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Your timing belt is integral to the safety and reliability of your vehicle. So if you've clocked enough distance to warrant a timing belt replacement, it's in your best interest to have your vehicle serviced as soon as possible. At Johnson's Automotive, we offer dependable timing belt replacement services for a wide variety of makes and models.
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I use Johnson Automotive for many car repair and maintenance projects. Everything from oil changes to big repairs can be tackled by Al Johnson. Recently he diagnosed and repaired a burnt valve in my 2010 Honda Odyssey van. It now runs great. I trust his experience. He does not try to rip you off.
I am very satisfied with Mr. Johnson's Automotive. He and his staff does a great job. I would recommend his establishment to anyone.
Al Johnson owner. Very knowledgeable. When he does a job he does it right. He's a good guy with a great reputation. If YOUR cars got problems Al can fix it
Johnson's Automotive is a household word at my house! Honest, completive pricing, high work ethics, warrantied work, knowledgeable staff, precise estimates', work done on time. Al Johnson treats your vehicles like his own. Johnson's will safety check your vehicles while being repaired and notify you of potential problems. He will suggest a routine maintence schedule, like oil changes etc. Sarah, the office manager explains your bill and Al goes over what was done to you vehicle. Tune - ups, brakes, tires, alignment's etc. and much more! Five Stars for Johnson's! Frank R.Anselmo
Very fast and always flexible to fit in between appointments for oil change
Great service at reasonable costs.
I highly recommend this place for you to get your car fixed or whatever you need with your car very highly-skilled skilled trained mechanics had a great experience my first time there. Alan took care of me and all my needs very family-friendly place thank you guys for exceptional service. I'm thankful for mechanics like you.
Fast-Fair and Friendly I highly recommend Al and his crew.
I stopped in to get a quote for exhaust work. Unfortunately, they could not get me in as soon as I wanted, but they recommended Tuffy on Cleveland street. I was pleasantly surprised and saved quite a bit of time and money at Tuffy. It's great when good places support each other.
Really nice people, did a great job on the work on my jeep, and had toys in the waiting room for my grandkids to play with.
Always honest and promt service with great prices. Thank you!
Fair prices, friendly staff. They dont charge for what you dont need. Will definatley be back.
Thankful for Al and his crew. He was able to fit me on short notice and on a tight pressed schedule. He was very honest and professional when dealing with my car. Also, the price can't be beat and there is an area for my toddler to play and watch tv!! I will definitely be coming back here and recommending to friends and family.
Very good place to get car repairs
Al's a good honest hardworking guy, and as you probably know, that's hard traits to find these days. I used to work with him for some years before he opened his shop, and I can tell you that he is good people.
Honest,Knowledgeable,Compassionate, Educates you on what is going on with your vechicle now and the future. Great preventative maintainence program. Prices are great. Frank Anselmo.
Johnson's Automotive is a great place to take any vehicle. They are honest, fast, and reliable. Cheap prices and also offer financing for low income based families. They do just about anything. They will inspect your car and pin point everything that may be wrong with it. They're one of the greatest places I've been to in a while.
Best auto repair shop in north ridgeville oh This shop is so honest with his advice and only repairs what you need. Also very fair price compared to other auto repair shops. This is my second time here and my experience has been great again. I would recommend this shop if you are looking for honest quality work at a fair price. Good job!
Checked my car from head to toe. very good service. great people friendly.
I have had Johnson's Automotive taking care of my car for about 4 years. I have always been satisfied with their work and the prices I have been charged.. I always google to see how much a particular work would cost and they have always been on point with the average cost.. I trust them with my car and feel they are not gauging me or taking advantage of me.. He and his staff are friendly and knowledgeable..
Dropped off my car that was leaking oil. They were able to fix it and on time that they promised. Great Service!
High Quality Service
Johnson's automotive was a great place to go if any work needs done. They were able to help me out in just over an hour with eating the part and fixing it. Very professional and quick!!! Definitely going to be going there for anything I need.
I left my wife's Subaru for a rear brake job last week. The price was great. The car brakes great. Everyone was friendly and professional and the work was completed on time. Thanks
A mechanic I can trust
They explained what I needed in plain simple language. The car was ready when promised for the quoted price. I didn't feel pressured to buy things I didn't need, and trusted his wait and see approach for a few items. I was very pleased, and will be back when the inevitable happens.
Good Honest Service
I was pleased with the service I got and an honest advice given for what I may need going forward. Thank you!
Excellent Service
Happy with the products offered as well as the service. First time customer and will definitely be back.
Honest facts, honest price
I took my F250 in because it blew out a spark-plug. Al gave me a honest review of my options. The repair was done right and completed quickly. I am please with the repair and very pleased with the fair price. I highly recommend them.
Honest, professional service with warranty
Good job all around! When my fuel pump gave out, my car was inoperable. Johnson's arranged the tow which was reasonably priced. The estimate for the repair was also reasonable. The repair was done quickly but the repair was done very well. And Johnson's provide a lifetime guarantee with the replacement fuel pump.
Friendly, professional & quick
I am a first time customer that was treated with honest automotive care. No gimmicks, just professional recommendations.
Great mechanics with great service!
Experts, very knowledgeable, and done on time. Thanks Again.
they were nice quick and fixed my truck for 1/2 the cost and it runs perfect will continue to go back and have referred several people to them
Excellent !!
Johnson's Automotive did the needed repair quickly and at a fair price, well done. I highly recommend them for your repair needs!
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I was impressed with the clean shop and professional service in repairing my truck. I'll not only be back, but I'm recommending you to my friends.
great service !
johnsons automotive has serviced many of my cars,vans,and trucks, al is great very helpful !!
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Sometimes the problems arent as easy as they seem..Al is a fair honest business man and I will keep coming back to him. My car broke down on monday I was in his shop tuesday and by the end of the day on tuesday I was back on the Road...thanks AL
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I have used Johnson's Automotive many times. They have always been courtesy and upfront on what is going on with my car. Their prices are good. Service is done quickly and correctly. Thank you so much for the great work that you do. I will be back!
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I have been going to Al for a few years now and he has been a big part of the reason my 99 ford expedition is closing in on 400k miles.. I am always happy with Al's work!!
Johnson automotives is the best. I started going to Johnson automotives about a year ago and they have taken care of all of my automotive needs.. Al has taking care of my car, my husband's car and now I am trusting him with my sons car. Al is trustworthy and honest and everything that he does. every time my husband and I get a chance we recommend him to all of our friends and family.


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Steve lynch brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 122 Designs von 30 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Extreme Event Design
We are a small event production company specializing in dj's, lighting, video, and sound reinforcement. We do high end events for clients like p. Diddy, the black eyed peas, mcDonalds corporate, and general motors.
We want a logo to use in our upcoming re-branding push.
