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OLR Bill Analysis
This bill reenacts a section of law that was repealed in 2012 relating to the registration of swine growers with the Department of Agriculture (DoAg) and the control of swine diseases. Specifically, the bill:
1. requires anyone growing swine in one location for use or disposal at a different location to register with the DoAg commissioner;
2. authorizes the commissioner to issue orders and regulations for protecting swine from contagious and infectious diseases;
3. requires the commissioner to investigate swine diseases and issue instructions for quarantines and disinfection of diseased premises;
4. requires most imported swine to be disease-free, as certified by a health official and accompanied by a DoAg permit; and
5. requires swine brought into the state for immediate slaughter to be killed in an approved slaughterhouse under veterinary inspection.
By law, the penalty for diseased animal violations is a class D misdemeanor, subject to a fine of up to $500, up to three months' imprisonment, or both (CGS § 22-321).
The bill also prohibits, with certain exceptions, a farm owner or operator from knowingly tethering or confining a gestating sow in any enclosure (e.g., cage or crate) in a way that prevents the sow from turning around freely, lying down, standing up, or fully extending its limbs. A violator is subject to a fine of up to $1,000, up to one year imprisonment, or both. The bill specifies that it is not an affirmative defense to an alleged violation that the farm owner or operator kept the sow as part of an agricultural operation and in accordance with customary animal husbandry or farming practices. The bill does not limit any other law that may protect the welfare of gestating sows.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
Under the bill, as under the repealed law, swine cannot be imported into Connecticut unless they come from a validated brucellosis-free and pseudorabies-negative herd. Imported swine must come with a permit from the DoAg commissioner and an official health certificate that certifies the swine are free of infectious or contagious disease. Swine that are imported for immediate slaughter on federally inspected premises do not need a health certificate, but the owner of the premises must weekly report to the commissioner the number of such swine imported.
Swine imported for other than immediate slaughter that are over three months old, other than a barrow (i.e., castrated swine), must pass a brucellosis and pseudorabies blood test within 30 days of being imported. The state veterinarian may waive the 30-day blood test for swine imports from (1) a state validated to be brucellosis- and stage V pseudorabies-free, if the swine spent at least 30 days there before importation, or (2) a herd he determines is pathogen free.
The bill's prohibition on knowingly tethering or confining a gestating sow in a small enclosure does not apply during:
1. medical research;
2. veterinary care under the direct supervision of a licensed veterinarian;
3. transporting the sow;
4. exhibiting the sow at a state or county fair, 4-H program, or similar exhibition;
5. up to six hours in a 24-hour period for animal husbandry purposes;
6. humane slaughter in accordance with applicable laws and regulations; or
7. the seven days before the sow's expected due date.
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Very delicious thousand island dressing without dairy mayo! Perfect for a raw veggi salad. My husband found it also perfect for steamed potatoes (for those that do eat some steamed food). It uses cashed whipped cream (see my other recipe) instead of mayonnaise.
.33 cup cashew whipped cream (see my other recipe on this website)
3 tablespoon soaked sun dried tomatoes
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon mosterd powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon dill dried
1 mini fresh augurk (pickel)
1 mini fresh zuchinni (2-3 inches)
1 teaspoon ginger powder
1. Place all ingredients on a small food processor with a small S blade. I guess it could also work on your VitaMix or normal blender without S blade.
2. Blend until all ingredients are well mixed, not more than a minute.
3. It can be used right away, or first chilled for 15 minutes.
4. Enjoy it!

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Released: Jul 01st, 2004
Running Time: 103
Director: Francois Clousot
Company: Sin City Ultra
Brooke (I), Hannah Harper, Lauren Phoenix, Ted Johnson, Joe Ortiz, Tristan Segal, Steven St. Croix, Taylor Lynn, Jordan Haze
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Feature
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Yes, it might sound like just a cheesy play on words, but we swear the sex here truly is Ablaze-in' - there's a dynamite blast-off with Lauren Phoenix and Chris Cannon, and, later, blonde bombshells Brooke and Jordan Haze have a heartfelt girl-to-girl with little talky and lotsa licky. Borrowing its storyline from Spielberg's Always, this is a feature that hits its marks well, with good performances (both sexual and non), good videography and perfect pacing. Pre-nom Cannon for Best Supporting Actor.


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17 Oct 2008, Victoria Pennington, Operational Risk & Regulation
WASHINGTON, DC –The Federal Reserve has issued enhanced guidance that refines and clarifies its programmes for consolidated supervision of bank holding companies (BHCs) and the combined US operations of foreign banking organisations. The US regulator has also released guidance clarifying supervisory expectations with respect to firm-wide compliance risk management.
The Fed believes that, although initiation of these efforts pre-dated the recent market turmoil, the enhanced approaches to consolidated supervision and firm-wide compliance risk management emphasise several elements that should support a more resilient financial system.
In the meantime, the Fed states it is continuing to work, both independently and in conjunction with other supervisors and functional regulators, on a number of initiatives to strengthen supervisory approaches and reinforce expectations for sound practices in response to market events.
"This supervisory guidance on consolidated supervision and compliance risk management will better equip our supervisory staff, working closely with other US and foreign supervisors and regulators, to understand and assess the full range and scope of a banking organisation's operations and risks," says Federal Reserve board governor Randall Kroszner.
"This guidance should not only provide greater clarity regarding our longstanding responsibilities as a consolidated supervisor, but is also responsive to ongoing developments in the financial sector. The objectives of fostering financial stability and deterring or managing financial crises will be furthered by the Federal Reserve having a more complete view of firm-wide risks and controls," Kroszner says.
