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Family tree research is made much more interesting when an ancestor's story reveals a captivating character. One of the record sets that can add a fascinating nuance to a family tree are Criminal Records, should you find an ancestor's name within them. To discover that someone from your past family came up against the law and to learn if they were found blameworthy or not is exciting. Take the example of William Warren in 1829 who was charged with 'Stealing a pint of peas'. He was one of the lucky ones in that he was found by the court to be 'Not Guilty' and so could get on with his life.
Some of those who were convicted received punishments that would today bring a lump to the throat, such as the case of 63 year old Joseph Powell in 1814. Not only had he been incarcerated but he had also suffered physical punishment as well for his previous offence. Having been adjudged in 1808 to be 'an incorrigible Rogue', under a law made in King George II's reign, his crime was that he had been telling the future. His astrology skills saw him punished by a term of one year inside prison and was also 'openly whipped at a cart's tail'! Unfortunately for the authorities Joseph was not deterred or rehabilitated by his sentence, as we can read from the image attached to these records that he 'Did afterwards feloniously offend again in like manner'.
Record for Joseph Powell 5th November 1814 in TheGenealogist's Criminal Records
Some convicts, who would once have lost their lives if found guilty of a number of crimes, were in later years sentenced to transportation. This meant that they had to be imprisoned somewhere before sailing for the penal colonies in Australia. The newly released records on TheGenelaogist include those from ADM 6 which lists the names of those who were locked up onboard a number of prison hulks awaiting transportation. As an example we have the Highway Robber, James Smith. On the 6th July 1826 he was convicted at Bedford and we can catch up with him as being one of the inmates of Bedford Gaol transferred to the Hulk Dolphin twenty days later. Clicking through to the image of the register there is more information to be had. In this case we can see that the gaoler's report notes that the prisoner had been 'indifferent before and after his trial' and that he had been 'several times in custody'. In some cases we can also see, from the image of the record, the date of discharge from the prison hulk and also which ship the convict was then dispatched on to Australia. Our Highway robber, James Smith, was transported for life on the 17th September 1826 onboard the ship Albion - having been locked up until then on the prison hulk since the 26th July of that year.
James Smith 6 July 1826 transported for Highway Robbery in ADM6
With the increase in transportation instead of death, an imbalance occured between supply and demand of executed criminals and this had an effect on the training of surgeons. The bodies of hanged criminals were the only legal cadavers that could be dissected - but now they had a problem and criminals stepped in to fill this gap. By searching these newly released records on TheGenealogist we can find an entry for Richard Curle. He was tried in May 1841 for 'unlawfully opening a Grave for the Purpose of Taking Up A Dead Body, And Breaking Open The Coffin'. The penalty handed out to him was one year in the County Gaol.
Using these new records finds us the case in May 1812 of the notorious John Bellingham who murdered the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, The Right Hon Spencer Perceval. His sentence would see him hanged in public and then turned over to the surgeons.
The murder of the Rt Hon Spencer Perceval 1812
A search for Bellingham in the records on TheGenealogist finds his start in working life as a 14 year old apprentice to James Love, a Citizen and Haberdasher in 1783. In the early 1800s as a middle aged man he then travelled to Arkhangelsk in Russia as an export representative.
The seeds of his untimely demise at the end of the hangman's noose stretches back to the loss of a Russian ship that had been insured at Lloyd's of London. An anonymous letter was sent to Lloyd's that claimed that the ship had been sabotaged - which the ship owners thought that Bellingham had written. They retaliated by accusing him of an unpaid debt and so caused his travel pass to be withdrawn and the local Governor-General to imprison Bellingham in a Russian jail. After serving his one year sentence inside, Bellingham was released and he made his way to St Petersburg where he endeavoured to have the Governor-General impeached. The Russian authorities, not being impressed with this slur, charged Bellingham with leaving Arkhangelsk in a clandestine manner and so he was imprisoned once more. At the end of his second term of imprisonment in Russia he was released in October 1808 - but still without permission to leave. In some desperation, he petitioned the Tsar and was finally allowed out of Russia in 1809 to go home to England.
John Bellingham was an unhappy man when he got home and soon turned to the British government asking for compensation. Because the United Kingdom had broken off diplomatic relations with Russia in 1808, however, this recompense was refused him. Years of trying to gain satisfaction saw him as a regular visitor to the Houses of Parliament and so it was that on the 11th May 1812 Bellingham visited the Palace of Westminster as usual, but this time armed with two pistols. In the lobby of the Commons he took out his gun and assassinated the P.M. - then he sat down and waited for his own arrest.
Justice was swift as can be gleaned from the records on TheGenealogist. His trial took place on on the 15th May before Sir James Mansfield, whose surname is entered in the right margin of the page. We can also note that the prisoner John Bellingham was aged 42 at the time.
John Bellingham's murder trial on the 15th May 1812
The next document, returned in our search for Bellingham, is also from the HO 77 records. This lists the judgements handed out in Middlesex in May 1812 and shows that Bellingham had been executed just three days after his trial and only seven days since he committed the crime.
HO 77 Judgements 1812 - John Bellingham executed
A third return, from our search on TheGenealogist, links to an image of a printed entry in the Newgate Calendar, also in HO 77. This reveals a number of prisoners that had been executed in that month, but Bellingham has the distinction of being given an extra punishment post-mortem. The records divulge that he was 'hanged by the neck until he be dead, and his body delivered over to the Surgeons to be dissected and anatomized, pursuant to the statute etc.'
Sentences for 1812 in HO 77 records on TheGenealogist
In conjunction with those Criminal and Court records that were already available on TheGenealogist, this is a fascinating set of records to look for miscreant ancestors and discover more about what happened to those that came up against the law in times past, whether they were a victim, convicted of a crime or found not guilty.
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Power Ranking Every Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake Ice Cream Flavor
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Cheesecake isn't for everyone. The decadent mixture of cream cheese (or sometimes ricotta, shout out to Italian cheesecake) crumbly graham cracker crust, butter, eggs, and loads of sugar is more than a bit rich. In fact, it's a weird dessert overall. It takes two disparate things people love, mashes them together, and ends up being neither cheese nor cake in its final form. Our point is, cheesecake, unlike say, ice cream, is a divisive dessert. So when we learned that Cheesecake Factory had a seven flavor line of cheesecake-flavored ice creams, we knew we had to rank them.
The Cheesecake Factory line — available nationwide — features an ultra-rich blend of cream cheese, sour cream, and ice cream in seven flavors which include Birthday Cake, Chocolate, Cookies & Cream, Key Lime, Original, Salted Caramel, and Strawberry. It is not, for the record, regular ice cream that happens to be made by the Cheesecake Factory. This is cheesecake Cheesecake Factory ice cream, which is important to remember because if you dive into the chocolate thinking there isn't going to be a tart aftertaste, you're in for a rude awakening.
