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Biodiesel is produced through the transesterification of vegetable oils (sunflower and rapeseed oils) and, blended with gas oil, is used in diesel motors.
a Technip's trademark applying to a family of patented cryogenic processes for gas fractionation to recover C2+ (Ethane+) or C3+ (Propane+) hydrocarbons from natural gas and refinery off-gases.
Development (of a gas or oil field)
all operations associated with the construction of facilities to enable the production of oil and gas.
EPIC (Engineering, Procurement, Installation, Commissioning)
an EPIC or "turnkey" contract integrates the responsibility going from the conception to the final acceptance of one or more elements of a production system. It can be awarded for all, or part, of a field development.
produced through fermentation of agricultural raw materials (biomass), ethanol is used for various applications: drinks, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, solvents, chemicals and more and more often in fuels, either in the form of an additive to gasoline (ETBE: Ethyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether) or blended directly with hydrocarbon-based gasoline.
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Flexible flowline
flexible pipe laid on the seabed for the transportation of production or injection fluids. It is generally an infield line, linking a subsea structure to another structure or to a production facility. Its length ranges from a few hundred meters to several kilometers.
Flexible riser
riser constructed with flexible pipe (see Riser).
floating production units including floating platforms, and FPSO's.
FPSO (Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading)
a converted or custom-built ship-shaped floater, employed to process oil and gas and for temporary storage of the oil prior to transhipment.
FPU (Floating Production Unit)
a ship-shaped floater or a semi-submersible used to process and export oil and gas.
FSHR (Free Standing Hybrid Riser)
a deepwater riser configuration (see Riser) consisting of a vertical rigid pipe section between the seabed and a submerged buoy and a catenary flexible pipe jumper between the submerged buoy and the floater.
GK6 technology
this technology improves the ethylene production of the furnaces by 35% compared to the original capacity. This increase in capacity is achieved by replacing the existing coil. Moreover, this technology allows the furnace to operate on a range of feedstocks from naphta to heavy oils, with high selectivity and long on-stream time. To-date, Technip's GK6 technology has been applied for the modernization of over 100 furnaces in the last seven years.
GTL (Gas-to-Liquids)
transformation of natural gas into liquid fuel (Fischer Tropsch technology).
HCR (Hybrid Catenary Riser)
riser configuration comprised of two flexible sections of flexible pipe (at the top and the bottom) and a rigid section in the middle.
Hybrid Riser
a riser (see Riser) configuration combining both flexible and rigid pipe technologies.
IPB (Integrated Production Bundle)
a patented flexible riser assembly combining multiple functions of production and gas lift, which incorporates both active heating and passive insulation. Used for severe flow assurance requirements.
IRM (Inspection, Repair and Maintenance)
routine inspection and servicing of offshore installations and subsea infrastructures.
short pipe (flexible or rigid) sometimes used to connect a flowline to a subsea structure or two subsea structures located close to one another.
LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas)
natural gas, liquefied through the reduction of its temperature to –162°C, thus reducing its volume by 600 times, allowing its transport by LNG tanker.
a vertical lay system for rigid pipes.
Million Standard Cubic Feet per Day.
opening in a vessel or a platform deck through which drilling, subsea pipelaying, or construction is conducted. Several vessels are equipped with a moonpool allowing the use of the VLS for flexible pipe and Reel-Lay or J-Lay systems.
MSCC (Milli Second Catalytic Cracker)
a catalytic cracking unit of FCC type (FCC stands for Fluid Catalytic Cracking).
Offshore oil and gas installation
subsea or surface (platform) oil and gas drilling facilities.
family of molecules including in particular ethylene and propylene, which constitutes the raw material allowing for the manufacture of many plastics.
Onshore oil and gas installation
onshore oil and gas exploration/production.
PiP (Pipe-in-pipe)
steel pipes assembly consisting of a standard production pipe surrounded by a so-called carrier pipe. The gap between the carrier and production pipes is filled with an insulation material. As the insulation is protected from the external pressure by the carrier pipe, a high thermal performance material can be used.
due to its exceptional shock resistance properties, polypropylene is a plastic material used in a wide range of industries including automobile parts, household goods, fibers and films.
Reeled pipe
an installation method based on the onshore assembly of long sections of rigid steel pipeline, about 1km long, which are welded together as they are spooled onto a vessel-mounted reel for transit and subsequent cost-effective unreeling onto the seabed. Minimum welding is done at sea.
a pipe or assembly of pipes used to transfer produced fluids from the seabed to the surface facilities or to transfer injection fluids, control fluids or lift gas from the surface facilities and the seabed.
ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle)
an unmanned subsea vehicle remotely controlled from a vessel or an offshore platform. It is equipped with manipulator arms that enable it to perform simple operations.
RSCR (Reeled Steel Catenary Riser)
installation of the SCR by the reel-lay method which, compared to conventional installation solutions, allows most of the welding to be performed onshore in a controlled environment, thereby reducing offshore welding which brings many benefits, particularly for fatigue sensitive components of the pipeline.
SCR (Steel Catenary Riser)
a deepwater steel riser (see Riser) suspended in a single catenary from a platform (typically a floater) and connected horizontally on the seabed.
Technip's proprietary technology for steam-cracking of gas feedstock (ethylene production).
deep draft surface piercing cylinder type of floater, particularly well adapted to deepwater, which accommodates drilling, top tensioned risers and dry completions.
short length pipe connecting a subsea pipeline and a riser, or a pipe and a subsea structure.
