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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (* 21. Juni 1732 in Leipzig; † 26. Januar 1795 in Bückeburg) war ein deutscher Musiker, Kapellmeister und Komponist aus der Familie Bach und dritter der vier komponierenden Bachsöhne. Zur Kennzeichnung wird er häufig "Bückeburger Bach" genannt.

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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bachs Lebenslauf begann wie der seiner Brüder: Er erhielt eine Ausbildung an der Leipziger Thomasschule sowie musikalischen Unterricht durch seinen Vater. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, der älteste Sohn Johann Sebastian Bachs, hielt (nach der Aussage von Nikolaus Forkel) den Halbbruder für den "stärksten Spieler" unter den vier Brüdern, der "seines Vaters Claviercompositionen am fertigsten vorgetragen" habe. Mit siebzehn Jahren begann Friedrich ein Jurastudium an der Leipziger Universität, brach dieses aber bald darauf, noch vor dem Tod des Vaters, wieder ab und folgte um die Jahreswende 1749/50 als gerade Achtzehnjähriger dem Ruf, als "Hochgräflich Schaumburg-Lippischer Cammer-Musicus" am Hof in Bückeburg in Dienste zu treten. Wilhelm Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe, der 1748 seinem Vater als Regent des kleinen Territoriums gefolgt war, hatte sich von der königlichen Hofmusik am Hofe Friedrichs II. in Potsdam stark beeindruckt gezeigt und feste Pläne gefasst, in seiner Residenz diesem Vorbild nachzueifern.

Am Bückeburger Hof waren derzeit die beiden Italiener Giovanni Battista Serini als Leiter der Hofkapelle und Angelo Colonna als Hofkomponist tätig. Bach lernte durch sie den Stil der italienischen Oper und Kantate kennen, da in den mindestens zweimal wöchentlich stattfindenden "Concerten", die in der Regel spätnachmittags gegeben wurden, vor allem Vokalmusik aufgeführt wurde. Dazu unterhielt die Hofkapelle eine Sängerin, Lucia Elisabeth Münchhausen, Tochter des Hofmusikers Ludolf Andreas Münchhausen, die durch den Unterricht des Konzertmeisters Serini in die italienische Gesangskultur eingeführt wurde.

Bach erhielt zu Beginn des Jahres 1750 die Stelle eines Hofmusikers in Bückeburg, wo er sich wohl den Stil der am Hof gespielten Musik aneignen konnte. Datierte Kompositionen dieser Zeit aus seiner Hand sind bisher nicht überliefert.

Am 8. Januar 1755 heiratete Bach die Hofsängerin Lucia Elisabeth Münchhausen (1732–1803). Die beiden Italiener verließen 1756 mit Beginn des Siebenjährigen Krieges den Hof, und Bach übernahm nun deren Aufgaben. Neben der Leitung der Konzerte hatte er für die Anschaffung und Komposition neuer Musik zu sorgen. Auf Betreiben des Grafen nahm er dazu auch Kontakt mit Musikern anderer Adelshöfe auf, um Notenmaterial zu erbitten – Graf Wilhelm hatte den Ehrgeiz, in seiner Musikbibliothek den neuesten Entwicklungen des Musikgeschmacks zu folgen. Von Oktober 1757 bis April 1758, in der Zeit des Siebenjährigen Kriegs, hatte sich der Graf mit einigen Mitgliedern des Hofes, darunter Bach, auf seinen Sitz in Nienstedten an der Elbe zurückgezogen. In dieser Zeit bewarb sich Bach erfolgreich als Organist an der evangelischen Hauptkirche in Altona. Graf Wilhelm erlaubte ihm jedoch nicht, diese Stelle anzutreten, ernannte ihn aber am 18. Februar 1759 offiziell zum Konzertmeister.

1759 wurde Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst, der älteste Sohn von insgesamt acht Kindern des Paares, geboren, dessen Patenschaft der Graf auf Bachs Bitte hin übernahm. Wilhelm war der letzte Musiker in der direkten Nachkommenschaft Johann Sebastian Bachs. Als 1767 Georg Philipp Telemann in Hamburg starb, unternahm Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach seinen einzigen belegten Versuch, seine Stellung in Bückeburg gegen eine bessere zu tauschen, und bewarb sich als Musikdirektor in Hamburg; bei der Vergabe der Stelle wurde ihm jedoch sein älterer und bekannterer Halbbruder Carl Philipp Emanuel vorgezogen. Dies führte aber nicht zu einer Trübung der brüderlichen Beziehungen, sondern es entwickelte sich ein eher verstärkter Kontakt und Austausch von Anregungen und Kompositionen.

Für Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach begann nun eine intensive Schaffensphase. Neben vielen Kammermusikwerken und Klaviermusik komponierte er um 1769 seine ersten Oratorien Die Pilgrime auf Golgatha (Text: Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae) und Der Tod Jesu in der zweiten Textfassung von Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1760), dessen Erstfassung schon Carl Heinrich Graun (1755) und Telemann (1756) erfolgreich vertont hatten. Ebenfalls aus der Zeit vor 1770 stammen die ersten zehn seiner insgesamt zwanzig Sinfonien; zehn weitere entstanden in einer späteren Phase zwischen 1792 und 1794.

Die Berufung Johann Gottfried Herders (1744–1803) als Hofprediger und Konsistorialrat nach Bückeburg im Jahre 1771 führte zu fruchtbarer Zusammenarbeit und Freundschaft zwischen dem Dichter und dem Komponisten. Aus ihrem gemeinsamen Schaffen stammen die Oratorien Die Kindheit Jesu und Die Auferweckung des Lazarus (1773) sowie einige Kantaten und die dramatischen Werke Brutus und Philoktetes (beide 1774), wobei der kritische Herder offenbar in der engen Zusammenarbeit mit Bach seine musikästhetischen Ansichten in die Praxis umgesetzt sah. Diese für Bach geistig anregende Zeit endete 1776 mit der Berufung Herders nach Weimar.

Als ein Jahr nach dem Tod der Gräfin 1776 auch Graf Wilhelm starb, der den Mittelpunkt des kulturellen Lebens am Hof dargestellt hatte, suchte Bach offenbar nach neuen Anregungen für seine Tätigkeit. Diese fand er während seiner einzigen größeren Reise im Frühsommer 1778, die ihn gemeinsam mit seinem Sohn – über eine Zwischenstation in Hamburg zu Carl Philipp Emanuel – zu Johann Christian Bach nach London führte, wo der junge Wilhelm seine weitere Ausbildung erhalten sollte. In London lernte Friedrich in den Konzerten seines Bruders u. a. Werke Glucks und Mozarts kennen, die ihn von da an stark interessierten und beeinflussten.

Bach widmete sich weiterhin der Hofkapelle und führte sie zu so großem Ansehen, dass Forkel 1782 der Bückeburger Hofkapelle den vierten Rang unter den besten Orchestern in Deutschland einräumte. Daneben stand die Klaviermusik im Mittelpunkt seiner Kompositionen. Horstig, der Verfasser seines Nekrologs, beschreibt, wie er tagelang "[a]uch wenn ihn niemand hörte [...] auf seinem englischen Pianoforte, welches er aus London mitgebracht hatte [phantasierte]".

Nach dem Tod des Grafen Philipp Ernst im Jahr 1787 übernahm Gräfin Juliane als Vormund des erst zweijährigen Erbprinzen die Regierung. Die musikliebende Regentin schenkte Bach in seinen letzten Wirkungsjahren die notwendige Achtung und Anerkennung. Juliane erhielt täglich Unterricht auf dem Klavier und wirkte auch in Oratorienaufführungen als Sängerin mit.

