Kano Murasaki is more commonly known by her nickname, Risuko – Squirrel. Such is her aptitude for climbing her mother gave her the name and it stuck. She lives in Japan in 1570, a period of Civil War in the country.
During one of Risuko's many climbing expeditions she is met by an older lady in a palanquin, along with her entourage. She tells Risuko that her mother has sold her, and consequently Risuko's life changes dramatically.
Ok, so I have mixed feelings on this book. I really loved the Japanese setting, the cultural and historical aspects of the novel. What I was less keen on was the pace of the actual story itself. I wasn't swept up in it – I wanted more action, particularly on Risuko's part. Instead, I felt like this book was more of a scene-setting story, a prelude to future books where, I assume, we will see more action.
As for the characters themselves, I really didn't feel very connected to them. I didn't care enough about them. There are many characters in this novel and while I obviously have some I preferred to others, I really wish there had been more substance to the characters on the whole. Just a personal opinion.
The story is told through the eyes of Risuko. Consequently, we see things as she does – which can be amusing at times. She's a young, naive girl and so while she may not realise what's going on around her, we (well I, as an older reader), see what she's missing.
I believe this novel is aimed at the Young Adult audience, however at times it read (to me) slightly more Middle Grade. That said, some of the implications and suggestions in this book are definitely more YA appropriate.
Honestly, I did enjoy this novel. I enjoyed the mystery aspect of it as well as the historical setting. However, I think I went in expecting more but that's my own fault entirely.
I feel that this series is nicely poised for the second book and that perhaps book 2 will fulfil more of what I'd hoped for book 1 – action, heroism, self-discovery. I will pick up the next book to see where the series goes – it has so much potential.


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Hauteville House is bequeathed to the City of Paris
Was Victor Hugo really exiled from France, or just on the run from Napoleon?
Hugo was elected to the French National Assembly in 1848, just three years before Napoleon III siezed power. Napoleon dissolved the Assembly and Hugo declared him a traitor. The writer then fled to Guernsey, by way of Jersey, and set up home at Hauteville House in St Peter Port. He lived there for 15 years and wrote some of his most renowned works on the island, including Les Miserables and Toilers of the Sea.
Whatever his reason for fleeing the country, Hugo was eventually forgiven. He returned to France after Napoleon's death. By the time of his own death, he was so renowned that he was awarded a state funeral, and more than two million people joined his funeral procession. He is now buried among the great and the good of France, in the Pantheon.
A Victor Hugo museum
Unsurprisingly, France wanted to preserve many artefacts from his life, including his homes in both Paris and Guernsey. The City of Paris applied to the Guernsey Royal Court for permission to acquire Hauteville House and preserve it in his memory. The Royal Court granted permission in May 1927.
The house, including its art and many of Hugo's personal belongings, had until then been the property of his heirs. They could not sell it (or even give it) to a non-Briton without permission from the Lieutenant Governor.
Paris's application to acquire it had been made by Baron de Coudenhove, an agent for the French consulate. The consulate itself had plans to turn the house into a museum. The Lieutenant Governor raised no objections, thus allowing the donation from Hugo's family to go ahead.
The museum finally opened to the public on 14 June 1927. It is still a major tourist attraction today, and there are often queues of visitors at its door.
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Centre for Disability Research CeDR
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Centre for Science Studies
Centre for the Study of Environmental Change
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Corrigendum to 'Recalcitrance, compliance and the presentation of self: Exploring the concept of organizational misbehavior in an English local authority child protection service' [Children and Youth Services Review, August 2017, Vol. 79, 612-619] (S0190740917303353) (10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.07.016))
Leigh, J., 10/2017, In : Children and Youth Services Review. 81, p. 422 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
Machine learners: archaeology of a data practice
MacKenzie, A. B., 10/2017, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 280 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Drones Caught in the Net
Fish, A. R., Garrett, B. L. & Case, O., 13/09/2017, In : Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Images Studies. 8
Does the Month of Birth Affect Educational and Health Outcomes? A Population-Based Analysis Using the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study
Doebler, S., Shuttleworth, I. & Gould, M., 12/09/2017, In : The Economic and Social Review. 48, 3, p. 281-304 24 p.
Utopias of fast and slow cycling
Popan, C., 8/09/2017.
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
Adopting neuroscience: parenting and affective indeterminacy
MacKenzie, A. B. & Roberts, C. M., 1/09/2017, In : Body and Society. 23, 3, p. 130-155 26 p.
Behold the monster: Mythical explanations of deviance and evil in news of the Amish school shooting
Gutsche Jr, R. & Salkin, E., 1/09/2017, In : Journalism. 18, 8, p. 994-1010 17 p.
Have we seen the geneticisation of society? Expectations and evidence
Weiner, K., Martin, P., Richards, M. & Tutton, R., 1/09/2017, In : Sociology of Health and Illness. 39, 7, p. 989-1004 16 p.
Il crepuscolo delle promesse: Note sull'economia politica della gratuità
Coin, F., 1/09/2017, In : Inchiesta. 197, p. 67-69 3 p.
Indeterminacy and More-Than-Human Bodies: sites of experiment for doing politics differently
Waterton, C. F. J., 1/09/2017, In : Body and Society. 23, 3, p. 102-129 27 p.
Indeterminate Bodies
Waterton, C. F. J. (Guest ed.) & Yusoff, K. (Guest ed.), 1/09/2017, In : Body and Society. 23, 3, p. 1-180 180 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
Introduction to futures in question: theories, methods, practices
Coleman, R. & Tutton, R. J. C., 1/09/2017, In : The Sociological Review. 65, 3, p. 440-447 8 p.
Money, Religion and Symbolic Exchange in Winter Sleep
Diken, B., 1/09/2017, In : Religion and Society: Advances in Research. 8, 1, p. 94-108 15 p.
