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Survival stories for young adult readers at your library
Special to the Daily
Most of us know about the Caldecott and Newbury awards for children's literature, but the American Library Association offers additional literary prizes as well, such as the Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences. Three recent winners feature teens' creativity, bravery and honor as they vie for survival.
William Kamkwamba describes his determination to bring wind power to his very poor family in Malawi. In 2002, when he was 15 years old, his small, landlocked country was hit with its worst famine in history. He and his family almost starved to death while trying to survive on their small farm. Without money for schooling but with a curious mind that would not give up, William studied old engineering books and, despite ridicule from fellow villagers, built a windmill that powered lights in his parents' home. "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope" would make a wonderful holiday gift to any young person who might enjoy a little inspiration and encouragement.
Girls are called upon to perform heroic deeds too. In "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe," readers meet a young, professional Afghan woman named Kamila Sidiqi (name changed for her protection). Author and former ABC News reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon spent years in Afghanistan following Kamila's story, which she relates in a simple, straightforward and sensitive style. When the Taliban moved into Kabul, women were suddenly deprived of their freedom and livelihoods. Kamila's mother, father and older brother fled the area, leaving her to manage the family. At great personal risk she learned to sew, started a business as a seamstress and ended up employing all her sisters, her brother and neighborhood women. Out of her despair grew a brave young entrepreneur full of determination and resilience.
The third title is more difficult to categorize. The characters are based on people whom the author grew up with, but they are not specific individuals. Laced with profanity, this book is also grittier and more graphic than the other two, but "Salvage the Bones" imparts the biggest emotional bang due to the fine writing style of its author, Jesmyn Ward. After living through Hurricane Katrina, Ms. Ward felt it was important to record the bravery and strength required of the survivors in coastal Mississippi towns. Esch, the 14-year-old protagonist, is pregnant and lives in a rundown home with her drunken father and three brothers. (Her mother passed away after the birth of her youngest brother.) Each of these complex characters has hopes and dreams that seem impossible in their impoverished situation. The book encompasses the 12 days leading up to and including the landfall of Hurricane Katrina and its immediate aftermath. Esch and her family try to prepare as best they can despite the injuries, tragedies and stresses that most of us never have to face. The reader gains insights into these relationships with the addition of Esch's fascination with the myth of Medea, her brother's devotion to his pit bull and her loyalty to him. The strength and love of family must sustain them.
Since these books are adult titles, they present a wonderful opportunity for parents to read them when their teens do and discuss some very interesting topics and situations. We just have to remember not to create a self-serving teachable moment by reminding our kids just how fortunate they are to be growing up here in Summit County.
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Wyoming Has 3 NFL Draft Prospects
Despite Wyoming football finishing with a losing record in 2013, they may have some success in May's NFL Draft.
Three Cowboys are projected to be drafted. Quarterback Brett Smith, Wide Receiver Robert Herron, and Free Safety Marqueston Huff.
Smith announced last week he will forego his senior season and enter the NFL Draft. CBS Sports has Smith listed as the sixth best QB in this year's draft and a second or third round pick.
CBS Sports Current quarterback rankings:
1 - Teddy Bridgewater (Louisville)
2 - Derek Carr (Fresno State)
3 - Johnny Manziel (Texas A&M)
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6 - Brett Smith (Wyoming)
Robert Herron is listed as the 17th best wide receiver in the draft and projected to go in the third or fourth round. The 2014 draft may be in high demand for receivers.
Marqueston Huff is the sixth best free safety on the board and is a fourth round projection.
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bufio package provides functions for buffered I/O, including ones for reading and writing strings from and to UTF-8 encoded text files. The
io package provides low-level I/O functions and the
io.Reader and
io.Writer interfaces will be needed for the
americanise program. The
io/ioutil package provides high-level file-handling functions. The
regexp package provides powerful regular expression support. The other packages (
filepath, and
strings) were mentioned in the first article in this series.
func main() { inFilename, outFilename, err := filenamesFromCommandLine() if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) os.Exit(1) } inFile, outFile := os.Stdin, os.Stdout if inFilename != "" { if inFile, err = os.Open(inFilename); err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } defer inFile.Close() ➍ } if outFilename != "" { if outFile, err = os.Create(outFilename); err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } defer outFile.Close() ➎ } if err = americanise(inFile, outFile); err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } }
main() function gets the input and output filenames from the command line, creates corresponding file values, and then passes the files to the
americanise() function to do the work. The function begins by retrieving the names of the files to read and write and an error value. If there was a problem parsing the command line, we print the error (which contains the program's usage message), and terminate the program. Some of Go's print functions use reflection (introspection) to print a value using the value's
Error()string method if it has one, or its
string method if it has one. If we provide our own custom types with one of these methods, Go's print functions will automatically be able to print values of our custom types.
err is
nil, we have
inFilename and
outFilename strings (which may be empty), and we can continue. Files in Go are represented by pointers to values of type
os.File, so we create two such variables initialized to the standard input and output streams (which are both of type
*os.File). Since Go functions and methods can return multiple values, it follows that Go supports multiple assignments such as those we have used here.
Each filename is handled in essentially the same way. If the filename is empty, the file has already been correctly set to
os.Stdin or
os.Stdout (both of which are of type
*os.File a pointer to an
os.File value representing the file); but if the filename is nonempty, we create a new
*os.File to read from or write to the file as appropriate. The
os.Open() function takes a filename and returns an
*os.File value that can be used for reading the file. Correspondingly, the
os.Create() function takes a filename and returns an
*os.File value that can be used for reading or writing the file, creating the file if it doesn't exist, and truncating it to zero length if it does exist. (Go also provides the
os.OpenFile() function to exercise complete control over the mode and permissions used to open a file.) The
os.Create(), and
os.OpenFile() functions return two values: an
*os.File and
nil if the file was opened successfully, or
nil and an
error if an error occurred.
err is
nil, we know that the file was successfully opened so we immediately execute a
defer statement to close the file. Any function that is the subject of a
defer statement must be called hence, the parentheses after the functions' names (➍,➎) but the calls only actually occur when the function in which the
defer statements are written returns. So the
defer statement "captures" the function call and sets it aside for later. This means that the
defer statement itself takes almost no time at all and control immediately passes to the following statement. Thus, the deferred
os.File.Close() method won't actually be called until the enclosing function in this case,
main() returns (whether normally or due to a panic, which will be discussed shortly), so the file is open to be worked on and yet guaranteed to be closed when we are finished with it, or if a panic occurs.
If we fail to open the file, we call
log.Fatal() with the error. This function logs the date, time, and error (to
os.Stderr unless another log destination is specified), and calls
os.Exit() to terminate the program. When
os.Exit() is called (directly, or by
log.Fatal()), the program is terminated immediately and any pending deferred statements are lost. This is not a problem, though, since Go's runtime system will close any open files, the garbage collector will release the program's memory, and any decent database or network that the application might have been talking to will detect the application's demise and respond gracefully. Just the same as with the
bigdigits example in my previous article, we don't use
log.Fatal() in the first if statement, because the
err contains the program's usage message and we want to print this without the date and time that the
log.Fatal() function normally outputs.