We're super easy going, tragically hip, and on the cutting edge technology wise.. The problem is, our current image sucks ass.
We want to stick out from all the half baked hackers out there, and present ourselves as professionals, but professionals who are fun to work with, and really on top of things.
Target audience will be upscale event planners, celebrities, modern brides, other event companies looking to outsource, and corporate planning types..
It an existing market flooded with really lame companies that do an OK job.. We go way above and beyond, and want to convey that.
The name is extreme event design, however, we want to avoid the cliche' "extreme" designs.. No lightning bolts, and definitely no oversized x in the word extreme.
The company is Extreme (pause Pause) Event Design, Not Extreme Event (pause pause) Design.
The emphasis on Extreme, the company function is event design...
I'd like to see the word extreme bold, and the words "event design" below the word Extreme.
I'm looking for something simple that would be visibly recognizable stenciled on our road cases, and something that would lend itself to embroidery and screen printing.
I'm not the expert.. Surprise me.
I don't necessarily need the name incorporated if it's a more iconic design.
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Although designed for second-language learners, this lesson is perfect for mixed classrooms, as all learners improve vocabulary and comprehension using a variety of genres and techniques. Students read and discuss novels, along with several poems that share a similar historical or cultural background, and compare the voice and themes of the poems and the novels. At specific points in their reading, students conduct research into the author's personal experiences and cultural background, with the help of an Inquiry Questions Guide; and relate this information to the setting and storyline of the novel. They then consider how they can connect the novel to poetry and drama, and work in groups to write an original performance poem focusing on a specific scene or event. Students memorize their poems, rehearse their roles, and prepare a formal presentation.
Kornfeld, J., & Leyden, G. (2005). Acting out: Literature, drama, and connecting with history. The Reading Teacher, 59(3), 230239.
Drama can play a critical role in helping students understand and articulate their own experiences. Differentiating instructional strategies to allow students multiple perspectives through research and creation facilitates stronger, more permanent understanding as well as opportunities for language practice beyond reading and writing.
The article discusses a dramatic project conducted with first-graders; this lesson extends the idea to second- language learners in high school. These students will make stronger connections to vocabulary and will understand better when ideas are performed, when their writing can integrate and reflect their own ideas, and when language is shared in an immersive environment.


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There is no content here this afternoon. If you want content, go read Lyz Liddel's hugely heartening post on the Secular Student Alliance and the work of all these wonderful student groups. It hews very closely to her speech at the Freethought Festival, but it gets me every time nonetheless. It heartens me to no end to see people organizing this way at an age when I had all I could do to sort myself out.
Read it. It will make you happy.
Now, the reason I don't have content of my own for today is not for the squeamish. Thus, it's tucked below the fold.
Just in case any of you may find yourself in need of this advice: If you bump into a carbon dioxide tank and it starts to tip over, be careful that the reflex to pull your foot away does not put said foot directly under the regulator. The regulator is that lumpy piece at the top of the tank with bits sticking out every which way. This makes for a rather extreme contrast with the smooth sides of the tank itself.
When in doubt, catch the tank, not the regulator. Doing otherwise leads to conversations like:
Me: Aaaagh!
Ben: Are you okay?
Me: No.
I will be fine. The bruise will fade. I'll regrow skin on the top of my toe. All the joints still flex without making me scream, and the big laceration, while resistant to solid scabbing, will require much less babying than the spot where I stuck an axe in my toe one Fourth of July. That one should have had stitches, but didn't want to spend the evening in the emergency room with people who had been (marginally) even stupider than I had.
But it will leave an odd scar. And instead of writing a post for you last night, I took a Vicodin for the pain–much better today–and hopped on Twitter. Yes, I know I'm full of good ideas.
This one at least led to swapping scar stories with WilloNyx, April, and Xanthe Cat. They all have much more interesting scars than mine. My most interesting trophy is a set that run straight up my wrist. They were acquired from hardware cloth, but that's not the assumption most people would make.
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Simple Strawberry Shortcakes with Lemon Mousse and Lemon Creme
Growing up near Plant City, Fla., means I know a thing or two about fresh strawberries. Each year the small Florida town would host an early spring strawberry festival to welcome the new crop, and the highlight was strawberry shortcakes that seemed a mile high. When Plant City strawberries show up at my local supermarket, you can bet I'll be making strawberry shortcake, and my Simple Strawberry Shortcakes uses convenience products to whip up a version that's definitely a cut above most.
If you're tight for time, you can eliminate the whipping cream and brush the biscuits with milk, fold the curd into two cups of prepared whipped topping, and thin the remaining lemon curd with a quarter cup of milk. Whether you use the additional shortcuts suggested or not, this is one recipe where the resulting dish is far more spectacular than its individual ingredients.
Combine the hulled and sliced strawberries with 2 teaspoons of the lemon zest and the granulated sugar. Set aside to macerate.
Beat the whipping cream until stiff peaks form. Fold in remaining lemon zest and 1/2 cup of lemon curd. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Whisk the remaining lemon curd and whipping cream together in a bowl until smooth. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Drizzle 12 dessert plates with some of the Lemon Crème. Split the baked shortcakes in half. Place the bottom half of the biscuits on the Lemon Crème on each plate. Top with a dollop of the Lemon Mousse and divide the macerated strawberries among the biscuits. Top with the remaining biscuit halves and serve immediately.
Makes 12 servings.
*Pillsbury frozen oven baked Southern-style biscuits were used for testing purposes.


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I went in had a great time the hostess was very beautiful nice I loved her smile and she was very helpful Maricela was her name. My services was the best Amanda was the manager on duty and my server was Lola??


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FKA Angelic Drop-in Clinic (Queenstown)
20 June, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmFree
Looking for an independent voice from a seasoned investor? Join the Flying Kiwi Angels for an 'Angelic Drop-in' (ADI) Clinic, which is designed for start-up and business founders to get advice from expert business mentors about their business ideas.
This is a great opportunity for founders to meet up with experienced start-up and investment mentors in an informal and no-pressure setting. The mentors will listen, advise and challenge your thinking, to help you build your business in the most efficient way.
Fees: Sessions are free of charge and are for 20-30 minutes. There is a limit of 4 sessions per Clinic.
To make a Booking: Go to the FKA website to book a time.
Prerequisites: If you are a first-time entrepreneur, or in the early planning stages of your newest venture, it is highly recommended you attend a Business Model Canvas Workshop and Business Basics Workshop prior to scheduling an ADI session. These sessions will ensure you have key questions answered prior to meeting with the angel advisors.
You will pick the timeslot from the FKA website using the link above. Please plan to arrive 15 minutes before your session begins for a quick prep session with a Startup Queenstown Lakes business advisor who will help you get the most out of your session.
