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We offer an effective platform for information exchange for parties operating in the retail market.
It is Fingrid's task to develop the exchange of information required for electricity trade and imbalance settlement as set out in the Electricity Market Act (Sähkömarkkinalaki, 588/2013). Fingrid's information exchange services are part of the electricity markets' information exchange environment. In order to develop the effective and accurate exchange of information, Fingrid carries out close cooperation with e.g. electricity market parties, interest groups, service providers, supervisory authorities, legislators, organizations which develop national and international communications and other transmission system operators. Effort is required of all electricity market parties to ensure a functional information exchange environment.
As part of its responsibility for the development of information exchange, Fingrid also carried out an investigative project to broadly assess the exchange of information and related needs for development on the electricity retail markets. As a result of its investigative work, Fingrid presented Datahub as the electricity market information exchange solution for the future. A decision on the implementation of Datahub was made by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy.
The information exchange services are included in Fingrid's information exchange service's service agreement. The Energy Authority confirmed the method for determining the reasonable profit of Fingrid's information exchange service and the service terms and conditions for information exchange services. An information exchange service agreement will be concluded with new operators as part of the measures that must be implemented before starting up operations on the electricity retail market.
Datahub background
In spring 2015, Fingrid launched a project to clarify information exchange on the electricity retail markets and make it more efficient. In 2021, data sent between electricity consumers, sellers and distribution companies will be stored in a datahub, where it will be equally available to all market operators.
Preconditions to new services is that the customer is strongly authenticated. Datahub enables the customer to participate actively to electricity market by using different kinds of service providers. Customer can get new services to follow up his consumption or to participate into demand response. Precondition to these services is that the customer is reliably individualized and recognized in Datahub and this way the requirements for data protection can be fulfilled. The parties retrieving data from the Datahub must have a valid contract with the customer or authorization from the customer to his information. Identifying the customer is done by using the existing identifications such as identification code or company code.
Behind the project is the Electricity Market Act, updated in 2013, which tasked Fingrid with responsibility for the development of information exchange required by electricity trading and imbalance settlement.
In 2014, Fingrid reviewed various options of implementing this exchange of information. In addition to a solution administrated by the transmission system operator, systems managed by commercial companies, the industry, or public authorities were also considered. Fingrid's resolution was to recommend a centralised solution. A system managed by the transmission system operator entails such strengths as impartial operation, and a similar model has proven to be well-functioning in Denmark and Norway, for example. After reviewing the information exchange study and hearing stakeholders, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy requested Fingrid to initiate the datahub implementation project on 8 April 2015.
Datahub at electricity sellers' and consumers' service
Datahub is a centralised information exchange system for the electricity retail market, which will contain data from 3.5 million electricity metering points in Finland. The information contained in the datahub will be used by approximately 100 electricity suppliers and over 80 distribution network companies serving electricity consumers.
In 2021, when a Finnish consumer changes electricity suppliers, all the necessary information will be sent between the electricity seller and distribution network company via a centralised information exchange system known as a datahub. This data is currently located in various companies' systems. The data can only be retrieved with appropriate rights to the data. To be able to ensure the safe distribution of the data all the customers in the datahub must be securely identified. Identifying the customer is done by using the identification code consumers and company code for companies.
Concentrating all essential electricity use information in one place, the datahub will speed up, simplify and improve the actions of all parties. Furthermore, the centralised solution provides all parties with equal, simultaneous access to the information.
Changing suppliers, moving to a new address, and other changes affecting the consumer's electricity contract form just one case in which information needs to be exchanged. For example, imbalance settlement relating to the distribution network will be conducted in the new system.
Datahub can also process and refine information saved in it. Smart, remotely read electricity meters are widely used in Finland, and a lot of information is generated for every metering point daily. This information, as well as any mobile applications introduced in the future, can enable all-new services for electricity consumers. For example, an app could be provided with which the consumer can monitor the electricity consumption figures of both the town home and holiday home, even if these two metering points were in different parts of the country. Preconditions for the new services to the customers is the reliable identification of the customer.
The datahub and smart systems also enable electricity consumers to participate in demand-side management. Demand-side management means balancing electricity production and consumption in such a manner that the use of electricity is automatically adjusted to the load of the grid. During load peaks, electrical appliances can be switched off and, correspondingly, excess production can be led to large building systems, for example.
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The Department for Education has announced the reforms to special educational needs in its formal response to the public consultation on its Green Paper "Support and Aspiration". Legislation will be put in place via the Children and Families Bill, announced in the Queen's speech last week.
The changes represent the "biggest reform of SEN for 30 years", with Children's Minister Sarah Teather calling the current system "outdated and not fit for purpose".
More rigorous assessment
The government has announced plans to "tackle the practice of over-identifying" pupils with SEN.
One in five schoolchildren in England (or around 1.6million) have some form of special needs - but a review of special educational needs by Ofsted in 2010 has claimed that many difficulties are exaggerated to explain poor exam results or bad behaviour and children are wrongly placed on the register. It indicated that as many as 450,000 special needs children may simply be underachieving, suggesting that some schools were over-identifying pupils to attract more funding and boost their position in league tables:
"Inspectors saw schools that identified pupils as having special educational needs when, in fact, their needs were no different from those of most other pupils. They were underachieving but this was sometimes simply because the school's mainstream teaching provision was not good enough, and expectations of the pupils were too low".
Teacher's unions have strongly rejected these claims and warned of cuts to special needs services.
Sarah Teather said:
"We have a number of children who are identified as having special education needs who actually may have other problems and what's important is that we focus on the other causes and get the support they need".
The government has also announced that an expert panel will be formed to look at how they can stop the "overuse" of "behavioural, emotional, and social development difficulties" diagnosis; currently affecting around 160,000 pupils.
Single assessment:
The two most common categories, "School Action" and "School Action Plus" (c.18% of all children, or about 1.4m) which are usually diagnosed by teachers, will be scrapped and replaced with a single school based assessment for all levels of special needs. Fears were raised that these changes would see many children removed from the register, but Sarah Teather said on Radio 4's Today programme: "For me, this is not about numbers".
In addition the current form of "Statement" (a legal document setting out entitlement and needs for the most severe cases of special needs) will be scrapped; a decision which will affect around 2.7% of children. Instead, children who currently have a statement, and young people over 16 with a learning difficulty assessment, will have an integrated single Education, Health and Care Plan up to the age of 25.
Sarah Teather suggested that this would stop the "battle" parents face when having to go from "pillar to post" between different agencies.
Parental Control over budget:
Ministers propose that by 2014 parents of these children with severe, profound or multiple learning difficulties with an Education, Health and Care Plan would also have the right to a personal budget for their support, giving them the power to buy in services rather than relying on the options decided by the local authorities. This power would be optional, with parents able to leave the decision to the local authority if they preferred.
Parents of those children will also have the right to seek a place at any state-funded school.
Changes for agencies and local authorities:
Local authorities will be required to publish the support available to disabled children and children with special educational needs, so that parents know exactly what is available. This would include details of early years, school and college provision as well as transport to and from it; social care services; health services, including speech and language therapy; how to access specialist support; and specialist school provision including training providers and apprenticeships.
In addition, local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups will have to put arrangements in place to ensure that services for children with disabilities and special educational needs are planned and commissioned jointly to guarantee that agencies are working together.
Labour's Shadow Children and Families Minister, Sharon Hodgson, responded to the report saying:
"Parents across the country will welcome the ambition to streamline assessments, remove conflict from the system, and support young people to find employment", but noted that "the Government must set out clearly how they expect to deliver on these ambitions at a time when specialists are being lost due to deep cuts to council budgets, and the health and education systems are being fragmented – all of which will make it harder to deliver joint working."
For the government to focus on taking arbitrary numbers of pupils off the SEN register is entirely the wrong starting point from which to reform the system.
