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How Does Internal Audit Get Ahead When Your Tech Is Locked in Time?
By Jason Rohlf
"Ultimately, the goal for internal audit's use of technology is to evolve in step with the business, using technologies that will, at a minimum, allow you to effectively audit the disparate business infrastructures while also beginning to creatively innovate to stay a step ahead of the real-time pace of technology advancement."
— Michael P. Cangemi
Staying a Step Ahead: Internal Audit's Use of Technology
Report issued by the IIA Research Foundation, 2015
The IIA Research Foundation (quoted above) recently laid out a bold challenge to internal audit professionals: The time is now to improve their adoption and understanding of technologies that enable more efficient, effective and valuable audit work.
A quick Google search for "internal audit software" reveals a long list of available solutions. Many of these providers (Onspring included) exhibited at the recent Governance, Risk and Controls (GRC) Conference in Phoenix, co-sponsored by the IIA and ISACA. In terms of sheer quantity of choices, internal auditors have no shortage of software at their disposal.
But how many of these solutions enable internal auditors to (as the IIA Research Foundation report describes) "creatively innovate to stay a step ahead of the real-time pace of technology advancement"?
We work with internal auditors on a daily basis, and we've picked up on a consistent theme in the profession: too many solutions for audit planning, fieldwork, data analysis and reporting are woefully outdated. They are tough to implement. They are a bear to configure. They are slow. They are the polar opposite of user friendly.
It was clear to us at the GRC Conference earlier this month that internal auditors are hungry for new and better tech options. They are more than ready to embrace technology, but they need solutions that are ahead of the game, not lagging behind.
Specifically, they are looking for:
- Performance. Waiting seconds, minutes (or worse) for pages to load and reports to generate is no longer acceptable. IA professionals expect the same performance from their audit software as they enjoy from a Google search or an Amazon web purchase.
- Flexibility. As business risks and opportunities evolve, the IA profession evolves, too. Software that's rigidly fixated on today's "best practices" may be ill suited to support the IA teams of tomorrow. Internal auditors need solutions that flex and scale with the changing times.
- Ease of Use. Software should support and enable a world-class audit process. It shouldn't be a barrier to progress. It should just work—intuitively—the way users expect it to.
- Visibility. Internal auditors don't operate in a vacuum. They are constantly gathering information from the business and sharing their findings with process owners, senior management, the audit committee and other assurance functions. They cannot be locked into a tool that inhibits the collection and secure sharing of information.
Internal audit teams are no longer content to implement a solution for electronic workpapers and call it a day. As they evolve, they need the ability to manage "big data" and incorporate the results of advanced analyses and continuous auditing into their programs.
It's time for internal auditors to get what they really need from their technology. It's time they had a tool that can adapt as they continue to improve and advance their capabilities. At Onspring, we are up for the challenge.
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f-vectors of simplicial complexes and polytopes, part II: methods
Introductory Workshop: Geometric and Topological Combinatorics September 05, 2017 - September 08, 2017
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This talk builds on Eran Nevo's talk, where he presented results and problems on f-vectors of simplicial complexes and polytopes. We will provide an overview of some of the most important tools used to prove this kind of results. This includes combinatorial methods such as shellings, as well as algebraic and geometric methods such as Stanley-Reisner rings, sigma modules, toric varieties, Lefschetz properties and rigidity of frameworks. We will also hint at specific examples, where those techniques have been applied successfully.
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Sequel to The Queen & the Homo Jock King
Together with their families and friends, Paul Auster and Vincent Taylor request the honor of your company at the celebration of their marriage.
Todd's rating:
For anyone who follows my reviews, it's pretty quickly evident that I am *not* usually a fan of most Big Gay Wedding stories, which I typically feel tend to pander to a lot of readers' infatuation with 'all things wedding,' regardless if the nuptials are gay or straight.
But it looks like the one thing preventing my past enjoyment of those happy occasions was a lack of humor, because I can say without reservation that I absolutely LOVED this story, which had not just one, but two weddings. Well, sort of.
Per his usual, TJ had me laughing and snorting all the way through this irreverent accounting of the 24 days leading up to the wedding of Paul Auster and Vincent Melody Taylor. Held at a horse ranch, of all places.
From a 7 y.o. marrying RoboCop, to a workplace blowjob, to the gays getting their 'bro' on, to a bet regarding one–upmanship with wedding vows, this story had non-stop laughs.
This book also had tons of banter between Paul, Sandy and Corey, which made me insanely happy. And the threats. The threats, people! *meep!* If you're a fan of the series, those alone made this one a must-read, for sure.
As for actual feels, I absolutely LOVED the one-on-one talks that Paul had with both Darren and his dad. And Darren finally began to let his mask slip and let Paul into his small group of people that he truly trusts. That was really great to witness.
But the pièce de résistance of this story, hands down, was "Sexy Paul" and his appearance at the bachelor party, thanks to (that evil bitch) Helena and lots of Jäger shots.
I must admit that "Sexy Paul" felt corny at the beginning, then quickly evolved into pure comic genius. I laughed ridiculously hard all the way through that chapter.
Have you ever done the splits trying to be a stripper named Gigi Fontaine while dancing to Britney with moves you learned from a Paula Abdul exercise VHS tape in the nineties after having four shots of Jager?Then the story wrapped up with the actual wedding, which was both touching and a complete train wreck, if judged by what happens at traditional weddings. (Just picture any family dinner scene with a Bear freak out from BOATK.) Truly nothing short of epic.
Me too.
My only complaint was that the novella was too damn short to satisfy my never-ending, all-consuming *need* for TJ's unique brand of fucked up hilarity.
I'd rate this one at a solid 4.5 "I'm going to marry the shit out of you" stars and I can't wait to read Corey/Kori's story next.
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Art Opening • Summer 2013
With each new art show comes new possibilities. Time goes on and things change, but new art at the Chapterhouse will not. But once the show was two months long, and then three; to satiate the eager viewer, lingering on in that quiet moment when they are taken somewhere else: allowing them to gaze upon the newly garnished plaster and look inside to the artist within and ask: What the f*ck is that? To which they might reply: I have no idea, but it's pretty cool.
Art Opening Party this Friday, July 12th 2013
Epic Summer Fun at Chapterhouse! • Two new artists for the Summer Show.
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Learn This Stunning 5 Strand Braid Combos
5 Strand Braid Combo is for girls of any age, and suits any occasion. It is a nice hairstyle choice for special events like birthdays. Despite how complicated this style looks like, you'll need only a few materials for this look.
This 5 Strand Braid Combos from Babes in Hairland is done by starting on the left side (moving toward the right) take the straight section and pass it over the first braid, under the next straight section, and over the 2nd braid. Then on the right side (moving to the left) take the far right straight section and pass it over the straight section, under the braid, and over the straight section. Back on the left side you will begin with a braided section. Pass it over the straight section, and under the next straight section, then under the braided section. You will continue this "weaving" process all the way down to the end of the hair.
It may sound complicated at first, but if you watch the video below, you'll realize it's easier than what you think!
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Set in North Wales near the stunning Snowdon range, in what once was the world's largest slate quarry, Penrhyn Quarry is now home to the fastest zip line in the world, Velocity 2, where you can fly 500m above the bright blue quarry lake. Learn all about the history of the quarry on the Penrhyn Quarry Tour or watch the zippers fly by from the Blondin Restaurant or Café. If you are after a corporate venue with a difference, The Gallery is a meeting space with a view like no other.
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Home to a wealth of North Wales slate mining history, Slate Caverns now houses world first underground and above ground adventures. With views across Snowdonia from the top of Titan, where you can zip 1890m from half the height of Snowdon, to the world's only subterranean playground of its kind, Bounce Below, and Caverns, the most incredible underground adventure zip line and adventure course.
