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The Australian Museum has always managed Lizard Island Research Station to minimise its environmental impact and to provide stewardship for its extraordinary natural environment. As new systems and services become available, the ways in which we do that change and improve.
Long-standing practices at LIRS include responsible handling of waste, minimising impacts on the groundwater supply and being as energy-efficient as possible. In particular, LIRS has operated with the following initiatives for many years:
- hot water is provided by solar hot water systems
- dry composting toilets are used throughout the Station
- houses are well ventilated and have wide eaves and verandahs so there is no need for air conditioning
- gas is used for cooking
- fruit and vegetable waste is composted on site
- materials are re-used wherever possible
- office paper, glass, aluminium, and most plastics are sent to the mainland for recycling
- non-recyclable waste is sent to the mainland for landfill
- waste laboratory chemicals are disposed of appropriately
- marine research activities are carefully managed
- weeds on land are managed with dedication
The 30th Anniversary Development provided an opportunity to reduce the station's environmental footprint even further.
- Careful design of the Ian Potter Centre for Tropical Marine Research provides for passive cooling of the central research area: its roof acts as a venturi to draw hot air from this large area so that air conditioners in the labs and offices do not have to work as hard.
- Efficient inverter technology was chosen for the air conditioners that are still necessary in these work areas.
- Energy efficient lighting and appliances were important specifications throughout the upgrade project.
- Four-stroke outboard motors use less fuel and produce fewer emissions than the older two-stroke technology and they are now being used effectively on the Station's larger boats. However, a trial on the dinghies showed that smaller four-stroke motors are not yet reliable enough for use in remote areas, so we have had to revert to two-strokes for these boats.
- An air bank enables more efficient use of power for filling scuba tanks.
- In 2011, one of the major components of the 30th Anniversary Development was commissioned: a 30 kW solar array that replaces about 65% of the diesel used for generating electricity.
The Sunny Portal site for Lizard Island provides near real-time production data from the solar power system as well as photos showing its construction (this link will take you out of the Australian Museum web site).


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Download the Developer Mode Activation App from the Store on your Xbox One console, and then follow the Xbox One Developer Mode Activation instructions.
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To learn more about Retail mode and Developer mode, see the Xbox One Developer Mode Activation page.
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Caution The Xbox Developer Preview System Update includes experimental and early pre-release software. This means that some popular games and apps will not work as expected, and you may experience occasional crashes and data loss.
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With this release, you can't publish your apps. You'll be able to publish your apps in a subsequent release. This release is intended to give developers early access to developer tools so they have time to code their apps before the final product/release.
See the Xbox One Developer Mode Deactivation topic for details on how to leave the Developer Preview Program.
If you no longer have access to your Xbox One, you can deactivate it from Windows Developer Center. For more information, see "Deactivating your console through Windows Development Center" at Xbox One Developer Mode Deactivation.
If you're still in Developer mode after you leave the Developer Preview Program, start Dev Home, and press the Leave developer mode button. This will reboot your console in Retail mode. For more information, go to the Xbox One Developer Mode Activation page.
Publishing for apps will be available through Development Center later in the year. The Universal Windows (UWP) apps that are created and tested on a retail Xbox One will go through the same review and publication process that Windows conducts today, with additional reviews to meet Xbox One standards.
You can use UWP and your Xbox One in Developer mode to build and test your games on your Xbox One. To publish UWP games, you must register at ID@Xbox.
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Environmental Chemistry
Environmental chemistry is a very focused branch of chemistry, containing aspects of organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, physical chemistry and inorganic chemistry, as well as more diverse areas, such as biology, toxicology, biochemistry, public health and epidemiology. Environmental chemists work in a variety of public, private and government laboratories.
Environmental chemistry is socially important because it deals with the environmental impact of pollutants, the reduction of contamination and management of the environment. Environmental chemistists study the behavior of pollutants and their environmental effects on the air, water and soil environments, as well as their effects on human health and the natural environment.
The Academic Requirements
Environmental chemistry is a challenging major. The undergraduate curriculum is demanding both intellectually and in terms of time. There are no "easy courses" to be found in it. One studies inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and analytical chemistry, examining the most basic qualities of matter, mastering strategies of chemical synthesis, solving chemical mysteries in the laboratory, and learning to communicate facts and theories about chemistry to others. Elective courses may include biochemistry and chemical oceanography, or one may choose to delve more deeply into one of the other subdisciplines of chemistry and environmental studies. Research with a member of the chemistry faculty in the junior or senior year can provide valuable experience at the frontiers of the science.
According to the Chemistry.org website; "Because environmental chemistry is so interdisciplinary, excellent communication skills, teamwork, the ability to associate with people and express ideas efficiently to a nonscientific audience are all important. This last challenge will become apparent when dealing with regulations or with sales and marketing individuals in your own company." To develop these skills, take some writing (scientific and journalistic) classes, some communications classes, and maybe a few business relations courses. Chemists with a proficiency in foreign language can work overseas in areas of exciting developments.
