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Frequently Asked Questions on Government of Canada Programs in Response to COVID-19
Dana Burdenuk posted on 4/16/2020 12:30:00 PM
Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)
GoC-Questions and Answers on the Canada Emergency Response Benefit
Q: If a small business owner pays their salary through a dividend, are they eligible for the Canada Emergency Care Benefit (CERB)?
• Yes, as long as the dividends are non-eligible dividends (generally, those paid out of corporate income taxed at the small business rate).
• This counts toward the $5,000 income requirement to be eligible for CERB.
Q: Can an individual work or collect any income while collecting the Canada Emergency Care
Benefit (CERB)?
• On April 15th the government announced an applicant may make up to $1000 a month and remain eligible for the CERB.
• This change has not been implemented yet and we will update when it is.
Q: I applied for the CERB and received $4,000 dollars in one payment, what do I do?
• There are several reports of overpayments across the country.
• Many people were paid appropriately for two periods they were eligible for and the double payment was correct.
• On Friday April 10th , Minister Qualtrough said that overpayment recipients must budget the money they received. It will act as an advance on their future CERB payment.
Q: Can I collect CERB if I lost my income but I currently collect CPP and OAS?
• CPP and OAS are not income for the purposes of the CERB and if they meet all other eligibility criteria, they would be eligible.
Q: Will being on CERB affect future Maternity/Parental leave benefits?
• No.
• While being on EI regular benefits would reduce the amount of parental leave one could take in that same year, that reduction does not apply with CERB.
Q: Can I collect CERB if I was supposed to start a job but that job is not going to happen due to COVID?
• On April 15th the government announced that seasonal workers and those whose EI has been exhausted since January 1st and cannot find work due to COVID. We do not know at this time how this will be managed or when it will go into place.
Q: Can I collect CERB if I am not a citizen?
• Yes. If you meet all other eligibility criteria.
• The definition in the legislation is a worker residing in Canada, which the government has clarified to simply mean living and working here.
Q: Do I have to be laid off to collect CERB?
• If your employment income has been reduced to zero due to COVID but you are still officially employed, you can be eligible.
Q: I would be making more than $500 a week on EI, but CERB only pays me $500. Can I get back on EI or get more money?
• Every EI applicant after March 15th will be on CERB, and that will mean some end up with less than they would receive on EI.
• We have been aware of this since the beginning and Employment Shadow Minister Dan Albas has sent correspondence to the Minister asking for more information on this topic.
• Those people who are EI eligible will be able to apply for EI after the CERB runs out as long as they are still unemployed.
Q: Can my employer top-up my income if I am collecting CERB?
• As announced on April 15th, an applicant may make up to $1000 a month and remain eligible for CERB.
• This change has not been implemented yet and we will update when it is. Until it is made, top ups are not allowed.
Q: I saw in the news that if you apply for CERB you will get it even if you aren't eligible. Is that true?
• The application for CERB requires you to attest to your eligibility.
• The government will have powers to investigate after the fact to confirm eligibility and claw back money from people who should not have gotten it.
• Willfully lying on the attestation is a violation of the law.
Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS)
Q: Are small business owners, who pays themselves through dividends, eligible for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS)?
• They are not (as of April 15, 2020).
• The Government has expressed an openness to make changes to the wage subsidy program.
Q: Is there a revenue threshold small businesses must have to qualify for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy?
• No direct revenue threshold exists.
• Demonstrating a 30% revenue decline is a requirement.
Q: If an employer wanted to only keep, for example 7 out of 10 employees; is that allowed under the program? Or do employers need to show that they are trying to keep all employees on payroll through the CEWS?
• There is no requirement that an employer retain all of their employees to obtain the CEWS.
• In the example, the CEWS would be available (assuming the conditions are met) in respect of the seven remaining employees.
Q: The language used in the CEWS backgrounder could lead innovative companies that receive government grants for scientific research and development (such as SR&ED) to believe that the CEWS will act as an "advance" for any assistance they receive from the government. Can you please clarify this?
• The usual treatment of tax credits and other benefits provided by the government would apply. As a consequence, the wage subsidy received by an employer would be considered government assistance and be included in the employer's taxable income.
• Assistance received under either wage subsidy would reduce the amount of remuneration expenses eligible for other federal tax credits calculated on the same remuneration.
• For example, if a researcher makes $ 1,000 per week and 750 is paid with the wage subsidy, only what is actually paid by the employer, or $250, can be subsidized by the SR&ED (therefore 15% of 250 for large companies or 35% for small).
Q: Can a business receive both the 10% wage subsidy and the 75% wage subsidy, for a total of 85%?
• For employers that are eligible for both the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy and the 10 per cent wage subsidy for a period, any benefit from the 10 per cent wage subsidy for remuneration paid in a specific period would generally reduce the amount available to be claimed under the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy in that same period.
Q: How will the 75% wage subsidy be delivered? Are you going to use the same mechanism for the 75% wage subsidy as for the 10% wage subsidy (i.e. deemed remittances)?
• Eligible employers would be able to apply for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy through the Canada Revenue Agency's My Business Account portal as well as a web-based application. Employers would have to keep records demonstrating their reduction in arm's-length revenues and remuneration paid to employees. More details about the application process will be made available shortly.
Q: Will the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy work for farmers, ranchers, feedlot operators?
• No special circumstances have been created for the agricultural sector.
• The same eligibility applies. Eligible employers include individuals, taxable corporations, partnerships consisting of eligible employers, non-profit organizations and registered charities.
Q: If a small business closed because they're considered non-essential and laid off employees, can they only benefit from CEBA, CERB and GST/HST tax remittances? The wage subsidy wouldn't apply to them because they can't re-open or sell online, correct?
• They are still eligible for the wage subsidy. The policy rationale for the CEWS is to keep employers and employees connected for when the COVID-19 crisis ends. The Finance Minister's message to employer's was "get ready to rehire".
• CEWS eligibility criteria still fully applies.
Q: What are the eligibly criteria for businesses to apply?
• The Borrower is a Canadian operating business in operation as of March 1, 2020.
• The Borrower has a federal tax registration.
• The Borrower's total employment income paid in the 2019 calendar year was between Cdn.$50,000 and Cdn.$1,000,000.
• The Borrower has an active business chequing/operating account with the Lender, which is its primary financial institution. This account was opened on or prior to March 1, 2020 and was not in arrears on existing borrowing facilities, if applicable, with the Lender by 90 days or more as at March 1, 2020.
• The Borrower has not previously used the Program and will not apply for support under the Program at any other financial institution.
• The Borrower acknowledges its intention to continue to operate its business or to resume operations.
• The Borrower agrees to participate in post-funding surveys conducted by the Government of Canada or any of its agents.
Q: Where do eligible businesses apply?
• Small businesses and not-for-profits should contact their financial institution to apply for these loans.
Q: What is the Government doing on mortgages?
• Canadian banks have committed to work with their customers on a case-by-case basis to find solutions to help them manage hardships caused by COVID-19. This includes permitting lenders to defer up to six monthly mortgage payments (interest and principal) for impacted borrowers. Canadians who are impacted by COVID-19 and experiencing financial hardship as a result should contact their financial institution regarding flexibility for a mortgage deferral. This gives flexibility to be available − when needed − to those who need it the most. You are encouraged to visit your bank's website for the latest information, rather than calling or visiting a branch.
• For more information, please visit your financial insinuation:
www.bmo.com/main/personal/bmo-branches-coronavirus-update
www.cibc.com/en/personal-banking/advice-centre/covid-19.html
www.nbc.ca/personal/notice.html
www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/personal/scotia-support/latest-updates.html
www.rbc.com/covid-19
www.td.com/ca/en/personal-banking/covid-19
Q: Shouldn't the banks be working on pausing mortgage payments, interest free, until people are allowed to go back to work?
• For mortgages, the Government of Canada is providing lenders with the insurance support they need to provide relief to their customers who need it. 500,000 requests for mortgage relief have been completed by banks in Canada as of April 3:
• https://cba.ca/mortgage-deferrals-in-canada-reach-half-a-million
Q: I'm a landlord. My renters don't have to pay rent during this crisis, but I still have to pay my mortgage. What are you doing to support landlords?
• Landlord-tenant relations are regulated by provincial governments. Please contact your local provincial government representative for more information on resources for landlords during this crisis.
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Dana Burdenuk
I worked most recently with Habitat for Humanity Wellington Dufferin Guelph where I was responsible for procuring donated products from local businesses for the ReStores and build sites. This role got me involved with many of our great businesses here in Centre Wellington as well as participating on the Member Services Committee with CWCC.
Habitat was a big career change for me as I had spent the previous 25 years working in corporate Human Resources and Sales & Marketing roles in a number of industries including Manufacturing, Distribution, and Financial Services. I made the decision to leave the corporate world behind to pursue opportunities to be more community-focused (and spend less time travelling all over North America!).
When the opportunity for the GM role with CWCC presented itself, I felt it was a perfect blend of my skills, business knowledge, and passion. I was previously a Board of Directors member with the Halton Hills Chamber of Commerce and participated in their Membership Services Committee for eight years, which gave me a good understanding of the Chamber business model. I'm so pleased to be here, focused on providing service, solutions and benefits to local businesses and raising awareness of the value that the Chamber provides.
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Q: NumPy - Getting column and row number to reshape array I am learning neural networks and I am trying to automate some of the processes.
Right now, I have code to split the dataset randomly, a 284807x31 piece. Then, I need to separate inputs and outputs, meaning I need to select the entire array until the last column and, on the other hand, select only the last column. For some reason I can't figure out how to do this properly and I am stuck at splitting and separating the set as explained above. Here's my code so far (the part that refers to this specific problem):
train, test, cv = np.vsplit(data[np.random.permutation(data.shape[0])], (6,8))

