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The skills of project management and design are not natural allies. But design firms should and can cultivate project management and design as integrated components of project delivery.
As architects and designers, we are drawn to our professions with the lure of being part of a creative process and the opportunity to design great projects. We spend significant time and energy developing rigorous design processes to ensure unique and thoughtful projects. The management of these projects, however, is a secondary thought at best, often a necessary evil of securing the design work. As a result, many clients do not believe that working with design professionals is a positive experience, nor are they particularly satisfied with the delivery process, regardless of the outcome.
Project management is perhaps the single most sought-after role in the design industry, even outpacing the search for design talent. The growing number of independent project management firms and the fact that 30 percent of projects today are design-build confirm that clients are demanding higher levels of leadership and accountability than ever before for the success of their projects. Yet design firms are falling short of clients' expectations in the delivery and management of those projects. While few in the design professions went to school with the intention of being project managers, they often seek that route as a fast track to becoming principal.
Project management should not be an alien subject but rather part of the design process, one that simply meets another dimension of the design. If one believes that design is problem-solving, then project management is merely resolving an additional component and should be approached with the same enthusiasm as the design process itself. Traditionally, project management is a very linear process, and as such, the enjoyment for both clients and staff responsible for management is diminished. Instead of being perceived as a continuing hassle, project management could be re-created as an experience so pleasurable to all stakeholders — clients, consultants, and staff — that they wouldn't consider working with anyone else.
Project management in the 21st century seems to have little connection to the creative design process. Borrowing from Wikipedia, the 1950s marked the beginning of the modern project management era. Prior to that, projects were managed on an ad hoc basis using mostly Gantt charts, a scheduling technique for representing the phases and activities of a project so they could be understood by a wide audience.
Project management is often referred to as balancing the triple constraints of scope, time/schedule, and budget, which are presented as the sides of a triangle: No constraint can be changed without impacting the others. It appears that there has been little invention, new thinking, or leadership in project management in nearly 60 years. Traditional project management seems to be more about the process of doing things (activities) and less about the outcome, the client, or the design team.
Project Management as Experience
We know that the more we teach the client the better we can serve him. We know that the more the client teaches us, the better able we are to provide exactly what he wants. In their book The Experience Economy, B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore discuss a new economy that will follow our high-tech information age and service economy eras. The authors contend that the post-materialistic consumer is buying experiences and that business really delivers value by creating personal, meaningful experiences for its clients. They contend that business is a stage on which the goods and services are merely props. Because most products and services are undifferentiated, consumers shift their focus to the experience obtained while using the product or service. The more relevant and memorable the experience, the higher the value, the higher the worth, and the higher the price that can be charged. In the experience economy, work is theater — dynamic theater in which clients are actively engaged and experiences are constantly refreshed — and businesses are experience stagers that increase client satisfaction, eliminate client sacrifice, and create client surprise. Perhaps the authors' main point is simply that businesses should think in terms of fulfilling the needs and wants of current and potential clients, not merely providing the marketplace with what those businesses happen to offer.
While the authors' research has focused on the consumer market, there are valuable lessons for design firms and project managers. We could model BMW, for example, which inextricably integrates design and performance. We can learn from Apple, which focuses on the user first. And there is Starbucks, which considers the customer experience and stages each event to ensure satisfaction. With a little imaginative spirit, we can adopt and translate these concepts into how we deliver our projects.
Research shows that what clients really want and value is help getting from here to there — expecting what comes next as well as the what-ifs of crisis management. They are looking to the design firm and project manager to anticipate problems, resolve them, take advantage of opportunities, and make the project come together successfully. Project managers know how to define the scope, how to stay on schedule, and how to stay within budget. It is a necessary production line of activities. But if, in fact, we are entering a new economy, what we need to be providing are the relevant, personal, and memorable experiences that the client and the team need to understand, enjoy, and connect with the process more fully.
As designers, we often create visual experiences for our clients, providing imaginative drawings and models with which to communicate our vision of the project. Simply by virtue of what we do, we have a leg up on the experience economy. We often address the feelings we hope to generate in the end user. If we're designing a master planned community, we talk about the environment and what future residents will experience by being there — what opportunities it provides for connecting with nature. We talk about the visual impact — what one might see and be enriched by artistically. We address the sense of community — what it might provide to its inhabitants in terms of gathering and safety and enrichment. When designing a building, we try to place ourselves into the ultimate residents' shoes and imagine what moving through the structure will feel like. When designing products, we anticipate how they will be used and what users will experience.