Portraying Poverty: The economics and ethics of factual welfare television
De Benedictis, S., Allen, K. & Jensen, T. L., 1/09/2017, In : Cultural Sociology. 11, 3, p. 337-358 22 p.
The inclusion of people with hepatitis C within disability studies
Mack, H. & Paylor, I., 1/09/2017, In : Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 19, 1, p. 18-33 16 p.
Wicked futures: meaning, matter and the sociology of the future
Tutton, R. J. C., 1/09/2017, In : The Sociological Review. 65, 3, p. 478-492 15 p.
"Tell me what they do to my body": A survey to find out what information people with learning disabilities want with their medications
Fish, R., Hatton, C. & Chauhan, U., 09/2017, In : British Journal of Learning Disabilities. 45, 3, p. 217-225 9 p.
Indeterminate Bodies: Introduction
Waterton, C. F. J. & Yusoff, K., 09/2017, In : Body and Society. 23, 3, p. 3-22 20 p.
On Quitting
Coin, F., 30/08/2017, In : Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization. 17, 3, p. 235-249 15 p.
From Karl Marx to Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser
Jessop, B. & Sum, N-L., 22/08/2017, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics. Wodak, R. & Forchtner, B. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 30-42 13 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter
Intersecting Intelligence: An Exploration of Big Data Disruptions
Kerasidou, C. X., Buscher, M. & Petersen, K. G., 21/08/2017, Big Data, Surveillance and Crisis Management: The Dark Side of Big Data. Boersma, K. & Fonio, C. (eds.). London: Routledge
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
The Sociology of Consumption
Blue, S. J., 21/08/2017, The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology: Volume 2: Specialty and Interdisciplinary Studies. Korgen, K. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 265-274 10 p.
From Revolting Subjects to Stigma Machines
Tyler, I. E., 10/08/2017
Bourdieu: ally or foe of discourse analysis?
Sayer, R. A., 1/08/2017, Routledge handbook of language and politics. Wodak, R. & Forchtner, B. (eds.). London: Routledge, (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics).
On anonymity in disasters: Socio-technical practices in emergency management
Petersen, K. G., Buscher, M. & Easton, C. R., 1/08/2017, In : Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization. 17, 2, p. 307-326 20 p.
Ending reassessment for Employment and Support Allowance for some disabled people in the UK
Grover, C. G., 08/2017, In : Disability and Society. 32, 8, p. 1269-1274 6 p.
Political economic conditions of a good life beyond growth
Sayer, R. A., 08/2017, The Good Life Beyond Growth: New Perspectives. Rosa, H. & Henning, C. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 107-116 10 p. (Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics).
Recalcitrance, compliance and the presentation of self: Exploring the concept of organisational misbehaviour in an English local authority child protection service
Leigh, J., 08/2017, In : Children and Youth Services Review. 79, p. 612-619 8 p.
Viewing the technosphere in an interplanetary light
Szerszynski, B., 08/2017, In : The Anthropocene Review. 4, 2, p. 92-102 11 p.
The Mental Capacity Act call to action: online development of critical rights based social work
James, E., Harvey, M. & Mitchell, R., 27/07/2017, In : Practice. 29, 4, p. 279-292 14 p.
Living apart together and cohabitation intentions in Great Britain
Coulter, R. & Hu, Y., 16/07/2017, In : Journal of Family Issues. 38, 12, p. 1701-1729 29 p.
Care and Policy Practices
Singleton, D. V. (ed.), Waterton, C. F. J. (ed.) & Gill, N. (ed.), 2/07/2017, 200 p. London : Sage.
Critical compassion: Affect, discretion and policy-care relations
Singleton, D. V. & Mee, S., 2/07/2017, In : The Sociological Review. 65, 2 Suppl., p. 130-149 20 p.
The politics of policy practices
Gill, N., Singleton, D. V. & Waterton, C. F. J., 2/07/2017, In : The Sociological Review. 65, 2 Suppl., p. 3-19 17 p.
Being seconded to a Mental Health Trust: the (in)visibility of mental health social work
Morriss, L., 1/07/2017, In : British Journal of Social Work. 47, 5, p. 1344-1360 17 p.
Maintaining physical exercise as a matter of synchronising practices: experiences and observations from training in Mixed Martial Arts
Blue, S. J., 1/07/2017, In : Health and Place. 46, p. 344-350 7 p.
Noir sans frontiers: reflections on the transnational flaneur-as-detective
Gilloch, G. P., 1/07/2017, In : Sociétés : revue des sciences humaines et sociales. 2017/1, 135, p. 31-42 12 p.
Intellectual disability and being human: a care ethics model
Fish, R. M., 07/2017, In : Disability and Society. 32, 7, p. 1109-1111 3 p.
Desiring Queer, Negotiating Normal: Denise Ho (HOCC) Fandom before and after the Coming-Out
Li, C. Y., 30/06/2017, Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Lavin, M., Yang, L. & Zhao, J. J. (eds.). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, p. 131-156 26 p. (Queer Asia).
Figuring ubicomp (out)
Kerasidou, X., 30/06/2017, In : Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 21, 3, p. 593-605 13 p.
Varieties of academic capitalism and entrepreneurial universities: on past research and three thought experiments
Jessop, R. D., 30/06/2017, In : Higher Education. 73, 6, p. 853-870 18 p.
An Autoethnographic Reflection of the Ethics of Autoethnography: A PhD by Practice
Whitaker, D., 26/06/2017.
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper
A material politics of citizenship: the potential of circulating materials from UK Immigration Removal Centres
Forman, P. & Hughes, S., 23/06/2017, In : Citizenship Studies. 21, 6, p. 675-692 18 p.