# Should select entire array except the last column
train_inputs = np.resize(train, len(train[:,1]), -1)
test_inputs = np.resize(test, len(test[:,1]), -1)
cv_inputs = np.resize(cv, len(cv[:,1]), -1)

# Should select **only** the last column.
train_outs = train[:, 30]
test_outs = test[:, 30]
cv_outs = test[:, 30]

The idea is that I'd like the machine to find the column number of the corresponding dataset and do intended resizes. The second part will select only the last column - and I am not sure if that works because the script stops before that. The error is, by the way:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "src/model.py", line 43, in <module>
    train_inputs = np.resize(train, len(train[:,1]), -1)
TypeError: resize() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)

PS: Now that I am looking at the documentation, I can see I am very far from the solution but I really can't figure it out. It's the first time I am using NumPy.
Thanks in advance.

A: Some slicing should help:

Should select entire array except the last column

train_inputs = train[:,:-1]
test_inputs = test[:,:-1]
cv_inputs = cv[:,:-1]

and:

Should select only the last column.

train_outs = train[:,-1]
test_outs = test[:, -1]
cv_outs = test[:, -1]

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I snapped this photo of DC Lorindol Braveheart SS at the Dachshund Club of St. Louis field trial on March 15, 2008. Bred, owned, and nearly always handled by Vicki & Bill Spencer of Kentucky, "Stoney" earned his FC and DC titles on that day, pinch-handled by Laura Knoll. 13 months later in April, 2009, at 2 years 10 months of age, this dog who had finished his CH from the puppy classes, earned a specialty BV, placed in the Hound Group, and won a field trial class of Field Champion Dogs, was at an earthdog test when he suddenly, so very tragically, died after ingesting poison found on the grounds. The hearts of field trialers nation-wide have gone out to Vicki and Bill. I post this photo as a salute and tribute to these two good dachshund people and their beloved Stoney.


Description November 21, 1934 photograph of the laying of the cornerstone for the new Glenwood Presbyterian Church at 239 Forest Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia.
Notes Sanborn Maps Norfolk 1928-Oct. 1950 vol. 5, 1928-Oct. 1950, Sheet 519. SMC Digitization Phase 2.
Source From SMC Photograph Collection, FN108.


An AAU game ended in violence Sunday after members of Chicago's R.A.W. Athletics fought with referees at The Association tournament finals in Emerson, Georgia. The Emerson Police Department has launched an investigation, which could result in legal ramifications for those involved in the brawl.


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O Campeonato Carioca de Futebol de 1932 foi vencido pelo Botafogo.

Classificação final

Premiação

Jogos do campeão (Botafogo)

DATA JOGO ESTÁDIO FASE

24/04/1932 Botafogo 4x1 SC Brasil  Gen. Severiano 1º Turno

01/05/1932 Olaria 1x5 Botafogo Cândido Silva  1º Turno

15/05/1932 Botafogo 4x1 Bangu Gen. Severiano 1º Turno

22/05/1932 Flamengo 0x1 Botafogo Rua Paysandu  1º Turno

29/05/1932 Botafogo 1x1 Fluminense Gen. Severiano 1º Turno

05/06/1932 São Cristóvão  1x5 Botafogo Figueira de Melo 1º Turno

12/06/1932 Botafogo 3x1 Carioca Gen. Severiano 1º Turno

29/06/1932 América 1x5 Botafogo Campos Salles  1º Turno

03/07/1932 Botafogo 1x1 Bonsucesso Gen. Severiano 1º Turno

10/07/1932 Vasco 0x1 Botafogo São Januário  1º Turno

17/07/1932 Andarahy 1x1 Botafogo Bar. S.Francisco 1º Turno

24/07/1932 SC Brasil  1x2 Botafogo Laranjeiras 2º Turno

31/07/1932 Botafogo 7x0 Olaria Gen. Severiano 2º Turno

14/08/1932 Bangu 1x1 Botafogo Rua Ferrer  2º Turno

21/08/1932 Botafogo 2x2 Flamengo Gen. Severiano 2º Turno

28/08/1932 Fluminense 0x2 Botafogo Laranjeiras 2º Turno

04/09/1932 Botafogo 3x2 São Cristóvão  Gen. Severiano 2º Turno

11/09/1932 Carioca 1x2 Botafogo Laranjeiras 2º Turno

18/09/1932 Botafogo 2x4 América Gen. Severiano 2º Turno

02/10/1932 Bonsucesso 4x5 Botafogo Estrada do Norte 2º Turno

09/10/1932 Botafogo 0x0 Vasco Gen. Severiano 2º Turno

16/10/1932 Botafogo 2x0 Andarahy Gen. Severiano 2º Turno

Classificação final do Campeonato Carioca 1932:

CLUBE P J V E D GP GC SG

1º  Botafogo 36 22 15 6 1 59 24 +25

2º  Flamengo 31 22 13 5 4 50 30 +20

3º  Andarahy 29 22 12 5 5 55 30 +25

4º  Bangu 24 22 9 6 7 53 46 +7

4º  São Cristóvão  24 22 11 2 9 45 47 -2

6º  Vasco 23 22 9 5 8 52 43 +9

6º  Fluminense 23 22 10 3 9 41 46 -5

8º  Bonsucesso 20 22 7 6 9 44 49 -5

9º  América 17 22 7 3 12 41 51 -10

10º  Carioca 16 22 7 2 13 44 63 -19

11º  Olaria 12 22 4 4 14 47 70 -23

12º  SC Brasil 9 22 2 5 15 34 66 -32

Os Clubes Olaria e SC Brasil foram rebaixados no campeonato.

Principais artilheiros:

JOGADOR CLUBE GOLS

1º  Preguinho Fluminense 21

2º  Carvalho Leite  Botafogo 20

2º  Ladislau Bangu 20

Ver também
 Campeonato Carioca de Futebol de 1932 (LMDT)
 Campeonato Carioca de Futebol
 Futebol do Rio de Janeiro

1932
Carioca

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Since earning his juris doctor from the University of Chicago, Massachusetts Appeals Court Chief Justice Scott Kafker has accumulated over 30 years of legal experience. After completing judicial clerkships with Judge Mark L. Wolf of the United States District Court and Justice Charles L. Levin of the Michigan Supreme Court, Scott Kafker was hired as an associate at Foley, Hoag & Eliot, a Boston law firm. There he handled litigation and collective bargaining for universities and Fortune 500 companies.
After four years with the firm, Scott Kafker served as deputy and deputy chief legal counsel for Governor William F. Weld. In that role, he worked on governor-initiated legislation such as unemployment insurance and workers compensation reforms. He held the position for three years before accepting a job as chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Port Authority in 1993.
In 2001, Scott Kafker was appointed to the Massachusetts Appeals Court as an associate justice, a position he held for 14 years before being unanimously approved as chief justice in 2015. Upon being sworn in, he made numerous improvements in the court's operations, speeding up the issuance of its decisions, creating one of the first appellate pro bono clinics in the country, enabling e-filing of briefs, and promoting staff specialization and diversity.
Scott Kafker made numerous improvements in the court's operations, speeding up the issuance of its decisions, creating one of the first appellate pro bono clinics in the country, enabling e-filing of briefs, and promoting staff specialization and diversity.


