Parking fees must be paid through payroll deduction. If an employee cannot be payroll deducted, exceptions may be made for assignments to the B3 zone where individuals must pay for the assignment in full through December 31st of each year.
Employees are responsible for making monthly payments for parking when they are on extended leave. Payments may be made by check if the employee is not receiving pay during this time. The maximum length of time an employee may continue to pay and maintain their parking while on extended leave is 90 days.
How do I access my parking if it is in an underground garage?
Employees who are assigned parking to one of the underground garages will have their identification badges encoded for access. Proximity readers are installed at the entrances of garages. If the employee does not have a proximity chip in his or her badge, an adhesive proximity disk will be provided to adhere to the badge. No one will be given access to gated parking areas without approval from State Parking.
If applicable, contact the State Capitol Police to have the vehicle towed. Note: your parking will only be validated if you tow the offending vehicle.
Have your Parking Coordinator inform the State Parking Division that you are parking in a visitor's area.
It is possible. Vehicles registered in the State Parking Division's database will be given two warnings before they are towed. If the vehicle's information is not registered with the State Parking Division, it will be towed without warning at the owner's expense.
We ask for your vehicle's make, model, color, year, and license plate number. This information is kept confidential and is shared only between the Parking Division staff and your Parking Coordinator.
You can provide this information to your Parking Coordinator. However, you also can call the State Parking Division (919) 807-4499 or email the Parking Systems Manager with the requested information.
Departments are ordinarily allowed one parking space for departmental use. All other vehicles should be parked at the SBI Lab on Old Garner Road. Departments not located within the Downtown State Government Complex are not assigned parking.
Depending on availability, pages and interns may request parking from the State Parking Division in certain facilities. They should contact their agency's parking coordinator for more information.
Departments have 30 days after the employee's departure to reassign the parking space, not the date the assignment was terminated. If it is not reassigned within 30 days of an employee's departure, it will return to State Parking's inventory for reallocation.
The popular GoPass is returning as part of a pilot program associated with NCDOT's Fortify project, which will completely rebuild 11.5 miles of I-40/440 in Raleigh. By making GoPass available to eligible state employees, NCDOT hopes to help take 30,000 vehicles off the interstates to improve traffic flow while construction is underway. The GoPass provides eligible employees with access to all transit agencies in the Triangle (TTA, CAT, DATA, C-Tran, Chapel Hill Transit) to commute to and from their place of employment.
Complete a GoPass application and bring it to the State Parking Office. There is a $25 administrative fee that must be payroll deducted from an employee's paycheck. Employees must pick up their passes in person and present a valid State ID. Passes will not be mailed.
The expiration date is located on the pass. For each year, GoPasses are active between January 1st and December 31st of the year issued.
There are three state-operated visitor lots: Lot 18 is located along Wilmington street between Jones and Edenton streets. Deck 75 is located at 323 Salisbury Street. Deck 77 is located at the corner of Edenton and McDowell streets. Rates are not applied to visitor parking after 5:00 P.M. weekdays and during weekends.
View the visitor parking page for current parking rates. Only cash or credit/debit cards are valid forms of payment. Checks are not a valid form of payment. Visitors using department issued hourly or daily passes will be responsible for any amount over the value of the pass.


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Thanks to Wayne & James and their fantastic professionalism, it was a real pleasure being involved.
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Pop in today to see our wonderful selection of Easter Bunnies at both Starke Ayres Garden Centre Rosebank & West Coast Village. Easter bunny's are an all year attraction whether in a lounge, the garden or a children's bedroom.
We are open on Easter weekend and Easter Monday (Family Day) and in Rosebank Garden Centre shall even have the Easter Bunny between 10am and 3pm handing out chocolate marshmallow Easter eggs to children young and old so do pop in for a family photograph or just to bring the children to see our friendly life sized Bunny!


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Várzea do Douro era una freguesia portuguesa del municipi de Marco de Canaveses, amb 4,78 d'àrea i 2.098 habitants (en el cens del 2011). La densitat de població n'era de 438,9 hab/km².

Fins al liberalisme formava part del couto d'Alpendurada, i després s'integrà a l'extint municipi de Benviver.

La freguesia s'eliminà en la reorganització administrativa de 2013, i el seu territori s'uní a la freguesia d'Alpendorada, Várzea e Torrão.

Població

Patrimoni
 Església Nova de São Martinho (parroquial)
 Capelles de Senhora da Guia, de Nossa Senhora de Água do Lupe i de Nossa Senhora de Lurdes
 Vil·les: Soalheira, Vila Angélica, Quinta da Várzea, Senhora da Guia, Sebolido i Bairro
 Vestigis arqueològics
 Dolmen de Castelo de Baixo
 Premses obertes en la roca
 Castre de Penegotas

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The master suite includes a full bath, so you need never get dressed before grabbing a quick shower, or getting ready in the morning. And of course, all the towels and linens you need for every bed and bath are provided here at Pointe Condo #201, along with extras. We've even got a laundry room with a washer, dryer, and hanging racks for your use, so everything stays fresh and clean no matter how many times the kids want to run down to the beach "just one last time" before bed!


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The Pennsylvania Game Commission has announced that they will assist in relocating the coyotes from the Erie Cemetery, according to Game Commission spokesman Hunter Gunn.
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LKQ Buys Andrew Page
US group LKQ Corporation, the owner of EuroCar Parts in the UK, has bought UK auto parts distributor Andrew Page.
LKQ is acquiring most of the assets and operations of Andrew Page, other than seven of the Leeds firm's 109branches. Robert L. Wagman, LKQ president and CEO, insists that "customers will benefit from an extended range of products". Jim Sumner, chairman of Andrew Page, says: "We are pleased at the completion of the sale, which brings the business and its employees into a global group with more than $8 billion in sales." Sumner will stand down after the transaction is completed.
Andrew Page had sales of £192million last year and has over 2,000 full-time and part-time staff. Chief executive Mark Saunder adds: "This is a great deal for Andrew Page and its employees and puts us in a strong position for the future. We are looking forward to working with LKQ at an exciting time for the motor parts sector, which is undergoing consolidation throughout Europe." Andrew Page's interest in the reman sector includes deals earlier this year to become a supplier of TRW single shock absorbers and Hoffman turbochargers through Autocharge UK.

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Brisbane [Australia], January 13 (ANI): Former Australia pacer Shane Lee has said that Steve Smith is looking really angry lately and same signs like "Sandpaper Gate" could emerge if Cricket Australia does not take prompt action.
Smith was seen scuffing up the area around the batting crease on day five of the third Test between India and Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground and social media users started questioning the Australia batsman for his gamesmanship.
"He was not trying to cheat, but he should not be on the wicket. I am really really concerned about some of our behaviour. Steve Smith scored a fantastic hundred in Sydney and the way he reacted afterwards, I thought, there is a real anger there. It is disturbing. You wind forward to this test: I m seeing the same signs as before Sandpapergate). I m seeing someone like Smith who is getting really, really angry," Lee told Fox Cricket.
Smith, David Warner, and Cameron Bancroft were handed bans for their involvement in the Sandpaper Gate (ball-tampering scandal) in 2018 against South Africa at Cape Town. Warner and Smith returned to action in 2019, but Lee believes that Smith lately has been looking very angry and this is not a good sign.
"I think that Smith, Warner, and Bancroft should have punished for what they did. It was appalling. But the way they were handled by Cricket Australia – they were given no support," Lee said.
"I am feeling really worried about this guy (Smith). I really want Cricket Australia, or someone within that organisation to make sure this guy's alright. Because he's a champion batsman, and he's not a cheat. We really need to look after these guys from a mental health perspective," said Lee.
Batting out 258 balls with a fierce home team throwing everything it had up its sleeves is no mean feat. But the Indian duo of Vihari and R Ashwin stood ground and managed to do just that as they eked out a draw in what was nothing short of an action-packed fifth day of the third Test.
