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Just when I thought there was nothing to blog about today, here comes something from the "Totally Random" Department: I got a piece of mail sent to me by name imploring everyone at work to take some time to appreciate Italian heritage. It was a flyer with pictures of famous Italians and Italian-Americans on it, and a list of suggested movies by and/or about Italians. I certainly approve of celebrating all things Italian, but why me? Why not Handy Woman, who is a real Italophile? Why not Richard Bonomo? After all, neither my last name nor Travalon's (I go by both) is Italian in the least. I suspect I have somehow become the contact at my workplace for sending flyers to be posted in a public space, because one was sent to me previously, but it was something more prosaic about how to submit grievances. I just hang them up in the breakroom. I don't even know where they are coming from, because they are sent via campus mail and have no return address, so there is no way to stop them. Not that I want to, if they are going to be this random. I can't wait to see the next one they send me. Any speculations about what topic "they" will cover next? Feel free to leave an idea in the comments section.
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Browse Journals and Peer-Reviewed Series
ISSN 0734-9963CutBank is a literary magazine published twice each year by the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana. The print version, archived and available here (with the exception of the two most recent years) includes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction submissions.
Education's Histories
About Education's Histories
Education's Histories is an online journal focused on histories of education. It considers not only digital and analog research on schooling but also such research on education outside the institution of school. Education's Histories examines the content, form, and methods of research others have done and presents new research, too. Special attention, at least for now, is given to methodological problems, practices, and innovations in the history of education field, particularly those in the digital environment. In fact, we intend for it to provide methodological grist for the field. We are calling our narrative style "creative non-fiction" with scholarly proclivities.
A Note on the Header Image
The header image for the site, "A Bookmark Would Be Better!" is a Works Projects Administration poster created by Arlington Gregg sometime between 1936 and 1940. This poster, among others, is housed at the Library of Congress. The stylized person in this image is ironing down a dogeared corner of a book on which he is standing, though the book itself is not fully visible. Presumably, this poster was made for libraries. This image highlights how individualized reading and its significance can be while the caption suggests that leaving traces of an individual's reading, such as a crease, is not always preferable, especially when a single copy of a text might be shared among many people. Nevertheless—and without question—readers leave physical reminders of what they have found meaningful, and this makes reading a multimodal experience that layers readerly and writerly conversations. The original writer created the text, conveying a message to a reader about ideas or sources of provocation; a reader then converses with the writer whom s/he is reading, noting passages that invoke meaning; and, a reader of a reader reproduces this process, though s/he might find alternate passages and annotations of the writer or the previous reader resonant. This is what historians do. They attempt to reconstruct meaning of texts given the traces that past people have left behind. This process is accretive and perhaps akin to geologic phenomena.
Header Image: Arlington Gregg. A Book Mark Would Be Better! January 1, 1936. The Library of Congress: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/6629878315/in/faves-16954284@N02/.
Montana Journalism Review
Founded in 1958, the Montana Journalism Review is produced by journalism students at the University of Montana. It was published once per year from 1958 to 1979 and from 1993 to the present.
The Mathematics Enthusiast
The Mathematics Enthusiast (TME) is an eclectic internationally circulated peer reviewed journal which focuses on mathematics content, mathematics education research, innovation, interdisciplinary issues and pedagogy. Authors do not need to be affiliated with the University of Montana in order to publish in this journal. Please send all submissions and correspondence to the editor, Professor Bharath Sriraman.
The Montana English Journal
The Montana English Journal (MEJ) is the annual publication of the Montana Association of Teachers of English Language Arts (MATELA), an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The editors welcome articles of interest to their primary audience--teachers of English K-16 in the state of Montana.
Please consider submitting your original work, including:
- REPORTS--Research studies, including institutional research approved by the home institution;
- CURRICULUM--Daily lesson plans, units, or curriculum designs with underlying philosophy cross-referenced to relevant Common Core Standards;
- LITERARY REVIEWS--In-depth essays on one or more works (books, films, software, websites); and
- TEACHER AS ARTIST--Original prose, poetry art, and photography.
See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.
The OvalThe Oval is a literary magazine published annually by the Associated Students of the University of Montana, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and the Creative Writing Program of the University of Montana English Department. It includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and visual art.
University of Montana Journal of Early Childhood Scholarship and Innovative Practice
The University of Montana Journal of Early Childhood Scholarship and Innovative Practice is an online, peer-reviewed journal that is published twice a year. The journal provides a forum for graduate students to share articles related to the care and education of young children with early childhood practitioners, administrators, and policy advisors.

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During the twentieth century, the working conditions for Ireland were rough, and workers were living in misery. They complained of being underpaid and misused as workers. It is during this time that Jim Larkin stood and dedicated his life to fighting for others who were not ready to fight for their lives.
Labor unions were there, but they were for only those who are skilled and educated. Those who did not have the skills were working under conditions which were not safe and had no particular organizations that could fight for change.
At this time, there was a nationalist movement that swept the whole country, but they forgot one crucial thing the conditions of the working class. James Larkin was forced to mobilize people and help them ask for their rights because he had seen that people were being mistreated and were working under poor conditions. Read more: James Larkin | Biography
He was working on a dock in Liverpool and was born there by parents who had an Irish origin. It was then that he decided to participate in strikes after learning socialism.
He started agitating for equal rights as well as better working conditions for all employees. He was aggressive and became organized strikes as he was now working with the National Union of Dock Laborers. He later went to Ireland where he continued with his activism. After arriving in Belfast, he started organizing the unskilled laborers, but the officials of NUDL ignored him and settled with those who owned businesses.
Larkin was not happy with what the NUDL leaders had done. Hence he decided to start his union which was called the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. It became the largest union in Ireland with just three years of entry into the country.
Under his union and leadership, Jim Larkin started organizing many laborers but was faced with resistance from William Martin who was a nationalist and owned the Dublin Tramway Company. At the height of unrest Murphy who was against what Larkin was doing threatened workers to lose their jobs if they followed orders by Larkin.
However, Larkin was not deterred and still mobilized the members of onion to go on strike, but DUT locked them out, and there was an attempt to replace them with others.
There was unrest in Ireland as workers went on strike for months. There were also clashes between the police and workers on strike. Jim Larkin wanted to cause a massive change in socialism and had succeeded in mobilizing the unskilled workers. Larkin succeeded in improving the condition of workers in Ireland.


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My name is Amy Heyse. I started the process of creating an Etsy shop months ago, but got intimidated by the product photography, branding, SEO, etc. and never got beyond creating a banner for my shop. I have a Facebook fan page that I use to showcase my artwork and I have gotten a lot of positive feedback and have even sold a piece through Facebook once. I decided it was time to focus the time and energy on opening an Etsy store.
I create watercolor and acrylic portraits of women. I would love to use my shop to sell prints and custom trading cards featuring my artwork. I have a custom deck of trading cards I designed that just got shipped and is expected to arrive sometime this or next week. I'm looking forward to seeing how they turn out and if they will be nice enough to sell. I still need to actually make prints of my artwork as well. Below are the images I ordered that will have available in trading card format:
In addition to artist trading cards/prints, I enjoy sewing. I sew handmade tote bags using watercolor painted canvas and then I paint characters and designs on them using acrylic paints. I have small "wallets"/card holders that match.
