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Tutorials 30- Bath Mat From Old Towels {Wash Bath Mat}
May 13, 2011
23 {comments}:
- HokieFootball4Life said...
Wow I love this idea! I might use it in my new apartment, thanks!
- May 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- bunny said...
that is a brilliant idea! and it will actually absorb the water as you're standing on it, unlike the $20+ bath rugs you buy at the store.
- May 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- Alli said...
I love this! Thanks for sharing!!
- May 18, 2011 at 2:23 PM
- flame821 said...
this looks doable, but I would recommended forgetting the scissors and going with a rotary cutter (like we use in quilting) can buy at any big box or craft store for little $ and it comes in handy with SO many projects.
Although I wonder how well this would stand up to repeated washings, I guess it would mostly depend on the quality of the grid and how tightly you tied the strips. - May 18, 2011 at 2:26 PM
- Kris @ everywhereorange.com said...
I LOVE THIS!!!! thanks for sharing!!
- May 18, 2011 at 3:21 PM
Holy Hannah that would take patience! Looks awesome though!
- May 18, 2011 at 4:26 PM
- Unknown said...
This is totally in one of my upcoming posts! I made one for my daughter's room using green T-shirts. Mine took a heck of a lot longer than 2 hrs though.
- May 18, 2011 at 5:07 PM
has been wonderful.definitely going to try.
- May 19, 2011 at 6:23 AM
- SuzyMcQ said...
Very, very cool! A great project for long car trips, beach, pool, etc. Thanks so much for sharing.
- May 21, 2011 at 6:07 PM
- Darling Petunia said...
Good lord, someone get that woman a decent pair of scissors!
- May 22, 2011 at 11:34 AM
- Becks said...
How does this hold up to washing? Can you put it in a washing machine?
- June 13, 2011 at 5:20 PM
- Mary DK said...
I was also wondering about how to wash it? Obviously don't put in it the dryer but will it be okay in the washer?
- June 24, 2011 at 11:59 PM
- Mary DK said...
I was wondering the same thing about the washing.
- June 25, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- Vintage Fly said...
This is really beautiful. I've thought about doing it with t-shirts for my sons nursery. I'm concerned about making a bathmat though. How can it be washed? Something like would get pretty dingy and gross rather quickly I would think.
- July 14, 2011 at 10:19 PM
- Haley{PairsandPours} said...
where did you get the grid mat? having trouble finding one.
- July 25, 2011 at 12:53 PM
- CharityHand said...
This is awesome! :)
- August 27, 2011 at 6:47 PM
- c.w.frosting said...
Great idea! Are the mats machine washable?
-caroline @ c.w.frosting - January 14, 2012 at 2:36 PM
- Michele W said...
Looks like it might leave a lot of little white bits all around. You can see when cutting and/or tying that it leaves little 'crumbs'... that could get messy? Anyone try this and know how much towel bits are left behind?
- January 29, 2012 at 5:13 PM
- SuperMom said...
I would love to try this... but how do I wash it?
- March 13, 2012 at 8:28 AM
- SuperMom said...
I would love to try this..... but how do I wash it?
- March 13, 2012 at 8:29 AM
- chichicho said...
I love this!!!!!!! I really want to do this right now
- July 28, 2012 at 7:55 AM
I made one of these rugs, it turned out beautiful, however you didn't mention the mess it makes to cut the towels.....I had lint all over my house for days, till I finished.
- September 8, 2012 at 6:56 PM
- Gemand said...
How do you wash this bath rug?
- December 18, 2012 at 1:31 PM

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PHOENIX – The U.S. government on Thursday began sending asylum-seekers back to Nogales, Mexico, to await court hearings that will be scheduled roughly 350 miles (563 kilometers) away in Juarez, Mexico.
Authorities are expanding a program known as Remain in Mexico that requires tens of thousands of asylum-seekers to wait out their immigration court hearings in Mexico. Until this week, the government was driving some asylum-seekers from Nogales, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, so they could be returned to Juarez.
Now, asylum-seekers will have to find their own way through dangerous Mexican border roads.
About 30 asylum-seekers were sent to Nogales, Mexico, on Thursday, said Gilda Loureiro, director of the San Juan Bosco migrant shelter in Nogales, Sonora.
Loureiro said the migrants hadn't made it to the shelter yet but that it was prepared and has a capacity of about 400.
"We're going to take up to the capacity we have," she said.
Critics say the Remain in Mexico program, one of several Trump administration policies that have all but ended asylum in the U.S., puts migrants who fled their home countries back into dangerous Mexican border towns where they are often kidnapped, robbed or extorted.
A Human Rights First report released in December documented at least 636 public reports of violence against asylum-seekers returned to Mexico including rape, kidnapping and torture. Human Rights First said that was a steep increase over October, when the group had identified 343 attacks, and noted the latest figure is surely an under-count because most crime victims don't report.
The government calls the program Migrant Protection Protocols.
Nogales is now the seventh border crossing through which U.S. authorities return migrants to Mexico to await court hearings. The policy was introduced in January 2018 in San Diego.
'Extremely effective tool'
More than 56,000 people were sent back to Mexico by the end of November, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Of the more than 24,000 cases that have been decided, only 117, or less than 1%, have been granted asylum or some other form relief allowing them to stay in the United States.
But U.S. authorities have lauded the program, saying it's helped to significantly reduce illegal border crossings. The Border Patrol apprehended just over 33,000 people along the Southwest border in November, compared to 144,000 in May, when border crossings peaked.
In a statement, acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said the program has been "an extremely effective tool."
"I am confident in the program's continued success in adjudicating meritorious cases quickly and preventing fraudulent claims," Wolf wrote.
A three-judge appeals court panel heard arguments Oct. 1 in San Francisco on a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union to block the policy. The court has yet to rule.


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Henry Munn: From 'The Uniqueness of María Sabina' (In Memoriam)
[In the years in which I was working with many others toward the creation of an ethnopoetics, the presence and work of Henry Munn was of extraordinary importance. His death in February puts an end to what had been a life of intellectual questing, carried on in large part without recognition but always with an inquisitiveness & intelligence that contributed immeasurably to the work of others of us who were able to operate in a more public sphere. His translations, along with his brother-in-law Alvaro Estrada, of the chants and oral autobiography of María Sabina will endure beyond his life and ours, but these are only a portion of what continued to be his work until the time of his death. Of his presence as a man and a thinker, his daughter Xochitl Diana has written: "[Henry Munn] was a unique and gentle individual, a man with a deep passion for learning and a sense of wonder that was almost like that of a child -- something very rare to find in an adult. He lived a simple life, in the sense that he was not interested in material goods. As long as he had books to read, paper and a pen to write, access to the best libraries, and the means to visit museum exhibitions, he was a happy man. Nothing energized him more than books and art."
