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Cloud computing is the hottest topic in IT. Gartner ranks cloud in the #1 spot of its list of top 10 strategic technology topics. It is the overriding theme at most industry conferences this year. Projections of cloud revenue growth rates in the high double digits further underscore the relevance of the topic.
Yet today's discussions of cloud computing only hint at its full potential. Like the early days of e-business and the introduction of SOA, cloud is in its infancy, with its promise still to be fully realized. Advocates of cloud are limiting their focus to tactical cost benefits and efficiency gains on the IT infrastructure side, but the real benefit of cloud computing will be realized within the context of future developments that will shape the course of IT. When combined with these developments, cloud computing will become part of an innovation that changes everyday life.
A Platform for Collaboration
Cloud computing will become the foundation for new forms of collaboration and cooperation within a company that break down barriers that separate individual departments, isolate specialist areas and IT organizations, and divide companies from customers and business partners. By breaking down these barriers, more people, more expertise and more business information will be brought together to create more dynamic and effective organizations.
The dynamic expansion of cooperation and collaboration, supported by the concept of cloud computing, will be driven by business needs and by changes within business organizations. This pattern of expansion has been true for every transformative IT development in recent history.
For instance, the replacement of the mainframe by the client/server model as the dominant computer architecture in the 1980s can be traced back to management's desire to establish a divisional or department-oriented organizational structure. The success of the internet/web as a communication infrastructure for businesses was directly related to the division of work in a globalized economy. By contrast, the relatively slower adoption of SOA in the years immediately after its introduction demonstrates that even excellent technical ideas fail to achieve a (rapid) breakthrough if the corresponding business driver is missing.
Consumer-Driven Cloud
Cloud computing offers that business driver by advancing the goals of cooperation and collaboration within a cost-effective and easily scalable model. Within businesses worldwide, the expansion of forms of cooperation and collaboration is already taking place. Gartner calls this phenomenon and its further evolution "extreme collaboration."
In turn, this expansion has been triggered by changes taking the consumer segment by storm. The expansion of cloud computing to power collaboration in the consumer market is closely linked with names like Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, Apple and Amazon. With names synonymous with technological progress and innovation, these companies are successfully demonstrating what cloud computing can do—even if they rarely use the term "cloud" themselves.
These companies are proving every day—in an extremely difficult and demanding consumer market environment—that the use of IT does not have to be subject to any location or time constraints. All that is needed to access an impressive array of services and communication applications are web capability and internet access. Nearly endless IT resources in the provider's data center are ready to switch on and off automatically as needed. Highly efficient virtualization concepts for separating technical levels and workload processes, combined with a modular, expandable data center design that is based on standardized system blocks, establish the necessary conditions to deliver communication and collaboration capabilities to users across the globe.
These businesses and smaller service platforms such as Foursquare, emphasize the benefits of active user participation in various ways. They bring like-minded people together (social networking through Facebook), support working together (social collaboration through wikis and blogs), guarantee standardized access to information (social publishing with Flickr, YouTube and slideshare.com) and generate feedback (social feedback with Amazon). All the examples mentioned above have two things in common. First, they focus on users and their needs and are streamlined for communication and collaboration. Second, they establish a comfortable user environment with the cloud computing operational model. Where and how the infrastructure to support this model exists, let alone IT infrastructure scalability issues, are not a concern for customers.
Cloud Use in Business: Tactics and Beyond
Cloud services increasingly are being offered for companies at different levels—from server and storage, to applications such as e-mail or office programs, even to specialized applications. Instead of operating their own data centers, businesses can consume and pay for services as needed. Growth rates in the high double digits document the interest in this option. Cloud revenues in the enterprise sector are expected to quadruple to about $11.4 billion by 2015.
The consumption of cloud services promises greater flexibility in the face of changing needs compared to investing a company's own resources in planning, implementing and operating technology themselves. Anyone who has seen the reaction of a CIO when told that more than 200 additional users need to access an application or server will understand the more tactical business drivers for cloud. Although cloud services provide an easy and cost-effective way to scale quickly and gain additional resources, CIOs are significantly missing out on the true potential of cloud computing if they limit their perspective to this use. Separating access to IT resources from their physical location enables companies to finally cash in on the promise to focus on and involve the user by supporting new and innovative forms of collaboration.
Apple established a cloud-based ecosystem around its iPhone business. The company itself provides an excellent end-user device and an appealing marketing and payment platform through which the consumer can access applications for the iPhone. Apple then allows application developers to share in the success without having to deal with the nuisance of running an online shop organizing payment transactions. Apple supports these activities through its online App Store and iTunes platforms—and makes money in the process.
Sometimes a company's own customers encourage it to open up to "crowdsourcing," a term coined by Jeff Howe about five years ago and seen in the case of Lego, the world's fourth- largest toy manufacturer. The Danish company approaches its customers openly through its "Mindstorms" project, where every interested Lego fan has access to a variety of design tools, message boards and other features to create their own models, publish model designs in the Lego community and develop them further as a group. Awards are given to the best domestic, exotic, most creative, and most interactive toys.
The Mindstorms project is considered a blueprint for successful customer participation. Throughout the business world, numerous open-source projects are also proof that groups can organize their work on products online, independent of location and time. In its simplest form, a growing number of companies are inviting their customers to "friend" them—to use popular social networking jargon—to share their ideas, opinions and wishes.
Strategy and Opportunity
Economists like to place the concept of social computing and crowdsourcing in the context of theories presented by British economist and Nobel Prize winner Ronald Harry Coase in "The Nature of a Firm." In the end, business decisions revolve around the following question: Under which conditions should a company invest its own effort or outsource it to a third party? The internet has significantly reduced the cost of collaboration, and the cost of coordination and communication. The operational model of cloud computing further reduces this initial hurdle because of the easy and flexible way companies can access IT services independent of location or time.
In principle, bringing together the cloud and crowd opens up excellent opportunities to more effectively divide up complex tasks and projects into smaller segments, work on them independently, and then merge them back together again. According to the Gartner list mentioned above, social communication and collaboration—along with cloud computing and mobile applications/media tablets —round out the three most important strategic technologies to watch in 2011. Gartner predicts that the majority of enterprise applications will have integrated social computing technologies by 2016. At a conference on developments in enterprise customer relationship management, Gartner analyst Adam Sarner even put forward the theory that these activities are taking the internet back to its original idea of user collaboration and participation.
