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Buyback Programs
How Do Buyback Programs Work?
Who Finances Buyback Programs?
Where Have Buyback Programs Been Implemented?
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Buyback programs reduce
fishing capacity
through direct purchase. Successful buyback programs achieve multiple goals. They improve resource conservation by reducing fishing pressure on fish stocks, they provide financial assistance to participants who choose to exit the fishery, and they increase the profitability of participants who remain in the fishery by reducing competition for the resource.
Buyback programs have been used in several fisheries throughout the United States and are being considered in several others. They have been authorized under various laws, including the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act, the American Fisheries Act, and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSFCMA).
How Do Buyback Programs Work?
The two most common forms of buybacks include:
Vessel Buyback Programs, which purchase excess capacity from a fishery in the form of fishing vessels; and
License Retirement Programs, which purchase excess capacity from a fishery in the form of fishing licenses.
Some programs are designed to retire a combination of fishing vessels and licenses.
Vessel Buybacks
Most vessel buyback programs use a bidding system to determine which vessels will be purchased--purchasing those offered at the lowest bids. Some programs purchase vessels on a first-come/first-serve basis, with price based on either appraised vessel value or a non-negotiable flat fee. The value of a vessel may be estimated based on its history of landings, its length, tonnage, or engine size, or a combination of these and other factors.
Regulations governing the use of purchased vessels vary by program. Some programs may sell the vessels back to the fishing industry for use in fisheries outside the affected area. Other programs may sell the vessels, but permanently prohibit their use in any commercial fishery. Still others may require that purchased vessels be destroyed. Because the resale of purchased vessels for use in other fisheries tends to merely relocate the problem of overcapacity, either permanent withdrawal or mandatory destruction is generally the preferred method of retirement in buyback programs designed as capacity reduction tools.
The resale of vessels for non-fishing purposes can be beneficial to non-profit organizations, research institutions, and others who otherwise could not afford to purchase a vessel. But the high costs of monitoring these transactions to ensure that the vessel does not eventually return to a fishery weaken regulated resale as an option.
Mandatory destruction of purchased vessels best alleviates the threat of exporting capacity to other fisheries and also helps to reduce the threat of capital stuffing in the buyback fishery by preventing inexpensive secondhand equipment from entering the market. But this option also has drawbacks. In addition to raising strong emotions, buyback programs that require mandatory destruction can increase the price paid for vessels, reducing the number of vessels that can be purchased.
License Retirement Programs
License retirement programs are similar to vessel buyback programs. Some programs may allow license-holders to submit bids that set the purchase price of their license. Others may offer a "take-it-or-leave-it" flat payment based on the market rate or a rate designed to encourage a pre-determined capacity reduction goal. Still others may require all license-holders to sell a certain percentage of their capacity, which is measured in vessel capacity or effort units. This is known as "fractional licensing" and, under such programs, participants are then required to purchase additional units from within the fishery if they want to continue to fish.
Some license retirement programs don't restrict participants from returning to the fishery if they hold, or can purchase, another license. Other programs permanently ban participants from re-entering the buyback fishery or participating in other fisheries.
License retirement programs can offer greater capacity reduction per dollar than vessel buyback programs because licenses are less expensive to purchase than vessels. But, for the same reason, they are more likely to relocate overcapacity problems if entry into other fisheries is unrestricted.
Who Finances Buyback Programs?
Buyback programs are generally sponsored by the federal government or co-sponsored by the federal government and the fishing industry. Government-sponsored buyback programs are the most common. These programs purchase capacity directly through grants or provide government-backed loans that can be repaid over time. Co-sponsored buyback programs are generally designed to purchase some proportion of fishing capacity with public funds and then enhance the reduction with industry contributions generated through levies on the license fees or landings taxes of remaining vessels or permit owners.
Government-sponsored buyback programs are often implemented as a form of
disaster relief assistance
. Because their primary objective is usually to offer financial assistance rather than to improve the economic performance of the fishery, government-sponsored programs are generally not as effective as they could be in reducing capacity over the long term. On the other hand, the personal investment that industry-sponsored buybacks represent makes improved economic performance--and therefore capacity reduction--a primary objective.
A few industry-sponsored buyback programs have been implemented in other countries, but none has yet been employed in the United States. The poor economic condition of most U.S. fisheries makes it difficult for participants to finance buyback programs on their own. In addition, without some form of right to the resource or assurance that a certain percentage of capacity will be removed from the fishery, fishermen have little incentive to invest in capacity reduction.
Where Have Buyback Programs Been Implemented?
Since 1976, buyback programs have been implemented in five U.S. fisheries, including:
Pacific Northwest salmon;
New England groundfish;
Texas shrimp;
Glacier Bay Dungeness crab; and
Bering Sea groundfish.
Together these programs have totaled about $160 million, including $80.3 million in grants and $75 million in loans. They have retired 2,907 permits and either destroyed or permanently retired 597 fishing vessels. The average cost of license and/or vessel purchased under these programs is estimated at $10,000 for salmon and small vessel fleets, $250,000 for mid-sized trawlers, and $10 million for factory trawlers used in the Bering Sea groundfish fishery.
The effectiveness of buyback programs is rarely evaluated. However, in response to a congressional mandate, the U.S. General Accounting Office recently reviewed buyback programs implemented in the New England groundfish, Washington salmon, and Bering Sea pollock fisheries. The resulting report notes that the long-term effectiveness of buyback programs in reducing fishing capacity depends on whether restrictions are in place to prevent re-entry into the fishery, whether previously inactive participants return to the fishery, and also on whether the participants who remain in the fishery have an incentive to increase their capital investment. (
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Program design ultimately determines the effectiveness of buyback programs as capacity reduction tools. While all buyback programs are generally effective in removing some proportion of capacity from the fishery in the short term, restrictions on re-entry into the target fishery or other fisheries and the use of purchased vessels, as well as limitations on the capacity of remaining active and inactive fishery participants, determine whether these reductions will erode over the long-term.