An independent scholar and writer, Henry Munn arrived in Huautla de Jiménez, the home town of María Sabina, for the first time in 1965. His essays on Mazatec religion and related subjects have appeared in anthologies published by the Oxford University Press and the University of California Press and in journals such as Plural (edited by Octavio Paz),The CoEvolution Quarterly, New Wilderness Letter, and the Journal of Latin American Lore. His essay on María Sabina, "Writing in the Imagination of an Oral Poet," has been a beacon for me, as have his extensive and thorough translations of her chanted poetry. The latter are still readily available in María Sabina: Selections, the second volume in the series Poets for the Millennium, edited by myself and Piere Joris for the University of California Press, from which this essay comes as well. (J.R.)]
Since María Sabina is the most renowned Mazatec shaman people tend to think that she is the only one, without realizing that she is part of a living tradition. The comparison of her chants with those of four other shamans I recorded in Huautla between 1967 and 1980 -- one woman and three men -- shows the similarities between her vocabulary and theirs, at the same time as it throws into relief what makes her different from them.
The form of the chant -- short enunciations ending with tso, "it says," like a vocal punctuation mark in the flow of speech, a reference to the voice speaking through them, is used by all the Mazatec shamans – especially when they shift from speech into song. It is a cultural creation: a way of canalizing the energy released.
There is also a shared vocabulary between shamans and a common stock of standardized expressions that they all draw on in their chants. "Slowly and with care / with sap, with dew / with greenness, with clarity," María Sabina says again and again over the sick boy during the Wasson Velada to create the mood the words evoke. Ho nca inta, ho nca nangui -- "slowly and with care," literally with one's feet on the ground -- is something that is said to people when they set out on a journey. It is one of the stereotyped expressions commonly used by the shamans. The cluster of words --ntsin: "sap," the milk inside a plant; xoñon: "dew"; xcoen: "green" in the sense of fresh and tender (the color green is sase); and yova: "clarity" -- expresses the quintessence of the Mazatec shamans' illuminated sense of nature. They all use these words in different combinations in their chants.
Another couple of words that go together in the chants of María Sabina and those of the other Mazatec curanderos are yo – the buds of a flower; and chi?nte -- tender in the sense of what is young, newborn, a plant just shooting up. Mrs. Eloina Estrada de González, who translated the recordings for me, translated this couplet as "offshoots and tenderness." In the chants of María Sabina I render them as "buds and sprouts." These words, which refer to the stages of growth of plants, are used as metaphors for babies and children. This is the view of life of an agricultural community.
Khoa nta -- "grace, goodness" and khoa vihna, khoa visen -- "life and well-being" are correlated in the parallel constructions of the shamanic chants with "sap and dew," "greenness and clarity." The opposites of these four kernel words are "garbage and dust" (tje, chao); "whirlwind and wind" (xquin, ntjao), -- figures of speech for sickness and disputes. María Sabina frequently asserts that it is the work of her "saints" -- meaning the mushrooms -- to dispel them and clear the air.
Her words go together in couplets. These double expressions in which the same thing is said twice in different ways are a characteristic of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican rhetoric. Other common stereotyped expressions that recur from shaman to shaman follow this same pattern: ngui xcoin, ngui ntso?vai -- "beneath your eyes, beneath your mouth"; ma and tao -- "poor and humble (or loved)"; tsin khoa?aon, tsin khoa?nte -- "there is no resentment, there is no rancor"; cjain ni, kishikhoa ni -- "it is certain, it is true."
They all inherit from their culture a repertory of themes and motifs on which each one works his or her own individual variations. When María Sabina says she is a chjon chjine xki, chjon chjine xca, chjon chjine en, chjon chjine khoa -- "a woman wise in medicine, a woman wise in herbs, a woman wise in words, a woman wise in problems" -- she is stating her culture's concept of the shaman's role. The other Mazatec chota chjine -- "wise ones" -- all define themselves in exactly the same terms.
She often says: "I am a woman of the light, I am a woman of the day." Here she is playing on the Mazatec word for spirit -- sennichi -- by breaking it down into its two component parts: sen -- physiognomy or light, depending on how it is used; and nich i-- day: the destiny of a person determined by the day sign of his or her birth -- the Mazatec equivalent of the Aztec tonalli, which meant light, heat, day, and spirit. She usually says before or afterwards: "I am a woman espíritu," translating the native concept into Spanish. Other shamans do the same thing. Another wise woman prays: "Bring his appearance, bring his day." A shaman from Loma de Chapultepec on the slopes of the sacred mountain opposite Huautla speaks of "the path of the cane of office, the path of the staff, the path of the light, the path of the day (ntia ya, ntia nise, ntia sen, ntia nichi) of each of his patients.
She herself says of her host during the Folkways Session that he is a "man with a green staff, a staff of clarity ( nise xcoen, nise yova )." The words of a medicine man from Xochitonalco, a hamlet near Huautla, recall hers; he says to the old couple he is speaking for: "You should take your staff of dew, your staff of fragrant leaves. Grace, life and well-being. Green staff, staff of clarity (nise xcoen, nise yova)." The leaves he is referring to are those used in the steambath to hit the body so as to make the air circulate.
The path is a common motif in the chants of the Mazatec shamans who live in a mountain world of footpaths where people leave the tracks of their bare feet in the brown squishy mud. The experience takes the form of a "trip." One function of the shamanic chant is to guide the effect of the mushrooms on the participants and lead them by suggestion along a good path to a healing cathartic experience. María Sabina speaks frequently of following in the footsteps of Christ. Compare her words with those of the medicine man from Xochitonalco: "It is life and well-being of our Father, says. It is sap and dew, says. It is buds and tenderness, says. It is the path of the tracks, it is the path of the feet of our Christ, says." Sometimes the path is that of the extravagated spirit of the sick, which has to be followed to where the person was frightened. The wise woman sings: "We are going looking for the path, the path of his paws, the path of his claws, from the right side to the left side we are going to work, says." The shaman from the Loma de Chapultepec, sitting in a chair before the family altar in the house where he has been called to give a ceremony, states: "The work I came for is to divine for them, how they are in their door, their dooryard, the path of the tracks of their feet." At one moment in the Folkways Session, María Sabina says: "I am going to receive there in the path / I am going to receive the enchantment / I am going to receive his light, his day / the path of his soles, the path of his feet." She means she is going to reintegrate the person with his or her sennichi-li. For her the path of the hands and the feet is what one does, where one goes.
In Huautla people would explain the similarities in vocabulary and figures of speech between different shamans by saying that it is the mushrooms speaking through them. I don't think we can accept that explanation, which from the scientific point-of-view is a personification into an imaginary entity of the unconscious powers of language. None of the curanderos and curanderas I recorded had heard each other speak, but they had all at one time or another in the past heard other shamans give ceremonies, either when they were children or when they were sick and had to be cured. The uncanny way the couplets of the shamanic chant imprint themselves on the memory of ordinary listeners, even when the exact meaning of the words is beyond them, suggests how the liturgy of the mushroom medicine rites has been transmitted from generation.
