems.
Transmission congestion: an operating condition reached when too many generators attempt to use a portion of the grid and power flows cannot be physically accommodated by the system. Congested transmission systems are also referred to as a "constrained" system.
Transmission system: a network of high voltage circuits that carry power from electricity generating plants to distribution substations, where voltage is reduced for delivery through the distribution system to homes, businesses and farms.
Unbundled services: separation of generation, transmission, distribution, and other services and programs, as opposed to bundled service, where all needed electric services are provided in one package at one rate.
Utility Distribution Companies (UDCs): the entities that will continue to provide regulated services for the distribution of electricity to customers and serve customers who do not choose direct access. Regardless of where a consumer chooses to purchase power, the utility that served the customer prior to restructuring (now called a UDC), will continue to deliver the power to the consumer's home, business or farm. The local utility or UDC will also be responsible for the reliability and maintenance of the power lines and poles that connect homes and businesses to the statewide transmission grid.
Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC): one of 10 regional reliability councils in the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), responsible for maintaining the reliability of the electric system in the Western half of North America (including parts of Mexico and Canada).
AB:Assembly Bill
ABAG: Association of Bay Area Governments
A-Max: analytical maximum
APCD: Air Pollution Control District
AQMD: Air Quality Management District
AQMP: Air Quality Management Plan
AST: aboveground storage tank
BAAQMD: Bay Area Air Quality Management District
BACT: Best Available Control Technology
BARCT: Best Available Retrofit Control Technology
BARR: Bay Area Reliability Requirements
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|May 8, 2012, 11:28 PM
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My false home alarm and what it taught me.
At about 2:30 in the afternoon today I woke up to my home alam siren going off.
I had a feeling it was a false alarm considering the time of day, my neighborhood, and the fact that my cul de sac was crowded with workers putting up two new houses.
After listening for any movement downstairs I felt it was safe to go look what happened. Turns out the front door switch falsely went off.
Now for what I learned.
I programmed my downstairs keypad with descriptions of each of the zones. Zone 3 is front door, zone 2 is Patio Door etc.
I haven't bothered yet to program the upstairs keypad with the same. Instead it just says zone 3 or whichever zone is triggered. If I had programmed it I would have been able to determine immediately that the alarm was false since I have a clear view of the front door from the top of my stairs.
So if you use an alarm system capable of zone descriptions I recommend you use them. They ae very handy and can tell you from where in your house an intruder might be coming from.
I also learned that my new wireless siren in the bedroom works great.
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|May 9, 2012, 09:31 AM
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I have a friend who lives in St Charles, and we were shooting at Article II Gun World and talking about the same thing.
He said he woke up, and his heart was RACING - beating in his chest like a drum.
We talked about how difficult it would have been to actually get a steady sight picture and s l o w l y squeeze the trigger and all that.
I had my smoke detector go off once and my heart seemed to jump out of my chest. I can just imagine what's like having your alarm go off in the middle of the night.
My friend said the same thing about zones. He had an alert that the door to the garage was open, but no alert that the garage door itself was open, and he had no other alerts so he came to the conclusion that he had a malfuctioning monitoring device.
He took his gun and went and checked it out anyway.
I know you're not suppossed to clear your house... but think of it. You've got your home alarm going off, it's probably a malfunction... you can wait 20 minutes for the police to show up and go through all that, or you can just go down there with your gun (just in case) and turn it off yourself..
|May 9, 2012, 09:36 AM
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Or you could just go down there and run into someone who kills you.
Oh, my - waiting 20 minutes - what a tragedy!
That's not thinking, that's stupid. Your friend and perhaps you need serious training in such matters.
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|May 9, 2012, 09:45 AM
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I don't have a home alarm because every time I think about spending the money on one I think about the gun I could get instead!
|May 9, 2012, 10:22 AM
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My "alarms" usually sleep down in the kitchen, but they have been known to have the occasional false alarm at night. Most of the time it's a bear or raccoon sniffing around the garbage shed. Sometimes I think their own bodily functions are noisy enough to wake them up.
