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Many parenting experts cite a verse from our weekly parasha-portion in order to encourage parents to keep a ' united front' against their' ben sorer u'moreh' - rebellious and challenging child. The verses Devarim 21:18-21 speak of parents who report their son to the elders of the city - that despite attempts to discipline him, he does not listen to the voice of his father or mother. The parents claim that their parenting is not the problem because they do not convey contradicting and mix messages to the kid, but it is the kid who is at fault as he does not listen to their ' singular' voice.
Everyone agrees that parental and marital harmony is crucial for raising kids in a peaceful, loving and cooperative environment. And children do better when there is some degree of consistency and predictability. But the overriding question is what are we being consistent about and whether we can overdo or misapply the consistency by following the widespread parenting advice of ' keeping a united front'.
A problem with the advice of having an united front against your challenging child is that it describes the 'parent-child ' dynamic a 'war' against the kid where parents are ' doing to ' the child , imposing parental will using power and authority. In a war, you may win the battle, but lose the war and your child. This advice blinds and deafens parents to asking important questions – what kind of relationship do I have with my child and/or is my child's lagging skills causing his challenging behaviors. A parent cannot report a rebellious or wayward son if they are' blind ', as they are also blind to the needs of their kid. I often hear how a kid runs away from home, at best to his grandparents, after having an argument with one of his parents. Instead of maintaining the ' united front ' and backing up the father for eg , the mother who has not been involved emotively in the argument and confrontation can step in as a third party and try to reconcile the parties by using Collaborative problem solving techniques. The concerns of the father and the child are put on the table and attempts are made to find mutually satisfying solutions or at least an attempt to try and compensate the child. When reasons are given for decisions and the concerns of kids are taken into account, kids are more likely to trust parents' decisions even when they are not so happy about them. A United front can cause even more damage. So often with a challenging kid or even with a typical kid ,a spouse and it is usually the father is more demanding, strict , critical and very confrontational with a child. The kid becomes more reactive, defiant, oppositional, explosive or implosive. The wife who disagrees with this approach is given the advice to maintain the united front and back the husband. This is the perfect 'recipe' for continued abuse and trauma. Constant confrontation, criticism and put downs is abuse and traumatic even if it is low level. Kids will either leave the home or be kicked out, drop religious practices and their emotional connection with their parents. Instead the other spouse or mother should see her role as primarily protecting her child and not sticking with her husband. The wife can show the husband that they are 'losing' and ' hurting ' their child and that the husband's concerns can be addressed by ' working with the child 'and solving problems in a collaborative way. And if he continues, she should leave the home with the kids if he is not willing to follow her lead, instead of kicking out the kid.
The verse talks about the kid not listening to the parents' voice', not just the words. This implies that the unified message must be honest and authentic. Although parents may easily share the same values, beliefs and dreams for their children, being human with different personalities they may have different perspective of the abilities of their children and interventions appropriate to the child. When parents feel compelled to take the same position on every issue in front of kids, they are being dishonest with themselves and certainly not authentic. Kids see through this, so it is better for kids to see that adults sometimes disagree and yet resolve their disagreements in a respectful way or even in some cases learn to tolerate differences. Instead of a ' unified front' parents should aim for a' unified family', where the kids participate with parents to form a family mission statement and problems are solved in a collaborative way taking into account the concerns of all. When parents ' concerns are addressed, the solutions not only address the kids concerns but also set limits. In this way parents can still be honest to themselves and authentic and work together for the unity of the family and not just keep a united front against their children.


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WASHINGTON Microsoft's $6 billion purchase of a major online advertising company underscores a core moneymaking strategy of the digital economy: watching you.
The deal would give Microsoft the ability to place ads on sites other than its own, as well as evaluate whether the ads are effective. It also would enhance Microsoft's ability to target advertising based on users' Web-surfing habits.
"I can sell the ad inventory for more because of the knowledge I have of users and their behavior on the Internet," said Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's senior vice president and chief ad strategist.
The deal caps a month of consolidation in the online ad market, which is expected to double in spending in the next five years, analysts say.
Last month, online search titan Google announced a $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick, another major online ad software firm.
Yahoo followed with the news that it was completing a $680 million takeover of the online ad company Right Media.
Microsoft, like Google and Yahoo, is betting that it can transform billions of clicks that reflect online user behavior into a revenue stream that was not imaginable a generation ago. Interactive advertising is a departure from traditional media like newspapers and television, which can only loosely gauge how many people have seen the ad.
"This acquisition validates the fact that targeted advertising is the wave of the future," said Curt Viebranz, chief executive of Tacoda, a behavioral-targeting advertising firm that is not involved with any of the deals.
Online ad targeting is an evolving science, and different firms use different methods. What they share, though, is a desire to make the ads that are served up more relevant to users, whether it's the right kind of car, airline ticket or baby clothes. Using Internet "cookies," unique alphanumeric strings of characters that identify a user's browser, online ad firms can track people's digital journeys as they go from site to site or click on advertisements.
Some consumer and privacy advocates say the growing ability to collect information online is eroding privacy. Companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo already collect data about users through their e-mail accounts, search queries and online calendars. With their latest acquisitions, advocates worry, these Internet giants might be able to combine their data with the rich click streams gathered by ad firms to create detailed dossiers on Internet users that could be improperly used by the government or by merchants seeking to discriminate among customers.
Advertisers counter that the data are anonymous. DoubleClick and aQuantive say they give users the ability to opt out of having data collected about them, though privacy experts argue that few people know they have that option.
Viebranz said that the deals are not just about acquiring new advertising networks but that "a significant impetus is ... to build a repository of data."
Tacoda, for instance, collects data on 145 million computer users in the United States who surf on the 4,500 Web sites that belong to Tacoda's advertising network. Using cookies, he said, "we're collecting a data point on every single page on all 4,500 of those sites. We're literally collecting 10 billion behaviors a day."
The aim of behavioral targeting is to prevent users from "getting bammed with direct-response ads for crummy products," said Scott Howe, president of DrivePM, an aQuantive subsidiary that helps 1,000 advertisers target ads across a network of 250 top Web sites.
