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Just Before Chaos
This is a compilation album from a group described as a French reggae outfit. I don't think I've heard French reggae before. I don't really hear reggae in everything here, but I do hear it in quite a bit. That's blended with some decidedly French things like café music and jazz (yes, I know jazz is American, but it really has been embraced by the French like few other countries have). Add in some hip hop, rock and space music and you'll be in the right neighborhood. This is quite a cool set. I like it a lot. Some lyrics are in French, while many are in English.
Chaos (From "Le petit bus rouge")
I know these guys are supposed to be reggae, but there is really a Latin vibe to this. Add some serious symphonic elements and this is an unusual and classy piece of music. I really love the guitar soloing on the piece.
Human Race (Dom Morley Radio Edit)
Now, this is more reggae. It feels a bit like Madness in some ways. It's bouncy and fun, but the vocals lend a more serious vibe to the piece. This is cool stuff. There are definitely traces of jazz in the mix.
J'ai fait un reve (Radio Edit)
Jazz, French music, rock and much more seem to merge on this cut. It's another where the guitar soloing is particularly noteworthy.
A mellower cut, I wouldn't quite consider this a ballad. It's very much set in an alternative rock turned classic sort of sound. There is a soulful texture here and this is tasty stuff. There is also almost a chamber prog element to this. It's quite an extended number.
Comme Louise et Thelma (Acoustic Radio Edit)
Percussion starts it out here and this is another piece that does have some recognizable reggae in the mix. Still, the usual contenders of jazz, soulful pop music and café sounds are all present, too. It's a shorter tune.
Pain of Life
Drums are the start of this one, too. It's also another cut that has more reggae built into it. As this works out, though, it seems to move into territory that's not far from modern progressive rock at times. Mind you, I'm not saying it's prog, but it has those leanings. This is energetic and classy.
No More Fighting
Now, this is reggae. It's got a lot in common with Bob Marley, but with a French element added to the mix. I like this a lot.
This is funky. It's also got plenty of reggae along with some retro jazz. It's one of my favorite tracks of the whole set and just oozes cool.
Drifter Song
Another funky one, I love the vibe to this. It's got lots of reggae, lots of jazz and some hip hop. There is even some space music later in the piece. It might be my favorite tune here.
There is a real mysterious sound to the music that starts things here. As the vocals enter they bring it into a hip hop reggae mix. I'm reminded a bit of Red Hot Chili Peppers on this cut. This is the hardest rocking thing here and I love the guitar sound.
L'amour Dietetique
The section that opens this, with breathing and mysterious music, is ominous and a little unsettling. It gives way, though, to a smooth groove that's soulful and jazzy. There are urban elements, but this is one of the most "French" sounding pieces here. Of course, the lyrics in French have a lot to do with that.
Derniere Cigarette
Another that's in French, this has a lot of progressive rock and jazz in the mix. It's a real screamer that's both quite different from the rest and a lot of fun.
Mellower, but dramatic, this is an intriguing cut. It's got a lot of prog rock in it, but still has a lot of the other elements we've heard throughout the disc. I like this one a lot, too.

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Calling All Gardeners: It's Time to Share Space with Our Fellow Earthlings!
Professor Doug Tallamy's vital message to the gardening and horticulture community: How we garden can help determine whether most of our native species will avoid extinction.
What looks like uncultivated wilderness may in fact be a thicket of autumn olive, Oriental bittersweet, or Japanese honeysuckle—all exotic invasives that do not sustain our native insects and birds. Unfortunately, the lovely garden we plant in its place, if we do not take care to include native plants, may also do nothing to sustain wildlife. L: Autumn olive. Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. R: A carefully planned perennial bed. Photo: University of Illinois Extension.
L: Doug Tallamy. Photo: University of Delaware. R: Doug's book, Bringing Nature Home. Photo: Amazon.
I just returned from giving my "Home Outside" lecture at the Middleburg Horticulture Symposium, hosted by the Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club on Saturday, February 26 in Middleburg, Virginia. A superbly organized program, the event began with one of the best lecturers I've ever heard, and believe me, I've heard just about everyone in the field over my thirty-plus years on the circuit. Behavioral Ecologist Doug Tallamy of the University of Delaware spoke for a spellbinding hour and a half about how our headlong rush to develop nature has resulted in sterilized environments that are killing the biodiversity that insects, birds, and animals all need to survive in our world. Everyone should hear him speak if they can. His talk was a "game changer" for me, fundamentally altering the way I now think about what I should be doing as a landscape designer.
In both his lecture and his groundbreaking book, Bringing Nature Home (Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2007), Doug lays out the most compelling case I've heard yet for using native plants in our landscapes to help replace the loss of our temperate forests. (It has been estimated that over 70% of the forests along the Eastern seaboard are gone, versus only 15% of the Amazonian basin—why, he asks, aren't we upset about what's happening in our own backyard?) And not only are we cutting down our forests, but we're also filling up our backyards with alien grasses—our lawns—and exotic plants from other countries. Yet research shows that our native insects cannot survive on alien plant species. He quotes eminent biologist E.O. Wilson who said, "A land without insects is a land without most forms of higher life." Ultimately, this includes us.
Many gardeners plant buddleia, or butterfly bush, to attract butterflies to their gardens…but did you know that these shrubs feed only the adult butterflies? Their larvae feed on the leaves of native plants, such as wild black cherry, goldenrod, and milkweed. Photo: TheButterflySite.com.
"…the wild creatures we enjoy and would like to have in our lives will not be here in the future if we take away their food and the places they live.
"…it is not yet too late to save most of the plants and animals that sustain the ecosystems on which we ourselves depend.
In his talk, Doug showed images of how a suburban property and its neighborhood might bring back biodiversity by planting the boundaries with native shrubs and trees. If whole communities started planting this way, we'd create a shared woodland where the collection of plants and animals could live in relative balance.
L: Typical suburban home and landscape. C: The same home, with a landscape enhanced by the addition of diverse native plantings. R: In Tallamy's vision, a suburban neighborhood full of such landscapes forms a corridor of wildlife-sustaining flora that can co-exist with human habitations. Perspectives by Jana Bryan Wunderle of JMMDS, based on Doug Tallamy's drawings.
He exhorts us all to do something that most of us only dream of doing: make a difference. "In this case," he writes, "the 'difference' will be to the future of biodiversity, to the native plants and animals of North America and the ecosystems that sustain them." Let's get going!
Click here to read Anne Raver's 2008 New York Times article, which contains more eye-opening details about Doug's work.
"Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love." 2011 Vermont Flower Show keynote address. Champlain Exposition Center, Essex Junction, VT. Saturday, March 5, at 12 p.m.
"Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love." Virginia Crigler Speaker Series hosted by the Carolina Foothills Garden Club at the Poinsett Club, Greenville, SC. Wednesday, March 16, at 10:30 a.m.
"Julie Moir Messery: Process and Work." Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, VA. Wednesday, April 27 at 5 p.m.
I can't wait to read this book. Everyone is raving about it. Hope all is well with everyone in VT.
Julie- Thanks so much for this piece.
The way in which Doug Tallamy gets one after another of us to share his vision is sort of miraculous. I recently wrote a piece about naturalistic gardens for the American Gardener in which I extolled Tallamy's virtues.
As a result, he and his wife visited our garden last summer. What a treat.
I've been looking forward to an opportunity to introduce myself to you and decided to seize this moment. Jennifer Bartley has repeatedly mentioned how much she likes and admires you.
I am so glad you had the chance to hear Doug Tallamy speak, and what a lucky audience to have heard both of your lectures. Everyone must have left full of inspiration.
Bringing Nature Home was published when we were two years into our Native Plant Teaching Garden project at Friends School of Baltimore, and it has been a terrific resource for our work. My husband and I, like Duncan Brine, have had the good fortune to be invited to share a meal with the Tallamys at the home of mutual friends-a treat for us as well. By encouraging the creation of wildlife sustaining corridors, Doug Tallamy is creating human corridors of optimism that we can have a positive ecological impact AND enjoy beautifully designed spaces. Win-win!
I was one of the lucky designers to be in the audience for your Middleburg talk. I was so impressed by what you bring to the design process in terms of visioning and taking a step-by-step approach. I was also transfixed by Doug's presentation, and read his book from cover to cover the next day. My outlook is completely different now… I've always been interested in native plantings, but now it will be a focus of my design in both my own landscape and those of clients I work with. Thanks for focusing on it in your blog–so important to spread the word!
When you say his talk is a game changer — that is huge!
I can't believe I hadn't heard of Doug Tallamy (since his book came out in 2007) until serendipity struck, twice today! You will connect to Linden Landscaping's display at the Vermont Flower Show — it references Tallamy — and Rebecca Lindenmeyr will give an "Ecological Landscaping" talk tomorrow at 1:30 p.m.; right after yours! And at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday on "Using Native Plants for Beautiful, Functional Landscapes." Vermont is lucky to have both of you and others leading us to this new thinking. I can't wait to see you all at the Vermont Flower Show!
I too saw Doug Tallamy speak to our local friends of the watershed group last November. He's a fabulous speaker and I thoroughly enjoyed his talk and his vision. It's nice to have someone that people enjoy listening to pass on such an important message, one that connects with the public. In addition to his vision, there are some interesting studies about gardening on a community scale to help out the ecosystem. I will leave a link to my post where you can also access this study.
Furthermore, I had the pleasure to here Julie speak years ago at the Scott Arboretum Perennial Plant Conference. What a wonderful speaker she is as well, with another fabulous design philosophy. I hope she returns to give a talk in the Philadelphia area again sometime soon!
This looks like a very interesting book. Not to far from me, here on Long Island there is a nursery that sells nothing but native plants to Long Island. The nursery is located in Riverhead if any one is interested.
People don't realize how they are changing the planet one garden at a time. Great to know that this important awareness is beginning to flow through the gardening community. I can't wait to read this book and to hear Tallamy speak. Together maybe we could bring him to town!
I thank each of you for these wonderful comments and links. We want to keep the conversation going about this important subject. Watch for JMMDS's Anna Johansen's upcoming post about a symposium she recently attended on the subject.
I'm adding Doug's message to all my lectures now and even more native plants to all our designs. While I feel good that almost all of the woody plants in the Toronto Music Garden are native to Canada and that we've naturally gravitated to natives in so many of our installations already, the unassailable facts in Doug's book and lecture turn what feels like a good thing to do into a necessity.
I was in the audience at your talk today in Greenville, SC and was delighted that you mentioned Doug Tallamy's book. His message – brilliantly provided in his presentations- is clear. Plant more natives. This means more insects. And birds. Etc..
But more importantly, I wanted to say how much I appreciate your approach to garden design, and encouraging folks to think about the 'home outside.' I've loved your book, and tried to incorporate its ideas into some of my own programs (I'm a garden educator).
Your program was great. Thanks for coming to Greenville. Lots of great things are happening there.
Greenville is indeed a special place. Your Falls Park is an urban gem and has inspired wonderful new development to take place there. My hosts, the Carolina Foothills Garden Club, is full of amazing women with vision and spirit. I had such a wonderful reception during my short stay! I look forward to returning to spend more time sometime soon.


