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The Novel CSP Technologies
STORENERGY LTD UK & SERBIA R&D Team
THE NOVEL - INDUSTRIAL & PUBLIC CSP SOLAR ENERGY SOLUTIONS
The way we produce and use energy today is not sustainable. Our main fossil fuel sources oil, coal and gas are finite natural resources which are depleting at a rapid rate.Global investment in renewable energy has grown rapidly in recent years. Global energy demand will increase by nearly 25% by 2050. More than 80% of this new capacity will be solar and wind, with China and India contributing to more than half (McKinsey). While most of the attention to alternative energy focuses on production, wind turbines and solar panels for instance, there has been limited success in other critical areas. Specifically turning them into mainstream sources of power, which requires cheap and efficient ways to store large amounts of energy. "Storage is a critical component".
Turning the sun into mainstream source of power, requires a cheap and efficient way to produce and store large amounts of energy.
Outside the power production market, the global solar thermal collector market is expected to reach USD 41.96 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc.
Storenergy has developed a thermal storage solution that can store for 12 months and more with less than 2% per month. The cost of storage is less than $10 per Kwh, current battery storage costs around $300 per Kwh. The storage coupled with the collector enables Storenergy to produce power from the Sun 24 hours per day, constant output without any fluctuations. Using the same technology, Storenergy can produce cost effective 'Heat for process Industry' , " CSP Cooling", "MED desalinizations", "Production of hydrogen", "Enhanced oil recovery" and finaly "Reliable and ecologically clean production and storage of electricity"
On large scale projects, ie 50Mw plus, we will carry out local manufacturing, creating both temporary and permanent jobs, skill transfer etc. R & D opportunities to develop the technology further, integration with other technologies such wind turbines and PV is an exciting possibility.
The technology is the production of power from the sun, by concentrating the sun's energy to generate high temperatures. This energy is stored in our thermal storage at 800oC. We extract the energy from the storage to generate power via steam turbine in a predictable and consistent form, ie 10 hours, 20 hours 24 hours per day. With no fluctuations.The concepts are old, but the innovation is in the modification made to this old technology to meet todays needs and to generate power at an economical cost.The cost of production for our technology is considerably lower than our competitors. We can also generate for longer number of hours.
Parabolic Trough Central Tower Storenergy with Storage
Concentration Ratio 100 1,000 2,000
Working fluid temp 400oC 500-600oC 800-900oC
Annual Capacity 45% 50% 80%
Worldwide patent applications have been made Hi-tech design
All the equipment and components are designed by us and made to the specifications.
The investment is lower by at least 20% compared to our competitors, the operations and maintenance cost are also lower.
The cost for a 10Mw plant would be in the region of $25m, with cost of production of electricity below $0.03 per kwh
We continuously carrying on with R&D and the next generation of the collector is at least 20% cheaper to manufacture. Our customers are state & central governments, or industrial companies with large power needs.
Rakesh Sarin CEO UK ; linkedin.com/in/rakesh-sarin-8673645
Amarjit Singh Riyait UK - Company Co-Founder; linkedin.com/in/amarjit-riyait-14459a150
Marko Vuksanović UK - CTO Company Co-Founder; linkedin.com/in/markovuksanovic13
Željko Cvetić - JACK SRB- Sales and Business development; linkedin.com/in/cliklinkportfolio
Vladan Aksentijević - SRB Chief Engineer ; linkedin.com/in/vladan-aksentijevic-541971163


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Mobile Engineer (React Native)
Indigo Fair is changing wholesale and helping local retailers compete with Amazon and the big box stores.
We're backed by the top VCs in the world (Sequoia, Khosla), we're lead by an experienced team (Square, Google), and we're building a world-class engineering culture of freedom and responsibility.
Our mobile app is crucial to making our vision work. We want the app to be so frictionless, so fast, so easy to use, that store owners flip it on whenever they have 10 seconds free between customers. Instead of Insta/Snap/Book, they'll use our app -- and feel better about it, because our app helps run their business.
We care about stunning design, great UX, and good engineering practices -- we love to write software that is secure, tested, easy to maintain, responsive, and performant. We build minimum viable products, deploy to production multiple times per day, A/B test customer-facing changes, listen to the data, and iterate.
As a mobile engineer, you'll collaborate with us to:
deliver core customer-facing features of our react native app
help design the app, and plan its architecture over the next 3-5 years
work closely with the product team to create a delightful user experience
work closely with the backend team to design APIs
share ownership of our product and our customer's happiness
write unit and integration tests for everything
We're excited about you because you have...
A passion for programming and solving problems with code
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve real problems
Technologies we use and teach:
React native, MobX
Javascript (ES6), Typescript
React (ReactJS, React.js), Redux, RxJS
Jest, Puppeteer
You're excited about us because we offer...
A small team, a relaxed and fun startup, world-class engineering talent, mentorship, and career growth
Competitive compensation + Equity ($70k-$150k depending on experience and ability)
Perks and benefits (full extended health and dental plan for you and your family, gym membership, free lunches, drinks, snacks, beer and pretzel game nights, and more!)
We're growing fast. You will get in on the ground floor of something that's going to change an entire industry.
Learn from the best. Our leadership team is experienced (eg., Google) and led the development of one of the top 15 apps in the US appstore (Square Cash).
Great technology stack -- React/Redux/MobX and friends.
The business makes sense. It's straightforward, provides clear value to both store owners and to makers. You get to help change an industry for the better.
It's beautiful. Work on something that's well-designed, following the footsteps of Square.
We're open to working with someone remote for this crucial position. However, we're normally an on-site team in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Indigo Fair provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
Are you ready to change an industry? Excited to enter on the ground floor of a fast-paced, high-growth startup in a wide open market?
There are over 1M independent retailers in the US and Canada, doing more than twice the revenue of Walmart and Amazon combined. Economic data shows: compared to the big box stores, local retailers are flourishing because they offer a better shopping experience. However, the antiquated wholesale industry is holding independent stores back, and making life miserable for the makers trying to reach them.
Our goal at Indigo Fair is to rethink the wholesale model with an online marketplace that makes it easy for retailers and makers to connect and succeed together. Instead of flying all over the country to attend trade shows, retailers can visit our site to shop for hundreds of curated makers that they can try out totally risk-free. This revolutionary offering has drawn over 20,000 retailers to the Indigo Fair platform in less than a year after our launch.
Our founders led product and engineering for Square Capital ($10B deployed) and the Cash app (Square's only app in the top 20 of the iOS app store). We're backed by some of the top VC funds including Sequoia, Khosla, and Forerunner, and we were named one of the top 8 companies at our Y-Combinator Demo Day last year.
You can find out a bit more about us here:
VentureBeat: Indigo Fair Raises $12M to Reinvent Wholesale
WSJ: Indigo Fair Collects $12M to Supply Series A to Supply Local Stores
The Decentralization of Retail
We are looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join this movement with us.
To learn more about our culture, please visit our careers page!

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OK... Who cares... Why are we talking about DJ LeMahieu? I was using him as an example. Replace LeMahieu with any player who will give fewer than 20.
In Colorado... Were he on the Mets it would be 4 and 10 tops. Which is what McNeil is looking like he will be delivering at this point.
I was just using those numbers as loose examples. I really just need a combination of 20 homers and steals. Anything less I can't do. And you misunderstood my point about Murphy. I was saying that I don't want to have this guy on my roster all season hoping that he becomes Daniel Murphy when in fact he's really just DJ Lamahieu.
No. McNeil has the potential to be huge if he could hit 10-15 homers and steal 10-15 bases. But he could also hit 7-8 homers with 5 steals. I don't want to waste my entire fantasy season waiting on this guy to become Daniel Murphy. So if he isn't giving me something in a few weeks I'd definitely drop him for someone like kingery. But not yet.
Well no one right now. But like I said in a few weeks I'm sure I'll find someone worthy of his spot on my bench if he's not homering or stealing.
It's a game of musical chairs in the first few months of the season. Who's a bust? Who's breaking out? Who's on the decline? McNeil is good for now, but like I said... By the first of May or so if he's not giving me steals or homers I'm out.