Nasen (National Association for Special Educational Needs) responded to the announcement by welcoming "this government's commitment to supporting those children and young people who have been identified with special educational needs and disabilities", especially praising the extension of legal protection of special needs provision up to the age of 25. They do however voice concerns about the replacement of School Action and School Action Plus with a single assessment process, noting that "schools will need advice and support on how to implement this new process".

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Many tools for analyzing distributed systems propagate contexts along the execution paths of requests, tasks, and jobs, in order to correlate events across process, component and machine boundaries. To propagate contexts, developers must instrument the system by making small but non-trivial sourcecode modifications. However, a lack of well-defined abstractions for context propagation has led to a fragmented landscape of poorly supported, siloed tracing tools that lack interoperability, and organizations report drawn-out struggles to deploy tracing tools.
In this project we advocate for system instrumentation to be a one-time task, reusable, independent of any tracing tool, and that developing, deploying, and updating tracing tools should be possible without revisiting the underlying context propagation mechanisms. We propose two main abstractions that separate the concerns of tracing tool developers from those of system developers: execution flow scoped variables and opaque baggage contexts.
The Tracing Plane is a layered architecture for context propagation that bridges these abstractions, by providing a general-purpose intermediary context that can transparently support a wide range of data types and tracing tools simultaneously. The Tracing Plane serves as the "narrow waist" upon which different tracing tools can be built, analogous to the role of the IP layer in networking.
For more information, see the GitHub organization.
This is an active research project and we will be publishing an academic paper in 2017.
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Growing up, I always had the ambition to study abroad. New York City is my long-time favourite city, but studying there challenged this.
I went to study in NYC, expecting to stay for four years. I went through the arduous US application process and completed the SATs several times (timed tests in maths, reading and writing). It was no easy task, especially with my dream university (NYU) being hit with 50,000 applicants and accepting less that 10%.
It was a culture shock when I arrived – even though I had lived in different countries before. I was 18 and not being allowed into bars, clubs or to purchase alcohol was a constraint for student life. I wasn't a party animal; but what else were students to do if they couldn't go down to the local bar on a Friday night? The phenomenon of fake IDs came into play, along with a lot of not-so-legal alternatives to alcohol, which just seemed to be a norm for American kids. Maybe, I'd spent too long in the UK but (if you pardon the pun) it wasn't my cup of tea!
When I arrived the following year at the University of Southampton, I opted for halls. It is commonplace in the US to have a roommate, but at Gateley Halls I had my own bedroom and bathroom. Southampton still has the industrial, city aspect (albeit not the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple), which I prefer over countryside. Three years on since I applied, I have truly grown to love this place as home.
I enjoy how specific UK courses are compared to the US system where you have to complete general courses. It was no fun having to do subjects I'd dropped at GCSE. I also find it far easier to meet people in Southampton: its smaller size means you can easily find like-minded people and you'll often have mutual friends. It was a common saying that you could live in a city of 20 million (or a university of 50,000) and not find your niche.
Of course, there are perks of living in the city that never sleeps, from the smell of street food to having the tip of the Empire State Building in your view. There is no shortage of students with the city's numerous colleges (NYU, Columbia, Barnard, Pace plus many more), but this means competition is fierce. The summers are hot but the winters are freezing – I stuck through Hurricane Sandy and Storm Nemo! I went to a few gigs (the highlight being when my roommate got VIP tickets to Jay-Z in his neighbourhood of Brooklyn) and discovered my love for Hispanic food (NYC has thousands of eateries).
I could hang in Central Park and people-watch (New Yorkers can be very interesting and you might even spot a celebrity!). However, the NYC I fell in love with was not the one I got at NYU. I didn't see a show on Broadway or visit the Statue of Liberty, yet on a 5-day vacation I packed in heaps of memories. You might have Starbucks on every corner, but it's only because you need that coffee!
Perhaps my reason for seeing Southampton as home over what I see as the most epic place in the world is similar to why you choose Jesters over Oceana most night. You're happy there, with the great atmosphere and great people.


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In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the desert of truthTo the river so deep
I go walking in my sleep
Through the desert of truthTo the river so deep
- Billy Joel
River of Dreams
I had this idea to paddle down the Willamette through the heart of
Portland (actually, I got it from a canoeist I met at the Willamette Park boat ramp during a recent excursion to )…but Monkey-Cam didn't want to go. He and Naked Picasso think they're going to Ross Island to surprise Rudder Starboard. One of the advantages of being imaginary is that there are relatively fewer constraints regarding money and travel. Fortunately, a Facebook friend (Mr. T., but he doesn't have a Mohawk) materialized into an actual corporeal kind of friend and we were able to set up a shuttle from the Nepal Willamette Park boat ramp to the boat ramp at the bridge. St. Johns
This is the
boat ramp at night. But it also pretty much serves to illustrate what the Willamette Park Willamette Park boat ramp looks like early in the morning, which is when we started – early Sunday morning – in hopes of catching the sunrise illuminating the skyline. You might as well know from the start that I've assembled the following collection of pictures from several different trips to the downtown area. Someone (Gayle) talked me into participating in a picture taking project (typically called Project 365), the idea of which is to take at least one picture every day for a year and post it. This has resulted in, what is for me, a somewhat more eclectic range of photo subject matter, and some of these additional pictures happily help illustrate the narrative core of a trip through the heart of Portland . Portland
boat ramp is on the west river bank. It lies about even with the south end of Willamette Park . I'm not sure what Ross Island originally looked like, but today it looks something like a toilet seat liner since its insides have all been scooped out and sent somewhere else to make cement. The remaining ring of land supports the last vestiges of a sand and gravel processing plant. Having thoroughly 'used' Ross Island , the Ross Island Sand and Gravel Company is making some effort to restore what is left of it as their profitable operations come to an end. Meanwhile, beavers and ducks wait on the periphery, hoping to move in. Much is made of eagle couples who choose to nest in its protected areas. Ross Island
Tugboat moored in Ross Island Lagoon 01-30-11
Looking towards the city from the mouth of the Ross Island Lagoon 01-30-11
Support strut for the
. OMSI and the Ross Island Bridge are in the background. 01-30-11 Marquam Bridge
Portland Skyline through 02-06-11 Marquam Bridge
Paddling under the
02-06-11 Hawthorne Bridge
View from the west see-saw-able span of the
02-04-11 Morrison Bridge
Looking back up the river from the
Morrison Bridge ( in distance) 02-04-11 Hawthorne Bridge
Looking back up river to the
02-06-11 Morrison Bridge
Approaching the
02-06-11 Burnside Bridge
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Twin peaks of the convention center from west bank 01-22-11
Passing under the
02-06-11 Burnside Bridge
The moon over the
01-22-11 Burnside Bridge
The twin peaks of the
are echoed in the convention center's glass towers 01-22-11 Steel Bridge
A gang of runners crosses the river on the lower deck of the
02-06-11 Steel Bridge
Passing under the
02-06-11 Steel Bridge
Broadway Bridge ( in distance) 02-06-11 Fremont Bridge
Presumably real stonework holding up the
. The stone pieces fit so precisely together that you cannot slip a piece of paper between them so it follows that this bridge could only have been built by ancient astronauts possessing a technology far superior to ours (yep, that's for you Robert). 02-06-11 Broadway Bridge
From the deck of the
– west end 01-08-11 Broadway Bridge
Looking south from the deck of the
01-10-11 Broadway Bridge
Waterfront living along the west bank of the Willamette, as seen from the
01-08-11 Broadway Bridge
Looking north from the deck of the
01-08-11 Broadway Bridge
Approaching the
02-06-1 Fremont Bridge
Bird's eye view of
12-23-10 Fremont Bridge
Perspective from industrial area under east end of
01-08-11 Fremont Bridge
During the course of obtaining pictures for The Narrative Image, I've come to recognize certain characteristics of the natural world that lead me to constantly update and revise the following list.
