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Gary EMS employees ponder loss of jobs
By Michelle L. Quinn Post-Tribune Correspondent December 29, 2012 5:49PM
Updated: December 30, 2012 5:56PM
GARY — Juanita Smith walked out of the Gary Common Council Chambers Friday night in a haze of deep sadness.
Smith, 51, attended the council meeting that merged the Fire and Emergency Medical Services departments in an effort to save both.
While the 6-2 vote to merge the two does keep EMS — a service the city administration doesn't deny is vital — in the city and out of the hands of privatization, it does reduce the department to 255 personnel from 270 and creates 36 new firefighter-emergency medical technician positions.
Neither the Fire Department or the city's Human Resources Department has announced who the 15 employees are who will lose their jobs in the week ahead.
Still, Smith is convinced she will be one of them.
"We didn't know there were going to be layoffs; they did this in the last three or four weeks," the 15-year department veteran said. "This is my only income, and I just had a house built here 10 years ago.
"I don't know what I'm going to do next."
At a meeting last week, Fire Chief Teresa Everett told EMS workers that up to half of the department's 32 employees would be let go and replaced by the new firefighter-EMT position.
Everett said told the city Finance Committee on Thursday that meetings were held with EMS personnel advising them of the merger and the potential lay-offs for individuals that were not firefighter/EMS trained or paramedics. Also, she said all newly hired firefighters are required to have EMT certification. She said paramedics staying with the department received pay raises to achieve parity with fire personnel with similar responsibilities and qualifications.
Employees in the EMS Department received letters explaining if the 2013 budget, which reflected the merger, wasn't passed by the council, "EMS Services will cease and the department will no longer exist," and its employees will lose their jobs. It further said if the 2013 budget is passed, reorganization will occur and "some jobs may still be lost," but every effort would be made to minimize the loss.
That letter was dated Dec. 14.
Juana McLaurin, 60 and a 32-year EMS worker and a member of the city's Fire Commission, remained defiant.
"Told you that's what was coming. They never said a word, but I watched how they played it," McLaurin said. "Half the firefighters have second jobs. They didn't consider anything about us. They didn't care."
Mary Smith, whose 33-year career with the department marks her as one of the three original Gary EMS workers, just cried.
"I put my whole life into this workplace," she said. "I have bills. I live in this city, and I vote in this city. And I have no other job. How do I start over at 57?
"I'm a good medic. I had to be retrained to be a trauma medic, and Gary has a lot of trauma."
Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson said at the Friday meeting that priority would be given to the 15 displaced employees with regard to available positions in the Building and General Services departments.
Juanita Smith scoffed at the notion.
"(Freeman-Wilson's) going to look for jobs for us. What a joke," she said. "Everyone in Northwest Indiana came to Gary EMS to train because we had the best department."
That's why Scot Bryce, 46, joined 71/2 years ago after working in the private sector for 13 years prior: Gary EMS saw things few other EMS workers in the area see. He, too, fears he'll be one of the 15.
"My wife had to take a forced retirement, and now I'll be looking for a job with two young kids," Bryce said. "I was hoping to make this my career."
City Corporation Counsel Niquelle Allen apologized to the medics after the meeting.
"If it were up to me, this wouldn't have happened, but we don't have the money," Allen said. "The amount in the budget is the amount in the budget."

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NREL Ranks Leading Utility Green Power Programs |
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The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has selected the top 10 utilities in the U.S. that offer green power programs. NREL [read more] |
AEP Issues Two RFPs For Wind Energy Purchase Agreements |
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American Electric Power (AEP), a Columbus, Ohio-based utility, has issued two requests for proposals (RFP) seeking long-term wind energy purchase agreements. According to the company, [read more] |
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The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has accepted a 20-year growth plan for Idaho Power Co., a Boise, Idaho-based electric utility, that calls for 1,300 MW [read more] |
Applied Materials Increases Its Commitment To Green Power |
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Applied Materials, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of solar products using nanomanufacturing technology, has increased its commitment to Santa Clara Green Power, a renewable energy [read more] |
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Quebec NGOs Urge Government To Develop Renewable Energy Program |
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Three nongovernment organizations (NGOs) in Quebec have urged the province's new government, which will be elected today, to lead the development of a renewable energy [read more] |
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced the availability of $175 million in loan guarantees and $11.4 million in grants to support investments in [read more] |
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PECO, a Philadelphia-based utility and subsidiary of Exelon Corp., has filed a petition with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) to purchase the equivalent of [read more] |
Kansas City Utility Adds Wind Power To Its Portfolio |
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On August 15, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel issued a memorandum detailing seven new initiatives to prevent and respond to sexual assault in the military. In his message to the Services, the Secretary emphasized that eliminating sexual assault in the military is one of his top priorities. The new policies are intended to improve victim support, strengthen pretrial investigations, enhance oversight, and make prevention and response efforts more consistent across the military services. However, we note that the new policies do nothing to address the trauma experienced by families of victims and perpetrators.