In Go, a panic is a runtime error (rather like an exception in other languages). We can cause panics ourselves using the built-in
panic() function, and can stop a panic in its tracks using the
recover() function. In theory, Go's panic/recover functionality can be used to provide a general-purpose exception handling mechanism but doing so is considered to be poor Go practice. The Go way to handle errors is for functions and methods to return an error value as their sole or last return value or
nil if no error occurred and for callers to always check the error they receive. The purpose of panic/recover is to deal with genuinely exceptional (that is, unexpected) problems and not with normal errors. (Go's approach is very different from C++, Java, and Python, where exception handling is often used for both errors and exceptions. A more detailed discussion and rationale for Go's panic/recover mechanism is available. With both files successfully opened (the
os.Stdout, and
os.Stderr files are automatically opened by the Go runtime system), we call the
americanise() function to do the processing, passing it the files on which to work. If
americanise() returns
nil, the
main() function terminates normally and any deferred statements in this case, ones that close the
inFile and
outFile if they are not
os.Stdin and
os.Stdout are executed. And if
err is not
nil, the error is printed, the program is exited, and Go's runtime system closes any open files.
americanise() function accepts an
io.Reader and an
io.Writer, not
*os.Files, but this doesn't matter since the
os.File type supports the
io.ReadWriter interface (which simply aggregates the
io.Reader and
io.Writer interfaces) and can therefore be used wherever an
io.Reader or an
io.Writer is required. This is an example of duck typing in action the
americanise() function's parameters are interfaces, so the function will accept any values no matter what their types that satisfy the interface; that is, any values that have the methods the interfaces specify. The
americanise() function returns
nil, or an
error if an error occurred.
func filenamesFromCommandLine() (inFilename, outFilename string, err error){ if len(os.Args) > 1 && (os.Args[1] == "-h" || os.Args[1] == "--help") { err = fmt.Errorf("usage: %s [<]infile.txt [>]outfile.txt", filepath.Base(os.Args[0])) return "", "", err } if len(os.Args) > 1 { inFilename = os.Args[1] if len(os.Args) > 2 { outFilename = os.Args[2] } } if inFilename != "" && inFilename == outFilename { log.Fatal("won't overwrite the infile") } return inFilename, outFilename, nil }
filenamesFromCommandLine() function returns two strings and an error value and unlike the functions we have seen so far, here the return values are given variable names, not just types. Return variables are set to their zero values (empty strings and
nil for
err in this case) when the function is entered, and keep their zero values unless explicitly assigned to in the body of the function. (More on this shortly.) The function begins by checking whether the user has asked for usage help. (The Go standard library includes a
flag package for handling command-line arguments. Third-party packages for GNU-compatible command-line handling are available from godashboard.appspot.com/project.) If they have, we create a new error value using the
fmt.Errorf() function with a suitable usage string, and return immediately. As usual with Go code, the caller is expected to check the returned error and behave accordingly (and this is exactly what
main() does). The
fmt.Errorf() function is like the
fmt.Printf() function we saw earlier, except that it returns an error value containing a string using the given format string and arguments rather than writing a string to
os.Stdout. (The
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Interview by Mike Woitalla
The turf war between youth organizations ensures an endless fountain of championships and the tournament industry has made playing three to four games in one weekend a common part of youth soccer. We asked Dr. Dev K. Mishra what coaches can do to when their teams are faced with game overload. Dr. Mishra, the founder of SidelineSportsDoc.com, is an orthopedic surgeon who has served as team doctor at the professional, national team, college and high school level.
SOCCER AMERICA: Despite the fact that the U.S. Soccer Federation discourages youth teams from playing multiple games in a weekend, youth coaches continue to send their teams to tournaments that require three of four games in two days. …
DR. DEV MISHRA: So much is out of the coaches' hands. There are certain tournaments that they feel obligated to participate in either to enhance the stature of their team or to expose their players to the best competition, and maybe to college coaches. They are doing what they feel is best for their players and are generally not in control of the tournament schedules.
The multiple-game in a short period tournament format doesn't seem to be going away any time soon.
SA: Besides the fact that player-development experts say the practice-to-game ratio is out of whack in American youth soccer, what do we know about the perils of squeezing in too many games?
DR. MISHRA: There is some good research on injury rates from multiple matches in a short period of time from the professional ranks.
"The American Journal of Sports Medicine" recently published a well-conducted study out of Glasgow Celtic over the course of two seasons ("Effect of 2 Soccer Matches in a Week on Physical Performance and Injury Rate"). In a very sophisticated way, they took a look at performance parameters and also at injury rates. The variable was the amount of time between games.
Bear in mind these are really high-level professional athletes with access to probably the best medical care that you can find.
They found that for the performance parameters there were no significant differences related to time between games. They attributed this to training methods, nutrition, and some other recovery efforts they did between matches. But the injury data was really different.
Essentially what they found was a six-fold increase in injuries if the games were played less than four days apart.
It's hard to fully apply those findings to youth sports, but it's reasonable to assume that if there's a proven higher injury rate for four days or less apart for professional players than at least to some extent that same rationale would be applicable to youth players playing two games in one day or three games in a weekend.
SA: So what can a youth coach do to help ensure the health of his or her players when faced with such a schedule?
DR. MISHRA: The coach will need to go into a tournament with the awareness that some players will need to be subbed out more frequently and get some rest.
Hopefully, the coach will be able to take as large a roster as possible and be able to have a player rotation – either per game or within games and give certain players rest.
The coach would need to take injury complaints seriously and have a really low index of suspicion when a young player says that they're hurt. Or if they're just not functioning at their maximum – at that point they probably need a little bit of rest even if they're not injured -- because the risk of an injury is high if they're not playing at 100 percent.
SA: How about pre- and post-game?
DR. MISHRA: The pre-match preparation is going to be important. Some of the things that have been suggested are to modify training and decrease physical intensity going into a multiple-game situation.
You want to really pay attention to the pregame nutrition and hydration too, generally emphasizing carbohydrates and minimizing fats. It can make a positive difference even in the young players.
And pay attention to the postgame as well. After that first match research shows that the first 20 minutes are the best time to re-hydrate and get some carbs and protein back in the body.
Also, the team should engage in some form of cool-down.
At a lot of the larger, more reputable tournaments there will be certified athletic trainers on site and players, if necessary, should utilize the professional trainers to help them with injury recovery. Ice, massage and active stretching.
Icing down sore areas such as thigh, hamstrings, calf, knee, ankles can help recovery.
SA: Are there methods used at the higher levels that youth coaches can look to?