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Optical frequency combs are Key to optical precision measurements. While most frequency combs operate in the near-infrared (NIR) regime, many applications require combs at mid-infrared (MIR), visible (VIS), or even ultra-violet (UV) wavelengths. Frequency combs can be transferred to other wavelengths via nonlinear optical processes; however, this becomes exceedingly challenging for high-repetition-rate frequency combs. Here it is demonstrated that a synchronously driven high-Q microresonator with a second-order optical nonlinearity can efficiently convert high-repetition-rate MR frequency combs to VIS, UV, and MIR wavelengths, providing new opportunities for microresonator and electro-optic combs in applications including molecular sensing, astronomy, and quantum optics. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America
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December 4, 2018 by joelseath
Despite the inner cover blurb declaring that the central character of The Vegetarian, Yeong-hye, 'spirals further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison . . . becoming — impossibly, ecstatically — a tree', these words are not the precursor to some magical realist swirl, or some such similar expectation; rather, Han's work is a depiction of a slow deterioration in mental health, brought on by Yeong-hye's history of abuse and disregard. Slowly, as she disintegrates, do we collect and collate the pieces (referred to below).
Written in three acts and from the perspectives of three family members in a stretched out chronological order of events, The Vegetarian (Portobello Books, 2015, translated from the original Korean by Deborah Smith) was brought together as a novel from its separate connected stories. In the first, Yeong-hye's husband (referred to later only as Mr Cheong) narrates his thoughts, feelings and actions regarding his wife's sudden decision not to eat meat. There is a residual historical-cultural undertone in this, we suspect, and in the manner by which Cheong treats his wife in general.
In the second act, the focus switches to Yeong-hye's video-artist brother-in-law who, when he hears of Yeong-hye's 'Mongolian mark' above her buttocks, becomes both sexually and artistically excited. The sentiments blur as he seeks to paint her naked body in flowers and then film her, though his sexual intent flows through the process, the combination of which all interlinks with Yeong-hye's assertion of eschewing all contact with meat, embracing the biota. Her brother-in-law abuses her naïve trust, though it isn't the first of her abuses. In the first act, Mr Cheong relates the incident in which, at a family gathering, Yeong-hye's father (a strict, former Vietnam War soldier) hits her for refusing to eat meat. She subsequently cuts herself with a knife so severely that it warrants a hurried visit to the hospital. Her father's actions here are, also, not her first abuse.
In the third act, we discover that Yeong-hye's father has been physically abusing her in childhood. Yeong-hye's sister, In-hye, is the writing perspective of that third act. Han describes her visit to the psychiatric hospital, in the mountains outside Seoul, where Yeong-hye is obliged to reside. In-hye visits after Yeong-hye goes missing from the otherwise secure unit, later to be located alone in the hills. Yeong-hye is, by this stage, refusing to eat anything at all and her weight has dropped dramatically. She is largely catatonic, though consciously focusing on other things, we're told. She has developed an association with the trees and wishes to be like them. This is not, however, a tale of turning into a tree.
Han's writing is, at times, bold in its beauty of scarce description (the almost filmic descriptions of the hospital surrounds, for example) and she has a nuanced touch in the art of how things feel. She slips easily between characters, appearing to give them centre stage, yet only later does the reader comprehend the more subtle rendering of how Yeong-hye is actually, truly, at the centre of it all. She is the central character, that much is clear, and yet all the words about her are delivered a little more removed. There is a slight confusion in character names (Yeong-hye, In-hye, their brother Yeong-ho) insofar as remembering who is who for the reader unfamiliar with such similar-sounding names, but this is a minor quibble. That Han also chooses to name other passing characters as simply P., M. and J. is a curiosity which might, with positive regard, be treated as an idiosyncrasy, or with converse regard, as an irritation. Han's choice of having some of her characters directly refer to one another, such as in telephone conversations, as Sister-in-law, or Sister, rather than by their names is, in the assumption, a cultural reference, though without full certainty.
Deborah Smith's translation does sometimes offer up an oddness of word use (e.g. 'pell-mell', 'falteringly' or 'confusedly') and the final result is a mix of predominantly British English but with a scattering of American English spellings ('favour', 'colour', 'theatre', and then 'realize'). This aside, as is the perennial perplexity of the regular reader of variety, the monolingual can never really know the truth of the form of a written work in its original language. As such, these critiques of the translator's work are minor and presented more in the manner of observation.
In the final reckoning, Han Kang's novel reflects a languid undertow of background subtleties because, ultimately, what isn't so forcefully said is comprehended as being a part of the whole. That she chooses to slowly unfold the background of Yeong-hye's life is testament to Han's writing skill. She infuses her characters with introspections that fold around themselves but which don't stultify too greatly the external actions of the characters or the descriptions of the scenes. Those characters are, initially, difficult to comprehend — not because of a complexity of writing but because Han paints them carefully but slightly. Mr Cheong's first person attempt to extract some form of sympathy for the predicament of his unreasonable wife falls on deaf reader's ears, but he isn't someone we find we need to later concern ourselves with; Yeong-hye takes time to try to understand, insofar as her motivations and actions, or rather, her inactions, are concerned.
The Vegetarian earned Han Kang the Man Booker International Prize in 2016. Whilst her writing style is accomplished and the content of her pages here is both carefully arranged and streaked with other depths and subtleties, there is a lingering dissatisfaction in the manner of its denouement. In an ambulance, In-hye whispers to Yeong-hye that: 'Perhaps this is all a dream.' Reviews here are written before any others are read, and this applies to praise by award-givers; however, the discrepancy persists in what the ordinary reader might require and what the literary establishment decrees as the most remarkable of its shortlist. The Vegetarian is entirely readable and thought-provoking but it isn't the 'bracing, visceral, system-shocking' breathlessness as announced by its blurb. We should take care in discarding such hyperbole, and we should not be swayed by prize short listing cover addenda.
Simply, The Vegetarian is an interlinked three-act collection around the theme of mental deterioration, streaked with culturally specific, perhaps global, reference to gender relations, and the affects and effects of abuses: the author handles her work mostly with care and sometimes with the reality of flesh and blood.
This entry was posted in Book Reviews (2017/18) and tagged book reviews, characters, fiction, han kang, literature, reading, stories, writing.


