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Project Review: 2014 CESA award-winning installations, Part II
Macho Springs Solar is the largest solar project in the New Mexico REPTC program, with a generating capacity of 48.5 megawatts.
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The first of two 395-kW co-generation engines (where the electricity is generated); a second engine will be installed late 2014 for a total of 790 kW installed capacity.
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In Part I of this feature, we looked at three of the eight installations recognized by judges on the 2014 CESA Award panel. This installment focuses on the remaining five installations.
The projects covered in Part II of this feature are as follows:
The Energy Trust of Oregon for the City of Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center for the Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program
The New Mexico Energy Conservation and Management Division for the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for its CHP Acceleration Program
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District for SMUD's Community Renewable Energy Deployment Program
"These award winners illustrate the tremendous creativity and commitment being shown by state agencies across the country in implementing clean energy," said Warren Leon, executive director of CESA. "With eight very different programs highlighting diverse technologies including solar PV, wind, energy storage, hydropower, anaerobic digesters, microgrids, and combined heat and power, the 2014 State Leadership in Clean Energy award winners demonstrate that clean energy can create jobs, clean up the environment, and benefit local economies. These are programs to emulate."
Project #4: Energy Trust of Oregon
Technical and financial assistance from Energy Trust of Oregon and the Oregon Department of Energy — combined with the determined efforts of the City of Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant's energy management team — is making this water resource recovery facility the first in the Pacific Northwest to achieve net-zero energy consumption from a combination of renewable energy production and energy-efficiency investments. By early 2015, the facility will produce all of its electricity from onsite renewable power using: two co-generation engines fueled by biogas; increased production of biogas from the co-digestion of fats, oils and grease; and a 420-kilowatt solar electric system.
Through the visionary and sustained efforts of its energy management team and technical and financial assistance from Energy Trust and the Oregon Department of Energy, the City of Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant implemented a highly successful program to achieve its aggressive goals to reduce its need for electricity from the electricity grid. By early 2015, the facility will generate from renewable sources as much electricity as it needs to operate the plant. It is using two 395-kilowatt co-generation engines fueled by biogas, increased production of biogas from the co-digestion of fats, oils and grease (FOG), and a 420-kilowattground mount solar electric system.
As the soon-to-be first net-zero energy treatment plant in the Pacific Northwest, Gresham is setting a high standard for environmental sustainability. Over a 10-year period, Energy Trust has supported the City of Gresham with technical assistance, project development support, and cash incentives that lowered energy-efficiency project costs and the above-market costs of the two co-generation systems and the solar electric system at the wastewater treatment plant.
Through these projects, Energy Trust is helping to keep energy costs low and adding clean power to the generation mix for the benefit of all utility customers. Importantly, by gathering lessons learned and accomplishments from Gresham's experience, Energy Trust is able to provide improved support to help other municipalities, and project developers are able to craft feasible and financially sound renewable energy projects. The City of Gresham started implementing renewable energy for heat and electricity in 1990 through the combustion of biogas produced from the anaerobic digestion of wastewater sludge. As the volume of wastewater treated at the plant increased, biogas production increased as well.
This presented Gresham with the opportunity to expand its 250-kilowatt co-generation system. In 2005, with financial support from Energy Trust, the facility replaced the aged co-generation set and expanded generation nameplate capacity to 395 kilowatts. The expansion of the co-generation engine helped build the energy management team's confidence and created momentum to explore new renewable generation and efficiency opportunities. Further steps to achieve net-zero energy demand were the installation of a solar electric system, the addition of a FOG receiving and processing facility, and a 2014 decision to double co-generation capacity.
Additional critical steps included implementing, in 2010, an energy management team that met monthly, integration of a chapter on Energy Independence Projects in the plant's 2011 Master Plan, and an Energy Efficiency Study that led to the 2012 installation of highly efficient aeration basin turbo blowers and new digester linear motion mixers.
Increasing clean energy and reducing costs.Wastewater treatment facilities are very energy intensive. In the case of Gresham, the facility requires approximately 5,550 megawatt hours of electricity per year. Through a net metering and interconnection agreement with Portland General Electric (PGE), the solar and biogas fueled systems will be managed to achieve net-zero energy demand. Co-generation from biogas will produce about 5,100 MWh per year while the solar array, which became operational in 2010, will generate another 450 MWh of renewable electricity.
From the generation of renewable electricity from biogas alone, about 72,000 Renewable Energy Certificates will be created from 2005 through 2028 and retired for the benefit of PGE customers. Overall, the renewable energy and energy efficiency projects installed at the plant since 2005 cost $8.39 million, including $890,000 for the FOG Phase 1 receiving station installed in 2012; and $3.2 million for the 395-kW co-generation engine expansion and FOG receiving station expansion in 2014. Energy Trust and the Oregon Department of Energy funded 38% of the total project costs.
The FOG station also has profound operation and maintenance benefits for the City. Diverting fats, oils, and grease at their source (e.g., restaurant, food processor) before they get flushed into the wastewater collection system avoids significant collection system cleanout costs. Further, waste hauling companies are currently delivering about 8,000 gallons of FOG to the facility each day with plans to receive 15,000 gallons per day with the expanded facility, saving money through shorter hauling distances for disposal. The tipping fees the haulers pay provide the City of Gresham with a significant annual revenue stream of about $250,000. The production of electricity from Gresham's renewable energy projects is helping keep ratepayer costs low, advancing the plant's environmental sustainability, and making the facility immune from possible future retail power price increases.
Gresham has demonstrated that water resource recovery facilities may have significant potential to adopt technological innovations to reduce or eliminate net energy use and, for some facilities, become net exporters of renewable energy.
Lessons Learned. The City of Gresham's renewable energy success is providing valuable lessons, which can be shared with other water resource recovery facilities throughout Oregon and across the nation to show that they, too, may have the capacity to generate renewable energy while providing significant benefits to the environment and their ratepayers. Generation of renewable energy at wastewater treatment plants is nothing new. However, only a few facilities in the country have been successful in reaching net-zero energy generation. The opportunity for increased co-digestion and co-generation at water resource recovery facilities in Oregon is significant. For that reason, Energy Trust and the Oregon Department of Energy are highlighting the Gresham plant project in an anaerobic digestion case study and are encouraging other municipalities in Oregon and industry leaders to use it as a model.
Judges' Comments. "The City of Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant project demonstrates leadership, long-term commitment, and clean energy innovation. The combination of using biogas from the wastewater treatment process, additional biogas from fats, oils and grease, and solar electricity to achieve net-zero energy demand is novel and impressive. It is a model that should be considered for replication in other municipalities."
Project #5: Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program, created and managed by the Massachusetts
Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), provides valuable support to Massachusetts' growing clean energy economy. By connecting Massachusetts students and recent graduates with paid internships at clean energy companies across the state, MassCEC is helping to ensure that there is a steady stream of prepared, talented, and experienced workers ready to meet the growing market demand.
The clean energy industry in Massachusetts is experiencing significant growth. MassCEC's 2014 Clean Energy Industry Report notes that MA clean energy jobs grew by 10.5 per cent from 2013. Massachusetts has more than 88,000 clean energy workers and nearly 6,000 clean energy firms. This growing market sector presents both an opportunity and a challenge. In order for industry growth to continue, businesses need to be able to hire new workers — something that requires both the capital to afford those workers and a skilled labor pool from which to draw.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center saw the need to connect prospective employers and new clean energy start-ups with skilled entrants into the workforce. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program has matched two key resources: a growing population of environmentally conscious college students and a growing clean energy sector in search of skilled workers.
Through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program, MassCEC provides paid internships for which students can apply. To be eligible, participating students must either be enrolled at a higher education institution in Massachusetts, a permanent Massachusetts resident attending an out-of-state institution, or recently graduated within the previous year. Students and recent graduates gain valuable workforce experience through their internships and build connections in the Massachusetts clean energy industry. Note: Businesses that participate in the internship program are reimbursed up to $12 an hour for the intern's labor. This is a significant benefit for companies, especially for start-ups that would not otherwise be able to afford new interns or employees.
