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Q: Compact operator spectrum Let $X$ be Banach space. Is there a nonzero compact operator $A: X \to X$, whose spectrum consists of zero only?

A: This is wrong if $\dim X \le 1$, so let $\dim X \ge 2$ from now on.
Let $A\colon \mathbb R^2 \to \mathbb R^2$ given by $\hat A = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1\\\ 0 & 0\end{pmatrix}$. Let $Y \subseteq X$ a two-dimensional subspace and $P\colon X \to X$ a projection onto $Y$ (this exists as $Y$ is finite-dimensional). Let $S \colon \mathbb R^2 \to Y$ be an isomorphism and let $A = S\hat AS^{-1}P$. Then $A^2 = 0$ and $A$ has finite-dimensional range. So $A$ is compact and $0$ is its only spectral value.

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Aquaponics is a growing technique that combines elements of both hydroponics and aquaponics. It harnesses a symbiotic relationship that exists between fish and vegetables, where the fish provide nutrients required for healthy plant growth and the plants filter the water for the fish. The real work is done behind the scenes however by millions of bacteria that colonise the growbed and that work hard to process the waste that the fish produce (ammonia) and turn it into plant food (nitrate). This blog post has been written to explore the unique challenges that present to the aquaponics gardener and to provide some insight into how these challenges might be met, so that aquaponics can continue to develop as a sustainable alternative growing technique into the future.
Fish, plants and bacteria all have their own preferred water quality parameters such as temperature and pH. Balancing these often competing requirements can be a challenge. Traditionally in hydroponic food production, growers can exert a great deal of influence over their water chemistry in order to achieve a desired result however in aquaponics management actions need to be able to satisfy the requirements of each living component. So why bother? Well it is this complexity that is at the very heart of what makes aquaponics such a resilient and self-regulating growing technique.
It is the interactions between the fish, plants and bacteria that further closes the loop on the water, nutrient and waste cycles, thus making aquaponics a very attractive alternative. Success in this area will therefore depend on the ability of growers to firstly understand and then to integrate the needs of each living component within the system. Although our appreciation for these interactions is growing there are still a great many gaps in our knowledge that will need to be filled in order to realize the full potential of this growing technique.
An all in one aquaponics system that the foodqube team built.
Due to the relative infancy of aquaponics as a mainstream growing technique a great deal of unsubstantiated claims are still making their rounds in backyard grower's circles. This often-conflicting information is making it difficult for the beginner gardener to develop an informed position on how to best manage their home system. An example of this is illustrated by taking a look at grow bed depth. During the pioneering stages of aquaponics it was professed that a grow bed depth of at least 300mm+ was essential to support a healthy colony of bacteria in an aquaponics system.
There is however a lack of any real evidence to support this claim and therefore I believe that early adopters are using a lot more of this material input than is actually required. The same can be said for electricity inputs to a system where people are using over sized pumps and running them for excessive amounts of time due to currently accepted practices in plumbing and grow bed design. This all brings me to my next point, which is how we can look to material and energy flows in a system for opportunities to further close the loop on aquaponics as a growing technique.
Aquaponics provides an opportunity to shift away from linear (open loop) systems, in which the inputs to a system eventually move through and become a waste, to a closed loop system where wastes can become the inputs to a range of other processes. This is in sharp contrast to conventional farming practices where losses of water, nutrients and wastes are a generally accepted practice. The dichotomy that exists however is in the additional material inputs that are required to both set up and maintain an aquaponics system.
It is therefore hugely important that consideration is given to the types of materials that are used during the construction phase of an aquaponics venture as well as looking at the inputs that are used ongoing. We have already touched on a couple of ideas in the preceding paragraph but there are still huge number of opportunities to improve how we go about gardening aquaponically including; water and energy procurement, fish food and waste management, management of additional nutrient requirements and material inputs used throughout the construction and maintenance phases.
Ultimately the success of aquaponics at the backyard level will be determined by its ability to reward the gardener for their time, energy and resources spent. Learning to harness the natural efficiencies of aquaponics will play a crucial role in how successful aquaponics is into the future. This success will also depend on the ability of leaders to provide a consistent and strong message to gardeners around current best practice management. Lastly and most importantly consideration needs to be given to the material and energy flows that make up the system.
There is much controversy that exists around aquaponics and how it fits within a permaculture design framework. Much of the discussion however has been very one dimensional in nature and so in order to provide a whole of systems comparison I will attempt to assess aquaponics against the 12 defined principles of permaculture.
Observe and interact Aquaponics offers people a connection to and an appreciation for the food they eat, like nothing else. The amount of observation and interaction required to maintain a healthy system has it score very highly in this area.
Catch and store energy Aquaponics is able to in-directly capture and store energy in the form of food. In fact fish have a markedly better feed conversion ratio than any other farmed livestock.
Obtain a yield Aquaponics is an intensive form of food production and can be very high yielding.
Apply self-regulation and accept feedback The ecosystem that exists within aquaponics is very much self-regulating. As more nutrients enter the system, bacteria and other organisms like fungi and worms naturally colonise to process the additional nutrients.
Use and value renewable resources and services This is a definite point of contention and the outcome really depends on the system itself i.e. has renewable energy been used to power the pump; has the system been built from recycled materials; has a low impact grow media been used & does the system try to minimise its electricity use. The super-efficient use of water and nutrients in aquaponics needs also to be recognised here.
Produce no waste The inherent closed loop nature of aquaponics means that it is free from any wastes and is a big thumbs up here.
Design from patterns to detail Aquaponics has helped to identify a number of shortcomings in our current food system and it offers people an opportunity to do something about it if they so choose.
Integrate rather than segregate Aquaponics is a great example of a working ecosystem. You feed the fish, the fish produce wastes, bacteria convert these wastes into food for the plants, the plants take up the available nutrients thus cleaning the water for the fish.
Use small and slow solutions What is remarkable about aquaponics is its uptake by the home gardener. The slow but steady growth that has occurred in the backyard farming setting is allowing this technology to mature at a safe and sustainable rate.
Use and value diversity Aquaponics thrives on diversity. The greater the number of fish and plants in the system the more resilient it will become. Diversity in organisms like bacteria, fungi and worms will also create a healthier system.
Use edges and value the marginal Aquaponics is definitely an outlier. Only recently have people really started to experiment with different growing techniques and technologies. I believe that it is important to continue developing knowledge in this area as it just may be a critical part of the overall food system into the future.
Creatively use and respond to change I believe aquaponics is still very much in its infancy and that we are about to see an explosion of creativity in this space as people begin to reinvent and redesign aquaponics as an urban farming practice.
Build your own system from recycled materials; There is enough wood in a single double pallet to build a 300 plus litre aquaponics system. All you need to do is find a second hand pallet, salvage the wood and build a rectangular frame that will house both your fish and grow bed (fish tank can be made using a pond liner & grow bed can be made using a hydroponic grow tray). Another great idea is to use recycled corrugated iron as a wall material! I managed to do a proof of concept for our kits in just a single afternoon.
Make your own fish food; Not only does making your own food give you control over what goes into it but by creating a fish food that is designed specifically to feed your plants rather than your fish it will inevitably boost the macro and micro nutrients in your system, thus ensuring good vegetable production.
Grow your own fish food; Duckweed, black soldier fly larvae (warmer climates) and any green leafy veggies will all provide you with a food source that can help to supplement or replace commercial feed altogether.
Reduce your power inputs; Run an intermittent flood and drain system rather than continuous ebb and flow system. This can be set up on a timer to run only 15 minutes of the hour and can reduce your power input by almost ¾.
Reduce the depth of your grow bed; Rather than going 300mm deep with your grow bed, try a much shallower bed of say 100mm. Not only will your system be more compact, lightweight and easier to transport but it will also reduce the embodied energy of your system.
Use low input additives; rely on egg shells, banana peels and other natural products to correct deficiencies in your system. Egg shells will boost the calcium in your system and banana peels will boost your potassium.
Choose a hardy fish species; In terms of fish species I advocate strongly for the use of Silver Perch throughout the cooler states and Jade Perch for the warmer States. This is due to their wide tolerances to swings in water quality and the fact that they do well in tank culture.
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I love this. My wife and I are planning to start an organization in the USA which will create a network of urban communes, and we are looking for effective ways to utilize space efficiently. Aquaponics seems to be a great option for that.
Is there a good reason to build the tank above-ground? Would digging trenches and using pond-liner help with: A– reducing the materials needed, and B– creating a more stable thermal environment for the fish? The latter, from what I understand, can be important for using cold-water species of fish which put on a better Omega-3 lipid profile.