DrivePM, for example, runs a successful campaign for a hotel chain that tracks users who visit the chain's Web site but don't book a room.
"Those are prime candidates for us to get back in front of and ratchet up an even more compelling offer," like discounts on price, he said. So if a user returns to any site in DrivePM's network in a three-day period, Drive serves an ad offering 10 percent off the next booking. Because so many people have then booked rooms through the site, he said, the advertiser's average cost for each reservation has plummeted.
The same goes for cars.
"We definitely know that people are likely to click over to a marketer's site as a result of behavioral targeting," said Anna Papadopoulos, interactive media director for Euro RSCG 4D, a digital ad agency with clients including Volvo.
Say an online shopper visits Yahoo Autos and looks at a Volvo XC90 sport-utility vehicle, she said. The shopper leaves the page, checks Yahoo e-mail, Yahoo Sports and Yahoo stock quotes and logs off. All his visits are tracked by a cookie, she said. Ten minutes or a day or a week later, when the cookie signals that he is back on Yahoo Sports, Yahoo's proprietary behavioral-targeting platform can serve an ad for the SUV on that site.
A typical advertising network has thousands of Web site clients. What aQuantive and other ad firms do is segment their Web site partners' audiences into categories of users: car buyers, health-food buyers, camping-gear enthusiasts. Advertisers can also segment further, based on geography, sex and other criteria.
DoubleClick allows advertisers to gauge the effectiveness of ads by seeing how many clicks were made on an ad of a specific size in a specific corner of a Web site in a specific hour.
In 1999, DoubleClick drew criticism when it announced plans to merge a massive offline database of consumer records with its online user-history database. The ensuing uproar and a 2000 Federal Trade Commission complaint led DoubleClick to cancel the plan.
Last month, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group asked the FTC to investigate Google's data-retention policies in light of its proposed acquisition of DoubleClick.


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Amaury Martin - Institut Curie
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Cool App-titude: Topi
Networking during a major conference can sometimes be like finding a needle in a haystack. The free Topi app for iOS and Android makes it easier to quickly connect.
The app helps conference attendees identify and meet like-minded peers. Browse through people, chat in topic-based rooms, start private group conversations and more.
The more information you share with the app, the more groups and networking opportunities it can suggest. Log in with Facebook, and the app can connect you with friends and create dedicated chatrooms for events.
Anyone organizing a conference can access the Topi website and set up the event within the app. Attendees and users simply download the app from the iTunes App Store or Google Play.
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I have put so much time into analyzing Skyrim that an analogy has sprung to mind. Perhaps you have heard it said that as you get older time goes faster. Somewhere I saw an estimate that by the time you are 60 it is going by twice as fast. My analogy is the time it takes to place things into a container in Skyrim. At the beginning of the game when you get a house your containers respond quickly to store commands. A single store takes less than a second. However as you level up in the game and continue to store more and more items the time it takes to store each individual item takes longer and longer until quite a few seconds go by before you are able to store the next item.
I believe the same thing happens to our brains. But the reason we do not notice it directly is because it has slowed down our response time. Thus the external world seems to be going by faster as we try to deal with it. I am trying to say that how we link together seconds is affected by the amount of actual time we have to perceive those seconds which apparently can only be done while we are not processing something else in our brain. That processing is taking longer because there are that many more things to take into consideration.
There is a similar analogy I have on how the world shrank since we were babies and also how our parents and their friends became younger as we became older. It is all linked to our brain and the processes it uses when we think.
Life is passing by at exactly the same pace as when we were young. The world only seems smaller. Our parents and friends are aging right along with us and most importantly a kiss is still a kiss. It is just how we think and compare the external to our internal models that has changed.
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FaceApp sparks worry over privacy of photos1 min read . Updated: 19 Jul 2019, 01:13 PM IST
- Some users fear that FaceApp's access to photos on their smartphones is a giveaway of privacy and personal information
- While the app does not state that it downloads the photo, it is not unusual for a company to do so, according to a report
WASHINGTON DC : The Russia-based picture editing app that has gone viral after its old age filter took social media by storm is raising some serious privacy concerns.
The app first went viral in 2017. However, the intensity was much higher this time because of a filter that makes users look older or younger. The filter became popular overnight, with celebrities all over the world sharing their edited pictures on social media.
While it has been the talk of the town for a few days now, users recently started pointing out that the app is actually harvesting metadata from their photos.
While according to Page Six, the app is not doing anything unusual in its code or network traffic, that a couple of other apps in your phone don't already do, it still raises a big concern.
Some people are concerned that the app's access to photos on their smartphones is a grand giveaway of privacy and personal information.
This conversation about privacy policy does bring attention to standard tech practices that might be more invasive than the users are aware of.
In the company's Terms of Service, it says users grant FaceApp "a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable, sub-licensable license to use, reproduce ... create derivative works from ... and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you," USA Today reported.
While using the app, a user selects a specific photo they want to put the filter on. The application then uploads the particular photo to its server to apply the selected filter on it. While the app does not state that it downloads the photo, it is not unusual for a company to do so, reported Page Six.
Officials from FaceApp are yet to comment on the raised concerns.
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Adding retinal photography to screening for diabetic retinopathy: a prospective study in primary careBMJ 1996; 312 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7032.679 (Published 16 March 1996) Cite this as: BMJ 1996;312:679
- J P O'Hare, consultant physiciana,
- A Hopper, senior medical photographera,
- C Madhaven, staff grade ophthalmologistb,
- M Charny, director of public healthc,
- T S Purewal, senior registrara,
- B Harney, consultant ophthalmologistb,
- J Griffiths, consultant ophthalmologistb
- a Department of Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath BA1 3NG
- b Department of Ophthalmology, Royal United Hospital
- c Wiltshire and Bath Health Commission, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 5EQ
- Correspondence to: Dr O'Hare.
Objective: To evaluate whether adding retinal photography improved community screening for diabetic retinopathy.
