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1 Working Document of the NPC Study: Arctic Potential: Realizing the Promise of U.S. Arctic Oil and Gas Resources Made Available March 27, 2015 Paper #7-5 OPERATIONAL LIMITATIONS DUE TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE JONES ACT Prepared for the Technology & Operations Subgroup On March 27, 2015, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) in approving its report, Arctic Potential: Realizing the Promise of U.S. Arctic Oil and Gas Resources, also approved the making available of certain materials used in the study process, including detailed, specific subject matter papers prepared or used by the study s Technology & Operations Subgroup. These Topic Papers were working documents that were part of the analyses that led to development of the summary results presented in the report s Executive Summary and Chapters. These Topic Papers represent the views and conclusions of the authors. The National Petroleum Council has not endorsed or approved the statements and conclusions contained in these documents, but approved the publication of these materials as part of the study process. The NPC believes that these papers will be of interest to the readers of the report and will help them better understand the results. These materials are being made available in the interest of transparency. The attached paper is one of 46 such working documents used in the study analyses. Appendix D of the final NPC report provides a complete list of the 46 Topic Papers. The full papers can be viewed and downloaded from the report section of the NPC website (
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3 Topic Paper (Prepared for the National Petroleum Council Study on Research to Facilitate Prudent Arctic Development) 7-5 Author(s) Reviewers Date: August 7, 2014 Operational limitations Due to Compliance with the Jones Act Mallory Payne (Shell) David Ott (Shell) Marc Stone (Shell) Jeanne Grasse (Blank Rome) Mitch Winkler (Shell) Dale Farmer (ExxonMobil) Revision: Final SUMMARY The Jones Act requires that vessels transporting cargo between two U.S. points be built in the United States, crewed by U.S. citizens, and at least 75% owned by U.S. citizens. The law was enacted in Jones Act ships tend to be 3-times more costly to build and operate than vessels used by foreign-flag ocean carriers. Foreign-flag ocean carriers are less expensive because they can leveraging more competitive builds at foreign shipyards and hire crew members from countries where seafarers wages are much lower than in the United States. This topic paper describes the economic and operational impediments to prudent exploration and development posed by the Jones Act, and suggests that U.S. Government waivers/exemptions be considered for foreign-flagged support vessels during Arctic OCS energy exploration and appraisal phases. Once prospects are discovered and proven viable, industry can then produce the demand signal to U.S. shipbuilding to design, develop and produce requisite support vessels which meet Jones Act/Coastwise trade requirements. PURPOSE To provide an overview of US coastwise laws and key limitations associated with employing foreign flagged vessels in the US Arctic. BACKGROUND The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, otherwise known as the Jones Act (codified in 2006) was established to regulate cabotage (the coastal shipping of cargo and passengers) within the U.S. The Act requires cabotage in U.S.-flagged, constructed, owned and operated vessels. Coastwise qualified ice-class rated vessels capable of operating in the Arctic are not readily available. Few U.S.-flagged, ice-classed vessels are available for U.S. Arctic offshore operations. To use a non- U.S. flagged vessel within US waters either requires an exemption for vessels that are able to meet U.S. Arctic shipping standards, or economically unsustainable delays and costs. 1
4 Jones Act Overview: Coastwise laws generally prohibit the transportation of passengers or merchandise between points in the US in any vessel other than a coastwise-qualified vessel. The coastwise laws also apply to towing, escorting and dredging vessels, among others. o Merchandise: Goods, wares and valueless materials including scrap, rocks and mud. Equipment or supplies are not included in this category, though determinations as to what legitimately constitutes equipment is subject to caseby-case determinations by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and has become controversial. o Passenger: Any person aboard a vessel that is not connected with the vessel s operation, navigation, ownership, or business. o Coastwise point: Includes all points in the territorial sea, within 3 miles of the coast, and points in internal waters. Under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), the coastwise laws are extended to structures attached to the U.S. outer continental shelf for the purposes of exploration, development, or production of resources (structures attached to the seabed, mooring systems, exploratory wells, etc.) o Coastwise-qualified vessel: US built, US flagged, 75% US owned and controlled, and never sold foreign. o Penalties: could include forfeiture of the merchandise or a fine up to the value of the merchandise or the actual cost of the transportation, whichever is greater. The CBP is responsible for interpreting and enforcing the coastwise laws. DISCUSSION Federal laws protecting shipping in the United States date back to 1789, with the coastwise law governing the transportation of merchandise, the Jones Act, enacted in The coastwise laws have evolved and expanded over the years and sentiment to protect the U.S. ship owners/operators, U.S. labor, and U.S. shipbuilding capacity remains strong. Any activities implicating the coastwise laws are closely scrutinized by CBP, the Coast Guard, the domestic industry, and Congress. As such, the coastwise laws are highly protectionist and are intended to create a coastwise monopoly in order to protect and develop the American merchant marine, shipbuilding, etc. 1 Regrettably, the US has very limited capacity for ice management services and vessel operations in ice conditions which are an essential requirement for Arctic exploration and development. Contracting these services to a foreign-flagged operator is a solution, but the ability to leverage the full mission support capability of these vessels is unduly restricted and forces the costly contracting of additional vessels to safely operate in the Arctic environment. Lease operators contracting for purpose-built Jones Act vessels, and 1 CBP Headquarters Ruling (HQ) (March 27, 2006), Re: Coastwise Transportation 2