Under the new policies outlined by the Secretary, the Services and the Department are directed to:
The Secretary also directed the Department of Defense Inspector General to regularly review closed sexual assault investigations and charged the Services with standardizing prohibitions on inappropriate behavior by recruiters and trainers.
The National Military Family Association applauds the Department's initiatives to prevent sexual assault. However, we remain concerned about the families of victims and perpetrators, who themselves have experienced emotional trauma and need support. We also note that families of service members convicted of crimes, including sexual assault, face losing housing, pay, and health care through no fault of their own. We urge Congress and the Department to take steps to make sure family members caught up in these circumstances receive the support they need.
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House-to-house collections are a great way to raise money. Collection envelopes can be dropped through letterboxes in your local area and then picked up at a later date.
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Collecting with a collection box in your local community is a great way to raise a large amount of money in a short space of time. Best of all, it is easy and fun to do!
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Machena, Wadzanai Cheryl URN etd-04152012-120425 Document Title The propensity to adopt mobile banking among the unbanked at the base of the pyramid in South Africa Degree MBA Department Gordon Institute of Business Science Supervisor
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- adoption
- base of the pyramid
- financial inclusion
- mobile banking
- unbanked
Date 2012-03-08 Availability unrestricted Abstract The increasing mobile penetration rates in Africa provide an interesting opportunity to mitigate financial exclusion on the continent. Through mobile phone applications that provide an electronic store of value that sits on the mobile phone, the unbanked poor can now access accounts and initiate financial transactions on their mobile phone. The mobile phone presents a more affordable and accessible channel for transacting.The aim of the research was to determine the inclination for the unbanked at the base of the pyramid in South Africa to adopt mobile banking. In total, 100 individuals were interviewed to determine their propensity to adopt mobile banking if it were made available to them. The criteria for selection were residence in an informal settlement in Gauteng, being unbanked and having access to or ownership of a mobile phone.
Graphical representations of the findings were analysed to determine the proportion of the sample that would adopt mobile banking under the various constructs. It was concluded that mobile banking had a high likelihood of being adopted by individuals at the base of the pyramid on the basis of its low cost, the convenience and security it offered, and the ease of its use. Additional factors in favour of adoption included observability and trialability.
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Thursday, June 1, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM Local directors shine at this festSpecial to The Seattle Times Smack in the middle of the Seattle International Film Festival comes a weekend of tempting counterprogramming to the SIFF behemoth. The second annual Seattle True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) opens tonight and runs through Sunday. The first STIFF came together fairly quickly last year, presenting about 60 independent works from the Northwest and beyond. It was the brainchild of local filmmakers who decided that more attention should be paid to Seattle directors of ambitious shorts and features The 2006 edition of STIFF offers 63 films from seven countries. About a quarter of those, says festival director Clint Berquist, are local. Berquist says he and his staff are pleased with this year's crop of movies from the U.S., Canada, Spain, Japan, Denmark, Italy and the United Kingdom. "The quality has gone up considerably," Berquist says. "We had a year to plan and program, and we had double the number of last year's submissions to choose from." On the bill are documentaries, narrative features, experimental shorts, comedies, psychological horror and animation. Seattle entries include Todd Pottinger's promising "Big City Dick," a nonfiction look at the public and private life of street musician Richard Peterson; Joe Shapiro's "Anybuddy Home?," in which a man is faced with the challenge of disposing of his friend's body; and Chris Diani's "Creatures from the Pink Lagoon," described as a "campy spoof of classic B horror flicks [in which] libidinous gay men are turned into flesh-eating zombies by toxic mosquitoes." Also on the schedule are another 10 shorts recently completed under the auspices of STIFF's Weekend Film Challenge. A 48-hour film contest, the Challenge gave a number of production teams two days last month to make six-minute works. Each film had to incorporate randomly selected criteria such as genre, prop, character and punch line. Now playing Seattle True Independent Film Festival, tonight-Sunday, three Seattle theaters. For more info on schedules and tickets, go to www.stiff2006.com. That program will play twice. STIFF takes place at three Seattle venues: the Rendezvous (2322 Second Ave.), Central Cinema (1411 21st Ave.) and the Market Theater (1428 Post Alley). Tickets can be bought at the door or through the festival's Web site (www.stiff2006.com), which also has the full schedule and descriptions of each film. Highlights include the very funny, mistaken-identity comedy "Available Men," a short by David Dean Bottrell in which a talent agent, scheduled to meet an arrogant screenwriter in a hotel bar, mistakes another man for the screenwriter. The ensuing confusion is inspired farce demonstrating that dialogues about sex and business can easily sound similar. Locally produced "Wally," a moving documentary by Bob Fink, concerns a middle-age man with a mental disability. Living on a farm, supported by family and neighbors, the affable Wally is under pressure to leave and radically change the only kind of life he has known since childhood. Hue Wong's crazy, kung-fu claymation piece "Yak Phlem" is an indescribable bout between a one-eyed ninja master and, well, something else. Visual-effects animator Jason Wen ("Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit") delivers the eye-popping "Cherie," about a waitress-cum-painter having a very, very bad hallucination