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Lovely home on Carrabelle beach, Relax on the beautiful uncrowded white sand beach. Enjoy sunbathing, snorkeling, shelling, swimming and surf fishing! Great family getaway from it all. Spot sea birds and dolphin playing while chillin' on the deck. Collect blue crabs on the beach to cook for dinner while viewing the spectacular sunsets then watch the stars come out over the gulf where you're likely to see a few shooting across the sky.
For the golfer, St. James Bay Golf Resort in Carrabelle is open 7 days a week. Apalachicola offers fine dinning and shopping. Carrabelle, the boating & fishing capital of the Forgotten Coast also offers hunting and fresh water fishing at its finest.
Charter a boat in Carrabelle and go deep sea fishing. full & 1/2 day trips available. Kayak through the famous 'Tates Hell' State Park, Dog Island or enjoy a quite ride up the Carrabelle River. Come to Carrabelle and discover the incredible natural beauty of 'Old Florida'.
Parks in/around Carrabelle
Tillie Miller Park, John David Patton Wildlife Park-nature trails, Carrabelle veterans' Park, Crooked River Lighthouse Park-museum, lighthouse, 70' pirate ship picnic facilities, Will Kenndrick Sports Complex-ball field, trails, basketball & playground. Wakulla Springs State Park a short days outing away.
Tates Hell State Forest- hiking, kayaking, birdwatching, camping
St. George Island State Park- sugar sand, dunes, bike trails
Ft. Gadsen State Park- historical battle site overlooking Apalachicola River
Ochlockonee State Park- boat ramps, fishing
Carrabelle-home of the World's Smallest Police Station
January 2012: Dan & Linda Neville wrote:
A special thank you to all of you. We have enjoyed our stay in your beautiful home. This was our first winter being retired, and we could have not found a more perfect spot to spend time. Carrabelle is a lovely town. We saw many new sights and met some great people. We will have wonderful memories to take back to Michigan with us. Again, Thank You!
March 11-18 2012: Jonathan, Becky, Sierra & Evelyn Billock Aldrich wrote:
We had so much fun just spending time together relaxing in a beautiful place. We saw dolphins, pelicans, explored Cape San Blas and St. George Island and just hung out at the house. The weather was perfect! Thanks for sharing your lovely beach house with us!
June 30-July 7, 2012: The Perricove Family wrote:
We loved our visit in 2009 when our girls were much younger- returning was amazing- they were in awe of so muc. We saw a sting ray, caught a baby shark and saw fireworks all around and ate lots of seafood- what matters is having found such a special place. Thank you for a fantastic vacation! We continue to love Carrabelle, particularly this home and we are very grateful for the opportunity to create so many memories here. Incredible!
Dec. 16 - 31, 2011: John, Katrina & John Curtis Emerson:
We love how quiet and peaceful it is here. The weather was beautiful, sunny almost every day in the 60's. We loved the bed and listening to the ocean at night! what a perfect vacation.
My husband wanted to stay in a non-touristy place in Florida and we couldn't have asked for a more perfect location. This was our first time visiting Carrabelle but certainly not the last. We loved the house and being right on the beach was perfect for the kids. Everyday we would discover something new and interesting as we strolled along the water.
After vacationing in Carrabelle for the last several years, I was so happy to find Tranquil Wind. The house was impeccably maintained and very clean. The sunrises as seen from the oversized deck were breathtaking. The white sandy beaches were an awesome spot to watch the dolphins. There is no doubt that we will return to Tranquil Wind many more times. It is a wonderful place to build memories with my husband and two son's.
Had the extreme pleasure of spending christmas at the cottage with my daughter and fiance.
Very clean, dacor beachy theme throughout, all you ever need is supplied for a homey feeling and the view is outstanding.
The area is a small town feeling and ever so welcoming. The beach at your back door is a wonderful bonus but you must visit neighboring beaches, it will take your breath away.
My family cant wait till we can return again to enjoy this wonderful cottage and all the wonders nature has to offer us.
First of all I want to give 5 stars to this house. We arrived on Saturday afternoon, had no problems checking in and the entire house is spotless. The master bedroom is on the ocean side so when you open your eyes in the morning you see the ocean. Because it was April we were able to keep the doors and windows open all day and night and hear and feel the ocean breeze. The house is PERFECT for a couple or maybe a family with kids. The second bedroom is on the road side of the house and there is pretty much road noise. I tried to sleep in there one night (my husband was not feeling well) and ended up having to sleep on the sofa because of the noise. However, on the master bedroom side you can barely hear any noise at all.
My only concern with this house is the location. If you are going for fishing (THIS IS YOUR PLACE)!!! However, if you are looking for the beautiful Gulf ocean this would not be my choice. We have never stayed in this part of Florida so really didn't know. The house is located or Port St. George Sound. The water there is brown. Also, this area of the beach is pretty deserted. If you want solitude you will get it - no complaints there. But the beach is also dirty (glass, tires, fishing nets, even a kitchen sink)... lots of debris and trash. That was extremely disappointing. If you have small children you would probably want to make the drive over the St. George Island and go to the state park over there. It costs $6.00 to get it but the beach is absolutely beautiful. Seemed a little silly since we were staying on the beach but I would not get in this water, let alone let my child.