Technip's proprietary model for steam-cracking yield prediction of either gas or liquid feedstock.
Subsea Technology
all products and services required to install and operate production installations on the seabed.
Subsea Umbilicals Risers Flowlines.
Teta wire
wire with a specific, patented, T-shape used in flexible pipe to resist the radial effect of the internal pressure. Used for high pressure and harsh environments.
connection of a satellite subsea development to an existing infrastructure.
TLP (Tension Leg Platform)
a floating production unit anchored to the seabed by taut vertical cables, which considerably restrict its heave motion, making it possible to have the wellheads on the platform.
an assembly of steel tubes and/or thermoplastic hoses which can also include electrical cables or optic fibres used to control subsea structures from a platform or a vessel.
VLS (Vertical Lay System)
a Technip proprietary technology for installation of flexible pipes.
intervention in subsea production wells carried out from a floating rig or a dynamically positioned vessel.
13% chromium pipe
an alloy which is more corrosion resistant than carbon steel but far cheaper than usual corrosion resistant alloys like Duplex or Super Duplex. It is used for rigid pipelines.


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On a training flight, the flight instructor reduced the right engine power to simulate an engine failure. During simulated shutdown and feathering, the right engine was inadvertently shut down and the propeller feathered. After several unsuccessful attempts to restart the right engine, the pilot receiving instruction maneuvered the airplane to land. The airplane was on final approach about 1,000 feet above ground level (agl) and flying about 120 knots; the pilot receiving instruction lowered the landing gear, and the airplane began to slow and descend for a straight-in landing on the runway. The instructor stated that they would have a difficult time turning the airplane left onto the taxiway, so he suggested landing on a different runway, which would require a right turn onto the taxiway. The instructor then took control of the airplane and began a go-around with the landing gear still extended, despite published procedures to raise the landing gear during a go-around. However, the airplane continued to descend, and the airspeed continued to slow below the published one-engine-inoperative go-around procedure to maintain 85 knots minimum airspeed. The airplane was about 100 feet agl and slowing through 65 knots when the airplane suddenly banked to the right, which is indicative of a roll and loss of control at air minimum control airspeed (Vmca) of 65 knots. The airplane impacted terrain in a right-wing-down and nose-down attitude. A postaccident examination of the airframe and engines revealed no evidence of mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
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Take Back Control of Your Day! Moving Beyond Crisis Management
Once again, Ginny Beeson is back. This time she asks rehabilitation nursing leaders
Interestingly, although most nurses answer yes to these questions, the truth is that many of us love the crisis zone. Because we deal with crises so often, we have become very good at it, and it is hard to get nurses to move from crisis orientation to a more strategic orientation. As a matter of fact, if you ask nurses to become more strategic so they can be more successful in the years ahead, often their eyes roll or glaze over. Why is this? How can we become strategic and future focused and less crisis oriented? If you would love to take back control of your life as a nurse leader, this dynamic and engaging leadership course is for you!
Participants will engage with Ginny Beeson as she presents common challenges and will have valuable opportunities to collaborate with nursing peers and ARN leaders who will serve as facilitators to discuss potential solutions. Attendees will have the opportunity to choose an action that they can take to become more strategic and begin to develop an implementation plan with coaching and support from ARN leaders.
Target Audience: Nurse Administrators, Nurse Managers, Staff Nurses, Case Managers and any other rehabilitation nurse hoping to learn about leadership skills
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Educating one's mind and continuing to do so has always been a must for me from the time that I can remember.
I'm not an outright reader by any means. Certainly I read newspapers to obtain the news, I watch television to gain the news of the day. It's a matter of life, we all learn something everyday. When the world is surrounded by news makers each and everyday, we learn.
When the Sutton Area Chamber of Commerce, along with the South Central Nebraska Cattleman's Association, hosted a forum on how to "Protect Nebraska Agriculture," Monday, March 12 in Sutton, I was a spectator from the outside looking in.
Serving as a Chamber representative this night, I soaked in the information presented by both Dewey Lienemann of the South Central Nebraska Cattleman's Association and Pete McClymont, the president of "We Support Agriculture" here in Nebraska. These two gentlemen informed those of us in attendance the impact, or potential impact, that HSUS (The Humane Society of the United States) and other special interest group can have, and most likely will try to have, on Nebraska Agriculture, both now and in the future.
Impacts have already been felt in other "Ag heavy" states.
This brings me to my point this week. After listening to Lienemann and McClymont speak a week and a half ago, and then digesting this information and also doing some research, I've come to the conclusion, at this point, that it is time for supporters of Nebraska Agriculture, whether it be livestock production or crop production of any kind, to really begin to learn and inform themselves on the potential impacts that organizations like HSUS can have on our livelihood.
We certainly have a governor in place that appears to fully have the fortitude to stand up against HSUS and other groups and fully have the backs of our Ag producers.
My biggest fear is that Governor Heineman will soon be "termed out," and we'll be looking at new leadership for the state coming front and center.
NOW is the time in which Ag producers, organizations that support agriculture, and businesses and individuals that fully support agriculture need to step up and begin looking at who will next lead Nebraska as our governor.
Heineman, just two weeks ago, possibly used some harsher verbiage then was needed when he stated "We're going to kick your ass out of the state," in reference to HSUS.
However, his point is extremely clear! He won't allow special interest groups to dictate how Nebraska Ag Producers raise their livestock, or grow their crops.
HSUS jumped all over those comments, thus creating an extremely busy week last week of "he said....they said" between the governor and Nebraska's HSUS state director, Jocelyn Nickerson.