Sources and Recommended Reading
Bell, D.M. 1978. Gear Reduction/Buyback Programs in British Columbia and Washington State. Pp. 353-357. In: Limited Entry as a Fishery Management Tool, R. B. Rettig and J.J.C. Ginter, eds. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA.
Congressional Research Service. 1997. Commercial Fishing: Economic Aid and Capacity Reduction, 14 April 1997.
Federal Fisheries Investment Task Force. 1999. Report to Congress, July 1999.
Government Accounting Office. 2000. Commercial Fisheries: Entry of Fishermen Limits Benefits of Buyback Programs. RCED-00-120, June 14.
Gates, J., D. Holland and E. Gudmundsson. 1997. Theory and Practice of Fishing Vessel Buyback Programs. Pp. 71-114. In: Subsidies and Depletion of World Fisheries: Case Studies, Scott Burns, ed. World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC.
Greboval, D. and G. Munro. 1997. Overcapitalization in World Fisheries: Underlying Economics and Methods of Control. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Prepared as report for FAO Expert Consultancy, Rome.
Kitts, A. and E. Thunberg. 1998. Description and Impacts of Northeast Groundfish Fishery Buyout Programs. Northeast Fisheries Science Center. Reference Document 98-12. National Marine Fisheries Service, Woods Hole, MA.
Muse, B. 1999. Washington State Commercial Salmon Fishery Buyback Programs, 1995-1998. CFEC 99-1N. Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, Juneau, AK.
Pacific Fishery Management Council. 2000. Overcapitalization in the West Coast Groundfish Fishery: Background, Issues and Solutions (Draft report for review). Prepared by the Economic Subcommittee of the PFMC's Scientific and Statistical Committee, 16 March 2000.
Schelle, K., and B. Muse. 1986. Buyback of Fishing Rights in the U.S. and Canada: Implications for Alaska. 114th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, New York, NY.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. 1995. Northwest Emergency Assistance Plan: Vessel Permit Buy Out Program. Seattle, WA.
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I have a Ryobi 790r trimmer what I need to know is how the fuel lines run. There are two going to the carb one goes to the top the other to the bottom. So I guess on is the inlet the other the return line. I need to find out does the top line run from the carb to the primmer bulb or the bottom line?. As I do not know which one is the inlet & which one is the return? If anyone can explain how these two fuel lines run it would be a big help!. Thank You, Will, |
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2010/10/27 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@...>

 On Wednesday 27 October 2010, Kirktis wrote:
 > and people wonder why gentoo is not taken seriously by the enterprise.
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 > On 10/27/10, dev-random@... <dev-random@...> wrote:
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 please show me some enterprise distros incorporating that patch.

This is not usable issue of one or another patch. This is something un-serious to the companies. Should we upgrade our servers or not? I'ts like ticking bomb! Upgrading... Block! Removing, upgrading... Compilation fail because of some strange thing happen - maybe sun eruption or something else. Now collection is expanded to patches that will not be mainstreamed :> This is GOOD PRACTICE :). Thinking about Debian on servers - tell me why? - after 4 years with Gentoo :>

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As well as being the best at physical books, they are also the market leaders of eBooks, and the Amazon Kindle is the most popular reading device on the planet. The Kindle store is overflowing with books that can be downloaded to your computer or Kindle in seconds and offers free downloads of almost every classic you can think of. Their free, super saver delivery option and well-priced guaranteed next day delivery is unmatchable anywhere else on the web and as you can literally check out with one click of a button, they make online shopping a quick, easy and stress-free experience for every user.
Barnes & Noble is America's leading book retailer and is especially popular amongst reading enthusiasts and book fanatics. Its website has features on what's hot amongst book critics, hand picked staff picks and best of lists and more, allowing customers to make informed decisions about their purchases and get recommendations on the best authors and best books on the market. Books are split into individual categories, with the option to shop the NY Times Bestsellers, Barnes & Noble Classics, Oprah's Book Club and Award Winners, amongst others. They also have their own version of Amazon's Kindle e-reader – the 'Nook' tablet, and, thus, their own version of the Kindle store.
Catering for college students, Barnes & Noble have a section dedicated to textbooks in subjects like Business, Philosophy & English, and, like Amazon, have a used section where you can pick up the books you need for less. A great place to shop for avid readers and those looking for rare, independent texts that aren't stocked by Amazon.
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The Sports Club Council now represents 22 clubs: equestrian, ice hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's rugby, men's and women's ultimate frisbee, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's volleyball, women's softball, men's baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's football and swimming.
About the Sports Club Council
The Sports Club Council (SCC) was created in the fall of 2000. The goal of the SCC is to represent recognized sport clubs at Radford University that continuously remain in good standing and represent Radford University in a positive light.
Campus Recreation saw the need to create the SCC for sport clubs that have unique needs from that of other clubs. The SCC, which is funded directly by Student Finance Committee, helps provide partial funding to those organizations that can meet it's standards. It's founding members included the Redcoats, Ice Hockey, Men's Rugby and Women's Rugby.
Since the fall of 2000, the SCC has helped develop 20 sport clubs with more than 330 participants. These clubs participate in collegiate leagues similar to those of varsity teams. Most of the SCC members have participated in National Tournaments throughout the U.S. and achieved an abundant amount of success.
Information on Particular Clubs
Details about each sports club can be found on the organization directory. If you would still like additional information about a sports club or are having difficulty finding what you are looking for email the sports club council.