Setting: Mobile screening unit at rural and urban general practices in south west England.
Subjects: 1010 diabetic patients from primary care.
Design: Prospective study; patients were examined by ophthalmoscopy by general practitioners or opticians without fundal photographs and again with photographs, and assessments were compared to those of an ophthalmologist.
Main outcome measures: Whether fundal photography improved the sensitivity of detection of retinopathy and referrable diabetic retinopathy, and whether this sensitivity could be improved by including a review of the films by the specialist.
Results: Diabetic retinopathy was detected by the ophthalmologist in 205 patients (20.5%) and referrable retinopathy in 49 (4.9%). The sensitivity of the general practitioners and opticians for referrable retinopathy with opthalmoscopy was 65% and improved to 84% with retinal photographs. General practitioners' sensitivity in detecting background retinopathy improved with photographs from 22% to 65%; opticians' sensitivity in detecting background retinopathy improved from 43% to 71%. The sensitivity of detecting referrable retinopathy by general practitioners improved from 56% to 80% with photographs; for opticians it improved from 75% to 88%.
Conclusion: Combining modalities of screening by providing photography with specialist review of all films in addition to direct ophthalmoscopy through dilated pupils improves assessment and referral for diabetic retinopathy by general practitioners and opticians. With further training and experience, primary care screeners should be able to achieve a sensitivity that will achieve an effective, acceptable, and economical community based screening programme for this condition.
Key messages
Ophthalmoscopy alone in primary care misses early diabetic retinopathy and is insensitive as a screening modality
Using photography in addition to ophthalmoscopy, general practitioners and opticians can increase the correct and early diagnosis of sight threatening and background retinopathy
The sensitivity of screening is further improved by having a specialist assess the photographs
This method is highly cost effective: it costs £12.50 per patient screened to provide photographs—an estimated £1100 per patient whose sight is saved
Diabetes mellitus is the most common cause of blindness in people of working age in the United Kingdom.1 Diabetic retinopathy accounts for 90% of diabetes related blindness. About 2% of all diabetic patients are currently registered as blind or partially sighted, but many more have not been registered but are greatly handicapped by reduced vision.2 With effective laser treatment, diabetic retinopathy detected and referred early can be treated and most diabetic patients who would otherwise lose vision or become blind can have their vision saved.3 4 Even so, the number of registered legally blind diabetic patients in Avon has remained the same for 20 years.5 Ineffective screening with existing systems may be the major factor in this disappointing performance.6
Experts agree that organised retinal screening programmes of sufficient sensitivity would be highly desirable for diabetic patients and should be extremely cost effective.7 An effectively managed community based screening programme encompassing detection, referral, treatment, and follow up would prevent about 260 new cases of blindness in diabetic patients under the age of 70 each year in England and Wales.7
The method for effective screening remains a subject of debate.8 9 10 11 12 13 The largest study comparing existing methods, including a health economic analysis, studied 3318 patients in three centres in the United Kingdom. It found an overall sensitivity of 53% (range 41-67%) of ophthalmoscopic screening for sight threatening retinopathy by general practitioners and 48% (26-69%) by ophthalmic opticians. Fundal photography alone achieved a sensitivity of 55% (35-67%). Combined screening with the ophthalmoscope and fundal photographs interpreted by the ophthalmologist improved the detection of sight threatening retinopathy in all groups in all centres to 75% for general practitioners and 67% for opticians.9 An approach combining modalities, based on this retrospective and other smaller prospective studies, was recently recommended.14 15
Mobile retinal screening units with a fundal camera mounted in a converted vehicle allow the facility of the retinal camera to be available to rural general practices. Large studies have shown that these improve on existing methods of screening used in the hospital and community setting.16 17 We studied 1010 patients with diabetes cared for in primary care, evaluating whether the combination of retinal photography and ophthalmoscopy through dilated pupils when carried out by interested general practitioners or opticians is superior to either modality alone. The study had four end points: whether fundal photos improved sensitivity of detection of both retinopathy and referrable diabetic retinopathy; whether this sensitivity could be improved further by including a review of the films by the specialist; whether, when compared to a reference standard, the performance of general practitioners differed from that of opticians; and whether specialist photographic assessment alone was different from the result of the combined approach.
General practitioners and ophthalmic opticians already using ophthalmoscopy as part of their clinical annual review of diabetic patients were invited to take part in the study. Instruction was arranged for each general practitioner and optician in the study to explain the method of classifying diabetic retinopathy and the criteria for referrable retinopathy (box). Each was provided with a reference manual of photographs as examples of diabetic retinopathy to illustrate typical fundal appearances, with the grading and referral action clearly explained. These classifications and referral criteria followed the advice of the ophthalmologists involved in the study. The reference standard of the study was the ophthalmologists' categorisation after fundal examination and review of photographs taken at screening. The fundal photographs were later assessed in a single blinded manner by the ophthalmologist.
Patients who had been seen in hospital diabetic or ophthalmological clinics in the past 12 months were excluded, as were those already blind and those unable to mount the steps of the retinal screening van.
The mobile retinal screening unit (funded by the British Diabetic Association) with driver-photographer and staff grade ophthalmologist travelled out to participating practices. Patients had their corrected visual acuity recorded and then had the fundi dilated with 0.5% tropicamide (two drops to each eye). A single photograph centred on the macula was taken with a retinal camera with instantaneous picture development (Canon CR445NM). Patients were then examined by the general practitioner or optician by ophthalmoscopy; findings and need for referral were recorded on Form A (box). The general practitioners or opticians were then given the fundal photographs to evaluate; with this information they reassessed the previous grading and referral decision and completed a second form (form B). The identical procedure was then carried out by the ophthalmologist (forms C and D).
The study design allowed the assessment of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value for general practitioners and opticians with and without photographs. A sample size of 1000 assumed a referrable retinopathy rate of 5% to achieve sufficient numbers. Confidence intervals based on the sensitivities of each practice screened were calculated.