The impacts of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program are long-term. By helping clean energy companies grow and by training workers entering the field, MassCEC is helping to prepare the next generation of clean energy leaders and ensuring future market growth.
The success of the program is due to a smart and simple concept: linking one of Massachusetts' largest and strongest populations, the higher education sector, with one of its fastest growing industries, the clean energy sector. After MassCEC's initial work to launch the initiative, the program has developed considerable momentum, because people in the two sectors have a strong interest in promoting it widely. MassCEC now only has to put continued funding and provide modest administrative work to keep the program going strong.
Additional benefits of the Internship Program have included increased exposure for Massachusetts-based clean energy companies as well as alleviating stubbornly high unemployment among college students, especially during the summer months. Due to heavy interest from both applicants and employers, the program has expanded from a summer-only internship, to a year-round program, offering part-time positions in the fall and spring, and full-time positions in the summer.
To participate in the program, students — both undergraduates and graduate students — submit a resume, official or unofficial transcript, and proof of residency (if applicable) into an online database. This information is viewed by participating employers, who select the individuals most likely to meet their workforce needs. Since its creation, the program has placed 952 interns at 228 companies. More than 50 interns have gained permanent positions at their host companies, while many others have found positions elsewhere in the state clean energy industry.
A model for other states.The Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program could be replicated in other states at any scale: state-wide or regional, technology specific or all-inclusive. Primary components needed for replication are funding for reimbursements, a population of interested college students, and interested clean energy companies.
Since an agency or organization hosting the program is simply serving to facilitate the selection process,
very little logistical work is required to administer a similar program once sufficient protocols have been established. As the application process continues to evolve and take on a more digital component, it will also require far less administration on the part of the host entity in the future.
Judges' Comments. "Massachusetts' commitment to growing its clean energy sector is exemplified in this internship program.Developing a skilled workforce for the future is an important issue to address. Both the clean energy industry and the student interns are well-served by this program. Other states could adopt similar programs to develop their clean energy workforce."
Project #6: State of New Mexico, Energy Conservation and Management Division (ECMD), Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department
New Mexico's total renewable generation capacity is now over 1 million kilowatts. This huge milestone for renewable energy in New Mexico would have not been realized so soon without the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit (REPTC). The program supports utility-scale wind, biomass, and solar projects by providing a refundable 10-year tax credit against the corporate income tax of 1 cent per kilowatt-hour for wind or biomass, and between 1.5–4 cents per kWh for solar. This innovative program involved collaboration between utilities, industry, and state government. It has resulted in long-term economic and societal benefits, leveraged private investment, and increased renewable energy deployment.
ECMD develops and implements effective clean energy programs — renewable energy, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, and safe transportation of radioactive waste — to promote environmental and economic sustainability and to protect public health and safety for New Mexico's citizens. In 2003, ECMD began implementing the REPTC.
How the REPTC works: For wind and biomass, the credit is $0.01 per kilowatt hour and applies to up to 400,000,000 kWh for each certified generator in each of ten consecutive tax years. The statewide cap of the credit for wind and biomass is 2,000,000,000 kWh of production per year. For solar, the credit ranges between $0.015 and $0.04 per kWh (an average of $0.027/kWh) and applies to the first 200,000,000 kWh for each certified generator in ten consecutive tax years. The statewide cap of the credit for solar is 500,000,000 kWh. Since October 2007, the REPTC has been a refundable tax credit and can be allocated at any time to a new owner of the renewable energy generation project. To qualify, the energy generator must have a capacity of at least 1 MW that is installed before January 2018.
The ECMD began this effort by developing "investment-grade" wind maps for the state using an international firm whose reputation was acceptable to investment bankers. With this data, wind developers and investors became more comfortable in developing projects. Projects were advanced by at least three years because developers had reliable data at an early stage with which to base decisions.
The additional New Mexico 10-year production tax credit made wind and solar attractive investments. Since the inception of REPTC, 10 wind and 21 solar projects have been completed, leading to 2,246,000,000 kWh in annual energy production. There are now 794 MW of wind and 232 MW of solar operating in New Mexico. These projects created approximately $2 billion in construction activity over the past ten years. A waiting list for the tax credit includes another 677 MW of wind and 65.5 MW of solar. The existence of REPTC has also made it easier for electric utilities in the state to cost-effectively meet the targets in the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS).
The New Mexico State Land Trust receives direct revenue from leasing public lands to wind, solar and geothermal power plants. The projects qualify for the tax credit for ten years, but continue to produce renewable energy far beyond the 10-year incentive, as state land leases are commonly up to 30 years in length. Lease revenue for the next 38 years from renewable energy and transmission projects is projected to be $574 million.
Renewable energy projects are also leasing private land. This has become an important supplemental income source for a number of ranchers. Land leases, construction jobs and permanent maintenance positions are additional ways that renewable energy farms are supporting rural communities. A wind turbine typically generates about $20,000 in annual income to farmers and ranchers. PV systems also generate income to the land owners.
Maximum tax liability for the state each year for the wind/biomass and solar tax credits combined is $33,500,000. In contrast, as noted above, the revenue for the next 38 years from renewable energy and transmission projects for state-owned land leases is projected to be $574 million, which spread relatively equally over that time frame will be $15 million per year, and will continue for an estimated 28 years beyond the 10-year tax incentive.
Without this tax incentive New Mexico would possibly have a small amount of wind energy, but it would in no way been able to create the substantial land lease revenue it has now with many, large-scale wind farms throughout the state. Creating the REPTC was New Mexico's planned approach to make the state RPS acceptable to all stakeholders. In turn, this tax incentive leveraged private investment to benefit New Mexico. Since the REPTC was instated in 2003, several other states have examined the NM REPTC as a model for creating their own programs. This program could be modified to fit the needs and limits of other states.
Judges' Comments. "The State of New Mexico's program identified its renewable energy resources and potential sources of revenue to create an incentive program that has long-term benefits. By providing developers with reliable investment-grade data in state wind maps, and with its collaboration with state lawmakers, the ECMD program has enabled rapid development of renewable energy projects by utilities and private investors."
Project #7: New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
The NYSERDA CHP Acceleration Program is structured to drive market transformation by endorsing commercially-available, pre-engineered/pre-packaged modular combined-heat-and-power (CHP) products as plug-and-play appliances and provide all of the ease and assurances that conveys. The program explores whether a standard-offer, prescriptive program can effectively accelerate the adoption of the complex and expensive measure of clean and efficient CHP. NYSERDA aims for this program to be a model for multi-state standardization, which could be a real game-changer for the CHP marketplace.
Since 1975, NYSERDA has worked to advance innovative energy solutions in ways that improve New York's economy and environment. In 2012, drawing from years of experience with CHP programs,
NYSERDA launched the CHP Acceleration Program, which focuses on modular CHP from 50 kW to 1.3 MW (NYSERDA also has a companion program for CHP systems larger than 1.3 MW).
CHP systems are able to capture waste heat from commercial and industrial-scale electrical or mechanical power generation and use it to provide heat and power for multifamily, commercial, institutional, and industrial sites or local communities. The CHP marketplace in New York has traditionally been very fragmented and compartmentalized. To address this issue, NYSERDA has coordinated with utilities to vet and approve commercially available pre-engineered and pre-packaged CHP units, and to identify approved vendors for the modules.
The program was launched in 2012 with a list of pre-approved modules consisting of 36 systems offered by eight vendors, and has recently been expanded to 141 systems offered by 13 vendors. NYSERDA vets the quality, reliability, durability, and integrated consistency/harmony of the specific CHP modules, which builds customer confidence, increases standardization, minimizes custom engineering, lowers acquisition costs and leads to quicker decision-making. A project developer or design team can then select from a menu an appropriate module package that matches a potential installation site.
The program's strategy of identifying and selecting equipment vendors of the modules also provides multiple benefits. The system vendor is responsible for resolution of all issues pertaining to the purchase, installation, maintenance and performance of each system. They become an integral part of the design team early in the design process, thereby reducing the likelihood of incompatible or sub-optimal designs and allowing the vendors to be the repository for lessons learned regarding their equipment. The program provides transparency that allows customers to compare prices from different vendors and also enables vendors to offer firm pricing that takes into account financial support offered by NYSERDA.
