Montevalno is the very apex of civilization. There is no element of life in Montevalno which is not a reflection of art. Even the humblest of food or domain has some spark of creativity and color to it. The true measure of the success of a society, as the Mon would have us think, is to provide means enough that each man may pursue the calling of his heart.
On one hand, this makes Montevalno a hub of artistic learning. Painting, sculpture, music, writing and every other art you can imagine is pursued to the most glorious of heights in the halls of the collegia of Montevalno. On the other hand, it produces a culture full of insecure snobs and drama queens, desperate for recognition for their latest masterpiece. Still, the one thing it will never be is boring.
Montevalno, unlike the other Golden Circle shadows (remember that GC is simply proximity, not a political entity), is not formally allied with Amber. Although a serious attempt has been made at an alliance in the past, the negotiations that were to lead to it were badly disrupted by local events and events in Amber.
Since Montevalno has never been formally allied with Amber, no Amberite has ever laid down a shadowpath connecting Montevalno to anywhere else. However, captains that can sail the shadow seas without the aid of a shadowpath, notably those of Kitezh and Minos, sometimes know the way, and thus, the shadow is served by the occasional trade ship from those shadows.
However, Montevalno is an "open secret" as a favored vacation spot for Amber's Princes and upper crust, a place for private get-aways (think: the equivalent of visiting the south of France on Earth). It's trivial to find personal passage, aboard a ship, from Amber to Montevalno and vice versa, though most such routes have a stop in Minos first.
It is no accident that the ends of the ambitious are so dramatic, for they fall at the direction of the greatest artists of Montevalno. The Collegia Des Artes is the collective name of the various institutions of art and instruction throughout the nation, with a presence in every principality. It is the source of much knowledge, the ultimate arbiter of tastes and the final word on matters political. Much of this is handled in a a day to day fashion - the Collegia's opinion is well respected, and the right word in the right place is enough to push policy in most cases. Still, for those extreme situations, an education in the arts can come in most handy.
There are three collegia that grant no titles or honorifics, and their study is not spoken of, the are the Collegia de Danse, Collegia de Masque and Collegiat de Finale. The Collegia de Danse is the least secret of the three, and is used as a cover for the other two, as it allows a certain amount of nod and wink among those who feel themselves to be in the know. Danse instructs students in the arts of the court, teaching the intricacies of politics, making for excellent courtiers, diplomats and spies. Masque takes the principals of espionage further, teaching the arts of intrusion, disguise and other black arts. Finale is the end of instruction, and is the study of an artful death.
For clarity, use the word "mons" the way you would "french".
The Duchies of Serminia and Paloma are neighbors, and have a bit of a checkered history. The other duchies an principalities each have their own little quirks.
Montevalno has some native magics, especially related to art, but it is only a small part of the culture.
Montevalno is the shadow where the plays of Shakespeare could easily have happened. It is suited to drama of every stripe, and play in Montevalno will usually revolve around some hubris, romance or intrigue of a scheming patron or ambitious artist.
Additionally, it will benefit Montevalno greatly to be allied to Amber, and that effort should drive a certain amount of play.


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Una célula de Opalski es una gran célula glial alterada (de hasta 35 μm en diámetro), originada de astrocitos degenerados, que presentan núcleos  (únicos o múltiples)pequeños, excéntricos, picnóticos, densamente teñidos desplazados a la periferia, y un citoplasma con granulación fina, que se encuentran en regiones corticales y subcorticales (ganglios basales  y tálamo) de los cerebros de personas con enfermedad de Wilson  y  con degeneración hepatolenticular adquirida. Las células de Opalski  fueron descritas por Adam Opalski, neurólogo y neuropatólogo polaco.

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Anatomía patológica
Opalski, célula

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CajaSur is a Spanish savings bank, property of Kutxabank. It has offices in Andalusia and Extremadura.

Until 2011, CajaSur was a Spanish savings bank, run by the priests in the Catholic Church, located in Córdoba, Spain. It was seized in May 2010 and defaulted in December 2010.

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Companies of Andalusia
History of Córdoba, Spain
Catholic Church in Spain
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Samsung's Galaxy Note 9 is available worldwide. Following a two-week pre-order window, the latest flagship is arriving on doorsteps everywhere. Now the battle between Samsung and Apple will really heat up as both companies offer new flagships to finish 2018.
It's an exciting time for first time Galaxy Note buyers and longtime fans of the series because, as expected, the Galaxy Note 9 packs a ton of high-end technology.
The S Pen makes its return, and Samsung included a spacious Infinity Display as well as an advanced dual-camera setup. Based on Android 8.1 Oreo with the Samsung Experience, there's really no area that the Galaxy Note 9 seems week. That $1,000 asking price could be worth it.
With the global release, Samsung published an item that covers the Galaxy Note series and its history. The series, which was introduced in 2011, has always pushed boundaries for mobile devices. It went from productivity-driven to power-driven over time. But the infographic leaves out one very important moment from Samsung's past.
Between 2015 and 2017, the infographic doesn't have a Galaxy Note. It jumps from the Galaxy Note 5 to the Galaxy Note 8 without mentioning that there was indeed a product announced in 2016. That year Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note 7, which was eventually pulled from the market after a massive scandal burned the company.
Multiple units were doomed by exploding batteries. The Galaxy Note 7 was actually recalled twice because, even after the initial investigation and recall, some units continued catching fire.
The 2016 flagship was banned on flights and elsewhere by several government agencies because of the potential damage.
While we all remember the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung is pretending it never existed. The product has been ignored and erased from any company-generated materials. Yet there will always be a singed mark on the Galaxy Note series' identity.
Despite the infographic's omission, the Galaxy Note 7 still deserves a place in history. The whole situation served as a reminder that, no matter how much you invest in research and development, something unforeseen could always ruin your progress. Samsung also took more of an interest in safety afterward.
The South Korean company also made out fine in the months and years following the incident. Samsung continues dominating, shipping more smartphones globally than any other brand. As for the Galaxy Note series, the Galaxy Note 9 feels like it made more hype than planned. Let's just hope this one doesn't get too hot.