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In a stunning woodland setting nestled in the North Wales Conwy Valley, close to the iconic Snowdonia village of Betws y Coed, a host of forest adventures and foodie delights await. With adventures to keep the whole family busy all day, choose from the Fforest Coaster, the UK's only alpine coaster of its kind, bouncing fun on Treetop Nets or zip line and adventure courses high in the trees on Tree Hoppers or Zip Safari – plus you could try Europe's highest giant swing, Skyride, if you dare!
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With the growing need for baby care and safety, baby bedding industry is booming and is at its peak. Different types of baby beddings are available in the market and on various online websites giving you a wide variety of options to buy your baby's bedding. There are products like bedding sets, bed sheets, sleeping bags, blankets, mats, mattresses, mosquito nets, pillows and beds. Mosquito net is a must-have for your baby to ensure that your baby is safe from insect bites and enjoys a peaceful sleep. Mosquito nets are available in a variety of color and shapes and are also foldable to make storage easier. While buying your baby's bed, bed sheets and pillow you need to make sure that the material is non-toxic and safe for children. The cotton used in making the product has to be skin-friendly and soft. We all know that it is quite tempting to tuck your baby in with cozy and soft blankets but you need to keep in mind that your baby is not suffocated. Use a light and thin blanket to keep your baby warm and tuck it securely under the foot of the bed, reaching no more than your baby's chest. However, it is advisable that you give a blanket to your baby once he turns one year old to prevent sudden infant death. Bedding sets are available in funky colours and prints to make your baby's bedtime fun and exciting. Safe and skin-friendly rubber mats that are made with Quick Dry technology ensure that your baby is protected from heat and bed rashes. It prevents seepage of liquid deep into the mattress thus leaving it dry and waterproof. Sleeping bags should be used when you baby is a few months older. You should buy a sleeping bag according to the weather, i.e. a low tog of 0.5 tog-1.0 tog in summer and no more than 2.5 tog during winter. Researchers suggest that you use a sleeping bag without a hood so that your baby is safe and does not slip down the bed. Using a sleeping bag with a blanket is bad for your baby as it might produce unwanted heat and disturb your baby's sleep. There are a variety of mattress to chose from but a firm one is way better and safer than a soft one.
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Hurricane Harvey swept through Texas leaving a path of destruction in its wake. It displaced thousands of people, caused extreme flooding and disrupted the habitat of many animals as well. Preeti Desai of the National Audobon Society took to Twitter last week when she found a strange sea creature on a Texas City beach after the hurricane. She asked the public for help identifying the mysterious creature.
The deceased sea creature had a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth, along with a large cylinder-shaped body and no apparent eyes. Desai explained, "On first glance it looked like something from the deep sea to me. My initial thought was it might be a sea lamprey but when I got close I realized there was no way that was what it was, particularly based on the mouth."
Unable to make an identification on her own, Desai posted photos of the sea creature on Twitterand asked biologists for help. "This is the kind of thing that's perfect for Twitter – there are so many scientists and researchers on the platform and they're very willing to jump in and figure out things like this," she said.
Biologists Reveal The Mysterious Creature's Identity
Several biologists who responded to Desai's posts believed that the sea monster was an eel, but they weren't sure what kind. Desai said, "I mentally smacked my forehead, because once that was suggested I could absolutely see the eel shape."
The most common suggestion was that the animal was a fangtooth snake-eel, also known as the tusky eel, native to the Gulf of Mexico. These eels typically live in waters that are 30-90 meters deep. They spend most of their time hidden, but occasionally they venture out of the shadows. Tusky eels do have eyes, but they are small and may have decomposed by the time Desai came across the body.
Dr. Kenneth Tighe of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History believes the dead creature is a tusky eel, but it could be from either the garden or conger eel family. "It might be a Bathyuroconger vicinus or Xenomystax congroides," he said. "…These species occur off Texas and have large fang-like teeth."
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Whether you are building a new home or business or own an older building, a new HVAC system will eventually become necessary. New HVAC installations can improve your energy efficiency and enhance the ease with which you maintain indoor comfort. Sun Glow Heating & Air Conditioning specializes in Portland heating and cooling products, installation, and long-term maintenance.
Signs You Need a New HVAC System
Modern HVAC systems are designed for longevity, but eventually all heaters and AC systems will need to be replaced. How will you know when it's time to replace your current HVAC system? There are a few signs that can indicate the need for AC or heater replacement:
- Your current furnace or AC unit is 10 years old or older.
- Your utility bills are consistently higher than in the past.
- Your heater or air conditioner makes loud noises during operation.
- Your heating or cooling system runs constantly to maintain your set temperature.
- Your HVAC system cannot maintain a comfortable temperature or humidity level.
- You experience frequent breakdowns that require regular AC or heater repair.
- You are faced with the need to make extensive or expensive heater or AC repairs.
Choosing a New HVAC System
There are many factors that can influence your choice of a new heating or AC system. Assessing your heating and cooling needs and preferences will ensure you gain the most benefit from your new HVAC installation. Sun Glow Heating & Air Conditioning has been performing HVAC installations since 1972.
Type: There are many types of HVAC appliances available for use in both residential and commercial applications. Traditional furnaces use gas, oil, or electricity to produce heat. Central air conditioning systems utilize ducts to distribute air, while mini-split systems operate without ductwork. Heat pumps offer excellent energy efficiency and a single appliance can be used for both heating and cooling purposes.
Size: Regardless of the type of HVAC system you choose to install, sizing your new system to meet your needs is essential. An HVAC system that has either too small or too large a heating and cooling capacity won't deliver the temperature control and energy efficiency you want.
Efficiency: Choosing an energy-efficient HVAC system will reduce the cost of heating and cooling as well as lower your impact on the environment. There are various rating systems that describe a heating or AC system's efficiency, including EER, SEER, and AFUE. Choosing the right system for your needs will require balancing upfront cost with the long-term savings you can enjoy by installing the most efficient unit at your price point.
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After we had already spent so many years running from the enemy, we were forced once more to run, this time to Kenya, where the enemy was not allowed. It was a three-day walk to the border. People had no shoes, and the road was very rocky. We walked non-stop. When I saw that sign welcoming us to Kenya I hoped we were finally safe.
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Welcome to Spring, it's time to put away your winter warmers and start adding some fabulous colour to your Lingerie Draw. This SS19 we will doing things a little differently, instead of launching our full collection, we will be launching limited edition pieces throughout the season. This makes owning our pieces even more special!
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Our kids are always teaching us life lessons, aren't they?
|They teach me as much as I teach them!
When we were getting ready for dinner this weekend, I had J help me clean and prepare the lettuce and cucumbers for our salad. She was spinning the salad, putting the diced cucumbers in a container, and just all around helping me.
When we were done, she hugged me so hard, looked up at me, and said, "Thanks for letting me help with the food, Mommy. I love making food with you. I love you!"
What she said really hit me - hard.
My kids love all the "big" things we do for them, like spending a lot of time preparing crafts and games for them and taking them to the zoo, beach, or splash park. And there isn't anything wrong with doing these "big" things.
But they also love the "little" things. They don't care if it's folding the laundry or getting dinner ready (at this age anyway!).
My kids just want to be with me and feel important.
So although I do still have some "bigger" fun things planned for the kids this summer - trips, games, and crafts - , I realize now that they have a lot of fun doing the "little" things too.
I just need to invite them in.
So this summer, I need to slow down, see that not all fun things are big or planned, and enjoy the precious everyday moments with them too!