It is always disconcerting to be awoken, but if the "alarm" doesn't shut it's self off in a reasonable amount of time I do always go down to investigate. The sheriff is probably an hour out, and the kids rooms are downstairs, so waiting isn't really an option for me.
|May 9, 2012, 10:41 AM
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Dayman, my "alarm" of choice is a 17 pound shih tzu that yaps like crazy at the slightest noise. I've even attempted to "break in" to my own home late at night and the sound of my Arizona lawn (rocks) under foot is enough to make him lose his mind. I recommend others test their "alarms" in this way too. He's a little neurotic about it but he does his job very well.
On another note, is your user name a reference to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?
|May 9, 2012, 11:21 AM
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Rethink that.
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|May 9, 2012, 11:21 AM
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The advantage of an electronic alarm is it doesn't get tripped by animals outside.
I had a German Shepherd that hated cats, so at least twice a week she was barking and snarling at the window in the middle of the night at stray cats going by. She had a different bark for racoons and opposums. She developed a completely different response to skunks after she got sprayed - she'd just look out the window and give a low growl, and we knew it was a skunk. She was willing to growl at them but she didn't want to mess with them after getting sprayed once.
The thing about a zoned electronic system, if it's set up properly it will show you which parts of your house are still secure.
But having said that, I'm still leaning toward getting a dog, especially a bigger one that can be effective in doing more than just alerting.
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While I understand the tactical advantage of staying in your bedroom and waiting for the Police to arrive in some situations it is not practical.
My elderly Mother who suffers form Alzheimer's stays with me most of the time and I also have three nieces that visit quite often. If the alarm sounded in the middle of the night there is no way to avoid leaving my room to check and secure my family even if it meant running into an intruder.
Now, this does not mean that after securing them I would feel the need to clear the entire house.
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|May 9, 2012, 01:54 PM
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This is the problem with internet debates. The house clearing vs. bunkering down debates usually include the nuance that if you have to rescue someone you do.
However, one can train the family (if they are competent) on how to respond.
I recall a FOF where we had to clear our house. A fellow participant came out of a run and said: "Glenn, I killed my son". Oops.
I've been 'shot' just standing there with my hands up by the good guys.
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|May 9, 2012, 02:35 PM
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Yes, if you have friends or family who you may need to round up and get to safety, you may have no choice but to leave your place of safety and go about in a house in which a bad guy might be waiting for you. But the fact that you might have to do it doesn't make it any less risky for you, doesn't reduce the possibility that you might get yourself killed and thus fail in your efforts to protect your friends and family, and doesn't reduce the possibility that you'll shoot one of your friends or relatives by mistake.
As Glenn points out, in general most folks who are living in your home (except perhaps an impaired family member or very young child) can learn and adhere to a plan to get to a designated place of safety if the alarm goes off.
And if you think there's any possibility you'll need to go after friends or family members, get some good training. If nothing else, it will reinforce what a lousy idea going out looking is.
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We have a doggy door, so they can let themselves out into a fenced dog run.
Dogs also function as a pretty decent "zone" system as they follow the perceived threat, and make a lot of noise. They also make for a pretty reactive system as they do have different barks for different things. Plus, the sound of a couple big dogs barking is far more intimidating than a brinks sign. Both would be great, but I do love dogs. Dobermans make fantastic pets.
I don't want to get too far off the OP though. Whether it's dogs or an electronic alarm going off I think the point was how disconcerting it is to go from sleep to fully aware. And, it is. It's probably important to be aware that when you first wake up your mind isn't going to be working at 100%, and when you add adrenaline to the mix you're going to be pretty seriously impaired. It's not going to be a great time to make snap life/death decisions. Yet another reason not to go running about with a gun if you can avoid it. If you can't avoid it, be aware that your mind/eyes can play tricks on you, and that whoever else might be in your house probably already had a chance to get their coffee.
Oh, and yeah dayman was an Always Sunny reference. "Master of Karate, and Friendship ... for everyone" and all that
|May 10, 2012, 09:38 AM
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If one has children and it seems an intruder has broken in there's no way they're going to just sit tight in their bedroom and dial 911.
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|May 10, 2012, 09:47 AM
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Said a thousand times that you may have to rescue people.
Also said a thousand times, teach the family where to rendevous if you hear a break in or how to hunker down.
Why repeat that you want to charge out to save the kids as if folks are suggesting that you leave them as human sacrifices to the monsters?
That has NOT been the argument.