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Sara Gerke
Sara Gerke joined Penn State Dickinson Law as Assistant Professor of Law in July 2021. She previously served as a Research Fellow in Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Law at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School for the Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (PMAIL), where she oversaw the day-to-day work of the Center's component of this collaborative project, including conducting law, policy, and ethics research; drafting reports and recommendations; and coordinating the Center's efforts with collaborators at the Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) at the University of Copenhagen as well as other partners. Before joining the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School, Professor Gerke was the General Manager of the Institute for German, European and International Medical Law, Public Health Law and Bioethics of the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim (IMGB).
Professor Gerke's current research focuses on the ethical and legal challenges of artificial intelligence and big data for health care and health law in the United States and Europe. She also researches comparative law and ethics of other issues at the cutting edge of medical developments, such as the clinical translation of stem cell research, biological products, such as somatic cells, tissues, and gene therapy, reproductive medicine, such as mitochondrial replacement techniques, and digital health more generally.
Professor Gerke's work has appeared in leading law, medical, scientific, and bioethics journals, such as JAMA, Science, Nature Medicine, npj Digital Medicine, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Electronics, Nature Biotechnology, The Lancet Digital Health, Annual Reviews of Genomics and Human Genetics, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, and Hastings Center Report, as well as books published by Elsevier and Springer. She is also the first editor of a stakeholder book on the clinical application of human induced pluripotent stem cells published with Springer in 2020.
Professor Gerke was also recently named a 2021 Health Law Scholar by the American Society for Law, Medicine & Ethics and the Saint Louis University School of Law Center for Health Law Studies.
At Penn State Dickinson Law, Professor Gerke teaches Torts, Health Law, and other health law-related courses. With her expertise in the ethics and law of AI, big data, and digital health, she has also been frequently invited as a guest lecturer at other schools, such as Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Professor Gerke has presented at several national and international legal, medical, bioethics, and industry conferences organized, for example, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, Boston Bar Association, University of Copenhagen, AIMed, University of Cambridge, and the University of Oxford. She has also co-organized a variety of conferences and events, such as Black-Box Medicine: Legal and Ethical Issues and AI and Disability/Dependency: Equity, Access, and Interdependence.
Professor Gerke is a member of several working groups and committees. For example, she is a member of the Advisory Group - Academic - of the American Board of AI in Medicine (ABAIM), a research member (Health Law) of the Z-inspection® Initiative, and a member of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Group of DARPA's ADvanced Acclimation and Protection Tool for Environmental Readiness (ADAPTER) program. She is also the co-initiator of the ELSI Strategic Working Group at the German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) and a member of Sana Biotechnology's stem cell research oversight (SCRO) committee.
From April 2016 to March 2018, Professor Gerke was also the Co‑Investigator of an interdisciplinary project, known as "ClinhiPS," sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (funds: 657,678.00 EUR). This project analyzed the clinical application of human induced pluripotent stem cells in Germany and Austria from scientific, ethical, and comparative legal perspectives.
Professor Gerke earned a degree in law (Dipl.-Jur. Univ.; J.D. equivalent) in July 2012 from the University of Augsburg with distinction-level results. She also holds a Master's degree in Medical Ethics and Law from King's College London (December 2013), and achieved a distinction in her Master's dissertation entitled "A Market in Human Organs from the Living or an Opt-Out System? A Legal and Ethical Analysis to Identify a Way to Address the Organ Shortage in the United Kingdom". In addition, she expects her Dr. iur. (Ph.D. in Law equivalent) on the regulation of stem cell research in Europe to be officially awarded from the University of Mannheim in 2021.
Select Publications by Professor Gerke
Sara Gerke, Timo Minssen & I. Glenn Cohen, Ethical and Legal Challenges of Artificial Intelligence-Driven Healthcare, in Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare 295 (Adam Bohr & Kaveh Memarzadeh eds., Elsevier 2020).
Sara Gerke, Carmel Shachar, Peter R. Chai & I. Glenn Cohen, Regulatory, Safety, and Privacy Concerns of Home Monitoring Technologies During COVID-19, 26 NATURE MED. 1176 (2020).
Sara Gerke, Boris Babic, Theodoros Evgeniou & I. Glenn Cohen, The Need for a System View to Regulate Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Based Software as Medical Device, 3 NPJ DIGIT. MED. Article number: 53 (2020).
Sara Gerke, Serena Yeung & I. Glenn Cohen, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Ambient Intelligence in Hospitals, 323 JAMA 601 (2020).
Sara Gerke, Timo Minssen, Helen Yu & I. Glenn Cohen, Ethical and Legal Issues of Ingestible Electronic Sensors, 2 NATURE ELECTRON. 329 (2019).
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Prof. Gerke News and Activity
Faculty Impact
Dipl.-Jur. Univ., University of Augsburg
M.A. in Medical Ethics and Law, King's College London
Health Law (including bioethics, artificial intelligence, digital health, stem cell research, genetics, reproductive technology, and other health law topics), Food and Drug Law, Privacy Law, Law and Medicine, Law and Technology, and Comparative Law (the U.S. and Europe)
Gerke's Publications
SARA GERKE, JOCHEN TAUPITZ, CLAUDIA WIESEMANN, CHRISTIAN KOPETZKI & HEIKO ZIMMERMANN, DIE KLINISCHE ANWENDUNG VON HUMANEN INDUZIERTEN PLURIPOTENTEN STAMMZELLEN — EIN STAKEHOLDER SAMMELBAND [THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS — A STAKEHOLDER ANTHOLOGY] (Springer 2020).
Boris Babic, I. Glenn Cohen, Theodoros Evgeniou & Sara Gerke, When Machine Learning Goes Off the Rails, HARV. BUS. REV. (2021).
Boris Babic, Sara Gerke, Theodoros Evgeniou & I. Glenn Cohen, Direct-to-Consumer Medical Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applications, 3 NATURE MACH. INTELL. 283 (2021).
Gali Katznelson & Sara Gerke, The Need for Health AI Ethics in Medical School Education, ADV. IN HEALTH SCI. EDUC. (2021).
George Maliha, Sara Gerke, I. Glenn Cohen & Ravi B. Parikh, Artificial Intelligence and Liability in Medicine: Balancing Safety and Innovation, MILBANK Q. (2021).
W. Nicholson Price II, Sara Gerke & I. Glenn Cohen, How Much Can Potential Jurors Tell Us about Liability for Medical Artificial Intelligence?, 62 JNM 15 (2021).
I. Glenn Cohen, Eli Y. Adashi, Sara Gerke, César Palacios-González & Vardit Ravitsky, The Regulation of Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques Around the World, 21 ANNU. REV. GENOM. HUM. 565 (2020).
I. Glenn Cohen, Sara Gerke & Daniel B. Kramer, Ethical and Legal Implications of Remote Monitoring of Medical Devices, 98 MILBANK Q. 1257 (2020).
I. Glenn Cohen, Theodoros Evgeniou, Sara Gerke & Timo Minssen, The European Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Implications and Challenges for Digital Health, 2 THE LANCET DIGITAL HEALTH E376 (2020).
Sara Gerke, Ariel D. Stern & Timo Minssen, Germany's Digital Health Reforms in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons and Opportunities for Other Countries, 3 NPJ DIGIT. MED. Article number: 94 (2020).
Hrefna D. Gunnarsdóttir, Michael S. Sinha, Sara Gerke & Timo Minssen, Applying the Proportionality Principle to COVID-19 Antibody Testing, J. L. BIOSCI. lsaa058 (2020).
Timo Minssen, Sara Gerke, Mateo Aboy, Nicholson Price & I. Glenn Cohen, Regulatory Responses to Medical Machine Learning, J. L. BIOSCI. lsaa002 (2020).
Carmel Shachar, Sara Gerke & Eli Y. Adashi, AI Surveillance during Pandemics: Ethical Implementation Imperatives, 50 HASTINGS CENT. REP. 18 (2020).
Mateo Aboy, Kathleen Liddell, Cristina Crespo, I. Glenn Cohen, Johnathon Liddicoat, Sara Gerke, & Timo Minssen, How Does Emerging Patent Case Law in the US and Europe Affect Precision Medicine?, 37 NATURE BIOTECHNOL. 1118 (2019).
Boris Babic, Sara Gerke, Theodoros Evgeniou & I. Glenn Cohen, Algorithms on Regulatory Lockdown in Medicine: Prioritize Risk Monitoring to Address the "Update Problem", 366 SCIENCE 1202 (2019).
W. Nicholson Price II, Sara Gerke & I. Glenn Cohen, Potential Liability for Physicians Using Artificial Intelligence, 322 JAMA 1765 (2019).
Sara Gerke & Shaun Pattinson, EU Marketing Authorisation of Orphan Medicinal Products and Its Impact on Related Research, 24 EUR. J. HEALTH L. 541 (2017).
Jochen Taupitz, Franz Geisthövel, Dagmar Coester-Waltjen, Helmut Frister, Monika Frommel, Sara Gerke, Benjamin Hermes, Friedhelm Hufen, Alexandra Ochsner, Henning Beier & Christian Thaler, V. Mannheimer Workshop zur Fortpflanzungsmedizin: Ein juristischer Diskurs zur Präimplantationsdiagnostik und Embryonenspende auf der Basis neuerer reproduktionsbiologischer Prämissen [5th Mannheim Workshop on Reproductive Medicine: A Legal Discourse on Preimplantation Diagnosis and Embryo Donation Based on Recent Reproductive Biological Premises], 12 JOURNAL OF REPROD. MED. AND ENDOCRINOL. 42 (2015).
Sara Gerke, Die klinische Translation von hiPS-Zellen in Deutschland [The Clinical Translation of hiPSCs in Germany], in Die klinische Anwendung von humanen induzierten pluripotenten Stammzellen [The Clinical Application of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells] 243 (Sara Gerke et al. eds., Springer 2020).
Sara Gerke & Solveig Lena Hansen, Die Klinische Anwendung von hiPS-Zellen: Ein Überblick [The Clinical Application of hiPSCs: An Overview], in Die klinische Anwendung von humanen induzierten pluripotenten Stammzellen [The Clinical Application of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells] 1 (Sara Gerke et al. eds., Springer 2020).
Sara Gerke, Solveig Lena Hansen, Verena Christine Blum, Stephanie Bur, Clemens Heyder, Christian Kopetzki, Ina Meiser, Julia C. Neubauer, Danielle Noe, Claudia Steinböck, Claudia Wiesemann, Heiko Zimmermann & Jochen Taupitz, Naturwissenschaftliche, ethische und rechtliche Empfehlungen zur klinischen Translation der Forschung mit humanen induzierten pluripotenten Stammzellen und davon abgeleiteten Produkten [Scientific, Ethical, and Legal Recommendations for the Clinical Translation of Research Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Derived Products], in Die klinische Anwendung von humanen induzierten pluripotenten Stammzellen [The Clinical Application of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells] 459 (Sara Gerke et al. eds., Springer 2020).
Sara Gerke, Christian Kopetzki, Verena Christine Blum, Danielle Noe & Claudia Steinböck, Eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse der klinischen Translation von hiPS-Zellen in Deutschland und Österreich [A Comparative Legal Analysis of the Clinical Translation of hiPSCs in Germany and Austria], in Die klinische Anwendung von humanen induzierten pluripotenten Stammzellen [The Clinical Application of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells] 421 (Sara Gerke et al. eds., Springer 2020).
Sara Gerke & Jochen Taupitz, Rechtliche Aspekte der Stammzellforschung in Deutschland: Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der Forschung mit humanen embryonalen Stammzellen (hES Zellen) und mit humanen induzierten pluripotenten Stammzellen (hiPS Zellen) [Legal Aspects of Stem Cell Research in Germany: Limits and Possibilities of Research Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs) and Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs)], in Stammzellforschung: Aktuelle wissenschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen [Stem Cell Research: Current Scientific and Social Developments] 209 (Martin Zenke, Lilian Marx-Stölting & Hannah Schickl eds., Nomos 2018).


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The Business of Life
Art fair redraws the line
Generally, fewer people are buying globally, but here you still have a lot of interes. (AFP)
Published Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Dubai's annual art fair hit new highs in both sales and volumes.
The four-day contemporary art show drew more than 18,000 visitors, up 28 per cent from last year, and featured more varied galleries and artwork.
"We've sold almost everything," said Raman Frey of New York-based gallery Frey Norris. The fair, which ended late on Saturday, featured pieces by world-famous contemporary artists and a wider geographical mix than earlier years, with 31 countries represented.
Some galleries, such as Saudi Arabia's Athr Gallery and Berlin's Galerie Christian Hosp, said they sold 90 per cent of their works.
Sales highlights at the event included the sale of Pakistani artist Sadquain Naqqah's The Three Graces by Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery for $200,000 (Dh734,700); the purchase of Snow White Without the Dwarves by Ghader Amer for $160,000; New York-based Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery's sale of a Reza Derakshani's piece for $80,000 and a piece by Saudi Arabian artist Abdulnasser Gharem, shown by Berlin-based Galerie Caprice Horn, which sold for $50,000.
"Generally, fewer people are buying globally, but here you still have a lot of interest from royal families and collectors," said Joan Lee, Head of Seoul-based Sun gallery.
The number of galleries this year rose to 72 from 67 a year ago. (With inputs from Reuters)


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There's nothing low stress about getting ready for a military move. And at the top of the list of problems is likely your decision about where to live. Should you live on or off base? Should you rent or buy? If you're looking for the perfect rental situation, there are probably a few things about renting that you just don't know. Here are the top five we've seen.