Sigh, my kids are always teaching me something that seems like it should be common sense. Being a parent sure teaches a person some humility too. But I'll take these life lessons any day if it makes me a better mom.
I'm sure you've had this experience too! So I'd love to know: what are some things your kids have taught you?
First...Keri from Living In This Season has just launched her ebook: Why Just Survive When You Can Thrive. I highly recommend it: this is an amazing book!
It is perfect for my season in life with 3 kids under 4 - now I know how we can have a great summer as a family. It has great tips on how to not get overwhelmed and wonderful reflections at the end of each section (that's my favorite part). I know you will love it too!
Second...we'd like to welcome Emily from Morning Motivated Mom as a new co-host! Make sure to go visit her and say hi!
Becky - BYBMG ~ Beth - Our Pretty Little Girls
Whitney - Polka Dotty Place ~ Elizabeth - All Kinds Of Things
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Jess and Katie (Us!) - Sweet Little Ones ~ Emily - Morning Motivated Mom
Sarah - Abiding In Grace - Sarah Frazer ~ Tara - Mrs. Coach Sims
Third...you'll want to check out these giveaways this week: Becky from BYBMG's giveaway starts today, so make sure to hop over to her blog to enter!
And come back Friday for a Target gift card giveaway from Keri from Living In This Season - and several other ladies, including us! - to celebrate her new book and the start of summer!
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text: Abeywardena leads the Mayor's Office for International Affairs, which serves as the primary liaison between the City of New York and the diplomatic community, foreign governments, the United Nations, and the U.S. Department of State. In addition to the formal functions of the office, she is building a global platform from which the City can promote its equity agenda and share policies and best practices globally. Prior to joining Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration, Penny was the Director of Girls and Women Integration at the Clinton Global Initiative. She advised multinational corporations, philanthropists, NGOs, and multilateral institutions to increase investments in gender-focused development initiatives while expanding the community of CGI members who incorporate the gender lens in their work. Penny graduated from the University of Southern California and Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.


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Marine Protected Areas
For centuries, man has exploited the resources of the sea. However, there is a lack of technological, scientific and administrative capacity to carry out fishing efforts without damaging fish and marine invertebrate populations. On the one hand, regulations have been set, such as quotas, fishing seasons, and catch sizes, but only for some species whose commercial value was or is high. On the other hand, fishing has not been regulated for most species, especially those that are exploited by the artisanal or coastal fisheries of our country.
What is a marine reserve for?
Like all overexploited natural resources, fish and marine invertebrate stocks are reduced when there is unregulated fishing, yet the problem goes beyond diminishing populations. For example, it has been observed that the size of individuals is reduced under intense fishing pressure. This happens because larger and older individuals are eliminated from the population and the smaller and younger individuals begin to mature more quickly. If fishing eliminates older individuals, those who survive are less able to reproduce because they produce less gametes and of lesser quality. This means that the potential of individuals of a species is reduced consistently and therefore it decreases the ability of the population to recover to an optimal level of abundance. When these changes occur in a "key" species, the whole ecosystem goes into an altered state where the number of species decreases and the productivity of the system deteriorates.
To understand these effects from an economic point of view, we can imagine what happens to a checking account when it is overdrawn. Logically, capital is increasingly reduced and at the same time less interest can be accrued. This has a few side effects, since each check that is issued raises fees for the uncontrolled use of the account, up to a point where the capacity to manage finances is lost. In this situation, although there is still some money, you cannot pay monthly services and this most likely will lead to bankruptcy. While the solution to the problem is to control costs, maintaining a savings account to support the checking account could help finances and reduce any side effects. That is, if you keep a savings account with a sufficiently high balance and if you used it in synch with the checking account, you could avoid losing money from commissions, while maintaining a higher interest return, to normalize current expenditure.
A marine reserve is like one of many savings accounts that can be used to ensure there are enough marine resources. It is a natural protected area where activities that damage or alter the environment are permanently banned, with the aim of preserving a representative portion of the different aquatic ecosystems and their biodiversity. Marine reserves not only bring benefits to populations of flora and fauna that live there, but they can also positively affect species living in nearby areas. In a sense, marine reserves export individuals, adults and larvae, and even juveniles, to areas that are not protected and therefore can help maintain and restore populations outside the reserve.
The effects of a well-designed and monitored marine reserve
If properly designed, marine reserves can also help protect migratory species. Despite their great mobility, entire populations gather in specific migratory corridors or breeding areas to reproduce or feed, thus making them very vulnerable to fishing or other human activities. If a reservation is established in an area where the aforementioned ecological processes occur, it can help protect the migratory species of interest during a period in which it is most vulnerable. For example, preserving mangroves or seagrass, which are breeding areas for many economically important species, results in an increase in the adult population of the species that might live tens of kilometers away.
Most importantly, marine reserves provide forms of protection different from other management strategies because they protect the entire ecosystem and the diversity of species that inhabit it. This in turn results in a variety of benefits, the most important of which can favor the fisheries sector since they help increase biomass, abundance, and diversity of commercial species.
How many marine reserves are in Mexico?The marine area of Mexico covers over three million square kilometers, of which, according to the National Commission of Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), only 1.38% of are protected under a reservation decree. This protection is distributed throughout the country in about 90 coastal and marine areas. The need for the creation of more marine reserves in the country, whose ecological benefits support the recovery and maintenance of marine biodiversity in Mexico, is obvious. For this reason, the Convention on Biological Diversity set a goal of protecting at least 10% of the oceans between 2012 and 2020. However, the intention to create more marine reserves is not guaranteeing the sustainability of marine areas, because not even existing reserves are recovering.
Why are marine reserves in Mexico not working?With the exception of Cabo Pulmo, most marine reserves in Mexico deteriorate more with each passing day. This is mainly due to three factors: 1. a lack of resources necessary for adequate protection; 2. a small number of established no-take areas; and 3. a lack of involvement by communities in their management. New marine reserves created without considering the resources necessary to address the above needs risk becoming "paper reserves", which only meets the percentage goals in protection policies, but provide no real environmental or conservation benefit.
In Mexico, the organism responsible for designating and managing marine reserves is the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP). However, CONANP does not have the jurisdiction to enforce laws and regulations that itself creates for the marine reserves it establishes. Such responsibilities correspond to the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA) and the National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries (CONAPESCA), and both institutions depend on the Secretariat of the Navy to secure marine protected areas. The division of responsibilities between creating regulations and applying these among different government agencies is hindering their implementation. In addition, the staff available for safeguarding protected areas is insufficient, leaving marine reserves completely unprotected. For example, for the entire Gulf of California, PROFEPA has about 14 people assigned to safeguard 23,300 square kilometers of marine reserves, and CONAPESCA has fewer than 10 people in charge of regulating more than 18,000 artisanal fishing boats. It is simply impossible for regulatory institutions to guard marine protected areas, and this is without even considering the presence of illegal boats in the area.
The implementation of marine reserves is certainly a prerequisite step in order to heal and conserve the Mexican Seas. But for these measures to meet their environmental objectives, they require a change in philosophy in how Mexico implements and manages its marine protected areas.
– When good intentions are not enough…Insights on networks of "paper park" marine protected areas
– Biodiversitas, Reservas Marinas
– Analisis de vacíos y omisiones en conservación de la biodiversidad marina de México: océanos, costas e islas.)


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Bahrain announced the discovery of 80 billion barrels of shale oil which is its largest oil and gas find ever.
The tight oil was discovered in the offshore Khalij Al-Bahrain Basin, which spans some 2,000 square kilometers (770 square miles) in shallow waters off the country's western coast. The field also contains an estimated 14 trillion cubic feet of gas.