India and Australia will lock horns in the fourth and final Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, beginning December 15. The hosts had won the first Test, while visitors came back strongly in the second Test, and currently, the series stands level at 1-1. (ANI)
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CNN caught red-handed fabricating fake news, fake sources… Watergate legend Carl Bernstein complicit… refuses to retract news HOAX
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 by: Mike Adams
Tags: CNN, deception, fake news, fraud, Glenn Greenwald, hoax, Journalism, Lanny David, lies, Michael Cohen, President Trump, Washington Post
(Natural News) In a bombshell media scandal that's growing by the hour, the tag-team of CNN and Watergate-fame journalism legend Carl Bernstein have been caught red-handed fabricating utterly fake news in a desperate effort to cast criminal blame upon President Donald J. Trump.
The scandal is exploding across the media, with the Washington Post and other media outlets now retracting their original reporting based on CNN claims — now proven false — that attempted to assert the President had prior knowledge of a Trump Tower "meeting with the Russians," an event that now appears certain to have been a deep state setup to ensnare Trump associates.
The journalistic lies of CNN and Carl Bernstein are so blatant and disturbing that even Glenn Greenwald, who helped break the Edward Snowden story, has published a scathing piece exposing the gross journalistic misconduct that now appears to be routine at CNN and other Trump-hating "news" outlets.
"CNN simply refuses to address the serious ethical and journalistic questions raised about its conduct," warns Greenwald at The Intercept. "The substance of the CNN story itself regarding Cohen – which made headline news all over all the world and which CNN hyped as a 'bombshell' – has now been retracted by other news outlets that originally purported to 'confirm' CNN's story," he writes.
At issue in all this is the CNN / Bernstein claim that Michael Cohen was not a source for their "bombshell" story which originally claimed that anonymous sources confirmed Cohen was aware of a Trump/Russia conspiracy and intended to deliver that information to Robert Mueller. This original story was heralded by CNN as a groundbreaking, Earth-shattering news item, and it was breathlessly repeated by thousands of news outlets, blogs and TV shows all around the world.
But it all turns out to be false. Cohen's own attorney, Lanny Davis, has now publicly admitted his original assertion was false. Michael Cohen has no such knowledge, Davis now explains, and CNN's original report was baseless.
Yet to the shock of everyone, CNN still refuses to retract its original story, almost certainly because Carl Bernstein's name is associated with it. And if Bernstein is outed as a fake news journalist who utterly fabricates false "facts" to take down another conservative President, then the entire history of Bernstein's reporting — including the Nixon-era Watergate stories — must be called into question. "The fact that Bernstein–who along with Bob Woodward broke and chronicled the Watergate scandal that led to the eventual resignation of Richard Nixon from the presidency–was on the byline was significant, as it threw the weight and heft of his personal credibility behind the network's story," reports Breitbart News.
CNN intentionally deceived its audience, claiming Davis was NOT the source, even when he was the source
As Breitbart News explains:
In the piece, Bernstein, Sciutto, and Cohen used anonymous "sources" to claim that President Donald Trump's now former personal attorney Michael Cohen was willing to undercut President Trump's claims about the famed 2016 Trump Tower meeting that the president's son Donald Trump, Jr., his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort had with a Russian attorney with links to the Kremlin.
However, CNN deceived its audience in two ways. First, CNN falsely wrote that Lanny Davis was not a source when he actually was; and secondly, CNN made claims from an anonymous "source" that Davis has now exposed as being completely false. Yet CNN refuses to retract its original story or explain how it arrived at its original reporting. In essence, CNN is caught in a huge journalistic scandal and is only digging deeper down the hole of fake news.
"[T]he key people with knowledge on what CNN reported – Cohen and his own lawyer – insist that CNN's reporting about what Cohen knows and intend to tell Mueller is false," explains Greenwald. "[T]here's an entirely separate, and more significant, question about CNN's behavior here; namely, the very specific claim they made about their sourcing for that blockbuster story… Davis explicitly confessed that he was one of the anonymous sources for CNN's July 26 story, just as he was for the stories from the Washington Post and the New York Post… Yet remarkably, CNN, in its July 26 story, specifically claimed that Davis refused to talk to CNN about the story or provide any comment whatsoever…"
"Davis was in fact an anonymous source for this CNN piece, as Davis admitted on Monday evening," adds Breitbart News. "But more importantly, the entire thesis of the entire story is entirely fake news–completely untrue—as revealed more than a week ago by Axios' Jonathan Swan."
That refers to this Axios story by Jonathan Swan, which documents how Michael Cohen told Congress he had no knowledge whatsoever about whether Trump knew about the Russia meeting. In that story, Swan reports:
Michael Cohen told lawmakers last year, in sworn testimony, that he didn't know whether then-candidate Donald Trump had foreknowledge of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians, three sources with knowledge of Cohen's testimony tell Axios.
In other words, sworn testimony now utterly contradicts CNN's fake news claim, yet CNN refuses to correct its own story.
CNN claims its own fake news can never be questioned, because that would be "criticizing the media"
"How can CNN possibly justify refusing to address these questions, and refrain from informing the public about these critical matters on a story that they themselves hyped for days as a 'blockbuster,' one of the most significant stories yet in the Trump/Russia saga?" asks Greenwald.
It turns out that CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times and other fake news left-wing activist publishers — we don't dare call them legitimate "news" organizations — insist that their own lies can never be questioned. While they routinely call everyone else liars, traitors and Nazis — including the President himself — when they fabricate fake news "facts" themselves, no one is ever allowed to question their reporting.
CNN wanted the story to be true, of course, which is why they so heavily promoted it with "bombshell" language. "[W]hen CNN reported this, it was a major deal–because it would have justified the continued existence of the Special Counsel's office despite a complete lack more than a year into this investigation since President Trump fired now former FBI director James Comey of any evidence at the center of the mandate of the probe," reports Breitbart News.
Now that CNN is caught red-handed, it flat-out refuses to admit it fabricated the story in the first place. They have to keep up the appearance of being "journalists" when, in reality, they're little more than activist Democrat hacks pretending to be journalists.
"If CNN lied about Davis having refused comment (when, in fact, he was one of their anonymous sources), then this is obviously a major journalism scandal," Greenwald correctly points out. "Yet CNN, the only ones with the ability to inform the public about what happened here, is silent. This despite the incomparable importance which CNN breathlessly told its viewers the story carried…"
To date, CNN has circled the wagons and initially refused to correct its story or in any way explain the contradiction of facts that's now apparent to everyone. Via Breitbart News:
Breitbart News contacted CNN spokeswomen Emily Kuhn and Lauren Pratapas–two women who have made their bones defending the network's fake news shenanigans–and asked if the network stood by the story. Breitbart News also asked Kuhn and Pratapas if the network stood by Bernstein, Sciutto, and Cohen, the three listed on the byline, and whether there would be any consequences whatsoever for the trio caught peddling fake news. Kuhn and Pratapas did not respond.
As pressure mounted and the fakery of the CNN piece became more evident, people inside CNN began to talk, but only anonymously. As Breitbart reports:
"This only plays into Trump's hands," one CNN reporter, who requested anonymity, told Breitbart News. "We should have retracted the piece and apologized and moved on. But management's decision to dig in hurts our credibility."
"They are handling this differently than they would other stories because Carl is on the byline," a CNN anchor, who also requested anonymity, told Breitbart News, referencing the famed Watergate reporter. "It's a shame."
Davis' astounding admission in BuzzFeed on Monday evening that he was a source for the fake news story also hurts yet another CNN reporter, media writer Oliver Darcy, who wrote on Sunday evening that CNN's critics do not know who CNN's sources were.