5 financing their construction through long-term charters, is also an option, but it is neither a reasonable nor practicable option in the long run. Foreign Vessel Constraints: Jones Act restrictions limit vessel flexibility and capacity to fully utilize assets under contract to ensure compliance. This is especially problematic in an emergency response situation or when planning for response actions. While waivers may be available in such situations, operating on the assumption that a waiver will be granted is not practicable. Equipment cannot be transferred from vessel to vessel or to alternative port locations other than the location it originated from. Loading and unloading must be completed at the same port and berth location. Mission Constraints. Jones Act restricts the ability for multi-mission, foreign-flagged vessels to operate within the full limits of their capabilities. Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODU) require constant consumables, waste, and personnel transfer which cannot be conducted by a foreign-flagged vessel in any case. This includes anchor handling. A foreign flagged ice-breaker operating in close proximity to the MODU would be prevented from carrying out any of these duties. o Once exploration transitions to development, Jones Act restriction further limits the use of which vessels can be involved in undersea infrastructure missions such as dredging, trenching and pipe-laying required for product movement. Dredging vessels, for instance, would need to be Jones Act compliant. If suitable vessels do not exist then they would need to be built. o A 2013 U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARDAN) 2 places an uplift factor of 2.7 times on the operational expenditure (OPEX) costs to use Jones Act compliant vessels and crews. Moreover, the observed capital expenditure (CAPEX) costs to build Jones Act compliant vessels are a comparable 3-times the cost as compared to foreign vessels. Prudent Development must factor these costs into the calculus which drives business decisions. o Tanker example. According to oil shippers, the price for moving crude oil from the Gulf Coast to the U.S. Northeast on Jones Act tankers is $5 to $6 per barrel, while moving it to eastern Canada on foreign-flag tankers is $2. 3 Jones Act compliance can pose demobilization challenges. For example, if a foreignflagged ice management vessel mobilizes from a port in the Pacific Northwest to receive onload of material and support capabilities prior to the operational season, then it must Shipping U.S. Crude Oil by Water: Vessel Flag Requirements and Safety Issues John Frittelli, Congressional Research Service, July
6 return and demobilize after the season to the same port to offload remaining materiel and support capabilities before continuing on its voyage. In most cases, this forces the vessel to deal with more significant ice while transiting back through the northern passage due to the excessive transit distances to and from the Pacific Northwest support terminals. Financial implications of Jones Act compliance during exploration and appraisal operations are significant and limit the ability to fully leverage the multi-use of vessels capable of handling multiple tasks resulting in the need to contract additional vessels to perform those duties. o Ice Breaking Vessels have crew and storage ability as well as helidecks that can only be used to transport the vessels own crew. o Arctic exploration drilling operations from floating drilling units must be completed within a short time period limited by sea ice conditions specific to the region. Jones Act limits the venture s ability to multi-task foreign-flagged vessels to leverage their full capabilities and thereby reduces mitigation options when ice and weather conditions change abruptly as they often do in the Arctic. Another major logistical challenge is that there are no Jones Act compliant heavy lift or dry tow vessels, thus requiring drill rigs or other vessels, such as the containment barge, to be wet-towed through challenging Alaska and Arctic environments rather than drytowed, which could be preferable in certain situations. RECOMMENDATIONS This topic paper is provided to inform the reader of the operational impacts to Outer Continental Shelf energy exploration and development that emanate from compliance to the Jones Act. Keeping in mind that these operations, in and of themselves, demand significant risk mitigation strategies which are often more constrained by compliance. Exemptions to some of the Jones Act requirements that would ease restrictions during these specific energy exploration and development operations are more likely to produce a much better outcome for all stakeholders (Federal, State and Local Governments; industry) interested in successful outcome of these operations. 4
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South of Broad Blog Tour
We interrupt our regularly scheduled science fiction fare for something quite different. Something so momentous and so amazing it has been several years in the making. Well, in all honesty, I am really just mixing metaphors for my own amusement. Today I am bringing you into the world of my favorite author of all time. I never really passionately held a strong belief in the writing talent of a single author until I read my first novel by Pat Conroy and became instantly enamored. It was as I was pouring through the open ing pages of Beach Music that I discovered in a single book all the things I loved about the English language and all the ways I wanted it to be used.