I wish they owners could take this house and move it up the beach about an hour (towards Panama City) and out of the sound.... :(
As far as food - we ate out every night except one. The seafood in this area is excellent especially if you like oysters. I could go on and on about that! We made it a point to visit a LOT of the local hangouts and really met some cool people.
I would love to say I would rent this place again - but unfortunately I want a prettier beach and clear water. I was actually afraid to go barefoot on the beach because of the glass and other garbage. Sad that the town can't do a better job of cleaning this area.
We spent three nights during spring break at this wonderful beach home. The property manager was fantastic to work with - the booking and payment process was simple, as was the check-in/out process.
The house is even better than the pictures - we loved the floorplan and the beach décor. All of the important amenities were here, as well as nice touches like puzzles and books. We enjoyed grilling out on the deck - eating fresh seafood from nearby Eastpoint.
My husband and I stayed at this nice home over Spring Break. It was furnished very well and completely as advertised. The rental agent, SeaCrest Realty/Sandy Beach Properties were very professional and easy to work with. They covered all the details and the made the vacation just perfect.
Away from the hustle & bustle, No Crowds, No Traffic Light, No Big City, No Heavy Industry, No Limit to Things To Do!
Carrabelle, a quiet little fishing village is an hour SW of Tallahassee.
Pilots fly in to Carrabelle-Thompson Airport, a 4,000' concrete runway and tuck your plane away in our hanger, load up the Carrabelle Cruiser (Durango) and ride 6 miles west to your vacation beach paradise. (FBO services include jet fuel & runway lights).
Golf: Beautiful St. James Bay Golf Course just 15 miles from this beach home. Golf, Tennis, Gym, Fine Restaurant.


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Brandon Belt had a nice weekend for the Leones del Escogido, going 2-for-7 with a double, two runs scored, three walks and a strikeout. The big lefty hit third in the order both days, playing first base on Saturday and right field on Sunday. Brandon is hitting .286 (8-for-28) overall.
Francisco Peguero played center field both days over the weekend for the Leones del Escogido, batting sixth on Saturday and leading off on Sunday. Peguero went a combined 0-for-8 with three strikouts, lowering his average to .212 (7-for-33).
Tyler Graham went 0-for-4 on Sunday while leading off and playing center field for the Tomateros de Culiacan. The outfielder, who has just one hit in his last four games, saw his average fall to .213 (10-for-47) on the season.
Hector Sanchez was out of the lineup for the second consecutive day Sunday, further fueling speculation that he is battling an injury of some sort. Still no definitive word, however.
Ehire Adrianza also had the day off on Sunday, after three consecutive starts.
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Decorative paper napkins, designed to make your table elegantly laid. Perfect to use together with the other Almedahls pieces, or separately. The paper napkins are made of Triple – Ply paper. Produced from high quality and soft Scandinavian paper. Water based inks and chlorine free bleaching. The napkins are biodegradable.
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Almedahls is a Swedish textile company founded in 1846. While Scandinavian design tradition is their main source of inspiration, their in-house design studio works with both Swedish and international designers to stay on the forefront of modern design.
For Almedahls designers, the "feeling" their designs convey are of prime importance. This is true of both the look of their designs as well as the feel, which is why they use natural fibers of the highest quality. Astrid Sampe, Stefan Borselius and Claesson Koivisto Rune have all been part of various projects for Almedahls. They work together to create the classics of tomorrow.


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BRIEF-Ironhorse announces Q1 2017 financial and operating results
* Ironhorse announces Q1 2017 financial and operating results
* FTSEurofirst 300 down 0.1 percent
* German, French economic activity data strengthen
* Activity in China' factory sector contracts
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LONDON, Jan 23 European shares traded flat on Thursday as a recovery in economic activity in much of the region offset another mixed batch of corporate earnings news and weaker economic data out of China.
Germany's private sector grew at its fastest pace in more than 2-1/2 years in January as factory orders flooded in, and while French business activity shrank again in January, it was at a slower rate than expected.
"Across the board (the data are) slightly better than expected, and show signs of growth; it's a green shoot but earnings are going to be the more important focus over the next two weeks," said Nick Xanders, head of strategy at BTIG.
There were divergent fortunes in terms of corporate earnings, which investors are scrutinising to see whether they will justify high valuations after a bumper 2013.
Spanish bank Banco de Sabadell SA firmed 5.8 percent, top riser on the FTSEurofirst 300, after saying profit tripled last year largely thanks to lower losses on soured property assets and higher bond trading gains.
But British publisher Pearson sank to the bottom of the index, off 6.4 percent, after warning in a trading update its 2013 earnings per share would be lower than expected.
"It increasingly looks a repeat of other structurally challenged businesses' performance in the past - restructuring charges being higher than expected, benefits delayed and the challenges being deeper," Liberum said in a note, keeping its "sell" rating on the stock.