Running to Stand Still: Phanatic, Fireworks, Wildwood & Sunday - Longday!
My father in law got 4 tickets to the Phils vs Diamondbacks game for this past Friday nite, which was also FIREWORKS nite! So my wife & I took our 6yr old & Pop-Pop to the game.
I had to be up at 6:00am to head to Wildwood Saturday morning, & Pop-Pop was up at 5:30 to go fishing.
So, what time do you think we get home? A 7:05 game should be done between 9:30 - 10:00pm, figure another 1/2 hr for the fireworks, and we live about 45mins. from Philly, we should be home and in bed no later than, oh 11:30.
Don't you know the game goes 12 innings! Good thing the Phils won!
By the time the game & fireworks were over, we finally got home about 12:45am.
The Phils had 2 fireworks nites this past week, and I read that they spent $72,000.00 on fireworks that were to last 18mins each. They were some of the best fireworks I have seen in a long time.
I have to give my son major props, he lasted the entire time. I never would have thought he would have lasted 12 innings + fireworks. Nice job E !
Well, by the time I fell asleep, It had to be close to 1:30am. Alarm rings at 6:00am, and I rolled over.
I got up and on the road to Wildwood about 6:40.
Did I happen to mention that our female beagle, Samantha, wanted to go out at 4:30! She never gets up at nite, so figures it would be this nite.(reminds me of Shoreturtle's "alarmcat").
I was told around the time we bought our place in Wildwood, that you buy a shore home for everyone else but yourself. Sure does seem like that sometimes.
I hit the boards for a run by 9:00am. As tired as I felt, late nite, 2hr drive, nothing beats the shore to perk you up. It was either the salt air, or maybe the Amp I drank on the way down.
The boards were alive with the vacationers, biking, walking, running, and checking out the weekend craft show.
I felt really good running, and did the boardwalk, 3.77 miles in 30:40 (8:15/mile). Then it was off to clean the house, see the current renter's out, and get ready for the next ones.
On Sunday, I got a later start than I would have liked for my long run. I liked getting out of the house by 7:00am, the past few weeks, but considering my lack of sleep Friday nite, and busy Saturday, I didn't get out the door until almost 9:00am.
I wanted to run 9+ miles today, but I just didn't have the legs. I ran thru Mercer County Park, and the park was buzzing with a huge lacrosse tournament.
It's amazing how many activities go on there each weekend.
My goal was long and slow, needing to build up my base for my upcoming marathon training.
I felt pretty good, until about the 6 or 7th miles.
It was starting to warm up quickly & you could feel the humidity building.
I ended the run at 8.39 miles 1:18:20 (9:21/mile).
While I was disappointed in myself for cutting the run a bit short, I have to look at the positives of the run.
It was my longest run so far, and I was around the pace I want to run.
Next Sunday I'll make up for my lost mile, and hit double digits!
Sounds like a great and tiring weekend of running, fireworks, and family fun. Great job on Sunday - as you said - completing your longest run yet at the pace you wanted.
LOL that the game went on so long. That is great that your son was able to wait it out!!
You are getting some great runs in. Keep it up!
Given how short on sleep you were, thats a good run. But hey... its free baseball so cant complain too much right!
Getting a 6yr old to sit still for dinner is tough enough, let alone a 12 inning baseball game.
I will make sure to get plenty of rest this Sat nite, so I can get a strong 10 miler this Sunday.
Baseball and fireworks are a great combo. We went for a minor league game on Saturday night for the same thing.
I'm not so sure you can make up miles, but nice job on the longest run to date.


It's been a longstanding scientific and universal acceptance that time catches up to all men. Sooner or later, the effects time's passage come to fruition in all of our lives. But you know what, I don't buy it anymore. You can't look me in the face and tell me that time will catch up to everybody when Jennifer Anniston is still out there as beautiful as ever. And don't you dare tell me that time will ever catch up to the San Antonio Spurs. I have fallen for that blasphemy one too many times.
The teams of my childhood have all faded into the backdrop of mediocrity and irrelevance in some way or another. The 2000's "7 seconds or less" Phoenix Suns, the 04-05 Detroit Pistons and Kobe Bryant's Laker champions are all examples of teams who once stood atop the league that are no longer anything more than a memory. But somehow, the Spurs remain victorious in their combat against time. Here in 2015, they will once again be a championship contender, if not the frontrunner to take the title back home.
The Spurs are very old in some areas of their roster. Tim Duncan, while his game remains ageless, will turn 40 before the end of the season. Tony Parker is the point guard equivalent to your dad's 1970's Mustang that sits in the garage and sounds like it is going to break down into its individual parts every time it gets above 5 miles per hour. Manu Ginobli has more bald on his head than he does hair. What magnificent hair he had.
But they have also had a resurgence of youth. They landed the summer's free agent prize by signing LaMarcus Aldridge, in hopes that he will be Kawhi Leonard's partner in crime for the future. Danny Green and Patty Mills have also developed into reliable nightly producers. But most importantly, they still have the brain behind the operation, coach Gregg Poppavich.
Leonard will be the motor for this team. He is far and away the best wing defender in the league, and he has the hardware to prove it. By the end of last season, dribbling within a 5-foot radius of the 2014 NBA Finals MVP was the equivalent jumping into a tank of hungry sharks with an open wound. He will put the seatbelt on any wing player in the NBA with more care and precision than a father strapping-in his newborn baby, or me when I buckle-up my bag of to-go Chiptole in the shotgun seat. He was absolutely ruthless on that end of the floor, and has developed the offensive game to compliment his skill-set on the defensive end.
Entering this season, the Thunder have more pressure for immediate results than any other team. Rumors of Kevin Durant leaving the city for his hometown have been circulating for almost two years now and this cloud of uncertainty will loom over the franchise all season. Combined with the fact that they have new coach Billy Donovan, who has never coached an NBA team, and there is even more work to be done in Oklahoma City.
NBA Coach of the Year Mike Budenholzer and the Hawks took the league by surprise when they turned in the first 17-0 month in NBA history. They had no superstars, but they had very good players and a Poppavichian system predicated on ball movement. This season, they are expected to take a step back after losing Demarre Carroll to the Raptors and becoming somewhat exposed in the playoffs last season.
There isn't much to say about the defending champion Warriors that hasn't already been said. They are the casual NBA fan's dream; a statistical anomaly who has been the biggest factor in moving the NBA into a new age . They put together an uncertain path to the championship last year through an unprecedented offense that was predicated on sharing the ball and using their weapons.
There was also the emergence of the Chef himself, Mr. Stephen Curry. The Baby-Faced Assassin put on a show last season, cooking a fair amount of individuals in his kitchen. Nobody in the league was safe. Nobody.
Vegas has the Cavaliers with the top odds to win it all next season, and there are many reasons this is the case. There is one obvious reason that supersedes all else, and that reason is LeBron James. When it seemed like everything that could possibly go wrong in his return home went wrong, the world was swiftly reminded why he is the best.
Maryland coach Randy Edsall will have a new title soon: former coach. It first was reported by Inside Maryland Sports' Jeff Ermann, and later confirmed by Yahoo Sports' Pat Forde, that the University of Maryland is set to fire their head football coach.
It was a fantastic season for the NBA in 2014-15. Young talents turned into full-blown superstars. The likes of Steph Curry and James Harden became social media moguls, with countless vines of ankle-breakers unleashed on any given night. Young talents emerged as true threats to the crown, and veterans like LeBron James and Chris Paul were put on notice. Who will be the new faces to throw their names into contention this season?
Now the NBA preseason is in full-swing and teams are tasked with expectations following an offseason of change. Anticipation must translate into tangible results, as young teams attempt to prove their worth and aging teams watch as their window for championship aspirations close before their eyes. We're here to help you sort through the murky uncertainty as next season comes closer with our division-based team analysis.
It has been a long road for Malcolm McCormick, better known as Mac Miller. He shed his coveted independent status by signing a massive deal with Warner Brothers last fall, a move that caught most by surprise. He is no longer the wide-eyed child from his early mixtapes, rapping about the youthful freedoms of smoking and skipping class. He is no longer the apathetic, self-loathing, drug-fueled shell of himself we have seen on his most recent projects. He comes to us on his newest album GO:OD AM with razor-sharp focus and clarity, a head space that fans have not seen in him yet. Following over a yearlong silence, which is comparable to a decade in the short attention span of the digital age, he gives us a beautifully crafted and carefully planned update on his whereabouts.


Bees have been getting a lot of attention lately, and it's well deserved!
– Bees pollinate much of our planet's food supply, and are critical to our survival.
– Honeybees provide us terrific health benefits through pollen, propolis and apitherapy.
– You won't believe all the crafty things you can do with beeswax!
– And, of course, there's that sweet, golden HONEY!
Come learn about these amazing little creatures and find out how YOU can become a beekeeper.