The Cubs owners say they're done negotiating with the Wrigleyville Rooftop Association, reports Crain's Danny Ecker. "It has to end. It's time to move forward," owner Tom Ricketts says in a video announcing the decision to plow ahead with renovation plans despite threats of a lawsuit.
— Meanwhile, with the ballpark crumbling and Mayor Rahm Emanuel's re-election clock ticking, Crain's Greg Hinz analyzes the politics at play.
Good news: Chicago added residents last year instead of losing them, according to new Census estimates. But the growth was slow, putting Chicago well below the rates of most other big American cities. Crain's has more.
Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said the Chicago-based plane maker wants to follow the product strategy of Apple to develop future jets in increments, rather than once-in-a-generation "moon shots" that carry too much risk. More from MarketWatch and Bloomberg Businessweek.
CME Group's drive to reduce its board size was forced to slow down, when shareholders rejected that plan at the company's annual meeting. Crain's explains why.
— Also, Reuters reports that CME Group is pushing back against calls for it to close open-outcry trading if its electronic platform fails.
John Anderson, president of IIT since 2007, plans to resign from the position in August 2015. Crain's takes a look at his record.
After failing to round up enough votes to make permanent a state income tax increase, Democratic leaders are pointing to the prospect of massive budget cuts — roughly $4 billion in cuts from a $38 billion budget — to press resistant Dems on the issue, writes the Chicago Tribune.
Crain's talks with the two game-theory specialists at Northwestern University who thought ticket price fluctuations confused fans and didn't test how much more people would pay for a first shot at the best seats. Their answer to the problem, Purple Pricing, is now a patent-pending algorithm that has worked at Northwestern.
The Deerfield-based pharmacy chain will help coordinate patient care in select markets with CHE Trinity Health, a Livonia, Mich.-based system that operates more than 80 hospitals. Modern Healthcare has details.
There he is, sitting in the front row at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, seeing Justin Timberlake at the Verizon Center in Washington, and skiing in Utah. The New York Times looks at the "truly envious persona" that the Republican congressman from Peoria enjoys on the popular photo-sharing service Instagram.


When the UFC brought Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic in following the collapse of PrideFC, nobody could have imagined how big of an Octagon bust the Croatian sensation would turn out to be.
Following his fifth loss in nine UFC appearances, company president Dana White alerted the media following Cro Cop's UFC 128 knockout loss to Brendan Schaub that he would be released from the world's premier mixed martial arts promotion.
Cro Cop was on one of the best streaks in MMA history after he captured the Pride Open Weight Grand Prix back in 2006. One devastating head kick later and the aura of invincibility surrounding one of sport's most feared strikers would go up in smoke. Gabriel Gonzaga viciously laid CC out at UFC 70 in April 2007.
Although his opponents never recklessly attacked the former K-1 fighter out of respect for what he had accomplished during his prime, they never feared him either. It's unfortunate American fans didn't get to witness the 36-year-old in his heyday.
"Right kick hospital, left kick cemetery." – Believe it.
After back-to-back knockout losses to Frank Mir at UFC 119 and Schaub on Saturday night, White felt it was time to cut ties with the heavyweight. He said Cro Cop wouldn't disagree with the decision, either.
Cro Cop owns a 27 – 9 – 2 ( 1 NC ) record, with 24 of his wins coming before the final horns have blared.


