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AECOM Engaged As Owner's Engineer For Champlain Hudson Power Express Project
AECOM Technology Corporation (NYSE: ACM), a leading global provider of professional technical and management support services for public and private clients in more than 130 countries around the world, announced today that it has been engaged by Transmission Developers Inc. (TDI) of Albany, N.Y., as owner's engineer for the Champlain Hudson Power Express project (CHPE).
CHPE is a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) buried and submarine cable transmission project that will bring 1,000 megawatts of clean power, primarily generated by wind and hydropower, to the New York City metropolitan area. The transmission route will travel through New York starting at the U.S.-Canada border and pass through Lake Champlain; railroad and public rights of way; and the Hudson, Harlem and East rivers; and end in Queens. The US$2.2-billion merchant transmission project is being developed with private sector investment led by the Blackstone Group LP and is expected to be in service by late 2017.
As owner's engineer, AECOM will support supplier and contractor selection and negotiation, environmental and regulatory permitting and compliance, and oversight of all aspects of project construction on behalf of TDI.
"AECOM is committed to playing a major role in the upgrade of energy infrastructure around the world," said AECOM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John M. Dionisio. "We are delighted to play a key role in a marquee project that will lower costs, increase reliability and reduce emissions as we bring to bear our extensive experience on assignments that encompass alternative energy, transmission and distribution, power generation and energy management."Donald Jessome, president and Chief Executive Officer of TDI, said, "We are extremely pleased to be working with AECOM and look forward to fully utilizing its world-class team as we complete this very important energy project, which will upgrade the transmission infrastructure and bolster the economy of New York state."
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The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to lament that his beloved New York City had lost the ability to get things done:
In the dear old days of Jimmy Walker, we could build the George Washington Bridge in four years and one month, and think far enough ahead to make it structurally capable of carrying a second deck when the traffic grew. When Mayor LaGuardia's plane was forced to land in Newark because Floyd Bennett Field [New York City's first municipal airport] was fogged in, he took out his ticket and said, "Mine says Floyd Bennett Field; what am I doing in a place called New Jersey?" Twenty-four months later, LaGuardia Airport opened.
It's a grim but fitting irony that the New York railway terminal intended to be named in Moynihan's honor has already fallen six years behind its scheduled 2008 opening, with no completion date in sight.
Moynihan was being sardonic when he referred to the "dear old days" of Jimmy Walker. New York's mayor from 1926 to 1932, Walker resigned in the wake of a corruption scandal in which one of the players was found strangled to death. The point, though, was this: as bad as he was, Walker built things. The more honest government of today cannot.
Moynihan's career coincided with many reforms of the structures and institutions of American government. Americans used to say, "You can't fight city hall." That was long ago. Today, there's almost nothing a city hall might do that could not be appealed in a court somewhere.
If it cannot be argued that a city has breached a federal or state environmental law, then surely it's committed some form of discrimination. If discrimination cannot be plausibly alleged, well, federal and state constitutions are full of words and promises that might have been violated.
We have had campaign-finance reform, and reform of the seniority system in Congress, and endless rounds of anticorruption measures in the federal government. Calls for "transparency" and "accountability" have meant more administrative and judicial supervision. In turn, power flows to impersonal institutions (agency review boards, courts, and so on) and away from elected leaders who can get things done—and who can be punished at the ballot box for delay and disappointment.
Since the 1980s, courts have become more conservative, without ceasing to be activist. They have, to take one example, persistently struck down restrictions on guns—most recently in Illinois—so that now the laws of every state in the union grant some sort of right to carry concealed weapons. Who decided that Illinois should have concealed carry? A panel of judges whose names most citizens have never heard. If things go wrong, there are few means to correct their decision, and only the most wonkish voters will know whom to blame.