DR. MISHRA: There are some modalities from the collegiate or professional teams used after a match that might not be available to youth teams, but some of the things mentioned above can definitely help.
Deep tissue massage has been helpful to promote muscle recovery if someone's got soreness in the thigh or their hamstring.
And the old standby for doing a post-match dynamic cool-down and a passive stretching routine can be helpful.
For a lot of these things we don't have hard science behind it in terms of the youth sports experience but we have good science behind it in terms of adult athlete experiences. I think we can reasonably say that these things will help and certainly not hurt the young athlete who has to play in multiple games.
SA: I've heard some people defend the tournament format of several games in two days by saying they played pickup soccer all day when they were kids and it wasn't a problem. Is that a fair comparison?
DR. MISHRA: My personal feeling is that we see far fewer injuries with pickup games and unorganized play than organized play. But I don't have hard evidence to support that. That's based on personal experience.
I think the opinion is shared by a number of sports medicine professionals but to my knowledge it has not been proven scientifically.
There's so much subjectivity when you talk about playing pickup soccer or an organized practice, the definitions can be very blurry and overlap each other considerably.
My personal feeling as someone who sees kids every week in my office, is that the injury patterns that you would get from playground sports compared to an organized youth sport, no matter what the sport, is the injury patterns tend to be very different.
In organized sports we see more overuse type injuries. Things that can go on and last for weeks and weeks and be very nagging. We see other types of injuries like ankle sprains, ACL tears, shoulder dislocation that tend to be very sport-specific as opposed to free-play injuries.
SA: It would seem that an organized play environment – especially a tournament with several games in a short period of time -- creates intensity much different than the atmosphere at pickup games or practice and could contribute to increased injuries. …
DR. MISHRA: The fact that teams line up against each other with uniforms, the game on the line and maybe with a trophy at stake, whatever the sport, introduces a level of competitiveness and intensity that's totally part of human nature. It's not a bad thing. It's generally a good thing. We all have our own kids engaged in those activities.
But it does introduce something in terms of the physical demands that translate to injury.
If you're playing in a park and you don't feel like playing, you go sit down and wait for the ice cream truck or something. So there's self-regulation that takes place before an overuse injury happens.
(Dev K. Mishra, the founder of SidelineSportsDoc.com, is an orthopedic surgeon in private practice, Burlingame, Calif. He is a member of the team physician pool with the U.S. Soccer Federation and has served as team physician at the University of California, Berkeley.)
(Mike Woitalla, the executive editor of Soccer America, coaches youth soccer for East Bay United in Oakland, Calif. His youth soccer articles are archived at YouthSoccerFun.com.)
I remember a talk given by Juergen Klinsman a number of years ago at the US Youth Soccer Convention in Atlanta, GA. He stated that there had been a study performed in Germany over a number of years with teams of U17 players. He noted that they played one game a day for four days in a row. He said that the findings were that after the second day of play they found long-term physiological damage to over 70% of the players. He wasn't any more specific than this, i.e., he didn't say what or how it was measured, but it may be worth following up with him. First, these are not pros, they are teenagers. Second, since our youth tournaments require more than one game a day, the findings could be very pertinent, not only concerning the chance of immediate injury, but the long-term effects.


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text: Between the blues of sea and sky, pure white. Mykonos town unfolds before my eyes like a residential sculpture. Mykonos architecture is a grand example of unique Cycladic architecture set around a picturesque fishing-village bay. A primeval architectural model which captures and conveys the very nature responsible for its existence. I read… *"the key to Greek art lies in visually experiencing Greek nature, its landscape"… "it is impossible to truly connect with Greek art, comprehend it, grasp its spiritual dimension and fine creation, when it is outside of Greece […] For if there exists a correlation between thought and shape for Greeks, it is thanks to the indissoluble link they have with their surrounding natural environment, a link that is a hallow archetype".


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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is finally coming to an end. After over 100 days, it seems that a cap, a static kill and the relief well will finally stop oil from pouring into the sea.
The estimate for the flow of the well has changed many times over the past 3 months. It seems to be topping out at around 62,000 barrels a day. This is much higher than the original estimates, but how do they calculate the flow? The USGS used video of the oil spill, mass balance calculations and remote sensors to determine how much crude oil was flowing out of the break.
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So what has happened to all the oil? Well, the White House says that 75% has been dispersed, collected, burned off or evaporated. Other reports have different numbers. In July the old cap on the well was replaced with a new and better one that captured most of the oil. Then a static kill, which uses mud to force pressure down in the well, helped to stanch the flow. The relief wells have been drilled and there seems to be no seeping. All of that means that the oil spill is over. 4.9 million barrels was pumped out in the Gulf, making this the largest oil spill in the Gulf and the third largest oil spill in history.
BP is waiting on a pressure test to see if they need to initiate a bottom kill. A bottom kill is when they drill to the bottom of the well and pump in mud and cement through the bottom of the well.
The spill has caused a lot of things to change. A moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf was put into effect. There have been several challenges to this.
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Also the Mineral Management Services (MMS) has been broken up into the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The MMS was responsible for conservation and environmental protection on federal land used by energy companies as well as collecting royalties and enforcing regulations on companies that used federal lands to produce crude oil and natural gas. They were plagued with accusations of corruption and ineptitude. The new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or Bureau of Ocean Energy, has been subdivided into the Offshore Energy and Minerals Management and Minerals Revenue Management. This means that the people who enforce the regulation are not the same people who collect the revenue.
The 4.9 million barrels that were pumped out into the ocean will have long reaching environmental consequences. Some scientists worry that all the natural bacteria that ate the oil will help to form an area that is low in oxygen. However, a mass killing of fish does not require an oil disaster. Numerous beaches were closed to tourists and locals alike. Also some areas set aside for fishing (and shrimping) were closed because of the oil spill. Unfortunately, it will take a long time to see what the real lasting effects of the spill are. In fact, it will take years to determine the true effects. Most of the beaches and fishing areas have been reopened.
Waking up on April 20, no one would have thought that we would be dealing with an unprecedented disaster in the Gulf. No one thought that such a disaster would be linked with how we perceive the modern world or our every day life. Will we take steps to prevent the next one?


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Tyson Downs, Kennewick, Washington Wins Top Honors For Sales And Customer Service At Verizon Wireless' National President's Cabinet
BELLEVUE, WA — Tyson Downs, government account executive with Verizon Wireless in Washington State, has earned membership in Verizon Wireless' President's Cabinet. The honor is reserved for those ranking in the top one percent nationally in sales during 2007.
Downs earned the distinction by demonstrating exceptional sales leadership and customer service in assisting customers with wireless productivity tools, including wireless data applications like high-speed BroadbandAccess service, V CAST and other Verizon Wireless multimedia and data solutions. The recognition places him as one of the company's top performers among its more than 18,000 sales executives across the country.