I can't even believe I wasted money to rent it, and kept watching HOPING that it would get better. I hope I don't ever do that again.
Great movie in my book! Loved it so many good parodies! I don't understand why people hate it. Did you not laugh at this stuff I was laughing the whole way through pratically so that to me qualifies as a great movie! Its stupid comedy so if you don't like stupid comedy then why did you go to the movie!???
Okay this was a funny funny movie! I knew all the parodies in the movie and I enjoyed it.
saw this the other day on tv. It was ok not one of the best parodies ive seen but it was standard.


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FREE Harleys? Vermont Dealer Makes It Real
Wilkins Harley-Davidson in South Barre, Vermont. Photo from the dealership's Facebook page.
Seeking to spread the love of all thing motorcycling — and HD-riding in particular — a dealership in Vermont has pledged to give away motorcycles to select people in their area who can't afford them.
Where do we sign up?!
According to a story on the SevenDaysVT website, Wilkins Harley-Davidson in South Barre, Vermont, has pledged to give away one motorcycle to somebody who can't afford one for every 50 they sell in 2021.
And considering they typically sell about 300 new bikes per year, that would add up to about six lucky "winners" in their area — which includes parts of Vermont, New Hampshire and northern New York.
The dealership is even encouraging potential new-to-sport riders to apply in their program — saying they will even enroll the winner in the Wilkins Riding Academy training.
The 74-year-old dealership has a long history of being a part of its community and taking care of customers — and winning Harley-Davidson service awards along the way. Images on their social media show their involvement — and the fact that the riding season has begun in earnest for many of their customers!
In the article, customer experience manager Mark Frano explained, "This is a really personal thing for us, because it's what we do; it's what we love. Hopefully it does what we're hoping for, which is to give people a chance to get away from it all."

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The India - Sri Lanka Foundation was established by a Memorandum of Understanding between the governments of India and Sri Lanka in 1998 in order to foster India - Sri Lanka relations through the enhancement of economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation and to promote greater understanding between the peoples of the two countries. The Foundation is financed through revenues (interest earned) from a Trust Fund set up with grants made available by the two Governments.
Since its inception in 1998, the India-Sri Lanka Foundation has implemented 352 projects amounting approximately to SLR. 65 million from both countries ranging from exchange programs of academia/scholars, research projects, participation in seminars/workshops, publications of works, exhibitions, training programs and travel assistance for participation in art & cultural events, etc.
Some of the events supported by the Foundation in the recent past include the visit of Ambassador Shyam Saran for the launch of the Public Lecture series of the Foundation, participation of two Indian authors in the Galle Literary Festival 2012, performances of Maya Krishna Rao, renowned Kathakali Dancer and Solo performing artist in Colombo and Jaffna, participation of differently abled children from India accompanied by Ms. Alpana Nayak, famous Odissi Dancer in the 'Very Special Arts Theatre Festival' held at Moratuwa, restaging of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's dance drama 'Shaap Mochan' in many parts of Sri Lanka, organisation of "A Retrospective of Best of South Asia" in Colombo by Film South Asia, Nepal in association with Young Asia Television, inter-university debate involving the University of Colombo and the University of Delhi, etc.
The 28th session of the Board of Directors of the India Sri Lanka Foundation (ISLF) was held in Colombo on the 28th February, 2012. The session was Co-Chaired by the High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka H. E. Ashok K. Kantha and the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in India H.E. Prasad Kariyawasam. Board members of the Foundation, Ambassador M. Rasgotra, Prof. P. V. Indiresan, Mr. Sunimal Fernando and Mr. Thirukumar Nadesan were also present.
Organization of a visit of an archeological expert from India to Sri Lanka.
Under the regular activities of the Foundation, the Board approved educational tour of 20 students from Northern Province, 12 students from Sabaragamuva, Central and Wayamba Province and 7 students from Zahira College, Colombo to India. Prof. Sudharshan Seneviratne would also deliver lectures in India under the auspices of the Annual Public Lecture Series of the ISLF. The inter-university debate would be carried out with the participation of the University of Ruhuna and the University of Mysore. 1200 educational kits will be distributed among deserving students in the Northern Province.
The Board also approved to explore the possibility of organizing exchange of visits of journalists between the two countries.
India-Sri Lanka Foundation has been successful in implementing a large number of projects due to its fast and efficient mechanism of approvals through the regular meetings of the Board of Directors. The India –Sri Lanka Foundation continues to play a catalytic role in supplementing the various initiatives by the Governments of the two countries in strengthening bilateral relationship and people to people contacts.


Police are investigating a number of incidents of criminal damage.
It happened on Tuesday evening, February 21st. and overnight into Wednesday in Thornhill, Southampton.
These included stones being thrown through windows of homes, vehicles damaged and an attempt to set a car on fire.
Police believe children from the Thornhill area are responsible.
They're now asking parents to ensure that their children are not involved in this mindless damage to your neighbours and wider community.
If you have any information about these incidents, please contact us on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


Our aim is to characterize the cellular and molecular re-organisation of the Parabrachial nucleus in a rat model of Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons localized in the substantia nigra pars compacta. This dopaminergic loss causes the dysfunction of a group of subcortical structures called the basal ganglia. PD is classically associated to motor disturbances, however, it is now recognized that this disease is also associated to numerous non-motor symptoms, including pain. This project aims to analyze new plasticity mechanisms in two rat models of Parkinson's disease, that may underlie some abnormal pain symptoms observed in PD. A first series of electrophysiological experiments performed in our team show that the parabrachial nucleus, a key structure from the brainstem processing pain information, could present a neuro-adaptation with the degree of dopaminergic lesion. It is now crucial to complete our physiological data with neuro-anatomical, cellular and molecular markers of compensatory phenomenon possibly occurring in our rat models of the disease.
These experiments will be done in three groups of rats: a control group and two groups of rats with a partial or total dopaminergic lesions of the substantia nigra pars compacta. We will analyze the morphology of the parabrachial nucleus neurons with a golgi technique and the quantity of Glutamate and GAB receptors using a technique of Western blot.


My first ever matcha, I wasn't keen but I was so excited to find matcha in Dorset!
With gorgeous decor, comfy seats and a wonderful aroma of coffee drifting throughout, this cafe really has a special buzz. I have visited countless times, and enjoyed almost the whole menu!
My absolute go to choice is the sourdough bagel with goats cheese and onion chutney, the bagels are heavenly and the flavour combination is just right! Not too light or too heavy, and the balance is just perfect! Served with a little rocket on the side, and considering I really dislike rocket, it's the nicest rocket I've ever found.
The light that pours through the front window, lifts up the whole room, with an upstairs too, there's always a space to squeeze in! They also offer savoury platters for dinner which I am yet to try, but the recently added vegan one I certainly need to try.
My parents love it in here too, so much so, for my dad's Christmas present I gave him a voucher to spend there! The staff are always so lovely and friendly, they're easy to chat to and very welcoming, however busy or quiet. The bright room is just such a lovely place to eat brunch.
The Thirsty Bird is also dog friendly, a big win in my eyes. With an optional dog pen in the corner for when your four legged friend pesters you whilst eating due to it's love of food, which I think is brilliant! Wimborne is always full of dogs, so it's lovely to see them come in and out this delightful cafe, however, don't be put off if you aren't a big fan of our four legged friends, you could opt for an upstairs table or the high-up stools where you won't be disturbed.
Not your average teapot, mug and milk!
Overall, if you are stopping off for a one time visit, get a sourdough bagel, a salted caramel brownie and a coffee to go. But if you're anything like me, you'll simply have to return to try out the rest of the menu. The Hungry Bird deli is the perfect place to buy some rather unusual ingredients whether it's for your kitchen or as a funky gift, things like their apple syrup or dark chocolate hot chocolate would do the trick perfectly! This place is without a doubt a truely amazing Dorset cafe.
Thanks for reading my #dorsetbrunchguide, if you have any other ideas for where I can visit next, or an opinion on any of the cafe's I've already tried, let me know in the comments below.