reminiscent of David Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch." Scott Rosenbaum's arresting "Coda" stars singer Jasin Cadic as a glam rocker who spends his 27th birthday (the magic age for legendary rockers to die) throwing his weight around in his hometown and facing the wrath of a broken-down drunk (the New York Dolls' David Johansen). Two other features are worth noting: • Bill Tangeman's manic "Starbucking" is a documentary about a man named Winter on a mission to visit every Starbucks shop in the world. Is he obsessive-compulsive? A narcissist? (A highlight is his summit meeting with a guy attempting to eat at every Denny's.) • "In Broad Daylight" tells the extraordinary true story of the emotional and physical transition of the film's co-director, Jamie Koufman, a world-renowned doctor, from male to female. Background events, told from the perspective of Koufman's family and colleagues, are remarkable testimony to the tricky business of self-acceptance. Tom Keogh: firstname.lastname@example.com Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times Company Most read articles


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by Grant A. Simpson, FAIA and James B. Atkins, FAIA We're holdin' on tight (holdin' on tight) We are in a time of prosperity seldom equaled in our profession. For most of us, work is abundant, and working hours have been expanded to accommodate the demand. There is much less time available to practice architecture as we once did, always thought we would, and hoped that we could. Passing ourselves coming and going, we worry with recruiting new employees while hoping to keep the ones we have. We struggle to believe we are providing top notch services to reliable repeat clients, while we worry that we may not be able to accept that new commission we have worked so hard to earn. We are awash in emerging technology that promises to change our profession in many ways. We have too many e-mails to answer and constantly fidget with our PDAs and cell phones. We risk burning out ourselves and our coworkers with each passing day. By the mid-1900s, architecture, in terms of managing design delivery, had changed very little for more than a century. The modern firm of the 1970s, struggling to recover from the devastating recession of the early 1970s that almost decimated many old-line firms, attempted to adapt to new ideas designed to speed up the metabolism of architecture practice. This included learning to incorporate new technologies in a rapidly changing world of architecture. The need to study productivity and various methods for producing work faster and more efficiently became a priority. The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.—Persian Proverb Newer technologies took the pencil from our hands and replaced it with a keyboard. Electronic innovations allowed us to work faster and accomplish more, but the spaces of time between routine business activities began to compress, and the time for leisurely interaction in our work became harder to find. Work time as we know it today no longer offers us time to smell the roses. This article will examine the significant change that has developed in architecture over the past generation and its impact on our personal lives. We will look at the facets of our business that have put us in overdrive, increasing the speed of life and robbing us of much of our time once allocated for observing, pondering, discussing and, yes, listening. As soon as possible The time-honored methods of delivering architectural information before the 1970s were land-line rotary dial telephones, hand deliveries direct from the blueprint shop, and the United States Postal Service. An architect could always call the client and discuss the project, but transmission or shipping of drawings and images was a slow process. In a dire emergency, an architect could get on an airplane and deliver promised drawings in person. The exchange of information was much slower, as were the expectations of those participating. When facsimile machines and overnight deliveries entered the picture, the speed of life began to gain a faster pace. Just the fax These spaces of time between tasks, imposed by technical limitations, gave us more time for contemplation and creativity. We were able to give more time to our work, and obligated deadlines were more forgiving. As technical advances began to encroach upon our sacred spaces, the speed of life began to erode the luxurious time between tasks, robbing us of this once-respected commodity. Overnight deliveries The development of faster communications and deliveries had a systemic effect on our phases of service. With overnight deliveries came overnight responses. This caused us to push on the competitive edge by promising accelerated services. The roses, waiting to be smelled, became red blurs along the way. Personal communications The telephone was a necessary fixture in business commerce almost from the day it was invented. There is no one living today who did not grow up with this remarkable device. Nonetheless, its early use had significant limitations compared to today's technology. Once upon a time, a phone could not be answered while it was in use, and the six to eight messages received while you were out of the office were handwritten on pink memo pads by your secretary. You returned the calls and talked to your clients and business associates about the tasks and questions at hand. It could take a day or two to get in touch with each other, and when you did, you conversed in detail, exchanging as much information as possible, knowing that future communications would be just as cumbersome. Eventually, rotary lines were developed and your "secretary" could actually take a message for you while you were talking on another line. Now, only one phone call was necessary to leave the message. The development of cellular technology and improved electronics has brought efficiency and the speed of life to new heights. When voice mail arrived on the scene, a new form of telephone etiquette emerged. Social interaction no longer required a live conversation. Business could now be transacted through the exchange of messages without the human component of warm spontaneous interaction. E-mail, although it existed long before it achieved its current market penetration, served to speed up life dramatically, but it also significantly reduced the culture of personal communications. Replacing to a great extent the role of the telephone in business, it is now common to receive 50 or 60 e-mails a day, compared with 8 or 10 telephone calls of 20 years ago. The use of e-mail