While 78 percent of companies that have reported so far have beaten or met forecasts for annual earnings, expectations for reports later in the season are falling after companies such as Pearson and Shell have issued profit warnings.
The FTSEurofirst 300 was down 0.1 percent at 1,345.13 points by 0921 GMT. It recovered from sharper early losses seen after weaker than expected Chinese manufacturing data, hovering near a new multi-year high hit during Tuesday's trade at 1,353.47.
The flash Markit/HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 49.6 in January, from December's 50.5, suggesting that activity in China's factory sector contracted for the first time in six months.
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The mining sector fell 0.5 percent on Thursday. It was the worst performer in 2013 on concerns over the possible slowdown in China, which is the world's top metals consumer.
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Date: late 15th–early 16th century
Culture: Italian, Ferrara
Medium: Gesso on wood (pastiglia)
Dimensions: Overall: 7 1/4 × 8 1/2 × 10 1/4 in. (18.4 × 21.6 × 26 cm)
Classification: Woodwork-Furniture
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1910
Accession Number: 10.141.1
The variety of fantastic ornament employed for the decoration of this casket was derived from Roman wall decoration. After centuries of burial, these decorations were revealed during the excavations of the Golden house of Nero in Rome, begun about 1480. As they were found underground in grotto-like spaces, they were named grottesche, or grotesques.


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College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
PURPOSE: The aim of asthma therapy is to achieve control. Although the pre-bronchodilator FEV1 is an objective means of assessing asthma control, facilities for its assessment are not routinely available to all patients in our practice setting due to funding and manpower limitations. The Asthma Control Test (ACT) is a simple validated questionnaire for assessing asthma control but its reliability in comparison to objective measures such as the FEV1 has not been established in our patients. This study aimed to explore the correlation between ACT and the pre-bronchodilator FEV1 in Nigerians with bronchial asthma and therefore establish its value in our population.
METHODS: Forty six patients with asthma attending our tertiary care centre completed the ACT and had their pre-bronchodilator FEV1 measured on the same visit. Demographic and anthropometric data were also obtained. Normal FEV1 was defined as 80% of the predicted. ACT scores were graded as good (≥20), poor (≥14and ≤19) and very poor (< 14). The correlation between the ACT score and FEV1 was determined statistically.
RESULTS: The mean age ±SD (years) was 42.6±15.1. There were 29 (63%) females and 17 (37%) males. The mean BMI ±SD (kg/m2) for females was 24.0±6.2 and 23.7±3.4 for males (P>0.05). The mean ±SD FEV1 (Liters) was 1.9±0.8. FEV1 was normal in 27(58.7%) of the subjects and reduced in 19 (41.3%). The mean ±SD ACT score was 18.3±4.7. Twenty two (47.8%) subjects had ACT scores indicative of good asthma control, 15(32.6%) had scores for poor control and 9(19.6%) had scores for very poor control. The correlation co-efficient r^2 between the ACT score and the FEV1 was 0.14 (P=0.01) and the standardized coefficient beta was 0.376 (95% confidence interval 0.017 - 0.116). ACT score graded as normal also correlated significantly with normal FEV1 (Z=2.4. P=0.2).
CONCLUSION: The ACT score correlates positively with the FEV1 in Nigerians with bronchial asthma.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: The ACT is therefore a useful tool for assessing asthma control as an interim measure in practice circumstances where spirometry is not readily available.
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Ready, Fire, Aim! Upgrading America's Building Stock for Energy Efficiency
Where we are - Over decades, a widely accepted mythology has blossomed in the large building energy efficiency community. This mythology says that if we just build new buildings to be efficient, and replace or retrofit existing buildings, we can drastically reduce building energy use. It's comforting to energy policy-makers, and commercially advantageous for consultants, contractors, energy suppliers, and purveyors of energy efficiency equipment and services. Everybody knows what to do, and especially how to make money from goods and services. For building owners and operators, energy management is entirely too simple; just spend money - if you have it.
The myth is all the more seductive, because it embodies elements of truth. But the myth overlooks unsavory truths, and seriously impairs and slows our efforts toward efficiency. The myth has flourished partly from lack of practical metrics and diagnostics that quickly show near-real-time details of how energy is used, and mis-used, in buildings. Without such tools, truly effective commissioning, and capturing low-cost operating and maintenance ("O&M") savings, has remained frustratingly elusive to most consultants, policymakers, and especially to building owners and operators. Partly from bafflement and frustration, many are overlooking the bonanza of quick savings available from solving these problems.
Trouble Appears - Recent "universal benchmarking" of CO2 footprints of buildings in some cities has given us a broad sample of energy use data for large buildings. Benchmarks of this type (see http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=evaluate_performance.bus_portfoliomanager#tools ) don't show how energy is used, but they do show annual usage. The samples are broad enough that we can finally see there are large unexplained variations between buildings of similar vintage and occupancy, and that newer buildings tend to use more energy than older ones (see http://www.nyc.gov/html/gbee/downloads/pdf/nyc_ll84_benchmarking_report_2012.pdf ).