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4.0 In Your Exams—No Big Deal, According To This M'sian Academic Counsellor
Sarah Enxhi
Malaysians were flabbergasted when Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh of the Education Ministry recently said that a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.0 in the Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) examination does not guarantee a place in a public university, especially for medical courses. This statement was met with a lot of disapproval from netizens and many commented that "skin colour is worth more than the CGPA" and that that's why most recommend students to "go overseas to study medicine instead".
While everyone hates on what the minister said—some just purely because he is a minister—let's take a step back and look at what he said without any bias.
An academic counsellor at a private university in Malaysia, Elaine (not her real name), shared that in her line of work, an average of 10 students come to see her daily because they wish to secure a spot at a university in Australia or New Zealand.
The type of questions asked by these students vary according to their needs. Some students set their mind on a particular course that they'd like to apply to, so they ask her about entry requirements and other necessary steps to take to be accepted by the university of their choice. On the other hand, there are also students who have no idea about what they should study and are simply looking forward to studying abroad.
Of the total applicants from Elaine's workplace, about 400 students are successfully transferred to Australia and New Zealand. The rest are left to search for other available options.
A Downward Spiral?
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While there is a happy verdict for the 400 students that do make the cut, Elaine reveals that she has made some disturbing observations from her discussions with the students. "There are students who want to be a doctor yet have no idea about how to get there. With medicine and dentistry's deadline which are commonly earlier than other courses, students are still coming in after the deadline, despite the constant reminder from counsellors," she said.
It is rather unbelievable that in this technology driven society, students still have "difficulty" accessing information from the university. "Students should be most technology savvy in this era, however with all the provided information platforms, be it emails, students portals, Facebook, notice boards, etc., students can still say that they did not receive any information from the counsellors. Worse still is when there are so many ways of announcing information, but counsellors are still frustrated at the lack of outreach to the students," Elaine asserted.
This shows that the proactive go-getter attitude is sadly lacking in these students who know what they want, but are unaware of what it takes to get it.
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Results Are Something, But Not Everything
Other than the challenges of being disciplined and informed, students are also taking their inferior results too lightly. "They have no idea that their mediocre results are no match for those who are well prepared to take up the challenge," Elaine shared disappointingly.
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How about students who are academic geniuses then? Surely the cream of the crop will be the first to be accepted from the pool of applicants.
Not necessarily, according to Elaine. It's not always about getting the top grades and being the president of all the clubs in the university. For example, being a doctor requires skills and knowledge, but universities in Australia and New Zealand who conduct interviews are also looking for actual dedication and passion.
"Some students who are sure they want to be doctors will gather all the information they need for application and admissions but are not aware that interviewers are looking for genuine applicants—students who love medicine from the bottom of their hearts and are not in it for the fame and money," Elaine remarked.
"They think all it takes is straight As. Interviewers can tell if students are answering from their heart or answering with a pre-prepared answer script, yet students still think that interviewers are just looking for the perfect answer," she added.
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Other than academic requirements and having a legitimate interest in a certain course, soft skills are just as crucial. "Students have always been trained to excel in examinations but they lack communication and social skills. This can be clearly seen when students come in and enquire about courses. They either cannot articulate properly or they have no common courtesy at all while asking questions, yet their results are as good as can be," Elaine explained.
It is no secret that mastering the English language in Malaysia is still a huge obstacle for students. Late last year, Muhyiddin Yassin, who was the Education Minister then, openly admitted during a dialogue on the Malaysian Higher Education Blueprint 2015-2025 that "something is not right" when students are still struggling with English when they enter university.
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To make things worse, the Education Ministry is delaying the compulsory pass in English in the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination that was supposedly scheduled to be implemented next year. This delay is to give more time for teachers and students to "get prepared"; however, this preparation time could come at a cost, that is the further deterioration of English proficiency among students.
But language skills aside, what is the excuse for poor social skills and courtesy then?
Passion ≠ Hard Work ≠ Money ≠ Fame ≠ Success
I might be over-generalising here, but students and young graduates of this age are a confused lot.
They want to be successful, but they might not understand the challenges they need to overcome in order to achieve that. Thanks to over-inspirational stories on the internet, they think that they can get wealth, fame and world-travel all from a day's work (Sound familiar?). They will always assume that there is an easier route so they want to do the bare minimum and expect to obtain maximum results.
Passion, hard work, money, fame and success are not always directly correlated. Some people work hard their whole lives but still live with only the essentials. The only element that makes everything else worth it is a sense of purpose.
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The concern here is that these students, assuming that they return to Malaysia after studying abroad, are supposed to be the "leaders of the future". What kind of doctors, lawyers, businessmen, entrepreneurs—or any other working professional for that matter—are we churning out if these future leaders don't have a clear sense of direction and purpose?
Of course, students who complain about not getting accepted by a university just because they got a 4.0 CGPA is not acceptable. If every bright student who got rejected by Harvard complains about it on social media, we'd be having an online riot.
That said, it isn't fair to leave well-performing students in the dark about their application results. For students to understand what went wrong, it would make more sense to at least provide an explanation as to why they were rejected.
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In this Paul explains to us how he came up with the rocking stand idea and as well how he is going to put it all together. Templates have been provided in the tools section so all you need to do is print them out, get some wood and then cut around them. If you aren't confident cutting shapes from wood then you can always go to your local hardware store where they should be able to do this for you.
Now that we have all the wood cut out it's time to put it all together. Paul shows us how to do just that using a spade bit drill, dowels and a hot glue gun. It's messy work but the result is brilliant! Remember and do this away from where you will be preparing the cake as it is not food safe.
Paul decides to build up parts of the body using something other than cake which keeps things much simpler as using cake to make the bulge of the stomach could prove quite tricky. Paul uses a nice light and easy to work with substitute which once covered in sugarpaste looks just like cake! Watch to find out what he uses.
Paul demonstrates carving the body and the head from lovely coconut and lemon cake. Paul is just using what was laying around the kitchen and would usually use chocolate sponge but this will do nicely. Using a long serrated knife he carves the body from the centre of the cake to the edges to get a nice curve and then goes to the head where he cleverly uses cut offs to get the shape. Ganache is great for sticking bits together as well as for covering the cake as you will see. Once it's carved it's time to get the crumb coat on and then smooth it down.
In this lesson Paul begins to cover the cake chocolate sugarpaste mixed with a little white sugarpaste to get a nice reindeer tone. Once it has been rolled out and cut to size it's a case of placing the sugarpaste under the stomach and stretching up and working it round the legs and body.
Now Paul finishes covering the Body by rolling out another large piece of sugarpaste which he rolls over the top of the body this time. Make sure you make up enough sugarpaste to cover the whole body first time around as it's always difficult to create the same tone twice.
Paul now moves onto covering the head which is a little tricky but a pair of scissors and some water will help! Paul uses the water to help blend the sugarpaste into the neck area with his fingers.
In this lesson Paul starts to cover the legs which is a little tricky but is more time consuming than it is difficult. Maybe a little bit of edible glue or water would be a good idea to keep the sugarpaste nice and secure to the wood.
Paul now moves onto adding some facial features to Rudolph's face! Paul begins by adding the eyes and starts off by adding sockets using a ball tool which he then fills with little pieces of ivory sugarpaste. From here he adds more detail to the eyes with edible licorice black paint and then adds the classic red nose!
In this lesson Paul shows us a quick and easy but very cute way to make ears and secures them on with cocktail sticks and a little water. Paul does advise however that you use edible glue instead as it will guarantee they stay on. Paul then shows us how to texture Rudolph creating hair using a leaf veining tool and then adds the tail.
Now that Rudolph has been textured and is looking cute and furry it's time to add the legs. Paul suggests leaving it to firm up perhaps overnight before moving on to the next stages as it will be less likely to mark or damage.
So we've added Santa's legs doesn't have any feet or a body! Paul uses the same cake substitute that was used earlier which again simplifies things and keeps the overall weight down. You could quite easily use cake and it would most likely be fine so it is entirely up to you. Paul also has a clever trick up his sleeve that saves having to use ganache. Paul then shows us another great technique for creating fur texture that you will no doubt use again and again.
First of Paul shows us how to make Santa's belt which really brings his outfit together.Now it's onto his arms and to do this Paul rolls out two suasages of sugarpaste and then adds sockets to each of them using a cone tool. The arms are then secure with a little edible glue and Paul props one of them up with a toothpick which keeps it up at waist height.
In this lesson Paul shows us how to make the head and again using some great time saving techniques but with great results. You can have fun creating so many different facial expressions just by changing the eyelids and eyebrows.
Here Paul shows us how to add some more facial features moving onto the famous big beard and eyebrows and so on. Paul finishes by showing us how to build up the hair in preparation for his hat.
Paul starts off by making Santa's hat using a cocktail stick to keep it in place which gives a sense of movement. Then it's onto making the reigns to go round Rudolph's Head. Just a little bit of brown sugarpaste, a ribbon cutter and a stitchy tool and you are more than halfway there. Paul recommends adding a strengthening agent to the sugarpaste such as CMC or Tylo as they may snap after a while.
In this lesson Paul shows us how to create the antlers using paper, cake card and some sugarpaste. There is a template available in the tools section but we would encourage you to try make your own. It's very simple and you can always use a picture of a reindeer as inspiration.
Paul Starts off by finishing the antlers by marking them with a veining tool and then inserts them into the cake. Now it's time to start covering the rocking stand which is actually pretty tricky but don't worry Paul will keep you right.
Paul shows us how to finish covering the stand so we can then move onto decorating it. Remember to wait the wood before covering it even if it's just with some water. As well make sure that you don't cover underneath where the stand will rock back and forth.
Here Paul decorates the rocking stand to get it looking lovely and festive. This really brings the whole design together and looks brilliant. You could do whatever you like here but paul uses a mixture of star plunger cutters, Paul Benson cutters and circle plunger cutters.
In this final lesson Paul shows us how to finish it all off with a little dusting work and some little extras that make all the difference.
Paul shares some ideas that you can implement when making this cake to make it unique to you. We would love to see your versions of this cake so please share your pictures with us on our Facebook Page!
Paul gives some insider information for this cake including the cost to make it as well as how you should price the cake when selling it – vital information for any professional cake designer!
If you are struggling to find the time to watch each and every lesson then this is the video for you. Here we have selected all the key points and condensed the whole tutorial into 15 minutes…more than enough to get you started!
Paul introduces us to his fantastic Rocking Rudolph Cake, accompanied by a very merry Santa Claus. This cake combines woodwork and cake design to create an actual rocking stand for the festive cake, which is sure to be a stand out centre piece on your Christmas dinner table!
In this tutorial, Paul demonstrates how to make a fully functional rocking stand for the cake - all the templates and step-by-step instructions you will need are provided to guide you through the process. If DIY is not your forte, you can always ask a local carpenter to help you with this part before moving on to the cake decorating which covers numerous techniques including carving, ganaching, modelling, dust work, and texturing. Paul also shows us a fantastic way of building up the bulky parts of cake in the fastest, cheapest and lightest way possible to ensure that the cake stays balanced.
The Rocking Rudolph cake can be adapted to suit a number of occasions, by replacing Rudolph and Santa with an actual horse or any four-legged creature of your choice that is appropriate for the celebration.
We would love to see your version of the Rocking Rudolph Cake - please share your snaps with us on our Facebook Page!
Decorating time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes approx.