To rank these, we'll be using a five cheesecake rating system. Try them yourself and argue with us in the comments. It is summer after all, and nothing melts away quarantine boredom quite like eating then arguing over something sweet.
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Oh boy, we're in for a rough start here folks. This is… well, it's not good. Key Lime Pie and cheesecake speak to the same type of sweet tooth, they both utilize egg, are both tart, and both sit atop a graham cracker crust — so this flavor seems like a winner.
Where a slice of Key Lime pie is bursting with a refreshing and tart flavor, the Cheesecake Factory Lime cheesecake ice cream is just off-puttingly sour. Graham cracker swirls try their best to add some much-needed texture and a counter flavor to tamp down some of the sourness, but ultimately the mixture of sour cream, cheesecake ice cream blend, and key lime will convince you that your carton has expired.
Seriously, skip this one.
Eat a real slice of cheesecake instead, even if you hate cheesecake.
When we tried the Salted Caramel entry, a concern rose to the fore: was every flavor of this ice cream going to be bad? We're not trying to be negative here, but between Cheesecake Factory Key Lime and Salted Caramel ice creams, it was starting to feel like whoever conceived of this ice cream pitched the line of flavors by saying "let's ruin perfectly delicious ice cream flavors by adding cheesecake into the mix."
This flavor is all out of whack. The sea salt clashes with the sour cream and cheesecake blend, creating an overwhelmingly sharp and salty aftertaste that lingers on the palate well past its welcome. Good luck trying to cleanse your palate after a spoonful of this stuff. While the caramel flavor is overpowered by the salted cream cheese, it still manages to create a sticky mess that clings too easily to the walls of your mouth and never really mixes into the ice cream base.
1 cheesecake out of 5. Salted Caramel is one of the greatest ice cream flavors of all time, but the near-perfect blend of flavors can't hold up when you mess with the formula.
We've finally woken up from the nightmare. Cheesecake Factory Cookies and Cream ice cream isn't the best flavor of the bunch, but its a marked improvement over the flavors that precede it. The tartness of the cheesecake blend pairs nicely with creamy chocolate and vanilla ice cream, and the chocolate cookie swirls add an extra dose of rich chocolate and texture. The only thing that let us down about this flavor was the lack of large cookie chunks in the ice cream, bigger pieces of the oreo-like cookie would've really kicked this flavor up a notch and brought it more in line with the Cheesecake Factory's own signature Oreo Cheesecake.
We had high hopes for this one, and while we don't want to call it a disappointment, it failed to truly wow us.
2 out of 5 cheesecakes. A league above the Key Lime and Salted Caramel flavors, but nothing remarkable.
One spoonful of Cheesecake Factory's Original Cheesecake ice cream will help you to realize why the franchise decided to shoot their shot by launching seven different flavors. This stuff is good and if the idea of cheesecake ice cream sounds insane to you, this flavor will make you believe it's as legitimate an ice cream option as rocky road or pistachio.
A nicely balanced blend of vanilla ice cream, graham cracker swirls, cream cheese, and sour cream, Cheesecake Factory's Original flavor not only belongs in your fridge, but we can easily see it being one of your top 10 ice cream flavors, even if you aren't crazy about cheesecake.
3 out of 5 cheesecakes. A great place to start if you're wondering if cheesecake ice cream is for you.
Okay, this is way better than it deserves to be and we're ashamed to admit it. We don't want to offend you if you ride hard for Birthday Cake flavored ice cream, but that's a flavor for babies, fam. It's like preferring funfetti over devil's food chocolate cake. So we fully expected this flavor to be absolute trash.
But. It's. So. Damn Good.
Seriously, we know that the idea of candy sprinkles, swirls of icing, and sour cream sounds disgusting — even typing it out makes us cringe — but this absolutely delicious. In a strange way, the Birthday Cake flavor tastes less like a Birthday Cake and more like the heavy cream and condensed milk Mexican sponge cake, Tres Leches.
The slightly tart and sour flavor is mostly masked in the insane sweetness of the Birthday Cake flavored ice cream, but supplies a pleasing aftertaste that'll draw you in for another spoonful.
4 out of 5 cheesecakes. The only reason to not have a pint of this in your freezer is that it's embarrassing.
Cheesecake Factory's Chocolate cheesecake ice cream is the only flavor in the entire line that could pass as regular ice cream. Rich chocolate fudge swirls work their way throughout this ultra-dense chocolate ice cream — which features a slightly subtle cream cheese after taste, delivering a nearly imperceptible burst of tartness.
We expected this to be one of the more boring flavors in the line, but it managed to be the pint we finished first, thanks to the bitter dark chocolate overtones.
4 out of 5 cheesecakes. It's not our favorite flavor Cheesecake Factory makes, but it's a less embarrassing number two than the Birthday Cake!
Trust us, we were shocked to find strawberry in the top spot as well. While I'm by no means a hater of strawberry ice cream, I fully acknowledge that it's the worst component of Neopolitan. Strawberry rarely tops lists — it's a mid-tier flavor in the realm of desserts, it's nobody's favorite milkshake flavor, easily the worst variation of flavored milk, and the most visually unappealing variation on the Kit-Kat of all time.
But paired with cheesecake ice cream? It works beautifully.
Bits of frozen strawberry and graham cracker swirls pair perfectly with the tart undertones of the cheesecake blend, resulting in a dense, creamy, and rich experience that comes in waves, as layers of complexity reveal themselves only to quickly break down as they melt in your mouth — causing you to reach for spoonful after spoonful.
Be careful with this one!
5 out of 5 cheesecakes. You need a pint of this in your freezer today. Our suggestion is to buy some fresh strawberries and add some crushed graham crackers to a few scoops to really take this to the next level. The extra graham dust will add some texture, and the fresh strawberries will make a few scoops all the more refreshing.
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WATCH: C.J. Onyechi of West Orange signs to play football at Rutgers on National Signing Day
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Published: Feb. 01, 2017, 12:20 p.m.
West Orange's CJ Onyechi talks Rutgers on National Signing Day
WEST ORANGE - C.J. Onyechi and his family are about to get well acquainted with the 36-mile drive between West Orange and Piscataway.
On Wednesday morning, the senior linebacker made his Rutgers commitment official by putting pen to paper on his National Letter of Intent to play for the Scarlet Knights.
"Their coaching staff over there really reminds me of my high school coaching staff...they really care about their players and have a drive for football, which is what I love," Onyechi said.
The signing locks in the verbal commitment that Onyechi made back in June, when he became Rutgers' 13th addition to the 2017 recruiting class. He turned down offers from a handful of other schools - including Navy, Air Force, Temple and Buffalo - to stay home.
"We're creating a really nice class this year and I really appreciate the coaching staff for how much they've reached out to me," Onyechi said. "And I just can't wait for what the future holds and to get ready to play over there."