Credible Performances: Affect and professional identity
Leigh, J., 23/06/2017, Professional Identity and Social Work . Webb, S. A. (ed.). London: Routledge
The second life of Kowloon Walled City: Crime, media and cultural memory
Fraser, A. & Li, C. Y., 13/06/2017, In : Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. 13, 2, p. 217-234 18 p.
Feel the slow. Imagining biketopias
Popan, C., 12/06/2017.
Drone Sense
Case, O., Fish, A. R. & Garrett, B., 1/06/2017, In : UnMediated. 1, 1, p. 73-76 4 p.
I have my life back: recovering from Child Sexual Exploitation
Palmer, C. E. & Foley, M., 1/06/2017, In : British Journal of Social Work. 47, 4, p. 1094-1110 18 p.
Modes of knowledge production in the study of radical urban movements
Kostka, J. & Czarnota, K., 1/06/2017, In : Interface: a journal for and about social movements . 1, 9, p. 368–388 21 p.
On ethnographic knowledge
Atkinson, P. & Morriss, L., 1/06/2017, In : Qualitative Inquiry. 23, 5, p. 323-331 9 p.
Practices and People
Schatzki, T., 1/06/2017, In : Practice and Theory in Management (Teoria e pratica em administracao). 7, 1, p. 26-53 28 p.
Relationships Between Deprivation and the Self-Reported Health of Older People in Northern Ireland
Doebler, S. & Glasgow, N., 1/06/2017, In : Journal of Aging and Health. 29, 4, p. 594-619 26 p.
Gendered experiences of physical restraint on locked wards for women
Fish, R. M. & Hatton, C. R., 06/2017, In : Disability and Society. 32, 6, p. 790-809 20 p.
Spitting images: remaking saliva as a promissory substance
Kragh-Furbo, M. & Tutton, R., 06/2017, In : New Genetics and Society. 36, 2, p. 159-185 27 p.
Elite Mobilities
Birtchnell, T. (ed.) & Caletrio-Garcera, J. (ed.), 24/05/2017, Routledge. 276 p.
Collaborative design of senior co-housing: The case of Featherstone Lodge
Arrigoitia, M. F. & Scanlon, K., 15/05/2017, Ways of Residing in Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Gromark, S., Ilmonen, M., Paadam, K. & Støa, E. (eds.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 103-127 25 p.
Technoliberalism and the end of participatory culture in the United States
Fish, A. R., 8/05/2017, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 228 p.
Energy and social practice: From abstractions to dynamic processes
Shove, E., 3/05/2017, Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions. Springer-Verlag, p. 207-220 14 p. (Green Energy and Technology; no. 9783319337524).
Gods of the Anthropocene: geo-spiritual formations in the earth's new epoch
Szerszynski, B., 1/05/2017, In : Theory, Culture and Society. 34, 2-3, p. 253-275 23 p.
Informal caregiving and mental ill‐health–differential relationships by workload, gender, age and area‐remoteness in a UK region
Doebler, S., Ryan, A., Shortall, S. & Maguire, A., 1/05/2017, In : Health and Social Care in the Community. 25, 3, p. 987-999 13 p.
Measuring violence to end violence: mainstreaming gender
Walby, S. & Towers, J. S., 1/05/2017, In : Journal of Gender-Based Violence. 1, 1, p. 11-31 21 p.
Multisensoriality and social work research
Morriss, L., 1/05/2017, In : Qualitative Social Work. 16, 3, p. 291-299 9 p.
A very capitalist condition a history and politics of disability
Grover, C. G., 05/2017, In : Disability and Society. 32, 4, p. 605-606 2 p.
Naoki Ueno's Transformative Practice
Suchman, L. A., 05/2017, In : Mind, Culture, and Activity. 24, 2, p. 154-156 3 p.
Social Work with Children in the Youth Justice System - Messages from Practice
Pye, J. & Paylor, I., 05/2017, In : Youth and Policy. 116, p. 131-144 14 p.
How sharing can contribute to more sustainable cities
Boyko, C. T., Clune, S. J., Cooper, R., Coulton, C. J., Dunn, N. S., Pollastri, S., Leach, J. M., Bouch, C., Cavada, M., De Laurentiis, V., Goodfellow-Smith, M., Hale, J., Hunt, D., Lee, S., Locret-Collet, M., Sadler, J. P., Ward, J., Rogers, C. D. F., Popan, C., Psarikidou, A. & 21 others, Urry, J. R., Blunden, L., Bourikas, L., Buchs, M., Falkingham, J., Harper, M., James, P., Kamanda, M., Sanches, T., Turner, P., Wu, P., Bahaj, A., Ortegon, A., Barnes, K., Cosgrave, E., Honeybone, P., Joffe, H., Kwami, C., Zeeb, V., Collins, B. & Tyler, N., 29/04/2017, In : Sustainability. 9, 5, 16 p., 701.
(Un)ethical practices: intimacy and Internet in the media coverage of the Ashley Madison hack
Gauthier, M., 26/04/2017, In : Feminist Media Studies. 16 p.
Technology retreats and the politics of social media
Fish, A. R., 10/04/2017, In : tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique. 15, 1, p. 355-369 15 p.
'Hukou', and what birthplace can still mean for marriage in China
Hu, Y., 4/04/2017, The Conversation.
Birth parents and the collateral consequences of child removal: towards a comprehensive framework
Broadhurst, K. E. & Mason, C. S., 1/04/2017, In : International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family . 31, 1, p. 41-59 19 p.
Living space and psychological well-being in urban China: differentiated relationships across socio-economic gradients
Hu, Y. & Coulter, R., 1/04/2017, In : Environment and Planning A. 49, 4, p. 911–929 19 p.
New entrants and repeat children: continuity and change in care demand over time
Harwin, J. E. & Alrouh, B., 1/04/2017, In : Family Law. 47, 4, p. 407-411 5 p.