Die letzten Lebensjahre Bachs zeigten ihn noch einmal sehr arbeitsam und produktiv. 1787/88 gab er eine Auswahl leichter Werke in vier Heften unter dem Titel Musikalische Nebenstunden heraus. Darin findet man zahlreiche Klavierwerke und Kammermusik, aber auch Klavierauszüge weltlicher Kantaten. Angespornt durch seinen Kollegen und späteren Nachfolger Franz Christoph Neubauer schrieb er in weniger als drei Jahren zehn Sinfonien und zwei Klavierkonzerte, die heute zum größten Teil noch auf Editionen und Wiederaufführungen warten.

Am 26. Januar 1795 starb Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach "an einem hefftigen Brust-Fieber" in Bückeburg, wo er am 31. Januar auf dem Jetenburger Friedhof begraben wurde. Dort wurde 1803 auch Bachs Witwe beigesetzt. Sein Sohn Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach führte die Komponistentradition in der Familie fort.

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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach war 45 Jahre in Bückeburg tätig, einem bei aller Kunstsinnigkeit der Regenten eher kleinen Hof, der im musikalischen Halbschatten lag. Sein Werk, das dem aufkommenden Geniekult seiner Zeit keine ausreichende Nahrung gab, sowie sein bescheidenes Leben, das außerhalb Schaumburg-Lippes so wenig Aufsehen erregte wie seine Musik, mögen mit dazu beigetragen haben, dass er lange Zeit als der unbedeutendste der vier komponierenden Bach-Söhne beurteilt wurde. Typisch dafür ist ein frühes Zeugnis Carl Friedrich Cramers, in dem er sich über die Söhne J. S. Bachs auslässt: "Er  hatte deren drey: Christian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, und Friedemann Bach; (den vierten in Bückeburg rechne ich nicht mit dazu; weil der nicht eigentlich zu den ... Bachen gehört)." Jüngere Forschungen seit Hansdieter Wohlfahrth und Ulrich Leisinger sehen auch in Friedrich Bach einen Brückenbauer zwischen dem ausklingenden Barock und der sich herausbildenden Klassik.

An seinem Grab auf dem Jetenburger Friedhof in Bückeburg versammelten sich nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, unter Führung des ehemaligen Bückeburger Hofkapellmeisters Richard Sahla, die Mitglieder des 1917, kurz vor Kriegsende, gegründeten Fürstlichen Instituts für musikwissenschaftliche Forschung Bückeburg: darunter befand sich Georg Schünemann, der sich als Erster bereits vor dem Krieg intensiv mit Leben und Werk des Bachsohnes auseinandergesetzt hat. Seine Studie ist Grundlage und Ausgangspunkt für jegliche Beschäftigung mit dem Komponisten, weil Schünemann dafür die Bückeburger Hofbibliothek noch zu Verfügung hatte, trotz kriegsbedingter Schwierigkeiten, entfernteres Quellenmaterial zu erreichen. Der Bestand des musikwissenschaftlichen Instituts Bückeburg wurde 1934 zwangsweise nach Berlin gebracht und in den letzten Kriegsjahren nach Schlesien verlagert. Von dort kam es als Beutekunst in die Sowjetunion. Nur ein geringer Teil ist inzwischen über Moskau zurück nach Berlin gelangt, darunter jedoch keine Autografe Bachs. Demnach musste das von Hannsdieter Wohlfahrth veröffentlichte Werkverzeichnis, das im Zusammenhang mit einer umfangreichen Studie der Bachschen Instrumentalmusik entstand, viele Autografe als verschollen angeben, die Schünemann noch vorgelegen hatten. Nach Wohlfahrths Veröffentlichung wurden verschollene Werke des Bückeburgers ausfindig gemacht. Daraufhin erstellte das Leipziger Bach-Archiv im Zusammenhang mit einer Ausstellung in Bückeburg zum 200. Todestag Johann Christoph Friedrich Bachs ein neues Werkverzeichnis, das einen neuen Überblick über sein derzeit bekanntes Werk und die neue Quellenlage gibt.

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Er schrieb Oratorien und Opern, insgesamt zwanzig Sinfonien (davon 12 verschollen), acht Klavierkonzerte, daneben Kammermusik und geistliche Lieder.

Die Rezeption seines musikalischen Werks erreichte bisher nicht die Bedeutung der seiner Brüder. Dieser Eindruck mag mit der unvollkommenen Überlieferung und unklaren Quellenlage seiner Kompositionen zusammenhängen.

Literatur
 Carl Friedrich Cramer: Menschliches Leben. Kiel 26. Oktober 1793; hier zitiert nach Dokument Nr. 973 in: Bach-Dokumente, Bd. 3, hg. von Hans-Joachim Schulze [Suppl. zu NBA]. Kassel etc. u. Leipzig 1972
 Forkel, Musikalischer Almanach für Deutschland auf das Jahr 1782. Leipzig 1781, S. 130
 Horstig, [Nekrolog] "Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach". in: Friedrich von Schlichtegroll, Musiker-Nekrologe. neu hrsg. von Richard Schaal, Kassel u. Basel [o. J.], S. 10
 Georg Schünemann: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. In: Bach-Jahrbuch 11 (1914), S. 46–167
 Georg Schünemann: Friedrich Bachs Briefwechsel mit Gerstenberg und Breitkopf. In: Bach-Jahrbuch 13 (1916), S. 20–35
 Georg Schünemann: Thematisches Verzeichnis der Werke von Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. In: Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst I. Folge, Bd. 56, hg. von G. Schünemann, Leipzig 1917; Neuaufl. hg. von Hans Joachim Moser, Wiesbaden u. Graz 1956

 Hannsdieter Wohlfahrth: Neues Verzeichnis der Werke von Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. In: Die Musikforschung 13 (1960), S. 404–417
 Hannsdieter Wohlfahrth: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach als Instrumentalkomponist. Diss. Univ. Heidelberg 1968; wieder u. d. T.: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. Ein Komponist im Vorfeld der Klassik. Bern u. München 1971 (Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft; 4.) [Enthält revidierte Werkliste.]
 Beverly Jung Sing: Geistliche Vokalkompositionen zwischen Barock und Klassik. Studien zu den Kantatendichtungen Johann Gottfried Herders in den Vertonungen Johann Christoph Friedrich Bachs. Baden-Baden 1992. (Sammlung musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen; S. 83.)
 Thomas Gebhardt: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. In: Concerto (1995)

 Ulrich Leisinger (Hrsg.): Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. Briefe und Dokumente. (Leipziger Beiträge zur Bachforschung 9, hg. vom Bach-Archiv Leipzig) Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim usw. 2011, , ISBN 978-3-487-14337-8.
 Ulrich Leisinger (Bearbeiter): Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke (BR-JCFB). (Bach-Repertorium. Werkverzeichnisse zur Musikerfamilie Bach, hg. vom Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Bd. IV) Carus-Verlag Stuttgart, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89948-183-9. Rezension
 Thomas Buchholz (Hrsg.): Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. Allegretto con Variazioni. für Klavier. Urtextausgabe. mit ausführlicher Werkeinführung. Edition Gravis Verlag Berlin, .