as a substitute for personal communications is now so pervasive that it is common to send an e-mail to a person sitting 20 feet away rather than walk over to his or her desk and have a conversation. The preference for and reliance upon e-mail as a substitute for personal communications is more poignant when observing an office when their e-mail server is down . . . employees become restless and angry and vent their helpless feelings brought about by those "idiots" in IT. As a result of voice mail and e-mail, we have all become accustomed to communicating without personal contact. Human interaction is now a second priority. In fact, many people prefer this approach. Many find it tempting to put off returning a phone call until lunchtime or after work, leaving a message rather than actually talking to a person. Some prefer leaving a message to voice mail rather than talking to the person. This has become all the easier since the development of caller ID. The culture of people speaking real time to other people has greatly diminished. Now that e-mail has been coupled with PDF technology, fax machines and overnight deliveries have been pushed aside by the ability to e-mail large documents around the world in a matter of seconds. Not just an enemy of personal communications, e-mail is now serving to reduce even more the space between tasks, and the roses are almost rendered unseen. The path of artistry When computer-assisted drafting emerged as a usable technology, the great fear was that creativity would vanish. There was great concern that artistic sketches and flowing thoughts capable of becoming unique designs would give way to electronic libraries of static details that would yield only monotonous design regurgitations. Fortunately, great designs continue to come forth, but they often still begin with blank paper and pencil. Etch-A-Sketch® technology has not completely taken the pencil from our hands. Not yet. The Building Information Model anticipates more interaction among all industry players. Design teams are already obtaining 3D data from manufacturers and vendors. Rather than draft medical casework from scratch, the supplier can e-mail you their equipment already drawn. A laboratory interior can be completed in minutes. This practice offers the supplier a leg up on the competition because of proprietary nuances, and it is being adapted by all building-component manufacturers. It is possible that the entire building exterior could become an accumulation of components supplied, already drafted in 3D, for the architect to drag into place. Could this spell the end of learning how walls weep and flashing channels water? What about the artistry? Will artistry be forced to compete with what manufacturers have available? While these practices may improve quality control overall, they could possibly dumb us down even more. The spaces of time required for researching products and understanding how they perform may be deemed unnecessary. When was the last time you flipped through a volume of Sweets® just to study the details and learn about products? Or the last time you did it was it done on the Web with a search of unemotional but surgical precision? Balancing the thick book and marking all those pages was once a part of the process. It took more time, which allowed more thought and deliberation. As we flipped the pages we tended to learn unexpected things along the way. Yet BIM is in all likelihood the next great catalyst of change for the profession of architecture. It is a catalyst that offers the promise of moving us closer to a practice integrated with all of the participants in the design and construction process. It may also be a tool that allows great advances in the way architects view and accomplish design. That is, if we do not allow it to compress and eliminate further our precious spaces of time. The speed of life—conclusion Architecture was a little more fun when the speed of practice allowed for a little more contemplation of the tasks at hand. Many times we have risen from the drafting table confident that a good night's sleep would help reveal the solution to a gnarly design problem. Contemplation, introspection, and discussion among comrades often has revealed the path to a solution. The way we do architecture today, with CAD and e-mail and cell phones and PDFs . . . well, it has infused us and our clients with the expectation that "fast and furious with great precision" is just a day's work. We seem no longer to think of the possibility that a significant measure of the craft and artistry that has been so much a part of architecture has in many ways taken a back seat to technology and speed. Is the message that the introspection quotient has turned upside down? Or is the message that the speed of life is leaving the artistry of architecture behind? We believe these important messages should be considered as one approaches daily tasks and ponders the future. As you zip through all those e-mails, deleting some before reading and pecking out your response in terse, abbreviated replies, take a moment to think about what that framed diploma or license hanging on your wall really means to you. If you have been around awhile, think back and ask: Has your speed of life evolved as you hoped? Is it giving you the time you really want and need? You can adjust the speed, you know. Or, if you are just starting out, think about what you want your speed of life to be and be conscious of trying to make it so. It is never too late to become what you might have been.—George Elliot Everyone needs to reflect upon what we want to accomplish in the architecture of the future in this promising time of great change. We need to think about our spaces of time and how we want to live them. It is never too late to follow a road of our own making. Do we have an answer for how the speed of life is impacting our love for architecture? We can answer only for ourselves. How we deal with the speed of life is ultimately up to us as individuals. But we can offer that it is an awe-inspiring thing, smelling the roses. And, lest we forget, as you ponder your plans and contemplate your speed of life . . . try to be careful out there. Copyright 2006 The American Institute of Architects. All rights reserved. Home Page |
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- Posted by pellicanss (My Page) on Wed, Jul 27, 05 at 11:04
Are there any cell phone antennas/booster that actually do work to improve cell phone reception (Motorola V400 phone/Cingular subscription) in your home. We get "1 bar" type reception in our home. If we walk 200 feet up the street, we get 3 bars. Is there a way to effectively boost my in-home reception? |