"Media criticism" is censored while the fake news media giants lie with impunity
Anyone who dares criticize the media's fake news is immediately accused of engaging in "media criticism" and told to shut up. The First Amendment protects the fake news media, they themselves claim, and no one can question their false reporting with contradictory facts.
"Media outlets have invented a deceitful term to discredit and trivialize any reporting on their own wrongful conduct. Such reporting, they say, is nothing more than 'media criticism,' in contrast to the 'real reporting' they do," points out Greenwald. He further explains exactly what we're all thinking:
This term is self-serving nonsense from media outlets, seeking to render their own behavior off-limits from journalistic scrutiny. Media outlets such as CNN and MSNBC are highly powerful corporate actors. Their behavior can generate immense consequences for society. When they engage in journalistically deceitful or unethical practices, or when they report consequential claims that end up being false as a result of their recklessness or bias, that produces highly harmful outcomes.
In fact, Greenwald has now come to the very same conclusion we've been sharing for years: That the left-wing media deliberately, repeatedly and routinely fabricates fake sources to invent fake news that's designed to damage conservatives in general and President Trump more specifically.
As Greenwald explains: "The reality is that from the start of the Trump/Russia story, the U.S. media has repeatedly and frequently – not rarely and periodically – gotten major stories completely wrong, always in the same direction: exaggerating the threat posed by Russia to the U.S., and concocting evidence of Trump/Russia collusion even when such evidence did not exist."
Not only is CNN fake news; it refuses to correct its own lies when caught
The upshot of all this is that once again, CNN confirms it is not merely "fake news" but deliberately deceptive fake news. The network routinely fabricates fake sources and fake "facts," and when it gets caught, it attacks the accusers rather than leveling with its own audience and admitting to its serious violations of journalistic standards.
CNN, in other words, really is the enemy of America in the sense that it abuses its power to mislead the public in ways that have serious, long-term and potentially very damaging consequences to the American republic. CNN is, in essence, a weaponized propaganda branch of the DNC, and when it comes to reporting something that might damage the President, CNN has internally decided that facts don't matter as long as the fake news is effective in damaging Trump.
Given this egregious business model of lies, deception and anti-America hysteria that damages our nation, it is astonishing that CNN is even allowed to continue operating as a U.S. corporation that spews lies across millions of TV displays in airports and homes. Without question, CNN is engaged in massive journalistic fraud and election fraud, and the network abuses the very same First Amendment that it hides behind to carry out its war on truth.
CNN is a disgrace to legitimate journalism, and every single person who works for CNN is willfully engaged in a fake news cartel that pursues constant attacks on America as its primary purpose for existence. CNN is a poison America… a cancer that infects modern society. Its "news" anchors and writers are, simply put, seditious traitors to America who deliberately fabricate fake news sources to destroy this nation, mislead its citizens and sweep a duly-elected President out of power.
CNN isn't just very fake news, as the President says: It's a very real threat to this nation.
See NewsFakes.com for more coverage of the fake news media.
As a side note, I'm also starting to suspect that the controlled corporate news take down of Richard Nixon was also heavily driven by fake news hysteria dreamed up by none other than Carl Bernstein himself.
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Project acronym 15CBOOKTRADE
Project The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance
Researcher (PI) Cristina Dondi
Host Institution (HI) THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Summary The idea that underpins this project is to use the material evidence from thousands of surviving 15th-c. books, as well as unique documentary evidence — the unpublished ledger of a Venetian bookseller in the 1480s which records the sale of 25,000 printed books with their prices — to address four fundamental questions relating to the introduction of printing in the West which have so far eluded scholarship, partly because of lack of evidence, partly because of the lack of effective tools to deal with existing evidence. The book trade differs from other trades operating in the medieval and early modern periods in that the goods traded survive in considerable numbers. Not only do they survive, but many of them bear stratified evidence of their history in the form of marks of ownership, prices, manuscript annotations, binding and decoration styles. A British Academy pilot project conceived by the PI produced a now internationally-used database which gathers together this kind of evidence for thousands of surviving 15th-c. printed books. For the first time, this makes it possible to track the circulation of books, their trade routes and later collecting, across Europe and the USA, and throughout the centuries. The objectives of this project are to examine (1) the distribution and trade-routes, national and international, of 15th-c. printed books, along with the identity of the buyers and users (private, institutional, religious, lay, female, male, and by profession) and their reading practices; (2) the books' contemporary market value; (3) the transmission and dissemination of the texts they contain, their survival and their loss (rebalancing potentially skewed scholarship); and (4) the circulation and re-use of the illustrations they contain. Finally, the project will experiment with the application of scientific visualization techniques to represent, geographically and chronologically, the movement of 15th-c. printed books and of the texts they contain.
The idea that underpins this project is to use the material evidence from thousands of surviving 15th-c. books, as well as unique documentary evidence — the unpublished ledger of a Venetian bookseller in the 1480s which records the sale of 25,000 printed books with their prices — to address four fundamental questions relating to the introduction of printing in the West which have so far eluded scholarship, partly because of lack of evidence, partly because of the lack of effective tools to deal with existing evidence. The book trade differs from other trades operating in the medieval and early modern periods in that the goods traded survive in considerable numbers. Not only do they survive, but many of them bear stratified evidence of their history in the form of marks of ownership, prices, manuscript annotations, binding and decoration styles. A British Academy pilot project conceived by the PI produced a now internationally-used database which gathers together this kind of evidence for thousands of surviving 15th-c. printed books. For the first time, this makes it possible to track the circulation of books, their trade routes and later collecting, across Europe and the USA, and throughout the centuries. The objectives of this project are to examine (1) the distribution and trade-routes, national and international, of 15th-c. printed books, along with the identity of the buyers and users (private, institutional, religious, lay, female, male, and by profession) and their reading practices; (2) the books' contemporary market value; (3) the transmission and dissemination of the texts they contain, their survival and their loss (rebalancing potentially skewed scholarship); and (4) the circulation and re-use of the illustrations they contain. Finally, the project will experiment with the application of scientific visualization techniques to represent, geographically and chronologically, the movement of 15th-c. printed books and of the texts they contain.
Project acronym 3D-OA-HISTO
Project Development of 3D Histopathological Grading of Osteoarthritis
Researcher (PI) Simo Jaakko Saarakkala
Host Institution (HI) OULUN YLIOPISTO
Summary "Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common musculoskeletal disease occurring worldwide. Despite extensive research, etiology of OA is still poorly understood. Histopathological grading (HPG) of 2D tissue sections is the gold standard reference method for determination of OA stage. However, traditional 2D-HPG is destructive and based only on subjective visual evaluation. These limitations induce bias to clinical in vitro OA diagnostics and basic research that both rely strongly on HPG. Objectives: 1) To establish and validate the very first 3D-HPG of OA based on cutting-edge nano/micro-CT (Computed Tomography) technologies in vitro; 2) To use the established method to clarify the beginning phases of OA; and 3) To validate 3D-HPG of OA for in vivo use. Methods: Several hundreds of human osteochondral samples from patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty will be collected. The samples will be imaged in vitro with nano/micro-CT and clinical high-end extremity CT devices using specific contrast-agents to quantify tissue constituents and structure in 3D in large volume. From this information, a novel 3D-HPG is developed with statistical classification algorithms. Finally, the developed novel 3D-HPG of OA will be applied clinically in vivo. Significance: This is the very first study to establish 3D-HPG of OA pathology in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, the developed technique hugely improves the understanding of the beginning phases of OA. Ultimately, the study will contribute for improving OA patients' quality of life by slowing the disease progression, and for providing powerful tools to develop new OA therapies."
"Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common musculoskeletal disease occurring worldwide. Despite extensive research, etiology of OA is still poorly understood. Histopathological grading (HPG) of 2D tissue sections is the gold standard reference method for determination of OA stage. However, traditional 2D-HPG is destructive and based only on subjective visual evaluation. These limitations induce bias to clinical in vitro OA diagnostics and basic research that both rely strongly on HPG. Objectives: 1) To establish and validate the very first 3D-HPG of OA based on cutting-edge nano/micro-CT (Computed Tomography) technologies in vitro; 2) To use the established method to clarify the beginning phases of OA; and 3) To validate 3D-HPG of OA for in vivo use. Methods: Several hundreds of human osteochondral samples from patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty will be collected. The samples will be imaged in vitro with nano/micro-CT and clinical high-end extremity CT devices using specific contrast-agents to quantify tissue constituents and structure in 3D in large volume. From this information, a novel 3D-HPG is developed with statistical classification algorithms. Finally, the developed novel 3D-HPG of OA will be applied clinically in vivo. Significance: This is the very first study to establish 3D-HPG of OA pathology in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, the developed technique hugely improves the understanding of the beginning phases of OA. Ultimately, the study will contribute for improving OA patients' quality of life by slowing the disease progression, and for providing powerful tools to develop new OA therapies."
Project acronym 3SPIN
Project Three Dimensional Spintronics
Researcher (PI) Russell Paul Cowburn
Host Institution (HI) THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARSOF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Summary Spintronics, in which both the spin and the charge of the electron are used, is one of the most exciting new disciplines to emerge from nanoscience. The 3SPIN project seeks to open a new research front within spintronics: namely 3-dimensional spintronics, in which magnetic nanostructures are formed into a 3-dimensional interacting network of unrivalled density and hence technological benefit. 3SPIN will explore early-stage science that could underpin 3-dimensional metallic spintronics. The thesis of the project is: that by careful control of the constituent nanostructure properties, a 3-dimensional medium can be created in which a large number of topological solitons can exist. Although hardly studied at all to date, these solitons should be stable at room temperature, extremely compact and easy to manipulate and propagate. This makes them potentially ideal candidates to form the basis of a new spintronics in which the soliton is the basic transport vector instead of electrical current. ¬3.5M of funding is requested to form a new team of 5 researchers who, over a period of 60 months, will perform computer simulations and experimental studies of solitons in 3-dimensional networks of magnetic nanostructures and develop a laboratory demonstrator 3-dimensional memory device using solitons to represent and store data. A high performance electron beam lithography system (cost 1M¬) will be purchased to allow state-of-the-art magnetic nanostructures to be fabricated with perfect control over their magnetic properties, thus allowing the ideal conditions for solitons to be created and controllably manipulated. Outputs from the project will be a complete understanding of the properties of these new objects and a road map charting the next steps for research in the field.
Spintronics, in which both the spin and the charge of the electron are used, is one of the most exciting new disciplines to emerge from nanoscience. The 3SPIN project seeks to open a new research front within spintronics: namely 3-dimensional spintronics, in which magnetic nanostructures are formed into a 3-dimensional interacting network of unrivalled density and hence technological benefit. 3SPIN will explore early-stage science that could underpin 3-dimensional metallic spintronics. The thesis of the project is: that by careful control of the constituent nanostructure properties, a 3-dimensional medium can be created in which a large number of topological solitons can exist. Although hardly studied at all to date, these solitons should be stable at room temperature, extremely compact and easy to manipulate and propagate. This makes them potentially ideal candidates to form the basis of a new spintronics in which the soliton is the basic transport vector instead of electrical current. ¬3.5M of funding is requested to form a new team of 5 researchers who, over a period of 60 months, will perform computer simulations and experimental studies of solitons in 3-dimensional networks of magnetic nanostructures and develop a laboratory demonstrator 3-dimensional memory device using solitons to represent and store data. A high performance electron beam lithography system (cost 1M¬) will be purchased to allow state-of-the-art magnetic nanostructures to be fabricated with perfect control over their magnetic properties, thus allowing the ideal conditions for solitons to be created and controllably manipulated. Outputs from the project will be a complete understanding of the properties of these new objects and a road map charting the next steps for research in the field.
Project acronym 5HT-OPTOGENETICS
Project Optogenetic Analysis of Serotonin Function in the Mammalian Brain
Researcher (PI) Zachary Mainen
Host Institution (HI) FUNDACAO D. ANNA SOMMER CHAMPALIMAUD E DR. CARLOS MONTEZ CHAMPALIMAUD
Summary Serotonin (5-HT) is implicated in a wide spectrum of brain functions and disorders. However, its functions remain controversial and enigmatic. We suggest that past work on the 5-HT system have been significantly hampered by technical limitations in the selectivity and temporal resolution of the conventional pharmacological and electrophysiological methods that have been applied. We therefore propose to apply novel optogenetic methods that will allow us to overcome these limitations and thereby gain new insight into the biological functions of this important molecule. In preliminary studies, we have demonstrated that we can deliver exogenous proteins specifically to 5-HT neurons using viral vectors. Our objectives are to (1) record, (2) stimulate and (3) silence the activity of 5-HT neurons with high molecular selectivity and temporal precision by using genetically-encoded sensors, activators and inhibitors of neural function. These tools will allow us to monitor and control the 5-HT system in real-time in freely-behaving animals and thereby to establish causal links between information processing in 5-HT neurons and specific behaviors. In combination with quantitative behavioral assays, we will use this approach to define the role of 5-HT in sensory, motor and cognitive functions. The significance of the work is three-fold. First, we will establish a new arsenal of tools for probing the physiological and behavioral functions of 5-HT neurons. Second, we will make definitive tests of major hypotheses of 5-HT function. Third, we will have possible therapeutic applications. In this way, the proposed work has the potential for a major impact in research on the role of 5-HT in brain function and dysfunction.
Serotonin (5-HT) is implicated in a wide spectrum of brain functions and disorders. However, its functions remain controversial and enigmatic. We suggest that past work on the 5-HT system have been significantly hampered by technical limitations in the selectivity and temporal resolution of the conventional pharmacological and electrophysiological methods that have been applied. We therefore propose to apply novel optogenetic methods that will allow us to overcome these limitations and thereby gain new insight into the biological functions of this important molecule. In preliminary studies, we have demonstrated that we can deliver exogenous proteins specifically to 5-HT neurons using viral vectors. Our objectives are to (1) record, (2) stimulate and (3) silence the activity of 5-HT neurons with high molecular selectivity and temporal precision by using genetically-encoded sensors, activators and inhibitors of neural function. These tools will allow us to monitor and control the 5-HT system in real-time in freely-behaving animals and thereby to establish causal links between information processing in 5-HT neurons and specific behaviors. In combination with quantitative behavioral assays, we will use this approach to define the role of 5-HT in sensory, motor and cognitive functions. The significance of the work is three-fold. First, we will establish a new arsenal of tools for probing the physiological and behavioral functions of 5-HT neurons. Second, we will make definitive tests of major hypotheses of 5-HT function. Third, we will have possible therapeutic applications. In this way, the proposed work has the potential for a major impact in research on the role of 5-HT in brain function and dysfunction.
Project acronym A-HERO
Project Anthelmintic Research and Optimization
Researcher (PI) Jennifer Irene Keiser
Host Institution (HI) SCHWEIZERISCHES TROPEN- UND PUBLIC HEALTH-INSTITUT
Summary "I propose an ambitious, yet feasible 5-year research project that will fill an important gap in global health. Specifically, I will develop and validate novel approaches for anthelmintic drug discovery and development. My proposal pursues the following five research questions: (i) Is a chip calorimeter suitable for high-throughput screening in anthelmintic drug discovery? (ii) Is combination chemotherapy safe and more efficacious than monotherapy against strongyloidiasis and trichuriasis? (iii) What are the key pharmacokinetic parameters of praziquantel in preschool-aged children and school-aged children infected with Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium using a novel and validated technology based on dried blood spotting? (iv) What are the metabolic consequences and clearance of praziquantel treatment in S. mansoni-infected mice and S. mansoni- and S. haematobium-infected children? (v) Which is the ideal compartment to study pharmacokinetic parameters for intestinal nematode infections and does age, nutrition, co-infection and infection intensity influence the efficacy of anthelmintic drugs? My proposed research is of considerable public health relevance since it will ultimately result in improved treatments for soil-transmitted helminthiasis and pediatric schistosomiasis. Additionally, at the end of this project, I have generated comprehensive information on drug disposition of anthelmintics. A comprehensive database of metabolite profiles following praziquantel treatment will be available. Finally, the proof-of-concept of chip calorimetry in anthelmintic drug discovery has been established and broadly validated."