The three-star recruit - who is listed at 6-foot-2, 220 pounds - followed his decision by recording 156 tackles and 15 sacks during West Orange's 6-4 2016 campaign. He also forced three fumbles and recovered two.
Most impressive is the fact that those numbers came in just his third year of football; as the son of Nigerian immigrants, Onyechi grew up around soccer before picking up football in high school.
"They're excited because they look at a kid that's just raw, untapped," West Orange head coach James Matsakis said. "They can put him at linebacker, if he grows, defensive end, really anywhere. We played him at quarterback, receiver, offensive tackle, linebacker, running back, safety - so even this year we played him at a lot of different levels and they like that idea of him."
That versatility combined with those numbers earned Onyechi a Second Team All-State spot. He also moved up six spots in NJ.com's latest recruiting rankings and checks in at No. 33 in the Top 50.
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Malignant Catarrhal Fever of Cattle Is Associated with Low Abundance of IL-2 Transcript and a Predominantly Latent Profile of Ovine Herpesvirus 2 Gene Expression
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Meier-Trummer, Claudia S.
Rehrauer, Hubert
Franchini, Marco
Patrignani, Andrea
Wagner, Ulrich
Ackermann, Mathias
Background Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) is a lethal disease of cattle, characterized by vasculitis, necrosis, and accumulation of activated, dysregulated cytotoxic lymphocytes in various tissues. Ovine gamma herpesvirus 2 (OvHV-2) is a causative agent of MCF, which may trigger the disease through immunopathogenic pathways. Lymphocytes are the main target of the virus. However, the pathogenic basis of the disease is still mysterious. Methods/Findings We hypothesized that the gene expression patterns of OvHV-2 and the relative abundances of host cell transcripts in lymphnodes may be used to identify pathways that help to explain the pathogenesis of MCF. Therefore, viral and host cell gene expression patterns in lymph nodes of animals with MCF and healthy controls were analyzed by microarray. Two regions on the viral genome were transcriptionally active, one encoding an orthologue to the latency-associated nuclear antigen (ORF73) of other gamma herpesviruses, the other with no predicted open reading frame. A vast number of transcripts related to inflammatory processes, lymphocyte activation, cell proliferation and apoptosis were detected at different abundances. However, the IL-2 transcript was eminent among the transcripts, which were, compared to healthy controls, less abundant in animals with MCF. The ratio between CD4- and CD8-positive T-lymphocytes was decreased in the lymphnodes of animals with MCF compared to healthy controls. In contrast, the same ratio was stable, when peripheral blood lymphocytes were analyzed. Conclusions/Significance The phenotype of mice with a deficient IL-2-system almost perfectly matches the clinical signs observed in cattle with MCF, which feature a significantly decreased IL-2 transcript abundance, compared to healthy cattle. This supports the hypothesis that immunopathogenic events are linked to the pathogenesis of MCF. IL-2-deficiency may play an important role in the process. Therefore, this work opens new avenues for research on MCF Show more
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Krokus singer Marc Storace says that he has no regrets about turning down a chance to audition for AC/DC more than four decades ago.
The 70-year-old Maltese-born vocalist — whose band had opened for AC/DC in the past — passed on the opportunity to try out to replace the late Bon Scott in 1980.
When asked in a new interview with Barbara Caserta of Italy's Linea Rock if he ever wonders what could have been had he gotten the AC/DC job, Storace responded (as transcribed by blabbermouth.net), "That's a hypothetical question. It's all open to fantasy and dreams, but reality can take a different direction. And at that moment, I thought, 'Well, I'm sitting on my high horse, enjoying success with Krokus.' My debut album [with the band], Metal Rendez-Vous, went like a rocket. We did Hardware and we had, actually, a brand new light show, which arrived from Birmingham. And the CEO of that company in Birmingham — the whole hard rock scene, the center was Birmingham; Led Zeppelin and everyone else, and AC/DC, they were all doing their production stuff there. And the guy took me to the side, the CEO, because he drove down to show us this new light show computer, which we'd never seen one like that [before]. And then he took me on the side and he said, 'Would you like to audition for AC/DC?' And I said, 'Steve, I'm so happy here. Things are happening, and we're gonna go places. And these are my new mates.' I had a kind of loyalty. I was really thankful that I joined Krokus because it suddenly happened. And I had been trying in many different ways. And even with [Swiss progressive rockers] Tea, though we had enjoyed an amount of success, it was nothing like what we achieved later on with Krokus. So, looking back at this little guy in Malta, where there's no record companies, no big rock and roll life and no tours the way I dreamed of and everything, and looking at Switzerland, where actually it's more known for the banks and the chocolates and the watches than hard rock bands, and seeing how far that Krokus got to, I think we should be thankful. And that's the way I feel; I feel thankful for what I've achieved with these guys."
He continued, "The thing about AC/DC is it's not realistic to think that way, when you think why I decided that way. And I wouldn't change a minute. I'm happy. I have a loving wife. I have two beautiful children. They're intelligent. They're doing their own thing. I have my own house. I'm an ambassador for [the French car company] Peugeot. It's great to be alive. And that's why I'm doing my solo album. And I don't wanna stop."
Storace's first-ever solo album, Live And Let Live, was made available in Switzerland in December and was released in North America earlier this month.
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Doug R. on March 1, 2022 at 1:49 pm
Nothing against Marc, but I can't even imagine anyone else taking over for Bon other than Brian. All's well that ends well.
Rattlehead on March 1, 2022 at 2:52 pm
One can't live with regret. Storace made his decision based on knowledge and beliefs he had at the time, just like John Bush made his decision to remain with Armored Saint rather than join Metallica.
Dana on March 1, 2022 at 3:24 pm
Rattle,
I had no idea Bush had a chance to front Metallica? Interesting. I like Bush's voice, but my ear is so attune to hearing Hetfield's, I am not sure I would be able to adjust. Vocalists, unless they are putrid, is the hardest position to replace, as the audience tends to connect with the singer's voice, the most.
Hi Dana, John Bush did indeed get the offer to join Metallica in the early 80's cuz Hetfield was not 100% comfortable as a vocalist. I think John Bush is a great singer, but I think Hetfield's voice is more suited for thrash (when Metallica used to be a thrash band).
Both Armored Saint and Metallica were born in Los Angeles and knew each other well, and that's how Metallica knew of John Bush. Metallica were always big fans of Armored Saint. When Metallica's Cliff Burton was tragically killed in the bus crash, Metallica tried to recruit Armored Saint bassist Joey Vera to replace him. But like John Bush, Joey Vera opted to stay with his lifelong friends in Armored Saint.
I saw Armored Saint open for Metallica in a 400 capacity club in San Diego on the Ride the Lighting tour. IMO, Armored Saint blew Metallica away. I was standing right in front of the stage with the crowd, packed like a sardine and sweating profusely, singing the songs with John Bush. On occasion, Bush would put the microphone in front of me so I could sing the lyrics…..very cool and memorable for me.