What we don't do is create memorable experiences for clients as they go through the design process. A good test is to lay project management documents up against design documents and see if they are equal in value, content, and clarity of communication. The project management role, because of the accounting mentality of this work, is many steps behind the design solution. The two roles are perceived as opposites — one is creative and the other is linear, factual, and often hard to access. This generates friction for the staff, consultants, and clients.
Integrating Two Minds
How might we re-define the job of project management to relieve the tension and provide a personal and positive experience for stakeholders?
There is a tremendous shortage of good project managers, partly because the work feels like a foreign science to the design mind. What would happen if we were able to integrate a design mind with a project manager mind? The integrated mind could resolve the problem and provide a paradigm shift in the experience. We could start by changing the title "project manager" to "project leader" or "project director," signifying a leadership role as opposed to a functional one.
Designers are by nature great integrators, and their minds can image the world from multiple perspectives and see all of the salient and sometimes contradictory aspects of a confounding problem. They can and do create novel solutions. The integrated mind would have the ability to see one potential solution as better than the existing solutions and pose questions and explore constraints in creative ways that result in entirely different solutions. The integrated mind does not simply work alongside other disciplines; it has significant experiences within many disciplines.
Design firms should not abandon the activity-based focus of scope, time/schedule, and cost; rather, they should enhance the delivery through experiences that engage and involve all the stakeholders. We could create storyboards that allow stakeholders to visualize the outcome of each phase of the project. Instead of assigning projects to staff based on their availability, we could pick team members who are not only learned and experienced in the required fields but passionate about the project and deeply interested in creating the most positive outcome for the client.
We could engage the client by anticipating issues and reducing risks by being proactive in our responsiveness, by establishing protocols for engagement between the team and the client. We could ensure that each team member feels ownership in the process so that his or her attitude reflects positively on the whole experience we provide for the client. We could stage a process wherein we provide answers and options before questions are even asked and involve stakeholders in a creative, positive experience that they've never had in the past.
A Distinguishing Factor
If we are to thrive in an experience economy, then getting clients "from here to there" needs to happen in a way that connects with them personally and memorably. Once complete, the project simply exists. But the value of the experience in creating that project lingers in clients' memories. So where does the "wow" factor come from? What's the "aha moment"? How do we create memories on an emotional, physical, spiritual, and intellectual plane as part of the process of designing and producing a product, a community, a home?
Even in down economies, people spend their limited budgets on entertainment and experiences. They will go to Starbucks and pay more for the coffee because of the ambiance: the wafting aromas, the comfortable sofas, the accommodating baristas. Thousands of Internet games provide escapist opportunities by allowing players to jump into the action and experience, learn, fight, conquer, and avoid the mundane aspects of life. Disneyland continues to attract and amaze while other amusement parks struggle to maintain.
In The Experience Economy, the authors talk about differentiation between commodities, goods, services and experiences. They say:
• If you charge for undifferentiated stuff, then you are in the commodity business.
• If you charge for distinctive tangible things, then you are in the goods business.
• If you charge for the activities you perform, then you are in the service business.
• If you charge for the feeling customers have because of engaging you, then you are in the experience business.
• If you charge for the benefit customers receive as a result of spending that time, then you are in the transformation business.
The companies that continue to thrive year after year are the ones that are in the experience business. The ones that fail are those that have allowed themselves to become commodities.
To distinguish our design firms, we too must be in the experience business. Like psychiatrists, we must be able to put our mind in the head of the client, offering and producing before he consciously knows what he needs. Like marketers, we must instruct and engage as we go through the often tedious and repetitive processes of design and project management. Like advertisers, we must capture the client's heart and mind and make him want what we are selling. Like trial lawyers, we must tell a story that the jury (our client) can relate to and adopt. We must anticipate, teach, relate, resolve, deliver, and entertain.
Where do we start in moving from activities to experiences in the delivery and management of projects?
• Ask all stakeholders (clients, staff, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and others) what they value and expect throughout the delivery of a project.
• Dissect project management activities and think about how we can move them from an activity to an experience.
• Review project management tools and documents and assess their value and clarity in communications as well as their visual alignment with other design documents and presentations.
• Map the roles and activities of designers and project managers to determine synergies and points of integration rather than conflict.
• Imagine how to stage experiences for all stakeholders, in meetings, in presentations, as well as with the tools and processes we use.