"I propose an ambitious, yet feasible 5-year research project that will fill an important gap in global health. Specifically, I will develop and validate novel approaches for anthelmintic drug discovery and development. My proposal pursues the following five research questions: (i) Is a chip calorimeter suitable for high-throughput screening in anthelmintic drug discovery? (ii) Is combination chemotherapy safe and more efficacious than monotherapy against strongyloidiasis and trichuriasis? (iii) What are the key pharmacokinetic parameters of praziquantel in preschool-aged children and school-aged children infected with Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium using a novel and validated technology based on dried blood spotting? (iv) What are the metabolic consequences and clearance of praziquantel treatment in S. mansoni-infected mice and S. mansoni- and S. haematobium-infected children? (v) Which is the ideal compartment to study pharmacokinetic parameters for intestinal nematode infections and does age, nutrition, co-infection and infection intensity influence the efficacy of anthelmintic drugs? My proposed research is of considerable public health relevance since it will ultimately result in improved treatments for soil-transmitted helminthiasis and pediatric schistosomiasis. Additionally, at the end of this project, I have generated comprehensive information on drug disposition of anthelmintics. A comprehensive database of metabolite profiles following praziquantel treatment will be available. Finally, the proof-of-concept of chip calorimetry in anthelmintic drug discovery has been established and broadly validated."
Project acronym AAREA
Project The Archaeology of Agricultural Resilience in Eastern Africa
Researcher (PI) Daryl Stump
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Summary "The twin concepts of sustainability and conservation that are so pivotal within current debates regarding economic development and biodiversity protection both contain an inherent temporal dimension, since both refer to the need to balance short-term gains with long-term resource maintenance. Proponents of resilience theory and of development based on 'indigenous knowledge' have thus argued for the necessity of including archaeological, historical and palaeoenvironmental components within development project design. Indeed, some have argued that archaeology should lead these interdisciplinary projects on the grounds that it provides the necessary time depth and bridges the social and natural sciences. The project proposed here accepts this logic and endorses this renewed contemporary relevance of archaeological research. However, it also needs to be admitted that moving beyond critiques of the misuse of historical data presents significant hurdles. When presenting results outside the discipline, for example, archaeological projects tend to downplay the poor archaeological visibility of certain agricultural practices, and computer models designed to test sustainability struggle to adequately account for local cultural preferences. This field will therefore not progress unless there is a frank appraisal of archaeology's strengths and weaknesses. This project will provide this assessment by employing a range of established and groundbreaking archaeological and modelling techniques to examine the development of two east Africa agricultural systems: one at the abandoned site of Engaruka in Tanzania, commonly seen as an example of resource mismanagement and ecological collapse; and another at the current agricultural landscape in Konso, Ethiopia, described by the UN FAO as one of a select few African "lessons from the past". The project thus aims to assess the sustainability of these systems, but will also assess the role archaeology can play in such debates worldwide."
"The twin concepts of sustainability and conservation that are so pivotal within current debates regarding economic development and biodiversity protection both contain an inherent temporal dimension, since both refer to the need to balance short-term gains with long-term resource maintenance. Proponents of resilience theory and of development based on 'indigenous knowledge' have thus argued for the necessity of including archaeological, historical and palaeoenvironmental components within development project design. Indeed, some have argued that archaeology should lead these interdisciplinary projects on the grounds that it provides the necessary time depth and bridges the social and natural sciences. The project proposed here accepts this logic and endorses this renewed contemporary relevance of archaeological research. However, it also needs to be admitted that moving beyond critiques of the misuse of historical data presents significant hurdles. When presenting results outside the discipline, for example, archaeological projects tend to downplay the poor archaeological visibility of certain agricultural practices, and computer models designed to test sustainability struggle to adequately account for local cultural preferences. This field will therefore not progress unless there is a frank appraisal of archaeology's strengths and weaknesses. This project will provide this assessment by employing a range of established and groundbreaking archaeological and modelling techniques to examine the development of two east Africa agricultural systems: one at the abandoned site of Engaruka in Tanzania, commonly seen as an example of resource mismanagement and ecological collapse; and another at the current agricultural landscape in Konso, Ethiopia, described by the UN FAO as one of a select few African "lessons from the past". The project thus aims to assess the sustainability of these systems, but will also assess the role archaeology can play in such debates worldwide."
Project acronym ABDESIGN
Project Computational design of novel protein function in antibodies
Researcher (PI) Sarel-Jacob Fleishman
Summary We propose to elucidate the structural design principles of naturally occurring antibody complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) and to computationally design novel antibody functions. Antibodies represent the most versatile known system for molecular recognition. Research has yielded many insights into antibody design principles and promising biotechnological and pharmaceutical applications. Still, our understanding of how CDRs encode specific loop conformations lags far behind our understanding of structure-function relationships in non-immunological scaffolds. Thus, design of antibodies from first principles has not been demonstrated. We propose a computational-experimental strategy to address this challenge. We will: (a) characterize the design principles and sequence elements that rigidify antibody CDRs. Natural antibody loops will be subjected to computational modeling, crystallography, and a combined in vitro evolution and deep-sequencing approach to isolate sequence features that rigidify loop backbones; (b) develop a novel computational-design strategy, which uses the >1000 solved structures of antibodies deposited in structure databases to realistically model CDRs and design them to recognize proteins that have not been co-crystallized with antibodies. For example, we will design novel antibodies targeting insulin, for which clinically useful diagnostics are needed. By accessing much larger sequence/structure spaces than are available to natural immune-system repertoires and experimental methods, computational antibody design could produce higher-specificity and higher-affinity binders, even to challenging targets; and (c) develop new strategies to program conformational change in CDRs, generating, e.g., the first allosteric antibodies. These will allow targeting, in principle, of any molecule, potentially revolutionizing how antibodies are generated for research and medicine, providing new insights on the design principles of protein functional sites.
We propose to elucidate the structural design principles of naturally occurring antibody complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) and to computationally design novel antibody functions. Antibodies represent the most versatile known system for molecular recognition. Research has yielded many insights into antibody design principles and promising biotechnological and pharmaceutical applications. Still, our understanding of how CDRs encode specific loop conformations lags far behind our understanding of structure-function relationships in non-immunological scaffolds. Thus, design of antibodies from first principles has not been demonstrated. We propose a computational-experimental strategy to address this challenge. We will: (a) characterize the design principles and sequence elements that rigidify antibody CDRs. Natural antibody loops will be subjected to computational modeling, crystallography, and a combined in vitro evolution and deep-sequencing approach to isolate sequence features that rigidify loop backbones; (b) develop a novel computational-design strategy, which uses the >1000 solved structures of antibodies deposited in structure databases to realistically model CDRs and design them to recognize proteins that have not been co-crystallized with antibodies. For example, we will design novel antibodies targeting insulin, for which clinically useful diagnostics are needed. By accessing much larger sequence/structure spaces than are available to natural immune-system repertoires and experimental methods, computational antibody design could produce higher-specificity and higher-affinity binders, even to challenging targets; and (c) develop new strategies to program conformational change in CDRs, generating, e.g., the first allosteric antibodies. These will allow targeting, in principle, of any molecule, potentially revolutionizing how antibodies are generated for research and medicine, providing new insights on the design principles of protein functional sites.