Weblinks
 Lebenslauf auf der Website des Bach Archivs Leipzig

 Digitalisat von J. C. F. Bachs Oratorien Die Kindheit Jesu und Die Auferweckung Lazarus, hrsg. v. Georg Schünemann in der Reihe Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst (I. Folge, Bd. 56), Leipzig 1917
 Diskografie der Werke Bachs und der Bach-Familie mit vielen weiteren Informationen

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Q: netlogo - trouble with exiting while loop when condition is false I have a list of ordered patches x, and I ask each of these patches to find the patches within a certain radius of themselves (this resulting list is called x_radius). I basically want to iterate through each x and then the corresponding patches in x_radius (taking the first item in x and then taking that item's first item in x_radius etc) and check if a patch variable food for a given x_radius patch is equal to or less than .5 (here I have it set to a random number for simplicity). If it is greater than .5, I would like to stop the loop. So, what I am thinking the order of commands to achieve this should be is:

*

*Ask 1st patch in x to find patches in radius

*Ask 1st patch in x_radius of the 1st patch in x to find their food amount

*If their food amount is <= .5, ask the 2nd patch in x_radius of the 1st patch in x to find their food

*Repeat until any patch in any x_radius of any x patch is > .5

This is a simplified bit of the code I am working on:
        foreach x [p ->
          ask p [
           set x_radius patches in-radius 5
            while [all? x_radius [food <= .5]] [
             foreach x_radius [n ->
              ask n [
                set food random-float 1.0]
                 ]
                  ]
                    ]

I see that the while loop is not exiting when the one of the x_radius patches to be evaluated has food. The code basically goes through all of the x patches without evaluating the x_radius patches, so somewhere my logic is messy. I've always had some trouble with while loops; I have a feeling it is because food is set within the while loop, but I am referencing it before? Does anyone see where I am going wrong?
UPDATE: The following code gets me closer to what I want, however, if an x_radius patch has a negative food value, the code keeps evaluating that same patch over and over again, when I would want to move on to the next x_radius patch. Do-calculations is a dummy function that calculates some value:
        foreach x [p ->
          ask p [
           set x_radius patches in-radius 5
           set food 0
             foreach sort x_radius [n ->
                while [food <= .5] [
              ask n [
                set food do-calculations]
                 ]
                  ]
                    ]
                     ]
                      ]


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Q: monitor state of model node js I would like to monitor state of the model which is responsible for rendering different views for HR and the candidate. Depending on the job, when the candidate applies for it there are three possibilities at the moment (it will grow, and that's the reason I am asking the question), answer the questions, or just have a test assignment or have the test assignment and answer the questions. The HR depending on what stage the applicant is have a custom view, and applicant, depending on what stage they are should have their custom view. Therefore in the JobApplication model there two columns: client_view | hr_view | requirements in the requirements the steps are saved. For example "assignment:questions", or questions.
     |     client_view     |  hr_view   | requirements |
     ----------------------------------------------------
       "active_questions"   "not_active"  "questions"

     |     client_view     |  hr_view   | requirements |
     ----------------------------------------------------
       "active_assignment"   "active"     "assignment"

Changes should be made to the model every time client from the application makes a PATCH request. At the moment I came up with very bad scaleless   solution
'use strict';
class ApplicationState {
  constructor(requirements) {
    this._states = {
      questions: { client_view: 'active_questions', hr_view: 'not_active' },
      assignment: { client_view: 'active_assignment', hr_view: 'active' },
      done: { client_view: 'not_active', hr_view: 'active' }
    };

    this.requirements = requirements;
    this.current = requirements.length === 1 ? this._states[requirements[0]] :  this._states.questions;
  }

  next () {
    if (this.current === this._states.questions && this.requirements.indexOf('assignment') !== -1) {
      this.current = this._states.assignment;
    } else {
      this.current = this._states.done;
    }
  }
}
module.exports = ApplicationState;

And in my model I invoke it
var applicationState = new ApplicationState(applicationModel.requirements)
applicationModel.setStates(applicationState.next())


Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) have put together a very useful and informative 'Biodiversity Pack'.
The 'CaBA Biodiversity Pack' has been produced to support catchment partnerships and others in their delivery of freshwater and wetland biodiversity projects.
2. Set out specific management messages to help guide decision-making in catchments, promoting the restoration of natural processes across a number of key freshwater and wetland habitats.
The factsheets set out what natural ecosystem functions look like for a range of freshwater and wetland habitat types and why this natural functionality should be valued. These simple, habitat-specific guides, could be useful when developing proposals for habitat restoration schemes and in discussing ideas with landowners and communities.


######## File Usage : This script will create clusters for all mandals and all years and will save centroid objects and create clustering summary files for each mandal.
Almost 80% of the world's future data will be generated as unstructured image, voice and text. Superlative growth in IOT devices and sensor data is another ubiquitous phenomenon that is transforming our lives.


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Flight - Glittering-bellied Emerald
Order: Apodiformes - Family: Trochilidae
The hummingbird flight is in plain sight different from that of other birds. In a lively way it wanders from one flower to the other in search for food. It moves forwards and backwards, zigzags, stops and accelerates abruptly, hovers, maneuvers sideways, and even turns upside down. Always beating vigorously. These distinctive features of hummingbirds are due to a bone and muscular structure which are unique to them. The humerus is reduced, so the hand occupies most of the wing. The wrist and elbow joints are almost locked, which results in an almost rigid wing. The specialized shoulder joint allows this atypical wing to rotate freely producing a complete stroke which draws a lying eight. It has eight ribs instead of six thus increasing stability. The muscles also present differences both in volumen and in composition. The two principal flight muscles attach to the keel, which is bigger in relation to that of other birds. A bigger keel implies bigger muscles. These are highly developed and formed only by red fibers, the necessary source of energy to perform this type of flight.
This Glittering-bellied Emerald stays aloft in the air sapping up nectar. This type of flight is hovering carried to its ultimate since the hummingbird does not profit from the wind to move but it achieves this through muscular effort. It can stay aloft for a long period of time beating its wings up to 40 times per second. The lying eight trajectory of the wing is imperceptible to the human eye and can only be captured by means of special cameras. The last photo of this sequence shows the hummingbird in hover-clasping flight. Unlike tubular flowers, the petals of Chorisia speciosa flowers provide the hummingbird with a good standing platform.
Backward flight. No other bird is capable of doing this.
Three aerial feats which are typical of hummingbirds. In the first picture, in a vertical position; in the second one, turned upside down and in the third one, laterally.
Photos 3-2008 © Roberto Ares


It's easy to overlook the positive impact that a well-run parts storeroom can have on factory performance. When properly stocked, organized, and maintained, parts cribs are an invaluable aid to continuous improvement initiatives. They can save a manufacturer thousands, if not millions, of dollars over time.