María Sabina when she was a child heard shamans sing like many Mazatec children who have lain awake at night listening to the strange words of medicine men and women singing in the darkness under the din of the rain on the thatch roof or with the chirp of the crickets in the background. The raw psycho-physiological experience is shaped by cultural models. When she began to eat the mushrooms herself, she already knew the form of the chant and the type of things that are said.
What then distinguishes her from her contemporaries?
First of all, her musicality. Within the traditional framework of the ritual, developed to utilize the psychoactive medicine for therapeutic social purposes, each shaman has his or her own magic song, distinctive voice, personal melody and individual manner of conducting a ceremony . Nevertheless, the melodiousness of María Sabina's chants, their rhythmical transporting effect, is unsurpassed except at moments by other singers.
The effect of the mushrooms she has eaten for the power to cure make the body vibrate. Hence her humming -- a way of tuning herself in to the energy flowing through her. When she invokes the Virgins and the Saints, she draws out the endings of their names into reverberant tones. At the same time she marks the intensified pulse beat of her physical existence by clapping and uttering sequences of vocables: ecstatic phonation, articulatory play, a vocalization of impulses, a rhythmical syllabification of energy.
So so so si are the component parts of Jesusi -- a common exclamation of Mazatec women. Ki ko ka ka ki form Kristo. Ma ma ma mai become madre.
The syllables are used as beats; meaning is broken down into pure sounds and recomposed from them again. The vocables sometimes seem to go back to the babble of babies. In her repetition of santo santa the binary alternation of sounds is what she likes, the contrast of to and ta. This is a level of vocalization I have heard in no other Mazatec shaman. The large part played by percussion, humming, and the enunciation of syllables in her ceremonies exemplifies her expressionistic creativity and distinguishes her performances from those of her contemporaries.
What is not on the printed page is the sensorial condition of heightened sensitivity in which her words are spoken and heard: their resonance. In many passages the lilt of her voice carries a force, conveys a sense of enthusiasm that is not present in just the words themselves. It is the music of the shamanic chant, its rhythm and melody, that moves the listeners as much as the words and cures them by the power of song to uplift and transport the soul.
She alone of all the shamans says: "I am a trumpet woman, I am a drum woman, I am a woman violinist." Her words bring to mind the mushroom ceremony pictured at the center of the Codex Vindobonensis Obverse -- an ancient Mixtec pictographic book from an area of what is now the state of Oaxaca not far from the Mazatec mountains -- where 9 Wind -- the Mixtec culture hero -- dressed in the attributes of the wind deity the Aztecs called Quetzalcoatl -- is shown officiating as a shaman, playing on a rasp with a human skull for a resonator, the volutes of speech coming out of his mouth.
Wasson describes her dancing as she sings, turning around in the middle of the dark room, lifting her arms in gestures of adoration and imploration. Her activity of expression is total: musical and gestural as well as verbal. The whole body speaks. Listening to her talk in ordinary life, without understanding what she was saying, I was struck by the idiosyncratic gestures she would make with her hands and fingers. Of all living Mazatec shamans, María Sabina was unquestionably the greatest because of her radical, extreme personality.
One of the most distinctive features of her chants is how she assumes the being of the phenomena she names by saying "I am" this or that. One shaman -- by day a shopkeeper in the market -- asserted "I am he who speaks with the mountains" (a male perogative, the women kneel on their mats, imploring), but even though he evoked eagles and vortices of colors, he did not identify with them. The level of discourse of the other chota chjine is practical, functional. They emphasize what they do -- cure -- and what they want -- to get rid of sickness. In the chants of none of the other shamans I have recorded does the "I am" have the same importance it does in the words of María Sabina.
Her identifications are like the masks the Tlingit and Eskimo shamans put on and took off (bear spirit, deer spirit, moon, kingfisher, raven, eagle, old woman, cloud spirit, the spirit of the driftwood, even bubbles). This is Coleridge's "Infinite I am" of the "primary imagination." The "I is an other" of Rimbaud.


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Pierluigi Caristi
- 27 June 2013
- OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES - No. 146Details
- Abstract
- Islamic finance is based on ethical principles in line with Islamic religious law. Despite its low share of the global financial market, Islamic finance has been one of this sector's fastest growing components over the last decades and has gained further momentum in the wake of the financial crisis. The paper examines the development of and possible prospects for Islamic finance, with a special focus on Europe. It compares Islamic and conventional finance, particularly as concerns risks associated with the operations of respective institutions, as well as corporate governance. The paper also analyses empirical evidence comparing Islamic and conventional financial institutions with regard to their: (i) efficiency and profitability; and (ii) stability and resilience. Finally, the paper considers the conduct of monetary policy in an Islamic banking context. This is not uncomplicated given the fact that interest rates - normally a cornerstone of monetary policy - are prohibited under Islamic finance. Liquidity management issues are thus discussed here, with particular reference to the euro area.
- JEL Code
- E52 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics→Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit→Monetary Policy
E58 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics→Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit→Central Banks and Their Policies
F6 : International Economics→Economic Impacts of Globalization
F65 : International Economics→Economic Impacts of Globalization→Finance
G21 : Financial Economics→Financial Institutions and Services→Banks, Depository Institutions, Micro Finance Institutions, Mortgages
G22 : Financial Economics→Financial Institutions and Services→Insurance, Insurance Companies, Actuarial Studies
G28 : Financial Economics→Financial Institutions and Services→Government Policy and Regulation
G3 : Financial Economics→Corporate Finance and Governance
G32 : Financial Economics→Corporate Finance and Governance→Financing Policy, Financial Risk and Risk Management, Capital and Ownership Structure, Value of Firms, Goodwill
M14 : Business Administration and Business Economics, Marketing, Accounting→Business Administration→Corporate Culture, Diversity, Social Responsibility


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Cosmic "Dig" Reveals Vestiges of the Milky Way's Building Blocks
25 November 2009
Peering through the thick dust clouds of our galaxy's "bulge" (the myriads of stars surrounding its centre), and revealing an amazing amount of detail, a team of astronomers has unveiled an unusual mix of stars in the stellar grouping known as Terzan 5. Never observed anywhere in the bulge before, this peculiar "cocktail" of stars suggests that Terzan 5 is in fact one of the bulge's primordial building blocks, most likely the relic of a proto-galaxy that merged with the Milky Way during its very early days.
"The history of the Milky Way is encoded in its oldest fragments, globular clusters and other systems of stars that have witnessed the entire evolution of our galaxy," says Francesco Ferraro from the University of Bologna, lead author of a paper appearing in this week's issue of the journal Nature. "Our study opens a new window on yet another piece of our galactic past."