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Anger as Jean-Claude Juncker cheers Putin's poll victory
Sam Coates, Deputy Political Editor | Bruno Waterfield, Brussels
March 20 2018, 5:00pm, The Times
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, wrote a letter to the Russian leader to wish him "every success"FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The European Union's top bureaucrat has caused anger and accusations of "appeasement" by attempting to reset relations with Russia, undermining Theresa May's attempt to put pressure on Moscow.
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, has written to President Putin to congratulate him on his re-election.
"I have always argued that positive relations between the EU and Russia are crucial to the security of our continent," Mr Juncker told the Russian president. "Our objective should be to re-establish a co-operative pan-European security order. I hope that you will use your fourth term in office to pursue this goal.
"I will always be a partner in this endeavour. I wish you every success in carrying out your high responsibilities."
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The decision to rent or buy often centers on the concept of ownership. Many individuals, especially those who are entering their adult life or starting a family, consider buying a home the responsible action to take. However, making the decision to rent or buy is a financial decision, not just a personal decision. Factoring in the expense of either option, in both the short run and the long run, is essential to making the right choice.
One of the key arguments to buying over renting is building equity. When a renter makes a monthly payment, that individual is essentially paying the mortgage on a property owned by another person. The check is cut, and the renter earns the right to remain in the property for one more month. This is the only benefit from the rental amount. When a homeowner writes a mortgage check each month, that money is placed against the principal owed on the home. It is converted into home equity and can later become earnings when the home is sold. It is an investment rather than an expense. In the long run, paying down a mortgage will also lead to a life without a monthly expense for housing.
Depending on the time of a mortgage application, the credit of the applicant, the down payment available and the geographical area of a home's purchase, a mortgage can be either more or less affordable than rent. For an individual or family living in a low rent area, mortgage will almost always be costlier than rent. This expense goes up if the homeowner has low income or a low down payment. A renter currently living in a high-rent area, such as a major metropolitan area, can often save money in monthly mortgage compared to rental cost. In these zones, however, the cost of homes is often high enough to present a major barrier to entry.
The first few years a homeowner is paying a mortgage, that individual is essentially paying off some of the interest on the home. Building any significant amount of equity takes time. The longer a homeowner is in a property, the more equity accumulates, and the more the home's value should ideally rise. If a buyer expects to be in a residence at least 10 years on a 30-year mortgage, purchasing a home will almost always result in a profit. In less than five years, however, an individual may only break even or net a loss on the home's purchase, making rent a better option in most cases.
A house is, ultimately, an investment. It is a wise investment only if it outperforms other investment options. Consider evaluating current rates of return on popular mutual funds, bonds and other investments. If the money allocated toward the purchase of a home would perform far better in these markets, accounting for the cost of renting during the same period, home ownership at this time is not the best investment. Ask your financial adviser to help you with this model.


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California's On-Bill Repayment Plan for Efficiency Upgrades Hits a Snag
Lack of smooth transfer to new building owners could stymie this efficiency investment tool, backers say.
Jeff St. John September 18, 2013
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Reporter covering the green technology space, with a particular focus on smart grid, demand response, energy storage, renewable energy and technology to integrate distributed, intermittent green energy into the grid.
After nearly two years of effort, California regulators are getting ready to propose a new tool to make the return on investment in commercial building efficiency as simple as adding repayment to monthly utility bills [PDF]. But energy efficiency advocates are crying foul, saying the proposal contains recent changes that could strangle on-bill repayment (OBR) in its cradle.
The problem, according to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and others, is that the California Public Utilities Commission's proposal for an OBR pilot program requires written consent, rather than automatic transfer, of OBR agreements when properties change ownership.
That, they say, could subject OBR contracts to the same tangle of complications that encumber other property ownership-tied financing schemes and make them unattractive to lenders. EDF, which drafted the original concept, has placed the blame on California's big three investor-owned utilities, which it says have lobbied the CPUC heavily this month, right before the new language requiring written consent of transfer was added to the proposal.
"We've estimated that just in the non-residential market, over twelve years, Californians could save $37 billion" through private investment of about $5 billion that EDF believes a well-structured OBR program would facilitate, Scott Hofmeister, energy efficiency associate with EDF, said in a Tuesday interview. "This is all incremental, because of the benefits of OBR -- it provides this inherent credit enhancement," which differentiates it from other commercial building loans that aren't secured by the steady repayment stream that utility bills provide.
But "without that transferability clause, lenders are in no better position than they'd be in an unsecured position," he said. With the CPUC set to vote on the proposal this Thursday, Sept. 19, there's not much time to change the rules -- but "there's still time, we think, for them to reconsider, not just our arguments, but the arguments of the financial institutions, to get this thing right."
The Promise -- and Complications -- of Utility Bills as a Secure Repayment Stream
CPUC's proposed decision lays out the arguments for and against automatic transferability in terms of how it could be structured, starting from a proposal from consultant Harcourt, Brown & Carey (HBC). Real estate and financial experts may find the following excerpt useful:
To achieve transferability, HBC recommended adoption of an OBR tariff, but noted differing views about whether notice, or notice and consent, would be required. HBC also speculated that adoption of OBR as a tariffed service might provide the added benefit of changing the characterization of the borrower's obligation for accounting or financial reporting purposes. EDF, Renewable Funding, and APC bootstrap this latter idea into a novel theory: adoption of an OBR tariff that describes the loan as a "receipt for service," transforms the debt obligation into energy service, "not a debt of the originating customer," and is transferable without consent to successors in possession of the property.
The IOUs vigorously dispute the validity of this theory. They contend that a forced transfer and conditioning of service upon payment of a third-party loan obligation incurred by a former customer is a bad precedent and conflicts with many aspects of California law, including enforceability of contracts and collection of debts.
CPUC's proposal concludes that utility pilot projects for commercial buildings should require "utilities to develop uniform OBR tariff language that includes transferability of the obligation through written consent (and other mechanisms), and service disconnection for default on the debt obligation."
EDF's concerns about this language have been echoed by a host of commentators, including financial institutions that would come up with the cash that OBR would pay back. Steven Vierengel, a Citigroup director who's been a vocal proponent of new efficiency financing models, said at a February Citi/EDF conference that "automatic transferability without subordination will be critical to the success of an OBR program."
Businesses like SolarCity, Metrus Energy and SCIenergy that hope to use OBR as one of many efficiency financing tools to push into new markets have also weighed in on how important it will be to secure that repayment stream against foreclosures, failure to make electricity bill payments by previous owners, and other disruptions.
SolarCity, which also provides energy efficiency software to its residential solar customers, wrote in an August comment to the CPUC that adding written consent requirements "may frustrate or completely nullify the benefits of OBR or limit the applicability of any lessons learned from the pilot." Metrus Energy CEO Bob Hinkle noted in a July letter to EDF that "survivability of the OBR obligation through a foreclosure, is what separates OBR from a second lien, unsecured loan or other traditional financing products."
California, as a trendsetter in energy efficiency policy, could have an outsized impact on how on-bill financing and repayment plans take shape in other states, Hofmeister added. New Hampshire has a Department of Energy-backed program for on-bill repayment, and Hawaii and Connecticut have passed laws enabling similar programs in those states, he said -- but those markets are much smaller.
Questions over who's entitled to what kinds of legal recourse for investments made by previous owners are cropping up in other new efficiency financing models, including property-assessed clean energy (PACE) structures. Solving these questions will allow the securitization of efficiency investments to capture the proven returns that energy efficiency investments offer.