If you do have to charge out, as stated a thousand times, might want to think about training. Want to know how to negotiate a corner, use a light.
NO, just charge out opening fire with your 12 gauge or Judge.
A little annoying to see the cliches yet again and again.
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Another option is to have a home camera system thjat allows you to view each zone via computer, and/or, cell phone. One does not even need leave the 'Safe room', to check the zones.
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|May 10, 2012, 09:59 AM
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One suggestion...
The intruder's best friends are twofold...dark and quiet.
It is worthwhile to have a defense in depth:
a. Ensure that your family is on the same floor. This works well, especially if you have a two-story dwelling.
b. Replace your loved one's doors with solid core outside-rated doors that can, in an emergency, be secured from the inside with a stout lock.
c. GET AN ALARM SYSTEM, a MONITORED alarm system, and USE IT.
d. Here is a unique one, and one that I think has merit: Have your home wired with a master breaker in your room. This master breaker should be able to turn on EVERY LIGHT IN THE HOUSE, GARAGE, AND OUTBUIILDINGS, if you have them. Floodlights on the outside with motion detectors are also a plus.
Imagine what a burglar would feel if suddenly the whole house lit up like a Christmas tree!
Personally, with the reinforced rooms, I would teach the family that, if the lights come on or the alarm sounds to STAY PUT, lock their doors, and DO NOT OPEN until you or your wife/husband/ significant other gives a prearranged code. Tell them also that in those situations their true name will be a duress code--if they hear you calling them BY NAME, they are to immediately call police.
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|May 10, 2012, 12:33 PM
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(1) If I am ever able to build my own house, I will do the wiring so all the lights can be remotely controlled. Until then, it's not very feasible to re-do the wiring in the house to allow me to turn on all the lights at once. My feeling is that with time and increasing computerization of houses, this'll become more ubiquitous.
(2) Children are notoriously unreliable. When they're scared, they follow their instincts/habits, not logic. They won't be able to recall and adhere to complex plans, so keep things simple and practice with them. Also make sure there's some way for you to open doors from the outside, because kids WILL lock you out at some point.
(3) Balance your security with your life. Just as a CCW that's poorly fit to a person's life will be left at home, a home security plan that is incompatible with the rest of your life will be either neglected or abandoned. So take some time to think about how your plan will affect your life, and design it around what you will be able to maintain.
(4) Practice waking up and doing your routine. Not too hard to rig a device to set off a motion alarm or something like that, but even something as simple as setting a normal alarm clock for sometime in the night so you can get an idea of how YOU wake and react.
(5) Musings (I haven't thought these through and would appreciate comments). A digital camera could be used to scope out a room before entering or exposing yourself... just a high-tech periscope basically. Intercoms or radios in places of refuge (ie each bedroom's closet if they have decent doors) could help reassure the entire family that everyone's ok.
|May 11, 2012, 09:35 AM
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Charging Out
Glen and others have answered this part. Obviously hunkering down and defending one door is more tatically prudent than attempting your best chuck norris impression. The knowledge is there if you seek it. Training is always a good thing.
I am moving into a home that I will be spending some time hardening prior to doing much living there. Vermont is a don't lock your doors kinda place so these folks barley have locks.
Due to the layout of the property there is no "safe area" for everyone to congregate in. In other words the sleeping quarters are on the parimiter and the entrance is in the dead center. Anyone trying to move through the house will be an instant target and there will be no safe shot for me because the guest room will be a back drop to a shot from my bedroom.
My plan is to harden the interior security with deadbolt locks and door jammers on the bedroom doors. Instead of meeting in a common place anyone staying in my home should simply hunker down in the room they are sleeping in and wait for things to cool down.
I don't have kids so folks staying with us are usually adults anyway. If the house is vacant and we are the only people staying in our bedroom I have a very very clear area around my Bedroom to defend. In that case shooting from the bedroom into common areas is doable.
|May 16, 2012, 09:21 AM
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Good feedback! After 2 false alarms at my house, I have learned a couple things:
1. Don't turn the alarm off too soon. Let it run a bit and watch it.
2. My panel will scroll for each zone that is tripped. Watch the panel. If its only one zone it is likely a false alarm (depending on your design). If I see: glass break basement, then motion in basement then motion in main living I have a better understanding of what is going on.