Places not to build your house:
- On or near a strato-volcano
- On or near a river pouring down a strato-volcano
- Below sea level
- In a tsunami zone
- On the coast in the gulf of Mexico
(just kidding) Kansas
And now,
- Near any large river unless you live on a boat
In retrospect...
…this was kind of a crappy idea.
appears beyond the stark concrete piers of the railroad bridge 02-06-11 St. Johns Bridge
The canoeist told me that it took him and his wife four hours to get from the
Willamette Park boat ramp to the boat ramp. He said they also stopped along the way and had a nice picnic lunch. It took us about six hours and should have been faster and easier in kayaks. I guess if you want to do this paddle trip yourself and you're in a hurry, don't go with a photographer. St. Johns


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01/25/10. The United States 2010 Census starts today in Alaska. More to come, stay tune.
01/25/10. The National average for regular grade gasoline is $2.72 cents per gallon. Regular gasoline is UP 87 CENTS FROM THIS TIME LAST YEAR IN 2008.
01/25/10. Existing Homes sales for the month of December 2009 was at a 40 year low. DOWN 16.7%.
01/25/10. McDonalds will offer Regular Dr. Pepper at all their restaurants by the end of 2010. Diet Dr. Pepper will be offered in half of all McDonolds restaurants by the end of 2010. Dr. Pepper turns 125 years old!
01/23-24/10. 88,000 jobs at Chrysler auto dealerships were lost in 2008.
01/23-24/10. Democrat Illinois Govenor candidate, Dan Hynes proposes a tax hike for families who earn $200,000 and up. From 3% to 3.5%. Anyone who earns $1 million dollars or more will be taxed at 7%. More to come, stay tune.
01/23-24/10. 50,000 children live as orphans in Haiti. More to come, stay tune.
01/23-24/10. 2,000 Auto Dealerships in the United States have been closed last year in 2009.
01/22/10. Today is the last day for The Tonight Show with Conan O'brien. He was given $44 million dollars to pay off his contract with NBC. $11 million dollars will go to his staff. So, after all is said and done, Conan will get $33 million dollars for finishing up his three year contract with NBC. NBC will allow Conan to get back on television sometime in September 2010. More to come, stay tune.
01/22/10. Illinois has the 2nd worst Bond Rating in the nation. California is the worst.
01/22/10. The Govenor of Illinois told a panel of reporters in Illinois that he is willing and if he is elected will raise taxes on people who earn $60,000 per year. More to come, stay tune.
01/21/10. So far, $300,000 million dollars has been donated by American companies and American people to the people of Haiti. More to come, stay tune.
01/21/10. 50,000 Temporary Job hires in the United States in December 2009.
01/21/10. Foreclosures UP 21% since the end of 2008 in the U.S. The number of Foreclosure Notices that were mailed out to American Home Owners last year was 2.8 million. Bankers expect higher/increase number of Foreclosures in 2010. More to come, stay tune.
01/21/10. President Obama will address reporters today to explain new proposals he will push in Congress for NEW BANKING REGULATIONS regarding fees. So far The United States Government, under President Obama has made lots of interest off tax payer money banks borrowed under the U.S. Stimulus Plan. More to come, stay tune.
01/21/10. In the U.S., December 2009 Retail Sales were DOWN 4%.
01/20/10. In Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown has been elected to the United States Senate! He beat the Democratic Candidate, Martha Coakley who was leading by 20 points in late December 2009. Democrats are blaming President Barack Obama for not sending the right message to Democrats and Independents to get out the vote for his candidate, Martha Coakley. The President isolated Blue Collar Democrats by making fun of Scott Brown's use of his own American made Pickup Truck in this campaign. His truck has over 200,000 miles which he has used every day. President Obama told Coakley supporters at a rally that anyone can buy a truck. The President forgot that 22% unofficial figure and an official figure of 10% are unemployed in the United States. Union members around the nation encouraged some of their Union brothers and sisters in the State of Massachusetts not to vote for President Obama's candidate, Martha Coakley. The Health Care Bill Democrats are backing could be in big trouble. Possibly fail. Democrats will need Republicans to reform Health Care in The United States. Democrats do not have the vote without a possible Fillibuster in the U.S. Senate. Congratulations Scott Brown. He will fill the vacated seat of Ted Kennedy who held that post for 47 years. Ted Kennedy passed away last year. Top Blue Dog Democrats say they will seat Scott Brown right away in Senate Chambers. Republicans will have 41 U.S. Senate seats and Democrats 59 U.S. Senate seats. More to come, stay tune.
01/20/10. The Tonight Show host, Conan O'brian could be offered a settlement in the amount of $40 million dollars. NBC reports this includes money for his staff. More to come, stay tune.
01/20/10. The IRS over the weekend has legalized all or any donations for the relief fund of Haiti as fully Tax Deductible. More info, stay tune.
01/19/10. Democrat, Martha Coakley v. Republican, Scott Brown. These two are the candidates involved in a Special Election to fill the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat vacated by the LION, Teddy Kennedy who passed away from brain cancer last year. More to come, stay tune.
01/19/10. It is estimated that 2,000 to 5,000 U.S Citizens were killed by the 7.3 massive earthquake in Haiti last week. As of today, 1,000 U.S. bodies have been recovered. More to come, stay tune.
01/19/10. 24,000 Chrysler vehicles have been RECALLED for a brake pin failure. Call your nearest dealer to find out if your automobile is on their RECALL List.
01/19/10. The national price for regular grade gasoline is $2.72 cents per gallon. More to come, stay tune.
01/19/10. In Haiti, 1.5 million people had their homes/dwellings destroyed. So far 70,000 Haitians dead bodies have been recovered and are/or will be placed in mass graves. It is estimated that a total of 200,000 Haitians have been killed by the 7.3 massive earthquake last week. The United States has told reporters that $100 million dollars will be available to the Haitian Government to rebuild. It will be close to $500 million dollars the U.S. State Department has indicated. As of today, two airports have been cleared and are up to full operation to take in relief planes loaded with needed material the Haitian people need. More to come, stay tune.
01/19/10. A total of fourteen Chicago Special Education, Grammer Schools and High Schools are to be closed, consolidated and/or their entire staff replaced. It is reported that a school in question has only a 3% Illinois State academic test passing rate. One of the schools has only a 50% attendance average for the year. The recommendations to change these schools will be debated in Chicago City Council. More to come, stay tune.
01/18/10. Happy Martin Luther King Day! The United States Stock Market is closed today.
01/16-17/10. A new and competent fund raising effort has been started by the 42nd and 43rd Presidents of the United States. Their website for you to donate to the relief of the Haiti people is www.clintonbushhaitifund.org Make sure to donate your hard earned money to an honored and trust worthy Haiti relief organization. The above organization is that organization to support the poor people of Haiti. President Obama needs all the help he can get. These two former Presidents have that executive experience Presisent Obama needs now to fix his problems in Haiti. God Bless President Obama, former President Clinton and former President Bush. Haiti is the poorest country in our Hemisphere. Lots of corruption and warlords run this country. Compassion and Action is what is needed to support the Haitian People.
01/16-17/10. So far 180 tons of relief has landed in Haiti. Unfortunately, after 5 days since Haiti's massive earthquake, most of this relief has not been distributed to the suffering people of Haiti. Everyone is frustrated. President Obama is disappointed and does not understand the delays. More Haitians are dying everyday that this relief does not make it to the people of Haiti. President Obama told the American public to pray and have faith in his management/executive decisions on getting the food, water, equipment to the Haitians before more die. Five days is just to long for the poor Haitians to wait. Why? That is the question everyone has over this weekend. More to come, stay tune.
01/15/10. Today we honor the Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. He was a Great Civil Rights leader.
01/15/10. Long term unemployment in the United States is at 22%. These are people who have been out of work for over 12 months.