Addressing market barriers to CHP deployment.NYSERDA's CHP Acceleration Program is addressing the system of CHP purchasing in New York, making it more streamlined, cost-efficient, and effective, while providing benefits to both customers and vendors. The $60 million program budget is expected to leverage $90 million in private capital and reduce peak electric load by 37.5 MW. The program offers support for installation of approved modules, support services, technical assistance, system performance data collection, and other activities.
The CHP Acceleration Program will further the public policy goals of increased grid reliability and resiliency. All projects must have the ability to run in parallel with the utility grid to save energy and reduce energy costs on an everyday basis, and must also have the ability to run independently during a grid outage to provide power to priority loads at the site. Additional financial support is offered for CHP systems installed to support critical infrastructure, such as facilities of refuge.
Although only halfway through the program, results are already very positive. There is much greater participation in this CHP Acceleration Program than in NYSERDA's previous CHP programs, and CHP systems are being deployed much faster. In the first 18 months of the program, 29 project applications were received. Twelve of those projects already have equipment on-site; one project was temporarily paused by a proposer, but has since restarted. It's also worth noting that the program has experienced zero attrition.
Judges' Comments. "This program is an excellent way to encourage more CHP projects. By creating standards for modules and tracking system performance, NYSERDA will give potential customers confidence. By promoting CHP as a plug-and-play technology and as a resilient power solution, the program has developed a model that deserves recognition and emulation."
Project #8: Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)
SMUD's Community Renewable Energy Deployment (CRED) program developed four innovative local renewable energy projects, providing up to 5.6 MW of additional clean energy generation to SMUD's customers. The projects bring local economic and environmental benefits though the creation of jobs, increased tax revenue for the community, supplemental revenue for dairy farmers, turning wasteland into solar power plants and transforming existing infrastructure and problem wastes into sustainable energy resources. In addition to displacing fossil fuels and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the projects demonstrated that community solar projects and anaerobic digesters can be readily implemented through collaborative partnerships.
SMUD has a renewable energy goal of 37% of retail sales by 2020, which consists of 33% RPS plus 4% from a voluntary green pricing program. In addition, a Sustainable Power Supply objective will require greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction to 10% of 1990 levels by 2050. SMUD taps into local renewable resources to help meet its aggressive renewables and GHG goals, mitigate transmission constraints, and bring economic and environmental benefits to the community. SMUD staff developed a collection of projects deploying renewable energy technologies within SMUD service territory.
In 2009, SMUD applied and received grants from the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to implement four projects, which were comprised of a community solar project and three anaerobic digesters.
SMUD teamed up with The City of Sacramento and solar company Conergy to develop this 1.5 MW community-scale solar project. Conergy designed, constructed, and financed this photovoltaic system in Sacramento's Sutter Landing Regional Park, which was built on a closed landfill. The project, which included carport and dog park shade structures in addition to a large ground-mounted system, was designed to address land settling issues. This project met SMUD's objective of installing community-scale solar generation on disturbed, marginal, publicly-owned land near the region's load center. It also resulted in excellent public visibility, educational impact, public amenities and aesthetic value. SMUD collaborated extensively with the City, Conergy and DOE to resolve permitting and environmental impact issues so that the project could be constructed. This project became operational in September 2014.
Regional County Sanitation District Wastewater Treatment Facility: This CRED project created a co-digestion facility to receive fats, oils, and grease (FOG) and food processing waste (FPW) in order to increase biogas production. The Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District wastewater treatment facility has a new feedstock receiving station and blends local FOG and FPW (such as off-specification soda pop) with sewage to increase biogas generation. This biogas is being used at SMUD's Cosumnes Power Plant to generate clean energy. The project provides an innovative, local solution to problem wastes that can clog pipes and pumps and previously required trucking to distant locations. It is expected to provide up to 3 MW of additional renewable electricity, generating power for up to 3,000 homes, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping local businesses save money.
The remaining two CRED projects are dairy manure anaerobic digestion systems (a 600kW covered lagoon and a 450kW above-ground complete stirred tank) for combined heat and power (CHP) applications, which deliver electricity to SMUD's grid. These anaerobic digesters were installed at the New Hope and Van Warmerdam dairies. Through a power purchase agreement with SMUD, the projects generate enough electricity to power roughly 500 homes in Sacramento. Waste heat from the engine-gensets is used to heat the digesters.
In addition, both projects improve farm operations by providing a better system to handle the manure, which stabilizes the waste and reduces odors and flies. The projects began commercial operations in mid-2013. SMUD matched the project developers with the dairymen, provided the DOE and CEC funds, provided expertise with permitting and grid interconnection, provided long-term power purchase and greenhouse gas offset contracts.
Beyond reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the CRED projects demonstrate that solar projects and anaerobic digesters that directly benefit the community can be readily implemented through collaboration between developers and local business owners, and supported through a combination of state and federal programs. SMUD fostered the partnerships needed for each project and secured grant funding from DOE and the CEC to lower capital costs.
Other communities could replicate the these projects and learn from SMUD's experience with the CRED program to assess, overcome barriers, utilize and benefit from renewable energy generation in their region. The Simply Solar project is a good example of installing community-scale solar on disturbed, marginal, publicly owned land. FOG and FPW are abundant in most metropolitan areas, and the U.S. has approximately 21,000 publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities. In addition, there are more than 1,400 registered dairies in California but only 16 have digesters. SMUD is already developing another dairy digester and has additional local projects in the pipeline, which could benefit from California's Cap & Trade and SMUD's Climate Change programs.
Judges' Comments. "This was a challenging program to accomplish, given the range of disparate technologies involved; it would not have gone forward without persistent leadership from SMUD. The commitment shown by the utility offers valuable insights into how to overcome challenges and work with others to achieve clean energy goals. Moreover, the CRED program shows that community-based deployment of small, innovative energy projects are replicable with proper local, state, federal and other stakeholders' support."
For more information on the CESA Awards program, please visit www.cesa.org.
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"Few cities have applied all the dimensions of the smart city; instead they have set priorities according to their needs" explains Pierre Fortin, Partner in Charge of the Strategy & Performance Consulting Group and Municipal Sector Leader at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton.
For more information, see the article published in Les Affaires, entitled "Une ville intelligente, c'est quoi ?" (What's a smart city?)
Discover the different ways cities can rethink their management model in depth to reduce costs and improve public services. Attend the smart city conference, "La ville intelligente", this October 22 at the Montréal Science Centre.
On that occasion, don't miss Pierre Fortin's 8:45 a.m. presentation demystifying the smart city, entitled "Démystifier la ville intelligente". He will discuss the challenges cities will face in becoming "smart cities".
Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton: 60 years of service and commitment to the Gaspé community
Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton chose the Musée de la Gaspésie to mark the 60th anniversary of its Gaspé office this September 18. This cocktail reception provided a festive atmosphere to bring together many business people from the region, clients and Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton staff members.
A key vector of the regional economy
The Gaspé office employs 20 people and Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton's offices in the Bas-St-Laurent-Gaspésie administrative region employ 230 more, including 22 partners. They count on a team of more than 20 tax specialists to serve their clientele throughout the territory.
A success story that began in 1954
It all began on January 1, 1954, when Jean-Paul Duguay opened his office in a room at the Baker Hotel, located on Rue de la Reine in Gaspé. Twenty years later, in 1974, Mr. Duguay went into partnership with Julien Leblanc and they pursued their activities under the name of Duguay-Leblanc. After another 20 years, in January 1994, seeing that the market required more specialized services, they decided to merge their firm with Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton. The year 2014 therefore marks the 60th anniversary of the firm's presence in Gaspé!
To mark his contribution, the founder, Paul Duguay, received a present from the partner in charge of the Gaspé office, Richard Chrétien. In addition, the office's conference room was named in his honour. Mr. Chrétien took the opportunity to thank his clientele and remind everyone of the importance of employee commitment.