If you went to this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas like I did, you probably were overloaded from its sights and sounds. I'm still trying to catch up, categorize, and comprehend everything I saw there. You can find a fraction of what I ran into in my EiED Online column, with more details and images than I can list here, at www.electronicdesign.com.
A number of products stood out, like Bug Labs' BUGbase (see "Proto Heaven," right) and Samsung's SyncMaster 2263DX (see "Seeing Double," right). Gamers were hot on Texas Instruments' DualView technology, which highlighted TI's HDTV DLP projection displays. A pair of video sources plugs into the system, which displays each source in alternate frames.
DualView is a bit disconcerting for regular viewers. But put on a pair of the DualView glasses, and you see one solid HDTV image. It's definitely better than playing a split-screen game and effectively prevents one player from seeing another's screen, even though they are on the same display. This is the same technology used to present 3D images, except in that case, each eye sees every other frame.
This technology could provide some advantages for group viewing of video from different but related sources. For example, an unmanned aerial vehicle might display a pilot's view along with a downward view, so individuals can switch from one to the other by simply selecting the source enabled by the glasses.
Plenty of other presentations took place behind the scenes at CES, too. At Analog Devices' suite, Fishman showed off its Ellipse Aura, which is based on the Blackfin digital signal controller (see the figure). This preamp fits inside an acoustic guitar's sound hole and connects to an undersaddle pickup. It translates the sound from the pickup so the result is comparable to a sound environment selected by the user.
Fishman took guitars and recorded them via microphones in sound studios, auditoriums, and other environments. The company then determined the difference between the audio stream coming from the undersaddle pickup and the resulting sound in the desired space. The system can complete the same transformation for the same high-quality sound. Users must download the proper configuration to the unit, but Fishman has all the major brands covered.
Meanwhile, the show featured the usual one-upmanship, with hits like Panasonic's 150-in. plasma display and the horde of organic LED (OLED) HDTVs from the likes of Sony and Samsung. There were even a couple of 3D LCDs that don't require glasses, like LG's, which employs a lenticular lens filter.


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Frank Gore Prepared For Boxing Debut By Sparring With Another NFL Great
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by Anthony Farris December 17, 2021, 1:48 pm 1 Comment
Frank Gore, owner of the third-most rushing yards in NFL history, makes his pro boxing debut Saturday night against former NBA player Deron Williams. While training for the bout, Gore found an unlikely sparring partner and supporter, who also happens to be well-versed in his gridiron glory – Chad Johnson.
"What Frank will do Saturday isn't surprising to me because I've seen it for years, said Johnson via NFL.com. "But he's going to surprise the world."
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— Chad Johnson (@ochocinco) December 17, 2021
Johnson, who fought a four-round exhibition over the summer and is planning a second fight next year, sparred with Gore earlier this month and came away impressed, and sore.
"That shit hurt. The punches f—ing hurt. He's heavy-handed," Johnson NFL.com's Cameron Wolfe. "He's out of my weight class, but I tried to sit in the pocket, giving him a look for what Deron could present. I caught one of the left hooks. It hurt. I was like, nah, let me get outside."
Exchanging punches with Johnson should help Gore adjust to the height of Saturday's opponent, Williams. The five-time NBA All-Star is 6'3, Johnson is 6'1 and Gore is generously listed at 5'9. "We're putting the work in and looking good in the ring," added Johnson.
The bout between Williams and Gore is the first professional fight for either athlete. They'll enter the ring as part of the undercard to Saturday's main event, the Jake Paul – Tyron Woodley rematch.
"I'm nervous every day. Even when I just think about it. Just because I want to do good," said Gore. "If I'm being real, my whole 16-year career in football, I was nervous. When you have success, it's hard to keep having success."
Gore hasn't made any predictions for how the fight will pan out, but he does want those in attendance and those viewing from home to walk away with one shared thought: "After the fight, I want people to say, 'This man is different."
Chad Johnson can attest.
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Written by Anthony Farris
Anthony is a former high school basketball intramural champion who played a leading role in creating two offspring. He spends his weekends hoping for an MTV Rock N' Jock revival.
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Roger Waters Announces Massive 2017 North American Tour
By Jaimie Cranford | October 13, 2016 | 11:05am
Images via RogerWaters.com, Bryan Bedder/Getty Music News Roger Waters
Multi-instrumentalist and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has announced an expansive North American tour for the summer of 2017. The tour, cleverly titled "Us & Them," is a nod to Pink Floyd's classic album Dark Side of the Moon.
While Waters is remaining very secret about the upcoming tour, he has said in a statement that "75 percent of it will be old material and 25 percent of it will be new, but it will all be connected by a general theme." In typical Pink Floyd fashion, he has also promised a "high-class, state-of-the-art audio visual production." To read Waters' full statement, you can visit his website here.
Tickets go on sale Friday, Oct. 21. Find Waters' tour dates below.
Roger Waters 2017 Tour Dates:
26 – Kansas City, Mo. @ Spring Center
28 – Louisville, Ky. @ KFC Yum! Center
30 – St. Louis, Mo. @ Scottrade Center
1 – Tulsa, Okla. @ BOK Center
3 – Denver, Colo. @ Pepsi Center
7 – San Jose, Calif. @ Sap Center at San Jose
12 – Sacramento, Calif. @ Golden 1 Center
14 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ Gila River Arena
16 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ T-Mobile Arena
20 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ STAPLES Center
24 – Seattle, Wash. @ Tacoma Dome
3 – Dallas, Texas @ American Airlines Center
6 – Houston, Texas @ Toyota Center
11 – Tampa, Fla. @ Amalie Arena
13 – Miami, Fla. @ American Airlines Arena
16 – Atlanta, Ga. @ Infinite Energy Center
18 – Greensboro, N.C. @ Greensboro Coliseum
20 – Columbus, Ohio @ Nationwide Arena
22 – Chicago, Ill. @ United Center
26 – St. Paul, Minn. @ Xcel Energy Center
2 – Detroit, Mich. @ The Palace of Auburn Hills
4 – Washington, D.C. @ Verizon Center
8 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ Wells Fargo Center
7 – Newark, N.J. @ Prudential Center
11 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Barclays Center
15 – Uniondale, N.Y. @ Nassau Coliseum
19 – Pittsburgh, Pa. @ PPG Paints Arena
27 – Boston, Mass. @ TD Garden
2 – Toronto, Ontario @ Air Canada Centre
6 – Quebec City, Quebec @ Videotron Centre
10 – Ottawa, Ontario @ Canadian Tire Centre
16 – Montreal, Quebec @ Bell Centre
24 – Edmonton, Alberta @ Rogers Place
28 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ Rogers Arena
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Q: How do I get a Web-view to switch sites when pressing different side of UISegmentedControl (iOS Objective-C) I think all of the tutorials I found are from before you could use a xib with uisegmented control. Basically, I am just trying to load websites, that will switch when tapping between UISegmentedControls.
FYI, this is the way I am loading the websites:
    NSURL *USurl = [NSURL URLWithString:USurlAddress];

//URL Requst Object
NSURLRequest *USrequestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:USurl];

//Load the request in the UIWebView.
[webview loadRequest:USrequestObj];

A: If you're using a XIB, you have to bind the valueChanged event to a function on your file owner for example.
That function will be called when the segmented control value change, for example:
- (IBAction)segValueChanged:(UISegmentedControl *)seg {
  switch (seg.selectedSegmentIndex) {
     ....
  }
}

If you're doing this by code you can add an event listener to your segmented control with:
[segmentedControl addTarget:self
                     action:@selector(action:)
           forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];

P.S.: Variable names, by convention, start with a lowercase character...