Could this be just the start of more pressure from HSUS at both the state and national levels? We'll soon find out I am guessing
Now becomes the time, in the words of Dewey during his presentation, to connect, educate and protect.
We all depend on agriculture for our livelihood, our lifestyles and our financial means. If you don't think so, think about life with reduced means of corn in the fields, cattle, hogs, beans, just to name a few.
What would be on the shelves in our local grocery stores?
I'm an animal supporter, don't get me wrong. I love my pets, I absolutely have no respect for those that mistreat any animal, whether it is their family pet or livestock being produced for food on my table.
You mistreat animals, you're disrespecting the millions of others that have full respect and proper treatment of animals of all types very well.
You bet there are people that are horrible to animals! But this does not change the fact that we depend on the number one industry in this state and many other states for our ways of being.
Agriculture is very strong, it is very positive. Let's keep it that way and let producers keep doing what they are doing well now.
Educate yourself and be supportive of our producers in the right manner.
Do your part to ensure that Nebraska Agriculture is well protected.
As with any issue, the Clay County News invites your feedback and or, comments in the form of a Letter to the Editor.


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In neo-Pagan witchcraft the God and Goddess are the divine forces and the very essence of the craft, they are the Great Father and Great Mother whose limitless energy brings forth all life. They embody the living biosphere of the planet and the forces of the elements; they are the creators and destroyers. She, The Goddess, is the Queen of Heaven, she is the moon, the source of magical power; she is emotion, intuition and the pyschic faculty. He, The God, is the sun, the source of masculine energy; he is the raw force, wisdom and law.
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Thai Chili
This traditional hot pepper is a prolific producer of 2- to 3-inch long peppers that ripen bright red. The slender fruits grow upright in clusters from a compact plant that gets to be 16" high. Thai Chili pepper is perfect for spicing up soups, sauces, curries or stir-fries. It's also good for drying to use as a condiment. Fresh peppers can be easily frozen to use throughout the year.
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KidCare Act-Out for Health Contest Winners AnnouncedAfter reviewing more than 400 entries from middle and high school students from across the state, the Florida Healthy Kids Corporation announced the winners of the 2010-2011 Florida KidCare Act-Out for Health public service announcement (PSA) and billboard contests. Tallahassee students Lydia Hatcher and Carter Richeson from Lawton Chiles High School took the statewide honor in the PSA contest and Billy Myrtil from South Tech Academy in Boynton Beach was named the billboard winner. The winning PSA will air on cable television this spring and the billboard is already on display in Palm Beach County.
The 2010-11 Florida KidCare Act-Out for Health regional winners are:
Region 1 (Tallahassee/Panama City/Pensacola)
PSA: "The Great KidCare Robbery" by Stanley Denny, Preston Lucas and Onoriode Onokpise, Godby High School, Leon County
Billboard: Ashley Frierson, Godby High School, Leon County
Region 2 (Gainesville/Ocala/Jacksonville)
PSA: "Truancy Detective" by Amanda Barney and Keiondre Boone, Dunnellon Middle School, Marion County
Billboard: Christian Britt, Dunnellon Middle School, Marion County
Region 3 (Orlando/Daytona/Melbourne)
PSA: "Ow! My Leg" by Charlie Brunjes and Phillip Dixon, The Villages Charter Middle School, Sumter County
Billboard: Jessica Lezcano, Deltona High School, Volusia County
Region 4 (Tampa/St. Petersburg/Lakeland)
PSA: "Healthy, Out of Bed, and Learning" by Nick O' Donnell, Lakewood Ranch High School, Manatee County
Billboard: Hailey Baker, Dr. John Long Middle School, Pasco County
Region 5 (Miami/Fort Lauderdale/West Palm Beach)
PSA: "More Time to Play" by Aaron Goldberg and Belen Mella, Sunny Isles Beach Community School, Miami-Dade County
Billboard: Michael Cardona, South Tech Academy, Palm Beach County
Region 6 (Fort Myers/Naples)
PSA: "Why KidCare?" by Casey Durand and Gina Radicchi, The Sanibel School, Lee County
Billboard: Hannah Brown, Cypress Lakes High School, Lee County
To view all of the winning billboards and television PSAs, visit www.actout4health.org


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Well my friends, it looks like the trend for metallics is here to stay. The high street is still full of shiny accessories, and for winter they're being given an antique make-over. These vintage-look flats from Faith are a bargain way to update your look. Snap them up for £40. They're also available in tan and black if you don't fancy the sparkle!


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CHICAGO (AP) -- Aaron Craft came on strong in the second half to finish with 20 points and lead No. 10 Ohio State past No. 8 Michigan State, 61-58 on Saturday in the semifinals of the Big Ten tournament.
Craft keyed a seven-point spurt midway through the second half that stretched the lead to eight at 55-47, and the Buckeyes (25-7) came away with the win after the Spartans (25-8) pulled within one. The victory avenged a loss in last year's championship game
It was 57-56 after Derrick Nix converted a three-point play for Michigan State with 1:54 remaining, but Craft hit a free throw. Thomas grabbed a huge rebound off a missed 3 by Shannon Scott to keep the possession going and scored in the paint after a timeout to make it a four-point game, sending the Buckeyes back to the conference final.
They'll go for their third championship in four years when they meet No. 22 Wisconsin, a 68-56 winner over top-seeded and third-ranked Indiana in the other semifinal.