A total of 1010 patients (517 examined by general practitioners and 493 by opticians) were studied. Eleven practices were screened by 31 general practitioners and patients from 12 practices were screened by 17 opticians.
Table 1 shows the sensitivity of screening for retinopathy for the general practitioners and opticians. Providing photographs to general practitioners and opticians clearly improved both the correct classification and the appropriate referral of patients with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (from 65% to 73% for all patients). Specificity (table 2) for referrable retinopathy was high at 97% for general practitioners and 93% for opticians. The difference in specificity meant that opticians referred 52 patients, 21 appropriately, whereas general practitioners referred 31 patients, 15 appropriately.
To improve the sensitivity of detection of sight threatening retinopathy, the photographs were also reviewed by a specialist. For referrable, potentially sight threatening retinopathy this review further improved sensitivity from 73% to 84% (table 1). Later review of the photographs alone achieved 71% sensitivity.
The combination of ophthalmoscopy and photograph review by the general practitioner or optician with subsequent assessment of photographs by a specialist correctly classified 43 of the 49 referrable patients identified by the ophthalmologist's categorisation. Of the six patients missed, one with maculopathy went on to receive laser treatment within one year and one patient with pre-proliferative retinopathy, two with early maculopathy, and one with moderate background retinopathy continued hospital ophthalmic review; one patient was returned to primary screening.
For all appropriate referrals (diabetic retinopathy and cataracts) the sensitivity of the primary care screeners was improved by the addition of photographs (from 63% to 70%). When, in addition, the photographs were reviewed by the specialist this increased to 79%, but it was only 54% when photographs alone were seen.
When general practitioners' and opticians' performances were separated, the general practitioners performed with a lower sensitivity (56%) for detecting sight threatening retinopathy than did the opticians (75%), but the wide confidence intervals for each group indicate a considerable heterogeneity of performance between practices (table 3). There was no significant difference between the sensitivity of general practitioners (practice mean 53%; 95% confidence interval 26% to 81%) and of opticians (83%; 66% to 109%).
Many studies have compared different modalities of screening for diabetic retinopathy2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17; this study assessed the combination of a single retinal photograph taken through dilated pupils and ophthalmoscopy. It was carried out by interested general practitioners or ophthalmic opticians in the primary care setting. The results show that adding retinal photographs improves the sensitivity of screening without affecting specificity in detecting all grades of retinopathy and particularly in detecting sight threatening retinopathy. Review of the films by an ophthalmological specialist further improves the sensitivity of screening.
Our study clearly shows that the performance of general practitioners and opticians in detecting the earliest stages of retinopathy requires considerable improvement and that the addition of retinal photography almost doubles the sensitivity achieved by both groups. Screening has traditionally focused on detecting sight threatening retinopathy, but recent studies show that improved metabolic control slows progression of retinopathy; this means that effective screening must now also detect early background changes.18 General practitioners will need further training in the use of the ophthalmoscope, particularly in better focusing and visualising a wider area of the retina, to improve standards.
Although no power calculation was made before the study, we assumed that among 1000 patients, 50 would have sight threatening retinopathy and that this number would give enough confidence for the interpretation of results. While this is true for the addition of photography, the numbers when comparing the performance of general practitioners and opticians are too small for any difference to be viewed with much confidence. The wide confidence intervals in the performance between practices and the possibility of a selection bias imply that it would be unwise to assume a true difference between the performance of general practitioners and of opticians. The best screeners in each group achieved similar sensitivities; furthermore, the addition of the specialist's review of the photographs tended to equalise their performance.
The sensitivity for any screening should ideally match the reference standard, but in the Exeter limb of the three centre study9 the hospital physicians detected sight threatening retinopathy with a sensitivity of only 67%. It has been claimed that an adequately supervised hospital diabetic clinic might be able to act as a sensitive method of screening, but there have been few studies or audits to evaluate performance in standard hospital diabetic clinics and those that have been carried out have been in centres with a particular interest. In the large Newcastle study of retinal photography, fundal photographs added to ophthalmoscopy considerably improved hospital doctors' screening in diabetic clinics,16 implying that in many hospital diabetic clinics the screening sensitivity is not dissimilar to the 67% obtained in Exeter.
A further objective of the study was to see if there was a difference between the performance of general practitioners and opticians as primary care screeners for diabetic retinopathy. General practitioners and opticians studied equal numbers of patients, and the number of positive results on screening shows that results in the groups were similar and that the patient populations studied were comparable. Different total numbers of general practitioners and opticians (31:17) in the area agreed to take part in the study—the study had to rely on using those who volunteered, and it is possible that a selection bias exists because of this.
For the population of an average health district (250000) the service will identify 100-125 diabetic patients whose sight is threatened and who need ophthalmological review, and 50 will need laser treatment. If 80% of sight threatened patients are saved by treatment from losing vision this service will be highly cost effective—each patient saved from visual loss will cost £1095. Our cost for adding photographs (including capital replacement costs) was £12.50 per patient screened. For a district with a diabetic population of 3500 the total cost for adding retinal photographs would be £43 750; the cost for screening these patients in a hospital eye or diabetes clinic would be about £266000, based on a charge for new patients in an outpatient clinic in 1996 of £76. On the basis of this study, Wiltshire Health Commission has funded the operational costs of the screening service for diabetic patients in primary care since 1993 in the area served by the Royal United Hospital, Bath (£35000 a year for 3500 patients screened).
We believe that an organised, primary care based, screening programme for diabetic retinopathy that combines ophthalmoscopy and retinal photography could reduce new cases of blindness caused by diabetes. Such programmes could meet the target set by the St Vincent's Declaration19 of reducing this preventable tragedy by one third or more by the year 2000.
We acknowledge with gratitude the help of the many general practitioners, opticians, and diabetic patients who participated and thank Dr Lyn Higgs, Dr P Mansell, and Dr J Reckless for their encouragement and support.
Funding British Diabetic Association.
Conflict of interest None.


