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Looks like the same to me, you can see the empty white spaces on the side and now the white building is taking up an entire block that was previously filled with people a few years ago. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

A Nuclear plant usually has a very small secondary generation facility to be able to run things if the main reactor goes offline. Last two facilities that I was at were using LNG to be able to run small on site plants for standby generation. LNG is considered to be a better option than coal since it can be trucked in on as needed basis and not need an entire rail facility to be maintained to be able to accept additional fuel supplies. Piketon did not have have a correlation to the local mines other than the power demands. Piketon produced a lot more weapon grade than for refueling. There is a large difference in the level of refining needed to get to a weapons grade and they were one of the few facilities that were producing HEU at weapons grade. Coal has not been "under attack" except by consumers asking for cheaper energy sources. Fracking destroyed coal more than anything else. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Previous house in Ohio - 3 and a half foot long iguana. Not native and none of the Neighbors said they had one as a pet. Called a local reptile breeder to come take it away. Also found a bottle of lighter fluid and a lighter that was thrown over the fence. Found out that the dumpster around the corner was torched the night before and about burned down the building it was near. Police said they didn't care about the stuff and told me to throw it away. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I have always been enamored by the design of a Pebble Bed Reactor since it allows for an inert gas cooled cycle and less fuel needs to be stored onsite and refueling cycles do not require a full shutdown of the facility. I have been onsite at a few plants around the US and I've seen how outdated our technology is and how desperate it is for upgrading. INL is a great facility if you have an interest in Nuclear or SCADA systems I would recommend seeing it if you get the chance. Middle of nowhere but its still interesting. Issue that I did not see in the entire show was the disposal of the spent rods. Right now we have a serious issue on the accumulation of spent and depleted waste that needs to have a long term storage solution implemented. Terrapower makes some interesting claims on their usage of the spent rods but they are still yet to fire up and use anything so I'll reserve judgement until they go operational.. Outdoor storage in KY is not going to be a great solution for the next 3000 years. Yucca Mountain is stalled again despite having been signed off and a lot of the work is completed. Massive amounts of money have been dropped into the site but for various political reasons the project keeps getting stopped. Another issue is Yucca will only hold the amount of materials that have currently been produced and will run out of expansion room within the next two decades or so. The next site needs to be identified and construction started soon to avoid this same issue again in 20-30 years. Transportation of spent materials to the site is going to be a political nightmare since every town on the path is going to have a large population that gets freaked out over the thought of a cask of materials crashing and spilling out in their town. One issue that is occurring on the plants under construction in Georgia and South Carolina is how they are being funded. Southern Energy was able to get the state regulators to pass a exemption that they were allowed to raise all the rates for current generation to be able to fund the construction but at each overrun or delay the costs went up further for consumers. At one point the rates were expected to raise by almost 40% over current prices and it was not expected to decrease until the new plants were fully paid off in 30-50 years. The US Government is actually the backer of the loans for the construction since its deemed to risky for institutional loaners to front since the construction really is an open ended check until its done and might risk the financial heath of a bank to be the sole investor into a nuke plant. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Politics and content aside - Obama tends to be well articulated and if you compare the prose in his speeches they tend to graded at a high level. The pacing, sentence structure, tone inflection, and inflections all score very well. Trump has historically scored very poorly on the same prose scoring systems that are using in debate competitions nationally. He tends to go off script and often repeats words with odd pauses. He score highly in the emotional areas but using most of the commonly accepted Parliamentary Debate scoring methodologies he usually would not even qualify for the debate team at a high school level. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Canceled due to losing the lawsuit against iFly. I think iFly is now going to move forward with installing one just down the street from the Fliteshop location. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I realize that we may get our news from different sources. However, my local tv news today said that Ford cancelled a multi-billion dollar investment in Mexico and is doing a 700 million dollar investment in a US plant. Jerry Baumchen Also of note was the line in most of the stories that Ford had decided they were going to be doing this no matter who won the election back in November since they felt this is what their shareholders were wanting of them. If Clinton had won the same thing was going to happen, trying to take credit for it is a stretch from either side. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Here is what would be changing - under the current rules if a congressional staffer suspects that someone is doing a quid pro quo for votes he can anonymously report it to the Office of Government Ethics. The office would then be able to decide what to report to congress, the public and also refer the matter to the DOJ/Police if needed with out having congress being able to stop the referal. Under the proposed changes, there are no more anonymous reporting options so the reporter has to have their name associated with it and face repercussions from moment one. The new office was only going to be able to report to Congress, no more public disclosures nor referral to other agencies - only to the House Ethics Committee. This committee would have to then come to a resolution to send a member out for outside investigation. If said member is a member of the party that controls the Committee then the public might never find out and then the investigation can be halted just because of the desire keep seats safe from scandals. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I caught this in a news article from earlier in 2016: It looks like this tunnel is scrapped for a while if not permanently. The development was also set to include a new iFLY indoor skydiving facility, located just over the border in Natick. However, litigation filed in New Hampshire by another franchisee of the skydiving company blocked the business from opening, according to James Hanrahan, a lawyer representing DDR. In a Sept. 22 letter to the town, Hanrahan advised that DDR wished to withdraw its pending applications before the Planning Board, indicating the iFLY concept was dropped, and that Kings "may not go forward with plans to develop an entertainment facility at the Property." Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

They may go farther down the road but they will make less money. Those are simply the facts. Jerry Baumchen PS) I come from a very working class family. My brother was a Teamster for over 30 yrs, I'm a Mech. Engr. I left him behind financially many, many years ago. yes but with the savings on school and the earlier entry into the work force helps make up for the loss later on. Also the drive of the individual will help make it up also. I was way up on earnings on my sister for about 10-12 years before she passed me then I moved up because of desire and passed her again. she has a masters and I have 6 months of trade school. people hold themselves back, not the level of their education. I make more money then over half of the 4 year degree people. Here are the official BLS stats on average weekly earnings for various levels of education: Doctoral degree $1,623 Professional degree $1,730 Master's degree $1,341 Bachelor's degree $1,137 Associate's degree $798 Some college, no degree $738 High school diploma $678 Less than a high school diploma $493 All workers $860 Lifetime earnings 25th percentile 75th percentile Average Less than High School 644,600 1,464,000 819,400 High School Diploma 867,500 1,889,500 1,022,000 Some College/No Degree 1,035,500 2,252,100 1,216,700 Associate’s Degree 1,177,100 2,426,300 1,249,200 Bachelor’s Degree 1,490,600 3,388,700 1,898,100 Master’s Degree 1,864,400 3,835,600 1,971,200 Doctoral Degree 2,150,400 4,743,400 2,592,900 Professional Degree 2,004,600 6,472,800 4,468,200 There is zero chance that even at the 25 percentile of earnings a 4 year college degree costs the 623,000 dollar difference between a High school diploma and a 4 year degree on average. Yes there are a lot of degrees that will not be making the $1100 on average a week such as some of the fringe liberal arts degrees like 15th Century English Lit or Art History but I can say that the first year out of college I and everyone else in my field was making more than the average with our degrees. As someone that was able to write G code for CNC mills in high school and worked part time as a entry level machinist under someone who completed a full journeyman program in the 80's and is now a retired UAW machinist I can safely say my earnings post degree far our strip what my potential earnings were with that career track. I come from a family that has 3 brothers that all have 35+ years in machining, tool and die work and other skilled trades. None of them have a college degree and make a great living but both my brother and I graduated with 4 year degrees plus technical certifications and started out making more than the others did at their last years towards retirement. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