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In 2012 Julie authored her first book, SHOOT: Your Guide to Shooting and Competition. Reviews of SHOOT showcase the book as a valuable resource for current shooting-sports enthusiasts, but also serve as an accessible, relevant, and intelligent guide to newcomers. Learn more about SHOOT.
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Seattle writer's LBJ play wins $25,000 Steinberg prize
Seattle writer Robert Schenkkan's LBJ drama "All the Way" has won the coveted $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for 2013.
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Seattle playwright and screenwriter Robert Schenkkan has won the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for best play to premiere outside of New York in 2012.
The honor, which carries a $25,000 prize, was bestowed on Schenkkan's play "All the Way" on Saturday night at the Humana New Plays Festival, held in Louisville, Ky. It is the first part of a two-play series chronicling the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
Winning Steinberg/ATCA citations and $7,500 prizes are "Gidion's Knot," by Johnna Adams, a complex encounter between a teacher and the mother of a student who has committed suicide; and "The Invisible Hand," by Ayad Akhtar, which depicts a financier kidnapped by terrorists who force him to raise his own ransom through stock manipulation.
Schenkkan is the second consecutive Seattle playwright to win the annual Steinberg/ATCA honor, one of the most prestigious in the nation. (In 2012, Yussef El Guindi received the award for his play "Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World.") In another strong showing of Seattle talent, Keri Healey won ATCA's 2013 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, also given Saturday, for her play "Torso."
"It's gratifying that your work continues to generate a strong positive response, especially among those in the critical community," said Schenkkan, who previously won a Pulitzer Prize for his epic play "The Kentucky Cycle" and whose screenwriting credits include the TV miniseries "The Pacific."
He noted that the impetus to write "All the Way" — which was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland and premiered in 2012 — came from a long fascination with Lyndon Johnson. "I grew up in Austin, Texas, near his boyhood home and subsequent ranch, and my father had some dealings with him," he said.
Schenkkan sees Johnson as "a character right out of Shakespeare ... In his rise to power and subsequent fall, there is a very classical dramatic line."
"All the Way" follows Johnson from his ascension to the presidency after the Kennedy assassination to his embarking on an ambitious legislative agenda that would include passing a sweeping civil-rights act, establishing the Medicare program and other achievements.
Schenkkan said he had always hoped to chronicle Johnson's entire presidency, "beyond the landmark 1964 election, through the Voting Rights Act, the extraordinary Great Society legislation, and, of course, the increasing debacle that was (the Vietnam War)," and up to Johnson's decision to not run for re-election in 1968.
Schenkkan is currently writing the second installment of his LBJ epic, "The Great Society," which has been co-commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Seattle Repertory Theatre. It will premiere at OSF in 2014 and, said Schenkkan, "It's everyone's hope that ... the OSF production will transfer to Seattle, perhaps in conjunction with a remounting of 'All the Way.' "
In the meantime, "All the Way" will get its second production this fall at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. OSF artistic head Bill Rauch, who directed the Ashland premiere, will again stage the work.
Honorees of the ATCA/Steinberg prizes and the M. Elizabeth Osborn Award are chosen by a jury of 15 U.S. theater critics from a larger pool of nominated scripts. The 2013 jury included Misha Berson, of The Seattle Times, and Jerry Kraft, a Port Angeles-based freelance reviewer.
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NEW PALTZ -- William Shakespeare's tragedy of immense scope and consuming force, King Lear, is presented by the Department of Theatre Arts at SUNY New Paltz, April 26 – May 6. The production features professional actors in two key roles. George Judy performs the role of the beleaguered King, and Brendan Burke (Shadowland Theatre) plays the Earl of Gloucester, Lear's ally who gains true insight and wisdom only after he is blinded.
King Lear incorporates such themes as greed, betrayal, lust for power, and cruelty. The plot tells of an aging and headstrong monarch who decides to divide his kingdom amongst his three daughters. The oldest two daughters fawn insincerely over their father, and get most of his possessions. The youngest daughter, Cordelia, is much less lavish in her displays of affection, and disappoints her father. But events soon lead the old king to find out how each of his daughters really feels about him.
Shakespeare is believed to have authored King Lear around 1605, between Othello and Macbeth, and it is usually ranked with Hamlet as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies. The characters in King Lear are so intense, their speeches so impassioned, the play is considered a must see.
The SUNY New Paltz production is directed by Frank Trezza, chair of the Department of Theatre Arts. It is augmented by the following special events.
• Following the Friday, April 27 performance, there will be a panel discussion titled "Challenges in Reading and Staging King Lear." Panelists include Tom Olsen (English), Frank Trezza (Theatre), and George Judy. This is free and open to all.
• Following the Thursday, May 3 performance, there will be a talk-back with the cast and facilitated by the production's student dramaturg Bradley Diuguid '07. This is free and open to all.
• School Matinees are scheduled for 10 am on successive Fridays, April 27 and May 4. These performances include a talk-back with the cast following the performance. To book tickets for these performances, call the Department of Theatre Arts 257-3865.
• SUNY New Paltz Alumni Night is Friday, April 27. Tickets include the performance and a private reception with the cast after the performance. SUNY New Paltz Alumni are invited to order tickets through the Alumni Office, firstname.lastname@example.com or 257-3230.
King Lear is performed April 26, 27, 28, and May 3, 4, 5, at 8 p.m. Matinee performances on April 29 and May 6 begin at 2 p.m. Running time is approximately 150 minutes.
Tickets to King Lear are $16 for adults, $14 for students and seniors. All seats are reserved. They may be purchased online now at www.newpaltz.edu/theatre under the production link. The box office is staffed beginning April 16. Call (845) 257-3880. McKenna Theatre is wheelchair accessible.