Wow, again you schooled me, I thought Metallica was born in the Bay area? Interesting that they never asked Mustaine to "sing." 😉
Also, I agree Bush has a very good voice.
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Well, gang, I've come to the end of what was a near perfect day. I make an attempt to never speak in superlatives, strange foible of mine, but oh well. Anyhow, I spent the majority of my day having new adventures (as Sarah would put it) with many new friends, most of whom I've encountered through starting my blog. Brunch commenced at Joe Allen's, in what I would like to term our own version of the Algonquin Round Table (the password to join is "Marian. Marian Seldes." But remember kids, it's not what you say, it's how you say it…). There I met Esther, Steve, Doug, Joe and Eric; all intense theatrephiles who reside out of town, and all of whom I admired and enjoyed instantly. Of course the days adventures would be incomplete without Kari, Sarah and Jimmy. While others traipsed off to matinees of some sort or other, I went hung out with Sarah for the afternoon, which of course involved Angela Lansbury and Prettybelle. Then in another first, I actually rode the city bus.
Some of us attended that evening's performance of Encores! No, No Nanette which is probably the strongest production I've seen at the City Center. I had but one qualm with the entire effervescent evening: that it was over. The plot is shaky thin, but that's what one expects from the pre-Show Boat musical comedies. The music (Vincent Youmans, with lyrics from Otto Harbach & Irving Caesar) is infectious, the choreography (Randy Skinner), direction (Walter Bobbie) and costumes (Gregg Barnes) were top notch.
Usually, the Encores! crowd presents the original version of the show at hand, but in an unusual turn of events, there are two available editions of this musical: the 1925 original and the even more successful 1971 revisal (by Burt Shevelove) that played two years (and featured Ruby Keeler in a triumphant return to Broadway after 41 years). For this production, the powers that be decided on the '71 version of the show, and I have to confess I'm glad they did.
In reviving the show in 1971, the country was into what is being referred to as its nostalgia craze. They were reissuing the Busby Berkeley musicals, other musicals about the 1920s and 30s were being written. Plus given the context of the virulent 60s, it made sense that entertainment leaned toward the more innocent escapism of these earlier years. Berkeley was even initially hired to direct, but wasn't well enough to handle the task (Shevelove took over direction, Berkeley retained credit as "Production supervised by"). Donald Saddler provided the choreography. Ralphs Burns charted the orchestrations (the twin pianos provided chills, I kid you not) and Luther Henderson created the dance music.
In this evening's performance, everything was spot on. It was a celebration of the 20s, without becoming overly campy and most refreshingly without the di rigeur self-referential satiric edges that have become so commonplace in the musical comedies of the present decade. What also was so refreshing was the audience's complete surrender to the show. Sandy Duncan is 62 years old, which incidentally is the same age as Ruby Keeler when she did it, and from the way she carried her two big showstopping dance numbers, you'd think she was a youthful chorine. We need her back on Broadway, and how. A dancer's longevity is rare; exceptions like Donna McKechnie and Chita Rivera come to mind instantaneously. I would place Duncan up in that area. Perhaps, since her signature musical role comes second hand, she might not be considered as such. But, my God, she delivers, high-kicking, fan-tailing and limber with endless energy and effortlessness. It felt like the auditorium was going to come tumbling down around us as she led the sure-fire "Take a Little One Step" that precedes the finale. Kudos to Beth Leavel, who knows how to bring the hilarious, can move like the breeze and can sock it to the rafters. ("The Where-Has-My-Hubby-Gone Blues" was a definitive showstopper. So was her next line). Did anyone else notice the subtle wink she gave the audience when the ovation continued to roar? Michael Berresse is a good dancer. Alright, you got me, an understatement of the grossest sort! He made Skinner's moves look effortless – he's certainly a throwback to the Gene Kelly mode, no? The ever-reliable and affable Charles Kimbrough was the philandering Bible-salesman who's habit of keeping secret women (all of whom he gives money to keep happy, but it's seriously strictly platonic) leads to most of the conflicts. Mara Davi, a soubrette who deserves her own vehicle, was even better than I had anticipated. Shonn Wiley (who, incidentally, I also saw at the Westchester Broadway Theatre in Crazy For You in 2000 opposite his now-wife Meredith Patterson) had the thankless role of Tom, her beloved, relishing in the role of the square-cut, straight-laced type. Oh yes, and the maid. There's always the wise-cracking maid. Here it was played the lover extraordinaire of all things Broadway, Rosie O'Donnell, providing laughs with her world-weariness, a showdown with a vacuum cleaner and even a brief tap solo towards the end of the show. I am thrilled to have seen the show, mostly because of its place as an early 20s hit. A show that most would scoff at under normal circumstances, but is the epitome of the type of musical theatre that should be celebrated by Encores!.
The show is strong enough that it could seriously transfer to Broadway. The polish and caliber for a mere 8 days of rehearsal is beyond the call of duty in concert situations like this. I didn't even catch anyone really glancing at their concert prompt-binders either. I'm not sure if anyone would be interested in a transfer, but believe me, I wouldn't mind seeing it again. And I'm sure most of those who saw it this weekend feel the same way. Post-show was spent at what is the post-City Center hangout, Seppi's on 56th for some food and my usual white Russian. Not to mention "I Want to Be Happy" stuck in our heads. It should be criminal to have had as much fun as I did today. I look forward to the next time people come back into town.
The final line from Sandy Duncan's bio: "And, contrary to urban myth, she does not have a glass eye."
And now you know the rest of the story…
Posted on May 11, 2008 October 29, 2010 Author Chris Van PattenCategories UncategorizedTags Beth Leavel, Charles Kimbrough, Gregg Barnes, Mara Davi, Michael Berresse, No No Nanette, Randy Skinner, Rosie O'Donnell, Shonn Wiley, Walter Bobbie


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"Intimate Science" Presents an Intersection of Art, Science and Technology
March 17, 2014 by Scott Bluedorn Mixed Medium, NEW YORK CITY, Out & About, Social, Political & Environmental
Taking a much needed break from the madness of Armory Week unfolding several blocks north, I made a visit to a very interesting show at Parsons-New School for Design and received a breath of fresh and sensory stimulating air.
"Intimate Science", curated by Parrish Art Museum associate curator Andrea Grover and organized by the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, purports to highlight "The most recent manifestation of artists working at the intersection of art, science, and technology (demonstrating) a distinctly autodidactic, heuristic approach to understanding the physical and natural world," according to the exhibition information.
And it does not disappoint.
Some of the work in this exhibition is seemingly taken straight from the laboratory and presented to the viewer in a very different way than your average museum presentation. Test tubes, monitors and strange machines under glass vitrines give the show a very unorthodox, sci-fi feel, much to the benefit of the theme.