The value of the activities of managing a project is revealed in the outcomes, which are more often measured by what did not happen or what went wrong than by what was important, personal, memorable, and right. There is an opportunity before the design profession to integrate the creative spirit of design with the traditional project management activities through a carefully executed set of experiences for all stakeholders. If we fail to take advantage of the opportunity, we run the risk of becoming commodities indistinguishable from all the other firms that do what we do.
If, as authors Pine and Gilmore suggest, "Work is theatre, and every business a stage," then design firms need to look at inventive ways to create memorable experiences for our clients in ways that are real, authentic, and personal to our own distinct corporate culture. We won't don masks and perform kabuki theater for our clients in order to amuse them. Clearly not. But we can all relate to the myriad presentations we've sat through, catching others' eyes rolling in boredom as surely as our own eyes are revealing how disconnected we are from what's going on. We can change how our clients perceive project management by adjusting our own thinking about the process and the opportunities therein. We have an obligation to take what we do best — design — and expand it into what has not be our forte — delivering a positive, meaningful, engaging experience for our clients.
Douglas R. Parker is the chief operating officer of Design Workshop, an award-winning international firm practicing landscape architecture and urban design, which was named 2008 ASLA Firm of the Year. Parker also is a senior consultant with the Greenway Group, sharing his unique understanding of design and business. He is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, a member of the AIA, an honorary member of IIDA, and an honorary Fellow of ASID.


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The TAM receptors (tyro 3, axl, mer) have emerged in recent years as master regulators of macrophage and dendritic cell activation and phagocytosis. Absence of one or more of these tyrosine kinases results in inflammation and autoimmunity. The TAM receptors are attractive targets for in vivo therapy with monoclonal antibodies or recombinant ligands. Stimulation through these molecules promotes a shift of cytokine production away from M1 inflammatory macrophages to M2 non- inflammatory, reparative cells, and decreases dendritic cell type I interferon secretion and activation. Such a modulation of macrophage and DC function may be desirable for inflammatory arthritis and diverse autoimmune conditions. In this proposal, we wish to explore the potential of antibodies to mer to modulate DC function in vitro, and to administer these antibodies in vivo to animals to assess their effects on the immune response. Through these preclinical studies, we expect to learn more about the biology of the receptors and to provide data to guide a parallel therapeutic approach in humans.
Control of inflammation is central to the treatment of most rheumatic diseases and of many other illnesses encountered throughout medicine. As our understanding of this process increases, so does the possibility of better and more specific ways to intervene in this process. Macrophages and dendritic cells are intimately involved in inflammation and recent discoveries of key receptors on these cells which control their activation opens the possibility of using them as targets for new therapeutics. We have a longstanding interest in the TAM receptors (tyro 3, mer, axl) expressed mostly on macrophages and on dendritic cells. These proteins control not only the ability of the cells to ingest debris, but also the nature and quantity of important mediators of inflammation (cytokines) produced by these cells. In this proposal, we wish to explore the use of novel antibodies we have made which activate the TAM receptors and - in principle - may direct macrophages and dendritic cells away from inflammation and toward healing and suppression of inflammation. We will use them in vitro and in animal models. If these antibodies have such an effect on models of arthritis and lupus in mice, a parallel approach to human inflammatory illnesses may open up, with the possibility of controlling many autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
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Bizarro Amy (Amy Hill)
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Ghost Base has some really excellent photographers, so hopefully they will chime in here. Ashlee and Gina have gotten us consistently great pictures for our social media. And our friends in Carida have been kind enough to let us share their photos as well. However, sometimes we need other members to step up and help out with photography duties. For example, this weekend, I am asking 3 new squires to take pictures at the Symphony. I thought it might be helpful to start discussing what we're looking for in event photography, that will make Ghost Base members look their best.
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I would be happy to help! Do you know what kind of cameras they will be using? If they have the ability to use full manual or some manual functions I can help a bunch, especially when it comes to choosing the right settings for inside photos. I actually have some cheat sheets written up for using manual mode that I would be happy to share!
I think it's all about capturing moments. The usual group shots and what not are always fantastic to have, but once you have those down my biggest suggestion is to start getting detail shots and candids. Go in really close, get those unique angles, check your background for distracting elements, use foreground to create framing, look for people's and children's reactions, and follow rule of thirds. Those are all the basics I follow at least :-) I hope that helps!!
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My favorite pictures are often just kids high-fiving the characters.
Ashlee, could you tell us a little about the Rule of Thirds?