A lot of shale oil and tight gas in the area
The geology of the find will determine how much oil can be produced and how difficult it will be. The issue is if there is oil that can be frakked to flow out or is heating of kerogen rocks needed to produce oil.
Bloomberg has a review of how much oil is recoverable from other shale oil deposits in the area.
Israel's shale oil and gas
There is currently conflict over development of vast natural gas fields offshore in the Levant Basin of the Eastern Mediterranean, which could transform Israel into a major world energy producer and change the geo-political landscape. The energy prize is over 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and more 1.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil according to estimates of the US Geologic Survey. The trigger has been the successful exploratory drilling completed by an Israeli American consortium, Noble Energy, Inc of Houston, Texas and Israeli partner Delek Group, which in 2009-2010 discovered more than 26 billion cubic feet of natural gas in several fields offshore in Israel's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) offshore in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Tamar, Leviathan smaller gas field discoveries offshore have the potential of achieving energy independence for Israel and creating a major export market across the Mediterranean in the EU.
There is onshore development of more than 260 billion barrels of oil to be developed from shale formations in the Shfela basin, these natural gas discoveries will transform Israel's economy, that is, if threats by Israel's Arab neighbors and Turkey permit its secure development with allies Cyprus and Greece, who would share in important gains.
Israel Energy Initiatives (IEI's) chief scientist, Harold Vinegar is a giant in the world of energy extraction and production. Vinegar is developing a unique technology that could unlock hundreds of billions of barrels of unconventional oil around the world. In 2008, IEI was granted a research, development, and demonstration license to perform survey drilling in the 90 square-mile area known as the Shfela Basin.
Vinegar has developed a process that requires heating the kerogen to temperatures of around 300 degrees Celsius by drilling heating wells into the oil shale. A smaller number of production wells are also strategically placed in the heating pattern. Because liquid is lighter than rock, the high temperatures bring the lighter liquid to the surface while the heavier rock remains below. Using this process, IEI hopes that, by 2024, Israel will be able to produce 50,000 barrels a day for 25 years.


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Adventures in Apache - mod_speling.
Last year, I worked with Apache's rewrite and speling modules. My goal was to make all URLs case-insensitive on a website. (The original site coders had created the files and URLS with camel-casing, which is quite troublesome for a case-sensitive web server, and completely useless for search engine optimization.) I had quite a lot of trouble with these modules; I felt a bit like I was losing a boxing match.
The consensus from the resources I looked at was that mod_speling was the mod for the job. With CheckCaseOnly on, it did correct letter case for directories, but not for files? Unfortunately, that was only half the job. What I really need is a method to make both directories and file names case-insensitive for websites. Has anyone heard of such a thing?
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus ICS updates begin rolling out
Following last week's Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 updates, it's the turn of the Tab 7.0 Plus to receive the newly obsoleted Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich. First to get the update will be the Austrian Wifi and 3G version of the tablet (GT-P6200), and the new software version should bring the Tab's UI in line with Galaxy Tab 2 products, while eliminating some of the weird lag that's characterized most Honeycomb devices. You'll also get the standard suite of ICS features, like face unlock and the new swipe-able multitasking menu.
Austrian Wifi and 3G Tab 7 Plus owners in Austria should be able to update now over-the-air, or through Samsung's Kies desktop software. Owners of the Wifi-only version (as well as Tabs 8.9 and 10.1) will likely have a little longer to wait, though at this point what's a few extra days?
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Make up of the Council
The City of Edinburgh Council is made up of 63 elected councillors. They represent 17 wards within the city.
The 63 Councillors represent the following groups
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- 11 Labour Group
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One, if not the, principal element that in the long term will hamper sustainable peace in the Taiwan Strait is the tendency of world leaders to edit out the principal stakeholders in the equation — the Taiwanese people.
It goes without saying that the authoritarian regime in Beijing, unreceptive as it is to the political grievances of its own people, would ignore the whims and desires of 23 million people across the Strait. This largely accounts for the behind-the-scene, technocratic approach to cross-strait negotiations that Beijing has taken with President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) administration and helps explain why Ma and his Cabinet have also acted as if the will of the people were more of a nuisance — or at the minimum something to be shaped and controlled — rather than that which, in a democracy, should be driving government policy.
Confucianism and lingering paternalistic tradition, however, only partly explain why the Taiwanese polity appears to have been abstracted from the political calculation in Taipei and Beijing, because other countries with no such ideological baggage often commit the same mistake.
As I argued in a recent op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal Asia (WSJ), the much-hailed lowering of cross-strait tensions that has occurred since Ma came into office in 2008 will not be sustainable as long as the cost of that rapprochement is the ignoring of the views of Taiwanese on identity and sovereignty.
That popular sentiment — a growing number of Taiwanese identifying as Taiwanese, accompanied by growing support for independence immediately or at some point — isn't a creation of this author to "derail" peace between Taiwan and China. It is, rather, a fact that has been quantified and documented time and again in poll after poll over the past 15 years.
Nobody, this author included, opposes peace in the Taiwan Strait. That said, this does not mean that the advocacy of a cautious approach to negotiation should be construed as opposing or "hating" China, an accusation that is often lodged against academics who favor that road.
Unfortunately, some responses to the WSJ op-ed, as well as to a related editorial pushing for arms sales to Taiwan, see it that way. Not only are the authors portrayed as fear-mongers, but the critics' arguments completely remove Taiwanese from the equation, as if they didn't exist and policymaking were the sole remit of unaccountable elites on both sides, with one external element — the US — acting as the necessary trouble fete.
One response, for example, alleged that the world's greatest arms dealer was seeking to undermine peace in the Taiwan Strait by offering to sell more weapons to Taiwan. This accusation misses the mark altogether, as it ignores the fact that support for US arms purchases among the Taiwanese polity has been consistently strong, regardless of who was in office — even amid the detente under Ma. As such, US arms sales are not some outside means to derail peace, but instead are very much reflective of a desire on the part of Taiwanese to ensure their nation has the means to defend itself in a time of great uncertainty.
Another critic argued that the pessimistic view of the long-term effects of the current rapprochement was uncalled for and overlooked the increasing economic, cultural and social exchanges between the two sides. It added, in a misreading of the article's core argument, that it was dishonest to claim that the current situation was more dangerous than when president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and his pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party were in power. This again misses the point.


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Superfood Alert: Eat Your Tomatoes
Sure, tomatoes make beautiful dishes, add color to any salad, and provide solid Instagram #foodporn, BUT they also:
- Are very low-calorie and have dietary fiber (1 medium tomato = 22 cals, 5 g carbohydrates, 1.5 g fiber!).
- Protect against breast, colon, lung, skin, and prostate cancers.
- Are bone healthy and ESPECIALLY heart healthy!
- Regulate blood fat levels.
- Have antihistamines that fight allergies (like Zyrtec but cheaper and healthier!).
Add some slices to your breakfast…
Or try a tomato and avocado salad with basil and balsamic vinegar:
Any salad plate is a great home for the heart-healthy food:
Or just bite into the thing like it's an apple (a tomato a day can also keep the doctor away).
If you want some nutritional jargon and to find out more info about this superfood, my go-to source is WHFoods.org.
And lastly, because I know it's been keeping you up at night…Is the tomato a fruit or vegetable!?
Drumroll please…
The tomato is the fruit of the plant Lycopersicon esculentum. Botanically speaking, tomato is not only a fruit, but also a berry since it is formed from a single ovary. Mind = blown. (However, in the culinary world, it is considered a veggie.)
