As the year comes to a close I'd like to share a "few of my favorite things" -- feel free to listen to this John Coltrane tune as you read along.
I recently wrote a blog post about my experiences at The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. I am still thinking about my visit to Montgomery because of those places.
Every museum talks about STEM (or STEAM) but really, when was the last time you encountered a really fun exhibit or program about Math? The enthusiastic dynamo Professor Tadashi Tokieda could change all that. Check out his videos on the Numberphile YouTube channel.
Of course, the Louvre gets all the love, but if you really want to make the most of your Museum Pass, you will visit the Paris Sewer Museum!
I worked super hard (and literally shed blood, sweat, and tears!) to lead the development of all the new Science Galleries at the recently expanded and consolidated Discovery Museum in Acton, Massachusetts. If you are anywhere near the Boston area, it's worth a special trip.
If you arrived in St. Louis to experience the City Museum, marvel at the Gateway Arch, and eat some Ted Drewe's frozen custard, you could then leave the city limits fulfilled.
And that's a wrap for 2018! Enjoy whatever end-of-year events you celebrate, tell the people around you that you love them, and work on projects that make you happy and proud in 2019!
Last week I visited Montgomery Alabama for the first time.
I was there as a member of The Museum Group (TMG) as we held our fall 2018 business meetings there.
As part of our experiences in Montgomery, TMG was fortunate to visit three important cultural institutions, the Civil Rights Memorial Center, associated with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and two more recently opened sites associated with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and The Legacy Museum.
Visiting those three places still has me thinking about the difficult histories in the United States involving race, slavery, discrimination, and justice, so I wanted to share my experiences and still-evolving impressions here.
While many people think of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement as something from the past, it is clear that SPLC's message in the Memorial Center is that the work of fighting hate and bigotry continues to this day and involves every one of us.
To that end, the exhibits and experiences inside the Memorial Center not only share information about the people featured on Lin's monumental sculpture outside but also present modern stories and images such as those of Heather Heyer, the young woman killed during the Charlottesville protests. The information here is sobering and thought-provoking.
The final experience inside SPLC's Memorial Center is a large Wall of Tolerance, an interactive video wall that lets you insert your own name as a record of visitors who have pledged to take a stand against hate, injustice, and intolerance.
I found that adding my own name was a hopeful, and purposeful, way to conclude my experiences at the Civil Rights Memorial Center.
The Memorial is a six-acre outdoor site that forces visitors to confront the ugly legacy of racial terror lynchings in the United States between 1877 and 1950. Hundreds of six-foot-tall metal boxes formed of Corten steel produces a rusted, weathered surface that evoked images of blood (and wear) in my mind.
The experience is a deliberately narrative one that leads you on a winding path through the six acres of the Memorial. The experience starts with a statue of enslaved people bound in chains, perhaps at a slave auction. This powerful image is followed by a winding pathway lined with benches as well as signs on the interior of the walls surrounding the site that provide both historical context and evocative quotes. The design of the entire space acknowledges the need to occasionally stop to rest and process.
As you move closer to the sets of human-sized boxes, they are resting on the ground so that you can read the names of counties across the United States where documented lynchings occurred and the names and dates of the people killed in those places. The sheer number of names and boxes is daunting.
As one moves through the memorial, different sets of boxes from all the different counties continue to lift off the ground until the final set you encounter is hanging above you, evocative of lynched bodies, with the names and information punched into each box now nearly impossible to read.
The overall effect of the Memorial, for me at least, was strangely quiet and contemplative despite the histories represented there.
The encounter with the hanging memorial elements ends in an area where duplicate copies of each box are placed lying down in long horizontal rows. (Pictured at the top of this post.) My understanding is that the Equal Justice Initiative wants to offer each of those duplicate boxes to every individual county so that appropriate memorials can be constructed at the sites of past racial terror lynchings using the corten steel boxes that originated in Montgomery.
The message I took away from the Memorial was one of truth and reconciliation, and the acknowledgment that we as citizens of the United States will never truly reconcile with our difficult histories unless we face the truths of our collective past.
Visitors are not allowed to take pictures inside EJI's Legacy Museum, so I will just share a few high-level thoughts about my experiences. The Legacy Museum clearly stands in association with The National Memorial for Peace and Justice but focuses more on the current social justice work of the Equal Justice Initiative, and the idea that slavery did not "end" in the United States but merely "evolved."
The emotional experiences of The Legacy Museum start immediately as you are informed that you are standing at the site of a former slave "warehouse" where enslaved people were held before they were bought and sold at auction. Just steps away from the entry desk, video presentations are illustrating the pain of family separation of enslaved people and the pivotal role that Montgomery played in the slave trade.
As you move further into the Museum, dense text displays were interspersed by compelling short video presentations (I was especially taken by those featuring the illustration and animation work of artist Molly Crabapple) effectively illustrating the modern concerns of the Equal Justice Initiative --ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
As with the two other Montgomery sites, my experiences inside The Legacy Museum were quiet, yet compelling.
I found it interesting that two social justice organizations deliberately chose the approaches of museums and memorials to amplify their messages. Ironically, given the difficult histories that each of the sites shares, I have no doubt that, especially after the relatively recent openings of The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, that many more people will visit Montgomery. Based on my own experiences, I would certainly recommend a visit to Montgomery to anyone.
As a side note, I couldn't help but notice the guards and metal detectors at the entrance of each site, and we were informed that both EJI and SPLC require security around their buildings and facilities 24/7. Clearly, not everyone in and around Montgomery is happy to be reminded of the histories shown inside these important institutions.
Please visit the websites of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Equal Justice Initiative to learn more about these organizations and how you can support their important work.
I'd also encourage you to read Bryan Stevenson's book, Just Mercy.
The Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Needs YOUR Museum!
Assessing the impact of museums feels hard. Mushy. Nebulous.
Assessing the impact of an individual museum can feel even more out of reach.
But what if it wasn't so hard after all? What if museum-goers were able to tell us, pretty explicitly, about the impact we've had in their lives?
That museums provide priceless knowledge.
That they spark curiosity and a love of learning.
That they promote empathy, compassion, and understanding in meaningful ways.
That they truly do make us more creative and innovative.
And that individual museums are vital to these contributions?
The thing is … museum-goers and non-visitors DO credit museums for these things (and more).
But we only know this because museums themselves have participated in the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, gaining data that begins to measure their impact over time while also contributing to our field-wide knowledge. Additionally, we need to continually push this research to refine and deepen our understanding of impact, so we can better make our case to visitors, donors, government entities, and the public.
And now the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers needs your museum.
If you want to begin to understand the impact your museum is having, the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers is a consistent way to measure how well you are serving visitors as well as contextual evidence about your impact … and how you can matter more. It builds on the strength of many museums to understand audience segments and motivations, helping participating museums broader and deepen their reach in their community.
And it only costs $1,000 to participate.
broader population sampling for comparison purposes.
The Pain/Pleasure Index. While we might wish that every museum visit was a total pleasure for visitors, we know it isn't always. The Pain/Pleasure Index will expand our understanding of the pain points of visiting, and how it affects the entire visit.
Curiosity. Visitors to museums do credit museums with sparking curiosity, but how do we do that? How do we compare with other curiosity-sparking activities? And how does it affect knowledge building?
Empathy and Compassion. Museum-goers often state that knowledge makes them more empathetic and compassionate, and they credit museums for cultivating this. But what is it about museums that makes us effective? And why does empathy and compassion matter in today's divisive time?
These themes matter to all museums, large and small, science and art and history (and everything in between).
To make the January/February launch window, museums need to enroll now. Only $1,000 for high-quality research, both about your museum and our field as a whole.
I attended my first MuseumNext Conference that just happened in Manhattan. MuseumNext often bills itself with the tagline "The Future of Museums" and while this NYC edition had a decidedly digital bent, I was pleased to discover that not everything in the museum world's future appears to be digital.
First, a few general impressions before I highlight a few specific sessions that struck me.
While this format has benefits, as an attendee if you don't like a presentation you are stuck -- there are no other concurrent sessions to jump to. And this was a problem for me during the 2-day conference because several presentations were more "sales pitch" than sharing of expertise and experiences. That's fine, and to be expected, in the case of MuseumNext sponsors who were given the stage, but it felt a little slimy in the case of the other presentations.
My other quibble with the MuseumNext NYC schedule was that there was not enough time for socializing and networking. I would have appreciated the opportunity to spend a bit more time with more of the very interesting attendees!
Hannah Fox from the Derby Museums in the UK led off the first day of presentations by sharing the approaches that bring the Derby Museums and programs such acclaim. I was particularly struck by how often the word "prototype" came up in Hannah's presentation! The Derby Museums try out everything with their visitors and community partners. I also appreciated how often Derby's cross-disciplinary teams pushed back on the "it would just be better if I did it myself" approach.
Christian Rohner from the Museum of Communication in Berne, Switzerland explained how their museum re-allocated budget to switch from volunteers and part-time "communicators" to all permanent staff and how the redesign of the MoC made sure every object was coupled with a human story.
One of my favorite quotes on Day 1 came from the engaging presenter Liat Rosenthal, curator of Uniqlo Tate Lates (evening events at the Tate Modern.) She and her colleagues think about a museum as "a university with a playground attached."
The folks from Impossible Things also gave a pop-up demo of ReBlink during the lunch break.
Ann Neumann from the MIT Museum shared the lessons learned from the development of the immersive Virtual Reality (VR) project, "The Enemy" developed with Camera Lucida. By juxtaposing the stories of combatants from conflicts around the world the MIT Museum asks whether VR can be a tool to expand our moral imaginations?
One of my other favorite presentations from Day 2 came from Tim Powell of the Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) in the UK. Tim shared several of the exciting ways that HRP are using an R&D approach through collaboration with artists, and by gaining audience input from the start.
I'll end my impressions of MuseumNext NYC 2018 with this image of Rolf Coppens from Grrr creative agency in Amsterdam. I think the qualities of pushing boundaries, working together, being demanding, and keeping users first were certainly captured in many of the presentations (and my takeaways) from the conference. MuseumNext was definitely not a typical museum conference, and I would encourage ExhibiTricks readers to check out a future edition near you if the opportunity arises.
You can check out additional impressions of MuseumNext NYC 2018 by searching for the hashtag #MuseumNext on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.