Keith has that different phrasing from Jagger. They can be singing to the same instrumental track, same words, and Keith's will swing a bit more.
I remember Charlie saying that he wished Keith had saved "It's a Struggle" for the Stones. Why can't the Stones play the song? I would like to hear Mick sing it. Are there legal restrictions? I do not understand.
BTW I enjoy the posts of this thread!!!
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Thank you both of you for sharing these. For a Stones nerd like me it is always interesting to hear works in progress, and thereby wittnessing the whole creativity process of the Stones (especially that of Jagger/Richards colloboration).
Listening those one after other, just like years ago when listening VOODOO LOUNGE for the very first time, it strikes me how similar the songs sound like (tempo, the feel, even the whole structure to some extent). That was not something I could have never thought when listening to VOODOO LOUNGE.
For Stones songs they sound like sketches or skeletons, but had it been a Winos project in Keith's mind, with some polishing, minor over-dubs and editing, those might have sounded like final products. Something belonging naturally to MAIN OFFENDER. I can understand what Jagger means by saying about Keith's solo albums that they remind him of what Keith brings on the table for a Stones session (or something to that effect). Probably there are fans here in this site who actually prefer the songs to remain at this stage, and not that of Jagger adding his contribution there, and with Keith finishing it or developing it further, and I do see their point (and agree with them occasionally). Personally I can't say are the finished products any substantially better, but I guess I tend to like the sound of The Rolling Stones more than I do like the sound of The Winos. If nothing else it is nice to hear Jagger's voice there (and in "Love Is Strong" he sounds brilliant - interestingly managing to interpret Keith's original key phrases to fit convincingly to his mouth.).
"You Got Me Rocking" was speeded up for the final version - I can easily see Mick having a say for that. Isn't that always the thing with latter-day Stones: Mick the Rock wanting the songs go faster, and Keith the Roll slower. A good decision? I don't know, the released version sounds a bit too busy and rushed, but this one doesn't go anywhere. Probably that very key phrase "You got me ROCKING now" asked a bit uptempo... No, I don't think any any latter day Stones classic was ruined in the process no matter they had done with the song... but good that they didn't that to "Love Is Strong" (its tempo is actually one of his fascinating features, even though probably because of it they always have had difficulties to play the song live, unlike with a lesser quality song "You Got Me Rocking").
Altogether, interesting to hear pure Jagger/Richards songs in process, these two ones being so called "Keith songs".
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Some great Stones tunes have come about through essentially being written by Keith with noodling lyrics which are then taken by Mick and extensively rewritten and updated. Gimmie Shelter comes to mind.
I think there are examples of both. Sometimes, the unfinished versions are better (Keep Up Blues and some of the SW-tracks spring to mind).
However, LIS and YGMR really got a good makeover that improved the songs, imo.
I find it fascinating to listen to the development of their tunes as well. Some of the the early attemps are very long (the SG-tracks, Flip The Switch, YGR, for instance). We can litterally hear them searching for sweet stuff to add and trying out different things. Surprisingly, they often keep the backing tracks of many of those versions for the finished version. Then, they edit them down and do the overdubs and the final touches.
Absolutely! Mixed Emotions is another example backing your assessment.
really like the guitars and drums. yes they sound like really super well produced 'basic tracks' in a way, just sorta like the 'sound' of The Stones.
never too much warmed to this track tho like some of vl very much.
the recent silver train thread being one example.
for a section of a song, remain fascinating and effective for me.
not this one particuarly tho a fascinating listen and thread for me. tyfor posting it.
(I think video is intense and wonderful however.
in Fabulous B&W, like it was always meant to be.
Only bigger than the Chrysler building and more, ahem, rolling.
sure climb that beanstalk little ants and get the giant buh-lade.
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It certainly wouldn't have made sense for Keith to end up singing "Love is Strong" for the Stones. He pretty much had just done that on "Wicked as it Seems".
what comes to mind in hearing 'Love Is Strong' with Keith is how broad brush and loose his vocals are, but full of feeling for the song..
then Mick can edit and focus them. this then frees up Keith to edit guitar decisions..
but that harp makes it for me.
This is a fun version of the song. Actually all my favorite songs from Voodoo Brew have Keith on vocals. Never thought of that before.
It's just about finished, this isn't Keith noodling, pity Keith didn't keep this to himself as we could have had a Keith single from the Stones. It's about time, hoping for more Keith tracks on the new album, 3 or 4 to give it more depth and keep it interesting. Blue And Lonesome was missing Keith's vocals, one of the reasons it was so one dimensional, can't believe Keith didn't get one track of his choice to do a blues vocal.
Yeah i heard this before, sounds like Mick took the guts out of this one, certainly he didn't improve it. Keith's is potent, with more passion, stronger, and it's being driven harder imho.
Will we ever hear Keith singing One More Shot, now that would be nice, Steve Jordan had the impression Keith's version was better.
Good post. But I don't think Mick took the guts out of it. Keith is a fine singer of his own style; and by doing his solo albums I think he really found his strenghts, and discovered what to use and what not etc. But he is not close to Mick, who is one of the great singers in music, one of the great interpreters, story tellers. Just on LIS, the way Mick stays low and gloomy, a bit threatening for the verses; and then opens it up for the chorus. That implied "mmm" before "what are you scared of baby" - those are class deliveries.
Its intriguing what you say about Keith doing a vocal on B&L. I had never even thought about that.
I love it when Mick does that mmm thing, the original UMT with his "ah its al right ah ah", and more recently when he gets carried away with excitement live like at Glastonbury, he makes these little screams and ahh sounds, it seems silly to miss those sort of things from his vocals but i do, it showed passion for the music.
Even when it comes to him addressing the audience, i loved his grunts and general craziness between numbers, i'm going back to 81' 82' now, i guess we all have to grow up but it's not suited to Rock lol.
On a more serious note i agree Mick did something with Love Is Strong that was strange but compelling, the lyrics hold a different meaning with that stalking style of delivery, very different from Keith's . It's not Micks vocals that take the guts out of Micks version, its just watered down with production imo.
Voodoo Brew-Stew-Residue all show the richness of this era, musically speaking. So many gems, even with unfinished songs. And for once the mix/mastering was so natural and clean (wish the Stones would go back to it).
By the way, does anyone know the story behind such a giant leak?
Wow - never heard that before. Brilliant.
I have this theory the leaks come from Keith himself.
Thank you both of you for sharing these. For a Stones nerd like me it is always interesting to hear works in progress, and thereby witnessing the whole creativity process of the Stones (especially that of Jagger/Richards colloboration).
Said differently I never heard a working version of a song from the golden (68-72) era that was better than the official version, which proves that during these years the Twins' flair was unparalleled. They made NO mistakes.
Now (and it's my opinion) the release of the "Voodoo Brew/Stew/Residue" around 1996/97 proved that the Twins had lost quite a fair share of their flair : they were putting 2nd rate material on the album and were putting away embryos of songs that had a great potential (like "You Got It Made").
You almost said something then that would have Doxa down on me like a ton of bricks and his poodles not far behind .
I put it to people that Keith is still bringing his half of the songs to the table here in these rough tracks, and perhaps Mick isn't helping them along as best he can, or to their potential, certainly not to the extent of the Golden era.
I'm just saying that a bit of fairy dust from Mick could have and should have given these tracks more life, they could have been classics, maybe not as good as in the golden era, but certainly better than the competition.
Check out If You Can't Rock Me.
Is there a version of IYCRM that was recorded earlier than '73, Dandee?
No, but the demo version (before the final mix) is imo superior.
It's not from the 68-72 era! Ta-dum!
To get back to my point GS sung by Keef, YGTSilver sung by Mick, "Goodtime Woman" or the acoustic version of "ADTline" are nice oddities but they don't hold a candle against the released versions.
While you can take the "Voodoo Brew/Stew/Residue" as a working base and create an alt. VL that could be arguably better than the Stones' version.
This said I don't like the slow organ-heavy version of YGMRocking or LIStrong sung by Keef. For these 2 I'd keep the VL versions.
RE "You Can't Rock Me" Nick Kent who attended some IORR sessions said that each take of these songs was worse than the previous and when a super-dire take was in the can Keef'd usually say : "that's it, that's the one! We got it!".