The Fed is emerging as the foremost financial supervisor in the US but in a statement the board acknowledged "the continuing growth in the size and complexity of many banking organisations exposes firms to a wide array of potential risks, while making it more challenging for a single supervisor to have a comprehensive perspective on the firm as a whole. In this regard, the consolidated supervision guidance is designed to foster consistent Federal Reserve supervisory practices and assessments across institutions with similar activities and risks".
The guidance describes how Federal Reserve staff should develop an understanding and assessment of the consolidated operations of a bank holding company and the US operations of an foreign banking organisation through "continuous monitoring activities, discovery reviews and testing activities, as well as through interaction with, and reliance to the fullest extent possible on, other relevant supervisors and functional regulators".
The separate compliance risk management guidance endorses the principles set out in the April 2005 paper issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision entitled Compliance and the compliance function in banks. This guidance clarifies certain Federal Reserve supervisory policies regarding compliance risk management programmes and oversight at large banking organisations with complex compliance profiles.
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Proposal recommending increased openness, freedom of speech, and the end of restrictions on the press in the Soviet Union, including the free distribution of foreign media."Excerpt from Protocol No. 182 of the Meeting of the Politburo CC CPSU, 'On Additional Measures in the Informational Sphere'," November 18, 1989, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, TsKhSD, F. 89, Perechen' 9, d. 55, st. 1-5. http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/118942 - Share
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union. CENTRAL COMMITTEE. COMPLETELY SECRET No. P172/9 To comrades Gorbachev, Ryzhkov, Kriuchkov, Medvedev, Shevardnadze, Yakovlev, Kapto, Pavlov A., Falin, Shkabardne. Excerpt from protocol No. 182 of the meeting of the Politburo CC CPSU of 18 November 1989. On additional measures in the informational sphere. To agree with the thoughts stated in the report of Coms. E.A. Shevardnadze, V.A. Medvedev, A.N. Yakovlev and V.A. Kriuchkov of 19 October 1989 (proposed). To present the issue connected with their practical realization for examination by the Soviet of Ministers of the USSR. SECRETARY OF THE CC [Attachment] As per point 9 of protocol No. 172 Secret CC CPSU On additional measures in the informational sphere Of late, the processes of reconstruction, and first and foremost - the unprecedented openness of the work of the first Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, afford convincing evidence of a broad and consistent supplement to the cause of the principles of openness in the informational sphere, democratization and increasing the effectiveness of the press, the radio and other mass media in the Soviet Union . In this same direction, we are conducting measures on expanding international cooperation in the area of information and on introducing internal legislation and normative acts in keeping with existing world legal practice. At the Informational Forum which took place not long ago in London, the Soviet Union came out with an innovative philosophy and program of concrete actions relating to turning the European continent into a space of openness and free speech, with concrete proposals on developing a broad exchange of information, and on improving journalists' working conditions. This approach of ours, which is maintained in the spirit of the new political thinking, was received positively by the participants of the forum, in particular, as a sign of the USSR's full intention to fulfill the obligations taken on through the final documents in Helsinki, Madrid, and Vienna. As a result of the discussions at the London forum, a solid package of proposals have been accumulated which, taken as a whole, constitute a system of good reference points for further forward movement in a common European informational sphere, as well as for improving the informational situation in some separate countries. In particular, the introduction of proposals in the forum which affect the development of cooperation with the countries of Western Europe, the US and Canada in the area of the newest communications technology, have practical significance for us. In measure with the further diffusion of the new political thinking and democratization, more attention is demanded by the issues connected with the development of openness and cooperation in the sphere of information and with the consistent elimination of the remaining obsolete restrictions here. This applies to a complex of issues connected with the persistent closure to the press of a substantial [nemalyi] number of aspects of a political and economic, not to mention military, character. Wider access to the sources of official and unofficial information and opportunities to contact both official departments and representatives, and private persons and autonomous organizations in the interests of receiving information and data of interest to the press is needed. Here the issue of free access by Soviet citizens to foreign periodicals, foreign satellite television programs, duplication technology, and audiovisual materials is of relevance. Proceeding on from the arguments around these issues at the London Information Forum, Western representatives have emphasized that data and other analogous issues, if not solved, would definitely be raised by them at the upcoming general-European meetings, including the conference on humanitarian issues in Moscow in 1991. Considering the results of the Information Forum and also taking into account the vital demands of the process of democratizing Soviet society and creating a legally grounded state, it is important to intensify work on and realize further measures directed at expanding openness in the informational sphere, a fuller opening of the role of the press as a part of civil society, an abandonment of censoring-limiting measures which contradict international law and do not correspond to the obligations which the Soviet Union has taken on itself through documents of the general-European process. On a practical plane, we are talking about solutions touching on the following group of issues. 1. Expanding the volume, nomenclature, and network of free sale foreign periodical publications in the USSR, including publications from countries which are participants of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, in the interests of more authoritative, social-political, literary-artistic, scientific-popular and other periodicals. Permitting institutions, cooperative and citizens to subscribe to foreign publications through payment in foreign currency out of their own resources, as well as through subscription payments by foreign partners or relatives of USSR citizens who are living abroad. To provide free access to foreign periodical publications distributed on USSR territory in the reading rooms of libraries and in cultural-informational centers. 2. To ensure institutions, organizations, including cooperatives, and citizens the opportunity to use copy-duplicating technology to copy materials whose contents do not contradict constitutional norms and the legal acts which are in force in the country. To permit libraries and cultural-enlightenment and organizations to receive copying-duplicating technology as gifts from Soviet enterprises, cooperatives and foreign donors. 3. To operate on the assumption that USSR citizens have the opportunity to receive, collectively and individually, foreign programs by satellite and other kinds of cross-border television transmission, to use other receiving equipment in keeping with GOST USSR and international recommendations. 4. To ensure the opportunity for access by citizens to audiovisual materials and an expansion of the network of rental and sale of video products. 5. To continue work on a fuller realization of obligations to create the conditions for foreign correspondents on USSR territory which are demanded by international practice and which allow them to carry out their professional activities in observance of the principles of mutuality. 6. To work out thoughts on establishing cooperation with Western countries in the area of the newest communications technology in consideration of the proposals put forward at the London Informational forum. To prepare proposals on the issue of the possibility of the Soviet Union's joining the Convention of the Council of Europe on trans-border tele-transmission. E. Shevardnadze V. Medvedev A. Yakovlev V. Kriuchkov 19 October 1989


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'One Laptop Per Child' in Karabagh
Posted By Weekly Staff On February 5, 2011 @ 9:21 am In News | 3 Comments
YEREVAN—On Jan. 26, the prime minister of the Republic of Nagorno Karabagh, Ara Harutyunyan, and world-renowned Argentinean-Armenian entrepreneur Eduardo Eurnekian signed a memorandum of understanding that launched the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in Karabagh.