A: Create a method(let's call it -(void)switchBetweenTheViews:(id)sender) and then add the following line to the code where you create the UISegmentedControl:
[yourSegmentedControl addTarget:self action:@selector(switchBetweenTheViews:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];

Then whenever a user will tap on the other side of that UISegmentedControl this method will be called. Example of that method would be:
-(void)switchBetweenTheViews:(id)sender {
  UISegmentedControl *sc = (UISegmentedControl*)sender;
  NSURL *USurl;
  if (sc.selectedSegmentIndex == 0) {
    USurl = [NSURL URLWithString:USurlAddress];
  } else {
    USurl = [NSURL URLWithString:USurlAddress2];
  }
  NSURLRequest *USrequestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:USurl];
  [webview loadRequest:USrequestObj];
}

Hope it helps

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HCI Group to Present at BofA Securities 2021 InsurTech Conference on June 30, 2021
TAMPA, Fla., June 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HCI Group, Inc. (NYSE: HCI), a leading homeowners insurer executing on a nationwide expansion plan through its technology-led insurance subsidiary TypTap Insurance Company, will participate at the BofA Securities 2021 InsurTech Conference, which will be held virtually on Wednesday, June 30, 2021.
HCI Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Paresh Patel and TypTap Insurance Company President Kevin Mitchell are scheduled to participate in a fireside chat with BofA Managing Director and Research Analyst Joshua Shanker on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time. Management will also hold one-on-one meetings with institutional investors throughout the day.
For additional information, please contact Gateway Group at TypTap@gatewayir.com.
About HCI Group, Inc.
HCI Group, Inc. owns subsidiaries engaged in diverse, yet complementary business activities, including homeowners' insurance, reinsurance, real estate and information technology services. HCI's leading insurance operation, TypTap Insurance Company, is a rapidly growing, technology-driven insurance company that is expanding nationwide to provide homeowners and flood insurance. TypTap's operations are powered in large part by technology developed by HCI's software subsidiary, Exzeo USA, Inc. HCI's largest subsidiary, Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Inc., provides homeowners' insurance primarily in Florida. HCI's real estate subsidiary, Greenleaf Capital, LLC, owns and operates multiple properties in Florida, including office buildings, retail centers and marinas.
The company's common shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "HCI" and are included in the Russell 2000 and S&P SmallCap 600 Index. HCI Group, Inc. regularly publishes financial and other information in the Investor Information section of the company's website. For more information about HCI Group and its subsidiaries, visit www.hcigroup.com.
About TypTap Insurance Group, Inc.
Founded in 2016 as a division of HCI Group, Inc. (NYSE:HCI), TypTap's mission is to utilize technology, data, and data analytics to simplify the insurance experience. TypTap is a rapidly growing, technology-driven insurance company that provides homeowners and flood insurance with the company currently executing on its nationwide expansion plans. TypTap uses its innovative, proprietary, online platform to quote and bind policies quickly and efficiently. Powerful algorithms, enabled by artificial intelligence, are designed to identify policies that deliver profitable results while mitigating risk.
TypTap Company Contact:
Bill Broomall, Vice President
TypTap Insurance Group
wbroomall@typtap.com
TypTap Media Contact:
Jordan Schmidt, Managing Director
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Two men fighting for life after serious crash in South Wigston
The car crashed into a building
Katrina Chilver
Two men are fighting for their lives after a serious crash in South Wigston.
Police say the men in their 20s sustained life-threatening injuries after a car crashed into a building early this morning.
The blue Vauxhall Zafira crashed was travelling away from the Pork Pie roundabout in the direction of South Wigston at 4.15am when the incident happened.
A building in Saffron Road is reported to be damaged.
Police attended the scene along with East Midlands Ambulance Service and Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service.
Updates: Saffron Road shut in South Wigston after car crashes into building leaving people trapped
Person taken to hospital after 3 vehicle crash in North Kilworth
Leicestershire Police said in a statement this morning: "Two men, in their 20s, sustained what has been described as life-threatening injuries. One man was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham. The other man was taken to University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire.
"A third occupant of the vehicle, a man, sustained minor injuries not requiring hospital treatment."
The road has been closed between the junctions of Blaby Road and Marston Avenue to allow for an investigation of the scene
Police say inquiries into the circumstances are in the early stages and officers are appealing for any witnesses to come forward.
Detective Sergeant Paul Hawkins from the serious collision investigation team said: "We would like to speak to anyone who was in the area and saw what happened.
"If you were driving in the area and have a dashcam installed in your vehicle which captured the incident you are urged to get in touch.
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Anyone with information can call police on 101.
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Ram Sampath (born 25 July 1977) is an Indian composer, music producer and musician, who started his career composing advertising jingles for Mumbai-based advertising industry, subsequently he started composing for pop albums like Tanha Dil (2000) by Shaan, before composing for films like Khakee, Delhi Belly (2011), Talaash (2012), Raees etc.

He has composed music for advertising jingles for brands like Airtel, Docomo, Thums Up, Pepsi and the Times of India.

Early life and background
Born to a Tamilian father and Kannadiga mother, Sampath grew up in Chembur, Mumbai where he did his schooling from OLPS High School. Both his parents were musically inclined, while his grandfather TV Ramanujam, was one of the founder of Shanmukhananda Hall, a cultural centre in Sion, Mumbai, established in 1952. Thus his ancestral house, was frequented by leading musicians and singers of Carnatic music. Later on, he too learnt Carnatic music for eight years. After his schooling he studied commerce at Podar College, Mumbai, where he played keyboard in a rock band.

Career

Non-film music

Over the years, he has composed advertising jingles for brands like Airtel, Docomo, Thums Up, Pepsi and the Times of India, for which he composed the theme song for the "I Lead India" campaign in 2013.

In 2008, he collaborated with the Australian rock band INXS to record Indian version of their songs, God's Top Ten, Devil's Party, and Afterglow. Also in 2008, the Bombay High Court ruled that two songs from the film, Krazzy 4, including the title track "Krazzy4" and "Break-free" plagiarised the "hook-phrase" from an advertisement previously composed by Sampath for Sony Ericsson. The court ordered a stay on film's release with the two songs. Subsequently, the case was settled out-of-court after producers paid Sampath , and film was released along with the songs. However the judgment was seen by "landmark decision" by legal commentators, as it set a new precedent in the Indian film industry, often plagued with plagiarism. In 2012, he composed the highly popular title track "Tera Rang Aisa" of the debut talkshow Satyamev Jayate hosted by Aamir Khan, it had lyrics by Prasoon Joshi.

He was also part of the 2013 season of the popular television music series Coke Studio.

Film music
Sampath got his first break as a film score composer with Let's Talk (2002) directed by Ram Madhvani. Thereafter, he composed for several films like Khakee (2004) and Family (2006) by Rajkumar Santoshi, besides Jumbo (2008), Aagey Se Right (2009) and Luv Ka The End (2011). However, he first received popular acclaim with Delhi Belly (2011) produced by Aamir Khan. Most notably hit track "Bhaag DK Bose Aandhi Aayi" with -rock beat, became an internet sensation ahead of the release of the film. Later he received a Filmfare Award nomination for the film.  His next film, Talaash (2012) was a joint production between Farhan Akhtar's Excel Entertainment and Aamir Khan Productions also starring Aamir Khan as the lead. The music received positive reviews, including Indiaglitz, which noted, "Once again Ram Sampath has an unmatched compilation of tracks here. Along with Javed Akhtar's fantastic lyrics they have created a masterpiece here." Thereafter, Akhtar signed him again for his next production, Fukrey, directed by Mrigdeep Singh Lamba. Fukrey was a sleeper hit and opened to good music reviews, especially for the song "Ambarsariya", an adaptation of a traditional Punjabi folk song, performed by Sona Mohapatra, his wife and regular collaborator.