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Glencoe engagement shoot
Glencoe engagement shoot- Oh deer ! Today, I would like to elaborate a bit on verb : to look for. Feels like it might be just perfect for now and this love story. We are all look for something almost every day ! In fact, probably several times during every hour but...read more
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Kenmore wedding photography- Scotland's Oldest Inn. No idea where I should even start with this wedding. Not only because it was filled with symbolic and meaningful things or words. Not only because we were surrounded by stunning views. Place where I have never been...read more
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Wedding photography Altskeith- fabulous ! A spectacular wedding venue perched on the shores of Loch Ard right in the heart of The Trossachs. Nowhere will you experience so much beauty and wonder. All in such close proximity. You are spoilt for choice here. A stones...read more
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Wedding photography on the epic cliffs of North Berwick - my last job of 2017. I have to admitt.Whole experience was epic, outstanding and emotional for all of us. Dominic & Steph worked together in event industry and that's where they meet over 7 years ago. And it...read more
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Acting as beta for the Wombat's BtVS/LotR crossover fic Return of the Key has inspired me to produce yet another piece of pure insanity. A triple-drabble this time; no crossover elements (except very loosely with Animaniacs!). For once there is no mention of my usual LotR Gimli/Galadriel 'ship; although, of course, I'd have worked it in if I could. PG, 300 words, set during Return of the King. Groan warning.
Lord of the Wings
The Black Gates swung open. Forth from their forbidding maw rode out the five Heralds of Sauron to parley with the Army of the West.
"Is there anyone in this rabble with the authority to treat with us?" asked their leader, a man robed all in black, riding upon a black steed with black harness.
"I am the King Elessar," Aragorn announced himself. "Who are you, and your fellows?"
"I am the Mouth of Sauron," said the Herald.
Aragorn's questioning gaze swung to the next rider. This was a man mighty of stature, such that he seemed more ogre than man, clad in plate armour of black steel and bearing a massive black hammer.
"I am the Hand of Sauron," the warrior boomed out. "Tremble before me, puny king."
Aragorn merely raised an eyebrow and turned to the next. This was no human but a black centaur.
"I am known as the Legs of Sauron," declared the centaur, "for I am matchless in speed."
"And you?" Aragorn asked the fourth Herald.
This being was of human shape but was covered in black fur and had the head of a wolf. Nostrils flared as the Herald sniffed at Aragorn. "The Nose of Sauron am I," said the werewolf, "and once I have the scent of an enemy I can track him even unto the ends of the world."
The last of the Heralds was a strange figure indeed. A great bird, perhaps the size of Gwaihir the Windlord, but this was no eagle; a giant chicken with black feathers stood before the Gates of Morannon and looked back at Aragorn.
The King of Gondor raised his eyebrows. "What of you, fowl creature?" he asked.
The enormous rooster raised his beak and crowed before replying. "Isn't it obvious? I am Sauron's cock."


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Original Title: Die Brücke
Recommended age group: 13 +
Paperback, 224 pages, 12.5 x 18.3 cm, 4.9 x 7.2 in.
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• The legendary anti-war novel set during the Second World War
• The definitive account of the "Child Soldiers"
• Both the book and the film version were huge international successes
May 1945. Somewhere in Germany. Only a few days before the capitulation. Seven Hitler-youth, who've been stuck into Wehrmacht uniforms, are deployed to defend a bridge of no strategic significance, equipped with nothing more than a few carbines and bazookas. Abandoned by their senior officer, helplessly torn between a thirst for adventure and a confused belief that they must save the Fatherland, they take up the futile struggle just as the American tanks roll in.
The Bridge, which achieved worldwide success as a book initially, followed by the equally successful film version directed by Bernhard Wicki, is a memorial to a duped generation that was sent to the slaughter in the final days of World War Two.
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A bilateral investment agreement or treaty (BIT) between Japan and Iraq was signed on 7th June 2012. This is the first BIT between Iraq and a major economy and is a significant and credible commitment by Iraq to the rights of foreign investors falling within the BIT's protections. The BIT will enter into force 30 days after diplomatic notes are exchanged between the two governments confirming necessary national legal steps have taken place.
Iraq has the world's second largest proven oil reserves. Despite the on-going security difficulties, appetite for investment in Iraq is undoubtedly growing. The Government of Iraq has publicly stated its commitment to securing foreign investment and has previously taken steps on a domestic level to make the country more attractive to foreign investors.
Unlike many developed nations, Japan was slow to enter into free trade agreements with other countries. However, this began to impact on Japan's foreign investment opportunities. As a result, towards the end of the 1990s Japan began by entering into a number of agreements with countries around the Pacific Rim. In more recent years, Japan has begun negotiations with a number of both developed and developing countries (for example, Canada and Mongolia) with the aim of signing BITs.
That Japan is the first of the major economies to take the leap and sign a BIT with Iraq signals Japan's recognition of the importance of BITs and intention to remain at the forefront of investment and development in Iraq. Japan initially strengthened its ties with Iraq by offering a considerable financial assistance package in 2003 in the aftermath of the conflict. The two countries entered into the Japan-Iraq Comprehensive Partnership in 2009 and relations have continued to develop from thereon, as Iraq achieves greater self-reliance and political stability. Japan has provided financial assistance beyond that pledged in 2003, with the money being used for four new projects in the areas of oil, telecommunications and health. Japanese companies are reported to be involved in the associated contracts.
The text of the BIT can be found in English here and Japanese here. Given that this is one of the first of Iraq's BITs, the treaty contains a "most favoured nation" (MFN) provision at Article 4, giving investors of the other contracting party and their investments treatment no less favourable than that given to investors of a non-contracting party. This will provide comfort to Japanese investors in the event that Iraq enters into subsequent BITs with other countries with more favourable provisions than these. However, followers of investment treaty decisions will be interested to note that this MFN treatment is expressly stated not to apply to dispute resolution. A further provision of note is Article 17 which sets out the process for settlement of investment disputes. This includes a three month period for consultations before the dispute can be submitted to arbitration. The interpretation and application of such negotiation provisions is a hot topic in the investment treaty community. It will be interesting to see whether investors are held to this three month period to consult should any disputes arise under this BIT in future.