Maxigas, P., 1/04/2017, +Kaos: Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, p. 11-18 8 p. 2. (Theory on Demand; no. 23).
The social life of citizenisation and naturalisation: outlining an analytical framework
Fortier, A-M., 1/04/2017, In : COLLeGIUM: Studies Across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. 23, p. 12-30 19 p.
A qualitative study of factors impacting accessing of institutional delivery care in the context of India's cash incentive program
Vellakkal, S., Reddy, H., Gupta, A., Chandran, A., Fledderjohann, J. & Stuckler, D., 04/2017, In : Social Science and Medicine. 178, p. 55-65 11 p.
Putting the "Amsterdam School" in its rightful place: a reply to Juan Ignacio Staricco's critique of cultural political economy
Jessop, R. D. & Sum, N-L., 04/2017, In : New Political Economy. 22, 3, p. 342-354 13 p.
From the Anthropocene epoch to a new Axial Age: using theory fictions to explore geo-spiritual futures
Szerszynski, B., 28/03/2017, Religion in the Anthropocene. Deane-Drummond, C., Bergmann, S. & Vogt, M. (eds.). Wipf & Stock, p. 35-52 18 p.
Women in Ghana pay a heavy social price for not having children
Fledderjohann, J., 27/03/2017
Variegated neo-liberalism, finance-dominated accumulation and citizenship
Jessop, B., 17/03/2017, The Transformation of Citizenship, Volume 1: Political Economy. Mackert, J. & Turner, B. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 13-30 18 p.
Retour sur une tradition méconnue: austromarxisme et économie politique (II)
Kraetke, M. R., 15/03/2017, In : Actuel Marx. 61, p. 124 - 139 16 p.
Everyday futures: a new interdisciplinary area of research
Kuijer, L. (ed.) & Spurling, N. J. (ed.), 1/03/2017, Interactions, XXIV, 2, p. 35-56 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Editorial
Kuijer, L. & Spurling, N., 1/03/2017, Interactions, 24, 2, p. 34-37 4 p.
Gambling harm and crime careers
May-Chahal, C. A., Humphreys, L. N., Clifton, A. K., Francis, B. J. & Reith, G., 1/03/2017, In : Journal of Gambling Studies. 33, 1, p. 65-84 20 p.
The evolving (re)categorisations of refugees throughout the 'Refugee/Migrant crisis'
Goodman, S., Sirriyeh, A. & McMahon, S., 1/03/2017, In : Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 27, 2, p. 105-114 10 p.
The future is already here: it's just not very evenly distributed
Newmarch, G. & Chatterton, T., 1/03/2017, In : Interactions. 24, 2 , p. 42-45 4 p.
The 'troubled' case of Rotherham
Crossley, S. & Leigh, J., 1/03/2017, In : Critical and Radical Social Work. 5, 1, p. 23-40 18 p.
Ageing playfully: a story of forgetting and remembering
Lujan Escalante, M. A., Tsekleves, E., Bingley, A. F. & Gradinar, A. I., 03/2017, In : Design for Health. 1, 1, p. 134-145 12 p.
Taming the climate? corpus analysis of politicians' speech on climate change
Willis, R., 03/2017, In : Environmental Politics. 26, 2, p. 212-231 20 p.
Working with Data: Ethical Legal and Social Considerations Surrounding the Use of Crisis Data and Information Sharing During a Crisis
Rizza, C., Buscher, M. & Watson, H., 03/2017, In : Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 25, 1, p. 2-6 5 p.
"Like a Stone in Your Stomach": articulating the unspeakable in rape victim-survivors' activist selfies
Ferreday, D. J., 20/02/2017, Selfie citizenship. Kuntsman, A. (ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan
Conceptualizing imaginaries of science, technology, and society
McNeil, M. C., MacKenzie, A. B., Tutton, R. J. C., Haran, J. & Arribas-Ayllon, M., 20/02/2017, The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Felt, U., Fouche, R., Miller, C. A. & Smith-doerr, L. (eds.). 4th ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., p. 435-464 29 p. 10
Nicos Poulantzas on political economy, political ecology, and democratic socialism
Jessop, R. D., 14/02/2017, In : Journal of Political Ecology. 24, p. 186-199 14 p.
The concept and measurement of violence against women and men
Walby, S., Towers, J., Balderston, S., Corradi, C., Francis, B. J., Heiskanen, M., Helweg-Larsen, K., Mergaert, L., Olive, P., Palmer, C. E., Stockl, H. & Strid, S., 14/02/2017, Policy Press.
Endomaterialities: the toxic politics of hormones, sex/gender and reproduction
Roberts, C. M., 5/02/2017, Gender: matter. Alaimo, S. (ed.). New York : Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, (Gender Studies).
Difficulties conceiving and relationship stability in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Ghana
Fledderjohann, J., 1/02/2017, In : European Journal of Population. 33, 1, p. 129-152 24 p.
Half-Lives of Hackers and the Shelf Life of Hacks
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PV inverter suppliers develop digital energy solutions
Cormac Gilligan | Miguel de Jesus | January 26, 2018
SMA announced last week that it would set up a digital energy solution subsidiary named Coneva, a move that is a natural stepping stone to diversifying its business and expanding its customer base. Along with its existing business units such as energy storage, off-grid/hybrid and now a digital solutions company, it has a clear roadmap for 2018 to transition its business to a digital world. This move is particularly pertinent when the PV inverter competitive landscape is still crowded and pure-play PV inverter suppliers such as SMA are trying to gain a competitive advantage over its larger industrial competitors such as ABB, GE, Siemens, Schneider Electric and Huawei. In this insight, IHS Markit aims to explain the meaning behind this move to establish a subsidiary and why they are launching it in Q1 2018.