About the Featured Performers
George Judy (King Lear) is a member of Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. He is known to Hudson Valley audiences for his performance as Robert in the 2006 production of Proof for New Paltz Summer Repertory Theatre. His credits as an actor, writer, director and educator include work with the Royal National Theatre Studio, London, the Asolo Theatre, the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, and twelve seasons with the Tony award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival.
As an Associate Artist with the Festival, Judy has performed such favorite roles as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, and Polonius in Hamlet. He was for seven years Artistic Director of the Festival new play development series, Plays in Progress, working as producer, director and dramaturg with both young and established playwrights to develop important new works for the American Theatre. Judy's adaptation of Antigone was published by Pioneer Drama and has been anthologized and performed across the country. He is currently completing a new book, Designing Life: A Practical Approach To Acting and Living as well as an adaptation of The Liar by Carlo Goldoni.
Brendan Burke (Earl of Gloucester) is the Artistic Director of the Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville, New York (Best Theatre- 2006, Times Herald-Record). Most recently, Burke produced and starred in Shadowland's premiere of David Wiltse's The Good German, co-produced by the Playwrights' Theatre of New Jersey. That lauded production has been chosen by the American National Theatre to open Off-Broadway fall of 2007 where Burke will revisit his role. This spring, he appeared in the world premiere of Bob Clyman's comedy, Where the Sun Never Sets, at Playwrights' Theatre. Hudson Valley Magazine named Burke "Best Actor" (2005) in their annual "Best of the Valley" Awards. At Shadowland he has also appeared in All My Sons with Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss, Bluff with John Astin, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Terra Nova, Taking Sides, Twilight of the Golds, and The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged). New York credits include Native American at the Intar Theatre, White Noise, The Rescue of Christ, and The Ithaca String Quartet (all at Turnip Theatre Co.).


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As part of keeping up with this blog, I read a lot of what other people write about various Midwestern cities. A recurring theme from Midwest urbanists is a frustration with local civic leaders' unwillingness to implement what they see as new and better policies and approaches, especially in light of the struggles the region has encountered and the resulting imperative for change. This is often phrased in less than charitable terms and there seems to be a low opinion of community leadership in many places.
A better way of looking at it was put forth by a friend of mine when he said of the people who he was working with on a civic project, "They're not current." By that he meant that while they were well-intentioned, smart, good at business, good at their technical specialty, and excellent at things like fund raising and building community support for initiatives, they simply weren't up on the latest and greatest thinking in the urbanism space. They weren't bad leaders or bad people at all – they just had gaps in their knowledge and thinking about cities.
I think this makes a lot of sense. Something to consider is that most Midwestern cities really haven't experienced anything but decline in the last 40-50 years. Even in the best performing places, large tracts of the city look like bombed out shells of what used to be there in decades past. For people who've spent a good chunk of their lives fighting to turn this around, experience does not offer a template of what success looks like. Also, against a backdrop of secular decline, it is easy to delude yourself as to what progress means. A shiny new building downtown might seem like a coup, and indeed it might be in a certain qualified sense, but if every similarly situated city has a similar new building, is the relative status improved? I see little evidence that civic leaders in many places do what Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard advocated and "get out into the world" to see what is going on first hand.
Also, we find ourselves in a rapidly changing world. This means that there is a lot of innovation going on all over the place in all sorts of fields. It is easy to quickly fall behind the curve. I'll use myself as an example. A couple years ago I asked one of the youngest people on my staff, a very tech savvy guy, whether he thought Blu-Ray or HD-DVD would win in the market. He looked at my like I was crazy and said that no matter which one won, it wouldn't matter for long, since everything was going to go digital download anyway. He was already downloading high def movies legally on his XBox360 and thought the experience would only get better. Not a bad point of view, and one I didn't even consider. Why did I join Twitter or Smaller Indiana? Certainly not because I thought I needed another time sink. I just feel I have to be out trying new things, or else I'll end up cut off from what's happening out in the world.
I said previously that I loved talking to students because they are my pipeline to the now. I think it is incumbent on all of us, but especially community leaders, to be aware of the limits of their own knowledge in the context of a rapidly changing world. In today's age, the traditional skills and ways of making things happen continue to be relevant, but there needs to be additional expertise and insight informing us as to what we need to be doing. People talk about underfunded infrastructure and such, but the reality is that money is often the least of our problems. Every day I open the paper and find lots of money being spent on some project of dubious merit. The challenge is as much about doing the right thing as it is about getting things done. So it's more important than ever for cities to have a high receptivity to new ideas, a willingness to change and embrace calculated risk taking, and broader networks – including geographically dispersed networks – than ever before. People have to realize that there's no way to keep up with both today and the way things are going in the future as easily as happened in the past.
The first step is awareness. Today's urban leaders have to realize that they often, like all of us, aren't current. Then they can proceed to make sure they seek out and incorporate more leading edge thinking into their approaches.
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SpeedBlue47 says:
Great post as usual, but I do have a bit of a quibble. It is my opinion, as you may guess, that the incentive structure in place for elected officials is too weak for them to take this kind of initiative and invest this amount of energy into policy decisions(as well as more mundane operational decisions to a lesser extent). That is why it is ideal for the people that are in the market themselves need to exert their opinions.