Several of the firm's partners attended this cocktail reception, including (from left to right) Michel Cavanagh, Assurance Partner (Rimouski), Michel Proulx, Partner and Regional Vice-President, Linda Bossé, Assurance Partner (Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac), Jocelyn Lavoie, Assurance Partner (La Pocatière) and Richard Chrétien, Assurance Partner (Gaspé).
Congratulations and happy 60th anniversary!


The writer of this narration, the late Haj Taher Nusseibeh, is a member of the Jerusalem Nusseibeh family, which was entrusted with the keys of the Holy Sepulcher by Caliph Omar, fourteen centuries ago. In this narrative, he describes vividly and fascinatingly how he performed this honorary duty in his younger years, for decades on end.
On the dawn of one of those days in the winter season of Jerusalem, the room is warm, and the young Taher is immersed in a deep and tranquil sleep, while in the outside, stormy winds were blowing furiously, cleansing the narrow alleys of Jerusalem's old city, and heavy rainfall washing meticulously the roofs, cupolas and domes of the mosques, minarets, churches and bell towers. Suddenly, a kind and soothing hand, is tenderly laid, on the shoulders of Taher, and a low voice whispering into his ears: get up my son for the hour is approaching four o'clock. The young Taher agitates in his warm bed, trying to reclaim his happy dreams, but no sooner would ring the voice of his elder cousin from the street outside, urging him to speed-up. The young Taher, having gradually awakened and recovered his poise, smiles, gets up, and embeds himself with a thick garment, woven from camel wool. He covers his neck with a scarf, takes a lantern from his mother's hand, exits from the house, opens his umbrella and joins his cousin, walking together in the rain. They traverse one alley after another, and take a curve to a third, until they reach the pavement of one of Jerusalem's slumbering homes.
Out of the darkness enveloping the entrance of the house, there emerges the shadow of a young man carrying a lantern. After exchanging greetings, he joins the visitors, and after a short walk, the three arrive to the square fronting the Holy Sepulcher. The hand of the young newcomer whose name is Adeeb Judeh, stretches to his flowing garment, from which he recovers a key, roughly the size of a palm, and hands it to young Taher. The youthful Taher receiver the key, and the three advance toward the towering gate, where they are welcomed by the priest on duty. Taher advances with the key in hand climbs a ladder, opens the Gate, and the four participate in pushing the bulky gate open. Taher's hand stretches once again, but this time towards the metallic circuit breaker at the center of the gate, and pounds it.
The sounds of the toll reverberate and break the quiet of the church. The priest enters the church and advances towards a corner in the church, where he pulls a rope hanging and protruding from the ceiling. A roaring bell resounds in parts of the spacious church, and in another corner another priest pulls another rope, and the sound reverberates in yet another corner of the huge edifice. The tolls follow one another sequentially until all denominations have been alerted, that the gate of the Church has been opened. The three, having accomplished their assigned task, hurry back to the coziness of their warm homes.
After a moment of silence Haj Taher blurts: this used to occur in my youthful years, and now that I have become a father, grandfather and a Haj (pilgrim), the keys have been entrusted to younger members of the family. Those were beautiful days, but presently, also, sickness has weighed heavily upon me, and these youthful years have passed away. Neither rain nor snow or frozen ice would deter us from performing the duty, entrusted to us and to our forefathers before us, across the centuries. My cousins and I, used to alternate the performance of this duty, in the lean hours of the morning and, either return hurriedly home or, sometimes sit on the spacious stone bench – the divan- allotted to us, right inside the entrance of the Sepulcher. The priests would kindly bring to us heating stoves, as well as hot drinks and breakfast, and we would spend some time resting until dawn breaks out.
We would open the gate of the church at 4 A.M., to enable early pilgrims to perform their early prayers, and return at 7 P.M. every evening, to close the gate of the Holy Sepulcher. We would also close the gate at an interval between 11:30 and 12:30 noon.
This mission, used to be associated with other important functions, including the settlement of disputes, or resolution of differences between the various denominations over jurisdictions, space allocations and common maintenance work, and the family have carried out such missions with pride. At present, it is simply an honorary, symbolic and historical function. And even the divan at the entrance, removed in the course of restoration works, has not been restored thus far, and it is a matter for conjecture whether it would ever be; but the closets above it, assigned to us remain intact.
When the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, as part of the Arab Conquests of Bilad Ashsham (Syria), patriarch Sophronious of Damascus birth, offered to him the keys of the Holy Sepulcher, so as to be kept in trust, with the Muslims. The Caliph, after consideration, decided to entrust it, to Abdullah Ben Nusseibeh al-Maziniyya of al-Khazraj tribe, the largest and the most powerful supporters of the prophet in Medina. The Nusseibeh family performed this honorary duty for centuries until the Crusaders occupied Jerusalem in 1099 A.D., and those of the family who escaped the massacres, took refuge in the village of Bureen, at one of the hill tops of the city of Nablus, where up to this day is to be found the grave of our forefather, prince Burhaniddin ben Ghanim al-Khazraji.
In the year 1187, Sultan Salahuddin (Saladin) succeeded in defeating the Crusader European armies and reoccupied Jerusalem, after almost one hundred years of European occupation, masquerading under the banner of the Crusades. Our forefather prince Ghanim, mobilized the manpower and the resources of the Palestinian countryside, to fight alongside Saladin and his forces.
The Bani Ghanim –Nusseibeh Family- was richly rewarded with extensive lands at East Lubban village and its surrounding plains (around 50,000 Dunums) astride Jerusalem and Nablus. It was also granted other rich donations as Waqf foundations to support the Muslim Holy places. In 1191 when Saladin and Richard the Lion Heart concluded the Ramleh peace treaty, under which European pilgrims were allowed to perform their pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and Saladin fearing a surprise attack on Jerusalem, in the course of the pilgrimage, entrusted once more the custody of the Holy Sepulcher to the Nusseibeh-bani Ghanim family. He also organized large-scale festivals throughout Palestine, to coincide with the European Pilgrimage season to Jerusalem, as a precautionary defensive measure.
During the Ottoman era, the Turks were conscious of the pivotal importance of the Holy Sepulcher to Christendom, and were aware of the perennial disputes between the multiple Christian denominations and sects. They kept the major functions and duties of the office with the Nusseibeh family; but over the years and, specifically, in 1611, they assigned to the Judeh-Ghudhay family, the duty of safeguarding the keys of the Sepulcher and, of handing them over to the Nusseibeh family every day for opening the church, a sharing that is still in force up to this day.
The Ottomans also assigned to another Jerusalem family "Mustapha Agha- the Darweesh Jerusalem family", to share with the Nusseibeh family, the task of collecting the dues which pilgrims paid at the entrance to the church, which income, would eventually go to supporting the Khasqi Sultan philanthropic foundation, which distributes free food to the poor of Jerusalem, as well as to needy visiting pilgrims. Khaski Sultan, ethnic Russian, was the beloved beautiful wife of Sultan Sulayman the Magnificent.
The two families have been issued with 'firmans' (edicts) by the Sultanate. With the abolishment of the payment of dues at the gate of the Sepulcher, the role of the Darweesh family came to an end, while the Judeh family's role remained in place. The collection of dues was abolished with the weakening of the Ottomans in the nineteenth century. It was repealed when Mohammad Ali of Egypt and his son Ibrahim Pasha ruled Jerusalem and Palestine in the early decades of the nineteenth century.
The remuneration to the Nusseibeh family and to the Judeh family, thought largely nominal, is given in the form of donations contributed by the various Christian denominations, each year, at specific dates and functions. The Nusseibeh family obtains two thirds, while the Judeh family obtains one third.
Fixing their seal on the Holy Sepulcher, on the occasion of Easter Saturday, when the Easter Christian denominations celebrate the Holy Fire, each year, is an honorary function, which a member of the Nusseibeh affixes on the Sepulcher, alongside a high priest, designated each year to receive the Holy Fire and distribute it to the throngs of worshipers celebrating the occasion, a tradition sanctioned since 900 years.