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Honey Radar on Rountree Records
Got this single in from Jason Henn and his project, Honey Radar, which is a fuzzy-fi psych-pop homemade 6 song EP running at 45, which forces Jason to get in there, and attack that melody right away, there's no time to mess around, or jam out the groove... the best tracks are sometimes the shortest...mostly Honey radar is reaffirming my appreciation for the experimental, bedroom recordings that when done by someone with an amazing natural songwriting ability are really worth listening too.
The first track, "Hands of Fate" let's you know this is going to be a hissy affair, staring through wax paper...I thought it could be the record player, I'm so quick to think it's got to be something in this massive chain of audio equipment, because of course it would be! But no, Jason's just working with that inherent underwater quality where the song is already over because that's all the cassette ran for, completely unexpected, one of those jump cuts where Ariel would just mash it into another song.
"Wedding Album" gets a great, really interesting groove around the layers of a cheap 4-track, the multiple, just out of sync vocal, an up-front heavy tambourine... This is a really perfect combination that keeps things intimate and demo-y but is still a completely finished song. Interesting unpredictable changes adding up in a perfectly catchy way. It's always the best when someone gets in there and plays live drums, especially when the rest of the track stops and they have to take it out with one more measure. It's really bringing back those massive 7 track sentridoh EP's, with weirdo sound experiments, which always made me want to go record, with a genius perfect gem of a loose, heartbreaking sketch. Sometimes a little loose jam like this can transcend any sort of need to clean up, it exists, perfect, just like this. That's where the 4-track still can work...it leaves an honest sentiment in a genre/sound that some people are still uncomfortable listening to. It's unpolished, there's something wrong from the get go...it can't ever be a hit. Like Pumice...you almost don't even want to see it recreated live, this is as good....well as perfect as it's going to get.
"The Navy Milk" is a short reverse track, weird synth noises, to the point where it almost has you convinced that this kind of reverse melody could almost work. The fact this is even included is why I loved those handlabeled cassettes from Mr. Barlow, you're so close to the process, you can see the individual ingredients.
B-Side's "Perfume, backflip, baby doll", is leaving me completely nostalgic...and who is this guy? The black label, no context, inserts for this is making this even more mysterious. It's what I wanted GBV to be (somehow Robert's songwriting seemed to bro-y for me). Not everyone has this balance of sincere effortless melodic songwriting, put together with hardly an electric guitar. The vocals have great imperfections, too close to the mic, the clunk of putting down a guitar. A layered, quiet vocal that doesn't need to be so specific. Like that Dump album.., purely sad chords, all singing in an almost monotone, working hard at barely letting you in, while laying it all out on the table and walking away.
"Climbs like a loaded gun" then uses a steady rhythm from weird instruments, some kind of cardboard box, but you'd never know it. There's a tiny amount of distortion over everything, like a pop Neutral Milk Hotel...and I know it's terrible to even invoke any comparison to Jeff ever, but that energy of something being so raw and mysterious is still exciting. It's a mystery and I want it to stay that way. The tracks on this get better and better, it's the sheer amount of different sounding material that's all great feels like you've spent a lot of time with this.
I want to keep listening to this, not even to figure it out and dissect what's working about this. I love it. It's working like all those John Davis, Lou Barlow messes of singles, and now that time has passed I realize how much I still miss those pop experiments.
This one is available direct from Jason on his bandcamp page, a couple of different lathe versions....and only 100 copies of this one, with the tiniest possible messages scrawled into the miniature gutter...
By the way, Jason says he tried to deal with polycut for a year now trying to get his lathe records and had a terrible experience....Single Piece Slate has been AWOL after a brief run as well...
There's such a demand out there...who's going to step up with the small run lathe cuts!
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New World Order
Imagine a world without freedom, where common people are subjected to the whims of an out-of-control bureaucracy, no longer governed by men or by laws, but only by the expediency of an agenda–where not even the elite are in charge any longer.
New World Order tells the story of Katherine and Rebecca Holt as they are swept up in a rebellion against the forces of a self-destructive, all-encompassing Authority that exists for no other purpose than its own demise.
The New World Order series takes its titles from Yeats' poem, The Second Coming.
Turning and turning in The Widening Gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things Fall Apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere Anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The Blood-Dimmed Tide is loosed, and everywhere
The Ceremony Of Innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely Some Revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The Darkness Drops Again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its Hour Come Round At Last,
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Photographer's Note
I was about to call it "Come on board, I'll take you to the Maldives" but it didn't fit...
In fact the picture has been taken on my way back from Kuredhoo to Male airport. It took me 45 minutes by airplane to do the journey. It's called "Maldivian air taxi". 12 people can fit into it, plus the crew and the luggages.
If you ever plan to go there by yourself (not buying a package from a TO), you'd better know that those taxi are as classic ones, less expenseive if you take it with lots of people (you don't want to pay the price of 12 seats while you are alone with your beloved one, do you ?).
What you see here is part of an Atoll. There is no island, nothing above the water. It's a reef.
Maldives are a great place for scuba diving and snorkeling in shallow water. You can meet plenty of fishes, turtles, rays...even sharks if you're lucky (well, it depends on your point of view...).
I adjusted the contrast a little bit but couldn't do much about the propeller-blade on the top middle. It makes a halo impression I couldn't avoid.
I hope you'll enjoy the view as much as I did and still do ;o)
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Propofol (1790) 2006-05-10 18:30
Great shot, particularly given the demands of shooting from a plane. It's encouraging to see such good results from the 350D and its "kit lens".
Great composition and colours - well done!
Mistral (15402) 2006-06-12 17:38
Interesting shot and note, Stan
I wonder if it's worth to visit Maldives without a package already booked, as in the chance I will find it quite interesting. You did so?
Never been there but maybe...
Like your shot above the lagoons...
A smile
sebinho342 (19329) 2006-06-25 5:59
Rooo la la le reve !!
Comme ça fait mal au moral de voir ça !!
Les maldives sont vraiment le plus beau joyau de cette terre ... il faut absolument que j'aille y faire un tour dès que j'en aurai l'argent ;))
Excellente vue d'avion, j'adore
adam_k (600) 2006-07-06 12:59
It looks nice but isn't the compression too high??
Somehow I feel it lacks some details (or maybe not sharp enough)...
leo61 (0) 2008-02-11 9:58
Hi Prisley!
I am a diver and I like phptos taken frm planes,and this is a very good one.The blue tones are wonderful.
mikele_pl (2400) 2008-03-15 7:47
Hi Prisley,
this is a kind of picture you often find in travel books. Very nice composition, beautiful shades of blue.
Thanks for sharing
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- Copyright: Prisley Stan (Prisley) (1485)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2006-04-25
- Categories: Nature
- Camera: Canon EOS 350D, 18-55mm canon II
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2006-05-10 17:09
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at all of this fantastic equipment. shinny, wonderful stuff. complicated stuff. what could this possibly be used for? we have with us today, david green, senior electrical inspector who is a good friend of mine and a well-known sailor on the san francisco bay. you're going to sail this saturday. and mr. lloyd and mrs. lloyd. thanks for letting us come in here. really appreciate it. you're an electrical contractor, too. right? >> i'm electrical for 26 years. we do lots of big projects. we dot lots of industrial and commercial and residential. >> so you have to get a
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years. >> i try to do my best. if i know, i tell them. >> and you can always call david. whatever he needs. david has the answers to all of it. so what we're going to do is walk around. i think what we want to do is start at the area where power, electricity comes into the building. how does it get into the building and what are the pieces you need to make that happen? and then walk us through the building and how you might construct a building with all of the electrical fixtures and fittings and devices. and it's all here. so let's walk out to the front where we have all the pipes and so on that you bring the power into the building. look at all of this stuff. an acorn plant. >> a gutter connector. an unbelievable number of things. so here we are at a place where we have all of these big pipes. so let's walk over here. david, come with me here.