Unfortunately, the populace at large in Indianapolis do not seem to understand the urban forms and policies(as well as customs, culture, and institutions) needed to foster a higher quality of life urban environment(at least as seen through the New Urbanist/neo-urbanist viewpoint). This is also not a character flaw, but has more to do with little experience with other models than they have been in contact with. And in Indy, the model is mostly suburbia and newer suburbia.
I believe alot of this has to do with the small sample of truly urban communities in the city, and the fact that many of those areas that are truly urban have some sort of image assorted with them that may not appeal to the average middle-class family. And this is a serious issue, as without this particular demographic showing at least a strong interest in an urban environment, there will be little interest amongst developers to build that sort of development.
The problem is that those who are "urban leaders" fall into a few broad categories: 1) Elected Officials who have more incentives to "not rock the boat" or build a shiny monument to their term in office than to truly create a lasting change that may not seen in a completely positive light at first; 2) Business leaders and developers who follow their market and offer the latest of what the market asks for. Sadly, in Indy, this is still by and large suburban style development(which is what most market participants are used to); and 3) The most rare, the truly visionary leaders who have the knowledge, the capital, and the will to see a project that one might not see a demand for in the market, but knows that it can succeed because he sees that it will benefit its particular users/tenants and the community at large.
This last group, when they have to have their own capital at stake, have the incentives to attain the knowledge and retain the talent to make such a project a reality. It is my hope that the various projects that I am trying to coordinate through the INDYpendent will help enable such a person or group of such people to be inspired to move forward with their plans.
I believe that the framework could be laid in short order for Indy to take a strong turn towards having a culture that interacts with true urban form again on a daily basis and therefore gains an appreciation for it. And that is when you'll see many more "current" leaders in our community.
Anonymous says:
Aaron, you're absolutely right about the lack of knowledge. But don't hold your breath waiting for many local officials to take that leap forward. I'm an elected official in a well-to-do suburb that shows up in all of the top rankings. But that ranking isn't reflective of the quality of my fellow elected officials. As a group, they have very little interest in current thinking in any of the fields related to municipal government and governance. Get them outside of their area of "expertise" (whatever most closely relates to their current or past employment) and they are clueless. They aren't interested in putting in the time or effort in bringing themselves up-to-speed on what leaders in communities like ours are doing, unless it can be turned into an opportunity for a junket to get away for a few days on the taxpayer's dollar. When the administration does expose them to a new idea, they either dismiss it out-of-hand or embrace it for all the wrong reasons. I think our administration has thrown in the towel on this group and is hoping that the next election will bring some brighter bulbs. Lest you think this is sour grapes, I've observed enough elected officials in other local communities to know that the lack of interest and effort in our communities is endemic to local officials in our area.
In past posts, you've identified the importance of leadership and the role it plays in separating the successful communities from those that are failing. I couldn't agree more with you. But from what I've seen, it requires that the leadership be spread equally between the Mayor's office and/or city administrator and the elected board/council that adopts the budget, set policies, etc. A Mayor with a vision and abilities to execute it can go a long way. But a community will only reach its full potential when the Mayor and the elected board/council include people who are willing to do the work to become educated on best practices in the world of government and to challenge their community to risk change for future success. When you have that combination, anything is possible. Absent that combination, the best you're likely to get is muddling mediocrity.
The Urbanophile says:
Speed, thanks as always.
anon 9:40 – appreciate the contribution from someone engaged in the field of battle. I hope you hang in there and keep fighting the good fight. And hopefully the recalcitrant, self interested officials get the boot in the next election.
You bring up a great point about the fact that it takes more than just a great mayor. It takes the right combination of people in the right positions. I'd probably also add that it takes citizens with the right mindset too. More on that in a future post.
Citizen Kane says:
The people in power in government, including department directors and other high-level administrators just want to retain power, which typically means not rocking the boat and going along to get along. So, nothing truly innovative ever happens. They just do the same thing that every else has been doing, create supposedly new initiatives (usually just different names for the same thing that they have already been working on) while neglecting old initiatives and continuously point at all the shiny new objects that they have built with borrowed money.
Anonymous says:
"You bring up a great point about the fact that it takes more than just a great mayor. It takes the right combination of people in the right positions. I'd probably also add that it takes citizens with the right mindset too. More on that in a future post."
Very true. Communities where residents are willing to embrace change or at least not punish leaders who pursue it are those that also elect officials who are willing to implement it. The average resident of most cities isn't really interested in the day-to-day nitty-gritty of how city government operates. But as long as they are willing to elect politicians who are willing to try new things and boot the ones who don't, those communities, in the long run, will rise to the top. That ties back to your past commentary that innovative people go to places where they see innovation taking place. It's the getting the process started that's the biggest step to take. I would love to hear strategies about how the make that happen. I think we have a lot of residents who are willing to embrace change and take our community to the next level. But until those people are engaged in the process (and the current leadership has alienated many of those people), I can't see our community moving forward.
Generalissimo says:
Nice post but I disagree with the thesis. Incompetence, corruption and a single-party monopoly are the primary reasons for the chronic failure of Midwestern cities. Case in point: Cleveland, Ohio. The city is stuck in a cycle of failure and its leaders are ineffective. In Cleveland, several council members lack college degrees. Cronyism in the administrative branch is rampant. Throughout Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located, the Feds have been investigating leaders for corruption. This wide-reaching scandal has rocked the offices of the County Commissioners, the Sheriff, the Engineer, etc. Even the County Recorder has pled guilty to downloading pornographic materials. How do these jokers keep getting elected? Well, there isn't much to choose from on the ballot. In Cleveland, like other Midwestern cities, the Democratic Party has had a long-running monopoly over local politics. Absent healthy competition, staid points of view tend to go unchallenged and the city languishes.
thundermutt says:
Bulldozer urban renewal and the creation of superblocks (total destruction of the historical urban built environment) was seen as a new, current, enlightened modern policy in the 60's and 70's.