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Chiming in on the type of camera since my hubby is one of the squires. We have a Canon Rebel XSi that we would be happy to bring if it helps. I know that Amy, you said you were bringing a camera as well. So we can bring it or not. I will also pass on all the tips posted here to him.
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I am down for taking pictures for everyone. I may need just a simple crash course in how to use the specific type of camera we decide to use once I get to the event.
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Rule of Thirds - Wikipedia to the rescue
Here are some specifics on things that I've noticed from good pictures or been told by photographers (mainly Ashlee). Some have been mentioned above.
1) Get down on the kids' level. Get a picture at their height.
2) Look at the background lighting. Is someone silouetted from behind? That can black out their face, but could also highlight their outline.
3) If someone gets in the way of the perfect shot, then use that. Get a picture of that person taking a picture. Include the image on their camera screen.
4) Use foreground clutter as framing. Line up your subject between 2 people.
5) Look for interesting/funny things in the background.
6) High fives and reaction shots.
7) Get close-ups. You might not get the trooper or all of the troopers, but you get more of the "interesting" subject.
Get unique angles. High, low, from the side, from the back.
9) Take a LOT of pictures. Digital film is great for that, and you increas the odds of getting that awesome shot.
10) Use black-and-white at times, if possible.
11) Look for props/signs that could be used for funny posed shots.
12) Take a lot of pictures of me. (Hi, Gina.
) Ashlee is great at this.
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Good tips there Matt especially the last one! HAHA! I've worked concerts and church events in the past so I have some experience with close up shots, getting down to a child's level and such. Where I am least experienced is adjusting the camera's settings to make the shot look a certain way. I'll need some guidance for that. Also if there is some type of schedule i could have that would show when the BIG photo ops of the event that would be great so I could get in a good position beforehand. By the way BIG photo ops is defined as members being called on stage for something, taking a photo with a member of the Hersey Symphony etc..etc..
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Also if there is some type of schedule i could have that would show when the BIG photo ops of the event that would be great so I could get in a good position beforehand. By the way BIG photo ops is defined as members being called on stage for something, taking a photo with a member of the Hersey Symphony etc..etc..
The Symphony contact should have that information when you get there. Our POC should be able to get it for you when you arrive.
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I love to use angles because it suggests action and tension at the same time...
If that means getting on the ground and taking the picture backwards and upward, selfie-lens in use, then go for it. Or going up to a high vantage point and putting people on a diagonal stance:
Just some things I learned in art.
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The latest guidance for Lightworkers, from our friends, the fifth and sixth dimensional beings known as the Collective:
So much is happening in your world now.
And we would say, that though much appears to be "not good," that that is only an appearance, and not the actual reality.
It is more than the fact that dark creatures of all levels, physical and etheric, are being chased out of their hiding places and yes, from the realms of "power" as your third dimension defines it.
It is more than the fact that daily, the readiness to enact NESARA fully comes more completely into being.
And it is more than the powerful and positive signs you see around you, such as certain persons running for higher office (such as the gentleman from Vermont), who in years past would not have had a prayer of launching any such campaign.
It is even more than the new-found determination of millions across the planet to cease the ongoing crush of militarized policing and privately funded armies and paramilitary groups.
The greatest and most beautiful good that we refer to has to do with the increasing willingness of so many millions of Lightworkers to live from the I AM perspective.
To fully grasp and realize their Creator (or if you prefer, their co-Creator) role within the Universe.
And those who are perhaps not here to be on the leading edge, are nevertheless benefiting from the higher energies and the joy that Lightworkers are exhibiting in their daily lives.
For your history has for so long been hampered and troubled with all forms of what is considered bad and negative, that your planet has suffered the ongoing degradation of lower energies that have kept Her own Ascension at a distance, for far too long.
And we would say, that far from being defined by those lower energies, as you have been for millennia, you are now claiming a far greater, more expansive, more joyful existence than previous generations (since the fall of Atlantis) could ever have dreamt of.
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As the title already spoiled, the game now supports custom tiles. Yaaaay! So how do they work?
The Level Creator now includes 64 additional elements that can be placed on the toolbar or transformed. They're grouped into their own sections in the tile picker popup - clicking the flower with the C brings you to the custom decorations, while the wall stands for custom walls (how unexpected!).
By default, however, those are simply slime puddles and basic walls with numbers on them. So how do we turn them into something more suitable for Ardos Balmung's incredible stone-pushing adventures? Simple - the editor and game will look for PNG files with certain file names inside the level pack folder and replace the custom tile graphics with those. For instance, a file named "cwall07.png" would replace the custom wall that usually has the big honking "07" on it and could perhaps look like the ice blocks I scribbled for testing the feature.