01/15/10. The average price of gasoline in Chicago, Illinois is $2.85 per gallon.
01/15/10. A Barrel of Oil this summer is expected to increase to $90 per barrel. Currently we are under $80 per barrel.
01/14/10. President Obama to impose a special FEE or NEW TAX U.S. Banks. The largest banks. No more detail has been released. The President is calling this new fee the"FINANCIAL CRISIS RESPONSIBILITY ACT". President Obama to raise $90 billion dollars over the next 10 years. 60% will be raised from big banks and the rest will be raised from FANNIE MAE and FREDDIE MAC. More to come, stay tune.
01/14/10. Foreclosures in the United States is up 21% from the end of 2008. More foreclosures to continue this year in 2010. So far in 2010, 2.8 million home owners have received a foreclosure letter.
01/13/10. Jordan receives about $650 million dollars from the United States for military expenditures. Half of Jordan's population is Palestinian refugees. More to come, stay tune.
01/13/10. Currently ETF's have about $800 Billion dollars in assets. ETF's will increase about 45%. Emerging markets are hot! Warning. Always check with your professional stock broker and financial lawyer before investing any of your money.
01/12/10. Sarah Palin starts her new job on FOX TELEVISION tonight. She will be hosting a conservative talk show.
01/12/10. Haiti has experienced a 7.3 Mega Earthquake. No number on the number of victims from this quake. A hospital has collapsed. Officials are waiting for an after quake to occur. Also a Sunami is expected. Stay tune.
01/12/10. Retail Markets should increase 3% to 4% this year in 2010.
01/12/10. NBC's Tonight Show host Conan O'Brian has sent a legal letter to NBC stating he is not interested in the 12:05am time slot for his show.
01/11/10. The Mortgage Bankers Association predict that Mortgage applications/originations will pludge 40% to 45% this year in 2010.
01/09-10/10. December's 2009 Unemployment rate in the United States is 10%.
01/08/10. Catholic Priest in Joliet, Il. jumped off the Churches roof. He tried to kill himself. He is being investigated for child abuse.
01/07/10. The TSA Budget in 2010 to INCREASE $7.7 billion dollars from their 2009 Budget.
01/06/10. New Home Sales DOWN 16%.
01/06/10. 25% of Home Mortgages in the United States are under water, meaning that these loans are not being paid on a monthly basis.
01/06/10. In 2008, 588,000 mortgages in the U.S. DEFAULTED.
01/05/10. IRS to implement new rules for tax preparers starting in 2011. Tax preparers will have to register and take IRS test. A License to prepare taxes. Expect higher fees to have your taxes prepared. Three out of Five people in the U.S.A. have their taxes prepared. The big tax companies like H&R Block have been trying get this law implemented since 1970. More to come, stay tune.
01/05/10. Ford December 2009 Auto Sales Up 23.3%. Chrysler Auto Sales Down 10.5%. More to come, stay tune.
01/05/10. Today, Google launches their 1st smart phone, called the Nexus One phone. Gives a plat form for Google's advertisement division. This smart phone is considered "UNLOCK Phone", or known as an "OPEN SYSTEM" Type Phone. You can take this phone to any carrier or phone system provider. More to come, stay tune.
01/04/10. General Motors has 8 to 10 months of inventory in the U.S. Market of Auto Sales.
01/04/10. Pakistan's Central Bank cut its benchmark rate by half a percentage point to 12.5%.
01/03/10. The Annual Rate of inflation in South Africa fell by 0.2% percentage points to 5.9% last year.
01/02/10. Late last year, Vietnam's Central Bank devalued the Dong by 5.4% against the dollar and raised its benchmark interest rate by one percentage point to 8%.
"YYYC" will be reporting news again this year. Thanks for checking in with us. We appreciate you for that. Jim Liceaga
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Fiona's mum, Elizabeth, had suspected ovarian cancer which spread to her liver. Her initial prognosis in 2015 was just six to nine months, but she defied the odds and lived independently in her little cottage for another two-and-a-half years, supported for the last 12 months by regular visits from Rennie Grove's Healthcare Assistants.
Fiona explains:
"They helped Mum to have a bath every Monday: she really looked forward to it; I think it was genuinely the highlight of her week. And when she became too weak to go to the hairdresser's, Healthcare Assistants Lynne or Hannah would wash her hair for her at home then set it in curlers the way she liked it.
"Practical help is so important – it's what people really need when they're faced with a diagnosis like Mum's. Cancer can leave people so exhausted and the help from the Healthcare Assistants meant she could preserve the little energy she had to enjoy life.
"It was a huge weight off my mind too. I knew that really kind, lovely and experienced carers were with her at least one day each week and it gave me the peace of mind to focus on other things without worrying for those few precious hours.
"When I did see them in action, I was always amazed at how un-rushed and relaxed they were. Most of us rush about in our jobs but they made sure everything was just right for mum and that she never, ever felt rushed.
"That is worth its weight in gold and - as far as I'm concerned - the more Healthcare Assistants Rennie Grove can employ the better! Lynne and Hannah were very special to Mum and they had a huge impact on all our lives for that year or so. Lynne was with Mum the day before she died so I know she was clean and comfortable and peaceful. She and Hannah even came to Mum's funeral in early 2018; testament to their caring nature and the strong rapport they'd built with Mum."


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The Library has recently acquired an album of 89 coloured prints dating from the early 1820s. It may have been issued by William Darton Jr. (1781-1854) and his firm at Holborn Hill during the mid-1820s as a sample album to show potential customers examples of his work. It contains a small number of sheets originally issued in 1800 by William Darton Sr. (1755-1819); 11 harlequinades in unfolded sheets with the imprint of B. Tabart & Co., and some sheets bearing Darton Jr's imprint with dates ranging from 1821 to 1824. This mix of imprints suggests that Darton Jr. inherited some of his father's old stock upon his death, including some of Benjamin Tabart's publications which William Sr. possibly acquired in 1811 when financial difficulties may have forced Tabart to sell off some of his stock.
The harlequinades are especially interesting as very few examples survive generally, and four of the eleven Tabart examples in this album are currently untraced elsewhere. There are certainly difficulties locating harlequinades in library and museum catalogues around the world as they can be treated equally as toys, books, ephemera or prints, but as some titles were not located by Marjory Moon in her bibliography of Tabart's Juvenile Library it seems likely that some of the Bodleian copies may be unique survivals. It is also possible that these eleven titles represent Tabart's entire output of harlequinades, but that is pure speculation.
Blue Beard. Sold by B. Tabart & Co., June 1st. 1809.
Robinson Crusoe. Sold by B. Tabart & Co. June 1. 1809.
Veroni or the novice of St. Marks. Published by B. Tabart & Co, June 1. 1809.
Mother Goose. Published by B. Tabart & Co., July 1st 1809.
Hop o' my thumb. Published by B. Tabart & Co., Jany. 1st. 1810..
Black Beard the pirate. Published, by B. Tabart & Co., July 1st. 1809.
Parnell's hermit. Published, by Tabart & Co., Jany. 31st. 1810.
Exile, as performed at the royal theatres. Published by B. Tabart & Co., June 1st. 1809.
Robin Hood. Published by B. Tabart & Co., June 1st. 1809.
Polish tyrant. Published, by B. Tabart & Co., Aug. 1st. 1809.
A tale of mystery. Published by B. Tabart & Co., Jany. 25th, 1810.
Shelfmark: Vet. A6 c.118
The entire album will be available online in Summer 2009 as part of the John Johnson Collection's Electronic Ephemera Project. Full records for the harlequinades are available now via OLIS.


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Lets talk about Khada Jhin.. seriously.