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what are we looking at here? what's going on? >> this is a metal conduit made out of aluminum. it's lightweight. that's the advantage. it's used for service conduits to take up the power from pg&e down to the meter. >> so on the outside of buildings sometimes you'll have the wires coming over from pg&e. >> the service drop. >> and i brought something called -- >> a weather head. >> weather head. here it is. >> so at the top you have the weather head. and the conductors come into the service drop. >> look at the front of the weather head. you see these little knockouts here. you knock it out and you run your service conductors. >> and the conductors go down the pipe. >> in san francisco we have special requirements for service entrance equipment because of the corrosive marine environment. right? >> that's correct. >> so what are some of our special local requirements? >> well, we require the conduit to either be aluminum rigid
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conduit or galvanized steel conduit. both of them, galvanized or aluminum, they are resis tonight corrosion. pg & e also has a rule, inch and a quarter minimum if they're going to attach the service drop to the conduit. because of that the standard minimum size is an inch and a quarter. >> ok. and that's typically necessary for any home, an inch and a quarter. >> in san francisco, yes. >> everybody is always saying that they want to have enough power to run all of their modern households. how much power typically does it take to run a household in our time? >> the proposed for single residence is 100 amps. unless you're using high-powered plineses that is more adequate for even a medium sized or even large house. when you start using electric cooking, electric heating, jacuzzis, steam, steam units,
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then you get up into a high use equipment. then your service has to increase to 125, 150 or 200. >> so you might have to step up to a bigger conduit >> as the service size gets bigger, the conduit gets bigger. >> and so what is this gie gigantic piece of equipment like? >> so this machine here. you brought the machine to cut. up to four inches. >> up to four inches you can cut it. >> cut and thread. >> and thread it as well. so you can take this solid pipe, thread it, fit it exactly. >> take the 10-foot piece. cut it shorter and thread it. >> we can cut and thread it. yeah. >> that's two inches. >> yeah, two inches. >> and you have a much bigger -- >> silver head. two inches. >> excellent. really good. and then here we have over here plastic. what do you use plastic for when you bring power into the
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building? >> that's not plastic. that's a nonmetallic rigid conduit. >> excuse me. it's not plastic but it's not metal. what is it? >> it's made out of p.v.c. and is suitable for underground for services and feeders and for pulling conductors in under the ground. >> i know in my neighborhood, in the inner sunset, we just had all of our utilities undergrounded so what used -- you know, one of these overhead service entrances is now underground that would have been the stuff that they switch it to. >> that's the cost effective method. >> excellent. >> when you put in a service, you also have to ground it. you connect it to the cold water pipe. you have to run supplementry round rods. this is a typical ground rod. it's actually seized in copper, a steel round rod with a copper coating. you have to drive it into the ground so that eight feet is in contact with the earth. >> one of the allowed methods of grounding. is that correct? >> for a single family
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residence that tiply is made only out of wood and has one water bite, you are required to supplement that water bipe a ground rod. >> how about if you use these other methods? >> if you have a concrete encased etec trode, pouring a footing and you have the opportunity to put the wire in the footing, you do not need the ground rod. >> so the code has a number of different ways you can provide grounding to a building. this is one. this is probably the most common method, except for new buildings where they actually bury the copper ground into the footing, into the concrete footing and attach it to the steel reinforcing part. this is one of the most common. but there are a lot of different ways that you can solve these problems. and the codes, not just the electrical codes but all the codes. give us different ways to deal with problem-solving. so this is a very common way. and then somehow we have to figure out how to connect this to the house so that severing ground in the house, so you don't get a shock when you touch stuff. >> we have an example of a
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small residential service, the combination meter sock yet. -- socket and disconnect. where you put 100 or 125-amp circuit breaker in here. the inch and the quarter pipe comes down on the top. typically this is mounted outside and you put the meter in. >> let's look down inside it here. so the power is coming down in the top it he's going down -- >> well it he's going down and terminates and pg &e puts the meter in. you take the wires out of the bottom. >> and go to disconnect. we will see in a minute else wrx -- elsewhere. what's this hole for over here? especially where the power is coming out. >> it could come out or you could seal this. >> or you could seal it. by the way, the cover parts, i can't have empty holes or you have mice and stuff live inning side your electrical equipment. >> that's correct. >> so this is for a typical house. this is 125 max. >> my guess will be 125-amp max. and this one is what we see for
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a big operation, like a restaurant or a commercial space. or even a multiple apartment building so here we have a six-gang meter sock eight ray. -- socket array. hold that there and here is where the power comes in. and here you can disconnect or connect the power, 400-amp power. the power would come from here over into our meter. what do you call this thing? >> i always call it the meter enclose you're. for example it might be suitable for five residential units and one board. would be the typical use for this piece of equipment. >> an interesting thing happening in the state of california right now. looking at six meters. many buildings have one meter, and yet for energy efficiency and for billing purposes, it helps to separate out the meter so you know how much each space
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is using. there's been a big issue about the so-called submeetering. we're going to see in a little while some new sub meetering equipment. but this is a method which is cost efficient because it allows each person to get their own bill. when you get your own bill, you know you want to keep your billow. where as if the rental unit came power and you don't pay a separate electrical bill, you might not be quite as careful. >> i believe the current public utilities commission code does require all individual residential units to be individually meters. that's for all new work. >> and for commercial, they allow separate submetering. ok. so we brought the power into the building. we're watching our fingers here. we have other ways we'll seat meters
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>> we have examples, a wide variety of metering and service equipment that can be chosen. the reason i wanted to show you this is to show you this new meter socket to allow the panel board to face the user in the garage and allow the meter reader to see it. >> excellent. why didn't somebody think of that before? >> i have no idea. there it is. >> little ideas that come to you in the middle of the night. so one of the things that david said is it's allowed to be used in san francisco. there's a really big piece of this whole puzzle about what equipment can be used x which is what is allowed and who decides what is allowed? so there are three stages to figuring out what is allowed. the first stage is something called testing, where somebody tests the piece of equipment to see if it meets some standard test requirement. astm or some other standard test requirement. then there's something called
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listing, the second part. where some listing agency, and the federal government approves listing agencies, has looked at all the test results and then issue as a report that says if this piece of equipment, whatever it is -- like this wonderful new connector -- is used -- >> cupeling. >> excuse me. is used in accordance with the following specific requirement, it will meet the requirements of the following. in other words, the listing says if you do it the right way, we can assure that you this will meet some standards. right? is that more or less correct? >> correct >> and the third part of that -- we have testing, listing. and then the third part is approval. and approval is something that's done at the local level here at the city of san francisco. we typically approve a listed product. like this kupling. occasionally we have somebody come forward saying, look, i have the listing. we say, that's great. but we don't allow to you use it here in san francisco. either the local law doesn't allow that kind of product or that kind of material, or we
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don't think it's safe. and i could give you some examples of that but basically 99% of the time we approve a list of products which has been tested, listed, and then approved by david or me. basically it's on behalf of the director of the department of building inspection. is that a good example? >> that's it. >> and day have i spends a lot of his time look at listings. tell us what this s. >> this is a cupling for electric metallic tubing. it's quite a large one. but the neat thing about this one is that it has a waterproof seal. it does not leak. this is a new advance in the industry. previously the fittings leaked and caused problems and now they're coming out with problems that don't leak. >> the codes require it be water -- >> the code requires all of these fittings outside subject
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to the rain be rain-proof. now the industries gradually are responding and providing rain-proof products. >> so my recollection is that we have damp proof and water proof. what is rain-proof? >> equipment can be suitable for use in a dry location. be suitable for use in the damp location or suitable in the wet location. the reason i say rain-proof is because the product standard and the code requires that the fittings for electric metallic tubing be capable of staying dry when they're south a spray of rain. >> i see. ok. i get it. >> and therefore suitable for use in the wet locations. >> wet locations. ok. good. interesting. who makes this, by the way? >> mr. loy? >> who makes this? >> american fittings. >> oh, yeah. e.m.t. only, four-inch, wet location.