But opportunities exist in more than just improved business results, as some theorists have proposed. They can also be found in the area of intra-organizational information and communication processes. Potential areas of application for new types of cooperation can be quickly identified in every layer and operational level of a business.
For instance, in a manufacturing firm, sharing among product and process experts, department heads, customers and partners in the planning process establishes an excellent basis for addressing customer needs with product improvements. It also accelerates product development and delivery. Equipping staff with mobile end devices guarantees that coordination and decision-making happen in real time. This real-time management enables smooth transitions by allowing anyone to enter or quit the interaction at any time. A variety of internal and external participants work together, without organizational or geographic barriers, to introduce operational improvements and process optimizations to the service portfolio. Instead of having to spend precious time requesting information from individual departments within a company or compiling results, they are simply "there."
The result: The company saves time and money, delivers better products and ultimately strengthens its competitive power. For this reason, it is in a CIO's best interests to adapt social computing technologies and extreme collaboration applications to IT-supported processes.
Cloud Cautions: the Crippling Effect of "Standard"
The goal of gaining greater agility and flexibility in IT is not fundamentally new, and helping companies achieve that goal has been the promise of many technology developments preceding cloud. Companies should apply the lessons learned from prior technology initiatives in their exploration of cloud computing.
In the past, many technically-motivated IT concepts have failed to reach their full potential on the application side (supply chain management, customer relationship management, and lean production) or on the program level (SOA) when faced with the reality of a traditional application approach. One reason for this failure is that when searching for the most comprehensive support for business processes, the majority of companies decided establish a long-term partnership with a provider of enterprise resource planning systems, such as SAP or Oracle. Because of the process support they provide along every service and value chain, standard systems promise maximum efficiency when compared with a combination of specialized solutions from different providers. Application function and process management are firmly interwoven.
But companies pay for the advantage of a high level of integration with a loss of flexibility, which is a prerequisite for the dynamic agility expected in today's business world. Without flexibility, with every process change businesses are obligated to spend time and money on customization projects with IT specialists realigning segments of the standard software. The diversity and breadth of the standard software market in all its various categories are ultimately expressions of the inherent contradiction between standard and flexibility.
Today, the market clearly favors agility and speed over standard systems and integration. Businesses need an open platform to counter the crippling effects of rigid application systems once and for all, and to lay the groundwork for agile forms of working and the organization of processes. The starting points for such a platform are, first, a consistent separation of process design and management from the content of standard business software. Second, this platform must include the concepts of social media/crowd computing for designing and managing company processes.
Cloud Computing Complements Business Process Management
Cloud computing is also a natural complement to business process management (BPM). Collaboration is essential for the modern goals of BPM, which requires cooperation across the enterprise. To achieve this collaboration and cooperation, a process and integration platform is needed that follows the entire lifecycle—all the way from modeling a process to executing it within a software runtime—of a business process with a uniform architecture philosophy and a semantic metadata model. Only then can an organization bridge the existing gap of understanding between business and technical IT around BPM. With the collaborative approach of model-to-execute, business process models created by process designers can be transferred into executable services in the IT and application landscapes with a high degree of automation. Changes made by any stakeholder are immediately transparent at every work level. The integration of performance data from technical monitoring with key business process indicators creates the basis for collaborative dashboarding to enable ad hoc and joint decision-making when facing new market challenges or disruptions.
Along with a common understanding at the content level, having access without constraints to business processes and tool environments is beneficial for realistic collaboration scenarios. This is where the cloud computing model comes into play. Similar to social media platforms, users can invite each other to collaborate on BPM-related projects on short notice, regardless of their location. A web front end is all that is needed to share process knowledge and models, compare them and develop them further as a community.
Using cloud computing to simplify the collaboration between process stakeholders is a key success factor for improving flexibility and quickly adapting business processes to address constantly changing market conditions. A business process can be modeled, prototyped and tested quite easily in the cloud. Whether the services and applications are run in the cloud later or on a traditional in-house system is irrelevant. Without a doubt, businesses have greater access to specialized application services through the cloud computing model. Therefore, all data and services will need to be incorporated transparently in a complete process design from the operational side—independent of location and origin.
The combination of BPM, collaboration and cloud will inevitably lead to a radical change in how businesses deal with standard software—a change that is even anticipated to surpass the switch from mainframe/host-based solutions to the client/server model. Instead of a centralized purchase of complete solutions, the customization of process logic for businesses will be managed outside application functions.
Providers of standard software must attempt to loosen the deep integration of their software and offer more small-scale application content. Only then will application providers open up the full potential of cloud computing. Unfortunately, by dominating the current discussion with technical concerns, some software companies are successfully distracting from the actual requirements context. Transferring a traditional ERP model into a cloud deployment might help increase efficiency in that regard, but that doesn't resolve the fundamental contradiction between standard software and process flexibility – it just hides it behind a cloud.
Ultimately, the value of cloud is far greater than a tactical focus on technology and operating costs. When utilized to collaborate on process design and other essential business tasks, cloud computing will be a source that powers the transformation to becoming a fully digital enterprise.