Here are some courses that we've seen:
- Nuclear and Radiochemistry
- Environmental Biogeochemistry
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- Analytical Chemistry
- Principles of Environmental Science
- Technical Writing & Information Retrieval
- Intermediate Inorganic Chemistry
- Computer Applications in Chemistry
- Advanced Spectroscopy
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Environmental chemistry is a rather broad field, with many different kinds of work within it. For example, an environmental chemist may collect and analyze samples for identification of a contaminator, or help develop remediation programs. He or she may be involved in changing industrial practices so that the end result is a more environmentally-sound product. Some environmental chemists who work for industrial companies may advise employees on safety and emergency response, or on how to deal with government regulations and compliance issues.
The Chemistry.org website states, "Workplaces for environmental chemists are as varied as their job descriptions. Often their work is done in an indoor lab environment. However, when studying the fate and effects of chemicals in the environment, a river bed or stream may become their lab. Some companies have sophisticated indoor ecosystems in which they test their products. Others collect data outside and miles away from their own production sites." So, whatever path you choose to pursue within the environmental chemistry field will affect where and how you work. If you want to work outside, maybe you should do field research. If you want to be the one running the research, you'll need a Ph.D. and lots of lab experience, but you'll get to work inside most of the time and you could make some socially-important discoveries.
Here are some job titles that we've seen, including some of the organizations that offer them, all of which included a requirement for experience in Environmental Chemistry:
- Toxicology Consultant/Mid-Level Risk Assessor (Tetra Tech EM, Inc.)
- Ecotoxicologist (National Park Service)
- Biogeochemist of Organic Contaminants (The French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea)
- Organics Section Manager (City of Phoenix)
- Analytical Chemist (Adecco Scientific)
- Environmental Chemist (Management Recruiters International)
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- R & D Chemist (Sud-Chemie, Inc.)
- Project Chemist (CAS Holdings, Inc.)
- Development Chemist (Celanese)
- Faculty Position in Experimental Physical Chemistry (University of British Columbia)
- Safety Specialist (Shire Laboratories)
Salary Forecast
According the Bureau of Labor; "Median annual earnings of chemists in 2000 were $50,080. The middle 50 percent earned between $37,480 and $68,240. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $29,620, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $88,030. A survey by the American Chemical Society reports that the median salary of all their members with a bachelor's degree was $55,000 a year in 2000; with a master's degree, $65,000; and with a Ph.D., $82,200. Median salaries were highest for those working in private industry; those in academia earned the least. According to an ACS survey of recent graduates, inexperienced chemistry graduates with a bachelor's degree earned a median starting salary of $33,500 in 2000; with a master's degree, $44,100; and with a Ph.D., $64,500. Among bachelor's degree graduates, those who had completed internships or had other work experience while in school commanded the highest starting salaries. In 2001, chemists in non-supervisory, supervisory, and managerial positions in the Federal Government averaged $70,435 a year."
- American Chemical Society, Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
- Catholic University of America, Environmental Chemistry
- Chemistry.org, Environmental Chemistry page
- College of Charleston, Environmental Chemistry emphasis
- Enviro-Net (University of Florida)
- Envirofacts - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental Organizations Web Directory
- La Roche College, Environmental Chemistry Division
- Lawrence Technological University, Environmental Chemistry program
- Monster - Job search results for "environmental chemist"
- New Science Jobs
- Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
- Spring Hill College, Environmental Chemistry concentration
- U.S. Bureau of Labor, Statistics on Chemists
- University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Environmental Chemistry Programs
- University of Minnesota, Environmental Chemistry
- University of Newcastle, Department of Fossil Fuels & Environmental Geochemistry


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Story highlights
- Online voting has been tested worldwide but not much in the United States
- Security analysts say too many risks exist on the Internet to make voting practical
- Advocates argue banking, bill-paying are already common online
- In Estonia, people have voted online since 2007 with no known security breaches
Tuesday is Election Day in the United States, and although the mostly state and local races won't stir the same passions as next year's presidential contest, millions of people will cast ballots.
They'll do it in much the same way that Americans have for centuries: by showing up at a polling place and ticking off boxes for their candidates of choice.
All of which raises the question: In an era when virtually every daily task can be done on the Internet, why can't we vote online, too?
The answer depends on whom you ask.
Advocates say the time is right to seriously consider letting voters cast a ballot from the comfort of their homes or even on the screens of their mobile phones.
"We've voted the way we have for the past 200 years because we couldn't do any better than that," said Rob Weber, a former IT professional at IBM who runs the blog Cyber the Vote. "Now, we have this technology that has revolutionized the rest of our lives ... (and) can revolutionize our voting system and could revolutionize our political system."
A recipe for chaos?
But critics, many of them in the cybersecurity world, argue that letting people cast votes from their home computers is a recipe for chaos.
"My position hasn't changed over the years," said Avi Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University who specializes in computer security. "Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change."
Rubin said that, in addition to politically motivated reasons for attempting to corrupt online votes, many hackers with no real political agenda could still see the challenge of tinkering with an election too attractive to pass up.
"People's computers are not getting more secure," Rubin said. "They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware."
Canada and Estonia
Other countries, though, have gone further down the road toward online voting than U.S. election officials have.
Canada has been near the forefront. In all, 80 Canadian cities and towns have experimented with Internet voting in municipal elections. The town of Markham, in Ontario, has offered online ballots in local elections since 2003.
An independent report by digital-strategy firm Delvinia showed that early voting increased 300% the first year Internet voting was allowed. Twenty-five percent of the people who voted online in 2003 said they didn't vote in the prior local election, and overall turnout rose nearly 10% from 2006 to 2010, according to the report.