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Promoting Research Transparency in Social Science Research
Social scientists have begun promoting the adoption of higher standards of transparency in order to improve both the quality and credibility of research.
With a predominating "dysfunctional reward structure" that incentivizes researchers to report data that is more publishable than accurate, it is important to realign scholarly incentives with scholarly values, especially since policy decisions based on research impacts the lives of millions of people.
In 2014, some of my colleagues and I wrote an article for Science's Policy Forum. In it, we explain:
"[t]here is growing appreciation for the advantages of experimentation in the social sciences. Policy-relevant claims that in the past were backed by theoretical arguments and inconclusive correlations are now being investigated using more credible methods. Changes have been particularly pronounced in development economics, where hundreds of randomized trials have been carried out over the last decade."
My colleagues – researchers leading the research transparency and reproducibility movement – and I converge on three core practices: disclosure, registration and pre-analysis plans, and open data and materials.
1) Disclosure calls researchers to abide by reporting standards that require them to "document and disclose key details about the data collection and analysis". This includes all information about measures, manipulations, data, exclusions, and how they arrived at final sample sizes.
2) Registration and Pre-analysis plans (or PAPs) credibly distinguish hypothesis testing from hypothesis generation and exploratory research. Pre-analysis plans can include documents specifying statistical models, variables, and testing corrections.
3) Having open data and materials allows other researchers to review, revise, and reproduce results to further assess a study's external validity.
Along with the adoption of these steps, organizations exist to facilitate the movement towards transparent research. The Open Science Framework (or OSF) is a platform where researchers can make their data public, while other similar organizations exist to archive randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or assist with study pre-registration. The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, or BITSS, was also established to provide tools and resources that promote and facilitate research transparency.
With this new direction of research, social science research has the potential to provide an overall higher quality of evidence to policy-makers and other decision-makers. Knowing this, what reservations might researchers have to adopting these practices? If these three steps can, so significantly, reduce fraud, why aren't more people taking them?
You can read the whole paper by clicking on the link in the SEE ALSO section at the bottom of this page.
Also, if you have a spare 20 minutes, take a look at the clip from John Oliver's Last Week Tonight on Scientific Studies. He takes a humorous, if slightly cynical, approach to the crisis of reproducibility and introduces a few concepts we'll get into later. You can find the link in the Related Links section at the bottom of the page.
Miguel, E., C. Camerer, K. Casey, J. Cohen, K. M. Esterling, A. Gerber, R. Glennerster, et al. 2014. "Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research." Science 343 (6166): 30–31. doi:10.1126/science.1245317.
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Lahore, May 13 (IANS) The death toll from the suicide blast outside Pakistan's oldest Sufi shrine in Lahore has risen to 13 after another civilian succumbed to his injuries, the media reported on Monday.
Tahir Aslam, 18, was working at a shop nearby when the blast took place near a police patrol vehicle stationed outside the entrance of Data Darbar shrine on Wednesday.
He was among the critically injured and rushed to hospital where he died on Sunday, Dawn online reported. The bombing claimed the lives of six policemen and seven civilians.
Even as the death toll increased, law-enforcement agencies were yet to make any substantial progress in the probe into the attack, a senior police official told the daily.
The country's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has so far arrested five suspected facilitators of Data Darbar attack from Lahore's Garhi Shahu area after conducting a raid at a tea stall. But they were no big leads, the report said.
The bombing on the shrine was claimed by the Hizbul Ahrar, a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban.
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For Him
If you keep up on Ig's blog, then you must have read the most recent Ode of Fauf. I was quite touched and wanted to reciprocate with my own Ode to Ig. Here is a list of things I appreciate/love about Ig:
10. He goes to work everyday, putting up with average students, obnoxious co-workers, inhospitable environments so he can earn money for us and allow me to earn less money.
9. He pays all the bills the first of the month, so that I never have to crunch numbers, write a check, or lick an envelope.
8. He takes out the stinky trash and sets out the cumbersome trash can on Fridays, wheeling it back into the garage at the end of the day
7. He constantly makes Fauf laugh, ensuring never a dull moment at the Shaw Manor and in their marriage
6. He secretly lets Fauf win games sometimes, so that she'll feel successful and want to play again.
5. He plans monthly dates to romance Fauf, which always include a bouquet of flowers
4. He puts up with her crazy family and goes along for the ride when visiting down-south, without one complaint
3. He supports her creative endeavors and encourages her to pursue them, making her dreams possible
2. He looks out for her and protects her, reminding her in love and firmness to always wear her helmet when bike-riding
1. He writes blogs about her, cuddles her, kisses her, humors her, and treasures her
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Jay is a city and county seat of Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,448 at the 2010 census, compared to 2,482 at the 2000 census, a decrease of 1.4 percent. Almost 40% of its residents are Native American, thus Jay is home to numerous Cherokee tribal offices and a health clinic for the Delaware District of the Cherokee Nation.
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Welcome to Carolina Kids Child Development Center!
Carolina Kids Child Development Center has a tradition of educational excellence and has proudly served thousands of families in Rock Hill and Fort Mill, South Carolina since we opened our doors over 20 years ago.
Our relationship with Cadence Education gets us access to exclusive preschool programming that you won't find outside of our family of schools. Our preschools take a skill-based approach to early childhood education and balance social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development through our proprietary Ascend Curriculum. We attend to the social and emotional well-being of every child through our Kind Child program and prepare our preschool students for future academic success in Kindergarten Club. We would love to work with your family so that you too can make the most of your child's first educational experiences.
Carolina Kids offers care and early education for ages 6 weeks – 12 years old through the following programs: Infants, Toddlers, Early Preschool, Preschool, Pre-Kindergarten, After School Program, and Summer Camp.
There are two Carolina Kids Child Development Centers in Fort Mill and Rock Hill, South Carolina:


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Corporates act as building blocks for setting up the infrastructure to have a better tomorrow. Partnerships are integral part of corporations, and on that, corporate social responsibility is utterly important, as highlighted by the government as well.