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Gertrude Craven Hightower | Gertrude Craven Hightower is the daughter of Samuel L. and Ethel F. Craven. Gertrude was born and raised in Roslyn with her many brothers and sisters. |
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Group of men, ca. 1890 | This early tintype photograph taken around 1890 shows the turn of the century dress and attire. The man standing on the left was carrying a gun for protection as did many of the early day residents of Roslyn, Washington Territory during the coal… |
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Harriet Jackson Williams, 1922 | Harriet Jackson Taylor Williams came from Braidwood, Illinois to Roslyn in September 1888 with one small son. Harriet, born in Richmond, Virginia in 1871, journeyed with the wives and families of Black miners brought to Roslyn to break the coal mine… |
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Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 1898 | James J. Quinn helped raise money to build the Roslyn church in 1887. The parish was formed from the Ellensburg St. Andrew's parish in 1886. |
Independent Mine - Cle Elum | Independent Mine Company operated a coal mine in Cle Elum. |
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J. S. Baer telegram, 1889 | Northern Pacific Coal Company official J. S. Baer informed John Kongley of coal mine situation in Roslyn. More African-American miners were brought to Roslyn from Illinois as strike breakers. |
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James Shepperson, labor recruiter, ca. 1915 | James Shepperson, Kittitas County businessman and labor recruiter in the 1880s and 1890s, was an early spokesman for the black community. He was the original founder of the Black Mason group in Washington State. Shepperson was also one of the… |
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Joyce Craven Greenwood, 1951 | Joyce Craven Greenwood, the daughter of Samuel and Ethel Craven, is shown in this 1951 photograph with her first grade class at a Portland, Oregon elementary school. Joyce Greenwood taught school for many years. |
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Leola May McClain, ca. 1923 | Leola Mae McClain was the daughter of Ethel Williams McClain (Craven) and her first husband. This picture was taken about 1923 when Leola was about one year old. |
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Lidge Williams, ca.1930 | Lidge Williams standing on mine railroad tracks in Cle Elum Washington during the 1930s. Lidge was one of many African-Americans living in the Roslyn - Cle Elum area employed by the railroads or the coal mining company. |
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Lydel Roberts, 1917 | In 1917 Lydel Roberts, a member of Roslyn's African-American community posed for this photgraph. |
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Machine shop N.W.I. Company, 1900 | A group of miners and machinists posed in front of the Northwestern Improvement Company's machine shop in 1900. Among the men were William Thompson, Harry Smith, Ole Pearson, S. Graves, Johnny Cusworth, and Jack Cadwell. |
Mark and Brice Jefferson | Mark and Brice Jefferson sitting on the lap of Santa Claus and the twin sons of Luele Craven Jefferson and the grandsons of Ethel F. Craven. |
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Mine and mountains, 1919 | Coal mining no. 7 at Cle Elum during the winter of 1919. The branch coal train runs next to the mine tipple. |
Mine tipple and miner's homes | Coal mining in the Cle Elum area offered many men employment. The mine tipple or mine entrance was located close to the mining family homes. |
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Miners in mine entrance, ca.1917 | For many men in the Roslyn area, mining was a way of life. Often two or three generations of the same family worked the mines. Four coal miners are shown standing in the entrance of the mine. |
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Mr. & Mrs. Sam Packwood, 1915 | Kittitas County Sheriff Sam Packwood (1842-1924) was a stabilizing force during the Roslyn Mine strikes of 1888 and 1889. Sam Packwood arrived in the Kittitas Valley in 1874 with his wife Margaret Holmes Packwood. He was County Sheriff from… |
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Mr. and Mrs. Powell Barnett, ca.1924 | Roslyn pioneers Powell Benjamin Barnett and his wife the former Mrs. Johnson posed for a picture in Roslyn about 1924. Powell Benjamin Barnett arrived in Roslyn in the late 1880s to work in the coal mines. Powell Benjamin died in 1939 and Melinda… |
Mrs. Bessie Wilson | Mrs. Bessie E. Wilson was a hard working member of Kittitas County's African-American community. She lived in Ellensburg for many years and died Dec. 13, 1936. |
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Mrs. Samuel Craven, Sr., ca. 1900 | Mrs. Samuel Craven, Sr., the mother of Samuel Lawrence Craven, lived in Texas in 1900 when this photograph was taken. Members of the Craven family arrived in Roslyn to work the coal mines in 1912 and 1922. |


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A Wednesday to Remember
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three parts Another highlight of our trip to the Manobo village happened on a Wednesday morning. While I was drinking coffee at the water reservoir, I noticed a young boy, about two years old, approaching the tub, planning to take a bath that cold early morning. As he removed his shorts, I went to our
room and took some soap and shampoo. I bathed that young boy. I then waited for
the other children to come, and did the same thing. I noticed that many of them
had wounds, scratches and colds.
After these kids took their baths, Tina cut
their long fingernails, and Tita Miriam offered free haircut for those with
long hair.
At about nine o'clock in the morning, we
had our pine tree planting. One pine tree was assigned per partner. The datu first dug the soil, and then we
cleared the soil of weeds before we planted the trees. Somebody was assigned to
put fences around the pine trees.
The next few hours, we became very busy
preparing for special numbers that we will present on our last night with the
village. It was an evening of worship, songs, messages, evangelism and
It was so amazing to see how these people
worship our God! All special numbers were seriously prepared judging by the
costumes worn by the elders. Everybody was excited as we watched the program.
No dull moments during the night. Everybody has been very responsive to the
The datu
and his wife wore their native costumes. When it was time for the datu to speak, he greeted all of us in
English. The people were surprised and cheered for their leader. Then he sang a
song in their language. Later, the local pastor translated the message
delivered by the datu.
A couple of families and groups rendered
their special songs and dance. Of course, we also prepared a special native
dance and our "finale skit," which served as an entry point for the
evangelistic message of Pastor Mhel.
After that special night with the whole
tribe, we had our last debriefing with all the leaders. That midnight was a
continuation of testimonies, blessings, encouragements and assurance of God's
equal love to all His creations.
A Sad But Hopeful Goodbye
Early Thursday morning was our personal
devotion near the "cross." Everybody was given a chance to share their
reflection and special message for the village. Some had visions that showed
the glory of God through the Manobos, and some precautions and warnings for
their leaders to be stronger and more faithful to the Lord.
When it was time to say goodbye to our host
families and to the rest of the community, we cannot hide our loneliness. It is
only God who can tell when we will have a chance to be with them again.
The children accompanied us and carried our
baggage all the way to the top of the mountain, where the truck was waiting for
us. It was almost a two-hour walk. We were so tired and a bit wet from the rain
shower when we reached the top. We felt tears of sadness and joy when we said
our thanks and goodbyes to the children.
Our "goodbye" with them is just temporary.
Though some of us have plans of going back again in 2012, we still can never
tell when God's best plan will be.
The training we had among the Manobos
through Asian Center for Missions is more than what we expected. All of us were
blessed, and the experience will leave a mark in our hearts that will never be
The name of the Lord be continuously
praised for what He has done and for all people that He will continue to touch
through the indigenous people of the Philippines! All glory belongs to Yahweh
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WASHINGTON — Offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan said Thursday that the Washington Redskins and other NFL teams with option-style plays in their offenses are "not shocking people" the way they did last season.