Like archaeologists, who dig through the dust piling up on top of the remains of past civilisations and unearth crucial pieces of the history of mankind, astronomers have been gazing through the thick layers of interstellar dust obscuring the bulge of the Milky Way and have unveiled an extraordinary cosmic relic.
The target of the study is the star cluster Terzan 5. The new observations show that this object, unlike all but a few exceptional globular clusters, does not harbour stars which are all born at the same time — what astronomers call a "single population" of stars. Instead, the multitude of glowing stars in Terzan 5 formed in at least two different epochs, the earliest probably some 12 billion years ago and then again 6 billion years ago.
"Only one globular cluster with such a complex history of star formation has been observed in the halo of the Milky Way: Omega Centauri," says team member Emanuele Dalessandro. "This is the first time we see this in the bulge."
The galactic bulge is the most inaccessible region of our galaxy for astronomical observations: only infrared light can penetrate the dust clouds and reveal its myriads of stars. "It is only thanks to the outstanding instruments mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope," says co-author Barbara Lanzoni, "that we have finally been able to 'disperse the fog' and gain a new perspective on the origin of the galactic bulge itself."
A technical jewel lies behind the scenes of this discovery, namely the Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD), a cutting-edge instrument that allows the VLT to achieve superbly detailed images in the infrared. Adaptive optics is a technique through which astronomers can overcome the blurring that the Earth's turbulent atmosphere inflicts on astronomical images obtained from ground-based telescopes; MAD is a prototype of even more powerful, next-generation adaptive optics instruments [1].
Through the sharp eye of the VLT, the astronomers also found that Terzan 5 is more massive than previously thought: along with the complex composition and troubled star formation history of the system, this suggests that it might be the surviving remnant of a disrupted proto-galaxy, which merged with the Milky Way during its very early stages and thus contributed to form the galactic bulge.
"This could be the first of a series of further discoveries shedding light on the origin of bulges in galaxies, which is still hotly debated," concludes Ferraro. "Several similar systems could be hidden behind the bulge's dust: it is in these objects that the formation history of our Milky Way is written."
[1] Telescopes on the ground suffer from a blurring effect introduced by atmospheric turbulence. This turbulence causes the stars to twinkle in a way that delights poets but frustrates astronomers, since it smears out the fine details of the images. However, with adaptive optics (AO) techniques, this major drawback can be overcome so that the telescope produces images that are as sharp as theoretically possible, i.e. approaching conditions in space. Adaptive optics systems work by means of a computer-controlled deformable mirror that counteracts the image distortion introduced by atmospheric turbulence. It is based on real-time optical corrections computed at very high speed (many hundreds of times each second) from image data obtained by a wavefront sensor (a special camera) that monitors light from a reference star, Present AO systems can only correct the effect of atmospheric turbulence in a very small region of the sky — typically 15 arcseconds or less — the correction degrading very quickly when moving away from the reference star. Engineers have therefore developed new techniques to overcome this limitation, one of which is multi-conjugate adaptive optics. MAD uses up to three guide stars instead of one as references to remove the blur caused by atmospheric turbulence over a field of view thirty times larger than existing techniques (eso0719).
More information
This research was presented in a paper that appears in the 26 November 2009 issue of Nature , "The cluster Terzan 5 as a remnant of a primordial building block of the Galactic bulge", by F. R. Ferraro et al..
The team is composed of Francesco Ferraro, Emanuele Dalessandro, Alessio Mucciarelli and Barbara Lanzoni (Department of Astronomy, University of Bologna, Italy), Giacomo Beccari (ESA, Space Science Department, Noordwijk, Netherlands), Mike Rich (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA), Livia Origlia, Michele Bellazzini and Gabriele Cocozza (INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy), Robert T. Rood (Astronomy Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA), Elena Valenti (ESO and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Departamento de Astronomia, Santiago, Chile) and Scott Ransom (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, USA).
ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world's most productive astronomical observatory. It is supported by 14 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. ESO carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities enabling astronomers to make important scientific discoveries. ESO also plays a leading role in promoting and organising cooperation in astronomical research. ESO operates three unique world-class observing sites in Chile: La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope, the world's most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory. ESO is the European partner of a revolutionary astronomical telescope ALMA, the largest astronomical project in existence. ESO is currently planning a 42-metre European Extremely Large optical/near-infrared Telescope, the E-ELT, which will become "the world's biggest eye on the sky".
Francesco Ferraro
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Release No.: | eso0945 |
Legacy ID: | PR 45/09 |
Name: | Terzan 5 |
Type: | Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster |
Facility: | Very Large Telescope |
Instruments: | ESO Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD) |
Science data: | 2009Natur.462..483F |


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Brad Paisley's Wife Takes Drastic Steps to Protect Her Sanity [Watch]
Brad Paisley and his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, might be getting on each other's nerves a little bit during their coronavirus isolation, from the look of a new video she posted — but she appears to have the situation under control.
The Father of the Bride star turned to social media on Monday (April 6) to share an update on how their time in quarantine is going.
"Okay, it's day 26 today, and it's been hard, I'm not gonna lie," Williams-Paisley says to start the video. "But you know what, I feel like I finally turned a corner today."
She shows fans that she's got soap, towels, some wine, her dogs have been fed and her family have laid in extra supplies to ride it out. As her camera phone slides around the walk-in pantry, it reveals her country star husband hilariously slumped in one corner, tied up and with tape over his mouth.
"I think I finally figured it out," she says breezily, as Paisley's comical muffled cries continue in the background. "So stay home, everybody. Do what you need to do to get through this."
Paisley also shared the video to his own Instagram, writing, "A message to #StayHome everyone. Whatever it takes." and adding the hashtag #help.
The couple have actually been putting their time to good use during the pandemic, arranging for free delivery from their free grocery store in Nashville for seniors in the area who are particularly at risk by going out. Paisley has also been keeping fans entertained with an all-star livestream, as well as a couple of at-home appearances on the ACM Presents: Our Country special on Sunday night (April 5). He joined with Darius Rucker to perform "Mud on the Tires" and "Wagon Wheel," and they also paid tribute to Kenny Rogers with "Lucille" and "The Gambler."
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RVDA Canada
New Study Shows RVing in Canada Contributes $14.5 Billion
Ottawa, February 21, 2013 – The Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA) of Canada is releasing a groundbreaking study, showcasing the economic impact of the Canadian recreation vehicle (RV) industry.
The study, conducted by Harris/Decima, showcased that in 2011, the total economic activity associated with the Canadian recreation vehicle industry reached $14.5 billion.
"This is a significant finding, demonstrating that not only is RVing in Canada an exceptional way to travel, offering accessibility, convenience and ease of use, but it also has a considerable impact on the Canadian economy," said Ian Moore, RVDA of Canada Chairman of the Board. "Through both direct and indirect means, this impact is multi‐faceted, and includes the manufacturing of RVs, purchasing and servicing of RVs at RV dealerships, expenditures made to maintain and store RVs, and the personal spending of RV users as they travel across Canada."