Hello everyone, i hope you are all lore lovers and hopefully a lot more informed than i am on the topic Jhin {{champion:202}} . Jhin {{champion:202}} has been my love ever since he got released. From his shape, clothes, voice, whispers, laughs, lines, skills, skins and all the way to the lore. The problem is that i need more. In everything that was given to us about Khada Jhin {{champion:202}} , all that i learned is that he's an artist that has an obsession with the number 4. His audience and puppets are selected by him, not random, and maybe he even has some kind of purpose (?) to killing these victims. Competition? Jealousy? Something from the past? What has shaped Jhin {{champion:202}} into an artistic murderer? From his speech, he's clearly educated. Maybe even coming from a rich family when he was a kid. How did he grow up into this person? Who did he meet along the way? Well, i have a lot more questions than just that. But what really drove me to write this topic are 2 main things. 1: The Camille comic. In her comic (go read it if you haven't yet), there is a weird man that she calls a baron, but my heart skipped a beat at the thought of that man being Jhin {{champion:202}} . I froze here in my chair and studied the man carefully. His mask is... different? Or maybe that's his real face? His hair is long.. and his clothes are a bit different, with that huge, um.. hole in his heart? So maybe it wasn't him. Or at least i hope it wasn't him, as Camille easily killed him. He deserves more than that. Way more. And i think for the sake of fans, no LoL characters should be killed off in the comics. Otherwise my heart will bleed out and dry. And 2: I actually started writing my own Jhin {{champion:202}} lore, the base being the official story we get from LoL, with Zed {{champion:238}} and Shen {{champion:98}} as his rivals. From where the story left off, when they were supposed to battle, i continued only a little bit, but before i get to the action part, i want to know if there are more informations on Jhin {{champion:202}} , as i want to stay as true as possible to the man he really is in the League world. I also want to stay true to who each character is because i have a lot of respect for the characters and their creators. TLDR; Are there any other lore sources for Jhin {{champion:202}} ? And am i allowed to write lore? I hope they're not copyright protected because i'll write the shit out of my husbando. Thanks! Oh, one more thing, sorry if my english isn't always correct gramatically, i'm not english/american/canadian at all.
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I had the hankering for some doughnuts and thought I would make my own. I recently saw a Travel Network show on doughnuts across the country and was intrigued by the addition of potatoes to one of the recipes from a diner in Idaho-of all places! I love potato bread, so I thought I would give it a try. I found this recipe on Cooking.com and thought it would work. It was really easy and the dough just came out perfectly. I only fried up a few for my husband and I then I froze the rest and vacuum sealed them for future use. I assume that all I need to do is to thaw them out and let them rise a bit and fry. I will keep you posted when I resurrect the frozen ones from the freezer again.
Makes about 4 Dozen
1 pound russet potatoes, peeled and quartered
2 packages (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast
1 1/2 cups warm whole milk (110-115 degrees F)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
7 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Oil for deep-fat frying
4 cups confectioners' sugar
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Place potatoes in a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil; cook until tender. Drain, reserving 1/2 cup cooking liquid; cool to 110 degrees-115 degrees F. Discard remaining cooking liquid.
Mash potatoes without milk or butter. In a large mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in reserved cooking liquid. Add mashed potatoes, milk, oil, sugar, eggs and salt. Add enough flour to form a soft dough.
Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
Punch dough down; let rise again until doubled, about 20 minutes. Roll out on a floured surface to 1/2-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 3-in. doughnut cutter.
In an electric skillet or deep-fat fryer, heat oil to 375 degrees F. Fry spudnuts, a few at a time, until golden brown. I tested the oil by dropping in the spudnut holes to test for perfect temperature. For glaze, combine confectioners' sugar, water and vanilla in a bowl. Dip warm doughnuts in glaze. Cool on wire racks.


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Long-term investing requires knowledge, trust and continuity, and is therefore certainly not suited for every pension fund
PAPER: Long-term investing in public equity markets
What does success look like…and how to organize it?
SHIFTTO.org editorial board members Jaap van Dam and Lars Dijkstra authored a white paper for the 300 Club on the 'how to' of long-term investing. There are two major challenges, namely
(1) how to minimize the principal-agent problems around long-term investments, and
(2) how to maximize the impact on the companies in which you invest.
In 2015, fifteen Dutch CIOs of asset owners and asset managers wrote an article with the title: 'Short-term profit or long-term value creation?' A growing group of pension funds, asset managers, consultants and companies worldwide try to answer this question.
The core aspects of long-term investing are the following: you pay attention to value creation, the potential to create strategic value with the companies you do or do not invest in; so you think fundamentally about investing; your portfolio has focus and therefore invests in far fewer companies than in the entire market; you invest with patience; you are involved, you act as an owner; you pay attention to the societal impact of the company, for example CO2 emissions. The benchmark then has a completely different, more of a free role than what's currently the case when investing in public equity markets. This paper is a practical next step following the article of the CIOs. We try to be as concrete as possible, and we go from 'why' to 'how'.
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House nominates 15 for UNC Board of Governors
House nominees for the UNC Board of Governors include six current members and nine others.
Sixteen seats of the 32-member university system governing board are up for election this year. The House and Senate each elect half of the open seats.
Current members nominated for re-election are: James Holmes Jr., a Raleigh businessman; Dick Taylor, a Lumberton business owner; David Powers, a Winston-Salem businessman; Mary Ann Maxwell, a Goldsboro businesswoman; Raiford Trask III, a Wilmington real estate developer; and Hari Nath, a Cary businessman.
Others nominated are: Christopher Derrick, a Lake Junaluska attorney; Pearl Burris-Floyd of Dallas, NC, a vice president of the Greensboro Partnership; Matthew-Todd Johnson, a Monroe insurance agent; Walter Davenport, a Raleigh accountant and consultant who previously served on the Board of Governors; John Alex Mitchell, a Durham developer; C. Philip Byers of Forest City, president of Challenge Foundation Properties and trustee at Western Carolina University; Joe Thomas Knott III, a Raleigh lawyer; Ed Broyhill, Winston-Salem businessman who has served as a trustee at Winston-Salem State and Appalachian State universities; Dr. Dwight Perry, a Durham ophthalmologist and trustee at N.C. Central University.
The Senate's nominees include four current members.
The UNC Board of Governors formed a nominating committee Wednesday to set up three committees that will participate in the search for a successor to UNC President Tom Ross. The Republican-dominated board acted in January to force the early retirement of Ross, who will leave the job next year.


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Kate Atwood is the founder of Kate's Club: a not-for-profit that empowers children and teens facing life after the death of a parent or sibling. At the age of 12, Kate Atwood lost her mother. For 7 years she did not talk about her loss, until she told her story at a camp at 19. It was at this camp that the idea for Kate's club was born.
On this episode we discuss:
1. How Kate had the idea for Kate's Club.
2. How she took the idea and built it into a non-profit.
3. How Kate supported herself while starting Kate's Club.
4. How Kate raised money for Kate's Club when they were just getting started.
5. The story behind the name of Kate's Club.
6. Advice she would give to young entrepreneur's who want to start a non-profit.
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Civil Air Patrol Emergency Services conducts approximately 90 percent of all inland search and rescue in the United States, as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and other agencies. CAP's missions include both Air Force assigned missions (damage assessment, light transport, communications support, and low-altitude route surveys) and those in support of other state, federal, and local agencies (such as disaster relief, medical materials transport, and assisting in homeland security and anti-drug missions). CAP ES is credited with saving an average of 80 lives per year -- in fiscal year 2008, 91 lives were saved, with 24 being saved by the Colorado Wing!
Whether you are interested in serving in an air search crew or as part of the Pueblo Eagles' long tradition of outstanding ground teams, the Civil Air Patrol and the Pueblo Eagles Composite Squadron can assist you in training for these important missions.