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ABOUT STATEMENT OF FAITH CONTACT SUBSCRIBE WHAT'S NEW? BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
Survey of Amos
Book Type: The third book of the Minor Prophets; the thirtieth book of the Old Testament; the thirtieth book of the Bible.
Author: Amos, specifically named in the first verse.
Audience: Though Amos was from Judea, he was called to minister to Jews in the northern kingdom of Israel who lived during the reign of Jeroboam II. This king did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord (2 Kings 14:24) and lived during the same time as the prophet Jonah (2 Kings 14:25). Despite the evil of the time, the Lord saved Israel by the hand of Jeroboam II (2 Kings 14:27). Those living in this area and time experienced an evil ruler, yet God was still at work in their land. Amos called the people to repentance during this difficult time.
Date: Amos wrote during the reigns of Uzziah and Jeroboam II, with this book written two years before a significant earthquake in the area believed to have occurred approximately 760 BC, indicating a date of around 762 BC.
Overview: Amos includes nine chapters with three main sections. The first section (Amos 1—2) emphasizes the Lord's judgments against various nations. These include Israel's enemies (Amos 1:3—2:3), but also Judah (Amos 2:4—5), and Israel (Amos 2:6—16).
The second section provides further accusations against Israel for various sins (Amos 3—6). Chapter 3 addresses Israel's guilt and punishment. Amos 4:6–13 condemns Israel for not returning to the Lord despite all that had occurred to them. Amos calls the Israelites to seek the Lord so they could live and prosper once more (Amos 5). This chapter also includes the well-known passage cited by Martin Luther King, Jr. regarding the concept of letting "justice roll down like waters" (Amos 5:24).Chapter 6 is a proclamation of woes and warnings.
The third section includes a variety of visions given to Amos (Amos 7—9). The first two visions include locusts and fire (Amos 7:1¬–6). A third is of a plumb line (Amos 7:7–9). There is then a narrative break describing Amaziah, a priest of Bethel, accusing Amos (Amos 7:10–17). Two additional visions are then given: a fruit basket (Amos 8:1–14) and an altar (Amos 9:1–10). The Lord concludes with the promise to restore Israel in the future (Amos 9:11–15).
Key Verses (ESV):
Amos 2:4: "Thus says the Lord: 'For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.'"
Amos 3:7: "For the LORD GOD does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets."
Amos 9:14: "I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit."
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FDIC JOINS RURAL HOME LOAN PARTNERSHIP
PR-87-98 (12-11-98) Media Contact:
David Barr (202-898-6992)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today announced it has joined the Rural Home Loan Partnership (RHLP), a national partnership dedicated to providing eligible lower- income borrowers in rural areas greater access to private credit.
This move furthers the FDIC's goal of facilitating participation by banks and community based organizations in community reinvestment efforts.
FDIC Chairman Donna Tanoue noted: "This partnership presents a great opportunity for the FDIC to leverage our resources, while partnering with several well-known national organizations. It is a natural fit since so many of the institutions supervised by the FDIC are small community banks located in rural areas."
The RHLP is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Services (RHS), the rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation and Rural Alliance affiliates, and the Office of Thrift Supervision also recently joined the partnership.
The RHLP works to bring local financial institutions, community based organizations (CBOs), and local RHS officials and resources together as a means of providing greater credit access for those who typically lack access to conventional long-term mortgage financing.
Using money from a national set-aside of funds under the leveraged loan program, the RHS will provide a low-cost, fixed-rate second mortgage to cover up to 60 percent of the cost of the home. The local financial institution will provide a long-term, fixed-rate first mortgage loan of generally no more than 40 percent of the home's value, using its funds or funds obtained through the FHLB System's Community Investment Program. A CBO typically assists with home buyer education and counseling, and loan packaging. It also frequently contributes monetary resources through grants from the FHLB System's affordable housing program, or the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Community Development Block Grant or HOME Program.
In 1999, the FDIC will be working with the Rural Home Loan Partnership to train rural financial institutions and community-based organizations about the partnership, the Rural Housing Services' leverage loan and loan guarantee programs, and ways to set up a successful collaborative funding arrangement.
"We want to assist the institutions we supervise in participating in this type of program," said Chairman Tanoue. "This training will show small institutions how they can better leverage their resources through partnerships such as those promoted by the RHLP."
Congress created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1933 to restore public confidence in the nation's banking system. The FDIC insures deposits at the nation's 10,712 banks and savings associations and it promotes the safety and soundness of these institutions by identifying, monitoring and addressing risks to which they are exposed.
FDIC press releases and other information are available on the Internet at www.fdic.gov , and may also be obtained through the FDIC's Public Information Center (800-276-6003 or (703) 562-2200).


Mr. Ng Kian Tuck is a Chartered Accountant (CA) of the Malaysia Institute of Accountants (MIA), and a Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), UK. Mr. Ng has been exposed to various fields and industry through the employment in audit firm over seven years, mainly on corporate reporting, tax audits and trainings. Due to his passion in training, and in order to pursue higher achievement, Mr. Ng left audit practice some years ago and full time involve in training. He conducted seminars and workshops on accounting and auditing related topics and is currently a freelance lecturer in various universities, colleges, and large corporations lecturing professional programme such as ACCA and AIA UK, diploma and degree in accounting courses. Mr. Ng rejects rote learning styles and constantly guiding students to pass examinations using his unique approach which focuses on understanding rather than memorising.


Research on Shotaro Koyama and His Private Art School "Fudosha"
In this research we took many photographs of documents, drawings and other materials of Koyama Shotaro and his private art school "Fudosha", and aimed at explicating the following points.
l. Koyama's thoughts and conducts in western-style-painting movement.
2. The origin of Koyama's drawing style and its changes.
3. Koyama's way of education in "Fudosha", and changes of drawing style from Koyama to his followers.
We took photographs of about 70 documents amounting to 1500 pages, and of 1000 drawings and paintings. Though analyses of all of these materials have not finished, we have found some facts like the following.
l. Koyama's ideal image of a painter was a man who has tough mind and body and who is useful for a nation.
2. Koyama's drawing style changed in three stages. The first was the style following Fontanesi's one, the second was the style using thick lines, the third was the style using delicate lines. A relation between Koyama's drawings and his haiku poems ought to be analyzed.
3. Though Koyama's drawings and his followers' seem much alike, each has its own style. Subject drawing and design exercise materials in "Fudosha" were discovered in this research.