This is happy hour fantasy wise. This is the time when stars are still on the wire. To miss out on a real player because u have this guy taking up space is a risk.
The question is how long do you wait for the power and speed from a guy who's never proven anything at the big league level. Yes he could hit 3 homers and steal 3 bases every month rest of season. But he could also only hit 5 and steal 5. Without a big league track record how long do you cross your fingers and hope that he does something other than hit for high average. And yes I'm only speaking for standard yahoo. Of course he's good if you have 15 hitter slots to fill.
Don't really care what you need... But the second post was clearly different from the first. Illustrating that he's a sub Par player right now. He stole 7 bases last year but before that he wasn't a base stealer at all in the minors. There is cause for concern.
Average alone won't cut it in fantasy. He's at 418 average right now and only ranked #170 on yahoo. Gotta have either power or speed too.
I love the average but without homers or steals this guy is worthless for fantasy. I'll hold on to him for a while longer to see if he has a power or steals surge. I'm jumping ship if he hasn't done anything in another few weeks tho.
Zero homers. Zero steals. Not sure how viable a guy who only gives you batting average is.


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Vote for your AFC Cup Club of the Decade!
Kuala Lumpur: Ahead of the kick-off of the 2020 AFC Cup, the-AFC.com reflects on 10 years of success in Asia's most diverse club competition and offers the Continent's fans the opportunity to select the team they feel has performed the best.
The past decade has shown unprecedented growth and evolution of the AFC Cup. From 31 sides who took part at the 2010 edition to the 43 in the 2019 tournament and with the introduction of the innovative Zonal format in 2017 the AFC Cup has continued to entertain fans of the Continental game.
During the last 10 years, there have been some notable teams who have risen to the fore and we review them and their achievements. Select your favourite in the poll at the bottom of the article to decide who is the best of the decade!
The poll ends at 12:00 (UTC +8) on Sunday.
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The AFC Cup Final: 2016-2018
Kuala Lumpur: While the AFC Cup trophy spent a year outside West Asia after Malaysia's Johor Darul Ta'zim claimed the 2015 title, it was to be emphatically taken back by a side that would write their name into the history books.
The-AFC.com continues its look back on tournaments gone by with the three most recent editions prior to the 2019 campaign as Iraq's Air Force Club complete a stunning hat-trick, a new Zonal format is introduced and attendance records are shattered.
Kuala Lumpur: As the clock ticks down towards the 2019 AFC Cup Final between DPR Korea's 4.25 SC and Al Ahed of Lebanon on November 2, the-AFC.com continues its look back at finals gone by.
In the latest edition, we turn our attention to the years from 2010 to 2012 when some of the most notable moments in the tournament's history took place.
Kuala Lumpur: West Asian triumphs have dominated AFC Cup history over the years, with only Uzbekistan's Nasaf taking the trophy outside the region in the years between 2004 and 2014.
So,as the-AFC.com reviews the finals between 2013 and 2015, it is hardly surprising we see the first three-time champion comes from the West. However, in the latest look back at the showpiece event, a new force from Southeast Asia also arrives on the Continental scene.
Five Memorable AFC Cup Final Goals
Kuala Lumpur: With the 2017 AFC Cup final this Saturday, the-AFC.com takes a look back at five significant strikes from the previous editions of the tournament's showpiece.
There have been some spectacular games and goals alike, if we've missed out on your favourite let us know on our social media channels.
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Alaa Al Shbli – 2009 AFC Cup Final: Kuwait SC vs Al Karamah
Flashback: 2017 AFC Cup Final
Kuala Lumpur: With Air Force Club and Altyn Asyr set to lock horns in the 2018 AFC Cup Final on Saturday, join the-AFC.com as we recall how the Iraqi side won their second successive title only 12 months ago.
This will be the first AFC Cup final in history to witness a side from Turkmenistan after Altyn Asyr knocked out DPR Korea's 4.25. On the other hand Air Force Club are one win away from becoming the first club to ever win the AFC Cup three consecutive times.
One year ago, Air Force Club had to defeat another team from central Asia, FC Istiklol of Tajikistan, in the final to lift the trophy.
AFC Cup Final Flashback: FC Istiklol v Johor Darul Ta'zim (2015)
Kuala Lumpur: The 11 AFC Cup finals that had preceded the 2015 edition had seen 10 all West Asia affairs and just one team from outside the region – Uzbekistan's Nasaf in 2011 – compete in the showpiece event.
But 2015 proved a groundbreaking year for the competition as Malaysian powerhouse Johor Darul Ta'zim and Tajikistan's FC Istiklol were the two sides to advance to the final as Southeast Asia took on Central Asia for the right to be crowned continental champions.
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By combining fresh vegetables with trendy must-have ingredients in your pantry, we bring you a divine Thai soup creation from the Clover Leaf Kitchen.
In a soup pot, heat the coconut milk, curry powder and tuna.
While the pot is simmering, grate the carrot and chop the red pepper (if possible remove the peppers meaty part and use the fleshy skin). Set aside a quarter of chopped red pepper for garnish.
Add the vegetables to the pot and bring to a boil.
Garnish with bits of bell pepper.
Check out our How-To YouTube video for this recipe.


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Spotlight on Australian Indigenous Authors
At Raven Reads, we spend a lot of time reading Canadian Indigenous authors and learning about Indigenous history. As each book, author, and voice helps us to gain perspective on Canada's people and our past, we can also learn from other Indigenous experiences and people. That is why we are venturing outside of Canada this week, to explore Australian Indigenous authors.
Three Must-Read Australian Indigenous Authors
Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Her first novel, Carpentaria,won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007. Her most recent book, Tracker, about the "charismatic Aboriginal leader, political thinker and entrepreneur Tracker Tilmouth,"[I] won the Stella Prize (2018). She has also written the novel The Swan Book, and the non-fiction works Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council; and Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory.
Alexis Wright is one of Australia's finest Aboriginal writers. Carpentaria is her second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, from where her people come. The novel's portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other.[ii]
Kim Scott, of Noongar heritage, is a prolific writer. He is the first Indigenous author to win the Miles Franklin Award (1999), for the novel Benang: From the Heart.His book That Deadman Dance won both the Miles Franklin Award (2011) and the Australian Literature Society's gold medal (2011). Taboo is his most recent work of non-fiction, and he has written several children's books bilingually in English and Noongar.
Scott "has gained widespread critical acclaim for the way in which his writing explores questions of identity, race and history, and also for his interest in finding ways that Indigenous people might connect their ancient heritage to contemporary life."[iii]
Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations.
But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged.
We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. This is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair.[iv]
Melissa Lucashenko is a much-respected author of Ygambeh/Bundjalung heritage, and "her writing explores the stories and passions of ordinary Australians with particular reference to Aboriginal people and others living around the margins of the first world".[v]
Her first book, Steam Pigs,won the l998 Dobbie Award for Women's Fiction. Her novel Mullumbimby has won the Queensland Literary Award in Fiction (2013). and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award (2014) for Indigenous Writing.
When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours and a looming Native Title war between the local Bundjalung families. When Jo unexpectedly finds love on one side of the Native Title divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the Good Life.
Told with humour and a sharp satirical eye, Mullumbimby is a modern novel set against an ancient land.[vi]
Two Must-Read Emerging Australian Indigenous Authors
Ellen van Neerven is of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch Heritage, and is definitely one to watch.
Her first book, Heat and Light (2014), won the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. Her 2016 book of poetry, Comfort Food, was shortlisted for numerous awards. Personally, she won the 2017 Queensland Writers Centre Johnno Award, and the 2015 Express Media Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Young Person in Literary Arts.
In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven takes her readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical and still achingly real.
Over three parts, she takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In 'Heat', we meet several generations of the Kresinger family and the legacy left by the mysterious Pearl. In 'Water', a futuristic world is imagined and the fate of a people threatened. In 'Light', familial ties are challenged and characters are caught between a desire for freedom and a sense of belonging.