Emergency Services Officer
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Monday, November 4th, 2013
- Condensed Matter Theory Group Seminar
- Full Counting Statistics of Photons Emitted by Double Quantum Dot
- Time: 4:30 pm
- Place: Chamberin 5310
- Speaker: Canran Xu, Physics Department
- Abstract: We analyze the full counting statistics of photons emitted by a double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to a high-quality microwave resonator by electric dipole interaction. We show that at the resonant condition between the energy splitting of the DQD and the photon energy in the resonator, photon statistics exhibits both a sub-Poissonian distribution and antibunching. In the ideal case, when the system decoherence stems only from photodetection, the photon noise is reduced below one-half of the noise for the Poisson distribution and is consistent with current noise. The photon distribution remains sub-Poissonian even at moderate decoherence in the DQD. We demonstrate that Josephson junction based photomultipliers can be used to experimentally assess statistics of emitted photons.
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Brookner (Leaving Home, 2006, etc.) tells the story of bookish retiree Paul Sturgis.
Most of the novel takes place within Paul's mind, which is also where most of Paul's life takes place. Since leaving his job and the comfort of routine, Paul finds himself with only one ritual—occasional visits with Helena, the widow of his cousin and thus a distant relative, but apparently his only living one. Neither of them seems to enjoy the visits much, though they provide human connection in a world otherwise filled with strangers. Two chance encounters promise to enliven Paul's existence, or threaten to complicate it. On a trip to Venice to avoid Helena's annual Christmas invitation, he meets Vicky Gardner, a vivacious woman some 20 years younger. "Women, after pursuit on his part, had found him disappointing in a way that he had never fully understood," muses Paul, yet Vicky doesn't. Or maybe he doesn't give her the chance. Or maybe she's so engulfed by the complications of her life—her recent divorce, her rootlessness bordering on homelessness—that she simply doesn't realize how disappointing a relationship with Paul might be. They continue to meet back home in London, complicating Paul's life in a way that he occasionally finds stimulating but more often uncomfortable. Another chance encounter offers another complication, when he runs into Sarah, one of the women who had found him disappointing, and still does. Yet Sarah was one of only two girlfriends he had ever been serious about. He feels torn between his past with Sarah and whatever future he might have with Vicky, while recognizing that "a life lived purely in the mind, as he seemed to have lived his own, would seem not only without interest but bizarre, unnatural."
Free to do nothing, a retiree bores himself and others, including the reader.


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Riz Boardshorts have been an inspiration since they launched their crowdfunder campaign to get there incredible boardies underway. They have taken the concept of using recycled marine plastic to another level with their bottles to boardshorts campaign. As well as this they also recycle their own boardshorts back into boardshorts when they have worn out; a great example of closing the loop of use of raw materials as much as possible. Founded by Riz Smith, who had been designing unsustainable swim wear ranges, he set out with the 'simple' philosophy to make 'The most beautiful and sustainable swim shorts in the world'. He's doing that, and his company Riz is giving back to the planet by taking this rubbish out of the system. If you'd like to find out more click HERE.
I have no idea how you could turn a plastic bottle into a pair of shorts, is this something you're going to develop yourself, or is it a process you are going to modify? At the moment we use fabric which is made from standard recycled plastic bottles – these are broken down into pellets then woven into fabric that becomes textiles and ultimately shorts. It takes about 20 bottles to make 1 pair of shorts. The key question with ocean plastics will be what percentage of the plastics found on beaches can actually be recycled. Second question will be how much cleaning is required to get them to a state where they are recyclable.
How much plastic do you actually need to create a board short, and is it anything we see from a water bottle to fairy liquid bottle to fishing crate? It's 20 bottles to a pair of boardshorts. The fabric we use at the moment would use any bottle which can be put into your recycling bag. In terms of beach waste, this is an unknown which we will be starting to answer at the meeting next week. We will be working with the recycling industry to work out which plastics found on the beaches can go into the recycling process to make textiles. It may be that some of them will work for textiles but that we need to find other markets for other plastics.
I'm asking this because I actually don't know, but are you turning the plastic in the bottles into polyester, or will it be a different material, in which case what will that feel like? We are expecting the bottles to be turned into polyester and would expect, though we don't know, that the it will have the same feel as our current recycled fabric. But that is very much unknown at the moment!
You can get involved and help The Plastic Project HERE


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TAMPA, FL (January 18, 2018): KICKING ICE, a 62-page graphic novel, created and written by Stephanie Phillips, drawn by Lee Moder, and colored by Marissa Louise, will debut through Ominous Press in the fall of 2018. The all-ages story is about two young, female hockey players dreaming of playing professional hockey in the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL). The book is being supported by a Kickstarter campaign intended to bring the project to fruition, and a portion of all sales goes directly to the NWHL to support the athletes and the growth of the league.
After moving from Boston to Hartford, CT, Bella befriends a classmate named Skye who happens to play ice hockey and roots adamantly for her home NWHL team, the Connecticut Whale. Thanks to Skye, Bella falls in love with ice hockey and becomes a devoted fan of the NWHL. As their friendship grows, both Bella and Skye dream of one day playing in the NWHL. For the time being, however, they both play on the same junior hockey team where, unfortunately, they encounter bullies who think that girls shouldn't play hockey. Of course, Bella and Skye, with the inspiring help of their heroes in the NWHL, prove to the bullies that kicking ice isn't just for boys.
KICKING ICE is a celebration of the pioneering efforts of everyone involved in making professional women's hockey a reality, and the story is built on the social values of the NWHL – inclusiveness, equality, and empowerment. Thanks to the NWHL, a new generation of players, like Bella and Skye, get to realize their dream of playing professional hockey.
Available to backers through a Kickstarter campaign, KICKING ICE boasts a talented creative team. The creator and writer, Stephanie Phillips, is a PhD candidate at the University of South Florida and has written for independent comic publishers. Joining Phillips is artist Lee Moder, who has worked for many major publishers and is known for his work on BATMAN, WONDER WOMAN, and LEGION OF SUPERHEROES. Finally, Marissa Louise lends her talents as a colorist. Louise's work has appeared with DC, Black Mask, Albatross, and more. KICKING ICE is being published through OMINOUS PRESS and their CEO and publisher, Sean HusVar.
Wide arrays of rewards are planned for this campaign. Backer levels include items from digital copies of the book to hardcover variants with an exclusive cover from Harley Quinn artist Amanda Connor.
Complete details for the kickstarter can be found here: www.kickingice.com
Backers can also follow KICKING ICE on Twitter at @KickingIce, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/KickingIce.
With the help of supporters, this project will be ready for delivery the second half of 2018.


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Biosis has a proud history of providing expert advice on ecological and cultural heritage management and development planning in Victoria's Alpine Resorts.
This year, Matt Looby, senior consultant botanist, will deliver a presentation to the Australian Alpine Resorts Forum to be held at Mount Buller on 1 and 2 May 2013. With Matt's combined ecological expertise and statutory planning experience, forum delegates will learn how strategic planning and management in Alpine Resorts can achieve business objectives and attract year-round visitation, whilst improving ecological outcomes for our unique alpine environments.
For more information, please call Rebecca Steer in our Wangaratta office on 0428 126 140.


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The National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planner, announced the plan to launch a nationwide carbon trading program this week, which is expected to cover about 1700 of the country's power-generating companies with an estimated annual emission of 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
After US President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris Accord that aims to curb global greenhouse gas emission, Chinese leaders have pledged on various occasions that the nation would continue to work with partners from the rest of the world to push forward the international initiative to combat climate change.
No Structural Change in Energy Mix
"Although the detailed rules on the China's carbon trading market have not been released to the public, according to submitted proposals, each kind of power generation source, such as coal or natural gas, would have its own emission cap. Under this mechanism, the focus will be on improving efficiency of existing plants, instead of pushing structural reforms that would replace coal with gas or other cleaner energy sources," Zhang Junjie, director of the Environmental Research Center at the Duke Kunshan University in eastern China's Jiangsu province, told Sputnik.
However, the expert believes the recently announced carbon trading scheme is moving toward the right direction by targeting the power-generating industry.