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Make sure there is an empty spot available to put the character into on server you wish it on. (4 spots total per server)
1/ Log into to game first screen pick (Account) on the bar on the right hand side
2/ Pick (Edit my account) which will bring up the log in for secure site
3/ Log in there to the secure site with your name and password -
Pick games tab along the menu bar - in that bar:
Select Ashen Empires in the drop down bar
Pick the server the charcter is on now
Pick the character you wish to move
This will bring up a character sheet- On the left hand side at the bottom is a button labeled (enable server move)
Press that button and choose the server you wish it to go on -
Note-There is no confirmation you can only cancel by hitting escape or do (regular move) or (deluxe move) by pressing the button there.
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Church Has Witnessed Historic Changes during President Monson's Ministry
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"Many of the policies and announcements unveiled during President Monson's administration have a global reach—yet, at their core, they are designed to serve and care for individuals. His lifelong concern for the one is evident in each historical moment."
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During the past five years of President Thomas S. Monson's leadership, the Church has witnessed historic changes that have impacted members worldwide. The deep fingerprint of the Church's 16th President can be found etched on a wide variety of key announcements and new policy implementations, ranging from missionary work and priesthood leadership training to prolific temple building.
Many of the policies and announcements unveiled during President Monson's administration have a global reach—yet, at their core, they are designed to serve and care for individuals. His lifelong concern for the one is evident in each historical moment.
Here are a few highlights from the first half-decade of the presidency of Thomas S. Monson:
- In a move to expand the opportunities for young members of the Church to serve full-time missions, President Monson announced on October 6, 2012, that men may begin serving at age 18 and women at age 19. His announcement was made during the opening session of the Church's 182nd Semiannual General Conference and sparked an outpouring of missionary enthusiasm. Since the announcement, the Church's Missionary Department has received historic numbers of applications from both young men and young women eager to serve.
- The changes are expected to significantly increase the number of full-time missionaries worldwide, expanding the opportunities for an unprecedented number of people to learn about the restored gospel.
- In a letter cosigned by his counselors in the First Presidency—President Henry B. Eyring and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf—President Monson announced the 2013 implementation of a new youth curriculum designed "to strengthen and build faith, conversion, and testimony" of the young people of the Church. The new curriculum allows for more interactive teaching in Young Men, Young Women, and youth Sunday School classes patterned after how the Savior taught during His ministry on earth. Weekly classes utilize many of the online resources of the modern-day Church, allowing the youth to enjoy unprecedented participation and involvement.
President Monson has frequently drawn from the scriptures in preparing addresses for general conferences and other events. This photo was taken shortly before his 84th birthday, which was August 21, 2010. Photo by Tom Smart, Deseret News.
- Under the direction of President Monson and the First Presidency, the Church continues to broadcast annual worldwide leadership training meetings to assist local priesthood and auxiliary leaders in their efforts to serve the members in their respective wards and branches. The training meetings allow local leaders to listen to direction from members of the First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve, and other General Authorities and general auxiliary leaders.
- Highlights of the worldwide training meetings have included instruction on using the new administrative handbooks (introduced in 2010) and training on conducting effective ward councils. Each was designed to allow the power of the priesthood to reach every individual and family in the Church.
In 2010 the First Presidency began assigning members of the Quorum of the Twelve to conduct two new kinds of international meetings called priesthood leadership conferences and area reviews. These meetings are designed to allow members of the Twelve to visit with local priesthood leaders and members from all around the world more frequently.
During each area review, stake presidencies, bishops, and branch presidents are brought together within a designated area of the Church for training. The leaders also take an in-depth look at what is happening with the Church in a given ecclesiastical area and review aspects of the work such as humanitarian service, welfare, missionary, family history, and temple.
President Monson's love and concern for the young people of the Church has been established over decades of service. In an effort to increase accountability and foster activity for young single adults ages 18–30 years old, the Church President, beginning in 2010, approved the elimination of student wards in Utah. The units were replaced by young single adult wards and stakes.
During President Monson's administration, 31 new temples have been announced throughout the world and 16 have been dedicated, with five others having been rededicated after extensive renovations.
President Monson himself presided at the dedications of temples in Rexburg, Idaho; Curitiba, Brazil; Panama City, Panama; Twin Falls, Idaho; Draper, Utah; South Jordan, Utah; Vancouver, Canada; The Gila Valley, Arizona; Cebu City, Philippines; Kyiv, Ukraine; Kansas City, Missouri; and Calgary, Alberta, and the rededication of temples in Mexico City, Mexico; Atlanta, Georgia; Laie, Hawaii; and Boise, Idaho. The ongoing planning and construction of these sacred edifices cement President Monson's legacy as a builder of temples.
President Monson has also presided over a period of unprecedented reach from the Church's online resources, delivering the words of the prophets and the programs of the Church to some 14 million members across the earth. Online highlights include a variety of Church-produced videos, including the series of films depicting key moments from the New Testament.
Under the direction of the First Presidency, the Church produced a new book titled Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society. The book is intended as a personal and family resource to strengthen women in their responsibilities.
Under President Monson's leadership, the Church has responded to disasters across the globe, reaching out and helping those in need. Some major humanitarian responses in the past five years include efforts to reach out after an earthquake in Haiti, an earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and flooding in Thailand. The Church also responded to a severe food crisis across eastern Africa, helped immunize children in many nations, and has provided clean water to remote villages. In addition, the Church dedicated a new 570,391-square-foot welfare facility in Salt Lake City.


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but so scary true some days!
how about you?
i don't think.
(did i?:)
and the oscar for best dress goes to...
Gwyneth Paltrow...hands down!!!!!
but in a year of many blah, "i wouldn't wear that" dresses,
hers stood out as simple, clean, tasteful, elegant and classy.
Calvin Klein dress with a long cape from Tom Ford.
hey...Tim Gunn liked it...
but what the heck was Angelina Jolie doing, throwing her leg out like that
all the time?
we could SEE she had a tacky big slit.
i'm surprised she didn't throw herself off balance.
maybe it was to take attention off of her bony arms;)
and J Lo gave us her usual tasteless idea of fashion.
she CAN be pretty sometimes.
it's just not a cool dress...and what's with the hair?
anyway, i do have a second pick.
one you might not expect.
no high powered box office draw.
no big time actress.
but clearly someone who knows a beautiful dress when she sees it.
Lara Spencer, from Good Morning America.
honorable mention...
Octavia Spencer from The Help,
who clearly knows you can be beautiful and classy
at any size!
and Viola Harris, also from The Help.
but the green dress is very flattering and just plain refreshing for a change.
too bad your movie, The Help, didn't win best picture.
gosh...silly me.
i forgot...rarely does a movie the public LOVES, win.
they need some unknown movie to take that honor...and it did:)
what else, what else...
i know...DINNER!
tonight i'm trying Honey Sesame Chicken in the slow cooker,
found on pinterest, by Six Sisters.