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Simon Cowell has announced a new line of headphones that will be distributed by Syco Entertainment, his business collaboration with Sony Music Entertainment. The X Headphones will cost $299 and should compete with Dr. Dre's stupidly successful Beats by Dre.
In a statement, The X Factor creator and judge flexed his signature humility: "I simply wanted something better than what is in the market today. I've tried all of them, literally every single one. Sony and I set out to create the best headphone in the world. We are absolutely blown away by these. With the X headphones, it's like being in the recording studio when the records are made. The sound is that clear." READ FULL STORY


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While most of us have long forgotten March as the month of Spring Break, there are millions of American college students out there who are about to return from Spring Break and realize they have only a couple of short months to prepare for the "real world." I remember my college graduation like it was yesterday (which for the record, it was not). My dad in all his wisdom walked over to me, put his arm around my shoulder and said, "Jess, this is the worst day of your life."
I get his point. Making the transition from student to professional can be one of life's toughest.
We here at VOX, like many of our clients, believe that it is the responsibility of all of us to educate and prepare the next generation of leaders. Although we focus on developing public affairs professionals, we work with clients on programs to prepare our students and retrain American workers in disciplines across the board.
As the former VOX intern program manager, and someone who has worked directly with colleges, college students, the government and companies for the past decade on training and workforce development programs, I offer the following advice to all you college students out there just starting to think "what will I do with myself this summer?" (For all of you who have long forgotten your college days, please pass this on to your children, neighbors, fellow alum and ex-professors as you see fit!).
Top 5 Tips for College Students Interviewing in the Internship/Job Market:
1) Get Smart – It's not enough to look at the company's website; know their mission and what differentiates them from their competitors, and use it to answer the inevitable question "Why do you want to work here?" Employers want to know that you don't want a job, but you want this job.
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5) It's Not About You – Career counselors will often remind students, especially those looking for an internship, that "you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you." While I don't dispute that, I do caution against the "what will I get out of this?" mentality and line of questioning. Employers want to know what skills and experiences you bring to the table. You will learn more than you imagined you could by putting your skills to the test.
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I was lucky enough yesterday to find a p. Alata 'Ruby Glow' at a nursery in my little podunk town. I was even more surprised to see it blooming, though this was probably the result of having the right fertilizer from the grower. I want successful blooming with this variety, and I want to increase my chances for fruiting. Will this one need to cross pollinate with another p. Alata 'Ruby Glow', or will this plant self-pollinate? There were only 2 plants left, so I need to know. As for fertilizing, what is a good N-P-K ratio? I realize this probably isn't the season to encourage blooming, but I want to be prepared for the right time.
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There is only one clone of P. alata 'Ruby Glow', also known as P. phoenicea 'Ruby Glow', and it is not self-fertile. You will need something different for cross-pollination. A different P. alata would work, and I believe P. caerulea will also work. P. incarnata may work as well. Not sure about the fertilizing. ~kiwinut |
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This was the case last week, 2 days post Christmas when I was getting ready to roast chicken for supper. It was a recipe I had made too many times to count, taught to me by my mother in law years ago. I went into the kitchen and had to move my new Crock Pot off the counter to prep the chicken. And that's when it happened. That inner light bulb lit up as bright as a Christmas tree and I knew in an instant I was making this recipe a little different this time. I had a ton of stuff around the house to do, and multiple games of Death Star Jenga to play with Monkey, so why not let supper cook itself (for the most part) in the Crock Pot? I have no idea why I had never thought of this before. I'm sure a little piece of it was my inner foodie begging to use that new Crock Pot for a 2nd night in a row. Whatever the reason I finally thought of it, I am so happy I did because it will never be prepared the original way again! This is perfect on a cold day when you want something warm and comforting, but don't want to put forth a lot of effort! The chicken can even be made in the morning, or the night before. Sometimes our best ideas are those that come to us when we least expect it!
Crock Pot Chicken and Biscuits
1 lb. chicken tenders
2 (15 oz) cans mixed veggies, drained
2 (10 3/4 oz) cans cream of chicken soup
2 c. chicken broth
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DAMASCUS - A moderate Muslim imam has been elected a new leader of Syria's fractious opposition to lead a popular uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad's regime.
"We demand freedom for every Sunni, Alawi, Ismaili (Shi'ite), Christian, Druze, Assyrian ... and rights for all parts of the harmonious Syrian people," imam Mouaz al-Khatib said, Reuters reported.
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His deputies will be Riad Seif, a veteran dissident who had proposed the US-backed initiative to set up an umbrella group uniting groups inside and outside Syria, and Suhair al-Atassi, one of the relatively few women with a leading role.
Delegates said a third deputy may yet be named from among ethnic Kurds.
Khatib said he would seek recognition and wider backing for helping take the country from Assad's regime.
"The first step towards recognition will take place at the Arab League," he told a news conference in Doha.
The body would then seek endorsement from Assad's Arab and Western foes in the "Friends of Syria" group and from the UN General Assembly.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, whose government hosted the talks, said he would press fellow Arab ministers to recognize the new Syrian opposition coalition.
"We will strive from now on to have this new body recognized completely by all parties ... as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people," he said before arriving in Cairo along with Khatib.
Khatib, 50, was the imam of the ancient Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
He was jailed several times for criticizing Assad. He finally fled into exile this year.
More than 38,000 people have been killed and many tens of thousands more displaced in a 19-month uprising against Assad's regime.
The revolt against Assad began as peaceful protests calling for democracy and greater rights, but gradually turned to an armed struggle, pitting the Sunni majority against the president and his minority Alawite sect.
The election of the moderate imam to lead the opposition has won a showering praise.
"(Khatib) is from Damascus and is a famous man from there, said George Sabra, head of the Syrian National Council that US and Qatari officials spent last week persuading to accept the creation of a more inclusive new body.