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Ofcom's revised guidelines on fines – a new emphasis on deterrence
Ofcom has published revised guidelines1, which set out how it determines the level of its fines across all areas that it regulates, including telecoms, broadcasting and postal services. The revised guidelines, which took effect from 3 December 2015, will be applied to future investigations.
On the face of it, the amendments are incremental. But the accompanying statement2 suggests that Ofcom is looking to provide a greater deterrent effect by imposing heftier fines in future in appropriate cases (most likely in the telecoms sector).
Ofcom also hopes that increased fines will reduce overall numbers of complaints. This is, however, perhaps optimistic in the social media age, when it is easier than ever for consumers to complain and, indeed, consumer complaints on issues that have widespread impact or appeal can gain traction and multiply exponentially.
For broadcasters, it is questionable whether the revised guidelines will have any material impact. It has long been clear that Ofcom does not consider itself bound to cap fines imposed on broadcasters at the level of financial harm. Non-financial harm in a broadcast context is difficult, if not impossible, to quantify. So Ofcom has always had a substantial margin of discretion when setting the level of any fine to be imposed on a broadcaster. Broadcasters have also been aware for many years that, while fines imposed in previous cases were a factor that Ofcom would take into account, those fines would not operate as a cap on future fines. In any event, it is extremely difficult to draw meaningful comparisons between the fines imposed by Ofcom on broadcasters, as they are almost invariably fact-specific. In addition, there are different caps that apply to the fines that can be imposed on different broadcasters, which adds to the difficulty of making comparisons.
While Ofcom's penalty guidelines apply across all areas that it regulates, it is perhaps of some comfort to those regulated by Ofcom that the revised guidelines will not be a "one-size-fits-all approach", and that it does not intend simply to uplift all fines across the board for all types of breaches in all sectors.
Overall, the potential impact on larger entities in any of the Ofcom-regulated sectors may be significant, and Ofcom's 2015 consultation and statement suggest that the revisions to the penalty guidelines are directed particularly at the telecoms sector. But as Ofcom concludes in its statement (rather stating the obvious): "A provider can avoid the costs of a contravention and what it claims is the inevitable passing-on of those costs to consumers by avoiding the contravention in the first place."
Eleanor Steyn, Associate, Michael Simkins
To read the full article, click here. Article written for Entertainment Law Review.
[1] http://www.ofcom.org.uk/about/policies-and-guidelines/penalty-guidelines/.
[2] http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/penalty-guidelines-15/statement/.

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When Allie Munroe sets off for the library to work on a project with her friends and a pair of popular kids she has no idea what a bad day she's in for. When the quintet get sucked into a magic book and deposited into the world of Nerissette their lives are forever changed. Allie finds out she's the princess of Nerissette and each of her companions' fate is changed. Told that Fate—a god of the magical realm—chose this new life for them the only thing to do is play along. But the longer they remain in Nerissette the more Allie realizes about the lies she was raised on.
The man who is supposed to have been the steward of the kingdom in the absence of its queen has been manipulating the people and it's up to Allie and her friends to save Nerissette. If they ever want to get home they are going to have to change Fate's design and fight for control of the kingdom.
Having read Buchanan's work under her other pen name I had high hopes for Everlast. Unfortunately, it was just not for me. From the start the pacing is choppy, the character development is minimal, and the story itself has plot holes that an adult reader is likely to pick apart quickly. With that in mind this is one YA title I won't recommend to adults but think is a great choice for the middle school age group. It's very clean (no cursing, kisses at most) and only mildly violent. If you're in that age group I think you might really enjoy this story.
The one thing I did love about Everlast was that Allie's friend/crush, Winston, isn't white. I love interracial relationships and feel that really set this one apart from others in the genre. Kudos for choosing diversity Andria! Now if only Allie wasn't so dull and clueless and everyone didn't repeat and rehash the same things over and over and over and over until I wanted to throw my ereader across the room.
To sum it up... this is one YA title that's suited to the target audience but will probably frustrate and annoy adult fans of the genre.


Giving Thanks for a Great Year!
Last week, Gainor teamed with Elie Tahari in an evening of hors d'oeuvres and shopping as a special thank you to our clients. We thought we would share a few photos of the excitement.
Day in and day out, we at Gainor Staffing consult with people looking for a change. For some, it's a change from unemployment to employment. For others, it's a change of location or industry. We were getting a little restless ourselves so we have decided to spruce things up with a fresh coat of paint.
Just as candidates search for jobs in a supportive environment, Gainor seeks to cultivate a similar culture within our office. Adina Rothfeld, one of the newer members of the Gainor Family shares her experience during her first year at Gainor Staffing with Cornelius Bethea, our Front Desk Manager.


Gerber Microbrew + Keychain Gadgets!
Bottle opener with an LED light! Looks like Gerber's gonna try to stay in the keychain market.
I probably will... and never use it. I'm a sucker for gadgets!
So what crappy keychain gadgets do you fall for and what's your favorite (not including one-piece tools)?
I've a SwissTech Utilikey and Transformer Xi. The Xi fell apart a few days after purchase and I couldn't be bothered with warranty or return. I do like the Utilikey, however, though I believe it could be better with an aide for opening (which I believe they added to the newer models).
Re: Gerber Microbrew + Keychain Gadgets!
What if my light could open a bottle? Done. Introducing, MicroBrew, the keychain "tool" that lights up the cooler and opens the brew! Replaceable battery, powerful L.E.D. available in white or red. Beer anyone?
•Powerful white or red L.E.D.
Looks like it would be a prety cool little backup light.
I think it's just a small gadget to look cool while opening your beer, ya know? Atleast I know some people who'd love this as a gift.
Goes great with a Classic/Esquire too!
Hitting the drink already huh?
If the pic doesn't work here is the link.
Huh, saw it at my local REI though it's supposed to be released next month.
Maybe I'll pick one up.
We saw those at SHOT this year as well and were very impressed with them. The head flashlight guy, Ben Nyssen put those together and was carrying around a prototype with a glow in the dark insert, which Bob and I were drooling over!
It's a pretty simple idea- folded sheet metal in a bottle opener shape with a silicon insert holding the LED components.
They outsorced thier beer to China. It is brewed right next to the Suspension plant.
They outsourced their beer to China. It is brewed right next to the Suspension plant.