After doing the worksheet and looking at the competition, I realized that there are more artists who create prints for sale than there are artists who have artist trading cards. Most artist trading cards feature fantasy or fan art. There is a large spectrum of artistic skill for both print and artist trading cards. There are also a lot of Etsians who create either hand sewn tote bags or hand painted tote bags, but very few who create hand sewn AND hand painted tote bags. I think this could work in my favor...
For me, the most challenging part of the worksheet was coming up with keywords. The 13 I decided on were: hand painted, hand sewn, cute, watercolor, acrylic, elegant, artist trading cards, prints, fine art, painting, portrait, art, and vintage inspired.
Unfortunately, the trading cards haven't been delivered yet (they'll arrive sometime next week), so I decided to start taking pictures of the tote bags. I have 5, but I decided to start with 1 to begin with. I used paper to create a white "backdrop." I edited the photos using Photoshop first and decided to play around with FotoFuze, which I had never used before. The first couple of times I used FotoFuze, I didn't really like it, but then I played around with the different settings and found a way to create a more naturalistic, but clean, version of my photo. Here's what they look like side-by-side (original on the left, FotoFuze on the right):
I spent the morning/early afternoon working on product photography. Let me know what your thoughts are. I need to go back and look at a couple to make sure they're not blurry, but otherwise I think they turned out nice. They were all edited in Photoshop first and then FotoFuze.
I now am the proud owner of an Etsy shop. I just listed 5 items and opened shop! It feels surreal that it actually happened because I've been talking about it for a while now. Here's a link to my shop:
My trading cards arrived in the mail! Hooray! They're 3.5x5.75". I haven't decided on a price for these yet. After doing some research on similar products and evaluating what it costs me to have them printed, I'm thinking of offering them for somewhere between $4.50-5.00 (and maybe offering a 3 for $X deal). Here are the edited photos in the meantime:
A close-up of one:
And the backs:
Thanks to some of the SEO tags I created, I have gotten some traffic to my shop. I have also had 2 items favorited, which is pretty exciting. There's a lot more work to be done on my half, but I'm happy that my shop is open for business.
I plan on getting my personal website up and running soon and blogging on my art process. In the meantime, I have been updating my Facebook fan page regularly and have been pinning my products on Pinterest. We'll see if that helps me get page views as well. I need to make some more business cards (now I can include my shop or website on the cards) and I have a stamp with my contact info and logo to help personalize my packaging.
I made my first two sales. Pretty exciting (and a little nerve-wrecking). The first sale was to a family member, so it was a positive experience. I put the cards they ordered in a little envelope that I created out of cardstock before putting it in an envelope and mailing it. It arrived safely and the artwork is matted and framed at their new home. Pretty cool.
When I got my second order, this time from someone unknown, I wanted to amp up the packaging. I decided to create a card that displays the trading card, has my logo, and the title of the piece and my signature included. I put the card holder, two copies of my business card, and a handwritten note in a regular envelope that snugly holds them all. Then I put that envelope into a 6x8" rigid envelope that I got from ecoenclose as a sample. I loved the envelopes so much, I ordered two more packs for future sales. They're inexpensive, cheap to ship, and I think they will protect the items more. I think it will look more professional and show that I'm trying to keep the items safe.
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There are 2 handshaking modes on the SCSI bus, used for transferring data: ASYNCHRONOUS and SYNCHRONOUS. ASYNCHRONOUS is a classic Req/Ack handshake. SYNCHRONOUS is "sort of" Req/Ack, only it allows you to issue multiple Req's before receiving Ack's. What this means in practice is that SYNCHRONOUS transfers are approx 3 times faster than ASYNCHRONOUS.
SCSI-1 allowed asynchronous transfers at up to 1.5 Mbytes/Sec and synchronous transfers at up to 5.0 Mbytes/Sec.
SCSI-2 had some of the timing margins "shaved" in order that faster handshaking could occur. The result is that asynchronous transfers can run at up to 3.0 bytes/Sec and synchronous transfers at up to 10.0 Mbytes/Sec. The term "FAST" is generally applied to a SCSI device which can do syncrhonous transfers at speeds in excess of 5.0 Mbytes/Sec. This term can only be applied to SCSI-2 devices since SCSI-1 didn't have the timing margins that allow for FAST transfers.
Differential SCSI:
For each signal that needs to be sent across the bus, there exists a pair of wires to carry it. The first in this pair carries the same type of signal the single-ended SCSI carries. The second in this pair, however, carries its logical inversion. The receiver takes the difference of the pair (thus the name differential), which makes it less susceptible to noise and allows for greater cable length.
Single-ended SCSI (normal SCSI):
For each signal that needs to be sent across the bus, there exists a wire to carry it.
Wide SCSI:
SCSI may now transfer data at bus widths of 16 and 32 bits. Commands, status, messages and arbitration are still 8 bits, and the B-Cable has 68 pins for data bits. Cabling was a confusing issue in the closing days of SCSI-2, because the first project of SCSI-3 was the definition of a 16-bit wide P-Cable which supported 16-bit arbitration as well as 16-bit data transfers. Although SCSI-2 does not contain a definition of the P-Cable, it is quite possible that within the year, the P-Cable will be most popular non-SCSI-2 feature on SCSI-2 products. The market responds to what it wants, not the the arbitrary cutoffs of standards committees.
Fast SCSI:
A 10 MHz transfer rate for SCSI came out of a joint effort with the IPI (Intelligent Peripheral Interface) committee in ASC X3T9.3. Fast SCSI achieves 10 Megabytes/second on the A-Cable and with wider data paths of 16-and 32-bits can rise to 20 Megabytes/second and even 40 Megabytes/second. However, by the time the market starts demanding 40 Megabytes/second it is likely that the effort to serialize the physical interface for SCSI-3 will attract high- performance SCSI users to the Fiber Channel.
A word of caution. At this time the fast parameters cannot be met by the Single Ended electrical class, and is only suitable for Differential. One of the goals in SCSI-3 is to identify the improvements needed to achieve 10 MHz operation with Single Ended components.
SCSI Termination:
The Single Ended electrical class depends on very tight termination tolerances, but the passive 132 ohm termination defined in 1986 is mismatched with the cable impedance (typically below 100 ohms). Although not a problem at low speeds when only a few devices are connected, reflections can cause errors when transfer rates increase and/or more devices are added. In SCSI-2, an active terminator has been defined which lowers termination to 110 ohms and is a major boost to system integrity.
Command Queueing:
In SCSI-1, initiators were limited to one command per LUN e.g. a disk drive. Now up to 256 commands can be outstanding to one LUN. The target is allowed to re-sequence the order of command execution to optimize seek motions. Queued commands require Tag messages which follow the Identify.
Is SYNCHRONOUS faster than ASYNCHRONOUS?
Asynchronous is faster on short cables, while synchronous is faster on long cables. The reason has to do with the propagation delay of the cable; the turn around time of the silicon; and the interlocked nature of the asynchronous handshake.
Thus we have four "edges" propagating down the cable plus 4 turn-around delays. Asynchronous transfer requires 55 ns setup and no hold time (paragraph in 188.8.131.52 in SCSI-1 or SCSI-2) which gives an upper speed limit around 18 MB/s. A detailed analysis shows that the setup time subtracts out. This is mostly because we are running at one-third the max rate, but also because setup for the next byte can begin anytime after ACK is received true or REQ is received false, depending on who is receiving. You can either take my word for it or draw the waveforms yourself. Thus, the asynchronous transfer reduces to:
Note: cables longer than 6 meters require external differential transceivers which add delay and degrade the performance even more than indicated here.