In order to determine the level of economic activity supported by the RV industry in Canada, the impacts of RVs were broken down through four distinct domains. Key findings are outlined below:
RV Retail Sales and Service:
In total, the retail sales and services associated with Canada's more‐than‐400 recreation vehicle dealers generated $1.5 billion in net economic activity (GDP) throughout Canada, and supported nearly 19,300 jobs that paid $775 million in wages and salaries (labour income).
RV Manufacturing:
The total value of recreation vehicles manufactured in Canada in 2011 was $265 million, with $156 million being purchased by Canadians and $109 million being exported to other countries. In turn, a total of $210 million in goods and services were imported to Canada as part of the economic activity associated with RV manufacturing.
The manufacture of $265 million in recreation vehicles generated $512 million in gross output in Canada in 2011 and supported nearly 2,400 jobs that paid a total of $103 million in wages and salaries.
Non‐Travel Related RV Expenditures:
Non‐travel related recreation vehicle expenditures totalled $1.4 billion (excluding repairs) and generated $1.3 billion in net economic activity (GDP) throughout Canada through the support of more than 12,200 jobs that paid $727 million in wages and salaries.
Tourism Related RV Expenditures:
It was estimated that RV travellers spent a total of over $7 billion on goods and services as they travelled across Canada.
Travel related expenditures associated with recreation vehicles generated nearly $5.0 billion in net economic activity (GDP) across Canada and supported $2.9 billion in wages and salaries (Labour Income) through 64,900 jobs.
The total economic activity associated with recreation vehicle tourism expenditures was $9.8 billion in 2011.
In sum, direct spending associated with recreation vehicles reached $11.5 billion. These expenditures generated $8.0 billion in net economic activity (GDP) and 98,800 jobs. Moreover, the Canadian RV industry was a significant driver of tax revenues, with total taxes supported by the industry totaling $3.3 billion in taxes on products, taxes on production, and income taxes.
"The RV industry continues to be a fast growing and favourable lifestyle for Canadian families," continued Moore. "RVing really is for everyone; people of all ages, all family types, and all budgets enjoy the benefits of traveling in a recreational vehicle, and we are seeing that a record number of Canadian families are discovering the fun and flexible travel that the RV lifestyle provides."
"The RVDA of Canada looks forward to continuing to work with government and key stakeholders to ensure that proactive roles are being taken to develop policies that support all travel and tourism, and recognize RVing as a prosperous tourism activity," concluded Moore.
To view the full report, please visit www.rvda.ca.
The Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association of Canada is a national, volunteer federation of provincial and regional RVDA associations and their members, who have united to form a professional trade association for all businesses involved in the recreation vehicle industry.


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Jake Owen Posts Adorable Throwback Photo of Himself With His Twin Brother [Picture]
Jake Owen and his twin brother, Jarrod, offer up a dose of retro-cool in an adorable throwback photo the country singer posted to social media.
Owen and Jarrod are actually fraternal twins, but they look nearly identical in the childhood photo, which features both youngsters in white shirts, multi-colored shorts and plastic sunglasses, with matching blond spiked haircuts.
"Just me and my twin bro vibin' since we were on the come up," Owen writes to accompany the picture.
A quick Google search reveals that the 39-year-old country singer and his brother are easy to tell apart as adults, though they still share some very similar features. According to a 2014 profile in Vero News, Jarrod Owen continues to live in their hometown of Vero Beach, Fla., where he has a successful career in insurance.
Jarrod admits that people ask him if he can sing "a lot, too, and I tell people I dabble. I sing all the time; I just don't sing like my twin. God blessed Jake with good lungs. I didn't get that ... but when people ask how to tell us apart, I always tell them I'm the better-looking twin. And my brother is like, 'Whatever, I can sing.'"
Though Jarrod says it "drives me crazy" when people immediately ask him if he's Jake Owen's brother, there have been perks to that position, as well. In a 2012 interview with Chelsea Handler, the "Made for You" singer recounted that Jarrod used to try to impress women by getting him to talk to them on the phone.
"And the girl will be like, 'I don't even give a s--t who you are, but your brother says that you're his brother or what not.' That's how I help Jarrod, I hook him up with some ladies," Owen recalled.


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Available House and Lot for Sale in Taytay, Villa Montserrat
House and Lot for Sale in Taytay, Rizal |
Project: Villa Montserrat
Phase: 2
Block: 4
Lot: 3
Area: 100 square meter
Approximate Total Contract Price: 2.4M
Reservation Fee: 30,000
Here, you're never too far from modern conveniences. Schools such as San Beda and Paref Rosehill are found inside the township. Ortigas CBD is just a 12km drive away while leisure, commercial & medical establishments are within minutes away.
House and Community Information
House and Lot for Sale in Taytay, Rizal, Philippines, Walnut Model |
- Easily Accessible to Jeep, FX, Bus, Taxi going to Ortigas, Makati, Cubao, Quiapo, Crossing, Katipunan
- Walking distance to San Beda School Rizal (co-ed)
- 3 minutes to SM Taytay
- 5 minutes to Manila East Hospital
- 5 minutes to Taytay public market
- 5 minutes to Puregold Grocery
- 5 minutes to Club Manila East Resort (pool with wave)
Project Description of Villa Montserrat in Taytay
Named from the legendary mountain housing the Holy Grail, Villa Montserrat is a charming village nestled against the cool cheeks of hills. Here, beauty is in the details. Open your doors every morning to the sight of textured lawns, share a quiet afternoon with your family in interiors that evoke both intimacy and serenity, or let your kids play at the pocket parks and enjoy the picturesque surroundings. Take a relaxing walk along the streets of Villa Montserrat as you bring the children to the nearby San Beda College, Antipolo. This exclusive 6.8 Hectare Spanish-Mediterranean inspired community offers a balanced mix of commercial & residential areas to enhance modern family living.Sample Computation
The sample computation you will see below is only a representation of the actual figures. One example is the reservation fee, for some projects it's only 20,000 while on house and lots, it's about 30,000. For an actual computation and free site tour, you may text me at 0916-578-1939 or email me at email@example.com are three payment schemes that Filinvest Land Inc. offers to their customers. I think it is one of the best because clients are given choices on how and when to invest.
Ex: Total Contract Price (TCP): 2,607,500
Option A: Spot Cash
Total Investment: 2,607,500
Less 8% Spot Cash Discount: 208,600
Net Investment: 2,398,900
Less Reservation Fee: 30,000
Option B: Spot Down Payment
20% Down Payment: 521,500
Less 3% Discount: 15,645
Net Down Payment: 505,855
Less Reservation Fee: 30,000
*80% Balance: 2,086,000
24 Months @ 0% interest: 90,204/month (for Spot down payment only)
Option C: Stretched Down Payment
20% Down Payment: 521,500
Less Reservation Fee: 30,000
Down Payment Due: 491,500
DOWN PAYMENT PAYABLE FOR 12 MONTHS: 40,958.33/month
*80% Balance: 2,086,000
5 years to pay remaining balance: 13.5% interest per annum
7 years to pay remaining balance: 17% interest per annum
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These are more delicious than regular stuffed peppers – the cream sauce mixes in with the meat and rice so beautifully – every ounce is coated and it makes for a super creamy taste sensation.