The innovative technology program aims to provide laptop computers to elementary schools throughout Karabagh and will be implemented by Eurnekian in partnership with the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU), the world's largest nonprofit Armenian organization, and the government of Karabagh.
OLPC is an educational program first developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., which equips laptop computers with educational software for students in developing countries. The program will connect students to the internet through wireless networks that will be installed in all of Karabagh's elementary schools.
"The world community sees Karabagh only within the context of war and regional conflict. People fail to take note of the children who are born and live there. These children are entitled to the universal rights of education and access to information," said Eurnekian. "Through OLPC, I intend to bridge the gap and give the children of Karabagh the opportunity to receive the best education the world has to offer."
Eurnekian asked the AGBU to assist in the execution of the project, and the New York-based nonprofit has undertaken the responsibility of providing the necessary on-the-ground support to ensure the success of OLPC.
"We are here to bring our experience in education and innovative technology to make this program complete. Together with Mr. Eurnekian, we will bring this program to fruition," said AGBU Central Board of Directors member Yervant Zorian. In addition to being a member of AGBU's governing body, Zorian is a Silicon Valley-based executive in the hi-tech industry with extensive experience in online education, including the chairmanship of AGBU's Armenian Virtual College.
The government of Karabagh has embraced Eurnekian's initiative with great excitement and is working to incorporate the OLPC program into its educational system. As part of the arrangement, the Karabagh authorities have committed to making telecommunications interconnectivity available in all schools in order to enhance the educational impact of the OLPC program.
During the Jan. 26 ceremony in Armenia, Eurnekian emphasized the obligation of the world community to make sure that all children have access to high-quality education and information. He further emphasized that Armenians around the world, whether individually or through organizations, must contribute to the education of future generations of Armenians.
"Today, I intend to plant the seeds of an international effort to integrate the children of Karabagh into the world community. I thank the AGBU for accepting my invitation to join the project. I hope that together we will be able to achieve success in Karabagh and later expand the project to Armenia with the support of the organization's global network," Eurnekian said.
For more information about the AGBU and its worldwide programs, visit www.agbu.org.
3 Comments To "'One Laptop Per Child' in Karabagh"
#1 Comment By ashot yerkat On February 6, 2011 @ 5:23 pm
This is unrelated to the article about laptops for each child. More power, I am very happy. This is for Karabagh Prime Minister Ara Harutyunyan. Will someone ask the Prime Minister what on earth is Nagorno? Why a seemingly Russian word? What does it mean? Also. why a Turkish word? Karabagh means black garden. Why do we use a Russian word followed by a Turkish word to name a province of Armenia, Mr. Prime Minister?
#2 Comment By ste On February 9, 2011 @ 5:21 pm
Congratulations and thanks to Mr. Eurnekian,the AGBU and to the government of Karabakh. This is another step in providing the children of Karabagh with a quality education…. a major ingredient of hope and stability.
#3 Comment By Michael On August 19, 2011 @ 11:24 am
Personal Manifesto regarding XO computers for Nagorno-Karabakh Republic(NKR) school children (From One Laptop Per Child project founded at MIT)
By Michael Bezjian, Student at Anania Shirakatsi High School in Yerevan
August 16, 2011
XO computers and what they bring
1. The Internet can be accessed with these computers
2. NKR is planning to provide internet access in all their schools
3. XO computers have mechanical keyboards which you need to apply pressure to use
1. The children will be exposed to Porn at an early age (6-12) because of the connection to the internet
2. The children will attempt to use the computers and internet during class for things that are irrelevant, and not pay attention to the subject at hand. This will cause disturbances and arguments between the students and teachers.
3. Mechanical keyboards are not healthy for children's fingers because they might cause Carpal tunnel syndrome later in their lives. Since they are still at a young age and their tendons and bones of their hands are still developing.
1. No internet, only Bluetooth or/and infrared. The teacher should have the power to permit or forbid cross communication between the students during class. The teacher should be able to quickly tell what programs every student has run or is running during class. The teachers should have the power to stop any program that any student is running. This way the students will not be able to play games with the computers during class!
2. With no internet provided the possibility of the download or upload of porn, graphic images, and content that is not appropiate for underage people, will be greatly mitigated and reduced.