Our simulations say that under very best conditions (fast silicon, low temperature, high voltage, zero length cable) we can expect more than 8 MB/s asynchronously. In the lab, I routinely measure 5 MB/s on 8 foot cables. So, if you were writing the data manual for this, how would YOU spec it?
The framers of the SCSI spec threw in synchronous mode to boost the performance on long cables. In synchronous mode, the sending device is permitted to send the next byte without receiving acknowledgment that the receiver actually received the last byte. Kind of a ship and pray method. The acknowledgment is required to come back sometime, but we just don't have to wait for it (handwave the offset stuff and the ending boundary conditions). In this mode any external transceivers add a time shift, but not a delay. So if you negotiate for 5 MB/s, you get 5MB/s regardless how long the cable is and regardless whether you are single-ended or differential. But you can't go faster than 5.5 MB/s, except in SCSI-2.
Synchronous mode does have a hold time (unlike asynch) but again, setup and hold times subtract out. In SCSI-1 synchronous mode, the speed limit comes from the combined ASSERTION PERIOD + NEGATION PERIOD which is 90ns + 90ns = 180ns = 5.5 MB/s. Our 53C90 family doesn't quite hit the max, but we do guarentee 5.0 MB/s. In SCSI-2, anything above 5.0 MB/s is considered to be FAST. Here the maximum transfer rate is explicitly limited to 100 ns or 10MB/s; you don't have to read between the lines to deduce it.
Interesting tid-bit: given a SCSI-2 FAST period of 100 ns and a cable delay of 131 ns on a 25 meter cable, you can actually stack 1.31 bytes in the 8-bit cable. In FAST and WIDE SCSI you can stack 5.24 bytes in this copper FIFO.
Active Termination:
An active terminator actually has one or more voltage regulators to produce the termination voltage, rather than using resistor voltage dividers.
This is a passive terminator:
SCSI signal
Notice that the termination voltage is varies with the voltage on the TERMPWR line. One voltage divider (two resistors) is used for each SCSI signal.
An active terminator looks more like this (supply filter caps omitted):
TERMPWR -----| in out |------+------/\/\/\/-------SCSI signal
| gnd | |
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| +------/\/\/\/-------SCSI signal
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+------/\/\/\/-------SCSI signal
Assuming that the TERMPWR voltage doesn't drop below the desired termination voltage (plus the regulator's minimum drop), the SCSI signals will always be terminated to the correct voltage level.
The SCSI specification is available from:
Global Engineering Documents 15 Inverness Way East Englewood Co 80112-5704 (800) 854-7179 SCSI-1: X3.131-1986 SCSI-2: X3.131-199x SCSI-3 X3T9.2/91-010R4 Working Draft
Global Engineering Documentation in Irvine, CA (714)261-1455
SCSI-1: Doc # X3.131-1986 from ANSI, 1430 Broadway, NY, NY 10018
IN-DEPTH EXPLORATION OF SCSI can be obtained from:
Solution Technology Attn: SCSI Publications PO Box 104 Boulder Creek, CA 95006 (408)338-4285, FAX (408)338-4374
THE SCSI ENCYLOPEDIA and the SCSI BENCH REFERENCE can be obtained from:
ENDL Publishing 14426 Black Walnut Ct. Saratoga, CA 95090 (408)867-6642 FAX (408)867-2115
SCSI: UNDERSTANDING THE SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEM INTERFACE was published by Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-796855-8


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TransUnion credit score is one of the three credit scores that you can obtain. Unlike FICO score, there is a easy and free way to obtain your TransUnion score from a web site called Credit Karma (thanks to Lazy Man And Money for posting about this originally). Originally, Credit Karma didn't use one of the three main credit scores. Fortunately, they listened to their users feedback, and the score is now based on TransUnion credit score that runs between 300-850.
When I last checked my credit score was 785. Here's a screen shot of credit score.
In addition to free credit score, Credit Karma also gives you some comparison information. For example, I learned that I am among 15.9% of the population that has FICO credit score between 750 and 799.
My score is in the 91% percentile of the U.S. population.
And having a score of 785 is considered to be very good.
Overall, Credit Karma is a great addition to your personal finance management toolkit, and you can't beat the price — free! Moreover, you can also obtain credit score from Experian and your FICO score. Here are tutorials on how to get these score for free.
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Any idea how does someone get their "official" credit score–the one mortgage companies actually use to determine your interest rate, etc.? What is the cheapest (one-time) way to get this without having to sign up for a monthly program?
Woah! This showed up in my reader and I thought it was new article but then I saw a comment I made months ago. lol.
Anyways, 8 months later, I still use Credit Karma to check my score but not very often (maybe once a couple of months). In that span, I turned 21 and my score went from 730 to 765. I guess those on time, full monthly payments have continued to help. 🙂
I'm glad that you mentioned that Credit Karma wasn't an official FICO score. Still anything that is free and lets you track your credit performance over time is extremely valuable. And thanks for the mention.
This is a Great article with great advice. If you have errors or problems on your credit report, make sure you get them fixed to help your credit score. Always know what is on your credit report and how you can improve your score.
This is a huge help for those of us who do not know where to start when it comes to improving our credit score. I want to purchase a home on the distant horizon, so I was thinking I should start doing stuff now to boost my score.
So how much information do you have to give them? I hate signup processes where you have to give them a bunch of personal information but they don't tell you how much you'll have to give them until you've completed most of the process. On this site you have to go through two steps before they tell you how much info they want. I'd like to know what I have to give them BEFORE I go through the first two steps.
Thanks Pinyo!
So I hesitated for awhile and waited to see what users' reactions would be to CreditKarma, and it seems like it's largely positive for the most part. I went ahead and signed up today and the process was really simple. At 20, I was actually afraid to see my score (I've never seen it before) but it turned out to be around what I thought it would be (730).
Well thanks for the review again!
I heard that the more you check your credit score the more it decreases? Is that true?
747 – I don't use credit much.
I like the thermometer analogy. Maybe I can use this free "tool" to see what direction my score is actually going, i.e. it should go up before is starts to go down.
from your prior comment:
"It a misconception that having highest possible FICO is a good thing."
Maybe I was looking for this statement somewhere in the article, instead of just giving the allusion that higher is better.
At any rate, keep up the good work!
I don't see the problem with knowing your credit score, or having a high credit score. If you are in good financial shape, but not a debt-free wannabe, then you should be looking for a high FICO score, and a decline would be a problem.
If on the other hand you have resolved never to use debt again, then your FICO score is not important and may well drop as you get closer to debt free.
I didn't use the free tools, but my credit score was 801 when we applied for our mortgage. 🙂
I personally don't use my credit score as a financial management tool, because I'm too lazy. But knowing your credit score is really useful when shopping around for something like a mortgage. If you know your score, different mortgage companies can give you a general idea of what you qualify for without pulling your score, possibly lowering it.
A tool for financial management?
I don't get it. Maybe it's just me and my personal choices and strategies, but if I execute my current plans for financial management, then my FICO score is going to go DOWN. So how is that a tool?
Disappointed…well it's just going from a great, educational article on asset allocation to one about how high your FICO score is just disappoints me. Won't discourage my reading of your blog, just wanted wanted to share my feelings.