Analysis of this early data attributes the variations at least partly to different operating and maintenance practices between buildings. We should have changed course long ago, but as the fog begins to clear, we see the tip of a large iceberg, and we're dead in the water, listing to starboard.
Buildings use 40% of the energy consumed in the US, nearly $500 billion/yr. The need for enhanced economic competitiveness, improved balance of payments, and reduced global warming all imply the need for rapid, large energy use reductions. Policy-makers recognize this imperative. But they have an incomplete grasp of the situation, demonstrated by their focus. It's almost solely on efficient designs for new construction, deep retrofits of existing buildings, and a pre-occupation with encouraging and somehow securing funding of these expensive projects. Realities not adequately addressed by policy-makers include the need to pursue inherently verifiable commissioning of new buildings, lack of effective planning and management before and during retrofits, and especially lack of on-going management throughout building life cycles. Addressing these problems to ensure initial and continuing efficiency requires objective, low-cost, energy-data-driven metrics and diagnostics applicable throughout the building's life.
New and retrofitted buildings are being brought on-line with naïve expectations they will automatically operate as intended, and continue to function efficiently. "Deep retrofits", advocated by some as the only viable long-term solution for inefficient existing buildings, will sometimes address non-existent problems, and miss real ones, without use of effective diagnostics prior to retrofits. Deep retrofits will also be plagued by substantial under-performance, unless properly commissioned and managed with on-going diagnostics.
The data from "universal benchmarking" are especially troubling. Existing buildings include many that were never properly commissioned, but should be. Commissioned or not, existing buildings need on-going data-driven tracking and management to ensure that, once fixed, they continue to operate efficiently, despite inevitable (and otherwise undetected) equipment and human failures.
We must improve our understanding of the scope of these problems, and our planning and efforts must address them with appropriate tools. Until we adopt better metrics and diagnostics for building characterization and on-going life-cycle management of buildings, we'll continue to charge down the wrong path, using an over-simplified problem definition to achieve flawed decisions.
Unrecognized Problems Lead to Flawed Decisions
This problem is exemplified by a plenary speaker at the ACEEE 2012 Monterey conference on energy efficiency in buildings. Addressing rational allocation of limited resources to reduce California's building energy use by 80% by 2050, the speaker discussed existing buildings using a two-valued choice - extensive retrofits, or demolish-and-replace. Quick, low-cost savings from O&M improvements were not seriously considered, yet the speaker expressed concern about constraints on the pace of progress, posed by huge capital requirements. Unfortunately, the speaker was voicing a widely accepted and commonly used decision matrix.
This decision process has implicit wrong assumptions and a missing link. First, it assumes retrofits are the cure-all for performance shortfalls in existing buildings. Second, it assumes retrofits will recognize and address problems in existing buildings, without mis-diagnoses. Third, it assumes, for all buildings built (or rebuilt) with efficient design and efficient equipment, lasting efficiency is automatically assured. Fourth, it lacks a bridge strategy to save energy quickly while waiting for the benefits of retrofits and new construction. Fifth, it neglects reduced capital needs resulting from improved O&M. Without realizing O&M savings first, retrofit scopes and associated capital needs will be over-estimated, requiring years more work and additional financing.
For decades, programs subsidizing efficiency improvements have given lip service to improving O&M, advocating that O&M improvements should be addressed before making retrofits. But contractors historically achieve little improved O&M efficiency; they are often chosen as low bidders (with no incentive to pursue O&M improvements) or for their retrofit expertise. Often contractors decide to replace oversized equipment with like-sized equipment. Some contractors even argue that savings measurement and verification ("M&V") diverts capital from desperately needed improvements. For lack of data-driven diagnostics and building performance metrics, we have been making comforting - but wrong - assumptions about retrofits always being the solution. Some retrofits address overlooked problems with inappropriate expenditures. Contractors like the assumption that retrofits are a panacea, because that increases their sales. Building and utility program managers, under pressure to do something, like the assumption because they can point out how much money they spent, and exhibit it as an accomplishment.
These wide-spread tendencies have spawned a new industry of "evaluation", sometimes used to independently verify that program expenditures provide real benefits. While providing reassurance that good things are happening, evaluators also often discover short-falls from the hoped-for results.
Building Realities
Buildings can suffer serious efficiency shortfalls due to poorly managed O&M. This bonanza of potential savings hasn't been generally recognized. But recent "big data" from first-generation benchmarking efforts (c.f. NYC 2012 report) indicate there are large variations between buildings with similar vintage and occupancy, built to the same codes. Bringing all buildings up to the level of their peers (75th percentile of performance) would save about 31% of purchased energy.