TBEA SunOasis Set to Overtake First Solar as World's Largest Solar EPC Company in 2014
Josefin Berg | May 15, 2014
U.S.-based First Solar delivered on expectations in 2013 to become the leading Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) company in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry, even though it is likely to be surpassed in 2014 by Chinese EPC TBEA SunOasis, according to a new report from IHS Technology.
Solar Capital Spending Enters 2014 with Strong Momentum; Latin America Leads Manufacturing Capacity Growth
With capital expenditures for the photovoltaic (PV) industry set to bounce back in 2014, a new round of solar spending will commence that will reach $3.8 billion by year-end, according to...
South Africa Ranks as the World's Most Attractive Emerging Country for Solar Energy
Josefin Berg | January 29, 2014
South Africa's target of building 8.4 gigawatts (GW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity by 2030, combined with the success of its large-scale tendering process in attracting investment...


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Will the new Las Vegas GP bring renewed interest to F1 in the US?
By James Franklin / F1 / Leave a Comment
There are an increasing number of reasons to go to Las Vegas. There's the gambling of course, all the shows and an NFL team. November 2023 can see a fab four created as the Las Vegas Grand Prix takes place. That will make it three races in the US next season. Are Americans finally falling in love with the sport?
The Las Vegas Grand Prix promises to be a spectacular one. Not since 1982 has Las Vegas hosted a F1 Grand Prix race. That was the Caesars Palace Grand Prix, and a track was laid out in the parking lot of the Caesars Palace Hotel.
That year saw the USA hold three races and no country had done that since 1950. American interest in F1 wasn't great though. Poor attendances and the cost of setting up the circuit caused big losses for the hotel and that was the end of racing there.
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This won't be like the Caesars Palace Grand Prix. 2023 will see F1 cars racing on the Las Vegas Strip. Just like in Monaco, there will be iconic hotels and casinos that will be passed. If the race isn't that exciting at least we'll have something else to look at.
The US Grand Prix is now a regular fixture on the F1 calendar. 2022 sees the Miami Grand Prix take place and now comes news of the Las Vegas race next year. Is there the support for all these races though?
The announcement of the race was full of quotes about how great the race will be. All good publicity talks but what we didn't hear was that F1 may be a global sport, but it needs more exposure in the US and hopefully the addition of Miami in 2022 and Las Vegas next year will do just that.
ALSO READ: Hamilton is the Only Challenge to Max in 2023
Street circuits always seem to add something extra to a Grand Prix. The Las Vegas Grand Prix will be raced over 50 laps. There'll be three straights and 14 turns over its 3.8 miles circuit and the top speed is likely to be 212mph.
Holding a race in Las Vegas sounds just about right for F1. They are taking a huge gamble on the sport becoming increasingly popular in America. NASCAR and stock car racing has been grabbing the attention of American motorsport fans.
The Netflix series 'Formula One: Drive to Survive' has become popular in the US. Races are being shown on ESPN and that is generating a new fan base.
It'll be interesting to see how the Miami Grand Prix gets on this year. The worry will be that if that and the US Grand Prix in Austin aren't big hits, then three races in 2023 becomes even more of a risky adventure.
ALSO READ: Alonso's Costly Crash at the U.S. Grand Prix 2022
The hope is that the gamble pays off and the sport does rise in popularity in the States. Those three races plus the Canadian Grand Prix will see F1 becoming even stronger.
The last time there was a Grand Prix held in Las Vegas, it was the final race for American driver and former world champion Mario Andretti. What would help the sport in the USA is if another American driver began competing.
That could be Colton Herta who has had success in IndyCar. He's having a test drive with McLaren this year and there's talk of IndyCar owner Michael Andretti (son of Mario) getting involved with F1. There's already one American team in F1 but Haas struggle to get into contention in races. Better performances by them would give US fans something to shout about.


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Q: Android include "?" in Linkify text I used the method found in this link Android: Linkify TextView
public static void addLink(TextView textView, String patternToMatch,
        final String link) {
    Linkify.TransformFilter filter = new Linkify.TransformFilter() {
        @Override public String transformUrl(Matcher match, String url) {
            return link;
        }
    };
    Linkify.addLinks(textView, Pattern.compile(patternToMatch), null, null,
            filter);
}

My function call
addLink(text, "Forgot password?", "http://www.abc.com");

But the result ends up with "Forgot password?" The bold portion is blue and underlined. How do I include the "?" to become blue and underlined as well? Thanks.

A: Second argument is pattern  and you are adding ? (Regular expression character class char).
try this,
addLink(text, "Forgot password[?]", "http://www.abc.com");

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# For BlizzCon 2007's story-mode build, most players would just click through Raynor's dialog lines, ignoring them. Blizzard wanted the player to choose how they want to play the game based on the missions they chose, not based on something they said in a bar, because that doesn't feel appropriate for a game about commanding armies and smashing empires. Choices that gave more meaning were; "Where do I send my army next?" and "How do I upgrade my technology?" The choices you were given when speaking to other characters looked like they were important and meaningful, though they really weren't, that's why Blizzard removed it from the game. Some people would probably have enjoyed this part of the game, but that's not most people. Blizzard cut content because they want to keep the best stuff, and overall this makes it a better game.
# Blizzard does have interest in exporting replays to a video format, but will probably not get around to it soon due to time constraints. Dustin Browder claims "We're hugely interested in supporting e-sports and this is one of those things we want to do. I don't know what the status on this is, but we will have patches after ship and expansions yet to come."
# The map editor will be released on beta, but not at day 1. Probably somewhere mid beta. Blizzard wants to beta test the editor itself first and see how it interacts with Battle.net. Also Blizzard wants to let modders try it, so when release comes we will see some cool mods pretty early.