I totally agree Mr. TML!
"Woo Hoo! My "I LOVE DEBT" score is really high, look at me."
This drives me crazy!
Pinyo, I really enjoy reading your blog, but this one really disappointed me. Especially the comment about your credit score and identity theft.
Pinyo – No offense to you and your readers, but nobody impresses me with their credit score. Anyone living paycheck to paycheck with no assets but lots of headroom on their credit cards can still have a high FICO score. Show me the Net Worth Karma then we will talk.
By the way, monitoring your credit score has little to do with identity theft. That information is in your credit report.
This is a great service…I just checked my score and it's 761. Is that good for a 23-year old? I like to think it's pretty good.
Congrats to Jaynee for the 762 and to the author for the 785!
Do you think that checking this service frequently (once a week or so) will have a negative effect on a credit score? I've heard that too many inquiries by other companies can be bad…
I'm thrilled with where I am now, considering 15 years ago my credit was a MESS due to late payments (sometimes as late as 120 days) and financial troubles that included almost getting my car repo'd.
My credit score is 762, which ranks in the middle of "good" and "very good" and I am in the 83% percentile of the national distribution.


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Snore White and the Huntsman
This is a film convinced it's as epic as Lord of the Rings with Brother's Grimm (movie) flair. Movies, as in fairy tales, are about the journey, not the destination. The journey in Snow White is so mind-bogglingly boring that by the time you get to the end-game you just want to go home. This … Continue reading
The Cabin in the Woods
Finally got the chance to see The Cabin in the Woods last night after hearing many good things, and it's pleasant to say it didn't disappoint. For those of you who haven't seen the trailer and don't want to know anything other than it's a cabin in the woods and some college kids head out … Continue reading
Tekken Blood Vengeance
I know I am late to the Tekken Party with this one, but I stumbled across this movie just the other day and decided to give it a go. I did not have the "pleasure" of watching the Tekken Live Action movie, but I have always been a fan of all things Tekken. It … Continue reading
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Hilarity
Warning: In NO WAY should you take this movie seriously. Also, it was AWESOME. With comments after the credits amounting to things like "Eh, it was better than Fantastic Four two…" and "It was worse than the first movie!" Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance isn't getting the love it deserves. With the less than dazzling … Continue reading
Mama Said Knock You Out
HAYWIRE Steven Soderbergh's latest film about a black ops, ex-marine (Mallory) who is betrayed and is forced to spend the rest of the movie unraveling the secret plot to end her life was certainly not at the top of my list of must see movies. In fact, I usually spend this time each year trying … Continue reading
George Lucas tells the world to Suck it!
Okay. He didn't literally say it but in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal (you know, that newspaper that makes you sound smart just by referring to it?), Lucas has all but signaled that he is taking his toys and going home. The article, which mostly covers his new movie Red Tails, has … Continue reading
Muppet Therapy
Movie theaters. My efforts to join this American institution have lessened as I have grown older. I attribute my waning interest in them to the inevitable presence of those pesky layabouts known as teenagers and the memories of sticky floors and sticky seat-neighbors that tend to be sticky teenagers. Still, with my historic distrust for … Continue reading
Doctor WHAT?!
The Doctor goes to Hollywood, and I'm terrified. It turns out David Yates, the director of the last few Harry Potter movies, let it slip to Variety that he's working with BBC to turn that loveable, 900-year-old madman with a box into a Hollywood icon (more or less, mostly less… but my paranoia runs rampant). … Continue reading


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Rev. William (Bill) Sinkford Repeatedly Kicks UUA President Rev. Dr. Peter "Beyond Belief" Morales In His Big Fat U*U Balls. . .
It would be trite to lament the divisiveness of our times, if the dangers of divisiveness were not so great. It is so easy to stay at the level of sound bites, so easy to dismiss those with whom we disagree as misguided, self-serving or simply absurd. Yet the issues of UU Clergy Abuse, UU Clergy Abuse Victims Lives Matter, and Justice Inequality aka Big Fat U*U Clergy Privilege certainly require something more than partisan sound bites will ever solve.
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Pros and Cons of a Paintless Car Dent Repair
Paintless car dent repair is an art. If you take your vehicle to a body shop for car dent repair it's not a cheap art, either. It's something you can do at home to save money, but there are pros and cons to paintless car dent repair.
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Professionals that work in home healthcare face challenges with scheduling and can run into problems relating to travel or time tracking. Below are scheduling options that can make home healthcare scheduling more efficient.
Purchase scheduling software. eTOTALplan offers software packages specifically designed for medical professionals or groups that are working in the home healthcare field.
Allow employees to submit vacation requests using the software or directly to management to enter into the system. The software will automatically keep the nurse or professional free on their requested vacation days once it has been entered into the program.
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Though search engine optimization requires whole bunch of things to consider, here are 5 things you don't want to miss for your business growth:
The meta data of any website provides a brief overview of the contents of the page, i.e. it is a description of what goes into a page. Now there are meta titles & meta descriptions for each page. You have to make sure that no meta title or description is too short or too long & hence, a standard has to be maintained to make sure they don't exceed the limits.
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So I'm finally back from New Mexico! The state is called the Land of Enchantment, but by that it means there's hardly anything to do and if you want an interesting place to go to you have to drive around for hours around the small town to find anything. I had a good time, but I'm really glad to be home. Though Los Cruces is a very homely town, I managed to find a few really cool places that was worth the trip. And on my way home today security asked to check my hair to make sure nothing was in it. (If you curious my hair looked like this) So that was fun! But here's all the pictures I promised. (all of them are taken by me and I'm not good at taking pictures at all- so sorry in advance!)
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The Exchange
A feature film by Cynthia Mitchell,
Robert Arnold, and Rachel Krief. Shot on location in Paris and Normandy.
The Exchange is an homage to dialogue-heavy French films in the tradition of Jean Eustache, Eric Rohmer and Maurice Pialat. Written by an American, Cynthia Mitchell, the screenplay was first translated into French and directed for the stage by Rachel Krief. After its run on the stage in Paris, Krief, Mitchell, and American producer/director Robert Arnold decided to collaborate on this film adaptation, which was shot in Paris and Normandy. The film is about the relation between love and performance, on and off stage.
Synopsis: A woman asks a "professional liar" (an actor) to seduce her in the hopes that he can erase the memory of a man she's obsessed with. The actor accepts the challenge and they circle each other in a slippery role-play. Caught between loving too much and not enough, they force each other to face the elusiveness of their own desires.
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srsly. I had a test on Wednesday that I was pretty sure I failed. Like making deals with God about getting a 50% on it. Okay, I don't think I promised anything directly, unless it was a promise to study much harder next time. And I did better than a 50. I'm not quite sure how at this time, other than divine mercy and possibly intervention. Which means I might possibly believe in divine intervention. Though I can't say for sure right now.
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I've been home a lot these days with my kids. A LOT. We now have four kids at home. Two of those are under two. And one of those is a life loving, adventure seeking young man. And the other is a social, beautiful teenager. And she homeschooled this year. Which means extra days at home with Mom, with learning and structure involved.
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Obligations of all Public Service Agencies
Section 7(1) - Each public service agency is to take all practicable measures to ensure that its employees and agents have an awareness and understanding of the Statement for Australia's Carers.