"Not only is Markham a perfect example of how internet voting is being successfully implemented in a binding election; with other municipalities following suit, Canada is becoming a global leader in the implementation of Internet voting," the report read.
Sweden, Latvia and Switzerland are among the countries that have tested Internet voting.
But when it comes to national elections, Estonia is the clear leader.
The tiny Baltic nation (its population of 1.3 million is roughly the size of San Diego) has allowed online voting for all of its citizens since 2007. In this year's election, nearly one in four votes was cast online, according to its elections commission.
Risks and rewards
Priit Vinkel, an adviser to Estonia's National Electoral Committee, said security is of the utmost concern.
"Internet voting relies basically on a single factor: trust," Vinkel said. "Building and stabilizing this trust is the most important but also the most difficult task of the state."
In Estonia, that security includes a national ID card that can be used remotely and a voting system built to recognize unusual activity, Vrinkel said. He said security officials have detected no serious attempts to tamper with the votes.
But, in Rubin's mind, that's not enough.
He says the Internet's known security risks alone could be enough to call an election's results into question.
"In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly," Rubin said. "If you allow online voting and you're unable to detect any fraud, but it turns out later that many computers were compromised ... there's no way to audit or backtrack or recount or do anything to figure out what actually happened.
"The real question is whether you're interested in providing more questions about the outcome of an election or less."
Weber, who writes his blog from New York, acknowledges the difficulties but says they shouldn't be enough to stop progress on Internet voting -- which he and others believe will increase participation, particularly among younger voters.
"If there are concerns about any of this, the answer is to further work on those concerns, not declare that the Internet is entirely dangerous and will always be entirely dangerous, and you can never trust it," he said.
He notes that trillions of dollars have been moved around via online banking and that functions as sensitive as air-traffic control take place on the Internet.
He also said that for critics to hold up the current U.S. voting system as a model of safety is laughable.
"Machines, memory cards, even things on paper" can be manipulated, he said. "How many times in our history have we found a box of ballots in someone's garage a couple of weeks after an election?"
Experimental efforts
Experts don't expect widespread voting by Internet to take hold in the U.S. anytime soon. But there have been some fledgling efforts at testing it.
In the early 2000s, the U.S. military began testing the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, which would have let service members stationed overseas vote online. But it was scrapped by the Pentagon after its studies suggested security risks.
As recently as last year, West Virginia experimented with allowing a small number of military members from five counties to vote online, although that pilot program was criticized by some security experts. West Virginia's Secretary of State Natalie Tennant has appeared to back away from pushing to make it statewide.


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An evening of Betsey Johnson doing what Betsey Johnson does, and who's to complain?
Betsey Johnson made her entrance last night, at her talk with Fern Mallis at the 92nd Street Y, with her signature cartwheel—she does one on the runway at the end of all of her fashion shows.
Not bad for someone who just turned 70, as she pointed out with a groan after Mallis, who hosts the 92Y series "Fashion Icons With Fern Mallis," read her birthdate out loud and demanded that she announce her age.
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"I don't know where the time went. I don't know how it happened!" Johnson exclaimed, seeming genuinely surprised.
Johnson, teeny-tiny (and totally ripped, as I found out later as I got a closer glimpse of her), was dressed in a hot pink tutu over calculatedly-tattered black jeans, a black "rocker" T-shirt, and pink high-top sneakers—her own, naturally, as she pointed out later in the talk. It wasn't long before the tutu came off and she pulled her blonde mop-top up into a half ponytail, most closely resembling, in the best way possible, Janice the Muppet.
"I'm afraid to see what's gonna come off next," Mallis joked, the room erupting with laughter.
"This is as good as it gets," Johnson shot back, smiling.
Johnson and Mallis are long-time friends—Mallis is widely credited with founding New York Fashion Week—but really the cutesy banter was minimal. Mallis, by now a bit of an expert at this gig, seemed keen to pack as much information into the hour-long talk as possible, something of a challenge since, as Mallis warned in her intro, Johnson spent much of the evening "doing Betsey." That's essentially engaging in cheerleader-esque antics—before she was a designer, Johnson actually spent years as a cheerleader in high school and college.
"I thought Donna [Karan] was tough to keep on track," Mallis said after yet another instance of Johnson leaping up to physically illustrate a story.
Johnson was most engaging when she talked about her experience of the downtown scene in the '60s and '70s.
"I think maybe Andy said six words to me out of all the years [I knew him]: "You look great! Hi! Betsey?"
Johnson and Warhol initially met through their shared love of silver clothing—Johnson was making them and "Andy and Edie"—Sedgwick, of course—loved them. Johnson befriended the Velvet Underground in the same way. They were fans of Johnson's velvet fabrics and studs, and they asked her to make their clothes.
"Lou Reed, to this day, said I cut a really good crotch," Johnson boasted, sending the audience into uproarious laughter.
Out of three marriages in her life, the one Johnson doesn't regret, she said, was to Velvet Underground member John Cale in 1968. She's even going to see him play at BAM this weekend.
"With his pink hair, I'm so proud of him! He was my only husband that I really think was a great choice for me," Johnson said, giddily.
Johnson is starring in a reality show that's set to debut on the Style Network this spring about her and her daughter Lulu. Johnson said she believes in layers, whether it be of dresses or people.