"At Verizon Wireless, we encourage our employees to focus on matching our products and services to customer needs," said Kelley Kurtzman, regional president, Verizon Wireless. "Tyson exemplifies what it means to put customers first. He is highly valued by us and his customers."
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A film by HopeCollege junior Tyler Depke of Grayslake, Ill., is one of three Web film finalists in a contest sponsored by National Geographic Channel in which the general public has a say through online voting.
A panel of judges is selecting the first-place finisher in each of the two categories in the channel's first annual "Preserve Our Planet" College Film and PSA contest. The second-place winner in each category will be determined based on the number of votes that each finalist receives through a nationwide online vote continuing through 5 p.m. on Monday, March 31.
Anyone who visits the contest's Web site may vote, and each person may vote once each day. The films and voting are featured at the contest's site at: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/preserve-our-planet/film-fest/film.html
Depke directed, edited and produced the film "STOP! Think Green and Save," which follows Hope junior Jake Gilliland of Round Lake, Ill., as he demonstrates simple ways to conserve energy as he goes through his daily routine. Topics include conserving water while brushing one's teeth; turning down the thermostat at night and dressing warmly; using cold water while doing laundry; using natural light during the day; choosing not to heat-dry dishes when using the dishwasher; and installing high-energy light bulbs.
Depke is a geology major who is minoring in chemistry and environmental science. He saw the contest as a way to link his academic interests and his concern for the environment with his interest since his freshman year in video editing.
"I've been wanting to connect the two, and that was one of the ways that I thought I could," he said.
While most of the film focuses on Gilliland's conservation efforts, it closes with him sharing his ideas with classmate Michael Golden of Crystal Lake, Ill., a step that Depke feels is particularly important.
"We need to expand the knowledge," he said. "He talked with Mike and gave that idea to someone else. I think that is what this contest is about."
Correspondingly, Depke has created a group on Facebook to help spread word of the contest, and if he wins will donate a portion of the contest's $1,500 prize to a non-profit environmental organization based on the number of people who join the group, which is named "National Geographic Video Contest: With your help I will donate up to 1,000."
Depke's stop-motion film, which is slightly less than five minutes long, is made entirely from still images and includes no dialogue. A sequence that shows Gilliland sleeping features a real night's sleep chronicled using a timer. Coins, articles of clothing and utensils move on their own to spell out in written form the messages that the film first demonstrates. Depke shot some 14,000 images with a digital single lens reflex camera, incorporating about 5,000 into the film, which he created between the start of the semester in January and mid-February.
Several students are on camera in the film's closing seconds to help form the letters of the film's final message, "What you do counts," which they spell out on the floor of the atrium of the A. Paul Schaap Science Center. Gilliland's '09 Pull tug-of-war shirt and a Hope sweatshirt worn by Golden are two visual touches that also connect the film to its local setting. Most of the photography took place at Depke's and Gilliland's campus residences, Fairbank Cottage and Ross Apartments respectively.
Depke's activities at Hope also include the college's Environmental Issues Group. In the forthcoming fall 2008 semester he will be studying abroad in Bolivia, where he hopes to hone his proficiency with Spanish and study documentary filmmaking. He is the son of Rob and Jennie Depke of Grayslake.
The National Geographic Channel contest solicited college student films and PSAs that highlighted existing efforts to preserve the planet, highlighted what people should be doing to preserve the planet, showcased consequences of not preserving the planet or incorporated the theme "What you do counts" in a creative way. "What you do counts" is the theme for the inaugural year of "Preserve Our Planet," focusing on helping people understand their individual carbon footprint and provide alternatives to lower their impact on the planet.
The Web film winner will receive $1,500, and the Web PSA winner will receive $1,000. Both will also receive a trip to Washington, D.C., to have their work screened at the kickoff event of the annual worldwide gathering of National Geographic Explorers on Tuesday, April 8, along with the first-place winners selected by the panel of judges.
Winning and select film finalists and PSAs will also be broadcast nationally as part of NGC's Earth Day events via NGC On Demand wherever that service is available.
The other two finalists in the Web film competition are "The Animal Cracker Nature Show," by Genna Duberstein of AmericanUniversity in Washington, D.C.; and "The Experimental Generation," by Alex Jeffries from UCLA in Westwood, Calif. Online voting began on Tuesday, March 18.


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Nate Wolters Watch: November 25th at Detroit
Former South Dakota State guard Nate Wolters played 16 minutes for the Milwaukee Bucks Monday night in Auburn Hills, Michigan, as the Bucks (2-11) lost to the Pistons, 113-94.
Wolters finished with 8 points on 4-of-6 shooting. He had 3 assists and 1 rebound.
For the season, Wolters is averaging 7.5 points, 4.5 assists, and 2.8 rebounds a game. He's averaging 27 minutes a game and hitting 40.6% from the floor.
The Bucks host Washington Wednesday night. Milwaukee has lost nine straight games.


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When choosing a hybrid and population for narrow rows, consider leaf architecture and ear type. There are essentially three types of leaves--upright, pendulum and semi-upright.
· Upright-leaf hybrids grow straight up like a pineapple; in high populations an upright leaf structure lets sunlight reach deeper into the canopy, to increase photosynthesis. Upright leaves maximize photosynthesis when high populations are planted in narrow rows.
· Pendulum hybrid leaves are suited for lower populations, to decrease water loss by evaporation while maintaining photosynthetic activity. Pendulum-leaf hybrids flop out and intercept sunlight like solar panels, capturing light before it gets down low in the canopy.
· Semi-upright hybrids have upper leaves that are more upright in structure and the lower leaves more pendulum.
Along with deciding which leaf architecture you need, look at ear type. Determinate-ear hybrids change their ear size very little, so you have to plant them at the higher end of the population range to optimize yield.
Flex-ear hybrids will get bigger, given the right agronomic conditions. Semi-flex hybrids flex their size somewhat less than true flex-ear hybrids.
Failing to understand leaf structure and ear types can be costly. In my experience, if you use a flex-ear hybrid in a pendulum-leaf format, high populations will cause the hybrid to flex the opposite direction, and yield will suffer.
Consider your own unique objectives and growing conditions. If you have highly productive soil with good drainage, plenty of nutrients and good rainfall or irrigation, that's a racehorse environment for corn production. You want to maximize interception of sunlight, so you don't waste any. A short-statured hybrid with an upright leaf will let light down through the canopy, to maximize photosynthesis for food production. A determinate-ear hybrid will let you push the population as hard as possible.
A grower on doughtier soils needs to manage water use while maintaining yield. He would want a pendulum-leaf hybrid, along with narrow rows, in order to canopy as quickly as possible and minimize evaporation of water from the soil surface. A flex-ear hybrid would maximize yield on lower populations while conserving water.