I think this is a serious step against the regime, and a serious step towards freedom.
Sabra also praised the choices of Seif and Atassi to the new body, titled Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces.
"They are very good representatives of this project. They are activists in our revolution. Most of them have made large sacrifices for the people inside the country."
Critics of the SNC had said it was too much influenced by the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and too little open to minorities, including Alawites, some 10 percent of the population who fear a backlash if Assad is overthrown.
Mazen Adi, a prominent human rights defender and politician, also hailed the imam's election to lead the Syrian opposition.
"Alkhatib is a dynamic progressive Islamist, popular in Damascus and the rest of Syria," said Adi, who worked with Alkhatib before the revolution.
"He is not a trigger-happy Jihadist and he can play a role in containing the extremist groups."Turkey's foreign minister said the formation of the National Coalition meant the Syrian opposition was no longer divided.
"The friends of Syria... should support this agreement... There is no excuse anymore," Ahmed Davutoglu said.
"All those who support the rightful struggle of the Syrian people should declare clear support for this agreement and be more active."
France, a vocal backer of the Syrian opposition and which once ruled Syria, hailed the new coalition."France will work with its partners to secure international recognition of this new entity as the representative of the aspirations of the Syrian people," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in a statement in which he called the Assad government "the criminal regime in Damascus".
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EOX > SEC Filings for EOX > Form 8-K on 10-Jan-2014 | All Recent SEC Filings |
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Financial Statements and Exhibits
On January 9, 2014, Emerald Oil, Inc. (the "Company") and one of its wholly owned subsidiaries entered into a purchase and sale agreement (the "Purchase Agreement") with Kodiak Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. (the "Seller"), pursuant to which the Company agreed to acquire Seller's right, title and interest in certain oil and gas properties and assets located in Williams and McKenzie Counties, North Dakota, including operated working interests in approximately 19,500 net acres in the Williston Basin, for approximately $68.3 million in cash. Net daily production from the acreage is approximately 350 barrels of oil equivalent per day as of December 1, 2013. The purchase price is subject to customary adjustments and other closing conditions typical for a transaction of this type, including downward adjustments for title and environmental defects under certain circumstances.
The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities by the parties thereto, and the closing of the transaction contemplated by the Purchase Agreement is subject to the satisfaction of certain customary closing conditions as described therein. The effective date of the transaction is January 1, 2014, and the Company expects to close the acquisition on or about February 13, 2014.
The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
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The following exhibits are filed in accordance with the provisions of Item 601 of Regulation S-K:
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2.1 Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated January 9, 2014, by and among Kodiak Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., Emerald Oil, Inc. and Emerald WB LLC.


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Ballin: 27 points on 19 shots for Kevin Durant, which is even more impressive when you consider he had five on 1-6 shooting through the first half. Thumbs up, man.
Not so much: Gary Neal and Danny Green must have forgot they were Spurs last night, combining to go 0-8 with two points in 19ish minutes of play. The worst was when the Spurs got a wide-open three while James Harden, who was guarding Gary Neal, was tying his shoe. Naturally, Neal missed it.
Bold: Always remember, good offense beats good defense every time.
If the Thunder go on to win this year's title, this is going to be a huge moment in the championship DVD. Like slow motion the entire time Harden has the ball huge. Not bad for a broken play.
Also ballin: 34 points on 21 shots — including five threes — for Manu Ginobili, who got his first start since March 23. Hate to waste a game like that.
Past prime: The Russell Westbrook clothing extravaganza is over, you guys. Last night, he wore a shirt you can buy at Urban Outfitters. It was fun while it lasted, but once he wore a shirt you'll legitimately see somebody wearing on the street, it's time to move on.
Oh, this too: There was a time, during the middle of the fourth quarter, when this was the biggest shot James Harden had ever hit.
Shoutout to you, Larry Johnson.
When we reminisce: Who among us didn't think Tim Duncan was taking that very 2007-y three on the Spurs' final meaningful possession? I sure did and I wish he would have taken it, just to see if he could catch lightning in a bottle twice (or alternately, if lightning could strike twice, depending on your preferred lightning metaphor).
High jump: Russell Westbrook is so good at leaping.
The best part of a huge Russell Westbrook dunk like this one is how it seems like he's dunking it on the way up, like he could throw down the same play if the Thunder were playing on 12-foot rims.
Other notable highlights: So many great plays in the signature game of this year's playoffs so far, so let's get through them — Nick Collison had a nice dunk over Tim Duncan early on … Tim Duncan threw a crazy outlet pass for an easy Spurs score … Manu Ginobili's three festival … There was also an amazing spin move and tough layup that Ginobes hit during the second half that I highly recommend if you can catch a replay … Also recommended is Kevin Durant stepping through a double team and hitting a really tough bank shot.
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Knox Presbyterian Church was founded in 1992 as a Christ-centered, Bible-based church to meet the spiritual needs of people of all ages in Ann Arbor , Michigan and the surrounding areas. We are committed to studying and teaching the whole counsel of God, not just favorite sections and themes. We want all of life - every aspect, public and private, corporate and individual - brought under the sovereign reign of grace in Christ. The Gospel is the announcement of the reign of Christ and the resulting presence of His Kingdom. We want to be a community which reveals and expands the reach of His kingdom reign by submitting more and more of our private and public life to Him. Our aim is to do the part of Christ's mission which God has prepared for us to do (Eph. 2:10) as He brings "all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ" (Eph. 1:10).