3. When you turn the alarm off, wait and listen.
4. Clearing my house was a frightening task after false alarm #1 - I didn't enjoy it and wouldn't suggest it. It's only my wife and I at the house so there is little else to worry about.
If thermal imaging devices were more affordable I would buy one. Seeing a heat signature through walls seems useful.
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I'm glad I came across this as I'm starting the process of shopping for my first home. We're in a fairly rural location but that doesn't mean bad things can't happen so I will be weighing the cost of a home security system. There will be the firearms and dogs but a system and especially one with zones seems helpful.
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I've learned quite a bit about installing a home alarm system on one's own. I use a Honeywell Ademco Vista 20-P. It's pretty much the standard when it comes to home alarm systems it seems.
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|May 20, 2012, 11:54 AM
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I have yet to investigate a home alarm system. It's just my wife and I and a noisy beagle, who alerts all the time when animals wander by the house (often in our rural area) or even if people walk by on the street or the golf course behind our house ... Unless the dog drops dead at a badly timed moment, I can't imagine not knowing something is wrong thanks to him ... I would not try clearing my house (no need, since we have a 1911, pepper spray, a cell fone, flashlights and a large combat knife available in our locked bedroom ...
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Let's start by talking about measurements, because this is where a lot of the confusion arises. The most common width measurement that is provided by manufacturers is "waist". The waist is measured at the narrowest point near the middle of the board (usually). But like with all things in snowboarding, different brands measure different things. Some measure the midpoint between the tip and tail and call that "waist". Others simply provide a measurement they call, "width", but do not really specify what width they are referring to.
If that has you a bit confused, don't worry, because regardless of where these "waist" measurements are taken, they are not very useful for what they are typically used for. Most people think that this measurement is a good indicator of what foot size a board will handle. It is not, and for a simple reason: you do not stand at the waist, you stand at the inserts. A board's waist measurement is always less than the measurement at the inserts and often the difference is significant. Additionally, two boards with the same waist dimension, may have very different measurements at the inserts, depending on each board's sidecut. Measurement at the center insert is a much better way to compare boards for shoe size compatibility, but for some odd reason, manufacturers do not publish this info.
OK, so now we have told you why we think the commonly provided measurements are pretty silly, but what good does that do you? You still need to know how to figure out the correct width for your new board. Well, here comes. There are two easy steps to getting it right every time.
First, measure your bare foot. It is important that you do not try to use a boot size. It is also important that you measure in centimeters, because the board measurements that you will be comparing to will be in cm. Here is the method that we suggest:
Kick your heel (barefoot please, no socks) back against a wall. Mark the floor exactly at the tip of your toe (the one that sticks out furthest - which toe this is will vary by rider). Measure from the mark on the floor to the wall. That is your foot length and is the only measurement that you will want to use. Measure in centimeters if possible, but if not, take inches and multiply by 2.54 (example: an 11.25 inch foot x 2.54 = 28.57 centimeters).
Second, measure the board you are considering. This measurement is easy. It should be taken at the inserts. Try to measure at the inserts that you will be using to achieve your stance position. If you are unsure about this, simply measure at the center of the insert cluster (that will still be very close). Be sure to measure using the base of the board, not the deck. This is important because the sidewalls on many boards are angled in, and will therefore give you a smaller measurement on the deck than on the base. For our example's sake, let's say the measurement is 27.54 at the center insert.
Still with us? You are almost done. You now have a way to compare foot size to board width where it matters, but how do you interpret this info to get the correct width? Well that depends a little on stance angle. If you ride a 0 degree stance, you will want your foot size to be the same as the width of the board at the inserts or up to 1 cm greater. If you ride at an angled stance, you will want to measure the board across at the angles that you will be riding. Again, you will want your foot to at least match this measurement or exceed it by up to 1 cm. So using our example above, this guy has a foot 28.57 cm that exceeds the board with at the inserts 27.54 cm by 1.03 cm at a zero degree angle. But, when he angles his feet to the 15 degree angles that he rides, voila, he has .10 cm of overhang for a perfect fit.