6 servings
311 calories per person
1 lb. lean ground turkey
2 green peppers, coarsely chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
Salt and pepper to taste
2 c cooked brown rice or even use a chicken or beef flavored rice mix for extra flavor
16 oz. jarred marinara sauce
1 c shredded low fat mozzarella cheese
1/4 c cream cheese cooking creme (I used Philadelphia tomato and basil flavor)
1/4 c chopped basil
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brown meat, peppers, salt and pepper in a large skillet. Add in garlic during the last minute of cooking. Drain and add rice, sauce, 1/2 c mozzarella and cream cheese. Mix well and spoon into a 2 quart casserole dish. Sprinkle with 1/2 c mozzarella and bake 25 minutes.


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Episode-115- A Survivalist View of Christmas
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Today we pause and take a moment to reflect on Christmas and how it has become the Holiday we celebrate today. Many American's have no idea just how Christmas became unique here in America, the role it played in bringing our nation together after two wars of independence and the civil war. Christmas is special and a time to pause and reflect. Christmas is indeed a special time of year, today I will cover many aspects of it that may make this Christmas just a bit more special.
Tune in today to hear about…
- Christmas was banned in England at one time and even parts of America
- Early Americans didn't really celebrate Christmas, (congress was in session on Dec 25th, 1789)
- In the early 1800s Christmas was a rowdy holiday spurred by class conflict, turmoil and unemployment
- In 1819, best-selling author Washington Irving wrote The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon bringing us many "ancient customs", he simply invented
- Leading up to the Civil War, Christmas was a "southern holiday" and Thanksgiving a "northern holiday"
- How Christmas and Thanksgiving together helped to heal a young America
- Today is a time to pause, reflect and just be, prepping, planning and stress will all wait patiently for you
- Different ending music for today's show! The most beautiful version of Oh Holly Night I have ever heard, just pause, listen and realize what really matters while it plays.
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There's no doubt Big Data creating big value for businesses,
however, reality could be much different than predictions. This is actually happening nowadays, in this technologically advancing and innovative world even the predictions made on
much comprehensive data are getting wrong. So what could make such
projects turn bad, what's the limitation of data analytics, and what are the
pitfalls of managing Big Data?
- Do not understand business problem clearly, not thinking hard enough about the RIGHT data, perhaps a subset of 'big data.' Specifically, the data that help answer the right and correctly posed question.. Not framing the problem. Big Data turns to be the big answer to look for the big question, without a thorough understanding of a domain simply because reams of data are available.
- Use of wrong statistical techniques / wrong interpretations: Managerial pressure to deliver 'insights', directly proportional to investment in tools. Not understanding the limitations of applicability of a tool or a 'solution' or disregarding 'fitness for purpose' of tools used. Believing one can number crunch one's way to spectacular results, not to mention being able to interpret them appropriately
- Ignoring ongoing structural change, and insufficient understanding of data quality, or erroneous data conditioning, which means existing data may have low predictive value, Predictive analysis assumes that history predicts future. This is a very strong assumption which might not be true all the times. Data sanity, data quality and data filtering can be issues.
- Letting one's biases come in the way of analysis/decision making. Going through a detailed list, it's easy to come across instances where such biases impact analysis. Ego/lack of humility, unhealthy in all research endeavors
- A data model is only for Known-Known and Known-Unknown sets. Unknown- Unknown sets cannot be modeled. So predictive analytics can only tell part of story, which could be misleading, see the trees, but missing the forest., etc.
- The limitation of Big Data talent or resources. We always believe that by using past data we can predict future, but that might not always be the case when the factors governing the results changes itself and many times modeler ignores many factors due to unavailability of data, resource, or many other reason.
Is history always repeating itself, in deed, the successful
predictive analytics intends to stop the worse cases in the history from happening
again, but first of all, Big Data shall be careful of those big pitfalls above.


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The Arc Reacts to Approval of Deal to Avert "Fiscal Cliff"
Washington, DC – The Arc released the following statement as the Congress approved a deal to avert going over the "fiscal cliff" – the series of harmful tax increases and spending cuts which Congress and the White House have been seeking to avoid for several weeks. With time running out, The Arc's advocates had encouraged Congress to act before the deadline to protect disability related programs and extend tax cuts for the middle class.
"The Arc appreciates the Administration's outreach to Congress to get this legislation passed so that middle class families with people with disabilities don't see their income taxes rise in the New Year. Most people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families cannot afford a tax increase and this deal protects them. They also cannot afford cuts to critical programs and this legislation does not include such cuts.
"Throughout these tense weeks of negotiation, there were proposals on the table that would have greatly harmed people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), including a new way of calculating Social Security benefits known as the 'chained CPI' that would have impacted the ability of millions of people with IDD and other disabilities to be as independent as possible. This threat was excluded in this piece of legislation, as were harmful changes to Medicaid, a lifeline to people with IDD.
"Going into 2013, there will continue to be mounting pressure to generate additional revenue and to find additional cuts in the federal budget to reduce the deficit further, including the Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security programs. The Arc's advocates will be vigilant, putting pressure on Congress to protect these lifeline programs.
"The final legislation does include a repeal of the CLASS Act, a part of the Affordable Care Act to address access to costly long term services and supports in our society. We are deeply disappointed that this framework for solving a critical problem was repealed. However, we look to the Commission created in the legislation to work expeditiously to determine next steps to address this problem, including consideration of the needs of people with IDD," said Peter Berns, CEO of The Arc.
Additional legislation will be necessary to address other aspects of the nation's fiscal situation in the next three months, including an increase in the debt ceiling, the end of the 2-month extension included in this legislation of the sequester (automatic cuts), and appropriations for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2013. These deadlines will set the stage for additional negotiations between the Congress and the White House. The Arc will be working hard during these negotiations to preserve programs that are vital to people with IDD.


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Health and beauty trends surface on the web every day, and it can be difficult to tell which ones are worth your time, or even safe, for that matter. Perhaps one of the biggest dental trends recently on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram has been teeth whitening through brushing with activated charcoal.
Unfortunately, charcoal whitening isn't everything the Internet makes it out to be. Activated charcoal isn't what you use to grill at a summer barbecue; it's an oxidized substance made from peat, coal, wood, coconut shell or petroleum heated with a gas.
Toxins and surface stains can cling to charcoal due to its adhesive qualities, which is why some people declare it's perfect for removing discoloration on teeth. Although it may show quick results initially, charcoal is nothing more than a temporary solution.