"I always believed, like my dancing costumes and like me, that there are a lot of people packed in one person, and they should express [that] if they want."
There was only one down moment during the talk—when Johnson, who filed for bankruptcy resulting in the closing of all of her stores last year, responded to Mallis' question about whether she would be presenting a show this coming Fashion Week. She offered a meek "I don't think so."
Still, Johnson rallied when asked to relay a few sharp words of advice to the designers in the audience.
"Kick ass!" she said, pausing briefly before adding, "just keep on kicking. You have luck, and you kind of have to be talented, but it's more [about] keep on kicking!"
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What's the Update With the Skrillex + Kanye West Collaboration?
We heard rumors that Kanye West teamed up with Skrillex to work on his new album — but as it turns out, the EDM superstar is nowhere to be found on the finished product, 'Yeezus,' which hit stores earlier this month.
"We met up with Skrillex, but he never made any contributions to the album," Mike Dean (who helped produce Kanye's new record) recently explained to Pitchfork. "Actually, there's one song that's sitting around that's pretty good — it'll be on something eventually. It had been in the running since last year. It's a work in progress."
"We want to set ourselves apart from what is currently in rotation. A lot of times, Kanye sets parameters of sounds and styles that we can and can't use," said mix engineer/producer, Anthony Kilhoffer. "For instance: You'll find there's no bass wobbles on this album. Dubstep is really big right now, but it's not something we could use in our production styles. He's always trying to not take the easy way out. So it's about achieving clubby, contemporary sounds while setting yourself apart from Skrillex or RedOne. We don't want to follow, we want to lead."
Although we're sad to learn that the collaboration with Kanye fell through, Skrillex has been keeping busy with a bunch of other projects, including collabs with Boys Noize and Diplo. Aerosmith's Steven Tyler also hinted at wanting to work with Skrillex on his upcoming solo record.


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Conditions are prime for bidding on a late-model combine or tractor. But there are risks and rules to getting a good deal. Here's what you need to know.
Your best buy on equipment this year may be at an auction. Some auction observers say that, unless corn and grain prices rebound soon, there could be a rush of farm auctions in coming months.
"There's a good chance there will be a bottleneck of sales in March through the first week of April," says Greg Peterson, publisher of F.A.C.T.'s Report, an independent business that tracks farm machinery sales at auctions throughout the Midwest. "It's a great situation if you are looking to buy."
He says farmers will be meeting with their bankers around that time to see how year-end taxes reconcile their financial position. "For those who decide to hang it up, all their sales will be hitting at the same time," he says. As a result, you could see as many as five sales in a 60-mile radius.
"It's looking to be a little above average for spring for farm sales," agrees John Baker, a farm auctioneer in southwestern Minnesota.
More auctions will bring an oversupply of used machinery to the market and will dilute the number of buyers at any given sale. Auction values could be 15% less than what you would normally pay, according to Peterson.
A similar situation happened last fall when dealers were unloading rollover combines and prices dropped due to oversupply. "Last August and September are when combines really took a dive," observes Indiana farmer Steve Webb, a frequent auction-goer.
In anticipation of a softening demand, dealers started auctioning off excess inventories as early as last July. And these dealer and consignment auctions continue to be strong across the Midwest.
All these auctions present opportunities for you as a buyer to get a good deal on a used tractor or combine. But before you run to get your bid number, there are a few basic auction-buying principles worth reviewing. These are the same rules professional buyers apply every day to buy goods at the lowest price.
Know your risks. At auctions, items are sold through competitive bidding. "Some people have a different way," says Kent Nigh, an auctioneer in central Indiana. "Some don't mind being seen. Some give a wink. Some hold up a finger. But a bid is a bid; it's just their own style."
Everyone bidding has the same goal in mind: to get an item that is in good condition at a cheap price. There will be other buyers who want the same item you do and will raise your bid to get it.
As a result, you may end up overspending.
"I've seen several times where people have paid more than they could buy it for new," Webb says.
Another risk is that the item you buy could break down the moment you take it off the lot. "When you buy at farm auctions, there's something wrong with most of it," says Walter Piehl, a used machinery dealer who has been buying and selling machinery for more than 50 years. "And it's not cheap to fix things nowadays."
As a result, you need to check out a piece of equipment thoroughly before you buy it. If you're suspicious, auction experts recommend you ask for a ride and drive before taking the machine home and the right to refuse the machine if it dies during your test. Ask about the terms and conditions of sale and find out your right of refusal if an item is not represented as claimed.
If you find a problem after you take it home, generally speaking you will be responsible for making the repairs. Most items at farm auctions are sold on an as-is basis, which means there are no guarantees as to its condition and no warranties unless otherwise stated.
You may find exceptions to that at some dealer or consignment auctions. If an item is guaranteed, it is usually announced before the sale or stated on the auction bill. Piehl advises that if there is a guarantee, make sure you get it in writing on your sales bill.
One last point: Don't rely on the auctioneers to point out the problems for you. True, in the course of due diligence they are required to disclose any major problems that the seller makes them aware of. But they may not be told the problems. And, remember, their job is to sell.
"We're not the culprit. And we're not trying to pull anything over your eyes," Baker says. "But the idea is you have to have your eyes open."