Project acronym ABEL
Project "Alpha-helical Barrels: Exploring, Understanding and Exploiting a New Class of Protein Structure"
Researcher (PI) Derek Neil Woolfson
Summary "Recently through de novo peptide design, we have discovered and presented a new protein structure. This is an all-parallel, 6-helix bundle with a continuous central channel of 0.5 – 0.6 nm diameter. We posit that this is one of a broader class of protein structures that we call the alpha-helical barrels. Here, in three Work Packages, we propose to explore these structures and to develop protein functions within them. First, through a combination of computer-aided design, peptide synthesis and thorough biophysical characterization, we will examine the extents and limits of the alpha-helical-barrel structures. Whilst this is curiosity driven research, it also has practical consequences for the studies that will follow; that is, alpha-helical barrels made from increasing numbers of helices have channels or pores that increase in a predictable way. Second, we will use rational and empirical design approaches to engineer a range of functions within these cavities, including binding capabilities and enzyme-like activities. Finally, and taking the programme into another ambitious area, we will use the alpha-helical barrels to template other folds that are otherwise difficult to design and engineer, notably beta-barrels that insert into membranes to render ion-channel and sensor functions."
"Recently through de novo peptide design, we have discovered and presented a new protein structure. This is an all-parallel, 6-helix bundle with a continuous central channel of 0.5 – 0.6 nm diameter. We posit that this is one of a broader class of protein structures that we call the alpha-helical barrels. Here, in three Work Packages, we propose to explore these structures and to develop protein functions within them. First, through a combination of computer-aided design, peptide synthesis and thorough biophysical characterization, we will examine the extents and limits of the alpha-helical-barrel structures. Whilst this is curiosity driven research, it also has practical consequences for the studies that will follow; that is, alpha-helical barrels made from increasing numbers of helices have channels or pores that increase in a predictable way. Second, we will use rational and empirical design approaches to engineer a range of functions within these cavities, including binding capabilities and enzyme-like activities. Finally, and taking the programme into another ambitious area, we will use the alpha-helical barrels to template other folds that are otherwise difficult to design and engineer, notably beta-barrels that insert into membranes to render ion-channel and sensor functions."
Project acronym ABEP
Project Asset Bubbles and Economic Policy
Researcher (PI) Jaume Ventura Fontanet
Host Institution (HI) Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI)
Summary Advanced capitalist economies experience large and persistent movements in asset prices that are difficult to justify with economic fundamentals. The internet bubble of the 1990s and the real state market bubble of the 2000s are two recent examples. The predominant view is that these bubbles are a market failure, and are caused by some form of individual irrationality on the part of market participants. This project is based instead on the view that market participants are individually rational, although this does not preclude sometimes collectively sub-optimal outcomes. Bubbles are thus not a source of market failure by themselves but instead arise as a result of a pre-existing market failure, namely, the existence of pockets of dynamically inefficient investments. Under some conditions, bubbles partly solve this problem, increasing market efficiency and welfare. It is also possible however that bubbles do not solve the underlying problem and, in addition, create negative side-effects. The main objective of this project is to develop this view of asset bubbles, and produce an empirically-relevant macroeconomic framework that allows us to address the following questions: (i) What is the relationship between bubbles and financial market frictions? Special emphasis is given to how the globalization of financial markets and the development of new financial products affect the size and effects of bubbles. (ii) What is the relationship between bubbles, economic growth and unemployment? The theory suggests the presence of virtuous and vicious cycles, as economic growth creates the conditions for bubbles to pop up, while bubbles create incentives for economic growth to happen. (iii) What is the optimal policy to manage bubbles? We need to develop the tools that allow policy makers to sustain those bubbles that have positive effects and burst those that have negative effects.
Advanced capitalist economies experience large and persistent movements in asset prices that are difficult to justify with economic fundamentals. The internet bubble of the 1990s and the real state market bubble of the 2000s are two recent examples. The predominant view is that these bubbles are a market failure, and are caused by some form of individual irrationality on the part of market participants. This project is based instead on the view that market participants are individually rational, although this does not preclude sometimes collectively sub-optimal outcomes. Bubbles are thus not a source of market failure by themselves but instead arise as a result of a pre-existing market failure, namely, the existence of pockets of dynamically inefficient investments. Under some conditions, bubbles partly solve this problem, increasing market efficiency and welfare. It is also possible however that bubbles do not solve the underlying problem and, in addition, create negative side-effects. The main objective of this project is to develop this view of asset bubbles, and produce an empirically-relevant macroeconomic framework that allows us to address the following questions: (i) What is the relationship between bubbles and financial market frictions? Special emphasis is given to how the globalization of financial markets and the development of new financial products affect the size and effects of bubbles. (ii) What is the relationship between bubbles, economic growth and unemployment? The theory suggests the presence of virtuous and vicious cycles, as economic growth creates the conditions for bubbles to pop up, while bubbles create incentives for economic growth to happen. (iii) What is the optimal policy to manage bubbles? We need to develop the tools that allow policy makers to sustain those bubbles that have positive effects and burst those that have negative effects.
Project acronym ACQDIV
Project Acquisition processes in maximally diverse languages: Min(d)ing the ambient language
Researcher (PI) Sabine Erika Stoll
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAT ZURICH
Summary "Children learn any language that they grow up with, adapting to any of the ca. 7000 languages of the world, no matter how divergent or complex their structures are. What cognitive processes make this extreme flexibility possible? This is one of the most burning questions in cognitive science and the ACQDIV project aims at answering it by testing and refining the following leading hypothesis: Language acquisition is flexible and adaptive to any kind of language because it relies on a small set of universal cognitive processes that variably target different structures at different times during acquisition in every language. The project aims at establishing the precise set of processes and at determining the conditions of variation across maximally diverse languages. This project focuses on three processes: (i) distributional learning, (ii) generalization-based learning and (iii) interaction-based learning. To investigate these processes I will work with a sample of five clusters of languages including longitudinal data of two languages each. The clusters were determined by a clustering algorithm seeking the structurally most divergent languages in a typological database. The languages are: Cluster 1: Slavey and Cree, Cluster 2: Indonesian and Yucatec, Cluster 3: Inuktitut and Chintang, Cluster 4: Sesotho and Russian, Cluster 5: Japanese and Turkish. For all languages, corpora are available, except for Slavey where fieldwork is planned. The leading hypothesis will be tested against the acquisition of aspect and negation in each language of the sample and also against the two structures in each language that are most salient and challenging in them (e. g. complex morphology in Chintang). The acquisition processes also depend on statistical patterns in the input children receive. I will examine these patterns across the sample with respect to repetitiveness effects, applying data-mining methods and systematically comparing child-directed and child-surrounding speech."
"Children learn any language that they grow up with, adapting to any of the ca. 7000 languages of the world, no matter how divergent or complex their structures are. What cognitive processes make this extreme flexibility possible? This is one of the most burning questions in cognitive science and the ACQDIV project aims at answering it by testing and refining the following leading hypothesis: Language acquisition is flexible and adaptive to any kind of language because it relies on a small set of universal cognitive processes that variably target different structures at different times during acquisition in every language. The project aims at establishing the precise set of processes and at determining the conditions of variation across maximally diverse languages. This project focuses on three processes: (i) distributional learning, (ii) generalization-based learning and (iii) interaction-based learning. To investigate these processes I will work with a sample of five clusters of languages including longitudinal data of two languages each. The clusters were determined by a clustering algorithm seeking the structurally most divergent languages in a typological database. The languages are: Cluster 1: Slavey and Cree, Cluster 2: Indonesian and Yucatec, Cluster 3: Inuktitut and Chintang, Cluster 4: Sesotho and Russian, Cluster 5: Japanese and Turkish. For all languages, corpora are available, except for Slavey where fieldwork is planned. The leading hypothesis will be tested against the acquisition of aspect and negation in each language of the sample and also against the two structures in each language that are most salient and challenging in them (e. g. complex morphology in Chintang). The acquisition processes also depend on statistical patterns in the input children receive. I will examine these patterns across the sample with respect to repetitiveness effects, applying data-mining methods and systematically comparing child-directed and child-surrounding speech."