But wait a second. Are we saying that you should have overhang, even with bare feet? Yes. You will need overhang to be able to apply leverage to your edges and to get the most out of your board. 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch of boot overhang for both toe and heel is ideal, and will not create problematic toe or heel drag. Remember that boots typically add 1/2 at both the toe and heel to your foot measurement from above, due to padding, insulation and the outer boot materials. We do not suggest using the boot length to size boards though, as the extra padding etc, cannot be used well to create leverage, that has to come from your foot itself. We highly recommend that riders do not choose boards where their feet do not come to or exceed the real board width.
OK, that's all well and good, but where can you get the information on board width at the inserts if the manufacturers don't provide it? That's easy. Email the store that carries the board(s) that you are considering. Give them your foot length in cm (and your stance width and angles if you know them). They will be able to provide you with the width at the inserts that you will be using and can factor in your stance angle as well to get you the exact overhang that you will have with bare feet.
Once mounted, the best way to test is to put your (tightly laced) boots into your bindings and strap them in tightly. It is important that you have the heel pulled all the way back into the bindings heel cup or the test won't help. On a carpeted floor place your board flat on its base. Kneel behind the heelside edge and lift that edge so that it rests on your knees and so that the toeside edge is angled down into the carpet. Now press down with both hands using firm pressure, one hand on each of the boots. This will compress the board's sidecut and simulate a turn on hard snow. You can change the angle of the board on your knees to become progressively steeper and you will be able to see at what angle you will start getting toe drag. You will want to repeat the test for your heelside as well. If you are not getting drag at normal turn and landing angles, then you are good to go.
Also a note about boots: Boot design plays a big role in toe drag as does binding ramping and binding base height. Boots that have a solid bevel at the toe/heel drag less. Many freestyle boots push for more surface contact and reduce bevel. This helps with contact, but if you have a lot of overhang with those boots it hurts in terms of toe drag.
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Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series about area volunteer fire departments and the work that goes into keeping them in operation.
Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series about area volunteer fire departments and the work that goes into keeping them in operation.
About a dozen people take turns breathing into lifeless dummies.
�Look, listen and feel for a pulse,� said Pumpkin Center Volunteer Fire Department Deputy Chief Jeremy Foster, as he stands in front of the class. �Do 30 chest compressions to the xiphoid process rhythmically ... Try to think about the song �Stayin' Alive.�
�I've always heard it's done to 'Another One Bites the Dust,'� says one student.
�Whatever works for you,� Foster replies.
It's training night at Pumpkin Center VFD, something that takes place three Tuesdaysout of every month at their facilities on New Bern Highway. One Tuesday always is reserved for a business meeting. Foster said training sessions include lessons on pulling a fire hose, riding and operatingfire trucks and vehicle extraction � all things that those who want to join an area department are expected to learn since actually fighting fires is just one part of the job.
�Sixty percent of our calls are car wrecks with about 20 percent coming for public service calls and the other 20 percent are actual fires,� Foster said.
Volunteer firefighters also come from all walks of life but share one key trait: a desire to serve their communities. But not everyone will make it on to a roster. And not everyone should.
�We use a spreader (a device that helps extract people from cars) that weighs about 37 pounds, and when you're carrying that for 15 to 20 minutes, it gets very heavy ... When we respond to a wreck, there's stuff we see that's not meant for the naked eye. You have to be able to cope with that as well.�
Foster also cited flexibility, a high level of endurance and solid upper body strength as physical prerequisites for firefighting. A firefighter must be prepared to carry an air pack on their back that weighs approximately 30 pounds and a turnout kit that adds an extra 10 pounds. Foster said a firefighter also has to be ready to carry injured colleagues and civilians out of harm's way.
There is more to firefighting than physical strength, though, and according to Foster, keeping a cool head is the only way to fight fires that can reach temperatures over 1,000 degrees.
�When you're in there, you have to have your wits about you and be able to make quick decisions,� Foster said. �Half of the decisions we make are made in a snap, and you only have seconds to make a Plan A and a Plan B to attack the fire.
The training sessions are not only an important part of members� learning base, but a way to gain membership. Pumpkin Center VFD requires prospects to attend a month's worth of departmental meetings, as well as complete a 90-day long probationary period, before they become full-fledged members of the department. All that comes after prospects complete a three-page application asking for references as well as previous firefighting experience. Foster said this process allows Pumpkin Creek VFD members get an understanding of what kind of person they may be letting into their department.