Jane Jacobs wasn't "current" on the urban planning of her day. Turns out she was right and the enlightened urban planners were wrong.
I've got a copy of a '70's plan for angled poured concrete structures with round windows and globe lights set diagonally to street grids, bridging streets, turning their backs on the same streets. You'd wince.
Anonymous says:
"In Cleveland, like other Midwestern cities, the Democratic Party has had a long-running monopoly over local politics. Absent healthy competition, staid points of view tend to go unchallenged and the city languishes."
One-party rule has nothing to do with electing idiots to office. There's plenty of places where two parties results in two equally clueless sets of candidates. Likewise, some cities with one party rule still have excellent candidates emerge from the party primary system (Ann Arbor, MI is a good example).
Alon Levy says:
Anon at 9:12: usually, new exurbs tend to have a pro-development mentality, especially if they're not very rich. Palmdale, California is a good example – it's perhaps the only city in the state that lobbied aggressively for a high-speed rail stop, whereas other cities either didn't care or were dominated by anti-rail NIMBYs.
However, to suggest such an attitude as a way to promote growth is to confuse cause and effect. It's not that being pro-developer increases growth; it's that growth increases pro-developer attitudes. When a city is growing very quickly, people tend to be satisfied where things are going, rather than to believe the establishment is corrupt. Nor will there have been time for strong community opposition to form; NIMBYs tend to be people who've lived in the area for a very long time. To use Cultural Theory terminology, such communities have low group because they're so recent, so their operating cultural attitude is individualist rather than egalitarian.
One way to test this theory would be to look at cities that have a pro-growth mentality for other reasons than recentness, and low growth. New York is a good example: although its immigrants are as organized as the longstanding residents of any rich suburb, Bloomberg and the city council have successfully overridden any community opposition to their plans. This decade has seen plenty of upzoning, approval of controversial urban renewal projects, and some changes to the urban form (chiefly pedestrianization in Midtown). And yet, growth is slow – in fact, slower than in the 1990s, when new building permits were almost as rare as instances when Giuliani admitted the police was wrong. Moreover, the fastest-growing borough, Staten Island, is the one that's resisted development the most successfully.
The Urbanophile says:
Generalissimo, I take it you are in Cleveland. I can't comment too much on corruption there. However, some level of corruption or cronyism appears to be endemic to government (and to most large organizations). So I don't think this is an explanatory variable by itself, though obviously is a drag on cities.
The Urbanophile says:
thunder, I'd argue urban renewal was a good experiment to try. Our central cities were in fact failing in the that era. I think it was informed by poor strategic thinking (i.e, embrace the suburban form in the city rather than differentiating the city's unique attributes), but on the whole, trying something was probably not a bad idea. The problem is that when these did not live up to their billing, and serious, reasoned objections were raised, they continued to be implemented as a type of cookbook orthodoxy.
Embracing change and risk mean's you'll fail from time to time. The key is to fail quickly and cheaply. This is obviously a difficult thing to get right since it is politically difficult to backtrack on policies and programs.
Would Indianapolis by better off without the memorial mall, a city beautiful era urban renewal project? I'm glad it is there. Urban renewal probably caused more harm than good, but I can't say that categorically it was a bad thing to try. You have to make some bets.
By the way, places like Cincinnati that have a very Jacobsian built environment and had limited urban renewal damage to the urban fabric have in fact not been much more successful than places like Indy that obliterated their downtown. There's more to it than that. It seems that the places that have benefited from preserving their historic urban form were primarily the mega-urban regions like New York, Chicago, Boston, etc.
Alon Levy says:
You shouldn't lump New York, Chicago, and Boston into one category. New York was an earlier adopter of Jacobs' ideas, together with San Francisco; not coincidentally, NY and SF had the smallest population decline between 1950 and 1980 of all large non-Sunbelt cities, and are the only two whose population has since surpassed its 1950 peak. Toronto, which rejected urban renewal even more resoundingly, never even had a population decline, and is still growing fairly quickly (though its suburbs are growing much faster).
Conversely, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago all had massive population declines. Newark, which accepted urban renewal more than any other US city, leveling entire neighborhoods to construct new superblocks, was hit especially hard. Boston turned itself around in the 1980s, but the new growth was concentrated in the edge city of Route 128 rather than the damaged city core. Chicago and Philadelphia have growing downtown cores, as does Boston, but the rest of the city bleeds people still. Newark is now turning itself around, but much of it is spillover from New York, and even so it took longer than in comparable cities like New Haven, Jersey City, or Providence.
thundermutt says:
Aaron, I guess I'd say this: it's one thing (as you mention in your post) to be current on technology. Those wars are fought in the marketplace, and one technology beats another on a regular basis. The battle is clearly drawn.
It's another thing entirely to imagine that a technocrat solution will be a "one size fits all" remedy for what ails all cities.
Cities have a significant social component and are pressure-cookers of social change. Big social issues aren't really amenable to market-based changes (sorry SpeedBlue). They are more susceptible to polarization and ideology, where neither major ideology prevails. Hence dramatic growth among both fundamentalist Protestants AND non-churchgoing people at the same instant.
So (to borrow your premise for an analogy), instead of Blu-ray or digital-download "winning" and the other "losing", one just moves to the suburbs.