The boom in the renewable market over the past 10 years has seen Canada become one of the most successful countries adopting renewable energy into its grid system. Approximately 19% of Canada's energy supply is now from renewable energy resources. The City of Summerside in Prince Edward Island has already procured more than 45% of its load from renewable sources. In partnership with Samsung Renewable Energy Inc., the City of Summerside is now building a smart energy storage system, integrating the City's solar power with other renewable power and conventional energy sources. Understanding that continuing to install an array of inefficient renewable solutions on the grid is not the answer and that Summerside's Utility and partners are addressing the real challenge of grid integration through collaboration and like-minded approaches.
The purpose of this ambitious green project is to help Summerside meet its increasing electricity demand while saving on energy costs, reducing carbon emissions, creating jobs and building green tech expertise in the region. It is a demonstration project that will also serve as a model for other communities in North America wishing to collaborate with multiple partners to achieve long-term energy cost savings and environmental benefits.
Located at Credit Union Place in the City of Summerside, the smart energy storage system will blend solar power with traditional power sources and provide a cost-effective way of storing and dispatching surplus energy. The Summerside Smart Storage Demonstration Project furthers the evolution of the City's green tech investment strategy. It has been developed to provide a platform for energy security, encourage energy conservation, and bring cleaner renewable energy onto a smarter electricity grid. The ultimate goal is to assist Summerside business growth, innovation and export development so that the City can create meaningful quality jobs and wealth as well as cost efficiencies for municipal operations.
This project aims to demonstrate a new approach to costly grid infrastructure capital investment, by integrating at-source storage and demand/supply management. The project's primary mandate is to show how utilities can integrate storage solutions that are modular, impactful, responsive and green, while benefiting the utility grid operator, the customer and the environment.
Since the development of Summerside's wind farm, investment in clean technology has become key to advancing the City's sustainability, economic development and environmental reputation. It is definitely a key global sector presenting promise for municipalities and business to drive economic prosperity. Summerside is well positioned to take full advantage of this limitless opportunity with partners who share our vision.
The City has just completed its position paper on renewable innovation and is working towards a public release later this summer. The strategy developed looked to answer a number of resource and capacity issues and identify approaches to the positioning of Summerside and its role in cultivating opportunities in the social, economic and environmental sectors in relation to renewable innovation.
The City of Summerside's Renewable Innovation Strategy is positioned to pursue Commercial Scale-up innovation using an Open for Business strategy. By developing a more formalized renewable innovation ecosystem for technology demonstration and market development, Summerside is likely to create the infrastructure necessary to build on the municipality's more abstract Living Lab framework. It is anticipated that implementing these policies will enable Summerside to deepen its innovation capacity and create a foundation to later transition to being a full-spectrum innovator through Technology Venturing.
It is the contention of the research that The City of Summerside maintains moderate renewable innovation resources and capacity. The path suggests that Summerside can enhance its renewable innovation capacity by leveraging its strengths in wind power, solar power, its smart grid, and business attractiveness, combined with developing capacities in other forms of alternative energy, workforce training, infrastructure, and stakeholder engagement. The City of Summerside is envisioned to be best positioned to pursue a Commercial Scale-up innovation mode. This would involve building capacity in technology demonstration and market development building a formalized framework for the Living Lab will promote development of the infrastructure necessary to advance Summerside's current state of technology maturity.
The city's renewable energy macro policy goals are to establish itself as a leader of renewable energy innovation in order to increase its energy competitiveness. Expanding and diversifying its renewable energy portfolio is an attending big-picture goal. Modernization of its assets is another major goal, and all of the goals are interdependent and complementary. These goals will help Summerside achieve energy self-sufficiency, greater use of renewable sources, and economic development through renewable innovation. The City of Summerside is looking towards the implementation of a seven policy instruments to realize the Renewable Innovation Strategy. Specifically looking to explore: targeted labour market support, iterative product development, interactive learning, standards and quality certification, smart grid extension, subsidize renewable ecosystem, and public procurement.
Summerside has already created an abstract model – in the form of the Living Lab – that has proven to be a significant investment attractor and has demonstrated high market potential. To pursue an Open for Business strategy, the City of Summerside will look to enact a number of policies to further develop the Living Lab by creating more formalized and tangible models to attract foreign and Canadian investment and grow local opportunities. By building capabilities in technology demonstration and market development, it is hoped that the City of Summerside will create a foundation for a transition to the research and development activities associated with Technology Venturing at a larger scale.
We encourage readers to check back in early fall for the full release of Summerside's Innovation strategy.
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Born: April 26, 1967
Position: M,D
Division II and III stats
Walter Schmetzer scored 24 goals and recorded 14 assists in his 110-game career with the Cleveland Force and Tacoma Stars. He began playing during the 1986 season and last took the field during the 1990 campaign.
Cleveland Force
Tacoma Stars
1986-87 MISL Cleveland Force 4 1 0 1 0 0 3 2 50.0
1987-88 MISL Cleveland Force 32 2 3 5 4 0 17 46 4.3
1988-89 MISL Tacoma Stars 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1989-90 MISL Tacoma Stars 34 5 5 10 4 0 23 42 11.9
1990-91 MISL Tacoma Stars 39 16 6 22 8 26 14 63 25.4
Totals 110 24 14 38 16 26 57 153 15.7
Goalkeeping:
1987-88 MISL Cleveland Force 1 55:07 0 1 5 5.45 18 6 0 .333
Totals 1 55:7 0 1 5 5.44 18 6 0 .333
Postseason - Scoring:
1987-88 MISL Cleveland Force 10 0 1 1 2 0 2 5 0.0
1990-91 MISL Tacoma Stars 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.0
Totals 13 0 1 1 2 0 2 11 0.0
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The Inland Group Inc. is rolling out another real estate investment trust, filing plans last week to raise $1 billion for a new company that would buy apartments in major U.S. metropolitan areas.
The company, Inland Residential Properties Trust Inc., would be the seventh REIT launched by Inland Group, an Oak Brook-based company founded by four school teachers in the late 1960s that has grown into one of the biggest real estate investment firms headquartered in the Chicago area.
Inland specializes in non-traded REITs, public companies whose shares are not listed on a stock exchange. Instead of accumulating a portfolio of properties and then going public, non-traded REITs are "blind pool" investments, usually launching stock offerings before buying a single asset.
Unlike traded REITs, which sell their stock in a single day, they raise money over time, sometimes taking several years before closing an offering.
Inland Residential plans to buy Class A and Class B multifamily properties in the top 100 U.S. metropolitan areas, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Like many apartment investors, Inland Residential is counting on strong demand for apartments from baby boomers and millennials.
Inland Group declined to comment, citing federal law that limits what companies can say ahead of stock offerings.
Inland Group was the top fundraiser in the non-traded REIT industry during the boom. Its REITs and other Inland investment vehicles raked in more than $18.3 billion in the 10-year period ended June 30, according to the filing.
Yet the company fell off its perch after the crash amid increased competition and struggles at two of its REITs, Retail Properties of America Inc. and Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc. Its sixth REIT, Inland Real Estate Income Trust, launched about two years ago, had raised just $262.2 million through Sept. 15, according to the SEC filing, a small amount compared with other non-traded REITs.
The classes of multifamily properties Inland Residential plans to buy has been corrected.