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Top 10 Way-Too-Early Favorites to Win the 2018 FCS Title
The 2017 FCS season saw perhaps it's least surprising matchup in the national championship game. Most people predicted James Madison and North Dakota State would square off. But that didn't mean there weren't any surprises during the playoffs. How about Kennesaw State almost making a run to the semifinals in its first playoff appearance? Or Weber State almost knocking off the defending national champs and eventual runner-ups?
[divider]COMPARE: FCS Players | FCS Teams[divider]
Last year around this time, we did this exact same article. While the No. 1-3 teams made it to the semifinals and the top two teams played in Frisco, Texas, the rest of the list, well, wasn't really all too close. But that's what makes the FCS fun. The surprise teams that emerge come November and December.
So let's do it again and predict the early favorites to win it all next season. Learning from our mistake last season, we're going to go out on a limb on some of these and pick some potential surprises. [divider]
Record: 7-4 (missed the playoffs)
The Grizzlies have all the talent in the world and a fan base eager to get back into the national title picture. With Bobby Hauck returning to be the head coach, he could be the difference in getting the program back on track. Quarterback Reese Phillips is trying for a sixth year of eligibility after suffering an early injury. But even if it's not granted, freshman Gresch Jensen performed great in his absence.
With its leading rusher Jeremy Calhoun and top two pass catchers Keenan Curran and Jerry Louie-McGee back, the offense has a chance to be explosive. Montana missed the playoffs this season for the second straight year at 7-4. One of those losses was against an FBS team and two were one-score finals. Expect that postseason drought to be over.
9. Nicholls State
Record 8-4 (lost in the 1st round)
South Dakota was a favorite for many to be the next unseeded team to make a long playoff run. But Nicholls almost had something to say to that, narrowly losing 38-31 in the first round. The Colonels are stacked in 2018, returning eight offensive starters from that USD game and seven on defense.
The defense will need improvement after allowing 25.2 points per game. But the offense should remain explosive with quarterback Chase Fourcade returning after starting as a sophomore.
8. Sam Houston State
Record: 12-2 (lost in the semifinals)
While Nicholls may look to take that next step, the Southland Conference may still run through SHSU. Losing two-time Walter Payton Award winner Jeremiah Briscoe at quarterback is a stinger. So is losing NFL Draft prospect in defensive lineman P.J. Hall on an already struggling defense.
But the Bearkats always have talent and are consistently in the quarterfinals or semifinals. If they can change their mental and physical makeup, they'll start to compete better in the later rounds. Nathan Stewart and Davion Davis return to lead an explosive wide receiving core. And 6-foot-5 quarterback Mike Dare, who started his career at Rutgers before transferring to a junior college, will get a chance to replace Briscoe.
7. Eastern Washington
It took some time for things to click in longtime assistant Aaron Best's first season as head coach. He wanted a more balanced, physical approach on offense. But he had a team built to throw the ball 40 times a game with stud quarterback Gage Gubrud. The Eagles started 0-2 before going 6-2 in the Big Sky. Yet the perennial FCS power was left out of the playoffs.
With Gubrud back, and Best in his second year of implementing his touch on the program, EWU should be back in contention. Antoine Custer Jr. returns as the leading rusher as does the second leading receiver Nsimba Webster. The top six tacklers on defense also are back.
6. Delaware
The Blue Hens are ready to explode onto the national scene after Danny Rocco improved their record from 4-7 to 7-4 in his first season as head coach. And they certainly feel snubbed from the playoffs. Delaware was No. 10 in the FCS by allowing 16.8 points per game. The top three tacklers from that unit are all back.
Offensively, the Blue Hens will need to make strides after averaging a pedestrian 21.2 points per game. J.P. Caruso started the last six games at quarterback as a junior and went 4-2. He'll need to find some explosive options on the outside to go along with returning top rusher Kani Kane.
5. Youngstown State
The 2016 national runner-ups had a brutally tough 3-4 start to the 2017 season, losing all four games by a touchdown or less against an FBS team or a ranked FCS team. After that, things kind of just fell apart, like a 35-0 loss to Illinois State to drop to 3-5 and essentially being eliminated from the playoffs. Afterwards, Bo Pelini said "I've never been so disgusted in my whole life."
With that, expect the Penguins to have some fire entering this coming season. They started three quarterbacks throughout 2017, but return just one in Nathan Mays, who looked to be the best option as a sophomore. Tevin McCaster is a top returning running back in the FCS and YSU's defense is always going to be a stingy unit.
4. Weber State
Record: 11-3 (lost in the quarterfinals)
The Wildcats were extremely close to knocking off JMU, the defending national champs, in the quarterfinals as an unseeded team. They've gone against the mold of what people think of the Big Sky as a pass-happy league with a more physical approach. And with head coach Jay Hill getting a contract extension, Weber State will remain in the national conversation.
But replacing the heart and soul of the offense in quarterback Stefan Cantwell and NFL prospects in tight end Andrew Vollert and cornerback Taron Johnson is going to be an uphill battle. The defense brings back its top three tacklers and may be relied on as a top unit in the FCS.
3. Kennesaw State
The growth of this three-year program is staggering. From 6-5 to 8-3 to 12-2 and their first playoff appearance, the Owls showed they are emerging as a force in the FCS. They took down 3-seed Jacksonville State in the second round and almost did it again at 6-seed SHSU in the quarterfinals, losing 34-27.
The Owls essentially bring back their entire team. Quarterback Chandler Burks engineers the triple option and ran for 1,103 yards while passing for 1,307 yards in 2017. The three feature backs Shaquil Terry, Jake McKenzie and Darnell Holland all return after each ran for more than 700 yards. Seven of the top 10 tacklers are back, including FCS Freshman of the Year Bryson Armstrong at linebacker.
2. James Madison
Record: 14-1 (lost in the title game)
The Dukes lost a senior class that will go down as one of the best in program history. But expect the 2016 national champs and 2017 runner-ups to reload. A stacked backfield of Trai Sharp, Marcus Marshall and possibly Cardon Johnson if he's granted a medical redshirt should benefit the new starting quarterback from shouldering the load.
The losses on defense are significant. Jordan Brown, Kyre Hawkins, Brandon Hereford, Raven Greene, Simeyon Robinson and Andrew Ankrah were stars and are now gone. With shutdown corners Jimmy Moreland and Rashad Robinson back along with defensive end Darrious Carter, JMU still has plenty of talent to fill the holes around.
1. North Dakota State
Record: 14-1 (won the national title)
The only positions for NDSU that aren't returning starting experience are long snapper, punter and tight end. Up and down the roster, the Bison appear to be loaded for a seventh national title in eight seasons. The running backs have two all-American caliber players in Lance Dunn and Bruce Anderson and perhaps the most explosive back in the FCS in Ty Brooks. The offensive line has three returners with starting experience. Quarterback Easton Stick is within striking distance of the all-time wins record in FCS history, but will need to find some new targets outside of Darrius Shepherd.
Defensively, it's the same story. All-American defensive end Greg Menard returns from injury to lead the defensive line. Jabril Cox leads a linebacking group that has players returning who were in and out of the starting lineup in 2017. And the secondary has three of its four starters returning. On paper, it's the best roster NDSU has had since 2013.
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package host

import (
	"runtime"
	"strings"
	"time"

	"github.com/weaveworks/scope/report"
)

// Keys for use in Node.Metadata.
const (
	Timestamp     = "ts"
	HostName      = "host_name"
	LocalNetworks = "local_networks"
	OS            = "os"
	Load          = "load"
	KernelVersion = "kernel_version"
	Uptime        = "uptime"
)

// Exposed for testing.
const (
	ProcUptime = "/proc/uptime"
	ProcLoad   = "/proc/loadavg"
)

// Exposed for testing.
var (
	Now = func() string { return time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339Nano) }
)

// Reporter generates Reports containing the host topology.
type Reporter struct {
	hostID    string
	hostName  string
	localNets report.Networks
}

// NewReporter returns a Reporter which produces a report containing host
// topology for this host.
func NewReporter(hostID, hostName string, localNets report.Networks) *Reporter {
	return &Reporter{
		hostID:    hostID,
		hostName:  hostName,
		localNets: localNets,
	}
}

// Report implements Reporter.
func (r *Reporter) Report() (report.Report, error) {
	var (
		rep        = report.MakeReport()
		localCIDRs []string
	)

	for _, localNet := range r.localNets {
		localCIDRs = append(localCIDRs, localNet.String())
	}

	uptime, err := GetUptime()
	if err != nil {
		return rep, err
	}

	kernel, err := GetKernelVersion()
	if err != nil {
		return rep, err
	}

	rep.Host.Nodes[report.MakeHostNodeID(r.hostID)] = report.MakeNodeWith(map[string]string{
		Timestamp:     Now(),
		HostName:      r.hostName,
		LocalNetworks: strings.Join(localCIDRs, " "),
		OS:            runtime.GOOS,
		Load:          GetLoad(),
		KernelVersion: kernel,
		Uptime:        uptime.String(),
	})

	return rep, nil
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The HydroCar is the only amphibious that actually changes the vehicle's shape to morph from a land vehicle to a water craft.It is powered by a fully dyno-tuned World/Merlin all-aluminum, roller-cam, 572 cubic-inch Chevrolet engine, producing 762 horsepower.
With a 762-hp engine, it's supposed to top out at 125 mph on land and 60 mph on the water, although it's still so new it hasn't been tested yet.This HydroCar highly engineered original prototype designed by Rick Dobbertin, is one of the most innovative automotive projects ever conceived.
The central body consists of marine-grade 5086 aluminum for frames inside the sponsons. It's powered by a Bill Mitchell Racing V8 with a four-speed Quadzilla transmission. On land, its full-length articulating sponsons (or pontoons) are raised and become the car's fenders.
Upon entering the water, the sponsons are lowered nearly eight inches to transform the car into a tunnel-hulled watercraft within seconds. While fully functional, this prototype is intended for a static display of incredible innovative engineering.