The well-known historian Omar Assaleh al-Barghouti, endorses Taher's narrative, regarding the Nuseibeh family's connection for the church as follows: During the early conquest, the Christian denominations differed and asked the Caliph Omar to arbitrate . The Christians requested him to select one from his people to be arbiter, and he chose the Nusseibeh family, from the Khazraq tribe of Madina, which was in the vanguard of the Arab armies. It is one of the oldest, indeed the oldest family in Jerusalem, going back 14 centuries. When Saladin reconquered Jerusalem he restored the keys to the family.
In the past, the pilgrims used to pay dues known as "al-Khafr" or "al-Kaphara", levied in the era of Sulaiman the Magnificent. It was heavier on European pilgrims and much less so on eastern pilgrims. The Abyssinians and priests were exempt from any payment. In 1834, Ibrahim Pasha abolished this tax altogether.
Over the centuries of existence in Jerusalem, the Nusseibeh family had had to undergo the vicissitudes of turbulent times, wars, internecine conflicts and pestilence, in the relatively small confinement of the old city. During the transition from Mamluke to Ottoman, the head of the family at the time, Judge Fakhruddin Nusseibeh was entrusted with the task of mobilizing the manpower of the Jerusalem and Nablus regions, to fight the Turks. When their expedition failed, the Nusseibeh judge was exiled to Cairo where he died. The family was also persecuted and dispersed in the era of Ibrahim Pasha. No wonder its numbers are relatively small, for this is the price which prominence and leadership exact. And it is indeed a miracle that the family still exists, notwithstanding that, on more than one occasion, it had been virtually, on the verge of extinction.
But the Khazraj kinsmen, spread all over the Arab and Muslim worlds, count in the hundreds of thousands and, in some instances, carry variations other than their original al-Khazraj name.


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Kimsooja: Archive of Mind
Posted on Fri, November 25th, 2016 in Exhibition Reviews
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
July 27, 2016 – February 5, 2017
Kimsooja has long explored meditative approaches to her artistic practice. Textile enthusiasts may be most familiar with her use of the wrapping cloth she calls Bottari in various projects or her film Needle Woman. In the latter we see the artist's back, her stance stationary while crowds in various locations around the world stream past her – some faces curious, others oblivious. Over several decades of artistic work Kimsooja has treated the textile as fundamentally pedestrian. In many ways so is this latest exhibition content. But while the exhibition press release refers to "the artist's early meditation on non-doing and non-making as a form of art practice", her current exhibition in Seoul turns doing and making over to the public.
Centre-stage is Archive of Mind (2016). After patiently queuing (testament to the exhibition's popularity with the public) visitors are counted in to a low lit room and invited to roll balls of clay. Four distinct shades of clay dominate the slowly drying landscape. An audio titled Unfolding Sphere of the artist's sounds gargling and rolling clay plays throughout. But the space is dominated not by the audio, but by an elliptical wooden table 19 meters in length filled with the ant-like efforts of the public. Each day builds a record of individual hands learning – through an opportunity to do rather than observe – that something as simple as rolling clay into a sphere isn't in fact easy to do.
This is where the rub with this fascinating exhibition begins. Simple, repetitive activities are presented as a gateway to a clearer, calmer way of thinking. The physical outputs are modest enough to cast doubt on their purpose. But visitors are clearly mesmerised by the invitation. The installation has proven popular enough that the clay spheres have to be regularly collected and stored to provide more room on the table. The artist has mentioned plans to kiln fire this public effort, both to keep dust to a minimum and make storage of the archive practical. And while my two wonky contributions surely mean nothing, the collective record that spread across the table undeniably presents its own beauty.
Archive of Mind could be read as the antithesis of Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei's Sunflower Seeds (2010-11) installed in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall: unskilled play set in distinct contrast to the anonymous, albeit individual, labour. The contrast may be unintentional, but in both cases simplicity proved a powerful draw for the viewing public. And in both cases material misbehaviour plays a part. Ai Wei Wei's original invitation for the public to walk over the carpet of ceramic seeds was quashed by health and safety concerns about the amount of dust this created.
After wiping the traces of clay from your hands, visitors move into a much smaller but equally intimate space to be faced with the artist's yoga mat patterned through the dedicated wear of practice. The mat is wall mounted and displayed alongside a digitally embroidered sound bite of her breath on stretched silk. Again it is the pedestrian that dominates – but crucially Kimsooja's pedestrian. (I'm quite sure my yoga mat would find no welcome home in a public art space.) In the final gallery a video installation moves between images of swirling muddied water from the south west of the United States – a potter's wheel inverted as slip eddies inward; aerial photographs of the landscape etched by water over time that would not look out of place in an American National Park pamphlet; and imagery of women basket weaving and carding fibres.
How Kimsooja's invitation of public labour to roll clay spheres, the artistic significance of her well worn yoga mat or film footage of basket weaving and carding fibres make for a comfortable fit in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is a tantalising question. Part of the answer lies in their combination. And part may lie with Kimsooja's creative identity, which embraces much of what we could call craft ideals but with less interest in what the material can be than in the meditative states that repetitive action might bring about.
In amongst all those clay balls made by public invitation are my efforts: two stubborn triangles of clay that I swear looked nothing like all the other endeavours left on the table. Craft can be humbling. But the irony, considering Kimsooja's interest in mindfulness, is that misbehaving materials can also be downright irritating.
Selvedge magazine issue 74 (2016) pages 92-93
home page and above: Kimsooja, Archive of Mind, 2016, participatory site specific installation consisting of clay balls, 19 m elliptical wooden table, and sound performance Unfolding Sphere, 2016, Installation at Kimsooja – Archive of Mind at MMCA, Seoul, Photo by Aaron Wax, Courtesy of MMCA and Hyundai Motor Co. and Kimsooja Studio


For my first outfit, I wanted to do something sporty to show that you can really wear this watch dressed up or dressed down. I got this tropical pattern bomber jacket from Forever21 several months ago – I paired it with plain black leggings and trendy sandals.
My second outfit, and probably my fave is super on trend right now! I also got this embroidered denim jacket from Forever 21 and paired it with this metallic pleated skirt, which I got from my mom's vintage shop. For the shoes I went with my black mules that I picked up from Marshall's.
For my last outfit, I chose this gingham top from the Victoria Beckham for Target line, paired with distressed denim and the same black mules. I thought the torn denim would provide a more edgy look with such a classy top.
All in all, I'm really loving this watch. It is so comfortable, versatile and high quality! It makes the perfect Mother's Day gift or Grad gift for that special person in your life.
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Il suo nome è dedicato alla città di Brünn, oggi Brno, nella Repubblica Ceca.

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The Role of Women in Judaism
I am remiss: I meant to write about this months ago, and other issues got in the way. But this is such an important topic that I am writing about it now.
The issue of a woman's role in scholarship and Judaic ritual leadership, which has been 'whispered' about just under the surface for a while now, was raised aloud again and brought to the forefront recently.
This has happened particularly by the big news made by Rabbi Avi Weiss with his "Open Orthodoxy" idea, opening the door for women to have a leadership and public role in Jewish ritual observance, and also by Rabbi Yuval Sherlo, head of the Petach Tikva Hesder Yeshiva, when he created his "halachic document" enabling women to increase their participation in synagogue services, and by various other articles and blogs on the subject.
Here are some excerpts: from The Forward:
Rabbi Avi Weiss, a leading advocate for a more liberal Orthodoxy, and Sara Hurwitz, a protégé of Weiss, are now taking inquiries and applications for Yeshivat Maharat, a four-year program set to open this fall to train women as "full members of the Rabbinic Clergy," according to an e-mail announcement. But they will not, as of yet, be called rabbis.
From YNet News:
Rabbi Yuval Sherlo, head of the Petah Tikva hesder yeshiva, has recently formulated an elaborate halachic document aimed at facilitating the integration of women into prayer services and the life of the congregation, while striving for the maximum level of equality allowed by the Halacha.
In the plan, which was presented at a conference at the Lander Institute in Jerusalem Wednesday, Sherlo calls for renovating synagogues in order to adjust them to women's prayers, to encourage women to dance with the Torah scroll and allow orphaned women recite the kaddish prayer alongside men.