3. Touch-Pads instead of XO computers should be distributed to the students. The touch-pads will have touch keyboards in Armenian, Russian, and English. Hopefully the Swipe program (where you slide your fingers over the keyboard rather than tapping it) will be available in all three languages. This way the children will not hurt their fingers by over using the touch-pad.
I have heard by word of mouth that OLPC failed in Jordan.
The children used the computers to expose themselves to porn through the internet, the teachers were disgusted and could not control the situation.
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Off-Grid Vs. Grid-Tied Solar
Many people say they want to get "off the grid," when in reality what they mean is they want to reduce their energy use and offset what they do use with sustainable sources.
Grid-tied solar contains no moving parts and will last 40+ years with no maintenance. True "off-grid" systems require batteries, which unfortunately are messy and not environmentally friendly. Typically used are lead acid batteries (similar to what are used in forklifts) which require diligent maintenance, and only last around 5-7 years.
For remote camps, islands, or boats, off-grid may be the right choice. However, it is not the right way to go for nearly all conventional residences. ReVision Energy does not install or service off-grid systems and strongly encourages you to consider the advantages of a grid-tied system if you are in fact evaluating solar for a home. If you want to learn more about off-grid solar, check out New England Solar or the Alt-E Store.
Here are articles we've written on the topic of grid-tied vs. off-grid solar:
Solar When the Grid Goes Out: The Case Against Batteries
December 20th, 2011
No one's happy when the grid goes out. Power outages are at the minimum inconvenient, and, if a home is poorly suited to be without power, problematic or even dangerous. So it would seem obvious, why not install a grid-tied solar electric system and power your home using sunshine during an outage?
While technically this is possible, it is not so simple. Grid-tied photovoltaic systems are designed to provide decades of trouble-free electricity generated by the sun. They are simple, economical, reliable, and, as their name implies, tied to the grid. When the grid goes down, the system goes down, too.
This is by design: by shutting down, the grid-tied solar electric inverter (the component that converts direct-current power from the solar panels into grid-compliant 120V AC power used in your home or business) prevents power from backfeeding to the grid and injuring nearby line workers.
The only way to circumvent this is to add batteries, which provide a backup source of power when the power goes out. Unfortunately, batteries are almost the antithesis of a grid-tied system: they are bulky, inefficient, ecologically unfriendly, unreliable and expensive.
Grid-Tied with Battery Backup Vs. Off-Grid
A grid tied battery backup system uses the same principles as an off-grid solar electric system when the grid goes down. Instead of shutting off completely, the system switches to an alternate inverter, which is designed to interact with a battery bank, letting you run household loads off the battery bank and charge them with your solar panels.
The equipment to do this is quite sophisticated (in the situations where ReVision goes this route we install SMA's Sunny Island product), and is derived from R&D for very remote locations where grid access is not feasible. While they can work smoothly, they come at a great cost, especially once you consider the cost of short-lived lead acid batteries (using similar technology as is in your car battery).
An average home with an electric bill of $100/month, for instance, consumes ~625kWh of power a month (assuming a grid price of .16c/kWh). That averages around 20kWh/day of power. Enough good-quality batteries to carry that load for just two days would cost around $25,000. Realistically, a battery-backup system is only designed to support emergency loads for short periods of time (water pump, refrigerator and maybe a freezer), but even so, the cost reaches approximately $20,000 of additional cost for a short-term grid-tied battery backup solution.
Further limitations of this system is the battery life – approximately 5-7 years – as well as the battery potential. While this system can provide backup power for a few days, for true energy security you need an option for charging the batteries should a long-term outage occur during bad solar weather (which tends to be when we lose power in Northern New England). So, even with a large battery investment you still require a generator to be totally secure.
Getting To Your Goals: Why Are You Going PV?
Most people look at a solar energy investment as a way to reduce their fossil fuel energy consumption while locking in their electric rate below the grid average for a duration of 25+ years. Cost pressure on solar panels and generous state and federal rebates make grid-tied PV an excellent investment right now, with a 'simple' payback of around 10 years in Maine or New Hampshire.
Adding battery backup changes this equation completely. Dollars that could be invested in more renewable energy production are invested in short-lived, ecologically unfriendly battery components. Realistically, with the grid down as infrequently as it is, a battery-backup system means you are paying a stiff premium for a system you do not need 99% of the time.
With that caveat, there are times when solar with battery backup meets specific goals, mostly in situations where no grid downtime is tolerable. For example, keeping critical loads like life support equipment online, or simply ensuring failsafe electricity for homes where one spouse travels frequently in the winter and doesn't want their partner home alone in a power outage!
So What Am I To Do During Power Outages?
Though we are loathe to recommend the installation of a fossil-fuel burning appliance, the reality is that for the average numbers of days a typical home is without power (1-2 days a year or less), and given the cost and complexity of installing a grid-tied system with batteries, a generator is often a better investment.
Even an extremely robust home standby generator is roughly 1/4 of the price of enough batteries and equipment to maintain a home for a few days without power. While a battery bank will struggle to keep up with heavy energy hogs like a refrigerator or well pump, a properly sized generator will carry these without missing a beat.
If you just can't stand the thought of a generator, here are some other power outage tips from our renewable energy experts:
- Wood is good – Cord wood stoves are a tradition in New England and a wonderful appliance to have when the power goes out. They can be good for cooking and eating.
- Stockpile water – Most people's top complaint about power outages is running out of water. Fill up your tubs and empty milk jugs with water so you can cook dinner, wash hands and flush toilets during outages. And if you're on city water and have a solar hot water system, you can continue to use your solar hot water even without power!