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shows a little u.l. stamp on it. >> i have to add for the small fittings, when you can't put those marks on, you have to go to the box. it says it on the box. >> there's nonmetallic cable for you. it's the white stuff. and the yellow stuff. >> what's the dinches between white and yellow? >> white is 14-gauge wire. in san francisco, it's not used in commercials. the national code it's restricted to type five, wooden
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construction. >> this gauge up to 15 amp is used for your typical plug loads. >> this wire is used for the laundry, the circuits and the other slightly larger -- >> is there a piece sticking out here? it's noticeably bigger? >> no. not noticeably bigger. >> it has actually multiple conductors in it. three conductors >> three conductors. it's got a white conductor that's called the neutral. a black conductor that's called the ungroud grounded wire, hot wire. and it's got a conductor that's called the ground wire. >> let's take a-- it must take a lot of that wire in the house. >> yes, it does. here we have another wiring method. it's called electrical metallic tubing. it's a tubing that the wire is pulled in after the
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installation of the tubing versus the cable that i showed you before. >> so this is electrical metallic tubing. people call it e.m.t. it's a half-inch e.m.t. so you would put this in first and then pull the wire in later >> that's correct. >> it doesn't come prewired. >> this is to use a commercial application. and for fire alarm systems. >> but not typically in residential ices. >> not usually used in residential, wood frame construction. >> i see. >> look at this this is unbelievable. look at all the equipment you have. how can you have so much inventory? this must cost a fortune to stock all of this inventory. >> because, you know, doing contractor before. we know what you can use and what can you not use. so we know older equipment here, lots of contractors, they
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need it. and right away. >> so somebody who's come out of the industry as a contractor doesn't stock equipment that nobody's ever going to buy. he's stocking stuff people are gooding to come to buy. he knows exactly what they need to use. that's a very smart business strategy. excellent idea. you've got some metal conduit. what is that? >> it's a cable. it's metal-clad cable. it's a product used, our m.c. cable. metal clad cable, m.c. cable. it's what's used in commercial work. it's a tougher product. than the non-metallic cable. >> let's open it up and see what we got here. how many conductors? >> in this particular one there's four. >> show us what these conductors are. these are standards colors of different kinds of conductors. tell us what they are.
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>> let's start with the white conductor which is the grounded conductor or the neutral. the two hot wires are ungrounded conductors. the ones that will give you a shock. and the green one is the grounding conductor. it does not normally carry electricity. >> so the ground wire, or whatever you want to call it, is always green. is that right? that's right. >> and green may only be used for the grounding conductor and for no other color as white may only be used for the neutral or grounded conductor. and other colors may be used -- other colors other than white or green may be used. >> and those typically are black and red when you start. then if you have more conductors, you use other colors. but typically the red or the black. >> in the residences, it's black, black and red. and commercial work where you have 12208, it's black, red, blue. and if you go downtown, the 480 volts, it's brown, orange, yellow. boy. >> and one people with us today just asked a question. is there any reason why you can't wire the entire house
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with the heavier gauge wire rather than just the lighter gauge for the 15 amp circuits and the heavier gauge for the 20 amp cirçoyd, come up here and is there any reason why you can't wire it all with a heavier gauge wire? >> yes. because it's a 15 amp and the yellow is 20 amp. but some people are asking if they can use only yellow. you can do that >> you can overdo. you can't under do it. >> yes. >> some people want to save money and use 14 for 15 amp and there are limbs. >> and that raises an interesting points about the codes. the codes are actually a minimum standard. they're not a maximum standard. you can build many things way beyond the code. you can make things much better. the code tells you the lowest
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level it was acceptable for health and safety. >> yes. >> you have the wire that pull into the conduit, black, white. >> a minimum for a circuit, you would pull these two wires and a piece of v.m.t. or any conduit. back here, for the 480 volts, orange. >> right. and then we probably have some green here to ground this stuff someplace. >> hopefully we do. there it is. there it is. my goodness, show me that green. i want to see the green. there we go. there is our ground wire. it's interesting, the grounding is to important in buildings. everything has to be grounded and interestingly enough i remember reading years ago about hospitals and medical facilities, den at all offices and things, every single recentable needs an independent ground. >> it's called a redundant ground. speaking of which -- >> pull that out here. >> this is hospital grade m.c.
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cable. it's designed with two grounds and it's made for den at all care offices and -- den at all care offices and -- dental care offices and extra care rooms. >> extra care goes into these areas. what is the conductor made of in here? >> copper. >> copper is very valuable these days, right? and people strip out wire and sell it as copper to the recycling places i hear. >> that is stealing the copper because it is so high. so a lot of it outside, they're stealing copper. >> so do people come in and buy wire to replace what they stole? >> yes. >> oh, boy, what a terrible thing. here is a general duty safety
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switch. this is a nonfuse disconnect, right? disconnector connect? where would you have a thing like this? >> probably adjacent to the motor. >> you can lock it out when you turn the thing off. i can't close it. got my fingers in there. >> there some one with a fuse in there. >> there is a fuse disconnect. same thing but fuseable. i got my fingers caught too many times. they have another place where you can lock them out. as you turn it on or off, you can put a padlock through here or some other device. and when you're working on an electrical system, typically, you will lock it out. you will tag it out so that you know that the continuing is turned off and nobody -- thing is turned off and nobody continuation it on. you'll tag it out by put a tag. >> up until now, we have been talking about power wiring, 240
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volts. here we are in some air where there is low-vot ago wiring used for communications. >> we have two kinds of wire. we have line voltage and low voltage. what is the difference between those two types. >> the low-voltage wiring doesn't present a shock hazard. you don't have to put the wires in a conduit or a cable. this is thermostat wire. it's called class two wire. when you have a class two transformer, you're allowed to run this cable either exposed or concealed in building construction without a cable. there would be an example of some similar. this would be computer wire and in a lot of new houses now that the people are putting the computer wire and telephone wires, as low as the thermostat wires in the walls and they don't have to use conduit or cable.