�We've had people come through the door and then we'll never see them again,� Foster said. �You have to be committed to this if you want to wear the helmet. This becomes a second family and you get to know what you and everyone else is capable of.�
Brian Romans, fire chief for Bear Creek VFD in Hubert, said honesty and commitment are essential traits for anyone wanting to join the department, partially due to the fact that the equipment used to save lives belongs to those they're saving.
�It's not ours, it's the community's and we have to look out for that,� Romans said. �We need people who are going to give us 100 percent and not just respond to the big calls. We're not here to be heroes. We need people who just want to help the community. That's one of our biggest things.�
Romans said prospects are taken around the firehouse and introduced to people they hope to call colleagues once all is said and done. Afterward, the application process begins, which includes filling out an application form and getting a background check through the Onslow County Sheriff's Office. If their application passes and the background check comes back clear, they're put in front of a board where they are interviewed.
�We want to get a feel for them and see what kind of person they are,� Romans said. �We ask them 'Why do you want to join?' and 'What can you offer the community?'.The board decides whether or not to make them a probationary member of the department.�
The probationary period lasts for four months, a time which Romans says prospects have to show members that they �want to be there� by going out for calls and attending events hosted by the department. After their time as a probationary member is completed, a vote is taken on whether they will be a full-term member of the department.
�Some people consider it a large feat or overcoming a large hurdle,� Romans said. �Some view it as a rite of passage and others see it as the opportunity to not be called 'probie' anymore.�
Carolton Beall was a firefighter long before coming to Hubert in 2004. The Maryland native fought fires at high-rise apartments in the Washington, D.C. suburbs in the early �90s before becoming a corpsman with the Navy. Beall said his initial interaction with Bear Creek VFD came when his daughter joined the junior division of the department to earn SAT hours, but found another family after becoming a member.
�People who want to give back seem to find each other and join together,� Beall said. �When we're not busy, we're always hanging out or joking around ... There's a lot of laughter. That's the way it is, wherever you go.�
For Capt. Phillip Dallas of the Half Moon Fire Department, firefighting is in the blood. He is a fifth-generation firefighter who remembers going on calls with his father while growing up in Catskills, N.Y. Dallas sees himself walking in the footsteps of predecessors, not only as a firefighter, but as someone who is passionate about firefighting.
�They all lived doing what they wanted to do,� Dallas said. �My dad was a firefighter who retired recently and he misses it. I'm just following in their footsteps.�
Dallas said his involvement with the Half Moon VFD is steeped not only in tradition, but in his own love for firefighting, something he also calls his profession. Dallas is a professional firefighter on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
�There are three things you'll see in a community that keeps it together,� Dallas said. �You have the post office, the church and the local firehouse. That's where everyone goes. I'm proud to do what I do.�
Christopher Thomas is a staff writer at The Daily News. Contact him at 910-219-8473 or email@example.com.


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"Singing Rage of the Gospel Age," Professor Alex Bradford, who has been called "Gospel's Little Richard," arguably stands as the most influential male artist of gospel's post-World War II Golden Age. Important as composer ("I'm Too Close to Heaven and I Can't Turn Around"), singer (alternating between a rough, husky chest voice and a falsetto that turned him into a male soprano), stage (and altar) performer, record producer, and group and choir leader, Bradford also pioneered the extension of gospel to secular contexts, particularly with his world tour with Marion Williams in Black Nativity (1960), based on texts by Langston Hughes. He was, rare among important gospel performers, both instrumentalist and vocalist. As choir director of Newark's Abyssinian Baptist Church, he proved a fine talent scout into the bargain, giving a start to, among others, Cissy Houston and the Sweet Inspirations, Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, C and the Shells, and Judy Clay, all of whom went on to have important careers in soul and pop, none of whom ever strayed far from the gospel basis of their singing. Bradford made important recordings on his own, and he wrote hit material for Roberta Martin, Sallie Martin, and Mahalia Jackson, all of whom he also served as accompanist. His Bradford Specials, with whom he made his most important records in the mid-'50s, were the first male group to adopt the innovations brought to gospel by female quartets such as those of Roberta Martin and Clara Ward.
In addition to his influence on the Newark soul singers, Bradford also played a role in shaping the styles of Little Richard, Ray Charles, and even Sam Cooke, all of whose work reflects careful study of his aptitudes and antics.