Heat and Light presents an intriguing collection while heralding the arrival of an exciting new talent in Australian writing.[vii]
Claire G. Coleman is of Noongar heritage, and wrote her much-acclaimed first novel, Terra Nullius (2017) while travelling around Australia in a caravan. Its unconventional writing certainly didn't affect Coleman's work, as the novel has been nominated or shortlisted for six awards in only its first year.
In the near future Australia is about to experience colonisation once more. What have we learned from our past?
Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was running.
The Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to have a nation of peace, and to bring the savages into line. Families are torn apart, reeducation is enforced. This rich land will provide for all.
This is not Australia as we know it. This is not the Australia of our history. This TERRA NULLIUS is something new, but all too familiar.[viii]
[i] Giramond Publishing
[ii] Giramond Publishing
[iii] Author's Website
[iv] Summary and Images from the Pan Macmillan Australia
[v] AusLit
[vi] University of Queensland Press
[vii] University of Queensland Press
[viii] Hachette Australia


Corporations have the choice of expensing (using the fair value method), or non-expensing (using the intrinsic value method and provide pro forma disclosure in financial statement footnotes) of employee stock options. The current study examines how corporate governance factors affect such choices. Prior studies (Xie et al. 2003; Klein 2002; Peasnell et al. 2000) have indicated that certain corporate governance factors have an impact on corporate accounting behavior, including earnings management. Based on the assumption that expensing employee stock options is a good practice of accounting that improves earnings quality, it is hypothesized that these corporate governance factors would affect companies' option expensing decisions, in ways similar to how they affect companies' other earnings management choices.A series of hypotheses relating to specific corporate governance factors are developed. These corporate governance factors include: Board independence (percentage of independent directors on the board, CEO/board chairman split, and tenure of independent directors), board expertise (governance expertise and financial expertise), board diligence, board ownership, board size, CEO tenure, and internal blockholders (cumulative ownership percentage of internal blockholders, and whether the largest blockholder is the CEO). A sample of firms that elected to expense employee stock options up to early September 2003 is identified from the report of Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. (2003), and a control sample of non-expensing firms is selected based on certain matching principles. The final sample consists of 235 expensing firms and 235 matched control firms, 470 firms in total.A logit regression is conducted. The dependent variable is companies' decisions on whether or not to expense employee stock options. The independent variables are corporate governance factors and control variables. Regression results indicate that the following corporate governance factors have statistically significant impact on option expensing decisions in the directions predicted: finance expertise, board diligence, and whether the CEO is the largest blockholder. Regression results indicate a statistically significant impact on option expensing decisions, which is in the opposite direction than predicted, for the cumulative ownership percentage of internal blockholders. The impacts of all other corporate governance factors are statistically insignificant.


In the name of God. Amen. I Ellen Morrissey of St. John's, Widow do hereby make my last Will and Testament.
I annull all other former wills and testamentary dispositions heretofore made by me and declare this to be my true last will and Testament.
I appoint Edward E. Davey and George A. Davey of St. John's, Contractors and Builders to be the Executors of this my last Will and Testament.
I direct that my Executors pay all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses.
I give and bequeath an Oil painting which is known by the name of "Cabot Tower" to Leo Buckley.
I give and bequeath my house with all that it contains (except the picture hereinbefore bequeathed to Leo Buckley) to Edward H. Davey and George A. Davey to be divided equally between them.
All the rest residue remainder of my estate of what nature or character soever or wheresoever situate I give and bequeath to Edward H. Davey and George A. Davey to be divided equally between them.
Signed published and declared by the said Ellen Morrissey in the presence of us the subscribing witnesses who signed in presence of the Testatrix and of each other the said will having been previously read over and explained to the Testatrix who seemed perfectly to understand the contents. A.E. Carter. William Moore.


Tutor uses situational language teaching method to teach this course. Students will have a chance to express themselves in different characters and scenarios .Through continuous and effective classroom practices, students'organizing and writing skills will be enhanced. Every student in class will be encouraged to deliver speeches and engage in discussion in each lesson in order to boost their confidence in public speaking .


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Compiles the total amount of balance impacts that have occurred in the past month. This can include usage fees and subscription fees.
Changes the status of all the bill items associated with the bill from pending to open so that they stop accumulating charges, and payments can be applied to them. In addition, a payment due date is added to the bill.
Automatically requests payments from a credit card processor or requests payments by sending invoices.
Automatically updates a customer's account balance when a payment is recorded in the BRM database.
So, how is all this done in practice?
These two last changes are done so as not to involve any provisioning action during the bill-run.
o	Verify loglevel. Change it to the appropriate value depending on what needs to be checked during the bill test, either 1 or 3.
To get the best possible simulation of production, the billrun pin_virtual_time has to be set to the date when the real billrun on production will be executed. Once that's done, the billrun can be started.
pin_deferred_act: Executes deferred actions; for example if an account should become inactive, this utility performs the status change on the scheduled date.
pin_bill_accts: Calculates the balance due for accounts and creates a bill for the balance due.
pin_collect: Collects the balance due for accounts that use credit cards and directs debit payment methods.
pin_refund: Finds accounts that have refund items and makes online refund transactions.
pin_inv_accts: Creates an invoice for each account that is billed.
pin_cycle_fees: Applies the cycle forward fee balance impact to the customer's account and cancels products that have an expired pending cancellation date.
To verify the progress and performance of the pin_bill_day script, we run queries against the database to get information on how many bills are done, how many are yet to be done, if there are any bills with errors, etc.
After the billing part is over and all the bills are created, invoicing starts. After the invoices are created, they are exported to XML documents, which are then converted into PDF format.
•	Are there any unbilled accounts?
•	Are there any bills without a bill number?
Any problems found are then investigated and fixed through the versioning control system, where fixes are later included in the next release version.
May I know, which platform are you using? What's the sizing of the hardware to support this implementation?
Our client uses two HP-UX Intanium servers.
can u pls clarify my doubts in oracle brm , after billing in same account some plans got incative and some not , y its happening if any flag or some other field data missed ,, if then let me know the class and field type …….. we r using pin_bill_day for billing …….
There can be many different reasons why some deals, plans or products get inactive after billing.
You can customize pin_bill_day to specify which billing utilities to run and set the parameters for each billing utility to specify how to run them.
By default, pin_deferred_act utility is included in the pin_bill_day script and is used to execute deferred actions. For example, if a CSR has scheduled an account to become inactive, the pin_deferred_act utility performs the status change on the scheduled date. This should be the most common reason why some plan become inactive after you do billing.
The second reason could be running pin_cycle_fees utility, that is also included in pin_bill_day script. pin_cycle_fees utility cancel products that have an expired pending cancellation date. For example, if a product is set to cancel at a future date, the pin_cycle_fees utility cancels the product.
As I mentioned you can set the parameters for each billing utility to specify how to run them and what actions they will perform. I suggest that you first pay attention on dates that specify when some plan should be cancel, cycle_end_t (cycle end time) and purchase_end_t (purchase end time) are set when you activate some plan, and they trigger status change (in your case to inactive) when you run billing.
I hope my answer will be useful to you, for more detail explanation I would need more specific information about accounts (plans) that become inactive and about billing utilities configuration.
I have an issue here . In my databse there are three types of Products- cycle forward, one-off,cycle arrear . Cycle arrear products are just included in product list . However, when I am running pin_bill_day on 1st of the next month two duplicate events are getting generated in the system . As a result, two same lines are reflecting in the invoice which is generating invoice with double amount of what it should be . After initial analysis I found that due to two executables of pin_bill_day duplicate lines are coming for cycle arrear products . One is pin_bill_accts and another is pin_cycle_fees .
So, can you please let me know any way so that I can filter cycle arrear product fee calculation on pin_cycle_fees executed by pin_bill_day of 1st of the next month . Eager to know from you or let me know if further clarification is needed .
I am new to Oracle BRM and would like to learn it. could you please help me as to where to start with. Are there any documents available online for the same.
You can try searching around the internet. You should find some YouTube videos; moreover, you should find some Oracle BRM documents. As an Oracle Gold partner, we have Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management ( abbreviations Oracle BRM, OBRM, OCBRM) books. I suggest that you start with Oracle BRM Essentials, and then continue, based on your needs (OCBRM Development, OCBRM Pipeline development, OCBRM Pricing, OBRM administration, etc.).