# Some RPG-style quests in StarCraft II take hours to create, others could take weeks or months, depending on how difficult it was to put together. Blizzard wants some of the quests to have multiple solutions. They did not want an RPG system that implies that there will be hundreds of quests. They want it to be more about the starmap and tech purchase.
# StarCraft II has alot of unit models that are no longer in the multiplayer, and some who were made specifically for single player. Dustin didn't have a number, but claimed we will probably have to wait until the expansions to reach the same amount of models that were in WarCraft III.
# The BlizzCon demo takes place at the middle of the beginning part of the campaign, there are three missions previous to the mission branch playable at BlizzCon. The Zerg are making their move into Terran space, but Jim Raynor at the time is leader of a relatively small and helpless faction.
# Blizzard has put equal emphasis on the importance of single-player and multiplayer. Many fans of the series that are still active in the community are focused mostly on multiplayer, but much of Starcraft's popularity is based on it's campaign modes.
# Dustin's biggest hope for the game is racial balance and living up to StarCraft's expectations and legacy.
# The campaign has a full tutorial system, with videos and interactive missions. Skirmish mode also includes starting tutorials for the non campaign races. The campaign also includes multiplayer oriented challenge modes that help practice skills and tactics used for multi-player battles.
# Internally, Blizzard feels the Zerg are vastly underpowered, namely in tier 2. Beta will be the period where they direct the game's balance.
# Racial identities and playstyles are being treated as self-emerging through develeopment. Terrans have developed into a much more mobile race, but this is not the final decision for their overall playstyle feel.
# Unit upgrades and unique abililty upgrades are not segregated in order to make the building choices more varied and interesting.
# Macro mechanics are still being reworked, overall they are happy with spawn larvae and MULE calldown, while Proton Charge is still being looked at for big changes.
# Dustin feels that Zerg and Terran are close to equal difficulty, with Protoss being the easiest to use.
# The Raven is close to how they want it designed, with some changes possibly needed for the point-defense turret to make it's role more clearly understood.
# Infestor's spells are currently being re-worked.
# Burrowed Banelings contain Terrans until they acquire mobile detection (Ravens).
# Some Protoss missions are playable in WoL for storytelling purposes.
# The campaign currently has approximately 15 tilesets.
# Mutiple tilesets can be used in single maps.
# The basic idea for the Protoss campaign is the ultimate shattering and re-unification of the Protoss factions. The basic gameplay idea is to utilize the strengths and weaknesses of different Protoss factions to create your own new Protoss unification.
# The plan for the Zerg campaign is to be hero-centric than the other two campaigns.
# The Protoss campaign will be more focused on the Star Map and planet exploration than the Terran campaign.
# The DLC plan includes additional challenges more geared to the evolution on the current meta game. Other DLC plans are still not decided.
# Map editor features not necessary for StarCraft II (such as an inventory and hero system for DOTA clones) are included.
# Models and graphics from the campaign can be used in custom maps, animations can not.
# The Zerg have more "iconic" units that they feel could not be removed (zergling, hydralisk, mutalisk), so it is more difficult to make the Zerg fresh and interesting.
# The campaign will feature a lot of super high powered unit upgrades and abilities that won't be in multiplayer.
Cool read, thanks for posting.
When I read interviews of officials of the blizzard I am assured that the final game will be great. Not only do they spend a lot, what other company spends 6 years to make a game? But they integrate with the community.
Good to hear that they want to do something with proton charge, it is so dull in its current form.
Just play the first part.
It will playlist the others.
I look forward to all of the 1a jokes that will continue to haunt these forums.
Thanks for posting this, I am really excited to hear that there will be some P missions playbale in WoL, and also the part about Protoss unification.
The fact that you can now have multiple tile sets in one map is absolutely crazy. Go from green lush forests to larva.
So the story mode no longer has interactive dialogue with characters? That's a huge change. I wonder how they will manage to make the same level of backstory for characters like Tidus available. Can't wait to see how the dialogue with characters on the hyperion is handled now.
I am glad to hear all that and I am excited to see further development the next couple of months.
Thank god. So glad they are on to this. So far the Infestor has been a joke compared to the other races midgame casters (Templar, Ghosts). Too funny they are still saying the Zerg are that underpowered.
They were worried about it being equal to Starcraft well this here states its perfectly balanced, just like starcraft.


Orphan drugs are those for relatively rare indications. Special procedures and incentives apply to their registration, to encourage pharmaceutical companies to develop them. This module provides information necessary to enable the preparation of applications for orphan drug status in the EU and USA. The procedures for making an application are detailed, including the collection of supporting data and the acquisition of protocol assistance. In Europe the Centralised Procedure is now the mandatory route to gain marketing authorisation for orphan products. This module will serve as a useful reference tool to keep abreast of the impact of the new regulatory requirements.
Define orphan drugs in the USA and EU.
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This brief session introduces the concept of orphan drugs, what they are and why they exist. It also identifies the criteria for orphan designation and gives a high level overview of the process of orphan designation and development.
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Plans to establish the world's largest solar energy project have been shelved, according to the Wall Street Journal. Saudi Arabia is instead said to be working on a new, "more practical" renewable energy strategy.
An MOU between Saudi Arabia and Softbank was signed in March.
In March, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and Japan-based SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, to establish a US$200 billion, 200 GW solar project in Saudi Arabia.
According to the Wall Street Journal yesterday, which cites unnamed Saudi government officials, these plans have now been shelved, with no one actively working on the project.
Instead, the officials said, Saudi Arabia is working on a new, "more practical" renewable energy strategy, which is expected to be announced some time this month.
At a briefing in New York back in March, Softbank's Son said the mega project would encompass equipment manufacturing and battery storage, in addition to solar systems, with the potential for up to 100,000 jobs to be created and $40 billion in power cost savings.