- Keep alternative lights handy – With the sun firmly set by 5pm nowadays, a power outage can make for a long dark night. Luckily, LED flashlights are lightyears more efficient than their incadescent predecessors. LL Bean has a nice selection.
- Make it fun – A power outage need only be as much an ordeal as you make it. Kids especially can be encouraged to make it an opportunity for adventure and find it fun to cook on the woodstove or propane grill. A bit of flexibility and patience go a long way.
Stay warm out there!
Why Grid-Tied Solar Power is Better than Off Grid for Most Homes
March 15th, 2010
There is a common misconception than being "off the grid" is the ultimate goal is sustainability and that off-grid homes are, by their nature, greener and more energy efficient than conventional "on the grid" homes.
Many people say they want to get "off the grid," when really what they mean is that they want to reduce their energy usage and switch to renewable forms of energy.
The good news – you don't have to be "off the grid" to enjoy the benefits of renewable energy!
In fact, your conventional home is only a few smart steps away from dramatically shrinking its carbon footprint. We'll talk about this in a moment – first, let's demystify "off the grid" versus "grid tied."
What Does Off-Grid Really Mean?
"Off grid" just means a home that is not connected to the utility grid. While these homes are often designed to be more energy-efficient and sustainable than conventional homes, there is no requirement in the term "off grid" that makes them so.
In fact, a home that is "off grid" can be just as much of a power hog as a regular home, and use a gasoline-powered generator for all of their electric needs. Hardly green OR renewable!
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Because electricity generated off the grid is so expensive, it only makes sense that these homes should use less power. It's pure economics!
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When people think of "off grid," they probably think of images from the early days of solar power, when people were moving far out in the country to get back to the land and live a more sustainable existence.
Of course, moving far away from civilization brings its own share of challenges and environmental implications. Unless you're planning to become a hermit, you still are going to need roads to get to your off-grid home, and won't you want some sort of electricity?
Creating power lines is expensive and destructive. It can cost tens of thousands of dollars per mile to run power lines to a distant homestead.
In these situations, where connecting to the utility grid will easily outweigh the costs of a clean, renewable energy system, being off the grid can make economic and environmental sense.
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Most people live near other people, which means that most people don't need the hassles and expense of an off-grid renewable energy system.
Instead, we can install a solar power electrical system that interacts with the grid – offsetting our home's energy use and providing surplus power to our neighbors. In effect, we are becoming our own miniature power plant!
This kind of system is called grid-tied solar power.
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Grid-tied solar electricity is a much simpler set-up than off grid. In both cases, you have photovoltaic (PV) panels which generate clean, renewable energy when exposed to sunshine.
However, in a grid-tied set-up this power goes straight to your utility meter while in an off-grid set-up there are a few more steps.
With a grid-tied system, any excess power generated from the solar panels goes back into the grid – helping your neighbors reduce their carbon footprint!
In essence, you are treating the grid as if it was one big battery, charging it when you have excess power, and taking energy when you need more.
If an off-grid setup, you also need somewhere to store your solar energy. Without the grid nearby, you need to buy a large set of batteries.
Unfortunately, battery technology is not as clean and renewable as the electricity generated by the solar panels.
The batteries used in most off-grid installations are lead acid batteries – similar to what starts your car and powers forklifts. As you probably know from the explosion warning stickers on your car battery, the inside of these types of batteries are extremely toxic, and their production is an energy intensive and environmentally harmful process.
While those in an off-grid set-up are stuck using this non green technology, if we have access to the energy grid we can avoid this messy problem and appreciate more reliable service with a grid-tied set-up.
Not to mention – batteries are expensive! The battery bank significantly adds to the cost of an off-grid solar system. In terms of cost per installed watt, off-grid usually ranges 3-4x the cost of grid-tied solar.
Fossil Fuels are Bad, Not the Grid Itself
While it may seem romantic to be "off grid" and not beholden to the utility companies, the reality is that most homes are connected to the grid already, and the efficiencies of the grid generally outweigh the independence of an off grid system.
The grid itself is not inherently bad – what is bad are the forms of electricity that powers most of the grid.
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After Years of Hard Traveling, Mountain Maestro Doc Watson Looks to Find Some Easy Pickin' at Last
By coincidence, Doc's daddy was also having trouble with the homemade banjo that he'd been making for his son. The problem, it seemed, was with the groundhog hide that he had stretched behind the strings. It was just too thick "to give a good tone," says Doc. "It didn't work right at all." So it was, says Doc, that Granny's tabby was put out of its misery and onto a banjo rim, and the Watson family gained another young musician. "That cat skin made a fine banjo head," recalls Doc happily. "You could almost read the paper through it."
In years to come, however, it would be the guitar and not a banjo that would make Arthel "Doc" Watson famous. For the Carolina country boy struck blind in infancy, it would become the means of passage from a life of darkness into one made rich and bright by his artistry. Since his belated discovery in the early 1960s, Watson's blizzard-quick flat picking and warm, mountain-clear baritone have graced 24 LPs, earned four Grammys and established the soft-spoken Blue Ridge Mountain native as one of America's premier acoustic musicians. "Horowitz and Heifetz couldn't have any higher standards," says Pete Seeger, a Watson fan since the two first met more than 20 years ago.