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Elizabeth Warren claims housing should be a "basic human right" in latest escalation of the all-powerful government that takes from society's producers to give handouts to voters
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 by: Vicki Batts
Tags: big government, economics, Elizabeth Warren, housing, left cult, Left-wing, pandering, politics, public housing, socialism, voting
https://www.distributednews.com/338622.html
(Natural News) Elizabeth Warren has thrown her hat into the 2020 presidential election, and she is already pandering to voters with promises of reparations and housing as a "human right." It is no secret that the housing market has blown out of proportion, but how involved the government should be remains up for debate. Under Warren's proposal, Big Government will take on housing much in the same way socialists propose we tackle healthcare. So if you think universal healthcare is a sign of government overreach, you can bet any movement towards "universal housing" will follow the same trajectory.
Everyone in America has the right to own or rent a home, and in the truest sense of the word "right," everyone in America already has the right to housing. Having the right to own something does not imply that you are automatically entitled to possess that thing.
Every American has the right to own a gun (with a few exceptions, of course) — and yet, you don't see Second Amendment supporters declaring that gun rights should equate to government-sponsored gun ownership. The right to housing does not guarantee you will own your own home. What Elizabeth Warren is talking about is not a human rights issue — it is a government power issue.
Housing "rights" are the next frontier
Leftists are now touting housing and healthcare as "human rights," but their intentions are not as benevolent as the media would have you believe. This is not to say that some people shouldn't have access to housing and healthcare; clearly, these are very important things. In an ideal world, everyone would have a home and no one would ever be sick or injured and unable to pay for care.
But we do not live in an ideal world. Liberal politicians seem to thrive on the notion that if we just give the government enough power, suddenly all of our problems will disappear. Even Elizabeth Warren is guilty of painting a picture in which Big Government reigns supreme, providing "equality" to the little people who couldn't function or care for themselves otherwise.
At a recent CNN townhall, Senator Warren declared, "I have a proposal to build about three million new housing units across America. I just want to stop for a second, is anybody in here worried about the rising price of housing? That's pretty much everybody, right? The idea is that we need to make a real investment in housing. In the same way that we think about health care as a basic human right, having a decent and safe place to live should be a basic human right."
"So I believe we should make a big investment in housing and by the way, if we do that, independent analysis says that we would lower rents across this country by 10%, and that's across the board and we create an opportunity for more people to become buyers. So housing is important," Warren stated further.
Of course, the "we" Warren is referring to is the government — not the people. Under Warren's proposed affordable housing bill, the federal government would dramatically increase its "investment" in public housing, to the tune of $450 billion over the next 10 years. And of course, the term "investment" is really just a nice way to say "spending of tax dollars."
Big Government is big trouble
Between Warren's housing proposal and the Green New Deal, it seems the Democratic party is planning a soul-crushing 10-year tax extravaganza. How else will the federal government accrue the billions of dollars necessary to make these insane proposals a reality?
Everyone has the right to own a home in America. But that right is not a guarantee. Warren and her ilk are not just proposing housing as a human right; they are proposing a total restructuring of American society.
Warren claims that because of "housing discrimination," whites are wealthier than blacks — and further contends that only Big Government can fix America's racial issues, through government acquisition of more social housing.
There is no doubt that racism is a sore spot in the United States, but liberals pour salt into the wound for their personal gain. Warren has yet to explain exactly how government housing will suddenly turn poverty into prosperity.
More to the point, guaranteed housing, guaranteed healthcare and guaranteed jobs are all hallmarks of a socialist society run by Big Government. The price we pay for freedom is uncertainty — but the reward is the chance for success.
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Last week I ventured over to Grey's Fabric for the first time, and met the lovely Sarah who showed me where she was on her Victoria Blazer from By Hand London. And after I saw it, I had to take the pattern home and give it a go myself.
I had already made a skirt and a pair of pants with this silk twill fabric, and I still had a little bit left - just enough for the cropped version.
I've been wanting a cropped jacket for a while, and this one went together quite quickly - in 3 hours in fact (well, 3:15 if you include the time needed to handsew the lining closed)!
I lined it in a teal quilting cotton with sewing scissors decorating it.
The skirt is self-drafted, based on the No. 2 pencil skirt from J Crew. I love it so much, I have already made four of them. I make another one whenever I have some nice fabric leftover.
The blouse is also self-drafted, based on my raglan sleeve blouse pattern that I have shown here before. This version is made from a silk batiste.
The jacket calls for the sleeves to be left unlined, which I did. But instead of finishing the armhole and lining separately as suggested in the pattern, I basted the armhole and lining together and finished them as one with bias tape. I think it looks much nicer this way.
While we are discussing the armhole, I loved that there were lots of notches on the pattern to make sure the armhole was lined up properly! I think everyone should include more notches on their patterns!
Here is a closeup of the lining print and the armhole.
And here is the collar and lapel. It is super easy to get nice sharp corners on these pieces since they were drafted along the fold.
The sleeve cuff is finished with a french seam, the first I have seen quite like this. It was easy and effective. Bravo By Hand!
Here is the blazer with a pair of matching pants - I made these as a wearable muslin of Vogue 7881 - a Claire Shaeffer pattern.
The fit is pretty good, and the instructions are impeccable. This was my first time easing in the front and back pieces into the waistband instead of putting in darts. I have already adjusted the pattern for next time, to remove a bit of ease in the front crotch area and to lower the waistline an inch. But I have a feeling that these pants will get quite a bit of wear in the meantime (though maybe not with the blazer).
All in all, I ended up non-intentionally creating an entire suit in this fabric - and I really love all the pieces! I might try to make a few adjustments to the Victoria blazer pattern for the future - mostly to try and get the collar to lay flat. But I do recommend it to anyone who is intimidated to try making jackets or blazers - this one is a breeze!
I like how you've made and finished this blazer. It's a great colour and the lining is really cool.
First off, your clothes are amazing! Super talented, you are!
I quilt but your blog is so inspiring, would love to attempt a shirt or a maxi skirt.
My question is...what is a princess seam?
Oh another question...do you use a serger? Or do you make all your clothes on the 201?
Your suit looks amazing!! What kind of pockets did you add to the pants?
Nice Silk Twirl suit! You should give a try to the indian ethnic clothing including unstitched suits online.