I witnessed the "bio-printing" experiments of Allison Kudla's Growth Pattern, in which a living natural system takes on the form of a manufactured pattern through suspension in nutrient filled Petri dishes, to very interesting visual effect. Like some science experiments, failure is always a possibility, and unfortunately one of the displays was 'out-of-order' at my time of viewing. Life is unpredictable.
Keeping with the science-fiction feel, a peculiar and almost menacing-looking machine built by Markus Kayser appears in a video projection demonstrating a remarkable feat of science meets creative input. The 'Solar Sinter' is essentially a large modified 3-D printer that melts silicon-based sand using solely the highly concentrated rays of the sun gathered through a massive lens.
The artist appears in the video clip using the machine in the Sahara desert, shoveling sand onto the "printing" surface which is then melted precisely layer-by-layer to progressively build a bowl-shaped glass object. The work/demonstration explores the utilization of raw natural resources combined with high-tech production technology to realize a new potential manufacturing method.
The most interesting component of the show for me was Phil Ross's "mycotecture" samples. Using Japanese Reishi fungus, Ross explores architectural and sculptural forms and applications to inspiring and wholly cutting edge proportions. The material quality of this fungus is such that when grown in a pre-made mold, the fungus takes on its shape and becomes incredibly hard and dense.
The possibilities seem endless, and Ross takes the opportunity to show several brick forms he calls 'polyominoes', that appear much like interlocking puzzle pieces. His long-term goal is to build a whole building with this fungus, and he has already succeeded in building chairs and other objects.
A 'Mycotectural' brick by Phil Ross. Photo by Scott Bluedorn.
An installation of 'mycotectural' bricks by Phil Ross at Parsons The New School. Photo by Scott Bluedorn.
"Intimate Science" is not limited to physical specimens or even theoretical examples: Grover's curatorial hallmark is the inclusion of audience engagement and participation, and thus she invited long-time collaborator Machine Project of Los Angeles to create a program in which participants will build a primitive lie detector in the form of a galvanic skin response meter, and then be led by the duo Krystal Krunch in developing their psychic abilities.
"Mind Reading for the Left and Right Brain Workshop with Machine Project" will take place on Saturday, April 5th at Parsons. An RSVP can be made at by clicking here. Tickets are $27.
"Intimate Science" is fascinating and thoroughly engaging exhibition that challenges the norms of not only traditional art media but art exhibition. The concepts presented by this new interface of art and science serve to highlight a growing cross-disciplinary integration in contemporary art practice, and how we perceive its function beyond classic aesthetics. I enjoyed taking the trip to the lab!
BASIC FACTS: "Intimate Science" opened Feb. 5 and runs through April 15 at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at Sheila C. Johnson Design Center of Parsons-New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, Ground floor, New York, NY. Free and open to the public. www.newschool.edu.
The exhibition presents works by BCL (Tokyo), Center for Post Natural History (Pittsburgh), Markus Kayser (London), Allison Kudla (Seattle), Machine Project (Los Angeles), and Phil Ross (San Francisco).
"Mind Reading for the Left and Right Brain Workshop with Machine Project" will take place on Saturday, April 5th at Parsons's Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (Rooms L300 and L301). An RSVP can be made at by clicking here. Tickets are $27.
On Tuesday, April 8, exhibiting artist Phil Ross presents his ongoing research into growing structures out of living fungi in Mycotecture: architecture grown out of mushrooms. The talk will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the gallery. Free and open to the public. To RSVP, click here.
RELATED: For a review of Phil Ross by Andrea Grover, read "The Future is Fungal" at www.Gentleridevan.com, the website of Andrea Grover.
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Depression, also known as clinical depression or mental depression, was a mood disorder that caused a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. It often followed a traumatic event, such as the death of someone close. Depression could also be caused by biochemical imbalances.


Heat networks have proved to be a reliable and cost-effective means to supply low-carbon thermal energy. And yet, just 2 % of buildings in the UK are connected to them.
The 2nd expert meeting of our IEA SHC Task 62 took place from 2nd to 3rd of April in Almería, Spain. Almost 30 experts from all over Europe jonit the meeting that took place at CIEMTA PSA.
Spanish-based supplier Endef is seeing increased demand for both its covered and uncovered PV-thermal systems produced in-house in Saragossa. Last year was the first in which the business installed devices at non-commercial buildings in Spain and implemented projects abroad.
How well will evacuated tube collectors made in China hold up after prolonged exposure to sunlight? The answer to this question can be found in a new report, titled Development of Accelerated Ageing Tests for Evacuated Tube Collectors. Created by the China Academy of Building Research (CABR) as part of the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme's Task 57, it was published in November 2018 and summarises the findings from exposing evacuated tube collectors (ETCs) to sunlight for between 88 and 241 days, with the aim of developing accelerated ageing methods.
The paper is published in Science Direct: Herrando M, Ramos A, Zabalza I, Markides CN. A comprehensive assessment of alternative absorber-exchanger designs for hybrid PVT-water collectors. Appl Energy 2019;235:1583–1602. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.11.024 The paper deals with the design and optimisation of a PVT collector, and addreses: A 3-D FEM and CFD model to simulate a hybrid PV-Thermal collector (PVT) is developed. Several flat-box designs and materials for the absorber-exchanger are studied. Flow-channel size or material seem not critical within the range of investigation. Polymeric flat-box designs are expected to suffer lower strains than sheet and tube units. Weight and investment cost reductions are achieved with polymeric PVT designs.
Around 40 attendees from Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe benefitted from a three-day training course on Solar Cooling and Air Conditioning at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, late last November.
That a wider use of quality standards in the solar thermal sector would be increased internationalisation and cost saving for manufacturers was the conclusion of those listening to a webinar on Solar Standards and Certification on 12 December.
The 3rd International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings (EEHB 2018), which took place in Sweden in September, proved to be the perfect location to show the work of IEA SHC Task, Renovating Historic Buildings Towards Zero Energy. Task Coordinator Alexandra Troi, of Italian-based Eurac Research, presented the group's current research activities in a keynote speech at the final plenary session.
A new project in Cape Town featuring a PVT solution !
IEA SHC Task 49: What simulation tools to use for SHIP?
As use of solar heat in manufacturing is still at an early stage, planners and engineers require tools to model and compare differently sized systems and ideas for process integration.
On November 13-15, the 84th ExCo Meeting was held at LNEG in Lisbon, Portugal. Christoph Brunner, Operating Agent of Task 62, presented the ongoing activities within the Task.
On 29 and 30 October, the Solar Academy of the IEA SHC Programme held a 1.5-day training course on solar district heating in Lianyungang, at Sunrain Solar Energy's headquarters.
Local production of PVT panels and systems which achieve high solar fractions by using seasonal storage: This is the main objective of Spanish start-up company Abora, based in Saragossa. It has already installed several hot water PVT systems at multi-family houses, sports centres and nursing homes and a combined heating and cooling unit at a hotel in Gerona in the northeast of Spain.