Many growers farm both types of soil in the same field. In that environment, they should use a hybrid with a semi-flex ear type, pushing populations in their heavy soil and pulling back in their lighter ground.
A semi-upright-leaf hybrid will provide some row shading in the light soil while also intercepting sunlight in the heavy soils. A semi-flex hybrid will maintain ear size at higher populations and flex out to maintain yield at lower populations.
Also, if the highest yielding hybrid for your situation doesn't contain enough disease resistance, you may need to apply a fungicide. High populations and narrow rows are very attractive to insects such as corn aphids and corn borers. Scout carefully, and be ready to treat if you find a problem.
When pushing population, standability may become an issue. Apply a fungicide if it's needed for disease control. Have sufficient harvest capacity, and plan to harvest early.
When to Switch to Narrow Row Corn
Ken Ferrie answers a viewer's question in this episode of Corn College TV. In episode 4 of season 2 Corn College TV, Ken Ferrie is asked what farmers should consider if they are thinking of a switch to narrow row corn.
Can Narrow Rows Yield More Corn?
Narrow rows can be a good agronomic decision under the right situation
Plant Narrow and Numerous, Boost Yields
Improved corn genetics might favor high seeding rates and ultra-narrow rows, helping boost yields.
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(Hong Kong) Dragonair today (25 July) announced that its flight operations and schedules are still not yet back to normal because of the knock on effect and passengers backlogs arising from the cancellation of 49 flights and diversion of 7 flights caused by typhoon Vicente. The airline expects it could take a few more days before operations return to normal.
Dragonair appeals to passengers to postpone or cancel non-essential travel between today and this coming Sunday as the airline is making every effort to bring its services back to normal.
The airline will waive re-booking, re-routing, cancellation and refund charges for all tickets issued worldwide (irrespective of fare type) on or before 24 July for travel on Dragonair between now and 29 July.
Dragonair Chief Executive Officer Patrick Yeung said: "We sincerely apologise to our customers. Our teams are taking all possible actions in getting passengers to their destinations as quickly as circumstances permit. However, owing to the after effect of disruptions caused by typhoon Vicente, we are facing significant challenges in ensuring our flight schedules are intact.
"The flight diversions in the past two days have caused a number of airplanes and crew to be out of their intended positions, disrupting our schedule integrity. In addition, a weather-related shortage of ground services has added complexity to the situation," he added.
"While the typhoon is moving away from Hong Kong, weather conditions remain challenging as occasional heavy rains and thunderstorms are affecting Hong Kong and nearby areas. Therefore, more spacing precautions in sequencing departing and arriving aircraft are necessary. In the meantime, lightning at the airport today requires that personnel be removed from the ramp for safety reasons. The chain effect is that we will be experiencing the after effects of the typhoon for days," he said.
Dragonair expects that flights will be delayed through the end of the week. Additional flight cancellations may also be necessary to get airplanes and crew back into position.
Passengers are advised of possible delays in the delivery of baggage and they are reminded to provide their contact details upon arrival at their destinations when their bags are delayed.
As operations remain disrupted, passengers are advised to first check the airline's website, www.dragonair.com, to get the latest flight information before leaving for the airport.
Online check-in service for today's flights has been suspended.
Passengers whose flights are cancelled are advised not to go the airport. Dragonair will assist with alternative arrangements for affected passengers.
To ensure customers receive the latest flight status updates via SMS or email, they are advised to update their contact details in Manage My Booking.
Dragonair continues to monitor the situation closely and will issue further updates once more information becomes available. The airline regrets any inconvenience this may cause and hopes for passengers' understanding.


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The Fallacy of "Better" Peanut Butter
Much has been written about unnecessary additives (i.e.: modified cornstarch, partially hydrogenated oils, and high fructose corn syrup) in many commercial peanut butters.
People are often surprised to learn that only 60 percent of reduced-fat Jif peanut butter is peanuts; the other forty percent includes corn syrup solids, soy protein, and hydrogenated oils. "Natural" Jif, meanwhile, is 90 percent peanuts; the remaining ten percent composed of palm oil, sugar, and molasses.
The best thing you can do from a health standpoint is eat real peanut butter; that is to say, 100% ground-up peanuts (varieties that only contain peanuts and salt are fine too; some quick math reveals they contain roughly 99.5% peanuts and 0.5% salt).
Over the past few weeks, I have been asked via e-mail and Twitter about niche peanut butter brands that claim to be "better" and "healthier" versions. Despite their self-described hoopla of nutritional superiority, they manage to remove one of peanut butter's most healthful components.


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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA -- Sailors and marines are statistically more likely to be involved in a mishap when they're off-duty during summer months, according to officials at the Safety Office at Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana in Virginia Beach, VA. Looking to prevent that, officials hosted "Hot Rods: Hazards of Recreational Off Duty Safety," a program that taught sailors how to remain safe while enjoying summer recreational activities.
NAS Oceana Commanding Officer Capt. Patrick Lorge kicked off the session.
"When we go back and look at [a mishap], there's always a kind of link that we can say, 'Where could we have stopped that from happening?'" Lorge says.
The program at the theater was divided into off-duty hazards such as those associated with common summer activities, organized sports, water sports, riding all terrain vehicles, recreational parachuting, as well as a program on traffic safety.
Basketball was also a hot topic, as most in attendance did not realize it was a leading cause of injuries, especially to fingers, ankles, knees and shins. Paul Graveline, occupational health safety specialist for NAS Oceana, says many of those injuries could be prevented by using Occupational Risk Management (ORM), which includes walking the court and looking for hazards, by conducting proper warm-up and cool down exercises and avoiding alcohol while playing.
Commanding Officer Cmdr. Peter Matisoo hopes his sailors take much more than just one idea away from the presentations. He made the talk mandatory for his entire squadron.
"Every sailor is extremely valuable and you can't put a price tag on that," he says. "It's always worth the investment, and I do consider it an investment to take the time, stop, pause and think about how we're doing business. I just want our sailors to think and apply the same level of rigor, the same level of discipline to off-duty things as they do to on-duty things."


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Fixing Suspension Bumps, Squeaks, and Wandering Tendencies
It never fails, things tend to finally wear out, and ultimately break at the most inopportune moment. You could be ready to enter the final round of elimination at the track, or, 2,000 miles from home, but when a part's life-span has ended, you're going to find out.
Such was the case with my 2003 Ram part's hauler. I was on a multi-day road trip, stopping at shops in North Carolina, and Virginia, and somewhere in between the two, I started to hear a strange noise coming from the underside of my truck. I wasn't far from my final destination, so I took my time, and hoped I made it.
Once I got to where I was going, a cursory inspection under the truck revealed that the ball joints and wheel bearings were nearing the end of their life span. So, it was time for a rebuild, but going to an auto parts store can relieve your wallet of more cash than you're prepared to let go of. So, I did a little research, and found out that Rock Auto not only carries everything needed, but is cheaper than a local auto parts store. So we ordered up the parts we needed, and within a couple days, the parts were in our hands, and we could begin the work.