Thanks Ales, appreciate your suggestion.
The error "" bad parse of proto / hostname / port "no longer detected.
why it was happened ?
can you please give the solution on that issue?
I have a question. This is about delayed billing. What's the impact of enabling delayed billing?
Currently we are facing issues with bill run in which it has decreased the performance significantly since we have to run billing twice, partial billing and finalize billing. As of now, it is taking > 2 days to complete to complete the first stage, and issues traced at the database level is TX – row lock contention on bal_grp_t by this statement "select poid_DB, poid_ID0, poid_TYPE, poid_REV from bal_grp_t where bal_grp_t.billinfo_obj_ID0 = :1 order by bal_grp_t.poid_id0 for update of bal_grp_t.poid_id0" and also db file sequential read.
Maybe you can provide an advice related to this issue.
Delayed billing basically enables you to bill events which are older than the bill cycle for which you are creating the bill. You use it, if you are receiving events, which you need to bill, but were made during billing cycle for which billrun was allready done. For example mobile operators providing international roaming may receive events even up to 30 days after event/call was completed so they need to bill also "old" events.
Regarding your billing preformance issue and mentioned SQL statement, this TX – row lock contention on bal_grp_t is just the symptom, not the cause of the problem. SQL statement above is being used in BRM as a main mechanism of locking inside a transaction. BRM by default does not lock all the objects being modified inside a transaction. Instead it just locks the balance group of the account for which objects are being modified. For example during billrun operation, or during operation of charging an event.
This row lock contention just shows you, that operation/transaction on the account was not yet finished, yet another operation/transaction allready begun and is requesting the lock on the same object and is of course waiting for the first one to do its job and finish its transaction by either doing a commit or rollback.
To diagnose slow SQL operations during billrun, just use Oracle Database Enterprise Manager and go to Preformance, Top Activity section and observe top SQL statements running at that time. Watch for those which consume a lot of I/O or excessive CPU, they can be candidates for tuning. Sometimes just database statistics used by SQL Optimizer went stale and optimizer chose suboptimal plan. Sometimes you need to build a new index or maybe change the SQL statement if you are making some custom non out of the box billing procedures.
As your mileage may vary, it is difficult to diagnose your preformance problems just via this blog. Sometimes root problems lie deeper, like in bad architecture design, custom code, badly tuned database server (for example not enough disk spindles for the database as in modern time IT sales people just like to sell terabytes and forget IOPS).
what difference between the functionality of Pin_billd and Pin_bill_accts.?what are the input parameters for them?
need to know difference between balance_group and item and event?
The current balance present "bal_sub_bals_t" table is not reflecting in Customer center Balance tab. What could be the problem? and how to resolve this issue. Please help.
i have customer who cancelled there subscriptions and i am suppose to give them refund but there credit card is expired so i am not able to process that and it is coming in my discrepancy every month,so what should i do to resolve such issue except saying to customer to update the credit card ???
Hi: In one of the earlier posts (Oct 28,2011 by admin), there is a reference to Oracle BRM essentials Book for Oracle Gold Partners. Could you please provide me more info on how to get access to these books? Are these books sold by you or Oracle? Thanks, in advance.
The billing and invoicing are always run in single mode and hence the per_batch value is of no importance.
I want to know if there are any restrictions on how many bill s can be generated on an account in BRM.
If yes can you please let us know where we can check the same.
specifies the number of objects processed by each worker thread in a batch mode.
To run in more threads you need to set children attribute to 2 or more.
Children attribute specifies the number of worker threads spawned to perform the specified work. The default is 5.
The example shows the configuration with 10 threads.
How do you verify billing and invoicing?
How do you verify that all the bills are created?
How do you verify that all the invoices are created?
— Is there any difference between event and item?


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Mr Kenney's Speech on Bill No. 1
Posted on June 9, 2019 by susanonthesoapbox
Mr Kenney and Bill No. 1
There comes a time for politicians who spent the campaign trail foaming with righteous indignation to transform into thoughtful representatives of the people who elected them.
Sadly, for Mr Kenney that time did not come before he rose in the Legislature to speak to Bill No 1, An Act to Repeal the Carbon Tax.
Mr Kenney started his speech by saying his party had been created "for this moment, the opportunity to remove this huge dead-weight cost that punishes hard-working people living ordinary lives in this province." And here we thought his purpose was to unite the conservative movement and conquer Ottawa…oops, sorry, Edmonton.
Mr Kenney
Given Mr Kenney's majority, one would have expected the premier's speech to be relatively straightforward, but it didn't unfold that way.
Principles?
Rather than sticking with the "promise made, promise kept" story line, Mr Kenney started with an angry description of the "history" of the carbon tax—it was "a huge act of political deception" imposed on Albertans without their democratic consent to punish them for the "crime" of heating their houses and filling their gas tanks. Now, now Mr Kenney, the 600,000 plus Albertans who voted NDP in the 2019 election didn't see it that way.
After this salvo Mr Kenney tried to calm himself.
He promised to be "objective and fair" in representing the views of Professor Andrew Leach and others who said a carbon tax is more efficient than regulation and can be an efficient form of environmental policy if it is applied in accordance with four principles.
Then he set out the principles the NDP carbon tax failed to meet.
Battle stations everyone, logical fallacies in-coming!
Principle #1: Carbon taxes are more efficient than regulations
Mr Kenney could not refute the fact the NDP met this principle: it imposed a carbon tax instead of regulations to reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions so he threw red herrings around the room, starting with the NDP carbon tax not being a "utopian carbon tax" (did anyone say it was?) and falling back on campaign rhetoric (see "history" above). He noted the tax was not revenue neutral which may be true but isn't relevant in the context of the principle that a tax is better than a regulation.
Principle #2: Carbon taxes must replace offsetting regulations
Mr Kenney made this one up. It's part of his red-tape nightmare scenario. While it wasn't clear exactly what point Mr Kenney was trying to make it sounded like he expected the government to reduce or eliminate regulations concerning the health, safety and environmental impacts of energy exploration, production and transportation simply because it implemented a tax to reduce GHG emissions.
Principle #3: Carbon taxes should be "notionally progressive"
Mr Kenney lost it with this one. He said the NDP talked "ad nauseam about rebates" but only 40% of carbon tax revenues were rebated back to "a select number of individuals in about 60% of Alberta households."
If you ignore the indignant preamble, it's obvious Mr Kenney agrees that the NDP carbon tax satisfied Principle #3.
In fact, the NDP carbon tax raised $1.8 billion, which was either rebated to families earning less than $95,000/year and singles earning less than $47,500/year or reinvested in green projects.
Higher income Albertans didn't get rebates. That's how progressive taxes work.
Given that Mr Kenney failed to make his case on the facts, he embarked on a flight of fancy alleging the NDP were in cahoots with the Trudeau Liberals who were going to increase the carbon tax to $300/tonne. This was an irresponsible misstatement. The federal carbon tax started at $20/tonne in 2019. It will rise by $10/tonne per year until it reaches $50/tonne in 2022 where it will stay.
For good measure Mr Kenney implied the NDP were secretly planning to raise the carbon tax to $5000/tonne in accordance with a paper published by the UN International Panel on Climate Change.
Where does he get this stuff?
Principle #4: A carbon tax must be of general application to be effective
This is Mr Kenney's attempt to justify doing nothing while we wait for the world to catch up. He argued Alberta is the only jurisdiction "of the world's 10 largest oil and gas producers … to have imposed a carbon tax on itself," and pointed to Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, Iran and Venezuela as examples of jurisdictions without a carbon tax, snidely remarking that Venezuela must have missed "the memo from Socialist International".
However, he failed to mention Norway, the world's second largest oil producer, which implemented a carbon tax in 1991 (starting at $US 51/tonne) and set up a sovereign wealth fund which at $1 trillion is the largest rainy day fund on the planet.
Leaving aside the moral argument that we can't be a leader in mitigating climate change if we don't practice what we preach, it's disingenuous for Mr Kenney to argue no other oil producing jurisdiction has a carbon tax when we can google it and prove him wrong.