The department raises staff awareness and understanding of the Statement for Australia's Carers through online tools and resources. The statement, set out in Schedule 1 of the Carer Recognition Act 2010, enshrines the rights, opportunities and choices of carers. Our intranet resources also include links to the Act and information about support available to help staff with their caring responsibilities.
Section 7(2) - Each public service agency's internal human resource policies, so far as they may significantly affect an employee's care role, are to be developed having due regard to the Statement for Australia's Carers.
The department complies with section 7(2) of the Act through the Department of Human Services Agreement 2011-14 and internal human resource policies.
The department consults with staff and representatives, providing the opportunity for comments and feedback while having due regard to the Statement for Australia's Carers. We support staff with caring responsibilities through:
- flexible working arrangements
- part-time work
- home-based work
- an elder care advisory service
- the Employee Assistance Program
Section 8(1) - Each public service care agency is to take all practicable measures to ensure that it, and its employees and agents, take action to reflect the principles of the Statement for Australia's Carers, in developing, implementing, providing or evaluating care supports.
The department is committed to the principles of the Statement for Australia's Carers. Our payments, services and information to carers reflect this as does the development and implementation of carer programmes and supports. We work collaboratively with partner agencies to ensure carer policy and service delivery is aligned with the statement and priorities identified in the government's National Carer Strategy.
The department will continue to develop and implement practical actions against each of the 6 priority areas. We actively support awareness and understanding of carer issues within the community. We participate in National Carers Week through outreach and community activities, and we promote awareness of carer issues to staff. We also produce News for Carers, an online publication for people receiving Carer Payment and Carer Allowance, and for peak carer organisations. It provides information about national initiatives and services for carers.
Section 8(2) - Each public service care agency is to consult carers, or bodies that represent carers, when developing or evaluating care supports.
The department continues to promote service models that involve carers as partners in the provision of care. Carers and carer peak bodies are consulted on the development of new measures as required.
Section 8(3) - Each public service care agency must prepare a report on its compliance with section 7 and this section in each reporting period. The report must be included in the agency's annual report for the reporting period.
For more information about the department's specialised services and support for carers and our engagement with carers see People with disability and carers.
People with disability
Since 1994 Commonwealth departments and agencies have reported on their performance as policy adviser, purchaser, employer, regulator and provider under the Commonwealth Disability Strategy. In 2007-08 reporting on the employer role was transferred to the Australian Public Service Commission's State of the Service Report and the APS Statistical Bulletin. These reports are available at apsc.gov.au. Since 2010-11 departments and agencies have no longer been required to report on these functions.
The Commonwealth Disability Strategy has been overtaken by the National Disability Strategy 2010-2020, which sets out a 10-year national policy framework to improve the lives of people with disability, promote participation and create a more inclusive society. A high-level two-yearly report will track progress against each of the 6 outcome areas of the strategy and present a picture of how people with disability are faring. The first of these reports was published in 2014 on the Department of Social Services website - dss.gov.au.
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For more information about the department's specialised services and support for and engagement with carers and people with disability, see:
- People with disability and carers
- Participation for people with disability
- National Disability Insurance Agency and the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- National Disability Strategy
- Delivering aged care payments
- Carer specialist assessments
- ICT support for greater accessibility
- Employment of people with disability
- Training for people on the autism spectrum
- 'Carers' and 'People with disability' on the home page of our website at humanservices.gov.au


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The Attorney General heads up the Ministry of Justice, and is one of the officers of the Cabinet serving the Seneschal of Talossa, appointed according to the power granted by Article XII of Talossa's Organic Law; section 1 of that article specifies that "Various other ministries may also be appointed as the Seneschal sees fit."
Talossan Statute 36RZ17 ("The Cabinet Refinishing Act") further formally establishes the longstanding office of Attorney-General and officially creates as a cabinet level ministry the Ministry of Justice, responsible to the Attorney-General. The mandate of this officer is described thusly: "The Attorney-General, heading the Ministry of Justice, shall provide legal advice and assistance to the government as requested. The attorney-general and subordinate officers of the Ministrà dal Xhusticia (Ministry of Justice) shall prosecute actions brought by the government in the Kingdom's courts, and defend the government against actions brought against it in said courts."
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Divine Inspiration is now at CovenTree on Fridays and Saturdays reading the Tarot and other Oracle cards and will soon be presenting an evening of Tarot as a free event where you can learn more about the history and evolution of Tarot from card game to divinatory tool and a self exploratory practice in enlightenment. Stay tuned and check out my events page for details. And please come by for a reading and peruse the beautiful store that has a variety of lovely items from books to jewelry to metaphysical tools and much more.
My friend Nur Latifa and I celebrated her birthday by attending the Middle Eastern ensemble at Cal Poly and thoroughly enjoyed the music, voices, drumming and dancing!! They were all so amazing to see and the event felt like a wonderful ushering in of a new era for the both of us in our musical adventure together with Give Peace a Chants. We played a flash mob kirtan on the grass at the Mission in SLO and even though it was chilly and a bit damp we loved the different energy that came with a spontaneous event and vowed to do more. The service of spreading the joy and connection with the Divine through our music seems to be leading us in directions we had not anticipated and yet we both are embracing the new directions with zeal. We will be playing at Unity Chapel of Light in Santa Maria in March which will be an amazing event to be playing in the lovely sanctuary. We are blessed!!
My life is full and moving forward in beautiful and amazing ways!! I am hopeful that this Spring will bring you inspiration that is fresh and new and that you will feel the beauty that surrounds you and imbues you. I am thankful for the Divine Love energy that is everywhere leading us to more peaceful and joyful experiences!! And as Unity Church says "And so It is". Peace and Blessings to all of you:)


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The Open Source model harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency to create high-quality, secure and easily integrated software at an accelerated pace and lower cost.
Primary benefits of open source software are:
- Choice: By its very nature, the source code of open source software is available to all, meaning that no one company owns the software. Any company can build upon open source software. It may be operated and maintained by multiple vendors, reducing both barriers to entry and exit. A customer can easily choose another vendor because they are not locked in to one vendor's offering.
- Reliability: Open source is peer reviewed software, which leads to more reliability. The infrastructure of the Internet is largely composed of open-source programs such as DNS, sendmail, Apache and languages such as HTML and Perl. They have proven to be both reliable and robust under the most strenuous conditions, namely the fast growth of the Internet.Low-cost: Open source software is often developed through community forums and collaboratives. Developers volunteer their time and expertise, and are coordinated by fewer paid programmers. The lower overhead costs translates into substantial savings, as does the fact that open source software typically does not have a per-seat licensing cost. According to Gartner, open source is even more attractive to businesses during tough economic times. In its 2009 enterprise software spending forecast, the industry analyst predicts that enterprises seeking to cut costs will be drawn to open source software, virtualization technologies and, because of tighter travel budges, unified messaging and collaboration technologies.
- Security: Open source enables anyone to examine software for security flaws. The continuous and broad peer-review enabled by publicly available source code improves security through the identification and elimination of defects that might otherwise be missed. Gartner for example, recommends the open source Apache Web server as a more secure alternative to closed source Internet Information servers. The availability of source code also facilitates in-depth security reviews and audits by government customers.
- Fast deployment: With open source software consumers needn't wait years to deploy a solution. Open source software can be "test driven" prior to procurement, and is particularly suitable for inter-agency collaboration, rapid prototyping and experimentation. Both known and unanticipated users can be rapidly provisioned.