In conclusion, you can now give your levels their own look, different from anything that comes with the game! Unless you want to replace the standard objects and floor tiles, of course, but that may be coming up in a future version. Right now, with this implemented and the new Level Creator mostly functional, I'd like to focus on the new level selection menu and adding various fancy stuff to make the game more user-friendly. Stay tuned!


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Montana State fourth-year head coach Jeff Choate recaps his team's 45-14 win over Northern Colorado and previews his team's trip to UC Davis.
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By AFP - Jan 18,2018 - Last updated at Jan 18,2018
A view shows a burnt-out bus in which people travelling on a route used by migrant workers heading to Russia died in a fire, in the Aktobe region, Kazakhstan, on Thursday (Reuters photo)
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Fifty-two people were killed on Thursday when the Russia-bound bus they were travelling on caught fire in Kazakhstan, the central Asian nation's emergency services ministry said.
"On January 18 at 10:30am (04:30 GMT), a bus caught fire... 55 passengers and two drivers were on board. Five people who managed to escape are receiving medical assistance. The rest died on the spot," the ministry said, without elaborating on the cause of the blaze.
All those who died are believed to be Uzbek nationals, an interior ministry official told Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency. Kazakh media reported they were migrant workers travelling to Russia.
Uzbekistan's emergency services ministry said it had opened a hotline.
The vehicle was registered in Kazakhstan, emergency services ministry official Ruslan Imankulov told AFP. He said the fire spread very quickly.
Short circuit blamed
Regional emergency service officials initially blamed the fire on a short circuit and said the bus was overloaded, Interfax-Kazakstan news agency reported.
Ministry representative Imankulov did not confirm this however, telling AFP: "It's too early to talk about the reasons for the fire."
Panic broke out on board the bus, hindering evacuation, while survivors managed to climb through a door and window, Kazakh news site BNews reported.
Two of the survivors suffered burns to their hands, emergency services officials told AFP, while others suffered minor injuries.
The Kazakh emergency services ministry said it was travelling from the southern Kazakh town of Shymkent to the Russian city of Samara on the Volga river, a distance of almost 1,900 kilometres.
Video broadcasts by Russian and Kazakh media showed black smoke and flames billowing from the vehicle which had veered across a flat stretch of road carving through a snowy steppe. A photograph taken later showed the vehicle completely charred.
The ministry said the vehicle was a Hungarian-made Ikarus. These buses are still widely used in ex-Soviet nations, even though they are often decades old.
The accident is one of the deadliest in the last five years, with the worst toll in Afghanistan in 2016 when two buses collided with an oil tanker, killing at least 73 people.
The tragedy, which struck in the area around the city of Aktobe, highlights the high accident rate for passenger transport in the region.
In October last year, a Kazakh-registered bus with Uzbek passengers was hit by a train in Russia after breaking down on the tracks, killing 19 aboard the bus.
In 2015, 16 people, including three children, died in Kazakhstan when a minibus collided with a van on April 20, 2015.
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Not That Chick
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Happy Birthday Grandfather
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Chasing Ray
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Is Love Ever Really Lost?
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I Don't Hate You but I Don't Love You
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Do not slurp text when switching from find to replace
I will frequently press ctrl+f to open find and write a regex, then decide that I want to do a replace with it. When I press ctrl+h to switch modes, it slurps up the current selection, which is whatever my regex was selecting, when I wanted to preserve my regex.
This could be fixed by not slurping when switching between modes, and only slurping when ctrl+f/ctrl+h have been pressed for the first time, or a second time in the same mode.
Alternatively maybe the editor could distinguish if the selection is selected due to the result of a regex, and not slurp when transitioning modes in that case.
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Head for Business, Heart for People
EAPworks is well-established EAP firm founded by Mark Sames and Julie Crawley. EAPworks consists of an established network of EAP practitioners, counsellors, psychologists and other relevant providers, operating throughout New Zealand.
Our vision is to provide a range of professional services that promote positive work communities throughout New Zealand. We have a passion for assisting people to gain the maximum opportunities from a changing work environment. We believe healthy and resilient people are the key to having a productive positive workplace.
In line with our vision we seek:
- To always work in partnership with our clients to ensure excellence in service delivery and that client expectations are exceeded
- To identify opportunities for growth and development of all people within their organisation
- To provide a range of services that empower and fulfil personal and organisational potential.