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On Thursday, February 25, 2016, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. hosted his annual Dominican Heritage Celebration at Fiesta Deluxe, honoring individuals who have contributed to the growth and promotion of their community and culture. The event was co-sponsored by Healthfirst. Pictured are: New York Supreme Court Justice Rolando Acosta, Owner of Fiesta Deluxe Evelyn…
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antiquesandartireland.com » » SCULLY SELLS FOR £341,000 AT CHRISTIE'S
SCULLY SELLS FOR £341,000 AT CHRISTIE'S
Sean Scully (b. 1945)
Small Horizontal Robe © Christie's Images Limited 2016
Small Horizontal Robe by Sean Scully sold for £341,000 at Christie's Modern British and Irish art evening sale in London this evening. A Windy Day by Sir John Lavery made £1,172,486 in a sale with sell through rates of 90% by lot and 95% by value which brought in £14.6 million. There were world records for Ben Nicholson April 57 (Arbia 2), £3,749,000: John Minton, Jamaican Village, £293,000 and Edward Wadsworth, Imaginary Harbour I, £197,000. The Nicholson was the top lot of the evening in a sale characterised by lively bidding.
André Zlattinger, Senior Director, Head of Modern British Art, Christie's London and Rachel Hidderley, International Specialist and Director, Modern British Art commented: "Bidding from Asia was particularly strong, underlining the growing global appeal for this dynamic category that represents the diversity of artists working in Britain and Ireland during the last two centuries".
Tags: Ben Nicholson, Christie's, Sean Scully
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Sometimes you can study and prepare for a situation so much that you think you're ready for anything that is thrown your way.
But when you are actually put in the game you crumble under the pressure.
That's what happened to me Wednesday.
Grade for my first real couponing excursion.
I had spent the last couple of weeks clipping and organizing before heading off Wal-Mart with a binder full of coupons to get my savings on.
The problem I had was that we NEEDED some items which meant I had to go against one of the Super Couponing rules of buying what is on sale instead of for need.
I went down aisle after aisle matching up my coupons with items, some we needed and some we didn't.
I even had the grocery flyer from Jewel so I could compare prices to see which store was cheaper, both with and without a coupon.
Any coupon I used went into the right pocket of my shorts and while I wasn't keeping track I knew I had amassed quite a few.
I went around 10 a.m., which was almost the perfect time.
There were a couple of instances that caused the day from being perfect.
I was standing by the boxes of Hamburger Helper (I had a coupon for 75¢ of three) when I heard a woman talking.
Lady: Hey, I found your coupon for Metamucil.
But then I started thinking about how embarrassed the person she was talking to must have been and started laughing.
I turned away before I could see the person dealing with constipation. That decision has been haunting me ever since.
As disturbing as that was, the fact that Wal-Mart was testing its fire alarm drills was worse. The high-pitched, shrill sounds felt like an ice pick was being shoved into my ears.
They lasted 3-4 seconds each and only went off 4-5 times but that was more than enough for me to be thankful when they stopped.
I continued to weave my way through the store, filling up my basket and my pocket.
I had tried to keep count with how many coupons I had filed away but quickly lost count. I just knew that I had used a LOT of ones saving a dollar or more. More on that below.
By time I reached the frozen section I knew I had a dangerously-high amount of items in my cart and started worrying about the final total amount.
I pushed on and headed to the front of the store to check out.
I couldn't believe my luck at finding an open cashier.
By the time I was finished unloading the cart, the cashier had already filled all of the bags on her carousel and even had some stacked on top.
I pulled out my coupons and actually was surprised at how many there seemed to be.
I briefly saw the pre-coupon total before she started ringing up the coupons.
I saw the overall total going down but knew there weren't enough coupons left to get it down to an amount acceptable to Tammy.
Despite using 63 coupons, 29 of which took more than $1 off the total, the $55.59 I saved was no where near the 50% minimum mark to even be considered as an Extreme Couponer.
I got home and had unloaded everything when I got a text from Tammy.
Tammy: Sooo… how much did you save?
Tammy: And how much was the bill?
I knew she was gonna find out eventually and while it wasn't close to the amount that drew tears, I still knew she wouldn't be happy. But the text that came next took me by surprise.
Tammy: I have bets going with the girls, so tell me.
Great, now she's gambling on me? I don't know if that's good or bad.
I got this text after I told her how much I spent.
Turns out her gambling on me was bad.
Me: Did they think it would be lower?
Tammy: Oh God yea… Kathy said $200, Kristen said $150, I said $375.
I tried to shift the focus to make my total not sound so bad.
Me: I used 53 coupons… Bought 117 total items. hahaha.
If The Price is Right rules had been in affect then Tammy would have lost.
Tammy's radio silence started making me nervous.
Me: AND… If "Price is Right" rules were in effect then you lost!! Because you went over….
The "Price is Right" rule is used in any game or contest where the one closest to the target number without going over is the winner.
When Tammy got home she started in how much I spent. I left out a stack of items that I had used coupons on to show Tammy but that led into how I didn't get anything good.
Tammy: Like fruit and salad.
Me: I didn't have coupons for that stuff.
I then started telling her how much I saved on certain items which led into math lesson from Professor Tammy.
Me: I saved a dollar on two of these.
Tammy: How much were they then?
Tammy: That's still more than if you bought one right?
Tammy: If you bought one it would have been $1.88 but you got 2 so it was $2.76. Last I checked $2.76 is more than $1.88.
Me: Yeah, but that's not how couponing works. I had to buy 2.
All in all, I gave myself a C– for my effort, because while I was prepared and organized (I REALLY liked having the coupons in the binder because I could see them instead of filing through them for each one), I wasn't very disciplined.
Because we "needed" things I ended up doing a hybrid attempt at couponing. I bought things I prolly wouldn't have gotten before just because I had a coupon.
While we definitely have a lot of stuff right now we don't have everything.
Just tonight Tammy found something we were missing.
Tammy: We don't have any paper plates?
Me: I didn't know we were so low.
Tammy: (shaking her head) And we just spent $300.
Me: I didn't spend $300. I got $300 worth of stuff.
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Maybe you just need a little more practice?
I love that she bet on you. Or against you.


1. Slow down as you approach the roundabout. 15-20 miles per hour is usually about the right speed for approaching and driving in a roundabout.
2. Pick your lane. Look for the lane-use signs as you approach the roundabout, choose your lane before entering the roundabout and stay in your lane until you exit the roundabout.
3. Yield. When approaching the roundabout, always yield to pedestrians, bicyclists and vehicles in all lanes (the yield sign will show you where to yield).
4. Look left. Vehicles in the roundabout have the right of way. If there is no traffic in the roundabout, don't stop. If traffic is present, wait for an opening and then enter the roundabout.
5. Give way to large vehicles. Allow large vehicles the extra turning radius needed to drive next to a large vehicle. Never pass or drive next to a large vehicle in the roundabout.
6. Emergency vehicles. If you see an emergency vehicle coming, exit the roundabout; do not pull over in the roundabout.
Driving in a roundabout is safer when compared to a traditional, signalized intersection. In a roundabout, the cars are traveling at a slower speed, there are less conflict points, and the accidents which do occur are much less severe.
The images to the right shows the number of conflict points in a roundabout versus a traditional intersection. Most severe injuries and fatalities in traditional intersections occur as a result of broadside "T-bone" collisions (when someone is turning left and is struck broadside by an oncoming vehicle) and head-on collisions. Roundabouts virtually eliminate the possibility of either of these types of collisions because of their design. Any crashes that do occur in a roundabout are likely to be sideswipes and low-speed rear-end collisions, neither of which is likely to result in serious injuries or fatalities.
*Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety "Status Report Vol. 40, No. 9."
Not only are roundabouts safer, but they allow for more traffic to move through an intersection than does a signalized intersection. Studies have indicated that replacing traffic signals with roundabouts can increase the capacity of a road by 30 to 50 percent.
There are currently 28 roundabouts within Oakland County (21 of which are on the RCOC system). At least six more are planned in the next several years.
Federal Highway Administration's "Roundabouts Informational Guide"


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