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July 09, 2018 at 09:58 AM
By H.C.
H.C.Hong Kong,
My new Titleist 917 D2 driver has a small gap between ferrule and the Surefit hosel (see picture) but the ferrule is not loose at all and is tightly attached to the shaft (does not spin or turn). Does this mean there is a problem with the SureFit hosel or it's broken?
Reason I am asking is my new 917 D2 driver started giving me crazy backspin numbers (10k) on my launch monitor. But when I went back to my old 915 D2 driver, the backspin numbers came back to normal (2k). The 917 D2 seems to swing ok so I made a closer inspection of the club head and shaft thus coming across this gap that was not there when I bought the club. So am wondering does this mean my hosel or shaft might be broken and/or needs repair or replacement. Thanks.
Cathi, Titleist Club ConciergeCarlsbad, CA
August 10, 2018 at 01:26 AM
This gap between the ferrule and the SureFit hosel has widened even more and I can even see some white glue material now. FYI my Titleist 917 D2 shaft was cut down by 1/2" to 44 1/2".
So to TT Club Concierge or other members of Team Titleist, is this a sign that maybe the SureFit hosel was not refitted onto the cut shaft properly and hence it's coming off the shaft? Thanks and best regards.
Nick DLong Beach
August 11, 2018 at 05:04 PM
Thats just the ferrule coming loose. Take a lighter and put a little heat on it, you should be able to push it back down. It may pop out again, it's nothing serious to worry about.
August 26, 2018 at 04:04 AM
Are you sure your club is genuine?
I'm only asking as I bought a 915 D2 (from e-bay!) which turned out to be a fake which developed the same features you describe.
Ironically I played very well with it!
Now playing the GBB Epic until the TS's are released in September.
Fred TEdmonton, AB Canada
September 02, 2018 at 03:27 AM
Ferrules come loose all the time. Push it down. If it pushes up again a little glue will fix it.
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Shop With A Cop
Started in 1998, Shop with a Cop is a community funded program that allows children of families in need to shop with a police officer during the Christmas holiday season. The event is very spirited. 50 to 100 children are chosen to participate. They received $100 for shopping, a meal at a local restaurant and most importantly, they spend several hours visiting with a law enforcement officer. Many smiling faces are sure to be seen!
This year we held this event on December 17, 2016. We had 70 children and over 40 law enforcement personnel that came out to assist with this event. We had personnel from Coconino County Sheriff's Office, Department of Public Safety, National Park Service, Navajo Police Department, Page Fire Department, Page Police Department Explorers, and the Page Police Department. The Page Police Department is truly grateful for the their partnerships with these agencies.
The Page Police Department would like to thank our generous donors. This entire program would not be possible without their continous support. This program is fully funded by business and individuals in the Page area.
- Greenehaven Development Corp.
- Antelope Canyon Tours Inc. By Chief Tsosie
- B & B Auto Repair
- Lower Antelope Canyon Tours By Dixie Ellis
- The Van Meenens
- The Robinsons
- Gunsight Realty
- Page Steel Inc.
- The Van Hemelryck
- Windy Mesa
- Page Fast Glass Co.
- Page Elks Lodge
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- Kids must be 5-12 years old
- Live within the approved areas - Proof of residency is required
- Have not participated in the past


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Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Mcnulty claims victory in the WASPA Perth International Open Winter Classic
4 Players formed a 3 match league format with the top 2 players advancing into a final. Ross Mcnulty, John Harty, Chris Thorn and Ron Byrne made up the quartet for an all Subbuteo Perth lineup. Mcnulty clashed with John Harty in the opener and after a closer game then the score suggested he edged it 3-0 against his Arsenal loving Subbuteo Perth team mate who had put this tournament on at such a quality venue in Fremantle Town Hall. In The other game Chris Thorne carried on his excellent defensive form to secure a 2-0 victory over Ron Byrne with 2 fine finishes, Rocket Ron as we call him has some power in an unorthodox style of flicking with his middle index finger, beware though as his shooting is outrageously good at times and is one potent weapon. Thorn as per usual competes so well and is thoroughly embracing playing so many games as he once played the Subbuteo creator Peter Adolf as a young teenager in 1950's London, his love for the game is as infectious as ever and we have so much respect for the Southampton lad and host of so many WASPA comps up in Morangup over the years along with his fabulous wife Barbara up at the clubhouse.
Mcnulty had an excellent win as he claimed a 5-0 against the likable Evertonian (Rocket)Ron Byrne and on the other table Chris Thorn and John Harty(the two pioneers of Subbuteo Perth) played out a 1-1 draw in a close encounter of the Fremantle kind. In the final group games Mcnulty beat Thorn 2-0 with another solid display defensively as he sought to keep his fine WASPA form record continuing and Ron Byrne took on John Harty in the final game losing 2-0 to the big friendly Copper who along with Bev Bone, his partner and fellow tournament director pulled off such a major cue, in securing such a class theatre in which to play Subbuteo in. So it came down to who made 2nd as Chris Thorn and Johny Harty had the same points but ultimately it came down to the results against Ross Mcnulty for both players and the inevitable 1 goal difference it was as Thorn joined Mcnulty in the final. Mcnulty started brightly and went 1 up after 2mins and by half time he had doubled the lead with a well crafted move and finish, Thorn rallied in the 2nd half but just could not fashion the chances he craved and midway through Mcnulty pressure led too a 3rd goal and possibly the killer goal to stop a possible comeback, in the final moments a corner led to a 4th and completed another WASPA win for Mcnulty in a tournament running alongside a major FISTF event to secure another memorable outing in the lovely port of picturesque Fremantle. Thanks again everybody who attended the Subbuteo Saturday double header and to the likes of Hugh Best and Alan Kimber who had qualified in their groups in the FISTF tournament hence the fact they were not eligible so they ended up refereeing and acting as cameramen when possible.
P W D L F A Pts
1/Ross Mcnulty 3 3 0 0 10 0 9
2/Chris Thorn 3 1 1 1 3 3 4
3/John Harty 3 1 1 1 3 4 4
4/Ron Byrne 3 0 0 3 0 9 0
Ross Mcnulty 4
Chris Thorn 0
(Report by Ross Mcnulty)
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Creative meets business: my professional journey to integration.
I've always had million jobs at once. A typical Los Angeles "slasher"-jack of all and master of some. With a degree in business I had worked in everything from special events coordination to non-profit music education development. But in 2009, when I moved to Berlin with little more than I could carry, I was given the unique opportunity to do something amazing: integrate. I became a content writer and I started working with my good friend's marketing firm, learning about small business SEO and brand development. My network grew along with my ability to piece it all together. And in the end, I started to understand that all my talents, all the jobs I had worked and all the people I had met were for a reason. Sometimes your best work finds you.
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Bath salts make your bathwater soft and soothing. They also impart the skin-softening and aromatherapy properties of their various ingredients. Fizzy bath salts are easy to make at home by simply combining various inexpensive ingredients. The scent and color are entirely customizable-choose your favorite essential oil and an appropriate food color to match the scent. The "fizzy" quality comes from the citric acid and makes your bathwater mildly effervescent. Bath salts, when packaged in an attractive glass jar, make a thoughtful, homemade gift for any spa-lover.
Things You'll Need
- 2 cups Epsom salt
- 1 cup baking soda
- ½ cup citric acid
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Measure the Epsom salt and baking soda, pour them into the mixing bowl and blend by stirring with a wooden spoon.