We are both a reformed Presbyterian and broadly evangelical church. As a part of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) denomination, we have embraced collectively the Westminster Confession of Faith and its catechisms as well as the "Essentials of Our Faith" (an EPC articulation of broadly evangelical doctrines) as that which articulates the backbone of our church doctrine. We believe that there are essentials to the Christian faith that cannot be compromised. These include (among others): the belief in the full inspiration and supreme authority of the Bible over what we believe and how we live; the belief in one God, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; the belief that Salvation is wholly dependent upon the work of God's sovereign grace; and the belief that the Holy Spirit has come to glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to our hearts.
As a daughter church of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Plymouth, Michigan, Knox held its first service in 1992 and became a particular church in 1995. In January of 2000 we were blessed to begin meeting in our own church building which was built by the provision of the Lord to this congregation. It is a 50,000 square foot facility with a sanctuary that seats 800. It was built on 50 acres of beautiful land that the church purchased in 1993. Our church membership is over 550 people, with 700-800 in our worship service each Sunday.


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How to Extinguish a Fire at the Initial Stages
Five Methods:General RulesElectrical FiresLiquid/Oil firesOrganic FiresGas Fires
The best way to stop any full blown fire is to smother, or extinguish it in its initial stages. It depends on what kind of fire it is, or how big and severe it is.
Method 1 of 5: General Rules
1If a fire has taken hold, (spread to other areas or structures or the smoke has is at head height), all occupants of that building must be alerted and evacuated. Note to all: Do not fight a fire not worth fighting, evacuate the building; personal safety comes first.Ad
2Contact the fire brigade as soon as possible.
Method 2 of 5: Electrical Fires
The first thing you must do to stop or smother a electrical fault or short circuit fire is to:
1Turn off all power to the fire, usually done by turning off the main power. This step alone is usually enough to stop most fires in the initial stages.
2Use a safety blanket to smother the fire (Remember: If you do not turn off the power supply, electric shock is likely to occur.). Not only is this very effective in the early stages but does not damage surrounding area or objects.
3Use water (more than two liters at a time) to extinguish the fire, throw the water at the base or seat of the fire. This is also very effective, but not recommended due to the damage it may cause. It is only effective in the early stages of a fire.(Remember: If you do not turn off the main power supply, electric shock is likely to occur).
4The safest and the best way to extinguish a electrical fire is to use a fire extinguisher. Follow the instructions on it for more information. Note: During the initial stages of fire, once the fire is put out the surfaces that it has touched or burned are very hot and are likely to catch fire. You must have enough extinguishing material for at least 7 extinguishing attempts. E.G. 6Kg dry powder fire extinguisher. (Remember: If you do not turn of the mains power supply, electric shock is likely to occur).Aim the extinguisher nozzle at the base or seat of a fire for most effective extinguishing of fire.
Method 3 of 5: Liquid/Oil fires
The first thing you must do to stop a liquid fire (e.g gasoline, petrol) is to:
1Never throw water on a liquid fire. This is due to water and oils properties. If the water is thrown on the fire, the following will occur.
2Water does not mix with the oil, and thus goes underneath it (oil and water don't mix; when they are together oil is on top water on bottom). It will then boil and become steam very quickly this quick boil is dangerous . Since the water is on the bottom of the oil, as it evaporates it sprays hot, burning oil in every direction. This then spreads the fire and usually leaves you unconscious.
3Use a safety blanket and smother the fire, this is particularly useful at home. Use this only if the fire is small enough for you to cover.
4Use a fire extinguisher. Remember to read the instructions very carefully. If the extinguisher instructs you to not use it on a liquid or chemical fire, do not use it. Call the fire brigade and evacuate the building.
Method 4 of 5: Organic Fires
The easiest fires to stop an organic fire in its initial stages (e.g. wood, paper) is to:
1Use lots of water to smother the fire. This is the best and quickest solution in the early stages.
2Use a safety blanket to smother the fire in its early stages. Remember to cover the fire completely and wait ten minutes.
3Use a fire extinguisher; most will work on organic fires. Never forget to read the instructions on the extinguisher. Follow them to the letter.
Method 5 of 5: Gas Fires
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- If the fire is small, then throw salt or baking soda on it. Do not use flour.
- Fires are dangerous phenomenon. Do not fight a fire that is out of hand, and not worth fighting for. Your life comes first. Evacuate if the fire has spread and there is a low chance of extinguishing it by normal means and do not take the time to gather any belongings. Speed is essential.
- Use information on this page at your own risk. The author takes no responsibility for any actions taken in reference to this article.
Things You'll Need
- Water: Which is able to be accessed quickly
- Safety blanket: A fiber cloth blanket which can be bought in many stores around the world to smother a fire.
- A fire extinguisher: Remember: only use a fire extinguisher on a fire if it is meant for it, if the instructions say that the extinguisher is not suitable for other types of fires, do not use it on other fires.
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text: A true cinema classic is making its way to Blu-ray with the 50th Anniversary release of Ben-Hur ($45). Having undergone a full, $1 million frame-by-frame restoration from an 8k scan of the original 65mm negative, this William Wyler-directed, Charlton Heston-led epic has never looked better, and that includes 1959, when it brought home a record-setting 11 Oscars — including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. Included in the individually-numbered set are over four hours of extras — including a new HD documentary — a reproduction of Heston's filming diary, and an exclusive hardbound photo book.


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When Emerson set out to build a new data center to support its own global operations, the company brought in the experts from Emerson Network Power to help design and equip the facility for maximum efficiency and performance. The data center that Emerson opened in the summer of 2009 is a showcase for the latest data center technologies and best practices – and was even awarded LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
But as sophisticated as the data center and the equipment inside of it was, the Emerson team that built the data center realized that something important was missing.
As is the case for all data centers across the globe, the IT equipment in Emerson's data center depends on critical IT and physical infrastructure, including power and cooling. If server equipment or traffic loads are changed, the power and cooling infrastructure in the facility must be prepared to support that changing landscape.