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While U.S. beef producers and ag economists are generally pessimistic about industry and economic factors in 2009, the vast majority believe the following three years will see significant improvement in a number of areas.
For instance, while 47% of producer respondents anticipate that the domestic economy will either deteriorate or deteriorate dramatically in 2009 relative to 2008, almost 69% expect to see improvement or dramatic improvement over the next three years. Meanwhile, the biggest share of economists responding (45.5%) believe the domestic economy will remain the same in 2009 relative to 2008, but almost 91% expect it to improve or improve dramatically over the coming three-year period.
That's according to an email survey of 17,234 BEEF readers (592 useable surveys returned) and 32 agricultural economists (11 useable surveys returned) conducted in early January by BEEF magazine. The two groups were polled on their level of optimism or pessimism for 2009 and the next three-year period. Subjects were polled on prospects for the domestic economy, world economy, export demand for beef, domestic demand for beef, taxes, feed costs, energy costs, credit availability and interest, inflation, calf prices, feeder-cattle prices, fed-cattle prices, cull-cow prices, replacement-heifer prices and land prices. See some results here: beefmagazine.com/images/WhatsGoingOnFigs.pdf.
"The results of this exclusive survey indicate that producers are currently shellshocked, but convinced these are passing conditions," says Scott Grau, BEEF research manager. "Producers are actually quite optimistic about 2010 and beyond with the highest level of optimism existing among respondents in the 12 north-central states. Respondents from the West tended to be the most pessimistic, while Southern producers tended to fall in between the other two regions."
Of the 592 reader surveys returned (3.4% effective response rate), more than 40% indicated they intend to expand their operation size over the coming three-year period – 28.5% said they intend to expand by 1-10%, while 12.8% will expand by 11% or more.
Meanwhile, 37.8% indicated they intend to retain their current operation size over the coming three-year period, 5.7% said they will contract by 1-10%, and 5.6% will contract by 11% or more. Of those planning to leave the beef/cattle industry, 5.2% plan to retire, and 1.9% indicated they will leave for other than retirement purposes.
Of those planning to expand, 48.6% are doing so to take advantage of future opportunity, 45.7% feel they need to expand to remain competitive and 20.8% are adding a partner or family member to the operation. Of those planning to expand, 78.8% plan to do so by adding numbers: 47.8% will rent/lease more land; 21.2% will buy more land; and roughly 8% each plan to diversify by adding stocker/backgrounding, cattle feeding or a cow-calf component.
"Agriculture will withstand the current economic downfall better than other industry sectors," said one respondent.
"Feed costs will be higher since high-inputs (mainly fertilizer) will reduce grain yields; therefore, tightening the grain supply," said another.
Of respondents planning to reduce operation size, 61.2% plan to do so because of high input costs (feed, fuel and labor), while 40.3% look to do so because of the uncertain economy; 20.9% cite the inability to find good help as the reason for their downsizing.
Of operators ceasing operation, 38.1% plan to keep the land but not raise cattle, 26.2% will rent the land to a family member and 19% will rent to a non-family member. Roughly 12% look to sell their land.
"With our economy dependent on consumer spending, the downward spiral is going to be extremely hard to break," said one respondent.
Economists weigh in. Meanwhile, the 11 economists responding to the survey expect conditions in all categories to either remain the same or deteriorate in 2009, but the overall three-year period is a time of growth and opportunity. 81.8% expect to see improvement in the domestic economy and export demand for beef over the next three years, as well as an increase in calf and fed-cattle prices. 63.6% expect improvement in the world economy and replacement heifer and boxed-beef prices.
54.5% of responding economists see an increase in land prices in the coming three-year period, but 63.6% see either an increase or dramatic increase coming in inflation.
45.5% anticipate that feed costs will remain the same; 36.4% envision an increase. But 63.6% see either an increase or dramatic increase coming in energy costs. An equal share (45.5%) anticipate that domestic beef demand for beef will remain the same or increase. 54.5% expect to see cull-cow prices increase in the next three-year period, the same percentage that expects taxes, inflation and energy costs to increase.
"By 2010, prices should improve nicely with fewer numbers and increasing fed-cattle prices," said one economist. "American producers are very good at one thing – producing. And they will produce more feed if prices hold," said another. Regarding inflation, "A $2-trillion deficit makes this a certainty," added another.


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The entries are ordered differently (and randomly) in each list.
Is there a way to have WinMerge report to me which entries exist only in List A and not List B?
In the past I've always used web-based apps for this but I'm tired of uploading sensitive personal files just to perform these comparisons.


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Outlook webmail comes from Microsoft's enterprise webmail service called Office 365. With time, new functionalities have added to the service. There are additions for the cloud storage. These are Google Drive and Facebook photos. If you are using Google mail, you can also use Google drive. Support for Facebook photos is available. By this, the user can trace and attach the photos uploaded to the social network. All this starts from Outlook.com. Get Outlook technical support for troubleshooting Google drive problems or dial Outlook support customer service number for live phone support services to fix Google drive technical issues.
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Outlook mail provides support for dropbox and BOX online cloud services. It is not just by adding attachments that the Google drive stops. Users can open the documents and then do the editing. They can do it within the Outlook mail. If you use mobile versions of Outlook for iOS and Android, you can attach files from Google drive. Microsoft has also made the process of tracing the attachments easy in the long conversation. Read more at http://weblog.com/outlook-mail-supports-google-drive-and-facebook-photos.html
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With the passage of time, the webmail service of Microsoft has undergone a change. There is a change in the design. It is all praise for the new functionality of Outlook mail. But you have to work out many areas still. When you use Outlook webmail service of Microsoft as part of the enterprise mail server, you find a deep resemblance between OWA and Outlook mail. The main reason is that the platform is same. It is office 365.
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July 21, 2006-Sailing to Johore
We went sailing one morning down Singapore way, off to Jahore Strait 20 miles to the west, then 5 miles up to Raffles' Marina, which will be Wings' new home while we work in Bangkok for a few years.
It was a nice morning for a sail with 10 knots of wind out of the South blowing right into the mouth of the marina at Sentosa, the wind and ocean outside beckoning as they always do at Sentosa, and we were happy to be heading out. Kim and Anna came with us and that was good too, not only because we enjoy their company but it was nice to have the help since Judy and I were both getting over a bad bit of bronchitis and we realized as we cast off the dock lines that neither of us had much energy on tap that day.
But energy or not, we managed, with Kim and Anna's help, to get the main up and filled before we left the marina so at least we sailed out with Wings heeled over and our flag flying and looking good before we bore off to the west to see what the day offered.