And from Elana Sztokman's blog in writing about 'Judaism in transition':
. . . As long as women do not "count", not for minyan, not for kaddish, not as human beings, the message we sent to our daughter is still a lot of wishful thinking. As long as we continue to insist on gender difference, that only men can give a get, that men take a wife while women are "taken", that only men are considered reliable witnesses, that men are rabbis while women are "maharats", and so forth, then the equality line is still a bit of a fib. Sure, we're working, but there is much work left to do, and this is where our energies belong.
I remember how, years ago, some of the Orthodox establishment berated the great Torah scholar Nechama Leibowitz (zikhrona li-vrakha), whose class I had the honor of attending.
Has the time for acceptance finally arrived? Can we do this? Can Orthodox Judaism incorporate a new philosophy of including women in active, public religious roles?
Another interesting response to this hot topic was written by a Chabad rabbi, Rabbi Levi Brackman. He acknowledges in his article on YNet News that some women, for spiritual, not feminist reasons, seek a deeper role in ritual observance:
. . .most traditional women I encounter have no desire to lead synagogue services and are comfortable with their place within Orthodox synagogue services.
But there are some who are not. Some women want a more active role in the synagogue—not because they are feminists but simply because they have a spiritual yearning for it. We in the West live in a society that has dispelled negative sexist and chauvinistic attitudes towards women. Whilst men and women are different, we now clearly recognize that men and women are equal.
But then he goes on to say that (emphasis mine):
Ultimately religious Jews who are committed to the traditional interpretation of Judaism must be guided in their spiritual worship by Jewish law as found in the Talmud and codified in the Shulchan Aruch. If there is room within the confines of Jewish law to allow greater female participation in the synagogue, women should not only be allowed to participate in that way they should be encouraged to do so.
That leaves this only a partially propped-open door. Because I don't think the Talmud nor the Shulchan Aruch are up for debate. . .yet.
Here is a JPost video referenced on Elena Sztokman's blog, about the Kolech conference in Jerusalem this past July (click on the JPost link to see this).
And here is just a small portion (see #1) of the agenda* at the Kolech conference (*for loose, partial English translation, see below)
The subject is on the table.
(then, of course, there is always DovBear. . .)
*some opening lectures are:
1) the causes which designed the structure of halacha (Jewish law)
2) "your nakedness will not be exposed" - before whom do we cover ourselves up, and why?
halacha Jewish Law Judaism Maharat Petach Tikva Hesder Yeshiva Rabbi Avi Weiss Rabbi Levi Brackman Rabbi Yuval Sherlo The Forward Torah women in Judaism women rabbis YNet News
Ironically, I think it was this past parshat shavua, which mentioned that it's forbidden for women to don men's clothes and the opposite, when it hit me that tallit and t'fillin must be included in that. Of course, that's my simple interpretation.
Last year, and G-d willing this year, too, I'll study in Matan. Most of the teachers, especially Tanach, are women, since men just don't know the subject as well. Women spend a proportionately larger time on it, while men concentrate on Gmorah.
I don't go for imitating men. I suffer no envy, as long as I'm not ignored, just because I'm a woman.
Biological men can't get pregnant. There are innate differences between the sexes, as I well know as I prepare to teach high school girls after more than a decade teaching boys. I do prefer teaching boys.
Every morning I'm totally sincere when I bless G-d for making me according to His will. And I'm happy to sit in shul knowing that the food is keeping warm on the platta and I don't have to learn the leining. I can just "meditate" on the words of the prayers and concentrate on G-d.
One of the keys in my philosphy of life is making the best of what we have.
Some of my feelings about this is probably due to the fact that I'm in Israel, and our synagogues and rabbis don't have the same roles as in the galut.
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Eema I think people totally miss the point when it comes to women rabbis and all that stuff. Women are on a higher spiritual level than men. They dont have the same rules as men because they are past all that. Men constantly need reminders so their thoughts dont "stray" so to speak. So therefore there is no need for a women Rabbi. It is not her duty to fill that position.
In our modern age when everyone wants equal rights I think we misinterpret these laws as sexist and degrading to women. On the contrary, this is actually completely the other way around.
A women should be proud that she isnt bound to mitzvot bound by time.
A woman that has become a "rabbi" has lowered her level to that of a man. Dont make too much sense does it? Jeudaism is getting twisted and turned and in the end we will be totally lost.


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Bury Bach Choir - Handel's Messiah
Part of the Abbey 1000 celebrations
Start Date: 16 May 2020
Start Time: 7pm
End Date: 16 May 2020
End Time: 9.45pm
St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds
https://www.burybachchoir.co.uk/concerts-and-tickets/16-may-2020-handel-messiah/
Come and enjoy the energy and variety of Handel's Messiah, performed by the Bury Bach Choir in St Edmundsbury Cathedral as part of Bury St Edmunds Festival 2020 and of the Abbey of St Edmund 1000 celebrations.
One of the best-known choral works in western music, Messiah was first performed in April 1742, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible and the psalms included in the Book of Common Prayer. Jennens' text is an extended reflection on Jesus as the Messiah, providing a fitting contribution to the Abbey 1000 celebrations.
If you've not heard Messiah before, prepare to be enthralled by the most famous oratorio in the English language. This is musical story-telling of the very highest quality, full of uplifting tunes, with a remarkable variety of pace guaranteed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. The work features the 'Hallelujah Chorus' and many other famous numbers.
With top flight soloists and the superb Norwich Baroque, this promises to be a performance to remember. Don't miss it!
Fae Evelyn soprano
Valerie Reid mezzo-soprano
Austin Gunn tenor
Graeme Danby bass
Norwich Baroque
Bury Bach Choir
Philip Reed conductor
Booking opens 17 February 2020 at the website above.
Tickets £25 (reserved), £20 and £15 (unreserved)
Early booking discout £1 off all tickets booked by 31 March 2020
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Well done to all the winners and to all the participants for joining in.
Here's my entry which was inspired by a true life event – overcoming my fear of rollercoasters and taking my one and only ride with my two young daughters. I've never been on a rollercoaster since (and have no intention of so doing,) but the memory has stayed firmly in my mind as a massive accomplishment.
A true triumph over fear!
It's a gut-wrenching fear of mine: Roller-coasters, a grim holding on, tempting death. Sometimes you have to face your fears and deal with them. I'm proud of the ride in Portugal. I was with my family, my two daughters and my husband. I had to be brave, and I was. I've got the photo to prove it but never ask me to do it again! Not now, not ever. It was a once in a lifetime moment, one I'll treasure forever. But I still imagine what could have happened and an author's imagination is the most dangerous, evil ride.
It's no wonder that wicked old roller-coasters feature in my writing. You'll have to read the second novel in The Curse of Time series to see what I am talking about! I'm still working on that.. I'm around the 70,000 word mark!
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Marje, you are a versatile writer being able to extract real-life terror into a memoir short and use the same detail to color your YA paranormal novel. Well done!
Thank you Charli. It's interesting how our experiences and fears creep into our writing.


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Chapter: London to Manchester in the Spring of 1831
Agriculture in the English Midlands
Agriculture. - Having passed through the same tract of country for the first time in 1806, with the farming of East Lothian fresh in our minds, we well recollect the impression made on us by the wretched state in which the agriculture of England was, in comparison with that of Scotland. Though we did not now expect much change, except in there being a greater quantity of land enclosed, yet we could not help being surprised at the very slight improvement which has taken place in the implements and the processes of culture. We must except a part of Derbyshire and Lancashire, as far as we have yet seen it: but Hertfordshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and Staffordshire, meaning the parts of these counties which we have passed through, seem only to have advanced two steps, viz. those of having a more general introduction of clovers, and a somewhat better Dreed of horned cattle. The same cumbrous implements of every description, large clumsy half-starved horses, shallow ploughing, dirty fallows, and broad-cast turnips, still remain. Will it be believed that we repeatedly saw six horses in a line drawing a heavy wheel plough at the rate of two miles an hour? In only one or two places, exclusive of Derbyshire and Lancashire, did we see improved swing ploughs, turnips on raised drills, or clover mixed with ryegrass; and nowhere single-horse carts, or Finlayson's, Wilkie's, or Kirkwood's improved harrow and grubber; though the improved grubber is an in-strument that might work nine tenths of the turnip and naked follows of England, and one which will sooner or later, and more especially when steam is applied to impel agricultural implements, effect a revolution in the culture of arable lands. Is this, then, the result of the exertions of the Board of Agriculture, and of the 150 county boards that were established all over the country ? Yes: and nothing better would be the result if these boards were recalled into existence and continued for another half century. They were mere playthings for the country gentlemen. Instead of boards, if, in 1796, it had been thought fit to establish schools all over the country, agriculture would by this time have reformed itself; the farmers would have found it to be their interest to adopt improved practices, as they did in Scotland, without the assistance of any board. All that the agricultural societies attempted is to be considered in the light of empiricism or topical remedies; but a system of general scientific education would strike at the root of every disease in agriculture, in gardening, and, indeed, in every thing else. Effectually and permanently to advance, we must begin at the beginning, that is, with the rising generation.