Opposing defenses have adjusted, Shanahan said, after it was "easy at times" last season to make such an offensive approach work.
"You knew any time you get the attention that we did, that San Fran. did, Seattle did last year, when you have something that was that successful, guys are too smart," Shanahan said at Redskins Park. "They're gonna work all offeason, find a way to stop it. I think when that happens, you've got to get better at the other stuff. I think we do have some other stuff. I think we are getting better at it. We did some of the stuff last year, too. But the thing about last year was, a lot of people weren't ready for it at all. So it was easy at times.
"Now it doesn't mean that it doesn't work. It's just not as — you're not shocking people like you were last year. And when teams are completely committed to stopping something, I don't care what it is, they're gonna stop it. And you've got to do other stuff and make them worry about other stuff before you want to come back to that and attack it."
The Redskins are off to an 0-3 start to the season and their offense has not been as productive as it was last season, when quarterback Robert Griffin III was the NFL's offensive rookie of the year. Griffin, coming off knee surgery in January, has not been as successful as a runner this season.
"I don't think it was any real big secret about what are they [opposing defenses] gonna do?" Shanahan said. "I mean, there's certain ways you knew they'd stop it — just go get the quarterback, not allow him to run, make him hand it off every time, overload the defense, put everybody over there, take a safety out of the middle of the field and bring him down so you're outnumbered. There's not too many options. Those are all the obvious options that do stop it.
"When teams do that, it leaves holes other places. And when you have holes other places, how automatic are you at executing those plays that attack that? I don't think we have been in all those areas. I think we've been a little hit or miss. We've just got to continue to be better cleaning all that up."
Shanahan said the Redskins' three opponents this season have tried different approaches on defense.
"They've switched it up," Shanahan said. "We've seen a couple ways they've played us. . . .They've mixed it up. We haven't got a lot of them called. . . .It hasn't been there all the time. I think Robert's proven he's a big threat on it. So I think guys are a little more reluctant just to give the quarterback the edge. And hopefully we get more runs, get more runs going and you end up seeing what happens."
The Redskins mixed option-play looks with some rollouts by Griffin during last Sunday's loss to the Detroit Lions. But Shanahan maintained that the Redskins didn't change their offensive approach greatly in Griffin's third game back.
"It's just game situation," he said. "We had the same plan in the first two games. We rolled him out versus Philly. I think he had two keepers versus Philly. We had some planned versus Green Bay but we knew it was gonna be tough versus Green Bay the way [linebacker Clay] Matthews came off the edge and they're always up the field. They contained. They kept you in the pocket pretty well. This game, we thought we had just as good of a chance like we thought versus Philly. But we were able to do better on third down. It was a tighter game. We were able to mix it up and keep them off balance. It just worked out better."


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West Hollywood, California (Monday, August 17, 2009) – (Part one of two parts – see Part II here) – The second annual West Hollywood International Film Festival (WHIFF)'s premier evening fell apart in a fiasco of Fellini-esque proportions this year.
Festival promoters switched locations 24 hours before the premier event (to Hollywood), played fast and loose with the premier night's schedule of events and stopped the headline film before its finish, alienating the high-profile set of panelists scheduled to discuss it and causing them, along with 80 percent of the audience, to stalk out in disgust.
The two short films left on the schedule after that maelstrom of events could not be seen because the festival lacked proper projection equipment – they apparently had relied on filmmakers to bring their own.
WHIFF promoter Martin Deluca told WeHo News five days before his festival premier that "no one stepped forward to sponsor my festival" and so he could not afford the fees asked by the Pacific Design Center (PDC).
He said that day that he had no idea where his premier would take place, telling only ticket holders by E mail on Tuesday that Wednesday's event had moved from West Hollywood to Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel.
WeHo News reviewed the premier film, "Annul Victory," about the Proposition 8 electoral battle over same-sex marriage, on Monday, changing locations late Tuesday after hearing from the film's subject, Robin Tyler.
At the same time Mr. Deluca changed locations, he also changed the schedule of events, attempting to separate the documentary and the panel Ms. Tyler had organized to talk about the move to repeal Prop 8 after the documentary's showing.
That panel included nationally-renown experts and gay movement leaders such as Jon Davidson, Senior Council for LAMBDA Legal and one of the lead attorneys in the historic California Supreme Court case which legalized same-sex marriage; Lorri Jean, Executive Director of the LA Gay & Lesbian Center; Marc Solomon, Marriage Director for Equality California; Olga Vives, past-Executive Vice President of the National Organization for Women and Director of NOW's Equal Marriage Campaign and Mat Palazzolo, co-founder Equal Roots.
Apparently Mr. Deluca wanted to put the panel discussion on first and then show unrelated films and then, to cap the night, show the already discussed "Annul Victory."
He told WeHo News, "I had filmmakers there from around the world and I wanted them to see their film first. [Ms. Tyler] came in and ruined everything."
Mr. Davidson told WeHo News a tale of mass confusion, "It was upsetting that they changed the location the day before because we'd sent out hundreds of E mails to Lambda Legal contacts…
"When I got there [for the reception scheduled at 6:00] I found total chaos; they couldn't check anybody in because they didn't have paper bracelets. We waited for half an hour for those to arrive."
Mr. Deluca was on the "red carpet" outside the ersatz "theater" (a ballroom in the Roosevelt with a glass ceiling that allowed flashing light seepage from the street giving the screenings the flavor of a public safety school film shown in a gymnasium) when, as attendee Pat Harrison tells it; "it was total chaos that night, and the audience was getting very, very upset that the Festival had not started on time.
"Finally,' she said, "Robin [Tyler] came up, apologized, said that people could not find the two short films yet, and asked the audience if we wanted to see "Annul Victory;" it was 7:30. There was a huge YES from all of us, and so she asked the people running the films to start it."
This apparently angered Mr. Deluca. "Suddenly, the documentary was showing," he said. "They put it on even though I scheduled it for 10:30."
Attendees thought the start odd, saying they expected welcoming and introductory comments.