And yet, when government seems to fail, Americans habitually resort to the same solutions: more process, more transparency, more appeals to courts. Each dose of this medicine leaves government more sluggish. To counter the ensuing disappointment, reformers urge yet another dose. After Speaker Tip O'Neill retired from Congress, in 1987, an interviewer asked him how the House of Representatives had changed over his 35 years of service. He memorably answered, "The people are better. The results are worse." His answer might be generalized across the American system of government: the process is better (at least as better is conventionally defined: more transparent, more participatory), but the results are worse.
Here's a real-world example from the executive branch. Throughout most of American history, presidents and their staffs have been able to hold confidential meetings in the White House complex. The independent counsels who investigated the Clinton White House jolted this traditional understanding by demanding—and getting—access to White House visitor logs. Thanks to these logs, investigators gained such indispensable pieces of information as the fact that Eleanor Mondale visited President Clinton alone for 40 minutes on a Sunday morning in December 1997.
The George W. Bush administration attempted to restore the traditional confidentiality of White House visitor lists. (Vice President Dick Cheney went even further, demanding that his office—not the Secret Service—keep custody of the list of all his visitors.) This attempt to restore the historical norm enraged Democrats and liberals. They accused the White House of holding "secret meetings" with energy executives. Administration foes sued to gain access to visitor logs. As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to publish logs of all visitors to his White House. In office, he's kept his word.
It hasn't made any difference. Do you see any less lobbying in Washington? Do fewer lobbyists visit the White House? No and no. In fact, transparency is a useful tool for lobbyists—it enables them to keep better track of their competitors, and to demand equal access for themselves. The next most immediate beneficiaries of this particular policy are probably the coffee shops on Pennsylvania Avenue, where White House staffers are known to meet visitors so as to avoid generating a public record.
Reformers keep trying to eliminate backroom wheeling and dealing from American governance. What they end up doing instead is eliminating governance itself, not just in the White House but in Congress, too. Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson tells a story that illustrates how the system used to work. Immediately upon becoming president, Johnson worked to pass President Kennedy's stalled tax cut. He did so by wooing the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Harry Byrd, a conservative Virginian gripped (in Caro's words) by a "fixation on frugality." Byrd demanded that Johnson produce a budget of less than $100 billion. Caro details how Johnson insisted that officials in the White House's Office of Management and Budget drive the figure down, to $97.9 billion. Byrd was satisfied; the Kennedy economic program passed.
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I can't believe it but i am finally losing wight. After counting carbs, calories, fat grams and going on weight watchers its really happening. My doctor said i want you to try something. I said to he rI am journaling every day and making up menus for my calorie count. She said that won't work. She handed m a syringe with victoza. At first my husband was against it because it lowered my bs so dramtically, but after we got it adjusted found it was working after all. I started back before Christmas and here it is the end of February. I have lost 18 pounds so far. I have been going to therapy also 2 or three times a wek so I can walk again. That is going well.
Well, here we are another day another dollar. Hot again today, but not as bad as yesterday. I had a great day with the diet. I believe I am finally getting this right. I figured out the world isn't going to change for me so I have to adapt to the world. Eating more protein than carbs and that is keeping the blood sugar down. I have found out also that even in an atmosphere where I am eating out I can make the right choices. Unless of course they don't believe in veggies at all in which case I will have to watch what I eat. Anyhoiw I will cross that bridge when I come to it. But for now goodnight to all.