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communicator and genealogist
Film executive, academically trained, smartly experienced, award-winning financial journalist, trained genealogist.
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Co-writer, "as told to" and independent writer of short videos, books, blogs, articles and broadcast media.
CAREER MENTOR AND EDUCATOR
LEADERSHIP ROLES
As an award-winning communicator, I also achieved great results in higher education, as a genealogy researcher and accomplished businesswoman.
After retiring from Florida A&M University, I followed my longtime passion of researching our family histories. It led to a great business venture with my cousin, Mark Owen. We opened Good Genes Genealogy Services in December 2020 and have conducted many workshops and webinars. All fees were donated to the organization we represented.
My next retirement venture was to become a film executive. Serving as the Chief Operating Officer at Stonecrest, GA-based Ours Studios LLC. Founded by Entrepreneur Ron Bivins whose life mission was to share the stories of forgotten Black athletes in Georgia. The documentary was shown on Georgia Public Broadcasting just 8 months after I arrived; it reached 3.4 million subscribers of the PBS station. Ours Studios is located in a beautiful converted warehouse space, and it recently was a finalist for Business of the Year in its home county.
Life is great as I have accomplished all of my goals and continue to find wonderful destinies in my first love, film and journalism. As an International Business major (doctorate), Atlanta Emmy winner (DeKalb County TV), disability advocate (son, John), world traveler, truth student (Hillside International Truth Center), mother (Earl, Joh, Jocelyn), grandmother (Kaidence, Kingston, Kameo, Jazzmyn), HBCU and PWIs, family member and more, here's a little bit more about my prior career years ...
I became the first female dean of the Florida A&M School of Journalism & Graphic Communication, and facilitated leadership improvements in academics, technology, recruitment, strategic communications, alumni engagement, fundraising, student scholarship and faculty credentialing alignment. Also, I led the campus development of the nation's first African American owned and operated TV station, and tri-weekly shows on the HBCU Channel 142, SiriusXM.
While serving as Dean/Director of St. Louis, Mo.-based Webster University's largest two campuses for 23 Master's degrees in Little Rock, Arkansas, the state awarded it an unprecedented 5-year certification. Also achieved local and university-wide recognition for enrollment growth and averting crises between students, faculty and the community. The university's first female president benefited from the accolades bestowed upon the Arkansas campuses. Also awarded Professor of the Year (2011-2012) for Business Department, Arkansas Baptist University, as an adjunct professor of International Business. The Little Rock community college included students who were former prison inmates.
Served with distinction as the Chief of Staff of then-Georgia's largest local government, DeKalb County. Also served as its Communications Director during its TV Emmy-winning years. Previously served as the Information and Public Affairs Director for Fulton County Government (county seat of Atlanta). In addition, I served as the first female director of the Rockdale (GA) Stormwater Management Department where 90+ percent of goals were accomplished as pre-established by the citizens and leadership.
As a senior director with a multi-year assignment for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. I wrote two grants, the largest for a $3.5 million job training grant to benefit residents of economically poor neighborhoods of 1996 Olympic venues in Atlanta, GA. The international Olympic Committee is host to the world's largest peacetime event. I wrote the curricula and helped to implement the Olympic HOST HBCU Broadcast Program that enabled minority students to obtain internships in highly selective media organizations. The HOST HBCU program was selected as a legacy internal operational program.
There are several award-winning financial journalism career highlights with local Atlanta, regional, national and international media. I served as a financial journalist, columnist, broadcast anchor and consultant.
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I had the opportunity to work with Ann very early in my career. Ann is not only a great writer and communicator, but she truly loves her craft, and shares that love with those around her to help them be better. She balances her drive for excellence with a practical understanding of what's important and what isn't. That grounding has helped her successfully lead communications for Georgia's two largest local governments, and transition those skills into academia.
I am one of dozens of people who have benefitted from having Ann as a mentor. Over the course of more than 20 years, she has not only mentored and supported me directly, but has set a great example by setting aggressive career goals and fearlessly pursuing them.
As a young woman, she showed me what it looks like to balance career and motherhood in a way that has helped keep me going through some tough times. I am blessed to know her and be part of her "village."
Copyright © 2019 Ann Wead Kimbrough - All Rights Reserved.

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Ceremony Coffee has this amazing ability to transport you to another place. Walking into their shops, you're taken out of the rough-around-the-edges, fast-paced city streets and find yourself instead in a breathtakingly beautiful, poised space, that balances simplicity and whimsy in a really great way. The raw wood installs keep the atmosphere far from sterile, while the beautiful coffee equipment give it an artfully focused intentionality. It feels tranquil and helps you breathe easy. The high ceilings and huge windows bring in heaps of natural light and create an airy, modernist feel. It all works together wonderfully.
They never settle for great when they could become even better. And that comes through everything they do. Their roasting team is constantly looking for new ways to push the envelope of what they can expect out of coffee. Their food is amazing, and their staff is excited to connect with the community, educating them about what coffee really could be. At Ceremony, we really do hear it again and again from our customers: they simply cannot forget their enigmatic first experience with our coffee. Coffee becomes something entirely new to them, even if they had been regular drinkers. That's simply because we have an unrelenting passion for producing the best coffee, and we know what it takes to do so at every step of the process. They're continuing to dream of new ways to develop and expand, and I'm excited to see what they come up with next.
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INTERVIEW P126 GRAND NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPION CHARLIE MULLINS ON A TEAR STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHAN MOORE T he 2011 Grand National Cross Country Series started out as a three-man race, and looked to be a dogfight to the end. However, it finished up in a runaway, as Charlie Mullins finally ended his six-year quest for the XC1 title with a dominating flurry. At midseason, Mullins found himself locked in a tight battle with defending GNCC champ Josh Strang and '09 titleholder Paul Whibley. But he was clearly in a league of his own when the series wrapped up with a double-header at Loretta Lynn's. Though he suffered engine problems on Friday and finished a disappointing 14th, Mullins still had a big enough margin in the standings to claim the title on Sunday, winning the final race with nearly three minutes to spare over second. Mullins was the first American to win the XC1 title since Rodney Smith in 2004. Since then overseas visitors such as Juha Salminen, David Knight and Strang have dominated. So Mullins' title was a popular one with the GNCC regulars, which prompted a hectic and emotional scene at the finish line when Mullins took the checkers to clinch the title. But the year for Mullins was all about GNCC. He was also in a bitter fight for the AMA National Enduro title, which he lost 126-132 Mullins Interview.indd 126 12/9/11 2:22 PM


ELANA® g! now features a full 5,800 simplified Mandarin Chinese character set across all TS touch screens, HR2 remote control, computer interface, on-screen display, iPhone and iPad user interfaces.
ELAN will demonstrate Chinese Character integration at CEDIA Shanghai 2011 (Nov. 23 - 25), International CES 2012 in Las Vegas (Jan. 10 - 13, 2012) and at ISE 2012 in Amsterdam (Jan. 31 – Feb. 2, 2012).
today announced that its revolutionary g! system now supports a full 5,800 simplified Mandarin Chinese character set — a milestone achievement that is expected to immediately impact sales throughout this rapidly growing residential and commercial market for ELAN.
According to ELAN Home Systems President Paul Starkey, the company will demonstrate the g! system's Chinese language support across all of its interfaces—TS touch screens, the HR2 remote control, computer interface, on-screen display, iPhone and iPad interfaces at the CEDIA Shanghai Expo taking place Nov. 23-25, 2011 at the Shanghai International Convention Centre, at the International CES 2012 at The AVC Group's Hospitality Suite 2876 in the East Tower of the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel and at ISE 2012 at Stand 1N73 at The Amsterdam RAI in The Netherlands.
With the addition of Chinese, the ELAN g! entertainment and control system now supports a total of seven languages: English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, French, Italian and Swedish.
Available starting at under $2,000 for a single-room, four sub-system control solution, the ELAN g! Series Control System can be expanded quickly and cost-effectively to enable whole-home control of every room appliance. ELAN g! provides users with the most uniform and intuitive icon-based control from their favorite devices, including TVs, touch screens, touchpads, PCs, iPhones, and iPads. The standardized interface works across platforms, so that the trendy g!Mobile app users love on the iPhone appears and works similarly on ELAN touch screens, valets and handheld remotes as well as users' televisions and mobile devices. And the system's IP backbone makes it just as easy to control the system from across the room - or across the globe.
The ELAN g! system has been awarded a 2011 Residential Systems Magazine RESI Award, a 2011 Custom Retailer Magazine EXC!TE Award, A 2011 CE Pro Magazine BEST Award, as well as a Platinum Level 2011 CEA Mark of Excellence Award by the Consumer Electronics Association and a 2011 Gold Level Electronic House Magazine Product of the Year Award.