We saw that it was number-one weather so we set the genoa, sheeted in both sails, and then put Shirley Horn on the stereo. Life is good when you can go to weather with the number one up and good music playing and we soon settled in to a reasonably long port tack fetch, dodging ships as you do in Singapore, and trimming for the shifts, for the breeze was anything but steady.
Crew member Anna enjoying a great sail
Once or twice on that first leg out of Sentosa that morning the wind swung around to the SW with more pressure than we'd been feeling, and that is when Wings came alive. We hardened up and Judy sent Anna forward to skirt the genoa. I concentrated on the tell tails. With the boat climbing to windward like a monkey up a tree the crew scrambled for the windward rail, put their legs over, and hiked the boat simply for the joy of it.
By 13:00 we'd rounded Palau Satumu and bore off towards West Raffles Passage and the collection of man-made islands which now surround Sultan Shoals and which so irritate the local sailors who these days have to detour way around the massive sandbanks instead of cutting right across like they did for years. This was our first time here so we never saw it the way it was back then and we weren't bothered by man's invention of the new archipelago; we just sailed past enjoying the day on the water.
It seemed like, on this easy sailing day and with the wind angle we had since Palau Satumu, we could be using with the spinnaker, so we trundled around the foredeck and rigged "Old North" the 3.4oz kite long relegated to cruising due to its age and condition, and soon it was up and pulling. Kim and I went forward so I could explain to him how to jibe the pole, should conditions call it, and Judy went below to make sandwiches. A local Police boat came over to take a look but they just gave us a friendly wave.
As we sailed down west I started wondering exactly where amongst all the ships and sandbars ahead we were supposed to get through to Johore Strait. A look at the chart revealed that as nice as our course was for kite flying, it wasn't the right direction.
"Yeah," Kim said, "I was told that you had to stay outside all of this stuff." Now he tells me.
Down came the kite, up went the jib, and we changed heading 40 degrees. Then we noticed that an afternoon Singapore squall was brewing to port. Again we struck the jib. You could think this would be getting tedious but we enjoyed the physical work on the foredeck of the boat after a month in the office. We were enjoying ourselves.
The squall passed with little more than 18 knots of wind, and then steadied at 15 and we kept the jib off, turning north up Johore Strait, sailing downwind with the main and making six knots, more over the bottom due to a strong flood tide.
A big ketch, the name "Chinook" written on the transom, reached by our stern with a bone in her teeth, the crew waving as they crossed and Anna passed a few words in Tagalog with a person she recognized. I thought of putting the kite back up but the idea was quickly vetoed by saner minds aft, and this was all right as it gave us time to look over Johore Straight. At this point Johore Strait is a reasonably wide body of water with Singapore Island on the right and Malaysia on the left; one side industrial, the other very natural. The view was nice and the wind seemed steady and the water flat; Johore Strait looked to be a good place for sailing.
In this enjoyable way we passed the day sailing and by 1600 arrived at Raffles Marina where we tossed our lines to the waiting marina staff.
Now tied to the dock again, I stood on the aft deck and surveyed the scene at Raffles and I thought about the day's sail. It had been a good day, and I could see that in Singapore, particularly here at Raffles Marina, on the edge of the Johore Strait, we would have in the future many more fine days sailing and this is good.
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IG-style wiring is interesting because it's so unpredictable, from the standpoint of what it does and doesn't do. It may or may not be a good thing at any given site, and its performance often varies under particular local conditions at different parts of the same site. For example, it may reduce daily electrical noise problems for an item of equipment, but at the cost of greatly increased risk from lightning damage during electrical storms. On the other hand, sometimes using the IG-style wiring method may result in generally increased levels of electrical noise on a daily basis, an opposite condition than desired. At the same site, the effect may vary according to the length of the IG circuit or what kind of load is connected to the IG circuit. And more frequently than not, IG wiring appears to create many initial design errors and eventual physical wiring errors due to misinterpretation of its requirements.
Let's try to sort out the confusion and clarify the situation.
The real truths
The real truths about the IG-style wiring method are as follows. First, about 50% of the time, it reduces electrical noise on the circuit to which it is applied; about 50% of the time it increases the noise; and the remaining amount of the time, you can't tell the difference. As such, it's typically a gamble.
Second, whatever effect (good or bad) the IG-style wiring method has in any given situation is directly related to the length of the circuit that is configured as IG. Therefore, longer IG circuits have the greatest effect (good or bad), and the shortest ones have little or no effect at all.
So as an example, if you're paying extra to have IG-style receptacles installed directly into the back of your isolation transformer-based or similar type of power conditioner, you are nearly always gaining nothing at all. You may just increase your overall cost.
The above points and more will be detailed and clarified in this series of articles, so don't take them as unsupported statements.
What does "IG" mean?
Nobody seems to know what the notation "IG" means. This is no joke, as even the NEC pretty much ignores the whole IG terminology thing. So, let's get some sort of definition in place, one that will be consistently used throughout this series of articles and one that will make some sense. You can start getting familiar by reviewing Sec. 250-74, Connecting Receptacle Grounding Terminal to Box, and related Ex. 4, along with the FPN.
In this series, we will use the word "insulated," and not "isolated," for the "I." Thus, "IG" stands for Insulated Grounding. This is not done in an arbitrary or capricious fashion, since a real difference between the two terms can be made. Generally speaking, however, they really are interchangeable. Let's try to explain this distinction by looking at receptacle constructions.
SG and IG receptacle configurations
It seems that a simple explanation is best, so, let's start out at the receptacle. First, what does a solid grounding (SG) receptacle look like? As shown in Fig. 1, the equipment grounding pin and greenwire terminating screw are both made common to the metal device mounting yoke by the receptacle's manufacturer. As a result, mounting the SG receptacle into a metal device box or item of equipment makes the receptacle's equipment grounding pin common to the device mounting box or equipment enclosure and, therefore, to whatever else these items are connected to on the building's installed grounding system.
On the other hand, on an IG-style receptacle as shown in Fig. 2 (on page 14), the manufacturer ensures that insulation is introduced between the equipment ground wire pin and the metal device mounting yoke. This breaks the common connection described above for the SG design and, therefore, eliminates the solid-grounding connection thus provided. So we now have insulated, as opposed to solid grounding at the receptacle end of the branch circuit.
Next, on the IG design, an insulated greenwire is connected to the IG equipment ground pin's associated wiring terminal at one end, and at the upstream end, where it's directly and solidly terminated to equipment ground at the panelboard. Hence, the IG circuit is insulated from the panelboard downstream to the receptacle; due to the connection at the panelboard, however, it has not been isolated from equipment ground.
This brief explanation is useful and can be expanded to account for IG designs that are both directly connected to equipment at outlet level, and are upstream routed clear back to the service equipment before the direct and solid equipment grounding termination finally occurs.