We at UDAAN Society call the Corporates in all domains, to partner with us. Society at a large will have benefits with it, while we mutually can work together for development as well


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Post-Petition Property Transfers Every so often clients will ask me if they can sell, give away, deed, or transfer property after their bankruptcy is filed. I'm glad that they ask, because the consequences for a prohibited post-petition property transfer are steep. Let's quickly review how property works in bankruptcy. Once you file bankruptcy, all property becomes property of the bankruptcy … Continue reading


text: U.K. Satcaster BSkyB Pledges to Spend Big 4:59 AM PDT 6/9/2011 by Stuart Kemp FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME U.S. Programming a big part of projected $2.4 billion acquisitions purse. LONDON – U.K. satcaster BSkyB promised to bolster the satellite broadcaster's spending on original home-grown programming by more than 50 percent in the next three years. BSkyB chief Jeremy Darroch pledged the uptick in investment and said his company expects to spend £380 million ($624 million) this year on in-house production and outside commissions, including its $66 million-a-year investment in Sky News and the production element of Premier League football and other sports – a figure that the company intends to increase to £600 million ($985 million) "by 2014". Darroch said the move to increase investment in original programming is because "we know that customers will only choose Sky if we offer something they value over and above what is available on free-to-air TV." Cash will be spent to ensure Sky runs original British comedy such as Stella, a comedy from Ruth Jones, the star and co-writer of Gavin & Stacey – and on a "300 percent increase" in the hours broadcast of U.K. drama including Hit and Miss, the story of a pre-op transsexual contract killer called Mia, which stars Chloë Sevigny and is written by Shameless creator Paul Abbott. By comparison, Channel 4 said it spent £362 million ($595 million) on U.K. programming in 2010 out of a budget of £578 million ($950 million). Sky aims to spend £2 billion ($3.3 billion) across all its channels during 2011, shelling out a whopping £1.6 billion ($2.4 billion) of that on a mix of sports rights and on U.S. programming for its bouquet of channels including Sky Atlantic and Sky1. Revenues across the company rose 14 percent in the nine months to the end of March 2011 hitting £4.8 billion ($7.9 billion). FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Stuart Kemp firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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Linky Friday #137: Nixon's The One
[Ho1] If Matt Y is right, then this is another reason why zoning is bad. {via Murali}
[Ho2] Some teenagers designed a movable village of tiny houses for the homeless.
[Ho3] Jeff Fong argues that California spending more on schools means fewer permits for housing.
[Ho4] At least arguably, the best and most cost-effective way of dealing with the homeless is to give them housing. Too bad you could never get Republicans on board with the idea.
[Ho5] On the other hand, half of state housing in New Zealand tested positive for meth.
[C1] Spencer Stone, one of the heroes of the French Terror attempt, was stabbed in an altercation in Sacramento. Sketches of the culprits have been released.
[C2] Yikes. A school district in Florida is paying out a six-figure settlement due to some hypnotism gone very wrong.
[C3] While using racial slurs is wrong in most contexts, I kind of think this might be an exception.
[C4] An obstetrician and abortion doctor – previously sanctioned for performing home abortions – was found with a bunch of fetuses in his car.
[C5] Federal prosecutors are going after a Fox contributor for falsely claiming having worked for the CIA.
[Po1] Hillary Clinton is apparently getting taller. I was actually under the impression that Rubio was shorter than 5'10″… roughly Paul's height, actually. Am I wrong or has he grown taller, too?
[Po2] Sometimes Jeb is cool in spite of himself. But seriously, don't mess with the SEC.
[Po3] Babies for Bernie!
[Po4] Harry Enten is giving Ted Cruz another look. Cruz wouldn't have much of a chance in most elections, but this is an unusual one. I think there's a non-trivial chance that the nomination is going to come down to two Cuban-American candidates. Tom Coburn probably isn't happy about this prospect.
[Po5] For several Republican candidates, we're approaching game time.
[Po6] It looks like Justin Trudeau is about to be prime minister. Richard Nixon called it when Justin was in diapers.
[Po7] From Greginak: An essay by Will Wilkinson regarding what can be learned from looking at social democratic countries like Denmark. It doesn't provide easy answers to ideologues of any sort. Neither ideological left or right have all the comfortable answers to a free and prosperous and high government place like Denmark.
[Pr1] Scientists have totally found an alien satellite! Well, probably not.
[Pr2] Self-driving cars are coming to Canada!
[Pr3] Jason Kuznicki speaks of the Two Deepities from Martin Heidegger {via Jaybird}
[Pr4] From Aaron David: The healing power of Atomics!
[Hi1] Argo of the Sea: The history of "The CIA's Most Famous Ship", which came with a cover story that alarmed environmentalists.
[Hi2] I didn't know anything about King Edward VIII other than the whole "Eddie the Quitter" thing. I definitely didn't know about the Nazi thing.
[Hi3] Cooling may have been responsible for the end of Viking Greenland, but warming may not have been responsible for mammoth extinction.
[Hi4] Nabokov in Utah.
[Hi5] A nice little recap of the 1960 election.
United States:
[US1] Now that they no longer issue them, Maryland may take back its confederate license plates.
[US2] A surprisingly touching essay by The Voice of Richard Nixon. (or, more specifically, @dick_nixon).
[US3] I'm kind of hoping that Kimmie has some insider info on this story.
[US4] Redlining: Thank goodness this doesn't happen anymore. Well, not out loud, anyway. (Also: this)
[US5] They say that buying is better than renting. Unless you're black, anyway.


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Social Distortion United States
Social Distortion is an American punk rock band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California. The band currently consists of vocalist and guitarist Mike Ness, guitarist Jonny Wickersham, bassist Brent Harding and drummer David Hidalgo, Jr. Social Distortion temporarily disbanded in 1985, due to frontman Ness' drug addiction and troubles with the law, which resulted in extended stints in various rehabilitation centers, that lasted for two years. However


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Confronted with that decision, Davies opted for 2 actors with whom he had previously worked on huge TELEVISION initiatives. In contrast, Moffat had experienced the work of Smith and Capaldi largely as an admiring viewer. By this time, Cassidy had given up touring in his musical profession, although he had launched the album WASP, and speculated he should tour somewhat to advertise.