Buildings also under-perform from poor or no commissioning. The author recently served as a Resource Efficiency Manager in a 5.3 million SF complex. Many recently completed buildings there offered large improvement potential, despite being well insulated, with modern lighting, mechanical and building automation systems. These buildings had the "right stuff" but didn't work as intended, mostly because nobody measured their performance. Systematic problems with how buildings were commissioned resulted in many "retro-commissioning opportunities" after new buildings completed their one-year warranty period. Personnel responsible for follow-on O&M in these buildings had no staffing, no budget, no tools, and no training for retro-commissioning. Many new buildings (typically complex and prone to O&M errors) turned over to their care after warranty were big headaches.
Triage is Needed
We need a better alternative to the two-valued "retrofit or replace" decision model. Emergency medicine offers a better decision-making model - triage. When faced with a crisis that overwhelms scarce resources, doctors use a three-valued logic to allocate effort; decide which patients will survive without immediate treatment, which patients will probably die with or without immediate treatment, and which will be saved by immediate treatment. In building terms, these categories would be:
- Buildings performing well enough that limited resources offer a better payback if employed elsewhere
- Buildings that should be replaced, and
- Buildings that, based on measured performance, would benefit from better O&M and perhaps retrofits.
This type of decision matrix should be used for existing buildings, with one key improvement. Buildings needing "better O&M or retrofits" should first fix O&M problems, then be re-assessed, before final retrofit choices are made. The missing link is that such triage requires diagnostics fast and accurate enough to first categorize individual buildings, and then track their progress during either O&M improvements or retrofits.
Available Diagnostics
Current Diagnostics - Few diagnostics (low-cost or otherwise) are suitable for triage of buildings. Astoundingly, there is no equivalent to automotive "miles per gallon" in general use for buildings! EPA's Energy Star Portfolio Manager ("ESPM") benchmarking tool comes closest to "mpg" for buildings - but it measures tons of CO2 instead of energy required. It takes too long (imagine being able to measure mpg of your car only once a year, instead of just before and just after a tune-up!). Required inputs include factors that are not intrinsic to the building as operated. ESPM provides a single rating number that responds to many factors, some of which are either extrinsic or judgmental, such as what is a representative peer group for the building, the CO2 intensity of purchased electricity, or in what climate zone it operates. Nonetheless, it's the only tool in general use that comes close.
Energy audits are sometimes recommended, but they are costly, partly because they don't rely strictly on measurements. Audit quality is highly dependent on auditor skill, judgement, and budget, leading to less than pristine credibility. Among other problems, audits do not yield a numerical "figure of merit" for peer comparisons between buildings, or for before-and-after comparisons. Hence, they are neither unbiased nor useful as diagnostic "yardsticks".
Audits work best for follow-up, once diagnostics and benchmarks disclose specific energy use patterns of interest. At that point, audits can become a focussed investigation, instead of being a "cookie-cutter" exercise.
"Energy Star" buildings (achieving annual ESPM performance ratings in the top 25 percentile of buildings in established categories) would be candidates for the first triage category. These buildings probably have room for improvement, but they aren't the first priority to treat, with limited resources. However, single number ESPM ratings give no clue as to patterns of their energy use.
ESPM offers no help to categorize buildings belonging in the second and third triage groups, other than a lower ESPM rating. Commercially convenient assumptions are that low-scoring buildings either need an audit or extensive retrofits, or should be replaced. But lower ESPM ratings don't indicate which are clunkers, obviously needing replacement, and which ones just need a tune-up or some upgrades. Studies show some very low-scoring buildings are recent vintage, with lots of insulation, modern equipment, and that presumably meet recent codes. These shouldn't be candidates for retrofits or demolition. Correctly parsing buildings into triage categories 2 or 3 requires better metrics and diagnostics, beyond or in addition to ESPM.
ESPM was devised to serve EPA's mission by capturing the annual "carbon footprint" of buildings - which it does reasonably well. ESPM also compares building performance, based on monthly energy bills and semi-local weather, to that of peers that are in similar climates, and with similar occupancies. Instead of being a hard number that can be compared to, for example, as-designed performance, or to past performance, it embodies assumptions about what is a valid peer group, and how those "comparable" buildings perform. These assumptions change with time.
Using ESPM for feedback on the impact of changes in individual buildings is neither fast nor precise. ESPM requires a year of continuous monthly billing data to achieve a baseline. To measure a change in building performance needs an additional year, post-change. Limited speed and precision in ESPM ratings (from using monthly data) impairs before and after comparisons, making such comparisons slower and less precise. Detecting changes with ESPM needs a significant change to work reliably, even if uncertain precision is overlooked.
Future Diagnostics - Part of the raw data that goes into ESPM, manipulated differently, forms a moderately useful engineering "figure of merit" for a building. Monthly purchased energy, by fuel type, per square foot, trended against coincident outside temperature for the area, gives a fairly good (albeit imprecise and slow to obtain) set of characteristic curves for how a building uses those fuels. Such data show how building energy use, as operated, responds to a range of weather conditions. These numerical results do not require judgments or assumptions.