Mark Sames J.P, BSc, Grad Cert Career Dev, Dip.Bus & Admin, Dip.Labour Studies, Supervisor, CDANZ, CAT
Mark has a particular interest in organisational change, employee assistance, career development, and conflict resolution. He also gains great satisfaction from assisting individuals to harness their potential within a work and lifestyle context. Mark's previous experience in management and consultancy has providing him with organisational and management insights in both the government and private sectors. He is also an accredited Career Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor.
Julie Crawley BA (Psychology), Grad Cert Career Development, Dip.Tchg, Accredited Supervisor, CDANZ, CAT
Julie has extensive experience and training in relating to individuals and groups – as an Employee Assistance consultant, trainer, facilitator, supervisor, manager and celebrant. Over the past twenty years she has implemented and been actively involved in effective employee assistance programmes in a range of workplaces. She also has considerable experience supporting individuals and groups through organisational change and life transition. Julie's particular area of interest is in outplacement and career transition. She is also an accredited Supervisor.
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- It was nice to see safety Donte Whitner finally make a big play with that 76-yard interception return for a touchdown. Those are the types of plays you expect from a guy who was drafted eighth overall, and it's been a long-time coming (he's in his fourth season.) He needs to make more plays like that to justify his high selection.
- The Bills All-Time Team ceremony at halftime was nice, but it would have been a lot better had Jim Kelly, Bruce Smith and Steve Tasker taken part. Tasker was out of town working an NFL game as an announcer for CBS, and Kelly reportedly was on vacation. And Bruce? Who knows?
- Some people are already wondering if there is going to be a running back controversy when Marshawn Lynch returns from his suspension following Sunday's game against New Orleans. I really don't think there is going to be a problem. You can alternate him and Fred Jackson and have two fresh backs with complementary skills. Jackson had a surperb all-around game yesterday, generating 188 yards on 34 touches. But he's not built to carry that kind of load every week. Divide the chores up, and you'll have even better results. And I can see times when Bills offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt gets creative and has both backs out there at the same time.
- Speaking of being creative, I liked the Bills throwing a lateral on a kickoff (netted them an additional 16 yards) and using T.O. on a reverse (good for 14 yards). Who would have thought we'd see such razzle-dazzle from the ultra-conservative Dick Jauron?
Don't look now, but there could be a pennant race in the AL East after all. The Yankees lead Boston by five games as we head into the final weeks of the season and are in Anaheim for a 3-game set against the Angels, who have won 16 of their last 19 games against the Bronx Bombers in SoCal. Then, New York returns east to play the Red Sox in a 3-game series that could make things very interesting.
The Yankees have totally mishandled Joba Chamberlain with these foolish pitch-count restrictions they've placed on him. I said all along that he should have stayed in the bullpen, where he could have been used as a set-up guy while being groomed to succeed Mariano Rivera down the road. Someone in the Yankees organization - be it the Steinbrenner boys, Brian Cashman or Joe Girardi - insisted he become a starter, but apparently not the kind of starter who can give you at least five or six good innings. In his first three starts after the All-Star break, Joba went 3-0 with a 0.83 earned run average, while yielding just 8 hits in 21 2-3s innings. Since the imposition of even more restrictive pitch counts, he's gone 1-4 with an 8.25 ERA, 50 hits and 21 walks in 36 innings.
SOME PERSONAL NOTES: It was great seeing my friend Erik Brady, the gifted sportswriter from USA Today in the press box at the Ralph Sunday. Erik is a Buffalo native who returns to his hometown every chance he gets. He's also a fantastic person, whose loyalty to his roots reminds me of another Buffalonian, the late Tim Russert . . . While on the subject of newspaper buddies, please keep former Rochester Times-Union scribe Gene Duffey in your thoughts and prayers. Gene is recuperating from cardiac arrest at a hospital in Houston. Like Erik, Gene is a wonderful, kind-hearted person . . . In regards to the aforementioned topic of pitch counts, we have no such restrictions in the 19th century base ball league I play in at the Genesee Country Village and Museum in Mumford. I went eight innings and change the other day in our 29-27 victory against the Knickerbockers at Silver Base Ball Park, and although no one charted my pitches, I'm sure I delivered well over 300. Despite that workload (easily six games worth for Joba, who's 32 years my junior), I experienced no arm or shoulder pain the next day. To be fair, I deliver the ball underhand at about 25 mph, while Chamberlain fires it in overhand at 90-plus mph. And, if you wondering, why the game was so high-scoring, I should point out that we don't wear gloves, the sun got in our eyes and the ball doesn't always wind up where we want it to. But it sure is a heck of a lot of fun.