SoftBank originally intended to invest the funds via its Vision Fund – the largest technology investment fund, ever, and which has backing from Saudi Arabia and the UAE; and companies including Apple, Sharp and Foxconn.
As a first phase, $1 billion was expected to be invested in installing 7.2 GW of new capacity over a two year time period.
Already in March, Bloomberg NEF questioned the ambitious plans. "It's a memorandum of understanding, it doesn't really mean much. Saudi Arabia has a long history of announcing big numbers on a long timeframe, and these are usually subject to substantial revision," Jenny Chase, head of solar told pv magazine.


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A (digital) return to village life?
Microblogging with services like Twitter could be having a humanizing effect in modern society – or at least the classroom. Here's what I mean….
Did you ever hear someone speak nostalgically about "the good ol' days" of small-town life, when neighbors and people you cared about kept tabs on you? It had its downsides, but there's no denying everyday life (at least in the developed world) has gotten so much less personal. It's almost dehumanizing in some ways. People sometimes argue that the Internet has contributed to that. It can also be argued – I believe more persuasively – that the Internet is reversing that and bringing back village life in a non-geographical sense.
Case in point: the Twittersphere (Twitter's the fast-growing social-networking service, CNET cites the latest Nielsen figures as showing). People microblogging through their days while "following" their relatives, friends, colleagues, and other interesting people doing the same. A superficial glance by babyboomers yields predictable reactions like "narcissism on steroids." But there's more to this phenomenon. It de-isolates. It creates "ambient awareness," as Clive Thompson recently described it in the New York Times Magazine – a growing (sometimes sustained, sometimes intermittent) awareness of the thoughts and moods of people who interest you wherever they are, even on the other side of the world (you can unfollow anyone any time, and it's up to you how much you say what's on your mind). It gives fresh meaning to the term "global village" and challenges the old saw, "familiarity breeds contempt." For one thing, you're only hearing from people you care about and they're only hearing about you if you allow them to.
"Taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce," Thompson writes, "like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting" of the people you follow, Thompson writes. He tells of a person who twittered about what sandwich she made each day. Another person he mentions thought it all sounded silly. Then he "discovered that he was beginning to sense the rhythms of his friends' lives in a way he never had before. When one friend got sick with a virulent fever, he could tell by her Twitter updates when she was getting worse and the instant she finally turned the corner…. Even the daily catalog of sandwiches became oddly mesmerizing, a sort of metronomic click [maybe slightly comforting] that he grew accustomed to seeing pop up in the middle of each day" and would miss if it weren't there.
All this raises so many questions – you really have to read Thompson to see many of them thoughtfully considered…. Are all these weak ties superficializing friendship or affection, or adding to it – on personal and global levels? Does microblogging increase self-knowledge or the potential for narcissism? Does it help to objectivize personal troubles, get perspective, find solidarity, make us more vulnerable? Probably all the above – it depends on the individual. Experimenting with it myself, following fascinating thinkers in my general field of work (none of my relatives are on it!), I have found it to be a positive experience. There is this unprecedented sense of sort of intimacy being trustingly conveyed by people you only knew from a distance ("trust" is a key word in all this), as well as a sense of stimulation but also a bit of overload – people you respect posting so many links worth checking out.
One thing's certain: Twittering has a way of keeping us honest. You'd have to be an extremely gifted pathological liar (or actor always in character) to be someone other than yourself microblogging to a well-developed following even once a day (tell me if you disagree, anyone!). Thompson tells of a student of Zeynep Tufekci, a University of Maryland sociologist, who posted that the difference between Web 1.0 and being under the microscope of the social Web is that – as the old New Yorker cartoon showing two dogs conversing points out – on Web 1.0 no one could tell you were a dog. On Twitter, the social Web to the 10th power, everybody knows you're a dog!
[Tufekci's student might've read Michael Kinsley at Slate. See also: "Just because they crave attention?"]
Also see how Twitter is making classes – and thereby education – more village-like (see ArsTechnica. A communications professor approached Twitter the way many of us baby boomers do, thinking microblogging's all "solipsism and sound-bite communication," but after using it realized that it "brought him closer to his students, creating a personal connection that helped to increase their involvement in his classes." In this blog post is the experience of a Central Connecticut State U. professor who, after each class, twitters a reflection about how the class went. "Students who see the messages often give him a reality check." He said that if he twittered that he didn't think something got across, for example, sometimes students would twitter back that they "understood that fine" but were just distracted by … [something outside of class] or they were tired.
Powerful things can happen when people can come to understand each other on even slightly deeper levels afforded by the kind of fairly frequent, candid, humanizing communication that happens in microblogging. Empathy emerges.
Think about what can happen when people feel empathy toward one another: compassion, civility, encouragement, empowerment, engagement, etc. Disinhibition – that condition of online experience that allows for cyberbullying, harassment, hate, etc. by dehumanizing people – becomes less of a factor. "Users" move through being mere participants to being citizens and community members.
* But is Twitter a teen thing? Not really, Anastasia Goodstein of Ypulse.com suggests. It seems to be more for young professionals, with Plurk of more interest to teens, a 20-something told Anastasia. However, when I went to Plurk: of the dozen "recently joined members" featured on the home page, one was under 30 (she's 20) and the one other didn't declare his age. The other 10 were all in their 30s or 40s – even further away from being teens. Anastasia's theory makes sense: "If you think about it, since teens' social networks are mostly comprised of friends they know in real life, and the majority are teens they go to school with, they sort of already know what their friends are up to at any given moment."
* "Who am I on Twitter?" The Financial Times calls Twitter "social networking around mutual stalking." I think writer Peter Whitehead doesn't quite get it yet, but he asks good questions: "My biggest concern, however, is over who I am on Twitter. Am I just me or am I representing the FT? Can I say outrageous things?" On that last one, some Twitterers actually do, but remember: "Everybody knows you're a dog!" In some ways, online anonymity is going away.