Television
In 2009, he appeared as a judge of singing reality series, MTV Rock On (Season 1) on MTV India, along with singer Kailash Kher and MTV VJ Nikhil Chinapa.

Personal life
Ram Sampath is married to Sona Mohapatra, a singer, who is his frequent collaborator and business partner in their music production house OmGrown Music. The couple resides in Mumbai. The couple met in 2002, while she was still working as a brand manager with Marico. They were introduced by director Ram Madhvani, with whom Sampath was working for Let's Talk (2002); they married in 2005.

Discography

Films

Albums

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links
 Official Website of Ram Sampath

 Ram Sampath at Last.fm

1977 births
Living people
Indian film score composers
Indian male playback singers
Indian record producers
Indian male singer-songwriters
Indian singer-songwriters
Singers from Mumbai
Tamil musicians
University of Mumbai alumni
Television composers
Jingle composers
Indian male film score composers

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by harford	| @ | December 7, 2017 7:51 am
Student pages pictured (bottom row, left right): Jacob Wright, Alison Smith, Gabrielle Shlikas, Jennifer Little, Lindsay Cullum, and Drew Forthman.
Six high school seniors were recently selected to serve as student pages for the 2018 Maryland General Assembly, including Lindsay Cullum and Jacob Wright of C. Milton Wright High School; Gabrielle Shlikas and Alison Smith of Edgewood High School; Drew Forthman of The John Carroll School; and Jennifer Little of Patterson Mill High School.
"As a political science teacher, I am passionate about the Student Page Program," said Michael Brogley, coordinator of the student page program in Harford County and C. Milton Wright High School social studies teacher. "I tell my students that regardless of what political party they affiliate with, they have the ability to make the changes they want to see in their communities. Public service is the element that binds us all together."
A Student Page Breakfast was held December 6 at Patterson Mill High School, and the newly-named pages spent the morning getting to know each other and the elected officials they will assist during the session. They were afforded the opportunity to ask questions and exchange contact information. The pages' parents, as well as school and elected officials, were invited to the breakfast, hosted by the Patterson Mill's Foods and Hospitality Management students.
Keynote speaker Natalie Hutcheson, 2014 C. Milton Wright High School graduate and former student page, shared her insight about the experience with the pages.
"Paging gave me my fondest memories of high school. This will be one of the most memorable and rewarding experiences you'll ever have," said Miss Hutcheson. "You've learned the text book version of what goes on, but now you'll get to see first-hand what really happens behind-the-scenes."
Several elected officials were in attendance at the breakfast event, including Senators Wayne Norman and J.B. Jennings and Delegates Andrew Cassilly, Susan McComas, Glen Glass, and Teresa Reilly.
Board of Education of Harford County President Joseph Voskuhl and Executive Director of
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Susan Brown brought greetings from the school
system. Mr. Voskuhl said the pages should be congratulated for the effort they put in, noting that
very few students get this opportunity, and it will be one they won't forget.
Miss Lindsay Cullum, 17, is a member of the Senior Class Council, the School Environmental
Awareness Club, the National Honor Society, the French National Honor Society, the Math
National Honor Society, and the Harford County Speech and Debate League. She is also a
senior mentor to freshman students. Miss Cullum works part time at Savona in downtown Bel
Air, as well as her father's practice, Creswell Veterinary Clinic. She has volunteered with the
Harford County arm of the Hillary for America Campaign and the Harford County Climate
Action non-profit organization. In the fall, she hopes to attend school in Boston, Massachusetts,
or University of Maryland College Park. Her intended major is political science, and she would
additionally like to study international relations and environmental studies.
Mr. Jacob Wright, 17, is captain of the Swim Team and President of the Math National Honor
Society. He is also a member of the Student Government Association, the National Honor
Society, the Cross Country Team, and the Track and Field Team. In addition, he volunteers at
Upper Chesapeake Hospital and Meals on Wheels, and he has a part-time job at Campus
Liquors. Mr. Wright hopes to attend Northwestern University in the fall to major in mathematics
and science.
Miss Gabrielle Shlikas, 17, attends the International Baccalaureate Program at Edgewood High
School. She is president of the Social Studies Honor Society, the Math Honor Society, and the
Mock Trial Club, and is a member of the Student Government Association, the National Honor
Society, the Academic Team, and the Social Committee. Miss Shlikas has taken eight years of
dance class, is active with the Maryland Youth Advisory Council, and works part-time at Klein's
ShopRite. In the fall, she plans to attend Wellesley College to major in political science.
Miss Alison Smith, 17, is president of the Mock Trial Club and the Feminist Club and is a
member of the Student Government, the Math Honor Society, the History Honor Society and the
Varsity Girls Soccer Team. She is a part of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Black
Youth in Action Debutante program, and the First Ladies of Edgewood. She is founder and chair
of Harford's HELPERS and serves on a Student Advisory Council. In addition, she volunteers at
Upper Chesapeake Hospital's Hospice Care Center and is a certified lifeguard. Miss Smith is
undecided about where she will attend school in the fall, but plans to major in rural development.
Mr. Drew Forthman, 17, is president of the Future Business Leaders of America and captain of
the Academic Team. He is a member of the National Honor Society, National German Honor
Society, and the Speech and Debate Team. He enjoys singing classically, as well as jazz and
country music, and is an avid history and philosophy fan. In addition, Mr. Forthman is a
member of the Student Service Leadership group at St. Ignatius Catholic Church. In the fall, he
plans to attend Saint Vincent College to study international business.
Miss Jennifer Little, 17, is a member of the National Honor Society, the Spanish Honor Society,
the Music Honor Society, the Drama Company, the Senior Class Council, The Harford County
Teen Court, the Mock Trial Club, and the Patterson Mill High School Band. Miss Little is a
Teen Reporter for ABC 2 News, a blogger for UNICEF, and has been published in the
Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun. She is a server at Brightview Assisted Living and is a
volunteer at a summer camp in west Baltimore. In the fall, she plans to attend college to major
in international relations and Spanish.
The pages will serve in the 2018 legislative session that will begin in early January and continue
through April. They will spend two, non-consecutive weeks with host families in Annapolis
while serving in either the House of Delegates or the Maryland Senate. The pages are paid a
stipend to cover their living expenses.
The statewide Student Page Program in Annapolis has been ongoing for more than 40 years.
Every high school in the county is urged to participate in the program, and each school has an
equal chance of having its candidate(s) score in the top five to become a page in Annapolis.
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Metin Tütün —
— The mathematical order of the human body originating from the creation has found a new form with light and clay in Metin Tütün's work.
As a graduate of Middle East Technical University Electrical Engineering (BS) and Ankara Iktisadi Bilimler Akademisi (MBA), Metin Tütün worked as an engineer and manager in private and public sectors.
Although he has been engaged in various forms of arts, his best-known interests are playing guitar and the music of the Beatles since his childhood years. He started to grow interest in Japan which he stayed for four months . He set up his darkroom in 1986. He got started sculpting with Sculptor Ferman Gasimov in Azerbaijan to where he moved in 2000 and stayed for a decade.
Since 2010, he has intensely been focused on his studies in photography, sculpture and music. He studied with sculptor Anar Eyni who is teaching sculpting in Konya University Fine Arts sculpting division, on master-apprentice relationship basis. He also took course from Lynn Forbes School of Sculpture in Carslbad (USA).