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For dedicated fans of the sport, Williams Racing will always be one of the best loved teams in Formula One.
The legendary exploits of championship-winning drivers such as Keke Rosberg, Alan Jones, Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, Alain Prost, Jacques Villeneuve and Damon Hill means that the team boasts an incredible nine constructors' titles and seven drivers' titles.
Yet that is not half of the story as to why Williams is such a great team in the hearts and minds of many. Formed way back in 1977 by the now knighted Sir Frank Williams, the team performed miracles on a shoe-string budget thanks to a combination of great leadership, great engineering (Williams having recruited talented engineer Patrick Head) and fantastic driver recruitment.
Charismatic Aussie Alan Jones won Williams the first of its titles in 1980 and six more followed, proving that a privateer team really could challenge the might of the big manufacturers and continue to dominate the sport.
Now under the guidance of Sir Frank's daughter Claire, the Williams team is targeting a return to former glories and Acronis is proud to partner one of the greatest teams in the history of the sport.
STRENGTHS: One of the best-loved teams on the grid, Williams will not be lacking in crowd power wherever it goes. In F2 champion George Russell and the fairy-tale return of Robert Kubica, Williams possesses one of the most exciting driver line-ups on the grid. Focus on the 2019 car will have started early after a disappointing 2018.
WEAKNESSES: It has been a long time now since Williams stood on the top step of the podium and the combination of the pressure of returning to former glories is palpable. Just as winning breeds confidence with Mercedes, the reverse could be the case here.
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Jankovic, Clijsters looking for mini-comebacks
Jelena Jankovic in action last week in San Diego
MASON, Ohio (AP) -- Jelena Jankovic is hoping to get tournament-tough with a long string of matches. Kim Clijsters just wants to get back into the flow.
Living up to their Cincinnati Open seeds will help both players reach their goals.
The second-ranked Jankovic is the defending champion and No. 1 seed and the seventh-ranked Clijsters is seeded fourth in the $2 million Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open, which started Monday. Jankovic is coming off a first-round loss last week in San Diego, her first match since injuring her left ankle in the second round of a tournament in Slovenia in mid-July.
"My ankle's OK,'' said Jankovic, who also had to retire from her fourth-round match at Wimbledon with lower back problems. "I've been able to practice the last couple of days. Now, it's feeling good. I'm looking forward to getting back to playing.''
The former No. 1 player, who got a first-round bye, is scheduled to play qualifier Vera Dushevina in the second round. The 71st-ranked Dushevina advanced in straight sets, beating Anastasia Rodionova 6-2, 7-6 (7) on Monday.
Ana Ivanovic lost the first set and was down 2-4 in the second before charging back to win that set in a tiebreaker and go on to upset ninth-seeded Victoria Azarenka 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2 in a grueling first-round match that lasted 2:14 on Monday night. The 62nd-ranked Ivanovic built on the momentum of winning the tiebreaker to break Azarenka's serve in the first game of the third set and never looked back, clinching the win with a successful challenge on match point.
Clijsters, the defending US Open champion, also got a first-round bye. The Belgian is scheduled to meet No. 35 Dinara Safina in a second-round rematch of last year's quarterfinal. Safina, who beat Clijsters in straight sets last year, advanced Monday with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Roberta Vinci.
Clijsters hasn't played a tournament since losing in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, settling for playing World TeamTennis and doubles.
"It's been awhile,'' she said. "I'm looking forward to playing a match. It doesn't matter who I play.''
Serena and Venus Williams both had to skip the tournament because of injuries. Serena, ranked No. 1, is out with a foot injury, while a knee problem has sidelined No. 4 Venus.
In other first-round matches on Monday, qualifier Bojana Jovanovski rallied to upset 14th-seeded Aravane Rezai 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. The first-round loss was the second straight for Rezai. The 19th-ranked Frenchwoman lost in the first round last week at San Diego.
Jovanovski, ranked 98th, will meet Akgul Amanmuradova in the second round. Amanmuradova cruised past Kimiko Date Krumm 6-1, 6-2 in a matchup of qualifiers.
Shahar Peer became the first seeded player to advance with a win when Olga Govortsova retired because of heat illness, giving the 13th seed a 6-3, 4-1 win. Peer will meet Nuria Llagostera Vives in the second round. Vives needed three sets to eliminate Vania King, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, while Sara Errani moved on with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Jamie Hampton.
Temperatures reached the mid-90s during the afternoon matches.
Sixteenth-seeded Marion Bartoli followed Peer into the second round, rolling over Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-4, 6-0. Bartoli will face Alona Bondarenko in the second round. Bondarenko came from behind for a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 win over Dominika Cibulkova.
Qualifier Monica Niculescu also won, knocking off 91st-ranked Sabine Lisicki 6-3, 6-0, while Yaroslava Shvedova defeated Alla Kudryavtseva 7-5, 6-4, qualifier Ayumi Morita knocked off Arantxa Parra Santonja 7-6 (7), 6-2, and Alisa Kleybanova beat Alexandra Dulgheru, 6-4, 6-4.


Outdoor hockey – including NHL Winter Classic – becoming all the craze. Can it last?
It started in a contradictory clime, dead bugs and all. Now, the NHL has made a cold tradition hot again with a plethora of outdoor games, starting this year with the Winter Classic between the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs.
They once played an NHL exhibition game in the parking lot at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, in what was described as shorts and T-shirt weather. The temperature on that sunny September day in 1991 was a balmy 85 degrees Fahrenheit, making the game clock a countdown for both the periods and the quickly melting ice.
Wayne Gretzky scored as the Los Angeles Kings defeated the New York Rangers 5-2. But all that anyone remembers were the insects drowning in the slush.
Since then, outdoor games have been staged in soccer stadiums and baseball diamonds, in places that make climatic sense (Alaska) and others that do not (Mexico). The 2009 Kontinental League All-Star game took place in front of Lenin's final resting place at the Red Square in Moscow, while in 2001 Michigan State and the University of Michigan played a 'Cold War' game in front of 74,544 fans at Spartan Stadium.
Fittingly, it ended in a 3-3 tie.
What started out as a gimmick in a parking lot in Las Vegas has grown into a big business. There will be six outdoor games played in the NHL this season: the Leafs and Red Wings will play Jan. 1 at Michigan Stadium, the Kings and Ducks will play Jan. 25 at Dodger Stadium, the Rangers will play the Devils Jan. 26 and the Islanders Jan. 29 at Yankee Stadium, the Blackhawks and Penguins will play at Soldier Field March 1 and the Canucks and Senators will play at BC Place on March 2.
The Winter Classic, which started as the Heritage Classic, has become the NHL's Super Bowl – a big-ticket event attracting an audience of puckheads and casual sports fans through unique jersey sales and 24/7 documentaries. There's an emotional attachment to playing in weather so cold it turns your toes numb and allows you to see your breath. It's a gimmick, sure, but it's one that has so far proven to be successful from a financial and popular level.
That was NHL chief operating officer John Collins' vision in 2007. At the time, NBC Sports had lost the rights to the Gator Bowl and was looking for something to fill the sporting void on New Year's Day. By taking hockey out of the indoor rinks and putting it back in the cold, he made it cool again.
And others have followed. Amateur tournaments are springing up from New Brunswick to New Hampshire and anywhere else where the temperature gets cold enough to freeze a body of water. There are already 225 teams registered for this year's Pond Hockey Classic in Vermont, with many more expected at the New England and Montana tournaments.
"Outdoor hockey is re-emerging on the scene," said Scott Crowder, who is the "commish" of the Pond Hockey Classic and also the son of former NHLer Bruce Crowder. "They're enjoying the game like they did as kids. Collectively, the hockey community has embraced the outdoor game again.
Two years ago, Fenway Park in Boston held seven NCAA games in eight days as part of the Frozen Fenway. Last year, the short-lived Williamsport Outlaws of the Federal Hockey League attempted to play the entire season outdoors at a ballpark in Pennsylvania while waiting for a rink to be built. But the team ceased operations before the season ended, an example of a gimmick outstaying its welcome, or what happens when fans are forced to sit in the cold too often.
That is the fear with the NHL's expanding outdoor hockey schedule. What started out as a promotional ploy is now a significant part of the NHL schedule. In other words: Have ice? Will travel. But for how long?


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Off to work they go: Students prepare for uncertain job market
By Emily Eiermann
As fresh-faced seniors step out in front of an audience of loved ones to receive their diplomas in May, they may feel anxious about their transition into the "real world." Studies suggest that this fear may not be unwarranted.
Senior English major Kevin Noon ponders his future as he consults a career guidebook.
The rate of unemployment for recent college graduates aged 24 and under has been fluctuating over the past few months, resting at 7.7 percent as of November 2011, according to the Wall Street Journal. Though the percentage is smaller than the unemployment rate of 16.7 percent for all Americans in that age group, it is significant enough to worry some people.
"I'm kind of anxious about graduating and finding a job with the economy being the way it is," senior multimedia and web design major Jackie Rodman said. "The field I want to work in is pretty competitive and I'm afraid it's going to take a while to get the type of job I want."
Rider is on par with these numbers. In a survey conducted by Career Services and the Associate President's office, 10 percent of the 2008-2010 graduates who responded are unemployed and seeking employment. Those who went on to graduate school make up 5 percent of the responses, while 14 percent are employed part-time, leaving 71 percent with full-time jobs. Only 15 percent of alumni participated in the survey.
However, there are ways to prepare for the job search before graduation. Joyce Tyler, director of Career Services, said that the key is to take advantage of the opportunities Rider students are given.
"Begin the search now for employment, before you leave," Tyler said. "I have, year after year, gotten phone calls from parents saying 'my son or daughter is not working. Why aren't they working? They went to Rider — they should have a job by now.' And we found out that in 9 out of 10 cases, that person didn't use our services. So make sure you take advantage of Career Services before you leave."
The office of Career Services offers a variety of possibilities to get a head start on job searches. Tyler encouraged students to have their résumés reviewed, take part in mock interviews and participate in events on and around campus, such as the Career Fair on March 29.
There are also networking events that take place throughout the semester, which can provide job opportunities that may otherwise be unavailable. According to the survey, networking accounted for over 35 percent of the full-time jobs graduates had secured, beaten only by online website listings.
"Rider can prepare you to a certain extent, but a lot of the job search involves networking and, unfortunately, it's sometimes really more about who you know than what you can do," Kaitlin MacRae, a 2011 journalism graduate said. "I found work about three months after I graduated in May and I worked for maybe six before I got laid off. I think Rider does do a good job of preparing its students, but the job market is so fickle and that can become overwhelming."
Dr. Larry Newman, dean of the College of Business Administration, also encouraged networking.
"I strongly urge our students to take advantage of what we have to offer at Rider," he said. "Participation in student clubs and honor societies provide our students with the opportunity to build leadership skills while networking with members of the industry."
Being able to communicate well, particularly during an interview, is also an important part of the job search, according to Tyler.
"Most people go into an interview assuming they know what to expect," she said. "We have material [at Career Services] that can give students questions to anticipate, and we can also critique the content of their answers. That way students can make their mistakes with us, rather than the people who matter."
Apart from Career Services, freshmen who haven't declared a major have a unique opportunity to explore their career options through the General Liberal Arts and Sciences Studies (GLASS) program. Through this program, first-year students are able to attend seminars that focus on career planning, visit upper-level courses in a variety of fields through the Classroom Visitation Program (CVP) and experience a broad range of classes in the department through their core curriculum.
Dean of Students Anthony Campbell emphasized starting to prepare for life after graduation early.
"Career planning for [Rider] actually starts freshman year with the learning communities and programs we have, and builds up through your curriculum to prepare you to do that job search, which is why we tell people to get involved," he said. "That's the message I'd like to get across to our students. There are lots of opportunities out there. Prepare yourself from the beginning with on-campus involvement, then do internships, co-ops, summer jobs — all those things help prepare you to enter the world of work."
While the recession the United States is undergoing can make the search for a job after graduation difficult, preparation and planning might help ease the transition.
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Q: Is momentum of a moving body a vector or a scalar quantity? Is momentum of a moving body a vector or a scalar?