Slow Cooker Honey Sesame Chicken
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Salt and pepper
1 cup honey
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup diced onion
1/4 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons vegetable oil (could also use olive oil or canola oil)
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional - doesn't really add heat, just adds more flavor)
4 teaspoons cornstarch dissolved in 6 Tablespoons water
Sesame seeds
Season both sides of chicken with lightly with salt and pepper, put into crock pot. In a small bowl, combine honey, soy sauce, onion, ketchup, oil, garlic and pepper flakes. Pour over chicken. Cook on low for 3-4 hours or on high 1 1/2 – 2 1/2 hours, or just until chicken is cooked through. Remove chicken from crock pot, leave sauce. Dissolve 4 teaspoons of cornstarch in 6 tablespoons of water and pour into crock pot. Stir to combine with sauce. Replace lid and cook sauce on high for ten more minutes or until slightly thickened. Cut chicken into bite size pieces, then return to pot and toss with sauce before serving. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve over rice or noodles.
*You can also sprinkle more red pepper flakes on top if you want more heat.
and for dessert...
Pineapple angel food cake
8 servings1 serving=4 pts (weight watchers)!!
1 box of angel food cake mix
1 can of crushed pineapples in juice (not syrup)
Mix together cake mix and entire can of pineapples and bake at 325 degrees for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown on top.
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A guide to Transmission Towers
Identifying equipment on transmission structuresBy Maurice Martin
Transmission structures and towers are like interstate highways for electricity, carrying mass volumes of high-voltage current over long distances. These structures stand 55 feet tall or more and connect power plants to a series of substations, and they tie one bulk power region of the grid to another.
A closer look at these towering behemoths reveals interesting details that help you better understand why structures are designed a certain way. As you look at them, always remember to stay a safe distance away.
Volts vary
First, determine what you're looking at. Higher voltages on power lines require more space between each line and other objects, allowing people, vehicles and other equipment to move freely underneath. For this reason, transmission towers usually stand 55 feet to 150 feet high. Most are made from steel, but some are concrete, wood or even ductile iron. Wooden distribution poles, found in neighborhoods (unless your lines run underground), are generally about 40 feet tall.
Transmission voltages usually run between 23,000 volts and 765,000 volts. Compare that to the voltage of your home's electrical sockets: 120 volts for most outlets, 240 volts for a clothes dryer or stove range. Voltages in your home are enough to kill you, so power lines carry a much greater wallop.
Wires: conducting and non-conducting
Transmission tower conductors —the energized lines — are made of steel-reinforced aluminum cable and are always arranged in sets of three. There could be one conductor line per group (three total), two conductor lines per group (six total), and sometimes more. Groups may be arranged in a triangle or run level next to one another, but there will always be three (or a multiple of three).
This three-way grouping helps electricity travel efficiently. However, if you look at the tower's top, you may see one or two smaller, solitary wires. These wires go by several names — overhead ground wire, static wire, and pilot wire. The wire absorbs or deflects lightning strikes, conveying excess electricity safely to the ground. Under normal conditions the overhead wire does not carry electricity.
Some overhead ground wires are grouped with fiber-optic cables that convey telecommunication data. Essentially made of glass, fiber-optic cables cannot conduct electricity and are not affected by lightning.
Alternatively, you may notice fiber-optics running a few feet below transmission conductors — seemingly small, by comparison. Adding telecommunication lines gets the most out of the large investment necessary to build transmission systems. Fiber-optic lines may be operated by the utility or leased to cable or phone companies.
Voltage and bells
The first rule of thumb: the higher the transmission tower, the greater the voltage. Transmission lines don't touch the towers that support them — if they did, the current would flow to the ground. They're separated from towers by bell-shaped insulators (known as "bells").
Higher voltages require more separation between conductor lines and towers — hence more bells. For example, a line of 69,000 volts has four bells; 115,000 voltage has seven bells. But sometimes bells are added in case a utility wants to increase voltage later, so counting them isn't a surefire way to estimate voltage.
Weather collectors and birds
Towering transmission structures often double as weather data collectors. You may notice spinning cups of an anemometer measuring wind speed, or other meteorological equipment.
You also may notice nesting birds, like hawks. Early tower designers discovered large birds like to build nests on the girders. Birds can cause an outage if excreted waste lands on an insulator and triggers a short circuit. So to prevent random, potentially dangerous nesting, designers include special platforms for birds.
About the AuthorMaurice Martin is senior program manager for the Cooperative Research Network, a service of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
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Thanks for the interesting article about transmission towers. I didn't know that overhead ground wires can be grouped with fiber-optic cables. I'm kind of interested to learn how they would be grouped or if their design can vary depending on location.


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In order to measure performance of one basic vector sum (depending of vector size), I use PAPI_rest(EventSet) and PAPI_read_counters(values, NB_EVENTS) functions . This functions are used un examples files of papi-5.1.1 (I use this PAPI version) .
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Venus and Serena Williams of the U.S. hold their gold medals during the presentation ceremony for the women's doubles tennis.
Today and tonight, during final-event leaps, heaves and sprints in the hurdles, pole vault, and gym, athletes will be competing for, living and dying for ... silver.
Not second place, mind you. But, technically, as the winners' national anthems ring out this evening, each grinning champion will be wearing, nuzzling or even kissing carefully dressed-up medallions made almost completely out of sterling silver.
Those cherished, sacrifice-four-years-of-your-life-to-achieve, historic golds? Oh, there's gold on there -- as a thin plating meant to cloak the 92.5 percent of the first-place prize that's comprised of silver.
London 2012 organizers have proudly, purposely produced the heaviest gold meals in Olympic history -- each tipping the scales at 400 grams, or twice the heft of the golds handed out during the 2008 Beijing Games. But they are hardly the most valuable Olympic medals ever.
Due to that flashy gold coating, totaling 6 grams -- worth $302 in today's market -- and the remaining 394 grams of sterling silver -- valued at $318 -- the winning coins would fetch about $620 if melted down as pure metals, according to Lear Capital, a precious metals company in Los Angeles.
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"The London (organizers), they made this coin larger than any other Olympics ever have. But you can make a gold coin fairly large if you're just going to plate whatever's underneath it with gold," said Kevin DeMeritt, founder of Lear Capital. "So it's a beautiful coin .... But most of the coin is silver which really doesn't add up to a whole lot when silver is $26 an ounce and gold is $1,600 an ounce."
Lear has crunched the metal/medal math, comparing the London golds with the top prizes doled out at Barcelona in 1992 (which would be worth $484 today), at Stockholm in 1912, the last Games during which gold medals were all-gold ($1,207 today) and at Paris in 1900 ($2,667 today).