Mr. Conroy writes these sweeping epics of family drama and love and loss in a way that makes my heart sing with the pure joy of reading the words. When I first read Beach Music I was feeling a little blue and looking for something to lift my spirits. Beach Music is not a light romance like I was somehow expecting. It begins with tragedy enough to make you sob for days and yet somehow the prose still lifted my spirit.
The publication of a new novel from Pat Conroy has been promised for years and it finally happened one day when I wasn't looking. South of Broad starts with the same overwhelming prose that made me fall in love with Mr. Conroy the first time I flipped open Beach Music and stayed up half the night gripped in its clutches. South of Broad is set in the lavishly described Charleston, South Carolina. The novel starts with a prologue that paints for the reader an amazingly vivid portrait of this city and what it means to the man whose story we will soon be traveling through.
"Everything I reveal to you now will be Charleston-shaped and Charleston-governed, and sometimes even Charleston-ruined."
Leopold Bloom King is the second son born to a Ulysses obsessed mother who named both her son's after James Joyce's novel. When the novel begins Leo is still a very young man and already his life seems to be ruined by the tragic circumstances around him. While many of Conroy's previous works have dealt with tragedy the detail in this novel seem so forward and heavy handed with out the language to hold the events up and float the reader along through the hard parts. It is true that life itself is hard, but when I am face with it in fiction I just want to turn away. It takes some very strong writing to pull me through an emotionally difficult book. South of Broad seems front loaded with exposition and is lacking the charm I expect from this talented author.
I read this author for his writing more than his story. His characters are compelling, but in South of Broad I didn't connect as deeply with them as I did in some of his previous works.


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Hello Stamping Friends!
I am on the Your Next Stamp Blog today sharing how to create the fun "Flip-It" Card with the Half Circle Flip Die Set!
Have a lovely day!
In my opinion this is a must have die! It really creates a fun card!
It may look a little intimidating at first! Which is why I have created a tutorial for you to make it easy!
Just to let you know, I am also working on a second part to this series!! First I wanted to share how to create a Flip-It card! My next tutorial I am going to share another fun card design to change it up a little! Another use out of this awesome die!!
Here is a look at a few supplies I quickly grabbed to get me started:
I started by creating a A2 Card base (8 1/2" x 5 1/2"), scored at 4 1/4".
I decided I was going to use the larger of the two dies from the Half Circle Flip Die Set to create this Flip-it card!! As my sentiment and image I want to work with will work best with this size! I've also used the awesome Circles with Stitching and Piercing Marks Die Set! As these circles work so well together with the Half Circle Flip Die Set!
So lying my card base down I found the center of the left half of my card base, which is 2 1/8".
You can then place the card base and die in your die cutting machine. Place the die just over your marks you created, with the circle facing to your left. Position the die evenly from top to bottom as well, unless you want the circle position more to the top or bottom. I am trying to make it as centered as possible. Feel free to use a little painter's tape or post it note to keep the die in place. I have magnetic platforms, so I normally don't use them unless I think I need to!
You are then ready to run in through your machine! So exciting!!
It will look like this:
Now fold along the center score line, just like it was a normal card.
Lastly carefully fold the right most section over to the left along the score lines the die created! Should look like this:
YAY!! You just created a Flip-It Card base! How exciting and so much fun!
The Half Circle Flip Die Set really is great for making creating this card design so fun and easy!!
You are now able to embellish your card to your liking!!
Here is my finished card:
How fun!! I used the adorable Just Plane Amazing stamp set for the sentiment and plane!! As well as the coordinating Just Plane Amazing Die Set to die cut the plant, in which I then used pop-dots to adhere to the circle.
To get the striped piece of paper, I simple ran the die through my die cutting machine on the pattern paper, I then trimmed three of the edges slightly (but did not trim anything on the right side)!
Here's a glance at my in process work of creating the clouds on my die cut!
I used the Puffy Cloud Border Die Set to die cut one of the clouds to use as a mask. I then used the Blueberry Breeze to ink add ink to the circle in circular motions. I moved the mask a few times. I really like how it turned out!!
