Generators and emergency power systems are essential to enabling hospitals and health care facilities to effectively serve their communities //

NFPA 70: National Electrical Code requires every hospital to have two independent power sources that provide a minimum level of reliability: a normal source (i.e., utility) and an alternate source (i.e., generator, fuel cell system or battery system).

Because most health care facilities have traditionally used generators as their alternate source due to runtime and maintenance advantages, this article will focus on generators and essential electrical system (i.e., “emergency power”) design.

For the purposes of this article, the NEC Article 517 term “essential electrical system” and Article 700 term “emergency power system” are synonymous because emergency systems are defined in NEC Article 700, which is applied specifically to hospitals in NEC Article 517.

An emergency system is defined by the NEC as “those systems legally required and classed as emergency by municipal, state, federal and other codes.”

NFPA 110: Standard for Emergency and Standby Power Systems defines the various components that makeup an emergency power system and comprises the emergency power supply and emergency power supply systems.

The EPS is the alternate power source, which in this case is the generator(s). The EPSS consists of the conductors, distribution equipment, overcurrent protective devices, transfer switches and all control, supervisory and support equipment needed for the system to operate between the generator and the transfer switch. Conductors, distribution equipment and overcurrent protective devices on the load side of the transfer switches are not considered part of the EPSS per NFPA 110, but are considered part of the overall emergency power system (see Figure 1).

This project creates encrypted backups for Bitwarden vaults including attachments. It pulls your vault items from Bitwarden CLI and download all the attachments associated with those items to a temporary backup folder. Then, portwarden zip that folder, encrypt it with a passphrase, and delete the temporary folder.

It addresses this issue in the community forum https://community.bitwarden.com/t/encrypted-export/235, but hopefully Bitwarden will come up with official solutions soon.

The car’s sticker designated the driver as someone with very good reason to drive slowly, leading Chaudhary to ask himself the question, “Why do we need stickers to be patient with people?” He asked himself a follow-up question, wondering if “we [would] be more patient and kind with others if people had labels pasted on their foreheads?”

He realized that everyone experiences personal struggles, even if those difficulties aren’t public knowledge. Chaudhary imagined the various labels a person might wear that would explain what they’re going through, adding, “Labels like lost my job, fighting cancer, going through a bad divorce.”

He included other kinds of challenges like “suffering emotional abuse, [losing] a loved one, feeling worthless, financially messed up, and more.”

Life cycle emissions are the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted throughout a product’s existence, including its production, use, and disposal.

To compare these emissions effectively, a standardized unit called metric tons of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) is used, which accounts for different types of greenhouse gases and their global warming potential.

Here is an overview of the 2021 life cycle emissions of medium-sized electric, hybrid and ICE vehicles in each stage of their life cycles, using tCO2e. These numbers consider a use phase of 16 years and a distance of 240,000 km. //

1. The production emissions for BEVs are approximately 40% higher than those of hybrid and ICE vehicles. According to a McKinsey & Company study, this high emission intensity can be attributed to the extraction and refining of raw materials like lithium, cobalt, and nickel that are needed for batteries, as well as the energy-intensive manufacturing process of BEVs.
2. Electricity production is by far the most emission-intensive stage in a BEVs life cycle. Decarbonizing the electricity sector by implementing renewable and nuclear energy sources can significantly reduce these vehicles’ use phase emissions.

Here's a question: does a meter actually help people secure their accounts? It's less important than other areas of web security, a short sample of which include:

• Preventing online cracking with throttling or CAPTCHAs.
• Preventing offline cracking by selecting a suitably slow hash function with user-unique salts.
• Securing said password hashes.
• With that disclaimer — yes. I'm convinced these meters have the potential to help. //

As an independent Dropbox hackweek project, I thought it’d be fun to build an open source estimator that catches common patterns, and as a corollary, doesn’t penalize sufficiently complex passphrases like correcthorsebatterystaple. It’s now live on dropbox.com/register and available for use on github. Try the demo to experiment and see several example estimations.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rebuffed a legal theory that argued that state legislatures have the authority to set election rules with little oversight from state courts, a major decision that turns away a conservative push to empower state legislatures.

By a 6-3 vote, the court rejected the “independent state legislature” theory in a case about North Carolina’s congressional map. The once-fringe legal theory broadly argued that state courts have little — or no — authority to question state legislatures on election laws for federal contests.

The court’s decision in Moore v. Harper closes the path to what could have been a radical overhaul of America’s election laws.

A particularly robust reading of the theory — which the court turned aside — would have empowered state legislatures to make decisions on all aspects of elections, from congressional lines to how people register to vote and cast a ballot, without any opportunity for challengers to contest those decisions in state courts under state laws or constitutions. Opponents of the theory argued that it could have led to unchecked partisan gerrymandering, and laws that would make it harder for people to vote.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court’s opinion, joined by the three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, along with two conservatives, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

PC Mag Editor's Choice: 5.0 Exemplary

#THE BOTTOM LINE
Bitwarden is simply the best app we've tested for free password management, while the paid version adds extra security and storage tools at an extremely low price. //

Free password managers often come with significant limitations that force most users to upgrade to a paid tier. Not Bitwarden. The free version of this password manager does not restrict you to a certain number of entries, nor does it prevent you from syncing your vault across all your devices. Even the paid version, which adds high-end security tools, is affordable compared with the competition.

Bitwarden is an open-source password manager. This means the source code is subject to constant audits from Bitwarden’s community of developers, researchers, users, and, ultimately, the public. With more eyes on the code, bugs are easier to spot, and that makes the app more secure.

Aside from its clunky password capture and replay functions, Bitwarden is easy to use and includes vital core features such as multi-factor authentication, credential sharing, cross-platform syncing, and unlimited password storage, all for multiple users. No other free password manager we’ve reviewed includes all those core features, which is why Bitwarden retains its Editors’ Choice award for free password managers.