Do your homework. To keep yourself from overspending, you will need to do some work before the sale. Your first assignment: Find out the wholesale or book value of the item you want. In other words, what is the price a dealer would pay?
There are source books and appraisal guides that can help. Dealers and bankers have access to them. Ask them for the book price of the model you want. They may quote the "trade-in" or "appraised" value, which will also work, and they may even quote the prices of equipment according to whether it is in "good" or "excellent" condition.
That book price will be your guide to how much you can spend on a particular machine before it would make more sense to buy it from your dealer at a slight markup but with a guarantee of its condition and a warranty to back it up.
You may have to pay at least the book price to get the item you want because dealers and jockeys - people who buy and sell used machinery - may also be at the sale. They will want to keep you from purchasing it below book price to ensure a secondary market.The trick is in knowing how much to spend over that book value. That will be your ceiling price - the highest amount you can bid and still get it cheaper than if you had bought it from a dealer. "You have to keep the ceiling price in mind when you start bidding," Piehl states.
How do you determine your ceiling price? Ask yourself these questions:What would the same item retail for at a dealership? As a rule, your ceiling should be under the retail price because a dealer may be able to offer a guarantee or limited warranty. How available is the item? If it is a one-of-a-kind, you may have to pay whatever the market bears.
What is its condition? Is it average or excellent? "Better-quality equipment will still bring top dollar," offers Nigh. To determine condition, look at the machine, study the sales brochure or bidder packet and visit with the owner.
What is its history? Maybe you know more about an item than face value would indicate. That information will make your value estimate more accurate than that of other bidders who must make some assumptions. Nigh suggests you call the seller before the sale and ask what repairs have been made. Sales are usually announced two weeks in advance, and you can find the seller's name on the posting.
Where is the item located? Buying machinery close to home is worth something, too. Factor in the dollars it would cost to transport the item.
Principle to practice. Steve Webb has successfully put these basic buying principles to work at auctions he has attended. Before he buys, he finds out the book value, determines his ceiling price, checks the condition of the equipment and decides how much it is worth to have a warranty. If he is not familiar with the model being sold, he takes a mechanic along with him who has worked on it. "Unless you have done the maintenance, you won't see the problems," Webb says. Before he gives the closing bid, he asks for a ride and drive and finds out whether he has the right of refusal if the machine is not represented as claimed.
Webb says that it is especially important to be careful at a jockey auction because jockeys sell equipment that they have purchased from all over the country. "You have no idea of the condition or the history of the equipment," Webb explains.
He says that if he makes a large purchase at a jockey auction, he asks his local sheriff to make sure it hasn't been stolen before he removes the machine from the lot. He says, "If it shows up on the hot list, I'm not taking it home."
Using these principles, Webb has been able to acquire three tractors for 50% to 60% less than what he would have paid for the same models in the same condition at a dealership. Two of the tractors - a 7060 and 7080 Allis Chalmers - turned out to be sound tractors and he uses them everyday. The third tractor - a 4000 Ford - he bought strictly for parts.
Recently, he used the same principles to decide not to buy his latest tractor from an auction and to buy it instead from the dealership for 17% more. His reasoning? "The condition was better. I knew the history on it. There was only one owner, so I knew what was wrong with it. And the dealer offered to back it with a limited warranty," Webb says.
To make a wise purchase at an auction, you must be observant, Webb states. He gives an example. Last December he spotted a combine whose clock read that it had 280 hrs. on it. A note was attached saying the clock had been replaced at 950 hrs., which would indicate that the actual hours were 1,230.
Webb talked to the owner, who said the clock was out when he bought it from the original owner. That sent a red flag to Webb. He then lifted the side panels and found the feeder house chain had recently been replaced, even though it should have been good for at least 1,200 hrs. The drive chains were cupping, and the tires were shot. "All of these things showed me this had more than 1,230 hours on it," he says. "The bottom line is you have to know what is being sold. You have to know the merchandise."
Traps to avoid. Even if you've done everything right up to this point, there will be traps at auctions designed to trip you up. By being aware of them, you will be able to identify when you are becoming a victim.
The first trap is the auctioneer's song. One, now one, now who will give me two? It can be hypnotic. A good auctioneer has that effect.
Buyers have been known to get caught up in it, to lose sight of the ceiling price they so carefully established. Don't you lose sight.
If you do, you could lose track of who gave the last bid and inadvertently raise your own bid. "It's hard to stop bidding at an auction sale," Piehl says. "Most of them pay too much and don't realize what it is worth when they get started bidding."
Professional buyers will tell you that, to save yourself from getting lost in the song, you need to keep in the auctioneer's cadence. One way to do that is to give the opening bid so you know where your bid falls in the calling.
Open with a bid that is realistic, Baker advises, to prevent what he calls active bidding. That's when bids are shot off in machine-gun-like succession until the market price is reached. By opening with a realistic price, you not only slow the bidding to a more manageable level but you improve the chance of your getting the item at a fair price, Baker says.
"I've seen some guys give a single bid, a fair one to start with, and end up with it on one bid," he says. "Often times, that may have saved them money."
Greed can be another trap at auctions. "What I see is that one guy doesn't want the other guy to get it," Piehl says. "Don't get carried away and pay more than you figured you would."
A final trap to avoid is following someone else's bidding. The temptation arises when you are unsure of yourself or the value of an item. "They'll think, Well, if the other guy thinks it is worth that much, then I'll keep on bidding," Piehl explains. "Well, there are lots of lessons there."