After 30 minutes, or two-thirds through the film, the screen went black. Mr. Deluca claimed technical troubles, but several witnesses saw him at the projector in the moments before the blank screen, indicating to them, they said, that he simply stopped the film.
Their suspicions deepened when, in the confusion that followed Mr. Deluca claimed unfamiliarity with and dislike of the film's content, saying according to two witnesses, "I didn't know this was gay; I'm not into all this gay stuff."
Mr. Deluca denied uttering those comments, although both Diane Olson (Robin Tyler's wife and co-subject of the film) and Olga Vives say they heard him – and both used the same phrasing in separate interviews.
At the same time, after reportedly first accusing "Annul Victory's" producer Bill Manuel of doing so, Mr. Deluca charged Ms. Tyler with stealing his other films, allegedly manhandling her roughly in the doing, grabbing her by the arm sufficiently to bruise it, claims Ms. Tyler.
Stacy Codikow, the Executive Director of Power Up, (lesbians in film), found the films under the ticketing table after separating Mr. Deluca from Ms. Tyler.
Mr. Deluca denied touching Ms. Tyler, however, WeHo News received confirmation from several of those in attendance that he had grabbed and yelled at her.
Between allegedly shutting the film down, making those alleged comments, allegedly abusing Ms. Tyler and insisting that the panel discussion await the showing of two other film short, Mr. Deluca apparently alienated the panel sufficiently that they walked out en masse, taking the vast majority of attendees in their wake.
The collapse of opening night, according to sources, could have been predicted based on their allegations of unethical, if not criminal, conduct and apparent ineptitude demonstrated by Mr. Deluca.
Several people told WeHo News that dealing with Mr. Deluca in the festival's run-up seemed like a journey "Though The Looking Glass," with one filmmaker pulling his film from the festival in July when he realized the potential for a debacle (more on that next week).
Next week: Claims by filmmakers that Mr. Deluca tried to extort money from them, accusations of fraudulent claims made to raise money or make "deals," and charges of double-dealing.
Look for Robin Tyler's Op-ed on her experience later today, Thursday, August 20. That article will appear on our Front Page in the People Section.


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Baked Donuts
Preparation time 90 minutes
Cooking time 20 minutes
Serves 20 small donuts
/adopted from the book ′Зеленчуци за здраве′/
2 cups flour
1 tsp dry yeast
1 packet baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1 cup smashed potatoes
1 cup finely grated carrots
2 eggs
4 tbls of milk or cream
½ cup sugar
2 tbls vegetable oil
In a bowl mix the flour, baking powder, yeast, cinnamon and nutmeg.
In another bowl beat the eggs, milk, sugar and oil. Finally, add smashed potatoes and grated carrots.
Gradually add flour mixture, stir until homogeneous dough is formed. The dough should be soft and sticky. Leave it for about 30 minutes to rise. Then, with greased hands, shape balls with a size of a walnut and arrange them on baking paper.
From time to time grease your hands for easier handling of the dough.
Leave the balls in the fridge for about 30 minutes.
Bake in preheated to 190 º C oven. Take out after 15-20 minutes. They should be brown at the edges and yellow inside.
If you prefer you could fry the donuts. Preheat oil to 190 degrees and fry in deep pan. Put them on a paper towel to absorb the oil.
Mix powder sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle the donuts. Serve warm.
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Dr. Joiner is a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. Throughout his career, he has had an interest in serving underserved children. Dr. Joiner started his career at a community health clinic with the Wayne County Health Department. In 1987, he moved to the Henry Ford Health System, where he worked in Ann Arbor and Detroit. In 1993, he founded the Pediatric Free Clinic at the University of Michigan. In 1993, this clinic was renamed the Marshall H. Becker Memorial Clinic. In 1994, Dr. Joiner helped establish Ypsilanti Pediatrics. This was a collaborative program with the Washtenaw County Health Department. The primary goal was to serve underserved children in south Ypsilanti.
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History Skews Our Vision
"The winning–side gets to write the history books."
Whether it be on the geo-political stage, or at a craps table…it all depends on which side we choose which will determine how we view events that unfold.
Simply put; depending on which side we are on determines how we saw what happened.
Some people will wander away from a craps table, muttering to themselves that "this casino has the coldest tables in the world", while a few others will be counting their full "loaves of bread" (full racks of chips), as they smile and agree that indeed, "this casino has the coldest tables in the world". Both sets of individuals encountered the same events, yet they fared quite differently. They definitely saw EXACTLY the same things, but from a totally differently perspective.
What Will it Take to Convince You?
I guess that you could say that some people clue into a trend much later in the "realization curve" than others. Some players realize what is happening, but refuse to do anything about it, or worse yet, they continue to bet against it. No matter how IMPROBABLE something might be, it does not mean that it's IMPOSSIBLE. Unlikely streaks and trends happen all of the time, so it all depends what you do about them which will determine how well you fare.
The Pope and the President Just Called…They Gave You Permission to Bet
If you stand at the craps table long enough, you get to see some amazing trend-swings that range from the mildly sublime to the truly ridiculous.
If you see a trend that is moving strongly in a certain direction, do you:
- Stand there shaking your head in disbelief.
- Refuse to bet into it because it goes against your betting philosophy.
- Refuse to bet into it because it appears to be too good to be true.
- Refuse to bet into it because other players might dislike your actions.
- Walk away muttering to yourself.
- Bet into it with an amount of money that is commensurate with the risk associated with the bet itself as weighed against the strength of the streak or trend.
For a savvy player, trends and streaks determine WHAT to do, and WHEN to do it:
- You can stand there shaking your head in disbelief all you want, but it is the very nature of this game that makes it susceptible to streaks and trends.
- Some players don't like to wager certain ways because it goes against their betting-philosophy or their don't-rock-the-boat conscience. If you only bet with the player, and never against the player; then you are only availing yourself to half of the game. Likewise, if you are a confirmed dyed-in-the-wool Darksider, you are just as likely to be whip-sawed by the volatility of the game as much as any Rightsider.
- Some people feel self-conscious when they bet against a player. In actual fact, you are betting against the house. While tradition or peer pressure may hold you back, just ask yourself if those who would dissuade you from betting against a player are willing to cover your losses if you follow their narrow-view instead of your own wisdom.