However, if we used the term "isolated" in describing the IG design, there may be a tendency to think that the upstream end of the greenwire would be terminated to ground via an isolating impedance, such as a resistor, inductor, or even a capacitor. Or, that it was terminated to an earth grounding electrode that had no connection, except via the earth, to the site's service grounding electrode system. Also, when impedance is inserted in any of these manners into the equipment grounding conductor path, the NEC gets involved in several important ways, all of which are safety-related and ensure the impedance does not adversely limit fault current, create a fire or shock hazard, or both.
In short, "isolation" in the equipment ground path can become a can of worms, where "insulation" does not appear to do so.
What are IG wiring method limits?
Let's look at the limits to the IG wiring method.
IG terminates at the service equipment. The NEC presently limits the range of the premises wiring system into which the IG wiring method may be installed. This is shown in Fig. 3, where the IG wiring method is shown as being NEC restricted to that portion of the premises wiring system extending from the solidly grounded AC system that is a part of the service equipment to the outlet end of the branch circuit.
Importantly, the arrangement in Fig. 3 also logically requires that the voltage level at the service equipment be the same as that intended to appear at the outlet end of the branch circuit.
Intervening electrical distribution equipment such as pull boxes, fused switches and disconnects, switchboards, panelboards, equipment cabinets or enclosures, and similar equipment are all included in the permitted range of the IG wiring system.
Note that, in Fig. 3, the IG wiring method begins at the outlet end of the branch circuit, since this point is NEC-defined in Article 100 Definitions, as being the last part of the premises wiring system. In other words, it's the point at which the premises wiring system is finally interfaced to the branch circuit connected load equipment.
IG terminates at a separably derived AC system. A common variation of the distribution system shown in Fig. 3 is where a separately derived AC system is interposed between the service equipment and the upstream terminating end of the IG wiring method; this is shown in Fig. 4. Here, a separately derived system, such as an isolation transformer, is used to establish another solidly grounded AC system, which is then separately derived from the service equipment. Per Fig. 4, the NEC now requires that the output of the separately derived system, as opposed to the service equipment, becomes the furthest upstream point from which the IG wiring method is run downstream to the electronic load. The entire downstream path to the outlet end of the branch circuit remains unaffected by the introduction of the separately derived system, and it ends as before.
This method permits the use of a higher level of distribution voltage from the service equipment, since the isolation transformer may be of the step-down variety. Also, the isolation transformer may be positioned very closely to the load equipment served by the IG wiring method; this has significant advantages in many cases. More will be said about this later on in our discussion.
IG wiring path involves a solidly interconnected system. When the AC system supplying the IG wiring method consists of more than one AC source, such as when an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is used along with its associated transfer/bypass switching, things get much more complex from an equipment grounding standpoint.
Arrangements of this type involve AC systems that are classed as being of the solidly interconnected AC system type, as opposed to being of the separately derived AC system type. A simple solidly interconnected arrangement is shown in Fig. 5 (on page 16), where the service equipment is the upstream AC power source actually supplying current to the UPS, its transfer/bypass switching arrangement and to the UPS' rectifer-charger input.
Note that in this arrangement discussed above, there is no AC system grounding shown at either the UPS or at its associated transfer/bypass switch. Instead, all of the AC system grounding occurs at the service equipment. This happens since the neutral ([X.sub.0]) conductor from the UPS' output is routed upstream to the service equipment, where it's solidly interconnected to the neutral bus bar in the service equipment. This conductor is routed within the UPS' input feeder, along with the line conductors supplying the rectifer-charger. This is what makes the two AC systems (service equipment and UPS inverter) solidly interconnected.
The IG circuit as a beginning, middle, and end. The IG-style wiring design has a highly defined beginning at the outlet end of the branch circuit, where the interface is made to the electronic load equipment in one of two specifically NEC-described ways. (Each will be discussed in some detail later on.)
The end of the IG-style circuit occurs at the extreme upstream end of the IG equipment grounding conductor, at the point where it's finally terminated by connecting it to an equipment ground bus bar.
Everything else in between these two points is the middle, where all that needs to be done is to keep the IG path insulated and correctly routed.
As you will see, all of these areas on the IG wiring path (beginning, middle, and end) are commonly miswired in a startling number of ways, some of which are relatively harmless from an electrical safety point of view, while others are very much unsafe.
IG-style circuit beginning
Let's start at the beginning of the IG-style circuit and discuss the interface to the electronic load equipment at the outlet end of the branch circuit.
IG-style receptacles. The first and most common form of IG-style wiring is where a specially designed and constructed receptacle is used, one called an "IG wiring device." These are always product safety listed by a Nationally Recognized (Electrical Safety) Testing Laboratory (NRTL) and are required to be clearly identified as being of the IG style.
The IG-style receptacle is presently identified by the presence of a permanently attached mark on the receptacle's face that is in the shape of a triangle, or delta [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 2 OMITTED]. Any color may be used for the face of the receptacle. In the past, the IG-style receptacle was identified by its orange-colored face. This was changed as above, so an orange-faced receptacle may or may not be of the IG style, depending upon when it was manufactured. This means that to avoid problems, you had best check any orange-faced receptacle that you encounter, or you may become redfaced because of what you apparently, missed.
Aside from the marking, what makes the receptacle IG? Simple, the manufacturer leaves out the connection between the equipment grounding pin/wiring terminal and the metal device mounting yoke and puts the letters "IG" into the part number somewhere. In review, an IG-style receptacle's electro-mechanical schematic is shown in Fig. 2, where the lack of a connection between the yoke and equipment grounding conductor pin/screw is clearly shown. The figure illustrates the common duplex type of receptacle of the generic NEMA 5-15 type for 120VAC circuits, but other kinds of NEMA receptacle wiring device configurations are available in IG form. An SG-style receptacle of the same type is shown in Fig. 1 for purposes of comparison.
In summary, what has been accomplished? Well, if you have an IG-style receptacle and if you mount it into a grounded metal device box, you do not connect the equipment grounding conductor to the box and thereby ground/bond it to whatever the box is connected to (such as the metal conduit/raceway system). You have an equipment grounding conductor pin, which is insulated from this part of the equipment grounding system, at the box. This is all shown in Fig. 2.
Now, the only equipment grounding that can occur must occur when the IG equipment grounding conductor is attached and then has its upstream end terminated to an NEC-acceptable equipment grounding termination, such as a bus bar (not shown) at some NEC-acceptable point in the wiring system.
Next month, we'll look more deeply into the IG situation, beginning with a description of how a direct connection style of IG branch circuit, as allowed in the exception to Sec. 250-75, Bonding Other Enclosures, is configured. This is a really interesting variation.
This is the first part of a multipart article on IG-style wiring methods. The first part will discuss the basics and some of the National Electrical Code issues; subsequent articles will move into progressively more technical areas. In some cases, useful information will be presented in the series about the IG-style wiring method that has not been published elsewhere. It's hoped that by the time you have finished the series, you will be more competent in the area of IG-style wiring methods.


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