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A Year In Review: Murals, Masterpieces and Makers
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz
"The Healing Quilt" used its large scale and bright colors to call the community to come together and end gun violence.
The year 2017 was a plethora of emotions. It was filled with heartbreak, with healing and with a triumph over tragedy, at the very least these were the responses in Milwaukee.
In light of the tragedies that struck Milwaukee in the years before, residents saw 2017 as a chance to repair themselves and strive for a brighter future. This goal was interpreted in a variety of ways, but many took it as an opportunity to literally brighten cream city with colors. As a result, several murals were commissioned and revealed during 2017, including "Sherman Park Rising" and "The Healing Quilt".
Aside from brightening the city, these murals brought communities and residents together in an act of healing, that caused residents to reflect and celebrate.
The mural, "The Healing Quilt" came to life in Walnut Hill. It was the first public mural curated by the Milwaukee Art Project (MAP).
Located on the corner of Lisbon Avenue, on the Londyn Food's wall, the bright colors sweep the viewer's eyes across the mural. It stands at 42×18 feet and is truly a sight to behold. It's a symbol of community and a plea for an end to gun violence. While certainly a statement piece, the mural is a collection of stories.
"Hail We Now Sing Joy," gave viewers a reason to pause and reflect and be witnessed.
For some, like the children who participate in the group Our Next Generation, it's a story filled with joy and happiness. They picked the colors and a few even helped paint. For others, like members of MAP and St. John's on the Lake, who sponsored the mural, it's a story of strength and advocacy.
Most importantly, "The Healing Quilt" depicts people hailing from different nationalities. From Black to Hispanic to Hmong to white, there's a visual representation of the city of Milwaukee and its people.
In addition to the art beautifying Milwaukee, it was also a great year for African American artists like Rashid Johnson and Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald. All three are known for their works, as they directly reflect the black community.
Originally from Chicago, Johnson now resides in New York with a Brooklyn based studio. He first became known in Milwaukee with his piece, The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club.
Johnson's traveling exhibition "Hail We Now Sing Joy" resided in Milwaukee's Art Museum (MAM) in June through September. With 10,000 square feet of space, it was one of the largest exhibitions the MAM has hosted.
The exhibition included Antoine's Organ, Escape Collage, Anxious Audience and Falling Man. Each piece captured the viewer. Furthermore, Johnson deliberately included aspects of African and African American culture in each work of art such as books by prominent black authors.
A popular tool of his was shea butter, which appeared several times on any given piece. Easily moldable and forgiving, Johnson displayed it throughout the exhibition and most memorably on a large table at the conclusion of the narrative.
While both a narrative and display in its own right, "Hail We Now Sing Joy" allowed the viewers to be both a witness and witnessed as they transitioned from piece to piece in reflection and critique.
Like Johnson, Kehinde Wiley is a familiar name among MAM patrons. His piece, St. Dionysus, is on display in the museum.
As a young boy growing up in Los Angeles, Wiley spent his weekends at an art conservatory according to his website. While there, he grew and expanded his repertoire from still life objects to live ones. He's best known for his portraits, specifically those of African American men.
In October of 2017, President Barack Obama announced that Wiley would be painting his official portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. First Lady Michelle Obama will be depicted by Baltimore based artist, Amy Sherald.
Like Wiley, Sherald is best known for her portraits of African Americans. Her paintings capture the spirit and thoughtfulness of her subjects in a simple yet simultaneously captivating way.
All in all, 2017 was not just a year filled with art in Milwaukee and the nation, but one filled with opportunities for black artists. A trend, that hopefully continues throughout not only 2018 but for years to come.
Popular Interests In This Article: Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Rashid Johnson, Sherman Park, Sherman Park Rising, The Healing Quilt, Walnut Hill
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Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis 1, Smt. Sarojini Ramulamma College of Pharmacy, Seshadrinagar, Mahabubnagar - 509001, Telangana, India.
Gland Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences 2, Kothapet, Medak - 509001, Telangana, India.
ABSTRACT: An accurate, simple, new, precise, rugged and stability indicating method was developed for simultaneous estimation of sitagliptin and metformin HCl in tablets. The developed method was rapid and economic. The Chromatographic separation was achieved isocratically on a C-18 column by using ammonium acetate buffer (adjusted to pH 5.0 with glacial acetic acid): MeOH (60:40 v/v). Octane -1-sulfonic acid sodium salt was used as an ion pair agent. Flow rate of 1mL/min with dual wavelength UV detection (265nm for sitagliptin & 225 nm for metformin) was used. The retention times of metformin and sitagliptin are 2.398 min and 17.113min respectively. The developed method was specific and well separated from the impurities of both sitagliptin and metformin. The method is linear in a range of 50% to 150% for both sitaglitpin and metformin. The correlation coefficient was found to be r2= 0.9997 & 0.9998 for sitagliptin and metformin respectively. Both standard and test solutions proved to be stable for up to 48 h. Forced degradation study showed that the method is stability indicating. The developed method can be used for routine analysis of sitaglitpin and metformin fixed dose combination.
INTRODUCTION: Sitagliptin Phosphate mono-hydrate is a white to off-white, crystalline, non-hygroscopic powder, soluble in water and N, N-dimethyl formamide, slightly soluble in methanol and very slightly soluble in ethanol, acetone, and acetonitrile. This is an oral anti hyperglycemic of the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor class.
This enzyme-inhibiting drug is used either alone or in combination with other oral anti hyperglycemic agents (such as metformin or a thiazolidinedione) for treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2. Its molecular formula is C16H15F6N5O•H3PO4•H2O and molecular weight is 523.32 g/mol 1.
Metformin hydrochloride (N, N-dimethylimidodi carbonimidic diamide hydrochloride) is a white to off-white crystalline compound. The pKa of metformin is 12.4. The pH of a 1% aqueous solution of metformin hydrochloride is 6.68. Metformin hydrochloride is freely soluble in water and is practically insoluble in acetone, ether, and chloroform. Molecular formula = C4H11N5.HCl. & Molecular weight = 165.63 2, 3.
Sitagliptin - Active pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) – MSN Laboratories Limited Hyderabad.
Metformin HCl – MSN Laboratories Limited Hyderabad.
HPLC grade methanol, Glacial acetic acid, Octane -1- sulfonic acid sodium salt, water were used. Other chemicals and reagents like ammonium acetate, HCl, NaOH, H2O2 of AR grade were used.
Instruments Used: Analysis was performed by using analytical balance precisa XB220A, HPLC used is Shimadzu LC-2010 with PDA detector. Column used in HPLC is Zorbax SB-C8, 150 X 4.6 mm, 3.5 µm. Other equipments like sonicator, water bath, hot air oven of thermo make were used.
Buffer Preparation: Weigh 1.54 g of ammonium acetate and 0.58 g Octane-1-sulfonic acid sodium salt, dissolve in 1000 mL of Milli-Q-Water and adjust the pH to 5.0 with glacial acetic acid. Filter this through 0.45 µm PVDF membrane filter.
Mobile Phase Preparation: Mix methanol and buffer in the ratio 40:60.
Standard Stock Solution-1: Weigh 100 mg of Metformin HCl into a 100 mL volumetric flask, dissolve and dilute to the mark with diluent.
Standard Stock Solution-2: Weigh 64.10 mg of Sitagliptin phosphate monohydrate (equivalent to 50.0 mg of Sitagliptin) in to a 50 mL volumetric flask dissolve and dilute to the mark with diluent. Take 5 mL of Standard Stock Solution-1 and 5 mL of Standard Stock Solution-2 in to a 50 mL volumetric flask, dilute to the mark with diluent and filter through 0.45 µm PVDF filter.
Stock Solution: Weigh placebo equivalent to 2 tablets of sitagliptin and metformin HCl of 50-850 mg strength) and transfer into 200 mL volumetric flask and add about 150 mL of diluent. Sonicate for 30 min. Allow it to cool to room temperature and make up to the volume with diluent. Filter a portion of the sample solution with 0.45 µm PVDF filter.
For Sitagliptin: Transfer 10 mL of filtered stock solution to 50 mL volumetric flask and make up to the volume with diluent and mix well.
For Metformin HCl: Transfer 1 mL of filtered stock solution to 100 mL volumetric flask and make up to the volume with diluent and mix well.
Preparation of Test Solution (Conc. 100 ppm for Sitagliptin and Metformin HCl): Weigh 20 tablets take the average weight of tablets and crush to fine powder. Transfer the crushed powder equivalent to 1700 mg of metformin HCl and 100 mg of Sitagliptin into a 250 mL volumetric flask, add 150 mL of diluent and sonicate for 30minutes. Make up to the mark with diluent and filter through 0.45µm PVDF filter.
Sitagliptin Test Solution: Take 5 mL of Test stock solution and dilute to 20 mL with diluent.
Metformin HCl Test Solution: Take 3 mL of Test stock solution and dilute to 200mL with diluent.
Specificity: Injected blank solution, placebo, standard, individual impurities and test solutions in to the chromatograph after system suitability. No Interference was observed at the RT's of sitagliptin and metformin from blank, impurities and placebo solutions.
Where; At = Area of test solution, As = Area of standard solution, Ws = Weight of standard taken (mg), Wt =Weight of Test taken (mg), Avg. Wt. = Avr. Weight of tablet (mg), LC = Label Claim of the tablet (mg), MF = Molecular factor (Sitagliptin-0.81; Metformin-1), P = Potency of the working standard.
Linearity: Determined the Linearity by plotting a graph between concentration of the test solution on X-axis and response of the corresponding solutions on Y-axis, from 50 % to the 150 % against standard concentrations for both the analytes.
Accuracy: Performed the accuracy of test method using sitagliptin and metformin HCl API and placebo at 50 %, 100 %, 150 % spike levels in triplicate. Calculated the % Recovery and recorded the results.
Bench Top Stability of Standard and Test Preparation: Performed the assay of Sitagliptin-Metformin HCl tablets as per the test method for 50- 850 mg and kept on bench top for 48 h. after analysing the initial amount. Injected the samples at initial, 24 h and 48 h. Calculated the assay against the freshly prepared standard solution and checked the difference in assay of the samples between the initial and bench top stability samples.
Rubustness: Performed the robustness by altering the flow rate by ± 0.1mL/min from 1.0 mL/min, column oven temperature by ± 5 ºC from 35 ºC and buffer pH by ± 0.2 from 5.0. Prepared the standard solution and checked the system suitability criteria by altering the above mentioned parameters. System Suitability criteria was within the limits for all the altered parameters.
Filter Integrity Test: Performed the filter validation studies on sitagliptin-metformin HCl Tablets 50-850 mg by preparing the test sample. A portion of the test sample was centrifuged and the remaining portion of test solution was filtered with PVDF and PTFE filters. Calculated the % assay and calculated the difference in assay from the assay obtained by centrifuging.
Forced Degradation Study: Performed the forced degradation of test method to demonstrate the non-interference of impurities, degradation products in quantification of analyte by various stress conditions like acid, base peroxide and thermal.
CONCLUSION: A new RP-HPLC method has been developed for simultaneous estimation of sitagliptin and metformin HCl in marketed formulation. The method showed good resolution between the two drugs and also with degradants in forced degradation study. The two analyte peaks were well separated from the impurities of Metformin and Sitagliptin. The developed method was validated for specificity, linearity, precision, accuracy, robustness and solution stability. It proved to be stability indicating, specific, novel, simple, accurate, precise and cost effective. Hence the proposed RP-HPLC method is suitable for routine assay of linagliptin and metformin in pharmaceutical dosage forms in quality control laboratories.
Desireddy RB, Sindhuri SL, Charitha A and Nagasowjanya G: Development and validation of analytical methods for the simultaneous estimation of sitagliptin phosphate and metformin hydrochloride in pharmaceutical dosage form. Pharmatutor-art-1912, 2017.
Gracea AC, Prabhaa T, Jagadeeswarana M, Srinivasanb K, Sivakumarb T: Analytical methods for determination of sitagliptin: an updated review. Int J Pharm Sci Rev Res 2017; 43(1): 217-225.
Sirigiri N, Subramanian NS and Reddy GNK: Stability indicating method development and validation for simultaneous estimation of Sitagliptin phosphate and Metformin HCl in tablets by HPLC. Int J Pharm Sci & Res 2018; 9(10): 4294-02. doi: 10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.9(10).4294-02.
Authors Address: Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Smt. Sarojini Ramulamma College of Pharmacy, Seshadrinagar, Mahabubnagar, Telangana, India.