He was chosen as a finalist for International Fine Art Photography Award, in 2012. He worked with sculptors Pasquale Martini, Edward Fleming, Ali Dirier in Komurcuoglu International Academy of Stone Sculpting. Framing the dance of light and shadow in his nude photographs, he further persues his experiments in sculpture using stone and clay.
He believes that being able to use different forms of arts collectively and to draw on the powerful synergy of photography and sculpture are purely an exciting experience.He enjoys involving and uniting clay or stone, in light and shadow..
Alberto Modiano on Metin Tütün
Metin's question was extremely humble. In fact his work was special and set itself apart from work done in this field so far. This is because he started off from two dimensional photographs and took them to a three dimensional form. In his photographic work, he not only recognised the female body through its plastic values, lines and light, but he made the viewer feel these. He then touched the clay, using his hand and his mind with which he used to take these photographs, giving the clay a new dimension in art. Similar to Mother Earth, he created the Earthen Body.
It is very important to know the language of the nude, to recognise that language and to promote it. The body is beautiful with its intrinsic values. The body arouses appreciation in the viewer when it is combined with aesthetics. This is a delicate issue and there is no room in it for errors.
The mathematical order of the human body originating from the creation has found a new form with light and clay in Metin's work. Light, the main source of the language of photography has leaped onto the art of sculpture and acquired a new dimension in his work. Works of art where photography has been evaluated simultaneously with sculpture are few and far between.
In order for the naked body to transform into a work of art it has to be conveyed within plastic values, clad in an aesthetic form and communicated with the language of light. But we cannot simply call Metin's photographs, photographs of the "nude". That is because he has clothed his photographs in clay, as it were. His photographs have been taken with and worked through an awareness that is to take shape with clay.
When we look at the photographs, we see courage and an artful sacrifice in the gaze of the models rather than apprehension. Behind that gaze there is the strong trust in art and rapport between the model and the artist.
Naked light, naked body, naked earth. All have been transformed into the clothing of art in Metin's hands. All we have to do is sit back and enjoy.
/ALBERTO MODIANO/
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Extreme Temperature Diary- Monday December 27th, 2021/Main Topic: Shameful Florida Renewable Energy Regulation
The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I'll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉
Main Topic: Shameful Florida Renewable Energy Regulation
Dear Diary. By now all federal, state and local governments should be helping homeowners switch to solar energy via tax breaks or some other creative incentive. I became keenly aware of what my state neighbor to the south was doing to make solar more expensive about five years ago. I'm still appalled because I occasionally see articles about Florida's efforts to stymie green energy like the one that I am presenting from the Miami Herald today.
Greed is not good, particularly when it comes to fossil fuel interests influencing government to squeeze the last bit of money out of their carbon polluting products by writing laws to delay transition.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article256663672.html
Documents show FPL wrote bill to slow rooftop solar's growth by hampering net metering
BY MARY ELLEN KLAS AND MARIO ALEJANDRO ARIZA HERALD/TIMES TALLAHASSEE BUREAU
UPDATED DECEMBER 20, 2021 10:07 AM
Rooftop solar power generation in Florida is still a nascent industry, but Florida Power & Light, the nation's largest power company, is pushing to hamstring it — by writing and delivering legislation the company asked state lawmakers to introduce, according to records obtained by the Miami Herald and Floodlight.
FPL, whose work with dark-money political committees helped to secure Republican control of the state Senate in the 2020 elections, asked state Sen. Jennifer Bradley to sponsor its top-priority bill: legislation that would hobble rooftop solar by preventing homeowners and businesses from offsetting their costs by selling excess power back to the company, an arrangement known as net metering.
Records from the Florida Senate show that FPL drafted the bill, and lobbyist John Holley delivered it to Bradley, R-Fleming Island, and FPL's parent company followed up with a $10,000 contribution to her political committee. Bradley filed the bill in November. A week later, state Rep. Lawrence McClure, R-Plant City, introduced an identical version in the House.
Only about 90,000 Florida customers, about 1% of the state's more than 8.5 million customers, sell excess energy back to the electrical grid, but the arrangement has driven significant rooftop solar expansion in Florida. The proposed legislation could seriously curtail that growth. FPL is pushing for it as Florida's biggest utility — it has 5.5 million customers, about 65% of the state. Duke has 2 million customers, followed by TECO with 800,000 and then many other smaller utilities.
The solar industry — companies that make, sell, install, lease and maintain rooftop solar equipment — is fighting back fiercely, suggesting that the bill will devastate its business.
"This is a tired tactic that utilities have used to maintain their monopoly grip on electricity markets," said Will Giese, southeast regional director for the Solar Energy Industries Association. "Net metering is a popular program that gives people the right to choose the energy that works for them, provides benefits to all ratepayers and creates thousands of energy jobs across Florida."
But FPL is arguing rooftop solar could cost Florida utilities about $700 million between 2019 and 2025, according to documents submitted to the Florida Public Service Commission. That's a trend nationwide, as power company profits are threatened by the rise of distributed renewable energy — a technology which scientists say is essential to limiting the pollution that causes the climate crisis.
FPL spokesperson Chris McGrath said the company doesn't oppose net metering but wants to see the current law revised. He argued that customers with rooftop solar are being subsidized by other customers who continue to buy electricity and pay to maintain the power grid.
"We simply believe rooftop solar customers should pay the full cost of this investment," McGrath said.
A LONG, POLITICAL BATTLE
The bill is just one front in a decade-long battle against the policy. For years, FPL has been one of the largest contributors to legislative Florida political campaigns. It backed a failed ballot amendment in 2016 that would have allowed regulators to impose fees and barriers to rooftop solar installation. FPL has also invested millions into groups with untraceable, anonymous donors that launched attacks on state and local politicians.
According to reporting by the Orlando Sentinel, FPL executives have been tied to a series of 'dark-money' nonprofits, one of which figures prominently in the Miami-Dade state attorney's investigation into a scandal involving a "ghost" Senate candidate. Under the scheme, a candidate with no political background was on the ballot as a no-party option in an effort to confuse voters and dilute support for the Democrat in the race, helping Republicans maintain their majority in the state Senate.
FPL CEO Eric Silagy was directly involved in steering money to dark-money groups led by the consultants who controlled Grow United, the organization used to promote the ghost candidates, according to documents obtained by the Sentinel. Holley, the FPL lobbyist who delivered the net metering language to the Senate, worked to promote Republican Senate candidates in the close races. FPL denied any wrongdoing related to political campaigns.
"Any report or suggestion that we had involvement in, financially supported or directed others to support any 'ghost' candidates during the 2020 election cycle is patently false, and we have found absolutely no evidence of any legal wrongdoing by FPL or its employees," McGrath, the FPL spokesperson said in response to questions for this story. Records obtained by the Sentinel also show overlap between Grow United and previous campaigns to overhaul net metering.
Rooftop solar customers in Florida can sell excess power they generate back to their utility company. A bill written by FPL for legislators aims to change that arrangement. Joe Rimkus Jr. MIAMI HERALD FILE PHOTO