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all different colors. >> are there standards for what colors you use? is brown always used for thermostat wire? >> no code requirement. just a manufacturing requirement. all different colors. the only restriction that some jurisdictions do is they limit fire alarm cable to red. >> people have asked about insulation types, if you have heat blown through, you need higher-rated insulation? >> the general rule is you cannot put this kind of cable where environmental air is moving through. there is an exception in houses where you can go perpendicular to the space between a wood joys. there are different levels of fire resistance. the standard is it it can be just anywhere concealed, or exposed construction. the next standard is where it
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doesn't spread flames. you can put it in a shaft in a larger building. the highest redistance can go in another space used with environmental air where air is moving but not in a sheet metal duct. >> and many buildings have dropped ceilings and they run air in their dropped ceiling, and sometimes it's under floor. that has been this rated cable. >> it's required by code to be identified every 24 inches. you'll see the designation and it tells you as an inspector if it's appropriately installed. >> one of the big issues related to cabling and wiring is when a tenant moves out, they have to remove the low-voltage wiring. sometimes that's a serious problem. there is a lot of low-voltage wiring. >> the unused low-voltage
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wiring. they put that code in a number of years after there was a large fire in london that caused structural damage to a high-rise building due to the accumulation of come dustable materials. >> they have to have more wiring for computers and phones. if you cycle through, pretty soon you have an enormous amount of low-voltage wiring. >> that has been a problem in the past. we're trying to address it. >> great. >> one question we were just asked, if you want to get really clean power for home video, theater, or computer, how would you go about doing that? does it help to have better armored cable or how would you go about getting really clean
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power? >> that's a very complicated question. there are a lot of answers to it. one solution would to have a dedicated circuit, a kyr kit that comes from the panel board that only supplies the receptacles that you're going to be using for the computer or sensitive equipment is one answer. you want to make sure that you install that circuit, the wires are remote from any radio frequency devices or any other circuits that might impose a radio frequency on them. >> what kind of wires would impose a radio frequency? >> it could be a computer, another computer, it could be the microwave oven. >> you want to separate is from any other -- >> ideally. if you're running your wires in a raceway or an armored cable that uses ferrous metal, that protects those conductors against these radio frequc
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Buckley's chance
Buckley's chance is an Australian phrase meaning a slim chance or no chance at all. It is first cited in 1898 in the Sydney Bulletin of 17 December:
"Devil shoot me!" muttered Tim..."if I see Buckley's chance of a shindy tonight."1
The origin is unknown, but there are two common explanations.
The more likely of the two is that it is a bit of wordplay stemming from the name of the Melbourne department store of Buckley and Nunn, founded in 1851. The term is often phrased as there are two chances, Buckley's and none.
A less likely, but more colorful, explanation is that it is a reference to William Buckley, a convict who escaped from Port Phillip prison in 1803 and lived with the Aborigines for 32 years before surrendering to authorities and obtaining a pardon. The problem with this explanation is the passage of time between his adventure and the appearance of the phrase and that fact that he did pretty well for himself in the bush. It's not the story of a man with no chance.2
And it is possible for both of these to be true—with William Buckley giving rise to Buckley's chance and it subsequently being punned into two chances Buckley's and none, playing on the department store name.
1Oxford English Dictionary, Buckley's, 2nd Edition, 1989, Oxford University Press, accessed 27 Dec 2008 <http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50028692>.
2Sydney J. Baker, The Australian Language, Sun Books, 1970 (Melbourne: MacMillan, 1966), 269.
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Publisher: Harper Teen
Copyright: 2011
Published: May 10, 2011
Pages: 273
Form: e-Book
Series: Revenant Series (1)
Author: Amy Plum
Buy The Book: B&N | Book Depository
In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate that is destined to tear them apart again and again for eternity.
When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident, she leaves her life–and memories–behind to live with her grandparents in Paris. For Kate, the only way to survive her pain is escaping into the world of books and Parisian art. Until she meets Vincent.
Mysterious, charming, and devastatingly handsome, Vincent threatens to melt the ice around Kate's guarded heart with just his smile. As she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate discovers that he's a revenant–an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save the lives of others. Vincent and those like him are bound in a centuries-old war against a group of evil revenants who exist only to murder and betray. Kate soon realizes that if she follows her heart, she may never be safe again
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In Die for Me, Katie is reeling form her parents recent deaths. In an effort to get a fresh start, Katie and her sister Georgia moves to Paris to live with their paternal Gandparents. Katie spends the first few weeks wallowing in her pain and grief, and isolating herself from everyone and everything. Things begin to look up for her when she meets a cute guy named Vincent. But unbeknownst to Katie, Vincent is much more than he seems. He is actually a member of the undead, a revenant, compelled to save the lives of humans over and over again.
First I have to start off by saying that the story was entertaining and managed to keep my interest. But the whole time I was reading I couldn't help but feel like something was missing. I felt like I was constantly on the cusp, or the edge of something really good, but I never quite got pushed over. And this left me with very shallow feelings about the story.
I had a hard time connecting to the main characters. Katie was only mildly interesting to me. I liked her interest in books, museums, and art, but nothing about her really stood out. And although Vincent is cute and tough, I just didn't feel myself getting all swoony for him. At times it almost seemed as if he were too perfect.
However, Vincent's undead 'family' managed to keep my interest. I found myself wanting to know more about them, their own personal histories, and the whole revenant history and dynamic. I was charmed by Jules, and pleasantly mystified by Ambrose, and longed to know more about them.
I wish the book had less of a superficial feel to it, but despite my misgivings, overall it was a pretty decent story. I will admit to being intrigued enough to eventually continue the series and hope that the next in the series grabs me more fully than the first.
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17 Responses to "Review: Die for Me by Amy Plum"
I know what you mean – I had a tough time connecting with the characters in this one too. I probably won't continue the series because Die For Me didn't leave much of an impression on me. In fact, I'd probably have to re-read it to refresh for book two. Not gonna happen. ha
Well at least I knowI'm not alone in my feelings. I'll probably continue, but it's not something at the top of my priority list at this time. I can only hoope the second is better.
In felt the EXACT same way, Jade! I read this book and it was sweet and I liked it, but there always felt like there was something missing for me too — especially with the romance. A lot of people even compared it to Twilight haha! But Jules was my favourite character like you!! There's something about those playboy types x) But I read Until I Die and loved it so much more than this one, so I hope you do too! 😉
Awesome review, Jade! <3
You guys are making me feel somuch better about my review. I had no idea so many others shared my feelings about this one. I'm glad to know that the sequel is much better though.
Yeah, I think the main reason I haven't read this one is because I've read a lot of reviews that have noted similar reactions as you. I need a guy I can get all swoony over or else, why bother. LOL
See I hadn't read anything but gushing reviews so I was caught off guard that I didnt completely get mesmerized by this one. And if the guy is not swoony…then whats the point?
Oh, I had almost forgotten about this series! I know I was curious a while back, but never quite intrigued enough to pick it up.
I'm very glad you ended up liking it! It sucks you didn't swoon over Vincent though and it makes me a bit less interested to pick it up, since I have to agree with Missie on this one! But I might have to, just to see what it's about. I'm definitely curious about his family. 😉 Great review!
I agree with you and Missie. I gotta fall for the hero or most likely I'll enjoy the story less.
I know what you mean. I think I enjoyed the side characters more than the main ones in this one. I also had an issue with the grandmother letting her stay the night with her boyfriend to work things out. After all this time, I still remember that. It seems so unrealistic and forced. Is that the only way that the story can be advanced? I listened to this one on audio so I always wondered if my feelings about it came from that. Great review!
YES! The side characters had such personality while Kateie and Vincent were kind of boring. And I thought the Grandma giving permission to spend the night was unbelievable and not cool at all. Completely unrealistic.
Does this end on a cliffhanger? Because at this point, every time I see a YA Paranormal that's part of a series, I make sure there's no cliffhanger involved. Sadly, chances are, there is 🙁
Die for Me will definitely be going on my "favorites" shelf. I absolutely ADORED this book!! This addictive story had all the elements that I look for in a favorite novel: smart and relatable protagonist, very-near-perfect *cough* HOT love interest, wonderfully executed story, great supporting characters, awesome setting (PARIS!!), and a new and interesting mythology.
Thanks for the beautiful review.
I've been wanting to read this for some time, glad you did a review on it because your sentiments usually align with mine. So I will try it and see how it goes.
Thanks for sharing a insightful review.
I love the cover. Something about the undead and Paris always draws my attention. I understand about something interesting on the cusp but …nada. Arrgh! Frustrating!


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