With some crucial refinements (such as using weekly data, comparing only like cycles of occupancy, and local weather), and coincident outside temperature, one can get much more precise trends, quickly. These trends maximize accuracy for occupied buildings, from a theoretical standpoint, and determine trends faster. They are also suitable for triage and for comparisons between buildings and building models, or for before-and-after performance comparisons of the same building. The author has successfully field-tested such "diagnostic benchmarks". Pilot use in a large complex demonstrated that diagnostic benchmarks are very useful tools, both for triage and to identify and correct O&M problems, and to verify those corrections, for large energy savings. (Lambert, L.A., "Getting Your Money's Worth: Diagnostic Benchmarking for Commissioning", August 2012, Proceedings, ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, American Conference for an Energy Efficient Economy, Washington, DC)
Going Forward - with Improved Aim
There are three key things needed to address the disturbing findings from early "universal benchmarking". First, we must confirm our understanding of highly variable energy use among otherwise similar buildings, and to what extent it is due to either poor or no commissioning, and/or poor O&M practices. Second, to accomplish this, we need to use suitable benchmarks and diagnostics. Third, assuming that both improved O&M and commissioning prove necessary to enhance efficiency in buildings, we need to make improved benchmarks and diagnostics more available, and standard throughout the industry, so we have continual triage, and better feedback on our accomplishments.
Understanding Universal Benchmarking Data - We need early insight into existing data from "universal benchmarking", such as New York City's. How do variations in O&M, or lack of proper commissioning, affect these results? Using even a monthly basis version of by-fuel-type "diagnostic benchmarking" on this existing data should improve our understanding of why there is so much variation between similar buildings.
Proving Diagnostic Benchmarks - Pilot O&M improvement, and retro-commissioning of buildings within the "universal benchmarking" building set, using weekly diagnostic benchmarking, is needed. If outliers with high energy use are due to poor O&M, diagnostic benchmark usefulness should become apparent fairly quickly, as O&M improvements are made. If high outliers are due to lack of proper initial commissioning, that should also become apparent from diagnostic benchmarks after retro-commissioning some of these buildings.
Improved Benchmark Availability - EPA presently allows any building owner or operator to access and use ESPM, at no charge. Two easy changes would make diagnostic benchmarks more widely available. First, the monthly raw data used in ESPM could provide a crude diagnostic benchmark, if presented as x-y line graphs of energy use, by fuel type, per square foot, versus coincident outside temperature. This data is already available for buildings "in" ESPM. It only needs re-processing, plus a modification to ESPM to support display and download of such graphs. Some problems typically encountered, such as erratic operation, or excessive reheat in a VAV system, would become more apparent by re-processing universal benchmarking data in this way.
Second, modify ESPM to enable user input of weekly energy use data, for any user. EPA would need to support this by supplying coincident weekly local outside temperature data. In conjunction with the graphic output capability described above, this would provide access to full precision, fast response diagnostic benchmarks. Users could then try, for example, modified O&M one week, and see results the next.
Although these suggestions are offered in the context of better understanding the "universal benchmarking" data, they should be offered to all users of ESPM.
Modify Codes and Standards - If, as expected, diagnostic benchmarks prove useful with "universal benchmarking" buildings, we should begin broader use. The author expects general agreement these diagnostics should then be adopted for all large buildings in the US. At this point, diagnostic benchmarking should be added to such standards as ASHRAE standard 100, IPMVP, ISO 50001, and building codes. Once in wide use, we can start using this data for triage, to determine more accurately which buildings just need O&M enhancements, which really should be retrofitted, and which buildings should eventually be replaced. This is the "Aim!" part we've been missing.
In the author's experience, for existing buildings, best practice is to first use continuous diagnostic benchmarking to fine-tune O&M. In the process of doing so, shortcomings of the building physical plant become more apparent, along with insights into equipment sizing requirements. For example, in one building that needed immediate boiler replacement, diagnostic benchmarking data showed replacement boilers with only half the capacity of the original equipment were required, avoiding considerable costs. Such savings would, all by themselves, justify additional metering and/or effort needed for diagnostic benchmarking, in many instances.
A better knowledge of physical plant shortcomings (as a result of O&M tune-up) will help to determine what retrofits are really needed. Similarly, higher confidence estimates of both retrofit savings and costs become feasible. Higher confidence understanding of retrofit costs and benefits, after the O&M improvements have been accomplished, diminishes retrofit costs and risks. This will remove much of the uncertainty from the retrofit or replace question.
For new buildings, all should be commissioned using diagnostic benchmark data for the real building, compared to pre-construction computer model energy projections, to determine if the new building meets efficiency expectations or guarantees, before the end of the new building's warranty period.
Then we'll see if our aim was correct, and if new construction, deep retrofits, or replacement are the only options.
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Depending on the nerve affected, symptoms could vary vastly. For instance, the well-known carpal tunnel syndrome is also a common form of neuropathy in dialysis patients. Let's try to understand this disorder.

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Patients with advanced kidney disease or those on dialysis do have a higher risk for neuropathy. However, the exact cause is not clearly known. Here are a few speculations:

We do know that nerves tend to degenerate in kidney failure. There is some speculation that deficiencies of essential nutrients like thymine or zinc might contribute to this.