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New Army directive could obstruct military members' contribution to truth
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The Spanish newspaper El País revealed Wednesday that new directives from the army commander General Nicacio Martínez are instructing military members to present a planned narrative of the armed conflict to the Special Peace Jurisdiction (JEP, by its Spanish initials) and the Truth Commission.
The document, titled Plan 002811 and dated March 13, 2019, has created concern over the influence it may have on the individual testimonies of military members who appear before these bodies of the transitional justice system. Some also worry that the instructions could outright deny or manipulate the facts behind alleged abuses committed by military members.
On its behalf, the Army said that the directive aims to "guide the position of the institution in spaces of truth and historical memory," but for Alberto Yepes, of the Colombia-Europe-United States Coordination, the document attempts to "impose a version of the truth in an official manner" and to undermine the obligations of military members before the JEP and the Truth Commission.
The Commission, which began its three-year mandate late last year, relies on information from the Armed Forces that will be cross-examined and included in their final report that will be presented in 2021. Meanwhile, the war tribunal has taken on the cases of 2,000 military members who participated in the armed conflict — 99% of which are linked to extrajudicial killings or forced disappearances.
"Army would impose an official denial"
The directive consists of three main guidelines. The first includes "counter-arguments" that "will serve as a guide for the contributions that members of the National Army may potentially make to the Truth Commission."
The second guideline highlights the "emblematic cases" of human rights violations that the FARC guerrillas committed against the Army. The third concept underlines that the Army was also a victim of the armed conflict and plans to annex a list of good acts the Army took part in throughout the regions.
"The National Army must build and rebuild its truth about its origins, causes, development and impact in the armed conflict so that it may be possible to define identity traits in relation to its actions," read one of the documents.
Yepes warned that the directive obstructs individuals from acknowledging the truth, which could be replaced by a "predesigned truth." By laying out these guidelines, it also seems that there exists a "profound fear of the truth," Yepes added.
The Ministry of Defense defended its directive amid the controversy, claiming that the previous military leadership designed the instructions in November 2018 after the former army commander General Alberto Mejía spoke with the president of the Truth Commission Father Francisco de Roux.
The Colombian Army has been at the center of various controversies this year over some of its decisions, including an order signed by General Martínez that calls for an increase in combat kills and most recently, reports of corruption within the institution.
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Beleaguered oil giant BP is in talks to sell $12 billion of assets, including a prized Alaskan oil field, says Sunday Times of London.
LONDON - BP is in talks to sell up to $12 billion of assets, including its big stake in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, the largest oil field in North America, The Sunday Times of London reported.
A sale would be the latest of several steps the beleaguered oil giant is taking to raise money to pay for damages from the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Times said.
BP has entered talks with American rival Apache Corp., which approached the British company, the Times said. Negotiations are under way over the structure of the agreement and what other assets could be included, it said.
Houston, Texas-based Apache describes itself as an independent energy company in exploration and development of natural gas and crude oil. The firm operates in the United States, Canada, Egypt, Australia, North Sea and Argentina. Apache is worth $30 billion and is one of America's largest independent oil groups, according to Reuters. Apache reported first-quarter earnings of $705 million on revenue of $2.7 billion. Its shares closed Friday up 48 cents at $87.88.
Word of the BP talks comes as the company is trying to install a tighter seal over the leaking Gulf well, which has been pouring oil since a blowout in April, the Times said. A relief well that may close it off could be complete before the end of the month.
The Times said good news from the Gulf coupled with BP's depressed stock price could tempt rivals to consider bids.
BP's shares finished on Friday at $34.05, just over half of its 52-week peak.
Besides selling assets, BP is raising billions from bond issues and bank loans, the Times said.
The cash will help to reassure investors that the cost of the cleanup will not overwhelm the company, the Times said. Goldman Sachs, the American investment bank, thinks BP could ultimately be forced to pay $70 billion in cleanup and compensation costs.
Getting a stake in Prudhoe Bay would be a coup for Apache, the Times said. It is one of the largest oil fields discovered and one of BP's prize assets. It produces 390,000 barrels a day, equivalent to 15 percent of the United Kingdom's North Sea output.
BP's partners in the field, Exxon and Conoco Philips, are likely to have pre-emption rights that would allow them to match any offer made by Apache, the Times said.


A war of words has erupted between Netflix and Relativity Media as reports said the streaming giant has requested a court void the parties' supply contract and block reorganisation efforts by Ryan Kavanaugh.
The move by Netflix comes as a blow to Kavanaugh, casting as it does public aspersions on his ability to endure as a viable maker of films and threatening a lucrative income stream.
Netflix pays tens of millions of dollars to stream Relativity films.
The streaming giant filed papers with the US bankruptcy court in New York claiming Relativity was unable to deliver the films it said it would in the parties' contract and did not look capable of meeting requirements this year or in 2017.
Relativity's team of attorneys has said the company would be able to satisfy the court that it can meet the requirements to enable a reorganisation to proceed.


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Unable to squeeze out enough votes for a last-ditch plan to overhaul the Obama health law, Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday announced that they would not force a vote this week on a GOP plan that would block grant money to the states, and allow individual states to determine how best to cover individuals who don't get health insurance coverage through a job.
After a closed door meeting, Republican Senators told reporters that they were not giving up on health care reform, but that it was not going to be approved before a Saturday deadline for action under a special budget process.
"We know what we don't like," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said. "Obamacare is not working - we make that case very effectively."
"But we've had a hard time articulating what we are for - until now," Graham added.
"We don't have the votes," said Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who had tried his best to cajole and convince GOP Senators to get on board with his plan in recent months.
"We've made the decision that since we don't have the votes, we will postpone that vote," Cassidy said to reporters. "Am I disappointed? Absolutely."
But the decision also helped to take the pressure off individual GOP Senators - like Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) - who had yet to announce their position on the Graham-Cassidy legislation, giving them some wiggle room for any future negotiations, and Republican efforts to change the Obama health law.
The decision not to have a vote this week also allows the GOP and the White House to switch gears, and start talking about tax reform - as the outlines of a Republican plan will be unveiled on Wednesday.
That video comment from the Senate Majority Leader contains a little bit of Capitol Hill mumbo-jumbo that needs a bit of explanation, as moving to tax reform is not as easy as Republican leaders and the President make it out to be, in terms of getting final House and Senate votes on a tax bill.
As with health care, the White House wants to use the process known as "budget reconciliation" to move a tax reform package in coming months, in order to avoid the possibility of a Senate filibuster - that means the House and Senate must approve a budget outline for 2018, known as a 'budget resolution,' which would authorize the use of the reconciliation process.
So far, the budget resolution seems to be short on votes in the House - where the plan has been on hold since late July, in a dispute among GOP lawmakers over how to force extra savings in future entitlement program spending.
So, before the GOP can start work on tax reform, they will need to find the magic formula to get a budget resolution through the House and Senate.