ZTE MF910 is a 4G LTE Mobile Wifi Router from ZTE which support 4G LTE FDD networks. ZTE MF910 could support 4G LTE Band 3/7/8/20, and it's an LTE category 4 mobile WiFi Hotspot to support maximum download speed up to 150Mbps. And it could also support 3G UMTS and 2G GPRS/GSM network.
ZTE MF910 is so popular that is sold by most of the popular network providers in locked status. The good news is that it can be unlocked using a correct Unlock/NCK code. Once the router is unlocked, it will work with any SIM in any part of the country and worldwide.
Make sure your ZTE MF910 WiFi router is at least 30% charged. If not, charge it.
Switch off your router and insert a non-acceptable Network SIM (i.e. if your router is locked to Network "A" then insert the sim of Network "B") on your ZTE MF910 router.
After inserting the SIM card in your router, switch it ON.
The web browser should open automatically. If not, then open it manually and login to your device's dashboard at http://192.168.1.1 or http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.8.1 depending on ZTE MF910 IP address.
Enter the correct Unlock/NCK code received from unlockmyrouter.com and click OK, your router might restart to display the new network.


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30.01.2007 Football News
African Youth Championship Finalists To Be Decided Today
By mtnfootball
LISTEN JAN 30, 2007
The tournament's finalists will be decided today
The four berths for the World U-20 Championships in Canada may have already been decided, but today the African Youth Championships reaches the business end of the tournament with the two semifinals taking place in Brazzaville today.
Hosts Congo Brazzaville, who finished second in Group A, will take on surprise Group B winners Zambia, whose dramatic victory over Egypt in their last game, thanks to a brace by Clifford Mulenga, earned the Southern Africans a semifinal place.
Congo, whose U-20 team will be the first from the country to participate in the finals of a FIFA tournament when they travel to Canada, will be favourites due to the passionate home support they have received during the tournament.
The earlier semifinal will see perennial favourites Nigeria take on Gambia, who impressively topped Group A and are the only undefeated team in the tournament.
One person who is not satisfied with the semifinal line up is Cameroonian legend Roger Milla, who felt that his nation's representatives, who finished bottom of Group B, should have given a stronger showing.
"Cameroon should have qualified," the legend told MTNfootball.com.
"We did not deserve to lose to Egypt and lack of enough concentration caused our second defeat to Zambia and our early exit."
Milla was also not optimistic about the chances of the African teams at the World Youth Championships.
"At least two of those teams will not pass the first round," said Milla of Gambia, Zambia, Congo and Nigeria.


Benjamin Houssard serves clients in the industrial sector and especially in Aerospace & Defense and Metals & Mining. He specializes in issues related to strategy and organization and in particular merger management.
Benjamin, based in the Paris office, serves industrial clients in Aerospace & Defense, metallurgy, and construction materials.
He is an active member of the Organization Practice and a specialist of merger management topics. In this context, he is active in many mergers in France and across Europe and supports both pre-closing and post-closing phases. His expertise includes the definition of the integration plan, identification and capture of value-creation levers and synergies, the design and implementation of the target organization, change management and communication topics.
Beyond mergers, Benjamin helps large industrial clients on their transformation journey. He advises his clients on strategic and organization matters.
Before joining McKinsey, he worked within General Electric Healthcare and Chargeurs Group.


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Fink family: Agricultural knowledge, handed down through generations
Corn illustration, Library of Congress.
Two prosperous farmers from South River Township chatted with a reporter for the Palmyra Spectator in early May 1892. When asked what they thought about the prospects for their crops during the ensuing season, the two men looked at each other, then at the reporter, and chuckled.
The Spectator reported:
"While both gentlemen are anxious to see dry weather they are not losing any sleep over it, for should their crops be a failure they have fat bank accounts to fall back on."
The farmers were Jacob Fink and J.N. Nichols, who owned adjoining farms in Township 57N, Range 6W, Section 15. The land now fronts the south side of Route F, west of the U.S. 61/Route 24 junction, south of Palmyra, Mo.
In 1875, Jacob Fink's land equaled nearly a quarter of a section, or 158 acres, to be precise.
J.N. Nichols' adjoining farm consisted of 640 acres.
Hard labor
Missouri was still an undeveloped frontier back in 1854 when Jacob Fink left his homeland of Switzerland and ventured to America, ultimately settling on the old Berkley farm south of Palmyra. He eventually purchased a farm in South River Township, and it is from that soil that three generations of his family – by the sweat of their brow - would earn their livelihood.
Jacob's son Benjamin, born in 1861, joined in the operation of the Fink farm. When Ben was 28, the "Success Tongueless Sulky Plow" was introduced into the region; an invention that lightened the load of farm families.
The W.J. Jackson company demonstrated the plow to area farmers, including John N. Nichols and Jacob and Ben Fink.
The plow was used on various types of soil, including land "that was pastured and tramped for two years by 50 head of stock.
"Mr. Nichols took his two 3-year-old mules and plowed a full 16-inch furrow, six inches deep for one afternoon. We believe the plow to be the lightest draft, easiest managed and that it holds to the furrow better and runs steadier than any plow we ever saw." (Aug. 29, 1889 Marion County Herald)
Jacob Fink's Benjamin had taken a wife, Mary L. Weber of West Ely, in September 1892, and Jacob (a widow) continued to make his home with his son's growing family, including:
Franklin Fink, born 1894
Edwin Fink, born 1896
Benjamin Fink, born 1897
John E. Fink, born 1899
Harold C. Fink, born 1903
Typical events framed the family's existence: A cow was struck by lightning; the farm's barn and tool shed – built in 1905 - burned in 1923. Resilience prevailed and recovery followed.
Harold Fink, the youngest of Benjamin's five sons, went into farming with his father and grandfather. He was about 13 when his grandfather died at the age of 87. Harold and his brothers represented their grandfather's agricultural heritage by participating in – and winning – agricultural contests on the county and township level.
The year his grandfather died, Harold won a first-place premium for his white corn entry at the South River Township Corn Show, conducted at the West Ely School House. The category in which he won was for boys age 16 and under. His brother, Ben Fink, took the overall grand prize for white or yellow corn.
The following year, Harold Fink was among 10 Marion County farm boys who were chosen to attend "Farmers' Week" at Columbia University, scheduled for Jan. 1-5, 1917. Those chosen for the honor were Thomas Cunningham, David Cunningham, Richard Tarleton, Carroll Moss, Bryan Clark, Sidney Watters, Harold Fink, Malcolm Moore, Clyde Young and Wallace Gray. They were selected on the basis of their records in the judging contest at the Marion County Round-Up in Hannibal.
Harold Fink was considered to be an unusually good judge of corn, and an article in the Jan. 15, 1918 Quincy Daily Journal credited Fink's skill at judging for Palmyra High school's success in winning the corn judging cup in 1917.
Harold Fink didn't have children of his own, but rather dedicated his resources to providing educational opportunities for his colleagues.
The Sept. 25, 1946 edition of the Palmyra Spectator contained a story written by Harold Fink, entitled "Over the Years." He told the story of the growth of an organization formed to aid in the Development of Agriculture in Marion County.
His story went back to 1913, when his grandfather and father were still actively involved in farming.
"Meetings … were rotated among the four school districts of the township," Fink wrote. "Traveling by horse and buggy or spring wagon, a small group of interested farmers conducted their monthly meetings by dim lantern light in buildings headed by wood stoves."
In 1920, the meetings were centralized at the West Ely Lutheran school.
"Local farmers, businessmen from Palmyra and Hannibal, as well as outstanding farmers from neighboring communities and representatives from the State Agricultural college discussed various phases of livestock breeding, feeding and sanitation, corn growing, soy beans, and other forage crops, silos and silage, farm and home improvements and even banking and road building," he explained.
Fink said that in the mid 1920s, topics of discussion included "Tractor versus Horse Farming," and "Automotive Power a Detriment to the Farmer."
Harold Fink's father, Benjamin, died in 1931, and his mother, Louise, died in 1942. They, in addition to Jacob Fink and his wife, are buried at West Ely Cemetery.
Harold Fink had an artistic talent, which garnered several mentions in Palmyra's newspapers over the years.
In January 1925, the windows of Smith Bros. Clothing Store in Palmyra served as a display case for some of Harold Fink's landscape paintings.
And in December 1933, two color landscape scenes and a pen and ink drawing by Harold Fink were on display in the mayor's office in the Marion County Courthouse at Palmyra.
A golf course
The May 30, 1934 edition of the Marion County Standard makes mention of a golf course established by Harold Fink. He was host to the Walther League Picnic in early June, 1934. No further details about the golf course were found in the newspaper.
Death calls
Harold E. Fink died March 16, 1987. He was buried near his parents and grandparents at the West Ely Church
Mary Lou Montgomery retired as editor of the Hannibal (Mo.) Courier-Post in 2014. She researches and writes narrative-style stories about the people who served as building blocks for this region's foundation. Her collective works can be found at www.maryloumontgomery.com
The 1913 atlas of Marion County, Mo., shows the location of the Fink farm in Township 57N, Range 6W, Section 15. Three generations of the Fink family earned a living off of this land. Atlas courtesy of Robert Spaun
Success Tongueless Sulky Plow. The little Success is the simplest and strongest of the tongueless sulkies. It will go through anything and cover weeds as tall as a horse. The duplex lever guide to front wheel makes it the best plow made for opening and closing a land. The Cherokee Sentinel, Cherokee, Kansas, Aug. 20, 1915. Newspapers.com
This card is from the Hannibal Monument files, showing a sketch of Harold E. Fink's monument.