"You have to keep your wits and know where you want to go," agrees Webb. "There will always be another one next week."


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The cool thing about working in infrastructure is everyone knows your business.
We've all paid bills, lost power during storms, and worried about the quality of the water we're about to drink. We've all been on a dead phone line sputtering, "Hello? Hello?" having just confessed, "I love you," to a disconnected piece of plastic.
And if we in the professional world care about these basic services that are so fundamental to our lives, we know their reliable and affordable delivery is even more crucial for the poor. When a long wait for a new phone connection means no link to the outside world, no power means no study, and tainted water means sick children, then utility services are the difference between stagnation and growth, poverty and opportunity.
Everyone knows when services work and when they don't. But infrastructure economists have long struggled to understand why some utilities work well and others don't. Is there a package of reforms that will get us more connections, higher levels of efficiency, better quality service and cheaper rates?
It turns out that, even if there is not one magic elixir, there are a few answers to these questions. Based on panel data from hundreds of power, water and telecommunication utilities across the Latin America and Caribbean Region, an analysis of that rich source of information [see "Uncovering the Drivers of Utility Performance"] provides us some insights.
Private versus Public
This debate may be as old as the hills, but it can still split families in half—or at least ruin a dinner party. Let's take the emotion out of the discussion and allow the data to speak. Utilities that go private offer more efficient and better quality services than their public sector sisters, on average. Losses and service interruptions go down, labor efficiency goes up and the duration of outages shrink. (There are some exceptions to this: about 1 in 10 public utilities perform better than the average private utility.) Private utilities have also expanded access, but on average, access hasn't grown faster than with publicly owned utilities, and tariffs don't drop below public utilities' rates, particularly for water and power.
Regulation Matters
If efficiency improves but consumer prices remain the same under private provision, then at least one of two things is happening: fewer subsidies are going into the sector to cover the cost recovery gap; and/or service providers are capturing a larger part of the benefits of efficiency. That may be fair given the need to pay taxes, make a profit and cover investment costs, but it also means someone has to be watching the hen house. In most infrastructure services, consumers can't rely on competition to regulate prices and service quality. In power, water and sanitation services as with fixed line telephony, natural monopoly traits still dominate. In some power markets, generators compete for dispatch, and suppliers occasionally compete to sell power or water through existing wires and pipes, and fixed lines are more efficient with mobile services competing, but for the most part, the chunky investments in the assets that define infrastructure are not redundant. That is, the most efficient way to build the infrastructure remains a single network servicing individual households and businesses.
Once that network is in place, regulation protects the relationship between the consumer and the utility. The data reveal that the law of separation of principle and agent—of service provider and regulator, as protector of the public interest—holds. Regulation brings us better results for the consumer—fewer losses, fewer outages, more efficiency gains, quicker corrections to problems—and the stronger the regulator's capacity, the better the results. This is true for both private utilities and for state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Stronger regulators also correlate with higher cost recovery, so even if average tariffs are a bit higher, everyone is better off, including the consumer.
The Mystery of State Owned Enterprises
Hidden within the truth of averages, however, are wide ranges of performance results. What makes those SOEs that perform as well or better than private utilities tick? The difference revolves around corporate governance and incentive systems. Performance is better in public service providers that have strong legal frameworks, independent boards, incentives for performance, and transparent finances.
The Science of Our Storyline
For those of us who have spent an adult lifetime trying to build a narrative on how to reform infrastructure service providers, this work gives us an evidence-based storyline. It goes something like this…
- On average, private utilities outperform public utilities, but don't expect that to solve all access and pricing issues.
- Oversight and regulation impacts performance and returns rents to consumers across countries with different legal traditions and for both private and public utilities. The regulator needs some teeth to have any bite.
- Finally, you may not have to risk street protests by selling your public utility—some SOEs do perform well. To get efficiency and service quality standards more typical of the private sector, however, you may have to implement structural reforms under the principles of commercialization, transparency and independence.
Now everyone truly knows our business.
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It is not about public or private, but accountability to customers. To do so, counter the problem of a monopoly with objective oversight. This requires "community motive" on the part of the service providers - management and employees, long term infrastructure planning, management and maintenance, all for the greater good of having any economy at all.
Thanks for a great post based on some excellent analysis.
I think you allude to a key question here. How do countries get to the optimum solution from where they are?
My feeling is that having a clear view of where they want to be in the future is better than taking an incremental approach but it would be great to see the evidence. If my hypothesis is true, countries need strong political leadership and high quality institutions to ensure credibility in the journey and it's the job of development institutions to support the transition.
It looks like your analysis confirms that the prize is worth striking out for.
For publicslly owned parastals to perform effociently proper contrôl méasures must beig om place.
Total élimination ôf corruption in public service this can be achieved through empowering the auditor gemetals office
Théir must be indepence and séparation ôf powerd for parliament and the judiciary so that the cabinate and its mimisters can be checked for proper acountability.
Thé shares in most para
stalas can be sôld to the public through stock exchange so that the public has à say as Share holders and demand accountability thanks.


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GSW Hoops Fan wrote:warriorsstepup wrote:I can't stand Kawakami, he festers in rumors, pushes a negative spin as soon as he can, and he is just a rude sob.