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Delivering on Paris: how the UK responds to its climate obligations
By ucqbpow, on 19 April 2018
Steve Pye, Francis Li, James Price
In a speech at the meeting of Commonwealth leaders in London on Tuesday, Claire Perry, the minister for Climate Change, announced that she would be seeking advice on strengthening UK climate targets, following publication in October this year of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on a 1.5°C warming limit.
This means that the Committee on Climate Change will revisit their analysis and recommendations on the implications of the Paris Agreement on the UK's long term targets, first provided in 2016. In that report, they concluded that while 'the Government has indicated it intends at some point to set a UK target for reducing domestic emissions to net zero,……… it is too early to do so now, but setting such a target should be kept under review.'It appears that a review is now imminent.
The CCC's 2016 view, which was to maintain the status quo on ambition, was based on the need for more evidence on how the UK could achieve a net-zero target, and a prevailing view that the current 80% reduction framework was very ambitious and already represented a considerable challenge for government – thereby raising the question as to what could be gained from strengthening the target. Not a huge amount has changed in the last 18 months; for example, the challenge facing ministers to meet existing targets is evident, as demonstrated by the recent Clean Growth strategy failing to meet its own climate goals, and the policy gap identified by the CCC.
Shortly after the CCC gave its recommendations in 2016, we published a paper in Nature Energy (described in this Carbon Brief article) that explored this very question – what are the implications of the Paris Agreement for UK climate targets?We found that the UK energy system, which accounts for the vast majority of CO2emissions, would need to be carbon emissions free at some point in the 2045 to 2070 period under a 2°C target. The analysis also produced more stringent reduction trajectories than currently set out under the UK carbon budgets.
Making a more equitable contribution to global efforts, and pushing well below 2°C, both aspects which are embodied in the Paris Agreement, would require net-zero emissions by 2045. This means no oil use in our cars, an electricity system based wholly on renewables and nuclear, our homes heated by low carbon electricity or heat but not gas, and industry adopting new low carbon processes and energy.
The target year of 2045 is based on a UK allocated budget of 4 GtCO2from now until eternity. UK emissions are at around 420 MtCO2(including international transport), meaning that if current levels persisted, it would be around 10 years before this budget was used up.
Pursuing an even more ambitious 1.5°C target (which we did not consider in our 2017 paper) would mean leaving the UK with a 30% lower carbon budget than our most stringent 4 GtCO2case. Meeting this target would require truly heroic assumptions that may be difficult to envisage, given that the 2045 net-zero target in our study implied incredibly fast annual emission reductions of 9 %/year and eye-watering economic costs. Furthermore, we used optimistic assumptions on the role of CCS (and negative emissions technologies) which in effect increased the effective headroom available in the UK budget from 4 GtCO2 to 10 GtCO2. Furthermore, we assumed that long term transition policies could be put in place and maintained over time, unaffected by economic crises, social upheavals, or political backsliding on prior commitments, which may be viewed as ambitious assumptions indeed.
The fact that our analysis raised serious questions as to the feasibility of pursuing this type of goal means that proper scrutiny of higher long term ambition is crucial, in view of the science and with a full view of the possible options. And this reconsideration is timely; our paper made the point that to put in place the necessary policies now, we needed to be clear as to the longer term goal. Too little action or poor infrastructure choices in the near term puts climate goals at risk, without the time to take corrective action.
Reflecting on our paper, there are some important avenues for future investigation, to explore what longer term targets are needed, and the types of policies required to achieve them. Firstly, for those pathways that were feasible in our study, they typically were found to have had a significant contribution from CCS. The lack of serious policy consideration on CCS means that such pathways must be revisited, and alternatives explored that are more robust to any failure to scale future CCS deployment. A recent paper in Nature Climate Change offers some ideas in this direction.
Secondly, there needs to be more focus on the multiple options that might be available for reducing our end-use energy demand. This means testing options that are often omitted from models e.g. taxes on specific travel demands e.g. aviation, changes to urban planning that impact how we use energy, and the impact of technology on energy services e.g. mobility. And crucially, we need stronger scrutiny of the demand drivers going into models, which left unquestioned can lock us into higher emitting pathways but which may be fundamentally flawed. Another recent paper urges research in this direction.
Thirdly, and in view of the above, we urge efforts to take stock on what targets need to be achieved by when, in line with the spirit of the Paris Agreement. That means a UK net-zero target with a specific date attached, with this point in time reflecting the key principles of equity, the UK's capacity to act as a leading G7 economy, and the science. The strength of such a target will be that it will serve to reduce ambiguity regarding when sectors need to achieve zero emissions, providing clarity to policy makers and investors.
As the CCC considers their advice towards the end of this year, there is a real opportunity to position the UK as a global leader in the debate on what actions countries can take to meet the extraordinary challenge agreed in Paris at COP21. Whatever is proposed, it will need to be followed up by a radical set of implementation policies to move beyond weighing our options and placing the UK firmly onto a net-zero pathway.
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Mapping synergies and trade-offs between energy and the Sustainable Development Goals: how, why, and what's next
By ucqbpow, on 20 November 2017
Around the same time as Millennium Development Goals were nearing the end of their term, and were being turned into Sustainable Development Goals, a group of us at UCL, from disciplines as wide ranging as social, natural, legal and engineering sciences, first started to come together. Reason? Our shared interests in all things energy: infrastructure, technologies, access, equity, poverty, law, generation and more. The broad range of areas of expertise in the energy field enabled facilitation of what we all agreed were timely and important discussions around the role of energy in and for the achievement of SDGs. That energy was missing from the MDGs was clear. Perhaps we would now have fewer than over a billion people worldwide without even basic access had there been a stronger focus on energy over the MDGs' operational period, who knows. Yet that rather striking gap got noticed and turned into SDG7, opening up new opportunities. The UCL Energy and Development group, which is what participants of our gatherings eventually established, also saw it as an opportunity: one to contribute to the energy dialogue, much more critical now than ever before.
With open minds, we embarked on a journey to explore the significance of energy in the move towards sustainable development, and that of holistic thinking when considering all the Goals included in the 2030 Agenda. It didn't take us long to recognise the fundamental role of energy in the pursuit of all other SDGs, so the (initially not so) obvious starting point was to map out synergies and trade-offs between efforts to achieve SDG7 and the 2030 Agenda as a whole. In the course of an iterative process of expert elicitation, we found evidence pointing to three key domains of synergies and trade-offs where decisions about SDG7 affect humanity's ability to: realise aspirations of greater welfare and well-being; build physical and social infrastructures for sustainable development; and achieve sustainable management of the natural environment. By highlighting the Goals and Targets, despite being set as separate ones, are overlapping and achieving one will not be possible without achieving many others, a sort of framework slowly began to emerge. Another framework?!- you might ask. Sure, there are plenty already out there, but not many (if any at all, correct us if we're wrong!) that can be used as a guide for designing interventions conscious of the complex web of synergies and trade-offs within and among all SDGs. Being mindful of where efforts can (and should) be complimentary, as well as giving a careful consideration to those Goals and Targets that might have conflicting interests, where the achievement of one might come at a cost to another, or might make the achievement of other ones more difficult (e.g. rapidly scaling up energy access while at the same time ensuring low emissions), will be pivotal for maximising positive outputs and alleviating/eliminating negative ones.
This work is our early attempt at identifying and collating evidence of the synergies and trade-offs in the 2030 Agenda, encouraging the wider community of academics, practitioners and policymakers to contribute to and build on. It can be seen as a map for policymakers and other stakeholders working towards the achievement of SDGs, particularly, though not exclusively, in the energy field. Most importantly, however, it's an invitation to join us in continued efforts at gathering further evidence, reaching a much bigger audience to inform and engage with. We hope you're in, one Goal and another!
Iwona Bisaga
Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience
UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering
Filed under energy
Stakeholder Engagement Study: What are the social issues affecting wind energy deployment?
By ucftjm3, on 6 July 2017
REAccept is a project aiming to improve the social acceptance representation of our energy system models, starting with onshore wind energy and highRES[1], funded by the BSEER Strategic Development Fund and wholeSEM. Our initial scoping exercise took run from May through June culminating in a stakeholder workshop on 22nd June in Cambridge.
The core concept of the project is to tackle social acceptability without pinning it down to familiar themes in the literature. This meant designing a workshop where the participants were in the driving seat from the start, framing the discussion the way that suited them. With the ultimate aim of getting quantifiable results to then apply to the model, this was a challenge.
Our stakeholders included representatives from local planning authorities, the county council, local environmental groups, national NGOs, wind energy developers, and a community energy scheme. The group took part in a series of exercises designs to first elicit the issues, then to create a categorisation, assign priorities, and finally to dig deeper into the top priorities. The final session involved an in depth discussion of the nature of the problem at hand, who it affects, how flexible they may be and what could be changed about the wind energy project to reduce the impact.