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Who Pays for Universal Service?
When Telephone Subsidies Become Transparent
Robert W. Crandall and Leonard Waverman
In virtually every country, the price of residential access to the telephone network is kept low and cross-subsidized by business services, long distance calling, and various other telephone services. This pricing practice is widely defended as necessary to promote "universal service," but Crandall and Waverman show that it has little effect on telephone subscriptions while it has major harmful effects on the value of all telephone service. The higher prices for long distance calls reduce calling, shift the burden of paying for the network to those whose social networks are widely dispersed. Therefore, many poor and rural households--the intended beneficiaries of the pricing strategy--are forced to pay far more for telephone service than they would if prices reflected the cost of service. Despite these burdens, Congress has extended the subsidies to advanced services for schools, libraries, and rural health facilities. Crandall and Waverman show that other regulated utilities are not burdened with similarly inefficient cross-subsidy schemes, yet universality of water, natural gas, and electricity service is achieved. As local telephone service competition develops in the wake of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the universal-service subsidy system will have to change. Subsidies will have to be paid from taxes on telecom services and paid directly to carriers or subscribers. Crandall and Waverman show that an intrastate tax designed to pay for each state's subsidized subscriptions is far less costly to the economy than an interstate tax. Robert W. Crandall is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Leonard Waverman is a visiting professor at the London Business School, on leave from the University of Toronto. They are coauthors of Talk Is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications (Brookings, 1995).
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Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Communication Policy, Business & Economics / Public Finance
Robert W. Crandall is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution, where his research has focused on telecommunications and cable television regulation, industrial organization and policy, and the changing regional structure of the U.S. economy. His previous books include Broadband: Should We Regulate Internet Access? (Brookings, 2002), Telecommunications Liberalization on Two Sides of the Atlantic (Brookings, 2001) and Who Pays for Universal Service? (Brookings, 2000). Leonard Waverman is professor of economics and director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.


Rep. Tim Murphy will not seek another term, the congressman announced, one day after it was reported that he apparently urged the woman he was having an affair with to get an abortion.
"I have come to the decision that I will not seek reelection to Congress at the end of my current term," a statement from Murphy's office read, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Chris Potter on Wednesday.
Murphy had met with Republican leaders earlier in the day, according to Pittsburgh CBS affiliate KDKA. The outlet reported that following the meeting, Murphy was leaning toward retirement at the end of his term in 2018 rather than resigning immediately.
A day earlier, the Post-Gazette published that it had obtained text messages sent between Murphy, a Republican from Pennsylvania's 18th District, and Shannon Edwards, a Pittsburgh psychologist with whom he admitted last month to having an extramarital relationship.
In one of the messages, sent in January, Edwards seemed to lash out at Murphy for apparently urging her to get an abortion during a pregnancy scare.
The apparent suggestion of an abortion clashed with Murphy's staunchly pro-life record. He is one of 181 co-sponsors of a bill, passed Tuesday in the House, that would ban abortions after 20 weeks. The eight-term congressman has also been sponsored by the National Right to Life PAC and is a member of the House's pro-life caucus.
Last month, Murphy made his relationship with Edwards public after the Post-Gazette won a motion to unseal documents related to Edwards' divorce from her husband.
"Last year I became involved in an affair with a personal friend," Murphy said in a statement at the time. "This is nobody's fault but my own, and I offer no excuses. To the extent that there should be any blame in this matter, it falls solely upon me."