Having failed to score points on his "four principles" argument Mr Kenney threw in the accusation that the carbon tax failed to buy social licence.
By now he'd really built up a head of steam.
He said the NDP believed the carbon tax would turn pipeline opponents like David Suzuki, Elizabeth May and the BC NDP into pipeline proponents, but not "a single person, entity, government, party, or interest group moved from no to yes on pipelines as a result of the NDP carbon tax."
Can someone peel Mr Kenney off the ceiling and introduce him to Justin Trudeau and the Liberals who approved Trans Mountain because of Notley's Climate Leadership Plan which included the carbon tax, and the 70% of Canadians (up from 40%) who now support pipelines as a result of Notley's climate policies.
If we've learned anything from arguing with our kids, it's that an argument that begins with "no one" does X or "everyone" does Y is ludicrous.
Climate change deniers
Eventually Mr Kenney moved to what's really bugging him.
He's outraged by the term climate change deniers because he says "you know historically where that phrase comes from. It's rhetoric designed to impose, frankly, moral opprobrium on those targeted by it." He goes on to state he and his government do not deny climate science, and the anthropogenic and natural cases of climate change and the need to reduce carbon emissions. Has he talked to members of his caucus?
He wrapped up with a commitment to impose levies on large emitters to create a fund to address climate change and a discussion about the modern world moving away from carbon taxes (is it?) and the duty of energy rich countries to lift energy poor countries out of poverty.
It was a strange, illogical speech from the man who'd won an overwhelming majority just two months ago. His outrage at being tarred with the same brush as some of his MLAs was unsettling and highlights the danger of creating such a big tent to get votes that it's unbearable to live in after you're elected.
Mr Kenney's performance in the Legislature on Bill No. 1 brings to mind Bob Dylan's lyrics in Million Dollar Bash: "The louder they come, the harder they crack."
Mr Kenney campaigned loud and proud, now we're waiting to see if he cracks.
Source: Alberta Hansard, May 30, 2019 starting at p 246
This entry was posted in Climate Change, Energy & Natural Resources, Environment, Politics and Government and tagged Bill No. 1, Jason Kenney, NDP Carbon Tax, Rachel Notley. Bookmark the permalink.
17 Responses to Mr Kenney's Speech on Bill No. 1
Jerrymacgp says:
Excellent post. A few notes, if I may:
– re "huge act of political deception imposed on Albertans without their democratic consent": actually, the NDP's campaign commitment in 2015 was something like this: "(1) we're going to take action on climate change, and (2) we're going to convene an expert panel [which they did] to advice on what that action should be"; the carbon levy was the result of that advice
– re his list of oil & gas producing jurisdictions, Alberta was the only sub-national jurisdiction on theta lost; he should have said Canada, not just Alberta: Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, BC, Saskatchewan & the Territories also have O & G industries
– re Mr Kenney campaigning "loud & proud", I find that phrasing amusing, since it is often associated with Pride events; perhaps you chose that phrasing deliberately 😉
susanonthesoapbox says:
Thanks Jerry! Something happened to Mr Kenney since he left federal politics and washed up here.
His speech in the Legislature sounded like a pep talk at a political rally not the reasoned debate of a seasoned legislator. His outrage at being labelled a "climate change denier" is bizarre given the number of climate change deniers in the UCP. First and foremost is Mark Smith (MLA, Drayton Valley). NDP MLA David Sheppard told the Legislature that Smith financed a film denying climate change and was a head table guest at a Friends of Science event. (Smith also made headlines for making homophobic comments before the election). Why Kenney thinks these beliefs won't stick to him is beyond me.
Good point re: Alberta being a sub-national jurisdiction, another example of Kenney's sloppy "logic".
I'm glad you liked the "loud & proud" reference. I slip those in from time to time just for fun 🙂
Carlos Beca says:
Interesting that people find him different because he has always been a lunatic as far back as I remember when he was director of the Alberta Taxpayers Association.
Back then he already had the cassette in his brain with the lowering taxes and give the companies all they want.
I have such a bad opinion of this man that I am avoiding comments so that people do not think I have some psychological disturbance, like having a seizure when someone says his name. 🙂
Carlos, your comment that Kenney has been "a lunatic" since he worked for the Taxpayers Association is bang on. What's interesting to me is that so many conservatives didn't see who Kenney was from the very beginning.
Here's a classic example. I follow the conservative radio show host, Charles Adler, on Twitter. He supported Kenney for over 20 years, but when he interviewed Kenney just before the election he took Kenney to task for his homophobic actions in San Francisco and gave Kenney a chance to apologize. Kenney refused to apologize and ducked the question (3 times). Kenney's conservative supporters clobbered Adler and called him everything from a socialist to a Red Tory.
Adler later apologized to the women (gay and straight) and gay men he didn't listen to when they warned him about who Kenney really was. (This made the conservative right even crazier).
What amazes me is why it took Adler this long to understand who Kenney really is.
What also amazes me is the people who know exactly who Kenney is, but support him anyway because they believe he'll fix the economy. The first group are dense, the second group are unethical.
In either case we're in trouble.
I know we are in trouble for many different reasons but I sense that this wave of stupidity is starting to recede. Like you I am concerned because any system as resilient as it is never returns to the original state. These so called Conservatives will be in history for a coup (failed or not) against democratic values. Scheer does not know which way to go anymore. He knows that 'a la Ford/Trump campaign is now dangerous but at the same time he wants to look as fascist as possible with his good friends in Canada. Justin Trudeau is in a bad spot but I believe Scheer is worse now and until October he could be in trouble. It seems no one cares about him.
Of course now the Green Party is on the upswing. The gurus on TV claim that is because Canadians are concerned with the environment more than ever, but I would venture to say that Elizabeth May is the only politician people still trust. People are trying to hang on the belief that we can still do it differently in Canada. Going for the Green party is to me a much better option than voting Conservative or Liberal. Unfortunately our wonderful voting system will screw the Greens really bad because there is no concentration of voters. They will end up getting for example 15% of the total vote if not more, and get 2 seats. Pathetic and only in Canada. What will it take to convince these dinosaurs in the Commons that this system is OUTDATED and it was never good anyway.
The next election cannot come soon enough.
Carol, I suspect all the UCP supporters who believed Kenney's promises will soon be saying the same thing. When hard core conservatives like radio host Charles Adler say the Kenney they've known for 20 years and this Kenney are two different people you know something is off the rails.
Here's the link: http://charlesadler.com/lets-tell-the-truth/i-cant-honestly-tell-you-that-i-really-know-who-jason-kenney-is-its-a-mystery-to-me-and-it-troubles-me/
Thank you for providing the link
Bota28 says:
Got that right !
Susan: Thanks once again for another great blog. With this carbon tax issue, it is not surprising how Jason Kenney plays off of people's ignorance, and many believe him. It worked on many levels to get him elected, and this is one such example. Alberta already has a carbon tax, because Ed Stelmach put it there. This was North America's first ever carbon tax, followed by Gordon Campbell's Liberal (Conservative) government in B.C putting in a carbon tax there. The oil companies have shown their support for the carbon tax, when Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau were not even in power. There are people who claim that Rachel Notley did not campaign on the carbon tax. She did, and was giving the oil companies what they were asking for. The most right winged politician in Canada, from the last 30 years, Preston Manning, supports the carbon tax. I recall Jason Kenney saying that he does favour the carbon tax, but on large emitters. I also thought he was going to stand up to Ottawa, and fight the Liberals carbon tax. He has not done that. Premier Scott Moe in Saskatchewan tried it and failed. Now, Ottawa gets to choose where their carbon tax revenue goes. Alberta has no carbon tax, and green projects, like rapid transit developments and upgrades in Calgary and Edmonton will need to get their funding from elswhere. There were erroneous claims that the provincial carbon tax caused prices of things like utilities, gas and other items in Alberta to go up. Ralph Klein deregulated utilities in Alberta, magnifying their costs greatly. Electricity deregulation cost Albertans over $30 billion. I recall that gas prices at the pump were even 86 cents per litre, not so long ago when Rachel Notley's carbon tax was in place. Long before any carbon tax existed in Alberta, Alberta had the highest rate of inflation in the nation. It was that way from the early 2000s onwards. This is going to be a long 4 years. The UCP is not going to help Alberta with what they are doing.