Homes, hospitals, hotels, industrial facilities and greenhouses (see photo): These are some of the many uses for turnkey PV systems produced by Millennium Solar, an Israeli business which was set up in 1999 and specialises in PV-Thermal (PVT) technologies.
The latest generation of solar air conditioning systems comes in a vast variety of configurations. As shown in the diagram above, their source of energy is either solar heat or electricity. Some include storage tanks and can provide hot water or space heating in addition to space cooling.
Compared to water, phase change materials (PCMs) offer more capacity to store heat in tanks. As a consequence, researchers in all corners of the world have been developing new materials and their properties.
Check here for a list of upcoming Task Meetings & Other events yet to be scheduled.
Microporous hydrophilic substances such as zeolites are recognised as promising materials for very efficient energy storage. Solar thermal systems are used to dry the material and store all of the thermal energy inside without losses until water is returned into the structure to release sensible heat.
On October 3, 2018, participants from IEA SHC Task 53 held a workshop called the Solar Cooling Austrian Workshop in Graz, Austria in conjuction with the International Sustainable Energy Conference.
Case study reporting by research platform Solar Energy in Urban Planning has recently concluded with the publication of an interactive map showing 34 case studies altogether. They demonstrate that solar energy can be integrated successfully into new and existing urban areas.
A state-of-the-art solar thermal system has been installed under the slate roof of a castle in Ghent, Belgium. Roll-bonded Thermoslate absorbers measuring 44 m2 have been integrated into the space between the wooden trusses and natural slate tiles of the historic structure built in the 12th century and cannot be seen by visitors.
Maintaining the exterior of a historic building while raising energy efficiency is not necessarily a contradiction. The new EN 16883:2017 standard, Conservation of cultural heritage, provides guidance on how to improve the energy performance of historically significant structures.
We're looking forward to our final experts meeting from 19-20 Sep 2018 in Oslo, Norway. More info will be provided on our events section soon.
Task 55 of the IEA SHC Programme is currently studying the benefits of systems equipped with both flat plate and parabolic trough collectors to supply thermal energy to district heating networks. Preliminary results from a project in Taars, Denmark, have been encouraging, indicating how their combined strength can be an asset across a wide range of solar district heating applications.
Most small European towns connected to a district heating network have enough land available for a solar field to meet 20 % of heat demand. In all, 93 % of the identified solar heat potential can be produced at a price of less than 50 EUR/MWh. These are the key findings from a study by PlanEnergi, a Danish consultancy. Its authors analysed maps showing 2,480 district heating networks in 22 countries that have no means of using waste heat for the task.
A rising number of manufacturers and suppliers in Europe are offering combined photovoltaic and solar thermal systems, also known as PVT units. This was one of the main messages of the International Workshop on the Status of PVT Systems, organised by Fraunhofer ISE on 16 May 2018 in Freiburg.
The 4th Task 55 Expert Meeting, the SHD DHC Joined Workshop and lates project results are highlihted within the latest Task 55 Trends Statement.
Questions asked by the participants, answered by Task 54 experts.
Active and passive solar systems integrated into building envelopes are key to combatting climate change. However, there are many barriers which confine current solutions to the demonstration stage and prevent them from going mainstream.
When it comes to district heating, Sweden has made the switch from fossil fuels to biomass and waste heat (see chart). As early as 2015, biomass provided 46 % of the energy in district heating networks across the country, followed by 24 % from waste incineration and 8 % from industrial excess heat.
More than one-fourth of all residential buildings in Europe date from before 1945. Over the past decade, preservationists have taken to the idea of renovating historic structures in an energy-efficient manner.
The key takeaway from an IEA SHC Solar Academy webinar held on 14 March 2018: There is still much room for cost cuts along the entire solar thermal value chain.
One day after the final Task meeting the Solar Cooling Workshop hosted by ILK Dresden will present some major results of Task 53 to the public.
The seminar on the current status of PVT collectors and systems, took place in Freiburg on May 16th prior to the first experts´ meeting of IEA SHC Task 60. A summary and a link can be found in this article.
A contract to set up a solar district heating network in Langkazi county in Tibet has been awarded to Arcon-Sunmark Large-Scale Solar Systems.
Solar cooling could be an effective way to increase the annual solar fraction of domestic hot water production and prevent the solar system from overheating in summer.
The IEA Solar Heating & Cooling Programme has approved Task 61, a new research initiative concentrating on integrated daylight and electric lighting solutions. The task will tackle unresolved issues and challenges of a growing market which meets 19 % of the total electricity demand around the world.
Despite Australia's high levels of solar irradiation and rising energy costs, its solar heating and cooling market has been in decline each year since 2010.
What would the economic impact on a future energy system be if one were to unlock the full solar thermal potential in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Italy?
To enter new markets, solar thermal collector manufacturers need to have their products tested and certified as meeting local standards. Thanks to GSCN, the Global Solar Certification Network, they can complete several certification processes with only one test cycle. "A collector manufacturer can save a lot of time and money because its collector test report from one region will be accepted to receive a certificate in another region," GSCN Manager Jan Erik Nielsen from Denmark said in an interview with solarthermalworld.org.
The IEA's Solar Heating and Cooling Programme will create its own international research platform on PVT systems in January 2018. Researchers and industry representatives from 13 countries so far will then start evaluating new PVT systems for HVAC solutions.
The objective of IEA SHC Task 54 is to reduce the purchase price of solar thermal systems by up to 40 % across the entire value chain. To achieve this, the project partners have been evaluating technical and non-technical cost-saving potential, with low-cost materials, such as polymers, and production technologies bound to play an important role. At an early October workshop in Linz, Austria, about 50 project partners and guests discussed cost reductions made possible by new distribution channels, digital solutions and systems thinking approaches.
Check out the Info Sheets developed by participants in Task 54.
Facades of residential and tertiary buildings offer enough space for daylight control and HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) systems. Active envelope solutions include facade-integrated solar thermal collectors, PV panels, daylight control systems or panels containing ventilation units with heat recovery and/or a heat pump with all necessary connectors.
Article by B. Epp on SolarThermalWorld.org.
What role solar thermal will play in the energy sector in 2050 is one of the principal questions that the international Task 52 research project Solar Heat and Energy Economics in Urban Environments intends to answer.
Scientists from IEA SHC Task 53, New Generation Solar Cooling & Heating Systems, have compared the cost, efficiency and adaptability of solar cooling storage solutions and are now creating a report about the technologies most suitable for a given application.
Cities and large municipalities all around the world have taken the lead in sustainability, and urban planners find themselves in the important position of having to devise solutions for integrating renewable and energy efficiency measures at local level.