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Books about Bodies
Books about Bodies When the fictionalized glamour of forensics science recedes, will the stories still captivate?By Katherine Ramsland ARTICLE EXTRASSPRING BOOKSStem Cells on ShelvesAn Awkward SymbiosisThe Death of Faith?High in the TreesBloody IsleThe Enchantment of EnhancementNew Lab ManualsIn Brief Cause of Death: Forensic Files of a Medical Examiner, By Stephen D. Cohle and Tobin T. Buhk, 32
When the fictionalized glamour of forensics science recedes, will the stories still captivate?
ARTICLE EXTRAS
SPRING BOOKS
Stem Cells on Shelves
An Awkward Symbiosis
The Death of Faith?
High in the Trees
Bloody Isle
The Enchantment of Enhancement
New Lab Manuals
Cause of Death: Forensic Files of a Medical Examiner , By Stephen D. Cohle and Tobin T. Buhk, 327 pp., Prometheus Books, $26.00
Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel (Body Farm Novels) , By Jefferson Bass, 368 pp., William Morrow, $24.95
Post-Mortem: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries , By Philip A. Mackowiak, 384 pp., American College of Physicians, $29.95
In 1993, "Big" Mike Rubenstein reported the deaths of three of his relatives in a Mississippi cabin. Rubenstein claimed to have visited the cabin in November, but he found it empty; returning in December, he found them dead. Bill Bass, forensic...
In 1993, "Big" Mike Rubenstein reported the deaths of three of his relatives in a Mississippi cabin. Rubenstein claimed to have visited the cabin in November, but he found it empty; returning in December, he found them dead. Bill Bass, forensic anthropologist and founder of the infamous "Body Farm" on the campus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was asked to construct a timeline for when the deaths had occurred. Careful research on the developmental cycle of maggots and the decomposition rates in certain temperatures placed the deaths in mid-November - exactly when Rubenstein had "visited." He was tried and convicted of triple homicide.
Stories like this have helped fuel a recent cultural obsession with forensics science, a so-called CSI effect. Some scientists, like Bass, have exploited interest from publishers to make their work more accessible, while others have capitalized on the mass market appeal. The results have been mixed, as has response from forensic scientists. Some appreciate the exposure and newfound opportunities to brainstorm with law enforcement, but others are wary that "dumbing down" the science for public consumption compromises standards. Television shows, these critics say, have more often miseducated the public than showcased good science. The fast pace, glamour, and definitive results belie how painstaking and time-consuming this work actually is.
Cause of Death, by Stephen Cohle and Tobin Buhk, aptly demonstrates the reality with its immersion into the minutia of the autopsy. There's little reason to charge around in "Hummers" looking for bad guys, little excitement in the many hours bent over a malodorous body, and plenty of pressure to get small details right. Nevertheless, it's not the first book to offer the daily doings of morgues and pathologists, and therefore suffers by comparison. In a sluggish style with little drive, the medical examiner is ostensibly exposing a reporter to his work, and the intrigue is uneven.
The pace of forensics is generally not fast enough to take place in neat hour-long episodes.
Bill Bass's newest fiction novel, Flesh and Bone, written with Jon Jefferson as the pseudonymous Jefferson Bass, features the daily drudgery of measured work in the name of science but channels the drama more effectively. This, the second of their "Body Farm Novels," opens with two people strapping a male corpse to a tree with an oversized corset, slicing off the penis, and stuffing it inside the mouth. They're trying to carefully replicate the conditions of a murder victim for an accurate time-since-death estimate, and Jefferson and Bass reach a nice balance between melodrama and the tedium of the work. There's little the authors can do to stir things up, aside from targeting the lead character with threats and legal problems, but factoids such as how to interpret a maggot trail keep interest high.
Indeed, the pace of forensics work is generally not fast enough to take place in neat hour-long episodes. Sometimes, it doesn't have to be. Philip Mackowiak is a medical historian, and in Post Mortem, he delves into historical medical mysteries. Since 1995, Mackowiak has directed the annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference, where he and his colleagues debate some of the greatest medical puzzles of all time: Did Alexander the Great contract the West Nile virus, for example, or was the Emperor Claudius actually poisoned? For the 12 cases in Post Mortem, Mackowiak lays out all the facts he can glean on such figures as Christopher Columbus, Edgar Allan Poe, Florence Nightingale, Joan of Arc, and Beethoven. The medical conditions of these "patients" clearly affected their legacies, he contends, and while there are obvious problems with interpreting information from former centuries, Mackowiak carefully unpacks the cases in the style of a scientist looking at all the angles.
One positive influence of the CSI effect has been the development of a broader audience for such books. In the process of reading scientifically accurate books that also tell stories, the public might forget about the mass media's artificial plot devices and find themselves learning how forensic science is actually done. And that's not such a bad thing.
Katherine Ramsland is professor of forensic psychology at DeSales University and author of The CSI Effect.


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It caused confusion on the Google search engine.
Search for cricketer Rashid Khan's wife in Google and you will surprisingly see results which state Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma as his wife.
There is no doubt that this has left many people scratching their heads wondering how this happened.
However, there is a reason behind this mishap for linking the Afghanistan cricket star and the actress.
According to media reports, 22-year-old Rashid Khan recently took part in an Instagram Q&A session.
He was asked to name his favourite actresses. In response to this question, he named Bollywood actresses Preity Zinta and Anushka Sharma.
It appears this was all that was required for fans to link Rashid and Anushka.
As a result of this going viral online, it seems it caused confusion on the Google search engine.
In reality, Anushka Sharma is married to Indian cricketer Virat Kohli. The pair tied the knot in 2017 in a lavish wedding ceremony.
In fact, the couple is expecting their first child together.
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On Saturday, 10 October 2020, Anushka attended the IPL match between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings.
The actress was spotted blowing her husband Virat a kiss from the visitor's area which caught the attention of spectators.
Virat, who is known as one of the world's best batsman, scored an unbeaten 90 runs in the match.
After his half-century, Virat Kohli gestured to his wife.
Recently, Anushka Sharma was involved in a controversy with former Indian international cricketer, Sunil Gavaskar.
The actress has come under fire numerous time as she is often blamed for Virat's poor performance on the field.
The cricketer-turned-commentator, Gavaskar made a shocking remark while delivering commentary during the Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kings XI Punjab. He said:
"Inhone lockdown me to bas Anushka ki gendon ki practice ki hai."
Taking to Instagram, Anushka Sharma shared a post addressed the remark. She wrote:
"That, Mr Gavaskar, your message is distasteful is a fact but I would love for you to explain why you thought of making such a sweeping statement on a wife accusing her for her husband's game?
"I'm sure over the years you have respected the private lives of every cricketer while commentating on the game.
"Don't you think you should have equal amount of respect for me and us?"
Meanwhile, Rashid Khan is not married and certainly not to Anushka Sharma.
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She's one of the best in her sport, but snowboarding cross star Lindsey Jacobellis missed out on Olympic gold for the third-straight Games.
SOCHI, Russia, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Jacobellis was the biggest name in the ladies' snowboard cross field in Sochi Sunday, and she came into her semifinal race with the weight of unmet expectations from two previous Olympics on her shoulders.
The 28-year-old, widely considered the best athlete in her young sport with three World Championships and eight X Games gold medals under her belt, wiped out with a big lead in her semifinal race, knocking herself out of contention for a medal.
Despite the disappointment, Jacobellis seemed to take her fall in stride.
"There's worse things in life than not winning," she said. "A lot worse. And of course it's very unfortunate that this didn't work out for me. I've trained very hard for this moment. It just doesn't come together for whoever knows what reason."
While Sochi marks the second time Jacobellis has failed to make her event's finals -- she missed a jump in Vancouver in 2010 and was disqualified -- it is her near miss in Turin that weighs the heaviest.
At just 20 years old, Jacobellis had a wide lead in the finals, seconds from taking gold. But on her last jump, she went for an extra trick, grabbing her board, and ended up falling. She recovered to earn silver.
On Sunday, Jacobellis had to face the indignity of competing in the so-called "Small Final" -- the race for seventh place.
"At that point," she said. "You don't even want to try."
She started slow, but leapt ahead, easily winning. And four years from now, in Pyeongchang, she could be right back in it.