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About this App

            This web app is build off modern web methodologies using a combination of HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. All the components
            are fully reusable sets of code that run independent from the rest of the application.

Technology Stack

                    Front End

            HTML5
            CSS3
            SCSS
            Webpack Javascript Module Bundler
            Typescript
            Bootstrap 3
            Angular 2
            OAuth 2.0

                    Server

            C#
            MS WebAPI 2
            ASP.Net Identity 2.0
            OAuth 2.0
            OWIN Authentication Middleware
            Entity Framework 6
            Unit of Work & Repository Pattern

Security

            Security is handled by a custom ASP.Net Identity system. ASP.NET Identity can be used with all of the ASP.NET frameworks,
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            web, phone, store, or hybrid applications. When a user is registered with our system we can grant them access
            to one or many applications based on their security profile. The same login credentials will grant access to
            a whole suite of applications.

            After a succesfull login the client is issued a JWT Bearer Token for security. This contains all the basic information we
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            or the user logs out. We then use this information to control the UI presented to the user on the client as well
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            The JWT Bearer tokens are digitally signed using a HMAC algorithm and an secret key on the server, meaning they can be verified
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            The overall solution consists of a html5 client front end app, a web api with a MVC information head, and a SQL backend.
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Take any project and fill all of the roles with talented and experienced people and success is nearly guaranteed. Movies are no different. When all of the characters are played by recognizable faces or voices every aspect of the film is a little more beautiful, dramatic, funny and exciting. Alice in Wonderland benefits from a cast and crew of Hollywood veterans and the result is a visually stunning package that will be appreciated across the spectrum of ages. For what it's worth, however, older viewers will be less impressed.
This version of Alice in Wonderland takes places years after Alice's initial adventures. She's 19 now and her spotty memories of Wonderland have been dismissed as fanciful – albeit recurring – dreams. Her father has passed away and Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is set to be proposed to by a suitor she doesn't care for who is part of a family she doesn't like. Overwhelmed by her unpleasant prospects and dreading her future, Alice notices a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and chases after it. In doing so, she falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself in the fascinating world of Wonderland – as she thinks it's called, anyway. There she meets the strange inhabitants that populate the world, like Blue Caterpillar (Alan Rickman), the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) and, of course, the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp). Unfortunately, Alice may not be the Alice the inhabitants hope she is. Only the real Alice can confront the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and end her tyranny.
First and foremost, Alice in Wonderland looks amazing. For the most part, Wonderland's presentation is on par with most people's imagination. Mushrooms loom large and inviting. Battlefields are chessboards. Decapitated heads float in the Red Castle's moat. The score – composed by Danny Elfman – is the perfect complement to Wonderland. The music is magical and dreamy, but never tries to manipulate audiences' feelings. Rather, the score simply adds another beautiful and subtle texture to the film without drawing attention to itself. The characters are also well-designed, with the Red Queen's bulbous head, the armored Card Knights and the Cheshire Cat with his disquieting grin and mellifluous movements. The Mad Hatter, on the other hand, might be a little overkill on the "strange factor" even if the idea was to physically display his madness.
Overall, the cast is fun to watch. Tweedledee and Tweedledum (both played by Matt Lucas) are adequately silly and nonsensical. Helena Bonham Carter commands the screen in every scene she's in and it's obvious she's absolutely enjoying her role. Her counterpart, Anne Hathaway, also manages to eke out a darker dimension to her otherwise Goody Two-Shoes character. Even the animated characters are expressive and sympathetic, thanks to excellent voice acting and artistry. Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter seems more eccentric than mad, but won't necessarily disappoint. The Mad Hatter shines when something triggers a particular train of thought, setting off wild tantrums, but during these moments he's almost unintelligible, mitigating the fun. The weakest member of the cast, unfortunately, is newcomer Mia Wasikowska as Alice. Her performance is bland throughout the film, lacking steep crests and deep valleys of emotion even when she's involved in something dramatic. Her performance stands out even more since she has to play the straight-man to all of the zany characters around her. Wasikowska is never bad, mind you; she's just lackluster.
Adult audiences may be a little disappointed with the plot. Certain events happen that seem important, but in the end don't really matter. When a special scroll is stolen that can foretell the future, another character has to steal it back during a tense stealth scene. Unfortunately, the scroll doesn't come up again for the rest of the film. Another time characters escape certain death by using an ability that was never previously disclosed. So when this ability is finally used it seems absolutely random. On the upside, children will hardly care about these minor complaints.
Finally, a word about the 3D presentation: Overall, it was unnecessary. Due to the heavy use of Green Screen there was no reason to shoot in 3D. Instead, the 2D footage was converted to 3D afterwards, resulting in mediocre effects this time around. The filmmakers made a conscious effort not to make the 3D effect a gimmick by poking things in audiences' faces, but went too far with the subtlety. At times, viewers will probably forget that they're watching a 3D film. If you can find it, Alice in Wonderland might be better enjoyed in its native form.


The first decorated trees adorned with apples, white candy, and cakes in the shape of stars, hearts and flowers. Glass ornaments first made in Lauscha in Germany, Hans Greiner (1550 – 1609), who produced garlands of pearls of glass and Tin figures that could be hung in the trees. Increased the popularity of these decorations and the production of glass figures made by craftsmen highly skilled clay molds.
The artisans heated glass with a tube called and then a clay mold tube, heat the glass to the shape of the blow molding. The original ornaments were only in the form of fruits and nuts.
After cooled Crystal, a solution of silver nitrate was round inside it, a technical audience developed in 1850 by Justus von Liebig. After the dry nitrate solution, the ornament was hand painted and covered with a hat and a hook.


The 2017 World Tea Awards, that celebrate everything tea and allow recognition in the tea industry, are just around the corner!
The awards recognise leaders with categories such as "Best Tea Health Advocate", "Best Brewing Device" and "Best Tea Educator". However, amazingly, the awards also recognises those who don't necessarily work in tea, but dedicate time to it. That's right, I'm talking about bloggers, or specifically tea bloggers. Yup, "Best Tea Blog" exists!
This year, I'm asking you to nominate Taste the Tea in this category. I have worked so hard to build the blog over the past year, sourcing tea companies for new products, photography and writing descriptive and honest posts, with tea lovers and new tea bellies in mind. Receiving this kind of nomination would mean everything, solidifying all the time, effort and energy that is the backbone to blogging.
Nominations close May 2nd, 2017.


The first NLP trainer in Serbia, the founder of the NLP Institute and the first Coaching Academy, not only in Serbia, but in the entire Western Balkans.
She had successfully worked in sales in Germany and that is when she had her first encounter with the world-famous methodology for personal and professional growth – Neurolinguistic programing (NLP) and it had become her 'love at first sight'. With the help of NLP she had achieved extraordinary results in sales and very quickly had gotten the leading position in the company.
Since this methodology was unknown in Serbia until then, because of her great love for her country and NLP, she decides, at the time, to do the unthinkable: to quit her job on the leading position and to bring this extraordinary methodology to Serbia.
With the first professional NLP trainings in Serbian language for top managers she has begun in 2004.
She has founded the first NLP Institute in Serbia in 2006, and in 2008 the first Coaching Academy.
On her institute in Belgrade she offers professional NLP education, of top quality and ethics, after which you get internationally recognized certificates.
She was a trainee at the best trainings all over the world – from Serbia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Brazil, through Italy, Hungary, Norway, America and Bali.
She has also had the chance to learn from top experts like Stephen Gilligan and Robert Dilts, whose assistant she was for 15 days on a complete certified Generative Coaching program in Brazil.
After dozens of specializations all over the world with the most recognized NLP experts at the best NLP and Coaching Institutes, she has been certified as the International NLP Master Trainer, licensed as an educator for coaching and the vice-president of the European Coaching Association – ECA.
She has been successfully teaching neuro linguistic programing for years and transferring her knowledge and experience to companies and individuals, which contributes to making their businesses more efficient, adds quality to the communication and makes the lifestyle in Serbia more advanced.
Slavica has a unique way of teaching where she uses examples from practice, metaphors, humor and questions, so the process of learning with her represents a sophisticated experience that overflows to all areas of life. She has been working with the world's most famous names in this domain and she is always welcome as a guest lecturer on NLP and Coaching Institutes around the world. She is the author of a few different programs (Power Life Design, Power Love Design, Inspirational Essences, Inner Game) as well as the effective communicational trainings.
Her inspirational and motivational articles and columns on the subject of how to become happy and successful by using the knowledge from the science of success in the combination with the art of fulfilled living, that she extraordinarily combines in everything she does, makes her style of teaching authentic and different. With that extraordinary combination she has provoked a huge interest in many people that have achieved amazing results in many areas while working with her. The best confirmation of the success rate of her specific programs, whether it's NLP or Coaching or one of her author programs, are her extremely satisfied and successful clients and besides that her personal career and a phenomenal lifestyle and especially the fact that she is still willing to learn and constantly perfect herself professionally.