My mobile phone (Samsung phone on Verizon) is very sensitive to location in the house. Service can vary from "none" to three bars depending on where I am in the house. Do you get "1 bar" reception all over the house? Right outside the house? Are you tending to use it next to a generator of electronic noise? (My phone has no service near my laptop.) The fact is that sometimes you just are in a low area of cell reception. Another carrier's antenna may be better situated and would work better. |
- Posted by pellicanss (My Page) on Wed, Jul 27, 05 at 14:30
We get one bar throughout house. Occassionally it will blip up to 2 bars. The reception does not sem to be impacted by electronic noise. We seem to be in a low area of cell reception. Guests with other carriers (Verizon, tmobile, sprint) have the same issue at our home. If I walk 100-200 feet up the street, I come out of the low lying area that our house is in and get 3 bar reception. |
thats the same with mine a sony/ericson phone it almost useless in the house, but walk up the block a house in either direction and i have good reception. i also have cingular. i got better service in the middle of the everglades than i get in the middle of my home in the detroit suburbs. there must be a way too boost the signal. its a real pain since i dont have a conventional phone. |
I find that phones with antennas that actually extend beyond the phone usually give better reception than those that have the antenna completely inside the phone where you can't see it. You might ask the people at the Cingular store which phones they offer that tend to get the best reception. Often the people know which ones are best in weak signal areas. With Sprint, the phones do vary significantly in terms of signal quality. I know you can install an amplifier and an external antenna for a cell phone. I've seen these for use in cars. They boost the power and have a better antenna that you could also put higher up. Kind of defeats the purpose of a "mobile phone" though if you have to hook it to an amplifier to use it in your house. If it were me I'd just call SBC and get a regular phone. To me, cell phones still aren't reliable enough to replace wired phones, even though I know a lot of people do use them that way. |
- Posted by toomuchremodeling (My Page) on Thu, Mar 28, 13 at 7:27
I have ATT and got a microcell. It plugs into your home Ethernet and makes a mini cell tower in your house. Works great. Had zero reception and now I have full bars. There are also cell boosters that are just antennas that transmit. |
Here is a link that might be useful: ATT Microcell
I have both the ATT microcell and a Verizon network extender. My work phone is AT&T and family is on Verizon. My home is a 0-1 bar deadspot on both networks. Both extenders act as small cell towers and route all calls and text over my Internet connection. They work great on all 3 floors of my house. Only issue is the cost of each. Work paid for the AT&T microcell. |
My cheapo Samsung always shows very good signal strength and always has lousy sound. Then one day I got a call on it while in a Costco and was amazed at the fidelity. Weird. |
installed an at&t microcell recently and works great. just don't pay for it yourself. demand that AT&T give you billing credit or send a free one. after all it is their issue that you can't access a nearby tower. threaten to switch to verizon if necessary - worked for me. w/the microcell i get 5 bars and 3G via the ethernet connection where before i had "Searching...." |
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My home was struck by lightening last week. A large tree in the yard (5 feet1 0 away was hit as well but luckily still standing) All the electrical outlets were damaged and light bulbs blown out of their sockets. Holes were torn in the eaves trough and a sensory light blown off the wall of the house. As well, the heavy duty stove electriclal cord was burnt through in two places even though the bracker had been turned off. I would like information about:
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Dear Trudy-
Lightning strikes can produce some very strange effects, as you have observed first-hand. Lightning usually strikes the highest feature above the ground, but can "run" or jump to adjacent objects, such as houses, power lines, or even people or animals. Most like some of the lightning strike entered your home through the electrical circuitry.
Here is some more information concerning lightning for you Trudy.
Lightning is a fascinating phenomonon, one not totally understood by scientists. What HAPPENS during the initiation of a lightning stroke is fairly well recognized, and, thanks to high speed cameras, has even been caught on film several times. Lightning is responsible for more deaths each year (approx 200 in the U.S. annually) than either tornadoes or hurricanes. Many people are not aware of the hazard that lightning presents when they are outdoors in a thunderstorm.
Lightning can originate from the ground in the direction of the cloud, as well as strokes that originate within the clouds.
What is not totally understood is how the charge separates within the cloud, that leads to the electric field differential that triggers the formation of the conductivity channels within the atmosphere.
Here are some excellent websites that explain how lightning forms. Some are pretty basic, and a couple are more advanced. You might check these out.
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This sounds like a classical strike to your electrical service (the AC line into your house). If it was raining at the time of the lightning strike, the lightning energy could even have come down the large tree first. It doesn't matter whether your electrical service comes into your house through the ground or via overhead lines. Lightning is good at penetrating the soil, especially if wet, and going into the electrical service line. From there it enters the house, blows right past the circuit breakers (circuit breakers do not protect you from electrical surges from outside the house, whether on or off), and goes through all of the electrical cable and fixtures in the house, often starting a fire in furniture, carpet, or the walls. What you described fits this pattern perfectly. This happened in exactly the same way to one of my neighbors ten years ago, and their house burned some as a result. Of course, as a lightning researcher and lightning protection system designer/inspector, I spent some time in the house assessing what had happened - a rare opportunity.