As far as his assessment of Monta, lets be realistic, majority already knew that a Curry/Monta backcourt was not working, its no suprise. Monta is not this, he is not that, but at the end of the day guess what ? Monta got us Bogut.
Everyone can agree Monta needed to be traded, but there was alot of impatient thinking about getting the right trade. There was alot of closed thinking about our roster, which was depleted, compare and contrast this years players with recent past. For me I understood the consequences, regardless of how poor the team played there was a reason for it, and I will never hold a grudge on Monta.
I still disagree that the Curry/Monta back court was not working, or could not work.
There are a lot of people who might disagree, but if you go back, when did they actually get to see if it would work?
For the last 2 seasons Ellis was here, Curry was hurt, so they never really got to see how well the two could play together.
When Ellis was here we didn't have the supporting roster we have now. Yes, Ellis took a lot of shots, but that is exactly what Klay is doing now too. Both guys are scorers, just in different ways. The thing Ellis could do that Klay cannot is handle the ball. Ellis could create for himself or team mates, and while he wasn't the best passer, he was not a poor passer like some suggest.
If you look at the squads he played on compared to ours, you cannot simply say that because he is gone, that is why our team is better. Don't forget that we were winning some good games before the trade.
With that said, I think getting rid of Monta was good for 3 reasons:
1) We got a legit Center (who we still haven't seen on the court)
2) His off the court antics were toxic. I like the vibe in the locker room better now.
3) Curry is now the face of the franchise, and he is elevating not only his game, but those around him.
He wouldn't do this while Ellis was there because he felt like Ellis was the leader.
I don't think Ellis get's enough credit for how good he is, and to say that he couldn't be a Starting SG on a playoff team is unreasonable, since he was never given a chance to play on a quality team. All the reasons I like the trade were for non-basketball reasons, but the kid had game.
oh, and TK still sucks.
Great post!
You break down all the points well.
I neither like nor hate TK's writing. If anything, the guy is a contrarian.


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My name is Erik Noren, and the company I run and own is Peacock Groove. My story starts a while ago and has had many strange twists and turns.... (Fade out in a smokey veil...)
It was the summer of 1992 and I just graduated high school and was looking to spend as little time being responsible as possible. But I still had a job at The Malt Shop in St. Paul. I had been working there since 1989 and loved my job as a sodajerk. I made ice cream treats for the peoples and once even for the Mayor, who shook my hand and said:" That was the best damn banana malt I ever had." I knew he was lying because he was a politician.I was still working at the Malt Shop, when Dan Casebeer of Grand Performance in St. Paul told me that Croll Cycles is looking for a welder. And, I had welding experience. I passed on the job, because, well, we don't always make the best decisions ....
My buddy Dave got a job at Croll, and he got me to come and talk to Walter, and then Walter told me to apply. So I did, and I got the job.
I built my first atb bike there too, a 753-mountain bike. Lugged. 3.75 pounds. I even had to fab some custom lugs. They were not that pretty; they looked like a ducks bill. It was awesome. I never knew a bike could ride so great; I was really starting to understand this frame builder thing now. I know why people get hooked. I fell in love with the smell of steel.
I learned about weld pull, heat distortion, how to " pull " angles, set up, prep, cleaning, and liked to talk like Darth Vader when in my hood. I was always trying to have fun too. Croll was doing well, but they tried to grow too fast, they got a loan from the Mpls small business association and went for it. But, long story short, it did not work. I stayed on and got the last of the orders out. I had to get these bikes out, to the people who ordered them. I often did it with tears in my eyes. The company changed hands…
I started working for Frank by getting everything set up, getting on the phone to old shops that carried us, and just telling them what was up. This was shaping up to be awesome. We built about 120 frames a year. We also did some contract work too. I was in love with this style of life. It was so cool to go to big mtb races, and awesome times were had at the downtown crit races...it was so much culture involved, I felt like I was living my dreams, and it was all good. Life's view from the saddle is hard to beat. I worked for Frank for about 5 years before things were changing for him. He was going to sell the company.... heartbreak again! It was just before then I got a part time job at QBP . Which, turned into full time because of things that were changing in the world of Croll.
But, the company was going to be sold to another guy and kept going. This part I will sum up, there is much confusion that went on at this time, but I was around for it all, even had to go to a lawyer about it, and I know the full story about how this all went down. I worked for the guy who bought it for a while and we finally had the "big" argument. It was about a bike that I would not finish, because I said it was not up to my QC standards, and he said it had to be finished. I told him that I would not because it was not safe. If I would not ride it, it won't go out the door. The big argument was big, and he left in a tiff.
Well, that's when it was starting to weigh heavy on me, I was working two jobs, and helping to rebuild a business and it was too much for me. I was going to get out, but first, I had to build MY bike…
I decided to make the first Peacock Groove. And the minute he closed that door and left, I put in my two weeks notice on his door. Then, I fired up the mitering machine and got to it.
I stayed up for two days and built my, MY first bike. I stamped " ONE AND ONLY" in the bb shell, because I was going to go out with this one bike, and have to go back to the " sucky" world. I got that bike from drawing to paint in two days. I hand filed the suits of a deck of cards in the disc brake mount, as a modern day nod of appreciation to guys like Sachs, Weigle , Kvale, and De Rosa, even though they would never know it...