A: Momentum is a vector. For example, in 3D $\mathbf{p}=(p_x,p_y,p_z)$. The magnitude of the momentum vector is a scalar: $p=|\mathbf{p}|=\sqrt{p_x^2+p_y^2+p_z^2}$.

A: Momentum is a vector quantity. For a particle with mass, the momentum equals mass times velocity, and velocity is a vector quantity while mass is a scalar quantity. A scalar multiplied by a vector is a vector. A moving body would be a particle with a mass. If the body moves through space, relative to an observer, it will have a velocity, momentum, and kinetic energy. It's velocity and momentum are vector quantities. Those quantities possess both magnitude and direction in space.

A: p = m*v    ........(1)
where
p = momentum
m = mass...(scalar quantity)
v = velocity...(vector quantity)
Any vector, multiplied by a scalar results into a vector product.     ........(2)
In equation (1), mass is scalar, whereas velocity is a vector. From the definition(2), it is clear that momentum is the product of a scalar and a vector quantity. Hence momentum is also a vector quantity.

A: I think it is a vector quantity because momentum  is the product of force with time ..... force is a vector quantity ao momentum is also a vector quantity

A: Ya the  the linear momentum of a body is the vector quantity because linear momentum =mass*velocity , here you will be thinked that the mass is a sclar quantity then how is the linear momentum is vector but here we have to use the important property of the vector i.e., WHEN WE MULTIPLY THE VECTOR QUANTITY BY THE SCLAR QUANTITY THEN  THE RESULTANT QUANTITY IS A VECTOR...!

A: momentum of a body is a vector quantity as it has both magnitude and direction and mass is a scalar quantity and velocity is a vector quantity.so scalar multiplied by vector is also a vector


Sales reports enable monitoring and comparing sales as well as product- and customer-specific key figures. The report view can be filtered and used for drilling down to day or invoice row level.
The data of the report is retrieved from sales invoices by invoice date, and the figures can be displayed with or without VAT or based on the quantities of invoiced products. Invoices are grouped into Business transactions and Other transactions according to invoice status. Sales accruals and dimension data are not included in the report.
Data can be retrieved from the current fiscal period, current year, last 6 months, last 12 months or a certain date interval by filling Start ja End dates manually or using Calendar-view.
When retrieving data within a certain date interval, always remember to click on the Select period button to activate the selection. The dates in the Time period search criteria will turn red, if you have not added a fiscal year for those dates. You can add a fiscal year in Management > Accounting info > Financial years.
You can use the Search field to search for products and customers by typing their names. In the Product, Product group, Customer, and Customer group menus, you can select multiple search criteria by clicking them individually or painting subsequent choices with the left button of your mouse.
The Sales overview report can also be displayed as a regular or cumulative comparison with the previous year.
By using the Pdf and Excel print buttons in the top right corner of the Sales reporting page, you can easily export the data to PDF or Excel format. You can use the To invoices button to drill down to the invoice row level. The list that opens can be organized by double-clicking or exported to Excel.
You can also export individual tables to Excel by clicking on the Excel button in the top right corner of the table. In individual tables, sales can be displayed and exported by product or product group or by customer or customer group.
The Clear selections button at the bottom of the report clears all selections. The Undo arrow icon clears the latest selection.
The report is updated once an hour. The latest update time is displayed in the top left corner of the report.


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Locking the computer or putting it to sleep causes the game to close. Made me lose a couple of good runs. Don't know if it happens to anyone else.
The "Reload" bar doesn't disappear after your death. Instead it stays where you took your last hit and keeps moving.
- In MP, Acrid's sludge ability causes enemies' health bars to seemingly deplete fully, but they'd still be alive. Once you hit them with the another ability, their health jumps back up to what it's supposedly intended to be.
- If time freezes as Ifrit is moving, he will just slide to the direction he was moving in as time is still frozen. He may even ignore lack of terrain as he continues sliding on air. If he's still sliding on air as the time freeze ends, he will stop sliding and remain stuck in the air; unable to move.
- If you click while the opening cut scene is playing/looping the alarm sound, the alarm will loop forever in-menu and in-game until you restart the game and skip the cut scene at the appropriate time.
This has been a bug for a while. Locking still closes the game, by the way, but not immediately. If you only lock the computer very briefly, you'll still be able to play it, but the game might briefly freeze.
Archalieus and Alucard I like this.
The first post of this thread has got you covered, try clicking a link and following the steps.
In Magma Barracks, there's a thin half-transparent yellow-ish coat just above the ground in the lower section. Is this supposed to be there?
I think that it's actually just a part of the magma sprite, because said section is fairly low and could be on magma-surface-level, but because there's ground and not lava, the actual lava is absent and you see just the "hot air" above it.
Game still responds to cursor movement when not in focus.
If I pause the game during play (bringing up the pause menu with Resume/Options/etc.) then alt tab to another window, I can hear the sound triggered by the cursor hovering over the menu items, even though the window is in the background. This is unfortunately very annoying when I want to pause the game and leave my progress in the background, as the sound will constantly play while I'm using the mouse.
Bonus related request: it would be great if the game (in single-player mode) would auto pause when focus is lost, and resume when focus is restored (i.e. no pause menu displayed).
Edit: actually I'm going to throw something else in here too: it's kind of ridiculous that we can't copy/paste IPs when trying to host/join a multiplayer session. And to make matters worse, when I was typing one in and alt-tabbed to check the rest of the IP, the tab press (I think) cleared the field, so I am forced to memorise the entire thing and type it all in one go.
I can hear the sound triggered by the cursor hovering over the menu items, even though the window is in the background.
I can attest to that, if only to confirm that it's not just one machine.
I think pretty much everyone can. I've noticed this on at least 4 pcs already.


Welcome to our classroom! We will have students from Grades 2-5 this year. I am looking forward to a very successful and fun-filled school year filled with learning and laughter.
I am excited to be teaching my first full year in the classroom! My background has been diverse and my heart has lead me back to teaching. After earning my Bachelor's degree from Lake Erie College in Business Administration, I ran several gymnastics facilities, which included teaching, training and managing staff. I then worked for 8 years at Auburn Career Center as their Assistant Treasurer. I missed working with students on a daily basis and earned my teaching credentials from Notre Dame College.
In my spare time, I love playing softball and bowling. You can also find me in the garage building things out of wood. I love my cat and dog, but am scared of snakes. :) My family and friends have supported me through the path of becoming a teacher and look forward to making a positive impact on each and every child.