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Interview: Nerina Pallot
9 September, 2015 in Features, Interviews
Nerina Pallot was a publisher's assistant at the record label Mute: "I made a cup of tea for David Bowie."
As a songwriter, musician and label owner, this female artist has forged a career full of surprising twists and turns
erina Pallot spent 2014 releasing a different EP every month, a bold move to bridge the gap between her previous album Year Of The Wolf and her upcoming record The Sound And The Fury. In many ways it should come as no surprise that Nerina would follow such a route, as an artist she's always been bold enough to forge her own path. After the success of her second album Fires, which spawned her biggest hit Everybody's Gone To War and the fan favourite Sophia, she has continued to evolve – a decision which may have come at the expense of huge sales but has allowed her to write music that is both challenging and accessible. This is most evident on her latest album, co-written with and produced by her husband Andy Chatterley it is a state of the nation address which will surprise the casual listener.
Ahead of The Sound And The Fury's release, Songwriting caught up with Nerina to talk about the new album, writing for Kylie Minogue and the advantages of owning your own record label…
How did you get into songwriting?
"I was musical from a really young age. I started picking out notes on the piano when I was four and then I pestered my parents for lessons. The teacher said 'she's too young' but she had a little hut where the lessons were and I sat outside and staged a protest until she agreed to take me on. My mum did a really cool thing and decided to learn to play at the same time as me. I quickly overtook her but it was really helpful. I can remember being six and before I would go to school I would sit at the breakfast table practicing drawing treble clefs and bass clefs, I was just fascinated with it. I started singing lessons when I was nine and violin when I was eleven and then I just carried on through. When I was sixteen I won a scholarship to a school in England that had a very strong music department and so I went there.
I WRITE SONGS BECAUSE I DON'T KEEP A DIARY… THEY'RE MY WAY OF DESCRIBING HOW I FEEL ABOUT THE WORLD "I went to a school called Wellington College where there were loads of choirs and orchestras and I just became really immersed in it, but it was almost too much so, when it came to A-levels, I decided to go to art college and study painting. My rebellion was painting. I loved it but moving to London meant I was just joining bands more than ever and so, after about two years of that, I decided to study music. It was great but I was also working on other people's records, playing keyboards on dance records and stuff like that, so I actually left and went straight into the music business. I was doing cover gigs and working for the record company Mute in their publishing arm, Mute Song. I was a publisher's assistant and that was phenomenal. I learnt so much about the business of songwriting and I got to meet some really great songwriters. I made a cup of tea for David Bowie on my first day there. I love pop, my heart is very pop, but Mute was very leftfield and it opened me up to a whole other world that I hadn't previously delved into. I met people from [London post-punk band] Wire and it just was an education and broadened my songwriting interest."
Who were your previous influences?
"Early on it was all about soul; Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and classic Motown. When I was a teenager I worshipped at the temple of Lenny Kravitz – I thought he was god. I loved Sly And The Family Stone and I still do. When push comes to shove, if I'm going to put a record on I'm going to put on Sly or Bill Withers or Nina Simone, that's what I grew up with and what I love first and foremost. From a lyrical point of view it was always Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell."
When did you start writing lyrics for yourself?
"I think I was about nine or ten. My first song that got performed was when I was 13. It was for a school competition and it was really bad, my whole year sang it. I think I made my first demo when I was 14 or 15."
Had you moved to England at that point?
"My first demo was in Jersey and then I started to make them with a friend from school called Tim Clarke, who now does a lot of film sound engineering. He wanted to have a studio and needed artists to work with him and it went from there. He was my sound guy until about 10 years ago. It was amazing to have someone I'd grown up with to hold my hand through it all."
Nerina: "I've tried to be an artist that doesn't belong to a particular tribe and doesn't give a shit about all that."
Did you always have a vision of the type of artist you wanted to be?
"No, I've never been careerist and I sometimes regret that. I'm just too lost in the world of song. I suppose it's a good thing, but I've never tried to be cool. I like lots of things that are deemed to be cool. I love The Smiths because they just describe my teenage years so perfectly, but I would listen to them and then quite happily listen to Kylie Minogue and love both things equally. If I've done anything, I've tried to be an artist that doesn't belong to a particular tribe and doesn't give a shit about all that. I just love music."
Do you think that not being careerist allows you to make an album as eclectic as The Sound And The Fury?
"Maybe, but for me it's about making the music that is coming most naturally at any given time. I write songs because I don't keep a diary and I guess they are my way of describing how I feel about the world. Every record will be different because I feel different. But yes, it is eclectic, which my hardcore fan base will like. My fans are so wide ranging; some of them are complete metal-heads, some of them are massively into soul and some of them love singer-songwriters. I've never been consistently of one genre.
"What's interesting to me is that the casual listener has a view of what I do and yet, for me, The Sound And The Fury is as much me as Fires is. If you put all my albums together, you wouldn't necessarily know that it's the same artist, which is frustrating from a labels point of view and from a career point of you, but as an artist it's really satisfying."
I FEEL BRITISH, BUT I HAVE VERY LITTLE ENGLISH BLOOD IN ME
Is that why you released the album on your own label?
"It's more to do with market forces. I'm definitely more of a niche artist now. I'm 41 so, even if I came out with a very pop record, I think it would be unlikely that a label would get behind me, because it is a youth market. I also wouldn't have been able to do what I did last year where I released an EP every month. They just wouldn't go for that kind of thing. Last year was the first time in my life that I'd started to make any money out of record sales, as I'd done it all myself. So I started thinking, 'Really, am I going to go back down that road where I give away 90% of the profits to a label?'
"I really enjoy doing my own thing and I'm lucky enough that I have amazing fans that allow me to do it. But I'm not going to bitch about labels; they've enabled me to do so much and I have so many good friends in labels who are great people that work really hard and love music. I had a career because Warner picked up my second album. I put it out on my own label to begin with and Warner came in and gave it an injection and then I had a hit and built a much bigger fan base. I have a great relationship with Universal too."
Were the EPs a way of trying to get out of the cycle of recording and touring?
"It was a bit of that. Around November 2013 I made an EP in a day with my band and we just had so much fun. It was really satisfying to see something come together so quickly, and around then we had the idea to make one every month. It was also because I had started work on The Sound And The Fury and it felt quite different from where I'd left off with Year Of The Wolf, so the EP project was a way to take my fans on a musical journey towards where I was going next. I wanted them to be part of the process."
Did you enjoy it?
"I did, although there were times about four EPs in where I started to go, 'Oh my God, am I really going to do this?' It was really tough and then I decided to change it up, so in the middle of the year I made a really poppy tune called When I Grow Up. Basically they were songs that I had started hatching when I was working with Kylie that I'd never really finished. At the time, the Daft Punk album was massive so there's a song on that called Simple Life, which is really an homage to them and that was great as it broke the writer's block. The one after that was Rousseau which obviously isn't anything like that. It was great and really opened up the writing."
Nerina: "You must follow your own path, you must block out the noise of the world and just do what you have to do and do it right."
How would you describe the themes of the new album?
"The birth of it was quite political, but I don't think the album is overtly political. I think the catalyst was when Lee Rigby was murdered in Woolwich. I was born around the corner from the road he was killed on and it really struck a nerve with me for so many reasons. I just thought it was horrific. I can't explain how awful I felt every time I saw any picture of his little boy, who was only a few months younger than my own son. I became really worried for the community because they were local boys who did it, who had this massive hatred, and because it's a place where a lot of immigrants have made their home. My mum came to Woolwich from India in the 1960s. So, in a weird way, migration was in the back of my mind because I was thinking about how we define ourselves as British.
"I feel British, but I have very little English blood in me; my dad's ancestry is half French and my mum is Indian. As a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s, immigration was a relatively new thing – there weren't many Indian people on telly or things that I could relate to. I definitely felt English but would sometimes feel like everybody else was blonde-haired and blue-eyed. Now, when you look on EastEnders, there are a lot of different people on there and it's a lot more diverse. There's a burgeoning English-Asian music community and that's really heartening for me, but I was trying to understand what my background was; how I felt British and I didn't feel disenfranchised in the way that the guys that had done this awful thing might have felt."
Did the song The Road come directly from that?
"The Road was inspired by the book of the same name by Cormac McCarthy – I was thinking about the ending where he dies and his son is left to carry on and we don't know what happens to him. The key thing that I took from that book was how the children kept their morality while all sorts of horrible things are happening, like cannibalism, and how I really believe that human beings have a moral compass. It's not to do with religion, it's just knowing what is right and what is wrong. I wanted to do something that took from his stylistic way and write a song for my son, like a modern version of the poem by Rudyard Kipling If. You must follow your own path, you must block out the noise of the world and just do what you have to do and do it right."
IF I WEAR MY SKIRT SHORT IT DOESN'T MEAN I DON'T HAVE A BRAIN
Is that mirrored on If I Had A Girl – are those the lessons that you would want to pass on if you had a daughter?
"Exactly, I was thinking about how it's not easy for boys growing up, but it is even harder for girls. It's much less prescriptive for men than for women. If you go to a supermarket and look at all the magazines on the rack, 80 percent of them are sold to women and they're telling them if you wear this or you do this diet you'll be better, whereas men are not told that. All the interesting and fun stuff – the music magazines, the fishing magazines, the car magazines – all the cool shit, is sold to men. Women are never sold things to broaden their minds."
Does the song address specific problems you've faced as a female artist/songwriter?
"No, because I've never really gone down the path of wearing miniskirts. When I was writing the song there was the whole thing about the footballer Ched Evans and the fact that the girl was inebriated, as if that mitigated what he did to her. Then Michael Burke made a comment about it and I remember thinking that, regardless of the situation, a decent man or woman wouldn't take advantage of someone if they're inebriated. It doesn't matter what state that person is in, you just don't rape them.
"Also, I see that there is oppression in a lot of beliefs and faiths, but at the same time think women should be free to wear whatever they want. There's a line in the song: 'If I wear my skirt short it doesn't mean I don't have a brain / but if cover myself from head to toe it doesn't mean that I'm in chains.' I have friends who wear hijabs and they're not oppressed; they're totally modern women who have a faith and want to embrace it. Women are always this war-ground for politics, for religion, for the way our children should be raised. It's always over women's bodies and what we wear and that's what I wanted to talk about."
Do you see it as your obligation as a songwriter and someone in the public eye to reflect on what's going on in the world?
"Because I'm interested in the world, I'm always going to write about what I see. But I do feel that, if you have an opportunity to be on the radio or TV, don't squander that three-and-a-half minutes – do something with it. You don't have to write a Live Aid song, but you can still do something that makes people think. The writers that have inspired me did it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of Song In The Key Of Life and Innervisions are really political, but he does it with great melodies and it's like sleight of hand; they're pop songs which are political at the same time, and they mean a lot to me because of that."
Nerina Pallot: "I'm not a very good co-writer, I really struggle with my self-consciousness; I get shy."
So if you're writing for Kylie or Diana Vickers, do you approach it in the same way or is it a different process?
"It's interesting because when I wrote for Kylie, one of the songs she covered was one that already existed. I was going to put it out as my own song and she heard it and wanted it, so I wasn't writing it with her in mind. Then I started to work with her and I did write her a song called Aphrodite. That was really great because I sat with her and chatted about where she was in her career and her legacy and all the amazing things that she stands for, but at the same time trying to make it really feminist and empowering, because that song is a celebration of womanhood. It was great because I was able to get my own take in it, but also make it with her in mind.
"With Diana it was a song that I had already written. We did write together, but in the end she picked one that was already there and what was really weird was that it was a really personal song. I wrote it when my father was ill and it was a bit touch-and-go; I would always fall apart when I sang it, but when she sang it she was that one step removed, so it really worked."
Are you looking to write more songs for other people in the future?
"No, I really don't like it and I really don't enjoy it. I'm not a very good co-writer, I really struggle with my self-consciousness; I get shy. I look at someone like Sia and think she's amazing. She's a great artist in her own right, but she has this ability to write with other people too. I don't have that ability. I'm rubbish at it.
I DO REVERE THE ACT OF SONGWRITING AND THE MOMENT A SONG ARRIVES
"After I worked with Kylie the phone kept ringing for a bit and I did do a lot of work with other people – and this sounds really awful – but I am slightly concerned about working with certain artists who never write on their own. Kylie's different because I worship her and she is someone who will just pick the best song – it doesn't matter if she's written it or not – and I love that about her. But, I think, because of the way the pie is decreasing in terms of music revenue, there are lots of artists who years ago wouldn't be pushed to write, but now their management is pushing them to, as it's another potential revenue stream. So sometimes you work with people who are not writers and it's like pulling teeth. I'm not going to name names. It's put me off the whole process."
But you write with Andy, is that easier because of your intimate relationship?
"Yes, there's no self-consciousness because he's my husband so I can be completely myself. We write remotely as well. Often we'll come up with a sketchy idea and I'll take it, put on my headphones and go for run, sit with it for a few days and then bounce it back and forth. I actually don't like writing in the studio because I'm a very fast writer – all my best songs tend to take 10 to 15 minutes."
Where do you normally do your writing?
"In my kitchen. My favourite song – which I think is one of my best ever songs but hardly anyone knows it – Love Is An Unmade Bed, I literally had an hour-and-a-half to write it. I had to finish an EP and my kid was really little and I'd get one hour a day when he would nap. In that one hour I roasted a chicken, wrote that song and demoed it. Then, when he woke up, I took him to the studio and recorded it and it was really good having that tight time period."
Finally, we heard you on the radio recently saying that your songs tend to arrive fully formed. Can you elaborate on that idea?
"The funny thing is I have no reverence whatsoever for the act of being a musician. In historical terms, we were always troubadours and were never paid and never venerated. I think the whole idea of celebrity is abhorrent, but I do revere the act of songwriting and the moment a song arrives. I don't think that the songs belong to the writer; they had to come into being and you're just a conduit. So I have great reverence for the actual moment of creation. It sounds a bit woolly-headed, but I feel like it's a universal consciousness speaking through you and you just happen to be the person who gets that song on that day. The rest of it is all rubbish to me.
"The songs you like the most you almost feel like you weren't there when they came. It's not just songwriting. I talk to people who paint, make films and write books and they always say that, for their best work, they took themselves out of their body for a moment and they didn't get in the way. I don't think you can ever explain it."
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The transfer saga is finally drawing to a close, with the Norwegian international set to sign for Arsenal on a permanent deal.
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According to the Athletic, Arsenal is close to finalizing a deal to capture Real Madrid midfielder Martin Odegaard on a permanent basis.
Although no agreement has been reached, it is believed that the Norway international did not train with Los Blancos on Tuesday, with a €35 million move on the cards.
While there is still a lot of work to be done, the Athletic report that Odegaard may be at Arsenal in time for the 22-year-old to play against Chelsea on Sunday.
The midfielder spent the second half of last season on loan at the Emirates, making 20 appearances for the Gunners and scoring two goals and providing two assists, one of which was crucial in the Gunners' win against arch rivals Tottenham Hotspur.
Since his return to the Bernabeu, he has been a member of Carlo Ancelotti's preseason squad, but was not included in the matchday squad against Alaves.
All summer, there has been speculation of a return to North London, and the Gunners' 2-0 defeat to Brentford on the Premier League season's opening day will only add to their desire to sign new players. It seems like they will be able to get their guy shortly.
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– According to Football Insider, Atletico Madrid is in negotiations to sign Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Rafa Mir. The Spaniard has just returned from a loan stint at Huesca, where he scored 16 goals across all competitions. Wolves are looking for £17 million, with a permanent deal, a straight loan, or a loan with a permanent contract all being options.
– You may have heard that Internazionale has signed Denzel Dumfries of PSV Eindhoven and Edin Dzeko of Roma. According to Calciomercato, Valentino Lazaro's tenure with the club may come to an end as a result of Dumfries' signing at right wing-back. The Scudetto champions are expected to release him, with Benfica and Eintracht Frankfurt leading the race to recruit the Austrian.
– According to Sky Sports, Watford are in advanced discussions with Torino over the acquisition of Lyanco. The move for the 24-year-old is said to be for £7.5 million, with the Brazilian having fallen out of favor in Turin. Real Betis has also been connected with the defender, although no agreement has yet been reached between the two clubs.
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Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are doubling down on their efforts to unseat Oracle in the enterprise – and things are getting pretty heated. Microsoft recently announced its SQL Server database product is coming to Linux in 2017, a move that makes it easier for Oracle customers to switch to Microsoft. About 25 percent of the Fortune 500 have already signed up to try the preview. Microsoft is sweetening the pot by letting interested Oracle customers "receive the necessary licenses of SQL Server" for free (except for SA).
Then there's AWS. With the launch of its new AWS Database Migration Service, it promises to easily move Oracle's customers to AWS's database in the cloud. It seems to be working; it moved more than 1,000 databases in the beta phase.
In typical Oracle fashion, the vendor isn't shying away from the fight especially as it relates to growing its cloud business. Earlier this month, the company introduced the Oracle Accelerated Buying Experience to help customers simplify and expedite the cloud purchasing process. The new purchasing experience will offer greater contract flexibility, fewer required approvals, less cumbersome documentation and purchasing support. It will also leverage Oracle's Sales, Service and Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) Clouds to speed up order completion.
If you're an Oracle customer, these developments should put you on high alert – especially if you are considering a new purchase or have a renewal in the near future. Oracle is going all out to protect and grow cloud revenues, which could net greater flexibility from the vendor's sales teams. And a more streamlined cloud buying process from Oracle only strengthens the case for more simplified buying and licensing/subscription from other enterprise vendors (more on that in another post).
Unfortunately, these conditions also make it an opportune time for a licensing audit. Oracle is estimated to audit between 17,000 and 21,000 customers this year.
So, what does that mean for Oracle customers?
For those wanting to jump the Oracle ship, now is a good time to court Microsoft or AWS and leverage their ambition to unseat Oracle. Oracle loyalists also have leverage as the company is doing all it can to grow cloud revenues. This could mean better pricing and terms for both cloud and on-premise purchases.
Regardless of your purchasing plans, have your Oracle licensing "house" in order. Conducting a self-audit to identify potential areas of non-compliance will give you the runway required to fix the situation before Oracle deploys its audit tools and tactics (which are designed not to work in your favor!).