The abrasive texture may roughen up enamel, which will make it easier for future stains to stick to the surface of your teeth. They may show stains shortly after you use charcoal on them, and may become even more discolored than before.
It's crucial to emphasize the results of damaged tooth enamel because it cannot replenish itself, which means any damage is permanent. People with receding gums or sensitive teeth especially should steer clear of charcoal because it can make brushing too harsh and worsen sensitivity.
Long-time use can deplete enamel, which over time exposes dentin: the soft, yellowish layer in the tooth. This puts you at a higher risk for cavities, tooth discoloration, and complicated dental problems such as periodontal disease in the future.
The American Dental Association does not approve of charcoal as a safe means for whitening teeth. If you do choose to use it, do so with caution.
Charcoal should be used once every other week at the most, even if your teeth feel fine. The only proven ways to whiten teeth safely are with ADA-approved whitening products or in-office bleaching treatments overseen by a dental professional.
Before you begin any whitening treatment at home, consult with the doctor to make sure your teeth won't be harmed in the process. If you are already experiencing sensitivity, stop charcoal use immediately and make an appointment with our office right away.
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DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. is acquiring Livio, a Michigan-based company whose software allows drivers to connect with their smartphone applications.
Ford's chief technical officer, Paul Mascarenas, said Ford paid less than $10 million for the 11-person startup. Livio will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford.
Mascarenas said Livio complements Ford's efforts to help drivers safely access phone apps like Pandora. Ford currently has 7 million vehicles on the road with its Sync Applink system, which lets drivers access their apps through voice recognition.
Livio CEO Jake Sigal said joining with Ford will help his company's efforts to promote a single standard for in-vehicle connectivity. Car companies are now using a variety of software, which makes it harder to app developers to get their apps into cars.


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John Binns and Abigail King Family
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Most Common Surnames BINNS, HALL, PILKINGTON, SMITH, TYLOR
Cowling Additions and Corrections
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A Film Star, Two Hoteliers , and a Property Magnate
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Seoul National University (SNU) have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment of the components of the blend. Their recent results—how to move the top to the bottom—could enable the design of practical, large-scale manufacturing techniques for a wide range of printable, flexible electronic displays and other devices.
Organic semiconductors—novel carbon-based molecules that have similar electrical properties to more conventional semiconducting materials like silicon and germanium—are a hot research topic because practical, high-performance organic semiconductors would open up whole new categories of futuristic electronic devices. Think of tabloid-sized "digital paper" that you could fold up into your pocket or huge sheets of photovoltaic cells that are dirt cheap because they're manufactured by—basically—ink-jet printing.
The problem is performance. Small organic molecules have been developed with key electrical parameters close to the benchmark set by amorphous silicon semiconductors, but they are very difficult to deposit in a stable, uniform film—a key manufacturing requirement. Larger molecule polymer semiconductors, on the other hand, make excellent thin films but have at best limited semiconductor properties. A patent from British researchers in 2005 offered a promising compromise: blend the small semiconductor molecules in with the polymer. This works surprisingly well, but with an asterisk. Tests showed that actual devices, field effect transistors, made with the blend only worked well in a so-called "top-gated" structure. The critical active part of the film was on the top, and the switching part of the device (the "gate") had to be layered on top of that, a process difficult or impossible to do on a large scale without destroying the fragile film.
Working at NIST's Center for Neutron Research, the SNU/NIST research team used a neutron imaging technique that allowed them to observe, with nanometer resolution, how the distribution of small organic semiconductor molecules embedded in polymer films changed with depth—the films are less than 100 nanometers thick. In the thin films originally described by the patent, the bulk of the semiconductor molecules end up at the top of the film, as suspected. However, when the SNU/NIST research team substituted a polymer with significantly higher molecular mass, something interesting happened. The organic semiconductor small molecules distributed themselves evenly at the top and bottom of the film. Having an active region of the film on the bottom is key for large-scale manufacturing because it means the rest of the device—gate, source, drain—can be laid down first and the delicate film layer added last.
In addition, they report, the optimized blend of polymer and organic semiconductor actually has better performance characteristics than the organic semiconductor on its own.
J. Kang, N. Shin, D.Y. Jang, V.M. Prabhu and D.Y. Yoon. Structure and properties of small molecule-polymer blend semiconductors for organic thin film transistors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Published on the Web Aug. 23, 2008.


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Walmart and Schneider Electric Announce Groundbreaking Collaboration to help Suppliers Access Renewable Energy
New initiative seeks to add renewable generation capacity to the US grid by creating greater access to large-scale, renewable energy as part of Walmart's Project Gigaton.
Walmart Inc. and Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, have announced a new collaboration that will provide increased access to renewable energy for Walmart's US-based suppliers, enabling them to lead on climate action. The groundbreaking initiative, called the Gigaton PPA (GPPA) Program, is designed to educate Walmart suppliers about renewable energy purchases and accelerate renewable energy adoption by participating suppliers through aggregate power purchase agreements (PPA).
The program directly supports Walmart's Project Gigaton, which aims to avoid one gigaton (one billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide from Walmart's global value chain by 2030. To date, more than 2,300 suppliers from 50 countries are participating in Project Gigaton. Suppliers have reported a cumulative 230 million metric tons of avoided emissions since 2017 – more than 20% of the goal – through energy, waste, packaging, agriculture, forests, and product use and design.
"The Gigaton PPA Program is the kind of innovation-in-action needed to help our suppliers take the next step towards low-carbon emissions, helping to build a more sustainable future for our communities," said Zach Freeze, Senior Director, Sustainability at Walmart. "Through Schneider Electric's work with our suppliers, the program aims to democratize access to renewable energy, and accelerate its use with our supplier base."
While corporate renewable energy procurement is on the rise, the overall number of companies involved is still relatively low, with just over 100 unique companies participating in the U.S. renewable energy market since 2008, according to the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance Deal Tracker. Some of the challenges to accessing renewable energy experienced by smaller companies include a lack of size needed to approach the market individually, insufficient education on the specific mechanics of renewable energy transactions and guidance on how to secure renewable energy.
The GPPA initiative was designed to help overcome these barriers, making it possible for more companies to learn about energy purchases, access renewable energy, reduce emissions and increase their ability to contribute towards Project Gigaton. The GPPA program works by educating participants on the renewable energy market, providing guidance on the projects, and bringing together interested companies to contract for renewable energy as a cohort, leveraging the size of the group to achieve an economy of scale. Walmart will serve as the convening champion for the program, inviting suppliers to join.