"The power-generating industry is the largest emitter in China and also the largest consumer of coal, as over 50 percent of China's coal consumption comes from this industry. And this industry has a good foundation of basic statistics on emission. During the carbon market trials, this industry was also covered. The power generation industry has the best foundation to start carbon trading. As most of the companies in the industry are state-owned companies, it's easier to implement the carbon trading scheme. It's a reasonable choice to pick this industry," Zhang said.
The Kunshan-based scholar pointed out that the carbon trading markets in the European Union and some US states such as California have also primarily focused on the power generation industry.
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Official figures showed that over 65 percent of all electricity generated in China in 2016 came from coal-fired power plants. Despite rapid growth in power generation from renewable energy such as hydro, wind and solar, their overall contribution to China's electricity generation stood at 24.4 percent last year, with hydro taking up about 18.9 percent. Contribution from wind and solar combined only accounted for about 5 percent of China's total electricity generation in 2016.
A More Feasible Solution
As part of Chinese authorities' efforts in solving the nation's severe air pollution problem, which has been viewed as a possible threat to the ruling Communist Party's image, a pilot program was launched in 28 cities earlier this year to covert heating systems powered by coal to natural gas.
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Environmental experts believe the carbon trading scheme is a much better solution to promote the use of cleaner energy such as natural gas, compared to executive orders.
"China's coal-to-gas conversion campaign primarily serves the purpose of solving the nation's air pollution problem. This administrative method focuses on executive orders and strict control. This method is very simple and raw, without taking the economic feasibility into consideration. When problems emerged, they had to correct course. But the carbon market is a more advance and more effective method that is based on market demand. The transition from coal to cleaner energy sources come from economic incentives. This market-oriented method comes at a much lower cost, which allows the companies to decide which energy source they prefer," Zhang from Duke Kunshan University said.
Lin Boqiang, director of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University in southeastern China, expressed similar views on the effectiveness of the carbon trading scheme, compared to administrative measures.
"In the short term, administrative measures are a lot more effective than market-oriented incentives, as the results from executive orders often come at once. But such administrative measures would also bring a heavy cost. The carbon trading market can help minimize the cost of emission reduction," Lin told Sputnik.
Coal Vs Gas
Scientists estimate natural gas, despite being a fossil fuel, emits about 50 to 60 less CO2 when combusted in a new, efficient natural gas power plant compared with emissions from a typical new coal plant. The burning of natural gas also produces negligible amounts of sulfur, mercury and particulates that contribute to air pollution, which makes a much cleaner alternative than coal, according to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists in the United States.
"If natural gas contribution in China's energy consumption can reach 15 percent, from the current 7 percent, it would make a huge difference. That's because if China can reduce coal's contribution to the energy consumption by 8 percent, its greenhouse emission peak would have passed a long time ago. If China can reduce coal's contribution to about 40 percent and raise the contribution of natural gas to about 20 percent, we will see blue sky everywhere in the country," he said.
According to targets set by Chinese authorities, the nation plans to raise the natural gas contribution to the nation's energy consumption to 10 percent by 2020 and to 15 percent by 2030. Official figures showed the contribution of natural gas to China's energy consumption stood at 6.4 percent in 2016.
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However, Lin pointed out that China may face a bottleneck in natural gas supply as the nation does not want to rely overly on imports.
"The Chinese government definitely does not want to expand China's reliance on natural gas imports. That's because natural gas supply depends on relations between two countries. For example, China is planning to build two gas supply pipelines with Russia. You wouldn't want to rely too much on one country. Compared to pipeline gas supply, liquefied natural gas (LNG) can only be a supplementary source of supply. It's impossible for us to rely on LNG as a primary source of supply like developed nations such as Japan. The cost would be too high," he said.
In 2014, Russian oil giant Gazprom signed a 30-year framework agreement with CNPC for annual deliveries of 38 billion cubic meters of Russian gas through the eastern route pipeline, formally known as the Power of Siberia. In 2015, the accord was supplemented by a deal on the construction of the Power of Siberia-2 pipeline, which will have a capacity of 30 billion cubic meters (about 1.06 trillion cubic feet).
The Xiamen-based expert suggested that developing the domestic shell gas industry would be a more reasonable solution for China's massive demand for natural gas. Lin estimates China's annual natural gas consumption is expected to triple from the current level of around 200 billion cubic meters (7.06 trillion cubic feet) if the nation is to meet the target of natural gas contributing to 15 percent of overall energy consumption annually.
The new carbon trading scheme has demonstrated China's commitment to pledges on combating climate change, Zhang from Duke Kunshan University suggested.
"As China made promises to reduce emissions on the global stage, including signing the Paris Accord or even the earlier agreement on greenhouse gas emission reduction between Chinese and US leaders, Beijing pledged to reach its emission peak by 2030. This is a major step for China to keep these promises through a market-oriented mechanism," he said.
However, it is important not to neglect responsibilities developed nations need to take on similar efforts, the Chinese expert argued.
"We need to be careful when it comes to whether China needs to lead the global climate change efforts. When it comes to greenhouse gas emission, it's about how to distribute the responsibilities internationally. The existing greenhouse gas [in the atmosphere] primarily came from emissions of developed countries after the Industrial Revolution. Developed nations led by the Unites States need to take a larger responsibility on emission reduction. It is not about the United States can relieve its responsibilities and let China take over," Zhang said.
Nevertheless, for China to unveil the carbon trading market this year, it has become a strong boost to the global efforts in combating climate change, amid uncertainties following Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Accord, he added.
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Hope For Renewable Energy
"China made new records with solar power this year and the growth of carbon-free electricity is extremely impressive. I think there's no doubt about the domestic efforts are. Right now they're driven by domestic energy policies. The announcement of the carbon market is another sign that China is moving in the right direction," Lauri Myllyvirta, a researcher for Greenpeace in Beijing, told Sputnik.
However, Zhang, the professor at Duke Kunshan University, argued that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a much lower priority for Chinese government compared with the pressing issue of solving the deadly air pollution problem.
"For Chinese authorities, environmental concern, especially air pollution, is a much strong driver than reducing greenhouse gas emissions. China's efforts in improving the air quality happened to help reduce greenhouse gas emission," he said.
The scholar believes China needs to resolve the most pressing issue, which is air pollution, first, before thinking more about combating climate change.
READ MORE: UN, World Powers Renew Call for Climate Action at One Planet Summit in Paris
The views and opinions expressed in the article do not necessarily reflect those of Sputnik.


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Friday 21st April 2017 saw Bracknell's local heroes recognised at the 12th annual Pride of Bracknell Forest Awards. Bracknell-based Redwood Technologies Group, the main organisers of the event, also showed its support through the sponsorship of two categories, which both celebrated the successes of young people in the area.
The Awards were held at Bracknell & Wokingham College and saw attendees enjoy a glittering three-course meal and drinks, as well as entertainment from Bracknell Gymnastics Club, Ranelagh School Choir, and Wellington College's a capella group the Wellingtones. The evening was hosted by BBC Radio Berkshire's Andrew Peach and Ady Williams, with special guests including David Seaman and his Dancing on Ice star wife, Frankie, as well as the Lord Lieutenant of the Royal County of Berkshire, Mr James Puxley.
There were 10 awards up for grabs this year, recognising those Bracknell residents who have gone above and beyond in areas such as education, sport, volunteering and business. Redwood Technologies Group member Content Guru sponsored the 'Health and Sport – Young Person's Award', which celebrates those under 18s from the region who have made outstanding commitments to the fields of health and sport. Bracknell Athletics Club's Amelia Quirk took home the award for her dedication to training and numerous national and international achievements.