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For hundreds of years, CO2 has been the number one product of the global industrial economy, which has cumulatively emitted 1.5 trillion tonnes and thereby altering the climate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that, in conjunction with halting new emissions, we must remove 100-1000 billion tonnes from the atmosphere over the course of the 21st century. One of the most promising carbon removal methods is Direct Air Capture (DAC). In this article, I will explain how DAC works, the state of the art and the remaining constraints holding back rollout to gigatonne scale.
The last decade has seen the development of an enormous variety of carbon removal technologies. Some aim to enhance the Earth's abiotic removal mechanisms by allowing the ocean and rocks to more rapidly absorb CO2, while others speed up the rate of biological CO2 removal. A third option is mechanical CO2 removal, often called direct air capture (DAC). It is likely that the challenge can only be met with a system of biotic, abiotic and artificial methods, each occupying distinct ecological and economic niches.
DAC is particularly promising because it brings industrial power to bear on a problem created by industry. Being mechanical, DAC does not require an enormous land area, or modification of ecosystems. It can also benefit from the economies of scale and rapid learning typical of industry and exemplified by solar photovoltaics and lithium ion batteries.
Unfortunately, like many industrial processes, DAC is energy intensive. Today's best processes would require more than 100 % of the world's renewable energy to remove the maximum required annual tonnage of CO2. This high energy consumption leads to high cost per tonne of CO2 removed, limiting economic feasibility.
At gigatonne scale, constraints other than energy and cost will become limiting too, such as water, land, raw materials, and supply chains. DAC will have to compete with the rest of the economy for these resources. There is a risk that, without solving for the underlying resource constraints in DAC, we might exacerbate existing environmental problems or even create new ones.
State of the Art Direct Air Capture
The principle of DAC is simple: air flows into a machine, and flows out with a lower CO2 concentration. If we stop emitting new CO2 and flow enough air through DAC machines, we can lower the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
More specifically: air flows around a liquid or solid called a "sorbent" that selectively absorbs CO2 via chemical reaction, known as "sorption". A "desorption" process, also called "sorbent regeneration" yields a stream of concentrated CO2 for industrial use or permanent sequestration in geological formations. The sorbent, now free of CO2, can be re-used to absorb more. In this process, the sorption reaction happens spontaneously, releasing energy as heat. Desorption is the reverse of this reaction and so requires an energy input, which is typically the largest energy input for DAC processes.
The earliest DAC technologies proved it was possible to use machines to remove significant quantities of CO2 from the air - this was a huge technical achievement, however the processes suffered from poor economics: The energy for their desorption step was supplied as heat, which combined with thermal inefficiencies, resulted in significant energy consumption per tonne of CO2 captured.
In response, over the last five years there has been an explosion of second generation DAC processes and companies. These companies aim to reduce the cost of DAC by applying one or more of four strategies: sorbent optimisation, electrochemical regeneration, moisture swing regeneration, and process integration.
Sorbent optimisation is a common focus for DAC companies using solid sorbents regenerated with heat. The aim is to optimise a variety of properties (heat capacity, porosity, reaction kinetics, CO2 binding strength, CO2 capacity and water adsorption/desorption) to minimise the quantity and temperature of heat required. Heat can also be minimised by desorbing at a lower temperature under vacuum, however, the co-desorption of water persists as a heat parasite and more energy is needed for subsequent CO2 compression. Sorbent optimisation can deliver significant energy savings, but there is a limit to how far these can go. An unfortunate side effect is that as materials are optimised they often become harder to manufacture.
Electrochemical regeneration side-steps thermal inefficiencies by supplying energy for sorbent regeneration with electrochemical cells. This is a great step in the right direction, although electrochemical cells unfortunately have their own inefficiencies. Faradaic efficiency can be dragged down by back-diffusion of ions, while voltage efficiency can be hampered by the necessity to run cells at high current densities with poorly conductive electrolytes. While electrochemical regeneration gets us to lower energy consumption, further improvement is both possible and necessary.
Moisture swing regeneration is an ingenious way to lower energy consumption. While temperature-swing sorbents absorb CO2 at ambient temperature and release it when heated, moisture-swing sorbents absorb CO2 when dry and release it when wet. This means that instead of an explicit energy input like electricity, only water must be supplied for desorption. As water evaporates to the air as the sorbent dries, the free energy required to regenerate the sorbent is extracted from the air. However, the moisture swing lacks the power to desorb CO2 at atmospheric pressure and so additional energy is required for vacuum and compression pumps. Furthermore, even if air is forced through the sorbent, the regeneration process is passive and dependent on air temperature, which gives it the tendency to be slow and variable.
While all of these approaches will be needed if we're to realise the figures recommended by the IPCC, there is a trade-off across all these approaches, between energy consumption, CO2 capture rates and process control.
There is, however, an approach that circumvents this trade-off, driving sorbent regeneration actively at a fast rate, at very low energy consumption with active process control. Underpinning the process is the use of waste heat to provide the energy required to drive desorption.
The principal constraint to this approach lies in its scalability: Integrating DAC with existing industrial plants or buildings is likely to require tailored retrofitting, both in process design and in manufacturing components. To sell carbon credits, the main revenue source of most DAC companies, would require knowledge of the carbon intensity of the 3rd party heat source, introducing further reliance on external stakeholders.
These constraints are surmountable. In the months that I have been working on this problem with Deep Science Ventures, I've found a process that is technically and economically suitable, utilising scalable sources of heat, which doesn't require tailored retrofits or loss of control over the carbon intensity of energy inputs.
In 2023 I will be incorporating a venture based on this technology, to deliver fast, scalable carbon capture with high energy, water, and land efficiency. To help realise this, we are recruiting an ambitious cofounder to work alongside me (Harry Macpherson). If you have experience with heating and cooling systems, gas compression, HVAC, electrochemistry or solar photovoltaic engineering, with a strong drive to build a company, we'd love to hear from you.
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CALLUM HUDSON-ODOI is at the centre of a tug-of-war between the giants of Germany and Chelsea ahead of his England debut.
German champions Bayern were keen for the youngster to sign in January — Chelsea turned down a £35million offer — but are certain to make another attempt this summer.
Hudson-Odoi has been called up despite not making a Premier League start for Chelsea.
But Dortmund are now ready to increase their interest as they fear losing Jadon Sancho in the summer for a mind-boggling £100m to Manchester United.
In a complicated situation, Chelsea are facing a transfer ban for allegedly breaching Fifa regulations on signing minors.
And that means they will fight all the way to keep Hudson-Odoi, even though he seems keen on a move to get more playing time.
Dortmund and Bayern's interest in Hudson-Odoi is the latest proof that English players are in demand in Germany.
Olivier Giroud could also quit Chelsea to get more game time.
Of course it's frustrating. I know I will only play the Europa League."
The French World Cup-winner, 32, has admitted his frustration at playing second fiddle to Gonzalo Higuain and even Eden Hazard in the battle for the striker's spot.
Now he says he may head home when his contract expires at the end of this season.
Giroud said: "The future may be hectic this summer. I'm not afraid to go down a level to have more playing time. It could be an end of my career in France.
"Of course it's frustrating. I know I will only play the Europa League.
Willian is more positive about his future at Stamford Bridge though as he eyes a new deal.
The Brazilian will come up against Chelsea's policy of only giving one-year contracts to players aged over 30.