The company has collaborated with Schneider Electric's Energy & Sustainability Services (ESS) to run the GPPA Program, utilizing Schneider Electric's NEO Network™, a global collaboration platform and community of more than 300 corporate renewable energy purchasers and solution providers. Schneider Electric's team of leading renewable energy experts will engage participating Walmart suppliers and facilitate a multi-phase education and project selection process to advance supplier progress towards the execution of aggregated renewable energy purchases. Schneider Electric's ESS is the largest global consultant on corporate renewable purchasing, having advised companies, including Walmart, on over 100 utility-scale PPA purchases across North America, Europe, India, Australia and Latin America for a total of more than 8,000 megawatts of wind and solar power.
"It is our honor to work with Walmart on this revolutionary program," said Steve Wilhite, Senior Vice President, Schneider Electric. "The company is demonstrating significant leadership by increasing access to utility-scale renewable energy opportunities for their suppliers as part of the Project Gigaton ambition. The GPPA program aims to bring a significant amount of new wind and solar to the grid at a time when climate action is most urgent."
For more than a decade, Walmart has been working with suppliers, NGOs and others to inspire positive change across global supply chains. In its own operations, Walmart has set a goal to be powered 50% by renewable energy by 2025 and currently the company powers an estimated 29% of its operations with renewable energy. Walmart and Schneider Electric are also members of the Renewable Energy Buyer's Alliance, a coalition that brings together purchasers and suppliers of renewable energy to make the process of transitioning to cleaner energy sources easier.
Walmart suppliers can learn more about the GPPA program, and the participation criteria, at www.gigatonppa.com.
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Stella Su, who lives and works in Shanghai has used an ATM only once in the past year. Instead of cash in recent years she has done almost all her business using the digital wallet Alipay –- shopping in a mall, buying stuff online or transferring money to friends.
"Now when I go out, I don't even need to carry my wallet, all I need is my phone," said Su, one of over a billion Alipay users in China and abroad.
Alipay, operated by Ant Group, is the world's largest and most valuable financial technology (fintech) company and one of two dominant Chinese digital wallets in China, the other being rival Tencent's WeChat Pay.
Thanks to the huge scale and potential of China's fintech landscape, Ant Group is poised to raise about $34.5 billion in the world's largest share offering, beating Saudi Aramco's previous record of $29.4 billion. Ahead of the IPO, the company will be valued at about $280 million.
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"Ant Group is much more than PayPal which only processes financial payments. It has a lot of businesses in other areas and with other services that would help 1.3 billion people in China," Jackson Wong, asset management director at Amber Hill Capital Ltd., said in an interview. "We are betting that Ant Group will be able to grow at a very high pace in the future."
Alipay and WeChat Pay have helped make Chinese society virtually cashless, at least in big cities, with consumers and merchants alike relying on digital payments using their phones.
"Think of Alipay as Visa, MasterCard, Citibank, Fidelity… all rolled up into one," said Shaun Rein, founder and managing director of China Market Research Group in Shanghai. "On the Alipay platform, you pay for things, you buy insurance, you buy wealth management. Your whole life revolves around Alipay."
Walk into a supermarket in China and one would be hard-pressed to find a customer digging around for loose change to pay for groceries. Instead, cashiers scan a QR code on a customer's smartphone to deduct money from their Alipay or WeChat Pay digital wallets. The transaction takes seconds.
In restaurants, groups of friends often split the bill by transferring money to each other using their digital wallets, similar to how the Venmo app is used in the U.S.
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Ma's foresight has made him the wealthiest person in China, with a fortune estimated at $58.8 billion according to the Hurun Research Institute, which follows the country's wealthy.
Alipay was created in 2004 to serve as an escrow service between buyers and sellers on Alibaba's e-commerce consumer platform Taobao. It held funds from buyers to be released to sellers after goods were received. Alipay's revenue mostly comes from transaction fees charged to merchants. Users can link their bank cards directly to Alipay to top up their wallets, and transfers can also be withdrawn from users' bank accounts.
Alibaba, which currently owns a third of Ant Group, spun off Alipay in 2011. The company was later rebranded as Ant as the company expanded the range of its financial services.
One of those is Zhima Credit – -a private credit-scoring system that rates the trustworthiness and creditworthiness of its users based on data such as whether users pay their bills on time via Alipay.
Zhima Credit scores can help people take out small loans from Ant Group's consumer credit services Huabei and Jiebei to finance such things as iPhone purchases or school expenses. Such loans are hugely popular in China, where credit card usage is low and most people have no official credit history and are unable to borrow from banks.
Ant Group's money market fund, called Yu'e Bao -– one of the world's largest –- lets people put idle cash in their Alipay wallets to work and reap returns on investments as small as 100 yuan ($15).
"In the past, wealth management products offered by banks had many requirements, maybe a minimum of 50,000 yuan (about $7,500)," said Chen Zhoumin, who works in a bank in Zhengzhou, a city in central China's Henan province. "But Alipay has made it very convenient to invest money, because it made wealth management accessible and convenient."
To compete with Yu'e Bao, banks have begun providing more flexible investment products with lower capital requirements, said Chen, who often invests idle cash in Yu'e Bao since it's easy to do.
"Digital wallets like Alipay and WeChat have revolutionized payments in China," he said. "Now, there's also less worry that we might get counterfeit notes, or that our wallets may get stolen or robbed since everything is done digitally now."
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The extent of Israel's brutality against Palestinian civilians in its 22-day pounding of the Gaza Strip is gradually surfacing. Israeli soldiers are testifying to lax rules of engagement tantamount to a license to kill. One soldier commented: "That's what is so nice, supposedly, about Gaza: You see a person on a road, walking along a path. He doesn't have to be with a weapon, you don't have to identify him with anything and you can just shoot him."
What is less appreciated is how Israel is also brutalizing international law, in ways that may long outlast the demolition of Gaza.
Since 2001, Israeli military lawyers have pushed to re-classify military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from the law enforcement model mandated by the law of occupation to one of armed conflict. Under the former, soldiers of an occupying army must arrest, rather than kill, opponents, and generally must use the minimum force necessary to quell disturbances.
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Israel has a lengthy history of unpunished abuses of international law — among the most flagrant its decades-long colonization of the West Bank. To its credit, much of the world has refused to ratify Israel's violations. Unfortunately, our government is an exception, having frequently provided diplomatic cover for Israel's abuses. Our diplomats have vetoed 42 U.N. Security Council resolutions to shelter Israel from the consequences of its often illegal behavior.
We must break that habit now, or see international law perverted in ways that can harm us all. Our government has already been seduced to follow, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, Israel's example of targeted killings. This policy alienates civilians, innocently killed and wounded in these crude strikes, and deepens the determination of enemies to harm us by any means possible.
We do not want civilian police in the United States to be bombed, nor to have anyone "knock on our roofs." For our own sakes and for the world's, Israel's impunity must end.
George Bisharat is a professor of law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and writes frequently on law and politics in the Middle East. This article was first published by the San Francisco Chronicle on 1 April 2009 and made available here courtesy of the Institute for Middle East Understanding.


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