Bradford grew up in Bessemer, a coal town just outside Birmingham, AL. Bessemer's sizable black population produced some of the earliest gospel quartets, notably the Famous Blue Jays and the Swan Silvertones, which were deeply influential on young Bradford, although he'd later revolutionize the male gospel style by converting "quartets" to "groups." Bradford began performing at age four, singing and dancing in black vaudeville, and, while training in dance and music with a great local jazz pianist, Mildred Belle Hall, proved precociously proficient, enough to have a grand future in popular music.
But Bradford had joined the Holiness Church at age six (over the objection of his father, a Southern Baptist), and by the time he was in his teens, he'd become a follower of Prophet Jones, a Church of God in Christ minister (and flamboyant pianist) who went on to found the Christ Universal Dominion Kingdom of God and Temple of Christ, International Fellowship in Detroit, for a time an influential force in the African-American world.
After a tangle with a racist cop, his parents sent him to New York, where he formed a quartet, the Bronx Gospelaires. On his return to Alabama, he went to a private school and later taught himself, thus earning the "Professor" tag. But his calling was to preach and sing, and he did so prolifically, eventually becoming ordained in three churches and serving as a lay minister in two others.
While still a teen, he served in the Army and entertained at camp shows. He returned to the Birmingham area and preached at the Mother Hargrove Bishop Universal Spiritual Church but soon moved to Chicago. There he was taken up by Roberta Martin and Mahalia Jackson, respectively the most important group leader and solo singer in gospel. (Both Martin and Jackson had known him as a boy in Birmingham.) They were both encouraging and inhibiting and Bradford was eventually compelled to make a break. When he finally formed his first important group, the Bradfordettes, Bradford did so distinctively, drawing equally from gospel and show biz choreography.
Bradford continued to write prolifically for others, coming up with two significant hits for the Roberta Martin Singers, "Since I Met Jesus" and "Let God Abide," while making his first forays into recording for New York's Apollo label, in 1951. Like most gospel journeymen during the Golden Age, he traveled and did shows at churches and revival programs much more than he recorded, and Bradford was always welcome because he had a near-riotous act, heavily arranged and choreographed but finally as spontaneous as gospel must be, that wrecked houses (as the saying goes) all over the gospel circuit.
His breakthrough came when he began recording in Los Angeles for the great producer Art Rupe's Speciality Records. In 1954, "I'm Too Close to Heaven" sold more than a million copies. He recorded for Specialty for six years, at one point serving as director of its gospel line, which meant producing such esteemed colleagues as Bessie Griffin, Princess Stewart, and the Argo Singers.
After leaving Specialty in 1959, he toured England with Black Nativity (the recording on Vee-Jay is important but a mere shadow of the stage show). In 1959 and 1960, he recorded in New York for the Savoy and Gospel labels, but made more important recordings for Vee-Jay where he recorded from 1962-1964. It was during this period that he became an international star, touring Europe, principally England, and even going as far as Australia, with a group that included future Rolling Stones diva Madeline Bell (that's her on "Gimme Shelter"). He made some records, mainly unreleased, for Chess' Checker subsidiary in 1966, and rounded out his recording career with sessions for Nashboro in 1967 and 1968, which are fine of their kind but not as dynamic as the best of what he had done earlier.
Gospel styles changed and Bradford's popularity dwindled, which is perhaps why he agreed to take the choir director position at Abyssinian Baptist. He'd already made one recording with the 120-voice choir, for Columbia in 1960 (which includes a definitive performance of his song, "I Want to Ride That Glory Train"), and made another for Jubilee in 1969. But Bradford's interests outside church in the late '60s and '70s were more taken up with a series of gospel-influenced off-Broadway plays directed by Vinnette Carroll, who'd done Black Nativity. He toured the nation with the comedic Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope. In 1978, he was in the midst of a struggle with another hit, Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, when he had a stroke and died, aged only 51.


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Please note the differences between the two categories ... COMMUNITY EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS and PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS ... below:COMMUNITY EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- Material must be written and submitted USING THE FORM BELOW by a member of the organization.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Three: The Etymologies", p. 400
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part Two" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 46, July 2004, p. 23
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part Two" (edited by Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 48, December 2005, p. 10


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