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UK grocery company, Tesco, has decided to pull out of their American Invasion and take a $1.8 Billion write-off (with the favorable UK exchange rate – only 1.2 Billion Pounds – it still doesn't soften the blow of the astounding loss.) Tiffany Hsu's LA Times article points to Tesco's misunderstanding of what the public wants and the dire consequences of trying to compete with the Wal-Marts, Costcos, Trader Joes and the like. If Tesco believed those were their competition, their analysis was very off – regardless of recession or not. Tesco saw themselves as something they were not – and in America, it's foolish to think that customers will save bad branding by finding the hidden gems behind whatever facade is presented. Any way you slice it, its unfortunate that Tesco's invasion of the American market was dead on arrival.
It had a lot more to do with branding, design and store locations than what Americans do or do not want. Admittedly, my exposure is limited to their locations in the Los Angeles market, but it quickly became very clear how Fresh & Easy was positioned counter-intuitively and ineffectively.
The first store I visited was a huge space on heavily trafficked tourist destination Hollywood Boulevard. It was large, dark and depressing. Another location was also in midtown on a heavily trafficked car artery with no abundance of parking spaces. And the last one I was in a week ago was probably the best model of what they should have been doing all along – a small, bright and colorful store in a heavy pedestrian area near USC.
Beyond their questionable locations and early dreary decor, they should have positioned themselves as the perfect last minute spot to pick up quality prepared meals and sundry items on the way to work or on the way home for dinner. They couldn't/shouldn't have felt they could compete with the established big markets.
The article compares them to a Wal-Mart, but Tesco should have positioned Fresh & Healthy as more akin to a refined and healthier 7-11 – like their own Tesco Metros back in the UK. That healthy option would have been the right aspirational touch – especially in Southern California.
Fresh & Easy might have worked if they had stronger positioning. It seems they were even unclear on who they were meant to be. Because of that, their marketing never worked. It's a shame, because if you look at their location near USC, they could have focused on smaller spaces in higher foot-traffic (or more easily accessible) areas to create something akin to the Marks & Spencer Simply Food product in the UK. Another similarity to M&S in the USC location was the automated tellers that allowed staff to be focused around the store to help out in ways you certainly don't see in a 7-11.
The promise of getting in and out of a market in five minutes with inexpensive essentials and healthy prepared meals would have been something that might have made it a success.
Short of that, its another example of a move that a company should have never ventured in the first place. Or, its an example of a good thing that never had the required clarity and forethought to drive success. Fresh & Easy is Dead. Long Live Fresh & Easy.


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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Dhabih, you gotta see this! Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Dhabih, you gotta see this!" ShrimpishGuestMember # Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 12:22 am Hey, check this out: http://www.warezmania.net/images/logo.jpg Some dude e-mailed me this address to check out a "cool drawing." Dang! Their logo looks familiar... Reminds me of Ultima Online... Jus' kidding... These foo's are rippin' you off, dude! Later, (I didnt post a direct link to the site, cuz it contains illegal crap) [This message has been edited by Shrimpish (edited November 06, 1999).] Back to top imdakingmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 321Location: USA Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 11:40 am warez are bad..... Back to top MuzmanmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 675Location: Western Australia Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 11:45 am that's pretty fuckn' tacky I feel sorry for all the worthy crackers and freedom of information folk who have to put up with hangers-on like this Back to top chrisk82memberMember #Joined: 16 Jan 2000Posts: 91Location: CO Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 11:53 am Ouch, someone just got busted! Too bad most Warez sites are located outside the US and we can't do a damn thing about it Back to top TurboYVRmemberMember #Joined: 24 Oct 1999Posts: 189Location: Vancouver BC Canada Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 3:48 pm at least the f***ers left Dhab's name on it... Back to top immimemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 629Location: vancouver Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 5:08 pm Hey, check this out foo's(See i say foo's cause Im cool!) : http://www.bluebrush.com Some dude e-mailed me this address to check out a "crap rip-off" Dang, that artwork looks familiar...Reminds me of Linda Tripp(ugly) Jus' kidding...this foo's artwork is uglier than Tripp Later Back to top Riskjunior memberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 21Location: Colleyville,TX,USA Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 5:51 pm hey immi, thats quite odd , Cuz I find marius nita a very sensational artist with amazing skills...i see very few flaws but everyones learning, listen its not your place to start putting down people just because they arent a SUPERIOR DHABIH(no offense dhabih you kick ass) because soon he will be "as good as dhabih"(or how you guys see everything) right now hes really close just like wizz-art (wizzart.cjb.net) who from what i heard is re-doing his layout because people accused him of being a dhabih rip off.. i know tons of people that think maruis's art sucks..you just have terrible taste. Laksman Veeravagu Back to top MongoosememberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 363Location: North Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 6:52 pm Ummm.. everyone is entitled to their own opinion. This is a free world. If we (that's including myself) don't like the artwork of Marius Nita, or think that he is a no-talent hack, then we are allowed to think that way. Who are you anyway, his mom? /mongoose quote Quote: Wise man once say: "Man who farts in church, must sit in his own pew". If ya' smell what the g00se is cookin. [This message has been edited by Mongoose (edited November 06, 1999).] Back to top immimemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 629Location: vancouver Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 9:06 pm hey listen, normally i wouldn't poke fun at peoples artwork, even if it is crap(which his is) but the guy is just so annoying! Back to top Not One Of Usjunior memberMember #Joined: 04 Nov 1999Posts: 15 Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 10:35 pm WOOOHOOO! Another warez site! Ya! YES! WOOHO, er, I mean, bad, warez is bad, very very very bad Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 11:45 pm Immi -- If you're going to insult others' work, would you care to put your talent where your mouth is? ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://www.funhousedigital.com Back to top ShrimpishGuestMember # Posted: Sun Nov 07, 1999 12:23 am hey, immi, best of luck to you and your art, man! I just wish that you'd stop harassing me. That tells me a lot about you. Back to top ChrismemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 746Location: Iowa Posted: Sun Nov 07, 1999 3:09 pm immi, you are a lot more annoying...every 3 messages I have to read insults from you towards another person.....try some constructive criticism and maybe I won't be so bored of your messages. BTW I like shrimpish's artwork, I switch on and off on my desktop between his and dhabih (man dhabih am I glad you have your name on the top banner, or I couldn't spell it right all the time lol) ------------------ Website: All About PC Programming Email: email@example.com ICQ: 52926487 Back to top wakestarrGuestMember # Posted: Sun Nov 07, 1999 3:23 pm aight enuff already... everybody's got the right to think whatever he or she want about our art.. but to keep things smooth it's better to just keep ya mouth shut if ya don't have anything constructive to say.. ya know.. I don't like everything I see and some things I fuckin adore.. but I keep my f***ing mouth shut if I can't come with constructive critisism... aight.. I'm sooo tired of seeing great webforums going to hell 'cause of flame