Trouble is, these areas of the data center have traditionally been managed separately. Emerson Network Power provides solutions for monitoring and managing data center power and cooling infrastructure, as well as other solutions for monitoring and managing IT equipment. To holistically manage a data center, however, a single platform is needed that can provide "closed-loop" visibility and control for both IT and infrastructure: the ability to identify potential issues, decide how to address them and act on a solution, all from a single interface.
As it was building its data center, however, Emerson found that this kind of comprehensive, closed-loop solution simply did not exist. The Emerson team realized that it wasn't alone: other data center operators are looking for the same type of holistic infrastructure management solution. Further, the rise of cloud services and virtualization, not to mention data center co-location, made data center infrastructure management more and more complex.
"A few short years ago, virtualization took days or weeks, but today data center changes can be made in a matter of seconds," said Steve Hassell, president of Emerson Network Power's Avocent business and formerly Emerson's chief information officer. "But what happens when power or cooling infrastructure isn't ready to support it? You either have to build in more overhead than what is otherwise necessary, or take your chances and risk downtime."
Emerson Network Power is creating the holistic solution to address this challenge, re-architecting existing monitoring and management solutions into an integrated, comprehensive platform. In fact, Emerson is leading the way in the growing Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) market.
Emerson's acquisition of Avocent in 2009 accelerated and broadened the company's DCIM capabilities. Known for its remote access and control technologies for data center IT equipment like servers and storage equipment, Avocent engineers bring deep expertise and experience on the operating needs of these types of equipment. This complements Emerson Network Power's power systems, energy management, and precision cooling solutions for data centers.
Emerson is bringing all of these technologies and multi-pronged capabilities together into an end-to-end, real-time data center intelligence solution, which can provide a data center manager with visibility extending from the IT equipment to the power, cooling, and supporting infrastructure, all in a single user interface.
Emerson Network Power is now poised to revolutionize the data center industry with planned rollout this year of its Trellis™ platform, the industry's first holistic infrastructure management solution.
Unlike any other data center management tool, Emerson's Trellis platform combines software and hardware into a solution that is managed with a single, web-enabled, real-time view. With all management data accessible on a single device, and smart filters that enable different views for different data center personnel, data center managers can proactively identify a range of potential power and cooling issues before they impact service. They can make better server deployment decisions by having access to data on actual consumption and capacity. They will know exactly where efficiency losses are occurring within devices and sub-systems.
Emerson estimates that if every U.S. data center could utilize 10 percent more of its available power capacity, U.S. businesses could save more than $10 billion in increased efficiency and reduced downtime. The Trellis platform is poised to help data centers realize these efficiencies.
In order to begin achieving the benefits of an optimized data center infrastructure, customers can implement any of Emerson Network Power's existing Aperture, Avocent, or Liebert hardware or software DCIM solutions. Each of these solutions will migrate to the new Trellis platform to bring them dynamic infrastructure optimization, a level of DCIM that no one else can provide.
Early adopters of preliminary Trellis platform components are reporting faster equipment provisioning times, increased reliability and security.
With so much riding on data center performance, it only makes sense to have visibility across the entire data center and be able to manage the entire center via a closed-loop solution. The Trellis platform will make that possible and easy.


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The U.S. Department of Energy and the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center are excited to announce that a new, modernized DSIRE is under construction. The new version of DSIRE will offer significant improvements over the current version, including expanded data accessibility and an array of new tools for site users. The new DSIRE site will be available in December 2014. Staff are currently working hard on the new version of DSIRE but are also maintaining the content of the current version of DSIRE. Thank you for your continued support and patience during this transition. We hope you are as excited for December as we are!
DSIRE' s Quantitative RPS Data Project provides quantitative information about state renewables portfolio standards (RPS). In the DSIRE RPS Data Spreadsheet, state requirements are defined by year and by resource class and include other key data elements such as monetary penalties or alternative compliance payments, eligibility of new and/or existing facilities, the percentage of the state's electric load covered by the policy, comments to clarify data entries or assumptions, and an update memo to describe recent changes to the data. The DSIRE RPS Field Definitions document contains detailed descriptions of the data fields in the DSIRE RPS Data Spreadsheet and how they are organized. The most current versions are located directly below while past versions are available in the Archive section. This project began in 2008 to support analysis efforts at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Separately, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) has allowed DSIRE to publicly post the data that it has assembled on state level compliance with RPS mandates. The LBNL RPS Compliance Data Spreadsheet details annual state RPS obligations (MWh) and RPS achievement (% of obligation) for both overall state standards and solar or distributed generation set asides. It also includes notes describing the sources of the data and how the calculations were made for each state. Current RPS Data
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By September 4, the eve of Clinton's visit, Ballybunion was ready--almost. There were a few wee problems. First of all, the statue of Clinton preparing to tee off had not been finished. The sculptor, a Cork artist named Sean McCarthy, had only managed to make a plaster-of-paris model. Undaunted, Quilter had the artist coat the white plaster model with boot polish, and then Quilter and his crew loaded it into a truck for transport. On a poor road, the truck hit a pothole and a hand broke off. "Whatever you do, put that hand back on, or he can't play golf!" Quilter ordered. Finally, at dusk, the plaster-of-paris statue was mounted, with its hand repaired, on a marble plinth in the center of town, a short putt from the two-story police station. Quilter and his cronies could only pray that it wouldn't rain.
The second unfortunate snafu was that no one had actually told Clinton that the people of Ballybunion were expecting him. Like most American visitors to the area, Clinton had intended simply to play the course and then depart without setting foot in the village.