French-based NewHeat is a rapidly growing start-up. About two years after it was founded in December 2015, management has raised almost EUR 1.8 million from private investors to finance the first solar heat delivery projects and strengthen its global sales force.
In 2015, Task 48 – Quality Assurance & Support Measures for Solar Cooling – came to an end. One of the activities of this IEA Solar Heating & Cooling Programme task was the creation of PISTACHE, a tool for professionals who need to pre-size solar cooling, heating and domestic hot water installations and assess their estimated performance. As part of the Habisol programme, the development of the tool by French organisations Tecsol and INES during the MeGaPICS project received additional funding from the French National Research Agency.
Thermochemical materials (TCMs) used in storage tanks show higher heat capacities than water and smaller losses over time. They are crucial to an increase in solar use among consumers and the storage of summer heat for the winter season. However, they are also more complex than their water-based counterparts, which require only heat exchangers.
IEA SHC Task 55: 3rd Meeting of the IEA-SHC Task 55 "Towards the Integration of Large SHC Systems into DHC Networks"
The 3rd SHC Task 55 Expert Meeting will be organized along the Solar World Congress 2017 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, which takes place from the 29th of October to the 2nd of November 2017.
In October 2017, Task 54 presents its first results during a public dissemination workshop and industry round table in Linz, Austria. Both events are linked to the next Task 54 experts meeting. More information in our events section.
Task 54 launched a questionnaire on the installation effort to make cost structures more transparent and to help us understand current obstacles for the efficient and time saving installation of solar thermal systems.
IEA SHC Task 54: Towards a Solar System Without Electronic Controllers: Conico Valves presents the first one-way valve for heat flow.
Conico Valves presents the first one-way valve for heat flow.
The first IEA SHC Task 54 workshop was held in the framework of the ESTTP workshop "Solar Thermal Energy for Europe" (24-25 May 2016) in Brussels, Belgium.
Solar district heating is attractive business. Not only does this become obvious when looking at the 347 MWth of newly installed SDH capacity in Denmark in 2016, but also when one hears about Big Solar, a 250 MWth collector field – with 1.8 million m2 of seasonal storage – planned to cover 20 % of the energy demand in the Austrian city of Graz by 2020.
Researchers have worked intensively for one-and-a-half years across national borders to find ways of reducing the costs of solar thermal systems and making them more attractive to end users. The members of Task 54 of the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme, Price Reduction of Solar Thermal Systems, have discussed the effects of standardised product designs or changes in product offerings on cost structures.
The need for highly competitive designs meant that solar thermal had not had much of a chance within the SDE+ programme until the end of 2015. Most of the scheme budget used to be spent on biomass, geothermal and on-shore wind projects.
The joint SHC Task 40 / EBC Annex 52 project Towards Net Zero Energy Solar Buildings has been one of the largest of the Technology Collaboration Programmes IEA Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC) / Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC).
Task 55 is now on Twitter! Follow the latest Task 55 News HERE.
The biggest challenge for a small market like the solar cooling one – which has still a long way to go – is how to reduce system costs. One way to achieve this objective besides increasing market volume is standardisation.
The 7th Experts Meeting for IEA SHC Task 53 will be held April 19-20, 2017 in Messina, Italy.
National Dissemination Workshop on polymeric collectors on 31 January 2017 in Ingolstadt, Germany.
The integration of solar facade solutions into the HVAC and lighting system of a building can only be successful if it is coordinated with architects and building engineers. A good forum to get in touch with architecture professionals is the annual Advanced Building Skins Conference (ABS) in Switzerland.
The recent approval of Working Rules means that the Global Solar Certification Network (GSCN) can now accept membership applications. The reuse of test and inspection reports in different certification schemes will be possible at the beginning of 2017.
Read the article by B. Epp on SolarThermalWorld.org.
The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) has published a study on end customer prices for solar thermal systems in Switzerland.
19th - 21st of October 2016: International experts on large scale solar thermal systems, district heating, heat pumps, control strategies, or systems operations participated in the Task 55 Kick-Off Meeting in Graz.
IEA SHC Task 55: SHC Task 55 at the Green Expo Forum 2016 - Video is now available!
The Green Expo Forum 2016 in Doha, Qatar, is a platform for practitioners, experts, regulators and researchers, to discuss various topics on sustainability & climate change.
Whether investors put their money into large-scale concentrating solar heat and power systems, solar district heating plants or photovoltaic fields, they need to be able to rely on data sets to include the uncertainty and variability of input information.
LED technology has greatly changed the face of the lighting market: In just a few years, lighting systems have become twice as efficient and half as expensive.
The summer school called City in Transition (Stadt im Wandel) ended with a public presentation of the project designs from four student groups on Monday, 26 September, in Berlin, Germany.
District heating has a long history in Scandinavia: The international symposium on district heating was launched there in 1987. In the meantime, the technology has reached the global stage and the 15th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling was the first one supported by the IEA District Heating and Cooling programme (IEA DHC).
23 experts from 16 partner organisations joined the meeting in Darmstadt, on 13 and 14 September, followed by excursions to "ETA Factory - The energy efficient model factory of the future" and Merck Window Technologies in Darmstadt.
Questionnaire on installation of solar thermal systems now available in German, English and French.
Task 54 is now on Twitter. You can find us via @IEA_SHC_Task54. Tell us what you think about our goals and join the network.
Join the 3rd Task 54 Experts Meeting in Stuttgart, 6-7 October 2016.
Five presentations from Task 56 partners will be given in Session D1 "Façade Integrated HVAC components" at the 11th Conference on Advanced Building Skins, 10-11 October 2016 in Bern, Switzerland.
How much will the transformation of the German energy industry cost if it is to reach greenhouse gas emissions reductions of at least 80 % by 2050?
ISO 9806 is being revised with approval expected before end of 2016.
The main objective of IEA SHC Task 52, Solar Thermal in Energy Supply Systems in Urban Environments, is to call attention to both the technical and economic aspects of solar heating and cooling usage in densely populated urban areas. Urban planners and commercial clients want to know the costs compared to the energy output generated by various solar heating technologies.
Energy Service Companies (ESCO) have become pioneers in the development of financing and operating models for various energy sector customers. Every two years, the so-called Contracting Award highlights exemplary ESCO projects in Germany ("Contracting" is the German word for Energy Service Contracts).
The latest R&D developments in solar cooling presented during a workshop in Madrid, Spain, on 11 April sparked great interest among the attendees from the international air conditioning industry.
Almost 30 experts from 25 partner organisations met in Bolzano, Italy, on 21 and 22 March for the kick-off meeting of IEA SHC Task 56, Building Integrated Solar Envelope Systems for HVAC and Lighting.
During COP21 in Paris last December, 1,000 mayors and local leaders pledged themselves to a 100 % renewable future of their municipalities by 2050.
Summary of the meeting and interview with the Operating Agent at Solarthermalworld.org.