Dwayne good points. I have a question though.
You seem to say that Ed Stelmach created the carbon tax. As far as I know Rachel Notley created it. Also BC implemented way before us not after us.
This does not really matter but has a political meaning.
'Alberta already has a carbon tax, because Ed Stelmach put it there. This was North America's first ever carbon tax, followed by Gordon Campbell's Liberal (Conservative) government in B.C putting in a carbon tax there.'
Carlos Becca: Ed Stelmach did put in a carbon tax for Alberta before B.C did. It was North America's first ever carbon tax. That's what happened. In fact, Jason Kenney did not get rid of the carbon tax for Alberta. You might want to look that up for yourself. Alberta is still not carbon tax free, according to Trevor Tombe, an expert on this matter.
Ok thank you for clarifying. I usually do not forget political events, that is why I asked the question. I am getting old I guess 🙂
Excellent points Dwayne. I think it is instructive to compare who stood with Notley when she introduced the climate leadership plan and who stood with Kenney when he announced the "energy war room" that is going to fight on behalf of the industry. Notley was on stage with CEOs from Suncor, Shell, Cenovus, and CNRL (Suncor CEO Steve Williams said Notley's plan is "a real game changer"). Kenney was on stage with some guy in an Oilsands Strong T-shirt and blogger Vivian Krause who says the Rockefeller Foundation is trying to kill our industry by funding environmentalists. Not one oil company executive in the bunch of them.
That speaks volumes about what the energy industry really thinks about the UCP's energy policies.
Susan: You are right. What will Jason Kenney do about still sagging oil prices? That is an issue that has been around for 5 years. He misses the reality of Saudi Arabia and the United States impacting oil prices. The energy "war room" does not address that fact. Also, there still is the issue of cleaning up the damage done by the oil companies, like abandoned oil wells, tailings ponds, and other things. This was something left behind by the Alberta PCs, and it goes back to the 1990s. There was a cost of $260 billion mentioned to deal with this. This energy "war room" would be met with criticism, if Peter Lougheed were still around. He showed disgust with how the other Alberta PC governments were recklessly dealing with oilsands development. He called Fort McMurray a mess. Peter Lougheed also knew about the instability of the oil industry, from having worked in it, when he was not involved in politics. That energy "war room" also misses that point.
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Portraiture is an art form which goes back to ancient times and before the advent of photography it was the only way to chronicle the appearance of someone. However the way the sitter was portrayed by the artist afforded them the illusion of power, importance, virtue, beauty, wealth, taste, learning or other qualities of the sitter. Often it was the artist's "duty" to depict the sitter in a flattering way, although some portraitists, like William Hogarth, refused to flatter, and would often have their works rejected by the person who had commissioned the portrait. The artist I am featuring in today's blog was one of the leading portrait artists of the seventeenth century. He painted everything from miniatures to small scale royal portraits, portraying aristocracy, lawyers, gentry and merchants
Cornelius Johnson or Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (Cologne) was born in October 1593 in London to a Flemish/German protestant family . He was baptised at the London Dutch Reform Church at Austin Friars much used by the Netherlandish community in London. His father was Cornelius Johnson who had been a religious refugee from Antwerp and his paternal grandfather had come from Cologne. His mother was Johanna le Grand. It was thought that Cornelius could have received his first artistic training, whilst in the Netherlands, from Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt. It is known that Cornelius had definitely returned to England by 1619 for it is recorded that he was a witness at the baptism of his nephew, Theodore Russell. During the 1620's he lived and had his studio in the London parish of St Ann, Blackfriars, as did the other leading portraiture artist, Anthony van Dyck and the English father and son miniaturists, Isaac and Peter Oliver.
Portrait of a Woman, Traditionally Identified as the Countess of Arundel by Cornelius Johnson (1619)
His earliest paintings date from 1619 and soon he had created a large number of portraits with his sitters coming from various upper levels of society. One of his early works was a portrait of Alathea Talbot, Countess of Arundel, a famous patron and art collector, and one of England's first published female scientists. She was the third daughter of George Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, K.G. and his step-sister Mary, daughter of Sir William Cavendish, who married in 1606 Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel. Johnson has depicted the countess wearing a red dress trimmed with lace with a white lace collar and a gold earring with a blackbird pendant in her right ear.
On July 16th 1622 at the Dutch Church in London, Cornelius married Elizabeth Beke, a lady from a migrant family based in Colchester. Their first son, James, was born on September 30th 1623 but died young. Another son, Cornelius Junior, was born in London in August 1634 and went on to follow in his father's footsteps, and become a painter.
Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry by Cornelius Johnson ( 1639)
During the 1620's his fame as an artist soon spread. Johnson's most constant client was a lawyer, Thomas, 1st Baron Coventry of Aylesborough, a prominent English lawyer, politician and judge. He sat for Johnson on at least five different occasions during the 1620s and 1630s. This portrait, shows him with the bag of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and the mace of the Speaker.
John Finch, Lord Finch of Fordwich, formerly known as Sir Nicholas Hyde by Cornelius Johnson
Cornelius Johnson painted the portraits of many senior legal figures including Sir John Finch. Finch was Speaker between 1628–1629. On 10 March 1629, as Speaker, he tried to adjourn the House of Commons on the King's command, following a disagreement between the King and Members of Parliament over King Charles I's belief that by the royal prerogative he could govern without the advice and consent of Parliament. Civil War was creeping ever closer.
Lady Margaret Hungerford by Cornelius Johnson (1631)
Another dignitary to sit for Johnson was Lady Margaret Hungerford, the daughter of a wealthy London alderman who had married Sir Edward Hungerford in 1621. Her husband owned vast tracts of land in England and were spent much of their time at Corsham House in Wiltshire and Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset. We see the sitter wearing an orange patterned dress with a large white lace collar, a gold-and-black jewel necklace and an orange flower in her hair. In the top right-hand corner of the picture, there is a coat of arms. It is a sumptuous depiction of the details of the costly lace, her embroidered and spangled dress and silver braided ribbons, topped off with expensive jewellery. It must have taken Johnson many hours to perfect the depiction.
Charles I by Cornelius Johnson after Daniel Mytens (1632)
Cornelius Johnson collaborated with Daniel Mytens, a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter, in a full-length portrait of the monarch, Charles I, in 1631. Mytens had moved from the Netherlands to London in 1618 and had become one of James I and Charles I's court painters. In the background is a view of Windsor Castle and at the king's feet is his trusty King Charles spaniel.
Charles I by Anthony van Dyke (1634)
In 1632 Johnson was appointed one of King Charles I's court painters. The appointment was termed
"…his Majesty's servant in ye quality of Picture Drawer to his Majesty…"
Around 1634 Daniel Mytens returned to the Netherlands where he worked and continued to paint but also was an art dealer in The Hague. This you may think gave Johnson the advantage as being the lead court painter but it was not to be as another artist came on to the scene. Of all the Stuart kings, Charles I was the most passionate collector of art as he viewed paintings as a way of endorsing the lofty view of the monarchy. Antwerp-born, Anthony van Dyke arrived in England in April 1632. It was not van Dyke's first time in London as he had spent six months there at the end of 1620 before heading off to Italy. Although he was travelling around Italy Van Dyck remained constantly in touch with the courts of James I and Charles I's and whilst travelling around Italy he helped King Charles's agents in their search for paintings. He also sent to England some of his own works. In April 1632 van Dyck returned to London and immediately became a court favourite as well as being welcomed by king Charles who knighted him in July and set out that van Dyke should receive a pension of £200 a year The wording of the grant document referred to Van Dyke as principalle Paynter in ordinary to their majesties. He was provided with a house on the River Thames at Blackfriars, then just outside the City of London, thus avoiding the monopoly of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers. Van Dyke's Blackfriars studio was frequently visited by the King and Queen and later a special causeway was built to ease their access from the river. Charles rarely sat for another painter while van Dyck lived.