Discussions revealed that challenges facing on-shore wind energy are complex and multi-faceted. Key issues to emerge were reductions in house prices, visual impacts, threats to habitats and natural beauty; however, these proved very difficult to quantify in practice due to the site-specific nature of many of those impacts.
We will be writing up the outcomes of the workshop to feed into a larger proposal.
Our thanks go to all the participants of our workshop for the highly informative afternoon!
On behalf of REAccept
Dr Gesche Huebner
Dr Marianne Zeyringer
Dr Julia Tomei
Oliver Broad
Dr James Price
[1] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/energy-models/models/highres
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The making of a globally sustainable energy system
By ucfaspy, on 14 November 2016
Blog by Steve Pye, Paul Ekins, Ian Hamilton, November 2016
As delegates at COP22 in Marrakech convene to discuss how to implement the Paris Agreement, there is a continuing focus on how to move to a sustainable global energy system. The challenge is that fossil fuels have long been the mainstay of the energy system, and an essential driver of growth. Rapidly reducing our reliance on their use is no small task, but one that is essential if we are to succeed in achieving the climate ambition set out in the December 2015 Paris Agreement. The challenge is brought sharply into focus when we consider that the global energy system accounts for 65% of anthropogenic GHG emissions[1], but will need to be a net zero-emitter at some point between 2050 and 2100.
The barriers to this transition are immense. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under energy, UCL Energy Institute staff
Tags: 2050, climate change, CO2, COP21, COP22, DDPP, Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project, energy, Energy system, energy transition, Fossil fuels, ghg emissions, Global Energy, sustainable energy
The highs and lows at the United Nations International Maritime Organisation's 70th Marine Environment Protection Committee
By ucft572, on 11 November 2016
On 24-28 October 2016, two weeks before the Marrakech COP22, the International Maritime Organization (IMO)- the UN's body responsible for regulating shipping, met for the 70th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC). With a heavy agenda on the table, colleagues from UMAS closely followed two key agenda items, review of the implementation date for a sulphur cap (item 5), and, reduction of GHG emissions from ships (item 7).
On the first day of the committee meeting Dr Tristan Smith and Carlo Raucci along with the lead authors of the study presented the findings of the IMO fuel availability study as a side event presentation. The presentation was followed by another study using the same terms of reference but coming to a contrasting conclusion. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: energy, fuel availability, fuel cap, ghg emissions, greenhouse gas (GHG), IMO, International Maritime Organization (IMO), MEPC, MEPC70, shipping, SO2, sulphur cap
Emit now, pay later: The case of shipping and its GHG emissions
By ucft572, on 18 October 2016
Blog by Nishatabbas Rehmatulla and Isabelle Rojon (UMAS)
Something we've got used to in our daily purchasing habits is the term 'buy now pay later'. Whilst this may be good for our personal lifestyles and ease the cash flow somewhat, we still have to pay, only later and usually with added interest. The same goes for our climate: we emit now, but due to finite CO2 budgets, we will ultimately have to pay and it is up to us to decide whether we prefer drastic mitigation or adaptation action as payment. For quite some time shipping, which accounts for approximately 2-3% of global CO2 emissions, has dodged the emissions regulatory bullet for various reasons (relative to other sectors), one of them being the public's lack of awareness of the industry. Unless you live next to a busy port, you probably don't think too much about the global shipping industry and its carbon footprint. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 2050 carbon target, C02 emissions, Climate Week 2016, Decarbonisation, ghg emissions, greenhouse gas (GHG), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), International Maritime Organization (IMO), shipping
A low carbon industrial strategy?
By ucqbpsm, on 19 July 2016
DECC has been absorbed by BEIS. I'm cautiously optimistic about this because climate policy, particularly energy efficiency, didn't really work out on its own. The value of DECC was securing the consensus for the 2008 Climate Change Act. It's record in actually delivering effective policies, as the Committee on Climate Change bluntly pointed out last month[1], is less than stellar. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under Buildings, energy, UCL Energy Institute staff
Tags: BEIS, building performance, CCC, Climate Chance Act, DECC, energy productivity gap
RIP DECC – but will we miss you?
So after 8 years the DECC experiment is over. The immediate reaction is mixed with some saying that climate policy has been diluted. Others say that linking climate and industry policy is a sensible approach. Who is right?
On energy efficiency, I'm optimistic. In DECC, energy efficiency was isolated in Whitehall. It needs to ride the waves of other policies and not compete with them. The strategic case for energy efficiency is compelling – but that is better done by a department of business and not a department of carbon.
This is particularly true now we are to have an industrial strategy. Productivity, competitiveness, risk, cost and value are all pivotal industrial drivers, and they are all key selling points for energy efficiency. It should have a chapter of its own.
I think the same applies to energy efficiency in homes. The reason why the Green Deal was such a disaster was that the "business case" for us as householders never worked. But more importantly selling energy efficiency to us is – or should be – a business proposition.
And finally I don't buy the assertion that energy efficiency will get buried. In 1992, we rescued energy efficiency from the old DTI because it wasn't safe in the hands of neoclassical DTI economists. But now we have the Climate Change Act and, so far, no-one is trying to unpick that.
Tags: Climate Change Act, climate policy, DECC, energy, Green Deal, UCL-Energy
What would a better London transport system look like? How do we get there from here? And what could the next Mayor do about it?
By Andrew ZP Smith, on 3 May 2016
The next Mayor of Greater London has an easy time and a hard time ahead.
The incumbent has shown little intention to do much with the power of the office. So the new mayor won't have to work too hard to look busy or effective, by comparison. That's the easy time ahead.
But, in terms of managing London's transport, they have a very hard time. For the first eight years of London's new government, investment spanned all areas of transport, with vigorous interventions, and lots of long-term strategic planning and research. All that changed, with the change of mayor and the global financial crisis in 2008: in particular, the strategic planning and research capacities in Transport for London were cut back deeply. This is an apparently cheap strategy – a mayor that cuts long-term planning, but who had a predecessor who'd invested deeply in it, gets to live off yesterday's investment, while leaving nothing for their successor. Like a farmer who only harvested and never sowed, there's nothing at the next harvest. So when the next mayor wants to know what the long-term planning and strategic capacity is, they are in for a bit of a shock. And the picture gets worse: the money London receives from the Treasury to help meet the ongoing expenses its transport system, is to be phased out, leaving London with a £0.7bn shortfall. However, capital expenditure is still in place, and the go-ahead has been given for Crossrail 2. This a policy mistake that keeps getting repeated in transport in Britain: we invest in infrastructure, and then fail to provide for its operation and maintenance. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Crossrail, London Mayor, London transport, pollution, tfl, Ultra Low Emission Zone
Oil Producers Meeting in Doha, Qatar: Technical opinion
By Andreas Economou, on 14 April 2016
The objective of the so-called Doha Meeting in Qatar, on April 17, between the world's top oil producers is fairly straightforward: to agree on a collective OPEC and non-OPEC oil output freeze to January 2016 levels, in an effort to halt the nearly two-year oil price collapse. Yet, the actual scope of the agreement is way less ambiguous and far more OPEC-specific.
Amid the most dramatic quarter since the price fall (1Q2016) – i.e. prices hovering below $30/bbl to a 13-year low, a persistent supply-driven bear market, global economic growth forecasts being downgraded and a deep contango encouraging stocks to rise above 5-year average – Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia and Qatar have revived a very well crafted "As-Is Agreement". The terms of the agreement are relatively painless for the participating oil producers, which are already producing near their capacity limit and near their average forecast levels for 2016 –see Table 1. For all oil producers, excluding Saudi Arabia and Iran, announcing that they will not increase production in the near-term, confirms merely what was already known given the global squeeze on capital resources towards upstream developments. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: energy, Oil, oil freeze, OPEC, Saudi Arabia, UCL-Energy
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Delivering on Paris: how the UK responds to its climate obligations April 19, 2018
Mapping synergies and trade-offs between energy and the Sustainable Development Goals: how, why, and what's next November 20, 2017
Stakeholder Engagement Study: What are the social issues affecting wind energy deployment? July 6, 2017
The making of a globally sustainable energy system November 14, 2016
The highs and lows at the United Nations International Maritime Organisation's 70th Marine Environment Protection Committee November 11, 2016
Emit now, pay later: The case of shipping and its GHG emissions October 18, 2016
A low carbon industrial strategy? July 19, 2016
RIP DECC – but will we miss you? July 15, 2016
What would a better London transport system look like? How do we get there from here? And what could the next Mayor do about it? May 3, 2016
Oil Producers Meeting in Doha, Qatar: Technical opinion April 14, 2016
What would be the impact of the April 17 OPEC meeting on the UK electricity market? April 13, 2016
Gender equality in the workplace – Energy Demand in Practice seminar series March 8, 2016
Athena SWAN in the Bartlett – Bringing Us Together March 8, 2016
International women's day, inspiration from the past, present and hope for the future March 8, 2016
The changing face of architecture: Value difference March 8, 2016
Two months since COP21, where are we now? January 21, 2016
'Is there life after PhD?' First event from the Energy Demand in Practice seminar series January 20, 2016
In the aftermath of the Paris COP Agreement – grounds for optimism or pessimism? December 16, 2015
The ground-breaking Paris Agreement leaves no room for delay in cutting emissions December 15, 2015
The Paris Agreement – second time lucky? December 14, 2015
Shipping under scrutiny in Paris at COP 21 December 9, 2015
How a global solar alliance can help developing countries December 7, 2015
Ratcheting up the ambition level: Implementing deep decarbonisation pathways December 4, 2015
Paris – outside looking in November 30, 2015
UCL-Energy Director's thoughts on UCL-Energy/French Embassy/UKERC Event October 27, 2015