The 4th Meeting of the Global Solar Certification Network was held in Berlin in March 2016. The revised Working Rules for the Global Solar Certification Network were approved.
IEA SHC Task 57: First Task 57 Experts meeting held in Berlin March 2016.
The First Task 57 Experts Meeting was held on March 10-11, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.
IEA SHC Task 49: Solar Process Heat: "It all depends on the conventional heating equipment"
Dr Bastian Schmitt can look back at more than ten years of experience in the field of solar process heat. As part of his doctoral thesis, the mechanical engineer developed a classification system for the integration of solar thermal systems providing process heat on industrial premises.
Task Definition Meeting for the new IEA SHC and ECES joint Task/Annex Compact THermal Energy Storage will be held in Graz, Austria, on April 6-8, 2016.
One key aspect of the energy and cost optimisation of large-scale collector fields (called arrays in this news) is collector array hydraulics. Optimal connection is achieved when (1) the costs and length of the connecting pipes is small, (2) the pressure drop over the entire array is low and (3) there is homogeneous mass flow distribution across the entire field.
The best solar research results are of little use if they are not distributed and known to stakeholders from the industry, planning departments or public authorities involved in the related field work. This becomes an even more important point if the aim of the research is to "assist with the developing of a strong and sustainable market".
The best solar research results are of little use if they don't reach the intended users. To make this link easier, IEA SHC's project on Quality Assurance & Support Measures for Solar Cooling Systems created the diagram below to categorize the results from 3.5 years of work by 30 solar cooling experts.
Federal Minister for the Environment, Dr. Barbara Hendricks, honours Sunlumo at a ceremony on 23 November 2015 in Berlin.
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During IEA SHC Task 51, Solar Energy in Urban Planning, the project partners evaluated the legal, process and education issues of solar in urban planning across the twelve member countries.
October 13, 2015. Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP) is an important, upcoming market for solar thermal. To support the growth of this technology the IEA SHC Programme and IEA SolarPACES Programme, working with experts in this field, developed guidelines that describe in detail how to incorporate solar heat into industrial processes.
Industry participation is key for the research work of IEA's Solar Heating and Cooling Programme. Hence, the researchers of Task 49, Solar Heat Integration in Industrial Processes, used the last meeting in France in mid-September to hold a one-day workshop dedicated to Solar Heat Integration in Industrial Processes (SHIP) in cooperation with French start-up Energy Service Company Sunti.
In their position paper published in August 2015, the scientists of IEA SHC Task 42 (Compact Thermal Energy Storage) summed up the key results of their work between 2009 and 2015. Operating agent Matthias Rommel sees huge potential for latent heat and sorption materials in the long run – in seasonal solar heat storage for small and medium applications, as well as in the building sector.
The workshop New Generation Solar Cooling & Heating Systems held in Rome, Italy, on 23 September 2015 was the opportunity to check the status of both research on and market developments in solar cooling technology.
The combination of heat pumps and solar components is a recent development and has great potential for improving the energy efficiency of house and hot water heating systems. As a consequence, it can enhance the energy footprint of a building substantially. Order your copy of the new book: "Solar and Heat Pump Systems for Residential Buildings" recently published by Wiley publishers.
The most comprehensive online database of solar process heat projects is the website www.ship-plants.info. The database was set up within Task 49 Solar Process Heat for Production and Advanced Applications of the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme. It includes 155 solar process heat projects (as of May 2015) with a total solar thermal capacity of 101 MWth.
Buildings are responsible for 40% of global primary energy use and 24% of global greenhouse gas emissions. And for this reason, architects and builders are taking on the challenge – how to create highly energy-efficient buildings while remaining cost competitive.
The work of the Global Solar Certification Network (GSC-NW) is expected to continue within the framework of the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (SHC). The Executive Committee of the IEA SHC approved the set-up of a task definition workshop in Paris on 7 October 2015, in order to establish a new task under the title International Standards & Global Certification.
Solar thermal cooling is a "small, but steadily growing market," Dr Uli Jakob from the Green Chiller Association for Sorption Cooling pointed out in his presentation Solar Air-Conditioning in Europe during the Solar Cooling Week, which took place in Shanghai from 23 to 27 March.
It should come as no surprise that Denmark with its large and standardised systems has the lowest costs per installed m2 of collector area. Specific costs for Danish systems including short-term storages range from 204 to 263 EUR/m2.
Task 39 has posted 33 new Info Sheets dealing with polymeric materials for solar collectors and solar storage. Check them out.
The SHIP day is intended to industrial, production, energy and sustainability managers within the process industries (agro food, paper, chemistry, textile, leather, metal treatment, etc.), industry associations, production lines and machinery providers as well as energy consultants. This is also a great opportunity to network with the experts from the Task 49, solar technology providers as well as developers with investment capacity. All the competences and success keys for your projects.
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This is an exciting week -- Task 48 experts are holding their final Experts Meeting and Task 53 experts have an Experts Meeting. Immediately following these meetings is the Chinese Solar Cooling Conference (SCC 2015) on March 27th where Task experts will present their work and results to the Chinese.
The purpose of the seminar was to present the main outcomes of SHC task 47. Lectures from the four Task 47 subtasks were given and the presentations can be downloaded from the this page.
The online questionnaire, which was developed to analyze workflows and needs in practical retrofitting processes was closed end of June 2014 and its evaluation started.
The presentations from the Task 47 Seminar - Renovation of Non-Residential Buildings towards Sustainable Standards are now online.
In order to analyze workflows and needs in practical retrofitting processes, an online questionnaire was developed.
As a way to analyze the workflows and needs in practical retrofitting processes, a questionnaire has been created in a web-based survey system.
Standards Australia has published the world's first Solar Cooling standard. The standard "Solar heating and cooling systems – Calculation of energy consumption" provides a means of predicting the performance of desiccant based solar cooling systems and fan coil solar heating systems.
3 September 2013. Solar cooling experts of the IEA SHC project "Quality Assurance and Support Measures for Solar Cooling (Task 48)" share their experience at SolaRueck event.
IREC, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, based in Barcelona is currently seeking applicants to join the Thermal Energy and Building Performance Group.
You can now register for the Task 48 5th Experts Meeting to be held September 30-October 1, 2013 in Freiberg, Germany.
Presentations from the International Conference TOWARDS NET ZERO ENERGY BUILDINGS are now available on-line.
Task 44 has just published their report on Market-Available Solar Thermal Heat Pump Systems.
The CICenergigune, R&D institute in Spain, has several positions open for PhD, Post-Doc, and group leader in Thermal Energy Storage. Also, candidates for the position of Scientific Director TES are sought.
Task 47 held a seminar on April 5, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. The presentations for that semianr are now online.
The next Task 42/29 Experts Meeting will take place from 15 to 17 April 2013 in Freiburg, Germany.
IEA SHC Task 39: Task 39 Handbook is Available Now!