wars... yours truely wakestarr piece, love and great art... or whatevah.. Back to top lutherjunior memberMember #Joined: 04 Nov 1999Posts: 22Location: Japan Posted: Sun Nov 07, 1999 9:12 pm Also bare in mind that we are all learning, regardless of age or experience. I'm not fond of these pointless insults; constructive critisism can hurt as well (we probably wouldn't be drawing if we didn't have such fragile ego's ) but at least it's constructive. In my opinion, the blue brush site is not ripping off Dhabih at all; so, he's drawn a Darth Maul pic too... erm, Dhab didn't come up with the character either. Also, plagarism is the most sincere form of flattery and can anybody truely stick their hand up here and say they haven't been influenced by one artist or another? I'm sorry, that's the way it works; We all have influences and I cannot blame Marius for finding some worthy of inspiration in Dhabih's work; We all do, which is why we are writing this stuff on his forum. All great artists can cite influences and other artists whom they respect, we don't live on islands with a population of one. Marius could do with improving the defintion of some of his pics and some of the proportions could use some work (heh, me too) but I like his pics and he shows a lot of promise. Please refrain from hurtfull remarks designed to bolster you own ego. Just my tupence, Luther. Back to top immimemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 629Location: vancouver Posted: Sun Nov 07, 1999 10:10 pm Marius, on behalf of myself and all the other people who don't like your artwork or your character, I'd like to extend my sincerest apologies. uh not, but anyways to all of shrimpish's moms, i'd also like to say i'm sorry. Obviously, I was wrong to express my own opinion seeing as the internet is a fascist state, and therefore my opinion should not be allowed. Again sorry. Lighten up guys, its not like I used profane language or anything in describing him, whcih would have been really bad(except for crap-but thats sort of border-line right?) ok, ok, constructive criticism- Your characters proportions are bad, they look like their made out of clay. Back to top imdakingmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 321Location: USA Posted: Sun Nov 07, 1999 10:22 pm warez issue >> I think dhab, should get these shmucks arrested... or fined for there evil deeds... not only in the warez field but also for copyright infringement. flame !!!!!!!!!!! YEEHA!!!!!!!>> okay.... uh...... i dunno who immi is... or marius... or any of you other people =) but i am an old wise man (16) and from my experiences in life (few and far between) its that critisism or however you spell it can hurt in any shape and or form... constructive... when i thought I did something totally bad ass, and then someone tells me... well this should be this this and this... im like.... f**k off you son of a b***** and there like... but its cool... YA RIGHT. kiss my ass... I dont think I or anyone else can rip off dhabi unless I take his picture into photoshop and literally trace over it then modify all the colors and put my name on it as something I did. that goes the same for anybody. Someones style cannot be ripped off. (imaginary time) If I was 60 years old and had been an artist for 50 or so years, and I had put a website up with digital pics that were astonishng, that looked like the goodbrush guy, you would say I had ripped it off... you get my point? if not then screw off =) thanks! take care bye bye! Back to top ChrismemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 746Location: Iowa Posted: Mon Nov 08, 1999 7:31 am criticism might hurt in any form...but that's life, and you have to realize that SOME ppl are only trying to help. anyhow, use the internet as a opinion tool. Keep your picture that you think kicks azz...then do the constuctive criticism modifications (if worth-while) and set up a poll to get others opinions on the two and see if the modifications where to your liking or a waste of time. And if it is a waste of time, then at least you can say you were right about your picture and style. ------------------ Website: All About PC Programming Email: firstname.lastname@example.com ICQ: 52926487 Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Mon Nov 08, 1999 1:26 pm I would like to point out that despite all of Immi's criticism, he still hasn't displayed any of his own art. ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://www.funhousedigital.com Back to top immimemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 629Location: vancouver Posted: Mon Nov 08, 1999 3:19 pm ok ok I'll post something tonight, and you can rip it apart and marius, and funfetus, you can lots of nasty stuff about it. 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Imagine the perfect library book. Its pages don't tear. Its spine is unbreakable. It can be checked out from home. And it can never get lost.
The value of this magically convenient library book — otherwise known as an e-book — is the subject of a fresh and furious debate in the publishing world. For years, public libraries building their e-book collections have typically done so with the agreement from publishers that once a library buys an e-book, it can lend it out, one reader at a time, an unlimited number of times.
Last week, that agreement was upended by HarperCollins Publishers when it began enforcing new restrictions on its e-books, requiring that books be checked out only 26 times before they expire. Assuming a two-week checkout period, that is long enough for a book to last at least one year.
What could have been a simple, barely noticed change in policy has galvanized librarians across the country, many of whom called the new rule unfair and vowed to boycott e-books from HarperCollins, the publisher of Doris Lessing, Sarah Palin and Joyce Carol Oates.
"People just felt gobsmacked," said Anne Silvers Lee, the chief of the materials management division of the Free Library of Philadelphia, which has temporarily stopped buying HarperCollins e-books. "We want e-books in our collections, our customers are telling us they want e-books, so I want to be able to get e-books from all the publishers. I also need to do it in a way that is not going to be exorbitantly expensive."
But some librarians said the change, however unwelcome, had ignited a public conversation about e-books in libraries that was long overdue. While librarians are pushing for more e-books to satisfy demand from patrons, publishers, with an eye to their bottom lines, are reconsidering how much the access to their e-books should be worth.
"People are agitated for very good reasons," said Roberta Stevens, the president of the American Library Association. "Library budgets are, at best, stagnant. E-book usage has been surging. And the other part of it is that there is grave concern that this model would be used by other publishers."
Even in the retail marketplace, the question of how much an e-book can cost is far from settled. Publishers resisted the standard $9.99 price that Amazon once set on many e-books, and last spring, several major publishers moved to a model that allows them set their own prices.
This month, Random House, the lone holdout among the six biggest trade publishers, finally joined in switching to the agency model. Now many newly released books are priced from $12.99 to $14.99, while discounted titles are regularly as low as $2.99.
HarperCollins, in its defense, pointed out that its policy for libraries was a decade old, made long before e-books were as popular as they are today. The new policy applies to newly acquired books. "We have serious concerns that our previous e-book policy, selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book ecosystem, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors," the company said in a statement.
It is still a surprise to many consumers that e-books are available in libraries at all. Particularly in the last several years, libraries have been expanding their e-book collections, often through OverDrive, a large provider of e-books to public libraries and schools. Nationwide, some 66 percent of public libraries offer free e-books to their patrons, according to the American Library Association.
For many libraries, interest from patrons who want to check out e-books has been skyrocketing. At the New York Public Library, e-book use is 36 percent higher than it was only one year ago. Demand has been especially strong since December, several librarians said, because e-readers were popular holiday gifts.
"As our readership goes online, our materials dollars are going online," said Christopher Platt, the director of collections and circulating operations for the New York Public Library.