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On the inside I stamped two clouds also from the Just Plane Amazing stamp set and also added the large "Happy" in Holly Berry Red Ink and "birthday" in Black Olive Ink from the awesome Happy Everything stamp set!!
What a fun design!!
I finished off this card by adding some lovely Gumdrops!! I just love those embellishments!!
I created this card when the die was first released:
This card used the smaller of the two dies from the Half Circle Flip Die Set!
I hope I have helped you see how fun and easy it is to use this die!! You'll love it!!
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As stated in one of my former blog post, famo.us makes a good candidate for removing this pain and Meteor, with its famous-views package, makes a good candidate for tying up everything together.
This weekend, I've started working on a famous-views's plugin named fview-svg. Basically, it reads your SVG as template and create famo.us's
Surface and
StateModifier out of it. One of the sensitive parts of the process was the inverted coordinate system of SVG compare to DOM and SVG's responsive nature. But the beauty of making it a plugin with famous-views is that it will be available for anyone. Nice.
Here is a little video that demonstrates my first demo with fview-svg:
As you can check it in the source code, without the comments, this demo is less than 20 lines of codes. And there is room for improvements.
I've deployed a live demo and you can play with it: fview-svg.
I've tested on desktop in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera. On iOS8, I've tested it, an iPad Mini, an iPad 2, an iPhone 5S. On Android, I've tested it on release 4.4.2 on a Samsung Galaxy Tab and on release 4.0.3 on an HTC Desire C. And this is this last test that just surprised me. You may not even know what this terminal is. It's a low end smarphone. Very cheap. A single core under 1GHz. What Android call a
midpi. These terminals still equip a large portion of Android's market share. Just to give you a glimpse on these terminals, it doesn't even run the first Angry birds properly... And here, the SVG animation was perfect. Fluid. I almost shed a tear.
The source codes of the plugin as well as a tutorial for recreating this demo are available on Github: fview-svg.
Note: The plugin is not already available on Atmosphere, the official Meteor repository. I wand to test it against several additional demos to check which API would be good to export for easing the integration. Still, you can start cloning it and import it in your project if you want to contribute or cannot wait few days.


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April 11, 2016 – J. W. Snyder – NWFN
Wallowa County steelhead season extended until April 30 on several rivers
ENTERPRISE, Ore. – Spring steelhead anglers can fish the Grande Ronde, Wallowa, and Imnaha Rivers including Big Sheep Creek through April 30 due to 2016 regulation changes that went into effect Jan. 1. The old closure date was April 15.
The extension was a result of ODFW's regulation simplification process last year. Through public input, ODFW learned that local anglers thought steelhead fishing was cut short in some years despite great catch rates in mid-April. "The suggestions from anglers led to changes in the regulations, resulting in increased fishing opportunities", said Jeff Yanke, district fish biologist in Enterprise.
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"Our research clearly indicates that releasing smolts in April maximizes their chances of survival, which in turn produces more adult steelhead to catch one to two years later."


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2010 Chateau La Dominique
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A near perfect amalgam of finesse and richness
Can't afford Cheval Blanc in a great vintage? No problem ,we have you covered with their direct neighbour, La Dominique. While this wouldn't have been true a few years back, the arrival of Jean Luc Thunevin (from Ch.Valandraud) in 2007 as a consultant, has been a crucial move for the estate. Thunevin's understanding of the region is easily on a par with that of Michel Rolland, although the former became famous as the original "Garagiste" rather than a mainstream oenologist.
Paying the respect due to this fantastic terroir at the edge of St Emilion and Pomerol, Thunevin captures all the elegance on offer in 2010 while staying clear of the temptation to overextract (a redemption from his previous experiments with Ch.Valandraud). The result bears testimony - La Dominique is clearly in good hands.
A blend of 77% Merlot and 23% Cabernet Franc - pours a totally opaque inky black crimson red core with a dark crimson red black tinged hue. Perfumed aromas of ripe blackcurrants, black cherry and liquorice arise from the glass followed by nuances of earthy cedar and spice. Rich and full bodied the palate is dominated by succulent blackcurrant and black cherry flavours with some underlying liquorice supported by solidly built, slightly chewy but very fine grained tannins. Back palate flavours of cedar, earth and spice round out the finish. A near perfect amalgam of finesse and richness with a long aftertaste of blackcurrant, black cherry, cedar, subtle earth and spice.