As to how lightning occurs, a thunderstorm builds up large areas of positive and negative electrical charge resulting from the friction of water droplets being lifted and dropped in the cloud. Even though air is a good insulator, eventually the charged areas become strong enough that a small stream of electrons (called a leader migrate from a positively charged area towards a negatively charged area.
Another leader comes from the negatively charged are to meet it. These ionize the air enough to give a conductive path and and negative electrons flow to the positively charged area to neutralize it. The flow of energy is so great that it actually causes the air to explode in a pressure wave and the energy also produces light. This is a lightning stroke, and can occur as a ground stroke or from one area of the thunderstorm cloud to another. Most of the molecules in the air at the site of the lightning stroke are blown apart by the huge amount of energy and then recombine into other molecules and pure atoms. A thunderstorm cloud actually has so much charge in it that it induces a buildup of charge on the ground under it. If the area on or near the ground area is large enough and intense enough, it becomes a preferred site for a lightning strike. Trees, chimneys, towers, etc. are prime targets as they are tall and can provide some distance of path that takes the place of the leader. They can also build up charge more easily, especially if not grounded. In our lightning research, we use a rocket to send a wire up into the air; this serves the same purpose as a wet tree or tall tower, by providing a path for the lightning energy; in this way, lightning is "triggered" and can be studied in a more controlled way.
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It's not every day that we find ourselves sympathetic to Apple's attorneys but a weird bobblehead-like plastic sculpture of Steve Jobs, created by a sculptor with the deeply obnoxious handle XVALA (we suspect XVALA's last name is CAPSLOCK), might just have us rooting for the legal eagles from Cupertino. Apple's lawyers are famous for squashing attempts to co-opt or appropriate any aspect of the Apple brand, and this certainly qualifies.
As Slashgear reports, the sculpture is of Jobs in his trademark mock turtle and jeans wielding an iPhone and standing on Apple's classic bitten apple logo.
As seen in photos it's an almost comically creepy image but the press release about the show featuring the sculpture claims the real twist is in the materials used to create the… thing:
Coated in an "Apple White finish," the sculpture is cast in the artist's patented plastic porcelain, mixed with a recycled resin made up of Steve Job's residential trash which the artist collected from the tech icon's home several months before his death.
XVALA's motives for creating the sculpture will likely get more attention than the piece itself. In the press release from Cory Allen Contemporary Art, the artist says, "Either waiting in line or in an assembly line, Apple is to die for."
XVALA also promises an upcoming series of pieces "coated in Apple Black" that will "serve as a motif for the past suicides at the Foxconn factories."
The pieces will be part of a gallery show in Los Angeles on October 13.
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If an adventure has a "Terror: Lose 1 Sanity", and I fail to complete a task and I rolled 2 terror symbols, do I lose 2 sanity or 1 sanity?
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The particularly good thing about the AMP! Edition is that it's more than just an overclocked card. We won't go into too much detail just yet though, let's first move onto the packaging side of things before moving onto a closer look at the card itself to see what ZOTAC have done different.


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Closer? Exploring a smart domestic technology to support interpersonal connectedness over distance
December 27th, 2013Earlier this year I finished the MSc (with Distinction ;-) in Human-Computer Interaction with Ergonomics at UCL I've previously written about on this blog.
Below is the introduction to my dissertation. The full dissertation (pdf) is available from the UCL Interaction Centre website.
Connectedness, the subjective experience of interpersonal closeness (Lee & Robbins, 2000), is a fundamental need for human well-being (Smith & Mackie, 2007; Townsend & McWhirter, 2005 1. The need can be especially salient in relation to partners and close family members (Lindley, 2011; Neustaedter, Harrison & Sellen, 2013). Since connectedness is closely related to physical presence (Dey & De Guzman, 2006; Rettie, 2003), maintaining it over geographical distance can be a challenge. In an exploratory study of communication patterns of close family members living apart, we found indications of connectedness dipping between regular communications, resulting in feelings of anxiety and loss (Stawarz et al., 2012).
The Information Age and ubiquitous computing has brought a host of supplementary technologies to support interpersonal communication over distance. Voice calls, video calls, email, SMS, instant messaging, social network sites, and smart phone games offer a range of possibilities for staying in touch with our loved ones. Yet it seems they don't meet our need for connectedness.
Kuwabara et al. (2002) offer a possible explanation for this. They argue that current communication technologies are content-oriented, focused on precisely transmitting explicit content. However, in co-located relationships, implicit mood and presence cues help evoke and sustain a sense of connectedness (Kuwabara et al., 2002).