Sister company Redwood Technologies supported the 'John Nike Pride of Bracknell Forest – Young Person's Award', introduced in honour of the late Bracknell hero John Nike. This year's winner was Aysha Riley-Marsh, an inspirational 11-year-old who has suffered with a number of medical difficulties and, despite having a prolonged period of time off school, she has returned to the classroom with enthusiasm and is now determined to become a doctor.
Redwood Technologies Group co-founder and CEO, Sean Taylor, commented:
"2017 is set to be a fantastic year for Bracknell as the town centre regeneration work nears completion, bringing with it optimism about the region's future, thousands of new jobs and broader opportunities. At this time, it's important to recognise the strong community at the heart of the region that continues to drive its success. Now in their 12th year, the 2017 Pride of Bracknell Forest Awards have been the biggest and best yet, celebrating the extraordinary deeds and selflessness of those around us who make enormous sacrifices to improve the quality of life in the area."
Visit the Pride of Bracknell Forest Awards official website to find out more.
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- Customer: Eran Colbus
- Location: Ransomville, NY
- Building Type: Residential
- Solar System Type: Solar Thermal System
- Type Of Solar Collectors: Flat Plates
- Solar Collector Model: ThermoPower-VHP10
- Qty Of Solar Collectors: 10 (182.1 ft2)
- Anticipated Solar Fraction: %
- Anticipated 15yr Energy Savings: $ 0
- Install Completion Date: February 20, 2012
Project Overview
During the Winter of 2012, a residential solar thermal system was installed for Eran Colbus of Ransomville, New York. He purchased a SunMaxx system including 10 TitanPower Plus SU2 series flat plate solar collectors and a 400 gallon solar storage tank. His solar collectors are roof mounted and tied into his fuel oil burner. His system provides 90% of his domestic hot water needs from late Spring through early Autumn and 75% from late Autumn through early Spring. He took advantage of the $4000 from NYSERDA's Solar Thermal Incentive Program, which was approx. 20% of his total system cost.
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Larry Goodman's beef empire is in the heart of the Brexit storm but past success suggest few would bet against him, writes Ailish O'Hora
After beef baron Larry Goodman's ABP Food took a 50pc stake in Wexford-based Slaney Foods, the parent of Slaney Meats, back in 2016, the move culminated in Irish Farmers' Association protests. Farmers and suppliers were concerned about falling beef prices and the arrival of powerful ABP as a shareholder.
But fast-forward to today and Slaney is one of Europe's top beef producers supplying over 25 countries, including China. Low prices are still a big concern for farmer suppliers, but fears around the acquisition seem to have been allayed.
Not that the protests were likely to have given Goodman many sleepless nights. If any Irish businessman is deserving of the moniker survivor, it is him. Now 81, and still actively involved in ABP Foods, the family beef business which had a turnover of €2.8bn in 2018, he has come out the other side of a Beef Tribunal, a horse-meat scandal, two recessions and business exposure following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
The Goodman business empire – which includes his wife Kitty and sons Laurence (37) and Mark (35) – now straddles the food, property, pet food and renewable sectors and employs 11,000 people, mostly outside of Ireland.
The deeply-private businessman, who is the sixth generation of a livestock and meat-exporting family, runs a tight ship and at top level surrounds himself with a team of loyal allies who are expected to put in the hours, sources said.
Goodman is the executive chairman of the company which has grown to become one of Europe's leading privately owned agri-businesses with 51 production sites across Europe.
Day-to-day operations at ABP are handled by a management team consisting of chief executive Frank Stephenson, COO Finbarr McDonnell and a team of divisional heads, one of whom is Goodman's youngest son Mark, who is managing director of ABP's international division.
His eldest son, Laurence, heads up the family's property interests as well as running his own property development business – Urban Life. In fact, it is understood that Goodman and Laurence are the State's biggest landlords, earning an €8m rent roll for office space to three government departments at the Baggot Street property, now known as Miesian Plaza. They also own an office block on Nassau Street in the capital, which they hope to redevelop.
The family also has investments in the Blackrock and Hermitage Clinics.
But beef remains where it's mainly at for the business. Customers include supermarket private labels and restaurant and takeaway chains, while pet food has also been a growth sector in recent years.
Earlier this year, ABP took control of Longford-based pet food manufacturing firm C&D Foods after it purchased the remaining 15pc stake owned by CEO Philip Reynolds. The company already had an 85pc stake in the business after the purchase of 50pc in 2008 and a further 35pc in 2011 in what is now one of the biggest European pet food suppliers.
According to Reynolds, Brexit was a key motivation behind the buyout.
Indeed Brexit remains a significant threat to for the wider group, as the UK is a big net importer of beef. Ireland accounted for 75pc of UK beef imports in November of last year, according to recent trade statistics.
And although ABP has hedged against this in the North with a 50pc stake in Linden Foods and a factory investment in Scotland a source close to the meat industry said: "Brexit is potentially significant for them but it all depends on how the UK manages its beef tariffs.
"But if there is anyone in the meat industry can find ways to deal with the challenge it's ABP. They are so well-connected internationally, so well-resourced, ABP will have a response to anything that arises."
The type of post-Brexit bilateral deals the UK may strike with other trading blocs – including Mercosur (the South American trading bloc) which includes beef and other meat producers like Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay – will be a key concern, however.
Some farmers fear that Brexit-related price pressures would not be passed on to consumers by dominant beef producers such as ABP – farmer suppliers would take the hit rather than supermarket multiples.
"This is a fear among some farmer suppliers. Goodman is respected in the industry for paying and paying on time. But he is seen by some as ruthless," said one farming source.
Brexit-proofing is also likely to be a component in the company's strategy of growing new markets, including China.
Just last week, ABP announced that due to "extremely" positive demand it was extending its range of online beef products for Chinese consumers on the JD.com platform, which is one of the largest business-to-consumer online retailers in China with 301.8 million users.
The Chinese market opened to boneless cuts from six approved Irish beef plants in June 2018 and demand has since been strong. By the end of 2019 it is estimated that more than 1,000 tonnes of Irish beef will have been landed in China.
When Dundalk-born Goodman founded the business in 1954 it was not long before he raised his sights beyond the local market. One of his first acquisitions was Anglo-Irish Meats in the late 1960s and he hoovered up factories around Ireland while expanding into Russia and the Middle East.
His ability to build up trust with customers and suppliers as well as handsome EU subsidies helped him to grow the empire. He also had strong political allies in the likes of former Taoisigh Charlie Haughey and Albert Reynolds.
But the road to success was not without bumps. In the 1990s the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait brought difficulties. Goodman's beef empire had given hundreds of millions in credit to the Iraqi government which defaulted on the debt.
The banks then pulled the plug and the Government was recalled from holidays to pass special legislation to protect the Goodman business, given its importance to the Irish economy. Peter Fitzpatrick, Ireland's first examiner, was appointed to run the Goodman empire.
By 1995, Goodman had reassumed control of the business with the help of private backers and by 1999 he had paid them off and assumed full control.
But more controversy followed.
The Beef Tribunal arose out of a World In Action ITV investigation into irregularities in Ireland's beef and cattle trade. The tribunal ultimately found that no wrongdoing had been done by Goodman or his company, but it led to the collapse of two governments.
The company was also embroiled in a horse-meat scandal five years ago, when equine DNA was found in burgers produced by a subsidiary. But it was also subsequently cleared in relation to this when it was found that contamination originated from a third-party source.
Goodman appeared before the beef tribunal in 1993 and the media-shy businessman has kept a low public profile since.
While Brexit appears to be an extraordinary challenge for Ireland's beef industry, sources close to the sector said that Goodman and his team will face it head on.
They believe that business will be well set for the foreseeable future, even if Goodman steps back from the leadership of the group in the coming years.
Another said that although Goodman has been at the centre of controversy from time to time, he has played a huge role in developing the Irish beef industry by providing an extremely efficient route to market for meat produced in Ireland over the past 50 years. Given his form to date, ABP is likely to continue to build on this, come what may.