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Top 5 residential solar and battery storage tips for consumers in 2017
With rooftop solar uptake in Australia experiencing another boom – this time with warnings – and battery storage poised to take off, we have put together a collection of some of the top tips for consumers of residential solar and storage, gathered from industry players and experts.
1. Rooftop solar is great value, premium FiT or no
Even as various states' premium solar feed-in tariffs evaporate on January 1 2017, rooftop solar remains a great investment for a huge percentage of Australian homes. Why? Because, as Solar Quotes' Finn Peacock puts it, "solar has reached the point where it is the cheapest form of electricity you can put into your house."
In fact, according to Renate Egan, a director of leading smart solar firm Solar Analytics, "it's actually better value to install PV panels on your roof now than it was when energy companies were paying more money for solar," she says.
"In 2008, a quality, 3kW system cost $20,000. It will cost you less than $6000 now," Egan wrote here earlier this week. "There are big changes ahead for solar owners. Those who do their homework will find plenty of opportunity to stay ahead of the game."
According to Peacock, households that use a lot of electricity during the day, or can run their appliances on timers, are a natural fit for solar and can see very short paybacks of 4-5 years (20-25 per cent returns).
"If you are at home during the day or have pool pumps which run all day, your self-consumption can be up to 65 per cent (with exports only 35 per cent) and solar is likely to be a very good investment.
"If you are not at home during the day (hello to all you 9-5ers!), you will typically self-consume about 30% of a well sized solar system, pushing the simple payback out to 8-10 years. Bear in mind that this is still a 10-12 per cent return on your investment."
2: Do your homework, don't rush in
For those looking to install solar – and perhaps even battery storage, as well – for the first time, the best place to start is by monitoring your home energy usage. How much do you use, and when do you use it?
As Kairos Power's Bjorn Sturmberg has advised, each solar and battery storage system must be sized for the household's individual circumstances – and this is not necessarily an easy task.
But to guide consumer, there are free online solar calculators; a lot of solar companies, like Solar Choice, have them on their websites to help customers work out what size system they should get, and what sort of savings and return on investment they should expect.
Sturmberg also recommends getting a number quotes – solarquotes.com.au is a good starting point, offering three free quotes from vetted installers – and making sure you compare "apples with apples" in terms of the technology that is being offered, particularly in the case of inverters, which are a key component of a smart solar system.
And finally, don't believe the hype. "Don't feel pressured by shonky salesmen who are implying that if you don't sign on the dotted line right now, you'll lose the rebate (the federal STC multiplier that is being wind back gradually as of January 1, 2017)," says Peacock.
"At worst you'll lose one fifteenth of the rebate if you delay your decision until the New Year. A small price to pay for making an informed decision."
3. Price – and brand – matters
As solar installer Nigel Morris pointed out recently on RenewEconomy, "there is nowhere on the planet where you can get solar as cheap as you can in Australia." But that doesn't stop people looking for – or offering – a bargain. Unfortunately, when it comes to rooftop solar systems, cheap is often nasty.
Ultimately, says Morris, consumers become "confounded and utterly confused … (and) don't know who to believe. They're nervous about paying double – typically that's the price gap (between top tier and bottom tier solar), at least double – so that's a big leap of faith."
In an effort to help consumers navigate this leap, Australia's top two solar industry bodies – the Clean Energy Council and the Australian Solar Council – have just this month released new programs to educate the public on quality solar installers.
The ASC announced the launch of a "public facing education campaign, encouraging families to choose a quality installer," alongside a new training program for installers.
While the CEC launched a new campaign advising solar buyers to look for an Approved Solar Retailer to make sure they get the best possible quality and service – and avoid getting a bad deal. The CEC also has this list of accredited installers and of accredited panels and inverters.
But, as Nigel Morris noted in a One Step article in November, the fluid nature of quality control in the solar panel market was clearly illustrated in the CEC's updated list of approved solar panels, with an astounding 76 per cent of solar brands no longer listed as approved for use in Australia.
"This slashes the number of approved solar panel brands available from more than 400 in 2012, to 217, as of (November)," Morris wrote. "Notably, in 2012 409 brands were listed and 310 of those have been removed. However, 118 new brands have been listed during that time, bringing the new total to 217."