Add the citric acid to the dry ingredients and stir them together until the mixture is evenly blended.
Choose an essential oil with a fragrance that you like. Blend two or more together for a custom scent or choose an oil for its aromatherapy benefits.
Add a few drops of your choice of essential oil to the mixture and stir to blend. If the fragrance is not as strong as you like, add a few more drops and continue to blend.
Add a few drops of food coloring and stir the mixture to blend the color thoroughly. Only use a few drops to prevent the dye from staining your bathtub. Choose a color that is appropriate for the scent you used. For example, use yellow for vanilla or lemon-scented salts, purple for lavender salts or green for mint-scented salts.
Transfer the bath salts to mason jars or any other air-tight container. Sprinkle the salts under the faucet as you fill your bathtub or store them to use as homemade gifts.


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A total of 32 St. Croix Central High School seniors were recently given their senior academic awards. Seniors receive this award after successfully meeting the eligibility criteria for the first semester of their senior year. Senior recipients were given an academic excellence medal to recognize their accomplishment.
Thirty-two seniors were awarded a "4-Year Letter Winner Plaque" for academic excellence. To earn this award, the senior must have met the eligibility criteria for all four years of high school.
Eligibility criteria for the award includes: participating students must be in ninth-12th grade, a student must have a 3.33/ 4.0 GPA (B+) or better for each semester of an academic year, the student must take six classes per semester with the exception of students enrolled in youth options; students who wish to study abroad will not be eligible for an academic letter while abroad and home schooled students are not eligible.
Senior Academic Award recipients for the 2018 school year included: Josie Armagost, Lexxus Berg, Savannah Bodish, McKenzie Budrow, Deja Caswell-Moriarty, Nathan Claessens, Joshua Cleary, Kalli Cress, Abigail Edelman, Alec Fischer, Mikaelyn Fry, Frank Holter, Brittani Hunter, Jackson Imboden, McKenna Johnson, Jessica Kinney, Ciera Kraus, Jacob Larson, Megan Liddle, Tyler Miller, Olivia Moll, Brett Mousel, Collin Nelson, Robyn Pfeifer, Sandra Queen, Brianna Rolling, Joseph Sauer, Audra Scott, Evan Tredal, Jillian Turbeville, Nicholas Weber and Annika Zehm.


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The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association released their latest sales numbers. For the first quarter of 2013, reports the European Cyclist's Federation, car sales were down 9.8% compared to the same period in 2012. In fact, the 12 million units sold in 2012 represents the industry's slowest year since 1995. Worse yet, sales are expected this year to be down another 5-8%.
In contrast, points out Fabian Küster, the ECF's senior policy officer, bicycle sales rose from 18.9 million in 2000 to around 20 million in 2011: that's nearly two bikes for every car sold.
Küster notes that all these bikes are not just for "decoration."
[T]hey are used more and more: Germany saw a 50 % increase in cycling between 2002 and 2011; In the Netherlands, the success of e-bikes (pedelecs) contributed to an increase of 9 % in km cycled in just one year (from 2010 to 2011); Cycling in many capital cities doubled over the past decade, including in London and Dublin. Pedelecs are a main driver in this new mobility behaviour, making also for a convincing business case: in 2011, 716,000 electric bicycles were sold in the EU, compared to only 11,500 e-cars. A stunning relation of 62 : 1. This is one of the reasons why so many car manufacturers have entered the e-bike business.
The fall in car sales might be attributable, in part, to the economic woes besetting the weaker members of the European Union, but Küster thinks there's also another factor at play, citing the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, who observed that, "In many countries, young people do not aspire car ownership anymore. Smartphones and tablets have partly taken over from the car as the new status symbols."
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It is an idle hope to believe that as soon as Europe's economy recovers, car sales will go up again to pre-crisis levels. Young people in urban settings fare pretty well in just using a car when occasionally needed. While declining car sales may pose challenges to (some) European car makers, less car use and more cycling has at the same time great (economic) opportunities.
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This is a case study about when GreyMatters was asked to analyse a Rail Track Feeder Station in Europe. This Feeder Station had already undergone a preliminary Electrical Earthing Design Study. The principle constructor was concerned that the previous analysis had uncovered some "strange numbers." These were raising more questions than it had answered.
Following a review of the previous electrical earthing design study, the potential sources of error were identified as:
- An inaccurate soil model (>10% rms error)
- An incorrect fault level (100% error)
- The contribution of the rebar mat had been ignored
- The conductive Steel fence had been ignored
- Touch voltage hazards had been identified, yet were left unmitigated
- CDEGS MALT version had been used on a rail system which contain long parallelisms
- The impact of the Rail Bonds had been ignored
Exploring the Problems
Mistake 1 – Soil Model
It's often stated that Earthing is not a precise science. It relies on the interface between two components, 1) the man-made (electrical system) with 2) the natural element, e.g. the geology of the site.
The man-made can be well defined. Its behaviour can be easily predicted and calculated. Whereas, nature has a way of throwing curved balls (unpredictability) which can make 'making-sense' of this interface a lot more challenging.
Some of the best minds in the business have tried to simplify this interface into elegant equation(s), some of which feature in the legacy Earthing standards, such as BS 7453, IEEE Std80, BS7430 but even these equations rely on assumptions to simplify the mathematics into an advanced, yet manageable suite of equations.
The key point is the Soil Model is the foundational cornerstone that ALL subsequent parts of the Earthing System Design are built upon and are 100% reliant on for their validity. This means, elimination of error at this stage is of absolute capital importance. In this case studied, the stated error % reported was greater than 10% – this is unacceptably high error as a starting point.
Mistake 2 – Fault Level
Fault levels should be accurately calculated by the supplying authority or asset owner. These days, this is usually done by circuit theory based computation, but manual calculation is also practical.
For the case studied, a fault level which was twice the magnitude of the real situation was used and reported. This was probably due to the incorrect data being provided or assumed. The net effect was to immediately overstate any resulting EPR by 100%, which would have led to significantly more buried copper being installed than was necessary.
Mistake 3 – Impedance Contributions
Rail, rebar, and bonded equipment can all provide valuable contributions to the overall impedance of an Earthing electrode. As well as controlling the surface voltages and providing possible parallel Earth-return paths back to source of the fault.
A challenge with manual calculation of multiple returns is that without the use of high-end FEA tools, such as CDEGS, the complexity when considering multiple layer soil structures can defeat even the most accomplished of mathematicians. The various standards do not help much either and only provide simplistic calculations or indicative split or reduction factors for guidance, but applying these without considering the full context, is not a good idea.
Mistake 4 – Spotting the risk but not doing anything about it!
Since the mid 2000's, there's been a paradigm shift away from manually calculating final Earth resistances of earth mats to understanding and 'controlling' how a human being interacts with a system in fault. The standards now set limits on step and touch voltages during fault conditions.
Touch voltages are fairly simple to explain – they are simply a voltage caused by a potential difference between one thing you can touch and another.
Step voltages are simply the potential difference between your feet. By looking at the human's physical 'points-of-contact' or interaction with an energise system and controlling this interface to stay BELOW permissible limits.
Permissible limits are defined by the IEC in a set of plot curves that map out the survivability of a typical population. In the UK, when considering earthing system design we use the IEC C1 curve, for which 95% of people will survive an electric shock below the curve – this implies 5% will not survive, so it's important to understand the risk is probabilistic in nature.