One person affiliated with Grow United is Abbie MacIver, who formerly worked for Energy Fairness, a group that encourages policymakers to consider the "cost of energy choices, as well as their benefits." Last year, McClure sent a letter to state regulators at the Florida Public Service Commission citing the result and urging it to update its net metering rule.
The commission held a workshop, which drew 16,000 messages from solar advocates urging it to leave the net metering program alone. Commissioners said it was the highest response rate they had received on any issue and concluded that no immediate changes to net metering needed to be made.
"What people may not realize is that public opinion is very much in our favor,'' said Bryan Jacob of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. "They've got the lobbying power, and we've got the people power."
HOW THE BILL CAME TO EXIST
Bradley, who received FPL's draft bill, is a first-term senator who is close to Senate leadership and chairs the Community Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Congressional Reapportionment. Bradley is married to former state Sen. Rob Bradley, an influential politician who was head of the Senate budget committee.
Bradley said the bill language emerged after a meeting she had with Holley and other members of the utility industry.
"I looked at the language. It was based on our discussion, and it was one that I could support as a starting point,'' she recalled.
Emails show that Bradley's staff followed up with FPL after that discussion. On Oct. 8, 2021, Bradley's legislative aide Katie Heffley emailed Holley with the subject line: "Net Metering Bill."
"Good afternoon, Hope you're doing well,'' she said. "I just wanted to check in and see if you had any follow up information or language in regards to the net metering bill you discussed with Senator Bradley." Holley replied eight minutes later: "I do. Can I bring it to you all later today?'' he wrote. Heffley suggested that he could "send it via email today or we will be at the Capitol next week."
Holley declined to provide an electronic version and offered to "drop it off" in person the following week. Ten days later, Heffley wrote Holley again. "I just want to reach out and see if I could get an electronic copy of the net metering bill so I can put it into drafting."
A staffer in Sen. Jennifer Bradley's office asked FPL for an electronic copy of the bill the company drafted. PUBLIC RECORDS FROM FLORIDA SENATE
Two days later, Florida Division of Elections records show, FPL's parent company, NextEra Energy, gave $10,000 to Bradley's political committee, Women Building the Future.
McClure's political committee, Conservative Florida, did not receive any utility money during this time but on Nov. 4 did receive a $10,000 contribution from Associated Industries of Florida's political committee, Voice for Florida business, which promotes FPL's agenda and whose consultants have also worked on the dark money campaigns, according to the Orlando Sentinel reporting.
NextEra Energy said its political committee did not make its contribution to Bradley's campaign "with an expectation of favor."
The email records were provided to the Herald and Floodlight by the Energy & Policy Institute, a watchdog organization that works to counter misinformation about renewable energy.
MOST STATES ALLOW NET METERING
Florida is one of 47 states that allow households and businesses that produce power to sell it back to the grid at a set rate. However, those policies are coming under fire as utilities become increasingly concerned about how the growth of distributed solar energy affects their bottom line.
In California, regulators plan to increase fees on rooftop solar customers. Even some environmental advocates say the change is fair and necessary because of the fast rate of rooftop solar development in that state.
Rooftop solar, while critical to fighting climate change, is a threat to the traditional utility business model.
Electricity companies like FPL make money off of the things they build: mainly large power plants and the power lines that bring that energy to customers. They don't make money off of the solar power generated from rooftops.
Under Florida's current arrangement, homes and businesses that generate less than 2 megawatts of solar power can sell the excess back to their utility in exchange for a bill credit of 11 cents per kWh. FPL argues that arrangement is unfair to customers who don't generate their own power but continue to pay for the costs of maintaining the grid that rooftop solar customers also use.
Rooftop solar in Florida expanded slowly until 2018 when the Florida Public Service Commission allowed electricity customers to lease solar systems with little or no upfront costs. That decision catapulted the growth of small-scale solar capacity in the state. It grew by 57% in 2020, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
FPL says the cost of subsidizing its 24,000 net metering customers was $30 million in 2020 (about $1,250 per customer).
The solar industry disagrees, pointing to research that shows rooftop solar penetration is low enough in most states that "the effects of distributed solar on retail electricity prices will likely remain negligible for the foreseeable future."
But utility experts have testified to the Florida Public Service Commission that rooftop solar in the state could grow at a rate of 39% a year until 2025 if Florida's current net metering system is left in place.
That growth has the utilities, and legislators, worried.
"As a result of the current system, my constituents are being forced to subsidize the decisions of neighbors in other counties who are in a position to be able to put these expensive systems on their homes,'' Bradley said.
FPL wrote the language for a bill on net metering and gave it to bill sponsors in the Florida House and Senate for the upcoming legislative session.
PUBLIC RECORD FROM THE FLORIDA SENATE WHAT THE BILL WOULD DO
Under Bradley's bill, net-metering customers whose solar panels deliver energy back to the utility grid would no longer receive credits based on the retail cost of energy, but instead receive credits based on a lower wholesale cost. That cost is based on the "avoided cost" that the utility would have incurred if it were to install a comparable system.
The bill also allows utilities to charge rooftop solar customers more, by adding in facility charges, grid access fees and minimum monthly payments. Customers who are already using rooftop solar power before 2023 would be grandfathered in and keep their previous compensation rates for 10 years.
Bradley said she is open to discussing alternative models for her bill, including a system in use in the Carolinas to compensate rooftop solar customers who provide extra power for the grid when it is most needed, during peak hours.
Florida now has the second-largest solar workforce in the country — about 11,000 direct jobs and 31,000 indirect ones, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. It ranks third among states for installed solar capacity, although much of that is large-scale, utility-owned solar.
Justin Vandenbroeck, the president of the Florida Solar Energy Industries Association who also owns an Orlando-based solar installation company, said the solar industry consists mostly of independently owned small businesses. "If this bill passes as it is, it has the potential to send Florida back to 2013, as if the advances of the last 10 years didn't happen,'' Vandenbroeck said.
McClure conceded the bill "is not baked."
"Very early on in this bill's ride, I think it has a real chance to settle out in a way that most parties are not upset,'' he said. He added that the net metering law has not been updated in 13 years and now is time to discuss it.
"We need to have the debate,'' he said. "I'm not afraid if the conclusion is it's not the time to do this. I feel rooftop solar is beneficial to the environment, and Floridians. I am concerned that it will result in significant costs here, but I also don't want to destroy the rooftop solar industry in Florida."
Katie Chiles Ottenweller, Southeast director for Vote Solar, an Atlanta-based advocacy organization, is optimistic but wary given FPL's clout in the Florida Legislature and its role in drafting the bill.
"Companies do not pass legislation. Legislators pass legislation,'' she said. "I'm hopeful this is a conversation starter but, at the same time, it's really hard to have a conversation when you have a gun to your head. The bill as it is written will decimate this industry."
Mary Ellen Klas can be reached at meklas@miamiherald.com and @MaryEllenKlas This story is a collaboration with Floodlight. This story was originally published December 20, 2021 6:00 AM.