In borrowing terms, e-books have been treated much like print books. They are typically available to one user at a time, often for a seven- or 14-day period. But unlike print books, library users don't have to show up at the library to pick them up — e-books can be downloaded from home, onto mobile devices, personal computers and e-readers, including Nooks, Sony Readers, laptops and smartphones. (Library e-books cannot be read on Amazon's Kindle e-reader.) After the designated checkout period, the e-book automatically expires from the borrower's account.
The ease with which e-books can be borrowed from libraries — potentially turning e-book buyers into e-book borrowers — makes some publishers uncomfortable. Simon & Schuster and Macmillan, two of the largest trade publishers in the United States, do not make their e-books available to libraries at all.
"We are working diligently to try to find terms that satisfy the needs of the libraries and protect the value of our intellectual property," John Sargent, the chief executive of Macmillan, said in an e-mail. "When we determine those terms, we will sell e-books to libraries. At present we do not."
And those publishers that do make their e-books available in libraries said that the current pricing agreements might need to be updated.
Random House, for example, has no immediate plans to change the terms of its agreements with libraries, said Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for the publisher, but has not ruled it out in the future.
"Anything we institute ahead we'd really want to talk through with the community and together understand what makes sense for us both," Mr. Applebaum said. "We're open to changes in the future which are in reasonable step with the expectations and realities of the overall library communities."
Publishers are nervous that e-book borrowing in libraries will cannibalize e-book retail sales. They also lose out on revenue realized as libraries replace tattered print books or supplement hardcover editions with paperbacks, a common practice. Sales to libraries can account for 7 to 9 percent of a publisher's overall revenue, two major publishers said.
But e-books have downsides for libraries, too. Many libraries dispose of their unread books through used-book sales, a source of revenue that unread e-books can't provide.
The American Library Association has assembled two task forces to study the issue.
Even among the librarians who have stopped buying HarperCollins e-books, many said that there might have to be a compromise.
"I can see their side of it," said Lisa Sampley, the collection services manager in the Springfield-Greene County Library District in Springfield, Mo. "I'm hoping that if other publishers try to change the model, they think about the libraries and how it will affect us. But I'm sure there is some kind of model that could work for us both."


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24.10. - 28.10.2021
The world's leading trade fair for the baking and con-fectionery industry
SUNDAY – WEDNESDAY09:30 a.m. – 06:00 p.m.THURSDAY09:30 a.m. – 05:00 p.m.
Fairground Munich
You are here:
In 2021, the national and international baking industry will be dominated by iba. The world's leading trade fair for the baking and confectionery industry is set to take place from Sunday, 24th to Thursday, 28th October in Munich and is a well-established meeting place for the world's baking and confectionery industry. In addition to conceptual changes, 2021 will see an emphasis on new and visionary impulses, including a change in duration and a new hall layout. The size and significance of the fair will, however, remain unchanged. Application forms are now being sent out to exhibitors.
A new exhibition duration, a change of date to October, and the certified final figures for iba 2018: What's new at iba – The world´s leading trade fair for bakery, confectionery and snacks, which will take place from 24 to 28 October 2021 at the Fairground Munich.
Please find here more iba press releases.
Please find here press releases and company news of our exhibitors.
Journalists can accredit on site in the press centre west (entrance west, first floor) upon presentation of:
Please note our accreditation guidelines. Press tickets do not include free use of public transportation (MVV).
For pre-accreditation please send an e-mail to email@example.com. You'll receive it in time by e-mail. Please notice that the mailing of the pre-accreditation starts about four weeks before the trade fair starts and ends a week before the beginning of the trade fair.
The press centre of iba is located on the first floor of entrance west. It is the meeting point for all journalists during the fair.
To support your work, the press centre offers following services:
Members of the press can park in the multistorey car park west.
Take the ticket you collect upon entry to the car park to the accreditation counter or the press centre and exchange it for a free exit ticket.
Here you find information on our TV and radio production service:
TV service:
Footage from the trade fair will also be made available.
All materials are produced in HDTV format 1080i50 and PAL 625 standard in 16:9 format. Your contact person:
mediaBOX TVDr. Markus KinkP +49 89 949 287 41M +49 171 122 102 5
Radio production service - iba 2018:
That's the sound of iba 2018! We offer a range of broadcast materials for your use and transmission, from radio-edited reports to voice contributions from the organisers and news items - all exempt from fees or royalties.
Here you can find the radio reports (in German only).
Your contact person:
PRESSLIVE radio production serviceTim email@example.com M +49 173 – 622 62 62
Have a look at our photos of the trade fair! In order to download photos you will need a password which you receive upon request from our press and public relations department: email@example.com.
You will find a variety of logos in the download section.


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Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says stimulus spending must balance competitiveness and timeliness.
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra will wear many hats in his newly created role in President Barack Obama's administration, but arguably the most important to state and local governments -- at least in the short term -- is Kundra's work to put contract information and other related data on Recovery.gov, the Web site dedicated to public transparency for the $787 billion Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Several public-sector CIOs told Government Technology this week that they are eager to get their hands on more specifics on how and to who the contracts will be awarded.
Shortly after Obama appointed Kundra last Thursday, the 34-year-old former chief technology officer of the District of Columbia told a conference call of reporters that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is already beginning the process of posting information for contracts onto Recovery.gov.
"We're working with the states and local governments right now to iron out some of the details as far as the contracts themselves being put up there, and making sure they're redacting anything that may be anticompetitive, in terms of the contracts being put up," Kundra said. "That's part of the challenge. Step one is to put up a summary of a contract."
Kundra didn't specify a timetable for when all the data for the contracts and rules will be available on the Web site.
A significant portion of the stimulus package is in some fashion related to technology or can be spent on it. For, example, $19 billion is allotted for health-care information technology, $4.5 billion for smart grid technology for electricity, $7 billion for broadband Internet connectivity and $15 billion to train students for an "innovation" economy. In addition, more technology-related spending is available within road-building, energy efficiency, transportation and public safety items. For example, part of $2 billion in public safety grants announced this month by Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder will be spent on "technology improvement programs."
NASCIO President Gopal Khanna, the CIO of Minnesota, told Government Technology that Kundra is well suited for the role of federal CIO because he has experience, from the perspective of state and local governments, about the barriers that impede the flow of federal funds to state governments.
"Because of the understanding, there are hopes in NASCIO that some of those old rules that guided the old flow of funding -- that there would be a major reform effort focused on coming up with the new rules. The old rules were fine 20 years ago to maintain or to gather complete accountability and transparency of federal money coming into the states," Kundra said. "But in today's environment of technology, and since the federal, state and local continuum is one continuum, the flow has to be seen differently and new rules need to be devised."
Alan Shark, the executive director of the Public Technology Institute, chimed in with similar enthusiasm about the beneficial impact Kundra's expertise could have on local governments and their funding issues.