- Instead of maintaining a one-dimensional approach, you might want to open up your horizons a little more. By welcoming a greater width, depth and breadth of betting-possibilities, you unlock a greater number of profit-probabilities.
- You don't have to like the fact that there will be streaks and trends that go against the way you prefer to bet, you just have to accept that it is part of the game. As your insight and intuitiveness increase, it exponentially advances your profit and your struggle to win lessens dramatically.
- If a streak or trend appears too good to be true, it doesn't mean that you can't bet with it. By doing so, you aren't going to jinx it or cause its quick demise. While you truly never know when it is going to end, you might as well take full advantage of it while it is happening. Just because something seems highly improbable, does not mean that it is completely impossible. That is the very nature of streaks and trends.
You don't need permission from the Pope or the President to make a wager…when the streak or trend dictates it…MAKE THE BET.
Reality of Odds…Actuality of Streaks
If a random-roller is popping 4's like Robert Downey Jr. pops pills, or throwing 10's like Jennifer Lopez throws tantrums; then the trend says, "Bet on the 4 or 10". In reality the odds of one or both of those outside numbers rolling again are exactly the same as they were before the shooter started rolling, and they'll still be exactly the same at the end of his roll, so why should you be inclined to bet on it?
Ah, that brings up the quintessential question about trends and streaks:
How to Ride a Streak
A blisteringly-hot or polar-cold streak might come to an immediate and screeching halt on the very next decision, but betting into it while it is happening is as good a time as any to make a wager with the streak or trend. If there is such a thing as a good time to bet or a bad time to bet, then betting on something when there is a lot of them occurring is as good a time as any. Instead of bucking a trend, you go with it. In the worst case scenario, it may not help, but it certainly can't hurt.
How many times have you stood on the sidelines and said, "This can't possibly continue", only to see it continue. After another five or ten long minutes, you disbelievingly shake your head and say the same thing again and again, only to see it carry on. Those "do nothing, thumb-up-your-ass" methods may save you money because they keep your cash out of the fray and in your rail, but it certainly won't help you to make any money.
If you never want to lose money when you go to the casino, then never make another bet. On the other hand, if you are seeing the same rash of outcomes again and again and again, I've got to tell you folks, it's prime time to bet. Yes, it is still somewhat risky, after all we are talking about gambling here, however the predominance of outcomes are trending in our favor, so it's a ripe time to harvest.
What we want to do is to pick the most opportune times to make our wagers. Again, we are not talking about Precision-Shooting here. We are talking about random-rollers who are tossing the dice while the gods of luck and fortune are smiling or frowning upon them. We merely structure our bets to take advantage of the situation as the various trends and streaks unfold.
To paraphrase Nick "the Greek" Dandalos, "The best horse doesn't always win, but that is always the best way to bet".
To maximize your ability to jump on trends and streaks, you have to open up your eyes, ears and MIND to what is going on around you at all of the other tables, as well as the one you are actually on. You have to increase your awareness of the ebb and flow of the dice and the moods, facial expressions and other trend-indicators at each of the other open tables.
In "Part III" of this series, we'll take a close look at these factors in much finer detail, but for now, let's continue:
Surfing from Trend to Trend
Can you look for a trend…ANY trend, and bet on it, then look for other trends that may emerge at your table or other nearby tables, and continuously surf from trend to trend to capitalize on them?
Quite simply…yes you can.
The point of all this is to recognize a trend, and then to capitalize on it before it slips away. One of John Patrick's chief strategies involves moving from tables where he is losing to new tables where fresh circumstances await. He recommends taking advantage of current differences in standard-deviation, not long-term averages.
By taking his method one step further, you are able to pick and choose WHERE you will make your next wagering attack to take full advantage of what is actually occurring NOW. It allows you to ignore what will happen at every table over the long run, and allows you to take advantage of what is happening NOW! Let's take a look:
Cruising for HOT Tables
In my upcoming "Cheap Craps Guide – Part VI", I talk about how some players cruise the downtown area just waiting for a hot hand to develop before jumping in with both feet and a full bankroll. A number of them have an informal cellphone network set up so that if one guy sees a good hand developing, he'll get on the phone and alert a couple of his buddies. They in turn, each call a few others on their list. Soon thereafter a horde of their buddies come a runnin' with a handful of ready-to-bet cash.
There are indeed a number of full-time gamblers who make it their business to cruise from casino to casino looking solely for hot tables. They have the patience, the money and the stamina to walk, wait and then pounce when they sense an opportunity.
They know that the game is so streaky that if you can catch the good streaks and ignore all of the others, then a savvy player can make huge amounts of money nearly every single day of the year.
Another favored technique of patient players is to stake a place near the craps pit to watch all of the action at the tables. They'll wait until they see one of the tables start trending in a discernable direction that will "trigger" their betting action. For more details of methods like this, you might want to check out my Walking with a Vegas Ghost - Part V Or you can develop your own customized version of my:
In my article of the same name, we talked about using the electronic roll-counter and the angled mirrors along the inner-wall on the stick-man's side of the table to watch and track numerous games.
It allows you keep an eye on other "proven" players, and track how a particular shooter is doing during his or her hand. I'll tell you right now, that tracking other Precision-Shooters can be much more profitable than any other table-tracking or table-trending method, bar none!
If part of your money-making arsenal includes watching other shooters and determining if they are "bet-worthy"; then this method let's you keep track of several shooters at the same time. Depending on your memory and the quality of each shooter, this method of "shooter-tracking" offers potent earning potential.
Opening Your Eyes, Ears, and Mind
You have to make the decision whether you are open-minded enough to take advantage of whatever trend you are seeing, or if you are happy and content to continue playing with your "half a chance on half a game" approach.
Skillful trend-trackers can determine if a hot-roll is developing at another table BEFORE most other people realize it has even begun. People usually only notice when the roar of the crowd announces another Pass-Line winner at a nearby table.
The savvy player that was standing beside you just moments before, is already deeply into the action on the hot table across the way. In the blink of an eye, he is ready to pounce on an opportunity whenever and wherever it happens to be. By watching other tables for signs of opportunity, he is usually able to get in on a hot table BEFORE it is jammed. Keeping your eyes and ears open to what is happening at the other tables, gives you a leg-up on getting in on long or hot-rolls.