Suzane Adam was born in Satu Mare, Transylvania, and came to Israel at age 10. She completed her art studies majoring in medieval art, photography and etching. She later went on to study graphic art and multimedia and has taught art and creative thinking, image consulting and computerized commercial presentation.
Adam has worked as an illustrator and invented games for one of Israel's largest toy firms. She began writing seriously in 1996 and now devotes most of her time to writing. Adam has received the Kugel Prize for her novel, Janis's Mother (2006) and the Prime Minister's Prize (2007).


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Gogerddan, or in English, Gogarthen, was an estate near to Trefeurig and the most important in what was then the county of Cardiganshire, Wales. Owned since at least the fifteenth century by the Pryse family, the main house, called Plas Gogerddan, still stands and is a Grade II listed building. The estate became especially wealthy from the seventeenth century on the profits from lead mining, which is when the house was constructed. The house was significantly altered in the 1860s and was sold by Sir Pryse Loveden Saunders-Pryse to University College of Wales in 1949.

Gogerddan provisionally held the high temperature record for Wales – 35.3°C, which was recorded on 18 July 2022. It replaced the previous record holder Hawarden which held the record for almost 32 years. This record was short-lived, however, as by the end of the same day, Hawarden recorded a temperature of 37.1°C.

See also
 Pryse baronets

References

Further reading

External links
National Library of Wales: Historic surveys and maps of the estate
National Library of Wales: Estate records and archives

Grade II listed buildings in Ceredigion
Country estates in Wales
Lead mining in the United Kingdom
Aberystwyth University

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The parable of the prodigal son is ultimately about eternal salvation, not American politics. But it also has something to say about human nature, justice, and mercy.
Early in "What Happened," Hillary Clinton discusses one of her reoccurring public references to the Bible: Christ's parable of the prodigal son. Previously Clinton has discussed this parable in the context of how she reacted to Bill's infidelity, but in this book it's in reference to losing the 2016 presidential election.
For those unfamiliar, the biblical parable shows a younger brother coming to his father and demanding his inheritance before his father dies. He then squanders it all partying. A famine hits, and he goes to work for a pig farmer. When he begins to starve and eyes the pigs' food with longing, the prodigal comes to his senses and decides to go home and beg his father to take him back as not a son but a servant.
Maybe it's because I'm the oldest in our family and something of a Girl Scout, but I've always identified with the older brother in the parable. How grating it must have been to see his wayward sibling welcomed back as if nothing had happened. It must have felt as if all his years of hard work and dutiful care meant nothing at all. But the father says to the older brother, 'Have I not taken good care of you? Have you not been close to me? Have you not been at my side learning and working?' Those things are their own reward.
It's a story about unconditional love — the love of a father, and also the Father, who is always ready to love us, no matter how often we stumble and fall.
So far, this is a typical reading that sounds entirely plausible. But it also completely misses the parable's core point, which is that we are all the prodigal. Like Hillary, I also typically identify with the dutiful older brother. This is the role I usually play in in life as well, as another oldest goody-two-shoes daughter. Yet to God all my obedience is not enough to compensate for my sins and win the real prize, which is forgiveness of those sins and thus eternal life. Note at the end of the story what the prodigal wins and what the elder brother wins: the prodigal is forgiven, reconciled to his family and home. The older brother has a bunch of stuff.
In the Christian economy, material possessions are fine and even good — God created the material world, after all, and joyfully pronounced it "good" — but not of ultimate importance. Of ultimate importance is eternal salvation. The prodigal gets that through his repentance and forgiveness, while the older brother merely gets rich. The prodigal ends up materially poor (note the father says the older brother now owns "all that is mine") but the older brother ends up spiritually poor. If your choice is one or the other, you're going to want to take the spiritual wealth over the material wealth. If you question that point, try reading some Dante or Faust and reconsider.
Worldly goods are nice, but you can't take them with you when you die, and their accumulation is not a measure of one's virtue. Winning or losing the presidency, or any other earthly trophy, will get you nowhere on the eternal scale of goodness. Of course, politicians and the rest of us confuse material good with eternal good all the time, which is why we so frequently compromise our integrity to pursue ultimately worthless achievements. "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul?," indeed. This would have been a good question for Hillary to ask herself before she spent her life turning herself into Claire Underwood.
This is a question not really for her father, but for her voters. Clinton is turning a parable about eternal salvation into a metaphor for manichean politics, where losing an election is a possibly unforgiveable sin. Needless to say, that's rather arrogant. It assumes the fate of the world rests on a politician's shoulders. If that were the truth, we'd all be in hell right now. In fact, the more it becomes the truth, as we place more and more power into politicians' hands and out of our own, the more hellish our temporal life becomes.
Needless to say, this is not much evidence that the soul-searching and humility Hillary has experienced has brought her into any clarity she can offer those who journeyed with her this past election cycle. So here let's take a stab at it by returning to the parable and discussing its themes within the context of 2016 America.
I learned from Marvin Olasky of World Magazine to think of the elder and younger brothers in the prodigal parable in direct contrast with each other and as useful metaphors for opposite yet equally sinful behaviors. The older brother represents the goody two-shoes like me and Hillary, who "do all the right things" yet still often fail to understand that while, yes, right behavior does have its own reward it can neither get you into heaven nor legitimize self-righteousness. The younger brother represents, well, the prodigal types, the ones who utterly disregard their responsibilities to waste themselves and hurt others with wanton living. Olasky explains this comparison in further detail here, and it's worth reading.
Both sides of America's political divide are prone towards spiritualizing politics. But our tendency is to do so cynically, as a weapon to use against our enemies rather than as an open search for truth that may indict us. Thus both are prone to casting themselves as the older brother who has done everything right and their opponents as the prodigals who have done everything wrong. This is neither accurate nor helpful.
American life also has a very strong older brother-younger brother dynamic that is more genuine. One might even transpose that metaphor onto Charles Murray's "Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010," which analyzes and predicted the world of the 2016 election, the one in which we all now live and are trying to get our bearings. Murray describes "two Americas" that are "coming apart": the "older brothers" who do everything right and reap the material rewards, and the "younger brothers" who do very little right and face the consequences.
The parable of the prodigal son is ultimately about eternal salvation, not American politics. But it also has something to say about human nature, justice, and mercy. To me it suggests that forgiveness is the only way to civic and eternal peace, that forgiveness can only happen when the offending party realizes and repents of his wrongdoing, and that we all have things to repent of. In this parable, it is the admittedly worse sinner who sees these truths faster than the one pretending he has nothing to apologize for.


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Home / $4.9 million Jos Campau Greenway creates easier access to Detroit Riverfront
$4.9 million Jos Campau Greenway creates easier access to Detroit Riverfront
Branden Hunter
Construction is underway on the Joseph Campau Greenway, a $4.9 million, 1.2 mile greenway that will run from Vernor to the RiverWalk, connecting more neighborhoods safely to Detroit's international riverfront. The project, which was initially announced as part of the East Riverfront Framework Plan and will parallel the Dequindre Cut, includes new pathway construction, streetscape improvements, updates to recreation opportunities, and renovations of existing greenways.
Currently, the existing pathways have broken concrete, worn-out recreation courts, flooding problems and other issues. The Joseph Campau Greenway will renovate these existing portions and add pedestrian improvements, including:
A 10' shared use path for pedestrians and cyclists
Play opportunities and recreation features
New benches
Outdoor power stations
Mile markers
Green storm water infrastructure to prevent flooding
"In the past, the riverfront was so industrial you could barely see it, and you definitely couldn't get to it. Thanks to years of hard work, that's no longer the case, and residents now deserve safe, beautiful connections to the riverfront," said Mayor Mike Duggan. "The Joseph Campau Greenway will provide residents with a safe and reliable non-motorized path connecting them to the RiverWalk, and other connections to resources and amenities across the city."
The city will also install clear, well-lit entryways to the greenway and new landscaping, creating a landscape buffer between the path and residential units. The greenway will be managed by the city's General Services Department and the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy.
Road crossings and streetscape improvements will also be completed, allowing for safe pedestrian crossings at intersections along the greenway. Raised sidewalks will be installed across Larned and Lafayette, in addition to the entryways and landscaping, to calm traffic near the greenway.
The route of the Jos Campau Greenway from Vernor Highway to Jefferson Avenue.
Security features to be installed
A number of new security features will also be installed, and the greenway will have strictly enforced hours of operation from 6-10 p.m. Cameras and emergency call boxes will be installed every 500 feet along the pathway and will be monitored 24-hours by the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy and the Detroit Police Department. New and improved lighting will also be installed, and bollards will be added to entry ways to restricted unauthorized vehicle access.
"The Detroit Riverfront is one of the most diverse, safe and vibrant places in the city," said Mark Wallace, president and CEO of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. "The Joseph Campau Greenway will become a tremendous asset for residents living in east side neighborhoods and it will provide them with direct access to the riverfront. We look forward to welcoming them to the riverfront when the greenway opens this fall. Like the Dequindre Cut, the Joseph Campau Greenway will provide a wonderful pathway for Detroiters to come to the riverfront."
Greenway to be complete by fall 2020
The project will be completed in two phases. Phase one, which includes construction from the RiverWalk to Robert Bradby Drive, began in May 2019 and is expected to be complete by fall 2019. Phase two will complete the greenway from Robert Bradby Drive to Vernor. Construction on phase two is expected to begin in spring 2020, with construction completed by fall 2020.