John, I assume you are already following the guys over at ATCMemes on Facebook? I was laughing me ass off watching the Midway tower and Tracon going at it last week over the poor handoffs between the two. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Maine and Nebraska have already adopted state level rules that allow for split voting and this year that happened. I prefer awarding the votes based on voting in each Congressional district over a winner take all approach if we have to stay within the confines we have today. It makes more of the country actually have a say since there are many red districts in California and several Blue districts in Texas that would suddenly be worth campaigning for and getting policies and opinions from those areas also. I would much rather see the number of representatives properly adjusted to reflect the current census numbers so that every citizen has their representative have the same amount of weight in general congress. There was no real logic as to why 435 was chosen and locked in as the number of representatives in the 1911 since it was prior to several states having their statehood and it only serves to not proportionately change the number of voters each representative stands for in Congress. The number changed to 437 when Alaska and Hawaii were added but then other states lost reps to take that number back to 435. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Federal and CCI both announced they were going to be increasing their production back in February with an estimated 6 month lag to get the new production lines up and running. They were hoping for a 15-20% increase in output based on what I saw at the time. Rimfire manufacture is a pain in the ass and its why you can't do it at home. I have reloaded 12 and 20 gauge for years and looked at doing some center fire rounds but ultimately just buy boxes since I don't want to mess with a lot of dies, tumblers and more powder laying around just for a 100 rounds a year. Rimfire from what I understand needs to have the primer put in like a paste and then powder on top of it. The last time a new 22LR line opened up was decades ago due to the complexity and cost of setting it up but it seems with the changing political landscape over the last 8 years demand far outstripped supply so they finally thought it made financial sense to open new lines. I have around 1000 22LR rounds laying around and might go pick up a few thousand more if I decide to go plinking again one day this winter. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Pretty sure they had an election but the dear leader received 100% of the votes. There was not a single voter in the entire country that voted for someone else. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Do you even know what that video was? It was clickbait trying to rack up views to get paid. It was from the 2012 Mexico City protests and was done by a street performer. It took all of about 10 seconds to validate it. If you are going to post on here try to make an effort to at least be factual. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Perry is going to find that he does not actually set the energy policy and instead uses about 60-70% of his budget towards nuclear weapons development and refreshment. The largest issue facing the energy department for the next 10 years is going to be the long term storage of spent nuclear fuel and waste. The Yucca Salts project has been delayed and stalled for the last two administrations and time is quickly running out as we get ready for a major refurbishment of our nuclear stockpile in order to have a final plan for the storage of the spent rods and the waste. He will be facing a situation where DOE will be needing to spend massive amounts of money on super computer development to be able to model the new weapons being designed and to finance a lot of science projects like ultra high powered lasers, particle accelerators, and other high tech ventures. Very little money and time from the DOE is actually spent on an energy policy. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

The "DNC email" hack occurred off of a single SpeerFishing email that is fairly well documented since it compromised a Gmail account. It linked back to a Bitly account that has been used over 1000 times previously to link to malware. Previous accounts that received the same malware have been identified as Eastern Europe journalists, politicians, business leaders. Previous code samples from those links have been disassembled and traces of code snippets have been seen in previous campaigns dating back several years. As I mentioned earlier source attribution is really hard so when you only get glimpses into the writers you need to infer details drawn out from years of examples. Most code writers are lazy and will reuse code if possible to make it easier to create a working program.When you see code used over years its either public and a lot of attacks use the code or its used by a single development team. In this case the code has only rarely been used so it's not public like lots of easily detected code sets are. Since its been public that the IT tech who saw the initial email come in and thought it was fine but later figured out it was a speerfish attack I would say that it is pretty well confirmed that an external attacker was targeting the data and not some internal leaker. When you look at motivation and incentives for hacking there are a few major areas for each type of hacking. The easiest "hacks" are the ones doing it for publicity and they are doing simple defacement of websites. Going a little deeper are the ones doing it for financial motives. This is the largest area since there is so much money to be made in it. Stealing credit cards, creating DDoS services and charging for usage, stealing bank credentials, holding systems for ransom - that is the area that is the largest and is worth billions of dollars a year. Moving up are the attacks for espionage- corporate level attacks are rare and tend to be done by insiders but they are done either for financial or ideological reasons. Finally at the top level are state level actors and these are the ones by actors that have tens of millions of dollars of budget to create a single use attack. The whole purpose of these is to either do a Stuxnet style attack or compromise an entire foreign power so