Now 64, Watson has just released his newest album, titled Portrait, on which he is backed by his longtime bassist, T. Michael Coleman, guitarist Jack Lawrence and a handful of country music's best session men. The album offers the familiar mix of old time mountain tunes, down-home blues and pop standards that make up Watson's eclectic repertoire. Like his concerts, his recordings are often capsule courses in American music history. Hoedown dance tunes, gospel hymns, even '50s rockabilly hits seem part of a cultural continuum when translated through his guitar. As always, though, it is Watson's rural Southern roots that are most in evidence on the new LP.
The mountain music of his birthplace attracted a following during the folk revival of the '60s that lifted Watson from regional celebrity to national renown. In 1964 he appeared at the Newport Folk Festival accompanied by his father-in-law, fiddler Gaither Carlton, his brother Arnold, and other members of his family. To a mostly Northern audience more familiar with such folkie pretenders as the Kingston Trio and the Brothers Four, the visiting North Carolinians represented old-time music at its authentic best. Homespun and unpretentious, they were the embodiment of the family string band that had been a Southern tradition for generations.
An old recording of their performance features Doc's rendition of a bouncy lament titled Blue Ridge Mountain Blues. He had first heard the song years earlier on his family's windup gramophone, and though its lyrics were simple, its message was heartfelt by the homebody guitarist:
When I was young and in my prime
I left my home in Caroline
Now all I do is sit and pine
For all them folks I left behind.
Watson's home—then and now—was in Deep Gap, N.C., a tiny mountain hamlet in the western part of the state. His great-great-grandfather had settled there amid its virgin chestnut forests, and it was there, in 1923, that Arthel Watson became the sixth of nine children born to General (his given name) and Annie Watson. He can remember little of the sight he had in infancy, only the physical pain he suffered when blindness mysteriously took hold. There were few doctors in the hill country then, and, says Doc, "knowledge of the eye was limited" anyway. Years later, by the time devoted fans began offering their own corneas for transplanting, doctors knew that there was little chance of success. Like a younger sister who was born with glaucoma, Doc would remain blind.
Watson's father was a part-time farmer and day laborer who led a singing group at the local church. "He was barely literate enough to read his Bible," says Watson, "but he had a whole lot of horse sense. When I was 14, he put me to work at the end of a crosscut saw, and if he hadn't done that, I'd still be sittin' in a corner somewhere." Watson's mother, a sharp, no-nonsense Baptist, sang in the Sunday choir and, at home, lulled her brood to sleep with old-time ballads that Watson would never forget.
Though Doc remembers only one year when food was scarce, life was hardly ever easy. Home, when he was born, was a three-room shack where Watson shared a bed with two of his brothers. "There was no such thing as indoor plumbin'," he says. "In real cold weather you'd wake up in the morning with frost on your pillow. When hardblowin' snow came, you had to go up in the attic to sweep up the snow and put it out through the shutter window. If you let it go until you got your big fire hot, it would melt and wet everything."
For all its material wants, the region was not lacking in history. Daniel Boone had cut through its hills in the 1700s on his way to Kentucky. A century later, a famed love-triangle murder took place within miles of Doc's home and was immortalized in the song Tom Dooley. By the early years of this century the area teemed with traditional mountain musicians—blind fiddler G.B. Grayson, banjoist Clarence Ashley and others—that later folklorists would revere. In 1924 three local brothers formed a band called the Original Hillbillies. Thanks to them, "hillbilly music" became part of the Nashville lexicon for years to come.
Watson absorbed the local music as well as the big-band songs and pop hits that he heard on the family radio and Victrola. His own playing had yet to begin, however, when he enrolled in the Raleigh School for the Blind at the age of 10. Watson stayed at the institution for four years, and to this day refuses to discuss his experiences there with any but his closest acquaintances. To the poorer students forced to rely on state-paid tuition, "the teachers were tyrants back then," he says. "I went partway into the seventh grade and quit. I rebelled against their overlord stuff."
Back at home, Watson went to work on the family farm but continued his schooling with "talking books" from the Library of Congress record catalog. His father's odd jobs, WPA assignments and occasional relief from the state helped carry the family through the worst of the Depression. By sawing wood, Watson earned enough money to buy a mail-order guitar, and before long he was hitchhiking to nearby towns on weekends to busk on the streets. At 18, he was hired to perform on a radio broadcast in Lenoir, N.C., but the show's announcer considered his name cumbersome. "Call him 'Doc,' " shouted someone in the audience. The announcer did, and the new name stuck.
Music, however, would not be Doc's only love. When a young neighbor girl eight years his junior struck up a conversation one day "you might as well have hit me over the head with a bludgeon," says Doc. Rosa Lee Carlton was a shy third cousin who lived less than a mile away, and soon Doc and his walking stick were making their way to her house each evening. "Every breath of every day was her name," he says softly. "That's the way it was."
The couple wed in 1946—Doc was 23, Rosa Lee 15—and three years later they had son Merle, named after famed finger-picking guitarist Merle Travis. Then in 1951 daughter Nancy arrived. Hoping to supplement the state aid to the blind that he was receiving, Watson traded in his Martin acoustic guitar, bought a Les Paul electric and began performing in a weekend dance band led by Jack Williams, a local railroad worker and part-time piano player. "I recognized the boy's talent," says Williams, now 66. "I knew that if he ever went somewhere where somebody heard him who could help him, why, he was on his way."
Doc's discovery wouldn't come quickly, however. He stuck with Williams through the 1950s, bolstering his weekend earnings by tuning pianos. Then, in 1960, two Northern folk enthusiasts headed South to record the legendary banjo player Clarence Ashley. Ashley introduced the pair to a local guitarist who, he said, "could play anything." Ralph Rinzler, now 53 and an assistant secretary at the Smithsonian Institution, recalls that first meeting well. Rinzler was eager to record an unvarnished, legitimate folk musician, but "Doc was playing the electric guitar at the time," he says. "I said, 'Gosh, couldn't you get an acoustic?' Doc replied—politely but rather firmly—that this was his guitar and that's what he was used to playing."