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The 2010 is a reassuringly great example of La Dominique after some less-than-stellar performances. This has always been one of the best terroirs on the Pomerol-St.-Emilion border, just adjacent to Cheval Blanc, and the 2010 could easily be the finest wine they have made since the 1989 and 1990. The wine displays plenty of licorice, Christmas fruitcake, black currants, licorice, truffles and some espresso notes. Full-bodied, viscous and somewhat reminiscent of many 2009s, given its blast of fruit, glycerin and heady alcohol, this is a beautifully rich St.-Emilion for pleasure seekers. Don't discount its ageability, as I am sure it has two decades ahead of it.
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Delivers a gorgeous note of crème de cassis, followed by dark plum, anise, blackberry coulis and blueberry reduction notes. A glorious display of fruit, with well-embedded charcoal and graphite accents that help the finish drive on with authority. Should age wonderfully. A very strong showing for this estate. Best from 2016 through 2030.
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
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Beginning May 30, SYNC will be offering 2 Free audio book downloads a week throughout the summer. If you haven't experienced an audio book before, then I urge you to take advantage of this opportunity. There are some amazing reads, from classics like Frankenstein & Oliver Twist, to more recent YA like The Raven Boys and Enchanted.
If you know me, or my blog, at all - you know that I usually prefer to listen to audio, even over my precious Nook! The reason I'm such a huge fan of audio books is simple, when the right narrator meets the right story, it is a special kind of magic and it can sometimes become an entirely different experience than the one you may have reading the physical book. Well, this is a chance to find out if audio books are for you. Load up your ipod and listen to a classic while laying out on the beach or while out jogging. Or listen with your friends while taking a road trip and discuss your favorite "book boyfriends." But definitely take advantage of this awesome opportunity that SYNC is providing!
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Dutch programmer Megaupload is in Panama Papers
Bram van der Kolk, the Dutch programmer who is seen as the right hand of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is listed in the Panama Papers. Van der Kolk is a shareholder in a letterbox company, allegedly for reasons of privacy.
The Panama Papers show that Bram van der Kolk sixty percent of the shares held by the company Easy Focus Technology Limited, established on January 5, 2010 and is located in the British Virgin Islands, a known tax haven. The Slovak Július Benko, graphic designer of Megaupload, the other shareholder of the shelf companies.
Van der Kolk says to Het Financieele Dagblad and Trouw that he was working on a new start-up with Benko and previously founded a company in the tax haven to be able to do that without Kim Dotcom would learn it. "Not so much because our project competed with Megaupload or because we could thus spend less time on Megaupload. More because Kim would never allow it in principle and would lead directly to an unnecessary escalation," Van der Kolk says to the newspaper. How much money is going on in the company, was not disclosed.
Late last year ruled a judge in New Zealand that Van der Kolk may be extradited to the United States along with Kim Dotcom, because they would have infringed copyright file sharing service MegaUpload. The case of the extradition could go on to the Supreme Court in New Zealand and therefore it may take two to four years before there is a final judgment.
Van der Kolk uses a letterbox company evidenced by an article in which Het Financieele Dagblad announcing that Dutch companies showed record by Panamanian lawyer firm Mossack Fonseca. FD is one of the more than one hundred media organizations doing research worldwide to 2.6 terabytes of data that was stolen from Mossack Fonseca was brought out. The Panama Papers include 11.5 million documents and are considered the biggest data breach in history.
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An anonymous source sent the data initially to a journalist from Süddeutsche Zeitung. The first documents were sent a year ago. SZ then switched the ICIJ, a consortium of research journalists. This organization is in charge of the extensive research have worked, which in the past year four hundred journalists from more than one hundred media organizations from more than eighty countries.
The leaked data is not published for the general public but ICIJ has established a secure environment in which journalists can consult the files and discuss publications that are of general interest to the public. The investigation is ongoing and will continue daily new information out.
How the data in Mossack Fonseca has been leaked is not known. Maybe involves an insider who had access to all data. According to the researchers, the company made a folder containing emails, contracts, scripts and trans scanned documents for each mailbox companies. Per shelf companies sometimes would go to thousands of documents. With OCR software all text to images, such as passport copies searchable.Viewing:-235
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It's important for a security professional to have good security resources in his or her virtual toolbox. Here's a simple list of some of the resources I keep handy these days. This list covers a wide range, including an encryption resource, a way to quickly search for exploits, a recent privacy data breach history, a list of default passwords, and an online firewall test.
- Full Disk Encryption Wiki: A new wiki for a collection of data on encryption systems went live recently. The content on it is pretty sparse so far, but it could very well become a convenient, central clearinghouse of information on the subject. While the site's name suggests its only subject focus is full disk encryption, it seems obvious that it will also address systems for file encryption, rights management software, and other encryption-related solutions.