Other coexistent disease states in dialysis patients, like hyperparathyroidism (excess production of parathyroid hormone) have been blamed.

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Additionally, increase in pressure in the dialysis access can lead to infiltration of fluid or blood into the surrounding tissues which might compress a nerve.

Patients whose phosphorus level tends to run high can actually see calcium phosphate deposits form which could contribute to neuropathy.

Not receiving an adequate dose of dialysis is a frequent cause (which could worsen some of the above mentioned issues). Yes, just like any other medication, there is a dose of dialysis as well, and if you don't get the minimum prescribed, your risk of developing neuropathy could be higher.

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The prominence of TV programs like Project Runway and America's Next Top Model has added much more style to the design business, and numerous individuals are thinking about whether a design profession is ideal for them.
A design profession may be a solid match for you on the off chance that you have the right mix of inventiveness and business intuition. The style business isn't construct just with respect to making representations of lovely garments, which is the reason numerous individuals are shocked at the diligent work that goes into getting a degree in either form plan or design promoting. In all actuality, you can't simply be a fashioner. You likewise must be an awesome specialist, which is the reason four-year Bachelor's degrees are turning out to be progressively looked for after in the style business.
A Bachelor's degree in either Fashion Design or Fashion Merchandising covers an extensive variety of aptitudes that can be utilized as a part of the business whether you wind up outlining clothing, arranging style appears, organizing occasions or dealing with your own particular chain of retail locations. The top to bottom training you'll get will incorporate hands-on courses and in addition entry level positions and classroom work taught by industry experts and educators in controls, for example, bookkeeping and business. As a style creator, you can't succeed today on immaculate virtuoso. In the event that you can't address the substances of expense and common sense, another person will surpass you.
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What style would you say you are most happy with wearing? Do you know where the style you feel most good wearing originated from? The universe of style and plan is genuinely convincing with the interest and fervor it gives individuals like you who are among the individuals who appreciate showing distinctive patterns in design. The prevailing fashions that are all in the present all originated from the past plans that began path back the nineteenth century. Knowing this will give you the thought on the genuine identity that you have been imagining to show in your design and also the ones who made an imprint in the mod world that most men and ladies are getting.
Why Fashion Blogs Are So Important For Online Fashion Retailers
A design web journal is an awesome path for online retailers to make bunches of general, significant style content for their site. It fills three essential needs, to give an administration and data to perusers that will make them need to visit the webpage once more, to improve the site and expand its web crawler rankings and activity for pertinent watchwords and to give a showcase and data on the locales items which build the transformation rate. Style is about being up to the moment and it is imperative that that all that you do including your techniques for interchanges end the right message about your organization. Blogging is right now an extremely popular and in vogue type of correspondence.
A design site will add believability to mold site by demonstrating that the organization is up with the most recent patterns and thinks about the style business. It can converse with clients in a suitable dialect and tone and is an extraordinary method for speaking with the more youthful design purchasers that have appreciate perusing online journals. A major fascination of web journals for perusers is the pace at which they can be overhauled permitting them to surrender the moment data on the most recent patterns and styles.
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2. A style site will giving fascinating design data and thoughts for your imminent clients and will add believability to your style site.
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We by and large worship individuals who know their body well and wear garments likewise. These are the general population with awesome design sense. Some garments suit a specific arrangement of individuals, while they won't not look great on others. So form is an exceptionally singular explanation as it is only an impression of your identity and thought.
To have a decision making ability of style, one ought to go for an assortment of getups and request criticisms from the general population around. This may get you confidence yourself and the garments you are wearing. Numerous individuals who are certain of themselves and their decision of design and don't need others to choose for their style proclamation, can go for what they like. The main vital thing for ones design perspective is the way a man conveys ones self. The wackiest of garments according to one individual can turn into the ideal design stroke for others.
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The Soviet Union's desperate commitment to the arms race made it spend itself into bankruptcy. Some things never change. The current projections for the 2017 budget suggests once again, as in Soviet times, Russia's future is being mortgaged in the name of its military aspirations.
The headline figure is that national defence will account for RUB2.84tn ($44bn), or 17.5% of the total budget. Moreover, national security and law enforcement will be receiving another 11.9%, or RUB1.94tn ($30bn). Just in and of itself, this means 29.4% will be allocated to the security sector as a whole. However, even this does not tell the full story, as some of the funds earmarked for education, economic development and 'cross-government issues' are actually funding defence-related programmes, from the revived GTO ("Ready for Health and Defence") pre-draft classes in schools to scientific research with an explicit military aim. Overall, more than 30% will be devoted to defence and security.
This represents a decline in dollar terms, from around $50bn, although that is not an especially useful indicator, as the defense budget generally is spent within the ruble sector.
It is also the case that the US typically spends just over half its federal budget discretionary spend on the military: in 2016 this was a titanic $585bn. However, this is based on a far larger and healthier economy and, more to the point, much of US spending on other purposes happens at the state and local level.