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There is more trouble with rated power: It only happens at a "rated wind speed". And the trouble with that is there is no standard for rated wind speed. Since the energy in the wind increases with the cube of the wind speed, it makes a very large difference if rated power is measured at 10 m/s (22 mph), or 12 m/s (27 mph). For example, that 6 meter wind turbine from the previous section could reasonably be expected to produce 5.2 kW at 10 m/s, while it will do 9 kW at 12 m/s!
The energy payback time (EPBT) of a power generating system is the time required to generate as much energy as is consumed during production and lifetime operation of the system. Due to improving production technologies the payback time has been decreasing constantly since the introduction of PV systems in the energy market.[128] In 2000 the energy payback time of PV systems was estimated as 8 to 11 years[129] and in 2006 this was estimated to be 1.5 to 3.5 years for crystalline silicon PV systems[121] and 1–1.5 years for thin film technologies (S. Europe).[121] These figures fell to 0.75–3.5 years in 2013, with an average of about 2 years for crystalline silicon PV and CIS systems.[130]
A Darrieus type vertical axis wind turbine (the egg-beater type) can in theory work almost as good as a horizontal axis turbine. Actual measurement of one of the better designs out there, the UGE VisionAir5, does not bear that out though: It measures in at a pitiful 11% efficiency at 11 m/s wind speed, while a Bergey Excel-6 HAWT clocks in at 22% efficiency for that same wind speed, twice as much. You can read about it in Paul Gipe's article. Besides efficiency issues, a Darrieus VAWT unfortunately has a number of inherent issues that put them at a disadvantage: Since they are usually tall and relatively narrow structures the bending forces on their main bearing (at the bottom) are very large. There are similar issues with the forces on the blades. This means that to make a reliable vertical axis turbine takes more material, and more expensive materials, in comparison to a horizontal type turbine. For comparison, that same UGE VisionAir5 weighs 756 kg vs. the Bergey Excel-6 at 350 kg. Keep in mind that the UGE turbine only sweeps about half the area of the Bergey, the latter is a much larger turbine! This makes VAWTs inherently more expensive, or less reliable, or both.
If you do install an anemometer and measure the wind over one or more years, you should compare the annual average wind speed obtained from your anemometer data to the annual average of the nearest airport or meteo-station for that same year. This will tell you if your site is more or less windy than that airport or meteo-station, and by how much. Then compare that year's data to the long-term annual average wind speed, and you will know what to expect over the long term, corrected for your particular site. It will not be exact, but it will make your short-term anemometer data much more useful.
Some of the second-generation renewables, such as wind power, have high potential and have already realised relatively low production costs. At the end of 2008, worldwide wind farm capacity was 120,791 megawatts (MW), representing an increase of 28.8 percent during the year,[30] and wind power produced some 1.3% of global electricity consumption.[31] Wind power accounts for approximately 20% of electricity use in Denmark, 9% in Spain, and 7% in Germany.[32][33] However, it may be difficult to site wind turbines in some areas for aesthetic or environmental reasons, and it may be difficult to integrate wind power into electricity grids in some cases.[10]
Eight solar panels and one measly little wind generator supplied all the power we used. We bolted the pole that supported the wind generator to a wall of our house, which, sound-wise, turned the roof of the house into one big drumhead. Oops! Live and learn. And when the wind REALLY blew—which was often—the thing broke. The manufacturer replaced the main unit several times before we gave up on wind power.
Second-generation technologies include solar heating and cooling, wind power, modern forms of bioenergy and solar photovoltaics. These are now entering markets as a result of research, development and demonstration (RD&D) investments since the 1980s. The initial investment was prompted by energy security concerns linked to the oil crises (1973 and 1979) of the 1970s but the continuing appeal of these renewables is due, at least in part, to environmental benefits. Many of the technologies reflect significant advancements in materials.
Concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) systems employ sunlight concentrated onto photovoltaic surfaces for the purpose of electrical power production. Contrary to conventional photovoltaic systems, it uses lenses and curved mirrors to focus sunlight onto small, but highly efficient, multi-junction solar cells. Solar concentrators of all varieties may be used, and these are often mounted on a solar tracker in order to keep the focal point upon the cell as the sun moves across the sky.[147] Luminescent solar concentrators (when combined with a PV-solar cell) can also be regarded as a CPV system. Concentrated photovoltaics are useful as they can improve efficiency of PV-solar panels drastically.[148]
In 2006 California approved the 'California Solar Initiative', offering a choice of investment subsidies or FIT for small and medium systems and a FIT for large systems. The small-system FIT of $0.39 per kWh (far less than EU countries) expires in just 5 years, and the alternate "EPBB" residential investment incentive is modest, averaging perhaps 20% of cost. All California incentives are scheduled to decrease in the future depending as a function of the amount of PV capacity installed.
Despite these diverse developments, developments in fossil fuel systems almost entirely eliminated any wind turbine systems larger than supermicro size. In the early 1970s, however, anti-nuclear protests in Denmark spurred artisan mechanics to develop microturbines of 22 kW. Organizing owners into associations and co-operatives lead to the lobbying of the government and utilities and provided incentives for larger turbines throughout the 1980s and later. Local activists in Germany, nascent turbine manufacturers in Spain, and large investors in the United States in the early 1990s then lobbied for policies that stimulated the industry in those countries.
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If you want to purchase a rooftop solar system for your home, federal tax credits and other state, local, or utility incentives can offset some of the upfront cost. There are also several financing options available for homeowners, including energy-saving mortgages, home equity, Property Assessed Clean Energy Loans, and more traditional bank loans.
In a twist that has some Republicans in this oil- and gas-rich state whistling Dixie, Ross is now friends with Al Gore, who featured Ross in An Inconvenient Sequel, the 2017 follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth, his Oscar-winning documentary about global warming. "We bonded right away," Ross recalls. "I said, 'Mr. Vice President, we've got a lot in common. You invented the internet. I invented green energy.'" Trained as an accountant, Ross still works as one—being mayor of Georgetown is a part-time job—and there's no mistaking his zeal for the other kind of green. When conservatives complain about his energy politics, he is quick to remind them that the city has the lowest effective tax rate in Central Texas.
This wind generator makes a nice addition to a solar panel system with a small battery bank (my bank is 12vdc with 500 amp hours). The wind generator averages anywhere from 2 to 10 amps on most occasions here in northern Indiana. I have seen the wind generator put out as much as 25 amps during heavy wind conditions (i.e. storms). If you plan to run a large battery bank system then you may want to look into some of the larger KW wind generators or build a solar panel system. I do love the sound of this thing. I would not call it whisper, but it has a nice whirl sound to it when it is charging that puts me to sleep at night. By the way, know your math and do things right. You will find yourself installing some heavy gauge wiring to lower voltage drops that can be a bear to work with.
Technologies promote sustainable energy including renewable energy sources, such as hydroelectricity, solar energy, wind energy, wave power,[citation needed] geothermal energy, bioenergy, tidal power and also technologies designed to improve energy efficiency. Costs have decreased immensely throughout the years, and continue to fall. Increasingly, effective government policies support investor confidence and these markets are expanding. Considerable progress is being made in the energy transition from fossil fuels to ecologically sustainable systems, to the point where many studies support 100% renewable energy.
It is possible to use any type of solar thermal panel (sheet and tubes, roll-bond, heat pipe, thermal plates) or hybrid (mono/polycrystalline, thin film) in combination with the heat pump. The use of a hybrid panel is preferable because it allows covering a part of the electricity demand of the heat pump and reduce the power consumption and consequently the variable costs of the system.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, most photovoltaic modules provided remote-area power supply, but from around 1995, industry efforts have focused increasingly on developing building integrated photovoltaics and power plants for grid connected applications (see photovoltaic power stations article for details). Currently the largest photovoltaic power plant in North America is the Nellis Solar Power Plant (15 MW).[24][25] There is a proposal to build a Solar power station in Victoria, Australia, which would be the world's largest PV power station, at 154 MW.[26][27] Other large photovoltaic power stations include the Girassol solar power plant (62 MW),[28] and the Waldpolenz Solar Park (40 MW).[29]
Marine energy (also sometimes referred to as ocean energy) refers to the energy carried by ocean waves, tides, salinity, and ocean temperature differences. The movement of water in the world's oceans creates a vast store of kinetic energy, or energy in motion. This energy can be harnessed to generate electricity to power homes, transport and industries. The term marine energy encompasses both wave power – power from surface waves, and tidal power – obtained from the kinetic energy of large bodies of moving water. Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is a technology for generating electricity by mixing fresh river water and salty sea water in large power cells designed for this purpose; as of 2016 it is being tested at a small scale (50 kW). Offshore wind power is not a form of marine energy, as wind power is derived from the wind, even if the wind turbines are placed over water. The oceans have a tremendous amount of energy and are close to many if not most concentrated populations. Ocean energy has the potential of providing a substantial amount of new renewable energy around the world.[165]
Previously, the largest U.S. city fully powered by renewables was Burlington, Vermont (pop. 42,000), home to Senator Bernie Sanders, the jam band Phish and the original Ben & Jerry's. Georgetown's feat is all the more dramatic because it demolishes the notion that sustainability is synonymous with socialism and GMO-free ice cream. "You think of climate change and renewable energy, from a political standpoint, on the left-hand side of the spectrum, and what I've done is toss all those partisan political thoughts aside," Ross says. "We're doing this because it's good for our citizens. Cheaper electricity is better. Clean energy is better than fossil fuels."
Meanwhile, we enjoy life grid intertied here in northern California. Our daughters and their families are nearby using their independent living skills to make their own homes. One daughter has designed and sold 300 off-grid or gridtie solar electric systems since the first of the year. The other is baking bread today and figuring out what to do with the multitude of tomatillos, squash and eggplant that are spilling out of our garden. I'm so proud of my tribe!