- Exploit Search: Another new resource on the Web, this is a Web search engine for security exploits. It's essentially a filter for Google searches designed to eliminate results that don't specifically relate to security vulnerabilities and exploits.
- A Chronology of Data Breaches: Keeping up with compromises of private data is the primary purpose of this resource. It gives you a pretty good idea of how trends in private data breaches evolve over time, and it can serve as a wake-up call to those who think their business niches on the Internet are immune to the attentions of data thieves. The history of privacy data breaches on this Web page starts in early 2005.
- Red Oracle Default Password List: The Red Oracle site is a general security resource, but probably the most interesting part of the site is the list of default passwords for many networking products, applications, and other systems, organized by vendor.
- Shields Up!: This is a simple, convenient Web interface to a number of scans for assessing some of the security configuration of your computer. The most useful scan on the site is the All Service Ports scan, which provides the result of a scan to determine the status of network port numbers from 0 to 1055. In other words, it tells you how big a target you are to malicious security crackers.
If you have some online resources of your own that you think serve the same purposes as these or better, or that might complement the five resources here, share them in the discussion area!
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All this time, myself and colleagues have been heartened and amazed at the success of his projects and often commented that, by using the occupation of singing he could be said to be facilitating the well being of each individual in his choir. Maybe he is enabling them to be their own occupational therapist?
In a rather timely coincidence, whilst I was thinking about this concept, (and trying to think how we could contact Gareth to put our ideas to him and see whether he had ever considered aspects of occupational science and occupational therapy principles) Dr Jackie Taylor ran our first online CPD Masterclass entitled: Essential Occupational Science: Putting Occupation back into Occupational Therapy.
An extremely successful and well attended event that over the course of 90 minutes enabled the participants to consider many aspects of occupational science and its links in informing the underlying principles of occupational therapy. With strands of well being and identity threaded through the session, Dr Taylor asked participants to consider the underlying meanings attributed to our occupations, social meaning, occupational integrity, co-occupations and much, much more, ending by reflecting on Whiteford's (2004) suggestion that as occupational therapists we stop trying to define our role, but instead define the underlying perspectives of health and the relationship between health and wellbeing and how, as occupational therapists, we work with that.
Fantastic session Jackie, here's to the next online Masterclass on Change Management delivered by Heather Davidson- see here for more details about the session.
So, back to Gareth............
In watching the latest series I have watched him form a choir in an NHS Trust, a Royal Mail Depot and an airport. An interview with Gareth on the BBC website clearly demonstrates Gareth's beliefs in the importance of singing and of choirs to an individual's confidence, the positive impact on state of mind in addition to the health benefits of posture, breathing etc. He also acknowledges the benefits of a choir in terms of camaraderie and beating fears of isolation.
But it is much more than that.
In the NHS Trust the choir broke down barriers of hierarchy and gave all staff a feeling of belonging to the whole organisation rather than sticking to 'mixing with their own level'. What was interesting, I think, was that Gareth found it hard to get the choir to display an emotional attachment to their singing. Reflecting possibly the fact that the culture in this environment was one of " professional detachment" in order to deal with the rigours and stresses of day to day situations in their working life? This perhaps has resonance with the issue of cultural attitude and how this can impact on ability to engage in occupation. If the 'form' of an occupation requires emotional attachment or display then it can be difficult for someone to engage fully in that occupation of they are unable to do that (either through individual meaning attributed to that occupation or societal expectation).
In the Royal Mail depot, going through change and uncertainty it bridged the gap between management and ground floor staff to improve morale. In the beginning there was a lot of talk about change, controversy and a suggestion that there song should be Morrisey's "Heaven knows I'm miserable now" ("I was looking for a job...."). In addition, a 'playful' hiss went around the room when it was noted that representatives from management were in the choir. Interestingly, Gareth's song choice for them was "We can work it out" by The Beatles. Members of the choir soon began talking about sending a message and delivering a message which could improve relationships (postal terms rather well used here I thought!) and one manager talking about being in the choir meant that they all helped each other along and that " there's no difference between us". I wonder, does this demonstrate rebuilding a community through occupation that impacts on each individual's well being through improved morale, greater job satisfaction and a feeling of being valued in the workplace? "It's given me some pride back in myself" states one choir member. One manager sees the transferability of what is happening "as a choir we work together brilliantly, we help each other, we put up with each other's mistakes and when we get it right it sounds fantastic. Why doesn't this translate to the workplace? What are we missing?"