For Russia, where federal spending on health will be just RUB378bn (2.3%) and education RUB569bn (3.5%), the central government budget is both much more restricted and also important in driving national progress. Or the lack thereof.
The implications for the country's already over-stretched public services are obvious, and will do nothing to address the fragmented and small-scale but serious problem of rising social and labour unrest. However, even for the military, the omens are not so encouraging.
First of all, one has to ask how much of these generous allocations will actually be spent as intended. According to the Main Military Procuracy (and once, memorably, even Dmitry Medvedev), the Gosoboronzakaz military procurement system is notoriously corrupt. More than two-thirds of the defense budget is spent through Gosoboronzakaz, including everything from building and maintaining barracks to buying new weapons.
Anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny has recently claimed that "nearly half" of all Gosoboronzakaz spending is "being stolen". While this may sound like political hyperbole, back in 2011 Main Military Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky said that 40% of the budget was being "wasted" – a fairly transparent euphemism for theft. Although partial data suggests some improvement in the situation in 2012-14, more recent economic pressures, as well as the massive opportunities for embezzlement provided by the war in Ukraine's Donbas region, appear to have revived this dishonourable tradition.
There is also the question of on quite what the defence budget is spent. Although the total spend is down from 2015's, reflecting the continuing pressure on the federal budget, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has made it clear that procurement will be a priority: "despite the difficulties, the volume of purchased arms and military equipment will not be reduced".
Good news for what Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev called the 'metal-eaters' of the military-industrial complex. Their interests seem to be considered more important than the soldiers. After all, much spending already goes on systems – such as the ruinously expensive T-14 Armata tank – that reflect not so much the generals' priorities, but the need to protect major defence industrial corporations whose support Putin enjoys. As one tank officer told me, the Armata was "the tank UralVagonZavod wanted to make" rather than the tank that the soldiers actually wanted.
Furthermore, given that defence spending is flat or declining in absolute terms, the growing bite taken by embezzlement and procurement have to come from somewhere. The prospects for improved salaries and benefits in order to attract more volunteers to the military look poor, so the hope of further decreasing dependence on the draft and its under-trained and often reluctant conscripts will likely be dashed.
Reminded of Tsarist general Suvorov's maxim, "hard in training, easy in battle," under Defence Minister Shoigu, Russia has staged larger, more intensive and frequent military operations, a training regime which has indeed generated much greater operational effectiveness. It remains to be seen whether this programme will be crushed between the shrinking budget and the hunger of the 'metal-eaters.'
No security for security
Likewise, the situation for the security and law-enforcement agencies is not as unrelievedly positive as might appear.
The security agencies appear to be doing fine, although their budgets are within the 'black' sections – approved but not itemized – and at this stage hard to apportion.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), though is suffering. When the National Guard was established earlier this year, it absorbed not only the MVD's public order forces but also the FGUP Okhrana private security corporation, a profit centre whose revenues bolstered federal and local budgets. The MVD has already warned that policing faces a RUB500bn shortfall over the next three years, and the 2017 budget offers little relief. Expect crime rates to continue to rise.
As well as the spooks, the metal-eaters seem to be winning out again. Not only are the National Guard and the intelligence agencies' budgets secure, but the MVD's preliminary line-item expenditures suggest continued spending on new vehicles and weapons, at the expense of salaries and building upkeep. The cops may see their real incomes fall (which historically has grown corruption), and their premises get shabbier, but at least they will get new GAZ buses and armoured cars, and Ural trucks.
The 2016 budget ended up being shaved by 5% at the 11th hour, and it remains to be seen what will happen in 2017. As is, it will leave Russia with a deficit of 3.2% of GDP, which will consume RUB1.15tn of the rapidly-dwindling Reserve Fund and the National Wealth Fund. The former is likely to be empty by the end of next year, with serious implications for the country.
In other words, not only is Putin continuing to burn through the financial reserves built up over years of plenty in the name of his security forces, he seems to be doing so inefficiently. His continued failure or refusal to reform the Gosboronzakaz system – perhaps because many of the greatest beneficiaries are also his greatest friends – ensures much is stolen. And even that which is spent is going to be spent inefficiently. Modern weapons in the hands of undertrained conscripts do not a superpower make.
In short, as his policies also alienate him from the West, bring sanctions on Russia, and force Moscow to continue bankrolling the Donbas with money that could be spent at home, is the greatest threat to Russian security Vladimir Putin himself?
Mark Galeotti is a senior research fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague, a visiting fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations, and the director of Mayak Intelligence. He blogs at In Moscow's Shadowsand tweets as @MarkGaleotti.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — RFI Communications & Security Systems has named Michael Moritz as its general manager.
Moritz will utilize his customer service experience to ensure effective management of both sales and business operations. Working closely with management at RFI's other regional offices, he will also collaborate with the company's different branch locations. His other responsibilities include the development and upholding of fiscal responsibility, increasing the company's customer base and ensuring customer satisfaction.
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