The artistic trajectory of Cornelius Johnson was stalled.
Charles II as a Boy by Cornelius Johnson (1639)
In 1639 Johnson received a royal commission to paint the three young children of Charles I and his French princess wife Henrietta Maria. First was a portrait of Charles' eldest son, Charles, who would later become Charles II. It depicts the nine year-old-boy as a boy soldier, which appears to be a powerful piece of propaganda. Charles I was executed in January 1649 at the climax of the English Civil War and the country became a de facto republic led by Oliver Cromwell. When Cromwell died in 1658, the English monarchy was restored and Charles II became monarch on his thirtieth birthday on May 29th 1660.
James II as a Boy by Cornelius Johnson (1639)
Cornelius Johnson painted the portrait of Charles I's second son, James, when he was six-years-old. It was not until forty-six years later, in 1685, on the death of his brother, Charles II, that he became king of England.
Princess Mary by Cornelius Johnson (1639)
The third 1639 royal portrait by Johnson was of the English princess, Mary, who was the eldest of Charles I's children and the sister of Charles II and James I. She was eight years old at the time of the painting.
William II, Prince of Orange and his bride Mary Stuart by Anthony van Dyke (1641)
Two years later, in 1641, Mary who was just nine years of age was married to the future stadtholder of the Netherlands, fifteen-year-old William II of Orange. Eight days after her husband's death in 1650, Mary gave birth to a son, William III of Orange, who later became King of England. After the restoration of the monarchy in England in 1660, Mary left the Netherlands to join in the celebrations in London, where she fell ill with smallpox and died, aged 29.
Robert, Lord Bruce, later 2nd Earl of Elgin by Cornelius Johnson (1635)
Johnson painted many portraits of children, either individually or in pairs, and consequently was much in demand with English and Scottish clients. An example of this genre was Johnson's 1635 portrait entitled Robert, Lord Bruce, later 2nd Earl of Elgin and 1st Earl of Ailesbury. We see before us a fashionably dressed young sitter, Robert, Lord Bruce, who was the only child and heir of the Scottish nobleman Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin. As a young child, Bruce received little formal education, but once he became a teenager, he travelled to Europe and was one of the first Scots to embark on the Grand Tour. By 1659, twenty-three-year-old Bruce had become an active royalist conspirator and was involved in plans for an uprising against the government, which led to his arrest.
Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin by Cornelius Johnson (1638)
The portrait had been commissioned by the boy's father, Thomas Bruce. One must believe that Thomas Bruce was pleased with the resulting portrait of his son as three years later, in 1638, he commissioned Johnson to paint a full-length portrait of himself.
Portrait of Willem Thielen by Cornelius Johnson
The community that Cornelius Johnson lived among centred itself around the Austin Friars, the Dutch church in London. At the time of the late sixteenth century the Dutch community was the largest group of expatriates living in London and numbered around five thousand out of the total population of one hundred thousand at the time. About half of the Dutch residing in London were Protestants who had fled the Flemish Low Countries due to religious persecution. Others were skilled craftsman, including brewers, tile makers, weavers, artists, printers and engravers, who came to England for economic opportunities. Johnson was commissioned to paint portraits of many of these distinguished members of this Netherlandish community.
Portrait of Madame Thielen by Cornelius Johnson
One such pair were Willem Thielen, the Minister of Austin Friars, and his wife Maria de Fraeye.
The 1st Baron Capel and his Family by Cornelius Johnson (c.1640)
From left to right: Arthur Capel 1st Earl of Essex (1631-1683), his father Arthur Capel 1st Baron Capel (1604-1649), Henry Capel 2nd Baron Capel (1638-1896), Elizabeth, Lady Capel (died 1661), Charles Capel (died 1657), Elizabeth Countess of Carnarvon (1633-1678), and Mary Duchess of Beaufort.
It was around 1640 that Cornelius John received the commission to paint a large family group portrait of the 1st Baron Capel and his wife and their five surviving children. It is a depiction which celebrates fecundity, good health, good looks and stylish elegance. Lord Capel was a diehard Royalist. Appropriately, given the horticultural interests of the Capels, the family are pictured here posing in front of their formal garden at Little Hadham Hall in Hertfordshire. The baron's wife is dressed modestly and somewhat behind the times. She is seen wearing a two-tiered cape trimmed with lace to conceal her bodice, but her daughters wear lace collars that were démodé for about five years.
The Greet Peece by van Dyke (1632)
The set-up for Cornelius Johnson's depiction of the Capel Family was thought to have come from van Dyke's 1632 depiction of Charles I and his family.
Anthony van Dyke died in 1641 and this should have added to the opportunities for Johnson whose work and reputation had been overshadowed by van Dyke. However, Johnson was not to have that boost in England because at the time of van Dyke's death the political situation in England was fast deteriorating and by 1642 Charles I had fled from London. George Vertue, an English engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period, in October 1843 he wrote of Cornelius Johnson's predicament:
"…being terrifyd with those apprehensions & the constant perswasions of his wife, the family emigrated to the Netherlands…"
In Alexander Finberg's 1922 book A Chronological List of Portraits by Cornelius Johnson he talks about Johnson's "pass", parliamentary permission to travel and leave England. Finberg wrote:
"…Cornelius Johnson, Picture Drawer, shall have Mr Speaker's Warrant to pass beyond the seas with Emmanuel Pass and George Hawkins and to carry with him such pictures and colours, bedding, household stuff, pewter and brass as belonged to himself…"
On October 27th 1643 Johnson left London and sailed to Middelbourg, Zeeland, a city in Southwest Netherlands. Middlebourg was part of the The United Provinces often referred to as Netherlands, or the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
Apolonius Veth by Cornelius Johnson (1644)
Once residing in Middelbourg Johnson joined the painter's guild, The Guild of St Luke. One of Johnson's first commissions was a lucrative and prestigious one. It came from Apolonius Veth, who was the burgomaster of Middelbourg.
Cornelia Veth by Cornelius Johnson (1644)
Apolonia Veth also commissioned Johnson to paint a portrait of his wife, Cornelia.
The Hague Magistrates by Cornelius Johnson (1647)
For a time, Cornelius Johnson and his family left Middelbourg and went to live in Amsterdam. Cornelius carried on with his portrait commissions but also took on multi-figure commissions. One such was his 1647 painting entitled The Hague Magistrates.
The Middelburg Archers' Guild by Cornelius Johnson (1650)
Another of Johnson's multi-figured civic portraits was his 1650 painting entitled The Middelburg Archers' Guild. One presumes the Guild commissioned Johnson for the painting. Johnson's old client Apolonius Veth was Deacon of the Guild the year Johnson worked on the painting so, as he appears in the depiction, maybe he was the person who commissioned the work.
Regulierskerk in Utrecht
During 1652 Johnson relocated his family to Utrecht and resided in the high-status address of Herrenstraat. Portrait commissions kept rolling in from the elite families of Utrecht and Johnson was soon regarded as a leading portrait painter. Cornelius Johnson sometimes known as Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen died on August 5th 1661, aged 67 and the funeral service was held in the Regulierskerk in Utrecht
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US, UK face double dip
The United States Federal Reserve warned this week that a recovery in the world's largest economy was likely to be "more modest in the near term" than anticipated, as the Bank of England pared back its growth outlook for the United Kingdom, heightening fears of a "double-dip recession".
On Tuesday the Fed took a cautious step towards pumping extra liquidity into the financial system with an operation described as a 'lite" version of quantitative easing, in response to a slowdown in the pace of the US's economic recovery.
Expressing anxiety about the darkening outlook, the Fed's open market committee said: "The pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months." The Fed's policymaking committee, chaired by Ben Bernanke, left interest rates unchanged at their ultra-low level of between zero and 0.25%.
In a measure meant to stimulate economic activity, the central bank said it intended to reinvest the proceeds of its maturing holdings of mortgage-backed securities by pumping the funds into treasury bonds. The Fed's intervention, approved by a nine-to-one margin, served to soothe nervous markets.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average had fallen by up to 100 points during the morning session but narrowed its loss sharply within minutes of the committee's statement. By early afternoon in New York, the Dow was down 17 at 10 681 points.