In the airport it facilitated crossing the divide of landslide and air side staff, with the clear enabling of an individual, still recuperating after a serious accident, to regain an identity and a role. "this (choir) is helping me feel good about myself again and giving me something to do". One member of the choir talks of a common reason for being there,
I tweeted Gareth to say how much I was enjoying the series and to ask if there were any occupational therapists in his choir. He replied!! Apparently there are. So, if anyone reading this is in one of his choirs, is an OT in his NHS choir, or indeed if you are Gareth himself (and I really hope you are reading this) we would love you to get in contact with us to discuss some of these experiences and issues further.


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And so to Woodhall Spa on a cold, grey and windy August evening! Just the three of us: Compo, Clegg and Foggy, Lincolnshire's answer to The Three Must Get Heres. Fortunately, we came across Reg Archer's biker-welcoming friary. Great news for my doctor...and my waistline...they serve small potions as well as standard ones!
Woodhall Spa is an interesting place and well worth a ride out for those of you outside of Lincolnshire. The Petwood Hotel became the wartime Officers Mess for 617 'Dambusters' Squadron and the Squadron Bar hosts a range of memorabilia and tributes to Guy Gibson VC, Leonard Cheshire VC and their Officers. There is a Dambusters Memorial near the town centre, too, and for bikers carrying golf clubs (!!!), there is the National Golf Centre, HQ of EnglandGolf.
The Poachers classic motorcycle club from nearby Spilsby hold a fish and chip run to Reg Archers on the first Friday in August each year, too.
You'll find the chippie at 29 Witham Road, Woodhall Spa, Lincs, LN10 6RW, right next door to The Trading Post which sells classic bikes and other motorcycling and motoring memorabilia.


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Tuesday night, Law and Order: SVU and CSI:New York are over. My quota of murder, sexual tension and lame quips sated (but still I am left unfulfilled by the lack of shirtless Chris Meloni) I scan the Rogers OnDemand for something to watch. After several severely-pixelated failed attempts to watch Fox Mulder have a bunch of The Sex on Californication, I decide to take the plunge, swallow my pride, and watch that loathed vampire abomination Twilight.
I love vampires. I watch the movies and the TV shows, I read the books, I picture the good-looking guys I know with fangs and silvery eyes. I accept different, varying takes on the legend: can't go out in the sun ... can go out in the sun ... crosses and church and garlic bad ... crosses and church and garlic do nothing ... they do have souls and reflections ... they don't have souls or reflections. Whatever. To me, there are only three things that don't vary: fangs, blood and lack of glitter.
Which takes me to everything I perceived would be wrong with Twilight.
First, the little buggers don't have fangs. Second, abundance of glitter. (Please note: in order for there to be an abundance of glitter, there really only needs to be one glitter. Glitter = Lame.) To be fair, I didn't make the No-Glitter Rule until after Twilight was created, because until then, NO ONE WAS DUMB ENOUGH TO THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA. You suck, Stephanie Meyer Or However the Hell You Spell Your Last Name, Because I Don't Feel Like Looking it Up.
They manage to pass the Blood Rule, because feeding off animals is an acceptable vampire practice as far as I'm concerned. See: Stefan in Vampire Diaries (which was a book WAY before Twilight was, so shut up with your little copycat theories, TwiTards.)
Before I get into the Everything I Thought Sucked About This Movie portion of the evening, let's go over what I DID like -- and there was actually quite a lot. The clothes were pretty awesome. The actress who plays Bella was good. She's pretty, and she does "moody" well, without being annoying. Her truck was pretty cool, however, I question how she was able to pick up driving a standard so quickly, after having to ask which pedal was the clutch.
The setting was great. I've seen photos of the real Forks, Washington, and this portrayed that well. Yay for Vancouver -- you're really good at being damp and rainy.
The main components of a good vampire movie were there for the most part: the vampire guy who doesn't want to love the human girl because he doesn't want to hurt her, the conflicted human girl who trusts the vampire guy, the kindly vampires resisting their nature, the mean vampires who just want to eff everything up for the kindly vampires for some reason, the borderline-violent kissing. Overall, not a bad story, although they fell in maddeningly sickly love just a little too fast for my taste.
Now let's get to the fun part, where I bitch about Twilight. I've been bitching about it forever without actually knowing much about it, and I feel like less of a dick now that I can bitch about it after seeing it.
They glitter. THEY GLITTER, for crying out loud. When the vampires go out in the sun, they fucking glitter. I figured it would be lame, but the glittering in this movie far out-lamed anything I could have ever imagined, even in my Liberace-iest dreams. Really? The effects on a film with a decent budget couldn't have been just a little better? Did they cover him in glue and blow arts and crafts sparkles at him? No. Just, no. Don't ever do that again.