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San Francisco Bay Area based musician, teacher, and scholar Chris Trinidad has fallen into the place where everything is music. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, his relationship with music grew through his exploration of the bass guitar, the drum set, voice, songwriting, and choral conducting. Chris's formal education includes undergraduate training in Jazz Studies and Secondary Education, and graduate work in the fields of Philosophy and Sociology of Music Education, Theological and Liturgical Studies, and the Educational Philosophy and Spiritual Vision of John Baptist de La Salle. All of these seemingly disparate disciplines and interests help to inform the music that he makes. He has discerned that the core purpose of his work is to accompany and encourage people to pursue their calling. He currently divides his time between freelance music making with various groups and artists, trying to develop high school students into compassionate human beings, and working on defeating his addiction to improvising excessively in the saddest of all keys ... D minor. For more information, visit his website at www.christrinidad.com.
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Chris Trinidad is humbled and honoured to join the founding leadership team of Cristo Rey De La Salle. He has discerned that the core purpose of his work is to accompany and encourage people to pursue their vocation through a transformative education. Chris began his teaching career in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was born and raised. He became a San Francisco Bay Area transplant ten years ago and subsequently served as a Lasallian educator and partner-in-mission in various capacities at De La Salle High School in Concord and at Saint Mary's College High School in Berkeley. Chris's eclectic formal education includes work in Jazz Studies (Capilano University) and Music Education (University of British Columbia), Theology and Liturgical Studies (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University), and Educational Leadership (California State University East Bay). In addition to his work in education, Chris is a freelance live performance multi-instrumentalist and studio musician who collaborates with multiple Bay Area artists. Finally, Chris is a lifelong Vancouver Canucks hockey fan who will never be found cheering for the San Jose Sharks!


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FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- A former sergeant at Fort Bragg who became a close adviser to Osama bin Laden obtained sensitive documents describing how U.S. special operations units function.
Ali A. Mohamed, a trusted trainer in bin Laden's al Qaeda network, walked the halls of the U.S. military's top warfare planning center at Fort Bragg for more than two years as an Army sergeant.
From 1987 to 1989, he acquired sensitive documents describing how special operations units work and a detailed plan for a special operations training exercise, court documents say. The exercise was for an attack on Baluchistan, a part of Pakistan wedged between Afghanistan and the Arabian Sea.
From 1981 until his arrest in 1998, Mohamed was a key member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and he belonged to al Qaeda through the 1990s. He is in prison in an undisclosed location awaiting sentencing for his role in planning the 1998 car bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya, which killed 224 people and injured 4,500. Among those who served at The John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School while Mohamed was there, there is disagreement over the quantity of the documents he obtained and over the extent to which that information may compromise the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan.
But court files make clear that Mohamed did obtain numerous documents from Fort Bragg, including some labeled "top secret."
In 1990, the FBI found Army documents that Mohamed gave to an Islamic extremist later convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspiracy. Included were top-secret documents identified as belonging to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Commander in Chief of the Army's Central Command, according to an FBI inventory. "There is no doubt that his proximity, in hindsight, was very harmful," said one former Special Forces officer who spoke on the condition that he not be identified. "Does this hurt our efforts now? Absolutely."
But another officer who worked on the Baluchistan exercise said he didn't think knowledge of the late-1980s training exercise or documents used to plan it would jeopardize the U.S. military.
"We pulled that exercise out of the air," said retired Lt. Col. Lonnie R. Poole, who lives in Stockdale, Texas. "You can get more accurate information by going off post and buying a training book."
Mohamed's background made him an ideal spy for Islamic extremists at Fort Bragg. As a major in the Egyptian military's special operations forces, he took an officer training course for Green Berets at Fort Bragg in 1981. The U.S. military offered the course to dozens of foreign soldiers each year.
About the same time, he joined Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a group dedicated to overthrowing the government of Egypt and responsible for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
In 1984, after obtaining a degree in psychology, Mohamed immigrated to the United States, joined the U.S. Army and was attached to the Fifth Special Forces -- presumably because of his fluency in Arabic and familiarity with the Middle East. Though he was not a member of the Special Forces, he spent much of his time teaching Green Berets and others in special operations.
From 1981 until his arrest in September 1998, Mohamed was in contact with the U.S. government. He tried, without apparent success, to sign up as a CIA operative. "He was an active source for the FBI, a double agent," said Larry Johnson, a former CIA agent and director of counterterrorism at the State Department during the first Bush administration.
For a military spy such as Mohamed, there would be few better places to be than the JFK School in the late 1980s. At the time, the U.S. military was combining the special operations units from all service branches under one command. For months, planners at Fort Bragg worked to create the new command structure. "The JFK School was the architect for the structure --how it would operate the missions it would undertake and how it would train," said retired Gen. David J. Baratto of Alexandria, Va., who was in charge of developing the command.
Several officers recalled that Mohamed showed a keen interest in the Baluchistan training exercise, called the Special Operations Staff Officer Course Command Post Exercise, or SOSOC CPX. The exercise was designed to help Special Forces officers learn how to fight a guerrilla leader staging an insurgency in Baluchistan. The scenario had the leader taking over the region and threatening U.S. interests. "The exercise was designed to use Special Forces, Psychological Operations and Civil Affairs," Poole said.
Baratto and others disagree on the value of the information. He said the guidelines for how the forces operate would not change, but much else would. "I know as much about Special Forces as anyone, and I could not lay out for you a scenario with any accuracy about what is being done in Afghanistan today," he said. Baratto acknowledged that the exercise serves as the foundation for off-the-shelf plans, and that means much of the way the military operates in them would be the same in the exercise as in the plan.
Chester Richards, a retired Air Force Reserve colonel and military strategist, said bin Laden's forces would love to get their hands on a Command Post Exercise or the documents that go into one. "It would be out of date," Richards said, "but it would be quite valuable and give him some insight, allow him to get inside our minds and how we do battle."
Last year, a former U.S. Army sergeant, Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, admitted that he had been involved in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa that were blamed on Osama bin Laden. Mohamed told a New York court that he helped train members of bin Laden's terrorist organization, Al-Qaeda.
A book originally published abroad, "Dollars for Terror," by Swiss television journalist Richard Labévière, suggests that Ali Mohamed was an active agent of U.S. policy who trained bin Laden's agents in the New York area.
Labévière, who conducted a four-year investigation, concluded that the international Islamic networks linked to bin Laden were nurtured and encouraged by elements of the U.S. intelligence community, especially during the Clinton years.
Labévière's thesis strikes some as too outlandish to accept, but Larry Johnson, a former deputy director of the Office of Counterterrorism at the State Department who had previously worked for the CIA, confirms it at least in part.
He told the San Francisco Chronicle that the CIA had a brief relationship with Ali Mohamed after he offered in 1984 to provide information about terrorist groups in the Middle East.
In 1981, the year in which Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by army officers who belonged to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Mohamed joined that terrorist group. Seven years later he told Lt. Col. Robert Anderson, "Anwar Sadat was a traitor, and he had to die."
Larry Johnson told the Chronicle that the CIA had ended its relationship with Mohamed because they found him unreliable, but he said the FBI later used him as an informant. Johnson said the FBI should have recognized that he was a terrorist who was plotting violence against the U.S. "The FBI assumed he was their source," Johnson said, "but his loyalties lay elsewhere."
Ali Mohamed was sent to Ft. Bragg in 1981 to train with the Green Berets for four months. Returning to Egypt, he spent three more years in the Egyptian army with the rank of major. He quit in 1984 and took a security job with Egypt Air. That was when he approached the CIA.
In 1985, Mohamed obtained a U.S. visa. He came here in 1986, enlisted in the U.S. Army at age 34 and was assigned to Special Forces at Ft. Bragg as a supply sergeant. Lt. Col. Anderson thought it strange that a major in the Egyptian army unit that killed President Anwar Sadat would be given a visa to come to the U.S. and that he would be accepted by our Army and assigned to Special Forces.
Anderson assumed that Mohamed was sponsored by the CIA, but Larry Johnson told the Raleigh News & Observer, "He was an active source for the FBI, a double agent." Johnson charged that the FBI "did a lousy job of managing him. He was holding out on them. He had critical information years ago and didn't give it up."
That probably explains why Ali Mohamed's plea agreement was sealed by the court and remains so until this day. The other four defendants, all of whom were foreign nationals, testified at the trial, and all were convicted.
Mohamed did not testify for reasons which have yet to be explained. He and his attorney have not been available for interviews. It appears that the secrecy was invoked to spare the FBI and the Army painful embarrassment.
In 1988, while still on active duty, Mohamed took leave to go to Afghanistan and fight the Russians. Lt. Col. Anderson told the Chronicle this was "contrary to all Army regulations." He said he wrote reports to get Mohamed investigated, court-martialed and deported, but no action was taken.
The News & Observer says that near the end of his tour at Ft. Bragg, Mohamed would go to New Jersey on weekends to train Islamic fundamentalists in surveillance, weapons and explosives.
This Egyptian terrorist was honorably discharged in 1989 with commendations for "patriotism, valor, fidelity and professional excellence." He later became an American citizen.
Mohamed traveled abroad to meet with bin Laden and his operatives. He helped move him from Afghanistan to Sudan, and in 1996 he helped him and his aides move back to Afghanistan.
He handled sensitive security matters for bin Laden, trained his bodyguards and his fighters in Afghanistan and translated training manuals from English to Arabic.
He cased the American Embassy in Nairobi for bin Laden, helping plan the bombing that killed 224 people and wounded over 4,500. And all this time he was a trusted FBI informant.
No wonder bin Laden thought his audacious terrorist attack of September 11 could succeed.