Analysts cautiously welcomed the move, though some said it would be insufficient. Jeremy Cook, chief economist at currency broker World First in London, said that: "This is a bit of appeasement for the market. It's the Fed buying itself a little bit more time. If it had just kept with the same policy language, it could have been accused of being asleep at the wheel if the economy fails to turn around."
Citing shaky business and consumer confidence, tight bank lending and the government's spending cuts, the Bank of England warned that Britain faced a protracted and "choppy recovery", as official data showed a sharp rise in long-term unemployment and a smaller than expected fall in the number of people claiming jobless benefits.
The bank's latest quarterly inflation report said it was in no hurry to raise interest rates from their record low of 0.5%. But with commentators increasingly debating whether the UK is headed for another recession, many economists said the bank was still too optimistic on growth.
The bank's report, which forecasts economic prospects two years ahead, sees growth nearer 3% then, down from its previous prediction for about 3.5%. It also predicted inflation would fall to well below its 2% target in two years, helped by slack in the recovering labour market.
Presenting the report, governor Mervyn King said business and consumer surveys had weakened "quite markedly" recently, credit conditions were not easing as quickly as the bank had expected and the government's fiscal measures would also dampen growth — although they would remove some long-term downside risks to the economy.
"Whereas crises occur suddenly, they fade only gradually," King said. "It will take many years before bank balance sheets and fiscal positions return to anything like normal. In the meantime they will act as headwinds to the recovery."
Rob Carnell at ING Financial Markets said, although the bank's growth forecast was still high, the governor "sounded a good deal more cautious on growth than these figures suggest". ING sees growth at about half the bank's forecast in 2011 and 2012.
King echoed the government's emphasis that the UK economy needed to be rebalanced away from private and public consumption and towards net exports after the latest data showed imports continue to dwarf exports.
The governor also highlighted troubles in key export markets, echoing the concerns of British businesses that the US could be heading for a double-dip recession whereas the eurozone countries would struggle as their governments pushed through fiscal reforms. 'There is great uncertainty about the outlook for both the US and our [the UK's] most important trading partner, the euro area," said King. —
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Kilburn is a small village on the south-western edge of the North Yorkshire Moors, east of Thirsk.
The village would perhaps go unremarked apart from the 'big attraction' on the hill above the village - a white horse carved in the hillside above Kilburn, and its association with a well known furniture maker called 'the Mouseman'
Kilburn White Horse
In 1857 it is thought that a locally born businessman called Thomas Taylor led the project to remove the soil from the site on Sutton bank, above Kilburn village itself, and expose the limestone below creating the picture of the horse, although other sources attribute the project to a local schoolmaster, John Hodgson.
Almost 100 metres long and 67 metres high, the 'horse' is visible from many places to the south of the village, and a prominent local landmark. You can visit the white horse itself - there is a footpath around it; or alternatively head towards Bagby for the best view back across to appreciate the achievement in its natural setting.
Kilburn Mouseman
A local furniture maker, Robert Thompson - better known as the Mouseman - also came from Kilburn. Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement of the 1920's, he was well known for always carving a mouse into each of his creations, and examples can be seen in the Mouseman visitor centre in Kilburn. Local examples of his work can also be seen in the churches at Kilburn and Hubberholme, while further afield the candlesticks in Westminster Abbey are another example, while his furniture is sought after by collectors.
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Stryker Published: September 17, 2020
A man has spent almost three decades of his life behind bars. He says he plans to sue the state for a crime he did not commit.
Back in 1991, Corey Atchison was convicted of murdering James Warren Lane. The reason for the conviction was based on the testimony of a sole witness. Last year, that witness came forward and said he was coerced by Tulsa police into testifying against Atchison.
A Tulsa county judge ruled that Atchison was wrongly convicted and will be released from prison. "I'm feeling blessed. It's unbelievable. Blessed," said Atchison after the judge said their verdict. Looks like Corey Atchison has decided to file a lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma for the police department's actions.
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Jake Allen News
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Allen will start Monday vs. the Ducks.
Allen gave up five goals on 33 shots in the Blues loss in Vegas on January 4th. It was a rare bad outing for Allen, who draws a great matchup on Monday. Allen has started just two home games this season, allowing a combined five goals on 60 goals (.917 SV%). In comes the Ducks, who are 2-9-2 while scoring just 2.38 goals per game in their last 13 road games.
Source: Jim Thomas 01/13/20, 1:26 pm EST
Allen is in the starter's crease at the Blues morning skate.
Source: Jeremy Rutherford 01/13/20, 1:25 pm EST
Allen led the Blues onto the ice for warmups.
Source: Jeremy Rutherford 01/4/20, 3:36 pm EST
Allen will start Tuesday in Arizona.
Allen allowed two goals on 36 shots in the Blues win in San Jose on December 21st. Jordan Binnington started the last three games but it looks like Allen will start New Year's Even in Arizona. Allen has gone 4-1-0 with a 1.39 GAA, .958 SV% and one shutout in his last six outings (five starts). He draws a solid road matchup in Arizona, vs. a Coyotes team that has lost three in a row while scoring just 1.67 goals per game.
Source: Lou Korac 12/31/19, 4:50 pm EST
Allen is expected to start Tuesday in Arizona.
Allen will start Saturday in San Jose.
Source: Tom Timmermann 12/21/19, 4:15 pm EST
Allen was the first goalie off of the ice at the Blues morning skate.
Allen will start Wednesday vs. the Oilers.
Allen allowed three goals on 31 shots in the Blues loss in Buffalo last Tuesday. Jordan Binnington started the last three games but Allen will get a shot at the Oilers on Wednesday night. The 29-year-old stopped 32 of 34 shots in a 5-2 win in his only start against the Oilers in 2019-20.
Allen will start Tuesday in Buffalo.
Allen allowed one goal on 16 shots after replacing Jordan Binnington in the Blues' loss to the Maple Leafs on Saturday. Allen continues to play very well. He is 4-0-2 with a 1.72 GAA, .946 SV% and one shutout in his last seven appearances and will start for the fourth time in the last eight games on Tuesday. The Sabres are 8-3-3 while scoring 3.64 goals per game in Buffalo this year.
Allen is expected to start Tuesday in Buffalo.
Allen will start Monday in Chicago.
Allen stopped 31 of 32 shots in the Blues win in Dallas on Friday. Allen has played very well recently, earning himself more playing time than expected. He has picked up a point for the Blues in five straight starts (3-0-2) while posting a 2.12 GAA and .934 SV%. Tonight he meets a Blackhawks team that has lost five of their last six (1-4-1) while scoring just 2.17 goals per game.
Source: Lou Korac 12/2/19, 12:57 pm EST
Allen will start Friday in Dallas.
Allen will start Monday in Nashville.
Allen gave up three goals on 39 shots in the Blues' loss in Columbus on November 15th. Jordan Binnington started the last four games but they'll get Allen a game on Monday night. The 29-year-old is 3-0-1 with a 2.93 GAA and .904 SV% in four road games this season and the Predators have surprisingly lost five in a row while scoring just 2.40 goals per game at home.
Allen will start Friday in Columbus.
Allen allowed two goals on 33 shots in the Blues win in Edmonton on November 6th. Allen doesn't get a lot of playing time but has played well as of late, winning two in a row while stopping 52 of the 57 shots (.912 SV%) that he faced. He draws a pretty nice spot-start matchup on Friday—the Blue Jackets have lost three straight while scoring just two goals in their last three home games.
Source: Tom Timmermann 11/15/19, 12:18 pm EST
Allen will start in Edmonton on Wednesday.
Source: Jack Michaels 11/6/19, 12:22 pm EST
Allen starts Saturday in Minnesota.
Allen allowed four goals on 24 shots in the Blues loss to the Canadiens on October 19th. Allen missed a start last weekend due to an illness but will make his third start of the season on Saturday evening. He has allowed four goals in each of his starts while posting a .849 SV%, but a matchup with the Wild keeps him in the spot-start conversation on Saturday.
Source: Jim Thomas 11/2/19, 6:31 pm EST
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