"I'm an admirer of his," Shark said. "He was very creative when he worked at a state level in Virginia -- he became better known and he got his start in the private sector in Arlington County, Va. Then it was sustained and then sweeping over to the District of Columbia. To me, because he was one of the most visible technology leaders as a CTO, in a sense, it's a perfect fit."
Kundra said reporting guidance that's already been released by OMB and Obama's commitment to transparency are signals that mayors and governors will be held accountable
for the stimulus-related projects they do. The data will be viewable on Recovery.gov, Kundra said.
"You'll be able to see that the prime contract level and the subcontract -- that's one of the reasons [the states are] putting up their [economic recovery] Web sites, to be able to drill down deeper," Kundra explained. "What we didn't want to do is to have undue burdens across them board to the point that somebody who is providing coffee to, let's say, a construction company, will have to go and start reporting."
At least 25 states, including Virginia and Colorado, have launched economic recovery Web sites. Some of them are already linked together on Recovery.gov. Cities are also starting to make their own.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are hosting a conference of governors on Thursday, March 12 to talk about how the stimulus money can be spent efficiently.


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The VA's Cash-Out refinance loan gives qualified veterans the opportunity to refinance their conventional or VA loan into a lower rate while extracting cash from the home's equity.
With the VA Cash-Out refinance, you have the opportunity to turn the equity in your home into cash. This shouldn't be confused with a home equity loan, which is a second loan that runs alongside your current loan. The VA Cash-Out refinance loan replaces your existing mortgage instead of complementing it.
While it might sound odd, homeowners aren't required to take out cash with these refinance loans. That means qualified veterans with non-VA loans can use this benefit to simply take advantage of lower rates, or to get out of an adjustable-rate loan, or to eliminate costly mortgage insurance with other loan types.
VA cash-out rates change daily based on market conditions. The following cash-out rates are current as of May 26th, 06:01 PM CST.
|VA Loan Type
|Interest Rate
|30-year VA Cash-Out
|15-year VA Cash-Out
|30-Year VA Cash-Out Jumbo
The process for getting a VA-Cash Out refinance is similar to the process for a typical VA purchase loan, including credit underwriting, an appraisal and more.
Guidelines and requirements can vary by lender and other factors.
Here are a few things to keep in mind:
Generally, there are no restrictions on using your cash back. Common uses include, but are not limited to:
Lenders may have caps in place for your loan-to-value ratio, meaning you might still need to keep some equity in the property after the refinance. These kinds of caps can vary by lender.
Those looking to tap into their home's equity should be aware of a few important considerations.
First, unlike a VA Streamline refinance, homeowners must deal with their closing costs at the closing table. These costs and fees can vary based on a host of factors but typically range from 3 to 5 percent of the loan amount.
In addition, most homeowners have to contend with the VA Funding Fee, which goes directly to the Department of Veterans Affairs to help keep the loan program going. This fee is typically 2.3 percent of the loan amount for first-time users of the VA loan and 3.6 percent for veterans who've used the benefit before. Borrowers who receive compensation for a service-connected disability and eligible surviving spouses do not pay this fee.
Homeowners can finance the funding fee into their overall loan amount. But it's a cost that can stretch your new loan beyond the value of the property and make tapping into your equity more expensive.
Veterans should evaluate VA refinance offers closely, especially unsolicited mailers and advertisements. These often sound too good to be true, and that's because they are. Some lenders will promise big benefits, but hide a bunch of costs and fees in the fine print. Others won't clearly explain they're offering a riskier adjustable-rate loan.
A Veterans United loan specialist can walk you through the fine print of any offer you receive and help you assess whether it's valid.
Whether refinancing a conventional, FHA or USDA loan, the VA cash-out refinance option is available regardless of loan type. Many homeowners choose the VA cash-out refinance option over other types of loans because of the ability to repay the loan over a longer period of time, and typically, the VA cash-out refinance option comes with a lower interest rate.
To better understand if a VA Cash-Out refinance is right for you and your financial situation, contact the experts at Veterans United Home Loans.


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ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — Ric and Gail Blasquez sometimes wonder if their neighbors think they are doing something illegal.
"I think maybe our neighbors believe we are moonshiners," said Gail.
And, in fact, they are running a still. But it has nothing to do with illegal alcohol. The soldered copper device in their front yard is all aboveboard.
It's all about lavender.
Ric and Gail distill a good portion of their home-grown lavender into essential oil that they use for a variety of products, from soaps to sprays for linens.
"It's a peaceful, calming plant," said Gail of the herb that is the focus of the annual Moonshadow Gypsy Arts & Crafts Lavender Faire. The event will be held in northeast Albany this weekend.
Now in its fifth year, the event brings 1,000 or so people to the property to celebrate lavender. Arts and crafts vendors, music, workshops and demonstrations will be featured.
Extracting the oils adds to its many uses. And the still used to extract the oil from the herb is a piece of art in its own right.
An Arab still, the five-piece device uses technology that dates back a thousand years. More elaborate large modern versions are available for completing the process, but Ric likes the feel of the traditional still.
"It's old-school," he said.
The process is powered by steam, so it begins by boiling water in the base of the still. Cut dry lavender blooms are stuffed into the neck and upper portion. Wheat paste applied by hand seals the seams in the neck.
"The modern versions would use rubber gaskets, but this is more fun," Ric said.
The steam from the boiling water is forced up the cylinder and through the lavender in the upper bell, forcing oil out of the plant and through a tube into a condenser. Cold water is pumped into the condenser and super-heated. The steam is re-condensed into liquid hydrosol (distilled water with fine micro-particulates of oil).
When the temperature in the top tower reaches 60 Celsius, Ric starts the pump. When the temperature reaches 80, typically that means product is coming through the tube.
The essential oil flows to the surface. Ric then adjusts a valve to separate the oil, which escapes through another tube into a container. The hydrosol is released into a second container and used in spritzes and sprays.
"The entire process takes about an hour," Ric said.
One run produces between a half ounce to an ounce-and-a-half of oil, depending on variety. Gail said the still produces about a quart of oil each year.
"We use the oil for all sorts of products and we sell some of it in bottles," she said. "It takes about two ounces of oil to make soap."
The Lavender Faire is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Moonshadow Farm, 34556 Mountain View Place N.E. in Albany.
Ric will be demonstrating lavender oil distilling. It's a skill he acquired on his own.
The still, he said, "didn't come with instructions. I was a high school science teacher and even then I had to sit back and take a long look at it. But it's pretty basic stuff."
The Blazquez farm harvests 13 varieties of lavender. About a half-acre of the 7-acre farm is devoted to the herb.
Although Ric will be demonstrating this weekend, Gail also is skilled in the distilling process. Both like its ancient roots.
"It gives us a great product," Ric said. "but I really enjoy the science and art of it."
Information from: Albany Democrat-Herald, http://www.dhonline.com