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Khalid Ibrahim
Posted Thursday, January 13, 2022 12:00 pm
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Altaye Tadesse, 58, grew up in western Ethiopia and came to the United States in 1986. Her husband had been accepted to study chemistry at the University of Michigan. They and their two daughters moved to East Lansing for his post-doc studies at MSU before he was hired by the state. Tadesse, who prefers being called Altu, opened Altu's Ethiopian eatery in 1996.
What motivated you to open an Ethiopian restaurant in East Lansing?
I've always loved cooking from early on, and when I first came to Lansing, I really wanted to start an Ethiopian restaurant. There was nothing in Lansing, even ethnic foods were very little — I remember Woody's, and even the Indian restaurants came after I opened. Woody's was the only one I remember as ethnic food. And so that got me really excited. And so I started working on it. Five years I tried and tried and tried, finally I got a little spot in where I am right now and then started very small.
The food was more than just feeding somebody, there was a whole emotional, social connection process to it as well as cultural trying to bring community together, is that correct?
Mealtime eating is not just grabbing something and running in my culture. The family gets together and have a big plate they share from, they sit and they talk, and they eat and they laugh, and it takes a process actually, takes time. It's a family time, and we don't really do just running like the Americans, like grab a sandwich and eat as we drive. That is not our case. So you can see it in the way that the food is served too. You can't really get it to go and eat on your way.
You didn't change that cultural aspect of food when you opened in 1996. How has that helped you succeed all these years?
It's a new experience for Americans too, for people who just tried it for the first time. And the first few years people asked how to eat it, and I showed them personally how they have to cut the bread and take their sauce. Actually, I would take a small plate and go to people's tables when they are starting. This is how you eat. It's family time, take your time and eat. So, it's an experience that everybody embraced. I didn't want to change it because the whole idea of starting that Ethiopian restaurant is to bring that culture and somehow open people's eyes to a different culture and how it can be enriching culture that it would open people's eyes to having different ethnic food. Food is the learning into the culture of the country too.
When you opened the restaurant, how did the community originally react?
In 1984 was the big starvation in Ethiopia that everybody knew. I had to explain that it's not the whole country that's starved. There were people who had to share their food. I mean, it wasn't like all of us were starting at that point. That's what I explained to people. I took so much energy into turning that around, but then after second year I could see people being curious and coming in and seeing it and loving it and sharing it. So, yeah, it did take long for the community to embrace it.
What is your favorite story of people discovering Ethiopian food in your restaurant?
I have couples who came in on their first date to the restaurant, and then continued dating and then got married and had children, and their children's favorite food becomes this one too and still continue doing that. So I have like generations, their parents and the couple that got married and their kids. That's my favorite story to tell. I have a few families that still like to send me Christmas cards or send me their kids getting married or children growing up. I have a connection that way to the community.
How does your success help build a sense of community for you as a woman, an immigrant, a woman of color?
My hope is all that I've done so far has encouraged many other immigrants or people of color or women to compete or to just say, "I am here. I can do it." When immigrants come here, it's hard to navigate job situations, with the language and the culture difference, but when they see what has happened with me, I think they get encouraged to step out of their comfort zone and explore what's available to them, and I believe I helped some see the light that way.
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How this weekly miracle comes out every week — and has done so since 2001 — is a tribute to the folks on this page and the many who came before them. I'm glad to contribute a few tricks I've learned from 54 years in journalism all over the map.
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As it became known, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the USA again postponed decision making in two applications at once for the launch of Bitcoin-ETF from VanEck and Bitwise Asset Management.
Recall that the application of VanEck began to be considered on February 20, 2019. The company wanted to get permission to Bitcoin-ETF listing on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). According to the rules, it should have been considered within 45 days, but the SEC doubled this period to 90 days, and now the decision on this issue must be ready before May 21, 2019.
By the same principle, SEC employees decided to proceed with the application from Bitwise, which wants to launch Bitcoin-ETF on the NYSE Arca. A new deadline for decision making – May 16, 2019.
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Q: SSRS 2008 R2 Visibility Based on Report Parameter I am having some issues with dynamically changing report item visibility based on a report parameter.
Visibility is set correctly during the initial report run but WILL NOT change visibility of report items after the initial report run, regardless of if the report parameter changes. The expression I have on the Hidden attribute is below.
=IIF(Parameters!sr_emt_filter.Value = "ALL" And Parameters!sr_emt_direct_filter.Value = "ALL", True, False)