Most horizontal axis turbines have their rotors upwind of its supporting tower. Downwind machines have been built, because they don't need an additional mechanism for keeping them in line with the wind. In high winds, the blades can also be allowed to bend which reduces their swept area and thus their wind resistance. Despite these advantages, upwind designs are preferred, because the change in loading from the wind as each blade passes behind the supporting tower can cause damage to the turbine.
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.[3] Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity generation, air and water heating/cooling, transportation, and rural (off-grid) energy services.[4]
Any solar PV system that's tied to the grid will use a bi-directional meter. When you use electricity from the grid, you'll see your meter move forward. But when your solar PV system produces electricity, any excess will go back into the grid and your meter will move backward. This is called "net metering," and the utility company will credit your bill for the excess electricity generated.
Where the reputable, and more expensive manufacturers are good in honouring their warranties, you are likely on your own with the cheap stuff. Even with a good warranty, take our word for it that you would much rather not make use of it. Even if the manufacturer supplies replacement parts, it is still expensive to install them. Not to mention that your turbine will not be making energy meanwhile.
In Texas, the top energy sources had long been coal, natural gas and nuclear. But, perhaps surprisingly, the Lone Star State also leads the nation in wind power; capacity doubled between 2010 and 2017, surpassing nuclear and coal and now accounting for nearly a quarter of all the wind energy in the United States. Solar production has been increasing, too. By the end of last year, Texas ranked ninth in the nation on that front.
All these electrical machines are electromechanical devices that work on Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction. That is they operate through the interaction of a magnetic flux and an electric current, or flow of charge. As this process is reversible, the same machine can be used as a conventional electrical motor for converting the electrical power into mechanical power, or as a generator converting the mechanical power back into the electrical power.
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is an intergovernmental organization for promoting the adoption of renewable energy worldwide. It aims to provide concrete policy advice and facilitate capacity building and technology transfer. IRENA was formed on 26 January 2009, by 75 countries signing the charter of IRENA.[145] As of March 2010, IRENA has 143 member states who all are considered as founding members, of which 14 have also ratified the statute.[146]
Brazil has one of the largest renewable energy programs in the world, involving production of ethanol fuel from sugar cane, and ethanol now provides 18 percent of the country's automotive fuel. As a result of this, together with the exploitation of domestic deep water oil sources, Brazil, which years ago had to import a large share of the petroleum needed for domestic consumption, recently reached complete self-sufficiency in oil.[36][37][38]
The Vestas V164 has a rated capacity of 8 MW,[79] later upgraded to 9.5 MW.[80][81] The wind turbine has an overall height of 220 m (722 ft), a diameter of 164 m (538 ft), is for offshore use, and is the world's largest-capacity wind turbine since its introduction in 2014. The conventional drive train consist of a main gearbox and a medium speed PM generator. Prototype installed in 2014 at the National Test Center Denmark nearby Østerild. Series production began end of 2015.
Geothermal power is cost effective, reliable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly,[130] but has historically been limited to areas near tectonic plate boundaries. Recent technological advances have expanded the range and size of viable resources, especially for applications such as home heating, opening a potential for widespread exploitation. Geothermal wells release greenhouse gases trapped deep within the earth, but these emissions are much lower per energy unit than those of fossil fuels. As a result, geothermal power has the potential to help mitigate global warming if widely deployed in place of fossil fuels.
With Georgetown emerging as a brave new model for a renewable city, it makes sense to ask if others can achieve the same magical balance of more power, less pollution and lower costs. In fact, cities ranging from Orlando to St. Louis to San Francisco to Portland, Oregon, have pledged to run entirely on renewable energy. Those places are much larger than Georgetown, of course, and no one would expect misty Portland to power a light bulb for long with solar energy, which is crucial to Georgetown's success. But beyond its modest size, abundant sunshine and archetype-busting mayor, Georgetown has another edge, one that's connected to a cherished Lone Star ideal: freedom.
Biofuels include a wide range of fuels which are derived from biomass. The term covers solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels.[73] Liquid biofuels include bioalcohols, such as bioethanol, and oils, such as biodiesel. Gaseous biofuels include biogas, landfill gas and synthetic gas. Bioethanol is an alcohol made by fermenting the sugar components of plant materials and it is made mostly from sugar and starch crops. These include maize, sugarcane and, more recently, sweet sorghum. The latter crop is particularly suitable for growing in dryland conditions, and is being investigated by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics for its potential to provide fuel, along with food and animal feed, in arid parts of Asia and Africa.[74]
Solar and wind are Intermittent energy sources that supply electricity 10-40% of the time. To compensate for this characteristic, it is common to pair their production with already existing hydroelectricity or natural gas generation. In regions where this isn't available, wind and solar can be paired with significantly more expensive pumped-storage hydroelectricity.
Maybe you reside on a boat, vacation in a remote cabin, or live off-grid like me. Or perhaps you're just interested in lowering your energy bill. Either way, with a handful of inexpensive and easy-to-source materials, you can build a homemade wind generator, making electricity yours for the taking for as long as the wind is blowing. You'll be able to light up that storeroom, power your barn, or use a generator to keep all your vehicle batteries charged.
Due to increased technology and wide implementation, the global glass fiber market might reach US$17.4 billion by 2024, compared to US$8.5 billion in 2014. Since it is the most widely used material for reinforcement in composites around the globe, the expansion of end use applications such as construction, transportation and wind turbines has fueled its popularity. Asia Pacific held the major share of the global market in 2014 with more than 45% volume share. However China is currently the largest producer. The industry receives subsidies from the Chinese government allowing them to export it cheaper to the US and Europe. However, due to the higher demand in the near future some price wars have started to developed to implement anti dumping strategies such as tariffs on Chinese glass fiber.[58]
Climate change and global warming concerns, coupled with high oil prices, peak oil, and increasing government support, are driving increasing renewable energy legislation, incentives and commercialization.[10] New government spending, regulation and policies helped the industry weather the global financial crisis better than many other sectors.[24] According to a 2011 projection by the International Energy Agency, solar power generators may produce most of the world's electricity within 50 years, reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases that harm the environment.[25]
"University of Texas Study Highlights Wind's Low Cost" • Wind, solar and natural gas have the lowest levelized cost of electricity in the majority of counties across the United States, according to a new report from The University of Texas at Austin's Energy Institute, part of a series of white papers on the Full Cost of Electricity. [Into the Wind]
The reliability of small wind turbines is (still) problematic. Even the good ones break much more frequently than we would like, and none will run for 20 years without the need to replace at least some part(s). Despite their apparent simplicity, a small wind turbine is nowhere near as reliable as the average car (and even cars will not run for 20 years without stuff breaking). If you are going to install a small wind turbine you should expect that it will break. The only questions are when and how often.
"Renewable Energy Market to Garner $2,152 Billion by 2025, Reveals Report" • According to a report published by Allied Market Research, renewables industries will very likely result in an impressive growth for the entire market. It projects the global renewable energy market is to reach in excess of $2,152 billion by 2025. [Interesting Engineering]
Renewable energy technology has sometimes been seen as a costly luxury item by critics, and affordable only in the affluent developed world. This erroneous view has persisted for many years, but 2015 was the first year when investment in non-hydro renewables, was higher in developing countries, with $156 billion invested, mainly in China, India, and Brazil.[134]
Projections vary. The EIA has predicted that almost two thirds of net additions to power capacity will come from renewables by 2020 due to the combined policy benefits of local pollution, decarbonisation and energy diversification. Some studies have set out roadmaps to power 100% of the world's energy with wind, hydroelectric and solar by the year 2030.
Since having the Peimar Solar Panels installed and listening to the advice of the owner I have saved a lot of money on my electric bill. Texas Solar Integrated did the work as quickly and efficiently as promised. If the panels look dirty, since I live around cement plants, I just get my high pressure water hose and spray them off. Thank you to this company and the installers. The owner or another contractor in the office is always ready to answer your questions before and after installation.... read more
Renewable energy power plants do provide a steady flow of energy. For example, hydropower plants, ocean thermal plants, osmotic power plants all provide power at a regulated pace, and are thus available power sources at any given moment (even at night, windstill moments etc.). At present however, the number of steady-flow renewable energy plants alone is still too small to meet energy demands at the times of the day when the irregular producing renewable energy plants cannot produce power.
The energy number that is left over should be a good approximation of what you can expect from that VAWT. Compare the resulting numbers with those mentioned in just about all sales brochures of VAWT type turbines and it should be immediately clear that their marketing people are smoking The Good Stuff. There is no relation to physical reality in their numbers, they are consistently much too high. Keep in mind that the energy production numbers calculated here are 'best case'; for a turbine in nice, smooth air. Most VAWTs are placed very close to the ground, or on buildings, where there is little wind and lots of turbulence. Under those conditions they will do much, much worse than predicted.
The conversion of sunlight into electricity is made possible with the special properties of semi-conducting materials. It can be harnessed through a range of ever-evolving technologies like solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture, molten salt power plants, and artificial photosynthesis. Learn more about solar solutions from IGS Solar.
Conventional hydroelectricity works very well in conjunction with solar power, water can be held back or released from a reservoir behind a dam as required. Where a suitable river is not available, pumped-storage hydroelectricity uses solar power to pump water to a high reservoir on sunny days then the energy is recovered at night and in bad weather by releasing water via a hydroelectric plant to a low reservoir where the cycle can begin again.[109] However, this cycle can lose 20% of the energy to round trip inefficiencies, this plus the construction costs add to the expense of implementing high levels of solar power.
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