In the rail environment, a different standard applies in the EU, which uses different calculations to set the touch voltage limits. Unfortunately, in this case the previous earthing design study identified the magnitude of these touch/step voltages but offered no advice or measures to lower them to within the permissible limits – so, effectively the design (as presented) remained in a state that could kill or injure anyone touching or in the immediate proximity of the site.
Mistake 5 – Software Selection
In this case, the previous report was carried out by others using CDEGS 'MALT' version.
Unsurprisingly, the creators of CDEGS, SES Technologies, recommend that the correct version/module is matched to the site specific context. The less capable versions, MALT and MALZ rely on a number of simplifying assumptions the can lead to a significant underestimation of EPR, sometimes greater than 50%. Below are a couple of the key points from the CDEGS versions to be aware of:
- MALT (CDEGS) assumes that the entire earth mat is at the same voltage, which is very dangerous to assume, particularly on larger sites with low soil resistivity.
- MALZ (CDEGS) does allow for voltage drops along conductors, but does not account for inductive or capacitive effects between conductors.
- HIFREQ (CDEGS) – directly solves Maxwell's equations to give you the full picture of the performance of your earthing system, including both above and below ground elements. We cover this in more detail on our blog, here [link].
Unfortunately, the graphics engine is the same for all versions so the output plots and reports look the same, but the results may not be! This is especially true for the larger system and/or where there are significant distance(s) of parallel elements… for example, a rail network and associated systems.
What follows are the steps taken to correct…
Getting the foundation right
First, GreyMatters attended site to perform a series of soil resistivity (Wenner) soundings using high accuracy equipment capable of injecting 10 times the normal signal current to that of other accepted instrumentation. By using a far more potent signal it is possible to dominate other potential sources of in-ground noise, to ensure accurate interpretation of the returning signal is assured. In addition, a higher signal energy is capable of reliably sounding to deeper depths whatever the geology to ensure the subsequent Earthing calculations are using the optimum data-set. This is particularly important for the electrically larger electrode system.
You can find out more about this in our blog series on soil resistivity testing.
Using high signal injection equipment, GreyMatters was able to develop a more accurate soil model by halving the error from ~12% down to less than 5% using CDEGS RESAP. Having the key foundational piece of data down to less than 5% meant the subsequent design and calculations are all based on a solid, reliable, accurate data which is key when human lives/safety are at stake.
Representing the Real World
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulation techniques rely on building meaningful representation(s) of the real physical world in a virtual environment. This can involve above ground elements as well as the buried. Indeed, for this case an accurate geometric model was built by GreyMatters research engineers including several kilometres of track, the OLE (overhead line equipment) structures, cabling, switchgear, transformers and the earth mat so that the impact from the track bonds, the fence and rebar could be examined against their positive contribution to the EPR of the site.
Accounting for the impedance contributions and other parallel paths not only better represents 'real life' but avoids over-engineering the electrode system by utilising the full mix of accepted elements.
An often ignored part of any earthing system design is the civils, e.g. more specifically, the foundations. It's not often recognised that concrete is porous, so when wet has a low resistivity. As a result, rebar can be used to great effect to reduce earth resistance without significant additional cost. This by itself had the most significant impact on the touch voltage hazards. Additional surface voltage control, and fence bonds were also introduced.
When modelling systems with above ground components it is critical to use the HIFREQ module, as MALT and MALZ ignore all above ground structures, while HIFREQ calculates the interactions between ALL the elements (Maxwell's equations).
GreyMatters' final design reduced the site touch voltages from more than 3500 V to below the permissible safety threshold of 645 V across the entire site, as well as reducing the EPR by a factor of 10, from more than 9000 V to less than 900 V without introducing significant additional copper.
In this case study we highlight how 5 of the 7 "deadly sins" of Electrical Earthing Design materialised during a real life scenario which without correction could have led to an unsafe design being delivered.
Key Points
- Rubbish in = Rubbish out. Robust, accurate, correct Data must be used at the outset to develop accurate model
- High-end soil resistivity testing equipment capable of dominating any in-ground noise. Understanding the soil model is critical to an accurate earth design, and inaccuracy here is dangerous.
- Ignoring the contribution parts of the above ground network can play when modelling the impact of rail bonds. It's important not to assume something is going to improve the situation – proof is required that any additional bonding actually makes the site safer.
- Safe environment designed without introducing additional costs. By modelling existing structures, it was possible to use the existing equipment to reduce the hazards on site without requiring additional construction which more than paid for the cost of the study work.
Further reading: The 10 Commandments of Electrical Earthing Design
If you believe your current Electrical Earthing System Design needs a rethink from some new GreyMatter then get in touch and we can discuss your challenge.


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Breton cauliflower12-06-2015
Etat des lieux général
Brittany is the leading vegetable-producing region in France and sixth in Europe.
That represents around 150,000 acres of cultivated land and almost 13,000 jobs. In particular, it is number one in France for the production of cauliflowers, potatoes and artichokes. In relation to cauliflowers alone, Brittany is responsible for almost 80% of French national production.
- Approximately 3kg of cauliflowers and broccoli is consumed per year per person in France.
- France is the sixth biggest consumer of cauliflowers in Europe, a long way behind Belgium which consumes 10kg per person per year!
- Cauliflowers can be found on stalls all year round.
- However, they are mainly consumed during the winter months: 70% of French cauliflower consumption takes place between October and April.
- The average price of a cauliflower is between €1.40/kg and €2.60/kg.
- The cauliflower is the leading vegetable exported by France.
- Half of production, approximately 155,000 tons, is exported.
- Europe is the main export area accounting for more than 90% of export volumes.
- In terms of destination countries, Germany alone accounts for 30% of French cauliflower exports, representing just over 57,000 tons a year. The Netherlands takes second place (26,000 tonnes),followed by the UK (21,000 tonnes) and Italy (8000 tonnes).
- France is the third biggest producer of cauliflowers in Europe, just behind Spain (17% of European production),and a long way behind Italy (26% of European production). In all, 2.5 million tonnes of cauliflowers are produced each year in Europe.
In France
- 330,000 tonnes of cauliflowers were produced in France in 2012
- That represents more than 47,000acres of plants.
- Cauliflowers are planted from June to August.
- They are harvested between October and May, depending on the variety.
- France is the sixth largest producer of cauliflowers in the world (representing 2% of global production).China comes first with 45% of global production (the equivalent of 7 million tons), followed by India, Italy, Spain and the United States
In Brittany
- 80% of French production takes place in Brittany, representing around 300,000 tons per year.
- That represents some 150 million heads of cauliflower.
- Brittany is the leading region for cauliflower production in Europe.
- It contains 1500 cauliflower producers.
- 80% of Breton farms grow cauliflowers, on an average plot of 27 acres.
- That represents a production surface area of 45,000 acres, or 95% of the surface area dedicated to cauliflower growing in France.
- 1.4 million heads of green cauliflower are produced in Brittany each year, along with 6 million heads of kale and 2 million of romanesco broccoli.
A savoir
Near relations of the cauliflower
Caulifloweris a member of the brassica family, which comes in a range of shapes and colours, including white, green, orange, purple, kale, romanesco and Brussels sprouts ! These varieties are available all year round, although connoisseurs prefer them in December, when they are most tasty.