The next day Rinzler and Ashley set off by truck to visit Ashley's sister. Watson rode in the cab with the banjoist, Rinzler back on the flatbed by himself. "Since I was alone out there and had about an hour and a quarter to ride, I started to play the banjo," Rinzler says. "After a bit the truck stopped, and Doc jumped out, walked to the back and said, 'Let me see that banjo, son.' Then he played Tom Dooey and played the hell out of it."
Watson and Rinzler finished the journey on the back of the truck, talking as they rode. For Rinzler the stereotype of hillbillies was out the window. "Doc was charming, witty, articulate—a man of towering intelligence and savvy." Next day Rinzler went to the Watson home and recorded Doc with his family members and friends. Within months of the recording's release, the guitarist would be on tour, a local secret no more.
In 1964 Watson's son, Merle, then 15, joined his father as accompanist, road manager and guide. In the years that followed, the relationship between father and son became legendary. They recorded together, inspired each other musically and enjoyed a friendship closer even than their family bond. Merle's death two years ago in a tractor accident on his farm left the grief-stricken Doc and his wife, Rosa Lee, with a sadness as deep as it was indelible.
"I don't know if we'll ever get through it," says Watson. "There's times on the road yet when it's so hard that you wonder, 'Well, can I do this show? Can I go on?' God helped me get to where I am with it, and maybe I can learn to live with it eventually. I don't know."
Two years later Merle remains a powerful presence in Watson's Deep Gap home. The two-story dwelling, modest and cozy, is paneled with wood from Merle's farm and filled with pictures of the young guitarist on every wall. It is here that Doc will retire next year when he turns 65. Weary now of life on the road, he says he will forsake concerts and start collecting his Social Security. Music hasn't made him rich, but it has left him comfortably fixed and able, at last, to tend to more private pursuits. Down the driveway is a utility shed that Watson built himself last fall. "It's not pretty and finished up, but by gravy it's there, and it's dry," he says proudly. "I put the roof on and everything. I did the whole job, and I wouldn't take anything for the enjoyment I got puttin' that thing together."
If not for blindness, Doc says he might have become a carpenter or even an electrical engineer. (He probably could have anyway—years ago he rewired, by touch, the home that he and Rosa Lee then occupied.) "I sure wouldn't have gone on the road with the guitar," he says. "But a man's got to do what he can do. When they let you in this world, they hand you a little box. It's invisible, of course, and it's got a few talents in it. And if somethin' happens that you can't lean on one, why, you got two, three more you can get hold of."
Denied the use of many talents, Watson has more than compensated with his musical skills. And he has never forgotten the heritage from which they spring. Three years ago, before Merle's death, he and his son recorded the old Blue Ridge Mountain Blues again. The years seemed to have added wood smoke to Watson's voice, a wistfulness to his interpretation. There were some additional lines as well, suggesting an image of Watson's elders:
I can see two heads of snowy white
And in their window there's a light
It seems I can hear them both recite
"Oh where is our wanderin' boy tonight?"
The answer will soon be easy: in the North Carolina mountains that have given birth to eight generations of Doc Watson's family. The wanderin' boy is coming home.
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My wife who is Greek and I (Russian) are planning to leave for the UK.
We are currently both unemployed but have a joint bank account with roughly over 12 thousand euro.
Also we have only recently gotten married, before that we were knew each other for a year and a half.
I do possess a valid 5 year Greek residence permit.
I am aware of the how strictly the Border control considers applications.
So i seek advice here, ideally we would like to travel and enter the UK together.
My question is how probable is it to receive a Family Permit for travel based on what i have already mentioned, and if there is any advice on increasing the chance on being succesful in receiving one.
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This country has done more for us than we can possibly do in return. And yet many are calculating whether they personally would get more from Bush's plan for this or Gore's plan for that. What about the infinitely greater question of what kind of country you are going to be passing on to your children and grandchildren? Don't you owe that much consideration to those who passed this country on to you?
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SEATTLE -- When the taiko drums sound this Sunday at Seattle University, they will be celebrating news that just arrived at Uri Satow Matsuda's doorstep. She will be one of 15 former students getting honorary degrees after they were forced out of school and into incarceration camps by the U.S. government during World War II.
If you wanted to stay in the United States, you had to go east of Spokane, recalled Uri. She was a first year nursing student in 1942 even though I wanted to be a doctor, she confides. With her parents and siblings trapped in Japan, Uri lived with another Nikkei family, the Kinoshitas, while attending Seattle University. They allhad to go to Minidoka Camp in Idaho. She volunteered as a nurse at the camp infirmary.
I had good training that way, she says. Hardship training, but it was good. She left camp within a year to completenursing school at St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, Illinois. She married and the couple moved to Chicago where she eventually became Head Nurse at Chicago Wesley Memorial Hospital.
Stacy Howard, communications specialistat Seattle University, says theschool's decision to award the honorary degrees wasto honor the formerstudents and recognize the injustice they sufferedduring the internment. It's really important for the University to honor the courage that all these former Seattle U students had close to 70 years ago. A lot of us can't even imagine what they wentthrough, said Howard.