Astute players know that hot hands don't come along very often. Anything that will put them in the middle of the hot action MORE OFTEN (or cold action, if that is what they are looking for) is worth pursuing.
I know that you don't need to be reminded that once you get to the "hot" table, you have to bet unobtrusively and not disturb the pace or rhythm of the shooter, or let your anxiousness to bet be a distraction or interruption.
As I just alluded to, it is just as easy to track and exploit cold-table trends as well as hot ones. As always, you have to tailor your betting-methods and bet-amounts to properly suit your bankroll-size and risk-tolerance.
When the CHOP Settles In
The perennial question of what to do when there isn't a discernable streak or trend in either direction always seems to come up. As you know, the tables are choppy AT LEAST 40% of the time.
If you hate playing the waiting game, just standing there doing and nothing as you wait for something to develop, then I would direct you to my Dodging Bullets As A Darksider article, so that you can see how I CONSISTENTLY profit from choppy or cool-trending tables.
In the meantime, exploit those trends and streaks that come along, regardless of which side of the betting-equation they are on.
Good Luck and Good Skill at the Tables…and in Life.
The Mad Professor
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Breaking Down Bluegrass: The Invention of a Genre from Mountain Ballads to Bill Monroe (Released September 2011)
The importance of African-American musical traditions on bluegrass has often been overlooked in the past. The notion that bluegrass is a purely white musical tradition has been the prevailing narrative in musicological circles. However, racial segregation in the antebellum South, and to a certain extent in the pre-Civil War South, was not as absolute as was previously thought. "At times, many blacks and whites interacted not so much as members of segregated racial groups engaged in cultural imitation or barter but as members of one group sharing class consciousness vis-à-vis the planter class" (Farmelo 182).
Some believe that the segregation of white and black settlers in the mountains was not as prominent among those of ethnic groups who shared the same social class. It is believed that whites and African-Americans often came together through the Church. The second Awakening, a religious revivalist movement that started in the early 19th century, spread through the South starting in Kentucky. The movement "gave rise to the massive outdoor camp meetings where for the first time black and white met on anything like equal terms" (Small 99).
The revivalist religious movement also helped to spread what was known as shape note singing schools. Shape-note singing was devised in the late 18th century as a way to allow religious congregations to sing better. Each note on a scale was assigned a specific shape that would indicate pitch to the congregation. This methodology was perfect for congregants who were not music literate. Shape note singing became popular throughout the Antebellum South. The hymn texts were taken from English hymnists such as Isaac Watts and Charles and John Wesley, as well as from poems by lesser-known American hymnists. The melodies drew upon songs from varying musical traditions: fiddle tunes, psalms, ballads, camp-meeting tunes, and anthems (Campbell). The evidence of African American involvement in shape note singing is difficult to find, although it has been discovered that "before the Civil War black singers, both slave and free, participated avidly in shape-note singings (particularly during interracial camp meetings), often having a marked impact on the style of music the antebellum books contained" (Campbell).
Other religious musical traditions include "lining out," where a cantor would shout out lines of a hymn in a timed fashion so that the congregation would be able to follow the next line. This helped in areas where song books were difficult to come by and where a portion of the congregation was illiterate. African-American slaves were exposed to lining out during the pre-Civil War era. "Among the slaves, lining out was called raising a hymn. The minister or a devout male member of the community would raise the hymn. Instead of singing the lines of the hymn as they were written, or reciting them in an oratorical manner, the leader would chant the lines, often chanting two lines at a time to a tune unrelated to the tune the congregation would sing" (Boyer 7).
The most obvious African-American contribution to bluegrass was the banjo. The banjo originated from a single-stringed, gourd-bodied instrument from Africa. Later, the gourd was replaced with a wooden hoop covered in a taut skin. A four-string version of the instrument emerged in the late 17th century, and a five string version (the addition of the fifth string is normally attributed to the Scottish-American musician Joel Walker Sweeney) can be seen in paintings of black banjo players from between 1777 and 1800 (Farmelo 189). Farmelo argues that the banjo is "probably the first distinctly African-American instrument. Details aside, the banjo grew up on the North American continent as part of a resilient African heritage" (189). Musicologists and folklorists have varying theories of exactly how white Southern Appalachian residents came to know of the instrument. Some believe that freed slaves traveling through the Appalachians brought the first banjos to the region. Others believe that there was more cultural interaction between whites and African Americans during this period.
However, many folklorists believe the banjo was brought to the Southern Appalachian region via traveling minstrel shows themselves, which featured white performers imitating African-American performers making music. While this exposure to the banjo via minstrel shows is heavily documented with newspaper advertisements and magazine and journal articles, it is less evident how the banjo playing styles of African Americans were taught to the white performers (Farmelo 190). However, the use of the banjo in these minstrel shows became a symbol to newly freed African-American slaves who wanted to distance themselves from the plantation slave stereotype that minstrelsy portrayed. It was this that brought African-American folk musicians to play the banjo less frequently. Thus, the banjo was removed from the African-American folk music narrative and transferred to the white Southern Appalachian heritage (191). Despite this, some African-American string bands, most of which came from the North Carolina Piedmont region, were playing during the 1920s.
White banjo players most often used the clawhammer playing technique – a highly percussive style used by minstrel performers who most likely learned the playing style from African-American banjo players. Robert Cantwell describes clawhammer banjo player as "using the force of his wrist and sometimes of his forearm [to bring] the back of his fingernail down upon the string, snapping it and striking the banjo head more or less forcefully at the terminus of its arc" (93). He goes on to say that this motion "encapsulates the note in a hard percussive shell which dissolves with the decay of the tone" (93).
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Water: Emergency Information
You are here: WaterWater InfrastructureWater SecurityEmergency InformationSuggested pre-hurricane activities for water and wastewater facilities
Suggested pre-hurricane activities for water and wastewater facilities
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- Identify and schedule emergency operations and cleanup crews. This could consist of heavy equipment and extra personnel to assist in clean-ups after the storm.