give a massive advantage against another foreign power. In this case do I feel that it swayed the election? Only very slightly and not those that were swayed were likely to be swayed by something else also. This was only enough to push someone to vote a different way in maybe 1 in 10000 voters and even that might be stretching it a lot. I have seen a few comments on FB from a few voters that said they voted Trump since they felt the DNC was corrupt and the emails proved it. Those same voters would have likely been swayed by other factors also so I am not saying this was an impact. Keeping these events in the news and at the top of the voters mind certainly did a lot to move the needle for those voters but if not the DNC emails then it would have been something else I'm the news instead that influenced them. From what I remember total vote difference in the swing states was about 110,000 over all the 7 states in play so if it was enough to swing that many voters I doubt it. The bigger issue is both parties nominated extremely unlikable people. Clinton never had a chance of pulling many moderates to her side and Trump's populist message appeals to a lot of people that feel the whole system is against them. His likability percentages are the worst of any elected president to date so even a lot of voters that voted for him don't like him, they just liked Clinton even less. I am upset about the general lack of caring about cyber security as a whole on both sides of the political spectrum. Democrats practiced extremely poor security in so many ways that it's just sad. Republicans are basically saying as long as it's not us there was nothing wrong with the events. The whole of cyber security is that there just are not enough people out there that even really understand all the issues to be able to protect organizations at near the level needed. This is an area that has a massive potential for hiring but the job skills needed are at the top of the technical peak. Coding skills, networking knowledge, big data skills, the gambit of high tech knowledge is needed for a base skill set for effective computer security analysts and I am yet to hear from either party as to how they will be addressing this critical shortage of workers. Right now in Cyber Security positions there is a negative 10-15% employment rate. That means there for every 100 positions open 15 of them do not have a person to fill them since no one is trained and has the experience to do the job. If those critical positions are going unfilled it opens huge portions of our country up to attack and compromise. Moving beyond just at the largest enterprises that can pay 100k+ per year for talent how are we expecting small business to be able to prevent these issues? Ransomware against home PCs is now a billion dollar a year business. With out a major change in how we as Americans deal with cyber security we will be facing a situation where we have large parts of our economy able to be destroyed via a single mouse click. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

What is the worst thing that a lame duck session has turned out? My money right now is on the NC session occurring right now to strip a lot of the power from the newly elected democrat Govenor. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/us/politics/north-carolina-governor-roy-cooper-republicans.html They are making a lot of the currently appointed positions reclassified as employees so they can not be removed by the next administration. While a Large number of positions need to be apolitical so that the employees are able to work without fear of being penalized for doing something that was asked of them under the previous administration, certain positions are basically the spoils of winning the election. In this case it would be the same as telling Trump that he now can no longer a point his cabinet and must use Obama's since he now can not replace them. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I make my living by being deep in cybersecurity. I am aware of multiple times that government, ngo, enterprises and others are unaware of a breach of their environment and need to be notified of the event via a third party. In fact in most data breaches the impacted party is unaware of an incident and denies a issue until they are later proven incorrect. Target, TJMaxx, Wendy's, Adobe, PlayStation, Department of Homeland Security, and Verizon all initially denied an issue but after a while all the details eventually spilled and the full extent of the data was published and they all ended up retracting their denials. This is about as frequent as the "That is not mine" or "I don't know anything about that", everyone that is unaware is truthful at first but eventually they end up breeched. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Knowing and working with a lot of the team over at CrowdStrike I have a lot of faith in their work. They really are among the best in the world at threat attribution due to their ability to take a long view of the recompiled code and looking for trace elements that while are hard to hide are impossible to cover completely. Looking at disasslembed code in tools like IDApro takes a really unique skill set and while I have started to learn the markers that are left most of them are too deep for me to identify at my current knowledge level. I know some of the team over there are former Agency and they all comment that the knowledge level internally at the three agencies doing this type of work are all decent but the knowledge level is different between all three. They each have their own specialities and each use a different level of evidence to make their case. FBI needs to have enough evidence that it could hold up in court to make its case, CIA takes data and tries to read between the lines to get a deeper story, NSA does the deepest analysis but also keeps the data to weaponize it if possible. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/paramus/2016/12/09/indoor-skydiving-paramus/95221024/ An indoor sky-diving facility may soon be the newest attraction in Paramus. Sky Group Investments has filed an application with the borough to construct an iFly Indoor Skydiving facility and fast-casual restaurant at the site of the long-vacant Forum Diner at 211 Route 4 east. The application, which requires roughly a dozen variances for approval, seeks to demolish the diner and replace it with a 60-foot structure for the sky-diving facility. The applicant also seeks to build a second free-standing restaurant for a to-be-determined tenant next to the iFly building. The borough’s Board of Adjustment heard initial testimonies for the application Thursday night. Stuart Liebman of Paramus-based Wells, Jaworski & Liebman LLP represents the applicant. “It’s time that we introduce a new and different, recreational use at this prominent highway location in our otherwise retail corridor,” Liebman said in his opening remarks to the board. He said an attraction like iFly would help the borough compete with American Dream, the mega-mall being constructed in East Rutherford, by giving customers a “vibrant” retail experience. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-introduces-plan-to-massively-cut-social-security-222200857.html For most workers, the bill would cut Social Security benefits substantially. As Michael Linden, associate director for tax and budget policy at Center for American Progress, pointed out on Twitter, a letter from Social Security’s Office of the Actuary calculated workers making around $50,000 would see checks shrink by between 11% and 35%. Nearly every income bracket would see a reduction, save for the very bottom. People making around $12,280 in 2016 who have worked for 30 years would see an increase of around 20%. But young people making the same amount would be hit hard by the changes. If they had 14 years of work experience by 2016, they would see their benefits cut in half. The plan would also cut entirely cost of living adjustments (COLA) for retirees earning above $85,000. If this passes the mid-term elections might be more interesting... Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

If you read the recent Pentagon report on their expenditures they found out that the orders to reduce the number of Government employees ended up costing them dramatically higher then having Government employees on staff. When they needed to complete a job and their only option was to hire a contractor they calculated that by the time all the benefits, pension and extra perks were added in it was costing the branches anywhere from 170-190k per position compared to low 100's if it was a direct hire for that position. Most of these positions are more technical or specialty positions that can not be filled by a new recruit or fresh graduate so the expected cost is going to be higher. But when you look at someone like Lockheed, SAIC, Leidos, Verizon, or any of the major government contractors they have bill rates that start at $125 per hour and in some instances are billing at rates upwards of $250 per hour. That translates to $250-500k per position that gets filled by their services. Lockheed has said they will not do any work in which they are not making at least 15% margin and prefer a run rate of over 20% margin on their contracting services. They ended up selling off IS&GS for 6 Billion last year because they were seeing returns in the upper single digits only for the majority of the contracts that they were working. 6 Billion dollars a year from the government went for privatized Air traffic management,technical services, Government/Enterprise IT, Commercial cyber, and Government health care IT. They were making around 7% margin on that business or about $400 million in profit off of that business line. Eliminating government hires are not always the solution to reducing spending. There are ways to do it but it generally needs to come at a reduction of the workload and the personal at the same time. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I have a real fear that the current administration is going to make previous Democrats look like they were fiscally responsible. The tax cuts that are proposed are going to add 1.5-2.0 trillion to the national debt and that was assuming that expenditures were not going to go up 1 dollar. Several billion dollars are being pledged for the military, VA, "infrastructure" and a host of other projects that have not even been called out yet. Unless the administration can figure out how to cut a couple of 100 billion from our budget annually the debt is going to jump. If they do figure out how to remove that amount of expenditures in their first budget prepare for a rough ride since that is a massive amount of money to yank out from the economy and the effects will be massive inflation, skyrocketing interest rates, massive unemployment and foreclosures at a rate that will make the last housing bubble look like it was just a tiny ripple. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Lets not forget Linda McMahon gave $6 million to Trump's Super PAC, Rebuilding America Now, in August and September of 2016. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com