I named the bike Peacock Groove. Mostly because around that time there were so many bikes named after Raptors, and I wanted something cool, groovy, stylistic. I saw a peacock on tv earlier that week, and he had his strut, his harem, and just looked like a mack out there in his field, and I said that peacock is just groovin' . Well, it stuck....
I had that bike and just had a full time gig at he Q, so I rode. A lot. It was really weird to have all these guys starting to talk and ask me about my bike, who built it and what not. I would just kinda laugh and tell them it was some douchebag in California. They all believed me.
Well, this is where the story REALLY begins. I quit working for jerk guy about six months prior, and something was just missing...I had some thing that just wasn't, well, grooving for me.
I had to build bikes again. Some how. I knew it had to be done by me and how do I go about that? A friend's girlfriend said that I should see this space down by the U of M. That it was cool and that it was on the seventh floor. I cried inside wondering how often I would have to walk up seven flights ...
I went down there to look at it, and the minute I walked in I thought:" This is Peacock Groove". I went home and talked to the Pops about a loan. I told him all about it, and that I need a welder, fixture, Bridgeport, beer, and a little help. He loaned me 10 grand. I spent it the next day on a Miller and an Anvil setup. Took me a half hour to blow ten grand. I can still do that too. I paid him back in the first year and a half. Not bad I thought.
The rent was cheap, real cheap, but the area was, well, kinda shitty.Real shitty.I saw an ATF raid on the building once. They were going for the meth lab in there. Yep, meth. If they knew about all the pot other people were growing.... There was also a little hooker action going on, glass blowers, artists of every kind, a Vespa dealer, spice factory, motorcycle mod dudes, a couple of hoarders, some bimbo selling heroin whom was right next to me. I got her kicked out. I mean porn being filmed in the building, ok, but heroin? No. No heroin please.
After A couple of years I had built a "loft" in the shop( we had 17 to 25 foot tall ceilings ) and 3 years after I did that the owner put and eviction notice on my door. That was the time when I got back from the first NAHBS I went to. It was the first one held in San Jose. I came back to really wanting to build, but I was getting kicked out. Trust me, out of all the tenets he had, he should keep me. I had a great epic style argument about the loft, which was the reason he was evicting me. The loft was solid. This guy was kicking out one of the 3 good people in his building. Seriously, I lost my temper. He let people make meth in there, but I was the problem? I started looking for a new place, a guy I knew told me to go look at the Ivy Building in the Seward 'hood. I did. I drove by it and said that there was no way I am going to be able to build bikes in there. I went around to the back of the building and saw a CHRIS KVALE CYCLES sign on the door. I thought, if that guy can build here, so can I.
With all this work going on, too much stress, not riding anymore (real miles anyway) it was all becoming too much for me, and I made the decision this time that I was going to fold Peacock Groove. That I was going to go to the NAHBS one last time, and then come back to the shop, finish the orders that I have, and sell everything. That was the 2009 nine show. I brought four bikes, and went down there with my good friend Vincent Dominguez. I brought two of my personal bikes, and the KILL BILL themed bike, and the copper plated bike. These were not really the bikes I wanted to bring, but time was an issue. I just wanted to go hang with these talented people one more time. Before I left, I told my boss that I was folding the shop when I come back, and just work up in the Bike Builder department. (Assembly, NOT actual building). She said it was all good. I told her that I was at peace with the decision, and that it will be for the best.
Well, long story short, certain people hated my bike, wrote horrible things about me and my business on the "other forum", people started a petition to get me banned, I was told that I was a pervert and that I was a bad human being. All from people at the show. I thought, "What's the big deal?" It was epically bad. What was funny, that a week later the same bikes were in a motorcycle show, and no one cared about the "artwork", or the themes. In fact they loved it.
I came back to MN and got to work the next day. I was fired from Q for taking 3 feet of cable housing from the Bike Builder department stock. It was no big deal. But, they fired me. After 11 years of good work, even if a bit mouthy at times....
I went back to the shop. It was so mind bending. Here I was ready to give all this up, I was at peace with it, and plan b got up and time warped away from me. I did not know what to do. I lost everything I had worked so hard for. No health coverage. No 401K. No steady income. I did not handle this well. I took me months to get over it. Working at Q was like time with a family that I loved. And it was taken from me for 1.52 dollars worth of housing. It was more than unfair, but life is rough. Wear a helmet.
But, why do I build?
Because the juice is worth the squeeze . Because life's view from the saddle is great. Because I am alive. Because I want to. Because I NEED to.Helping people live dreams is important in this world.
And I love it when I get e-mails from customers that tell me I have helped change their life, that what I did has an effect on their quality of life. And, I need to see my vision of bikes is done.


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The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life by Francine Jay
My rating: ★★★★☆
I read this book in preparation for a massive declutter/clean-up planned for my tiny but overflowing flat.
It did have some redundant info in it, which I read about before starting so I felt prepared. I like the enthusiasm and kindness of the book. The 10-step STREAMLINE process sounds very attractive to try out (I'll add my experience with it as soon as I've tried it out).
Part three of the book mostly consists of redundant parts, however, I do not mind. It goes through the most common rooms according to the streamline principle with some specific advice for the specific rooms. I have not read all the rooms as I plan to go through them as I tackle the rooms, as a reminder and a re-motivator.
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