So I'd wrap up with the thought that social issues resist engineering solutions, which is exactly what the failure of "urban renewal" teaches.
In the current redevelopment world, "comprehensive community development" is all the vogue among those working to revitalize run-down inner city districts. I am quite sure something is missing from its tenets (even though its focus is "quality of life planning" based upon "community organizing and engagement"). Perhaps such plans ignore the tendency you've identified of city people to want to "live and let live"? The QoL plans are drawn by a self-selected sample, people with agendas who want others to live by their standards…like your other favorite target, local historic districts?
Jake formerly of the LP says:
Aaron- I think your point comparing municipal governments to any large corporation is spot-on. There are so many areas that governments have to cover that it makes for many entrenched interests that will be very resistant to large-scale change. This is especially true if those changes or efficiencies in services result in any kind of possible diminishing of their power.
It's a natural human quality to want to protect your own interests, and it takes tough leadership to fight through the self-interest. Combine that with the fact that the average citizen is usually uninvolved in local politics other than a few small-vision items (that usually are unimportant in the big picture), and you can see where it becomes hard to make things different when "they've always done it this way."
This could be an example where this economic crisis leads to long-term positives, because the huge decline in revenues forces changes to be put in place.
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Oh American Family Association (AFA), I just don't understand you. As the last week ended, I was so encouraged to see you moving your news and blog coverage in the right direction last week. Your discernment seemed to be up to its full throttle as I read your article on Glenn Beck's "Restoring Courage" rally that is upcoming in Jerusalem. You actually challenged Christians to denounce Beck's event and billed it as simply a stab at monetary gain by the mormon Beck.
To make things even better for the discerning types, you also published a wonderful little piece by Marsha West. In the piece, West encouraged the readers to look closely at who the religious right is aligning itself with. West was ringing the alarm for the reader to open their eyes to the fact that many "leaders" and would-be leaders are locking step with the cult of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). West blew the whistle on women such as Cindy Jacobs and men such as Lou Engle, Chuck Pierce, C. Peter Wagner, and Dutch Sheets to name only a few. There you stood AFA, boldly standing up and stating that as a member of Christ's body that you would not support leaders who would align themselves with these proclaimers of dreams and visions (despite your past alignment with them at certain events). Change, repentance, and discernment were all in the air. Even organizations such a Right-Wing Watch, a group that disdains you AFA, stood up and took notice.
Then, out of nowhere and with no warning or explanation, Marsha West's piece disappeared (UPDATE, 5/26/11 – click here to read West's comments on this submitted to This Pilgrim Land). Her valiant work of discernment and warning seemingly walked off your servers, no longer to be found on your website. (To read where the piece once was click here; to read a cached version of the piece that once was on the AFA website, click here; to read the piece in full on Renew America, click here.)
Why did you do this AFA? Why did you stop the momentum that you had and take your foot off of the throat of Satan and those working evil for him in the visible church today? Marsha West's piece offered more Biblical evidence and actual quoting of scripture than almost anything I have read on your website in a long time and yet that wasn't enough for you to remain faithful to God??? Why did you do this?
We certainly know that it is not due to your concern about what the secular world feels about it. You have a long history of standing by your guns, correct or not, on issues such as abortion, gay marriage, and of course the extremely important Christian issues theme-park attendance and immigration. So we know that your change did not come from external pressure.
That means that it had to have come from internal pressure. Who though and for what reason? Who works inside AFA that would willingly take down a piece of writing that is calling Christians and American voters to carefully discern who they align with? It is obvious that whoever it may be, has the ability and the pull to be able to have something such as West's piece removed. Is AFA eating itself from the inside? More importantly, would Christ approve of this person pulling a writing that would be pleasing to Him off of a website?
The saddest part of this is the person inside of you AFA who initially read and approved for Marsha West's piece to be posted. We now know that there is at least one person inside of your walls who not only sees the danger of the NAR and their dominionist teaching and false prophecies, but who wants the world to see about it and become aware. To that person, I hope that you are not discouraged. Continue to do what you are doing, educate those around you and point out the fact that the dominionist teaching is not one of gospel taught servitude, but one of abject power and control over people.
I hope that Christians who read this will pray for AFA and their leadership. I hope that you will pray that they will stop being fooled by false teachers and will repent for the support they have given them to this point. Also, pray for the one or more inside AFA who realize the danger and pray that they have continued courage to stand up for the word of God and to continue to evaluate what people are saying in the name of God with the word of God. If it doesn't match, even a bit, then it must be thrown out.
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It's only natural, given what the Irish Brigade sacrificed in the Battle of Fredericksburg 150 years ago.
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Operation Grand Slam is virtually synonymous with the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War. It refers to an audacious plan drawn up by the Pakistani Army, in May 1965, to attack the vital Akhnoor Bridge in Jammu and Kashmir, which was not only the lifeline of an entire infantry division in Jammu and Kashmir but could also be used to threaten Jammu, an important logistical point for Indian forces. The operation ended in a failure for Pakistan Army as the stated military objectives were not achieved and subsequently were forced to retreat following a counter attack by the Indian Army. Analysts in Pakistan believe that if the operation were to have proceeded according to plan without any interruption, it would have been the unprecedented success the Pakistani Army always dreamed of having against their arch rivals. Pakistan would have made significant territorial gains in Indian-Administered Kashmir which might have allowed her to bargain from a position of strength in the peace talks, sponsored by t ...moreAnswered by GOPI KUMAR, 12 Oct '08 12:53 pm
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