Studies exploring communication of mood cues (e.g. Boehner et al., 2007; Fagerberg, Ståhl & Höök, 2004) offer interesting possibilities for rich connectedness-oriented communication. However, indications suggest a simple representation of a loved one's presence can in some instances be enough to create a sense of connectedness. In an ethnographic study of instant messaging use, Nardi, Whittaker, and Bradner (2000, p. 79) found participants occasionally monitored the contact list for online presence to "maintain a sense of connection".
Research question
This study explores the experience of connectedness felt by individuals geographically separated from their partner, when adding automatically communicated remote presence information to an existing communication pattern.
We take a design-oriented research approach (Fallman, 2003), and explore the phenomenon through a dyadic remote presence indicator prototype – a tangible version of the online presence icon known from instant messaging systems – linking two physical locations. In particular, we seek to understand what qualities of the prototype support an evocation of connectedness.
The aim of the study is to generate insights, which can be used generatively when using the design strategy of remote presence awareness to design connectedness-oriented technology.


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Wibar, a new wine bar from airport food and beverage operator OTG and designed by a team led by David Taglione at New York–based design firm ICRAVE, has made its debut just in time for the busy holiday travel season. The lounge, located in the center of an aisle at New York's LaGuardia Delta Terminal C, beckons travelers with its massive chandelier made of more than 1,100 custom glass crystals.
The shimmering, jewel-like canopy descends around the bar, which is wrapped in dark ebony wood and features a wall of more than 100 wines selected by Master Sommelier Roger Dagorn. Red accents are used in the signage, seating, and illuminated band that wraps the space. Pouring stations integrated into the feature wall bring the aroma of wine to customers, who place orders via iPads attached to their tables.


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When my mom reminisces about the time in her 20's that she worked in Downtown OKC, she talks about shopping on her lunch break in the underground, grabbing jelly bellies from a cute little candy shop and strolling along beautiful shop windows. Although this may not be a completely accurate perception of Downtown OKC in the 70's (I'm sure Steve Lackmeyer will let me know), it's one that I've always held as a goal.
I want a downtown that's bustling with activity — all day, not just 8-5. I want shops and restaurants to have successful businesses in our downtown. I want visitors that stay at the Skirvin to have a plethora of unique places to go within walking distance.
We've come a long way and if the success of places like Shop Good and Elemental Coffee or the grand opening of our first downtown grocer Native Roots Market are any indication, we're headed in the right direction.
This holiday season, I've curated a set of Pop-Up Shops in the Myriad Botanical Gardens' restaurant. I want this to not only serve as an efficient way for downtown employees to get ALL of their holiday shopping done at local shops but also as a preview of what our downtown can become. I encourage you to support these pop-up shops and let them know that you appreciate the work that it's taken to set up a temporary shop downtown.
The complete details of the event are available on my Pop-Up Shops page. But, here's a quick list of who to expect at some point in this holiday season: Blue Seven, Full Circle Bookstore, Uptown Kids, Sara Kate Studios, Cedarburg Square, The MakeUp Bar, A Date with Iris, Urbane, Kokopelli, Pencil Shavings Studio, True North Living, Native Roots Market, Bella Vita Jewelry, Boho Gypsy and a gift wrapping station. That's a group of OKC's finest, people!
Shops open Black Friday and will continue popping up until Christmas Eve. Hours of operation are 11am-8pm.
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Marcus Loew (May 7, 1870 – September 5, 1927) was an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loews Theatres and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
Born into a poor Jewish family in New York City, he was forced by circumstances to work at a very young age and thus had little formal education. Nevertheless, beginning with a small investment from money saved from menial jobs, he bought into the penny arcade business. Shortly after, in partnership with Adolph Zukor and others, Loew acquired a nickelodeon and over time he turned Loew's Theatres into the most prestigious chain of movie theaters in the United States.[citation needed]
By 1905, Marcus Loew was on his own and his success eventually necessitated that he secure a steady flow of product for his theaters. In 1904, he founded the People's Vaudeville Company, a theatre chain which showcased one-reeler films as well as live variety shows. In 1910, the company had considerably expanded and got the name Loew's Consolidated Enterprises. His associates included Adolph Zukor, Joseph Schenck, and Nicholas Schenck. In 1919, Loew reorganized the company under the name Loew's, Inc. [1]
By 1913, Loew managed several theatres in New York City: the American Music Hall; Avenue A Theatre; Avenue B Theatre; Broadway Theatre (41st St.); Circle Theatre; Columbia Theatre, Brooklyn; Delancey St. Theatre; Greeley Sq. Theatre; Herald Square Theatre; Liberty Theatre, Brooklyn; Lincoln Sq. Theatre; National Theatre (149th St.); Plaza Theatre; 7th Ave. Theatre (124th St.); Shubert Theatre, Brooklyn; and Yorkville Theatre.[2] Outside of New York, he managed the Columbia Theatre (Boston) and the Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia).[2]