Birthday's can be so fun sometimes! I hope that the recipient that got this card had a wonderful one!
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CARES funds sought to digitize public records
Al Lawrence
MANSFIELD - The Richland County commissioners received another request Thursday to use CARES Act coronavirus relief funds to computerize more public records. Clerk of Courts Lin Frary said she would like to put 252 indexes, appearance dockets and journals from 1900 through 1996 into digital form so everything is in one place and easier for her employees and the public to access.
Frary told the board her office gets many records requests about relatives that require employees to search books to find the information in order to comply with the public records request, which is time-consuming. She would like to start putting the old records on a variation of the Kofile system that County Recorder Sarah Davis recently contracted for so the public can access the records through a name search and can ask the office to provide copies.
"It's going to allow us to gain time, and we will be less exposed to COVID." Frary said. "The public doesn't have to come here. We won't have to get some of our records out of the People's Building, which means we don't have staff going between two buildings, further reducing our exposure and people can access these records 365 days a year."
Although the board agreed to use CARES funds to pay for Davis' digitizing project, Commissioner Tony Vero questioned whether the federal dollars could be used for Frary's proposal. The main concern was whether the work could be completed by the Dec. 30 federal deadline.
Frary said 85 percent of the project is scanning the documents, which can be done by the end of the year. The rest of the work is enhancing the scanned items, which should be finished by mid-to-late January.
Vero wants the county prosecutor's office to review the proposal, as well as an earlier two-year contract to provide mobile hot spot service to schools, because state and federal officials continue to change COVID relief regulations and guidelines. He also said he has received comments from people who felt the recorder's project is a waste of taxpayer's money. "That indicates to me that the public may not realize how great of a long term project it (digitizing) is for the county," he added.
Frary pointed out that it is very difficult to get public funding for this type of project because the public doesn't support the use of taxpayer's dollars on records from the 1800s. "One of my main statutory duties is I am the keeper of the records, and I am to preserve the records for future generations," she said.
Frary told the board she has $100,000 in her department's computerization fund if COVID dollars cannot be used. Commissioner Marilyn John pointed out they also set aside $250,000 at the end of 2019 for computerization projects in several other offices.
Another concern John has heard from the public is whether enough of the COVID relief funds have been designated to help small businesses and nonprofit organizations. She said she still is working with the Richland Area Chamber on a grant program for nonprofits and possibly a second round of grants for small businesses.
Commissioners have about $3 million remaining from a $7 million COVID relief allocation to spend on eligible projects before the federal deadline.
Commissioners approved several other COVID-related expenses on Thursday, including $10,425 for four backpacks and seven handheld electrostatic cleaning sprayers to reduce expenses and allow sanitizing to be done in several new areas including jail restrooms, Dayspring, juvenile detention and the Community Alternative Center. They also agreed to spend $10,500 on stainless steel panels in the jail restroom to replace failing panels and make sanitizing easier.
In other business, the three-member board agreed to spend $44,464 with Schmidt Securities to replace a 1970s fire suppression control panel at the People's Building that is failing and will not accommodate the current 911 remodeling. Commissioners also approved a one-year contract with Ritter's Office Outfitters to supply copy paper for county offices at a cost of $30,719.


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Electrified Norway (NOR)
How hydropower generates electricity for electric driving and the world's first fully electric car ferry.
An oil museum? It exists in Norway's Stavanger. State oil company Statoil co-funds the museum, and it shows. Much attention is paid to the prosperity that oil has brought the Norwegians. It even made Norway one of the richest countries in the world. Until this day a third of the state's income still derives from oil revenues and the sector creates thousands of jobs.
The downside of oil is also getting attention in the museum. Information about accidents, drilling in sensitive areas and pollution somewhat nuances the image of the black gold. At the exit of the museum visitors are asked to make a choice: should we give priority to ecological considerations or prosperity? But is it really one or the other? Aren't we being offered a false choice?
Hidden Hydropower
We decide to find out if we can find alternatives to oil in Norway. As we sail into the Lysefjord, sparkling waterfalls and rock formations of a thousand meters high on both sides of the narrow fjord create a breath-taking panorama. We feel tiny in our sailboat. Besides a small settlement at the end of the thirty kilometres deep fjord, there is only one place to moor: Flørli. An industrial building stands out: once an old hydroelectric power station, now a museum on hydropower.
We learn that 98% of the Norwegian electricity production is renewable, a world record. The main source behind this remarkable succes is hydropower. Yet we have only seen very little hydropower infrastructure and this one was taken out of service. So how do they do it? "Many plants have been built in the rock," the museum director explains. "That is also the case for the new power plant that has replaced this old one here in Flørli." The iconic fjords therefore remain relatively unaffected, while enough electricity is generated to provide almost all Norwegians with renewable energy.
View on Stavanger from the oil museum
View from Preikestolen on Lysefjord
Sailing in the Lysefjord
Lucipara 2 in the Lysefjord
Flørli old hydropower station
Turbine in Flørli old hydropower station
The new hydropower plant at Flørli is completely built into the mountain
Optimal Use of Natural Conditions
After World War II Norway intensified the construction of hydroelectric plants. The regulations for conservation lagged behind, sometimes resulting in dry riverbeds. By applying environmental considerations and stricter rules, nowadays the natural watercourse is affected as little as possible. Fish ladders ensure that fish can reach spawning grounds. It makes this form of renewable energy truly green.
Hydropower supplies a relatively constant flow of energy, so how do the Norwegians deal with peaks in their electricity demand? Rainwater and melt water from glaciers is gathered in mountain lakes. The water is led through tunnels to the reservoirs of the hydroelectric plants. These reservoirs play a key role in water management, drought or impending floods. If necessary, they release more or less water to the plants.
The reservoirs also ensure that Norwegians have access to sufficient, cheap, renewable electricity at any time of the day. This is often used for cooking and heating. And increasingly also to charge cars, because Norway is the world champion in electric cars. A quarter of the new cars sold runs on electricity. And it shows.
Electric Cars Everywhere
From Larvik we take a direct train to Oslo, Norway's capital. As we paddle through the city on rental bikes, we see quite a few electric cars on the streets. They are easily recognizable with their licence plates starting with "EL". All major car manufacturers have a hybrid or fully electric version on the market here. We come across a parking place that is filled with them. Just as we wonder why, we notice a sign stating that electric cars can park for free.
Our research continues in Bergen, where we are moored in the tourist centre: Bryggen. Once we get off the boat, one electric car after another whizzes by. Electric cars are clearly very popular, not only because of the environmental benefits. The Norwegians have a policy that favours electric driving. We learn that tax exemptions and rebates on toll roads also make it financially attractive. In addition to free parking, electric cars may use bus and car pool lanes.
Lucipara 2 next to Kon-Tiki in Larvik
Free parking for electric cars in Oslo
Lucipara 2 in Bergen
Most car brands have electric models in the Norwegian market
We also want to give it a try! We look for a way to get an electric car. That's easier said than done. It seems impossible to rent one. Maybe we can arrange a test drive? We ask various dealers and, indeed, many invite us to drive their cars. However, just for an hour and under supervision. That won't get us to our intended destination: the world's first electric car ferry "Ampere". After a few calls to the Tesla customer service in which we explain our mission, they generously offer us a Tesla Model S for the weekend. On to the Sognefjord, where the "Ampere" operates!
Silently Along the Fjords
After a brief explanation of the Tesla, we silently drive through Norway's spectacular landscape. The powerful electric engine and the beautiful design of the car impress us. The technical gadgets keep us entertained, too. The car can drive autonomously between the white lines and we can listen to Spotify music via the Internet.
At some point during our trip, we are puzzled when the on-board computer predicts a higher load status at our destination than we currently have. We still have to drive twenty kilometres! Our amazement turns into admiration when the road starts to descend considerably, allowing the batteries to be recharged. The predicted load status on arrival turns out to be exactly right.
At the Tesla dealer
Tesla supercharging
Supercharging with 90,000 Watt!
Charging with a view
Charging while shopping
Electric cars have been through an enormous development. Charging can be done ever faster and at more and more locations. The range per battery charge has risen sharply. And the vehicles are becoming more affordable. Fossil fuel is not needed, which saves a lot of money and has considerable environmental benefits. And they do not emit carbon dioxide, provided they are charged with renewable electricity, of course.
At the same time owning an electric car privately can't be the only solution to sustainability challenges in transportation. For the production of an electric car and its batteries, scarce resources are needed. And all cars emit unhealthy particulates in the air, due to brake and tire wear. If we are to make a substantial difference, we should drive less, should make more use of public transport or bicycles, and should share cars more often. The electric version that is, of course.
The World's First Fully Electric Car Ferry
When we arrive at Lavik to cross the Sognefjord, we see a ferry coming in the distance. The connection to Ytre Oppedal is part of the highway along the Norwegian west coast. The "Ampere" has replaced an older ferry that used around one million litres of diesel per year, emitting approximately 570 tons of CO2 and 15 tons of NO2. The Ampere is the first fully electric car ferry, operated by ferry company Norled. It was made by Siemens and the Norwegian shipbuilder Fjellstrand. With its eighty meters it can carry 120 cars and 360 passengers.
Even before the ramp goes down and the traffic drives off, the Ampere is connected to the on-shore charger. On both sides of the fjord the ferry can recharge, which takes about ten minutes. Once on board, we relax and enjoy the view over the fjord. We breathe the fresh, clean air while the Ampere moves quietly forward.
The world's first fully electric car ferry "Ampere" in Sognefjord, Norway
With the Tesla on Ampere!
Sustainable Prosperity: a Matter of Choice
In Norway, the electric revolution seems unstoppable. The energy is almost fully sustainable, due to investments in hydropower. The country makes clever use of the natural conditions. It encourages electric transportation. Partly paid for with oil revenues, but that is a conscious political choice for sustainability. The policy measures stimulate innovation and facilitate the transition to all fossil-free transportation.
Renewable energy can ensure that prosperity and sustainability go hand in hand. It creates a type of prosperity that is based on a future-proof resource instead of a finite one. This prosperity is also based on wellbeing, because we keep our planet liveable. So it is indeed very appropriate that oil in Norway has already become a museum piece.
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Solar Boat (GRC)
Has the future of motor boating arrived? After meeting both a prototype and a commercial solar boat we surely think so!
Fair Transport (PRT)
In Porto we moor next to Fair Transport's sailing cargo vessel Tres Hombres. Their mission: to promote emission-free transport and to minimize transport.
Cycling in Amsterdam (NLD)
How cycling benefits your health, finances, air quality, and the environment.