Related better news from my state:
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To qualify you must:
✅ Own a home in Georgia
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✅ Live in an eligible zip code
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— Ask Solar Pro (@asksolarpro) December 24, 2021
Here are some of Monday's "ET's":
North America Cold Spell: The cold is turning exceptional in British Columbia, Canada with some areas having their lowest temperatures in decades including Vancouver Airport. In USA, a minum of -30F/-34.4C was recorded in Montana. https://t.co/o61FD8vJ19
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 27, 2021
European Warm Spell kicks off ! Day #1 is today 27 December with the first record of the hundreds which will fall next days:it was in the city of Murcia in Spain with 26.0C. (Previous 25.8C in 2009, former Alcantarilla Air Base Station has a higher record). pic.twitter.com/daVbYgtzCX
Another cold night in #Poland with some extreme low peaks near -25C. Minimum temperatures locally below -30C in Scandinavia. Very cold in European Russia in the Arkhangelsk Oblast with peaks close to -40C and -32.8C in the town (but far from Dec 1978 record of -43.2C). https://t.co/0WzonSwJCB
Here is more climate and weather news from Monday:
"We live in a world dominated by greed. We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth."
Article by the brilliant Desmond Tutu, from 2014. Rest in Peace. https://t.co/j1atdBwHth
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 26, 2021
The past 30 days has featured incredible warmth for most of the US and especially the Central US. Winter is the fastest warming season of them all. pic.twitter.com/bQfpPmaXTP
— Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherProf) December 27, 2021
Just about the entire contiguous United States has observed above average temperature this month… 🔥
[Maps from https://t.co/3ktgI4H39L] pic.twitter.com/zwTZ3vcxX7
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) December 27, 2021
#ActOnClimate will cost so much less.. in money, loss of livelihoods and less emotional damage and fear.. Lets #reduce #reduce #reduce & #reduce consumptionhttps://t.co/6QLuC3wFgz
— Sustainable Warrior💙🌎 (@BonnieBouma) December 27, 2021
"Science isn't finished until it's successfully communicated." The challenge is that "People are resistant to messages and realities they don't want to hear. #ClimateChange #COVID19 #DontLookUp @MichaelEMann https://t.co/q3a2w7HBp9
— Mariel (@tapia_echanove) December 27, 2021
"As of Monday morning, the storm had killed 389 people, injured 1,146 others and left 65 missing, official figures show. More than half a million people were still in evacuation centers or staying with friends and relatives." https://t.co/w6QzuJKX90
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) December 27, 2021
There is no greater issue that matters to humanity than confronting our climate crisis and ending the age of fossil fuels. The world needs NYC to continue leading the way.
Here's how Mayor Adams can be the climate leader that the world needs.https://t.co/ForIR6ZeeF
— Daniel A. Zarrilli (@dzarrilli) December 27, 2021
Stadiums are a great study of how little space people take up and how much space their cars need pic.twitter.com/AE4XZUMMLm
— 21st Century City (@urbanthoughts11) December 26, 2021
Here's why battery manufacturers like Samsung and Panasonic and car makers like Tesla are embracing cobalt-free batteries https://t.co/7KgfBfTs69
— Stephen Leahy (@StephenLeahy) December 27, 2021
After 10 years and 60k++ miles my lovely old Leaf gets a bigger, better battery. Latest @FullyChargedShw episodehttps://t.co/43XLalctoQ
— Robert Llewellyn (@bobbyllew) December 27, 2021
We MUST stand up and save our planet Earth 🌍💚#climatechange #ClimateAction #netzero #ClimateCrisis #COP26 #COP27 #nature #SDGs #trees #savetheplanet #TogetherForOurPlanet pic.twitter.com/n8IBQJRKPa
— COP27🌍 (@COP27_Egypt) December 26, 2021
Sustainable Consumption can address the climate crisis.@Riseupmovt #ClimateActionNow pic.twitter.com/skMAzpvAvI
— Omonuk Joshua , 🌲🇺🇬 (@Joshomonukk) December 27, 2021
BBC News – US snowstorms: California and other western states batteredhttps://t.co/d1Q3nJCtY1
— Sol unemployment (@SolUnemployment) December 27, 2021
NEW DECEMBER RECORD: 193.7"
With a 24 hour official #snow total of 38.9" at the lab, we have smashed the previous record of 179" of snow in December set in 1970!
Snow rates are still heavy and we could even break the 200" mark today!#CAwx #CAwater pic.twitter.com/x9g6fRuzHQ
— UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab (@UCB_CSSL) December 27, 2021
Incredibly, the California statewide snowpack has jumped from 22% of normal two weeks ago to 146% of normal today after a parade of storms has slammed the region with heavy snow. @NWSCNRFC #CAwx pic.twitter.com/skVnFu4fnd
— US StormWatch (@US_Stormwatch) December 27, 2021
'This is an all-hands-on-deck situation' | Thousands of PG&E customers with power in the Sierra https://t.co/spQpZsIiCq
— ABC10 (@ABC10) December 27, 2021
#Snow records have been broken in Japan. Hikone has 73cm of snow on the ground, making it the heaviest for December since records began in 1893⛄
Meanwhile, #Sukayu, one of the snowiest inhabited areas in the world, has 213cm. Yet more snow is on the way. pic.twitter.com/f7fIyWMTnD
— Sayaka Mori (@sayakasofiamori) December 27, 2021
Snow In the West and Northern Tier Hanging out with the Real Winter Cold. Sorry Central To South More Like Spring for you! No Snow .. NEXT pic.twitter.com/gk2aU8Cqx1
— James Wilson (@tornadokid3) December 27, 2021
Somewhere theres group of aviation meteorologists at one of the airlines that frequents LAX-NYC "rooting" for this jet stream pattern to verify.
Even not being an aviation meteorologist, I know this would have to produce one of the fastest cross country flights you'll ever get. pic.twitter.com/JJNtvV9VZ6
— Noah Bergren (@NbergWX) December 27, 2021
The largest and most distant incoming comet discovered in modern times, this icy world from the Oort Cloud will swing around the Sun in 2031. https://t.co/k3GyY65i2B
— Astronomy Magazine (@AstronomyMag) December 27, 2021
This year, @AP photographers captured scenes of a world ablaze, amid rumblings of ruin.
There was fury and violence.
But throughout, there were moments of hope.
Presenting AP's photos of the year. #YearinPictures #APPhotos2021 https://t.co/W8t8F9wus3
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 2, 2021
1. In the coming weeks, you will be in a room with someone with #COVID19. But that doesn't mean you will get infected. The dose makes the poison, so your goal is to reduce your dose as much as possible.
How do you do that? TL;DR – #BetterMasks, ventilation, and filtration 🧵
— Jon Levy (@jonlevyBU) December 26, 2021
Your decision to not get vaccinated doesn't only affect you.https://t.co/wQhTRevXvd
— Waurii (@waurii) December 27, 2021
I had an unvaccinated person tell me yesterday that he didn't believe 800,000 people have died of Covid in the US – and that they are putting that on death certificates to make it look worse than it is. How do you respond to such nonsense? 😖
— AnniezOpz (@Laiebchbum) December 26, 2021
Thread to explain why I deactivated my acc't. I got upset on December 25, and asked the BC Chief Medical Officer of Health to "stop lying" re discussions of links between aerosol droplet size+Omicron (as quoted here). #COVID19BC /1 https://t.co/QeZ20hlAn5
— Jillian Buriak (@JBuriak) December 27, 2021
Health experts say Italy faces paralysis under quarantine rules https://t.co/gRklxk41E1 pic.twitter.com/O7EXlyRdlc
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 27, 2021
Egyptian university students will be denied access to first term exams next month unless they can show proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative PCR test.https://t.co/qjZa07ic0z
— The New Arab (@The_NewArab) December 27, 2021
"It kills me that my girl and I are separated from her dad and brother this Christmas." https://t.co/a7HcZU2qvI
— Us Weekly (@usweekly) December 27, 2021
The exclusive event continues… SOUTH PARK: POST COVID: THE RETURN OF COVID, is now streaming in the US and Canada exclusively on #ParamountPlus. Use Promo Code SOUTHPARK for a 1 month free trial. https://t.co/gThoxgYQro #SouthPark pic.twitter.com/hXjAROnirF
— Paramount+ (@paramountplus) December 16, 2021
Just sayin… pic.twitter.com/ZDonxT4FMR
— Tales & Typos (@kathrynresister) December 26, 2021
Extreme Temperature Diary- Sunday December 26th, 2021/Main Topic: A Cold Winter Has Come to the West
Extreme Temperature Diary- Tuesday December 28th, 2021/Main Topic: A Climate Message from Desmond Tutu


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