In a news release, Seattle University President Stephen Sundborg, S.J. said, 'These individuals, who were our students, were required by federal order to leave our community as a result of the fear, racial hatred and hostility that prevailed in the wake of Pearl Harbor. We honor these former students to recognize their courage and sacrifice, to address the injustice that occurred, and with hope that this recognition contributes to the healing process.
How is Uri reacting to all this? Surprised. Shocked. But I was very very grateful, she says. I missed finishing school, Ireally did.I'm glad that somebody's going to recognize thatI did try.
Of the 15 students being recognized, only two are alive.All will be recognizedduring Seattle University's commencement ceremony later this spring.
Some of the other former students being recognized: Thomas T. Yamauchi, John Fujiwara, Ben Kayji Hara, Shigeko Iseri Hirai, Dr. May Shiga Hornback, June Koto Sakaguchi, Mitsu Shoyama, Joanne Oyabe Watanabe.
Seattle University will observe the 69th anniversaryof the internment order with a taiko drumfestival this Sunday at 2at Piggott Auditorium.


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This is supposed to be a fun, fluffy celebrity blog. However, the news of the day has me a bit rattled, and I feel the need to venture off-topic today and respond to President Obama's press conference from last night.
President Obama:
I am a loyal supporter of yours, but I am disappointed by the comments you made last night about the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates.
First of all, you began your remarks by admitting that you didn't have all the facts about the incident, but then you went on to pass judgement anyway, saying that the police officers in question acted stupidly, and then you insinuated that what happened to Gates may have been an example of racism.
"You're late...you're late...for a very important date!"
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Check out the trailer for Tim Burton's version of "Alice in Wonderland," due in theatres next spring. It looks promising, but I hope the whole movie doesn't revolve around Johnny Depp. Don't get me wrong...I love Johnny Depp as much as the next person. However, this film boasts an incredibly talented cast, including Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen of Hearts, and she wasn't even featured in the trailer. What's up with that?
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I just realized that I forgot to comment on all the Michael Jackson memorial hoopla from yesterday. That's probably because I didn't watch any of it. I had absolutely no interest, which surprised me. I did check in briefly early on just to see if it was a closed casket (it was, thank god). I also watched the clip of Michaels' young daughter, Paris, giving a brief eulogy for her dad, which was quite sad. However, I had absolutely no desire to watch any of the monstrous coverage, which at times seemed even crazier than the Obama inauguration coverage. I cannot believe all the major television networks covered it all freaking day, and that Michael made the Internet crash AGAIN! That's twice in two weeks!
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Guess which former "Three's Company" star was arrested on DUI charges over the weekend? (Hint: it's not John Ritter.)
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Guess which Harry Potter star has swine flu?
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Of course it's Rupert Grint, a.k.a. Ron Weasley!
Am I the only one who thinks this is kind of funny?
Still, get well soon, Rupert!
Billie Jean is NOT my lover.
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Way to steal Farrah's thunder, Michael.
The King of Pop is dead at 50 years old. Well, at least supposedly. My husband just finished telling me that he doesn't think Michael is dead at all. According to him, this is just one huge publicity stunt, and Michael will rise again on July 13, the date he's scheduled to perform his first sold-out London concert. He'll open the show with "Black or White" and emerge on stage re-pigmented like Robert Downey, Jr. in "Tropic Thunder" (although I think that may have been a hoax, too).
First Ed, then Farrah...now Michael?!
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Michael Jackson apparently went into cardiac arrest this afternoon and was rushed to the hospital. Supposedly he wasn't breathing in the ambulance, and several media outlets are reporting that the former King of Pop has died (although that has NOT been confirmed!). Michael's only 50 years old and was allegedly on the brink of a big comeback...what the heck is going on now?! Will Michael make it? Stay tuned.
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The past week has been a big one in the world of celebrity news. Ed McMahon died. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick welcomed twin girls with the help of a surrogate mother. Jon and Kate announced their split (big whoop). Now today, Farrah Fawcett died from cancer at the age of 62.
This gives new meaning to the term "electrifying performance."
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During a performance at the MuchMusic Awards in Vancouver, Lady Gaga wore a corset that shot fireworks out of her breasts. Check out the photos! This completely puts Madonna's cone bras to shame.
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Not much to look at by contemporary standards, my blues (http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars...uttlecraft.php) were a combination of painstaking study of video, photos, & the Trek Photonovels, as well as a few arbitrary decisions in terms of resolving the unresolvable (front window height, door placement, etc.). The route I took was to enlarge the exterior the minimum extent required to contain the set, which of necessity raised the nacelle footstep and door "porch" so high boarding would put crewmembers' thighs horizontal...but easy access isn't a feature of business jets either... What I now relate is not meant as bragging, but rather reported with a sense of absolute dumbfoundment. Last night, I came upon the following statement: "An interesting reveal in the recent Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modeller Vol. 26 issue. There's a pic showing the inside of the 22ft. shuttlecraft mock-up...Another little nugget gleaned from the magazine is a comment from Lynne Miller (then owner of the mock-up) from several years back when Gary Kerr had an opportunity to take some measurements and photographs of the mock-up during restoration. Apparently Lynne stated that Matt Jefferies had told her the 22ft. mock-up was built to 3/4 scale. If taken literally then that would mean the "real" shuttlecraft was supposed to be 29-1/3ft. long." Curious, I applied my plans' scalebar to my shuttle...and got the exact length cited by Jeffries. I may be insufferably pleased with myself for about a week. |
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Nice work though, especially since it was done in "the before time"!
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You did some very nice work on those plans. I own a hard copy set probably bought them through New Eye studio or Intergalactic trading post many years ago I'd be interested in seeing an updated set
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