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Dar es Salaam landscape is going change for the better in the coming months as the city adds another landmark project to its rapidly changing face.
According to sources, Dar es Salaam will have a new multi-billion shilling by-pass - the Selander Bridge - within three years. The project to build the USD 126.26 million (over Sh284 billion) bridge - that will start all the way from Barack Obama Drive to connect the Aga Khan Hospital and Coco Beach at the junctions of Kenyatta and Toure roads - was officially signed off between the Tanzania Roads Agency (Tanroads) and GS Construction Company of South Korea.
Several projects are currently at different stages of implementation as the Tanzanian government races to curb traffic congestion on Dar es Salaam's roads, a move that would save the economy from a Sh4 billion loss daily. This includes the signing of an MoU between the governments of Tanzania and South Korea for the construction of a U.S.$126.26 million Selander bridge.
Tthe construction of the Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit was pushed due to a study which revealed that the economy had been losing Sh4 billion every day from traffic jams in the Tanzania's largest commercial city. This does not even include the fact that workers spend hours on their way to workplaces (lost man hours) while environmental pollution has also been a major reason not to mention health concerns generated by the subsequent pollution.
Similar projects also include the USD 45 million Tazara flyover which is fully-funded by Japan via Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) and is projected to be completed by October, 2018 and the construction of the Sh177.4 billion three-storey Ubungo interchange undertaken by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC).
Ubungo is one of the city's busiest locations with more than 65,000 vehicles using the route daily.
Including the previously sanctioned $135 million (Sh290 billion) Kigamboni Bridge, the Tanzanian government is also on various stages of the wider plan to build seven new flyovers in Dar es Salaam. The junctions of Chang'ombe, Uhasibu, Kamata, Morocco, Mwenge, Magomeni and Tabata are also being developed.
South Korean Premier Mr Lee Nak-yeon and his Tanzanian counterpart witnessed the signing of contract between Tanroad and GS Construction Company. The South Korean government through Exim Bank has extended help to Tanzania offering soft loans for construction of the Mwanza-based three kilometre Kigongo-Busisi Bridge.


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Elizabeth woke abruptly, sweat pooling at her brow. Her dreams only grew to levels this vivid when their reality was imminent.
Beside her, Connor lay snoring, undisturbed. He had never, not in the nearly twenty-five years they'd been married, had trouble sleeping through his wife's episodes. She could wake screaming at the top of her lungs and he would continue on in uninterrupted, restful bliss.
As a seer, Elizabeth often saw glimpses of the future. When awake, her visions were unreliable; she was only given snippets, and much of what she saw was open to interpretation. When dreaming, however, they were painfully lucid. She could see the future in all its terror or glory, and there was no filter to help ease the burden.
Of course, as a Deschanel, this ability was not wholly unique. Her relatives were healers, empaths, and other powerfully "gifted" individuals. But the rest of them experienced things in the now. They lay their hands on someone sick and that person was healed. They sensed disquiet in another and helped soothe it. Elizabeth only ever saw what was to come. And if it came to her in a dream, it always, without fail, came to pass.
She glanced at the clock: two in the morning. Connor would be waking in a few hours to head in to the law firm. Tristan, her son, would be dead to the world until lunchtime.
Though Tristan did not figure into her dream—thank God, she could not lose another child to this wretched Curse—she still had a pressing urge to check on him. Since he was born, nearly twenty-one years ago to the day, she always feared he would stop breathing in his sleep. Some nights, even now, she sat at his bedside and watched his chest rise and fall. She'd done the same thing for Danielle too, but now Danielle was gone.
This was the life Elizabeth Sullivan led day in and day out: one of fear. Fear the Deschanel Curse would continue to strike those she loved. Terror it might take Tristan, as it had Danielle.
Tristan lay askew in his old childhood bed, long legs dangling out from the side of his sheets. Elizabeth released the sigh she'd been holding in, and sat quietly on the pine chest beside his bed. Once filled with toys and plush friends, now it lay stuffed with forgotten sports gear and a messy stack of dog-eared video game magazines.
He wasn't in the vision. He was safe, she kept telling herself. But years later, she was still unable to get the sight of her only daughter, lying broken in the street, out of her head. Eyes open, closed, it did not matter. That image was burned in her heart and mind for all of time. It was a wound that would never heal, and a grief she would never recover from.
Though Tristan was safe (for now), there were others in the family, people she loved, who were not. Nieces and nephews she watched grow up. Children who never would.
And there was nothing—not one thing—Elizabeth could do to stop it. It was going to happen. The only unknown was when.


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namespace Azure.ResourceManager.Sql.Models
{
    /// <summary> Contains information about a database Threat Detection policy. </summary>
    public partial class DatabaseSecurityAlertPolicy : Resource
    {
        /// <summary> Initializes a new instance of DatabaseSecurityAlertPolicy. </summary>
        public DatabaseSecurityAlertPolicy()
        {
        }

        /// <summary> Initializes a new instance of DatabaseSecurityAlertPolicy. </summary>
        /// <param name="id"> Resource ID. </param>
        /// <param name="name"> Resource name. </param>
        /// <param name="type"> Resource type. </param>
        /// <param name="location"> The geo-location where the resource lives. </param>
        /// <param name="kind"> Resource kind. </param>
        /// <param name="state"> Specifies the state of the policy. If state is Enabled, storageEndpoint and storageAccountAccessKey are required. </param>
        /// <param name="disabledAlerts"> Specifies the semicolon-separated list of alerts that are disabled, or empty string to disable no alerts. Possible values: Sql_Injection; Sql_Injection_Vulnerability; Access_Anomaly; Data_Exfiltration; Unsafe_Action. </param>
        /// <param name="emailAddresses"> Specifies the semicolon-separated list of e-mail addresses to which the alert is sent. </param>
        /// <param name="emailAccountAdmins"> Specifies that the alert is sent to the account administrators. </param>
        /// <param name="storageEndpoint"> Specifies the blob storage endpoint (e.g. https://MyAccount.blob.core.windows.net). This blob storage will hold all Threat Detection audit logs. If state is Enabled, storageEndpoint is required. </param>
        /// <param name="storageAccountAccessKey"> Specifies the identifier key of the Threat Detection audit storage account. If state is Enabled, storageAccountAccessKey is required. </param>
        /// <param name="retentionDays"> Specifies the number of days to keep in the Threat Detection audit logs. </param>
        /// <param name="useServerDefault"> Specifies whether to use the default server policy. </param>
        internal DatabaseSecurityAlertPolicy(string id, string name, string type, string location, string kind, SecurityAlertPolicyState? state, string disabledAlerts, string emailAddresses, SecurityAlertPolicyEmailAccountAdmins? emailAccountAdmins, string storageEndpoint, string storageAccountAccessKey, int? retentionDays, SecurityAlertPolicyUseServerDefault? useServerDefault) : base(id, name, type)
        {
            Location = location;
            Kind = kind;
            State = state;
            DisabledAlerts = disabledAlerts;
            EmailAddresses = emailAddresses;
            EmailAccountAdmins = emailAccountAdmins;
            StorageEndpoint = storageEndpoint;
            StorageAccountAccessKey = storageAccountAccessKey;
            RetentionDays = retentionDays;
            UseServerDefault = useServerDefault;
        }

        /// <summary> The geo-location where the resource lives. </summary>
        public string Location { get; set; }
        /// <summary> Resource kind. </summary>
        public string Kind { get; }
        /// <summary> Specifies the state of the policy. If state is Enabled, storageEndpoint and storageAccountAccessKey are required. </summary>
        public SecurityAlertPolicyState? State { get; set; }
        /// <summary> Specifies the semicolon-separated list of alerts that are disabled, or empty string to disable no alerts. Possible values: Sql_Injection; Sql_Injection_Vulnerability; Access_Anomaly; Data_Exfiltration; Unsafe_Action. </summary>
        public string DisabledAlerts { get; set; }
        /// <summary> Specifies the semicolon-separated list of e-mail addresses to which the alert is sent. </summary>
        public string EmailAddresses { get; set; }
        /// <summary> Specifies that the alert is sent to the account administrators. </summary>
        public SecurityAlertPolicyEmailAccountAdmins? EmailAccountAdmins { get; set; }
        /// <summary> Specifies the blob storage endpoint (e.g. https://MyAccount.blob.core.windows.net). This blob storage will hold all Threat Detection audit logs. If state is Enabled, storageEndpoint is required. </summary>
        public string StorageEndpoint { get; set; }
        /// <summary> Specifies the identifier key of the Threat Detection audit storage account. If state is Enabled, storageAccountAccessKey is required. </summary>
        public string StorageAccountAccessKey { get; set; }
        /// <summary> Specifies the number of days to keep in the Threat Detection audit logs. </summary>
        public int? RetentionDays { get; set; }
        /// <summary> Specifies whether to use the default server policy. </summary>
        public SecurityAlertPolicyUseServerDefault? UseServerDefault { get; set; }
    }
}