4: Make your solar smart
For those who already have solar and are wanting to make the most of their investment – particularly after losing the premium FiT – solar monitoring is a must.
Despite leading the world on per capita rooftop solar uptake, data shows only 5-10 per cent of Australia's solar households use monitoring technology to understand their solar usage or improve their system's performance.
As we reported here, this has led to a situation in which it is estimated that more than half of all Australian rooftop solar systems are underperforming. Another 14 per cent are not working at all at any given point in time.
"Solar monitoring isn't a 'nice to have' product," said Solar Analytics CEO Stefan Jarnason at this year's All Energy Australia conference – "It's essential."
Jarnason believes all rooftop solar owners should be able to access "a comprehensive solar dashboard to determine how their system is performing, what needs fixing or improving, where they are consuming their energy and to optimise their system to make their solar investment work harder for them. And it needs to be easy to understand."
Conveniently, Solar Analytics produces precisely such a product, as do NSW company Wattwatchers, Reposit Power and CSIRO spin-off Evergen, to name but a few.
5. Battery storage is not compulsory for solar homes … yet
…But it is extremely exciting, highly competitive and getting cheaper by the month. So, again, it will pay to do your homework and keep tabs on who's who in the market and what they are offering, at what price.
As with solar, what's most important for consumers is to make sure you get the right battery for your home, your solar system and your needs.
According to a recent two-part analysis on battery storage by energy market researcher Energeia, for most houses looking to invest in a battery system now, smaller is probably better.
"For most solar storage offerings at the moment …the optimal system is actually around 1-2kWh," said Energeia analyst Jacob Kharoufeh at the All-Energy Australia conference in Melbourne in October.
"Initially, until the cost comes crashing down, there is a niche market for operators offering modular units," he said.
As we reported here, there are a number of small battery offerings in the Australian market that fit the bill on this, including Enphase Energy's 1.2kWh lithium-iron phosphate AC Battery, which as Solar Quotes notes, was designed to be scalable and offers "great $/kWh if cycling twice a day."
Aquion and Sonnenbatterie both also offer smaller, scalable battery units, at 2.2kWh and 2kWh respectively. On Aquion, Solar Quotes says it is a great price per kWh, "modular, environmentally friendly disposal, inherently safe chemistry (low fire risk compared to lithium ion)" and is also available in a 24V version, which enables the use of lower cost inverters and chargers.
But as Jarnason noted at the same conference, "Payback is not what everybody is looking for."
For many solar households looking at battery storage, they just want to make the most of their solar investment and use as little grid supplied energy as possible. In which case, there is plenty on offer, including the latest offering from Tesla, which has hit the market at more than double the capacity of its predecessor and nearly half the installed cost.
"The reduction per kWh of solar and of batteries is on a great trajectory," said Chris Williams, the head of accredited Australian Powerwall reseller Natural Solar. "Where the market is today, compared to where I thought it would be; I think we're five or six years ahead," he told One Step Off The Grid in November.
According to Williams, rooftop solar coupled with a Powerwall 2 could save the average Australian family of four save up to $1,500 on their annual energy bill.
Another accredited Tesla reseller, CSR Bradford, says its solar "ChargePack" including the new Powerwall "is capable of helping a family of five save over $2,000" on electricity annually.
Considering the Powerwall is expected to retail in Australia at around $8,800, for the battery alone that looks like about a four-year return on investment. If you're adding solar, too, you can add another two years to that. And in some parts of South Australia, as Bruce Mountain explains here, battery storage is already offering significant savings – as much as 25 per cent on annual electricity bill costs – to households with solar.
And there are plenty of other interesting battery storage brands out and about on the Australian market, including the newly launched and competitive LG Chem RESU 9.8kWh, the higher-end Sonnenbatterie offer, and Australia's own Redflow.
Sophie is editor of One Step Off The Grid and deputy editor of its sister site, Renew Economy. Sophie has been writing about clean energy for more than a decade.


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Hi, my partner's phone got topped up after a text from Voda that the end of his data had been reached. He chose the $20 option and still no data. Rang the Philippines and a lady said she would put 1GB on his mobile. Although he did not use the phone afterwards, he got within 3 hours the same Voda text that he was out of data. How is this possible and why does it need a half an hour phone call to solve this problem?
@ElseBlomWhat type of phone is he using? Majority of phones have a built in data tracking system so you can see what it is that using up all his data allowance quickly..
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