- Adjust work schedules so that key staff members are onsite or can be reached to keep all services operational if the facility remains online or to shutdown and startup facilities if and when necessary.
- Notify State and Federal Agencies (Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and others) of location and telephone numbers of the emergency personnel owner/operator for the water system operations. For public water systems, be sure to line up contacts to request emergency water supply, if necessary.
- Review your emergency response plan and make sure it and contacts are current.
- Notify, ahead of time, and set up clear lines of communication with local police and fire department, in case of an injury or other emergencies. Request that local law enforcement check on any water staff that remain onsite at the water system. If communication channels are down with these sites, this check needs to continue on a routine basis until communication channels are reestablished.
- Establish contacts to request emergency water supply, if necessary. This may include trucking in of purchased water from another potable water supply.
- Make arrangements with the local power utility to be prepared to restore power to the water system as a priority customer.
- Pre-arrange to purchase materials and supplies and to borrow/lease heavy equipment needed to make repairs to the water system. This could include piping, valves, chemical feed-line tubing, and hydrants.
- Make arrangements to have materials and chemicals delivered to your location as soon as it is safe and you are ready for operation.
- Establish which media you will use for customers to access information and press advisories. Be sure to prepare customers for possible boil water advisory status:
a: Have a "Boil Water Notice" prepared, including multilingual. (For boil water notices in various languages see this page.)
b: Have emergency disinfection of drinking water procedures prepared for customers. (For a fact sheet on this topic see this page.)
c: Have "Shelter-in-Place" guidelines ready in case of release of hazardous materials. This is information to be provided to the public that may need to remain indoors. - Stock up on first-aid supplies, batteries, flashlights, and cellular phones or other wireless communication devices. Check all normal and emergency communication equipment and charge or replace batteries.
- Stock an adequate supply (one week) of non-perishable food and water for any essential persons that remain on site or are considered first responders to the water system.
- Establish alternative transportation strategies for rotating in core employees to the facility if high water prevents travel. Personnel should bring a jump bag with them, which contains change of clothes, sleeping bag, flashlights, extra batteries, medications, and other essentials.
- Make sure all essential personnel are trained to shut down and start up system in case of emergency.
- Notify the Emergency Management Agency (EMA) and the Water/wastewater primacy agency for your State if a plant is taken off-line or you are unable to operate the water system. Be sure to obtain EMA and primacy locations before any potentially known disasters occur such as a hurricane.
- Review distribution maps to ensure they are up-to-date with isolation valves properly identified. Extra copies may be necessary for staff working in the field.
Grounds and Common Areas:
- Inspect water system source and treatment facility for security concerns. Test backup lights and generators.
- For all water systems, check backup pumps and controls.
- In addition to regular preventive maintenance, all systems (surface, ground and purchased) should check backup chemical feeders and all pumps and motors. Verify that spare pumps, motors and other necessary spare parts are available.
- Check manual controls and oil levels.
- Fuel and service vehicles. Stock service vehicles with equipment and supplies, and move service vehicles to high ground or temporarily locate them out of the threat of damage.
- Have sufficient supplies of sand bags available and sandbag the entrances, the area around critical equipment, and other critical areas.
- Ensure that emergency electrical generators are not located in flood-prone areas of the facility. Obtain extra fuel for generators. Ensure adequate number of generators for water systems that require generators for wastewater and water pumping operations.
- Board up all windows and doors to prevent wind damage.
- Shut down exposed pipes at waterway crossings to prevent loss or contamination of potable water if the pipes break.
Isolate/valve-off portions of the water system that appear to be more prone to damage. This should be performed as a last measure since service may still be needed immediately prior to the storm event.
Administration and Laboratory Buildings: (relocation of movable assets may be necessary)
- Secure important records in a well-protected location, including plant operations manual and water system mapping.
- Remove all sensitive laboratory equipment from the flood zone, where possible. Remove portable electrical equipment and small motors from the flood zone.
- Protect computers from potential damage.
- Check bacteriological sampling materials -- be prepared for increased or special monitoring after the storm.
- Remove or store furnishings in a safe place, when practical.
- Disconnect electrical power to the water system building, workshops, or offices if possible.
Treatment Plant and Pumping Stations:
- Run diagnostic tests on Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and control systems.
- All pump stations should be in a well-drained area and be designed to remain in operation during flood events. If not, the pumps should be shut down and protected from electrical damage if they should become submerged. After any major storm event, check raw water intakes to minimize any debris or other materials which could enter. Ensure operators and staff are familiar with manual operations within the system should SCADA become inoperable.
- Any wells that become submerged must be disinfected prior to returning to service. Check with your State Primacy Agency for additional requirements prior to lifting any boil water notices.
- Check that all chemical bulk storage tanks are properly labeled to include chlorine cylinders and chemical mix tanks. This will help in identification should these items be washed or wind-blown away.
- Be sure all dry chemicals are stored off the floor in a dry room that is protected against flooding and water from floors, walls and ceilings.
- Check chemical inventory. A storm event could cause a greater demand for disinfectant to address broken waterlines and increases in turbidity, so more disinfectant and coagulant chemicals may be required. Verify that the current supply of calcium hypochlorite (if used) is adequate for this potential increased use.
- Fill all storage tanks with water to prevent floating or falling from wind forces. This will also help in maintaining pressure throughout your distribution system.
- Remove or move chemicals to a safe area. If chemicals are removed from an underground or above ground tank, fill the tank with water, if possible, to prevent floating.
- Remove fuel from underground storage tanks to prevent contamination and loss of the fuel. If possible move above ground fuel storage tanks to a safe, high area. Fuel will be needed for emergency and plant vehicles until new supplies arrive. Prepare for one week supply, if possible.
- Remove electrical motors, where possible. If not, wrap the motors in plastic and seal as tight as possible, in order to protect the motor from silt, mud, and dirt. Any electrical motors that are submerged, should be cleaned and dried prior to start up to prevent damage.
- Remove shop tools and electrical hand tools from water system facilities.
- Monitor tank levels. Fill elevated and ground storage tanks to full capacity. Storage tanks should be valved off from the distribution system immediately prior to the storm event to prevent loss of water during the storm.
Other EPA emergency operation documents are available on our web site:
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (includes Spanish and Vietnamese public notices)