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THESIS ON THE SHADOW LINES BY AMITAV GHOSH
The narrative of The Shadow Lines is not a very easy one considering it is a form of mnemonic text. Later, many writers evolved creating a genuine work of art, voicing their opinions, expressing their ethos and sensibility. The story branches out to discuss other characters and their relation. The question of national identity becomes the question of the personal identiy. This paper, therefore, aims to explore the overall structure of the novel through postcolonial approach and provides examples from the novel regarding the application of some postcolonial elements such as identity crisis and otherness. The border between India and East Bengal, for example, is not how it is marked in different colors in the school books.
This paper, therefore, aims to explore the overall structure of the novel through postcolonial approach and provides examples from the novel regarding the application of some postcolonial elements such as identity crisis and otherness. The narrator admits that Tridib has given him a novel way of discovering the world—not only by experiencing with senses but with the precise use of imagination as well. I end my paper with a 4 th Section that offers how " The theme of Partition " is been shown by Amitav Ghosh in his Novel, through situations, incidents, facts, characters, lines and Conclude with a 5 th Section that discusses what Partition is really about: The Indian English literature cannot be restricted to particular age or century. The heirs of the family are Jatin, an economist with UN, Robi, a civil servant and Tridib the only son who is not successful. Either in songs, stories, in memories and in monuments; Or, in various symbols, occasions and rituals, it still alive. He was awarded the Padmashri, one of the most prestigious Indian awards in January
The question of national identity becomes the question of the personal identiy. The writers were devoted to the ideals of justice and made a marking distinction in literature. And since multiple points of pasts are being talked about and one memory may sjadow to other memories of events that took place before or after, readers only find glimpses of several pasts as they page through, collecting broken images and stringing them together to have a comprehensive view.
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But even within this feature, do we witness an exclusive technique by different authors or do we find certain stock formula? The story begins with the eight-year-old narrator talking of how his grandmother values time and how she hates people who waste time.
People, in other words, gyosh shown to be products of thee specific temporal and social environment. On the contrary, the photographs she showed to the narrator always had the pictures of her classmates and not her. This is, at times, very confusing, since the narrative meanders back and forth and back again, and it is readers who have to gather the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together until the last page of the novel.
Youth and Crisis, he says that identity crisis can be varied to person-to-person. It is the story of a Bengali family.
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But apart from this general classification, we find that writers all over the world have a certain sense of similarity. Remember me on this computer. Ila is the niece of Tridib whose identity is caught between the enticement of the foreign culture and the innate Indianness. My focus in this article is on the possible relations between postsecularism and postcolonialism.
Agency and deliberation, in a way, are reduced to a minimum. Politik – Internationale Politik – Thema: Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Abhishek Majumdar. Thaama prepares to visit Dhaka and bring back her old uncle Jethmoshi; she gets the revelation that Dhaka is no longer a part of India but comes under newly formed country Bangladesh, after the partition of Bengal.
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The 3 rd Section, here I point out 'Partition history' a bit. Either in songs, stories, And it is shown how the imagination of ideas of a nation is at odds with the ideas used for bureaucratic and diplomatic purposes. Post-colonialism is an umbrella term, which covers a large variety of topics.
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This paper, therefore, aims to explore the overall structure of the novel through postcolonial approach and provides examples from the novel regarding the application of some postcolonial elements such as identity crisis and otherness.
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Gosh
May concludes that it is for her sake that Tridib sacrificed his life, protecting her from the violent mob. Thamma condemns narrator for spending time with Tridib.
She narrates everything that happened in the mean time to the narrator.
This paper deals with how Indian nationalism and sense of nationhood has interchangeably been positioned as both an enabling and a disempowering discourse. Log In Sign Up. English writing in India had a drastic change after independence with vast ideas exploring the talents of Indian writers.
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This parallel growth in different points of history takes an obsessive form when the narrator tries to have sex with the same girl, May Price, with whom Tridib was supposed to be in love. Liens literature finds its base on writings by the authors or citizens who have immigrated to new lands. Throughout the novel, the writer explicitly traces the postcolonial principles to show his interest amiav depicting the aftermath of colonization especially in an era after the emancipation.
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Cuba's Fidel Castro makes rare public appearance
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 89, made a rare appearance outside his home on Thursday, visiting a school to mark the birthday of a late revolutionary heroine.
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 89, made a rare appearance outside his home on Thursday, visiting a school to mark the birthday of a late revolutionary heroine days after penning a scornful critique of U.S. President Barack Obama's recent visit.
State television broadcast images of the gray-bearded Castro sitting at a desk and conversing with students and teachers at the school, named after Vilma Espin, who was his sister-in-law and died in 2007 at age 77.
"I'm sure that on a day like today, Vilma would be happy," said the leader of Cuba's 1959 revolution. Espin left a comfortable life to fight alongside Castro against the U.S.-backed government of Fulgencio Batista and later married his brother Raul, the current Cuban president.
"Everybody who dies fighting for the revolution leaves their energy on the way, they leave their effort and struggle," said a slightly hoarse Castro, dressed in a white sports jacket. His 90th birthday is in August.
Castro handed over power to his younger brother in 2008 after a serious illness. His appearance came a week after he penned a scathing editorial about Obama's recent historic visit to Cuba.
Castro did not meet Obama, although he often appears in photographs meeting foreign dignitaries at his home. State television last showed him in public visiting Defense Ministry workers in July.
Next week, the Cuban Communist Party that Castro founded and led until eight years ago is scheduled to hold a congress organized no more than every five years to define the country's economic path and shore up the political power of its leaders.
Cubans are eager to find out if the congress will give clues to who will lead the country's only political party after Raul Castro retires from the presidency, something he has said will happen in 2018.
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PUSHING PAST OURSELVES
Jeanine Durning's To Being
By Jaime Shearn Coan
I walked out of To Being feeling vulnerable to the world. Ejected from the bright white room into the unfamiliar streets of Long Island City, into a night balanced at the meeting point of two seasons, I found myself wondering how I was going to write about this. The whole performance was improvised, nonstop, and I had taken no notes. I felt lonely, let loose too soon.
WHAT DANCE CAN BE
Mariana Valencia's So Far So Much
By Cassie Peterson
In early September, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory curated a night of experimental dance at the Center for Performance Research (CPR) called Not Not Back-To-School. Part of the evening featured seasoned choreographer and performer Mariana Valencia and her newest work, So Far So Much, a self-described "ethnographic experiment." As part of a Travel and Study grant from the Jerome Foundation, Valencia spent this past summer in Mexico City immersed in the cumbia sonidera subcultural street-dancing tradition.
TREE OF CODES
An Art/Sound Environment with Fleeting Bodies
"On the brink of the end of paper, I was attracted to the idea of a book that can't forget it has a body," Jonathan Safran Foer said in a New York Times interview about his art book, Tree of Codes, the inspiration for the dance theater collaboration recently presented at the Park Avenue Armory. Foer's book reduces and remakes Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles (Tree of Codes is a trimmed version of the title) by literally excising words, leaving gaps, and transforming the text's meaning.
URGENT TOMORROWS
By Tara Aisha Willis
Performer, choreographer, and scholar Thomas F. DeFrantz and dance artist niv Acosta have co-curated a weekend of performances, screenings, discussions, a dance party, and even a brunch, around the themes of "Afrofuturism and utopian/dystopian visions of a queer Black tomorrow" at JACK in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The series, titled "afroFUTUREqu##r"and produced by Shireen Dickson, includes performances by Grisha Coleman, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Niall Jones, Eto Otitigbe, Brother(hood) Dance!, Christina Blue & Adam Boothman, and others—including the curators themselves. Before the festival, Tara Aisha Willis spent some time chatting with DeFrantz and Acosta about their curatorial process, their take on queer Afrofuturism, and the potency of performance.
Dance is supported by Jane & David Walentas.
PUSHING PAST OURSELVES Jeanine Durning's To Being
WHAT DANCE CAN BE Mariana Valencia's So Far So Much
TREE OF CODES An Art/Sound Environment with Fleeting Bodies