On the morning of September 5, fully expecting Clinton to pass through town on his way from the airport to the golf course, hundreds of people from Ballybunion and the surrounding countryside lined the streets of the village hoping to catch a glimpse of the president and his motorcade. No dice. When word reached the village that Clinton had somehow bypassed town and was already at the links, there was naturally some consternation. But in general Irish optimism prevailed. Clinton would still be coming to town after the round to unveil the statue--wouldn't he?Hadn't there been reports that the night before, U.S. Secret Service personnel had slipped into town to seal all the manholes against terrorists?A fair number of onlookers retreated to the pubs to wait out the delay, but many others clung stubbornly to their positions in the street so as not to miss a moment of the biggest event in Ballybunion's history.
Meanwhile, the round of golf went off splendidly despite overcast skies. Dozens of spectators watched from Sandhill Road, which borders the course's opening holes, and cheered loudly whenever Clinton swung.
Joined in his five-ball by Christy O'Connor Sr., the veteran of ten Ryder Cups who is known to Irish golf fans simply as "Himself," Clinton shot a steady ninety-five and appeared to enjoy himself immensely--no doubt relieved to be far away from the tireless scrutiny of Kenneth Starr's grand jury. "I was finally able to live out a dream, probably a dream of any golfer, and play at the historic and beautiful Ballybunion Golf Club," Clinton would later write, unrevealingly, in an e-mailed response to questions from T&L Golf.
Mike Scanlon, 55, is the veteran caddie at Ballybunion who carried Clinton's clubs that day. "He's a fine striker of the ball but hasn't really got a short game," the caddie says of the president. Scanlon also claims that there were no presidential mulligans. "He has a reputation for dropping balls, but none of us were going to say anything," says Scanlon.
Behind the scenes, however, things were not nearly so calm. During the round, a member of Clinton's staff was made aware of the waiting throngs in town and broke the news to the president. Ever the politician and no doubt encouraged by the generally fond reception he was getting in Ireland, Clinton changed his schedule. "I truly had no idea until then," the president wrote to T&L Golf of the news, "and decided to visit the village after the game."


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In commercial printing, a widely used technique in which the inked image on a printing plate is imprinted on a rubber cylinder and then transferred (offset) to paper or other material. The rubber cylinder gives great flexibility, permitting printing on wood, cloth, metal, leather, and rough paper. In offset printing the matter to be printed is neither raised above the surface of the printing plate (as in letterpress printing) nor sunk below it (as in intaglio, or gravure, printing). Offset printing, a development of lithography, is based on the principle that water and grease do not mix, so that a greasy ink can be deposited on grease-treated printing areas of the plate, while nonprinting areas, which hold water, reject the ink. The offset plate is usually of zinc or aluminum or a combination of metals, with the surface treated to render it porous and then coated with a photosensitive material. Exposure to an image hardens the coating on printing areas; the coating on nonprinting areas is washed away, leaving wetted metal that will reject ink. See also xerography.
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Can Americans pull together? If not, why not?
Here is some speculation for your enlightenment. This post discusses the fragmenting of America, the causes of our inability to see our common needs and act together for the common benefit.
Future generations will see things clearly that we cannot. For example, can we perceive what is happening in the souls of the common people, and in particular of the lower classes?. Their education and way of life open to them insights on human affairs which, peculiar to them, remain close to us.
It is worse for our ruling elites. When the rich man and the poor man no longer have any shared interest, any shared grievances, any shared business, the shadows which conceral the mind of the one from the other become unfathomable. They can live side by side (as in Manhattan) without any contact between them.
Although the fate of the upper and middle classes has diverged, they resemble one another in one respect: the middle class lives as cut off from the lower class as the rich. The middle class has run away from contact their the lower classes and their wretched state in the inner cities. Instead of uniting closely with them to engage in a common struggle against a shared inequality, we seek only to create new injustices for our own purposes (so that the laws and taxes better meet our needs).
The middle class as enthusiastically obtained tax exemptions (e.g., mortgages, retirement plans) as the rich. The lower classes from which most of us emerged as immigrants have not only become strangers but are largely unknown to us.
When the middle class has become isolated from the rich and the lower class from both, a similar fragmenting acts at the heart of of each class itself small groups form in the center of each. We divide by race, by ideology, by special interests (e.g., greens, pro-life, animal rights) — becoming almost as isolated from each other as the three classes are between themselves. Then the nation becomes a mass whose parts no longer link together. Nothing hinders the government — now the largest entity — any more than anything supports it. This creates the risk of the whole structure collapsing together at once, as the society, its foundation, weakens.
If only these were my words! This is an excerpt, lightly paraphrased, from Alex de Tocqueville's The Ancien Regime and the Revolution. However descriptive of modern America, it describes the doomed regime of French Monarchy in its last generation of life.
Please share your comments by posting below (brief and relevant, please), or email me at fabmaximus at hotmail dot com (note the spam-protected spelling).
Other posts in this series about America, how we got here and how we can recover it
- Forecast: Death of the American Constitution, 4 July 2006
- Diagnosing the Eagle, Chapter III – reclaiming the Constitution, 3 January 2008
- A report card for the Republic: are we still capable of self-government?, 3 July 2008
- Americans, now a subservient people (listen to the Founders sigh in disappointment), 20 July 2008
- de Tocqueville warns us not to become weak and servile, 21 July 2008
- A soft despotism for America?, 22 July 2008
- The American spirit speaks: "Baa, Baa, Baa", 5 August 2008
- We're Americans, hear us yell: "baa, baa, baa", 6 August 2008
- Obama describes the first step to America's renewal, 8 August 2008
- Let's look at America in the mirror, the first step to reform, 14 August 2008
- Fixing America: elections, revolt, or passivity?, 16 August 2008
- Fixing American: taking responsibility is the first step, 17 August 2008
- Fixing America: solutions — elections, revolt, passivity, 18 August 2008
- The intelligentsia takes easy steps to abandoning America, 19 August 2008
For all posts on this subject see America – how can we reform it?.