Maggie Briggs (Suzanne Pleshette) works for the financially troubled The New York Examiner. So as to try to flip issues around by adding a new characteristic to their paper, Trendy Living. Maggie who is used to writing laborious hitting pieces is aghast that she is now being requested to put in writing the mushy stuff…about pet canines and nuns. But she is assured she will still be requested to jot down the exhausting items, it can just be about different topics than she is used to writing about.
The person advised police the woman requested him a number of times if he was a serial killer. He advised her no, and she or he climbed on top of him and said properly I'm a serial killer" and pulled out a pocket knife. It's never too late to start out over. In case you weren't pleased with yesterday, strive something completely different today. Don't stay caught. Do higher. Police are looking out the Cherokee, the woman's car and cellphones for evidence as the investigation continues. Some have been amusing, some nearly lovely, and one, a woman all drawn off form, harm the previous man by her grotesqueness. We've Acquired Each Other was a state of affairs comedy that began its life on CBS on October 1, 1977 and lasted till January 14, 1978.
Carol Cole was Ellie Wilson Marshall with Joe Morton as her husband, Hal. Jack Fletcher was Mr. Pratt, the Marshall's landlord and Alix Elias was Rose Kosinski, one of many Marshall's neighbors. This present was not well acquired, particularly by the true life president of Flatbush who demanded that or not it's taken off the air because of it is insulting use of stereotypes. I am unable to say for certain if CBS took his considerations seriously or not, but the present was canceled after airing only three episodes. Blacke's Magic was created by Richard Levinson, William Link and Peter S. Fischer the group that gave us Homicide She Wrote. Frank D. Gilroy, a Pulitizer Prize successful playwright wrote and directed the television movie that acted because the pilot for this sequence.


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food + drink
Creating our own faux shake shack was such a neat way to have people over and try something different with regards to the hamburger and fry. Then, as fate would have it, I've had the opportunity to go to shake shack in Chicago twice. Even Mark agrees their cheese fries are legit.
Food Truck Friday always tops our summer list and I'm sure after the babe is born will continue. It's such an easy walk from our house, we can bring the dogs and it makes for a super simple gathering spot to catch up with friends via picnic. Summer in the city is the best.
From my kitchen: This carbonara is divine, flemish beef stew has become a slow cooker favorite, roasted tomato pasta (coming soon!) was a easy yet flavorful weeknight meal, stuffed meatballs (coming soon!) are wicked easy, and the birthday dinner (pictured above) my husband prepared?! Have mercy.
Pitch Perfect 2 Soundtrack
Emergency - Icona Pop
Tambourine - Eve
Who We Are - Jessie J
Mama's Family -- now on METV!
Magic Mike XXL
Jurassic World
It goes without saying finding out we were expecting was the highlight. Other favorites include a summer jammed packed and not short on vitamin D -- an outdoor screening of jaws on art hill and Whittaker music festival lent themselves to ideal picnic nights, chardonnay 5k with a group of new friends to celebrate Angie's birthday, and a small town 4th of July with our family. Seeing Meghan Trainor was dancefest, Kevin Hart was side splitting funny and a local drag show replete with Champagne was a perfect girls night out.
Oh, Summer...
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- Mayor
- Municipal Carriers
- Covenant of Mayors
- Eco-logy and Eco-nomy…
- Senior High School Project
- Energy inspectors in exercise...
- Visit to an Energy-Autonomous House
- Aeolic Park of the Gods
- actions
- Sustainable Energy Actions Plan
- Visit to a photovoltaic park in Anissaras - Hersonissos
- Results
- Energy Inspectors Junior
- People
«Preservation and proper management of resources, is one of the major scopes of the Municipal Authority of Hersonissos. We promote viable solutions at local level targeting climatic changes in order to protect the environment»
Zacharias Emm. Doxastakis, Mayor of Hersonissos
«Promotion of environmental-friendly policies and citizens' attitude change, are of great importance for achieving the "Covenant of Mayors" scopes»
Maria Symeonidou-Sideris, MSc, PhD, Communications Manager for Covenant of Mayors
«For many years we have been living under the belief that Earth has an unlimited capacity to withstand human activity. Lately, we realized that Earth's capacity is restricted. We have to do our best to fully reverse our course ».
Fani Anastasiou, MSc, Environmental Consultant
Everyone of us, needs to contribute in order to meet the targets set within the framework of the "Covenant of Mayors" initiative. Actions' implementation by authorities and raising awareness amongst citizens are the two elements that will lead us through our targets.
Fotis Mavromatakis, Associate Professor, Technological Educational Institute of Crete
«Structure of modern society and economy impose a new model of financial growth, with its epicenter on people and the environment»
Manos Michelekakis, MSc Economist
Return back to our "grass-root" values with simultaneous employment of modern technology, is the only way to invert the environmental effects that our generation and the previous one have created. We can thus create a world worth living for the generations to come.
Manolis Tzompanakis, IT Specialist for the Covenant of Mayors


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Client: Mitsubishi Electric Power Products
Location: Pennsylvania
POWER provided engineering services for the installation of a static var compensator (SVC) at First Energy's 230 kV Squab Hollow Substation. The primary purpose of the SVC system is to provide fast dynamic reactive power support and to automatically regulate the bus voltage continuously under normal and contingent conditions of the power system at the First Energy 230 kV Squab Hollow Substation. POWER was a subcontractor to Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, the EPC contractor for the project.
- Modified foundation designs to accommodate harsh construction conditions.
- Unique yard layout to accommodate available site area.
- Project substation complete and in-service dates met.
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- New system provides -100 to +250 Mvar continuous compensation
- Design developed to end user engineering and drafting standards for seamless incorporation into the end user's system
- Vertically stacked, low-voltage bus to reduce footprint
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- Complete physical design
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