No fangs. Don't really have to go into any great detail about that. Self-explanatory, really. Vampires. Have. Fangs.
In Twilight, the vampires have venom. Venom is for snakes. That is all.
The vampires can run really fast, which is fine. How they carried out this particular trait in this move is NOT fine. It's the opposite of fine. I can't really explain it properly, because something in my brain short-circuited every time it happened and I can't really remember what it looked like. I just remember thinking of cartoon characters running in place, and then my eyes would roll back in my head for a while from the sheer dorkiness if it all.
The first half of the movie held my interest, but they lost me part way through. I think it might have been WHEN THE VAMPIRES PLAYED FRIGGING BASEBALL. Seriously, Stephanie Oscar Meyer Wiener Breath? BASEBALL??? Jackass. No one likes you.
Some of the acting was ass. Most of the acting was pretty good. I especially liked the long-haired native boy who is probably a werewolf. (Spoiler Alert!)
And then there's Edward. Edward, Edward, Edward. I actually really liked the character, but I rather wish the actor would get hit by a train. Failing that, I wish he'd wash his hair and get less ugly. What the hell is wrong with his nose? Did someone pound him in the face with a shovel? I know all women everywhere who have ever opened their eyes find him attractive, but I just don't see it. I shouldn't really judge, though, since I keep a picture of Shirtless Keith Richards on my bedroom wall. I shouldn't judge, but I am. Please, women of the world, do not encourage him. At least refuse to drool over him until he buys some Pantene. I beg of you.
So, despite all my preconceived notions, I didn't hate Twilight. I didn't love it, but I didn't want to gouge my eyes out with a pickle fork after having watched it. Will I see the next 43 Twilight movies? Meh. Perhaps. Maybe one day, when they're on the Movie Network and I'm done watching whatever incarnation of CSI/Law and Order is done for the night. Unless Chris Meloni takes his shirt off.
When that happens, Melanie needs some alone-time.....which made Oz difficult to watch.
"Once you figure out what a joke everything is, being the Comedian's the only thing that makes sense."
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
I Watch the Glittery Vampire Movie, and Don't Totally Hate It Even Thought I Really REALLY Want To, and Also, What's the Deal With That Guy's Nose?
Posted by Being the Comedian at 7:45 PM
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nice. i like your honesty because who can really hate Edward right?
- Jodi
- October 28, 2009 at 7:21 AM
Yet again Miss M, you have managed to bring the lolz. I love Twilight and all its awesomeness. I also do think the glitter thing was wacko, like shimmering body lotion or something. I do like the danger of the fangs, but have learned to deal. Thanks for the laughs!!
- October 28, 2009 at 4:15 PM
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Name: Lyizal Thalehnor
Nicknames: Lyi, "Lee"
Ethnicity: Darrian (genetically Darrian-Solomani mixed)
Species Physical Description: Darrians are a Minor Human race, tending to be tall, slender and dextrous, with golden skin and white or silver-grey hair.
Sex: Male
Age: 34
Occupation: Pilot/Medic, Scout Service
Former Occupations: Doctor, Naval Officer/Medical
Weight: 81 kg (178 pounds)
Height: 183 cm (6'0")
Hair color and style: White, long, straight.
Eye color: Green
Clothing: Commonly wears tailored long-sleeved mid-thigh tunics with Mandarin collars, loose-legged ankle-length pants, and soft-soled shoes.
Homeworld: Vilis (Industrial, High Population)
Home Sector: Vilis Subsector
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YAY! first blog-"sittin up in my room, back here thinking bout you" -lol "moesha"
I am well rested today, I feel relaxed without a doubt. I was so drained from last weekend and so I decided to rest this soul for just a day. I've never had a chance to just lay back and chill in my bed, no work or school to worry about, it was "perfect" however, one thing was missing there was no good food in the house, I was really craving for some merienda to be specific banana Q! fried banana with brown sugar, just like the good ol' days! see this picture..i am salivating right this moment =p


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Usually there is the word "Tip" on the plug that goes on the end of the cord; this will line up with either a "+" or "-" on the other part of the cord.
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In in doubt, or if your adaptor is different you might need a multi-tester to determine the polarity.
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Yes, it does. True, a fraction of the full load with power on but if thinking "green" (and lower bills!) you might want to invest in some cheap power strips. The problem is, no one wants to reach down low behind their furniture everytime they want to completely disconnect their devices so they're commonly left plugged in. With a power strip you can locate it in a more easy to reach location. If you get the ones with surge protection you can maybe prevent some damage during a storm or other periods of power problems.