29 August 2008 2:45 am
Great note!
But in America, the rich talk about the poor all the time. The big Dem vision is 'health care for all' — for the poor. Unfortunately, the contact is with a mythical poor person in the abstract, not the real poor people who are both victims of a bad situation, but also victims of their own poor decisions.
'I love mankind! It's people I can't stand' (not my own sentiment!)
houswife permalink29 August 2008 10:31 am
Marcia Pally(http://www.marciapally.com/) a sociologist(NYU) is also looking for the root cause.
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by Marcia PallyThe first rule of elections is that it makes a difference who wins. We expect the next president to get us out of the hole Bush dug. He or she will return the country to its true self, meaning that Bush's foreign policy is "untrue" and that some other approach is the American norm–the approach in postwar Europe, perhaps. Yet should the next US president return America to some pre-Bush policy, how much "better" it will be depends on how good it was in the first place. And it was exactly as good as America's fundamental interests and approaches allowed it to be. Bush's foreign policy unexceptionally falls within these interests and approaches. The wiggle room of any candidate is constrained by them as well. They would be a far better basis for our expectations than idealized pasts or campaign hoopla.
Warnung vor dem Freunde(beware your friend): Tradition und Zukunft amerikanischer Aussenpolitik investigates the deep structure of US foreign policy and the influence of evangelicalism on it, throughout US history, regardless of the president or party in power.
29 August 2008 1:57 pm
I would guess that this probably will not rank over time as one of your more important posts, but it should. Directly effects who gets involved and how we make decisions in crisis. More later.To "housewife" most intriguing post. I could only find German version on quick look at the site. Is the book available in English version? Help


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• Israel formally blamed Iran (and Hezbollah, its common proxy) for the attacks yesterday on diplomatic staff in Tblisi, Georgia, and New Delhi. Iran denies it. The one injured woman—a defense envoy's wife in India—has recovered. [NYT]
• This morning brought another allegedly Iran-linked explosion, this time in Bangkok. However, the would-be attacker succeeded in blowing off only his own leg. [Reuters]
• The New York Police Department's director of terrorism analysis warns that the city's Jewish community could also become a target of Iran's. (He didn't say if this meant the force would continue its indiscriminate surveillance of Shiite mosques.) [WSJ]
• As China's future leader visits the United States, a bipartisan group of former national security advisers urged Vice President Xi Jinping to make China get with the program of isolating Iran. [NYT]
• The Obama Administration's next budget allocates the same amount of aid for Egypt as before Hosni Mubarak's ouster and only slightly less for the Palestinian Authority despite the ostensible unity deal with Hamas. [JPost]
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inferno, melmoth September 17th, 2007The voluble Elf has tagged me, and I can never resist a jolly good memeing, especially from friends.
Four jobs I have had in my life (not including my current job):
- Level 37 sandwich filling crafter.
- Level 14 filing clerk.
- Level 17 office furniture installer.
- Level 21 teacher's assistant.
All summer jobs I'm afraid; I've been at my current job since, well, forever really.
Four films I have watched again and again:
- V for Vendetta.
- Gladiator.
- The Fellowship of the Ring.
- Valmont.
Like most people, I expect, there are several more films I could list here, so I've tried to pick a representative sample.
Four places I have lived:
- Leeds, England.
- Various places
- In the county of
- Kent, England.
I lived in Leeds when I went to university there. Other than that, I've stayed pretty close to home.
Four Programmes I love to watch:
- Battlestar Galactica.
- Heroes.
- Firefly.
- The Mighty Boosh.
Again, there are plenty of others both new and old, but this is a set of those that I've watched relatively recently and enjoyed tremendously.
Four Places I have been on vacation:
- Hawaii.
- Dubai.
- Venice.
- San Francisco.
I think San Francisco is still my favourite place, although Venice is a close second.
Four of my favourite foods:
- Beef Wellington.
- Risotto.
- Saffron cake.
- Gypsy tart.
I like food. This is barely a pebble on the peak of the food mountain of my victual desires.
Four favourite drinks:
- Port (Warre's Otima is divine).
- Tea.
- Bitter (Waggledance is a favourite).
- Elderflower cordial/juice.
This makes me sound like a drunkard fop. Which might be accurate.
Four places I would rather be right now:
- In a cottage in the Lake District, writing a book.
- On a manned mission to Mars.
- Diving in the Red Sea.
- On stage at Shakespeare's Globe.
And I'd also like a pony.
Four People I Command to Do This:
Not so much command, as extend the embracing arm of memefulness. I'm only allowed four, so I've tried to pick people who haven't been tagged and have commented here. Apologies to anyone who might have wanted to do it. And apologies to those tagged who don't want to do it. Maybe you can all get together, swap out the people who don't want to do it with those who do, and then send fax confirmation in triplicate to me, and I… ah bugger it, it's just a meme.
As the wise Yoda once said:
"Do, or do not. I don't give a toss, and I'll be dead in the next installment anyway."
Or something.
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heather (errantdreams) Says:
September 17th, 2007 at 8:46 pmI have not heard of this Boosh of which you speak, but otherwise, I give a hearty round of applause to your TV choices.
Melmoth Says:
September 18th, 2007 at 6:56 amYou cannot know the Mighty Boosh until you have seen it with your own eyes, heard it with your own ears and comprehended it with… actually, there's no real comprehension to be had with that show as far as I can tell.
But it is quite funny.
Hexedian Says:
September 18th, 2007 at 7:01 pmGuess I'll have to disappoint, Melmoth. You know pyramid schemes are against the law, right? Besides, I try not to talk about myself in my weblog, so I don't bore people out ^^