* "Twittering from the Cradle"?! The teeniest tykes are twittering with the help of their sleep-deprived parents, the New York Times reports. When they become old enough to send their own tweets, they probably won't have Whitehead's sort of Twitter-induced identity angst.
* Twitter grew 343% from September '07 to September '08, according to Nielsen. Over the same period, nos. 2-10 in the Top 10 fastest-growing social-networking services were Tagged (330%), Ning (251%), LinkedIn (193%), Last.fm (121%), Facebook (116%), MyYearbook (115%), Bebo (86%), Multiply (59%), and Reunion (57%). CNET reports.
Readers, feel free to disagree – send your comments to anne[at]netfamilynews.org or post them in our forum at ConnectSafely.org!


Garnet was developed between 1987 and 1994 by the User Interface Software Group in the Human Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. The primary research interest of the UISG is the development of tools to allow rapid development of graphical user interfaces.
Garnet is a user interface development environment for Common Lisp and X11 or Macintosh. It helps you create graphical, interactive user interfaces for your software.
Unfortunately, the UISG is no longer able to support Garnet. See our letter about why. However, some people are still using it (see below). There is still a Garnet-Users mailing list. Send mail to garnet-users-request@cs.cmu.edu to be added or removed.
Does anyone use Garnet anymore?
The Garnet-Users@cs.cmu.edu mailing list still had about 60 names on it (as of May'2002). People seem to be using Garnet for various projects, and making it work in new versions of Lisp. Send mail to garnet-users-request@cs.cmu.edu to be added or removed.
"SDTP-A Multilevel-Secure Distributed Transaction Processing System" Fred Gilham, David Shih (System Design Laboratory, SRI International) Proceedings of the European User Group Meeting '99 (LUGM '99). Available online.
There is a Garnet Users usenet newsgroup (comp.lang.garnet) but it is better to post questions and comments to the garnet users mailing list: garnet-users@cs.cmu.edu. There are about 60 names on the list (as of May'2002). To subscribe or unsubscribe to the garnet-users mailing list, send mail to garnet-users-request@cs.cmu.edu.
url: ftp://ftp.csl.sri.com/pub/users/gilham/garnet/ In this version (maybe it should be called garnet-3.0.x) the pixmap problem is partially solved. Garnet was not able to load pixmaps with depth > 8. Now It displays correctly the first half of the pixmap!
There are new Machintosh files created by Russell Almond on 26 Aug 1996 for MCL 3.x, see his message in the FTP instructions for the Mac.
A file from Charles Hollister of patches made to Garnet for MCL 3.0p2.
A message about how to make Image files work, from Russell Almond, 1997/07/21.
The old messages from the Garnet users mailing list, dating from 4 Oct 1993 through 27 Aug 98 (994 messages) are available in a big tar file (about 3.3 meg).
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Loyalty360 Reads: February 12 | Domino's Stores Raise $10 Million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, REI Building Outdoorsy HQ, and More
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
Domino's Stores Raise $10 Million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Domino's concluded its 16th annual St. Jude Thanks and Giving campaign in January, raising $10 million to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The record-breaking campaign ran for 11 weeks, through Jan. 5, 2020. After making a commitment in 2015 to raise $35 million in eight years for St. Jude, Domino's met and exceeded that commitment during the 2019 campaign. "St. Jude and the annual Thanks and Giving campaign are integral parts of the culture of Domino's, and fulfilling the commitment to St. Jude three years early is evidence of that," Ritch Allison, Domino's chief executive officer, said in a company news release. "I am grateful to our franchisees, store team members and, of course, our generous customers who made this happen."
Outdoor Retailer REI Building the Most Outdoorsy HQ Ever
Recreational Equipment Inc. is building a new headquarters in a Seattle suburb that is blurring the boundaries between office and nature. Planned to open this summer, workers will be able to walk from one room to the next through outdoor staircases and bridges. A rooftop terrace or a fire pit in a courtyard full of native plants can be locations for group meetings. Skylights and oversize sliding doors will let in the sun and air.
Under Armour expects shipping delays and is taking a sales hit because of deadly coronavirus
Under Armour expects to take a hit because of the coronavirus outbreak in China, citing shipping delays and obstacles in obtaining certain fabrics for its athletic apparel. "We think it's reasonable to expect industry-wide delays in terms of delivery around the world — including potentially missed shipment[s] and service windows, and the need for increased air freight and additional measures at ports that could create unforeseen congestion," CEO Patrik Frisk told analysts Tuesday morning, according to a CNBC report.
Mars Wrigley Introduces Sweet New Concept for Third Annual Sweet ReTREAT
Mars Wrigley US, makers of M&M'S, TWIX, SNICKERS, SKITTLES, and many more, announced it is bringing back its Valentine's Day pop-up Sweet ReTREAT. "On February 12 and 13 at 579 Broadway in New York City, Mars Wrigley will partner with social networking platform Bumble to encourage consumers to treat themselves while exploring new ways to connect," according to a Mars Wrigley release. Sweet ReTREAT will be open on February 12 from 4-8 p.m. ET and on February 13 from 12-8 p.m. ET.
Stella Artois Celebrates Valentine's Day and Savoring Life Together with "The Life Artois"
Stella Artois is launching "The Life Artois," an "illustrative look and style encouraging people to slow down, look up and savor time spent with those that matter most," according to a brand release. The brand believes there's no better occasion to introduce this than Valentine's Day. "For us at Stella Artois, savoring the good life is never too far away and Valentine's Day is the perfect occasion for Stella to celebrate coming together, being fully present and raising a toast to the ones you love," Lara Krug, VP of Marketing, Stella Artois, said in the release.