While every day in our life may not be perfect it is is an ongoing life lesson fir most of us. Today was one of those days for me. I woke up andf ate my breakfast of whole grain toat with crunchy peanut butter and strawberry jam. Then I took my meds including the prednisone. I went outside for a while but eventually made it back into the house and decided to lie down because I have been feeling on the weak side lately. then got up. It was long past lunch. I had missed it altogether and hubby said let's go to town. He had a craving for wings. so we had to go into town anyhow for dog food, a vinyl tablecloth and some salad mix. And what not. So it was mostly the search for the best price of wings and mixes to sprinkle over it. we found what we needed and started back home. t was almost 6;00 at that time and I was hungry. Mentioned to dh because I am diabetic so he said there was a bag of potato chips in back which he retrieved. So I ate some on the way home. hen we got home and he proceeded to fry the wings and I sprinkled on the buffalo wing garlic and herb and buffalo wing hickory barbecue on the fried wings. Then he decidded he wanted to clean out the freezer and found some french fires to fry up. The whole day was not well prepared and couldn't have gone worse
Not doing too bad today. I have felt the best that I have in days. Temp was only a high of 84�
Baked a low carb cheesecake today for Charlie and I . tt turned out well. They said you can mix anything in it you want so had some leftover rhubarb and it turned out fine. Went to Townville and Edinboro with Charlie and Thumper. Thumpie was so happy to go for a ride. He hadn't been able to go for a couple of days because of the heat. So today was a win win situation. Ate at a Chinese buffet in Edinboro. I found out it is easy to do that low carb. Ate some shrimp unbattered, Seafood salad, sushi, green beans, mushrooms and watermelon. It satisfied me. Well, tomorrow is another day and it will be stir fry without rice for me
Had a very rough day todayl It was close to 100 degrees here and I had horrific chest pains. Had a hard time breathing even though we have AC Even thought I might be having a heart attack. Finally just went in and laid down. Slept a lot today. Watched what I ate today but not as rigid as usual. had crackers and yogurt dip for breakfast. Roast beef and mashed potatoes at lunch. Cooked the beef in a crockpot. And beef noodle soup for supper with a half of a chocolate chip cookie. Lots to drink of course. Still no rain and we do need more.


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from the Office of Readings–a sermon by St Bernard.
"We should then, my brothers, show our affection for the angels, for one day they will be our co-heirs just as here below they are our guardians and trustees appointed and set over us by the Father. We are God's children although it does not seem so, because we are still but small children under guardians and trustees, and for the present little better than slaves
Even though we are children and have a long, a very long and dangerous way to go, with such protectors what have we to fear? They who keep us in all our ways cannot be overpowered or led astray, much less lead us astray. They are loyal, prudent, powerful. Why then are we afraid? We have only to follow them, stay close to them, and we shall dwell under the protection of God's heaven."
What hit me about the reading today is that St Bernard is very okay with us having a relationship with our guardian angels. We sometimes think of them having a passive role just sort of being there to watch us. He sees them as having a far more active role–as if they are actively engaged in directing our steps, keeping us from danger, helping us to discern the way of God, helping us in time of temptation and assisting us in the spiritual journey on every step of the way.
I realize some Catholics are wary of us having too much to do with our guardian angels; they're worried about all the weird New Age angel stuff. We shouldn't let abuses undo right uses. Our guardian angels are there to help and guide us. We should not be worried about co-operating with them any more than we should be worried about praying to the saints and being aware of their presence. I'm sure if more of us were aware of our angelic guides and asked them to pray for us and guide us that we would make faster spiritual progress.I think we should especially ask their help when we are overwhelmed with temptation and the cares of the world.
Here's why: it is so easy for us to forget the supernatural dimension of our lives. We get all wrapped up in the day to day cares of this physical world. We think that our spiritual journey is all about being more self disciplines, doing more good works, praying more, studying more and trying to overcome our weaknesses. We forget that the whole thing is a spiritual battle, and that beneath all the things we see is a world we do not see.We forget that God has a different plan and a different agenda. He's working a different way and doing a different plan in our lives.
Being aware of the guardian angels, and invoking their care and involvement helps to remind us of the other dimension and helps us to bring that other dimension more alive in our everyday lives.St Bernard says we should show our affection for our guardian angels. I like that. Tell the guardian angel that you appreciate all that he's doing for you and if there's any way you can help, he should just let you know. Who knows, he might just make himself more well known to you. I did that once and my angel appeared and told me his name….but that's another story.
Read more about the interaction of the supernatural and the natural realm Go here.