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How much does it cost to stand as an MP and who can become one?
Imogen GroomeThursday 8 Jun 2017 2:14 pm
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With the general election on everyone's minds, people are wondering how they could stand as an MP themselves.
Is it a costly process? Who is eligible? Here's everything you need to know.
Those who want to stand as an MP must be over 18 and either a British citizen, citizen of a Commonwealth country or citizen of the Republic of Ireland.
They have to be nominated by ten parliamentary electors of the constituency they want to stand in.
Authorisation is required to stand for a specific party – if this isn't obtained, candidates will either be described as independent, or have no description.
In an effort to encourage only serious candidates to stand, a £500 deposit is required when submitting the nomination papers.
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This is returned if the candidates receives over five per cent of the total votes cast.
There are certain people who are disqualified from standing as an MP. These include:
People in the police force
People in the armed forces
Civil servants, judges and peers who sit and can vote in the House of Lords
People who have a bankruptcy restrictions order or debt relief restrictions order in England, Wales or Northern Ireland
People who have been adjudged bankrupt in Northern Ireland
People who have had their estate confiscated in Scotland
To have your name appear on a ballot paper, you will need to submit a completed set of nomination forms and the deposit to the Acting Returning Officer before 4pm on the deadline day for nominations.
All candidates need to have an election agent, who is responsible for the management of the election campaign and its financial management.
Nominated candidates can have free postage for one election communication to voters in their constituency.
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Those who are successful will be publicly announced as the winners and given instructions on how to attend Parliament.
Successful candidates have to swear an oath or make an affirmation in Parliament before taking their seat as an MP.
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CHIBA — Years after female Japanese train spotters were given the nickname "tetsuko," which loosely translates as "rail girl," officials of Narita International Airport and the nearby city of Narita, Chiba Prefecture, recently coined the word "sorami" — "air girl" — to describe members of the growing band of female plane spotters.
Just as a tetsuko would crisscross the nation to photograph different trains, so a sorami such as Ayumi Fukuda, a 34-year-old public servant from Takaishi, Osaka Prefecture, travels from Hokkaido to Okinawa to capture images of airplanes.
In May, she was one of 27 participants in an event organized for sorami in Narita.
"I don't understand why airplanes can fly, and that's why I'm attracted to them," said Fukuda, a plane spotter of five years.
The event was organized by Narita Kuentai, a group consisting of employees of the Narita Municipal Government and the airport that works for the development of the local community.
After gathering at a hotel in the city, the participants, mostly in their 20s and 30s, were given a tour of a park close to the airport and taken to a Japan Airlines hangar to photograph planes.
"It's huge!" "Beautiful!" the assembled sorami exclaimed as they entered the hangar and set eyes on a JAL Boeing 787, the state-of-the-art Dreamliner. Some lay on the ground to photograph the plane from a certain angle, while others posed in front of the jet for photos with mechanics, who were acting as tour guides.
According to photographer Charlie Furusho, there is a difference between photos taken by male and female airplane fans.
"Men just tend to photograph the aircraft, so as to make a collection of them, while many women include flowers and other seasonal items in the picture," said the 39-year-old photographer.
He said women seem to enjoy the color scheme and other aspects of how a plane looks.
Fukuda said that among her fellow plane spotters, men tend to be more interested in the technical aspects of aircraft, such as engines. "But I like to take pictures of airplanes against a natural backdrop."
She uploads her photos to the Internet.
Narita municipal officials are starting to look at sorami, whose numbers have been growing recently, as a way to boost the local economy.
"We are planning to organize more tours for women and increase shooting locations. We also hope to set up a facility to boost exchanges among fans," Narita Mayor Kazunari Koizumi said.