In 1920, Loew purchased Metro Pictures Corporation. A few years later, he acquired a controlling interest in the financially troubled Goldwyn Picture Corporation which at that point was controlled by theater impresario Lee Shubert. Goldwyn Pictures owned the "Leo the Lion" trademark which at the time was inconsequential to the importance of its studio property in Culver City, California. Without Samuel Goldwyn, the Goldwyn studio lacked capable management. With Loew's assistant Nicholas Schenck needed in New York City to help manage the large East Coast movie theater operations, Loew had to find a qualified executive to take charge of this new Los Angeles entity.[citation needed]
Loew found himself faced with a serious dilemma: his merged companies lacked a central managerial command structure. Film production had been gravitating toward southern California since 1913, while he himself was loath to relocate west. He also wisely recognized his limitations; he was not a hands on movie mogul, rather he was a theater owner and took immense pride in owning the largest chain of the grandest movie palaces in the United States.[citation needed] By 1917 he oversaw a number of enterprises: Borough Theatre Co., Empress Amusement Corp., Fort George Amusement Co., Glendive Amusement Corp., Greeley Square Amusement Co., Loew's Consolidated Enterprise, Loew's Theatrical Enterprises, Mascot Amusement Co., Natonia Amusement Co., People's Vaudeville Co.[3]
Loew's new conglomeration of companies had mired themselves in several costly troubled productions (among them, Ben-Hur (1925), and tangled contractual dealings with Erich von Stroheim, whose cost overruns doomed any production he was associated with) that threatened to bring the entire venture to its knees.[citation needed]
Loew recalled meeting a film producer named Louis B. Mayer and through due diligence, learned that he had been operating a successful, if modest, studio in east Los Angeles. Mayer had been making low budget turgid melodramas for a number of years, marketing them primarily to women. Since he rented most of his equipment and hired most of his stars on a per-picture basis, Loew wasn't after Mayer's brick and mortar business; he wanted Mayer. What Loew didn't fully realize is that a tremendous amount of Mayer's success was due to his Chief of Production, a former Universal Pictures executive, Irving Thalberg. Nicholas Schenck was dispatched to cut a deal that, incredibly, didn't include Thalberg. Mayer, to his credit, insisted that Thalberg remain with the company and after tense negotiations, Loew caved.[citation needed]
In April 1924, Metro-Goldwyn Pictures was formed. Loew, Mayer, and Thalberg set about to create the world's premier film studio (which had previously been Universal Pictures), with Thalberg taking immense pleasure in overtaking his former employer on every production level. Thalberg's career at Universal had been marred with a failed romance with Carl Laemmle's daughters and a recognition that his future at the paternalistic studio had hit a wall. Mayer and Thalberg scored an almost immediate coup by signing Universal star Lon Chaney to Metro's first non-inherited production He Who Gets Slapped (1924).[citation needed]
Mayer's company folded into Metro Goldwyn with two notable additions: Mayer Pictures' contracts with key directors such as Fred Niblo and John M. Stahl, and up-and-coming actress Norma Shearer, later married to Thalberg. Mayer would eventually be rewarded by having his name added to the company. Loews Inc. would act as MGM's financier and retain controlling interest for decades.[citation needed]
While immediately successful, Loew never got to see the powerhouse that MGM was to become. He died three years later of a heart attack at the age of 57 in Glen Cove, New York. He was interred in the Maimonides Cemetery in Brooklyn.[4]
For his very significant contribution to the development of the motion picture industry, Marcus Loew has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1617 Vine Street. To this day, the Loew name is synonymous with movie theaters.[citation needed]
Further reading[edit]
- Robert Sobel, The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition (Weybright & Talley, 1974), chapter 7, "Marcus Loew: An Artist in Spite of Himself" ISBN 0-679-40064-8
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Over the weekend, Rainer Sabin of the Dallas Morning News wrote about the possibility that the Cowboys could go after Asomugha, partly to prevent him from joining the rival Eagles:
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The second in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquash where the owner Giddy tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey, the militant owner of Camp Patton located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake area to expand Camp Patton. Giddy suggests settling the issue with the traditional end-of-the-summer boxing match over rights to the lake. Meanwhile, a tough, inner city punk, nicknamed Flash, is at Camp Sasquash for community service as a counselor-in-training where he sets his sights on the naive and intellectual Cheryl, while Flash's young charges befriend an alien, whom they name Meathead, also staying at the camp for the summer.
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Meatballs Part II is an 80's camp film that felt like it was on cable at least twice a week during my entire childhood. I'm sure I saw this over 30 times between 1985 and 1990. If there were ever a time I should not be trusted for my opinion on a film, this is probably it.
I'm going to say it. Meatballs Part II was perfect. A bold claim? Okay... it was the perfect film for me and it came at the perfect time. Meatballs Part II is one of those "PG" comedies that straddles a weird line between kids movie and teen sex romp. These don't happen anymore... the 80's were a special time. Terminator, A Nightmare on…
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Camp Sasquatch is open for the summer and the kids are ready to have a good time, except for the fact that Camp Patton across the lake wants to duke it out in a boxing match for the lake and camp property. And the fight isn't looking to be in the favour of good Camp Sasquatch.
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