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We still made the most out of it, however. And I got my first modeling shoot under my belt.
As I mentioned above, this was my first time taking photos of someone who has modeling experience. This made my job much easier, as Ali was able to do her thing without very much direction from me. However, I know the importance of being able to direct a model. And that's something I'm working on and will get better at over time.
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Wind-storage prices plummet as battery gains spur coupling demand
Record-low bids for wind-plus-storage in Colorado revealed a small premium for battery coupling, highlighting bullish outlooks on cost reductions and revenue opportunities, industry experts told New Energy Update.
Colorado's latest power tender yielded wind-plus-storage bid prices that were close to stand-alone wind. (Image credit: Alberto Masnovo)
E.ON Texas wind battery gains point to expanding storage openings
US grid reliability reforms offer wider role for flexible wind farms
Orsted, Statoil to reveal offshore storage potential from early 2018
Power tender results published by Colorado's Xcel Energy last month revealed record-low bids for U.S. wind-plus-storage projects. Xcel received 11 different bids for eight wind-plus-storage projects totaling 5.1 GW. The median price of bids was $21/MWh, only slightly higher than the median price for stand-alone wind projects of $18.1/MWh.
Projects allocated in Xcel's tender are expected to come online in 2023. The low wind-plus-storage prices show developers expect significant cost reductions in the coming years from falling technology costs and growing operations experience.
The installed cost of battery grid storage has dropped 50% in the last four years and this rate is likely to continue for the next several years, Kelly Speaks-Backman, CEO of the U.S. Energy Storage Association (ESA), told New Energy Update.
"The cost of storage has dropped much faster than most predictions," Speaks-Backman noted.
GTM Research estimates that large-scale storage system prices will fall by more than 35% from 2017 to 2022 with declines expected on battery prices and balance of system costs. Battery prices dropped by 65% between 2012 and 2016 while balance of system costs fell 60%.
Forecast battery, storage system costs
Source: GTM Research, February 2018.
Xcel's tender also yielded 87 bids for 59 solar plus storage projects at a record-low median price of $36/MWh.
Record low bids for renewables plus storage projects will become the new norm in the coming years, Mirko Molinari, global commercial & marketing executive for Energy Storage at GE Power, told New Energy Update.
Growing installation experience and falling system costs are combining with more favorable market conditions for renewable energy integration, Molinari said.
"The willingness of developers to bear more commercial and financing risk has also been a major contributing factor to the low [renewables plus storage] bid prices the industry has seen recently," he said.
Deployment learnings
A steady drip of new wind-plus-storage projects is allowing operators to apply installation learnings.
In September, E.ON started building the 20 MW Texas Waves energy storage projects, consisting of two 10 MW lithium ion LG Chem energy storage systems at the operational Pyron and Inadale windfarms in West Texas.
E.ON has already used learnings from its 10 MW Iron Horse solar plus storage facility- completed in April 2017- to cut the costs for the Texas Waves projects, Mark Frigo, E.ON Vice President, Head of Energy Storage, North America, told New Energy Update in October.
"We had learnings across the board, ranging from commercial to technical," he said.
A key driver of cost reductions was the "right sizing" of the battery, Frigo said.
E.ON drew from LG Chem's experience in frequency regulation applications to optimize the battery size to minimize the storage life-cycle costs, he said.
Texas Waves will also use a Greensmith software control system, which interacts directly with the battery, the power conversion system and the battery management system, to help increase operational efficiency and maximize the battery life, Frigo noted.
E.ON's other learnings include a better understanding of energy storage supply chain companies and services, and increasing knowledge of the detailed design features of battery projects and sub-metering requirements, he said.
E.ON's Texas Waves also benefits from an Investment Tax Credit (ITC), allowing capital cost savings on the storage system. However, there are few opportunities for this as most U.S. wind farms were installed using the Production Tax Credit (PTC).
Growth in renewables plus storage projects is being driven by specific market needs, to improve local grid stability, address curtailment and tackle the misalignment between production and demand.
E.ON's Texas Waves projects will provide frequency response services to the network operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). The storage plant will allow E.ON to bid into the Fast Responding Regulation Service Up and Down (FRRS) market any time of day, responding to events such as a large generator trip.
Utilities in states such as California, New York, Arizona, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Texas are integrating storage to avoid infrastructure upgrades and more states will follow, Speaks-Backman said.
"Frankly, if a utility in 2018 presents an integrated resource plan that doesn't have storage in it, there's a good chance they have an out-of-date view of storage economics over the next two decades or are not doing the work to model the flexibility needs of their systems," she said.
Storage developers will also be boosted by new legislation at federal and market level. Ongoing rulemaking efforts include the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) 2016 notice of proposed rulemaking requiring Regional Transmission Operators and Independent Service Operators to accommodate energy storage projects. The proposed requirements include bidding parameters that take into account energy storage characteristics. FERC's jurisdiction includes all of the main U.S. network operators except Texas's ERCOT.
Soaring solar
Falling costs and rising solar penetration could see the economics of PV plus storage projects overtake stand-alone PV in the coming years as the demand for solar 'peak shifting' and frequency response grows, the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) said in a recent report.
By 2020, the business case for coupled PV with energy storage in California could be more favorable than stand-alone PV, the report said. California's installed solar capacity rose from less than 1 GW in 2007 to over 17 GW by the end of 2016, increasing the demand for storage capacity to provide power outside daytime hours.
In comparison, growth in wind-plus-storage capacity will be somewhat hampered by the unpredictability of wind resources, warned Daniel Finn-Foley, senior analyst of Energy Storage at GTM Research. To date, most installed projects have used the wind interconnection point to save money for the storage system installation, Finn-Foley said.
"I can say that it will be five years or more before we start seeing energy storage being an effective addition to a wind farm…For solar, since it is more predictable, it is much easier to design a power purchase agreement [PPA] that has firm solar capacity at specific hours," he said.
The low wind-plus-storage bids in the Xcel tender show that developers are optimistic the economies will improve in the coming years. Details of the bidders are yet to be published but some developers may be looking to save costs by pairing wind-plus-storage and solar projects to absorb storage construction and interconnection costs into a larger project.
Dispatch need
Business models for renewable energy storage will continue to improve as wind and solar capacity replaces dispatchable conventional generation and operators create marketplaces for energy storage supply.
In many states, wind power has become more competitive than fossil fuel plants, fueling further demand for wind projects and increasing the need for solutions to mitigate intermittency.
Texas wind growth forecast
Going forward, grid operators will need to implement reward mechanisms for renewable power generation that matches demand profiles.
The Texas, California and PJM wholesale power markets could offer some of the early opportunities to fully maximize the value of wind-plus-storage, Finn-Foley said.
"As the penetration of renewables increase in these regions, there could be an opportunity to pair storage with wind, store energy when it is cheaper and sell it when it is expensive, as well as absorbing curtailment associated with wind farms," he said.
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