ABSTRACT This document provides information for a report to congress on Smart Grid security as required by Section 1309 of Title XIII of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The security of any future Smart Grid is dependent on successfully addressing the cyber security issues associated with the nation’s current power grid. Smart Grid will utilize numerous legacy systems and technologies that are currently installed.Therefore‚ known vulnerabilities in these legacy systems must
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"Quaker Women in the American Colonies" During the colonial period‚ women were considered inferior to men and “nothing more than servants for their husbands.” During the eighteenth century‚ unmarried Quaker women were the first to vote‚ stand up in court‚ and evangelize; although Quaker women enjoyed rights that women today take for granted‚ they were most known for their religious radicalism. According to Rufus Jones‚ a professor at Harvard‚ the Quakers “felt‚ as their own testimony plainly
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pertaining to actual usage. Smart grids allows for two way communications between the electricity company and the homes allowing both electric companies and homes to operate more efficiently. This two way communication will allow home users to cut costs by efficiently utilizing energy. Smart grids will also allow the electricity companies to raise prices when the demand is high and lower prices when the demand is low. Mirroring the price advantage‚ smart grids will allow the user to dictate the
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People were learning selfreliance and selfgovernment. The attempts to strengthen the Church of England in America and to transform the colonies into royal provinces only fanned the spirit of independence which they came to America for. But the Americans did owe much of their prosperity to the help of the British government. It was the protection of the British navy that made sure Spain‚ Holland‚ and France wouldn’t wipe out their newly made
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The American colonies differed greatly from one another. Although they were in the same region of the land‚ some had better farming than that of others and some had better trade routes than the other colonies. No two colonies had the same agricultural needs. Georgia’s agriculture is different from Rhode Island. They also differed by the use and need of slavery. Slaves are needed more in agricultural areas than trade areas. That doesn’t mean that the northern colonies did not have slaves; it just
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education *4849274249* 0580/42 MATHEMATICS October/November 2012 Paper 4 (Extended) 2 hours 30 minutes Candidates answer on the Question Paper. Additional Materials: Electronic calculator Mathematical tables (optional) Geometrical instruments Tracing paper (optional) READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you
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Colonialism played a large role in shaping North America. One significant outcome of colonialism in North American was the residential school system. Residential schools were a tool of Eurocentric colonialism to forcefully assimilate Aboriginals into white Canada. This system was mainly created to indoctrinate Aboriginals (savages) into the white European society (civilized). Therefore‚ I argue that the residential schools were the setting in which the concept of the civilized/ savage dichotomy was
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5. Managerial Grid The x/y axis on the grid consist of two behavior dimensions‚ concern for people and concern for production. Concern for people is the degree to which a leader considers the needs of employees when deciding how tasks or jobs should be done. This can be personal or professional development. This behavior dimension moves along the y-axis. Concern for production is the degree to which a leader emphasizes objectives and productivity goals when deciding how tasks or jobs should
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IT Investment at North American Financial Case Study 3 Background North American Financial is a banking institution that serves the Home Loan Market There is an in-house IT organization that is lead by Caroline Weese‚ the new CIO. Bill Harris is the Company CEO Matt Harper is the CFO Cathy Benson is the Senior VP of Business Banking Product Management Background This case looks at the relationship between business strategy and IT development projects. It makes it clear that enterprise
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Essay Question: Although the 13 American colonies were founded at different times by people with different motives and with different form of colonial charters and political organization‚ and the 13 colonies had become remarkably similar. Assess the validity of this statement. As time was coming to the start of the American Revolution‚ the thirteen American colonies that had at first started out with differences in all aspects appeared to be astonishingly similar in several cultural ways. Mainly
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